EVENTS JjFTBE DAY
Newsy Items Gathered from AH
Parts of tbe World.
PREPARED FOR THE BUSY READER
Less Important but Not Less Inter
esting Happenings from Points
Outside the State.
The British war score againBt Ger
many is condemned as hysteria.
French seamen have gone on Btrike,
tieing up shipping at all the principal
ports. i
The government has disproved the
charges that Heney is in its pay while
prosecuting grafters.
A big Eastern syndicate is said to be
preparing to operate a Btring of 30 dry
goods stores in the West.
A San Francisco chemist claims to
have discovered a method of making
whiskey non-intoxicating, but exhilar
ating. Evidence is being gathered that ex
plorers from Sweden came to America
in 1362, more than a century before
Columbus.
It is said that the reforms demanded
by Great Britain and the United States
have not been put into effect in the
Congo Free State.
The Criminal court of Veenezuela
has dismissed the charge against ex
President Castro of complicity in a plot
to murder President Gomez.
BecauBe the senate refuses to con
eider legislation Bside from the tariff
measure, many river and harbor im-
provements are being held up, includ
ing those of the Northwest.
France has decided to materially in
crease her navy.
' A change in lumber duties is likely
to be adopted by the senate.
The bill against big hats has been
rejected by the Illinois legislature.
Prominent New Yorkers have been
indicted for coal land frauds in Wyom
ing. Abdul Hamld is said to have turned
over $5,000,000 more to the Turkish
government.
Celestino Castro, brother of the de
posed president of Venezuela, has been
ordered to leave Curacoa.
Great Britain will start construction
on four more Dreadnaughts before the
close of the present fiscal year.
Jap strikers on the Hawaiian planta
tions are to invade Honolulu and par
ade. It Ib estimated there wlil be
from 8,00 to 4,000 in line.
President Taft has nominated
Charles D. Elliott, of the Minnesota
Supreme court, as a justice of the Su
preme court of the Philippines.
Railway freight troubles have just
begun. Actions are to be commenced
againBt roads operating into Pacific
coast terminals demanding the same
treatment as Spokane.
Every employe of the Standard Oil
company suspended work two hours
during the funeral of H. H. Rogers,
vice president of the company. There
re 67,000 on the payroll.
Wheat has reached $1.30 at Chicago
and $1.53 at Cincinnati.
A controlling interest in the St
Paul Pioneer Press has been sold to the
St Paul Dispatch.
William Adler, the New Orleans
bank wrecker, has been given six years
in the penitentiary.
More Jap laborers on Hawaiian
plantations have gone on strike and
6,000 men are now involvled.
The Philippine general assembly has
passed a resolution declaring in favor
of the independence of the islands.
Allen Parker, a member of the Brit
ish parliament declares that the race
to build dreadnaughts is crazy and sin
ful.
Evidence is being secured at Chicago
that various labor leaders called strikes
in order to levy blackmail on employ
era.
The members of the Turkish chum
ber of deputies have taken oath to sup
port the new sultan and uphold the con
titution.
Mrs. Longstreet widow of the Civil
war general, was awakened by a burg
lar. She took six shots at him, wound
ing the man.
Castellans hs lost his appeal to gain
custody of his children.
Funds are being raised for a $100,
000 statue of U rover Cleveland.
A plan has been presented to the
British parliament for the care of the
unemployed.
Three Nevada men tried to send their
mother to the insane asylum in order
to get ber money.
Many moneyed men of the East are
visiting the Northwest in search for
suitable investments.
Authorities of Westminster abbe v.
London, have refused to allow the
body of George Meredith to be placed
Utere.
Bank robbers secured $6,000 from
the Cairo, Neb., State bank. A local
lection was being held and the explo
sions were thought to be part of the
CeieDretion.
DEMONSTRATE "MOONSHIN1NG"
Reconstructed Illicit Still to Be Shown
at Seattle Fair.
In a romantic gulch near the Pay
Streak of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific ex
position, in a place shaded by lofty firs
and hidden by a dense growth of vine
maples and yellow broom, will be found
a typical "wild-cat" still. This pest
of the mountain revenue officers will
be reconstructed from a still destroyed
in the Tennessee mountains years ago,
and the battered copper kettles and
rusted worm willjagain' be mouted for
duty.
No corn, however, will be boiled into
the "oil of joy" in the exposition
wild-cat;" only the operation show
ing how it used to be will be demon
strated. All the settings of the illicit
distiller have been gathered from the
high hills'oiTKenucky and Tennessee,
and the corn Will be Bhelled, the fires
kept up and the trail watched by a
bunch of long bearded gentlemen,
grown grey in practicing their unsanc
tioned profession.
The'arsenal of weapons of offense is
made up largely of Winchester 44s, but
scattered within easy reach will be
seen the long barreled squirrel gun
with which "Grand Pap got meat for
the family, and incidentally made new
jobs for governmental employment
aspirants. The "wild-catter" repre
sents a class unable to withstand the
encroachments of certain brands of
progress, and his once highly respected
calling has fallen into ill repute and
the operator of the mountan still is no
longer looked upon as a prominent citi-
ROBBERS LOOT TRAIN.
Union Pacific Overland Limited Held
Up Near Omaha.
Omaha, Neb., May 24. Four masked
men held up and robbed Union Pacific
passenger train No. 2, known as the
Overland Limited, a few miles west of
the city just before midnight Saturday
night, and secured seven mail sacks,
believed to have contained a large
quantity of registered mail.
They evidently got on the train at
some point west of here. The holdup
occurred about five miles weBt of the
city limits, in a deep cut along the re
cently constructed Lane cut-off.
The robbers climbed over the tank
and forced the engineer to stop his
train, and then proceeded to the mail
car. The clerks were forced to open
the door and hand out seven pouches of
registered mail.
Once they secured the bags, the rob
bers hurried away in a southerly direc
tion, and permitted the train to pro
ceed. The passengers were not molest
ed, and as soon as the robbers left the
scene of the hold-up the train came to
this city.
The chief mail clerk was singled out
by the robbers and ordered to point out
the registered mail. This he did
and the robbers gathered up seven
pouches. The leader then remarked :
"This is all we can get into our au
tomobile.
HAS NEW FORMULA.
Major Nichols Is Successful in Color
Photography Experiments.
Spokane, Wash., May 24. Major
Nichols, U. S. A., of Fort Wright, a
veteran student of photography, has
been successful in reproducing colors
by developing the negative with
formula of his own.
For years ho has devoted considers
ble attention to color photography and
has studied the discoveries of Lumiere,
of France, founder of the system. He
recently sent to New York for some of
the Lumiere plates, which have met
with little Buccess by the photographers
of the country.
2 "l tried a little experiment of my
own, with the result that I have been
able to produce some negatives which
show the colors of the object in detail,'
said Major Nichols this morning.
He showed some plates which were
taken on the military grounds and con
tained the most minute detail in color
ing.
"My side line is devoted to the mak
ing of lantern slides," continued the
major, "and it is my intention to take
a quantity of plates of this kind to the
Islands in August and to devote consul
erable of my spare time to making
pictures of tropical scenery.
Estate Left to Family.
New York, May 24. H. H. Rogers,
short time before his death, distrib
uted a portion of his fortune among his
four children. It is understood he gave
$4,000,000 each to his son, H. H. Rog
ers, Jr., and to his three daughters,
Mrs. E. W. Benjamin, Mrs. Urban H.
Broughton and Mrs. W. R. Coe, $16,
000,000 in all. The remainder of his
estate, mainly in the form of stocks
and bonds, will be disposed of by his
will, which has not yet been made pub
lic. The main part of the estate is
divided among the widow and children
Honduras Sends Apology.
El Faso, Texss. May 24. Official in
formation has been received here that
one of the more recent causes of fric
tion between the republics of Mexico
and Honduras, the violation of the
Mexican consulate at Teguicagalpa,
few weeks ago by Honduran soldiers,
has been smoothed away. President
Datvilla, of Honduras, has apologised
to Mexico for the act of his soldiers.
The Honduran troops invaded the Mex
lean consulate to arrest a fugitive.
Porto Ricans Cool Off.
San Juan, R. R., May 24. The full
text of President Taft's special mes
sage to congress on Porto Rican affairs
has been received by mail, and after
reading it carefully, the Republican
leaders praise it highly as a states
manlike document
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
ROAD FRANCHISE SECURED.
Eastern Capitalists Said to Be Inte
rested in Cocs Bay Project.
Marshfield The terms of the fran
chise granted to J. H. Somers and J.
F. Clark for an electric railroad on the
county roada have been made public.
The commissioners have given them
the privilege of choosing between the
road from Myrtle Point to Roseburg or
the Coos bay wagon road from Sumner
to Myrtle Point. The franchise pro
vides that those receiving the franchise
must select one of the two routes and
begin work of construction within six
months and have half of the line com
pleted within eighteen months, and all
completed within Coos county in two
years.
The same parties promoted the
efforts of the Coquille Mill & Mercan
tile company at Coquille in .securing a
franchise for a road through that city.
Somers and Clark have not yet di
vulged their plans further than to state
that outside capital will be interested.
TROUBLE OVER BOUNTY.
New Oregon Law Is Misunderstood
in Umatilla County.
Pendleton From present indications
there is to be much trouble relative to
the payment of bounties on coyotes
when the new law goes into effect
Though the new law does not operate
until May 22, all coyotes killed since
February 1 are subject to bounty,
Hundreds of the destructive animals
have been killed in this county since
that date and the trouble is to come
from these scalps.
Copies of the law have been received
and it has been discovered for the first
time that .all four feet, as well as the
scalp,' must be attached to each hide,
and it is this provision that has been
disregarded by the killers. Though
hundreds of hides are ready to be pre
sented the day the law goes into effect
it is not believed that more than a score
of them have the claws attached.
Rogue Bridged at Woodville.
Medford The court of Jackson coun
ty has ordered construction of a new
steel bridge across the Rogue river at
Woodville, below Gold Hill, which will
open a large agricultural district adja-
cent to Woodville but acroBS the river,
The trade of this section has hitherto
been diverted to Grants Pass but now
the little city will get all of the trade
of that section. A planing mill, a box
factory and a brick yard have recently
been added to the industries of Wood'
ville and work has just started on i
large brick schoolhouse.
Forest Made Into Orchard.
Grants Pass From the primitive
forest to a field of 50 acres planted to
thrifty pear trees, apple trees and To
kay grapes is a task that has just been
accomplished by W. B. Sherman, of
this place, within five weeks. Just a
little over a month ago this same 50'
acre tract was studded with pine, fir
and underbrush. Today the improve
ments placed thereon have increased
this property three-fold in value. The
tract of land in question lies up the
river near Tokay Heights, and is with
in plain view of town.
Two-Day Festival at Lebanon.
Lebanon The committee appointed
by the Lebanon Business Men's league
to make arrangements for the Lebanon
strawberry fair has announced that
Friday and Saturday, June 4 and 5,
have been decided upon as the dates
for this festival. The committee has
invited the ladies of Lebanon and vi
cinity to join with them and have a
rose festival at the time of the fair.
It was also decided to hold a horse
show at the same time. The horse ex
hibition will occur Saturday afternoon,
June 5.
Complaints Against Rates.
Salem D. B. Chamberlen, of Cot
tage Grove, a poultry raiser, has filed
an informal complaint with the rail
road commission in which he charges
that the rates on fancy poultry and
eggs enforced by the Southern Pacific
are prohibitive. M. C. Smith asks that
the Southern Pacific be compelled to
construct a small freight shed at
Walker, a flag station on the Southern
Pacific, toward the southern part of
the state.
Presbyterians Plan Big Meet.
Interest in the Presbyterian Brother
hood convention in Portland June 8 and
9 is increasing. A banquet will be
given the first night of the convention,
the second day being devoted to ad
dresses and conferences by leading lay
men of the state. The convention will
close the second evening with a mass
meeting addressed by officers of the
National Brotherhood.
Face Potato Famine.
Marshfield Coos county is facing a
potato famine and it is expected that
the prices will soar higher and reach
the record mark in this locality. There
are practically no old potatoes obtain
able and dealers are offering as high
as 2 cents a pound. The shortage is
not confined to Coos county but the
district in general is affected.
Willamette to Get Stadium
Pendleton That Willamette univer
sity, at Salem, is soon to have the larg
est athletic stadium in the Northwest
and that it is sure to become the center
for intercollegiate and interscholastic
meets, is the statement given out here
by President Homan, when in Pendle
ton recently.
WILL SPEND MILLIONS.
O. R. & N. Company Gives Out Plans
for Extensive Improvements.
Salem According to evidence intro
duced before the commission in the
Eastern Oregon grain rates investiga
tion, the Oregon Railway & Navigation
company contemplates the expenditure
of more than $3,500,000 during the
ne.xt year, beginning June 1. Testi
mony to this effect was offered by the
railroad company to show that a reduc
tion of the rates at this time would be
unfair.
The largest item in the detailed
statement presented is that of the
bridge across the Willamette river at
Portland, for which plans have been
perfected. This structure is to cost
the railorad company $1,250,000. The
next largest item is for straightening
the track and eliminating curves be
tween The Dalles and Coyote, $1,000,
000. The statement also includes the pur
chase of more depot ground at The
Dalles at a cost of $71,000; ground for
and the construction of a roundhouse at
Pendleton to coat a total of $48,000; a
new station and additional grounds at
Baker City to cost $38,000. The other
items include straightening track and
ballasting the main line and improving
branch lines. The entire amount ag
gregates $3,528,738 85.
The hearing is tbe final one in regard
to the grain rates which have engaged
so much of the time of the commission
for the past 12 months. It will prob
ably be some time before the result of
the hearings will be known.
Buy Jackson Timber Road.
Medford With the sale of the Pari-
fie & Eastern railroad to J. R. Allen,
of New York, during the past week,
the hopes of Southern Oregon residents
that the road be extended to the timber
belt northeast of this city above Butte
Falls have risen tremendously, and
realty values in the country along the
line of the proposed extension have
made a corresponding increase. It
seems that at last the road is to be
completed, and with its completion
one of the largest standing timber
belts in the Northwest as yet un
touched by the Woodman's axe, will be
made accessible.
Ontario Demands Action.
Ontario Protesting against the ac-
tion of private interests who have filed
on water rights in the Owyhee river
without taking active steps to reclaim
the land, representatives of the Com
mercial club, of Ontario, Weiser, Pay
ette and Vale, met in this city and for
warded a petition to the Oregon and
Idaho delegations in congress urging
an early commencement of the Malheur
irrigation project There are approxi
mately 145,000 acres of fertile land in
this district.
Freewater Realty Active.
Freewater Sales of real estate have
been active this week, Hall and Korts
having sold 11 acres of alfalfa land at
$200 an acre for , Nelson Allen to Miss
Grundry, of Boston, Mass. ; 40 acres of
alfalfa land from Harry Badgero to J.
Adrain, for $5,000, and nine acres of
fruit land from W. F. Korts to J. J
Gauner at $300 an acre. Fred Moreley
has sold his livery barn in Freewater
to J. Usher, of Walla Walla. Fruit is
lookin3 good.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Fruits Apples, 65c(ff$2.50 per box
strawberries, Oregon, 12c per pound,
Potatoes $1.752 pet hundred.
Vegetables Turnips, $1.25 per sack
carrots, $1.25; parsnips, $1.50; beets,
$1.75; horseradish, 10c per pound; as
paragus, Oregon, 75c(g $1.25 per dozen
lettuce, head, 2050c per dozen; on
ions, 12)15c per dozen; radishes,
15(a 20c per dozen; rhubarb, 23c per
pound.
Wheat Bluestem milling, $1.30
1.35; club, $1.20; valley, $1.17;' red
Russian, $1.17)P1.20.
Corn Whole, $35 per ton; cracked
$36 per ton.
Barley Feed, $34.50 per ton.
Oats No. 1 white, $41 per ton.
Hay Timothy, Willamette valley,
$14(18 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $18
20; clover, $ll?ri2; alfalfa, $13
14; grain hay, $13(0)14; cheat $14
14.50; vetch, 14.(C14.50.
Butter City creamery, extras, 28c
fancy outside creamery, 2728c; store,
18c. Butter fat prices average IK
cents per pound undef regluar butter
prices.
Eggs Oregon ranch, 2425c per
dozen.
Poultry Hens, 15&(iil6c; broilers,
2830c; fryers, 22(u25c; roosters
10c; ducks, 1415c; geese, 10llc
turkeys, 20c; squabs, $2.603 per
dosen.
Veal Extras, 8(iI8Xc; ordinary, 7
7Kc; heavy, 66Xc
Pork Fancy, 10c per pound.
Hops 1909 contract 9c; 1908 crop,
8Gf84C; 1907 crop, 3(g 4c; 1906 crop,
lc
Wool Eastern Oregon, 16 fi 21c
valley, fine, 24c; medium, 23c; coarse,
22c; mohair, choice, 2425c.
Cattle Steers, top, $5.50 6.75
fair to good, $5(t5.25 ; common to me
dium, $4.60((C4.75; cows, top, $4.25
4.60; fair to good, $3.75(i4.25; com
mon to medium, $2.60g3.50; bulls and
stags, $3(i3.50; common, $22.75.
Hogs Best $7.50T7.75; fair to
good, $7.25(7.50; stockers, $6g6.60
China fats, $6,757.
Sheep Top wethers, $44.50; fair
to good, $3,601.4; ewes, c less on
all grades; yearlings, best $4.50; fair
to good, $4(34.25; spring Iambs, $5$
5.60.
ROADS BLOCK SPOKANE.
Will Appeal for Rehearing in Recent
Rate Decision.
Spokane, Wash., May 21. Informa
tion comes direct from Washington to
day that the further plan of the rail
roads is to prevent final determination
of the rate questions involved until
after the members of the commission
separate for the summer.
The further plan is outlined that im
mediately after the Spokane jobbers
file supplemental petition asking that
the commission disapprove of the rates
which have been filed with it by the
railways, the railway companies will
petition for a rehearing on all the ques
tions which have been presented and
decided by the commission.
In the meantime it is predicted the
schedule of rates submitted to the com
mission will be published by the rail
road companies and will become effect
ive rates until the question can be once
more brought before the commission
and argued.
The representatives of the railroad
companies expect that the Interstate
Commerce commission will order that
the rates established by the commis
sion in the rate case will not become
effective until after the hearing on the
petition for a reopening of the case,
and it is clear that if a rehearing is
granted Spokane will have to accept
the schedule of rates as presented by
the railroads until after the final deter
mination of the rehearing.
COWBOYS ATTACK HERDERS
Sheepmen Are Injured and 3,000 of
Their Flocks Killed.
Grand Junction, Colo., May 21. As
a result of a battle between sheepmen
and cowboys on a contested range near
Atchee, Colo., yesterday 3,000 head of
sheep were killed and two sheepmen
were injured. The sheep, which be
longed to S. A. Taylor and R. A. Taw-
ney, were grazing on . a range near the
hamlet of Carbinero.
It appears that the cowboys dashed
in upon the herders and tied them to
trees, and then rode out and killed the
sheep. They first cut the telephone
wires. Several hours later the sheep
herders were liberated.
The authorities of Garfield county
have been notified, but it is not be'
lieved the cowboys will be captured.
The range in which the crime was com
mitted has long been a contested one,
and several murders have resulted from
quarrels over it.
Warrants have been issued by the
authorities of both Mesa and Garfield
counties for the arrest of 16 raiders,
several of whom are said to be known
to the sheepmen.
Late tonight the sheepmen in this
section of the state arranged for a
mass meeting, at which substantial re
wards will be offered for the arrest and
conviction of the raiders.
NEW GRAIN ROAD.
Hil
Announces New Branch Line Into
Wheat Belt.
Seattle, May 21. Great Northern
railroad officials announced today that
a branch line of the road would be built
from Wilson Creek south to Connell
the junction of the Northern Pacific
and the Oregon Railwav & Navigation
company. The move is one that has
been nroiected hv the Hill li
years, and is said in the local offices to
marie me nrst step in the contest for
eastern wasningon territory between
the Hill and Milwaukee interests.
The branch line, as planned, will de
part from the main line at Wilson
Creek and will follow the Crab creek
valley until it swings off to the east of
Moses lake, traversing the low country
east of the Saddle mountains nnH fnn.
necting with the" Northern Pacific main
line ac uonneu.
The branch line, which nffnrda a n
outlet for the wheat farmers of Grant
and Douglas counties, Washington
will be continued ultimatelv fmm rn
nell to connect with the North Rank
line below Pasco, securing a water
graae xor wneac trains Irom the fields
w roruana.
Halibut Trust Planned.
Tacoma. Wash., May 21. Dissatis
fied with the low prices the fisheries
companies are paying for halibut, the
owners of the Puget sound fishing boats
are planning to form a combination
ana to establish a joint fisheries com
pany, with headquarters in Tacoma
and agencies throughout the East
wnue tne retail price of halibut
said by the fishermen to be about ti
same, they are only getting from 1
to IX cents at the fisheries comnanipn
With the forming of the combination
tney would get Irom 8 to 10 cento.
Anaconda Shows Loss.
New York. Mav 21. Th annual
re-
port of the Anaconda Copper Mining
cuiutmny ior uie year ending December
01 1 a. 1 i
oi, mi, issueo. loaay, snows that dur
ing tne nrst six months of the
1908 the comnanv cufferoH an
loss, owimr to the shutdown nt
tions in January and February of that
year, i ne income lor tne year '
$15,604,482, a decrease of $3,146.
from 1907. The expenses were $14,
658,519, a decrease of $944,842.
Salvation Army Convenes.
Chicago, May 21. Four hundred
members of the Salvation Army were
in attendance at the national congress
of the Western America district.
opened a five days' meeting here today.
Commander Eva Booth addressed the
congress.
MUST OPEN GATEWAY
Roads Ordered to Sell Tickets to
East and West via Portland.
NORTHERN PACIFIC WILL FIGHT
ObjectsTto Joint Traffic With Harri-
man Lines, Which Are Required
to Make Like Concessions.
Washington, May 22. The first de
cision in the Portland gateway case is
in favor of opening, but this is only
the beginning of what promises to be
a long contest. In a decision rendered
by Mr. Prouty the Interstate Com
merce commission -today ordered the
Harriman lines and the Northern Pa
cific to join in the sale of through tick
ets and the through checking of bag
gage between Eastern -and Pacific
coast points via Portland. Chairman
Knapp and E. E. Clark diBsent from
the decision.
The commission sustains the com
plaint against the Northern Pacific for
refusing to sell through tickets via
Portland to points on the Union Pa
cific and Chicago & Northwestern, in
cluding Omaha, Kansas City and Chi
cago, and sustains also the complaint
sgainst the Chicago & Northwestern,
Union Pacific, Oregon bhort Line and
Oregon Navigation company for refus
ing to sell through tickets via Portland
to points in Washington.
By the terms of the decision, which
is highly important to the traveling
public and to the Western and North
western railroads, the Northern Pacific,
the Union Paciific lines and the Chica
go & Northwestern railway are ordered
to join in the sale of through passenger
tickets between Seattle and other
points in the Pacific Northwest and
Eastern destinations, via Portland, Or.,
and to accord through facilities, like
the checking of baggage, over this
route.
The commission found in the present
case that a substantial part of the en
tire body of travelers moving between
these points in the Northwest and
Eastern destinations reasonably desire
to travel via Portland, and that ' there
fore the commission has jurisdiction to
open that gateway.
It is also held that public interest
requires that this gateway shall be
opened ; but that the terms under which
that service is rendered should be just
as between the carriers themselves.
The commission was also of the opinion
that the through rates via Portland
should be the same as those in effect
via the Northern Pacific and its present
connections, but no opinion is express
ed touching a division of these rates.
The decision orders first that the
Middle West lines complained of and
the Northern Pacific shall establish be
fore July 1, 1909, and maintain in
force thereafter for not less than two
years, through routes and joint rates
between Chicago, Council Bluffs and
Colorado common points via Portland
and points in Washington between
Portland and Seattle, including the lat
ter, the joint rates to be the same as
the joint rates contemporaneously in
effect between said points via the
Northern Pacific and its connections.
Second, the carriers named are order
ed to establish before July 1, joint
rates and through routes for passengers
and baggage from points on the North
ern Pacific via Portland to Omaha, Kan
sas City, Chicago and other Union Pa
cific and Chicago & Northwestern
points.
It is understood authoritatively that
it is the intention of the Northern IPa
cific, in connection perhaps with other
roads, to seek an injunction restrain--ing
the commission from putting its
order into effect Should such an in
junction be granted, it would prevent
the enforcement of the order during tbe
period of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific ex
position at Seattle, as it is estimated
that it would require many months for
the courts finally to determine the case
on its merits.
Chicago Reaches Debt Limit.
Chicago, May 22. With the issue of
$1,500,000 four per cent 20 yesr serial
bonds to the First Trust & Savings
bank, the city of Chicago has reached
the limit of its bonded indebtedness.
The bonds were awarded yesterday by
City Controller Walter H. . Wilson.
They went at par, with a premium of
$11,500 paid by the bank. The total
bonded indebtedness of the city is now
$30,220,000, including the $4,293,000
World's Columbian exposition bonds
authorized by special act of the - state
legislature.
Two Unions to Unite.
Spokane, May 22. "It is probable
that working agreements will be made
by the Western Federation of Miners
and the United Mineworkers of Amer-
lua'8Uted C- H- MoTer. President of
the Western Federation of Miners, who
is here tonight . "It is not probable
that they will unite, as their fields of
usefulness are different In spite of
all reports, the next convention of the
Federation will show that it is strong
er than ever."
. Explosion Fires Forest. - 7
Pittsburg, May 22, One thousand
pounds of powder in the wheels mills
of the Oriental plant of the Dupont
Powder company located at Fairchance,
Pa., exploded late last night No one
was injured, but the plant was wreck
ed, windows shattered for several miles
about d the mountain woods set on
fire.