THE TW10E-A-WEEK GUARD VOLUME 44. NO. 81. EUOENE, OREGON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 23, 1911 f PRESIDENT TAFT REASSURES JAPS Washington, March 22. President Taft invited Baron Uchida, Japanese ambassador, to a conference at the White House this afternoon. The president '; object in doing this was to personally sot at rest various irresponsible stories published to the effect that the army maneuvers in Texas and California were in a way directod toward Japan. President Taft has been greatly annoyed by persistent re­ ports that Japan had negotiated a secret agreement with Moxico for the coaling station on the Pacific coast, that the United States was menacing Mexico as a protest. Denials from the Japanese embassy and from the ambassador himself as to th coaling station story, as well as denials from the state depart­ ment here as to any connection of Japan with the maneuvers, have failed to stop these reports, which the president regards as malicious. At their meeting President Taft told Ambassador Uchida that the reports were scarcely worth denying, Lut he desired to set them at rest for all time. He asked Baron Uchida jo com­ municate his views directly to the emperor of Japan. Washington, March 2!.—Presi­ dent Tuft and his cabinet met today for the first time In more than two weeks, and the Mexican situation was dlactiaaed briefly Strong hope was expresed In ndmlnistration -d State« has no intention to Inter­ fere In the Internal affairs of that country, and the president will not r«'comn»end any interference to con- gti'H.», unless the circumstances per­ mit no other possible course. American troops were wnt to the Mexican border on the strength of reports that conditions in Mexico ap­ proached chaos and that at any time American llv«*s might lie Jeopnrdiz«*d. There will l>o no move toward the Mexican border unless outrages are so flagrant as to call for the presence The of a protecting power occur. Even then, (lie pr«*H|dent would sot think of acting withoiu the consent congress. Galveston Is the American Naval Headquarters In Big War Game Along the Borders of Mexico Chicago, March 22.—The indicted Chicago packers lost the light against going to trial on indictments secured by the gov- ernment several months ago when Judge Carpenter, in the Unit­ ed States district court, today overruled their demurrer to the charges and held that the immunity granted by Judge Humph­ rey, of the federal court, in 1906 did not apply to the present charges, which he held were based on evidence not included in the Humphrey decision. The indicted packers are: Louis F. Swift, Edward F. Swift, Francis A. Fowler and Charles H. Swift of Swift & Co.. Edward Tilden, president of the National Packing company; J. Ogden Armour, Arthur Meeker, Thomas J. Connors of Armour & Co., Edward Morris, Louis Heyman of Morris & Co. The National Packing company is the chief object of the government’s at­ tack, and the indicted men are directors or otherwise interested in the company, which was organized in 1903 with a capital of fifteen million dollars. ÔM/MS SWP f/toro BETTER STEAMER BIG SAW MILLS ON FLORENCE OF S. P. CO F. J. Monroe. President of Club, Will Saw Hundreds of Million Makes Arrangements for Feet of Timber in Burned » New Vessel Districts « A i »V. F. J. Monroe, president of the To cut the logs into lumber on the Florence Commercial club, is in Eu­ Siuslaw river and ship the finished gene on his way home from a busi­ product by water is said to be the ness trip to Portland. He had been solution of the problem of what to in that city to arrange to secure a tlo with the burned timber along fworo,cot>vnfe-HT uv steamer to ply between Yaquina and Lake creek and the Siuslaw river, Coos Bay. touching at Florence both owned by the Southern Pacific com­ ways, and has been success­ pany, Starret & Hovey and other ful, being practically assured by the During the earlier stages nt least of the maneuvers being conducted Just outside th«* borders of the Mexican re­ . owner of a fine vessel that such a large timber concerns. The Guard has learned from a re­ public by th«* American army atxl navy Galveston «411 lie the headquarters of Rear Admiral Sidney A. Staunton, j service will soon be inaugurated. The liable source that this is the plan commanding the luittieships, cruisers and torpedo lx»ats that will constitute Uncle Sam’s tl<>till;r. Since its narrow , vessel in question has a capacity of of the railroad company and the escape from obliteration in 1!*»> the Texan city has been rebuilt on a * ale never before iittemptal by its residents, 250 passengers. It is planned to make other owners of large tracts of tim­ • nd its Importance on th«» maritime trad«1 of the gul, of Mexico has been emphasized. A u«w and powerfn! .«ea wall I the trip to Florence from Yaquina ber in the districts over which the every other day, thus giving the peo­ terrible forest fires swept last sum­ lias been constructed to prevent a repetition of the tidal disaster of tcu and one half veins ago. ple of the Siuslaw city and surround­ mer. The timber must be used with­ ing country a valuable service. At in two or three years after being present the only craft that makes burned or it will be useless, and in that port is the Anvil, and it runs order to save the hundreds of mil­ only once in ten days. The owners. lion feet it will be necessary to erect Mr. Monroe says, are contemplating several large mills and keep them shortening the service to half that going constantly until aJl of this time, but still this will not be satis­ burned timber is sawed up. factory. and the people down there Railway Scheme Abandoned. are determined to have a vessel of The Southern Pacific company I I their own. has been contemplating building a Mr. Monroe is enthusiastic over the railway to the Siuslaw over which splendid results obtained from the to haul the lumber from this burn-! building of the Jetty at the mouth of ed timber, the plan being to estab­ I the Siuslaw. Only $60,000 of the lish millB on the land, but the plan Tito Portland railway officials nre Bttrr McIntosh, founder of the $300,000 or more available has been is now, according to the Guard s in­ receiving reports front every town Burr-McIntosh magazine, who won expended, yet the water on the bar formant, to erect mills at tidewater, on their lines In On-gon as to the renown In the Spanish-American war has deepened wonderfully and there flcat the logs down Lake creek and number of colonists arriving at. dif­ when as correspondent for the New is now a maximum depth of 13 feet, the Siuslaw, cut them up there and ferent points. Eugene seems to be York Herald ho got the first plc- enough water to float any of the ship them to market in ocean ves- well up nntong the top-notchers, tures and account of the battle' of coastwise vessels that ply on the Pa­ seis. judging from tho report sent by 1». San Juan hill before the public, is cific. C Freeman, manager of the promo­ in Portland ami says in his opinion Big Mill Near Florence. In speaking of the new steamer It is said that Starret & Hovey tion department of this city. The the United States will be Involved service which is to be inaugurated will begin the erection of a huge Oregonian this morning says: in war with Japan in a very short The first order for roses to be Salem. Or.. March 22.—Homer "D. ('. Freeman, manager of tho time, and that the first effect will Roseburg, Or., March 22.—Sus­ : soon, Mr. Monroe said that it will be mill near Florence and that the Eugene Commercial club, writes the lie that th«- Japanese will take pos­ planted on Eugene's rose day. which Davenport, the cartoonist, today fil­ pected of the fiendish murder of Bar- the means of bringing many more Southern Pacific company has made colonist rates arc bringing from 61» session of the Pacific coast states will come this year on March 31, has ed suit for divorce from Mrs. Daisy . bara Holtzman, aged five years, in people to Florence. At present it is arrangements with this firm to saw to 100 visitors a day to that city nndi and hold them for an Indlfinlte pe­ been sent by Manager Freeman, of Davenport, whom he married at Sil­ , Portland last Tuesday, a man giving very hard for them to reach that its logs in addition to the 100,000,- the promotion department of the verton, Oregon, in 1903. Davenport the name of F. P. Bain was arrested city, it being necessary to make a 000 feet or more that Starret & Ho­ than many others stop In tho various! riod. Commercial club, and the plants are alleges cruel and inhuman treatment. hard trip on the stage ftom Eugene smaller towns of Lane county. All T have been making a very care­ expected here Inside of a week. The Four children were the issue of the by Deputy Sheriff Sam W. Starmer and then not get there until the next vey own in the burned territory. Mr. Starret. a member of the firm. h33 who have been questioned reporti ful study of the Japanese situation." and Ralph Quine yesterday afternoon Mrs. Davenport's friends | as he was walking to Roseburg from day after the trip is started. The been in the Siuslaw country for some having bean attracted by the pub said Mr. McIntosh this morning, ordinary varieties will cost 15 cents marriage. each, but some varieties which a new steamer will connect with the say she will contest the suit. time past arranging to begin work llcltv given that section by the local "and I was told by officers high in Coos county. The arrest took place A decree of separation was granted beyond Olalla. about 17 miles south­ trains at Yaquina bay and make the on the big plant, it is said. The firm commercial body, the Oregon Devel-| the navi that the Washington gov­ number of people ordered, and which were not on Mr. Freeman's list, will trip to the Siuslaw in a very few in a New Jersey court some time has a great log boom with a capacity west of tills city, whither Starmer opniont body and th«' railroads. ernment lias known for some months "Efforts arc being mado to obtain past there is a force of 60,000 Jap­ come at 22 cents each. The following ago. went in a buggy to meet the travel­ hours. Especially in the summer of 60,000,000 feet, opposite South are among those sel«»cted by some of time, he says, will the travel be heavy slough on the Siuslaw. and this will er. Bain will be placed in the county the names ami address«' of all ar­ anese In Oregon. Washington and rivals nt Eugene for tho purpose of I California, all with rifles and aui- the people for which they will have jail in Roseburg this evening, await­ to Florence, as hundreds of people be used to hold the logs that this Bessie to pay the higher price: who flock to Newport will take ad ­ firm and the Southern Pacific will ing the arrival of an officer from entertaining them at a mammoth iniinltlon and equipment, and I all Brown. Empress of China. Marie Portland to take him to that city. vantage of the rates on the steamer float down stream to the mills. newcomer«' picnic to be held later in with military training. These men, i White Henrietta, Irish Elegance, and the pleasant trip to visit the Slu- Permit From Government He denies any knowledge of the ter­ tho year. The ladies' auxiliary of riow working as laborers and ser- Grant, slaw. The railroad company is said to the Eugene Commercial club has vants. are ready to take up arms in Cherokee. Safrano, Mildred * Hermosilla. Mex., March 22 ♦ rible crime. Rambler, Florence Pemberton, Baby have received a permit from the gov­ Bain seems tq tally with the des- been active and lias established a a day's notice. Their first acts will of Edinborough, Her Majesty, ♦ —This town is safe. The ♦ ernment to cut the timber on these system of «ailing upon the families Ire to blow up the passes between Duke of Honor, Madame Jean Du- ♦ rebels have withdrawn and ♦ cription of the murderer given by lands, which are in the territory of recent arrivals. I.atid buyers ar«« the Pacific states and the east thus Maid Meteor, Rainbow, Mrs. John ♦ the federal soldiers sent to ♦ the landlady of the lodging house that is in dispute, much of It hav­ Port- prominent among th«' visitors and «oittlng off all communication by Puy, Cecil Bruner. Bell Siebrecht. ♦ La Conorado have returned, ♦ where the child was killed. Lang. ing been filed upon by hundred« of local real estate men arc busy point­ rail. Then, with the fleet of 2,10 Kate Moulton, LeMarque, Crimson ♦ the rebels having abandoned ♦ land detectives learned that the sus­ pected murderer left Portland on Have Been Away Four Months people who are endeavoring to in­ ing out to them available tracts It merchant vessels and men of war Rambler, American Beauty, Paul ♦ that point before the feder­ duce the government to force the steamer Breakwater, bound for is impossible, the communication that Japan has been collecting for Neyron a.'d others. Of these about ♦ ala arrived there. and Have Taken in All « the company to sell at 12.50 an acre. Marshfield, Bain is reported to have says, to determine hoW man will re­ two years past. sh«‘ can land 20.000 100 plants l.ave been ordered besides ♦ Parts of Country If this story is true, it would ap­ landed front the Breakwater when main. Several hundred families will mon hero within 30 days. There ere many others. the steamer touched at Marshfield Mr and Mrs. L. N. Roney arrived pear that the Southern Pacific com­ he sdde«l to the population of Lane There are 10,001» Japanese In Seat- In no cast* will the promotion de- last Thursday. From that city § he is home this morning from their trip pany wflt not build the railroad county as a result of the reduced tie alone, and this force could easily partment guarantee that the price said to have walked to Bandon, prob- through the east and south, having I rom Junction City or from Eugene fares. tak«> the Puget sound country." will be 15 cents except for those or- |ably to board another steamer in the been gone over four months. 1 he for a Ion" time to come, if ever. "Mr. Freeman, however. points Mr. McIntosh intimated that the dered off his list. [fear that the Coos Bay steamer trip in the main was very enjoyable, out that the personal inquiries of excuse Japan will make to bring on Extensive arrangements will soon | would be searched for him upon the although marred somewhat by sick- prospective settlers nt his office trouble with the United States will begin for proper excursions on rose­ vessel's arrival in San Francisco. nes among Mr. Roney's relatives. throughout th«' year are from one to lie her insistence that the Panama planting day. Last year the day was Falling for some unknown reason Two of his aged sisters were very ill ten daily and he expresses tho bellei canal I»«' not fortified and that she marred by a rainstorm, but this year that the Important'«' of caring for the Ito allowed certain rights In the can- It Is hoped that old Jupiter Plttvius New York. March 22. Dr. Booker to take a steamer at Bandon, the at the same time he was visiting suspected man turned his face east- them. Mr. and Mrs. Roney took in people who com«' in nt other times al. Journal. will be good and that the exercises T. Washington, the negro educator, ward and started to walk toward the Mardi Gras while in New Orleans of the year should not l»e overlooked whose alleged assailant of last Sun­ can be held in the open air. in the engerness to attract colonists. day night, Albert Ulrich, was held I Roseburg. Sheriff W. W. Gage, of and enjoyed the sights of ail the The Booth-Kelly Lumber company "In tho anniversary number of the yesterday for trial on an assault Coos county, who had kept trace of principal centers of interest through­ Oregonian." ho concludes, the Eu­ charge. Is still at the Hotel Manhat­ Bain ever since his landing at out the east and south, coming home is advertising for bids to build three tan and recovering rapidly from the Marshfield, sent word on to Rose- by way of southern California, miles more of logging railroad. Thia gene Commercial club placed a hall burg of the man's Journey this way. where there was lots of rain all dur­ line will extend up one of the can­ effects of the injuries received. The Greeks, who have been cm-| page advertisement, which has been yons from the company’s main log- Washington was gratified today to At 10 o'clock yesterday morning the ing their stay there. very useful and which has dlri < ted ployed on the gas ditches here for Mr. Roney is suffering from cold ( ging line, which runs seven miles be- receive a letter from President Taft sheriff's office was notified that Bain a large number of people to come the past ten months and who have The company al­ in tho president's handwriting, in' had passed Camas Valley, and Dep­ which he caught while in New Or­ ' yond Wendling. here this spring." been discharged by the company be­ which he expressed sympathy for and I uty Sheriff Starmer immediately leans several weeks ago and isjhav- ready has three miles of branch roads cause a number of people complain­ Winnipeg. March 22.- A party of confidence in Washington's integrity. drove out in a buggy to aprehend ing a hard time to get rid of it. They running up different canyons and ed that the Greeks were guilty of I him. accompanied by a son of Sher­ are glad to get back and their many with this additional three miles it 170 negroes, with seven carloads of petty thefts, wish to state that if It iff Qnine. friends are glad to welcome them will make 13 miles of first-class log­ goods, from the southern states, ar ­ .» ging railways that they operate in Tacoma, March Q 22. The anti­ can be proved that they are the rived at Emerson. Manitoba, today home. guilty ones they will give $500 to that vicinity. Heretofore the com­ MARRIED. treating ordinance passed tho mu­ the person so proving Among the and passed an examination is to their La Grande has Just completed an pany has done the grading for these nicipal commission In l»<* ember nml At the Hoffman House, in Eugene, Greeks employed here are a number fitness for becoming residents of it is an up- roads itself, but the engineer has referred to the voters earjlcd yestei of steady and honest men and those Canada. A number were rejected for Pekin. March 22 -Tho rumors that Tuesday evening. March 21, 1911, $85,000 high school, day hy a majority of 881», with two Tobias Littrell and Miss Leia P. Ir­ to-date building with laboratories, concluded to secure bids on this new M. Korostovetz. Russian minister to various causes. The examinations hr- .» been employed hero for a long win. both of Marcóla, Rev. li. 8. assembly hall, gymnasium and other piece of work to see if it can be done precincts to hear front. Tho ordin­ at time are naturally resenting the im- are being carefully noted by officials t'hina, was murdered nre unfound­ Wilkinson officiating. • any cheaper that way. features. ance goes into effect tomorrow ed. He is enjoying good health. of the United States. Jputatiou that they aro thieves. I ■ oon. ON COAST READY FOB OLIRE Manager Freeman Reports 60 Burr McIntosh. Magazine Own to 100 Each Day—Big Pic­ er, Promulgates War nic for New Arrivals Scare Dope OF LITTLE GIRL FROM WIFE First Order Goes Out to Grow Homer Davenport Begins Ac­ Man Giving Name of Bain Ta! ers and Plants Will Be tion in Salem. Oregon, lies With Description Here Very Soon Court of Murderer REBELS RETREAT FROM HERMOSILLA MR. AND MRS. L. N. RONEY HOME FROM LONG TRIP PRESIDENT TAFT HAS CONFIDENCE IN NEGRO LEADER BOOTH-KELLY COMPANY TO BUILD THREE MILES MORE LOGGING RAILROAD GREEKS DEFY ANY ONE TO PROVE THEIR GUILT NEGROES ADMITTED TO RESIDENCE CANADA LAST DAYFOR TREATING IN TACOMA MURDER RUMOR WAS UNFOUNDED. I