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HEPPNER
. OREGON
ROADS FACE CAR FAMINE.
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.
Ito plans to disband the Corean
army.
Railroads have surrendered to
North Carolina in the rate fight.
Nino lives were lost on a burning
steamer on Cayuga lake, New York.
There is a great famine of teach
ers due to the strike against state
examination.
A Chicago mob tried to kill the
assailant of a girl but were prevented
by the police.
Senator Pettus, of Alabama is
dead. He had recently celebrated
his S6th birthday.
The farmers trust, with headquar
ters at Indianapolis, has decided on
$1.25 wheat for 1907.
Washington lumbermen want ex-
Senator Spooner to fight the pro
posed raise of freight on lumber pro
ducts. Venezuela has refused Root's pro
posals for setting the trouble exist
ing and relations may be severed by
the United States.
A scout cruiser has just been
launched at Quiney, Mass. It Is ex
pected to prove the fastest boat in
the American navy.
Striking coal miners in Minnesota
are to return to work.
Salt Lake messenger boys have
won their strike for alternate Sun
days off.
Mayor Taylor, of San Francisco,
has appointed a new board of sup
ervisors. Valuable historical papers have
been stolen from their archives In
Havana.
The government says there Is no
danger of a coal famine this winter
like that of last.
North Carolina ticket agents have
been indicted for violating the state
railroad rate law.
The approaching election In the
Philippines is arousing but little in
terest among the natives.
New York is terrified by the con
tinued assaults on young girls which
the police seem unable to stop.
A Chicago woman has been ar
rested who has for years been secur
ing babies from so called "hospitals"
and then selling them around town.
While the czar was reviewing
troops near the palace one regiment
of his guard mutinied and refused to
take part in maneuvers unless a cer
tain commander was removed.
Salvador has asked Mexico to act as
mediator with Nicaragua.
W. J. Bryan has saved a woman
from being run over by an auto.
Heat records throughout the Middle
states have broken all former records
for this summer.
Thousands Will Be Needed to Market
Present Crop.
Chicago, July 30. The western
railroads are facing the problem of
assembling thousands of cars at var
ious points during the next 30 days
for the purpose of transporting the
crops to market. Nearly every big
railway system has received dialled
reports from its agents in every part
of the west, northwest and southwest
regarding crop conditions, probable
yield and the prospect for future bus
iness. From these statements esti
mates are made of the number of
cars which will be needed to take
care of the various crop movements
along the line of each road. The
agents are required to give some esti
mate of the time when the ditterent
crops will begin to move and how
great the early movement will be.
This is done so that the railroads
may avoid, if possible, taking cars
out of other service and rushing
them to the west, there to remain
idle for days awaiting loads.
It is believed from the reports re
ceived, thus far that the early crop
movement this year will be heavy
and therefore an unusually large
her of cars will have to be as
sembled. Some idea of the task that
confronts the railroads can be gath
ered from the Northwestern's report
of the situation. On a new line of
that company in the west there will
be needed 100 boxcars alone to
transport a potato crop which will be
shipped from three new towns.
Officials of the Northwestern insist
that their road will be in better
shape to handle this year's crop than
it was last year's. A great amount
of new equipment has been aaciea
and business in other directions
promises to be less imperative than
last year. The company is also ma-
ing an effort to have a larger percen
tage of its own cars upon us rans
this year. With this purpose in
view, fewer Northwestern cars wijl
be loaded io go off their own rails.
Rnrlinsrton officials stated that
they have just now a surplus of box
cars and are accordingly assembling
many cars to take care of their share
of the Nebraska crop. They expect
the wheat to begin to move between
July 25 and August 1, and declare
that before the first date arrives they
will be in good shape to handle all
that will be offered.
It is probable that a conference of
traffic officials will be held soon to
talk over the crop movement and to
make plans for co-operation of West
ern roads with respect to prompt
handline of foreign cars and their
prompt return to the home lines.
The railroads desire to make this
a record year for prompt and expedi
tious handling of the western crop.
NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FROM THE STATE OF OREGON
BETTER TRAIN SERVICE.
FOURTEEN BURNED ALIVE.
New Edinburgh, a suburb of Ottawa,
Ont., has been Bwept by fire. Esti
mated loss, $300,000. '
The famine in St. Elizabeth district,
Jamaica, is crowing worse. Ten thou
sand people are said to be starving.
The efforts of the Wabash railroad to
establish 2-cent passenger rates all
through the East has been blocked by
other roads.
Japan has completed a treaty taking
full control of Corea and the minister
of foreign affairs says China may share
the same fate.
H. H. Rogers, head of the Standard
Oil, has been struck down by heat and
his doctors have ordered complete rest
as the only Lope of recovery.
Three Indian girlB are guarding the
graves of their ancestors in Kansas
City, Kan. The government hae or;
dered the bodies removed and the land
sold.
A steamer has just arrived at Van
couver, B. C, with 1,177 Japanese
from Honolulu. The Canadian Pacific
railroad wants 5,000 coolieB for con
struction work.
The Corean emperor has confirmed
the report that he has abdicated.
Mrs. Russell Sage has given $100,000
to the Syracuse, N. Y.t university.
Japan hae just tried to float $20,000,
000 of railroad bonds in England, but
failed.
German military officers are experi
menting with a very successful dirigible
balloon.
The people of P.ussia are refusing to
register for the elections, as they recog
nize it to be a farce.
A bulldog belonging to the Roosevelt
family treed the French ambassador
and has been bani&ned.
Mysterious Explosion Shatters New
York Tenement House.
New York, July 30. An explosion
accompanied by fire, shattered an
East Side tenement late Sunday
night, and within the crumbling
walls 14 persons went down to death,
while twise as many were probably
fatally injured.
The wrecked building was at 222
Christie street, where a six-story
tenement rose above the grocery
store bisement. The explosion is as
yet unaccounted for and tore out the
front of the building, and the fire
that followed caught the 20 families,
numbering 100 persons, while most
of them were sound asleep.
Fourteen dead bodies have been
recovered. Of the injured, many
jumped from the windows, others
were caught by falling timbers,
many, half suffocated by smoke,
were dragged from the hallways,
while others received their wounds
during the panic and mad fight
anions: each other for an exit.
The tenement was occupied chiefly
bv Italians. A passerby was attracted
by the explosion which apparently
occurred in the basement. As he
turned toward the building the whole
front with its flimsy fire escapes fell
into the street, and from the sagging
floors a score of the half awakened
persons dropped into the street.
Many of these were badly hurt, but
they proved to be the more fortunate
of the tenants for another moment
and the building was wrapped in
flames, and the cries of persons burn
ing: to death rent the air. In the
wild excitement that followed many
were injured.
Southern Pacific Anticipates Move ot
Railroad Commission.
Salem As a result of the hearing be
fore the railroad commission of the
complaint made upon the commission's
own motion, against the alleged inade
quate passenger train service of the
Southern Pacific through the Willam
ette valley from the south, in all prob
ability an order will be made requiring
t he company to run a Btub passenger
trail from Koseburg to Portland on No.
12's time when that train is reported
an hour late at that station.
This order will be made to satisfy
the demands of the traveling public for
a more satisfactory sorvioe through the
valley, especially by northbound over
land No. 12, which, up to two weeks
ago, was from one to six and eight,
hours late. Doubtless in anticipation
of the filing of this complaint, which
has been hold in abeyance by the com
mission for several weeks, the South
ern Pacific company put on an extra
train which runs as far south as Albany
and then doubles back as the first sec
tion of No. 12.
Strangely enough this change was
made upon the same day the complaint
was filed, without notice to the com
mission and without the latter's know
ledge. Ever since this extra was put
into service, picking up the heavy local
express and baggage shipments, No. 12
has been on time and complaint has
ceased upon this score. The railroad
commission, however, believes this
stub service should be extended as far
south as Roseburg and an order to this
effect will probably be made. It is
expected that the Southern Pacific will
endeavor to show that such an order is
unnecessary, but, since no assurance is
KEEP DEPOTS WARM.
Commission Prepares Regulations for
Roads Within State.
Salem As a result of the hearing
conducted during the forenoon of Tues
day, July 16, upon the Bubject of depot
and station accommodations and facil
ities, the railroad commission has an
nounced the adoption of a full set of
rules and regulations governing the
sanitation, heating, lighting, t'tc, of
cars and depots and prescribing the
facilities to be supplied in the trans
portation of passengeaa within the
state.
The order is sweeping in effect, cov
ering all of therailrcads operating lines
in the state. The regulations, viola
tions of which are subject to a forfeit
ure of from $100 to $1 000, follow:
All passenger waiting rooms and pas
senger cars used in this state shall be
clean and supplied with pure drinking
water and so lighted, heated, ventilated
and equipped as to render the occu
pants of the same reasonably comfort
able. Suitable toilet rooms or buildings
shall be provided and kept clean at
each regular station where an agent is
maintained, a separate toilet room or
building shall be kept for the use of
women, which shall be marked as such,
and which shall be unlocked at all
times when, by these rules, the waiting
room is required to be open. Toilet
rooms on all cars carrying passengers
shall be kept clean and supplied with
toilet paper
J Waiting rooms and ticket offices hav
ing an agent shall be open for the ac
commodation of the traveling publio at
least 30 minutes before the schedule
time of the arrival of all passenger
trains scheduled to stop at such station
LET ORCHARD PAY PENALTY.
given that the new train service will and shall be kept cpen after the arriva
be made permanent, the order of the
commission will be a standing one and
will make it so,
GRAIN WHERE SAGEBRUSH WAS.
Splendid Crops in Harney Women
Work in Hayfields.
Burns Haying is now in full force
throughout Harney county, and the
meadows are yielding heavy crops
With few exceptions the alfalfa fields
made an exceptional growth this year
while the native grasses are unusually
good. Men are in Etrong demand for
this work at good wages, and even
women are making big money driving
mowers, rakes and stackers.
The grain crops are also showing up
well. There was a favorable rainfall
during June and during the critical
period there was no damaging froet, so
the entire season has been encouraging
for the farmer. The fall grain is well
along toward ripening and the spring
grain wheat, barley, rye, etc. has a
strong growth, with a heavy head.
It is really a pleasing sight to see
fields wherein the sagebrush stood at
the opening of last spring that are now
undulating waves ot bending grain
promising a rich harvest.
the fruit has all done well this year
and here will be more berries, apples,
pears and apricots than ever before in
the valley
CHEMAWA IN FIRST RANK.
of such passenger train for such length
of time as will afford passengers a rea
sonable opportunity to transact thei
business and leave the station. In the
case of delayed trains, such waiting
rocms shall be kept open until the ac
tual arrival of such delayed trains
Waiting rooms at junctions shall be
kept open when necessary for the ac
commodation of passengers waiting to
transfer from one line to the other.
Platforms shall be kept lighted at
night when the waiting room is by
these rules required to be open.
No Clerk Seen Yet at Burns,
Burns The land department at
Washington notified the land office here
the latter part of June that a clerk and
stenographer had been assigned to the
office to relieve the congestion of busi
ness and that he would report for duty
July 1, but he has not shown up yet
nor has the office heard anything more
from him, and in the meantime a large
amount of land business is hanging in
the air, with settlers very anxious to
make final proofs, settle contests and
otherwise complete their entries.
Germany will oppose at The Hague
any movement towards disarmament.
The recount of ballots in the mayor
alty fight in New York jiaa been further
delayed by McClellan's lawyers.
The prosecuting attorney of Missis
sippi has sued the Standard Oil com
pany for $1,400,000 for violation of the
anti-trust law.
American and Japanese bluejackete
in Trance are to be kept apart for fear
of a fight. Both countries have squad
rons in French waters.
Renew Hostilities.
San Francisco, July 30. A re
newal of hostilities is threatened be
tween the telegraphers and" their em-
loyers. The local union served no
tice today on the Western Union that
in its belief the spirit of the agree
ment which settled the strike was not
being observed by the corporation.
Resolutions were passed expressing
the intention of the union to take the
matter up with the higher officials of
the Western Union. It Is claimed the
operators who went on strike are be
ing discriminated against.
Improvemerts Will Make It Leading
Indian School In Country.
. Chemawa The Chemawa Indian
school is building a new brick, hospital
at a cost of $19,978, the contractor be
ing Fred A. Erixon, of Salem. W. H.
Dalrymple, also of Salem, has the con
tract for the school's new brick bakery
at a cost of $4,000. The work on both
these buildings is rapidly progressing
and it is hoped to have them ready for
occupancy for the opening of the fall
term of the school.
The hospital will be supplied with
the most modern and sanitary equip
ment and the school s open-air sani
tarium will be extended. The bakery
will be supplied with the latest lm
proved oven and appliances.
Ihe swam and electrical engineering
department of the school will also be
improved by additions to meet the
growing needs of the institution. With
these improvement Chemawa will
maintain her rank as the best equipped
Indian manual training school, not only
on the Pacific coast, but of the whole
United States Indian service.
In the Schools of Umatilla.
Pendleton County Superintend
ent Frank K. Welles has filed his an
nual report for the year ending June
17. The report shows that a total
of 13 90 pupils are enrolled in the
county, and 175 teachers employed
One hundred and six teachers were
examined during the year for certi
ficates, 16 of whom failed. Four
hundred and eighty-four pupils are
attending private schools in the
county .and 1231 are not attending
any school.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
85c;
gray,
Mexico Will Conduct Hor Race.
Mexico City, July 30. Backed by
the federal government the Mexican
derby will be run each year for ten
years, beginning in iiu. me sum
of $"100,000 will be given by the gov
ernment for the purpose of raising
the breed of horses brd in Mexico.
V purse of $20,000 will be huns at
the running of the race. The first
race will be run over the new track
which is to be built in Condesa on
the present grounds of the Polo Club.
Again Enlisting Npsrroes.
Houston, Texas, July 30. The
army recruiting station here today
received Instructions to enlist for the
colored cavalry especially desirable
negroes, the first enlistment of ne
groes since the Brownsville affair.
Delay in Fruit Shipments.
saiem Following closely upon
the investigation of the delay in the
passenger train service, on the
Southern Pacific lines In Oregon,
comes a complaint to the Railroad
Commission from II. S. Gile, a com
mission merchant, of this city, who
asks that an investigation be made
of the delay in the operation of
freight trains on the Southern Paci
fic, which, he says, affects fruit ship
pers much more than the delay in
the passenger train service.
New Armament for O. A. C.
Corvallis Oregon Agricultural col
lege cadets will hereafter be armed with
Krag rifles of the 1898 pattern. They
will also have for drill purposes two
3.2-inch breech loading eteel field
pieces, winch will supplant two old-
fashioned muzzle loading cannon that
have hitherto been in use. The arms
are supplied by the War department.
Two Acres Yield Him $1,250.
Eugene Mahlon Harlow is doing
fairly well with his small cherry orch
ard, in spite of the prophecy of some
who maintained that the crop of Royal
Anna would be very light this year.
Mr. Harlow, who has a scant two acres
I in cherries, raised 12 4 tons from his
little orchard.
Wheat Club, 83c; bluesttem,
valley, 80c; red, 80c.
Oats No. 1 white, $2627;
nominal.
Barley Feed, $21.5022 per ton;
brewing, nominal; rolled, $23.50
24.50.
Corn Whole, $28; cracked, $29 per
ton.
Hay Valley timothy, No. 1, $17
18 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy,
$2123; clover, $9; cheat, $910;
grain hay, $910; alfalfa, $1314.
Butter Fancy creamery, 27j30c
per pound.
Poultry Average old liens, 12)6
13c per pound; mixed chickens, 12c;
spring chickens, i(riibc; oiu roosters,
8(39c: dressed chickens, 1617c; tur
keys, live, 1215c; turkeys, dressed
choice, nominal; geese, Jive, 8llc
ducks, 814c.
Eggs French ranch, candled, 22
23c per dozen.
Fruits Cherries, 812Jc a pound
apples, $1.502.25 per box; Spitzen-
bergs, $3.50 per box; cantaloupes
$2.503.50 per crate; peaches, 60c
$1.25 per crate; raspberries, $1.25
1.50 per crate; blackberries, 812Jc
per pound; loganberries, $1 per crate;
apricots, $1.50(aj2 per crate.
Vegetables Turnips, l.5 per sack;
carrots, $2 per sack; beets, $2 per
sack; aspaiagus, 10c per pound; beans,
35c per pound; cabbage, 2c per
pound; celery, $1.25 per dozen; corn,
2535c ier dozen; cucumbers, 50o$l
per b"x; lettuce, head, 25c per dozen;
onions, lo(2ZUc per aozen; peas, kojdc
per pound; radishes, 20c per dozen;
tomatoes, $11.25 per crate.
Potatoes New, lUc per pound
Veal Pressed, 58c per pound.
Beef Dressed bulls, 3)4c per
pound; cows, 66c; country steer,
6$7c.
Mutton Dressed, fancy, 8(S)9c per
pound; ordinary, 57c; spring lambs,
99c per pound.
.Pork Dressed, 68c per pound.
Hops 607c per pcund, according
to quality. .
Wool Eastern Oregon, average best,
1622c per pound, according to shrink-
ge; VSIiey, ZWyfVt nucoruiug iu mie-
ness; mohair choice, zyduc a pound.
Borah Fervently Disclaims Thought
of Immunity.
Boise, Idaho, July 20 The case of
the State of Idaho against William I).
Haywood, charged with the murder' of
Frank Steunenlerg, a former governor
of the state, will lest with judge and
jury by tonight. Clarence Darrow,
after speaking for 11 hours, concluded
the final plea for Haywood's life at
4:20 p. m., and at 7 o'clock last even
ing United States Senator Boiah opened
the closing argument for the prosecu
tion. He will speak for three sessions,
or about seven hours. Judge Fremont
Wood, will instruct and charge the jury
on faturany morning.
Mr. Borah's speech'was a sensation
From time to time he turned on conn
sel for the defense, fierce denunciation
pouring from his lips, and at times
brought protests irom Mr. Kichardson
and Mr. Darrow, but with blazing eyes
and hot words ho silenced every effort
to break the rush of words. The cli
max was reached, when in behalf of
the state of Idaho, its people, its gover
nor and himself he disclaimed all m
tention or desire to give immunity to
Orchard. Finally, his face pale an
voice quivering with emotion, the sen
ator raised his arm and said:
it l should ever join in or give ap
proval to immunity to this man
hope the great uod may wither my
ritrht arm in the socket."
Mr. Borah declared the slate did not
want Haywood convicted of any crime
for which Orchard or Pettibone or
Moyer or Simpkins or anybody else was
responsible, and desired' a verdict of
guiltv only if the evidence was deemed
sumcieni to warrant sucn a conclusion
The senator denounced Clarence Par
row's statement 'that the iurors' minds
had been poisoned against the defend'
ants in this case, kowhere, he de
clared, could a fairer trial have been
held than in Boise.
JURY ACQUITS
W. D. HAYWOOD
Orchard's Grewsome Story Received
Little Credence.
GLASS CASE FINISHED.
Attorneys Make Arguments to Jury
in San Francisco.
San Francisco, July 26. The Louis
Glass bribes' case should be in the
hands of the jury by 1 o'clock this after
noon, rrancis J. Heney, for the peo
pie, and T. C. Coogan, for the defense,
yeeteruay made each his opening argu
ment. At 10 o'clock this morning Dol
phin M. Delmas will begin the closing
address for Glass. Popular prophecy is
divided between a conviction and a dis
agreement. No one affects to forecast
an acquittal.
ihe chiei sensation of the trial came
at 1 : 20 o'clock, when the prosecution
having closed its case Mr. Delmas crisp
ly announced: "So have we. ' This
determination to offer no evidence in
contradiction of the circumstantial web
woven around Glass was a sudden and
complete surprise to everyone, most of
all to the prosecution, for. the previous
day Delmas had casually, or so it
seemed, mentioned Eudolph Spreckles
as one of the witnesses we shall call.
Heney, after stating frankly to the
jury that the declination of Second Vice
President Zimmer, the most important
individual witness for the state, to tes
tify had put it beyond the pewer of the
prosecution to establish definitely the
connection of Glass with the crime of
bribing Supervisor Charles Boxton, de
voted himself to a vigorous exposition
of the circumstantial case made out.
SUMMARY OF THE SURVIVORS.
Revised Returns Show a Total of 93
Lives Lost.
San Francisco, July 26. A recast
of the returns from the work of retcuo
shows that of the 245 person on the
steamer Columbia, 152 have been
saved, while five bodies have been re-
overed and 88 are reported lost.
Of the entire number of lost, 39 were
men, 49 women and five were children
Of the 191 passengers, 114 have been
saved. Sixty-eight of these have been
taken to Astoria, eight have arrived
here and the remainder are at Eureka
or on their way to this city. Of the 98
men, 70 were saved and of the 91 wo
men 42 were eaved. Two of the seven
children survive. Of the 54 members
of the crew, 38 are alive.
Deliberation Lasted 21 Hours, With
Only Two for Conviction Hay
wood Shakes Hards With Coun
sel, Thanks Jurors and Goes to
See His Mother.
til
of
Hansen Must Explain.
San Francisco, July Zb. Not tin
Captain Hansen and the members
the San Pedro reach here from
Eureka, where they are now engaged
in a squabble with the master of the
Geo. W. Elder over the latter's claim
for salvage, will Inspectors . Bolles
and Bulger begin the inquiry Into
the cause of the wreck of the steam
er Columbia. The inspectors intend
to get from Captain Hansen a full
statement of the affair, with parti
cular reference to the charge that
he misunderstood the signals given
by Captain Doran of the Columbia.
Cuba Wants Civil Engineers.
New York, July 26. Colonel
William mack, u. S. A acting as
adviser' to the Secretary of Public
Works of the Cuban provincial gov
ernnient, who has Just arrived from
Havana, spoke encouragingly of Cu
ban affairs, particularly of the rail
road building since the Spanish-
American war. He said the govern
ment has appropriated $12,000,000
for this work done. He said that In
his opinion there was In Cuba a good
field for civil engineers
Predicts Saionji's Defeat.
Victoria, B. C, July. 26. Count
Yanagisawa, of the Japanese House
of Peers, says his government will
be defeated soon by the attitude of
Premier Satonji on the difficulties
with the United States. He expects
the new government to be formed
when the Diet meets In December.
Admiral Yamamoto will be at its
head. He said that the Japanese
are much excited over the San Fran
cisco riots. t
Eureka, Cal., July 23. Arrival yes
terday of the steamer George W. Elder
with the battered steam schooner San
Pedro in tow, brought the first news of
a marine disaster which will rank
among the worst of the Pacific coast.
The San Pedro drove full speed into
the stem of the steamer Columbia,
bound from San Francisco to Portland,
tearing a great gash in her side, and
causing her to sink within eight min
utes near Shelter cove about 12:30
o'clock Sunday morning.
The first reports justified the belief
tha at least half of the 250 persons on
board the Columbia had perished, but
hourly the total ehrinkg. The best ad- '
vices now are that 177 escaped death
when the vessel went to the bottom.
One hundred and seven of the Colum
bia's passengers and 37 of her crew
have been brought to this port by the
steamer Geo. W. Elder, which, towed
the colliding schooner San Tedro from
the scene of the disaster to Eureka. A
late message from Shelter cove says
that three more lifeboats have been
picked up, one of them containing IS
persons, another 15 and the third not
reported .
Two hours after the wreck the fog;
lifted and a cold wind commenced to
blow. The people in the boats suffered
much.
O. Swanson, a sailor of the San Ped
ro, was at the wheel batuniay night
when the fatal collision occurred. In
his report to the sailors' agent, John
Erickson, the blame is laid upon the
shoulders of the Columbia's officers.
Other members of the crew of the San
Pedro substantiate tbe story of Swan-
son, lie Bays that the crder was given
to him when the lookout sighted the
Columbia to put the wheel hard aport.
Three points apoit carried the San
Pedro seaward apparently out of they
way of the approaching vessel, whose-
name at that time was not known.
Short toots from the whistles of both
essels warned the skippers. The Co-
umbia was on the ecast side, the San
Pedro on the sea side. Apparently
both vessels were proceeding at full
speed. If all had gone well, the San
edro would have cleared the Colum
bia, but it is evident that an order,
'put the wheel hard a-starboard," was-
given on the Columbia. This Bent her
directly acrosH the bow of the Bteam
schooner. Whether or not the speed of
either vessel was slackened is imma
terial, for the crash of the vessels was
terrific. The Columbia, an iron vessel,
bore the brunt of the impact, and her
ton plates cracked, and a gash seven
feet across the forward hatch allowed
the water free ingress at great velocity.
Among the survivors rescued and car-
ied north to this iort by the George.
W. Elder are men and women from a
score of states, not a few from the At
lantic Eeaboard and the Middle West.
Among thepe are a number of school
teachers, who were varying with a sea.
voyuge their home trip from the an
nual convention of the National Educa
tional association at Los Angeles.
A segregation of the Columbia's pas
senger list shows that in her cabins she-
carried 78 men and 90 women and
girls; in her steerage 20 men and one
woman, a total of 189. Discrepancies,
however, between the full list furnished
the purser on sailing and some of file
names given by the survivors who have
reached here indicate that the total
number of passengers may have been
greater. Sixteen of the names given
here are not found on the steamship,
company's certified list. Adding to the
189 accredited passengers the 59 or 60
members of the Columbia's crew gives
a total of 249 lives jeopardized in the
midnight collision. It is known that
at least 40 women were saved.
Plot Against Czar Is Nipped.
St. Petersburg, July 23. The police
today arrested on the street a student
long suspected of belonging td the mili
tary organization of the Social Revo
lutionists. On searching them, the po
lice found plans of both the Tsarskoe-
Selo and Peterhof palaces, maps of the-
St. Peter and St. Paul fortress, and the
fortress at Cronstadt, and a Daner
showing the disposition of the troops
in the St. Petersburg barracks. The-
police believe that they have nipped in
the bud another attempt on the life of
the emperor.
Getting After Opium Trade.
Pekin, July 27. The Chinese kov-
ernment has formally announced its
assent to the proposal made bv tl
United States for a joint investigation
by the poweas, including China, into
the whole question of the opium trade
and of the production of opium. De
tails of the procedure will le arranged
later. L-mna s delay in acceptance was
due to a misunderstanding on her' part
that six independent commissions com
prehended such an inquiry.
Takes Sting Out of Rate Law.
Asheville, Tenn.. Julv 23. Federal
Judge Pritchard today discharged Tick
et Agents Wood and Wilson, of the
Southern railway, on habeas corpus
proceedings and declared the penalty
clause of the new rate bill unconstitutional.