DOINGS OFTHEWEEK
Current Events of Interest Gathered
From the World at Large.
G eneral R e su m e o f Im p o rta n t Event*
P re se n te d In C o n d e h s e d F o r m
fo r O u r B u s y R e a d e rs.
The Italian cruiser Etruria is visit
ing San Francisco.
A blinding sftow storm caused a
train collision near Chicago, injuring
severd persons.
Mexico has appointed a new minis
ter to the United States, whose name
is Zamacona y Inclan.
A wind storm reaching a velocity of
59 miles an hour swept Northern Ohio,
d >ing much damage in Cleveland.
A force o f Russian infantry and
cavalry is reported to have crossed the
line into the Chinese province o f Hi.
It is rumored that former officials of
the Steel trust are forming a new cor-
p< n tion to compete with the old con-
cer 1 .
A plow trust has been organized,
combining 22 o f the larger manufac
turers and having a capital o f $50,-
00 >, 000 .
A complete inventory o f the prop
erty o f the Harriman railroads will be
taken, from bolts and oil cans to real
estate and franchises.
Primary elections under the com
mission form of government were held
in all large towns in Kansas, the So
cialists nominating a cobbler for may
or o f Wichita.
Three members of a swindling firm
o f stockbrokers in New York City,
have been arrested, charged with
using the U. S. mails to defraud the
public o f several million dollars in the
past two years.
Roosevelt says the greatest crisis of
the world's history will be decided on
the Pacific.
A French aviator carried 11 passen
gers in a monoplane two miles.
A fierce gale on Puget Sonud dam
aged shipping and drove many house
boats and small craft ashore.
A large pack o f cougars are ex
terminating the deer in Northern Ida
ho. Hunters have killed 13 o f them.
A Denver judge released two prize
fighters, saying: “ It isn’ t half so bad
as these human bullfights commonly
referred to as football."
Jackson Titterton, a 530-pound resi
dent o f Scott county, Illinois, is dead.
A Mexican rebel leader says he
knows T a ft will interfere unless peace
is restored by May 1.
Iowa legislature defeated the woman
suffratr«» bill.
natives o f the New Hebrides islands
are in revolt against the white resi
dents.
California has adopted a law for
bidding aliens to acquire, sell, be
queath or inherit lands in that state.
PO RTLAND
M ARKETS.
Wheat— Track prices:
Bluestem,
84f//]85c; club, 81(d}82c; red Russian,
80c; valley, 81c; 40-fold, 83c.
Barley—Choice feed, $24(//24.50 per
ton.
Millstuffs- Bran, $20(</21 per ton;
middlings, $270il28; shorts, $210/22;
rolled barley, $25,500/ 26.50.
Corn— Whole, $28; cracked, $29 ton.
Oats— No. 1 white, $27,500/28 ton.
H a y -T ra c k prices: Timothy, East
ern Oregon, No. 1, $2l0z}22; mixed,
$160/20; alfalfa, $11,500/ 12.50; grain
hay, $ 130/,’14.50; clover, $110/12.
Green Fruits— Pears, $1,500/1.75
per box; malagas, $6o/.7.50 per bar
rel; cranberries $13.50 per barrel.
Apples— Fancy, $20o2.75; choice,
$10/32; common, 50c0/.$l per box.
Vegetables — Asparagus, 12Jc per
pound; cabbage, $1.50 per hundred;
cauliflower, local, $1.25 per dozen;
California, $2.25 per crate; celery,
California, $3,500/3.75 per crate; cu
cumbers, $20/;2.25 per box ; eggplant,
15c pound; garlic, 100/12c jiound;
green onions, 20c dozen; head lettuce,
50c dozen; hothouse lettuce, $1.25
per box; peppers, 20c pound; radish
es, 300/.35c per doz; rhubarb, $2,250/
2.50 per box; sprouts, 9c; tomatoes,
$1.7507.2; carrots, 85c0/$l hundred;
parsnips, 86c0/.$l; turnips, 85c0/$t;
beets, 90c0/$l.
Potatoes — Oregon, buying price:
$1,250/ 1.50 per hundred.
Onions Buying price, $2 per hun
dred.
C a ttle — Prime steers,
$ 60 / 6 .50;
choice, $5,750/ 6, good to choice, $5.50
(<7,5.75; common, $40/5; prime cows,
$507:6.50; choice, $4,750/5; common,
$ 20 /4; choice heifers, $5,250/5.50;
choice bulls, $4,500/4.75; fair to good,
$3.750i4; common, $30/.3.50; choice
light calves, $7,750/8; fair to good,
$7oi)7.60; choice heavy calves, $5.25
0/.5.50; fair to medium, $4,750/5;
choice stags, $5,250/ 5.50.
Hogs— Choice light,
$8,250/8.50;
good to choice, $80/8.25;
choice
heavy, $7.75o/ 8.
Sheep - - Choice yc»arling wethers,
grain fed, $4,500/4.85; old wethers,
$4o/.4.25; choice ewes, grain fed,
$3,500/4.15; fair to medium, grain
fed, $2,750/3.25; choice lambs, grain
fed, $50(5.50; go<xi to choice, grain
fed, $5of'5.25; fair to good, $4,750/5;
culls. $2.50o/3.50.
Poultry L ive: Hens, 20c; broilers,
25oi:40c; turkeys, 20c; ducks, 23c;
geese,
1201313c;
dressed
turkeys,
choice, 230/.25c.
Eggs Oregon ranch, 20c per dozen.
Butter
City creamery, extra, 1
and 2 pound prints, in boxes, 31c per
pound; less than boxes, cartons and
delivery extra.
Pork Fancy, 10^0/11c per pound.
Veal -Fancy, 85 to 126 pounds,
120/:12ic per pound.
Hops 1910 crop, 17|<ol84c; 1909
crop, 12o/.12|c; contracts, 16c.
Wool Eastern Oregon, 12o/18c, ac
cording to shrinkage; valley, 170/ 19c;
mohair, choice, 32c per pound deliv
ered Portland.
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C H IN A Y IE L D S T O R U S S IA
C A B IN E T R E S IG N S
U n p re p a re d to R e sis t S h e A g r e e s to
C z a r ’s D e m a n d s.
All M e x ic a n M in is t e r s E x c e p t L im an -
to u r W ill B e Replaced.
Pekin China is not prepared to
antagonize Russia completely, and as
a result o f prolonged conferences the
Chinese foreign office assured the Rus
sian minister, M. Kortostovetz, that
China would acquiesce unreservedly
to the demands made in the Russian
ultimatum concerning the provisions
o f the treaty o f 1881. Russia insisted
upon an answer immediately.
It is generally considered that there
was no alternative course, in view o f
China’s utter unpreparedness for war.
Intense interest is being manifested
in the attitude o f Japan, which is ob
viously holding entirely aloof, al
though more powerful than ever at
Pekin.
While the issues between China and
Russia have been almost obliterated
by the recent series of ultimatums,
and theoretically insufficient cause for
occupation exists, Russia apparently
fears that she could obtain only paper
promises which the Chinese would not
observe unless intimidated. Russians
here point out that they have less now
in the way o f concessions from China
than when the treaty was signed.
Some sections o f the legation quar
ter so ridicule Russia for net follow
ing in the first instance the recent ex
ample set by Great Britain in occupy
ing territory and awaiting Chinese
readiness to discuss the contested
points.
But it is recognized that
Russia by failing to do this, has shown
that she does not possess aggressive
designs.
The Chinese newspapers, which are
utterly ignorant o f foreign affairs,
are hostile to Great Britain, which
they accuse o f beginning the present
land grab, and they prophesy that
both Japan and France will be not
long in following suit.
E IG H T E E N
L IV E O N $175 M O N T H
C h ic a g o P a re n ts of 16 C h ild re n
A ll M o u t h s A re W ell Fed.
Say
Chicago Should the sovereign state
o f Illinois decide to pay a bounty for
large families and call the roll o f its
citizens, Michael Fox, 7810 Vancey
avenue, will be able to answer “ pres
ent. "
Mr. Fox, who is a switchman on the
Illinois Central railroad, never has re
ceived any congratulations from Theo
dore Roosevelt, although deserving of
them. Of the 814,115 children in
Chicago Mr. Fox has 16 and they are
all strong and vigorous.
There was a sort o f a reunion o f the
Fox family Sunday, but Mr. Fox was
not present.
He was out in the
switchyards at work, for it takes all
he can earn seven days a week to fill
the stomachs and cover the feet o f the
young Foxes.
“ How do we manage to feed and
clothe so many?" repeated Mrs. Fox
in answer to a question today. “ Well
they don’ t look as if they didn’t get
enough to eat, do they?" she asked as
she looked admiringly at her large
family.
“ Mike makes about $80 a month,"
said Mrs. Fox, “ and our grocery bill
runs between $90 and $100 a month,
but we get along all right.
Two of
the boys are working for the Illinois
Central and two girls work in the tack
factory, so the family income is about
$175 a month.
They all get enough
to eat and all are strong and healthy."
S T A N D A R D O IL IS
BUYER.
S o u t h e rn P a cific G iv e s
C o n tr o l
A ss o c ia te d O il C o m p a n y.
of
San Francisca—Following upon an
announcement made a few days ago
that the Southern Pacic company had
named a price for the sale o f its con
trolling interest in the Associated Oil
company to an Eastern syndicate, a
report appears in the Chronicle that
the prospective buyer is the Standard
Oil company, saying that the Standard
Oil company “ is in a position through
this contract to assume practical con
trol o f the entire oil output o f the
California field“ .
The Associated Oil company is re
ported to be handling 80 per cent of
the oil marketed from Californa fields
at the present time.
T ire H u r ls M is s le Fa r.
Los Angeles A huge red touring
car was sizzling through space on
Spring street Tuesday at a rate that
looked bad for speed limit, when one
o f the front tires burst with a crack
like a cannon. The force o f the ex
plosion was sufficient to tear a big
piece off the steel rim and hurl it 100
feet through the air and through the
show window o f the Bradley-Wise
Paint company, 853 South Spring
street, and do damage inside to the
extent of about $100.
The name o f
the cannoneer was not ascertained.
Insurrectos Not P le ase d.
El Paso, Tex. ‘ On intimations di
rect from Francis I. Madero, it is g iv
en out in insurrecto circles here that
the selection o f President Diaz’ new
cabinet is, so far as made public, be
lieved to be entirely unfriendly to the
reforms for which the Mexican insur
rection is being waged, and that as a
consequence, the war probably will go
on ¡uninterruptedly. It is pointed out
that among the men selected for the
cabinet, none is distinguished for any
activity in the reform movement for
which Madero is in arms.
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A la sk a O il in Field.
Port Townsend, Wash. The first
shipment o f Alaska fuel oil, inaugura
ting what promises to become an ag
gressive opposition to the oil trust,
will be made at an early date, coming
from the Katalla district, where three
wells are in operation, running 1,200
barrels in 24 hours. Other wells are
being bored and a stupendous supply
is predicted. The first shipment will
be 30,000 barrels o f oil and has already
been sold on Puget sound.
R io G ra n d e E n g in e e rs
G et M o re .
Denver, Colo.— As a result o f a set
tlement agreed upon at a conference
between officials o f the Brotherhood
o f locom otive Engineers and officials
o f the Denver & Rio Grande railroad.
750 engineers o f that system will be
given an increase o f 9 per cent in
wages, better working rules and a con
tract for a year.
C O L O N IS T S C O M IN G
M O T O R LAW
FAST.
M O DEL.
M a n y S e c tio n s Feel B e n e fit* o f E a s t O n ly S ta te L ice n se to B e P a id — S p e e d
Z o n e s M u s t B e M a rk e d .
e rn A d v e rtisin g.
Portand— Fully 60 per cent o f the
colonists entering Oregon since the
present reduced rates went into effect
come to Portland, either to remain
permanently or to cast about for suit
able locations elsewhere in the state.
The remaining 40 per cent seldom
leave the Union depot or the North
Bank station, excepting to go to a
nearby restaurant for meals.
I f they
have made up their minds as to the
particular part o f the state in which
they want to locate they are in a hur-
jry t> get there and do not tarry in this
city. The so-called sight-seeing Class
es are composed o f persons who are
undecided where to go.
They view
the attractions o f Portland while in
vestigating the opportunities of the
state.
The Dalles The Dalles Business
Men’s association and local realty
dealers are receiving calls and inquir
ies from a large number o f colonists
who have taken advantage o f the
cheap rates to come West.
“ The show windows o f the exhibi
tion building at the depot are viewed
all day long by strangers," said Secre
tary Fish. “ It would be conservative
to say that the exhibit building has
been seen by not less than 3,000 col
onists in the past week.
In The
Dalles at present are about 50 home-
seekers, some o f whom have bought
homes already. Others are negotiat
ing for land and others are looking at
tracts to decide which suits them best.
Five from Kansas have about closed a
deal for 320 acres o f fruit land. Iowa
colonists are negotiating the purchase
o f 80 acres o f partially cleared land
for which they will pay $15,000.
Several have arrived from Germany.
They could not speak English, but had
an interpreter with them. They have
made a success o f raising ducks,
chickens, asparagus and mushrooms,
and are looking at different locations.
^Another party bought a small tract of
land to engage in raising high*class
exhibition and fancy poultry.
One
day 11 arrived, tired and dusty, but
smiling, who undoubtedly w ill find
suitable land here.
Eugene— Approximately 175 colon
ists have arrived in Eugene.
They
hail from all parts o f the country, but
there is a distinct majority from the
Middle West, particularly Nebraska.
The greater part o f them were attrac
ted to Oregon and to Eugene by com
munity advertising, but a large pro
portion have friends here and cam£ at
their solicitation.
The largest number to arrive in one
day has been 60, all o f them arriving
on one train. Almost all o f this num
ber was made up o f families who had
sold their homes in the East and were
looking for new ones in Oergon. One
family numbered ten members, and
the average was large.
Most o f the demand is for small
homes— tracts o f approximately ten
acres— suitable for fruit culture or
truck-gardening.
Baker— It is estimated that fully
500 colonists have visited Baker dur
ing the past week.
The Commercial
club has a representative at Pocatello
and a committee meets all trains here
to assist strangers and welcome them
to Oregon. Business is active and the
merchants are optimistic over the re
sults o f the publicity campaign car
ried on during the year.
Arrange
ments are now under way to serve
meals to passengers on the morning
trains.
La Grande— To date 75 homeseekers
from Oklahoma and parties o f four
and five from other sections have
reached La Grande and are seeking lo
cations here. Many are from South
ern states.
Medford— Real estate men o f Med
ford will send an agent to Portland to
induce incoming colonists to locate
here. Very few o f the 1911 home-
seekers have appeared in Medford.
N e w T o w n s ite P ro b a b le .
Salem— What is considered plausi
bly as a move for an Oregon Electric
townsite on the new extension south
is seen in the purchase o f 120 acres of
land at H all’s Ferry, about nine miles
up the Willamette river from Salem.
The purchase was made from H. J.
Spitzbart by E. M. Croisan, and the
consideration is said to be $9,000.
Mr. Croisan has been purchasing land
freely in the interest o f the Oregon
Electric for right-of-way purposes,
and it is rumored that this buy was
made for the Oregon Electric.
Salem -Local city or county author
ities have no power under Oregon’s
new motor vehicle law to adopt any
rules for the regulation o f motor ve
hicles which requires the owner to
pay any license or fee other than the
state license or to prohibit the owner
from the free use o f the streets or
affecting the numbering or registra
tion o f vehicles such as would tend to
confuse the authorities in enforcing
the state law, but the city or county
authorities are not restricted in the
regulation or licensing o f automobiles
and taxicabs that are used to carry the
public for hire.
A city may by ordinance regulate
the speed o f automobiles to 10 miles
an hour within its jurisdiction but
cannot place any further limitation
upon the speed o f motors but all ve
hicles o f whatever class must be lim
ited to the same speed. The city can
prescribe different speed limits in d if
ferent parts o f the city, but the speed
zones must be marked by large signs
bearing the words “ Slow down to ....
m iles." Where the city limits and
country meet the city must post signs
where all automobile drivers can see
them, specifying the speed lim it with
in the city by similar signs. The
signs must bear arrows designating
where the speed lim it applies.
Section 25 o f the act relates to the
authority o f cities.
The framers o f
the law say that it contains no jokers,
and there will be found nothing in it
to restrict the authority o f cities to
an unwarranted degree. The law is a
model o f its kind, and a close scrutiny
o f its provisions will further reveal
its superiority in legislation regulat
ing motor vehicles. It embodies the
best parts o f the motor vehicle license
laws o f other states and is the result
o f much study on the part o f its au
thor.
W E S T N O T T O IN T E R F E R E .
P r is o n
M a n a g e m e n t S a tis fa c to ry
G o v e rn o r, H e S a y s .
to
Salem— That there will be no change
in the administration o f affairs at the
state penitentiary was asserted by
Governor West in commenting on let
ters he has received relative to the
dismissal o f McCullough, a guard,
from the force at that institution re
cently. He said he had received let
ters from men well known in union
labor circles, but did not divulge their
contents.
“ W ith antiquated
and obsolete
equipment and buildings and many
difficulties to contend with, those in
charge have given it a national repu
tation as one o f the best in the coun
try," he said.
“ What action is
taken by the superintendent toward
his employes is for him to pass upon
and I do not intend to interfere. I
am satisfied so far with the manage
ment o f the prison and I have no
thought o f making a change."
Mexico City, Mex., March 25.— Fol
lowing a meeting of the cabinet today
every member o f that body tendered
his resignation to President Diaz.
As yet none o f the resignations has
been accepted, but on excellent au
thority it is said that but two o f them
— possibly not more than ope— will be
asked to remain in the portfolio.
In
diplomatic circles it is assumed that
Diaz will insist upon Jose Yves Li-
mantour remaining in charge o f the
department o f finance.
Members of
the cabinet refuse to comment upon
their action, but it is said that the
united stand was taken not by them,
but by the -president, who, it is be
lieved, proposes to surround himself
with younger men, in the hope that
such action will serve to unite all ele
ments o f the nation.
It is probable that the acceptance of
the resignations will be coincident
with the announcement o f the names
o f the new ministers. Who will com
pose the new cabinet is not known,
but it may be said they will be men
who have not taken a leading part in
the government affairs. Neither will
it include any who have been identified
with the revolutionary movement in
stituted by Madero.
M A D E R O W IN S V IC T O R Y .
B ig Fe d eral F o r c e R oute d and L a rg e
N u m b e r Killed.
Presidio, T ex.— According to a mes
senger who reported to General Jose
de la Cruz Sanchez, in command of the
insurgents besieging the town o f Oji-
naga, insurrectos under the direct
command o f Francisco I. Madero have
won an important victory in the vicin
ity o f the city o f Chihuahua, rout
ing the Federal troops after 160 had
been killed anil 40 taken prisoners.
Chihuahua city has been surrounded
by rebels for some weeks and all
means o f communication have been
cut. Provisions are growing scarce
and many Americans are shut in there.
Madero’s aim has been to capture
Chihuahua in order that he might be
able to point to the fact that *he con
trolled the state o f Chihuahua as
ground for claiming belligerent rights
from other nations. He also desired
to secure such a center o f government
that he might be in a position to ne
gotiate with Diaz to advantage.
Ma
dero’s victory probably will enable
him to force his way to Chihuahua and
do battle with the garrison, reported
to be about 1,200 strong.
A M E R IC A N
S O IL V IO L A T E D .
M a n y W itn e s s e s
S w e a r Blatt and
C o n v e r s e A rr e st e d in T e x a s.
El Paso, T ex.— C. H. Converse, of
Glendora, Cal., has filed additional
evidence that his son Lawrence, and
Edwin Blatt, o f Pittsburg, now in jail
at Juarez, were captured on American
soil.
He has forwarded to the State de
partment statements o f county offi
cials, Federal officials, line riders and
customs guards that what is called
Ancon de Guadeloupe, where Converse
and Blatt are said to have been cap
tured, is in the United States, and
that the Federal government has exer
cised de fa^to jurisdiction over the
T O W N S T O B U IL D R O A D .
territory for two years.
These statements were filed with
A th e n a and W e sto n G ive 4 0 0 D a y s ’ the State department to controvert
L a b o r and T e a m s fo r W o rk .
the statement o f the Mexican je fe at
Athena The state legislature turn Guadaloupe that he considered Ancon
ing down the good roads bill, citizens de Guadaloupe Mexican territory.
o f Athena and Weston have taken the
Rebel R a id e r s Put to Rout.
case in their own hands. As a result
a macadam road is to be constructed
Torreon, Mex.--One hundred regu
between the two towns.
lar cavalrymen sent out from here un
The county is to furnish the machin der command o f Colonel Casillas over
ery, Athena the rock quarry and town took a handful o f rebels, camped on
residents and farmers have agreed to Regugio Hacierda, and at the first
furnish labor and teams.
Fully 400 volley killed eight. The others fled.
days’ labor with men and teams has Prior to that the rebels had held up a
already been subscribed for the road. train near Loma bridge and tried to
This road will be one o f the most secure kerosene with which to burn
beneficial in this part o f the country, the bridge.
They also robbed the
as the highway between Athena and Loma station and cut the telegraph
Weston is one o f the worst, especially wires ad carried off the instruments.
in*winter. The work will begin at A t San Diego Sunday the band robbed
once.
Joseph Steele, an American miner, of
dynamite caps and $16.
Florentino
Rivas commanded the insurgents.
“ Y ” o r T u rn ta b le R e quired.
Salem
Notificatipn has been sent
O ld e s t E n g in e e r D ead.
to the Astoria & Columbia River rail
Tacoma, March 25. — John Strange
road by the Railroad commission that
the practice o f operating trains back Waller Reeves, aged 100 years, died
ward one way between Warren ton and yesterday at his home in this city.
Fort Stevens must be discontinued. He was born in .Wilkesbarre, Pa.,
The road will either be compelled to Otcober 18, 1810, and at the time of
install a “ Y " or a turntable to carry his death was said to be the oldest lo
United
out this suggestion. The road is also comotive engineer in the
instructed to place lights on its draw States, having been the first engineer
bridge at the Skipanon river, the on the Hamilton & Dayton railroad.
bridge at the present time not being He was the father o f 16 children, o f
lighted, it is alleged, in compliance whom three sons and one daughfer
F ra n c h ise is G ranted.
Prineville
Prineville city council with the United States navigation survive. His w ife was the daughter
o f Rev. William Jones, a descendant
granted a franchise to the Prineville & laws.
o f the first Lord Mayor o f Cork.
Eastern Railroad company at a special
G a sto n F a r m e r s Unite.
meeting recently.
The matter was
F a m o u s M in e W o rk e d Out.
Forest Grove— To promote the de
warmly discussed and was granted on
San Francisco — The concluding
the proviso that it be used within velopment of the community in which
three years from date. The Prine they reside and to be able to sell their chapter in the history o f one of Ne
ville & Eastern company is now nego products at better quotations the vada’s most famous mines was begun
tiating with the Hill interests to sell farmers of the East Gaston neighbor here Saturday by the filing o f a peti
the franchise and rights o f way for a hood have formed the Northeast Gas tion asking for the dissolution of the
W. K. Monte Cristo Silver Mining company.
branch line from Metolius to Prine ton Farmers’ association.
ville.
From present indications it Newell, president o f the state board The company was incorporated in 1863
seems that this deal will be closed of horticulture, was made president of with a capital o f $1,500,000 to operate
the association. The first thing th^3 a mine in Storey county, Nevada. In
soon.
association did was to obtain a travel 1878 the capital was increased to $10,-
ing library from the state library com 000,000, as the mine had proved to be
M a k e Real C ity Beautiful.
Other benefits are one o f the richest producers in the
Orenco More than a score o f men mission at Salem.
state. The petition just field recites
o f this town observed Arbor day Sat being sought by the cssociation.
that the mine is no longer productive.
urday, planting between 250 and 300
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elm trees on the streets. The town
G ra n g e P u s h e s C a m p a ig n .
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
is less than three years old, this being
Concord, N. H. — Resolutions de
the home o f the Oregon Nursery com vallis The natives o f Southern A fr i
pany. It is the purpose o f the citiz ca will be taught the science o f agri claring the proposed Canadian reci
ens to make Orenco one o f the pret culture according to bulletins pub procity agreement to be “ one-sided
unjust,
which
discriminates
tiest towns to be found in the North lished by the Oregon Agricultural col and
west. A park has been| laid out and lege experts. The bulletins have been against the farming industry, which
sent
at
the
request
o
f
George
A.
Rob
puts all farming products on the free
numerous beds of flowers, roses and
erts, a former student at this institu list, while making no reduction in the
shrubbery will be set out.
tion, and now head o f the industrial duties on manufactures that will in
department o f the Old Untali Central any way benefit the farm er," are be
Board Appoints State Architect.
Salem W. C. Knighton has been Training school at Rhodesia, South ing sent out to every subordinate
grange o f the Patrons o f Husbandry
appointed state architect by Governor Africa.
in the country from Maine to Oregon.
West and State Treasurer Kay at a
S o o n U s e D o u b le T r a c k .
salary of $4,500 a year.
Mr. Knigh
B r o d e r ic k is Acquitted.
ton will prepare plans and specifica
The Dalles The work o f double
tions and will supervise all public tracking the line o f the O.-W. R. & N.
Springfield, III. State Senator John
buildings in this state during his term between The Dalles and Deschutes is Broderick was found not guilty of
o f office. It is estimated that his ser now completed and as .soon as the bribing Holtzlaw to vote for Senator
vices will make a saving to the state block system *s perfected.^ which will Ixmmer by a jury in the Sangamon
The jury was
in architects’ fees o f from $10,000 to be in a very few days, ^the double County Circuit court.
out 20 minutes.
$15,000 annually.
track will be in use.
CHEER ROOSEVELT
Audience Applauds Approval oi
California's Lawmakers.
R e c o m m e n d * S h o r t Ballot — S c o r e *
U . S . S e n a te A g a in fo r L o r im e r 'e
W h ite w a sh Vote.
Los Angeles, March 23.— Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt aroused an audi
ence o f 4,000 citizens at Temple audi
torium today to a high pitch of enthus
iasm and called forth from them thun
derous rounds o f applause at his em
phatic and unqualified declarations on
four propositions.
He commended the people o f Cali
fornia for their progressive govern
ment, saying that it approximated his
government ideals.
He endorsed the proposed constitu
tional amendment providing for the
recall o f the judiciary o f California on
the ground that in view of conditions
in this state, there was no other alter
native to assure justice and fair deal
ing by the courts, from the standpoint
o f the people.
He denounced the United States
senate for its vote in the seating o f
Senator Lorimer, and declared that
the California state assembly in vot
ing a criticism o f the United States
senate for its retention o f Lorimer,
had "shown itself more sensitive to
the honor o f the United States senate
than the United States senate its e lf.”
He strongy indorsed the move for a
shorter ballot, which he said was a
move o f first importance in the inter
est o f popular government.
In closing, he warned the people o f
the state that they were bearing grave
responsibilities in leading the move
for greater popular government, and
earnestly enjoined them to use their
power with wisdom and discretion.
The ex-president’s attack on the
senate and his implied criticism o f the
courts o f California, which is indicat
ed in his language justifying the
were received by the audience with
vigorous approval.
ENTOMBED
M IN E R C A L L S .
Faint T a p p in g in K a n s a s C o a l
S t a r t s R e sc u e W o rk .
M in e
Columbus, Kan., March 23. A fte r
a fruitless all-night search for Tom
Cheek, a miner, supposed to be en
tombed alive in shaft No, 16 o f the
Southwestern Coal company's mine
near here, rescuers were driven back
by mine gas today and for a time were
forced to abandon the search.
Cheek, a shot firer, was supposed to
have been killed in the mine last Sat
urday, when an explosion resulted in
the death o f Joseph Jopling, the su
perintendent, and three miners.
As
the bodies o f the victims were being
recovered yesterday afternoon faint
tappings were heard in one o f the dis
tant entries. Help was rushed into
the mine and, led by Frank Gilday,
state mine inspector, a rescue party
worked all night.
C O L L E G E W E D D IN G S H A P P Y .
H ig h e r E d u ca tio n P r o p o s e d by
W h e e le r a s D iv o r c e C u re .
D r.
San Francisco — Co-education in
American universities is conducive to
the highest and most ideal marrages,
according to Benjamin Ide Wheeler,
president o f the University o f Califor
nia.
Dr. Wheeler, who bases his conten
tion on long observations and statisti
cal data, provides a new solution for
the perplexing divorce problem.
Give higher education to young men
and women before they marry and the
number o f divorces are diminished to
the minimum.
"M arriages made in college have
proved happier than those made else
where, ” says the head o f the state
university. “ The value o f co-educa
tion is steadily becoming more appar
ent. The education o f the sexes to
gether ensures mutual respect and
self-respect.”
S H E L L S S IN K B A T T L E S H IP .
A ntiquated M o n s t e r
D e stro y e d
M o r e M o d e r n S is t e rs ,
By
On Board Torpedo Boat Stringham,
Lower Chesapeake Bay. March 22.—
Shattered by a storm o f shell, the old
battleship Texas, now the San Marcos,
rests tonight in the mud o f Tangier
sound. The veteran of the United
States navy sank under the spectacu
lar marksmanship o f her newer sis
ters.
Gaping holes in her port side and
two jagged wounds in her forward
armor, where shells passed completely
through her, showed how she suc
cumbed. Fart of both her fighting
masts were shot away and her deck
was a muss o f debris.
The broadsides delivered by the
battleship New Hampshire at varying
distances o f six to seven and one-half
miles were considered remarkable by
ordnance officers.
More than one-
third o f the shots were said to have
gone through, although nothing official
was given out.
A half hour after the sun had risen
the first shot was fired. This was fol
lowed by another, hut both were
merely to determine the range.
Then
began a beautiful exhibition of marks
manship. A salvo directed near the
stern o f the Texas raised huge col
umns of water and deluged the vessel,
leaving her unscathed.
Then, to show the control o f the 12
and 8-inch guns, another hail o f shells
was dropped into the water immedia
tely in front o f the ship.
The miss
was intentional, hut the shells came
so close as to give rise at first to the
belief that the first hit had been made.
The shooting then began in earnest.
The New Hampshire, followed by
the battleship Mississippi 250 yards in
her wake, drew off approximately sev
en and one-half miles and began firing.
All o f the broadsides were delivered
against the Texas while the attacking
vessel was steaming back and forth
along the line at a ten-knot speed.
A fte r the seventh broadside the
Texas plainly was ih distress. Two
naval tugs that lay alongside the mon
itor Tallahassee, on which were sta
tioned the naval observers, raced to
her assistance. The shells presumahy
had set the vessel afire, for the hose
was run over the sides ami the engines
were rat to work pumping.
She also
had been driven out o f broadside range
by the force o f the New Hampshire’s
shells, and the tugs straightened her
out for her further ordeal.
Twice afterward shells set the hulk
afire.
What was practically the finishing
blow came with the 19th broadside,
when four o f the 12-inch and four
8-inch shells were hurled at her just
as the sun was setting
The shots
'pourixl so thick around her that it was
impossible to determine how many of
the eight struck the vessel.
G E N E R A L S D I E IN R IO T .
H o n d u ras
S c e n e o f Pitch e d
Fatal to S c o r e s .
Battle,
Tegucigalpa, Honduras. March 22.—
General Lara and General Palma, both
of whom commanded divisions o f the
Honduran troops in the recent upris
ing in that country, were killed in a
riot at Comayaguela, a suburb of
Tegucigalpa, on Sunday.
The riot finally became a pitched
battle, and it is estimated that not
less than 40 o f the revolters were
killed and some 50 others, including
several women, wounded. Among the
dead is a son o f General Dionicio Guit-
terrez
The riot began about the time the
respective forces o f Generals Lara and
Palma, who had been brought up to
assist in the defense of Tegucigalpa
against the rebles, had occupied Coma
yaguela. They had not yet disarmed,
according to the agreement entered
into by the government and the revo
lutionary leaders, with the peace com
missioners, and after the first collision
were quick to draw their firearms and
machetes.
Great crowds o f spectatorslgathered
at points o f vantage to watch the
game, and many o f them found escape
shut off when the men came to close
quarters.
Forces under General Matuty, an
other veteran o f the Nicaraguan revo
lution, were hastily dispatched to stop
the battle, and succeeded in separating
the combatants.
P lo t to W re c k A dm itted.
R u ra l P r e a c h e rs S c o re d .
Piattsburg, Mo.— Roscoe Townsend,
16 years old, and Walter Carpenter,
aged 17, accused o f an attempt to
wreck and rob a Chicago, Burlington
& Quincy, passenger train at Holt,
Mo., on the night o f March 11, were
arraigned here. Carpenter, who gave
the information which frustrated the
attempt, was released. Townsend con
fessed his guilt and was bound over to
the Circuit court. Townsend admitted
his plan was to wreck the train on the
high trestle and rob the passengers
during the confusion.
Decatur, 111.— “ The most conspicu
ous back-numbers in the country now
are the rural preachers,” declar'd
Dean J. H. Skinner, o f Purdue uni
versity, before the Inter-Church Con
servation congress here. “ W hile farm
ers and the rest o f the world have im
proved, preaching has remained in the
same quality,” continued the speaker.
“ Country preachers should go to col
lege and learn agriculture.” E. White
Allen, president o f the
Macoupin
County Farmers’ institute, also sa>red
country clergymen.
E n g in e s A re F ire d Into.
D r. M a rt y r to C a u se .
Danville, Ky. — The first trouble
that the Cincinnati, New Orleans &
Texas Pacific railroad has experienced
on
its
line
north
o f ¿King’s
Mountain since the strike o f the white
firemen was declared, occurred Wed
nesday night. Engines along the rail-
mad between this point and Ludlow,
Ky., were shot into, but no one was
injured. Sheriff Fox and the posse
who, with blood hounds, had followed
the trail o f the parties who shot and
killed Detective Oscar Speath, , re
turned without the murderers.
New York— Dr. Edward F. Ashley,
a bacteriologist, died on Swinburne
island in New York harbor Wednesday
a martyr to his fight against the entry
into this port of cerebro-spinal menin
gitis through infected Greek immi
grants. Inoculated in handling the
cases, he became ill Sunday and was
treated with serum by Dr. Simon
Flexner, its discoverer.
Dr. Ashley
was a graduate of Yale and o f the
College of Physicians and Surgeons,
New York City. He had been assist
ing Dr. A. H. Doty, health officer.
C h in e se E x te n d T h a n k s.
Ju stic e H u g h e s H o n o re d .
Washington The American Nation
al Red Cross society has received the
thanks of the Chinese government for
its assistance toi the starving people
o f the empire. It said the work of
the Red Cross in bringing relief to the
famine stricken districts "has been
brought to the attention
of
the
throne,” and the thanks o f the imper
ial government was expressed.
The
Red Cross society has received from
the American public $37,000.
New York— More than a thousand
men crowded the rooms o f the Bar
association Wednesday evening to hon
or Justice Charles E. Hughes, o f the
United States Supreme court. It was
the most notable gathering o f the sort
in the history of the Bar association
and the first since 1905, when the re
tirement o f Ambassador Joseph C.
Choate was marked by a similar dem
onstration. For an hour men passed
before him and pressed his hand.
C h ile to S p e n d SIS.O O O .O O O .
S y m p ath e tic S t r ik a Predicted ,
Santiago, Chile The government
has invited tenders for hydraulic en
gineering work at the ports o f Val
paraiso and San Antonio. It is esti
mated that an expenditure in the
neighborhood o f $15,0(117,000 will be
required. The bids will be opened at
the end o f July.
Cincinnati— Overtures for the set
tlement of the strike o f white firemen
on the Cincinnati, New Orleans A
Texas Pacific railroad have been re
jected by thé officials o f the road, and
there ia renewed talk that the firemen
o f the entire railway system may be
called out on a sympathetic strike.