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OREGON
BRIEF NEWS OF
THE PAST WEEK
Interesting Events from Outside the
State Presented in a Manner to
Catch the Eye of the Busy Reader
Matters of National, Historical
and Commercial Importance,
Postal deficit for 1909 is $17,441,
719. Over 50,00 people attended Presi
dent Taft's New Year's receptino.
Senator Cummins of Iowa, opens
campaign tor further triff revision.
If mediation in switchmen's strike
fails, 20,000 more men wil stop work
Daughtes of the American Revclu
tion have taken up conservation work,
Postmaster-General Hitchcock urges
postal reforms to avoid a deficit in
190.
Betting is even in London that the
Liberals will win in the coming elec
tion.
Indian commissioner reports that tu
berculosis is on the increase among In
dians.
Twelve men were lost by the Binking
of a sugar-laden schooner in an At
lantic gale.
Colonist travel to the Pacific North
west for 90 broke all records, and is ex
pected ti still greater for 1910.
A woman armed with a bhorgun
stopped the laying of an oil pipe line
on her ranch gin California.
Trains collided in a snowstorm near
Billings, Mont., killing two. A miss
ing baggageman is thought to have
burned in the wreckage.
Zelaya asserts that he is still presl
dent of Nicaragua.
Taft's special message on trust law
changes will go to congress next week.
A southern chemist expert asserts
that the aurora borealis is caused by
gas.
The New York supreme court
patriotism has given way to an age of
graft.
Army engineers have recommended
extensive improvements for the Colum
bia river.
MORSE IS BITTER.
The Turkish cabinet has been driven
out of office and a military premier
may be appointed.
It is considered that the reclamation
service is safe from abolishment,
though many changes may be made.
A Nebraska man got an appointment
as a deputy sheriff and then proceeded
to bring home his erring son from Los
Angeles.
A draftsman on a British schoolship
is under arrest for stealing complete
plans of the British navy's wireless
system and codes.
James Gordon, once accused of con
spiring with Booth to kill Lincoln, has
been named United states senator trom
Tennessee by Governor Noel.
Heney has filed a libel suit against
W. S. Crocker for $250,000.
Fifty out of 88 American colleges
will continue to approve of football.
Physicians say there is no hope for
Cardinal Satolli, though he may linger
several days.
Loss bv the tidal wave and blizzard
on the New England coast will reach
$0,000,000, besides many lives.
When Zelaya arrives in Mexico, Pres'
dent Diaz will attend a reception in his
honor, which is taken as a direct insult
to the United States.
Six women are en route on foot from
Seattle to join the I. W. W. of Spokane
and fight for the right of free speech
on the public streets.
Strike leaders for the switchmen
have called off negotiations with the
railroads, and will appeal to Washing
ton for advice and aid.
Miss Louise Taft, niece of the presi
dent, will be married to G. II. Snowden,
of Seattle. After a trip to Europe they
will reside in Seattle.
A schooner arrived at Hoquiam,
Wash., 97 days out from Hypong, China,
with her captain hopelessly ill and only
a few pounds of provisions left.
A crippled Italian girl in Chicago
robbed her father's bank of $30,000,
with which she hoped to induce her
cousin, also a cripple, to marry her.
France ia in a panic at the inroads of
American commerce.
President Taft is being urged to make
active war on the trusts.
Convicted Banker Claims He Has Been
Made a Victim.
New York, Jan. 4. With a supreme
effort to be cheerful, but with emotion
occasionally getting the better of him
Charles W. Morse left New York today
to begin a lo-ycar sentence in the fed
eral prison at Atlanta, Ga., for viola
tion of the national banking laws.
Before leaving the Tofcbs, where he
had been confined for the greater part
of the last year, Morse received his
wife and two sons and then the news
paper men. He was too affected to
say anything, but handed out a care
fully prepared statement.
Morse left at 10:45 o'clock in cus
tody of Deputy United States marshals.
The party occupied a stateroom.
Morse's statement is bitter and dra
matic.
I am going to Atlanta to begin
ponal servitude under the most brutal
sentence ever pronounced against a
citizen in a civilized country," is his
opinion of the sentence.
I have hoped," the statement con
tinues, "with that hope which comes
from a consciousness of my innocence,
that 1 will not have to close out for
ever the light and liberty of this world
under such an inhuman sentence. I
have felt that the fact that I had paid
a fine of $7,000,000 and served a year
in prison would satisfy the cry for a
victim and I have steadily believed
that the courts would be compelled to
give me a new trial.
"When I learned that the private
detectives of the prosecution were the
keepers of the jury, that the jury drank
like men tpon a jaunt or a holiday,
rather than citizens engaged in a se
rious service, and that as a result, two
of them were rendered unfit, I natur
ally hoped I would be allowed another
trial by another jury, free from these
hostile influences.
"It seems, however, that the courts
intend to establish the practices which
make rum-drinking a part of a jury
service and private detectives as the
custodians of a jury a permanent insti
tution. By this sentence and judgment
I may be brought to ruin; but the dam
age done to me is not half as import
ant as the injury to the administra
tion of justice. I am now ud in years
and must, with the passing of time,
pass also; but the record of my con
viction and the way it was brought
about will remain a lasting and dan
gerous example of a government gone
mad in search of a victim."
'news notes gathered from
VARIOUS PARTS OF OREGON
RAILS TO CENTRAL OREGON I WATER 2.000 ACRES IN CROOK
Preparations Go Forward for Con
struction of Huge Bridgss.
Madras Preliminary preparations
are going ahead for the immense steel
bridge which is to span Willow creek
at Madras. This bridge is on the Des
chutes Railway company's" line and will
be the highest as well as the lorgest
bridge projected for Central UreKon.
Another immense steel structure will
be the Oregon Trunk bridge across the
Columbia at Celilo. This wilt be the
second bridge the Hill people have
built across the Columbia within 100
miles of Portland.
A large number of new men were
added to the construction crews on
both roads during the past week. Car
loads of laborers pour into the Harri-
man camps over the Columbia South
ern nilroad to Grass Valley and Shan-
lko. While the Harnman people are
thus mustering forces by way of their
line through Sherman county, the Hill
contractors are daily receiving re
cruits at The Dalles and Dufur. As
many as 100 laborers are reported to
have been lodged at Dufur, the termi
nus of the Great Southern spur from
The Dalles, at one time, , while to
Grass Valley, on the Harrimsn road,
even larger numbers were gathered.
June is set as the time for the com
pletion of the Harriman road into the
Deschutes vaeelly. Twohy Bros., gen
eral contractors for that road, are au
thority for the date. It is the gent ral
belief the Deschutes road will be the
first completed to Redmond.
OIL FOUND IN ATHABASCA.
Secret
Borings Show Inexhaustible
Supply, Cmmittee Is Told.
Ottawa, Ont., Jan. 4. Evidence of
the value of the Athabasca oil fields
has been given before the Dominion
senate committee by Alfred von Ham
merstein. He stated that for the last
eight years he had been exploring the
field between 320 and 350 miles north
of Edmonton, and that some of the
wells had revealed the presence of oil
and gas in large quantities.
ine wells varied in depth from 250
1,200 feet. He showed samples of
napntna on and ot oil collected in the
sand. He declared that, in the wells
which he was boring there were inex
haustible supplies of this material.
Near the surface it was found .in a
hardened state, while 60 feet lower
down it was found in a semi-liquid
onaition.
His work had been carried on secret
ly. He declared that there was no
foundation for the statement in the
prospectus of the California & Alberta
Oil company that it had discovered
oil on a 10,000-acre property 30 miles
north of Edmonton.
AIE CUTTERS ARE READY.
Zelaya boards Mexican gunboat under
eyes of American marines.
J. D. Warren, who pursued and helped
to capture Jesse James, is dead.
Blizzards sweep the east from Win-
Dine? to Illinois, and Chicago laces a
coal famine.
The famous Garden of the Gods was
given to the city of Colorado Springs
for a Christmas present.
A Texas man has made $15,000,000
speculating in cotton for two years.
The greatest labor struggle in his
tory is said to be impending between
the railroads and their employes. ,
The bones of Cortez, the ancient con
queror of Mexico, are said to have been
found afUr a search of nearly a cen
tury.. Six coaches full of Christmas travel
ers were stalled on a car ferry in the
Detroit river, and had to wait till the I tons. Contracts for
ice was cut away. I almost 1,500,000 tons.
Aviators Arrive in New York From
Paris Leave for Los Angeles.
Isew lork, Jan. 4. Edwin Cleary,
who arrived here from Paris a few
days ago with seven aeroplanes, which
he expects to try out during aviation
week at Los Angeles, and Paulhan,
who will arrive tomorrow, will leave
for Los Angeles Monday next. Four
of the machines are of the latest model
aeroplanes, two Bleriot's and two Far-
man's.
There is also an Antoinette, one Far-
man and one Bleriot, which Mr. Cleary
expects to use during the aviation
show week. He expects to break his
own record for speed, height and dur
ation. His record already is more thar
1,900 feet for height and with his 50
horse-power motor in a new Bleriot he
expects to be able to travel in the air
at the rate of 50 miles per hour.
.Paulhan is under contract at a big
salary.
Mining Plant Is Burned.
Spokane, Wash., Jan. 4. The sort
ing plant and ore bins of the Mace
mines at Mace, Idaho, in the Coonr
d'Alenes, burned today, together with
the sorting machinery, heating plant,
blacksmith shop and 200 feet of ex
pensive cribbing, entailing a loss esti
mated tonight at between $75,000 and
$100,000. The fire is believed to have
broken out in the heating plant. All
the property destroyed is owned by
the Federal Mining & Smelting com
pany. The sorting plant handled ore
from the Standard and other Mace
mines.
State Wins Battle for Taxes.
Salem Tbe state has won th first
battle for the collectioon of several
thousand dollars of accrued taxes dur
ing 1906, ly07 and 1908, under the
gross earnings act of 1906 from the
Wells-Fargo Express company. Suit
was instituted several months sgo in
the circuit court for this county. Tbe
attorney general demurred to the an
swer the of the corporatino, and the de
murrers were sustained by Circuit
Judge Burnett.
The court held that to answer to the
complaint made by the corporation to
the effect that the gross earnings tax
was unconstutitional because it was
enacted by the initiative, was not suffi
cient, for the Supreme court of the
state of Oregon has held the initiative
amendment valid. The point has been
carried by the Pacific States Telephone
& Telegraph company to the United
States Supreme court for final deter
mination in the case similar to the one
Homesteaders Near Bend Cooperate
to Reclaim Valley Land.
Bend L. D. Wiest has secured a
water right from Fall river 25 miles
south of Bend, and will irrigate 2,000
acres next year. A company be to
known as the Fall River Irrigation
company will be organized in the near
future.
The land to be irrigated is located
between the mouth of Fall river
on the South and Spring river on the
North, on the west side of the De
schutes, the surface being almost
level, and having a gentle slope to
wards the north and east.
The cultivation and irrigation of the
same quality of soil in the vicinity has
proved that it will produce immense
crops of timothy hay and vegetables.
A remarkable feature of this project
is tbat there will be no waste land be
tween the canal and the river, ts there
are no high ridges and no rock what
ever.
The lands included under the system
are owned by an energetic class of
homesteaders, and the company will
be organized and the capital stock
owned entirely by them. Among these
are M. J. Mam, John Usher. A.- D,
Lewis, John Peters, Joe Hoffman, Bob
bowser and Harold Palmer.
The main canal will be eight feet
wide on the bottom and six miles long.
COLONIST TRAVEL HEAVY.
Year
Big School Population Increase.
La Grande One thousand four hun
dred sixty-eight school children, vary
ing in ages from 4 to 20 years, popu
late the La Grande school district ac
cording to figures filed with the county
scnool superintendent from this dis
trict. This is an even gain of 97 over
last year's school population. There
yet remains one district in the county
to be reported before Superintendent
Bragg can compile the county school
population.
Construct Big Fish Pond.
La Grande Adolph Newlin is pre
paring to construct a lake on his tract
of land near town. By some excava
tions and dyke work a pond can be con
structed which will cover about four
Bcres of ground and will be several
feet deep. The lake will be stocked
with mountain trout. The site is
ideal, it being surrounded by a heavy
growth of trees and shrubbery.
Develop Limestone Quarry.
Roseburg The big limestone and
now being prosecuted by Attorney Gen- cement deposits a few miles south of
of 1909 Was Record-Breaker,
More Expocted In 1910.
Chicago, Jan. 3. The colonizing
work done by the railroads in the
west and Pacific northwest during the
spring and fall of 1909 broke all reo
ords in railway history. Figures pro
pared by the management of the Har
riman lines show that the number of
colonists who were taken into the Pa
cific coast territory far exceeded the
number in any other year.
The increase over the colonist move
ment of 1908 was fully 70 per cent,
and may have been in excess of this,
Figures for the movement over the
Hill lines are not available, tbe man
agement refusing to give any detailed
information regarding the number of
new home makers they transported
into the northwest during the last year.
It is understood, however, that the
Hill lines did not make as determined
an ettort to socure colonists as they
have made in former years. This fact
ia said to be due to trouble in the
colonist department of the Northern
Pacific which led late in the year to
the resignation ot J. W. JUott, general
immigration agent. On the Great
Northern road, tbe illness of Max Bass,
goneral immigration agent, which re
sulted in his death, somewhat retarded
the work of taking homeseekers to the
northwest.
It is understood that in 1910 the
management of both the Great North
ern and the Northern Pacific, aided by
the management of the Burlington, are
to make a- special effort toward popu
lating the vacant, lands along their
lines in the fertile states of the north
west. In each year the railroads have two
short periods which they call colonist
periods. The spring colonist pertod is
from March 1 to April 30, while the
fall period is from September 15 to
October 15. In the fall period of 1909,
the Harriman lines sold a total of 11
541 tickets to California, Oregon,
Washington, Idaho, Montana, Nevada,
Utah, Colorado and Wyoming points.
In the corresponding period of 1908,
the same lines sold a total of 6,227.
The increase for 1909 was 5,314 tickets.
This is an increase for the fall period
of 85 per cent. In the fall of 1908 col
onist tickets were sold between Sep
tember 1 and Octobor 31, during which
time the Harriman line sold a total of
15,816 tickets. Accordingly, in just
half the time in the fall of 1909 the
Harriman lines sold within 4,275 tick
ets of the number sold during the 60
day period of 1908.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
TO CURB TRUSTS
Boycott of(StaplesHandIedBy Com
bines Is Principle.
Congressmen Approve Idea Plan
Has Worked Well In Germany and
Will Now Be Tried in America
Wage War fon all Combinations
that Increase Cost of Living.
Washington, Jan. 1. Plans for a na
tional boycott of those combinations
that increase the cost of living were
laid here tonight, when the National
Anti-trust League was launched.
Members of congress are interested
in the new movement and immediate
steps will be taken toward perfecting
state organizations.
Then, when prices soar, league mem
bers, by stopping the use of such arti
cles or commodities as have gone above
a certain level, wijl try to put them,
bock by refusing to furnish a market.
The plan was tried in Germany a few
years ago, and, according to a report,
broke up a combine that had raised the
price of coffee to an almost prohibi
tive point.
The meeting was informal, and no-
final organizations was effected. It was.
nderstood, however, that the crusade-
just begun should go on in tbe name
of the Anti-trust League, and that the
organization should be non-political.
As soon as congress reconvenes &
permanent organization will be effected.
Among the speakers tonight were
minority leader Clark and Congressman
McKinlay, of California.
The women of the United States will
be taken into membership on equal
terms with men, and will have equal
voice in the campaign.
A nominal foe will be charged mem
bers to cover the cost of mailing proc
lamations against articles of food that
have been pushed too high in the mar
ket.
DYNAMITERS IN TOILS.
eral Crawford against the Wells-Fargo
company.
Big Steel Bridge Tor Wallowa.
Enterprise The contract for build
ing the 175 foot span steel bridge
across the Grand Ronde river at Troy
has been let by the county court to
the Columbia Bridge company of Port
land for $7,984.
The bridge will be the largest in the
county and will rest on concrete-tilled
steel piers. About 50 tons of material
and tools, including 36 tons of steel,
eight tons of cement and four tons of
this city are to be developed next year,
A plant will be placed on the prop
erty soon, with a capacity of 100 bar
rels per day. The big cement plant of
the company is being located- near
Portland and will have a capacity of
15UU barrels per day. Most of the ma
terial for its operation will be shipped
irom toe Koseburg quarries.
Telephones In Central Oregon.
Madras The Deschutes & Harney
Telephone company is the new name
of a concern that will build a line from
Koaeland to Silver l.akp PvtonH tho
ioois, win nave to De nauied siy wagon 'Paulina line .from Hardin to Burne.
from this city to Troy, a distance of
47 miles. The bridge is to be ready
for traffic by August 1, 1910.
SI, OOO for 1910 Boost Fund.
Eugene There remains nearly $1.
000 in Eugene's 1909 publicity fund.
It will be applied to the 1910 fund,
which has reached the sum of $13,000.
The board of governors has not yet se
lected a successor to John H. Hartog,
the publicity manager who recently re
signed. The board has elected the fol
lowing officers : F. M. Wilkins, presi
dent; W. A. Bell, vice president; R
McMurphy, secretary and treasurer. .
build a toll line from Redmond to Mad
ras via Culver and install an exchange
at Madras.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
South Pole Next Goal.
Worcester, Mass., Jan. 4. Donald B.
McMillan, member of Commander
Peary's polar expedition, and Captain
Bartlett, who commanded Peary's ship,
the Roosevelt, today said that they
would like to be members of the expe
dition to seek the South Pole. Cap
tain Bartlett said: "I have heard of
such a trip being planned. I may be
selected to command the ship which
will carry the expedition southward. I
think thp Roosevelt will be selected, if
the "xpedition goes throuirh. "
Sells Farm for $18,000
Baker City The E. A. Chambers
farm, about 2i miles north of this
city, comprising 240 acres of land and
well improved, has been sold to Ed
ward York at $75 per acre, or $18,000.
Before purchasing the Chambers place
Mr. York sold his Warren Spring farm,
between Muddy creek and North Pow
der, 60 acres, to Lorin Ferkins, for
$5,100.
Rumors of New Railroad.
Paisley What does it mean?' An
nouncement is made that the Nevada-California-Oregon
railroad company
has signed a contract with the Nugent
Richardson Construction company for
the grading of the extension from AI-
turas to Lakeview and that work will
begin some time in January. it is
stated further that the new line will be
a broad guage.
Thousand Fairs of Birds Shipped.
Corvallis During the season just
past the Simpson pheasant farm, of
Corvallis, shipped out cf the state to
the Idaho game preserves 1000 pairs of
China pheasants, to be used for propa
gation purposes. Uuder the state game
laws these birds cannot be shipped be
yond the borders of Oregon except un
der permit from the game warden.
Heavy Steel Is In Demand.
Now York, Jan. 4. Specifications on
contracts for finished steel products
were heavy in the last week of the
year, notably for structural material,
steel sheets and wire products. Orders
for small buildings in various parts of
the country have been placed, calling
for 23,000 tons of fabricated steel.
making the December total 125,000 i
1909
Wheat Track prices: Bluestem,
$1.20; club, $1.10; red Russian, $1.08
1.09; valley, $1.08.
Barley Feed and brewing, $3031.
Corn Whole, $35; crackfd, $36 Ion.
Oats No. 1 white. $32.50(5)33 ton.
Hay Timothy : Willamette Valley.
$18(520 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $18
(521. 5; alfalfa, $16((?16.50; clover,
$1516; cheat, $156; grain hay,
$1516.
Butter City creamery extras, 39c;
fancy outside creamery, 3439c per
pound; store, 22(324c. Butter fat
prices average lc per pound under
regular butter prices.
Poultry Hens, 14315c; springs,
143(cD15c; ducks, 20c; geese, 12c; tur
keys, live, nominal; dressed, 24(525c.
Eggs Fresh Oregon extras, 42c
per dozen ; Eastern, 28(5j30c per dozen
Pork Fancy, 10(5,10c per pound,
Veal Extras, 11(5 11 He per pound.
Fresh Fruits Apples, $13 box;
pears, $11.50 box; cranberries, $9
per barrel.
Potatoes Carload buying prices
Oregon, 65(5,85 per sack; sweet pota
toes, 2c per pound.
Vegetables Artichokes 75c per doz
en; cabbage, $1.601.75 per hundred;
celery, $3.50(34 per crate; horserad
ish, $1.50, perbor, pumpkins, 1(5)
lfcc; sprouts, 6(5,7c per pound ; squash,
ll)ic; tomatoes, 75c(5$l; turnips.
$1 per sack; carrots, $1; beets, $1.50;
parsnips, $1.50.
Onions Oregon, $1.30(S1.40 sack.
Hops 1909 crop, 20(g21c; olds,
nominal.
Wool Eastern Oregon, 1623c
pound ; mohair, choice, 25c.
Cascara bark 4c per pound.
Hides Dry hides, 18(S19c pound;
dry kip, 17(5,180 per pound; dry calf
skin, 19(521e per pound ; salted hides,
10llc; salted calfskin, 1516c;
Striking Railroad Machinists Attempt
Violence, Is Belief.
Baltimore, Jan. 3. Following an at
tempt last evening to blow up the Gay
street bridge of the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad, three men were arrested on s
charge of conspiracy with intent to dy
namite the bridge and also the Mount
Hair machine shops of the company
The bridge was not seriously damaged,
William R. Shipley, Hamilton W,
Lighter and'William H. Zimmerman, all
machinists, were later taken into cus
tody. Detective Captain Humphrey
claims to have evidence directly impli
eating the men.
Both Zimmerman and Shipley, who
went out with the striking machinists
of the Baltimore & Ohio here last May
in lormal statements today confessed
they had engaged in a plot to blow up
the Mount Ulair shops last night.
In the shops at tho time the. bomb
was to be exploded were more than
1,000 workmen, and the alleged plot
ters admitted that they did not know
how many persons might have been
killed by the explosion. Dotectives are
looking for three other men, whom they
say they en connect with the plot.
Thirty Musicians in Joseph Orchestra green, lc less
Joseph Joseph bas one of the best' Cattle Best steers, $4.504.75;
orchestras in Eastern Oregon. There j fair to good. $4(54.25; medium and
are 30 musicians in the organization j feeders, $3.25(5,6 50; cows, top, $3.50
numoer or mem nnvmg piayea in pro- j (33.85 ; fair to good, $3(5,3 25; com
fessional organizations at other places. mon to medium, $2.50(53.75; bulls,
j $5.25(55.50; heavy, 4(54.76.
Clatskanie for Good Roads. I Hogs -Best, $8.50(58.65; medium,
Clatsksnie At a meeting of the cit- j $7.60(58.25; stockers, $6.60(56.75.
izens of Clatskanie and vicinity a tax! Sheep Best wethers. $5.50(55.75:
six and one half mills was voted. The ! fair to good. $4.50(5.5: ewes, k'c less:
Prison Cruelty Alleged.
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 3. General Dodd,
formerly overseer of the city prison,
testifying before the investigating
committee, in addition to corroborat
ing the stories of cruelty to prisoners,
and of filthy and unsanitary conditions,
declared that the food Berved the pris
oners was unfit even for the lowest
kind of animals. Prisoners frequently
showed bread containing Hies, he said,
and one man brought him a piece of
bread containing a spider. He declared
the place was overrun with vermin.
Pearl Bryan, one of three white women
who was hung up by rings while at
the stockade, said Bhe was strung up
nearly 45 minutes and was only taken
down when they saw blood running
down her arms.
DAUGHTER'S PLOT ENRICHES
Witnesses Confirm Story That Girt
Stole $97,820.
Chicago, Jan. 1. Angelina Schia
vono's dramatic story, in which she
told how she robbed ber father's bank
of $97,820 and gave it to her uncle,
Francisco Schiavone, to gain a hus
band, received strong confirmation
from other witnesses today in the trial
of Francisco Schiavone and his fam
ily before Judge Tuthill.
The original packages of money
taken from Pasquale Schiavone 's bank
were traced to onn at tho rlnfnrwionf
Mollie Schiavone, daughter of Fran
cisco, and said to have inspired her
cousin with tho idea that she could
buy a husband.
D. Costello, formerly receiving teller
from the West Side Trust & Savings
bank, testified that Mollie Schiavone
had made frequent deposits of $500 for
her father, Francisco Schiavone.
.Moliie always made a deposit for her
father, Francisco, the witness sa'd, and
lie did not recall an instance when.
Francisco had deposited such money
himself.
Trolleys Crash; Five H.urt.
- Greenfield, Ind., Jan. 3. Five per
sons were seriously injured, two proba
bly fatally, in a head-on collision be
tween two cars on tho Terre Haute, In
dianapoli8 and Eastern line at Phila
delphia, four miles west of here, late
today. The cars were the Newcastle
limited eastbound, and the Dayton lim
ited, westbound. They met at a sid
ing as the westbound car was prepar
ing to enter a switch. The Dayton lim
ited was running at full speed when
it crashed into the eastbound car. Both
cars were telescoped for 10 or 12 feet.
Both motormen stuck to their posts.
Paroled Convict Is Shot.
Chicago, Jan. 3. Harry Feather-
stone, a paroled convict, who has a long
police record, was shot and seriously
injured here today in a chase which
followed a robbery of a South Side sa
loon. Fenthcrstone and two compan-
ons were pursued after they had rifled
tho till and a policeman who jo:ned in
DAMAGE SUITS THREATENED.
Independent Oil Men to Sue Standard
Oil by Thousands.
Springfield, Mass., Jan. 1. Several
thousand damage suits against the
Standard Oil company of New Jersey
will be instituted by the independent
refiners if the United States su
preme court upholds the decision of
the circuit court for the Missouri dis-
nct ordering the corporation dissolved.
Thomas L. Hisgen. rirosi.lpnti.il unn.
didate of the Independence party in
1908, who is now president of the In
dependent Petroleum Marketers' asso
ciation, today announced that the In
dependents would base their proceed
ings under the section of the Sherman
law providing that any person or com
pany injured by a corporation may
bring action against it for fourfold
damages. .
Davenport Trifle Worse.
8an Diego Homer Davenport, the
noted cartoonist, who is seriously ill
at the home of A. G. Spalding, Point
Loma, fighting to recover from a ner
vous breakdown, was not as well this
afternoon. Mr, Davenport Blept well
last night, but today a new complica
tion threatened. A sharp pain has de
veloped in the back of his head, and,
while there is no fever, the attending
physician has not yet decided the na
ture of this latest development. Tha
doctors refuse to say whether he will
ultimately recover.
Zelaya Regarded as Martyr.
Mexico City, Jan. 1. Dr. Oroeshoplr
Walsh, formerly acting United States
consul at Corinto, passed through hero
today. He said Zelaya was looked unon
as a martyr by the people of Central
America. Dr. Walsh said that hn knew
the chase sent a bullet into Feather-1 that when Zelaya was in power he had
aggregated I good roads people carried the day by
i large vote.
yearlings, best, $5(55.25; fair to good,
$4.604.75; lambs, $66.25.
tone's back. Search was begun for
s companions. According to the po
lice, Featherstone has participated in
many daring robberies.
caused consular reports to be inter
cepted and had muzzled the press. Pa
pers or i.osra Kica are bristling with
paragraphs such as "Down with the
Yankees," "We must stand together,"
and "Zelaya is a martyr."
Lamphere Dies In Prison.
La Porte, Ind. Jan. 1. Ray Lam
phere, convicted slayer of Mrs. Belle
A-sge a fight on the steel trust. The j Gunness, of "murder farm " fame, and
all arraigns the corporation as inimi- her children, died tonight of tubercu
al both to labor and to the country losis in the Michigan City penitentiary,
ind as a violator of the laws. The, where he was serving an indeterminate
um of $154,000 is to be raised at once. I term for arson.
Labor Fights Big Trust
Washington. Jan. 3. Officers of the
Xmerican Federation of Labor tonight
'ssiied a call on its 1,540.000 members
o subscribe to a fund with which to