Hcppncr Gazette
Issued Thursday of Each Week
HEPPNER OREGON
CHILE'S TRADE FALLS OFF.
RESUME OF THE
WEEK'S DOINGS
General Review of Important Hap
penings Presented in a Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers National, Political. His
torical and Commercial.
favors the
Russia are attacking
Roosevelt
bill.
All parties in
Witte's cabinet.
Forty pereona were hurt in a street 1
car wreck in Pittsburg
The rate bill will pass the senate
without the court review amendment.
Failure of the Moroccan conference is
now expected, but war is not looked
for.
English Tonnage Exceeds by Far All
Others Entering Those Ports.
Washington, Feb. 27. Consul Gen
eral Field, at Valparaiso, in a report to
the State department, says that out of
a total of 17,000,000 annual tonnage of
vessels entering Chilean p.irts, those
tiring the American flag represented
only 135,000 tons. Great Britain's
flag covered 8,000,000 tons, and Ger
man ships aggregated 3,000,000 tons.
The trade of the United States fell back
from 111,000,000 in 1903 to $10,000,
009 in 1904, notwithstanding Chile
greatly increased her purchases.
The Chilean government, the consul
says, is planning many new railroads
aid extensions. The trans-Andiue
railway, when completed, will phorten
ship subsidy the time between Chile and Europe 10
or 12 days.
Consul Leroy, at Durango, writes
that Mexico will soon import wheat.
Consul General Thackeray, at Ber-
in, reports that the United States pur
chased nearly $15,000,000 more mer
chandise from the empire last year
than in 1904, mostly manufactured
goods, but that the sales of American
manufactured goods to Germany, aside
from lard and petroleum, in 1905, did
not equal $15,000,000.
NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FROM THE STATE OF OREGON
IRRIGATION BILLS KILLED.
LAW WILL NOT STAND.
The Philippine tariff bill passed by
the house will Boon come up in the
senate.
TRADE WITH SCANDINAVIA.
The Panama canal commission will
likely be reduced from seven members
to three.
United
States Sells $20,000,000
More That It Buys.
Washington, Feb. 27. According to
West Virginia's governor has appeal- a bulletin iesued by the department of
ed for aid to down the railroad trust in
that state.
oai operators nave ottered a com
promise to the miners and a strike may
be averted.
r J... .
ivussia is negotiating a new loan in
trance ot $240,000,000. The interest
will be 6 per cent.
W . K. Vanderbilt, Jr., was mobbed
and arrested in Italy for running down
a boy with his auto.
Three boys were burned to death and
Commerce and Labor, the trade of the
United States with the Scandinavian
countries, under which term are in
cluded Sweden, Denmark and Norway,
for the fapcal year 1905, amounted to
$32,000,000, of which $6,000,000 is
imports from and $26,000,000 export
to those countries. In 1895 the total
trade with these countries was $11,-
000,000, showing an increase of prac
tically 200 per cent in the last decade,
while our total foreign trade has in
creased but about 70 per cent.
The bulletin says that the Scandina
nine injured ion a tire at Kenyon Mill- vian population of the United States
bears a larger ratio to the present pop
ulation of their countries of nativity
than any other class of our foreign born
population
tary academy, Gambier, Ohio.
Witte's cabinet is falling to pieces.
said to be oppressing
Japanese
Coreans.
are
Johann Hoch, the modern bluebeard,
has been hanged.
Minister Rockhill says he fears no
trouble in China at present.
Attorneys for the Federation officers
have secured habeas corpus writs at
Ujise.
Ihe drydock Dewey has had to put
in at Las Palmas, Canary islands, for
repairs.
Wilson Mizner, the youthful husband
of Mrs. Yerkes-Mizner, has agreed to a
separation for $20,000.
The State department has taken up
with the Russian government the al
legeH holding up of postal orders issued
by the United States.
Congressmanen are receiving many
protests against the Hepburn-Dolliver
bill now pending. This measure is
practically a Federal recognition of
prohibition.
Philippine officials pay the tariff re
duction on sugar will not make any
difference with the producers of the
United States, as the product of the
islands will go to China anyway.
Taft made three speeches on Wash
ington's birthday.
The Longworth'8 received a warm
welcome in Cuba.
Democrats control the senate com
mittee on the rate bill.
One of New Orleans' largest whole
Bale grocerv firms has suffered a fire
loss of $130,000.
The German reichstag has extended
the most favored nation tariff to the
United States for One year.
The Canadian government has raised
$25,000 worth of flour which will be
sent to the famine sufferers of Japan.
G. A. R. national officers are pre
paring for a big time when the national
encampment meets in Minneapolis Augusts.
Imports from Sweden in 1905 aggre
gated $2,935,581, and exports to that
country, $7,197,171.
Imports from Norway. $2,204,580,
and exports. $4,420,469.
Imports from Denmark, $1,008,750,
and exports, $14,881,568.
CHECK ON CHOLERA
Maritime Quarantine Found Effective
at Manila.
Washington, Feb. 27. A report of
the public health and marine hoppital
service, which has just been issued,
gives a summary of the quarantinable
diseases reported for the city of Manila
during the calendar year 1905, shows
that there were 254 cases and 225
deaths from cholera, 45 cases and 43
deaths from plague, and 27 cases and
two deaths from smallpix. The report,
discussing the cholera situation in the
provinces there, says that, while the
number of cases has remained about
the same for several weeks, their loca
tion is constantly changing, and adds
that cholera has practically described
an entire circle of a radius of ahout 25
miles around the city of Manila, its
course indicating, the report pays, that
the maritime quarantine has been en
tirely effective.
In view ot the very few cases in the
city of Manila and their sporadic char
acter, me outgoing inter-island quar
antine placed on vessels has been con
siderably modified.
Bill to Restrict Giving of Free Rides
by Railways Not Properly Drawn.
Salem The an ti-pass law initiated
ny tne reopie s rower league is minus
an enacting clause, and is therefore
void.
The constitution expressly provides
that all laws initiated by the peopl
shall contain the enacting clause, "Be
it exacted by the people of the state
of Oregon." The copy of the bill filed
with the secretary of state has no such
clause.
The discovery was made when Secre
tary Dunbar sent the bill to the state
printer, preparatory to having 100,000
copies printed for distribution among
the voters of the state.
Attorney General Crawford says the
secretary of state cannot permit any one
to correct this defect, because each of
the 8,000 or more petitioners signed
the bill in its present form. He rules
that the secretary has no authority to
change it or to allow any one else to
amend it, but that he must submit it
as it came to him from the petitioners.
The supreme court has held in the
case of the state vs. Wright, 14th Ore'
gon, page 375, that the deliberate omis
sion of an enacting clause is a fatal de
feet.
The discovery of this error brought
to light the fact that there is no enact
ing clause or formal declaration of any
kind on any of the bills for amend
ments to the state constitution, for
which petitions are on file. This ap
plies to the woman's suffrage amend
ment, as well as to the amendments
submitted by the People's Power league.
It has not been determined whether
this emission makes the amendments
void or not.
The officials are looking up authori
ties. No authority has been found to
allow the secretary of state to refuse to
submit a measure to a vote of the peo
ple, even though it may contain defects
which make it void on its face, provid
ed the bill or amendment comes to him
with the proper number of signatures.
MANY CLAIM WATER.
Numerous Filings on Oregon Streams
Recorded at Salem.
Salem The numerous filings that
rave been made on the waters of rivers
and mountain streams for power pur
poses in this state during the past year,
have awakened interest in the ques
tion of the electrical possibilities of
Oregon. Many of the power projects have good
financial backing. , The majority of the
recent nnngs, indeed, are said to eman
ate from the same source.
The doctrine of beneficial use which
it is desired to apply to ' the waters in
all streams of Oregon is responsible for
much of the activity displayed of late.
As the law stands, any one can file on
water for power purposes, and by doing
a small amount of work each year can
prevent any one else from appropriat
ing or using the water. This rule ap
plies to irrigation and a movement is
on foot to change the law eo that no
man can appropriate more water for ir
rigation purposes than he can put to
good use. State regulation of the flow
and distribution of all waters is fast be
coming a principle of law in all the arid
land states. To regulate abuses and
prevent their repitition, the leading
waterusers are preparing to urge numer
ous changes in the law, so that the
ownership of the waters in all streams
and lakes shall vest in the state, for
the use and benefit of the people.
If this is done, it will be necessary
to make careful surveys and measure
the flow of all streams . that the water
may be equitably distributed.
rxo Leave of Absence or Condemna
tion of Private Land.
Washington, Feb. 26. The senate
irrigation committee today adveiBely
reported senator Ileyburn's bill per
muting homesteaders under govern
ment irrigation projects to obtain leave
of absence from their entries for six
months of each year up to the time
water is turned into the main canal on
land to be irrigated. The Interior de
partmeut opposed the bill.
The committee voted to table Senator
Fulton s bill authorizing the condem
nation of land in private ownership
wnen required as part of any irrigation
project. This bill was intended to
permit the acquisition of the wagon
road land under the Malheur project,
out tne committee doubts the constitu
tionalty of the bill and is furthermore
deterred by the fact that the Owyhee
High L,ine Canal company, of Boise,
iww proposes to reclaim even more
land than was embraced in the govern
ment Malheur project. If it be shown
that this company means business the
government will abandon the Malheur
project.
BULLETS FOR CHINESE.
ADVISED TO MOVE
FROM INTERIOR
State Department Warns Missionaries
of Apparent Danger.
Assistant Secretary Bacon Admits the
Government is Anxious Over Turn
of Affairs in China Will Give
American Citizens Every Protec
tion Possible.
Munitions
British Government Sends
i to Fleet.
i,onaon, eD. zo. me l.ritieh gov
ernment takes a rather gloomy view of
the Chinese situation and is preparing
lor any eventuality there. Warships
are being loaded with munitions on the
China station and heavy shipments are
being made to the
Cincinnati, Feb. 24. In answer to
a letter from F. M. Rains, correspond-
ing secretary for the Foreign Christian
Missionary society, to the State depart
ment at Washington regarding the situ
ation in China, Acting Secretary of
State Robert Bacon sent the following
letter to Mr. Rains:
"The condition of affairs in China ia
causing this government much anxiety,
and, while nothing is known here
which would justify the immediate
withdrawal of missonaries from the.
interior, it would appear prudent tt
the department for the heads of the
missions to warn all outlying stations
of the apprehension caused by their
exposed condition and to advise them
Land for Reservoir Site.
Washington The secretary of the in
terior has finally withdrawn land for
the Cold Spring reservoir site in con
nection with the Umatilla irrigation
project in Eastern Oregon, the land ly
ing in townships 4 and 5 north, ranges
29 and 30 east. Persons who have
made entry of any land embraced in
this reservoir site prior to the prelim
inary withdrawal, August 16 last, and
have not acquired vested rights, will
lose their land through the cancellation
of their entries. The government,
however, will pay for any improve
ments they may have made.
Ask for Pool in Wool.
McMinnville The Yamhill Live
stock association has elected the follow
ing officers: President, William Dil-
erst; vice president, John Redmand;
secretary, M. B. llendrick; treasurer,
V . S. Link; directors, William Gun-
mg, John Eborall, R. O. Jones, Amos
Nelson and D. A. Walker. At the last
meeting of the association a resolution
was passed recommendine that the
rustees set April 7 as the date for soli
ng the mohair pool. It was also rec
ommended that a wool pool be formed
by the iamhill growers.
The various foreign legations at Pe
kin are beginning to fear an outbreak
and the sentries on duty have been
doubled.
John D. Rockefeller is said to have
been discovered in his own office trans
acting business as usual. Some of the
beet detectives have been trying to lo
cate him.
Garfield denies he promised the beef
packers immunity.
The New York legislative committee
has ma le its report. The management
of the big insurance companies is se
verely criticized. Immediately follow
ir.g the report eight bills were intro
duced in the legislature radically
changing insurance laws.
Mrs. Julia Ward How is eerioasly
ill.
Susan B.
paralysis.
Anthony is Etricten with
Hostile Camps in Palace.
renin, reo. 'Zi. ihe Uhtnese gov
ernment is taking appa-ently -every
step possible to guard against any at
tack by fanatics on the foreign lega
tions here, and officials at the several
legations are not backward in supple
menting these measures with precau
tionary ones of their own. Thip, too.
despite the fret that higher Chinese
officials declare there is absolutely no
possible chance of an attack being made
upon the foreign compounds. Picked
Chinese troops have been detailed for
duty as legation guards.
Ordered to Shoot Suspects.
London, Feb. 27. The correspondent
of the Tribune at Pekin says that
pince the reported appearance of the
Chinese bandits in Tsinwantao, the
Germans and French have been kept at
arms at Shanhaikwan, Tsinwantao and
Tongsban, while the Germans are pa
trolling the viilrges with orders to
phoot all suspicion1) Chinepe. The Ger
man cfiVers, who formerly dined at the
hotel at Shanhaikwan, the correspond
ent adds, are now confined to barracks
after nightfall.
Will Show How Alfalfa Grows.
McMinnville 1 H. E. Lounshnry,
traveling freight agent of the Southern
Pacific company, has purchased for the
company five acres near McMinnville,
to he used as an experiment for growing
al'alfa, with the hope of promoting
dairying interests. Numerous other
tracts of land throughout the valley
have been purchased by the Southern
Pacific for the eamu purpose. The
company will furnish the seed together
with a supply of land plaster and inoc
ulated soil from successful alaflfa fields
in other parts of the state.
Cost for Month S664.
Portland It cost $664.29 to conduct
il. . II I s-v . i ..
iue ucys and uins Aid society in
anuary, and the bills were ordered
paid at the February meeting" of th
board of trustees. Superintenden
Gardner reported that 26 children were
received and 33 disposed of during th
month. The number of children in tli
society's care lebruary 1 was 46. On
family living in Tillamook county took
three children, brothers and siBter
The family is well to do.
commander of the
British fleet in Chinese waters, so that to take early steps to remove to places
he will be ab:e to protect British inter- of safetv at the first cause of alarm.
?DlD cuuu.u umre oe any serious upris- even if it ehould appear ingignificant
The missionary societies also have anJ the (,anger not imniinent
been warned to have their followers re
main in touch with the various British
consulates, so that they can take refuge
there, should it become necessary.
Commercial bodies dealing with Chi
nese trade believe a general uprising in
China is imminent.
On the other hand, the Chinese lega
tion here declares there is not the
slightest danger of any uprising and
states that the disturbances in South
China have been due entirely to the
efforts of certain discredited leaders to
organize a revolution to take over the
throne from the present emperor.
WANT EIGHT HOURS ON CANAL.
Ihis government is disposed to
afford every protection in its power to
its citizens in China, but in case of
an outbreak such protection would be
much facilitated if American citizens
were congregated in accessible localities."
COMMERCE STILL INCREASES.
Large
Im-
Indians Want Lands.
Pendleton About 25 Indians, mem
bers of the Columbia river tribe, have
made formal application to join the
Umatillas and share in the allotments
of the reservation, claiming that they
are of the same tribe and failed to come
in with them when the allotments were
made several years agi, preferring to
stay with the Columbia river tribe.
Will Start in 60 Days.
Eugene The deeds transfering the
Eugene Woolen millr from Wilbur &
Wright, of Union, Or., to the Salem
company, headed by 1. ii. Kay, which
recently acquired tne property, have
been signed in Salem and Emil Koppe,
who is to be the resident manager of
the plant, has arrived. Manager Koppe
has already begun to make improve
ments at the mill, anil expects to have
it in operation in 60 days. A new
brick and concrete picker houBe will be
constructed immediately.
George W. Guthrie, reform candi
date, has been elected mayor of Pitts
burg.
Russia is renewing her encroach
ments in Mongolia.
Turkey has given Germany a naval
base in the Mediterranean, though
other powers proteeted.
Detective McParland says the Feder
ation officials are responsible for 30
murders that he knows of.
The congress on uniform divorce
law asks a Federal law be passed
against "tramp" divorces.
Will Clean Out Foreigners.
Willemstad, Curacao, Feb. 27. Ad
vices received here from Venezuela are
to the effect that Piepident Catro says
he will humble France, to break the
Monrfc dex trine, clear out the French
from Venezuela ami then start on
Americans. Englishmen and Germans,
whom he declaree are worse than Chi
nese. He is reported as eaying that he
will clear the country of foreigners.
He is very bitter agiinst Americans,
who, he says, are after his country.
Dominian Loses Million.
Ottawa, Ont., Feb. 27. The Do
minion government loes is from $!,
000 000 to $1,500,000 by fire that raged
in Moncton, X. B., late last night and
today, when the Inter-Colonial railway
hope, w ith 100 cars and eeve-l build
irgs of different kind, were destroyed.
One thousand workmen are thrown out
Big Crops in Umatilla,
Pendleton Umatilla county farmers
are looking forward to an unusually
good yield of wheat this year. It is re
ported from the country near Helix
that the indications in that country
could ecarcely be very much better.
The grain is iki better shape now than
for several years at this season. The
ground has plenty of moisture, and ai
Much Freight From Dallas.
jMiias iwenry cars ot lumber were
L Ml. 1 . . i . f t II i
Dinea out oi iMiias in a single day re
cently, besides several cars of spars and
piling. The milia here and at Falls
City have a combined output of from
10 to 20 cars daily. The freight service
on alternate days will soon give way,
as the Southern Pacific has promised a
daily freight tram.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
bluestem, 70c;
$2829;
Wheat Club, 60c;
red, 66c; valley, 72c.
Oats No. 1 white, feed,
gray, f 27.502S.50 per ton.
Barley Feed, $23 5024 per ton;
brewing, $24'S24.50; rolled, $2425.
Buckwheat $2.25 per cental.
Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $13
14perton; val'ev timothy, $89;
clover, $7.508; cheat, $67; grain
hay, $78.
Fruits Apples, $12.50 per box;
cranberrie, $12.5014.50 per barrel.
Vegetables Cabbage, 1424j per
pound; cauliflower, $1.9092 per crate;
celery, $4 per crate; sprouts, V.f(3,7c
per pound; fqimsri, i4(tic per
pound; turnips, 90f3$l a pack; car
rots, 65 75c per sack ; beetB, 85cfl
per sack.
unions uregon, io. i, toc a
sack; No. 2, nominal.
rotatotes Fancy graded Burbanks,
Labor Leaders Ask President to Veto
Deficiency Bill. .
emcago, fcD. zo. i.abor organiza
tions ot this city have appealed to
President Riosevelt to veto the urgent
deficiency lull, passed by congress,
which abolishes the eight-hour work
day on the Panama canal. The names
of President John Fitzpatrick and K
N. Nockels, of the Chicago Federation
of Lab tr, were signed to a telegram sent
to Washington as follows:
Organized labor is unanimously
protesting against the urgent deficiency
bill so long as it contains the provision
repealing the eight-hour law or any
part of it, and most respectfully re
quests a veto.
The action of the local unions follow
ed instructions from President Gompera and manufactures.
of the American Federation of Labor.
In a statement Mr. Gompers asserted
that the law was intended as the he-
ginning of an attack upon the eight-
hour Btatute as applied to all govern
ment service.
Advance in Exports and
ports for Fiscal Year.
Washington, Fb. 24. The foreign
commerce of the United States during
the first seven months of the fiscal year
1006 amounted to $1,752,421,330, ac
cording to a bulletin issued by the de
partment of Commerce and Labor.
This shows a considerable increase in
both imports and exports, but more es
pecially in exports over the correspond
ing months of 1905.
In the seven months ending with
January, imports have increased $70,
000,000, and exports have increased
$155,000,000. Imports during the
seven months ended with January,
1006, were $69!).7r!4,566, and exports,
were $1,056, ti56, 764. The increase in
importations occurs chiefly in manu
facturers' materials and finished manu
factures, while the increase in exports
occurs chitlly in agricultural nroductn
WANTS TO IRRIGATE EGYPT.
American's
THREATS FROM FOREIGNERS.
Exclusion From Black Hills Mines
Causes Bad Feeling.
Lead, S. !., Feb. 26. As a sequel to
the explosion at the home of a mine
foreman, letters have been ru eived by
(superintendent Grier, of the Home-
take mine, ami some of the mine fore
men, mreaiening nonny iiarin unless
certain changes are made in the man
agement. The governor l as been asked
to offer a reward for the apprehension
of the writers.
It is thought the letters result from
an order prohibiting the employment
Claim to Slice of Desert
Held Up.
Washington, Feb. 24. The State de
partment has been informeds, through
Consul-General Gittings, at Cairo, with
regard to the claim of Cope White-
house to a vast tract of land in the
Egyptian desert, that the application
filed by Whitehouse was regular.
Whitehouse has made extensive ex
plorations in Africa and Egypt. He
discovered what he believed to be the
site of an ancient city in the Egyptian
desert, and took steps to secure title to
a large area of land including this
place. llis purposo was to reclaim
f men who could not speak or under- Rn'j develop the arid land by means of
stand English. It is considered that
he safety of the other miners was en
angered by the employment of work'
men unable to understand the signals.
May Show Up Witte's Tricks.
Saratoff, Russia, Feb. 26. Matu
shensky, the absconding assistant of
irrigation. He has not yet been able
to take possession of the land and he
alleges that his claim has been held up
in the Egyptian foreign office on tech
nical grounds without any right.
frost would not do any great amount of
damage should the temperature take
another drop.
of employment.
ance.
There was
no incur-
To Develop Coal Mines.
Eueene The Spencer Lutte Coal A
Petroleum company has been incorpor
ated here, with $100,000 capital. The
incorporators are: J. W. Zimmerman,
C. F. Mitchell, W. J. William and S.
E. Stevens, of Eugene, and I. W. Lore.
of Portland. The com (.any has a coal
prospect ten miles southwest ot Eugene,
which it will at once begin to develop
on an extensive scale. Later on oil
prospects will be bored.
Appropriations for Chemawa.
Washington The Indian appropria
tion bill about to be reported will carry
Viiti,zuu lor i lie (jhemawa Indian
school, including $4,000 for a new
bakery and $10,000 for a viaduct to
cross the railroad tracks, which run
through the school grounds. The lat
ter improvement is intended to insure
the safety of pupils in passing the railroad.
60(305c per hundred; ordinary, nom
inal; sweet potatoes, 2J42c per
pound.
Putter Fancy creamery, 27Ja 30c
per pound.
Eggs Oregon rancL, J617c per
dozen.
Poultry Average old hen, 13(3 14c
per ound; mixed chickens, 1235 12 ;
broilers, 19(3 20c: young rooeters, 12c;
old roosters, 10 lOJ-c; dressed i
chickens, 1415c; turkeys, live. lfi($
17c; t irkeyt". dressed, choice. 18(320c;
geese, live, 9c; geese, dressed, 12(4 14c;
ducks. 1618c.
Heps Oregon, 1905, choice, 10(5?
10c; prime, 89c; medium, 78c;
olds, 67c.
Wool Eastern Oregon average beet,
I621c; valley, 2426c per ponnd;
mohair, choice, 30c per ponnd.
Eeef preened bulls, 23c pound;
cows, 3$34c per pound; ccuntry
steers, 45c.
Mutton Dressed, fancy, 8a9c
per pound; ordinary, 45c; lambs, 8
Veal Dresped, 3 H'(?8 c per ponnd.
Iork Dressed, 68c per pound. i
Power From the Colorado.
Los Angeles. Cal.. Feb. 24. Aecnr-f-
Father Gapon, was arrested here today, ing to the Times, the energy of the Col
lie was located by a committee of S. orado river is to be transmitted to Ln
Peters! urg workmen, but refused to Angtles, according to plans now heino-
deliver up the $12,000 belonging to the matured by local and Philadelphia enp-
funds of the workmen's organization, italists. First the power is to be dis-
which he is alleged to have embezzled, tributed among the mining "camps on
Matushensky will be taken to St. the Nevada and Arizona lorder and wl-
Pctersburg for trial. The proceedings timately brouj-ht here. It is said that
against the prisoner are expected to be between the Grand canyon oi the Colo
sensational on account of his connec- rado and the tilack canyon it isi(OPHill
tion with Premier Witte, ex-Commerce to take advantage of certa'n sites and
Minister Timiriazeff and others. develop electrical enemy enual tn finn .
000 horte power.
May Postpone Meeting at Hague.
Washington, Feb. 26. Secretary
Root has issued a call for a meeting in
Washington this week of tho American
delegates to the approaching Hague
conference, Messrs. Choate, Torter and
Rose, for the purpose of coi.sidering
the program of Ihe conference and mak
ing the neceppary arrangements for the
trip. It will Ik? impossible for the con
ference to meet lefore next (all at the
earliest, and a further postponement
probable.
Wealth Limit of $10,000,000.
Washington, Feb. 26. Representa
tive Lloyd, of MiFSonri, by a resolution
n the house today, proponed an amend
ment to the constitution, so as to limit
private fortunes to $10,000,000. When
ever the limit is exceeded the excels
shall be deemM a "public nuisance,
folly or peril," and be forfeited to the
United States.
Local Option In Ohio.
Columbus, O., Feb. 24. The house.
this afternoon by a vote of 91 to 16
lasped the Jones lull, hacked by the
Ohio Anti-Saloon league, which pro
vides for municipal local option by pe
tition instead of by election, leaving
the initiative exclusively in the hands
of the temperance people, and it is
claimed by the Anti-Saloon league that
it will enable the people to drive
saloons from all the residence districts
of the cities of Ohio.
Investigate Rates On Oil.
Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 24. John T.
Marchland, of Washington, secret agent
of the Interstate Commerce commis
sion, arrived here today to investigate
illegal rates on oil. The resolution
nnder which Mr. Marchland is working
was introduced in congresi Monday bv
i Congressman Campfc.i t- Kansas.
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