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D. ALAAN D O L
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NEWS OF THE WEEK
I d a Condensed Form (or Our
Busy Readers.
A Resume o f the Less Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
o f the Past Week.
A deadly epidemic of grippe is sweep
ing over London.
Night riders in Kentucky burned
thiee tobaico barns.
Boers boast that they a least gained
a moral victory over the English.
Panama extended a most enthusiastic
welcome to the American torpedo fleet.
The kaiser wishes an American mili
tary title, that he may have another
uniform to wear.
A gas explosion in Natchez, Miss.,
destroyed a five-story building and
killed at least eight people.
Russia is disappointed because the
trip of the American war ships pre
cludes any possibility of a war with
Japan.
A street meeting of about 200 per
sons who had assembled to hear Emma
Goldman, the anarchist leader, in Chi
cago, was dispersed by the police.
The senate committee has reported
favorably on poetal savings banks. The
banks will pay 2 per cent internet and
deposits will be limited to |1,000.
Taft’s enemies admit he is practical
ly sure of the nominaion.
A great fire swept the port of Bahia,
Brizil, causing a loss of $1,000,000.
The town of Big Timber, M ont, was
three-fourtbs destroyed by fire. Loss
about $400,000.
Japan is not on the list of visiting
points for the battleehip fleet, but
may be included later.
LONE
ROBBER
M AKES A HAUL.
R id «« Over IOO Miles in Mail Car on
Great Northern.
Spokune, Wash., March 17.— As
suming ull the airs and authority of
a veteran poutoffU-e inspector, a dar
ing highwayman boarded the Greut
Northern westbound Oriental Lim it
ed train just as it pulled out of Dou-
uers Kerry, Idaho, early this morn-
lug, uud holding the two mail clerks
at bay ut the point of a revolver,
locked oue of them in u clothes
closet and tied the other to a chair
with ropes, after which he rode u
distance or 109 miles into Spokune,
spending three hours vud 40 mluutes
riflin g registered mall, loudiug and
unloading mull sacks along the route
aud putting complacently ut a cigar
the while.
The lone robber dropped off the
train at a ruilroad crossing inside
the city limits, carrying with him, it
Is believed, much valuable plunder lu
a satchel.
Just how much he ob
tained is not definitely known.
Mall-clerks Benjamin Stumpf and
John W. Nysteum, who were held at
the mercy of the robber, tell a re
markable story of their experience.
Locked in the small closet, hardly
two feet square, the latter almost
fainted from suffocation after the
train had pulled into Sand Point, 3 4
miles west of Bonnera Kerry, aud
rapping on the door pleaded with the
robber to allow him some fresh air.
The bandit responded willlugly and
leaving the door ajar about au inch,
secured it with a piece o f rope. Twice
later on the way into Spokane the
robber ceased his work of rifliug the
mail sacks to go to the door o f the
closet to inquire as to how Nysteuu
was feeling.
When Stumpf remonstrated with
his captor that the cords which
bound him were cutting into his
wrists, the genteel robber generous
ly loosened the fetters and made
every effort to make things as com
fortable as possible for his victim.
W hile ripping open the registered
sacks the pseudo-inspector cut one of
his fingers and many of the pieces
o f mail were blood-stained. Blood
hounds were put ou the trail o f the
robber, taking the scent from one of
the bloody packages, and followed a
trail several blocks through the resi
dence district to a carline, where the
scent was lost. It is believed that the
highwayman boarded a car and rode
downtown.
GRAFT FLO U RISH ING .
Four of the men indicted for frands Police Rely on Courts to Keep Tnem
in the Pennsylvania state capitol scan
Out o f Jail.
dal have been convicted.
San Francisco. March 17.— Police
The American battleship fleet has man Maurice Behan and John Evatt
been ordered to leave San Francisco were stripped of their stars by Chief
July 6 next and complete its voyage o f Police Biggy today as the result
of an exposure of a vast system of
around the world.
graft on the Barbary coast. Dives,
Sacks containing $3,800 in gold were brothels, saloons and gambling joints
stolen from the paymaster’s safe on the have been held up with regularity,
cruiser Milwaukee, and thus far all and the conditions became so bad
efforts to discover the thief have failed. that landlords complained that th e*
could not rent buildings on the Bar
The president of the Butte, Mont., bary coast because the big sums in
Miners’ union eays 5,000 men are out protection demanded by the police
of work,
notwithstanding circulars men absorbed all the profits of the
which have been sent out by the mine- tenants. Chief Biggy arranged a
trap of marked coins and caught Be
owners advertising for more help.
han and Evatt.
The Roxbury Carpet works, of Bos
Although the cases are clear ex
ton, employing 900 hands, have cloeed tortion, under the supreme court de
cision in the Schmitz case, they do
indefinitely.
Prince Lmtpold, of Bavaria, cele not constitute crimes.
The cases ara,identical with those
brated his 87th birthday. He is in of Ruef and Schmitz in almost every
perfect health.
particular. If one was no crime, it
Massachusetts cotton mills have made is difficult to see how the other could
a 10 per cent reduction in the wages of be construed into a crime.
25,000 employes.
W A N TS TO DIE.
The forest service has authorized 17,-
900 cattle and 152,500 sheep to graze Orchard Would Refute Pardon Were
on the Blue Mountain reserve this sea
It Offered Him.
son.
Boise, Idaho, March 17.— On the
The American anto in the New York morning o f his 42d birthday, next
to Paris race reached Granger. Wyo., Wednesday, in the district court of
March 12.
The second car, the Ital Canyon county, Harry Orchard, the
self-confessed murderer o f ex-Gov-
ian, was at Cheyenne.
ernor Steunenberg, who was killed
Union Pacific
stockholders have by the explosion o f a bomb at the
turned on Harriman and sued him fcr gate of his residence in Caldwell on
the $40,000,000 he made dealing in the the evening of December 30, 1905,
stocks of other roads with Union Pa will face Judge Fremont Wood pre
pared 1 to hear the death sentence
cific capital.
meted out to him.
A conference was held between Pres
Harry Orchard, o f his own voli
ident Roosevelt and prominent men tion and against the urgent plead
looking to legalizing railroad pools, ex ings o f his attorney and others, re
empting labor anions and making all fused, when arraigned March 10, to
let his previous plea o f “ not gu ilty”
corporation deals pnblic.
stand. He also refused to plead to
General d ’Amade, commanding the a lesser degree of murder than first
French forces in Morocco, has received degree. He said:
a letters from Mulai Hafid, the so-
“ I am guilty and am ready to take
called saltan of the South, and leaders the punishment.
I have told the
of his army, asking that hostilities be truth. I understand fully what must
suspended pending peace negotiations. be the consequences.”
An insane man tried to kill King
Haakon, of Norway.
King Alfonso was received with mnch
enthusiasm at Barcelona.
Four negroes have been lynched in
Mississippi for incendiarism.
Span ish anarchists are said to be after
the premier, and not the king.
The Mother’ s’ congress is in session
at the White House, Washington, D. C.
The United Railways company of San
Francisco is about to go into the hands
of a receiver.
Japan ridicules the idea that naval
preparations are being made for an at
tack on China.
Great Britain has sent a note to Ja
pan advising arbitration of the China-
Japan difficulties.
The president has sent to the senate
the nomination of John McCourt to be
district attorney for Oregon.
Russian Press Crmme ’»a.
St. Petersburg, March 17— The Slo-
vo says that the return o f the Am eri
can fleet as announced Is as sensa
tional as its departure for the Paci
fic. Apparently the Slovo thinks the
danger o f war has disappeared, for
it adds: “ W hile thlB arouses deep
satisfaction in Europe, the preserva
tion of peace is due to the display of
the big stick of the United States,
the prudence of Japan and the good
offices of Great Britain.” The Novoe
Vremya says: “ Whatever the origi
nal purpose, the cruise has done a
useful service by a public examina
tion o f the American navy.
Malta Will Welcoms Fleet.
Malta, March 17.— The announce
ment that the American fleet would
make a round-the-world trip has
been received here with great Inter
est.
Should the fleet visit Malta,
Its reception will be In the hands of
the military authorities, as the Medi
terranean fleet la absent from June
to October.
AROUND THE WORLD
Amer.cin Battleship Fleet VIII
Make the Circoli.
LEWE SAN FRANCISCO JULY 6
D.«appointment on Coast— Fall Target
Practica In Philippine Waters
—Japan Not on Routa.
San Diego, Cal., March 14.— News
that the “ American battle flee t" Is
to undertake a tour o f the world
within two months after its arrival
at San Fraucisco on May 5 was
flashed by wireless telegraphy to the
16 battleships of Admiral Evans'
command at Magdalena Bay late
lust night by the government station
on Point Lomu. There Is every rea
son to believe that It was received
on board the vessels by officers and
crews alike with the greatest degree
o f satisfaction.
Admiral Evans, who will relin
quish command of the fleet during
its forthcoming stay at San Fran
cisco. and who goes on the retired
list when he attains the age of 62
years In August, was expecting some
official word from Washington ou the
subject o f the future movements of
the fleet, and it was In view of this
and to enable the deimrtment to pre
pare lts program that he sent the
message the night o f his arrival off
Magdalena Bay, to the effect that
the ships could start on uny mission
at a day’s notice and were in far bet
ter shape as to machinery and effi
ciency o f crews than on the day o f
sailing from Hampton Roads.
Washington. March 14.— Admiral
Evans’ battleship fleet, after leaving
San Francisco, will visit Hawaii, Sa
moa, Melbourne and Sydney, Austra
lia; the Philippines and return to
New York by way of the Suez Canal.
Secretary Metcalf announced the
future movements of the fleet after
the cabinet meeting today. It will
leave San Francisco on July 6 “ for
our Pacific possessions,” as Mr. Met
calf styled It. The vessels will first
touch at Hawaii, where they will
coal. A fter that they will go to Sa
moa, following with a visit to Aus
tralia. They will stop at the cities
o f Melbourne nnd Sydney, the invi
tation of the Australian government
to visit that country having been
supplemented by a more cordial one
from the British Ambassador, Mr.
Bryce.
Leaving the Australian waters, the
vessels are to go to Manila, and
while In the Philippines, the annual
fall target practice will he held.
Thence they will return to the United
States by way of the Suez canal,
stopping only at such ports as are
necessary for coaling purposes. The
date o f their return to the States de
pends entirely upon the amount of
time required for the target prac
tice in the Philippines. The visit of
the battleships to Puget Sound will
be made some time between the con
clusion of the grand review in San
Francisco Bay, on May 8, and the
date of the sailiug over the Pacific.
Secretary Metcalf said that the
battleships would remain in San
Francisco until May 22, during which
time they would fill their bunkers
with coal. According to the present
plan, the entire fleet will go up to
Puget Sound, and some of the ships
may be sent over to Vancouver, all
returning to San Francisco, however,
before departing for home. Admiral
Evans will retire In August by oper
ation of law. Secretary Metcalf said
that no decision had yet been ar
rived at as to who would succeed
him In command of the fleet on Its
voyage homeward.
Mr. Metcalf today made public a
copy of a letter addressed to Secre
tary Root, March 2 „b y Ambassador
Bryce supplementing the invitation
extended by Sir Alfred Deakin in
behalf of the commonwealth of Aus
tralia for the battleships to visit that
country on their return to the United
States.
Orders were Issued at the navy de
partment today assigning officers to
duty in connection with fitting out
the torpedo boats Davies, Farragut
and Fox.
W O RST S TO R M OF W INTER.
Railroad Traffic Sloppad Throughout
Pacific Northweat.
Portland, Mar. 15.— W hile no aer-
louu property damage hus been re
ported, the heavy storm of wiud and
rain that has beeu raging without let
up since Friday ia by ull odds the
worst of the pust year. There are
uo prospects of early ubatumeut nnd
great
destruction
of
property
throughout the northwest may re
sult, for the storm
Is geuurul
throughout this entire region.
Passenger truffle on the O. It. &
N. has beeu completely (led up sluce
Saturday afternoon us the result of
an enormous landslide ut Wyeth. No
east or westbound truiuu have been
sent through lu 36 hours, nnd the
track will not bo cleared before to
day, aa huge musaes of soft eurth
keep oozing down the mountain-side
as rapidly nu the steam shovel is
clearing It away.
Four eustbound
passenger trains tried to get through
since 6 o’clock Suturduy evening, but
ull were stalled, and hud to be
brought buck to Portlund.
Many of the pusaeugers who hud
left on oue or the other o f these
trains were routed via the Northern
Pacific, but it Is doubtful if they
will succeed in getting through, be
cause a number o f heavy slides have
occurred on that road between hero
and Tacoma.
Hood River people sat In darkness
last night. Churches, hotels, and
such homes us were provlued, were
Illuminated by kerosene lamps, lan
terns and ancient tallow dip«. The
light and power plunt was put out of
business early in the storm, und no
trains wunt eust or west during Sun
day.
—
The volume o f water rushing down
Hood River Is greater thnn at any
time since its power was harnessed.
Only an Intermittent telegraph und
telephone service was possible and
conditions promise to be worse to
day.
Pendleton Is also In n bad, if not
In a very Berious way, for the Umu-
t ill» river raged like a torrent all
day yesterday und Is rising at the
rate of four inches an hour, threat
ening the town with a flood, as ser
ious as that which d*-‘ vusluted it two
years ago.
W illamette valley points are apt to
suffer considerably, though no great
dumugo has been done so fur and the
train service on the Southern Pacific
has beeu maintained without Inter
ruption. The rainfall has been un
usually heavy throughout the valley
und all tributaries to the W illamette
are leaping up their banks steadily,
hour by hour, and are expected to
keep on rising for several days.
A number of log booms in tho
Cowlitz river have been ripped loose
from their moorings and are burling
down tho river.
Between 3 o’clock Saturday after
noon and 6 p. m. yesterday the W il
lamette river came up five feet at
Portland. There is a strong current
running and Indications point to a
steady rise for several days to come.
Heavy rains have fallen throughout
the valley and all tributary streams
are bank full.
During the 24 hours ending Sun
day at 5 p. m. 1.82 Inches of rain
fell. Between noon Friday and last
evening the precipitation was 2.82
inches. The umount o f rainfall for
the 24 hours just passed has been
exceeded for tho month o f March
three times since the establishment
o f a weather station at Portlund. In
1877 the fall was 2.35 inches, In
1883 2.25 inches in 1902 1.86 IncheB.
The rainfall was steady but ut no
time was there an excessive down
pour.
The wind attained a velocity o f 52
miles an hour at North Head and at
Tatoosh Island. The general direc
tion was south and southwest. The
storm is moving rapidly eastward
and this morning I h raging over Brit
ish Columbia. Storm warnings are
still out over coast ports and strong
southerly winds are looked for today.
Rain will continue, but not steadily
as yesterday.
Elma, Wash., March 16. Heavy,
continuous rain has prevailed in the
Chehalls valley for several days past.
The Chehalls river, running over Its
banks, is still riBing and the highest
water in many years is now expected
and being prepared for. There was a
steady downpour o f heavy rain all
through the night, and it continues
today unabated.
Not a log will be left in any o f the
creeks and rivers, every driving
stream will be swept clean, so great
Is the flood raging through Chehalls
county at this time. Logs that have
hung for years on gravel bars and
Warships Hava a Race.
San Francisco, March 14.— The high banks will go down to the
protected cruisers Charlestown, 8t. booms on Grays Irarbn-
Louis and Milwaukee, which arrived
Fire Makes 300 Idle.
from Magdalena Bay today, utilized
a portion of their run up the Coast
Trinidad, Colo., March 16.— Fire,
for an annual endurance test which supposed to have been caused by
resulted In disaster for the Milwau
kee and the flagship Charleston. The crowded electric wires, destroyed the
test requires a speed o f 20 knots coke washer, tipple, engine house
maintained
for eight consecutive and chemical laboratory of the Col
hours. All went well for the first orado Fuel & Iron Company’s mine
few hours as the three white cruisers at Soprls, five miles west of here to
dashed through the Santa Barbara day, entailing a loss estimated at
channel until suddenly the flagship $150,000 and throwing 300 men out
The flames were
dropped behind, soon to be followed o f employment.
first
discovered
on
the third floor of
in misfortune by the Milwaukee,
the five-story frame building of the
coke washer, spreading rapidly to
Germany Takes Notice.
the other structures. The office
Berlin, March 14.— The German was saved after desperati fighting
naval critics are commenting upon
the wonderful feat of seamanship
Congratulations From Kaiaar.
displayed In the 12,000-mlle voyage
London, March 16.— A special dis
o f the American battleship fleet un
der the command of Rear-Admiral patch to the Dally Mall from Berlin
Evans and Its arrival at Magdalena says that the Emperor sent warm
Bay four days ahead of Its scheduled personal congratulations to Presi
time without a ship being disabled. dent Roosevelt on the arrival of the
They consider It proof o f excellent fleet at Magdalena Bay ahead of
schedule time.
material aa well as of personnel.
NEW HILL ROAD DONE
Driving of Golden Spike Harks
Completion ol North Bank.
EXCURSION RUN FROM VANCOUVER
Ceremony Took Placa at Sheridan's
Point, West o f Slevanson —
Sita o f Old Blockhouse.
Vancouver, Wash., March 12.— In
the presence of 600 cheering people,
who traveled 60 miles to witness tha
ceremony, the golden spike was driven
In the North Bank road yesterday after
noon. The exercises were held at Hher-
idan’s Point, three miles west of Hteven-
eon, Wash., and although they uocupied
bat a few mlnuUa, were impreesive.
The driving home of the golden splka
was regarded by the spectators as sig
nalising the dawn of a new epoch in
the railroad history of the Pacific coast.
The gray old mountains that looked
down on the coming of the tiny canoes
of Lewis and Clark, over 100 years ago,
stand all around the apot whore the last
spike was driven yesterday.
Almost
on the very place where the laat rail
waa laid, an old blockhouse, erected by
pioneers, withstood the repeated at«
larks of Indians and after it turd served
its ptirpnee, was washed away by a flood
in the Columbia river.
The special train that was ion to
Lyle yesterday over the new Hpokane,
Portland A Seattle railway waa made
up at Vancouver, and the people who
attended the ceremony of driving tho
spike were guests of the busimss Inter
ests of Vancouver aud the new railroad.
The driving of the golden spike took
place on the trip up the river, the train
being halted at Sheridan’s Point (or
the purpose. K. K. Beard, editor o f
the Vancouver Columbian, was master
of ceremonies and held the golden splka
that was to be the final bond linking
the Inland Fhnplre with the cities of
the aeatxwrd. lie introduced Mayor
Green, of Vancouver, who made a short
talk.
Geo go If. Himes, teerdary of th »
Oregon Historical smutty, was intro
duced and dwelt on the historic signifi
cance of driving the golden spike of the
new road where the pioneers took
refuge from the attacks ol the Indiana.
Char lee If. Carey, of Portland, coun
sel for the H ill lines in this territory,
was called upon and rtaponded with a
speech.
The golden spike was then driven.
Judge Carey struok the first blow, and
hvndel the gilded hammer over to
M>yor Green, who, in tarn, gave way
to George If. Himes. (Superintendent
Foiest, of the new road; H. Fairchild,
representing Governor Mead, of Wash
ington, who was unable to be present;
C. T. Gieaentanner, editor of the Pare©
Express, representing the present ter-
minus of the North Bank road; H. M.
Adame, general freight and passenger
agent for the new line; Major Mc-
Glachlin, of the United Ntates army;
Richard Porter, t f the conitacting firm
of Porter Bros, A Welch, who con
structed the new line; James P. Staple-
Urn, of Vancouver, tapped the spike in
turn, and N. D. Miller, chief engineer,
was called upon to drive the spike
home. As he did so he was loudly-
cheered. and the new road was foimally
completed.
The track was completed ron Wash
ington’ s birthday, but the golden spike
was driven at the point where the lust
rail was laid. The line will tie opened
for traffic next Monday morning from
Vancouver to Pasco, a distance of 221
miles. Work is now going forward on
the line between Pasco and Hpokane,
making the total length of the road
jrhen completed, 380 miles. It ia ex
pected to have the entire line in opera
tion between Portland and Hpokane by
the end of the present year. Trains
over the road w ill be running into
Portland, it ia expected, by next June,
npon completion of bridges across the
Columbia and Willamette rivers.
New Lina In California.
I.oa Angeles, March 12.— Articles o f
incorporation of the I.oa Angeles A Han
Francisco Short Line Railroad com
pany, with a capital stock of $2,000,-
000 were filed here yesterday. Th©
purpose of the company is to build a
line to Han Francisco, cutting off al
most 100 miles from the distance cov
ered by any of the roads now construct
ed between here and the Northern city.
The line haa already been surveyed, ft
is SAid that F^astern capitalists are be
hind the proposition.
Connection
with the Western Pacific ia denied.
Plague Again Breaks Out.
Han Francisco, March 12. — Tw o
plagne cases were discovered this morn
ing, one well defined and the other
subject to some donht. The patienta
were immediately isolated and every
preoantion taken to prevent farther
spread of the contagion from tha vic
tims of tha disease.
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