NEWS OF THE WEEK
In a Condensed Form for Our
Busy Readers.
HAPPENINGS OF TWO CONTINENTS
THREE DEAD
23 INJURED.
Sheridan Local Wrecked by Broken
Rail at Forest Grove
Forest Grove. Ore.. Feb. 11.—
Three were killed and 13 were in
jured. one very seriously, by the de
railment of the Sheridan local on a
short trestle bridge about three-
fourths of a mile west ot this city at
5 QjCkKk. last night. The dead are:
Mr*. Edward Bate* and 5-monlbs-
old daughter, ot Forest Grove.
J A McDonald, of McMinnville.
Mr*. J. H. Brown, aged $0. of
Sheridan, was badly crushed, and
may not recover.
The accident resulted from a
broken rail, one 30-foot »action at
the west end of the trestle bridge be
ing splintered into four piece* by
the weight of the heavily loaded
coaches. The defective rail appar
ently did not give way until after
the engine, mail and baggage cars
bad crossed in safety.
The smoker was the first to leave
the track, carrying with it two day
coaches. The smoker and the first
day coach ran over the ties for a dis
tance of 10 yards and pitched from
the trestle to the ground, teu feet
below, striking on their sides. The
second day coach also left the track,
and turned only partly over.
Miss Grace Harding, of Gaston, a
passenger In the rear coach, was
thrown through a window Into les*
than two feet of water beneath the
trestle, but escaped uninjured.
LIABLE TO FINER OF «00.000.000
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
FUHBID» Gt.AU rIANO
OREGON GIVaN PROMINENCE
Corrupt Practices Act May Ba Found Joint Passenger Tariff Mention* 200
Unconstitutional.
Point* in State.
Hslem That the corrupt-practice*
bill, to be submitted to a vote ot the
people under the initiative and ref
erendum. I* In direct conflict with
that »ectton of the Constitution which
guarantee* freedom of spe<*ch la be
lieved by many who haxe rvad the
measure. The bill makes it a crime
for any person to ask. solicit or In
any manuer try to induce or per
suade a voter on election day to vote
for or against any candidate or meas-
.
This would bar the use of any
kind ot argument on election day *nd
there t* doubt whether it would be
constitutional.
Under thl* section of the law it is
probable that newspaper* published
on the morning of election day would
be prohibited from printing anything
calculated to influence voter* in de
termining how to mark their ballot*.
The words "in any manner try to
Induce or persuade" would cover a
multitude of act*. Candidate* who
sent to the poll* and extended the
glad hand to voter* would unques
tionably come within the term* of
the act. for It is common knowledge
that a warm handshake t* one of the
most potent mean* of getting vote*.
Oregon receivva considerable prom
inence in the joint tariff issued by the
Union Pacific giving the one way col
onist rate* to the Pacific coast from
A Raauma of the L mi Important but
Union Pacific territory. The tariff has
Not Laaa Interesting Event*
jn*I been issued «nd make* the rate*
effwlive M«r4b 1 to April 30, inclu
of the Pa»t Week.
de*. The tariff set. forth th* rate« In
detail a* they have been aanonooed al
ready in the uew*|Mi|*erThe low col
Nine miuer» were killed by an ex
onist rate is g<xxl to any station in Ore
plosion ot gas in a Kentucky coal
gon and about 200 points in tditn stale
mine,
ar* mentioned Individually in the
A New York grand jury has re
tariff.
The rate is $30 from tXmncil
turned two indictments against Ice
Bluff*. Omaha, 81. Joseph, l*aven
King Morse.
worth or Kansas City to all mam and
Reach Hargis, the young man who
branch line promts on b. R. A N. esat
shot his father, a Kentucky feudist,
of Portland, Including points north of
is held without balL
Umatilla and Pendleton, via Granger,
Over 5.000 men have been put to
Ogden and Huntington, via Denver,
work by the National Tube Company,
Granger or Ogden and Huntington, or
near Cleveland, Ohio.
via Itenver. Grand Junction, Ogd*n and
Huntington.
New York labor leaders want to
nominate labor candidates for pres
The same rats obtains to Portland
ident and vice president.
and all ttrsib and branch line points
on the Southern Pacific south thereof
Foraker insists that President
to and including Ashland, as well *•
Roosevelt Is using political patron
all point* on the Astoria A Columbia
age to help the Taft boom.
PRINTERS SENT TO PRISON.
River railroad, via Granger or Ogden
The Columbia Northern railway
and Huntington. via Denver, Granger
will be merged with the other Hill
or Ogden and Huntington, via Grand
Member, of Naw York "B g 0" Fined
PRECIOUS STONES IN RIVER.
lines under one management.
Junction, Ogden and Huntington and
and
Sent
to
Jail.
Lisbon papers demand the punish
New York. Feb. 12—President Albany Man Make* Great Find* on via Denver and Billing*.
ment of one of the guards who
sabred one of the king's assassins.
Patrick McCormick, of the local Ty
Gravel Ber*.
WANT CHEAPER GRAIN SACKS
The Illinois Steel Company's mills pographical Union, known as the
Albany—That the gravel bar* of
in South Chicago are resuming work. "Big 6'' and George W. Jackson and the Willamette river are full ot ml- '
They will employ about 5,000 men. Vincent J. Costello, union organizers, liable stones is evidenced by the Grower* at Athena Working Through
Association.
,
A treaty has been signed providing yesterday were fined $250 each and number found by J. G. Crawford, of ■
People | Athena—C. A. Rer-ett, president of
for the arbitration of any difficulty sentenced to 20 days' imprisonment this city, in the past year
that may arise between the United for disobedience of an injunction ob spend hours, says Mr. Crawford, the Inland Graingrower* aasviation,
tained by the Typothetae of New searching on ocean beaches for
States and France.
that the principal object of the or
York in 1906. Thomas Bennett and stone*, which can be picked up In sav.
The United States court of appeals William S. Anderson were fined ordinary gravel bars where no one ganisation at prreent is to reduce the
price of sack*. The »«».elation declare*
ha* again decided that railroads $XU0 on the same charge Sentence ever thinks of searching
must use reasonable precaution* for was imposed by Justice Bishoff in
On the Willamette just above and that the price* th* dealers sak fur sacks
the safety of their employes.
opposite this city is a wide gravel are unreasonable. They say that they
the supreme court.
This is the first time any such bar and on this during the ¡vast year tirade* good, substantial saving last
Two Nevada laborers, while lost in
heavy
sentence
in
the
case
of
a
labor
Mr. Crawford has found the follow year by mean* ol the aas.ciatlon, and
a snow storm, found a rich ledge of
gold-bearing quarts under the snow organization for violation of Injunc ing stones and minerals: Agates ot that they will be able to make a far
tion has been imposed in these various colors, cornelians, various greater saving this year. Mr. Barrett
while making a camp for shelter.
courts. The troubles grew out of shades ot Jasper, conglomerate Jas
The Portugese nation will provide the strike of Typographical Union per, white jade, feldspar which re estimate* that the farmers of this
funds for the care of the families of No. 6. commonly called ' Big Six.'' sembles the blue ground of South county will be able this year to save
the king's slayers who were killed, ordered early in 1906 against the As Africa, indicative of diamonds; chal- $40,000. The Inland Graingrower»'
and wealthy families are contending sociation of Employers known as the ecedony. silicas of various colors, association is a corporation and buy*
for the privilege of adopting the or Typothetae of the city of New York black obsidian, black and red obsi Its own sacks direct thus making *
phans.
for a closed shop and an eight-hour dian .moon stones, opals, rubitated great deal better bargain than the
quartz.
Thompsontte, serpentine, dealer can make.
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The battleship fleet has passed day.
oolitic, sandstone, saturlite, phallus
Another purpose of the association Is
Magellan straits and is now in the
WILL BAR JAPS.
and mltioritis, com;x>setl of iron and to force the O. R. A N. and Northern
Pacific ocean.
sulphur. On this same plain-appear Pacific railway companies to arrange to
The Swift Packing Company has
ing gravel bar Mr Crawford has
completed plans for a 53,500,000 British Columbia Legislature Enact* found in his searches In the past shift car* frum one line to the other
plant In Portland.
Educational Test Law.
year a fossil shark's tooth, primitive without removing the good» from one
Another object the
Victoria. B. C„ Feb. 12.—The new axes, pastels and mortars and palev- car to another.
A Yale graduate and athlete has
association has in view I* to reduce
been found to possess a complete immigration law, enacted by the llths.
freight rates on latite grain shipments.
British Columbia legislature recent
outfit of burglar's tools.
ly, on the lines of the Natal act,
Grain Sack* at Reduced Figure*
Premier Franco, dictator of Por which applies an educational test to
Pay Weyerhaeuser's Taxes.
Pendleton—Umatilla county farmer*
tugal has not left his room since ar immigrants arriving in British Co
Klamath Falls—The Weyerhaeuser
will share in the purchase ot 1,000,000
riving in Bordeaux, France.
lumbia. who must be able to read wheat sacks made by the Farmer»' Co Timber company, which has extensive
Roosevelt says the charges that he and write in English or a language
land holding in Klamath and lake
Is using his Influence to help Taft ot Europe to be permitted to land, operative union at Walla Walla. Over
became a law today, when Lieuten 200 farmers were present at a mses counties, I im announced it* Intention
along are false and malicious.
James Dunsmuir as meeting at which contract* tor the pur ot adopting the system followed by the
Claims ot alleged illegitimate heirs ant-Governor
chase ot 1,000,000 sacks from the J. Z. government in leasing the lin.ls within
sented
to
the
bill.
of Alfonso XII are creating consid
provisions were made Smith company and the Kerr-Gifford forest reeervee for grazing purposes.
erable trouble for the Spanish gov for Immediate
the enforcement of the new law, company of Portland st a uniform The company owns approximately 300,-
ernment.
which is obviously aimed at the Jap price of ’^c, was made. A* the same ooo acres of timber land in the two
One child was killed and many anese, and officials have been in quality of sacks sold last year at from counties. Some of the land it has ac
persons injured in the crush at the structed to carry out its effect on all 10 to lie each, the farmers have made quired in recent year», but much of it
funeral of the dead king and prince immigrants arriving after today. a great saving in purchases for this had been held for a long time. It lias
There are at the quarantine station
of Portugal.
never mail* any attempt to derive reve-
268 Japanese, left there by the year by asking for bids.
Members of the royal household steamer
n ie from the lands.
Kaga
Maru,
in
quarantine,
declare that the Portugese crown 125 of whom are bound here, and
New College Building.
prince rose and fired twice at the as these
Will Advertise in East.
come under the provisions
Milton—At a meeting of the board
sassins before he himself fell dead. of the will
new law.
of Columbia college it was decided
Eugene — The Eugene Commercial
California railroad commission has
that an administration building cost- club has appropriated «300 for advgr.
evidence to convict the Southern
RURAL PARCELS POST BILL.
tising lane county and Eugene in East
Pacific of rebating on about 4,000
it is understood that this building ern papier» next month, or until the
separate counts, the fines for which Burnham Proposes Measure to Help shall be ready for use at the next rel colonist rate« on the transcontinrntal
will amount to $80,000,000.
ieve term next fall. The building Is
Country Merchants.
to be equipped in the most modern railroads go into effect. Of the $1,375
King Edward and Queen Alexan
Washington, Feb. 11.—Senator way, giving every advantage to the expended bv the promotion department
dra. the Prince and Princess of
Burnham,
ot New Hampshire, today students. This is a South Methodist of the club since Manager Hart, g took
Wales, Princess Victoria and many
charge, all but $20.75 was expended in
government officials attended the introduced in congress a measure ot institution, and is proving very suc Eugene, thereby really turning the
memorial services for the late King IdiaUact importance to rural later«*« cessful. There Is an enrollment of
Carlos of Portugal and the Crown throughout the United States. It is over 109 students this terms, all money subecribed beck into the com
a bill to provide a rural delivery par form different parts of the north munity that give« it.
Prinoe.
cels post tor merchandise and other west.
The battleship fleet has turned to the articles actually mailed on rural de
New Hotel for Sodaville.
livery routes. The rural free deliv
north.
Sale* Under Hinkle Ditch
Albany—That a Portland physi
ery routes now number more than
Pendleton—Seven «alee of arid land cian will erect a $10,000 hotel and
Germany has reduced the import 38,000, and on them in excess ot
aggregating over $11,000 have jn»t been sanitarium at Sodaville during the
duty on sugar.
15,000,000 people receive a daily made from the Hinkle Ditch company's next three months is a report which
A leader of the Black Hand has been postal service.
tract in the western part of Umatilla has gained foundation in the little
The measure has the indorsement
captured in New York.
mineral springs city five miles south
of the president and postmaster-gen county. The tract« will all be «ettled east of Lebanon. No names have been
The senatorial deadlock in the Ken eral, Meyer. It provides, in brief, and reclaimed and a large «ettlernent given publicity, but It is said that
tucky legislature continue*.
for the establishment of a rural par is anticipated in tliat pert of the county the lmproven **nt la an assured fact
post at special rates of postage this spring. Those making pnreha-ee during the coming summer season.
The Pennsylvania railroad has just cel
for the delivery ot foodstuffs, dry were J. H. f-trohm, W P. Littlefield,
ordered 55,000 tons of steel rails.
goods, drugs, books and other mer Maurice I>. hcroggs, Elizabeth J. Tuck
PORTLAND MARKETS.
er, Martha A. Travis, Lorin G. Henry
Seattle ministers hare started an chandise.
and B. F. Strohm.
agitation against Sunday theaters.
Wheat—Club, 82c; bluestem, 84c;
Fund for King’s Slayer*
valley, 82 r>-<l, 80c.
Governor Pennypacker has been im-
London, Feb. 12.—A special dis
Klamath
Cattle
New*.
Oats—No. I white, $28; gray. $28.
plioited in the Pennsylvania capital
patch to the Standard from Lisbon
Klamath Fails—The shipping season
Barlev—Feed, $27 per ton; brewing,
frauds.
states that the public acquiesce in for Klamath connty cattle is about over $32; rolled, $2^30.
Franco, the deposed premier of Port- the assassination ot the King and and the total» ehow that ever $500,000
Corn — Whole, $32.50; cracked,
ugd, has arrived in France, fearing Crown Prince as a justifiable politi worth were driven out during the past $32.50.
cal
act,
and
that
no
effort
will
be
murder but defending hie policy.
Since August the number
Hay—Valiev timothy, No. 1,$17®18
made to bring to justice the accom season.
Government troops will be removed plices ot the murderers, although driven to Montague and Gazelle for per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, $20
tri m Goldfield March 7. at which time they are numerous and in many shipment equal* 10 686. and there yet <421; clover, $14016; cheat, $15;
the Nevada police will be ready to take cases known. On the contrary, says remain in the valley, mostly in the grain hay, $14015; alfalfa, $12(913;
charge.
the dispatch, no surprise is expressed Merrill country, aliout 3,000 yet to 1« vetch, $14.
that the republican newspapers de driven out. This does not Include the
Butter—Fancy creamery, 30035c pier
Warren Oliver, a member of the elec mand the criminal prosecution of the Fort Klamath rattle, driven ont by way pound.
toral college which named Lincoln, is king s equerry, Fiegueria, who sab of Ashland and Medford. About half
Poultry—Average old hens, 13<914c
dead. He was a pioneer of California ered one assassin.
of this total was shipped by J. C. per pound ; mixed chickens, 12013c;
and 93 yean old.
Mitchell.
spring chickens, 13014c; roosters, 10
Won't Sue for Slander.
012c; dre*sed chicken». 14c; turkeys,
Associate Public Printer Bram lias
8tate Want* Sidetrack.
Washington, Feb. 12.—The pub-
live, 14<91 5c; dressed, choice, 16<417c;
assumed contol of the government
Salem—The state board has asked
printing office.
W. 8. Rossiter will I lished report that Senator Fulton the Railroad commission to investigate geese, live, 9010c; ducks, 18020c;
continue the inquiries into the conduct I will bring suit against Francis J. the question of the need of a sidetrack pigeons, 75c0$I .00; sqnabs, $1.6002.
Heney for slander is without founda
Eggs—Fresh ranch, candled, 26027c
of the office.
tion. Senator Fulton is noncommit on the Southern Pacific at the site of per dozen.
Florida Republicans are bolding Taft tal regarding details of the course the propxwed home for the feel.le mind
Veal—7b to 125 pounds, 9(99 j^c;
and anti-Taft conventions and having I he will pursue in answering Mr. ed, just, south of this city. The rail 125 to 150 pounds, 7c; 150 to 200
IHeney's
charges
beyond
issuing
a
road company refused the state’s re
fist fights.
statement to the press which he Is quest for a sidetrack. The state tx«rd pounds, 606 tyc.
Pork—Block, 75 to 150 ponnds, 70
Great Britain has paid the bandit preparing, but it is known that he want» the sidetrack eetablished a* an
Raiauli $200,000 for the release of Sir 'has no idea of bringing suit. It Is aid in transporting material for the 716c; packers, 5(96c.
Fruit*—Apples, tabla, $1.750 2 50;
probable that before the primary
Harry Maclean.
(election he will make some speeches new building, which will tie started cooking, $1 2501.50 per box; cranber
soon.
The Western Bar Iron association, of in Oregon in refutation of Mr.
ries, $86r,n per barrel.
New York, will advance the price of Heney's attack.
Vegetables—Turnips. 75c per sack;
bar iron $5 per ton.
Eagle* Worry Benton County.
carrots, 65c per sack; beets, $1.00 per
N*v«l Uniform * Bar.
Monroe—A pair of large eagles sack; cabbage, 1 Jtfc |>er pound: tanli-
The house committee on naval affair*
Providence, R. I.. Feb. 12.—The are playing havoc among the small fiower, $1.75 02; celery. $3 50 fitt 50
opposes four new battleships and the
Rhode Island supreme court today lambs on the foothills west of town. per crate; onion», 15 <9 20 per dozen ;
president has prepared to fight.
They are expert In keeping out of
confirmed the decision of ’he lower rifle range and no one baa been able parcely, 20c per dozen; peas, 10c per
The Elgin National Watch company court In the ease of Chief Y«oman to get a shot at them.
pound; peppefa, 17%c pier pound;
pumpkins, l’4l^eper pound; radish-
has closed its factory for an indefinite Fred Buenzle, who sued the proprie
es, 20c per dozen; spinach, 6c per
period on account of dullness in trade. tors of a Newport dancing pavilion
Add* Course In Italian.
for refusing his admission baeauee
pound; sprout», 8c per pound; squash,
A greyhound has returned on foot to he wore the uniform of the United
University of Oregon Eugene—A 1 <91 Ji« per pound.
State*
navy.
When
the
case
was
conr«e in beginning Italian ha* been
its old home at Oakland from Western
Onotona—$2.50 per hundred.
tried in the superior court Buenzle announced by the department of mod
Montana, a distance of 1,500 miles.
Potatoes—I'060c per hundred, de
was awarded 25 cent* demagra, this ern languagema. Dr. Timothy Chloran
livered Portland; sweet potatoes, $3.25
Franco, former premier and dictator being the sum he bad paid for hl*
is at the head of this department.
<93 50 pier cwt.
of Portugal, has arrived in Madrid. ticket.
Hops—1907, prime and choice, 5<9
He was driven from home by the many
Cannery
Put*
Up
Beef.
Arbitrate With France
7>6c per pound; old», 102c per pound.
threats of assassination.
Brownsville—The Brownsville can
Wool—Eastern Oregon average lest,
Washington. Feb. 12.—Secretary
By an agreement of trans-Atlantic Root and Ambassador Jusseraad to nery has been experimenting in the 13'920 per pound, according to shrink
•teamship companies the rate war be day signed a treaty providing for the canning of beef and it will probably age; valley, 18®20n. according to fine
tween Europe and the United States arbitration of any issue that may pit up a large amount in the near fu ness; mohair, choice, 29030c per
has come to an end.
•rise between France and America. ture.
pound.
Clear Casa Against B. P —Paid Re
bate* for Year»,
ADVISE BIG CHANGE
*WIF I PACKING CO. COMING
Hssdy to B*gin Work on *3,500.000
Plant at Once-
San Francisco. Feb 11. Penult les
Portland. Feb 10
In the flr*l
unprecedented In the history of th»
and
only
authorised
statement
which
prosecution of corporation» In Cali Reoryanlz ilion ol Postonico De* ha* b«M»n given out either here or
fornia. or a complete revision and
anywhere else regarding hl* c«»m
vitalising of the law» applicable to
Hrlmeut Recommendetl.
railroad», will be the outcome of the
puny * plan* In th«» Pacific Northwest
Investigation to be Instituted thl*
l»oul* F Kwlft. president of Hwift *
week by lhe State Railroad Commls-
Co,. 1**1 night declare«! that lhe
•lou. In the room* of the Chamber of
Commerce, In tbe Merchant*' Ex HIRE CHIEF DIRECTOR OF POSTS mammolh Portland plant, which will
change building.
repr«Mionl an outlay of |3,BOO,000
Assistant Attorney-General Ray
and which will be erected on the Pe
mond Bvujanilu Mid today lhat 4.000
case* ot rvltatlug have been perfected Commliilon Suggeete Long I erm for nlnsula. will be completed and ready
for «»perallon In *11 departments in
agalust the Southern Pacific Coin
Head of Depertment al High
piany. practically through it* own sd-
one
year Porllend I* also to be mud««
Uelar)—Lett Red Tape.
tulaslona These esses will be pre
the venter of th«« packing ludustry of
sented to the Railroad Commission
the Pacific Northwest, »ml th«» Trout
by AttorneyAlencral V 8 Webb. Mr.
Benjamin and O. K Cushing. *|>< h >I«I
Wnuhlnglon. Feb 11
Congreoe dale plant, near Portland, eventually
counsel tor tbe California Traffic As today received u prvllnilnury report I* to bo abandoned, nt leant *u far «■
sociation. Should conviction* be ob
the packing »Ido of the business I*
tained on each of these case*, and ot (he joint roininluMloii appointed
the Maximum penalty of $20,000 be durlug th«* lent eongrvse to Inveotl* concerned. To what u»e. If any, tho
imposed for each violation ot the gate the bunlnvim method* <»f the Swift people are to put their present
law, the Southern Pacific will face piMtuFtlce department and poetothce extensive ami vnlusble, property nt
an aggregate flue of $80,000,000.
that point was not vouchsafed.
in each case the evidence practi eervlco uml eubinlt recomniegdatlone
The Hwift p«H$plo arc ready nml
cally 1» conclusive, from bill* ot lad For legtidntIon to eff»*<t ohuugee In
ing to the Indorsed check* issued by their ttdmlnlMl rut Ion. The vommlN- prepared to go ahead with constru«
the company to the «hlpper. in reim ■lon. conelKtlng ot Senator* I'enroN«*. tlou work just us soon ns the rail
bursement. When the state Board of
roads huv«* Indicated what conn«»«
Railroad Commissioner* requested Cart«'!' and Clay, uml Itepreevntative*
the Southern Pacific to submit It* Ovoretreet, Gurdner of New Jereey, lions ou the Peninsula they will «**
book* to Mr. Benjamin, Peter F. and Mtnin. pointe out mnuy objec tabllsh, and when they will be ready
Dunne, counsel tor the railroad, re tionable method* ot both depart to do the work. When those cunner
plied that the railroad * book* would
duns with n«'c«,sflary terminal facili
be available at any time. The com ments. Among the rerommvndutIon*
placency with which the railroad cor I m a plan to place lhe actual direc ties have be«’U d«’« ide«l upon, work on
poration greet* lhe invcatlgatlon tion ot the buMlnvMM of the poNtofTlco th«» packing plant will bo rushed to
foreordalus that It will not tlatit tbe departimni under lhe eervlco ot mu completion.
action of the Railroad L'ommlsalon
In the official Interview, II C.
on merit* but rather upon the law officer, with neceeeary MBMlMtente to
be eppoluted by lhe president, by Gardn«»r, head of th«* construction d«
Involved.
Section 213 of the »late I'Wtslatlon and with the advice and coneent ot partment of Swift A Company, who
which create* the State Board of the eennte,” for long term*, mo am will have direct charge of «r»xtlng
Railroad Coiuiulaalou, r*. with their .to Injure (he continuance of «»thclegt th«» plant, acted am spokesman for
power to fix rates, provides
service. I’nder the plan the poet-
"Any railroad corporation or I maMlvr-geneml, am m member of the President Hwift, am! « ntered into as
transportation company which shall cabinet, I m chargeable with geuerul full a discussion of tho plan* of th«*
tall to conform to such rate* a* shall Mupervlaory control and the determi Hwift* a* tho bead of tho big con
corn deemed wi*«« to give out for
be established by such commission nation of qu< Milon ot policy.
• • • shall be filled not exceed
The commlbMlon a ho recomnvBnda publlcatlou at this time.
I
Mr. Uardn«*r, In «-»plaining why
ing $.o.(oi each oSanaa • *" that the buNlnvNM ot the department
in 4.000 case* the railroad com be decent mill'd wo am to avoid th«’ th«» public could not be token fully
pany failed to con4urui to th» rate congestion at the national capital Into tho confident < s of hi* runcorn
set by the Commissioners The prac which Impair* the efficiency and In at this time, »aid that certain plans,
tice I* of long standing, but the only crease* the coal ot the service, that such a* whvth«*r the company should
record* available are thuee subse the book keeping, auditing and ac »«'cure power from sumo of the com
quent to May. 1906 In some ot these counting be simplified, unified and panics already In tho flohl hero, or
rebates the railroad refunded 53 per centrulixed to secure greater accur «•reel Its own plant on th«* Peulnsula.
cent ot the original charge to the acy, more prompt method* and elim are yet to be »«’((led, and (hut there
ination of duplication of work; and were a number of other rousldera
shipper.
that the practice of requiring necd- lions which, If dlsclo»«’d now, might
I vmm detailed reports from mbiu II post Interfere with their consummation.
It was also clearly brought out
DRAG OUT SKELETONS,
office* be dls<*ontinueil. The moder
ate application of the non-accounting that If Portland ever Intends to wrest
Alleged lllagltimole Heir* of Alfonso system to Minnll office* will eliminate th«» bulk of th«* Alaitku trade from
about 30,000, or nearly one-half, of itho Hound cities, the merchant* ami
Making Trouble.
all the |H>stofflce account* from the •«hipper* her«» will hav«» to establish
Madrid. Feb 11. The question of ¡present complex report and bo«'k- a direct steamer lino from here tu
allotlng a pension ot 250,000 pesetas | keeping system, or would al leust the North This wu* brought out In
to Che infanta Alfonso, the son of greatly slmplif> the same. The com answer to th«« direct question a* to
whether Swift a Company ln(«-ndr«l
Don Carlo* ot Bourbon and the Prin mission says
ces* ot Asturias, who receutly mar
’ It appears too obvious to require to enter that field, now monopollied
ried Princes* Ixml'* of Orleuna In argument that the most efficient ser ( by various Seattle and TacumA puck
England, ba* received the approval vice ran never be expected a* long ¡era.
Swift A Company.” declared Mr
of the Couucil of State and now goes as the direction of the business I*,
before tbe Cortes. But It has raised m st present entrusted to a post- Gardm*r. are In th«» packing busi-
many complications, not tbe least in master-general and certain assistants ni'NE and pack lug business al<»ne
teresting of which are suit* tor sim selected without special reference to They are not In th«» transportation
ilar allowances brought by the na expedience and qualifications and business, nor In tho cattle-raising
I’nder btisInvsH *•
tural children ot Alfonso Nil l>y subject to frequent change
Elena Sanz, a former well-known such a system a large railroad, com
merclal
or
industrial
business
would
Spanish actress, and a natural cous
NIGHT RIDERS ON RAID
in of the king named Carlo» Allen eventually go Into bankruptcy, and
l’erklns, a second-rate but popular the postufflce department has averted
actor in the music ball» ot the cap that fat«» only because the United Imprison CiVzsns and Burn Tobacco
Stat«** treasury ha* been available
ital.
and Wirthoum
Perkins claim goes back to hl* to meet deficiencies.'*
Hopkinsville,
Ky., Feb. 10 l«ast
great-grandmother, the famous in
night at 13 o’clock a band of about
fanta Carlotta, who provoked the
PUSH BACK GUARD
Carlist war by obliging Ferdinand
150 mounted night rider», masked,
VII to admit tbe principle of the
heavily armed and wreurlng th«, In-
Salic law. It was »he who slapped Eager Portugese Almost Create Panic
signl.i of a secret clan. Invaded Fre
the face of Calomarde, the Premier,
at Royal Funeral
donia, Crittenden county, raptured
and drew from him the historic re
Lisbon. Feb 11
The bodies of James Hcarjierry, <>p«Tator of th«»
tort:
"White hand* are not offensive." King Carlos and Crow* Frlsm i . uk (’umberland Trl«»phone Company, and
Perkins' birth is not recorded In I Philippe were yesterday laid away
Gotha .but he insists that his real beside those of their royal ancestors « ut all telephone connections. They
name is Don Francisco Carlos Pio In the sacred sepulchre in th«» Pan !th«»n forced Dave Potter, a clerk in a
Rose Alfonso Lula j'i rnando Allen theon. A great crowd, numbering drug store, to open hi* store, in
Perkin* Guerowsky Bourbon l.uth- thousand*, struggled outside the ¡which they corralled si’Vcral citizens
erlan Hoasen Dricbma Vrlchna and I cathedra) of San Vicente, se'-klng to uml held them prisoners
Ottendorf" and consequently a blood !enter the view the bodies before the I Mstvlng a large guard In th«« town.
relation of most of the reigning sov- doors were finally closed for th” I the otio r* gallop«*«! to th«* village of
ceremony. Brush Ing back th«» police |VI«-w, flv«* miles iiwny, and blew up
erlgns of Europe.
and th«* guard of Royal Archers. th«y \iii. d ii Cardttt « tobatio fattoi>.
pour«<l into th«, church, sweeping .containing 35,000 pounds of tobacco
Survey for New Tunnel
| b«*l<>nglng to him and hi* cropper*.
Seattle. Wash , Feb. II.—Survey everything before them.
When th«* doors eventually were , The iOS* aggregates 110,000, with
ors and engineers in the employ of
the Northern Pacific, have for months closed to th«* public, the cer«’mony of
After firing volley* Info the air
been locating z new tunnel through entombment was b«*gun. All the min
the Cascades. The fact became isters of state were present. Th«* pat- thu night riders returned through
known yesterday, when the men, | rlarch of Lisbon, wearing pontifical Fredonia and releaaed thvir prison
driven from their work by the heavy ¡vestments, and assisted by other high ers. Eighty p « t cent of Crittenden
snows, arrived at Green River Hot church offlclul*, blessed the sucra- Icounty farmers hav«« tobacco pooled
Iment, th«* cathedral and pnlace in th«’ Society of Equity. Mr. Cardin
Springs on their way to St. Paul.
chant«‘(l the "1,Ibera M<* ‘ and Is not a m«*mber. lie Is a prominent
From Hot Springs comes word thi t Ichoirs
to the Intoning of ' !>«• Profundi*’’ citizen, aged 73, and wus formerly a
the big Stampede tunnel Is to be • the
coffin of th»* Crown Prine«’ was 'candidate for governor on the Popu-
abandoned as soon a* the new bore transported
bet*<*«*n double ranks of I list ticket. Th«* Planters AftNoclatlon
la completed. The new bore Is to archers, preceded
a long proces han no organization in thl« county.
be seven miles long and will cost up sion. In a similar by manner
the body
ward of $10,0'01....... .....
of the King was borne to the tomb
Frustrate Rep«ibHca»* Plot
Franco Excites Curiosity.
Marseilles, Feb. 10. Th«’ frustra
Bordeaux .France, Feb. 11.— Sun
tion on Friday last at Oporto of an
Boiler Tubes Explode.
day passed wilh Seuor Franco, the
Vallajo, Cal., Feb. II
Boiler elaborate ¡»lot to proclaim a republic
ex-Premler of Portugal, still In Bor
j Is annoiin< « «l in a telegram which
deaux and still in seclusion. Illa 'tubes on th«* cruiser Ht. Louis blew I was r«’<’clv«‘d today from one of th»«
’
out
at
noon
today
while
the
St.
Louis
Iirivacy has remained unbroken;
. hlgheBl official* In Oporto by bin
since his arrival Friday he has not i was off Snusllito. E. E. Scott, coal I brother, who ha* Just arrived here
emerged from the hotel where he Is 'passer; F. Thompson, water tender; from Lisbon. According to the t«»l«’-
stopping, not even, from hl* room. IE W. Baker, fireman of the first gi mi .i laige nn rn t.. i of < on iplt itoi
The former dictator has become a class, and I>. l»ewls. fireman of the hav«* b«*«*n arrested. Including the
problem which the people are dis first class, were horribly scalded l«a(!«*r*. It was also stated that
cussing with curious, wondering, I with steam. The origin of the ex I numerous bodl«** of militant repub-
even sympathetic Interest, but no one plosion Is not known, but It Is sup Jlcann had been seen about th«* sub
has been enlightened as to lhe hour posed to have been caused by cold urbs of Oporto. Th«’ police raptur«*«!
of his departure, or his destination, I water running Into hot pipes. It Is a large store of revolvers and car
for it Is certain that he Is not to re not believed any of th«* Injured will bint*».
die. A rigid iiiv<*«tlgatlon Is under
main here long.__________
Blow Up Bank.
way.
Joplin, Mo., Feb. 10.— Four m«*n
Mourned by All Cread*.
early thl* morning blew open the
RendJTroops Against Afridis
Washington, Feb. II. Memorial
Calcutta, Feb. 11. Th«» Indian vault of the Bank of Sulphur Spring*.
services In honor of the late Rev. Dr.
I Ark., and *• < i. > • <i ever $ i ,/.ou i g
Stafford, pastor of St. Patrick's government has decided to send Im ¡cash, besides not«*» and other val
church, were held nt Chanc's Ihcnter, mediately two brigades of troops un- uable«. The cltz«*n* of Sulphur
when tributes to the life and char ' dor Major-General Sir James Wll- , Spring* w « t <* arottHed by two explo
acter of Dr. Stafford were paid by J lores Into th«’ Bazaar valley, on the sions, but by th«« time the officers
men prominent in public life. Vice- north western frontier, to punish the I r«*ach«*d th«« downtown district, the
President Fairbanks spoke ot Dr. Zakkakhela, a powerful tribo of Af I work of the thieves had been com
Stafford ns "The Citizen"; Senator ridis, who have b«*« n raiding villages pleted and four men were seen to
Beveridge of Indiana as "The Ora in that territory and ambushing 'mount their horse* and ride west
tor"; Hannls Taylor, ex-Mlniater to members of lhe mounted police. At ward. Th«* mountains In this <llr«r-
.Spain, na it - Belwlai a mi i'll Ilan Rawal Plndl, where the troop* of tlon are f1ll«*d with many gorges and
throplat,” and ex-Commlssioner ot the two brigade* ar«* mobilizing for Ut I m lu ll« v« (| that the m«*n have made
Pensions James Tanner, a» "The Pa th«, expedition, there Is great activ *ood i ii< h am • i"
ity. It Is said th«, movement will be
triot.”
a surprise to the disorderly natives.
Demand t» Ehow Hard.
Wreck cn W»b»»h.
Paris, Feb. 10. The recent fight
Franco
Travels
Again.
Detroit, Mich , Feb. 1’
The Con
Bordeaux, Franc«», Feb. 11 Señor ing In Morocco, a* w«*l) as th«’ protest
tinental Limited passenger train on
the Wabash railway, westbound, was Franco, th«* ex-Premler of Portugal, which Abd « I-Azlz, the Rultan, Is re
derailed today by n broken rail nt with his wife and son, left this city ported to have submitted Io Germany
Delhi, Ont., 150 miles east, of De by train nt 7:43 this morning for against French occupation and ag
troit. None of the passengers nor Marseilles. Th«, departure was sud gression In that country, has led M.
train crew sustained any Injuries, den, the hotel authorities being noti Juares, the SoclallHt i(*ad«*r, to formu
other than bruises. Mrs. J. W. Dan fied of the step at th«’ last moment. late a new Interpellation on th«> sub-
iela, of Wallace, Idaho, was taken Señor Franco appeared rested frohi jrct. In the Chamber of Deputl«**
from the train at St. Thomas, suffer his stay here, lie Is less depressed tomorrow h<* will formally demand
ing from nervous shock and with this and h«, walk»<l over to th«, train at a from the gov«*rnm«*nt nnoth»*r ex
exception all of the passengers con quick step, lie was accompanied by planation of the Moroccan policy.
I #------------- ——
I’renrh detective*. There were no
tinued to their destinations.
people at the railroad station
Archbishop Return,.
Temperance Worker Dead
New York, Feb. 10
Archbishop
Snow in South Carolina.
New York, Feb. 1 I
John W.
Patrick William Riordan, of Han
Spartanburg,
R.
C.,
Feb.
II
Rpar-
Oliver, editor and principal owner of
Eranclsco, whose recent mission In
the Yonkers Statesman, died at hl* t.iril.iirc |g buri’fl under neve* In Romo was both for rest nml to ntlro-
home in Yonkers today, aged 92 ches of snow, ft Is the heaviest fall cate tho appointment of llev. Edward
years. Mr. Oliver was an early lead In many years. Jt occurred last J. Hanna, of Rochester, as (Coadju
er in the temperance movement, and night and today. The weather Is tor Archbishop of Han Francisco, re
with his brother, Isaac Oliver, found now the coldest of the winter—32 turned today on board th« steamship
degrees above zero.
Cedric.
ed the Bon* of Temperance.