Heppner Gazette
Issued Thursday of Each Week
CUT AWAY THE RED TAPE.
HEPPNER. f OREGON
RESUME OF THE
WEEK'S DOINGS
General Review of Important Hap'
renins: Presented in a Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers National, Political, His
torical and Commercial.
J. Pierpont Morgan ib in deadly fear
of assassins.
Grover Cleveland has just celebrated
his 69th birthday.
Coal miners are working hard to pre
vent a general strike April 1.
Nebraska thermometers are register
ing from 5 to 10 degrees below sero
John D. Rockefeller maintains an
armed guard at his house in New Jersey
The house and senate are likely to
disagree on the type of canal to be
buitt.
General Wood defends the action of
the American troops at Mount Dajo,
Philippine islands.
Secretarfyy of the Navy Bonaparte
insists that the United States should
build a greater navy.
Customs authorities have decided
that Chinese josshouse fittings are sub-
- ject to a duty of 15 per cent.
Snow slides in Colorado have caused
a number of deaths and a property loss
that will reach close to a million dol
lars.
Latst returns from the Colorado train
wreck give the number of killed as 22
Telegraph operators are blamed for the
accident.
New l ork proposes to establish a
municipal seaside resort.
The president will not appoint a su
preme judge for six months.
Susan B. Anthony's sister will stump
Oregon in the suffrage campaign.
The Japanese parliament has voted
to buy all railroads in that country,
The house will take up the amended
statehood bill Wednesday, March 21.
Official figures show the population
of Germany to (be 60,605,183, against
56,367,178 in 1900.
The Ohio legislature is considering
a bill which will give the courts power
to punish witnesses who refuse to talk.
King Charles, of Roumania, is near
death. The crown prince is unpopular
and a movement has been started to
crown his 13-year old i-on.
The District of Columbia court has
overruled Binger Hermann's demurrer
to indictments for destroying public
records. He will ask for an appeal to
the Circuit Court of Appeals.
Western railroads are facing a labor
famine. Twenty-five thousand men are
needed in the Northwestern and South
western states to build the roads that
are alrrady under way, and it is esti
mated that before June twice that
number will be needed.
Denmark may put a tariff law into
effect.
Purpose of Bill Regulating National
Reclamation Work.
Washington, March 20. In its gen
eral operation, the National reclama
tion law has proven quite as effective as
its iramers expected; indeed, the gen
eral work of national irrigation is pro
greasing satisfactorily. In the admin
istration of the Reclamation service
however, there has been some slight
friction which has resulted in delays
that have, been bothersome, if nothing
more.
No one can realize this more than
the chief of the Reclamation service
Mr. Newell, and the director of the
Geological survev. Mr. Walcott. To
obviate these delayB, the reclamation
authorities have explained the situa
tion to the president and he has ap
proved their recommendations and at
the joint request of these officials a bill
has been introduced in congress which
will, if enacted, prove of very material
benefit to the Reclamation service.
Most of the friction and delay com
plained of is the result of red tape that
exists between the Reclamation office
and the Interior department proper.
Their dealings are not direct, and in
the roundabout course they follow
manv delays are likely to occur. The
bill that bat been laid before the house
by Representative Cooper does away
with this red tape by providing a more
direct means of communication, at the
same time giving the Reclamation ser
vice more leeway. The director of the
geological survey is made the director
of the Reclamation service and he goes
ahead with his plans, merely submit
ting them to the secretary for approval
and not for reveiw.
Another important change is made
by the bill in the matter of apportion
ing and expending money for reclama
tion works. At present this money is
entirely under the control of the secre
tary. At this time there is a very
strong sentiment in congress against
allowing cabinet officers to handle such
funds in a free manner, and the ten
dency is to restrict lump appropriations
and stipulate the various purposes for
which the money is to be used. The
Cooper bill permits the Reclamation
service to send to congress each year a
statement of the expenditures which it
proposes to make during the following
12 months, bo that congress shall spe
cifically authorise the various expendi
tures. Thus, while the Reclamation
service will retain the right to say how
the funds Bhall be apportioned, their
findings are always subject to the ap
proval of congress.
Notwithstanding this bill is approved
in its entirity by Presidnet Roosevelt
and by the house leaders. Reprefenta-
tive Mondell, of Wyoming, chairman
of the irrigation committee, says it is
faulty and has asked permission to
make certain amendments.
NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FROM THE STATE OF OREGON
WILL QUIT CANAL.
VOTERS CANNOT CHANGE.
Attorney General Says Original Regis
tration Must Stand.
Salem Attorney General Crawford
is of the opinion that there is no autho
rity for . je changing of a voter's regis
tration after it has once been made.
He has not rendered a written opinion
upon the subject, but after hearing the
report that changes have been permit
ted in Linn county, he examined thj
statutes governing registration and said
that the only change provided for by
law is that which becomes necessary
when a voter changes his residence
from one precinct to another.
Mr. Crawford said that if a voter
registers as a Socialist and then changes
his registration so that it shows him to
be a Democrat, this would be in effect
a second registration, and more than
one registration is expressly forbidden
If the clerk should make a mistake and
write the word "Socialist" after
man's name, when the voter had an
nounced himself as a Democate, Mr
Crawford thinks it would be permissa-
ble for the clerk to correct the error,
but where the party affiliation has been
recorded as given by the voter, there is
no authority for a subsequent change.
It has been many times asserted that
in Marion countv many Democracs are
registering as Republicans in order to
take part in the contest for the Repub
lican primary nominations, inspection
of the registration books shows that
this is not true, and that if any persons
are registering improperly the instances
are so few and so unimportant as to es
caoe notice. The disposition here ib
for each to register his party affiliations
honestly and fairly, if given at all.
FRUIT CANNERY FOR ALBANY.
GREAT TRADE WITH EUROPE.
Russia suspects Japan of hostile de
signs in Siberia.
All railrcdfl through Colorado are
blocked by snow.
Senator Depew is too ill to attend to
his duties in the senate.
lne first severe blizzard ot the win
ter has just swept New York.
The house will reject the senate
amendmnets to the statehood bill.
The czar has ordered extreme meas
ures to be taken to protect Jews from
massacre.
Secretary Taft has consulted with
three of his brothers regarding the
place on the supreme bench.
A Chicago man has asked a divorce
from his second wife that she may
marry his son. The husband is 56,
the wife 22.
Chicago is now about to oust the
Western Cnion and Postal Telegraph
companies or make them pay a good
price for the use of streets.
The anthracite coal miners will ar
range another schedule for presentation
to the mine operators in the hope it
may be accepted and thus prevent a
strike.
Colonel Knight, Major General
Wood's chief of statff, has returned
from a reconnaissance of of the situa
tion in China. He reports that there
is absolutely no danger of trouble and
that tranquility abounds.
Our Exports Passed the Billion-Dollar
Mark in 1905.
Washington, March 20. Europe
takes two-thirds of the exports of the
United States and supplies practically
one-half of the imports, says a bulletin
issued by the Department of Com
merce and Labor. Of the f 1, 021, 000,
000 worth of merchandise sent to Eu
rope in lHuo, izijy.uuu.uuu was manu
factures, the other $782,000,000 worth
being largely foodstuffs and manufac
tnrers' material.
In 1900 the exports to Europe
crossed the $1,000,000,000 line, and
since then have averaged about $1,050,'
000,000 per annum. In 1900 the ex
ports to all sections ot the world other
than Europe were $354,000,000 in
value; in 1905 they were $498,000,
000, the growth since 1900 in epxorts
to the non-European countries having
been proportionately greater than to
Europe.
Prior to 1890, the share of the im
ports drawn from Europe averaged
about 55 per cent; in 1905, it wis 48 4
per cent. This reduction, the bulletin
says, is apparently accounted for by
the growing demand in the United
States for tropical and subtropical pro
ducts, which are supplied almost ex
clusively by the other grand divisions
of the world. The value of these pro
ducts into the United States in 1905
was $508,000,000, against $303,000,
000 in 1895.
A new
formed.
French cabinet has been
Mrs. Dowie denies the rumor that
he has deserted her husband.
Taft's retirement from the presiden
tial race revives the hopes of Fairbanks.
The Standard Oil company will only
five evidence at the trust investigation
under compulsion.
The Iowa legislature baa passed a law
preventing the employment of children
under 18 years of age in any occupation
injurious to health.
Vice President Fairbanks honored
Senator Fulton by calling the senator
to bis chair and turning over his gavel
to him for the greater part of an atfer-soon.
Storer to Retire at Once.
Washington, March 20. Other than
admitting that Bellamy Storer, the
American ambassador to Austria-Hun
gary is to retire immediately from his
post, Secretary Root declined to make
any statement regarding the change in
office. A successor to Mr. Storer will
be named by the president today. The
secretary refused to say who the new
ambassador will be. It is known that
there has been some friction with the
administration which neither Mr. Root
nor others in a position to know will
discuss.
Farmers Tired of Waiting.
Ontario The farmers of Dead Ox
Flat, tired of waiting for water from
the various projects contemplated, have
taken steps to organize an irrigation
district under what is known as the
Wright law. A petition to the County
court will be considered at a special
session April 16. The proposed district
ncludes about 10,000 acres of the best
land on Dead Ox Flat, in Malheur
county, lusr across the bnake river
from Weiser, Idaho. When this district
is organized and the means of watering
t have been installed, there will have
been added to Malheur county many
thousands of dollars of taxable proper
ty. The success of the enterprise
moans much for the county.
Wallowa Bridge by July I.
Wallowa When the O. R. & N. Co.
started to secure right cf way in this
county for an extension of their line it
was not definitely known how toon the
road was to be in operation. In a re
cent conversation with a gentleman
who is in a position to know the activ
ity of all projected railroads, it was
learned that the extension to the O. R.
& N. was expected to reach the Wal
lowa bridge by July next. With rail
road accommodations so early, much of
the crop raised in Wallowa county, as
well as the surplus stock, will be
shipped from that point.
Change Wool Sale Dates.
Pendleton Owing to dissatisfaction
with the schedule of wool sale dates re
cently announced for Eastern Oregon,
the executive committee of the State
Woolgrowers' association has made out
new one, as follows: Pendloton, May
22-23, May 29-30; Heppner, May 24
25, June 7-8, June 21-22; Condon,
May 31, June 1, June 27-28; Shaniko,
June 5-6, June 19-20, July 10 11;
Baker City, June 25-26, July 12-13;
Elgin, July 13. The sale for the Wal
lowa countv wool has been set for Elgin
instead of the town of Wallowa as pre
viously arranged.
Gardeners and Orchardists of Linn
County Take Stock.
Albany Active work looking to the
erection of a cannery and packing plant
in Albany has begun by the gardeners
and fruitmen interested. The new
company will be known as the Fruit
growers' and Gardeners' Co Operative
association, and will be owned by the
men who sell their products to the com
pany or by citizens of Albany. Stock
in the new company is selling under a
restriction that no one man could se
cure more than 25 per cent of the
stock.
Besides packing, preserving and can
ning fruit and vegetables, the new con
cern will handle all kinds of produce,
acting as a kind of distributing point
where all produce for the local trade
can be secured at a uniform price. In
this way all stores will be able to keep
up with the market, and the farmers
will have no trouble in disposing of
their product.
me plan is to start witn a cannery,
prune packery and cider and vinegar
works. All of these industries have
been needed very much in Linn county,
because of the immense amount of
small fruits and garden products grown
cere, ana because tne county had no
such enterprises the development of
the fruit and gardening industry has
been much retarded.
Wool Sales at Condon.
Condon An effort is being made by
the Condon Commercial club to estab
lish at this place wool sales days. The
secretary of the club is in communica
tion with the State and National Wool
growers' associations, and with the aid
of the local woolgrowers' association,
which it is expected will be organized,
it is thought dates may be secured.
Endeavors are also being made to se
cure a reduction in lreigm rates on
wool from Condon to Boston, and
also on local shipments
etc.
of sugar, salt
Shonts Will Give Entire Attention to
His Railroad.
Chicago, March 19. A Washington
special says:
Information from trustworthy sources
makes it seem practically assured that
Theodore Perry Shonts, of Chicago,
chairman of the Isthmian Canal com
mission, intends soon to send his resig
nation to President Roosevelt. It is
unquestionably the intention of Presi
dent Roosevelt to nominate John F.
Stevens, the chief engineer, to succeed
Mr. Shonts. Mr. Stevens will combine
the duties of the two offices.
PreBBure from his associates on the
railroad with which Mr. Shonts is con
nected has been strong for some time to
bring about this result his return to
railroad work and his resignation from
the canal board. Mr. Shonts had
withstood the pleas of his business as
sociates, but recent events have induced
him to consent.
Mr. Shonts is still president of the
Clover Leaf railroad, and it is said that
the interests of that road, in the mind
of his colleagues, demand that he
return and take active charge of the
property. It is said he owns securi
ties in the road to the value of about
$3,000,000, and, in the interest of
these holdings, as well as the holdings
of others, it is declared that he feels he
must no longer divide time and his
labor.
There has been no secret that the re
lations between Secretary Taft and
Chairman Shonta have been strained at
times. They are probably today not of
the most amicable nature. It is prob
able that Mr. Taft will succeed to the
vacancy in the United States Supreme
court caused by the resignation of Jus
tice Brown, but will not take bis seat
before next October. Mr. Taft has his
own views about the canal work, which
are not in accord with those of Mr
Shonts.
When Mr.
court, it is
Roosevelt to
the canal
partment.
ROAST TO DEATH
AMID WRECKAGE
Unknown Number Die In Railroad Ac
cident in Colorado.
Certain That Thirty-Five Are Burned
to Ashes Six in Single Family
Flames Do Work So Thoroughly
That Only Body Is Identified In
jured Will All Recover.
Cannot Use State Money.
Salem Attorney General Crawford
holds in an opinion that the State
Lewis and Clark commission cannot
use tne fdU.UUU appropriated by the
Btate for a memorial building, even if
an individual is willing to supply the
$50,000 which the Portland Lewis and
Clark corporation refused to donate,
Mr. Crawford says the law is explicit
in its declaration that the corporation
must supply the money and the city of
Portland donate the Bite.
Taft goes to the Supreme
the intention of President
turn the supervision of
over to Secretary Root's de-
The secretary of war de
sires to arrange the construction plans
to suit his own judgment before the
transfer is made.
TIMBER LAND BILL READY.
Police Disperse Meeting.
St. Petersburg, March 20. Six
thousand persons participated today in
the initial meeting of the League of
Education, which was inaugurated by
the Constitutional Democrats to dis
seminate political instructions among
the people. Prominent speakers were
preeent, and there was no interference
with the meeting nntil M. Novikoff
made an impassioned speech, in which
he demanded the abolition of the death
penalty.
Pest in Eastern Persia.
Askabad, Russia, March 20. News
received here from Seistan, in Eastern
Peisia, says that a pest is spreading,
that the populace is becoming panic
stricken and that many persons are
fleeing.
Closed Season To Be Enforced.
Oregon City "A strictly closed sea-
sun will be maintained on the Uolum
bia river this year," says Deputy Fish
Warden H. A. Webster, who has gone
to the Lower Columbia. The closed
season began on the 15th inst. and con
tinues for a month, and in order that
all illegal fishing may be prevented the
authorities of Oregon and Washington
will co-operate and maintain a thor
ough patrol of the river. Oregon this
year has two patrol boats and Wash
ington has one, and all three will do
service onthe Columbia.
Beet Acreage Largely Increased,
La Grande Manager F. S. Bram-
well, of the sugar factory, has been in
Cove, making contracts for the growing
of sugar beets for this season's run, and
reports having contracted for about 1,-
000 acres of beets in that locality. The
sugar company expects to have a larger
acreage this year than ever before.
Heretofore the factory has never had
more than 2,800, acres but this season
is counting upon at least 4,000 acres.
Big Yield in Gilliam.
Condon Crop prospects for a large
yield are said to be better than ever be
fore in Gilliam county. There is a
greater acreage of wheat than ever
seeded in this county beiore and con
ditions are unusually favorable at this
time. The ground is wet to a depth
of more than two feet. Range is lm
proving rapidly, owing to the splendid
growing weather of the past two weeks.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Senate Committee Favors Repeal, but
Fulton Will Fight It.
Washington, March 19. The senate
public lands committee today virtually
completed the bill to repeal the timber
and stone act and authorize the sale of
public timber at not less than its ap
praised value, small dealers to be given
preference in the sales and miners free
the same as in forest reserves.
An amendment insisted upon by Sen
ator Fulton will be adopted giving the
counties 10 per cent of the amount of
es in their respective limits in lieu
of taxes.
The committee is also framing a bill
to permit homestead entry of agricul
tural land in forest reserves. This bill
designed particularly to meet the
Pueblo, Colo., March 17. A wreck
accompanied with horrors exceeded
only by the Eden "disaster, which oc
curred August 7, 1904, on the line off
the same railroad, resulted from a
head-on collision of two passenger
trains on the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad four miles east of Florence,
Colorado, at an early hour yesterday
morning. The trains were the Utah-
California express No. 3, west bound,,
from Denver, and the Colorado-New-Mexico
express No. 16, east bound,,
from Leadville and Grand Junction.
They met on a sharp curve and were
less than 200 vards apart when the en
gineers discovered thit a collision waa
imminent.
The disaster was made more horribles
by the manner of the death of many of
the passengers, variously estimated
from 20 to 35. Fire swept over the
wreck, engulfing the victims in a.
cauldron of flame and leaving only
charred and blackened bodies to tell',
the tale of slaughter.
A list of injured given out by offi
cials of the railroad company comprises
32 names. None of the injured are
dangerously hurt, and it is believed all.
will recover quickly.
It is reliably reported that but one
body is sufficiently intact to make re
cognition possible, all the others hav
ing been incinerated. The identifica
tion of the victims who succumbed to-
the merciless flames is only possible, it
is believed, through a comparison of
lists of rescued and missing. No ac
curate estimate of the number of dead)
was possible by reason of ths fact that
so many of the bodies were practically
destioyed.
One of the pathetic tragedies of the
disaster was the wiping out of all but
two of the family of Taylor Hewitt, of
Lebo, Kan. Father, mother, daughter-
grandchild, and the wives of the two-
sons are missing. The eons, A. E.
Hewitt and W. L. Hewitt are among-
the injured in the hospital here each of
them having leg fractures in addition:
to other injuries.
ACT LIKE CAT AND DOG.
Russia and "Japan Ready to Spring at
One Another.
Seaside to Astoria.
Salem Charles M. Cartwright, Wil
liam L. Dudley, Edgar J. Daly, San
derson Reed, B. F. Allen and J. Frank
Watson have filed articles of incorpora
tion with the secretary of state for the
Astoria A Coast Interurban company.
They propose to build a steam or elec
tric railroad from Astoria to Seaside,
ending at the Halladay or Old Seaside
property, in Clatsop county. The cap
ital stock is $300 000 divided into $100
shares.
Prospects Good in Sumpter.
.Baker uity uonservative mining
operators are of the opinion that dur
ing the coming summer greater results
will be obtained from the mines of the
Sumpter district than ever before. In
an interview on this question I. R.
Bellman, a well known operator and
manager of the Crack Oregon, at
Bourne, stated that this is assured by
the fact that so many properties have
been fully developed and are now on
the verge of being placed among the
regular producers.
Wheat Club, 6667c; bluestem, 66
68c; red, 6465c; valley, 70c.
Oats No. 1 white feed, $27.50: gray,
$27 per ton.
Barley Feed, $2324 per ton;
brewing, $2424.50; rolled, $24.50
25.50.
Buckwheat $2.25 per cental.
Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $13
14 per ton; valley timothy, $89; clo
ver, $7.608; cheat, $67; grain hay,
$78.
Fruits Apples, $12.5C per box;
cranberries, $12.5014.50 per barrel.
Vegetables Asparagus, 10llc per
pound; beans, 2Jc; cabbage, lc per
pound; cauliflower, $22.25 per crate;
celery, $4 505; sprouts, 67c per
pound; rhubarb, $2.25 per box; par
sley 25c; turnips, 90c$l per sack;
carrots, 6575c per sack; beets, 85c
$1 per sack.
Onions No. 1, 7080c per sack;
No. 2, nominal.
Potatoes Fancy graded Burbanks,
5060c per hundred; ordinary, nom
inal: sweet potatoes, Z4Zc per
pound.
Butter Fancy creamery 27$30c
per pound.
Eggs Oregon ranch , i e $ g 1 7c per
dozen.
Poultry Average old hens, 1314c
per pound; mixed chickens, 1213c;
broilers, 20 22c; young roosters, 12
12)c; old roosters, 1010c; dressed
chickens, 1415c; turkeys, live, 16(3
17c; turkeys, dressed, 1820c; geese.
live, 89c; geese, dressed, 1012c;
dUCkB, 115C.
Veal Dressed, 3X7c per pound.
Beef Dressed bulls, 23c per
pound; cows, 3)' Q 4c; country
steers, 4 (3. 5c.
Mutton Dressed, fancy, 89cper
pound, ordinary, 4 6c; lambs, 8(3
9Xc.
Pork Dressed, 68tlc per pound.
Hops Oregon, 1905, choice' 10(3
lOJc; prime, ; medium, 78
olds, 537c.
Wool Extern Oregon average best,
16(321c per ponnd; valley, 24 26c;
mohair, choice, 25 30c. I
IB
principle objection to reserves in Ida
no. senator jjudoib is strongly urging
this measure and predicts its passage.
Mr. Fulton is the only member of the
committee opposed to the repeal of the
timber and stone act, but other West
em senators agree with him and will
join him in opposition to the bill when
it comes up in the senate. In case it
is impossible to prevent the passage of
the bill by the senate, Mr. Fulton will
seek to increase the amount to be paid
counties Irom tne receipts of timber
sales from 10 to 25 per cent
The Oregon senator is so thoroughly
convinced of the inadviaabihty of re
pealing the timber and stone act that
he will carry his fight to the house and
seek to induce the house committee to
table the senate bill, just as it has
heretofore tabled a similar bill in the
house. He feels certain that this leg
islation will be killed in the house, if
not in the senate.
St. Petersburg. March 17. General
Grodekoff's order issued yesterday ex
cluding Japanese from Russian Man
churia, and at the same time beginning;
the distribution of land among the dis
banded troops whose familis are helped
by the government to emigrate to Man
churia, and the fact that many officers'
are dispatched to Vladivostok daily in
dicates that the situation in the Far
East is considered unsafe. A famous
general who recently returned from.
Manchuria is quoted as saying:
Despite official and diplomatic de
clarations at Tokio, we believe the
Japanese consider the war unfinished,,
and that they will seize occasion to-
con quer the Amur region from Harbin
to Lake Baikal. Their military forces)
in Manchuria have been strengthened
rather than diminished, and officers.
allow no one to visit headquarters
Even Englishmen are excluded.
TLe disorganized state of the Rus
sian army in Siberia favors the plana
ot the Japanese. This is the reason for
General Grodekoff's order and General
Rennenkampf's excessive severity in
crushing the revolution at Chita in
Trans-Baikalia.
Kaiser Would Be Boss.
London, March 19. Reynolds' News
paper prints a dispatch from Berlin
stating that Kaiser William is more de
terminea man ever to nave his own way
in regard to the Moroccan question at
the Algeciras conference. His latest
ambition is to pose as the dictator of
Europe, and he seems to consider the
present moment a favorable one to as
sume the role. The more moderate of
hla ministers are anxious lest the kais
er shall provoke France too far, for
tear that ranee and England may
throw down the gauntlet to Germany.
Constitution Is Saved.
Washington, March 19. The famous
old war frigate Constitution, "Old
Ironsides," is to be saved from rotting
at the Boston navy yard and will also
escape the worse fate of being used as a
target by the Aorth Atlantic fleet. The
gallant old craft is to be patched np
na ren a oi 1 1 tared, so she may indulge
in an occasional cruise in mild weather.
This is the decision of the house com
nitte on naval affairs. It is eetimat-
VI that it will cost just $6,000.
Started I OOO Rivets.
Baltimore, March 19. The British
steamer Belfast, Captain McKee, which
trrtved from Las Palmas, Grand Ca
iry, todav, brought mails from the
Irydock Dewey. Captain McKee re
torts that when he left Las Pal mas re
wi in were being made to the dock,
-h'ch had started a thousand rivets on
the trip across the Atlantic.
Robbed of Large Sum.
Great Falls, Mont., March 17. A
Tribune special from Kalispel reports'
the loss of $8,000 by the O'Brien Lum
ber company at the hands of highway
men. John Peterson, a trusted em
ploye, was carrying the money from
Kalispel to the works at Timers, about
nine miles distant. Near the mill he
was stopped by three men. One held
the team, another held a gun at Peter
son's head, and the other secured the
currency. The robbers were disguised,,
but are believed to the be men from
that locality.
Russia Threatens China.
Pepkin, March 17. The Seoul au
thorities have sent an official dispatch
to the Pekin government stating that a
large body of Russian troops has pene
trated to Wusuli and Helunkaog. near
the northern frontier of Corea. This
extraordinary move is perhaps intend
ed as a demonstration to influence the-
Rnsso-Chinese negotiations, which
show little progress. The Pekin au
thorities wired instructions to the Tar
tar general at Helunkang.
Bond Company a Fraud.
Louisville, Ky., March 17. Charges
of fraud and insolvency were made in aw
suit filed late yesterday against the
American Reserve Bond company, of
Chicago, asking for the appointment of
receiver. Millions of dollars belong
ing to investors all over the United
States are involved in the suit, which
was filed in the United States court
for the eastern district of Kentucky by
Levi Hake and Mary Welch, inveetorsr
in the company.