EVENTS OF THE DAY
Newsy Items Gathered from All
Parts of tbe World.
BALKAN SITUATION IS ACUTE
and
PREPARED FOR THE BUSY READER
Less Important but Not Less Inter
esting Happenings from Points
Outside the State.
re
in
of
Austria demands the abandonment of
Servian claims. ,
The Illinois senatorial deadlock
mains unbroken.
More than 10,000 aliens arrived
New York one day last week.
Ten persons were injured and several
buildings damaged by an explosion
gas at Pittsburg.
Iron workers in Pennsylvania c
template a strike because their wages
have been reduced.
Naval Constructor Evans, of the
Mare Island navv varrd. says a fleet is
needed on the Pacific coast.
It is said that Hill and Harriman
have settled the controversy over the
Portland terminals and big improve'
ments are to be made.
An explosion in the plant of the Illi
nois Steel company at Joliet, 111., re
sulted in the death of four men and the
fatal injury of six others.
Mrs. Boyles, one of the principals in
the Whitla kidnaping, made a desperate
attemDt to escape by jumping from a
train, but was seized in time by officers,
Officers for the graft prosecution in
San Francisco raided the offices of the
United Railroads and secured valuable
nnpers which had been stolen. A num
ber of arrests have been made.
Charles W. Fairbanks is visiting in
Southern California.
The volcano' of Izalco. Salvador, is
showing increased activity.
All Middle West railroads have de
cided to restore the 8-cent fare.
The Iowa legislature has voted down
an absolute bank guraarantee bill.
Twenty-two Russian political pris
oners have been condemned to death.
Senator Depew says Roosevelt loved
his job as president and regretted hav
ing to leave.
The government Is testing a rifle
eauipped with an electric light which
enables aim to be taken at night
Canada proposes to build a dread'
naught or two and turn them over to
the mother country should the neces
sity arise.
In the recall election for mayor of
Loa Angeles. George Alexander re
ceived about 2.000 votes more that his
nearest competitor.
Ex-Queen Liliuokalini, of Hawaii,
who has been to Washington in the in
terests of her claim against the gov
ernment, is hopeful that her visit has
not been in vain.
Castro says he will start a revolu
tion on arrival in Venezuela.
Physicians have abandoned hope of
saving the life of Madame Modjeska,
Mrs. Pierre Lorillard, ' wife of the
tobacco magnate, committed suicide in
Washington.
Coalition in the German relchBtag Is
broken and Chancellor von Buelow'i
power is again tottering. .
The Colorado legislature has modi
fled the direct primary measure by
adding the convention plan.
The Whitla kidnapers have been in
dieted in Ohio, but will be turned over
to Pennsylvania for prosecution,
The speaker of the Nevada house ac
cuses the senate of fraud in connection
with the report on a defunct bank.
Porto Rican delegates to congress
ay tariff has ruined the coffee industry
and that sell government is a farce.
A Russian woman has been arrested
who, during the past 80 years, has rid
800 women of troublesome husbands.
Prince George, of Servla, has re
nounced bis rights to the throne, fol
lowing newspaper charges of murder.
The Whitla boy has identified his
kidnapers and the house where he was
kept.
Carnegie proposes an Anglo-Ameri
can alliance.
' New York and New Jersey receive
reform measures with apathy.
One of the severest blizzards of the
year has just swept Oklahoma.
It is expected that a world's fair
will be held in Panama in 1912, the
year the canal is expected to be
opened.
- It is reported that Brewster, Kan.,
has been struck by a tornado, but wires
are down and nothing definite can be
learned.
The governor of Nevada has signed
a banking bill which is a compromise
on tbe guranarantee plan of Oklahoma.
San Francisco police have arrested
Ave men, believed to be the most dea-
perate gang of safe crackers that ever
' operated in that city.
Burglars shot a patrolman at Pueblo
When about to be caught.
, Castro has left Germany for Bor
deaux, where he will embark for Vene
zuela.
Peace Efforts of Powers Fail,
Outbreak is Expected.
Paris, March 26. It is understood
in official circles that the Balkan situ
ation on account of the irreconcilable
attitude of Austria-Hungary has now
reached its most acute stage and that a
few days will decide between peace
or war. The efforts of Great Britain,
France and Russia to present a formal
settlement of the difficulty acceptable
to Baron von Aehrenthal, the Austro-
Hungarian minister of foreign affairs,
having failed, Austria-Hungary is ex
pected forthwith to deliver an ultima
tum at Belgrade.
After this, if Servia refuses to make
complete surrender, officials here think
that Austria-Hungary will dispatch an
army across the frontier. The Eclair
today announces that the absent offi
cers belonging to the French regiment
on the Eastern frontier have been re
called. The minister of war says "that
certain precautionary measures have
been taken on account of the tension
of the Balkan situation."
The government this afternoon was
officially advised 'that Russia had
agreed to accept without reserve the
annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
by Austria-Hungary. It is hoped that
this will remove Baron Aehrentbals
objection to the Servian note formu
lated by Great Britain, trance and
Russia.
CASTRO LACKS CASH.
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
DUNIWAY HURRIES WORK.
State Printer Expects to Have Session
Laws Ready Next Month.
Salem State Printer Duniway states
that he expects to have the laws of
the 1909 session printed and ready for
distribution about 70 days after the
adjournment of the regular session of
the legislature. The volume will in
clude the laws of the special session
also.
If the work is completed in 70 days,
it will be much quicker than it has
ever been done before, although the
nearst approach to the time was made
by Mr. Duniway two years ago. The
state printer ' has already printed and
delivered a large number of special
copies of the water code and the in
surance code, as per resolutions passed
by the legislature. The tax commis
sion law and the military code are also
well under way. All these measures
bear the emergency clause.
The state printing office has been
equipped with thousands of dollars
worth of new material, including a
latest model linotype, and the printing
of the laws and other work is being
greatly facilitated as a result
WHEAT LAND RENT HIGH.
NEW PLAN ADOPTED.
La
NEAR SOUTH POLE.
Deposed Dictator of Venezuela Shorn
of All His Splendor.
Paris, March 26. In striking con
trast with his first visit to Paris, ex-
President Castro, of Venezuela, ar
rived here last night, bereft of his
suite of 20 followers, with crestfallen
manner and almost entirely unnoticed
by his fellow passengers from Co
logne, who regarded him with pity
rather that any other sentiment With
a few intimates the ex-dictator dined
at his hotel and then retired to an or
dinary bedroom entirely lacking in
the luxury of his former quarters in
the same establishment
The truth seems to be that he is in
reduced circumstances, at least for the
moment, as his monthly income of
$60,000, accdrding to information giv
en by a member of the household, is
temporarily tied up.
General Castro, with great irrita
tion, particularly after he had been in
formed that the French Trans-Atlantic
company would not land him at La
Guayra on account of a protest of the
Venezuelan government, shut the door
in the face of reporters. His wife,
however, said he would make up his
mind where to land after he got aboard
ship at Bordeaux.
$10 an Acre for Summer Fallow Crop
Obtained at Athena, Oregon.
Pendleton Word has been received
that Mrs. Isabella Taylor has rented
her wheat farm near the town of Athe
na in the northeastern part of the coun
ty for a cash rental of $10 per acre per
summer fallow crop. The lease on
these terms is to cover a term of six
years. This is one oi tne nest wheat
raising sections of the county and even
of the Northwest, and while this price
seems to presume a great deal in favor
of the continued productivity of . the
land, the records of the past years
prove that it is a good investment even
at this seemingly over boosted price,
The investors of this section seem to
have faith in the recent prediction of
James J. Hill that we are not increas
ing our production of wheat as fast
the population is growing and that
prices must continue to advance. It is
from near this section that there was a
reported advance sale of wheat at a
dollar a bushel, which is a record price
for the Northwest
Grande to Expend S 100,000 on
Irrigation System.
La Grande Co-operative promotion
of a $400,000 irrigation project to irri
gate 20,000 acres of land in this valley
has been abandoned and in its stead a
$100,000 corporation formed.
This decision was reached by 100
land owners in a meeting which as
sembled at noon, and by 4 o'clock $32,
000 had been taken in stock. A large
proportion of the subscriptions came
from small land holders, bcorea of
men and firms have expressed a will
ingness to take stock. When $ou,uuu
is subscribed the incorporation will
take place, officers elected and a head
secured which can direct the placing of
engineers in the field, secure complete
dam site and rights of way.
Sufficient stock to permit incorpora
tion will be secured, it is believed,
next week, and then the proposition
will assume tangible shape. Accord
ing to plans construction of the huge
dam in Meadow Brook, 18 miles distant
will be under way next fall. The dam
site will be bonded to build the dam,
The price of water will be $2 an acre,
with a yearly maintenance fee of $1 to
stockholder and non-stockholder alike.
Will Can Asparagus.
Eugene George A. Dorris, who has
raised asparagus for the markets of
Portland, Seattle and Eugene for the
past three years and now has 25 acres
of it on his farm near Eugene, has be
gun- the erection of a cannery on his
place for the purpose of canning the
vegetable. He will also handle the
product of a 50-acre patch now being
set out by F. E. Dunn and A. C. Wood
cock on a tract of land which they re
cently purchased for that purpose,
Mr. Dorris has experimented with as
paragus raising for a number of years
and has made a success of it
British Expedition Reaches Point III
Miles From Object.
London, March 24. Lieutenant E. H
Shackleton, of the British navy, a com
mander of the Antartic expedition
which returned on the barkentine Nim
rod to Invercargill, N. Z., today, suc
ceeded in getting within 111 miles of
the south pole.
Lieutenant Shackleton left his perm
anent quarters laBt autumn for a dash
to the south pole and has succeeded
after an arduous Sledge journey of 1,-
708 miles, which occupied 126 days, in
reaching 354 miles nearer the pole than
the point attained by the Discovery ex
pedition, of which be was an officer,
As the expedition to the south was
undertaken rather for the purpose of
geographical survey than with the idea
of reaching the pole itself, it may be
said to have succeeded beyond the most
sanguine expectations.
Shackleton made some departures
from the usual preparations for a journ
ey across the snow and ice. He took
with him a motor car, which could be
converted into a sledge and substituted
ponies for dogs and light woolen cloth
ing for heavy clothes.
Summarized, the results of the expe
dition are that a point was reached
within 111 miles of the south pole;
that the magnetic pole also was reach'
ed; eight mountain chains were discov
ered, and 100 mountains.
Mount Ereebus, 13,120 feet high,
was ascended by the party; a new coast
and high mountains were located run
ning west from Victorialand, and coal
fields were discovered in the Antarctic
continent
The theory of the existence of an
area of atmospheric calm around the
south pole was disproved
DEATH WINS FIGHT
Governor Cospve Passes Away
at Paso Robles.
END COMES VERY UNEXPECTEDLY
VENGEANCE FEARED.
TEST SPOKANE DECISION.
Railroads Can Get No Encouragement
From Prouty's Explanation.
Chicago, . March 26. On behalf of
the Western railroads involved in the
Spokane rate case, J. C. Stubbs today
tried to get some light on the decision
of the commission. At his request
Commissioner Prouty met him and the
various points in the decision were
gone over and discussed. -
It is understood that the commis
sioner informed the railroad man that
the decision meant about what it said
and that the order wan drawn in a way
which, in the opinion of the commis
sion, would make it most ditlicult to
attack successfully. No secret is made
of the fact that the railroads have de
cided to test the order in the courts,
because they feel that the struggle
between the commission and the rail
roads with regard to rate principles
must be fought out to a finish.
Hsrrlman Faces. '
New York, March 26. A suit for
$800,000 has been begun against E. H.
Harriman by John Donovan, who says
this sum is due him as commission on
the sale in 1901 of the St Joseph Rail
way, Light, Heat & Power companfy,
of St Joseph, Mo. Donovan declares
Mr. Harriman agreed to give him 25
per cent of any sum received for the
property over and above $1,100,000.
He aays that Mr. Harriman sold his in
terest for $4,400,000 less $100,000
commission to brokers. Mr. Harriman
has filed an answer in which he denies
making any contract with Donovan.
Praise Given Shackleton.
London, March ' 26. Lieutenant
Shackleton's discoveries have brought
a chorus of praise and admiration.
Louis Charles Bernachi, who was physi
cist to the Discovery Antarctic expedi
tion in 1901-1904, said in an interesting
talk today that the sledge journey of
126 days under such conditions as were
described is one of .the most magnifi
cent feats in the annals of polar explor
ation. A man working in the Arctic
requires 36 ounces of food daily, but
the Shackleton party cut themselves
down to 20 ounces.
Never Knew Cattle to Be So High
Weston J. F. Thompson, who has
followed the stock business for 25
years in this locality, and is ranging
about 300 head of cattle on the breaks
of the Umatilla river, says he has nev
er known beef cattle to reach such a
high figure as at present in the local
markets. He finds it difficult to evade
buyers who are offering 4 cents for
cows and 5 cents for Bteers. Mr.
Thompson has a calroad of beeves en
gaged for shipment April 1, but beyond
this has made no contracts. He is in
the market for stock cattle, but finds
little or no stock offering. He looks
for continued good prices in view of
the big packing house enterprises now
under way at Portland.
Peddlers' Law Invalid.
Salem In reversing the case of the
State of Oregon vs. D. Y. Wright and
H. M. Ogan, the Supreme court holds
that chapter 206, laws of 1906, is void
because arbitrary and class legislation,
The law provides that hawkers and
venders of Btoves, ranges, wagons,
carts "or any kind of four-wheeled or
two-wheeled vehicles, shall first obtain
a license." The defendants, Wright
and Ogan, were arrested and convicted
in the lower court
Cars Can't Stop Everywhere.
Salem In an answer filed in reply
to an action brought by the Tilman
Ford estate to compel specific perform
ance of contract, the Oregon Electric
railway alleges that if it is compelled
to stop its cars at every farmhouse it
will put the road absolutely out of bus
iness. It seems that in order to secure
a right of way the railroad contracted
to stop its cars at a large number of
points. It is alleged it has ignored
these contracts.
Busy Year for Grant.
Prairie City "Business conditions
in Grant county are better than I have
ever seen them," states R. T. McHal-
ey, one of the prominent stockmen oi
the country. "The stock industry is
flourishing, the best of prices prevail
ing for cattle, sheep and horses. Stock
has wintered well and the range prom
ises early grass in more abundance
than usual."
Wants Guns From the Oregon.
Salem The Salem board of trade
will make an effort to secure for the
capitol grounds two of the six-inch
guns from the dismantled battleship
Oregon. The guns are about 30 feet
long and properly mounted would be an
imposing addition to the beautiful lawn
in front of the state house. It is
thought the guns may be obtained
from the War department for the state
for the cost of transportation.
Irrigation Company Makes Progress.
Grants Pass The Josephine County
Power & Irrigation company is making
splendid, progress in the construction
of the irrigation canals for Grants
Pass and vicinity. The work is being
rushed that a large portion of the arid
territory to be benefited will have
water this year. Three crews are at
work, besides a number of teams with
graders and scrapers.
Clean Up Weston Brickyard,
Weston Work has been begun on
the cleaning up of the Weston brick
yard . preparatory to the spring burn
ing, which will begin in April, accord
ing to Manager P. T. Harber. Orders,
it is said, are being received from
several points, and a run of - four
months is anticipated. A crew of 80
men will be put to work,
. Curricula Board Reappointed.
Salem Governor Benson, has reap
pointed the board of higher curricula.
.TheTMily change was the substitution
of A. G. Beals, of Tillamook, for A.
Two Dead In Freight Wreck.
Ogden, March 26. Engineer Layng
and Brakenian Pearson dead, Fireman
Rasmussen seriously injured, an engine
buried to the smokestack in sand, and
five freight can piled up indisoriml
nately, is the brief but disastrous rec
ord mad at 5 o'clock tbis morning by
Oregon bnort lane might wo. Z4&, tn w Prescott of Salem, who has accent-
charge of Conductor Schnoke and ' En-1 itlon M pr jyate secretory to
gineer LAyng, running ''" ufif t United Statea.Senator Bourne.
er and Ureen Kiver, wyo., on the
lately double-tracked piece of track.
Investigate Land Frauds.
Washington, March 26. Additional
special agents to investigate alleged
land frauds in the West were appoint
ed today by Secretary of the Interior.
Balhnger,
Crater, Lake Road Sure.
Jacksonville-The County court of
Jackson county has entered and ordered
the appropriation of $50,000 toward
construction of tbe Crater lake road.
This will supplement the appropriation
of ,$100, 000 made by the recent legis
lature.
Realty Men Get Together.
Roseburg A meeting of represent
atives of all the real estate - firms in
the city was held at the Commercial
club rooms and an organization per
fected to be known as the Roseburg
Realty board.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Bluestem milling, $1.20
1.25: club, $1.081.10; red Russian,
$1.061.08; bluestem, shipping, $1.15
1.17; valley, $1.10.
Oats No. 1 white, $40 per ton.
Barley Feed, $31 per ton.
Hay Timothy, Willamette valley,
$1315 per ten; Eastern Oregon, $16
18; clover, $1213; alfalfa, $14.50
15; grain hay, $1314; cheat
$13.6014.50; vetch, $13.5014.60.
Butter City creamery, extras, 34c;
fancy outside creamery, 3234c; Cali
fornia, 8283c; store, 1820c,
Butter fat prices average 14 cents
under regular butter prices.
Eggs Oregon ranch, 20n)Zlc.
Poultry Hens. 15sffi!l5c; broil
ers, Z4ft25c; fryers, lzoc; roost
ers, old, 10llc; young, 1415c;
ducks, 2022J4c; geese, 10c; turkeys,
18(fi)19c: squabs, $2.503 per dozen.
Veal Extras, 10llc; ordinary, 7
8c; heavy, 5c
Pork Fancy, 9k10c; large,
8c.
Apples 65c$2.50 per box. ,
Potatoes $1.40(j$1.50 per hundred;
sweets, 2m2c pound.
Vegetables Turnips, $1 sack; car
rots, 90c sack; parsnips, $1.60 sack;
beets, $1.75 sack; horseradish, 10c per
pound ; artichokes, 7690c per dozen ;
asparagus, 915c per pound; beans.
25c; cabbage, 33c per pound;
cauliflower, $2.50; celery, $4.75 per
crate; lettuce, head, 85c per dozen;
onions, 4050c per dozen ; parsley, 35c
per dozen; radishes.- 85c per dozen;
rhubarb, $2.25 per box; spinach, $1
1.25.
Onions Oregon, $1.75 per hundred.
Hops 1909 contracts, 1010c per
pound; 1908 crop, 77,e; 107 crop,
8(jT4c; 1906 crop, lj2c
Wool Eastern Oregon contracts, 16
18c per pound; valley, 1617c; mo
hair, choice 23c per pound.
Cattle Top steers, . $5.25(85.50;
fair to good, $4.755; common to
medium,. $3.254.50; cows, top,
I4.Z5;xairto good, 3.60(4; com
mon to medium, $2-50rtiS.50; calves,
top, $55.60; heavy. $3.504; bulls
and stags, fat, $3g3.60; common,
20T2.75.
Hogs Best $7.25; fair to good.
$6.75(i7; stockers, $5.506.50; China
fats, fi.75. .
Sheep Top wethers. $5.75g6; fair
to good, $4.76(a5.25; ewes. He less
on all grades; lambs top $6.506.75;
fair to good, xt(6.o0.
Woman Suspect Utters Threat Upon
Arrest for Kidnaping.
Cleveland, March 24. "I am the one
who planned the whole thing; there
will be trouble for me and hell in
Sharon tomorrow."
These words, spoken to Captain of
Police Shattuck yesterday by a woman
he had arrested in company with a man
on suspicion of being implicated in the
kidnaping of Willie Whitla, of Sharon
O., have stirred the police to new
efforts to run dewn the band who stole
the lad away from his school. While
the police were at first inclined to
think that their prisoners, who carried
the sum of $9,989 with them, were the
entire kidnaping gang, the woman s
words are regarded as a threat and the
police now think that possibly one or
two other members of the gang are
still at large and that revenge for the
capture of the ringleaders will be
taken on the boy.
Extra precautions to . guard the
Whitla ' lad at his home will be taken
to make the carrying out of any such
threat an impossibility and anyone
found lurking around the premises will
be instantly arrested.
Heart Failure Was Immediate Cause
of Death Body to Be Brought
North for Burial.
Paso Robles, Cal., March 19. Sam
uel G. Cosgrove, governor of the state
of Washington, died here suddenly at
8 -30 o'clock yesterday morning. -
Heart failure was the immediate
cause of the governor's death. Al
though his condition had recently been
reported as improving, the governor
had really been growing worse, and two '
days ago he took to his room. Although
conscious of his weakened condition,
death was sudden and there was no op
portunity for a last farewell between
husband and wife.
Bright's disease had marked Govern
or Cosgrove for a victim over eight
months ago. He broke down in health
during the Washington primary cam
paign, retiring to his home at Pomeroy,
Wash., in September, and was brought
to Paso Robles hot springs shortly after
the election in November. Although
Governor Cosgrove improved slightly
under the treatment here, the strain of
the trip to Olympia to take the inaug
ural oath was too great and an immedi
ate reaction set in.
Mrs. Cosgrove, worn out from her
months of constant attendance upon
her feeble husband, was overcome by
ther grief, but late in the afternoon
had recovered her poise sufficiently to
make the preliminary arrangements for
starting home with the body. It has
been decided that Mrs. Cosgrove, ac
companied by Mr. and Mrs. J. M. An
derson, of Seattle, friends of the Cos
groves, will leave Paso Robles this
morning at 5:10 on the north bound
train for San Francisco. If that train
is on time the funeral party will be
able to connect with the Portland ex
press leaving Oakland this afternoon.
This will bring them into Portland
late Tuesday night and a hurried trip
will be made to Olympia, the capital
of Washington. It is the desire of
Mrs. Cosgrove to have services held at
the capitol and later the remains will
be removed to the family home at
Pomeroy.
FAIR BRINGS THOUSANDS
OFF TO AFRICA.
Roosevelt Party Leaves New York for
Wilds of Jungle.
New York, March 24. Waving a
parting farewell with his black slouch
bat as he stood on the captain's bridge
of the steamship Hamburg, ex-Presi-.
dent Theodore JKoosevelt sailed away
yesterday for his long planned African
hunt He left amid cheers of thous
ands of persons that swarmed the Hamburg-American
line pier, amid the
whistles of countless river craft - and
thunderous reverberations or- the ex-
president's Balute of 13 guns from
Forts Hamilton and Wadsworth.
Beside Mr. itooseveit stood a young
lad, seemingly dejected, as he wistfully
gazed at the cheering multitude on the
pier below. ' It was Kermit Roosevelt
son of Mr. Roosevelt who accompanied
his father as official photographer of
the expedition. " Father and son, both
clad in brilliant buff hued army coats,
remained on the bridge ' on the trip
down the bay and acknowledged with
sweeps of their bats tbe salutes of the
vessels. The demonstration was un
official, but many high in the affairs of
the nation were present
Criminal Career Alleged
Reno, Nev., March 24. Charging
that under the guise of conducting a
hotel in Reno, George and Frederick
Elkins, wealthy hotelmen, have been
for months acting as the intermediaries
for thieves and robbers, tbe police ar
rested George Elkins tonight on a ranch
near town, which it has been found has
been the hiding place for a vast Quan
tity oi merchandise, said to have been
stolen from box cars and warehouses
in this city. The arrest followed an
investigation resulting from the acci-
dental discovery of the merchandise.
Boy Sought Oil Honors,
New York, March 24. In his quest
for occasions for distinguishing himself
and thereby obtaining promotion which
in time would lead to his being- made a
director of the standard Oil com Dan v.
wiiiiam neaay, is years oia, employed
in tne nuwg department oz tbe com
pany, tonight confessed that on several
occasions he bad set fir to the plant of
the Standard in Brooklyn. His object
was to impress his superiors by his
alertness in discovering the blaze.
Asks for Exclusion Law.
Sacramento, March 24. The assem
bly adopted today the substitute reso
lution offered by the senate committee
on Federal relations, asking congress
to enact a general Asiatic exclusion
law, Including Japan
People From East Coming to North-
west Seeking Opportunities.
Right now the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific
exposition is the . magnet that is at
tracting thousands of people from East
ern, Southern and Middle Western -states
to the Pacific coast partly for
the reason that the exposition will open
up a new line of thought with its great
displays from Alaska, Hawaii and the
Philippines as well as the Orient and
partly because of the much advertised
scenic beauties of the states' bordering
on the racinc.
The state of Washington and more
particularly the Puget sound country
will soon be the mecca for trainloads
of strangers. But Washington will
not hold the visitors for an indefinite
period for they havo something in mind
further than a visit to the exposition
at Seattle.
Ttla.o i.1 T" .'
XIJV&V fflVULfUULbUUlblCB UIJ bill? faVlUv
coast for the homeseeker as well as
the merchant and manufacturer and the
visitors to the fair intend to see just
what Oregon, Idaho, Colorado, Utah,
Wyoming, Nevada, Oklahoma, as well
as British Columbia have to offer in the
way of inducements to settlers. 'Of
course tbe tourists will be here in large
numbers and their itinerary nearly al
ways includes all the mountain lake
and seaside resorts of the Northwest
Tbe epxosition itself is going to open
the eyes of the thousands of visitors
who will come Seattle expecting to
find an exhibition very similar to what
has been offered before. The Alaska- ,
to be remembered after its gates close
because of its great size or by the num
ber of its buildings, but because of the
beautiful picture formed by tbe work
of the builder and landscape artist
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woodland scenery distributed lavishly
on every hand by nature. When the
exposition opens on June 1 the show
will be complete in every detail, an ex
ample of Western spirit and enterprise.
Indictments for Smuggling. .
El Paso, March 29. Under indict
ments returned by the Federal grand
jury at Chicago, charging conspiracy
to smuggle aliens into the United
States, seven arrests were made today
by deputy marshals at widely separat
ed points. Four men were jailed here,
one at Alamo Gordo, N. M., and two
at Chicago. It is alleged the men ar
rested are members of an organized
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Chicago for smuggling Chinese. ...
Chinese Come Among Beans.
Abilene, Tex., March 29. Attract
ed by the sound of voices in a boxcar
which supposedly contained only a
shipment of beans en route from Loa
Angeles to Chicsgo, Immigration
Agent Dinworth, at Big Springs, bad
the car opened and took into custody
16 Chinese who are held on a charge
of having-evaded the immigration
laws.