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Hill QUl.CQU SU-'.-DAY lOVUUAU lOUtLMll). SUNDAY UOUUlUa. AVML ?. Illl REVIEW OF THE WORLD'S NEWS PRESENTED PICTORIALL Y AND IN SHORT PARAGRA1 J ' jt - sv.c. i; . . II if - f .-r f I ...i'1 11 -. J -"' iU ; II I Iff Bl- ."H -s M El , : 1 v.; . k . I , fllfl-ti .,-- f. -. ' ' . R - V i '--.'' - 1 . . ' V. IH Hi ' r:.i u . ; - . ;JB 'v'-i vv .'.: elded to Issue tl.t04.00t Sonde tor ma-1 wards, the remaining fugitives of thel Avti Ai. JJrl V ' ! nlclpal Improvement. I Allen clan, and the authorities are con-1 UlUTV fj-T " Ail the Principal Events of iher Week -Briefly -Sketched for ths Edification of JournarReadersoreignVEastern? Po litical and Congressional New$Notes to Be. Preserved for Reference.- Congressional iWENTY Republicans ; joined ' the i Ml. bill, the measure ; going through Ihe house by vote f-l to tl WhlU aot outtln the roTcrn tnnt'a Totmuc. It ! Mt4.th bill will kf 'more j.thjLA tso.OOO,OM a yer to coneomera because of tbe roaAluat- nent of rebatea. Tbe Florida Brerfladea taveaMratlnn by concreea baa reanltod In the Indict meat br the federal trand Jury of C O. Elliott A. D. Morehouse. Gray P. Teele and Frank B. Slnsleton, of the a rrl cult ural department.-who ara cbarved with havlnf approved or presented . falsa vouohers acalnst the rorornment. A bill to amend the law flrtn the mnt to aa the dlsnaed eonstruetlos SQalrmienl ini4 mnnllu am hA tkAMA . I " ---" -rro a jn fiuK. from tidewater at Ra- aurreotlon, bar t the Yukon Teller.' Secretary Knox reached Porto Rico this week on hie travels and was warm ly welcomed by tba a-oTernor. executive council and . many prominent persona. He found the people la a furore orar the possible passa.ee by . the .American convresa of the free so car bUt A mass meetlns; was held, resolutions of protest adopted, and. a copy presented to the secretary. . " ' In a meaaasre to eonsxesa this weak on the subject of economy. President were passed calMn upon Rot. Harry rercuson, Uie commission mayor, to re- sia-n. The trouble crew out Of the I. W. W. strike,- Mayor Ferroeon making sa impassioned speech eondemnlns; tba polloa and citizens commute and up holding; the atrlkera. Governor Wilson has written Secre- Taft urred Wlder extension of thejtary of State1 Walt of Nebraska, ra- clvll aervloa. - -Many economies would result IT more efficient men were em ployed.; . The payroll , la unwleldly and IntersUte Commerce commission au- J ha claimed that tlO.000,00 was annually thortty ever express eompanlea baa I lost to . the mwnmit n,nin4n. been reported favorably to the housa I two man where en la mif fioUn , The bill would rovern the transport a-1 president Taft on Thursday author tlon of packaa-ea ; not axeeedlnt; 11 1 tn- xn0rtatlon from the : Unitl pounds In welfht. and fixes the rates eutes fo Mexico, of five Mr shipments auesttns; that bis name be withdraws from the Populist ballot at , the Ne braska primaries. Women will watch tbe oount of the vote on the suffrare proposition In .Chl caco. County Jndre Owens - directing that a woman be placed at each of the 1400 polling places. Maryland will hold a presidential prt- at t to It cents per pound according I of munitions of war consigned to tha mary election on May . Qovernor Cklda- oorougn naving aignea tne Din just Dr. John Wealey Hill, president of the international . Peace Forum, will arrive In Oregon April 10 to stump the state lor rreaiaent Tart, Progressive Democracy, led. by Carter Harrison, aoored a great triumph In the Chicago aldermanlo elections. Out of wauke. WJa, met tta Waterloo at Harrison's polloles, It were elected. The to distance hauled. Representative Taylofv of Colorado has Introduced In the house a bill pro viding for the recall of 'federal Judges by popular vota ' . The senate btll creatine; a children's bureau In the department -of oommerce and labor has passed the house 171 to 17. The measure now goes to the pres-1 m-t?m Socialist administration of Mil- forces of President Madera The nroa- laent aiao gave permission rotv the ex portation of a quantity of dynamite for a mlntnr company In the -Mexican atata I or ponora. ,v v v,;v i. Political ldent for his action. J ne lour uow aenaivrs iiwn i T - iha alaetlim . Tuaailav n- n A and Nrw Mexico were sworn into aot.,J!t isiuif. rjLtran and Aahurat I Bain. th non-partisan, candidate, was drew the long terms and Smith and led royer Emll Seldel, tha present' so FaU tha short terms, v . I clallat mayor, , by; amaJorlty .of over - RepreaenUtlve Humphrey of wash-1 1J.000. Only 11 of the JS aldermen Ington has Introduced a bin dealgned elected wera Socialist Tho widespread to break up roreign .snipping poois ana (interest in the fight to unseat, the 8o- combinations and to give the govern- clallst admlnlstraUon is Indicated by ment greater control over ouon anegra the unusual heavy vpte of nearly 0,000, new city oouncll will stand E Demo crats to 25 Republlcana the DemocratlQ majority being; the largest ever known, An air Una that will shorten the coast I fident of eooa effect In a their capture. run Ti miles la belne? surveved on thai Great Northern 'from New Rlchford, N, v., to tne aioniana state una The Alaska-Ebnar Oold Mines com pany, a New York corporation, has been placed In the hands of a receiver. The liabilities are listed at tI.S7T.000 and tne aaseta at IlJZ.OOOf Orders for two palatial twin-screw steamers, to be placed In coastwise pes- senger ana rrelgnt Service between Ban Diego and Seattle, have been placed by tne racino coast Steamship company, It Is estimated that each will cost tl. 000.000, .will have accommodations for 00 passengers and be resdv for service in aooot ii months. Commercial and Industrial i E.v CHILBEHQ - of Seattle, banker and former president of the Alaska- Tukon-Paclfto exposition, has lnlt .A. , m , a -.hl.li Av4fr1nam At.-I .... . . . . . I A mAUAMAM '4 I.jIiim. )ttt, Mft t A ' """" --r in mgneat previous total vote cast ati . -V la uniiweaw-""---:-'"' 1 1 a municipal election being EMGi. r&y :. .. ?. vl.l; '? In the presidential preference primary I ".'.ZaC X. rZZZrrtlZr ZZIZZ Wisconsin Tuesday. Senator I Fol- DDOlnted by th Porto IUcan rovern-1 j.- v.tA -.e I rnt WfAlrStZ, Chilean ticket, and Woodrow Wilson I committee .V vf,"'"4,tI won from Speaker Champ Clark. I ' f ' .mj? TJnlUd fitites Senator Gardner Dem- I It would deal Porto Rico a harmful and oorat) ha, been elected by the : Maine I m"iZl io 11- for American aoaatwia. iruature to serve !or no rest 01 tne KTn JBnJmK-inJnCinI I Peylouply beenapplntsd by Governor wider than lu" ".T V ;t .r. Plaisted to suoceed .the late Senator teroceuiio cftiiu,, au uiv.ynr nw, . -s -.. session of. tha Washington legislature to submit a bond Issue of 1 16.000,000 for a highway fund to build five trunk lines through, the stata The ' Crown-Columbia Pulp tc Paper company at Oregon, - City has ordered machinery for; the largest paper mill of Its kind In the world. , When newly equipped tha mill will - manufacture japer 186 inches wlda nearly 80 inches can now be produced. " Workmen thrown out of employment hlblts railroad ownership of. ships for the canal coastwise trade. : A majority of the committee favors free ..tolls. ; ; bv strikes of ailk weavers: at Paterson. j Tne entire Demoosatio ticaet outsiae 1 j. have organised a cooperative com a Executive ' : PRESIDENT TAFT on Tuesday sent a pedal message to congress urging an appropriation of 1500,000 to flht the floods raging alonir the Mis sissippi river,' that amount being needed to prevent the lose not only of millions of dollars' worth or property,. out lives as well. The sum of $850,000 was ap- nroDriated. '.;v. . The president has appointed Edward SUTckable to be collector of. customs for i district of Hawaii. J - . n Fears '.'are expressed : in Washington Secretary, Fisher will recommend l and secure , the veto or the Borah-Jones three-year homestead bill. Kvldence accumulates that he Is growing more "' and more. hostile toward the measure. In an" address to the convention , of r American . cotton manufacturers at Washington President Taft renewed his plea for revision of the tariff owly after inquiry oy tne tanit ooara..iiws that affect the business of the country and may prove a menace to prosperity, the president said, should be made only . upon sound intormauon ana axivica In the 'interest- of small cattle 'and . gheepiTOwera, President Taft iaa. Issued - 'a order designed to break up the" mon t opoly maintained by cattle and sheep ( Iclnga of springs and small streams In certain of the western atatea The order mttn aside these oases and streams as publlo watering places. -- . I Secretary Fl'her Is urging the house to give authority to the federal gijrem- pany, : purchased . the Magnus t& ' Faber plant, and will begin operations within a few days under, the; nam ; Of the Royal Silk eempanvi.'.-'viiv, MlUmen declare that 1J1S will', be the biggest year In the lumber Industry the northwest has ever known. Rail roads are at present the best ; buyers, different ' lines . having orders on file amounting to. over 150,000,000 feet Voters or , Ban Francisco ; nave ax- of a. few aldermen was elected In Kan sa City Tuesday. Henry I Jost de feated the present Republican mayor by a majority of ISOO. x Tha council will stand It Democrant and six Republl- Richmond P. Hobson - and Tola col league William .Richardson nave een renominated for congressmen from Ala bama r 'i"i;v-:--JL-ji. ' In r local - option ' elections la Illinois Tuesday IS oltles and towns whlchl pressed disapproval of the telephone were wet votea ory. wmcn werei merger In that city by voting that an dry voted wet Eight counties In thai election be held authorising the irsu. state are now dry. v ' --v-- , J ance of 16,000.000 bonds for a municipal Socialists at jsau wiaira, wia, on Tues-1 telephone system. Spokane authorities day, elected. W. Iir Barnes for mayor.l have also taken, up a project f or a mu Arliona's legislature ..has passed, thai nlclpal system - 'i---ruvv.'''y-:..v.: recall amendment to the constitution. I Julius Kruttschnttt and IV J. Spenoe This la the clause which President Tafti have been elected directors of the caused to be stricken out, before Art- j Southern Pacific company, succeeding sona was granted atatenooa. .....) w. Bayard Cutting, deceased, and Clar William A. Qlknore, Republican nom-tence Mackay, resigned. : Kruttschnttt Is Ineo for delegate to congress from- Alas-1 director of maintenance and operation ka, has been reelected mayor of Nome I of the system and Spenca la traffic dl- by a vote of two to one over nio goolal-l rector, : 1st opponent - - ( . The ' national monetary, .'commission To data ; 1(4 delegates have been I has gone out of existence. Headed by elected to the -Chicago convention, or 1 former Senator Aid rich or Rhode Island, these Taft has -17a. La Follette, t, the commission mad an exhaustive ln Rooaevelt SO, and Cummins J. Four vestlgatlon of '.the monetary situation are unlnstructed and 10 will be eon-1 here and abroad and recommended leg- tested. : - 1 ' - - I islatlon to develop the clearing house Qovernor Harmon will speak In Oma-I Idea Into a national reserve association. ha on April' 13. on which date Bryan is Directors of the Denver A Rib Grande peaking against Harmon In Ohio, At railroad have authorised the issuance of Harmon headquarters It Is said this tMO0,OQ& adjustment bonds, tS.70o.00il will be the first and only reply by Mr. of wbleh.rill he spent for the oonstruo-, Harmon to .attacks made Upon him by I tlon of a second track from Helper. Mr. Bryan. - I Utah, to Salt Lake City. . - At a macs meeting of 700 cltlcena oft By a vote of 45.133 for to 40tS against! Hoquiam Wednesday nlghV resolutions the ; people of San Kfanclsco have de-l , Sociological ' TO put her system of diet whloh she believes is a solution of the eost of living problem, to the hardest possible test Mrs. David Beach of New York, will walk from New Tork to Chicago, etartlng . on April 10. During this 1000-mile tramp j : khe will eat only raw foods, such as wheat, raisins and nuts. She wishes to prove that her theories are practical for the worklngman under. hard labor conditions. . . , Ministers of ' Salem, Oregon,' "have pasaed resolutions declaring their oppo sition to . the marriage of any divorced person within the lifetime of tha other party. In addition, the resolutions caU upon the. next legislature to pass a law requiring physical examination of can dldates i for matrimony and denying license to all who are found unfit Mra Louiae De Keeben Bowen. pres ident of the .Juvenile Protective asso ciation, In atr address at Chicago, ad vooated the appointment of .pollcewom en as a , means of lessening crime In large cities, she expressed the opinion that with women members of the police departmest. the number . of wayward girls would be lessened and the attl tude of incorrigible boys toward muni clpal authority would be changed. - ' . Legal and Criminal a T Ixs Angeles Monday night Wil A . Ham H. Jamison, ex-superior court a Judge, was shot end fatally wounded by burglars whom he surprised in the act of robbing his noma Judge Jaml aoh was shot three times, onoe la the head and twice in the abdomen. ; The burglars escaped. t : ; : Charged with perjury, and with hav ing burned his residence and church. Kev. j, Frank Noma is on trial at Fort Worthia-TexaaiL?;-rr.-:iU?:v Accordlng to a decision of the United States supreme court, the interstate commerce commission-has the power to compel water lines aa well as land lines to report to It regarding Intrastate and also lnterstate'buslness. thus reversing the commerce court, which had ' passed on the case.. -' ',;''-'-.' The tnysterldua ' death of Dr.- Helen Knabe at Indianapolis some months ago has' been accounted for by the arrest at Portsmouth. N. ifcref Seta Nlcois, a 2 J-year-old sailor, who has eonfeesed that he mnrdered : Dr. Knabe and was paid 11200 for it. by a man whose name he refuses to divulge . . - t George W. 1 Baker, one of the six elalmanta to the estate of the late Mary Baker G. Eddy, founder ' of the Christian Science church, hai announced that he had accepted an offer of settle ment and would withdraw from the lit igation. W ,. ' 4 , - - BlooUhounda have been set upon the trail of Eldna Allen asd Wealey Ed- Clementlne Barns bet a negroes of La Fayette, la. Is responsible for tbe mysterious death of St negro members of the ''Church of Sacrifice.' of which she la the head. The main creed of the cult is that -by life sacrifice alone may a person gain Immortality. She con fesses to killing IT of the victims with her own handa J. T. Harcourt sentenced to the peni tentiary from Portland for forgery a few years ago under the name of O. R. Blystone. hes been sentenced to 2 to SS years In state prison, after being con vlcted of passing forged checks on Se attle merchanta Frenzied because the woman had mar ried bis rival. Clarence Carr of Chi cago, a man 80 years old. went to the bedroom of Mra. Emily Shaw, where he cut her throat and then cut his own throat Both-are dead. - . J. A. Long, a wealthy cattleman of Tehama county, Cal has under fence 1880 acrea of government land. He Is ordered to remove It by the United Statea Master In Chancery at 8an Fran cisco, and baa appealed to tha United Statea district court Bud Smith, a discharged negro em ploye, engaged In a revolver battle with other employes or the Missouri Paclflo railway ahops at Holalngton. Kansas, and when the fusllade was over two men were found dead. Smith mortally wounded and three others badly injured. When Oscar Johnson entered his home at San Bernardino, he saw a stranger embracing his wife. Picking up a brick ne - ruanea into tne bouse ana ' brained the man. Then Johnaon inveatlgated and found that It was his own father whom he had not aeen for IB years and who had come from Peoria, lit, to sur prise ma son who a visit ' '"-.! Foreign ..; PROSPECTS , are favorable ; for- an early termination of the ooal strike in Great Britain, in spite of a ma jority vote byx the strikers against re suming work. Large' numbers of min ers have returned to work in Stafford shire and work In the coal fields Is rap- Idly extending. Federation officials are agreed that the majority against resume ing work is too small to justify a pro longation of the conflict. The decis ion to reopen tha mines has 'met some opposition by malcontents, but ; it Is thought all win return to. work within a few days. .t- : One of . the auto bandits who killed a chauffeur at Villeneuva St Georges, Franca held up a bank at Chantilly. killing two employes and robbing the Institution of $8000. has been arrested and taken to Parts, where he confessed. He refused, to betray his accomplices, r 1 Nicholas or Russia and Wlihelm of Germany will hold a conference in Fin nish water in July. . . ; t No. improvement Is noted In the Mex ican situation this week, j. Desultory fighting continues between Federals and revolutionists, with Utile gain on -eith er side Oroxco's move upon the capi tal has been checked for the time being by Madero'a troops, and the rebels now are on the defensive. The principal skirmish of the week was at Parral, where rebels under General Cam pa were defeated by 3000 government troops under General Jtncno villa. A few In stances are reported of arrests of -Americana and the administration at Wash ington . haa - ordered an Investigation. There are no- Indications yet of Ameri can intervention. B George I. Ham. president of the det' funct 'United States Banking company 1 Prosecuting Attorney Landreth and Judga Bolen, who wfll preslda at tha trial . of thej Allen gang; of outlaws, poslns; for moving picture men before tbe courthouse at Hinrrtlle, Va, v These .pictures were prevented from-being shown anywhere In the-United States br the action of the national board of censorship.1 J,' 4, 6 -(Copyrighted .1912; by International News Service) Quaint special train' used ' br Secretary Knox and partr la tour of Central America; Secretary and Mrs. Knox going ashore In "trolley chairs" at Acajuatla, San Salvador. S Monument to Daughters'of the Confederacy to be un veiled at Columbia, S. C, April 11. , 5 Monument to John Paul Jones, In Washington, - TV C, to be dedicated April 17. T Miss' Esther Mercy,- former Unlveraltr of Chicago co-ed, awarded a $2600 Judgment against . Dean. Talbot whom she charged bad attacked her character upon expelling her from tho university, . w iiiv x... v. -." r ' WWV.VWW . I U guilty of mlsappropnatina; lunuo or tne i are out of work, but it Is believed en Institution ana sentenced to is years imprisonment v.;. -The . Standard Oil company's main storage plant at Manila haa been de stroyed by fire, entailing a loss or !, 000.000. agreement will be reached by April 20. One thousand Shipwrights and caulk ers of San - Ft-anclsco who struck sev eral weeks ago, . demanding . a closed shop, eight-hour work day and' a minl- General Leonldas Plasa has been J mum wage of , 8,.'. have returned to work. elected president of Ecuador, He was president from 1000 to 1904,' minister to the United States in 1905, and served also as minister to other countries. Chinese have established a represen tative council at L'haea, the capital of Thibet and proclaimed a republlo. The officials have cut off their queues and are wearing silk hats and frock coats. Thibetans oppose the ohang and threat en to massacre the Chinese. Some fight- in a- has occurred. The treaty establishing a Frenon.. pro tectorate - over V Morocco, which was signed by the sultan recently, provides their 'demands having- been acceded to., A strike of i fretghthandlers , on the Canadian Paclflo'- railway threatens to tie up all freight to and from tha United States. ".-.' ? - :f .;- . ,- Eight thousand men employed h con-" Structlon work on the Canadian- North ern railway in British Columbia are Idle on account of a strike. The Industrial Workers declare ' the - fight is not be tween the laborers and the Canadian Northern, but of labor in general. In all parts of the universe, against capital. Idle men are congregating in the cities, ri r 1' . " " " " . ' . ; but hO disorder is reported. r. wK-, ;ri.rV for (hi An Increase of .10 per cent in wages jl vntlVll v. vaw - - - - . . ...... - - ... 1 I : vntlla . sf a uat rrt if auar fat fir4 Wavu ' mu lM.Waon 'Its. avei Inn aa t TJaklr fn t hna I V os-"wwaa vn 1UQ Aiiioiivaii eaa Chinese r7pubirc: tTevt thVdl ' 19'000 b rnei from fulfilling their threat to attack thai . missions and hospitals at Pao Ting. Looting continues at Pao Ting and In other cities of the new republic. - ' The Swedish government has - intro duced a bill Into parliament extending to women - tho parliamentary -franchise and the right to stand for eleotlon to parliament o& the - same conditions as men., uiit; Vli-"ii . ' ... Labor Notes PAINTERS, decorators, carpentera graalte'workera and store clerks In various parts or New England Dave joined- tha ranks of the .thousands . of striking textile operatives." ' Like the mill workerav they are seeking an ad-J APTAIN ROBKItT 6COTT. the Brit More than 15,000 . carpenters struck at Chicago on April 1, affecting tSS.OOO, 000, worth of building operations. -Officials declare that unless the men get 6 cents an hour increase, making their wages S 5 cents an hour, the entire building trades of the country wilt b paralyzed. . ;; f ,- ,; ;: .Rioting la expected when 6000 men. sent , out from ; Winnipeg - reach, the construction - camps - on tne CaiuulUu Northern railroad to break' the strike, - Ten-thousand strikers are pouring intu Calgary as a result of the agitation n" the Industrial Workers of the World. Miscellaneous vance In wages. - The strike situation on Grays Harbor reached- an acute stage during, the-week. I- iah explorer, la pushing on towar.l V the South Pola , He Is still !' miles from his destination snd t u The authorities of Hoquiam. -Aberdeen j back reports of harrowing ipcrl--i and Raymond, reinforced . by hundreds of cltlsena put an end to the strike by Jailing the leaders, loading; offensive striking foreigners on bos cars and ship ping tnem out or town. Tne mine are resuming work at Increased wages, but no foreigners or, members ot th l.fW. cross the Amertmn r W. are employed. Irian. - mi 1: -- A general suspension of work t '': place this week throughout tv v -.! mining districts, of t'ja east, t h -thrarit ar-d b:TviT" r :t , -to quit t'l k u - :, ! t v . , In the. frigid Antarctic He save r , further news, will probably be re :- ( from the ered!tns this yesr. Calbralth P. Rodger, sn ' r ' world-wide fame and the .': ! ? iiMKCh. fsl , wtis-.t 1 ; ' i-