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.