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ATEHOOD BILL IS CONSIDERED NIBUS MEASURE IS NOT FAVORED BY COMMITTEE. iBSTITUTE IS OFFERED nt Statehood of Oklahoma and In dian Territory Recommenaed by Committee on Territories —House Listens to Speech on Capital ano Labor —Tea Importers Relieved. Washington, Dec. 11. — Almost the entire session of the senate yesterday is devoted to a discussion of the omnibus statehood bill, which came over unfinished business from the last session. Early in the morning Senator Quay submitted a report of his vote, and its reading occupied the remainder till 2 o’clock when the statehood bill was laid before the senate, as a reading was begun immediately thereafter followed by the reading of the substitute. Senator Beveridge, chairman of the committee on territories, presented a committee report giving the reasons for recommending the joint statehood of Oklahoma and Indian territory and for not favoring the omnibus bill. In the course of the reading, the several reports and the statehood bill, the senate passed a bill refunding certain revenue taxes to the owners and also a bill relieving certain importers from the duty on tea placed in bonded warehouses. During the consideration of the statehood measure, Senator Quay never left the chamber. For the most part, he remained in his chair, only once or twice leaving it for the purpose of conferring with some senator nearby. Delegates Rody of New Mexico and Flynn of Oklahoma were on the floor and closely followed the proceedings. Just before adjournment, Senator Nelson secured permission to withdraw the substitute in order to perfect it. Senator Quay promptly insisted the substitute, if withdrawn, should be sent back to the committee, but the chairman ruled against him. Senator Quay gave notice that when the substitute was again offered, he would move to lay it on the table. The senate at 5:15 went into executive session and at 5:30. 35 p. m. adjourned. The new treaty between Spain and the United States was considered by the senate foreign relations committee, to the opposition developed and the treaty was favorably reported to the senate in executive session. The committee postponed consideration of the supplemental treaty extending for a year the time for the ratification of the cession of the Danish West Indies. The rejection of the original treaty by the Danish parliament led to the action in regard to the supplemental treaty at this time. House Listens to Speech. The feature of the house proceedings was a thoughtful speech by the venerable educator, EDUCATIONAL BILL PLANS MANY REFORMS Washington, Dec. 11. —It became known yesterday that the bill for the incorporation of a general Educational Board, which recently passed the house, is intended to pave the way for the establishment of an educational center of extensive proportions in this city. The measure was introduced at the instance of John D. Rockefeller and others of wealth, who it now develops intend to create a fund to aid existing schools and colleges without any restrictions as to age, sex or color of attendants. The measure also is without limitation as to the section of the country in which the schools shall be located, but it is known that it is the special desire of the promoters to improve the educational facilities of the south, including those for the improvement of the colored youth. There is no intention of building up the educational institution at any place. No definite figures can be given by anyone here as to the amount to be invested, but those who know anything of the plans believe the volume of money to be sufficient to meet all the real needs of the deserving institutions in the southern states. The understanding is that the institution will be put into shape for business soon after the bill receives the president’s signature. Able Mr. Galusha A. Grow of Pennsylvania on the relations between capital and labor. At the end of the present session, he retired at the age of 79, after a career in public life extending over half a century. His first speech in the house was on “man’s right to the soil.” He was the author of the tree homestead act. His speech yesterday was regarded as his valedictory to public life and was listened to with close attention by his colleagues. His conclusion was that some sort of cooperation between labor and capital was the only solution of the impending problem. A bill was passed in general terms designed to relieve tea importers from the effect of the recent decision of the circuit court of New York imposing a 10 percent war duty on tea imported in prior to the time when tea is restored to the free list, January 1, 1903. Another bill to refund the duties collected on merchandise from Porto Rico and the Philippines during the period between the ratification of the treaty of Paris and the congressional revenue acts for those islands also was provided. The pure food bill will not interfere with appropriation bills until it is disposed of. FORESTRY IN THE SOUTH. Charleston Lumber Firm to Put 60,000 Acres Under Forest Management. Washington, D.C., Dec. 11—The lumber firm of E.P. Burton & Co., of Charleston, S.C., has asked for the help of the bureau of forestry in managing 60,000 acres of pine forest 30 miles northwest of Charleston, on the Cooper river. The company’s mills have a capacity of 20,000,000 barrels a year, and the company wishes to know, among other things, whether the yearly increase in growth of its present forest is sufficient to supply its mills. If it should be found not to be sufficient, the company desires to know how many additional acres are required to make it so. A party under F.E. Olmsted has been sent to the field to collect the figures and make the calculations necessary for the working plan that will answer the company’s inquiries. The forest consists mainly of loblolly, with some longleaf and spruce pine, it contains also some large swamps with heavy stands of cypress, gum and oaks. Logging is done by steam skidders. The logs are transported by railroad to Cooper river and rafted to Charleston. The working plan will include an estimate of the present stand and what it is producing yearly; an estimate of the number of additional acres necessary to afford the mill a sustained supply; a system of protection from fire; and certain silvicultural work connected with the study of the growth of trees under different conditions. The party will be occupied during December, January, and February. Owing to the rapid growth of the pines in the virgin Forest and the case with which natural reproduction is obtained, the opportunity is exceptionally favorable for the application of practical forestry. "Mr. Dooley" a Benedict. New York, Dec. 10,— Finley Peter Dunne, author of “Mr. Dooley,” and Miss Margaret Abbot, daughter of Mrs. Mary Abbot, formerly of Chicago, were married in this city yesterday. EAGLE RIVER, VILAS CO., WISCONSIN, MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1902. DEATH CAUSES NEW ELECTION DOOR COUNTY OFFICIALS RAISE UNUSUAL POINT. NO APPOINTING POWER Sheriff-elect Died Before Being Inaugurated and Attorney General Decides That According to the Statutes Resort Must be Had to the Polls to Choose Successor. Madison, Dec. 12. The attorney general was yesterday called upon to determine a question of election or appointment which has perhaps never before been presented in this state. Ernest Haegle, sheriff-elect of Door county, died Saturday and the district attorney wrote the attorney general asking the proper manner in which the vacancy should be filled. Ordinarily a vacancy in a county office is filled by the appointing power of the governor, but in the present instance another election must be called and held prior to the first Monday in January, the beginning of the new political year. The opinion of the attorney general is to the effect that according to the statutes, when for any reason a county officer-elect becomes unable to qualify for inauguration into the office to which he was chosen at the regular election, a special election must be called to elect a person to fill the vacancy that will occur when the term of the present incumbent expires. Had the man died after entering upon the duties of his office, his successor would regularly have been appointed by the governor. The attorney general informed the district attorney and the county clerk of Door county that it is their duty to cause a special election to be held. OVER THE COMMONWEALTH Mrs. M. P. Kinney, a native of Grand Rapids, who has attained quite a reputation as a writer, is traveling in the west to gain material for a book of western tales. Henry Steinbrecher of Cooperstown, Henry Hawes of Kossuth and Walter Kind of Larrabee were killed by the bursting of a boiler in the sawmill at Bruce’s Crossing, Mich. A southbound freight and a light engine northbound collided on the Northwestern road near Hurley, completely demolishing both engines and seriously injuring three men. The fire which destroyed the business portion of Ingram, Gates county, caught from a defective chimney in the saloon of Joe Adams, destroying five buildings. The loss was $13,000. Rollin F. Allen, a prominent resident of Fond du Lac, died suddenly after a short illness. Heart disease was the cause of his death. He was 50 years old and had held many public offices. John Van der Priest, who committed suicide at his home near Cedar Grove, on a previous occasion threatened suicide because he couldn’t get a wife, but that did not seem to deter him, as he was a widow. Wesley Wells, the 15-year-old son of Charles Wells of Dunbar, Wis., killed a large timber wolf near that village. The animal measured six feet from tip to tip. The lad was hunting alone in the woods when he saw the wolf. At Ghawano, John Rietzloff has been arrested charged with the knowledge of the whereabouts of Winfield Pike, an employee of the pulp mills, who disappeared recently and cannot be found. Previous to the disappearance of Pike, the two men had quarreled. Rev. Edward Frank, who claims to be the rector of Grace church at Sheboygan, although his year's contract has expired, according to the statement of the vestrymen, left for Fond du Lac to lay his grievances before the bishop. He will also give the latter his reasons for excommunicating the five members of the vestry. The special venire of 200 talesmen has been nearly exhausted at Waukesha, and the jury for the Bowers murder case has not yet been selected. Bowers' wife, from whom he was separated some time ago because she claimed that he was guilty of cruelty and nonsupport, was in court and there was an affecting scene when the two met. Mrs. Patrick Maher, 65 years old, appeared at the Milwaukee road depot at La Crosse carrying a revolver and wearing only a nightdress. The thermometer was at zero. The woman drove the passengers and agent out of the depot. She claimed she was looking for a man and woman who were trying to kill her. The woman, who is insane, was finally overpowered. Hartwell Warren, a brakeman of La Crosse, was killed by his train, every detail of the accident agreeing with a false rumor of his death last week. At that time a story, the source of which is still a mystery, reached La Crosse to the effect that Warren had been lost from his train and was found dead near Cassville on the track. A few days later he was killed, all details of the former story having been carried out. A. Murdock, arrested at Two Rivers on a drunk and disorderly charge and serving ten days in jail at Manitowoc, is believed to be Bert Smith, under indictment on a charge of murder in Michigan. The crime was committed at Hart, Mich., last summer and a pocketbook bearing the name of the person of the murdered man, found upon the person of Murdock, was the clue which led to the suspicion that he was the man wanted. While attempting to open the inner door of the vault of the post office safe which was blown up by burglars J. G. Graham, son of Postmaster Graham of Tomah, had a narrow escape from death. He was using a wrench in trying to turn the bolt and the friction thus caused exploded nitroglycerine which had been placed in the door by the burglars. Graham was severely burned about the face and eyes. The door was bent double by the explosion. An accident which might have proven frightful in its result was prevented by the presence of mind of a boy. The janitor of the agricultural school building at Wausau, which was lately completed and occupied, built a fire under the steam heating boilers, not knowing that they were nearly empty. Later returning with a boy student, he found the boilers red hot and was in the act of turning in cold water when pushed away by the boy. Had he been allowed his way, what might have happened cannot be related. The boilers are ruined, school is suspended, and an investigating committee is now at work. J. Rau, Rr., and wife of La Crosse are celebrating their fiftieth wedding anniversary. Rev. Joseph Weidmann, pastor of the German Catholic church at La Crosse, slipped on a railroad crossing and broke a leg. At a mass meeting of the Beloit college and academy students, it was voted to contribute for the support of F. B. McCusky, class of '69, who has gone as a missionary to India. An effort is being made at Lawrence university to raise $10,000 to complete the endowment of a Bible chair, for which $30,000 is needed, of which $20,000 is already in hand. The body of Miss Delia Doyle, the Milwaukee school teacher who ended her life by drowning at New Orleans, will be brought to Manitowoc for burial. Miss Doyle's home was in Maple Grove. PIRATES ROB NEAR MANILA Victoria, B. C., Dec. 10. — The steamer Shawmut, from Manila, has brought news of piracy in the Philippines, the desperadoes being led by an American. The brig Maricia, from Catanuan, Tayabas province, for Manila, was becalmed off Cavite bay. She had as passengers, five Chinese merchants who were on their way to Manila to purchase goods. During the night a sloop came alongside and six men climbed over the rail and immediately overpowered the Chinese crew, binding all hands with ropes. Adventist Clerk Causes Trouble at Washington Washington, Dec. 10.—An interesting question has arisen at the treasury in connection with the case of Elmer Pettiford, a clerk in the office of the auditor of the war department, a Seventh Day Adventist, who declines to work on Saturdays. Auditor Rittman was willing Pettiford should absent himself thirty Saturdays in the year without pay. Last Friday, however, Pettiford was notified that owing to the increase of wages, Pettiford was notified that owing to the increase of wages, Pettiford was unable to work. There was a shooting affray in the lobby of the new Commercial hotel at Watertown. It is alleged that Edward Morris, formerly a member of The Peddler’s Claim company, attempted to shoot Henry Marks, manager of the company. Morris had recently been discharged and he quarreled with the manager over that matter. No arrest was made and the company left for Joliet and Morris went to Chicago. Ida Schwantes, who caused a sensation in court at Wausau a year ago when in her grief she had to be torn from her husband by the sheriff after he had received a life sentence in prison for the murder of the Klokow family, has manifested a change of spirit. She applied to the county clerk for a license to marry Albert Shei Barth, her neighbor, but the application was refused because she had unlawfully assumed her maiden name. Proceedings will be begun by the Ashland Bar association to have George P. Rossman, former assemblyman, disbarred. A meeting of the association was held and a committee was appointed to draw up formal charges against Mr. Rossman. Nearly all the attorneys of the city were present and strong speeches were made against Rossman and demands were made that there be action taken against him. It was finally decided to appoint a committee of three to formulate charges against him and to prepare a petition asking that he be disbarred. Naturally enough. Mrs. Elbert Hubbard Quits Home to Sue For Divorce. Buffalo, N. Y., Dec. 11.—Mrs. Elbert Hubbard, wife of Fra Elbert Hubbard, the noted Roycroft of East Aurora, has left her husband, and is temporarily making her home in this city with Hubbard’s wealthy sister, Mrs. John D. Larkin. Relatives say that Mrs. Hubbard will sue for a divorce. Fra Elbertus said: “Our differences are purely a matter of temperament. She is fond of society, dress, and all other things.” Amusements. She is not in sympathy with our work here, and has always protested against such features as having ex-convicts around and giving work to unfortunate women. She leaves East Aurora of her own accord, and I wish her well wherever she goes. I will always see she has all the money she needs for a good support. “It’s none of the public’s business whether or not I am going to leave East Aurora,” said Mrs. Hubbard. “I refuse to say whether or not suit for divorce will be entered.” Before her marriage, Mrs. Hubbard was Bertha C. Crawford of Bloomington, Ill. Hubbard met her while lecturing. NEW TREATY WITH SPAIN Washington, Dec. 10. —The senate foreign relations committee will today consider the general treaty with Spain. Since the war there has been no treaty with Spain. The new convention does not differ materially from the old. One of these men was an American dressed as an inspector of the constabulary. Two of his followers also wore constabulary uniforms. The others were Filipinos. The Chinese merchants aboard were at the point of revolvers robbed of about $17,000. The pirates embarked in their boat and heading towards Cavite threatened to kill all hands on the brig if they did not keep quiet. When the vessel arrived at Manila the customs officers were informed, but no clue was found to the robbers. Work he would be required to report for duty the day following. He remained away, however, and following his absence formal charges of misconduct and delinquency were filed against him and he was given three days in which to reply. A rule of the civil service commission provides that no person shall be dismissed from office because of his political Or religious opinions or affiliations and its application to Peitiford’s case is under consideration. NUMBER 39. GAME SHIPPED IN WINE BARREL THREE DOZEN FAT PARTRIDGES SEIZED BY WARDEN. SOLD TO RESTAURANT Brought Sixty Cents Each, Which Goes to Hunting License Fund— Packed in Middle of Cask With Liquor Bottles in Each End —To Arrest Shipper. Madison, Dec. 10. Deputy Game Warden C. W. Stone of Barron county seized a barrel of illegally shipped game which netted $20.50 when sold yesterday by Office Deputy C. D. Nelson. The money goes into the hunting license fund, the barrel was consigned to The Sunny Brook Distilling Co., Chicago, the shipper being known by the warden, but as he has not yet been arrested his name is not given out. Each and all the barrel was packed with empty bottles in sawdust, and in the middle were oblong fat partridges, each carefully wrapped in paper and a package in excelsior. They were sold to Maurice R. Cronin of the Marble Front restaurant for 60 cents each. CHINESE “HELLO GIRLS.” Intelligent Young Women Are Preferred to Men for the Work. It is Reported that San Francisco may soon make the very interesting experiment of employing Chinese girls as telephone operators; nearing which, one wonders whether all the venerated ancestors in that land of degraded womanhood, China, will not rise en masse from their graves in consternation and protest. The large number of Chinese subscribers in San Francisco, it is said, has long made it necessary to have a central station where the operators speak the Chinese language. Men have held these positions heretofore, but the company, it is said, finds the girls answer its purpose better. Intelligent girls will be procured from the mission and a matron will be engaged to see that they are properly protected. Six operators will be needed for the Chinese system. An interesting feature of their duties will be the making of tea since Chinese etiquette requires that customers should be entertained while waiting for the public telephone. Tea and tobacco are both furnished at the company’s expense. SHOULD HAVE SHORTER HOURS. Coroner’s Jury in Swift Explosion Recommends a Change. Chicago, Dec. 11. —The coroner’s jury yesterday decided that the explosion at Swift & Company’s plant Nov. 29, which resulted in the death of 15 persons, was caused by employees opening the main valve of one of the boilers too suddenly. The jury was unable to determine who was responsible, but included in the verdict the recommendation that the engineers and firemen, and water tenders employed by the company be given shorter hours. The testimony showed that these employees were compelled to work 12 hours a day. Dr. Hollister Resigns Post Chicago, Dec. 11. — Dr. Hollister has resigned his position in connection with Northwestern university athletics at the request of the faculty. Nat T. Davies Dead. Mazomanie, Wis., Dec. 11. —A dispatch from Albert Lea, Minn., brings the sad news of the death of Nat. T. Davies, formerly a well-known citizen of Wisconsin, and the leading businessman of Mazomanie. In his youth Mr. Davies was a lumberman and was at one time a partner of the late Senator Thomas B. Scott, with whom he used to run rafts on the Wisconsin river. Mr. Davies went to Minnesota 15 years ago and since that time had become a leading citizen of Albert Lea. He was the father of Mrs. E. R. Petherick, wife of a well-known Milwaukee newspaper man. 