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OREGON
VOL XXI 1 1.
ST. HELENS, OllEGON, FKIDAY, AIM ML , 1900.
NO. 17.
THE
MIST.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
In a Condensed Form lor Our
Busy Readers.
HAPPENINGS OF TWO CONTINENTS
A Return) of th Lett Important but
Not LM Interettlntj Event
f the Part Wnk.
Troop will protect the Rutalao Jiwt
durln F.aelertld.
The Nw Yark Iif,llatore It rushing
Ml'a lor tli control ut insurance.
All Zl"ti City Iim revolted agalutt
It.il, taking away hit power and
property.
Municipal ownership If the principal
campaign '"I1'0 ln u,nJ stern city
aim-linn.
Fhioda Id Alabama have (topped
itwiiiil"t navigation lor ISO mile
alnrnt Mobil.
Itepnwei.tallve Cooler, of Wlacontln,
In Introduced bill admitting Porto
Ricaii to lull United State clllaen-
hip.
Pre.ldent Palme, of Cuba, I confi
dent th L'plted Stale auat will rat
ify ilia !) of I'lnrfl treaty which recog-nil-
Cutm't varwlgnty.
Women bava mobbed Iba engineer
al tba Couirlere, Franca, mine, do
in.ii'liii tba tewue of tbair loved one
whom Ibay believ to I atill allv.
Comiiil'.lc'iinr (isiflpld (I ml tba
Standard (Ml company baa violated tba
antt-trtiat law many time. Proeecu
lion of tba company wilt commune
nil.
A Ittiaelan editor baa been Imprie
oned for writing- a parody on tba Lord'
inarrr, wblrh waa suppoaed to he offer
ed by lb Imperial family. Una Una
uia.lo to lead: "Ul tha people
pit our debt, but not aa w pay our
creditor."
Tillman will bara a bard fight to be
rr-atrrtrd senator.
Hi istol' confirmation a dilrlit at
lornry for Oiegnn It aaaurad.
Amcrlini money baaaaved thouaandt
of livre In tba Japanaaa lamina dia
tri.t. The president and net leader
bava agreml on tba court relw amand
mrnt to tba rata III.
(iermany ha found through th Mo
rmian conferem) that ilia baa but una
friend In all Kuropa, Auatrla.
Sir Thomaa I.lpton ba completed
arrii(riiiuta for lb building of a
challenger lor tba Amarica't cup In
lui)7.
Tha New York (.'antral and Pennryl
vania rol are .aid to have agreed on
r maolidalion. Tba preeeul line will
also I greatly extended.
An Indiana bachalor found eight
tiabir on bit dooratap a tw morning
ago. II Immediately eent for tba
county ofllciala to tak cbarga.
A itorm at RnglUh, Indiana, blew
down a lrg tr, revealing the biding
plara of 121,000 placed In Uia rooU l
tlia tree by an old nilerr may year ago.
Keprr-aentallve Jon, of Weahllig
ton, Iim a bill requiring all American
vr.Mitt to criy uftlilenl oil-to calm
the ra whenever tba Vreael may ba In
danger In alortni.
The Chinee boycott It believed to be
dying out.
Kiorer I till! recognlied tt ambas
sador at Vienna.
The Iowa lrglalatnr I'M ped a
bill wblcb will not allow any tt offi
cer to tme a railroad pat.
Tha miner convention ha decided
to accept the advance wherever granted
by the coal operator and work will
continue In tlio.e mlnei.
Representative Lacey, of Iowa, want
all agricultural land now embraced in
forest reaervet thrown open to entry
iindur the bomeitead law.
Tbliteen miner who were entomlied
in the French coal mlna be Juat been
found allv. They were In the mine 20
day and lived on bone teed.
Another $25,000 bat been tent to
Japanese famine nfferert through the
National Ned Croaa. Thlt make 126.
000 aent through till lource.
Troop have been called out to tup
print riot at Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Announcement I made at Cleveland,
Ohio, of an advance of from H to 1 X
cent per gallon by tha Slander 1 Oil In
the price of gavolliit and naphtha
Governor PattUon, of Ohio, It grow
ing worie.
The Chicago beef trust trial Iim been
t for the tecond Monday ln Decem
ber. The Ohio leglilature hat provided for
rommtHHion to ravine the Insurance
law of the state.
Justice Harlan, of the United State
Hupreme court, may resign.
The president 'ear congrett will
take no action on the I'anama canal at
the present teaalon.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, It In the hand
of a mob. A ttreet oar ttrika It the
came of the trouble,
Pretldent Rooaevelt bat again tent
Driatnl't name to the annate for con
firmation at district attorney for Oregon.
DRIVE OUT CASTRO.
Veneula It To Be Opened fo Amer
ican Capital and Enterprlte.
NowYoik. Aprils. Th. Wnrl.it...
day eaya: On of tha lergeit merchant
in new York ald lt night that ar
rangement are being perfected here
and In I'arla for an invaalon of
1111, Which Will annihilate Ca.trn
and oien up th country to American
capital and entetprlae.
A number of rich New York mar.
chant era raid to be Interested ln tha
movement, wblcb, tha protnotert de
cUre, will Involve tha employment of
io.ihiu toiuiert anil I lie eipenditore of
IMOO.OOO in tha campaign under
which President Caatro I to be either
expelled or dratroyed and native Ven
ezuelan ttatettnan it to b liiatalled a
nit tucceaaor.
In- thl connection it I ld that
Caatro, anilcltlng a uccealul revo
lution againit hitu aooner or later, has
converted tome of hi alleged H.000,
000 Into rash and ba tent It to Amer
ica and Franca,
Carlo 11, Fuegerdo, Venrtoelan con
sul In New Vork, said last night at hi
horn that he had beard uch au expe
dition we being organised or being
promoted, but Iia4 been unable to
learn anything definite about It. lie
aid ha tied understood share in tb
schema were being sold.
"I would like to gi-t bold of some of
thoee thaiea," h said, "I w.ll buy
all that are offered."
Tha consul Inquired eagerly as fo the
point th expedition w to nil from.
Tb expedition i to set out toon from
hurfl lo three large eteamahips,
which are already undur contract.
They are to carry about 6,000 volun-
teera, with tba following quantities of
arms and ammunition: Klght thousand
Mauser rina of th Uteat pattern, 24,-
000 round of cartridge, 600 shell, 8
rapid Are guns, H.000 army belt, 1.000
oft! re re' iword, 6,000 olticei' revolv
er, 3, (KM) machetea and aworJs, to
gether with qlher lupplie.
GREAT TRADE WITH MEXICO.
Relations With Republic on tha South
Are Very Clot.
Washington, April 3. A bollet'n Is
sue.) by the department of Commerce
and Labor how that the trade of the
I'nlled Hlals with Mexico in th Bsc)
year Itf06 aggregated in value $112,000,-
000, a compare.! with 131.000,000 in
1816, and 118,000,000 in Itmm ui
Mexico' total import of merchandise,
63 per cent It drawn from tba United
Hut, and of her total export 71 per
cent I at lit to th United (State.
No other country except Canada
draw so large a percentage of it Im
port from tb united mate a doe
Mexico, and no other country except
Cuba tends so large a percentage of it
export to the United Slate a doe
Mexico.
Ktllmste made by American con
sular repeentatlve and other and by
peraon in the United btatea lawlliar
with the aul.iect. the bulletin ear, in-
dicati that fully 11.000,000,000 of
capital from thia country I now Invest
ed In Mexico, Canada and Cuba, of
which about one-half 1 In Mexico.
THREE TRAINS IN A WRECK,
Passenger Train Comet Lett on Top
of High Embankment.
tv.li. it inrll .tPllml In a wreck
on top of an embtukment 30 feet high,
100 persona eecapeo irom injury iu a
.l.... iti.nnw In a colli. ion on
tha Uk Hbore railroad near her to
night.
Two freight, east bound, were tied
up In a rear end collision, with the ca
boose of the train in front, whtrh had
topped to take water, thrown squarely
ecroe the track of train No. S, a west
bound paaeng.fr. Tha mix-up. be
tween the freight bad acarcely occur
red when the passenger bowled along,
striking the overturned caboose.
Th brake were let, but, going at !
inoet mile a minute, the headway
- ..i 1 1,. i vith a crash, the
passenger locomotive Jumped the tiack,
plunging along the tlea, driving the ca
boose ahead. Two Pullmans were tele
coied. but, after tb train had topped.
,i ' . ..i.,.l wlltllv out of the
various cnachee and slid SO feet to the
bottom of the embankment to a place
of safety. Tha wieck took Are and
caused a damig ol iiuu.uuu.
Outbreak Purely Local.
...n Tha tl.llv Tele-
lonuoil, nm - -
graph' Toklo correspondent lay that
Premlor felonl regarded the out
break In Chin Ply "T "ot
Indicative of an antl-forelgn spirit In
.......i. il, mvi.rninir ailthnrt-
tlet. Marqult Rslonjl alto tald Uit
noin japan ami n.n". -
their troop home with reasonable ce
lerity and wnen mai vbb -pi
ded and the negotiation with China
for the opening up of Manchuria were
concluded tha territory would be
thrown open. -
Mlneri Not Long Dead.
Lent, France, April 3. The Inbab
itantt have again been thrown into
. . , 1, ... naln. tfk th lliB
state oi exciw"""'".
covery of eight additional bodies In the
mine where the explosion recently oc
curred. An examination ehowed that
the mlneri had not been dead very
long, deputy nasi iy,
deputies, made a taxational ttate
1 , ',.1.1. u. o .u. IIib nnnmanv
mnnl, iu wii'o" "" ' .
of paying more attention to aaving of
' ' . - ii ..inn no miners.
it propauy voau iu w
Elect Vlquei President.
Ban Jose, Cota Rica, April 8.- Lie
netlado Cleto Gonxalet lqM. ex
mll,tr of finance, w. "V 'd
preddent of the republic of Cota Klca.
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST 1
OFFICIAL CANDIDATE LIST.
Namat at They Will Appear on Pri
mary Ballots at Election.
Halem The follwlng It a Hit of the
Republican and Democratic ctndldatei
fur nomination for senators and repre
sentatives In congress and state ofllceri
aa they will appear on tha official pri
mary ballot:
Republicans; Benator Short term,
Fred W. Mulkey, Multnomah county;
senators, long term, Jonathan Uourne,
Jr., Multnomah county; II. M. Cake,
Multnomah county; Stephen A. Low
ell, Umatilla county; E. L. Smith,
Warco county; E. 8. Wataon, Multno
mah county.
Representative, First district Willis
C. llawley, Marion; Kamuel U. Hous
ton, Washington; Walter L. Tooae,
Marlon. Htcond district, W. R. Kllis,
Umatilla; William J. Lachner, Raker;
John I.. Rand, liaker; (ieorge H. Shep
herd, Multnomah.
Governor Harvey K. Krown, Baker;
T. T. (rr Marions C. A. Johns, Rak
er; Charlea J. Seblbrede, Coot; Jamet
llbycomhe, lienton.
Secretary of state Frank W. Benson,
Douglas; Claud liatch, Salem; Lot L.
Pean-e, Marlon; Frank T. Wrightman,
Marion.
Treasurer John II. Aitkin, Baker;
K. V. Carter. Jackaon; Ralph W. lioyt,
Multnomah; Augustus C. Jennings,
lne; Thomas F. Ryan, Clackamas;
ueorge A. Steel, Cltcksmat.
Supreme judge Robert Eakin,
Union.
Superintendent public inttruction
J. II. Ackerman, Multnomah.
State printer William J. Clarke
Marion; Willie S. Duniway, Multno
mah, J. R. Whitney, Linn. .
Attorney general M. A. Crawford,
Douglas; (ieorge II. Durham, Joseph
ine. Commitsioner of labor O. P. HofI,
Multnomah.
Democrat: Senator long term, John
M. liearin, Multnomah.
Repreeentative, Fint district P. A.
Cochrane, Marlon; Charles V. Gallo
way, Yamhill. Second district, Jame
Harvey Graham, Baker.
Governor George E. Chamberlain,
Multnomah.
StcreUry of state P. if. Sroat, Ma
rion. Treasurer J. D. Matlock, Lane.
Supreme Judge T. G. Ilalley, Uma
tilla. State printer J. Scott Taylor, Kla
math.
Attorney general- Itolwit A. Miller,
Multnomah.
Kac'i one of the above filed the re
quired petition with the atcreta'y of
tate.
The name of Ogleehy Yonng and II
B. Nicholas, Democratic candidate for
Circuit judge in departments 3 and 4
of Multnomah county, will not appear
on the oflicial be) lota. Secretary Dun
bar waa obliged to reject their petitions
for the resson that they were verified
by J..T. Milner, who had not himself
signed the petitions.
Insure Water for Land.
Salem The State I-and board it pre
paring to enforce a rule with regard to
the sale of lands reclaimed under the
Carey act, which will insure the settler
ample supply of water for all land pur
chased. Until recently contract have
been euttred Into for the sale of land be
fore the irrigation canals were complet
ed or exact supply of water available
known. In order that theie may be no
question in future, the board wilt insist
on knowing how much water is availa
ble for each segregation and the number
of acres to be sold will in no instance
be more than the visible aupply of
water will irrigate. .
Furnish Ditch It Completed.
Pendle.on W. J. Furnish announces
that the Furnslh ditch, which it to re
i.;n. m mill .ere. of land in the west
ern end of this county, it finished. Of
this amount of land, lu.uuu acres are
rua.lv for water, and there are at
least 10,000 more w hich can be brought
under the ditch. Thie land la adjoin
ing the big Umatilla reclamation pro
i..... .l,l,.. H, imvurnment now hat in
hand. The Furnish ditch it 30 inilet
in length, while the government canal
will be 22 miles long and will also sup
ply waUr for 20,000 acret.
Seea Danger to Sheep Herda.
THint rinrk The Cunnlmiham Sheep
A Ijind company hat finished shearing.
R, A. Kelsay, a meinner oi me nrm,
reports an exoellent quality ot wool this
season, which ha attributes to the
heavy raint, which washed the fleeces
unusually clean. Mr. Kelsay appre
hends difficulty by the theepmen of
Oregou as a result of the division of
the summer range, and the Invasion by
Washington woolgrowora of Oregon's
territory.
Storing Wool In Heppner Warehoutet
Heppner Wool it beginning to ar
rive at the warehouses here, where it
will be stored until the tales dayt In
the latter part of May and the first of
June. A large crop mill be produced
in thia county thi year, and very little
It being contracted, stockmen prefer
ring to hold until the sales dayt, when
it will be told to the highest bidder.
Cut Timber Illegally.
Prlneville -John Dee and A. R
Eastwood were arraigned before United
States Commissioner M. R. Biggs last
week on a charge of cutting timber on
government land. They were held in
the sum of $50 to appear before the
United Statee grand jury.
SPEAKERS FOR CHAUTAUQUA.
Willamette Valley Director Making
Up Program for Year.
Oregon City The board of directors
of the Willamette Valley Chautauqua
association it preparing tha program
for th 190(1 assembly to be held at
Gladstone next July. Dr. Charlea Ed
ward Locke, who waa in Portland 10
yean ago, but it now pastor of one 'of
the largest Methodist churches in the
United States, at Brooklyn, N. Y., will
be one of the speakers. Captain Jack
Crawford, the famous poet-scoot, hat
been engaged for the coming aetembly,
as bat also Rabbi Leou Harrison, of St.
Lonit, who will be heard in two lec
tures, on "Bhylock" and ' The Glory
and Btama of America."
Professor Mark B. Beal, of the Occi
dental college of oratory, of Los Ange
le, will e the elocutionist this '.year.
Dr. W. C. Sherman, of Sacramento,
who last year bad charge of tha clacs
In Bible atudy, baa been retained for
another year. Other classes will be
conducted a usual in music, domestic
science, United State history, elocu
tion, English literature, physical cul
ture, junior Bible study and a W. C.
T. U. institute.
'The Chautauqua management i in
communication with a great many
other lecturer and entertainer with
whom contracts will be entered into if
possible. Another meeting of the board
of director will be called soon, when
the program will tie completed.
New Rail Lines for Lane.
Eugene Portland, New York and Eu
gene capitalists who recently applied to
the city council for franchise to con
struct a system of street railway! here,
announce that they intend to build an
electric line between Eugene and
Springfield and a eteam railway from
there up McKenxie river to the Blue
river mining district. Length of the
electric line will be four milea. That
of the steam road about 45 milea. The
Willamette river will be bridged at
Eugene, and the line will reach Spring
field op the eastern banki of tbe river.
Cherry Crop Destroyed.
Scappooee Early cherries, with few
exceptions, are killed by the early
frosts. Royal Annea are completely
deetroyed, at well aa eaily pears. Ap
ple, prune and plums are apparently
all in good condition, having been un
injured. Nearly all orchards in this
locality are being spryed this season.
Fruits from the Scappoose district are
not inferior to any in quality, la attest
ed by premiums won at the Lewis and
Clark (xpoeition.
Plan to Supply Court Reports.
Albany The County court will prob
ably order tbe Supreme court reports
44 volumes for ue of the court and
county officials and the Circuit conrt.
An effort may be made at the next ses
sion of the legislature to secure a meas
ure providing that tbe state shall furn
ish the Count? court of each county
with the Oregon reports as statutes and
sessions laws are supplied to county
otliciala and justices of the peace.
New Mill at Scappoose.
Bcappoose The Biace Lumber com
pany is building a sawmill on a tract
bought of Rev. Mr. Brown. The mill
will cut 30,000 feet a day. This makes
five mills within a radius of eight milea
of Scappooee. The new mill will be in
operation in about three weekt.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Club, 6687c; bluestem, 66
68c; red. 6465c; valley, 68c.
Oats No. 1 white feed, $27.60;
gray, $27 per ton.
Barley Feed, $23.!024 per ton;
brewing, $2424.6d; rolled, $24.60
25.60.
Hiy Eastern Oregon timothy,
choice, $1718 per ton; common, $13
(14; valley timothy. $8F; rlover,
$7.608; cheat, $67j grain hay, $7
(38; alfalfa. $12.
Apples $l.602.75 per box.
Vegetables Asparagus, 8c per
pound; cabbage. l42c per pound;
cauliflower, $2.25 per crate; celery,
7590c per doxen; head lettuce, 36
40cperdoxen; onions, 40c per doxen ;
radishes, 20o per doxen; rhubarb, $1
1.2) per box; spinach, $1 per box;
parsley, 26c; turnips, $1(81.25 per
sack; carrota, G570c per sack; beets,
85c($$l per tack.
Onions No. 1, 7090o per sack;
No. 2 nominal.
Potatoe Fancy graded Burbanke,
6060o per hundred; ordinary, nomi
nal; new California. 5 (3 6c per pound;
tweet potatoes, 2'.'.40 per pound.
Butter Fancy cna uery, 2025c per
pound.
Eggs Oregon ranch, 16c per doxen.
Poultry Average old hens, 13(3
14a per pound; (mixed cbL-kena, ISO
13tc; broileri, 25H0c; yonng roost
ers, 1313c; old rotsteri, lll2c;
dressed chickens, l6aio; turkeys,
live, 16 (S 16Wc; turkeys, dressed,
choice, 18(820c; geese, live, 8 8c;
geese, dresBed, 10(81 lcj ducks, 17(3
19c.
Hops Oregon, 1905, choice, 10(3
10 Si oi prime, 8,' Q Oc; medium,
7(8c: olds. 67o.
' Wool Eastern Oregon average best,
15 20c ; valley, 24a26o per pound;
mohair, choice, 2528Hc.
Veal Dreaeed, 3 M a per pound
Beef Dressed balls, So per pound;
cows, 45c; country steers,
Mutton Dressed, fancy, 999o per
pound; ordinary, 45c; lambs, with
pelt on, lOOllc.
Pork Dressed, 68c per pound.
SETTLE ALL POINTS.
Delegates at Algeclrat Conference
Complete Their Work.
Algeciraa, April 2. After prelim
inary session lasting until 6 o'clock
thlt evening, tbe conference on Moroc
can reformt registered a complete ac
cord and appointed a committee to em
body this accord in a formal protocol.
The consumation of tb work in tb
conference was announced in tbe fol
lowing official communication:
"The conference ha terminated it
labors and accord it established npoo
all points. It bat adopted definite
text of the remaining article concern
ing the state bank and customs. Tbe
nal article, regnlating the distribution
of police at porta, was adopted from
the Russian draft. By it Franca will
police fjur porta, Mogador, Saffi, Ma-
gaxsn and Rabat, and Spain two, Te-
tuao and Laracbe. France and Spain
together will police Tangier and Case
Blanca, tubject to an inspector of po
lice. Tbe Dutch delegate announced
that hit government declined to ap
point an officer. Tbe conference bat
appointed a special committee to revise
the text of tbe agreement."
Mr. White, the A meiican delegate, it
of the opinion that tbe result is satis
factory, not only because the immedi
ate future of Morocco is secured, but
because tbe manner of tbe settlement
i satisfactory both to France and Ger
many and remove tbe cause for fric
tion and restores international relations
to normal. Tba principals for wbicb
Ueimany insisted, tbe integrity of Mo
rocco and equal commercial and eco
nomic right there, Mr. White thought
were recognized, while the special posi
tion claimed by France waa also ac
knowledged.
MINERS WIN IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Great Majority Will Get the Advatce
After Brief Shutdown.
Pittsburg, April 2. Pitteburg dele
gate to the Miners' National conven
tion who returned from Indianapolis
today were jubilant over tbe adoption
by the convention of the Perry resolu
tion, wbicb permit the operation of
all mine where the wage scale of 1903
is accepted. While thi action prac
tically meant the disruption, for a
time at leaat, of tbe interstate agree
ment between tbe miners of Weetern
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illi
nois, it also meant that thera will be
no strike of importance in this field,
and that 23,000 ot the 28,000 miners
in the Pittsburg district will continue
to work, with possibly a shutdown to
work off accumulated stock.
Chairman Robbins returned from In
dianapolit today. He it pleased over
tbe result, and taid the conservative
action of tbe miners reflects great ciedit
upon tbey in being willing to depart
from precedents, which have been
against individual settlement in order
that a great strike might be averted
iir. Bobbin aaid that all tbe mines of
tbe Pitteburg district would be in full
operation on Tuesday.
REFUSES TO BE DISMISSED.
Panema Official on Canal Thrown
Out by Police.
Colon, April 2. Henry Burnett,
late assistant manager of the labor and
quarters department, today received a
letter ligned by Chief Engineer StevenB
to R. Bermudex, whom he. wat to su
persede as commissariat at Cristobal.
Bermudex declined to accept tbe letter,
and, on Mr. Burnett's Insisting on his
right to take immediate charge, a squad
of police waa called in and atopped all
deliveries.
Nearly the whole staff of the com
missariat then quit work in sympathy
with Bermudex, but the majority of
them returned to their duties later,
though Chief Clerk Dalgardo and 11
other employe declinrd to resume
work. Tbe taking of stock in the com
mitBariat it now going on. It it not
known why Bermudex, who ie a Pana
man, was superseded.
Owing to the continued drouth. Colon
1 threatened with a water famine.
Would Abandon Many Posts.
Washington, April 2. The abandon
ment of a number of army poet in the
Weet and Southwest in proposed in a
recommendation for the redistribution
of troops prepared by Lieutenant Gen
eral J. C. Bates, chief of staff. It is the
purpose of the general staff to have as
many brigade pots as possible. Two
or three years would be required to
effect the changes. Tbe poet recom
mended for evacuation are Forts Lis-
cum and Davit, Alaska; Ringgold,
Texas; Missoula, Mont.; Xibrara,
Neb., and Reno, Okla.
Censure Dead Captain.
Washington, April 2. Captain John
son, who commanded the ill fated
steamer Valencia, wrecked on Vancouv
er island, it to be severely censured by
the government board that conducted
the recent investigation at Tacoma
Thia board, it it understood, it con
vinced that Johnson displayed lack of
judgment av5 that thire waa every
evidence of poor navigation, in that he
made no calculation for wind or tide
on tbe night he ran aground.
German Colony Mastacred.
Berlin, Aorll 2. A report received
here late Saturday night itatet that a
force of Hottentots surprised a German
colony in Southwest Africa and killed
11 and wounded tlx. No particulars
a.; available.
HILL LINE IN CANADA
Parallels Canadian Pacific From
Winnipeg to Coast.
EXCITING RAIL LAYING CONTEST
New Linkt Will Connect Lines Now
Now Building Branches to
' Great Northern.
St. Panl, April 8. Tbe Pioneer-Preat
today say:
J. J. iiill i to have a twin transcon
tinental road, operation now being
nnder way for the construction of
coast line between Winnipeg and Van
couver. Five hundred mile of th
new line i already in process of con
struction and tbe plan call for a total
of 1.800 mile.
Hitherto it ha been surmised that
Mr. Hill wa building in com action
with tbe Canadian Northern, but thia
it not the case, and an exciting rail
laying contest toon will ttart between
the Great Northern, the Canadian
Northern aud the Grand Trunk Pacific.
Tbe biggeet stretch of line on which
construction it now under way it be
tween Vancouver and Princeton. The
ronte follows along tbe Eraser river,
and, inclining northerly, ttrikea juat
north of the Tulamen tlver. Tbe line
proceeds along the Similkameen valley
in southerly direction, and thence
runt to Midway, B. C, from' which
point a line hat already been built to
Nelson, Grand Forks and Bonner't Fer
ry, where connection is made by Kot
koonok. From there a line it to be
built to Fernie, where there are exten
sive coal deporita. - From Fernie tbe
line will strike across to Winnipeg.
Surveyors are already in the field on
thit section of tbe proposed road and
construction presumably will commence
in a month or more. This will give
the Gieat Northern almost as short a
line as the Canadian Pacific route.
A number of feeder for tbe Canadian
transcontinental line are being built
from point in the United State. One
ia from St. Johns, N. D., to Brandon,
Manitoba; another from Neche, N. D..
to Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, and
the third is irom Hibbing, Minn., to
Koochiching, touching the internation
al bmndary.
PROSPECT BRIGHT IN OHIO.
Six Big Companiea Grant Advance
and Other Will Follow.
Coluxbna, O., April 3. Notwith
standing the expressed determination
of the majority of the Ohio coal operat
ors not to grant an advance in wagea te
their miners, tbe prospect of averting
a protracted etrike in tbe Ohio fields
seems decidedly more hopeful tonight.
President (ireen, of tbe Ohio Mine
workers, who opposed the Perry resolu
tion at the Indianapolis convention au
thorising the signing of contracte with
any operator who will agree to pay tbe
1903 scale, said today that he would
waive hi personal view and conform
to the spirit of the Perry resolution.
Up to the present time six coal com
paniea in Ohio have declared their wil
lingness to pay tbe 1903 scale. These
companies control an annual output of
about 3,000,000 tons, or about one
sixth of the total output of the state.
ACCEPT HARRIMAN'S OFFER.
Red Cross Will Ship Food to Starv
ing Japanese.
New York, April 3. The latest pri
vate advices from Japan show famine
conditions in Sendai and tbe northern
provinces to severe that the New York
State Red Cross l.as determined to raise
not only money but food in this coun
try for tbe relief of the starving Japan
ese. This decision was reached at a
meeting of the Japanese famine com
mittee held tonight.
The committee decided to accept the
offer of E. H. Flarriman, president ot
tbe union Pacific and Southern Pacific
railroads, to transport 2,000 tons from
any of the freight stations on hit sys
tem to the Pacific coast and thence by
Pacific Mail steamships to the Red
Cross of Japan.
Russia May Fight China.
Moscow, April 3. The Rueskoe 81c
vo ha received a eensational telegram
from its correspondent at Harbin, Mai
churia, saying that hostilities are im
minent between the Russian and Chi
nese troops. He. intimates that the
Chinese, influenced by Japanese, are
moving forward; that the situation it
so tense that the Russian demobilixa
tion of troops ba) been stopped and
that General Groidoff, the Russian
commander in chief, has issued in
structloLt to prepare for any eventuali
ties. Must Pay Back Taxes.
Washington, April 3. Tbe Supreme
court of the United State! today de
clared the Michigan railway tax case,
involving the taxes of all the railroads
for several years, against the railroads.
The opinion wai by Justice Brewer.
The case involved the validity of a
Michigan law fixing the tax value of
railroad property on the average value
at which other property it assessed
At this nearly quadrupled the taxes
paid by the railroads, they resitted.
Germany Orders Big Battleship.
Kiel, Germany, April 3. The gov
ernment has placed an order with the
Krupp Germania worka for a battleship
ol 18,000 tont.
HALF MILLION TO STRIKE.
Coal Minert of Whole Nation About
to Suspend Work.
Indianapolis, March 30. The Joint
meetings of the bitnminont coal opera
tort and minert of the central competi
tive district, composed of Western
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illi
nois, and of the Southwestern district,
composed of Missouri, Kansas, Texaa,
Arkansas, Oklahoma and Indian Terri
tory, . laat night reached a final disa
greement on the wage icale to go Into
effect at the expiration ot tbe present
wale on April 1, and the conference! of
tbe central district adjourned line die,
while tbe joint scale committee of tbe
Southwestern district decided to report
a disagreement to the joint conference
of that district today. It it expected
that thil conference will at onoa ad
journ line die without an agreement.
The action of the two conference
will directly canae the suspension of
work aftar Saturday by 178,000 minert
onlesa (ometbing nnforeseen, like sub
mission of the differences to arbitra
tion, should intervene, and indirectly
will affect 206,600 more miners, not
including it effect on 150,000 minert
in the anthracite' deld, who were laat
night ordered to suspend work Monday.
A national convention of the minert
will be held today to decide whether
miner will be allowed to tign tbe ad
vance scale demanded and today re
fused by all operators with a few excep
tions, and to go to work where the ad
vance is offered. Operator employing
25,000 miners in tbe central competi
tive field have openly offered to pay the
advance during tbe joint conference
sessions.
The wage scale of all miners, both
anthracite and bituminous, will expire
Saturday, except those in Tenneeeee
and Alabama, where the scale will ex
pire in September. One national offi
cial of the United Mineworkers said:
"It it a foregone conclusion that all
the miners whose scales expire Satur
day will cease work until officially no
tified by the national and district offi
cers that new contract arrangement
have been made governing their scale.
PROGRAM FOR CONGRESS.
Pan - American Committee Prepare
Subjecta for Action.
Washington, March 39. A program
of subjects to be considered at the Pan-
American congress to be held in Bio
Janiero, Bratil, beginning July 21, waa
agreed on today by tbe committee of tbe
congress baving tbat matter in charge.
of which Secretary Root is chairman.
In addition to Mr. Root the committee
ia made np of the ambassadors from
Brazil and Mexico and tbe minister!
from Chile, the Argentine Republic,
Cuba and Costa Ri a.
The snbj eta include raoitary and
quarantine regulations, nniformity of
patent laws, international recognition
of diplomat of practicians of the learned
profei lions, queetiont affecting commer
cial intercourse and an international
rai'road. .
It it expected tbat wtiat la commonly
krown ai the Drago doctrine, which i
Of posed to the forcible collection of
pi ivate debts by one nation from anoth
er, a do trine adhered to by the United
States, will come np for consideration
in tome form.
IOWA WILL INVESTIGATE.
Legislature Order Inquiry Into Vio
lation of Insurance Law. ; -"
De Moinei, Jowa, March 30. At
result of practically unanimous action
by both houses ot the Iowa legislature
today, an investigation of inturarnce
companh t it to be undertaken in thit
state during tbe present summer, simi
lar to that which wat conducted in New
York lact fall. Tbe resolution which
awaits the governor'!' s gnature pro
vides for the appointment of a commis
sion to irq lire into rumored abuse oi
Iowa insurance lawa by state and East
ern com; a 'lire, to conduct an inquis'
torial investigation whenever in the
commission's opinion it ia desirable,
and report to the legislature of next
year what changes should be made in
the laws to prevent a recurrence of any
abusea tbat may exist. - v
Road Tied Up for Two Weeka.
Los Angeles, March 30. The local
railroad situation resulting from flood
in Southern California and vicinity ii
even worse than ha yet been described.
It is given out from the office of Gener
al Manager Wells, of the Salt Lake
route, that the washouts between Cali
ent e and Las Vegas are so serious tbat
the roadbed cannot be repaired short of
two weeks to admit the passage of
trains. The Southern Pacific also re
ports further trouble today. Another
wasbont has occurred somewhere in the
San Joaquin valley.
Germany Hungry for Islands.
London, Mirch 30. The .London
Timei corn ipondent at Hobart, the
capital of Tasmania, states tbat. accord
ing to reports from the Fiji island,' a
German syndicate, probably backed by
tha German government, ii trying to
secure the ownership of Fanning island,
which will be sold at auction April 17.
It ia feared that the transfer of th
ownership rcay prove a hindrance to
the statioa ot the British Pacific cable
on the island.
Referendum on Statehood.
Washington, March 30 Tbat the
senate and house will reacb a compro
mise agreement on the statehood bill,
which will permit Arixona and New
Mexico each to decide for themselvea
the qnestlon of their admission a on
(tate, aeema a correct tolution Irom
pieauut indication.