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.