LIABLE TO FINES OF *80,000,000
8 W IF Ì PACK ING CO . CO M INO
K in g Edward and Queen Alexan
dra, the Prince and Princess of
Wales, Princess Victoria and many
government officials attended the
memorial services for the late K ing
Oarlos of Portugal und the Crown
Prince.
Clear Case Against 8. P — Paid Re
bates for Years.
San Francisco, Feb. 11.— Penalties
unprecedented in the history of the
prosecution o f corporations in C ali
fornia, or a complete revision and
vitalizin g of the laws applicable to
railroads, will be the outcome of the
Investigation to be Instituted this
week by the State Railroad Commis
sion, in the rooms of the Chamber of
Commerce, In the Merchants' Ex
change building.
Assistant Attorney-General Ray
mond Benjamin said today that 4,01)0
cuses of rebating have been perfected
against the Southern Pacific Com
pany, practically through its own ad
missions.
These cases will be pre
sented to the Railroad Commission
by Attorney-General U. S. Webb, Mr.
Benjamin and O. K. Cushing, special
counsel for the California Traffic As
sociation. Should convictions be ob
tained on each of these cases, and
the Maximum penalty o f $20,000 be
Imposed for each violation of the
law, the Southern Pacific will face
un aggregate fine of $80,000,000.
In each case the evidence practi
cally is conclusive, from bills of lad
ing to the Indorsed checks issued by
the company to the shipper, in reim
bursement. When the State Board of
Railroad Commissioners requested
the Southern Pacific to submit its
books to Mr. Benjamin, Peter F
Dunne, counsel for the railroad, re
plied that the railroad's books would
be available at any time. The com
placency with which the railroad cor
poration greets the investigation
foreordains that it w ill not fight the
action of the Railroad Commission
on merits but rather upon the law
involved.
Section 222 o f the state legislation
which creates the State Board of
Railroad Commissioners, with their
power to fix rates, provides;
"A n y
railroad
corporation
or
transportation company which shall
fail to conform to such rates as shall
be established by such commission
* * * shall be fined not exceed
ing $20,00t) for each offense. *
in 4,000 cases the railroad com
pany failed to conform to the rate
set by the Commissioners. The prac
tice is of long standing, but the only
records available are those subse
quent to May, 1900. In some of these
rebates the railroad refunded 53 per
cent of the orlgiual charge to the
shipper.
The battleship fleet has turned to the
north.
DRAG O U T SK E LE TO N S .
Ready to Begin Work on B3.600,000
Plant at Once
Portland, Feb. 10.— In the first
and only authorized statement which
baa been given out either here
anywhere else regarding his com
pany’s plana in the Pacific Northwest
Louis F. Swift, president of Swift
Co., last night declared that the
mammoth Portland plant, which will
represent an outlay of $3,500,000
and which w ill be erected on the Pe
ninsula, will be completed and ready
for operation in all departments
one year. Portland is also to be made
the center of the packing Industry of
the Pacific Northwest, and the Trout
dale plant, near Portland, eventually
Is to be abandoned, at least so far as
tbe packing side of the business Is
concerned. To what use. If any, the
Sw ift people are to put their present
extensive and valuable property at
that point was not vouchsafed.
The Sw ift people are ready and
prepared to go ahead with construe
tion work just as soon as the rail
roads have indicated what connec
tions ou tbe Peninsula they w ill es
tablish, and when they w ill be ready
to do the work. When these councc
tions with necessary terminal facili
ties have been decided upon, work on
the packing plant will be rushed to
completion.
In the official interview, H. C
Gardner, head o f the construction de
partment of Sw ift & Company, who
w ill have direct charge o f erecting
the plant, acted as spokesman for
President Swift, and entered into as
fu ll a discussion of the plans o f the
Swifts as the head o f the big con
cern deemed wise to give out for
publication at this time.
Mr. Gardner, in explaining why
the public could not be taken fully
Into the confidences of his concern
at this time, said that certain plans,
such as whether the company should
secure power from some of the com
panies already In the field here, or
erect Its own plant on the Peninsula
are yet to be settled, and that there
were a number of other considera
tions which, if disclosed now, might
interfere with their consummation
It was also clearly brought out
that if Portland ever intends to wrest
the bulk of the Alaska trade from
the Sound cities, the merchants and
shippers here will have to establish
direct steamer line from here to
the North. This was brought out in
answer to the direct question as to
whether Switt & Company intended
to enter that field, now monopolized
by various Seattle and Tacoma pack
era.
“ Sw ift & Company,” declared Mr
Gardner, "a re in the packing busi
ness and packing business alone.
They are not in the transportation
business, nor in the cattle-raising
business."
The Estacada News
tmmmé Cadi TS ora ja r
OREGON
ESTAC ADA
NEWS OFTHE WEEK
l i i Condensed Form for Our
B u s y Reeders.
A
Return« o f tha Las« Important but
Not L « m Interaatlng Event«
o f the Past Week.
The battleship fleet has passed
Magellan straits and Is now In the
Pacific ocean.
The Swift Packing Company has
completed plans for a $3,500,000
plant In Portland.
A Yale graduate and athlete has
been found to possess a complete
ou tfit of burglar’s tools.
Prem ier Franco, dictator o f P or
tugal has not left his room since ar
riving In Bordeaux, France.
Roosevelt says the charges that he
Is using his Influence to help T aft
along are false and malicious.
Claims of alleged illegitimate heirs
of Alfonso X ff are creating consid
erable trouble for the Spanish gov
ernment.
One child was killed and many
persons Injured In the crush at the
funeral of the dead king and prince
of Portugal.
Members o f the royal household
declare that the Portugese crown
prince rose and fired twice at the as
sassins before he himself fell dead.
California railroad commission has
evidence to convict the Southern
Pacific of rebating on about 4,000
separate counts, the fines for which
will amount to $80,000,000.
Germany has
duty on sugar.
reduced the import
A leader of the Black Hand has been
oaptured in New York.
The senatorial deadlock in the Ken
tucky legislature continues.
The Pennsylvania railroad has just
ordered 55,000 tons of steel rails.
Seattle ministers have started an
agitation against Sunday theaters.
Governor Pennypacker has been ira
plicated in the Pennsylvania capitol
rauds.
J
Franco, the deposed premier of Port
ugal, has arrived in France, fearing
murder but defending his policy.
The Elgin National Watch company
has closed its factory for an indefinite
period on account of dullness in trade
Government troops will be removed
from Goldfield March 7, at which time
the Nevada police will be ready to take
charge.
Warren Oliver, a member of the elec
toral college which named Lincoln, is
dead. He was a pioneer of California
and 93 years old.
Associate Public Printer Bram has
assumed contol of the government
printing offioe.
W . S. Rossiter will
continue the inquiries Into tiie conduct
of the office.
Woman surflagists are
hard fight in New York.
making a
Judge Hargis, a leader of Kentucky
fueds, has been killed by his son.
Florida Republicans are holding Taft
and anti-Taft conventions and having
flat fights.
Great Britain has paid the bandit
Raisuli $200,000 for the release of Sir
Harry Maclean.
The Western Bar Iron association, of
New York, will advance the price of
bar iron $5 per ton.
The house committee on naval affairs
opposes four new battleships and the
president has prepared to fight.
A greyhound has returned on foot to
ita old home at Oakland from Western
Montana, a distance of 1,500 miles.
Franco, former premier anil dictator
of Portugal, has arrived in Madrid.
He was driven from home by the many
thraata of assassination.
By an agreement of trans-Atlantic
steamship oompanies the rate war be
tween Europe and the United Htatoe
baa come to an end.
Owing to opposition to the election
of a statue to the late Senator Quay on
the oapltol grounds st Harrisburg, Pa ,
It ia proposed to put the queetion to a
popular vote.
Bryan declares that W all
worse than Monte Carlo.
street
is
The national convention of the 8o-
elallat party will be held In Chicago
May 10.
The American torpedo flotilla ha*
arrived at Pnnta Arenas, Straits of
Magellan,
French troop« in Algeria were oanght
in a severe snow storm and at least 28
perished.
Alleged lllegitimote Heirs of Alfonso
Making Trouble.
Madrid, Feb. 11.— The question of
allotlng a pension of 250,000 pesetas
to the Infanta Alfonso, the son of
Don Carloa of Bourbon and the Prin
cess of Asturias, who recently mar
ried Princess Louise of Orleans in
Engiuud, has received the approval
of the Council of State and now goes
before the Cortes. But it has raised
many complications, not the least in
teresting of which are suits for sim
ilar allowances brought by the na
tural children of Alfonso X ll by
Elena Sanz, a form er well-known
Spanish actress, and a natural cous
in o f the king named Carlos Allen
Perkins, a second-rate but popular
actor in the music balls of the cap
ital.
Perkins claim goes back to his
great-grandmother, the famous in-
funtu Carlotta, who provoked the
Carlist war by obliging Ferdinand
V II to admit the principle o f the
Salic law. It was she who slapped
the face of Calomarde, the Premier,
and drew from him the historic re
tort:
"W h ite hands are not offensive.”
Perkins' birth Is not recorded In
Gotha ,but he Insists that his real
name is Don Francisco Carlos Plo
Rose Alfonso Luis Fernando Allen
Perkins Guerowsky Bourbon Luth-
erlan Hossen Drlchmu Vrichtia and
O ttendorf" and consequently a blood
relation of most of the reigning sov-
erigns of Europe.
f o r b id s q u a d
hand
oreqon
g iv e n
p r o m in e n c e
Corrupt Practices Act May Be Found Joint Passenger Tariff Mantions 200
Unconstitutional.
|
Points in State.
Salem— That the corrupt-practices
Oregon receives considerable prom-
bill, to be submitted to a vote of the inence in the joint tariff issued by the
people under the initiative and ref- Union Pacific giving the one way col-
erendum. Is In direct conflict with ouiet rates to the Pacific coast Irom
that section of the Constitution which
Union Pacific territory. The tariff has
guarantees freedom of speech 1 b be
lieved by many who have read the just been issued and makes I be rates
measure. The bill makes it a crime effective March 1 to April 30, inclu
for any person to ask, solicit or In sive. The tariff Bets forth the rates in
any manner try to induce or per detail as they have been announced al
suade a voter on election day to vote ready in the newspapers. The low col
for or against any candidate or meas- onist rate Is good to any etation in Ore-
ure. This would bar the use of any i gon 8n(j about 200 points in this state
kind of argument on election day and are mentioned individually
in the
there is doubt whether it would be tariff.
The rate ie $30 from Council
constitutional.
Bluffs, Omaha, St. Joseph, Leaven
Under this section of the law it is
probable that newspapers published worth or Kansas City to all main and
on the morning of election day would branch line points on O. R . A N. east
be prohibited from printing anything of Portland, including points north of
calculated to Influence voters In de Umatilla and Pendleton, via Granger
termining how to mark their ballots. Ogden and Huntington, via Denver
The words “ in any manner try to Granger or Ogden and Huntington, or
induce or persuade” would cover a via Denver, Grand Junction, Ogden and
multitude o f acts. Candidates who Huntington
went to the polls and extended the
The same rate obtains to Portland
glad hand to voters would unques and all main and branch line points
tionably come within the terms of
the act, for it is common knowledge on the Southern Pacific south thereof
that a warm handshake Is one o f the to and including Ashland, as well ae
most potent means of getting votes. all points on the Astoria <4 Columbia
River railroad, via Granger or Ogden
and Huntington, via Denver, Granger
Josephine Goatmen Organ za.
or Ogden and Huntington, via Grand
Grants Pass— The Southern Oregon
Junction, Ogden and Huntington and
Angora Goat Breeders’ association has
via Denver and Billings.
been organized with C. E. Harmon,
president and Charles Meaerve, secre
W ANT CHEAPER GRAIN SACKS
tary. The association will have a reg
ular meeting in March. The raising
of goats has become one of the promi Growers at Athena Working Through
Association.
nent industries of Southern Oregon. As
well as being profitable for the wool,
Athena— C. A. Barrett, president of
they are looked upon as a valuable ad the Inland Graingrowere' association
junct in clearing new land, in keeping says that the principal object of the or
down the undergrowth.
It is calcu ganization at present is to reduce the
lated that there are about 5,000 or 6,- price of sacks. The association declares
000 of the animals scattered among the that the prices the dealers ask for sacks
ranches in this district, some of which are unreasonable. They say that they
are importer] stock.
made a good, substantial saving last
year by means of the association, and
that they will be able to make a far
Grain Sacks at Reduced Figures
Pendleton— Umatilla county farmers greater saving this year. Mr. Barrett
will share in the purchase of 1,000,000 estimates that the farmers of this
wheat sacks made by the Farmers’ Co county will be able this year to save
The Inland Graingrowere
operative union at Walla W alla. Over $40,000.
200 farmers were present at a mass association is a corporation and buys
meeting at which contracts ior the pur its own sacks direct thus making
chase of 1,000,000 sacks from the J. Z. great deal better bargain than the
Smith company and the Kerr-Gifford dealer can make.
Another purpose of the association is
company of Portland at a uniform
price of 7 >*c, was made. As the same to force the O. R. A N. and Northern
quality of sacks sold last year at from Pacific railway companies to arrange to
10 to l i e each, the farmers have made shift cars from one line to the other
a great saving in purchases for this without removing the goods from one
car to another.
Another object the
year by asking for bids.
association has in view is to reduce
freight rates on large grain shipments.
New College Building.
M ilton— A t a meeting of the board
of Columbia college It was decided
Klamath Cattle News
that an administration building cost
Klamath Falls— The shipping season
ing $2 5,000 should be erected, and for Klamath county cattle is about over
it Is understood that this building
NIGHT RIDERS O N RAID.
shall be ready for use at the next cel - 1 and the totals show that , ever $500,000
lege term next fall. The building is worth were driven out during the past
to be equipped in the most modern j season.
Since August the number
Imprison Citizens and Burn Tubicco
way, giving every advantage to th e , driven to Montague and Gazelle
for
and Warehouses.
students. This is a South Methodist shipment equals 16,686, and there yet
Hopkinsville, Ky., Feb. 10.— Last
institution, and is proving very sue- remain in the valley, mostly in the
cessful.
There is an enrollment of M errill country, about 3,000 yet to be night at 12 o’clock a band of about
over 100 students this terms, all driven out. This does not include the 150 mounted night riders, masked,
form different parts of the north Fort Klamath cattle, driven out by Way
heavily armed and wearing the in
west.
of Ashlaud and Medford. About half signia of a secret clan, invaded Fre-
Psy Weyerhaeuser's Taxes.
..total waa "‘''PP61' b? J' C '
Klamath Falls— The Weyerhaeuser ‘ 1 c ie *
_________
Timber company, which has extensive
Wj|, Adver,ite in E, i t .
land holding in Klamath and Lake
w.
m
r
, ,
counties, has announced it. intention , u T
,
of adopting the system follower! by the J u.b ha8 » P P ^ a t e d $300 for adver-
government in leasing the lands within , tl8,ng U n e coun‘/ and
fmest reserves for cra/lmr rnrnoses I ern PaPers next month, or until the
T The
. company
.nmnenv owns
own« approximately
« n n r w i l L i v ^ otH),-
i i o ’ colonist
rates
_
^ , . on the
- . transcontinental
0- c
000 acres of timber land in tiie two ».Iroad a go into effect
Of the $1,375
counties, home of the land it has ac-
by the promot.on department
,nired in recent years, bin much of it .
"
Blm,ndpa in
had been held for a long time. It Iras
Survey for New Tunnel.
Eugene, thereby really turning the
Seattle, Wash., Feb. 11.— Survey nover made any attempt to derive reve money subscribed back into the com
ors und engineers In the employ of nue from the lands.
munity that gives it.
the Northern Pacific have for months
been locating a new tunnel through
State Wants Sidetrack.
Fuel Down at Pendleton.
the Cascades. The
fact
became
Salem— The slate board has asked
Pendleton— An exceptionlaly mild
known yesterday, when the men,
tire Railroad commission to investigate winter has combined with the recent fi
driven from their work by the heavy
snows, arrived at Green R iver Hot the question of tho need of a sidetrack nancial panic to create havoc w ith the
on the Southern Pacific at the site of fuel situation in this city, as viewed
Springs on their way to St. Paul.
From Hot Springs comes word that the proposed home for the feeble mind- from the standpoint of the fuel dealer,
The rail- Coal has dropped from $11 to $7 per
the big Stampede tunnel Is to be ed, just, south of this city.
abandoned as soon as the new bore road company refused the state’s re ton, and though the wood price is being
is completed.
The new bore is to quest for a sidetrack. The state board kept up temporarily by the sheer force
be seven miles long and will cost up wants the sidetrack established as an of the local combine, the bottom is sure
ward of $10,000,090.
aid in transporting material for the to drop out of it shortly.
new building, which will be started
Mourned by All Creeds.
soon.
PO R TLAND M ARKETS.
Washington, Feb. 11.— Memorial
services in honor of the late Rev. Dr.
Wheat— Club, 82c; bluestem, 84c;
Paisley Wants the County Seat.
Stafford, pastor of St. Patrick's
Bilver ljike— W . H. McColl, of Pais valley, 82c; red, 80c.
Oats— No. 1 white, $28; gray, $28.
church, were held at Chase’s theater, ley, is authority for the statement that
when tributes to the life and char Paisley wants to bring to a vote at the
Barley— Feed, $27 per ton; brewing,
acter of Dr. Stafford were paid by June election the question of the re $32; rolled, $29@30
men prominent In public life. Vice-
Corn — Whole, $32.50;
cracked,
moval of the county seat from lake-
President Fairbanks spoke of Dr.
$32.60.
view
to
Paisley.
Paisley,
Summer
Stafford as "T h e Citizen” : Senator
Hay— Valley timothy, No. 1,$17@18
Beveridge o f Indiana as The Ora Lake. Silver lake, New Pine Creek and
to r "; Hannis Taylor. ex-MInlster to North Warner voters would probably per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, $20
Spain, as "T h e Scholar and Philan favor the move. Paisley is many miles 321; clover, $14(315; cheat, $15;
thropist,” and ex-Commissioner of nearer the geographical center ol the R™'n hay, $ 14<3>15; alfalfa, $12013;
Pensions Janies Tanner, as "T h e Pa county than Iakevlew.
j vetch, $14.
-------------
Batter— Fancy creamery, 30@S5c per
triot.”
Franco Excitss Curiosity.
Bordeaux ,France, Feb. 11.— Sun
day passed with Senor Franco, the
ex-Preniler of Portugal, still in Bor
deaux and still in seclusion.
His
privacy
has remained
unbroken;
since his arrival Friday” he has not
emerged front the hotel where he Is
stopping, not even, from his room.
The former dictator has become a
problem which the people are dis
cussing with curious, wondering,
even sympathetic interest, but no one
has been enlightened as to the hour
of his departure, or his destination,
for it Is certain that he is not to re
main here long.
The Japanese government will in
Wreck on Wabash.
crease the tax on atiptr, sake, alcohol,
Detroit, Mich., Feb. 11.— The Con
beer and kerosene.
tinental Lim ited passenger train on
The people of Ohio will vote on an the Wabash railway, westbound, was
initiative end referendum law at the derailed today by a brokeu rail at
Delhi, Ont., 150 miles east o f De
November elaetion.
troit.
None o f tbe passengers nor
Every trace of bnbonie plague has train crew sustained any injuries,
gone from San Francisco.
The cam other than bruises. Mrs. J. W. Dan
iels, o f W allace, Idaho, was taken
paign against rates will continue.
from the train at St. Thomas, suffer
In a battle between French troop« ing from nervous shock and with this
end Moon, the Moon lost 10,000 killed exception all of the passengers con
tinued to their destinations.
and wounded end the French 180.
Sevan I firemen were injured end one
Temp trance Worker Dead
le mining In New York where a fire in
New York, Feb
11.— John W.
a dry goods »tore oanaed a Ion of $200,- Oliver, editor and principal owner of
the Yonkers Statesman, died at his
Blaek Hand murders continue In home In Yonkers today, aged 92
years. Mr. Oliver was an early lead
Chicago.
er In the temperance movement, and
Japan is diverting many emigrants with his brother. Isaac Oliver, found
ice.
ed the Sons of Temperance.
Bales Under Hinkle Ditch.
P°'!nd-
.
„ v
Pendleton-Seven sales of arid land
P o »^ y -A v e r a g e old hen. 13014c
per pound; mixed chickens, 12@13c;
aggregating over $11,000 have just been
spring chickens, 13@14o; roosters, 10
made from the Hinkle Ditch company's
(^12c; dressed chickens, 14c; tnrkeys,
tract in the western part of Umatilla
live, 14015c; dressed, choice, 16017c;
county. The tracts will all be settled
geese, live, 9(310c; ducks, 18@20c;
and reclaimed and s large settlement
nabs, $1 50(32.
is anticipated in that pert of the county P ' * ™ 8’ ^
100' T
26@27c
this spring. Those making purchase«
Eggs-F,esh tench, candled,
ca
were J. H. Strohm, W. P. Littlefield, Pe'. “ 01
zen'
76 to 125 pounds, 909 tyc;
Maui Ice D. Scrogga, Elisabeth J. Tuck- *
,
,
125 to 150 pounds, 7c; 160 to 200
er, Martha A. Travis, Lorio G. Henry
pounds, 5(36iyC.
and B. F. Btrohm.
Pork— Block, 75 to 150 pounds, 7(3
7tic; packers, 506c.
Demand Flat 2 1-2 Cent Fair.
Fruits— Apples, table, $1.75(32 50;
Balem— A committee of the Travel
cooking, $1.25(31.50 per box; cranber
ing Men's association has arranged
ries, $8(311 per bsurrel.
with the railroad commission to file a
Vegetables— Turnips. 75c per sack;
complaint against all roads doing bosi-
carrots, 65c per aeck; beets, $1.00 per
neee in Oregon and asking for a fiat
sack; cabbage, ltgcper pound; canli-
$V cent rate on mileage books. The
flower, $1.75 (32; celery. $3.5004 60
rats now is about 2*« cents, end the
per crate, onions, 15020c per dosen;
books eold are not mileage books, but
parsely, 20c per dosen; peas. 10c per
ere coupon hooka, each coupon repre
pound; peppers, 171yc per ponnd;
senting 5 cents.
pnmpkins, 1 0 1 1 ,0 per ponnd; radish
es, 2Ac
per dosen; spinach, 6c per
Eagles Worry Benton County
,
Monroe— A pair of large eagles
»proots, te per pound; aqneah,
are playing havoc among the email i * 3 * w c per pound,
lambs on the foothills west of town. | Onoions— $2.50 per hundred.
They are expert In keeping out of| Potatoes— 40@60c per hundred, de
rifle range and no one has been able] livsred Portland; sweet potatoes, $3.26
to get a shot at them.
03.60 per cwt.
Hop«— 1907, prime and choice, 50
Cannery Puts Up Beef.
7
per ponnd; olds, 1(3*0 per ponnd.
Brownsville—The Brownsville can
Wool— Fasten Oregon average best,
nery has been experimenting in the 13021V per ponnd, according to shrink-
canning of beef and It will probably'age valley, 1 3020 b . according to fine-
pnt up a large amount in the near fn- ] neei
mohair, choice, 29(330c per
tore.
1 pound.
donia, Crittenden county, captured
James Scarberry, operator of the
Cumberland Telephone Company, and
cut all telephone connections. They
then forced Dave Potter, a clerk in a
drug store, to open his store, in
which they corralled several citizens
and held them prisoners.
Leaving a large guard in the town,
the others galloped to the village of
View, five miles away, and blew up
A lfred H. Cardin’s tobacco factory,
containing 35,000 pounds of tobacco
belonging to him and his croppers.
The loss aggregates $10,000, w
$5,000 insurance.
A fte r firin g volleys Into the air
the night riders returned through
Fredonia and released their prison
ers.
Eighty per cent of Crittenden
county farmers have tobacco pooled
In the Society o f Equity. Mr. Cardin
Is not a member. He Is a prominent
citizen, aged 73, and was form erly a
candidate for governor on the Popu
list ticket. The Planters Association
has no organization in this county.
HALL IS CONVICTED
Prediction ol Prosecotloo Proves
Correct.
JURY DELIBERATES THREE HOURS
Speedy Agreement Believed to Indi
cate Conviction, In View of
Judge's Instructions.
Poitland, Feb. 8.— A t 1:30 o'clock
this morning the jury iu the Hall con
spiracy trial announced that it had
reached a verdict.
The verdict was
sealed in an envelope, under instruc
tions given by Judge Hunt laBt night,
and was returned to the court and
opened at 10 o’clock this morning.
On convening court this morning
Judge Hunt directed that the envelope
lie opened and the verdict read. The
jury found H all guilty as charged.
Under the Federal statutes, conspiracy
such as that charged in the indictment
on which Hall was tried, is punishable
by a fine not wceedlng $10.000, or by
imprisonment not exceeding two years.
Portland, Feb. 8.— A t last night’s
session, which convened at
7:45
o’clock, Judge Hunt delivered exhaust
ive instructions to the jury, the charge
requiring two hoars for its delivery.
At 10:12 o’clock, after Judge Webster
for the defendant had interposed ob
jections to practically every instruction
of the court, the jury retired to deliber
ate on a verdict. The jurors were in
structed by Judge Hunt that if a ver
dict should be reached during the
night, they were to seal it in an en
velope and repair in the custody of the
bailiffs to their rooms, the verdict to
be returned at 10 o'clock this morning
to which hour the court then ad
journed.
Judge Hunt’s instructions were far
more elaborate than in any of the pre
ceding land fiaud or conspiracy caeeB.
They consisted of a learned exposition
of the law as applied to conspiracy
harges and a lucid interpretation of
the statues pertaining to the fencing
and homestead acts and the statute of
limitations.
When tbe instructions had been given
Mr. Heney expressed his satisfaction
with them, but Judge Webster, for the
deiendant, submitted exceptions in a
general way to the entire charge.
REFORM PO ST A L 8ERVICE,
Commission Recommends Changes in
Interest o f Economy.
Washington, Feb. 8.— In a prelim
inary report of the postal commission
authorized during the last congress, the
main recommendation w ill be to the
effect that the office of the fourth assist
ant postmaster general shall be done
away with and that an executive officer
appointed by the president for a long
term be installed as the active head of
the department, who shall act under
the direction of the postmaster general
and hold the same relation that a su
perintendent of a railroad holds to a
railroad president and directorate.
The examiners found that politics too
often interfered with the systematic
running of the department and that the
heads were seldom installed for any
length of time before being retired or
placed elsewhere.
Under present conditions it is neces
sary lor a mail bag lock broken on an
Alaskan route to be transported tbe en
tire distance to the Mississippi valley
before it can be mended. To do away
with this and other impracticable meth
ods, the commission proposes the for
mation of divisions with lull power to
administer offices within their boundar
ies. Said boundaries shall not neces
sarily follow state lines.
Of the 62,000 postoffices rnn by the
government it is thought that fully 30,-
000 can be operated in such a manner
as to become non-accounting offices and
do away with the too frequent issuance
of stamps and many intermediate re-
porta.
Frustrate Republican Plot.
Marseilles, Feb. 10.— The frustra
tion on Friday last at Oporto of an
elaborate plot to proclaim a republic
Is announced in a telegram which
was received today from one of the
highest officials In Oporto by his
brother, who has just arrived here
from Lisbon. According to the tele
gram a large number o f conspirators
have been arrested. Including the
leaders.
It was also stated that
numerous bodies of m ilitant repub
licans had been seen about the sub
urbs of Oporto. The police captured
large store o f revolvers and car
bines.
Hava Hot Fight With Moors.
Paris, Feb. 8.— A dispatch received
here from General d’ Amade, the French
commander in chief in Morocco, say*
the column operating on the coast had
an engagement yesterday
with the
Arabs at a point eouthwest of Kashber
Rachid. The French apparently had
routed their enemy when the Moors re
turned with reinforcements and attack
ed the French camp a second time. The
fight was a hot one, bat the Moors were
eventually forced to retire in tbe direc
tion of Settat. Five Frenchmen were
wonnded.
Blow Up Bank.
Joplin, Mo., Feb. 10.— Four men
early this morning blew open the
vault of the Bank o f Sulphur Springs,
Ark., and secured over $1,300 In
cash, besides notes and other val
uables.
The citzens o f
Sulphur
Springs were aroused by two explo
sions, but by the time the officers
reached the downtown district, the
work of the thieves had been com
pleted and four men were seen to
mount their horses and ride west
ward. The mountains In thM” direc
tion are filled with many gorges and
It is believed that the men have made
good their escape.
Mexico Grant« Coaling Station.
Mexico City, Feb. 8.— The concession
by Mexico to the United States grant'
ing the privilege for the establishment
of a coaling station at Magdalena bay
is now in force and it is expected that
the two barges provided nnder the con
cession will be anchored in the bay be
fore the arrival there of the fl«et. Fur
ther negotiations are pending for a
large target range and permission to
land marines for small arms practice.
Previous requests of like nature were
not favorably received by Mexico, but
this one may be granted
Demand to Show Hard.
Parts. Feb. 10.— The recent figh t
ing In Morocco, as well as the protest
which Abd-el-Axiz, the Sultan, is re
ported to have submitted to Germany
against French occupation and ag
gression In that country, has led M.
Juares, the Socialist leader, to formu
late a new interpellation on the sub
ject.
In the Chamber o f Deputies
tomorrow he w ill form ally demand
from the government another ex
planation o f the Moroccan policy.
No British Squadron Coming.
London,
Feb. 8.— The Associated
Press is officially authorized to declare
that there is sbedotely no truth in the
report telegraphed from Halifax that
the British squadron in the Pacific ia
to be materially increased. No changes
whatever are contemplated in the Pa
cific squadron and the British govern
ment has not the slightest intention of
eplaeing the old Pacific fleet, which
formerly had ita base st Eequimealt,
“ C.
Archbishop Returns.
New York, Feb. 10.— Archbishop
Patrick William Rlordan, o f San
Francisco, whose recent mission In
Rome was both for rest snd to advo
cate the appointment of Rev. Edward
Hanna, of Rochester, as Coadju
tor Archbishop of San Francisco, re
turned today on board the ateamahlp
Cedric.
Smuggles Arms Into Chine.
Hongkong, Feb. 8.— Chinese Imper
ial enstoma officials this afternoon seit-
e Japanese steamer near Macao,
which was landing arms on Chinese
territory. It is alleged that the arms
were intended fot revolutionists under
Dr. 8un Yet Ben, the leader of the rev
olutionary party ia Chine.
FAIR BILL PASSES.
8anata Stands by Seattle With Almost
Unanimous Vota.
Washington, Feb. 7.— The Beattie
exposition bill went through the senate
yesterday by a practically unanimous
vote. Burkett, who threatened to do
all manner of tilings to defeat it, made
a vicious attack and thundered loudly
for half an hour. When be concluded,
several senators spoke in bebalf of the
bill, and, when Piles moved ita pas
sage, barely a voice save that of Bur
kett was heard in opposition.
Burkett’s antagonism really strength
ened the bill, for he is generally dis
liked in the renate, and his onslaught
created sympathy for Piles. who was
pressing the b ill.
.
Tbe house committee will now take
up and report the stnate bill, instead
of that introduced by Congressman
Humphrey.
In the discussion before the vote was
taken, Burkett opposed the bill, as he
said he had opposed every other bill,
for that purpose since he had been in
congress. He said the proposition to-
hold tbe expoeition did not originate in
Alaska.
“ It has been put forward,’ ’ he said.,
“ by a lot i f (roomers of Beattie, who
purpose to boom their real estate and
their private Interests.”
Burkett read a list of expositions in
the United Btates showing that $20,-
960,727 had been expended by congress
in aid of th6m.
Tillman supported the idea of expo
sitions, saying the Charleston exposi
tion had brought many people from the
North to be “ civilized there.’ ’
Carter believed tire idea of equity
should influence congress in appropriat
ing for an exposition in the Far West,
as so little had been done in aid of
that section.
MAY A D JUST RATES.
Northwestern Mill Interests Confer
With Railroad Presidents.
Seattle, Wash., Feb. 7.— As the re
sult of a conference held this morning,
between President Louis W . H ill, of
the Great Northern, and President
Howard Elliott, of Ihe Northern Pa
cifican tbe one side, and President
Jacob Fourth, of the Puget Sound Na
tional bank and Frederick Bailsman,
representing the commercial bodies o i
the Pacific Northwest, hope is express
ed that the controversy between tho
lumber interests and tiie railroads con
cerning the rate question may be ami
cably settled. Nothing definite result
ed from the conference, but there is to
be another one within a day or so.
At the close of the conference Mr.
Furth made the following statement:
“ Mr. H ill and Mr. Elliott, at our
invitation met Mr. Bausman and my
self this morning to discuss tbe possi
bility of bringing about a settlement of
the rate controversy between the lum
ber and shingle men of the Pacific
Northwest and the railroads. Both the
railread officials appeared to be w illin g
to receive proposals from us, acting for
the commercial organizations of the
cities of the Northwest.”
URGEB HALL’S A C Q U IT T A L.
Webster Makes Earnest Argument for
His Client.
Portland, Feb. 7.— Ably and with in
tense earnestness Judge Lionel R. Web
ster yesterday advocated the cause of
John R. Hall, ex-United States attor
ney, before a jury in the United Slates
court. Counsel was unable to con
clude before eonrt adjourned at 6
o’ clock and will reeume this morning
at 10 o’clock. Although his argument
was confined to a review of the testi
mony almost exclusively, Judge W eb
ster pleaded loyally and eloquently in
behalf of the man who for years had
been his faithful and intimate personal
and political friend.
Judge Webster prefaced his address
with a brief discussion of the responsi
ble duty of a juror together with a defi
nition of the charge of conspiracy on
which H all is being tried. A t the out
set of his remarks, connsel for the de
fendant took issue with Mr. Heney,
who, in his opening argument Wednes
day, asserted that the failure ¡of prose
cuting officials to discharge their duty
and to enforce the laws w s b rotting and
decaying the very foundations of a re
publican form of government.
Keep Japs Ont.
Victoria, B. C., Feb. 7.— Tbe immi
gration bill framed on the lines of the
Natal act, which provides that all im
migrants who cannot write and read
English language of Europe will be re
fused landing, was passed by the Brit
ish Columbia legislature this afternoon
and will be referred at once to the lieu
tenant governor for assent.
Prepara
tions have been made to carry the regu
lations of the bill into effect at once,
provincial immigration officers being
appointed for this purpose if it should
be approved.
New Safeguards on Battleships.
Washington, Feh. 7.— Plans have
been completed by the naval ordnance
bureau for the installation of new am
munition hoisting arrangements for the
tnrreted vessels, comprising some 176
turrets. This is rendered necessary by
the introduction of smokeless powder,
which has permitted a greatly increas
ed rate of fire. The new arrangement
will supply ammunition as rapidly as
it can be fired, and will effectively
separate the turrets from the handling
room below so that there shall be a
prevention of powder ignition.
Locomotive Worke Re'reneh.
Philadelphia, Feb. 7.— 1
Tea thonsand
men have been laid off since December
by the Baldwin Locomotive worke, ol
this city. Bamuel Vanclain, a member
of the firm, in speaking of the condi
tions at the works, said: “ No substan
tial orders have come in since Decem
ber. We have received a few scattered
orders and we are now working upon
these.
Whereas we formerly were
tnrning ont abont 60 locomotive« a
week, we are now taming oat only 20.”
May Go Dry Forever
Charlestown, W. Va., Feb. 7.— A
joint resolution woe pawed by the
boose today providing for an amend
ment to the constitution which gives
tbe right tc voters to decide whether or
not liquor cr the mannfactnre of liqoor
ill be prohibited forever In the state.