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SENATE SAYS ALL MUST KEEP OFF Foreign Corporations Cannot Acquire Military Basis. Vital Issues of Monroe Doctrine Ole* Cussed In Secret—State De partment Not Consulted. Washington, D. C. — The United States senate issued a warning Satur day to the nations of the world against encroachment upon the continents of North end South America. The United States will not see “without grave concern,'* said the eenate, any suitable naval or military site pass into control of a foreign cor poration, when such possession might threaten the communication or the saftey of the United States." So vital were the issues discussed in the Ixtdgc resolution, which set forth the policy of the United States, as to points situated like Magdalena Hay, in Ixiwer California, that the doors of the senate were closed for three hours while the reeolution was debated in secret session. It finally passed with only four votes against it. Notwithstanding the com parative unanimity of the eenate U|»n the note of warning, it is understood the measure did not have the official indorsement of the administration. It was framed entirely outside the Stale department and it is understood the eiecutive branch of the govern ment was not consulted with regard to the senate's pronouncement. The resolution arose from the re ported attempt of a Japanese syndi cate to secure land about Magdalena Hay. In the form finally adopted by the senate it declares against the ac quisition of any threatening location by a foreign corporation, “which has such a relation to another government not American as to givs that govern ment practical power of control for naval or military purposes.'* DYNAMITERS FOILED. Robbsrs Get Safe From Mine Office But Are Driven Off. Haker, Or.— Masked men broke into the office of the Underwood Placer Mmes company at Cornucopia, rolled down an embankment the safe con taining gold nuggets valued at thou sands of dollars, at 1 Saturday morn ing and dynamited it. They were interrupted by Foreman Charles Camel, of Walla .Walla, who is in charge of the plant, and fired several shots at him, but he escaped with a alight wound and called help and frightened them away without their booty. Mrs. R. S. Hither, telephone oper ator. who Friday saved Halfway from a serious Are by calling out the farm ers and townspeople, was appealed to and she rang people out of bed and urged them to start in search of the safecrackers. The entire Pine valley was notified by breakfast time and parties passed the day in search. A. C. Stephens, deputy sheriff of Haker county, in that district suspected two men and telephoned to Baker for aid, but as Sheriff Kami could not cover the 90 miles to the mine in time to help, told him to arrest the men. They have not been apprehended yet. Ship and Whale Collide. San Francisco—A giant whale col lided with the schooner J. H. Bruce Saturday night off the coast between Point Reyes and the Farallons Islands. A part of the forward rigging of the vessel was torn away by the impact with the body of the leviathan and when the schooner reached port por tions of the flesh of the whale and quantities of blood were scattered over the deckload and the forecastle head. The sea animal was sighted by the lookout when the vessel was not more than 300 yards away. The course was altered, but the whale kept in its path. _ Nicaragua Asks for Help. Panama—Manuel E. Velasquez, the Nicaraguan minister here, said he hoped the friendly offices of the United States might stop bloodshed and restore peace to the Nicaraguans. News that President Adolph Diaz, of Nicaragua, had dismissed General Luis Mena from hie office as minister of war and imprisoned him and that Mena's eon, the military commander of Granada, is in control of Granada, Nandiame and Masaya, where General Mena had stored big quantities of war munitions, is confirmed. CottorfMeasure Passed. |l Washington. D. C.—The house has passed 15« to 72, the cotton tariff re vision bill, which the Democratic ma jority asserts will reduce the duties on cotton and cotton manufactures by approximately 21 per cent. The measure is identical with that vetoed last year by President Taft on the ground that it was not baaed on offi cial information. House members be lieve the senate will pass it and put it up to the president again. Thlrtv-Two Automobiles Burned. San’Francisco—Thirty-two automo biles were destroyed here in a fire that burned out the body factory of Albert E. Lattimore. The damage is estimated at flOO.OOO, With nine ex ceptions the machines were privately owned. The fire department haa no knowledge of how the blaze originated. JAPAN MAY BE WARNED. Vigorous Resolution Reaffirming Mon roe Doctrine Expected. Washington, D. C.--The vigor of the terms that the eenate shall use In declaring that no foreign country shall establish a naval base at Magdalena Hay, or at any other point on the American continent, will bo the sub ject of consideration by the foreign committee of the senate. Within a day or two, it Is believed, the senate will bo called upon to adopt a reeolution stating in unequivocal terms that the Munn» doctrine or the settled policy of the United States requires that no foreign power be thus permitted to secure a military or na val footbold in the Western hemi sphere. Senator Ixrdge, as chairman of the subcommittee that investigated the rumor of a Japanese purchase of 4,- 000,000 acres of land on Magdalena Bay, will make a formal report to the foreign affaire committee, recommend ing that the United States reaffirm the policy known as the Monroe doc trine In terms that cannot be misun derstood by any foreign power. The senate investigation began as the result of reports that a private Japanese syndicate was attempting to control a vast tract about the Ixiwer California bay, long regarded as the best naval base on the Pacific Coast. The correspondence submitted to the senate in April and May by President Taft and Secretary of State Knox in dicated that the United States had no intimation that Japan, as a gevern- ment, was behind the attempted pur chase or that it intended to make use of the land as a military or naval base. It is understood that the subcommit tee headed by Senator LoAgc has found no evidence of the connection of the Japanese government with the at tempted purchase of the big tract of land in Mezico. To make the position of the United States clear, however, the majority of the committee will propose that con gress declare that this nation will not permit, without a protest, the estab lishment of any foreign power at a point where it could threaten or en danger the safety of the United States. The subcommittee consists of Sena tors I-oJge, Root, Sutherland, Rayner and Hitchcock. HIGH LIVING SCORED. OROZCO SPURNS AMERICAN NOTE Rebel General Refuses to Rec ognize United States. Receives American Consul Only as American Citizen—Two Amer icans Found Murdered. Mexico City—Two Americans have been hanged near Cananea, Sonora, presumably by Mexican rebels. Their bodies were found Thursday and the incident was reported immediately to President Madero by the governor of Sonora. The governor has ’ordered an investigation. He believes the two men were executed by rebels in order to precipitate American intervention. The victims have not been Identified. Juarez, Mezico*—General Pascual Orozco, commander-in-chief of the Mezican rebels, coolly declared that he did not recognize the United States government. He made the remark to Thomas Edwards, American consul here, who called at the rebel leader's headquarters to deliver a message from Secretary of State Knoz. The message from Washington con cerned the treatment of the American settlers in Northern Mexico by the rebels, growing out of the disarming of colonists last week. General Orozco told General Ed- wards that be did not regard the American as a representative of the United States, which government, Orozco said, he did not recognize. However, he was glad to see Mr. Ed wards, he said, and to receive him aa an American citizen. Orozco accept ed the message from the American consul without further comment Ed- wards then left the room. JAPAN AGAIN BUSY New Emperor Takes Reins and Sub jects Resume Tasks. Tokio—Business in the capital and generally throughout the cuuntry, which came to a standstill with the death of the Emperor Mutsuhito, has been (resumed. Emperor Yo Shibito having expressed the desire that there be no further cessation, owing to the Luxury Attacked By Senator Burton aa Main Cause. Washington, D. C.—Senator Bur ton, of Ohio, ezplained to the eenate his opinions aa to the cause of the present high cost of living. The manifest and important causes, ho eaid, were the “phenomenal progress of recent years, the striking inequali ty of this progress in different lines of human endeavor and the tendencies to extravagance and waste and to dimin ish productive energy by a large part of the population.” “Neither the Payne-Aldrich tariff law nor any other similar measure was responsible for the general high prices," he declared, “for the varia tions in prices have been so very con siderable, both in the way of increase and decrease, as absolutely to disprove any inference that the change in prices haa been due to the tariff of 1909 or to any other tariff act.” He exonerated the “trusts" and "large combinations of capital," de claring that a complete monopoly in any particular article affords a chance to increase its price, but that the same result is apparent when separate producers maintain an agreement aa to prices. “One of the serious influences tend ing to increase prices," he asserted, “is that of price agreements of vari ous sorts. It was one of the purposes of the Sherman anti-trust act to pre vent practices'of this sort. However, there can be little doubt that thia practice still continues." Another “device” resorted to to eliminate competition, he declared, “was that of hiding behind the patent right." He referred to a recent Su preme court decision under which the "user of a patented article may be re quired to buy supplies of a certain make and pay the price imposed. ” YOSHOH1TO, EMPEROR OF JAPAN losses entailed on the poor people and the interference with international exchangee. Emperor Yo Shihito was kept busy throughout Thursday, during which time he issued an edict proclaiming his accession to the throne, which he read before a vast concourse of high officers. He also proclaimed hie suc cession to the command of the army and navy. The Japanese foreign office has noti fied the foreign powers that the im perial birthday has been changed from Novembers (Mutsuhito’e natal day) to August 31, Yo Shihito’s birthday. After the farewell taken of the late emperor's body by the members of the imperial family, the body was depos ited in a casket with a quadruple cov ering, the outer one measuring nine feet by four, and was then placed in a special mourning chamber. On his way to the Aoyama palace, where it is understood he will reside until after the funeral, a great ova tion was given Emperor Yo Shihito, immense crowds gathering along the streets, where they stood with bared heads. New Drug Law Proposed. Washington, D. C.—A bill by Rep resentative Stanley to define more specifically the terms "misbranded," as used in the pure food laws, was re ported favorably by the house com merce committee. The measure would make it illegal to sell any drug under the name of some other article; make compulsory the printing of the Woman Immigrants Needed. quantity or proportion of alcohol, mor Honolulu—**Equal immigration for phine or other narcotics in drugs offer ed for sale and prohibit the printing women," was the substance of a pro on labels of false curatives and thera position broached here by Dr. Charles peutic claims. W. Eliot, president emeritus of Har vard University. Dr. Eliot, how Turks Seek Peace Paet. ever, was looking at the subject not Constantinople—The Turkish gov from the standpoint of women’s rights, ernment is willing to enter into peace but aa part of the study of the influx negotiations with Italy if they are of foreign people into the United conducted in a manner compatible States. Dr. Eliot advocated laws with Turkey’s honor and dignity. which would prevent a preponderance This was announced in the chamber of of more than 5 per cent of men over deputies here during the reading of women in any race entering the the new ministerial proclamation. country. The government censured the interfer ence of the military in politics and de Newport Yields Halibut. clared it proposed to take vigorous Newport, Or. — Thursday morning measures to counteract it. the launch Ollie S. went out on a pros pecting trip for halibut banks and suc Hill Men Mske Record. ceeded in locating its object about 16 Albany, Or.—By laying four miles miles southwest by south from this of track in nine hours and 11 mintues, bay. About two hours were spent the Oregon Electric broke all known fishing and 17 halibut were taken. It tracklaying records. It is centain has long been known that fishing that thia is by far the beat record banks lay southwest—of this place. ever made in the Pacific Northwest, Captain Garner, of the Ollie S., says and so far aa known it has never been the catch of fish was limited only by equaled in the entire country. the small Quantity of bait taken along. RELIEF IS GRANTED. Emergency Appropriation Temporar ily Provided In Resolution. Washington, D. C.—Temporary re lief for the bankruptcy in whieh the government found itself recently was granted by congress through the pas sage of an emergency appropriation reeolution which was sent at once to the president. It carries forward the appropriations as they existed in June and July for another “half month." Hy August 15 it Is expected the an nual appropriation bills will have been passed. An attack was made on the emer gency measure in the senate on the ground that It provided no funds to meet the increase in pensions recently authorized. The emergency appropri ation is for “necessary expenses of government" and for "the payment of pensions.” In neither instance, however, does it provide for anything further than the estimates as the they existed in June. 1 Senator William Alden Smith, of Michigan, charged that congress was “keeping the old soldiers out of their pay," by this means of supplying money for the government. Mr. McCumber presented a resolu tion to meet the pensions emergency. This resolution will be called up for action immediately. It authorizes the appropriation of 130,000,000 or as much of that amount aa is 'neces sary to meet pension claims ’that may "be due and payable on or before Au gust 4.** Charges were made by members of each party that the other was respon sible, for delaying the appropriation bills.; j./J _______ N^iNTERff IN CA/VP THE rapid disappearance of wild out by the settlers who have bunted game in the west Is causing them in season and out. Elk are great Uncle Sam to sit up and take travelers, and, when disturbed, will go notice. The Biological Survey ’ long distances In the endeavor to recently made an exhaustive' shake off danger. Fleeing from the report as to big game conditions, and 1 populated mountain dlstrlcta of Colo the prospect in general, and while J rado into Wyoming, they have at last conditions were found good In some drifted to the sparsely populated Jack- states, the reports from other haunts j son’s Hole country, The additions of of big game were not so optimistic. the large elk herd that baa always SURVEY PUSHED NORTH A h a matter of fact, between the 1 fed In the Jackson’s Hole and Yellow- game hogs, the ranchers who Insist on j stone Park country have proved too Alaskan Boundary Line May Be having wild meat out of season, and ' great for the natural range to support. bands of marauding Indians from ' Wyoming has had to feed the elk, and Marked This Year. various reservations, wild game in the finally the problem of caring for tho Washington, D. C.—Since the sum west is traveling at a rapid puce to animals has grown so acute that Un mer of 1909 the joint commission ap ward extinction. Most of the states cle Sam has been called upon for aid, pointed by the United States and Ca have poor laws, which vary greatly, and at the last regular session of con nadian governments to locate and and these laws are enforced only gress several thousand dollars were mark the boundary line separating spasmodically. It is almost lmpossl-i appropriated, to be spent in caring for British territory from Alaska has ble to secure the conviction ot any I the elk. Had the elk been properly been actively engaged in this work, rancher who kills wild game out of protected from the first, no such sit pushing the line northward from the season. Juries in the sparsely settled uation would have arisen. Yukon to Porcupine river by the end Tragedy of Buffalo. communities will never convict, and In of the 1910 season. Last summer the It has been proposed to remove sev consequence state officers have be field operations were advanced farther come discouraged and rarely prose eral thousand of the Jackson's Hole along that part of the 141st meridian cute. The tourist who happens to kill elk to Colorado and Montana, but old which extends from Porcupine river to a grouse out of season, or whose ig hunters claim that such a move would the Arctic Ocean, and it is believed norance of local game laws leads him be folly, as the elk would drift back that the present year will witness tbe Into some such blunder, is made tbe to their old feeding ground and in a completion of this part of tbe survey. “goat." The chap who happens to year or two conditions would be as Realizing that its well-equipped have an undersized trout In his creel bad as ever. Apparently the only so field organization afforded unusual fa is fined heavily, while the local resi lution of the problem, according to cilities in this remote and rather in dent who may be making a practice officers of the Biological Survey who accessible region for gathering much have the matter in hand. Is the re information not directly connected of killing mountain sheep, upon which moral of a part of the elk In small with the particular work of locating there Is no open season in most west numbers to various parks and prlvats and marking the boundary line, the ern states, is allowed to carry on his game preserves, where they will be joint commission extended an invita work unmolested because no convic under fence. This means a long step tion can be secured In a local court. tion, which was readily accepted, to Colorado. New Mexico. Arizona and toward the extinction of the elk. for the Geological survey of Canada and the United States Gelogical survey to Utah suffer from the depredations of those animals do not thrive well In send geologists to accompany the field Indians, who care nothing for the captivity, their natures being too rest parties during 1911 and 1912 and to white man's game laws. The Indians less to stand close confinement Owing to differences in the game examine the geology along the bound kill right and left. and. on their deer hunting expeditions, does and fawns laws of various states, and lax en ary from the Yukon to tbe Arctic. as well as bucks fall victims to their forcement of the same, game birds are guns. There is another influence at disappearing. Wild geese that could MEAT SOARS IN CHICAGO. work, against which the most strin be killed in great numbers in the Rocky mountain states a few years Packers Hold Out Little Hope of gent laws In the world would be un availing—the rapid settlement of the ago are now a rarity. Some of the Decrease to Housewives, open range. "game hog” pictures, taken by men Chicago — Meat prices, already a Antelope In particular have suffered who love to pose before the camera serious problem for Chicago house from the encroachments of the set- . in the midst of their trophies, go a wives, have climbed a notch in the tier. Colorado has had no open sea long way toward telling the details of last few days and, according to those son on antelope for several years, but the tragedy. acquainted with the situation, show these animals are steadily disappear The tragedy of the buffalo is famil no signs of decreasing. In Chicago ing. The plains country east of the iar to all. There is only one ’’outlaw" prices are: Rocky mountains has been put under herd in the country, which numbers Porterhouse steak, 23 to 35 cents. fence until little of the range has been about seventy-five head, and which is Sirloin steak, (best cut). 25 cents. left for the antelope. As a result tbe supposed to be part of the herd own Round steak, 20 to 22 cents. state of Colorado has had to feed tbe ed by Michael Pablo, of Ronan, Mont Lamb chops (beet), 25 to 30 cents. few remaining bands of these beauti There was a small herd in Losa Park. Pot roast, 15 cents. ful creatures nearly every winter. The Colorado, but the last chapter In the Veal cutlets, 30 to 35 cents. best of the range has been taken up history of that herd was written Pork chops, 19 to 21 cents. by settlers. The antelope are unable when the state confiscated a number These figures, according to local to find sufficient natural food, and are of skins and heads, in the possession dealers, are a big advance over figures driven by hunger to the very farm of a hunter, and sold them for 61,085. for last year at this season. F. 8. yards of tbe ranchers. The ranchers Mountain lions, wolves, coyotes and Hayward, secretary for Swift A Co., do not have more than enough feed bob cats are responsible for a part of said: 1 for their stock, and are compelled to the decrease in wild game in the “The scarcity of cattle and the in call upon the state for protection, as western states. These predatory ani crease of population are responsible the antelope play havoc with hay mals have actually shown an increase, for the advanced price of meats." stacks. in spite of liberal bounties offered for “Prices are not going to lower read Laws Vary. their destruction. Mountain lions are ily”, declared James Irwin, control Fish are tlltle better protected than especially skillful in killing deer and ling several markets.. "Among the other forms of wild game. The fish elk. They have wrought great dam reasons for the advance of meat laws of the western states vary to a age in Yellowstone National Park— prices is the high price of corn.” remarkable degree, and little real pro so much so that professional hunters tection is afforded under them. It Is are employed in the national forests Real Heads Disclosed. the szme old story of difficulty in se adjoining the park and spend much of San Francisco—Testimony adroitly curing a conviction in local courts. their time pursuing mountain lions I brought out by the government in its Dynamiters and seiners ply their call with packs of specially trained hounds. gigantic suit to regain 375,000,000 ing. and are seldom caught and never Wolves and coyotes play havoc with worth of land from the Oregon A Cal convicted. Wyoming, which has the the antelope on the plains in winter. ifornia railroad, a subsidiary of the finest trout streams in the west, un- All western states have standing boo I less exception be made of tbe Gun ties on the heads of these animals, but Southern Pacific, put into record the fact that Collis P. Hunfington, Mark | nison In Colorado, has no closed sew so hard are the wolves and coyotes to Hopkins, Charles Crocker and Leland son on trout.’ Fishermen report big trap that they remain a constant Stanford, known the length of the Pa-1 catches In spawning time, when the menace to the wild game as well as to cific Coast as the “Big Four.” were fish should be left undisturbed. If the flocks and herds of western stock- the real heads of the Pacific Improve- |there *w" regarding the men. The problem of saving the wild ment Co., which had all construction "‘■reenlng lrT‘K*,Jon i ditches. such work for the Southern Pacific, of which laws are never enforced, and one game in the west Is difficult to solve. hears of ten and twelve-pound trout but it is not Impossible of solution. they were also directors and officers. being caught by farmers’ boys tn irri Evidently the simplest way Is to have gation ditches. If somebody Is to be the government take the matter in Battleship'Bill Gains. entertained, the citizens of an enter charge. The “game hog” haa a whole Washington, D. C.—Alarmed at the growing strength of the two battleship prising town in the haunts of the big some fear of Federal officers that lo trout will give a “fish fry." For a day cal officials fall to inspire. Convic proponents in the house. Democratic leaders issued a call for another cau [or two everybody in town will turn tions could be secured against local 'out, and the streams will be whipped residents in the Federal courts. • cus on the naval bill. It was gener The laws regulating the whereas such things would be Impos ally accepted that at least one battle to a foam ship would be provided for. Repre size of the individual catch will be sible in local courts. The extension sentative Sulzer who is leading the openly violated, and when the day of the national forests has done much fight for two ships, announced that he i for the “fry" arrives there will be a to preserve the wild game. Forest had 31 signatures to his petition that ' veritable orgy, with thousands of rangers who are deputized as game the caucus release members from their trout forming the feature of the feast. wardens have brought many prosecu The finest trout streams in the world tions which have ended successfully. previous no-battleship pledge. are being depleted rapidly, and fisher Next to absolute control of the gov- men who visit the North Platte and ernment. co-operation between the Mexican Rebels Hang Gormans. ’the Laramie every season renort that government and the state would be Douglas, Aris.—John Hertling and Guido Shubert, the rmen hanged at those streams are showing the effect effective. A more uniform system of Montevista, east of Cananea, Sonora, ■ of Wyoming’s lax enforcement of the game laws on the part of the states, and an awakening of public sentiment about a week ago. were natives of, .... . Germany and subjects of that country, I Th’>c<'nd ’ ,n nf ,h*‘ ** k n Jack in behalf of state authority would be As It is. game protection though Hertling had taken out his son’s Hole Is largely due to the con beneficial original papers for American citizen stant hunting of the animals In other in the last haunts of the creatures of Thousands of elk have the wild is merely a farce, and one ship. Hertling was the watchman at localities the Montevista mine and Shubert was drifted from Colorado northward In of the choicest heritages of the peo tbe last few years, being frightened ple Is being shamefully wasted. his guest. - •