M IS OUT OF DATE
Pew Years Ago Hvcry Rural
Lino Was Proud Pocsor
of Ono,
L COST $150; NOW ONLY $35
w tho Upright Piano Is In-
stalled in tho Placo of tho
joy of tho Ifainlly.
Li..., vnnro neO llOinO Wasn't haPPy
s... u i.mi Kh cabinet organ In tho
lor, bo Hint tho daughtor of tho
ho could entertain mo visitors uv
rsumlny nftornoon by chordlng a
hnil been sufficiently
ked. Tho organ was always a beau-
thing -very benutf fill. A real
Li.i ,i,.n mirror wna set In tho
Fgo that daughter could look upon
Llf ns she Industriously pumped
l i.-m. tnt nml chorded with both
1,1b, it was great oxcrclBO plnylng
organ In thoso days.
11 organs wero decorated nlllto. On
ahlo wna n plcturo or moinorB ra-
and mother; on tlio oltior buio
father's parcntfl. Cousin Harry,
.lninL' ho well in Donver.
fined out from ono sldo of tho Chi
le my that Aunt Molly brought back
fan tho city on nor lasi irip more,
Hlo on the otnor awe oi mo my,
king down severely upon mo wax
i in its pins mHu. wna Prof. Dar
i, who uaod to bo principal of tho
h school.
ht tiinsn ilavB nro gono now. tho
Inaas City Times snya. A cabinet
MAKES TEST OF SMOKE CONSUMER.
TESTING NEW SMOKE CONSUMER ON LOCOMOTIVE.
Solution of the smoke problem is claimed by P. J. Doyle, tho Inventor
Df a coal-burning devlco which was
railroad loconiotlvo In tho presence of
IWhllo moving at various rntes of speed
attached to It tho engine emitted only
re emblcd steam. Tho dovlco can bo
al.o bo used In tho boiler rooms of
clares, Tho secret of ,tho apparent effectiveness of tho appliance is said to
Illo In tho fact that It causes perfect combustion. Tho coal is trnnsformd
Into coke, tho gases from tho coal being consumed In tho process and then
tho coko Ib burned.
rgan used to cost Jh'O. Now you
in buy an ordinary plnno for thnt
mount, whilo a new organ goes for
13;- a dollar down nnd CO contB n
jeelt. A second-hand organ boIIb for
rom MO to v:,
The furmors thnt used to own or-
bns ere now buying pianos. Somo of
Ihcni are buying player plnnos. Hooks
Save been written for tho farmers
laughters that teach them to play a
piano nlmost ns well ns If they wero
Inuglit by nn expensive teacher. By
Ihe diagram method thoy learn whoro
o put their fingers when they boo cor-
un notes, nnd many farmers' homos
have daughters who havo taught thorn-
elves to play almost aB woll as if
hey had employed a teacher.
"It was tho coming of tho upright
piano that put tho organs down and
put," hrIiI a piano denier recently.
I'The old square piano couldn't bo flblil
for less than $500. Tho upright was
easier to handle and easier to put to
Rcther, and It sold at first for about
t?.00, Twenty-llvo yenrs ago only tho
rich - the class that buys motor carB
now- owned pianos. Tho medium class
owned organs, Now only tho poorer
fpoplo buy organs. Pianos aro being
improved rapidly. I think that in ton
years all pianos will bo made with
Player attachments."
Tho mtiBlrnl taste of tho noonlo is
improving right along. Many drgniiB
still being sold. Every family
liuust havo somo sort of a musical In-
Ifitrumont In tho homo and tho mali
ngers of music stores testify that the
WubIc that is being bought Is of tho
I '"finer rinss. Just nB much popular
tmislp H being sold as ovor, hut tho
demand for high claBB miiBlc has do-
ivciopoii rapidly In tho Inst ten years.
ClillilliniMl'N llrluf Hour.
If your ii ultimo i , i. .. i...
Bwork ko ami tn,nn n i .i
Plained nway all tho plcaauros of tho
ivni, v U00K 01 ""ymea, would
you havo grown up to bo any bettor
Xnrn"r7 8k th? Wichita
xuZa w,lftl ,r 81,0 hod ox
Plained thnt m, . .
ovbt. m, vu" ,luor jumpou
tie m 5 oon; tlmt t,loro w8 no Wt
hern v MUff0t' and ,f U,ore on
that ti into a plum p o;
SSLt iand G,U'fl paronta UB0d ny
I hlilIat0r,R"d tby noyor wont up
vwum eai any Ulna or
men not before him instead of Mr
loan moat; that Old King Colo was a
grouchy dyspeptic and tho very oppo
site of a merry old soull that no black
bird ovor disfigured tho king's wash
erwoman by picking off hor noso?
Would you havo boon a bettor boy
or girl if your mothor had done all
theso thingshad explained awny tho
dollghtful books of childhood and had
told you that tho amusing, Jingling
rhymes wero wrltton by Homo hard-up
story writer who wroto them for
money and not for truth's eako? Would
you?
Is anything accomplished by squar
ing a child around nnd sotting it faco
to faco with tho ronlltios of lifo bo
foro it has como into tho years of re
sponsibility? Lot tho children onjoy
childhood In a childish way, for It is
briof and comes not again,
GATHERING SEA TOWLS' EGOS.
Perllon Work of CUR Climber, on
iUt ICnirlUli Coitftt.
With tho advent of Bprlng tho York
shire cliff cllmboro aro making prep
arations for gathering tho eggs of tho
myriads of sea fowl that build tliolr
nests in tho dizzy precipices of tho
northoastorn ' coast, according to the
London Dally Nows.
At Dompton, a fow miles from Drld
Ington, tho favorlto resort of these egg
hunters, tho chalk cliffs tower 400
feet abovo tho sea. They aro tho homo
of thousands of gulls, cormorants, kit
tlwakcs and other bcji birds that havo
Just begun to build their rough nests
In tho chalky crovlccs. William Wil
kinson, who has pursued this perilous
calling for many years, is known local
ly as "tho king of tho egg hunters."
Ho is a bluff, weather scarred man of
tho soa, with as much nerve and agil
ity an aro possessed by tho most dar
ing Bteoplojack.
Wilkinson wears an old helmet to
protect his head from tho' ploccs of
recently tested In a Chicago Junction
rond mechanics and expert engineers.
with a number of heavy-laden cars
a slight stream of white smoke, which
attached to any locomotive. It can
manufacturing plants, tho inventor de
rock dislodged by tho .ropo by which
bo In suspended In midair. Around
his body ho buckles a kind of lenifier
hammock, in which ho is ablo to Bit.
On his arm ho wears leather protec
tors. "Lower away, boys," ho cries, as ho
swings himself ovor tho brink In an
almost horizontal position and pross
cs each foot firmly against tho chalk
Burfaco. Three of tho men slezo the
rope, nnd foot by foot tho lntropld
climber Is lowered till his cheery volco
Is lost nmld tho fluttering sounds o(
tho disturbed birds. Ho swings from
neat to nest, putting each egg carr'-'
ly In a bag slung over his Bho
As Boon ns his bag is full ho give
"hoist up" Blgnal on tho guldo i
and tho men haul him up.
Wilkinson makes aovoral descon'.fa
and at tho end of tho day shares the
spoil with his assistants, who Bell tho
eggs for eating purposes to tho Inhab
itants of tho neighboring villnges.
OIlc CbrUtlnn Hello In HiikImiiiI
For Bomo tlmo past efforts have been
mado to ralso funds in order to pro
tect from tho ravages of wind nnd
woathor tho encroachment of tlio drift
ing sands, tho ruInB of St, Plran's ora
tory at Pcrranzabuloo, Bald to bo tho
oldest Christian rollo of Its kind In
ISngland, It Is now proposed lo build
a protecting houso of concreto around
tho ruins, If this protection Is not
forthcoming it is probable that "tho
lost church," as it Ib locally known,
will ho again burled bonoath tho sands
which covered it for so many centuries.
It la generally bol loved to bo tho orig
inal church of St, Plron, to whom tlio
Cornluh minors glvo tho credit of first
showing thorn tin, and who was ono
of tho most notablo of tho many Corn
ish Balnts. Iwondon Standard.
Where Will It Stopf
"rnr (loot of torpedo dostroyors
Booms to havo stirred up our friond tho
ouemy," remarked tho naval cmor or.
ono of tho groat powers.
"Yea," ropllod his naslstant, "it is
said thoy will build a floot of torpodo
destroyor destroyers now."
"i.nt 'nml Wo'll build a floot of tor
pedo destroyor dostroyor doBtroyoro."
Cathollo Standard and Times,
No health or ploasuro resort ovor
bstlmatoa its sceuery aB much ns a
cranky crusader overoBtlmatca uif
vlow cut oft by a billboard.
SWVi. Iff l '1
BRIEF REPORT OF THE DAILY
WORK OF NATION'S LAWMAKERS
Washington, March 26, Senator
Hcyburn today crossed swords with
his colleague, Senutor Borah, and with
Senators Jones and Warren, over tho
bill permitting tho secretary of tho in
terior to soil water from government
reservoirs nnd to co-opcrato with pri
vate interests in building Btorago and
distributing works.
Senator Hcyburn frankly announced
his intention to filibuster and during
tho hour and ,30 minutes he talked ad
vanced no mutcrlul objections to tho
bill, nor did ho propose any amend
ments, further thun to say ho would
not consent to having Idaho included
within Its provisions.
Ex-Govcmor Hoggatt, of Alaska,
and Delegate Wickcrsham, of that
territory, continued tho verbal assaults
on each other before tho houso commit
tee on territories today over the ques
tion of what form of government con
gress should give Alaska. Delegate
Wickersham questioned Mr. Hoggatt
in an effort to show that the latter was
friondly to tho officers of the Guggenheim-Morgan
syndicate in Alaska.
Dalzcll was elected chairman of the
new committee "on rules late today.
Tho now ruleB committeo of tho house
of representatives was constituted by
tho houso today. The new committee
is tho result of the spectacular fight
that occurred last week in the house,
and which ended in the ousting of Can
non from tho rules committee and gave
the naming of the committee to the
houso instead of to the speaker.
Senators Doume and Chamberlain
seek to exempt Oregon for the provis
ion of tho Warren irrigation bill,
which would empower tho secretary of
tho interior to dispose of surplus wa
ters from reclamation projects, to sys
tems operating under the Carey act.
They believe this would bo inadvisable
as to Oregon. The bill was before the
Bcnato today, but went over at 2
o'clock when the railroad bill came up.
Washington, March 24. With
scarcely the semblance of a struggle,
the Democratic members of the houso
tonight nominated the following four
minority members of the enlarged
rules committee:
Champ Clark, of Missouri, 125 votes;
Oscar Underwood, of Alabama, 102;
Lincoln Dixon, of Indiana, 09; John J.
Fitzgerald, of New York, 98.
The senate today increased tho sal
ary of the governor of Alaska from
$5,000 to $7,000.
The senate military committee today
reported favorably tho bill authorizing
tho sale of the abandoned military res
ervation lands at Walla Walla to Whit
man college at $150 per acre. Under
terms of the bill, an opportunity is
given to Whitman college to acquire
reservation with all improvements for
tho total price of $91,000. In view of
tho fact that the government only re
ccntly erected a large building on this
reservation at a cost of $110,000 and
in view of the fact that this building
at a slight cost can be converted into
school purposes, the committee would
not consent to a sale at $50 an acre,
the price named in the original bill.
It is believed the college will buy
at $150 an acre.
The senate commerce committee to
day adopted un amendment increasing
tho appropriation for the Columbia riv
er between Bridgeport and Kettle Falls
from $50,000 to $100,000. The State
of Washington has nlready expended
$50,000 on thlB project.
The Increased appropriation, it is
believed, will complete the channel
work now under wny.
The Supremo court of the District of
Columbia today overruled a motion of
the Interior department to dismiss 11
Silctz cases and sustained the motion
by A. W. LafTcrty, asking leave to file
reapplication. Tho cases will now be
heard on their merits.
Washington, March 23. Tho senate
i i
commorce commitieo nas iavoraoiy
considered an nmendment to the rivers
and harbors bill for the purchase of tho
existing canal and locks around the
W ametto lal s. at Orecron City, or a
purchnBO of tho necessary lands and
tho construction of a now canal and
locks, in tho discretion of the secretary
of war, to cost $300,000, provided that
no part of tho appropriation bo ex
nended oxcent for the acquisition of
tho necessary lands and rights-of-way
and for such antecedent surveys and
preliminary work as may be necessary
in this connection' until tho Btato of
Orctron flhall appropriate a like
amount.
Approval of tho Broadway bridge,
at Portland, wns granted by the secre
tary of war today in accordance With
vestordav'a favorable report by the
chief of encineors.
On tho first ballot in tho Republican
cnucuB tonight, both Representatives
Ellis and Hawloy received severa
votes for membership on tho commit
too on rules, but lacked tho support
criven to n member of tho California
delegation, who ultimately wns elected.
Neither Oregon member was an ac-
tivo candidate for tho place, and both
aunnorted Smith, of California, who
had tho largcat original vote given to
any Pacific Coast man.
Tho bordor states Republicans hold
Children's Bureau is Probable.
Washington, Murch 23.Provision
for a children's bureau In tho depart
ment of commerco and lnbor is mado
in a bill, favorably reported yesterday
from tho committeo on education and
labor, by Senator Flint, of California.
Questions pertaining to children, espe
cially tho questions of mortality, birth
rate, physical degeneracy, delinquents
and accidonts and diseases of children
nro to como under Its supervision.
Tho chief Ib to receive $4,000 a your.
a caucus tonight and chose Joseph Holt
Gaines, of Charleston, W. Va., as their
candidate for membership on tho rules
committee of the house.
The conference was participated in
by approximately 25 members from
West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma,
Missouri, North Carolina, Virginia,
Tennessee and Maryland.
Washington, March 22. The recent
nsurgent fight, the ousting of Gi fiord
Pinchot and tho unfinished adminis
tration legislative program, were dish
ed up in the houso today with tariff
trimmings by Representative Palmer,
Democrat, of Pennsylvania, as tho
first apicy concoction of the coming
congressional campaign.
Speaking the general debate on tho
pension bill, Palmer launched into a
peppery attack on the administration,
and his speech is considered "official
campaign material."
The Bhadow of tho the "big Btick"
was cast across the house chamber
when Palmer referred to Roosevelt as
the biggest insurgent of them all, and
dec nred he was responsible for the
present president, who was pledged to
carry out the "Roosevelt pohcicB."
Senator Piles today secured adoption
of the amendments to the river and
harbor bill as follows:
Increasing the appropriation for the
Snake river from $7,500 to $25,000;
increasing tho appropriation for the
inner Grays harbor and ChehaliB river
from $15,000 to $32,000; authorizing
a survey of Dabo bay, on Hoods canal.
On Piles' motion the senate commit
tee also accepted the house proposi
tion appropriatine $160,000 to start
work on tho canal connecting Lake
Washington with Puget Sound, the
limit of the cost being fixed at $2,
475,000.
The committee struck from the bill
tho clause providing for developing
water power at the locks on this canal.
Conferees on the Indian appropria
tion reached an agreement today by
striking out all the senate amendments
for the payment of claims of various
kinds, which amounted to a million or
more dollars.
Washington, March21. The senate
today passed the Bourne bill amending
the enlartred homestead net so that
lands in Oregon, not in exess of 2,000,
000 acres, that do not have upon them
sufficient water supply for domestic
purposes as would make continuous res
idence upon them possible, may be sub
ject to entry and patent without the
necessity of residence, and that the
cultivation, instead of residence, shall
be required for patent.
This bill Btands absolutely no chance
of passing the house of representatives
for the house public lands committee
today went on record against identical
ly similar legislation applicable to Ida
ho, only two members of the commit
teo being in favor of non-resident
homesteads. The committee favor
ably reported the bill extending the
provisions of the dry farm homestead
act to Idaho but voted down the clause
identical with the "Bourne bill. In
view of the overwhelming sentiment in
the committee against it, the Oregon
bill cannot be reported.
The house passed through its first
day of business following the great
eruption of last week with remarkable
quietude. Tonight when adjourn
ment came, there was an air of calm
ness and amity that, to the observer of
events last week was almost unbeliev
uble. Peace appeared near, notwith
standing that less than ten days distant
is the election of a new committee on
rules with all its embarrassing compli
cations.
Washington, March 19. Although
congress has been in session nearly
four months, practically nothing has
been accomplished in the way of con
servntion legislation, and so far as the
records show, not one single recom
mendation of the president has yet re
ceived final consideration at the hands
of the legislative branch of the gov
ernment.
The senate, it is true, has done
little, but tho house of representatives
has yet to pass, or even consider, the
first one of the bills so strongly re
commended by the president in his spe
cial message last December.
The failure of tho house to act is
not due to lack of interest on the part
of the members, for whenever any one
of the conservation bills is reported, it
will bo discussed with fervor and it
will bo passed. But the house cannot
consider a bjll until it has been report
ed by a committee, and up to this time
not a single ono of the conservation
bills has been reported, or -even con
s dered. bv the house committee on
public lands.
Hnhn May Be Member of Committeo
Washington, March 24. Tho Pacific
coast members of tho new rules com
mitteo of tho house will probably be
Kahn of California. There was some
talk of Humphrey of Washington, but
the only ono seriously considered is
Kahn. The insurgents have definitely
decided that thoy will not demand rep
resontation. Tho regulars aro dis
nosed to grant them ono member. Tho
Democrats will probably bo Clark
Fitzgerald, Slayden and Hammond.
Now Schodulos to Bo Signed.
Washington, March 21. Tho presi
dent, at Albany, New York, will sign
a proclamation giving to tho products
of France and Algeria, imported into
tho United States, the minimum tariff
rates of tho Payne-Aldrich 'act.
special messenger from the State do
nartmont left Washington today for
Albanv. where ho will deliver to the
president the form of tho proclamation.
which he is oxpectea to sign at once.
CANNON 8HORN OF POWERS,
Retains Speakership, but Removed
from Committoe on Rulos.
Washington, March 21. Joseph G.
Cannon, of Danville, 111., is still speak
er of the house of representatives.
But he has lost the ancient prestige
and weapon of that office when the
allied Republican insurgents and Dem
ocrats took from him not only the
chairmanship of, but even membership
n, the all-powerful committee on rules,
tho chief asset in his stock amid scenes
of wildest disorder, for the like of
which ono must go back to tho exciting
ays just prior to the Civil war per
haps even those times might not dupli
cate it the veteran speaker, almost
74 years old, stood erect and defiant,
his head "bloody but unbowed."
At tho end, when a big Texan Dem
ocrat accepted the speaker's daring
challenge and introduced a resolution
to fling him out of the speakership, the
Republican regulars and insurgents,
with few exception, rallied with almost
unbroken party front and gave him a
vote which almost offset the "repudi
ation of Cannonism."
ThiB is what happened:
By a vote of 191 to 165. the Repub-
ican Insurgents voting solidly with
the Democrats, the house adopted the
resolution of Representative NorriB,
Republican, of Nebraska, requiring a
reorganization of the rules committee,
increasing its membership from five to
ten, and declaring the Bpeaker ineligi
ble to membership thereon.
By the curiously identical vote of
191 to 155 but with a decidedly differ
ent personnel of alignment the house
defeated a resolution of Representative
Burleson, of Texas, declaring the
speakership vacant and ordering the
mmcdiate election of a successor to
Mr. Cannon.
The Norris resolution was as follows :
"mere snail be a committee on
rules, elected by the house, (hitherto
the committee of five, like all other
house committees, has been appointed
by the speaker), consisting of ten
members, six of whom shall be mem
bers of the majority party. The
speaker shall not be a member of the
committee and the committee shall
elect its own chairman from its own
members. Resolved further, that with
in ten days after the adoption of this
resolution there shall be an election of
this committee, and immediately upon
ts election the present committee on
rules shall be dissolved."
Representative Burleson's resolution
follows :
"Resolved, that the office of speaker
of the house of representatives is here
by declared to be vacant, and the house
of representatives shall proceed to the
election of a sepaker."
BOGUS" PICTURE IS REAL.
Artist. 72, Identifies Alleged "Fake"
Canvas as Genuine. '
New York, March 21. F. Hopkin
son Smith, painter and author, was the
chief witness today in the suit brought
by William T. Evans against William
Clausen, an art dealer, to recover $35,
000 for two pictures Evans bought from
Clausen as genuine "Homer Martins,"
and which experts have pronounced bo
gus. Homer Martin was one of the
early American landscape painters.
Mr. Smith said he ib 72 years old,
and some of his pictures had been hung
in the Pans saloon. He is very posi
tive in his testimony and pronounced
the pictures involved in the Evans suit
as unquestionably genuine.
"The way the color here is shoved
ahead of the brush," he continued,
taking the painting "Normandie Bride"
in hand, is characteristic of Homer
Martin. Again in this picture, he has
let the paint dry 10 or 20 hours in
places and gone over it again, drag
ging the brush along the surface. No
man living could imitate that,"
Mr. Smith said he had known Martin
intimately and that he had seen him
paint the very picture in question from
a sketch.
Steeple Jack Falls to Death.
Chicago, March 21. James Wilson,
known as a daring steeplejack, fell 70
feet from a smokestack which he was
painting at Twenty-fifth and LaSalle.
He died shortly after he had been tak
en to a hospital. Wilson intended this
job to be hiB last before starting for
Oklahoma, were he was to paint some
smokestacks. Wilson created a sen
sation some years ago when he essayed
to shin up the Flatiron building in
New York. But he had not ascended
more than eight stories when the po
lice ordered him to come down.
Taft Objects to Critics,
Albany, N. Y., March 21 At the
bunquet of the University club here to
night President Taft in a brief speech
took occasion to refer to tho contrast
in the attiudo in certain quarters to
ward his administration, casting a gen
tle aspersion on the opinions that have
been expressed derogatory to his con
duct. President Taft, Earl Grey, gov
ernor general of Canada, and Governor
Hughes, of New York, formed a nota
ble trio at the banquet.
Big Strike Threatened.
Now York, March 21. A general
strike of all building trades and em
ployes in this city will be called on
March 28, according to tho announce
ment tonight of Charles Wamp, sec
retary of tho Steamfittors' local union,
unless a settlement of the steamfittors'
Btrike, now on, has been made before
that date. The vote to strike was
taken tonight.
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45 DEAD, 38 HURT
IN IOWA WRECK
Double Train on Rock Island
Road Goes In Ditch.
Occupants of Day Coach, Smoker
and Pullman Killed and Maimed
and Many Badly Mutilated.
taarshalltown, la., March 22. For
ty-five persons were killed and 35 were
Injured, many of them fatally, in a
wreck of a Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific train four and a half miles
north of Green Mountain, Iowa, at
8:16 a. m. today.
The train, which was a consolidation
of No. 19, from Chicago, and No. 21,
from St. Louis, bound for Minneapolis,
was being de toured over the tracks of
the Chicago Great Western road.
Running at about 30 miles an hour
in a cut north of Green Mountain, it
struck a spread rail, it is believed.
The pilot locomotive jumped the
track and, with terrific force, Was bur
ied in the embankment of soft clay.
A second locomotive, coupled behind
the first, rolled over and the sudden
stop hurled all the rear cars forward.
A coach, a smoker and a Pullman
car were smashed to splinters, almost
all the occupants being killed or in
jured. The superstructure of the Pull
man was literally shaved off and was
jammed like a ramrod through the
smoker and day coach.
Many passengers were killed out
right. Heads were severed from bod
ies and arms and legs were cut off.
The wreckage was crimson with
blood, some of the bodies being crushed
beyond recognition in the mass of
twisted rails and splintered cars. A
few of the passengers were found still
living with a rod or splinter impaling
them in the wreck. Decapitated bod
ies were picked up and it was almost
impossible to assort correctly gthe dis
membered parts.
The wreck occurred ata point1, diffi
cult of access. Such bodies as could
be pulled out were stretched out in an
adjoining pasture.
First attention was given to the
wounded. Their cries coming from
beneath the cars were pitiable. Fort
unately, the wreckage did not take fire.
The rescue party, reinforced later on
by wrecking trains carrying nurses
and surgeons sent from the nearest
available points, worked all day and
until long after dark.
The injured were rushed to a hospital,
several of them dying on the way.
DOUBLE WRECK ON O. R. &.. N.
Two Dead; Two Engines and Five
Box Cars Demolished.
Pendleton, March 22. Two men are
dead, tw" engines demolished, and five
loaded box-cars, with their contents,
are piled in confused mass, as a result
of a double wreck, the first in the his
tory of the O. R. & N., which occurred
eight miles east of Pendleton at 7:45
o'clock yesterday morning. The dead
are Edward Hopple, La Grande, Or.,
and Engineer S. L. Risk, La Grande,
Or.
Engine No. 215, in charge of Engin
eer Risk and Fireman Hopple, was
running "light" without a train
from Meacham to Umatilla, after hav
ing helped extra freight No. 385 up
the mountain from La Grande. In
rounding a nine-degree curve at a point
where the track skirts the Umatilla
river on one side and runs under a high
bluff on the other, the engine left the
track and plunged into the bluff.
As both the engine and the tender
were clear of the rails, the block sig
nal registered a "clear track ' to the
oncoming freight, 20 minutes behind
the engine. The crew of the latter did
not know of their danger until they
dashed around the sharp curve and
were almost upon the wreck.
Man Drops Far, Bounces.
Los Angeles, Cal., March 22. While
6,000 people were watching Gene Sav
age make a descent at Long Beach yes
terday afternoon, his balloon collapsed
when 300 feet from the ground and he
plunged to the earth, hit on his feet,
bounded up like a rubber ball and then
fell backward on the curbing of Pacific
avenue. He was unconsicous for a few
minutes, but under medical attention
quickly recovered. Examination showed
that no bones were broken and he had no
internal injuries. He is sore and
bruised and will have to keep to his bed
for a few days.
Cruisers Ready to Sail.
San Francisco, March 22. When the
cruiser North Dakota joins the cruiser
Tennessee off the Farallon islands to
morrow afternoon the 8,500-mile voy
age of the two warships to Buenos
Ayres through the Straits of Magellan
will begin. The vessels go to join the
armored cruisers Montana and North
Carolina, and with them will represent
the United States in the naval demon
stration at the Pan-American exposi
tion to be held at Buenos Ayres.
dap Sealers on Ground.
Victoria, B. C, March 22. Japan
ese sealers will como to Bchring sea
in larger numbers than ever this sea
Bon, according to information received
from Japan. The Victoria schooner
Peschawa, which is reported from
Monterey with 209 skins, spoke a Jap
anese Bchooner off California on Janu
ary 17. Her captain said tha a largo
number of tho Japanese Bchooners will
cross the Pacific this season, several
having crossed already.
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