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DOINGSOFTHEWEEK Current Events of Interest Gatherec From the World at Large. General Resume o f Important Eventi Presented In Condensed Form fo r Our Busy Readers. Dr. Cook has asked President T aft to veto the promotion o f Peary. About 100 people perished in a mov ing picture show fire in Russia. Mexican rebels trapped and captured a large force o f government troops. Columbia College o f New York, re ceived gifts aggregating $2,000,000. Troops are being rushed to the Mex ican border from different forts throughout the Southwest. Northwest creamery men have unit ed to overcome alleged favoritism of commission men toward Portland deal ers. August Heinze, who nearly went broke in the panic o f 1907, has found another fortune in the gold fields of Northern Canada. A telephone boy in the office o f a New York stock broker, testified that he made $30,000 by the recent failure o f several brokerage firms. FLIES FAR OVER SEA. Daring Air Man Eclipses All Across- Water Flights. Nice, France. — Lieutenant Bague accomplished a sensational and daring feat Sunday by Hying over the Medi terranean from Antibes to the little island of Gorgona off the Italian coast. He covered more than 200 kilometers 124.5 miles establishing a new record for o /er-sea flight. This he did without the assistance o f tugs, torpedo boats or any other craft to gflide him or to add to his confidence. Bague started at 7 :30 o ’clock in the morning in a Blériot monoplane, with the intention o f landing on Corsica and proceeding thence by way o f Sar dinia and Sicily to Tunis. The aviator left the ground, rising at once a considerable height. He shaped his course southward and soon vanished. Aided by a strong wind, his progress was rapid and a dispatch was finally received here that he had arrived at Gorgona. This island lies between Corsica and Leghorn. Bague landed there at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, the decent being made with awkwardness and with danger on account o f the trees and rocks. The monoplane struck heavily and was badly damaged, but Bague was not hurt. He had intended landing at Ajacio, on the west coast o f Corsica, but, losing his way, he shaped his course too far north, going further than he intended. Bague’s over-sea flight breaks the previous held by J. A. I). McCurdy, who, on January 30 last, flew from Key West to within ten miles o f the Cuban shore, a dis tance o f 91 miles. M U N IC IPAL DANCE IS GIVEN. On account o f Roosevelt’s attitude toward Jeff Davis, a prominent South ern judge declined to serve on the re Experiment in New York Expected to Bring Good Results. ception committee to meet Roosevelt in Houston, Tex. New York The experiment o f g iv A fte r being out 207 days from Phil ing municipal dances is being tried adelphia and being given up for lost, out in New York City. Park Commis the American ship Aryan reached San sioner Stover has decided that such Francisco with her captain stone dances, given in a manner supplement blind and the vessel and cargo badly ary to social work in more crowded parts o f the city, should be productive damaged by fire. of good results, and accordingly the Sir Thomas Lipton has raised a cry first experimental dance was held un o f alarm over annexation as a result der his direction in the pavilion in o f the reciprocity treaty with Canada. Hamilton Fish park at Houston and W illett streets tonight. A squaw captured in the fight with Howard Bradstreet, superintendent renegade Indians in Nevada says the o f the playgrounds under Commission band killed nine men during the past er Stover, aided in managing the year. affair. Mr. Stover said today that Fire destroyed the big plant o f the this is the first time that any dance Oregon & Washington lumber com under any sort o f municipal supervis pany at Portland, causing a loss of ion has been planned in New York City. $76,000. Hamilton Fish park is located in Owing to a strike o f printers, Chi one o f the most densely populated sec cago dailies are issued with only four tions of the East Side, where the pages. problem o f recreation is always a diffi cult one. Carter Harrison has been renomi nated for mayor o f Chicago by the T IT IA N BRINGS $150,000. Democrats. Long Beach, Cal., authorities have Genuineness o f Painting, Bought for Trifle, Shown by Cleaning. begun a crusade agaist immodest bathing suits. London Sir Hugh Lane, honorary Train service is established on the director o f the Municipal A rt Gallery Oregon Trunk from Fall bridge, Wash., at Dublin, and governor o f the Nation al A rt Gallery of Ireland, has sold to Metolius, Ore. Titian ’s| “ Portrait of a Man in a Red It is believed that Abe Ruef’s last Cap’ ’ to an English collector for hope for freedom is gone and that he $150,000. must serve his 14-year sentence at The portrait, which is supposed to San Quentin. be that of Lorenzo di Medici, became famous after Sir Hugh bought it at Two masked and heavily armed rob auction at Christie’s in 1906. It was bers held up and looted an express car then so dirty that numerous experts, within the city limits o f St. Louis, although recognizing that it was a escaping with several valuable pack good painting, doubted that it was by ages and the money box. Titian, to whom the catalogue ascribed it, and Sir Hugh was practically the Prohibition o f profanity and vulgar- only firm believer in it. tty on the stage by a city ordinance is The Colnaghis and Dowdeswels, being urged upon the New York aider- however, ran up the bidding until men by representatives o f a hundred $11,025 was reached, at which price churches and religious societies. Sir Hugh secured it. Cleaning re veal ed its genuineness. The present P O R TLA N D M ARKETS. buyer is unknown. He is believed to be a prominent London financier. Wheat — Track prices: Bluestem, 81a82c: club, 78c; red Russian, 76c; Paraguay Is In Revolt. valley, 80c; 40-fold, 79c. Washington Serious revolutionary Barley Feed, $23 per ton; brew disturbances in Paraguay are report ing, nominal. ed to the State department by Edwin Millstuffs Bran, $20a21 per ton; Mogan, United States minister to middlings, $27a28; shorts, $21a22; Paraguay and Uruguay stationed at rolled barley, $25.50a26.50. Montevideo in the latter country. The Corn Whole, $28; cracked, $29 ton. revolutionists have control o f the Oats No. 1 white, $27a27.50 ton. southern end o f the rail mad between Hay Track prices: Timothy, Concepcion and Asuncion and 3,000 Eastern Oregon, No. 1, $20a21 per government troops have been sent to ton; mixed, $16a20; alfalfa, $11.50a oppose them. All traffic on the rail 12; grain hay, $13al4.50; clover, road has been suspended. The revo $1lal2. lutionists with five vessels have start Vegetables Carrots, 90ca$l per ed north on the LaPlata river, three hundred; parsnips, $1; turnips, 90ca o f the craft flying the Argentine flag. $1; beets, $1.25; cabbage, $1.50; garlic, 10al2c per pound; hothouse let Rockefeller's Pastor Quits. tuce, 50a75c per box; pumpkins, 2c New York Frankly stating the dis- per pound; sprouts, 9c. Green Fruits Pears, $1.50al.75 per ap|H)intment he had experienced in his ministry to the wealthy Fifth Avenue b ox; cranberries, $13.50 per barrel. Apples Fancy, $2a2.75; choice, $1 Baptist church, the Rev. Charles F. Aked announced Sunday that he had a2; common, 50ca$l. Potatoes Oregon, buying price., received a unanimous call to the First Congregational church o f San Fran $1 .25a 1.50 per hundred. Onions Buying price, $2.25 per cisco. He said he had been unable to find any good reason why he should hundred. Poultry L iv e : Hens, 20c; springs, not accept. He regretfully acknow- 19Ja20c; ducks, 20a23c; geese, 12a leged his fears that the great enter 124c; dressed turkeys, choice, 23a25c. prises which he had hoped to lead Eggs - Oregon ranch, 20a21c |>er were only “ such stuff as dreams are made of. ” dozen. Butter -C ity creamery, extras, 1 Mob Seeks Bones As Souvenirs. and 2-pound prints, in boxes, 31c per New York A crowd o f nearly 2,000 pound; less than boxes, cartons and souvenir hunters struggled with a delivery extra. small force o f police Monday in a Pork Fancy, lO ^allc per pound. Veal Fancy, 85 to 125 |>ounds, 12J wild effort to get human bones which were unearthed by workmen on the a 13c per pound. Hops 1910 crop, 18c; 1909 crop, site o f the Forsythe M. E. church. The re|x»rt that laborers had uncov 12al2ic; contracts, 15c. Wool Eastern Oregon, 12al8c; val ered scores o f skeletons in the ancient burying ground spread through the ley, 17al9c; mohair, choice, 30c. Cattle Prime steers, $6.75a7; good lower East Side and people swarmed to choice, $6.50a6.75; fair to good, there out o f morbid curiosity. Five big $6 .25a6.50; common, $4a5.; choice to barrels had been filled with the bones prime cows, $5.25a5.75; good to and so eager were men and women to choice, $4.75a5; common, $2a4; get a l>one that they rushed a squad of choice spayed heifers, $5.25a5.50; officers down a 60-foot embankment. good to choice, heifers, $5a5.25; Siletz Settlers Win. choice bulls, $4.50a4.75; fair to good Washington, March 6. President fat bulls, $3.75a4 ; common, $3a3.60; choice light calves, $7.75a8; fair to T aft shortly before noon today signed good, $7a7.50; choice heavy calves, Representative Hawley’s bill grant $5.25a5.50; fair to medium, $4.75a5; ing relief to certain settlers on the choice stags, $5.50a6; fair to good, Siletz reservation, practically the same bill that received a pocket veto $4a5. Hogs Choice, $8.50a8.75; good to a year ago. The bill only confirms those entries choice, $8.25a8.50; poor, $7a7.50. Sheep Choice yearling wethers, made for the exclusive use and benefit grain fed, $4.50a4.85; old wethers, o f the entrymen, which have been act $4a4.25; choice ewes, grain fed, $3.50 ually improved and have not been sold a4 ; fair to medium, grain fed. $2.75a or contracted to be sold by entrymen. 3.25; choice lambs, grain fed. $5.50a King T o Be “ Kids’ ” Host. 6.75; gi>od to choice, grain fed, $5a London King George will entertain 5.60; fair to good, $4.50a5.50; poor 10,000 children in I»ndon. according lambs, $2.50a3.50. Hay fed sheep and lambs 50c lower to announcement, at a coronation fete to be held in Crystal Palace, June 30. than grain fed. NDUSTRUIL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SIATE Salem, Feb. 28. Governor Oswald W’est and State Treasurer Kay re turned today to Salem from their visit to definitely locate the site for the branch asylum at Pendleton. The governor says that though the site recommended by the legislative in vestigating committee does not accord with the views as to the proper loca tion o f the buildings held by himself and Mr. Kay, he considers the matter settled, since the legislature accepted the report o f the joint committee and the work o f building the Eastern Oregon asylum will be carried on as expeditiously as possible and Eastern Orgon will get the finest institution to be had for the money. More land will be necessary, the governor thinks, in order to acquire necessary water rights, intake and right o f way for water for power pur poses. Though the matter is not yet fully determined, all the buildings at Pendleton will probably be o f con crete. They will be arranged in a crescent shape, with the administra tion building in the center and front ing, with two retreating wings on either side and the other buildings will be in the rear. Regarding the Eastern Oregon in stitution, the governor says: “ The tract selected by the old board is about equally divided between hill and bottom land, the latter being sep arated from the former by the O. R. & N. tracks and the county road. The proposed building site was upon the hill tract, but the present board, after careful investigation, decided that the said pite was unsuitable and their findings were borne out by the reports both o f the special committee appoint ed by the board and the legislative committee. “ The legislative committee, how ever, reported that the bottom tract afforded a suitable site for the build ings, and this report was adopted by the legislature.’ ’ O. A. C. TEACHES BEE-RAISING First Course In Apiculture Now Open to Students. Oregon Agricultural College Cor vallis—A great buzzing in the hives of the Oregon Agricultural college apiary announces the fact that the bees are awakening for their spring work. This is the first year that there has been a course in beekeeping at the college, and already there are eight young men from various parts o f the state studying the various problems of bee culture, with these hives o f Ital ian bees as a basis o f their study, un der H. F. Wilson, o f the department o f .zoology and entomology. The course teaches practical apicultural methods, and special attention is given to the study of bee diseases. The stu dents will be taught not only how to keep bees for profit, but also the rela tion o f beekeeping to the fertilization o f the trees in fruit orchards. The college plans to make this a strong course, with a special week of practical instruction for farmers and orchardmen in the short course next winter. The course is open not only to young men, but also to the young women in the domestic science depart ment, and it is expected that, since women have elsewhere proven emin ently successful in a commercial way in beekeeping, there will be a class of young women registered for the apiary work next year. U M A TILLA PLAN S HIGHWAY. Fine 15-Mile Boulevard to Run From Pendleton to Athena. Pendleton Umatilla county is to have at least one permanent highway, notwithstanding the failure o f the good roads measures before the recent legislature. The county court, backed up by the Umatilla County Good Roads association, many prominent farmers and heavy taxpayers, will un dertake the construction o f a modern highway from Pendleton to Athena, by way o f Adams, a distance o f 15 miles. Plans were under way to construct this road in accordance with the pro visions o f the Tuttle road law, but since the legislature repealed this measure the only thing left to do is to build it, and this will be done. Collect Taxes From Clatsop. Salem, Feb. 28. Assistant Attor ney General I. H. VanWynkle left Salem this afternoon for Astoria, where an effort will be made by him to collect from the county o f Clatsop about $4,000 o f that county’s appor tionment o f the state tax for 1909, which Clatsop county refused to turn over to the state treasurer last spring. In view o f the fact that the recent legislature appropriated $50,000 for that county’s celebration o f the 100th anniversary o f the settlement o f As toria it is hoped the county will settle. Shelburn Wants Waiting Room. Salem, Feb. 28. A petition was received by the railroad commission this morning from citizens who live in the vicinity o f Shelburn, where the Corvallis & Eastern railroad inter sects with the Springfield branch of the Southern Pacific company, asking that the commission investigate condi tions, and, if it is found necessary, to make an order requiring these roads jointly to build a depot or waiting station at the point o f intersection. Oregon Land Value High. Eugene Papers were signed here closing a deal whereby 5,000 acres of land near Creswell changed hands at a consideration o f $150,000. The pur chasers are two men from Minne apolis, one o f them a banker, but .the names are carefully withheld. It is the intention o f the purchasers to plant the entire tract to fruit, begin ning work as soon as jiossible. The sale has been pending for some time. Oil Well Down 2.000 Feet. Dallas The Whiteaker oil well has reached a depth o f 2,000 feet and the drill is being operated to its full ca pacity. Promoters o f the venture are greatly encouraged with the prospects o f striking oil. MUCH LUMBER USED HERE. Oregon Industries Required in 1909 800,000,000 Feet. Out o f the 2,000,000,000 feet, board measure, o f timber cut in the state of Oregon during the year of 1909, 800,- 000,000 feet were used in Oregon. This fact is shown in a report just is sued by the Oregon Conservation com mission and the United States Forest service. Howard B. Oak leaf, o f the United States Forest service, pre pared the data under the direction of J. B. Knapp, who is in charge o f the engineering work o f the service in this district. O f the 800,000,000 feet used in the state, 296,791,900 feet were taken by the wood-using industries. Dividing the wood-using industries into their respective lines o f manufacture, it is found that pulp in 1909 required 93,- 367,600 feet; boxes, 77,946,500; sashes and doors, 43,158,500; interior finish work, 22,660,000; cooperage, 20,685,000; furniture manufacture, 9,835,350; excelsior, 4,320,000; bask ets and veneers, 3,102,000 and other minor lines make up the balance. POWER LINE PROGRESSES. Big Plant at Springfield Will Soon De liver Current Through Valley. Eugene^ The transmission line ex tending from the Oregon Power com pany’s big electric plant at Spring- field down the valley as far as Albany, is practically complete, the linemen having reached Albany. The use of this line means the electrification of practically the entire Upper W illam ette valley, for numerous towns and cities besides Springfield, Eugene and Albany will be supplied with lelectric lights and power from the line. The line, however, cannot be used for some time yet, because the substations at Albany and other points are not yet completed. The line is 45 miles long and is said to be one o f the longest on the Coast. It was built at a cost o f $2,000 a mile. The poles, which are all over 40 feet high, are the heav iest obtainable and the big porcelain insulators cost over $1 apiece. The heavy copper wire is almost a quarter o f an inch thick. It is easily seen that the cost of the transmission line is quite heavy. The towns o f Coburg, Harrisburg and Junction City are already being supplied with light and power from the plant at Springfield over this transmission line and the company is planning on furnishing these commod ities to the other villages and farming communities in this part o f the state. WAR ON ELE CTR IC T R U S T . Government Begins Suit Alleged Combine. Against Cleveland, March 4. The United States government began a fight here today against what is alleged to be one o f the most complete monopolies in the country, when suit was filed against 35 concerns engaged in the manufacture of incandescent lights. The National Electric Lamp com pany, which has its headquarters here, and the General Electric company, of New York, are named as two o f the defendants, and together are charged with being the keystone o f a trust that has ramifications in every state in the Union. According to the government’s pe tition, the defendant companies are in a conspiracy in restraint o f trade and thereby have control o f 97 per cent of the country’s supply o f electric lights. The trust is alleged to have had its origin soon after 1904, the year in which the patents on carbon filament lamps expired. In 1906, it is charged, a combination known as the Independ ent Lamp Manufacturers association obtained control o f the lamp output and fixed prices, allotted business and prescribed rules o f sale for its mem bers. The General Electric company of New York is stated to have owned 75.2 per cent of the stock in this com bination and is accused o f having ob tained exorbitant profits by restrain ing trade and forcing high prices. The petition asserts that the profits o f the combination, as paid in divi dends, were $50,000 in 1904; $260,000 in 1909 and $300,000 in 1910. Last year the company is said to have held $1,439,158 as an undivided surplus. The capital is now listed at $5,000,- 000 . The extent o f the industry thus brought under fire is shown in the statement that approximately 80,000,- 000 lamps are s id in this country every year for an a 'gregate purchas ing amount o f $18,000,000. A V IA TIO N RECOKD BROKEN. Tw o Fly 106 Miles in 2 Hours and 7 Minutes in Army Areoplane. FAMINE BRINGS RIOT Starving Thousands Attack Villages and Plunder Stores. Citizens Resist and Fighting is Des perate— Marauders Trapped and Burned to Death. Victoria, B. C., March 2. Rendered desperate by the famine, bands of hundreds o f starving refugees are rov- ing through the stricken districts and plundering and killing, and a reign of terror prevails. Some harrowing in cidents are reported by arrivals by the steamer Tamba Maru, which reached port from the Orient today. A t Kunshan, a walled village within 50 miles o f Shanghai, the villagers, after a desperate raid in which stores were looted and many killed, meted out punishment, peculiarly Chinese in its grim callousness, to the raiding refugees. A band o f more than 500 were surrounded in a compound and burned to death. The refuges had taken possession of Kunshan and for two days ransacked the stores o f everything eatable, k ill ing or wounding all who resisted. Many villagers were slain and others taken prisoners and held for ransom. When the raiders moved on to plunder the nqxt yillage the Kunshan people held a council pf war and or ganized to pursue the refugees. They came up with them in a small village and surrounded the houses. Gates were locked and kerosene i*>ured over the houses and fired. More than 500 perished in the holocaust. The refugees took five prisoners in to the compound in view o f the be- seigers and threatened to kill them un less the siege was raised and, on the villagers’ pressing them back to the burning buildings, they hacked the five men slowly to death. Prisoners were tied to stakes in the burning buildings and were burned with their captors. A number o f the refugees who es caped were reinforced by other bands and returned, and desperate fighting ensued, in which many villagers were killed. Troops were then sent for and have been hurried to the scene. CONGRESS ASKED T O “ H A L T .” Fifty San Antonio Citizens “ Demand” Non-Interference. Washington That the president and congress shall “ cull a halt und take hands off ’ in the matter o f the Mexi can revolution is the “ demand” o f certain residents o f San Antonio, Tex. The demand reached the senate in a petition bearing 60 signatures. The document was addressed to “ The Pres ident o f the United States and to the Speaker o f the House o f Representa tives, ” and read: We the undersigned citizens o f San Antonio, Texas, and liberty-loving people o f the United States, do here by most earnestly protest against your taking any part in the Mexican rev olution, now going on in Mexico. There is not an honest, liberty-loving man in this country, knowing the cause o f this revolution, but who is at heart and soul in sympathy with those revolutionists; we therefore demand that you call a halt and take hands off of same and let old despot Diaz and the revolutionists fight it out.” RUEF W ILL GO T O PEN. Bids Friends Good-Bye and Surren ders to Deputy Sheriff. San Francisco, Feb. 28. A fte r be ing at liberty for 15 months on a bail bond aggregating $600,000, Abraham Ruef was taken into custody at mid night tonight, following the vacation o f the Supreme court’s order remand ing the case for rehearing. Early in the evening, Ruef held a consultation with his attorneys and, after bidding friends about town good bye, went home. A deputy was wait ing at his residence with a bench war rant issued by Judge Lawler. Ruef quietly surrendered himself and the pair started for the county jail. An appeal to the United States Supreme court on some constitutional ground is his only recourse now. I f such action is not taken, Ruef prob ably will start for San Quentin in a day or two to begin serving a 14-year term on a charge o f bribery. EATING DOGS AND C ATS. Starving Chinese Use Pets O ff Death. to Ward Lardo, Tex.— A world’s aviation Shanghai.— A missionary who ar record wras broken between this city rived here from the famine district, and Eagle Pass when Lieutenant Ben where he had been engaged in relief jamin Foulois, U. S. A., and Aviator work, says that 3,000 persons are dy ing daily and that 350,000 are wholly Philip C. Parmalee drove an army VO LIVA IS RULER OF ZION. dependent on the foreign famine com aeroplane 106 miles in 2 hours and 7 mittee, which was organized here. minutes. Payments o f Debts Removes Receiver In many places dogs and cats are This is a world record in point of being killed for food and houses are and City Shrieks With Joy. time and also a record for the United States for a two-men flight. Chicago.— A wild shriek o f joy pulled down by the occupants and the Under ideal weather conditions the burst from the throats o f the inhabi debris exchanged for anything that machine arose at Fort McFntosh at 2 tants of Zion City, when they learned can be eaten. There is urgent need o f help pend DRAIN 1,000 ACRES. o’clock this afternoon and the landing that the “ blight’ ’ o f being a prophet was made at Eagle Pass at 4 :07. A who must take orders from the Federal ing the arrival o f the American trans Owyhee Farmers Would Regulate speed o f a mile a minute was made on court had been removed from the port Buford, which is bringing sup several spurts. Great crowds cheered shoulders o f Wilbur Glenn Voliva and plies donated by the people o f the Moisture in Soil. United States. Nyssa — A meeting of land owners the aviators when they started and that the great estate left by John A l greeted them on landing. exander Dowie had passed finally into has decided that preliminary steps for Cholera Kills Hawaiians. his hands. the drainage o f 1,000 acres o f land The payment o f $700,000 in Judge Honolulu — Four more deaths from Lorimer Willing to Pay. under the Owyhee ditch be taken and that the engineer start the work at Washington, March 4. An item to Landis’ court by Cobe & McKinnon, cholera have occurred among the Ha once. Some o f the land in question is reimburse Lorimer for expenses in Voliva’s brokers, to Gus I). Thomas, waiians isolated at the quarantine sta suffering from too much moisture, but defending his title to his seat was receiver for the estate, placed the $1,- tion because o f contact with infected the greater portion is as yet in fair struck out o f the general deficiency 350,000 property in the hands o f the persons. This makes a total o f six condition. The owners realize the bill by the senate tonight, on motion overseers. Cobe & McKinnon were deaths since the disease first made its necessity o f drainage and the steps are of Lorimer himself. Even after Lori secured in this payment by a $950,000 appearance, here. San Francisco -F. E. Tritter, chief taken to prevent the land from being mer had made his motion several sen bond issue. From the moment the news reached quarantine officer o f the port, notified waterlogged. Some o f the section is ators protested against the item ever owned by what is commonly called the having been put in the bill. Culber the city founded by Dowie there were all shipping men that vessels clearing “ road grant company,’ ’ and the steps son and Clarke, o f Arkansas, and scenes o f delirious joy in the streets. from Honolulu must obtain a certifi taken depend a great deal on the way Borah, the former two with much an Thousands o f horns were dragged forth cate from the chief quarantine officer these people look at the proposition. ger, suggested that some members of from nobody knows where and blown o f the Hawaiian port. Vessels hot so The engineer is preparing to put his the committee on appropriations had as long as men, women and children provided will be sent to quarantine on men in the field to sound the soil and not known that the item was in the behind them could muster lung power. arrival here. to run the preliminary survey for the bill. Wilder Calls for More Help. 500 to Try to Flank Madero. right o f way. Washington. To meet the pressing 100,000 Bibles Ordered. El Paso, Tex. The Mexican m ili Extend Power Lines. New York One hundred thousand needs o f the starving people o f China, tary commander has ordered the regu Milton City Electrician Coyle and Bibles have been ordered for general American Consul General Wilder at lar schedule on the Mexican North a large crew o f men will commence distribution by the Gideons, as the Shanghai has cabled the secretary of eastern railroad, operating from Jua work next week setting poles and members o f the Christian Travelers’ state in an urgent appeal to the Amer rez south to Casas Grandes and Pear stringing wire for two power lines to association o f Americaa style them ican people for the contribution of son, discontinued and commanded all he projected into the country north selves. The order is said to be the $100,000 more to be sent by cable to cars to take south 500 soldiers and and west of Milton. The line is to be largest ever placed and it forms part the stricken people. two field pieces. These men will try built at once, while another is soon to o f a national plan to place a Bible in Mr. Wilder makes it plain that this to flank Madero, who is reported south be built on the east side o f the Walla every hotel bedroom in the country. amount will be needed before the army o f Juarez, marching on Chihuahua, Walla river. W. E. Henderson, national secretary transport Buford, now loading at Se with 500 Federals that le ft Juarez The new lines will be similar to o f the Gideons, said here that he had attle, can reach China with supplies. Friday in his rear. This troop move those built by the city two years ago, been promised one-fourth o f the order ment will leave only about 400 sol and which have been in use ever for San Francisco and the Pacific diers in Juarez. “ Wets” Win Back Cities. since. The past two years have dem coast. Indianapolis, Ind. — The “ wets” onstrated to many o f the farmers the Chief Poisoned, Belief. gained several o f the larger cities of cheapness of electricity for pumping Woman Digs Gold in City. Lawton, Okla. The death o f Quan- Indiana that previously had been on purposes, and it is now thought that a Los Angeles. That gold in large the “ dry” side in local option elec nah Parker, chief o f the Comanche In large field is opening up for the sur paying quantities lies mixed in the tion« in 14 -counties o f the state; The dians, Thursday, resulted from poi plus o f municipal juice which has been dirt beneath the old Southern Pacific “ drys’ ’ held the county, townships and son administered by medcine men of generated since the extension and en Arcade depot in the heart o f the East some cities, but the people decided for the Cheyennes, instead o f pneumonia, largement o f the municipal plant. Side business district, is the belief the return o f saloons in the cities of as reported by the white physicians, o f Mrs. Margaret Hunter, who has Marion, Wabash, Vevay, Rushville, is the belief o f medicine men o f the Baker Wants Own Plant. filed a notice o f a placer location on Huntington, Connellsville, Decatur Comanches. The Comanches will send Baker The city commissioners at the 20 acres o f railroad terminal prop and Kokomo. Cities that voted to re White Parker, son o f the late chief, a meeting instructed the city engineer erty. Mrs. Hunter claims to have main dry were Delphi, Tipton, Peters among the Cheyennes to investigate. to prepare estimates and cost for in panned much gold dust in her back burg, Green Castle, Gas City and No- Qmannh had been among the Chey ennes three days when he became ill. stalling a municipal lighting plant. yard, which abuts on the railroads blesville. He hurried home and died 20 minutes She proposes to work her The plan is to construct a pipe line yards. after reaching there. from Elk creek to Salmon creek to re mine without reference to the conven Earl Percy Walks Ties. place the old flume. It is believed the ience o f the railroad. Ottawa, Ont. The Earl o f Percy, Jap Coolies Going Home. new plan will furnish sufficient power aide-de-camp to Earl Grey, governor Seamen Are Threatening. for an electric lighting plant to be San Francisco.— The number o f Jap general o f Canada, and for years a owned by the city. The plan also in Antwerp The International Sea member o f the British pariament, anese laborers in the United States cludes the construction of a new reser men’s congress which threatens to ad walked the ties into Ottawa from has decreased 11,152 in the past three voir o f 3,000,000 gallons. I f carried vocate a general strike throughout Montreal Tuesday, thus completing a years, i f statistics prepared by the out the enterprise w ill save the city the world at the time o f the corona journey from New York, where he Japanese foreign office are correct. thousands of dollars in lighting every tion o f King George, unless ship own was an usher at the wedding o f Lord The figures were made public by Mat- year and will also furnish cheap pow ers satisfy their demands, will open Decies to Miss Gould. The long walk suzo Nagai, Japanese consul general er for commercial purposes. The report indi here Monday. The men included in was the result o f a wager made in for San Francisco. their demands a cessation o f the use Montreal. Earl Percy started from cates that the United States has lost Milton to Hold May Festival. o f the rubber stamp on the wrist by that city Saturday morning and cov 6,371 Japanese, o f all classes, by ex Miton Milton is making prepara doctors as a means o f showing medical ered the 111* miles to Ottawa in three cess o f departures over arrivals in the three years. tions for a four-day May festival. examination, better quarters and food, days, more than 37 miles a day. Professor W. A. Bacon musical in and the abolition o f shipping masters. Uncle Sam May License Autos. structor for Columbia college is at the Old Men Inherit Million. Twenty “ Workers” Released. head o f the affair and is in communi Washington The Federal automo Leicester, Eng. It is reported that cation with several o f the best-known Fresno, Cal., March 4.— Twenty In two men living at Blaby, a short dis bile license bill introduced by Wanger, musical artists in the Northwest. Lo dustrial W’orkers o f the World had tance from here, who were drawing of Pennsylvania, was favorably re cal talent is already hard at work pre been released from the county jail up government old age pensions o f five ported by the house committee on in paring choruses ami glees. Another to noon today. This is exclusive of shillings weekly on account o f extreme terstate and foreign commerce. The feature will be the display o f beauti the 37 released yesterday. The men poverty, have inherited $1,000,000. measure provides a Federal license in ful flowers for which this valley is felt jubilant over the compromise on The money, so the story goes, was be addition to the local license, but ex noted. Over 100 tickets at $2 each the free speech question arrived at queathed them by a brother, Henry empts the automobile from the local have been sold and a committee will with the city authorities, and indulged ! Bowns. who died recently at Salt license o f other states through which make a personal canvas. Provision also is made in songs as they packed up their be Lake, Utah. This information is said it may pass. longings, preparatory to their libera to have been contained in a letter from for the licensing o f drivers. Develop Coal in Coquille. the testator’s son. tion. Coquille A deal in Oregon coal Police Party May Be Lost. Suffragists Dealt Blow. Border Will Be Watched. lands involving about $155,000 was Dawson Y. T .— A police expedi closed here when H. B. Guthrey. Topeka. Kan. Presidential suffrage Washington Disturbances are in tion o f four men, which left Fort Mc George E. Pike and R. E. Doan sold for women was voted down by the creasing along the Mexican frontier Pherson and Herschel Island, in the to the Pulaski Coal & Navigation com Kansas house in committee o f the and the situation necessitates the close Arctic Ocean, a week before Christ pany 329 acres o f coal land at Coquille whole, 50 to 48, after it had been watching by the American troops o f mas, with police advices and mail near tidewater. The company w’ ill acted upon favorably by the senate. practically every inch o f the line in from whalers, traders and trappers, begin immediately to arrange at a cost Both houses have already voted to sub order to preserve the neutrality of has not yet arrived here, though the of about $75.000 for the development mit a woman suffrage constitutional the United States. A shipment of journey should have been made in 30 o f the property on an extensive scale amendment to the voters, but this arms en route to Mexico has been cap days. A relief expedition has gone and the shipment o f coal to Coast proposition does not include the ballot tured by United States marshals near out from Dawson. Indians report one for president. Douglas, Ariz. points. It is o f first-class quality. whaler at Herschel.