Show BLOWN mJi 111811I01 Au OfacrT or the wtI That 11 III I lio Ih Cuurl Verdict Key West Fla Feb 81he court riconxeWl at 2 oclock this afternoon Ucut llolrnnn vlio testified I nt 1U vnno was nulll called Ltulnnnt of MarlmH Camlln cne his evidence and wait folloHed by Boatswain Larkln Clunner IIIII and Carpentei Holmes The two latter were on shore ut the time uf the explonlon and could tell vnueexArt13l0 little of nlue At 310 oclock the court adjourned until tomorrow Judge Advocate Mart said i The Btenographi have all they ran tron I crll In record form and there Is 110 uo 01 our working longer today After the courlroom WP cleared fort for-t day Copl Ramloa hold It short Interview with Admiral Ucard anti then retu Tried to the IOWIL Few know more than wa known fill mornIng morn-Ing An officer of the Maine how eOr who lind I been examined hv the court during the lay talked wllh the corrIKmdont of the Ass lated l1res I cant tell you Ito said whnt line 01 questioning wau adopted hut the court will nnd I believe that the Main won blown up liv design though I ilont think It vlll IK able to Ascertain exactly how The courts nndlnirs will IK I based on negative rather rath-er than positive evidence Ily this I mean thnt all of the testimony testi-mony heard so far has bit by bit upset up-set the theories of those who think that tho explolon Was of Internal origin ori-gin The negative evidence Is so strong And 1 00 general that I see no isslhlllly cf the court deciding that the oxploolonwl Internal The only alternative lItn left for the court Is I to fall back on evidence Nhich Mints to the intentional blowing I up of the Jlalne This I think I will be Ion unless the court fonnulnt a theory of Its own or < clecla that It < toes not know how the disaster oc purred both of which conjectus I think improbable As benrlnB on the value of the opln Ion of tile otllcer In question i It must ho home In mind that lie woo before the court for about fifteen minutes only and that lie has at all times ex 11 l reseed himself as i nlldent thnt the cplosion ws not duo 10 ai ac cldent Members of the court when the substance sub-stance of thellllerlow was brought to their attention declined to hue anything any-thing to say i All the high naval and Inllltnry officials here when nske1 crucial cru-cial questions Politely profess Ilnor mice IlvilsIng Property In Tnt Washington Feb 2STh United States Supreme Court today decided a controversy over a bequest of property to the Smithsonian lnstlllll and In doing do-Ing no decided n mooted point over the right of a husband to devise property prop-erty held U II truslln his vIfes name In this case Houert S Avery 01 Washington After giving In his will SI 000 to tho relallea of bis wife whose death hail occurred before his left the residue of his property to the Smithsonian Smith-sonian Inslllule for the establishment of IL und for the promotion of knowledge I edge In regard to the phonetic type The principal part of the property was It lot I of land In Washington In Mrs Averys name and the will was III lacked on the ground that he could not dispose of property whoso title was In Ills wlte name The co net decision handed down today to-day did not sustain this view but held that where It was clear that the tllla wan placed In tho wife ns a trust even though the agreement waJ verbal the husband did not lose control of It and could himself bequeath It where as in this eo ho survived his wife Ono of the provisions of the will WM to the effect that If I the bequest to the Smlllonian Institute wu attackel hy he other beneficiaries they should thus forfeit the bounty Intended for them Tho court also pronounced this part ol tho oIll valid The decision 01 the District 01 Colum Nn court 01 appeals wa adverse to the Smlthoonln Institute and was reversed re-versed by the opinion of today Alaskan llounilary Treaty Washington Pel SfJenotor Tur tile made an effort In the executive a ilon of the Senile today to bccui the ntincntlon of the treaty between tile United Stat And Great IIrllln locating the IUt meridian ns the boundarY line Ioetween Alnska anti Blitlsh A erica hut fnll1 to succeed because of cobjectionst mole by Senator Iellhrrcw Intor T1IIpl complltneol that the treaty had been on the cole dar for Almost a Year nnd said the Senate owed It to tho executive branch of the government to take action Scooter rettlnrew said the trenly1 should be amended before It was acted upon by the Senate He asserted that In Its present sharpe It was a most essential es-sential concession 10 Great Britain and said that II It ws eeptd Ithout Amendment making Mount St EllI Ell-I It Initial point on the mOuth It would be found when tofvlnte that the Cana ollars find got declddl y the b1 01 the bargain Action was postponed To Test Him Chicago Feb 28Wllllam S Darlcs inventor of mlreC one of the mt powerful cxploslMs known to naval warfare line been Invited to visit Washington And demonstrate the powers pow-ers ot tile prlllct to Secretary Long A It his associates F1113 Pounds of 1tx beF mllex Is I sold lo be ns rrrevthe as five times tht amount 01 guncotton Mr Darley first attraclid the nltcn lion of the naval experts two months ago |