HMD BILL
IS REPORTED
Provides Only $1,000,000 for Imme
diate Use—No Interstate Com
merce Supervision.
WASHINGTON, March 4.—The
conference committee signed the re
port of the committee this morning
and will present' it to both the Sen
ate and the House at noon when the
session is opened. No action will be
taken today on the report^, which
will lie on the table until tomorrow.
The report provides that one mil
lion dollars shall be available at once
for the work, besides which the mem
bers of the appropriations commit
tees of both houses have assured the
friends of the bill that all the money
needed will be provided, as it is de
sired. Ample funds for the work this
year are provided by the appropria
tion of one million dollars, as it is
expected that only survey work and
investiations will be carried on dur
ing the summer and fall of 1914.
The bill provides that the interstate
commerce commiss on shall have no
jurisdiction over the government road,
but in the event of the road being
leased and operated by private indi
viduals, .then the interstate commerce
commission will have power to reg
ulate the rates.
STOLE R DIME;
BETS 30 VERBS
Then Forced the Little Girl to Buy
it Back With a Kiss—May
Recall Judge.
LOS ANGELES, March 4.—C h a l
le.s Guyton was sentenced today to
serve 30 years in San Quentin because
he stole ten cents from a little sir!
ard then 'orced her to give him a
l.iss before he would return the dime.
When Guyton returned the dime to
the girl after receiving the kiss he
io*d her that it was well worth the
L.oney.
The long sentence has caused con
siderable comment here and many are
talking of recalling a judge wrho
would impose a life sentence upon a
man who secured a kiss from a child
or who stole a dime and it is for the
latter crime Guyton is convicted. The
practice of giving long sentences to
men who commit insignificant crimes
and light sentences for bankers and
big crooks and heavy ones for lit
tle crooks does not particularly ap
peal to the people.
Marconi Hopes His Successful Ex
periment May Have Practical
k Application.
LONDON, March 4.—William Mar
coni has furnished another illustration
of the facility with which modern
science can perform feats surpassing
those of the legendary magiemnss of
the Middle Ages.
He announces that he can light a’
lamp by wireless power at a distance
of six miles. The bulb of the lamp
Is attached to a wireless receiver,
which is connected in its turn with a
receiving aerial wire. In the experi
ment in question a transmitter was
linked up with a 100 horse power dy
namo. As soon as the power was kp~
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MRS. ' ’ |
DIVIDES [SUITE:
SANTA BARBARA, March 4.—The
will of the late Mrs Robert Louis
Stevenson was opened today and her
estate, valued at $100,000, Is divided
between her son and daughter. A
daughter-in-law, Mrs. Osbourne, is
cut off without a cent, the will recit
ing that it is done because of the
incredible ferocity of Mrs. Osbourne.
It is not expected that any contest
will follow, as Mrs. Osbourne has no
legal claim under the California law.
WILSON SERVED
A FULL YEAR
Anniversary Fittingly Celebrated by
Friends of the Admin
istration.
WASHINGTON, March 4. -Presi
dent Wilson today received thousands
of telegrams and letters of congratu -
lation from friends and admirers of
the administration upon this, the
first anniversary of his inauguration.
Friends of the administration point
to the many achievements the presi
! dent has secured in the first year of
I his term; how he has secured the low
| tariff act, the redemption of party
j pledges as to the currencey and the
carrying out of the policies of the
Baltimore platform.
The Democratic National commit
tee today issued a pamphlet showing
the list of achievements of President
Wilson, which are as follows:
The tariff law.
The currency revision act.
“Elimination of the lobby from the
halls of congress and the seat of gov
ernment.”
The income tax provisions.
Tlie constitutional amendment for
the election of senators by the peo
pie.
The peace program of Secretary
Bryan.
“The action of the president in
bringing together representatives of
capital and labor resulting in the
passage of the Industrial Employees’
Arbitration act.”
The president s "constitution of
peace” policy which the pamphlet
says hag resulted in breaking up in
terlocking directorates “which all ad
mit have b“en the backbone of the
trust system.”
The granting of modified self-gov
ernment to the Filipinos.
“Th ' foreign policy of the aumin
istration which divorced the govern
ment from affiliation with the New
(York financial interests which were
parties to the slx-pow r loan to Chi
ha.”
The president’s “program of co
operation with the business interests
of the nation resulting in the elim
ination of the American Telephone &
Telegraph Company from control of
the Western .Uhion Telegraph Com
pany.”
’ The administration’s policy of ‘dip
lomatic postponement” in connection
with the Mexican and Japanese ques
tion and the Panama canal tolls ques
tion, "which has been supported by
public opinion, not only in America,
but in Europe as well, because it is
based upon morality and not upon
expediency.”
The development and extension of
the parcel post system.
The ending of “Cannon methods”
in cuugress. >
The extension of the Pure Food act
to meat inspection. '
A new land policy of the Secre
tary of the Interior “which combines
conservation and the proper use of
lands of our national domain.”
The president’s' proposal of the se
lection of presidential nominees
through primaries.
The early enactment of the Alaska
railway bill.
The dissolution of the Union Paci
fic-Southern Pacific merger which "at
the same time caused the surrender
by the Pennsylvania railroad of its
large holdings in its competing rival,
the Baltimore & Ohio.”
GILL IS ELECTED
SEATTLE'S MAYOR
Cv Tied Spirit City by 14,000 Major
ity Over J. D. Trenholme—
Promises to Reform City.
SEATTLE, March 4.—Hiram C. Gill
was elected mayor of this city yes
terday over J. D. Trenholme by a
majority of 14,000. It was a Gill land
slide.
The election was hotly contested,
the friends of both candidates work
ing up to the last minute. More mud
has been slung by political speakers
in the campaign just closed than ever
before in the history of the city.
G.ll was elected upon a reform
platfoim and promises that no more
cafe’s wil lbe tolerated, he having
asserted, time and again, that the
present cafe system was. worse than
that of any open town could possibly
be. He promises to stop Women from
frequenting the cafes.
HATED NEPHEW
GETS THE MONET
Aunt of James K. Hackett Leaves $2,
500,000 Estate, But It Goes to the
Man She Bitterly Detested.
NEW YORK, March 4.—Mrs. Min
nie Trowbridge died here today, leav
ing an estate worth $2,500,000, which
will all go to her nephew, James K.
Hackett, the tragedian, whom she
hated with a terrible hatred but could
not disinherit because lie had had her
adjudged incompetent, and no incom
petent person can make a legal will in
this state.
For the past few years Mrs. Trow
bridge's estate has been cared for by
•i guardian and she has. received the
necessary funds' to provide for her
comfort from the guawlian.
MISS EVA BOOTH
CONDUCTS SERVICE
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CLEVELAND, O., March 4.—Mtfcs
Eva Booth, commander of the Salva
tion Army in America, was expected
here today to conduct the formal ded
ication of the Martha Washington
Club for Girls, the first organization
of its kind ever undertaken by the
Army in this country. The object of
the' home, w'hich can accommodate
over 100, is to provide shelter for
working girls who have no home and
are earning only a scanty wage. For
$1.50 ». week, each girl is provided
with a room, use of bath, laundry and
accommodations, use of stove to pre
pare meals if she desires and break
fast of coffee and rolls. “The girls
are not recipients of charity,” said
Matron Nordlin. “They have the ad
vantage of homelike surroundings and
an opportunity to entertain their
friends here.”
To Utilize Vacant Lots.
TOPPENISH. Wash., March 4.—Ev
ery vacant lot in Toppenish will be
a-garden this spring and summer,
yielding vegetables and flowers in
profusion under the careful cultiva
tion of students in the city boards
schools, according to plans announced
today by Supt. of Schools E. T. Rob
inson. The school authorities will
have the ground ploughed and the
boys ahd girls will plant and care for
the growing crops with experts to ad
vise them. Prizes are to be given for
the best results from a lot of a given
size. ...
Captain Zim Moore, formerly deputy
marshal at Unga, is now a pilot op
the steamer Sampson.
WOMAN DESTROYS
VANCOUVER MAIL
Postmaster Also Received Threaten
ing Letters—Police Are Watch
ing for Guilty Party.
VANCOUVER, B. C., March 4.—A
mysterious woman today poured acid
into mail boxes, causing the destruc
tion of a large number of letters. The
postmaster has received threatening
letters from suffragettes against him
self and threatening to destroy the
mail unless they were granted the
right of voting. The postmaster con
sidered it all a joke, but today realiz
es that the women are in earnest and
are determined to destroy property in
an effort to force the government to
give them the ballot.
Extra police have been stationed
about the city in the hopes of cap
turing the women and severe punish
ment will be meted out to the guilty
parties by the authorities.
SEATTLE DELAYS
RIG CELEBRATION
Failure of Conference Committee to
Agree as Early as Expected
is Given as Reason.
SEATTLE, Match 4. -The celebra
tion planned for March 9th in this city
because of the passage of the Alaska
railroad bill has been postponed, aS
the present indications front Wash
ington are that the president will first
refer the bill to the Secretary of the
Interior for his approval before pass
ing upon it himself, and that it may
be some time next week before th
bill becomes a law.
The celebration will be the greatest
in the history of the city if the plans
of the Chamber of Commerce are car
ried out.
HOUSTON, Tex., March 4.—The
Houston ship canal will be completed
and ready for service March 15, Chas.
Grotty, government engineer in charge
Of t}te wo.rk, announced tod y This
will be two years ahead of the time
allowed. The canal will have a depth
of 25 feet from the turning basin
clear to the. guif. During December
the dredges removed 2,000,000 yards
of material. The heavy work already
is completed, the barges being de
voted to clearing up .odds and ends
and making the work perfect. The
channel will give Houston all the fa
cilities of a seaport.
CLEVELAND WOMEN
ARE BECOMING BALD j
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CLEVELAND, O., March 4.—Cleve -!
land’s fair sex today are in a state of
genuine alarm not to say panic,
and rightly so according to expert
hairdressers. They are due to be
come bald w'thin live years and all
because of chemicals used in city wa
ter. Startling changes already are
declared to be noticeable since the
use of the chemical, which water ex
perts declare is imperative to the
purity of the' city water supply. Gray
haired matrons ait* becoming blonde,
women with brown hair find it turn
ing to auburn, while auburned haired
women find their trusses becoming
flaxen. The whoto change Is the
preliminary stage of baldness exper
hairdressers declare.
J. C. Davidson, of Seldovia, passed
through Valdez on the Sttmpson. >fe
was a witness in the Munday-Shiels .
cases,
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HOUSE PASSES.
THE ARMY BILL
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4 -
WASHINGTON, March 4. The
Army appropriation bill, carrying an
appropriation of $125,000 for the care
and upkeep of the trails and wagon
roads of Alaska, was passed today
by the House. The bill has an ap
propriation of $94,000,000.
Salt Shippers Protest.
WASHINGTON^ , March 4 —Salt
shippers were heard today in the In
terstate Commerce Commission inves
tigation of Eastern railroads’ requests
for increases in freight rates.
IN COURT ROOM
Every Time the Attorneys Tell That
His Wife Was Unfaithful—On
Trial for Murder.
CHICAGO. March 4.—William Ellis,
the wealthy harness manufacturer of
Cincinnati, who is on trial here for
the murder of his wife, seems to go
into an epileptic tit every time the
prosecution introduces the name of
his dead wife and her affinity. To
day when a telegram sent by Mrs.
Ellis to her paramour agreeing to
meet him, was read to the jury Ellis
stopped all proceedings by falling in
to an epileptic fit and the case was
adjourned tor the day.
The defense is emotional insanity.
A livid scar across his throat and
two jagged white marks upon his
wrists were the only evidence the
prisoner says he has to recall what
happened when he killed his wife
and attempted suicide.
Two lines, of evidence, both tending
to support the emotional insanity de
fense, will lie offered by the defense,
was indicated when court opened to
day. One will be Ellis' own slate
ment that he discovered his wife was
in love with another man and that
this knowledge so crazed him that he
planned her murder. The other, per
haps used for the first time in a
murder trial in this country, will seek
to show the probable effect witness
ing the powerful eugenics play, "Darii
aged Goods,” would have upon the
brain of a man, who, according to
physicians, is diseased as was the
principal figure in he Brieux drama.
On the night of October 15 they
saw “Damaged Goods,” then in its
first week’s run in Chicago and the
topic of universal comment. On the
.ollowing morning, a house detective
hurried to the Ellis suite at the Hotel
Sherman. He went in response to a
frigjitened voice over the telephone
and bursting in the door discovered
1-jiiis, nair-conscious, leaning against
a chair, with blood gushing from a
wound in his neck and two slashes
across his wrists. Mrs. Ellis lay dead
in bed, a gaping wound in her neck ;
and two bulelt holes in her breast. |
The first police theory was that it ,
was a suicide pact and Ellis’ unintel- ;
ligent answers to questions support
ed it. Later, confronted with evidence
showing that his wife could not have |
killed herself from the nature of the j
wounds, Ellis confessed, and in a
broken voice cried out that his wife .
had been unfaithful to him; that she
came to Chicago to meet a lover from
a Canadian city and that when he
obtained evidence of her unfaithful
■
ness he followed her to Chicago, fet
ed her like a bridegroom on a honey- ;
moon and then deliberately killed her. j
At the coroner’s inquest Ellis caus- |
ed a sensation by springing to his
feet and dramatically declaring that \
he lied when he accused his wife. I
"She was the sweetest, purest wo- j
man in the world,” he cried. ”1 don’t j
know why 1 did it.” j
The jury held Ellis guilty and he,
was subsequently indicted. Follow- j
ing his indictment, he suddenly re
pudiated his statement at the inquest
and again. announced that he killed
his wife because she was unfaithful to ,
him. Nearly 100 witnesses, many of j
them from Cincinnati, were )n court j
today. he coiijpl'e tad two children. I
Provides for Leasing Alaska Coa>
Lands in Small Tracts—Reserv.
for the Government.
WASHINGTON. March 4. -Ti c
House Public Lands committee have
decided to report favorably the Fei
ris bill to allow the leasing of the
coal lands of Alaska. The bill pro
vides that tracts of coal lands of
from 40 acres to as large as 2,600
acres may be leased to any one in
dividual or corporation operating it
the Bering river section.
In the Matanuska section 7,068 acte
of the best coal land is retained tor
the use of the government, but the
balance will be placed on the marg
in small lots to individuals who may
desire to lease them and open up the
claims. In the Bering river section
the government reserves 6,120 acre,
of coal land for governmental pur
poses. No lease is to extend for more
than 20 years.
The Ferris bill is to be an admin
istration measure and the Pemocrati<
party will push it through congress
at the present session in order that
the coal lands of the north may
opened.
RESUME TRAFFIC
Street Cleaners Have Opened Some
of the Main Streets—Storm V/.i
Cost the City $500,000.
MOW YORK. March 4. Traffic .han
beeji resume,i throughout the mac,
sections of the city and 5,000 teams
are busy hauling ihe snow to the bay
and dumping it into the North an t
.Oast rivers. The cost of cleaning the
streets of the snow which fell ia
the last storm will be over half a mil
lion dollars and the city will have
spent this winter over $3,000,000 for
snow shoveling and carting, as the
large number of blizzards have kent
the department busy all winter.
The authorities are still providing
for thousands of people, who are br
ing sheltered at the recreation pier,
which is kept warm, so that all who
desire may seek shelter in the build
ing. Covered vans were used to take
the people applying for shelter from
the station houses to the pier.
WOMEN POLICE
Chicago Police Discontinue Use of
Women, Because Cannot Handle
Crowds and Attract Attention.
CHICAGO. M>yt'ch 4.—Tlqe police
department today announced that
hereafter the women police would be
discontinued and that the women
would be assigned to stations as ma
trons.
The chief of police claims that the
women are too weak to handle the
crowds; that both men and women
pay absolutely no attention to them,
besides which the very presence of
the women in uniforms of policem n
causes crowds to gather, resulting in
many street blockades and requir ng
the assistance of reserves to clew.
The women, however, wijl be retain
ed at special work at which they are
not required tb wear un'forms.