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e '• • • - TORNADO K ILLS 32. The Estacada Progress taMMd Cat*I Tharsdar ESTACADA ............. OREGON RESUME OF THE ~ WEEK S DOINGS General Review o f Important Hap penings Presented in a B rief and Comprehensive Manner for Busy Readers—National, Political, His torical and Commercial. Thirty elk broke out of Golden Gate park at ¡San Francisco and roamed the city for several hours. The most severe wind and rain storm in years have deluged the Black Hills country in South Dakota. General Camacho, leader of the Santo Domingo revolutionists, has been cap tured and will likely be shot. Two American mining engineers wer arrested as spies in Salvador, Cen tral America, but were soon released. Alfred Ollmer, 17 years old, while playing in a baseball game, was struck over the heart by a pituhed ball and killed. o , . - Italian strikers at the logging camps near McCloud, Cal., captured the pow der house and have the entire district at their mercy. A New York Central engineer threw on his emergency brakes so suddenly to save a child who was on the track that he partially wrecked his train. A son of Julius Krutschnitt, director of maintenance of the Harriman rail roads, has been appointed roadmaster of the Siskiyou district. The position is but a step above a common track labober. An attempted revolution in Peru was suppressed after one hour’s lighting. Roosevelt has contracted Nairobi itch, a troublesome disease common to that part of Africa. A syndicate has been organized in Paris to sell American Steel trust stock. Patten closed his wheat deal with profits estimated at $1,700,000. He could have sent the price higher, but refused. President T aft pitched for a ball game at Pittsburg. He was not n suc cessful pitcher, but enjoyed the game immensely. A Chicago judge refused damages to three Italians who were refused admit tance to a theater on account of garlic on their breath. Malay pirates attacked a Chinese junk within seven hours sailing of Singapore, killed eight of the crew and escaped with $1,000 worth of loot. Troops are said to be plotting a new outbreak at Adana, Turkey. A Chicago society girl who married Filipino is said to be hypnotized. Town o f Zephyr, Texas, Demolished and Ruins Burned. Brownwood, Tex., June 1.— A tor nado o f great fury struck the little village of Zephyr, in the eastern por tion of Brown county, at 1 o’clock this morning and left a path of death and destruction seldom paralleled. The death list has reached a total of 32, and the number of seriously or fatally injured will reach 50. The storm formed a half-mile west of Zephyr and swept down upon the v il lage, cutting a wide swath directly through the residence and business dis tricts, Nearly 50 houses were demol ished. Lightning started a fire which destroyed one entire business block. No effort was made to fight the fire, as the care o f the dead and injured de manded the attention o f everyone. A section employe rode a handcar to Brownwood and spread the alarm. In two hours the Santa Fe railroad was speeding a special train to the scene of the storm with nine surgeons and a score of Brownwood citizens. Hundreds of persons directly in the storm’s pathway saved themselves by taking refuge in storm cellars. More than 12 bodies were terribly maimed. County Clerk Thad Cabler and wife and two children, who had gone to Zephyr to spend the night, were killed. The big stone school building and two churches were demolished. Brownwood hurried her second relief train at 12 o’clock today, laden with provisions, clothing and necessary ar ticles and carrying 40 nurses. Three persons are still unaccounted for to night. Two children were found dead late today two miles from town, having been blown that distance. A special train will leave Zephyr tonight for Temple, carrying the more seriously injured to a hospital. The storm swept the earth for a distance of prob ably less than a mile. Surgeons from Brownwood found a desert scene awaiting them. The hill sides at Zephyr were covered with de bris of all kinds, carcasses of animals and human bodies. The ruins were dimly lighted by the burning build ings, and the cries of the injured rose above the roar of the elements which threatened a second storm. A hog roaming through the streets was killed while attempting to devour the body of an infant. Bodies were found twisted about trees and in every conceivable attitude. Residents walked the streets almost naked. Houses which had escaped the storm were turned into hospitals. One house col lapsed on a family of nine without ser ious injury to any of the occupants. Brownwood, which organized the relief work, has the situation well in hand. AIRSHIP BREAKS A LL RECORDS. Count Zeppelin Travels 456 Without a Stop. Miles Berlin, June 1.— Count Zeppelin, Attempts to resume service on the whose remarkable performance in his Georgia railroad have resulted in riots. first airship brought unbounded honor Philadelphia streetcar men have to the inventor, accomplished today gone on strike for more pay and regu the most striking feat in his career. lar hours. He guided his Zeppelin II from During a fight with Moro bandits Friedrichshafen to Bitterfeldt, a dis two soldiers were killed and a third tance o f more than 456 miles without fatally hurt. landing. The journey lasted nearly 22 Girls at the House of Good Shepherd, Los Angeles, started a disturbance and hours, and, so far as known tonight, Count Zepelin is still in the air on his were taken to jail. Four armed [men entered a Seattle return journey to Friedrichshafen. He has already beaten all records for aveneue, New York, restaurant and held up 20 customers and made their dirigible baloons, with the opportunity of greatly improving the performance. escape. It was announced that the count would The men arrested at Omaha have come to Ilerlin and land at the Tempel- been positively identified as the Union hof parade ground. Hundreds of thou Pacific train robbers and may also be sands gathered there this afternon. the Spokane train robbers. The emperor and empress, several of The Northern Pacific and Harriman the princes and the leading officials and lines are both rushing preliminary officers were present. Toward even work on lines from Missoula through ing searchlights were set at work in Lolo pass into the Clearwater, Idaho, anticipation of the approach of the air ship. Soldiers kept an enormous space country. clear until half-past 10 at night, when The Presbyterian General assembly a dispatch from Bitterfeldt announced has rejected the pension scheme for that the airship was returning to the aged ministers and says they should starting place at Friedrichshafen, receive sufficient salary that pensions which caused intense disappointment. would not be needed. So far Roosevelt has secured 8f> ani mals o f 22 different varieties. The Illinois house has voted to do away with capital punishment. The National Negro American league denounces T a ft’s Southern policy. An assassin attempted to kill the Chinese grand counsellor at Pekin. A Walla Walla Chinaman tried to propose to a Spokane Japanese girl by phone. The strike on the Georgia railroad has been broken and trains are again running. Thirty People Rescued. Fort Townsend, June 1.— The large launch Skidoo, with 30 people d rift ing helpless in the Pacific ocean be cause of the breaking down of her en gines, was rescued today by the life saving power-boat Audacious, and towed to Neah bay. The Skidoo is a fish-buying boat owned in Anacortes, which cruises near the entrance of the Straits of Fuca. Today she was out with an excursoin party of Anarcortes people, came disabled and would have gone down with all on board but for the Audacious. Ex-Corn King Is Miner. The Isthmian canal commission has Baker City, Or., June 1. - Excellent just called for bids on 10,000,000 showing of mineral in his B.iker County pounds of dynamite. mines has caused George H. Phillips, The Presbyterian general assembly once the center of attraction through has approved a ruling that members out the nation as a “ corn king,” to place more money in development abstain from the use of tobacco. work. He is spending a few days in Pasadena, Cal., has won its suit the Granite mountains west of Baker against the Sunset Telephone company City. When asked if he ever expected and every cable into the city has been to enter the pit again, Mr. Phillips cut. said: ‘ ‘ No, I am done. I would much The North German Lloyd passenger rather pin my faith and fortune to steamer Princess Alicia grounded while Baker county mines than to play the entering New York harbor. It will be grain market.” necessary to move the cargo. Removal to be Opposed. An Indianapolis man shot and killed his wife, mistaking her for a burglar. Indianapolis, June 1.— Delavan British Premier Asquith refuses to Smith and Charles R. Williams, own tell whether American naval building ers of the Indianapolis News, charged with criminal libel in having pub influences the British policy. lished articles alleged to have inti People of the F.astern states can see mated corruption in the purchase of the new comet with the naked eye. the Panama canal zone by the United James A. Moffat, a director of the States government, will appear before Standard Oil company, will assume the Judge Anderson in the United States district court in this city next Tuesday vice presidency made vacant by the to oppose the removal for trial to the death of H. H. Rogers. District of Columbia. Records of Los Angeles county, Cal., ■how that for every four marriages Onions Prolong Life? since January 1 a divorce has been Bellefontaine, O., June 1.— Mrs. Re granted. becca Burns, who assorted that when A storm off the coast of Bilboa, a child she saw George Washington, Spain, sank over 60 fishing vessels and died here at the age of 111. She at it is estimated that no less than 100 tributed her longevity to eating onions twice each d.y. fishermen were lost. NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM THE STATE OF OREGON BENSON F ILLS PLACES. I BOARD OF REGENTS MEET. K R U PPS LOSE R O YA L TY .: Processes for Hardening Armor Have Been Perfected in America. Pittsburg, y a y 28.— Mystery sur rounded the visit of Baron von Boden- hausen, of Krupp interests, to America until today. For some time no royalty has been paid Krupp by American makers of armor plate, as Midvale, Carnegie and Bethlehem interests now have each an armor plate hardening system of their own. It is $13 per ton cheaper also, as this is the royalty which the American makers have been paying Krupp for years. Baron von Bolenhausen came to America for the purpose of clearing up the armor plate case. The Germans have not believed that the American makers could have invented three dif ferent forms of hardening plate. The loss of revenue to the Germans has been very great, so the baron came here to re-establish that revenue if possible. That the American companies had each invented armor plate processes came as distinct news to Pittsburg. The coming of the German baron ap pears to have made publicity impera tive. Krupps question the legality of the American processes, and the Amer icans express a willingness to demon strate that their process is no infringe ment. A t armor plate headquarters it is stated Krupp’s American royalties amounted to $1,000,000 annually. Governor Gives Out Appointive Jobs Arrange for Expenditure o f Agricul tural Coliege Appropriation. Made by Last Legislature. Corvallis- The board o f regents of Salem—Governor Benson has filled by appointment the positions created the Oregon Agricultural college held a The by the new laws which went into effect two days’ session last week. meeting was a special one, called to May 22. • Judge Fifth judicial district J. A. arrange for the expenditure of the ap propriation made at the last session of Eakin, of Astoria. Members of the tuberculosis commis the legislature and to pass upon other sion -A . L. Mills, Multnomah county, i matters of administration. The college budget, providing for four years; R. A. Booth, Lane county, four years; George F. Rodgers, Marion several additional instructors and for county, two years; Leslie Butler, Hood new equipment, was passed upon, and River county, two years. The govern the committees on building were in or of the state and the president and structed to take steps looking to the secretary of the state board of health construction of the new buildings pro are ex-officio members of this commis vided for by the state appropriation. The question of the location of the sion. Crater lake road commission— H. D. new experiment station for dry farm ing came up for consideration, but final Norton, Grants Pass; Dr. J. M. Keene, J. E. Enyart, Medford; E. V. Carter, action in the matter was postponed un Ashland; George T. Baldwin, L. F. til the July meeting in order that the Willits, Klamath Falls; C. S. Jack- board might make further investiga tions. Frank Davy and Judge Miller, son, Portland. Board of commissioners First Central of Burns, appeared before the board Oregon Agricultural society (two-year and urged that the station be located terms)- J. H. Gray and T. H. Lafol- in Harney county. The resignation of Miss Grace Gatch, lette, Crook county. Directors Yamhill County Fair asso daughter of ex-President Gatch, was ciation (two-year terms)— Mrs. Ir.ez accepted. C. C. Vincent was granted Butt, H. F. Wilson and Milton Potter, a leave of absence for a year, in order to permit him to pursue post graduate Yamhill county. Directors Linn County Fair associa work at Cornell university. Bert Pilk- tion (two years) D. II. Bodine, G. G. ington, of Portland, a graduate of the C ATC H OM AHA SU SPE C TS. college, was employed as assistant sta Belts, I. A. Munkers, Linn county. tion chemist. Police Arrest Three Men for Union National Irrigation Committee Hearing Pacific Train Robbery. Berries to Be Served. Klamath Falls Landowners under Omaha, Neb., May 28.— The police Hood River— Under the auspices of the Klamath project will be given a hearing when the irrigation committee the Hood River Commercial club and o f South Omaha arrested tonight three comes here on its tour of inspection. the Woman’s club, Hood River will in men suspected of complicity in the Word has been received from Senator augurate its first strawberry festivt 1 Arrangements will Union Pacific train robbery near this Carter, chairman, that the committee Friday, June 18. One o f the will arrive in Klamath Falls October be made to serve berries in all their city last Saturday night. 12. Senator Carter states that it is toothsome forms. Time w ill be given men had $125 and the second $98 and desired that the Water Users’ associa visitors for a ride over the strawberry the third a smaller sum. tion hold a series of meetings for the growing district. The festival is being Children placing last night in the purpose of determining the questions made a feature of the strawberry sea vicinity where the arrests were made son at the request of a number of Port to be taken up with the ccommitti e. The subjects are to be presented in land and other out-of-town people and found three handkerchiefs cut for writing. It is likely that this matter it is expected to make it an annual masks, three revolvers, flashlights and other paraphernalia, hidden by the will be taken up by the association at event. holdup men. The place was watched. their annual meeting which occurs Four men were seen late tonight to ap Fire Protection Assured. early in June. proach the spiit where the outfit had Salem— At a special meeting of the board of trustees of the asylum held been hidden, and three of them were Umatilla Not Discouraging. arrested. Pendleton— Weather conditions con last week at the office of the governor, They gave what the police believe tinue discouraging to Umatilla wheat the Pacific Fire Extinguisher company are fictitious names and to ll differing growers. With no rain for several was awarded the contract for installing stories. The clothing bears the mark days, and continuance of cold weather, an automatic sprinkling system in the of a Denver merchant. They told of crops are not progressing as fast as asylum for $9,962.75. A. G. Long & having been with some women during they should. They are still in at least Co., of Portland, were given an order the evening, but would not divulge an average condition, largely due to the for 12 patrol extinguishers at $13 names. fact that they were pushed forward by each, and the Graham Rubber com a favorable winter followed by an early pany 42 sentry extinguishers at $7.95 GREAT WILD HORSE HUNT. spring. Grain on lighter lands is in each. need of rain while crops on heavier Fifty Square Miles o f Territory to Be Alfalfa Harvest On. wheat lands could easily stand the “ Driven” for New Steeds. drouth for a longer period. Warm rain Grants Pass— Weather remains dry followed by real spring weather is the in Josephine county, wijh north winds Reno, Nev., May 28.— Under the thing that Umatilla w'heat growers unusually cold for this season. Ther leadership of Superintendent Creel, of mometer drops below 35 every night. most want to see at this time. Garden plants, berries and all fruits Pyramid Lake Indian reservation, and are making slow growth. The first R. H. Cowles, a ranchman of Washoe Fruit Prospects Good. Eugene— There has been no rainfall crop of alfalfa is now ready to cut, but county, the biggest wild horse hunt on account of dry weather is not heavy ever attempted in Nevada will be in this vicinity for over a week and and except where irrigated, no second started tomorrow in the Limbo coun crops are badly in need of moisture, al crop will be produced. Rain and try, north of Wadsworth. Five hun though rains of two weeks ago were warmer weather were never more bad dred “ buckaroos” from surrounding very beneficial and saved the spring ly needed in this section. ranches will participate. grain from bad failure. Fall sown F ifty square miles of territory will grain is in fair shape, but a good rain To Survey Coos Bay Line. be encircled by mounted men, who will would help it materially. Indications Marshfield— Sufficient stock for the drive toward a central point near tbe point to not more than three fourths Coos Bay, Roseburg and Boise railroad northern end of the NightingaTe moun of a crop. Fruit men say the outlook has been subscribed to warrant sending tains, where an immense corral has for all varieties of fruit is good despite out F. A. Haines, chief engineer, ar.d been erected. The older horses will be heavy late frosts. Prunes which were his corps o f surveyors. The business shot, while the younger ones w’ ill be badly damaged seem to be much better men have been solicited and many broken for saddle purposes. than reported. stock subscriptions received. The en gineer has everything in readiness to Irrigate Rogue River Land. Julia Ward Howe Celebrates. start on the work of surveying for a Medford— An irrigation system con line from Coos Bay to Roseburg. Boston, May 28.— Mrs. Julia Ward sisting of eight miles of 12-inch mains, Howe, writer, philosopher and reform with 8-inch laterals, that will irrigate er, celebrated her ninetieth birthday Marshfield Gets Paint Factory. the entire northwestern part of the Marshfield— The Bayside Paint Com quietly at her charming home on Bea valley from Central Point to Gold Ray, pany, formerly of North Bend, has con street yesterday. Her childrén, is nearing completion. The water will moved t«> Marshfield and will engage in Mrs. Maude Howe Elliott, Mrs. Flor be pumped from Rogue river into a the manufacture of paint on an exten ence Howe Hall, Mrs. Laura E. Rich huge reservoir above Gold Ray and sive scale and will conduct a wholesale ards and Professor Marion Howe, of from there will be delivered by gravi business. F. J. Monroe, of the firm, Columbia, spent te day with her and, ty. The water will be turned on by has gone to San Francisco to purchase with the exception of a few intimate the middle of June and 3,000 acres machinerj*. friends, no visitors were received. placed under irrigation at once. The Mrs. Howe appeared in good health capacity of the new system will be 4,- and spirits and seemed to have lost but PO R TLA N D M ARKETS. 000,000 gallons a day. little of her old-time energy and her Wheat— Bluestem milling, $1.30@ interest for matters of national im 1.35; club, $ 1.20(a 1.22; valley, $1.17. portance. Sheep Season Ending. Corn Whole, $35 per ton; cracked, Heppner The sheep and wool traffic in this section of the state is fast draw $36. Jap Striker Meets Death. Barley— Feed, $35 per ton. ing to a close. This spring has been a Honolulu. May 28. In a fight among Oats— No. 1 white, $40.50(i/41 per prosperous season for the sheepmen, the strikers on the Ewa plantation to and if there is plenty of late rain to ton. day a Japanese laborer was killed. Hay—Timothy, Willamette valley, produce summer range the year will go This is the first bloodshed that has oc down as a record breaker. Nearly all $ 140/18 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $18 curred since the strike of the sugar @20; clover, $1U o 12; alfalfa, $18@ of the growers have sold their wool and plantation workers was begun. A t delivered their spring turn-off of sheep. 14; grain hay, $130/14; cheat, $140/ Waimanalo the Japanese have quit 14.50; vetch, $140/14.50. They have had an ideal spring for rais work to formulate demands for in Fruits— Apples, $10/2.50 per box; creased wages. Fifteen hundred strike ing lrimbs and their loss from shearing strawberries, Oregon, $2,250/4.20 per has been slight. breakers have been put at work on the crate. plantations, 400 o f whom were hired Potatoes— $1,750/2 per hundred. Oakland Ships Sheep. today. A t Ewa 8,000 tons of sugar Vegetables— Turnips, $1.25 per sack; remain to be milled, and 10,000 tons is Oakland Five carloads of sheep and carrots, $1.25; parsnips, $1.50; beets, in the same condition at Wailua. lambs have left out from Oakland for the Portland market and the first car $1.75; horseradish, 10c per pound; as paragus, l%(a\2c per pound; lettuce, load of cattle shipped from this point Sell Prince Rupert Land. for the season will go to Portland. head, 250/75c per dozen; onions, 120/ Vancouver, B. C., May 28.— Nearly 15c per dozen; radishes, 15c per dozen; During the past week seven carloads 2,000 anxious real estate speculators of wool, aggregating 120,000 pounds, rhubarb, 2 1.»0/ 3c per pound. from all over the United States and Butter—City creamery, extras, 28c; have been shipped from Oakland, net Canada were present when the official fancy outside creamery, 26)^(/f28c; ting the growers an average of 24c per sale of lots at Prince Rupert, the new store, 18c. Butter fat prices average pound. Pacific terminal of the Grand Trunk 1 cent per pound under regular but Pacific, began. The bidding was spir ter prices. Sunshine Badly Needed. ited and the prices realized were re Eggs— Oregon ranch, 230/24c. Union No rain has failed in the Poultry— Hens, 15u40/16c; broilers, markable when it is considered that Grand Ronde valley during the past 280/30c; fryers, 22o/25c; roosters, the site is at present practically noth week. Crop conditions are good but 10c; ducks, 140/15c; geese, 100/11c; ing but a great waste o f stumps and Over $250,000 worth o f lots two weeks of warm sunshine would turkeys, 20c; squabs, $2,500/3 per rocks. were sold yesterday, most of them benefit greatly. Crops are backward dozen. close in. on account of cool, cloudy weather dur Pork- Fancy, 10c per pound. ing the past two wee’:s. Farmers are Veal— Extras, 8c per pound; ordi Unknown Sends Money. anxious for rain as the ground is get nary, 7c; heavy, 6c. Des Moines, Jowa, May 28.- Post- ting dry. Hops— 1909 contracts, 10c; 1908 crop, 8o/8'4c; 1907 crop, 4c; 1906 office inspectors today were asked to Delay is Complained of. unravel the mystery surrounding the crop, IS;C. Salem Charles F. Schnabel, a Port Wool Eastern Oregon, 17@22^c; receipt by a number of residents of land attorney, has complained to the valley, fine, 25c; medium, 23c; coarse, Panora, Iowa, o f letters containing $100 bills. No signature is attached railroad commission that passengers on 21c; mohair, choice, 240/25c. the Astoria-Seaside train are subject C attle— Steers, top, $5,250/5.50; to the letters, one of which bears the Five per ed to repeated delays, especially on the fair to good, $4,750/5; common to postmark of Portland, Or. evening train, Portland bound. One good, $40/4.50; cows, top, $4,250/ sons admit having received money to instance is cited in which the train was 4.50; fair to good, $3,750/4.25; com taling $1,125. Mrs. Viola Lapegiett, held 25 minutes. The delay, it is un mon to medium, $2.50f</3.50; calves, a widow, received $225, mostly in $10 derstood, is caused by the Rainier local. top, $50/5.50; heavy, $3.5007 4; bulls bills, with a note signed “ your friend.” and stags, $3o/.3.50; common, $20/ Pacific Mall Deficit Less. Cutworms Ruin Hopyards. 2.75. New York, May 28. At the annual Harrisburg—A prominent hop man Hogs- Best, $7,500/7.75; fair to says that the hop crop in this section good, $7,250/7.50; stockers, $6o/6.50; meeting of the Pacific Mail Steamship company all the retiring directors were is “ gone.” He says the cut worms China fats. $6,750/7 Sheep--Top wethers, $4o/4.50; fair re-elected today. President Harriman, have almost completely destroyed the yard of one of his neighbors, and that to good, $3,500/4; ewes, ^ c less on in his report, stated that the year’s his own wa* suffering badly. In dig all grades; yearlings, best, $4.50; fair operations showed a deficit of $339,684, ging around one hill he found a total to good, $40/4.25; spring lambt, $5/«/ as compared with a deficit of $428,817 for the year before. 6.50. of 32 of the worms. BRITAIN SEEKS NAVAL ALLIANCE Wants United States to Guard Pacific and She the Atlantic. In Order to Maintain the Two-Power Standard, Great Britain Proposes That Each Nation Concentrate Fleet Leave Out Japan Austra lia Favors Plan. London, May 29.— Overtures looking to a naval understanding between Great Britain and the United States have been made by the British govern ment through Ambassador Bryce, in Washington. Premier Asquith had this fact in mind when speaking re cently in what was regarded as a cryp tic manner of a “ two-power” standard for the British navy. The premier hopes that such an understanding may be reached with the American govern ment as shall enable Great Britain al most to denude the Pacific of British warships of a formidable class in re turn for givin g America certain assur ances respecting the naval situation in the Atlantic. The suggestions made by Mr. As quith through Ambassador Bryce fol low the lines lately laid down in an ar ticle by Captain Mahan on the naval position which has attracted wide at tention in authoritative circles in Eng- laml. The British cabinet feels that only an understanding with America can enable Great Britain to maintain a two-power standard in Europe. “ I f the Americans will look after our interests in the Pacific," said a respon sible naval authority this afternoon, “ we will take care o f all American in terests in the Atlantic and Mediterra nean. We recognize the difficulty of inducing America to break with the tradition o f not entering into entangl ing alliances, but we are not without a hope that the situation in the Pacific may lead the authorities in Washington to think favorably of a proposal which would admit of their concentrating the American naval strength in that ocean” The British government is inclined to seek a naval understanding with the United States on account of the possi bility o f Japan’s declining to renew the Anglo-Japanese alliance when it expires. Australians never cease to urge the mother land to separate its policy from that of Japan in the Paci fic, and try to unite the strength of the English-speaking race in that part of the world. SM UGGLING PLO T UNEARTHED. Federal Officers at Chicago Arrest Leaders o f Scheme. Chicago, May 29.—Government pros ecution of eight alleged leaders of a gigantic Chicago smuggling syndicate, and the proposed arrest and indictment of others was outlined today by United States District Attorney Syms. Seven hundred Chinamen are alleged to have smuggled into the United States over the Mexican border by the syndicate during the past 12 months, being se creted in dining cars by cooks and port ers on through trains. Immigration authorities caused in dictments ti: be voted by the grand jury for the Chicago district for the follow ing: Bob Lung, El Paso, Texas, a rich Chinaman, restaurant owner and finan cier, in whose kitchen plans for carry ing on the smuggling scheme were formulated, now locked up in the Cook county jail pending tria l; Robert W. Stephenson, a former railroad brake- man, El Paso, Texas, now in jail here in default of $5,000 bail; Carlos Save- dra, a Mexican, alleged to be the chief smuggler; Jose Parra, Mexican; Sam Wah, alleged agent for the Chicago office o f the syndicate; W. H. Clark, Lincoln, Neb., under arrest at El Paso, and Chin Yin Qual, an alleged agent^of the syndicate. d e t e c t iv e s g iv e t e s t im o n y Calhoun's and Burns' Men Are Busy Tracing Crimes to Other Party. San Francisco, May 20. Detectives employed by the prbsecution and de tectives employed by the defense were the only witnesses called during yes terday's session of the trial o f Patrick Calhoun, president of the United Rail ways. Luther Brown, who admits that he directed the activity of several as sistants working in the interests of the defense, was finally interrogated as to his relations with men who have con fessed to complicity in the theft o f pa- pers from the oliice o f W. J. Burns, agent of the prosecution, and refused to testify on the ground that his state ment might tend to incriminate him. Norman Melrose, an attache o f the United Railroads detective bureau, said that he had delivered to W M. Abbott, jointly indicted with Calhoun, reports procured by men under his direction. Nicholas Korngold declared he had followed District Attorney W. H. Langdon with two detectives and John Claudianes to the home of JameH L. Gallagher, which had been wrecked by an explosion of dynamite. Hedeclared that Abbott had commended him for his work, and Had instructed him to as certain, of jiossihle, what had transpir ed in the grand jury room in Oakland when Claudianes was indicted in con nection with the dynamiting The w it ness said that he had been directed by Abbott to establish relations with the family o f Felix Paudeveris, who was uccused of complicity in the affair but has never been apprehended. RICH GOLD STRIKE. One Shot Yields Nearly $75,000 of Almost Pure Ore in Hatfuls. Downieville, Cal., May 26.— Between $75,000 and $100,000 in almost puie gold was loosened by a blast in the El dorado tunnel at Allegheny, this coun ty, last evening. Hatfuls of gold with particles of quartz attached were picked from the floor of the tunnel. This find promises to eclipse even the Sixteen- to One and the Tightener, both near neighbors. H. L. Johnson, owner of the Tightener, bonded the Eldorado two weeks ago for $25,000. The Morning Glory mine, nearby, owned by Rohrig brothers, has just broken into rock of immense value, big slabs sprinkled and seamed with gold being exhibited. The owners refuse to say what their strike broke, hut it is said to be $70,000. An old fashioned rush is on to A lle gheny from all directions, and men of every vocation and of every age are flocking into the district to stake claims. H. L. Stark, consulting engineer for George Wingfield, the well known mil lionaire mining man of Goldfield, was there some time ago trying to buy and consolidate the Tightener, Sixteen-to- One, Eldorado, Morning Glory and other rich properties, but Mr. Wing field’s wealth proved inadequate. Ex citement is running high. NO CAND Y SH O PS. Fair Booths to Be Placed Where They Don’ t Interfere. Seattle, Wash., May 26.— There will be no selling booths on Oregon's grounds at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition, or on any o f the land which has been allotted to states and coun ties, unless the exhibitors give their permission. This was the agreement made today between a committee from the Com missioners’ association and the exec utive committee of the fair. State and county commissioners will give permission for booths which will not mar the beauty o f the landscape and which will be as unobtrusive as possi ble. In the case o f Oregon, President W. H. Wehrung said that there would be no booths on the grounds allotted to his state. The fair fhanagement asserts that the full number of 115 booths will be erected on the grounds, hut states that it will secure permission from the ex hibitors before placing them near any Forest Fires in Michigan. Negaunee, Mich., May 29.— Forest o f the special buildings. ----- ----------- ------- «. fires are raging in this section of the Magistrate Now Street Sweeper. upper peninsula and reports from Dal ton say the town has been destroyed. East St. Louis, III., May 26.— Forced When the fire threatened Dalton last by order of his physician to resign his night a special train was ordered and office o f police magistrate and obtain the inhabitants, with as much of their employment where he could enjoy pure possessions as they could carry away, air and outdoor exercise, Judge Thomas vere taken to a place o f safety. Many Stanton today started to work as a .ishing and camping parties in the street sweeper in East St. Louis. As woods are in great danger, and their magistrate Stanton received an average fate will probably be unknown for sev of $300 per month. As street sweeper eral days. No rain has fallen in this he receives $1.50 per day. Stanton district for several weeks. was elected magistrate of East St. Louis two years ago, after filling the unexpired term o f Magistrate Mc- Taft Busy in East. Tokio,[May 29.— The papers here in Kaom. editorials discussing the action o f Pres Scrap Iron for Warships. ident T a ft in offering the Chinese min istership to John Hays Hammond, pro Oakland, Cal., May 26.— Forty car fess to see in it a sign o f an ambitious loads o f scrap scrap iron, picked from Eastern policy on the part o f the new the debris of the San Francisco fire of administration in the United States. April 18, 1906, is being loaded for It is well known that T a ft is greatly shipment to Genoa, where it will be interested in Oriental affairs, and built into the sides and armor o f a new there is a strong feeling that his ad- Italian battleship. Tw-o years ago the ministrtion will mean much in the de Italian government secured a consign velopment o f more friendly relations ment of this metal for experimental between America and the East, and purposes and as a result government especially with Japan. experts have given the opinion that tbe scrap iron makes a better resistant May Take Taft to Alaska. when mixed with steel than does the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Wash., ordinary product. May 29.—It is rumored hère that the Religious Freedom Near. cruiser St. Louis, which is making ready to go to sea early next month, St. Petersburg, May 26.— The douma will take President T aft and his party today began the discussion of a law to Alaska this summer. The destina legalizing the sect of Old Believers. tion o f the St. Louis is not officially This is the first of a series of important known. A draft o f 70 men was rej measures designed to put into effect ceived yesterday from the cruiser Mil the principles of religious liberty. The waukee. A like number of men were sect, of the Old Beliveers, which in va transferred from the cruiser Maryland, rious forms embraces 15,000,000 wor which came from San Francisco. shipers, is the largest dissident body in Russia. It separated from the par ent orthodox church during the period Floods in£Mississippi. Jackson, Miss., May 29.— The town o f reforms under Peter the Great. of Quitman is submerged as the resu t Cantaloupes Sell for S5. of a flood. All business ia -suspended and the residents have been forced into Los Angeles, May 26.—Two canta the upper parts of their houses. Some loupes, the vanguard o f the 1909 crop have had to move out entirely. The from the Imperial valley, shipped yes loss from high water ia heavy through terday as part of a consignment from out the state. Miles o f railroad tracks Heber, Cal., sold today in the local have been destroyed and the loss to the market at $5 each. The melons were railroads is estimated at $1,000,000. large and well ripened.