CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WEEK Doings of the World at Large Told in BrieL General Resume o f Important Events Presented In Condensed Form fo r Our Busy Readers. An Illinois legislator admits receiv ing (1,000 to vote for Lorimer for U. S. senator. Patten and his friends on the Chi cago cotton exchange cleaned up $320,- 000 in one day. Witnesses state conclusively that Swope, the St. Louis millionaire, was killed by a violent poison. One person was killed, two fatally injured and about 15 others hurt in a street car collision in Seattle. OFFICERS C O N TIN U E RAID. Another New Yorker Charged With Conspiracy to Violate Laws. New York, May 2.— Another import ant arrest in the Federal bucket shop crusade was made today when govern ment officers arrested Frank Maier, of the firm o f Morrison A Maier, in his office at No. 44 Broad streeL The specific charge against Maier is conspiracy to violate the Federal law against bucket shops. It is alleged Maier, in conjunction with Louis Celia, Edward Altemus and H. D. Duryee, has been furnishing stolen quotations to bucket shops all over the eastern part o f the United States. The government agents at the same time cut the telegraph wires leading to all places here and in New Jersey suspected o f being bucket shops. Co incidentally two special agents o f the United States department o f justice paid a visit to an office in the Lincoln Trust building, Jersey City,'and arrest ed Joseph Decker, a telegrapher. The police say Decker had in the office a stock ticker, from which he is alleged to have copied quotations and sent them practically all ^over the United States. INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE FOR FREE LO C KS. Willamette Open River an Rate Con Expert to Be Sent to Points in State vention So Declares. to Give Illustrated Lectures. Oregon City— The convention o f the The United States government will Willamette Open river and Freight aid the Oregon good roads campaign. rate association at its business session Senator Bourne telegraphed Judge adopted the report o f the locks com Webster o f the Oregon Good Roads mittee providing that it be the sense association that the good roads expert o f the association that the new locks will be sent from the department of be built at Oregon City for the free use agriculture to give 10 illustrated lec o f the people o f the Willamette valley. tures at strategic points in the state. The association pledged itself to work The views presented with the lecture for the realization o f this condition will illustrate the benefits financially and to hurry up and back up the Oregon and otherwise derived from systematic delegation in its efforts to secure a construction o f solid highways. The Federal appropriation o f $300,000 to immense difference in the prosperity add to the state appropriation o f a sim o f regions where bad roads have been ilar amount for the construction o f the made good w ill be emphasized. The locks. expert will arrived in Portland to give Congress w ill be urged to direct the his first lecture probably the last of government engineers to make an esti May. The department of agriculture mate of the cost o f the locks, after de will furnish other aid to the good roads ciding where to construct them, and to cause. The general policy of the de award the contract for their construc partment is to stimulate interest tion as soon as possible. throughout the northwest. British 'Democracy has forced the SLU SH FUND TALK E D . $2,376 an Acre for Fruit Land. Lords to pass the budget which was de Breaking all records for bearing feated last fall, and expects further Fetzer Will Tell Grand Jury About fruit lands in Oregon, a part o f the triumphs. $200,000 Paid. famous Burrell pear orchard near Med Portland Is much worked up over the Chicago, May 2.— John C. Fetzer, ford was sold last week for $2,375 an The property comprised 12 alleged carelessness of census takers. who alleges that a “ slush fund’ ’ of acre. It is claimed that at least 30,000 per about $200,000 was used in advancing acres, and .was purchased by C. H. sons in the city were not counted. legislation and city ordinances desired Burrell, o f Philadelphia for $28,000. The trees are in full bearing and have Speaker Cannon declares the minor by the Chicago & Western Indiana yielded a net income o f $500 per acre ity rules the house and that such rule Railroad company, entered into con for several years past, such a thing as must be stopped, even i f it becomes ference with State’s Attorney Wayman today. Details were not made public. a failure o f crop having never been necessary to change the constitution. Neither the suit filed by the company known. A rich rancher of Elk City, Idaho, to recover $525,000 from Fetzer, out of There have been several sales in the has not been beard from since he went which the company alleges Fetzer de Hood River valley and in Southern hunting March 7, and two men who frauded it, nor the latter’s injunction Oregon, where bearing orhards were went in search o f him two weeks ago seems likely to come up for settlement sold for from $2,000 to $2,200 an acre, have not returned. in court in the near future. Develop but until this purchase by the Philadel President Taft, speaking at Buffalo, ments, however, are expected when phia investor, $2,200 has stood as the apologized to the state of New York Mr. Fetzer tells his story to the grand record price for Oregon land. and congratulated the entire nation up jury, especially summoned to hear it on the appointment o f Governor next Monday. Fetzer alleges that a large portion Hughes to the Supreme court. o f the money which the company seeks Negotiations for about 280 locomo to recover was spent in securing the tives and 5,000 to 6,000 freight cars, passage of bill 777 at Springfield to which the Harriman lines expected to validate bonds issued by the Chicago & purchase, are retarded because o f ina Western Indiana, in securing from the bility to secure satisfactory terms. common council of Chicago the vacat The Indiana Democratic convention ing of a street desired by the road, and has endorsed John W. Kern for U. S. in seeking to block an extension of senator. the Illinois Central in suburban Chi The New York stock market is de cago. moralized, everyone trying to sell to avoid loss. Charles Wezler, confessed murderer o f Mrs. Schultz at Gig Harbor, seeks a second degree verdict. RACE LINES B LO TTE D O U T. Jim C row ” Laws o f Louisiana Are Found to Be Badly Muddled. are Amid wild enthusiasm, San Fran Z New Orleans, May 2.— “ There no negroes who are not persons o f col- cisco business men subscribed $4,000,- or, but there are persons of color who 000 for their 1915 fair. are not negroes.” Ruth Bryan’s first husband, Leavett, This a salient sentence in a decision says her second marriage will be il that has thrown the race laws of Louis- legal and that he w ill fight it. ana into a state of chaos. A ll statutes Rockefeller is discouraged at the de made and provided to keep separate lay in securing a national charter for and distinct whites and negroes practi cally are affected by the ruling o f the his great philanthropic project. Louisiana Supreme court that octo An insane young man aged 19 shot roons, quadroons and mulattoes are not and seriously wounded three persons negroes. in New York and then committed sui The court holds that where the text cide. o f the law merely says “ negroes” It Newspaper publishers in the East cannot be applied to octoroons or other see a famine in paper unless congress persons o f mixed blood. It defines the passes the Mann bill removing the duty negro as a member of the black or A f rican race, having in his veins no trace on pulp and paper. o f Caucasian blood. Persons o f lighter A cod fishing schooner from San or darker Bkins than mulattoes can Francisco is reported lost with several evade the laws by demanding that the members o f her crew. She has been state prove they are negroes. missing since last October. BUYERS W A N T W EALTH. The bridge o f the Milwaukee road over the Yakima river waa destroyed by a washout and an engine and five Britlsh Corporation Contests With cars of lumber went into the river. Railroad for Property. About fifty acres o f ground, piled 25 Vancouver, B. C., May 2.— The Bra- fe et high with lumber in the yards of zilian-Canada & General Trust com the Humbird Lumber company at Sand pany, a British corporation, issued a Point, Idaho, were swept by fire, des w rit in the Supreme court today to troying about $300,000 worth of lum compel James Dunsmuir and others, ber. until recently owners of the Dunsmuir Peary is off for Europe on a lecture coal lands and mines on Vancouver island and the Dunsmuir properties in tour. A negro leader and'22 followers have California, to comply with terms of an been arrested in Havana for inciting a option given to the British corporation for sale o f the properties. These prop revolt. erties were transferred recently to Reports place the damage by Chin William MacKenzie and D. Mann, pres ese mobs in recent riots at Changsha ident and vice president of the Cana at $2,000,000. dian Northern Railway company, for Lawyers of Reno, Nevada, seek to $1,000,000. disbar one of their number who adver Panama Fair Fund Grows. tises a specialty o f easy divorces. San . Francisco, May 2.— Numerous Two hundred girls at Cornell college, subscriptions, ranging in amount from New York, are seriously ill from pto $10 to $25,000, and aggregating in all maine poisoning caused by impure $64,820, were received by the finance milk. committee o f the Panama Pacific Inter Edward Keaton, aged 110, living national exposition today and the grand near Natchez, La., was bitten by a total o f the fund on hand was swelled rattlesnake, but the doctors say he will to $4,166,320. recover. Small subscriptions with a few of larger proportions amounted to $39,820 A jury has been chosen to try F. for the day when notice was received August Heinze, accused o f misapply from the L ife Underwcriters, associa ing funds of the Merchants bank, of tion o f San Francisco that the directors New York. had voted an investment o f $25,000. A huge Russian bear in the New Flannery Resigns Position. York Zoo turned on its keeper and San Francisco, May 2.— Following nearly tore him to pieces before he his indictment Saturday by the Marion was rescued. county grand jury on a charge of The heirs of Mrs. Octavia Adelaide grand larceny In connection with the Moss, a rich New York woman, are operations o f a gang of alleged fake having a hard time finding her wealth, poolroom men at Sausalito, Harry P. which was hidden about her house in Flannery, president o f the San Fran secret places known only to herself. cisco board o f police commissioners, Cotton seed in the South is now resigned his office early today, the res ignntion being immediately accepted worth $150 a ton. by Mayor McCarthy. Flannery de A New York girl committed suicide clared that be took this step for the on the beach at Naples, Italy. best interests of the city and so as not Thirty-six hundred miners o f Phoen to embarrass the administration. ix and Greenwood, B. C., are on strike. Herman Passes Crisis. $100,000 subscribed for a Lincoln Roseburg, May 2.— Spending a rest monument funnd 40 years ago ia lost ful night, Binger Hermann awoke this and cannot be located. morning much improved, and Dr. K. L. Governor Hughes of New York, has Miller, the attending physician, says been appointed associate justice o f the that he has passed safely through the United States Supreme court. critical stage o f his Illness. According A sealing steamer with 187 men on to a bulletin issued by the physician board is believed to have gone down off late today, Mr. Hermann sat in a chair for nearly an hour this morning. His the N ew Foundland fishing banks. appetite has returned, and he partakes The bean crop in Mississippi has of limited rations regularly, ^while his totally ruined by the freezing voice is strong and normal. weather. Ice half an inch thick BeH-Beri Kills Italians. formed. San Francisco, May 2.— Antonio The ioea o f the cotton crop in the Ranieri, the first white victim in this South from froet w ill total millions, city to succumb to beri-beri, died to and ia the w o n t calamity that aection day. Two Chinese have died from the tiaa known aince the C ivil war. effects of this unusual disease, but Zeppelin II, one o f Count Zeppelin’s Ranieri ia the first Caucasian here to beat ainhips waa tom from its moringa suffer a fatal attack o f the Oriental by a fierce storm and totally wrecked. malady. AID OREG O N GOOD ROADS. Irrigation Maps to Be Distributed. Salem— Maps that have been pre pared jointly by the state and the United States government under ap propriations made by both government for the purpose o f enrourgaing diver sions o f water for irrigation in the Willamette valley, are now ready for distribution by State Engineer John Howard Lewis. These maps are made on a 14-inch scale and with a contour o f five foot intervals. The maps give the eleva tions in the first quadrangle, including 200 square milems surrounding and ad jacent to the city o f Eugene. Last summer these geological surveys were continued on a second quadrangle of the same area north of the first, and it is expected the surveys will be contin ued until the larger portion o f the ir rigable land in the Willamette valley has been covered. Reduced Rates to Summer School. For the first time in the history of Oregon, the Southern Pacific company has granted reduced rates for attend ants at the University o f Oregon sum mer school. The reduced rates go into effect Saturday, June 18, and continue through the session to its _cloee, Satur day, August 6, thereby making it pos sible for teachers attending the session to save materially in railroad fare. Reduced rates have also been granted for the two state educational confer ences to be held at the university the week previous to the opening of the summer school, and for the exercises o f commencement week, June 19 to 22. Every indication points to an excep tionally large attendance at all of these events. Logs May Go By Rail. Silverton — Having been deprived o f the privilege o f running logs down the Abiqua river from the camps east of the city to the mill two miles north o f Silverton, the Abiqua Lumber com pany is negotiating with the Silverton Lumber company and the Southern Pa cific railroad company with a view to making arrangements to convey logs to the mill over their lines o f railroad. It was learned that the proposition of the Silverton Lumber company had been accepted providing such arrange ments can be made. Will Build $10,000 City Hall. Lebanon-—Lebanon is to have a new city hall. Plans have practically been accepted by the city council, the build ing to cost between $10,000 and $12,- 000. The building will be 60x90 feet, o f cement up to the first windows, and from there up o f brick, with a pressed brick fronL The lower floor w ill be divided into an office for the marshal, three cells for prisoners, a firemen’ s room and a room for the fire apparatus o f the city. Baker Land Given to Settlers. La Grande —John H. Lewis, sec retary of the state land board o f Ore gon, has placed on file in the local offi ce a state "selection” o f 44,505 acres in Baker county, which w ill, be given away to homesteaders who will pay for the irrigation and reclamation. The proposition is similar to the Twin Falls project under the Carey act, but it is reported that the state o f Oregon will not charge for the land. La Grande Plans $ 7 6,000 School. La Grande Plans have been adopt ed for the $75,000 high school building to be constructed this summer. The exterior o f the building w ill be ex tremely attractive, being built of white pressed brick and terra cotta trimmings. The general style o f arch itecture w ill be classical o f the latest design. Dredge Will Deepen Channel. Tillamook— The master of the gov ernment dredge has received i instruc tions to dredge out the channel to T il lamook, the chief o f engineers having, on the recommendation o f Major Mor row, granted $1,000 for the work. S. P. Surveyors at McMinnville. McMinnville—Southern Pacific sur veyors have run through one o f Mc Minnville’s thoroughfares and rumor has it for the purpose o f electrifying the present system to McMinnville. Railroad Bonus Raised. Bend— Bend has raised by popular subscription $7,875 necessary to clear up the right o f way and depot grounds for the Oregon Trunk railway. M c M i n n v i l l e land r ic h . Ohioan Pays $ 6 00 an Acre for Four- Year-Old Orchard. McMinnville— An apple grower from Ohio, Mr. Cox, has purchased the 20- acre apple orchard o f Dr. W. fi. Boyd, o f Portland, the property being situa ted half a mile from this city, at price o f $12,000, or $600 an acre. The orchard was planted for years ago and comprises Baldwins, Jonath ans, Rome Beauties .and Spitzenbergs. It is part o f a tract extending from the city limits northwestward to the Judge Galloway orchard, fivemlies out, a considerable portion of which is set to orchard. This is the highest figure ever quoted for trees of this age in this section. Mr. Cox intends to build on the tract and make his home here. City Park to Be Improved. Astoria— The city park commission has under consideration a number of improvements to be made this summer on the park property south of the city reservoir. The entrance will be widen ed to double its present width by the removal o f a portion of the bank now under the control o f the water commis sion. The overflow of water from the drinking fountain will be utilized by the erection o f \ a trough for horses. This w ill prove a great convenience to the traveling public along the county road from the city to Young’s river. Many Laborers Wanted. Portland— F ifteen hundred railroad laborers are wanted at once by the Pa cific Railroad & Navigation company, which is building a railroad from Hillsboro to Tillamook. One thousand men are steadilyx at work, but it is said that the number could easily be augmented to 2,500. General Man ager E. E. L y tle states that work on the line is progressing nicely, but to get it completed as soon as desired a great deal more help must be had. C IT Y ROADS MAY MERGE. Gigantic Chicago Deal Involves One Hundred Million Dollars. Chicago, April 30. — Unification of the Chicago elevated railroads,regarded as the first essential step toward a per fect transportation service, was today said to be in sight. A gigantic deal, involving a capitalization o f $100,000,- 000, may be consummated and the plan put into operation August 1. Henry A. Blair, who successfully re organized the Chicago Railways com pany, is the financier who hopes to merge the elevated roads. Representing a syndicate o f New York bankers with unlimited resources, he has submitted a definite offer to the elevated railroad officials to buy the properties, either paying cash to stock holders in return for a deposit o f their stock, or giving them securities in the new corporation equal to the par value o f their holdings. So far, the directors o f all companies have agreed that the plan is a fair one, the hitch being in the price offered by Mr. Blair and that which the directors think they ought to get. While Mr. Blair has not announced what hiB cash offer is, he admitted that it was a good deal more than the present value of the stock of the different companies. The capitalization of the elevated roads in stocks and bonds, equipment, notes and other outstanding obliga tions, is a little more than $100,000, 000 . FREIGHT RATES GO UP. Transcontinental Roads Plan to Meet Increased Expenses. Washington, April 30.— Freight tar iffs showing considerable increase over the present rates from Western terri tory to the Atlantic seaboard will be filed with the Interstate Commerce commission to become effective June 1. This is the first step taken by the railroads indicating a purpose general ly to increase freight rates throughout the country to meet increased operat ing expenses. Already tariff schedules have been filed for Western roads increasing the rate for the transportation o f wool from Minneapolis and St. Paul to New York and other Atlantic seaboard points. The present rate on wool from Minneapolis to New York is 59 cents per hundred pounds. Under the new tariff the rate will be 64 cents a hun dred pounds, an increase o f nearly 20 per cent. An increase also has been made in the freight rate on live hogs between the ,Twin Cities and Chicago o f 24 cents a hundred pounds. This is an increase of about 12 per cent over the present rate. While no tariff has been filed with the commission increasing the rate on wheat products from Chi cago to the Eastern territory, it seems likely the rate on hog products from Chicago to Eastern points w ill be in creased. The tariffs already filed with the commission are for all the roads in Western Freight association territory, and the rates will become effective simultaneously on all o f them. MORE CHINESE RIOTS FEARED Governments Begin to Realize Gravity of Situation. In Event o f Serious Trouble, Nations May Have to Unite As In the Boxer Revolution. Washington, April 26.— There is con cern at the State department over the Chinese riots in Hunan province be cause o f the possibility that the trouble may spread rapidly at any momenL It is realized here that information in the Chinese provinces travels with lightning-like rapidity from mouth to mouth. So, with flaming anti-foreign posters being posted in the streets of Changsha, it is readily understood what the effect may be on the neigh boring districts. I f the riots spread it is believed that the foreign nations will stand together with the Chinese government to help bring about order and prevent blood shed, as during the Boxer troubles. Effective naval vessels in the vicin ity appear to be the United States cruiser Cleveland, the Japanese gun boat Uji, and the British river gun boat Snipe. The Cleveland, which has just ar rived at Hankow is o f 3,200 tons dis placement and carries ten 5-inch guns, eight 6 pounders, two l-pounders, four Colt automatic and one 3-inch field gun. The Snipe is a British river gunboat, which has just been refloated after having run aground near Changsha. She is 58 tons displacement, carries two 6-pounders and four 45-inch Max ims. The Japanese gunboat is 620 tons displacement and carries four 12- pounders and three Maxims. M O NEY IS TIED UP. New York Bankers Try to Sell Stocks — Few Buyers. New York, April 26.— The fianneial Review says the markets o f last week registered a sharp revulsion o f senti ment from the hopeful temper o f the week before. It was the commonly accepted view o f the close market ob servers that the advance has been or ganized by important capital and by banking interests to stimulate outside interest in the dealings and to pro claim a feeling o f confidence at the financial center which might react on general business. The action o f the market at the opening o f last week was sufficient to demonstrate the failure o f the experi ment. Instead o f buying orders, the country sent orders to sell stocks and took advantage o f the higher prices established. The professions o f contentment with the conditions o f the steel trade which had come from official sources in con nection with the marking up o f stocks and the predictions o f an increase in the dividend rate on United States Steel and o f a favorable quarterly statement o f earnings, had to be con trasted with the yielding price o f pig iron, proposals for reducing output to avoid an unwieldly surplus accumula tion, and a falling off in new orders for different lines o f finished products. Fearing Law, Bucketshops Close. Washington, April 30.-—Results al ready have been accomplished by the crusade o f the department o f justice against the bucket shop business. In addition to the offices affected by the indictment against a number o f princi pals, scores o f houses in the Middle West have closed their doors and oth ers are expected to follow. Should the efforts o f the department towards breaking up the business entirely prove GRAZING LAN D S N O T INCLUDED unavailing by prosecution under exist ing laws, it is said that new legislation Cannery In Eagle Valley. Secretary Wilson to Take All Such w ill be asked of congress. From Reserves. Baker City— Farmers and fruitmen o f Eagle Valley have let a contract for Washington, April 26.— Although Taft Starts on Trip. the construction of a cannery on the Washington, April 30. — President stockmen who hold permits to graze in townsite of New Bridge, the contract T aft left Washington at 7 o’clock last forest reserves are protesting against price being $7,750. The cannery is to the elimination o f non-timbered lands be complete and ready for operation in night for Buffalo, his first stop on a from forest reserves, Secretary Wilson From Buffalo the time to handle this year’s vegetables seven-day trip. president goes to Pittsburg, then to announced today that the law does not and fruit. Cincinnati, St. Louia and back home, contemplate the inclusion in the re reaching here May 6. There have serves of any but timbered lands and Brick Block at Vale. been many predictions as to the line that whenever non-timbered lands are Vale— T. T. Nelsen w ill erect a 50x found within reserves they must be re 94 foot, two-story brick on his corner the president’s speeches w ill take on stored to the public domain. lot at once. The upper story w ill be the trip. He has given no hint himself In making the elimination he will used for offices. The estimated cost of o f what he will say, but it is signifi use discretion to protect the water sup cant that he is carrying with him a the building is $20,000. full set o f figures on the operation of plies of cities and towns, but beyond that he w ill insist that all large areas the Payne-Aldrich tariff law. PO RTLAND M AR K E TS. o f grazing lands, particularly around the outer boundaries, be taken out. He Wheat — Track prices: Bluestem, Strlce May Hit Seattle. holds that grazing lands cannot be re 90c; club, 86(«87c; red Russian, 85c; Seattle, Wash., April 30.— The union served to prevent stream pollution. valley, 90c. carpenters of Seattle, o f whom there Barley — Feed and brewing, $23@ ,300, at a meeting last night adopted 24.50 per ton. Hermann Is Improving. resolution demanding a wage scale of Corn— Whole, $33, cracked, $34. Roseburg, Or., April 26. — A fte r $4.50 a day instead o f $4 now paid, Hay— Track prices: Timothy, W il and voted to go on strike Monday spending a restful night, Binger Her lamette valley, $20f<r21 per ton; East morning i f their demands are not mann awoke this morning showing evi ern Oregon, $22'.i25; alfalfa, $16.50 Not granted. Eight hundred men were dence of slight improvemenL @17.50; grain hay, $17@18. present and the vote was unanimous. only ¡ b he able to lie in bed comfort Fresh Fruits— Strawberries, Florin, The carpenters’ union o f Seattle is ably for the first time since his severe $2 per crate; apples, $1@2.50 per box. rated the wealthiest local labor body in illness began, but he is also spending Potatoes— Carload buying prices: the world. It owns a seven-story hotel much of his time in conversation Oregon, 40@50c per hundred; new building and other valuable property with members o f his family, whom Callifornia, 5c per pound; sweet pota he readily recognizes. According worth $300,000. toes, 4c. to a bulletin issued by K. L. Miller, Vegetables — Asparagus, $1@1.25 the attending physician, late this af Seattle Japs Number 4,000. per box; cabbage, 2c per pound; hot ternoon, the patient is resting easier Seattle, Wash., April 30.-^ The cen house lettuce, 50c(i?$l per box; green than at any time during his illness. sus o f Japanese in Seattle, nearly com onions, 12c per dozen; radishes, 15@ pleted, will show a population o f more 20c; rhubarb, l@2c per pound; spinach, Phones for Dispatchers. 75c@$l per box; rutabagas, $1.25@ than 4,000 people o f that race, or more SL Paul, Minn., April 26.— The 1.50; carrots, 85c;fti$l; beets, $1.50; than twice as many as any other Amer ican city has. Adding the truck farm Great Northern railway has just order parsnips, 75c@$l. ed the telephone train dispatching ap Onions— Oregon, $2 per hundred; ers in the surrounding country, there are 10,000 Japanese in and near Seat paratus to be installed on six more di Bermuda, $2fu2.50 per crate. Butter— City creamery, extras, 29c tle. In the state o f Washington the visions o f its road. This road is al per pound; fancy nutside creamery, census is expected to show 20,000 Jap ready using telephones for this purpose 29c; store, 20c. Butter fat prices anese, as against about 40,000 in Cali on approximately 2,100 miles o f line, and in every new extension which in average l|c per pound under regular fornia. cludes the Fergus Falls, Brerkenridge, butter prices. Court Nips Thaw Plan. North Dakota, SL Cloud and Cascade E rrs — Fresh Oregon ranch, 234<d: New York, April 30. — Harry K. divisions, reaches in the neighborhood 24c per dozen. Thaw, who killed Stanford White, of 1,900 miles. The telephone system Pork— Fancy, 13<dT3Je per pound. must remain in the Matteawan insane of the Great Northern w ill extend Veal, fancy, 94ffl 10c per pound. asylum. The appellate division o f the over the entire main line. Lambs— Fancy, 10@12c per pound. Poultry— Hens, 20c; broilers, 27@ Supreme court in Brooklyn handed Bridge Donor Is Found. 28c; “ ducks, 224<i:23e; geese, 124c; down a decision today which sets Boston, April 26.— The mystery sur turkeys, live, 20oi22c; dressed, 25c; aside the appointment by Justice Tompkins, o f the Supreme court, o f a rounding the identity of the Harvard squabs, $3 per dozen. Hops — 1909 crop, 18@16c; olds, referree to take testimony bearing on alumnus who had offered $300,000 to Thaw’s possible transfer. The court build a new bridge over the Charles nominal; 1910 contracts, nominal. Wool— Eastern Oregon, 14fdl7c per holds that Matteawan is the proper river to the stadium from Cambridge, place for Thaw. was cleared today when it was learned pound; valley, 18f»i21c; mohair, choice, that Larz Anderson, class o f '99, o f 32@83c. McCredie’ s Bill is Favored. Brookline, was the man. The proposed Cattle — Best steers, $6.50fii7.75; Washington, April 80.— Representa bridge would replace the present struc fair to good steers. $5.75 oj 6; strictly good cows, (5.75<i>6; fa ir to good, tive McCrodie today had a hearing be ture which has been found inadequate $5.50; light calves, $6@7; heavy calves, fore the judiciary committee in order to accommodate the crowds that flock $4fn5; bulls, $4<ii 5.25; stags, $4.50fd to present arguments in support of his annually to the stadium for games. 5.50. bill authorizing the states o f Oregon Tennessee Has Snowfall. Sheep — Best wethers, $5.50@6.76; and Washington to adjust differences fair to good wethers, $5di5.25; good over the boundary line where it follows Nashville, April 26. — Flurries of the Columbia river. A fter his hearing snow were intermittent here all day. lambs, $7@8. Hogs— Top, $10.75@11; fair to good, the committee assured him the bill So far the damage in Tennsesee from would be favorably reported next week. the present cold snap has been slight. $10@10.50. Auto Stage Lina for Tygh Valley. Tygh Valley-—Tygh Valley is soon to have an auto stage running between Nopinitia and Dufur to connect with the auto line from Dufur to The Dalles. This will be appreciated by people living in this part o f the coun ty, as they can visit The Dalles and re- trun the same day. Commercial men will doubtless be glad to hear o f this, as it w ill be quite an improvement over the present mode o f traveling. T O AID CAUSE OF PFACE. Taft and Carnegie Dedicate $1,000,- OOO Bureau Home. Washington, April 27.— The magnifi cent new marble building of the Inter national Bureau o f American Republics — within a stone’s throw o f the Whits House - was dedicated in the name o f universal peace today. President T a ft Joined with Andrew Carnegie, Secretary Knox, Senator Root and Senor de la Bera, the Mexi can ambassador, as representative o f the Latin-American republics, in pro phecies of peace among the 21 Am eri can republics, and pledged themselves to strive for that happy state. Mr. Carnegie went so far as to express the hope that Canada, with the consent o f Great Britain, would some day join the family of peaceful American republics. The president called out general laughter by referring to the contro versy between Theodore Roosevelt and Mr. Carnegie two years ago at the lay ing o f the cornerstone o f the building dedicated today. “ They differed as to the methods by which peace should be obtained,” said the president, "b u t that both were earnest and strenuous and determined to have peace there was no doubt.” “ Hear, hear,” shouted Mr. Carnegie as the laughter died away. The new buildng, a g ift of Mr. Car negie, won the admiration o f all who passed within the bronze portals this afternoon and at the reception tonight, at which President T aft and Mr. Car negie headed the receiving party. Z E P P E LIN A IR SH IP LOSING. Accident, In Which Hundreds Could Not Save Craft, Turns Opinion. Berlin, April 27.— German aeronauts are asking whether the destruction of the airship Zeppelin I I at Weilburg w ill not prove a fatal blow to the school o f rigid airship construction. There has been manifested lately a dis position in army circles to oppose fur ther, purchase o f airships o f the Zep pelin type on the ground that they are too unwieldly to meet varying condi tions o f actual service. In the latest accident it was noted that;, the crew o f several hundred men under experienced officers was unable to keep the enorm ous framework from blowing away, whereas the ship o f the non-rigid typo could have been deflated and saved. The Zeppelin craft has enjoyed marked preference in the German army, owing to the personality of in ventor and the personal support given him by the kitiser. Lately, however, aeronauts have been inclined to the adoption of a more elastic and more easily managed type. This latest ac cident lends argument in favor o f such a change. NORW EGAIN P O E T DEAD. Bjornstjerne Bjornson Succumbs While in Paris fo r Treatment. Paris, April 27— Bjornstjerne Bjom- son, the Norwegian poet, novelist, dramatist, reformer and advocate of universal peace, died here tonight, surrounded by his fam ily. His end was peaceful. The last serious illness o f the nov elist extended over nearly a year. He was brought to Paris for special treat ment in the early part o f last Novem ber, accompanied by his w ife and daughter, a physician and nurse, and during part o f the journey traveled with the king o f Denmark in the king's private car. In Paris, however, he was unable to receive the treatment for arterio scler osis, from which he was suffering, but notwithstanding, he showed marked improvement for a time, due entirely to his wonderful vitality. Again in February his death was ex pected momentarily, but the crisis passed, though leaving him less able to withstand the next attack. During the last week it was apparent he could not hold out much longer. Prior to his death he was conscious for some hours. Honest Official Loses. Pittsburg, April 27.— In seven wards o f the city today, special elections o f select and common councilmen were held to fill the places o f those who re signed after being indicted for graft ing. In the twentieth ward, George H. Riley, one o f the “ immaculate six” in the common council in 1898, when the alleged bribing was going on, was de feated for common council. Riley, it was testified in the early part o f the g ra ft prosecutions, was one o f the six men “ who could not be reached.” Gotham Awaits Weston. N ew York, April 27.— Mayor Gaynor granted permission today for Edward Payson Weston to tramp down Broad way with an escort o f police when he arrives here. Weston w ill probably reach the city late Friday, 75 days after his Btart from Los Angeles, 3,400 miles away, and 15 days ahead o f his schedule. A t the city hall Weston will be received by Mayor Gaynor, to whom he w ill present a letter from the mayor of Los Angeles. Weston w ill stop at Schenectady tonight. Weston’s aver age each day is 45 1-3 miles. Socialists Stone Count. Vienna, April 27.— Count AlbertAp- ponyi, the ex-Hungarian minister of worship, whose guest Theodore Roose velt was on his trip to Budapest, was attacked at a political meeting at Tem- sevar Sunday night by a crowd o f So cialists. They bombarded his carriage with stones and eggs and cudgelled the count severely. A fte r desperate ef- orts, the coachman forced the hones through the mob and the count took refuge in the bishop’ s palace. Bedell Accused o f Sugar Fraud. N ew York, April 27.— George E. Bedell, who was chief clerk for James F. Vail, formerly deputy surveyor o f the port, and who had charge o f the weighing departmenL was arrested to day on an indictment charging con spiracy to defraud the government out of customs duties on sugar, macaroni, figs, cheese, and other merchandise. Com et is Seen Minus Tail. Zurich, April 27.— The observatory here officially reports that Halley’s comet was visible to the naked eye for 65 minutes before dawn today. Its positions was due east, just above the horizon. There was no trace, however, o f the tail, even with the telescope.