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Show SMT1 wKr - - .: e ' i ' FULL ASSOCIATED ADVERTISE IN THE EXAMINER PRESS - - - w w V ta DISPATCHES ARE OPEN VOL III TO J a UTAH WEATHER FORECAST for the price it charges, it is best advertising medium the THE EXAMINER IN THE CITY REACHES the county as well CITY. OUR SUBSCRIPAS THE TION BOOKS VERTISERS i l FAIR WEATHER MONDAY AND TUESDAY, AD- NO. 274 OGDEN CITY, .MONDAY UTAH. OF TROOPS FOR OCTOBER MORNING, a! wrecks. beached and two wit! !. Several vessel, lb' ,f whicq . aai'.' .v vff are unknown, are Utar. and the small marking The and passage between Dwu;!'- - .i:. n deal roved. the mainland have Tbe beacon lights on '.V part of the The coast arc not greatly i.t'i.ugi-d- . Mobile is schooner Alice Graham been wtih her known to have crew of tlx me. This uoai has been fx'e evil an beside and pursued by haring various mishap from time to time, was wrecked in ih great siorm of 1693. when aevers: people were lost from her. The kimwn dead at Dauphin island are Cspi John Wonen 1, I. PRICE Forces Will Be Landed as a Precautionary Measure No Trouble is Expected Intervention Regarded as Inevitable w Long It May Last Cannot Be Foretold. --Ho- CENTS RACE THROUGH Hum-island- AMERICAN EXPEDITION TO CUBA FIVE ii of the schooner Irene. i'np: Millions of People Witness the Ascent of Sixteen Balloons end Watch Them Sail Away to the West Many Raiert Peters of the schooner Ixmls P. and Minn boat. Mitchell Ptsell, mate of Four bodies have been picked up In the water near Dauphin Island and have been buried their Two were evidently sailors and Uy. The people on Dauphin ikiaud auffere I the and urni. during great hardship hours were in great for (wenir-foudanger. The soldiers at Fort Gaines made a dangerous trip of two miles to the residences on the isUnd. offering to give everybody shelter within the furt. but the offer was in all cases refused, tba people preferring to remain In their hmMea. It Is now believed that the luss lo the lumber interest alette by tin atorm will aggregats aiii.iiiki.iNKi. It Is almost Impossible for any person who has not been through the atorm swept dlsirict le comprehend the ex tent to which the country has been wept of pine lumber. Tens of sands of trees of tbe finest quality have been blown down. It is possible that wmie of thia may in- - waved, but much of it i loot hejoud recorery. The number of logs lhat have been carried out to sea or driven Into Inaccessible ewamps ia enormous. The great majority of trees that hail been weakened by being tapped for turpentine were leveled and ilealen in turpentine are vory gloomy over the (, Distinguished Visitors Present. w,-r- r 30. American AYaablcgton. Sept. troop, now are moving toward Cuba. Mobilization of the forces will be at Newport New. Va for the moei pait, although a part of the first expeditionary force to Cuba will be aent nom New York to Tampa, Fla. Advice, re- sendee to move at onoe. H midnight pert and te provide for the sublust night all order to troops had sistence of the troops at Newport News been dispatched and advicos received during their embarkation. today by tbe military secretary, GenC,rt. Leo F. Foster, of the eral Ainsworth, indicates that the general's office, will be the orders Hre cairied Into effect. assistant to the chief commissary at Nine hundred men will sail from Havana. He probably will sail for ceived at the military department of New Tork next Wednesday on tbs Cuba oa tbn transport Boomer next the government today Indicated that army transport Sumner. One Wednesday. all ia quiet In Cuba and that the In- battery from Fort Hheridan at light A dispatch was received at the war surgents intend to lay down their T. J. will embark from Port Tampa department today from Hrig.-Gearms. The probability la the Halted for Havana aa soon as Wlnt. commanding the department of arrangements State, forces In the island will he can be complete J for the movement. Missouri, that he would arrive here landed only as a precautionary The remainder of the first He will he in command of Tuesday. So far aa officials are advised, tionary force, which numbers expedix limit the troop at Newport News as they no truiiblo of a nerkHiM kind la an- 6.700 men, will tmll for Cuba from mobilise there and will direct their ticipated. hut In accordance wlih in- New port News, Ya. embarkation for Culm. Two comstructions from President Roosevelt The troops to go lo Cuba are bat- panies nf coast artillery will be or hurried preparations are being made tailous of infantry from Platlsburg, derod to Newport News to act as for the sending of an expeditionary N. Y barracks, slid the Imtialtnu of provost guard. force of the army to Cuba. from Washington barracks. ('apt. Frank McIntyre, acting chief The first American troops will lie engineers Accompanying them will be some of- of the bureau of insular affairs, aclanded at Havana next Saturday. ficers and men of tbe medical corps companied by Maj. J. R. Kean, of the Meantime the m trine and the blue and hospital corps and perhaps signal medical corps of the army, will leave jackets from tbe Amertran fleet In corps. Washington tomorrow for Havana. Cuban waters will protect American They will sail from Miami. Fla., Tues6ending Forward Supplies. Interrata and support Secretary Taft, The Sumner now la loading at New day night. Some cases of yellow the provisional governor of Cuba, in York. She will carry commissary sup- fever have developed in Havana and the protect ion of life and property. plies for the first expedition for thirty Secretary Taft ia cor rented lest the In official circles here American InIn addition to the necessary supdisease attack the troops which are tervention waa regarded as Inevitable. days, plies for her crew and tbe men she lo be aaaembled there. Major Kean How long It may continue, it la im- will carry en route to Cuba. Tbe New had an extended experience not only possible to foretell. The nature of York depot of tbe commissary de- In Cuba, but also in the Philippine, tbe Intervention and, tbe preparations partment was open all laat night and I thoroughly familiar with the for it indicates a supervision nf and 11 day today andnight every effort health conditions in Hits ns. Cuban- - affairs on the part of the to Cantaln McIntyre will have a force being made to facilitate the deAmerican government for an Indef- parture of the Sumner. It la likely of clerks with him, and under ininite period. that the troops lo sail on tbe Soinner structions from Secretary Taft will Arrangements have been concluded will be concentrated in New York im deal with the situation of affairs in for the fimt expeditionary force of Tuesday. Commissary General Sharp Cuba so far as they may relate to Cuba of about 3.(iU men. hut for a sec- will tot erase bis work on tbe de- Ilia bureau. ond force of equal numbers. No or- parture of the first expeditionary force Colonel Crowder, assistant. Judge adders for the' mobilization of the sec- to Cubs. As soon as the troops are vocate general of the army, an ex-- ( ond force, of course, have been islanded, which will be witbln ten days, pert In Spanish law sad an officer men are all If but needed, the sued, snot tier full supply of eommishary I of large experience a Judge advorate i arrangements have beeu completed for stores for thirty days, will be seni to I general in the Philippines, en Cuba at the to the hurrying them Cuba by. a merchant liner. One week rouse 4 .Havana --to assist Secretary moment. imwible-Whether later a third supply for thirty days Taft In the legal department of the earlieaf move troops than are Included in the will be forwarded to Cuba. The ob provisional government, first expedition will be aent to Cuba, Ject of sending the supplies so rapidly ('apt. Archbsld W. Hull, depot quarthe will depend upon development. la to get. them. inio the depots at termaster In this rlty and one of the this In jfilund during the next tea Havana rfnd'havc them handled with- principal assistants of Quartermaster days. out confusion. General Humphrey, In also on his way SlaJ. Harry K. Wilkins, now axelsl-an- t to Havana. Busy All Day Sunday. to Lieutenant Colonel Knlskern, It ia certain (hat a certain force of, Paymaster General Bniffen has daAmerican troops will be maintained In the purchasing commissary at Chi- is lied Col. 0, If. Whipple aa chief Cuba to support tbe provisional gov- cago. has been ordered to Cuba as the paymaster of. the Cuban expedition, ernment and to insure security to life chief commissary of Ihe expedition. with Maj. ti. F. Downey and Capl. and property (lending the establish- He already has started from Chicago H. 0. Brinks as assistants Gen. Stephan P. Jocelyn, who has ment of a stable government by the for Havana. Cubans. Capjt. Henry G. Gle, of the com- Jrjq returned 'from a leave of absence Aperationa in all department s of the missary general's office here, 1ms In Europe, had a conference with Gendemilitary establishment of the govern started for Cubs with a force of eral Hell today. Prior to hiscolonel eminent were on a way basis. The clerk. They will sail from Tampa, parture for Europe he waa a of staff iiriing secretaries anil chiefs of bu- Fla., fomorow night for Havana. Capl. of the general staff .and chief reau were at their desks, and every Francis J. Koester, commissary at Ihe of the Pacific division. He waa prooffice was humming with activity. Washington barracks, wl'l leave to- moted to ha a brigadier general while Scores of clerks who have not worked morrow for Newport News to superin- he waa on leave. He bus beeu asn on Sundays since the tend the loading of supplies on the signed to command the department of war, were on duty at the war transports which ire to sail from that the Columbia. nd navy departments and at the headquarters of the marine corps. Genera Ainsworth, military secretary and General Bell, chief of staff of the army, worked throughout the day concluding arrangements for the departure nf tbe first expeditionary force to Cuba. Orders for the movement of the troops were sent out last night, but today scores of order we is sent to officer wbo arc on leave, ta ' . join their regiment. General Humphrey, quartermaster general practically closed arrangements today for the transports which arc to convey the expedition to Cuba. The shlis will be ready for departure Imfore the troops have been mobilised fiobils Emerging From Confusion Caused by Storm' be at Newport News. If it should necessary to send a second exited Debris' Being Cleared From Streets t ion ary force lo Cuba Immediately war departfollowing the first, the Cars Are Now Moving ment apprehends some difficulty on aclaws of the count of the quarantine., various southern state. A transport returning to any southern slat from Cuba will have to remain in quae Mobile, Ala., via Meridian, Miss., Mobile A Ohio are running as before nnlino fire days before it can lake on storm. a cargo or troops for Cubs. The war Sept. 30. The number of casualties in (he Along the boast West of Mobllo. department has taken up this matter the great storm of last Wednesday Is Tbe situation along the coast to the with i he authorities of the southern as messages are re- west of this city ta now fairly well states in the hope or arranging for a slowly Increasing which Miss., one have here- known. At Scranton. waiver of the five days quarantine ceived from places Fellows' hall and The total church, the Odd were tofore been inaccessible. legulatlon. several buildings blown down. At last night of the known dead was Pascagoula Beach not a residence Is Troopa Will Arrive Saturday. was brought up to lert 75. This number standing, the river front at that Secretary Taft, as the head of lha of 79 and a possibility of point ta President's speclsl mission to Cuba, a102certainly completely turn up and the which reached Mothe reports by there has been destroyed. has available nearly S.tHiti marines and and early today. lighthouseat this the bile night during blue Jackets who could be landed on point has been badly have Shipping The revenue before counted not bodies Four rutter Winona, Cuban sol In a few hours in case of been found at Coded, and. it Is esti- damaged. for which miioh fear was emergency. Other marines are cn mated that, twenty-threlives have lw now known to be safe. entertained, route to Cuba and will lie available from oyster fleet around Tbe crew of the cutter rescued tbe for emergency service in two or three l.een lostPoint. the This last estimate is keeper of the Pascagoula Cedar lighthouse day. known to be accurate, and Is prob- and his family during the storm. The It will 1m- - a full .week before the not somewhat exaggerated for the keeper of tbe Hern Island light bouse, ably force nf the army can be landed in reason that It includes among the outside of Scranton, lost his, life. Cuba. The first detsil of troopa will deal, every man aboard a Ashing boat just captain of a tug which came near leave New York on Wednesday aboard who has not been heard of since the The bouse at the commencement of the army transport Sumner. They will torni. It Is known that some of the the storm urged him to leave, but he arrive at' Havana on Saturday after- boats on which these men were on the hla post and in a noon next. It probably will be sev- have been driven ashore, and it is refused to abandon short time was drowned. The entire of oilier before to eral days later troops that some crews managed end nf the Island on which the lighttin- - first expeditionary force of the possiblethe shore. It does not seem reach was situated is ahl to have a i my will be aide to reach Cuba. Jlkelv at present that the death roll house been carried iwaV by the waves. .unIs more landed to ybt Where they will be will amount In this vicinity At Biloxi the damage has been of determined. It likely they will go than 135. a minor cfanrarter as to buildings. to Havana, hut their precise destinaMobile Itself is rapidly emerging Every bath house In the place has tion will not be determined until prac- from the confusion caused by the gone uid the beautiful driveway along Ihe of iturm. Large gangs of men were the coast at this point has been detically the hour of the sailing ran pons. kept work'ng all f Sunday In clear- ni roved. Boats which have from time No time is being lost In hurrying ing the streets of debris, three of the Immemorial found refuge from all the Street car lines have commenced to storms that blew by fleeing into tbe troops io ihe point of mobilization Newport. News, Ya. The order of run for the first lime since Wednes- back bay at BUoxl. were granted no President Roosevelt, received at Jft:S day. the confusion at the docks is rap- sucb Immunity on Wednesday, aa the o'clock last night at the' war depart- idly being repaired and business will waves ran' high end many of the boats ment waa imputative. Its text wait be at normal action as soon as tbe that sought refcg there were sank a follows: railroads are able to run trains. and all of them were badly damaged. As yet the Louisville A Nashvile Is At Pas Christian no lives were lost, "Arrange for 6.000 troops ta start Is road and the disabled for Cuba as soon as possible. only still and the damage was slight. The wreckThis telegram was received in an- which Is not abla to maintain a sched- ing of few houses comprised the when line time that And the swer to one sent lo the President yes- ule.' at Gulfport, and ao Uvea were daman 1s contraffic for regular terday morning by the war official will be open lost there. best following the message from Secretary jectural. a It will certainly beIt the Vessel Total Wrecks. will be before of fortnight Taff. Immediately upon the. .receipt part out of eight vesseie at Ship Five Mobile and between tralie of the Presidents order instrjrtlnnS running of the storm were wtic Issued selecting men lor Cuban New Oiluns. The Southern and the island at the time y Ini-cag- ' - -- Spanlsh-Amarl-ra- INCREASE OF CASUALTIES --- e 1 t . Parts. 3i. Sixteen balloon, graph companies may operate with The atentging over 2.noo cutijc tueterx ra- the euuweui of government. pacity iiielt, and reptvxentlnK seven conference ta a result of the Marconi k count riek, Mlled away fr.'tn tile cotutuny having refmted its slat Ions garden, in the ljeart of Pari. to (lo business with persons using this afternoon in tbe first competition other than klatvoui for the Gordon Bennett cup fur InterThia controversy apiartu. began aeon after nal I.uihI aeronauts. the Marconi company in I9ftl set up The (Niiiiesi primarily was a long- stations fur public telegraph purdistance race. The date had been pose. The refusal of there stations carefully selected when the prevailing to lake messages sent in by the Biuby-Arc- o winds are from the west. In the hope (Gernmu) apparatus, brought of giving aeronauts n opportunity to about tbe International wireless telebreak the record of ('mint IV Lavaiix. conference, also by Invltuliou of made in 1ini. when Ills balloon landed graph Germany, in I9u8. Eight government in Konxdyxtcbeff, Russia, having covtook The' Inited Btutes, Gerered a riisiaurc of l.INo miles lu thirty, many, part: Great France. Italy, file linttr and forty minutes. But y Bps in, Hussia Britain, aud Ansi ihe wind was light, hardly more The delegate of six governments than eight miles an hour, aud from agreed In Ihe final protocol to a sirles hl,n or that, looked toward the Atlantic the limit of distance and therecommendations of all users of wl rcliliing the unratdan of Its chance a The delegates of a test of aerial travel. Great telegraphs. Britain and Italy because their On this account the race was a keen gsvernmenta bad contracts with tha disappointment to the aeronauts who Marconi rnmiwuy, did not sign ihe had come from every corner of Eureci immrn da t Inna. rope. The rulos of the contest, IJttlc has come of these recomPENSACOLA DATA INCOMPLETE. provided lhat In case of unfav- , Marconi company orable atmoeptierfo conditions the mendations, The has continued to wetu p stations and ia dif- judges could, at their option, make to Pensacola, Fla., Bcpi. .10.- -It refuse the mpsaagea of rival ays ficult to giv any definite lde of tbe the teat (me of endurance to remain terns. storm's devastation here. The entire in the air. The moat important act in the conNevertheless, as a Kpeclarle the water front is a mass of tangled waa in the conference that The costly bridge of thp event was a brilliant success. It la troversy, wreckage. in 1904. directing the I'niied Louisville A Nashville railroad span- calculated that over a million people the Marconi States, company to remove Its saw the Imlloons a they sailed away. was Escambia demolished, ning bay apparatus from the light ship Nanand it may be many day before trains A quarter of a million had gathered tucket. can go eastward. Train service north Inside the gardens, while at the Place Germany will proitos to the con' d la ('uncord, tbe bridge over the ference has been restored. that an international bureau Out of fifteen fishing schooners of Seine, the embankments of Ihe river, every other coign nf shall be established for the cuntrnl of B. E. Saunders A Co.' fleet, only one housetops and miles' around were blark wireless telegraphing; that each wirei afloat. Warren A Uo.'a fleet suf- vantage for with people. The terrace In the gar- less station must be connected wllh fered equally aa much. ml yone ves- den by special bad been reserved for invited the ordinary telegraph sel being undamaged. Tbe others are hv promlines; ibat the condition under which on the beach and some of them are guests. They were occupied as well as wtrulesa stations shall work wltk comtimbre wp - The rugs .Monarch and inent aeronauts ef Europe, visitors from vari- panies that do not aubacrlbu to tha distinguished ptany I ia Lee and at a, high airy Mary ous countries, (he foreign diplemala conclusions of the conference shall Pine street. Iwtre and the French ministers of war lie laid down by tbe conference; that ocean-goinhard craft Among the marine. The foreign military at- government which do not adhere to aud Inare the Norwegian ship aground taches are especially Interested In the the convention may do so later, and Norbark llcimdal, grid. Norwegian event. It being regarded a a great that when controveiwlea arise over wegian ship Avanti, Portuguese ship teat of aeronautic and inurh more the Interpretation or application iff Donna Christina. schooner Ferreira, than a mere sporting contest. the convention tLcy shall he submitted Alfhlld. bark Swedish Norwegian Santos Dumont tha Favorit. by arbitration. Norbark bark .Andree, Italian Avon, The start was preceded by the flight lmrk German wegian bsrk Hereford, of hundreds of (rial ballooneites and Marla, Swedish hark Neach, Italian the loosing of 6'NI homing pigeons. EUROPEAN VIEWS bark Olivari. Norwegian bark Superb. Each contestant is an expertenecd lUmkiii The fishing smacks Lottie aerial pilot, but, contrary to expectaOF INTERVENTION and Carrie B. Chase and the lighter tions, Banlos Dumont, one of tbe two home Iris crashed Into the bay shore representatives of the Aero club of of I axe Jarnhy. wrecking it, and the America, proved to Ixi the ouly one from were rescued crew of tbe Chac to inaugurate a novelty. For (he pur- Creates no Surprise In France Was e tho front gallery of the reRldenct-- . Expected in Germany. pose of keeping afloat as long aa Italians Pleased. It ta estimated lhat 309 people are he had equipped his car with a homeless and in want, but. citizen are six horse-powvertical profiler with 1a It. now lie not the object of lifting and lowering hi raiatng a fund ami lleved that any outside help will be balloon without discharging any of It Paris, Sept. 3ft. The newa of Ihe needed. ballast. The enthusiastic establlHhmeiil by the I'nilcd Slate nf prerimi Hie .'cheers or the muliltnde which greeted a .Mrs. T. F. Mathews, wife of provisional government In Cub thw axcenl nf Santo Dumont shoved created In auihoritallvs bridge tender st Escambia bay and no In tbat he was a favorite and quite as rlrclea here, surprise two children, wire carried away refusal nf tho the where de popular a his Freneh rivals. their house and were drowned, War Sucre-retarmil factions to pet warring Major Hcrzy. the companion of spite the frantic effort a of Mr. Taft and Assistant Secretary Wellman-lTit-cagWalter Wellman In the Matbewa to rescue them. Stste Bacon to mediate was - conRecord-Heral- d north pole expedi- of sidered to make Ihe step inevitable. P. to Frank FURTHER CASUALTIES AT NEW tion. acted as assistant Sixth action of I be Inited Steles is The Tutted Lahm. lieutenant In the ORLEANS. the Interesi ss subserving regarded States cavalry. the other American of all foreign countries. France' only competitor. stake Is to safeguard her commercial New Orleans. Sept. 3ft Report that Each balloon carried a Healed Interesi and ao long as the question live were lost and for barometer to work fwentjprobably a dosen of the open door la nut raised by that hundred of square miles of land four hours and a number of envelopes some development, she Is sot likely to were under eighteen Inches to four o be thrown pot every two liourtt In action in the matter. tike any on the Individual trail. hurricane feet of water dining order to murk lha the Mlsstaalppl river delta were Food for three days was also on hoard Rome, Kept. 3ft. Official of the forbrought here today. The Inundated each rar. office expressed their satisfaction eign bemarried Not the slightest accident tract begins fifty to seventy miles of a low New Orleans, und Is moatly in the atari. Each enormous balloon In on learning of the proclamatlnn governorship for Cuba and habited by fishermen and oyster men, turn soared soft amid the plaudits of provisional Drat it would mean the Messages which loft Ihene villages tbe crowd and sailed gracefully away hotted of ieare and order In the last sight said up to that time several to the weiwftfd. exIsland. Entire confidence persons were still missing. Names of Contestants. In and circles by government pressed The loss to the 1'nlted State J .lent. Dumont, America Banin the pres that ih Inited States will marine hospital quarantine station on Frank P. I ahtp. !' A. find a definite settlement of troubled Ship island I alul Jflft.ftftfl. Of (he 4 France ('mint De Lavaulx. Walth- conditions. eight sailing vessel wrecked on the am: Count De Hi. Victor, Foehn; Official telegrams announcing Secref'jB(-qiieIsland. II I reported that half Rslson, city of Chaieanroux. tary Taft assuming thegovernmenl, them can probably lie repaired and! (fonnsny - Qsntaln Abercron, were communicated to King At Misllppl City one of neldorf; Herr Bcherl. Schwa ben; Bar- Pope Plus was mnel Inthe sound pons, search Is blng made in the situation and ordered terested for the schooner Lady Ixnilse. which that Mgr. Aversa, apostolic delegaye, was caught out in the storm with sevdhotild delay his departure for Cul eral fishermen alsard. pending further Instructlims. Reports of damage lo the rollon towns crop in Interior -- Mississippi Berlin. Kept. 3ft. Germany lias only still places the Mimaies as high sa a slight political interest In Cuba and those made the flisl day after the the1 intervention of Ihe Fnited Rtatea atorm. Farmer in the vicinity of is regarded at tin foreign office her Gloster. Newton and Tylertown. Mis., as reasonable in consequence of Its claim to have lot 59 per cent of the relation with ihe Island. cotton. The subjects of Enropan powers In Cuba,' said :m official of the forTO SANTIAGO. ORDERED eign office, "look to the Lulled States to protect their Interests. Si-pi- Tull-leriv- re-le-u e how-ete- r. 1 - -- ss-slhl- er y o ! 1 x d. Washington. 8ft. Announce- ment wsa mad" at the navy department todar that the cruiser De Moines, which a few days ago was ordered from Havana to Cienfuegos, Cuba, to reinforce the Marietta amt Cleveland, had been ordered fo Santiago. Cuba, and already bad sailed. The order fur th" movement of the Dos Moines wa given by Secretary Taft, and naval official here do not know the precise rigniflranee of It. it U believed, however, to be a precan. denary measure and not because of Santiago. The any disturbance a De Midnes has a considerable number of msrines on board that could bn utilized a landing parties to protect property or life. oT take the place nf tbe Des Moines at Cienfuegos. the Tacoma sailed today from Havana. . The Prairie salld today from Bo- Berlin, Bept. 5ft- nc,egnre ton and the battleship Texas from will government The funner carries 169 blue- - sent lug thirty-on- e jackets and lft marines, and the 1st assemble here on Oct. 3 by inriiatioa with the ter 226 bluejackets and 20ft marines, of tbe German government agree-oThey are expected to reach Havana object of reaching a common of messages Thursday at the latest. The crtils-- ment for an exchange er Brqklvn with a large number of between the uses of various wireless marines will ssil from Island, 1 telegraph systems and to define, thebasis en which private wireless telePhiladelphia, next Tuesday morning. - repre-Norfol- k. j b ! DECREA8E IN PENSION 3ft. ROLL. of name dropped on that account 43.31X1. Ilf three 29.208 were those uf xurvlvorx of the Civil war, Iravlng 649.456 survivors of that war still on Ihe ndL There are still four pensioners ou account of the .revolutionary sir. one a widow and th other three daughters; 6X0, all widows, ob wurouut of tho sar with Rpals, and 11.473 oa account of the Mextran war. Of the Mexican war peuskma, 3,964 or to survivor. The coniinlxsloncr calls attention to tbe fact tbat while (here baa beta a material decrease in the number of pensioners, tlio aunual value of tho roll U nearly as targe a ll wa last vuar. This arises from the fset tbat iho nrtlng nf many invalid penatnns are constantly lnerrasliii. the average lucroaxe Iasi year Mh( 1 1.22. the entire The report shows that history of the coomry the total exof pun Inns has penditure oh arennut been IH.44Mtift.3n. of which only ba-lu- g 1 had been paid IHU.445.444 out prior lo the beginning id the llvll war. Of the total 93,251.195X1 was on account of tbe Civil war. The total payment of penskms on account of the Bpaatat war reached fl5.43R.15t up U date. DISTRIBUTION OF UND TO FEASANTS ala f Dessiatine of Land th Peasants ta Begin . IIJWOjOOO tt at One. 1 HI. Pttsrtfeui I, Kept. M Tbe final step to net ta set km the auwhnnr of the lovetiimMit s plsi far Ike of load ia lbs peasantry wa taken today by the publlrttlou column lore regulation local lo th agrarian CQmmtsskme, under which of' the sale of ll,6uO,(KK dessiatina land in European Russta wtll begin These commission, Immeifataly. which are com posed of delegate ' elected by the peasant. the land owner and the xreinma and mt rep resefltatlvw of Ui government, act a Intermedlxrta In lha valuation ef and the fixing nf condition of ale. They r charged also with far t migration. Tbe aero age In eastern Rusiia and oa the Siberian strepcs surrendered by the emperor will ba sold on resy term, Tba price ta less th $2 n acre and are sines d over fifty years. With the constliutional democratic emigrevt only one week away and tho formidable new party furmslbm of an Couni Hoyden's platform, pcxceful regeneration seems fully assured. Tho polltlcMl campaign ta becoming animated. Tbe hen upon the meeting of tbe const itutlonsl democrats In Bt, Petersburg and Moncow has been rehave moved, and these aswunblie been sanctioned subject to the restrictions of en Premler Witte's temporary law. Encouraged by this democrats th conetiiiHhmtl contemptat transferring their con--1 gresa nf Oct. 6 from Helsingfors lo Hi. Petersburg, but they will tdhar made to meet la lo the arrangement Ihe Kinniah capital union they or definitely assured nf an they are In wholesome fear of th Meurlty.' regulations of "reinforced It ta expected Ihil about 400will sMnnd the congress. .The appeal for mitigation nf tha death sentence pawed upon the nf General Kozlov, who w killed in Peterliuf park last July, ha been joined by the general's widow. After fruitless intercession with the commander of Ihe Bl. Petersburg Mmr. Kozlov has telegraphed Ihe empress asking that no furtbor blood he spilled upon the tomb of her nt , tho-lau- iy-meu- d ta n, del-gzt- gar-rlw- husband. GOES TO NEWPORT NEWS Fori Riley. Kas Kept. 30.Br1g. Gen. Thoudure J. Wlnt, commanding tho department of the Missouri, left the camp of InstruetJon at Fort Riley t News to this afternoon for take charge of the embarkation at tho troop that leave this week for Cuba. Major Richard Johnson, who has been in charge of the merttaal department at the camp, left this afternoon for 11 vi ns far duty with the medical department there with the American Nes-por- troops. The net de Washington. Sept crease in the pension roll of the I'niied States for the fiscal year ending June 8ft last annunted to 12.47ft. the largest decrep.se ever known in the Malory of the country. These fact are brought out in he annus report cf fomnilrsioijcr of Petition Warner, In which has just been completed. the report the cuvi'itlssloner expresses Ihe opinion that there will lie a still during the pres more marked ent year. During the year there wove added res pensioners and lo the nil 1.4ft restorations an l renewals, making a total addition or 31.974. The total number of ; tensions on Ihe ro'l during Die year was 1.033.413. The number of pensions d replied from the pill during the year wa- x leaving the number of June 3ft, 1306. 065.971. Tbe maximum of pensioners In th'! history of the bureau was reached January 31. 19P5. when It was 1.004.190. Death was the piluripal cause of th decrease of tbe last year, tba nuinuciK3.-V.- pen.-luner- - lJeut. Edgar Miller, medical department, left for Omaha to r comcompany of signal corps from pany th-rta Cub. Companies E. F. and ti. Thirtieth Infantry, commanded by Major William Abercrombie, left the ramp fur their regular stations, tho companies going to Fort Logan, and the latter to Fort Reno. Okl. O'CONNOR IN NEW YORK, New York. Sept. T. of the British O'l'nnnoi'. member house of emtimuna and leader Ip Irish affairs, arrived here last night from Llverpisil on the steamer Grille. Mr. OT'nnnor. who sis accompanied by his wife, exnu- - In Amertra to attend the third biennial convention of fhw 1'nileil Irish league at Philadelphia. Oetolier 2 slid 3. In an Interview Mr. O'Connor said that the oullook of th Irish psrty was very favorable and the indications were that there would' be introduced parliament measure by wlileh the Irish people hpe to secure till LuvvrnmcnL i ( |