EVENTS OF THE DAY
Newsy Items Gathered from All
Parts of the World
PREPARED FOR THE BUSY READER
Let Important but Not Less Inter
esting Happenings from Points
Outside the State.
Lead miners in Missouri are on
strike. .
Roosevelt has killed three lions and
Kermit one.
The Japanese squadron was given a
great reception at an Francisco.
Congress has now seven Smiths,
three in the senate and four in the
house.
An immense stream of colonist is
coming to the coast from all parts of
the East.
Anarhists attacked policec at Buenos
Ayrea and 100 men were killed and
wounded in the riot.
A lake steamer is missing and the
crew and 42 persona are believed to
have been drowned.
A railroad which is being built in
Honduras will be equipped entirely
with wireless telegraphy.
A woman delayed the American liner
St Louis eight minutes at New York
while she hunted for a $1.60 baby car
riage. A Japanese at Lob Angeles has sued
a paper for $10,000 damages because
among other things it called him a
"dare-devil."
War is being waged for control of
Zion City by the old city officers and
those just elected. This is the city
founded by Dowie.
Serious floods Tare feared along the
Ohio river following the storm.
' Over 3,000 men employed on Great
Lake steamers have gone on strike.
Snow and frost in the Middle West
have destroyed fruit and other crops.
Four inches of snow covers Wiscon
in and a fierce gale is causing much
inconvenience.
It is said a copper trust is planned
in New York to control the entire out
put of the country.
Much money and food is being sent
to the massacre zone of Asiatic Tur
key, but more is needed.
Searching parties are digging in the.
grounds of the palace of the former
sultan in a search for his wealth.
Abdul Hamid will probably be trans
ferred to Monastir, as it is not be
lieved his life is safe at Salonica.
Canada will control the cutting of
timber on the Pacific coast to 12,000,
000 feet per year for the next 60 years.
The Oregon railroad'commission has
ordered reductions in express charges
along the entire line of the O. R. & N.
The reduction is approximately 25 per
cent.
Rapid progress ia being made in the
Calhoun trial.
Turkish troops have relieved Hadjin
and s toped the massacres.
The British budget proposes radical
new taxes to wipe out the deficit.
The paying teller of an Oakland
bank has been arrested for embezzling,
Ex-Chief of Police Fink, of Rowel),
N. M., has been indicted for smuggling
in Chinese.
Captain Robinson, of the wrecked
steamer Indiana, has taken his own
life, being unable to bear the disgrace.
Srtrong evidence of discrimination
by Harriman linea against Salt Lake
haa been brought out in the .merger
suit.
A tornado in Indiana tore away 600
feet of the west wall of the state peni
tentiary. No one waa hurt and militia
has been ordered out to guard the con
victa.
An heiress has been born to the Hoi
land throne and there is great rejoic
ing, as Queen Wilhelmina was the last
of the reigning house and had she died
without heirs the crown would have
probably pasted to a German prince
and become a part of the German em
pire.
Ex-Vice President Fairbanks has
purchased a house in Pasadena and will
make that city his home after a tour
of the world.
The British budget for the coming
year shows a deficit in revenue of $78,
810,000.
Anthracite miners and operators will
reach a eatiafactory agreement, it is
believed.
The rolling mills of the Union Pacific
railroad at Laramie, Wyo., have re
sumed operations after being idle for a
year.
lieinrich Uonreid, tbe operatic man
ager, ia dead.
A Kenton. Ohio, girl has just awak
ned after a aleep of 100 hours appar
ently none the worse for ber long nap.
Plana have been prepared for a hotel
at New York which will be 81 atoriee
high. Tb roof will be 376 feet above
the ground.
Continued earthquakes at Kameron,
German West Africa, have forced the
colonial government official to move
their office.
WORK OF NATURE.
Scenic
Beauty of A.-Y.-P.
Grounds
Not Work of Man.
The amphitheater of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific
exposition has been ac
complished paitly by human efforts,
but for the most part the work has
been done by nature. On the high pre
cipitous shores of Lake Washington,
looking across a succession of bays,
and snow topped peaks of tbe Cascades
are brought clearly into view and this
forms the back ground of the amphi
theater stage. Three sides rise from
the floor and these have a stately up
ward slope; only in the development of
these natural seating places has it
been necessary for work to be ex
pended. About the tiered sides of the amphi
theater chairs rise one above the other
and in the vast forest theater 30,000
people can have comfortable and
sightly positions. Surrounded at the
back and sides to towering trees of
Douglas fir and massive cedar, the
place seems to have been created by
giants of old for spectacular events ;
it is bo fashioned and designed that
open air acoustics produce results
which could be generally looked lor
only within the walls of structures
bui t with this property always in
mind.
It was in this spot that the first
shove of earth was removed in the
building of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific
exposition. Without any work of pre
paration, 25,000 people were easily ac
commodated within its borders. Dur
ing the course of the exposition the
amphitheater will be the scene of many
interesting events and with its arrange
ment as now perfected will afford the
grandest out of doors theiter in exist
ence.
WAR VERY COSTLY.
Next Session of Peace Conference
Will Hear Interesting Report.
Chicago, May 3. Amazing statistics
will be presented to the National Peace
society, which convenes here today, by
Benjamin F. Trueblood, secretary ot
the American Peace society. In a re
port compiled for distirbution among
the delegates it IB asserted that 15,
000,000 persons have sacrificed them
selves in wars since the beginning of
authentic history.
'This vast number of victims, says
Mr. Trueblood, "is about equal to all
the people who inhabited the globe for
the last 600 years, allowing three gen
erations to the century and 650,000,000
estimated population of the world at
the opening of the Nineteenth century
as the average population per genera'
tion.
"The usual estimate of the number
of men lost in the wars in the Nine
teenth century, including those who
died of wounds and diseases, places it
at 14,000,000. Of this number the
Napoleonic campaigns are responsible
for about six million.
"Losses in the American (Jivil war
have been variously estimated at from
800,000 to 1,000,000 men. The brief
war between Prussia, Austria and Italy
in 1866 entailed a loss of 45,000 men."
STORM REACHES ATLANTIC.
Seaboard Cities Suffer Severely
as
Hurricane Passes Out to Sea.
Atlanta, Ga., May 3. The Btorm
which for three days has swept east
ward across the Southern states, passed
over the Atlantic ocean Saturday. At
least 200 were killed and perhaps 400
injured. News of 34 more deaths in
Georgia were received today.
At Savannah the Btorm tore throgugh
the old town, unroofed many houses
and destroyed much property.
Towns in North Carolina and Florida
suffered devastation. The casuality
list will be incomplete for several days.
Property worth probably several million
dollars was destroyed.
The southwestern section of Savan
nah was struck at 1 1 :30 o'clock Satur
day by a severe storm which uprooted
trees, unroofed houses, tore down fences
and injured several people.
The Mchane hospital for negroes
was badly damaged. A factory was
unroofed and one man badly injured.
The storm lasted not more than half
a minute.
Borne to His Tomb.
Pekin. May 3. The body of the late
Kwang Hsu, emperor of China, Satur
day began the long journey to the
Western tombs, 80 miles away, for
final interment The dowager empress
will not be interred until the fall. The
procession started from the precincts of
the Forbidden City at 11 o'clock. The
march to the tombs will take four days
and the entire route is to be over the
great highway especially constructed
for the passage of the imperial coffin.
The tomb cost considerably over $1,
000,000.
Icicles on Orchard Trees.
Kansas City, May 3. Freezing
weather, with the temperature in
Western Kansas going as low as 20 de
grees above zero, still prevailed in the
Southwest Saturday, according to the
local observer. It covered most of
Missouri, all of Kansas, the greater
portion of Oklahoma and extended into
the Texas panhandle. On many Kan
sas fruit farms ice three-quarters of an
inch thick formed and there is not much
prospect of a fruit crop this year.
1,000 Chines En Rout.
Vicvoria, B. C, May 3. There are
over 1,000 Chines on the way to Vic
toria. The Empress of Japan is due
tomorrow with 675, and the steamer
Ning Chow, of the Blue Funnel line, is
bringing over 500 according to advices
from Hongkong. The Canadian Pacific
ia bringing 300 tons of raw silk from
Japan, valued at $750,000.
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
FRUIT CROP NOT HURT.
ndications Point to Heavy Yield in
Vicinity of Milton.
Milton Fears that the fruit crop in
the Walla Walla valley had been injur
ed by the frosts several days ago have
been generally dispelled by the careful
investigation of the orchards and vine
yards in this vie nity. In some places
near the state line strawberries ' and
prunes were injured some, but the dam
age is not considered to be of great vol
ume. Apple orchards, which were in
full bloom at the time' of the frosts,
were injured in no way.
Indications now point to a heavy
fruit crop in the vicinity during the
coming season. Although the peach
crop will amount to but a small per
centage of its usual volume, other
fruits will be harvested in bountiful
quantities. The careful pruning,
spraying and cultivating of vineyards
and orchards have had much to do with
the excellent crops which are now
sured in the year 1909.
Shippers and warehouse men are
making preparations to handle large
quantities of all kinds of fruit
The
first strawberries are expected
on the market within two or
to be
three
weeks and from then until the
apple
crop is harvested, Milton and
vicinity
activity
will present a scene of lively
in the fruit business.
FRUIT MEN ARE ANGERED.
Accuse Inspector Taylor of Circulat
ing False Reports.
Central Point Fruit men of this
section are indignant over reports al
leged to have been circulated by County
Fruit Inspector Taylor to the effect
that the crops in many of the orchards
in his jurisdiction are totally ruined.
These gentlemen declare emphatically
that the story is without foundation,
and that it had the effect of damaging
their properties, in the moat promising
section of the Rogue river valley.
Steps will be immediately taken for
a full and complete investigation lead
ing to the discovery of the indentity of
the author of these false reports, and
if circumstances warrant it, it .ia said
Mr. Taylor's removal from office will
be demanded by the orchardists.
Fruit men report but few trees af
fected by recent frosts, and in almost
all cases the frost has but tended to
lessen the cost of thinning the fruit.
F. H. Hopkins, owner of one of the
largest orchards on Rogue river, and
whose orchard has not been protected
by smudging or otherwise, reports no
appreciative damage, as do Edward
Hanelv. William Stewart. J. W. Mer-
ritt. W. H. Norcross and other orch
ardists.
Freewrter Values Soar.
Freewater Land values in this di
trict are constantly increasing in value,
Two sales have been made this week
one consisting of 23 acres, a part of
the Ragsdale tract, for $72a an acre,
the other being a part of the Brow
ranch, at Babcock crossing, for $700
an acre. The Pleasant valley country,
which a year ago was sagebrush land
has been put under cultivation, the raw
lands having been sold for $125 an
acre. Now this same land is selling
for $300 an acre. The school, which
was built three years ago, has had to
be enlarged, and the contract for the
addition was let this week for a $1,000
addition.
Rate Hearing is Called.
Salem The state railroad commis
sion, after an investigation on its ow
motion of certain rates in force on the
O. R. & N. and Southern Pacific, has
ordered a hearing on May 13, at 11 A.
M., at Salem. In its order just issued,
the commission states that it has inves
tigated the rates on wool, wool comb
ings, wool waste and has found sum
cient evidence to. warrant an inquiry
as to whether these rates are unreason
able and unjustly discriminatory.
Settle Siletz Contests.
Washington Representative Haw
ley has made a strong personal appeal
to Secretary Ballinger and Land Com
micsioner Dennett to take up and
finally adjudicate the long pending sua
pended Siltez homestead entries. The
secretary and commissioner assured
Mr. Hawley that they would give or
ders that these cases be expedited and
that, in deciding them, they will tak
into account the conditions as he ex
plained.
Dallea Farmers Organize.
The Dalles At a meeting here an
organization of the fruit and vegetable
growers was perfected under the name
of The Dalles Fruitgrowers associa
tion. I be association has been incor
porated with a capital stock of $5,000,
It is intention of the fruitgrowers to
build a warehouse and cannery. Meet
ings will be held the first Saturday
each month.
Ground Acquired for Asylum.
baiem lhe asylum board has pur
chased from the Willamette Endow
ment association five acres of land
north of the asylum for $3,000. One
of the new buildings for which an ap
propriation was made by the last legis
lature will be located partly on tbe
land just acquired.
Fin Cam Sold at Echo.
Echo A Portland meat company has
bought 70 head of cattle from Bennett
& Spike at $5.50, the highest price
ever paid in the Echo country. The
average weight as 1,520 pounds. The
heaviest steer weighed 1,730 pounds,
and brought the owners $93.20.
WILL HOLD BERRY FESTIVAL.
Roseburg Plans Two Days' Program
for May 14 and 15.
Roseburg The date of the proposed
strawberry festival to be Held in Rose
burg has been set by the Commercial
club for Friday and Saturday, May 14
and 15. The two days will be given
over to displays of strawberries. A
program for both days has been prepar-
On the evening of the hrst day
the women will give a musical.
The occasion will also be taken ad
vantage of by the importers and raisers
of blooded livestock, and a large parade
of animals is expected.
Tbe Ashland lodge of Elks, accom
panied by members of that order from
ifferent towns in Southern Oregon,
will visit Roseburg on Saturday, the
second day of the festival. The visit
ors will number about 250.
Douglas county strawberries are the
first in the market each year and this
fact will be widely advertised at the
festival. It is proposed to secure pho
tographs of the best displays and the
parades and use them in booster book
lets.
New Flouring Mill at Baker,
Baker - City Contractors are busy
removing dirt for the foundation to the
new flouring mill to be erected by G
B. Stout Surveyors for the O. R. &
have located switches and sidetracks
for the mill. Tbe foundation will
probably be finished within two weeks,
and there will be no delay in erecting
the mill building. Sterns & Ayers
have the contract for excavating. Dur
ing the past few days Mr. Stout has
been looking over the country to see
how much wheat has been planted. He
is pleased with the acreage sown, and
also the attitude that ranchers are as
suming toward the new mill.
Coos to Seek Publicity,
Marshf.eld The Coos county cham
ber of commerce has decided to enter
upon a publicity work which will in
clude advertising of the entire county,
the Coquille vplley as well as the im
mediate Coos bay country. Plans are
being made for making an exhibit of
the products of the county at the Seat
tle exposition, and 75,000 pamphlets
will be printed to distribute at the
fair. Figures are being compiled to
show the shipments of lumber and
freight exports and imports- of both
Coos bay and the Coquille river, and
all of the resources and advantages of
the county will be set forth.
Lust for Gold Hits Coos
Marshfield The lust for gold has
Btruck Myrtle Point and the country
about It is believed the mother lode,
which has long been an object of
search, has at last been discovered. A
rancher named Music brought speci
mens to town and sold them, the first
lot for $2.50, and the second for about
$100. They looked as though pounded
out in a mortar from the quartz. Many
ranchers have caught the fever and are
prospecting.
Insurance Examiner at Salem.
Salem Paul L. Wilson, of Denver,
expert insurance examiner, has arrived
in Salem to conduct a special examina
tion of the annual sttements of the in
surance companies doing business in
this state, preliminary to the publica
tion by Insurance Commissioner Kozer
of the annual insurance report,.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Bluestem milling, $1.27 J
1.30; club, $1.20; valley, $1.17;
forty-fold, $1.26; red Russian, $1.17)
Ifl. 20.
Oats No. 1 white, $4042.
Barley Feed, $34(335 per ton,
Hay Timothy, Willamette valley,
$14rtil6 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $17
($19; clover, $1112; alfalfa, $14
14.50; grain hay, $1314; cheat $14
14.50; vetch, $13.5014.
Apples 65c$2.50 per box.
Potatoes $1.60(d 1.75 per hundred.
Vegetables Turnips, $1.25 sack;
carrots, $1.25; parsnips, $1.50; beets,
$1.75; horseradish, 10c per pound; ar
tichokes, 65e5c dozen; asparagus,
Oregon, 12 15c per pound; lettuce,
head, 4050c per dozen; onions, 12)
15c per dozen ; parsley, 35c per dozen ;
radishes, 2025c per dozen; rhubarb,
34c per pound; spinach, 90c $1,
Butter City creamery, extras, 27c;
fancy outside creamery, 2427c;
store, 18 20c. Butter fat prices aver
age lh cents per pound under regular
buter prices.
t-ggs Uregon ranch, Z4Z5c per
dozen.
Poultry Hens, 1616)c; broilers,
25c; fryers, 1822'e; roosters, old.
lOC'fllc; young, 1415c; ducks, 20
22c; geese, 10llc; turkeys, 20c;
squabs, $2.50 3 per dozen.
Veal Extras, 9'10c; ordinary,
89; heavy. Kit 8c.
Pork Fancy, 9.m10c; large, 89c
Hops 1909 contract 9c; 1908 crop,
67c; 1907 crop, 3c; 1906 crop, l,c
WooJ Eastern Oregon, 13 20c;
valley, fine, 20c; medium, 19c; coarse,
18c; mohair, choice, Z425c.
Cattle Top steers, $5.50 5.75 ; fair
to good, $5 5.25; common to medium.
$4. 50 4. 75; cows, top, $4.254.50;
fair to good, $3.75 4.25; common, to
medium, $2.503.50; calves, top, $5
5.50; heavy, $3.50 4; bulls and stags,
fat $3013.50; common, $22.75.
Hogs Best $7.357.60; fair to
good, $6.85 7.10: stockers, $5.50
6.50; China fats. $6.75.
Sheep Top wethers, $55.75; fair
wgooo, ,.Bumi.... rn.
less; ewes, J, c less on all grades;
a i r rs t - I e r .. I
yearlings, top, $6.50(47: fair to good.
air to good,
$66.25; spring lambs, $7 7.50.
RECHAD IS SULTAN.
Turkish People Rejoice Over Down
fall of Abdul.
Constantinople, April 28. The reign
of Abdul Hamid . II ended by bis de
position and the accession of his
brother, Mehemmed Rechad Ltfendi, as
Mehemmed V. The name is a varia
tion of Mahomet, it being considered
inappropriate to assume the precise
name of tbe prophet.
Mehemmed V is the thirty-fifth sov
ereign of Turkey, in male descent of
the house of Oaman, the founder of
the empire, and the twenty-ninth sul
tan since the conquest of Constantino
ple. The firing of 101 guns announced to
the waiting people that a new sultan
bad been proclaimed.
The ceremonies connected with the
transfer of power were simple. The
newly chosen ruler came from his pal
ace in Galata through streets lined
with troops and cheering thousands and
took the oath at the war office. He
then proceeded to the parliament and
later went to the Dolma Bagtsche pal
ace as head of the empire, where for so
many years he had 'been practically a
prisoner.
Martial law was relaxed and the peo
ple gave themselves over to the cele
bration of the victory of the Young
Turk party and the end of Abdul Ham
id a reign. Many buildings were illu
minated and thousands of rounds were
joyfully fired by the soldiers. General
good humor prevailed everywhere.
LIKE ONE RAILROAD.
Shippers Tell How Harriman Lines
Are Being Run.
Salt Lake, April 28. The introduc
tion . of testimony in the suit of the
United States government to dissolve
the combination of the Union Pacific,
Southern Pacific and competing lines,
on the ground that it was formed for
the purpose of crushing out competi
tion was begun in this city today be
fore Special Examiner Williams. The
government was represented by C. A.
Severance, of St. Paul ; Glen E. Hub
ted, of Washington ; Charles A. Page,
of New York, and N. H. Lommis, for
Harriman.
E. E. McCarthy, traffic manager of
a local hardware company, and a for
mer rauroaa man, testihed that prior
to the railway merger in 1901 compe
tition for general merchandise and
wool business was keen between the
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific
agents, but since the combination was
effected no special effort had been
maae, so iar as be was aware, to se
cure routing of business over either
one of these lines, as the business is
handled, according to his understand
ing, over the line most convenient.
David Eccles, an Ogden business
man, told of his experience in making
lumber shipments from Hooi River.
Or. Formerly he shipped via the Ore
gon Short Line to Wells, Nev. Now
he was obliged to use the Shasta route
and the Southern Pacific, the O. R. &
N. company and the Oregon Short Line
refusing to quote him any rate through
Ugden.
JAPANESE GO EAST.
Declare Persecution is Driving Them
From the Pacific Coast.
Chicago, April za. Chicago is ex
periencing an unprecedented invasion
of Japanese. It is said that a single
lodging house at Fifty-first and Clark
streets, is the headquarters for 700
new arrivals, whereas three months
ago, it is said, there were only 200 in
the whole city.
The newcomers are artisans, domes
tic servants and laborers, all strong
and vigorous. They assert that they
were driven by persecution from Cali
fornia and other Pacific coast states,
Others, it is said, are to follow them
T. Takahatchi, whose forefather
helped lay the cornerstone of the mi
kado's palace in Tokio, and who makes
bis living as a teamster for a teahouse,
at lzu f uark street, declared that the
at present rate of immigration, there
will soon be more Japanese in the East
than in the West.
iimi i ...
xnese wno are coming this way
now," ne addea, "are used to manuel
labor. They will not confine them
selves to work in private families,
hotels and clubs, as did most of their
predecessors. They are tending toward
traae unionism."
Smallpox Adds to Horrors,
Latakia, Syria, April 28. Five
thousand refugees are quartered here.
having come in from Kersal and other
points in the district north of Letakia,
where several thousand Turks from
surrounding villages have burned towns
and killed many Armenians. Several
smallpox cases have already been dis
covered among tbe refugees. There
axe no soldiers at Latakia. Miss Effie
Chambers, one of the missionaries at
Kessab, is safe, news to this effect
having reached Dr. J. M. Balph, who
is in charge of the mission at Latakia.
v
Russian Advance Checked.
it Petersburg. April 28. A din.
patch from Julfa, Persia, ssys the Rus
sian expedition haa encountered oppo
sition, Kurds skirmishing with the
"Kuaru ana comnellinc
halt The Russian Foreign office haa
no connrmation of this but it is admit
ted that the troops are advancing
alowly and will not arrive at Tabrix
before tomorrow night The consul at
Tabriz reports that the fan, in h..
been relieved somewhat
Jack London Sells Boat.
Honolulu, April 28. Advicea reeeiv.
ed today from Sydney, Australia, atate
uiai jacK London, the American au
uw. ww nutM on a tour of the
South sea islands, many months ago in
thor, who started on a tour of th
the sloop "Snark." haa sold th. k.
aioop "anaric, baa sold the boat
iner ana gone to South America.
HOLDTOMANCHURIA
Japan Refuses to Withdraw Gar
rison From Chinese Territory.
PEKIN GOVERNMENT DEMANDS IT
Takes Advantage of China's Inability
to Defend Herself to Gain
Desired Foothold. '
Victoria, B. C, April 29. News
was brought by the Shinano Mara that
Japan is preparing to enforce her hold
on Manchuria. An agitation is under
way for a "stronger policy toward
China." The Japanese Herald of Yo
kohama says the impression is gaining
ground that Japan, taking advantage
of the difficulties, diplomatic ,and do
mestic, confronting China s executive,
is trying deliberately, but none the
less relentlessly, to force that country
into a diplomatic quandary. Japan,
appreciating China's weakness, in mil
itary, naval and financial matters, ia
prodding her into acquiescence in com
pacts derogatory to China's future wel
fare, and the present concessions will
but whet Japan's appetite for more..
In the meantime China is reported to
have demanded the withdrawal of
Japan's garrisions and policemen along
the Antung-Mukden railway. Consul
General Koike in Mukden refuses to
entertain that demand, in view of ar
ticle 6 of the Pekin convention, on the
ground that the Antung-Mukden rail
road is a branch line of the South Man
churian railway. China does not ac
quiesce in the consul general's conten
tion. This new difficulty may delay
the construction tbe Antung-Mukden
line. ,.
Commenting on the situation, a Jap
anese newspaper says :
Japan will maintain the footholds
which she legitimately acquired in
Manchuria. Japan will not "necessar
ily feel aggrieved if the Manchurian
question remains unsettled, but it will
be extremely inadvisable for China.
If China fails to resume the negotia
tions, Japan will proceed with her en
terprises in Manchuria according to
her own control.
EX-SULTAN A PRISONER.
Abdul Hamid May Lose Fortune as
Well as Freedom.
Constantinople, April 29 The for
mer ruler of the empire, Abdul Hamid,
will be kept a prisoner in a large house
with walled grounds on a height over
looking Salonica, it was learned to
night. He is not to be put on trial, as
has been widely reported, for - he is
considered above the law. It was
thought wise to keep the deposed sultan
in European lurkey, remote from the
capital. His household will be admin
istered upon a generous scale and his
life will be safeguarded, as he earnestly
besought when notified of his dethrone
ment. The Constitutionalists want to get
the great sums of money that the ex
sultan is Bupposed to have abroad, not
only because the government needs it,
but because it is desirable that ha
should be deprived of the resources for
another coup d'etat Speculation
places Abdul Hamid's wealth at any
where from $25,000,000 to $200,000,-
000.
RESUME ADANA SLAUGHTER.
Destruction of City is Completed bv
Turkish Troops.
London, April 29. A disDatch from
Mersina, dated Monday night says :
"Two Turkish regiments which
landed here Saturday proceeded to
Adana, where they resumed late Sun
day night the wholesale murdering of
Armenians and the burning of their
property.
Thousands were burned to death.
while those attempting to escape were
snot down by the troops. The destruc
tion of Adana is complete. .
Ail the Armenian population at
Bakdjah has been massacred."
Maniac After Fallieres.
Monte Carlo, April 29. A man nam
ed Verdier was arrested here today by
the French police. He declared that
he was an anarchist and that he had
come to Monte Carlo for the purpose of
killing President Fallieres, of France,
who is visiting here. A revolver,
loaded with jacketed bullets, was found
on Verdier, as well as a letter address
ed to the prefect of the department of
Alpes maritimes, in which the man ex
plained the motive for his contemplat
ed crime. The police believe he ia
insane.
Judge Condemns Verdict.
Pueblo, Colo., April 29. Ninety-
nine years in the state penitentiary
was imposed upon R. L. Whitehead h
Judge Hunter at Las Animas yesterday
for the murder of Wilder Lindsey last
July. In pronouncing sentence the
judge intimated that he did not believe
the prisoner guilty of the crime, but
the verdict of the jury compelled him
to impose the sentence. Whitehead
maintained bis innocence of the crime
I to the last
Warm on Trail of Mars.
Fort Worth, Tex., April 29. A mes
sage received her today from Professor
Robert W. Wood, of Johns Hopkins
I university, practically agrees to the
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