CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
General Resume o f Important Events
Presented in Condensed Form
fo r Our Busy Readers.
J. J. H ill and a party of New York
bankers are en route to see the North
west.
The proposed American South Polar
expedition has been abandoned for this
year.
Coalition of British Liberals and
Irish has blasted the hopes of the Tor
ies in parliament.
Edward
Payson
Weston passed
through Syracuse, N. Y ., on his walk
across the continent.
Three lives were lost and six per
sons are missing as the result of a ho
tel fire In Cincinnati.
President Taft has ordered the re
moval of the Alaskan district attorney
and the United States marshal.
I t is believed that the Milwaukee
road will tap Willapa Harbor, Wash.,
and then build direct to Portland.
Charles J. Wezler, accused o f mur
dering his mother-in-law at Gig Har
bor, Wash., has made a full confession
o f the crime.
In an address before the highest in
tellectual personages of France, Roose
velt put human rights always above
property rights.
Mrs. Hetty Green, celebrated for
years as the richest and shrewdest
business woman in the world, will
soon retire from active business life, it
is understood, and w ill turn over the
handling of her immense fortune, es
timated at $50,000,000, to her daugh
ter, Sylvia, now Mrs. Slyvia Astor
Wilkes.
As a sequel to the suspension o f D.
P. Crawford and Harry Horton from
Stanford by the student affairs com
mittee, E. M. Leaf, editor o f the col
lege magazine which published the
charges which led to the dismissal of
the two athletes, was seized by a
crowd of students and thrown into
Lake Laguintas.
The government cotton inquiry will
go deeper than originally expected.
Two Eastern postoflice thieves got
ten years and $6,000 fine for stealing
stamps.
It is claimed Australian beef can be
sold in the United States cheaper than
the home product.
A Kansas woman lost her life trying
to rescue the pictures of her parents
from her burning home.
A big freight steamer, loaded ready
to sail for Boston, was destroyed by
fire at her dock in Rotterdam.
While playing in a farmer’s yard
near Colfax, Wash., a 5-year-old child
was run over by a hog and its leg bro
llen.
F President Fallieres, o f France, ex
changed calls with Roosevelt and the
audience in a French theater rose to
greet him.
Attonreys, principals and clerks en
gaged in a general fight in a Sacra
mento court room.
Deputy sheriffs
separated them.
Four cases o f appendicitis in five
years, and three o f them within the
last six months, is the record of a Col
fax, Wash., family.
A daring thief has looted the cathe
dral of Moscow, Russia, o f precious
stones from the pictures o f the saints
and the image of the virgin, to the
value of $500,000.
An expedition will leave Copenhagen
this summer to retrace Cook’s route
through the Arctic and recover instru
ments and supplies which Cook claims
to have left at certain points.
RESIST RICE E X PO R T A T IO N .
Crop
Failures in China May Cause
Serious Outbreaks.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND
PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE
Pekin, April 25.— Attacks upon
magistrates and several mission build
MOSIER D IS T R IC T DRAWS.
ing at Changteh Fu and reports o f dis
turbances at other points in Hunan Picturesqueness o f County One ot Its
province have aroused diplomatic cir
Features— 72 Miles From Portland
cles. Concern is fe lt lest the trouble
The Moaier fruit district is rapidly
started in Changsha may develop wide
drawing to itself the attention of fruit
significance.
The Chinese government, fearing land investors. The Mosier country
revolutionaries may take advantage of lies on a number o f hills and ridges,
the unrest growing out o f the food sit radiating somewhat like the fingers of
From these various ridges
uation, is taking stringent measures to the hand.
suppress disorder.
Fuller advices many beautiful views are obtained, o ft
from Changsha emphasize that the en including Mt. Hood and Mt. Ad
rioting is not primarily due to anti- ams, and glimpses o f the Columbia
The picturesqueness o f the
foreign feeling, but was turned against river.
foreigners only upon the discovery country is one o f its features, and
that the governor’ s efforts to prevent many will find there pleasing country
the exportation o f rice were balked homes within 72 miles o f Portland. In
largely through
foreign
influence. fact, many Portland people have al
Thousands are on the verge of starva ready settled there, and others have
tion, owing to the failure o f the crops. holdings o f real estate in that district
Several weeks ago the governor, to which they are developing.
The orchardists at Mosier follow
prevent high prices, prohibited all ex
portation of rice. British and Japan their sister district o f Hood River,
ese merchants and shippers engaged j The trees are set out after the cleared
in the rice trade protested to their re ground has been well prepared. From
spective legations at Pekin in an effort 55 to 63 trees to the acre, for an apple
to induce the diplomatic corps as a orchard, is the prevailing rule.
Many plant peach “ fillers” between
body to protest. This was frustrated
by the refusal of the American and the rows of apple trees, to be taken out
when they begin to crowd.
Intense
German legations to join.
The British and Japanese then pro cultivation is the secret, and the price
tested to the Wai Wu Pu, which, in o f these successfully grown orchards, a
view of the treaties now in force, was dust mulch conserving the moisture
reluctantly compelled to instruct the and the absence o f weeds allowing the
governor that he must postpone his in trees to get the full strength o f the
Cultivation usually ceases by
hibition of exports. A jump in the soil.
price o f the people’s food quickly fol the middle o f August. Many put in a
lowed the suspension of the inhibition, cover crop, o f vetch or rye, which,
and drove the poor in desperation to when plowed under adds fertility and
wreck the government buildings, and humus to the soil.
The favorite varieties of apples at
afterwards consulates, missions and
Mosier are the Spitzenberg and Yellow
other foreign buildings.
Three men implicated in the recent Newtown, as the soil and climate are
bomb plot against the regent, arrested especially adapted to their perfect
at Pekin, confessed their guilt. Two growth and maturity. Peaches, pears
leaders, educated in Japan, professing and prunes also do well.
to belong to the Sun Y at Sun party in
“ SEND US M E N " IS C RY.
San Francisco, say bomb methods are
discountenanced, and hence ‘ the three
men acted upon their own responsibil Every Line o f Industry Affected by
Shortage o f Labor in Baker.
ity.
STO R M LO SS *30,000,000.
Worst Blizzard in Many Years Rages
Through Middle West.
Chicago, April 25. — Western and
other fruit-pruducing states w ill be
called upon this year to supply all of
the Middle Western states, in addition
to their regular business, for no fruit,
with the possible exception of straw
berries and a few late grapes, w ill be
grown in six or eight states.
O f these Michigan and Missouri have
heretofore been counted upon for very
large supplies, but they w ill be forced
to buy everything this season.
Thirty million dollars is a rough es
timate made tonight of the loss in this
year’ s fruit crop by the cold tempera
tures and blizzardous condition which
obtained through the Upper Missis
sippi valley last night and today and
extended as far East as Ohio.
Fears are expressed by conservative
observers in Michigan, Illinois, Iowa,
Nebraska, Kansas, Wisconsin, Indiana
and Missouri that small fruits, with
the exception o f late strawberries, will
be a total loss.
Unofficial reports tonight are that
Kansas has suffered a loss of $8,000,-
000; Iowa, $8,000,000; Michigan, $5,-
000,000;Wisconsin, $1000,000; Illinois,
$4,000,000, and Indiana $2,000,000.
Lake Michigan, lashed into fury by
a fierce northwest gale, tossed about
like corks all boats then on its sur
face, and kept within harbors all other
craft.
The blizzard played a number of
freak pranks in ^Chicago, in one in
stance liftin g the roof from a barn and
dropping it on a slowly-moving locomo
tive on the tracks o f the Chicago, M il
waukee & St. Paul railroad.
There was a general impeding of
steam railway, elevated and surface
passenger traffic in this city and the
Northwest.
Several inches o f snow fell In M il
waukee during the storm, and the bliz
zard extended into Northern Michigan,
where a fall o f two feet was reported.
A wind blowing 48 miles an hour ac
companied the storm.
Baker City— The greatest call for
lqj/orers ever sent out from Eastern
Oregon can now be heard in all parts
o f Baker county, and there is no pros
pect o f the demand being supplied.
A ll lines o f industry are cramped by
the shortage and it is probable some
campaign will be inaugurated by the
large concerns to secure men.
One
employer states that he is in need of
hundreds ofmen and is unable to secure
them at any price. The Warren Con
struction company is preparing to im
port men to do the paving work on a
large area for which they have con
tracted.
Sufficient labor could not
obtained here to carry on the^ prelimin
ary work.
The Sumpter valley is suffering for
more laborers in carrying on the work
on the extension from Austin to
Prairie City.
A force o f nearly a
thousand men was employed last fall,
but now only a few hundred can be
secured.
The Oxbow people are making very
slow progress on the big tunnels at
Copperfield owing to the scarcity of la
bor. They were forced to suspend
work because of the high water and
hundreds of the laborers left and men
cannot be secured to fill their places.
The mines are also calling for men
and throughout the country the ranch
ers are crying “ send us men.”
Un
usual wages are being offered and un
less the farmers secure help they will
have trouble
in getting in their
spring crops and caring for their har
vest.
Short Line Railway Will Build.
Ontario— William H. Bancroft, vice
president and general manager o f the
Oregon Short Line railroad, has an
nounced that his company will build a
branch line between Ashton and
Driggs, Idaho, a distance of 40 miles.
It is understood that a committee of
representative men from that district a
few days ago journeyed to Salt Lake,
where they held a conference with Mr.
Bancroft, assuring him that they will
secure the right o f way for the entire
distance if the railroad would build a
branch line.
New Rail Project for Linn.
Six convicts in the Leavenworth,
Albany— Articles o f incorporation
Revenue Man In Trouble.
Kan., pen escaped by overpowering
Honolulu, April 25.— A lleging tech for the Scio-Lacomb and Jordan Valley
the crew o f a switch engine and forc nical violations o f law, special agent Railroad company have been filed in
ing them to run the engine through
W. B. Thomas, o f the internal revenue the Linn county celrk’s office by A . G.
the gates and out into the country.
service, has made a report to Washing Prill, E. C. Peery and Charles Wesley.
A Chicago doctor has been awarded ton in which the removal from office of The capital stock of the company will
$100,000, payment in full o f a contract collector o f internal revenue W. F. be $50,000. The object of the com
to furnish all medical treatment for a Drake, of Hawaii, is recommended. pany is to build and maintain railroad,
woman during her life.
She lived The report follows an investigation telegraph and telephone lines from
about five years after the contract was o f the affairs o f the collector’ s office Munkers to Scio and from a junction
made, during which time the physician by Thomas, which, it is stated, reveal on this line to Lacomb. Scio w ill be
the headquarters o f the company.
ed technical irregularities.
faithfully lived up to his agreement.
Thomas’ report is said also to rec
W. J. Bryanjealled on President Taft.
Complains o f Shipment.
ommend the removal o f Deputies Doyle
Salem— H. Grebe, o f Portland, has
Wet snow is crushing trees and tele and R. S. Johnstone.
filed a complaint with the railroad
phone and telegraph wires in Ohio.
commission, in which he sets forth that
Jury-Tampering Charged.
The newly elected Socialist adminis
a large consignment o f seed peas ship
Philadelphia,
April
25.—
That
men
tration has taken office in Milwaukee.
ped from Pullman, Wash., to Condon,
implicated in the councilmanic scandal
Or., March 21, has never reached its
The Colorado Conservation commis
in Pittsburg have raised a large fund
destination. Mr. Grebe also complains
sion has turned down the Pinchot poli
to defeat the ends o f justice and that
cies and declared for state control of the present panel from which will be o f excessive freight charges on the O.
R. & N. from Portland to Condon, and
water.
chosen jurors to hear the cases is be
delays in delivery have caused him
The present condition and future ing tampered with, were allegations
much damage.
prospects o f the Harriman lines were made to the State Supreme court today
never better, according to the traffic by district attorney William A. Blake
Hawley Reassures Dairymen.
ley, of Allegheny county. Mr. Blake
manager.
Washington— Representative Haw
ley made his charges in filing his an
A t a gambling house raid in Seattle swer to the petition o f Max G. Leslie, ley in the agricultural committee’s
over 100 men were arrested, $300 con delinquent tax collector o f Allegheny hearing on the oleomargarine bill, ex
pressed the belief that dairymen need
fiscated and a carload o f furniture and county, indicted in the scandal.
not fear that the tax on oleo would be
gambling devices captured.
temoved, though a hard fight is on to
Steamer Crippled at Sea.
Circuit court in Portland adjourned
repeal it. Powerful interests seek to
Seattle,
April
25.—
A
wireless
dis
Tuesday “ because o f recent deaths in
remove the tax.
patch
from
the
steamship
Princess
May
families o f litigants,*’ but everybody
states
thatthe
steamship
Bertha,
of
Develop Logged O ff Land.
went to the opening ball game.
the Alaska Coast company’ s fleet, was
Hood River— A number o f Portland
Over 12,000 enthusiasts saw the disabled in Knox bay, Johnson strait, capitalists have taken an option on
opening game of baseball at Portland with her steering gear broken down. about 1,000 acres o f logged off land of
between the home team and Oakland, The Princess May asked the Bertha of 1 the Stanley-Smith Lumber company
she needed aid. but the captain o f the ! on the West side o f the valley. I t is
the latter being shut out 2 to 0.
Bertha declined assistance, saying that the intention o f this group of men to
A t the Drexel-Gould wedding In he would be able to proceed on his way
sell off and develop the extensive tract.
N ew York the police were obliged to after temporary repairs were made to
eject women from the church to pre his broken gear.
Odd Fellows to Build.
vent them from tearing down the dec
Klamath Falls— The local lodge of
orations for souvenirs.
Russia Gets Rockefeller Coin.
Odd Fellows is preparing to erect a
N ew York, April 25.— Russians here lodge hall to cost $50,000.
Most of
An ordinance has been introduced in
the city council of Boulder, Colo., mak have received advices from SL Peters the preliminary work has been done
ing it unlawful for women to wear burg to the effect that John D. Rocke and it is expected to have the contract
skirts that sweep the sidewalks or trail feller has given a large sum— reported for the building awarded in May.
to be $500,000— to establish a sanitar
in the dust o f the street.
Births Exceed Deaths in Linn.
ium for tuberculosis sufferers at Ab-
Albany — The health report for
W. J. Bryan has returned to New bas-Tuman, a watering place in Trans-
York from South .America, where he Caucasia. A t the Rockefeller office at March, which has just been filed in the
has been studying sociological condi 26 Broadway no one could be found to . county clerk’s office, shows 14 deaths
say anything about the reported g ift. | and 32 births.
tions.
W OULD ABOLISH SLU M S.
New Socialist Mayor o f Milwaukee
in for Clean-up,'
BRIEF REPORT OF THE DAILY
WORK OF NATION'S LAWMAKERS
Milwaukee, Wis., April 23.— This
was a busy day for the Socialists, who
Washington, April 23.— Represent
have just taken the reins of city gov- ative Francis Burton Harrison, ol New
ernmenL
Mayor Seidel came out York, introduced a resolution in the
Will Store Enough Water to Irrigate
strongly for abolition of the slums, and house today calling on the president
20,000 Acres in Umatilla.
declared that he would support any for all the facts in connection with the
Pendleton— The projected dam across movemet for carrying out o f plans of investigation and report o f solicitor
the Um atilla river at Coe for the pur the central council o f philanthropists William P. Hepburn o f the treasury,
pose o f conserving flood waters o f win for the tearing down of tuberculosis in department, upon alleged frauds at
ter to be used in reclaiming 20,000 fested tenements and houses, and a New York in 1891.
acres contained in the Furnish-Coe general purification o f the city, moral
“ Colonel Hepburn,” said Mr. Harri
project west of Pendleton is to be con ly and physically.
son today, “ has been quoted to the
structed this summer.
The contract
Mayor Seidel declared that he would effect that frauds in the New York
has been signed and bonds given for not issue permits for Saturday night
customs service, similar to those which
commencement of work within 30 days dances in places in which dancehalls Richard Parr claims to have discov
and completion by October 1.
The are connected with saloons, and that he ered, were discovered by him 19 years
Eschbach-Bruce company o f Seattle would try to arrange for free Saturday ago.
Colonel Hepburn, Mr. White-
has been awarded the contract.
night dances with municipally provided head, appraiser of the port of New
Although the dam was projected sev music in school houses.
York, and Mr. Chance, treasury agent,
eral months ago, and though concrete
Mr. Seidel announced that he would submitted in 1891 a report showing
cores had been constructed from bed pay a visit to Chicago and confer with
that importers were defrauding the
rock to the surface of the ground, no 1 Dr. Evans, health commissioner of
government of millions o f dollars.
work has been done for several months that city, to secure ¡advice on the en
“ Whether that report was lost or
and many were of the opinion that gaging of a good man for health com
suppressed, it is certainly important
the project had been abandoned.
missioner.
that we know whether it be true that
The original plans of the Furnish-
Oustide o f this program for the car these customs frauds have been known
Coe project were for reclaiming land rying out of platform pledges, Victor
to the government officials for so long,
principally by winter, spring and early Berger announced that’the central com-1
especially as Richard Parr is now try
fall irrigation. Three dry seasons in mittee was so progressing in its work ing to collect several hundred thousand
succession convinced
the promoters of,‘ organizing the state that there dollars from the government for dis
that it would be well to provide for would be 100,000 votes polled by that covering such frauds.”
emergencies, and the dam plan was ticket this coming fall.
An understanding was reached today
adopted. The dam will be 50 feet
Mayor Seidel said he would inspect a in the senate committee on privileges
high, 1,170 feet long, 270 feet wide number o f institutions, hospitals, places
and elections that a vote would be tak
at base, and 20 feet wide at top, and of charity and other buildings involved
en next Wednesday on the question of
w ill cost $110,000. It will form a res in the jurisdiction o f the health com
reporting the bill providing for publi
ervoir covering 240 acres and contain missioner, when in Chicago. He will
city o f contributions to national cam
ing a supply sufficient to irrigate the also continue inquiring for a commis
paign committees.
entire project for 60 days.
sioner of public works qualified to fill
Owing to the large number of other the new $6,000 position as chief of
reclamation projects, it w ill be neces the board, when the one-man plan goes
Washington, April 22. — Beginning
sary to arrange for normal flow o f the into effect.
The mayor said he is its session at 11 o’ clock today in an
river at all seasons of the year. The looking around for other experts.
entanglement over the questions of a
spillway w ill also be capable of hand
quorum, the senate adjourned a few
ling the largest floods and will have a
minutes before 5 o’ clock, when it was
capacity o f 50,000 second feet, or
unable to muster enough members to
twice as much water as has ever
continue business.
passed down the river.
The debate on the section of the bill
permitting the railroads to enter into
B ANKS OF RIVER CAN CAVE.
traffic agreements continued through
lives o f 18 ¡miners were snuffed out in out the afternoon, the principal partic
being
Senator Crawford,
War Departmeat Refuses to Heed a tremendous explosion in the Youg- ipants
Prayer o f Dwellers in Lane.
hiogheny & Ohio Coal company’s mine Sutherland, Clapp, Elkins, Cummins
and Carter.
Washington — The war department! at Amsterdam last night. Seven men
For the most part the controversy
has definitely refused to assist in pre bruised and burned were rescued from
partook o f what to a layman would be
venting the washing away o f the banks the mine and their escape from death
considered hairsplitting, the chief con
of the Willamette between Eugene and is regarded as miraculous.
The interior o f the mine was wreck tention being whether the provision in
Harrisburg. Citizens, through Sena
The the Crawford amendment making
tor Chamberlain, asked the department ed and all ventilation shut off.
agreements “ subject to the approval
to do this on the ground that the gov cause has not yet been determined.
of the Interstate Commerce commis
ernment built the dikes that caused the
sion” has the effect o f requiring this
30 S T U D E N T S ARE BURNED.
higher water which had caused great
approval before the agreements take
destruction upon adjoining lands at
effect.
each freshet time.
Mobs Set Fire to Technical School
A fte r the pros and cons o f this ques
Chief o f Engineers Marshall referred
— Gunboats are Refuge.
tion had been presented at some length
the matter to Major Mclndoe, at Port
Hankow, April 23.— The situation in it appeared for a few moments as
land, who upon examination reports:
though a vote might be obtained.
“ Caving in was in progress before Hunan province is reported as critical.
The ayes and noes had been ordered
the dikes were built and in our opinion Women and children are fleeing for
when Senator Dolliver expressed a de
the dikes are not responsible primarily their lives from Changsha, the capital. sire to be heard on the amendment.
for such caving in.
The project to A number o f villages near the city
He did not want to proceed at so late
prevent it would be enormously ex have been burned by native mobs.
an hour and some friendly senator
pensive and not justified by the needs The country is placarded with threats
raised the point o f no quorum.
of navigation on the river. Work done to kill all foreigners.
The Dixon long and short haul
This news was brought by mission
for that purpose would be solely for
amendment to the Elkins interstate
the protection o f private property and ary refugees, who arrived here today
from Changsha and nearby stations. commerce bill now before the senate
is therefore not recommended.”
Many of them had traveled 30 miles on will probably be defeated because the
foot and reached the Yangtse Kiang lumber senators, who at first glance
Carload o f Lobsters to Yaquina.
river in rags. Their houses had been were inclined to favor this provision,
Washington — Senator Bourne has burned and they lost all o f their per have become convinced that Coast ter
received final assurance o f free trans sonal effects.
minal rates should not be robbed of
portation from Portland, Maine, to Y a
The missionaries said that gunboats advantages that come to them by rea
quina bay, of a carload of lobsters to in the river have their guns trained son o f their water competition.
be planted there as the only locality upon Changsha and nearby points and
on the Pacific coast where lobsters will have afforded a refuge for many o f the
Washington, April 21. — Traffic
grow.
Fish Commissioner Bowers foreigners. Three thousand Chinese agreements consumed the entire time
says: “ Shipment will be made between imperial soldiers are occupying the given by the senate today to the rail
May 1 and 10. The fear expressed by strategic points of the capital, and de road bill and they were under consid
Yaquina people that the lobsters will tachments are being hurried to the eration when the senate adjourned.
injure the fishing industry is ground outlying districts, where lioting is re Senator Cummins
held
the
floor
less. Lobsters are scavengers and eat ported.
throughout.
He spoke against the
no living thing. They remain in salt
Many Chinese have been killed. In section permitting such agreements
water.
one instance a technical school was set and against the Crawford substitute
on fire and 30 students were burned for it.
Snipes Ranch Is Sold.
Declaring his intention of denounc
to death, their escape being prevented.
The Dalles— The George R. Snipes
When vessels approached Changsha ing any legislation that nullified the
ranch of 478 acres was sold this week to rescue the imperiled ones the anti-trust law, as this provision did,
to George W. Elliott, o f Seattle, at a Chinesee mob saturated junks with he said that the utlimate purpose of
consideration of about $75,000, though kerosene oil from looted stations of the the legislation was to allow the rail
the exact sum has not been made pub Standard Oil company and, setting roads to fix their own rates without
lic. This ranch is on Sandy road south them afire, allowed them to float down first submitting them to the Interstate
west of town, and just beyond “ Vine- stream in an attempt to destroy the on Commerce commission.
Without the
land, ” the Fleck property which was coming steamers.
establishment o f rates any traffic
sold this winter.
Surveyors are al
Six Chicagoans, three o f them wo agreement must be vague and o f little
ready platting the property into small men, are believed to be imperiled, per effect.
tracts of ten acres more, or less, and haps slain in Hunan province. Every
Mr. Elkins said Mr. Cummins’ con
w ill place it on sale.
where there is carnage and the future tention for approval o f rates in ad
holds out dark prospects.
Mission vance was impracticable and absurd.
PO RTLAND M ARKETS.
He said that from 8,000 to 10,000
aries fear that at any moment they
people were now employed by the rail
w ill be slaughtered right and left.
Wheat— Track prices— Bluestem, 93
road companies in establishing rates
@.95c; club, 88fr/90c; red Russian, 86$
and he asserted that the Interstate
Bodies Dug From Debris.
@87c; valley, 95c.
commerce commission must have great
Barley— Feed and brewing, $23.50@
Birmingham, Ala., April 23.— Re forces o f experts to carry out Mr.
24.50 per ton.
covery o f bodies from the mines at Cummins’ idea.
Com— Whole, $34; cracked, $35 ton. Mulga today was very slow.
When 28
“ I am not ready to stand here and
Hay— Track prices— Timothy, W il had been brought to the surface, the destroy the entire freight traffic struc
lamette valley, $208/8 21 per ton; East rescuers encountered a bad cave-in and ture o f the railroads,” he said, “ and I
ern Oregon, $230/ 24; alfalfa, $16.500; it was found necessary to remove tons don’ t believe that the people demand
17.50; grain hay, $17@18.
of earth and rock. Some o f the rock we should do so.”
Oats— No. 1 white, $270/28.50 ton. had to be blasted away. The rescuers
He said he did not want the anti
Fresh Fruits— Strawberries, Florin, secured four bodies under the debris, trust law repealed, but he did desire to
$2.500/3 per crate; apples, $10/2.50 but it took hours to extricate the assist in relieving the executive offi
box; cranberries,$ 80/9^barrel.
mangled forms from the mass. Ex cials o f the embarrassment they find
Potatoes — Carload buying prices: perts who have examined the mine are themselves under enforcing the law.
Oregon, 400/ 50c per hundred; new Cal positive not one o f the entombed men
The extent of the Guggenheim • con
ifornia, 6c per pound; sweet potatoes, lives. Forty-two men were in the mine. trol of transportation and mineral in
3$0f4c.
terests in Alaska was discussed by
Vegetables— Asparagus, 3//85c; cab
Smuggler o f Chinese Killed.
Delegate Wickersham today before the
bage, 1$0/1 5,c per pound; head let
Santa'Ana, Cal., April 23.— Grato house committee on territories, in con
tuce, 600;75c per dozen; hothouse let Rio Espinosa is dead and four Chinese nection with a hearing on bills that
tuce, 50c0/$l box; green onions, 15c are under arrest following a running would provide for Federal guarantee of
dozen; radishes, 30c per dozen; rhu fight at midnight with Federal officers. bonds issued by the Alaska railroads.
barb, 3c pound; spinach, $1 per box; They
surprised
Espinosa and the
sprouts, 9c per pound; turnips, $1 p e r ! Chinese in his store at El Toro.
Washington, April 20.— In his maid
sack; rutabagas, $10i)1.25; carrots, 85c When the officers entered, Espinosa
en speech in the senate, delivered to
<fb$l; beets, $10/1.25; parsnips, 500/' drew a revolver
and fired several day on the railroad bill, Senator Pur
75c.
times. He dashed from the place with cell, o f North Dakota, sharply criti-
Onions— Oregon, $1.75 per hundred. the officers in pursuit.
A score of
Butter— City creamery, extras, 39c; shots were exchanged before the fu gi
Negro Soldiers Guilty.
fancy outisde creamery, 320/ 33c per tive dashed into the cellar o f an out
Washington, April 21.— The m ili
pound; store, 20c. Butter fat prices building on the outskirts o f the v il
tary court o f inquiry has reported a
average 1 $c per pound under regular lage, where he was found dying.
finding that the evidence clearly sus
butter prices.
tained the charge that the Brownsville
Pork— Fancy, 130fl3$c per pound.
University Has Scandal.
shooting was done by soldiers o f the
Veal— Fancy, 100/ l l c per pound.
Washington, April 23.— As a result Twenty-fifth Infantry (colored.)
The
Lambs— Fsncy, 12c per pound.
o f sensational testimony before the
Poultry— Hens, 20c; broilers, 2708 house committee on the District of report was submitted to the secretary
28c; ducks. 22$0/:23c; geese, 12$c; Columbia regarding the conduct of of war. The court declared that i f the
turkeys, live, 200i21c; dressed, 25c; affairs o f George Washington univer officers o f the regiment had performed
their duty immediately prior to the
squabs, $3 per dozen.
sity, o f this city, there may be a con shooting the affray could not have oc
Cattle— Best steers, $6.750/7; fair gressional investigation.
curred, and i f they had acted immedi
to good steers, $ 60 / 6.50; strictly good
Dr. [Phillips, former dean of the
cows, $5.750/6; fair to good cows, $5 medical school o f the university, today ately after the shooting, some o f the
085.50; light calves, $60/7; heavy charged that the Corcoran endowment guilty men would have been discovered.
calves, $4r>/5; bulls, $40/ 5.25; stsgs, fund o f $200,000, which was a sacred
Means Reorganization o f Senate.
$4.500/5.50.
trust, had been flagrantly misused.
Washington, April 21.— The retire
Sheep— Best wethers, $80/8.25; fair
ment o f Senator Nelson W. Aldrich at
to good wethers, $6.500/ 7; good lambs,
Blizzard Hits Michigan.
the close o f his term in 1911 means the
$ 8 ( 1 / 9.
Calumet, Mich., April 23.— A heavy complete reorganization o f the senate,
Hogs— Top, $11.10(911.25; fa ir to
blizzard,
with
a
50-mile
wind
from
the
according to some leaders. The insur
good $100811.
Hops— 1909 crop, 130816c, according north, struck Keewena yesterday and gents are highly pleased: the “ old
reached
its
climax
shortly
before
mi'd-
guard” members are clearly disconcert
to quality; olds, nominal; 1910 con
night. The storm swept from Duluth ed. The insurgents believe that there
tracts, 150il 6c.
Wool— Eastern Oregon, 140817c per to the Soo. Three inches o f show has is a chance that the balance o f power
pound; valley, 180821 c; mohair, choice, fallen and the temperature is now may pass into their hands and that the
about 20 degrees, a drop o f 20 since "regulars” will lose their grip on the
300832$c, Portland.
senate machine.
Cascara bark— 4$0i5c per pound.
1 morning.
*110,000 TO BUILD DAM.
OHIO COAL MINE DIS
ASTER KILLS 18 MEN.
cised the president and the attorney
general.
He practically charged a
purpose o f so transforming the Su
preme court as to insure such construc
tion of the proposed law as to supplant
and nullify antagonistic state laws and
Btate constitutions.
He was dealing with the merger
provision o f the bill, and having stated
that the North Dakota state constitu
tion prohibited the consolidation of
railroad lines, he contended that under
decisions o f the Supreme court it had
been held that questions of this charac
ter were subject to state control.
The Pickett conservation bill, auth
orizing the president to make with
drawals o f public lands for purposes of
conservation, was passed by the house
today. No record vote was taken, the
final passage o f the bill being unani
mous.
As passed, the bill is practically in
the form it was introduced by Mr.
Pickett, o f Iowa, it being stated that
in that form it had had the approval of
the president.
Under its terms the
president is authorized to withdraw
from location public lands for public
uses, and for examination and classifi
cation to determine their character and
value. These withdrawals, the bill
provides, are to remain in force until
revoked by the'president or by con
gress.
The battle between the butter and
oleomargarine interests began in con
gress today when the house committee
on agriculture held its initial hearing
on pending bills.
Representatives Burleson, o f Texas,
and Lever, of South Carolina, both
authors o f proposed remedial legisla
tion in favor o f the oleomargarine pro
duct, advocated their measures.
Mr. Burleson urged repealing the
tax on oleomargarine and dairy pro
ducts and substituting an annual li
cense for manufacturers.
Washington April 19. — The an
nouncement of the prospective retire
ment of Senator Hale from the senate,
following so closely on a similar an
nouncement regarding Senator Aldrich,
seemed to have a stunning effect on
the senate.
That the oldest o f the
senators in point o f service should vol
untarily decide to retire from that
body was scarcely less of a surprise
than that the recognized leader should
have decided upon a similar step. Most
of the senators declined to make any
comment. Mr. Hale was in the senate
building early in the day, but kept
aloof from other senators and from vis
itors generally.
“ Who will be the leader o f the sen
ate now?” was asked o f Senator Dol
liver.
“ I suppose the mantle o f the leader
ship will be deposited in the Smithson
ian Institution, together with other
relics of a| discarded and abandoned
system,” replied the Iowa senaor.
As he was leaving the White House
Speaker Cannon was asked i f the re
tirement o f Senator Aldrich and Sena
tor Hale would have any influence on
him or other members of the house.
He declared that the senators had been
influenced wholly by considerations of
health. Politics, he believed, did not
enter into their determination.
The river and harbor bill, carrying
an appropriation o f about $52,500,000,
was passed by the senate today. There
were no material amendments but
there was considerable debate over
various provisions.
The house m ilitary committee, at
the conclusion o f a hearing today, was
on the verge o f favorably reporting
Senator Jones’ bill directing the sale
of the Walla Walla m ilitary reserva
tion to Whitman college at $150 an
acre, when the chairman received a
telegram, signed by John Ankeny and
one Johnson, o f Walla Walla, offering
to buy the reservation at $300 per acre.
Washington, April 18.— Swept along
on a flood o f sharp questions as to his
authority for charging members of
congress and newspapers with being
corruptly influenced, John M. Maxwell,
former editor o f the American Flag,
the organ of the Merchant Marine
league, today refused point blank to
answer questions on his Bource o f in
formation.
The interrogatories again will be
put to him at a special session o f the
house special committee tomorrow, and
unless he changes his mind the atti
tude of the witness w ill be reported
to the house.
Prodded by counsel for a member of
congress accused by the league. Max
well, without counsel and on the ground
of editorial privileges, justified his re
plies, parried or declined to answer the
queries.
Speaker Cannon today was sustained
by the house by a vote of 120 to 162 on
the question as to whether a resolution
declaring that the refusal o f the speak
er to ascertain the presence o f a quor
um at the beginning o f each day’s ses
sion was in violation o f the rules, was
privileged".
The Warren irrigation bill, which
passed the senate last week, was to
day referred to the sub-committee of
the house committee on irrigation,
with instructions to report next F ri
day.
Hawley Urges Oregon Items
Washington, April 20.— Representa
tive Hawley has been in conference
with Chairman
Alexander, o f the
house committee on rivers and harbors,
urging him to accept all Oregon
amendments to the rivers and harbors
bill made by the senate, including the
Coquille and Siuslaw rivers and the
Oregon City locks. Alexander said he
understood these amendments were all
based upon recommendations o f army
engineers,'submitted to congress, ard
in that event he intimated there would
probably be no serious objection.
Appalachian Bill Reported.
Washington, April 20. — The bill
creating the Southern Appalachian and
White Mountain forest reserve was fa
vorably reported today from the com
mittee on agriculture in the house.
The purpose o f the bill is to preserve
watersheds by conservation o f trees
and reforestation where necessary.
The bill is designed to conserve navi
gable rivers, but the first application
contemplated is to the forest reserve
mentioned.