REBELS WRECK RAILROAD TRAIN Mine Track and Nearly Exterm- • inate Federal Troops. Many Passengere Also Slain—Wound* •d Ara Murdered— Dead Are Burned In Wreckage. ' Mexico City—More than 60 |>eraona were killed and many were wounded In an attack by Zapatiataa On a paa- aenger train between thia city and Cuernkvaca, Morelua, Sunday. The Zapatiataa, eaid to have num- lured 500, placed a mine under the railroad track, which exploded aa the locomotive paaaod over it. The over turned engine hardly had eettled when the Zapatiataa sprang up from all aides and poured a murderous Are into the train. The flrat object of their attack waa a oecond elaae coach in which were riding a federal military escort, with a captain and two lieutenants. The federale got out of the car as quickly as poeaible to answer the Are of the aseailants, but their efforts were fu tile. The commend, with the excep tion of Are wounded and two who es caped, were killed. Thirty pasoengers In the second- class roaches wore killed end many were wounded. In the Arst-elaaa coach no one waa killed, but one waa dangerously wounded and may die. The conductor, an American named Aller, is not expected to live. After the train had been swept by Are. the Zapatistas rushed on their stricken victims and began killing the wound ed. A priest, unhurt, pleaded with DeLoa, the rebel leader, to stop the slaughter and it ceased. After sacking the expreea and bag gage care the rebels poured oil on the cars and, putting the bodies of the dead into them, set Are to the train. When the relief train arrived there waa nothing but debris and a few per sons, most of whom were hurt, to tell the tale. The train between Matamoras and I’ubla, in the state of Puebla, waa Ared upon and windows in the ear was were shattered, but so far as known no one waa hurt. CLOUDBURST HITS GRAIN BELT Walla Walla Region Buffers Damaging Rain Storm Walla Walla, Wash. — From out of the Blue mountains a storm traveling approximately 55 miles per hour broke over Walia Walla valley Saturday night about 6:45 and paralysed ail traffic in the city, uprooted trees, damaged wheat and fruit crops and blew over buildings, among others three warehouses. The storm waa the moat severe known here in recent years, and though no one will hasard a guess aa to the amount of damage done, it will amount up into the four figures, it is feared. Reports from the storm-swept zone are very meager aa yet, tele phone lines being down in a great many instances. The only hopeful news was that the vast wheat region known aa the Eu reka Flat escaped. Harvest here la in full swing and a great deal of the wheat is threshed and stacked in the Held. All wheat wet will not pass a No. 1 inspection. The Puget Sound warehouse at Sud- berry and one at Thiel, on the North ern Pacific, were blown down and grain fields are washed out near Thiel. The storm almost assumed the propor tions of a cloudburst. Homestsad Rules Made. Washington, D. C. — Regulations governing entries under the Borah three year homestead law were issued by Secretary Fisher. Credit for the three-year period must begin from actual residence. Proof must be submitted within five years. Cultivation for three years, counting from date of entry, is re quired, including actual cultivation of not less than one-sixteenth of the land beginning with the second year and not less than one-eighth begin ning with the third year and until final proof. Absence from the land for not more than five months in one continuous period is allowed, but bona fide con tinuous residence during the remain ing portions of the three-year period must be shown Mexican Fadarala Loot Storsa. Colonia Oaxaca, State of Sonora, Mex. — Federal soldiers looted the store of Haymoore Brothers hereof several thousand dollars' worth of goods and robbed Millard Haymoore, Sr., of 6200 cash. The soldiers did their work in the daylight and mktie no pretense of concealment. This is the second store that has been looted. When the affair waa reported to the government officers they promised to investigate, but made no effort to do so, although Haymoore said he could identify the robbers. Local Unions Loft Free. Cripple Creek, Colo.—By a unani mous vote, the Western Federation of Miners in convention in this city, has decided that local unions could make long time contracts. There were only two dissenting votes to the motion, which was in the form of an amend ment to the constitution. The action was precipitated by a discussion of the action of the Butte, Mont, union In making a three-year wage con tract NEW TRANSCONTINENTAL LINE Canadian Railroad to Connset Hud- [son's Bay With Pacific. Edmonton, Alta.—Forty engineer ing crews, consisting of moo men with teams and pack horses, will be sent into the field at once to make prelim inary surveys for the Northern Terri torial Railway company's line from Edmonton to tide water at Fort Churchill on Hudson’s bay. Thia Is to be part of a system of 1,450 miles, from the Hudson's bay country to Port Easington on the Pacific Coast, con necting Edmonton with Lac La Biche, Fort McMurray and Lake Athabasca. H. G. H. Neville, C. E., chief en gineer or the company, which la financed by a Britiah syndicate and eapltalxed at 640,000,000, has covered every portion of the proposed route and is fully satisfied upon the engi neering problems presented In the con struction of the system. Plans are under way to begin grad ing work early next season, when the laying of rails will also be carried on, and in two years, according to present calculations, the line is to bo in opera tion from Edmonton to the shore of Lake Athabaaca, opening to commer cial development the vast mineral and timber wealth of Alberta's farthest north. The company will then pro ceed with the construction of the line in the province of Saskatchewan. The Edmonton cut oft will be built later. The line from Lake Athabaaca westerly will tap the rich agricultural resources of the newest north, contin uing thence to the Pacific Coast. The Northern Territorial Railway company will operate a line of steam ships from its Hudson’s bay terminal to some British port Engineers in the employ of the corporation have made a study of the construction of ice-breakers in the Baltic and are now working on designs of vessels capable of meeting the abnormal conditions which prevail on the bay. They will aleo superintend the building of the fleet. The completion of the railroad means the opening of a vast empire, which only a few years ago was re garded aa a barren waste and useful only as a hunting ground for the fur trader and the sportsman. JAPANESE EXILE NATIVE COREANS “Third Degree” Inquisition Vic tims Crippled. Seven Denied Hearing—Eminent Co rea n Lawyer Banished for Defending Prisoners. BULL KILLS LATHAM. SENATE CENSURES TAFT. Wild Buffalo in Congo Bush Gores Resolution Based On President’s Po Aviator-Hunter. sition In Lorimor Caso. Paris—Hubert Latham, tie famous Washington, D. C.—Too senate in Anglo-French airman, a pioneer of directly rebuked President Taft for heavier-than-air aviation, waa killed bis course in connection with the Lori by a wild buffalo bull during a hunt in mer case. Once blocked from a vote the French Congo. by the Archbald impeachment pro Tha governor general of French ceedings, a resolution, battle-scarred Equatorial Africa, Marshal Henri in a protracted, bitter debate, finally Merlin, in telegraphing the news, said was adopted, 35 to 23, denouncing Latham was out with natives in the "any attempt ’ on the part of a presi forest when he ¡shot and wounded a dent to exercise the power of bis office buffalo, which immediately charged, to influence a vote on a question witb and gored and tramped him to death. in the senate's exclusive jurisdic Latham’s death occurred on the tion. Chari river, near the Bahres Salamat, The resolution Z originally was practically in the center of the French framed by Senator?] Bailey, who had Sudan, in the direction of Lake Chad. arraigned PresideotJTaft, asserting be The date of the fatality waa June 7. had been “officious and meddlesome” Latham, who was the first aviator in endeavoring to line up regular Re to make notable flights in a mono publican senators in the Lorimer case, plane, the Antoinette, acquired fame and as adopted read: aa a very young man. In February, “Resolved, That any attempt on the 1905, in company with his cousin, part of a president of the United Jacques Faure, he made a balloon trip States to exercise the powers and in across the English channel, voyaging fluence of bis great office for the pur from the Crystal Palace, London, to pose of controlling the vote of any the gates of Paris in six hours. On senator upon a queation involving a July 19, 1909, bemads an unsuccessful rigbt to a seat in the senate, or upon attempt to cross the channel in a any other matter within the exclusive monoplane. He fell into the sea, ow jurisdiction of the senate, would vio ing to his motor breaking down, and late the spirit if not the letter of the on a second attempt in the same constitution and invade the rights of mouth a similar fate met bim. the senate.” Latham aleo was renowned as a dar Not a Democrat Jvoted against the ing motor boatman. resolution, but six ’Republicans voted He was a splendid shot, and in 1906 for it went elephant bunting in the Sudan. In 1906 be made a trip from Khartoum FOREIGN TRADE BIG. to Abyssinia, then passed through British West Africa and West India Excess of Outgoing Over Incoming and French Indo-Cbina. On his last Business Is Noteworthy. and fatal bunting trip be left Bor Washington, D. C.—Foreign com deaux December 29 last year, for the Congo, taking with bim a monoplane merce of the United States for the fis and a big game outflL ________ cal year.1912 was greater than ever before, new high records being estab RED FLAG 18 DEBATED. lished for both import« and exports. The [value of merchandise entering Colorado Miners Cheer Reference free of duty also reached an unprece to “International" Emblem. Cripple ¡¡Creek, Colo.—The second dented total. The year’s trade figures, made pub day's session of the ¡Western Federa lic by the Commerce and Labor de tion of;Miners, in annual convention partment’s bureau of statistics, show at Victor, was featured by the annual that the imports were 61.653.426,174 address of Charles H. Moyer, the and the exports 62,204,222,088 in val Imports exceeded the former president, and by a lively debate over ue. high record, that 'of 1910, by about the use of the red flag to deci rate tl e 6100,000,000, while exports exceeded hall in which the delegatee are meet the 1911 record by nearly 6155,000,- 000. ing. These totals added to the value of Late in the day [the question came the trade of the United States with up as to’what [flag should be used to Porto Rico and Hawaii, would make a decorate the ball. In the argument grand total of approximately four bil that 'ensued, an Englishman and an lion dollars. Imports entering free |of duty were American exchanged strong words. Delegate Corcoran, of Leadville, valued at 6881,743,144, exceeding by Colo., moved that the “international” 6105,000,000 the former high record Non flag adorn the walls. A delegate of free imports, that of 1911. asked Corcoran what be meant by the durable merchandise formed 53.32 per cent of the total imports, the per “international” flag. “The red flag.” shouted Corcoran, centage being larger than ever before, except during the operations of the and he was loudly cheered. But when a poll was taken it was McKinley tariff law, when sugar was decided by a vote of 32 to 28 that the imported free of duty. The excess of exports over imports walls should remain flagless. In his address at the morning ses in the fiscal year was 6550,795,914. sion President Moyer censured ex against 6522,000,000 last year, but State Senator Flinn and William Ran was less than that of 1908, 1901 or dolph Hearst as mineowners, who, he 1898. said, were oppressing the laborer by MARSHALL IS IN DOUBT. reducing wages. He also denounced the Industrial Workers of the World, wbo, he said, were opposed to the best Candidate Not Sure Whether He Is interests of organized labor. "Progressive'' or Not. New York—Confirming information published several days ago, letters have been received by friends of American missionaries in Corea, dis cussing the summary banishment into exile by Japanese authorities of seven native Christians without the form ality of a trial or hearing. These cases are in addition to those of 120 Christians row on trial in Seoul, charged with complicity in a plot to take the life of the Japanese governor general. Of the men who have been exiled to one of the roost barren of many small islands which are used as penal col- oniea, the one moot recently arrested probably is the beat known. He ia Pyong Chan, described as the most eminent native lawyer in Corea. Ho bad been retained to defend five of the prisoners now on trial. His summary banishment deprived bis accused clients of bis services almost on ths eve of their trial under capital charges. Another of the exiles waa arrested several months ago. In ths course of the tortures inflicted upon bim during the poliee inquisition to whiclj he was then subjected, the main nerve trunk of one arm became paralyzed, leaving his hand useless. A third member of the band of unfortunates is one wbo bad suffered the Japanese “third de gree” last spring and wbo after two months’ imprisonment had been re leased aa innocent of complicity in the plot against Count Terauchi. On regaining hie freedom be told his friends in datail just what be bad been made to endure. He was re-ar- rested and banished. Of the remaining four exiled Chris tiana, one waa one of seven teachers employed in the Syen Chun mission academy. Another wax a student in the same institution. The third was BOLT HITS OBSERVATORY. an elder of the church in Wiju and a fourth waa a graduate of Syen ('bun Lightning Plays Havoc Early Sunday academy. on Council Crest. Two others—non-Christians—were Portland—A bolt of lightning crash included in the sentence of banish ed through the lookout platform of ment, making the total number nine. the observatory on Council Crest dur ing the electric storm at 2 a. m. Sun BOY RAISES PRIZE LETTUCE. day, set fire to the structure and played havoc with the electric system Mammoth Head Weighs 24 Pounds, that had been installed on the Crest. Is B6 Inches In Circumference. The bolt struck about three feet Portland—A mammoth lettuce head, from the station of the searehlighL It drilled a hole in a two bv-fotfr tim weighing 24 pounds and measuring 66 ber, splintered the plank beneath and inches in circumference and 24 inches after setting fire to the observatory in diameter, waa pulled Saturday by leaped several hundred feet to the Titus Rayl, 14 years old, who lives at Titus started house of Arthur Duchamp, proprietor 1402 Rodney avenue. of the Crest, melting the electric out to raise his big lettuce head aa a switch above his bed and giving him a prize winner in the garden contest fright as it ran about the metal of the which was held recently at the Wood lawn school, but when he saw its mam bed in which he was lying. The flames started in the observa moth growth be couldn't resist the tory were quenched almost immediate temptation to let it grow to the limit Saturday th* boy discovered the ly by a heavy downpour of rain. Aside from melting the electric switch in head was about to burst and .to pre Mr. Duchamp's house, the lightning vent the catastrophe he pulled it up. Indianapolis — Governor Marshall, BROUGHER LEADS CRUSADE. burned out fuses and fixtures at sev Titus did not get a prize, but he has Democratic candidate for vice presi the satisfaction of knowing that his eral places and linemen passed a large dent, received at the state capitol 20 part of the day repairing the damage. head of lettuce is the biggest thing, Paster Opposes Prizefighting. But Ir- members of the Democratic National so far as record goes, ever grown in dorses Wholesome Boxing. committee wbo stopped nere on their PREACHER WANTS ATHEIST. Portland. Los Angeles — Rev. J. Whitcomb way home from the reorganisation Governor Mar Brougher, formerly a noted minister meeting at Chicago. TURKS ARE VICTORS. Methodist Pastor Says Psop's Need of Portland, Ore., was one of the act shall said he “did not know whether Another Ingersoll to Stir Them. ive leaders in the work of obtaining he was a ‘progressive’ or not,” and Italian Torpedo Boats Repulsed and signers to the anti-prise fight petitions continued : Chicago—“Oh. God, send us another Two Destroyed. “There are many kinds of progres filed with thousands of signatures re Bob Ingersoll to arouse the people.” sives nowadays. One believes in tak Constantinople—Eight Italian tor cently. was the plea made by Rev. Charles B. “As much as I am in favor of ing the tariff off Iowa products and Mictcheli. pastor of St. James' Meth pedo boats attacked the entrance to odist Episcopal church at the Des the Dardanelles at 1:30 o'clock Satur sports, I am absolutely opposed to putting it on Indiana products, end pugilism in any form, even under the the other supports the opposite policy. Plaines campmeeting Sunday. “ t hey day morning. The Turkish forts replied vigorous guise of mere boxing entertainments, ” I am not that kind of a progressive. sit in the pews with dull, dead, in ly, sinking two of the Italian war he said. “So long as boxing is in But if the term means to believe that difference that breaks our hearts. "It would be better if they threw ships and damaging the other six. dulged in as a wholesome sport I would the Democratic party should meet not object to it, but the moment pro changing conditions in protecting the bricks at us. as they did at Wesley, The cannonade lasted 45 minutes. The cabinet ministers were hurried fessionalism is introduced, that mo people against tbe special interests, I but they don’t even talk back. Thia is an age of doubL We ministers ly called to the palace where, at a ment it becomes real fighting, I am am a progressive.” It is degrading for need more than Apostolic succession council of war, it was decided to clore opposed to it. participants and onlookers alike.” Allan in Andrew's Place. in this scoffing, indifferent and God the Dardanelles. less age. The pendulum, I believe, Washington, D. C.—President Taft Train Outruns Flood. Dairy Show Plans Out. will noon begin the swing back will appoint Sherman P. Allen, assis Riverside, Cal.—Passengers who again.” ________________ Portland — Preliminary arrange tant secretary at the White House, to were aboard a train on the way here ments for the Dairy, Stock and Prod be assistant secretary of the treasury, Thieves Loot Wreckage. when a cloudburst broke near Perris ucts show, which will be held at the succeeding A. Platt Andrew, who re Reno, Nev.—Because theives are told how their engineer raced against Portland Union Stockyards, November cently resigned after a row with Sec looting the wrecked homes of the sur a towering wall of water which swept 18 to 25, were outlined at a meeting retary MacVeagh. Allen was former vivors and victims of the Maxuma and through Valverde Canyon, in order to of the directors of the Pacific Interna ly a newspaper man here. It was Seven Thoughts cloudburst. Governor save his train from being overwhelm tional Dairy association, presided over said unofficially at the White House Oddie has sent state police to the ed by the flood. Th* trainmen noticed by D. O. Lively. The meeting was that Carmi A. Thompson, of Ohio, as scene. The thieves have been making the wall of water rolling down the held at the offices of the Stockyards sistant secretary of the interior, will a systematic search of the wreckage canyon toward the railroad tracks. company. Twenty-one delegates rep become secretary to the president, suc for property, while pretending to aid The engineer opened the throttle and resenting the important dairy sections ceeding Charles D. Hilles, chairman of the work of rescue. It has been def managed to beat the flood into Perris. of the Northwest were present. Mr. the Republican National committee. initely determined that the number of The floods softened the roadbed and Lively was appointed chairman of the deaths from the cloudburst was seven, caused some delay in traffic. Both Parties Rap Steal Trust, committee on selection of judges. while as many more are seriously in Washington. D. C.—Although it is Linars Encounter Ice. jured. A great crowd of sightseers Rapids Current Sliys After Fall. assured that the Stanley committee’s visited the scene. New York—Icebergs and ice fields Spokane—L. D. Wallace, a bridge long investigation of the so-called were encountered by the steamships carpenter, fell 160 feet into the boil steel trust will result in at least two Desert Battle Fierce Mauretania and Adriatic on their ing rapids of the Spokane river Thurs reports to congress—one by the Re The largest berg waa day when a staging on the Great publicans and the other by the Demo Misrata, Tripoli—General Kara at last trip. tempted to dislodge a large body of sighted by the Adriatic on Saturday Northern trestle that spans the river crats of the committee—it was dis afternoon within a few hours’ steam in the outskirts of the eity broke be closed that both sides will agree to Turks, which has been harassing the ing distance from the spot where the neath his weighL Wallace was not recommendations that the United region from the oasis near Misrata. Titanic went down in April. It was killed by the fall and struggled des States Steel corporation be dissolved The enemy, however, made a tenacious variously estimated at from 300 to perately to make his way to shore but and indorse the anti-trust suit tbe stand in the desert beyond and a fierce 1000 feet in length and from 100 to the current dashed him against the government is prosecuting against iL His engagement ensued. The Turks were 200 feet in heighL On the same day rocks and he waa drawn under. Premium on “Regularity.” body was not recovered. forced to retreat after four hours’ the Mauretania escaped an ice field. sharp fighting. They suffered heavy Washington, D. C.—With the semi Trestle la Dynamited. Sultan Refuses Terms. losses. The Italian casualties were 16 official announcement that President Lexington, Ky.—A large trestle be killed and 87 wounded. Constantinople— The grand vixier Taft will appoint four Ohio Republi longing to the Roe’s mine in Bath announced that the ^Turkish govern cans to important government posts in Sheep Dressed In 1:66. county, where 200 miners are on ment refused the proposed conditions Washington, it became apparent that Seattle—At the butchers' picnic at strike, was blown up Saturday night of peace as unacceptable. Turkey, he one of the first moves in the fight the Fortune Park Sunday, G. E. Bennett, A railroad tie, heavily charged with said, intended to maintain her sover Taft leaders are making for the presi the Portland champion, won the sheep dynamite, waa discovered juat in time eignty in Tripoli 'and the war would dent’s re-election will be an attempt killing contest. He slaughtered his to prevent a train from being wrecked. continue until conditions of peace to strengthen their relations with the sheep and dressed it in one minute and The company has placed additional agreeable to Turkish dignity had been Republican state organizations I throughout the country. guards about the plant 55 secondo. submitted. CURVER DOES ALL THE WORK Device That Will Be of Great A» alstance to the Embryonlo Baseball Pltaher. R. W. Jones of Fourteenth and F streets, Lincoln, Neb., has just re ceived a patent tor a device whlck be calls a “base ball curvar.” Thia consists of a va cuum cup hold in position by a band to fit the finger, o> In a size to fit two or more fingers in order that It may be shifted or ad- justed to any position In relation to the fingers. Tbe pitcher may adjust it aa he likes in order to Impart a whirling motion to the baseball, which he can regulate aa he pleases with a very little practfoe. Tbe illus tration shows Mr. Jones' apparatus at tached to a band bolding a ball.—New York World. WOULDN'T BE TIED. A horse owned by a Connecticut farmer, has been trained to stand any where without hitching. A now hired man drove him to town one day and tied him with a rope to a posL The horse took this as an Insult to his dignity. Ho chewed the rope in two and ran away at a terrific pace through tho streets. Having satisfied himself that he had taught the hired man a lesson, he calmly returned to the hltching-post, where he was found contentedly chewing the end of the rope. Puts tho Wakeful to Sleep. An English scientist traveling In Africa noticed a native woman put her Infant to aleep by letting water tria ble through a hollow reed' placed on its forehead. This led to experiments which show that here is a method of producing sleep in young or old when all other devices fall. A hollow rub ber pad is placed on the forehead, this pad being connected by a small hose with a reservoir at'a higher lev el. An outlet for the water ia also provided. All that Is necessary la to turn the water on and as It trickles through the hose It causes a rythmical throb on the brow of the subject which by its monotony and soothing action soon makes him forget his trou bles and drop off. The system is specially successful with babies, and if it is generally adopted the fine art at "walking the floor” with the last born at the dead of night will be ren dered unnecessary. In certain cases of fever, etc.. Ice water can be used In the apparatus to reduce the ten» perature of the patient. TWIG-LIKE CATERPILLAR. This strange twig-llke caterpillar, so very little known to the general pub lie, but at th* same time fairly common in Eng land, Is the cater pillar of one ol the moths which are known as geometrldae. on on account of th* geometrlc-llke at tltudes into which the caterpillar* put themselves when in motion. Th* example here shown (there are many varieties) is that of the swallowtail moth, and, when extended or balanced at length upon the slender branch ot a tree, so exactly resembles a short twig with dried skin and buds as tc need a practiced eye to detect the liv ing insect from the branch which it Imitates. Honesty to Be Rewarded. A young woman employed In i laundry In Los Angeles, Cal., the oth er day found a diamond and turquoise jewel valued at 6950 in a bundle ol Boiled linen. She did not hesitate a moment, but looked up the name on the bundle to Identify the owner and then turned the gems over to the man ager. They belong to a wealthy New Yorker, who is visiting friends In Lot Angeles, who had placed them under her pillow and forgotten them. Th* owner is having prepared as a reward a handsome diamond-set bracelet, en graved with her own and the young wom&n'a initials and the date. Duck-Billed Fish. About six' feet long and with a bill like a duck protruding from lta upper jaw, this fish—the spoon-billed stur geon—Is a dweller In the rivers and lakes of the Mississippi, and on th« banks of ths lower Mississippi an ex tensive fishery has grown up. The fish, which is caught chiefly for its roe —which is used In the manufacture of a kind of caviare—pokea about in the mud with its spoon-bill and stirs it all up. then feeds upon the small crue- taceana that abound in myriads on tho river-bed. Flowers In a Boot. An extraordinary floral curiosity *aa recently exhibited at the Birming ham (England) flower ahow. Three fine blooms were firmly rooted in an old boot, and their splendid condition proved that they did not find their "homo" uncongenial.