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' The Estacada Progress i— *mé Cadi Thursday ESTACADA OREGON RESUME O F THE WEEK'S DOINGS General Review o f Important Hap penings Presented in a Brief and Comprehensive Manner for Busy Readers— National, Political, His torical and Commercial. A Georgia negro has beer» lynched for wounding a white man. France is alarmed lest American competition kill the lace industry. Heney has called on United Railway employes to testify against Calhoun. Two Americans confined in a M exi can prison for murder have been liber ated. Tennessee lynchers are to be pun ished for contempt of the Federal Su preme court. Numerous earthquake shocks have been felt near Oaxaca, Mexico. A serious shock is feared. Astronomers in the East have dis covered a huge comet, which is visible in the early morning hours. What is declared to be the finest Masonic temple in the world has just been dedicated at Indianapolis Wheat, corn and oats have taken an other advance at Chicago, causing great excitement. All made new high rec ords. The drouth in the vicinity of Vera Cruz, Mexico, is so serious that many people are leaving. Wolves and dogs have gone mad and many natives have been bitten. The British war scare against Ger many is condemned as hysteria. WAR A T SE ATTLE . Fair Exhibitors Will Resist Efforts to Deface Grounds With Shops. Seattle, Wash., May 26.— War to a finish with an appeal to the courts, through injunction proceedings, if ne cessary, was decided upon Sunday by the A. Y. P. exhibitors who are re sisting the efforts of the exposition company to erect booths on grounds al ready allotted to various states, Ore gon being the first to precipitate the fight against the unseemly disfigura tion of its beautiful grounds. To carry this determination into effect, an organization to be known as the Exhibitors’ club, was formed at the Oregon building. Colonel J. A. Filcher, executive commissioner for California, was elected treasurer- chairman, and W. H. Wehrung, presi dent of the Oregon commission, was elected secretary. Attorney General Crawford, who had been summoned to advise the Oregon commission as to its rights in the controversy, took the po sition that the exposition authorities had no right to erect booths on the Oregon grounds, or on any other grounds assigned to different states, counties and the government. Encour aged by this view of the situation a resolution was unanimously adopted at the meeting firmly protesting against locating any booths on any grounds without permission. Meanwhile the exposition authorities are standing pat and say they will erect the 100 booths planned. They promise to incur as little friction as possible, but declare their authority is supreme, and they must have their way. Should the Exhibitors’ club be upheld in the courts, and it now seems sure the case will reach the courts, it will devolve upon the exposition au thorities to establish a special place for the booths, as the exposition au thorities themselves declare that the booths should not be installed in the court of honor, thus marring that bright feature o f the grounds. NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM THE STATE OF OREGON EXTEND RAILROAD. SURVEY C O O S BAY LINE. Oregon & Southeastern May Reach Line to Boise Will Be Run and Rights of Way Obtained. Coos Bay Country Soon. Eugene— The Oregon & Southeastern railway, which extends from Cottage Grove to the Bohemia mines, and which there is talk o f extending westward to Coos bay, has been purchased by J. A. Davis, vice president o f the Fullman Car company, who was at Cottage Grove with a number o f other Eastern capitalists last week. Mr. Davis also has purchased a large tract of timber land west of Cottage Grove and pro poses to extend his newly acquired rail road from Cottage Grove westward 20 miles, tapping the timber tract. While not yet officially announced, it is believed to be the intention of Mr. Davis and men associated with him to eventually extend the line to Coos bay. It is understood that a preliminary contract for the contruction of the proposed 20 miles of road has already been signed between Mr. Davis and Mr. Lund, chief engineer o f the Chicago Contracting company, who has also contracts to build another road for Mr. Davis out of Brownsville, Or., into a tract of timber which the Pullman magnate owns in that locality. Marshfield— It is announced that F. A. Hains, who was elected chief en gineer of the Coos Bay, Oregon & Ida ho railroad, will start out at once with a surveying gang to make a prelimi nary survey for a railr/ad between Coos bay and Roseburg. Several routi s are prop >s<d, and it is not being given out as to what di rection the turvey will work. The rail road company is the one recently or ganized for the purpose of securing rights of way and surveys for an out side railroad or (Mtssibly for one which may be built by local capitalists. Part of the capital stock of $25,000 has been subscribed. It is expected to ex pend about $12,000 on the survey and the rest in seiuring rights of way. ROADS BLOCK SPO KANE. Will Appeal tor Rehearing in Recent Rate Decision. Spokane, Wash., May 21.—Informa tion comes direct from Washington to day that the further plan o f the rail roads is to prevent final determination o f the rate questions involved until after the members of the commission separate for the summer. The further plan is outlined that im mediately after the Spokane jobbers file supplemental petition asking that the commission disapprove of the rates which have been filed with it by the railways, the railway companies will petition for a rehearing on all the ques tions which have been presented and decided by the commission. In the meantime it is predicted the schedule of rates submitted to the com mission will be published by the rail road companies and will become effect ive rates until the question can be once more brought before the commission and argued. The representatives o f the railroad companies expect that the Interstate Commerce commission will order that the rates established by the commis sion in the rate case will not become effective until after the hearing on the petition for a reopening of the case, and it is clear that if a rehearing is granted Spokane will have to accept the schedule of rates as presented by the railroads until after the final déter minât on of the rehearing. Bank Deposits Show Big Gain. Salem— State Bank Examiner James Steel has filed his report of the condi tion o f Oregon banks. The report is voluminous and includes a comparison with the figures presented a y iar ago. Individual deposits in Oregon banks, including national, state and private banks, now aggregate $79,665,719.87, compared with a total one year ago of Railroad Day Set for dune 14. $74,095,536.78, a gain of more than Klamath Falls— A t the urgent re five and a half millions. The increase CO W BO YS A T T A C K HERDERS quest of the Southern Pacific company in loans and discounts is $4,666,200.98. officials the time for the railroad day The prospects seem good for a continu celebration has been postponed from Sheepmen Are Injured and 3,000 of ance o f this condition. June 2 to June 14. The former date Their Flocks Killed. conflicted with the Portland Rose festi Dikes to Reclaim Land. Grand Junction, Colo., May 21.— As val and the company was also desirous Clatskanie— The Columbia Agricul a result of a battle between sheepmen to have the celebration at a later time so that the road could be thoroughly tural company, which owns over 12,000 and cowboys on a contested range near tested before any excursions were run acres o f overflow lands lying between Atchee, Colo., yesterday 3,000 head of over it. Extensive advertising will be Clatskanie and the Columbia river, sheep were killed and two sheepmen done by the railroad company and low proposes to undertake the task of re rates will be announced from Portland, claiming this vast tract by construct were injured. The sheep, which be San Francisco and all intermediate ing dikes and making the land fit for longed to S. A. Taylor and R. A. Taw- agricultural purposes. The company points. has installed the first of its dredges, ney, were graz ng on a range near the the “Muskrat,” and work began this hamlet o f Carbinero. Butchers Are Held Exempt. week on a cut in the Clatskanie river It appears that the cowboys dashed Salem— Attorney General Crawford f.bout a mile from town. in upon the herders and tied them to has rendered an opinion in which he trees, and then rode out and killed the holds that butchers who sell meat from No Road to Coos Bay Soon. sheep. They first cut the telephone wagons do not come under the provi Marshfield— Warren P. Reed, of wires. Several hours later the sheep sions of the peddlers’ license law, which goes into effect May 22. The law ex Gardiner, who had charge of the mate- herders were liberated. The authorities of Garfield county pressly exempts those who peddle farm I rial the Southern Pacific had stored products, and the attorney general along the Umpqua river for railroad have been notified, but it is not be construction, has been awarded the con lieved the cowboys will be captured. shows that the weight of authority fa vors the opinion that beef sold either tract for moving about 2,000 tons of The range in which the crime was com by the iarmer or by the butcher is a cement to Portland and San Francisco. mitted has long been a contested one, The cement was stored along the Ump and several murders have resulted from farm product within the meaning of quarrels over it. the law. There had been many in qua river nearly three years ago, when the Southern Pacific was actively work Warrants have been issued by the quiries regarding this law. ing on the Drain-Coos bay branch. authorities of both Mesa and Garfield counties for the arrest of 16 raiders, Rich Strike at Sumpter. several of whom are said to be known Fix Canned Salmon Prices. Sumpter— Report has been brought Astoria— The Columbia River Pack to the sheepmen. here of a rich discovery of gold ore at Late tonight the sheepmen in this the South Pole mine n^-ar here. The ers’ association at its last meeting section of the state arranged for a property is owned by John Haneon, fixei the selling prices for Columbia mass meeting, at which substantial re and is an extension of the famous river canned salmon at the same rates These wards will be offered for the arrest and North Pole mine. In the tunnel he that prevailed last season. conviction of the raiders. now has four feet of “ shipping” ore, prices are, per dozen, as follows: in which there are seams of rich free Tails, $1.65; flats, $1.75; halves, gold ore, pieces of which show assay $1.05; ovals, $2.30; niminals, $2.50; NEW GRAIN ROAD. values of thousands o f dollars to the half-pound ovals, $1.50. Key cans, 5 cents per dozen extra. ton. There is a stamp mill on the mine Hill Announces New Branch Line Into that will be put in operation socn. Wheat Belt. Some Fruit Hurt. C U T GOVERNM ENT EXPENSES French seamen have gone on strike, tieing up shipping at all the principal ports. Taft’s Policy o f Economy Being Car ried Out in All Departments. The government has disproved the charges that Heney is in its pay while Washington, May 25. — Secretary prosecuting grafters. Meyer has cut off $10,000,000 in Navy A big Eastern syndicate is said to be department estimates for the next fis preparing to operate a string of 30 dry cal year. This is a sample o f what goods stores in the West. may be expected on the part o f other A San Francisco chemist claims to cabinet officials. have discovered a method of making It may not be possible to reduce ex whiskey non-intoxicating, but exhiliar- penditures in all departments to as no ating. Evidence is being gathered that ex ticeable a degree as in those pertaining plorers from Sweden came to America to the army and navy branches of the in 1362, more than a century before military service, but the thing that will be accomplished in all directions Columbus. is a more intelligent idea of the rela I t is said that the reforms demanded tions between, or rether harmonizing by Great Britain and the United States of, estimates and appropriations. have not been put into effect in the Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh Congo Free State. expects to have in hand by June 1 esti The Criminal court of Veenezuela mates of all heads of departments. has dismissed the charge against ex- Between then and the time for the President Castro of complicity in a plot meeting of congre ss in regular session to murder President Gomez. in December, painstaking study and Because the senate refuses to con investigation with a view to ascertain sider legislation aside from the tariff ing the exact requirement of various measure, many river and harbor im bureaus embraced in different depart Brownsville— The dry cold weather Farm Sells for $23.000. provements are being held up, includ ments, or just what work each is per Fruit Salem— Meyer & Bell have sold to still prevails in this vicinity. forming and a detailed analysis of re ing those o f the Northwest. I has been injured to some extent, espec- sults as compared to expense involved, E. C. McKinney, of Milwaukee, Wis., France has decided to materially in will be carried on. the 220-acre Lake Labish farm of the j ¡ally walnuts; the leaves on the walnut late Tilmon Ford for $23,000. This is trees being young and tender, easily crease her navy. one of the best known farms in this froze. Although they were not in full A change in lumber duties is likely REVOLUTION IS ACTIVE. section of the valley. A large part of leaf it is thought the cold weather has to be adopted by the senate. it is genuine beaverdam land, noted for been very injurious to them. The bill against big hats has been Santo Domingo Republic in Throes of its richness and fertility. Mr. McKin More Potatoes Sold. rejected by the Illinois legislature. ney will subdivide the place, retaining Another Strife. Weston—G. W. Mitchell has just about 40 acres, which he will plant to Prominent New Yorkers have been Cape Haytian, Hayti, May 25.— The concluded the Fale o f $1,130 worth of indicted for coal land frauds in Wyom revolutionary movement is spreading. walnuts. potatoes from 12 acres of mountain ing. General Camacho, the ex-governor land, this having been his most profit Grain Coming on Well. of Monte Christi, who is working in Abdul Hamid is said to have turned able season. He will increase his acre Albany— Crop conditions in Linn unison with General Quirito Felice for over $5,000,000 more to the Turkish age next year. the overthrow of the government, has county are very much improved owing government. attacked and seized Guayabin and Da- to cool, cloudy weather, although no Eugene Favors Florence Road. Celestino Castro, brother of the de jabon, which are on the Haytian fron rain has fallen in the past few days. Eugene—The council of Eugene com posed president of Venezuela, has been tier, the Dajabon river being the north Fall grain looks well, spring grain is mends the effort that is being made by ordered to leave Curacoa. west boundary between Hayti and the improving and will come out in good Bugene citizens in their desire to build shape if rain falls in the next week. Great Britain will start construction Dominican republic. a railroad from Eugene to Florence, There has been fighting between the Early strawberries were injured by i Lane county. on four more Dreadnaughts before the revolutionists and the loyal forces at frosts. Other fruits w ill have average close of the present fiscal year. crop except prunes and pears. Monte Christi. PO R TLA N D M ARKETS. Jap strikers on the Hawaiian planta The fate of Jose Bordas, governor of tions are to invade Honolulu and par Will Drill fo r Oil. Wheat -Bluestem milling, $1.30 (n Puerto Plata, is not known, but it is ade. It is estimated there wlil be Lebanon— A new oil company to be 1.35; club, $1.20; valley, $1.17; red reported he is either dead or a prisoner. from 3,00 to 4,000 in line. Communications are interrupted, and known as the Cascade Petroleum com , Russian, $1.17^0*1.20. Corn— Whole, $35 per ton; cracked, President Taft has nominated government troops are expected to pany, has tiled articles o f incorporation Charles D. Elliott, o f the Minnesota reach the disaffected districts by sea. at Salem. The company has already $36 per ton. Supreme court, as a justice of the Su Barley— Feed, $34.50 per ton. leased and bought 2,000 acres of land preme court of the Philippines. Oats— No. 1 white, $41 per ton. about six miles east of Lebanon in what China is Standing Firm. Hay— Timothy, Willamette valley, Lisbon. May 25.—The dispute be is known as the Beaver Creek neigh Railway freight troubles have just begun. Actions are to be commenced tween Portugal and China over the borhood, and it is said that considerable $140718 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $18 0720; clover, $110712; alfalfa, $1307 against roads operating into Pacific possession of the dependencies of Macao more land will be leased before long. 14; grain hay, $130/14; cheat, $140/ coast terminals demanding the same has become acute. The Portugese gov 14.50; vetch, $14® 14.50. Suit to Test Port Law. ernment is sending General Jose Mach treatment as Spokane. Fruits Apples, 65c07$2.50 per box; ado to induce China to come to an ami Marshfield— Members of the Port of Every employe of the Standard Oil cable agreement, notwithstanding the Coos Bay commission w ill put the new strawberries, Oregon, 100712J^c per company suspended work two hours fact that the government has received port law to test in the courts by a pound. during the funeral of H. H. Rogers, Potatoes—$1.750/2 per hundred. word that China absolutely refuses to friendly suit, as a precautionary meas vice president of the company. There Vegetables— Turnips, $1.25 per sack; enter into negotiations with the Portu ure, so that trouble will not arise later are §7,000 on the payroll. gese delegates unless Portugal an on. It is thought that the matter can carrots, $1.25; parsnips, $1.50; beets, A controlling interest in the St. nounces the dependencies, including the be brought up at the June term of the $1.75; horseradish, 10c per pound; as Paul Pioneer Press has been sold to the neighboring islands. court and a decision reached possibly paragus, Oregon, 75c0/$1.25 per dozen; lettuce, head, 250775c per dozen; St. Paul Dispatch. in 60 days. onions 12H(</15c per dozen; radishes, William Adler, the New Orleans 18 Cars Fall Into River. 150/20c per dozen; rhubarb, 2(ti 3c per bank wrecker, has been given six years Cloudy Weather Helps. Helena, Mont., May 25.— A Great pound. in the penitentiary. Northern ore train was wrecked today Salem— Farmers in Polk and Marion Butter—City creamery, extras. 28c; Allen Parker, a member of the Brit between this place and Great Falls, and counties are still in dire need o f rain. fancy outside creamery, 2707 28c per ish parliament declares that the race IN cars of ore fell into the Missouri The weather has been cold and for the pound; store. 18c. Butter fat prices to build dreadnaughts is crazy and sin river. Brake man Rogers was killed most part cloudy but the grain and average m e per pound under regular ful. and Engineer Sieben seriously injured. fruit need more moisture. Danger of butter prices. Three others of the train crew were frost is entirely past. The prune crop Wheat has reached $1.30 at Chicago Eggs— Oregon ranch, 24c per dozen. more or less seriously hurt. A t the will be heavy. Lack o f warm sunshine an1 $1 .53 at Cincinnati. Poultry— Hens, 15>*0716c per pound; place of the accident the Missouri river holds strawberries back. broilers, 280/30c; fryers. 2207 25c; More Jap laborers on Hawaiian runs beside the track. The river has roosters. 10c; ducks, 140/15c; geese, plantations have gone on strike and been rising for the past few days and Cherry Fair in July. 100711c; turkeys, 20c; squabs, $2.50 6,000 men are now involvled. softened the roadbed. The engine now Salem— At a meeting o f the board of 0/3 per dozen. lies at the bottom, completed submerg trade Cherry Fair committee it was de The Philippine general assembly has Pork— Fancy, 10c per pound. ed, and the cars are partly covered. cided to hold this year's fair and carni passed a resolution declaring in favor Veal— Extras. 80/8>yc per pound; val about the middle o f July, The o f the independence of the islands. ordinary, 7077>*c; heavy, 60/6^c. Dreadnaughts to Grow. show will last three days and will he Hops 1909 contracts, nominal; 1908 Evidence is being secured at Chicago London, May 25.— Reginald McKen more elaborate than usual, owing to crop, 80/8 ' 4c ; 1907 crop, 30/4c, 1906 that various labor leaders called strikes na, first lord of the admiralty, in reply the elimination of the Fourth of July crop. 1 V*c in order to levy blackmail on employ ing to criticisms on the government’s celebration. Wool— Eastern Oregon, 16o/21c per ers. naval policy, said today that the bat pound; valley, fine, 24c; medium, 23c; Will Show Cherries. tleships to be built under this year’s coarse, 22c; mohair, choice. 240i25c. The members o f the Turkish cham The Dallei The annual cherry fair ber of deputies have taken oath to sup program would be at lea^t 30 per cent Cattle- Steers, top, $5.50075 75; fair superior to their immediate predeces will not be held in this city this year. to good, $50/5.25; common to good. port the new sultan and uphold the con sors. In what way that superiority is Instead, The Dalles Business Men's stitution. $4.500/4.75; cows, top, $4.25074.50; to be obtained has not been entirely association has arranged to exhibit Mrs. Longstreet, widow of the Civil disclosed, but at least two of the im 1,000 boxes of cherries in the Oregon fair to good. $3.75074.26; common to war general, wa* awakened by a burg provements to be introduced have been state building at the Alaska-Yukon- medium, $2.500/3.50; calve*, top. $507 5.50; heavy, $3.50074; bulls and stags, lar. She took six shots at him, wound mad** known. Pacifi exposition in Seattle. $3fi/3.50; common. $20/2.75. ing the man. Hogs— Best, $7.500/7.75; fair to U. P. Order* IOO Engine*. Fifteen Thousand for Depot. good. $7.250/7.50; stockers, $60/6.50; A plan has been presented to the Dunkirk, N. Y., May 25.— It i* re Klamath Falls- The directors o f the China fats. $6.75077. British parliament for the care of the ported that the Union Pacific railroad Klamath chamber o f commerce have Sheep— Top wethers, $4074.50; fair unemployed. has placed an order for 100 engines been advised by the chief engineer of to good, $3.50r<74; fair to good. $3.50 Three Nevada men tried to send their with the American Locomotive com the Southern Pacific that not less than 074; ewes, less on all grades; mother to the insane asylum in order pany and that they will be built at the $15,000 will be expended in the erec yearlings, best. $4.50; fair to good, $4 to get her money. Schenectady and Brooks plant*. tion of a depot in this city. 0|4.25; spring lambs, $6(/75.50. Seattle, May 21.— Great Northern railroad officials announced today that a branch line of the road would be built from Wilson Creek south to Connell, the junction of the Northern Pacific and the Oregon Railway & Navigation company. The move is one that has been projected by the Hill lines for years, and is said in the local offices to mark the first step in the contest for Eastern Washingon territory between the Hill and Milwaukee interests. The branch line, as planned, will de part from the main line at Wilson Creek and will follow the Crab creek valley until it swings off to the east of Moses lake, traversing the low country east of the Saddle mountains and con necting with the Northern Pacific main line at Connell. The branch line, which affords a new outlet for the wheat farmers o f Grant and Douglas counties, Washington, will be continued ultimately from Con ned to connect with the North Bank line below Pasco, securing a water grade for wh( at trains from the fields to Portland. SWING PORTLAND GATE BOTH WAYS Roads Ordered to Sell Through Tick ets to East and West. Northern Pacific Objects to Joint Traffic With the Harriman Lines, Which Are Required to Make Like Concessions the Other Way—Will Appeal to Courts. Washington, May 22.— The first de cision in the Portland gateway case is in favor of opening, but this is only the beginning of what promises to be a long contest. In a decision rendered by Mr. Prouty the Interstate Com merce commission today ordered the Harriman lines and the Northern Pa cific to join in the sale of through tick ets and the through checking o f bag gage between Eastern and Pacific coast points via Portland. Chairman Knapp and E. E. Clark dissent from the decision. The commission sustains the com plaint against the Northern Pacific for refusing to sell through tickets via Portland to points on the Union Pa cific and Chicago & Northwestern, in cluding Omaha, Kansas City and Chi cago, and sustains also the complaint against the Chicago & Northwestern, Union Pacific, Oregon Short Line and Oregon Navigation company for refus ing to sell through tickets via Portland to points in Washington. By the terms of the decision, which is highly important to the traveling public and to the Western and North western railroads, the Northern Pacific, the Union Paciific lines and the Chica go & Northwestern railway are ordered to join in the sale of through passenger tickets between Seattle and other points in the Pacific Northwest and Eastern destinations, via Portland, Or., and to accord through facilities, like the checking o f baggage, over this route. The commission found in the present case that a substantial part of the en tire body of travelers moving between these points in the Northwest ami Eastern destinations reasonably desire to travel via Portland, and that there fore the commission has jurisdiction to open that gateway. It is also held that public interest requires that this gateway shall be opened; but that the terms under which that service ÍB rendered should be just as between the carriers themselves. The commission was also of the opinion that the through rates via Portland should be the same as those in effect via the Northern Pacific and its present connections, but no opinion is express ed touching a division o f these rates. The decision orders first, that the Middle West lines complained of and the Northern Pacific shall establish be fore July 1, 1909, and maintain in force thereafter for not lesa than two years, through routes and joint rates between Chicago, Council Bluffs and Colorado common points via Portland and points in Washington between Portland and Seattle, including the lat ter, the joint rates to be the same as the joint rates contemporaneously in effect between said points via the Northern Pacific and its connections. Second, the carriers named are order ed to establish before July 1, joint rates and through routes for passengers and baggage from points on the North ern Pacific via Portland to Omaha, Kan sas City, Chicago and other Union Pa cific and Chicago & Northwestern points. It is understood authoritatively that it is the intention of the Northern [Pa cific, in connection perhaps with other roads, to seek an injunction restrain ing the commission from putting its order into effect. Should such an in junction be granted, it would prevent the enforcement o f the order during the period of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific ex position at Seattle, as it is estimated that it would require many months for the courts finally to determine the case on its merits. ................ ......... CZAR PARD O NS TW O. Sentences on Admiral Nebogatoff and General Stoestel Revoked. St. Petersburg, May 19.— The czar today ordered the release o f Admiral Nebogatoff and General Stoessel, who were confined at the fortress o f St. Peter and St. Paul, under sentences of life imprisonment. Nebogatoff surren dered his fleet to Admiral Togo and Soesael surrendered Port Arthur during the war with Japan. They were tried for cowardice, and imprisoned for life after the close of the war. Stoessel is believed to be dying and Nebogatoff is very Bick. While the illness o f the pair was given as the reason for the czar’s pardon, it is known that popular agitation along other lines had a cer tain bearing upon the case. There has been an unusually strong undercurrent of unreBt for some time, and the imprisonment of the officers was used as a shield by certain agita tors. Another line o f attack made on the government is criticism over the recent appropriation of 80,841.000 roubles for improvement of the army, while no steps have been taken for the relief of the thousands of persons who are starv ing to death in the K ieff district. Dis patches are received every day telling of frightful famine conditions in that district, but as yet no action has been taken by the government. GENERAL S TR IK E IS CALLED. Appeal o f French Revolutionists Fails to Aid Postmen. Paris, May 19.— The efforts of the revolutionary labor leaders to bring about a general strike of affiliated unions in support of the postal em ployes was without result up to mid night. An appeal to the workers of France to come to the aid of their com? rades in the postal service with a gen eral Btrike was issued by the federal committee o f the postal employes and plaarded throughout i ’aris during the night. A sensation was caused by the dis covery at the central postoffice of a mysterious package resembling /in in fernal machine. It was carried to the municipal laboratory and opened under water. The package contained a de cayed lobster. The committee o f the General Fed eration of Labor today decided to ask the postmen to return to work, but with the assurance that the General Federation of Labor would begin the organization of a series of manifesta tions in different branches of industry, to emphasize the general claims of the working class. UNCLE SAM AS AUCTIO NEER. Smuggled Finery to Be Sold Under Hammer in June. New York, May 19.— The govern ment’s much heralded sale of costly smuggled gowns will start June 1, when the contents of one trunk, con taining 67 shirtwaists, will be offered at auction. These waists, appraised at from $50 to $300 each, are said to be among the finest produced in Paris in many years. Trunk No. 2, the contents o f which will be offered for sale on June 4, con tains 30 magnificent lace waists, each one described as a “ dream," and not one appraised at less than $200. In trunk No. 3 there are 49 princess gowns, the minimum appraisal being $250. They will be offered at auction on June 8. Forty-three princess cos tumes in trunk No. 4 will be offered at auction on June 10. Among these are several dinner gowns, appraised at $1,- 000 and more. On June 12 the shirt waists in trunk No. 5 will be offered at auction. The total appraisal of the smuggled gowns was $520,000. Sleuths Become Jealous. Spokane, May 19.— The police, the sheriff’s office and the big force of de tectives brought here by the Great Northern confess they have no clews whatever to indicate the whereabouts of the robbers who held up a Great Northern train near Spokane Saturday night. There is a woeful lack o f co- operatioon between the sheriff, the po lice and the railroad detectives, and apparently the magnitude of the re Kermit Hero o f Beaters. wards has excited jealousy and petty Nairobi, British East Africa, May rivalry. Four suspects arrested a short Bank Business Growing. 22.— Theodore Roosevelt and his son distance from Spokane were released. Washington, May 21.— The returns Kermit are having good hunting luck from National banks giving details of on the Juja ranch of George McMillan. Wireless Phones for Harriman. their condition on April 28, 1909, show Their bag includes a water buck, an Omaha, Neb., May 19.— Dr. Mille- remarkable increases. The summary impalk and other varieties of antelope. ner, the electrical wizard of the Union shows that since May 14, 1908, a The expedition has now a total of 60 Pacific, is working upon a wireless tel little more than a year ago, the loans specimens, representing 20 different ephone system that he hopes to have and discounts have increased $434,- species. Mr. Roosevelt has killed a installed upon all the lines of the Har 764,000 and during the same time the python. Kermit, on a recent trip, des riman system west from Omaha. He total resources o f the banks have in patched a leopard at a distance of six has been given carte blanche and has creased $774,261,000. During the paces. The animal already had mauled the preliminaries well in hand. Cop same period government deposits have a beater, and was charging Kermit per wire will be laid along the track increased $111,255,000, and bills pay when killed. and in the baggage car will be a high able and rediscounts have decreased frequency machine with power furnish $9,879,000. Chicago Reaches Debt Limit. ed by the engine. This will agitate Chicago, May 22.— With the issue of the sound waves, and instruments in Halibut Trust Planned. $1,500,000 four per cent 20 year serial the general offices will gather them. Tacoma. Wash., May 21.— Dissatis bonds to the First Trust & Savings One Man Can Sink Fleet. fied with the low prices the fisheries bank, the city of Chicago has reached companies are paying for halibut, the the lim it of ita bonded indebtedness. New Orleans, Mav 19.— I f the de owners of the Puget s >und fishing boats The bonds were awarded yesterday by vice for the destruction of protected are planning to form a combination City Controller Walter H. Wilson. magazines aboard battleships and in and to establish a joint fisheries com They went at par, with a premium of forts, devised by H. A. Folk, of this The total city, is practical, modem warfare will pany, with headquarters in Tacoma $11,500 paid by the bank. and agencies throughout the East, bonded indebtedness o f the city is now be revolutionised. Folk claims to have While the retail price o f halibut is $30,220,000, including the $4,293,000 discovered a way by which magazines said by the fishermen to be about the World’s Columbian exposition bonds in vessels miles distant can be explod same, they are only getting from 1>4 authorized by special act of the state ed by a wireless spark set off by an to 1 ^ cents at the fisheries companies. legislature. operator in a tower on the shore. He With the forming o f the combination claims that one man can destrony an Tw o Unions to Units. they would get from 8 to 10"cents. entire fleet within a very few minutes. Spokane, May 22.— " I t is probable Aoaconda Shows Loss. that working agreements will be made Czar 41 Years o f Age. New Y'ork, May 21.— The annual re by the Western Federation o f Miners St. Petersburg, May 19.— In the se port o f the Anaconda Copp r Mining and the United Mineworkers o f Amer clusion o f the imperial palace at Peter- company for the year ending December ica,” stated C. H. Moyer, president of hof Emperor Nicholas passed his forty- 31, last, issued t day, shows ihat dur the Western Federation of Miners, who first birthday yesterday. The custom ing the first six months o f the year is here tonight. " I t is not probable ary official observances of the anni 1908 the company suffered an actual that they will unite, as their fields of versary were held, but owing to the loss, owing to the shutdown o f opera usefulness are different. In spite of tendency of the authorities to suppress tions in January ard February of that all reports, the next convention o f the any public gatherings or demonstra year. The income for the year was Federation will show that it is strong tions of whatever character, there was $15,604,482, a decrease of $3,146,652 er than ever.” no popular celebration o f the day. from 1907. The expenses were $14,- 658,519, a decrease of $944,842. Explosion Fires Forest. Japanese Strike Broken, Pittsburg, May 22.— One thousand Honolulu, May 19.— The strike of Salvation Army Convenes. pounds o f powder in the wheels mills the Japanese plantation laborers is ap Chicago, May 21.— Four hundred ; of the Oriental plant o f the Dupont parently losing ground. More strike members of the Salvation Army were j Powder company located at Fairchance, breakers than could be used at the in attendance at the national congress Pa., exploded late last night. No one plantations offered themselves today o f the Western America diatrict, which was injured, but the plant was wreck and the employers have decided to order opened a five days’ meeting here today. 1 ed, windows shattered for several mile* the strikers either to return to work or Commander Eva Booth addressed the about, and the mountain woods set on leave the Honolulu and Oahu planta congress. fire. tions.