BRIEF NEWS OF
THE PAST WEEK
PLA N S
FOR
STRO N G ER
NAVY.
Battleship to Cost S18 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 -S u b
marines for Pacific.
Washington, Feb. 28.— Secretary
Meyer, of the navy department, is
said to have told
the house
naval
NEWS NOTES GATHERED FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF OREGON
P LA N T 800 ACRES OF FRU IT.
STORE W ATERS OF JOHN DAY
-
Development Com et to Reclamation Service Would Irrigate
Lands in M orrow County.
Rich Sutherlin Valley.
Fossil A. J. Blakely, a government
Roseburg— Probably nowhere in Ore
gon can there be found more evidence civil engineer, with an assistant sur-
of progreas than in Sutherlin valley, | veyor and a party of four hel|>crs, are
12 miles north of Roaeburg on the | working on the upper John Day river
Mr.
main lines of the Southern Pacific rail f r the reclamation service.
road. In little more than One year a UlHkely hss been at work along the
substantial town has been established, I lohn Day river near the mouth of
having a population o f about 400. Thirty-mile, about three months,'meas-
This fine valley of 10,000 acres is al j uring the (low of water and surveying
ready dotted with homes of wealthy I a dam site, with a view of storing the
easterners who have been attracted | winter flow o f the river for the irriga-
from many states to build permanent I tion o f a large tract of arid land near
! the mouth of Willow creek, in Morrow
homee.
Since the Luce Land a d Develop I county, and possibly to irrigate Shut-
ment company purchased this tract last tier Flat, in Gilliam county. It is re-
spring 1,176 square feet of cement liorted he found that a reservoir near
sidewalks and 54,000 square feet of the mouth of Thirty-mile would be
gravel sidewalks have been construct j too low to reach the land above re
ed, and between 12 and 14 miles of ferred to, hence the move to the upper
streets and roads have been graded, river.
The lands along the John Day river,
with four miles more to be graded this
spring. Four miles have already been j where the party has been surveying,
graveled. This work is soon to be re I were withdrawn from settlement by
sumed. The main boulevard througo | the government some years ago, and
j have since been marked on the plats
the city is 80 feet wide.
A creek running through the valley as belonging to a government irriga-
is being enlarged by dredging a clear | tion project. Later, part of the upper
channel 34 feet wide with an average John Day was withdrawn for the same
depth of eight feet, is being made. I purpose.
Both night and day crews are at work.
Nineteen miles of irrigation ditch will
8,000 Acres Near Brogan Sold.
be used, nine of which are completed.
Vale—The Oregon Fruit Farms com
pany, o f Chicago, has purchased 8,000
University of Oregon Grows
acres of land seven miles south of Bro
University o f Oregon — Eugene— gan, in the Willow river valley, and
Two new buildings, made necessary by has platted a townaite to be known as
the rapid giowth in enrollment, are to Bingham. The company will plant
be erected at the University of Oregon 1000 acres in friut trees this Bpring
according to the decision reached by and will sell off the remaining land in
One
the hoard of regents at their semi-an tracts of 10 and 20 acres each.
nual meeting held in Eugene last week. thousand acres in these sized tracts
The first of these will be an adminis has already been sold. A. A. Reed, of
tration building, to contain the presi Palisade, Colo., an experienced horti-
dent’s, the university steward’s and curalist, is on the ground to supervise
the registrar’s offices on the first floor the planting of the trees. The Union
and an auditorium on the second. The Land, Loan & Trust company o f Vale,
second building will consist of class is the western agent of the new com
rooms exclusively. The regents found pany. Mr. Stewart, secretary of the
that with the present enrollment, a ' new company, is now in Vale.
number of instructors have no perma
—
nent reictation room, but hold their
Reclamation Lands Increased
classea in any room where opportunity
Salem— A t a meeting of the Carey
will permit. The erection of an ad- act board or desert land board recently
minietration building will leave all of it was decided to apply to congress to
Villard hall, in which the present offi have another 1,000,000 acres o f land
ces are situated, free for additional set aside for reclamation in Oregon.
class rooms, and the Condon Geological The first 1,000,000 acres set aside by
collection, the moat valuable of its kind the passage of the Carey act has been
on the Pacific coast, which is now almost wholly exhausted or incorporat
crowded into a room containing about ed in preclamation projects. By an act
one-third the space needed, will proba of congress Oregon may have an addi
bly be placed in the present assembly tional 1,000,000 acres set aside as has
hall on the second floor of Villard.
been done twice in the state ot Iudaho.
Increasing number o f Carey acts pro
Conferences at University.
jects demands more arid lands.
University o f Oregon, Eugene— Two
Plant Lobsters in Yaquina Bay.
state educational conferences are to be
held at the University of Oregon dur
Newport— There are to be imported
ing commencement week, one for the lobsters— those that grow under water
discussion of common school problems, — in Oregon. Under the direction of
June 20-21, and the socond for the dis the government fisheries bureau a car
cussion of high school methods and load of young lobsters from the Atlan
problems, June 23-24. A strong pro tic coast are to be shipped across the
gram for each is being prepared. Ad continent and planted in Yaquina bay,
dresses will be given by prominent ed this having been determined to be the
ucators, followed by discussions by moat suitable breeding ground on the
leading school men of Oregon and the Oregon coast. It is expected that these
Northwest. Dr. H. D. Sheldon, Dean "seed ” lobsters will in time furnish
of the University of the School of Edu material for an important industry.
cation, who has charge o f preparing
the programs, says that he is meeting
Pine Creek Lands to Be Watered.
with a hearty response in all sections
Freewater The Umatilla Irrigation
of the state. He expects a large at company will incorporate.
The com
tendance of teachers and promises to pany is eom|K«ed o f the ranchers of
make the conferences of highest stand Pine creek, nine miles west of Free
ard. The exercises will be held in con- water, who propose to dam that stream
nection with those of Commencement and secure water for the irrigation of
week, for which the railroad com about 800 acres.
The great success
panies grant a round trip rate o f one of the Hudson Bay ditch has encour
and one-third fares.
aged the promoters of the new scheme.
Condensed Dispatches from All Parts committee today o f plans o f building a
world’s record-breaking battleship of Wonderful
o f the Two Hemispheres.
Interesting Zvsnts from Outside the
State Presented in a Manner to
Catch the Eye o f the Busy Reader
— Matters o f National, Historical
and Commercial Importance.
A lifeboat from a warship has d rift
ed ashore near Victoria, B. C.
The I. W. W. will place 100 women
orators in the field in Spokane.
Two persons were drowned and
hundreds made homeless by Ohio floods.
A missionary, a miner and a negro
laborer were frozen to death in Alaska.
Indianapolis mayor would appoint a
number o f women on the regular police
force.
Chief Justice Wright holds that sen
ate committees are as amenable to le
gal writs as any one.
Secretary Dickinson advises senate
committee to prosecute Pacific Mail
under anti-trust laws.
Judge Landis orders oleomargarine
investigation that will probably drag
in Representative Moxley.
Reduction of rates on Seattle inter-
urban lines has been ordered by the
Washington railroad commission.
German and English citizens in Tex
as have been called upop by their gov
ernments to appear for military duty.
President T aft tells publishers who
call regarding immigration law, that
Hebrew immigrant is imbued with pat
riotic spirit.
The snowslides at Mace and Burke,
Idaho, are said to be piled 75 feet
deep, and complete death lists will
probably never be known.
Four boys, the oldest 19 and the
youngest 10 years of age, confessed to
having planned to wreck a New York
faat passenger train and then rob the
bodies of the dead.
Live hogs reached $9.80 per hundred
at Chicago.
Asquith is about to fall from power
ami his government faces ruin because
o f his blunders.
32,000 tons displacement at a cost of
I $18,000,000 and making the United
States the leading naval power.
Members o f the committee said that
the secretary’s radical plans were
favorably received by the committee.
The secretary did not refer to naval
strength in numbers of ships or arma
ment, but to various features o f im
provement of the efficiency o f ships
and guns.
The building o f the proposed giant
battleship is delayed until next year
only because the naval experiments
with 14-inch guns have not been com
pleted, and the department desires to
know the result o f full experiments.
Tentatively, it is planned to arm the
great battleship with a battery of
fourteen 14-inch guns of the latest
type.
The secretary said that plans for en
largement o f all the drydoeks o f the
country, as outlined to the committee
some weeks ago, were made in contem
plation of the great enlargement of the
battleships and he wanted the docks
built to accommodate ships of great
size.
I t was tentatively agreed that the
naval increase this year, based on the
secretary’s recommendations, shall be
as follows:
Two 27,000-ton battle
ships, equipped either with 12 or 14-
inch guns; one regular ship, two col
liers and five submarines.
The submarines are for the Pacific
coast, and are the first of a fast fleet
o f these vessels which will he provided
in the next few years. The plan to
place ten additional submarines on the
Pacific coast next was considered fav
orably.
These submarines w ill be one o f the
fastest yet launched, and will be cap
able of making a speed under water of
12 knots an hour.
A member of the committee said
that the government had unofficial in
formation to the effect that Japan is
laying the keels of two great battle
ships approaching the 32,000 ton
limit. He said the tonnage o f the
great battleship under consideration
would depend to a great extent upon
the weight o f the batteries o f the huge
14-inch guns, which would be placed
on this ship.
Pinchot charges that Ballinger w il
AVALANCHE BURIES 75.
fully deceived President T aft with
false statements.
Town of Mace, Idaho, Said to Be
A French cardinal was fined for urg
Scene o f Desaster.
ing the school authorities not to use
Spokane, Wash., Feb. 28. With a
the state text books.
roar that could he heard in Wallace,
Secretary Meyer has plan for 32,000- five miles distant, an avalanche over
ton battleship, to cost $18,000,000, whelmed the town o f Mace, Idaho, last
night, and 75 people are believed to be
and carry fourteen 14-inch rifles.
buried under tons o f snow and debris.
Nicaraguan rebels surprised the gov
Telephone messages from Wallace say
ernment forces, killed their general,
that the slide occurred at 11:30 o’clock.
and secured many prisoners and much
Rescue parties started at once from
booty.
Wallace to the scene o f the disaster.
Maurice F. Egan, minister to Den A special relief train was also started
mark, declares he will believe Dr. out from Spokane.
Cook honest until he is proven other
Because o f the deep snow and block
wise.
aded condition o f the road from W al
I f the government wins against the lace to Mace, no details o f the catas
tobacco trust, it is planned to attack trophe have yet been received.
Heavy snow has been falling in
the United States Steel corporation
Northern Idaho during the pnst week,
next.
and with the thaw which began yester
Roosevelt parted with his retinue of day conditions were favorable for just
native servants and attendants at Con- such a disaster which has overwhelmed
dokoro, Soudan, and the hunting ex the little town.
pedition is ended.
Unless the beef trust magnates who
Walla Walla, Wash., Feb. 28.— A
have been indicted in New Jersey sur special dispatch at 3 a. m. says that
render peaceably they w ill be extradit five hundred rescuers have taken out
ed and the trust dissolved.
seven dead bodies while 25 men, wo
Great arrangements are being made men and children were taken from the
for Roosevelt’s reception in Rome. slide alive, that occurred at Mace last
The pope w ill grant him an audience night. It is known that 100 additional
and the king w ill give a dinner in his are dead.
The slide is half a mile long and 30
honor.
feet deep. The first train hearing the
A boyhood friend of Carnegie called 25 injured le ft Mace for Wallace at
on the steel king and had a long visit 2 :25 a. m.
with him, but when he intimated that
Additional rescuers are being sent to
he was having a hard struggle to make the scene on a train now being made
a living he received only some good up here.
,
pamphlets on economy.
Charles E. Morgan, ex-governor of
Cabs, says that if the Monroe doc
trine means anything the United
States must see that the smaller gov
ernments on the Western hemisphere
are properly conducted.
A member o f the I. W. W. arrested
in the recent disturban es in Spokane,
has been found guilty o f conspiring.
With the strict injunction that he
was not to be represented as favor
ing votes for women. President T aft
accepted an invitation to address the
opening session of the annual conven
tion of the Woman Suffrage associa
tion, to be held in Washington, April
14.
A Canadian Pacific train was derail
ed on the brink of a 200-foot precipice,
and only prevented from plunging over
by a retaining wall.
" L it t le B illy” McClintock, 6 years
old, of Chicago, and heir to $6,000,-
000, will be asked to choose his own
guardian.
The German government
refuses
moral or financial support to American
exhibitors of machinery at the coming
exhibition at Berlin next summer.
Great Britain will give refuge to the
deposed Dalai Lama, of Tibet, at Cal
cutta, and has asked the Chinese gov
ernment for full explanation of the
affair.
Six persons were killed in s snow-
slide in the Bitter Root mountains in
Montana.
A hotel at Hazelton, B. C., burned
while the thermometer was st 16 de
greea below zero. Many of the occu
pants were forced to leap from upper
window* clad only in their night cloth
ing.
New Jersey grand jury will return
• t least 15 indictments «gainst pack
ing houses for storing food products
contrary to law.
The exar o f Russia would build a
new trans Mongolian railway in pre
ference to neutralising the present
line.
Phone Company Incorporates.
New Armory Accepted..
Vale— Articles of incorporation of
Oregon Agricultural College, Corval
the Riverside Rural Telephone & Tele lis —A fte r a thorough inspection o f the
graph company have been recorded. new armory it has been formally ac
The incorporators are: S. W. French,
cepted by the building committee of
W. G. Thomas and Charles Johnson.
1 the board of regents. Architect John
The charter empowers the company to
Bennes, of Portland, conducted the
build, construct and maintain tele
committee,
composed
o f Regents
phone and telegraph lines and electri
Pierce, Wilson and Weatherford, about
cal devices. The principal office of
the building on the inspection trip.
the company will be at the house o f
Myron Patch, on the Riverside Flat.
PO R TLA N D M AR K E TS.
Malheur county. The capital Btock is
$1,500.
divided
into
150
shares
o
f
$10
"C orp se” Comes to Life.
Wheat— Track prices — Blnestem,
$1.13((/1 13 X ; club, $1.06; red Rus
Brookville, Ind., Feb. 28.— Popular each.
misconception o f the coroner’s law Plan 1 inion High School for Richland sian, $1.04; valley, $1.05; 40-fold,
$ 1 . 10 .
nearly permitted the body o f Miss
Richland—The proposal to have a
Barley— Feed and brewing, $28 ton.
Olive Sanders to he frozen in a snow
union
high
school,
to
be
composed
of
Corn— Whole, $35; cracked, $36 ton.
bank today.
Miss Sanders’ sister
the
several
districts
of
Eagle
valley
is
Oats— No. 1 white, $31.50 per ton.
missed Olive from the house and found
progressing nicely. This school if car
Hay— Track prices— Timothy, W il
her, seemingly dead, lying in the snow
ried at the next school election will be lamette valley, $200/21 per ton; East
in the barnyard. It look two hours to
located
at
Richland.
A
t
a
mass
meet
ern Oregon, $220/23; alfalfa, $17(3)18;
get the coroner, and the body lay
ing of the citizens last week a commit California alfalfa, $160/17; clover, $15
where it was found.
He “ view ed”
tee was appointed to solicit subscrip @16; grain hay, $16(318.
the body and it was carried into the
tions for the purchase of the land from
Fresh fruits— Applee, $1.25(33 per
house. The undertaker was called to
prepare it for burial. A t this stage J. P. Halley, on the northeast side of box; cranberries, $8(39 per barrel.
town.
The
amount
of
$600
for
two
Potatoes Carload
buying
prices
Miss Sanders revived.
acres was soon raised end it is to be — Oregon, 7()(38Sc sack; sweet pota
placed in escrow with the deed pending toes. 2i4@3c per pound.
Emperor Ignores Petitioner.
the election.
Onions—Oregon. $1.60(31.75.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 28.— Emperor
Vegetables — Turnips, $1.25 per
Nicholas left Tsarskoe-Selo palace to
Refund Is Ordered.
sack; rutabagas, $ 1@1.25;
carrots,
day and drove into St. Petersburg,
Salem— An order o f the interstate $1; beets, $1.25; parsnips, $1.
where he called upon King Ferdinand
commerce commission was received by
Butter—City creamery, extras, 37
of Bulgaria.
The emperor, as usual
the Oregon railroad commiasion direct (339c per pound; fancy outside cream
occupied an open carriage and was
ing the Oregon Railway & Navigation ery, 350/39c; store, 20(323 He.
But
without an escort.
While passing
company, the Oregon Short Line, the ter fat prices average 1 H e per pound
through the Nevsky Prospect the car
Union Pacific and the Missouri Pacific under regular batter price!.
riage was halted by the presence of a
to make a refund to A. F. Wilaon of
Eggs— Fresh Oregon ranch, 28 H @
man clothed as a peasant, who knelt in
Imbler, Or., of $36.04, aa reparation 30c per dozen.
its path and held the petition above his
for an unreasonable rate charged for
Cheese—Full cream twins, 190220c
head. The footman made a detour to
the transportation of a carload of pota per pound; voang Americas, 200/2lc.
avoid the man, who subsequently was
toes from Imbler to Butler, Missouri,
Pork— Fancy, 120/. 12 tyc per pound.
taken to the police station.
last fall.
Veal— Fancy, 12(312Hc per pound.
Poultry— Hens, 17H(318c
pound;
Blue Book Names Picked.
Jordan Bank Incorporated.
springs, 17H(i/18c; ducks, 20o/22e;
Chicago, Feb. 28.-—A man who had
Vale— Papers supplementary to the geese, ISO tllc; turkeys, live, 22H @
prepared from Chicago’s "bluebook” a
long list o f wealthy people from article* of incorporation of the Bank 21c; dressed, 26o/ 29c; squabs, $3 per
whom, the police assert, ho intended to o f Jordan Valley have juat been filed. dozen.
Cattle— Beet steers,
$5.50(35.75;
extort money, was arrested tonight a f The capital atock is increased from
ter he had held up and robbed Dr. B. $20,000 to $30,000, and the charter is fair to good, $4.500/6; strictly good
II. Chamberlain.
Later the robber made perpetual. The capital stock is cows, $4.500/4.75; fair to good, $3.75
was identified ns Edwin English.
In divided into 300 shares o f $100 each. 0/4; light calves, $5.50o/6; heavy cal
his possession were found a burglar’s The incorporatora are: J. R. Blacka ves, $4(35; bulls, $3.50(33.75; stags,
kit and letters addressed to wealthy by, of Ontario, and R. L. Munger, $3(34.
Hogs— Top, $9.25«/9.60;
fair to
Chicagoans.
One letter demanded Fred J. Palmer, G. S. Parks and J. B.
good, $8.760/9.
Duncan, o f Jordan Valley.
$3,70(1 from Dr. D. K. Pearsons.
Sheep— Beet wethers, $6(36.26; fair
Record Price for Land.
to good, $50(6.50; good ewes, $6;
Butte Strike May Soon End.
Hood River— The sale of the J. H. lambs, $ 60 / 6 .50.
Hops— 19t>8 crop, prime and choice,
Butte, M ont, Feb. 28.— A settle Heilbronner 20-acre place a mile and a
ment o f the strike o f mine engineers half south o f town to Captain C. P. 200 / 22c; 1908e, 1 7 H «; 1907s, 11 He.
Wool— Eastern Lregon,
160>23c;
is expected soon. Mat Commerford, McCann, for $30,000 cash, represents
president o f the International Steam probably the highest price yet paid for mohair, choice, 25c.
Cascara bark— 4 H (" Sc-
Engineers' union, tonight stated that Hood River valley land in a similar
Hides— Dry hides, 180(18 He per
he had submitted a proposition to end state o f improvement. Thirteen acree
of
this
place
is
in
four-year-old
trees,
pound:
dry kip, 18(318H «; dry calf
the trouble to the officials of the Butte
Miners union, which proposition he ex and the real is cleared and under culti skin, 19o/21c; salted hides, lOevlOHe»
salted calfskin, 16c; green, le lees.
vation.
pected they would accept.|
BEEF T R U S T INDICTED.
New Jersey Grand Jury Calls
On Great Combine.
Halt
TIBETAN RULER
IS DRIVEN OUT
New York, Feb. 26.— The "b e e f
trust’ ’ of the United States, embrac
ing six great companies and 21 pack
ers, several of them multimillionaires, Sacred City o f Lhassa Occupied by
was indicted by a grand jury in Hud- \
son county. New Jersey, today, charg
2 5 .0 0 0 Chinese Troopes.
ed with conspiracy in limiting the sup
ply ot meat and poultry.
The indictments drawn under the law
of New Jersey, which provides upon Grand Lama, With Retinue. Fleet to
India—Trouble Long Expected-
conviction, a maximum penalty of
three years in the penitentiary, a $1,-
Chinese Government Determined
000 fine or both. The offense is extra
to Dispel Buddhist Monks Who
ditable, which means practically that
Have Ruled Tibet for Centuries.
the meat barons must successfully re
MOB DEFIES B A Y O N E I8 .
Disarms "T in
Soldiers" — Ganara
Strike May Be Callad.
Philadelphia, E’eb. 23.— According
to a statement issued today by the
t’hiludelphia Rapid Transit company,
the amount of damage done today and
the number o f assaults committed by
mobs were greater than on any prev
ious day of the strike.
Two hundred and ninety-five cars
were wrecked, making 750 cate put
out of service since the strike began, j
Six hundred and sixty-three cars
were run up to nightfall, when all cars
were returned to the barns.
sist extradition or come to Jersey City
for trial.
Philadelphia, Feh. 23.— Three boys
Pierce Garvin, public prosecutor of
Calcutta, British India, Feb. 24.— were shot and probably fatally injured
Hudson county, said tonight that he Chinese troops today entered Lhassa, and several
received less severe
would forthwith notify the defendants the capital of Tibet, and the residence wounds today in riots that followed the
of their indictment and would he ready o f the Dalai Lama, the supreme head attempted resumption of service by the
to enforce extradition in each case o f the Lamaiet hierarchy, who, upon Philadelphia Rapid Transit company.
where the individual concerned is not the approach of the soldiers, tied with
The shooting occurred in attacks on
willing to face trial. The defendants several of his ministers into India.
cars in the Northeastern section. Mar
follo w :
Serious trouble has been expected, ket street, the principal
business
The National Packing company, owing to the action of the small Chi thoroughfare, was the scene of the dis
Armour & Co., S w ift & Co., Morris nese army, which, marching from Sze- turbances all day. Cars were atoned
& Co., Hammond Packing company, . Chuen, China, subdued Eastern Tibet, and two policemen were roughly hand
G. H. Hammond & Co., J. Ogden A r levying contributions on the Lama’s led by a mob of several thousannd per
mour, A. Watson Armour, Louis F. home and showing no respect for the sons. A dozen arrests were made and
Swift, Edward. F. Sw ift, Charles H. monasteries.
the prisoners were place/] in a trolley
The Tibetans, resenting the dese car. This was stormed by the mob and
Swift, Edward Morris, Ira N. Morris,
Arthur Meeker, Edward Tilden, L. A. cration o f their holy places, petitioned two prisoners escaped.
Carter, Thomas E. EL Wilson, Thomas the Chinese foreign board, praying
Preparations were made by author
J. Conners, F. A. Fowler, L. H. Hey- that the emperor of China interfere in ities to call upon the entire force of
man, James E. Bathgate, Jr., George the interest o f the Buddhists. The pe the state m ilitia if the police tomor
J. Edwards, Fredrick B. Cooper, D. EL tition was disregarded, the Chinese row were unable to cope with the sit
Hartell, Henry B. Darlington. A. A. propose to make the administration of uation.
President Murphy, o f the
Fuller, L. C. Patterson.
the country purely Chinese.
Central Labor union, still regards a
Ira N. Morris sent a lawyer to Jer
The Dalai Lama appealed to Lord general strike of all unions in the city
sey City this week from Chicago to Minto, the viceroy o f India, but he re as inevitable, although Organiser Pratt
inform Prosecutor Garven that he had fused to interfere.
: is said to oppose this move.
retired from the directorate o f Morris
Membera of the State Fencibles, an
& Co., but nevertheless he was in
London, Feb. 24.— The flight from independent military organization. 200
dicted.
Lhassa of the Dalai Lama will cause strong, were placed on duty today,
Cooper is the New Jersey manager no surprise to close observers o f the armed with loaded rifles. They were
for S w ift & C o.; Bathgate, Eldwards, Chinese attitude toward the Tibetan detailed in the Kensington mill district
Bartwall, Darlington and Fuller are said people when he was in Pekin.
Northeast, a hotbed o f sympathizers.
to be officers and Eastern agents o f the
It became evident then that the
Fifteen policemen qusrtered in the
National Packing company, while other Chinese government had no intention barn of the company at Ridge avenue
named are directors or officers or form of permitting him to reume bis sway and York street narrowly
escaped
er directors or officers of the National at Lhassa, so far as civil power was death tonight when the entire north
Packing company. Capiases for the concerned, and attempts were even east corner-of the building was blown
arrest o f all the defendants will be is made to bar hie passage on his return away with dynamite.
The explosion
sued immediately and the grand jury home.
occurred just as C. 0. Pratt_was about
will resume its investigation next
E’ollowing its policy o f "China for to address a meeting o f carmen at
Wednesday.
the Chinese,” the government determ Ridge avenue and Dauphin street.
ined to make more effective its control
over the land o f the Lamas. A cam
AS B E STO S COM BINE ON.
C EN SU S OF O C C U P A T IO N S .
paign to this end has been pushed in
the
border
provinces
for
the
last
two
New Trust Will Be Capitalized at
years, and now China has sent an army Questions Will Apply to Everybody in
S5, OOO.OOO.
the United States.
of 25,000 anti-BuddhiBt troops into the
Denver, Feb. 26.— The Times today capital o f Tibet.
Washington, Feb. 23.—The "occu
says: Deals are now being organized
This army, which was dispatched pation” question in the United States
in Denver which will probably result from Sze-Chuen, has been drilled by census population schedule to be car
in the formation o f a trust that will Japanese officers and is completely ried by the enumerators during the
control 90 per cent of the asbestos out equipped with mountain and machine Thirteenth Decennial census, begin
put o f the world.
guns of German and Japanese patterns ning April 15 next, applies to every
Officers and representatives o f the and with wireless apparatus.
body living in the United States on the
International Asbestos company, the
date mentioned, which is the "Census
National Asbestos company, the W y
Day,” and all the population schedule
S T R IK E R IO TS C O N TIN U E .
oming Consolidated AsbeBtoa company
questions relate to it only.
and the United States Asbestos Mining
In its printed instructions to enum
& Fiberizing company are here to con Local Police Admit Defeat— State P o erators the census bureau holds that
lice Called Out.
fer with the representatives of English
the occupation followed by a child or a
and California capitalists regarding
Philadelphia, Feb. 24.— Police offi woman is just a important, for census
the sale of their properties to new in cials of the city today virtually ac purposes, as the occupation of a man.
terests.
knowledged their inability
to cope Therefore the enumerators are told
Representatives of the Amalgamat with the st ike situation when a re never to take it for granted without
ed Asbestos corporation, a Canadian quest bb made o f John C. Groome, su inquiry that a woman or child old
company, recently launched, which has perintendent o f the state police, that enough to work has no gainful occupa
obtained control o f about 90 per cent the 200 members of his command be tion.
of the asbestos output of Canada, are brought to this city for police duty.
It is pointed out, however, that only
now investigating the properties of
This request was made, notwith gainful occupation are to be reported.
the companies represented at the Den standing that serious rioting was less By this is meant any employment,
ver conference and the consummation frequent today than on any other day work, profession or vocation by which
of the first deal will likely be followed since the strike of the streetcar men the person working regularly earns
by the absorption of these companies began last Saturday. The state police money or its equivalent. The fact
by the big Canadian corporation.
are expected to reach here tom rrow that a person has no gainful occupa
The new interests are said to have morning, and will doubtless be sent in tion is to be noted on the schedudle.
offered $1,100,000 for the control of to the Kensington district, where the i f a person is only temporarily unem
the Wyoming asbestos deposits.
State FencibieB had such an unpleasant ployed on account o f lack o f work or
sickness, or other temporary reason,
experience.
For the first time the Rapid Transit the occupation which that person usual
Catch is 300,000 Pounds.
company succeeded in running its cars ly follows is to be reported.
Vancouver. B. C., Feb. 26.— The ! until 6 o’clock on the Frankford line,
I f a person has two occupations, the
halibut fishing steamer Kingfisher, which penetrates this unruly territory. enumerator must return only the more
belonging to the fleeet o f the New A t that hour all cars were ri turned to im;>ortant one— that is, the one from
England Fish company, an American the barns.
which the person gets the more money.
concern, is due to arrive here Friday
Fcur policemen guarded each car, I f that cannot be learned, then he is
with 300,000 pounds o f fish, 200,000 of and detectives patrolled the route all to return the one at which the person
which she caught in two and a half day in automobiles.
Whenever a spends the more time. As an illustra
days. Her whole time for the trip group of men formed detectives rushed tion, the enumerators are told to re
will be but nine and a half days.
The them and even followed the ringleaders turn a man as a "fa rm e r” i f he gets
Kingfisher’s total cargo will be 400,000 into houses until they had captured most nf his income from farming, al
pounds, which includes weight for ice them. In spite o f the vigilance o f the though he may follow the occupation
and boxes in which some of the fish police, many car windows were b o- of a clergyman or preacher; but they
are packed.
ken, and the company was finally must return him as a "clergym an '' i f
obliged to use sheet iron windows in he gets more o f his income from that
Warning from Gompert.
occupation.
place o f glass panes.
Washington, E'eb. 26.— Samuel Gom-
pers, president o f the American Feder
House of Lords Lacks Support.
Rush Line is Dispersed
ation o f Labor, told Attorney General
Los Angeles, Feb. 24. — Senator
London, E’eb. 23 — The players in the
Wickersham today that i f the present Frank P. Flint today sent a telegram game o f politics threw the cards upon
American workers’ movement, which to the weary ones who are still main the table in the house o f commons to
he said is constructive and conserva taining the line in this} city, hoping to day. The government ia without the
tive in character, is outlawed and be the first to file on 'he Yuma lands, allies necessary to carry legislation and
crushed out of existence by unfavora informing them that the order o f Sec the prospect is that the country will be
ble legislation end court decisions, it retary Ballinger will stand. The sec stirred up by another general election
will be followed b ; another movement retary’s order disrupted the line and soon.
Premier Asquith announced
that will scarcely be constructive. For ordered all homoseekers to -take their that the financial legislation would be
two hours Mr. Gompers and Mr. Wick- I chances in a "grand rush” on the put ahead o f the proposals to curb the
ersham discussed legislation affecting morning o f March 1. Those in line power o f the house of lords. John E.
labor.
maintain they w ill "hang on” until Redmond, the Irish leader, declared
the last. ’ From 210 the line has dwind flatly that the Nationalists would not
Seine May Save Vessel
led to 156.
S' pport that program.
Seattle, Feb. 26.— An'expedition has
been organized by an expert diver to
Railroads Make No Headway
Maryland Deemed Unsafe.
raise the steamer Islander, sunk ten
Baltimore, Feb. 24.— The two pow
Vallejo, Cal., Feb. 23.— The chief
years ago in 320 fathoms o f water near erful railroad labor organisations, the engineering officer o f the cruiser Mary
Juneau, Alaska, when bound for Seat Order o f Railway Conductors and the land has filed a protest with the Navy
tle with $2,000,000 o f Klondike gold in Brotherhood o f Railway Trainmen, department against sending that ship
her strong box. The situation o f the which have undertaken to obtain a gen to sea for target practice. It is simi
steamer is known, but the depth of eral increase o f the wage scale for all lar to that ma le by the engineer of the
water has forbidden salvage.
The employes in those branches o f the ser W «st Virginia in regard to that ves
plan proposed is to lift the vessel with vice on the principal lines in the ea t- sel, reciting that human life would be
a huge metal seine. The vessel would em part o f the United States and in endangered by taking the ships to sea
be picked up by the seine and would Canada, have suffered repulse at the with their machinery in its present
not bn a heavy load until she was so inauguration o f their campaign. Three condition. These protests, it is said,
near the top that chains could be used. weeks o f negotiations ended today have been favorably indorsed by the
when the company declined to accede commanding officers o f the two cruisers
Bethlehem Works Close.
to the demands of the organization.
and forwarded to Washington.
Bethlehem, Pa., Feb. 26. — The
Bethlehem Steel company closed to
Meteor Hitt Mountains
De Sagin Further Titled.
night and it is said will remain closed
San Diego, Cal., Feb. 24.— From
Paris, Feb. 23.—Charles William
until the police are able to give protec “ Warner’s Hot Springs, about; 70 miles Frederick Boson de Talleyrand Peri-
tion to the men who remain loyal to northeast o f thts city comes the report gord, fourth duke o f Talleyrand and
the company. This step was taken be that a meteor o f extraordinary size and father of Prince de Sagan, who mar
cause o f serious rioting early this brilliancy was seen there this after ried the Counte-s de Castellane, for
morning, when 500 foreigners attacked noon. It was traveling from West to merly Anna Gould, died today. The
employes as they were going to work. East. Passing the Springs, its cour e duke suffered a stroke o f paralysis as
The rioters made a second attack to led into the mountains, where it ex the result of his experience in a char
night when the men were leaving the plod-d with a deafening report and ity bazaar fire. With the duke's death
plant. Nine thousand men are idle.
sent up a great cloud o f dust. The Prince de Sagan succeeds to the titles
phenomena was witnessed by several of Duke de Talleyrand and Herzog zu
guests at the hotel.
Declares for General Strike.
Sagan, and becomes a Serene Highness
Philadelphia, Pa.. Feb. 26.— Follow
ing the publication o f ■ statement al
leged to have been made today by John
J. Murphy, preeident o f the Central
Labor union, a warrant was issued for
his arrest It is said that Murphy de
clared " a general strike should be
called immediately. I think it is in
evitable. There are men in the North
east who can shoot as straight aa any
trooper that aver draw • breath.”
Girl Parades Long at Roy
Moorhead, Ky., Feb. 24.— Mi-< Gold*
la Cantrill, 17 years old, trxtay war
sent home by the school trustees afte-
they learned that she had been attend*
ing school sa Sam Murray, dressed in
boys’ clothing.
She stood second in
her clast.
Several months ago she
earned her living for several weeks as
a “ newsboy” on trains.
Egypt's Premier Dias o f Wound.
Cairo, E&ypt, Feb. 23. — Rout res
Pasha Chali, the Egyptian premier and
minister of foreign affairs, who was
shot by a student yesterday, died to
day. The assassin, who is in custody,
is a Nationalist, and declares he sought
to avenge certain acta of the govern
ment which are displeasing to the Na
tional iata.