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t ........"gr-a -------------- — Conage Grove Leader C O T T A G E G R O V E ............... OREGON NEWS OF THE WEEK I d a Condensed Form lor Oar Busy gealter t A B .*u m . * f tha Lets Important but Nat Laaa Interastln« Evanta o f tha Paat Waak. Rrjan «ay» Alabama primaria« were a vietery O T e r the trusts. Senator Denby, of Louisiana, has been re-elected by the legislature. The republican national convention will open each day with a prayer. A federal gTand jury has begun an investigation of the New York cotton exchange. Night riders continue to do much damage by burning tobacco barns in Kentucky. A man has been arrested in Chicago for obtaining money while poaing as a United States army officer. Returns from the city election at Denver indicate that the democratic candidate for mayor will be elected. It is said Bryan will support Culber son for the democratic presidential can didate if he cannot get the nomination h imself. The pupils of one of New Y ork's schools have been appointed sergeants to report misconduct by the regular patrolmen. A New York man has killed his father and himself because the son did not like a second marriage by his father, who is 72 years old. The Chinese boycott against Japan has crossed the ocean, a number refus ing to sail from San Francisco on a Japanese steamer. Paper trust officials deny mil charges o f a combine. Bryan hae carried the Alabama dem ocratic primaries. Heyburn of Idaho threatens to talk the dry homestead bill to death in the eon ate. Commander Robert E. Peary says he can reach the north pole for an outlay o f $50,000. Senator Stewart, of Nevada, has lost another fortune in the decline of min ing stocks. Roosevelt and Taft oppose Burrows fo r chairman of the national republican convention. Anna Gould and Prince Helie are find ing many obstacles to marriage, but may wed in England. The Arkansas legislature, called in extra session by the governor, has ad journed without doing anything. A union of tho Methodist Episcopal; Congregational and United Brethren churches is being considered at the gen eral conference o f the Methodists. A naval launch rammed the torpedo boat Stiletto off Goat Island, N. Y. No lives were lost. The Stiletto is the first torpedo boat put into active service by the navy, and is 25 years old. Head o f the paper trust denies its existence. All indications point to an immense Canadian wheat crop this year. Nebraska railroad employes will aid the railroads in fighting rate laws. Bryan is being shadowed by an officer, as there have been threats of violence. A street car strike is on at Cleveland, Ohio. There has been much rioting and some bloodshed. Good conduct marked the stay o f the sailors and marines of the Atlantic fleet at San Francisco. Two men, who are accused of robbing the New Mexico express office of $35,- 000, have been captured. No appropriations will be made for rivers and harbors this session, accord ing to leaders in congress. Secretary T aft's managers claim he has the assurance of support from 592 delegates to the national convention. DiseoTd has sprung up in the inter state commerce commission. Some of the " confidential clerk s" may lose their places as a result. Two members have given employment to their sons, who are charged working hardest when druwing their pay. Grover Cleveland is rapidly gaining in health and strength. Trouble is brewing between China and Russia along the Manchurian-Siberia border. A $50.000 memorial to Abraham Lin coln is to be erected at his birthplace in Kentucky. Latest estimates of the dead in the recent Louisiana tornado place the i number at $0. Commercial bodies all over the coun try are protesting against the increase in freight rates. Both sides in the Dinurad Hyde land fraud ease being tried i t Washington elaim a victory. Russian troops will destroy the Per sian villages near the border, where the recent trouble occurred. Hindus st Calcutta attempted to blow op a number of whites by placing a bomb sn the ear tracks. No liquor will be sold or brought into the republican national convention hall, according to a decision of the leaders. In an encounter with Arab« the French troope lost 13 killed and «5 wounded. The Arab losses are de scribed as heavy. The old plant of the Omaha Packing company has been destroyed by fire, together with 3,000,000 pounds of meat, involving a loss of $500,000. Another women now figures in 8sn *tftr Platt's domestic affairs. The governors' conference plans to form a permanent organization. Tonopah, Nev.f is rapidly recovering from the effects of the recent fire. The Oklahoma house has passed a bill providing that the state shall fix wages. Minnesota democrats have declared fer Jehnsoa, and refused Bryan as sec ond cboiee. Proceedings in the endeavor to re lease Thaw from the New York asylum fi*8 eriminal ineane are in progress. M O B S RULE C LE V ELA N D . B IG F L E E T B R E A K S U P . S h o o t D ow n C arm en and Burn C ars — Little G irl Killec. A tlantic B attleships S ta rt N o rth , O th e rs G o S outh. San Francisco. May 19.— The Atlantic Cleveland, O., May 20— The most se- 1 fleet o f battleships, after 12 days of rious violence of the street car strike naval pageantry and merrymaking in which hag been on here since Sunday, San Francisco, sailed yesterday morn F R U IT P R O S P E C T S G O O D . C O U N T IE S T O E X H IB IT . occurred Lakewood, a suburb, last ing at 10 o ’clock for Puget Sound, ar riving off Seattle on May 21. One-halt night, when four men were wounded U m pqua Valley F ru it M en in Good O reg o n Commission Asks Active C o of the ships will dock at Bremerton with bullets, one car burned and an S pirits. operation o f A ll. navy yard while at the north, aod the other partially wrecked. Roseburg.— The report of President Portland.— County judges and com others will return here for repairs and Trouble had been anticipated, and the H. N. Cobb, o f the Douglas County missioners o f all the counties of Ore painting beneath the water line. first car to Clinton carried no passen Play days in Puget Sound will be Fruit Growers’ association, shows the gon, as well as all the commercial or gers. When it stopped before a railway fruit crop in the Umpqua valley will ganizations of the state have been sent over half the month, and then the of Peers and men will resume the usual a letter by the Oregon Alaska-Yukon- bridge, a crowd which had been lying in be very good this year. The straw routine of man o ’ war life. Orders cal’ wait, leaped from hiding places and berry crop is good, and the berries are Pacific commission in which the commis for the reassembling o f the fleet in San sioners ask for co-operation in making opened fire on the crew and guards. coming in pretty fast now. The peach Oregon’s exhibit at the Seattle show the Francisco harbor not later than July 3. crop is fair, and the last frost was a On July 7 the fleet will sail for Hono Guards W. G. Barnes and John Swanto detriment in only a very few sections. greatest state exhibition at next year’s lulu, and after a w eek’s stay there will returned the fire, more than 30 shots The pear crop is fair. Apples will be big exposition. being exchanged. The commissioners set forth that Ore go direct to Auckland. good. The prune crop will also be The Pacific fleet o f armored cruisers, While the shooting was in progress good, as only a few o f the small sections gon will have the most complete state under command of Rear Admiral Day the crowd grew to nearly a thousand. of the county were late enough to be building at the fair, and that the co ton, sailed south Sunday morning at 8 Another car arrived and its crew joined caught by the frost. The cherry crop operation of the officials in securing in the fight. Gasoline was poured on is good. All kinds of berries are ex thorough and attractive exhibits of Or o ’clock, and Rear Admiral Sperry, in the second car and it was burned to the cellent. Tho crop in general was not egon’ s resources will be imperative. command o f the Atlantic fleet, hoisted trucks. The Cleveland police were no damaged to any noticeable extent, and The letter which has been sent by the for the first time his commanding flag tified, and 60 officers were sent to the the fruit growers are greatly pleased commision through President Wehrung of blue. Being junior in lineal rank to Admiral Dayton, Admiral Sperry rescue. The first car, riddled with bul to note that this section, while it was is in part as follows: " T h e expense to your county in col was compelled by naval regulations to lets and windows broken, proceeded to reported to have been damaged by the lecting such an exhibit will not be fly a subordinate flag o f red so long the barn. late froat, will be as good or even bet An earlier disturbance occurred in the ter than last year, and will be first in large. Get a live man to take hold of as the Pacific fleet remained at this downtown district, when Yatta Wolkin- the market with all kinds o f berries and the work and push it, bearing in mind station. The long line o f armored cruisers, son, a little girl, was killed by a car cherries. Many large shipments of ber that it is quality not quantity that is while attempting to cross the street. ries will be made to Portland the latter wanted. After you have gathered your which sailed for Santa Barbara, was headed by the flagship West Virginia, As soon as he realized what had oc part of the week. Several small ship exhibit we will transport it to Seattle, curred, the motorman speeded the ear ments have already been made. The install and maintain it without furthsr and included the Colorado. Maryland, several blocks ahead, where the polico local markets will be supplied with expense to your county; we will als<* Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Washington were notified. The conductor then left home-grown fruits of all kinds from place an attendant in charge, and will and California. The protected cruiser keep in close touch with you during the Charleston, flagship of Rear Admiral the car and sought refuge in a near-by now on. fair, so that your county will get all Swinburne, also sailed with the fleet, drug store. A crowd attempted to the benefit possible in the way of ad but her destination is Monterey. reach him, while others attempted to L E A S E B IG T R A C T . vertising, etc. catch the fleeing car. The police ar " T h e commission is also having rived just in time to save the conductor, IM P R O V E IN C O R E A . at whom the mob was yelling, "L y n ch Sheepm en Gobble 1 0 0 ,0 0 0 A cres as printed a 96 page booklet on the re sources of Oregon, which will be dis him; lynch h im ." O ve rflo w to Forest Reserve. tributed during the exposition. Two Conditions A re G ro w in g B etter U nd er The state arbitrators took up the task Pendleton.— One hundred thousand pages of this booklet will be devoted to P rince Ito ’s Rule. of endeavoring to effect a reconciliation between the strikers and the Municipal acres of fine range land has just been each county. We also intend to show Seoul, May 19— Conditions through iraction company early last night, and leaned in Baker county by Morrow, Gil by moving pictues the farms, orchards, out Corea are improving. The deter liam and Umatilla county sheepmen as livestock, timber, mountains, streams mination o f Prince Ito, the resident gen remained in session several hours. an overflow range from their forest re and everything of interest in each eral from Japan, to suppress the dis serve allotments. The land is logged- county. orderly element, so that the peaceful R E S E R V E D A Y F O R V IS IT O R S . off timber land, and lies in a strip 50 We must have your help and co-opera farming population may do their work miles in length between Austin and tion in the gathering of your exhibit. in the outlying districts, where armed T a co m a Planning fo r E ntertainm ent o f Pleasant valley, in Baker county, and I f we were compelled to buy these ex bands are harrying the farms and vil belongs to the numerous lumber com hibts the state would have to double lagea, is shown by the prompt arrival M any S trang ers. panies o f that district. It was leased its present appropriation, but with your Tacoma, Wash., May 20.—Wednesday, of reinforcements of gendarmerie num for five years by Dan P. Smythe, of assistance we hope to carry out our bering about 5,000, who will be scat May 27, the day on which the full bat this city, and A. K. and A. Smythe, of present plans without asking for any tered throughout Corea. tleship fleet will parade in Tacoma's Arlington, William Smith, o f Arlington, further apppropriation." Prince Ito has issued strict instrue harbor, will be reserved for visitors and A. C. Whittier, of Baker county. tions to Japanese soldiers and civilians from out of town, who will be given The sum of $8,000 was paid for use of that they must not treat the Coreans as T e ach er to V isit E urope. the tract for five years. Over 50,000 exclusive freedom of the nation's big Salem__ Miss Ida M. Case, instructor a conquered people, which they are not head o f sheep will be held in tho terri fighting machines. This arrangement tory during a portion of the summer. in grammar, literature, English and but that all the rights of law abiding citizens must be respected under pen will give those not living in Tacoma It is well watered and contains fine rhetoric at the Ashland normal, has alty of severe punishment. been selected by the executive com ________ the first opportunity to visit the battle grass. Four thousand Corean police, under mittee of the board of normal school ships. The general committee deemed regents to take part this year in the Japanese officers, will be enlisted and H slt in *T im b e r Land Buying. this precaution necessary because of tho annual tour for teachers conducted by trained. Four hundred new telephone great crowds of people coming to Ta Klamath Falls.—J. W. Alexander, of the national civic federation. Each telegraph offices will be established in coma from Oregon, Washington, and as the Weyerhaeuser Lumber company, is year the federation sends 500 teachers the districts infested by revolutionists, far east as Idaho and Montana, some of in this city on business for his com to Great Britain and Ireland for the so that easy communication may be had them for a single day only. pany. He states that he is not here to purpose o f observing methods in those with the soldiers and police. In Tacoma they expect to find special buy timber, but that he expects to buy countries. The school boards recom The crop prospect through Corea is advantage«, for from the high bluff* when special inducements are offered. mend the teachers, and the list is made excellent. surrounding Commencement bay and There is but little movement in timber up from those recommended. Prince Ito today attended the cele forming an immense natural grandstand, in this section, and none is expected un bration of the 25th anniversary of the hundreds of thousands of visitors can til after the presidential election. While opening o f Chemulpo to foreign trade. Pays Large Inheritance T a x . be accommodated with a perfect view the price o f farming lands in this sec He was accompanied to Chemulpo from of the spacious harbor. William Jones, tion has increased in the past six Salem.-^-The second largest, inherit Seoul by his suite, a number of foreign chairman of the general committee, says months, timber laud has decreased from ance tax ever paid into the state treas consuls and the Corean minister of agri he is advised that thousands are coming $1.50 a thousand to 75 cents and $1. ury was received recently. It was culture. Chemulpo was en fete. At a from Seattle to view the parade of the However, those holding claims are not the tax on the estate o f Amanda Reed banquet. Prince Ito. in his address, fleet, owing to the superior advantages worrying over conditions, as they feel of Multnomah county, appraised at a spoke o f the peaceful and friendly de enjoyed in Tacoma. In consequence of sure the slump in timber is but tem valuation of $1,385,919.89. The tax velopment o f Corea in order that the the expected rush, the steamship lines porary. was $7,141.40. The largest tax paid Coreans might, in the future, have inde and the eletcric and steam roads run was on the estate of Henry Weinhard pendence under a stable government, ning into Tacoma are preparing to which amounted to $15,248.54. The ap and become a friendly and prosperous W hipping U p on T u le C o n tra c t. handle immense crowds. Most o f the Klamath Falls.— It is stated here that praised value of the Weinhard estate ally of Japan. cities and towns adjacent to Tacoma Chief Engineer Hood has given impera was but $1,381,967.22, but was left in a are preparing to send their school chil tive orders that the dredging on the lump sum, while the Reed estate was G REAT C O N G R E SS PLANNED. dren here en masse, and members of marsh for the railroad grade must be divided among a large number o f bene the Grand Army of the Republic, mili rushed or the contract will be forfeited.* ficiaries. _________ tary and other uniformed organizations The contract consists o f a grade four Delegates F ro m E n tire W o rld Going o f this and adjoining states will be in miles along across swamp land, now rank N ew O u tfit on Klam ath Ditch to London. Tacoma May 30 to join with the forces with tules, and the agreement now is Klamath Falls.— The outfit o f Maney London, May 19.— Delegates from a from the battleships in paying honor to that crews must be worked day aod Bros., contractors on a portion of the thousand dioceses scattered throughout the dead o f two wars in a memorial day night in order to throw up the grade parade that will be without parallel In at the earliest possible date in order to south branch federal reclamation canal the world have been selected to attend the Pan Anglican congress to be held the history of the Northwest. allow it to settle and dry before the has arrived overland from Nevada. A in London in June. These delegates, large force was brought in with the including laymen and clergymen, will track is laid. B R IN G S C A R G O O F C H IN E S E . outfit, and a substantial camp is being in most cases be accompanied by their Says H a lf Peach C ro p is Lo st. made six miles from Klamath Falls. bishops, and if the prophecy of the or Pendleton__ Half the peach crop in Suspected Mission o f Jap S tea m er to Maney Bros, have the reputation of ganizers is fulfilled, the congress will the vicinity o f Freewater and Milton rushing work, and it is probable they rank among the great gatherings of C alifornia Coast. religious workers. Los Angeles, Mav 20.—Immigration has been destroyed by the aphis, said will take on addition work before the Most of the American bishops have John S. Vinson, of Freewater, while in season is over. Their trip across the officials were notified last tonight of the sent their acceptances, and, as each country was delayed by the finding of the city a few days ago. He says where diocese in the United States will also arrival o f a mysterious Japanese '«now on the mountains near Alturas. send one or more clergymen or laymen steamer at Gaviota, in Santa Barbara heretofore the aphis has only affected America will be well representated as county. The vessel carries a large leaves o f trees, this year it has attacked Chautauqua Preparations. regards numbers and ability; all the crew. When the captain attempted to tho blossom and destroyed the fruit. Oregon City.— The work of grading colonies will have their spokesmen and land his men the authorities prevented The surviving part of the crop will be missionaries from every portion o f the it. An immigration officer will investi much larger and better than it other and putting the ground in good condition globe will come to teil of their work gate. wise would have been, and the increased at Chautauqua park, at Gladstone, is among native tribes. The immigration authorities at this price will probably largely compensate going on, and will be pushed to com The programme embraces problems of point telegraphed the officials at Gavi for the loss. pletion. Secretary Cross has expected a diverse character, and in order to get ota to detain the vessel until an investi to complete the main program this through the list of papers the work has gation could be made. The steamer had week, but owing to t/usincss during been divided into six sections, which Im proving W alnut T re e s . been seen off the coast for several days, will sit simultaneously during the week McMinnville__ George C. Payne, the the late session o f the circuit court, which fact led the officials o f Gaviota and other unavoidable circumstances, o f June 16 to June 22. to telegraph to this city for instruc walnut expert from California, has been was prevented from doing so. The tions. It is thought the vessel may in this vicinity for the past several program, however, will be ready for Aid fo r the Unem ployed. contain Chinese, who are trying to land days, doing grafting work in the wal the press the latter part o f next week. New York, May 19__ Alexander Law, in violation of the immigration laws. nut groves and along the streets and who was delegated to convey to Wash H atchery Superintendent. on the lawns, or wherever there are ington a resolution passed at the recent Reduce Convention Rates. walnut trees that do not seem to be up Oregon City__ W. H. Smith, o f Park- convention for the unemployed held Chicago, May 20.— In making rates to traditional reouirements. He has place, has been appointed superintend here, reported to a gathering of nnem o f 1H cents a mile for the Shriners' inserted English walnut scions on a ent of the state fish hatcheries at Wal ployed today in Manhattan Lyceum. Ho convention in the Twin Cities, the Wis large number o f eastern and California lowa and Ontario. said that Congressman Fornes, o f New York, had promised to introduce in the consin Central railroad has set an ex black walnut trees that were formerly planted for ornament and shade. house of representatives the resolutions ample which undoubtedly will be fol PORTLAND M A R K ETS. o f the convention calling for a large lowed by other Western roads. That public works to furnish employment for O pen Reserves June I. Apples—Select, $2.50 per box; fancy, the idle. President Roosevelt, Mr. Law the interstate commerce commission is Pendleton.—Sheepmen o f Umatilla $2; choice, $1.50; ordinary, $1.25. taking keen interest in the squabble of reported, had been too busy with the Potatoes—Select, 70c per hundred; conference o f governors to grant him a the roads over convention rates and county have received notice that sheep would like to see the matter settled is may be taken upon the Wenaha forest Willamette Valley, 45c per hundred; hearing. evidenced by a statement made today reserve June 1, instead o f Juno 15, the East Multnomah, 55c; Clackamas. 55c by a member of that body who declared date originally set. For some time per hundred; sweet, 5% e per pound. F ierce Fight W ith A rabs. Fruits — Strawberries, California, that he thonght the roads were hurting sheepmen have been asking for the use o f the reserves on the Blue mountains $1.50(5)1.85 per crate; Oregon, 10@ Paris, May 19.—Official dispatches themselves. earlier than usual, because o f the dry 12%c per pound. from General Vigy, commander o f the weather prevailing this spring. Dan P. Vegetables— Turnips, $1 per sack; W ants W om an fo r President. Smythe, secretary of the sheepmen’s carrots. $1.50(5)1.75; beets, $1.25; par French forces in Algeria, who engaged New York, May 20.— That Mrs. Roose association, has received notice from snips, $1.25; beans, wax. 12V£(^13%c in a fierce fight with Arabs on Thnrs velt would make a better president tnan Supervisor Schmitz that admission per pound; head lettuce, 35c per dozen; day, state that he occupied Boudenib, artichokes, 50c per dozen; asparagus, the stronghold o f Mulai Hasan, after her husband is the opinion expressed would be granted June 1. 7(558e per pound; egg plant, 25(5)30c per vigorously shelling the tribesmen, who today by Mrs. Lydia Kingsmill, author nound; parsley, 25c per dozen; peas, number 6,000. The enemy dispersed in W ill E xhibit at S tate F a ir. ess, and woman suffrage agitation. 7e per pound; peppers, 20c per pound; all directiohs, abandoning their camp Oregon City__ The board of directors "M a n y women are capable o f filling o f the Clackamas County Fair associa radishes, 15c per dozen; rhubarb, 2@3c and large quantities of stores and am that high office," she said. " A woman tion haa authorized the executive com per pound; spinach. 85c per crate. munition. They suffered severe losses as coadjntor to the president would also mittee to make a county exhibit at the Wheat— Club, 89c per bushel; red owing to admirable handling of the ar create an ideal situation. I mention state fair, which will follow the Claek- Russian, 86% c; bluestem, 91c; valley, tillery by the French. The latter lost Jane Addams. of Chicago; May Wright amas county fair. The board appropri 89c. three killed and nine wounded. Sewell, o f Indianapolis, and Elizabeth ated $50 for premiums for juvenile Barley—Feed, $25 per ton; rolled, Cady Stanton as women who would exhibits, and reappointed Thomas F. $27(5)28; brewing. $26. C h o le ra A m ong T ro o p s . make either good presidents or coad Ryan. George Lazelle and T. J. Gary a» Oats —No. 1 white, $27.50 per ton; Simla, May 19.— An outbreak o f chol ju to r s." gray, $27. a committee to direct the affairs of the era has compelled the withdrawal of Hay—Timothy. Willamette Valley, nearly all the white troops with Major associtaion. $17 per ton; Williamette Valiev, ordi- E xpect to End S trik e . General W illcocks’ first column into the nary, $15; Eastern Oregon. $18.50; C h e rr y fF a ir at T h e Dalles. Cleveland. O., May 20.— Rioting yes cholera camp. The intense heat and the mixed, $16; clover, $14; alfalfa, $12; The Dalles.— The mid-summer meet absence o f running water, necessitating terday continued to mark the progress ing of the State Horticultnral society alfalfa meal, $20. depending upon the muddy vilage water of the street car strike, though the end and cherry fair will be held at The Dressed Meats— Hogs, fancy. 8% e per tanks, make the danger of a cholera of the trouble seems to be in sight. In Dalles, June 30 to July 2, inclusive. pound; ordinary, 7(5)7t4e; large. 6c; i epidemic serious. On approaching Kha- many instances ears and the crews that Prizes will be offered for various ex veal, extra, 7 H c; ordinary, 7c; heavy. pak Pass today, the pickets of Major man them were stoned, but the police hibits o f cherries, and there will be a 6c; mutton, fancy, 10c. Butter—Extras, 24e per pound; fancy, General W illcocks’ force had a desper were so quickly on the scene that seri programme each day. R. H. Webber, ate four hours’ fight with Mohamand ous disorders did not result. In one A. Tv Lake, and G. E. Saunders, the 23c; choice. 20e; store, 16c. Poultry—Mixed chickens, 13(5)14cper troops. part o f the city a street car collided committee, are now busily engaged in pound; fancy hens, 14H @15e; roosters, with an explosive which had been making the arrangements. V enezuela Pays Debts. old. 9c; fryers, dozen. $4; broilers, plaeed on the track and was badly dam dozen. $4.50fJ5)6; dressed poultry, per Caracas, Venezuela, May 19.— The aged, but no one was hurt. B um per C ro p P rom ised. pound, lc higher; ducks 16/3)17c: geese, Venezuelan government today made its Arlington.— Heavy rains throughout 9(5^9c; turkeys, alive, 17@18c; dressed, monthly payments on account of the T ro o p s Suppress Rioters. this section of Oregon a few days ago 19^20 c. foreign claims, despite the curtailment Tokio. M ay 20— The rioting at Haa- have added many thousands of dollars Hops— 1907. prime and choice, 5(5) o f revenue resulting from the closing of kow, which began 10 days ago, has been to the wealth o f Gilliam and adjoining 6tAe per pound; old. lH(5)2e per ponnif. the port o f La Gnayra. There have suppressed. The damage to property counties The weather is warm and the Wool— Eastern Oregon, average best. been no new cases o f bubonic plague for inflicted by the rioters amounts to 500,- farmers happy. Every one predicts a ll@ 1 5 c per pound, according to shrink four days; should four more davs go by 000 yen. Many persons were killed or prosperous year for this part o f the age; valley. lOtf^lStye. without a ease, the port will be. re wounded. state. Mohair—Choice, 18@18%e per pound. opened. SEEN BY THOUSANDS Atlantic Squadron in Sight Two Hours Oft Astoria. GET SPLENDID VIEW OF PARADE Excursion S tea m ers Salute W arship * as They Round Tillam ook Head — C olo rs Dipped in Reply. Astoria, Or., May 21.— From every point o f vantage on dunes and head lands between Willapa Harbor and Tillamook Head yesterday the pa triotic people o f the Pacific North west waved their welcome and fare well to the battleships of the Atlantic fleet as they steamed up the coast. Ten thousand throats cheered the im posing pageant o f the nation’s naval pow er; hats were flung high in the air and tears streamed down the faces of many spectators in an excess of patriotism, as the imposing file o f monster fighting ships rounded Tilla m ook Head and came in sight o f the waiting multitude. It was a magnificent sight, such as the O regon coast has never before witnessed. In the lead, flying Rear- Admiral Sperry’s blue two-starred flag, was the Connecticut, the splen did type o f the navy’s latest fighting machines. The vessel that led the squadron on its historic voyage from Hampton Roads, with “ Fighting B ob” Evans on the bridge, still stood at the head of the column, which was made up of the follow ing ships: First squadron, first division— Con necticut, Kansas, M innesota and V e r mont. Second division— Georgia, Nebras ka, New Jersey and Rhode Island. Second squadron, third division— Louisiana, Virginia, O hio and Mis souri. Fourth division— W isconsin, Illi nois, Kearsarge and Kentucky. Accom panying the war vessels was the hospital ship relief. As the fleet rounded Tillamook Head at 11:30 in the morning, the battleships, which were steaming abreast of each other in a straight line stretching to the horizon, swung nto a single column, the flagship lead ing the van, and cruised within two miles o f the surf, affording a splendid view to the spectators on shore. A fleet o f excursion steamers crossed the bar earlv in the day and greeted the battleships off Tillam ook Rock with a volley o f whistles. Each ves sel was loaded to its capacity with ex cursionists. and their cheers were added to the noisy salute. The m os quito fleet escorted the war vessels northward o f the Columbia River, when they returned to Astoria. When the war vessels left the excursion craft behind, the battleships resumed their positions steaming to the north abreast of each other. As the squadron steamed along in perfect order, each vessel dipped its colors in acknowledgment of the loud acclaim from the excursion craft. BOMB W RECKS TE N E M E N T. Black Hand A ngered Because| E ffo rts to E x to rt Money Fail. New York, May 21.— The refusal of a wealthy Italian physician to co m ply with the demands of Black Hand criminals for m oney resulted in e n dangering the lives o f 100 persons yesterday, when a bom b was exploded in the tenement house at 316 East Eleventh street. A number o f per sons were injured and the occupants o f the house rushed into the street in panic, while doors and beams which had been twisted out by the explosion tumbled all around them. The lower part of the house was almost com pletely wrecked. None o f the injured was dangerously hurt with the excep tion of T on v Lambarro, w ho was crushed bv falling timbers and in ternally iniured. The explosion occurred when most o f the occupants o f the house were at breakfast. The bom b had been plaeed in the rear hall, under the stairs. The stairway was almost com pletely torn awav. every door on the fir«t and sec ond floors was wrenched off. windows were b’ nwn out, and plaster and beams all over the house were shaken down. Lambarro was on the stairs when the exnlosion occurred. The others iniured were struck b y flying timbers in their apartments. W estern Pacific to Rush W o rk . Reno, Nev., May 21.— Orders have been'Issued to rush with all possible speed the work o f constructing the Western Pacific Railroad’ s new tun nel through the Sierra Nevadas at Chilcott. The slow progress made during the past winter is partly re sponsible for the order, which author izes the employment o f an increased force. Tt is not thought that the tun nel can be completed inside o f a year. Officials o f the road expect that with in tw o years trains will be running through Reno from Great Salt Lake to tidewater in the west. Big D eal in Oil Land. Los Angeles, May 21.—The biggest oil deal -in the history o f California has been closed by the purchase o f 1.200 acres o f oil fields in_tke heart o f the Coalinga district by the American Petroleum Company for the sum o f $2.000.000. W ith the exception o f the Southern Pacific holdings this land represents all the undeveloped ground in the best part o f the Coalinga field Early operation and the production o f an enormous quantity o f rpl are as sured. as the American Petroleum Company is capitalized at $10,000.000. Seven K illed in Explosion. Memphis. Term.. May 21— Seven persons lost their lives and nine oth ers narrowly escaped destruction in an accident which befell the gasoline launch Columbia, about eight mile« south o f Clarendon. Ark., at 10 o'clock Tuesday night The tank on the launch exploded. The surviving members o f the party are in a precarious condition An in spection of what remains o f the launch show« that both sides o f the craft were blown out. Italy Protests. R io de Janeiro. May 21.—The min ister o f Italy has delivered to the min ister o f foreign affairs a protest against the condnct o f the coffee planters o f San Paulo, who oblige Italian labores to becom e naturalized citizens before they will employ them. F A C E S F IN A N C IA L P A N IC . M exico T a k e s Steps to Im prove S it uation by A djusting Duties. Mexico, May 18.— Limantour, the soc retary o f the treasury, being inter viewed concerning current rumors about the intention of the government to take some positive and activo meas ures to improve the financial situation, limited himself to saying that the only measures proposed by the government for any such purpose will be presented to congress for its action, and consist in abolishing the duties on the expor tation o f hemp, for the encouragement of its producers in Yueatc- The sec retary addod: " I n reality, our economic situation does not inspire either anxiety or fears of any class. There has never been a period during the economic stringency abroad and which has affect ed the whole world, that there has been in Mexico a moment of the fear of a panic or anything like it. Moreover, the attention of the government of Mexico to the financial condition is not a thing of today or yesterday. It bo- gins always at the first sign of an epoch of stringency in any of the money cen terg of the world; and thia constant vigilance has never ceased. The gov ernment, watching affairs in tho rionev world, does not believe any extraordi nary measures are necessary in the present situation. The normal con dition is everywhere re-established, and our banks, following my instruction*, have maintained a system of circum spection and caution, limiting their op erations to affairs that offer ample se curities. The solidity of our banks is be yond doubt, and they are in a condition to meet whatever contingency. The fact that business conditions in Mexico are improving daily is very satisfactory to tho government, and our financial con nections, though there has never been here grave fear of trouble. We are like an individual, who suffers an at tack of indigestion, which does not en danger his life of health, but for the moment annoys and takes away his ap petite, obliging him to let his stomach rest a little. This rest is, in both cases, the only remedy necessary, effi cacious and beneficial." C O N G R E SS BREAKS RECO RD. A ppropriations N ow Exceed Those o f Previous Session. Washington, May 18— The present session of congress, to end this week, is a record-breaker. The appropriations of this session so far authorized exceed those of the first session of the 59th congress by more than $300,000,000. The total appropriations made up to this time aggregate approximately $854,844,807. This amount will be in creased by the general deficiency and omnibus public buildings bills and such other measures as may go through be fore adjournment. The session has also established a high record for the number of bills, resolutions introduced and considered and for the transaction of executive business. There have been 7,127 bills introduced in the senate, and 21,940 in the house. In the senate 90 joint resolutions were offered, of which 30 were passed and nine have become laws. The senate considered 184 simple reso lutions. Up to this time 115 bills and 15 joint resolutions have bpeome laws. The senate has passed 484 bills, 17 of which were omnibus pension bills. H O P M E N A S K P R O T E C T IO N . British H old G reat D em onstrationt Fa voring Im p o rt Duty. London, May 18.— A great army of men and women interested in the hop industry in England, estimated to num ber more than 50,000, held a demonstra tion in Trafalgar Square this afternoon in favor o f imposing a duty of $10 on every hundredweight o f hops imported into this country. 8peeial trains brought in thousands from Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, Worees- ter and Hereford, the great hopgrowing counties, while the east end of London, whence emanate almost all the hop- pickers. furnished a contingent perhaps twice as large as the growers and la borers from the provinces. After being marshaled on Victoria Embankment, the demonstrators with banners flying and bands playing, marched to the square, where English men with a grievance always have been accustomed to assemble. Speakers from half a dozen platforms harangued the multitude on the ruin o f the industry through the dumping of American hops into England, and resolutions were adopted by acclamation calling upon the government not to delay in helping to re-establish the industry and placing a duty on all imported hops. C ub B ears fo r W arships. Aberdeen, Wash., May 18.—Georgs Wolff, a business man, proposed a few days ago that when the excursion from this eity by steamer to see the battle ship fleet leaves Grays Harbor, that 16 live bear cubs be taken, and one pre sented to each ship. The idea at once took popular fancy and up to this even ing ten Teddy bears had been gathered from surrounding towns, and the total number necessary is expected to bo rounded up by Wednesday next, when the excursion is promised by the cham ber o f commerce. S ix Killed in To rn ad o . New Orleans, May 18__ A tornado swept across the central part of Louis iana late this evening, killing six and injuring more than 50 persons. Chnt- aignier. La., 150 miles northwest of New Orleans, was practically wined out of existence. Chataignier was a place of about 100 inhabitants. Crossing the Mississippi river a few miles below St. Francisville, the twister devasted one of the finest timber sections of the state, destroyed many fine farm man sions, tore down all fences in its path and injured many people. H askell W ill N o t Lose P o w e r. Guthrie. Okla.. May 18__ Governor Haskell today vetoed* the Eggerrnau Davis-Redwine drastic antitrust act. tie especially disfavored the section giving the attorney general more power than the governor, by empowering him to go before one supreme judge and have a receiver appointed for any cor poration without giving the latter no tice. He favors the provision for im prisoning convicted trust mangers. A bill conforming with Haskell’s sugges tions was immediately introduced. C hicago Employs C hinesefP olice. Chicago, May 18.— For the first time in many years, the Chicago police de partment has engaged Chinese detec tives to aid in preserving peace m Chinatown. The result of the trial of three Chinamen o f murdering a wealthv Chinese merchant has so hxereiaed the Chicago Chinese that further warring between the tongs is feared.
