The Territorial Secretary Discusses
the Labor Problem With
Secretary Wilson.
iE SAYS THE NATIVES WILL NOT WORK.
The Foreign Lnborers. He Say*, Are
Getting? Ont of tl»e Island*—The
Trend of Hi* Argcninencs 1 n Fn
ror of KneouriiKini? a Big? Influx
of Chinese.
Washington, Oct. 19.--Mr. Henry E.
Cooper, territorial secretary and for
several months prior to his departure
for the United States acting governor
of Hawaii, has discussed with Secre
tary of Agriculture Wilson the con
ditions in the territory. One of the
main aims of Mr. Cooper's trip here is
to acquaint the administration with
the actual situation in Hawaii. In his
conference with Secretary Wilson he
emphasized the seriousness of the la
bor problem. The natives arc. dying
off rapidly, the mortality being in the
neighborhood of fortj* deaths to the
thousand, and foreign laborers are
getting out of the country much more
rapidly than they are coming- in. The
encouragement of Chinese labor,
said Ire, is regarded as the most prom
ising solution, and the territorial
government is anxious that large
numbers of laborers shall come in
from China. The sugar cane crop that
should have been harvested at the be
ginnirtr of July, he sfthl, is not yet off
the field, and will not be harvested
before next month. The natives gen
erally will not work. The coffee in
dustry is languishing and many
things that should be raised there
have to be bought outside the islands.
Secretary Wilson informed Mr. Coop
er of a report from the superintend
ent of the agricultural station in
Honolulu showing, among other
things, that it costs $26 an acre to
fertilize the cane crop in Hawaii and
pointed out the big farm wage which
fras to be paid to farm laborers, viz:
*40 a month including board, which
s. approximately, ten dollars more
than in this country. Mr. Cooper sug
gested that the average farm wage
might, be even greater. Secretary
Wilson told Mr. Cooper ot' the plans
the department was making for Ha
waii, and said that he intended to
build up the coffee, spice and rubber
and other industries and to help to
diversify the Hawaiian industries. No
attention will be ]>aid to the sugar
industry there, as Mr. Wilson con
tends that that already is developed
to the limit. The department pur
poses, said Mr. Wilson, to make all
these islands within the United
States raise whatever is adaptable to
them individually and to furnish
s very thing that is needed among
themselves.
ATTACKED BY BOLOMEN.
tiiHIirr Detachment of flic i<inlh
Infantry llnvo n Bloody Bat
tle in Samar.
Manila, Oct. IS.—Five hundred "bolo
men attacked a detachment of 46 men
of the Ninth infantry at Ilangajon, on
!he Oandara river. Island of Samar,
to-day, (Friday) killing ten and
wounding six. The remainder of the
company arrived on the scene in time
to prevent further slaughter and
routed the enemy, kiltng over a hun
ired of them.
Official Confirmation.
Washington, Oct. IS.—The follow
ing brief cablegram from Gen. Chaf
fee reporting the fight of the Ninth
infantry in Samar, Wednesday, was
received at the war department Fri
day afternoon:
“Manila, Get. 18.—Corbin, Adjutant
General, Washington: Forty-six
men, Co. E, Ninth United States in
fantry, under First Lieut. George W.
Wallace, in field, lower Candara,
Samar, were attacked by 400 bolomen,
October 16. Our loss: Ten killed, six
wounded; names not received. Eighty
one of the enemy left dead on the
deld. Enemy beaten off.
[Signed.] “CHAFFEE.”
TOOK OATH OK ALLEGIANCE.
f’lske Warren Ultln't Want To, Bat
Had To or Stay Out.
Manila, Oct. 18.—Fiske Warren, the
first man to take the oatli of al
legiance required under the recent
act of the Philippine commission of
ail suspects attempting to Iund, has
•aeen closely identified with Sixto
uopez. Many treasonable and inflam
matory proclamations were found in
..is baggage. Regarding these he said
’ic held only one copy of each, hav
ag retained these as souvenirs. It is
known, also, that he was intimate
Kith the members of the junta in
Kong Kong. He at first objected to
liking the oath, saying that he was a
oval citizen; hut he signed it when
notified that on no other condition
would he lie allowed to laud.
MORE NAVAL ENGINEERS
Significant Statement nf Rear-Admiral
Melville, Knglnoer-ln-Chlef
of the Nary.
Washington, Oct. 1S.—That there
has boon retrogression rather than
advance along' engineering lines in the
navy during the past two years, is the
most significant statement contained
in the annual report of Admiral
(leorgc Melville, engineer-in-chief of
the navy, lie says that this is not the
time to entertain the suggestion fre
quently made that a separate engineer
corps should again be created. Ho
quotes an expression of President
Roosevelt, when assistant secretary
of the navy-—“Every officer on a mod
ern war ship has to be a fighting en
gineer"—in support of his urgent rec
ommendation that the young candi
dates of Annapolis be not allowed to
specialize altogether in other direc
tions, but that they be assigned in fair
proportions to the engineering divi
sions. He says it must either come
to this or the warrant officers, upon
whom are falling all engineering du
ties, must receive commissioned rank.
Admiral Melville declares that the
number of trained and expert naval
engineers is being reduced steadily
and the reduction is certain to be
come the more rapid as the old offi
cers take advantage of the retirement
law. He points to the disablement of
torpedo boats as a striking result of
the lack of engineers, for these boats
have no commissioned engineers.
On the other hand, he proudly calls
attention to the overtaking of the
20-knot Colon by the 16-knot Oregon
as an example of what can be achieved
by trained and educated engineer of
ficers. Therefore, he advises that a
large number of junior officers be sefit
to the navy yards for practical engi
neer training; that a post grade engi
neering course be established at An
napolis; that stokers be especially
trained; that torpedo boats be used
to train machinists; that naval ma
chinists be given special instructions
on repair work at navy yards; that
deserving naval machinists, after 20
years’ service be given navy yard
duty; that warrant machinists be
placed on the same footing as other
warrant officers, and that special pay
be allowed water tenders of torpedo
boats.
The engineer-in-cliief asks for a new
building at Annapolis, and an appro
priation of $150,000 for experimental
work. He wants to test liquid fuel,
the steam turbine and electricity as a
prime mover, including the storage
battery. The chief engineer declares
that the wonderful strides made by
Germany in the last ten years can be
ascribed in great part to the Charlot
tenberg experimental station.
NEW CANAL TREATY.
To l>e Finallf Drafted and Sinned in
the City of AVn»1ilnnt«in—An
Important Omission.
Washington, Oet. 19.—Lord Paunce
fote will sail for the United States
on the 26th inst., before the British
cabinet council has had an opportuni
ty to review the protocols which em
body in principle the proposed new
Hay-Pauncefote canal treaty. It is
thought here, however, that that fact
will not delay sensibly the final ne
gotiations, which will take place here
between Secretary Hay and Lord
Pauncefote, for it is the intention
that the new treaty shall be finally
drafted and signed in the city of
Washington. It is said that w’hen the
new document is framed the “fortifi
cations” clause will have been found
to have dropped out, leaving the Unit
ed States at liberty to fortify the
canal, but it is distinctly stated that
it is not obligated to do so, and in
fact there is no present intention of
erecting fortifications, which, it is
stated, would be much more expensive
than a fleet of battleships and less
useful.
A POPULAR MOVEMENT.
Gentlemen Appointed. Vtce-Pre*I
dentil of tile McKinley Arcli A«
■oeiation Gracefully Accept.
Washington, Oct. 19.—•■Commissioner
MacFarland, as president of the Mc
Kinley Nutional Memorial Arch asso
ciation, is beginning to hear from Ihe
prominent people throughout the
country who have been elected na
tional vice-presidents of the associa
tion in a way that indicates great
interest in the project. Yesterday
morning he received a letter from
Cardinal Gibbons saying:
“I gratefully accept the office
tendered me and heartily indorse the
patriotic project and trust every' suc
cess may attend it.”
Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller
wrote:
“I accept with pleasure the honor of
election as a vice-president of the
William McKinley National Memorial
Arch association.”
Mr. Walter S. Logan, president gen
eral of the Sons of the American
Revolution, writes:
‘‘I accept the appointment, and shall
be glad to do anything 1 can to fur
ther the objects of the association.”
FATE OF MISS ELLEN STONE.
Should 'Withhold Raiuom find Hold
BnlKitrln Responsible for the
Prluonerd" Safety.
London, Oct. 19.—Commenting1 upon
the statement of the Politische Cor
respondez, regarding the letter from
M. Saratoff, the Bulgarian minister,
Mr. Dickinson, the Vienna correspond
ent- of the Standard, says:
“It- may be regarded as convincing
proof that Bulgaria is shielding the
Macedonian committee, and that the
Sofia-correspondent and other palters
were correct when declaring that
Macedonians disguised as Turks had
kidnaped Miss Stone, and that a regu
lar game is being played by Bulgarian
troops on one side and Turkish troops
on the other side of tlie frontier, each
side trying to smuggle the prisoners
over the border in order that the ran
som paid by sentimental Americans
may be recovered, as the Bulgarians
wish, from Turkey, and as the Turks
wish, from Bulgaria-, and that the
prisoners, but for this farce, could be
produced at any moment.
“The right, course now is not to
pay the ransom, but to hold Bulgaria
responsible for every hair of Miss
Stone's head. Those who know the
facts see no reason to anticipate any
danger to her life.”
JOHN S. PILLSBURY DEAD.
Minnesota's Former Governor and
tile Well Known Philanthro
pist is IVo More.
Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 19.—John
3. Pillsbury, former governor of Min
nesota, and one of the state’s fore
most citizens, died early Friday morn
ing of Bright’s disease. His illness
was comparatively brief, owing to his
advanced age. He was over 73. He
was a member of the famous family
of flour millers, and in spite of nu
merous benefa'ctions, leaves a large
fortune. He served three terms as
governor, from 1876 to 1882. He was
always the friend and benefactor of
the University of Minnesota, to which
he gave its $130,000 science hall, and
on whose campus its alumni erected
to him a tine bronze statue. He has
long been a member of the board of
regents, having been named a life
member. He also presented to his
native town of Sutton, N. H., a town
hall in memory of his parents. With
his wife he established an endow
ment fund of $100,000 for a home, in
this city, for children and aged wom
en. Last year he built here a home
for working girls, at a cost of $25,
000, and this year he gave $75,000 for
a public library on the east side. He
has been a resident of Minneapolis
since 1S53.
DISTRIBUTION OF SEEDS,
The Department of Aerlrnlture Has
Completed Plans For the An
nual Seed 1) 1st ri hut ion.
Washington, Oct. 19.—The depart
ment of agriculture has completed
plas for the annual seed distribution
throughout the country. Despite the
fact that double the usual amount of
seeds are to be sent out this winter,
the preliminary work has advanced
much farther than in previous years.
There will be 37,000,000 packages of
seed distributed, comprising both
vegetables and flowers. A change has
been made in the method of distribu
tion of cotton and forage crops,
which now, instead of being Sent
broadcast, will be sent only to sec
tions where they are adaptable and
liable to bring about improved condi
tions. Havana and Sumatra tobacco
will be sent only to Florida and cer
tain parts of New England, where
their culture has proven successful,
and where muslin sheets spread over
large tracts of tobacco are to furnish
the necessary tropical conditions.
Other types of tobacco plants will be
sent to otl’.er sections
A REMARKABLE STATEMENT,
Austria Would Better Awake to the
Fact That This Is the Twen
tieth Century.
Vienna. Oct. 19.—The Arbeiter Zei
tung makes the remarkable state
ment that Count Goluchowski, the im
perial minister of foreign affairs, is
responsible for the president of the
chamber of deputies not referring to
the death of President McKinley on
the reassemblling of parliament, the
contention being that, although it is
customary to refer to the deaths of
foreign sovereigns, President McKin
ley, being only an elected president,
was not entitled to such a distinction.
ASKING FOR PROTECTION
British Subjects In Central America
Deninndtniv Protection ot the
Governor of Joimiica.
Kingston, Jamaica, Oct. 18.—The
governor, Sir Augustus lleming, has
received official dispatches from the
British government, asking protec
tion for life and property, and also
demanding compensation for lives
and properties destroyed by the Co
lombian forces.
STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
SUGAR.
As a good deal has recently ap
peared in print regarding the con
sumption of sugar, and as the im
portance of this article as a food, in
which every individual is concerned,
is apparently not sufficiently under
stood, the following facts and figures
furnished to us by the well-known
sugar statisticians, Messrs. Willett
and Gray (91 Wall street, New York),
who are the publishers of the weekly
Statistical Sugar Trade Journal,
must necessarily be of great inter
est to all our readers:
RAW SUGAR.
Tons.
Total consumption, U. S.,
1900 (Willett and Gray>..2,219,847
Add 6.34 per cent., average
annual Increase In con
sumption last 19 years... 140.73S
Consumption for 1901...2,360,586
Of which: Tons.
Louisiana pro
duces .360,000
Beet (domes tic) pro
duces .150,000
Hawaii (free) pro
duces .360,000
Porto Rico (free)
produces .150,000 1,000.000
1,360,585
Paying duty at an aver
age of say $36 per ton.. $48,981,060
(Equivalent to $40 per
ton in Granulated.)
(Price increased because
of tariff. $36 per ton.)
Total consumption, 2,
360,585 tons & $56.. $84,981,060
Additional, people taxed
annually and pay to
provide the 49 millions
for revenue. $36,000,000
Viz.:
To Louisiana planters on 350,000
tons at $36 per ton.$12,600,000
To domestic beet planters on 160,
000 tons at $36 per ton. 6,400,000
To Hawaii planters on 350,000 tons
at $36 per ton. 12,600,000
To Porto Rico planters on 150,000
tons at $36 per ton. 6,400.000
$36,000,000
Remove duty and the whole $84,
981,060 accrues to the public. On
October 8, the quotation for Cuba
Centrifugal sugar, 96 per cent, test,
free on board Cuba, was 1.96 cents
per pound, and the duty on same
amounted to 1.685 cents per pound,
which is equivalent to S6 per cent,
ad valorem.
(Signed) WILLETT & GRAY,
91 Wall street, New York.
Iron stoves are coming more and
more into use in Bulgaria, having
driven out the tin-plated ones formerly
in great favor. Germany was the first
in the field with iron stoves, but has
found formidable competitors in Bel
gium and England.
The sheets of steel for pen malting
are, in their original condition, eight
feet long and three feet wide. From
these strips are cut wide enough to per
mit of the cutting of three or four pens.
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