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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ument has been withdrawn.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.