EVENTS OF THE DAY GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OF THE TWO HEMISFHERES. Comprchciuiv Review of the Import ant Happenings of the Past Week, Presented In Condensed Form, Mos Likely to Prove Interesting to Our Many Readers. Germany is preparing for a large ex hibit at the St. Louis fair. Several perrons, huve been frozen to death in the Went and South. The corner stone of the army college has been laid in Washington. The extreme cold weather continued throughout the Kant and South. Anthony Hope, the English novelet, ia coming to the United States. Goo. f . Bailey, a former partner of Illinium in the show business, is dead. CONSIDERING KNOX'S OFFER. THE LEGISLATURE Canal Company's Lawyer Says Corns pondencs Is In Progress. Washington, Feb. 24. William Nel son Cromwell, representative of the Panama canal company, stated tonight that no reply hai been made as yet to the president's acceptance of the canal company's offer to sell its property. "The Panama canul company," he said, "is still considering the proposi tion nutde to it by the president through the attorney general several daya ago, but it is not true that it has already made a definite reply. Of course I have hu l numerous conferences with the attorney general regarding the mat ter, and the question is in correspond ence between the officials here and the Panama canal company. I cannot say when we shall make an answer to the proposition." Mr. Cromwell said also that no agree ment had been reached between the United States government ami the canal company extending the time limit of the option. WHAT THE LAWMAKERS OP OREGON ARE DOING AT SALEM. Bills ol Importance That are Being Intro duced and Acted Upon In Both Houses Measures Signed by the Governor Progress of the Balloting for United States Senator. Geer 3, and ab- CANNOT SHELVE TREATIES. NINE PEOPLE DEAD ' s . MN ' fV v - x!7 . it 0 J f 1 I , Vx N Friday. Final ballot Fulton 46, Wood 17, Scott 21, scattering sent 3. The senate To appropriate I100.0U0 for Indian war veterans, passed. To make taxes payable in the fall, passed. To require that the polls at general election be kept open until 7 P. M., passed. The House For bureau of mines, passed. To provide great seal for the state, passed. To provide for licensing of plumbers, passed. Thursday. ' The vote Fulton 33, Geer 27, Wood 17, Williams 6, scattering 5, absent 2. The Senate To repeal scalp bounty law, passed. To change name of Re form school to Industrial school, passed.' To create a bureau of labor, passed. The House To change boundaries of Washington and Columbia counties, reconsidered and parsed. To fix salary of state printer, parsed. To extend terms of assessors to four years, passed. Wednesday. The vote Fulton 32, Geer 27. Wood lti, scattering 10, absent and paired 5. The Senate To put initiative and referendum into effect, passed. For creation of a bureau of mines, pissed. To appropriate $10,000 per year for state fair, passed. For the construc tion of a bridge across the Willamette at Portland, passed. The House A resolution was adopted allowing the widows of the three peni tentiary guards killed by Tracy $1,000 each was adopted. To tlx boundary of Washington county, failed. To torn peti8ate In Han war veterans with $100, 000, passed. Both houses adopted a resolution to adjourn Friday night at midnight. If Senate Does Not Ratify Them an Extra Session Is Assured. ' Washington, Feb. 21. Some of the opponents of the Cuban reciprocity treaty thought that it could be shelved along with other legislative matters to which there was opposition, and have been claiming to themselves tbat the president would never call the senate in special tession simply for the Cubsn treaty. Mr. Roosevelt made it very plain today that the senate could either pass the Cuban treaty or come in spe cial session to consider it. He did not propose to have it lapse simply because certain senators have made objections and kept it from being considered Under this threat it ia probable that at some time before the session ends the senate will ratify the treaty in order to avoid returning to Washington after March 4. Many senators who are going to vote for the Colombian canul treaty admit that it is looeely drawn and that it has some features which are objectionablo to this government. Morgan, who is trying to kill it, is doing so in the In terest of the Nicaragua canal. He thinks that if this treaty could be de feated there would be a chance for Ni caragua. The friends of the Panama canal treaty claim that the action of the president in accepting the offer of the Panama canal company closes the bar gain, and that tne canal must, ue con structed at Panama. Only a small mi nority of the Fenate ia opposing the Panama canal now, and it is doubtful if it can be defeated, as a large majority in determined to put it through. CHILDREN ARE SLAIN. PORTLAND MARKETS. CHARI.F.S W. FULTON" , SF.NATOR-KLECT FROM OREGON. A fake lottery in Which no prizes were drawn has been exposed in New York. Southerners think the settlement of the race question should be left to the South. Rockefeller haa given $1,200,000 towarda founding a medical institution t New York. Germans have acquired much stock in the Panama canal company, but not enough to secure control. A corrected list of the dead in the Cellar Rapids, Iowa, fire shows seven dead and two still missing. The epidemic of typhoid fever at Cornell university continues unabated. Ten Btudents have died from the disease. All railroad employes iiave gone on a strike against the proposed law railroad strikes. in Holland aa a protest prohibiting has CUBA WILL HURRY TREATY. Brigadier General G. W. Ruird been placed on the retired list. The Pan ma a canal company may not accept the offer of the United Statea. There is a disagreement between the house and senate over the Alaskan bills. Pope Io celebrated the 25th anni versary of his accession with imposing ceremonies. Two men are under arrest for hold ing up the Los Angeles street car. They have been identified. A fierce battle occurred between Turks and revolutionists. While the rebels loat heavily, they succeeded in gaining the mountains. lho laliloruia legislature appro priated $25,000 to defray the expenses of the national G. A. K. encampment to be held at San Francisco iu August The United Mineworkers of Illinois haa raised the salaries of all its offi cers. The resolution favoring govern ment ownership of mines and railroads was lost. The resolution passed by the senate providing that Rear Admiral Schley be given the pay and allowance of a rear admiral on the active list waa tabled by the house. The only woman member of the Utah legislature has introduced a bill mak ing it unlayful for a caudidate to give way or treat to cigars, drinks or other re freshments or to furnish voters trans portation to the polls. The house passed the naval bill with appropriations lor more ships. Provision has been made for a cadet at West Point from Porto Rico. The powers of Europe have all united in demanding reforms in Turkey.) Brigadier General Morris C. Foot has been placed on the retired list. Her Senate Will Ratify Immediately, that Congress May Also Act. Washington, Feb. 24. Herbert C. Squiers, minister to Cuba, arrived here tonight direct from Havana, and had an audience with Secretary Hay. Mr, Sauiers said his mission here is to "clean up certain matters connected with the Piatt amendment. Awaiting him at his hotel was a cablegram stat ing that the Cuban congress will take up the consideration of the reciprocity treaty at once and Mr. Squiers ex pressed the opinion that it would be ratified during the present week. It waa learned tonight that this treaty would have been acted upon sooner, but the Cuban government waa awaiting action by the United States senate. Now, however, that the mat ter has been delayed, the Cuban gov ernment will use every means in its power to expedite action on the treaty in the hope of favorable action by the United States senate. Street Car Held Up. Loa Angeles, Feb. 23. The daring deeds of highwavuien, who .seem to have invaded Los Angeles in force, came to a climax tonight when two unmasxed men held up and robbed a carload of passengers of the Los Angeles-Pasadena electric line. Thirty-two passengers, one half of whom were wo men, were forced at the muzzle of re volvers to surrender cash and jewelry to the amount ol between $500 and $700. Tbe robbeis performed their work leisurely but effectively. The car was held for 10 minutes. The men then left it and disappeared in the darkness. The hold-up was carried out in a way that marked the two outlaws as old handa at the business. Wheat Walla Walla, 7577c;blue- stem, 88c; valley, 7880c. Barley Feed, $23.50 per ton; brew- ing, $24. Flour Best grade, $4.304.85 ; grab am, $ 3.4a3.85. Millatuffa Bran, $1819 per ton; middlings, $23 24; shorts, $1920. chop, $18. Oats No. 1 white, . $1.15 1.20; gray, $1.12$1.15 per cental. Hay Timothy, $1112; clover, $89; cheat, $910 per ton. Potatoes Best Burbanka, 6075c per sack; ordinary, 4050c per cental growers' prices; Merced sweets, $2 2.25 per cental. Poultry Chickens, mixed, 12c young, ll12c; hens, 12sc; turkeys live, 1516c; dressed, 1820c; ducks $7 7.50 per dozen; geese, $8. 50. Cheese Full cream, twins, 17,4c; Young America, 17184c factory prices, l14c less. Butter Fancy creamery, 30 32 4 per pound; extras, 30c; dairy, 20 224c; store, 1618c. Eggs 224?4 per dozen. Hopa Choice, 2227c per pound. Wool Valley, 12s16c; Eastern Oregon, 814,4c; mohair, 2(328c. Beef Gross, cows, 33?4c per ponnd; steers, 44.4c; dressed, 7c. Veal 748,4c Mutton Gross, 4c per pound; dressed, 74c. Lambs Gtobb, - 4c per pound; dressed, 74c. Hogs Gross, 6ic per pound; dre8sed,774c. FATAL RESULT OF A HOTEL FIRE AT CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA. Quests Forced to Leap from Windows to Save Their Lives Forty-two Mangled and Scorched Burning of Register Makes Loss of Life Uncertain Build ing was a Firctrap. PACIFIC WIRELESS LINE. Between- Crowded Trolley Car and Passenger Train Collide with Fatal Results. Newark, N. J., Feb. 20. A fast ex press on tne .LacKawana railroad cut through a trolley car crowded with school children at the Clifton avenue crossing today. Eight of the children were killed and a score or more others injured. The niotorman, who stuck to his poet, will die, and the engineer of the express was so badly hurt that there is little hope of his recovery. Both the express and the trolley were on steep grades, going at right angles. Tbe express was signalled and the gates were lowered while the trol ley car was yet half way down the hill. The niotorman shut off the power and applied the brakes, but almost imme diately the car began to slip along the icy rails. It gained tremendous mo mentum and at the bottom of the hill crashed through the gates, directly in the track of the oncoming train. The locomotive plowed its way through the trolley, throwing the children iu every direction. The accident happened within three blocks of the high school building and in the car at the time were nearly 100 pupils. - As many aa 30 Others had managed to throw themselves from the car before the crash came. The trolley was one of the specials which everyday bring the children to school. ' It had more than its ordinary load today, owing to cold weather.' I; contained every child that could squeeze inside, and others stood on the rear platform The car had been so crowded that many who were waiting for it before the hill was reached could not get on, although soma climbed on the .front platform with tbe niotorman. Cedar Rapids, Ia., Feb. 23. Fire early this morniing destroyed tbe Clifton hotel, cremated nine of the guests and caused injuries to 42 other persons, who were Bcorched or foiced to jump to the frozen street from the sec ond and third story windows. After an all-day search jn the debris, four bodies have been recovered. It ia now believed that five more bodies remain in the ruins of the hotel. The build ing was crowded with delegates to the State Young Men's Christian Associa tion convention and the distcrict con vention of the Knights of Pythias. The hotel register was burned, making it difficult to ascertain the number of missing persons. Forty men have been working ill the ruins all day, and will continue to dig for the remains of the burned persona all night. The prop erty losa is $69,000. The hotel, a three-story brick, is said to have been a veritable firetrap. Tbe flames started in a pile of rubbish in the basement, presumably ignited by defective electric light wires. The night clerk was on the third floor when the cry of fire, raised by a bell boy, startled him. He took up the cry and in an instant the hallways were choked with frightened guests. A rush was made for the hallways and stairways t was then that the crowd already col lected in the street heard heartrending cries of anguish and desperation, for he fire, feeding rapidly and rayjnously on the tinder-like material of the lower floor, bad completely cut off escape There followed a stampede for the win dows, the only means of exit left. The streets below were now filled and the crowd was scarcely leas frantic than the despairing ones in the fast burning building. The victims were literally driven by the flames to jump. Nearly every one of them lingered to tbe last moment, urged by the people below to (wait as long aa possible in tbe hope of assist ance. Then a cry would ten mat tne fire had reached them or the smoke had made it impossible to breathe, and one after another jumped, some to tbe street, and some, more fortunate, to the roofs of buildings adjoining. In a short space of time the street waa filled with men and women, bruised, bat tered, btoken-limbed and half-crazed. All were ia their night garments. Company Will Establish Line Coast and Honolulu. San Francisco, Feb. 20. Wireless messages to the Hawaiian islands are to be sent from this coast, according to General A. L. New, manager of the Pa cific Wireless Telephone & Telegraph company. "We have the machinery under way," declared General New, who has- been in Southern California for several months, and is now searching for a proper station from which - to send aerograms to Hawaii. "It now only remains to be decided whether Seattle or San Francisco shall be the terminus of the system on this coast. That point will be decided before many days." "Experts have agreed that the send ing of messages a great distance by wireless systems ia merely a matter of power, we tneretore nave constructed powerful dynamos, which will be ade quate to send messages a distance of 3,000 miles. The work of completing the system will not require more than a month more. After that some tim will be required to perfect the plant and system. An inter-continental sys tem ia no more difficult of construction than two shore stations, and tbe last of our outfit ia already built. We have sent messages a distance of 1,150 miles) with apparatus which we now own and control." General New does not say whether MarcoTlTie interested in the Pacific Wireless Telephone & Telegraph com pany or whether the Marconi method, so-called, is to be used in despatching messages to Honolulu. Agree on Philippine Currency. Washington, Feb. 23. The house conimitte on insular affairs by a strict party vote authorized a favorable report on the Philippine currency bill as it passed the senate, but recommends that it be amended by striking: out the sen ate provision for an international com mission; also by inserting at the end of section 3 the following: "Provided, that debts contracted prior to the 31st day of December, 1903, tray be paid in the legal tender enrrencj of said islands existing at the time of the making of 8a id contracts. Will Become Receiving Ship. New Yoik, Feb. 24. The United States transport Hancock arrived in port today from San Francisco by way of Valparaiso, Montevideo and Bahai. The Hancock was formerly the Guion line steamer Arizona, and in her best days a noted greyhound of the ocean. She was recently turned over to the Ex-Lieutenant Governor Tillman has navv department and comes here to be been refused bail in the Gonzales mor- ronvreted into a reviving ship at the ler case. i brooklyn navy yard. California dives $40,000 for 1005 Fair. Sacramento, Cal., Feb. 24. The committee to which waa referred tbe bill for an appropriation of $40,000 for the Lewis and Clark exposition haa agreed to report the bill favorably. It ia understood that the cost of further reinforcing tbe exhibit to be transferred from St. Louis to Portland, and of maintaining it suitably, will be provid ed for by the legislature to meet two years hence, to the extent of at least $20,000. Considering the condition of the etate treasury, this ia deemed lib eral on the part of California. Pushing Work on Shamrock III. Glasgow, Feb. 21. Large gangs of workmen are rapidly pushing the com pletion of the Shamrock III. The challenger is designed to carry less sail than any challenger since the Valkyrie III. All efforts have been turned to the production of a yacht which will drive easily in all weather, especially in turning to windward through a head sea, and lack of which quality proved fatal to Shamrock II. All the hollow steel rpars are practically finished. The riggers are rearing the running and standing gear. Would Annex Isle of Pines. Washington, Feb. 19. Representa tive Richardson, of Tenneeese, today introduced a resolution asking the pres ident why that portion of the Piatt amendment regarding the Isle of Tines had not been enforced. He also intro duced a concurrent resolution declaring that it is the sense of congress that the Isle of Pious is territory belonging to the United States, and that no sov ereignty can be lawfully exercised there except by the United States. FXPLOSION IN FORT. Shells In La Fayette Slay Four Men and Work Awful Havoc. New York, Feb. 21. Three men were killed outright, one man so seriously injured that he died later, two men fa tally and at least seven seriously hurt in an explosion in the workroom of the naval storage magazine at Fort La Fayette, in New York bay, about o'clock this afternoon. Several were taken to their homes or to Brooklyn hospitals. All the dead and injured were workmen at the fort The explosion could be heard for miles around. Accounts as to how the fatal blast waa set off differ. One re port has it that the men were filling 13-inch shell, while another haa it that the men were removing a powder charge from a shell and undertook to unwind a fuse, connecting the powder dfamber with the Dereussion cap. This caused guflJcient friction to set off the cap and thus explode tbe shell. to Continue Until 1910. Salem, Feb. 20. Senator Pierco' bill to continue the present apuroprla tions of state taxes until 1910 paused the house yeaterday. The percentages under the new act are to lw the same aa under the existing law until 1901, and thereafter they are to be adjusted on the basis of average county expenditures for periods of five yeara. The percent ages to be paid by Union and lur counties have ten adjusted to corrwt- pon l with the change In territory oc casioned by the transfer of the pan handle irom Union to Baker county. Three Killed In l ire. Springfield, O., Feb. 21. Three men are dead as the result, ol a lira destroyed $325,000 worth of property here today and another U probably fatally injured. Whilu lliy wr try ing to save the xtivk In a Jewolry olnru the walla Of the rountitiu miuurtJ llmulti lell on the xtoitt. which a niunll building, and the limn wnru lirlu. I neath th ruin. Thwir lni.li vr roeovttred, disllguiod and Imriiud al most bey'-ii'l rocogiilih'ii, RICH GOLD FIND. Equals officers FULTON THE MAN. New Discovery on Tanana River the Great Klondike Field. Chicago, Feb. 20. Federal on the Yukon river confirm the story that a gold strike equaling that of the Klondike has been made in Tanana valley, says a dispatch to the Chroni cle from Tacoma, Washington. Two thousand miners are stampeding thither from Nome, Dawson, Eagle and Ram part. Some of them will probably per ish, aa the weather throughout the Yukon valley haa been most severe. Tbe etampeders are taking only enough supplies to last them on the journey. This may endanger the lives of all, since provisions are very short in the new camp. United States Commissioner Claypool writes from Circle that btJO claims have been recorded in the new district. which is officially known as Fairbanks, being named after Senator Fairbanks. Bottles of coarse gold have been brought to Commissioner Claypool, fully con firming tbe richness of the strike. Pedro, Cold Stream and f inecreeka are the richest streams, running 25 to 50- cents per pan. Elected United States Senator from Ore gon on Forty-Second Ballot. Salem, Or., Feb. 21. Charles W. Fulton was elected United States senat or last night at 12:12 o'clock. Victory came after scenes of intense excitement and amid the wildest clamor from his friends. It was on the 18th ballot of tbe evening and the 42d of the session At 11 o clock tbe opposition made a futile attempt to unite upon tbe name of H. W. Scott, of Portland. Mr. Scott received the unanimous support of the Multnomah delegation for two ballots. On tbe third ballot, or tbe 18th of the evening, when tbe minute band of the dock was pointing to within three min utes of midnight, Mr. Nottingham, of Multnomah, arose as his name was called and made the first break from the Portland members for Mr. Fulton. He waa followed by Mr. Banks, and then, aftei several other changes had been made, by Representatives Fisher and Jones. Mr. Jones' vote, however, waa not needed he was the 46th man To Senator Daly, of Benton county, the fortune of completing the triumph of the candidate from Astoria fell. He waa the 45th, and it took 45 tj elect. When Mr. Nottingham abandoned his Multnomah colleagues Mr. Fulton had 35 votes. It had been arranged that the Marion delegation would vote for Mr. Scott on the next ballot, and if Mr. Nottingham had seen fit to abide by the wishes and plans of his delegation, it is probable tbat Multnomah county would have been successful in its effort to elect a man from Portland. With -his conversion to Mr. Fulton, the tide in the direction of that gentleman set in, and to him, therefore, largely rests the reapoHiblllty and the honor of nam ing the new United Statea senator. Make Examinations Simpler. San Irancisco, Fob. 23. The chief clerks of the railway mail service of the Pacific, Coast, who have been In conven tion in this city (or the last three days, have completed their labors and ad journed. It whs decided to modify tke examinations required of clerks who asplra to enter the service by eliminat ing all NUMrllnoua matter which has no Ixmrlng upon the duties required of railway mall cleik. It in understood that SuNrtntulideiit Thrall will Issue orders (or the proposed simplification ol thn examinations within a few days Kent to Manila Again. Han lianclix'o, I 'oh, 23, The trans port Kllpatrlck will sail on I'wbrusrv 8(1 (or hanmr with thn I'ourleeuth. lu- (mitry regiment, Thn men am to take Him place, of I hit i'lmt Inlantry. Th I .on m i, to n 1 1 on the ImhI day of this mouth, a loo will carry the iti squad ron id Urn Thlileeiilli Cavalry, 100 Mmi lues and a laitto iiumlivr ot saloon puniiiiiiMels Tim Sheridan, W jto a, rtvu tmm (ha I'lillippluna, due mi Mitii'li ,'!, NORTHWEST IN CONQRESS. Public Building for Yakima Power Dams- at Kettle Falls. Washington, Feb. 20. Senator Foster today offered an amendment to the omnibus public building bill au thorizing the purchase of a public build ing site at North Yakima, to cost $10, 000. - The house commerce committee today favorably reported the senate bill au thorizing the construction of dams in the Columbia river at Kettle Falls, for diverting the water for power purposes. As reported the bill stipulates that dams must be confined to that stretch of river wilh in three or four miles of Kettle Falls, the full rights 'accruing to Jay P. Graves. The committee also reported the sen ate bill establishing a lifesaving station at Cape Flattery, Wash. Storm Holding On. Chicago, Feb. 20. The blizzard re. newed its vigor today, and there i hardly a place between the Atlantic ocean and the western slope of the Rocky mountains where the tempera ture is not below zero, with a gale to aggravate the sufferings of those who are exposed to it. Trains are every where delayed, and in the mountains are hopelessly snowbound. The wind is a blessing in one respect, for it has cleared the enow off the range, so tbat cattle can reach tke grass, but on th rivers it lias driven steamers ashore. In St. Louis and many parts of Kansas a fuel famine has come upon the peo ple. In some places schools are closed for a lack of fuel to heat them. Major Olenn Acquitted. Manila, Feb. 20. General Davis has approved the finding of the court mar tial in the case of Major Edwin G. Glenn, of the Fifth infantry, who was acquitted of the charge of unlawfully killing prisoners of war, with the qual ifications that he disapproves of the ordera issued by Major Glenn. The goueral says he recognizes the principle that guides may be impressed and that treacherous guides may be executed, but bo adds that Major Glenn's orders showed a reckless disregard for human life which the geueral condemns. To Allow Hawaii to Issue Bonds. Washington, Feb. 20. Representa tive Hamilton, of Michigan, tiay in tnxluced a bill to authoriw the gover nor and secretary of Hawaii to issue lunula of that territory in roch sums not to exceed $MH000 as, together with the money already appropriated I'V eonwres, may be surt-cieat to par all Hut judgments growing out ol the sup prvmdon of the bubonic plague in the territory iu ISM and 1900.