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.