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 Bus Readers.
An Illinois legislator admits receiv
ing $1,000 to vote for Lorimer for U.
S. senator.
Patten and his friends on the Chi
cago cotton exchange cleaned up $320,
000 in one day.
Witnesses state conclusively that
Swope, the St. Louis millionaire, was
killed by a violent poison.
One person was killed, two fatally
injured and about 15 others hurt in a
street car collision in Seattle.
British 'Democracy has forced the
Lords to pass the budget which was de
feated last fall, and expects further
triumphs.
Portland is much worked up over the
alleged carelessness of census takers.
It is claimed that at least 30,000 per
sons in the city were not counted.
Speaker Cannon declares the minor
ity rules the house and that such rule
must be stopped, even if it becomes
necessary to change the constitution.
A rich rancher of Elk City, Idaho,
has not been heard from since he went
hunting March 7, and two men who
went in search of him two weeks ago
have not returned.
President Taft, speaking at Buffalo,
apologized to the state of New York
and congratulated the entire nation up
on the appointment of Governor
Hughes to the Supreme court.
Negotiations for about 280 locomo
tives and 5,000 to 6,000 freight cars,
which the Harriman lines expected to
purchase, are retarded because of ina
bility to secure satisfactory terms.
The Indiana Democratic convention
has endorsed John W. Kern for U. S.
senator.
The New York stock market is de
moralized, everyone trying to sell to
avoid loss.
Charles Wezler, confessed murderer
of Mrs. Schultz at Gig Harbor, seeks a
second degree verdict.
Amid wild enthusiasm, San Fran
cisco business men subscribed $4,000,-
000 for their 1915 fair.
Ruth Bryan's first husband, Leavett,
says her second marriage will be ll
legal and that he will light it.
Rockefeller is discouraged at the de
lav in securing a national charter for
his great philanthropic project.
An insane young man aged 19 shot
and seriously wounded three persons
in New York and then committed sui
cide.
Newspaper publishers in the East
see a famine in paper unless congress
passes the Mann bill removing the duty
on pulp and paper.
A cod fishing schooner from San
Francisco is reported lost with several
members of her crew. She has been
missing since last October.
The bridge of the Milwaukee road
over the Yakima river was destroyed
bv a washout and an engine and five
cars of lumber went into the river.
About fifty acres of ground, piled 25
feet high with lumber in the yards of
the Humbird Lumber company at Sand
Point. Idaho, were swept by fire, des
trovine about $300,000 worth of lum
ber.
Pearv is off for Europe on a lecture
tour.
A negro leader and 22 followers have
been arrested in Havana for inciting a
revolt.
Reports place the damage ; by Chin
ese mobs in recent riots at Changsha
at $2,000,000.
Lawyers of Reno, Nevada, seek to
disbar one of their number who adver
tises a specialty of easy divorces.
Two hundred girls at Cornell college,
New York, are seriously ill from pto
maine poisoning caused by impure
milk.
Edward Keaton, aged 110, living
near Natchez, La., was bitten by a
rattlesnake, but the doctors say he will
recover.
A jury has been chosen to try F.
August Heinze, accused of misapply
ing funds of the Merchants bank, of
New York.
OFFICERS CONTINUE RAID.
Another New Yorker Charged With
Conspiracy to Violate Laws.
New York. May 2. Another import
ant arrest in the Federal bucket shop
crusade was made today when govern
ment officers arrested Frnnk Maier, of
the firm of Morrison & Maier, in his
office at No. 44 Broad street.
The specific charge against Maier is
conspiracy to violate the Federal law
against bucket shops. It is alleged
Maier. in conjunction with Louis Cella,
Edward Altemus and H. D. Duryee,
has been furnishing stolen quotations
to bucket shoos all over the eastern
part of the United States.
The government agents ai me same
time cut the telegraph wires leading
to all places here and in New Jersey
suspected of being bucket shops. Co-
incidentally two special agents or the
United States department of justice
naid a visit to an office in the Lincoln
Trust building, Jersey City, and arrest
ed Joseph Decker, a telegrapher. The
police sav Decker had in the office
stock ticker, from which he is alleged
to have copied Quotations and sent
them practically all over the United
States.
SLUSH FUND TALKED.
Fetzer Will Tell Grand Jury About
$200,000 Paid.
Chicago, May 2. John C. Fetzer,
who alleges that a "slush fund" of
about $200,000 was used in advancing
legislation and city ordinances desired
by the Chicago . & Western Indiana
Railroad company, entered into con
ference with State's Attorney Wayman
today. Details were not made public.
Neither the suit filed by the company
to recover $525,000 from Fetzer, out of
which the company alleges Fetzer de
frauded it, nor the latter's injunction
seems likely to come up for settlement
in court in the near future. Develop
ments, however, are expected when
Mr. Fetzer tells his story to the grand
jury, especially summonea to near u
next Monday.
Fetzer alleges that a large portion
of the money which the company seeks
to recover was spent in securing the
passage of bill 777 at Springfield to
validate bonds issued by the Chicago &
Western Indiana, in securing from the
common council of Chicago the vacat
ing of a street desired by the road, and
in seeking to block an extension of
the Illinois Central in suburban Chicago.
RACE LINES BLOTTED OUT.
Are
A huge Russian bear in the New
York Zoo turned on its keeper and
nearly tore hira to pieces before he
was rescued.
The heirs of Mrs. Octavia Adelaide
Moss, a rich New York woman, are
having a hard time finding her wealth,
which was hidden about her house in
secret places known only to herself.
Cotton seed in the South is now
worth $150 a ton.
A New York girl committed suicide
on the beach at Naples, Italy.
Thirty-six hundred miners of Phoen
ix and Greenwood, B. C, are on strike.
$100,000 subscribed for a Lincoln
monument funnd 40 years ago is lost
nd cannot be located.
Governor Hughes of New York, has
been appointed associate justice of the
United States Supreme court. i
"Jim Crow" Laws of Louisiana
Found to Be Badly Muddled.
New Orleans, May 2. "There are
no negroes who are not persons of col
or, but there are persons of color who
are not negroes."
This a salient sentence in a decision
that has thrown the race laws of Louis
ana into a state of chaos. All statutes
made and provided to keep separate
and distinct whites and negroes practi
cally are affected by the ruling of the
Louisiana Supreme court that octo
roons, quadroons and mulattoes are not
negroes.
The court holds that where the text
of the law merely says "negroes" it
cannot be applied to octoroons or other
persons of mixed blood. It defines the
negro as a member of the black or Af
rican race, having in his veins no trace
of Caucasian blood. Person? of lighter
or darker skins than mulattoes can
evade the laws by demanding that the
state prove they are negroes.
DUSTIL DEUEL
ENT OF THE STATE
COQUILLE TO EXPERIMENT.
VALE SEES BIG CLIP
BUYERS WANT WEALTH.
British
With
Bra-com-
Corporation Contests
Railroad for Property.
Vancouver, B. C, May 2. The
zilian-Canada & General Trust
pany, a British corporation, issued a
writ in the Supreme court today to
compel James Dunsmuir and others,
until recently owners of the Dunsmuir
coal lands and mines on Vancouver
island and the Dunsmuir properties in
California, to comply with terms of an
option given to the British corporation
for sale of the properties. These prop
erties were transferred recently to
William MacKenzie and D. Mann, pres
ident and vice president of the Cana
dian Northern Railway company, for
$1,000,000.
Panama Fair Fund Grows.
San Francisco, May 2. Numerous
subscriptions, ranging in amount from
$10 to $25,000, and aggregating in all
$64,820, were received by the finance
committee of the Panama Pacific Inter
national exposition today and the grand
total of the fund on hand was swelled
to $4,165,320.
Small subscriptions with a few of
larger proportions amounted to $39,820
for the day when notice was received
from the Life Underwcriters, associa
tion of San Francisco that the directors
had voted an investment of $25,000.
Herman Passes Crisis.
Roseburg, May 2. Spending a rest
ful night, Uinger nermann awoke th.s
morning much improved, and Dr. K. L.
Miller, the attending physician, says
that he has passed safely through the
critical stage of his illness. According
to a bulletin issued by the physician
late today, Mr. Hermann sat in a chair
for nearly an hour this morning. His
appetite has returned, and he partakes
of limited rations regularly, while his
voice is strong and normal.
Beri-Beri Kills Italians.
San Francisco, May 2. Antonio
Ranieri, the first white victim in this
city to succumb to beri-beri, died to
day. Two Chinese have died from the
effects of this unusual disease, but
Ranieri is the first Caucasian here to
suffer a fatal attack of the Oriental
malady.
Station Will Determine Nature of
Crops Best Suited to Soil."
Marshfield Realizing the great val
ue of their farming land, the people of
Coquille valley section of Coos county
are planning to open an experiment
station for the purpose of ascertaining
for the benefit of the farmers just
what crops are best adapted to the lo
cality.
William N. Russ, who owns several
hundred acres of bottom lands, has
agreed to give the use of his land for
the purpose. It is believed that the
bottom lands of the Coquille valley
are particularly well adapted for rais
ing garden truck and everything in the
way of vegetables will be planted.
It is possible that the government or
the state will be asked to aid in the
work. While ' the state agricultural
college has been of much assistance to
the farmers, the land in the Coquille
valley is different from other parts of
the state and requires especial attention.
It is believed that crops which are
consumed by the canneries can be prof
itably grown and the development
work at an experiment station, it is
hoped, will bring about the establish
ment of vegetable canneries in the lo
cality. Prizes to Be Awarded Creameries.
Deputy dairy and food commissioner
Paul V. Maris, at a meeting with the
state board of agriculture at Salem ar
ranged for prizes to be awarded at the
state fair next September for the best
exhibitions by individual creameries,
in addition to the usual premiums.
It was also planned at the meeting
to construct a private stable for keep-,
ing test cows during the fair. The
state board of agriculture is looking
forward to the possibility of having a
model dairy barn to illustrate sanitary
and convenient methods.
M. S. Schrock, another deputy, has
returned from his inspection of all the
dairies south of .the Clackamas river.
The inspection covered a total of 422
dairies. The report shows an average
score of 37 on a basis of 100. Three
of the total number averaged below 20
while only one went above 60. There
were 20 between 50 and 60, and the
rest averaged between 20 and 50.
Railroad Toward Sweet Home.
Sweet Home Work on the railroad
from Albany to Cascadia has been be
gun. The surveyors who are lining up
for the graders have reached a point
six miles below Sweet Home.
Work has already commenced on the
Albany end of the route, the company
sending out word that they want all
the teams they can get. The, promise
made that cars will be running
through Sweet Home by the middle of
September.
The prospects of a better market has
caused much larger acreage than ever
before to be put into crops and work is
plentiful; every one has money and the
place and people bear a general look
of prosperity.
Hens Have Egg Race.
Portland Plymouth rock pullets are
establishing records these delightful
spring days. It is no unusual thing
for a 10-months-old hen to present her
lord and master with a 6 by 8 inch
egg, in fact pullets belonging to resi
dents in this vicinity have done better
than that in several cases during the
past few weeks.
Mrs. E. J. Harris, of Fulton Park,
has a 10-months-old Plymouth Rock
hen which has laid an 8 by 6 inch
egg. A peculiar feature of this pul
let's exploits in the egg producing line
is that she lays one of these big eggs
every two weeks. Her other products
are of normal size.
Carl Amous, living at Gate3 Cross
ing, on the Cazadero suburban line,
owns a Plymouth Rock hen not quite a
year old whose latest performance in
the egg line measured 7 by 6J inches.
Three and a Half to Four Million
Pounds Will Be Shipped.
Vale Between 3,500,000 and 4,
000,000 pounds of No. 1 wool is to be
shipped from Vale this season. Shear
mg started this week at the Oxman
ranch near Dell, and at the Hargis
plant near Wesftall.
mi i . ..
ine wooigrowers are jubilant over
the prospects for a big wool clip. On
account of the hard winter, the sheep
were led corn and went on the range
in excellent condition and the wool is
said to be of the best.
The Hargis plant is scheduled to clip
the wool from 124,000 sheep this sea
son, while at the Oxman ranch 3,000
sheep are being sheared daily.
Announces Next Year's Work.
The February number of the Uni
versity of Oregon bulletin announces
for next year the courses offered by
the university school of education. The
university, by means of the school of
education, is now prepared to train
teachers for high school subject and
departments, superintendencies, prin.
cipalships and administrative positions.
and special teachers of music and phys
ical training. 1 he same requirements
for admission obtain in the school of
education as in the other departments.
Among other things the Bulletin notes
that while the demand for teachers in
the different subjects fluctuates from
year to year, there are certain strong
tendencies evident in all Western uni
versities, one of which is toward an
oversupply of teachers in English and
history, and a scarcity of teachers in
mathematics and physics.
Oregonian Returns to First Love.'
Lakeview E. Keller, who has lived
in Lake county for many years, sold
his farm to J. D. Heryford last fall
and left Oregon. His land brought
$125 an acre. After spending the
winter touring California and other
Western states, Mr. Keller has return
ed to Lakeview. The more he travel
ed and observed, the more he became
convince as to the worth of this coun
try. He has purchased the Gillette
ranch, just over the California line,
paying $42 per acre for the land.
Oregon Trunk Files Maps.
The Oregon Trunk line has filed its
maps through the Indian agent at
Klamath Falls, who upon his approval
will send them on to the commission
on Indian affairs in Washington, D. C.
It is expected to take some time for
the maps to go through the necessary
channels. The contract for the grad-
ng of the road from Madras to the
northern boundary of the Klamath res
ervation has not been let yet the bids
are in for consideration.
Ontario Men Bag 165 Coyotes.
Ontario Elbert Butler and Dick
Robertson have returned from a 12
days' hunting trip in the vicinity of
Moore s hollow and Henry and Jacob-
son's gulches, where they bagged 165
coyotes. They killed 90 in three days,
which they claim is the best record
ever made by nimrods in the coyote
line. The bounty from the scalps of
the animals averaged them each over
$10 a day, which they claim is another
record breaker. All of the animals
killed, except two, were young ones
and were dug out of their dens in bad
ger holes.
Open New S. P. Bridge.
June 15 is now the date fixed for
opening of traffic over the 'Oswego
bridge now being built across the Wil
lamette above Milwaukie by the South
ern Pacific company. The bridge rests
on immense piers and is high enough to
clear every vessel that might come that
far up the river, so it has no draw. It
is being built exclusively for the rail
road and so has but one deck. It cross
es the river about half mile above Elk
Rock.
CITY ROADS MAY MERGE.
Gigantic Chicago Deal Involves One
Hundred Million Dollars.
Chicago, April 30. Unification of
the Chicago elevated railroads, regarded
as the first essential step toward a per
fect transportation service, was today
said to be in sight. A gigantic deal,
involving a capitalization of $100,000,
000, may be consummated and the plan
put into operation August 1.
Henry A. Blair, who successfully re
organized the Chicago Railways com
pany, is the financier who hopes to
merge the elevated roads.
Representing a syndicate of New
York bankers with unlimited resources,
he has submitted a definite offer to the
elevated railroad officials to buy the
properties, either paying cash to stock
holders in return for a deposit of their
stock, or giving them securities in the
new corporation equal to the par value
of their holdings.
So far, the directors of all companies
have agreed that the plan is a fair one,
the hitch being in the price offered by
Mr. Blair and that which the directors
think they ought to get. While Mr.
Blair has not announced what his cash
offer :s, he admitted that it was a good
deal more than the present value of the
stock of the different companies.
The capitalization of the elevated
roads in stocks and bonds, equipment,
notes and other outstanding obliga
tions, is a little more than $100,000,
000.
HORROR
TALE TOLD
Nicaraguan Informs American Con-
sul of Awful Cruelties.
Says Cruelties Eclipse Conditions irt
Congo Men, Women and Boys
Horribly Tortured.
FREIGHT RATES GO UP.
Railroad Builders at Work.
Eugene The Lane County Asset
company, which is promoting a rail
road between Eugene and the coast, re
cently sent to a surveying camp, ' lo
cated on the Ellmaker place on Coyoti
creek, three big wagon loads of sup.
plies. This is evidence to the doubters
as to the company's intention of build'
ing a railroad, that it is in earnest
about the matter.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Shipping Asparagus.
Eugene George Dorris, who oper
ates an asparagus farm about four I
Wheat Track prices: Bluestem,
90c: club, 86c: red Russian, 85c: val
ley, 90c.
Barley Feed and brewing, $23
24.50 ton.
Corn Whole, $33 per ton: cracked
$34.
Hay Track prices : Timothy, Wil
lamette valley, $206121 per ton: East
ern Oregon, $2225; alfalfa, $16.50
17.50; grain hay, $17(?j18.
Oats No. I white, $27(a28 ton
Fresh Fruits Strawberries, Oregon,
20(ff25c per pound; Florin, $1.50(R 2.50
per crate; Los Angeles, $1.25(51.65;
apples, $1(52.50 per box.
Potatoes Carload buying prices
Oregon, 40fr 50c per hundred; new Cal
ifornia, 5c per pound; sweet potatoes,
4c.
Vegetables Asparagus, 90c(5$l per
box; cabbage, 2c per pound; hothouse
lettuce, 50(ff.$l per box; green onions,
12Jc per dozen; radishes, 15(20c;
rhubarb, 2(Ti3c per pound; spinach, 75c
(3$lperbox; rutabagas, $1.25(51.50
per sack; carrots, 85c(a$l; beets,
$1.50; parsnips, 75c(a$l
Onions Oregon, $2 per hundred;
Bermuda, $2(52.50 per crate.
Butter City creamery, extras, 29c
per pound; fancy outside creamery, 28
(5T;29c; store, 20c. Butter fat prices
average 1J per pound under regular
butter prices.
Eggs Fresh Oregon ranch, 24c per
dozen.
Pork Fancy, 13(??13ic per pound.
Veal Fancy, lOfalOJc per pound.
Lambs Fancy, 10(5 12c per pound.
Poultry Hens, 20tf21c; broilers,
27(5 28c; ducks, 22J(523c; geese,
12Jc; turkeys, live, 20(n22c; dressed,
25c; squabs, $3 per dozen.
Hops 1909 crop, 13(5 16c per
pound; olds, nominal, 1910 contracts,
nominal.
Wool hastern Uregon, I4'f;l7cper
Transcontinental Roads Plan to Meet
Increased Expenses.
Washington, April 80. Freight tar
iffs showing considerable increase over
the present rates from Western terri
tory to the Atlantic seaboard will be
filed with the Interstate Commerce
commission to become effective June 1
This is the first step taken by the
railroads indicating a purpose general
ly to increase freight rates throughout
the country to meet increased operat
ing expenses.
Already tariff schedules have been
filed for Western roads increasing the
rate for the transportation of wool
from Minneapolis and St. Paul to New
York and other Atlantic seaboard
points. The present rate on wool from
Minneapolis to New York is 59 cents
per hundred pounds. Under the new
tariff the rate will be 64 cents a hun
dred pounds, an increase of nearly 20
per cent.
An increase also has been made in
the freight rate on live hogs between
the .Twin Cities and Chicago of 2 J
cents a hundred pounds. This is an
ncrease of about 12 per cent over the
present rate. While no tariff has been
filed with the commission increasing
the rate on wheat products from Chi
cago to the Eastern territory, it seems
ikely the rate on hog products from
Chicago to Eastern points wiH be increased.
The tariffs already filed with the
commission are for all the roads in
Western Freight association territory,
and the rates will become effective
simultaneously on all of them.
Fearing Law, Bucketshops Close.
Washington, April 30. Results al
ready have been accomplished by the
crusade of the department of justice
against the bucket shop business. In
addition to the offices affected by the
indictment against a number of princi
pals, scores of houses in the Middle
West have closed their doors and oth
ers are expected to follow. Should the
efforts of the department towards
breaking up the business entirely prove
unavailing by prosecution under exist
ing laws, it is said that new legislation
will be asked of congress.
Washington, May 3. A letter writ
ten to the consul at Managua, Nica
ragua, by Narciso Arellane, a citizen
of Niaragua, detailing incidents of cru
elties in the republic, has been for
warded here to Senor Castrillo, repre
sentative of the Estrada forces in
Washington. In his letter Mr. Arel
lane says:
"I think it best you should know
these people are at their work again.
They are torturing men and even boys
at Mandaimo and at Granada, whip
ping them, suspending them from the
thumbs with cords, all this to wrench
out confessions from them as to who.
carried provisions to Calaxto Talaver
as' guerillas beyond Mandaimo.
"I will cite as an example case the
case of Octavio Marence, a young man
owning a ranch a few miles north of
Mandaimo, who was dealt 200 lashes,
with a stick a midnight on April 6, at
the jail at Granada. He is now at
the penitentiary in this town (Mana
gua), and as it is a matter of common
knowledge you must have heard the
story from another source.
"They have also burned property
and wrought damage to an incalculable
degree, but this Jwe will pass lightly
out of mind. It is the rest I lay
stress on. I m ashamed that such
cruelties should be committeed by men
who profess to be Christians and are
Nicaraguans. Such ferocity is more
the work of fiends than human beings.
We wish the State department and
the American public to be acquainted
with these facts, as it might help mat
ters a bit. It is a real shame that
such work is going on with your war
ships a few miles off Corinto harbor,
when just a word from Admiral Kim
ball would stop this devil's work.
Should the American admiral send an
other mission to investigate, he will
disclose a situation of things unparal
leled, even in the Congo Free State."
Under date of April 10 from Mana
gua, a subsequent note to the Ameri
can consul at Managua from Arellane
states that the author has received
reliable information of 17 cases in
which men have been hung up by tfteir
thumbs. He gives the names of 17
victims and the name of one man who
was shot and two who were lashed.
Another document detailing those al
leged cruelties and mentioning specific
instances of insults to women by offi
cers, alleging in one case that a wo
man was shot because she resisted a
government officer who tried to kiss
her, has been submitted to the State
department by Senor Castrillo.
JAPAN MAKES LAND LAW.
Taft Starts on Trip.
Washington, April 30. President
Taft left Washington at 7 o'clock last
night for Buffalo, his first stop on a
seven-day trip. From Buffalo the
president goes to Pittsburg, then to
Cincinnati, St. Louis and back home,
reaching here May 6. There have
been many predictions as to the line
the president's speeches will take on
the trip. He has given no hint himself
of what he will say, but it is signifi
cant that he is carrying with him a
full set of figures on the operation of
the Payne-Aldrich tariff law.
Seattle Japs Number 4,000.
Seattle, Wash., April 30. The cen
sus of Japanese in Seattle, nearly com
pleted, will show a population of more
than 4,000 people of that race, or more
than twice as many as any other Amer
ican city has. Adding the truck farm
ers in the surrounding country, there
are 10,000 Japanese in and near Seat
tle. In the state of Washington the
census is expected to show 20,000 Jap
anese, as against about 40,000 in California.
Foreign Ownership to Hinge on Re
ciprocal Rights Aroad.
Tokio, May 3. The law relating to.
foreigners' right of ownership of land
was promulgated today.
It provides that foreigners domiciled
or resident in Japan, and foreign juri
dical persons registered therein, shall
enjoy Jhe right of ownership in land,
provided always that in the countries,
to which they belong such right is ex
tended to Japanese juridicial persons.
The law is applicable only to fore
igners belonging to countries designa
ted by imperial ordinance.
In the districts of Hokkaido. For
mosa, Karafu and districts necessary
for national defence, foreigners are de
barred from land ownership.
In case a foreigner or foreign juri
dical person owning land ceases to be
capable of enjoying right of ownership,
such land shall accrue to the fiscus,
unless he disposes of it within a per
iod of one year.
miles out of this city with the greatest pord; valley, 186; 21c; mohair, choice,
or success, is marketing his asparagus
crop. Hi daily shipments, which go
to Portland, amount to over a quarter
of a ton per day.
New Bank at Nyssa.
Nyssa The bank of Nyssa will open
for business May 2. The stockholders
of the new bank are J. C McVey,
presdient; A. J. Kingman, vice presi
dent; J. Hanks Hill, cashier; Robert
Van Gelsie, Newton Minton, Tom Nel
son and Hub Walters.
32ft; 33c.
Cattle Steers, good to choice, $6.50
(5 6.75; fair to medium, $5(55.50; cuws
and heifers, good to choice, $4.75.51
5.25; fair to medium, $4ff? 4. 50; bulls,
$3.50(54.50; stags, $5f'7 5.50; calves,
light, $6(57; heavy, $4.50ft7 5.50.
Hogs Top, $10.25(?ri0.75; fair to
medium, $9.75510.00.
Sheep Best wethers, $5.25(515.75;
fair to good wethersv $4.75(55.25;
best ewes, $4.755.25; lambs, choice,
$7a8; fair, $6.50(i7.
Court Nips Thaw Plan.
New York, April 30. Harry K.
Thaw, who killed Stanford White,
must remain in the Matteawan insane
asylum. The appellate division of the
Supreme court in Brooklyn handed
down a decision today which sets
aside the appointment by Justice
Tompkins, of the Supreme court, of a
referree to take testimony bearing on
Thaw's possible transfer. The court
holds that Matteawan is the proper
place for Thaw.
McCredie's Bill is Favored.
Washington, April 30. Representa
tive McCredie today had a hearing be
fore the judiciary committee in order
to present arguments in support of his
bill authorizing the states of Oregon
and Wns'npton to adjust differences
over the boundary line where it follows
the Columbia river. After his hearing
the committee assured him the bill
would be favorably reported next week.
Five Fall Far, Unhurt.
Pasadena, Cal., May 3. Mr. and
Mrs. F. E. Wolfarth, their two child
ren and R. Tobey, of Covina, were
hurled down a 200-foot precipice todav
and though they fell on a pile of rocks
not one of the party were hurt. The
skidding of the automobile in which
they were riding up Scoville Hill
caused the accident. Wolfarth, who
was driving, tried to round a sharp,
curve in the trail skirting the crest of
the hill and the car went over the edge
of an almost perpendicular precipice.
The automobile was demolished.
Chinese Looters Pay Penalty.
Shanghai, China, May 3. The local
government officials are making vigor
ous reprisals againpt the looters in
Changsha, subjecting them to torture
and in some cases executing them.
There is still evidence of opposition on
the part of the unofficial governing
body or "gentry," to permitting for
eign business firms to reopen. Re
ports from up the river indicate that
conditions are quiet, but the officials
are taking all precautions.
Long Island Shaken Up.
New York, May 3. Hempstead,
Mineola, Garden City and other towns
of Long Island shook for 45 seconds
this afternoon on the dot of 3 o'clock.
Crockery on the shelves and windows
in their sashes rattled loudly. Persons
on their feet felt the tremor sharply.
An earthquake was not thought of, but
instant and numerous telephone in
quiries failed to bring news of any explosion.