The Oregon mist., April 28, 1911, Image 2

CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Briet
Gunsral Return of Important Event
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.
Old line senators plan to block re
vision of the tariff.
The truce in Mexico will be extend
ed to all disputed territory and is not
limited in duration.
Civil service employes of Seattle
have formed an organization for mu
tual protection and support.
"Caesar's Head," which forms the
top of a high mountain in North Caro
lina, was overturned by an earthquake.
A woman wearing a gold anklet has
appeared on the streets of Seattle, but
she refused to be interviewed rearding
it.
'The British house of commons re
fused to give the house of lords an op
portuity to veto the Irish home rule
bill.
Western miners are raising funds
for the defense of the men arrested
for dynamiting the Los Angeles
Times.
Twenty-two Americans are en
tombed by an explosion in a West Vir
ginia mine and there is little hope for
their rescue.
Out of 70 alligator eggs received
from Florida by a Portland dealer in
birds and animals, 56 have been suc
cessfully hatched.
Henry E. Huntington, of Los Angel
es, has purchased the Gutenberg bi
ble, the first book ever printed from
movable type, for $50,000.
Gross earnings of all United States
railroads so far reported for the first
half of April, 1911, show an increase
over the same period last year.
Detectives declare there is no doubt
that the three men arrsted in the
East will be identified as the ones who
bought giant powder from the works
near San Francisco just before the de
struction of the Los Angeles Times
office.
An investigation has been ordered
of the Alaskan coal land deal.
Reports of poor wheat prospects in
foreign countries is sending up the
price.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Track prices: Bluestem,
89ft 90c; club, 85fri86c; red Russian,
84c; valley, 85; 40-fold, 85Y(i.86c
Barley Choice feed, $27.50(ij28 per
ton.
Millstuffs Bran, $23.50fi24 per
ton; middlings, $31; shorts, $2o.50;
rolled barley, $29Cir.30.
Corn Whole, $28; cracked, $29
per ton.
Oats No. 1 white, $29rS 29.50 ton.
Hay Timothy, Eastern Oregon, No.
1, $21; mixed, $166; 18 ; alfalfa, $13
frt,15; clover, $11.50(0,12.50; grain
hay, $13ril5.
Apples Fancy, $2'7i2.50; choice,
$ Id; 1.50; common, 75c'$l per box.
Vegetables Asparagus, $1.50i;2.50
per crate; garlic, 10fnl2c; lettuce,
60c per dozen; hothouse lettuce, $1.25
(tt 1.50 per box; rhubarb, (n 1.25 per
box; sprouts, 9c; carrots, 85cfti$l per
hundred; parsnips, 85c(U$l; turnips,
85cfti$l; beets, 90Ca$l.
Potatoes Oregon, jobbing price,
$2.25 per hundred.
Onions Jobbing prices: Oregon,
$3.50 per hundred; Australian, $4.
Poultry Hens, 20c; broilers, 30c;
turkeys, 22c; ducks, 20c; geese, 12c;
dressed turkeys, choice, 25c.
Egg9 Oregon, ranch, candled, 20c
per dozen; case count, 19c.
Veal Fancy, 85 to 125 pounds, 11
(n 12c per pound.
Butter City creamery extra, 1 and
2-pound prints, in boxes, 26c per
pound; less than box lots, cartons and
delivery extra.
Pork Fancy, IO't IOJc per pound.
Spring Iambs 10r; lie per pound.
Hops 1910 crop, 19w20c; 1909
crop, 13f;14c; contracts, 17c.
Wool Eastern Oregon, nominal, 10
ti 14c per pound, according to shrink
age; valley, 14"'i 15c; mohair, choice,
35c per pound delivered at Portand.
Cattle Prime steers, $6.75(7;
choice, $6.256.50; good to choice,
$5.75w6; fair to good, $5.50tf;5.75;
common, $4,750; 5; prime cows, $5.50
(i; good to choice, $55.25; fair to
good, $4.75fa,5; poor, $4v;4.50;
choice heifers, $5.50ft;5.75; choice
bulls, $4.76Vrt5; good to choice, $4.50
ft 4.75. ; choice light calves, $8,506;
8.75; good to choice, $868.50; fair
to medium, $7,506; 8; choice heavy
calves, $5,506(6; fair to medium,
$4,7565; choice stags, $5.250j,5.50;
good to choice, $4. 506;, 5; fair to me
dium, $46; 4.50.
Hogs Choice, $7(f7.25; good to
choice, $6,5066.75; choice heavy,
$6. 750 7; good to choice heavy, $64
6.50; common, $56; 6; stock hogs,
$7,5067.75.
Sheep Grain-fed wethers, heavy,
$4.506; 5; choice young, grain-fed, $5
615.25; old wethers, $464.50; good
to choice shorn wethers, $4,2564.50;
choice ewes, grain-fed, $4,5064.75;
fair to medium ewes, $3,7564; good
to choice shorn ewes, $3,7564; choice
wool lambs, grain-fed, $5,2565.50;
choice shorn lambs, grain-fed, $5. 2 V,
6.40; good to choice shorn lambs,
grain-fed, $565.25; fair to good
lambs, grain-fed, $4.75(5.25; culls,
I2.506j3.50. I
REVOLT NEARLY OVER.
Mexican Insurrectos Agree to Armis
tice With Government.
El Paso. Tex.. April 25. Members
of the peace commission last night de
clared that the revolution in Mexico is
as good as ended. General Madero
agreed to an armistice, providing the
government would arrest all military
operations, and a favorable reply from
the Citv of Mexico is regarded as a
foregone conclusion.
Amid the cooing of the peace dove
General Navarro, from the forest of
his erav whiskers, smiled a benevo
lent smile, and in advance of official
orders released the three American
prisoners. Blatt. Converse and Brown,
from the Juarez jail, where they have
been confined for eight weeks for par
ticipating in the revolution.
The peace mission met with General
Madero in a small house just across
the river from the smelter and Gen
eral Madero repeated to them his
statement, earlier given to the Asso
ciated Press, that he does not insist
upon the resignation of President
Diss as essential to negotiations for
peace. Thus the keystone of the arch
of opposition to end the revolution
dropped from its place.
General Madero said that all he
will insist upon, in addition to the re
forms already instituted, is that the
people of Mexico shall have a square
deal, as provided in the constitution.
Members of the commission re
turned to El Paso highly elated. The
details of their interview with the
rebel comamnder were not given out,
but it is known that many facts hith
erto unknown to General Madero were
poured into his attentive ears. He
has, it is said, been in almost com
plete ignorance of what was going on
in the outside world for more that a
month.
While every indication points to
peace tonight, there is, of course,
room for some unforeseen slip to occur.
There is no obstacle in sight at pres
ent, however.
Tomorrow it is expected a modus
operandi will be discussed and possibly
adopted.
FILIPINOS GIVE INVITATION.
They Offer to Show Congress Fit
ness for Independence.
Washington Speaker Champ Clark
and other Democrats of the house of I
represenatives who have taken inter
est in the Philippines were invited by
Commissioner Manuel L. Queson to
visit the islands as guests of the Fili
pinos. The invitations were extended
by direction of the Philippine assem
bly. A cablegram received by Mr.
Queson from Sergio Osmena, speaker
of the assembly, was as follows:
"If Speaker Clark and other con
gressmen will come to the Philippines
we will not only show them that our
hospitality goes hand in hand with our
high aspirations for freedom, but will
give the American people an oppor
tunity to learn the fitness of the Fili
pino for independence. In giving the
Filipinos their independence the Am
erican people will be complying with
the sacred duties they have assumed
before the world and the Philippines.
Such action will prompt the eternal
gratitude of the Filipinos toward Am
erica, in whose justice we still have
confidence. Invite them. "
WILL ECLIPSE ALL RECORDS.
Portland Festival Committee Prepares
for Immense Crowds.
Portland, Or. Portland is prepar
ing to entertain fullv 250,000 visit
ors during the Rose Festival, June 5
to 10. This year has surpassed all
others in the number of inquiries re
garding rates and accommodations for
the Festival, as well as concerining
the program of events for the week.
A thorough canvass is being made of
the hotels and lodging houses and the
announcement is made that Portland
will be amply able to house and enter
tain this enormous number of strang
ers for the celebration. Several large
parties of Eastern pleasure Beckers
have already made arrangements to
come here and spend the entire week.
Some of these excursionists come from
as far as New England
Mental Workers Exempt.
Olympia, Wash. Only those who
perform manual labor come under the
provisions of the eight-hour law in so
far as it applies to the state of Wash
ington and all its legal sub-taxing dis
tricts, holds Assistant Attorney Gene
ral Lyle, in reply to a query propound
ed by State Labor Commissioner Hub
bard. It does not apply to clerks, sten
ographers, or office help, or to guards,
watchmen, nurses, attendants or fore
men at the state institutions, but
is for those whose occupations demand
physical rather than mental exertion.
Oregon System Adopted.
St. Paul Governor Eberhard has
signed the Keefe bill, providing for
the nomination of United States sen
ators by the direct vote of the people.
The measure provides that each candi
date to the legislature Bhall take a
pedge to support the senatorial candi
date receiving the popular indorse
ment, or sign another pledge declaring
his unwillingness to do so. In 1912 a
senator is to be elected to succeed
Knute Nelson.
Train Falls Into Gorge.
Cape Town, South Africa Twenty
persons were killed when a passenger
train on the Kowiera railroad plunged
into a rocky gorge 250 feet deep, ow
ing to the collapse of the Blaauw
kranU bridge, 13 miles from Graham
town. Their bodies were torn to
pieces and inextricably mixed with
the debris of the cars, which were
ground to splinters.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND
PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE
AMENT DAM IS RUSHED.
Lower Rogue River Valley May
Water This Season.
Get
Grants Pass Work is rushed on the
Ament dam preparatory to furnishing
water for this season in the lower part
of Rogue river valley. Eleven hun
dred barrels of cement nave been or
dered and a large concrete mixer w
be delivered at the works this week
This machine has a capacity of 30
cubic yards a day.
A professional diver has been em
ployed to -search the river bed for the
big pump that went down stream in
the flood last winter and was lodged
in a deep hole just below the dam site.
The fishway put in recently by the
state is said to be a hindrance to
building a cofferdam in the progress
of the work under way.
There was at first some doubt about
delivery of water this year to the
farmers but it is now believed that
all obstacles have been overcome and
that the work will be completed sufli
ciently to pump water to the High
land ditches on each side of Rogue
river. This will mean that the dis
tricts of Fruitdale on the south and
the territory lying in the valley north
east of town will be supplied.
OREGON LEADS IN MOHAIR.
Industry Started In 1807 Now One of
Most Important.
Portland "The Angora Goat and
Mohair Industry of the Pacific North'
west" is the title of book recently
issued by Alva L. McDonald, secretary
of the Northwest Angora Goat associ
tion. It contains the full report of
the convention of the association
which was held in Fjrtland in connec
tion with that of the woolgrowers in
January last, and much valuable in
formation relative to the industry, in
eluding a historical sketch of its
growth. The first Angora goats
brought to Oregon were imported by
A. Cantral from California about 1867,
according to ttlis publication. Oregon
is now first it is stated in the number
of Angora goats and the production of
mohair in the United States. The
value of the annual clip approximates
$50,000. The value of the yearly in
crease is approximated at $400,000.
Oregon mohair commands the highest
market price.
WILL HAVE MONSTER PARADE.
Portland Rose Festival Pageant
W.ll
Break All Records.
Portland The novel street spec
tacle called the "Shower of Rosea'
which is to be a part of the next Port
land Rose Festival in the week of
June 5-10, will cover more than 50
city blocks or nearly three miles in
the central business district of the
city. While the train of six cars is
moving through the main thorough
fares, the 100 young women and girls
in white will keep up continuous
bombardment of roses, showering
them upon spectators along the way,
Specially adapted cars will be used in
this train so that the thrilling spec
tacle can better be observed from the
street. Heretofore closed cars have
been used and the fair rose throwers
have labored under a handicap and
part of the beauty of the spectacle
has been lost.
Olcott Assumes His Duties
Salem Ben W. Olcott was sworn in
Monday morning as secretary of state
to succeed Frank W. Benson and
shortly afterward took charge of the
office. At noon the first full board
meeting of the new administration
was held, when Governor West, State
Treasurer Kay and Secretary Olcott
met to consider minor details of the
plan Governor West has been father
ing in using tne laDor at me state in
stitutions.
"I will devote my time to learning
the details of the office and not to hir
ing or discharging employes," said
Secretary Olcott. "Whether changes
will come in the future is for future
to say as at present l am endeavoring
to loam the business of the office.
"Now that Ihave received the ap
pointment I desire to confirm the re
port that the state board will work in
harmony so far as 1 am concerned.
I view the state of Oregon ns a large
business proposition. If private busi
ness cannot be conducted successfully
wnere harmony does not exist, no
more can public business"
Klamath Owners Instructed.
Klamath Falls Director F. H.
Newell, of the United States reclama
tion service, has sent a circular letter
to land owners of the Upper Klamath
subproject setting forth what they
will have to do to to get that part of
the great Klamath project completed
and estimating the probable cost. He
declares that owners of the land must
sign an ironclad contract to pay all
costs, regardless of what they may be.
The letter is in response to inquiries.
Fraternal Orders Will Participate.
Portland Every fraternal organiz
ation and secret society in the city is
planning to have representation In
the big demonstration which is to be
held on one of the evenings of the
forthcoming Rose Festival, June 5-10,
in this city. Scores of these bodies
which have uniform rank and trained
drill teams will be found in the line
of march.
Albany College Gets 5 000 Gift.
Albany News of another good do
nation to the endowment fund of Al
bany College has reached here. The
donor was Ellen S. James, of New
York, and the gift $5,000.
FOREST FACTS GIVEN.
State Official Distributes Literature
Urging Precautions.
Salem As an additional inducement
to the people of the state in taking
steps toward the prevention of forest
fires. State Forester Elliott has pre
pared some facts concerning Oregon
forests which will be distributed in
connection with the digest of the new
forestry law. He says :
"Oregon has one-fifth of the stand
ing timber of the United States, or
about 500,000,000.000 feet.
"This timber is worth on the stump
not less than $600,000,000, and if
manufactured will bring in over $6,
000,000.000 of outside money. It will
either be manufactured or destroyed
by fire.
"Oregon a forests already distnouie
more wealth in the state than, apples,
fish, wool and wheat combined. Cut
tin has hardly begun. Of the rev
enue received from our lumber 80 per
cent goes for labor and supplies.
"Last year approximately 1,750
000.000 feet of timber was killed by
fire, representing a value of not less
than $2,000,000 in stumpage alone,
Over 1,000,000,000 feet of the timber
killed was on private lands outside
National forests.
"Six human lives were lost in this
state last summer through forest fires,
the homes of many settlers burned and
livestock on the range destroyed.
"Timber owners are spending each
year for fire protectiona bout $130,000,
the Federal government siiends for pa
trol $150,000, and under this law the
state has at its command for the pro
tection of its forests $60,000 for the
next two years.
"Oregon's timbered area is approx
imately 25,000,000 acres. Of this
amount one-half is patrolled by the
Federal government, the rest must be
looked after by the statu and the pri
vate owner."
BEAVER SLOUGH DRAINED.
Six Thousand Acres Along the Co
quill Redeemed at $11 Average.
Marshfteld A big advanceent of the
agricultural interests of Coos bay has
leen achieved in the completion of
two drainage districts in the Coquille
valley near Coquille, the county seat.
One is the Beaver slough drainage
district and the other is the Fat Elk
district In the two districts 6,000
acres of land, formerly waste, has
been converted into some of the rich
est land in the county. In one case
the cost of drainage was $13.40 an
acre and in the oher xs.bu an acre.
The land, for years regarded as no
good whatever, is now worth $100 an
acre, and will yield enormously any
thing in the way of grass, hay, oats,
potatoes, cabbages and other vegeta
bles. The land was covered with
thick willows and marsh grass and
covered most of the year with water.
The brush is being cleared away and
by a system of drainage ditches the
water has been removed so that the
land can be tilled. With land held
for about $100 an acre, in order to
clear it and get it ready for the plow
the cost would be from $.'10 to $40 an
acre, and thus to make a home on the
land would cost about $150 an acre,
but in some crops the land will almost
pay for itself in one year. It is ex
pected the drainage work will result
in settlement of much of this land.
New Madras Warehouse.
Madras Work has commenced on
the new wool warehouse in the Oregon
Trunk yurda at this place by the Ker
rick Construction company, which is
to have the building completed by
May 10. The building will be 60x150
feet inside, with an eight-foot covered
porch on each side full length. Work
s also being done on the new brick
hotel, by the Bentley Conn trurt ion
company, of Portland. The excavnt-
ng is finished anil brick, sand and ce
ment are being put on the ground. It
s expected to complete the hotel by
August at the latest.
Redmond Fruit Not Injured.
Redmond The recent cold nights in
this section have not hurt the fruit to
any extent, say the orchardists. On
April 10 this section was visited by a
snow storm of about half an hour's
duration, but no ill effects were no
ticed in the orchards. A large acre
age or rruits has been set out this
year. Market gardeners in the Red
mond district have hail their irarden
truck on the market for the past two
weeks, and flowers are in bloom.
Farmers' Union Will Meet.
Helix Helix and Holdman locals
of the Farmers' Educational and Co
operative union of America will hold a
loint meeting here May 6. The affair
will last the greater part of the day
and one of the features will be a noon
time feast. Prominent members of
the union from all parts of the county
are expected.
Grain Is In Fine Condition.
Weston Growing grain is reported
to be in first class condition by Wes
ton farmers. Fall wheat has attained
a height of eight inches or more and is
stooling nicely. The fields this season
are unusually free from weeds.
Milton Fruit Outlook Good.
Milton This section will have a
good crop of peaches, cherries, pears
and apples, despite the cold weather
of last week. It develops that few
orchards were damaged to the extent
they at first feared.
ALASKAN STEAL WAS GREAT.
Coal, Harbors and Transportation In
Grip of Combine.
Washington It looks now like the
Morgan-Guggenheim Alaska syndicate
n wmvw .
of thexteutiveonhr Bigntnt Octolwr
. ... 1 .... T..1 uli,4.
28 last, in whicn iresiueni, .
jnatcd 12.800 acres from the Chugach
national forest, on the southern coa.t
of Alaska, and restored them to entry.
These lands had been withdrawn by
President Roosevelt, and lie along the
waterfront of Controller bay 1'
0 miles from the Bering coal fields
wherein lie the celebrated Cunning,
ham coal claims. Already the Mor-gan-Guggenheim
interest were in
i n..rlv !! other harbors
along the southern coast -the termin
als of the Copper river and North
western railway at Cordova bay and at
Resurrection bay, wnere i --
Northern, formerly the Alaska I en
The syndicate
also" had the hartwr facilities at i"K-
way of the Yi hfte rasa aim u.u.i.
which road it controls. Only one har
bor remained as the hope of the eo
ple that some independent railway in
terest might gain entrance into Alas
ka, and that was Controller bay. a
few miles to the east from Cordova
bay. m .
R. S. Ryan, president of the Con
troller Railway & Navigation cmpany,
was the lobbyist who apparently
"put it over" for the Morgan-Guggenheim
interests. He spent aUmt two
years lobbying for the elimination of
the lands of the Chugach forest, which
bordered ujion Controller bay and
which could not be located under any
public land law unless eliminated from
the national forest. Working with
Ryan, apparently, was former .Secre
tary Ballinger.
When the matter first came up, the
forest service prepared to eliminate
i-m ......... ,m.I . rs I . ra mt tit do.
, 1 .III. HIIW -
These finally landed in the hands of
Hullinger, who alone was consume iy
the president in further negotiations
for elimination of the land in ques
tion. The order was signed in Octo
ber and although for 12.K00 acres, no
one seems to have known of it except
ing those most deeply interested as
workers for control by the syndicate,
for when information uf the elimina
tion of the lands, and their location,
probably with soldiers' additional
scrip, by friends of the syndicate,
flushed forth, the whole political
structure was shaken to its founda
tions. BLACK HANDS THROW BOMB.
Oakland Bakery Escapes Destruction
By Miscalculation.
Oakland, Cat. With detonation
that amused the entire neighborhood,
a bomb was exploded upon the front
porch of the Reno lodging house at
568 Fifth street, shortly after 2
o'clock Saturday morning. Thirty
lodgers were sound asleep at the time
of the explosion, but owing to the
manner in which the bomb was placed,
no one was injured, the force of the
explosion expanding outwardly.
It is the theory of A. Satuer, pro
prietor of the Reno house, that the
Ijomb was not intended for his place,
but for a French bakery at H 1 1 Clay
street, running back to Fifth street.
which is conducted by J. Csssou and
M. Michael. In this connection a lie-
culiarly sinister sect is given the
case by the circumstance thnt Cassou
recently received two letters signed
"Black Hand," and threatening that
if he did not pay $2,000 his place of
business would be blown up and he
with it.
MISSING LINK DISCOVERED.
Animal Filling Gap Between Bird and
Quadruped Imported.
New York --What Is perhaps the
long-sought missing link between
quadrupeds and birds has just been
brought here from Colombia.
Similar in general asiiert to the re
markable ornithorhynchus of Austral
ia, which has a bill like a durk, al
though distinctively a qiiailruied, the
creature is covered with a growth al
most feather-like and brilliantly col
ored in red and green, shadinir to
white on the under parts.
It is four-footed, look something
like a cross between a beaver and a
badger, and emits a plaintive noto
when annoyed. It is about 20 inc hes
long and half as high.
Peace Overtures Rejected.
El Paso, Tex. All negotiations be
tween the insurrectos and the Mexican
government were officially called off
Saturday. Oscar Braniff and Esiui-
vel Obergon, two congressmen from
Mexico City, who have bei n Attemiit
ing to get Madero to .. t.
peace proposal, received a telegram
'just after they had sent a messenger
under a flag of truce with a final ap
peal to the rebel leader. The message
was from Mexico City, although they
refused to say who sent it.
20,000 In Watches Taken,
Chicago A trunk filled with gold
watches, valued at $20,000, consigned
to a manufacturer here from a Cincin
nati house was stolen from an express
wagon in the downtown streets.
While the driver was in an office build
ing delivering packages, the robber
boarded the wagon and drove away.
An hour later the wagon was found
several blocks away and later the
trunk was found nearly six miles
away.
Fes Stormed by Rebels.
Madrid. The government has re
ceived a telegram saying a native has
arrived at Tetuan who declares the
Moroccan rebels have stormed Fea and
massacred the garrison.
GREAT DYNAMITE
PLOT ALLEGED
Headquarters pf Big Conspir.
acy in Indianapolis.
Police Seize Books of Ironworks
Union Plant ot Dynamite
Found Confession.
Indianapolis, Ind., April 24. In.
vestigations which are expected t
result in several more arrests and fur.
nisli evidence that Indianapolis has fur
lb s past two years been the headquar
ters of a nation-wide conspiracy that
has resulted in 80 destructive explo.
ions of dynamite. Including the wreck
ing of the I -o Angeles Times, and
causing a property loss of $2,000,000,
are being conducted by the xlice, D.
tec live W, J. Burns and the Nations!
Erectors' association.
As a sequel to the sensational ar
rest of John J. McNamara, secretary,
treasurer of the International an!,
tion of bridge and structural ironwork
ers, in this city, and in Detroit of
James B. McNamara, his brother, and
Ortie E. McManigal, Detective Hums
tonight sent a message to the police
from TifTen, Ohio, to the effect that I
"plant" comprising between 300 and
400 (Niunds of dynamite had been
found at the home of James McManb
gal, father of one of the three men ar
restiil charged with complicity in ths
blowing up of the Iam Angeles news,
paper plant, causing the loss of 21
lives.
Accompanied by an attorney for ths
National Erectors' association and ths
TilTen chief of police, Burns found
the explosive in a shed at the McMan
igul homestead.
More arrests in the dynamiting in
vestigation are rxiected. Detectives
are known to have several men under
surveillance and the reported confes
sion of one of the men arrested in De
troit to Chicago detectives, is said to
have mentioned several who are being
watched and will soon be arrested.
In addition. Prosecutor Baker an
nounced tonight that the Marion coun
ty grand jury would be railed in ses
sion tomorrow to investigate dynamit
ing outrages committed here several
months ago and to try and fix the re
sponsibility for the placing of high
explosives in the American Central
Life building in this city.
He notified Suerintendent of Police
Hylsnd to apear before the grand
jury and bring the books and records
taken from the office of the Ironwork
ers' union. An effort was made by
labor trailers to obtain these books
from the police, but Superintendent
Hyland refused to give them up.
From Captain Stephen Wood, chief
of the Chicago detective bureau, rams
the word that one of the men arrested
in Detroit had confessed.
According to Captain Wood, the
confession describes in detail the dy
namiting of buildings, mil road trains
and factories where conflicts between
union and non-union labor existed.
Wood ssid the confession was placed
In the jvissesion of attorneys repre
senting tho National Erectors' associ
ation, and lias been sent to Ixs An
geles to be used in the trial of th
caies against the men under arrest.
Later the dynamite found nt TilfeB
had been placed in the guard of two
liceinen.
TRAIN IS QUARANTINED.
Smallpox Case on Board Stops Jour
ner ot All Passengers.
Harrisburg, Pa., April 24. When a
train with Chicago connections nrrived
in Allentown, Pa., lute last night, it
was found that one of the passengers,
who had been in Portland, Colo., u--rintending
the erection of a cement
pliint. had siiihIIikx and hud been
sulfering for seven days.
lie was placed in quarantine, all
the cars of the train were disinfected
and the state health authorities
started out to round up nil tho passen
gers and vaccinate them.
Woman Solves Difficult Problem.
Wellixdcy, Mass.- Miss Clara E.
Smith, Ph. D., instructor In mathe
matics at Wellesley college, has been
notified that she has been elected as
fellow to the American association for
the Advancement of Science, Mi
Smith's election came partly bersu
of her solution of a problem in mathe
matical science, a problem which h
perplexed mathematicians for neurljr
a century. After several years of
hard work she discovered that Abel's
theores could be used to do Bessel's
problems quicker and simpler.
Hillman la Released.
Seattle Clarenco Dayton Hillman,
multi-millionaire townsite promoter,
was released from the county Jail hav
ing served a 20-day sentence imposed
by United States District Judge Don
worth for attempting to influence
prospective jurors. Hillman Is under
sentence to serve two and one-half
years in the Federal penitentiary
McNeill island for using the mail
defraud, but Is at liberty under $21S.'
000 bonds Mnding action of the court.
Fifteen Drown In Typhoon.
Manila -The steamer Charles Pol
T.Ht. nneratinir itan Manila and
Corregidor. foundered in a typhoon
Sunday. It Is estimated that 15 P
sons were drnwnoH t'lyHarmen res
cued a number of the crew and p-
aengcrs. One American ia missing.