Heppner Gazette
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TRAP FOR TERRORISTS.
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.
American naval officers were ban
queted at Lima, Peru.
A Frenchman has invented a wireless
electric power system.
Mexico is devising ways for the re
form of the public credit system.
The Hearst Independence league has
decided to nominate a national ticket.
The pale of ex-Minister Conger's Chi
nese curio collection has realized $26,
533. Japan has asked for a larger appro
priation for the Tokio exposition in
1912.
Russian authorities have captured
plotters against the life of Grand Duke
Nicholas.
Fire for a time seriously threatened a
large Dart, of the business district of
New Orleans.
A mortgage for $225,000 hae been
foreclosed on the Yerkes home and art
collection in New York.
A Columbia, Mo., man has just 8ied
who for the past 20 years has drunk at
least a quart of whisky a day.
The children of Eureka, Cal., have
petitioned the forest serv ce for the ere
ation of a redwood national forest.
An attempt was made to burn the
Soales hotel, at Muskogee, Okla., where
about 100 delegates to the Democratic
convention were quartered.
Railroad unions deny the necessity
for wage reductions.
The Northern Pacific has reduced
grain rates from Montana points to
Chicago.
Senator Ankeny has given a banuet
to a number of senators, at which he
boomed the Seattle fair.
Early fruit and vegetables for ship
ment to th6 North have been damaged
in Louisiana by a cold wave.
The Illinois Supreme ccurt holds that
a labor nnionz's unfair list is in effect
a boycott and can be enjoined.
The Pullman car company has ieBned
orders to sell no liquors while the cars
are passing through dry districte.
The cruisers West Virginia and
Maryland are to undergo extensive re
pairs at the Mare Island navy yard,
Members of the marine hospital ser
vice have condemned a large part of
San Francisco s packing house district.
Changes will be made at once.
Consolidation of the large coal min
ing interests of Illinois and Indiana for
the purpose of regulating the output
and upholding prices is under way.
Russia discourages talk of war with
Turkey.
The American fleet has arrived at
Callao, Peru.
A number of Stanford students have
been expellede for drinking.
Miss Dorothy Whitney, of New
York, is to wed a Hungarian nobleman.
General Nelson A. Miles will make
hit home in Washington, D. C, here
after.
Secretary of the Navy Metcalf will
go to San Fanrcisco to welcome the fleet
on its arrival there.
During the next nine years Russia
will spend $1,000,000,000 for the con
struction of a new navy.
Fire which started in a large depart
ment store at Woburn, Maes., destroy
ed $100,000 worth of property.
The Santa Fe railroad has temporar
ily closed its shops at Topeka, throw
ing 2,000 men out of employment.
A large part of the business section
of North Woodstock, N. H., has been
destroyed by fire. Loss, $100,000.
It is faid Roosevelt will send John
H. Mithell, retiring president of the
Mineworkers, to Panama to investigate
labor conditions.
Stoessel has teen condemned to
death for the surrender of Port Arthur,
but the court recommends the sentence
be commuted by the czar.
Russia and Japan are still encroach
ing on Chinee territory.
Major General Wood, commanding
the Philippines, will start home Febru
ary 20.
A report was current in Madrid that
Alphonso had been blown up by a
bomb, but the king is safe.
A 'Kentucky postmaster while can
celing stamps exploded one of 20 cart
ridges sent through the mails.
Railroads throughout the country
have started a move to reduce the wages
of employes and trouble is expected.
New York has just had the highest
fire in the world. An ineignifiant
blaze breaking out on the fortieth floor
of the Singer building.
An east bound Southern Pacific
freight train was wrecked near El
Monte, Cal., and ten cars loaded with
oil and vegetables demolished. Three
tramps are suppceed to be under the
wreckage.
Russia Provides World-Wide System
of Secret Service,
St. Petersburg, Feb. 25. The skilful
performance of the police in the round
up of the great band of plotters has
won praise throughout the city, bearing
witness to the thoroughness or the
methods evolved for fighting terrorists
The secret police are spending unlini
ted sums in bringing the terrorists to
iustice and have drafted agents of in
ternational experience who are thor
ouizhlv familiar with the by-ways of
Western anarchists and who will in
troduee an improved technique here
The police department has entered
into relations with detective agencies
abroad, and has organized an extensive
service in all thecenteis where Russian
emigrants congregate, particularly in
New York, Paris and Switzerland, and
are making a epecial effort to penetrate
within the innermost councils of the
Social Democratic and Social Revolu
tionist organizations.
Ia connection with the latest plot the
men of the secret service were abso
lutely trusted by comrades of the revo
lutionista, who attended the meetings
held in Finland, where the final plan
for the assassination of Grand Duke
Nicholas Nicholiavitch and Judge Tche
elovitoff. minister of justice, was elab
orated. Two hundred plain clothes
men were called in by heads of the po
lice department and given precise m-
structions as to what action should be
taken and apparently they arrested
without error the persons involved.
Thus far the police have failed to ex
tract a confession from any of those ar
rested as to their identity, but several
undoubtedly are members of aristocrat
ic houses. It is certain that numbers
of the conspirators have managed to
evade arrest, and a careful watch is be
ing kept f r these. .
BLACK HAND BUSY.
Threaten to Blow Up Government
Powder Stores.
New York, Feb. 25. In a letter
signed "Black Hand" and addressed to
Commander Braunstiueter, in charge
of the United States naval magazine at
Iona island, the threat has been made
that the enormous stores of smokeless
powder on the island will be blown up
unless the married men discharged
from employment on tne island Janu
ary 1, 1908, be put back to work at
once. There are 3,000,000 pounds of
smokeless powder and other explosives
stored in the numerous magazines.
Secret service men are working to
discover the identity of the writer of
the letter. Printed by hand,the letter
was mailed at the Haverstraw poetoffice
two weeks ago. It was as follows:
"If the married men that were dis
charged from Iona island are not taken
back again at once all the magazines
on the island will be blown up. The
writer does not fear death.
Black Hand."
On January 1 between 30 and 40
men, who had been employed on the
island, were discharged, owing to delay
in forwarding funds from Washington
to continue work. This delay was
looked upon at the time as temporary,
and it was understood the men would
be taken back as soon as the money ar
rived.
Among the men discharged, most of
whom were, laborers, were many Italians.
Since the receipt of the letter every
approach to the island has been guard
ed day and night by marines, it is;said.
and the civilian employes have been
kept under the strictest surveillance.
Iona island is about seven miles south
of West Point.
Will Bare Ruef's Secrets.
San Francisco, Feb. 25. Every de
tail of the negotiations between the
graft prosecution and Abe Ruef will be
bared in the exhaustive affidavits to be
filed in Judge Lawlor's Court this morn
ing by District Attorney Langdon, As
sistant District Attorney Francis J.
Heney and William J. Burns. Heney
and Burns spent yesterday in preparing
their affidavits, and while they would
not discuss the contents of the docu
ments, both Baid that the sworn state
ments would include every important
detail of their relations with Ruef.
NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FROM THE STATE OF OREGON
CHARGES ARE SLANDEROUS.
LOAN FUND INCREASES.
Students to Be Assisted at University
of Oregon.
University of Oregon, Eugene Hon.
R. A. Booth, of Eugene, has just given
to the student loan fund of the Univer
sity of Oregon a check tor $500 to be
used as an irreducible eduational loan
fund for students. The fund will be
known as the "Booth Loan Fund" and
will be kept separate from the general
loan fund, which at present is distrib
uted in loans ranging in amount from
$15 to $80 among 10 students of the
university. Since the establishment of
the general fund five years ago, more
than 30 students have been enabled to
complete their college course who could
not otherwise have done so. The uni
versity hopes to establish during the
present year a loan fund of at least $5,
000, to be loaned under the direction of
President Campbell, or some one desig
nated by bim, to boys and girls all over
Oregon who wish to complete their edu
cation, but who cannot do so without
assistance. It is believed that a loan of
approximately $100 a year, at a low
rate of interest, to be repaid in two
years after graduation, is much more
preferable than an outright gift in the
form of a scholarship. The fund will
be guaranteed by 10 men against loss.
Two signatures will be required on each
ncte and a email amount of life insur
ance will be taken out to insure against
loss by death. The present loan fund
amounts to approximately $1,000.
TALKS BEAR FRUIT.
TO BE WOOL CENTER
on
Baker City Secures Low Rates
Shipments to Boston.
Baker City Baker City will become
one of the greatest wool markets in Ore
gon. Sheepmen have been in Portland
consulting with the O. R. & N. officials
and have secured a rate of $1.75 from
Baker to Boston. The Sumpter Valley
has made a rate of 20 cents from Aus
tin to Baker, and the reduction by the
two roads means that more than 1,000,
000 pounds of wool from Grant and
Wheeler counties will be hauled to
Austin and then shippd to Baker for
baling. Dayville is the present center
of the eheep industry in Grant county,
and the ranchers would much rather
haul their wool to Ausitn because of
the good roads.' They have been pay
ing $2 to have their wool hauled to
Marion Farmers Buying Grafiing and
Spraying Supplies.
Salem That the educational work
among fruitgrowers by such men as M.
O. Lownsdale and E. C. Armstrong has
been productive of great results in this
vicinity, is evident from the unprece
dented sals of grafting and spray ma
terials by Salem dealers. During the
last few days of clear weather there has
been an immense demand for rosin,
beeswax and tallow with which to make
grafting wax, thus showing exclusively
that farmers are acting upon the advice
of Mr Lownsdale to cut down their old,
neglected and diseased apple trees, with
a view to grafting into the stumps.
Much of the grafting this year, how
ever, will be in younger trees, which
were permitted to form a top so high as
to be out of reach, or which are of un
marketable varieties. In most in
stances where old teres are cut down,
they will be cut close to the ground and
the grafting will be done next winter
in the shoots that come up from the old
stump this summer. A great many
oherry orchards are being grafted to
marketable varieties usually the Roy
al Anne where te original tree is of
a variety for which there is no demand.
Sues to Cancel Contract.
Portland The case of the state of
Oregon against the Columbia Southern
Irrigation company is being heard in
the United States District court. The
Btate is represented by A.M. Craw
ford, attorney general, and the irriga
tion company by W. T. Muir and Sene
ca Smith. Under the Carey act the ir
rigation company was to irrigate cer
tain tracts of land in Eastern Oregon
aggregating something like 27,000
acres. Ihis was the agreement made
between representatives of the state
land board and the company several
years ago. The state maintains that
the company has not carried out its
part of the contract and Mr. Crawford
is asking that a receiver be appointed.
Plan Rest Room at Milton.
Milton An interdenominational so
ciety has been formed In which all the
churches are interested to promote the
establishment ot a reading room in the
city. Meetings of the Bociety will be
held every two weeks. The reading
room is intended as a rest room for the
Fulton Denies Every Accusation Made
by Heney.
Portland, Feb. 24. In a long state
ment given 'to the newspapers of Port
land for publication, Charles W. Ful
ton, senior United States senator from
Oregon, answers in detail the charges
made against him by Francis J. Heney,
special prosecutor for the government
in the land fraud cases, in a speech de
livered in the First Congregational
church in this city on the night of Jan
uary 28 of the present year.
At that time Mr. Heney made the
direct charge that Senator Fulton's long
participation in crooked political and
business deals in Oregon, . notably in
timber land frauds, had unfitted him to
occupy the high office he now holds and
announced a determination to oppose to
the utmost the eeiator's candidacy for
re-election. Mr. Heney further charg
ed that Senator Fulton is the tool of
the railroad interests at Washington
and represents, not the people of his
state, but the law-defying corporations
in oongrese.
The specific charges made in the
Heney speech are taken up one by one
in Senator's Fulton's answering state
ment and denied comprehensively and
in detail as to every material fact.
Senator Fulton does not mince matters
in laying before the people of his state
his defense. He strikes equarely from
the shoulder and charges in the plainest
tetms that 1 h accuser deliberately fal
sified in bis Congregational church
speech, which Senator Fulton points
out to have been the climax of a cam
paign of malicious persecution and vil
li flcation begun more than two years
ago.
Senator Fulton impugns the honesty
of Mr. Heney's motives. Revenge and
partisan politics, he says, are the basis
of the graft proesecutor's enmity to
ward him, and Mr. Heney's obsession
by an irrepressible ambition to stand
in the limelight is given as an added
incentive for what Senator Fulton calls
the lawyer's utter disregard for the
truth.
PRIEST IS SLAIN.
BUILD ROAD TO
CENTRAL OREGON
David Eccles, Salt Lake Millionaire.
Behind Plan.
Sumpter Valley Line to Be Extended
to Prineville Line Up Hood River
Valley May Be Built at Connect
ing Link Surveyors Looking for
Pass Through Mountains.
Shaniko because ol the lower rate, the i country people. A library of 500 vol-
shipping of the wool via Baker City umee has been arraged for. Commit-
w ill mean that instead of the ranchers tees representing different branches of
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buying their supplies at Shaniko they
will haul their wool to Austin, leave
their teams there and come on to Baker
City to secure their warehouse receipts
and while here purchase their supplies.
By this means the local banks will
handle $200,000 that would go to other
cities. Although the rate on wool is
still higher from Baker than from
Shaniko, the ranchers can afford to
ship via Baker because of the low cost
of getting their wool to Austin.
the cwork have been appointed.
Mountain Farming Experiment.
Pendleton An experiment in moun
tain farming of more than usual im
portance is being conducted by W. G.
Warman, of this city, on his home
stead in Fly valley, a secluded vale in
the Blue mountains at an altitude of
about 4,200 feet and located 50 miles
southeast of this city. He has planted
Begin Work for Pu'p Mill.
Oregon City Work preliminary to
the construction of the new mill of the
Hawley Pulp & Paper company was be
gun when a force of men started to
: build a walk leading from station A to
the mainland. As soon as this work is
done, actual construction of the new
pulp mill on the site of station A will
begin, and it is expected to have a por
tion of the plant in operation by April
next.
Cannery Stock Subscribed.
Corvallis Announcement has been
made that enough stock had been sub
scribed to insure the success of the
movement for a fruit cannery, and a
meeting of stockholders has b en called
to perfect an organization. The capital
Operate on Edison.
New York, Feb. 25. Thomas A.
Edison, the inventor, is a patient at the
Manhattan hospital, where last night
he underwent anroperation intended to
relieve him of trouble in the left ear.
The operation, which was not consider
ed especially serious, was performed by
Dr. Arthur D. Deull, the ear specialist,
who opened an abscess in the middle
ear. lhe operation was seemingly
wholly successful and a prompt recov
ery is anticipated. t
Repair at Puget Sou"d.
Seattle, Feb. 25. The Colorado and
the Pennsylvania, armored cruisers of
the first class, arrived at the navy yard
today for dry docking and repairs. The
Colorado will be equipped with a new
main battery of four eight-inch breech
loading rifles. The two vessels will be
followed by eight other warghips which
will be repaired by April 26.
Main Water Pipe Bursts.
Paris, Feb. 25. The main water
pipe of Paris, under Tuilleries street,
burst last evening and converted the
street into a torrent. The water flooded
cellars in various side streets, extin
guishing fires and stopping the dyna
mos in at least one large hotel, putting
the building in darkness.
an orchard and is now sending to thej Btock i8 n)000, and the plant is to
agricultural department for hardy grass
seed for spring sowing. There are
thousands of acres of fine mountain
land in the Blue mountain valleys
which can be brought under cultivation
and if this experiment is successful
much of this land at high altitude will
be farmed, it is thought.
j have a capacity of 12,000 cans daily.
The machinery and appointments are
j to be of the very latest models, em
I bodying everything necessary to turn
ing out a perfect product.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Anarchist Shoots Catholic Leader in
Denver Church,
Denver, Col., Feb. 24. Father Leo
Heinrichs was shot and killed when
administering sacrament at tarly mass
in St. Elizabeth's Catholic church,
Eleventh and Curtis streets, this city,
at 6 a. m. yesterday morning. Kneel
irg attbe alter rail between two wo
men, Guaranaecio pressed the muzzle
of a revolver againBt the body of the
priest after receiving from him the con
set-rated wafer and shot the man of God
through the heart.
The murderer was hurried to the city
jail, and as threats of summary justice
were made by many men in the crowd,
which quickly gathered in front of the
church, Chief of Police McHale Do
la rey called the reserve lorce of patrol
men.
"I just went over there because I
have a grudge against all priests in
there. They are all againBt the work
ingman. I went.to the communion rail
because 1 could get a better shot. I
did not give a damn whether he was a
German priest or any other kind of a
priest. They are all in the same class."
RETURN
BY
SUEZ.
Russia Backs Town.
Copenhagen, Feb. 25. It is under
stood in diplomatic circles that as a re
sult of pressure fnm other powers Rus
sia has abandoned her plan of fortify
ing the Aland ielanda and that an en-
i tente will soon be arranged.
Planting Nut Trees in Linn.
Albany A meeting to discuss wal
nut culture and to stimulate interest in
that line of industry will be held in
Albany on February 27. A number of
walnut growers will be present and will
give instruction in the planting and
care cf walnut trees. Some new wal
nut or chads are being set out in this
county and there will probably be a
greately increased acreage during
coming two years.
Oil Company for Klamath.
Klamati. Falls The incorporators of
the Klamath Oil company have elected
the following officers: G. Heitkemper,
Jr., president; E. B. Hall, vice presi
dent and general manaeer; Pierce
Evans, secretary, and G. White, treas
urer. It has long been claimed that
indications are very strong of vast de
posits of coal oil beneath the volcanic
blanket in this region, as proven by
the fact that it oozes up at various
places.
Can Fish Up to the Illinois.
Gold Beach The gasoline launch
Sheba, which has lately b?en put on
Rogue river to carry fish to the cannery
and cold storage plant, is greatly facili
tating the work of fishing. Fishermen
are now able to p'y their trade up to
the mouth of the Illinois. This was
impossible before bictuse they could
not tend their nets and bring their fish
so far down the river.
bluestem, 83c;
brewing,
New Industry for Eugene.
Egene Eugene expects Bhortly to
have in operation a complete concrete
b'ock cement brick manufacturing
plant. The promotion department of
the Commercial club has interested
parties who have a large plant at Niag
ara Fialls, N. Y.. and the managers
Wheat Club, 81c;
valley, 81c; red, 79c.
Barley Feed, $26 per ton;
$32; rolled, $2930.
Oats No. 1 white, $27; gray, $27,
per ton.
Corn Whole, $32.50; cracked
$33.50.
Hay Valley timothy, No. 1, $17
$18 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy
an .1 . 1 4,1 a t . r I a .ip
the i 155 ' clJver' vliSi10 , neai, io
grain nay, nio; anana, iim&ij
vetch, $14.
Fruits Apples, table, $1.753.00;
cooking, $1.251.50 per box; cran
berries, $811 per barrel.
Vegetables Turnips, 75c per sack;
carrots, ooc per saca; Deets, si per
sack; cabbage, 11 Jc per pound; can
liflower, $1.75 1 .85 ; celery,' $3.75
4 per ciate; onions, 1520c per dozen;
parsley, 20c per dozen ; peppers, 17)$c
per pound; pumpkins. lljc per
pound; radishes, 20c per dozen; epin
ach, 6c per pound; sprouts, 8c per
pound; squash, 114C per pound
Onions $2.50 per hundred.
Potatoes $2.50 per hundred, deliv
ered Portland; sweet potatoes, $S.50
3.75 per cwt
Butter Fancy creamery, 303oc per
pound
Poultry Aversge old hens, 1313 c
per pound; mixed chickens, 12213c;
, spring chicfeens, lZfldc; roosters,
10llc; dressed chickens, '4c; tnr-
keyp, live, 1415c; dressed, choice, 15
17c; geese, live, 910c; ducks. 14
15c; pigeons, 75c$l ; squabs, $1.502.
Eggs Fresh ranch candled, 22)(3
23 c per dozen.
Veal 75 125 pounds, 7c; 150 to
200 pounds, 56c.
Pork Block, 75 to 150 pounds, 6
7c; packers. 5 6c.
Hops 1907, prime and choice 4J
6c per rx und; olds l2c per pound.
Wool Eastern Oregon average best
will be here in a few days to make ar- 1820c per pound according to shrink
rangements for the establishment of the age; valley 1820c according to fine-
new plant. I ness; mohair choice 2930c per pound.
Atlantic Fleet May Complete Its Trip
Around the World.
Washingtcn, Feb. 22. Interesting
and important news rela'ive to the fu
ture movements of the American battle
ship fleet was made public at the con
clusion of the cabinet meeting yester
day by Secretary Metcalf, comprising
an invitation from the Australian gov
ernment to have the fleet, or at least
some of the vessels, visit that country,
and Secretary Root's reply. This reply
is the first authentic information of
the movements of the fleet after its
journey to San Fiancisco has been com
pleted. After expressing the apprecia
tion! of the nation, the secretary sayB:
"The eventual movements of our
fleet have not been determined. While
it is possible the vessels will return by
way of Suez, I would be glad if some
of them could be sent by the Australian
route, but it -vould be premature to
promise this,"
Hood River, Or., Feb. 22. If pre
liminary plans being promoted by
wealthy capitalists of Salt Lake City,
who own the Mount Hood Railway ex
tending up Hood River valley and also
the Sumpter Valley, running out of
Baker City, materialize, Central Ore
gon may have a railroad in the near fu
ture that will open up its many re
sources. The project provides for an
extension of the Mount Hood lino
through the mountains east .of Mount
Hood, and a party of surveyors is now
in the field trying to locate a pass
through the mountains. The work is.
in charge of Joseph A. West, chief en
gineer of the Sumpter Valley.
Early last fall a large surveying pirty
headed by Mr. West was taken into t he
Central Oregon country from Heppner
Junction to determine the feasibility of
building a railroad on that side of the
mountains and his report is said to-
have been favorable. The money pow
er behind to proposed railroad is David
Eccles, the millionaire sugar manufac
turer and lumberman, of Salt Lake
City. If the project is completed trie
two roads will connect at some point in
Crook county. By extension of the
Sumpter Valley road south it would
pass through Canyon City, Grant coun
ty, and aleo Prineville.
An extension of the Mount Hood road
has already been commenced. A big
gang of men with a steam shovel was
put to work at Dee, the present term
inus of the line, and will build as soon
as it can be pushed through the six
miles of road toward Mount Hood that
has been surveyed and staked. This
will be done to accommodate the rapid
ly developing fruit land in the Mount
Hood settlement. It is admitted, how
ever, by W. H. Eccles and Charles T.
Early, president and manager of the
Mount Hood road, that it may form
part of the connecting link of the pro
posed new line. Officers of both roads
recently went over the territory that
would be tributary to the project and it
is learned that it is considered most
favorably. In addition to reaching-
many acres of fertile farm lands, mil
lions of feet of timber, for which there
is now no outlet, it is said, could be
utilized. "
TUNNEL UNDER RIVER.
Threat to Blow Up Docks.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Feb. 24. It
has just come to light that certain Ital
ians at Port Arthur and Fort William
attempted last week to bluw up the
huge Canadian Northern railway coal
docks recently erected at an enormous
cost. Following the custom of the
"B'ack Hand" and similar blackmail
ing societies, they firet sent a letter to
the manager of the dock that they
would blow him and his institution up
unless he found them work, naively
adding that an explosion would create
plenty of work for the shovelers.
Plumbers as Inspectors.
San Francisco. Feb. 24. The Master
Plumbers' association of this city at a
meeting today decided to instruct em
ployes to inform the health officials in
each instance where unsanitary rondi
tions were found or the law requiring
the construction of lat proof buildings
is being ignored. Warned of the cer
tainty of a quarantine, unless the rats
were exterminated at once and the
plnsue stamped out. the plumbers touk
action toward co-operation
Manhattan Island Now Joined to Long:
Island City.
New York, Feb. 22. The first of the-
great system of tunnels and subways by
which the Pennsylvania railroad will
be enabled to run a train from Phila
delphia under the Hudson river across
Manhattan island and under the East
river to Long Island City was completed
today. The two ends of one of the four
tubes connecting Manhattan Island
with Long Island city were brought to
gether under the bed of the middle of
East river off Thirty-fourth street b-
fore noon today and steel rings comry -ing
the shell of the tube were for the
first time bolted in one continuous
string from shore to shore. This tube
was begun in August, 1905, and ie 4.
000 feet in length. Two other tubes
will be completed within a few days,
and the fourth will be finished within
three months, according to an an
nouncement made by the company.
So accurate were the measurement
of the engineers that the ends came to
gether with a variation of only three
eighths of an inch.
Snowstorm Costs $25,000.
Chicago, Feb. 24. The city has com
pleted the t.-k of clearing the business
section of the enow tliat fell in the
great storm of last week. Four thou
sand men were kept busy for four days
and .8,000 wairon loads of snow were
removd. The expense to the city was
about $25,000.
Expact Evans to Recover.
Washington, Feb. 22. While not.
yet formally advised by Admiral
Thomas that he has assumed command
of lhe Atlantic fltet, the officials of the
Navy department are expecting seme
such announcement, on the basis of
preceding reports on the condition of
Admiral Evans. These reports are not
regarded as indicating that the Admiral
is suffering from any permanent inca
pacity, but that he is simply again a
victim of rheumatic gout, which is di
rectly the result of the injury he re
ceived at Fort Fisher in the Civil war'
Denies Part in Graft.
Harrisburg. Pa., Feb. 22. Ex-Gov
ernor Pennypacker in his testimony at
the state capital conspiracy trial today
uenie.l the statement of S. B. Lewis
that the famous Huston letter to ex
Attorney General Carson was prepared
at a conference between Pennypacker.
Lewis and ex-Auditor General Snyder,
one of the defendants. Mr. Penny
packer declared that when Lewis stated
that this letter was intended to be a
"whitewash," he stated falsely.
Kentucky Still Deadlocked.
Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 22. The ballot
for United States senator in the ininf
session o' the legislature today resulted
a follows: Beckham. 57: Rmdlp s.
Allen. 1; Blackburn. 1: Camnhell.
Necessary to a choice, 65.