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R ide« O v e r IOO M ile s in M a il C a r on
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R a ilro a d T ra ffic S to p p e d T h ro u g h o u t
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Spokane, Wash., March 17.— As
suming all the airs and authority of
a veteran postoftice iuspector, a dar
ing highwayman hoarded the Great
E X C U R S IO N R A T E S .
.Northern westbound Oriental Limlt-
’ ed train just as it pulled out of Bon-
1 ners Kerry, Idaho, early this morn- M a n y O r e g o n P e o p le E x p e c t to V isit
ling, and holding the two mail clerks
Fleet at 8 a n F ra n c isc o .
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I at bay at the point of a revolver.
Portland— Many Oregon people
I d d Condensed ro rin lo r uor i locked one of them in a clothes
closet and tied the other to a chair expect to go to San Francisco to see
with ropes, after which he rode a Admiral Evans’ squadron upon its
distance of lot* miles into Spokane, arrival in the city by the Golden
A R e su m e o f the L e s s Im p o rta n t but 'spending three hours and 40 minutes Gate. So many inquiries have been
rifling registered mail, loading and
N o t L e s s In te re stin g E ve n ts
unloading mail sacks along the route made of the Harriman passenger o f
o f the P a st W eek.
and putting complacently at a cigar ficials that a special rate wil! be
the while.
made to San Frunclsco and return
The lone robber dropped off the from Portland to permit Oregon peo
train
at
a
railroad
crossing
inside
A deadly epidemic of grippe is sweep
ple to assist in welcoming the fleet
the city limits, carrying with him, it
ing over London.
to the Pacific coast. A first-class
is believed, much valuable plunder in rate of $25 for the round-trip to San
Night riders in Kentucky burned a satchel. Just how much he ob
Francisco will be named, with a ten-
three tobacco barns.
tained is not definitely known.
day limit, and passenger officials ex
Mail-clerks
Benjamin
Stumpf
and
pect the low figure will be popular
Boers boa“t that they a least gained
John W. Nysteum, who were held at and that many will take advantage
a moral victory over the English.
the mercy of the robber, tell a re of it. The present roundtrip rate is
Panama extended a most enthusiastic markable story of their experience. $40. The dates on which the re
welcome to the American torpedo fleet. Locked in the small closet, hardly duced special tickets will be sold
two feet square, the latter almost
The kaiser wishes an American m ili fainted from suffocation after the have not yet been decided, as this
will depnd upon the movements of
tary title, that be may have another train hud pulled into Sand Point, 34 the fleet. As soon as it is definitely
miles west of Bonners Ferry, and settled just when the fleet will ar
uniform to wear.
rapping on the door pleaded with the
A gas explosion in Natchez, Miss., robber to allow him some fresh air. rive at San Francisco, the Southern
destroyed a five-story building and The bandit responded willingly and Pacific w’ill announce the dates.
“ We expect to take 700 people
killed at least- eight people.
leaving the door ajar about an inch, from Portland alone to see the fleet,”
secured
it
with
a
piece
of
rope.
Twice
Russia is disappointed because the
said Assist General Passenger Agent
later on the way into Spokane the
trip of the American war ships pre robber ceased his work of rifling the Scott yesterday. “ We have had a
cludes any possibility of a war with mall sacks to go to the door of the very large number of inquiries from
all over the state in regard to the
Japan.
closet to inquire as to how Nysteuu possibility of fixing rates to permit
was
feeling
A street meeting of about 200 per
Oregon people to visit the fleet on
When Stumpf remonstrated with its arrival in San Francisco. In re
sons who had assembled to hear Emma
his captor that the cords which sponse to this widespread desire to
Goldman, tiie anarchist leader, in Chi hound him were cutting into his
see the fighting ships that make up
cago, was dispersed by the police.
wrists, the genteel robber generous the squadron, we have decided to
ly
loosened
the
fetters
and
made
The senate committee lias reported
put in the low rate.”
favorably on postal savings hanks. The every effort to make things as com
fortable
us
possible
for
his
victim.
banks will pay 2 per cent interest ami
FREE OF SCAB.
While ripping open the registered
deposits will be limited to $1,000.
sacks the pseudo-inspector cut one of
Taft’s enemies admit he is practical his fingers and many of the pieces E a ste rn O r e g o n S h e e p s o H ealthy
of mail were blood-stained. Blood
ly sure of the nominaion.
T h a t D ip p in g W ill B e O m itted.
hounds were put on the trail of the
Pendleton— At a called meeting of
A great fire swept the port of Baiiia, robber, tuking the scent from one of
Brizii, causing a loss of $1,000,000.
the bloody packages, and followed a the board of sheep commissioners
trail several blocks through the resi held in this city, a proclamation was
The town of Big Timber, Mont., was dence district to a carline, where the issued declaring the annual dipping
three-fourths destroyed by tire. Loss scent was lost. It is believed that the for the spring of 1908 unnecessary
•bout $400,000.
highwayman boarded a car and rode and that it need not be observed.
According to the report made by
downtown.
Japan is not on the list of visiting
State Sheep Inspector Lytle and Dr
points for the battleship fleet, but
S. W. McClure, head of the bureau
G R A F T F L O U R IS H IN G .
may be included later.
of animal industry in the northwest,
Four of the men indicted for frauds Police Rely on C o u r t s to K e e p T n e m the state is practically free from
scab. A few cases were reported in
in the Pennsylvania state capitol scan
O u t c f Jail.
the Willamette Valley early in the
dal have been convicted.
San Francisco, March 17.— Police winter, but these have all been at
The American liattleship fleet lias man Maurice Behan and John Evatt tended to. In Umatilla county,
been ordered to leave San Francisco were stripped of their stars by Chief where two years ago there were 60,-
July 6 next and complete its voyage of Police Biggy today as the result 000 head of scabby sheep, there is
of an exposure of a vast system of not a single case of scab today. The
around the world
graft on the Barbary coast. Dives, only case reported lately in Eastern
Sacks containing $3,800 in gold were brothels, saloons and gambling joints Oregon was a band of 176 bucks in
stolen from the paymaster’s safe on the have been held up with regularity, Lake county, and these have now
cruiser Milwaukee, and thus far all and the conditions became so bad been dipped.
The commission made a regulation
efforts to discover the thief have failed. that landlords complained that they
could not rent buildings on the Bar requiring railroads shipping sheep
The president of the Butte, Mont., bary coast because the big sums in into the state to notify the secretary
Miners’ union says 5,000 men are out protection demanded by the police of the board of sheep commissioners
of work,
notwithstanding circulars men absorbed all the profits of the so the animal« can be inspected. A
which have been sent out by the mine- tenants. Chief Biggy arranged a resolution was also passed favoring
trap of marked coins and caught Be a bounty law for the state of Oregon,
owners advertising for more help.
holding that it is necessary for the
han and Evatt.
The Roxbury Carpet works, of Bos -Although the cases are clear ex protection of the sheep industry. The
ton, employing 900 hands, have closed tortion, under the supreme court de commission will use its best endeav-
Indefinitely.
cision in the Schmitz case, they do ers to secure the passage of such a
law at the next session of the legis
Prince Luitpold, of Bavaria, cele not constitute crimes.
The cases are identical with those lature .
All the members of the commis
brated his 87th birthday. He is in of Ruef and Schmitz in almost every
sion were present at the meeting.
perfect health.
particular. If one was no crime, it President T. F. Boylen having ar
Massachusetts cotton mills have made is difficult to see how the other could rived from Denver a couple of days
a 10 per cent reduction in the wages of be construed into a crime.
ago, and W. H. Steusloff coming in
26,000 employes.
from Salem this morning.
Portland, Mar. 15.— While no ser
ious property damage has been re
ported, the heavy storm of wind and
rain that has been raging without let
up since Friday is by all odds the
worst of the past year. There are
no prospects of early abatement and
great
destruction
of
property
throughout the northwest may re
sult, for the storm is general
throughout this entire region.
Passenger traffic on the O. R. &
N. has been completely tied up since
Saturday afternoon as the result of
an enormous landslide at Wyeth. No
east or westbound trains have been
sent through in 36 hours, aud the
track will not be cleared before to
day, as huge musses of soft earth
keep oozing down the mountain-side
as rapidly us the steam shovel is
clearing it away.
Four eastbound
passenger trains tried to get through
since 6 o'clock Saturday evening, but
all were stalled, and had to he
brought back to Portland.
Many of the passengers who had
left on one or the other of these
trains were routed via the Northern
Pacific, but it is doubtful if they
will succeed in getting through, be
cause a number of heavy slides have
occurred on that road between here
and Tacoma.
Hood River people sat in darkness
last night. Churches, hotels, and
such h ^.es as were provided, were
illuminated by kerosene lamps, lan
terns and ancient tallow dips. The
light and power plant was put out of
business early in the storm, and no
trains went east or west during Sun
day.
The volume of water rushing down
Hood River is greater than at any
time since its power was harnessed.
Only an intermittent telegraph and
telephone service was possible and
conditions promise to be worse to
day.
Pendleton is also in a bad, if not
in a very serious way, for the Uma
tilla river raged like a torrent all
day yesterday and is rising at the
rate of four inches an hour, threat
ening the town with a flood as ser
ious as that which devastated it two
years ago.
Willamette valley points are apt to
suffer considerably, though no great
damage has been done so far and the
train service on the Southern Pacific
has been maintained without inter
ruption. The rainfall has been un
usually heavy throughout the valley
and all tributaries to the Willamette
are leaping up their banks steadily,
hour by hour, and are expected to
keep on rising for several days.
A number of log booms in the
Cowlitz river have been ripped loose
from their moorings and are hurling
down the river.
Between 3 o'clock Saturday after
noon and 6 p. m. yesterday the W il
lamette river came up five feet at
Portland. There is a strong current
running and indications point to a
steady rise for several days to come.
Heavy rains have fallen throughout
the valley and all tributary streams
are bank full.
During the 24 hours ending Sun
day at 5 p. m. 1.82 Inches of rain
fell. Between noon Friday and last
evening the precipitation was 2.82
inches. The amount of rainfall for
the 24 hours just passed has been
exceeded for the month of March
three times since the establishment
of a weather station at Portland. In
1877 the fall was 2.35 inches, in
1883 2.25 inches in 1902 1.85 inches.
The rainfall was steady but at no
time was there an excessive down
pour.
The wind attained a velocity of 52
miles an hour at North Head and at
Tatoosh Island. The general direc
tion was south and southwest. The
storm Is moving rapidly eastward
and this morning Is raging over Brit
ish Columbia. Storm warnings are
still out over coast ports and strong
southerly winds are looked for today.
Rain will continue, but not steadily
as yesterday.
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The forest service lias authorized 17,-
900 cattle and 152,500 sheep to graze O r c h a r d W o u ld R e fu se P a rd o n W e re
on the Blue Mountain reserve this sea
It O ffe re d H im .
son.
Boise. Idaho, March 17.— On the
The American auto in the New York morning of his 42d birthday, next
to Paris race reached Granger, W yo., Wednesday, in the district court of
March 12.
The second car, the Ital Canyon county, Harry Orchard, the
self-confessed murderer of ex-Gov-
ian, was at Cheyenne.
ernor Steunenberg, who was killed
(Jnlon Pacific stockholders have by the explosion of a bomb at the
turned on Harriman and sued him fer gate of his residence in Caldwell on
the $40,000,000 he made dealing in the the evening of December 30, 1905,
stocks of other roads with Union Pa will face Judge Fremont Wood pre
pared to hear the death sentence
cific capital.
meted out to him.
A conference was held between Pres
Harry Orchard, of his own voli
ident Roosevelt and prominent men tion and against the urgent plead
looking to legalizing railroad pools, ex ings of his attorney and others, re
empting tabor unions and making all fused, when arraigned March 10, to
let his previous plea of "not guilty”
corporation deals public.
stand. He also refused to plead to
General d’ Amade, commanding the a lesser degree of murder than first
French force« in Morocco, has received degree. He said:
a letters from Mulai Hatid, the so-
‘I am guilty and am ready to take
I have told the
oailed sultan of the South, and leaders tho punishment.
of his army, ssking that hostilities be truth. I understand fully what must
suspended (lending peace negotiations. be the consequences.”
An insane man tried to kill King
Haakon, of Norway.
King Alfonso was received with much
enthusiasm at Barcelona.
Four negroes have been lynched in
Missiisippi for incendiarism.
Spanish anarchists are said to be after
the premier, and not the king.
The Mother’ s’ congress is in session
at the White House, Washington, D. C.
The United Railways company of San
Francisco is about to go into the hands
of a receiver.
J a p a n ridicules the idea that naval
preparations are being made (or an at
tack on China.
Great Britain has sent a note to Ja
pan advising arbitration of the China-
Japan difficulties.
R u ssia n P r e s s C o m m e n ts.
St. Petersburg, March 17— The Slo-
vo says that the return of the Ameri
can fleet as announced is as sensa
tional as Its departure for the Paci
fic. Apparently the Slovo thinks the
danger of war has disappeared, for
it adds: “ While this arouses deep
satisfaction In Europe, the preserva
tion of peace is due to the display of
the big stick of the United States,
the prudence of Japan and the good
offices of Great Britain.” The Novoe
Vremva says: “ Whatever the origi
nal purpose, the cruise has done a
useful service by a public examina
tion of the American navy.
H sy ti in T ro u b le A ga in .
London, March 17.— A dispatch
has been received here from Port An
Prince, Haytl, to the effect that ser
ious disturbnnees have occurred at
that place. Several persons are re
ported killed in street fights and
many arrests of prominent men have
been made. Rumors of several sum
mary executions, the dispatch says,
are In circulation, but at the hour of
filing Hie dispatch this had not been
confirmed.
O b je c ts to H g h R ates.
Salem— Complaint has been made to
the railroad commission by H. S. Gile
& Co., of this city, that the Southern
Pacific company has unwarrantedly
raised the rates on citrus fruits from
San Ftancisco during the past year
from 40 cents to 69 cents, and from
Portland for the same commodity from
16 cents to*26 cents, and on sweet po
tatoes from 10 cents to 19 cents.
Gile & Co. claim these increases
have practically ruined their trade in
California'citrus fruit.
F I N D F I L T H Y P U S IN M i l K .
S ta rtlin g
R e p o rt A fte r A n a ly tis
S ta te C o lle ge .
at
Corvallis— Samples of milk received
for analysis dnring the past week at
the bacteriological department at the
college have been unusually noticeable
for filth. Seven of them from various
(■arts of the Btate contained pus. One
held the foreign matter in such quan
tities that it is estmiated to have con
tained one-tenth of 1 per cent. Pro
fessor Pernott’s attention was attracted
by the unusual amount, and he made
inquiries of the owner of the animal
and ascertained that there was a large
lump several inches in diameter on the
body of the cow, near the udder. It
was supposed to have developed from
an injury received from the horns of
anotiier cow, and had developed into an
abcess. It was, of course, the explan
ation of the pus in the milk. The milk
was in use when the sample was sent
to the laboratory.
Of the Bix other
samples in which pus developed, the
quantity was much smaller. In these
the history of tire cases was not learned.
Some time ago at the laboratory
samples of cream offered at an Oregon
creamery were analyzed. They had a
strong Bmell that was carried into the
butter product. Analysis disclosed that
the foreign substance was barn filth,
due to probable uncleanliness in milk
ing. A report reaulteii in changed con
ditions in the dairies from which the
cream was shipped.
T ele ph o ne C o m p a n y L o se s.
Portland— Oregon and the intitiative
and referendum law lias won the first
round in the tight being made by the
Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph
company, and the Sunset Telephone
company, to declare the constitutional
amendment permitting the initiative in
valid and contrary to the constitution
of the United States. Judge ClelaDd in
the Circuit couit has sustained the ile
murrer of the state in the case of the
state against the Pacific States com
pany, thus upholding the contention of
the state. Notice of appeal was given
and the case will be taken to the Su
preme court at Salem as soon as possi
ble. From there it will be taken to
the United States Supreme court, it
being assumed, in view of former de
cisions by the Oregon court, that the
ruling will be for the state and against
the company.
C o lo n is t s F r o m E ast.
Baker City—The West bound trains
are beginning to be heavily loaded
with colonist travel from the Middle
states and the Eaet. The regular trains
are unable to carry the loads and extra
sections are run. It is not uncommon
for a train comprising 16 coaches to
pull through Baker on its way to the
Coast. This section is getting it share
of the homeseekers, it is thought, but
the railroads have given Portland and
other Crast points the same rate that
Baker and Ear tern Oregon points re.
ceive, and this of itself has a tendency
to make the colonist go through to the
Coast, because it coets no more.
S h e e p C o m in g Into K la m a lh .
Klamath Falls—J. F. Kimball, local
representative of the Weyerhaeuser
Lumber company, has returned ty Kla
math Fails from Lakeview, where he
has been for several weeks leasing the
lands of the company in Lake county
for grazing purposes, according to the
plans of hie company for this year.
He is now ready to lease the lands in
Klamath county, and local cattle and
sheep men will be given first considera
tion.
PO RTLAND M ARKETS.
Wheat— Club, 83c; bluestem, 85c;
valley, 83c; red, 81c.
Roseburg— At a meeting held here
Barley— Feed, $26 per ton; rolled,
of the Douglas County Fruitgrowers’ $22@30 per ton.
A9ociation, the capital stock of the
Oats— No. 1 white, $28; gray, $28
association
was increased
from per ton.
$6,000 to $12,000. This association
Com — Whole, $32.50; cracked,
is one of the most active and pro
gressive in the state, and has been $33.50.
Hay— Valley timothy. No. 1, $17@
the means of securing much larger
prices for Douglas county fruit than 18 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy,
had heretofore been received. A $20@21; clover, $14@15; cheat, $15;
large acreage is being set to or- 1 grain hay, $14015; alfalfa, $12@13;
chards in Douglas county and a few vetch, $14.
years will see this section one of the I Fruits— Apples, $1@3 per box, ac-
largest fruit producing countries in corj j „ g to quality; cranberries, $8@ll
the state.
per barrel
S o il S u r v e y o f K lam ath B a sin .
Vegetables— Turnips, 75c per sack;
Klamath F . l l . - T h , Klamath ah.m-
i "
enu pthe mat- r ° k; » ?P »raSllí^ 2f* P « Poun;|- « * b-
ber of commerce has taken
per pound; cauliflower,
ter of having a soil surv .ev made of the baF*- I V
K t o t T ' E X r ' T t a i | 1 . 7 6 @ 2 : c-lery, U.SS04.75 p,, ™ t .t
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__ _____ , „ parsley, 20c per dozen; peppers, 17tvc
been made in many sect.ons ofthe
pound; ¿dishes. 30c per dozen;
country snd at no expense to the locah ^ „ ¿ rb, 5c per pound; spinach, 10c
ity in wh.ch the survey is made. Com-
10e
p^nnd;
piehens.ve plats and maps are issued £
£ l ® l * o per pound,
showmg quality of soil, the topography , q 0niong_ 0rPBOn, $2.60 per hundred,
of the country and what localit.es are , Pot, 4owl_ 4 0@60c ^
hundred, de-
emted to certain crop«.
-No charge is „
, Portlat3d; sweet potatoes, $3.50
ma«ie for the maps.
@3.76 per hundred.
, ..
Butter— Fancv creamery, 30@35c per
M o r e F ru it in D o u g la s .
H a rrim a n In H arn ey
Burns— P. A. \\ orthlngton, repre-, Ponitry— Average old hens, 14@15c
renting the Oregon
Hroa<L
d mixed chickens, 13@13>,c;
is here filing at the l>nitea States r
r
»„.kaua u"
Ths president has sent to the senate
land office the amended maps of a ' P " n,tLch,ckenS’ I b® I L i L
the nomination of John McCourt to be
railroad survey and location through 14(3ll5c, dressed, ih ice,
Malheur and Harney counties. While geeee, live, 9010c; ducks, 15(aU6o;
district attorney for Oregon.
he claims to know nothing of the tn- pigeons, 75c@$l; squabs, $1.50(32.
Portland has been assured that a
tentions of the Harriman company. | Eggs— Freeh ranch, 17@17t^c per
number of cruisers anil 'torpedo boats
his presence gives
to much talk dozen.
will be sent there dnring the rose car
of early constructi
Veal— 75 to 125 pounds, 9(2i9Vc;
nival.
126 to 160 pound«, 7c; 150 to 200
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M o r e W a te r fe r V ale.
pounds, 5t3>6 t*c.
New York. March 17. E. H. Gary.
and he and Ruef have patche.1 up their
Vale— The newly elected members . Pork— Block, 75 to 150 pounds, 7@
differences.
In the remainder ol the chairman of the board of directors of of the city council were sworn tn 7 ^ . packers, 5^>8^c.
11 . « » i l l ittn H t .„ether
|the Unlte«i States Steel Corporation, Monday night. The city Irrigation!
Hope— 1907, prime and choice, 4U
trials they will stand together.
|made „ „«te m en t to the stoekhold-
system was Investigated and a new 1
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King Alfonso will visit Barcelona
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"the Amerlcen Steel Foandrle's ^
ran ™
acro«e‘ Bu”n y“ cree\ “ o r -.
P£an.d ’
1 ® * per pound,
defiance of bom b throwers.
(company at a meeting in Jersey Ctty|dprp(j
T bg new flume Is to be 48 ! 0^
- E* 'ter" 1t>re* ° n;
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Mayor Busee, of Chicago, has taken today advocating the reorganization • inches In diameter and will carry | 18(.i 2l*e per pound, S'vording to shrink
a t « '« to keep all anarchists out cf the pint* proposed for the latter com- j su ffic ien t water at all tim er for the **e; valley. 19<32uc per pound, sc oni-
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pany.
'proper supply of the city's needs.
| ing to fineness; mohair, choice, 29t§30c.
P e a c e R elatio n s Bod y strained
by R evolu tion ists.
PR OTECTION OF REFUGEES CAUSE
P re sid e n t
of
H aytien
b o rin g Revolutionists.
Paris, March 17.— The situation
between the Haytien government and
France has become ucute aud crltl-
cal. The French Legation at Port
Au Prince is menaced and a general
massacre of the white residents ol
the islands is feared. This informa
tion was conveyed in an official dis
patch to the Foreign Office by M.
Carteron, the French minister to
Hayti.
The latter part of last week, M.
Borno, the Haytien minister of state,
assured M. Carteron that Hayti
«>
would agre to allow the refugee«
who had taken asylum in the French
Consulates at Gonaives and St. Marc
to leave the island.
This morning there came the news
of the execution at Port Au Prince
on Sunday of between 10 and 12
prominent, persons on the charge of
conspiracy against the government,
together with a cablegram from U.
Carteron announcing that General
Nord Alexis the president of Hayti,
had not only refused to confirm the
assurances given M. Borno, but had
flatly declined to permit the refugee«
iu the consulates to depart.
Eleven additional persons hare
taken asylum at the French Lega
tion. The French cruiser Destree«
is expected very soon at Gonalvea,
where she will act in co-operation
with the British and German ship«
of war now on their way to Hayti.
It is understood here that France,
Germany and Great Britain are act
ing in accord in this matter.
General Antouor Fimin, who led
the last revolt of Hayti, is among
the refugees under the French flag.
The foreign office recognizes that the
general and his followers are revo
lutionists but declines to hand them
over to the Haytien government on
the ground that there were no as
surances that the men would have a
legal trial. In this connection it was
explained that, according to French
tradition, any man who sought ref
uge under the French flag should
have at least temporary protection.
The Temps has specials from Port
Au Prince saying that the local sit
uation is grave. General Nord Alexis
claims that the plot against him was
hatched at the French Legation and
an attack upon the Legation is fear
ed, the correspondent says, becauss
M. Carternon, the French minister,
declines to deliver the refugees un
der the French agreement to the
Haytien authorities.
A dispatch from Port Au Prince
states that President Nord Alexis has
consented to allow the refugees in
the French Legation to leave the is
land but that henceforth rebels tak
ing refuge in the Consulates will be
removed by force if they are not sur
rendered.
The dispatch says It appears that
the situation is likely to be still fur
ther complicated. Everyone dreads
the possibility of a messacre of the
Europeans by the Haytien troops on
the arrival of the warships.
The dispatch declares that it 1»
understood that Germany will take
action if the government execute«
more rebels. President Nord Alexis,
however, seems quite unmoved at
the prospect of a naval demonstra-
tlon. The total number of men eie
banq
cuted Is not given.
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Im m e n se P e n s io n
Elma, Wash., March 16.— Heavy,
continuous rain has prevailed In the
Chehalis valley for several days past.
The Chehalis river, running over its
banks, is still rising and the highest
water in many years is now expected
and being prepared for. There was a
steady downpour of heavy rain all
through the night, and it continues
today unabated.
Not a log will be left in any of the
creeks and rivers, every driving
stream will be swept clean, so great
is the flood raging through Chehalis
county at this time. Logs that have
hung for years on gravel bars and
high banks will go down to the
booms on Grays Harbor
Republic Ac
c u se s F re n ch Le ga tio n of Har
A p p ro p ria tio n s.
^ ^ B rend:
Washington, March 17.— For the ^ ^ B t¡ons
second time the house will consider ^ ^ B
the pension appropriation bill, that
measure having been taken up today
under an arrangement reached just
before adjournment yesterday. The
bill
appropriates
approximated ^^^t.he fa
$150,864,000, the largest sum ever
included in a pension appropriation F
bill.
Some time was taken up W
Langley, of Kentucky, in pleading
for a pensionable status of certain |
Kentucky militiamen
N a tio n s S e n d in g Cruisers.
Berlin, March 17.— The Gertnnn 1
Admiralty has ordered the cruiser |
Bremen, at present at Curacao, top
to Port Au Prince, Hayti, to be n
the disposal of the German minlnt* |
F ire M a k e s 3 0 0 Idle.
Trinidad, C8I0., March 16.— Fire, for the protection of German #r |
supposed to have been caused by jects or other foreigners.
crowded electric wires, destroyed the
C h in a R e le ase s Tatsu Maru.
coke washer, tipple, engine house
Hongkong, March 17.— The JaP**
and chemical laboratory of the Col ese steamer Tatsu Maru., which *
orado Fuel & Iron Company’s mine seized by the Chinese customs not
at Sopris, five miles west of here to orities at Macao for carrying nr» ■
day, entailing a loss estimated at and ammunition alleged to ho
$150,000 and throwing 300 men out tended for the use of Chinese revoi
of employment. The flames were tionists, was released today.
first discovered on the third floor of
the five-story frame building of the
C u t s P rice o f Piste GUIS.
coke washer, spreading rapidly to
the other structures. The office
Pittsburg. March 17.—
was saved after desperatefighting burg Plate Glass Company toda
nounced an average reduction 0
per cent in the price of
C h in a S a lu te s J a p a n ’s Flag.
It is believed the re. be ' a 0,11 ‘ I
Toklo, March 16.— A satisfactory ulate the plate-glass business.
settlement of the Tatsu affair was
announced this morning. China has
A n a rc h ist M e e tin g Forbidden.
conceded all the Japanese demands.
Philadelphia. March 1T 7 'A® g
She will purchase the arms and am arehist meeting, advertised
munition on board the Tatsu and held tomorrow, will not be P« _
jB
will hoist the Japanese flag over the ted, and another meeting
vessel. While the flag is being re- be held to celebrate the anm
|
holsted a Chinese warship will fire of the Paris Commune will
a salute. There is a general feeling ly policed.
of relief in consequence of the set
tlement of the incident.
M a lt s W.ll W elcom e
^ hi
Malta. March 17 - T h e ' * « ■ « £ I
C o rgi-a tu la tio e s F r o m K a ise r.
ment that the American n « « *gB
London. March 16.— A special dis make a round-the-world J ™ * .
u ,.«
patch to the Daily Mall from Berlin been received here with 6
Should the f l « t vis» » . i
says that the Emperor sent warm est.
)!«♦
personal congratulations to Presi Its reception will he in the
^
dent Roosevelt on the arrival of the the military authorities, as
fleet at Magdalena Bay ahead of terranean fleet Is absent fro»
schedule time.
to October.