CURRENT EVENTS
OF TIIE WEEK
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief:
Gunaral Relume of Important Event
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Reader.
Tom L. Johnson, famous reform
mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, is dead.
Roosevelt visited Sandpoint, Idaho,
where he worked as a cowboy 25 years
go.
Mexican rebels tried to take Zaca
tecas, but were repulsed in a desperate
street fight.
A serious Republican outbreak oc-
curred in Spain and occupation of
Portugal also is threatened.
About 1,000 Portland carpenters
have gone on strike for the closet
shop and $4 per day for 8 hours work
A S. P. train struck a three-ton
boulder on the track in Nevada and
narrowly escaped being thrown into
Donner lake.
Remains of prehistoric giant men
and animals are being unearthed in
cave in California. The bones
bedded in a stratum of sandstone.
A Seattle briekmason was killed
and many others badly shocked by a
30,000-volt wire coming in contact
with the iron cornice of the wall on
which they were at work.
The small wooden steamer Iroquois,
plying along the coast of Vancouver
island, was capsized by a squall and
at least 20 of the passengers anil crew
drowned within a mile of shore and in
plain view of many who were unable
to render assistancj
Rival factions of striking teamsters
fought a battle with revolvers in the
streets of Chicago, but no casualties
are reported. Streetcars filled with
passengers were in the battle rone.
and one man stood behind a car while
he emptied his revolver at the enemy,
Stephen Crawford, candidate for
mavor of Alton, 111., has deposit J
$2,400 in an Alton bank as a pledge of
good faith in case of election to the
office if he fails to close the saloons on
Sunday.
Ralph Smith, a Canadian Liberal,
approves the reciprocity treaty.
More artillery will be sent to
strengthen the defenses of Hawaii.
Mexican rebel chiefs are unanimous
in their demand that Diaz must resign.
PORTLAND MARKETS,
Wheat Track prices: Bluestem,
86c; club, 82c; red Russian, 81c; val
ley. 82c; 40-fold, 93c.
Barley Choice feed, $26.50rt; 27 ton.
Millstuffs Bran, $21 per ton; mid
dlings, $2; 30; shorts, $22.50; rolled
barley, $2829.
Corn Whole, $28; cracked, $230;
28.50 per ton.
Hay Timothy, Eastern Oregon,
No. 1, $2lr21.50; mixed, $16r18;
alfalfa, $12fo 12.50.
Apples Fancy, $20; 2.75 per box,
choice, $112; common, 50c'$l.
Vegetables A sparagus, 6ci 7c per
pound; green onions, 20c per dozen;
hothouse lettuce, $1.25 per box; rad
ishes, 30ft; 35c per dozen; rhubarb,
$1. 25ft; 1.50 per box; sprouts, 9c per
pound; carrots, 85cft$l per hundred;
parsnips, 85cft;$l; turnips, 85cft;$l;
beets, 90cft;$l.
Potatoes Oregon buying price,
$1.35'i 1.00 per huntlred.
Onions Buying price, $2ft; 2. 10 per
hundred.
Hops 1910 crop, njft'lc; 1909
crop, 12ft; 13c; contracts, lCjc.
Wool Eastern Oregon, nominal, 10
(a 14c per pound; valley, 15ft; 17c; mo
hair, choice, 32c per pound delivered
Portland.
Poultry Hens, 21c; broilers, 30c;
turkeys, 21c; ducks, 20ft 23c; geese,
12ft; 14c; dressed turkeys, choice, 23ft
25c.
Eggs Oregon ranch, 20ft 21c dozen.
Butter City creamery, extra, 1 and
2-pound prints, in boxes, 81c per
pound; less than boxes, cartons and
delivery extra.
Pork-Fancy, 10ft lOJc per pound.
Veal Fancy, 85 to 125 pounds, 12
(i 12 Jc per pound.
Cattle -Prime steers, $f).25ft fi.75;
choice, $0ft0.25; good to choice,
$5. 50ft 5.75; fair to good, $tft;5;
common, $4ft;5; prime cows, $4. 75ft;
6; good to choice, $4.50ft;4.75; fair
to good, $4. 25ft; 4.50; poor, 4.25ft;
4.50; choice heifers, $5ft5.25; choice
bulls, $1. 50ft; 4.75; good to choice,
$4.25rti4.50; fair to good, $3.75ft;4;
common, $3ft;3.50; choice light cal
ves, $7. 75ft; 8 ; good to choice, $7.50
C(7.75; fair to medium, $7ft;7.50;
choice heavy, $5. 25ft; 5.50; good to
choice, $5ft;5.25; fair to . medium,
$4. 75ft; 5; choice stags, $5. 25ft; 5.50;
ftood to choice, $4.50ft;5; fair to me
dium, $4ft;4.50.
Hogs Choice, $7. 75ft; 8; good to
choice, $7.50ft;7.75; choice heavy,
$7.25ft;7.50; good to choice, $7ft;7.25;
common, $6.50ft;,7; stock hogs, $jft;
8.25.
Sheep Choice yearling wethers,
grain fed, $4.50ft;5.10; old wethers,
$4ft;4.25; choice ewes, grain fed,
$4ft;4.25; fair to medium ewes, $3ft;
3.50; spring lambs, extra quality,
$10; choice lambs, grain fed, wool,
$5.50ft; 5.75; choice lambs, grain fed,
sheared, $5.25ftv 5.50; good to choice
lambs, grain fed, $.V;5.25; fair to
good lambs, grain fed, $4. 75ft; 5;
culls, $2.50(3 50. i
WORK ON MAINE PROGRESSES.
Caissons Around Battleship Com
pleted Successfully.
Havana, April 11. In the driving
of the last few interlocking steel piles
of the 20 caissons forming the inclos
ing wall of the huge basin or coffer
dam surrounding the wreck of the bat
tleship Maine, the first stage in the
work of removing the shattered re
mains of the warship has been
brought to a successful conclusion.
The work was accomplished with
rapidity, and its progress was un
marked by a single mishap or hitch
until the introduction of the final pile,
which failed to interlock properly
with those on either side.
This gave rise to a rumor that the
stability of the caisson was endanger
el. but ex an i ut on showed the trou
ble resulted from the piles being
slightly deformed by an accidental
blow from the iron bucket of a dredge
working alongside. The extraction
and replacing of three piles served to
repair the damage. The second stage
of the work, that of filling the cais
sons, as fast as completed, with the
mud, clay and rock dr-.-dged from the
harbor bottom, has been going on for
some time, and. now that the ring is
completed, is being pushed forward
with the utmost rapidity. The steam
dredge Norman Davis, lent to the gov
ernment by the Huston-Trumbo Dredg
ing company, and the United States
army dredge Barnard are dumping
hundreds of tons of material into the
caissons.
It is expected that the filling of the
caissons will be completed by the end
of April, and after that the most in
teresting stage of the work that of
pumping out the great basin and leav
ing the -hull of the battleship in pre
cisely the condition she was on the
morning after her destruction 13 years
ago will begin.
As a guaranty of the security of the
retaining wall around the basin, it is
probable that riprap will be dumped
around the exterior of the ellipse of
caissons before the pumping begins.
The wreck itself will have to be
carefully watched as the water level
falls, there being some danger that, as
the support of the water and the mud
in which it rests is withdrawn, the
hull may careen, just as ships have
been known to do in drydock when in
sufficiently secured.
As soon as the wreck is fully ex
posed, the work of exploration in
search of human bodies will take pre
cedence. It is practically certain
that when this stage of the work is
reached, a United States man-of-war
will be ordered to Havanna and will
lie close to the wreck to receive the
bodies as fast as they are recovered,
and transport them to their final rest
ing place. After that will come an
exhausting scrutiny of the shattered
wreck by experts, who, in the opinion
of engineer officers, will be able to
determine beyond all question precise
ly the character of agency by which
the destruction of the Maine was ef
fected. Probably many months will elapse
before the final stage of the work
the extraction and disposition of the
wreck. It is known that the forward
part of the ship, ab-ut one-third of
her length, is practically detached
from the rest, and it is so shattered
it will have to be extracted piecemeal.
When the after part has been strip
ped, so far as possible, of all heavy
weights, including the two turrets.
weighing with their pairs of ten-inch
guns about 200 tons each, it will Im
possible to build a bulkhead across the
shattered end and float the hulk out of
the basin, to be sunk in all probability
hundrels of fathoms deep in the
straits of Florida.
Finally will come the extraction of
the thousands of steel piles composing
the 20 caissons and the dredging of
the material with which they were
filled. This may not be completed be
fore the end of the year.
Sandhogs Unearth Relic.
Portland As the sinking of the
first caisson of the Broadway bridge
continues, "sandhogs" of the Union
Bridge & Construction company are
wagering that in medieval tirneH there
was a sawmill on the waterfront, for
in th;.-ir excavating operations then'
have been unearthed quantities of
slabwood that appears as if it had
been whip-sawed out of logs instead
of being cut by modern steam
saws.
Besides, it is found at a great dis
tance below the river bed, where the
material is hardened more than silt.
Fort Asfor to Be Built.
Astoria, Or. -The Centennial con"
mittee has selected Wednesday, Apr 1
12, the the 100th anniversary of the
naming of Astoria, as the date on
which to break ground in the city
park for the construction of a repro
duction of old rort Astor. A special
program of exercises has been ar
ranged for the occasion and the mayor
nas neen requested to declare a half
holiday. The contract for building
the fort has been awarded for $2,800.
Few Filipinos Go North,
San Francisco Most of the Filipino
laborers who arrived here from Haw
aii on the steamer Korea and who
brought their contracts to work in the
Alaska canneries have decided to re
main in this state, hoping to secure
employment in the interior. A few
of them, however, left for the north
on the Continental and Oriental of the
Alaska Packers' fleet.
Rebels Besiege Canton.
London A special dispatch to the
Daily Express from Hongkong says
that a serious uprising is reported to
have occurred at Canton. It is said
the Tartar general commanding the
troops has been murdered and that
other troops have been hurried to the
city, which is in a state of siege.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND
PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE
FIRE DANGER TOLD.
State Official Takes First Step to
Save Oregon Timber.
Salem Inaugurating the fight
against forest tires in Oregon the
state forester issued has first ultima
turn which he hopes will be reprinted
in every newspaper in the state. U,
W. Elliott is assisting the state for
ester until a deputy is selected.
Offices were opened at the capitol
and the first move taken was toward
warning the people against the danger
of starting forest tires.
In his letter to the people of Oregon
the forester says :
"Forest fires, one of the greatest
sources of destruction to the most val
uable resources or the state, will soon
be restricted and their terrors largely
reduced if the people will eo-opeTate
with the state forester in the minimis
tration of the new forestry law enact
ed by the last legislature, which will
be ready for distribution in pamphlet
form in the near future.
One of the most important provis
ions of the law is that making a closed
season for burning from June I to Oc
tober 1, during which period out-door
tires of all kinds are prohibited except
under most stringent regulations and
the probability of heavy penalties.
"In this connection the state for
ester urges upon everyone the neces
sity of doing all possible burning be
fore the close season begins and thus
save the trouble and risk of doing
it by permission in the season of
greatest danger when tires spread so
easily and rapidly. The state for
ester desires the assistance and co
operation of everyone in the protec
tion ot property Irom forest, grass or
brush fires, and to this end invite
suggestions and information calculat
ed to assist in any. manner in the per
formance of his most important du
ties. Copies of the law will be fur
nished promptly to all who desire
them. Requests and communications
should be addressed 'r. A. Elliott
State Forester, Capitol, Salem,' and
will receive prompt and appreciative
attention.
"As the dry season approaches, tim
ber owners in Oregon are making pre
parations for more effective work than
ever before in preventing damage by
forest fires. said C. S. Chapman,
secretary and manager of the Oregon
r ire association.
One way in which many owners
are preparing for the danger period is
by burning, during this spell of dry
weather, slashings, fern patches and
places where fires can easily be start
ed a little later.
Nothing can be more important
than that such work be taken up while
heavy rains can be counted on coming
to extinguish any smoldering logs or
snags before the dry summer months
arrive. With these places eliminated
and g'Kxl patrols maintained, the state
should, next summer, make an en
viable record."
ONTARIO SCENTS LINE.
Condemnation Suits Pointed
Oregon-Eastern Move.
to as
Ontario That Work is to be com
menced on the extension of the Oregon
Eastern Railroad, known as the liar
riman line, through the Malheur Can
yon to Central Oregon, is evidenced
by the commencement of condemna
tion suits against owners of the Cas
cade' wagon road grant, for right of
way through its lands. The cases
will come up in the April term of
court, when it is expected that a set
tlement will be made.
Surveys on the south side of the
Snake river from the Oregon Short
Line tracks to Homedale show that
the new track will strike the Short
Line near Arcadia, about seven miles
south of Ontario. It is believed tuat
a double track will be laid to the pres
ent line used by the branch road run
ning to Brogan, thus making a double
track from its connection with the
Short Line to Ontario, which will un
doubtedly become the division Kiint.
A coal shute is being built at On
tario large enouirh to bold several cars
, , i i. i . .i i .. i ..
j.o it win ut; uperaiou oy ny-
draulic machinery.
Madras Gets Wool Depot.
Madras Articles of incorporation
have; been filed by a local company
with capital of $15,000 for the pur
jsiso of building a wool warehouse at
this place, construction to begin nt
once. This means that Madras will
hereafter be the fooling point of the
wool for interior Oregon, ami that the
annual sales will be held here. Much
of the wool that has heretofore gone
to Shaniko will now be delivered and
sold at this place.
Government Pays $4,000 for Spring
Oregon City-E. P. Dedman of
Clackamas, has just sold to the Uni
ted States six acres known as the
Cranfiold Spring on which is located
the hatchery belonging to the govern
ment. This sprnig has been owned by
Mr. Dedman since 1881. It has been
leased for the past six years by the
government for hatchery purposes,
anil is considered to be valuable. The
price paid for the spring was $4,000,
Wallowa Plans Stock Show.
Wallowa - Efforts are being ma le
to hold a livestock and poultry show
in Walb-wa this spring. With it will
he an auction day for the exchange of
livestock and farm products and a
general market day may result. May
or Morelock promises to make definite
announcements within a few days.
3TATE CAN'T STOP EXCHANGE
Land Reverts to Government if Irriga
tion is Not Carried Out.
Salem - Having been unable through
state legislation to accomplish the ob
ject. Wellington ti. Howell & Co.,
.luring tho closing hours of the late
congress, succeeded in having a la
enacted by which this company is per
mitted to exchange 8,793 acres of
timber land that it had acquired in a
jchool section at present lying within
a national forest reserve for about
i.fitill acres of land that had been re
served from entry by tho United
States government and which was
awarded to a Portland company under
contract with the state of Oregon to
reclaim under the Carey act.
The interests of the Portland com
pany were afterwards purchased by
Wellington Cm. Howell & Co. The
9.5(10 acres thHt are to be exchanged
for the school lands lie in the Malheur
valley, alamt 20 miles south ami east
of Burns and about 10 miles from
Lake Malheur. The Wellington in
terests acquired the schiHil base, which
they exchanged for the arid lands in
Malheur county, through purchase,
not getting it directly, from the state.
For it they paid from $1.25 to $2.50
an acre. There are various estimates
as to the value of the Malheur valley
tract, though it is the opinion of State
Engineer Lewis that it cannot success
fully be irigated. It was the plan of
the Portland company to irrigate by
sinking wells, but no Work was ever
done by that company.
FRUIT PEST SQUAD STARTS.
Many Important Points to Have O.
A. C. Stations.
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
vallis A general siege against fruit
pests of every description is now be
ing arranged by the experts of this
college. Within the next week or
two six men will be employed to go to
various sections of the state and take
up this work.
This general fight against the pests
of fruit crops was authorized by the
last legislature at the investigation of
the fruitgrowers of the state. It will
be carried on entirely under the di
rection of the departments of plant
pathology, entomology and horticul
ture of this institution. Headquarters
will be established in the various fruit
sections of the state. It has already
been decided to establish one at Salem,
and others will probably be located
at Koseburg, Portland, Eugene and
possibly Milton. The work, however,
will all be directii from the college.
The details have not been deter
mined ution, but are now being care
fully worked out. The plans will
probably be completed within the next
week or two. Professors Cordlcy,
Lewis and Jackson, who have general
charge of the work, are confident that
it will result in saving many thou
sands of dollars to the fruit growers.
Vale Reads Riot Act.
Vale - Much perturbed over delays
and various complications in the new
water system being constructed at an
expense of slightly over $ ' (Ml, mm and
begun nine months ago, the Vale city
officials have given the American
Light & Water company, of Kansas
City, until May 1 to put tho system in
working shape. The firm is under
$100,000 l,nds. A telegram has been
sent City Engineer W. P. Bullock at
Kansas City to send all maps, plans
ami contracts of the system. Bullnrk
is drawing pay for supervising the
work, but has not been here since it
started and the council is debating
whether to dispense with his services.
When Engineer Oakes was apointed
by the council a few weeks ago to look
over toe system and locate itie source
of trouble, no maps, plans or contracts
could be found. Since then the lionds
of the contractors have been located
ut other valuable papers are still
missing.
Prepare for New Railroad.
Nyssa The unloading of several
carloads of material at Nvssa the oast
week by the Oregon Short Line indi-
ttes that no time is to be lost in Un
building of the Nyssa-Homedalo ex
tension. The material consisted
mostly of lumber for the erection 'if
headquarters for the engineer ard his
crew. Engineer Ashton has been to
Nyssa several times the past week to
start the crews on the surveys. Con
tracts will be let this month.
Work Begins on Bridge.
Madras Work has commenced on
the foundations for the big Harrimnn
bridge across Willow creek gorge tin
the western edge of town. Large
quantities of materials - cement, etc.,
a concrete mixer, donkey engine and
equipment are already on the ground,
while the excavation for the concrete
bases for the four steel towers that
are to support the bridge is being
done.
Wheat Helped By Snow.
Condon Condon was visited by a
snow of about two inches Monday
night and people were jubilant over it
because of the big benefit to the farm
ers who have grain sown. Not enough
can bo said of the benefits derived
from snow falling this time of the
year on ground that is planted to
grain, as it receives nearly every bit
of moisture in that form.
Will Irrigate 1,000 Acre.
Ontario The Ontario Townsite com
pany has ordered the machinery, mo
tors and pumps, costing over $8,000,
to irrigate 1,000 acres of land adjoin
ing town. The work will be com
pleted this spring.
COLLIERY FIRE KILLS FIFTY
Men Cut Off Like Rats In Blind
Tunnel.
Scranton. Pa.- Fifty men (and loy
are believed to have .erihh.d without
u moment's warning Saturday i"
mine lire in the Piineoasl colliery
at
Throon. three miles from here.
Some
estimates place the number of dead at
tit). Three bodies have been recov
ered. John Evans, head of the United
States rescue car, died from suffoca
tion resulting from a defective rescue
helmet.
Three men protected by helmets and
oxygen tanks pushed past tho l'int
where the flames were first discovered
at 5 o'clock in tho afternoon and
stumbled over tin- bodies of two men
and tKy, who had evidenly fallen
while groping their way to safety.
A majority of the missing men and
Isiya are foreigners, but two Ameri
cans Foreman Walter Knight and
Fire Boss Alfred Dawe are thought
to have perished.
The fire start. d in an engine house
at the tqiening of a slope leading from
the Diamond vein, 750 feet from the
surface. There were 4m men in the
mine, about lio of them at work in a
"blind" tunnel at the end of the
slope. Escape was coiupctcly blocked
by fire, smoke and the generated
gases. The other men, scattered in
other workings, got out.
James Vii kers. a lire Ihiss, who '
near the engine house when the tire
broke out, gave the alarm, and tried
to get to the tunnel where he knew a
body of men was at work. lie could
go only a short distance before be was
forced to turn back. He was so ex
hausted that he had to be carried to the
surface, lie gave it as his opinion
that no man could live live minutes in
the tunnel.
ti w:iu Ticira by
TAIIITIA.N IIKKB KXTKACT
San Francisco Having spent four
years in Tahiti as chief surgism in the
colonial army. Dr. L. Bellonne was n
passenger on the steamer Miri
which arrived here Saturday. As a
bacteriologist. Dr. Bellonne sail) he
made imMirtant discoveries which will
be of great moment to the medical
world when they are disclosed by his
rert to the French government ut
Paris. W hile unwilling to discuss in
detail his important medical discov
ery, he intimated that he had found a
cure for tuberculosis in the form of a
comisuind from a herb found only on
the island of Tahiti.
ALL SAVED GROM LINER.
Cabin Passengers Given Precedence
to Steerage Folk.
I-one Hill, L. I., Life Saving Sta
tion The 1,720 cabin and steerage
passengers on the stranded North (Icr
man Lloyd liner i'rinzess Irene were
transferred to the deck of the Prin
Fricdrieh Wilhelni in five hours and
ten minutes Saturday afternoon and
one hour after night fall they were on
their way to New York. The f.-at is
unparalleled in the history of marine
disasters.
Not a life whs losf, not n rase of
panic was nqsirted. The lir-t pas
senger off was a woman and the sec
ond a baby. The cabin passengers,
masters of the situation and the lang
uage, generously gave precedence to
the more timorous steerage pas
sengers. As for the liner on the bar, night
fall showed her hard and fast in the
girp of the sands, and Captain (lod
dard, of the I,ono Hill Life Saving
station, estimates she will be held
prisoner at least a week, perhaps a
fortnight.
In the 31', hours since she struck she
has been favored by comparatively
light weather, but a stiff blow from
the southwest might open her plates,
crush in her bulkheads and wrench
apart her stout steel frame.
Germ Not Disease Cau.
ndleton, Or. All theories of
Pe
modern medicine wire coritri.dicf.-d
Friday night by Bey. Mr. Vande
walker, and n retired physician, here,
who asserted that germs and bacteria
Were not the cause of disease, but
were rather the prisliict. This state
ment was made at th regular meet
ing of the Pendleton City and County
Medical society. Despite the 'inter
esting manner in which Dr. Vamle
walker elaborated his theories for dis
cussion, the physicians present ilid not
indorse ins views.
Tunnel Bill is Passed.
I'enver 1 lie house, by a Vote of ,'!,r
ayes to .!( nays passisl the Moffat tun
nel bill. The measure now goes to
mo senate, i ne phi authorize the
stale to issue bonds to the amount of
$1,000,000 to be uh. in tho corstruc
tion of a tunnel through the Kocky
Mountain range at James peak. The
tunnell will bo used by the Denver
Northwestern & Pacific. The road
is to put up a bond guaranteeing U,.
state against loss.
Unions FiRhl Guard Laws.
Helena, Mont. - - Lalsir unions of
Montana will begin Monday to circu
late petitions calling for a referendum
election to determine whether the mil
itary law enacted at the last session
shall remain on the statute bispks
The law puts the national guard on
tho Tooting required by the' Federal
authorities. It will bo the first time
the referendum has been invoked since
it was made four years ago.
MEXICO MADE
SECRET PACI
Had Granted Coaling Station
on Coast.
American Envoy Discovert Document
Photographs It, and Hurries to
Washington With Copy,
Mexico City, April 10. Preside
Taft gave President Dim of Meiice
six tluys to abrogate a treaty be it
said to have made with Japan.
The hidden treaty was discovert!
Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson, who
photographed it, returned the original,
and proceeded xst haste to Washing,
ton to inform the State department
The treaty is said to hsve contained,
clauses that gave Japan coaling it,
tion privileges and other big conrn.
sions on the coast of Mexico, including
the right to use Mugdulcna Hay fur
target practice.
Tuft's order mobilizing tnsqis t
the border followed promptly.
These are startling disclosures mad
here by an apparently authentic nourr
today and which, as recited in narra
tive form, are given as the mint, of
the hurry order that rush.sl 2H,00()
troops to the border. The rclationi
remrtis to have existed between Mel
ico and Japan are said to have prevail
isl prior to March 1 .
Ambassador Wilson, of the I'niM
State", so the story goes, had twra
mini many months ago to feel tint
strong antipathy of Mexicans of all
classes was shown toward the I'riitn)
States. In the celebration in honor tif
the foundation of the republic, whin
rniiny Japanese of high rank ntnie ai
sM-ciiil ambassadors from their country
to the Mexican capital, the amtiaua
dor noticed that there had been priv
ate audiences between Diax and a few
of his more influential mininters arid
the Japanese delegates.
To Ambassador Wilson it was re
lirt.s that for H months every ship
of the Toyo Kisen Kaisha, who port
is Snn Francisco, were carrying from
LIU to l.'ii) Japanese, pas.sage paid, be
side cargoes of agricultural machin
ery, household good and general
stores. At San Francisco these Jap
snese were t rulilii pss to steamers
of the Pacific Mail line plying be
tween San Francisco and Mexican
srts.
In February Ambassador Wiltus
was busy cultivating every source of
information in the higher circles of
the Mexican government. Very near
the end of the mouth, from a certain
source in the government, Mr. Wilson,
it is said, obtHimsl fur a few noun
the orignal of a secret treaty helwwn
Japan and Mexco. He kept it lorf
enough to have photograph made of
it. Then it was returmsl to its pile
in the innermost archives of the Mcx
can state department.
The document, the rcjmrt here In
dicates, was in the s)ish of several
clauses which Were to be a part of
formal agreement on the part of the
Mexican govement to allow the Jap
anese rommercial lino of steamships
to have its own coaling station St a
point on the Pacific co:it and to grant
certain other colonization rights in
states along the Western coast.
The secret clauses of the tr.-aty.
tli'".i' said to have been photographed
by Mr. Wilson, the r-ort continue,
gave Japan a lease of a coaling illa
tion and maneuver pivileges in Mstf
d.d. na bay, with the alternative of
coaling Btat ion atone other of S few
scattered orts down the Mexican
coast.
Clauses also set forth Japan and
Mexico's mutual interests in the Pa
cific, and while not stipulating sn
olleiisive and defensive alliance, ga
in a diplomatic way Japan's keen in
terest in the protection of Mexico
lu'ainst aggression. The treaty hail
been ratified, not by the Mexican sen
ate, but by Diaz and his cabinet.
The ilny after he obtained the phi"
tograph of thin treaty, Mr. Wilson
left for Wa hingtori.
Balloon Falls 4.000 Feet.
St. Louis A balloon ascension her
by f. nir members nf the Signal corps
of the F irst regiment. National guard
of Missouri, terminated in an accident
when the aerostat r-prung a leak iind
dropped like a plummet from an ele
vation of 4,001) feet. Lieutenants
Drew and Hart nml Serjeant ll.sik-
man and Oberrneyer, who comprised
the aeronautic party, saved themselves
after colliding with the smokestack ut
a tobacco factory less than three miles
from the starting mint, by duinpiiit
all their ballast overboard.
Filipino Laborers Released.
Honolulu The territorial Suprems
court released on a writ of habeas
corpus 1.1 Filipino laliorcra who were
taken from the steamer Korea befol
her departure for San Francisco. In
ifs decision the court severtdy censur
ed the action of the prosecution, r'P"
resented by the planters' attorneys,
in preventing F. It. Craig, counsel ff
the Alaska Packers, from seeing ths
Filipinos and in confining them in jail
when no charge had been preferred.
200 Persona Die In Fire.
Pombay, Ilritish India Two hun
dred men, women and children wers
burned to death in a Urn which d'w
stroyed a thatched structure in which
liey had gathered for a festival. '
hundred persona were In tlm buildi"fr
There was only one exit and a psnie
ensued.