The news=record., March 17, 1909, Wednesday Edition, Image 2

EVENTS IHE DAY
Newsy Items Gathered from All
Parts ol tbe World.
PREPARED FOR THE BUSY READER
Lett Important but Not Lest Inter
estlng Happenings from Points
Outside the State.
Chicago's new charter proposes to
give the people a recall system.
Servia is buying gunpowder and Ger
many is uneasy over the situation.
Three Chicago boys ran away to
join Roosevelt on his trip to Africa.-
Persia is again the scene of internal
strife and Russia is sending troops.
The government only awaits word
from, Mexico to intervene" in Central
America.
General W. T. Palmer, founder of
Colorado Springs and a great railroad
builder, is dead.
Dr. Starr, of Chicago university, de
clares that Roosevelt will not survive
his trip to Africa.
The speaker of the Texas lower
house has been compelled to resign on
account of charges of graft.
The California legislature has passed
a bill requiring railroads to have three
brakemen on freight trains of over 50
cars.
Indians in Northern Canada have
suffered greatly from cold this winter
and many have frozen to death. Their
supplies are also nearly exhausted.
A Milwaukee grand jury has found a
plumbers trust.
Seismographs at Manila recorded a
beavy earthquake.
Lawyers in the Calhoun trial are
still battling over jurors.
Civic chaos has followed the resig
nation of Mayor Harper at Los An
geles.
Anthracite miners and operators
have disagreed and the conference ad'
joumed.
Secretaries Ballinger and Wilson
will personally inspect irrigation and
forest work.
The British naval plan for the com
ing year contains plans for four mon
ster battleships.
A Montana holdup man robbed six
Japs and then made them assist him to
escape on a hand car.
The American minister to Nicaragua
has been recalled and joint interven
tion by Mexico and the United States
is threatened.
A landslide at Java has almost com
pletely buried three villages and cost
hundreds of lives. IhTe dead are esti
mated at over 1,000.
U astro has engaged berths on a ves
el Bailing for Venezuela March 26.
A Cuban woman has jest given birth
to quadruplets, two boys and two girls,
The Minnesota house has turned
down two bills favoring woman suf
frage.
The house committee is receiving
many protests againgt proposed tariff
changes.
A Chicago pastor and $5,000 have
disappeared and the police are looking
for him.
Mayor Harper, of Los Angeles, has
resigned under the threat of exposure
or gross immorality.
An attempt was made to wreck a
Burlington passenger train near Peoria,
111., by throwing a switch.
Anhracite miners' demands have
been refused by the operators and both
Ides are preparing for a strike.
Japanese figures show that 94 more
Japanese returned home during Febru
ary than came to the United States.
The Nevida legislator is consider
ing an anti-gambling bill which even
prohibits the playing of whist or other
games for prises.
East Africa is making great prepar
ations lor Roosevelt a bunt.
King Edward disproved the report of
ma illness by walking ten miles.
Blizzard in New Mexico, tornadoes
in Arkansas and Gulf state have caused
many deaths.
The most stringent local option law
in any state has been passed by the
Utah legislature.
Railroads In Missouri may compro
mise and make 2X cents a mile the
standard for passenger rates.
At the municipal elections in Minne
sota 27 towns voted dry against 24
which decided to continue saloons.
The president of the German Fire In
surance company has been indicted at
Toledo, Ohio, for perjury and embes-
Element.
The Federal land office haa started
vigorous campaign against land frauds.
The American commission is doing
good work in relieving distress at Mes
sina, Italy.
The Hawaiian legislature is consid
ering a bill aimed at Japanese physi
clans. A knowledge of English is pro
posed as a way to shut them out
The house committee proposes to cut
all lumber duties in half and place
hides on the free list.
GOVERNMENT AT THE FAIR.
Large Sum Expended to Make Ex
hibit Most Complete Yet Shown.
Uncle Sam is taking a larger inter
est in the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific expo
sition, which opens in Seattle on June
1, than in any other exposition ever
held.
At the World's fair in St. Louis the
United States government exhibit cov
ered an area of 126,496 Bquare feet.
At the Lewis and Clarke exposition in
Portland it covered 75,364 square feet.
A.t the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition
the government buildings cover an area
of 137,390 square feet and there are
five of these magnificent exhibit palaces
Here are some of the things the gov
ernment will have done by the day the
exposition is thrown open to the world :
Expended $250,000 for exhibit build
ings; $200,000 for general government
exhibits; $100,000 for Alaska's exhib
it; $25,000 for the Philippine exhibit;
$25,000 for the Hawaiian exhibit (Ha
waii has raised $25,000 additional);
provided historical exhibit from na
tional museum; provided exhibit show
ing principal administrative functions
of the government and their education
al value in connection with the develop
ment of commerce in the countries bor
dering on the Pacific ocean ; expended
$50,000 for War department exhibits.
Features of the government s exhib
it will be :
Life saving station, fully equipped,
daily demonstrations; native bands
from Hawaii and Alaska; celebrated
Philippine constabulary bard which won
the world'a championship at the St.
Louis World's fair; one or more dirig
ible balloons; complete mint and assay
office in constant operation; revenue
cutter service and marine hospital ser
vice exhibits; plate printer experts
from bureau of printing and engraving
will make genuine bank notes daily;
data affecting commerce and labor
from department of commerce and la
bor; entire museum of the United
States postoffice department; state and
judicial documents relative to the early
organization of the government from
the departments of state and justice ;
models of all battleships and cruisers,
the dry dock Dewey, guns and ordin
ance equivment; models of every type
of gun made for the navy since the or
ganization; relics of the ill-fated
Maine and Dewey's entrance into Ma
nila harbor; biggest battleships in the
navy will be stationed in Seattle harbor
during exposition ; biograph show, free
daily, showing army and navy in action
and government operations of every
kind.
Not less than 100 freight cars will
be required to carry the government's
exhibits from the national capital to
Seattle.
ROSEWOOD BED NETS $11.
Auction of Executive Mansion Furni
ture Brings Total of $400.
Albany, N. Y;, March 15. Levi P,
Morton s rosewood bed sold for $11
and Benjamin B. Odell's revolving
bookcase went begging at 15 cents at
an auction of discarded furniture from
the executive mansion today.
A settee, which for many years was
one of the conspicuous adornments of
the reception room, and which has
probably been sat upon by every prom
inent Republican state-leader for 60
years back, went to a second hand
deelpr for $6.
The state of New York was vendee,
and the $400 realized will go into the
state treasury. It is the first auction
of exeutive mansion furniture ever
held, and while much of the stuff was
of solid rosewood, worth far more than
the prices paid, the net sum realized
was more than had been expected. The
lowest price was 5 cents, for which sum
a job lot of Levi P. Morton's pictures
was handed over to a veteran state em'
ploye who owed his appointment to
Morton when governor. -
IMMIGRATION INCREASES.
Thousands of Aliens Flocking Back to
United States.
New York, March 15. More than
25,000 immigrants are expected at this
port this week, which is considered a
good sign of returning prosperity.
Twenty-six trans-Atlantic liners will
arrive from various European ports,
bringing back old working hordes,
which, when work was slack, went
abroad for economy's sake. Various
steamship offices in this city report
that bookings at European offices es
pecially for the steerage are nearly
filled up to May 1.
Steamship officials say that the num
ber of immigrants during the coming
eight months will probably exceed any
previous record in the same time. The
inclination of aliens who went abroad
to return to America was first seen last
month, when in one week 12,000 came
in through Ellis island.
Cuba to Plead for'Reclprocity.
Havana, March 15. A bill was in
troduced in congress today providing
for an appropriation of $25,000 to pay
the expenses of a commission to go to
Washington to fight for a renewal of
the reciprocity agreement Cuba will
not fight for special favors in the new
tariff bill, which the special session of
the American congress will frame, but
will confine her efforts to securing
trade concessions and tariff reductions
through treaties.
Stampede to Gold Strike.
Phoenix. Ariz., March 15. A rich
gold strike is reported here from the
neighborhood of Bouse, five miles
north of Vicksburg. Owners of a
group of mines there made the strike
and it is reported that assays show
values as high as $1,000 a ton. There
is a great rush of pros pec tors to the
vicinity.
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
INDIANS GET CATTLE.
Government Will Stock Klamath Res
ervation With Fine Herd.'
Klamath Falls Under what is offici
ally known as the McLoughlin agree
ment with the Klamath and Modoc In
dians, which was approved by congress
about three years ago, the authorities
are now advertising for 6,000 head of
heifers of Durham stock, 2 and 3 years
old. If these can be had for division
among the Indians to be placed on
their fine allotments it will put them
in a position to realize handsomely
from this productive addition to their
wealth. The Klamath reservation
with its area of over 1,800 suqare
miles is not excelled elsewhere on the
coast either for meadow lands or up
land pasture.
The McLaughlin agreement under
which this purchase is to be made ag
gregated $537,007.20, more than half
a million, which they were entitled to
as indemnification for over 600,000
acres of lands excluded from the reser
vation by an erroneous boundary sur
vey. They were to receive a cash
payment of $25,000, which was paid
them two years ago, and $350,000 was
placed in the United States treasury to
draw 5 per cent interest, this interest
to be paid annually. Of this deposit
they can, on properly signed and ap
proved petition, draw annually, if they
wish, 10 per cent of tbe principal,
From the deposit they have drawn in'
terest for two years and for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1908, drew $35,
000, or 10 per cent of the principal.
From the difference between the full
total of $537,007.20 and $350,000 de
posit this purchase of cattle will be
made, also agricultural machinery, etc.,
without drawing upon the deposit in
the treasury which draws interest.
WATER CODE FAULTY.
Present Effectiveness Denied by Some
on Account of Emergency Clause
Salem Attorney General Crawford
is of the opinion now that the emerg
ency clause in the irrigation code is
defective. He bases his opinion upon
the technical ground that the clause
fails to declare that an emergency
exists, as has been required by the
Oregon Supreme court. If the view
of the attorney general is correct, the
appointments made under the act by
ex-Governor Chamberlain are void and
the law will not go into effect until
about May 20. Consequently water
rights in Oregon are still open to plun
der by ruthless corporations. .
The emergency clause in the water
code was framed by Supreme Justice
Will R. King and ex-Governor George
E. Chamberlain. It is the opinion of
the Supreme justice that the clause is
good and will stand the test of the
courts.
It may be that the special session
will make an attempt to correct some
of these errors, but enough defects in
the bills passed by the last legislature
have already been discovered to keep
the special session occupied for a week
at the least.
Nursery for Rogue River Valley.
Medford Rogue river valley is to
have one of the largest nurseries in
the West. The Yakima Nursery com
pany has leased 300 acres of land from
Dr. C. R. Ray, near Tolo. Trees,
shrubbery, flowers and seeds of all
kinds will be grown and distributed.
W. D. Ingles, president of the Yakima
Nursery company, and L. E. Hoover,
of this city, consummated the deal.
Ingles and Hoover have also purhcased
the William Vonder Hellen 320-acre
ranch, about three miles from Eagle
Point, paying $13,250.
Frultmen to Experiment
Medford The Rogue River Valley
Horticultural society has re-elected J.
E. Watt, president for the third term.
The other officers are: H. T. Findlay,
vice president; Harry Tuttle, secre
tary ; J. A. Perry, treasurer. Profess
or Ogara addressed the fruit men. Mr.
Ogara will have headquarters at Med
ford during the coming summer and di
rect his investigations in cross polleni
zation. Experiments will be made this
spring at frost prevention.
Southern Oregon Counties to Unite.
Medford Jackson, Josephine, Doug
las and Klamath counties are to organ
ize an association for their common
protection. The commercial clubs of
Southern Oregon have taken up the
matter. The association will bring
pressure to bear at the next legislature
for measures which the peculiar needs
of this section of Oregon necessitate. '
Support Crater Lake Scheme.
Medford Petitions asking the Jack
son county court to appropriate $70,000
for the construction of the Crater lake
road, for which the state has appropri
ated $100,000 contingent upon a $100,
000 appropriation from Jackson and
Klamath counties, have been placed in
circulation and are meeting with great
success.
Thome for Insurance Clerk.
Salem Insurance Commissioner Ko
ser has announced the appointment of
J. M. Thorne, of Roseburg, as chief
clerk in the insurance department.
Mr. Thorne is well known in Douglas
county and is an experiened banker.
French Colony for Coos Bay.
Marshfield E. Grapin, who repre
sents a colony of French people in New
York and others in Paris, is at Coos
Bay investigating the place with a
view of possibly bringing a colony to
locate in this county.
OPEN SILETZ LAND.
Two and One-Half Townships to Be
Subject to Entry in April.
Portland Register A. S. Dresser
and Receiver G. W. Bibee, of the Port
land land office, announce that two and
one-half townships in the Siletz reser
vation will be subject to application
and entry next month. Legal applica
tions for the entry of sections 19, 20,
21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 35 and 36,
township 6 south, range 10 west, will
be received at the land office in this
city beginning at 9 o'clock Tuesday
morning, April 20. Applications may
also be made for entry on lands includ
ed in the south half of township 6
south, range 9 west, beginning at 9 a.
m. two days later, Thursday, April 22.
Notice that the survey of these two
half sections has been approved has
been received wby the local land office
officials. . On March 23 all of township
7 south, range 9 west, will be thrown
open to entry on the same conditions,
The lands thus thrown open to entry
includes some of the most valuable
timber in the state. Formal entry,
settlement and improvement of these
lands has been held up for a number of
years pending an approval of the sur
vey. In the meantime many squatters
have taken possession of quarter sec
tions of land and have done much to
wards improving the same and estab
lishing a home thereon. Under the
rules of the general land office regu
lating filings on this land, all bona fide
settlers will have 90 days in which to
make formal entry on the particular
tract on which they have been living.
At the expiration of that period the
land becomes subject to application
and entry by any American citizen.
Helps Advertise Oregon.
Portland Passenger traffic officials
of the Hill and Harriman lines center
ing in Portland estimate that fully 60,
000 people will be brought to the
Norhtwest during the present colonist
season, and that a majority of them
will settle in territory tributary to the
Rose City. The west bound colonist
rate of $25 from Missouri river points
which has been awarded for this year
is lower than it has been in years and
this is likely to prove a strong impetus
in bringing new settlers to Oregon,
The Portland Rose festival is sending
out 250,000 pieces of illustrated litera
ture to help induce would-be-homeseek
ers to come to Oregon, and announces
that any person desiring literature of
this character to send away may have
it by simply sending a post card to
festival headquarters in this city. This
literature is artistic in the extreme
and is most convincing in addition,
Irrigation Dam Completed.
Lakeview Mr. Elliot, who is
in
charge of the irrigation scheme carried
out by the Elliot Irrigation & Reservoir
company, reports the successful com
pletion of the dam there. The water
now covers an area of 60 acres at an
average depth of 19 feet, and 100
acres at a less depth. The digging of
the main canal and laterals is now be
ing done, and a considerable area
sagebrush land will be irrigated this
year.
t Chinnok Heads Water Board
Salem The State Water Board at
its first meeting elected J. C. Chinnok,
of Baker City, clerk. No other busi
ness was transacted except that the
board began work preparing the blank
forms which will be used by the board
and by water users in the business
the commission. '
PORTLAND MARKETS.
of
Wheat BlueBtem, $1.161.18
club, $1.08; red Russian, $1.01; val
ley, $1.05.
Oats No. 1 white, $38 per ton.
Barley Feed, $30 per ton. -
Hay Timothy, Willamette valley,
$13(0)15 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $16
18; clover, $1213; alfalfa, $14.60
15; grain hay, $1314; cheat, $13.50
14.50; vetch, $13.6014.60.
Butter City creamery, extras, 86c
fancy outside creamery, 8235c; Btore,
laogjzuc. (Butter iat prices average
1 cents per pound under regular but
ter prices.) - '
Eggs Oregon ranch, 2425c dozen,
Poultry Hens, 15)tf16c; broilers,
Z025c; fryers, 1820c: roosters,
old, ll12c; young, 1416c; ducks,
20(i:22c; geese, 10c; turkeys, 1820c,
Veal Extra, 10llc; ordinary,
78c; heavy, Be.
Pork Fancy, 9&e; large,. 88c
Apples 75c$2.75 box. .
Potatoes $1.251.S5 per hundred
sweet potatoes, 2 X3c
Vegeables Turnips, $1.25 sack
carrots, $1.25; parsnips, $1.60; beets,
$1.50; horseradish, lCc pound; arti
chokes, 90c dozen; asparagus, 1320c
pound; beans, 25c pound; cabbage, 2S
(rSJc; cauliflower, $2 crate: celery,
$4.50 crate; onions, 4050c dozen
parsley, 30c box; sprouts, 12Kc pound.
Onions Oregon, si.75l.90 cwt.
Hops 1909 contracts, 1010ic
1908 crop, 78Xe; 1907 crop, 84c
1906 crop, lXc .
Wool Eastern Oregon contracts, 16
tfilSc; valley, 1516e; mohair.
choice, ZlffZ2c ' .
Cattle Top steers, $55.25; fair
to good, $4.75(?5; common to medi
um, . $3.254.60; cows, top, $4.25;
fair to good, $3.60rl4.00; common to
medium, $2. 50 3. 50; calves, top, $5
5.60; heavy, $3.504; bulls and
stags, fat, $33.60; common, $22.75.
Hogs Best, $7.25; fair to good,
$6.75?7; stackers, $5,60g6.60; China
fats, $6.75.
Sheep Top wethers, $5.75; fair to
good, $4.755.25; ewes, e lesa on
all grades
SMALL HOPE IN TENNESSEE.
Remaining Standard Cases Desperate
Rebate Law About Dead.
Washington, March 12. The offi
cials of the department of justice to
day again declined to discuss what
further action woud be taken by the
government with respect to the several
other criminal cases against the Stand
ard Oil company for accepting rebates
now pending in the courts for the
Northern District of Illinois. It is un
derstood, however, that Messrs. Wil-
kerson and Sims, the government at
torneys, will come to Washington
within the next few days for a confer
ence with Attorney General Wicker-
sham, when it is presumed a course of
action will be decided on.
The decision of the court in the $29,
240,000 fine case leaves still pending
in the, Chicago District court three
double cases, in. which two separate
grand juries have found indictments,
These three double cases are under
stood to be similar, if not identical,
with the case decided yesterday.
Consideration already has been given
by government counsel to the case of
the United States against the Standard
Oil company, which shortly is to come
to trial at Jackson, Tenn.
The indictment in that case contains
1,500 counts, the specific charges being
that the Standard shipped from Whit
ing, Ind., to various points in the
South 1,500 or more carloads of oil on
which concessions in rates were made
by the railroads.
The decision of the Circuit court at
Chicago is not binding as a matter of
law on the Tennessee judge, who may
try the caseas he is not in the same
circuit, but it is considered likely that
he may follow the Chicago court so far
as the two cases have similarity. The
Tennessee case probably will be heard
by Judge John E. McCall, of the west
ern district of Tennessee.
WIRELESS TELLS OF WOE.
Atlantic Stations Pick Up Fragments
of Appeal for Help From Sea.
Boston, March 12. Another sea
tragedy has been revealed to naval
operators at the government wireless
stations at Charleston ' navy yard and
Newport by fragmentary messages re
ceived through the ether. Whether
the breaks in the message are caused
by the distress on board the vessel
sending them or not is not known. Not
enough has been received at either sta
tion to locate or identify the craft in
trouble.
' In distress, notify life-saving sta
tions west south east ," is the
way the message was read at Newport,
Another wireless station picked up
fragments of a message about the same
time which were in effect that a vessel
was drifting in distress off the New
Jersey coast. The word "Trainer"
was among other unconnected words
received and this led to the supposition
that the message might have referred
to the schooner "Ann B. Trainer,'
which was reported early in the week
as drifting without masts off the Vir
ginia coast. -
BRITAIN GAINS TERRITORY.
Siam Cedes 16,000 Square Miles Un
der Industrial Treaty.
London, March 12. Fifteen thou
sand square miles of territory has been
added to the British empire by the
treaty signed yesterday at Bangkok,
Siam, under the terms of which Siam
cedeB to Great Britain the states of
Kalantan, Tringan and Kedah, which
hereafter will be administered with
the Malay Federated states.
Under the treaty British capital to
the extent of -?20, 000, 000, will be fur
nished for tbe construction of railroads
south from Bangkok. These lines are
to be controlled by a new department
quite distinct from the present railroad
administration of Siam, which is ad
ministered by Gemans. There will be
also a gradual abolition of British ex
tra territorial rights in Siam.
Death Harvest in Georgia.
Atlanta, Ga., March 12. Ten per
sons were killed in the tornado that
swept across Alabama and Georgia last
night. The storm plowed two miles
of timber and farms near Cumming,
la., and destroyed much property,
Cuthbert, Ga., reported the damage at
$500,000. Nearly ball the main busi
ness block was damaged. Homeless
persons' wandered through the town
searching for household goods which
the wind had scattered.
Life Saves by Wireless.
Eureka, Cal., March 12. The oil
steamer Asuncion, Captain George E.
Bridgett, en route from San Francisco
to Portland, hove to 100 miles north of
here this afternoon and notified the
Fort Humboldt wireless station that
sailor had fallen from the rigging to
the deck. ' The message stated that his
injuries had resulted in severe internal
hemorrhages, and medical advice was
asked for and was promptly given.
Again on Visiting Terms.
Victoria, B. C., March 12. News
was brought by the steamer Suveric,
which reached port today, that Japan
was preparing to receive the first Rus
sian warships to reach Japan since tbe
war. They are the Koriets and Glyak,
new vessels named after two of the
same name sunk during the war, and
had come from Russia, to be followed
shortly by the new cruiser Pavel III,
Dzibuti and another battleship.
Death Ust Now 35.
Brlnkley, Ark., March 12,. Thirty
five persons were killed by the tornado
here and more than 200 injured, ac
cording to a statement issued tonight
by Mayor Jackson. An appeal for out
side aid for the homeless was made by
tbe mayor.
UTAH CASH STOLEN
State Treasurer Christiansen Re
turns $70,628 State Money.
CONFESSES, THEN GOES TO JAIL
Appropriates Two Large Tax Pay
ments to Carry Through Ne
vada Mining Scheme.
Salt Lake City, March 13. A short
age of $70,628.34 in the funds of the
state, discovered less than a week ago.
has been repaid to the last penny and
James Christiansen, ex-state treasurer,
admitting the defalcation, is awaiting a
settlement with the criminal law in the
county jail. Restitution was made by
his bondsmen, after the delinquent offi
cial had turned over to them all his
mining holdings and his wife had mort
gaged her home to swell the amount of
the security. The bondsmen say they
will lose but little.
Christiansen has retained ex-Con
gressman W. H. King and brother as
counsel. The attorneys say that they
will demand a speedy hearing, but re
fuse to outline their future course.
Although he has admitted the ap
propriation of the state's money and
there is evidence of a clumsy attempt
to hide the deficit by falsification of
the books of his former offce. Chris
tiansen receives more sympathy than
condemnation. "He is the victim of
his friends," is the comment of those
who know most of his personal affairs.
it is related that supposed friends
interested him in certain mining enter
prises, principally in Nevada, and when
funds ran low, appealed to him with
every form of argument and art of per-.
suasion to save their undertakings from
ruin by raising the sum needed to put
them on a paying basis.
The investigation disclosed that
Christiansen on May 26, 19 08 had
taken $10,628.94, which was paid by
Mrs. Julia A. Kimball as an inherit
ance tax. On January 4 of the pres
ent year County Treasurer John Groes
beck paid Christiansen $60,000, a por
tion of the county taxes due the state.
For both of these amounts, Christian
sen gave receipts from the back of his
receipt books. The discovery of a
shortage came when the county treas
urer paid the balance of the county
taxes to Christiansen's successor. The
formal examination of the books of the
office began, and the disclosures were
made.
CRISIS IN FRANCE.
Huge
Deficit and Scandals Promise
to Upset Cabinet.
Paris, March 13. France, like the
United States, is confronted with a big
deficit in her revenues. The budget of
1909 necessitated the issue of $12,000,
000 in treasury bonds, while the regu
lar estimates for 1910 show a deficit of
$45,600,000.
The situation complicates the pro
posal to revise the French tariff,, and
it already has precipitated a quarrel
between M. Caillaux, minister of
finance, and M. Picard, minister of
marine, over the insistence of the lat
ter on large credits to restore the effi
ciency of naval material.
Scandalous corruption in the matter
of contracts revealed lately by M.
Picard has . startled the country, and
the minister of marine has practically
refused to continue in office unless he
is granted sufficient funds to put the
navy in first class order.
It has been learned that a regular
monopoly existed among the navy con
tractors, who charged exorbitant prices
and made enormous profits. M.
Brousse, a member of the chamber of
deputies, who -investigated tbe navy
accouns in behalf of the finance com
mittee, reports that millions have been
swallowed up without any . benefit to
the navy. In one case boilers costing
$160,000 were purchased for ships that
were put out of commission before the
boilers were furnished.
Powers Uneasy oh Servia. .
Berlin, March 13. The latest Ser
vian note, in which that country seta
forth that she does not desire to pro
voke war witn Austria-Hungary, but
maintains that the question of annexa
tion of Bosnia and Herzegovina should
be regulated by the powers, waa de
livered at the foreign office here today.
Servia's renunciation of territorial
compensation is regarded officially aa
a peaceful sign. The fact remains,
however, that Servia's military pre
parations are being continued, and are
causing counter preparation on the
part of Austria-Hungary. '
Shortage in Wheat.
Stockton, Cal., March 13. The scar
city of milling wheat haa increased
prices to a point where buyers refuse
w purchase any grain. Heretofore
when wheat or barley reached a high
point there has been Sufficient to meet
all demands, but now there is not
enough good milling grain in the city
to supply any mill for many days, and
the holders will not sell unless they
get far more than the price based on
quotations at other cities.
Foot of Snow in Wyoming.
Cheyenne, Wyo., March 13. A foot
of snow, accompanied by a high wind,
has fallen in Western Nebraska and
Wyoming during tbe last 48 hours. '
Stock is suffering severely in anm
.portion! of Wyoming.