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NEWS OFTHE WEEK
In a Condensed Form for Our
Bnsy Readers,
A Resume of the Lets Important but
Not Lest Interesting Events
of the Patt Week.
J. Fieroont Morgan is in deidly fear
of assassins.
Grover Chveland has just celebrated
his 69th birthday.
Coal miners are working hard to pre
Tent a general strike April 1.
Nebraska thermometers are register
ing from fi to 10 degrees below lero.
John D. Rockefeller maintains an
armed guard at his house in New Jersey.
The house and senate are likely to
disagree on the type of canal to be
bai't.
General Wood defends the action of
the American troops at Mount Dajo,
Philippine islands.
Secretarfyy of the Navy Bonaparte
insists that the United states should
build a greater navy.
Customs authorities have decided
that Chinese josshouse fittings are sub
ject to a duty of 15 per cent.
Snow slides in Colorado have caused
a number of death and a property loss
that will reach close to a million dol
lars. Latst returns from the Color? do train
wreck give the number of killed as 22.
Telegraph operators are blamed for the
accident.
New York proposes to establish a
municipal seaside resort.
The president will not appoint a su
preme judge for eix months.
Susan B. Anthony's sister will stump
Oregon in the suffrage campaign.
The Japanese parliament has voted
to buy all railroads in that country.
The house will take np the amended
Btatehood bill Wednesday, March 21.
Official figures ebow the population
of Germany to joe. 60,605,183, against
66,367,178 in 1900.
The Ohio legislature is considering
a bill which will give the courts power
to punish witnesses who refuse to talk.
King Charles, of Roumania, is near
death. The crown princo is unpopular
and a movement has been started to
crown his 13-year old son.
The Dietrict of Columbia court hao
overruled Biuger Hermann's demurrer
to indictments for destroying public
records. He will ask for an appeal to
the Circuit Court of Appeals.
Western railroads are facing a labor
famine. Twenty-five thousand men are
needed in the Northwestern and South
western states to build the roada that
are already under way, and it is esti
mated that before June twice that
number will be needed.
Denmark may put a tariff law into
effect.
Russia suspects Japan of hostile de
signs in Siberia.
All railrc-dfi throueh Colorado are
blocked by snow.
Senator Depew is too ill to attend to
his duties in the senate.
The first severe blizzard of the win
ter has just swept New York.
The house will reject the senate
amendmnets to the statehood bill.
The czar has ordered extreme meas
ures to be taken to protect Jews from
maBsacre.
Secretary Taft has consulted with
three of his brothers regarding the
place on the supreme bench.
A Chicago man has asked a divorce
from his second wife that she may
marry his son. The husband is 56,
the wife 22.
Chicago is now about to oust the
Western Union and Postal Telegraph
companies or make them pay a good
price for the use of streets.
The anthracite coal miners will ar
range another schedule for presentation
to the mine operators in the hope it
may be accepted and thus prevent a
etrike.
Colonel Knight, Major General
Wood's chief of statff, has returned
from a reconnaissance of of the situa
tion in China. He reports that there
is absolutely no danger of trouble and
that tranquility abounds.
A new French cabinet has been
formed.
Mrs. Dowie denies the rumor that
she has deserted ber husband.
Taft'a retirement from the presiden
tial race revives the hopes of Fair
banks. The Standard Oil company will only
give evidence at the trust investigation
under compulsion.
The Iowa legislature has passed a law
preventing the employment of children
under 18 years of age in any occupation
injurious to health.
Vice President Fairbanks honored
Senator Fulton by calling the senator
to his chair and turning over his gavel
to him for the greater part of an atfer
noon. '
WILL QUIT CANAL.
Shonts Will Give Entire Attention
His Railroad.
Chicago, March 19. A Washington
special says :
Information from trustworthy sources
makes it seem uraeticallv assured that
Theodore Perry Shonts, of Chicago,
chairman of the Isthmian Canal com
mission, intends soon to send his resig
nation to President Roosevelt. It is
unquestionably the intention of Piesi
iKiit Roosevelt to nominate John F.
Stevens, the chief engineer, to succeed
Mr. Shonts. Mr. Stevens w ill combine
the duties of the two olhces.
Pressure from his associates on the
railroad with which Mr. Shonts is con
nected has been strong for sometime to
bring about this result his return to
railroad work and his resignation from
the canal board. Mr. Shonts had
withstood the pleas of his business as
sociates, but recent events have induced
him to consent.
Mr. Shonts is still president of the
Clover Leaf railroad, and it is said that
the interests of that road, in the mind
of his colleagues, demand that he
return and take active charge of the
property. It is said he owns securi
ties in the road to the value of about
$3,000,000, and, in the interest of
these holdings, as well as the holdings
of others, it is declared that he feels he
must no longer divide time and his
labor.
There has been no secret that the re
lations between Secretary Taft and
Chairman Shonts have been strained at
times. They are probably today not of
the most amicable nature. It is prob
able that Mr. Taft will succeed to th4
vacancy in the United States Supreme
court caused by the resignation of Jus
tice Brown, but will not take his seat
before next October. Mr. Taft has his
own views about the canal work, which
are not in accord w ith those of Mr.
Shonts.
When Mr.
Tift goes to the Supreme
the intention of President
turn the supervision of
court, it is
Roosevelt to
the canal
over to Secret try Root's de
The secretary of war de
partment
sires to arrange the construction plans
to suit his own judgment before the
transfer is made.
T MBER LAND BILL READY.
Senate Committee Favors'Repeal, but
Fulton Will Fight It.
Wasbington.March 19. The senate
public lands committee today virtually
completed the bill to repeal the timber
and stone act and authorize the sale of
public timber at not less than its ap
praised value, small dealers to be given
preference in the sales and miners free
use of timber for domestic purposes,
the same as in forest reserves.
An amendment insisted upon by Sen
ator Fulton will be adopted giving the
counties 10 percent of the amount of
sales in their respective limits in lieu
of taxes.
The committee ie also framing a bill
to permit homestead entry of agricul
tural land in forest reserves. This bill
is designed particularly to meet the
principle objection to reserves in Ida
ho. Senator Dubois is strongly urging
this measure and predicts its passage.
Mr. Fulton is the only member of the
committee opposed to the repeal of the
timber and stone act, but other West
ern senators agree with him and will
join him in opposition to the bill when
it comes up in the senate. In case it
is impossible to prevent the passage of
the bill by the senate, Mr. Fulton wi'.l
seek to increase the amount to be paid
countieB from the receipts of timber
sales from 10 to 25 per cent.
" The Oregon senator is so thoroughly
convinced of the inadvisability of re
pealing the timber and stone act that
he will carry his fight to the house and
seek to induce the house committee to
table the senate bill, just as it has
heretofore tabled a sim'lar bill in the
house. He feels certain that this leg
islation will be killed in the house, if
not in the senate.
Kaiser Would Be Boss.
London, March 19. Reynolds' News
paper prints a dispatch from Berlin
stating that Kaiser William is more de
termined than ever to have his own way
in regard to the Moroccan question at
the Algeciras conference. His latest
ambition is to pose as the dictator of
Europe, and he seems to consider the
present moment a favorable one to as
sume the role. The more moderate of
his ministers are anxious lest the kais
er shall provoke France too far, for
fear that France and England may
throw down the gauntlet to Germany.
Constitution Is Saved.
Washington, March 19. The famous
old war frigate Constitution, "Old
Ironsides," is to be saved from rotting
at the Boston navy yard and will also
escape the worse fate of being used as a
target by the North Atlantic fleet. The
gallant old craft is to be patched up
and rehabilitated, so she may indulge
in an occasional cruise in mild weather.
This is the decision of the house com
mittee on naval affairs. It is estimat
ed that it will cost just $6,000.
Started I 000 Rivets.
Baltimore, March 19. The British
steamer Belfast, Captain McKee, which
arrived from Las Patinas, Grand Ca
nary, today, brought mails from the
drydock Dewey. Captain McKee re
ports that when he left Las Falmas re
pairs were being made to the dock,
which had started a thousand rivets on
the trip across the Atlantic.
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VOTERS CANNOT CHANGE.
Attorney General Sayt Original Regis
tration Must Stand.
Salem Attorney General Crawford
is of the opinion that there, is no autho
rity for the changing of a votei's regis
tration after it has once Wen made.
He has not rendered a written opinion
upon the subject, but after hearing the
report that changes have been permit
ted in Linn county, he examined tho
statutes governing registration and said
that the only change provided for by
law is that which becomes necessary
when a voter changes his residence
from one precinct to another.
Mr. Crawford said that if a voter
registers as a Socialist and then changes
his registration so that it shows him to
be a lVsmocrat, this would be in effect
a second registration, and more than
one registration is expressly forbidden.
It the clerk should make a mistake and
write the word "Socialist" after a
man's name, when the voter had an
nounced himself as a iHsmocate, Mr.
Crawford thinks it would be- permissa
ble for the clerk to correct the error,
but where the party amliation has tnen
recorded as given by the voter, there is
no authority for a subsequent change.
It has been many times asserted that
in Marion county many Democrats are
registering as Republicans in order to
take part in the contest for the Repub
lican primary nominations. Inspection
of the registration lKks shows that
this is not true, and that if any persons
are registering improperly the instances
are so few and so unimportant as to es
cape notice. The disposition here is
for each to register his party atti nations
hooestly and fairly, if givea at all.
Farmers Tired of Waiting.
Ontario The farmers of Dead Ox
Flat, tired of waiting for water from
the various projects contemplated, have-
taken steps to organize an irrigation
district under what is known as the
Wright law. A petition to the County
court will be considered at a special
session April 16. The proposed district
includes about 10,000 acres of the best
land on Dead Ox Flat, in Malheur
county, just across the Snake river
from Weiser, Idaho. When this district
is organized and the means of watering
it have been installed, there will have-
been added to Malheur county many
thousands of dollars of taxable proper
ty. The success of the enterprise
mans much for the county.
Wallowa Bridge by July I.
Wallowa When the O. R. A N. Co.
started to secure right of way in this
county for an extension of their line it
was not definitely known how soon the
road was to le in operation. In a re
cent conversation with a pentleman
who is in a position to know the activ
ity of all projected railroads, it was
learned that the extension to the O. R.
h N. was expected to reach the Wal
lowa bridge by July next. With rail
road accommodations so early, much of
the crop raised in Wallowa county, as
weli as the surplus Btock, will be
shipped from that point.
Change Wool Sale Dates.
Pendleton Owing to dissatisfaction
with the schedule of wool sale dates re
cently announced for Eastern Oregon,
the executive committee of the State
Woolgrowers association has ms.de out
a new one, as follows: Pendleton, May
22-23, May 29-30; Heppner, May 24
25, June 7-8, June 21-22; Condon,
May 31, June 1, June 27-28; Shaniko.
June 5-6, June 19 20. July 10-11;
Baker City, June 25-26, July 12-13;
Elgin, July 13. The sale for the Wal
lowa county wool has been set for Elgin
instead of the town of Wallowa as pre
viously arranged.
Closed Season To Be Enforced.
Oregon City "A strictly closed sea
son will be maintained on the Colum
bia river this year," says Deputy Fish
Warden H. A. Webster, who has gone
to the Iwer Columbia. The closed
season began on the 15th inst. and con
tinues for a month, and in order that
all illegal fishing may be prevented the
authorities of Oregon and Washington
will co-operate and maintain a thor
ough patrol of the river. Oregon this
year has two patrol boats and Waih
ington has one, anil all three will do
service onthe Columbia.
Seaside to Astoria.
Salem Charles M. Cartwright, Wil
liam L. Dudley, Edgar J. Daly, San
derson Reed, B. F. Allen and J. Frank
Watson have filed articles of incorpora
tion with the seertary of state for the
ABtoria & Coast Interurban company.
They propose to build a stearn or elec
tric railroad from Astoria to Seaside,
ending at the Halladay or Old Seaside
property, in Clatsop county. The cap
ital Btock is $300 000 divided into $100
shares.
Prospects Good in Sumpter.
Baker City Conservative mining
operators are of the opinion that dur
ing the coming summer greater results
will be obtained from the mines of the
Sumpter district than ever before. In
an interview on this question I. R.
Bellman, a well known operator and
manager of the Crack Oregon, at
Bourne, stated that this is assured by
the fact that so many properties have
been fully developed and are now on
the verge of being placed among the
regular producers.
FRUIT CANNERY FOR ALBANY.
Gardeners and Orchardiitt of Linn
County Take Stock.
Albany Active work looking to the
erection of a cannery and packing plant
in Albany has begun by the gardener
and fruitinen interested. The new
company will be known as the Fruit
growers' and Gardeners' Co-Operative
association, and will U owned by the
men w ho sell their products to the com
pany or by citixens of Albany. Stock
in the new company is selling under a
restriction that no one man could se
cure more than 25 per cent of the
stock.
Besides packing, preserving ami can
ning fruit and vegetables, the new con
cern will handle all kinds of produce,
acting as a kind of distributing jHiint
where all produce for the local trade
can be secured at a uniform price. In
this way all stores will be able to keep
up with the market, and the farmers
will have no trouble in disposing of
their product.
The plan is to start with a cannery,
prune packery and cider and vinegar
works. All of these industries have
been needed very much in Linn county,
lecause of the immense amount ol
small fruits and garden products grown
here, and because the county had no
such enterprises the development of
the fruit and gardening industry has
been much retarded.
Wool Sales at Condon.
Condon An effort is leing made by
the Condon Commercial club to estab
lish at this place wool sales days. The
secretary of the club is in communica
tion wi'h the State and National Wool
growers' associations, and with the aid
of the Joe at woolgrowers' association,
which it is expected will be organized,
it is thought dates may be seemed.
Endeavors are also being made to se
cure a reduction in freight rates on
woot from Cndon to Boston, and
also on local shipments of sugar, salt
etc.
Cannot Use State Money.
Salem Attorney General Crawford
holds in an opinion that the State
Lewis and Clark commission cannot
use the $50,000 appropriated by the
state for a memorial building, even il
an individual is willing to supply the
150,000 which the Portland Lewis and
Clark corporation refused to donate.
Mr. Crawford says the law is explicit
in its declaration that the corporation
must supply the money and the city of
Portland donate the site.
Beet Acreage Largely Increased.
La Grande Manager F. S. lliam
well, of the sugar factory, has been in
Cove, making contracts for the growicg
jf sugar beets for this season's run, and
reports having contracted for about I,
000 acres of beets in that locality. The
sugar company expects to have a larger
acreage this year than ever before.
Heretofore the factory haB never had
aiore than 2,800, aires but this season
is counting upon at least 4,000 acres.
Big Yield in Gilliam.
Condon Crop prospects for a large
yield are said to be better than ever l
fore in Gilliam county. There is a
greater acreage of wheat than ever
seeded in this county before and con
ditions are unusually favorable at this
time. The ground is wet to a depth
of more than two feet. Range is im
proving rapidly, owing to the splendid
growing weather of the past two weeks.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Club, tiH67c; bluestem, 66
68c; red, (4(5t(l5c; valley, 70c.
Oats No. 1 white feed, $27.50; gray,
$27 per ton.
Barley Feed, $2324 per ton;
brewing, $2424 50; rolled, $24.50
25.50.
Buckwheat $2.25 per cental.
Hay Kastern Oregon timothy, $13(5J
14 per ton; valley timothy, $89; clo
ver, $7.508; cheat,'$rj7; grain hay,
$7(38.
Fruits Apples, $12.50 per box;
cranberries, $ 12.50ft? 14. 50 per barrel.
Vegetables Asparagus, luetic per
pound; beans, 2)c; cabbage, per
pound; cauliflower, $22.25 pert-rate;
celery, $4 bWSo; sprouts, o7c per
pound; rhubarb, $2.25 per box; par
sley 25c; turnips, 00c(5$l per sack;
carrots, 05(5? 75c per sack; beetB, 85c(j
$1 per sack.
Onions No. 1, 7080c per sack;
No. 2, nominal.
Potatoes Fancy graded Burbanks,
50(5i60c per hundred ; ordinary, nom
inal; sweet potatoes, 242gC per
pound.
Butter Fancy creamery 27)$30c
per pound.
Kggs Oregon ranch, 1 6 1 7c per
dozen.
Poultry Average old hens, J 3(5 1 4c
per pound; mixed chickens, 12(413c;
broilers, 2022c; young roosters, 12(U
12jc; old roosters, 10 Qc dressed
chickens, 1416c; turkeys, live, lfl
17c; turkeyB, dressed, 1820c; geese,
live, 89c: geeBe, dressed, 1012c;
ducks, 1618c.
Veal Dressed, 37c per pound.
Beef Dressed bulls, 2'ivt per
pound; cows, 3$ country
steers, 45c.
Mutton Dressed, fancy, 89cper
pound, ordinary, 4 5c; lambs, 8
9Kc.
Pork Dressed, 68lc per pound.
Hops Oregon, 1905, choice, 10
lOJc; prime, 89i; medium, 78;
olds, 57c.
Wool Eaitern Oregon average best,
16521c per pound; valley, 2426c;
mohair, choice, 25 (2 30c
ACT ON JETTY HILL.
House Rivers and Harbors Commit
tee Will Soon Meet.
Washington, March 1(1. Chairman
Burton, of the house rivers and har
bors committee, suld ho would call a
meeting of his committee at an early
day to consider Senator Fulton's will
appropriating $400,000 tor work on the
jetty at the mouth of the Columbia
river. The. committee is due to arrive
here from its southern trip by Saturday
or Sunday and it is probable the meet
ing will be held some time next week.
If it shall be the opinion of the com
mittee that this separate bill should be
presented to the house and pressed on
its merits, the bill will be reported
w ithout amendment. There is every
reason to believe that the committee
III favor the appropriation of $100,000
inasmuch as the chiel of engineers and
secretary of War have both stated that
this amount is absolutely necessary to
preserve the jetty work from destruc
tion and have specitlcnlly stated that
any less amount will not answer.
There is a report that the members
of the house committee may favor en
larging the Fulton bill by add ng pro
vision for three or four other emergency
projects, so as to make it virtually an
emerucnev river and harbor bill, such
an was suggested earlier in the session
This is not cerUin. however, as the
committee has had no meeting this
session, and its sentiments cannot be
accurately ascertained. If the bill can
Ihj so amended without making it
general river and harbor bill, its
chances of passing the house will be
brighter than would the bill making
an appropriation for the Columbia river
alone.
CONSTITUTION FOR CHINA.
Commissionert Predict This n Result
of Study of America.
New York, March 16.-- Prince Tssl
Tse, High Commissioners Shang Chi
Heng and Li Cheng To, envoys of the
emperor of China, their secretaries and
attaches, sailed on the White Star
liner Baltic today to continue their
investigations in Fngland, France and
Itelgium. The prince said hist night:
"I have greatly enjoyed my visit to
this country, and the uniform courtesy
that has been accorded me, including
the reception by President l!ooevelt,
has deeply impressed me with the
friendly attitude of the American peo
pie. I believe that such contact makes
(or a better understanding and must
bring benefit to Isith of otir pioplcs."
That China will soon have a coutsi
tutional government is the opinion of
some of the comiiiiHnior.ers. Annotii o
ment of t' is belief was made by one of
the secretaries of the commission Just
before the Baltic eailel. It followed
a brief conference between all members
of the party.
"We 'have been making a com pre
hemiive study id the political situation
in this onntry," he said, "and have
hih-ii the application of your laws ami
the workings of the governing bodies
I believe that China will souli have a
constitutional government. It w
probably be modeled much on the lines
of the British constitution, but will
contain some ('. the good features ol
your own constitution."
WRECK KILLS 150 PEOPLE.
Head-On Collision of Fast Passenger
Trains in Colorado.
Pueblo, Colo., March 10. No. 1,
southbound, and No. 3, northbound,
passenger trains on the Denver it Rio
(irande railroad collided head on near
Portland, Colo., shortly after midnight,
and it is reported at least oil persons
are killed and a largo number injured.
Relief trains have been ordered from
Pueblo arnl Florence. At this hour de
tails are unobtainable.
Meager but authentic information
from several sources states that the
number killed in the collision will
reach 150. The craches caught fire am
most of the victims were roasted to
leath.
Money for Guns and Powder.
Washington, March 16. The senate
committee on appropriations today
completed the fortifications bill, and it
was reported by Senator Perkins. It
carries appropriations aggregating $5,
618,993, an increaso of $780,000 over
the amount appropriated by the house
bill. The increases are: For mountain,
field and siege cannon and equipment
and machinery for their manufscture
at arsenals, $290,000; for thoenction
and equipment of a powder factory and
or Hcacoust cannon, equipment and ma
chinery for their nianfacturo, $365,000.
Did They Steal Money?
New York, March 16. The grand
jury which is investigating evidence in
the insurance matter submitted by
District Attorney Jerome is at sea as to
whether a political assesment by a di
rector of a corporation constitutes the
crime ot la-ceny. The members of
the jury questioned Mr. Jerome on the
matter and at tils suggestion the matter
was plHcod before Judge O'Sullivan, of
the Court of General Sessions, who will
render an opinion next week.
Will Nationalize Railroads.
Tokio, March 16. The parliamen
tary majority in favor of nationaliza
tion ol laawsys is reported to he in
creasing and (lire teems to lie little
toubt. the pr ) ct will be cairied
hromih. Wotk on the elevated rail
r a 1 i" ToWio, suspended during the
tv-ir, has been resumed. Japan and
Rns.da are planning to exchange im
perial envoys to signify the restoration
of peace.
BURNED
ii.
Certain That Tlilrly-llvc lioiilus
Arc Keiluccil to Ashes.
TRAINS COIlllli: IN COLORADO
Flames Do Work So Thoroughly That
Only One Body Has Uoen
Identified.
Pueblo, Colo., March 17. A wreck
accompanied with horrors exceeded
only by the F.den disaster, w hlch oc
curred August 7, 1994, on the line ot
the sairo railroad, resulted from a
head on collision ot two passenger
trains on the Denvnr A Kin Grande
railroad tour miles east ot Florence,
Colorado, at an early hour yesterday
morning. The trains were the t'tah
Calitornia express No. 3, west tmiiiid,
from Denver, and the Colorado-Near
Mexico express No. 1", east ImxiihI,
from I.cadvillrt and Grand Junction.
They met tut a sharp curve and wcro
less than 200 yards apart when the en
gineers dlscoveie.l th U a collision was
imminent.
The disaster was made more horrible
by the manner ot the death of many of
the passengers, variously estimated
trom 20 to 35. Fire swept over the.
wreck, engultliig the victims in a
cauldron ot flame and leaving only
charred and blackened bodies to tell
the tale ot slaughter.
A list of injured given out by offi
cials of the railroad company comprises
32 names. None of the Injured are
dangerously hurt, and it is Ixdieved all
w ill recover quickly.
It is reliably reported that but one
body is sufficiently inta:-t to make re
cognition possible, all the others hav
ing been incinerated. The identifica
tion of the victims W ho succumbed to
the merciless llsmes Is only possible, il
is believed, through a c uiiparisoii ol
lists ot rescued nnd missing. No ac
curate estimate of the number ot dead
was possible by reason of tit fact that
so many of the bodies were practically
destioyed ,
One of the pathetic tragedies of tho
disaster was the w iping out ot all but
two of the family of 'l ay lor I lew itt, ol
I.elto, Kan. father, mother, daughter
grandchild, and the wives ot the two
sons are missing. The sons, A. K.
Hewitt and W. I.. Hewitt are among
the injured in the hospital here each ol
them having leg fractures in addition
to other injuries.
ACT LIKE CAT-AND DOG.
Russia and Japan Ready to Spring at
One Another.
St. Petersburg, March 17. General
( Snslekofl's order issued yesterday ex
cluding Japanese from Kussiau .Man
churia, and at the same ti'iie beginning
the distribution of laud among the dis
banded troops whose fainilis are helped
by the government to cinitfratu to Man
churia, and the (act that many ollicers
are dispatched to Vladivoi-tok daily in
dicate that the situation in the Far
Fast is considered mis 'fo. A lamous
general who recently returned from
Manchuria is quoted as saying:
"Despite official and diplomatic de
clarations at Tokio, we believe tho
Japanese consider the war unfinished,
and that they will seize occasion to
conquer the Amur region from Harbin
to Lake Ilaikal. Their military forces
in Manchuria have been strengthened
rather than diminished, ami o I liters
allow no one to visit headquarters.
Kven Fnglishmen am excluded.
"Tl.o disorganized state of tho Rus
sian army in Siberia favors tho plans
ol the Japanese. This is the reason for
General Grodekoff's order and General
Kennenkampl's excessive severity in
crushing the revolution at Chita in.
Tnuis-liaikalia.
Robbed of Large Sum.
Great Fills. Mont.. March 17. A
Tribune special from Kalispel reports
the loss of $8,000 by the O'llrlen Lum-
her company at the hands of highway
men. John Peteison, a trusted em
ploye, was carrying the money from
Kalispel to the works at Timers, about
nine miles distant. Near the mill ha
was stopped by three men. One held
the team, another held a iun at Peter.
son's head, and the other secured the
currency. The robbers were disguised.
but are believed to the bo men from
that locality.
Russia Threatens China.
Pepkin. March 17. The Seoul an.
thorities have sent an official dispati h
to the Pitkin government stating that a
large body of Russian troops has nenn-
trated to Wusuli and ilelunkaug, near
the northern frontier of Corea. This
extraordinary move is perhaps intend-
e i as a demonstration to influence the
Kusflo-Chinese negotiations. which
show little progress. The Pekln mi.
thorities wired instructions to the Tar
tar general at Helunkang.
Bond Company a Fraud.
Louisville. Kv.. March 17.Chari
of fraud and insolvency were made in a
liniati ...
suit, nieu iaie yesteraay against the
American Reserve Bond company, of
Chicago, asking for the appointment of
a nceiver. Millions of dollars belomr.
inn to investors all over the ITnlrml
States are involved in the suit, which
was filed in the United States court
for the eastern district of Kentucky by
Levi Hake and Mary- Welch, investors .
in the company.
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