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London, A pril 7.— Great Britain ia
in a peculiar position, being without
either premier or miniatty. The long
| expected resignation of
Sir
Henry
1 Campbell-Bannerman, the prime min-
lis te i, was officially announced Saior-
I day night. According to the conit cir
cular, he resigned on the urgent recom
mendation of his medical advisers, and,
aa the constitution provides no auto
matic successor, it renting with the kii g
A R esum e o f th a Less Im p o rta n t but . to choose a new head of the govern
ment, and in accordance with the cus
N o t Less In te re s tin g Events
tom and precedent, the whole cabinet
o f th e Past W e e k .
lea'gns with the premier, no ziep to
appoint a ministry can be takeu until
Heri>ert H. Asquith, chancellor of the
The torpedo flotilla has reached Mag
exchequer, who has been summoned io
dalena bay (or practice.
Biarntx for the purpose, ha» seen the
K ng Edward is severely criticiaed by king.
his people (or leaving his post at a
The positron of the country is quite
unprecedented, there being no previous
crisis.
Naval experts eav many new recotds example of a change occurring in the
were made by the battleships fleet at premiership while the rovereign wa-
abroad. On this account the course of
Magdalena bay.
procedure to oe followed is in some
Howard Gould is suing his wife (or a doubt.
divorce. Drinking is her worat offense,
Sir H enry’s condition remains un
according to his story.
changed, aocording to the physicians’
The king, (in telegraphing
O liver C. Dallas, under arrest at H el bulletin.
his
acceptance
of the prem ier’ s resigna
ena. has admitted making many false
tion, conveyed an expression of his re
reports on mineral surveys.
gret and esteem, with best wishes for
Harriman denies that he has main Sir H enry’s recovery.
tained a monopoly of the tiansportation
business in Oregon and California.
S T A Y T O N ..................
OREG O N
NEWS OF TOE WEEK
In a Condensed Form (or Our
Busy Readers.
P O L IC Y IS C H A N G E D .
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The Canadian Pacific railway has de
cided to build a second line through
Jap an M u ch Influenced by C o m in g o f
the Rocky mountains to the Pacific
A m e ric an F le e t.
coast.
Tokio, A p ril 7.— A few days ago
The Italian car in the New Y oik to
Count Okama received a deputation
Paris automobile race has arrived at
Bin Francisco and w ill take a steamer from the Japanese residents of Sacra
mento, Cal., and from the Japanese
lor Alaska.
newspaper men of Sen Francisco, who
Representative Hobson, of Alabama, wished to solicit his views on the em i
says the navy needs more ships. That g ra tio n problem. The count is report-
Japan could easily whip the United 'ed by the vernacular papers to have
State« at present.
said that it was very difficult to And
out
wherein lay the object of the dis
On her return from San Diego to
American
battleship
Magdalena the Connecticut exceeded patch of the
squadron
to
the
Pacific
at
this
time. A
her trial speed, and that after the long
good deal has been made of the move
trip from Hampton Roads.
ment by the European press and it was
A bitter prohibition campaign in I l l i looked upon there as an occurrence of
nois is near an end.
unusual significance. - Japan, however,
Philippine Democrats have indorsed had received the assurance of the
United States government (hat it was
Bryan for president.
not intended as a menace to Japan,
Japan is to abolish the stigma of caste but was merely undertaken for the pur
on the lower classes.
pose of training officers and m#n.
Nevertheless, kri^gtever the real ob
Great Britain is alarmed at the
ject cf the movement might be, it wa*
growth of Socialism.
indisputable that Japan’s emigration
The chief of the Crow Indians defends
policy bad been considerably affeited
Indian Agent Reynolds.
thereby and it was not easy to sever en
Russia is inclined to the demands on tirely the dispatch of the fleet from the
the control of Manchuria.
policy Japan bad lately pursued toward
Delaware Republicans w ill send on- the United States in this connection.
instructed delegates to the convention.
An entire trainload of oranges has
just been sent from California to Iowa.
Japan is making extroaordinary war
preparations to continue the expansion
policy.
The old Fifth avenue hotel in New
Y ork has closed aDd politicians are
homeless.
The German diet has forbidden the
use of any language at public meetings
but German.
Harriman officials announce that ex
tensive improvements to San Pedro har
bor w ill be made by the Southern Pa
cific.
It is announced that'the coal mine at
Hanna, W yo., in which a score of min
ers were killed, w ill probably never be
reopened.
A general etnke in Rome has follow
ed a labor riot.
Ruef s last objection’ to
been overruled.
a
trial has
The Brazilian Cruiser Bergamin Con
stant is to visit Honolulu.
Andrew Carnegie has given $5,000,-
000 more to pension university profess
ors.
Hard times have forced Helen Gould
to retrench her charities. Two indus
trial schools in which she is interested
are to close.
Retired clearing house certificates of
Chicago to the amount of $14,000,000
have been sold to a cardboard factory
and reduced to pulp.
Charles Fisher, aged 17, dropped,
dead in the streets of Bedford, Ind. He
was addicted to the cigarette habit and
had one in his mouth when death camo.
The proposition to build a new sub
way in New York from the Battery to
the Bronx, under Broadway and Lex
ington avenue, to cost $60,000,000 has
been approved.
For the third time in six weeks the
Ohio river at Cincinnati is above flood
stage.
A Chicago jury has decided that $60
hats are excluded from the “ necessary
household expenses” for whioh a hus
band is liable when incurred by his
w ife without his approval.
FLEET ASSURES PEACE.
Evans
Says
V oyag e to Pacific W as
W e ll T im e d .
San Francisco, A p ril 7.— Ldmiral
Roblev D. Evans, in an interview
printed in the Chronicle today, said:
“ The greater interest of the United
States today is in the Pacific. The
coming of the fleet to this coast has not
only demonstrated to the world that we
have 16 battleships which can be
brought together for a long cruise at a
moment’s notice, but it has called the
attention of the people of our own
country to the fact that we have a Pa
cific coast as well as an Atlantic coast,
and that it w ill be defended just as
much as every inch of land around New
York, and that our interests in the Pa
cific today are greater than in the A t
lantic.
“ This is the short road to the coun
tries of the Far East, where the greatest
commercial development is to lie. W ith
development w ill come war, but it w ill
be a commercial war, fought with
brains aDd dollars and not with 10-inch
guns. It w ill be generated by such men
as Harriman, and the part of the navy
is only to be always ready. W e do not
plan nor fight commercial battles.
“ The coming of the fleet was most
opportunely timed by the president,
and its arrival in the Pacific has result
ed in the present assurance of peace.
Not that I ever believed that there was
any actual danger of war. The people
of both countries realized too well what
a dreadful calamity such a war would
have been.”
C o lle c t M o re y by A utos.
San Francisco, A p ril 7.— W ith a
“ flying squadron” of ten big automo
biles pressed into service for the occa
sion and a corps of volunteer col Hectors,
extraordinary efforts w ill ire made by
the fleet committee to bring the total of
the fleet fund to $70,000, and to cease
work in that connection by Wednesday.
Before the collectors wind up their
efforts Tuesday night they w ill visit
2,300 saloons and 600 restaurants w ith
in the boundary of the city and expect
the to secure pledges of between $15,-
000 and $20,000.
T ra n s p o rt S h e rm a n Salle.
Ban Francisco, A p ril 7.— The trans
Indiana Republicans are booeting for
port Sherman w ill sail at noon tomor
Fairbanks.
row for Manila with a large number
Germany la preparing to float a loan
of first class passengers beside« 100
o f $162,500,000.
enlisted men of the Twenty-fifth coast
Diamond workers of Germany are on artillery, and 130 recruits for the troop«
in the Philippines.
•trik e for higher wagee.
Important legislation Pending at
National Capital.
TEAM WORK WOULD CARRY DAY
D ry F . t m
H o m estead
B ill,
in W h ich
W e il i t G reatly in te re s te d ,
A m ong M e a su res.
Washington, April 4.— There are aev-
eial imp >rtant b He (tending befoie
senate and hours, or in their comm it
tees, of gieat iuterest to the West, any
one of which can probably tie pasted if
Western renatois and iongrensnien w ill
get together and make a united effort.
Mo-t coin-picuous among thorn at the
p e-ent tim e is the 320-acre d iy farm
lioiueat.ad bill, a measure that means
a gieat deal to the states west of the
Mi-souri river, in many of which set
tlement is practically checked tiecause
the last lands have passed to private
ownership, and what remains cannot
be sncces-ifully entered under the exist
ing homestead law.
Another most meritorious mea»ure
hanging in the ba'ance is tiie Borah
bill, providing funds for building
schools, installing sewer and water aye
terns and making other municipal im
provements in towns established on
government irrigation projects.
This
bill projos*■ to donate to snch towns
all moneys derived from the sale of
town Iota, a fund which, in most in
stances, w II be amp v for the purpose.
E< pe ie-e ' ha» eh« wo tlist towns cn
gover mei t projects have been slower
of deve lopineiit than tow ns on Carey act
p ojecia
The latter have grown rapid
ly. Large school» have been erected ;
adequate water and sewer sjsterna have
been in.tailed, .tree)» have been im
proved. etc., whereas in towns on gov
ernment p rojict» the citizens have been
obliged to go down into their own pock
ets to provide and mviutain schools and
property boh e '» 1 ave been compelled
to bear the entire expense of all civic
improvemer te.
The national drainage bill, which
contemp'ate» the reclamation of swamp
and overflow 'd lauds in all parts of the
United States, .lands little chance of
pas*ing this see-ion.
Though it is a
measure of great merit, there doea not
seem to be that interest that is essen
tial to for.e through a bill of suili mag
nitude and importance. It is difficult
to explain this lack of interest, too, for
there ie siaicely a state that has not
some lands that would be benefited by
a national drainage law.
There is one bill that congress w ill
certainly not pass this session, yet one
that should have been enacted long ago
— a b jll repealirg the timber and «tone
act and submstituting some more prac
ticable statute providing for the dispos
al of governin' nt timber. It haa been
amply demonstrated that, the timbei
and stone act is vicious and unjust.
H O P E L E S S S P L IT .
In ta rs ia ta C o m m issio n C a n n o t A gros
on S p o san o H ate C a s a .
W a.hlngton, A pril 6.— After havii g
the Spokane rate oa»e under considera
tion for more than one year, the Inttr-
state Commerce coimnl.sion la appar
ently hopelessly divided legarding the
dtoiidon which should l>e rendered.
The cane Is the most important it|>on
the dockets of the commission, and up
on It hinge» the entire rateJabiio of the
United States.
If the ccmmisalon(shoiild decide with
the shippers of Spokane, the theory up
on whioli the railroad* have made rates
from the earliest days w ill be u |* m t and
pa-t decisions on the abort and long
haul clause of the commerce act w ill be
more or lee* nullified.
Chi the other
hand, if the commission refuses tc dis
turb the pieeent adjustment, a long step
toward establishing the justice of the
ratemaking methods of the railroads
w ill have been taken.
Recognizing the
import of the case, the comm Isa Ion went
Into a uioat careful and elalioiate inves
tigation and hearing of all the facts and
listened to argument» from a large
iiiimbei of the business, railroad and
com iueuial lawyers in the W est.
Since the arguments weie heard the
commission has hail numerous confer
ences regard ng a devision, and it de
velops that there are at least three d if
ferent views which thus far have proved
irreconcilable.
The coinmisaion lias
struggled in vain to get a major ty re
port and app a ren tly is in a deadlock.
The cam* Is one which had been both
ering the railu s'ls in the Northwest lor
years prior to the commission’ s being
given greater powers.
Owing to water
competition, a.cording to the railroads,
the rates to Spokane from live Eastern
seaboard are the rates to the Pacific
coast, plus the local rates from the Pa
cific coast back to Spokane. The latter
c r y insists that this is unfair.
P O P U L I8 T 8 N A M E T IC K E T .
W atson and W illiam s T h e ir C h o ic e fo r
N atio n al O ffic e rs .
St. Louis, A p ril 4.— For president of
the United States, Thomas E. Watson,
of Georgia.
For vice president, Samuel W . W il
liams, of Indiana.
This ticket was nominated yesterday
by the Peoples’ party convention after
two stormy sessions, throughout which
the Nebraska and Minnesota delega
tions, working in the interests of W . J.
Bryan, strove desperately to bring about
an adjournment til) after nominations
had been m ale by the Democratic and
Republican parties.
Hopelessly out
numbered, and without any chance
whatever of gaining their object, the
Nebraska men fonght desperately to the
last, and, when Jay A . Forrest, of A l
bany, N. Y ., mounted the platform to
place M r. Watson in nomination, they
withdrew from the convention, attend
ed by the Minnesota delegation.
S m e lte r T ru s t Pays Big F e e .
Helena, Mont., A p ril 4.— A fter a
year’s contest, the American Smelting
A Refining company today admitted its
defeat by sending to Secretary of Stale
A . N. Yoder a check for $3,685, as a fee
for the filing of a certificate showing an
increase of capital stock from $66,000,-
000 to $100,000,000. The corporation
contended that the paymer^ of this fee
in New Jersey made its payment un
necessary in Montana, but Attorney
General Albert J. Malen ruled other
wise. The fee is the largest in the his
tory of the department.
Will Fight Tw o-cent Law.
Chicago, A p ril 4.— A combined at
tack on the 2-cent passenger rats is
promised by the railroads that operate
in Illin o l«, Minnesota and Missouri.
It is probable that the suits w ill be
filed next week. The call for a confer
ence to meet, at which officials c f the
Illin oie roads w ill be present, was Is-
sned today, and plans for the fight w ill
then then be laid.
ROADS ARE BLOCKED
Blizzard and Snow Ties Up Mid
dle West Traille.
TEMPERATURE GETS NEAR ZERO
F ro m
M a n ito b a
T h ro u g h
M in n eso ta
and W est to M o n ta n a , G ale C a r-
rise C lo u d s o f K n o w ,
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St. Paul, A pril 2.— A terifle gale ie
blowing here today and Is bearing a
cold wave down from the Northwest,
aocording to tire United States weather
bureau. The oold wave w ill cause a
drop in tempertaure to about lOfdegrees
above zero.
Very low temperature prevailed to
day at most place« in Manilolm and
territories. It was two degrees below
zero at Medicine fla t today and four
below at Prince AH art.
A dispatch from (lrand Forks, N. D.,
says:
“ A heavy snowstorm, accompanied
hy wind, caused delay to trains in
North Dakota today. The east bound
Oriental lim ited of the Great Northern
arrived four hours late and reported
that the storm raged all the way from
Great Falls, Mont.
A ll trains from
the East were from half an hour to two
hours late this morning.
The snow ia drifting and It is befleved
traffic w ill be tied up west of Grand
Forks. A bout a foot of snow haa fallen
here in the last 24 hours. It is report
ed that the Hoo line from Ardock weal
to Keutnare 16 badly tied u p ."
In th e G rip o f a B liz z a rd .
Crookston, Minn., A pril 24.— The
entire Bed river valley haa been since
D epo sits o f E n o rm o u s V alue D isco v
last night in the grip of the worst b liz
ered In U ta h .
zard of ttie winter.
Washington, A pril 6.— T itle to lands
in the state of Utah containing salt de
P O R T L A N D S R O S E C A R N .V A L
posits of an extent and purity hitherto
not only unknown, hut undreamed of,
G re a t P re p a ra tio n s Being M a d e fo r
is involved in a sensational contest now
F lo ra l E vent.
lieing fought out in this city.
About
38,000 acres of lands lying along the
Portland, Or., A pril 2.— This week
western border of Utah have been dis the management of tire Portland Hoae
covered to be overtopped with salt, and festival, which w ill give a $50,000 cele
an attempt Is being made to acquire bration during the fir»t six days of
them by the filing of placer mining June, inaugurated a campaign of pub
claims on the part of individual«. The licity throughout all sections of the
vaule of the lands was today estimated country. The cim paign consists of the
by one of the claimant» at $00,000,000. sending out hy mail of 260,000 lieauti-
Deposited by nature on the lands fully colored and artistic advertising
over which the contest is being made is “ inserts," in which plan all the whole
a lied of pure salt, which in some places sale and retail houses, hotels, restaur
lies to a depth of six feet. This salt is ants, publio schools, drug stores, etc.,
of so fine a quality that it has been have lieen enlisted.
Great demand
found unnecessary to refine it. I t can has been made for these attractive in
lie marketed direct from the deposit and serts already and they w ill be sent out
tests have shown It to he 98 per cent regularly unti I the festival opens June 1.
pure.
Elaborate preparations liave
One of the fine feature« of the hig
been made for the control of the land jubilee w ill lie the grand water carnival
by individuals, who have thus far kept to be held one evening during the week.
the discovery of the deposit out of the Every individual, firm or corporation
newspapers.
that owns a pleasure or business craft
For two or three months they were that plies in the waters of the North
successful, but dow the state of Utah west has been invited to enter some
has awakened to the vast poesibllities craft in the magnificent decorative and
of tide salt deposit and the aid of the illuminated aquatic pageant.
senate of the United States and the
Capt. J. C. Hpeier, harbor master o f
president has been invoked in an effort this port, chairman of the water carni
to retain the product, which the com val committee, lias been in communica
monwealth claims under a section of tion with many associations along the
the enabling act making it a slate.
streams and rivers of this section that
are interested in water aporte and most
of them have assured him that they
S O O N D E C ID E L U M B E R R A T E S
w ill i>e glad to iwrticlpate In tnat event.
Quite a number of towns and cltiee
T hen C o m m issio n W ill A ct on O p e n of Oregon, outside of Portland, have
ing P o rtla n d G atew ay.
come to the front to help make the fes
Some have ap
Washington, A pril 6.— The Portland tival a huge success.
gateway cane, which was argued la»t propriated as high as $600 and $600 to
fall and which involves the shipment defray the expense of building a fine
of lumber eastward from Puget sound decorated and illuminated float for the
via Portland, w ill not be decided until splendid night parade “ The Spirit of
the Interstate Commerce commission the Golden W est.” '
W ork on these floats is already under
has rendered an opinion on the lumber
rate cas«s which were recently argued way and new committees are being
here. The commission w ill this week heard from every few days. The tim e
hold Its first conference on the lumlier is short, so the management urges those
rate case arid its decision in that case towns that dealre to take [»art in the
may not be forthcoming for many demonstration to communicate with
weeks, though there Is a disposition to the festival management at once.
Commercial bodies from all parts of
settle this question with an much ex
pedition aa po«aible, as it involves the California w ill come here for two or
lumber industry of the entire North three days of the festival. A spécial
business m en’s excursion under the
west.
auspices of the California state hoard
of trade, which w ill embrace organiza
In creases F ire H a z a rd .
Kan Francisco, A pril 6.— The present tions from all the leading cities of that
unsatisfactory condition of Han Fran commonwealth, lias already been ar
ranged for.
cisco’s water supply, especially from
the point of view of protection against
fire Hazard, was forcibly outlined in a
A ll A nxious to See F le e t.
communication sent to the board of
Melbourne, A pril 2 — Alfred Deakin,
supervisors today by the board of fire prime minister of Australia, has re
underwriters of the Pacific. The report ceived a cable message announcing that
seta forth that the water system of the the American hattleahlp fleet, which
city is a gravity system, with "p res w ill be divided into two aqundrona of
sures not standard,” and says that the eight warships each, w ill arrive here
distributing reservoirs and tanks within September 1. The fleet w ill arrive at
the city “ do not contain five days’ sup Sydney September 13.
The armored
p ly .”
cruiaera, however, w ill not visit Ana-
tralian waters. Mr. Deakin lias cabled
P olice A ssist B u rg la r.
Washington that It is the desire o f
Philadelphia, A pril 6.— An amazing other Australian states that the fleet
story of alleged dishonesty in the police ahonld visit Hobart, Perth, Adelaida
department of this city was told today and Brisbane.
by Harry Rothsnberger, aged 19 years,
who was arrested charged with larceny.
B u ffalo B ill B re a k s D o w n .
The youth mad a a confession, in which
Chloago, A p ril 2.— Colonel W illia m
he says he was aided and abetted in a F. Cody ( Buffalo B ill) Is seriously ill
number of burglarise in the wholesale here at the Stratford hoetl, suffering
district of the city by four policemen.
from a general nervous breakdown.
F IG H T F O R S A L T B E D S .
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