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BUILD CANAL SOON MAY WATER DESCHUTES LAND. flan for Dalles-Celilo Waterway Approved. START. WORK ON UPPER LOCK Approval of Title to Right of Way by Attorney General Now Oniy Preliminary Necessary. Washington, May 6. Construction of The Dalles-Celilo canal will probab ly commence in June. General ; Mac kenzie, chief of army engineers, today approved Major Langfitt's plan for starting work on the upper end. He also submitted to the attorney general the title to the right of way which the state of Oregon has presented to the government. The abstract of title hav ing been previously examined and ap proved, it is presumed the title will be found satisfactory and accepted. ' The law autthorizing construction of the canal stipulates that no work shall . be done until title to the right of way and a release from damage has been convey ed to the United States free of cost. If the attorney general acts promptly and accepts title, instructions will be sent to Major Langfltt to advertise for bids for the work which he outlines in his project. In general terms Major Langfltt 's plan conforms to the general plan laid down by the board which drew up the canal project". He, how ever, found it necessary to make an im portant change. The original plan lo1 cated the first lock at the upper en trance. When soundings were made, . it was found that it would be impossi ble to' get a rock foundation for a heavy , lock at tha point, so the lock has been located 1,900 feet down the canal, and the entrance will "be guarded by flood -gates not contemplated in the original plans. These gates will be used in time of high water to keep the sediment brought down by the river from enter ing and obstructing the canal. Until bids are received it is not known just how much progress can be made with the funds available. There is now on hand $158,176 remaining from the old boat railway appropria- tion, and the last session ot congress appropriated $50,000 cash and author ized contracts for $250,000 additional, making a total of $458,176 with which to begin work. Major Langfitt's plan contempla es the expenditure of only about $375,000 of this amount, he deeming it expedient to have some re serve until a further appropriation is made. TWINE TRUST DECLARES WAR. Government Ready to Take Up Pro ject if Carey Irrigation Fails. Washington, May 5. Information which reaches Washington indicaites that the reclamation service may yet have an opportunity to irrigate in the Deschutes valley in Eastern Oregon. At the time the national irrigation law was passed the reclamation service was anxious to build an irrigation service along the Deschutes, but found that private enterprise had entered the field and was already operating or preparing to operate under the Carey act. Had it not been for this fact, the govern ment would today be completing an ir rigation system that would irrigate far more land in the Deschutes than will ever be reclaimed Dy private enter prise, and would probably have been able to turn , the water into the canals not later than the coming fall or winter. If private capital should decide to withdraw from the Deschutes valley, the governme it would be very glad to enter that field, buy up what works have already been constructed, and enter upon the irrigation of a much larger area than is now internded to be reclaimed. But the government is, not going to make any advances. Nor will it pay fancy prices for such works as have been constructed by private capital. The situation in the Deschutes coun try is not altogether similar to that in Klamath basin. In the Deschutes, so far as known, the community is satis fied to have its lands irrigated by pri vate capital, notwithstanding private capital will reclaim only the cream, and leave forever barren a large tract that would be irrigated by the govern ment. In the Klamath basin public sentiment is a unit in favor of govern ment as against private irrigation. xniB mucn is 10 ue saia: i private capital goes ahead and completes its ir rigation system according to present plans, the government wall never go in and reclaim the outstanding lands. Private interests are promising to irri gate only lands which can be watered at a minimum - cost ; the government will not follow and undertake to irri gate adjoining lands where the cost will be excessive unless it can have the en tire field to itself. One of the prime objects of government - irrigation is to reclaim lands in large areas, combining cheap with expensive work, so as to make the average cost within the reach of the settler. The government is not taking up extremely expensive works ; it cannot afford to; it is only irrigating where it knows it can recover the ex penditure. RIOTING CONTINUES Troops Are Asked for to Restore Peace In Chicago. 5 Government Likely to Droo Palouse ' Irrigation 'Project. Spokane, Wash., May 3. It is re ported here from what is thought to be paign against Vladivostok, Russia's re- MAYOR AND UNION OPPOSE MOVE 1 eamsters Have Lobby at Capital and Governor Will Hear Their Side of Story. . Chicago,' May 4. Rioting 'in the streets today was so prolonged and of so fierce a character that many of the leading business men have concluded that there will be neither peace in the city nor safety 'for outside interests until the state militia has been called out to restore order. A committee of members of the Employers' association left for Sprinfigeld today to confer with Governor Deneen and to request him to give orders to the state troops. The labor unions have an extensive lobby at the state capital, and it is likely that they will also be heard before any action is taken by the governor Chief of Police O'Neil says he is confi dent that he has control of the situa tion," and can keep peace in the city with the - mayor's support j who has done all in his power to adjust the state of affairs. Mayor Dunne was emphatic in his declaration tonight that he will not acquiesce in any call for outside assist ance in preserving order, and intimated that he will strongly oppose any move to secure armed intervention.. 1 We have by no means reached the limit of reserve, the maypr declared tonight. "I am empowered to call on every able-bodied citizen over the age of 18 years. Of course, I could not call on the striker or the strike-breaker their sympathizers, but , I would have to draw upon the citizens of good character from the general public. Despite the order of Mayor Dunne an the prohibition . of the city council, many of the wagons ot the concerns against which strikes were declared, were handled today by men armed with rifles and shotguns. TRIPLE ALLIANCE FOR PEACE Attempts to Take Away Trade of Ihe Coast Manufacturers. San Francisco, May 6. The Call to morrow will say: A great fight is on for the market for binding twine on the Pacific coast. . On one side are arrayed the Portland Cord age company and the Tabbs Cordage company, of this city, home manufac- turers of cordage", and twine. On the . other side are the International Har- Tester company and its leading agen cies on the Pacific coast, the trouble all oming from an attempt, as reported, on the part of the International Har vester company to take away the trade completely from the Tubbs Cordage company and the Portland Cordage company. Deprived of the agencies of the In ternational Harvester company to mar ket their goods, the program of the coast manufacturers is to market on their own account, through retailers, through agents of their own employ and in any other feasible way. - Mine Fire Under Control. Vancouver, B. C, May 6. The Canadian-American Coal and Coke com pany's mines at Frank, N. W. T., about which there was a fire scare the other day, aie running full blast again. The fire is under complete control, the en trances to the burning rooms having all been closed. President H. L. Frank says the accident had no serious effect, and will in no way interfere with the plans of the company for extensive im provements. The company is about to install the largest fan used in Cana dian mines and a new air system. Strikers Cause Others to Quit. ' Elmira, N. Y., May 6. Fifteen hundred striking miners gathered in Blossburg, Pa., at an early hour today sand started to march to Morris Run, IPa., to induce the nonunion men who have taken their places in the mines of "the Morris Run Coal Mining company to not only quit work, but to leave Morris Run, the strikers furnishing money to, them which had been sup plied by the National Mineworkers' 'onion. , ? French See France, United States and Britain Thus Combined. Paris, May 4. The Temps in a lead ing article today discusses Ambassador McCormick's remarks to President Loubet yesterday on the presentation of the former's credentials as being timely reassurances of the strong rela tions uniting the two countries. The paper gays : ' The ambassador referred to the Franco-American .alliance as ' being stronger than if inscribed in treaties, and then by an initiative which ie worthy of emphasis he expressed satis faction with the Anglo-French rap- prochement. It is not habitual for third powers to be mentioned in cere monies of this kind, and this makes the ambassador's allusion . to Anglo French friendship more significant." The Temps adds that the friendship thus indicated between France and the United States and France and Great Britain, is susceptible of developing into a triple understanding for the ben- efit of the participants and the peace of the world. The Journal des Debats also devotes a leading article to Minister McCor- mack s speech. Austria Shuts Door on Poles. St. Petersburg, May 6. In order to -stop the flood of Poles who are fleeing across the border to escape conscrip tion, and on account of the troubles in Poland, Austria has ordered that all Russian citizens desiring to cross the frontier must be provided with pass ports, vized by Austrian consu- Garfield Has a Carbuncle. Los Angeles, May 5. United States Commissioner of - Corporations James R. Garfield, who arrived in Southern California Monday to investigate the oil condition of this section, is suffer ing severely from a carbuncle and temporarily hampered in pursuing his investigations. Both the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific railway companies have thrown open their offices and rec ords to the commissioner and his assist ants. When he goes from here to Tex as he will leave two assistants behind who will continue the investigation. . Oyama Will Hasten Siege. Paris, April 5. A dispatch to the Temps from St. Petersburg , says that dispatches received there confirms the reports that the Russian cruisers which have had their headquarters at Vladi- vostoK since the outbreak ot the war with Japan have left that port. Mill tary critics at St. Petersburg expect General Oyama will hasten the invest ment of Vladivostok for the purpose of cutting off : Admiral Kpjestvensky' squadron from a Russian naval base Bombmakers Arrested. London, May 5. A dispatch from St Petersburg to a news agency here f that a dozen men have been arrested in a joiner's workshop who are suspected of being bombmakers. SeveraL infern al mahcinea, the- dispatch adds, were, found in the shop. FRENCH SUPPLYJRUSSIAN FLEET MAY ABANDON PLAN.X RU88IA'S LAST STRONGHOLD. Vladivostok, Against Which the Jap anese Will (shortly Proceed. - It la announced authoritatively that Japan 1b planning a land and sea cam- authentic sources that the government has decided to abandon the Washing ton irrigation project in the Palouse valley for various reasons. In the first place, there is conflict between the gov ernment reclamation bureau and the O. R. & N. over the removal of the tracks of the road from the bed of the Wash-, tucna coulee to a point higher up on the north bank of what would be the artificial lake, provided . the plans of the engineers were to be carried out. The O. R. & N. built the track throueh the coulee some years ago to afford transportation facilities to the farmers of the district, and last vear rehabili tated the line and ,ut it in operation after an interval of three or four years' idleness. As long as this track is maintained it will be impossible for. the government to construct its pro- ected reservoir. -A conference has been held between the government en gineers and those of the railroad com pany, and it has been estimated that it would cost more than $400,000 to change the track from the bed of the coulee to a point along the bank. This sum, added to the cost of the irri gation project, as already planned, would place such a burden upon the land tributary to the district as to make the work impracticable at this time. . While this is the story currently re ported, there is said to be another and more vital condition prevailing. It is said to have been recently discovered by the government engineers that the soil forming the bed and walls of the coulee is of such a nature that it would be practically' impossible to make the lake hold water. The soil is a sandy loam, through which water percolates as through a sieve in a great many places, and to . build a reservoir that would hold under the immense press ure natural for such a large body of water would necessitate the artificial treatment of the walls and bottom of the basin, which is at least 15 miles in length, at a cost that .could not be con sidered by the Reclamation bureau for many years to come. malning stronghold In the East. With the sickening fate of Port Arthur fresh in mind, this latest frank and direct avowal of the Japanese Intention comes with a shock. The impregnability of Port Arthur was for so long a matter of uncertain ty and the claim to that distinction was disproved at such a fearful cost that the world will hesitate to believe that Russia has still In her possession a stronghold whose claim to impreg nability Is even more plausible than POSTOFFIOE AT VLADIVOSTOK. FIGHTING ON STREETS. Only Bluff at Neutrality Maintained in Cochin China. Hong Kong,. May 4, It is learned from a reliable source that the steamers Eva, Dagmar and Bourbon, under charter by the Russian' government have been plying between Saigon and the Russian Baltic fleet, carrying lo the latter full cargoes of : flour, rice lard, fish, vegetables, meats, and enormous quantities of brandy and wine; The latter has been with drawn as a sop to the neutrality regulations, but the two former vessels are still en gaged in the work. After the Bourbon had ceased her trips, she was tield up by the French transports in the Saigon river and a crew of French marines placed aboard to "compel her to cease her trips." The two vessels which are still in the service were allowed to go on their way unmolested. A number of French transport steam ers are cruising off the coast of French Cochin China, ostensibly engaged in safeguarding France's neutrality. It is reported . that American and German correspondents at Shanghai have chartered the steamer Wuchang for the purpose of witnessing the com ing fight. The Wuchang flies the French flag, but is believed to be owned by Russia, and it is thought that her real mission will be not so much to see a naval battle as to locate Togo's fleet for Rojestvensky's information. Work of Wind Storm. Omaha Neb., May 4. Three per sons were killed and six injured by the collapse of a three-story building at Thirteenth and Grace streets today.. The building was occupied by the Oma ha Casket company, and the killed and injured were, with one exception, employes of the concern. The collapse of the casket factory was due to a heavy wind storm, which at a point near the factory assumed the propor tions and action of a small tornado. The building was substantial, of brick, three stories high. Death and Broken Bones Outcome of Chicago Strike. Chicago, May 3. The death of one man and the injury of scores of others were the immediate result of today's fighting between the striking teamsters and their sympathizers on the one side and the police and the nonunion men on the other. There were riots in all parts of the city Men were clubbed and stoned almost to death within a square of police headquarters and five miles away men were shot down in the streets. At a hundred places between these two extremes there were assaults and fights in the streets. Blood was shed on State street, in the heart ot the fashionable shopping district, and furi ous riots took place almost in the door ways of the leading hotels. Nonunion men were pelted with stones, bricks and every conceivable Bort of missiles They were dragged from their wagons. beaten, clubbed and stamped upon The mobs that followed the wagons on which they rode were ugly in the ex treme. BLAMES ANTI-TRUST ACT. Railroad Man's View, of Consolidation ' Bryan's Platform Safe. a Washington, May 3. Hugh L. Bond, of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, to day continued his statement before the senate committee on interstate com merce. Asked as to what caused the consolidation of railroads, Mr.Bond answered: "The anti-trust act." 1 . lie explained that there was no method of preventing weaker lines from cutting rates. . The weaker lines were taken in so as to prevent demoral ization of rates. Robert Mather, chairman of the ex ecutive committee of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad company, was next heard. During his statement Mr Mather alluded to the assertion that, if the government did not . take hold of rate making, there would be a demand for government ownership of railroads. was that of the fallen Gibraltar. Yet, according to the military wiseacres, es pecially those who have had the ad vantage of actualy observation, Vlad ivostok Is strong where Port Arthur was strong and strong also where that fortress was weak. First and of great strategic import ance is the fact that Vladivostok can not be invested by a hostile force, either by land or sea, during the long and pitiless Siberian winter. It is as safe from all external molestation dur ing Its protracted hibernation as Is the shrew in its burrow. This natural de fense confers impregnability on the port for several months in every year. ' More Riots in Russia. St." Petersburg, May 4. Reports of slight disturbances in various places of European Russia during Easter Mon day are now coming in. The gravest occurrence in that part of the empire was at Militopolaw, where a mob for several hours held high carnival and burned a portion of the town.. At Nij ni Novgorod, a regular battle occurred between soldiers and the crowds on Millionaia street. The soldiers fired, killing one and wounding many. Russia Buys SouthAmerican Ships. - Paris, May 4. According to the St. Petersburg correspondent of the Petit Parisienne, several transports will leave Cronstadt on May 6 for South America, conveying-crews and military stores for the equipment ' of warships purchased by Russia from Chile and Argentina. any prospect of .relief, as was the case for awhile at Port Arthur. It would only be a simple question of endur ance. . It is undoubtedly a fact that Vladi-. yostok is even better provided to sus tain a long blockade than was Fort Arthur. When Russia decided to make it the terminus of the Transsiberian road she began to build storehouses and. military depots the like of which was unknown to Asia. This hoarding of 8 tores has never ceased. To Jose Vladivostok would be Russia's crown ing humiliation. THE CURVED BALL. It Is the Atmosphere Which Causes Its Eccentric Shoots. Almost any ten-year-old youngster can curve a ball, even though he noes not know why he can do so except that the leather must be held in a cer tain way. Possibly a . half dozen of the major league twiners know some- - thing about the science of the curve, but comparatively few understand why they can produce their "benders." The Scientific American gives the follow ing as the scientific explanation of the matter: "The pitcher in the field tells as that the ball curves because he gives it a twist, but scientifically this will not do. Why will the twist make the curve? If a ball were thrown In a cer tain direction and if the force of gravi tation were, not at work the ball would continue on in a straight line forever. Some force of resistance is then at work when a ball is made to deviate in a curve from its stralgnt course. If a feather is dropped In a vacuum In an exhausted receiver of an air pump it will drop like a shot, but if it is drop ped out in the air it will go down ir regularly and slowly, shifting from side to side. "It Is the atmosphere which cause the ball to curve. Bearing in mind that the atmosphere is a compressible, elastic gas, we find that when the ball leaves the hand of the pitcher with a rapid rotary motion it Impinges upon a continuous elastic cushion,' and thil moderate resistance, or friction, changes its course In the direction which is given to the rotary motion, Take an outshoot of a right handed -pitcher, for instance. He impressei upon the ball a rapid centrifugal ro. tary motion to the left, and the ball goes to the left because the atmos phere, compressible and elastic. It VLADIVOSTOK, RUSSIA'S LAST EASTERN STRONGHOLD ' Race for Rich Coal Fields. Butte, May 3. A Miner special from Bridger, Mont., says there is a race on betw e i railroad surveyors to set into the Bear Creek coal fields. Philadel phia capitalists are behind one set of engineers, while the Burlington is said to be sending a party of 40 men into the Bear Creek country from its Toluca Cody branch.; The route of the Bur lington party is said to embrace Cooke City and the Sunlight mining districts, recognized as two of the best mining sections in the state without a railroad outlet for their ores. Warehouse Fire at Bay City. San Francisco, May 3. Fire broke out in the. property of . the Arizona Warehouse company at Sixth and King streets late yesterday, and the building and its, contents were totally destroyed. The loss will amount to at least $150, 000. The stock" destroyed was of a varied character and the greatest diffi culty was experienced in extinguishing the fire in a section that contained oil, sulpher and other combustibles. ' The loss is divided among several firms. Raising Sunken Ships. Tokio, May 3. The wprk of salving the sunken ships at Port Arthur and Chemulpo is progressing satisfactorily to the Japanese. Details are withheld, but it is believed to be certain that the The Petit Journal prints a Japanese navy will secure several bat- dispatch confirming the foregoing. tleships and cruisers. The harbor, it appears, is not a whit less baffling in its natural configura tion than is that of Port Arthur. Vlad ivostok is situated on the gulf of Peter the Great, an arm of the Japan Sea. The town is built on the slopes of a high ridge forming a tapering penin sula into an Irregular landlocked bay. There are two narrow entrances to the harbor, both flanked by highlands which bristle with batteries and forti fications. The entrances are further guarded by forts erected on an island at their mouths and innumerable Islets Just outside on which are many de fensive works of various kinds. Sur mounting the crest of the headlands, which stretch for miles to the east ward and are known- as the Golden Horn, are continuous chains of earth works and other defenses. The lofty hills on the northwest protect the port from the land 'side, and In the deep water of the Golden Horn, which is at least four miles In length and a mile in width, the largest ships may ride safe ly at anchor, free from the menace of attack and beyond the reach of the weather. - . - Like Port Arthur, Vladivostok con sists of three portions. That- nearest the water is the military town, extend ing along the harbor fynd given up al most exclusively to storehouses, mili tary quarters and officers' residences. On the extreme north of the harbor are the official buildings and the pri vate dwellings of the government em ployes and private citizens. Beyond and higher still is the arsenal, strong ly fortified.. The population is about 15,000, excluding the military. It isnot likely that the town could be entered by an invading force from landward without a repetition of the hard fighting that took place at Port Arthur. The natural disposition of the hills at the rear of Vladivostok has ' made It possible to Interpose many powerful schemes of defense against the advance of an enemy, and the Rus sian engineers have been puzzling their brains for forty years to make approach from the rear practically im possible. There Is nothing, however, to prevent the Japanese from com pletely Investing the place. Once In closed within the circle formed by the ; Japanese fleet and the land forces, i there -would be nothing to expect from outside. The Russians have no means of assembling or maintaining an army In that vicinity sufficient to suggest packed into an elastic cushion just ahead of the ball by the swift forward and rotary motion, and the friction, which is very great in front of the ball. steers it in the direction it is turning." RISKS LIFE TO SAVE GOOSE. Man Mine Lowered Down an Old Shaft 700 Feet Deep. From Oxford, Warren county, N. J, comes the story of Lewis Albert, an engineer at the mines, says the New York Herald, who, for the sake of a goose's life, risked his own for fully forty, minutes on Friday in a daring and sensational manner. The goose got over the fence of Its coop, napped its wings, flew over the opening of the shaft wLcu is 700 feet deep, fell into the black hole and dis appeared. On the following day persons pass ing the shaft heard sepulchral Cries proceeding j:rom some subterraneous source. Kemple heard sounds and learned of the goose's plight The old hoisting apparatus was ex amined and found to be useless and the .problem arose as to how the bird was to be rescued. One man lowered a hook and line, to which was at tached a worm, but the goose would not bite.' Then Albert took a long rope and, selecting a group of miners, he bade them lower him into the mine. Albert got down about 200 feet and a minute later there was a fierce honk ing, followed by a signal to pull up quickly. Albert soon appeared with the struggling bird his arms. , Only Misplaced, Mr. Blxby was on a visit to Mr. Rol lins, bis cousin, who resided in another part of the country, where manners and speech were . different from those to which the visitor had been accus tomed. Both eye and ear, therefore, were occupied with study and compari sons. ' . , "There's one thing I notice about you people here," observed Mr. Blxby. "You don't seem to have much use for the letter "r.' Back where I came from It has a sound, as other letters have, but here It is practically a silent letter Why is that?" v "I haven't the slightest idear," re plied Mr. Rollins, innocently. There is one thing, at least, that a man cant be blamed for: the company at the boos.