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The Estacada News BTACAD A OREGON NEWS OF THE WEEK b a Condensed Form for Our t o y Readers. A R m u i m o f tho Leas Important but Not Less Intarasting Evonta o f tho Past Wook. Four moil clerk* were injured in a train wreck near Flovilla, (ia. Work ia about to begin in New York on a building for the various Irish so cieties. New York hotel clerks have organ ised a club under the name of the Greeters. I)r. Em il G. Hirst'll, in an address at Chicago, denounced German; as a menace to the peace of the world. Sixteen persons were injured, five seriously, by the derailment of a tar on the scenio railway at one of Denver’s amusement parks. Mrs. Yerkes, widow of Charles T. Yerkee, intends to devote a portion cf her $10,000,000 estate to the erection of a hoepital in New York. A man disguised as a girl obtained employment in the Bt. I-ouis telephone office and was only discovered when he proposed to one of the girls. First-class west bound ocean travel is at its lowest ebb at the present time. Four big liners have just arrived with their cabins practically empty. T R A P S FOR T E R R O R IS T S . C H ARG ES ARE SLA N D E R O U S. Russia Provids* World-Wide System o f Secret Service. Fulton Daniaa Every Accusation Made by Heney. 8t. Petersburg, Feb. 26.— The skilful petlormai ce of the police in tiie round up of the great band of plotters has won praise throughout the city, bearing witness to the thoroughneas of the methoda evolved tor fighting terrorists. The secret police are spending unlim ited sums in bringing tire terrorists to justice and iiave drafted agents of in ternational experience who are thoi- oughly familiar with the by-ways of Western anarchists and who will in troduce an ¡improved technique here. The police department has entered into relations with detective agencies abroad, and has organised an extensive service in all tliecenteia where Russian emigrants congregate, particularly in New Yoik, Paris and Switierland, and are making a special effort to penetrate within the innermoet councils of the Social Democratic and Social Revolu tionist organizations. Ia connection with the latest plot the men of the secret service were aliso- Intely trusted by comrades of the revo lutionists, who attended the meetings held in Finland, where the final plan for the ansassination of Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholiavitch and Judge Tche- glovitoff, minister of justice, was elab orated- Two hundred plain clothee men were called in by heada of the po lice department and given precise in structions as to what action should be taken and apparently they arrested without error tire persons involved. Tims far the police iiave failed to ex tract a confeesion from any of those ar rested as to their identity, but several undoubtedly are members cf aristocrat ic houses. It is certain that numbers of the conspirators have managed to evade arrest, and a careful watch is be ing kept t^r these. Portland, Feb. 24.— In a long state ment given to the newspapers of Port land for publication, Charles W. Ful ton, senior United Htates senator from Oregon, answers in detail the charges made against him by Francis J. Heney, ■pecial prosecutor for the government in the laud fraud cases, in a speech de livered in the F'irat Congregational church I d this oity on the night of Jan uary 28 of the present year. At that time Mr. Heney made the Jirect charge that Benator Fulton’s long participation in crooked political and business deals in Oregon, notably in timber land frauds, had unfitted him to occupy the high office he now holds and announced a determination to oppose to the utmost the senator’s candidacy for re-election. Mr. Heney further charg ed that Benator Fulton is the tool of the railroad interests at Washington and represents, not the people of his state, but the law-defying corporations in congress. The specific charges made in the Heney speech are taken up one hy ODe in Senator’s Fulton’ s answering state ment and denied comprehensively and in detail as to every material fact. Benator Fulton does not mince matters in laying before the people of his state his defense. He strikes squarely from the shoulder and chargee in the plainest terms that 1 i « accuser deliberately fal sified in his Congregational church speech, which Benator F'ulton points out to have been the oiimax of a cam paign of malicious persecution and v il li HcatioD begun more than two years ago. Senator Fulton impugns the honesty of Mr. Heney’s motives. Revenge and partisan politics, he says, are the basis of the graft proesecutor’ s enmity to ward him, and Mr. Heney’s obsession by an irrepressible ambition to stand in the limelight is given as an added incentive for what Benator F'ulton calls the lawyer’s otter disregard for the truth. B LAC K HAND BUSY. That there is lees graft and business f hreaten to Blow Up Government dishonesty in America txlay than there Powder Stores. was in Washington’s time, is the opin New York, Feb. 25.— In a letter ion of Dr. R. H. McArthur, of New signed "Black H and" and addressed to York. Commander Braunstrueter, in charge American naval officers were ban of the United Btatee naval magazine at Iona island, the threat lias been made queted at Lima, Peru. that the enormous Btores of smokeless A Frenchman lias invented* wireless powder on the island will be blown up eleotric power system. unless the married men discharged Mexico is devising ways for the re from employment on tne island Janu ary 1, 1908, be put back to work at form of the public credit system. once. There are 3,000,000 pounds of The Hearst Independence league has smokeless powder and other explosives decided to nominate a national ticket. stored in the numerous magazines. The sale of ex-Minlster Conger’ s Chi Secret service men are working to nese ourio collection has realized $26,- discover the identity of the writer of 633. the letter Printed by hand, the letter Japan has asked for a larger appro was mailed at the Haveretraw postoffice priation for the Tokio exposition in two weeks ago. It was as follows: “ I f the married men that were dis 1912. charged from Iona island are not taken Russian authorities have captured back again at once all the magazines plotters aga'nst the life of Grand Duke on the island w ill be blown up. The Nicholas. writer does not (ear death. Black Hand.” Fire for a time seriously threatened a On January 1 Iretween 30 and 40 large part of the business district of men, who had been employed on the New Orleans. Island, were discharged, owing to delay A mortgage for $225,000 has been in forwarding funds from Washington foreclosed on the Yerkes home and art to continue work. This delay was collection in New York. looked upon at the time as temporary, A Colombia, Mo., man has just died and it was understood the men would who for the past 20 years has drunk at be taken back as soon as the money ar rived. least a quart of whisky a day. Among the men discharged, most of The children of Eureka, Cal., have whom were laborers, were many Ital petitioned the forest servoe for the cre ians. ation of a redwood national forest. Since the receipt of the letter every An attempt was made to burn the approach to the island lias been guard Boa lee hotel, at Muskogee, Okla., where ed day and night by marines, it is,said, about 100 delegates to the Democratic and the civilian employes have been convention were quartered. kept under the strictest surveillance. Iona island is about seven miles south Railroad unions deny the necessity of West P oint.______________ for wage reductions. The Northern Pacific has reduced Death at Grada Crossing. grain rates from Montana points to Spring Valley, N. Y ., Feb. 25.— A Chicago. foam specked pair of horses that tore Benator Ankeny has given a banuet through the streets early today, drag to a number of senators, at which he ging with them a eplintere I wagon pole, brought to the village the filet boomed the Beattie fair. news of a grade crossing accident in Early fruit and vegetables for ship which nine members of its most prom ment to the North have been damaged inent families were either killed out in Louisiana by a oold wave. right or frightfully injured. Four of The Illinois Bupremeccnrt holds that the party were instantly killed, two a labor unionx’s unfair list is in effect died while being removed to the Hud son county hospital at Hoboken N. J , boycott and can be enjoined. and the other three lie in a serious The Pullman car company has irsned condition at that institution tonight. orders to sell no liquors while the cars are passing through dry districts. Will Bars Ruet’z S c c e ts . The cruisers West Virginia and San Francisco, F'eb. 25.— Every de Maryland are to undergo extensive re tail of the negotiations between the pairs at the Mare Island navy yard. graft proeccution and Alie Ruef will be Members of the marine hoepital ser bared in the exhaustive affidavits to be vice have condemned a large part of filer) in Judge la w lo r’acourt this morn Ban Francisco’s packing house district. ing by District Attorney I-angdon, As Changes will be made at once. sistant District Attorney Francis J Hrney Consolidation of the large coal min Heney and W illiam J. Burns. ing interests of Illinois and Indiana for and Burns spent yesterday in preparing the purpose of regulating the output their affidavits, and while they would not discuss the contents of the docu and upholding prices is under way. ments, both said that the sworn state Russia discourages talk of war with ments would include every important Turkey. detail of their relatione with Ruef. The American fleet has arrived at Callao, Peru. Operate on Edison. New York, F'eb. 25.— Thomas A. A number of Stanford students have Edison, the inven'or, is a patient at the been expellede for drinking. Manhattan hospital, where last night Miss Dorothy Whitney, of New he underwent an^operation intended to York, is to wed a Hungarian nobleman. relieve him of trouble in the left ear General Nelson A. Miles will make The operation, which was not consider bis home in Washington, D. C., here ed especially serions, wag per formed by Dr. Arthur D. Deuil, the ear specialist, after. Secretary of the Navy Metcalf will who opened an abscess In the middle The operation waa seemingly go to Ban Fanrclsoo to welcome the fleet ear. wholly succesiliil and a prompt recov on its arrival there. ery is anticipated. During the next nine years Russia w ill spend $1,000,000,000 for the con Repair at Puget Sound. struction of a new navy. Seattle, Feb. 25.— The Colorado and Fire which started in a large depart the Pennsylvenie, armored rrnisere of ment store at Woburn. Maes., deetroy- the first c'a**, arrived at the navy vaid today for dry docking and repairs. The sd $100,000 worth of property. Colorado will be e |nipped with a new The Santa Fe railroad has tempora"- main battery of four eight inch breech ily closed its shops at Topeka, throw loading rifiee. The two veeaels will be ing 2,000 men out of employment. followed by eight other warships which A large part of the business section will be repaired by April 26. of North Woo. is took, N. H , has been Main Water Pipe B u r n t . destroyed by Are. Lots, $100,000. Pails, Feb. 26.— The mein water It 1* raid Roosevelt w ill send John pipe of Paris, tinder Tnilleriee street, H . Mithell, retiring president of the hunt last evening and converted the Mineworkers, to Psnama to investigate street into a torrent. The water flooded labor conditions. cellars in various side streets, extin Btoessel has teen condemned to guishing fire* and stopping the dyna death for the surrender of Port Arthur, mos in et least one large hotel, potting but the court recommends the sentence the building in darkness. a be commuted by the czar. Russia Backs Down. Russia and Japan are still encroach Copenhagen, F'eb. 25.— It is nnder- ing on Chinese territory. strod in diplomatic circles that as a ra sait of pressure fn m other powers Rus Major General Wood, commanding sia he* ahandoned her plan of fortify the Philippines, w ill start ho n* Febru ing the Aland islands and that an an- ary 90. tant» w ill soon b* arranged. LO A N FUND INC REASES. LARGE C L IP i X 'f C T E U . Students to Be Assisted at Univsrsity Eastern Oregon WBnl Industry Looks Encouraging. o f Oregon, University of Oregon, Eugene— Hon. R. A. Booth, of Eugene, has just given to the student loan fund of the Univer sity of Oregon a check tor $600 to be used aa an irreducible eduatioual loan fund for students. The fund will be known ax the "Booth Loan Fund" and will be kept separate from the general loan fund, which at piesent is distrib uted in loans ranging in amount from $16 to $80 among 10 students of the university. Since the establishment of the general fund five years ago, more than 30 students iiave been enabled to complete their college course who could not otherwise have done so. The uni versity hopes to establish during the present year a loan fund ol at least $5,- 000, to be loaned under the direction of President Campbell, or some onb desig nated by him, to boys and girls all over Oregon who wish to complete tlielr edu cation, but who cannot do so without assistance. It is believed that a loan of approximately $100 a year, at a low rate of interest, to be repaid in two years after graduation, is much more preferable than an outright gift in the form of a scholarship. The fund will he guaranteed by 10 men against loss. Two signatures will be required on each ncte and a small amount of life insur ance will ire taken out to insure against loss by death. The present loan fund amounts to approximately $1,000. T O BE W O O L C E N TE R Baker City 8ecures Low Rates on Shipments to Boston. Baker City— Baker City w ill become one ol the greatest wool markets in Ore gon. Sheepmen have been in Purtland consulting with the O. R. & N. officials and iiave secured a rate of $1.75 from Baker to Boston. The Sumpter Valley has made a ra‘ e of 20 cents from Aus tin to Baker, and the reduction by the two roads means that more than 1,000,- 000 pounds of wool from Grant and Wheeler counties will be hauled to Austin and then shippd to Baker for baling. Dayville is the present center of the sheep industry in Grant county, and the ranchers woul I much rather haul their wool to Ausitn because of the goal roads. They have been pay ing $2 to have their wool hauled to Shaniko because of the lower rate. The shipping of the wool via Baker City will mean that Instead of the ranchers buying their supplies at Shaniko they will haul their wool to Austlo, leave their teams there and come on to Baker Citj^ to secure their warehouse receipts and while here purchase their supplies. By this means the local banks will handle $200,000 that would go to other cities. Although the rate on wool is still higher from Baker than from Shaniko, the ranchers can afford to Bhip via Baker because of the low cost of getting their wool to Austin, Mountain Farming Experiment. Pendleton— An experiment in moun tain farming of more than usual im portance is being conducted by W . G. Warman, of this city, on his home stead in Fly valley, a secluded vale in the Blue mountains at an altitude of about 4,200 feet and located 60 miles southeast of this city. He has planter! an orchard and is now sending to the agricultural department for hardy grasB seed for spring sowing. Tlieie are thousands of acres of fine mountain land In the Blue mountain valleys which can tie brought under cultivation and if this experiment is successful much of tills land at high altitude will be farmed, it is thought. La Grand* Adopts Market Day La Grande— Satisfied with the excel lent results of Ihe market days estab lished by the Pendleton Commercial association, this city has decided to try the experiment and within two weeks will have formulated a series of market day sales for the coming spring and summer month». The La Grande salea will lie the first to be adopted east of the Blue mountains, but the high suc cess of the gales at Pendleton and else where in the inland empire has stimu lated the 1.4 Grande commercial club to try the experiment. Clackamaa May Get Cannery. Oregon City— If the present plans of the members of the Clackamas County Horticultural ro.dety are carried out, Clackamas county w ill have still an other enterprise In the shape of a fruit cannery. A meeting of the society was held last week. Mr. Britton, of Kast- ern Oregon, addressed the meeting on the subject and stated that he had made a careful examination of the fruit acre age of this vicinity and finding it high ly satisfactory, was willing to finance the scheme. Oil Company for Klamath Klaniat,. Falls— The incorporators of the Klamath Oil company have elected the following officers: G. lleitkeniper, Jr., president; H. B. Hall, vice presi- dent and general manager; Pierce Evans, secretary, and G. Whits, treas urer. It has long been claimed that indications are very strong of vast de posits of coal oil beneath the volcanic blanket in this region, as proven hy the fact ttiat it ooaes up at various places. Can Fish Up to the Illinois Gold Beach— The gasoline launch Sheba, which hat lately b.ren put on Rogue river to carry fish to the cannery and cold storage plant, ia greatly facili tating the work of fishing. Fishermen are now able to p 'y their trade up to the mouth of the Illinois. This was impossible before hroanse they coaid not tend their nett and bring their fish so far down the river. Coleman Out o f Willomotta. Salem— The resignation of Dr. John II. Coleman st president of the W il lamette nniveisl’ y ha* been accepted by the board ot trustee«. Coleman tendered has resignation some months ago, but the board failed to act on i t Nothing has tho* h r been done toward* appointing hi* Pendleton—The fixing of the wool sales dates for Eastern Oregon is tlie first step in what promiaee to be one of the best years for sheep and wool in th history of the state. Owing to the mihi winter all over Eastern Oregon the lamb crop promisee to be heavy and the wool clip will average higher than ever tefore. It is estimated that the Eastern Oregon herds will average oine pounds or more this year, owing to the constant improvement of the grade of sheep. Shearing is now being discussed and prioes will be fixed soon. It Is thought the price for shearing will be about 7 % cents per head, and there is a large preference shown for hand shearing, owing to the fact that the machines injure the roots of the wool by cutting too close to the skin of the sheep. The skin of the maohine shorn sheep being clipped extremely close, sunburns badly ami this retards the growth of the wool for another year. Wool and sheep buyers are already on the ground, and there promises to be spirited bidding for wool and mut ton sheep all over this section. Ewes which will hear a lamb this spring and liaing a heavy fleece of wool upon them are now worth $6 per head In Eastern Oregon. Sues to Carcel Contract Portland— The case of the state of Oregon against the Columbia Southern Irrigation company ia being heard in the United States District court. The state is represented by A. M. Craw ford, attorney general, and the irriga tion company by W. T. Muir and Sene ca Smith. Under the Carey act the ir rigation company 'was to irrigate cer tain tracts of land in Eastern Oregon aggregating something like 27,000 acres. This was the agreement made P R IE S T IS S LA IN . between representatives of the state land board and the company several years ago. The state maintains that Anarchist Shoots Catholic Leader in Denver Church, the company hag not carried out its part of the contract and Mr. Crawford Denver, Col., F’eb. 24.— F'ather Leo is asking that a receiver be appointed. Heinrichs was shot and killed when administering sacrament at tarly mass Beavers on Increase. in Bt. Elizabeth’s Catholic church, Silver Lake— Beavers seem to be on Eleventh and Curtis streets, this city, Kneei- the increase in this part of the state, at 6 a. m. yesterday morning. under the protection of the law which irg at the alter rail between two ’ wo provides a $600 fine for killing one of men, Guaranarcio pressed the muzzle these industrious little animals. of a revolver against the body of the Creeks and rivers in Northern and priest after receiving from him the con Central L ik e and Klamath counties in secrated wafer and shot the man of God timbered sections especially, are being through the heart. The murderer was hurried to the city taken possession of to a greater or lees extent by the lieavers, and in some few jail, and as threats of summary justice instances they are causing trouble to were made by many men in the crowd irrigationists by building dams that in wiiich quickly gathered in front of the terfere with the flow of water. One church, Chief of Police McHale De- larey called the reserve iorce of patrol colony has possession of Silver creek. men. “ I jnst went over there because I Cannery Stock Subscribed. Corvallis— Announcement has been have a grudge against all priests in made that enough stock had been sub there. They are all against the work scribed to insure the success of the ragman. I went to the communion rail movement fo ra fruit cannery, and a because 1 could get a better shot. 1 meeting of stockholders has been called did not give a damn whether he was to perfect an organization. The capital German priest or any other kind of a stock is $11,000, and the plant is to priest. They are all in the same class.” have a capacity of 12,000 cans dailv. The machinery and appointments are RETU RNJBY SU EZ. to i>e of the very latest models, em bodying everything necessary to turn Atlantic Fleet May Complete Its Trip ing out a perfect product. Around the World. Plan Rest Room at Milton. Milton— An interdenominational so ciety has been formed in wiiich all the churches are interested to promote the establishment ot a reading room in the city. Meetings of the society w ill be held every two weeks. The reading room ia intended as a rest room for the country people. A library of 600 vol umes has been arraged for. Commit tees representing different branches of the cwork have been appointed. Begin Work fo r Pu’p Mill. Oregon City— Work preliminary to the construction of the new m ill of the Hawley Pulp A Paper company was be gun when a force of men started to build a walk leading from station A to the mainland. As soon as this work is done, actual construction of the new pulp mill on the site of station A w ill begin, and it is expected to have a por tion of the plant in operation by April next, P O R TL A N D M A R K E TS . Wheat— Club, 81c; bluestem, 83c; valley, 81c; red, 79c. Barley— Feed, $26 per ton; brewing, $32; rolled, $29@30. Oats— No. 1 white, $27; gray, $27, per ton. Corn — Whole, $32.50; cracked, $33.50. Hay— Valley timothy, No. 1, $17® $18 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, $20021; clover, $14@15; cheat, $15; grain hay, $14015; alfalfa, $12@13; vetoh, $14. Fruits— Apples, table, $1.75(33.00; rooking, $1.26(31.60 per box; cran berries, $8011 per barrel. Vegetables— Turnips, 75c per sack; carrots. 65c per sack; beets, $1 per sack; cahhage, 1(311 l4c per ponnd; cau liflower, $1.75 (3)1.86 ; celery, $3.76(3 4 per crate; onions, 15<320c per dosen; parsley, 20c per dosen; peppers, 17\ e per ponnd; pumpkins. 1(31 V«c per pound; radishes, 20c per dosen; spin ach, 6c per pound; sprouts, 8c per pound; eqnn-h, l@ l> «c per pound. Onions— $2.50 per hundred. Potatoes— $2.50 per hundred, deliv ered Portland; sweet potatoes, $3.50(3 3.75 per cwt. Rutter— Fancy creamery, 30®35c per ponnd. Poultry— Average old hens, 13(3)13 t»c per pound; mixer) chickens, 13tg(313c; spring chickens, 12*«(3)l3c; roosters, 10(311c; dresser! chickens, l4o; tur keys. live, 14(315«; dressed, choice, 16 (317c; geese, live, 9<310e; ducks, 14ft 15c; pigeons, 75c(3$!: squabs, $1.5002 Egg*— Freeh ranch can J led, 221^0 23 v, c per dosen. Veal— 75(3125 pounds, 7c; 160 to 200 pounds, 5ft6 V>. Pork— Block, 75 to 150 pounds, 61$ (37c; packers. N3.8c. Hop«— 1907, prime and choice 41g0 6c per pound; olds I f t t e per pound. Wool— Eastern Oregon average best 18ft20c per ponnd aemwdlng to shrink age; valley 18ft20e according In flne- neas; mohair choica 29(330* pec pound. Washington, Feb. 22.— Interesting and important news reiaiive to the fu ture movements of the American battle ship fleet was made public at the con clusion of the cabinet meeting yester day by Secretary Metcalf, comprising an invitation from the Australian gov ernment to have the fleet, or at least some of the vessels, visit that country and Secretary Root’s reply. This reply is the first authentic information of the movements of the fleet after its journey to Ban Francisco has been com pleted. After expressing the apprecia tion! of the nation, the secretary says: "T h e eventual movements of our fleet have not been determined. W hile it is possible the vessels w ill return by way of Suez, I would he glad if some of them could be sent by the Australian route, but it would be premature to promise this,” U rge W ork on Amur Road. 8t. Petersburg, F'eb. 2 4 — A secret session of the douma committee on im perial defense tonight was devoted to affairs in the Far and Near East. It was attended by Premier Stolypin, M. Iswoisky, the minister of foreign affairs, and M. Kokovsheff, the min ister of finance, who outlined the Rus sian policy. The minister urged speedy construction of the Amur railroad, work on which waa formally begun last sum mer and which is designed to give Rus sia a line to Vladivostok entirely through Russian territory. Threat to Blow Up Docks. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Feb. 24.— It has just come to light that certain Ital ians at Port Arthur and Fort W illiam attempted last week to blow up the huge Canadian Northern railway coal docks recently erected at an enormous cost. Following the custom of the "B 'ack Hand” and similar blackmail ing societies, they first sent s letter to the manager of the dock that the/ would blow him and his institution up unless he lound them work, naively adding that an explosion would create plenty of work ior the shoveler*. Plumber* as Inspectors Ban Francisco, Feb. 24.— The Master Plumbers’ association of this city at a meeting today decided to instruct em ploye« to Inform the health officials in each instance where nnsanitary condi tions wrre found or the law requiring the construction of rat proof buildings is being ignored. Warned of the cer tainty of a quarantine, nnleee the rats were exterminated at once and the plague stamped out, the plumbers took action toward co-operation. Snowstorm Costs S26.000. Chicago, Feb. 24.— Th# city has com pleted the task of elearing the hosinea» section of the snow that fall in the great storm of last week. F oot thou sand men were kept busy for fonr days and -8,000 wagon loads of snow were removed. The expense to tba city waa abunt $26,000. BUILD TO INTERIOR Central Oregon Is Premised Rail Connections. FROM SUMPTIR TO PRINLVILLE Lina Up Hood River Valiev May Be Extended Southeast to Connect With Other Linas. D Y N A M IT E ENDS LlV E d . Twenty-eight Killed by Explosion at California Pow oer Wor. t Berkeley, Cal., Feb. 21.— W ith a force that shook the entire hay regh n aa an earthquake and a detonation heard for miles, the Jndeon packing house of the Hercules Powder Woiks at Pinole, 14 miles north of here, blew up at 4 o'clock this afhrnoon, and in the explosion four white min and 24 Chinamen were killed. Ten t< na of dynamite went up in the terrifio blast, shattering the she is to dust and splin ters. W. W . Stillwell, foreman of the packinghouse, was blown to atoms at his poet of duty. Not a particle of hit body was recovered. Maouel Enoa, Jose Grace and W. A. Rodreguca were the other white men killed. The 28 dead Include every man at work in the packinghouse None escaped. Flames buret foith in the rains after the explosion and threatened the gea- tine house, where two score girls were at work. A panic ensued and many were cut by flying glass snd crushed and trampled in the mad rush (or the doors. The panic and confusion following the explosion were pitiful. F em lllis of the men who daily risk their lives at the powder plant came running from the little hamlet of Pinole seeking news of loved ones. Danger of additional explosions preven'sd those who escaped injury from approaching too Dear the wreck, and it was not until late in tiie evening that the number of dead and injured was known. Hood River, Or., Feb. 22.— I f pre liminary plans being promoted by wealthy capitalists of Balt Lake City, who own the Mount Hood Railway ex tending up Hood River valley and also the Sumpter Valley, running out of Baker City, materialise, Central Ore gon may Iiave a railroad in the near fu ture that w ill open up its many re sources. The project provides for an extension of the Mount Hood line through the mountains east of Mount Hood, and a party of surveyors is now in the field trying to locate a pass through the mountains. The work is in charge of Joeeph A. West, chief en gineer of the Sumpter Valley. Early last fall a large surveying psrty headed by Mr. West was taken into the Central Oregon coiratry from Heppner Junction to determine the feasibility of building a railroad on that side of the mountains and hie report is said to have been favorable. The money pow er behind to propoeed railroad is David Eoclee, the millionaire sugar inanufac turer and lumberman, of Balt Lake City. If Ihe project is completed the two roads w ill connect at some point in Crook county. By extension of the Sumpter Valley road south it would pass through Canyon City. Grant coun ty, and also Prineville. An extension of the Mount Hood road has already been commenced. A big gang of men with a steam shovel was put to work at Dee, the present term inus of the line, and will build as soon as it can be pushed through the six miles of road toward Mount Hood that has been surveyed and staked. This will be done to accommodate the rapid ly developing fruit land in the Mount Hood settlement. It is admitted, how ever, by W . H. Ficcles and Charles T. Early, president and manager of the Mount Hood road, that it may form part of the connecting link of the pro poser! new line. Officers of both roads recently went over the territory that would be tributary to the project and it is learned that it is considered most favorably. In addition to reaching many acres of fertile farm lands, mil lions of feet of timber, for which there is now no outlet, it is said, could be utilized. Washington, Feb. 21.— The St. Paul A Pacific Timber syndicate, having sn office at 625 Chamber of Como tree, Portland, is to be investigated by the Postoffice department, to as ertain whether or not it is using the mails for fraudulent purposes. Senator T ill man yesterday charged in the senate that this company is flooding the coun try with circulars, in which his tam e is used without authority and in which the company offers to "m ake $5,000 out cf $200” invested with it, to be in turn invested in timber land in Coos and Douglas counties as soon «a the government recovers title to the un patented portion of the g ant to the Coos Bay Wagon Road company. Tillman charged that this company, of which Bryan R. Do*r ia presideot, is engaped in a “ scheme of swindling,” and said he propo ed “ to stop the ras cals from gi tting any more money.” He accordingly laid the circular befrre the Postoffice department today, and by his tequest the concern w ill be investi gated. I f it is fouDd that its circulars misrepresent facts, and if, as charged by Mr. Tillman, this company is swindling those who eubscri>e to its scheme, it w ill be denied farther use of the mails. T U N N E L UNDER RIVER. H IN T S A T G R A F T. S Y N D IC A T E C O M M IT S FRAUD Tillman Starts Postal Irqu'ry C oos Ba> Land Dealers. into Manhattan liland Now Joined to Long House Asked to Investigate Estimates Island City. for Naval Vessels. New York, Feb. 22.— The first of the Washington, Feb. 21.— A rrsrlution great system of tunnels and subways by was introduced in the house today by which the Pennsylvania railroad will Lilley, of Connecticut, providing for be enabled to run a train from Phila the appointment by the speaker of a delphia under the Hudson river across special committee of seven members to Manhattan island and under the East investigate this conduct o ' the Electric river to Long Island City was completed Boat company, of New Jersey, and its today. The two ends of one of the four predecessor, the Holland Boat com tubes connecting Manhattan Island pany, respecting the me hods employ» d with Long Island city were brought to by the said companies in regard to tiie past and proposed legislation of ocn- gether under the bed ol the middle of greBS. East river off Thirty-fourth street be The proposal of a congressional in fore noon today and steel rings comp's- vestigation is an outgrowth of the fail ing the shell of the tube were for che ure of the a mmittee on naval affairs to first time bolted in ODe continuous support President Roosevelt’s naval string from shore to shore. This tube construction program. The president was begun In August, 1906, and is 4.- personally backe<l the Navy department 000 feet in length. Two other tubes in itg requet-t for the authorization of will be completed within a few days the four battleships, ten destroyers, and the fourth will be finished within four submarines, etc. The committee three months, according to an an cut the hattleehips to two and raised nouncement made by the company. the sut marines to eight, and in connec Bo accurate were the meaaurements tion with the latter craft sd ipted Ihe of the engineers that the ends came to Loudenslger amendment providing that gether with a variation of only three- they should be of the type of the Octo eighths of an inch. pus, unless a superior type should be offered and demonstrated by October 1, 1908. Fight Indian Liquor Sale. Washingon, Feb. 22.— The senate Contempt Charge Holds. committee on Indian affairs today con tinued its consideration of the Indian Carson, Nev., Feb. 21.— For their appropriation bill. Among the amend criticism of the Supreme court tliat ments adopted were: Increasing from body today found Peter Breen, judge ol $26,000 to $40,000 the appropriation the Third district, and J. Mastretti, for the suppression of the traffic in in district attorney of Lander county, toxicating liquors among the Indians; guilty of contempt. Judge Breen waa makiDg an appropriation for agricul ordered to expunge the false and scur tural experiments; anthoixing the sec rilous remarks he made against the retary of the treasury to expend $60,- court or be disbarred from practicing 000 for the purchase of agricultural law in any of the courts of the state of lands and irrigation of them for the Nevada. He was given 20 days to ex use of Indians in California. ecute this order. Mastretti was dis- barred from the practice of law in any state coart for the period of 30 days. Expact Evans to Rscover. Washington, Feb. 22.— While not Must Exterminate Rats. yet formally advised by Admiral Thomas that he has assumed command San Francisco, Feb. 21.— A mass ol the Atlantic fliet, the officials of the meeting ol women at the Cal fornia Navy department are expecting some club today was devoted to the discus such announcement, on the basis of sion of the beet methods of preventing preceding reports on the condition of a serious outbreak of the plague. Many Admiral Evens. These reports are not suggestions were made for the exter regarded as indicating that the Admiral mination of rate and the improvement is suffering from any permanent inca of sanitary conditions. Among tl e pacity, but that he is simply again a speakers were Dra. Rupert Blue si d victim of rheumatic gout, which is di W . C. Rucker, Rabbi Vooreanger, rectly the result of the injury he re Fathers Caraher and M<Grade, Rev. ceived at Fort Fisher in the C ivil war Brmndford Leavitt and T. Carey Fried- lander, secretary of the Merchants Ex Daniea Part in Graft. change. Harriehnrg. Pa., Feb. 22.— Ex-Gov- Company Is Threatened ernor Pennypecker in his teetimony at the state capital conspiracy trial today Salt Lake City, Feb. 2 1 — A letter denied the statement of 8. B. Lewis signed by Joe Train snd Fred Stack, as that the famons Huston letter to ex- alleged leaden of the "Black Hand,” Attorney General Carson was prepared was received today hy Manager Wade, at a conference between Pennypecker, of the Ogden end of the Utah Light A Lewis and sx-Auditor General Snyder, Power company, in which Ihe threat is one of the defendants. Mr. Penny- mad* that nnleee the company reduces packer declared tliat when Lewis stated the rat»« for light and power the Black that this letter was intended to baa Hand society will blow np the power "w h iteaaah ,” he stated falsely. company’s dam in Ogden, the plant and offices in Ogden, and kill every officer or citiseo who dares to interfere. Kentucky Still Deadlocked- Frankfort, Cy., Feb. 22 — The hallot Flood Peobsb’a In f h lo . for United State« senator in the ioint session of the ieg'elatnre today resulted Toledo, O., Fab. 21.— The storm 4 follows Beckham, 67; Bradley, 66; last night is continuing today. Unta* Allen. 1; Blackburn, 1; Campbell. 4. freezing weather cornea qnickly, a illesi Necessary to a choice, 66. i troni flood saems inaviubla.