LANE COUNTY LEADER
NEWS OF OREGON
W I L L USB ISTH M IAN CANAL.
M exico Already M aking Plans for Marine
M erchant System .
I f . ç . t'O N N K K , P u b lis h e r.
M exico C ity , March
18.— Great
Items of General Interest Gathered
in
C O T T A G E G F O V E .. O R E G O N .
terest is being taken here in the I’ana
ma canal. I t is now baiieved that the
W E E K ’S DOINGS
United State* w ill begin work on the
canal..immediately follo w in g the ratifi
cation of the treaty, and it ia estimated
that it w ill Ere completed within live
Revtaw *f Important M « p p » n l» ii
t l nia Past Waak la Urtai a ad
faaapnhr- - 1— Farai.
THE PRESIDENT'S TOUR.
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.April 1
‘»aJ...»April
2
In YellJwxloiie fark
April * to 2 »
In Nebraska, Iowa. Illlnoli. April A) to 39
In St. U>ut»...................... April 30
In Kam a» < Uy
»¡ay 1
In Denver
*
In Halt KranciM-'ii
Kay 12 to 14
Arrive at Auhlaud, o r . .
Hay 21
In Salem .
Hay 21
Arrive Portland (afternoon).May 21
Leave I'tirllainl (uiurulng) May 22
lu Tacoma. ...................... May 22
Arrive Healtle................... May 23
May 21
Leave Seattle
May Zi
In Walla W alla
In Hnokalie....................... May 2»
May 29
In Halt Lake
May 31
In Cheyenne
enne on return June 1
eyei
leave
.June -1
Arrive In W ashington
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V S & fir • ■ • <1X9 9 9 tX S X Ii»
BROKE-N
W IL L CLAIM EQUAL TREATMENT.
Position ol Oermsny Rcgsrdlng
Reciprocity Treaty.
templates the establishment of a steam
ship line running from Vera Cruz and
l ’mgresao to Havana, Port
U n ion ,
Colon, S avanilla and La Guayra, the
steamers to make one round trip per
month.
Communication would be
thus established by M exico with Cuba
and Central Am erica and by Colon witii
Colom bia and Ecuador, Bolivia and
C h ile.
The project thus w ill affect
30,000,000 I-atin-American people. It
ia a part of the plan made by the gov
ernment o f reaching out after the trade
of South America.
It is realized that when the canal is
opened the gu lf of M exico w ill be the
Mediterranean of the Western hemis
phere, and M exico w ill lie in a position
to reap great advantages from its geo
graphical aituation.
M emphis, Tenn., March
ia little change in tlie ri5#r '
tonight, and. although tha J.
has I men alight, the situ, t *
aider») grave and the sum j
STEAMERS A L L DOING RESCUE WORK than 38 feet ia still
gauge tonight shows 35.8.
Great Crevasse Now Open North
of Memphis.
M a rc h
Flood Beyond All Control — W a ter Level
W ith the Leveea at Other Point*
and More Breaks Likely.
Memphis, Tenn., March 17.— The Kt.
Francis levee gave way this afternoon
Grants Cans is to receive (5,000 I gives other na'iona preference in trade
from Andrew Carnegie for the estab- j treatment.
lie b m e n to ia free reading room and The principle which the Germans lay
library.
down in entering upon correspondence
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Zi’ZXiJZ ¿ s e r i f s
“» v
to be the rule in the future.
Governor Chamberlain has granted a
fnll pardon to A . M. Hum phrey, a
Marion connty warehouseman convicted
of larceny o f wheat stored in it is ware
house.
t "
Special eonvent.oo* are to lie drawn
up to fit different situations.
Thu
pr invjple Beems to be accept»! by Rue
sia, Austria and Italy, and tlie trade
policies are to test upon tlie recipro-
city idea.
What is the subject of more concern
here is that, should the Cuban treaty
be accepted and found to work well,
similar treaties may be arranged by
the United States with Mexico, Brazil
and Argentina, ultim ately resulting in
the United states obtaining a mono
poly of all the South and Central Amer
ican markets.
M . B. Gwinn hae leased from George
T. Parr, of tlie Eastern Oregon land
company, a tract cf 60,000 scree in the
One Victim Instantly Killed, and Another Blue mountains, aituatied in Baker and
Grant counties. The land is to be u s»!
Ex-Congressman John W . Candler,
Seriously Wounded.
as a slimmer range foP a band of about
o f Massachusetts, is dead.
Pueblo, Colo , March 18.— A daring
40,000 eheep.
—
The two telegraphers’ unions have attempt a i robbery and brutal tragedy
A new-(100,000 sawm ill, with a ca
in the meet fashionable restaurant cre
consolidated nnder one head.
ated intense excitement early this even pacity o f 100,000 feet of lumber a day
REYES ON C ANAL TREATY.
Colonel John A. Baldwin, o l the S ix
ing. The*robbers, two in number, and is to be e r e c t»l in Sumpter this season.
teenth United States infantry, is dead.
both small men, wore black masks. H enry N ew ell, president of th e F t. Paul Colombian Vice President Does Not Like
The senate has voted down several They first entered the back door of & Tacomariuill company, ia at the bead
Our Control of Isthmus.
amendments to the bl ’anama
canal l-oestan's fine cafe opposite the opera of the corporation that w ill erect the
Colon, Colombia, March 17.— Gene
home, advanced half way the length of u-w m ill. The company has o b ta in »l
treaty.
control o f 13,000 acres of land, in the ral Raiael Reyes, vice president of Co
A revolution against the government the long room and then went back.
Presently they re-entered by the vicin ity of Sumpter, on which it is esti lombia, who reached tlie isthmus two
o f Uruguay has broken out in two
front door. One went to the cashier’ s mated there is 165,000,000 feet of days ago from Mexico, was in terview »!
provinces.
here today by a press representative.
desk, the other attempted to rob guests standing tim ber.
W ith reference to tlie Hay-Herran con
Nevada, Arizona and New M exico at the tables. He held a revolver to
The matter of the special election for
vention he spoke guardedly and did
are deeply interested in the Lew is and ward Dr. J. H. Turner, who waH eating
tlie relocation of the connty sent of
Ciark fair.
his supper, and told him to throw up C olom bia county is receiving attention, not appear disposed to discuss its terniB
or the probability of its ratification by
Kx-Uoverner (leer, of Oregon, is in his hands. The doctor was surprised and considerable discussion ia being
the Colombian congress.
Missouri working fur an appropriation and hesitated, whereupon the robber provoked. Many o f the taxpayers who
He seemed to have rea-on to believe,
fired full in his face, k illin g the doctor are alraid of incurring extra expense
for the Lewis and Clark fair.
instantly and scattering blood and favor having it remaining in the pres however, that the present interpreta
A call for bids has been issued at Be brains all over the corner of the cafe.
tion by the United States of its obliga
attie for 4,000,000 feet of Washington Then the desperado attacked another ent location. A mass m eeting has b » ‘ n tory rights to maintain free transit
called
to
convene
at
Clatskanie
next
lumber for use in the Philippines.
guest, C. B. Bishop, and shot him in Saturday afternoon when the claims o( across the isthmus and its manner of
enforcing these rights lias created a
W ithout securing any that place w ill be presented.
A Negro doctor has been arrested at the left side.
very unfavorable impression through
Philadelphia, who is believed to have booty the ruffians fled. Bishop was
There is the greatest m ining activity out the Colombian republic. He said
-poisoned at least 34 patientB and possi taken to a hospital and is in a critical
in Josephine county ever known be'ore. the politicians who would be c a ll» !
condition.
b ly many more.
The robbers in their escape were fired This is due to the interest lieing taken upon to decide the fate of the canal
Justice Day is much improved.
upon by a policeman and his bullet by capitalists and enterprising mining would not be likely to forget the humil
A census of China places her popu perforated a plate glass window, but men in the quartz properties of the dis iating incidents which occurred during
trict. There always has been for the the recent insurgent hostilities between
thus far there is no clue.
lation at 420,447,000.
past 50 years a rush of business in the her and Panama.
The 24th death has occurred at Cor
place rs of that section, but not till tTiia
S LA IN B Y STORM.
nell university from typhoid fever.
season has there been so glitterin g a
LAND OPEN TO SETTLERS.
The Porto Kican legislature has just Dead in Tuamotu Islands Number 600 — future in prospect for the quartz mines
of Southern Oregon and
Josephine Vast Tract o f 1,000, (KM) Acres In South
adjourned. Many important measures
One-Fifth of Population.
county in particular, as at present.
were acted upon.
ern California.
Papeete, March 8, via San Francisco,
Los Angeles, March 17.— The United
Six Alban y boys have been fined for
The damage by the high water in the March 18.— The latest intelligence rel
States, through the ledeial land office
Mississippi valley w ill amount to many ative to the hurricane in the Tnamotiis, stoning a Chinaman.j
at Los Angeles, w ill open to settlers
m illions of dollars.
or Low archipelago, indicates that the
Sheriff Brown and Deputies Hem ple within the next 60 days about 1,000,-
The loss
England’ s epxenses are about the fatalities w ill number 800.
and Lachner, o f Baker county, are all 000 acres of land in California. This
The
same as those of the United States, Imt ol property w ill be (500,000.
confined at their homes with smallpox. land is situated between N e »i!ee and
hurricane
and
high
water
laated
during
her income is much less.
January 14, 15 and 16.
A t Hikuera
Game Warden Qnim by is in receipt Majave, and borders the Colorado river.
It is lieileved that the improvement 377 deaths occurred, in most instances of a copy of a reiiort the commission Much of it is valuable agriculturally.
of the Columbia river will lie author among tiie visitors from other islands ers o f fish and game of the state o< The prospective throwing open o f its
ised this week by Secretary Root.
sojourning* there during the divin g M aine have jnst published, showing vast tract to settlem ent is the result of
a recent dcision o f the United states
The Philippine islands w ill have a season. One hundred and ferty-tw o the amount of money expended by tlie
supreme court with respect to the fam
large exhibit at St. Louis. From there deaths are reported from six other state for the preservation of game,
small islands. In til is report there is and also the amount of money brought ous grant made to tlie Atlantic &
it w ill be taken to Portland.
no record of p ie unknown .dead, and it into that state by outBtde sportsmen. Pacific railroad by act of July, 1866.
Ex-Representative Mercer, of Ne is believed that the total number of
territory
which
embraces
Tlie local game warden thinks it would In the
braska, is talked of as director o f the fatalities in the entire archipelago was
great
tract tlie
Fouthern
lie a good th in g if Oregon followed a this
census. He is not popular with the not less than 600.
sim ilar plan and appropriated suffi Pacific has selection privilege. Au-
senatorial delegation from his state.
On the islet sonth o f Hikuera 262 cient money for the hiring of deputy thordy for the receiving of entry appli
cations for tlie 1,000,000 acres in ques
The California legislature lifts passed natives perished, lieing swept into the wardens to enforce the game laws
tion has been received from Washing
a b ill appropriating (20,000 for a build lagoon and again into the great sea,
Foreman J. E. Godfrey, of tlie etate
ing at the I-ewis and Clark fair. The lacerated terrib ly by contact with rocks, printing office, says that work is pro ton by the officials of the United States
Upon gressing rapidly on the session laws of land office at Los Angeles.
St. Louis exhibit w ill be transferred coral and debris of a ll sorts.
some unfortunate ones cocoannt trees 1903, and that if nothing nneximcted
intact.
ENGINES BUTT TOOETHER.
fell, either m aim ing or k illin g them happens the laws w ill be out by Ap ril
The Montana legislature adjornned
outright, or holding them down beneath 1, which fa much earlier than nsnal.
without making an appropriation for
Resulting In the Death of One Man and
the water until they were d ro w n »l.
the St. Louis and Portland fairs. A
Injury of Many.
F ifty men are working oo the Lewis
movement is on foot to raise (50,000
B A T T L E S H IP IDAHO.
and Clark fair site. Ten of these are
Kansas City, March 17.— The Golden
by popular subscription.
surveyors who are preparing a contour State lim it »! on the Rock Island sys
1 he senate will he able to dispose of President Selects the Name for One of the map. Tw enty other men are clearing
tem, due in Kansas C ity this morning,
tlie treaty in a week and adjourn.
away fallen trees, logs, and dead under collided head-on
N ew Vessels.
just
outside
of
brush,
and
the
rest
are
planting
trees
Dwight, 30 miles west o f Topeka, at 3
John D. Daly, of Benton county, has
Washington, March 18.— The s e c
and
shrubs
and
doing
nursery
work.
o ’clock this morning with westbonnd
been chosen surveyor general o f Oregon. tion of the name “ Idaho” for one of
Justice Day continues to improve.
Thomas U p ton ’ s Shamrock I d
launched March 17.
i
SHOT B Y ROBBERS.
Native constabulary continue to rnn the 13,000 ton battleships was made by
down the troublesome ladrones in R ital direction of the president as a comply
ment to Senator Heyburn, the Repahlh
province.
can senator from that state. President
China is organising a large army. Roosevelt had conversed with Senator
Arm s and ammunition are lieing smug- lleylm rn several times, and at once
glinged in from Germany.
formed a vary greet lik ing for him. As
Plans o f national
irrigation
in soon as the naval b ill was pass»! and
W yom ing, Montana, Colorado, Nevada the queston o f naming the battleships
came up the president insisted that one
and Ariaona have been adopted.
should bear (he name of Idaho, and so
The Chicago lim it »!, westbound on d ir e c t»! Secretary Moody.
Senator
th e Illinois Central, was w-recked at Heyburn preferred no sucli request as
1’otneroy and five passengers were in this, although he appreciated the cour
jured.
tesy. W hen he c a ll» ! on the presi
dent yesterday he was told that the
Two passenger trains on the Nash
selection o f Idaho was a com pliment to
v ille A 8t. IiOuis railroad c o llid » ! head-
him , and made for no other purpose.
on near Shell Mound, Tenn., and five
o f the crew were injured,
New M ove of the Ooulds.
Salt Lake, March 18.— Engineers in
Hafeblowers cracked the safes o f the
local offices o f the Standxid O il com the em ploy o f the Gonld lines, it is
said
on good antbority today, w ill
pany at Atlanta, Oa., and secured (500
shortly start from Marysvale, the term
in money and (2,000 in checks.
inus of the R io Grende Western in this
The K ing of Siam has a e k «l the New state, to snrrey a line southwest from
York firm which e n p p li»i the foun that point. W h ile no official inform a
tain at George Gonld’ s country home at tion is given as to the destination, it is
1-akewood to make an eet innate on the stated here that there can be bat one
cost of erecting a sim ilar fountain five outcome— a line to l o t Angeles.
The
tim es as large in the central courtyard R io Grande already has a prelim inary
o f hia palace.
survey from Marysvale to Los Angeles.
The Mississippi flood ia «till rising
Harvard C ollege Exam ination.
and doing great damage.
Seattle, Merch 17. — Arrangements
Justice Day, of the supreme conrt, ia are in progress for holding, this spring,
aarionaly ill.
in Seattle, sn examination o f persons
The president w ill call an extra see- desiring
to enter Harvard college.
aion o f congress in October.
This w ill be the first tim e such an e x
Trainm en on all lailroads west of amination has been held in this state,
Ch icago w ill ask for an advance in but it is expected 'hereafter snch ex
aminations w ill be held here annually.
Details as to requirements, tim e arid
Senatore hare c o m p le t»! arrange place c f this exam ination, may he
ments to ra tify both canal and Caban learned by correspondence with Joseph
treaties.
Shippen, A. M ., o l Seattle.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
W heat— W alla W alla. 7 4 0 “ 5c; bine-
stem, 86c; valley, 78@80c.
Barley— Feed, (23.50 per ton; brew
ing, (24.
Flonr— Beet grade, (4.10<£4.f>0; grah
am, ( 3.45@3.86.
M illstuffa — Bran, (1 9 per ton;
m iddlings,
( 24; shorts, (1 9.50 0 20 .
chop, (1 8 .
Oats— No. 1 white. (1.15 O 1.20;
gray, (1 .1 2 X S 1 .1 5 per cental.
H ay — T im oth y, (1 1 0 1 2 ;
( 8 0 9 ; cheat, (9 0 1 0 per ton.
clover,
passenger No. 3, which left Kansas
City last night.
Both engines were
badly damaged, and the baggage and
mail cars and I he smoker on the west
bound train were telescop»l. None ol
tlie other cars on the westbound train
left the track. None ol the cars on
the limited were d e ra il»! or d am ag»l
and that train con tin n »! on its trip
east after a few hours’ delay. Engi
neer Love, of the westbound train, was
killed. Three other members of the
w estbound crew and three passengers
in the westbound smoker and the engi-
neer and fireman of the lim ited were
injured.
Commiaslon on Canal Deal.
Potatoee— Best Bnrhanks, 60O75c per
New York, March 17.— New York
sack; ordinary, 40050c per cental,
growers’ prices; Merced sweets, ( 2 0 lawyers believe that if the Panama
canal treaty is pass»! by the United
2.25 per cental.
Pou ltry— Chickens, m ixed, 12013c; States senate, W illiam Nelson Crom
young, 11 S 0 1 2 c ; hens, 12c; turkeys, well. of this city, w ill receive the ’ larg
liv e , 15O10c; dressed, 18O20c; ducks, est fee ever given to a lawyer in this
country, if not in the world.
The re
(7 0 7 .5 0 per doaen; geese, (7 0 8 .5 0 .
port finds general credence that (2 -
Cheese — Full cream, twins, 1 6 X @
000,000 of the moner to be paid by the
17H e ; Young Am erica, 1 7 H 0 1 8 X c ;
government w ill go directly Into Mr
factory prices, 1(91 H e leas.
Crom w ell’ s pocket.
Mr. C rom w ell’ s
Butter— Fancy creamery, 3 00 32 H e arrangement is re p o rt»! to be on the
per ponnd; extras, 30c; dairy, 200 basis of 5 per cent of the amount real
2 2 X c ; store, 15018c.
lied by the sale.
Eggs— 15c per doaen.
Hops— Choice, 23025c per ponnd.
Mexico Pays Prom ptly.
W ool— V a lle y , 1 2 X 0 ll5 c ; Eastern
Oregon, 8 < ftl4 X c; mohair, 2 6 0 28c.
Beef — Gross, cows, 3<Sb3Hc per
pound; steers, 4 0 4 X c ; dreeeed, 7H’c-
V eal— 7 H 0 8 H e.
Mutton — Groee,
4c per
ponnd;
d res s »!. 7%c.
Ia m b s —
Groee, 4c per ponnd;
dressed, 7 H e .
Hogs — Groee, « H e
per ponnd;
dressed,7 0 7 He.
Washington, March 17.— The state
department has received from the M ex
ican government (43,000, being the first
installment o f in terest which is to be
paid in perpetnity on accenni of the
Pions fund claims nnder the arrange-
mems made by The Hague arbitral,on
board re October last. On Jnly 8 there
w ill be dne the snm of (1,420.682
representing the interest which has ac- ’
croed since the date o f the
Mexican
claima commission.
In MlssUsIm
Dnnger Point.
iT .- G e r m a n y .- »o n
the reciprocity treaty between Luba
and the United Statee is rati be. I, will
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ask both the Caban and the United
.
states governments lor identical priv-
COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL DOINGS
It is also intimated that other
j governments intend to request the
W hile annoyed at
M ove to Change County Seat -C arn egie same treatment.
the United States’
Library lor Orante P e s a - B ig New
Ith« prospnet of
trade having lower tariff* in Cuba than
Sawm ill lor Sumpter.
that of Germany, no one supposes tnat
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even a collective protest on the part of
W illia m B. Curtia has been re-ap- tlie continental countries would cause
pointed postmaster at M arshfield.
.either the United States or Cuba to
„
, .
,
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...
, recede. But Germany’ s position is to
Revision and .-orrection of the senah |
cUw|
^ that the United
and house journals has been completed. |
^ „,.1 complain when Germany
E v e r , prwon*r in tli* « . . .
Flood Situation
Cuban j
From AH Over the State.
year*.
I t ia stated that I'reaident Diaz con
RIVER CONTINUES T t T ^
at Trice’s landing, Ark., 20 miles north
of the city, and tonight the waters o l
the Mississippi are rushing through a
three-quarter mile crevasse in the em
bankment with a roar that can be
Beard lor mile*.
This is the first
break that lias been made in tlie vicin
ity of Memphis, but the water is still
rising rapidly, and three other points
on the Arkansas levee, north of Mem
phis, are in a precarious condition.
Sunday night the water was on a
level with the crest of the levee at
Holy Bush, and tlia rise yesterday car
ried it over a loot higher, sweeping
away the temporary embankments at
Trice's landing and tearing the levee
itBelf from its foundations, giving a
new channel for the Hood. Tlie break
was of such extent that the engineers
re a liz»l the hopelessness of attempting
to repair it and it was abandon»! alter
the side of the crevasse had been revet
ted with sand sacks and stones to pre
vent further cutting away of tlie em
bankment. The situation in the mean
time had become critical at other
points, anil tonight it is consider»!
doubtful if these places can be held in
the face of the rising flood.
A t Pecan point, Fogleam’ a landing,
the flood is abreast of the crown of the
levees, and bundereds of men are at
each place working by lantern light.
So rapid is tlie advance of the river to
night that reports from these positions
are waited with dread, and it will be
no surprise if a crevasse lias developed
at each before tomorrow night.
The engineers of the levee Ivoard say
that the damage from the break at
Holy Bush w ill not be as serious as
would have been the case had the
crevasse occurred at any other point on
the embankment. From this point
draw leuds into tlie 8t. Francis river
throngh several bayous and lakes and
this w ill hold the water to a great ex
tent and prevent it spreading out.
In the city tonight tlie situation is
the worst that so far has been reached.
In North and South Memphis many
homes and business houses have been
Hooded.
Appeals are pouring into the city
from all directions for aid by those who
have taken reluge on high points along
the river and who are now surrounded
by the water. A ll local packets have
gone strictly into the rescue business
but their capacity is overtaxed, and
they are una life to res pond to ail de
mands that are received. A ll day car-
voes of refugees and their property have
been discharg»! at the wharf here and
tonight there are several hundred desti
tute persons in the city, who are lieing
c* red *or ^7 charity,
PH ILIPPINE AGRICULTURE.
Cacao Crop Is Especially Bountiful anti a
Source of Orest Revenue.
Washington, March 18 — The bureau
oi insular affairs, war department, has
received from the Philippine bureau of
agriculture a bulletin on cacao culture
in the Philippine islands.
The bulle
tin says:
“ The cacao grown in tlie'Ph ilip pin es
is of snch exrellent quality that there
is keen rivalry among bnyers to procure
it at an advance of 50 per cent over the
common grades ot the Java bean, not
withstanding the failure of the local
growers to 'process care’ the product in
any way.
‘ In parts of Mindanao and Negros,
despite ill treatment and no treatment,
the plant exhibits a luxuriance of
growth and wealth of productiveness
that demonstrates its entire fitness to
l>e considered a valuable crop in those
regions. Recent statistics place the
world’ s demands for cacao (exclusive of
local consumption) at 200,01)0,000
ponnds, v a lu »! at more than (3 0 ti’oo -
??'''•
Tl,er'' >s. therefore’ it i's
sfttd, little danger of over production
ami consequent low prices for many
years to come.
“ So far as known, the areas where
cacao prospers in the great »pratorial
zone are small.
Cacao is cultivated
nearly everywhere in the archipelago.
It is grown in several of the provinces
of Luzon, in Mindanao, Joio, Basilan
I a,nays. Negros. Cebu, Boholaand Mss-
—u’- <! nJ “ 8 P^^encecan reasonably tie
predicted a p e . the larger islands
where under an elevation of 1 , 000 , or
probably 1,200 meters.“
Europe at the Fair.
Berlin, March 1 8 ,-T h e St. Lou ise*,
position appropriation of ( 375 , 0 t )0 «111
i?.h PrT ? ti d *°
budget committee
of the Reichstag tomorrow. The com
rW
f h * 8 l>een i >'»te" '»t»-a lly cutting
down the government’ s requests and
may take off (125,000 forThe st , on^
I k A v Jnt®T,or 8®cr**ary Von Posadnw-
k' ^
r r'
it ¡8 understood, cam
Bitt** lu ^ comnuttee carefuHv and ia
in donbt whether he can s ee n »
iority (or leaving the i „ , r »s lt £
*'
N ' H ’ -''arch 18.— A
nans, and. it ia believed
knowledge of his r o n n j ;
P*1” !-
the
afternoon to return to M i n n e a X a^d
stand trial.
He rill
Î X * " « Ti* Bo8,on *nd
AUTH O RITY W IT H A STMn
Chinese Diplomats N ot Allowed ti
Final Bargain.
Washington, March 14.—The
potentiaries of the powers who
gaged at Shanghai in negotiatin' j,
treaties with the Chinese comi
ers have discovered what theyn
Haws in the credentials oi tire
agents which may make it im]
foi them to bind th eir govern
treaty form. The m atter almdi
been brought to the attention
state department, and Mr. Cond
asking for advice, be, too, beings
gaged in the negotiations.
It appears that the Chinctem'6
sioners must mem orialize thou*1
before the treaties w ill liavelon.T
the powers object to this ltd H
thority on the part o f the coem
ers. Because Mr. Congex wvl))*8
refer any treaty he may dnitroylk
government here for approval, ftt
ly as the Chinese com III i-Inner! t
do on their side, the United itg
government is not in a positional
test very strongly against the mici
cy of the Chinese cedentiiia, »1
Mr. Conger w ill go on with this J
makings, w hile doing his liest to f
the Chinese credentials enlarged
PR ESID E NT’S T R IP WEST
W ill Leave W a sh in gton Ahout Apt.
and Not Return Until June
Washington, March 1 4 —Prtil
Rosevelt’ s contemplated western 9
was a subject of some discussioniH
white house today. Senators Lcdl
Kansas, and H opkin s, of Illin o itf
Fourth Assistant Postmaster
Brisow, of Kansas, talked will
president abont his tour. The
people are urging the president!»
some stops in th eir state after ti*J
dication of the exposition groon®
April 30. Only one stop has lh« <j
been arran g»i. T h e president h i
cepted an invitation to attend t
ing of the railway branch oi tire 1-3
C. A., to be held at Topeka May
fe w other details of the itinerary
been w o rk »! out.
It has lieen
with practical definiteness that
one trip w ill be made.
W hile no date fo r th e heglntiini
the trip can be fixed definitely I
the senate shall have adjourned. >
exp ect»! now that it w ill not t*
from A p ril 1. A fte r leaving W*14
ton the president w ill not retar»
Washington until some time in J
ft ia likely that the first two or
week* of the trip w ill be passed
cipally in the Y ellow ston e park, T:
the president w ill seek rest zad r*
ation, but it is understood that,I*
Go little bunting.
, W holesale M all Robbery.
Boston, March 14.— The city
acting with postoffioe in pectore, f
a rrest»i [five young men who,
charged, have in the last six l
robh«i the mails o f (50,000.
the prisoners, a ll o f whom
ployed as mail wagon drivers, hat*
mitted to the inspectors that they
pod open the m ail bags in broad
light in places no legs conspicuousdd
the North Union and 8ooth Ter®H
railway stations. jT h eir plnndsr m
sisted of gold watches, rings, ■d"
ware, revolvers, knives, books, »M-
T w o Men Killed In Snow SHds.
Ames Will Return.
A
The levee tw o miles winth
th eraville ia caving B»d|, 0
greatest danger ia looked foi
point.
T lie country for <
around CaruthereviUe ¡, 1^ ,
railw ay traffic ia suspended, t
weak spot in tlie levee systiq
now is at Vanclnse, Ark., nnTS
v ille , Miss.
A “ sand boli”
boil J ’
there just hack
- i It,,*'''
__N
back of n
the
tlie horns of a iienct in tlie ru*
la k e Chicot. The “ boil’ ’ * „ "
ly suppressed, but appeara»e,S
uh underground fissure that
dangerous.
P riva te dispatches from Car,
v ille say tlie situation there k u
oally unchanged, and that the«,
merits w ill hold a stage thrw|w
er than at present.
Captain Lucaa, in charge of the
and Second districts, left h «e ™
for Helena to personally ¡0,„,
conditions in the White river j.
Supplies and men were alsojem,
to strengthen the levee. Snpoli'
men also have been sent to C»t
where the rush of the waters tl
the 17 m ile gap in tiie levee i> ,
uneHainees, and to Pekan point ,
tne strengthening work is in ,.
on tiie embankments.
No news has been received u
from the area in Mississippi mg
Arkansas, whieh was reported!,
yesterday by water percolating
the embankments.
The engineers here say the
the rise probably w ill reach MtB,
Sunday, unless there are farther ha
rains general over this area,
diet a record breaking stage olnw
account of tire fact that the)«««
holding against the flood
» i l l be accompanied by M r. An-e.
* and
their children. H i. decisi non to
return
was voluntarily made.
Redding, C al., March 14.— » " ;
men bp pnow elide occurred yesterday
the La Grange hydraulic ditch ia ^
ity connty. Con M cLaughlin, » * •
tender, was swept down in the mi*!
rush o f snow and k illed . Today. « I
rescuers were at work looking f"*
body, another big slide came down 1
Henry G entry was k illed . A ll of
men have been c a l l » ! o ff the d itA
! slides are occurring righ t along,
there is great danger.