| Show I IfO rA lO S fO FOR C I j I I Prominent Republicans Now En Engaged Engaged in Chasing Presidential fial Bee With Assiduity Y GOOD STORY ON FAIRBANKS i Operator Never eci Irani of is 11 l A b h by 5 Special Correspondence Washington D C July Jul Theme t 1 be juries tines II for or U the Republican date dales for or the Ute presidency Shaw and anel Fairbanks Taft Tuft and Mid and Cannon are re each chasing charing the presidential be bee e with and with the be Democrat Democratic ic nomination n practically agreed upon as a It Il looks now Interest rt at asters lIterl In the light fight that In is being beum Md waged ed In the Republican lican Mean ranks ranke for Cor the Roosevelt lion aton Shaw SUM while seemingly temper temporarily rU out of ot he the running because of the black eye Ie he got tot In lu tl la I undisturbed undisturbed by l conditions and h t it is going JOIng ahead making friends friend both north and 1111 south uth hoping that the lightning wilt unite In nil I Is direction about con lIn convention time Fairbanks is g ready to 10 invade the Chautauqua circuit and will lecture on Tile The Ideal American while modestly refraining from mentioning any an tames name toot t and Taft are hay Imay with atrin of ot state nate but bUI both bolh ar are aN making eyes e at atthe ato the th Republican Jade hoping to t o attract the lady of the eo cori C lr silk Uk h hAir lr Speaker Speak r Cannon l la II a candidate for tor th the nomination only In the Ih receptive sense but hl his secretary Mr si r L i Wright Bus Bua Busbey bey b be Is la busily engaged making dates date for facie Tlde Joe and slid by I the time the frost froat IK is I on the It 1 I Is believed bell that tbt firer Cannons l loom boom oom will be launch launched ed on behalf of ot the plain people l NOT SO Std o SiRE IRE Apropos of ot the Fairbanks candidacy your our correspondent U I In a position D tJ 3 say laY that the tall Sycamore S of the Wabash Wa a bash buh does doe not nol regard It a as sure surl thin thing that thai Secy Sf Shaw la II s to hart havi the r detection to the Republican national convention In IMS 1105 It II 1 is II said lill that Mr r Fairbanks has h several levera emissaries at work In Virginia all the lime end Ind It is I known that he has hall been beell especially nc nine ninen t n Virginia In the course coura nf of the Ih past pat Ix months or ro so 0 Several of them Ihm have been entertained 1 at nr his hi home and nd elsewhere In n he the Iho ell city Mr Mrs Fairbanks showing most mOil tart t In h her r reception of If the Ih vice lre prill dents friends friend friendA A good story tor Is being told concerning a Virginia friend of the site k president though the Jok joke may IRa also alro be to t reach rach Mr fr Fairbanks himself Some weeks week ago 10 a Virginia Republican who knew kne Mr Ir Fairbanks more mor than Ihan AI ally ell was wan Invited to 10 come to 11 t Washing Washington ton and take lake breakfast with lIh him on a certain day Ila The Virginian In m trying to keep the o found on reach reCh reaching log ing the Colonial belch beach ID 40 0 miles mil down the Potomac that he Ill could not nOI reach rea ll Washington In time to break br breakfast fan with It Ith the iho h vice Iet president Jt He lie II wrote rote a tele telegram gram Kram to Mr Ir Fairbanks expressing hi hl his l regrets tl and took look It II the telegraph The Tho operator read the Ih massage Say Sa raid Mid the operator youve nut not given any an address all right MM add the other I everybody knows rc that man manI I l do o not replied th the operator who ho hoIt It le I he h helies lies Hes the vice president of ot the Unit United United ed ad States Slate H HU Well U 1 J guess Y Ud better belter put hi hla ad address d dries dress on Oil the telf telegram rara replied the operator and the Virginia Republican was a 1111 obliged to 10 add Seventeenth and K streets X N 1 W Washington I D Clo 10 the very Ir meager melger address he be tad bad first Aral given He Ire now no mean tan that gelling people pHIllie In III Interested Interested d In Fairbanks HS as a candidate I Ii very err up hlll work ork LOST IX IN Malls MAILS Nobody vcr over believes bell hIa hi ent ant who ho Is II In answering s let letter letter ter I r when hn the lb excuse Is II given Riven hn that the letter never c came ame m S So fo o few f lette letters comparatively are lo In at t In the mall malls that un lin that a letter failed tailed u uI to I he delivered d lIver In t I not ui lv I Still In the month of or dune June alone Ilon Y 11 r cording tn to II a statement made ma at t the Ih di dl division division vision of or dead letters letter lett IC depart department department ment today toda pieces of unclaimed 1 mall mati were wert received In the he month of f June Jun The Tilt number received In hi the Ih same mme r mf month la t year yr was wis iUS a con considerable menace ae thin this year 1 U The total tot I number of letters letter return l to In vender was II The number cumber of or piece was aaa The Th number of letters letter received cong On n money tn nty was 11 6 M as UI C 6 TK J for tor the th tame same m month last year but hul the Ih amount of money they the contained way was U Jt jS as t In the Ih month of nf June last y year tr which bl b may mal In Indicate Indicate that time limN at ate ale better batter and nd each ench individual who tend sends money masse through the mall I is II able abl to 16 tend send a larger larr sum rum thus year rr than last lant lantICE lastICE ICE 11 TRUST OX ON 0 RACK The grand lId Jury jut which Is ls probing the Ihl d 1 lea Ice II trust trual of Washington has hall brought I t to In light a rather humorous state talf of affairs affair The jury Jut to tn I have hae hI established III the fact rul that there thue ute hP I very ery Ir f r few w If It any n Independent deil lal I rr nl era In III ng as alt all of the Ihl no so noi i shied ailed Independent purchase their Ho Iol stok wk k of 01 f the lilt American Ice It company doe rift 1101 seriously deny being a aI inset I I u 1 The Independent Irl have ha been r IP year lIr soliciting trade rade Ira on in the grand 1 t PH t I m In i en 11 tRe them wa a 10 1 th Ih trust tIPI Rut nut the l Jury jur h has n them hul d l thus the Ih bat fd t that vU the Ih u i ill is g nn I H II myth ni th ro I 1st 11 I th Ih l tut 11 or tf t may iliA exist t 11 r lu rt In ii h I her fur li liTh Th err f vi II r i of i c hafla tnt Sinter r I ed Nt for riving giving short weight forfeited the cultural deposited depolt for their appearance In court but bUI two of them preferred to 10 fight The cases ca will 1 come rome up next nut week 11 It In Is the Intention lion tion of the grand fand jury Jur to hI the lee Ice h tryst truit If sufficient t evident evidence Is la ad adduced adduced d tn In t warrant the Institution of ff Ir a asuit suit roll Commissioner Harry L I West III la is behind the Ih movement to III the Ih trust and nd It II would mould seem m that he ht has suede made out Ms till case CRITICISM ON E K IC Th The published d report port that thaI Edward K E Clark lark 01 loa Iowa the railway conductors was nut 1111 listed elated for or one on of the Ih new ne Of interstate commerce has haa started some wroe notable adverse ad rom corn comment ment It Is II recalled by b y the critics that Mr r Clark was AI originally and all 11 the time opposed to 10 railway rail a rate faIt regula lion tI n and an that he was all instrumental in III stirring limn up op opposition sentiment among mil railway way employee that thaI moreover he conspicuously exerted alerted himself to o leff at atthe the measure which congress passed asset It 11 Iff Is also allO recalled that Ihl early In the struggle Mr Ir Clark wrote letters to A It number of ot senators and nd rei representatives stating his objections objection to 1 the pi law I He lie used the argument so 10 fn U fr employed employ by b Elkins and others otherl friendly to 10 the Ih railroad ld In Insisting slating that federal I t hII of ot the railroads meant lower freight charges with lIh Inevitable reductions In the earn earnings hugs ings of the rods road He lie H argued that this thin would necessarily r result fult In tn the Ih rut rUI sing line down of wages 8 of railway ear m n po ei and that the proposed legisla legislation lion tion would be Ie decidedly dl detrimental lIlal to the men In the th pay pa of the Ih bit bla railroads Bearing In mind thU this particular con conduct Oil duct durt of Mr Ir Clark the mn men who ho put through the rat ral rate bill say may that Ihal his hll cc e election lection to be a member of the new now commission on I ts Is unfortunate No 10 charge Is I made nude reflecting ln upon his hb ability or integrity to 10 All fili the position lie He Is la w well ell known knon to possess JIO exceptional informs Information lion Hon pertinent tu to the place RECLAMATION RE The Tb magnitude tu to which the III re lion erl e hi has hili grown crown In is somewhat H sir bundling even In these days till of nf re remarkable r remarkable events The TIlt reclamation ser service vice IN was as organised four years 11 ago and aid during Us lIa existence hm hoe h increased from front less leas II than Iha n a dozen men melt to 10 over 40 4 tA engi engineer neer tarrying on work ork throughout widely scattered localities in its the hP 1 arid art 1 west 11 Contracts Contract have hase teen been let IM and work nork ork is II under way involving the ex PI of ot 6 0 anti and other ton con are arc being prepared pr pared which will necessitate n Itle the th expenditure In all of or nearly There are now no work nork workIng Ing for fur the contractors about aboul men Inn and the reclamation Ins has working directly for It over 00 men Including day laborers and nd inn hank The monthly expenditures aggregate bout about having gradual In Increased Increased creased cret until moth II they are now practically at the Ih maximum It II I Is not Ilot probable that there will Ill be It further expansion but on the contrary a co considerable i consolidation I and lId reduction r of tiC forc rore I 11 as the larger works are t completed Th rapid growth Ih of nr the Ib reclamation r Ir lIlI hy by the For Kor the Ihl rascal year ending June 30 II 1903 I then Mere acre u II little lilt over half halt a million ills for fur 1906 one ene and nd one half halt mil III for foe 1 three and ona and f for r the Ih year fIr ending June Jun Junel Juneo o 0 l 1 M 08 very eight million millions the Ih greater art of lOr this amount being exi during the months of May Mav id nd June Jun when hn the Ih expenditures reached over a million dollars dollar each |
