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THE STAYTOH MAIL r. D. A irX A N D «. ***m*mr STAYTON. ...............OREGON NEWS OF THE WEEK I d a Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. A Resume o f the Less Important but Not Less Interesting Events o f the Past W eek. The London Times has much praise lor President Roosevelt. Russia w ill support Italy in the pro posed reiorms in Macedonia. Ruel's lawyers have again had his trial postponed on account of technical ities. The Haytien president is attain ar resting conspirators against his govern ment. A line ol first class steamers is to be put on between San Francisco and Alaskan points. A Kansas C ity lumber company has entered a plea of accepting rebates from railroads and paid a fine of $13,000. No more bodies have been recovered from the burning Hanna, W yo., mine. A ll entrantes have been clostd to smother the blaze. The eteamer Pomona, which went on the rocks a short distance north of San Francisco, is fast going to pieces and w ill be a total wreck. It is still hoped the engines may be saveJ. The senate inadvertently printed a report on sealing which attacks the in tegrity of Vice President Fairbanks and many other prominent men. The doc ument has been withdrawn. Stanford students want President Jordan. M E S S E N G E R IS K IL L E D . Robbsrs Then Loot Express 8 s f t s o f Valuables. Newton, Kan., March 31.— A . D. Hailey, an express messenger of the Wells-Fargo company, was killed by au unknown person on Santa F’e train No. 115, between Florence and Newton, early Sunday morning. The murder was very brutal, with robbery aa tbe objeot. Both the lo-wl and the through safes were ransacked aud at least $1,- 000 in money and some jewelry taken. The amount the robbers secured is not known. The dead body of Messenger Hailey was found at 4 o’clock Sunday morning when the train reached Newton. It was stretched on the floor of the car, the head beaten to a pulp and lying in a pool of blood. The lack of the skull was crushed aud the end of the car where it was lying was spattered with blood. The plood spatters reached to the ceiling. There was no evidence of any strug gle, the indications pointing to the commission of the murder while the messenger was asleep, before he could offer resistance. Bailey was seen alive at Strong C ity. A t Peabody someone opened the car door just enough to throw out a package of waybills and then closed it quickly. The oustom of the messenger lias been to go to sleep soon after leaving Flor ence and it is possible that he did this 8unday night. A fter being struck while sleeping, and rendered uncon scious, his body rolled to the floor, and the robber, after beating him on the head, covered it with the dead man’ s coat. One blow was struck at the man’s face with some sharp instrument, apparently a hatchet, which broke the jaw bone. From the dead man’ s pock ets the keys were removed and the safes ransacked. Then the keys were put back into B ailey’s overcoat, the coat folded and put in his grip, where it was found later. ORDER RATES C U T . to remove Commission Finds O. R. & N. A re Excessive. Tolls Portland, March 31.— It is un ler- The German wants Griscom for am stood the Oregon Railroad commission bassador instead of H ill. w lil sustain the complaint of the Port The National and Mexican Central land chamber of commerce against the railroads of Mexico have merged. O. R. A N . company and w ill issue an There is no material change in the order this week requiring a material condition of Senate Penroee, of Penn reduction In class rates over the main and branch lines of that road through sylvania. out tbe state. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannermann, The extent to which existing tariffs British premier, is in a very critical w ill be affected by the ruling of the condition. commission cannot be learned, bat the Many Japanese are being caught at effect may be to disturb transcontinent San Diego making their way into this al rates and, probably, to requirean ad justment all along the line in the inter country from Mexico. est both of the railroad and the shipper. The auxiliary cruiser Prairie ran aground at League Island navy yard. I f the decision of the commission is at tacked by the Harriman interests it w ill No damage was done. be assailed undoubtedly on tbe ground The abeconding teller and auditor of that ite enforcement would necessitate the Pittaburg Farmers' Deposit Nation not only a wholesale revieion by the al bank are held in $250,000 bail each. railroad of ite tariffs but would serious Twenty Toledo, O., lumbermen have ly disturb interstate business. It is expected that tbe findings of the been sentenced to serve six months in ja il for violating the c ity ’s anti-trust commission w ill be made the basis of litigation on the part of the railroad laws. company positively to test the powers A Russian anarchist tried to throw a of the railroad commission which, un bomb at the police of New York during der the act by which It was created, ie a riot of unemployed. A companion authorized to fix rates. The membere was killed and he was fatally wounded. of the commission were cautious and The assassin of W . D. Stevens has thorough in their investigation of the complaint of excessive freight charges. pleaded insanity. I t is said the commissioners feel confi Secretary Taft w ill deliver the Me dent that their findings w ill be found m orial day oration at Grant’ s tomb, to be fair and reasonable and such as N ew York. cannot be considered an abritrary exer President Jordan defends the Stan cise of the authority w ith which they ford faculty and denounces tbe students’ are clothed. movement as a revolt. Closely Guard Adams. Congressman French, of Idaho, Telluride, Colo., March 31.— As the prophesies that no immigration meas result of the attempt to murder Gene ure will pass congress this session. ral Bulkley W ells, general manager of A score of persons were hurt by a the Smuggler-Union mines and m ills at heavy wind in the vicinity of New Pandora, Sheriff Fitzpatrick is taking Boston,Jlowa, and Msdison, Illin ois. precautions to guard the jail in which Pittsburg bankers admit that tbe Steve Adams, charged with the assass- paying teller and auditor of the Farm nation of Arthur L. Collins. General The ers’ Deposit National bank have stolen W ells’ predecessor, is confined. feeling against Adams is becoming more $1 ,105,000 during the past three yeare. bitter from day to day. The British house of commons has Feeling against Adams has also been passed a b ill providing that all clocks engendered, it is paid, because of the be advanced 80 minutes in order to use fact that during the past two weeks ful more daylight by promoting early ris ly a score or more of miners and others ing. who were deported during strike days The general assembly of V irginia has have returned to the district. adopted a resolution removing Judge J. Many Oaya to Reach Bodiea. W . G. Blackstone, of the Eleventh cir Salt Lake City, Ota>\ March 31.— A cuit, from office on grounds of immor ality and gross neglect of official duty. special to the Herald from Hanna, Seventy-one men are Indana Democrats have declared Wyo., says: known to have lost their lives in Mine themselves for Bryan. No. 1 of the Union Pacific Coal com Rhode Island Republicans w ill send pany, although 54 names are obtaina uninstructed delegates. ble. Seventy-one coffins have been Tramps are causing much trouble on rushed to Hanna. The rescuing party a ’ l Pacific coast railroads. is working heroically, but the bodies The largest clock in the world w ill be w ill possibly not be reached for several put on a soap factory at Thomaston, days, as it w ill be necessary to close Conn. Ti-e dial is 28 feet in diameter. the west stop« and smother the fires be low the tenth level and then draw off Iowa Democrats have indorsed Bryan tbe large quantities of gas. and the Nebraska platform. Another Plot Discovered. The Illin ois Republican convention has indorsed Cannon and declared for Port Au Prince, March 31.— A fresh tariff revision. conspiracy against the government has Adm iral Evans has answered the been discovered in this city. Tbe leader critics of the battleships, saving tbe of the plot, General Larraque, who was arrested on March 14 on suspicion of arm or belt is not too low. conspiring against the president and Railroads have decided to attack the who was released with four others on rat« laws of Illin ois snd Missouri un March 24, took refuge this afternoon In the French legation. der the 8nprsme court decision. CITY IS DESTROYED Heavy Earthquake Followed by Fire I d Mexico. NO LOSS OF LIFE IS REPORTED Thirty-four Shocks Racorded Within Twenty-four Hours at Maxlcan National Observatory. Mexico, City, March 28.— Chilapa, a town of 15,000 inhabitants in the state of Gueirero, has been shaken by an earthquake and burned. The shucks, two in number, occurred early last evening and were followed by tire, which originating In a dozen places among the tumbling buildings, joined'in a conflagration that swept the town. Governor Damian Floies, chief exec utive of the state of Guerrero, who is at present in this city, had at 9 o’clock this evening just received the first offi cial advices from Chilapa. The mes sage save that, although a number of the buildings of the town were leveled to the ground, no lives were lost. The police quarters and .the mayor’s office were destroyed and the jail badly dam aged. Great fissures were made in the streets and open fields. In the neighboring town of Ometepec the jail was destroyed and 30 prisoners made their escape. Troops are guard ing the public buildings that are stand ing in Chilapa, but perfect order pre vails. l i t e r returns from Chilapa show, however, that the dispatch received by Governor Flores was ultra conservative. The town was practically destroyed, though no lives were lost. Most of the buildings that sere leveled were resi dences. Thirty-four shocks have been record ed during the past 24 hours by the seis- mngraph at the national observatory at Tabuyaca. Most of these shocks, how ever, were imperceptible except to the delicat needle of the instrument. N O R T H P O LE IS S H IF T IN G . Making America Warmer and Siberia Colder. Victoria, B. C .t March 28.— That the north pole is shifting and the climate is changing, making the Northern teiri- tories of this continent warmer aud Norther Asia colder, is the theory to support which Moee B. Cotworth, of York, England, has been gathering evi dence in Alaska, from where he has re turned on his way to Fmgland. A curious effect of this change, it is said, may be a number of boundary difficulties Eietween Canada and the United States, especially in the Eastern port’on. This boundary is fixed by latitude, and if the north pole is rrally moving, the latitudes change also, ren dering it advisable that the boundary be speedily marked everywhere by permanent monuments, where it has not yet been so marked already. The movement, Cotworth nays, is caused by the immense accumulations cf ice along the Canadian shore of the Arctic ocean, and especially in Baffin’s land and Greenland. M IN E R S H ELD IN C H E C K . Peace Committee Restrains Strikers From Rioting. Juneau, Alaska,March 28.— Although there has been no violence as yet at the Treadwell mines, the 800 men on a strike are only prevented from making an outbreak by the commission of 20 men from the union who have been called the peace committee. The tension is so high that the least word w ill bring about trouble. The union leaders have asked the men to refrain from drinking, but idlenees Is irksome and the men are chafing under the delay of a settlement, especially in view of the fact that the company has declared that never again w ill there he any of the preeent leaders employed by the company. Cannot Deport Bignami. Ran Francisco, March 28.— Paul Big nami, the anarchist arrested yesterday for inciting to assassination and to de struction of the fleet, when examined before Acting Commissioner o! Immi gration Crawford, stated hat he urns to this country from Italy in 1904. If this is a fact it w ill place him outside tbe Federal deportation laws relating to anarchists. M i. Crawford has wired to Boston to see if there is any record of him there. More anarchists w ill be arreated in the next few days in the Latin quarter charged with vagrancy. Great Strike is Ordered. Kansas City, March 2 8 — Th irty five thousand members of the United Mine- workers of America, employed in dis tricts Noe. 4, 21 and 25, comprising Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, w ill go on strike A pril 1, following a decision reached at meet ings of division vice presidents held here today. E X P L O S IO N IN MINE. Men Flgoting Fire Caught In Under ground Workings. Butte, Mont., Match 30.— A s|>cclal to the Mine! from Hanna, Wyo., says: This camp was visited by another big holocaust Saturday afternoon and the lives of 20 men were snuffl'd out by an exploeiun of gaa in Mine No. 1, of the Uuion Pacific Coal company . A fire had been raging below the 10th level since last SaUmlay, and the force of 200 miners bad been laid oft for the day as a precaution. Hut»erintendent Alexander Briggs and Foremen Joseph Burton, Alfred Ikidds, James Knox, o* Mines 1, 2, and 3, with a crew of 16 or 17 men, all experienced miiicrs, with gas men and fire- fighters, went down into the workings early In the ruerning to fight the conflagration, which whs rapidly eating ite way through the workings. A t 2 o'clock the men above the work ings, the idle men iu the homes and the townspeople wero start led by *»» awful roar, followed by a heavy boom and the shaking of earth and trembling of buildings. A ll knew what had happened, and there was a rush to the mine. Both entrances ha 1 caved in. and the mine timtsMs had been blown g'eat distance# about the outside workings. The second explosion was more severe than the first, being felt in all parts of the town, and it ia feared tliat 60 to 60 names have been added to the death list. BOMB FOR W E L L S . Attempt Made to Blow Up Manager o f Telluride Mine. Telluride, Colo., March 30.— Eluding the night guard stationed at the Smug gler-Union mine, at Pandora, two miles south of Telluride, end the siarchight which Is constantly thrown about the premises during the night from the high tower of the m ill as a precautionary measure, an unknown person gained ac cess to the residence of O eneril Bulkley W elle, general manager of the Hniug- gler-Uni< n Mining company, Saturday night and planted dynamite under his bid The dynamite was exploded by lighting a fuse on the outside of the building alxiut 2 o ’clock Sunday morn ing when the intended victim was asleep. He was hurled against the celling and alighted under a ira«* of debris, but osca|ied with some scratches and bruises and iuqwired hearing. Although a systematic search has been made by Sheriff Fitzpatrick and deputies, aided by hundreds of citizens, no clue has been found to the perpe trator of tbe deed. One man who is charged with having said that Well# would be killed haa bein arreated. General W ells took a leading part in the suppression of labor troubles in this state in 1904 ami 1905, and was prominently identified with the recent prosecution of the officers of the W est ern Federation of Miners at Boise on the ehtrge of complicity in the assass ination of ex-Governor Frank Hteunen- berg, of Idaho. HAS MODIFIED IT S RU LIN G. Interstate Commission Will Re-open Portland Gateway. San Francisco, March 30.— A tele gram was received at the general office of the Southern Pacific com|«ny in this city today from Charles 8. Fee, passen ger traffic manager, who is at present in Chicago, announcing that the recent action of the Interstate Commerce com mission, which was interpreted as clos ing the Portland gateway and necessi tating a higher passenger rate by the Southern Pacific t i Seattle and other Northern points, via Portland, haa been modified. The objection of the coin- mission, it appears, related only to the manner of publishing through rates, and revised tariffs conforming to the commission's wishes w ill lie issued as soon as possible. This new ruling w ill fw received with great satisfaction in Portland, which was being adversely affected by the higher passenger rates charged from the East trV Seattle via Portland than were charged to Seattle over the Great North ern. The Southern Pacicfl is equally pleased, for it has been known that its earnings and prestige have suffered by the ruling which has now been modi fied. Says Dunne it Prejudiced. Han Francisco, March 30.— Abraham Ruef today filed an affidavit through which he seeks to disqualify Superior Judge Frank H . Dunne from presiding in the so called Parkside trolley fian- cliise bribery cases, in which Ruef is a joint defendant with W . I. limbeck, G. H. Umbsen and Joseph Green. In his affidavit Ruef alleges bias and pre judice on the part of Judge Dunne and sets forth many instances in which he says Dunne showed antipathy, bias and prejudice against the defendant in for mer trials. HINTS TO CONGRESS President Says Certain N e* Lews Should Be Pasied. MUST GIVE HENEE TO LABOR Allow Traffic Agreements Among tha Railroads— Amend Anil-Trust Law — Rsvisa farifT. Washington, March 26.— Insisting that certain important inaasurea should be paasad by the prenant oongieaa, Pres ident Rooaevelt aent a special ineraage to tail h bouse» yerterday. The mesaage in part follow#: Uhlul labor should lie prohibited throughout tbe nation. At leaat a model child lalxir bill nhould be passed (or the District of Columbia. 1 renew my recommendation for the immediate re-enactment of an em ploy ers’ liability law, drawn to conform to the recent decision of the Supreme court. W ithin the lim its indicated by tbe court tbe law nhould be made thor ough and cotnpiebenaive, and the pro tection it afford* nhould affect every class of employe to which I he power of the congreea ran extend. In addition to a liability law protecting the em ploye« of oominnn carriers the govern ment should show It« faith by enacting a further law giving compennation to it« own employes for Injury or drath incurred in Ita service. 1 also urge that action 1« taken along the line of the recommendation« I have already made concerning injunction* in lalxir disputes. No temporary restrain ing outer should be issued by any court without notices and the petition for a permanent injunction upon which such temporary injunction lias lieen Issued nhould be heard by the court ineuing tbe same within a reasonable time— say not to exceed a week or ther<abou I again rail attention to the urgent need of amending the Interatate com merce law and especially the anti trust law, along the lines indicated in my last message. The Interstate commerce law nhould be amended no as to give railroads tha right to make traffic agreements, subject to these agree ment« being approved by the Interstate Cotnmere cotnmlnaitn and published In all details. In addition to the reasons I have a l ready urged on your attention it lian now beome Important tliat theie should be an amendment of the anti-trust law because of the uncertainty as to how this law affects combinations among lalxiring men and farinera, if the combination lias any temteucy to re strict interstate commerce. A ll of tbeee combinations, If and w hile exist ing for and engaged in the promotion o f innocent and proper purposes, should be recognixrd an legal, as I have repeat edly pointed out. The tim e has come when we nhould prepare for a revision of the tariff. This should be, and Indent must lie, preceded by careful Investigation. It is peculiarly the province of the houa« of representatives to originate a tariff bill and to determine upon its terms; and this I fully realize, yet it seems to me that before the clone of this session provision should be made for collecting full material which w ill enable tbe congress elected next fall to act imme diately after it comes Into existence. Am ple provision should l>e made for a permanent waterway commission with whatever power is required to make it effective. The congre«« should realize in fullest fashion the fact that the subject of the conservation of our natutal resources with which this com- ml-sion denis is literally vital for the future of the nation. Numerous bills granting water power rights on navigable streams bave been Introduced. None of them gives the government tbe right to make a reason able charge for the valuable privilege granted. Nor Is any definite tim e lim it set, as should always lie done In such esses, and I shall be obliged therefore, In accordance w ith the policy stated in a recent message, to veto any water power hill which does not provide for a time lim it and ttie collection of a just and reasonable charge. Mary Traitors In China Pekin, March 26.— Heven men arrest ed recently charge«! with trafficking in governmental recreta have been found guilty and sentence«! to long terms of imprisonment. This punishment is generally considered to lie worse than death. It would appear that the con spiracy'against the government is fairly widespread, and the revelations have considerably alarmed the court. No less than 3 » important persons are now Alabama Law Is Killed. being held in enstody and it is report««! Montgomery, Ala., March 30.— Judge that the chief of police of the forbidden Thomas O. Jones, of the United States Qlty is among them. court, today held the Alabama penalty railroad laws unconstitutional; alert Kill O ff Anarchist Papers that the suits brought by the railroads Trenton. N. J., March 26 — A hill are not in violation of the eleventh was intnxluced in the house today mak constitutional amendment, not being ing it a misdemeanor to publish anar suits against the state. Several of the chist newspapers. The bill is aimed minor claims were also dec la n d to lie at a Paterson paper recently excluded invalid. from tbe malls.
