C U R T I S S S E T S MARK.
Aviator Flies
From Water to Land
and Back.
San Diego, Cal. A fu rth e r demon­
stratio n was given here of the adapti-
bility of the aeroplane for land and
j w ater service. In a flight of six m iles
I over the bay and ocean and across
| Coronado island, Glenn H. C urtiss rose
' from the w ater, alighted on land, and
from the land and
Kept Five Days in Filthy Hut Without then sta rte d
| alighted on the w ater.
Being Allowed to Com muni­
It was the first tria l of w hat C urtiss
cate With Friends,
considered his most im portant experi­
m ental aviation.
The first arm y aviation squad will
San Diego, Feb. 23. Branded as a
Eu­
spy by P re fec t of Police Jose Larroque : soon be in action over Juarez.
o f T ia Juana, a Mexican town ju st gene Ely is now g e ttin g his C urtiss
He will be
over the boundary, H arry C. Dell, an ! biplane in shape here.
Am erican 28 years of age, is a prison­ joined here by F irst L ieutenant J.
er, in danger of being convicted w ith ­ i McHenry, of the Coast artillery na-
out a hearing by a drum head court j tional guard, and P riv a te H. B. Odell.
They sailed from San Francisco Sun-
m artial and shot. The fa te of the o th ­
e r Am erican and the Mexican who 1 day. They are acting under orders
professes to be a citizen of the United of Colonel George A. Schaspey, of the
S tates, said to be held by the T ia I Coast a rtille ry , which are the first
Ju n an a a uthorities as spies, has not ! m ilitary orders issued in the U nited
been learned.
Larroque says they | S tates for the form ation of an actual
have been freed ; w hat became of aviation corps for w ar observations.
The aviators will not rem ain a t Jua-
them no one here seems to know.
P re fec t Larroque refuses to s ta te the i rez, but will go w herever the fighting
n a tu re of the charge ag ain st Dell, but 1 between the insurrectos and the Mexi­
it is known th a t he is thought to be a can troops is thickest.
The outcom e of the expedition will
secret agent for the rebels. Likewise,
Larroque refuses to tell w hat will be | be aw aited w ith in terest throughout
| the m ilitary world, as C alifornia is
done w ith the accused men.
W hile the fa te of Dell hung in the the first sta te to send a ir scouts to ob­
balance tonight, it was learned th at serve actual w arfare.
In C u rtiss’ flight his hydro-aeroplane
when N avarro's column m arched into
Ju a rez from the old town o f G uadel­ skipped along the surface of the bay
oupe late tonight, the troops brought a t high speed for a q u a rte r of a mile
w ith them two closley guarded prison­ and got up into the air. A gale of 20
ers. These w ere A m ericans and one m iles an hour or more was blowing
was Law rence F. Converse, of Glen­ out of the southw est, and C urtiss
dora, Cal., a suburb of Los Angeles. headed into it until well o u t over the
He has worked in Spokane and Se­ ocean.
T urning south, he flew near the
a ttle.
The o th er was Edward M.
Admiral
B latt, thought to be an ex-soldier of cruiser C alifornia, R ear
T hom as’ flagship, anchored off shore,
the United S tates army.
Friends of Dell have fears th a t and came round for a landing on the
should the insurgent arm y approach beach a hundred yards from the Del
The aeroplane came
T ia Juana he will quickly be disposed Coronado hotel.
of. Reports th a t he was to be taken to e arth easily and rolled along the
forthw ith to E nsenada were quieted beach on its wheels.
by inform ation th a t he is still held in
GAS C O M P A N Y D O C TO R S .
the Tia Ju an a prison, which is nothing
m ore than a m iserable hut.
This is
heavily guarded and today was fu rth e r Los Angeles Sufferers From Throat
defended by the throw ing up o f e a rth ­
Trouble Cured.
works. It is said th a t this was done
fo r fe a r th a t Am erican friends o f Dell ! Los A ngeles - An epidemic of
would a tte m p t to storm the jail and whooping cough in this city has
lib e rate him.
Although a rre ste d in a brought to lig h t a novel cure for the
T ia Juana saloon last Saturday night, annoying contagion.
The Los Angeles Gas & E lectric cor­
D ell's identity was not discovered un­
It has
til today. This was the resu lt o f the poration has turned doctor.
persistence o f new spaper reporters, developed the strange trea tm e n t of
who, follow ing up rum ors th a t three the disease and is tendering its benefi­
A m ericans w ere to be shot as spies, cial services to the children of rich
insisted of P re fec t L arroque th a t they and poor, free of charge.
The com pany’s chem ist made the
be given interview s w ith the accused.
discovery th a t the escaping naphtha­
lene fum es in the purifying rooms had
U T O P IA O F S O C IALISM .
a soothing effect upon all diseases of
the throat. He induced several chil­
Faction of Mexican Insurgents Will dren suffering from whooping cough
and a num ber of adult persons having
Establish Colony.
chronic asthm a to take free trea tm e n t
Mexicali, M ex.—Independent o f all a t the gas plant. The result was so
o th er revolutionary m ovem ents o f the g ra tify in g th a t the big corporation
leaders in Mexico, the insurrection opened the doors o f its purifying
here is now centered in a Socialist rooms to all sufferers from th ro at dis­
affair, the object being the e stab lish ­ orders, and anyw here from 20 to 200
m ent of a U topia in Lower C alifornia, p atien ts are there daily.
Two thous­
which, though bom amid the singing and have been cured.
The n ap h th a­
o f bullets, u ltim ate ly is to know no lene is a by-product of the oxides of
bloodshed or w arfare o f men or m on­ iron used to d iv ert the sulphur from
ey.
the gas.
In this commonwealth the man who
works w ith his hands will be suprem e,
T E A C H G IR L S F A R M I N G .
asserted both leaders of the insurrec-
tios, Leyva and Berthold, who a d m it­
ted the success of the m ovem ent dé­ Rich New Y ork Woman Would Help
Factory Victims.
pends upon the support of Socialists
and the Industrial W orkers o f the
New York. A fte r an investigation
W orld. Berthold said th at the aid of of industrial conditions in and about
both organizations had been sought by New York C ity lastin g a year, Mrs.
him. Sim ultáneously the Associated O liver H. P. Belm ont has reached the
Press correspondent was inform ed by conclusion th a t there is an over sup­
Berthold th a t he represented a c a p ita l­ ply o f woman factory w orkers and
istic organization, and as such would th a t the b e st re lief is to persuade the
not receive answ ers to questions.
girls to tak e up farm ing as an occupa­
Berthold issued a dictum to C aptain tion.
Babcock, of the U nited S ta te s caval­
W ith this end in view she has set
ry, and Mayor Hock wood, o f Calexico, aside 200 acres of her land a t H em p­
th a t the A m ericans m ust care for the stead, Long Island, for a school of ag­
wounded in fu tu re b attles w hether riculture for women. An experienced
they wanted to or not.
woman fa rm e r has been engaged to
“ The Red Crosss has donated $1,000 instruct the pupils in practical fa rm ­
to the cause,“ he said. “ We will take ing.
T here wijl not be a man about
the wounded to the international line the place except a boy or two to do
and you m ust tre a t them or le t them chores for the first few weeks.
die. We have no hospital fa cilitie s or
m eans of protecting th em .”
Medical Schools Grilled.
Held By Mexicans as Spies and
May Be Executed.
Valderez in Disgrace.
Managua, 'N icaragua A fte r being
insulted and beaten here by a G uate­
m alan, Genera Valderaz, the confi­
dential diplom atic agent o f P resident
D avila, of Honduras, has refused to
light a duel and is in disgrace.
A fte r the beating he received and
had displayed the lack of spunk to is­
sue a challenge to his assailant, Val­
d e re z ’sought to forget his disgrace in
the flowing bowl and wound up the
sorry affair by g e ttin g drunk and be­
ing escorted out of Managua by the |>o
lice.
Comedy Arouses Rowdies.
P aris Storm y scenes occurred at
the Cornedie F rançaise a t the second
perform ance of “ A pres M oi,“
by
H enry B ernstein, a uthor o f “ The
T h ie f.“ Rowdy clericalist organiza­
tions, who have taken exception to the
production of a play by a Hebrew
a g a ist whom they have made various
allegations were posted in different
p a rts of the house and kept up inces­
sa n t interruptions.
They resisted
ejection and B ernstein's bro th er re ­
ceived a black eye in an altercation.
E ighteen d istu rb ers w ere arrested.
Americans Held as Spies.
San Diego, Cal. Two A m ericans,
young men o f good appearance, are
in jail at Tia Ju a n a and will be tried
on the charge of being insurgent spies.
T h e ' Mexican au th o rities re fu se to
give the names of the prisoners. This
is the positive sta te m en t m ade over
the telephone by a correspondent of
the Union. He was detained by the
com m andante and not allowed to send
any more news.
Tablet Recalls Famous Battle.
Savannah, Ga. A ta b le t m arking
the place w here one of the m ost san­
g uinary engagem ent* o f the Revolu­
tio n a ry w ar was fought will be un­
veiled here W ednesday. The ta b le t is
a t the point o f Spring Hill redoubt,
around which Am erican and B ritish
aoldiers battled O ctober 19, 1777.
New York The C arnegie Founda­
tion for the advancem ent of teaching
in its fifth annual re|>ort, to be issued
soon, replies to criticism s of the bul­
letin issued la st y ear in which the
m ethods of certain medical schools
were condemned.
A prediction is
made in the rej)ort by P resident P rit­
c h ett th a t the commerieal medical
school, “ a com bination of the stren g th
of ignorance and se lf-in te re st,“ is
doomed to extinction. The report also
shows th a t Mr. C arnegie’s original
donation has grown to $11,114,056.
Garros Rises 3,900 Feet.
DOINGS OF OREGON STATE LEGISLATURE
Salem , Feb. 27.- B aker’s demand
for g re a te r consideration a t the hands
of the Oregon & W ashington Railroad
& N avigation company in the way of
d istrib u tiv e and special
commodity
ra te s was taken up for investigation
officially today by the railroad com­
mission. B aker has made a demand
sim ilar to the one made by the city of
Medford for d istrib u tiv e ra te s as fa v ­
orable as those enjoyed by the larg e r
shipping centers such as Portland,
Spokane and S eattle.
A ttorney A rth u r C. S|>eneerof P o rt­
land, is conducting the case for the
railroad company.
A ttorney F. H.
McCune of Portland, is attorney for
the Baker Commercial club, the plain­
tiff bringing the com plaint again st
the railroad company.
A t 11 o ’clock
when the case opened before the com­
mission A ttorney Spencer put on the
stand General F reig h t A gent F. W.
Robinson, of the Oregon & W ashing­
ton railroad company and he read into
the records a stupendous am ount of
sta tistic s and figures show ing the bus­
iness relation of the business of the
road to the different cities and centers
of population in Oregon.
E. H. Flagg, chief clerk of the
sta te senate, and John P. H unt, a ssist­
a n t clerk, were prom inent figures in
the recent controversy over the revis­
ion o f the senate journal. F lagg went
into the courts to prevent H unt and
Colonel M ercer from revising the jour­
nal, as they had been directed by a
senate resolution to do, and won his
point.
This incident was of more im por­
tance than the average reader may
suppose. A record of every bill en­
acted into law m ust be kept and set
forth from the tim e of its introduc­
tion, and unless this record is correct
in every detail the law may be as­
sailed in the courts.
Legal a u th o ri­
ties differ as to w hether a law can
stand if it is not backed by a com plete­
ly accurate record.
Salem , Feb. 25. Of the 725 bills
th a t were introduced in the two houses
of the legislature, 275 of them have
been allowed to become laws.
The
legislature itself failed to pass o r in­
definitely postponed 386 bills, or more
than half the num ber introduced, and
the governor by the exercise of his
veto power, stopped a total of 64
bills, which is the larg est num ber of
bills of any one session th a t has ever
been vetoed by a governor of this
state.
By these vetoes and by o th er a r­
rangem ents whereby only a portion of
the sum s appropriated by the legisla­
tu re are to be used, the governor has
turned back into the pockets of the
taxpayers approxim ately $600,000, or
more than half a m illion dollars which
will m ake the appropriations voted by
the legislature a g g reg a te a total of
about $4,300,000, instead of $4,900,-
000, as previously estim ated.
Among the last bills to receive the
governor's disapproval was the Rogue
R iver fish bill, upon which the gover­
nor for some tim e has intim ated his
action. He says the people have ex­
pressed them selves w ithout qualifica­
tion on the m a tte r and le ft nothing for
the leg isla tu re or him self to do other
than follow th e ir will.
In the m es­
sage accom panying th is veto he s a y s :
“ The purpose of this bill is to nul­
lify a law passed by the people of his
s ta te a t the la st general election,
w hereby the Rogue river was closed
to comm ercial fishing.
The comm er­
cial fishing on the said riv e r has for
years been controlled by one man,
who, through rip arian ow nership has
m aintained a com plete monopoly upon
the industry. T hrough the enjoym ent
of th is monopoly he grew w ealthy and
was absolute d icta to r so fa r as th a t
stream was concerned.
D eriving his
revenue from Oregon, he spent it in
C alifornia, w here his fam ily resided
and his supplies w ere purchased. The
money he spent for the propagation of
fish was spent because it would u lti­
m ately add to his re v en u e.”
Salem , Feb. 24.—U nder a distinct
understanding betw een Governor W est
and m em bers of the Oregon Naval re ­
serve the governor has sanctioned the
bill crea tin g th a t reserve and has al­
lowed $10,000 of the $25,000 appro­
priated by the legislature.
This move was m ade by the gover­
nor on the stre n g th o f a w aiver th a t
the reserve will prom ise not to use
m ore than $10,000 of the ap p ro p ria­
tion and a prom ise th a t no indebted­
ness will be incurred a g ain st the sta te
by the reserve.
“ No a tta ck was contem plated on
the Oregon system in my second choice
bill, n e ith e r do I believe the bill un­
c o n stitu tio n a l,“
declared
Speaker
Rusk tonight, in com m enting on the
reasons offered by Governor W est in
vetoing th at m easure.
Senator M alarkey’s public service
commission hill, extending the powers
of the S ta te Railroad commission to
public u tilitie s was the final m easure
considered by Governor W est tonight
and the last to be filed by him w ith
the secretary of sta te .
“ Knowing the people will profit no
m a tte r which side wins I am filing the
M alarkey bill, and will sit back and
w atch them fight it o u t,” said the
governor.
Mexico C ity
Roland G. Garros
made an a ltitu d e flight estim ated at
3,900 feet here Sunday, which, con­
sidering th e s ta rtin g a ltitu d e of 7,800
feet, was regarded as rem arkable.
P resident Diaz and his official family
w ere spectators. Rene B arrier made
a cross-country flight and Rene Simon
gave a dem onstration of control. The
fourth flight o f the day w as made by
Edmund A. Dem ars, the Swiss a v i­
ator, who barely succeeded in liftin g
Oliver Bill is Illegal.
his tiny Demoiselle monoplane from
Salem , Feb. 23.
In an opinion
the ground.
handed down today A ttorney General
Craw ford holds th a t the O liver hill,
Chivalry Shows Identity.
providing for relinquishm ent of claim
San Francisco
The identity o f a by the sta te to the John Morrison
son of Joseph Finlay, a rich m anufac­ property in Union county, is unconsti­
tu rer of Yonkers, N. Y., ex-U nited tutional.
O liver’s bill would m ake
' S tates m inister to Italy, was rervealed 1,000 acres, which, it is said, should
j here a fte r years of obscurity. Thanks escheat to the sta te , go to the people
to his chivalrous conduct in a little who, he declares, are heirs of John
1 g irl’s behalf, he was cut up so badly Morrison. Many objections have been
! w ith razors and daggers th a t his life filed ag ain st the bill, it being asserted
! may pay the fo rfeit.
Thanks to the th a t O liver w rongfully used his posi­
same affair, his fa th e r will be notified tion as a legislator.
of the young m an ’s w hereabouts w ith
a view to reconciliation.
West is Opposed to Treaty.
Salem , Feb. 23. In passing opinion
Forty Fishermen Saved.
on the proposed Japanese tre a ty Gov
St. P etersb u rg
D ispatches from ernor W est said to d a y :
H elsingfors and N arva report th a t a
“ I believe this is a w hite m an’s
portion of the ice floe on wvhich 500 country, and any a tte m p t to open the
fishermen w ent a d rift in the gu lf of flood g ates and allow foreign im m i­
Finland several days ago, has been gration, especially coolies from Japan,
driven ashore a t H eiskar island. to pour in should he blocked im m edi­
Forty of the fishermen had found safe­ a te ly .“ Although the governor has had
ty on this floe. Another portion w ith no tim e of late to read the papers, he
m any men grounded near Koiwisto is prepared to sta te th at he does not
regard the tre a ty entirely favorably.
in Hjorko sound.
JA P A N ES E T R E A T Y R ATIFED .
Western Statesmen Express Grave
Fears of Consequences.
W ashington, Feb. 25.
The new
Governor W est issued a proclam a­ Japanese tre a ty of trade and n aviga­
tion today proclaim ing Wednesday, tion was ratified last night a fte r two
March 1, as Colonist Day. In his
hours’ executive session of the senate,
proclam ation he calls upon the people
of the s ta te to avail them selves of the j W hile the apprehension of W estern
privilege o f sending a personal le tte r , senator^ th a t the trea ty m ight let
to some one in an F asten sta te , accom­ • down the bars to coolie labor was not
panied by lite ra tu re telling of the ad­ entirely removed, these senators con­
vantages this sta te has to offer to the
tented them selves w ith expressing
hom esteader.
They interposed no
He declares in his proclam ation th at th eir solicitude.
Oregon offers unrivaled opjx)rtunities objection to ratification.
to the hom eseeker; th a t by iLs g re at
The action, in prom ptly confirming
diversity o f industries this sta te can
furnish homes and occupation for the new agreem ent, is expected to do
thousands and th a t by v irtue o f re­ more to prove the feeling of cordiality
duced ra te s it is possible for the th a t this country has for 'Ja p a n than
hom eseeker to reach here a t trifling a n ything done for many years. It is
cost.
regarded as a m anifestation of highest
Salem, Feb. 23 Two hundred and confidence in the advanced civilization
th irty -th re e bills w ere dumped upon of th a t nation. The effect will be to
the governor since last Friday. The p erm it Ja p a n to en te r a t once upon a
overw helm ing task th a t has confront­ reorganization of its financial system
ed Governor W est since Friday has and the m aking of new tariffs w ith all
been to read and carefully consider nations.
233 bills, sep arate the goats from the
J a p a n 's trea tie s w ith other powers
sheep and be right in his selections or are to expire July 17. T hat w ith the
m eet the criticism of the public. As U nited S tates, by reason of its late r
a result the governor has been sm oth­ ratification, would have continued un­
ered and sw am ped w ith work.
til the sam e date a y ear later, had not
He is spending night and day in the this governm ent consented to its ex
seclusion of his office, p u ttin g all oth­ piration a t the sam e tim e as the o th ­
er m atters aside.
Even his corres­ ers.
pondence has been forced to w a it un­
F ailu re to have ratified the new
til these bills could have his attention. j tre a ty would have deiayed the opera
He is ju s t beginning to see daylight tion of the Japanese program for a
from beneath the pile and tomorrow y ear beyond the tim e when it wa*
is the last day, for all bills m ust be planned to put it into effect. It would
filed w ith the secretary of sta te w ithin have m eant much loss of revenue to
five days a fte r they reach the gover­ Jap an and continuance of the e xisting
nor, Sundays excluded, or they be­ tre a ty w ith the U nited S ta te s for an­
come laws anyhow.
o ther y ear would not have benefitted
The governor has called to his as­ this governm ent, according to the re p ­
sistance various m em bers of the bar resentations o f the S ta te dep artm en t
of the city of Salem from tim e to tim e on the subject.
and also o th er advisers who have been
close friends of his. He has taken in
I N T E R E S T E D IN I R R I G A T I O N .
the m em bers of the bar for the pur­
pose of g e ttin g their legal advice on
some of the bills and his o ther friends Whole Count y T u • Mt-mtion to
have given him advice on the practical
Wonderful R<silt ^ uned.
9ide of the m easures has had to con­
Chicago- -“ The people f the U nited
sider.
In this respect Governor W est has S ta te s are alive to the suuject o f irri­
been more generous than was governor g a tio n ," sta te s Governor Jos. M. C a r­
Cham berlain,
who invariably shut
ey, of W yoming. W ith reference to
him self aw ay from all advisors for
Irrig atio n
congress,
three or fo u r days im m ediately a fte r the N ational
a session of the
legislature and which holds its 19th session in C hica­
jum ped into the task by him self. go, D ecem ber 5 to 9, Governor Carey
Governor W est has had more advice adds, “ The Irrig atio n congresses have
of his own choosing than Governor
C ham berlain ever would accept b u t it been one o f the g re a te s t factors in ad-
is also tru e th a t Governor W est in­ vancinng irrig a tio n investigations and
variably follows his own will a fte r re ­ the prom otion o f irrig atio n e n te r­
ceiving the advice and criticism of his prises.
circle of friends.
“ The congresses do not vote money,
nor inaugurate the building of dams,
Salem, Feb. 22. Considerable scur­ reservoirs and canals, but they do
rying followed the discovery today brin g to g eth er scientists, ex p erts and
th a t Speaker R usk’s house bill provid­ practical men. which results in the
ing for second choice a t prim ary elec­ education of the uninform ed, and in
tions had not reached the office of the c rea tin g public sen tim en t on the ques­
governor. I t was supposed th a t all tions affecting the reclam ation of the
bills had been enrolled and sent to the desert lands of the U nited States.
executive by this m orning, b u t a
“ The irrig atio n question is one of
thorough search failed to reveal it the mofct im portant
affecting the
among the bills in the governor’s sta te s and territo rie s w est o f the
office.
Missouri river. It becomes a g re at
C hief Clerk D rager, of the house, economic question to all the people of
finally located it, however.
The bill the U nited States. N othing else has
had not been enrolled, b u t will be im­ done as much to bring about the p res­
m ediately and sen t to. Governor W est ent favorable conditions as the irrig a ­
for his consideration.
tion congresses.
These have done
Governor W est today'appointed the g re a t work, but the work has ju s t be­
commission to m ake arrangem ents for gun.
These irrig atio n -congresses
placing the sta tu e o f George H. W il­ should be encouraged, supported and
liam s in S ta tu a ry Hall, W ashington, widely attended, and no progressive
D. C. The commission is to be made m an can afford to neglect th e m .’’
up o f I»r. T. L. Eliot, C. E. S. Wood
Governor Carey, a fte r whom the
and George H. Himes, c u rato r of the Carey act is named, was president of
Oregon H istorical society.
the N ational Irrig atio n congress of
The bill for the purpose o f creatin g 1897 a t Lincoln, N ebraska, and th a t
this commission was introduced by of 1898 a t Cheyenne, W yoming.
S enator Abraham,- of Douglas county.
Governor W est will veto the sta te
Over 2.000,0 0 0 Starving.
aid road bill, carrying an appropriation
New York. Advices from C hina to
of $340,000, according to a sta te m en t
the A m erican Red Cross w ere made
made by him today.
T hat
The same question th a t arose in con­ public a t th e ir offices here.
nection w ith the bill am ong good roads 2,500,000 Chinese will die for w an t of
men of Portland will d irec t the gover­ food if assistance is not rendered im­
nor in his course, as the bill fails to m ediately is the prediction in a s ta te ­
m ake provision as to who shall have m ent m ade by the organization. This
supervision over the expenditure of num ber com prises nearly th.e e n tire
population of the northern p a rt of the
the money.
The
“ I cannot allow $340,000 to be Province of K iang-Su Anhui.
“ The pneu­
thrown about am ong the counties as sta te m en t continm ues:
though it were throw n am ong so m any monic plague is creeping southw ard
I t has
birds, w ith no one havifig supervision tow ard the fam ine d istric t.
of the method o f spending the mon­ ravaged all M anchuria.
e y ,’’ said the governor.
If no “ jo k e rs” e x is t in the flat
salary bill passed by the house S a tu r­
day, a fte r Governor W est had made
liberal use of the big “ s tic k ,” it will
be satisfacto ry to
R epresentative
Jam es D. A bbott o f Portland, accord­
ing to the sta te m en t m ade by him.
A bbott is a form er p a rtn e r and a
staunch frirn d o f S ta te P rin te r Duni-
way and led the fight ag ain st the bill.
“ A pparently the law does not go
into effect until 1914, but there are
doubtful clauses in it which draw my
suspicion.’’ said A bbott. “ I w as not
and have not been a g ain st any bill
which does not affect the present con­
ditions.
Mr. Duniw ay was elected
by the people on the fee system , and
it is no more than ju s t th a t he con­
tinue on this basis to the end of the
term . Mr. Duniway has been my loy­
al friend and in tak in g the stand that
I did I was only p ro tec tin g him and
seeing th a t ju stic e was done.”
State Education Benefitted.
Salem Two very im portant educa­
tional laws were enacted during the
recent session o f the leg islatu re, the
H untington act, which provides a plan
for the im provem ent of rural schools,
and the Hawley act, which will tend
to raise the standard o f the e n tire
teaching profession. The form er act
provides th a t in each county having
more than 60 school d istric ts the coun­
ty superintendent shall appoint four
m em bers of a county educational
board, of which the county superin­
tendent shall be ex-officio chairm an.
Bill Unintentionally Altered.
Salem Governor W est has discov­
ered th a t senate bill 225 was altered,
m ost probably unintentionally, in e n ­
rolling, so th a t it excludes train dis­
patchers from its operation.
The bill
is one prescribing a 14-hour lim it for
the continual em ploym ent o f railroad
men. There is a clause in the bill
w here the ty p ist could easily have
jum ped from one line to another in
copying. This was undoubtedly the
m anner'in which the e rro r was made.
MEXICO SEEKS PEICE
Agent oí Revolutionists Says Otters
Are Made by Diaz.
Insurrectos Will Demand Retirement
of Diaz as Inducement to Lay
Down Arms.
Mexico C ity, Feb. 27. E nrique C.
Creel, the Mexican m in iste r of foreign
relations, denied ton ig h t th a t any
peace o vertures had been made by
P resident Diaz to the revolutionists,
as alleged by Gomez in his announce­
m ent ton ig h t in W ashington.
“ So fa r as 1 am aw are, no such
o vertures have been m ade,” said Mr.
Creel, “ and as for the appointm ent of
peace envoys, 1 can say positively the
assertion is u n tru e .”
Mr. Creel is a m em ber of the presi­
d e n t’s official fam ily, upon whose
counsel the chief executive has seem ­
ingly placed g re a t reliance in recent
political difficulties of the nation.
W ashington, Feb. 27. Dr. V. Go­
mez, head of the confidential agency
here o f the M exican revolutionists to­
night announced th a t he indirectly had
received overtures for peace from the
Federal governm ent.
Dr. Gomez said the confidential
agency here had been advised by its
ju n ta in El Paso Tex. of the desire of
Governor Ahum ada o f Chihuahua to
confer in Chihuahua w ith Francisco I.
Madero leader of the revolution and
also had been inform ed through the
ju n ta in San Antonio, Tex., th a t three
d elegates of the Diaz governm ent
wished to m eet Dr. Gomez on the bor­
der and arrange for the term ination of
hostilities.
Dr. Gomez, who w as form erly the
fam ily physician of President Diaz
and who was, in the last election, can­
didate for the vice presidency o f Mexi­
co on the same ticket as Francisco I.
Madero, the candidate for president,
said the provisional governm ent would
not “ undertake any negotiations of
pe- :e, except under the condition th a t
the delegates shall he legally and fully
authorized w ith w ritte n pow ers.”
A M E R IC A N S H A VE TRIA L.
Mexican Authorities Say Americans
Will Be Well Treated.
El Paso, Tex. -The prelim inary e x ­
am ination of Law rence Converse and
Edwin B latt, the two young A m eri­
cans captured by General N avarro last
week, opened in Ju a rez Saturduy.
The young men are charged with
sedition a g ain st the Mexican govern­
m ent. The hearing failed to develop
a n ything o f im portance and the case
was continued.
Mrs. Converse, m other o f one of the
prisoners,, who is here firoti* Los; An­
geles,' is p rostrated a t one of th e ho­
tels. She has not y e t seen her son.
A m erican Consul Edw ards said he
believed there was a chance for th e ir
acquittal, but, if it failed, they would
be sen t to the city o f Chihuahua for
final tria l. C apital punishm ent can­
not be inflicted.
W ashington, D. C.^ Thé Mexican
governm ent has no intention of m ak­
ing m arty rs of the roving Am ericans
who have crossed the line to cast their
fortunes w ith the insurgents.
A c­
cording to the M exican em bassy here
these men will be put in jail and tried
in the ordinary course and in due tim e,
not by “ drumhead- co u rt-m ariiiil,’’ but
by the established tribunals.
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Dell Given Hearing at Ensenada.
San Diego, Cal. F ni ends of H arry
C. Dell, the Am erican accused of be­
ing a rebel spy, learned th a t he had
arrived safely a t Ensenada, and had
been given an im m ediate hearing be­
fore the Federal grand ju ry there.
W hat was the re su lt is not known
here, but it was learned lh a t Dell is
still in the cuartel pending final dis­
position of his case.
T A F T HAS NEW JA P T R E A T Y .
Removes All Restrictions on Immi­
gration— Opposition Certain.
W ashington, Feb. 22. —The te x t of
a new tre a ty w ith Japan, designed to
replace th a t of 1894, and draw n w ith
the special design o f e lim in atin g the
restrictio n s upon im m igration
con­
tained in th a t trea ty , was laid before
the senate by P resident T aft.
The essential difference betw een the
proposed tre a ty and the e x istin g con­
vention is said to be th a t it om its all
reference to all such re stric tio n s and
leaves to the national honor of Jap an
the enforcem ent a t her own ports of
the lim itations upon im m igration from
Japan now expressly placed upon im­
m igration into the U nited S tates.
The docum ent is said to provide th a t
e ith e r country may denounce the
tre a ty a t tne end of six m onths if it
fails to operate as expected.
Because it embodies this radical de­
p artu re from the e x istin g tre a ty and
touches the question of th e deepest
im portance and in te re st to the Pacific
Coast, the injection of this convention
into the closing hours of the 61st con­
gress caused a sensation today.
T hat the new tre a ty will encounter
opposition seems certain, for, even if
it should be speedily reported to the
senate from com m ittee w ithout se r­
ious controversy w ithin the com m ittee
room, the W estern senators a re e x ­
pected to in sist upon opportunity for
debate, which will develop the full e x ­
ten t of th e ir opposition to the trea ty .
U nlike m a tte rs of ordinary leg isla ­
tion, failu re of the senate to act upon
the tre a ty during the rem ainder of this
session o f congress would not o f itself
extinguish its v ita lity .
P O R K IS F A V O R I T E M E A T .
More Hogs Used Than All
Animals Combined.
Other
W ashington — “ Pork e a te rs ” is a
term which may rig h tfu lly be applied
to the people of the U nited S tates, if
the figures ju st m ade public by the
census bureau for the y ear 1909 may
be taken as a basis.
The figures show th a t d uring th a t
year, 4,483,000 more hogs Were killed
in this country for food purposes than
all other anim als combined, including
beeves, calves, sheep and lambs,
goats, kids, etc.
D uring the y e ar
1909, 36,443,000 hogs were killed for
food purposes; 31,960,000 of all o ther
anim als.
The total num ber o f anim als slaugh­
tered in the sla u g h te r houses and m eat
packing establishm ents during 1909
are given as 68,403,000.
These fig­
ures, however, do not rep resen t the
en tire num ber o f anim als killed for
food purposes-during the period which
the report covers; and the grand total
can be obtained, it is declared, only
upon the com pletion o f the s ta tistic s
of agriculture.
D I R E C T P R IM A R Y V E T O E D .
Iowa Governor Condemns Oregon
System of Electing Senators.
Des Moines, I s .— Governor Carroll
vetoed the Oregon prim ary plan bill,
which had passed both houses o f the
Iowa legislature.
The governor, in
his veto m eassge, read to the jo in t a s­
sembly, characterized the m easure as
an “ a tte m p t to indirectly accomplish
som ething th a t cannot be done d ire c t­
ly ,” and declared th a t it was a viola­
tion of the constitution o f the U nited
■ States.
He said th a t the m easure abrogated
th a t section of the constitution pro­
viding th a t leg islatu res shall elect
United S ta te s senators.
Thé gover­
nor holds th a t the m essage has no
bearing on a proposed am endm ent to
perm it the election of senators by the
d ire c t vote of the people, since one is
a contravention o f the con stitu tio n ,
whije the-other is a change in the con­
stitu tio n itself.
Balloonists Brave Cold.
Ogdenburg, N. Y .- Muffled ip furs,
Mr. and Mrs. E m ilie B a rla tie r braved
zero w eather and a c u ttin g southw est
wind in the first w in ter balloon flight
ever m ade in th is p a rt of the country.
The French aeronaut and his w ife
sailed away from O gdenburg a t 9:15
a t night. Thousands saw them sw ing
low over the city and disappear in the
Rope Strangles Couga**,
direction of M ontreal.
The balloon
K alispell, Mont. W ithin 150 yards was a few hours la te r forced to des­
2,394 Coyotes Are Killed.
of the sam e spot, C harlie Ordish, the cend a t Sum m erstow n because o f a
Baker, O r.—A record w ith the coun­ m ountain lion hunter, captured a lion strong e ast wind.
The lion was
ty clerk of B aker shows th a t 2,395 and shot two bears.
coyotes have been killed, for which tracked for many m iles, tw ice treed
Chinese Are Not Alarmed.
the sta te paid $3,591, the bounty be­ by th e dogs, and tw ice m ade its
P ek in - The foreign office has in­
ing $1.50 for every pelt. The num ber escape, and when finally captured formed the A ssociated Press th a t it
of bobcats killed in the sam e tim e is tried a third tim e to g e t away by leap­ does not believe tb ^ Russian govern­
surprisingly large, the total being ing from the br.anch upon which it sat m ent had aggressive designs in send­
111.
These anim als are dangerous when he lassoed it. B ut it was noosed ing a m ilita ry force to Ili province.
Ordish has It was thought R ussia was only seek­
and play havoc "among sheep and c a t­ and strangled to death.
tle. The bounty is $2 per head on bob­ caught several lions alive th is w inter, ing to achieve valuable pointers prior
cats. Only three cougars have been which he has sold a t from $40 to $50 to the forthcom ing conference. The
brought in for bounty. The stockm en each to E astern zoos.
St. P e tersb u rg governm ent was a ctin g
of the county are well pleased w ith
w ith the knowledge th a t China in re ­
the showing.
¡Days of Coal Numbered.
cent m onths had been sending comm is­
New York-- At an electrical dinner sioners to Mongolia and Ili province to
Raising Maine a “ Gamble.”
a t the Montauk club, Brooklyn, Charles study conditions th ere prep arato ry to
W ashington The total cost of ra is ­ W. Price, editor of the E lectrical Re­ the conference.
ing the wreck of the battleship Maine, view', one o f the speakers, said:
"I
now lying in H avana harbor, is a m ake the prediction, based on knowl­
Relief Fund Insufficient.
“ g a m b le ,“ according to M ajor C ava­ edge o f im portant experim ents, th a t
W ashington— The c o n stitu tio n ality
naugh, the engineer officer in charge the day is not fa r d ista n t when the of the law of Iowa passed in 1898, en­
of the work. The cost may be close coal pile in the cellar will be replaced abling an employe o f the o p e ratin g de­
to $1,000,000, M ajor Cavanaugh told by the electrical reservoir of box-like p artm en t o f a railroad to sue a road
the appropriations com m ittee of the shape and m oderate size, to furnish for injuries, n o tw ithstanding the fa c t
house. The present appropriation for heat throughout the e n tire building th a t he had received benefits from a
the und ertak in g is $300,000, b u t it is and for cooking.
And this will he re lief d e p artm en t supported p a rtially
certain th a t this will be insufficient to done economically, compared w ith by the road, was upheld.
The law
com plete the work.
coal.”
was attack ed when Charles I. McGuire
sued the Chicago, Burlington & Qujncy
Elgin Ice Eight Inches Thick.
Roads Acquiesce.
railroad for $2,000 dam ages for in ju r­
Chicago T here will be no appeal
E lgin, Or.
E lgin ice men have ies. McGuire had been given $88.
by W estern railroads from the decis­ again concluded they are poor w eather
Arabian Tribesmen Kill BO.
ion o f the In te rs ta te Commerce com­ prophet«, as they have nearly filled
mission denying them the rig h t to in­ th e ir "houses w ith ice shipped in from
Jeddah, A rabia -T ribesm en whq are
crease fre ig h t rates, while the E a s t­ N orth Powder, the cakes being about allies o f Seyd Idrisee, the leadei; of
ern lines, in all probability, will fight 12 inches thick. Now they have com­ the outbreak of ^Yemen a g ain st the
“ to the last d itc h .” T hat is the es­ menced c u ttin g six-inch ice here, to T urkish a u th o rity , recently captured
sence of sta te m en ts m ade by well in­ com plete filling th e ir houses, and the a t Zupra a convoy o f 80 cam els w ith
formed railroad officials in Chicago.
ice is reported e ig h t inches thick, and provisions and am m unition destined
No decision to this effect has been a car is being loaded here to ship to for the garrison a t E lhujjeh. The
reached and none will be for several Palm ers Junction, to the Graham The deputy governor of L oheia a t­
days, but the p revailing opinion is packing plant.
tem pted to reca p tu re the supplies, but
very strongly in th a t direction.
was defeated.
The casualties num ­
Cats Stolen to Vivisect.
bered 50 killed.
Airmen to Guard Border.
N atick, Mass.
Following com­
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One Man Captures Five.
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San Antonio, Tex. Following spec­ plaints from a num ber of residents
tacu lar flights in which Philip Parm a- th a t household cats w ere being stolen,
Presidio, T e* .— Five arm ed instir-
lee and L ieutenant B. B. Foulois. in John Squires, a W ellesley college gents w ere captured on the A m erican
the arm y biplane, rose about 1,000 jan ito r, w as arrested on ' a w arrant %icfe of the R io G rande by S ergeant
feet a t F o rt Sam Houston, it was an­ j charging him w ith stealin g household Goodrich o f T roop F, T hird U nited
nounced th a t the two men, w ith five ; pets for use in the d issecting rooms of S tates cavalry. They had rifles and
m em bers o f the signal corps, will go ! the college. Squires, the police al­ revolvers.
T hey w ere m em bers o f
to Laredo to do scout duty w ith the lege. has adm itted th a t he stole cats Antonio G arrace’s band and w ere c a r­
m achine along the Mexican border.
to supply the college 1 abiuratory.
rying provisions to th e ir companions.