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HEPPNER OREGON
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.
A bitter prohibition campaign in Illi
nois is near an end.
Philippine Democrats have indorsed
Bryan for president.
Japan is to abolish the stigma of caste
on the lower claases.
Great Britain is alarmed at the
growth of Socialism.
The chief of the Crow Indians defends
Indian Agent Reynolds.
Russia is inclined to the demands on
the control of Manchuria.
Delaware Republicans will send un
inspected delegates to the convention.
An entire trainload of oranges has
jast been sent from California to Iowa.
Japan is making extroaordinary war
preparations to continue the expansion
policy.
The old Fifth avenue hotel in New
York has closed and politicians are
homeless.
The German diet has forbidden the
use of any language at public meetings
but German.
Harriman officials announce that ex
tensive improvements to San Pedro har
bor will be made by the Southern Pa
cific. It is announced that the coal mine at
Hanna, Wyo., in which a score of min
ers were killed, will probably never be
reopened.
A general strike in Rome has follow
ed a labor riot.
Ruef 's last objection to a trial has
been overruled.
The Brazilian cruiser' Bergamin Con
stant is to visit Honolulu.
Andrew Carnegie has given $5,000,-
000 more to pension university profess
ors.
For the third time in six weeks the
Ohio river at Cincinnati is above flood
stage.
Hard times have forced Helen Gould
to retrench her charities. Two indus
trial schools in which she is interested
are to close.
Retired clearing house, certificates of
Chicago to the amount of $14,000,000
have been sold to a cardboard factory
and reduced to pulp.
Charles Fieher, aged 17, dropped
dead in the streets of Bedford, Ind. He
was addicted to the cigarette habit and
had one in his mouth when death came.
The proposition to build a new sub
way in New York from the Battery to
the Bronx, under Broadway and Lex
ington avenue, to cost $60,000,000 has
been approved.
A Chicago jury has decided that $50
hats are excluded from the "necessary
household expenses" for which a hus
band is liable when incurred by his
wife without his approval.
Indiana Republicans are boosting for
Fairbanks.
Germany is preparing to float a loan
of $162,500,000.
Diamond workers of Germany are on
strike for higher wages. j
ANew York university students have
struck because hazers are punished.
Representatives of national banks of
' hicago condemn the Aldrich currency
bl;I.
V t. Louis woman has committed
suieU.e to Becure insurance for an in
va.:d ter.
iiiucher rate war between trans
Atiantic lines is expected. Steerage
rates are being cut.
speaker cannon has caned lor an in
quiry into the paper trust in order to
defend the tariff law.
ihe Dattiesnip .Minnesota is now
flagship of the fleet, with Rear Admiral
Thomas in command.
Robbers dynamited the safe of the
bank at Mounds, Okla.. and after ob
taining $5,400 escaped.
Castro has answered Secretary Root's
C larges against the v enezuelan govern
ment with a complete denial.
A number of Chinese firms are offer
ing forfeits of $50 for every cent's
wortb of Japanese goods sold.
Sir Alfred Mosely will arrive in New
Ycrk in a few days to arrange for the
tour of Euope by 500 American teach
.ers at his expense.
Nebraska Populists again look to
Bryan to head their ticket for presi
dent.
Hearst may not get a decision on the
mayoralty contest before McClellan's
term ends.
Anna Gould is determined to marry
Prince delSagan and has quarreled with
her family.
Serator Penrose has passed the dan
ger line in his illness and recovery now
eeems certain.
President Roosevelt has appointed
Dr. Hill as ambassador to Germany.
Tower has resigned.
PREMIER RESIGNS.
Many Changes in British Cabinet to
Follow as Result.
London, April 7. Great Britain is
in a peculiar position, being without
either premier or ministry. The long
expected resignation of Sir Henry
Campbell-Bannerman, the prime min
ister, was officially announced Satur
day night. According to the court cir
cular, he resigned on the urgent recom
mendation of his medical advisers, and,
as the constitution provides no auto
matic successor, it routing with the king
to choose a new head of the govern
ment, and in accordance with the cus
tom and precedent, the whole cabinet
resigns with the premier, no step to
appoint a ministry can be taken until
Herbert II. Asquith, chancellor of the
exchequer, who has been summoned to
Biarritz for the purpose, has seen the
king.
The position of the country is quite
unprecedented, there being no previous
example of a change occurring in the
premiership while the sovereign was
abroad. On this account the course of
procedure to be followed is in some
doubt.
Sir Henry's condition remains un
changed, according to the physicians'
bulletin. The king, in telegraphing
his acceptance of the premier s resigna
tion, conveyed an expression of his re
gret and esteem, with best wishes for
Sir Henry's recovery.
POLICY IS CHANGED.
Japan Much Influenced by Coming of
American Fleet.
iokio, April 7. A lew days ago
Count Okuma received a deputation
from the Japanese residents of Sacra
mento, Cal., and from the Japanese
newspaper men of San Francisco, who
wished to solicit his views on the emi
gration problem. The count is report
ed by the vernacular papers to have
said that it was very difficult to find
out wherein lay the object of the dis
patch of the American battleship
squadron to the Pacific at this time. A
good deal has been made of the move
ment by the European press and it was
looked upon there as an occurrence of
unusual significance. Japan, however,
had received the assurance of the
United States government that it was
not intended as a menace to Japan,
but was merely undertaken for the pur
pose of training officers and men.
Nevertheless, whatever the real ob
ject cf the movement might be, it was
indisputable that Japan s emigration
policy had been considerably affected
thereby and it was not easy to sever en
tirely the dispatch of the fleet from the
policy Japan had lately pursued toward
the United States in this connection.
FLEET ASSURES PEACE.
Evans Says Voyage to Pacific Was
Well Timed.
San Francisco, April 7. Admiral
Robley D. Evans, in an interview
printed in the Chronicle today, said:
"The greater interest of the United
States today is in the Pacific. The
coming of the fleet to this coast has not
only demonstrated to the world that we
have 16 battleships which can be
brought together for a long cruise at a
moment's notice, but it has called the
attention of the people of our own
country to the fact that we have a Pa
cific coast as well as an Atlantic coast,
and that it will be defended just as
much as every inch of land around New
York, and that our interests in the Pa
cific today are greater than in the At
lantic.
inis is tne snort road to the coun
tries of the Far East, where the greatest
commercial development is to be. With
development will come war, but it will
be a commercial war, fought with
brains and dollars and not with 10-inch
guns, it will be generaled by such men
as mrriman, and tne part oi tne navy
is only to be always ready. We do not
plan nor fight commercial battles.
"The coming of the fleet was most
opportunely timed by the president,
and its arrival in the Pacific has result
ed in the present assurance of peace.
Not that I ever believed that there was
any actual danger of war. The people
of both countries realized too well what
a dreadful calamity such a war would
have been."
Collect Money by Autos.
San Francisco, April 7. With a
"flying squadron" of ten big automo
biles pressed into service for the occa
sion and a corps of volunteer col Hectors,
extraordinary efforts will be made by
the fleet committee to bring the tctal of
the fleet fund to $70,000, and to cease
work in that connection by Wednesday
Before the collectors wind up their
efforts Tuesday night they will visit
2,300 saloons and 600 restaurants with
in the boundary of the city and expect
the to secure pledges of between $15,-
UUU and $20,000.
Stolen Bust Is Found.
Rome, April 7. After a diligent
search the police have found the bronze
bust of Pope Clement VIII, which was
stolen, from the Villa Aldobrandini.
The thieves gained access to the villa
by breaking open a window. The bust.
wnicn weigns luny bw pounds, was
1 1 M
found buried about half a mile from
the villa. It was the'evldent intention
of the thieves to keep it concealed until
an opportunity should De afforded to
ship it abroad.
Transport Sherman Sails.
San Francisco, April 7. The trans
port Sherman will sail at noon tomor
row for Mani'.a with a large number
of first class passengers besides 100
enlisted men of the Twenty-fifth coast
artillery, and 130 recruits for the troops
in the Philippines.
NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
PLAN BIG FRUIT WAREHOUSE
Growers Get Architect's Drawing!
Soon Start Work.
Milton Plans for the new warehouse
and cold storage plant to be erected by
the Milton Fruitgrowers' union have
been received from the architect, F. E.
Finkenbiner, of Walla Walla, and pre
parations are being made to begin vork.
The building will have 18-foot wails,
with a full basement. The second story
will be used as a box factory and for
storage purposes. Half of the basement
will be used for cold stoiage, the re
mainder for storage of fruits and ber
ries awaiting shipment.
The plans are now to construct the
building of concrete. Large shipping
platforms will surround it on two Bides
and one end. The building will be 40
feet wide and 100 feet long, with freight
elevators at each end. fit will have a
capacity of handling $500,000 worth of
fruit during a season.
PAYS $25,000 FOR ORCHARD
Dr. F. C. Page, of Medford, Buys 258
Acres in Ashland District.
Ashland The papers have been
diawn at Ashland in what it is believed
is the biggest orchard sale yet consum
mated in the history of the Rogue
River valley. The property involved
is the orchard and farm of County
Commissioner Joshua Patterson, locat
ed in Talent precinct, tour miles north
of Ashland. Two hundred and fifty
eight acres was the acreage involved in
the deal, 130 acres being young orchard
of iour and five-year-old apple trees in
fine condition, the remainder , being
farm lands suitable for fruitgrowing,
but unplanted to trees. The consider
ation in the deal was $52,000.
Cuts Freight Rates.
Salem The Oregon Railroad com
mission has rendered its decision in the
O. R. & N. distributive rate case, or
dering a reduction in rates between
Portland and points east of The Dalles.
The reduction amounts to 3 cents a
hundred on first-class freight to Biggs,
7 cents to Arlington, 13 cents to Pen
dleton, 18 cents to La Grande and Ba
ker City, and 19 cents to Huntington,
with proportionate reductions to other
points and on other classes of freight.
Rates to The Dalle are already low
enough, owing to water competition.
All the commissioners concurred in
the decision.
Shear Speep With Machinery.
Arlington Sheep-shearing will begin
at Smythe & Smith's plant, five miles
south of here, this week. Sixteen
shearing machines will be used, the
power leing furnished by a Bix-horse
power gasoline engine. Forty thou
sand sheep will be sheared at this plant
this season, and an average of 2,000
head daily is expected. Sheepmen re
port that the sheep are in good condi
tion, but that pasture is getting scarce.
This has been one of the most success
ful lambing seasons known, but few
lambs being lost from any cause.
The Dalles Makes Good Brick.
The Dalles Mr. Litherland, a Port
land brick expert, whose opinion was
sought by the architect of the city hall,
now in process of construction, regard
ing brick lately burned heie by The
Dalles Brick & Tile company, has ma!de
a report after a careful examination and
declares the brick equal to any made in
this state. Some of the casing brick
delivered in this city by mistake had
been rejected by the architect, which
led to the examination.
Seeking Coal Near Dallas.
Dallas Hon. W. C. Brown will be
gin the work of drilling for coal on his
property in the northern part of this
city within a few days. Several good
specimens of lignite coal have been
found in recent excavations, and the
contour of the land at that place indi
cates the presence of a large denoeit.
Mr. Brown is convinced that the pro
ject will pay, and will lose no time in
making the preliminary excavations for
sinking a shaft.
Apple Land at $1,600 an Acre.
Hood Rives One of the biggest sales
of orchard land that has taken place at
Hiod River was reported in the pui
chase of 32 acres of bearing orchard
from C. K. Marshall for $30,000. The
purchaser was F. W. Angus, of the firm
of MacRae & Angus. The orchard is
set to young trees that have only been
in bearing a year or two, and the price
paid is not regarded as high, owing to
the standard varieties of apple trees
and its location.
University Data in Bulletin.
University of Oregon, Eugene A
new bulletin has juet been issued from
the university office contsinnig a brief
historical sketch of the institution, the
names of all regents and their terms of
service, a similar chart of the officers
of administration and instruction and
the names, residences and occupations
of all the alumni.
Seek for Oil.
The Dalles Articles of incoropration
by the "Beavis-May Oil company" have
been filed with the county clerk here.
The incorporators are George R. Beavis,
Anna May and Dr. Harry F. McKay.
The capital stock is $30,000. The com
pany purposes to engage in developing
oil lands in the vicinity of Dufar, Or.,
at which place the head office it to be.
FROM THE STATE OF OREGON
MILLS RESUME IN BAKER.
Improvement In the Lumber Market
Start Wheels Turning.
Baker City One of the largest indus
tries in Baker City that was affected by
the recent panic is soon to begin opera
tions again and will give employment
to several hundred men. The South
Baker Lumber mills have been idle for
the last few months, but the wheels
will be set turning as Boon as enough
logs can be brought down to insure a
steady run. At the time of closing
down, the Oregon Lumber company had
a laree supply of finished lumber in the
yards, and owing to the lessened de
mand for lumber there nas been no ne
cessity to run the mill.
The btoddard Brothers Lumber com
pany has been running its mill in this
city all winter, turning out about 40,-
000 feet of finished lumber each day.
The mill of the Oregon Lumber com
pany at Austin has been running steadi
ly all winter, turning out a tike amount
of the finished product. Lumber con.
anions are Beginning to improve no
ticeably.
Learn to Farm at School.
Albany Pupils of the seventh and
eighth grades of the Albany public
schools will devote their spare time
this spring to growing vegetables and
flowers. They will engage in practical
work in connection with the new study
of agriculture now required in the sev
enth and eighth grades of the public
schools of the state and will be stimu
lated to active efforts by a series of
prizes offered through the arrangements
of Superintendent A. M. Sanders, of
the local public schools.
To Examine Soils.
Klamath Falls Through the joint
efforts of the Klamath Water Users
association and the Klamath chamber
of commerce, and the personal requests
of citizens of this section, a soil survey
of the Klamath basin will be made by
a corps of sou experts of the United
States Department of Agriculture. It is
very urgently desired by the people
that the survey be made this summer,
and assurances have been received from
Secretary Wilson that it will be under
taken as soon as possible.
$2,000 Raised for Diking Fund.
Freewater A largely attended meet
ing of ranchers, interested in controll
ing the floodwaters of the Tum-a-lum
end Walla Walla rivers, met last week
in Badgero's hall. About $2,000 has
been subscribed for the project, and the
work of diking the river has already
commenced. Twenty-three thousand
acres of land in this valley are irriga
ble, oi which there are o.UUO acres
now under cultivation producing excel
lent crops.
Big Batch of Steelhead Eggs.
Oregon City Superintendent Henry
O'Malley, of the United State bureau
of fisheries, reports that prospects are
good for a take of 2,000,000 steelhead
eggs at the Rogue river station, which
he has just inspected. Superintendent
O'Malley has just received 100,000
Rainbow trout eggs from the govern
ment station at Baird, Cal., and these
will be hatched and liberated from
Clackamas station.
Baking Powder Plant at Portland
Portland Portland is to be made the
manufacturing and distributing point
for the Northwestern territory of the
Hunt's Perfect Baking Powder com
pany, of Minneapolis. The plant will
be built during the summer. William
C. Rigg, of Minneapolis, vice president
of the company, is at the Hotel Port
land, and is making all arrangements
to locate a branch of the concern here.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Club, 8384c; bluestem,
8586c; valley, 8384c; red, 8182c
Barley Feed, $26 per ton; rolled,
$2830per ton.
Oats No. 1 white, $2728 per ton
Corn Whole, $33.50; cracked,
$34.50.
Hay Valley timothy, No. 1, $17 per
ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, $1920;
clover, $1415; cheat, $15; grain hay,
$1415; alfalfa, 11213.
Fruits Apples, $13.50 per box,
according to quality; cranberries, $8
11 per barrel.
Vegetables Artichokes, 7590c per
dozen ; asparagus, 810c pound ; beans,
20c pound; cabbage, o pound;
cauliflower, $2; celery, $4.505 per
crate; parsley, 25c per dozen; peas, 15c
pound; peppers, 20c per pound; rad
ishes, 30c per dozen; rhubarb, $2.50
per crate; spinach, 85c crate; sprouts,
10c per pound, squash, 11 Jc pound
Onions Oregon s, $44.25 per hun
dred.
Potitoei 5060c per hundred, de
livered Portland.
Butter Fancy creamery, 2530c per
pound.
Poultry Average old hens, 1415c
per pound; mixed chickens, 1213c;
spring chickens, 1620c; turkeys, live,
15(2)1 7c; dressed, choice, 1620o;
geese, live, 810c; ducks, 16(3)17c;
pigeons, 75ccl$l; squabs, $1.502.
Eggs Fresh ranch, 16c per dozen.
Veal 75 to 125 pounds, 89c; 125
to 150 pounds, 7c; 150 to 200 pounds,
56Kc.
Pork Block, 75 to 160 pounds, 7
7e; packers, 56e.
Hops 1907, prime and choice, 4(a5c
per pound; olds, ll)c per pound.
Wobl Eastern Oregon, average best,
1216c per pound, according to shrink
age; valley, 16$18c, according to qual
ity; mohair, choice, 25c per pound.
Cascara Bark 3c per pound.
HOPELESS SPLIT.
Interstate Commission Cannot Agree
on Spokane Rate Case.
Washington, April 6. After havirg
the Spokane rate case under considera
tion for more than one year, the Inter
state Commerce commission is appar
ently hopelessly divided regarding the
decision which should be rendered.
The case is the most important upon
the dockets of the commission, and up
on it hinges the entire ratefabiicof the
United States.
If theccmmisslonjshould decide with
the shippers of Spokane, the theory up
on which the railroads have made rates
from the earliest days will be upset and
past decisions on the short and long
haul clause of the commerce act will be
more or less nullified. On the other
hand, if the commission refuges tc dis
turb the present adjustment, a long step
toward establishing the justice of the
ratemaking methods of the railroads
will have been taken. Recognizing the
import of the case, the commission went
into a moBt careful and elaborate inves
tigation and hearing of all the facts and
listened to arguments from a large
number of the business, railroad and
commercial lawyers in the West.
Since the arguments were heard the
commission has had numerous confer
ences regard .ng a decision, and it de
velops that there are at least three dif
ferent views which thus far have proved
irreconcilable. The commission has
struggled in vain to get a majority re
port and apprarently is in a deadlock.
The case 1b one which had been both
ering the railroads in the Northwest lor
years prior to the commission's being
given greater powers. Owing to water
competition, according to the railroads,
the rates to Spokane from the Eastern
seaboard are the rates to the Pacific
coast, plus the local rates from the Pa
cific coast back to Spokane. The latter
city insists that this is unfair.
FIGHT FOR SALT BEDS.
Deposits of Enormous Value Discov
ered in Utah.
Washington, April 6. Title to lands
in the state of Utah containing salt de
posits of an extent and purity hitherto
not only unknown, but undreamed of,
is involved in a sensational contest now
being fought out in this city. About
38,000 acres of lands lying along the
western border of Utah have been dis
covered to be overtopped with salt, and
an attempt is being made to acquire
them by the filing of placer mining
claims on the part of individuals. The
vaule of the lands was today estimated
by one of the claimants at $00,000,000
Deposited by nature on the lands
over which the contest is being made is
a bed of pure salt, which in some places
lies to a depth of six feet. This salt is
of so fine a quality that it has been
lound unnecessary to refine it. It can
be marketed direct from the deposit and
tests have shown it to be 98 per cent
pure. Elaborate preparations have
been made for the control of the land
by individuals, who have thus far kept
the discovery of the deposit out of the
newspapers.
ror two or three months they were
successful, but now the state of Utah
has awakened to the vast possibilities
of this salt deposit and the aid of the
senate of the United States and the
president has been invoked in an effort
to retain the product, which the com
mon wealth claims under a section of
the enabling act making it a state.
SOON DECIDE LUMBER RATES
Then Commission Will Act on Open
ing Portland Gateway
Washington, April 6. The Portland
gateway case, which was argued last
fall and which involves the shipment
of lumber eastward from Puget sound
via Portland, will not be decided until
the Interstate Commerce commission
has rendered an opinion on the lumber
rate cases which were recently argued
here. The commission will this week
hold its first conference on the lumber
rate case and its decision in that case
may not be forthcoming for many
weeks, though there is a disposition to
settle this question with as much ex
pedition as possible, as it involves the
lumber industry of the entire North
west.
Increases Fire Hazard.
San Francisco, April 6. The present
unsatisfactory condition of San Fran
cisco's water supply, especially from
the point of view of protection againsi
fire hazard, was forcibly outlined in a
communication sent to the board of
supervisors today by the board of fire
underwriters cf the Pacific. The report
sets forth that the water system of the
city is a gravity system, with "pres
sures not standard," and says that the
distributing reservoirs and tanks within
the city "do not contain five days' sup
ply." Ford Trial Set.
San Francisco, April 6. Judge Law-
lor indicated this morning that be
would plac6 Tirey L. Ford, general
counsel of the United railroads, on trial
for the bribery of Supervisor Coleman
next Wednesday, if he denied the de
fendant's motion for a change of venue
when Ford's attorneys filed their reply
affidavits tomorrow. Assistant District
Attorney John O'Gara today filed his
affidavit in reply to that of Tirey L.
Ford.
Police Assist Burglar.
Philadelphia, April 6. An amazing
story of alleged d shonesty iD the police
department or inis city was toiu looay
by Harry Rothenberger, aged 19 years,
who was arrested charged with larceny.
The youth mp.de a confession, in which
he says he wts aided and abetted in a
nnmber of burglaries in the wholesale
district of the city by four policemen.
ALL SHOULD
PULL TOGETHER
Would Secure Important Legislation
for Western States.
Several Measures Pending In Senate
and House or Their Committees
Include Dry Farm Homestead
Bill and Municipal Improvements
on Irrigation Projects.
Washington, April 4. There are sev
eral important bills pending before
senate and house, or in their commit
tees, of great interest to the West, any
one of which can probably be passed if
Western senators and congressmen will
get together and make a united effort.
Most conspicuous among them at the
present time is the 320-acre dry farm
homestead bill, a measure that means
a great deal to the states west of the
Missouri river, in many of which set
tlement is practically checked because
the beBt landa have passed to private
ownership, and what remains cannot
be successfully entered under the exist
ing homestead law.
Another most meritorious measure
hanging In the balance is the Borah
bill, providing funds for building
schools, installing sewer and water sys
tems and making other municipal im
provements in towns established on
government irrigation projects. This
bill proposes to donate to such towns
all moneys derived from the sale of
town lots, a fund which, in most in
stances, will be ample for the purpose.
Experiei ca has shown that towns ca
government projects have been slower
of development than towns on Carey act
projects. The latter have grown rapid
ly. Large schools have been erected ;
adequate water and sewer Bvstems have
been installed, streets have been im
proved, etc., whereas in towns on gov
ernment projects the citizens have been
obliged to go down into their own pock
ets to provide and maintain schools aid
property holders have been compelled
to bearthe entire expense of all civic
improvements.
The national drainage bill, which
contemplates the reclamation of swamp
and overflowed lands in all parts of the
United States, stands little chance of
passing this session. Though it is a
measure of great merit, there does not
seem to be that interest that is essen
tial to force through a bill of such mag
nitude and importance. It is difficult
to explain this lack of interest, too, for
there is scarcely a state that has not
some lands that would bejbenefitted by
a national drainage law.
There Is one bill that congress will
certainly not pass this session, yet one
that should have been enacted long ago
a bill repealing the timber and stone
act and Bubmstituting some more prac
ticable statute providing for the dispos
al of government timber. It has been
amply demonstrated that the timber
and stone act is vicious and unjust.
POPULISTS NAME TICKET.
Watson and Williams Their Choice for
National Officers.
St. Louis, April 4. For president of
the United States, Thomas E. Watson,
of Georgia.
For vice president, Samuel W. Wil
liams, of Indiana.
This ticket was nominated yesterdav
by the Peoples' party convention after
two stormy sessions, throughout which
the Nebraska and Minnesota delega
tions, working in the interests of W.J.
Bryan, strove desperately to bring about
an adjournment till after nominations
had been made by the Democratic and
Republican parties. Hopelessly out
numbered, and without any chance
whatever of gaining their object, the
Nebraska men fought desperately to the
lasG, and, when Jay A. Forrest, of Al
bany, N. Y., mounted the platform to
place Mr. Watson in nomination, they
withdrew from the convention, attend
ed by the Minnesota delegation.
Smelter Trust Pays Big Fee.
Helena, Mont., April 4. After a
year's contest, the American Smelting
& Refining company today admitted ite
defeit by sending: to Secretary of State
JN. Yoder a check for $3,685. as a fee
for the filing of a certificate showing an
increase of capital stock from $65,000.-
000 to $100,000,000. The corporation
contended that the payment of this fee
1 T T 1
in mew jersey maae irs payment un
necessary in Montana, but Attornpy
General Albert J. Malen ruled other
wise. The fee is the largest in the his
tory of the department.
Twenty-three Drowned.
Portsmouth, Eng., April 4. A wire
less message received here states that
during the night maneuvers in the
channel the cruiser Berwick ran down
the torpedo destroyer Tiger. The Tiger
was cut in half and speedily sank.
Boats from the Berwick and the cruiser
Gladiator picked up 22 men, one of
whom died later from his injuries. It
is believed that the Tiger had a crew of
45 men and that all the others were
drowned.
Will Fight Two-cent Law.
Chicago, April 4. A combined at
tack on the 2-cent passenger rate is
promised by the railroads that operate
in Illinois, Minnesota and Missouri.
It is probable that the suits will be
filed next week. The call for a confer
ence to meet, at which officials cf the
Illinois roads will be present, was is
sued today, and plans for the fight will
then then be laid.