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. ------------------ .■ » - ! - « -n - • '' * 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 * One Man Captures Five. \ 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.