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WAY CLEAR FOR
DESCHUTES ROAD
Ballingcr Gives Right of Way to Har
riman and Oregon Trunk.
Roads Reach an Agreement for Joint
Use of Track Protest of Power
Company Fails and Harriman Has
Accepted Conditions, About Dam
Site for Irrigation.
Washington, June 19. Secretary
Ballinger will not reconsider his recent
decision dismissing the protest of the
Deschutes Power & Development com
pany against granting right of way up
the Deschutes river to the proposed
railroad. He today denied a motion
for review of that decision, which mo
tion was filed by the above-named com
pany. Simultaneously he approved all
remaining maps of location filed by E.
H. Harriman's Deschutes Railroad
company, as well as maps of the Ore
"gon Trunk line, which also sought a
right of way through the Deschutes
canyon.
This action removes the last govern
ment obstacle in the way of construc
tion of these two roads, it having pre
viously been agreed by both companies
to use the same right of way through
narrow portions of the canyon which
will not accomodata two tracks.
The secretary's action today put an
end to all protest against railroad
right of way by private parties, and,
if they hereafter seek to interfere with
railroad construction, they must do so
through the Oregon courts.
;." The right of way contemplates con
struction at water grade. The railway
company agreed to. elevate the tracks
if in the future it becomes necessary
to do so to avoid interference with any
irrigation work the government may
build along this river. The railroad
company has accepted this stipulation.
CANADA TAKES POWER.
Claims Right to Fix Rail Rates Across
Boundary.
Ottawa, Ont., June 19. The Cana
dian Railway commission ruled today
that it had jurisdiction over the rates
charged on through traffic originating
in Canada and destined to a point in
the United States, or originating in
the United States and destined for
Canada.
The ruling was made in the case of
an application by the Dawson board of
trade for an order declaring that rates
charged by the White Pass & Yukon
railway were too high. The railway
carries traffic by boat to Skagway and
by rail across part of Alaska to Daw
son, traversing both American and Ca
nadian territory. No decision on the
rate question was rendered, but the
railway was ordered to file a schedule
of its through freight tariffs fop ap
proval or modification.
If the ruling is sustained on appeal,
all through traffic across the United
States and Canadian international
boundary line will be under the juris
diction of the Canadian railway com
mission. IN WARLIKE MOOD.
Tokio Papers Make Most of Strike
Difficulty in Hawaii.
Tokio, June 19. Special dispatches
from San Francisco to Japanese news
papers are so worded as to indicate
that conditions obtaining in the Hawai
ian islands, growing out of the Japan
ese sugar plantation strike, are ex
tremely serious. They declare that the
Japanese on the mainland, as well as
those in the islands, are deeply incens
ed over the treatment accorded their
countrymen by the Hawaiian planters,
and they say that relations are strained
almost to the breaking point.
The publication of these inflamma
tory dispatches is again arousing an
anti-American feeling among the Jap
anese lower classes. The sensational
ist papers are seizing the opportunity
of commenting editorially in a manner
calculated to increase this feeling of
hostility.
Piles of Gold on Show.
Seattle, June 19. The Alaska builc"
ing at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific expo
sition will open its gold exhibit today,
with a d. splay of $400,000 worth of
du-it, nupg ts and bars. In a few days
dust'and nuggets valued at $500,000
now on the way from Alaska will be
added and the United States assay office
and various Alaska miners have prom
ised enough gold to make the yellow
pile worth $1,500,000. In the exhibit
already assembled is Jafet Lindeberg's
$3,000 Nome nugget, the largest ever
found in Alaska.
Russians Fire on British
Viborg, Finland, June 19. The Brit
ish steamer Wodburn was fired upon
last night by a Russian torpedo boat
near the Island of Blorke, for approach
ing too close to the bay on the Finnish
coast, where Emperor Nicholas and
Emperor William met today. The pro
jectiles from the torpedo boat pierced
a steam pipe and one member of the
crew of the British vessel was wound
ed. The incident shovs the extreme
nervousness for the safety of the czar.
Russian Thugs Slay Six.
Kiev, Russia, June 19. A band of
armed men who visited today the es
tate of a local landholder and were re
fused a large sum of money, shot the
landowner, his mother, three peasants
and a servant. The bandits escaped.
JURY DISAGREES.
Unable to Reach Verdict In Calhoun
Case at San Francisco.
San Francisco, June 21. Terminat
ing in a disagreement of the jury, with
ten men determined on acquittal and
two steadfastly resolved upon convic
tion, the trial of Patrick Calhoun, pres
ident of the United Railroads, came to
an end at 12 o'clock yesterday. Five
months and a week had elapsed since
the wealthy streetcar magnate made
his firBt appearance in court to answer
to the charge of offering a bribe of
$4,000 to a supervisor to obtain a privi
lege for his corporation, and a period
of 24 hours had been consumed in fruit
less deliberation.
Not until each juror had pronounced
as hopeless the prospect of a verdict
was the order for their liberation made
by Judge William P. Lawlor. Prose
cution and defense gave assent to the
discharge and the proceeding ended
within 15 minutes.
After ordering the diacharge of the
jury Judge Lawlor drew his chair to
the edge of the platform nearest the
jury box and addressed to the 12 men
some informal remarks severely criti
cizing the laws and usages that made
possible the expenditure of. three
months in the empanel of a jury and
congratulating and thanking them up
on their worth as citizens.
He declared the courts were utterly
helpless to prevent such occurrences
and recommended that the- legislature
be influenced by the people to make al
teration in the laws that governed
court procedure in the ernpanelment of
jurors. Under the orders of the court
the attorneys will be expected to fix a
date for another trial upon the same
indictment at this morning's session of
court.
"I am ready to try this case again
and I will go ahead tomorrow if neces
sary," said Mr. Heney an hour after
the adjournment.
In a long statement issued by Mr.
Calhoun last night he said:
"Of course I am disappointed at the
failure of the jury to acquit me of un
biased charges that have been brought
against me. I should have liked my
vindication by the jury to have been
absolute."
FIFTEEN ARE DEAD.
Bad Collision on Trolley Road Injures
Twenty-five Others.
Chesterton, Ind., June 21. Fifteen
are dead and 25 injured as a result of a
wreck on the South Shore Electric rail
way, two and a half miles west of here
last night. Nine bodies have been re
covered and more are expected to be
found in the wreckage in the tops of
the wrecked cars.
A westbound car was coming at high
speed down a long hill and at the foot
met an eastbound car also going at a
terrific speed.
It is estimated that at least seven
bodies are still under the debris: The
motorman on the westbound car, who
was kilkd, was pinned between the two
vestibules of the cars and could not be
plainly seen and his position was such
a3 to make escape impossible
Most of the passengers on the east
bound car were returning from the
Crown Point automobile races.
It is believed that the motorman of
the east bound car must have seen the
onrushing west bound car, as he had
thrown off his power and brought the
car to a standstill before being struck.
WORK TO BE RUSHED.
Construction to Start Within 30 Days
on Deschutes Road.
Portland, June 21. Barring unex
pected delays in securing a continuous
right of way, bids for the construction
of the Deschutes line into Central Ore
gon will be asked by Harriman within
30 days. The only obstacle that pre
vents the immediate construction of
the Central Oregon road is the adjust
ment of right of way questions with
power companies operating on the
Deschutes river. The railroad com
pany has already'secured rights of way
to 70 per cent of the 120 miles to be
traversed by. the proposed road. An
early and satisfactory adjustment of
pending rights of way problems cover
ing the remainder of the distance is
believed more than probable without
resorting to condemnation proceedings
in the courts.
Celebrate Poltava Fight.
St. Petersburg, June 21. The whole
country is watching with interest the
preparations for the Poltava bicente
nary celebrations, which will extend
over four days and be in the nature of
a great patriotic military pageant.
M. Mazurovsky, the battle painrer,
and Count Mouravieff, also an artist
historian, will prepare the scenes, re
enacting on the spot the battle fought
200 years ago. Part of the troof s
present will represent the Swedish
army. The culminating scene will be
based on Kotchubey's picture.
Heavy Gold Output Expected.
Seattle, June 2V. The gold diggings
in the neighborhood of Fairbanks,
Alaska, will yield $12,000,000 during
the present year, according to a report
received today by a Seattle bank. This
bank expects to handle ab ut $6,500,
000. All the conditions favor the min
ersthe weather, water supply and
rich run of gravel. Development of
the quartz ledges, whose breaking up
furnished the placer gold, is just be
ginning. British Cruiser Smashed.
London, June 21. The British cruis
er Sappho, which was reported last
night in a collision off Dungeness, ar
rived in Dover this morning in a sink
ing condition. A number of tugs and
lifeboats were in attendance. An at
tempt is being made to beach the
cruiser.
A BRIEF DAILY REPORT ON
THE WORK OF CONGRESS
Saturday, June 19.
Washington, June 19. The senate
today covered a multitude of subjects
in connection with the tariff, but made
final disposition of nothing of import
ance. The income and corporation tax
questions received attention for some
time and were postponed until after
the tariff provisions proper shall be
finally settled.
Aldrich, from the committee on
finance, brought in the committee's
amendment to the wood pulp para
graph, which proved to be a provision
for doubling the duty on wood pulp
coming from countries which undertake
to prohibit the exportation of logs to
this country. Beveridge presented an
amendment for the cutting in two of
the house ad valorum duty on cash reg
isters. Aldrich also presented the fi
nance committee's hide provision.
Friday, June 18.
Washington, June 18. The Benate
late today adopted by a vote of 44 to
32 an amendmet of the senate commit
tee on finance fixing a duty of $4 a
ton on print paper in place of the
house rate of $2 a ton. The other
amendments to the wood pulp and
print paper schedule had not been act
ed upon when the senate adjournea at
7 o'clock.
The Bailev income tax amendment
will be pending when the Eenate conjj
venes tomorrow. If a unanimous
agreement in accordance with a motion
made by Aldrich today is not then ob
tained, he Drobablv will move to post
pone consideration of the subjsect to a
certain day.
Thursday,' June 17.
Washington, June 17. The fight to
place wood pulp and print paper upon
the free list was opened up in the sen
ate today under the leadership of
Brown, of Nebraska. Going over to
the portion of the chamber in which
Aldrich, Hale, Frye, Lodge, Uallmger,
Smoot and other leaders have their
seats, the Nebraskan stood in the midst
of the opposing force and with good
nature parried thrusts that came to
him from all quarters as he delivered
a telling speech in behalf of the cause
he had espoused.
The debate began when Aldrich pro-
nosed an amendment increasing the
duty on print paper from one-tenth vto
two-tenths of a cent per pound, which
he said equaled $4 a ton. The Dingley
law placed the duty at $6 a ton and
the house reduced it to $2 a ton.
Wednesday, June 16.
Washington, June 16. The senate
today finally adopted the Philippine
free trade provision of the tariff bill
after voting down several amendments.
Ihe vote on final adoption was 41 to
28. Six Republicans, Root, iiorah,
Bristow, Clapp, Crawford and La
Follette, voted with the Democrats
against the finance committee propo
sition. Aldrich presented the finance com
mittee's substitute for the house zinc
schedule and it received a large share
of the attention of the Benate during
the afternoon. The committee amend
ment provided for a graduated scale of
duty on the zinc in zinc ore in place
of the fixed rate of the house bill.
All of the finance committee's recom
mendations as amended 'were adopted
finally.
The committee s suggestion tor
changes in the silk schedule also was
adopted. A number of other commit
tee amendments of a minor character
were presented just before adjourn
ment and some of them were acted
upon.
Tuesday, June 15.
Washington. June 15. Vigorously
denouncing the committee on finance
because of its chance of front over
night on the subject of tobacco im
portations from the Philippines, ur
kett. of Nebraska, in the senate!! char
acterized this action as "an effort to
hang the senator from Wisconsin up in
the air," and finally declared that this
even "afforded senators a good oppor
tunity to vote a lack of confidence in
the committee.
This followed Aldrich's statement
that the committee would accept the
amendment proposed bv Bulkeley to
reduce the number of cigars to be ad
mitted free of duty from the Philippine
islands from 150,000.000 to 70,000,000
and the quantity of fiTer tobacco from
1,500,000 to 1,000,000 pounds, toe-ether
with a provision that the wrap
per and filler tobacco should be un-
stemmed when receiving thi3 conces
sion. An interesting feature was a declar
ation by Borah that he proposed to
vote for loosening the bond which t ed
the Philippines to the United States.
He declared himself in favor of giving
the islands an independent government.
Wood nuln and rrint paper were con
sidered today bv Republican members
of the finance committee. No vote was
taken. The duty on paper will be fixed
at $1 a ton, which is a compromise be
tween the house rate of $2 and the $6
rate of the present law.
Vessels Ordered Held
Washington, June 17. Orders were
sent out today through the revenue
cutter service to the commander of the
Pimlico to detain the steamer Nanti
coke until further orders. The Nanti
coke and the tug Dispatch, the former
detained at Franklin, Va., and the lat
ter at Norlolk, are by admission made
here by their New York agents today,
bound direct for Maracaibo, Venezuela,
but it is denied that the vessels are for
filibustering.
Monday, June 14.
Washington, June 14. Sugar was
the stirring subject before the senate
today. It was brought to the front in
connection with the consideration of
the finance committee's substitute for
the house provision of the tariff bill
regulating the admission of Philippine
articles into the United States and
received practically the undivided at
tention the entire day.
During the first hour there was some
discussion of the effect of the provision
on the tobacco interests of Connecti
cut, but an amendment looking to the
introduction of Connecticut tobacco
into the Philipppines for wrappers had
the effect of relieving the situation in
that quarter.
None But Tillman Opposes.
' Washington, June 19. Opposition
on the part of Senator Tillman is the
only obstacle in the way of the nomina
tion of Robert T. Devlin to succeed
himself as United States district at
torney for the Northern district of Cal
ifornia, according to a report current
here today. Tillman has expressed a
desire to go more fully into the Perrin
case, though the sub-committee of the
judiciary committee of the senate is
apparently convinced that Devlin can
give no information that would sub
stantiate suspicion of subornation of
perjury in the Perrin trial. It is
thought Devlin's nomination will be
reported favorably Monday.
Loan to Be Agreed Upon.
Washington, June 16. Regarding
the proposed American participation
in the foreign loan on the Hankow-Sze-Chu-Sen
railroad, in which New York
bankers are deeply interested, an offi
cial statement issued at the State de
partment today declares the depart
ment is following this situation with
great interest and looks forward with
confidence to a satisfactory agreement
between the American group and the
German, British and French financiers.
Probe to Enter Sugar.
Washington, June 15. The Depart
ment of Justice has assigned two
agents to duty in New York with in
structions to examine into the condi
tions under which the recent compro
mise was affected between the Ameri
can Sugar Refining ccompany and the
Pennsylvania Refining company. The
agents are to examine into the allega
tions that the compromise disclosed
conditions involving a violation of the
Sherman anti-trust law.
Spanish Minister to Leave.
Washington, June 15. Senor don
Ramon Pina, Spanish minister at
Washington since 1906, has made ar
rangements through the State depart
ment to have a farewell audience with
President Taft June 16, at 2:30 p.m.
The minister has been appointed under
secretary of foreign affairs of Spain,
and will sail for Europe June 24 to as
sume his new duties. His sucessor
here will arrive about July 15.
Probe Food Preservatives.
Washington, June 19. The use of
soda, potash, ammonia, alum and other
aluminum salts in foods, and the effect
of such ingredients on health, will be
the subject on which the national board
of food and drugs will hold a general
hearing July 6. The testimony of both
those who approve and oppose the
proposition to use aluminum salts in
foods will be heard.
New Documents in Sugar Case.
Washington, June 18. Formal an
nouncement was made at the Depart
ment of Justice today that a number of
documents relating to transactions be
tween Adolph Segal, the Real Estate
Trust company and the American Sugar
Refining company had been obtained
and were being examined. Attorney
General Wickersham is personally at
tending to the case.
Bliss Head of College.
Washington. June 19. Brigadier
General Tasker H. Bliss, recently de
tached from command of the army in
the Philippines, was notified today of
his assignment to duty as president
of the army college, Washington bar
racks, to succeed Brigadier General
W. W. Vitberspo)n, transferred to
duty as assistant chief of staff.
Pinchot Posing as Author.
Washington, June 18. Gifford Pin
chot, chief of the forestiy service, who
mysteriously disappeared from Wash
ington, has turned up at the Ohio home
of ex-Secretary of the Interior Garfield,
where he and Garfield are collaborating
in writing a historical review of the
achievements of the Roosevelt adminis
tration. Portland Man Commissioner.
Washington, June 18. J. E. Jenk
ins, of Oklahoma City, Okla., brother
of W. H. Jenkins, of the Southern Pa
cific at Portland, it is believed, will
succeed Francis E. Leupp as commis
sioner of Indian affairs. It is under
stood the Pacific Northwest delegations
will support him.
Lumber Production Less.
Washington, June 15. Lumber pro
duction in the United States was less
in the calendar year 1908 than in the
preceding year, according to a report
issued today by the census bureau.
The decrease amounted to 17.3 per
cent, or from 40,256,154,000 to 33,
289,369,000 feet.
WILL PAY RICHLY.
Taft's Plan Would Yield Government
$50,000,000 a Year.
Washington, June 18. President
Taft's plan for taxing the earnings of
corporations is broader than generally
understood in congressional circles and
it will, if enacted into a law, yield a
revenue far in excess of the $25,000,
000 estimate given by the president in
his special message.
As interpreted by many persons who
come forward with objections to the
scheme, the plan is to tax only such
portion of the earnings as remain after
all expenses of operation, maintenance
and fixed charges, including interest
on bonds, have been deducted from the
gross earnings of the corporation. The
tax, however, is to be upon the net
earnings before the interest on bonds
has been deducted. Otherwise, it is
pointed out, the tax would be reduced
substantially to a dividend basis, which
was what the president himself did
have in mind originally.
First, a dividend tax, then a tax on
earnings available for dividends, and
finally a tax on all earnings in excess
of expenses of maintenance and opera
tion, were the successive steps in the
evolution of the idea which Attorney
General Wickersham, following a long
conference with the president this af
ternoon, is putting into form for sub
mission. The bonded debt side of the matter
was fully gone into by the president
and his advisers.
The $25,000,000 estimate of revenue
to be yielded by the tax was based on
figures supplied to the secretary by an
expert at the president's request, but
they were based on the original propo
sition of a dividend tax. The yield
from the tax as now proposed will
double that at least and perhaps go
considerably beyond. These facts were
obtained today from a member of the
administration who ha3 taken a lead
ing part in working out details of the
plan.
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JAP SPIRITS FALL.
Shower of New Indictments Depress
Hawaiian Strikers.
Honolulu, June 18. Following the
indictments of several of the Japanese
strike leaders Friday last, the territor
ial orand iurv returned additional in
dictments today against Y. Soga, F.
Makino, M. Negoro, K. Kawamura, Y.
Tasaka and Yanashira, for conspiracy
to commit murder and to incite otners
to crime.
An indictment for assault was found
against Sugwara, who is accused of at
tempting to collect funds for the strik
ers by violence.
In addition to these indictments, 13
of the striking Japanese at the Wia
pahu plantation were indicted for an
assault upon a police officer and riot
ing. In view of the vigorous action of
the authorities, the strikers are much
depressed.
The replevin suit brought to recover
the papers seized in the office of the
Jiji by High Sheriff Henry was dis
missed. Japanese Consul Uyeno is investi
gating the alleged destruction of the
safe of Editor Soga, which was broken
open by the authorities.
Forty-five delegates from the Japan
ese union on the island of Hawaii, rep
resenting 9,000 laborers, have just
completed a session lasting four days
and night3. They resolved not to
strike, nor help the Oahu strikers, but
to present a statement of their de
mands and trust to the fairness of the
planters.
They ask for a 10-hour day at $1,
for time and a half pay for overtime
and Sunday work and for quarters
equal to those of the Spaniards and
Portugese. These demands will be
presented to the Planters' association
Monday.
Von Buelow Makes Reply,
Berlin, June 18. Chancellor von
Buelow in the reichstag today attacked
the tactics employed by the clerical
party again3t him. They had even
dared, he said, to accuse him of disloy
alty to the emperor and infidelity to
the German-Austrian alliance and they
had considered it necessary to sever
their social relations with him. "It
never occurred to me," said the chan
cellor, "to exclude any one from social
relations because of differences of poli
tical opinions."
Fairbanks Thanks Japanese.
Tokio. June 18. Ex-Vice Presidents
Fairbanks was elaborately entertained
by the governor of Kyoto while en
route to Kobe. The distinguished
traveler received the address of the
mayor of Osaka. At Kobe Mr. Fair
banks spoke briefly to the assembled
school teachers and the Christian girls'
school. On the eve of his departure
for Korea the former vice president re
tu -ned profound thanks to the Japanese
people for the courtesy and hospitality
he has received everywhere throughout
his tour of the islands.
Eclipse Seen by Peary.
Washington, June IS. Although
preparations were made at the United
States naval observatory here to take
observations of the eclipse of the sun
yesterday, the cloudy weather spoiled
the plans. The eclipse here was but
partial, the only place where it was
total being near the North pole. Few,
if any, white men. with the exception
of Commander Robert E. Peary and
his crew, now in search of the North
pole, had an opportunity to observe it.
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Jefferson Br g Much Gold.
Seattle, June 18. The steamer Jef
ferson Railed from Juneau, Alaska,
yesterday with $2,850,000 in gold, the
largest amount that ever came out of
the north on a single steamer.
JAP TROUBLE
INTERNATIONAL
Hawaiian Editor Complains to Mikado
and Will Bring Suit.
Raid on Strikers' Headquarters Has
Diplomatic Sequel Three Addi
tional Arrests Made Tension
High in Honolulu and Police Sleep
On Arms at Headquarters.
Honolulu, June 15. M. Negoro, one
of the editors of the Jiji, made formal
complaint to the Japanese foreign office
today that the territorial authorities
invaded his rights as a Japanese sub
ject under the treaty between Japan
and the United States when High Sher
iff William Henry raided the office of
the Jiji and seized alleged incendiary
documents; and is preparing to bring
court proceedings against the territory
for $500,000 damages.
The alleged violation of his rights as
a Japanese subject guaranteed under
the treaty between the United States
and Japan, he sets forth in his com
plaint, consists in the search of his
office and the seizure of his private
papers by the territorial authorities
without due process of law. Terri
torial Sheriff William Henry admits
that the search was made by force of
arms, and without search warrants or
process of law, but claims that the pa
pers seized contained evidence of crim
inal purpose. However he declares the
courts of the territory are open to
Negoro for redress if he has been dam
aged. While but slight disturbance of any
kind has occurred so far, the city is
full of striking Japanese, and the ten
sion is so great that orders were issued
this afternoon for the full force of po
lice to sleep at the police station to
night, ready for any emergency.
An incident of the day that threat
ens a disturbance was the chasing of a
carrier of an "extra" of the Japanese
newspaper Shinpo, announcing the ar
rest of the editors. The paper from
the start has been opposed to the strike
and among the papers seized in the
raid upon the office of the strike or
gans, were letters containing threats
against the life of its editor.
Although the strikers have returned
to work on the Ewa and Waialua plan-
tations it is not certain that they have
abandoned the struggle. From the
papers seized by Territorial Sheriff
Henry it was seen that it was the orig
inal plans of the Japanese to return to
work at intervals to earn enough
money to maintain the strike and by
this method of working and again
striking to wear out the planters by
the uncertainty and irregularity of
plantation operations.
RIFLE SHIPMENT FOUND.
Mausers Packed as Pianos Destined
for South America.
Norfolk, Va., June 15. Packed in
piano boxes and evidently ready for
shipment, a quantity of rifles Ind am
munition, believed to be destined for
Venezuelan revolutionists, was discov
ered at Franklin today.
The rifles are said to be a part of a
consignment of 15,000 Mauser weapons
shipped from New York to St. Louia
and back to Franklin, billed as pianos,
and packed to weather the trip to
South America. The filibuster suspect
steamer Nanticoke was lying near
Franklin and in the black water below
the steamer was her consort, the tug
Dispatch.
The revenue cutter Pimlico is block
ading the two suspects, and it is not
believed that either could pass her
even in the darkness. Orders have
been issued from Washington to seize
the vessels in case either should lift
anchor. The Nanticoke is not built
for deep sea navigation, but the dis
patch could navigate far off t-hore and
the officers in charge of the situation
believe the plan of the filibusters was
to transport the arms to another
steamer at sea.
Arkansas Seizes Capitol.
Little Rock, Ark., June 15. Govi
ernor Donaghey and two members of
the state commission today formally
took possession of the uncompleted
capitol building, after breaking through
a door which had been locked by the
contractors, Caldwell & Drake, whom
the legislature ordered discharged.
The building, which has cost nearly
$1,000,000 already, and which engin
eers say is only about half completed,
has caused political contention for
years. The legislators have been
charged in the courts with grafting.
Girl Leads Rescue Party.
Vancouver, B. C, June 15. Urged
on by thoughts that a brother moun
taineer, Ralph Jennings, lay at the
bottom of a drop in the mountains
suffering with a fractured leg, Miss
Baynes, teacher in a local school,
started out at 4 o'clock yesterday
morning over a rough mountain trail
in search of assistance. Arriving at
the Capilano hotel after six hours of
travel, she organized a search party
and led them to the wounded man.
Rescued Japs Travel Far.
San Francisco. June 15. The Brit
ish steamer Winnebago arrived last
night from Shanghai bringing five
Japanese, three men and two boys,
who were picked up off the eat coast
of Japan, May 29. The Japanese were
sighted 200 miles off the coast in a dis
mantled sampan. They will be turned
over to the Japanese consul to be re
turned to their own country.