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,
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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.