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The Estacada News OF ONE O PIN IO N . BONFIRE OF C LO TH E S . House Committee Votes to Railroad Land Grant* Shinsia Declare Boycott on Japan«»« Goods ■TACAD A ............ CUQON NEWS OF THE WEEK In a Condensed Form for Oar Basy Readers. A Resume o f the Less Important but Not Less Interesting Events o f the Past Week. China has invited the battleship fleet to visit her ports. China is very hitter against the Jap aneee and the boycott is growing. Hope for the recovery o( Governor Gnlld, of Massachusetts, is slight. A wind and rain storm in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama has done great damage to property. The health of Count Tolstoi, who has been ill for some time, has been re stored, and he is again at work. The Interstate Commerce commis sion has compiled figures showing the panic has not hurt the railroads. The annual lumber cut in Michigan has dwindled to lesB than trail of what it was in 1888. The total of 1907 was 1,713,584,000 feet. A letter addressed: “ Your Kxcel- lency, Sir Abraham Lincoln. Fifth ave nue, New York, U. 8. A .,” has just arrived in the foreign mail. The American Dredging company’ s $100,000 dredge burned to the water’ s edge at Oakland, Cal. It was the larg est vessel of the kind on the Coast. An agent of the immigration bureau, who haa been investigating the subject of undesirable foreigners, says thou sands of anarchists and indigents will be deported. Illinois is in the midst of a bitter liquor war. The American cruiser Tacoma is at La Guayara, Venezuela. Senator Borah says it was the plain people that Baved the day in the recent money panic. A Ban Francisco Chinese woman wants to be deported to avoid prosecu tion for stealing $400. A ll nnion miners have been warned to stay away from Alaska until the la bor trouble has been settled. Two train robbers cut their way through four seta of steel liars at the county jail at Helena and are at liberty. Cauton, Marsh 24.— The greatest in- ilgnation prevails heie aaginst the gov ernment for yielding to the Japanese lemanda in the Tatsu Maiu case, il being considered that the government’ s action in this matter has brought dis- grace upon this province. The Self Government society of Cauton has or ganized aevcral monster indignation meetings, at which resolutions were adopted that the anniversary of the re lease of the Tatau Marti be obeerved as « day of public mourning. The resolu tions also declared a boycott against Japanese goods. More than 50,000 persons attended the mass meetings held yesterday; buildings were draped in mourning and 20 or more orator« delivered denuncia tory speeches. Among the speakers was a 12-year-old, whose declaration against the Japanese caused the greatest enthusiasm. A great number of thoee who had as sembled thereupon divested themselves of Japanese-made garments, including taps and handkerchiefs, and nude a huge bonfire of them. One dealer in Japanese goods offered to sacrifice his entire stock. The meeting recommended the im peachment of Yuan Bhi Kai of the hoard of foreign affaira for weakness in yielding to the Japanese. in f o h m a t io n More is c o s t l y . T h in S 10,COO Expended for Enlightening Voters. Salem— The sending out of the pam phleta containing the measures to he voted upon at the general election in June, together with the arguments for and against them, has been begun by the secretary of state. Already over 60,000 hare been sent out to voters whose names have been submitted to the secretary of state. The state printer hua prepared 100,- 000 of these pamphlets in all at a cost of $6,373.75. Of this amount the per sons submitting the measures and argu ments w ill have to pay $2,797.34 as their proportion, as fixed by law. The total amount collected by the secretary of state from the tilers of the arguments ia $2,900. An adjustment w ill be made on a per page basis, and thoee who have paid more than their share will receive a refund, while the others who have not paid their full percentage will have to remit the difference. The postage tor the sending out of these arguments w ill cost about $3,000, and the oust of $6,373.75 w ill have to be added to it bsfore the actual expense of getting out the measures can be as certained, the amount o( postage, the cost for elerka engaged in mailing about $250, and the cost of securing the OVER M ILLIO N U N E M PLO YE D names of voters. Secretary of State Benson, it is esti Effects o f the Recent Panic in East mated, has saved about $3,000 in the getting up of the pamphlet by his ar and Bouih. rangement of the rneasurea. New York, March 24.— In a canvass of the country toasoeitain the number AS K FOR IN S T R U C T IO N , of unemployed men, dispatches tiave been received from many industrial centers with reports of conditions, and Umatilla Farmers Want Summer Fal from these it is estimated that more low Train than one million men are minus jobe. Pendleton— So successfully was the The reports indicate more than 600,006 unemployed in the chief cities and summer fallow train recently run by nearly 600,000 in the states outside the the O. R. A N. company through the wheat belt of the Palouee country that cities. That there are moreu"employed men Umatilla county farmers are making an and women in New York City today effort to secure such a train for the than at any previous time in many wheat belt of this county. Hall a dozen agricultural experts ac years past is the belief of union leAdeis, charity workers and students of social companied the train and lectured on conditions. Estimates of the number dry fanning, antisummer fallowing and out of work vary from 100,000 to 600,- deep plowing for the wheat districts, 000. II is probable that half of the with the result that farmers were great latter number, or 250,000, is about cor iy benefltted and have expressed a da sire to hear more on these advanced rect. Umatilla county The following eetimate is given by lines of farming. responsible labor leaders: Carpenters, farmers are dissatisfied with summer 10,000; tailors, 8,000; rockmen and fallowing half of their valuable land excavators, 8 000; bricklayers, 7,000; caili year and desire to know what laborers, 20,000; houseemiths, 9,000; crops can l>e raised on alternate years asphalt workers, 2,000; paperhangeis, which w ill conserve the soil forces and 2,000; painters, 7,000; rockdrillers, at the same time yield a profit. With 2,000; engineers, 2,000; pavers, 2,000; this end in view they will ask the 0. plasterers, 2,000; steamfittera, 500; R. A N. company to organize a farm t ' s sheet metal workers, 500; compositors, train. A P P L E LAN D «1 ,0 0 0 PER ACRE Grower Says It Is Worth That With Apples SI a Box. Hood R iver— The annual meeting of the Hood River Horticultural So ciety, the largest auxiliary organiza tion to the state society in Oregon, took place last Saturday. The meeting started in the morn ing with S. F. Blythe as chairman, and with an intermission at noon lasted until late In the day. A. I. Mason, whose subject was "T h e Ap ple,” stated as his opinion that the time was coming when districts growing cheap and Inferior grades of fruit would be forced to go out of business. J. C. Porter, who was on the pro gramme to speak on pruning, and who is one of the most prominent growers at Hood River, or else where, stated that, even If prices for apples should go to $1 a box, land at Hood R iver would still be worth $1,000 per acre on account o f the immense return on the Investment. C. H. Sproat, who was called on to speak on "W h at Shall W e Do to Market the Future Apple Crop to Get the Best Results?” was strong ly In favor of raising the best grades and best quality of fruit, and in this connection, as a director of the Ap ple-Growers’ Union, read a number of letters front large buyers and im porters in which they stated that they had found it cheaper to pay higher prices for fruit grown at Hood River than a less price for that grown elsewhere on account of Its quality and keeping properties. Mr. Professors Quiz Students. University o f Oregon, Eugene— The custom o f giving a quiz each month In the different subjects has become almost general among the different members of the faculty, and as approximately a month of the second semester has elapsed, the students are In about the same state of mind only In a lesser degree, as during examinations. Under this system a student may encounter as many tests in one day as he has hours, while with the examinations there is very little likelihood o f hav ing more than two in one day. Cannery for Independence. Independence— At a mass meeting it was decided that Independence is to have a fruit anil vegetable cannery. Over $6,000 has been subscribed for the plant. The stock w ill be held by local people only, and largely by farmers. Options have been secured on seveial sites. The exact location will be de cided at a general meeting of the stock holders. W. J. Steel reported that from 165 vines he harvested over 200 bushels of tomatoes last year, and W al ter Huntley Btated tiiat from a th.rd of an acre he gathered 300 bushels. Dr. Hall-Edwarda, one of England's greatest physicians, hag lost his left arm as a result of constant use of the X-ray. 2,000; pressmen, 1,000; mia -ellaneous W ea'her Good for Farming. tradea, 20,000; unorganized labor, 145,- Congressman Humphrey says that Try to Throttle University. 000; total, 250,000. Salem— Not for many years have the without ship subsidy Japan oonld whip University of Oregon, Eugene— In farmers of this part of the Willamette th i United Staten as easily as she did valley had as favorable a season as dicative of the widespread interest in DECIDES IM P O R T A N T CASE. Russia. this for (all and winter work. With the referendum movement against the The largest crowd of siehtseers ever scarcely an exception all the farmers university appropriation, is a letter to in Han Frauoisco is expected when the Interstate C< m-nerce Commission Has got their plowing and seeding done in President Campbell from President No Control Over Ocean. battleship fleet arrives. Accommoda season and the work of pruning and Pritchett, of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, of tions are being arranged by the hotels Washington, March 24.— A decision spraying orchards was favored by lair New York, asking for all the valuable for * 80,000 people. was promulgated today by the Inter weather during the winter. The out- data on the subject. President Pritch- 1 iok now is for excellent crops of all state Commerce commission in one of Fulton says he will return to Oregon e t mentions that this is the first case of the most Important caseB it has been kinds. The winter woe a mild one and to answer Heney. this kind and that, on this account, he called upon to determine for some time. livestock came through in fine condi Senator Bryan, of Florida, Is serious It is that of the Cosmopolitan Import tion, notwithstanding the scarcity and will make a study of the circumstances. ly ill with typhoid fever. ing company, a Philadelphia organiza consequent high price of hay and mill Umatilla River 8woll*n. There is a rumor that lleney is in tion, chartered under the laws of New feed. Pendleton— Warm rains followed Jersey, against the llamburg-American vestigating Chicago graft. by a chlnook wind and then more Packet company, the North German M edford Votes Water Bonds. rain is taking the snow off the moun Canada has appealed to Great Brit Lloyd Steamship company, the Wilson Medford— One hundred and fiftyfour tains at a rapid rate. The Umatilla ain to keep out Asiatic labor. (H u ll) lines and the Bcandinavian- Medford citizens voted upon the pro- river is higher than it has been any Hearst's Independence league intends American lines. pueed amendment to a section of the time this year, and though the water to keep the old parties guessing. The complainant's petition was 6led city ’s oliarter whereby the city council is rising rapidly, it is still far from with the commission nearly a year ago. was authorized to issue $25,000 addi dangerous. T h e ' rains are being Roosevelt is to write a message on Some time suliaequently the defendants tional improvement bonds for the com hailed with delight by the farmers, amendments to the anti-trust law. tiled a demurrer, attacking the juris pletion of the city distributing system. as the season has been exceptionally _________ > Travel to the Coast from the East diction of tire Interstate Commerce The sum asked for represents the differ dry. w ill be $2.50 cheaper than last year. commission. ence between a wooden stave pipe sys P O R TL A N D M A R K E TS . The opinion in the rase, which is tem, as was planned in the first place, Fire destroyed the Grand Pacific ho tel, Chicago, to the extent of $100,000. very voluminous, was prepared by and a cast iron system, as was after W heat— Club, 82c; bluestem, 84c; Commissioner Franklin K. Lane. ward decided upon. The vote stcod 103 Valley, 82c; red, 80c. The Husquehanna river is so high In brief, and in effect, the commis for and 61 against and thechangn in the Barley— Feed, $26 per ton; rolled that the iron works at Harrisburg have sion decides against itself. It holds plans will be made at once. $28 # 3 0 per ton. had to close. that it has no authority over oceanic Mlllstuffs— Bran, city, $26; coun try, $27 per ton; middlings, $30; The Shanghai, China, conncil has transportation and thus determines the Expect B ’g Freshman Class. voted to reduce the number of opium case adversely to the contention of the University of Oregon, Eugene— Indi shorts, city, $27; country, $25 per ton; chop, $20® 25 per ton. complainant. smoking dene by one-fourth. cations are tiiat Oregon’s freshman Oats— No. 1 white, $27® 28 per class of next year will he the largest ton. The United States Steel corporation Senator Bryan Dead in the history of the university. Regis made earnings of over $00.000,000 last Corn— W hole $3 2 50: cracked. Washington, March 24. — United trar Tiffany has received so far over 60 $33.50. year. This is more than $4.000,000 States Senator W illiam James Bryan, applications for university entrance, Hay—-Valley timothy, No. 1. $17 above the earnings of 1906. while in previous yrars very few if any ton; Eastern Oregon timothy. $19® Anna Gould says she has had enough of Florida, died at Providence hospital University author 20; clover, $14® 15; cheat, $15; at 8:30 Hunday morning, of typhoid came in so early. of married life. fever. It was on lf 73 days since he ities predict an entering class of close grain hay, $ 14® 15; alfalfa, 12®13. Count I.eo Tolstoi is reported to be took his seat as successor of the late to 160 next fall. The preeent enroll Domestic fruits— Apples, $1.25® ill at Yaanaya Polaua. Senator Stephen R. Mallory, who died ment, exclusive of outside branches, Is 3.50 per box. according to quality; Another affidavit by Ruef says Burns December 23, a id 23 days of that time 418, and with the law, medical and cranberries. $ 8® 11 per barrel. Fresh Vegetables— Artichokes, 75 used threats to get false testimony. was spent in hia tight against disease. music department the total is brought ® 90 c per doien; asparagus, 25c per up to 710. Several times during Mr. Bryan's ill pound: beans, 20c per pound; cab Abraham Hummel, prominent in the bage. \ % c per pound: cauliflower, first Thaw trial, has been released from ness hia friends despaired of his recov ery, hut as late as Saturday night the $1.75® 2; celery, $4.25®4.75 per Violated Gama Laws. prison. repo t was given out that his condition Albany George W. Klaher, pro crate; eggplant. 20c per pound; let Mias Wilheimina Crawford, of Low h 1 taken a turn for the better. prietor of the Brownsville glove fac tuce, head, 65c per dozen; hothouse, ell, Mass , 29 years old, has adapted as tory, was convicted In the State C ir 50c@$1 per box; parsley, 20c per her son James Butler, who is 46. cuit Court o f violation of the game dozen; peppers, 1714c per pound; Robbers Make Rich Haul. laws, by having fresh deer meat Ih radishes, 30c per dozen; rhubarb, Reno, Nev., March 24.— Three rob his possession December 12, long a f 10c per pound; spinach 5c per Old Benicia barracks, near Ban Fran cisco, which has been an army post for hers, heavily armed, overcame Edward ter the open season for k illing deer pounds; sprouts 10c per pound; 60 years, is to be abandoned, but the Hoffman and a companion on a road had closed. Judge Bennett directed squash, 1 ® 1 1 4 * per pound; to two miles from Rawhide late this after the Jury to return a verdict of guilty matoes, crates (6 baskets), $5® arsenal will be retained. noon, threw tnem to the ground, and without lenvtng the Jury-box. Fisher 5.50; Mexican, crates, $3. Root vegetables— Turnips, 75c per Letters have been received by Mayor made off in their victims' two-horse was fined $100 and costs. He will B isae, Chief of Police Bliippy and As rig, taking gold and hank notesamonnt- appeal the ease to the state supreme sack: carrots, 65c per sack; beets, $1 per sack: garlic 8c per pound. sistant Chief Hcheuttler, of Chicago, in ing to about $47,000 with them. The court. Onions— Buying price, Oregons. forming them they w ill be shot. money was consigned to the Coalition $2.50® 2.90 per hundred; Japanese Plsalar Cast o f Big Meteor. Mining company at Rawhide to be mrd Jobbing prices. $3.50. Railroads w ill maintain low exent in paying nrinrra' wages anil to meet University of Oregon, Eugene— The Potatoes— Buying price, $0®65c slon rates to the coast all summer. the final payment on one of the proper university has received an odd addi per hundred, delivered Portland; ties pnrchssed last week by the Coali tion to the Condon museum. In the sweet potatoes, $3.50®3.75 per hun The roaring well near Beloit, Wis. tion company. Posset ate in pursuit. shape of a plaster of par a cast of the dred. sounds from which preceded the Han meteor which fell naar Oregon Citv in Butter— City creameries: Extra Francisco disaster, is again emitting 1906. The gift waa made by the W il creamery, 30c per pound; state Marina Casualties Heavy rumbling noises and a strong wind. Boston, March 24.— A review 'of the iam tte Steel A Iron company, of Port creameries, fancy creameries, 2 6 ® 30c; store butter, choice, 1 6 ® 17. The United States navy poet at the marine casualties off the coast of New land. The cast was made at the Smitl - Cheese— Oregon full cream twins sonian institute, and is an exact repro England and British North America Midway islands Is to be abandoned. 15c; Young America, 16® 1614c per during the tall and winter season just duction of the orig nal. The meteor pound. Rear Admiral Evans w ill he retired ended, allows that abont 350 lives were fell on land belonging to the W illam Poultry— Average old hens. 1 4 ® after the fleet reaches Ban Francisco lust. Of this number 261 persons per ette Steel A Iron company. 15c; mixed chickens. 1 2 ® 13c; May 8. _____ ished in the wrecks of ten vessels be spring chickens. 16® 20c; turkeys, Raducs Rataa on Sacks longing to the French Ashing fleet of live. 16® 17c; dressed, choice. 16® Viscount Aoki was recalled by Ids These teasels Pendleton- -Um atilla connty farmers 20c; geese, live, per pound, 8 ® 10c; go eminent for offensive talk to Roose nt. Pierre, last fall. foundered In heavy galea which swept are rejoicing over the announcement ducks, 1 6 ® 1 7 r: pigeons, 75c® $1; velt regarding Japanese exclusion. the Grand Banks. About 26 Newfound mails by the Northern Pacific and O. squabs, $1.50® 2. Eggs— Fresh ranch. 16c per dozen Rear Admiral Evans admires Magda land fishermen were lost in these storms. R. A N. railroads of a 40 cent rate per Veal— 75 to 125 pounds, 9 ® 914c; lena hay and says it would be a grand hundred on grain haga from Portland, 125 to 150 pounds. 7c; 150 to 200 thing if the United States owned It. Taom a and Seattle. This ia a reduc pounds. 5 ® 614c. Honored! Pariah at Sea Toklo, March 24.— Tha Mutsn Mara, tion of practically 36 per cent from the Pork— Block, 7$ to L50 pounds, 7 Rear Admiral Bperry will take com ©714c; packers. $®614c. mand of the American battleship fleet a 900 ton roasting steamer belonging to P'erent rate. Hope— 1907, prime and choice, 4 la oompletdTta voyage round the world. the Yusen Katahn line, was sunk in a 0 $ H c per pound; olds, 1 0 2e per collision with the llideyoehi Mam, 696 New Sheep Commissioner. pound. The Oregon and California ooastins tons, at 2 30 o'clock this morning two Salem—Governor Chamberlain ha« W ool— Eastern Oregon, average steamer Pomona struck the rocks off miles off Todohokke, near Hakodate appointed A. !.. Mackintosh, of Paul Fort Rosa, Cal , and is a total loss. The The captain of the Mutsn Morn, a ma ina, sheep enmmissioner for the Second best. 12 0 1 4 c per pound, according to shrinkage; valley, 18 0 20c. ac paeerngers and hand luggage were jority of her 144 passenger* and 43 of district to «neceed Thomas Boy Ian. cording to fineness. aaved, but 101 sacks of mall were lost. the crew perithed. whoaa term «xplrod March 12. Mohair— Choice, 2 5c par pound. F jrfs ii Washington, March 23.— Two m il lion acres of land in California and Oregon vested in the Oregon A Califor nia Railroad company, owned by the Central Pacific and controlled by FL II. Harriinan, will be subjected to suit for recovery of title by the United States, if action taken by the committee or public lands is sustained by the house. The committee agreed to report favor ably without amendments a resolution which has already passed the senate, empowering and directing the attorney general to Dring suits for the recovery by the United States of the title to the public lands granted to certain Wtstern railroad companies in cases where the oonditions stipulated in the grants have not been complied with— auvh condi tions, for example, as governed the grant of land to the Oregon A Califor nia Railroad company in the sixties. Under the grant the land was to be thrown open by the oompany for rale to bona fide settlers of the Unite 1 States at not more than $2 50 an acre and in parcels not exceeding 160 acres each. It is charged that some of this land was sold by the Oregon A California railroad in violation of the coi-ditiona named. The refusal of K. H. Harriinan, an nounced by him at the Irrigation con grees at Sacrmento last year, to sell any portion of the remaining 2,000,000 acres, led to the intreduction by Senator Fulton of the resolution which the pub- lie lands committee acted on favorably today. Chairman Mondell was author ized to draw the report of the commit tee which he w ill do this week. WILL VISIT JAPAN President Accepts lovltatlon lor Battleship Fleet. MAT CALL AT CHINESE POUT Cordial Reception Promised at Y oko hama—All Other Invitation* Ara to Ba Declined. Washington, March 23.— President Roosevelt has determined on a legisla tive program the enactment of which will be urged upon congress in a special message which he said today w ill go in this week. Each of the measures to be proposed involves perplexing difficul ties and each will iiave far-reaching effects on business and economic condi tions of the country. Tire program is the product of important conferences through which the president lias been put in possession of the views of ail in terests concerned. Likewise the atti tude of the leaders in both branches of congress has been made known. Its success depends upon the combined effort, which he believes can be brought to bear in behalf of the whole plan by thoee affected especially by some one of its features. The program includes: A declaration in favor of revision of the tariff in a special season to be held after March 4, 1909. An amendment to the Sherman anti trust law so as to make important con cessions to combinations of both labor and capital. Lim iting the powers of certain courts in the use of the injunction in labor disputes. Passage cf an employers’ liability bill. Passage of the Aldiich financial bill. Washington, March 21.— The Amer ican battleship fleet is to visit Japan. The desire ot the emperor of the Island Kingdom to play host to the fleet was laid before Secretary Root Thursday by Baron Takahira, the Japanese am bassador. The invitation, which was couched in most cordial terms, was made the subject of extended consider ation by President Roosevelt and his entire cabinet yesterday. Mr. Root was directed to accept the invitation and the acceptance was laid before the Jap anese ambassador late yesterday. It is regarded in official circles here sb more than likely that China will he next to hid f it a look at the fleet, and tiiat, should this be the case, the „invitation will be accepted. Sei r.-tary Metcalf and Admiral Pills- burg, chief of navigation, are arranging the dataila of ihe new itinerary. With tiie exception of China, it is deter mined that all other invitations, Bhouid any be received, will be declined, for at tiie best the fleet w ill not now be able to reacli the Atlantic Beaboanl be fore the first of next March. The it nerary, which stems to be the most dirtet, includes stops at the Ha waiian islands, Samoa, Melbourne, Sydney, Manila, Yokohama— should that port be selected as the stopping place in Japan— possibly a Chinese port, hack to the Philippines, and then home by way of the Suez canal, with only such stops as aie necessary for coaling. The fall target practice has been planned to occupy a month at Manilla, either before or after the visit to Japan. Although target practice is regarded as decidedly impoitant, and the custom is to have tiie ships occupy a month in each spring and fall in gun practice, the desire to have the Beet return to its home station may lead to a curtailment of the month planned for Manila. Japan w ill have the ships a week, according to the tentative plans. While Ihe stops in foreign ports so far made have been on an average of ten days’ duration, a part of that time was occu pied in taking on coal. W ith a '¡sit to Manila, no coaling operations w ill be necessary in Yokohama. This would enable the entire stay there to he given up to festivities and show features of the visit. The acceptance of the Japanese invi tation is regarded in naval circles as of considerable importance in the way of allowing the cordiality existing between Japan and tiie United States. The added trip is nearly equal in distance to a voyage from New York to Europe. LABO R A S K S C A B IN E T S E A T . H IN T S DIRE P L O T . R 0 0 3 £ V E L T ’S PRO G RAM . Undertakes to Get New Laws Through Congress. Will Urge Congress to Create G ov Heney Imagines Effort Will Ba Made ernment Department. to Spirit Ruef Away. Washington, March 21.— At the con San Francisco,March 21.— Abe Ruef, cluding session yesterday, of the execu indicted on 116 coants, thinks the sum tive council of the American Federation of $1,115.000 is toe much bail, and says of Labor it was decided to urge upon there are 37 counts against him on the house committee on labor the neces w hiih the bail is $370,000, of which he sity for the passage of the pending bill should be relieved, and that the bail on creating a department of labor, the the remaining counts is excessive. Ruef head of which shall be a member of the was in court on a writ of habeas corpus. president’s cabinet. Assistant District Attorney Heney It was decided to make a vigorous [ resented an affidavit stating that Rnei effort to secure the passage of laws in was wealthy, and that be believed that the various state legislatures for the there was a conspiracy to get Ruef out abolition of child labor. A memorial of the country. He cited tiie attempted of protest similar to the one presented kidnaping of James L . Gallagher, on to congres» yesterday is to be sent to whose testimony he said Ruef would be organized labor and the public general convicted, and also the attempted kid ly; it will lie prepared by a committee naping of ex-8upervisor Lonergan, just consisting of President Gompers, Secre befocre the Tirey L. Ford trial. tary Morrison and Vice President O’ Con Murphy pointed out that at the pres nell. ent rate of progress— over a year and The council was not notified that the not one trial— it would take 116 years hill of grievances presented to Vice to try Ruef on all the chargee. He said President Fairbanks yesterday was laid a conviction on one or two charges before the senate and referred to the would practically send him to the peni cumuiillee on judiciary. tentiary for life. Dividends Keep Up Wages Chicago, March 23.— The Record- Herald today says; “ So long as many of the big railroad systems of the coun try continue to pay higher dividends than they earn while they continue to borrow enormous sum of money, there will not be a general reduction in wages on Western railr.ads. Thi« decision was reached at a secret conference of Western railroad piesidents in Chicago this week. Following the conference railway laborers were given to under stand that the Western roads did not contemplate immediate reductions.’ ’ Coast Town Face Famine. Eureka, Cal., March 21.— Reports from Crescent City state that owing to the tie-up of steam schooners on the coast, a considerable portiou of Del Norte is fearing a food 'amine. Today the Humboldt Commercial company, of this city, dispatched the gasoline schooner Lady Mine, carrying 16 tons of food and groceries, which w ill go to Smith River and Crescent City. Some of the food w ill also he sent to Chetco, in Oregon, which is also reported to be suffering a food shortage. Del Norte gets all its supplies by schooners. Indictments Ara Dismissed. San Francisco, March 23.— Judge Dunne this morning dismissed the four remaining extort ion indictments against E. E. Schmitz, with the recommenda- tii n that the i ase be submitted to an other grand jury, and announced that Theodore V. Halsey will be brought to trail for bribery as soon as as the court ia able to take up hiscase. Henry Ach, attorney for Abraham Rnef, was in formed by Judge fjiw lor that he must make a complete showing In the matter of affidavits in tiie immunity contract hearing by next W ed n i»lay. Land to Ba Thrown Open. Washington, March 21.— By author ity of the secretary of the Interior, the public lands in 131,643 acres excluded from the Blue Mountain forest reserve. Oregon, by proclamation of January 9, 1908, will become subject to settlement o i June 1, 1903, if not otherwise with drawn. reserved or appropriated, but not to entry, filing or selection until July 1, 1908, at the United 8tates land offices at Burns, La Grande and The Drllee. Sixty days’ notice by publ c»- tlon in newspapers near the lands re ft ored haa been authorized. Harg Prisoner by Wrists. Columbus, O., March 23.— Senator Lamb, of Toledo, here today created a sensation by declaring that, while visit ing the Ohio penitentiary, he isw s prisoner hanging hy his wrists. “ I was astounded,” continued the senator, "and soon »aw that the attendants wete trying to keep me away from this man. I insisted on seeing him, and the man said to me: ‘ I have been hanging here since Thursday, and they only let me down for b n a la n d aster.’ ’ Launch "¿ h ip " Corqueroe. San Francisco, March 21.— The 8*1- ration ship Conqueror went Into com mission at 3 o'clock this afternoon with appropriate ceremonies, over which Mayor Taylor presided. The Conqueror was built by the Salvation Army. The front represents the bow of a warship. The piace was built for the use of the men of Admiral Evans’ fleet as a coun ter attraction to the gin mills. Read ing matter w ill be provided for the ■aiIora and liiDch at a nominal coat. Tillman Serlcusly HI Columbia. 8 C., March 23 — United Statee Senator Tillman i* seriously ill at his home at Trenton, thia state, ■offering frrm a nervous attack due, il ia believed by bia phjsicians, to bard work. New Battle« hip In C om m its'«'). Philadelphia, March 21.— The new battleship New Hampshire, with Cap tain Cameron McK. Winslow in charge, was p'aced in commies ion at the League Island navy yard trd.y. The warship will bt ready for tea in abont a month. HEARS L A B O R '.4 D EM AND Vice President and Speaker Promise Liability l aw. Washington, March 20. — Speaker Cannon and Vice Piesideut Fairbanks today announced their belief that tha present congress w ill pass an employ- era' liability act which w ill meat and orvertome the unconst ilulionality of the present law pointed out by the Supreme court of the United States in a recent decision. These statements were mad* unreservedly by the speaker and guard edly by the vice president to a delega tion led by Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labcr, from 87 national and international trade and labor and faimera’ organiza tions assembled in a national confer ence in this city. The delegation called on the speaker to lay before the house of repiesentatives, through him, a me morial entitled “ Lalo.-’a Proteat to Congress." The protest submitted by Mr. Gom- pers and his associates refers to the Supreme Court decision In the hatters’ case as the “ most recent perversion of the intent of a law by the judiciary hy which the bherman anti-trust law has been made to apply to labor, although it was an accepted fact that congress did not intend the law so to apply and might even have specifically exempted labor but for the fear that the Supreme court might construe such an affirma tive provision to be unconstitutional. P R O T E C T T R U L Y IN N O C E N T . But Railroad Land Grant Mutt First Be Forfeited. Washington, March 20.— The status of purchasers of granted land in good faith from the Oiegon A California Railroad company, and their righte un der the law, were set forth in eome de tail at the hearing before the house com mittee. Tiie provisions of the grant prohibit sales except to actual settlers in limited quantities and at a limited price. By necessary implication it per mits sales of the kind mentioned. This provision of the giant is a con dition subsequent for breach of which tire government has right of forfeiture. However, a condition subsequent is not self-executing. Upon the breach of the conditiun title does not automatically revert to the grantor. So that until the government in sonro way asserts rights of lorfeiture, title remains unim paired in the railroad company, with full authority to make sales to actual settlers in the manner provided in the grant. After forfeiture is claimed, no further sales of any kind can be made hy the railroar company, if the conten tion of the government isco'rect. But all sales made within the terms of the grant will be valid and will he in no way affected either by the Fulton reso lution or by any suits that w ill be com menced. PLA N N A T IO N A L A P P L E FAIR. Spokane Proposes to O ffer «1 0 0 ,0 3 0 in Premiums. Spokane, Wash., March 20.— A t a meeting of prominent citixens today it was decided to make the big apple show that w ill be held In Spokane next De cember a national affair, and such large prizes w ill be offered that fruit Irom ■ 11 parts of the United States w ill be entered in competition. I t is expected that the awards tiiat will be given will attract some of the greatest fruit ex perts of foreign countries. To carry out the plan, a corporation to be known as the National Apple Show w ill be formed w ith stock amount ing to $100,000, and governed by a board of trustees of seven or nine men. It ia anticipated that one of the directors will be Louis W. H ill, president of the Great Northern railroad, who has been requested by wire to accept a position on t i e board. It is intended to offer from $8,000 to $10,000 in premiums and to make the show an annual affair. Among the leaders are W . D. Vincent, cashier of the Old National bank, and David Brown, president of (he Hazelwood company. Mothers to Meet in Bruts ala. Washington, March 20.— The invita tion of the Belg'an government, extend ed through Baron Moncbeur, the Bel gian minister, to the National Mrthere’ congress to participate in the Interna tional congress on the education i f the family, to be held in Brussels in 19¡0, was accepted by the board of manager* of the Mothers’ society today. Among the delegates appointed to represent the United States were the following: Mr*. Frank B. H ill, Tacoma, W ash.; Mr*. Jefferson D. Gibbs, California; Mia. F. W . Ashley, Denver. N. P. May Lota Land. Helena, Mont., March 20.— Upon • statement made to President Roosevelt by a special committee from the M or» tana Mineowners’ association, concern ing fraudulent classifications by tha commission appointed under the M - Kinley rrgime in relation to the miner-' al lands of the Northern Pacific rail way, the president has instructed Bir- retary of the Intrrior Garfield to make a thorough investigation of the chargee. Mineownrrs from all over the state have combined to defeat the claim of the railroad to these lands. Asks fo r Intarvartlon. Washington, March 2 0 — The govern ment of the little African republic of Liberia hss appealed to America to pro tect her territorial integrity. The State department has been informed that • delegation is now on its way from Mon rovia to Washington to make a personal appeal to the president and Secretary Root to restrain the French from forci bly taking possession of a large part of the country lying in the border between Liberia and French West Africa. Governor Guild Vary III. Boston, March 20.— Governor Guild, who hoe been ill for two weeks, fa In a critical condition. His phytician, D r. B. F. Winslow, found the governor eo seriously ill yesterday that it war derid ed to m il two other physicians Into eonrultatioo.
