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Show THE INDEPENDENT. M. V. Crockett. U. C. Johnson. Edlter. Business Manager. Iiuitd at tte Poet Offce el BprtoTl!l, Utah, tot ittuuilalui ibruucti Ui iitiju aeeond-olea aui'.r. Issued Evsry Thursday Mornlnj. TKKMI OF 81BSCRIFTIOS. One Year n Months Tarwe Months 5. 00 . 1.00 . .80 ASK ruB ArVK!triI0 RATE. NEWS SUMMARY. The Seventeenth infantry has departed de-parted from Tien TsinforTaku. where it will be embarked for Manila. The combined stock of wheat at Portland, Port-land, Ore., and Tacoma and Seattle increased in-creased 453.000 bushels last week. Navigation up the river from Tien Tsin has practically been closed, and the remaining supplied are g-oing in wagons to I'ekin. The Russian contingent in Pekin has been increased by the return from Tien Tsin of two regiments of infantry which had been previously withdrawn. The official figures on the Precedential Preceden-tial election for California, as compiled by the secretary of state, gives McKin-ley, McKin-ley, 104,755; Ilryan, 124.985; Woolley, 5024. The political authorities of Haiti have been informed that many 820 gold pieces, about S.'O.OOO, made by counterfeiters, counter-feiters, were being circulating in Haiti. That intense interest aroust-d by the visit of Kruger to Europe is subsiding with the inevitable result of a gradual waning of enthusiasm as in all such events. The death of Admiral MeNair will bring about a number of promotions in the navy, the more important being (.'apt. John J. Head to the rank of Kear-Admiral. Kear-Admiral. In Portland, Me., as a result of a small house tire, Mrs. H. E. Crossman, aged 45 years, and Ethel Crossman, a daughter ten years of age. were burned to death. The chairman of the Democratic caucus cau-cus will offer a bill extending the provisions pro-visions of the present army law for three years as a substitute for the reorganization re-organization bill. Chief of Police John V. Campbell of St. Louis has been offered the position of chief of police of Manila under the civil government now iu course of formation, for-mation, and has accepted. The Republicans will have a two-thirds two-thirds majority of each bi auch of the coming Wash ingtou legislature, making mak-ing It possible to pass laws over the veto of Jov. Rogers (l'opi. ! Senator Lodge will in all proba- ' bility be advanced to the chairman- ; hip of the committee on foreign relations, rela-tions, to fill the vacancy caused by tne ' death of Senator C. K. Davis. There are U)i) cases of smallpox at i Winona, Minn., mid to prevent its spread the board of health has closed i two public schools and ordered the treet car company to stop its cars at ; the boundary of the infected district. Secretary Gage has issued a circular letter calling the attention of national banks to the circular of November 21, 1900, discontinuing refunding opera- j - V.ons under the circular of March 14, 1900. Francis Y. Cushman, congressman from the state of Washington, is seriously seri-ously ill at Wapello, la. His physic-irns physic-irns state that he cannot be out in less than two weeks, and recovery may take longer. The Cologne Gazette, in an inspired article, reviews the reasons which prevented pre-vented the powers from interfering in : the war in South Africa, and declares ; that these still exist and prohibit any intervention. Within thirty days suits will be filed on behalf of the I'nited States to set aside all grants, sales and leases of public lands made by the territorial government of Hawaii since the 14th day of June, 1900. Nuw Jersey Democrats are interested in a suggestion that (Jrover Cleveland be given the complimentary nomination nomina-tion for I'nited States Senator. Some hope the caucus, to te held December 7th, will name Mr. Cleveland. In France a bill has been prepared for the introduction of the electric system of canal propulsion in that country. It is expected that electric motors for French canals will be ordered from the I'nited States. It develops that six men were drowned by the capsizing of a cable ferry on the Spokane river Friday evening eve-ning at Spokane. The first reports placed the number at four. Xone of the bodies have been recovered. Mr. Kruger has recently asked a number of questions regarding public and political sentiment in America so far as the Boen are concerned, but he will not go to the United States now. His plans for his future abode are unsettled. un-settled. George M. Furbush, a lumber inspector in-spector and vessel agent, with offices in Washburn, Ashland and Uayfield, Wis., was found, Sunday, dead with a bullet through his head at a lonely ! spot aloDg the road between Hay field and Nash, with his pockets rifled. It is stated that Joseph U. Manley of Maina has been requested by the president to accept the commissioner- : hip of internal revenue, made vacant j bv the death of Geortre W. Wil rm T r i Manley ha, not yet indicated what his ! decision will be. Mr. Samuel Morrill, secretary of the United States embassy at Berlin, is ery ill. Dr. K. A. Barbour, chief of the division divis-ion of stamps an.l supplies of the Cuban postal service, has been taken to the hospital as a yellow fever suspect. The French senate lias unanimously adopted a resolution of sympathy with Mr. Krnger. Senator Stewart of Nevada has had his name placed on the Republican caucus cau-cus list. He has been a silver party man for the last eight years. Reports received in Honolulu from China are to the effect that the emperor emper-or is in the western part of the empire and that he is awaiting successful operations op-erations by the reform forces under Dr. Sun Yat Sen before cort-iog out boldly as the ruler of China and opening open-ing negotiations with the powers. PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. Affairs In China and the Philippines Discussed at Length Foreign Relations Rela-tions Generally Cordial-Army Recommendations Growth of the Free Delivery System Department of Agriculture Forest Reserves-Pensions Merchant Marine Nicaraguan Canal, Etc. Economy in Expenditures Ex-penditures Recommended. To the senate and houe of representatives : With the outgoing of the olU-and the inenm-inti inenm-inti of the new century you begin the last session ses-sion of the titty-sixth eoijfies with evidences on every hand of individual and national prosperity pros-perity and with proof of the growing .-.trent'th and Increasing power for good of repub.lcan Institutions. When the .sixth congress assembled in November, No-vember, 1800 the population of the United State. wa5,4.-tK3. It is now 7o,304.T9y . Then we had sixteen states. Now we have forty-five. forty-five. Then our territory consisted of SK9.0.V) square miles It is now 3,tlo.5tt5 .square miles. Education, religion and morality have kept pace with our advancement in other dire-ctions, and while extending its power the government has adhered to it- foundation principles and abated none of them in dealing with our new pe pies and possessions FOREIGN RELATIONS. Tfl our foreign intercourse the dominant qufs - tion has been the treatment of the Chinese problem. Apart from this our relations wi;h the powers have been happy. The recent tioubles in China spring from the anti-foreign agitation which . for the past three years, has gained strength in the northern provinces. Their origin lies deep in the character char-acter of the Chinese races and in the traditions of their government. The Tai-Ping rebellion nd the opening of Chinese ports to foreign trade and settlement disturbed alike the homo-Keniety homo-Keniety and the seclusion of China. The telegraph and the railway spreading over their land, the steamers plying on their waterways, water-ways, the merchant and the missionary penetrating pene-trating year by year farther into the interior, became to the Ch ne.se mind types of an alien invasion, changing the course of their national life and fraught w ith vague forebodings of disaster dis-aster to their beliefs and their self-control. Anti-fon-k'n agitation throughout the empire resulted in attacks upon foreigners, destruction of property and slaughter of nuine converts wi re reported from all sides. The tsung li. yamen, already permeated with hostile sympathies, sympa-thies, cou'i; make no effective response to the appeals of the legations. At this critical juncture, junc-ture, in the early spring of this j ear. a proposal was made by the other powers that a combined fleet be ass uibled in Chin se waters as a moral demonstration, under cover of which to exact of the Ct iuese government respect for foreign treaty rights and the suppression of the boxers. box-ers. Still the peril increased. While preparations were in progress for a large expedition, to Mrengthen the legation guards and keep the railway open, an attempt of the foreign ships to make a landing at Takw was met by lire from the Chinese forts. The forts were thereupon shelled by the foreign vessels, the American aamica! taking no part lu the attacK. on tne vr.miifl that we were not l wr with Caina and that a hosti e demonstration nii.rhl consolidate the uiitl-loreign element and strengthen the Hoxers to oppose the relieving column. Two days later the Taku forts were captured after a j sanguinary conflict Severance of communication communica-tion with Pekin followed and a combined force ofaddition.il guards which was advancing to Pekin by the tvi Ho wascht o'.ied at Langfaug. ' The isolation of the legations was complete. On Jure y all the ministers at Pekin were ' ordered to It uvc under a promised escort. The j order was di-regarded and preparations for de. fens.; made a the morning of the Soth the iermati mini-ier. Huron vim Kettelcr, while giroceeding to isit the tung li yamen. was i killed by a mob. An attempt to recover his bod., was thwarted. From that time until July 17 the h gatiom were under tire almost every hour Attempts were made to burn the legations by setting rire to ad joining buildings, And the Austrian, lielgian. Dutch and Italian legations were destroyed. During the siege the defenders lost sixty-five Jiilled, one hundred and thirty-live wounded iind seven by disease, the last all children. The only communication had with the Chin- ese .government related to the occasional de- ; livery or despatch of a telegram or to the d-inanfls of the tsung-U-yamen for the with- drawal of the legation to the coast under escort. Not only are the protestations the j Chinese government that it protected and sue- I cored the legations positively contradicted, but irresistible proof accumulates that the attacks upon them were made by imperial troops, regularly uniformed, armed and officered offi-cered belonging to the command of Jung Lu, tho Imperial commander-in-chief Decrees encouraging the lioxers. organizing them un der prominent imperial fflcers, provisioning them, and even granting them large sums in i the name of the empress-dowager, are known , to exist. Members of the tsung-li-yamen who ; couuseled protection of the foreigners were , beheaded. Even in the distant provinces men ' suspected of foreign sympathy were put to death, prominent among these being Chang Yen Hocn, formerly Chinese minister in ! Washington. The p licy of the United States through all , this trying period was clearly announced and , scrupulously carried out. A circular note to ' ;the powers, dated July 3, proclaimed our atti- i (tude treating the condition iu the north as one ' of virtual anarchy in which the great provinces of the south and southeast had no share. As ! soon as the sacred duty of relieving our legation lega-tion and its dependent was accomplished, we withdrew from active hostilities, leaving our legation under an adequate guard in Pekin, an a .-h'lt.nel nf ro -tt.m O. t f . ,n . - " . scuinucui a course adopti a by others of the interested powers. Overture of the empowered representatives repre-sentatives of the Chinese emperor have been considerately entertained. The Russian proposition, looking to the restoration res-toration of the imnerial power in Pekin has oeen accepted n.s in iuu consonance with our own desires, for we have held and hold that ef fective reparation ror wrongs suffered and an enduri an settlement that will make their re-. re-. curren.-e impossible, can best be brought about ' under an authority which the Chinese nation reverences and obeys. While so doing, we forego no jot of our undoubted right to exact ! exemplary and deterrent punishment of the responsible authors and abbetors of the ci iuii-nal iuii-nal act whereby we and other nations have suffered suf-fered grievous injury i REAL CULPRITS MUST SUFFER. ' For the real culprits, the evil counselors. who have misled the imperial judgment and i diverted the sovereign authority to their own ! guilty ends, full expiation becomes impel five within the rational limits of retributive justice. Proposed Tunnel I'uder'Glbraltnr. The state department has received reports conveying information as to the proposed tunnel from Europe to Africa under the straits of Gibraltar, from Mr. George Murphy, consular clerk at Madgeburg-. Germany. Mr Berlier, the French engineer, who has 1 submitted the proposal of this project i to the governments of Spain and Morocco, Mo-rocco, is said to have perfect confidence in the feasibility of the plan. The I chief difficulty, the ventilation of a- submarine tunnel. Mr. Berlier believes he can overcome by a secret process of ' his twn. The entire cost of the tunnel alone is approximated at over S03, 000,000, and of ,he 0ODneclin? railroad line between Spain and Algiers at about $43,00 ,000. The French press is said to criticise the project unfavorobly on the ground that Mr. Berlier has overestimated the j Oscar, because of his physical condi-earning condi-earning power of the road, and that it ! tion was compelled to resign hi cadet-seems cadet-seems hardly credible that the passen- ship. The young man grew steadily ger and freight traffic between France ; and Algeria could be diverted to this iudirect and expensive route. Kirat Bill in the House. j The first bill of the session intro- dnced in the house of representatives I was bv Representative Crumpacker ', . . , i ( t.epuuiican, lou.j .Making an ap- j portionment of representatives in congress con-gress nnder the twelfth ceosus." It! provides an increase of membership from ?.7 to 265. ! I ragua. In Voungstown. O.. fire gutted the j Rudyard Kipling will sail for Cape-ix-story building occupied by the town next Saturday, and will remain Siamburg-Thompson Hardware com- some months in South Africa recruit-pany. recruit-pany. . Loss. SKO.OOO. j iDg his health- Taking as a point of departure the imperial edict, appointing Karl Li Hung Chang and Prince (. iiing. plenipotentiaries to arrange a settlement, and t e edict of September -25. whereby certaia hiifh o rials wt re designated for puoishtueiit. this government has moved in concert wi! h t he other powers, toward the opening of negotiations which Mr. Confer, assisted as-sisted by Mr Kot-kuill. has been authorized to conduct tin behalf of the L'nited Stales. The matter of indemnity for our wronged citizens is a question of jrrave concern. Measured Meas-ured in money alone, a sufficient reparation may prove to be beyond the ability of China to meet. All the powers concur in emphatic disclaimers dis-claimers of any purpose of aggrandizement through the dismemberment of i he empire I am disposed to think that due compensation mav be made in part bv increased guarantees i of security for foreign rights and immunities, j and most important of all by the opening of China to the equal commerce of the world. Tnese views have been arid v. IA be earnestly advocated bv our representatives The war in southern Africa introduced important im-portant questions . Vexatious questions arose through (Jreat Britain's action iu respect to neu'ral cargoes, not contraband in their own iia'in... tiir.r..wl ... ii-, 1 1 ir ...: Sjiinh Afru-'A rn , lae sccre of probabi. or suspected' ultimate dt stinallon. Appropriate representation on our part resu.ted in the Hrilish government agreeing to purchase outright all such goods shown to be the actual property of American citizens, thus closing the incident to the satisfaction satis-faction of the immediately interested parties, although unfortunately without a broad settlement settle-ment of the question of a neutral s right to smd goods not contraband per se to a neutral port adjacent to a belligerent area. N I C A It AG L A N t ' A N" A L . Overtures with Nicaragua for a convention to effect the building of a canal under the auspices aus-pices of the United States are in considera- II tion. In the meantime the views of congress upon the subject in the light of the report of the commission appointed to examine the comparative com-parative merits of the various 1 rans-lsthmian i snip canal projects, may be awaited. j I commend to the early attention of the ' senate the convention with Ureal Mritain to j facilitate the construction of such a canal and j to remove an ." objection vhich might arise out ; of the convention commonly called the Ciay-j Ciay-j ton-Hulwer t reaty . j OUR FOREIGN TltADE. i Our foreign trade shows a remarkable record j of commercial anil industrial progress The I total of imports and exports for the first time ! in the hi-tory of our country excedt d two bil-j bil-j lions of dollars. The exports are greater than thev have ever two before, the total for the I fiscal je.tr !) Iw ing $!,3.i,iKt ok, an increase ! over iuy of $lG7.4.V.f.VN'. an increase over 1 .'. of ! 103,0.'.r.Y'r ov.;r U-J of f 14;$, 4m , ;o. and greater than IfiXi by 1 l..n,141. The growth of manufactures in the I'nited States is evidenced by the fact t hat exports of manufactured products largely exceed those of any previous year, their value for HHm being 4:t;!.sCl . 7.V5, against 14ti in lMil. an in crease of -X per cent. Agricultural products were als: exported during ISM) in greater volume than in lK."i. the total for the year being S-a").r-:,l-j;t. against $74.776. 14- in lMiy. INCREASE OF IMPORTS. The imports for the year amounted tos!i.- i D4I.IM. an increase over o! I J. '. o ' This increase is largely in materi lis for inaiiti-! inaiiti-! facrure. ami Is in response to the rapid develop-j develop-j ment of manufacturing in the United Stales. While there was imported for Use In manuiac- mresiii lyou material, to the value oi ! M2 in excess of ISW. it Is !' assuring to f,l .or, that there is a tendeni y toward decrease iu the imtiovta-Ion of articles manufactured ready for j consumption which in lioo formed 15 17 jut I cent ot the total imports against la 1 1 per cent. in I81H. and -M.O'.l per cent in lyo. K E V K N U E R F. D U CTIO N RECOMMENDED. j I recommend that the congress at this session ! reduce the internal revenue tax. imposed to j meet the expenses of the war with Spain in the I sum of thirty millions of dollars. This t- duc-1 duc-1 tion sh .uld be secured by the rem ssion of these taxes which experience has shown to be the most burdensome to the industries of the . peopie. I especially urge that there be included in i whatever reluct on is made the legacy tax an I bequests for public uses of a literary, eUuca-j eUuca-j tioual or charitable character. MERCHANT MARINE. American v- ssel.s dir'in.i t ao past three years have carried aoo'U i" per centof our exports and imports. Foreign ships should carry the least, not the greatest part of American trade. The remarkable grovvth of our steel industries, the progress of ship building for the domestic trade and our st adily maintained expenditures for the nav y have created an opportunity to place the United States in the first rank of commercial com-mercial maritime powers. I again urge immediate im-mediate action by the congress on measures to promote American shipping and foreign trade. I direct attention to the recommendations on the subject in previous messages, and principally princi-pally to the opinions expressed in the message of lfj'.itt. I am satislied the judgment of the country favors the policy of aid toour merchant marine, which will broaden our commerce and markets and upbuild our sea -carrying capacity for the products of agriculture and mauutac- ! ture, which, with the increase of our navy means work and wages to our countrymen, as well as a safeguard to American interests in every part of the world. CONCEXRING TRUSTS. In my last annual message to the Congress I called attention to t ie necessity foriarly action to neinedy such evils as might be found to exist in connection with the combinations of capital organized into trusts, and again in v ite attention to my discussion of the subject at that time, which concluded with these i words: Tt is apparent that uniformity of legislation 1 , upon this subject in the several states is much ; to be desired. It Is to be hoped that such j uniformity in a wise and just discrimination ! i between what is injurious and what is useful 1 and necessary in business operations, mav be obtained, and that means may be found for ; the ( ongress, within the limitations of its con- , stltutional power, so to supplement an effec- ' ! tive code of state legislation as to make a j complete system of laws throughout the ! United States adequate to compel a geneial ; 1 observance of the salutary rules to whit h I , referred." i ' The whole question is so important and far I ; reaching that I am sure no" part of it w ill lie ' ! lightly considered, but every phase of it will I ; have to be studied deliberately- by Congress, j resulting in wise and judicious action. j Rest raint upon such combinat ions as are in- j i jurious and which are within federal jurisdic- ! tion, should be promptly applied bv the t 'on- ; : gross. j ' AFFAIRS IN THE PHILIPPINES. j In my last annual message I dwelt at some i . lemrth nrwin thJ i.i.mlil i. .ti (if -iff-ii i-v It, tl,.. liV,I i T 1 , . .......... ... i .... ippines. w nue seeking to impress upon yon tnat tne grave responsiointy or tne future government gov-ernment rests wit h the congress of the United States, I abstained from recommending at that time a specific and final form of government for the teiritory actually held bvthe United States forces, and m which as long as the insurrection I continues the military arm must necssarily be i supreme. 1 stated my purpose, until congress snail nave made tne formal expression of us ! will, to use the authority vested in me by the I Constitution and the statutes to uphold the j sovei Lnty of ihe United States in those dls- taut islmidsas in all other places where our I flag rightly floats, placing to that end. at the disposal of the army and navy all the means j which the liberality of the congress and tle ! people have provided. No contrary expression of the will of congress having made I have steadfastly pursued the purpose so declared, employing the civil arm as well toward the ac-compl ac-compl shment of pacitication and the instituting institu-ting of local government within tne lines of authority and law. Progress in the hoped for direction has been favorab'e. Our forces have successfully controlled con-trolled the greater part of the islands, overcoming over-coming the organized forces of the insurgents HAZING CAUSES DEATH. Former Cadet at Writ Point TMes In Great A tony. Oscar L. Booz, a former cadet at West Point Military acadeun3', who had been lying at the point of death at his home in Bristol, Pa., suffering from injuries which his parents claim 1 , 1, ., ...-.,,,! i : i a. l , i im? icouit tit iiaiug hi ine acao-emy acao-emy over two years ago, died Monday m great agony. 1 he cause of death as throat consumption. It is alleged by the young man's father that tobacco sauce was poured down his son's throat while the cadets were hazing him. The father also claims that red pepper was thrown in his eyes, hot grease poured upon his bare feet, a tooth knocked out and that otlier fiendish methods were indulged in. Shortly after this, the father says, worse, but never would divulge the ! names of the cadets who ill-treated him The program of the administration regarding isthmian canal matters duriDg' ll first two weeks of the sen ate s session is to ratif v the Hav- Pauncefote treaty without the Davis amendment; to pass the Nicaragua canal bill; to ratify the canal treaties between the United States and Costa Rica and the United States and Nica- and carrying order and administrative resmlaV-ity resmlaV-ity to all quarters. What opposition remains is' for the most part scattered, obeying no concerted con-certed plan of strategic action, operating only by the methods common to the traditions ot guerilla warfare, which while incfleetive to alter al-ter the general control now established, are still sum. ient to beget insecurity among the populations that hava felt the good results ot ourcoutrol and thus delay the ronhrmeut upon them of th ? fuller measures of local self-government, of educaii. n and of industrial and agricultural ag-ricultural development which we stand ready t give to them. To give effect to this I have appointed Hon. William H. Taft of Ohio, Prof. Dean C. Worcester Wor-cester of M ichigan, Hon. Luke E . Wright of Tennessee. Hon. Henry C. Ide of Vermont and Pro:'. Bernard Moses of California, commissioners commis-sioners to the Philippine islands to continue and perfect the work of organization and establish estab-lish civil government already commenced by the military authorities, subject in all respects to any laws which congress may hereafter enact . The many different degrees of civilizatioa and varieties of custom and capacity among thepeoole of the different islands precluded very definite instruction as to tie part which tho people shall take in the selection of their ow n officers : but these general rules the commission com-mission was instructed to observe: That in all cases the municipal officers, who administer the local affairs of the people, are to be selected by the people and that, wherever officers of more extended jurisdiction are to be selected in any way. natives of the islands are to be p eferre 1. and if they can be found competent and willing to perform the duties they are to receive the offices in preference to any others. In ail of the forms of government and administrative adminis-trative provisions which they are authorized to prescribe the commission should bear in mind that the government which they are establishing establish-ing is designed not for our satisfaction or for the expression of our theoretical views, but for the happiness, peace and prosperity of the people peo-ple of the Philippine Islands and the measures adopted should be made to conform to their customs, their habits and even their prejudices, to the fullest extent consistent with the aecom-plishmi'S aecom-plishmi'S of t he indespensable requisites of just and effective government. CUBAN AFFAIRS. On ihe 25th day of July, 19M, I directed that a call be issued for an election in Oefi for members of a constitution convention to frame constitutijn as a basis for a stable and independent government in the island. The election was held on the 15th of September, Septem-ber, and the convention assembled on the 5th of November. 19 0. and is now in session. , In calling the convention,to ordif the PK,a tary governor of Cuba made -the rollo., Jg statement: " As military governor of the island, representing repre-senting the president of the United States, I call this convention to order. It will be your duly, tirst. to frame and adopt a constitution for Cuba and when that has been done to formulate what, in your opinion, ought to be the relations between Cuba and the United States The constitution must be adequate to secure a stable, orderly and free government, W hen you have formu ated the relations which, in your opinion, ought to exist between Cuba and the United States, the government of the United Slates will doubtless take such action on its part as shall lead to a final and authoritative agreement between the people of the two countries to the promotion of their common interests. THE PACIFIC CABLE. I renew the recom.lendation made In my special message of February 10, lSDSt, as to the necessity for cable communication between the United States and Hawaii, with extension to Manila Since then circumstances have strikingly emphasized this need. Surveys have shown the entire feasability of a chain of cables which at each stopping place shall touch on American territory, so that the system shall be under our own complete control. THE ARMY. The present strength of the army Is 100.U00 men tia.ooo regulars and 35.O..0 volunteers. Un ler the act of March 2, itfcW. on the 3 th of June next the present volunteer force will bo discini rged and the regular army will be reouced to Lit; officers and 2W,fJU enlisted men. The militar po -ts now in existence and others to be built provide tor accommodations for, and if fully garrisoned, require liC.cOO troops. We have. In Cuba between 5,000 and 6,00.) troops. I 'or lite i re ent our troops in that island cannot be withdrawn or materially diminished. In Porto Rico we have reduced the garrisons to 1 .,(, which include K06 native troops. There is no room for further reduction here. We will be required to keep a considerable force in the Philippine islands for some time to come. it must he apparent that we will require an urui.v ofabout li i.eiui, and that during present conditions in Cuba and the Philippines tho president, should have authority to increase the force to the present number of 100,000. In-cl'.uied In-cl'.uied in this nurnberautlic-ity should be given to raise native troops in the Philippines up to ia.ooa w hich the Taft commission believe will be more effective in detecting and suppressing guerrillas, assassins and ladrones than our own soldiers. POSTAL SERVICE. The continued and rapid growth of the postal service is a sure index or' the great and increasing increas-ing Imi niess activity of the country. Its most . striking new development Is the extension of j rural free delivery. At tile beginning of t he 1 fiscal year 1 ;'.-1 . IK), the number of routes in j operation was onlyS'.H. On the 15th of NoTrTTr- I ber, liXKi. the number had increased to sVJH. J The number of applications now pending and ; awaiting' action nearly equals all those granted up to the present time, and by the close of tho current fiscal year about ),0u0 routes will have j been established. ' ' THE PENSION ROLL. At the end of the fiscal year there the pension roil ,.'.,d names, a net 1nerein fhp.oOAKED iHi over-th'tf hseat vear lw$. 'X'W im added to the rolls during the year was fi,:n jeD The amount disbursed for army pensions d for army pensions do-- ing this year was ft2M,.-o....25. and for niy ; pensions f:i,7til. 5;!:!. i .a total of if lafMty.mi.b , I leaving an unexpended balance of fo,o4s,(ii8.2o. I FOREST RESERVES. I The results obtained from our forest reserves have demonstrated its wisdom and the neces-j neces-j sity in the interest of the public, its coniin-i coniin-i uance. During the past year the Olympic rei- serve, in the state i f Washington, was rearxctTT 2tv.040 acres, leaving its present area at i l.'.i-';i,s40 aens. The Prescott reserve in Arizona was increased from 10,240 acres to I 4:i-', so ucr s. and the Big Horn reserve in ! Wyoming was increased from 1,127,690 acres to I i.lso.soo acres. A new reserve, the Santa i Ynez. in California, embracing an area of ! lin.Oiu acres, was created during this year. On October 10. KM.', the Crow Creek forest re-si re-si rve. in Wyoming, was created with an area I of 3ti.320 acres. I DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. The department of agriculture has been ex-tendine ex-tendine its work during the p.ist ytar, reaching farther for new varieties of seeds and plants: co-operating more fully with the states and territories in research along useful lines; making progresses in meteorogical work relating relat-ing 1) lini s of w ire telegraphy and forecasts for ocean going vessels; continuing inquiry as to animal disease; looking into the extent and character of food ndulteraling : outling plans fc r'lhe care, preservation and intelligent harvesting har-vesting of our woodlands, studying soils that producers may cultivate with better knowledge knowl-edge of conditions and hoping to clothe desert places with grasses suitable to our arid regions. re-gions. Our island possessions are being considered, con-sidered, that their peoples may be helped to produce the tropical products now so extensively exten-sively brought into the United States. DANGER OF EXTRAVAGANCE. In our gre 1 1 prosperity we must guard against the danger it invites in extravagance in gov ernment expenditures and appropriations; and the chosen n presentatives f the people will, I doubt not. furnish an example in their leglsla. tion of that wise economy which in a season of plentv husbands for the future. In this era of great business activity and opportunity caution cau-tion is not un imely. It will not abate but st rei gthen our confidence, it will not retard, but promote legitimate industrial and commercial commer-cial expansion . AVOID TEMPTATIONS. Our growing power Lrings with it temptations tempta-tions and perils requiitng c nstant vigilance to avoid. It must not be used to invite con fiicts. norfor oppression, but for the more effective ef-fective maintenance of those principles of equality and justice upon which our institutions institu-tions and happiness depend. Let us keep always al-ways in mind that the foundation of our government gov-ernment is liberty: its superstructure peace. "william Mckinley. Executive Mansion, December 4, 1900. SYMPATHY FOR BOERS. Resolution Introduced In House In Behalf of Kruger. - - . A resolution in behalf of ex-President Kruger has been introduced in the house by Representative Fitzgerald ol Massachusetts. It reoites: "Whereas, the heroic struggle made by the Boer republics to maintain their existence eas excited the symoathy of the whole world; therefore, be it 'Resolved, That the efforts of Paul Kruger to obtain the assistance of the civilized nations of the world in securing secur-ing peace and proper terms of settlement settle-ment between Great Britain and the Boer republics is deserving of the praise and sympathy of the American people." Orrmanii Menaced by Chinese. Four companies of German troops are reported to be seriously menaced thirty- five miles west of Pao Ting Fa. Eight companies of French troops, with three days' rations, have left to go to their re lief. Cruelty of Chinese Boxers. A number of reports have been pub-; lishedofthe June massacres in Shan Si, some of the details being too hor-j rible for publication. Men, women' and children were botchered. Fifteen! seminarists, who had hidden themselves them-selves in a cistern were, the dispatch; says, tied to stakes and forced to drink V the blood of the first victims. They were then killed. A Chinese priest and two Christians, who attempted to escape, were caught and put in a small hut, where they were burned. 1 HiRTfiEN PEOPLE ROASTED TO DEATH IN SAN FRAN CISCO. One Hundred Injured Crowd Had Gathered Gath-ered on Roof to Witness Football Game. As a result of the falling in of the roof of a glass factory in San Francisco, Fran-cisco, Thursday, thirteen people were killed and 100 others were more or less injured. About 100 people fell through the roof upon the red-hot furnaces and glass vats below. All were horribly burned, and it is feared 'that in addition addi-tion to the dead already reported there will be several more. The list of identified iden-tified dead and injured is as follows: Dead: J. A. Mulrooney, Talleyrand Barn wall, y. II. Eckfeldt, Carroll Harold, Edgar Flaharen, Frank New-by, New-by, T. J. Eippon, William Valencia, M. Van Dina. Injured: Walter Griffin, George Campbell, George Miller, Louis Cooper, John Lane, L. E. Macaulay, Freeh tile, Jesse Cohen. Clarence Hums, Harold Palmer, Martin Traynor, John Brogh, serious; Fred Garity, skall fractured and left leg frctured, serious; R. Ess-raann. Ess-raann. Will Hausch, Leon Gerard, Clarence Cla-rence Burns, serious; J. Frechtler, Lea Doyle, Fred Iluwinkle, George C. Miller, Mil-ler, Arthur Oulsen, George Ilenser, Fred Hartman, John llouser, Theodore Baker, George Pelle, Ed Home, James Bowen, Carroll Harold Palmer, Albert Gerke, George Campbell, Albert Loux, George Morshat, William Conway, Darcy, W. K. Grant, Otto Berrneister. Eighty-two persons, more or less in- jurrd, were taken to the various hospitals hos-pitals or removed to their homes. Most of those killed and injured were boys between 9 and 1G years of age. Nearly all of the victims had their skulls fractured or limbs broken and sustained serious internal injuries. Two hundred people, all men and boys, had gathered on the sheet-iron roof of the glass works to obtain a free view of the annual football game between be-tween Stanford and University of California. Cali-fornia. About twenty minutes after the game had commenced there was a crash, plainly audible from the football foot-ball grounds, and a portion of the crowd on the roof went down to a horrible death below. The fires in the furnaces had been Btarted for the first time for the season and the vats were full of liquid glass. It was upon these that the victims fell. Some were killed instantly and others were slowly roasted to death. The few'vvho missed the furnaces with workmen saved the lives of many who lay unconscious by dragging them away from their horrible resting place. New Steamship Line to Europe. A new steamship line has been established es-tablished to ply between Portland, Oregon, and Europe, via Yokohama, Kobe, Hongkong, Manila, Singapore and Colombo. There is always a large local traffic between these ports. Freight offerings from Europe to the Orient are always heavy, and there will be no difficulty in securrng full outward cargoes for the steamers coming com-ing this way. They expect to secure enough through freight from Europe to the Pacific coast to enable the steamers to fill up their capacity when they leave the Orient to cross the Pacific. BY THE -'KENTUCKY. v Isit or UrtttleslUp to Muyrna nring lur- kev to Time. The arrival of the United States battleship Kentucky to Smyrna has so shaken up Turkey that indications are accumulating of a desire to hasten a Settlement to the satisfaction of the United States. An irade has been issued, is-sued, calling for the purchase of a cruiser at Philadelphia, the price for which is to include the $90,000 Armenian Arme-nian indemnity. Despite the dispute the relations between the United Stales legation and the Porte continue coi'dial. Stronger Tf.an a Divorce. Ad Audrain couuty (Missouri) man found that he couid not live happily with his wife and lather than ( 9 for a divorce, they signed a deep of separation sepa-ration which was fllid with the county coun-ty recorder. II is said to be the first instrument of the kind ever on record rec-ord in Missouri. It divides the property proper-ty and Is more binding than a decree of divorce, in that Jt forever separates sepa-rates the contracting- parties and provides pro-vides against any recotic''iation In the future. EARLDOM FOR PAUNCEFOTE. Queen to Reward Him for Ills American Deals. Truth, which has always shown itself it-self particularly well informed as to diplomotic affairs, says it is probable Queen Victoria will offer a viscountcy or an earldom to Lord Pauncefote, the British ambassador at Washington, on his retirement from the diplomatic service, in recognition of his successful ambassy, adding, "all the more as this mark of royal favor will be much appreciated ap-preciated in the United States " Typhoon at Guam. Advices have been received from Manila that the island of Guam has been visited by a terrible typhoon rhieh- wrecked hundreds of houses, among them the quarters of General Schroed-er. The towns of Iodrajan and Terraforo were swept away, and it is estimated J"that hundreds of the native population in various parts of the island met their deaths. The cocoanut crops were rendered Bbsolutely worthless, and the vegetation vegeta-tion of the island killed by salt water. l olied States May Keep Ile of Pine. With reference to the suggestion that the United States will claim the Isle of Pines, a Havana paper says: "It is either a canard or a feeler. If the latter, lat-ter, then it is unworthy of the United States. To attempt such a rapacious robbery would be brutal aggression. If Ciba is to be free, so ought the Isle of P'-nes to be. Cuba should be regarded re-garded as a whole. The Isle of Pines has always beeo considered a part of Cuba, and has been under the government govern-ment of the province of Havana. Church Festival Broken I'p by Murder. Oscar Cassell shot and killed Robert Leach at a festival in the colored Methodist Meth-odist church at Wellsville, O., Thursday Thurs-day night. Caswell fell against a horn which Robert Thompson was playing. The latter remonstrated and was attacked by Cassell. Leaeh tried to stop the belligerents, when Cassell pulled a gun and fired, the shot penetrating Leach's heart. As Leach fell dead Cassell held the crowd at bay and escaped to the woods. 40C) BRITISH CAPTURED BY BOERS UNDER DEWET. British Garrison at Dewetsdorp Compelled to Surrender. Lord Roberts cabled from Johannesburg Johannes-burg Thursday that the Dewetsdorp garrison of teo guns of the Sixty-eighth Sixty-eighth field battery, with detachments of the Gloucestershire regiment, the Highland Light infantry and Irish rifle's, 400 in all, surrendered Wednesday Wednes-day to the Boers under Dewet. British losses were fifteen men killed and forty-two wounded, including Major Hansen and Captain Digby. The regiment is said to be 2100 strong. Four hundred were dispatched from Edinburg to relieve Dewetsdorp, but they did not succeed in reaching there in time. Knox joined this force, and found Dewetsdorp evacuated. Seventy-five sick and wounded had been left there. Knox pursued and is reported to have engaged Steyn and Dewet near Vail-bank. Vail-bank. They retired west and southwest. south-west. The disaster at Dewetsdorp has sent a thrill of alarm through Great Britain. The censorship continues so strict that there is no hope of arriving at a clear conception of the actual position of affairs af-fairs in South Africa. Illinois Hank Robbed. Four masked men wrecked the Farmers' bank of Emden, 111., Friday morning. It is said they secured all the funds of the bank, between $3,000 and 84,000. When the robbers discharged their first blasts of dynamite in an effort to open the vault, the explosion aroused John Alberts, four blocks away. Alberts Al-berts hurried to the bank. One of the robbers was on guard in the street. He seized Alberts, who was bound hand and foot and dragged into the bank, where he witnessed the gang drilling into the vault door, making ready a second blast. When the fuse was lighted the robbers rob-bers stepped outside and Alberts lay in the corner when it went off. He was not seriously injured. The second blast unhinged the vault doors, and the robbers made off with all the cash. Securing a hand car, they pulled in the direction of Dela-van. Dela-van. There they were met by Night-Patrolman Night-Patrolman Sanford, who attempted to arrest them. One of the robbers fired and Sanford fell, mortally wounded. Outside the town the men boarded a passenger train on the Chicago & Al ton. All traces of them were lost. Hryau SaysttFlght Must Oo On. In answer to a congratulatory aidless ai-dless presented by the Bryan Home Guards of Lincoln, Neb., W. J. Bryan sent a letter to II. F. Hookey, thanking thank-ing him for the expressions of esteem, and concluding as follows: "When a political party meets with reversion the greatest consolation the candidate has. aside from the approval of conscience, is the knowledge that he retains the confidence of those with whom he was associated, and I thank the guards for this assurance. The contest between democracy and plutocracy plu-tocracy will go on and those who believe be-lieve in the Declaration of Independence Independ-ence and the doctrine of equality before be-fore the law must still defend human rights from the encroachment of greed." Report of Secretary of the Navy. The annual report of the secretat y of the navy has been made public. Secretary refers to the co-operation of the fleet in Asiatic waters with the army in the Philippines in patrolling a wide area of badly-chartered wate.s and keeping the coast clear of the enemy. He cites the good work done by the marines in aiding in defense of the legation at Peking and pays high tribute to their bravery and efficiency. The need of officers for sea duty is shown and the statement made that tn additional force of 5.000 men will be needed when vessels now under construction con-struction are completed. Woolley on the Fa ture. As to when or how, or, Indeed, whether we may compass the destruction destruc-tion of the liquor traffic, we are anxious, anx-ious, but we do not despair; confident, confi-dent, but we do not prophesy; but meanwhile we roll in the luxury of self-respect and glorify God and our country with our bodies and our spirits, spir-its, which are theirs. John G. Wool-ley. Wool-ley. Nome Locked In Ice. Nome is now completely isolated from the outer world by a barrier of ice. For seven long months this condition con-dition of affairs , will continue. The camp is well supplied with provisions and fuel. It is possible that before the first steamers arrive at Nome in the spring there may be a slight shortage of coal, but it is not anticipated that il will be serious. November 8th. the ice had crept out from Nome into the sea for a distance of 200 feet. Several mornings previous pre-vious lighters had been frozen in. Fourteen-Year-Old Boy Convicted of Murder. Mur-der. Richard Novak of Chicago, aged 14 years, has been found guilty of murder. mur-der. Novak stabbed and killed his companion, Albert Olsen, during a quarrel, September 17. He will be sent to the reformatory under the indeterminable act, where he will be confined until he is released on parole, or sent to the state prison when he li of age. Novak is said to be the youngest murderer ever convicted in Cook county. Paris Journnln Dlncuss Methods of Intervention. Inter-vention. Paris papers suggest various ways oi assisting Mr. Kroner's cause. The In-ttansigeant In-ttansigeant contemplates the formation forma-tion of an international conference of journalists at the European capitals, with a view of discovering practical ways of helping the Boers. The Republique is persuaded that H European governments would remind Great Britain that she signed Th Hague treatj-, good would follow, and that there would be no risk in taking such a step. CONSPIRATORS KILLED, Men Who Attempt to Wreck a Mine Meet Death. State Mine Inspector James W. Pau; of West Virginia says the recent mine dssaster at Berryville, in which four teen lives were lost, was the result of a conpi.racy to kill the foreman of th mine. The conspirators, after the lighting of the fuse, stood at the entrance en-trance of the mine, but the force of th explosion was greater than they expected ex-pected and they were killed. Beck's Jewelry Store. Provo Oity Uto.li. PENNYROYAL PILLS of menstruation." 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