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EVENTS OF THE DAY GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OP THE TWO HEMISPHERES. Comprehensive Review of the Import ant Happenings of the Past Week, Presented In Condensed Form, Mos Likely to Prove Interesting to Ouf Many Readers. - Justice Day is much improved. A census of China places her popu lation at 426,447,000. The 24th death has occurred at Cor nell university from typhoid fever. The Porto Rioan legislature has just adjourned. Many important measures were acted upon. The damage by the high water in the MiHsissippi valley will amount to many millions of dollars. England's epxenses are about the same as those of the United States, but her income is much lefls. It is beileved that the improvement of the Columbia river will be author ised this week by Secretary Koot. The Philippine" islands will have a large exhibit at St. Louis. From there it will be taken to Portland. , Ex-Representative Mercer, of Ne braska, is talked of as director of the census. He is not popular with the senatorial delegation' from his state. The California legislature has passed a bill appropriating $20,000 for a build ing at the Lewis and Clark fair. The St. Louis exhibit will bo transferred intact. The Montana legislature adjoruned without making an appropriation for the S(. Louis and Portland fairs. A movement is on foot to raise 150,000 by popular subscription. The Mississippi flood is still rising and doing great damage. The senate will be able to dispose of the treaty in a week and adjourn. John D. Daly, of Benton county, has been chosen surveyor general of Oregon. Native constabulary continue to run down the troublesome ladrones in Rizal province. China is organizing a large army. Arms and ammunition are being smug glinged in from Germany. Plans of national irrigation in Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, Nevada and Arizona have been adopted. The Chicago limited, westbound on the Illinois Central, was wrecked at Pomoroy and five passengers were in jured. Two passenger trains on the Nash ville & St. Louis railroad collided head- on near Shell Mound, Tenn., and five of the crew were injured. Safeblowers cracked the safes of the local offices of the Standaid Oil com pany at Atlanta, Ga., and secured $500 in money and (2,000 in checks. The King of Siam has asked the New York firm which supplied the foun tain at George Gould's country home at Lakewood to make an estimate on the cost of erecting a similar fountain five times as large in the central courtyard of his palace. Justice Day, of the supreme court, is aeriouBly ill. The president will call an extra ses' aion of congress in October. Trainmen on all lailroads west of Chicago will ask for an advance in wages. Senators have completed arrange ments to ratify both canal and Cuban treaties. Emperoi Francis Joseph has conferred the croBB of officer of the Francis Joseph order on George Hitchcock, the Ameri can artist. The safe in the Btate bank at Kasota, Minn., wbb blown open by men and $400 in Bilver taken. The robbers escaped on a handcar. John D. Rockefeller has offered to give $1 to Arcadia college, Wolfville, N. S., for every dollar up to $100,000 raised by the college before January 1, 1908. Dr. Herbert F. Fiske, principal of the Northwestern academy, Chicago, who was stricken with apoplexy, has had another stroke, and is again in a criti cal condition. " The Pennsylvania railroad has added 1150,000,000 to its capital stock Glanders is epidemio among horses in New York City. Energetic meas ures are being taken to stamp out the disease, and orders have been issued for the destruction of all horses that are found to have the glanders. The ladrones in Rizal province have been scattered and the leaders captured. King Edward and Queen Alexandra have celebrated their fortieth wedding anniversary. Missouri Pacific passenger train No. 8, the Fast Mail, ran into a landslide near Gasconda, Mo., and the engine was buried in the mud. 1 A big find of hematite iron ore con taining a large percentage of metallic 'iron and ' little dross has lust been made in the river hills near Wrights- Tille, Pa. . Henry Roso, the wealthy Cuban nlnntor. who. it ia said, gave tho great er part of bis fortune in aid of the Cuban revolution, f.18 wnnnou in tne Bloomingdale asylum for the insane. No more bodies of thon drowned in the ferryboat accident at Spier falls, K. Y., have been recovered. WILL CLAIM EQUAL TREATMENT. Position of Qermany Regarding Cuban Reciprocity Treaty. Berlin, March 17. Germany, as soon as the reciprocity treaty between Cut and the United States is ratified, will ask both the Cuban and the United States governments for identical priv ileges. It is albO intimated that o'her governments intend to request the same treatment. While annoyed at the prospect of the United ntateb' trade having lower tariffs in Cuba than that of Germany, no one supposes tnat even a collective protest on the part of the continental countries would cause either the United States or Cuba to recede. But Germany's position is to be defined clearly, to that the United States may not complain when Germany gives other nations preference in trade treatment. The principle which the Germans lay down in entering upon correspondent concerning new commercial treaties is "give and take." The most favored nation theory is really abandoned. Special conventions are to be drawn un to fit different situations. This principle seems to be accepted by Rus sia, Austria and Italy, and the trade policies are to rest upon the recipro city idea. What is the subject of more concern here is that, should the Cuban treaty be accepted and found to work well, similar treaties may be arranged by the United States with Mexico, Brazil and Argentina, ultimately resulting in the United Mates obtaining a mono poly of all the South and Central Amer ican markets. REYES O.N CANAL TREATY. Colombian Vice President Does Not Like Our Control of Isthmus. Colon, Colombia, March 17. Gene ral Rafael Reyes, vice president of Co lombia, who reached the isthmus two days ago from Mexico, was interviewed here today by a proas representative. With reference to the Hay-Herran con vention he Bpoke guardedly and did not appear disposed to discuss its terms or the probability of its ratification by the Colombian congress. He seemed to have reason to believe. however, that the present interpreta tion by the United States of its obliga tory rights to maintain free transit acrosti the isthmus and Ha manner of enforcing these rights has created a very unfavorable impression through out the Colombian republic. He said the politicians who would be called upon to decide the fate of the canal would not be likely to forget the humil iating incidents which occurred during the recent insurgent hostilities between her and Panama. LAND OPEN TO SETTLERS. Vast Tract of 1,000,000 Acres in South ern California. Los Angeles, March 17. The United States, through the fedetal land office at Loa Angeles, will open to Bettlers within the next 60 days about 1,000, 000 acres of land in California. This land is situated between Needles and Majave, and borders the Colorado river. Much of it is valuable agriculturally. The prospective throwing open of its vast tract to settlement is the result of a recent doision of the United States supreme court with respect to the fam ous grant made to the Atlantic & Pacific railroad by act of July, 1866. In the territory which embraces this great tract the Southern Pacifio has selection privilege. Au thority for the receiving of entry appli cations for the 1,000,000 acres in ques tion has been received from Washing ton by the officials of the United States land office at Los Angeles. ENQINES BUTT TOGETHER. Resulting In the Death of One Man and Injury of Many. Kansas City, March 17. The Golden State limited on the Rock Island sys tem, doe in Kansas City this morning. collided head-on just outside of Dwight, 30 miles west of Topeka, at 3 o'clock this morning with westbound passenger No. 3, which left Kansas City last night. Both engines were badly damaged, and the baggage and mail cars and the smoker on the west bound train were telescoped. None of the other cars on the westbound train left the track. None of the cars on the limited were derailed or damaged, and that train continued on its trip east after a few hours' delay. Engi neer Love, of the westbound train, was killed. Three other members of the wast bound crew and three passengers in the westbound smoker and the engi neer and fireman of the limited were injured. Commission on Canal Deal. New York, March 17. New York lawyers believe that if the Panama canal treaty is passed by the United States senate, William Nelson Crom well, of this city, will receive the larg est fee ever given to a lawyer in this country, if not in the world. The re port finds general credence that $2, 000,000 of the money to be paid by the government will 'go directly into Mr. Cromwell's pocket. Mr. Cromwell's arrangement is reported to be on the basis of 5 per cent of the amount real ized by the sale. Mexico Pays Promptly. Washington, Majch 17. The state department has received from the Mex ican government 43,000, being the first installment of interest which is to be paid in perpetuity on account of the Pious fund claims under the arrange ments made by The Hague arbitration board in October last. On July 8 there will be due the sum of $1,41,0,CS2, representing the interest which has ac crued since tho date of the Mexican claims commission. NEWS OF OREGON ITEMS OP INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS OP THE STATE. Session Laws will Soon be Ready for De livery New Mining Corporation Bad Boys Punished Mining Men to Fight New Corporation Tax Law Pendleton Painters Qo Into Business. Six Albany boys have been fined for stoning a Chinaman. J Sheriff Brown and Deputies Hemple and Lachner, of Baker county, are all confined at their homes with smallpox. Foreman J. E. Godfrey, of the state printing office says that work is pio greasing rapidly on the session laws of 1903, and that if nothing unexpected bapiens the laws will be out by April 1, which is much earlier than usual. Fifty men are working on the Lewis and Clark fair site. Ten of these are surveyors who are preparing a contour map. Twenty other men are clearing away fallen trees, logs, and dead under brush, and the rest are planting trees and shrubs and doing nursery work. The members of the Painter's union, of Pendleton, whom the bosses locked out last week, have formed a corpora tion and will become combined bosses and union painters. The bosses re fused to grant any raise in wages and 20 painters become their own managers. The Lucky Boy mining company, a corporation, has been organized under the laws of the state, and has succeed ed to the ownership of the mining prop erty in the Blue River district hereto fore owned by the private partnership consisting of L. Zimmerman, Frank and Fred Sharkey and N. B. Sandish. Game Warden Quimby is in receipt of a copy of a report the commission ers of fish and game of the state of Maine have just published, showing the amount of money expended by the state for the preservation of game, and also the amount of money brought into that state by outside sportsmen. The local game warden thinks it would be a good thing if Oregon followed a similar plan and appropriated suffi cient money for the hiring of deputy wardens to enforce the game laws. The mining men of Eastern Oregon have decided to invoke the referendum against the Eddy bill, which was en acted by the last legislature. The law which it is the purpose to repeal im poses a tax on all corporations doing business in this state in proportion to the amount of the capital stock. The mining men insist that it will retard the growth and the progress of the min ing industry in this state. Petitions are now in course of preparation to be circulated for signatures. It will re quire over 4.000 names in order to set the referendum machinery in motioi. A creamery association has been or ganized at Pleasant Hill, Lane county. The destruction of a large barn on the Theodore Staiger farm, two miles from Salem, resulted in a loss of 6,000. Eight valuable horses were burned. Tramps are supposed to have started the fire. Tne fruitgrowers of the vicinity of Medford held a mass meeting there and perfected an organization, which is known as the Rogue River Fruitgrow ers' union. They adopted a constitu tion and by-laws. For the first time in the past four months Eugene is entirely free of every contagious disease. The stockmen's convention, held at Medford last Saturday, was attended by 60 of the most prominent cattlemen in Jackson county. Addresses were made by a number of well known speakers. A temporary organization was made. Another meeting will be held March 21 and organize perma nently. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Walla Walla, 74 75c; blue. stem, 86c; valley, 7880c. Barley Feed, $23.o0 per ton; brew ing, $24. Flour Best grade, $4.104.60 ; grab am, $ 3.453.85. Millstuffa Bran, $19 per ton; middlings, $ 24; shorts, $19.50320. chop, $18. Oats No. 1 white, $1.15 1.20; gray, $1.121.15 per cental. Hay Timothy, $1112; clover, $89; cheat, $91Q per ton. Potatoes Best Burbanks, 6075c per sack; ordinary, 4050c per cental, growers' prices; Merced sweets, $2 2.25 per cental. Poultry Chickens, mixed, 1213c; young, ll12c; hens, 12c; turkeys, live, 1516c; dressed, 1820c; ducks, $77.5U per dozen; geese, $78.50. Cheese Full cream, twins, 16 17Hc; Young America, 17$18c; factory prices, llfcc less. Butteir Fancy creamery, S082c per pound; extras, 3f)c; dairy, 20 2)i; store, 1518c. Eggs 15c per dozen. Hops Choice, 23(3 25c per pound. Wool Valley, 12K15c; Eastern Oregon, 814)c; mohair, 2828o. Beef Gross, cows, 33c per pound; steers, 44?4c; dressed, Veal 78Jic. 1 Mutton Gross, 4c per pound ; dressed, 7$c. Lambs Gross, 4c per pound; dressed, 7c. Hogs Gross, 6Ko per pound; dressed, i( 7 c. RIVER CONTINUES TO RAISB. Hood Situation In Mississippi Valley at Danger Point. Memphis, Tenn., March 14. lhere is little change in the river situation tonight, and. although the rise today has been slight,, the situation is con sidered grave and the stage of more than 3a feet is still expected. The gauge tonight shows 35.8. The levee two miles south of Caru thersville is caving badly, and the greatest danger is looked for at this point. The country for 60 miles around Caruthersvil'e is Hooded, and railway traffic is suspended. Another weak spot in the levee system apparent now is at Vancluse, Ark., near Green ville, Miss. A "sand boil" appeared there just back of the levee between the horns of a bend in the river west of Lake Chicot. The "boii" was prompt ly suppressed, but appearances indicate bb underground fissure that may prove dangerous. Private dispatches, from Carutbcrs ville say the situation there is practi cally unchanged, and that the embank ments will hold a stage three feet great er than at present. Captain Lucas, in charge of the First and Second districts, left here today for Helena to personally investigate conditions in the White river district. Supplies and men were also sent there to ttrengthen the levee. Supplies and men also have been sent to Cat island, where the rush of the waters through the 17 mile gap In the levee is causing uneasiness, and to Ptkau point, where tne strengthening work is in progress on the embankments. , No news has been received today from the area in Mississippi county. Arkansas, which was reported flooded yesterday by water percolating through the embankments. The engineers here say the crest of the rise probabl7 will reach Memphis Sunday, unless there are further heavy rams general over this area. They pre dict a record breaking stage of water on account of the fact that the levees are holding against the flood. AUTHORITY WITH A STRINQ. Chinese Diplomats Not Allowed to Make Final Bargain. Washington, March-14. The plenl potontiaricu of the powers who are erv gaged at Shanghai in negotiating trade treaties with the Chinese commission ers have discovered what they regard as flaws in the credentials of the Chinese agents which may make it impossible for them to bind their government to treaty form. The matter already has been brought to the attention of the state department, and Mr. Conger is asking for advice, he, too, being en gaged in the negotiations. It appears that the Chinese commis sioners must memorialize the throne before the treaties will have force, and the powers object to this lack of au thority on the part of the commission ers. Because Mr. Conger will have to refer any treaty be may draw up to his government here for approval, precise ly as the Chinese commimoners must do on their side, the United States government is not in a position to pro test very strongly against the sufficien cy of the Chinese cedentials, so that Mr. Conger will go on with this treaty makings, while doing his best to have the Chinese credentials enlarged. PRESIDENT'S TRIP WEST. Will Leave Washington About April 1st and Not Return Until June. Washington, March 14. President Rosevelt's contemplated western trip was a subject of some discussion at the white house today. Senators Long, of Kansas, and Hopkins, of Illinois, and Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Brisow, of Kansas, talked 'with the president about his tour. The Kansas people are urging the president to make some stops in their state after the de dication of the exposition grounds on April 30. Only one stop has thus far been arranged. The president has ac cepted an invitation to attend a meet ing of the railway branch of the Y. M. C. A., to be held at Topeka May 1. Few other details of thu itinerary have been worked out. It has been decided with practical definitenees that only one trip will be made. While no date for the beginning of the trip can be fixed definitely until the senate shall have adjourned, it is expected now that it will not be far from April 1. After leaving Washing ton the president will not return to Washington until some time in June. It is likely that the first two or three weeks of the trip will be passed prin cipally in the Yellowstone park. There the president will seek rest and recre ation, but it is understood that khe will do little hunting. Wholesale Mall Robbery. Boston,, March 14. The city police, acting with postoffice inspectors, have arrested five young men who, it is charged, have in the last six months robbed the mails of $50,000. Some of the prisoners, all of whom were em ployed as mail .wagon drivers, have ad mitted to the inspectors that they rip ped open the mail bags in broad day light in places no less conspicuous than the North Union and South Terminal railway stations. iTheir plunder con sisted of gold watches, rings, silver ware, revolvers, knives, books, etc. Two Men Killed In Snow Slide. Redding, Cal., March 14. An in nienee snow slide occurred yesterday on the La Grange nydranlic ditch in Tnn ity county. Con McLaughlin, a ditch tender, was swept down in the mighty rush of snow and killed. Today, while rescuers were at work looking for the body, another big slide came down and Henry Gentry was killed. All of the men have been called off the ditch, as slides are occurring right along, and there is great danger. PAY TWICE IN 1904 NEW OREGON LAW MAKES PAYABLE BY DECEMBER TAXES 31. Qoes Into Effect Next Year Assessors Begin Work on Hirst Monday in Jan uaryAnnual Levy by County Courts Will Be Made at September Term Other Changes. Salem, Oregon, March 16. Taxpay ers in Oregon will pay taxes twice in 1904. They will pay the taxes levied upon the tax roll of 1903 and also the taxes levied upon the roll of 1904. This is due to a change in the law bv which taxes are to be paid in the fall of the same year the assessmsnet is made. In order to effect this chanire it was necessary to make the taxes pay- aoie tnree montiis earlier or nine months later. The ccllection of taxes is already three months later than it should be, so the legislature decided to make the taxes payable in the preced ing fall rather than in the succeeding fall. Under the present law the assessment is made after the first Momlav March, the assessment roll being filed in September, the levy thereon made the following January and the taxes collected by the first Monday in April. Thus the taxes on the assessment of 1902 are not paid until 1903. The new law provides that the assess. or shall on the first Monday of January procure blank assessment rolls and pro ceed forthwith to make his assessment, and return the roll bv the first Monday in July, showing all the property owned in Mb coounty on the first Mon day in January. Section 360 of the code has been amended bo as to pro. vide that the county board of equalize tion shall sit on the first Monday of July, instead of on the last Monday of August, as heretofore. Section 3082 was amended so as to limit the time' for correcting the assessmsent rolls by the board of equalization of the county court to 20 days. Under the new law county courts must make tbe annual tax levy in Sep. tember following tbe assessment. In order that tbe county courts may have information as to the amount required, it is provided that the state board of apportionment shall make its estimate ot stateexpenses in July, instead of in January, as at present. Cities and school districts must notifj the county clerkB of their annual tax levies by the first day of September, instead of by the first day of February, as under the old law. ' Thia gives the county courts full information for the levying of taxes at the September term of court. All taxes are payable by the 31st day of December of the same year, section 3106 of the code having been amended so as to make that provision. All taxes not paid by the 31st day of De cember become delinquent on that day provided, however, that if one-half of the taxes due on any parcel of land are paid by the 31st of December, the prop. erty-owner may have until the follow. ing first Monday in April, and if the remainder be not then paid, it becomes delinquent, and, besides the penalty interest at the rate of 12 per cent wil be charged on such remainder from the 31st day of December. On all delin quent taxes interest is to be charged at tbe rate of 12 per cent per annum from the date' of tbe delinquency, and if the taxes remain delinquent 30 days, penalty of 5 per cent will be added On all taxes paid on or before the 31st day of December, a rebate of 2 per cent will be allowed. Under the present law the rebate is 3 per cent. On tbe first Monday in February the sheriff must begin the collection of delinquent taxs by levying upon personal property and on the first Monday in April close the delinquent roll and return it to the county court. County treasurers are required to pay. one-half the state taxes by January 15, and the other half by July 15, but the provisions of this act do not apply to any taxes heretofore levied. Delinquent Bales are to take place by October 1. The new law shortens the entire time for making an assessment and collecting the taxes one month. Taxpayers will pay their 1903 taxes in March, 1904, and their 1901 taxes in December, 1904. Status of' Isle of Pines. Havana, March 16. Minister Squiers has returned here from a four days' visit to the Isle of Pines, during which he mad? note of the reason the Ameri can residents have for urging United States sovereignity over the island He will report Jto Washington on the situation. He found the (Americans to be extremely anxious for American sov. ereignity, as they purchased land or stock in the four American land com panies there in the full belief that the United States would assume sovereign ity over tbe Isle of Pines. Drowned In a Mine. Iron Mountain, Mich., March 19. Four men are known to have lost their lives and four others are missing todav the result of an accident in tbe Millis mine. The men were drowned by a rush of water which flooded the north level of a cross-cut in the mine. The accident was caused by the men working through the wall of their level into another level, which had been flooded the water escaping through tbe break and overwhelming the miners. WILL BEAT RECORD. Hoed In Mississippi Valley Threatens Un told Damage to Property. New Orleans, March 13. It is gen erally admitted by government, state and city authorities that the Missis sippi river will in all probability break all records before the present flood-be gins to recede. The gauge here tonight shows the river to be just one foot be low the high water record, and every precaution is being taken to prevent serious damage and to prepare for emer gencies. All the levee lines are being inspect ed and large forces'of men are at work day and night. Though all the au thorities admit that a record stage is probable, they maintain that the levee system is higher and btronger than ever before, and that the banks are pre pared to withstand the extra strain. The most unfortunate condition at present is the continuance of the rainy weather. This is having the effect of softening the levees and all Louisiana is praying for a return of sunshine. Six hundred men are at work today at various points Hacking weak points and raising the line of embankments. Thousands of sacks of Band are being distributed along the river. The engi-' niers report the levees between South Port and Carrollton in excellent con dition. The United States engineer officials have promised their co operation with the authorities in carry ing on the fight against the flood. All the levee boards of the state may be in continucus session and every foot of levee on the river is under surveillance of armed guards. OTHER DEADBEAT NATiWS. Baltaln May Next Collect from Guatemala and Costa Rica. New York, March 13. English in vestors in Spanish-American loans and enterprises are now looking for a sequel to tbe Venezuelan affair in some other quarter of the Western hemisphere, says the Tribune s representative in London. The only other countries where defaults of interest and repudi ation of- financial obligations are fla grant are Costa Rica and Guatemala. The external debt of Costa Rica was scaled down to lower rates of interest, but the defaults have occurred on both the interest and the sinking fund. Guatemala's debt was also rearranged for at 4 per cent, but the interest has not been paid. These countries are exposing them selves to foreign coercion in the interest of Euroean creditors. It is not proba ble that England will join Germany in another naval campaign against either republic, Bince the British investors in the two main Venezuelan loans com plain that tbe effect of the alliance has been to establish preference for inferior German claims and to create a prejudice against the legitimate claims of bond holders. PLACED IN NAVY'S CARE. Midway Islands Will Be Protected from Roving Japanese Sailors. ' Washington, March 13. The presi dent by executive order haa turned the Midway islands over to tlje navy de partment. Thia waa done at the in stance the Pacific cable company, which haa asked for the projection of its prop erty on the islands. Roving Japanese Bailors are fin tbe habit of landing on tbe islands for tbe plumage of sea fowl and for guano. It ia probable that the navy will eatabliah a small station on the islands and American warships will make a practice of touching there much more frequently than they have don in the past. The islands are two in number, Sand island, having 633 acres, and Eastern island, 245 acres. There is a harbor afffording about 18 feet of water. The islands are deemed essen tial to the operation of the Pacific cable, which will touch there on its western route from Hawaii. Red Tape In the Way. New York, March 13. The state ment that the postoffice department has acceded to Marconi's request for tele graph communication through Fal mouth 'with the wireless station at Poldhu is understood to be substantial ly true, says a London dispatch to the Tribune. The concession, however, does not improve much the prospects of an early establishment of a commercial wireless system between England and America. Marconi has not been able to persuade the postmaster general to allow messages destined for transmis sion across the ocean by wireless By stem to be handed in as cable messages at any telegraph office in the United King dom. , Lighthouse on Mile Rock. San' Francisco, March 13. Under the direction of Captain Valentine, of the United States engineer corps, a force of men has gone to Mile Rock, at the entrance to the Golden Gate, and begun the work of preparing fcr the erection of a lighthouse on the jagged peak. Since the days of the discovery of thia bay Mile rock has been regarded as one of the most dangerous obstruc tions to navigation on thia part of the coast. The construction of a lighthouse will not only remove the element of danger, but eerve as a guide. Wireless Telegraph Between Forts. New York, March 13 Preliminary tests of a wireless telegraph system be tween the harbor forts were made today under the direction of Lieutenant Col onel Dunwoody, chief signal officer United States army, and in future the wireless telegraph will be used regu larly for communicating -between Fort Wadsworth, on Staten island, and Fort Hancock, at Sandy Hook, across about 15 miles of the lower bay.'