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MUCH REVENUE LOST.
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. C. Swinburne, the poet, is dead.
Many anthracite coal operators have
prepared for a strike.
Holland is eagerly awaiting the birth
of an heir to the throne.
New , York City alone consumed
about 25,000,000 eggs Easter.
The army transport Dix is en route
to Seattle with exhibits from the Phil
ippines for the fair.
uovernor Laliey, of Connecticut, is
dangerously sick and little hope is held
out for his recovery.
Indictments against Haskell and
other prominent Oklahomans for land
frauds have been dismissed.
Castro's wife will attempt to have
Gomez resign as president of Venezue
la and place the dictator again in pow
er.
Figures gathered by the bureau of
statistics show that marriages are fall
ing off and divorces increasing in In
diana.
For the first time since the Spanish
war the United States army is up to its
full strength and recruiting has stopped
except to re-enlist men.
A special train was used by a large
Eastern firm to carry bonds from San
Francisco to New York. This method
was cheaper than paying express.
Roosevelt has arrived at Port Said,
Emma Goldman will fight any effort
to deport her.
Eleven jurors have been finally ac
cepted in the Calhoun case.
' Experiments are being conducted at
New York with wireless telephones.
Fifteen automobiles were destroyed
in a fire which burned a Chicago
garage.
Revenue officers engaged in a pitch
ed battle with moonshiners in West
Virginia.
Preparations are nearly complete for
the Harriman merger suit at Salt
Lake, when the government will try to
break the combine said to exist.
Two men were burned to death and
three others seriously injured by an
explosion of oil tanks at Point Rich
mond, Cal. The damage will reach
$50,000.
The defense has closed its argument
in the case to dissolve the Standard
Oil company. After the government
finishes the court will take the case
under advisement and a decision is not
looked for before fall.
Further earthquake shocks are being
felt at Messina.
A large gray wolf has been captured
in a Chicago suburb.
An Erie, Pa., millionaire has been
asked to give up $5,000 or suffer death.
Reports that the relief work at Mes
sina is a farce continue to find theiir
way out.
All West Indian colonies have been
closed against Castro and France will
expel him from Martinique.
A 6-year old South Carolina boy shot
his 3-year old brother and is said to
have attempted to hide the body.
A Columbus, O., official has received
a "Black Hand" warning against issu
ing 'marriage licenses to blacks and
whites.
Amendments Put Through Take Away
Twenty Million Dollars.
Washington, April 13. The esti
mates of the revneues which the Payne
tariff bill will produce have beefl re
duced nearly $20,000,000 through the
amendments made by the house. The
senate finance committee must provide
means for making up this difference, if
the original estimates are to be met.
The striking out of several counter
vailing duty clauses will lessen the
burs productiveness another $20,000,
000.
The amendment taking off the 8-cent
duty on tea subtracted $78,000,000
from the estimated revenues. The
striking out of the countervailing duty
on coffee disposes of what probably
would have been $15,000,000 in duties
Taking out the countervailing pro
viso tor lumber and for petroleum
means a lost opportunity to increase
the revenues by several million dollars,
it is estimated.
The senate finance committee mater
ially redudced many of the Dingley
bill s schedules as it passed the house,
out in order to increase the revenue
producing power of the Payne bill the
committee must take different action
with regard to the latter measure.
In 1897 the senate committee placed
a duty of 1$ cents per pound on hides,
which was changed later to 15 per
cent, but the Payne bill, as it passed
the house, places hides on the free list.
Under the Dingley law, hides have
produced more than $3,000,000 reve
nue annually.
There are many changes in the Payne
bill from the provisions of the Dingley
law. Its maximum and minimum re
taliatory feature, the additional meth
od of valuation for the purpose of pre
venting under-valuations and its pro
visions for the $40,000,000 issuance of
Panama bonds and a $250,000,000 issue
of Treasury certificates are new. It
extends the drawback privileges so
that domestic raw material may be
used in lieu of imported material for
the purpose of collecting a drawback,
provided an equal-amount of identical
imported raw materia) is manufactured
into the same product upon which the
drawback is collected. An inheritance
tax, by which it is hoped that $20,000,-
000 will be collected, is provided for.
In placing a large number of articles
on the free list and in reducing the du
ties on many others, it has been found
necessary to increase materially the
duties on many articles in order to pro
duce necessary revenue. The Payne
bill increased materially the rates on
brandy, alcohol, gin, grain spirits, cor
dials and liquors, but made virtually no
increase on champagne. The senate
committee has decided upon an in
crease amounting to about 25 per cent
above the existiong rates on wines of
all kinds.
A number of other articles, regarded
as luxuries, have been increased.
NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FROM THE STATE OF OREGON
WILL MARKET GRANITE.
Company Organized to Develop De
posits Near Ashland.
Ashland Ashland, the Granite City,
is about to demonstrate her riorht to
the title. While it has been known
generally that the hills behind the city
are granite ribbed, and that much of
the best fruit growing soil was largely
decomposed granite, it has not been so
generally known that several magnifi
cent ledges of commercial granite lay
just beyond the city limits. Local
capitalists have organized a company
to open up the large ledge of monu
mental granite that lies about three
miles up Ashland creek canyon.
Experts have been shown polished
samples of the granite from the prop
erty owned by the new company, and
have pronounced it of finer grain and
harder than almost any of the commer
cial granites now so extensively used.
The new company is known as the
Pacific Granite company, of Ashland,
and is capitalized at $100,000. Al
ready requests have been made for
prices in carload lots on rough granite
blocks, the inquiries coming from as
far south as Los Angeles.
Chemawa Herd is O. K.
Chemawa Dr. E. N. Hutchinson, of
the United States Agricultural depart
ment, acting under orders of the head
of his department in the Northwest,
examined the Chemawa Indian school
dairy herd for tuberculosis. After a
thorough examination extending over
several days the doctor gave the school
a clean bill of health. The Chemawa
school herd consists of about 75 graded
shorthorns. Dr. Hutchinson was much
pleased with the dairy arrangements of
the Chemawa school, and stated that
it is the best arranged cleanest and
best kept dairy department in the
Northwest.
NIAGARA IS STILLED.
Great
River is Frozen Solidly
Bank to Bank.
From
Buffalo, N. Y., April 13. The voice
of Niagara was mute today, for the
seccond time in the memory of man,
and the river is frozen solidly from
bank to bank.
On Wednesday the worst gale of the
season piled the solid icefields of Lake
Erie in a huge mass at the lower end
of the lake. At Niagara Falls there
had been a heavy ice bridge in the pool
below the cataract since the maddle of
winter. Under the impact of the ice
of the lake above and the added floes
by the wind, the
and began to surge
But before it could
Lake Ontario, the
. Instantly
the mouth
Dairy Law is Held Valid.
Salem Attorney General Crawford
has rendered an opinion to the effect
that the dairy law passed by the recent
session of the legislature is a legal en
actment and that the dairy and food
commissioner shall have the power of
appointing the inspectors provided for
under the law. The latter point was
in dispute, and in some quarters the
legality of the entire bill has been
questioned on account of some confu
sion in the procedure whereby the sen
ate failed to enroll one of the house
amendments.
Japanese Consul on Tour.
Chemawa The Japanese consul, S.
Numano, located at Portland, has been
visiting several points of interest in
the Willamette valley. The leading
educational institutions were visited
and inspected, among them being the
state university at Eugene, the Oregon
Agricultural college at Corvallis, Wil
lamette university at Salem and the
United States Indian school at Che
mawa. The consul was especially in-y
terested in the various institutions.
WILL QUIT HOPS.
Large Willamette Grower to Go Into
Fruit Business.
Salem Louis Lachmund, a large lo
cal hop grower, will gradually work
out of the hop business via the fruit
route. He has arranged to convert 11
acres of his hop ranch this year into an
apple orchard by removing a hill of
hops every 35 feet and planting a
Spitzenberg apple tree. When the
trees are ready to bear the rest of the
hop vines will be pulled up.
Mr. Lachmund has 15 acres of peach
es in the Kaiser bottoms country,
which were damaged to some extent
by the cold weather of the past winter,
but by fertilizing, pruning and culti
vating, practically every tree will be
saved. Some of the other peach orch
ards in the vicinity are Baid to be dam
aged from 20 to 40 per cent. An ex
tensive peach grower from the North
Yakima country, who was here a few
days ago, stated that peach orchards
were practically ruined in that valley.
Phone Company Appeals.
Salem There has been filed with
the clerk of the, Supreme court the
preliminary papers in the appeal to be
taken to the United States Supreme
court in the case of the state vs. the
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph com
pany. On the result of the appeal de
pends the fate of the initiative and
referendum and entire primary elec
tion system of Oregon. That the di
rect legislation enacted in this state
is in direct contravention of article 4,
of section 4, of the constitution of the
United States is one of the principal
grounds alleged in the appeal.
Klamath's Finances Good.
Klamath Falls The report just made
by the county treasurer shows that
Klamath county is in the best financial
condition for many years. It has no
bonded indebtedness and its outstand
ing warrants amount to less than $30,-
000, which cover the expenses for the
past nine months. Without any in
crease in the levy, the county raised
this year about $20,000 toward a fund
of $75,000 for the erection of a new
courthouse building, and also $25,000
for the improvement of its roads.
CASTRO IS DEPORTED.
brought through
bridge gave way
down the rapids,
win freedom in
wind shifted to the north
the moving floes packed at
Someone put a $10,000 bill in the
collection plate of a Washington, D.
C, church and the deacons are looking
for the donor, feeling sure that it was
a mistake.
Immigration authorities have found
that the husband of Emma Goldman
obtained his naturalization by fraud.
Ihis makes the noted anarchist an
alien and she may be deported.
Robbers held up an Ogden, Utah,
gambling and secured $1,500.
The New York legislature has turned
down a direct primary measure.
Anthracite miners and operators have
eplit on recognition of the union.
Prairie wolves killed the 10-year old
son of a Kingman, Kansas, farmer
Two Ohio autoists plunged into the
Miami river with their car rather than
ran down a little girl.
i'l ?- .rgers from the wrecked steam-
ar a nave arrived at aan rran-
ci.i board a warship.
Is volsky, Russian foreign minis
ter, rib tendered his resignation, as he
id nit in aocord with the czar.
.-Queen Liliuokalani, of Hawaii,
r u t pay her doctors $11,600, accord-j-..?
i Oie Supreme court of the Dis
trijt ;f Columbia.
Confederate veterans in the Florida
lpi.-lhtore warmly defended a resolu
te v Make Lincoln's birthday a holi
er y v 1 n other members moved to ta
l t if proposition.
f -r Mitchell, central figure in the
of the river. The pack froze steadily
and each hour brought added pressure
from above.
Unable to traverse its natural chan-
nels,the level of the river rose quickly.
The highest flood level recorded from
previous years is 28 feet above the nor
mal. Last night the river was 40 feet
above normal. Water poured over the
window sills of the power house of
the Ontario Power company and flood
ed the machines. The tracks of the
Great Gorge route were covered from
the lower steel arch bridge to Lewis
ton.
Conservative estimates place the
damage at $1,000,000.
r j'
Ho! v 1 oiler" murders at Seattle in
K O", r a been released
an on i trole.
from the asyl-
Lilley in Stupor.
Hartford, Conn., April 13. Hope
for the recovery of Governor George
L. Lilley is practically abandoned. The
governor still remains stupefied and
wholly unconscious of his surroundings.
Physicians are constantly at his bed
side and his life is being prolonged by
articficial means. While his medical
attendants do not admit mat hope is
vanished, members of his family have
given way to despair. Governor Lil
ley's illness began with nervous exhaus
tion. Since taking to his bed his heart
and kidneys have become affected.
British Sailors Landed.
London, April 13. The Persian sit
uation is gradually developing in the
direction of Anglo-Russian interven
tion. British bluejackets were landed
from the cruiser Fox at Bushire yes
terday, after a British resident had is
sued a proclamation holding forth the
necessity of this action because the
local authorities were unable to protect
foreigners. It is understood that the
landing had been sanctioned by the
Russian government.
Castro Barred Again.
Copenhagen, April 13. The govern
ment has instructed the governor of
the Danish West Indies under no cir
cumstances to permit ex-President
Castro to land in that territory.
Fights Fruit Inspection.
Salem County Fruit Inspector E. C
Armstrong is meeting with some resist
ance in carrying out the provisions of
the law governing the care and inspec
tion ot orcnards. une iarmer near
Hubbard, has taken the position that
the inspeector has no business to in
spect his orchard for the purpose of
ordering it sprayed or cut down, and
intimates that he will make things
warm for the inspector should the lat
ter set foot on the farm.
Scriber's Property Sold.
La Grande Another sale by the
trustees of the bankrupt Scriber estate
was made when one of the main busi
ness houses on Adams avenue was sold
for $25,000. The successful bidder is
Joseph Palmer, president of the de
funct Farmers & Traders bank, of
which Scriber was cashier. The Scri
ber residence was also sold recently.
These sales close the principal items
in the assets of the Scriber estate.
Benson Gives Out Jobs.
Salem Governor Benson has ap
pointed Dr. Harry H. Ohlinger, of Sal
em, to succeed himself as a member of
the state board of dental examiners,
and Dr. Frank Vaught, of Astoria, on
the same board, to succeed his brother,
Dr. E. A. Vaught, of Pendleton. Rep
resentative J. P. Rusk was appointed
as tne attorney oi tne land board in
Wallowa county.
Work to Begin Soon on Jetty.
Fort Stevens The annual influx of
laboring men, anticipating the resump
tion of work on the jetty by the 1st of
May, has commenced. By the first of
the month it is supposed that all out
side work will be in active operation.
It is expected that more work will be
accomplished this season than any
hitherto, owing to the fact that ar
rangements have been made for the
hauling of a greater quantity of rock
and improved methods in its disposal.
New Sawmill for Sumpter.
Sumpter The new sawmill of the
Adams-Gardinier Lumber company is
about completed and will be in opera
tion in two weeks. This plant is lo
cated south of Sumpter two miles and
is equipped with modern machinery.
Its capacity will be 30,000 feet a day
of 10 hours. Over 2,000,000 feet of
logs are on the landing ready for the
saws.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
French Government Refuses Him Asy
lum In Martinique.
Fort De France, April 12. Cipriano
Castro, ex-president of Venezuela, was
expelled Saturday from the island of
Martinique by the French government.
He protested to the last against his ex
pulsion, but his protests were in vain.
He is now on board the French line
steamship .Versailles, bound for St.
Nazaire.
Official notice was served on Castro
of the decision of the! French govern
ment that he must leave the island
within nine hours froth the receipt of
such notice, and that the commissary
of police at Fort de France had been
charged with the execution of the order,
The ex-president railed against the
French government and the local au
thorities, denouncing them for forcing
upon him alternative of deportation or
imprisonment for six months. He de
clared that he would not budge and
that it would be necessary to take him
on board the steamer on a stretcher,
This the commissary of police, who
finally entered Castro's room with an
escort of gendarmes, prepared to do.
but Castro's lawyer took steps to find
the chief justice, andat the very last
moment the governor and public prose
cutor decided to have another medical
examination made.
Accordingly a medical commission
composed of Drs. Bouvier, Costet and
Barbe, proceeded to the examination in
order to establish definitely if Castro'i
health were such that he could make
the voyage.
The consultation of the physicians
lasted more than half an hour, and they
agreed that the life of the ex-president
would not be jeopardized by his remov
al to the steamer and the return voyage
across the ocean.
FRANCE WILL
SHIP CASTRO
To Be Returned to Europe on First
Steamer Touching.
ADOPT HARRIMAN PLAN.
New York Hospitals Will Buy Their
Supplies Through Bureau.
New York, April 12. Acting upon
the suggestion of W. V. S. Ihorne,
purchasing agent of the Union Pacific,
Southern Pacific and other Harriman
lines, the 45 hospitals of New York
holding membership in the hospital
conference are to be brought under
central supply purchasing department,
which will buy all the drugs, foods,
furnishings, fuel and instruments not
furnishediindividually by each of the
45 institutions.
The proposal to apply Harriman
methods to the purchasing departments
of the hospitas in question was made
by Mr. Thorne at a meeting of the con
ference held here at the Academy of
Medicine.
Mr. Thorne showed that in $1,688,
647 spent for supplies last year by the
45 institutions a saving of $161,318
could be effected at a cost of $24,000
This $24,000 would be used for the
maintenance of a central purchasing
department, in charge of a head buyer
at a salary of $7,500 a year, and with
a staff of clerks and and office of its
own.
REVOLUTION THREATENED.
Freight Rates Slashed.
Salem The Sumpter Valley Rail
road company has advised the railroad
commission of the issuance of a new
tariff, in which the rates on flour, sugar
and salt are reduced nearly one half.
This action grows out of the complaints
made by the Canyon City Commercial
company that the old rates were unreasonable.
Right of Way Men Finish.
Prineville J. B. Eddy, the right of
way man lor the proposed Deschutes
railway, has just completed the task of
working over the entire right of way
from Deschutes canyon to Redmond.
and has come to an understanding with
all land owners so that the lands can
be easily bought when construction be
gins.
La Grande Raises $50,000.
La Grande The merchants and busi
ness men of La Grande have met the
last dollar of $50,000 needed as the
share assigned to te raised by La
Grande of the $100,000 needed to float
bonds for the completion of the Mead
owbrook irrigation project. ;
Wheat Bluestem milling, $1.25(r?
1.30; bluestem shipping. $1.17
1.18; club, $1.141.16; Turkey red',
$1.15; red Russian, $1.081.09; val
ley, $1.10.
Oats No. 1 white, $39(ft40' per ton.
Barley Feed, $3132 per ton.
Hay Timothy, Willamette valley,
$13(fi;15 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $16
&W, clover, $12(ftl3; alfalfa, $14.50
15; grain hay, $13(a;14; cheat, $13.50
14.50; vetch, $13.5014.50.
Apples 65e(S $2 50 ppr box.
Potatoes $1.251.35 per hundred;
sweets, 2a(rtr,3c.
Vegetables Turnips, $1 per sack;
carrots, 90c; parsnips, $1.50; beets.
ifl.vo; norseradisn, 10c per pound; ar
tichokes, 65f?85c per dozen; aspara
gus, Oregon, 75(r;85c per dozen; cab
bage, 3CaAe per pound; cauliflower,
$2.50; celery, $4.50 per crate; lettuce,
head, 85c per dozen; onions, 40(50c
per dozen ; parsley, 35c per dozen ; rad
ishes, 35c per dozen ; rhubarb, 5(a)7e
per pound; spinach, 6c.
Butter City creamery, extras, 29c;
fancy outside creamery, 27(rj29c;
California, 27c; store, 18 (ffi 20c.
Butter fat prices average cents per
pound under regular butter prices.
Eggs Oregon ranch, 22c per dozen.
Poultry Hens, 16tfil6c; broilers.
24(?725c; fryers, 18(a 20c; roosters, old,
lOfallc; young, 14tf15c; ducks, 20(ft
22c; gese, 10c; turkeys, 1819c;
squabs, $2.50tf 3 per dozen.
Veal Extras, 10frX10Jc; ordinary,
T(fi 8c; heavy, 5c.
Pork Fancy, 9(fr9c; large, 8(a
8c.
Hops 1909 contract 9(?10c; 1908
crop, 16iiytc, 1907 crop, 3(JJ43c;
1906 crop, (a2c.
Wool Eastern Oregon contracts, 16
(f18c; valley, 18c; mohair,
(rt,23c per pound.
Cattle Top steers, $5.25rfi5.50; fair
to good, $4.75(6 5; common to medium,
$3.25(f4.50 cows, top, $4.25: fair to
good, $3.50(rj4; common to med'um,
$2.50Co3.50; calves, top, $5fa5 50;
heavy, $3.50(4; bulls, and stags, fat,
$3(3:3.50; common, $22. 75.
Hogs Best, $7.25tfi7.50; fair to
good, $6.75rfi7; Btockers, $5.50(?6.50;
China fats, $6.75.
Sheep Top wethers, $505.75; fair
to good, $4.50fa4.75; ewes, c lea on
all grades; yearling?, top, $6.507;
fair to good, $6.6-25; spring lambs.
$10(511.
l-rance is Hotbed ot Uiscontent on
Part of Laboring Class.
Paris, April 12. "You will see the
streets of Paris running with blood
'ere long," solemnly prohpesied a lead
ing Royalist today.
Royalists are inclined to exaggerate
the seriousness of conditions in the
French capital, but it certainly is true
that not since the days of General Bou
langer has revolution been so openly
and so freely talked of as it is today.
The outlook would be more alarming,
however, if the revolutionists knew
just what they want, or whom they
should choose for a leader. In the
eyes of the public the head and front
of the present agitation is "Citizen
Pataud," chief of the electricians'
union. His name sends fear into
hearts of the Bourgeois shopkeepers
and other employers.
Premier Clemenceau and others pre
tend to smile at the great success of
their meeting in the hippodrome," said
Pataud today, in discussing the situa
tion, "but they will laugh out of the
wrong corner of their mouths if they
think this movement is not serious
This isn't the end. The dance is just
about to begin ; the orchestra is merely
tuning up.
Strikers Wreck Factories.-
Meru, France, April 12. The strike
of the buttonmakers of Meru has en
tered upon a critical phase. All the
departmental authorities are hurrying
her and reinforcements of cavalry and
gendarmes are coming by every train.
Many arrests have been made. Nego
tiations have been futile and disorders
broke out last night that recalled the
revolution. Agitators came down from
Paris, and harangued the mob, which
stormed and wrecked four button fac
tories and practically destroyed the
residences of the employers.
Fallen Ruler of Venezuela Will Then
Be Too Fay From Home to Wield
Influence United States Pleased
at Prospect of Removal of Dan
gerous Firebrand.
Washington, April 10. The French
government has informed the State de
partment of its determination to put
into effect immediately its decision to
expel ex-President Castro, of Vene
zuela, from Fort de France and compel
him to return to Europe.
The program is to put him aboard
the vessel first touching at Fort de
France. If this is carried out, Castro
will be on his way to Europe in a day
or two, unless his physical codndition
is such that the ocean trip would put.
his life in jeopardy.
The State department officiajs are
much gratified at the manner in which
the French government has acted, and
feel relieved that Castro is to be sent
back to Europe, where he will have no.
immediate influence in the affairs of
Venezuela, where his personal follow
ing is believed to be considerable.
HITCHCOCK PASSES AWAY.
Former Cabinet Officer Dies After
Weeks of Illness.
Washington, April 10. Ethan Allen
Hitchcock, secretary of the interior
under Presidents McKinley and Roose
velt, died here yesterday morning at
11 o'clock, aged 74. He had been
critically ill for several days.
Mr. Hitchcock had been ill for some
weeks. He contracted a severe cold
while in the West, and his condition
became so serious that he hurried to
Washington to place himself in the
hands of a specialist who had attended
him during his office career here. He-
suffered from a complication of kidney,
heart and pulmonary diseases.
At the bedside when the end came
were Mrs. Hitchcock, the three daugh
ters, Lieutenant Commander Sims, and
a nephew, George C. Hitchcock, of St.
Louis.
His condition had become steadily
worse during the last two days.
The body will be taken to St. Louis-
today, arriving there Sunday night.
The funeral will be held Monday, the
interment being at the Bellefontaine-
cemetery in that city.
NO COAL STRIKE LIKELY.
Night Riders Break Out.
Nashville, Tenn., April 12. Night
rider depredations in the Humphreys
county peanut growing industry have
caused the authorities to appeal to Gov
ernor Patterson for military protection.
choice, 23 lonight a lormal request was made
An attempt to 11 Derate certain prison
ers at Waverly under indictment for
nightriding outrages is feared. One
of the offenses was the whipping of a
justice of the peace so mercilessly that
he begged that he be killed.
Operators Say Danger of Interrup
tion of Business Renote.
Philadelphia, April 10. Although a.
disagreement was reached at the con
cluding conference of the anthracite
operators and miners today concerning-
the question of a wage agreement in
the hard coal fields of Pennsylvania.
there will be no strike and no danger
of suspension of mining, according to-
mineworkers officials.
The operators rejected the modified
demands presented yesterday by the
miners. The answer of the miners was
given to the mineworkers today in a
conference which lasted more than an
hour.
The officials of the United Mine-
workers of three districts will hold an
other meeting to decide upon a course
of action.
The operators having headquarters in
New York City left on the noon train,
and announced they would give out a
statement soon after their arrival.
Signs Point to Bean.
Washington, April 10. Indications
strongly point to the selection of Judge
Bean for the new Federal judgeship in
Oregon. The attorney general, at the
request of the president, has been mak
ing inquiries as to Judge Bean's quali
fications, and, so far as known, all re
ports are favorable. Senator Fulton
made no recommendations, realizing
that it was the president's purpose to
make his own selection irrespective of
politics and political indorsements.
Judge Bean had indorsed Mr. Fultbn
for the position.
Ask Denmark to Bar Castro.
Copenhagen, April 12. The United
States has approached Denmark in the
matter of forbidding Cipriano Castro
to remain in the Danish West Indian
island of SL Thomas in case the for
mer president of Venezuela should pro
ceed there from Martinique. A defi-
niteanswer is expected tomorrow.
Right to Spank is Upheld.
Detroit, Mich., April 10. In the no-
lice court here today Justice Jeffers
upheld the right of a father to admin
ister the old-fashioned spanking to his
17-year old daughter, even if her dig
nity suffered. Margeret Granzin, aged
17, had her father arrested for disturb
ing the peace. Granzin told the judge
that the punishment was part of an
effort to keep his daughter away from
cheap theaters and the justice decided
that spanking was permissible.
Ice Jam in Niagara River.
Lewiston, N. Y., April 10. Owing
to a jam of ice in the gorge just above
here, the docks of the Niagara River
Navigation company at Queenston and
Lewiston are covered with about 30
feet of ice. The stay wires of Lewis
ton suspension bridge were carried
away.
Unearth Pot of Gold.
Lexington, Ky., April 10. While
digging a posthole in an abandoned lot
today, workmen discovered a brass
kettle ccontaining $8,500 in gold and
silver that apparently had been buried
orf a half century.