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FORECAeT. For Los Anot'ai and violn-ItTi oudyj liRht north wind, cUanginj to westerly. YEs-TERDAY Mmiimum tem-erature 70 Bimum, 47 deft. Wind, ft a. north Txlocltv.

9 miles; 6 p.m., west velocity. 8 miles At midnight the tern-terature wai 49 de. clear. TODAY At 3 a. in.

the temperature wai 18 f'e clear. IORECAST For Ban Francisco and vicinity: Cloudy; prooab'y showers light stwind chan-ln" to nortiwebt. (The complete weather report, including comparative temperatures, will be tound on page 12. part It. i DEPEW DINNER AT STAKE.

Montauk Club Members Undecided to ths Propriety of Entertaining the Senator, mT DIRECT WIRE TO THE TJMES.I NEW YORK, Jan. 9. Exclusive Dispatch. In view of the revelations of the legislative insurance investigation, there is a decided difference of opinion among the members of the Montauk Club of Brooklyn as to the propriety of giving a dinner this year in honor of the seventy-second birthday, of Senator Chauncey M. Depew, No final decision will be reached until after the election of officers in March, but it is the prevailing opinion among members that the banquet will not be given.

For fifteen years the Montauk Club Depew dinner has almost been an institution. The Saturday night nearest to April 23, the Senator's birthday, the club has had him yearly as its guest. He. has never had an engagement important enough to make him miss the evening. Senator Depew has been the only speaker at these dinners, and it has been here that he has appeared at his best as an after-dinner wit.

Hj has told those good old stories oi his Peekskill days, and in the more serious vein has preached the gospel of cheerfulness, and for fifteen consecutive years has declared that the world is getting Letter. MONKEYS RATTLE FinCMCM. Fifty Panio-strioken Simians Create Pandemonium and Almost Cause Serious Conflagration, IDT DIRECT WIRE TO THE TIMES I PITTSBURGH (Pa.) Jan. 9. Exclusive Dispatch.

Monkeys, fifty of them, rattled the Pittsburgh fire department so badly this morning that a slight blaze in a zoo on Liberty avenue came nearly causing widespread destruction on that busy down-town thoroughfare. When an alarm was turned in the Are laddies had not the faintest idea what they were going up against. Neither were they much wiser, when on pulling up before No. C22, they saw dense volumes of smoke Issuing from the doorway. But they were mystified, and the crowd which had gathered was horrified, for from the building came wild screams of terror as though a thousand persona were being roasted alive.

The place was a temporary zoo, and in addition to other animals, it housed the fifty monkeys who were allowed to roam about the place before the afternoon show began. These were crazy with fright, and as soon as the firemen entered, they threw themselves upon them. Startled by the onslaught, the firemen tried to throw the little brutes off, but the terrified creaurea clung to their trousers and impeded their progress, fastened their fingers in the Bremen's hair, hung on to their coat-collars and even sprang upon the hands that were gripping the hose. To work with such impediments was impossible, and not until the frightened little brutes had been clubbed off and chastd out to the sidewalk, where they were caught by the keepers, did the rattled firemen succeed In regaining their composure and getting a line on the blaze which had made great progress during the was liiauimotwly n-solvod to contlnno the flRht for open nhop In New York to a finlnh. Representatives of thirty-five firms were present.

These firms employ 603 men and In their shops moro than 200 competent non-union men are now at work. Every firm represented at the meeting not only reported that it was taking care of Its own work, but had capable men engaged and on the way here to swell the composing room strength." MONTREAL PRINTERS OUT. BY THE ASSOCIATED MONTREAL (Que.) Jan. 9. Seventy-five union printers employed on the Gazette are on strike today.

Trouble came up In the Job office over an apprentice, and the newspaper staff of machine men was called out in sympathy. The Gazette proprietors have declared their establishment an open shop, and announce that their paper will be published as usual, DYING, BUT MUST APPEAR. Ohio Court Plaoes Impossible Obligation on Dr. Evans, Now in Phoenix. BY DIRECT WIRE TO THE TIMES.

YOUNGSTOWN (Ohio) Jan. 9. Exclusive Dispatch. Said to be dying in Phoenix, John M. Evans has.

nevertheless, been ordered by Judge Rogers of the Common Pleas Court to present himself in the custody of the Sheriff of Mahoning county, 0 before next Saturday morning. Either he must do this or his bondsmen will be compelled to pay over the money they have put up for his appearance. Dr. Evans is wanted for the alleged embezzlement of $75,000 of the funds of the Keystone Copper Mining Company. The charge was made three years ago and he was the central figure in a fierce controversy in which Pittsburgh and Boston men engaged.

He was indicted and arrested on extradition proceedings and then made application for his release on habeas corpus in Probate Court. The Supreme Court has Just decided against him. The strongest part of the case, however, lies in the fact that during all this time strenuous efforts have been made by the very men who were most interested in prosecuting him three years ago to have the case dropped now. It is claimed that the original Indictment papers against him have disappeared and no one seems to know who is now pushing the case. is evident that new factors have Employ ng Printers Sine to Win.

Typographical Union Claims of Gains Not Borne Out by the Facts. Typothetae Hears Favorable Reports from All Parts of the Country. No Real Surrender by New York Firms-Fight Won in Chicago. IBT DIRECT WIRE TO THE TIMES JNi TkTEW YORK, Jan. 9.

Exclusive Dispatch. In the battle between the union printers and their employers today's developments brought the strikers no great comfort, despite the claims of the union to that effect. Patrick H. McCormlek, president of Typographical Union No. 6, announced that the Mail and Express job plant had capitulated and that its complement of fifty compositors had returned to work.

It was also declared that Charles B. Reed, another Typothetae member, had surrendered. McCormick said that out of 247 union printing houses In the eity the union had now captured 211 since the strike began a week ago. He declined, however, to give the names of the concerns said to have yielded. As against this statement the offl-clals of the Typothetae declared that not a single firm had actually Bigned an eight-hour, closed-shop agreement In the case of the Mall nnd Express Job department, the union made the threat that it would the composing room of the Evening Mill if the Job department Sid not win, and the Typothetae advised a- temporary surrender.

"If the union has obtained' iill shops out of 247, why does it not give the names?" ask the Typothetae. At a meeting spoken of as "council of war," the local and national Typothetae last, night heard reports of victory from every quarter. The meeting was held in the New York Typothetae rooms, at No. 320 Broadway and was presided over by George H. Ellis of Boston, president of the United Typothetae of America.

He congratulated the New York employ ers on the headway they had made, and said victory was certain. He declared that defection had been looked for among the weaker concerns, but the real fighting strength of the association was now ready to assert itself. T. E. Donnelly, president of the Chicago Typothetae, said the fight had been won in that city and that more than 1000 printers were now working on the nine-hour, open-shop basis.

"We have all the men we want," said he, "and are now sending printers, among them many union men, on to New York." Summarized, the contention of the Typothetae is that the union is making no substantial gains that will count in a prolonged fight A Typothetae ofllcial says that It is the purpose of the union to get its men back wherever such a thing is possible and upon any terms that will stand the union test It is stated that this is done to save the union from paying its Idle men $12 and $15 a week, but that these firms said to have capitulated, will have the benefit of the Typothetae's victory for the nine-hour day and open shop. A meeting of the New York Typothetae was held tonight at the conclusion of which the following statement was given out: "At a meeting of the Typothetae It 1 TL POLE. Offer of Airship to Wei man. Manager Strobel Guarantees Explorer an Aerial Craft of Successful Capacity. Santos Dumont is Given to Understand That Americans Make Good.

Backer of Knabenshue and Beaclicy Has Mortgage on Earth's Axis. BT DIRECT WIRE TO THE TIMES. OLEDO (0.) Jan. 9. Exclusive Dlspatch.l "It Walter Wellman wants to go to the North Pole tn an airship I'll furnish him the airship and aeronauts," said Charles J.

Strobel, manager of A. Roy Knabenshue and Lincoln Beachey, the two young fellows whose work among the clouda in the year Just closed has attracted general attention. "I wrote Wellman Tuesday," continued Strobel, "and hope to hear from him. "This business of going to France have Dumont huild a ship is all foolishness. Dumont has not done anything really startling.

He has, as you will discover by investigating, mado most of his ascensions early in the morning, when there was no wind, or under circumstances that were tavor-able to the flights. "Upon three occasions Dumont came to the United States. What did he He refused to face the air currents himself and could not be Induced to fly while in New, York. Knabenshue flew over New York City, a feat in which no one had ever succeeded before, and it has not been duplicated. Santoa-Dumont will never duplicate it.

"On the face of the proposition, judging from results alone, I believe Wellman would do better by letting Knabenshue and Beachey take him to the pole In a ship of their own construction than he will by letting Dumont 'experience' some more. "When we were in New York giving exhibitions, I sent Dumont a cablegram challenging him to fly, and offering to go to Europe for a match, but he never replied to the cablegram. "I will either build a ship according to Wellman's specifications, or I will build him one In which Til guarantee to sustain and carry, for a given number of days, any whelght Dumont has offered "to transport from Spitzber-gen to the North Pole. "If Dumont will guarantee anything, I'll duplicate hla offer, and will go him one better by agreeing to deliver the goods. We stand ready to take Wellman to the North Pole if he wants to do business with us.

"I'd like to pull off this thing, if for no other reason than that this scheme is due to American brains, and I'd like to prove that American ingenuity and American nerve can carry the flight to the Pole to a more successful termination than Dumont can possibly expect' DOWIE MAY BE DYING. His Request for Prayers for His Son Causes Anxiety Among Follow ers at Zion City, (BY DIRECT WIRE TO THE CHICAGO, Jan. 9. Exclusive Dispatch. "Pray for my beloved son, who has been threatened by the enemy with absolute isolation, that he may be spared this trial for a number of years to come and that he may rapidly develop and grow Into splendid Christian manhood.

This is his desire and may God give him power." This message from Dowie has aroused considerable anxiety among followers of the "First Apostle." It comes practically as the first admission mat Dotn "Dr." Dowie and his wife are in critical danger and that even the possibility of death of one or both is not to be regarded as an Impossi bility. Beyond the fact that never before have the finances of Zion tottered so pitifully, nothing definitely is known of the business status of the Dowie ad ministration. It is reported In Wauke-gan and neighboring towns that the lace factory will not be reopened and that the candy factory has passed Into the hands of another management HER JEWELS RECOVERED. It was reported at the Angeiu Hou-i last night that the diamonds and other property of Mrs. C.

Thorn valued at nearly J1000 which had been mysteriously lost for several weeks, had been recovered. It was not suspected at the time the Jewels were missed that they had been stolen and the matter was not reported to the police. Where they found was not announced but guests at the were authority for the report that they had b'--i-n found The Thorn family was jroi at to-? hotel meat, havir.jf sne I to the homo of frkri, ij to t.V night. Standard Oil Chief Rogers Cited. Supreme Bench of New York State Aids Attorney General of Missouri.

The Refusal of Witness to Answer Questions Brings Decisive Action. Tom Lawson Invited to be on Hand Examination' Significant Trend. BT TOE ASSOCIATED IDS EW YORK, Jan. 9. The ques tion whether Henry H.

Rogers can be compelled to tell Atty- Gen. Herbert S. Hadley of Missouri whether the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey owns or controls three oil companies, selling oil in Missouri as separate companies, will be placed before the Supreme Court of New York State tomorrow. All the important questions which Rogers has declined to answer by advice of counsel In the last three days of the hearing in this city were presented to the Supreme Court today by counsel acting in rue-half of Hadley, and the court was asked to order Rogers to show cause why he should not answer them. The court order was issued today by Justice Davy, and It was served on William V.

Rowe, counsel for Rogers, while the hearing was still in progreas late today. Hadley said, after consultation with the counsel, that he understood that he would have to be repre-sented by counsel in this argument, but that ha hoped to get in a few words before the court. The questions are In a dlvtioity of form, but in substance all arc: "I)o'8 the Standard Oil Company isf Now Jersey, either through lis own or any other person or corporation, own. bold or control a majority or the stock of the Waters-Pierce Oil Company of Missouri, the Standard Oil Company of Indiana and the Republic Oil Company of New York? No matter in what form the question has been put, Rogers has declined to answer It. The commissioner before whom the evidence is being taken is powerless to compel an answer, but the Supreme Court possesses the authority to order Rogers to be punished for contempt of court if he declines to answer, after being ordered to do so by that court Hadley wants this information tj show that the three alleged subsidiary or confederated companies are monopolizing the oil trade of Missouri iu combination and to induce the Mis souri courts to order them ousted from that State.

An interesting feature of the hear ing today was an invitation sent by Hadley to Thomas W. Lawson of Boston requesting him to come to New York and testify if he can give any information as to the three companies Hadley is trying to drive out of Missouri. This decision was reached today. when the Attorney-General was in formed that Lawson last night ex pressed a willingness to come to New York in connection with the inquiry. He said that he would telegraph to Lawson Immediately, and ask him to come to New York and testify.

"If Thomas W. Lawson can throw any light upon tne present existing trust relations, which we understand are employed by the Standard Oil Company, we will be glad to have him testify," said Hadley. "But it he can only come here and add to the sensationalism of the proceedings, I do not care to have bin. appear. If h- possesses real material facts of value, we will be glad to hear him, but for the purpose of a general recital we do not, and will not, need him." Hadely sent the following telegram to Lawson: "If you can give any information to relations between Standard Cii Company of Indiana to Republic Oil Company and Waters-Pierce Oil Company, urgently request you to come and testify.

ISigned "HERBERT S. HADLEY." When the hearing adjourned tonight Lawson's reply had not been received. Rogers again declined, whl'tj on the stand today, to disclose the slo ownership of the three companies, and was severely admonished by Hadley a treat the hearing seriously, and not a "funny." The hearing will probably be adjourned temporarily tomorrow uira-Ing to permit attendance upon tha court hearing on the order to The subpoena server who lias le trying for several to summ-m a. Clay Pierre to testify be'ere the slssioner in this ca.se to. IS tonight that he had t-prn vmhlt; POINTS OF THE NcWS IN TODAY'S ISSUE OF INDEX.

Part I. 1, Flight to the Polo. Employers Sure to Win, Court Grasps Rogers. 2. Worst Over For Winter.

3. Miss Hopper Loses Suit. 4. Insurgents Stand Pat 5. Long1 Beach Harbor Sure.

8. Fowls of High Degree. 8. "Liners:" Classified Advertising. 14.

City lu Brief: Vital Record. Part II. 1. Troubles of a Darling'. Totem Again Defeated.

2. Public Service: Official Doings. 3. Employers Association Banquet. 4.

Editorial Page; Pen Points. 5. Counties Need Rain. 6. House Warming at Kbel.

7. Art Building Looms Large. 8. Events In Los Angeles Society, 9. In the Realm of Sport.

10. New From Neighboring Counties. 31. Events In Los Angeles County. 12.

Weather: Finance and Commerce. 13. Shipping: Real Estate Transfers. SYNOPSIS. THE CITY.

James Darling, worth $50,000, presses claim for SS2.65 against former sweetheart Employers' Association discusses industrial situation fit Southern California's banner vegetable day. strike In union Wayside Press brings open Money in sight for fine arts building. harbor proposition received with open arms by San Bo urke Cockran mounts rough bench In Stowell Block and talks diamonds reported Brilliant oponins of now. lilbell Club J. Llndgren trets" divorce from fresh-air Walden studies East First street and finds it Poultry show biggest ever, 1690 occupants of vehicle injured in collision with car.

Charges against Eastlako watchman. Milwaukee wife and sweetheart' vant man now in Los Heavy tsst on Hayward concrete hotel building. Law invoked against derrick-nulsanc? loses money by District Attorney's school Stock found in river north of city. Police Board warned to retrench. Oovernment engineers report on Long Beach harbor.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. Pasadena City Council springs big surprise In question of municipal ownership of water system. company to place Santa Catalina lots on the directors elected by Corona bank, representing Upland, Lordsburg and other towns in that section, to confer with H. E. Huntington about extension of his electric Bernardino man suoi for divorce two months after explosion of oil tank at Riverside results in Injury to only one man Santa Barbara man dies of drinking wood oiled road to be built between Ontario and Dead cats clog Red-lands water main Jury finds that Heber Alderman's death at Tustin was accidental.

PACIFIC SLOPE. Suit against "Klondike" Anderson. Wallace Hopper loses her suit or the Duns-muir up of the gas Burning of rain near Manhattan in the gold district examiners appointed. FOREIGN. BY CABLE.

Czar increases personal Capture of a pupply train. Orloff reported assured in Moroccan case Next real crisis in Russia not expected until the National Assembly meets. tells Filipinos that Americans in charge have native Interests at heart. i GENERAL EASTERN. Rogers of Standard Oil cited by Supreme Court of New Airship for Wellman to the may be dyirg.

Chicago "mixers' coming to get Los Angeles' Dunbar, teachers getting married. police magistrate dances with negro Pen- nypacker to be E. Wright, supposed son of Gen. Wright, Fire burns victims of Hav-rstraw woman routs a Chambers knocks out Deacon Kelley in church lines cut out free transportation. shaken up on railroad deal.

WASHINGTON. "Insurgent" Republicans standing pat against Joint Opponents of Philippine Tariff Bill' losing Arrangements for the trial of Binger Hermann. Chinese search for Reuben H. Morley. Baron RIchthofen ill Reprimand for Commander Young not will take lid off whole canal bosl- SPORT3.

National Baseball League disposes cf at New Orleans Hart and Burnn matched. gives Hanson a Harris Form reversal at Oakland. JUDGE GOODWIN'8 EDITORSHIP. SALT LAKE (Utah) Jan. 9.

-Judsre C. C. Goodwin, formerly editor of the Salt Laki Tribune and a pioneer newspaper man of the West, havimr associated wirJl the Enterprise at Virginia City, In th.j palmy t)f min' iC ffl'iip, nil! o.lit.ir-ln-chiff of the Eve-ntnjr Telegram T.t St. IXED PRAYER AND PUGILISM. GODLi.

MEN OF WASHINGTON, PA, IN A MUSS. Re-election of Pastor Fletcher Excites the Malcontent Deacon Kelley Tells Deacon Chambers's Wife to "Shut Up," and Deacon Chambers Puts Deacon Kelley Out. TR? DIRECT WIRE TO THE TIMES WASHINGTON (Pa.) Jan. 9. Ex clusive Dispatch.

Prayer and pugi lism were inharmoniously mixed at a congregational meeting called in the First Baptist Churoh here, this afternoon; to take action on the reflection of Rev. C. W. Fletcher to the pastorate. In the melee, Deacon Charles Kelley was floored by a stiff right to the Jaw, sent in by Deacon Frank Chambers.

The congregation Is the wealthiest In Washington. After a stormy session, Rev. Fletcher was reelected pastor by a vote of 61 to 9. Charges of an ugly character had been made against persons who, it was declared, had been trying to undermine the pastor's repu tation. Whe'n the vote was announced, the malcontents raised an uproar.

In the midst of it somebody began to pray, and while jthe petition was being of fered up, there was a brief truce. Then Deacon Kelley, in a voice choking with rage, began in a loud voice to hurl back the accusation that any one had been the pastor. The wife of Deacon Chambers, who was stand ing near Kelley, began to remonstrate with him. shut up," yelled the enraged pillar "of the church, turning toward the woman. The words were scarcely out of his mouth when a slashing blow on tho Jaw from Deacon Chambers's fist put him down on the floor.

In an instant there was a panic. The female members made a bee-line for the door, screaming, while some of the brethren seized and held Deacon Chambers, who was Just figuring where he could' plant his right again. But it was not necessary. Deacon Kelley was down and out, and In Ilea of the count, somebody started another prayer, after which the congregation moved out in silence, leaving the pastor to heap coals of Are by bringing Deacon Kelley "to." OSLER STAYS WITH OXFORD. The Doctor Denies that He Will.

Return to Johns Hopkins University. (BY DIRECT WIRE TO THE TIMES. BALTIMORE (Md.) Jan. 9. Exclusive Dispatch.

Dr. WTllliam Osier and the heads of the Johns Hopkins University and Hospital deny that the famous physician is to resign from Oxford University. Houghton, Mifflin of Boston, who are the publishers of Dr. Osier's books, recently Issued the following in their literary notes: "Dr. William Osier, the eminent medical authority, has resigned the Regius professorship of medicine In Oxford University, England, and will return to Johns Hopkins University about the middle of January.

Dr. Osier and his wlfo, who is a great grand-daughter of Paut Revere, spent Christmas In Boston. When this appeared in a Baltimore newspaper, its editor wired to Dr. Osier for a confirmation or denial, and got a denial from the doctor. The physician made a denial of the 'statement of coming to Baltimore, President Ira Remsen of Johns Hopkins University and Superintendent Henry M.

Murd of Johns Hopkins Hospital also deny that the physicin is to return to Baltimore. BATTLESHIPS WEATHER STORM. NORFOLK (Va.) Jan. 9. The Virginia and North Carolina coasts were swept by severe gales last night, the wind reaching a velocity of forty-two miles an hour.

The combined bat.le-sh.'p ar.J cru'isor squaJrons were at anchor lii Hampton Roads d'lrliig They roile out the storm in safety, and te AlnKima today wei ii-i anoNir In and procwJ.Ki for the urioifc Navy vara, iiynig tn i- an admiral ID HOLDER" Jj LOSING WEIGHT. SECRETARY TAFT IS LESS THAN THREE HUNDRED POUNDS. All His Troublesome Official Affairs Cannot Keep the Jovial Head of the War Department from Having His Little Joke This Time It Is at His Own Expense, and He Likes It. RY DIRTXT WIRE TO THE TIMES WASHINGTON. Jan.

9. Exclusive Dispatch. In the face of all his troubles with the Panama Canal, with the Philippines and the threatened anti-foreigner outbreak in China, Secretary Taft still finds consolation In the fact that he is reducing his weight, which, from a personal standpoint, is most Important. 'Three months ago I weighed 314 pounds, and today I weight only 'IHVi pounds. I would have found out my exact reduction long ago, if It were not that most of the scales found here are made, for boys, and not for full-grown men," The laugh with which he accompanied this statement must have reduced his record that is, added to hts weight by at least three pounds.

Then he explained the method which he is pursuing for the reduction of weight, one which is all right for any save those who have a tendency toward rheumatism. "Six ounces of meat for breakfast, with a lot of bran biscuit and coffee without milk or sugar. For lunch, four ounces-of lean meat For dinner, five ounces of lean meat and four ounces of fish. In all of this no bread, no beans, except string beans; no peas, no squash except summer squash, plenty of succulent vegetables like celery and lettuce, but no oil In my salad dressing. And some exercises that make me look ridiculous to all who see me doing them." By pursuing this regimen, the Secretary hopes to reduce his weight to 230 pounds, which will still be above the register of "scales for boys," but far below his present weight.

Some one asked, referring to the Joke which Mr. Root, then Secretary of War, cabled to Mr. Taft when he was Governor of the Philippines, "How is the horse?" "Oh, he is gaining faster than I lose," was the reply. 4 rpilEY'LL SING JL OF CHICAGO. Good "Mixers" Coming to Southwest to Cet Trade Away from Los Angeles.

BT DIRECT WIRE TO THE TIMES. CHICAGO, Jan. 9 Exclusl Dispatch. Two special cars bearing gentlemen noted for their argumentative powers and their qualities as good "mixers" will start from Chicago January 19. for an extended trip throughout' the West and the Southwest in search of trade.

The Trade Extension Committee of the Chicago Commercial Association, at Its meetln? today, decided to Invade this fertile field and the trade missionaries will Journey as far Southwest as New Mexico and Arizona. Important commercial centers of the Wet and the Southwest will be visited and the prais raises I entral of Chicago es the best cen trading point will be sung by experts. trading point will be sung by entered into the suit but for the present they are boing concealed. KIND TO OUR. OSTRICHES.

Feathers from California Birds May be Worn Without Compunction by Humane Women. BY DIRECT. WIRE TO THE TIMES. YORK (Pa.) Jan. 9.

Exclusive Dispatch. Without leaving themselves open to a charge of heartless-ness, women may wear ostrich feathers provided they come from California farms. This was the dictum of Mary E. Loveli, general secretary of ilie Pennsylvania S.P.C.A., delivered before the Young Woman's Club today. "I can vouch for thes9 feathers'," said Miss Loveli, "for I have visited the ostrich farms in California and found that there was no cruelty practiced there." Miss Lovell's statement followed the general roast of her Bex.

"It' is the attribute of women to be merciful and humane, yet I regret to say that women often are less merciful and less humane than men," said she. "They practice cruelty when they wear birds or bird wings on their hats. To this practice has been due the destruction of our sweetest song birds and those birds that are most useful to the agriculturist. The milliners tell you that the birds on your hats are manufactured. That is not true.

The wings and the feathers that are used in manufacturing the birds and in making of aigrettes are taken from birds that are slaughtered for the purpose." WILL NOT SHUT DOWN. BOSTON (Mass.) Jan. 9. Exclusive Dispatch. George S.

Robbins, secretary of the Greene Consolidated Cooper Company, at Cananea, says there is nc probability of a shut-down at the company's plant owing to a Bhortage of the coke supply. or elsewhere. "Consequently, when the Temps declares that 'far from desiring to humiliate the Sultan of Morocco, we seek to re-establish his authority and enforce It throughout the empire, the fact is made clear that neither the Integrity of Morocco nor the sovvereign-ity of the Sultan is In any danger from France, and, in placing that declaration on the first page of the 'White Book, Germany tacitly access it as officially outlining France's Moroccan policy. "Thus the Cassandraa who have beeu predicting war so industriously during the last six months might have utilized their energy to better purpose. It ia impossible to believe that a Franco-German war was ever seriously contemplated on one side or the oWie'-.

The German Emperor is certainly not sufficiently hairbrained to stake tue material prosperity of his country aga.nst a strip of territory ia Norlbeft Africa." PEACE IS ASSURED IN MOROCCO CASE. BY DIRECT WIRE TQ THE TIMES. 10. Exclusive Dls- filibustering, either in Morocco Pi ARIS, Jan patch. War rumors that have been circulating in Europe of late call forth the following editorial in the Herald's European edition, under the heading, "Peace Assured:" "It i significant indication of Germany's pacific disposition respecting France that the 'White Book just issued opens with an extract from the Temps.

Germany could not have displayed greater discrimination than in this selection of our conservative contemporary as a sort of seml-offlclal organ, worthy of being accepted as a representative of the French and as the interpreter of French public opinion. "The patriotism of the Temps guarantees that the rights of othsr nations will.be respected, and Its policy Is dictated by such a clear perception of the real interests of France that it would certainly withhold Its approval from any project of territorial.