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Not L « m LWwrweting Event*
o f the Paet Week..
The battleship fleet ha* passed
Magellan strait* and is now in the
Pacific ocean.
The Swift Packing Company has
completed plans for a JS.iOO.OOO
plant in Portland.
A Yale graduate and athlcde has
been found to poetess a cowzplete
outfit of burglar's fowls.
Premier Franco, dictator of P o r
tugal has not left his room since ar
riving in Bordeaux, France.
Roosevelt says the Charge's that be
Is using hi* influence to help Taft
along are false and malicious.
Claims of aSleged illeiStlmate heir*
o f Alfonso XU are creating consid
erable trouble for the Spanish gov
ernment.
One child w k killed and many
persons injured in the cruah at the
funeral of the dead king aad prince
o f Portugal.
Members of the royal household
declare that the Portugese crown
prince rose and fired twice at the as
sassins before he himself fell dead.
California railroad commission has
evidence to convict the Southern
Pacific of rebating on about 4,»00
separate counts, the fines for whieb
w ill amount to $80,000,MM).
K ing Edward and Queen Alexan
dra, the Prince and Princess of
Wales, Princess Victoria and many
government oflUials attended the
memorial service* for the late King
Carlos o f Portugal and the Crown
Prince.
The battleship fleet has turned to the
north.
LIABLE TO FINES OF S80.000.000
Claar Casa Against 8 . P.—Paid Ra
bat*« tor Yaars.
Sun Francisco, Feb. 11.— Penalties
unprecedented In the history of the
prosecution o f corporations tn Cali
fornia. or a complete revision aud
| vitalizing o f the laws applicable to
railroads, will be the outcome of tho
I investigation to be instituted this
week by the State Railroad Commis
sion, In the rooms o f tho Chamber o f
Commerce, In the Merchants' Ex
change building.
I
Assistant Attorney-General Ray
mond Benjamin said today that 4,000
cases of rebating have been perfected
against the Southern Pacific Com
pany, practically through Its own ad
missions. These cases will be pre
sented to the Railroad Commission
by Attorney-General U. S. Webb. Mr.
Benjamin and O. K. Cushing, special
counsel for tho California Traffic As
sociation. Should convictions be ob
tained on eaoh o f these cases, and
the Maximum j>enalty of $20,000 be
imposed for each violation o f the
law, the Soutlwrn Pacific will face
an aggregate fine of $80,000,000.
In .each case .the evidence practi
cally le conclusive, from bills of lad
ing to the indorsed checks Issued by
the cuutPany to the shipper, In reim
bursement. When the State Board of
Railroad Commissioners requested
the Southern Pacific to submit its
books to Mr. Benjamin, Peter F.
Dunne, counsel for the railroad, re
plied that the railroad's books would
be available at any time. The com
placency with which the railroad cor
poration greets the investigation
Xoreordalns that it will not fight the
action of the Railroad Commission
on merits but rather upon the law
involved.
Section 222 o f the state legislation
which creates the State Board of
Railroad Commissioners, with their
power to fix ratett provides:
“ Any
railroad
corporation
or
transportation company which shall
fall to conform to such rates as shall
be established by such commission
• • • shall be fined not exceed
ing $20,000 for each offeree. • * ”
In 4,000 cases the railroad com
pany failed to conform to the rate
set by the Commissioners. The prac-
Lice is of long standing, bat the only
records available are those subse
quent to May, 1906. In some n.f these
rehates the railroad refunded 53 per
cent o f the original charge
the
shipper-
DRAG O U T SKELETONS.
Germany has reduced the import
Alleged illegitimote Hair* of Alfonso
dnty on sugar.
Making Trouble.
A leader of the Black Hoad has been
Madrid, Feb. 11.— The question of
Raptured in New York.
alloting a pension of 250.000 pesetas
The senatorial deadlock in the Ken- to the Infanta Alfonso, the son of
tacky legislature continues.
Don Carlos of Bourbon and the Prin
The Pennsylvania railroad ha* juat cess o f Asturias, who recently mar
ried Princess Louise of Orleans in
ordered 55,000 tong of steel rails.
England, has received the approval
Seattle ministers have started an of the Council of State and now goes
before the Cortes. But it has raised
agitation against Sunday theaters.
many complications, not the least in
Governor Pennypacker has been im teresting of which are suits for sim
plicated in the Pennsylvania capitol ilar allowances brought by the na
frauds.
tural children of Alfonso X II by
Elena Sanz, a former well-known
Franco, the deposed premier of Port Spanish actress, and a natural cous
ugal, has arrived in France, fearing in of the king named Carlos Allen
murder but defending his policy.
Perkins, a second-rate but popular
The Elgin National Watch company actor in the music halls of the cap
has closed its factory for an indefinite ital.
Perkins claim goes back to his
period on account of dullness in trade.
great-grandmother, the famous In
Government troops will be removed fanta Carlotta, who provoked the
from Goldfield March 7, at which time Carlist war by obliging Ferdinand
the Nevada police will be ready to take V II to admit the principle o f the
Salic law. It was Bhe who slapped
charge.
the face o f Calomarde, the Premier,
Warren Oliver, a member of the elec and drew from him the historic re
toral college which named Lincoln, is tort:
“ W hite hands are not offensive.”
dead. He was a pioneer of California
Perkins’ birth is not recorded in
and 93 years old.
Gotha ,but he insists that his real
Associate Public Printer Bram has name is Don Francisco Carlos Pio
aseumed contol of the government Rose Alfonso Luis Fernando Allen
printing office.
W . 8. Rossiter will Perkins Guerowsky Bourbon Luth-
continue the inquiries into the conduct erlan Hossen Dricbma Vrichna and
Ottendorf” and consequently a blood
of the office.
relation of most of the reigning sov-
Woman surffagiste are making a erigns of Europe.
hard fight in New York.
Survey for New 1 unnel.
Judge Hargis, a leader of Kentucky
Seattle, Wash., Feb. 11.— Survey
fued?, has been killed by his son.
ors and engineers in the employ of
Florida Republicans are bolding Taft the Northern Pacific have for montbB
and anti-Taft conventions and having been locating a new tunnel through
the Cascades. The fact became
fist fights.
known yesterday, when the men,
Great Britain has paid the bandit driven from their work by the heavy
Raisnli $200,000 for the release of Sir snows, arrived at Green R iver Hot
Harry Mac'ean.
Springs on their way to St. Paul.
From Hot Springs comes word thet
The Western Bar Iron association, of
the
big Stampede tunnel is to be
New York, will advance the price of
abandoned as soon as the new bore
bar iron $5 per ton.
is completed. The new bore is to
The house committee on naval affairs be seven miles long and will cost up
opposes four new battleships and the ward of $10,000,000.
president has prepared to fight.
Franco Excites Curiosity.
Bordeaux .France, Feb. 11.— Sun
A greyhound has returned on foot to
ite old home at Oakland from Western day passed with 8enor Franco, the
ex-Premier of Portugal, still in Bor
Montana, a distance of 1,500 miles.
deaux and still in seclusion.
His
Franco, former premier and dictator privacy has remained unbroken;
of Portugal, has arrived in Madrid. since his arrival Friday he has not
He was driven from home by the many emerged from the hotel where he Is
stopping, not even, from his room.
threat* of assassination.
The former dictator has become a
By an agreement of trans-Atlantic problem which the people are dis
steamship oompanies the rate war be cussing with curious, wondering,
tween Europe and the United Htates even sympathetic interest, but no one
has been enlightened a3 to the hour
has come to an end.
of his departure, or his destination,
Owing to opposition to the erection for it is certain that he is not to re
of a statue to the late Senator Quay on main here long.
the capitol gronnds at Harrisburg, Pa.,
Temperance Worker Dead
it is proposed to put the question to a
New York, Feb. 11.— John W.
popular vote.
Oliver, editor and principal owner of
Bryan declares that W all street is the Yonkers Statesman, died at his
home in Yonkers today, aged 92
worse than Monte Carlo.
years. Mr. Oliver was an early lead
The national convention of the So er in the temperance movement, and
cialist party will be held in Chicago with hie brother, Isaac Oliver, found
ed the Sons of Temperance.
May 10.
HALL IS CONVICTED
SWIF1 PACKING CO. COM ING
Ready to Begin Work on 83,600,000
Plant at One*.
Portland. Feb. 10.— In the first
and only authorized »'a t «‘incut which
hua been given out either here or
anywhere else regarding his com
pany's plans In the Pacific Northwest
Louts F. Swift, president of Hwlft A
Co., last night declared that the
mammoth Portland plant, which will
represent an outlay of $8,600,000
and which will be erected on the Pe
Speedy Agreement Believed to Indi ninsula, will be completed uud ready
for operation In all departments In
cate Conviction, In Viow o f
one year. Portland la also to bo mude
Judge’ e Instruction*.
the center of the pucklng industry of
the Pacific Northwest, and the Trout-
dale
plant, uear Portland, eventually
Portland, Feb. 8.— At 1:30 o'clock
la to be abandoned, at least so far as
this morning the jury In the Hall con
tho packing aide of the business Is
spiracy trial announced that it had
concerned. To what use. If any, the
reached a verdict.
The verdict was
Swift people are to put their prt>seut
sealed in an envelope, under instruc extensive aud valuable property ut
tion* given by Judge Hont last night, that point was not vouchsafed.
and was returned to the oourt and
The Swift people are ready und
opened at 10 o’clock this morning.
prepared to go ahead with construc
On convening oourt thia morning tion work Juat as Boon ub the rail
Judge Hunt directed that the envelope roads have Indicated whut connec
lie opened ami the verdict road. The
tions ou tho Peninsula they will es
jury found Hall guilty as charged.
tablish,
and when they will be ready
Under the Federal statutes, conspiracy
such a? that charged In the Indictment to do the work. When these connec
on which Hall was tried, is punishable tions with necessary terminal facili
by a fine not exceeding $10.000, or by ties have been decided upon, work on
imprisonment not exceeding two years. tho packlug plant will be rushed to
completion.
Portland, Feb. 8.—
last night’s
lu the official interview, H. C.
session, which convened at
7:45
Gardner,
heud of the construction de
o’clock, Judge Hunt delivered exhaust
ive instructions to the jury, the charge partment of Swift A Company, who
requiring two hoars for its delivery. will have direct charge o f erecting
At 10:12 o’clock, after Judge Webster the pluut, acted as spokesman for
for the defendant had interposed ob President Swift, and entered into as
jections to practically every instruction full a discussion of the plans of the
of the oourt, the jury retired to deliber Swifts us the head o f the big con
ate on a verdict. The jnrora were in cern deemed wise to give out for
structed by Judge Hunt that if a ver publication at this time.
Mr. Uurdner, in explaining why
dict should be reached during the
night, they were to seel it in an en the public could not be taken fully
velope and repair in the custody of the into the confidences of his concern
bailiffs to their rooms, the verdiot to at this time, said that certain plans,
be returned at 10 o'clock thia morning such as whether the company should
secure power from some of the com
to which hour the court then ad
panies already In the field here, or
journed.
erect its own plant on the Peninsula,
Judge Hunt’s instructions were far are yet to be settled, and that there
more elaborate than in any of the pre were a number o f other considera
ceding land fraud or conspiracy cases. tions which, if disclosed now, might
They consisted of a learned exposition lnt«-rfere with their consuminutlou.
It was also clearly brought out
of the law as applied to conspiracy
charges and a lucid interpretation of that if Portland ever intends to wrest
the statjtes pertaining to the fencing the bulk of the Alaska trade from
and homestead acts and the statute of the Sound cities, the merchants and
shippers here will have to establish
limitations.
a direct steamer line from here to
When the instructions had been given the North. This was brought out In
Mr. Heney expressed his satisfaction answer to the direct question as to
with them, bat Judge Webster, for the whether Swift A Company intended
defendant, submitted exceptions in a to enter that field, now monopolized
general way to the entire charge.
by various Seattle and Tacoma puck
ers.
“ Swift & Company," declared Mr.
REFORM POSTAL SERVICE.
Gardner, “ are in the packing busi
ness und packing business alone.
Commission Rtcommsnds Changas in They are not in the transportation
business, nor in the cattlu-raislug
Interest of Economy.
business.”
IN GRASP OF STORM
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Prediction ot Prosecution Proves
Correct.
Ice King Reigns In East and
Middle Vest.
JURY DELIBERATES THREE HOURS
MANY SUFFER FROM SEVERE COLD
Washington, Feb. 8.— In a prelim
inary report of the postal commission
authorize«] during the last congress, the
main recommendation will be to the
effect that the office of the fourth assist
ant postmaster general shall be done
away with and that an executive officer
appointed by the president for a long
term be installed as the active head of
the department, who shall act nnder
the direction of the postmaster general
and hold the same relation that a su
perintendent of a railroad holds to a
railroad president and directorate.
The examiners found that politics too
often interfered with the systematic
running of the department and that the
heads were seldom installed for any
length of time before being retired or
placed elsewhere.
Under present conditions it is neces
sary for a mail hag lock broken on an
Alaskan route to be transported the en
tire distance to the Mississippi valley
before it can be mended. To do away
with this and other impracticable meth
ods, the comm its ion propose* the for
mation of divisions with full power to
administer offices within their boundar
ies. Said boundaries shall not neces
sarily follow state lines.
Of the 62,000 poetoffices rnn by the
government it is thought that folly 30,-
000 can be operated in such a manner
as to become non acconnting offices and
do away with the too frequent issuance
of stamps and many intermediate re
porta.
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Mexico Grants Coaling Station.
Mexico City, Feb. 8.— The concession
by Mexico to the United States grant
ing the privilege for the establishment
of a coaling station at Magdalena bay
is now in force and it is expected that
the two barges provided under the con
cession w ill Ere anchored in the hay be
fore the arrival there of the fleet. Fur
ther negotiations are pending for a
large target range and permission to
land marines for small arms practice.
Previous requests of like nature were
not favorably receive«! by Mexico, bnt
thia one may be granted.
Smuggles Arm* Into China.
Hongkong, Feb. 8.— Chinese imper
ial customs officials thia afternoon seis
ed a Japanese steamer near Macao,
which was landing arms on Chinese
territory. It is alleged that the arma
were intended for revolutionist* nnder
Dr. Hun Yet Hen, the leader of the rev
olutionary party in China.
NIGHT RIDERS ON RAID.
Imprison Cipzens and Burn Tobicco
and Warshousas.
Hopkinsville, Ky., Feb. 10.— Last
night at 12 o'clock a band of about
150 mounted night riders, masked,
heavily armed und wearing the In
signia o f a secret clan, Invaded Fre-
donta, Crittenden county, captured
James Scarberry, operator o f the
Cumberland Telephone Company, and
cut all telephone connections. They
then forced Dave Potter, a clerk in a
drug store, to open his store, in
which they corralled several citizens
and held them prisoners.
Leaving a large guard in the town,
the others galloped to the village of
View, five miles away, and blew up
Alfred H. Cardin's tobacco factory,
containing 35,000 pounds of tobacco
belonging to him and his croppers.
The loss aggregates $10,000, with
$5,000 insurance.
A fter firing volleys Into the air
the night riders returned through
Fredonia and released their prison
ers. Eighty per cent of Crittenden
county farmers have tobacco pooled
in the Soe.iety of Equity. Mr. Cardin
is not a member. He is a prominent
citizen, aged 73, and was formerly a
candidate for governor on the Popu
list ticket. The Planters Association
has no organization in this county.
Blow Up Bank.
Joplin, Mo., Feb. 10.— Four men
early this morning blew open the
vault of the Rank of Sulphur Springs,
Ark., and secured over $1,300 in
cash, besides notes and other val
uables. The cltzens of Sulphur
Springs were aroused by two explo
sions, but by the time the officers
reached the downtown district, the
work of the thieves had been com
pleted and four men were seen to
mount their horses anil ride west
ward. The mountains in this direc
tion are filled with many gorges and
it is believed that the men have made
good their escape.
Fatal Snow Slides In Colorado, Bliz
zards In Michigan, and Bloat
Storm In Illinois.
New York, Feb. 6.— Large districts
of the Kart and Middle West are suffer-
i iik from a cold wave of unuauel severi
ty. Rep«>rt* from many loclaltle* are
to thrjcffect that the eatrems cold ia
coupled with a fall of mow of sufficient
depth to interfeie with transportation
facilities, while several fatalities have
occurre«!. A elect storm in the Middle
West has added to the general discom
fort.
All of the charitable institutions are
over crowded and many homeless men,
to keep from freeaiog, have been forced
to hmidle around tiree in the open
street*. The whole state is in an icy
grip, the mercury falling to a record of
46 «iegreoe Delow in the vicinity ot
Balls too.
Other fatalities are report*! from
Colorado, where numerous «now elide*
tiave occurred in the mining district».
Weather condition« throughout New
England are the wont of the present
winter. The cold anap la general in
that section, although no fatalities have
a« yet been recorded.
Noithfield, V L ,
reports the ooldest wether ia New Eng
land, with the mercury registering 34
degrees below aero.
The lake region Is also feeling [th e
cold. Michigan ia in the grasp of a se
vere bliazard, In whioh arrn weather ia
com bmed with a blinding etorm.
Railway traffic ia completely paralyzed
In many parts of Michigan and the
atorm ahowa no sign of abatement.
Chicago last night experlenad one of
the worst sleet storms in years. There
wo* much suffering front the icy bla«ta
and traffic on the electric lines wee al
most completely demoralised, although
■tJ%m train« were operated.
In Central am! Eastern Pennsylvania
■now foil to a depth of more than a
foot, . I t was estrrmely cold throughout
the mountainous regions, the mercury
dropping ae low as 16 degree* below ae
ro. Service of both «team and electrio
lines wee crippled and there w u con
siderable suffering.
PUBLIC PRINTER REMOVED.
It Accused of Many Irregularities lr*
Government Office.
Washington, Feb.
Jusl aa tha
president’s action In suspending Public
Printer Stillings arid appointing W il
liam 8. Rossiter to perform hie dutlea
was being announced tmlay, a commit
tee of laix)r leader» of this city, accom-
panie«l by Representative Gary, of Win-
cnnsln, called at the White House ami
presented to the president a resolution
adopted by the Central Labor union
here, charging Mr. Stillings with vio
lations of the eight-hour law , in tho
government printing office, and adde«l:
" I t ia difficult at thia time to get
witnesses against Mr. Stillings, for tho
reason that manv of them are employe«!
in the government printing office amt
directly under hie charge.
We hope,
however, to follow up our oral state
ment with affidavit», if ue< essary. ’ ’
The president Informed the commit
tee of the action he hmi already taken
in the case.
Resolutions by numerous labor or
ganizations in various cities charging
violation in the government printing
office of the eight-hour «lay, discrimina-
ton against veteran soldiers and the
willow* of soldiers and violation of the
civil service law have been submitted to
conuress and the president.
Mr. HtiHngs is from Hoaton and was
appointed public printer in 1906.
He
hail l>een general manager of his fath
er’ s printing firm in New York and at
varioua times manager of the Printers’
Board of Trade of that city and of New
York. Mr. Rossiter also came from
Massachusetts and hail business connec
tions in New York and Waahintgon be
fore assuming office in the census bu
reau in 1890.
Destructive Prairia Fire.
Fort Worth, Tex., Feb. 6 — More
than 1,000,000 acres of priilrle have al
ready been swept by a fire which la
passing over Lubbock, Crosby and Oarra
counties in Western Texas. It is esti-
mate«l that there it already $600,000
damage done. Ranch honsca, corrals,
livestock and crops have been destroyed
by the fire. A few of the ranchers,
whose places were In the path ’ of the
blaze have manage«! to save their prop
erty by burning the dry grass in that
Archbishop Returns.
neighborhood, hut most were unable to
New York, Feb. 10.— Archbishop cheek the flamea.
Patrick W illiam Riordan, of San
Francisco, whose recent mission in
Wisconsin Ready April I.
Rome was both for rest and to advo
Washington, Feb. 6 — On April 1,
cate the appointment of Rev. Edward
J. Hanna, o f Rochester, as Coadju next, the battleship Wisconsin will ha
tor Archbishop of San Francisco, re placed In commission at the navy yard
turned today on board the steamship at Puget sound.
Her commanding
Cedric.
officer has not yet been »elected.
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