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BRIEF NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK Condensed Dispatches from All Parts HISTORIC RELICS FOUND. Letters 'of Martha Washington and Mrs. Lincoln Come to Light. Washington, March 7.— In an un lighted corner o f the attic o f the house o f representatives, the committee on accounts has rescued a large number o f letters and documents o f the early days o f the republic. Among them are letters from Washington, Jeffer son, Lafayette, Jay and Monroe. To two o f them a peculiar sentimen tal interest attaches. These are let ters written by Martha Washington and Mary Todd Lincoln, the former concerning the proposed removal o f the body o f her husband from Mount Ver non to a crypt in the capitoK and the other applying to the government for a pension. Both are addressed to the 8(>eaker o f the house. The house to day voted an appropriation o f $2,500 to have these historic papers cared for and deposited in the library o f con gress as “ the house o f representatives collection.“ The two letters are as follow s: NEWS NOTES GATHERED FROM VARIOUS PARTS OP OREGON NEW RAILROAD FOR YAMHILL. TO FIGHT FOES OF TREES. Capital Stock * 6 0 0 ,0 0 0 — Will Haul Timber Men Welcome Assignment of Expert to Oregon Forests. Logs From Camps to Mill. Washington On request o f the Ore Salem The Carlton & Coast railroad company, which was incorporated with gon Conservation association, Senator Interesting Zvents from Outside the a capita) stock o f $500,000 by William Bourne has procured from Secretary State Presented in a Manner to B. Dennis, Fred Russel and S. B. Lin- Wilson the assignment o f an expert on Catch the Eye of the Busy Reader thicum o f this city, will build a rail timber pests to work in Oregon. Sec — Matters o f National, Historical road from Carlton, in Yamhill county, retary Wilson has assigned H. E. on the west side line o f the Southern Burke. He will begin his work June and Commercial Importance. Pacific, in a westerly direction through 1, in Oregon, in co-operation with the the town o f Fairdale to a point on Til Oregon Conservation association. Later he will make an investigation in West lamook bay. Louis James, the noted actor, died of The road will be standard guage and ern Oregon. heart failure at Helena, Montana. H. D. Langille, member o f the board a common carrier, although at first it is expected that logs will furnish the o f managers o f the Oregon Conserva Charles K. Hamilton, in a Curtiss tion association, when shown the above bulk o f the freight. biplane, gave many thrilling and suc Incorporated by the same men and dispatch, said the members o f the cessful flights in Portland. with a capital o f $200,000, is the Carl association would be very much pleased Jacob Schiff, a banker who loaned ton Consolidated Lumber company, to get an expert located here, with much money to Japan, says the United which will take over the property o f whom timber owners might consult in States must fight Japan soon. the Carlton Lumber company, consist regard to insect depredations. He be ing o f a modern sawmill and a large lieves a great deal o f good will be ac John Redmond has won almost a complished. complete victory over the house of tract o f fine timber. The road will haul logs from the lords in the English parliament. Boosts for Free Locks. “ To the Honorable Speaker o f the camps to the mill, follow ing for the A letter from Martha Washington Washington — Senator Bourne is greater part o f the way the course o f and one from Mrs. Abraham Lincoln House, S ir: While I feel the keenest making a last effort to procure the have been found in a dark attic in the anguish over the late dispensation of the North Yamhill river, by way o f which heretofore the mill has obtained adoption o f his amendment to the riv house o f representatives. divine providence, I cannot be insensi its logs. But logging by stream is be ers and harbors bill for the purchase | W. H. Eccles, manager o f the Ore ble o f the mournful tributes, respect coming obsolete, except where condi o f the Oregon City locks, the Federal gon Lumber company, which has been and veneration which are paid the tions are exceptionally favorable, and government paying $350,000 and the indicted for timber land frauds, says state o f Oregon* a like amount. When memory o f my dear deceased husband. so the reorganized company will intro he has no fear o f the outcome. Bourne took the matter up with the duce the very latest equipment. And as his best services and most anx ch ief o f army engineers, it was found A veteran in the California Soldiers' University Students Grade Well. that no report had been sent by the lo home attempted suicide on learning ious wishes were always devoted to University o f Oregon, Eugene— Tab cal engineer in charge, on the subject. that his wife, son and daughter were the welfare and happiness o f the coun killed in the avalanche at Mace, Idaho. try, to know that they were truly ap ulated results o f the final semester ex Bourne then procured an order that aminations recently held at the Uni Major Mclndoe be ordered here to Four hundred Russian emigrants in preciated and gratefully remembered versity o f Oregon have been prepared make a report. He will arrive Thurs Honolulu have been attacked by diph affords me no inconsiderable consola by the registrar o f the university and day when he will report. It may be theria, and refuse to remain, saying tion. show that the women students, as a impossible even under this arrange promises made to them have not been Taught by the greatest example, class, have secured higher grades than ment to get the amendment through at which I had so long before me, never the men. The average grade o f stu this session, but Bourne is putting kept. to oppose my private wishes to the dents living in the dormitories, fra forth strenuous exertions to prevent The great Italian singer Caruso is being threatened by Black Hand let public will, I must consent to the re ternities and sororities is almost exact the matter from going over to another quest made by congress which you have ly the same as the average grade o f session. ters, but declares he has no fear o f them and is making every effort to ap the good wishes to transmit to me, and | those living with private families. in doing this I need not— can not—say The woman’ s fraternity with the high Will Test .New Garnishee Law. prehend the writers. what a sacrifice o f individual feeling I est average in scholarship obtained a Salem —An op|x>rtunity has arisen to An old California Indian fighter o f make to a sense o f public duty. | grade o f 90 per cent, which was four make a test o f the law passed by the the early 60s called on Taft and great With grateful acknowledgment and per cent higher than the highest aver 1909 legislature over the veto o f Gov ly interested him with accounts of unfeigned thanks for the personal re age obtained by a man’ s fraternity. ernor George E. Chamberlain allowing early wars. The president will see to spect and evidences o f condolence ex All o f the seven women’ s fraternities the garnishee o f the salaries o f state, it that about 70 o f the Indian war vet pressed by congress and yourself. I had averages ranging from 87 to 90 county and city employees. An action erans receive good pensions. remain very respectfully sir, your most per cent. The ten men’ s fraternities has been started to garnishee a portion obedient servant, Sympathetic strikes in Philadelphia and dormitories ranged from 82 to 87 o f the salary o f J. L. Green, deputy MARTHA WASHINGTON. have involved over 100,000 workers in per cent. The average grade o f wo game warden for Multnomah county, Mount Vernon, Va., 1779.“ men not living in fraternities or dor by Carl Ehelebe. The amount involved various trades, and the trouble is grow The letter from Mrs. Lincoln is as mitories was 89 per cent and o f men is $5, but in order to determine the ing steadily. It is said to have started by the peremptory discharge, for no follow s: 85.6 per cent. None o f the men on validity o f the law the case will be “ To the Honorable Speaker o f the football team failed to make the re carried by Attorney General Crawford honest cause, o f about 500 union street House o f Represnetatives, S ir: I here quired work and their average grade to the supreme court. car employes. with most respectfully present to the was 83.7 per cent. Out o f the 600 A New York woman has been con honorable house o f representativs an students enrolled in the colleges o f Bonds for City Improvements. ducting a school for shoplifters. application for a pension. I am a wid Liberal arts and engineering, only 15 Drain The election authorizing the Nicaraguan rebels are planning to ow o f a president o f the United States, failed to make the required number of issue o f $10,000 in bonds for a water force intervention by the United whose life was sacrificeed in his coun hours necessary for continuing the plant and $5,000 for a sewer system try’s service. That sad calamity has work. States. _________ was held recently, and the water bonds carried by a majority o f 38 to 34 and Twenty-three miners were killed by very greatly impaired my health and, Rates to Willamette Points. by the advice o f my physician, I have the sewer system bonds by a unanimous an accidental explosion in the Tread Portland— That the Hill lines will vote o f 47. This is the initial step come over to Germany to try the min well mine. eral waters and during the winter to soon be in position to quote through favoring a progressive policy all along The Federal government will renew go to Italy. passenger and freight rates to points the line in Drain. The city has se its attack on the sugar trust under the But my financial means do not per in the Willamette valley is virtually cured electric lights and money is on Sherman law. mit me to take advantage o f the urgent admitted by H. M. Adams, general hand to have the streets improved in A New York man is trying to buy advice given me, nor can I live in a freight and passenger agent o f the the near future, some big daily paper and install Roose style liecoming a w'idow o f the chief Spokane, Portland & Seattle railroad. Warrenton Organizes League. “ Negotiations for traffic arrange magistrate o f a nation, although I live velt as editor in chief. ments between our line and the Oregon as economically as I possibly can. Warrenton — The citizens o f this British Columbia government will In consideration o f the great services Electric are on ,” said Mr. Adams, place have organized a development try to import from England many my dearly beloved husband has ren “ but that is all the information that league, and elected the follow ing offi girls to be employed as house servants. dered to the United States, and o f the I can give out at this time. I may cers: President, John Evenden; vice Gaynor, mayor o f New York, says fearful loss I have sustained by his un have something more definite very president, W. J. Eastabrook; secretary and treasurer, W. P. Horner. It is no one man can run any large city timely death, his martyrdom, I may soon, however.” Traffic arrangements between the S. the purpose o f the league to work for without special training and prepara say, I respectfully submit to your hon orable Ixxly this petition, hoping that a P. & S. and the Oregon Electric will the general upbuilding o f the city. tion. yearly pension may be granted me so permit the former to quote through An avalanche destroyed 12 o f the 16 that I may have less pecuniary care. Will Drill for Oil. rates to Willamette valley points over buildings composing the mining camp its lines, as well as the Great North I remain very respectfully, Dallas— Arrangements are complet o f Skookum, 20 miles north o f Roslyn, ern lines, and will give Hill greater ed for the formation o f a new oil com MRS. A. LINCOLN. Wash. One man was killed. opportunities in the valley than the pany in Dallas, to begin operation in Frankfort, Germany.“ Deputies have given up trying to Mrs. Lincolon was granted a pension Southern Pacific, the Northern Pacific the near future on lands leased west o f having traffic arrangements with the town. That there is oil all over this capture the Quiniault Indian who mur o f $5,000 a year. Southern Pacific. It is held, too, that county is fast coming to be an ac dered two o f his tribe and then barri the Hill lines would have even better cepted fact, and it only remains to caded himself on a mountain. New Minster to China In Training. opportunities, in that the Oregon Elec strike it in paying quantities. Chicago, March 7.— Forty Chinese A mob in Dallas, Texas, took a ne tric taps a richer field in many in gro from the courtroom where he was students entertained William J. Cal Improving Sawmill. stances than does the Southern Pacific being tried, beat him to death and houn, the newly appointed minister to North Bend— L. J. Simpson has ar China, at luncheon today at the King lines. hung his body from a festival arch. ranged for improvements to the Porter Joy Lo restaurant. The new minister Clam Shells Make Fine Roads. The O. R. & N. is the only line in mill to cost $15,000. An experienced listened gravely to many suave expres the West or Northwest now open, and Newport— Lincoln county has two millwright is expected this week who sions o f Oriental good will and as all trains o f the Union Pacific, North miles o f the best roadway in the state, will have charge o f the work. The gravely consumed a dinner o f infinite ern Pacific, Great Northern and Mil constructed entirely o f shells, on De work will not necessitate a shutdown variety, served in mandarin style. A l waukee are using that line. pot bay, 10 miles north o f Newport. o f the mill. though the luncheon lasted two hours Merchants o f the principal cities in and a half, it was said to be more of The shells were placed on the roadway PORTLAND MARKETS. Tahiti have petitioned the governor an afternoon tea as compared with the eight inches thick, and have become not to allow tourists to land. This is real state dinner which Mr. Calhoun packed so hard that the road resembles Wheat — Track prices — Bluestem, believed to be the only place o f im will be expected to grace beyond the bitulithic pavement. For many years the Indians on Depot bay piled huge $1,120/1.14; club, $1.04(ri1.0 6; red portance in the civilized world that Pacific. mounds o f clam shells at certain Russian, $1.04; valley, $1.50; 40-fold, does not want tourists. places, which were later on utilized by $ 1 . 10 . Zeppelin Will Seek Pole. A mysterious airship was seen fly the county road builders. The experi Harley Feeding, brewing, $28 ton. Hamburg, March 7.— The Zeppelin ment o f shell roads in this county has ing all around Mt. Shasta, and per Corn Whole, $35; cracked, $36 ton. form ing feats before unheard of. It North Pole exploration committee met proved quite satisfactory. Oats No. 1 white, $31(031.50 ton. is believed to belong to some inventor here today under the direction of Hay Track prices -T im oth y; W il who has built it during the past winter Prince Henry, o f Prussia. Count Zep Log Chains by the Ton, lamette valley, $20(021 per ton; East at some secluded 8|K>t in the moun pelin was present. The summer will Astoria- Two hundred tons o f log ern Oregon, $22(0 23; alfalfa, $17(018: be devoted to a primary expedition for chain for the Benson Logging company tains. California alfalfa, $16(OT7; clover, the purpose o f studying the ice condi Floods at Zanesville and Warren, tions. The expedition will start for has arrived from San Francisco and $15(016; grain hay, $16(018. Fresh Fruits— Apples, $1.25(o3 box; Ohio, have rendered thousands o f peo Spitzbergen July 1. A Norwegian ice was discharged on the lower Columbia river, where the concern will shortly pears, $1.50(0)1.75 per box; cranber ple homeless. steamer will be used for the purpose begin the building o f cigar-shaped ries, $8(o9 per barrel. Butte engineers are deserting their o f forcing an entrance into the polar rafts for towing to San Diego. Four Potatoes Carload buying prices; union and the collapse o f the strike ice and the expedition will return at o f these huge rafts will lie constructed Oregon, 60(o70c per hundred; sweet the end o f August. An airship will ■eems at hand. at Wallace slough the coming season. potatoes, 8c per pound. be taken for summer use. One raft completed last fall too late Onions Oregon, $1.50(nl.75 per Oklahoma has passed a new election to take to sea is at the slough. It con hundred. law which cuts down the negro vote by Tw o Men Go Over Falls. tains about 7,500,000 feet. Vegetables Turnips, $1.25 persack; prescribing certain qualifications. Niagara Falls, N. Y ., March 7.— rutabagas, $l(/z 1.25; carrots, $1; beets, Two uidentified men, thrown from a Japan wants credit for helping China Teacher Makes Good With Cattle. $1.25; parsnips, $1. avoid serious trouble on the Tibetan rowboat that overturned in the current Lakeview R. B. Jackson has sold Butter City creamery extras, 37(0) frontier, and says China made a great o f the Niagara river a mile and a half to A. A. Davis, Klamath Marsh, about 39c; fancy outside creamery, 35(0 39c above the falls today are reported to $33,000 worth o f cattle to be delivered per pound; store, 200/23. mistake. Butter fat have lx»en swept over Horseshoe falls. at Williams river April 15. He also prices average 1 1-2 c per pound under Abilene, Kansas, has adopted the In their effort to keep the boat headed retains about 500 head o f yearlings regular butter prices. commission form o f government, but toward the current both men bent to from his herd. Mr. Jackson embarked Eggs Fresh Oregon ranch, 24(0 25c. North and South Dakota towns are re the oars, but at every pull they lost in the cattle business about eight years Pork— Fancy, 12(0 13c per pound. jectin g it. distance. The l>oat was in a place too ago in Northern Lake county. At that Veal Fancy, 12(o l3 c per pound. dangerous for any aid to be sent, al time he was a school teacher, having a Poultry— Hens, 17(o 18c per pound; A Quiniault Indian murdered two of though several persons saw the strug capital o f $40 in money. springs, 17(// 18c; ducks, 18c; geese, his tribe, defied the authorities and gling men and knew it meant certain 12c; turkeys, live, 22(o24c; dressed, entrenched himself on a high moun death to the men. * 7 0 ,0 0 0 Bonds for Canal. 24(o 27c; squabs, $3 per dozen. tain, heavily armed. Hood River The electors in the Cattle.— Best steers, $5.50(ii 5.75; Cham orro is President? The barkentine Amy Louise, from farmers’ irrigation district authorized fair to good, $4.50(0 5; strictly good Managua, March 7.— The govern $70,000 in additional bonds to com cows, $4.50(o4.75; fair to good, $4(0 Pernambuco for St. Johns, N. F., has been out over 100 days, and is believed ment authorities today published a ca plete the canal begun three years ago 4.50; light calves, $6.50(0 6; heavy to be lost with her crew o f nine. blegram from Panama in which it was and which has cost to date $20,000. calves, $4(o 4.50; bulls, $3.75(0.4.25; announced that General Chamorro had Out o f the 200 voters, two votes were stags, $3(o 4.50. Only atxsit 60 per cent o f the cor imprisoned General Estrada, the pro cast against the bonds. The canal Hogs— Top, $9.75(o 10.10; fair to porations o f the country have made visional president, and had proclaimed covers the high lands on the West side good, $9(o 9.50. returns as required by the income tax himself president. Deserters from the and embodies several thousand acres of Sheep— Best wethers, $6(o6.50; fair law, and 85 per cent o f these are ac insurgent forces say the Bluefields gar Hood R iver’ s best land. to good, $5.50(iz 6.75; good ewes, $6; companied by protests. rison has been reduced to 25 men. lambs, $7.75. Montana Man Buys Farm. They also declare that General Estrada Hops— 1909 crop, prime and choice, The government army o f Nicaragua, never leaves the town and that his Rickreall — The Jonh Middleton 20(//21c per pound; 1908s, 17c; 1907s, which gathered to attack Kama and wife gives all campaign orders. farm has been sold to E. W . Strong of 11c. accomplish the re-conquest o f the East Monmouth for $10,000. The farm lies Wool Eastern Oregon, 16(0 20c per coast, has begun its march. The army Farman Breaks Record. one mile north o f Rickreall ami is one pound; valley, 220/24c; mohair, choice, is well supplied with artillery. Gen Mourmelon, France, March 7.— o f the desirable farms o f the conuty. 25c. eral Vasquez will assume command Hides Dry hides, 17(018c pound; Henry Farman today established a new’ Mr. Middleton will probably buy a when it reaches Acoyapa. world’s record for aeroplane flight smaller farm, as advancing age has dry kip, 17(o 18c; dry calfskin, 18(o A lifeboat from a warship has drift with two passengers, remaining in the made it impossible for him to keep up 20c; salted hides, 9(o 10c; salted ca lf skin, 14c; green, lc less. the larger place. air for one hour and ten minutes. ed ashore near Victoria, B. C. o f the Two Hemispheres. SLIDE KILLS SIXTY TO 100 WORKMEN ON ROTARY Two Craws Buried In Rogers P a ss- One Avalanche ie Being Cleared When Second Comae. Seattle, March 5.— A special to the Poat-Intellligsncer from Revelstoke, B. C., Bays that between 60 and 100 lives were lost in a Bnowalide that buried two rotary crews in Rogers Pass, two milea east o f Glacier, at 1 o ’ clock this morning. A small slide occurred at 6 o ’ clock and the men were clearing the line when the second avalanche swept down the mountain and engulfed both crews. Details o f the disaster are lacking. Rescue parties have been sent out from Revelstoke. Without warning a second tremen dous slide rushed down on the crew. It swept the rotary and alt the men far down into the canyon below. Only three o f the rotary crew sur vive. BEGIN SYMPATHETIC STRIKE. Philadelphia Prepares for Renewed Hostilities—Two Shot. Philadelphia, March 5. — Between 50,000 and 70,000 union workers on strike, 100 different branches o f indus try affected and a renewal o f rioting, in which two men were shot, is the situation that confronts Philadelphians early today. The police are apprehensive o f the outcome. Director Clay, however, de clares that he has enough men to crush any uprising. The Rapid Transit company an nounces that every effort will be made to maintain trolley service. Cars will be dispatched at as nearly regular in tervals as possible, and the service will be increased if police protection is given. Philadelphia, March 5.- Encouraged by messages o f sympathy and offers of assistance from labor unions from all parts o f the country, the union workers o f many trades ceased work at mid night and inauguarated what promises to be one o f the greatest sympathetic strikes in the history o f organized la bor. The Committee o f Ten says that at least 85,000 organized workers, as well as many unorganized men, have ceased work. Promptly at midnight union orches tras playing in the leading hotels and cafes picked up their instruments and started for home. Union cabdrivers and chauffeurs also abandoned their posts, and the hotel and railroad cab and automobile ser vice was badly crippled. The drivers o f both taxicab companies in the city are members o f a union and refused to take out their machines after midnight. The Committee o f Ten remained in session at its headquarters all night, receiving reports from the local unions. The labor leaders refused to com ment on the report that the police would prevent the demonstration plan ned for tomorrow afternoon in Inde pendence Square. Although the labor leaders are re ceiving moral support from their fel low workmen in all parts o f the coun try, many associations o f employers have sent letters and telegrams to the officials o f the Philadelphia Rapid Transit company and the city officials, commending their position and urging them to stand firm in their determina tion not to recognize the union. Slide Kills Six Laborers. Seattle, March 5.— Six laborers are reported to have been killed by an ava lanche that destroyed Cascade, a small station east o f the Cascade tunnel. The report was brought to Seattle by Ed Clark, a section man who has been working in the mountains. He said that he walked through Cascade this morning and that everything had been wiped out but a cook shack. Two men at the scene told him o f the death of the six laborers, whose names are not known. The Great Northern has re ceived no report o f an avalanche at Cascade, but it is known that several bad slides have occurred on the east slope o f the mountains. All communi cation with that section has been cut off. Red Men Blew Out the Gas. Washington, March 5.— One o f the most picturesque chieftains in the In dian race and his nephew, both mem bers o f the Chippewa tribe, in Minne sota, was found dead in a local hotel today, victims o f asphyxiation. The dead chief was Pay-Baum-We-Che- Walsh-Kung, more than 95 years old, and bis unfortunate companion was A-Ne-W ay-W ay-Aush. It is believed one o f the red men blew out the gas. This was the second visit o f the chief to the capital o f the “ Great Father,” his first being nearly 44 years ago. Congress Wants Paary’ s Proofs. Washington, March 5.— Proofs of Commander Peary’ s discovery o f t)ie North Pole caused a row in the sub committee o f the house on naval af fairs today. Members o f the Geo graphic society appeared before the committee with copies o f Peary’ s proofs, to urge the granting o f a suita ble reward by congress, but the com mittee declined to receive them in con ference, and has made it known that unless the Peary proofs are forthcom ing to their full satisfaction, every bill introduced will be pigeonholed. Total Dead Recovered, 48. Wellington, March 6.— Forty-eight bodies have been recovered from the wreckage brought down by Tuesday morning’s avalanche, and o f this num ber 41 have been identified. Three bodies were exposed by workmen late this afternoon, but were not extricated from the wreckage. They will be ta ken out tomorrow. The body o f G. R. Jenks, fireman, was the last to be iden tified tixiay. The searchers are work ing in the daytime only. Louis James la Stricken. Helena, Mont., March 5.— Louis James, the actor, was stricken with heart failure in his dressing room at the Helena theater tonight and for sev eral hours his life was despaired of. Later it was reported thst his condi tion was slightly improved. DEATH LIST MAY REACH 88 Day Coach and Smoker Splintered. Tourist Cars Buried. — Floods in Northern and Eastern Wash ington Doing Immense Damage— Light and Water Plants Out ot Business-Coal Bunkers Burned and Many bridges Gone. j Wellington Avalanche Casualty List I Passengers: dead, 9; missing, 39; | rescued, 9. Í Employes: Dead, 9; missing, 31; t rescued, 10. j j Other Slides’ Toll Is Great. Mace, Idaho: Dead, 14; injured, 40. j Burke, Idaho: Dead, 5; many iu- | jured. t Carbonate Hill, Idaho: Dead, 2; | injured, 6. Dorsey, Idaho: Dead, 2. Adair, Idaho: Dead, 1. Milan, W ash.: Dead, 1; injured, 12 . ♦♦♦♦♦♦••••♦♦♦♦•♦•••♦••»♦»♦»♦♦♦♦••♦»♦♦♦•♦♦»♦»♦♦♦o» Spokane, Wash., March 3— It is ru mored in Spokane that a second ava lanche at Scenic Pass, covered the res cuers engaged in taking out the bodies, thus causing further loss o f life. The rumor, though persistent, cannot be verified on account o f interruption in wire communication. Everrett, Wash., March 3 — The Great Northern railway tonight gave out a list o f the known dead, missing and rescued in the avalanche at Wel lington, from which it appears possi ble that the total number o f dead may reach 88. Nine passengres and nine employes are known to be dead and 39 passen gers and 31 railroad employes are miss ing. _________ FLOODS IN NORTHWEST WORST IN TWENTY YEARS Seattle - Melting snows in mountains have produced worst flood in 20 years. Pullm an--W ater ten feet deep in streets; city without light or fuel. Colfax — City faces fuel famine; schools compelled to close. Ellensburg One thousand tons of hay damaged; Yakima river rising rap idly. Aberdeen— Floods o f last winter re peated; Union Pacific bridge being con structed over Chehalis river, carried away for fourth time. Kelso — Cowlitz booms break and thousands o f dollars worth o f logs are carried to sea. Crest o f flood believed to have been reached. The Dalles— Mill creek higher than for 30 years. WRONG VIEWS OF THE CENSUS. No Harm Can Come to Any Person Who Answers the Questions. Washington, D. C., March 3— Let ters from the census supervisors to the United States census bureau show the erroneous apprehension b f a consider able element o f the population con cerning their answers to the enymera- tors’ questions in the next census. It is emphatically declared, by the statement, that the information sought from the people o f the United States is used solely for general statistical pur poses. It will neither be publised nor used in any other way to disclose facts regarding any individual or enterprise. The census, it goes on to say, is not, never has been, and cannot be employ ed to obtain information that can be used in any way in the assessment o f property for purposes o f taxation or the collection ¡of taxes, either national, state or local; or for deportation pro ceedings, extradition measures, army or navy conscription, internal-revehue investigations, compulsory school at tendance, child-labor law prosecutions, quarantine regulations, or in any way affect the life, liberty, or property of any person. 41 IR E KILLED IN TWO DURILO PASSENGER TRAINS Avalanche Strike* Great Northern Trains and Hurls Them from Track Into’ Gulch. Everett, Wush., March 2.— Twenty- three are known to be dead and 25 are missing and a score are injured as a result o f the avalanche which swept down the mountainside above Welling ton at the west portal o f the Cascade tunnel early this morning and brushed two Great Northern trains, one the westbound Spokane express and the other an overland mail train, off the narrow ledge o f the high line, hurling them to the ooctom o f the canyon, 20 feet below. Coupled to the Spokane express waa Superintendent J. H. O ’ N eill’s private car. This was carried over the preci pice with the rest o f the train. Three locom otives, four powerful electric motors, used to haul trains through the Cascade tunnel, the depot at Wellington and a water tank were also carried away by the sli e and bur ied under tons o f debris. Twenty-three bodies have been re covered, 25 persons are missing, and 15 or 20 were injured in the avalanche that thundered down upon the passen gers as they slept. Seventy people were alxiard the Spo- kane express when the slide struck it. Forty o f these were passengers who were sleeping in the Pullmans. The others were workmen who had been engaged in a battle against the snow blockade and who were using the day coaches for bunk cars. The last report .received tonight from Scenic says that the rescuers are still struggling with ice and snow en deavoring to release the imprisoned passengers and recover the remaining ! dead. Reports that shouts and cries for ! help have been heard coining from the mass o f wreckage gives rise to the j hope that many o f those imprisoned are still alive. Several undertakers left for Scenic j tonight. It Will be necessary to em balm the bixlies, as the snow blockades 1 between Wellington and Everett have shut off all traffic except by foot. I f : the bixlies are brought out soon they will have to be transported on sledges. MORE STOCK WILL GRAZE. Government Increases Number Al lowed in National Forests. Washington, Mar. 2 . - The amount o f stock which will be authorized to graze in the national forests in 1910, in accordance with the decision o f the secretary o f agriculture, shows an in- ; crease in the total number as com pared with last year o f approximately I 200,000 cattle and horses, and 500,000 j sheep and goats. The total allowance for the coming grazing season is 1,- j 957,000 cattle and horses, and 8,323,- } 000 sheep and goats. ! The most important increase are in Nevada, Colorado, Montana, Utah and Washington. E x c e p t. in Nevada, where 1,000,000 acres have been added to the national forest area through the creation o f the Nevada forest, the in creases are attributed to improved range condition due to regulated graz- j >ng. The secretary is solicitous to get the greatest possible utilization o f the range resources o f the national for ests, that the forests may contribute so far as consistent with protection o f j the forest growth, to the market sup ply o f beef and mutton. Paulhan Would Appeal. New York, March 2.— Judge Hand, in the United States court, suspended until March 12 the preliminary injunc tion which he granted last Wednesday to the W right company against Louis Paulhan, the aviator. This action was taken bo as to allow counsel for the French aeroplanist time to prepare and present appeal papers. Under the suspension order, Paulhan is required to file a bond for $12,000 conditioned upon paying the W right company profits Paulhan may realize from any | aeroplane flights. R. R. Commission Rate O. K San Francisco, March 2.— Holding that the Southern Pacific Railroad company’ s rate for the transportation o f green fir lumber from Oregon to California was excessive and its main tenance would ruin the lumber business o f Central and Southern Oregon, the United States Circuit court today ren dered a decision adverse to the corpor ation in its suit to restrain the com mission from enforcing the reduced rate fixed in 1907. A rate o f $3.10 a ton, based on water competition, was fixed by the company in 1898. Mri. Sage it Importuned. Los Angeles, Cal., March 3.-—Mrs. Russel Sage, widow o f the great finan cier, signalized her visit to Pasadena by a g ift tixiay o f $1,000 to the Pasa dena hospital. Additional interest at taches to her generous recognition o f the institution’ s needs because it was unsolicited and unexpected. Since her arrival in California, Mrs. Sage has been deluged with requests for dona Treaty Effective, Germans Busy. tions to various charitable organiza Winnipeg, March 2.— The new Ger- tions, but it is stated that in all cases man-Canadian trade treaty will take other than the one reported today she effect tomorrow, and the secretary of has found it necessary to refuse. the Canadian Commercial Travelers’ association has received word that 300 Testimony Against Them. German travelers are on the way to Washington, March3. The Browns Canada to compete for the trade in ville court o f inquiry has concluded Western Canada, now controlled by takiny testimony and will begin to United States firms. Last year Ger prepare its report within two weeks. many bough $90,000,000 worth of It is understood the court has a vast Western Canadian grain or grain amount o f testimony not made before products. the senate committee that clearly shows not only that the shooting up o f Oklahoma Raps Negro Voters. the town o f Brownsville was done by a Guthrie, Okla., March 2.— The Okla homa house o f representatives today passed the Taylor election law, which prescribes qualifications for voting on constitutional amendments. A clause excluding from the election franchise those whose fathers or grand M’ Carthy Men Shut Out. San Francisco, March 3. Holding fathers were slaves will reduce the ne that the mayor o f the city is not em gro vote. The senate has passed the powered summarily to dismiss the com bill. missioners in the various department« Cuban Bonds Command Premium. o f the city. Judge Sturtevant, o f the Superior court, today made permanent London, March 2.— The Cuban 4 1-2 the temporary restraining order pre per cent gold bonds commanded a pre venting the appointees o f Mayor P. H. mium o f 1 per cent today. The $5,- McCarthy on the board o f education 500,000 issue was so largely oversub from acting in their official rapacity. scribed that the subscription books The old board was adjudged tit be the were closed half an hour after they de facto commission. were opened. party o f soldiers on the streets, but that considerable firing was done from the barracks within the inclosure. The evidence seems to approve Roosevelt’ s action in discharging the soldiers.. Morgan and Ryan to Q if. New York, March 3.— The board o f directors of the National Bank o f Com merce of New York today elected J. P. Morgan, Jr., Henry P. Davison and Allan A. Ryan directors in place o f J. P. Morgan, H. C. Deming and Thomas F. Ryan, resigned. Pacific Fleet Off fop Practice. San Francisco, March 2.— Bound for gunnery practice In the Santa Barbara channel, the six armored cruisers of the Pacific fleet under command of Rear Admiral Harber steamed from this harbor today.