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Show THE MORMNQ THE EXAMINER WALK INTO THE HOLE- Tri- - Republican: Tb kinder!"1 carutaUy In food to K enemies. Oat foolisk paper WkM they or IU foolish maker- -) go wrong, not to do they hare only to warn It kinderthe and ifcj particular thing, 4 go Tribune .promptly garten k--t Adm ut tt Tfcst defense. vu CMC with thl 8kcti Francisco because it to uo for assy from you there Is a mayor who came to the parting of ways. He was a good mayor aa mayera go, so It Is said. He made promises ef straight dealing aad hard work for the good of kls city. Aad s believed be because his would keep kls promises they lifted him fram a poor play la an orchestra aul placed him at the executive head of u great municipality. The mayor meant to keep hta promise. But sudden tly he came to a parting of the ways For somo time he did sot realii that ho mud make a decision. Ho waa ehowu that he could become compdratively rich by simply passing the word to those under him that they should vote In a certain wy. When be was shown this ho realised that he had come to tho parting erf tho fellow-dtlsea- not to Telling the Tribune had the Hen n Sheet political auk desired elect. The Tribune baa stripped the chtaf of emr MtMl and all the apparel ef his Amerirecord, and hound him on the of can political party the wild home ways modern Maacpp. the deeert- like a On one hand waa allegiance to those and started him int the fall campaign who had placed trust la him; on the And the result will be the name. Ton other, riches sad sacrifice of will naTor hear of home or rider again when the nee It ended. For one moment he hesitated. His hesitation waa his dowufalL Tho bribe money was passed, the word was passed along. The mayor Is standing under the lhedow of indictment. One of those to whom the word waa passed has revealed to n Jury of hta peers what had been rankling lu his heart for weeks mud months. This man was the driver of bakory wagon before ho was placed In municipal offlce. He says be has learned his lesaou. He wants to get back te hta bakery wagon and to honesty. Have yon ever com to the place where the ways part? If yon haven't, you are certain to tome day; aad tbe ways will part suddenly before yon. Just as they did before the Baa Francisco mayor. Are you prepared to toad at the parting of the ways? Do you believe lu youruelf? No man to too strong to ask himself this question. Yen may have te answer It within the next tea minutes. The kindergarten Tribune prwtendn it did not know ef the bunko game by which the JicWhirter were robbed of ten thousand dollars; did not know ' that the robbers took the victims one of straight to the police station, them representing himself even In the prints offlce ef the chief as nInpoliceheadmen; did not know that than settlen quarter the chief arranged rob-bement between the robbed end the one by which the tatter gave up stolen, had ton they thousand of the tad wen permitted to leave without even the slightest attempt to detain them; pretends that It didn't know the victims were hustled out of town by the police, end that the bunko men remained here for days, on of them pinning two of the stolen thousand dollar bllta on hta shirtfront, and 111 declining the tendered napkin. Biit the Tribune did know it and did eupprwa the news. Thera era a greet many things the kindergarten Tribune which doesn't know. Wo art willing to eon-red-o that. But every fact and incident now embalmed in sworn testimony of credible w ltaeeee. touching the robbery and the attempt td aupprees the facta, were known to the kindergarten Tribune from the beginning. How much more of that sort of police transaction the Tribune helped to cover up and profit by, only the tanker of that paper know now. Kora may bo made public later. n MAKING HOMES. trotter can globe dis- DECISION AGUNSI tance the famous Phineaa Fogg by IDE UNION PACIFIC thirty days, aad that, by the ordinary rouv aad regular schedules of steamship and railroad trevsL Hare is th Interstate Cemmiaalon Helds That the Itinerary, aa given by Mortimer E. Arrangement With Elerotor ComXaa'a Railroad in Magathe Clarke pany Was Unlawful. to Cherbourg, 6 days. Cherbourg to Paris, T hours. Purls to Bt. Petersburg. t days New Tork Washington, April IS. In what Is known aa th Psavy Elevator case, the Interstate Commerce Commission to- day announced its decision against the Union Pacific Railroad company. Tha C hours. St. Petersburg U Moscow, 12 hours. Moscow to Irkutsk, 12 days. Irkutsk to Vladivostok, 6 days. Vladivostok to Robs, I days. Kobe to Yokohama, 11 hours. Yokohama to Sea tils, 11 days. Seattls to New York. 5 days. I The Altoona cobbler who discovered the chemical properties of ashes moistened with n solution of water, salt and oxalic add baa aolved the fuel problem. If half that la claimed for the preparation Is trua. The formula, aa made public, calls for nothing very expensive except the oxalic add, of which but a small quantity la required. The chemical action that tokos place la simply exThe solution, aa alkallna plained. salt, mixed with coal ashes forma weak lye, which whan heated givae off oxygen gas, and the oxalic add, made from fused caustic soda, yields a carbide, which In turn throws off acetylene gas, adding to the Intendty of tho heat When asbos are In that way converted Into fuel, the coal man In winter will be n lees Important or necessary Individual. Instead of waiting half tb winter through for n load of coal, tho housewife will dig up last year's ash bed uud pouring over It a bucket of water containing a little salt and the add, will proceed to kindle the fire, end If ehe Is so unfortunate a to be without an nab heap, she will borrow a bucket of the heretofore uteles article from her nearest neighbor. Crude salt will be brought la from the salt fields at Uttle Mountain by the trainload, at a small charge per ton, the water, even under the new schedule, will not he very expensive, and cut at Green River, Wyoming, lees than two hundred miles east of Ogdop. there- - are carbonate of soda aid lima enough to supply the world with the potash from which oxalic add la made. 80 that the new fuel would have nc element of great cost to tho poop! ef Ogden. The coal man, from now on, had bettor attend strictly to business or he will be without customers. THE PARTINO OF THE WAYS. Milwaukee Journal: Did you ever to the parting of ways? Ever since you were a youngster, you have heard of such a place; even new, while you are reading this, you are thinking that the subject has been worked to death. Yon are of the opinion that you have had tho moral fore-eupon you often enough. It may be true that the subject la well worn. It may be true that yon grasped the moral years and yearn ago. But It may also be true that yon never applied the moral to your own life. In Ban Francisco we take Ban , come The government reclamation has performed an inestimable service for lb , western country in educating the people to appreciate the value of water storage. Since the government work have been started, Utile settlements, here and there, have united in forming com panics to build reservoirs for conervlng tho spring floods until now examples of successful water storage nr to be met with lu utmost every valley la the agricultural sections of the West Tho Davis A Weber Counties Canal company storage reservoir gives proof pf the benefits to bo derived from well executed Irrigation planned and works. While forming waa carried on with greqt uncertainty of crape prior to the building of the dam in East Caayen creek, now crop failure Is unknown. The money Invented lu the preset has beau returned to the owners lu bountiful crops. Profiting by the experience of others, the people of Oakley, Idaho, ara to follow the example of the form-er- a to the south of us on the eead ridge, and, after sending a committee to obtain data from, the offlclala who are In charge of the government reclamation la Idaho, they bar decided to build a dam twelve miles south of their settlement, on Goose natural reservoir site creek, where ha been selected end where sufficient water can be stored to water 50,000 acres of land In tbe driest season. These formers knew la a general way that water storage le a good thing, but they bed to bo shown la n practical ey how profitable has the undertaking, In that little valley, twenty miles from Burley, where 2,500 inhabitants have been sequestered from the outside world, there will be 10,000 people after a while and where 600 or 00 homes have been established there will be 2,000 firesides where want will ba a stranger and where golden harvests will be poured from the horn of plenty by Mother Earth, Boon there will be n trolley lino, extending out from Burley, placing the homea In electric touch with the busy marts of trade. And ell this transformation will come about beoause the people of tbe west have at last realised the wealth there la lu tbe spring floods when those flood water are Impound ed and let loos in the summer time to moisten the soil and vitalise the growing plants. It le unfortunate for ne that In Ogden canyon there Is no great system 'of artificial lakes where the present flood waters could bo reaervolred anJ held for our farmers. FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF QUAKE AND FIRE. (Continued prom Page One.) the knewlodg of tho worst, however unwelcome, must precede the energy for the best." Addresses wars also mads by Di trlct Attorney W. H. langbs and Aw sisunt District Attorney Francis J. Heney. II. On year ago today Baa Francisoo was all but wlpaj out of existence by fire saw cesdlng a torriUe earthquake shock. Nearly a quarter of n million people wore rendered homeless and th flnaw ctal lose a mo noted to about 1500,000,-0UTho city was left a mass of making ruins and habitation seamed n matter of many years. Today th sun rose from a cloudless aky over a busy metropolis, In which th volume of business mors than squall that of a twslvwmonth ago, and whoso population la fast approaching lu former figure. Buck a record la said to be without parallel. During the year $75,000,000 has beau expended in work of cooatrnw lion, ouwthlrd of which was furnished by tha saving banks which, to common with all the financial Institutions, withstood tb disaster without a sign of weakness. Over has been paid out tor labor, and 50,000 msa are new engaged in tb building Industry while before tbe fire only 20,000 wore at woik. Temporary construction, which for n while prevailed, has ceased and permits for the erection of first-cintracts re to sost ever $50,000,000 hav boon granted. The restoration ef old buildings which survived th flames, now li progress, will require the expenditure of many millions more. About 200 miles of street rendered useless, are now in running order. Perhaps the meet convincing proof of the substantial rehabilitation of tb city Is shown by th bank clearings which for March exesodod by nearly two and a half million dollar the figures for thn tamo month of last year. Just preceding thn catastroBan Franclsoo, April 0. . IN FIFTY DAY. d News: When Julee Verne's thrilling novel Around tbe World In Eighty Days was written end It Isnt so many years ago, either It was looked at and commented upon as dealing with a' trip that must forever remain Imaginary. But the time baa come IjAd apparently harmleu cough is ANoften the forerunner of pneumonia and consumption. You can easily core the cough, less easily cure pneumonias with difficulty euro consumptions Core your cough with Scott Emulsion and you won't need to worry about pneumonia or consumption. s nrUQCBTSi . AND glJga fire-pro- e commission holds that the between tha Union Padflc aad the Psavy Elevators jras unlawful as It was to excess of the actual cost of th elevation of tha grain, aad therm fora a rebate. Ths decision was prepared by Commission sr Harlan aad hi opinion was concurred to by a majority of tho commission. Commlsionsrs ClenemU aad lane, however, filed dissenting opinions. Tha proceeding was entitled la the matter of allowances to elevators by ths Union Pacific Railroad company. It was a subject of investigation by ths commission on Its own motion prior to Juno 26, 19M. on which duu th eommisloa, oa th evidence than before It, decided that there had been no violation of taw. Subsequently, la July, 1200, on petition of certain railroads Interested In the grain traffic of the nonhweat, tbe was reopened and much additional testimony was taken. Ths case waa then argued at great extent bo-fthe commleeloa and briefs were filed by counsel representing an parties to Interest Upon this record and tho record of the previous proceeding the commlaion's decision ta banrd. Tho opinion of Commissioner Harlan summarised thus: Elevation la defined as unloading grain from earn or grain carrying vox-settoco a grain olevator and loading K out again after a period of not to oxessd ten days; it does not Include treatment or grading, cleaning and clipping of grain; and retention In an levator beyond ten day becomes storage and It not a part of the service of elevation as that word la nsed to the statute. The law dearly recognises elevation as a facility which tbe carrier may provide, and thts authorises the carrier to grant grain deration at destination or white th traffic to ta transit, subjeet only to th restriction imposed by tho act that elevation, like any other sendee offered by tho carrier to shippers, must open to all on equal terms 'Sine n carrier subjeet to the act to regulate commerce to entitled to provide deration for grain shipment!, such carrier may cither cons tract and operate ths elevator Itself or furnish elevation by arrangement with aa owa-o- f aa elevator; and th amount of compensation paid by tbs carrier to tbs owner of sn elevator rendering tha civics is of ooncsrn to shippers or to other carriers, unless It operates to affect tbs rates charged by tbs carrier upon the grata trafflo sr by some device a portion of the atowanee is returned to shippers and thus bscomea rebate. An allowance mad to a shipper of grain who furnishes elevation service under an agreement with the carrier to a rebate and sn unlawful discrimination when It Involves a profit over and above tbe actual cost to such ship" par of tho aorvleo rendered. It to not a rebate when th allowance does not exceed the actual cost Tho arrangement between tho Union Pacific Railway company and th Psavy elevators at Conn oil Bluffs and Kansas But City Is not In itself untawfuL ths allowance of one aad n quarter cents per on hundred pounds paid by ths railroad eompsny to thaas elevators. controlled by the Psavy Interests wb are large shippers of grain and own practlcallv all the grain going Into tho elevators la to excess of ths actual cost of ths service aad Is n rebate and therefore untawfuL Th eommisloa orders that tbs allowance by tha Union Pacific Railroad company to ths Psavy elevator shall s be reduced and shall nut sxeasd of a sent par 100 pound, ths order taking effect on June 1, 1907. Both Commission are Clements and Lan take issus In their opinion with the opinion ef tbs majority of th commission. Their opinions will be available In a day or two. arrange-mea- t Waiting for steam or connection, l-- l days Total do days. rail-wir- e. phe. In recognition and celebration of what has been done, eervksen were held tedny In the various churches and, whllo not a legal holiday, work In many placet nnnpendad. Tonight the Merchants association, n prominent factor In the tabor of reoon-tractiowill fittingly commemorate the uprising ef tho now Baa Fran-Cisc- o by a banquet at tho splendid new Fairmont hotel, many prominent dtlsens being among its Invited guests. n, ENGLANDS BUDGET STATEMENT. Chancellor sf thn Exchequer Delivers It Before Parliament. ar three-quarter- ts Kctr-Hardl- 1&07. ENGLANDS PATENTS CARRYING WEAPONS. Now York Crusads Goes Steadily Fori ward. Now York, April 18. Ths crusads ugulast th currying of onneealsJ weapons that waa begun after the murder of two policemen Sunday, lu going steadily forward. Today ths grand Jury will consider fifty cases of prisoners, Italian and others, who have been sent np by tbs magistrates sine Monday morning. The Tombs la full of prisoners, Italians and others, who have been rent p by tho magistrates the number being constantly augmented. It la assarted that most of ths offenders who are arrested for carrying assorted arsenals and who are called Italians, nr really Sicilians. Coronar Aerttaul has received a long totter signed by some 200 Italian women. Tho letter states la picturesque language that Italians do not want to bo shouldered with th odtam atiarh-In- g them because of Sunday's school-tog- , which they say waa really dons by Bid liana. Tbs magistrates ara holding for trial all prisoners oa whom concealed weapons nrs found. Several hive already been sente nc ad to serve six months to the psnltsntlafy. A negro who ijxd to his possession brass knuckles, was sentenced to Bing Bing for three years,- AND DESIGNS BILL! Measure is ef Great Interest to Amerlean Manufacturer. the nary. Colonel William Carey Sanger for the American Red Cross board. Esrnett Blcknsll of Chicago and Miss Mabel T. Bosrdmaa of Washington. Mr. Bicknell was in charge of relief work at Ban Francisco, following tb earthquake and fire and will make an exhaustive report upon th subject ot Rad Cross work la connection with great calamities. IN DENVER. n, 2 65,-PO- O 0. PU. Wilmington, N. C.. April 19. IN COPPER. ' New Yorw, April 11. Director of the Amalgamated Copper company declared n quarterly dividend erf 1 per cent and an extra dividend of M of 1 per renf: this dividend Th unchanged from the last previous quarter. Directors of tho Boston and Consolidated Copper and Stiver Mining company declared a quarterly dividend of 12 per share and an extra dividend of $10 per share. TWO-CEN- T FARE IN MICHIGAN. Governor Lansing. Mich., April tl. fare todny signed tha two-cen- t Mil which goes into effect ta September. It spplles all lower peninsula roads earning more than $1,300 par mile per year on passenger trains. Upper peninsula roads are reduced from four cants to three cents and low- er peninsula roads undsr ths $1,200 limit enn charge three cents. NYhrner INSURANCE Extracts sS 2 Ogden Turf Exchange Vra e JAPANESE AFFAIRS. With United Immigration Trent Staton CMnldsred Unnucunaary, PUBLIC CON8ISTORY, Six ef tha New Cardinals Rscslvs thi Red Victoria, B. C., April 12. Advices from Toklo report thn conclusion rf session of the Japtho twenty-sevent- h anese diet, after a crisis which weakened ths position of .Marquis Baku Ths budgst far , 1207-9cabinet. reaching ths unprecedented sum of $305,000,000, was passed - prtthout amendment by the house of. representatives sad th peers struck out only th item for Hokkaido public works. A compromise as to tbs revised criminal cods was raeched at a conference of tho two houses. Ths crisis resulted from ths introduction of th minis tasrlal for th abolition of tbs country autonomy. Tbs Daldo club, which is associated with th Sal y aril party to support of tha ministry, refused to support tbe Mil and urged th government to withdrew it. Th bil passed the lower house by n narrow margin and was introduced before d psora by ths government. An attendance of th upper housa occurred when ths bill was considered, an old viscount having to b carried to his sost 1a a chair and a rich marquis, who had not previously taka n part in a debate, did not know bis seat. The bill was rejected by ths peers, thus shaking ths position of ths nnpre-cedents- cabinet Hat Roms, April II. A public eoub tory took place at ths Vatican today with great ceremony. This bring thn uon in which Rome Is crowM with tourists, ths demand for tickets was extraordinary. At an airly tew all the streets leading to Bt Prim were blackfl with people, hurrying 0 get good plaero at ths Vatican ui soon tiie hall of Beatifications and tb corridors through which the Pipf profession passed were crowded to monks, priests, laymen snd lad In k black veils, white the tribunes anetd for the occasion contained relative of th Pope, the Roman aristocrat; and members of ths Diplomatic eocp. Th procession accompanying fit Pops was long and Interesting, tehi composed of many notable personagn. Ths Swiss guard headed the proc ston and the Nobel guard aurroundd the Pontiff, who waa dressed in whin Ho wan preceded by the card intis h full rad robes, and followed by tb bishops and archbishops. When tbe Pontiff was nested spa the throne, the nix new cardinals advanced one by on to receive the ni hat. Each prelate knelt at the fori rf the Pope white tb muter of new uonles held a magnificent red tat ever the cardinals head and tb Pope saying, Accipe galerum nb ram," etc., rone, and gam th pto embrace. Ths naw cardinals tb puasd from cardinal to cardinal tow ceivt tbo kiss of brotherhood, whin the choir sang softly. The Pope then Imparted the lie blearing and withdrew, urrodndri by hte court and guards, to pmldi later at. a supplementary secretme cardinals Bistory, the new while returning thanks before tb w tar of the Slstlne chapel. Tho United, Staten was represent" at the ceremony hy Mgr. Robert 8rtt of New Jersey; Mgr. Tkomu man, bishop erf. Sioux Falls, and Jtohn Family, spiritual director tho American college. The nteds of. the American college were Tbe Toklo government was also embarrassed by agitations, started by United Japan ere r aidants to th States, against the' proposed immigration treaty. Th Toklo foreign offlos declares it considers tho treaty Th federal government baa taken steps to the matter, r Rumored negotiations for tha conclusion of an alliance between Japan aad Rusal are denied by ths Toklo foreign offlce, but tt Is admitted thqf e pour purlers are going for a entente, for pranervantloa of the post helium states quo in th best means for maintaining pence, moans fo maintaining pence. bent From Seoul, whither Marquis Ito has Just been returned from Japan, news was received of aa attempt oa ths Ilfs of the Korean ministry of war. Tho assailant, who was immediately ar- present rested, is said to have intended, aided by accompanied to assassinate the minister, president and minister! of tbe Interior, education and war. Ths after effect of the boom to cook puny promoting which caused extraordinary business fovsr sines th letter half of 1001, is resulting ta n rapid decline of shares and la proving rain-- i oua to members of the mushroom rich. W Ladies Th mystery concerning the disappearance of a package containing $10,000 to currency In transit by mall from tha Atlantic National bunk of this city to ths Chemloal Nation a bank of New Tork waa cleared up by tho arrest and confession of Edward A. Nelson an employe of the railway mall service. Most of the money was found buried near Nelsons house. DIVIDEND Havering Russo-Japanes- Denver, Col., April 18. Temperatures unusually low for this season of the year are being experienced In many of the towns la th central section of Colorado, according to reports received here tats today. At Canon City th mercury last night reached the freezing point Considerable damage was dons to early fruit crops. A severe snow storm is reported in tha mountain districts. CLEARED 9b -- of commons, is of particular interest to American manufacturers of m chinery largely used in British fac- differ in every respect from tories who, having secured patent others. They are more uniform right la Greet Britain, continue to supply British factories with machines more economical, as it requirej mad to America. Th measure Is debut a small quantity to impart the signed to compel these manufacturer to snake to Great Britain the machines desired flavor. They are true tu ! which they sell or leas hare. The nature, as they are nude from th bill eventually will become law, but fruit, i whether it will bo effective In enforcaomn to In questioned ing ft subject quarters. 10 enacts that at any time Clause not lean than three yean after tha grant of a patent any perm intsreet-e- j may apply for the revocation of ths patent oa th ground that th patent article Is manufactured exclusively or mainly outslds ths United Kingdom th controller may revoks the patent unless ths patents proves that th patented articls la manufactured to an adequate extant In ths Unled King dam or satisfactory reasons 32$ Twenty-fift- h St . why ths articls is so manufactured. Thu Bhos and Leather Record, tho offiaisl organ of th shot trade, this danse in aimed at nit machinery invented and manufactured ta America and patented hut not made Ctllfomta and Eastern to Great Britain. races. Direct wire for all Ths earns paper criticises clausa 1C. which, it says, was avowedly Inserted sporting events. for the protection of the British shoe manufacturer against ths American shoe machinery trust This clause provides that it shall be unlawful, in any contract made after the Now Is the time to order commencement of this act for tho sal ytur or lease or license of, any patent artiSPRING AND SUMMER cle to impose as a condition of such ale, leasing ot license to us a condition tho effect of which will be to hierera of licensee from employing In prohibit or restrict tho purchaser, his trad or industry any article or dans of articles acquired from any person other than the parson by whom Our goods are now to aad would tho condition la Imposed or hta nobo pleased to hav you call fo ts mine, and any tuck condition inserted so them. Wa also do repairing, to any such contract shall be null ahd void." cleaning and pressing. Tho American manufacturers have many machines on leas to England J. E. BOLSTAD which would be affected by thts clause should it become law. $1$ 24th st .Fhona 339 K. Washington, April II. The complete American delegation to tho International Red Cross conference which will open to London on June 10th, yaa named today hy the state department aa follows: ... Burgeon General Robert ORelltey, representing th army. Medical Director John C Wire, for MYSTERY Every Respect - . RED CROSS CONFERENCE. COLD WEATHER Differing in If. Patents anJ which tolar unanimously passed It second reading in ths house London, April o vroaa-exsmlnatlo-n - 19, Delaware and Lackawanna and Western and oa th Pennsylvania Uses. Mr. Donnelly, for the Northern Pacific, said the witness had left 537,OVO out of his fence estimates, which represented the cost of snow fences, which was admitted, also that $7,000.-00representing the value of lines la Manitoba, were not included 1a tha total which th comnusslna allowed Mr. Donnelly to add to tho aggregate. After listening to other witnesses as to the sost of eonstraetioa work the hearing of the rate case ended and Commissioner P rooty announced that arguinsata would be heard to Washington at a data to be announced later by the commission. Ths afternoon was devoted to an adjourned hrartng of tho case of tho Howard Milling company of Wichita, Kas., again! the Atchison, Topeka aad Basts Fs, the Chicago, Burlington sad Quincy, ths Chicago Rock Island and Pacific, th Denver and Rio Grands, ths Southern Pacific and Union Pacific railroads. The complainants contend that there should bo no differential on tho freight rates on wheat aad flour between Kansas and California points. J. F. Howard, president of the Howard mills, testified that the present rate ea wheat is 46 cents per hundred pounds and on flour Is 55 cents and is a discrimination. Charles A. Black and W. X. Kelteer of the California millers testified that they brought large quantities of wheat from Kansas every year and grind It into flour. They asserted that the present differential is not enough at present. 8. M. Bristow, assistant general freight agent of the Southern Pacific testified that tha rate was fixed according to ths rate of charging mors for transporting n mere valuable product B. B. Ashbaugh. attorney for tho Kansas railroad commission, represented tho Howard Milling company; E O. Cushing of Oakland, Cat, tho California millers; W. D. Fenton of Portland, ths Southern Padflc company, and J. Norton ths Bants F. Th hearing waa continued until n date later to bo announced. Mr. Prouty goes from hers to Houston, Tex., whore hs wrlll conduct tha hearing there April 22. London, April II. Chancellor of the Exchequer Herbert Asquith to nu s able speech today delivered the budget statement If not rivaling tho great financial achievements of, Gladstone and Harcourt, It has tho merit of oxeaedlng simplicity. Judging by the debate, the statement will meet with a greater degree of genoral approval and less sectional antagonism than usually falls to tbs let of the budget statements. Tbe most persistent complaint sml-uifrom tbs extreme section of tho tabor party, which Is disappointed at th postponement of th pension FOKTUND HEARING chsmn aad the abaauea of any direct relief In tha taxation of tho working OF THE RATE CASE calls it a clauses. James brutal budgst and daclares hta belief that tbe government has no intention Commiaalonar Preuty Announced That of dealing with this question during tho Arguments Would B Its lifetime. Mads In Washington. That threw is somo Justification for tha worksrs complaint may be gather, ed from th fact that In the lobbies of Portland, Ore., April 18. In tha Inthe bonne thn Statement waa generally characterised as a middle class bud- ter stats commercs commission hearing today the railroad expected to gain get" ot Mr. Asquith had the good fortune of much from the ths expert, Glllettt, who gave exhausdealing with a rear of unusual prosbearing on perity In national finances. Th na- tive testimony yesterday construction. tional debt Is being reduced rapidly, estimates and cost of and In this connection the chaaoeUor Tbs railroad Interest! mads out a good announced that the government held csss against him through testimony It as an obligation to reinstate aad frqm contractors following the hut white on th stand h improve the national credit. Briefly, instead of the as ti mated de- clung to Ms original statements. The case was finished at 13:40 and will be ficit of 0230,000 for 1000-0Mr. An qnlth haa res 11 sod a surplus of $26, set for argument when the commis105,000. while for 1007-0ho estimates sion meets. W. W. Cotton was the first witness thn surplus at 117.176,000. Ills proposals are not for a reduc- sworn and be testified as to the value tion in direct taxation, but provide re- of ctrtaln Spokane property owned by lief from the burden of th Income tb Oregon Railroad and Navigation company with reference to which NY. tax by preferrntiaL G. Uerriwetber was qutstlon yesterWb It claw Reid, the American am bassador, listened to the budget state- day. Mr. Cotton recited the condemment from a seat to tho gallery near nation proceedings which proposed that occupied by tht Prince of Wales. the building the Una of a thirteen-fon- t There waa aa amusing Incident whtle atrip past ths Dennison addition whifh wa acquired by th Washington and Mr. Asquith was explaining tha supertax on death duties. Herbert H. Raph-e-l Idaho since Joined with the Oregon and Alfred Mood, two members of Railroad and Navigation company. The tbe house of commons who are reput- damage were first assessed at 21 and on the case being tried by a ed to bo millionaires, suddenly left their nests and walked toward the bar Jury they were lowered to 180,000, later being reduced to slightly over of tbe house. A roar of laughter In duced them to stay their flight for a 125.000. The witness said he hired moment. They looked around and lawyers to talk oa street corners In smiled uneasily, but they were too favor of the entrance of tbe road Into overcome with Indignation to resume Spokane while Mr. Hill changed his surveys to tbe North and got three their scats. route, in examining Jurors h said KING EDWARD AT NAPLES. lawyers on tbe other side questioned them as to whether they believed In Naples, April 18. The royal yacht giving rights of wav to railroads. Mr. Gillette, in taking the stand, alVlotorla and Albert with the king and queen of England oa board, arrived lowed the Northern Pacific twenty here this evening. per cent for bank widening, placing Their majestien, who ara preserving the total crat of reproduction at In reply ts a question from th strictest Incognito, were received by the- Duke and Duchess of Acosta. Mr. Gilman as to ths extent of his railroad experience, tho witness said, he N. Y. RAILROAD LEGISLATION. spent two years ns s railroad engineer and contractor, one year a a Albany, N. Y., April IS. Ths as- builder in the capacity of assistant sembly today passed, vrlth but one dis- engineer on the Fair Haven and senting vole, the bill providing for a Southern in Washington. He acted as flat rate of two cents n mile on all an expert In New York state In securrailroad In the state. ing the cost of construction of the two-hour- APRIL 0, dan: -- A NEW FUEL. ALL a modern when EXAMINEE, OGDEN, UTAH. FRIDAY, STOPPING GAMBLING. Special Train to Dearborn Park to Bn Discontinued. Indianapolis, Ind., April II. Follow-- 1 tog a telephone conversation with ths law firm at La Fayette, who rsprsaents the Wabash railroad. Attorney General Bingham, who returned from Ham-- 1 mosd today, announced that tire com-pan y bad agreed to cease running excursion trains from Chicago to Dear-born Pork. This settles thg matter ln my opto- km," said tbo attorney general, aa it will cut off the chief feeder to the park. I am convinced that tbe gambl- tog at the part has permanently ceased." 'BODY OF A SMALL BOY. Found Floating In i i River and Son- pored to be Dr. Sup-Marvi- The body ef a small boy wa found floating ta tbe Kill Von Kull today. It ia that .of. a child about four years of age and bad been in the water some weeks. On ths supposition that It may be the body of Urn missing Marvin boy. Dr. Marvin has been notified. New Tork, April 18. . COMPANY SUED. CIGARETTES Freeport, 111., April IS. A null eon-- 1 raining the claim of nearly 200 Ban Francisco policyholders of the German Insurance company waa filed la the circuit court here today. Springfield. CANNOT Ills., house today paseed BE SOLD. April 18. a biUvmakln Tbs It unlawful to sell cigarettes or cigarette papers la HHaola. Long Lisle Gloves of You will find loti them at our store black or white, in We can supply sixes. 300 the wants of ,200 or women if they early. |