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NEWS OF THE WEEK
In a Condensed Form 1er Onr
B u y Headers.
A Rotumt o f ths L u e Important but
Not Lass Interesting Event«
o f the Psst Week.
Two men were burned to death in a
fire at Limestone. N. Y.
Jews of Pittsburg have raised a fund
to aid distressed Jewish families.
Whitelaw Reid has returned to his
poet as amEwssador to Great Britain.
A Corean and Japanese Exclusion
league has been organised at Denver.
A pearl necklace ard a pin of extra
ordinary beauty, valued at $60,000,
have been stolen from Countess von
Watteuslebe, at Berli.
Miss Emily Currier, for 43 years a
teacher in Chicago public schools, is
dead. For the past 41 years she never
missed a day from her duties.
Utilisation of automobiles to trans
port rubber from the track country of
the Congo to the river is planned by
the American-Ccngo company.
W hile the driver of a Wei Is-Far go
expre-s wagon was delivering a package
in Reno a thief stole a sack containing.
$5,500 in gold. No arrests have been
made.
S TA TE H O O D N O T PLEDGED.
New Mexico Must Depend on Future
Developments.
Washington, Feb. 18. — Notwith
standing reports Bent from Washington,
no agreement has been made by leaders
in congress to pass a bill at the next
session of congress admitting the teril-
tory of New Mexico into the Union.
The facts of the case are briefly as fol
lows:
A delegation of New Mexicans, head
ed by the governor, came to Washing
ton several weeks ago to survey the
field and determine whether or not
there was prospect of statehood legis
lation this session.
This delegation
was to have been backed by 100 or
more New Mexicans had the outlook
been favorable.
Hut after conferrng
with the leaders in both branches of
congress, the advance guard decided
that statehood legislation could not be
secured this session, no matter bow
many men appeared on the scene to
urge its enactment.
Thereupon the
“ big lobby,” was called off and the
original delegation went home.
Two propositions were submitted,
but no pledges of any sort were given.
First, it was suggested that It might tie
well to send a congressional party to
New Mexico during the ooming summer
to make an investigation and determine
whether or not conditions in that terri
tory were such as to justify its admis
sion into the Union. The other propo
sition was merely to allow the New
Mexicans to come to Washington in
force next winter and appear before the
territories committees of senate and
house in eupportof their statehood bill.
TO WELCOME FLEET.
Honors o f Vico Admiral for Evans at
Callao, Pern, is making great prepa
Callao, Peru.
ration to welcome the battleship fleet.
Lima, Peru, Feb. 18.— The Ameii-
The Kentucky legislature is still in
can fleet, which is steaming up th«
deadlock over the election of a aenator.
west coast of South America, is expect
The Spokane Athletic club will admit
ed to arrive at Callao next Thursday,
women to its boxing and athletic con
and the government has ordered that
tests. Smoking will be barred.
Rear Admiral Evans tie tendered the
Local labor unions in San Francisco
are doing everything in theii power to honors of a vice admiral. The ernieer
aid the fight against bubonic plague.
Cor ne Bolognsi left Callao tonight for
thie
port.
Banker Morse, of the New York ice
trust, was much surprised at his arrest
Everything is in readiness at Lima
when he landed from a Euiopean trip. and Callao for a glorious welcome to
the Americans.
The official program
Two Mexican woodchoppers in Cali
includes a great banquet which w ill te
fornia ate toadstools for mushrooms and
given by President Pardo to the officers
both died before a physician could
in commemoration of Washington's
reach them.
birthday. On Friday Admiral Evans,
Fight for the privilege of railroad if his Fiealth permits, will visit the
building in Turkey and Austria is cre president and the visit will be leturned
ating serious inharmony among the on board the Connecticut. A bull fight
powers of Europe.
has been fixed for Monday, at which it
Baron Takahira, who has returned to is expected nearly ail the officers and at
the United States as ambassador from least 5,000 of the sailors will have an
Japan, says the idea of war with Japan opportunity to see the sport of the
country.
An excursion to Mount
is “ too hellish to think of.”
Meiggs lias been arranged for Tnegday
It is Eieieved that the larger part of and on Wednesday there will be a re
the battleebip fleet w ill eventually ception at the American legation. The
make a visit to the Orient, in the in war minister will give a dinner to the
terests of preeerv.ng the entity of American officers on Thursday, Febru
Qhina.
ary 27, and the following evening the
Secretary Metcalf lias made pnblic National club will give an officers’ ball.
the report of Admiral Convese on the
effectiveness and standing of the Amer
P IN C H O T W ILL Q U IT.
ican navy, which is to the effect that
our navy is as good as the.best in every
Reported He Has Plant for Career
thing but numbers.
in the Senate.
There is an outlook o f plague in
Washington, Feb. 18.— The story haa
Germany’s West Africa colonies.
been pat in circulation in Washington
The report Is again current that to the effect that Gifford Pinchot, chief
Japan is trying to float a loan in of the Forest service, will retire from
Paris.
service at the close of President Rooee-
Premier
Franco
has
reached velt’s term, and go Weet to grow np
Genoa badly worn out by his flight with the country. The report goes on
from Lisbon.
to say that Pinchot has a desire to mix
The garrison at Fort Yellowstone in politics, with the hope of ultimately
will be increased to four troops of being sent to the senate from the state
in which be takes his residence.
cavalry o f 100 men each.
Since Mr. Roosevelt became presi
Two men were killed while walk
ing on the railroad near Billings, dent, Mr. Pinchot has been a very pow
Mont. They were too drunk to no erful man in the administration. He
tice an approaching train.
was holding an insignificant office as
The house committee on military chief of the forestry division of the Ag
Government
affairs has agreed to recommend ricultural department.
more pay for enlisted men.
forestry work was then in its infancy
J. Pierpont Morgan was an inter and the work of Pinchot’ s division
ested spectator during the senate de counted for little. Mr. Pinchot qnickly
bate on the pending currency bill.
interested the president in the subject
Turkey is withdrawing her troops of rational forestry, and when the pres
from the Russian frontier o f Persia ident became interested the division
and the outlook seems to be for sprung into prominence, and has grown
peace.
,
steadily to its present proportions. Its
Manager Conreid, of the New York growth and the extension of its work
opera, has resigned and will be suc would not have been possible but for
ceeded by a famous director fron\ the aid of president Roosevelt.
Milan, Italy.
After being In the hands o f re
Dead ock Is Unbroken
ceivers for eight years the assets of
Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 18.— The Ken
a New York bank shrunk from
$150,000 to $36,000.
tucky general assembly has balloted for
Count Roni de Castillane was fined a month to elect a United States sena
$20 for his recent assault on his tor to succeed James B. McCreary, and
rival, Prince de Sagan, and the lat is apparently no nearer an election
ter was given 20 cents damages.
than it was on the first twllot. In the
In a speech before the Lincoln first vote ex-Governor Beckham, who
club of Kalamazoo, Mich., Senator bad been nominate«! at the Democratic
Knox, o f Pennsylvania, said federal primaries, received 66 votes: ex-Gov
regulation of railroads had been en ernor Bradley Republican caucas nomi
tirely justified and was not an at nee. 64 votes, while seven Democratic
tack on business.
votes were scattered and one Republican
ab«ent through illness. There has been
Nine miners were killed by an ex
plosion of gas in a Kentucky coal no change.
mine.
Lumber Company Assigra.
A New York grand Jury has re
Murfreesboro, Tenn., Feb. 18.— The
turned two indictments against Ice
firm of W. B. Eirthman A Co., dealers
King Morse.
in lumber, have assigned. IThe liabili
Beach Hargis, the young man who ties. it is said, will approximate $700,-
shot his father, a Kentucky feudist, 000 with assets b-tween $500,000 and
$600,000.
1« held without baiL
CAN’T MAKE RATES
State Railroad Commission Has
No Such Power.
COURT SO DECIDES WHEAT CASE
Mute Constitution Glvts Rate Making
Pow er to Legislature—Extra
betsion May Be Called.
Olympia, Wash., Fob. 16.— Thut
the Washington state railroad com
mission has no authority to fix max
imum rutes is the gist of a decision
handed down by Judge Hanford in
the federal court in this city in a de
cision in the joint wheat rate case.
Judge Hanford holds that under
section 18, o f article XU, o f the
state constitution, the power to es
tablish and fix maximum freight and
passenger rates is reserved to the
legislature and cannot be delegated
to a commission.
By this decision the usefulness of
the railroad commission ns to rate
making Is destroyed, and Governor
Mead stated tonight that he has un
der consideration the advisability of
calling an extra session of the legis
lature to consider submitting at the
next general election a proposed
amendment to the state constitution
giving the railroad commissiou the
power o f rate making.
The decision Is a victory for the O.
R. & N. and the commercial Inter
ests of Portland as opposed to the
efforts of the Northern Pacific and
the Great Northern to divert Kasteru
Washington wheat traffic from Port
land to Puget Sound seaports.
The case will immediately be car
ried to the supreme court of the
United States.
If the ruling Is up
held In the higher court of appeals,
the state commission will have power
only to take testimony and gather
data relative to rates and forward
this to the legislature with recom
mendations for fixing rates.
CH ILEAN S CHEER FLEET.
Navy Thunders Salute—Roosevelt end
Event Toasted.
Valparaiso, Feb. 15.— The great
American fleet of 16 battleships, un
der
command
of
Rear-Admiral
Evans, passed Valparaiso yesterday
afternoon and continued on its voy
age northward for Callao, Peru, the
next stopping place. All Valparaiso
and thousands of persons from every
city in Chile witnessed the passing
o f the fleet.
President Montt and the other
high officials o f the republic came
out from shore to greet the battle
ships, and almost the entire Chilean
navy exchanged salutes with them as
they swung around Curaumilla Point
and into Valparaiso Bay in single
ffle, headed by the Chilean cruiser
Chacabuco and five Chilean torpede
boat
destroyers.
President Montt and other Chilean
officials embarked on the training
ship General Baquedano and took a
position well out in the harbor.
Around the Baquedano the fleet
swung at a speed of four knots, fir
ing the presidential salute as they
passed in review. It was one hour
from the time the head of the fleet
entered the bay until the last vessel
had passed the president's ship and
turned toward the open sea.
SH IP GOES ASHORE.
Vestel end Cargo o f Cost Lost on
Oregon Coast.
Bay City, Ore., Feb. 15.— The
American wooden ship Emily Reed,
103 days out from Newcastle, N. S.
W., with a cargo o f coal for Port
land. went ashore half a mile south
o f the Nehalem river, on the Ore
gon coast .at 1:30 o ’clock this morn
ing. The vessel Immediately broke
in two and ten members of the crew
were drowned. Captain Kessel, his
wife, Second Mate Charles Thompson
and three members of the crew were
saved.
The survivors were brought to
Bay City yesterday morning and are
now quartered at private residences.
The ship has broken up and will be
a total loss, as w ill also the cargo o f
2,110 tons of coal. The vessel was
consign«*! to the Pacific Coast Com
pany at Portland.
Army of Buyers in New York.
New York, Feb. 15.— The Mer
chants Association estimates that
fully 700 more buyers reached town
yesterday, making nearly 4,000 now
in the city. Although yesterday was
a holiday, large wholesale houses
were compelled to keep open all day
because of the great number o f buy
ers, The winter goods season which
Is supposed to close In January has
been lengthened and many large or
ders are reported as placed yester
day. Merchants and buyers from the
west report a great increase o f busi
ness.
After Fxpress Compsey
Cincinnati, O., Feb. 15.— Viola
tion o f the postal laws by carrying
first-class mail matter was charged
against the American Express Com
pany in a suit filed In the United
States district court here today.
T A K A H IR A » A Y 8 "N O W AR."
Mercenary Newspapers Have Caused
All the Disturbance.
New York, Feb. 17.— Declaring
that war between the United Btates
itud Japan would be the most "In
human event in the world’s history,"
ttud was " too hellish” to be thought
of, Baron Kognro Takahira, the new
Japunese ambassador to Washing
ton, said today, upon landing In New
York from the steamer Etruria, that
the Japanese know absolutely noth
ing of u break In the cordial rela
tions which have bean historic be
tween the two nations. Talk of wur,
Huron Takahira declined, with much
emphasis, was utterly unintelligible
to hint, unless, us some one hud sug
gested, it was spread broadcast to
serve the commercial ends of some
newspapers.
Thu new uiubussudor said there
might be some matters peudlng in
Washington which would require
his attention, but they were not ser-
lous. As to the cruise of the Am er
ican fleet to the Pacific occun, he
regurded It purely as u naval man
euver ou a grand scale— designed to
Bhow to the world at large that
America has u wonderful naval pow
er which cun be dispatched uny-
where at a moment's uutice "In sup
port of u legitimate cause which al
ways is at the bottom of Aiuericuu
diplomacy."
——
ltarou Takahira will leave for
Washington tomorrow morning at
11 o ’clock to present his credentials
to President Roosevelt.
Ho is u
warm personal friend of Mr. Roose-
velt, and Is looking forward to his
meeting with the chief executive
with u great deul of pleasure. The
buron Is returning to the American
cupilul after an absence of two years
M AROONED ON GLACIER.
Nineteen Japanese Fishermen Found
Freei ng end btarviny,
Seattle, Wash., Feb. . 17.— Cast
ashore ou Mulasplna glacier near Yu-
kutat, Alaska, November 5, after a
severe gale lasting 72 hours. 18
members of the Japanese fishing
schooner Satsutua Muru lived In a
camp at the foot of the glacier for
three months.
Then nine of them
escaped in their sampan to Yakutut,
where the ship Jeanke was hailed.
The Jeanle went to the glacier
that afternoon.
With seven sailors
the Japunese sampan, which wus
towed to the glacier by the Jeanie,
put off towards the beach to rescue
their comrades.
The Jeanie’s big
lifeboat followed in the wake of the
sampan, but did not approach the
surf.
The sampan had hardly entered
the surf when it wus rolled over re
peatedly.
Four o f the men were
picked up unconscious by the life
boat and taken back to the ship a
mile away. The officers o f the Jeuuie
saw the catastrophe and the ship
wrecked men on shore rushed into
the sea and took out the bodies of
the other three sailors.
Whether
they were alive or dead is not
known. The Jeanie stood off for two
hours, but the sea was running so
high that no boat could live to pass
the surf.
A revenue cutter has
sailed to the glacier to rescue the
other men.
FLE FT W ILL GO TO O RIEN T.
United States Will Take a Hand in
Far Eastern Question.
Washington, Feb. 17.— The ques
tion of preserving “ Chinese territor
ial and administrative entity" has
suddenly assumed new Importance In
the eyes of the diplomatic world in
connection with the cruise of the
American battle fleet to the Pacific
— especially since it became an as
sured fact that the fleet is to pro
ceed to the Orient b ^ od after reach
ing San Francisco.
Several months ago it was stated
that certain Interests closely in touch
with commercial affairs in China
professed to be informed that the
real significance of the fleet’s move
ment to the Pacific had to do with
affairs affecting the Flowery K ing
dom, and that in time their state
ment of the case would be justified.
Always the well-informed have been
aware that there was something—-if
nothing more than a remote contin
gency— aside from the practice fea
tures of the cruise involved. A pop-
ular impression has been that the
immigration question was behind It
all. The Immigration question now
is practically settled, but there Is to
be no change In the program of send
ing the fleet under Admiral Evans
to the Far East.
L ib o r WiH Go to Law.
New York, Feb. 17.— New York
labor unions contributed about $5,-
000 to the fund asked for by Presi
dent Samuel Gompera, of the Am er
ican Federation of Labor, for the
purpose o f fighting the Injunctions
issued by the District of Columbia
courts in the suit against the F*>d-
eration by the Ruck Stove 41 Range
Company. The suit Is to determine
the right of the federation to black
list manufacturers who do not em
ploy union labor. The cases are to
be taken to the supreme court
Grip Hes Got London.
Lon «Ion , Feb. 17.— Influenza Is
claiming thousands of victims In
London and the vlsltntlon of thn
present time Is the worst that has
been known In many y««nrs. No leas
than three members of ihe mMnnt,
confined to their beds with the mal
ady.
ROAD TO PROSPERITY
Rush
to W boltlile Biases la
Replenish Stocks.
od
BUT HEAVIER THAN LAST TEAR
Country Fast Recovering From
Fi
nancial Depreseiof— Factorise
Resuming Operations.
Chicago, Feb. 13.— Thut the na
tion again is on the high rood to
prosperity wus shown today by re
ports from ail sections of the coun
try. On every hand It Is agreed thnt
the depression following the finan
cial flurry of last fall is a thing o f
the past, and thut the outlook is for
a steadily increasing volume of bus
iness uutil normal conditions have
been reached, iu sliimi branches o f
truJe prosperity In a full measure
has been recorded, uud other lines
show an Improvement that promlaea
aoiue satisfactory records at the close
of the year.
-
Following Ihe uud of the stringency
lu money comes an Improvement In
collections and a corresponding facil
ity of barter and aale. It also has
been demonstrated completely that
the general public escuped the effects
of the flurry. The people have cash
with which to supply their needs,
uud their needs are Just us great us
ever.
With more fartorl«* resuming op
erations every day, the number o f
the unemployed is decreasing, uud It
is believed that before long the idle
mill will be the exception.
Chicago wholesalers report that
the country merchants are coming In
with their sprlug orders In greater
numbers than u year ago. In ultoost
every case they say that their stocks
are low and must be replenished Im
mediately to cure for the demands o f
their customers.
The steel business, recognized as
the barometer of trade in general,
has shown marked Improvement
within the last few weeks. Much ar
ticles as wire and nails, which get
to the general public quicker tbun
the other products, are in great de
mand, and the railroads are coining
into the market for large quantities
of supplies.
The outlook Is for bigger business,
both in quality und In quuntity, than
last year," said W alter D. Moody,
business manager o f the Chicago As
sociation .of Commerce. "1 have
been around the whoh-sale district a
good deul lately, und 1 find it is op
timistic over the outlook for the
spring business.
1 have had direct
reports from many o f the targe
houses, and they all read the same.
"T h ere are many merchants In
town, and they are coming by every
train.
They are flocking to the
wholesale houses, and In practically
every case they are buying freely.
JAPS A T TARGET PRACTICE
Have Small Cannon Mounted Along
California Coast.
Santa Monica, Cal., Feb. 13.— On
an unfrequented bluff, which marks
the northern limit of 8auta Monica
bay, a party of seven Japanese, with
a small cannon in th«dr possession,
have been for several days pusi en
gaged In experiments that have
aroused the suspicious of the settlers
in the homestead district, and the
news of their operations, reaching
here tonight, has created some little
excitement, particularly as It Is
known that the portion o f the Am
erican battleship fleet will remain
several days in thv waters enclosed
by Point Duma, where the party of
Japanese made Its h«-adquurters.
Their evident unxb'ty to qpc.ipe ob
servation, he said, drew upon them
the careful observation of several of
the settlers, who found them on one
occasion In possession of a small
pivot gun, which, mounted on n cliff
185 feet above the water, was being
fired, first in one direction and then
In another.
„
The Japanese, unaware that they
were being watched, seemed Inter
ested in determining the range o f
the little pl«‘cp of artillery, which
threw missiles over a mile from th »
Bhore. The gun was operated with
smokeless powder.
Nesd o f Mora Vessels.
Marshall, Mich., Feb. 13.- Every
available scut was taken at Ihe an
nual banquet of the Calhoun Coun
ty Lincoln Club, at which ex-Secre-
tnry of the Treasury Leslie M. Shnw
and Second Assistant Postmaster
(}«'ncral McCleary were the princi
pal speakers. Mr. McCleary In speak
ing on "Present Day Problems” de
voted considerable attention to tho
fai't that the nuxlllnry fleet, carry
coal and supplies for the battleship
cruise to the Pnclflc, sailed under
many foreign flags.
Portugal Growing Quiet.
l^indon, Fob, 13.— The Times thla
morning publishes n long Lisbon dis
patch relative to r«>oor.t events In
Portugal. It saya thnt the aituatlon
Is Improving dally and that the gov
ernment adheres to Its policy o f con
ciliating public opinion, but that It
would be a mistake to consider «11
danger over.