Heppner Gazette
lMl Thuradoy of Ec WmIc
HEPPNER OREGON
DRIVE OUT CASTRO.
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.
Tillman will have a hard fight to
re-elected senator.
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Bristol's confirmation aa district at
torney for Oregon is assured.
American money has saved thousands
of lives in the Japanese famine dis
tricts.
The president and senate leaders
have agreed on the court review amend
ment to the rate Mil.
Germany has found through the Mo
roccan conference that she has but one
friend in all Europe, Austria.
Sir Thomas Lipton has completed
arrangements for the building of a
challenger for the America's cup in
1907.
The New York Central and Pennsyl
vania roads are taid to have agreed on
consolidation. The present lines will
also be greatly extended.
An Indiana bachelor found eight
babies on his doorstep a few mornings
ago. He immediately sent for the
county officials to take charge.
A storm at English, Indiana, blew
down a large tree, revealing the hiding
place of 121,000 placed in the roots of
the tree by an old miser may years ago
Representative Jones, of Washing
ton, has a bill requiring all American
vessels to carry sufficient oil to calm
the sea whenever the vessel may be in
danger in storms.
Venezuela Is To Be Opened to Amer
ican Capital and Enterprise.
Nework, April 3. The World to
day says: One of the largest merchants
in New lork said last night that ar
rangements are being perfected here
and in Paris for an invasion of Vene
zuela, which will annihilate Castro
and open up the country to American
capital and enterprise.
a numoer oi ncn iNew lork mer
chants are said to be interested in the
movement, which, the promoters de
c'are, will involve the employment of
15,000 soldiers and the expenditure of
fa.uuu.uuu in the campaign under
which President Castro is to be either
expelled or destroyed and a native Ven
ezuelan statesman is to be installed as
his successor.
In this connection it is said that
Castro, anticipating a successful revo
lution against him sooner or later, has
converted some of his alleged $4,000,-
000 into cash and has sent it to A mer
ica and France.
Carlos B. Fuegerdo, Venezuelan con
sul in rew York, said last night at his
home that he bad heard such an expe
dition was being; organized or be in 2
promoted, but had been unable to
learn anything definite about it. He
said he had understood shares in the
scheme were being sold.
I would like to get hold of some of
those shares," he said. "I w'.ll buy
all mat are offered.
The consul inquired eagerly as to the
point the expedition was to sail from
The expedition is to set out soon from
Europe in three large steamships,
which are already under contract.
They are to carry about 5,000 volun
teers, with the following quantities of
arms and ammunition: Eight thousand
Mauser rifles of the latest pattern, 24,-
000 rounds of cartridges, 500 shells, 8
rapid fire guns, 8,000 army belts, 1,000
officers' swords, 5,000 officers' revolv
ers, 3,000 machetes and swords, to
gether with other supplies.
NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FROM THE STATE OF OREGON
STUPIDITY OF CANDIDATES.
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GREAT TRADE WITH MEXICO.
The Chinese boycott is believed to be
dying out.
Storer is still recognized as ambas
sador at Vienna.
Troops have, been called out to sup
press riots at Winnipeg, Manitoba.
The Iowa legislature has passed a
bill which will not allow any state offi
cer to use a railroad pass.
The miners convention has decided
to accept the advance wherever granted
by the Jcoal operators and work will
continue in those mines.
Representative Lacey, of Iowa, wants
all agricultural lands now embraced in
f-jT" rffrv.R thrown open to entry
v.Mf! t.u- tiOi"tfit.'.vd laws.
TrMrt-.er. v.rt: .- rho were entombed
In U: rcit coai mine have just been
four ; r... Thi v were in the mine 20
(i:3 !:.! H ou orse feed.
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J p. r v.
the
i 0 ) has been sent to
! fferers through the
National Red Cross. This makes $125,
000 sent through this source.
Announcement is made at Cleveland,
Ohio, of an advance of from to
cents per gallon by the Standarl Oil in
the price of gasoline and naphtha
Governor Pattison, of Ohio, is grow
ing worse.
Justice Harlan, of the United StateB
Supreme court, may resign.
The Chicago beef trust trial has been
set for the second Monday in Decern
ber.
The Ohio legislature has provided for
a commission to revise the insurance
laws of the state.
The president fears congress will
take no action on the Panama canal at
the present session.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, is in the hands
of a mob. A street car strike is
cause of the trouble.
President Roosevelt has again sent
Bristol's name to the senate for con
firmation as district attorney for Ore
gon. The Mississippi river is rapidly ris
ing and the danger line has been
reached at several p-duta near St.
Louis.
Great Britain has asked China for
5,000 taels for the recent Nanchang
murder and the opening of the ort
of Wuchecg Chi.
The Iowa legislature has passed a
resolution providing (or an insurance
investigation similar to that bad in
New York last fall.
The fire in the big natural gas well
near Caney, Kansas, has again been
extinguished by means of a hugs iron
cap dropped over the opening.
The Iowa legislature has killed the
direct primary bill.
Revolutionists of China are planning
to depose the dowager empress.
Germany is planning a navy equal to
that of both France and England.
Charles S. Francis has been appoint
ed United States ambassador to Aus-t-ia.
A wealthy New York merchant has
left $665,000 to the colored school at
Taskegee, Alabama.
American delegates have solved the
problem of the Moroccan conference
and an agreement is assured.
Steamship companies expect a weekly
average of 2,000 Russian emigrants to
the United States during this summer.
Fire at Jbngtown, Pa., destroyed
nearly $1,000,000 worth of property.
One fireman was killed and several
eriously injured.
Relations With Republic on the South
Are Very Close.
Washington, April 3. A bulletin is
sued by the department of Commerce
and Labor shows that the trade of the
United Stats with Mexico in the fiscal
year 1905 aggregated in value $92,000,
000, as compared with $31,000,000 in
1895, and $18,000,000 in 1885. Of
Mexico's total imports of merchandise,
53 per cent is drawn from the United
States, and of her to'al exports 71 per
cent is e?nt to the United StateB.
No other country except Canada
draws so large a percentage of its im
ports from the United States as does
Mexico, and no other country except
Cuba sends so large a percentage of its
exports to the United States as does
Mexico.
Estimates made by American con
sular repsentatives and others and by
persons in the United States familiar
with the subject, the bulletin says, in
dicates that fully $1,000,000,000 of
capital from this country is now invest
ed in Mexico, Canada and Cuba, of
which about one-half is in Mexico.
Aspirants for State Legislative Honor
Show Great Density.
Salem Men who seek to be lawmak
ers or ludaes have the greatest trouble
in preparing their primary petitions in
such a manner as to comply with the
provisions of the direct primary law
If it were not a cruel unkindnesa
those who aspire to these high and im
portant offices, many stories could
told of the great difficulty some of them
have bad in understanding the law and
complying with its terms.
One candidate for the circuit bench
has propounded a simple question con
cerning the requirements of the law
and has volunteered his own opinion
to its meaning, whereas the law itself
contains a plain and unequivocal pro
vision directly at variance with his
views, should lie nave as great aim
culty in understanding the law after
he secured a place on the circuit bench
there will be plenty of causes for ap
peal to the Supreme court.
Seven times Secretary of State Dun
bar has been compelled to write to one
man regarding the manner of preparing
bis petitions, and that man wants to
come to Salem and help make laws for
the state of Oregon. There is still a
possibility that he will not get his
papers drawn in substantial compli
ance with the law and will be shut out
of the privilege of being a candidate in
the primaries.
Petitions are now being rushed to
the office of the secretary of State and
the clerks in that department are being
kept busy early and late checking up
the papers, to see that they contain the
required number of names, from the
specified number of counties and pre
cincts.
March 30 is the last day upon which
nominating petitions can be filed for
places on tne primary ballot. Dmo-
crats express the fear thit some of their
candidates will not get their petitions
completed by that time.
THREE TRAINS IN A WRECK.
Passenger Train Comes Last on Top
of High Embankment.
Delta, O., April 3. Piled in a wreck
on top of an embankment 30 feet high,
100 persons escaped from injury in
miraculous manner in a collision on
the Lake Shore railroad near here to
night.
Two freights, east bound, were tied
up in a rear end collision, with the ca
boose of the train in front, which had
stopped to take water, thrown squarely
acron the track of train No. 3, a west
bound passenger. The mix-up be
tween tne ireignts naa scarcely occur
red when the passenger bowled along,
striking the overturned caboose.
The brakes were set, but, going at al
most a mile a minute, the headway
was so great that, with a crash, the
passenger locomotive jumped the track,
plunging along the ties, driving the ca
boose ahead. Two Pullmans were tele
scoped, but, after the train had stopped,
the passengers dashed wildly out of the
varioas coaches and slid 30 feet to the
bottom of the embankment to a place
of safety. The wreck took fire and
caused a damage of $100,000.
Roads Over Umatilla Reserve.
Pendleton Agitation continued for
years for public road's across the Uma
tilla reservation will at last be success
ful. Under an act of congress, public
roads may be laid out across a reserve'
tion in the same manner as elsewhere,
except that the road has to be approved
by the department. In the past it has
been held that the county had no rights
upon the reservation, and consequently
the use of the roads has been at th
pleasure of the Indians. For several
years the taking of sheep across the re
serve has been prohibited.
POPULATION DECREASES.
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inaccurate work by Assessors in Tak
ing Census.
Salem According to county assess-
vio miuriiB Bireaav exarmnnrl t.ha t.ntal
population of Oregon will be less than
that given by the Federal census of
in many instances the returns show
on tneir lace that no attempt was made
at accuracy, and this lack of care is o(
euch a nature that Secretary of State
uunrjar win nardly be able to complete
the tabulation of the state census of
105 until some time this fall, possibly
m oeiore next winter.
There was no appropriation made to
provide extra help to do this work, con
sequently it must be done by the regu
lar office force. The primary and Gen
eral elections furnish all the woik the
employes of the office can handle for
some time to come. It will be neces
sary to work overtime to tabulate the
returns of the primary election, and to
get the official ballot out for the June
election.
The census returns in many instan
ces were not properly extended. It will
be necessary to go over all the papers
and check them up, a slow and tedious
procees. W ith the present help, it will
require- weeks, and possibly months, to
taouiate tne returns properly.
SETTLE ALL POINTS.
Buy'ng Timber for Speculation.
Eugene One of the largest timber
and transactions in this vicinity is re
ported to have been consummated,
wherein the Olean Land company, of
Olean, N. Y;, has secured 15.000 acres
of timber in the vicinity of Gate creek
.Besides this large tract, the same com
pany is negotiating for several other
bod ies of good timber along the Mc
Kenzie river, aggregating probably 25.-
000 acres or more. It is said the pur
chasing company has no intention of
cutting the timber from these lands,
but is buying for purposes of specula
tion and will hold for an advance in
pnoe.
Coal for Missouri Institutions.
Jefferson City, Mo., April 3. Gov
ernor Folk, through Warden Matt
Hall, of the state penitentiary here,
has leased a mine near Waverly, from
which coal will be mined during the
present strike in sufficient quantities to
supply the 15 state institutions with
fuel. The miners at Waverly are paid
10 per cent more than the regular scale
and do net want to strike. If they
should be forced to go vut W arden
Hall said there would be no difficulty
in operating the mine if the state is
forced to resort to that extremety.
Miners Not Long Dead.
Lens, France, April 3. The inhab
itants have again been thrown into a
state of excitement, ow ing to the dis
covery of eight additional bodies in the
mine where the explosion recently oc
curred. An examination showed that
the miners hai not been dead very
long. Deputy Bastlv, of the house of
deputies made a sensational state
ment, in wlrch he accuses the company
of paying more attention to saving of
its property than to re cuing miners.
Elect Viquez President.
San Joee, Costa Ren, April 3. Lie-
nesiado Cleto Gonzales Viquez. ex
minister of finarce, was today elected
president of the republic of Costa R.ca.
Abandor Cascade Road.
Albany Charles Altschul, represent
ing the Willamette Valley & Coast Cas
cade Mountain Wagon Road company,
has notified county clerk B. M. Payne
that the company will abandon the
road across the Cascade mountains and
will not be responsible hereafter for
repairs or lor accidents on the road.
As a result, a number of men here are
taking steps to file on some of the lands
of the company's land grant under the
timber and stone act. The road was
built a third of a century ago.
Josephine Farmers Talk.
Grants Pass Farmers living in the
Applegate valley have formed a tele
phone company to be known as the
Applegate Valley Te'ephone company
Arrangements have been made witli the
Pacific States Telephone company by
which they can connect with the latter
company's lines in Grants Pass. Farm
ers living around Merlin, down Rogue
river and on Jump-off-Joe will have a
meeting in a few days to form a com
pany to run a line from those sections
to Grants Pass.
Electric Line in Six Months.
Astoria W. L. Dudley, promoter of
the proposed electric line between this
city and Seaside, was here a few days
ago and says the line will be completed
and in operation within six months if
the material is delivered within the
specified time. He Bays permission
from the government to build the
bridge serosa Young's bay has been se
cured and the contract for the Bteel
draw, as well as for 1,500 tons of 60
pound steel rails have been awarded.
The rails are to be delivered within 90
days.
Delegates at Algeciras Conference
Complete Their Work.
Algeciras, April 2. After a prelim
inary session lasting until 6 o'clock
this evening, the conference on Moroc
can reforms registered ' a complete ac
cord and appointed a committee to em
body this accord in a formal protocol
The consumation of the work in the
conference was announced in the fol
lowing official communication:
The conference has terminated its
labors and accord is established upon
all points. It has adopted a definite
text of the remaining articles concern
ing the state banks and customs. The
final article, regulating the distribution
of police at ports, was adopted from
the Russian draft. By it France will
police four ports, Mogador, Saffi, Ma-
gazan and Rabat, and Spain two, Te
tuan and Laracbe. France and Spain
together will police Tangier and Casa
Blanca, subject to an inspector of po
lice. The Dutch delegate announced
that his government declined to ap
point an officer. The conference has
appointed a special committee to rev.se
the texts of the agreement."
Mr. White, the American delegate, is
of the opinion that the result ia satis
factory, not only because the immedi
ate future of Morocco is secured, but
because the manner of the settlement
is satisfactory both to France and Ger
many and removes the causes for fric
tion and restores international relations
to normal. The principals for which
Germany insisted, the integrity of Mo
rocco and equal commercial and eco
nomic rights there, Mr. White thought
were recognized, while the special posi
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RUSSIAN POLICE
PLAN MASSACRE
To Be Wholesale Killing of Jews at
Easter Time.
Black Hundred To Be the Instrument
Proclamations of Blood Issui d.
Says League of Writers, Which
Appeals to Russians to Defend
the Jews.
St. Petersburg, March
League of Russian Writers
an appeal to the Russian
unite in the name of their
and sell-respect to preve.it
31. The
has issued
people to
consciences the Jewish
tion claimed by
knowledged.
France was also ac-
MINERS WIN IN PENNSYLVANIA.
Favorable Weather Follows Freeze
me uaues w earner conditions are
the most favorable since the recent
freeze, and farmers generally believe
that their grain that was frozen will
come out all right. In a few places,
directly exposed to the east winds, the
grain will ha;e to be resown, but it is
believed that a very great percentage of
the fall sown grain will make an aver
age crop, or better, as the weather since
the thaw has been cloudy and light
rains have prevailed.
Find Indian Burying Ground.
The Dalles Workmen clearing off a
lot in the southern part of the city,
belonging to M. J. Anderson uncovered
an old Indian burying ground, and ex
humed the skeletons of seven braves,
together with trinkets that had been
buried with them, including a large
number of elks' teeth. Mr. Anderson
will have the bones and trinkets col
lected and placed in a suitable burial
place, to be selected by survivors of the
dead whose graves were disturbed.
Old Deed is Filed.
Albany A deed has been recently
filed for record here that was made be
fore Oregon was a state. It was signed
by Joab Powell and Anna Powell, No
vember 25, 1858, and acknowledged be
fore Jacob Snoderly, a justice of the
peace. It was written with a quill on
a large sheet of paper, now yellow and
dimmed. Powell was a pioneer minis
ter, and has many descendants in Linn
county.
Material for Central Rrilway.
La Grande A carload of plows,
scrapers and other tools for grading
have been received at Union for nse in
work for the Central railway of Oregon.
Some of the Eastern parties interested
in the electric railway enterprise have
also arrived at Union and their pres
ence is accepted as the signal for the
commencement of active operations.
Small Force at Woolen Mill.
Fugene The Eugene woolen mill
has started operations on a limited
scale. The new company which recent
ly purchased the property has been
making improvements, and intends
putting tne mm into lull operation as
soon a possible.
Great Majority Will Get the Advasce
After Brief Shutdown.
Pittsburg, April 2. Pittsburg dele
gates to the Miners' National conven
tion who returned from Indianapolis
today were jubilant over the adoption
by the convention of the Perry resolu
tion, which permits the operation of
all mines where Ihe wage scale of 1903
s accepted. While this action prac-
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liunnjr ujetiuH me disruption, lor a
time at least, of the interstate agree
ment between the miners of Western
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illi
nois, it also means that there will be
no strike of importance in this field,
and that 23,000 of the 28,000 miners
in the Pittsburg district will continue
to work, with possibly a shutdown to
work off accumulated stock.
Chairman Robbins returned from In
dianapolis today. He is pleased over
the result, and said the conservative
action of the miners reflects great credit
upon they in being willing to depart
from precedents, which have been
against individual settlements in order
that a great strike might be averted.
Mr. Kobbins said that all the mines of
the Pittsburg district would be in full
operation on Tuesd.iy.
mastacres whih, they say, are beyond
doubt being prepared in Southwestern
Russia for Eastertide. The appeal savs
that it is not fancy but fact that tho
police and gendarmes are arranging to
let loose the Black Hundred upon the
members of the poor, helpless race. It
recalls that the Kishineff, Goml and
Odessa anti-Jewish outrages were com
mitted at the instigation of Minister of
the Interior von Plehve, Chief of Police
Neidhardt and Count Podgerichanie,
Chief of the gendarmerie of Gomel.
Just as in the past times St. Bartho
lomew day were arranged by agents of
the government, the appeal declares,
the recent proclamations emanating
from the printing office of the police
master at St. Petersburg and that of
the military at Odessa leave no doubt
that the authorities are privy to the
present propaganda. The appeal furth
er declares that M. KaMsousky's book
warning Jews to leave Russia immedi
ately or be treated as the Jews were
treated by the Spaniards in the middle
ages was printed and distributed from
the offices of the police masters of St.
Petersburg and Ekaterinoslav.
Tiie League of Writers claims to hold
proof that massacres have been planned
to take place at Alexandrovsk, Minsk,
Brest-Litovsk, Rostof-on-Don and K.e-
mentchug. It also points out that the
anti-Jewish press is spreading insidious
rumors to excite the ignorant.
BIGGEST OF ALL BATTLESHIPS.
REFUSES TO BE DISMISSED.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
bluestem, 68c j
feed, $27.50;
Oregon Horses for Japan.
John Day Hnry Trowbridge and
C. I. Officer, stockmen of the Izee conn-
try, have purchased a band of 100
horses for a contract of Seattle shippers
with the Japanese government. The
horses are all young geldings, from 15
to 16Ji hands high, and without blem
ish. From $40 to $60 per head was
paid.
Wheat Club, 67C;
red, 65c; valley, 69c.
Oats No. 1 white
gray, SZ7 per ton.
Barley Teed, $23.5024 per ton;
brewing, $2424.50; rolled, $24.60
25.50.
Hay Eastern Oregon timothy,
choice, $1 7 18 per ton; common, $13
14; valley timothy, $S39; clover,
$7 50(38; cheat, $07; grain hay,
$78; alfalfa, $12.
Apples $1.50f?2.75 per box.
Vegetables Asparagus, 8c per pound ;
cabbage, lcilc per pound; cauli
flower, $2 25 per crate; celery, 75
90c per dozen ; onions, 40c per doz
en; rnunarD, si. 20 per dox: epinacn,
$1.251.50 per box; parsley, 25a;
turnips, $11.25 per sack; carrots,
65 75c per sack; beets, 85c$l per
sack.
Onions No. 1, 75c90c per sack
No. 2, nominal.
Potatoes Fancy graded Burhanks,
50ra60cper liundred; ordinary, nom-
iral; sweet potatoes, 2ii2c per
pound.
Butter Fancy creamery, 2527c
per pound.
Eggs Oregon ranch, 16c per dozen
Poultry Average old bens, 14
HJc per pound ; mixed chicken, 13
13c; broilers, xo($60v; young
roosters, 1313c; old rooeters, 12r
dressed chickene, 1516o; turkeys,
live, 1617c; turkeys, dresFed, cboife,
1820c; geese, live, 8c; geese, dressed,
10Hc; ducks, 1719c.
flops Oregon, 1905, choice, 10(Ht
10c: prime, 8)$9c; medium, 78c;
olds, 57c.
Wool Eastern Oregon average b-st,
1520c; valley, 24'32fc ptr pound;
mohair, choice, 25328c.
Veal Dressed, 3Pc per pound.
feef Dressed bulls, 23c per
pound; cows, 34c; country
steers, 4(a5c.
Mutton Dressed, fancy, 99)'c per
pound; ordinary, 45c; lambd, 10(
11c.
Pork Dressed, 68c per pound.
Panema Official on Canal Thrown
Out by Police.
Colon, April 2. Henry Burnett
late assistant manager of the labor and
quarters department, today received a
letter signed by Ciiief Engineer Stevens
to R. Bermudez, w hom he was to su
persede as commissariat at Cristobal
Bermudez declined to accept the letter
and, on Mr. Burnett's insisting on his
right to take immediate charge, a squai
of police was called in and stopped all
deliveries.
L. il . 1 1 . r .1
ieariy me wnoie stall 01 the com
missariat then quit work in sympathy
with Bermudez, but the majority of
them returned to their duties later,
though Chief Cierk Delgardo and 11
otner employes declined to resume
work. The taking of stock in the com
missanat is now going on. It is not
known why Berrnudt z, who is a Pana
man, was eupereeded.
Owing to the continued drouth, Colon
ia threatened with a water famine.
Gold in Skull.
Tjtcoma, Wash., April 2. In the
eyesocket of the skull of a huge masto
don, unearthed in the "Forty-Three"
gold run claim near Dawson, a few days
ago, wsb found gravel that washed $1,-
600 in gold. Malcolm McConnell,
owner of the claim, received the word
today in a letter. McConnell cime out
from Alaska last fll and brought a
tufk and a few of the bones of the mas
todon. The letter received from his
men today said the remainder of the
animal had been found, and telis of the
pocket of gol i found in the eyesocket.
Censure Dead Captain.
Washir gton, April 2. Captain John
son, who commanded the ill fated
s!e-imer Valencia, wrecked on Vancouv
er island, is to be severely censuied by
the government board that conducted
Mi rcnt investigation at Tacoma.
n.i, Im ard, it is understood, is con
vinced that Johneon displayed lack of
j'l.t'.rntr r,t pnd tlrat thre was every
evidence of poor navigation, in that he
mad t no calculation for wind or tide
on the nilit he ran aground.
Naval Officers Divided on Building of"
22,000-Ton Monster.
Washington, March 31. Since the
decision of the house committee on na
val aff tirs to recommend an appropria
tion of $6,000,000 for the construction
of a battleship larger than any now
afloat, naval experts in Washington
have begn a heated discussion of the
size of battleships, which shows that
Admiral Dewey is not supported hy
many naval officers in his advocacy of
a battleship greater than the 18,000
ton British battleship Dreadnaught.
Naval constructors are agreed that
an effective battleship with a displace
ment of 20,000 tons or more can con
structed for the American aavy but
the advisability of authorizing one ship
of this type at the present time, and
not making an effort to provide addi
tional 16,000-ton battleships to supple
ment the qouta of smaller thips, ami
thus make a desirable working unit
out of them, is questioned by many
naval authorities.
At least four battleships of the same
speed and with similar tiatterieq and
equipment are necessary, according to
the view of the constructors, to be
effective in an engagement.
One great battleship, even if it be
swifter and have more guns than other
ships afloat, they contend, cannot ac
complish anything in actual warfare.
and is no more effective than the slower
and less formidable ships with which
it is joined in action.
German Colony Massacred.
Berlin, Anril 2. A report received
here late Saturday night states that a
'orce of Hottentots surprised a German
cilony in SouthwMt Africa and killed
1 1 ami wounded six. No particulars
are available.
Scranton Ready for Strike.
Scranton, Pa., March 31. The an
nouncement of a fuspension of mining-
in the anthracite field was not wholly
unexpected here. The companies have
taken it for granted that thtre would
be a strike and preparations were made
accordingly. Stockades have beer
built, guards have been hired to pro
tect property, and all the minor offi
cial', firemen and office clerks have
been asked to sign an agreement to
help protect the company's properties
n case of a strike. All the companies
will make an effort to operate.
Changes Plan of Tunnel.
St. Petersburg, March 31. Baron
Loicq de Label, in order to meet the-
wishes of the national defense commit
tee, has altered his Bering Strait tun
nel and Siberian railway project to
make the railroad run due eat from
Kansk to the 110th degree of longitude
ml thence northeaatery to Yakutsk.
Unofficial intimations are given that
Rusia would be glad to have the con
cession accompanied by an American
loan.
New Battleship is Speedy.
Boston, March 31. The performance
today of the battleship New Jersey in
maintaining a speed ol 19.18 knots an
hour in a four-hour endurance run off
the New England coast, coupled with
her remarkable speed yesterday over a
jneasured mile at Rockland. Me., at a
19:18 knot gait, places this vessel at
the head of all American built battle
ships so far ac speed is concerned.