CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
FEDEHALS REPULSED.
ARMISTICE IS NEAR.
Mexican
Rebel*
Propote
Which Are Favored.
Term*
City of Mexico, April 19. -A prop
osition for an armistice ponding nego
tiations for a settlement of Mexico’s
internal troubles was r«*ceiv«*l by th«’
department of foreign relations today
from Washington, presumably from
Dr. Vasquz Gomez.
A reply was return«*! in which it
was indicat«*! the government looke«!
with favor upon th«' suggestion.
The armistice pro;«»sal appeared to
be an outgrowth of th«' battle at Agua
Prieta and the loss of life and bodily
injury in Douglas by the fire from th«1
Mexican side. It points to Jthe dang
ers of international complications
which might follow a continuance of
the fight.
Minister de la Barra sent to Wash
ington the answer to the proposal
made by the agent of the revolution
ists. In it he stipulated minor terms,
to which it is believed there will la* no
objection. It may be assunu*! that
before a full agreement is entered
into every detail of the proposal will
l>e submitted to Francisco I. Madero.
Jr.
So far have negotiations now
gon«1 that it is not ex;>ect«*l Madero
will longer oppose the overtures his
agents have made for peace.
It is believed no time will be lost
either by the rebels or the government
in concluding arrangemenUs for the
armistice, and that as soon thereafter
as possible the drafting of terms for
It is
permanent peace will begin.
<*>nceded both sides realize the war is
costing too much in money and lives.
PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE
REPLANT OREGON FORESTS.
AMENT DAM IS RUSHED.
Lower Rogue River Valley May
Water Thi» Seaton.
Get O. A, C. to Solva Problam of Con
tinual Revenue From Timber.
Corvallis, Ore. The solution of the
problem of making the timber lands of
the state continuously remunerative,
General Resume of Important Evant
which also means the preservation of
the water taiwers, seems at present to
Presented In Condensed Form
have been fourni by the Oregon Agri
for Our Busy Reader*.
cultural college.
When the work in
forestry was separated from that in
botany ami made a distinct department
Chief Croker, of the New York fir«
under Prof. George W. Peavy ami E.
department, has resign«*!.
O. Siecke, of the U. S. government
forest servie«« was a«ld«'«i to the fac
An unsuccessful attempt has been
ulty, the facilities for instruction and
made to import Filipinos to work in
for practical work by the students
Alaskan canneries.
were greatly increased, and^Jaome im
A woman auto driver made a record
mensely valuable expriment*) work
of 109 miles an hour on the Long Is
in silviculture has since been started
land speedway in New York.
on Mary 's peak and elsewhere.
A small forest nursery has been
A Spanish steamer sunk off the
start«xt on th«' campus at the south of
Spanish coast and 21 of her 25 pas
the horticultural greenhouses, where
senger and crew were drowned.
the classes in silviculture have prac
Seven Americans were wounded in
tical ¡work in growing th«' young for
Douglas. Ariz.. during the fighting
est trees to solve reforestation prob
between Mexican forces Tuesday.
lems. They are taught how •> grow
the seedlings, ami how to transplant
Cholera is giving health officers
them successfuly, with all th«' meth
much concern in Honolulu.
A num
ods of reforestation in cut-over or
ber of cases have occurred recently.
burnesl-off districts.
The Australian
The first Sunday in May has b««en
pine, Norway spruce, European larch.
set aside by Salem. Ore., ministers
OREGON LEADS IN MOHAIR.
Scotch pine, white pine. Western r«si
for advertising the city, and the board
pine. Western r«sl cedar. black locust,
of trade will probably offer prizes for
Industry Started In 1867 Now One of and the Gerald pine, an important
the best “b»x>sting” sermons.
timber pin«' of Inilia which is of con
Most Important.
siderable commercial value, all un
The bodies of four mounted police
Portlan«! — “The Angora Goat an«l
being grown in this nursery plot.
men who were lost in Alaska last De
Mohair Industry of th« Pacific North
On Mary’s )»'»k valuable exjieri-
cember, have been found by a relief
west” is the title of a book recently
mental work to determine th«' relative
expedition.
They had eaten their
issued by Alva L. McDonald, secretary
merit of fall and spring planting of
dogs and even the dog harness.
of the Northwest Angora Goat associa various kinds of timber was begun last
tion. It contains the full report of ¡ fall, and is being continued this spring.
It is rumored that the Pacific Navi
association ; Experimental plots have been sown,
gation company. whose steamers ply
Danville. Ill. Sensational charges the convention of the
between the Panama terminal and San that William Randolph Hearst is at which was held in Portlan«! in connec-1 Kith fall and spring, to Austrian pine,
Francisco, will extend its serveie to I the head of a gigantic plot to unseat I tion with that of the woolgrowers in [ Norway spruce, Eurojieun larch, ami
Portland and perhaps to the Sound.
j Joseph G. Cannon in congress and in January last, and much valuable in- Scotch pine. Careful reconi will b«>
' the furtherance of his plans he has 1 formation relative to the industry, in-
The proprietors of the Triangle l “subsidized” the grant! jury now in- • eluding a historical sketch of its kept of the December and March
plantings, thn>ugh which it is hojasi
Waist company, have been held re ! vestigating Vermillion county's cor growth.
The first Angora goats
sponsible by the grand jury for 145 rupt electorate, are made in the news brought to Oregon were im;>ort«*l by to obtain information which will prove
deaths caused by the burning of the columns of the Commercial News, the 1 A. Cantral from California about 1867, which is preferable for the different
varieties.
company's plant in New York City re Cannon organ in Danville.
' according to this publication. Oregon
cently.
is
now
first
it
is
stated
in
the
number
The article, which appears under a
SMUDGE POTS SAVE FRUIT.
Through freight rates are now being “scare head,” says that Hearst has ¡of Angora goats ami the production of
The
made between
Mississippi valley i already spent $15,000 in the eighteenth mohair in the Unit«*! States.
Temperature Sink* to 25 Little Loss
points and the Pacific Coast, on ac congressional district in obtaining value of the annual clip approximate.-«
Over Northwest,
$50,000.
The
value
of
the
yearly
in
count of the expiration of the Pacific evidence and has a swarm of detec
crease
is
approximated
at
$400,000.
Medford
General firing throughout
tives
in
the
district.
Mail steamship company’s monopoly
Oregon mohair commands the highest the orchards of th«* Rogue River valley
on the Panama railway.
TACOMA RECALLS MAYOR
market pnce.
ia saving this year's fruit crop from
Governor Sloan, of Arizona, urges
the ravages of Jack Fruat. In places
Taft to send troops across the border Activity of Women Voters Believed to WILL HAVE MONSTER PARADE. th«' temperature ha." b«'en as low as 26
to stop the Mexican fighting and pro
degrees, but for a short time only.
Be Responsible.
Portland Rose ^Festival Pageant Will The orchard men are still on the look
tect Americans from stray bullets.
Tacoma. Wash.—Mayor A. V. Faw
Break All Records.
out for frost and fuel in the smudging
William Kietb, a California painter cett, of this city, was recalled Tues
Portland
The novel street spec pots is kept replenished.
of world-wide fame, is dead.
day in one of the most hotly contested
tacle called the “Shower of Roses"
A killing frost has destroyed half municipal elections ever held in this which is to be a part of the next Port
Milton
No frost has harmisl this
city.
W.
W.
Seymour
is
the
new
the fruit crop of tne Sacramento val
land Rose Festival in the week of section at any time this season. Fruit
mavor elect.
ley.
June
5-10,
will
«rover
more
than
50
prospects are fine.
The election was the second mayor
The Illinois legislature refused to alty recall contest within two weeks. city blocks or nearly three miles in
change its present township local op-j Seymour and Fawcett being the two the central business district of the
La Grande Thanks to a drop in the
tion law.
high candidates at the first electi'in, city. While the train of six cars is tem[H'rature several days ago, no harm
moving
through
the
main
thorough-
when a Socialist was also in the race.
whatever has been done to orchards by
PORTLAND MARKETS.
An election will be hel'i May 3 for fares, th« 100 young women and girls the recent storm; in fact, orchard
in
white
will
keep
up
a
continuous
Wheat—Track prices: Bluestem, 86 the purpose of recalling the four city bombardment of roses, showering men agree that it has haljssj to retard
(S86ic; club, 83c; red Russian, 81c; commissioners.
them upon sp«‘ctators along the way. the budding. At this time the trees
have not reached a stage of develop
valley, 83c; 40-fold, 84c.
Imported Filipinos Break Agreement. Specially adapted cars will be use! in ment that frosts w ill injure. A can
Barley—Choice feed, I26.50<« j 27 ton.
this
train
so
that
the
thrilling
spec
San Francisco—It is unlikely that
Millstuffs— Bran, $22 per ton; mid
tacle can better be observed from the vass of the fruit districts of the valley
dlings. $30; shorts, $23; rolled barley, the steamer Senator of the Pacific street. Heretofore clos«*i cars have reveals confidence for a log crop.
Coast Steamship company’s fleet, will
$2s<«; 29.
been used and the fair rose throwers
Corn—Whole, $28; cracked, $28««/ engage in any further attempts to have labored under a handicap and SHEEPMEN ASKED TO PROTEST
bring
Hawaiian
and
Filipino
lal>orers
28.50 ton.
part of the beauty of the spectacle
Oats—No. 1 white, $28.50<«t 29.50 here from Honolulu for transshipnvnt has been lost.
Dan Symthe Say» Change in Sched-
to
Alaska
for
work
in
the
Alaska
per ton.
ule K May Rum Them.
Un
Olcott Assumes His Duties.
Hay—Timothy, Eastern
Oregon. Packers’ association canneries.
der
charter
to
the
Alaska
Packers
’
as
Pendleton
Dan P. Smyth«', secr«'-
Salem
Ben
W.
Olcott
was
sworn
in
No. 1, $2<K«;21; rnixe«!. $16««/18; al
falfa, $12.50<ol4; clover, $11.506« sociation, the senator sail«*! from this Monday morning as secretary of state tary of the Oregon Woolgrowers’ as-
port for Honolulu, March 28, last, to succeed Frank W. Benson and aociation, is sending letters and night
12.50; grain hay, $13««/15.
Apples—Fancy, $26/2.75; choice, equipped to carry 1,000 laborers here. shortly afterward took charge of the letter blanks to 1,000 sheep men
She returned last Sunday with 145. office. At noon the first full board throughout the N«>rthw«*st, urging
$16,2; common, 50c6/$l per box.
Vegetables — Asparagus, 6c per They left the steamer W«*lnesday af meeting of the new administration tliem to telegraph immmiiately to
pound; green onions, 20c dozen; hear! ternoon, after refusing to take pas was held, when Governor West, State Senators Bourne and Chamberlain,
lettuce, 50c dozen; hoth«,use lettuce, sage on the Star of Italy for Bristol Treasurer Kay and Secretary Olcott protesting against any change in tariff
met to consider minor details of the schedule, and asking that th«' question
$1.25 box; radishes, 306,35c dozen; Bay.
plan Governor West has been father of revision of the wool tariff not he
rhubarb, $1.256,1.50 box; sprouts, 9c;
Hope of Break Wanes.
ing in using the labor at the state in considered until at least after tariff
carrots, 85<^«,$1 hundred; parsnips,
commission rejxirts.
Denver — Predictions are commo« stitutions.
85c6,$l; turnips, 85c6,$l; beets, 90c
He insists that Western wool grow
that th«- deadlock on the Unit«'d States
“I will devote my time to learning
fr,$l.
Potatoes — Oregon buying price, senatorship will remain unbroken. an«i the details of the office and not to hir ers realize their resp«>nsibility and
that the present session of the legis ing or discharging employes,” said awake to the realization that any re
$1 .506,1.65 per hun«ired.
Onions—Buying price, $26,2.10 per lature will adjourn soon without elect Secretary Olcott. “Whether chances duction in this tariff will mean great
ing a successor to the late Senator C. will come in the future is for future damage to the industry.
hundred.
He urges also that the sheepmen be
Poultry—Hens, 21c; broilers, 30c; J. Hughes. Jr. Th«, action of the re to say as at present I am endeavoring
prepared when the tariff commission
turkeys, 21c; ducks, 206,23c; geese, convened Pueblo Democratic county to learn the business of th«' office.
“Now that Ihave receive«! the ap call.« U|>on them within the next few
126,14c; dressed turkeys, choice, 23 convention, in reinstructing the Pu
eblo legislative delegation for ex pointment I desire to confirm the re- weeks to furnish data on the exact ex
6,25c.
Eggs—Oregon ranch, candled, 206, Governor Alva Adams, and op;s,sing [s>rt that the stat«- hoard will work in pense of running their sheep and the
further caucuses, has destroyed, it is harmony ho far as I am <x»nc«'rn« d. amount of proceeds they receive from
21c; case count, 19c.
Butter—City creamery, extra, 1 believed, all chances for an election 1 view the stat«' of Oregon as a large the Bale of sheep and wool, showing
business proposition. If private busi that only a fair profit is made under
and 2 pound prints, in boxes, 29c; at this session.
ness cannot b«; conductor! successfully present conditions.
less than boxes, cartons and delivery
Salmon Prices Advanced.
extra.
where harmony does not exist, no
Record Price tor Livestock.
Pork—Fancy, 106, lOJc.
Astoria, Or. The Columbia River more can public business”
Veal—Fancy, 85 to 125 pounds, 11 Fishermen’s Protective union, at a
Portland last Friday paid the rccoril
Klamath Owner* Instructed.
6/12c.
special meeting held here, has fix«-«! the
price for cattl«' of all descriptions.
Cattle—Prime steers, $6.506,6.85; rates to be paid for raw salmon during
Klamath Kails Director F. H. For fancy grain-fed stock from La
choice, $6.256,6.50; good to choice, the fishing season, which opens May Newell, of the Unit«*! States reclama Grande $7 per humlred [siunds was sc-
$5.756,6; fair to good, $5.506,5.75; 1, at 6j cents a poun'l for small or tion service, has sent a circular letter cure«l, while a lot of hay-fed stock
common, $4.756,5; prime cows, $5.25 cannery fish, and kJ cents a pound for to land owners of the Upper Klamath from Central Oregon went at $6.90.
6,6; go»«! to choice, $4.756,5; fair to large, or cold storage salmon, those subproject setting forth what they These transactions were the highest
g«xxl, $4.50674.75; poor, $46,4.50; weighing 25 pounds or over.
These will have to do to to get that part of prices ever receive«! in this market for
choice heifers, $5.256,5.50; choice rates are an advance of 1 cent a poun«l the great Klamath project completed this time of the year. The hay-fed
bulls, $4.506,4.75; g«x>d to choice, on each class of fish over the prices and estimating the probable cost. He lot was th«rfir»t shipment to come out
$4.2561,4.50; fair to goo«!, $3.756,4; that prevailed last season.
declares that owners of the land must of Central Oregon over the new Harri
common, $36,3.50; choice light cal
sign an ironcla«! contract to pay all man line. It was sent from Gateway.
ves, $7.756/,8.75; g«xxi to choice,
Iroquois Master Blamed.
costs, regardless of what they may be.
Excursion to Ruse Festival.
$7.506 l 7.75; fair to medium, $76,
Vicoria, B. C.- A verdict of man- The letter is in response to inquiries.
From St. Paul and Minneapolis will
7.50; choice heavy calves, $5.256, slaughter was return«*! against Cap
come a Pullman excursion to the Rose
5.50; gcxxi to choice, $56,.5.25; fair tain A. A. Sears, master of the steam
Fraternal Order* Will Participate.
The
to medium, $4.756,5; choice stags, er Iroquois, which foun«lered off Sid
Portland Every fraternal organiz Festival, personally conducte«!.
$5.256,5.50; good to choice, $4.506,5; ney last week. The evidence given at ation an«l secret society in the city is train will be run over the Northern
fair to medium, $46,4.50.
the inquest was to the effect that Cap planning to have representation in Pacific and North Bank roads, arriv
Hogs--Choice, $7.706,7.80;
Kood tain Sears, who was the first man to the big «lemonstration which is to !>«• ing in Portlan«! the second day of the
to choice, $7.506i7.55; choice heavy, reach shore, deserted the ship while held on one of the evenings of the big carnival. This will be the first
$7.256,7.50; good to choice, $76,7.25; passengers were aboard and that he forthcoming Rose Festival, June 5-10, excursion from the Mississippi and
common, $6.506/7; stock hogs, $86, fli«! not make every effort to rescue in this city, Scores of these bodies Missouri valleys an«l will arouse con
8.25.
those struggling in the water.
Cap which have uniform rank and trained siderable interest all along the route.
Sheep — Choice yearling wethers, tain Sears will be arraigne«! Thursday. drill teams will be found in the line
grain fed, $56,5.25; old wethers, $46,
Make War on Weed*.
of march.
4.50; choice ewes, grain fed, $4.506,
Much Opium Destroyed.
Howl Riverr - No more noxious
4.75; fair to medium, $3.756,4; spring
Albany College Gets S5.000 Gift.
San Francis«*, -Customhouse offi
weed* for the Apple City, is the edict
lambs, extra quality, $10; choice cials destroye«! about $70,000 worth of
Albany News of another good do of Mayor Hartwig, who has calle«! th«'
lambs, grain fed, $5.506/5.75; g«xxi to contraband opium here.
This is the nation to the eralowment fund of Al attention of the city council to th«'
choice iambs, grain fed, $56/5.50; largest amount ever confiscated in San bany College has reached here.
The state law relative to the matter. Th«'
fair to good lambs, grain fed $4.756/ Francisco.
The opium was taken donor was Ellen S. James, of New I mayor has decided that this law must
5.25; culls $2.5063.3.50.
from the liner Korea.
York, and the gift $5,000.
| be enforced.
HEARST ALLEGED TO BE IN
PLOT TO UNSEAT CANNON
Grants Pass W«irk is rush«*! on th«'
Anient dam preparatory to furnishing
water for this season in th«1 lower part
of Rogue river valley.
Eleven bun-
dre«l barrels of cement hav«' been or-1
tier«*! an«l a larg«’ concrete mixer will
be delivered at the works this week.
This machine has a capacity of 30
cubic yards a day.
A professional diver has been em
ployed to search the river b«*l for th«'
big pump that went down stream in j
4he fitxxl last winter and was lodged
in a deep hole just below the dam site.
Th«' fishway put in recently by th«';
state is said to be a hindrance to1
building a cofferdam in the progress
of the work under way.
There was at first some doubt about
delivery of water this year to th«'
farmers but it is now believed that j
all obstacles have been overcome an«l
that the work will be completed suffi
ciently to pump water to the High
land ditches on each side of Rogu«'
river. This will mean that th«' dis-1
tricts of Fruitdale on the s«>uth an«l
the territory lying in th«' valley north
east of town will be supplied.
Mexican Rebel* Successfully Defend
Their Position.
Ihaiglas. Arizona, April. 18 Oscar
K. Goll, of Tombstone, Arizona, was
shot in the side of the head on Fourth
street, Douglas, by a Mexican federal
bullet, dursng an attack by 200 f«xle-
rala on the rebel cavalry corrala. llul-
lets struck tho residence* of Rubett
Ray, on Fifth street, and A. W.
Warr, secretary of the Y. M. C. A..
on Eighth street.
Goll was only
slightly wound«*!, the bullet plowing a
furrow in hi* scalp.
Promising to take Agua Prieta from
the rebels or leave hi* «load body on
tho fielil of battle. Ronaldo Diaz,
nephew of th«> aged president of Mex
ico, led 1.000 f«xieral troops to tho at
tack on the Mexican adjunct to this
city this morning.
Heeding tho
promise given to Unde Sam that he
would m>t fire across the Imrder, Diaz
deployed his men to the west want of
th«' city, ignoring the ««»ver of a few
rolling hills to the south and advanc
ing in the open.
Th«' real action start«'«! at 6:30
o’clock when a machin«' gun awakisl
up to within range of the adula'
shacks southwest of the town and
open«*l a murderous fire.
An English born veteran known ax
“Pop” Willis, with five Taranierara
Indians, crept through the mestiuit to
within 400 yanis of the gun ami after
an hour’s exchange of shots with the
ftxlcrals silenced them,
A detachment of 200 infantry creep
ing up a gully, suddenly ap|H*ared on
the oast of thu town, and with a wild
yell chargixi to a cluater of a«iobe ami
brush barns ustxi as a <*>rral by the
rebel cavalry. Th«> f«*leral* all but
gain,*l the shelter uf the huts when u
rebel machine gun on the roof of U
nearby house was brought into play
and they were driven bark, At li'N.nt
a dozen ftxlcrals fell and lay motion
less, while their comrades retreat«*! in
confusion to the shelter of their ditch.
INSURRECTOS LOSE HEAVILY.
—
Attempt
to
Rescue Prisoners, Ends
In Disaster.
Chihuahua, Mex., April 18. Forty
or more insurrectos were kill«*! ami
more than 100 were wound«*! in a bat
tle fought between Sauce ami Sant»»
Clara canyon, almut 50 miles north of
here, according to F««lvral couriers
who arrived tislay.
They brought or-
derk to have hospital cots reiuly for
Federal wounded. The F«*!erals re
port five killed, including probably
women ami children.
Marching from Casa Grandes to
Chihuahua with prisoners under gen
eral Luis Valdez, the Federal*, fol
low««! by als»ut 100 refugees, were at-
tackd. Five hundred insurrectos un
der Generals Orozco and Villa had
been instruct«*! by Francis«*» Madero
to head off the Casa Grandes <*>ntin-
gent and if possible capture and re
lease the prisoners.
The fight oceurr«*! on a hacienda as
the prisoners, shackled together by
ropes, and th«' women ami children re
fugees, weary from the long tramp,
were scatter«*! in long broken lines.
The f«xl«rals immediately reapomied
with heavy firing nnd placed the pris
oners and non-combatants under pro
tection. Th«' fighting continued sev
eral hours and resulted in sending north
General Rabago with 500 reinforce
ments. First intimation of the fight
was brought here by arrival of rider
less horses. So far ns known none of
th«' prisoners, among whom are be
lieved to be many Americans, were
wounded, and none escaped.
Madero, Jr., has been much pleased
with recent events in Mexico City,
which h<- says have encourage«! him
and strengthened insurrecto prospects.
He told th«« corresjsmdent ho would be
glad 0» welcome his father, but was
emphatic that no sentiment or family
consideration would induce him to lay
down arms.
Border Must Not Be Crossed.
Washington
Major Genera) Leon
ard W« hi «I has telegraphed instructions
to army officers in Texas not to cross
the bonier un«ler any circumstances.
This explains the use of two civilians
in carrying a message to the Mexican
Federal commander from
Colonel
Shunk, commanding th«' Unit««! States
troop* at Ague Prieta. General Wood
has telegraph«*! instructions that if
either the Foleral or insurgent troops
of Mexico enter American territory
they ar«« to he disarm««! an«l held nn«l
strict neutrality enforced.
Shopmen Back to Work.
85,000 COLONISTS
COME IN 30 DAYS
Railroad Officials «Say Southern
Coast Benefits Most.
Mora In Ona Month Than m Forty-
Flva Day* During Sama
Parlod In 1010.
Chicago
Rsvlx'xi statistics com
piled by officials of the Harriman line
and ro|x>rta furnished by representa
tives of other railroads which handle«!
colonist passenger business to the Pa
cific Coast during the 30 day period
ending April 10 disclose that all rec
ords for thut class of travel during the
annual spring |H>riod were sniash«*)
this year.
Tables that have been compiled
show that 85,000 ¡«ernons traveled
from hundreds of points in tho East,
North anil South cities on th«' western
edge of the continent while the special
rates olTsrid by the various line* were
in force. This figure, it is declared,
exceed* by fully 15,000 to the total of
last spring when colonist rates were
offer«*! throughout a period of 45 days.
The travel this year was distributed
as follows:
^Southern Pacific, via Ogden,
320; via El Paso. 9,920; via lx>a
...I
geles, 868; via Portland,
Oregon - Washington Railroad
Navigation company, 11,600.
Atchison, Tofa-ka & Santa Fe,
000.
Northwest route, via Hill lines,
timated, 15,000.
Via other lines, estimated, 10,000.
It is estimated that fully 50,000 of
all those who travel«"! oil colonist tick
ets this spring went to California and
extreme Western stutes other than
those classified in the Pucilic North
west group. The Santa Fe carricl
practically all of its colonist travelers
to California, nnd the bulk of this
clans uf busin« '« over tho Harrimun
lines went in the sam<* direction.
Data compiled by representatives of
th«' Harriman roads for the spring
period of 1910 shows that 29,170 col
onist passenera were transjsirUxI over
the Southern Pacific line during that
time, and during that time and that
10,490 others traveled over the Ore-
gon-Washington Railroad & Naviga
tion company's route.
The total fur the Santa Fe road this
year, it is <ieclar«d, shows an increase
of fully 15 p«T cent over the business
done last spring.
A table prepared by passenger traffic
officials <>f th«' Harriman lines in re
gard to colonist travel to California
from the spring of 1901 to the fall of
1910 shows the following figures:
Via Ogden, 385,750.
Via El Paso. 179,678.
Via Portland, 45,794.
Via !s>s Angeles, 14,106.
Total, 625.328,
The Santa Fe road is offerng a spe
cial rate of one fare for the round trip
t<> |xnnts in California account of the
Electrical Supply Jobbers' association
convention.
WIRELESS
Ships
REPORTS. ORDER.
Carrying
Passengers
Have E<|uipmont July 15.
Must
Washington. April 17. In May ami
June th«' department of Commerce
ami Labor will prepare for enforcing
til«« law which r«*piires passenger
carrying vessels of th« ITnite<l States
to lie equipped with wireless on an<i
after July 15.
All vessels which are already eqtiip-
ped will b«' re«|uir«'<l to register them
selves by wireless when 100 miles at
sea with a navy »wireless station on
shore. The Navy depart ment will in
struct its o;writb>rH to take such in
coming messages «luily between 8 a.
m. and 6 p. m.
In this way the department of com
merce and lalsir ami the custom i col
lectors at pirts will know whHt ships
are «'quipp'd.
Taft Plans His Vacation.
Washington
If congress remains
in session through the hot weather.
President Taft probably will become a
pronounc'd week-end commuter» jour
neying from Washington to Boston
and Beverly whenever he gets an op-
op|sirtunity.
The president hopes to
get some sort of a vacation in his new
cottage near Beverly if he has to take
it n few «lays at a time. Mrs. Taft
will go to Beverly hit«' in June. After
Mrs. Taft anil the Taft children open
the cottag«', the president is expecte«!
to begin his week-end trips.
Sacramento
The Southern Pacific
company, which three weeks ago laid
off more than 500 men in its Sacra
mento shops, put the shops on a five-
days-a week basis an«l made other
rules for retrenchment here and at
Roseville, Sparks and Dunsmuirs has
Cnlebrate America Day.
issued order* that the ol«l rules for a
Paris -Commemorative of the sug
six-day week and full eight-hour shift
he again in force, and all of the men gestion published April 25, 1507, at
who were laid off are being taken back the city of St. Die, Erance, that the
new world discovered to the west of
on their jobs.
Kumpe should be cnlled America, by
Mexican Held Kidnapper.
which ap|>e||ation the Western Hemis
El Paso, Tex. State’Rangcr Moore phere has since been known, a Fran
has arrest«*! a man giving the name of co-American celebration will be held
Accred
Ascension Achuleta on a charge of at St. Die, June 3, 4 nnd 5.
kidnapping. Moore declares the pris ited representatives of 21 American
oner is Arricleo Achuleta, a Mexican republics have accepted invitations to
rurale and one of the four wanted in participate.
connection with the arrest of Law
Hot Steel Kills Six,
rence Converse and Edwin Piatt.
Philaficlpin Five workm«!n were
Colonel End* Long Trip.
kin«'«l, a superintendent so badly
New York Theodore Roosevelt re bum«'«! that he live«! but a few hours,
turned home from a seven weeks’ tour two fatally injured and 12 others ser
of the West and Middle West. As he iously hurt at the Midvale Steel works
stepped off a train from Chicago he at Wayne Junction, when a container,
cam«' into contact with a crowd of filled with molten steel gave way, and
outgoing Eastern visitors, many of the liquid splashc«! over more than a
score of the employes.
whom greeted him with cheers.
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