Heppner gazette., April 13, 1911, Image 6

D0IH6S0FTHEWEEK
Current Events or Interest Gathereil
From the World at large.
General Resume af Important Event
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.
Tom L. Johnson, famous reform
mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, is dead.
Roosevelt visited Sandpoint, Idaho,
where he worked as a cowboy 25 years
ago.
Mexican rebels tried to take Zaca
tecas, but were repulsed in a desperate
street fight.
A serious Republican outbreak oc
curred in Spain and occupation of
Portugal also is threatened.
About 1,000 Portland carpenters
have gone on strike for the closed
shop and $4 per day for 8 hours work.
A S. P. train struck a three-ton
boulder on the track in Nevada and
narrowly escaped being thrown into
Donner lake.
Remains of prehistoric giant men
and animals are being unearthed in a
cave in California. The bones are
bedded in a stratum of sandstone.
A Seattle brickmason was killed
and many others badly shocked by a
30.000-volt wire coming in contact
with the iron cornice of the wall on
which they were at work.
The small wooden steamer Iroquois,
plying along the coast of Vancouver
island, was capsized by a squall and
at least 20 of the passengers and crew
drowned within a mile of shore and in
plain view of many who were unable
to render assistanci
Rival factions of striking teamsters
fought a battle with revolvers in the
streets of Chicago, but no casualties
are reported. Streetcars filled with
passengers were in the battle zone,
and one man stood behind a car while
he emptied his revolver at the enemy.
Stephen Crawford, candidate for
mayor of Alton, 111., has deposited
$2,400 in an Alton bank as a pledge of
good faith in case of election to the
office if he fails to close the saloons on
Sunday.
Ralph Smith, a Canadian Liberal,
approves the reciprocity treaty.
More artillery will be sent to
strengthen the defenses of Hawaii.
Mexican rebel chiefs are unanimous
in their demand that Diaz must resign.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
wat Track prices : Bluestem,
86c; club, 82c; red Russian, 81c; val
ley, 82c; 40-fold, 93c.
Barley Choice feed, $26.5027 ton:
Millstuffs Bran, $21 per ton; mid
dlings, $29(330; shorts, $22.50; rolled
barley, $28(5 29.
Corn Whole, $28; cracked, $23
28.50 per ton.
Hay Timothy, Eastern Oregon,
No. 1, $21(3.21.50; mixed, $16(3,18;
alfalfa, $12(3 12.50.
Apples Fancy, $2(32.75 per box,
choice, $1(3 2; common, 50c(3$l.
Vegetables Asparagus, 6(37c per
pound; green onions, 20c per dozen;
hothouse lettuce, $1.25 per box; rad
ishes, 30(3. 35c per dozen; rhubarb,
$1.25(31.50 per box; sprouts, 9c per
pound; carrots, 85c(3$l per hundred;
parsnips, 85c(3$l; turnips, 85c(3$l;
beets, 90c(3$l.
Potatoes Oregon buying price,
$1.35(31.60 per hundred.
Onions Buying price, $2(32.10 per
hundred.
Hops 1910 crop, 17Jftl8c; 1909
crop, 12(3 13c; contracts, 16Jc.
Wool Eastern Oregon, nominal, 10
(314c per pound; valley, 15(3 17c; mo
hair, choice, 32c per pound delivered
Portland.
Poultry Hens, 21c; broilers, 30c;
turkeys, 21c; ducks, 20ft 23c; geese,
12ft 14c; dressed turkeys, choice, 23(3;
23c.
Eggs Oregon ranch, 20ft 21c dozen.
Butter City creamery, extra, 1 and
2-pound prints, in boxes, 31c ,per
pound ; less than boxes, cartons and
delivery extra.
Pork Fancy, 10(310Jc per pound.
Veal Fancy, 85 to 125 pounds, 12
(312Jc per pound.
Cattle Prime steers, $6.25(3 6.75;
choice, $6ft6.25; good to choice,
$5.50(3-5.75; fair to good, $4ft5;
common, $4ft5; prime cows, $4. 75(3
5; good to choice, $4.50ft4.75; fair
to good, $4.25(3 4.50; poor, 4.25ft,
4.50; choice heifers, $5(3 5.25; choice
bulls, $4.50(34.75; good to choice,
$4.25(34.50; fair to good, $3.75(34;
common, $3(3.3.50; choice light cal
ves, $7.75(3 8; good to choice, $7.50
(37.75; fair to medium, $7(37.50;
choice heavy, $5.25(35.50; good to
choice, $5(3.5.25; fair to medium,
$4.75(3 5; choice stags, $5.25(3,5.50;
good to choice, $4. 50(35; fair to me
dium, $4(3 4.50.
Hogs Choice, $7.75(3 8; good to
choice, $7.50ft7.75; choice heavy,
$7.25(3 7.50; good to choice, $7(3 7.25;
common, $6.50ft.7; stock hogs, $8ft,
8.25.
Sheep Choice yearling wethers,
grain fed, $4.50(35.10; old wethers,
14ft 4.25: choice ewes. erain fed,
$4ft4.25; fair to medium ewes, $3ft
3.50; spring lambs, extra quality,
$10; choice lambs, grain fed, wool,
$5.50(3 5.75; choice lambs, grain fed,
sheared, $5.25ft5.50; good to choice
lambs, grain fed, $5(3.5.25; fair to
good Iambs, grain fed, $4.75(35;
culls, f 2.50&3 50.
WORK ON MAINE PROGRESSES.
Caissons Around Battleship Com
pleted Successfully.
Havana, April 11. In the driving
of the last few interlocking steel piles
of the 20 caissons forming the inclos
ing wall of the huge basin or coffer
dam surrounding the wreck of the bat
tleship Maine, the first stage in the
work of removing the shattered re
mains of the warship has been
brought to a successful conclusion.
The work was accomplished with
rapidity, and its progress was un
marked by a single mishap or hitch
until the introduction of the final pile,
which failed to interlock properly
with those on either side.
This gave rise to a rumor that the
stability of the caisson was endanger
ed, but exan.i u ton showed the trou
ble resulted from the piles being
slightly deformed by an accidental
blow from the iron bucket of a dredge
working alongside. The extraction
and replacing of three piles served to
repair the damage. The second stage
of the work, that of filling the cais
sons, as fast as completed, with the
mud, clay and rock dredged from the
harbor bottom, has been going on for
some time, and, now that the ring is
completed, is being pushed forward
with the utmost rapidity. The steam
dredge Norman Davis, lent to the gov
ernment by the Huston-Trumbo Dredg
ing company, and the United States
army dredge Barnard are dumping
hundreds of tons of material into the
caissons.
It is expected that the filling of the
caissons will be completed by the end
of April, and after that the most in
teresting stage of the work that of
pumping out the great basin and leav
ing the hull of the battleship in- pre
cisely the condition she was on the
morning after her destruction 13 years
ago will begin.
As a guaranty of the security of the
retaining wall around the basin, it is
probable that riprap will be dumped
around the exterior of the ellipse of
caissons before the pumping begins.
The wreck itself will have to be
carefully watched as the water level
falls, there being some danger that, as
the support of the water and the mud
in which it rests is withdrawn, the
hull may careen, just as ships have
been known to do in drydock when in
sufficiently secured.
As soon as the wreck is fully ex
posed, the work of exploration in
search of human bodies will take pre
cedence. It is practically certain
that when this stage of the work is
reached, a United States man-of-war
will be ordered to Havanna and will
lie close to the wreck to receive the
bodies as fast as they are recovered,
and transport them to their final rest
ing place. After that will come an
exhausting scrutiny of the shattered
wreck by experts, who, in the opinion
of engineer officers, will be able to
determine beyond all question precise
ly the character of agency by which
the destruction of the Maine was et
fected. Probably many months will elapse
before the final stage of the work
the extraction and disposition of the
wreck. It is known that the forward
part of the ship, about one-third of
her length, is practically detached
from the rest, and it is so shattered
it will have to be extracted piecemeal.
When the after part has been strip
ped, so far as possible, of all heavy
weights, including the two turrets,
weighing with their pairs of ten-inch
guns about 200 tons each, it will be
possible to build a bulkhead across the
shattered end and float the hulk out of
the basin, to be sunk in all probability
hundreds of fathoms deep in the
straits of Florida.
Finally will come the extraction of
the thousands of steel piles composing
the 20 caissons and the dredging of
the material with which they were
filled. This may not be completed be
fore the end of the year.
Sandhogs Unearth Relic.
Portland As the sinking of the
first caisson of the Broadway bridge
continues, "sandhogs of the Union
Bridge & Construction company are
wairorintr that in medieval times there
was a sawmill on the waterfront, for
in their excavating operations there
have been unearthed quantities of
slabwood that appears as if it had
been whip-sawed out of logs instead
of being cut by modern steam saws.
Besides, it is found at a great dis
tancB below the river bed. where the
material is hardened more than silt.
Fort Astor to Be Built.
Astoria, Or. The Centennial con-5
mittee has selected Wednesday, April
12, the the 100th anniversary of the
naming of Astoria, as the date on
which to break ground in the city
park for the construction of a repro
duction of old Fort Astor. A special
program of exercises has been ar
ranged for the occasion and the mayor
has been requested to declare a half
holiday. The contract for building
the fort has been awarded for $2,800.
Few Filipinos Go North.
San Francisco Most of the Filipino
laborers who arrived here from Haw
aii on the steamer Korea and who
brought their contracts to work in the
Alaska canneries have decided to re
main in this state, hoping to secure
employment in the interior. A few
of them, however, left for the north
on the Continental and Oriental of the
Alaska Packers' fleet.
Rebels Besiege Canton.
London A special dispatch to the
Daily Express from Hongkong says
that a serious uprising is reported to
have occurred at Canton. It is said
the Tartar general commanding the
troops has been murdered and that
other troops have been hurried to the
city, which is in a state of siege.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE
FIRE DANGER TOLD.
State Official Takes First Step
to
Save Oregon Timber.
Salem Inaugurating the fight
against forest fires in Oregon the
state forester issued has first ultima
tum which he hopes will be reprinted
in every newspaper in the state. B.
W. Elliott is assisting the state for
ester until a deputy is selected.
Offices were opened at the capitol
and the first move taken was toward
warning the people against the danger
of starting forest fires.
In his letter to the people of Oregon
the forester says :
"Forest fires, one of the greatest
sources of destruction to the most val
uable resources of the state, will soon
be restricted and their terrors largely
reduced if the people will co-operate
with the state forester in the adminis
tration of the new forestry law enact
ed by the last legislature, which will
be ready for distribution in pamphlet
form in the near future.
"One of the most important provis
ions of the law is that making a closed
season for burning from June 1 to Oc
tober 1, during which period out-door
fires of all kinds are prohibited except
under most stringent regulations and
the probability of heavy penalties.
"In this connection the state for
ester urges upon everyone the neces
sity of doing all possible burning be
fore the close season begins and thus
save the trouble and risk of doing
it by permission in the season of
greatest danger when fires spread so
easily and rapidly. the state tor
ester desires the assistance and co
operation of everyone in the protec
tion of property from forest, grass or
brush fires, and to this end invites
suggestions and information calculat
ed to assist in any manner in the per
formance of his most important du
ties. Copies of the law will be fur
nished promptly to all who desire
them. Requests and communications
should be addressed A. iMiiott,
State Forester, Capitol, Salem,' and
will receive prompt and appreciative
attention.
"As the dry season approaches, tim
ber owners in Oregon are making pre
parations for more effective work than
ever before in preventing damage by
forest fires," said C. b. Chapman,
secretary and manager of the Oregon
Fire association.
"One way in which many owners
are preparing for the danger period is
by burning, during this spell of dry
weather, slashings, fern patches and
places where fires can easily be start
ed a little later.
"Nothing can be more important
than that such work be taken up while
heavy rains can be counted on coming
to extinguish any smoldering logs or
snags before the dry summer months
arrive. With these places eliminated
and good patrols maintained, the state
should, next summer, make an en
viable record.
ONTARIO SCENTS LINE.
Condemnation Suits Pointed to as
Oregon-Eastern Move.
Ontario That work is to be com
menced on the extension of the Oregon
Eastern Railroad, known as the Har-
riman line, through the Malheur Can
yon to Central Oregon, is evidenced
by the commencement of condemna
tion suits against owners of the Cas
cade wagon road grant, for right of
way through its lands. The cases
will come up in ' the April term of
court, when it is expected that a set
tlement will be made.
Surveys on the south side of the
Snake river from the Oregon Short
Line tracks to Homedale show that
the new track will strike the Short
Line near Arcadia, about seven miles
south of Ontario. It is believed that
a double track will be laid to the pres
ent line used by the branch road run
ning to Brogan, thus making a double
track from its connection with the
Short Line to Ontario, -which will un
doubtedly become the division point.
A coal shute is being built at On
tario large enough to hold several cars
of coal. It will be operated by hy
draulic machinery.
Madras Gets Wool Depot.
Madras Articles of incorporation
have been filed by a local company
with capital of $15,000 for the pur
pose of building a wool warehouse at
this place, construction to begin at
once. This means that Madras will
hereafter be the pooling point of the
wool for interior Oregon, and that the
annual sales will be held here. Much
of the wool that has heretofore gone
to Shaniko will now be delivered and
sold at this place.
Government Pays $4,000 for Spring
Oregon City E.. P. Dedman of
Clackamas, has just sold to the Uni
ted States six acres known as the
Cranfield Spring on which is located
the hatchery belonging to the govern
ment. This sprnig has been owned by
Mr. Dedman since 1881. It has been
leased for the past six years by the
government for hatchery purposes,
and is considered to be valuable. The
price paid for the Fpring was $4,000.
Wallowa Plans Stock Show.
Wallowa Efforts are being made
to hold a livestock and poultry show
in Wallowa this spring. With it will
be an auction day for the exchange of
livestock and farm products and a
general market day may result. May
or Morelock promises to make definite
announcements within a few days.
STATE CAN'T STOP EXCHANGE
Land Reverts to Government if Irriga
tion is Not Carried Out.
Salem Having been unable through
state legislation to accomplish the ob
ject, Wellington G. Howell & Co.,
during the closing hours of the late
congress, succeeded in having a law
enacted by which this company is per
mitted to exchange 8,793 acres of
timber land that it had acquired in a
school section at present lying within
national forest reserve for about
9,560 acres of land that had been re
served from entry by the United
States government and which was
awarded to a Portland company under
contract with the state of Oregon to
reclaim under the Carey act.
The interests of the Portland com
pany were afterwards purchased by
Wellington G. Howell & Co. The
9,560 acres that are to be exchanged
for the school lands lie in the Malheur
valley, about 20 miles south and east
of Burns and about 10 miles from
Lake Malheur. The Wellington in
terests acquired the school base, which
they exchanged for the arid lands in
Malheur county, through purchase,
not getting it directly, from the state.
For it they paid from $1.25 to $2.50
an acre. There are various estimates
as to the value of the Malheur valley
tract, though it is the opinion of State
Engineer Lewis that it cannot success
fully be irigated. It was the plan of
the Portland company to irrigate by
sinking wells, but no work was ever
done by that company.
FRUIT PEST SQUAD STARTS.
Many Important Points to Have O.
A. C. Stations.
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
vallis A general siege against fruit
pests of every description is now be
ing arranged by the experts of this
college. Within the next week or
two six men will be employed to go to
various sections of the state and take
up this work.
This general fight against the pests
of fruit crops was authorized by the
last legislature at the investigation of
the fruitgrowers of the state. It will
be carried on entirely under the di
rection of the departments of plant
pathology, entomology and horticul
ture of this institution. Headquartsrs
will be established in the various fruit
sections of the state. It has already
been decided to establish one at Salem,
and others will probably be located
at Roseburg, Portland, Eugene and
possibly Milton. The work, however,
will all be directed from the college.
The details have not been deter
mined upon, but afe now being care
fully worked out. The plans will
probably be completed within the next
week or two. Professors Cordley,
Lewis and Jackson, who have general
charge of the work, are confident that
it will result in saving many thou
sands of dollars to the fruit growers.
Vale Reads Riot Act.
Vale Much perturbed over delays
and various complications in the new
water system being constructed at an
expense of slightly over $100,000 and
begun nine months ago, the Vale city
officials have given the American
Light & Water company, of Kansas
City, until May 1 to put the system in
working shape. The firm is under
$100,000 bonds. A telegram has been
sent City Engineer W. P. Bullock at
Kansas City to send all maps, plans
and contracts of the system. Bullock
is drawing pay for supervising the
work, but has not been here since it
started and the council is debating
whether to dispense with his services.
When Engineer Oakes was appointed
by the council a few weeks ago to look
over the system and locate the source1
of trouble, no maps, plans or contracts
could be found. Since then the bonds
of the contractors have been located
but other valuable papers are still
missing.
Prepare for New Railroad.
Nyssa The unloading of several
carloads of material at Nyssa the past
week by the Oregon Short Line indi
cates that no time is to be lost in the
building of the Nyssa-Homedale ex
tension. The material consisted
mostly of lumber for the erection of
headquarters for the engineer and his
crew. Engineer Ashton has been to
Nyssa several times the past week to
start the crews on the surveys. Con
tracts will be let this month.
Work Begins on Bridge.
Madras Work has commenced on
the foundations for the big Harrirnan
bridge across Willow creek gorge on
the western edge of town. Large
quantities of materials cement, etc.,
a concrete mixer, donkey engine and
equipment are already on the ground,
while the excavation for the concrete
bases for the four steel towers that
are to support the bridge is being
done.
Wheat Helped By Snow.
Condon Condon was visited by a
snow of about two inches Monday
night and people were jubilant over it
because of the big benefit to the farm
ers who have grain sown. Not enough
can be said of he benefits derived
from snow falling this time of the
year on ground that is planted to
grain, as it receives nearly every bit
of moisture in that form.
Will Irrigate 1,000 Acres.
Ontario The Ontario Townsite com
pany has ordered the machinery, mo
tors and pumps, costing over $8,000,
to irrigate 1.000 acres of land adjoin
ing town. The work will be com
pleted this spring.
COLLIERY FIRE KILLS FIFTY.
Men Cut Off Like Rats In Blind
Tunnel.
Scranton, Pa. Fifty men and boys
are believed to have perished without
a moment's warning Saturday in a
mine fire in the Pancoast colliery at
Throop, three miles from here. Some
estimates place the number of dead at
60. Three bodies have been recov
ered. John Evans, head of the United
States rescue car, died from suffoca
tion resulting from a defective rescue
helmet.
Three men protected by helmets and
oxygen tanks pushed past the point
where the flames were first discovered
at 5 o'clock in the afternoon and
stumbled over the bodies of two men
and a boy, who had evidenty fallen
while groping their way to safety.
A majority of the missing men and
boys are foreigners, but two Ameri
cans Foreman Walter Knight and
Fire Boss Alfred Dawe are thought
to have perished.
The fire started in an engine house
at the opening of a slope leading from
the Diamond vein, 750 feet from the
surface. There were 400 men in the
mine, about 60 of them at work in a
"blind" tunnel at the end of the
slope. Escape was competely blocked
by fire, smoke and the generated
gases. The other men, scattered in
other workings, got out.
James Vickers, a fire boss, who was
near the engine house when the fire
broke out, gave the alarm, and tried
to get to the tunnel where he knew a
body of men was at work. He could
go only a short distance before he was
forced to turn back. He was so ex
hausted that he had to be carried to the
surface. He gave it as his opinion
that no man could live five minutes in
the tunnel.
TUBERCULOSIS CURED BY
TAHITIAN HERB EXTRACT
San Francisco Having spent four
years in Tahiti as chief surgeon in the
colonial army, Dr. L. Bellonne was a
passenger on the steamer Mariposa
which arrived here Saturday. As a
bacteriologist, Dr. Bellonne said he
made important discoveries which will
be of great moment to the medical
world when they are disclosed by his
report to the French government at
Paris. While unwilling to discuss in
detail his important medical discov
ery, he intimated that he had found a
cure for tuberculosis in the form of a
compound from a herb found only on
the island of Tahiti.
ALL SAVED GROM LINER.
Cabin Passengers Given Precedence
to Steerage Folk.
Lone Hill, L. I., Life Saving Sta
tion The 1,720 cabin and steerage
passengers on the stranded North Ger
man Lloyd liner Prinzess Irene were
transferred to the deck of the Prinz
Friedrich Wilhelm in five hours and
ten minutes Saturday afternoon and
one hour after nightfall they were on
their way to New York. The feat is
unparalleled in the history of marine
disasters.
Not a life was lost, not a case of
panic was reported. The first pas
senger off was a woman and the sec
ond a baby. The cabin passengers,
masters of the situation and the lang
uage, generously gave precedence to
the more timorous steerage pas
sengers. As for the liner on the bar, night
fall showed her hard and fast in the
girp of the sands, and Captain God
dard, of the Lone Hill Life Saving
station, estimates she will be held
prisoner at least a week, perhaps a
fortnight.
In the 36 hours since she struck she
has been favored by comparatively
light weather, but a stiff blow from
the southwest might open her plates,
crush in her. bulkheads and wrench
apart her stout steel frame.
Germ Not Disease Cause.
Pendleton, Or. All theories of
modern medicine . were contradicted
Friday night by ' Rev. Mr. Vande
walker, and a retired physician, here,
who asserted that germs and bacteria
were not the cause of disease, but
were rather the product. This state
ment was made at the regular meet
ing of the Pendleton City and County
Medical society. Despite the inter
esting manner in which Dr. Vande
walker elaborated his theories for dis
cussion, the physicians present did not
indorse his views.
Tunnel Bill is Passed.
Denver The house, by a vote of 35
ayes to 30 nays passed the Moffat tun
nel bill. The measure now goes to
the senate. The bill authorizes the
state to issue bonds to the amount of
$4,000,000 to be used in the construc
tion of a tunnel through the Rocky
Mountain range at James peak. The
tunnell will be used by the Denver,
Northwestern & Pacific. Tho road
is to put up a bond guaranteeing the
state against loss.
Unions Fight Guard Laws.
Helena, Mont. Labor unions of
Montana will begin Monday to circu
late petitions calling for a referendum
election to determine whether the mil
itary law enacted at the last session
shall remain on the statute books.
The law puts the national guard on
the footing required by the Federal
authorities. It will be the first time
the referendum has been invoked since
it was made four years ago.
JAP TREATY IDE
Mexico Had Given Coaling Station
In Lower California.
American Envoy Discovers Document,
Photographs It, and Hurries to
Washington With Copy.
Mexico City, April 10. President
Taft gave President Diaz of Mexico
six days to abrogate a treaty he is
said to have made with Japan.
The hidden treaty was discovered by
Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson, who
photographed it, returned the original,
and proceeded post haste to Washing
ton to inform the State department.
The treaty is said to have contained
clauses that gave Japan coaling sta
tion privileges and other big conces
sions on the coast of Mexico, including
the right to use Magdalena Bay for.
target practice.
Taft's order mobilizing troops at
tha border followed promptly.
These are startling disclosures made
here by an apparently authentic source
today and which, as recited in narra
tive form, are given as the cause oi
the hurry order that rushed 20,000
troops to the border. The relations
reported to have existed between Mex
ico and Japan are said to have prevail
ed prior to March 1.
Ambassador Wilson, of the United
States, so the story goes, had occa
sion many months ago to feel that
strong antipathy of Mexicans of all
classes was shown toward the United
States. In the celebration in honor of
the foundation of the republic, when
many Japanese of high rank came as
special ambassadors from their country
to the Mexican capital, the ambassa
dor noticed that there had been priv
ate audiences between Diaz and a few
of his more influential ministers and
the Japanese delegates.
To Ambassador Wilson it was re
ported that for 18 months every ship
of the Toyd Kisen Kaisha, whose port
is San Francisco, were carrying from
20 to 150 Japanese, passage paid, be
sides cargoes of agricultural machin
ery, household goods and general
stores. At San Francisco these Jap
anese were transshipped to steamers
of the Pacific Mail line plying be
tween San Francisco and Mexican
ports.
In February Ambassador Wilson
was busy cultivating every source of
information in the higher circles of
the Mexican government. Very near
the end of the month, from a certain
source in the government, Mr. Wilson,
it is said, obtained for a few hours
the orignal of a secret treaty between
Japan and Mexco. He kept it long
enough to have photographs made of
it. Then it was returned to its place
in the innermost archives of the Mex
can state department.
The document, the report here in
dicates, was in the shape of several
clauses which were to be a part of a
formal agreement on the part of the
Mexican governent to allow the Jap
anese commercial line of steamships
to have its own coaling station at a
point on the Pacific coast and to grant
certain other colonization rights in
states along the Western coast.
The secret clauses of the treaty,
those said to have been photographed
by Mr. Wilson, the report continues,
gave Japan a lease of a coaling sta
tion and maneuver pivileges in Mag
dalena bay, with the alternative of a
coaling station at one other of a few
scattered ports down the Mexican
coast.
Clauses also set forth Japan and
Mexico's mutual interests in the Pa
cific, and while not stipulating an
offensive and defensive alliance, gave
in a diplomatic way Japan's keen in
terest in the protection of Mexico
against aggression. The treaty had
been ratified, not by the Mexican sen
ate, but by Diaz and his cabinet.
The day after he obtained the pho
tograph of this treaty, Mr. Wilson
left for Washington.
Balloon Falls 4.000 Feet.
St. Louis A balloon ascension here
by four members of the Signal corps
of the First regiment, National guard
of Missouri, terminated in an accident
when the aerostat Fprung a leak and
dropped like a plummet from an ele
vation of 4,000 feet. Lieutenants
Drew and Hart and Sergeants Book
man and Obermeyer, who comprised
the aeronautic party, saved themselves
after colliding with the smokestack of
a tobacco factory less than three miles
from the starting point, by dumping
all their ballast overboard.
Filipino Laborers Released.
Honolulu The territorial Supreme
court released on a writ of habeas
corpus 15 Filipino laborers who were
taken from the steamer Korea before
her departure for San Francisco. In
its decision the court severely censur
ed the action of the prosecution, rep
resented by the planters' attorneys,
in preventing F. B. Craig, counsel for
the Alaska Packers, from seeing the
Filipinos and in confining them in jail
when no charges had been preferred.
200 Persons Die in Fire.
Bombay, British India Two hun
dred men, women and children were
burned to death in a fire which de
stroyed a thatched structure in which
they had.gathered for a festival. Five
hundred persons were in the building.
There was only one exit and a panic
ensued..