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(if Tup u/FFK opposes reciprocity-
UUIHUÜ Ul IlILTILLIl
National Grange Demandi Reduction
on Everything or Nothing.
Current Events of Interest Gathered
From the World at Large.
General Resume o f Important Event!
Presented In Condensed Form
fo r Our Busy Readers.
Chicago suffragettes will nominate a
candidate for mayor.
The attack of Mexican rebels upon
the town of Juarez has been temporary
abandoned.
American marines and their vessels
are being vigorously boycotted at Con
stantinople.
A terriffic snow storm buries the
Eastern states and has done $1,000,-
000 damage.
A Democratic caucus in the national
house of representatives voted to sup
port reciprocity with Canada.
Mrs. John A. Dowie, widow of the
late founder of Zion City, is dying in
poverty and helpless from paralysis.
Quick lunch cars will be installed on
the Harriman lines where travelers
can get good meals at moderate priceB.
The will of'the late Thomas T. Eck
ert, president of the Western Union
Telegraph company, will be contested
by his son.
The Port o f Portland commission
will build a steel sternwheel towboat
for use on the Willamette and Colum
bia rivers.
Eight men were killed and several
others wounded by a band of Greek
coal miners at Kenilworth, Carbon
couny, Utah, who went on strike be
cause o f alleged discrimination againBt
them in the weighing o f coal.
Wholesale grocers and millers favor
a national anti-flour-bleaching bill.
New Y o r k — The machinery o f the
National Grange, an
organization
claiming a membership of 1,000,000
farmers in 30 states, has been started
to defeat the ratification by congress
of the Canadian reciprocity treaty.
The legislative committee of
the
grange at a special meeting recently
adopted
a
resolution
protesting
against the enactment of the recipro
city bill, called upon the membership
to exert pressure upon representatives
from their various districts to vote
against the measure and decided to go
to Washington to map out a campaign
there.
The legislative committee is com
posed of ex-Governor Nahum J. Bash-
elder, of Concord, chairman; Aaron
Jones, of South Bend, Ind., and T. S.
Atkeson, Morgantown, W. Va.
As
soon as the terms of the proposed
treaty became public they exchanged
telegrams, decided upon New York as
a meeting place, and left their homes
without delay, to head off any possible
campaign that might be started for the
b ill’s enactment.
" W e are not opposed to a general
reduction o f the tariff,” Mr. Atkeson
said, "b u t we are opposed to any ar
rangement which will make fish o f one
industry and flesh of another. Revise
the tariff— yes, but do it all at once,
and not by a reciprocal treaty with a
country which exports agricultural
products almost exclusively.
“ Remove the tariff on steel and iron
and manufactured articles along with
farm products and we won’ t object.
But we do not think it fair to compel
the farmers to compete with foreign
products and allow the manufacturer
to derive the benefit o f a high protec
tive tariff.
“ Acting along these lines we have
decided to oppose the enactment o f the
bill. The committee issued a state
ment this afternoon which will be sent
to every one of the 1,500 granges in
the organization..
IRRIGATION CONGRESS.
The house o f representatives has
voted ir. favor of San FranciBco for the
Great Preparations Making for Na
Panama exposition in 1915.
tional Meeting In Chicago.
DOINGS OF OREGON STATE LEGISLATURE
Salem, Feb. 6.—Senator Chase’s ' same up for passage in the senate yes
bill to protect school children from terday afternoon. Senator Lester of
pupils who appeared at school carrying Clatsop, who is engaged in logging,
vermin, or who are in an unsanitary said that boys are perfectly competent
condition, passed the senate today to do signal work, and that to shut
them out would cause hardship for
without opposition.
Swarming the library, a delegation families dependent upon such support.
Members o f the house indulged in
appeared before the committee on com
merce and navigation tonight for the some choice personalities yesterday
purpose o f attacking the eight hour afternoon before they could decide to
bill of Dimiek.
Superintendents o f adjourn until Monday instead of Satur
Oregon City mills, attorneys, employ day, in the the course o f which Hunt
es and others appeared, outlining con ington of Douglas grew angry and de
clared that Fouts o f Multnomah was
ditions at the mill.
Admission was made in one or two using "horseplay” and acting like a
instances of long 14 ^and 18 and 24- " f o o l” .
hour shifts, but as‘ a general rule the
Salem, Feb. 2.— House bill No. 98,
testimony simmered down to detailed
explanation of ¡¡the manner in which presented by Buchanan of Douglas,
men are required to Randle machinery and automatically regulating the sal
and the ^anitary conditions surround aries of county officers, tried to ride
the waves in the lower house yesterday
ing them in the mills at Oregon City.
Extended arguments for and against afternoon, and several times approach
the employers’ compensation act were ed perilously near the capsizing stage.
made tonight before the house commit Finally It appeared that even with
smooth and experienced hand of the
tee of judiciary.
Due for grilling, single taxers will Douglas county man at the tiller it
receive a scoring and denunciation on could not survive, and Buchanan suc
the floor of the senate when the reso ceeded in getting it back to the salar
lutions prepared by the committee on ies emmittee.
Friends and opponents of the bills
assessment and taxation are reported
back. This may be tomorrow, or it o f the state good roads association, in
may be later, Senator Kellaher of the a forerunner of what is to come, en
resolutions committee not being cer gaged in a skirmish in the house this
morning. Those favorable to the bills
tain when they may be returned.
The resolutions call for a repeal of desired to have them considered in
the single-tax amendment and are committee o f the whole Saturday
aimed, their sponsors say, to place a morning, but they lost by a few votes.
Senator Dimiek o f Clackamas re
safe and sane system of taxation in the
constitution instead o f the county tax ceived a dressing down from Presi
amendment now included, which is de dent Selling this morning, when he at
clared to be a move fathered by fad tempted to have his eight-hour bill,
which was recalled from the house,
dists and theorists.
Attempt to lower the license on reconsidered and referred yesterday,
changed
from the committee on com
itinerant drug vendors from $100 a
month to a graduated scale o f $5, $10 merce and navigation to the industries
and $15 monthly for different classes committee.
Dimiek charged the bill had been
of such vendors failed in the senate
this morning by a vote of 11 for the taken from the industries committee,
bill and 15 against. The bill was in o f which he is a member, and sent to
troduced by Senator Barrett, of Wash the commerce and labor committee, of
ington, but was materially changed in which Nottingham is a member, by re
quest of Nottingham, in an irregular
committee.
way.
The senate this afternoon voted to
Salem, Feb. 4.—Allegations that an
attempted change in the water code is adjourn until Monday.
Approximately $107.000 will be car
a move to further the plan for placing
two more justices on the Supreme ried by the general deficiency bill for
bench will be fought out when the pro the lust two years when it is reported
posed changes are put before the legis by the ways and means committee to
Senator
lature, unless they are killed in com the legislature this year.
Wood of Washington has been gather
mittee beforehand
Open allegations of
dishonesty, ing the figures and it is with the idea
charges that Dairy and Food Commis of preventing such deficiencies In fu
sioner Bailey had purchased furniture ture that he introduced the bill passed
with money of the state and exchanged yesterday, making it a crime to exceed
it for secondhand goods, and a declara appropriations hereafter without ex
tion by Governor West that i f any dis press approval in advance by an emer
honest acts by Bailey are found to gency board.
have been committeed in Marion coun
Salem, Feb. 1.— Senator Joseph con
ty that a grand jury investigation will
be conducted here, were^ developments tributed four new bills to the senate
this afternoon in connection with the late this morning, the only new meas
investigation of ¡B ailey’s office by- a
ures presented. One of these is a dup
joint legislative committee. The ses
licate of a bill introduced in the bouse,
sion was also^marked by lively tilts be
increasing the membership of the Su-
tween Bailey’s counsel and committee
! preme court by two.
members.
Another provides that two terms of
Anonymous 24-page pamphlets, as
the State Supreme court shall be held
sailing the management of the State
in Portland each year and increases the
insane asylum and the treatment of
pay of the justices to $5,000, the ex
patients in that institution, appeared
tra $500 being intended to cover the
today on the desks o f the members of additional expense entailed.
both houses.
A third bill adds to the recall pro
The authorship of the pamphlets ev
visions for payment o f the expense for
idently rests with Carl Free, now re
public meetings, not to exceed $10 for
siding at Los Angeles, from the fact
each precinct in the district affected.
that in the same mail in which the
The other bill provides the time for
pamphlets
were delivered came a
appeal from a judgment shall not run
signed letter from Free, dated Los An
until a motion for new trial has been
geles, January 20. The text of the
decided.
letter makes reference to various
The house bill providing for the pur
charges contained in the pamphlet.
chase of ferry slips and operation of a
In company with President J. H.
ferry at St. Johns has been favorably
Ackerman, Representatives Chattin,
recommended to the senate.
Abbott, Mann and Reynolds, members
A bill allowing the deposit of state
of the house ways and means commit
school funds by the state land board in
tee, visited the Monmouth normal
any recognized state depositary was
school today and went over the build
among those passed by the senate. It
ings and grounds. While the members
meets the condition raised by the de
were noncommittal as to what may he
cision in the J. Thorburn Ross case so
done for the school, they feel that the
the state may derive interest from
equipment is not adequate.
this money.
Directors o f the Harriman roads
Chicago — Plans are being formu
have ordered the double-tracking of all lated by the Chicago board of control
lines^along^the Columbia river.
to make the 19th annual convention of
the
National
Irrigation congress,
A Chicago millionaire, over 50 years which will meet here December 5 to
o f age, has suddenly turned out to be a 9, 1911, o f world-wide interest. Pres
first class artist in oil painting.
ident T aft has promised to speak at
one o f the sessions on the closing day,
Mexican insurgents have captured
and, in addition, there will be repre
two more towns.
sentatives from practically every irri
A Minnesota couple are spending gated district on this continent, gov
their honeymoon taking a six-weeks' ernment experts, railroad officials, cap
italists and delegates from foreign
course at the agricultural college.
countries.
The National Refining company, of
Former Judge Charles F. Fishback,
New Jersey, has sued Haveme^er for
a member of the board of governors,
the return o f $10,000,000 worth of
has interested 30 prominent business
sugar stock.
and professional men of Chicago in the
A man and his w ife were knocked work of the local board of control, of
off a trestle over Deep creek on the which he ¡ b chairman, and the coopera
Cazadero electric line near Portland, tion of the people of Chicago and the
and fell to the rocks 60 feet below, millions tributary to this great central
both being killed.
market is bound to be a tremendous
aid to the movement, which has for its
PORTLAND MARKETS.
chief purposes the saving o f forests,
Wheat—Track
prices:
Bluestem, storing of flood waters, ¡reclamation of
48c; club, 80c; red Russian, 79c; Val deserts and making homes on the land.
ley, 81c; 40-foid, 81c.
"T h e National Irrrigation congress
Barley— Feed, $23.50(924 per ton; will have the support of our public-
brewing, $27027.50 per ton.
spirited men,” said Judge Fishback,
Mlllstuffs— Bran, $23 0 24.50 per ton; "and with the assistance o f our
middlings, $30031; shorta, $24028.50; friends in other parts of the country
rolled barley, $26 0 27.
there is every reason to believe that
Corn— Whole, $29; cracked, $30 per
the coming convention will be the moBt
ton.
Oats— No. 1 white, $28.60 per ton. important in the history of the organ
Hay—Track prices: Timothy, Wil ization.”
lamette Valley, $19 0 20 per ton; East
Aviator Encircles Dome.
ern Oregon, $21022; alfalfa, $14;
grain hay, $14.50015.50; clover, $130
Sacramento—Charles F. Willard, the
14.
Curtiss aviator, encircled the dome of
Appl-'s— Wnxen, 6Oc0$l; Baldwin, the Capitol here Monday.
Fighting
T6c0$1.25; Northern Spy, OQc0$1.5O; one of the trickiest winds in his exper
Snow, $1.26; Red Cheek Pippin, $10 ience, Willard, in a flight that lasted
1.26; Winter Banana. $1.7602; Spitz-
nearly an hour, raced from Agricultur
enberg, $1.50 0 2.50; Yellow Newtown
$1 .76; Arkansas Black, $2; Delaware al Park, the scene of the three days’
Salem, Feb. 3.— A ll o f the official
Salem, Jan. 31.— Suggestions that it
Red, $1.75; Gano, $1.25; Wlnesap. meet just opened, to the capitol, swung
around the golden-tipped dome, drop acta o f Jay Bowermen as acting gov
<1.75.
be prescribed as a penitentiary offense
Sack Vegetables— Carrots, $1 hun ping a message o f greeting and wel ernor, which under the law are re
to kill an elk, and that a closed season
dred; parsnips, $1.5001.76; turnips. come within three feet of the window quired to be attested by the secretary
looking from the office of Governor o f state to be valid, such as all com of from two to five years be placed on
$1; beets. $1.25.
Vegetables— Beans. 12t4 per lb.; Johnson, and scudded upward and away missions, pardons and appointments of China pheasants, are some of the more
cabbage, $1.5001.75 per hundred; into the teeth of a strong wind.
all kinds, are void, according to the important features at a meeting of the
cauliflower, $2.25 per crate; celery,
opinion o f both the governor’s office
California, $303.25 per crate; cucum
and secretary of state’s office, ex < committee on game tonight, whiclpwas
321 Killed By Railroads.
bers, $2 per box; egg plant, 15c per
attended by many sportsmen from all
pressed today.
Washington—
During
the
|months
of
lb.; garlic, 8c01O per lb.; green on
For this reason all notarial commis | over the state.
July,
August
and
September
last
the
Ions, 15c per dozen; head lettuce. 50c
sions and appointments made by A ct
It was also urged that the season on
©60 per box; hothouse lettuce, 75c0 number o f persons killed *in train fac-
ing Governor Bowerman are invalidat deer be set back a month, opening the
$1 per box; peppers, 15c per lb.; cidents was 321, while [3,892 were in
pumpkins, lc©144c per lb.; radishes jured. These facts ¡are disclosed in a ed and can be affirmed only by reissu- season September 1 instead o f August
8Oc035 per dozen;
sprouts, 8c; bulletin just issued by the Interstate ance of the commissions by Governpr 1. This plan, it was said, is to protect
squash, 1C0146 per lb.; tomatoes. commerce commission, the’ first issued West or by a curative act of the legis the forests from fires, many o f which
$202.75 per box.
under the revised accident law. ¡It in lature assembly, affirming all the ac are said to be started by hunters.
Heavier bounty on timber wolves,
Potatoes— Oregon,
buying
price. cludes many accidents not before in tions o f the acting governor so attest
$1.2501 .40 per hundred; sweet pota cluded in such bulletins.
cougars, and bobcats was asked, as a
The total ed by the secretary o f state.
toes, $3.76 per hundred.
Two bills have been introduced in protection for deer.
Willamette val
number of casualties of all kinds for
Onions— Buying price, $2 per hun the quarter was 22,328—2,948 [killed the legislature attempting to authorize ley sportsmen want the duck season to
dred.
and 19,380 injured on steam operated an assistant secretary of state to act in extend to March 1 instead of to Feb-
Poultry— Live:
l.ens,
19C02O;
the absence of the secretary of state. | ruary 15, as at present.
railways.
Springs, 1 8 C 0 1 9 H ; turkeys. 22C 023;
One such bill was introduced in the
The ways and means committee has
ducks, 22C 023; geese, 12 C 014 ; dress
senate by Senator Bowerman of Gil deniedjAttorney General Crawford ad
Steel Mills Show Activity,
ed turkeys, choice, 25c© 26.
New York— The steel companies are liam, Sherman and Wheeler counties ditional assistance and increased pay
Eggs—Oregon ranch, candled, ?Oc0
inclined to make much of the fact that and the other in the house by repre , for such assistants. In a bill cintro-
82; Eastern, 27c03O.
Butter—City creamery extra. 1 and mill operations have increased from 5 sentative Derby of Hood River and duced by Buchanan the attorney gen
eral was to be given one deputy at $2,-
2 pound prints, In boxes. S5c per to 10 per rent since the low point in Wasco.
Representative Steelhammer’s bill 100 per annum, another at $1,500 and
pound; less than boxes, cartons and December. The larger new orders and
delivery extra.
specifications have increased actively. to require engineers and signal buys a stenographer at $1,200 per annum.
working . on donkey engines
in logging A s reported by the committee this
Pork— Fancy, 1OHC011H per lh.
The
and
mills
are
oper
a- tlx . o sheet
i i v u V i*
■ * xa tin
X III plate
■ h v v issi
iis» n
x v
V»
jiv i
.
Veal— Fancy, 86 to 125 lbs., 13c015 ating slightly under 80 per cent o f the camP*
be 18 years o f age or older. office is given one assistant at $2,000
per lb.
capacity, the wire mills a little over met determined opposition when it and a stenographer at $1,080.
Cattle— Prime steers, $6 25 0 6.50;
80 per cent and the ¡tube and bridge-
good to choice steers, $6000625;
Governor Would Get Action.
House Plans Final Spurt.
fair to good steers, so 5006 00; com shops about 75 per cent. Much of the
Salem, Feb. 2. — Recommending that
Salem, Jn. 3.— To expedite business
mon steers, $4 00 0 5.00; choice to increase has come from export trade.
the office of state dairy and food com o f the house, two resolutions were of
prime cows, $5 250 5.50; good to
Gen. Piet Cronje is Dead.
missioner cither be abolished or that fered today. One by Carter provides
choice beef cows, $4 7505.25; fair
Kerksdorp, Tranvaal -General Piet the present incumbent, J. W. Bailey, ha no person, other than a member of
to good beef cows, $4 2504.75; com
mon to fair beef cows, $2 0004 00; A. Cronje, the noted Boer general, be removed. Governor Oswald West the legislature, be permitted to ad
good to choice heifers. $5.000550: died here Saturday, Feb. 4,
Piet sent a special message to the legisla dress the house in its sessions or while
fair to good heifers, $5.00 0 5.50; com Cronje was commander of one o f the ture late this afternoon. The message in committee o f the whole, except on
mon to fair heifers. $4. -00 4.26; choice Boer armies in the early part o f the seta forth the charges that have been vote of two-thirds o f the members.
to good fat hulls, $4.5004.75; fair to war with Great Britain, which lasted made against Bailey by his deputies
The author o f the other resolution,
good fat bulls, $4.0004 25; common from October, 1899 to June, 1901. He and by the press, and calls attention to would limit the debate on every sub
bulls, $2 50 0 3 25; good to choice light
the fact that the • xpenditures of the ject coming before the house in the
calves. $7.7508 00; fair to good light occupied a strong position at Magers-
office In late years have not been com remaineder of the session to ten min
calves, $7.00 0 7.50; good to choice dorp in the Orange Free state in De
Both resolutions
heavy calves, $5.2506 00; fair to good cember 1899, and repelled several mensurate with the benefits and the utes on each side.
heavy calves. $4.7506.25; common reckless assaults from the British force governor wants the legislature to act. were adopted.
calves. $3.7504.75; good to choice under General Lord Wetheren, who
Corporation Commission Approved.
Label Bill Nullified
stags. $5 00 0 5.25; fair to good stags suffered terrible losses.
$4.00 0 4 50
Salem, Feb. 2. — By unanimous vote
Salem, Jan. 31.— House bill No. 82
Puerto Cortez Taken Over.
Hogs—Choice
hogs,
$8 850900;
o f the four members of the senate rail practically lost its value this morning
good to choice hogs. $8.50 0 8 85.
Puerto Cortez, Honduras- General road committee present, the Malarkey in the senate when it was reported
Sheep— Yearling wethers, grain fed Lee Christmas, the revolutionary mili- idea of a state wide commission for favorably with amendments.
The bill
$42505.25; old wethers, grain fed, tary leader, arrived here with parts of regulation o f public service corpora- provides that all convict-made goods
3 7604 25; good to choice ewes g'-atn
his force to take over the administra- tions has been approved.
The meet- shall be so marked. The amendment,
fed. $3 2503 75; feeders. $2.1603 00;
choice lambs, grain fed. $6 25 0 6 50; tion o f this city, evacuated several ing was held just before 2 o’clock this which was adopted, modified this by
good to choice, grain fed. $6000 days ago by the government troops and afternoon with chairman Kellaher ab- providing that no such marking shall
• 26; fair to good. $5.2605.76; poor held by the international forces pend- senL Kellaher is a champion of the be required under the present Loewen - 1
ing the arrival o f the revolutionists, local idea, but was alone in his views berg-Going contract, which covers con
hunbs. $4 9506 00.
He was notified of vict-made goods in this state.
This
Hay fed sheep and lambs, 60c lower Puerto Cortez is the most important on the committee.
port on the Atlantic roast of Honduras. 1 the meeting but failed to appear.
nullifies the bill indefinitely.
tluui grain fed.
POWDER CAUSED EXPLO SIO N
Gotham Horror Was Result o f Ac
cident to 10,000 Pounds.
New York— Ten thousand pounds of
black powder on board the lighter
Katherine W, "contrary to the com
pany’s policy or orders,” probably
caused the explosion o f dynamite at
Cummunipaw, N. J., on Wednesday,
states Dr. H. W. Hudson, inspector of
the E. I. Dupont de Nemours Powder
company.
This powder, he said, was part of a
Dupont shipment for South America,
as was the dynamite, but it should
have been delivered to a steamship, he
maintained, before the dynamite was
taken aboard.
“ Contrary to general belief,” said
Dr. Hudson, "black powder is far more
dangerous than dynamite. We believe
the powder became ignited and in ex
ploding detonated some of the dyna
mite— not much of it.
Dynamite
freezes at about 45 degrees Fahren
heit. and it is nearly impossible to ex
plode it when frozen.
The tempera
ture on the day of the explosion was
below 45 degrees.
Hudson Maxim, the inventor, an
authority on explosives, is inclined to
the same belief. He agreed that the
after-effects of the explosion suggested
gunpowder rather than dynamite.
“ The eight arrests ar^ only a begin
ning,” said Prosecutor Garvin, of Hud
son county. “ It is not our intention to
pick out little men in the employe of
the corporations.
We are after the
men really responsible.”
LO U ISIAN A TO EXHIBIT.
Southerners Will Show at Panama-
Pacific Exposition.
New Orleans— I f the plans of the
Louisiana development league are car
ried out, the state of Louisiana will
have one of the most attractive and
beneficial exhibits at the Panama-
Pacific exposition at San^Francisco.
Plans are now under way, according
to C. H. Willard, one o f the directors
of the organization, to this end. Mr.
Willard said:
“ Louisiana cannot afford not to have
an exhibit at San Francisco. We have
been put to the test, and we must do
our best in order that this state have
an adequate representation of its pro
ducts and resources.
We want to
make the Louisiana exhibit the most
attractive in the big show.
“ It will be a center of observation
on account of the magnificent efforts
made by our people to win the prize.
We have come out of the contest with
honor and with clean hands. We have
won the respect and admiration of the
world for pluck and energy, and every
one who attends will want to see what
Louisiana has done.
" I believe the commercial organiza
tions and the people generally will
come forward and assure a handsome
state building and other displays.”
BLUESTEM DOOMED TO GO.
REBELS IW LOSE
Juarez Receives Reinforcements of
Government Troops.
Federal Train Derailed But Forces
Proceed and Reach City After
Hard Fighting.
El Paso, Feb. 6.— A t 11:15 p. m.
the exact results of today's develop
ments in the situation about Juarez are
beclouded by numerous conflicting re
ports. From the Federal viewpoint
the situation may be summarized as
follow s:
Colonel Rabago,
with
300 men
marched into Juarez at 9:25 tonight,
unmolested by the insurrectos, and
amid the joyful acclaims o f citizens
and soldiers.
Rabago's command repulsed the at
tack of Orozuco’s force at Bauch today,
with only two dead nnd six wounded,
inflicting on the insurgents a loss of
140 killed and wounded. Insurrectos
reported badly scattered as a result of
the clash.
General Navarro’s command, of a
strength unknown, reported marching
to the relief of Juarez and expected to
arrive tonight or tomorrow.
From the insurrectos’ viewpoint, the
situation stands as follows:
Rabago’s command reached Juarez
tonight, after defeat at Bauche, in
which they are reported to have lost
more than 100 men ¡and a substantial
part of their arms and equipment.
Alania’ rebel force of 600 men in a
fight with 100 Federáis 25 miles east
of Juarez..
Alanis expected to join Orozoco some
time tonight for an assault upon Jua
rez, which is scheduled for about day
light tomorrow.
General Navarro in command o f 700
Federáis, consisting of infantry and
cavalry, left Gallego Friday fur Jua
rez.
The fatal policy of delay having en
abled reinforcements to reach Juarez,
the probabilities o f taking that city
are now considered much more remote
than before.
Other reinforcements, in the shape
of General Navarro’s column, are en-
route from Chihuahua and will reach
Juarez tonight or tomorrow, and it is
believed here that the Federáis will be
able to hold thefeity, and that know
ing this, the insurrectos wil) retire.
There is a rumor that the insurrectos
are near Juarez, but this cannot be
verified. The net result of the battle
at Bauche today between Orozoco and
Rabago was two killed and five wound
ed among the insurrectos. The Federal
loss cannot be learned, as they carried
their wounded with them.
Oregon is Sure to Gain.
Washington.— No matter what bill
may be passed by congress providing
for .congressional reapportionment,
Oregon will gain a third member of
the house and Washington will gain
two. Idaho, however, will lose out if
the caucus bill ¡is substituted for the
Crumpacker measure, for under the
caucus bill Idaho gets but onejmember,
as at present, whereas the Crumpacker
bill gave Idaho two representatives.
Chances favor the passage o f the
caucus bill.
San Joaquin Valley is Flooded.
Stockton, Cal.— Rising waters in
the San Joaquin river and flooded is
land tracts have caused the serious in
undation of French camp, south of this
city, and rescue parties have been dis
patched in launches from the sheriff’s
office. Many homes are surrounded by
high water and much livestock has
been drowned, many farmers losing all
their possessions. It was necessary to
remove sevral patients from the build
ings in the county hospital grounds.
Blizzard Sweeps Nome.
Nome.— The worst blizzard o f the
season ia raging here and there is much
suffering on the trail. Thomas White
died of heart disease following expos
ure to the extreme cold. Ed Johnson
was brought in with both feet frozen
and must submit to amputation to save
his life.
Government Forces Loss
and Many Men.
Artillery
El Paso, Texas— Calanea and San
Buena Ventura are how held by the
insurrectos, according to dispatches
from Casas Grandes.
Colonel Rabago
reached Casas Grandes with 150 of the
500 men with whom he entered upon
his campaign on January U.
Four battles have been fought, in
three of which the insurrectos were
successful. Colonel Rabago losing the
two rapid-fire guns and four pieces of
light artillery with which he invaded
the Galanes district.
San Buena Ventura was abandoned
to the insurrectos Monday and Gal
anes deserted the next day.
Federal
officials are now busy preparing Casas
Grandes for a long siege, gathering
provisions and fortifying the town.
United States Consul Edwards has
made furmal demand on ths Mexican
authorities at Jumea for an immediate
hearing in the case of William Boykin,
the American negro porter arrested
for complicity in smuggling into Mex
ico ammunition found on a south-bound
train.
W H ISK Y IN S PIR ITS REBELS.
Bolstered By 50 Bottles They
Rain With Impunity.
Face
Calexico, Cal.—Sheriff Meadows, of
Imperial county, received a message
here stating that a detachment of
United States soldiers from San Diego
would arrive here in a day or two.
The insurgents have made no move
upon Mexicali, just across the border.
They still maintain their camp about
seven miles southwest of Mexicali,
and have recruited a number o f Coco-
pah Indians.
Rain has been falling but, stimu
lated by the contents of 50 bottles of
whisky and as many bottles of other
liquor, taken when they sacked M exi
cali Sunday, the insurgents do not
seem to mind the weather.
The members of the band had been
up two nights, and their leaders, El
General Levy and Simon Berthold, the
Los Angeles Socialist, allowed them to
rest and sleep all day. Scouts, how
ever, were sent at intervals to Mexi
cali.
O STR IC H HERD STAM PEDED.
Thunder Causes Exciting Time
Southern California.
In
Los Angeles— Terrified by a heavy
thunder storm, about a dozen large os
triches on one of the local farms stam
peded, tore down the heavy fence and
rushed into East Lake Park, trumping
and tearing down everything in their
path.
One of the birds, jumped into the
lake and at every peal o f thunder
ducked his head under the water.
He
was rescued with difficulty. The oth
ers took to the shrubbery or the Gar-
vanza hills and were raptured only af
ter many hours o f hard work.
The
mounted police, scores o f park employ
es and hundreds of boys took up the
C A P IT O L BUILDING BURNS.
chase. One of the birds Bhowed fight
and kicked a youth, who got too near,
Convicts Make Heroic Fight for Mis over a fence, doubling him up in a
souri's State House.
clump o f grass on the other side.
Jefferson City, Mo.— The Missouri
Walla Walla Farmers Say New Hy
Capitol building was totally destroyed
brid Variety Better.
by fire. The total loss, including the
Walla Walla, Wash. — That blue- building and many records and state
stem wheat, for many years the lead papers, is estimated at $1,000,000,
ing grain grown in the Walla Walla with no insurance.
Lightning which struck the dome
valley, will be displaced within two
shortly after 7 o’ clock spread flames
or three years by a hybrid variety, is to the roof and in less than half an
the opinion of leading farmers of the hour it was apparent that the building
Walla Walla valley in attendance at was doomed.
Because of the inadequate water
the Farmers’ convention here.
pressure, the fire could not be reached,
Bluestem, they point out, has always
and no aid could be rendered for some
had faults of being easy to burn, easy
time by the local fire company.
to freeze out, and a light yielder. H y
Governor Hadley personally directed
brids originated at the Washington
the fight against the flames, which,
state college, they claim, do away with
ncause of the building’s great age,
all these faults, and add many virtues
rapidly gained great headway.
The
that the old variety never had. Be
penitentiary fire department wa called
sides yielding better, they are hardier,
to the scene and the convicts worked
and do not burn as easy as does blue
heroically, scaling walls and taking
stem. And the milling quality of at
dangerous chances. \
least two of the hybrids is just as good
The local military company was
as is that o f Bluestem, which has been
called out and formed a cordon around
raised simply because it brings two to
the building, driving spectators from
six cents better to the bushel.
dangerous positions and removing rec
Many of the farmers will plant ex
ords.
tensively with the hybrids this spring.
Morgan’s Loan Is Rejected.
New York.— Confirmation of recent
cable advices for Tegucigalpa, via San
Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, that the
Honduran congress has refused to ap
prove the Morgan loan transaction,
was supplied by Senor Parades, the
Honduran financial agent in this coun
try, whose special mission was to ne
gotiate the loan. Senor Parades said
he had received a telegram from Presi
dent Davila, announcing the rejection
of the loan convention by the congress
of Honduras.
M EXICAN REBELS GAIN.
Federáis Beaten at Coyome.
El Pasco, Tex. — Mail advices say
that a special train has arrived here
from the Northeast, bringing many
wounded from the vicinity of Coyome,
Chihuahua, where the rebels defeated
the Federáis and killed 170.
The cor
respondent says the death list is con
firmed by several mining men, all of
whom report the people in the region
are out of supplies and almost starving.
One man says he saw 19 Federal
wounded guarded by soldiers and that
he saw also a wagon load of uniforms
taken from the Federal dead.
Smugglers See Opportunity.
Tuscon, A r iz .— The revolution in
Mexico has created a situation on the
border which is straining the energies
of every officer in the offices of the
United States marshal and of the Im-
mgration service.
The marshal is
swearing in deputies to hold in check
the throngs o f
Mexicans who are
crowding to the border, waiting oppor
tunities to cross and join the revolu
tionists, while the immigration inspec
tors are kepbt | busy arresting contra
band Chinese who are utilizing the op
portunity to scurry across into the U. S.
GRAIN C O M PA N Y FORMED.
Eastern Capitalists to Build Elevators
In Washington.
Seattle— Announcement is made here
of the organization of a grain company
by Eastern capitalists, who will build
a chain of elevators in Eastern Wash
ington. Among the stockholders are
J. B. White, of Kansas City, and G.
M. Dulaney, of Hannibal, Mo.
J. A.
Pease, o f Fort Dodge, la., has been
made manager of the company, which
will establish general offices in Seattle.
The first elevators will be built along
the Wardner branch o f the Chicago,
Milwaukee & Puget Sound railway.
Tia Juana Fears Attack.
San Diego, Cal.— In anticipation of
an attack upon Tia Juana, Mexican
officials o f that town are making the
bull ring defensible. It is stated that
50 troopers are on the way from En
senada to Tia Juana. Extra men are
being employed by the San Diego &
Arizona Railway company to guard its
property on the Mexican side of the
line. In San Diego the governor of
Lower California was quoted as say
ing that 2,500 Mexican soldiers are on
the way from Manzanillo
to En
senada.
Miscegeny Is Forbidden.
Reno, N ev.— A law designed to do
away with the marriage of Caucasians
and Asiatics was introduced in the N e
vada senate by Holmes of Washoe
county, and will be passed in both
houses o f the legislature without op
position. The law is very'plain in its
terms and very short.
It absolutely
prohibits marriages of this kind, and
makes it a felony for any magistrate
or clergyman to perform such cere
mony. It also prohibits the issuance
of marriage licenses by the county
clerk in such cases.
Woman Gets Vote for Senator.
Denver— A woman was given a vote
for United States senator in the Colo
rado legislature. Representative Mc
Kenzie o f Custer county, casting his
ballot for Mrs. Katherine M. Cooke,
ex-state superintendent
of
public
schools. No election resulted from the
vote, which was: Democrats— Adams,
River Wrecks Property.
20, Martin 2, Maupin 1, O’ Donnell 4.
San Jose, Cal.— The San Benito riv Shafforth
1, Speer 25, Taylor 2,
er, which is swollen by the heavy Thomas 4, Ward 5, Cooke 1. Republi
rains, is doing a great deal of damage cans— Dawson 1, Northcutt 30.
at San Benito. It has changed its
Saw Severs Man’s Body.
course and is sweeping everything be
fore it. A t Taylor’s ranch five acres
Sheridan, Wyo.— The body of County
of land and a barn, full o f hay were Commissioner W. H. Robins was com
washed away by the powerful current. pletely severed here by the circular
The property loss as a result of the saw in a sawmill on Rock creek.
He
storm wiil run into the thousands of slipped on the icy floor, and, falling
dollars. |The river is subsiding s lig h t forward, became
entangled in the
ly at last reports.
clutch o f the carriage. Robins was
elected county commissioner o f this
Sea Wipes Out Village.
county last fall.
He was a stock-
Helsingfors, Norway — An entire man and rancher.
fishing village of 253 men which had
been established on the ice outside
Religious Play Forbidden.
Bkorko Sound, was carried out to sea
Philadelphia— As a result o f a pro
in a gale on Friday night. The
test by clergymen and citizens, the
ter was not discoverred until morning, police department issued an order pro
when the village was already out of hibiting the presentation in this <Hty
sight. Boats have been sent to the by Sarah Bernhardt o f the religious
rescue, but have not yet returned.
play, " L a Samaritaine.”