Heppner gazette., April 14, 1910, Image 2

DOINGS OF THE WEEK
Current Events of interest Gathered
From the World at Large.
General Resume of Important Events
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.
Premier Asquith dreads to involve
the king in the Irish controversy.
Eleven sections of fine fruit land in
Eastern Oregon will soon be opened to
entry.
Attacks of the ship subsidy lobby are
resented warmly by members of the
house committee.
The incident between Roosevelt and
the Vatican at Rome may cause the re
moval of the papal secretary, Merry de
Val.
Dr. Hollis B. Frissell, of the Rocke
feller Sanitary commission, says hook
worm infection is spread largely by
Southern people going barefooted.
A duel between ex-Premier Count
Witte and General Kuropatkin, commander-in-chief
of the Russian forces
in the war with Japan, has been avert
ed through an explanation by the form
er. Smugglers of Chinese and opium
have been driven out of Southern Cali
fornia and are beieved to have trans
ferred their operations to Northwest
coast cities. 1
Miss Anna Morgan, daughter of J.
Pierpont Morgan, attracted much at
tention at Pasadena by going for a
three-hour cross-country horseback ride
arrayed in a "pants suit" riding habit.
D. C. Jacklin, a Salt Lake million
aire, has bought E. H. Harriman's
Pelican Lodge property on Klamath
lake, Oregon. He will carry out the
plans of Harriman for making a sum
mer resort of the pllace.
After being whirled down Hat creek i
in a small skiff, G. Magerstadt was
carried over Hat creek falls, in Cali
fornia, and dashed into the foaming
waters 60 feet below. The boat was
dashed to pieces on the rocks and Mag
erstadt managed to grab a boulder,
from which he was soon rescued.
SMUGGL ERS MOVING NORTH.
Men Who Bring Chinese 'and Opium
Are Hard Pressed.
Los Angeles, April 11. Driven from
Los Angeles by the activity of Federal
sleuths, aided by the local authorities
the band of opium and Chinese smug
glers that has been operating along the
Pacific coast and the Mexican border
has transferred its scene of operations
to the Northern porta in Washingto:
and Oregon. According to Deputy
United States Marshal Durlin, who has
had a large part in the two years' war
fare on this 'particular breed of law-
breakers, the headquarters of the band
has been transferred to Seattle, with
branches at Portland, Tacoma and Spo
kane. At the latter place arrange
ments are made for disposing of the
contraband Chinese and opium that is
successfully brought in by Pacific
liners and across the Canadian border,
"Chick" Wallace, the leader of the
band, is now in the northern cities ar
ranging for the disposition of the
smuggled Orientals and drug. He is
the brains of the band, and is the only
prominent one of the original gang
that has escaped arrest by the Federal
authorities. Three of his confeder
ates, including Larmon Gonzales, next
to Wallace the cleverest of all, are in
jail in this city, held as Federal pris
oners. Gonzales was captured last
week in San Diego, after a six ' weeks
campaign directed against him.
"I have had a warrant for the ar
rest of this man for nearly two
months," said Durlin, after the cap
ture. "He is one of the craftiest men
I have had to deal with for a long time,
As soon as we aimed our shafts at him
in particular, he apparently went into
secusion somewhere in Mexico. Ac
cording to my information he was in
terested mainly in landing contraband
Chinamen at the Mexican ports and
looking after their safe transportation
across the line at Nogales and El Paso,
Where and when the Pittsburg graft
probe ends is "contingent," to quote
District Attorney Blakely, on develop
ments. Mr. Blakely has spread his
net and is waiting for more men to
' come in and confess," as a result of
z the intimations contained in the grand
jury presentment.
Harry Thaw's mother, though aged
and worn, still continues her fight for
her wayward son.
Chicago police will exercise strict
censorship over bathing costumes worn
at lake beaches this season.
Rural carriers at Walla Walla are
quitting because of the small pay, and
no one seems to want the places.
New York saloons sell wood alcohol,
and four persons who drank it died,
while several others are totally blind,
Two men raced on horseback 100
miles for the opportunity of filing
contest on an Eastern Washington
homestead.
A 14-year-old school boy in Pitts
, burg, despondent at his playmates' jibs
because he was slow in his studies,
hung himself.
Two brothers in partnership in the
real estate brokage business in St.
Louis, committed suicide because of
business reverses.
Miss Nellie Anhouser, one of the
family of millionaire St. Louis brew
ers. is fighting a dentist bill which
amounts to $25 an hour.
The managers of the Northwestern
and Western railroads are jubilant
over the spring movement of colonists
into all the territory west of the Rocky
monutains from the Canadain border
to the Mexican line. Although official
figures have not been prepared regard
ing the movement of people seeking
homes in a new country, it is confi
dently stated that the number will ex
ceed that of last year, when all records
were broken.
The report that Hetty Green is seri
ously ill is denied absolutely by her
son.
Stock in all copper mines throughout
the lake region has suffered a great
decline.
Nine persons were killed and twelve
badly injured, three of them fatally,
in a panic at a Mexican bullfight.
A bill is before congress to extend
the franking privilege to Roosevelt,
and also to widows of ex-presidents.
Dr. E. E. Barnard, of Yerkes ob
servatory, says Halley's comet is wear
ing itself out whirling through space.
James A. Patten, wheat king, lost
$1,500,600 in cotton, and losses of
himself and associates may reach $5,
000,000. Bank robbers at McKees Rocks,
Pa., killed one bank clerk, mortally
wounded another and escaped with
$400 in coin.
Roosevelt has declined to attend a
Methodist reception in Rome, alleg
ing the Methodist church there was
trying to make capital out of his trou
ble with the Vatican.
Two hundred taxi cab drivers in Chi
cago are on strike, and the remaining
200 are expected to join them.
AERIAL PLEASURE
TRIPS FOR TOURISTS
Berlin, April 11. American tourists
soon will come to regard an airship
tour as one of the regular ' features of
a program of summer travel in Europe
if the expectations of the founders of
the new Hamburg airship lines are
realized. The promoters of the enter
prise recognize that the financial pros
pects of the venture can be improved
greatly if proper efforts lore made to
interest Americans. Aerial excur
sions are to be arranged, therefore,
with a special view of capturing the
custom of travelers from the United
States. One of the German steamship
companies is contributing to the sup
port of the enterprise on that understanding.
The new aerial liners will have cab
ins holding 20 persons each, and the
rooms will be equipped in luxurious
style. According to the computation
of Professor Hergesell, the aeronaut,
the fares, owing to the low cost of
construction and operation, can be low
er than has heretofore been supposed.
It is estimated, lor example, that a
trip from Hamburg to Heligoland can
be made for 100 marks ($25), and pas
sengers can travel an entire day, going
as far as Berlin or Copenhagen.
SPOKANE TRAINS COLLIDE.
Block Signals Misunderstood Thirty
Injured, Many Seriously.
Spokane, Wash., April 11 A mis
understanding of block signals resulted
in a head-on collision of passenger
trains Nos. 2 and 3 on the Spokane,
Portland & Seattle railroad a mile
west of Spokane Saturday night at
9:18 o'clock.
About 30 persons were injured, and
it is expected th&t several will die.
The accident occurred on a high trestle
over Hangman creek, on the Northern
Pacific track, which is used by the Spo
kane, Portland & Seattle for several
miles west of Spokane.
At the time of the collision, accord
ing to the stories of trainmen and pas
sengers, train wo. z was at a stand
still, ready to back up, when No. 3,
running at a slow rate of speed,
crashed head-on into No. 2, the force
of the impact smashing in the smoking
car on No. 2, occupied by a party of
Italian laborers, where the most of the
injuries occurred.
Garden Hides Bad Money Plant,
Yonkers, N. Y., April 11. Secret
service men who have been at work in
this section for some weeks past have
unearthed a rich counterfeiters' cache
on a farm near Highlands, N. Y. The
stuffJwhich was found buried several
feet beneath the surface of a vegetable
garden, includes several thousand
sheets of paper in which the silk
threads of government paper are clev
erly imitated; a dozen boxes of blue
and red ink, and an old printing press
and enough cartridges to destroy a
small army. No plates were found.
Bribe Offered Striker?
Watertown, N. Y., April 11. Pres
ident J. T. Carey, of the International
Brotherhood of Pulp arid Paper Mak
ers, today declared tnat a man giving
the name of William Pntchard, and
saying he was a member of the broker
age firm of Hamlin & Pntchard, of it,
Louis, in the alleged interest of the
International Paper company, had been
following him for the last week, offer
ing him a $25,000 bribe if he would
call off the paper makers' strike.
Fund to Fight Sleeping Sickness.
Brussels, April 11. King Albert has
decided to give $200,000 for a cam
paign against sleeping sickness, $100,
000 to build hospitals in the Belgian
Congo, $100,000 for a pension fund for
Congo civil servants, and $10,000 for
fund for the assistance of their fam
ilies.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOP
HIT OF THE STATE
BUILDING AT TILLAMOOK.
Coming of Railroad Has Stimulating
Effect on Business:
Tillamook Many improvements have
been made in Tillamook during the last
12 months., the comping of the railway
stimulating business in every direction,
The Tillamook, a fire proof concrete
building 100x100 feet., two stories and
basement, has been completed, the
ground floor being occupied by the post
office, a department store and hardware
establishment. The upper floor is oc
cupied. One-half will be used by the
Tillamook Commercial club, recently
incorporated.
A reinforced concrete building 50x
100 feet, built for the Jones-Knudson
furniture store, has been completed,
and occupied. Excavating is being
rushed for the basement of a three-
story and basement reinforced concrete
building on Mam street.
Plans are being prepared for a mod
ern three-story hotel to contain 125
rooms, to be erected on a half block
Cement pavements are being laid in
the business district, and on many of
the residence streets.
The council is preparing to lay trunk
sewers and build two septic tanks, and
expects to pave Main street and bee
ond avenue this summer.
A large auto garage has been built
by E. Snodgrass, the first public gar
age in the county. It will hold 20
autos comfortably. A complete re
pair and supply shop has been added,
in charge of a competent mechanic.
The county court has appropriated
$105,000 for county roads. The Sher
idan road, from Dolph to Tillamook,
will be put in splendid shape for travel.
Starts Work on New Exhibits.
Portland H. R. Wight, the expert
who has been engaged by the Portland
chamber of commerce to get up a new
exhibit of resources and products of the
state, has begun his work. Mr. Wight
came here from California a few days
ago and will remain a year at least. A
large laboratory is being fitted up in
the basement of the Commercial club
building, where the exhibits will be
put up in hermetically sealed jars.
To begin with, Mr. Wight will pre
serve fruit blossoms and nowers, ana
later will follow fruits and berries of
all kinds. Then will follow the pre
servation of fish found in the waters of
the state. It will take some time to
secure 'a complete exhibit of these
Mr. Wight will make occasional trips
through the country to select suitable
specimens. A large consignment of
glass jars will arrive in a few days in
which the specimens will be preserved.
Mr. Wight has the secret of a spe
cial process which is said to keep the
specimens in perfect condition for
years.
Homeseekers Rush to Harney.
Baker Citv The heaviest inrush of
settlers into the great Harney valley
is now taking place through this city,
and promises to reach great proportions
before the spring is over. The Sump-
ter valley train is laden everyday with
people looking for homes in the inter
ior. Hotel accommodations along the
route are taxed to the limit Roy
Corey, game warden, has returned
from Austin, the terminus of the
Sumpter valley road, and says that 18
people arrived there in one day on
their way to Harney county. Only one
passenger could be taken -on the stage
and the other 17 started out and walk
ed to Canyon City, a distance of 20
miles.
Crook County Debt Free.
Prineville Prineville and Crook
county are each out of debt, the first
time since the incorporation of the city
that it has not carried other debts be
side the bond issue of the light and
water company, and the first time the
county government has had all its war
rants in since the construction of the
$35,000 court house.
Prineville has carried a debt of $3,-
000 or more for years and at times the
value of the warrants outstanding
were not more than 70 cents on the dol
lar and few buyers for them.
Oil Burners to Haul Freight.
La Grande The O. R. & N. will use
oil burning engines between Umatilla
and La Grande. This kind of locomo
tive power will not be adopted exclu
sively on the mountain district, but
is resorted to as an auxiliary means of
handling the immense freight traffic
over this part of the road. Four or
five of the oil burning engines will be
put to work at once, and oil tanks will
be established at Gibbon and La
Grande.
OWYHEE DISTRICT ORGANIZED
ast Obstacle Removed and 90,000
Acres Will Be Irrigated.
Ontario The organization commit
tee of the proposed Owyhee Irrigation
district and the land owners under the
proposed project met with the County
court at Vale to ask that tribunal
authorize the organization of the dis
trict, l he bonds of the district were
accepted by the court.
The Nevada Ditch company stock
holders accepted a compromise offered
by the irrigation committee and re
mained in the district upon a guaran
tee of 7,200 acres of water in ex
change for the stock of their company,
The Owyhee Ditch company and the
Wilson Ditch company, the other irri
gation ditches under the proposed pro
ject, had both agreed to come in some
time ago and the action of the Nevad
Ditch company eliminated the last
barrier in the way of the organization
of the district,
There are about 90,000 acres
choice land tributary to Ontario and
Nyssa which will be embraced in the
proposed district. A great deal
this is unimproved on account of the
lack of water for irrigation purposes.
and the organization of the district
means the development of a very rich
body of farming lands.
MAKE LIME FROM MARBLE.
Citizens of Wallowa Develop t Natural
Resource Heretofore Overlooked
Enterprise Last summer Charles
Christy experimented with the well
known black marble of which there are
immense deposits in the canyon south
west of Enterprise. The result ex
ceeded all expectations, the product
being chalk white lime, almost abso
lutely pure. It has been tried and
tested both here and at other places
It is so free from Impurities that one
barrel of it goes as far Jas one and
half barrels of ordinary lime.
A company has been formed to ex
ploit the deposits and is known as the
Black Marble Lime company, composed
of Mr. Christy and his son Henry, and
George Houser, a well known capi
tahst.
One large kiln is in operation and
carload of fire brick recently arrived
with which three kilns will be built,
giving a capacity of from 15,000 to
20,000 barrels per year. Ed Eben, of
Joseph, has contracted to market the
entire product, and S. D. Kletner has
the sole sale of the lime at Enterprise
A carload of barrel staves has also
been received and shipments will begin
soon. Over 1,000 tons of the marble
was gotten out the past winter, ready
for burning. When in full running
the works will give employment to 12
or 15 men. Enterprise will bm the
shipping point for the lime.
The black marble will doubtless soon
be quarried for other uses, as it is
beautiful stone and takes readily
high polish.
$450,000 for Paving.
Medford The Clark & Henery Con
struction company of Sacramento has
been awarded the contract for grading,
curbing and paving with asphalt nearly
ten miles of Medford s streets. In the
business district, class A pavement;
consisting of 5 inch concrete base, inch
binder and 2 inch asphalt surface will
be laid. In residence sections a cheap
er hard surface will be laid. The city
engineer estimates that there are 203,
000 square yards to be laid.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
To Have Sewer System.
Independence The town of Inde
pendence has voted bonds for $20,000
to provide funds for the construction
of a sewer system. But 20 votes were
registered against the improvement.
The school district is building a high
echoqj, which will be a credit to this
section of the state. A number of
farmers are setting out orchards near
town, hundreds of acres being thus im
proved. The larger portion of the
plantings are apple trees of the
varieties.
late
Special Rate on Gravel.
Salem An order was made by the
railroad commission granting the
Southern Pacific railroad company per
mission to put on immediately a spe
cial rate of 25 cents per hundred
pounds on gravel between Tolo and
Medford, to facilitate street improve
ments in th Southern Oregon city.
The shipments must be in carload lots
of not less than 40,000 pounds in each
car.
Wheat Track prices : Bluestem, $1
1.02; club, 95c; red Russian, 94c;
valley, $1; 40-fold, 97j(398c.
Barley Feed and brewing, $24.50
27 per ton.
Corn Whole, $34; cracked, $35
Hay Track -prices: Timothy, Wil
lamette valley. $20(3:21 per ton; East
ern Oregon, $23(324; alfalfa, $16.50
17.50; grain hay, $17(318.
Oats No. 1 white, $27.50f129.
Fresh Fruits Apples, $12.50 per
box; cranberries, $8(39 per barrel.
Potatoes Carload buying prices
Oregon. 50(3,60c per hundred; sweet
potatoes, 3fffi31c per pound.
Vegetables Asparagus, 5jra;Hc per
pound; cabbage, li(32c; horseradish,
8(a10c; green onions. 15c per dozen;
rhubarb, 4(35c per pound; spinach, $1
per box; sprouts, 9c per per pound;
turnips, $1 per sack; rutabagas, $l(3j
1.25; carrots, 85c(3$l; beets, $1
1.25; parsnips, 5075c.
Butter City creamery, extras, 33c
per pound; fancy outside creamery, 32
33c; store, 20c. Butter fat prices
average IJc per pound under regular
butter prices.
Eggs Fresh Oregon ranch, 2424e
per dozen.
Onions Oregon, $1.75 per hundred.
Pork Fancy, 13(3 13 jc per pound.
Veal Fancy, lljfrf 12c per pound.
Lambs Fancy, 15(318c per pound.
Poultry Hens, 19r320c per pound;
broilers, 27328e; ducks, 22J(323c;
geese. 12ic; turkeys, live, 22ft 25c;
dressed, 25(3 29c; squabs, $5 per doz.
Cattle Best steers, 56.250 6.75;
fair to good, $5.556; strictly good
cows, J5.50(at; iair io goou, o(,o.o;
light calves, $6(3,7; heavy calves, J4m,
5: bulls. $4(35.25; stags, $4.50(35.50.
Sheep Best wethers, $8(38.90; fair
to good, $7(37.50; good lambs, $8f312.
Hogs Top, $11.1011.15; fair to
good, $10(311.
Hops 1909 crop, 17(3 19c per pound;
olds, nominal; 1910 contracts, 15(316c.
Wool Eastern Oregon, 16(3 20c per
pound; valley, 20(3 22c; mohair, choice,
26c.
Hides Dry hides, 16f317c pr pound;
dry kip, 1617c; dry calfskin, 18(320;
salted hides, 78c; salted calfskin,
14c; green, lc less. j
SENTIMENTAL TRIP CUT SHORT
Mr. and Mr Roosevelt Showered
With Flags and Flowers.
Genoa, Italy, April 9. Though
"deelighted" to an unusual degree,
but in mind and spirit much perturbed,
because of ovations along his carriage
jaunt to this Jcity, ex-President Theo
dore Roosevelt and wife were compel
led to call a halt today to their senti
mental tour.
At every village or crossroads they
were met by men, women and children
the former with flags and the latter
with bouquets.
As an instance of the demonstrations
accorded them, 600 persons, many of
them Americans, acclaimed Colonel
Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt with
vivas and hurrahs after they left Ra-
pallo, where they had luncheon today,
This was the climax of their embarrass
sments and Colonel Roosevelt gave or
ders to be driven direct to Genoa.
The people and press of Genoa have
manifested the most intense interest in
the movements of Colonel Roosevelt,
His second honeymoon journey stirred
their romantic natures to a high pitch,
and when the news spread today of
his coming, a big crowd hurried to the
modest Hotel Brittannia, where he had
engaged quarters, and with cheering
and waving of hats greeted Roosevelt i
carriage as it rattled up the stony
street to the accompaniment .of the
driver's wildly cracking whip.
Both Colonel and Mrs. Roosevelt
were smiling when they descended
from the carriage at the hotel enrance,
They said they had enjoyed the trip
hugelv and Were sorry only that the
failure to observe their incognito by
the people had compelled them to cut
it short. Colonel Roosevelt said he
had a "bully time" Thursday, when he
and Mrs. Roosevelt drove along the
sunny slopes of the Ligurian Alps from
Spezia to Rapallo.
Half an hour after the arrival of
Colonel Roosevelt, the prefect and the
mayor of Genoa called on him and
greeted him in the name of the city.
Colonel Roosevelt relates an amusing
incident of the trip. When he and
Mrs. Roosevelt reached the top of the
pass at Sestri Levante, where they
stopped last night, the enterprising
proprietor, of a tavern a rival to the
one in which they had engaged rooms
sent out couriers in advance bearing
American and Italian flags and tri
umphantly escorted Colonel Roosevelt
and Mrs. Roosevelt to his own hotel,
WILSON IS SCORED.
Professor Hopkins Says Farmers are
Wearing Out Land.
Chicago, April 9. Characterizing
the teachings of Secretary James Wil
son as "damnable, abominable and
disgracefgul," Professor Cyril G. Hop
kins, of the University of Illinois, de
livered a stinging criticism of the de
partment of agriculture here today in
an address at the City club. Here are
some quotations from Secretary Wilson
cited by Professor Hopkins as "abom
inably false" :
"Practically all soils contain suffi
cient plant food for yields; this supply
will be indefinitey maintained."
So far as the present outlook is
concerned, the nation possesses ample
resources in its soil for any conceivable
increase in population for several cen
turies."
'The soil is the one indestructible,
immutable asset that the nation pos
sesses. It is the one resource tnat
cannot be exhausted; that cannot be
used up."
"From the modern conception of the
nature and purposes of the soil, it is
evident that it cannot wear out, that
so far as the mineral food is concerned,
it will continue automatically to supply
adequate quantities of plant foods for
crops. ,
'As a national asset, the sou is safe
as a means of feeding mankind for un
told ages to come.
After he had cited these quotations,
Professor Hopkins said:
"Can you blame farmers for contin
uing to wear out their lands when
these are the teachings promulgated
from the highest authority in the
United States? And these false teach
ings are all the more damnable because
the common soil type on the abandoned
farms in Maryland, only a few miles
from Washington, contain only 169
pounds of phosphorous in the plowed
soil of an acre, while the richest black
prairie soil of Illinois, with a value of
$200 an acre contains more than 2,000
pounds of phosphorous in the stratum."
i
Miss Gould to Get Home.
New York, April 9. According to
friends of the family a house on upper
Fifth avenue will be the gift of George
Gould to his daughter, Marjorie,
when she is married to Anthony J.
Drexel, Jr., April 19.
This palatial property, which is be
tween Eighty-second and Eighty-third
streets, was purchased by Mr. Gould
today, at a price said to have been be
tween $350,000 and $400,000. With
the furnishings, which, it is said Mr.
Gould intends to install, the gift will
represent an outlay of $500,000.
FACTION LINES BELT
Roosevelt Enthusiastically Greeted
by Citizens of Italian Town.
Breaks Chain of Flowers and Opens.
Street Named After Him Car
riage Smothered in Flowers.
Porto Maurizio, April 12. Ex-President
Roosevelt thiB afternoon opened
the new boulevard which has been
named after him and accepted honorary
citizenship of the ancient and histori
cal city of Porto Maurizio, amid a pop
ular enthusiasm such as that which
marked his arrival last night. Ac
cording to those who had long memo
ries, never before have local, political,
religious and all other differences been
so completely obliterated as upon this
occasion.
The carriage containing Mr. and
Mrs. Roosevelt and the mayor was
pelted with nosegays tied with ribbons
bearing the words, "Long live Roose
velt, ".until it was overflowing with,
flowers.
When they reached the foot of the
terraced hill opposite the port, where
the cheering rent the air, the ex-president
and his wife were smiling and
looked happy.
A stone bearing the name of the
street was unveiled and Mr. Roosevelt
broke the flowered chain that was
stretched across the driveway and,
amid a new outburst of "vivas" led
Mrs. Roosevelt up the drive to the
hotel.
There the mayor in a flattering
speech told how proud the municipality
was to confer citizenship upon the
great "apostle of peace." The city
clerk, who wore a bedizened uniform
and feathers in his cap, stepped for
ward and presented the parchment in a
silver case upon a cushion covered with
the American flag.
Mr. Roosevelt replied in English,
but the mayor experienced difficulty
in translating the words and Mrs.
Carew, Mrs. Roosevelt's sister, amid
much amusement, finally came to the
rescue. The reception, Mr. Roosevelt
said, made him feel as if he were at
home in his own country.
"1 am especially touched." he con
tinued, "at what you have said about
my attitude towards peace and good
will. I feel that a nation should behave
toward other nations as an honest man
toward his fellows. The same law of
propriety and morality should apply
among nations as among men."
lea was then served. Mr. Roosevelt
sitting next to Luigi Rossi, the Italian
commissioner of immigration, whom
he knew in America. The party was
again acclaimed as they drove back t
the Carew villa.
KING
EDWARD IS SICK.
Denials by Physicians Not Believed
. Shuns Society.
London, April 12. Official denials
that King Edward's health is poor are
not trusted here, even by His Majesty's
close friends. Imperial reports from
Biarritz represent the king as looking
listless and tired, and having an un
healthy yellow color.
Facts seem to coincide with these
reports rather than with the denials.
The king has abandoned his projected
cruise on the Mediterranean with the
queen because he has been advised not
to face the fatigue of traveling, but to
rest quietly at Biarritz until the polit-
cal crisis demands hit) presence in
England.
Never before has the king been
known to refer so repeatedly to any
one dead as he now does to Consuelo.
duchess of Manchester. He frequently
speaks of her loss. He misses her par
ticularly at Biarritz, where for years
she made things "go" for him.
Mayor Schmitz Joins Musicians.
San Francisco, Cal.. April 12. Ex-
Mayor Schmitz, who is out on bail
pending an appeal on conviction for
graft extortion, has been restored to
membership in the Musicians' union.
having paid a considerable arrearage
of dues. After being removed from
office, the ex-mayor neglected to pay
his dues. There was some talk of ex
pelling Schmitz when the graft expose
came up, but on investigation it was
learned that a failure to pay dues had
placed Schmitz beyond further action
by the union.
Girls Dance: Fire Fatal.
New York, April 9. Miss Susan
Lustgarten was fatally burned tonight
at a dance given by the students of
Adelphia college, Brooklyn. The ac
cident occurred during a fancy dance,
known as the "ghost dance," in which
a purple light was provided by burning
alcohol in a large metal dish. Sixty
girls, dressed in flowing robes, danced
about the flames. Miss Lustgarten
was replenishing the alcohol when the
explosion omirred.
Submarine Lowers Mark.
Cherbourg. April 9. The Ventose, a
submarine, today established a record
by navigatfng at the depth of 113 feet
for 24 minutes. i
Fiji Timber Is Its Goal.
Victoria, B. C, April 12. Vancou
ver and Bellingham capitalists have
undertaken the development of the
hardwood timber resources of the Fiji
islands on a large scale, the project in
volving the establishment of a line of
sailing craft to operate between Van
couver, this city and Suva. A large
tract of timber in the Fiji islands, to
gether with the largest sawmill there
and its logging equipment, have al
ready been purchased.
Youth Invents Airship.
Vancouver, B. C, April 12. Alfred
E. Lauder, 19 years old, has invented
an airship which, he asserts, is of a
different type from any thus far ex
perimented with. The airship will
balance automatically and be capable
of carrying two passengers. The au
tomatic balancing feature, and the
placing of the propelling power and
steering gear in front of the ship, are
unique features. Lauder has received
commendation for his work from Alex
ander Graham Bell and Glen Curtiss.