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Lear "Wtushtagton ......April 1 la Chicago April 2 In Yellowstone Pork April 8 to 2-1 In Nebraska, Iowa, and Illinois ...April 25 to 29 In 8t Louis April SO la Kansas CItr ...May 1 In Denver May 4 J In San Franclaco May 12 to 14 Arrive at Ashland. Or May 21 la Salem Mar 21 Arrive la Portland after noon) May 21 Leave Portland (morning). May 22 la Taconia May 22 Arrive Seattle May 23 Leave Seattle May 24 In Walla Walla May 23 In Spokane May 20 In Salt Lake May 29 In Cheyenne May SI Leave Cheyenne on re turn June 1 Arrive In Washington June 4 OREGON! AN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, March 16. President Roosevelt will arrive In Portland at 2 o'clock in the afternoon of Thursday, May 2L will spend the entire afternoon and night In the Oregon metropolis,, unless present plans are changed, and will leave for Tacoma the next morning at 9. Senators Mitchell and Fulton and Representative William son called on the President this morn ing to talk over plans of the proposed trip. , The President slid his Itinerary was tentatively made out, but might have to be altered in some particulars. It was his present Intention, however, to cross into Oregon during the night of May 20, and proceed, northward to Portland. He expects to make but one stop, at Salem, where he will remain an hour or more, long enough' to view the town and meet the people. The delegation suggested to the President, inasmuch as his route lay through many Important towns, that he should make short stops at Ashland, Roseburg, Eugene, Albany, Oregon City and Grant's Pass, but the President doubted very much If he would have time for these visits, brief though they might be. By reaching Portland at 2 o'clock. President Roosevelt will have opportunity to drive about the city, viewing the most Important points of Interest before dark. Ho Intends to defer largely to the wishes of the people of Portland dur ing his visit there, and to that end asked the Senators to communicate at once with Mayor Williams with a view to ar ranging a definite programme for his CONTENTS OF TODAY'S PAPER. National Affairs. Senate votes down many amendments to canal treaty. Page 2. Itinerary of President's Western tour. Page 1. Daly confirmed as Surveyor-General and Mel drum notified of dlamlseal. Page 2. Philippine government will arrest backers of ladrones. Paso 12. Revolution la "Uruguay. Page 2. Domestic Greet crevasse la Mississippi levee near Mem phis. Pare 3. Suit to cancel new bonds of Central Pacific Railroad. Page 2. Numerous murders attributed to negro herb doctor. Page 2. Politics. Xemocratlc leaders epeak at Iroquois Club ban quet. Page 3. Ex-PreJldezt Cleveland will make Western tour. Page 3. Carter Harrison renominated for Mayor of Chi cago. Page 3. Foreign. Whlttaker Wright- relies on royalty to shield him. Page 5. Awful devastation by hurricane in South Pa cific Islands. Page 1. Riots In Portugal grow into rebellion. Page 2. Vast Increase in British navy. Page 2. Pacific Coast. Governor Chamberlain puts end to state land graft. Page 1. Funeral of W. M. Rqfideli, Oregon pioneer. Page 4. Decisions by Oregon Supreme Court. Page 5. Bills signed or filed by Governor McBrlde. Page 4. Fair Commission .appointed for Utah, Page 4. Sports. John J. McCloskey wants release from Butte to manage Saa Francisco team. Pare 11. Herrera knocks out Clifford at Butte. Page 11. Commercial and Marine. Spring trade In farm seeds at its height. Page 13. Two-cent break. In corn weakens wheat at Chi cago. Page 13. n Liquidation cau?es decline la stocks at New York. Page 13. New wheat business for South Africa at San Francisco. Page IS. Three additions to the en route list. Pare 12. Portland nnd Vicinity. George Shadlnger finds dangerous bomb under his window. Page 14. Mayor Williams thinks that Civil Service Com mission overstepped Its limits. Page 10. Southern Pacific Company wll build cut-oS from Oswego to Beavertcn. Page 12. First city election la St. Johns. Page 14. Special committee recommends expenditure of $17,300 in repairs to City JaiL Page 8. Blsger Hermann. Congressional candidate, in the hands of bis friends. Page 10. stay In the city. He wants this pro gramme to be amnged so as to enable him to see the city to advantage, to meet the people, and yet to avoid all tiring features such as speeches or ban Quets. It Is likely thit a public recep tion will be arranged for Thursday even ing, to allow the people of Portland and others who may assemble there to meet the President In person. Whether or not the President -will spend the night In his car or at the hotel will be for the local authorities to say. "While It is the President's -wish to ac commodate the people, he asks in re turn due consideration at their hands that they may not impose upon him any entertainment that -would be an undue tax upon his strength or energy, as the trip at best will be a hard -one. In accordance with the. President's wish, the Senators today telegraphed to Mayor Williams asking him to formulate programme as early as possible that It may be submitted to the President for his approval. . Senator Fulton told the President that he and the people of Astoria would like him to visit tho city liy the sea.- The President expressed a desire not only to view the city to which much historic in terest .attaches, to view the work on the Columbia jetty and the lower river of which he has heird so much, but to view the Upper Columbia, but thinks these side trips will have to bo abandoned because of the shortness of time. Senators Foster and Ankeny also saw the President this morning and procured his consent to stop off at Olympla for 70 minutes and a partial promise' to make a brief stop at Ellensburg on his way East. The Senators are not entirely sat isfied with the arrangement for a tour pf Puget Sound, for they want the Presi dent to see that waterway from one side to the other and to visit the more im portant towns,, including Exerett, Port Townsend and Whatcom, curtailing his visit to Seattle, If need be. They will see the President again tomorrow in tho hope of Inducing him to change his plans for a trip on Puget Sound. As the Washington delegation has planned to Join the President at Portland and escort him through that state, so the Oregon delegation expects to meet the President at the California line, or at Salem, and remain with him until he leaves for Tacoma. HIS COMPLETE ITINERARY, Journey Extending Th.roneb.out the Grent West to the Pacific. WASHINGTON. March 16,-Several Senators and members of the House of Representatives from Western States to day had conferences with President Roosevelt concerning his approaching tour of the West and Northwest. Dates for the President's visits to cities of the several states to be Included In his jour ney were discussed. A few changes were made, but the Itinerary of the trip prac tically has been completed, with the ex ception of the time of arrival and depart ure of the President from a few places. The Itinerary now Is In the hands of the railroads for exact determination of the running time. The party wllHeai'e Washington on tbs morning of April 1, and will proceed di rectly by the Pennsylvania Railroad to Chicago, arriving there the next morning. April 2 will bo spent In Chicago, but the programme for the President's entertain ment there has not been completed. From Chicago the President will go to Madison. Wis., where on the morning of the 3d he will address the Legislature In the State- house. Thence he will go to Wautauk shee. and then to Milwaukee. He will be entertained at a banquet by the Mer chants and Manufacturers' Association of Milwaukee. The next morning, after a two hours stop at La Crosse, the President will go to fat. Paul, and thence to Minneapolis. leaving the latter city late that night and arriving In Sioux Falls, S. D., the next morning. After a brief stop there he will go to lankton, Mitchell and Aberdeen, S. D., and Edgeley, X. D. On the morn ing of April 7 he will reach Fargo. N. D.. and during that day will visit Jamestown, Bismarck and Medora, all In North Da kota. He will visit Livingston. Mont, on Wednesday, April 8, and will arrive at Cinnabar, Mont, at noon of that day. Cinnabar Is at the entrance to the Yel lowstone Park. The President's train will be sidetracked there until Friday. April 24. President Roosevelt, accompanied by secretary Root and John Burroughs, the poet-naturalist of New York, who has been Invited to accompany the party on the trip, will make an extended tour of (Concluded on Second Page.) NOMINATED FOR FOURTH TERM AS MAYOR OF CHICAGO CARTER I MURE GRAFT Governor Stops the Lieu Land Business.- OPERATORS ARE WORRIED Basehunters Get a Few Point ers on "Honor." NEW FORM OF DEED IN USE Chamberlain Says Credit of State Shall No Longer Be Hawked About for Benefit of Lieu Land It In sr. SALEM, March 15. SpecIaDThe lieu land business has come to an abrupt end. Governor Chamberlain has refused to make any more selections of lieu lands on mineral base, even for the purpose of setting up selections heretofore made, but which have fallen down. In answer to every application that has been made the Governor has declared that he will not make any more selections until It has been finally determined what amount of those already made will falL If the quan tity is large he will continue his refusal to proceed. If the amount Is small, he may permit selections in all cases where the purchasers furnish the base and pay the state the difference between the pres ent value of the base and the amount they have already paid for lieu land. His de termination Is that the credit of the state shall no longer be hawked about by lieu land operators for their own. gain. As a consequence of Governor Chamberlain's taking this firm position, the lieu land operators and purchasers are In sore straits and are fearful of the outcome. It has been talked around quietly In timber-land circles for several days that tho Governor has sprung a surprise on the land-grabbers, and that there Is trou ble ahead for tho base-hunters who have sold invalid base. It has been rumored also that there is consternation ln-cer taini small circles wher the effect of the Governor's determination 13 likely to prove serious In the extreme. Having learned something of the facts of the sit uation from some of those who are deeply concerned. The Oregonlan representative approached the Governor this morning for a full statement of the nature, purpose and extent of this radical change In Ore gon land policy. "It Is reported you have stopped mak ing lieu land selections. Governor," was said by way of Introduction. "I have not stopped, for I never com menced," was the reply. "With the ex ceptlon of one or two' instances in which the selection was made for the benefit of the state. I have made no selections of lieu land." "13 It true that you have determined cot to make any selections?" No Selection for a Year or Two. "I shall not make any unless I find that tho amount of previous selections which fall down Is very small. In any event, shall not make any new selections upon any base which has not been finally ap proved by the Federal Land Department. mis means mat no selections will be made for a year or two, except for and In the name of the state, after the state has acquired title. I Intend to wait and see where we are at before I proceed. It has been reported that a large amount of the selections made In the last three or HARRISON. four years will be disallowed by the Gen eral Land Office or the Department of the Interior, I get the information, from what is creditable authority, that there will be some disapprovals, and the ques tion to be determined Is what the extent of the fallen selections will be. If the department disapproves so large a quan tity that It would work a great Injustice to the state to use other good basis to set up the fallen lands, then I shall refuse to make the selections at all and let the pur chasers apply to the land board to have he purchase price refunded: jbui tne lieu land people tell me that the state Is In honor bound to make its titles good," was. suggested. "The state Is bound to no such thing. either legally or morally. I believe that when tho state sells a man school land In place the purchaser .should be protected to the extent that the state will not be a party to proceedings which are Intended to divest him of title. But there Is no argument upon which the state can be held liable to protect the title of a man who has purchased lieu land upon min eral basis." "But the state gave a certificate of sale or a deed over Its seal, ild It not?" Buyers Mnat Loolc to Operators. "That Is true, but the state did not war rant title. The purchaser of lieu land did not deal with the state alone. Before the dealt with the state, he went to a mineral base hunter and bought his base for the selection of lieu land. He knew. or ought to have knqwn. that his title to the lieu land depended upon the validity of that base. The state took the base he furnished, and If it has failed, he has no right to look to the state to make his title good. The very fact that he went to a dealer in base and paid from 73 cents to Jl-50 an acre for the base shows that he did not depend upon the state entirely for his title. I know that the lieu land op erators claim that the state is in honor bound to make the titles good, but they ceralnly have a strange sense of honor. It does not seem to occur to them that It Is not honorable for them to sell bad base for good money. The operators are the ones who have profited by those transac tlohs, and If the purchasers have lost title to their lands, let them look to the men from whom they purchased their base. If the state had been the sole party In effecting the sales of lieu land, and had received all the money, -then I would say that the state Is In honor bound to make the titles good." "But some of the lieu land men tell me that they are willing to furnish new base In the place of that which has failed, and thus set up the lieu land selections with out any cost to the state," the reporter added. "But what kind of base?" asked tho Governor. "How are we to know that the new base Is any better than that which has fallen down? To substitute one Dlece of Invalid -base for another would only .be putting off the day of reckoning, and would give the purchaser of the land that much more show of claim -uoonfihe; 'honor' of the state. Be sides, any baso they might furn'stris-the- property of the state. I say that the only safe and proper way to proceed Is to wait until the Federal Land Department has finally passed upon all the selections, and then we can tell what Is best to be done. The way the state has been selling lands when there was reason to expect that the titles might fall Is discreditable, and the sooner It Is stopped, the better It will be for the state's 'honor. I may be wrong In taking that position, but if I am to make a mistake. It will be an error of omission, and not of commission. The state ha3 been going It blindly too long, and should wait until there Is some light upon this Important subject" "But the man who has a deed from the state doe3 not want to wait." "Then, let him take his money back. The State Land Department will return him what the state has received with f per cent Interest He should look to the lieu land operators for the money he has paid them. If any man has paid $320 to a base-hunter for the base upon which to purchase 220 acres of land from the state, and the base has failed, the sooner the purchaser gets after the man who sold the base, the better chance he will have of getting his money. If a man has paid good money for bad base, -I hold that the base-hunter Is in honor bound to payback the money. There in another phase of the 'honor question that you might think about" "Innocent" Purchasers. "But, see here. Governor, I am told that a large proportion of this lieu land has passed into the possession of third per sons, who stand as innocent purchasers, and " "There you are again; the same old story. First, It Is the honor of the state, and then It Is the poor, Innocent purchas er. Now, let me tell you that the men who buy most of this lieu land are not as innocent as you might suppose. They are not homeseekers who have Invested all their money In a tract of lieu land. Most of them are men who have had enough experience In land matters to know Just what they are doing. But suppose they arc what you might call 'Innocent pur chasers.' How far does their Innocence extend? Every man who buys land In these days is expected to have the title examined by a competent person, espe cially If he Is dealing with private par ties, as all these 'Innocent purchasers' were. Any abstractor or attorney could tell an Intending purchaser that the title to lieu land Is not perfect until the base upon which It was selected has been final ly approved. The deed from the state Is not a warranty, but Is really a quit-claim, and the' purchaser must look out for his t'tle. The rule of 'caveat emptor let the purchaser beware Is applicable In all cases of this kind. Must Loolc to Operators for Title. "The state once gave away 3S.000 acres of good base to set up fallen lieu land selections. I am Informed that this was not a total loss, for some of the base was afterward approved. Nevertheless, it was then demonstrated that the sections are likely to be disapproved and that the title to lieu land Is not perfect until th department at Washington has finally peeaed upon the adjudications. The lieu land operators know this. The Oregonlan and other newspapers gavt- wide pub licity to the way the lieu land business had been conducted. Land Agent T W. Davenport explained It In his report. No one can be heard to plead Ignorance of the subject, for a word of Inquiry at the Land Department would give all additional In formation desired. I believe Land Agent Davenport was right in using good base to set up the falien ejections, for then, perhaps the purchasers did not know the real leral 3tatus of lieu land. Since that time, however, there has been no room for doubt, and those who bought lieu land through the agency of operators In mineral base must look to those operators for their titles. "The day of reckoning Is already here, and we ara colnc to find out the exact situation with regard to lieu lands."' Under tho last administration It was the etistom of - the Governor to dzn a (Concluded on Fifth Page.) II BK SI Dead inTuamotu Islands Number 600.. ONE-FIFTH OF POPULATION Swept Into Lagoons and Beat en to Death on Rocks. STRUGGLES OF THE SURVIVORS Fnmlnc Follows Storm and Poiaox Adds Its Terrors Americans Save Slany Lives by Condensing Water Relief Measures. Particulars of the hurricane which swept over the Tuamotu Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean, In January con firm all earlier stories as to its hor rors. The deaths number about COO. or one fifth of tho population, and the loss is about $500,000, which ultimately falls on the white traders. Hunger and thirst threatened to kill the survivors, but a Mormon , mission ary rigged up a condenser for water and French and Italian men-of-war gave relief. PAPEETE, March 4, via San Francisco, March 16. (Correspondence of the Asso ciated Press.) The latest Intelligence rela tive to the hurricane In the Tuamotus, or Low Archipelago, In dicates that the fatalities will num ber 600. The loss o property will be $500,000. Relief measures have been in stituted. Th'ehurjeane and high water lasted during- January 14. 15 and 16. At Hlkuera 377 deathj&pccurred. In moat in stances jamong tie,, -visitors fromH other Islands Jojournlng'there during tlsadjvlng season. One "hundred ' and fortytwo deaths are'Yeported. from six other smalh IsIanCa- In this repohere is no record bit "the unknown dead, and It Is believed that the total number of fatalities In the entire archipelago was not leas than 600. On the Islet south of Hlkuera 262 natives perished, being swept Into the lagoon and again Into the great sea, lacerated ter ribly by contact with roclcs, corai ana debris of all sorts. Upon some unfortu nate ones cocoanut tres fell either maim ing or killing them outright, or holding them down beneath the water unui tney were drowned. On the awful night of January 15, when , th darkness came and a driving down pour of rain stung their faces and naked bodies, the parents tied their little cnnaren to their backs and sought safety. Over their heads rolled the mighty wave, and when the surges retreated, the Infants and the half-grown boys and girls succumbed. The father or mother would valnlv en deavor to retain the corpses of their dead, but usually at length had to abandon them. Tying themselves' to cocoanut trees, som at last fell with them: others escaped, clinging to the trees temporariiy and at other times able to catch hald of something else, and so. between the break ers, reached safety after many hours of hardship. About 20 natives, Including a young girl, swam across th lagoon, and. after five or six hours, battling with tna waves, succeeded In landing safely on the leeward side of the Island. Thoso who perished In their attempt," however, were far more numerous than those who suc ceeded. Dnngcr In the Lagoon. The sea In the lagoon was as unsafe, by reason of the debris floating on Its sur face, as was the ocean outside. The depth of water In most parts of the Island waa from 15 to 20 feet, but the meeting- of the waves from the outside, and thosa forced across the lagoon frequently made the flood much greater In places. The gale found the natives weakened from a virulent form of measles that had become epidemic; otherwise more might have been spared In the struggle with the water. Those who survived were the ones who were able to leave the main village and cross several dangerous low stretches whore the waves washed Into the lagoon, wading neck-deep, aiding one another and holding to debris and grad ually withdrawing from the danger to a 3llghtly more elevated section on the north shore. Messrs. Cheffleld and Allen, elders of tha Mormon church, and Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert, of the Latter -Day Saints' Mission. In a re port to United States Consul Doty, give grewsome details of the disaster. Tha Gilberts lost one shelter when a cocoanut tree fell, but secured another In a high stump of a booran tree. The water, which had all but submerged them completely, now only reached their feet. The wind threatened to tear them from their po sition again and again, and so these Americans passed that awful night. In tho morning the scene of horror that met their eyes on every side was harder to endure than the terrors of the night. Corpses. frightfully mutilated. were strewn about, and there were living beings with unsightly and most painful wounds.. In some Instances only one put of a family had survived. Upon the barren reef many bodies had lodged," and, as the brown skin had been scraped off by the coral, the ghastly appearance of tho corpses were hard to bear. Out on the surface of the deep, the sharks were seen to devour many bodies,-while In the lagoon bodies were floating- upon the debris a most unsightly mars. The story of the fatality In Moraku. where 95 out of 100 Inhabitants perished. (Concluded on Second Page.)