DOINGS OF THE WEEK
General Reeume e f Important Eventi
Presented In Cendensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.
WORK ON MAINE PROGRESSES.
Caissons Around Battleship Corr-
plated Successfully.
Havana, A pril 11.— In the driving
of the last few interlocking steel piles
of the 20 caissons form ing the inclos
ing wail of the huge basin or coffer
dam surrounding the wreck of the b at
tleship Maine, the first stage in the
work of removing the shattered re
mains of the w arship has been
brought to a successful conclusion.
The work was accomplished with
rapidity, and its progress was un
marked by a single mishap or hitch
until the introduction of the final pile,
which failed to interlock properly
w ith those on either side.
This gave rise to a rum or that the
stability of the caisson was endanger
ed, but exam ini.t on showed the trou
ble resulted from the piles being
slightly deformed by an accidental
blow from the iron bucket of a dredge
w orking alongside. The extraction
and replacing of three piles served to
repair the damage. The second stage
of the work, th at of filling the cais
sons, as fast as completed, with the
mud, clay and rock dredged from the
harbor bottom, has been going on for
some tim e, and, now th at the ring is
completed, is being pushed forward
w ith the utm ost rapidity. The steam
dredge Norman Davis, lent to the gov
ernm ent by the Huston-Trumbo Dredg
ing company, and the United States
arm y dredge Barnard are dumping
hundreds of tons of m aterial into the
caissons.
It is expected th at the filling of the
caissons will be completed by the end
of A pril, and afte r th at the most in
teresting stage of the work— that of
pumping out the great basin and leav
ing the hull of the battleship in pre
cisely the condition she was on the
morning a fte r her destruction 13 years
ago - will begin.
As a guaranty of the security of the
retaining wall around the basin, it is
probable th at riprap will be dumped
around the exterior of the ellipse of
caissons before the pumping begins.
The wreck itself will have to be
carefully watched as the w ater level
falls, there being some danger that, as
the support of the w ater and the mud
in which it rests is w ithdrawn, the
hull may careen, ju st as ships have
been known to do in drydock when in
sufficiently secured.
As soon as the wreck is fully ex
posed, the work of exploration in
search of human bodies will take pre
cedence. It is practically certain
th at when this stage of the work is
reached, a United States man-of-war
will be ordered to H avanna and will
lie close to the wreck to receive the
bodies as fast as they are recovered,
and transport them to their final rest
ing place. A fter th at will come an
exhausting scrutiny of the shattered
wreck by experts, who, in the opinion
of engineer officers, will be able to
determ ine beyond all question precise
ly the character of agency by which
the destruction of the Maine was ef
fected.
I’robably many months will elapse
before the final stage of the work -
the extraction and disposition of the
wreck. It is known th at the forward
part of the ship, about one-third of
her length, is practically detached
from the rest, and it is so shattered
it will have to be extracted piecemeal.
When the afte r part has been strip
ped, so fa r as possible, of all heavy
weights, including the two turrets,
w eighing w ith their pairs of ten-inch
guns about 200 tons each, it will be
possible to build a bulkhead across the
shattered end and float the hulk out of
the basin, to be sunk in all probability
hundreds of fathom s deep in the
straits of Florida.
Finally will come the extraction of
the thousands of steel piles composing
the 20 caissons and the dredging of
the m aterial w ith which they were
filled. This may not be completed be
fore the end of the year.
Tom L. Johnson, famous reform
m ayor of Cleveland, Ohio, is dead.
Roosevelt visited Sand|»int, Idaho,
where he worked as a cowboy 25 years
ago.
Mexican rebels tried to take Zaca
tecas, but were repulsed in a desperate
street tight.
A serious Republican outbreak oc
curred in Spain and occupation of
Portugal also is threatened.
About 1,000 Portland carpenters
have gone on strike for the closed
shop and $4 per day for 8 hours work.
A S. P. train struck a three-ton
boulder on the track in Nevada and
narrowly escaped being thrown into
Donner lake.
Remains of prehistoric giant men
and anim als are being unearthed in a
cave in California. The bones are
bedded in a stratum of sandstone.
A Seattle brickmason was killed
and many others badly shocked by a
30,000^volt w ire coming in contact
w ith the iron cornice of the wall on
which they were at work.
The small wooden steam er Iroquois,
plying along the coast of Vancouver
island, was capsized by a squall and
at least 20 of the passengers and crew
drowned w ithin a mile of shore and in
plain view of many who were unable
to render assistance
Rival factions of striking team sters
fought a battle w ith revolvers in the
streets of Chicago, but no casualties
are reported. Streetcars filled w ith
passengers were in the battle zone,
and one man stood behind a car while
he em ptied his revolver at the enemy.
Stephen Crawford, candidate for
m ayor of Alton, 111., has deposited
$2,400 in an Alton bank as a pledge of
good faith in case of election to the
office If he fails to close the saloons on
Sunday,
Ralph Sm ith, a Canadian Liberal,
approves the reciprocity treaty.
More artillery will be sent to
strengthen the defenses of Hawaii.
Mexican rebel chiefs are unanimous
in their demand th at Diaz m ust resign.
In a speech at Seattle Roosevelt
made a strong plea for the opening of
Alaska.
C raig I.ippincott, head of the great
publishing house of Lippincott & Co.,
com m itted suicide by shooting him self.
The lighthouse tender M anzanita
has arrived at F ort Stevens to begin
mine planting in the mouth of the Co
lum bia river.
One man has been fatally wounded
and several others seriously injured in
rioting Ijy striking miners at Prince
R upert. B. C.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
W heat — Track prices: Bluestem,
86c; club, 82c; red Russian, 81c; val
ley, 82c; 40-fold, 93c.
Barley—Choice feed, $26.50(</ 27 ton.
M illstuffs— Bran, $21 per ton; mid
dlings, $29(0 30; shorts, $22.50; rolled
barley, $28(//29.
Corn— Whole, $28; cracked, $280/
28.50 per ton.
Hay — Tim othy, Eastern Oregon,
Sandhogs Unearth Relic.
No. 1, $210/21.50; mixed, $160/18; Portland— As the sinking of the
alfalfa, $120/12.50.
first caisson of the Broadway bridge
Apples Fancy, $20/2.75 per box, continues,
“ sandhogs" of the Union
choice, $10/2; common, 60c0/$l.
& Construction company are
Vegetables—Asparagus, 60/7c per w Bridge
th at in medieval tim es there
pound; green onions, 20c per dozen; agering
a sawm ill on the w aterfront, for
hothouse lettuce, $1.25 per box; rad was
in their excavating operations there
ishes, 300/ 35c per dozen; rhubarb, have
been unearthed quantities of
$1.250/1.60 per box; sprouts, 9c per slabwood
th at appears as if it had
pound; carrots, 85c0/$l per hundred; been whip-sawed
out of logs instead
parsnips, 85c0/$l; turnips, 85c0/$l; of being cut by modem
steam saws.
beets, 90c0/$l.
Besides, it is found at a great dis
Potatoes — Oregon buying price, tance
below the river bed, where the
$1 .350/1.60 per hundred.
Onions— Buying price, $20/2.10 per m aterial is hardened more than silt.
hundred.
Find Body o f Lost Hunter.
Hops— 1910 crop, 17i«/18c; 1909 Boise.
Idaho Jam es Ross, who was
crop, 120/.13c; contracts, 16Jr.
in the wilds of Eastern Idaho last
Wool Eastern Oregon, nominal, 10 lost
cooked his buckskin gloves
Oil 14c per pound; valley, 150/17c; mo to December,
off starvation and, finding
hair, choice, 32c per pound delivered that ward
last chance meal repulsive, blew
Portland.
his brains. Ross’ body, leaning
Poultry—Hens, 21c; broilers, 30c; out
a tree, and a tin cup contain
turkeys, 21c; ducks, 200/23e; geese, against
his gloves on a pile of ashes, were
120/ 14c; dressed turkeys, choice, 230/ ing
found Friday. A gaping hole in the
25c.
skull and a rifle containing an explod
Eggs -Oregon ranch, 20oz21c dozen. ed
cartridge by the 1/ody told how
B utter—City cream ery, extra, 1 and Ross,
in despair, had taken his life to
2-pound prints, in boxes, 31c per esca|H‘
the pangs of starvation and
pound; less than boxes, cartons and exposure.
delivery extra.
Pork Fancy, 100/ lOJc per pound.
Fort Astor to Be Built.
Veal Fancy, 85 to 125 pounds, 12
A storia, Or. The Centennial com
(d;12Jc per pound.
C attle Prim e steers, $6.250/6.75; m ittee has selected Wednesday, April
choice, $60/6.25; good to choice. 12, the the 100th anniversary of the
$5.500/5.75; fair to good, $40/5; naming of A storia, as the date on
common. $40/5; prim e cows. $4.750/ which to break ground in the city
5; good to choice, $4.500/4.75; fair park for the construction of a repro
to good. $4.250/4.50; poor, 4.250/ duction of old Fort Astor. A special
4.50; choice heifers, $50/5.25; choic« program of exercises has been a r
bulls, $4.500/4.75; good to choice. rangisi for the occasion and the mayor
$4.250/4.50; fair to good. $3.750/4; has been requested to declare a half
common, $3o/.3.50; choice light cal holiday. The contract for building
ves, $7.750/8; good to choice, $7.5r the fort has been awarded for $2,800.
0/7.76; fa ir to medium, $70/7.50;
Few Filipinos Go North.
choice heavy, $5.250/5.50; g/xid ti
choice. $50/5.25; fa ir to medium. San Francisco Most of the Filipino
$4.750/5; choice stags, $5.250/5.50 laborers who arrived here from Haw
good to choice, $4.500/.5; fair to m e aii on the steam er Korea and who
brought their contracts to work in the
dium, $40/ 4.50.
Hogs — Choice, $7.750/8; good t/ Alaska canneries have decided to re
choice, $7.500/7.75; choice heavy main in this state, hoping to secure
$7.250/ 7.50; good to choice. $70/7.25 mployment in the interior. A fe«
common, $6.500/7; stock hogs, $8oz >f them, however, left for the nortl
in the Continental and Oriental of thi
8.25.
Sheep Choice yearling w ethers Alaska Packers’ fleet.
grain fed, $4.500/5.10; old w ethers
Rebel* Besiege Canton.
$4(z/4.25; choice ewes, grain fed
$4o/:4.25; fair to medium ewes, $30/ Iondon A special dispatch to th<
3.50; spring lambs, extra quality. Daily Express from Hongkong says
$10; choice lambs, grain fed, wool that a //erious uprising is reported ti
$5.500/5.75; choice lambs, grain fed have occurred at Canton. It is said
sheared, $5.250/ 5.50; good to choict the T artar general commanding thi
lambs, grain fed, $50/5.25; fa ir b troops has been m urdered ami that
food lambs, grain fed, $4.750/5. ither troops have been hurried to thi
city, which is in a state of siege.
calls. $2.500/3 50.
'INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE
FIRE DANGER TOLD.
STATE CAN’T STOP EXCHANGE
State Official Takes First Step to
Save Oregon Timber.
Salem — Inaugurating the fight
against forest fires in Oregon the
state forester issued has first ultim a
tum which he hopes will be reprinted
in every newspaper in the state. B.
W. E lliott is assisting the state for
ester until a deputy is selected.
Offices were opened at the capitol
and the first move taken was toward
w arning the people against the danger
of startin g forest fires.
In his letter to the people of Oregon
the forester says:
“ Forest fires, one of the greatest
sources of destruction to the most val
uable resources of the state, will soon
be restricted and their terrors largely
reduced if the people will co-operate
w ith the state forester in the adminis
tration of the new forestry law enact
ed by the last legislature, which will
be ready for distribution in pam phlet
form in the near future.
“ One of the most im portant provis
ions of the law is th at m aking a closed
season for burning from June 1 to Oc
tober 1, during which period out-door
fires of all kinds are prohibited except
under most stringent regulations and
the probability of heavy penalties.
“ In this connection the state for
ester urges upon everyone the neces
sity of doing all possible burning be
fore the close season begins and thus
save the trouble and risk of doing
it by permission in the season of
greatest danger when fires spread so
easily and rapidly. The state for
ester desires the assistance and co
operation of everyone in the protec
tion of property from forest, grass or
brush fires, and to this end invites
suggestions and inform ation calculat
ed to assist in any m anner in the per
formance of his most im portant du
ties. Copies of the law will be fu r
nished prom ptly to all who desire
them. Requests and communications
should be addressed ‘F. A. Elliott,
S tate Forester, Capitol, Salem ,’ and
will receive prom pt and appreciative
atten tio n ."
“ As the dry season approaches, tim
ber owners in Oregon are m aking pre
parations for more effective work than
ever before in preventing dam age by
forest fires,” said C. S. Chapman,
secretary and m anager of the Oregon
F ire association.
“ One way in which many owners
are preparing for the danger period is
by burning, during this spell of dry
w eather, slashings, fern patches and
places where fires can easily be sta rt
ed a little later.
“ N othing can be more im portant
than th at such work be taken up while
heavy rains can be counted on coming
to extinguish any smoldering logs or
snags before the dry sum m er months
arrive. W ith these places elim inated
and good patrols m aintained, the state
should, next summer, m ake an en
viable record.”
Land Reverts to Government if Irriga
tion is Not Carried Out.
Salem— Having been unable through
state legislation to accomplish the ob
ject, W ellington G. Ih p ^ ll & Go.,
during the closing hours of the late
congress, succeeded in having a law
enacted by which this company is per
m itted to exchange 8,793 acres of
tim ber land that it had acquired in a
school section at present lying w ithin
a national forest reserve for about
9.560 acres of land th at had been re
served from entry by the United
States governm ent and which was
awarded to a Portland company under
contract w ith the state of Oregon to
reclaim under the Carey act.
The interests of the Portland com
pany were afterw ards purchased by
W ellington G. Howell & Co. The
9.560 acres that are to be exchanged
for the school lands lie in the M alheur
valley, about 20 miles south and east
of Burns and about 10 miles from
Lake Malheur. The W ellington in
terests acquired the school base, which
they exchanged for the arid lands in
M alheur county, through purchase,
not gettin g it directly, from the state.
For it they paid from $1.25 to $2.50
an acre. There are various estim ates
as to the value of the M alheur valley
tract, though it is the opinion of S tate
Engineer Lewis that it cannot success
fully be irigated. It was the plan of
the Portland company to irrig ate by
sinking wells, but no work w as ever
done by that company.
FRUIT PEST SQUAD STARTS.
Many Important Points to Have O.
A. C. Stations.
Oregon A gricultural College, Cor
vallis—A general siege against fruit
pests of every description is now be
ing arranged by the experts of this
college. W ithin the next week or
two six men will be employed to go to
various sections of the state and take
up this work.
This general fight against the pests
of fru it crops was authorized by the
last legislature at the investigation of
the fruitgrow ers of the state. It will
be carried on entirely under the di
rection of the departm ents of plant
pathology, entomology and horticul
ture of this institution. H eadquartjrs
will be established in the various fruit
sections of the state. It has already
been decided to establish one at Salem,
and others will probably be located
at Roseburg, Portland, Eugene and
possibly Milton. The work, however,
will all be directed from the college.
The details have not been deter
mined upon, but are now being care
fully worked out. The plans will
probably be completed w ithin the next
week or two. Professors Cordley,
Lewis and Jackson, who have general
charge of the work, are confident th at
it will result in saving many thou
sands of dollars to the fru it growers.
Vale Reads Riot Act.
Vale— Much perturbed over delays
and various complications in the new
w ater system being constructed at an
expense of slightly over $100,000 and
begun nine months ago, the Vale city
officials have given the American
L ight & W ater company, of Kansas
City, until May 1 to put the system in
w orking shape. The firm is under
$100,000 bonds. A telegram has been
sent City Engineer W. P. Bullock at
Kansas City to send all maps, plans
and contracts of the system . Bullock
is draw ing pay for supervising the
work, but has not been here since it
started and the council is debating
w hether to dispense w ith his services.
When Engineer Oakes was appointed
by the council a few weeks ago to look
over the system and locate the source
of trouble, no maps, plans or contracts
could be found. Since then the bonds
of the contractors have been located
but other valuable papers are still
missing.
COLLIERY FIRE KILLS FIFTY.
Men Cut Off Lika Rats In Blind
Tunnel.
Scranton, P a.— F ifty men ¡and boys
are believed to have perished w ithout
a m om ent's w arning Saturday in a
mine fire in the Pancoast colliery at
Throop, three m iles from here. Some
estim ates place the num ber of dead at
60. Three bodies have been recov
ered. John Evans, head of the United
States rescue car, died from suffoca
tion resulting from a defective rescue
helmet.
Three men protected by helm ets and
oxygen tanks pushed past the point
where the flames w ere first discovered
at 5 o'clock in the afternoon and
stum bled over the bodies of two men
and a boy, who had evidenty fallen
while groping th eir way to safety.
A m ajority of the m issing men and
boys are foreigners, but two Am eri
cans— Foreman W alter K night and
F ire Boss Alfred Dawe—are thought
to have perished.
The fire started in an engine house
at the opening of a slope leading from
the Diamond vein, 750 feet from the
surface. There w ere 400 men in the
mine, about 60 of them a t work in a
“ blind” tunnel a t the end of the
slope. Escape was competely blocked
by fire, smoke and the generated
gases. The other men, scattered in
other workings, got out.
Jam es Vickers, a fire boss, who was
near the engine house when the fire
broke out, gave the alarm , and tried
to g et to the tunnel where he knew a
body of men was at work. He could
go only a short distance before he was
forced to turn back. He was so ex
hausted th at he had to be carried to the
surface. He gave it as his opinion
th at no man could live five m inutes in
the tunnel.
TUBERCULOSIS CURED BY
TAHITIAN HERB EXTRACT
San Francisco— H aving spent four
years in T ahiti as chief surgeon in the
colonial arm y, Dr. L. Bellonne was a
passenger on the steam er Mariposa
which arrived here Saturday. As a
bacteriologist. Dr. Bellonne said he
made im portant discoveries which will
be of g reat moment to the medical
world when they are disclosed by his
report to the French governm ent at
Paris. W hile unw illing to discuss in
detail his im portant medical discov
ery, he intim ated th at he had found a
cure for tuberculosis in the form of a
compound from a herb found only on
the island of Tahiti.
ALL SAVED GROM LINER.
ROOSEVELT IS GUEST
Oregonians Throng Portland Streets
to Meet Noted Visitor.
Distinguished American Greeted With
Affectionate Familiarity By
Waiting Thousands.
Portland, April^fi.—No such greet
ing has Portland ever given any in
dividual as th at which was extended
by the populace to Theodore Roosevelt
yesterday.
Once before Portland welcomed him
when he came here as president of the
U nited States. Then he was received
w ith all due pomp, ceremony, dignity
and enthusiasm .
But there was a delightful inform al
ity, a spontaniety, about the Roosevelt
reception yesterday th at leaves the oc
casion altogether unique and w ithout
precedent.
Portland, for the most part, took an
afternoon and evening off and joined
in a series of informal dem onstrations
which m ust have served to m ake it
clear to Colonel Roosevelt th at he is
held in high regard by everybody here
abouts. It was not the m ere cheering
and applause th at revealed the public
mind and heart, but the evidences of
intim ate regard th at w ere m anifested
on every hand.
It was “ Hello, Teddy” and “ H urrah
for Teddy” everyw here along the
crowded streets where he appeared.
None thought of shouting “ Hurrah
for Roosevelt.” And to have the pop
ulace calling one by his first name un
restrainedly is significant in itself.
“ Teddy in 1912!” shouted hundreds
of his adm irers, as he was taken
through the crowded streets in a big
automobile, attended by m embers of
the reception com m ittee.
To this significant exclam ation he
gave no fuller acknowledgm ent than
to the other greetings th at came from
the crowds. There was a nod and a
baring of teeth in th at irresistible
Roosevelt smile for everyone. The
only ones who received especial atten
tion w ere women w ith children, vet
erans of the Civil or Spanish-Ameri-
can w ars and groups of workingmen
outdoors for a few moments from
th eir toil to see him pass.
It was a strenuous day—not ar
duous, or fatigueing, or w earing, or
vigorous—but strenuous. The over
worked Roosevelt adjective alone ap
plies. Into the nine hours th at he
spent in Portland there was crowded
event npon event w ith but little inter
val for rest.
The hour and a half of respite from
public dem onstrations th at the com
m ittee provided was spent not in rest,
but in attending to private m atters.
Seemingly th at famed reservoir of re
serve energy is as rem ote from dim in
ution as ever.
E xacting as were the demands made
upon his tim e, the genial colonel en
joyed it all immensely. He said as
much before leaving the city late last
night and his m anner was more ex
pressive than his words. In at least
one event he was presented w ith a fea
ture altogether new in his experience,
and he said he will alw ays rem em ber
it as a special event in his travels.
It was the jungle dinner given early
in the evening in his honor at the
Commercial club. H ere the large
banquet hall was made over into the
replica of an A frican jungle.
It was intensely realistic, w ith an
array of grinning A fricans in jungle-
town full dress, monkeys climbing
about in the rank jungle foliage, lions
roaring, hunting horns sounding and
all the atm osphere o f a Roosevelt
hunting camp in the land of the rhino-
ceri.
“ It is the first tim e in my exper
ience th at I have been provided with
real entertainm ent rath er than being
left to furnish the entertainm ent my
self,” the colonel said delightedly.
Cabin Passengers Given Precedence
to Steerage Folk.
Lone H ill, L. I., L ife Saving S ta
tion—The 1,720 cabin and steerage
passengers on the stranded North Ger
man Lloyd liner Prim es* Irene were
transferred to the deck of the Prinz
Friedrich W ilhelm in five hours and
ONTARIO SCENTS LINE,
ten m inutes Saturday afternoon and
one hour a fte r nightfall they were on
Condemnation Suits Pointed to as
th eir way to New York. The feat is
Oregon-Eastern Move.
unparalleled in the history of m arine
O ntario—T hat work is to be com
disasters.
menced on the extension of the Oregon
N ot a life was lost, not a case of
E astern Railroad, known as the H ar-
panic was reported. The first pas
rim an line, through the M alheur Can
senger off was a woman and the sec
yon to Central Oregon, is evidenced
ond a baby. The cabin passengers,
by the commencement of condemna
m asters of the situation and the lang
tion suits against owners of the Cas
uage, generously gave precedence to
cade wagon road grant, for right of
the more timorous steerage pas
way through its lands. The cases
sengers.
will come up in the April term of
As for the liner on the bar, night
court, when it is expected th at a set
fall showed her hard and fast in the
tlem ent will be made.
girp of the sands, and Captain God
Surveys on the south side of the
dard, of the Lone Hill Life Saving
Snake river from the Oregon Short
station, estim ates she will be held
Line tracks to Homedale show th at
prisoner at least a week, perhaps a
the new track will strike the Short
fortnight.
Line near Arcadia, about seven miles
In the 36 hours since she struck she
south of Ontario. It is believed that
has been favored by com paratively
a double track will be laid to the pres
light w eather, but a stiff blow from
ent line used by the branch road run
the southw est m ight open her plates,
ning to Brogan, thus m aking a double
Farmers
Plant
Big
Orchards,
in her bulkheads and wrench
track from its connection w ith the Hermiston—The country about Her- crush
Short Line to Ontario, which will un miston on both sides of the river is ap art her stout steel fram e.
doubtedly become the division point. being rapidly set to fruit. Trees are
Germ Not Disease Cause.
A coal shute is being built a t On
received by freight in small and Pendleton, O r.—All theories of
Oyster Bay Goes Democratic.
tario large enough to hold several cars being
shipments. Others are coming modem m edicine w ere contradicted New York— Following up th eir vic
of coal. It will be operated by hy large
by express. On the w est side of the Friday night by Rev. Mr. Vande- tory of last fall, when M artin W. L it
draulic machinery.
river the acreage set this spring will w alker, and a retired physician, here, tleton, Democrat, defeated for con
be almost 300 acres. On the east who asserted th at germ s and bacteria gress W. W. Cocks, Republican, the
Water Bailiff Begins Duties
side the new acreage will reach 600 if
not the cause of disease, but Democrats in Nassau county, Long Is
A storia—Fred Oberg has begun his not over. Of this vast area set to w w ere
rath er the product. This state land, the home of Theodore Roosevelt,
duties as w ater baliff on the Lower fruit this spring nearly all is being m ere
made at the regular m eet were successful in two of three bien
Columbia. Angus Gor, who has been given to apples. The W inesap leads ing ent of was
Pendleton City and County nial township elections. In North
promoted to the position of deputy with more of th at variety than all oth Medical the society.
Despite the in ter Hem pstead the D em ocratic ticket
warden, will have charge of the sur ers together.
esting m anner in which Dr. Vande- rolled up a plurality of about 3,300,
veying the route of the w ater pipe
w alker elaborated his theories for dis and in O yster Bay township it was
line at the Clatskanine river hatchery
Prepare for New Railroad.
the physicians present did not about 165. In Hempstead the Repub
site, as well as other work at that Nyssa The unloading of several cussion,
licans apparently have won by a nar
place. It is expected th at he will be carloads of m aterial at Nyssa the past indorse his views.
row m argin of about 50 votes.
transferred to the W illam ette river week by the Oregon Short Line indi
Travels in Box.
about the middle of the month, when cates that no tim e is to be lost in the Kansas Youth
Woman of 70 Saves Babe.
C ity - W hen the Golden Gate
the order recenty issued by the state building of the Nyssa Homedale ex lim ited train
on the Rock Islannd rail
Fruitvale, C al.—Alone w ith her
board closing th at stream to fishing, tension. The m aterial consisted road arrived here
from the W est S at two-year-old granddaughter in a burn
goes into effect.
mostly of lum ber for the erection of urday a knocking was
heard in one of ing house w ith all escape cut off by the
headquarters for the engineer and his
storage boxes underneath a Pull flames from an exploded oil stove,
Madras Gets Wool Depot.
crew. Engineer Ashton has been to the
The box was opened and Mrs. M. Haag, 70 years old, displayed
Madras A rticles of incorporation Nyssa several tim es the past week to man car.
Ruhno, 16 years old, was found rare courage and presence of mind
have been filed by a local company start the crews on the surveys. Con Carl
inside. The boy said he had intended when she seized the child and rolled it
w ith capital of $15,000 for the pur tracts will be let this month.
to remain there for a ride of 50 miles. in a pile of blankets and threw it from
pose of building a wool warehouse at
However, a trainm an locked the box a window 15 feet above the ground in
Work Begins on Bridge.
this place, construction to begin at
the station a few miles away and to a bank of soft clay and followed it
once. This means th at Madras will Madras — Work has commenced on at
the boy remained a prisoner 29 hours, a second later by leaping. Thanks to
hereafter be the pooling point of the the foundations for the big H arrim an the
tim e the train takes to travel from the blankets, the baby escaped w ith
wool for interior Oregon, anil that the bridge across W illow creek gorge on
out the slightest injury. Mrs. Haag
annual sales will be held here. Much the w estern edge of town. Large El Paso to Kansas City.
escaped w ith severe bum s.
of the wool th at has heretofore gone quantities of m aterials cem ent, etc.,
Tunnel Bill Is Passed.
to Shaniko will now be delivered and a concrete m ixer, donkey engine and Denver—The
house, by a vote of 35 Levee Breaks; Grain Destroyed.
sold at this place.
equipment sre already on the ground, ayes to 30 nays passed
tun Colusa, Cal.—The levee of reclam a
while the excavation for the concrete nel bill. The m easure the now Moffat
goes to tion d istrict No. 108, south of Colusa,
Government Pays # 4 ,0 0 0 for Spring bases for the four steel towers that the senate. The bill authorizes
broke near the Yolo county line and
Oregon C ity E. P. Dedman of are to support the bridge is being state to issue bonds to the am ount the
of
the d istrict is filling w ith w ater from
done.
_________
Clackamas, has ju st sold to the U ni
$4,000,000
to
be
used
in
the
construc
the
Colusa Basin. A heavy wind
ted States six acres known as the
Wheat Helped By Snow.
tion
of
a
tunnel
through
the
Rocky
caused
waves which battered away
Cranfield Spring on which is located Condon — Condon was visited by a Mountain range a t Jam es peak. The the em bankm
Twenty-five thou
the hatchery belonging to the govern snow of about two inches Monday tunnell will be used by the Denver, sand acres of ent. growing
grain that
ment. This spm ig has been owned by night and people w ere jubilant over it N orthw estern & Pacific. The road would have made a heavy yield
be
Mr. Dedman since 1881. It has been because of the big benefit to the farm is to put up a bond guaranteeing the ruined. Probably not more will than
leased for the past six years by the
who have grain sown. Not enough state against loss.
1.000 acres will remain out of w ater.
governm ent for hatchery purposes, ers
Dredgers
are trying to stop the flood.
can
be
said
o
f
the
benefits
derived
ind is considered to be valuable. The from snow falling this tim e of the
Unions Fight Guard Laws.
price paid for the spring was $4,000. year on ground th at is planted to Helena, Mont. — Labor unions of
Japan Cuts Duties for Britain.
Montana will begin Monday to circu London—The new Anglo-Japanese
grain,
as
it
receives
nearly
every
bit
Wallowa Plans Stock Show.
late petitions calling for a referendum commercial trreaty which was ratified
of m oisture in th at form.
election to determine whether the m il at Tokio provides for large reductions
W allowa -Efforts are being made
Will Irrigate 1.000 Acres.
itary law enacted at the last session in the rates of the new Japanese
to hold a livestock and poultry show
in W allowa this spring. W ith it will O ntario The O ntario Tow nsite com shall remain on the statute books. tariff on the chief British textile and
be an auction day for the exchange of pany has ordered the m achinery, mo The law puts the national guard on metal imports in Japan. Specialities
livestock and farm products and a tors and pumps, costing over $8,000, the footing required by the Federal in Japanese manufacture will continue
general m arket day may resulL May- to irrigate 1.000 acres of land adjoin authorities. It will be the first time to be admitted to the United Kingdom
>r Morelock promises to m ake definite ing town. The work will be com the referendum has been invoked since duty free. T ie treaty will remain in
it was made four years ago.
pleted this spring.
force 12 years.
announcem ents w ithin a few days.
WAR WOULD BE FOLLY.
For Japan to Attack United Stats*
Would Bs Suicide.
San Francisco— In an address hefnre
the Commonwealth club, Baron de
Estournalles de Constant, the d istin
guished French scholar who has been
advocating the cause of international
conciliation during ¡an extended tour
of this country, declared th at “ war
w ith Japan would be not only a
crim e, but folly, w ith no end, no re
sult, except revolution and ru in .”
The tex t of his address was “ W ar
or Peace W ith Jap an .’”
“ L et us suppose," he said, “ th a t,
the United States, following an un
fortunate inspiration, attack Japan
and are victorious; this victory would
be of no use. Japan would rem ain in
accessible and even stronger than be
fore, standing upon her rights against
an unjust aggression. She would be
supported by the national feeling of
her people and the exalted solidarity
of A sia; no civilized nation could ab
stain from approving her resistance.
“ But, supposing now the reverse,
and in a moment of complete folly
th at Japan attacked the United States.
This attack would be, for Japan, a
suicide.
“ Let us suppose, w ith the most pes
sim istic alarm ist, th at Japan, startin g
a policy of im perialism and megalo
mania, would try to monopolize the
Pacific ocean, claim ing Asia for the
A siatic. It would be the beginning
of her decadence and the end of her
power.
"A ctin g against the United S tates,
taking by surprise or by force the
Philippines, the Haw aiian islands, she
would open, at the same time the era
of a general revendication against
Europe. She could not stop; she
would threaten G reat B ritain, Siga-
pore as well as Shanghai, France,
Saigon, as well as Hanoi, Germany,
N etherlands, Russia, A ustralia, too—
th at is to say, all the world. It is
very much to do for one nation.
“ And where would she find money
for experim enting in the Pacific this
Napoleonic policy of a universal
blockade? And w hat would become
of her industry, of her agriculture, of
her commerce, of her art, of her eco
nomic leadership in China? It would
be the m iserable collapse and not the
trium ph of Japanese im perialism .
“ Let us stop this alarm ist nonsense
and these pessim istic appeals to new
expenses for arm am ents and to em pty
glory.
“ The em pire of the sea exists no
m ore; the Pacific ocean will belong to
all, as well as the sky belongs to avia
tion and not to one nation only.
“ Let us be confident in the wisdom
of the Japanese people and of the Jap
anese governm ent.”
SOCIALIST IS LOSER.
Non-Partisan Is Elected Circuit Judge
in Milwaukee.
M ilwaukee, W is. — The Socialist-
Democratic party in Milwaukee city
and county was defeated in Tuesday’s
judicial and school board election.
Incom plete returns from the city
show th at C ircuit Judge Halsey, non
partisan, who was opposed by John
K leist, Social-Democrat, has been
elected by a purality estim ated a t 10,-
000 votes.
The election was the first real test
of the Socialists’ power in M ilwaukee
since they swept everything in the
city a year ago and carried several as
sembly districts and selected a repre
sentative in congress last fall.
Women were perm itted to vote for
school directors only and w ere handed
separate ballots upon which to mark
th eir selections. It is estim ated th at
fully 5,000 women voted.
In several towns outside of Mil
waukee Socialists were successful.
They captured two alderm anic posi
tions and two county supervisors in
Superior and one alderman and a jus
tice of the peace in Racine.
W ausau and Beloit w ent “ w et.”
Fond du Lac and Janesville elected
Democratic mayors and Oskosh elec
ted a Republican.
Roslyn Miners Resume.
Spokane— The independent mines at
Jone8ville, in the Roslyn coal m ining
d istrict in Central W ashington, have
resumed work, but the men form erly
employed by the Northw estern Im
provem ent company are still out and
demand a closed shop. H earing th at
the w orkers in the independent mines
w ere to resume work, several hundred
m iners marched from Roslyn to Jones-
ville to force the independent em
ployes to reconsider their action. A
show of force by the deputies was
sufficient to quiet the strikers.
Balloon Race Arranged.
New York—The next international
balloon race will start from Kansas
City October 9, under the direction of
the Aero club of America. The na
tional council o f aero clubs of A m er
ica ratified articles of agreem ent
by which “ the Aero Club of Am erica
is conrfimed as the representative of
Am erica in the Federation A eronau
tique Internationale, and as such shall
have the duty of representing the
council in all international affairs.”
The Aero club is granted a m ajority
m em bership in the contest com m ittee.
Woman Is Mayor of Hunnewelt.
Hunnewell, Kan.,— Mrs. Eliza Wil
son was elected mayor of Hunnewell
at an election held here Tuesday. She
was opposed by O. M. Akers, former
postmaster. Mrs. George Osborn,
candidate for police judge, ran close
to Mrs. Wilson, but was defeated in
the final count by only four votes.
The women of the town are cele
brating their victory. Mrs. Wilson
declares there will be many reforms
during her administration.
Oregon Plan Rejected.
Concord, N. H.—The state senate
Tuesday killed by a vote of 12 to 10
the bill which recently passed the
house, adopting the Oregon plan for
instructing the legislature as to popu
lar choice for United States senators.