H M99 IO Washington Gountjf News lüsu«d Each Week FOREST GROVE........... OREGON NEWS OF THE WEEK Io a Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. Resume o f the Less Important but Not Less Interesting Events o f the Past Week. Taft urges the government to with­ draw from Cuba in the Bpring of 1909. The Roman Catholic church will booii announce new laws calculated to pre- f nt hast/ marriage. Trial of Oregon’s laml thieves has commenced at Portland with Judge Hunt, of Montana, presiding. A French aeronaut has devised an airshipiieavier than air capable of mak­ ing a speed of 24 miles an hour. I Ten persons were injured in New York by the explosion of three dyna­ mite bombs, which partially wrecked a tenement house. Mayor Taylor, of San Francisco, has a huge task before him. One of the first things ins to provide a water sys­ tem for fire fighting. The forty-fourth annual convention of the National Woolgrowers’ associa tion, at Helena, was the most success ful ever held. The attendance was also unusually large. PE Foi Do To TÓ To Jut Hs Hi H. j loin* my w* d*r ad 1 I III A t a meeting of 700 New York land­ lords it was decided to have introduced in the legislature a bill making it a felony fur any political agitator to in­ cite tenants to refuse to pay rental which has been agreed upon. At pres; ent it is h nnsdemeunor. More mines are being opened at Gold field. Council Bluffs, la., has started a war on gambling. G n a t Hi ¡tain is alarmed for her nav­ al supremacy. The kaiser advocates the English in Germany. study of The fire in the big New York sky­ scraper showed an insufficient water supply. Mulai Halid lias been proclaimed sultan of Morocco and he lias started a koly war. Tho new Japanene amba8-*ar to tlie TJnifce.l States declares that all trouble “ ill soon be over. In a mad ruBli to get seats at a the­ ater in Barnsloy, Kng., Id children were trampled to death. M. P* #4 d. . . — H ARLAN SEES WAR FATAL THEATER FIRE Fight Nevada Must Net Shirk Responsibil­ ity. Says President. White and Yellow Races Must for Supremacy. Washington, Jan. 14. — President Roosevelt lias determined to withdraw the Federal troops from Goldfield, Nev., G R A FT O LD T R E E ». shortly aft.r the legislature begins Its epecial session teday. This intention was made known at the W hite House Diseased Orchard* in Valley Are to today, when the report of the special Be Laid Low . investigation commission was made Corvallis— A movement is being public, together with a letter from the president to Governor Sparks, dated launched here for a great campaign for January 4. The president says ho the renovation of old orchards in the shall be governed by the recommends- W illam et'e valley and other parts of tions in the report unless the governor Oregon. President Newell, of the state can show that the statements of the re­ port are not in accordance with the board of borticultuie, Mr. Lowusdale, Mr. Reid, and a large number of the fads. The report says: The conditions did not support the fruit inspectors of the various counties general allegations in the governor’s ja re o n th e ground and aro identified request for troops, nor were his specific with the plan. The first gun in the statements established to any such ex­ campaign was fired by M. O. l.ownsdale tent as to justify his use of these state­ in an address before the visiting horti­ ments for the purpose of getting Fede culturists and other winter short course students in college chapel. The ad­ ral troops.” ‘ ‘ But we must firmly believe that dress met with a hearty indorsement, The upon the assembling of the legislature, ami aroused much enthusiasm. or within a few days thereafter, the Agricultural college authorities will troops should be removed, regardless of join in the plan, and in an educaitonal any request for their retention that way and otherwise co-operate to the ut­ may bo made by either the legislature most extent in furthering tlie move­ or the governor of Nevada, it being es­ ment. It is said that within three to five sential tiiat the state of Nevada shall understand this situation completely— yeure a complete new orchard can be shall recognize the fact that there w ill, made out of the old one, and a profit of This at that date be thrown upon it, and it $5 to $10 per tree be realized. alone, tire primary responsibility of was the assertion of Mr. Lownedale in keeping order, and that, recognizing his address. He says be has accom­ this responsibility, it may take such plished this result with old trees on bis action as is the duty of the state and as farm, and that it can be done by any farmer who can do grafting or have it will be sufficient in the premises.” done. The thing to do, saye M i. Lownadale, I AND O FFIC E FO RCE S H O R T . is to cut down the old treeB. The beet plan is to cut them close to the ground, This should Commissioner Says Department is leaving the roots intact. be done by the 1st of March. The next Handicapped in Efficiency. season, from the 10th to the 15th of Washington, Jan. 14.— Commission­ May, such varieties as are best for the er Ballinger, of the general land office, climate and for commercial purposes tiHH completed his animal report for should be grafted on the three or four submission to congress. He asks an best sprouts. This is the easiest and appropriation of $500,000 to carry on most certain plan. Two feet of the old (lie field work of his bureau in the pro­ trunk may be left and ttie graft applied tection of the public lands, an increase to it the first year, and a year of time of $250,000 over the current appropria­ in reproducing the orchard is gained, tion. During the fiscal years of 1895-7 there was recorded for investigation but this requires an expert at grafting 24.459 cases, of all kinds; of these the in order to be successful. By either plan the trees will lie in good bearing agents investigated and disposed of 12,- 104 cases, and 12,365 cases remained in from three to five years, and a reve­ nue of $5 to $10 each be realized. for examination July 1, 1907. Washington, Jan. 13.— Justice John M. Harlan, of the Supreme court of the United States, peered into the distant future at the annual dinner of the Navy league of the Uuited Slates and told of a day when the white and yellow races will meet in a conflict that will shake the earth. The distinguished jurist was speaking in the interest of a mighty American navy. He said: ‘ ‘ If I had the opportunity I would vote for an appropriation of $50,01)0,- 000 a year for a period of ten years for a larger navy. The great importance of a navy is stiown in the constitution, which restricts the appropriations for the army, but sets no limit to those for the navy. There is no such thing as friendship between nations as between men. Nations make no sacrifices to preserve friendship and do not forbear to do certain tilings because it dots not meet with the approval of another na tion Do you think England cares a cent for w hat we think of her navy, or Germany cares a cent for what we think of hers? ‘ ‘ The trend of the imnegration of th-- white people in the past has been from east to west. There lias been none from the west. Just across the water there is a country with an immense population whoee commerce we are seeking. We refer to the people of Asia as the yellow race. There are 400,000,000 Chinese, as strong physi­ cally and mentally as we are. There ie over there another nation whose people are progressive and ambitious. We may some day see a skilled army in Japan of 6,000,000 to 10,000,000. They w ill say: “ ‘ You claim Europe as your country. This is ours. Get out.’ ” “ I don’ t think they have any such idea now, and we iiave no h stility to­ ward them. But theie will be a con- flict between the yellow race and the white race that will shake the earth. Wtien it comes I want to see this coun­ try w ith a n«vy on both oceans that w ill be strong eon ugh.” There were 2,243 'and entries relin­ quished after the case was in the hands of special agents for investigation, 353 entries were cancelled after hearings had upon special agents’ charges; 307 unlawful enclosures of public lands were removed restoring 1 940,120 acres to the open range. There were 27 con­ victions connected witli these cases. The total of moneys recovered by the government in all special agents’ cases was $380.251 and 2,372,224 acres of land was either freed from fraudulent claims to title or released from unlaw­ ful enclosure and occupancy. The colors of the American man-of- M O R O C C O FACES C R ISIS. war Chesapeake, captured by England in 1813, have been offered for sale in Sultan Abd El Aziz Is Forced From N London. Throne by Reports. Si General Manager Mohler, of the Un­ Tangier, Jan. 14.— There is conster­ ion Pacific, declares (lie prohibition nation among Moroccan officials at the wave now sweeping the country w ill sensational news from Fez announcing stop expansive railroad work. the proclaiming of Muiai llafid as sul­ A strike of 200 newsboys in Boston tan and tiie dangerous conditions now oreated quite a disturbance. Three po­ pre ’ailing in the city. Couriers who lice officers were assaulted, stripped of iiave arrived here announce also tiiat their badges and one officer and a by the people of Mequinez have proclaimed stander seriously injured. Mulai llatid sultan. According to the The jury in the Thaw case has been latest information from Fez, the Ule­ mas or wise men, were forced to decree completed. the overthrow of Abd El Aziz, the sul­ The battleship ffeet lias arrived at tan of record, and proclaim Mulai llafid Rio Janeiro. sultan in his place, by the attitude of Wuraaw, Russia, terrorists are busy the people, who were greatly excited over reports that A id El Arlz had sold again and the city is in a turmoil. the country to France. T. C. Becker, of New York, is to The announcement hy the public assist Heney in the Oregon land frauds criers was received with frantic joy. France may insist on arbitration be­ Mulai Halid was proclaimed sul'an un­ tween the United states and Japan to der certain conditions, which he must accept together w ith the title. Among prevent war. these are the following: Alton B. Parker attributes the re­ That he reject the Algeciras act, ex­ cent financial panic to Roosevelt's ‘ ‘at pel the Fiench troops from Morocco, tacks on property.” prohibit access to tlie Interior for Euro­ The steamship Aki Marti, from the peans, who with the Jews, it is set Orient, has juat arrived in Seattle witli forth, should be allowed to occupy only 1,200 tons of fireworks to he used by quarters in the ports reserved for them; Coast Chinese in celebrating their New prohibit Moorish subjects from placing themselves under the protection of for­ Years. eign consulates, secure Morocco’s rights Heney has tieen stirred up by the ill the frontier question with Algeria, decision of the Appellate court in the and suppress taxation. Schmitz case and says he will push the other indictments against Ruef and Storm in East. send him to prison for life. Chirago, Jan. 1 4 — Chicago and its Four policemen were killed and fire environs were cut off for several hours nearly 30 injured in the burning of a yesterday from wire communications New York skyscraper. The fire started from other points by a snow and wind on the fi ft li floor of a 12 story building storm which began before dawn and and the structnie ia a total loss. The raged without a break all day. Snow monetary loss is placed at $5,000,000 continues to fall. A northwest gale drove blinding masses of wet snow be­ Only seven jurors have boon secured fore it. The wattnth of the atmosphere in the Thaw case. caused the heavy flakes partly to melt and stick to whatever they touched Fire at Green Bay. W is., caused As a consequence overburdened wires estimateti loss of $80,000. Fire at Minneapolis destroyed a fur­ and poles were put out of commission in alt directions for hours. niture warehouse. Loss $125,000. dt • RECA' L T R O O P S . C< V. it H H «tíSeOÉIil M AKE W ARFARE ON SC ALE. Marion County Fruitmen Learning to Fight Dread Pest. Salem— The moat praelieat, interest ing ami instructive discussion of San Jose scale ever given in Marion county wus heard here last week when Coun­ ty Fruit Inspector E. C. Armstrong ad­ dressed tiie meeting of the Marion County Horticuhural society. About 200 growers of Marion and Polk coun­ ties were present, and it was tiie unan inious opinion that if similar talks and demonstrations were given in every part of the W illam ette valley this win­ ter, it would be but a short time until the great enemy of tho fruit industry would be under control. That a very laige number of growers do not know seal» when they see It, and therefore are in a very poor position to tight it, was evident. Mr. Armstrong made his address so plain and illustrated it so fully that no one who was present will ever have trouble in distinguishing this pest. Shingle Mill fo r Albany. Albany— A shingle m ill, with a ca­ pacity of 60,000 shingles duily, w ill be established in Albany this winter by E. A. Thompson and Elmer Cramer, former employes of the Curtiss Lumber company in its big plant at M ill City. Work w ill begin on the new m ill as soon as a satisfactory location is found. The two men have secured the shingle manufacturing machinery of tiie M ill City nulls, and have also acquired the ownership of a large body of spruce timber, and propose to make the in- dustry a large one. T A L K EP R A Y A N D P R U N IN G . Marlon Ccuuty Fruitmen Plan More Frcq rent Meetings Salem— The Marion County Horti­ cultural society lias decided to hold either weekly or bi-weekly meetings the remainder of the winter for the epecial purpose of spreading infoimn- t.on concerning the proper pruning and spraying of fruit trees. It has been found that at one meeting the time s so short tiiat all the subjects in which fruitgrowers are interested cannot be satisfactorily discussed, and that as a result the growers get partial informa- t on, wtich is of little practical use Pi them. At the weekly or bi-weekly meetings, special subjects w ill betaken up, \arying according to the particular p irt'on of their work the growers are about to perform. Thus tile subject of pruning will be one of tiie first consid­ ered for the reason that the pruning season is now on. After tiiat spraying will be the subject of lectures and demonstrations. Use of fertilizers, methods and time of cultivation, thin­ ning fruit, etc., will be taken up as occasion seems to demand. DALLAS A F TE R A CAN N ER Y. Fruitmen Believe T hey Will Market fo r Crop. Have a Dallas— A committee appointd at the meeting of tiie Horticultural society last week for the purpose of securing ttie co operation of the fruit raisers of this vicinity in the establishing of a cannery at Dallas, is hard at work. W ith the exception of the berry crop, sufficient fruit is raised wi hin a radius of five miles around Dallas to easily support a cannery, and it is believed that the establishment of that industry in this city w ill result in the planting ol enough of the small fruits to keep the cannery in operation during the en­ tire season each year. A company will be formed and the farmers, fruitgrowers ar.d business men will be solicited to bike stock in it. Heretoforre tiie fruit crops of this vicin­ ity wete shipped to the canneries in Salem and Newberg. New Library Building Open. University of Oregon, Eugene— Dur­ ing the holidays many of the recitation rooms ef the university were removed from Villard hall to better quarters in tiie new library building. Occupancy of the new building has lieen delayed, owing to the fact that there has been no money available for heat. The problem was solved by turning off the heat from the entire upper floor of V il­ lard ha 11 and sending it through the pipes into the libtary building. Big Milton Ranch Sold Milton— For tiie price of $28 562.50 Henry L. Frazier, of Milton, has sold his ranch near this place to W illiam ff. Harder, and the deal represents one of the biggest individual transactions made in this section of the country for many months. The Frazier ranch is located just southwest of Milton, and contains 246 acres of wheat land. This sale also included the Franzier resi dence in Milton. Hides Take Big Drop Pendleton— After the highest prices ever paid for hides in Eastern Oregon, in the past eight weeks, prices have now dropped to the lowest price known. Only a few weeks ago dry hides were quoted in this city at 18 cents per pound. Now dry hides are worth but 9 cents and green hides hut 4 cents. PO R TLAN D M ARKETS GREAT A C T IV IT Y EVIDENT. Government is Rushing Work on Our Coast Defenses Washington, Jan. 13.— New coast defenses are being installed and old ones re-enforced at Pacific coast points, Guam, Hawaii and Manila. This work of fortification is being carried forward swiftly and upon a gigantic scale. Coal depots are being replenished, huge Bearchligiits installed, I arbors mined, big guns placed ami ammunition maga­ zines filled to overflowing. So quietly has this work been going on that few outside cf the officials han­ dling the work have realized theenoim- ous undertaking under way. This work was started last May, and it is expected that a year will see the completion of the outlined program. It is acknowledge that the fortifica­ tions at Manila, Guam, Puget sound and Honolulu are inefficient and it ie at those points that the greatest work is being done. San Francisco and other coast points are declared to be perfectly equipped to repel attacks. W hile not acknowledging any appre­ hension, the administration is rushing the work with real vigor. It was learn­ ed from an authoritative source today tiiat one of the potent factors in determ­ ining the dispatch of the fleet to the Pacific was a realization of the wtak- ness at certain points. The presence of the fleet In the Pacific remedies all de­ fect« and structural weakness in coast defense points. As long as it remains there it will make up for any short coming in coast fortifications. By the time the fleet leaves the wa­ ters of tiie Pacific it is believed all the weak points will have been reinforced and the defenses w ill be of a modern and approved type. Twelve million rounds now enroute to the Far East furnishes enough am­ munition for a possible army ol 50,000 men. The normal need of the army in the Philippines is about 2,000 000 rounds annually. Aside from this (here is an exceptionally heavy draft of shells and terpedoes. Fruits— Applfs, 75c® $2.25 per box ; peaches, 75e®$l per crate; pears, $1.25® 1.75 per box; cranberries, $9.50 (»>$12 per Imirel. Vegetables— Turnips, 75c per sack; carrots, 85c per sack; beets, $1 per Glass Factory for Eugene sack; beans, 20c per pound; cabbage, Eugene— Eugene bids fair to have a lc per pound; cauliflower, $2(3)2.25 glass factory in the near future. Gus­ per dozen; celery, $3.50 per crate; tave Mathisen, an expert glass blower, onions, 16@20c per dozen; parsley, 20c who was one of the promoters of the per dozen; peas, 10c per pound; pep­ factory at Coburg, in this county, off. rs pers, 8(3)17c per pound; pumpkins, 1@ to put up a plant costing $60,000 if the 1 t^’c per pound; radishes, 20c per doz­ citizens of this city take stock in a com­ en; spinach. 8c per pound; sprout*. 8c pany to be organized to the amount of per pound; squash, l @ l)£ c per pound; $5,000. Mathisen claims to lie backed tomatoes, $2 per box. by ample capital. The matter will at Onions— $1 85(3)2 per hundred. once he taken up by the Commercial Not So Many Idle Workmen. Potatoes— Delivered Portland, 50® club and it is probable that some action Chicago, Jan. 13.— Statistics gather­ 75c per hundred; sweet potatoes, $3 w ill be taken immediately. ed hy the Chicago association of com­ per cwt. Wheat— Club. 85c; bluestem, 87c; merce tend to alleviate the pessimism C ow Earns Her Feed felt concerning the local industrial sit­ valley, 85c; red, 83c. Oregon Agricultural College. Corval­ Oats— No. 1 white, $27.50@28; gray, uation. In response to letters sent out lis— A five-year-old Holstein at the $27 50(3:23. to 616 business firms which a year ago college dairy made a milk yield of 13,- Barley— Feed, $27.50 per ton; brew­ gave employment to 97,000 persons, it 714 pounds for the year ending Decem­ ing, $32; rolled, $29(3 30. is stated that these firms are now em­ ber 31. The product carried a butterr , Corn Co — Whole, $32.50; cracked, ploying 86 400 persons, a decrease of fat reecrd of 448.56 pounds, and yield-- | j ] 50. < less than 12 per cent, and within 60 ed 520.97 pounds of butter, that at Hay— Valley timothy, No. 1. $8 per davs will have a ided 4 920 hands. prices current during the year brought ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, $21(31 David R. Forgan, president of the asso­ $170. She was not pushed in the feed­ 22; clover, $15; cheat, $15; grain hay, ciation, declares that the statistics were ing, but given the ordinary rations in­ $15@18; alfalfa, $15; vetch, $14 gathered from every branch of industry. Abyaslnians have captured an Italian M ore Defenses Needed cident to any well-kept dairy. Her Butter— Fancy creamery, 80(3*35c per town and exterminated the garriamo Seattle, Jan. 14.— ‘ ‘ We realize the food for the year cost $40, leaving a pound. Surgeons Forget Tools. net profit of $130. Red Lodge, Mont., Jan. 13.— A local Poultry— Average old hens. 12c per Bonaparte says he w ill soon start a desirability of providing additional de­ fenses for Puget sound as rapidly as pound; mixed chickens. I l ^ ( a i 2 c ; surgeon who has performed an opera- sait to dissolve the Harriman merger possible, and when I get hack to Wash­ No Dslrgvte to Dr» Farming C orgrezs spring chickens, 11 ^ @ 120; roosters, tion on Charles Joakirea a young Portland— Oregon is the only one .if 8(3U0c: dressed chicken«, 14c; turkeys, Finnish minister, for the removal of Rev. Johnston Myers, of Chicago, ington 1 shall lay the facts before con­ has fed more than 2,000 hungry men gres« and recommend additional fortiti the setni-arld state« not represented offi­ live, 15c: dressed, choice, 18c; geese, the cause of pain in his chest, found in at ions,” said Lieutenant Colonel Fred­ cially in the Trans-Missouri Dry Farm­ live, 9®10c; ducks, 16(5vl7c; pigeons, the cavity left by a previous operation in four days. erick V. Abbott, assistant to the cheif ing congress, which will hold its second !5 c @ $ l; squabs, $1 60®i2. two pieces of rubber tubing four and Trains in the new Brooklyn subway of the engineer corps. Ignited States session in Salt Lake City. January 23- To one Eggs— Fresh ranch, candied, 30c per five inches long respectively. are not well patronized and have not army, having charge o f fort ¡tic iti >na of 28, ami effort* are being made by Man­ dozen. was attacked a safetypin, badly rusted. relieved the crush on the bridge. the United State«, la t night, who ar­ ager Tom Richardson, of the Commer­ Veal— 75 to 125 pounds, 9(3.9 V*c; The rubber tubing was nearly a half The round house and other buildings rived here from Manila Wednesday. cial club, to secure someone from East­ 125 to 156 pounds, 7c; 150 to 200 inch in diameter. Joakinen is recov­ of the I.ake Shore railroad, at Elkhart, ering. ern Oregon. The Oregon Development pounds; SfStfiv^c. Ind., have been destroyed by fire. Japanese Sends in a B d league is willing to offer credentials to j Pork— Block, 75 to 150 pounds, 6® i Loss, $126,000. H on'Inin, Jan. 1 4 — The award of any representative citizen of the state 7c: packers. 6(3» 7c. Vesuvius Still Spits Ashes Hops— 1907, prime and choice. 6(3) There has been aoch a large reduc­ bids for material for thecon«trtietion of wbo will attend the meeting. Naples, Jan. 13 — Mount Vesuvius ” 1* c ; per pound; olds. l® 2 c per pound. continues to throw ont ashes and incan- tion In the arrivals of immigrants that mproxement* for Pearl harbor has Fulton Files Hi* Petition. \\ ool Eastern Oregon, average t>eet, descent matter from its chief crater, many of the BOO employes at Ellis been held up, because the lowest bid- Salem—-C. W . Fulton has filed a 1 .1)3.20e per pound, according to shrink- the cone of which, formed by the last Island, New York, have nothing to do er is a dummy for some Japanese con­ It is probeh e that all bid* copy of bis petition for Republican age; valley, 19f3i2tV. according to fine- eruption, collapsed recently, the earth and, a reduction in the force ia prob­ tractor. j nomination d in a mo-ing picture scene exploded. Immediately there was a wild rush for tin-exits of the building. Men of mature years en­ deavored to still the panic, but their voices could not ire heard alrove the shrieks ami scream« of tiie terrified women and children who composed the greater part of tiie audience. It seemed as though m arly the en­ tire audience made a mail rush for the exits the moment tiie explosion occur­ red. In their attempts to quiet the great crowd, those persons who were on the stage accidentally upst t the coal oil lamps u«ed at the footlights The burning oil «cat ered in all directions, and the lumps which wire u-ed to light the opera house exploited, throwing the Mazing oil over the terror stricken people, who were lighting frantically to gam the exit«. In the mad rush a section of the floor gave way. precipi­ tating scores of persons to the base­ ment. It was scarcely five minutes from the time ol tiie explosion of the tanks until the entire heart of the structure seemed a roaring furnace. There was a mad scramble to tlie stairway, and scores of women and children were knocked down and trampled upon, many of them doubtless being crushed to death. At least 50 perenns, realiz­ ing that exit by the stairway meant almost curtail de th, risked their lives by jumping from the windows. Limbs were broken and skulls were crushed by this daring method of escape. In the meantime a relief corps was at work at the entrance to the theater, endeavoring to release those who were edged in the doorway and unable to ex­ tricate themselves Many persons who etherise might iiave made good their escape fro n the furnace wore held in check hy the awful jam at the doors. As the flames cut their way toward the front of the building, w> men could be seen tc clasp their hands and fall back into tiie flames Once the doorways were clear, tiie rescuers dragged many women and children from the stairways leading to the balcony. Some of them were so badly injured that they died before reaching the temporary hospital. Skulls wore crushed and the faces of some of the victims were so horribly mutilated tiiat they were barely recog­ nizable. In one instance, tiie skull of a child, apparently about 10 years of age, was crushed almost into a jelly. To add to the terrible dis ster, the fire apparatus became disabled and the structure was left entirely to the mercy of the flames. It is almost certain not a vestige of the bodies of the unfortun­ ates who were overcome by the smoke and peri hed will ever be found. Had the women and children heeded the warning of the cooler heads in the audience, the hordble loss of life might have l>ecn avoided, but there was the usual panic and stampede which invar­ iably follows such a catastrophe. Tiie flames spread rapidly and communicat­ ed to the other pa-ts of the building. Men, women and chi Id ten rushed for the many exits of the building, and the weaker sex and the children were trampled ami maimed in the mad rush to gain the streets. Big Fire in Kansas C'ty Kanea« City, Mo., Jan. 14.— The Union station annex was destroyed hy fire early today. the Union station proper w s saved. The burn«) build- ¡Dg contained the receiving offices of the Adams, Wells-Eargo and Pacific Express companies, branch mailing room of the postoffiee, the offices of the Fred Harvey Eating House company, the Pullman I’a'ace Car company's linen loom and the Railwaymen’s Y. M. C. A. rooms. The loss is estimated at close to a quarter of a million dol­ lars. Massacred by Yaquis Visalia, Cal , Jan. 1 4 — Word of the tragic death of Maik Perkins, a prom­ inent mine owner of Mexico, and for­ mer resident of this city, was received today hy the young man’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. If. P. Perkins, of Visalia. On January 2 last, Perkins and nine Mexicans were ambushed by Yaquis pear the city of 8orora. Mexico, and mftssacred. hut one Mexican escaping. Other particulars of the killing bave not yet been received. Minir-g Camp Burns Mexico City, Jan. 14 — According to a telegram just received in this city, the great gold mining camp of El Oro, one of the larg-st in the republic, is being destroyed by fire. When the dispatch was filed the principal hotels and the more important business build- ings of the camp had been reduced to ashes. I