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.