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DOINGS OFTHEWEEK C ANN O N SHORN OF POWERS. Retains Speakership, but Removed from Committee on Rules. INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE LAS T WORD SAID IN BIG TRIAL. Lawyers Finish Arguments on Corpor ation Tax Law in U. S. Court. Washington, March 19. — The last Washington, March 21.—Joseph G. word, by the lawyers, on the constitu GROWERS ORGANIZE UNION. 2,000 ACRES T O FRUIT. Cannon, o f Danville, 111., is still speak tionality o f the corporation tax was er o f the house of representatives. But he has lost the ancient prestige Minneapolis Cspitalists Buy Land in Clackamas Farmers Prepare to Mar spoken this afternoon, and the Supreme ket Own Crops Direct. Waldo Hills; Newell to Manage. court o f the United States took under and weapon o f that office when the Oregon City— A fruit growers’ un consideration the 15 cases in which the Salem— A deal was closed recently allied Republican insurgents and Dem All in- question arose. ocrats took From him not only the by which the A. C. Bohrnstedt com ion haa been organized here. chairmanship of, but even membership pany of Minneapolis has acquired near terested in the raising o f good fruit in The day was consumed largely by the General Relume o f Important Event* in, the all-powerful committee on rules, ly 200 acres of fruit land east o f Sa this county are eligible for member presentation o f the government’ s de Among the prominent fruit lem, in what is known as the Waldo ship. the chief asset in his stock amid scenes Presented In Condensed Form fense o f the law by Solicitor-General Under the caption of the growers of the county who were pres of wildest disorder, for the like of Hills. Bowers, John J. Johnson, o f Philadel fo r Our Busy Readers. which one must go back to the exuiting Waldo Hills Orchard company, with a ent and made addresses on fruit cul phia, closed the attack on the tax, just days just prior to the Civil war— per capitalization o f $325.000, the land ture were George Lazelle and W. S. before court adjourned. haps even those times might not dupli has been taken up quietly by a group Stafford, Mount Pleasant; E. S. Coe One of the biggest side fights in con T a ft says seven months of the new cate it— the veteran speaker, almost of local and Eastern men ami is to be and A. M. Vinyard, Canby; A. J. Lew- nection with the great contest was laid iB, C. W. Swallow and M. Kupenbend- set out with apples and cherries exclu 74 years old, stood erect and defiant, tariff law have proved its worth. bare when Mr. Bowers insisted that sively. and the latest horticultural er o f Maple Lane; Marshall LazeHe, his head “ bloody but unbowed." A boy at Hoquiam, Wash., had his Mount Pleasant, and George DeBok, “ the net income from all sources,” A t the end, when a big Texan Dem methods applied to the tract. mentioned in the law as the bssis of arm broken while plaiyng “ snap-the- W. K. Newell o f Gaston, president Willmette; ocrat accepted the speaker's daring whip.” Mr. Coe, in speaking o f fruit grow measuring the tax, included all the challenge and introduced a resolution of the state !x>ard o f horticulture, property o f a corporation. Colonel Roosevelt was glad to meet to fling him out of the speakership, the will manage the company for the ing in his part of the county said that William D. Guthrie and his associ Early in the John Newton, a new arrival in Clack many American tourists at Luxor, Republican regulars anil insurgents, Bohrnstedt ,interests. ates, Victor Morawets and Howard with few exception, rallied with almost fall o f 1909, Bohrnstedt, with the amas county, who haa purchased land Vansinger, counsel for the Home L ife E gyp t board of directors of his company, to in Canby, is now engaged in planting Cook’s only white companion in the unbroken party front and gave him a gether with Newell ami some of the 75,000 strawberry plants that were Insurance company, insisted the law alleged dash to the Pole says Cook is vote which almost offset the “ repudi company’s field men, made a trip of brought from Three Rivers, Mich. did not mean to include the income de ation o f Cannonism.’ \ rived directly from Federal, state or a martyr. investigation in and around Salem, Mr. Newton was one o f the extensive This is what happened: municipal securities or from real or Indictments have been returned By a vote of 191 to 155. the Repub with the result that the big purchase berry growers of Michigan before com personal property not used or employed ing to Oregon. against six nightriders at Hopkins lican insurgents voting solidly with consummated was brought about. I t is the intention o f the Fruit Grow in business. They advanced this doc The Bohrnstedt company has recent ville, Ky. the Democrats, the house adopted the trine on the theory that, i f the tax ly planted out about 1,660 acres of ers’ union in the near future to lease a resolution o f Representative Norris, were not levied on such property, the Twenty persons were injured by a fruit land near Creswell, in Lane coun building on Main street, where large Republican, o f Nebraska, requiring a law would become clearly conatitu^ passenger train in North Dakota jump ty, so they are not entirely strangers supplies o f fresh fruit will be sold at reorganization of the rules committee, tional. ing the track. increasing its membership from five to to Oregon. Mr. Newell also has been reasonable prices. This business w ill Mr. Bowers argued that corporations It has been discovered that foreign ten, and declaring the speaker ineligi superintending the work in Lane coun be carried on by the union. cannot hold property that was not de insurance companies out-grafted the ble to membership thereon. ty for the Minneapolis capitalists. E. voted to corporate business, either ac BUILD M ALHEUR PRO JECT. Americans in the New York legisla By the curiously identical vote of C. Amratrong, county fruit inspector tively or passively. He cited the de ture. 191 to 155— but with a decidedly differ for Marion county, will be in direct cision o f the Supreme court, holding James A. Patten, king o f wheat spe ent personnel o f alignment— the house charge o f the orchard work for the Last Obstacle Removed and Work to the United States could levy an intern Begin at Once. culators, can no longer stand the crowd defeated a resolution of Representative agricultural corporation. C. A. Ra- al revenue tax on the dispensary of o f newspaper men and curiosity seek Burleson, o f Texas, declaring the dell, who has been managing the Port Ontario — The stockholders in the South Carolina, as showing that the land office of the Bohrnstedt people, speakership vacant and ordering the ers. Owyhee Ditch company voted to affili United States may tax utility corpor immediate election o f a successor to will move his headquarters to Salem. ate with the Boise-Owyhee Irrigation ations. Ten members of the Maybray gang Mr. Cannon. The intention of the company is to company, thus removing the last obsta- Mr. Guthrie, counsel for the Home o f fake fight swindlers have been sen set out immediately and in the coming The Norris resolution was as follows: I cle in the way o f the consummation L ife Insurance company, followed Mr. tenced to $10,000 fine each and two “ There shall be a committee on | winter 148 acres. During the winters of the latter company’s project for the I Bowers, arguing that Federal, state years in the penitentiary. rules, elected by the house, (hitherto of 1911 and 1912, 666 acres more will formation o f an irrigation district I and municipal bonds and property not Five persons narrowly escaped death the committee of five, like all other be set out, and the balance to follow which will reclaim 150,000 acres of actively engaged in business are not in quicksand on the beach near Gear house committees, has been appointed as rapidly as posisble. | land. The action o f the stockholders subject to the tax. He also spoke for hart, Or., when their automobile left by the speaker), consisting o f ten | consolidates all interests in the big the constitutionality o f the law as ap 1,400 Acre Ranch Sold. members, six of whom shall be mem the road and overturned. project and construction work will now plied purely to a corporation’ s property bers o f the majority party. The Grants Pass The sale o f 1,460 acres proceed without further hindrance. actively used in business. Before the end o f the Pinchot-Bal- speaker shall not be a member o f the just east of this city, of which 656 The Owyhee ditch irrigates 8,000 In beginning bis argument, Mr. linger row is reached, F. H. Newell committee and the committee shall acres are in cultivation, and under irri acres and has one of the oldest water Johnson said the argument o f the solic probably will cease to be director of elect its own chairman from its own gation, to Eastern investors, has just rights. It was desirable that this land itor general was one he would have the United States reclamation service. members. Resolved further, that with been recorded. Most of the soil is red should be included in the irrigation dis been willing to listen to had it not Forty past and present councilmen in ten days after the adoption o f this land especially adapted to fruit raising. trict in order that the maximum acre been on the other aide. As to Mr. o f Pittsburg are falling over each oth resolution there shall be an election of The price was $166,606. Among the age possible should be reclaimed and Guthrie, Mr. Johnson said he was a er in a rush to confess their participa this committee, and immediately upon city sales was one to Dr. W. H. Flana- for that reason active construction was “ wolf in sheep’s clothing,” whom he tion in bribery deals, hoping thereby its election the present committee on | gan, who acuqires a business block for deferred pending the action o f the did not want on his side. What made to escape punishment. rules shall be dissolved." $24,666. Real estate men declare Owyhee Ditch company’s stockholders. the law so obnoxious, Mr. Johnson ex Representative Burleson's resolution that more property in the Rogue River The Boise-Owyhee project is one of plained, was the publicity feature, A ll questions in dispute between the follows: valley will change hands this year ‘ the largest and most attractive irriga- whereby it was proposed to "em balm ” 27,000 firemen on Western railroads “ Resolved, that the office of speaker than ever before. Many good or 1 tion projects in the West. It was the returns as a public record. “ How and the railroad managers will be ami cably settled according to an arrange o f the house of representatives is here chards just coming into bearing com financed some time ago, but owing to ever,” he added, "th e act must cut off by declared to be vacant, and the house mand excellent prices. local complications, which were slow a little higher up.” ment reached in Chicago through the in untangling, it was im|x>ssible to aid of United States Commissioner of of representatives shall proceed to the election o f a sepaker." Oil Found; Firm Formed. proceed along the desired lines. Labor Neill. Oregon City— With a capital stock A big slide blocked the Southern o f $25,666 and the firm belief that Flouring Mill for Pilot Rock. “ BOGUS” PICTURE IS REAL. Pacific near Redding, Cal. they have struck oil on the Munpower Pilot Rock— Pilot Rock will have A yacht o f 27 tons gross is en route place at Stone, six miles from this Chicago, March 19,— A fte r two days Artist, 72, Identifies 'Alleged ‘ ‘ Fake’’ city, six men subscribed to articles of a flouring mill in operation in time to from Seattle to the Mexican coast. handle the year’s crop of wheat. This o f almost continouus argument, the Canvas as Genuine. incorporation o f the Home Oil & Gas is the announcement made by John P. mediation between the representatives Conferences are under way between Louis Vierhus, Joseph McManus and confirmed by Doss Swear- of 27,000 firemen and the general New York, March 21.— F. Hopkin- company. the Philadelphia streetcar companies son Smith, painter and author, was the Grant Munpower, Lorenzo Dow Mun ington. Stock has been subscribed for managers o f 47 Western railroads, was and the striking employes. chief witness today in the suit brought power, D. N. Byerlee, Harvey E. Cross the company and arrangements have still unconcluded at a late hour tonight. President T aft in a speech at A l by William T. Evans against William and John William Watts are the incor been perfected for the removal o f the It was stated the hearing would prob bany, N. Y ., regretted he had no scape Clausen, an art dealer, to recover $35,- porators. The company has leased Grafe plant at Newberg to Pilot ably continue tomorrow. goat to blame his mistakes on. 000 for two pictures Evans bought from properties in the vicinity o f Stone and Rock. D. E. Grafe, who is the owner That the firemen are anxious for a Governor Haskell, of Oklahoma, has Clausen as genuine “ Homer Martins,” D. M. Watson of Portland, has made o f the Newberg plant is also a large prompt decision was made known by stockholder in the Pilot Rock company W. S. Carter, president o f the Brother been ordered to bed by his physician, and which experts have pronounced bo exhaustive tests. after the 59 days' session o f the state gus. Homer Martin was one o f the and he will be manager. The plant hood of Locomotive Firemen and En- Prosperous Year at Incubator Plant. w ill be located near the depot. early American landscape painters. ginemen, who said the plan to call a legislature. - strike next Monday morning had not Mr. Smith said he is 72 years old, Eugene— Eugene’s incubator plant Investigations by the New York in It was learned the and some of his pictures had been hung has had a remarkable spring business, Clear Ground for Federal Building. been abandoned. surance commissioner shows that the in the Paris saloon. He is very posi which is just closing. The plant turns Pendleton That Pendleton’s Feder railroads are still determined to stand esc o f cash accomplished some won tive in his testimony and pronounced out 36 machines a day, parctically al building will soon be under way, firm on their refusal to submit to arbi derful things. the pictures involved in the Evans Buit throughout the year, but the sales occupants o f buildings on the govern tration railroad rules governing disci By a preliminary vote the Western as unquestionably genuine. usually occur during the months of ment plot have been notified to vacate pline. Federation o f Miners has indicated its ‘ ‘ The way the color here is shoved January and February. Both Martin A. Knapp, chairman of The factory and have their buildings off the ground intention to affiliate with the Ameri ahead of the brush,” he continued, building i* 55x66 feet in dimensions by May 1. This indicates that actual the Interstate Commerce commission, can Federation of Labor. taking the painting “ Normandie Bride’ ’ and two stories high with basement. construction is to be started by that and Labor Commissioner N eill were in hand, “ is characteristic o f Homer Every floor is filled with machinery of date. The most important buildings confident their Intervention would re Many alleged heirs have appeared to claim the body o f Jacob Brackmann, a Martin. Again in this picture, he has the latest pattern for the manufacture he to moved are a large rooming house sult in a decision as to what questions and a two story residence. There are shall be arbitrated. victim o f the Wellington avalanche let the paint dry 10 or 20 hours in o f the MeClanahan incubators. places and gone over it again, drag some other small buildings on the prop who was worth $50,000. ging the brush along the surface. No New Road to Prineville. erty. Mob Lynches Negroes. An English physician says senti man living could imitate that.” Redmond The proposed wagon road Marion, Ark., March 19.— Bob Aus ment, which has abolished corporal Mr. Smith said he had known Martin from Redmond to Prineville has been Machine Shop for Hlllboro. ten and Charles Richardson, negroes, punishment in schools, is responsible intimately and that he had seen him located. The new route will shorten Hillsboro— C. R. Bloyd, well known were lynched early today in the court for universal increase o f rowdyism. paint the very picture in question from the distance between Prineville and as a machinist and mill man, haa or house square by a mob o f 300 men. Redmond to about 19 miles with easy dered a complete machine shop plant The victims werre charged with aid I t is believed by some o f the auth a sketch. grades. Besides clearing the sagebrush and will open for business early in ing a ja il delivery here Monday nighL orities at Aberdeen, Wash., that Gohl, the accused multi-murderer, will prove Steeple Jack Falls to Death. and trees and picking out some rock, April. Richardson was arrested in Memphis. to be the greatest murderer o f the age. Chicago, March 21.—James Wilson, the only work needed will be the build He confessed to complicity in the es PO R TLA N D M AR K E TS. ing of two bridges about 26 feet long cape o f prisoners and implicated Bob Andrew Camegie unknowingly took known as a daring steeplejack, fell 70 and turnkpiking about a mile of scab AuBten. The latter was apprehended a seat at the head o f the bellboys’ feet from a smokestack which he was Wheat Track prices — Bluestem, and early today a mob formed and bench in a Los Angeles hotel, and painting at Twenty-fifth and LaSalle. rock. $1.10611.11; club, $1.036il.04; red He died shortly after he had been tak marched to the jail. The negroes when the next call came in the boys all Russian, $1.01; valley, $1.04; 40-fold, Commercial Club for Canby. were seized and the hanging followed, en to a hospital. Wilson intended this waited for him to answer it. Oregon City - Canby, our flourishing $1.06. job to be his last before starting for despite all efforts of the authorities. For the third time since March 7 and Barley Feed and brewing, $28.5066 Oklahoma, were he was to paint some neighboring town, does not intend to the fifth since February 21, Seattle 29 per ton. smokestacks. Wilson created a sen be le ft behind in the march of pro Woman Suffrage Solved? packers announced an advance in the Oats N o.l white, $316il31.50 ton. sation some years ago when he essayed gress, and a meeting has been held Stockholm, March 19.—Carl Lind- price o f all pork products. The ad Hay Track prices— Timothy: W il to shin up the Flatiron building in there by the public spirited citizens vance covers every item on the list. lamette valley, $206(21 per ton; East hagen, mayor o f Stockhlom, and a New York. But he had pot ascended for the purpose ot organizing a com member o f the second chamber o f the The latest increase amounts to a half more than eight stories when the po mercial club to help in exploiting the ern Oregon, $226(23; alfalfa, $176618; riksdag, who interpolated the govern cent on hams, a full cent on baron, many resources o f that section. Tom California alfalfa, $166(17; clover, ment as to its promised action in the lice ordered him to come down. half cent on boiled hams and dry salt Richardson, manager o f the Portland $156(16; grain hay, $166(18. cured meats, 50 cents a barrel on bar Fresh Fruits— Apples, $1.256(3 box; matter o f woman suffrage, has received Commercial club, will have an active Confession Tells All. reled beef and pork, 25 cents |>er barrel pears, $1.50661.75 box; cranberries, a reply. In substance it is that the part in the organization. Pittsburg, March 21.— Almost on authorities will make a statistical re an cooked and spiced goods, $1 per bar $86/9 per barrel. rel on beef tongues and a quarter on the very threshold o f the state prison, Potatoes- Carload buying prices; search to discover i f givin g women North Albany to get Station. in which after today he was to serve a lard. Oregon, 506/ 60c per hundred; sweet the right to vote will have an influence Albany— Residenta o f North Albany potatoes, 8c pound. six years’ sentence for bribery, ex- on the marriage relation, tending in A crank writing from the East says Councilman John F. Klein is reported are jubilant over the announcement Onions — Oregon, $1.50661.75 per the direction o f race suicide, and that he is walking to Oregon to kill Gover to have made a complete confession of that the C. & E. railroad company will hundred. the government will be guided accord nor Benson. the bribery conspiracy o f 1908, in erect a station and make stops there Vegetables—Turnips, nominal; ruta ing to the conclusion reached. A laborer at Salem, Ore., found a which he implicates 60 or more present with all passenger trains. The passen $160 diamond ring in gravel dug from and ex-councilmen. The confession is ger fare to and from Albany will be 16 bagas, $16/1.25; carrots, $1; beets, Japs Let In Americans. $1.25; parsnips, $1. the Willamette river. A side track and said to have horn brought about by rente each way. Tokio, March 19.— The govern Butter City creamery extras, 39c; Negroes will purchase a steel steam the failure o f Kein’s friends, whom freight station w ill also be put in, fancy outside creamery, 356(39c per ment’s land ownership bill was passed er o f 2,898 tons to ply between Los he is alleged to have protected by his thus dispensing with the trouble of pound; store, 206/'23c. Butter fat by the lower house today. This meas Anegels and Liberia. reticence, to eome to the rescue o f his having to haul freight by wagon from prices average 1 l-2c per pound under ure permits the ownership o f land in Japan by such foreigners only as come Washington suffragists in Spokane family, who were being left penniless. Albany. regular butter prices. give one cent each for signatures to Eggs Fresh Oregon ranch, 220 23c from a country which extends similar Taft Objects to Critics. Telephone Lines for Deschutes. privileges to Japanese residenta. It their political equality petitions. per dozen. Albany, N. Y ., March 21.— A t the Redmond—To construct a number of Cheese Full cream twins, 21c per has been stated in Tokio that Ameri Chicago railroads have cleared away banquet o f the University club here to telephone lines throughout the Des pound; young Americas, 226(23c. cans would be given the right o f owner the congestion of freight caused hy re- night President T a ft in a brief speech chutes valley is the purpose of the Des ship in Japan, notwithstanding the re Pork— Fancy, 136614c per pound. eent storms. Their loss is estimated Ux>k occasion to refer to the contrast chutes Co-operative Telephone associa strictions placed upon Japanese immi Veal -Fancy, 126ll3e per pounnd. at $20,000,000. in the attiude in certain quarters to tion, incorporated here. The company Poultry- -Hens, 19c; broilers, 2566 grants by certain states in the Union. ward his administration, casting a gen takes over the business o f the Red 27c; ducks, 186620c; geese, 126613c; Peary’s proposed lecture tour in the tle aspersion on the opinions that have mond Telephone company, with 76 turkeys, live, 226r25c; dressed, 256/ Japan America’s Friend. South haa been abandoned, owing to been express«! derogatory to his con members. Construction o f new lines 29c; squabs, $8 per dozen. indifference and in some cases open New York, March 19.—Japan is a duct. President Taft, Earl Grey, gov will begin as soon as the weather will Cattle- Best steers, $5666.25; fair firm friend o f the United States, ac hostility o f the people. ernor general o f Canada, and Governor permiL to good steers, $56/5.50; strictly good cording to a statement made here to Ex-Vice President Fairbanks has Hughes, o f New York, formed a nota cows, $56/5.25; fair to good cows, $4 day by Charles W. Fairbanks, ex-vice Rebuilding Cody Mill. returned to New York from his tour ble trio at the banquet. 6(4.75; light calves, $66/6.50; heavy presidenL who arrived last night from around the world. He says war never Coquille—Seven carloads of machin calves, $46(5; bulls, $3.60664.25; stags, his trip around the world. “ While in Big Strike Threatened. was more remote than at present. ery have arrived for the Cody mill. $3664.50. Tokio,” he said, ” 1 had a chat o f two Hogs Top, $116611.15; fair to good, hours with the emperor, and while I New York, March 21.— A general There will probably be no more delays Ireland’s home-going movement strike o f all building trades and em in the work o f constructing this mill $9.506/10. am not at liberty to give the details gives hope that the country may profit ployes in this city will be called on Sheep Best wethers, $66/6.50; fair of the conference, I can assure Amer and everything will be pushed to com Industrially by visits o f her sons. March 28, according to the announce pletion as rapidly as possible, so that to good wethers, $5.506(5.75; good ica that Japan la one o f the beet and ment tonight o f Charles Wamp, sec it will be reaily for operation in about ewes, $6; lambs, $7.75. staunchest friends we have.” In his St. Patrick's Day speceh in retary o f the Steamfitters’ local union, 60 days. Hops 1909 crop, 156/ 18c, accord Chicago, President T aft approves con unless a settlement of the steamfitters’ ing to quality; olds, nominal; 1910 servation o f national resources, but Indians Dying o f Hunger. Bank at Hubbard. strike, now on, haa been made before contracts, 16 cents nominal. gives Roosevelt the glory instead of Victoria, B. C., March 19.— Advicea Wool Eastern Oregon, 16662fir per that date. The vote to strike was Hubhard Articles o f incorporation Pine hot. taken tonight. have been filed in the secretary of pound; valley, 226/24c; mohair, choice, from Dawson say upwards o f 100 In dians o f the Dogrib nation have this state’s office for the State bank of 25c. Professor Lowe o f Pasadena, Cal., winter perished o f starvation at G nat Don’ t fail to write for beautiful Huhhard. The incorporators are S. W. j Cascara hark --4665c per pound. ftasbqgun construction of a new type of Hides Dry hides, 166/17e pound; Slave lake. Mushers just srrived bring airship which he promises will furnish booklet containing 75 splendid photo Weaver, G. M. Fry, J. L. Calvert, • more comfortable, safe and lixur- gravures o f the world’s most celebra George N. Beck. George W. Knight dry kip, 166/17e; dry calfskin, 146/ heartbreaking tale* o f suffering in the The capital 15c; salted hides, 76/8c; salted calf native villages, the authenticity of i mode o f travel than a Pullman ted musicians, free. See Sherman, and C. H. Trullinger. which is all too fully confirmed. skin, 14c pound; green, lc leas. stock is $16,000. Clay A Co.’a ad. Current Events of Interest Gathered From the World at Large. FIREMEN ARE ANXIOUS; MAY STRIKE YET GREAT PAIN TIN G TAFT IS T Stolen by Young German Artist and Found in His Studio. Receives Pittsburg Mayor and Del egation-Speaks to Irish. Discusses Baseball RECOVERED. With Pittsburg Fans—Will Speak on Conserva tion and Visit Hughes. Pittsburg, March 17.— While the train sped toward Chicago yesterday, Peraident T aft devoted himself to pre paring his speech to he delivered at the Irish Fellowship elub banquet in Chi cago tonight, and up to the time his train arrived here at 6 :52 he gave him self assiduously to the "S tory of Ire land” and “ The L ife of St. Patrick.” Once only throughout the trip was the interrupted. That was at Altoona, where Mayor Hoyer boarded the train and greeted the president, who mani fested much interest in the situation at Philadelphia. Mayor Hoyer told the president that there were hopes of peaee in the Quaker City. Upon the arrival o f the train in Pittsburg Mayor Magee and a delega tion from the American club greeted Mr. Taft. One o f the President’s callers asked him if he were an Irishman. “ No, I am not,” he responded. “ The nearest to an Irishman the Taft family haa ever come is in name. That was borne hy a Count T*afe, of Ireland. I w ill confess, however, that I have kissed the Blarney stone.” The president assured Mayor Magee that he would be nere May 2 and would attend the ball game between the Chi cago and Pittsburg eluba. He asked if it was to be an exhibition game “ one for blood.” “ Do you know what appeals to me In these games,” he said, “ is that big Dutchman-- what is his name— eh, yes, Wagner. He looks as,if he could not get anywhere, and yet he gets every where. Do you know that i f I saw him miss a ball I would think he was bluffing.” The news o f the president’s visit had bean spread broadcast and outside the station a crowd had assembled. A few privileged ones were admitted to the immediate vicinity of the car and just before it pulled out a big, stout man with a fare beaming with smiles saw the president on the rear platform and shouted: “ Hey, Mr. President, I ’ m almost as big as you are.” “ How much do you weigh?” inquired Mr. TafL “ Two hundred and ninety-five pounds,” the big fellow answered. The president: “ Oh, you’re not in my class. I weighed 313 the last time I was on the scales.” On arriving at Chicago today the president will be the guest o f the Fel lowship club at luncheon and at a ban quet in the evening. He will attend a convention meeting at the Hamilton club and the Traffic club. San Francisco, March 16.— Declar ing that he took the picture merely to make a copy of it, William Kunze, a young German artist, recently from Portland, Or., was arrested this after noon in |Hisaession o f the $10,000 M il let painting “ The Shepherd and His Floek,” which was stolen last Sunday from the Golden Gate Park Museum. Kunze was arrested in his studio a f ter a search of the city which haa been prosecuted with the utmost vigor ever since the valuable painting waa cut from its frame hy an unknown thief last Sunday. Detective Sergeant Edward Wren refused to divulge the clew which led to the arrest. Immediately after hook ing the prisoner on a charge o f grand larceny he left the city prison accom panied hy several detectives and it is believed that they went in search of |H>ssible accomplices. To the questions o f Sergeant Wren the arrested man answered that he waa led to take the picture by his love of the beautiful and a desire to make a copy af it. The painting which w hs lent to the museum hy Miss Sarah Spooner, of this city, waa the work of Jean Fran cois Millet in 1832. It waa found in the room used as a studio hy Kunze and it is now in the custody of the property clerk o f the police depart ment. The theft occurred in the morning shortly after the museum was thrown open to visitors. While the curator was absent for a short time the canvas waa cut from the frame and carried away from the building’ BIG STRIKE IS AVOIDED BY MEDIATION OFFER. Chicago, March 16.— Danger o f an immediate strike o f 27,000 locomotive firemen, the throwing out o f employ ment of more than 125,000 other em ployes and the temporary suspension of business on practically every railroad between Chicago and the Pacific coast, was averted today through the accept ance of offers for mediation from the Federal authorities. A t the request o f the general mana gers of the 47 railroads involved. Chairman Knapp, o f the interstate commerce commission, and Commis sioner o f Labor N eill telegraphed an offer of mediation to the union officials. This offer was accepted, W. C. S. Carter, president o f the Brotherhood of Enginemen and Firemen, stipulating, however, that action must begin at once. The appeal to Washington was taken as an eleventh-hour move to prevent a walkout, which, it was declared, threatened the greatest railroad strike since that of 1894. Thirty-seven mem bers o f the Western Federated Board of the brotherhood last midnight form ally voted for a strike. The hour for striking had been set for next Monday morning, and the members were pre p a id start for their homes and put the strike into effect when the media tion steps were taken. AN O TH ER V IC TIM IS FOUND. PAULHAN OFF IN HUFF. Bouy o f Joseph hurlin, Passenger, Taken from Avalanche. Injunction Obtained Prohibiting Tak ing Away His Four Machines. Seattle, March 17.- -The body recov ered yesterday from the Wellington avalanche ruins has been identified, from papers found on the clothing, as that o f Joseph Furlin, a passenger. Nothing further is known o f him and the railroad haa no record of him. The Great Northern will begin at once the construction of snowsheds on the Cascade division that will cost $1,- 000,000 or more. General Manager J. M. Gruber is making a detailed study o f the work that is needed. There are 11 unclaimed bodies at the morgue, some o f which have been iden tified by name only. The bodies un claimed will be buried in a plot of ground purchased by the Great North ern railroad and they will be Interred with one ceremony. Six railroad men and eight passen gers are still in the list of missing, making the railroad’s total of 95 dead. New York, March 16.—v ‘ I am ready and glad to leave this country,” de clared Louis Paulhan, the aviator, to day, in reiterating his declaration that he had made his last flight in America and would return to France by the first steamer. Paulhan packed up his machines and prepared to leave, despite every effort which his manager, Edwin Cleary, made to induce him to stay and com plete his contract. Cleary obtained an injuction today prohibiting Paulhan from taking with him any o f the four aeroplanes he bought in this country. There are two Blériot and two Farman machines. With his craft tied up and Clarey threatening a damage suit for $150,- 000, friends tried to pursuade the Frenchman to reconsider his decision, hut he was obdurate and is determined to sail. Strike liaits U. S. Work. Washington, March 17. -The govern ment proposes to intervene in the Bethlehem Steel company strike, where a large number o f men have been out for four weeks. An official of the department of commerce and la bor will arrive at South Bethlehem, Pa., tomorrow and will go over the sit uation carefully. Investigation o f the strike was prompted partly by the fact that the government has large steel contracts with the Bethlehem company and it has been said that the strike has delayed government work. Drunk? Candy is Cause. Chicago, March 17.— Getting drunk on candy has become such a wide spread practice among men, women and children in the stockyard district o f Chicago that the state Pure Food department announced today it would put a stop to it. One particular candy ia worse than whiskey for intoxicating results. I t is a medical intoxicant with 32 1-2 per cent ether, 2 1-2 per cent ether oil and 65 per cent pure al cohol. I t causes not only drunkeness, but sickness. Candy is filled with whiskey and sold to women and children. Socialists are Targets. Keil, March 17.— A huge Socialist meeting was held this afternon in a meadow near this city to express in dignation against the suffrage bill. A great part o f the forces of several manufacturing concerns and shipyards attended. A fte r the meeting the crowds marched into the city. As a large number of workmen had absented themselves from their places o f em ployment without permission, the un ion voted to lock them out for 3 days. Weston Loses 20 Pounds. Great Bend, Kan., March 17.— Ed ward Payson Weston, the i edestrian, arrived here tonight at 9 o'clock after walking 36 miles today. He did not appear to be fatigued, in spite o f this 72-mile walk yesterday. Weston has lost 20 pounds since starting on bis journey, but a physician tonight pro nounced him in good condition. Law Requires Strenuous Journey. Cleveland, Or,. March 16.— Joseph Burns, who recently raced from the in terior of Alaska to Cleveland in a fu tile effort to reach his baby tefore she died, was today summoned hy the Fed eral govern/nent to return to the snow bound territory as a witess in a stab bing affray, in which he was injured. In a wooden hut in the wilderness near Fairbanks, Alaska, a grand jury has been summoned and it w ill take Mr. Burns 40 days o f strenuous travel and cost the govermennt $1,040 before he can give his evidence,. Russia Sorry for Action. St. Petersburg, March 16.— During debate in the Douma upon the appro priations for the foreign office. Profes sor Milukoff sharply criticised the Far Eastern policy of Foreign Minister Iswolsky. Taking as a text Russia's rejection o f Secretary Knox’s proposal for the neutralization o f the Manchur ian railways, he declared that the situ ation in Manchuria was fpr more seri ous than that in the Balkans. The minister, he said, had made a danger ous mistake in making common cause with Japan. Cable Fouled on Wreck? Victoria, B. C., March 16.— A report has been made to the Marine depart ment by Captain Heater, o f the whal ing steamer Orion, that the steamer fouled her cable when taking a whale six miles south o f Uclulet on what some assert to be a submerged rock. Captain Heater is of the opinion it may prove to be the British sloop of war Condor, which foundered in De cember, 1901, with 104 officer* and men. Guatemala to Borrow 640,000,000. New York, March 16.— Guatemala ha* closed a deal for a $40,006,000 loan, but F. Sanches la Tour, national treasurer of Guatemala, who made this announcement, refused to make public today the names o f those had negotiated the loan. It is generally believed here that the loan waa ar ranged by prominent New York bank ing houses.