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Hillsboro Independent ImimS frMav af f acfc Waak HILLSBORO OREGON NEWS OFTHE WEEK Iq a Condensed Form lor Our Busy Headers. A Rmuim of ths Less Important but Not Less Interesting Events of tho Past Wssk. Nine miners were killed by an ex Idnsioa of gas In a Kentucky coal ml no. A New York grand Jury bag re turned two ludlcliueuts against Ice King Morse. Beach Hargls, the young man who fhut hi father, a Kentucky leuuisi, Ih held without ball. Over 6,000 men have been put to work by the National Tube Company, near Cleveland, Ohio. New York labor leaders want to nominate labor candidate tor prea Ident and vice president. Koraker Insists that President Roosevelt Is using political patron age, to belp the Taft boom. The Columbia Northern railway will be merged with the other 11111 lines under one management. Lisbon paper demand the punish ment of one of the guards who uahrcd oue of the king's assassins. The Illinois Steel Company's mills In South Chicago are resuming work lhcy will employ about 6,000 men A treaty bag been signed providing for the arbitration of any dittlculty that may arise between the United Males and France. The United States court of appeals has attain decided that railroads n ii Ht use reasonable precaution for the safety of their employes. Two Nevada laborers, while lost lu a snow storm, found a rich ledge of Kold-bearlng quarts under the snow while making a camp for shelter. The Portugese nation will provide funds for the care of the families of the king's slayers who were killed uml wealthy families are contending for the privilege of adopting the or phans. The battleship fleet has passed Magellan straits and Is now in the ruclflc ocean. The Swift Packing Company has completed plans for $3,600,000 plant In Portland. A Yale graduate and athlete has been found to possess a complete outfit of burglar's tools. Premier Franco, dictator of Por tugal has not left his room since ar riving In Bordeaux, France. Roosevelt says the charges that he ta using his Influence to help Taft along are false and malicious. Claims of alleged illegitimate heirs tif Alfonso XII are creating consid erable trouble for the Spanish government. THREE DEAD: 23 INJURED. Sheridan Local Wrecked by Broken Rail at Forest Drove. Forest Grove, Ore., Feb. II. Three were killed and 23 were In jured, one very seriously, by the de railment of the Sheridan local on hurt trestle bridge, about tbree- 1 fourths of a mile west of this city at Mrs. Edward Bates and 5-months old daughter, of Forest urove. i a Mi-Donuld. of McMlnnvllle. Mrs. J. II. Brown, aged 60, of shnriilan. was badly crushed, and may not recover. The accident resulted from broken rail, one 30-foot section at th west end of the trestle bridge be in millntered Into four pieces by the. weiuht of the heavily loaded coaches. The defective rail appar ently did uot give way until after the engine, mall and baggage cars had crossed In safety The smoker was the first to leave the track, carrying with It two day coaches. The smoker and the first dav coach ran over the ties for a dls tauce of 20 yards and pitched from the trestle to the ground, ten feet below, striking on their sides. The second day coach also left the track and turned only partly over. Miss Grace Harding, of Gaston, riassenger In the rear coach, was thrown through a window Into less than two feet of water beneath the trestle, but escaped uninjured. PRINTERS SENT TO PRISON. OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST Fined Members of New York "Big 6 nd Sent to Jail. New York, Feb. 12. President Patrick McCormick, of the local Ty pographical Union, known as the "Big 6" and George W. Jackson and Vincent J. Costello, union organizers, yesterday were fined $260 each and sentenced to 20 days' imprisonment for disobedience of an Injunction ob talned by the Typothetae of New York in 1906. Thomas Bennett and William S. Anderson were fined $100 on the same charge. Sentence was Imposed by Justice Bisboff in the supreme court. This Is the first time any such heavy sentence In the case of a labor organization for violation of lnjunc tiou bus been Imposed In these courts. The troubles grew out of the strike of Typographical. Union No. 6, commonly called "Big Six," ordered early In 1906 against the As sociation of Employers known as the Typothetae of the city of .New York for a closed shop and an eight-hour day. WILL BAR JAPS. ' One child was killed and many persons Injured In the crush at the funeral of the dead king and prince of Portugal. Members of the royal household declare that the Portugese crown prince rose and fired twice at the as sassins before be himself fell dead. California railroad commission hag evidence to convict the Southern Pacific of rebating on about 4,000 Heparate counts, the fines for which will amount to $SO,000,000. King Edward and Queen Alexan dra, the Prince and Princess of Wales, Princess Victoria and many government official attended the memorial services for the late King Carlos of Portugal and the Crows Prince. The battleship fleet has turned to the uorth. Germany hat reduced the import dmy on sugar, A leader oi the Black Hand has been raptured in New York. The senatorial deadlock In the Ken tucky legislature continues. The Pennsylvania railrosd has just ordered 6.,0tH tons of steel rails. Seattle minsters hsve started an agitation agaitiBt Sunday theaters. (vernor Pennypsrker has been Im plicated in the Pennsylvania capital iiatiils. Franco, the deposed premier of Port. ttgil, has arrived in Fiance, fearing iimr.ler put ilefemling bis policy. Government troops will be removed frmn Woldticld March 7, st which time the Nevada police will be ready to take charge. Warren Oliver, a member of th elec toral college which named Lincoln, is tie 1 1. He was a pioneer of California and 03 years old. Associate Tahlic Printer- Pram has assumed contol of the government printing oltiee. W. 8. Rmsiter will continue-the inquiries Into the conduct of the office. Florida Republicans are holding Taft and anti-Taft conventions and having list tight. (treat Britain has paid the bandit lutisuli $200,000 for the release of Sir ll.trrv Maclean. The Western Bar Iron association, of New York, will advance the price of bar iron $3 per ton. The house committee on naval afTairs opposes four new battleships and the president has prepared to fight. The F.Igin .National Watch company hit closed its factory for sn Indefinite peil.nl on account of dullness In tiade. A greyhound has returned on foot to Hi old home at Oakland from Western Montana, a distance of 1,600 miles. Franco, former premier ami dictator of Portugal, hai arrived in Madrid. He wse driven fren hoe Iw law ay thsests 4 inkl a. fy ns ainmtl M1 iWir ll'sanir asswwWile naM las fxfa bv tarns mi tas YarttA IkktM tm4sr A. British Columbia Legislature Enact Educational Test Law. Victoria, B. C, Feb. 12. The new Immigration law, enacted by the British Columbia legislature recent ly, on the lines of the Natal act, which applies an educational test to Immigrants arriving In British Co lumbia, who must be able to read and write in English or a language or Europe to be permitted to land, became a law today, when Lieutenant-Governor James Dunsmulr as sented to the bill. . Immediate provisions were made for the enforcement of the new law, which is obviously aimed at the Jap anese, and officials have been In structed to carry out Its effect on all Immigrants arriving after today. There are at the quarantine station 268 Japanese, left there by the steamer Kaga Maru, In quarantine, 125 of whom are bound here, and these will come under the provisions of the new law. RURAL PARCELS POST BILL. FOKBlDd Ot.AU HAfiO. Corrupt Practlcsa Act May Be Found Unconstitutional. Saleui Teat th corrupt practices bill, to be submitted to a vote of the people under the initiative and ref- confflcl wnn OREGON QlVtN PHOMINENCE Joint Passenger Tariff Mentions 200 Points in Stats. Oregou receives eorai.lortble prorn inence In the Joint tariff Utued by the Union raciao Bivim ths one wy co' onist rates to the ranflc coast from Union PaciHo territory. Tb tariff has just been issued and makes the rates LIABLE TO FINES OF S80.000.000 la In direct that section of the Constitution which ...ur.i.in fredom of speech Is be lieved by many who have read the j effective March 1 to April SO. haclu. measure. The bill makes It a crime sive. The tariff t( furth the latea in for any person to ask, solicit or in detail as they havs been announced si any manner try 10 muucu w v suade a voter on election day to vote for or against any candidate or meas ure. This would bar the use of any kind of argument on election day and there Is doubt whether it would be constitutional. Under this section of the law k is nrohabla that newspapers published on the morning of election day would h nrohlblted from printing anything calculated to influence voterB In de termining how to mark their ballots. The words "In any manner try to i , ,.,., ... , """""" Indue or oersuade" would cover a --r' union, vguc -uu multitude of acts. Candidates who went to the polls and extended the glad hand to voters would unques tionably come within the terms of ready in the bewapant... Th low col onlst rats is good to nation in Ore gon and about 200 rxdnti in this state are mentioned indivi.liullt in the tariff. The rate j, 130 Irom Council Bluffs, Omaha, St. Joseph, Leaven worth or Kana City to all main and branch line pointi00 (j r. 4 N. east f f Portland, lm-lu.lii,K points north of Umatilla .! I'-n .V -......,. -- amnion, Vl Ulunri, Ogden and 1 luntinirton via Denver. Granger or Ogden and Huntington, or the act. for it Is common knowledge that a warm handshake Is one of the most potent means of getting votes. PRECIOUS STONES IN RIVER. Huntington The same rate ohtalns to Portland and all main and branch line points on the Southern Padflo south thereof to ana including Aibland, as well as all points on the Aitoria A Columbia Kiver railroad, via Granger or Ogden and Huntington, via Denver, Granger or uguen and Huntington, via Grand Junction, Ogden and Huntington and via uenver ana Biiiinng. WANT CHEAPER GRAIN SACKS Growers at Athsn, Working Through Aiiociitlon Athena C. A. Barrett, president of Albany Man Makes Great Finds on Gravel Bars. Albany That the gravel bars of the Willamette river are full of val uable stones Is evidenced by the number found by J. O. Crawford, of this city, In the past year. People spend nours, says air. crawioru, . Tnllin. searching on ocean beaches for ' . f " ,C'B. stones, which can be picked up in , tlk th Pnwpsl object of the or- ordinary gravel bars where no one 1 Ionization at present Is to teduce the ever thinks of searching. price or aacas. in ifgoclation declares On the Willamette Just above and tnat the prices the dealers ask for sacks opposite this city is a wide gravel are unressonaDie. They say that they bar and on this during the past year made a good, lubattntial savins last Mr. Crawford has found the follow- yHar by meant of the asioclatlon, and ing stones ana minerals: Agates ui.triat tn(- wi)1 be able to make a far various colors, cornelians, various greater Mvi ng thb year. Mr. Barrett shades of Jasper, conglomerate Jas- " m a. ,k J r' , ..." per, wiiue juue, leiuspur nunu or) sembles the blue ground of South Africa, Indicative of diamonds; chal ecedony, silicas of various colors, black obsidian, black and red obsi dian ,moon stones, opals, rubltated quartz. Tbompsonlte, serpentine, oolitic, sandstone, saturllte, phallus and niltloritis, composed of Iron and that the farmers of this county will be abls this year to save iu,uuu. 1 tie inland Ciraingrnwera' association is 1 corporation and buys its own tacks direct thus making great deal better bargain than the dealer can make Another purpose of (he association is a f . . U n f n L - 1 . 1 11 1 iu iuho ius ".o.ik. auu ixoriiiern a. Irih mi. fl n this a ii m a r. 1 .. I n w I VV V. , li1 iT rscihe railway eompsn es to arrange to I n a iifdva hui Mr rpawfnrH nna1 . ' shift cars from one line to the other ing gravel bar Mr. Crawford bos found In his searches In the past year a fossil shark s tooth, primitive axes, pastels and mortars and paleo-4 llths Burnham Proposes Measure to Help Country Merchants. Washington. Feb. 11. Senator Burnham, of New Hampshire, today introduced In congress a mtmsure of distinct importance to rural Interests throughout the United States. It Is a bill to provido a rural delivery par cels post for merchandise and other articles uctually mailed on rural de livery routes. The rurul free deliv ery routes now number more than 3 8,000, and on them in excess of 15.000,000 people receive a dally postal service. The measure has th Indorsement of the president and postmaster-general. Meyer. It nrnviiles. In brief. for the establishment of a rural par cel post t special rates of postage ior me delivery of foodstuffs, dry goods, drugs, books and other mer chandise. Fund for King's Slayers. London, Feb. 12. A special dis patch to the Standard from Lisbon states that the public acquiesce in the assassination of the King and Crown Prince us a Justifiable politi cal act. and th.1t no effort will be made to bring to Justice the accom plices of the murderers, although they are numerous und In muny cases known. On the contrary, says the dispatch, no surprise Is expressed i nut the republican newspapers de mand the criminal prosecution of the king s equerry. Kleguerla, who sab- ereu one assassin. Won't Sue for Slander. Washington, Feb. 12. The pub lished report that Senator Fulton will bring suit against Francis J Iteney for slander Is without founda tion. Senator F'ulton Is noncomnilt uii reKiiruing details or the course he will pursue In answering Mr. lleney's charges beyond Issuing a statement to the press which he la preparing, but it Is known that he has no idea of bringing suit. It is probable that before the primary election be will make some speeches in uregon in refutation of Mr. Honey's attack. Nsvl Uniform s Bar. Providence. H. I., Feb. 12. The Khodo Island supreme court today confirmed the decision of the lower court In the rase of Chief Y.oman Fred Buenrle, who sued the proprie tors of n Newport d.inelnir n:ivl!i,,n refuslne his admission because for he wore the uniform ,.f ii. i u..i Slates navy. When the rase n tried In the superior court Huenzle ns awarded 2.1 rents damages, this being the sum he had paid for his ticket. Arbitrste With Frsnee. Washington. Feb. 1 2 Secretary Root and Ambassador Jusserand to day signed a treaty providing for the runrsiion 01 anv Issue Grain Sacks at Reduced Figures Pendleton Umatilla connty farmers will share in the purchase of 1,000,000 wheat sacks made by the Farmers' Co- peratlve anion at Walla Walla. Ovet 200 farmers were present at a mars ' meeting at wnicn contracts lor the pur chase of 1,000,000 sacks from the J. Z. Smith company and the Kerr-Gifford company of Portland at a uniform price of 70, was made. As the same quality of sacks sold last year at from 1U to 11c each, the farmers Jiave made s great saving in purchases for this year by asking for bids. without removing the goods from one car to another. Another object the association has in view is to reduce freight rates on laige grain shipments Pay Weytrhieuier't Tsxes. Klamath Falls The Weyerhaeuser Timber company, which has extensive land holding in Klamath and Lake counties, has announced its Intention of adopting the ijilem followed by the government in lemngthe lands within forest reserves tot (taxing purposes. The company own pVToximately 300,- 000 acres of limber ItiA in the two counties. Home of the lnd it has ac quired in recent yean, but much of it had been held for a long time. It has never made any attempt to derive reve n ie from the lands. New Collrge Building;. Milton At a meeting of the board of Columbia college It was decided that an administration building cost Will Advertise In East. F.ugene The Fugene Commercial club has appropriated I3IK) for adver- ing $25,000 should be erected, and ' tising I.ane county and Euyene in F'aet it is understood that this building Brn ranlln ,... mnni, r nntil the shall be ready for use at the next col- colonUtt IHteg on tu ttinerontinental lego term next fall. The building is railroads go into effect. 0( the $1,375 lu uc v.. l .:. .!.... f.. way, giving every advantage to the v u-,.. students. This is a South Methodist,01 "ie ciud since uanaxer naneg wos Institution, and Is proving very sue- charge, all but $20.75 wal expended in cessful. There Is an enrollment of over 100 students this terms, all form different parts of the northwest. Bales Under Hlnkle Ditch. Kugene, thereby really turning the money sulcribed back into the com munity that gives it. New Hotel for Sodavills. AH.nnv Tli... n.tlnn tihvul. Fendleton Seven sales of arid land '-inn ., ,ln,,nn hn,i nd aggregating over $11,000 have just been sanitarium at Sodavllle during the made from the Hinkle Ditch company's next three months is a report which tract in the western part of Umatilla has gained foundation in the little county. The tracts will all be settled mineral springs city five miles south and reclaimed and a large eettlement ilKt of Lebanon. No names havo been is snticinated in that irt of theennnt ' given publicity, but It la said that this sorina. Those makinir nurchaswi ,he Improvement Is an assured fact were J. H. Htrohtn, W. p. I.ittlefield, Maui ice I. Kcroggs, Elizabeth J. Tuck er, Martha A. Travis, Lirin O. Henry and B. F. Stroiim. during the corning summer season. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Club, 82c J blueetem, 84c; valley, 82e: red, 80c. Oats No. 1 white, $28; gray, $28. Barley Feed, $27 per ton; brewing, Klamath Cattle News. Klamath Falls The shipping season for Klamath fonnty rattle is about over 1 am. .ii.i and the totals show that ever $500,000 Corn Whole $32 50; cracked, worth were driven eut during the past $3- Oo season. Since August the number) n'ay-Vallev timothy, No. l.$17(3il driven to , Montsgne ,nd Gazelle fnr ' p., ton ; Ftern Oregon timothy, $20 shipment equals 10.680, and there yet ($21; clover, $14?5; cheat. $15; rema.n in he valley mostly In the 1 ,, hay, $Hri,i5- .! Ua. $12(313; Merrill eountrv. about .a noil r.i i i.- . . r ...! . tu'.: i " . . V . " ' wen, IU """" um mwB noi include me Fort Klamath cattle, driven out by way ofAshlaud and Med ford. About hlf of this total was shipped by J. C .uiicneii. 8tata Wants Sidetrsck. Palem The state hosrd has asked Butter Fancy creamery, 30(3, 35c per ponnd. Toultry Average old hens, 13dMc per pound; mixed chickens, 12(n)13c; spring chickens, 13(,;M?: rooters, 10 (12c; dressed chicksnl. 14o; tutkeys, live, J4fi15c; dresseJ, choice, 1 fi r.i 1 7c ; Wd(le: ducks, IHi.20c; the Iiallrr,l mrr,.u0i (feese, live the question of the need of a Vi le rack T' nU' ,,l?"ft2 on the Southern Pacific at the site of ! U'r"'h nch, randle.1, 2,27c ine nronosed bnm fur ih. r..v i. i - " ed, Just south of this city. The rail. roaJ company refused the Hate's re quest for a sidetrack. The state brd wants tiie sidetrsck established as an aid In transporting material for the new building, which will be started soon. Eagles Worry Benton County. MonroeA p,,lr of large eacles are playing havoc nmong the small limbs on the foothills west of town They are expert In keeping out of rifle range and no one has been able iu a unoi at them. Adds Course in Italian. University 0f Oregon F.ugene A coure in beginning It,)ian has been snnonnced by the depsrtment of mod em Isngnsgemi. Dr. Timothy Chloran ia at the head of this depsrtment. Cannery Put, Up Beef. Prownsville-The Brownsville can nery has been eirrimnrin i .u- canning of beef snd It w.U uroh.hl. Vesl 75 to 12. nonnds, OOVc; 125 to 150 pounds, 7c; 150 to 200 pounds, 6(S 6',c. I'ork Block, 75 to 150 pounds, ( 7e; packers, f)3Hc. Fruits Appl tahls, $1.75(3,2 50; cooking, $1.2.rrL5o per boi; crsnier- ries, n(.u per Vegetables Turn i;x- "Sc r' carrots, 5c fur nck; b"ts, $1.00 per sack; rabhstfp, l'4t. per pound: rsnli flower, $1.75 Ci 2; rPlerv. $1 50r4 50 per crste; onions, l.VJ-'V per docen ; Par-ely, LMV rr , 'wen: peas. 1' pT poutid; lieiiH.ru, per pound; pumpkins, 1 (J 1 1.,. rr pound; radish 2iH p.r HBn. ,pinaeh, te per Pnnd; sprouts, pr pound; S'l'iai-h, 1(1 '4c p-r pound. Onoions $.' 50 L, hnndre.l. rotatoes4ii(1((, hundred, de livered Portland; ,weet potst.S, 13-25 iS.3.50 per cwt. ' Hops l(X)7i ,t ind cholcS, .c per pound; oh'. 1 I"r I,"n'1- Wool Kastem ns'n f 13 420c per pound s "'"I lotsrlnfc- n Clear Cats Against 8. P Paid Re bates for Years. San Francisco, Feb. 11. Penalties unprecedented in the history of the prosecution of corporations In Cali fornia, or a complete revision and vitalising of the laws applicable to railroads, will be the outcome of the Investigation to be Instituted this wek by the State Railroad Cummls- aiou, iu tiie rooms ot 'me chamber' of Commerce, lu the Merchants Ex change building. Assistant Attorney-General Ray mond Benjamin said today that 4,000 cases of reUatlng have been perfected against the Southern Pacific Com pany, practically through Its own ad missions. These cases will be pre sented to the Railroad Commission by Attorney-Ueueral U. 8. W ebb, Mr. Benjamin and O. K. Cushiug, special counsel for the California Traffic As sociation. Should convictions be ob tained on each of these cases, and the Maximum penalty of $20,000 be Imposed for eucb violation of the law, the Southern Pacific will face an aggregate flue of $80,000,000. In each case the evidence practi cally Is conclusive, from bills of lad ing to the Indorsed checks issued by the company to the shipper, in reim bursement. When the Slate Board of Railroad Commissioners requested the Southern Pacific to submit Its books to Mr. Benjamin, Peter F. Ounne, counsel for the railroad, re plied that the railroad's books would be available at any time. The com placency with which the railroad cor poration greets the Investigation foreordains that It will not fight the action ot the Railroad Commission on merits but rather upim the law Involved. Section 222 of the Btate legislation which creates the State Board of Railroad Commissioners, with their power to fix rules, provides: Any railroad corporation or transportation company which shall fall to conform to such rates as shall be established by such commission shall be fined not exceed ing $20,000 for each offense. in 4,000 cases the railroad com-1 ADVISE BIO CHANGE KcorgaDlzitloa of Postolflce De psrtineot Recommended. HIKE Ctiilf DIRECTOR Of POSTS SWIM PACKING CO. COMING Commission Suggests Long Tsrm for Head of Department st High Salary Less Red Taps. Washington, Feb. 11. Congress today received a preliminary report of the Joint commission appoiuted during the lust congress to investi gate the business methods of the post office department and postoflice service and Bubmit recommendations for legislation to effect changes in their administration. The commis sion, consisting of Senators Penrose, Carter and Clay, and Representatives Overstreet, Gardner of New Jersey, and Moon, points out many objec tionable methods of both depart ments. Among the recommendations Is a plun to place the actual direc tion of the business of the postolflce department under the service of an officer, with necessary assistants to oe appointed by the president, "by and with the advice and consent ot the senate," for long terms, so as to insure the continuance of efficient service. Under the plan the postmaster-general, us a member ot the cabinet, Is chargeable with general supervisory control and the determi nation of question of policy. 1 he commission also recommends that the business of the department be decentralized so as to avoid the puny fulled to conform to the rate I congestion at the national capital set by the Commissioners. The prac tice la ot long standing, but the only records available are theme subse quent to May, 1906. In some of these rebates the railroad refunded 53 per cent ot the original charge to the shipper DRAG) OUT SKELETONS. Alleged lllegitimoto Heirs of Alfonso Making Trouble. Madrid, Feb. 11. The question of allotlng a pension ot 250,000 pesetas to the Infanta Alfonso, the son of Don Carlos of Bourbon and the Prin cess of Asturlas, who recently mar ried Princess Louise ot Orleans In England, has received the approval of the Council of State and now goes before the Cortes. But it has raised many complications, not the least In teresting of which are suits for sim ilar allowances brought by the na tural children of Alfonso XII by Elena Sanz, a former well-known Spanish actress, and a natural cous in of the king named Carlos Allen Perkins, a second-rate but popular actor In the music balls of the capital. Perkins claim goes back to his great-grandmother, the famous In fanta Carlotta, who provoked the Carllst war by obliging Ferdinand VII to admit the principle of the Salic law. It was she who slapped the face of Calomarde, the Premier, and drew from him the historic retort: "White hands are not offensive." Perkins' birth Is not recorded in Got ha ,but he Insists that his real name is Don FrancUco Carlos Plo linui. Alfimuii T.nlu li'.tinati.lfi A linn ' 'erklns Guerowsky Bourbon Luth- erlan Hossen Drlchma Vrlchna and Ottendorf" Bnd consequently a blood relation of most of the reigning sov- erlgns of Europe. which impairs the efficiency and in creases the coat of the service; that the bookkeeping, auditing and ac counting be simplified, unified and centralized to secure greater accur acy, more prompt methods and elim ination of duplication ot work; and that the practice of requiring need less detailed reports from small post offices be discontinued. The moder ate application of the non-accounting system to small offices will eliminate about 30.000, or nearly one-half, of all the postolflce accounts from the present complex report and book keeping system, or would at least greatly simplify the same. The com mission says: "It appears too obvious to require argument that the most efficient ser vice can never be expected as long as the direction of the business Is, as at present entrusted to a post master-general and certain assistants selected without special reference to expedience and qualifications and subject to frequent change. Under such a system u large railroad, com mercial or Industrial business would eventually go Into bankruptcy, and the postolflce department has averted that fate only because the United States treasury has been available to meet deficiencies." PUSH BACK GUARD. Survey for New Tunnel. Seattle, Wash., Feb. 11. Survey ors and engineers lu the enmlnv of the Northern Pacific have for months cled to the public, the ceremony of Eager Portugese Almost Create Panic at Hoys I Funeral. Lisbon, Feb. 11. The bodies of King Carlos and Crown Prince Luis Philippe were yesterday laid away beside those of their royal ancestors In the sacred sepulchre In the Pan theon. A great crowd, numbering thousands, struggled outside the cathedral of San Vicente, seeking to enter the view the bodies before the doors were finally closed for the ceremony. Brushing back the police and the guard of Royal Archers, they poured Into the church, sweeping everything before them. When the doors eventually were Ready to Benin Work on 3,600.000 Plant st Ones. Portland, Feb. 10. In the first and only authorized statement which has been given out either here or anywhere else regarding his com pany's plans In the Pacific Northwest Louis F. Swift, president of Swift &. Co., last night declared that the mammoth Portland plant, which will represent an outlay of $3,500,000 and which will be erected on the Pe ninsula, will be completed and ready for operation In all departments In one year. Portland Is also to bo made the center ot the packing Industry of the Pacific Northwest, and the Trout- dale plant, near Portland, eventually is to be abandoned, at least so far as the packing side of the business is concerned. To what use, if any, the Swift people are to put their present extensive and valuable property at that point was not vouchsafed. The Swift people are ready and prepared to go aheud with construc tion work Just as soon as tho rail roads have Indicated what connec tions on the Peninsula they will es tablish, and when they will be ready to do the work. When these connec tions with necessary terminal facili ties huve been decided upon, work on the packing plant will be rushed to completion. In the official interview, II. C. Gardner, head of the construction de partment of Swift & Company, who will have direct charge ot -erecting the plant, acted as spokesman for President Swift, and entered Into as full a discussion of the plana of the Swifts as the head of the big con cern deemed wise to give out for publication at this time. Mr. Gardner, in explaining why the public could not be taken fully into the confidences of bis concern at this time, suid that certain pluns. such as whether the company should secure power from some of the com panies already In the field here, or erect its own plunt on the Peninsula, are yet to be settled, and that there were a number of other considera tions which, if disclosed now, might interfere with their consummation. It was also clearly brought out that if Portland ever intends to wrest the bulk of the Alaska trade front the Sound cities, the merchants and shippers here will have to establish a direct steamer line from here to the North. This was brought out In answer to the direct question as to whether Swltt & Company Intended to enter that field,, now monopolized by various Seattle and Tacoma pack ers. "Swift & Company," declared Mr. Gardner, "are in the packing busi ness and packing business alone. They are not in the transportation business, nor In the cattle-raising business." NIGHT RIDERS ON RAID. been locating a new tunnel through 1 "ntombment was begun. All the min the Cascades. The fact became known yesterday, when the men. driven from their work by the heavy snows, arrived at Green River Hot Springs on their way to St. Paul. from Hot Springs comes word thrt the big Stampede tunnel Is to be abandoned as soon as the new bore is completed. The new bore is to be seven miles long and will tmst up ward ot $10,000,000. Franco Fxcitea Curiosity. Bordeaux .France, Feb. 11. Sun day passed with Senor Franco, the ex-Premier of Portugal, still in Bor- eaux and still in seclusion. His privacy has remained unbroken; since bis arrival Friday he has not emerged from the hotel where he Is stopping, not even, from his room. The former dictator has become a problem which the people are dis cussing with curious, wondering, even sympathetic Interest, but no one as been enlightened as to the hour of his departure, or his destination, for It Is certain that he Is not to re main here long. inters of state were present. The pat riarch of Lisbon, wearing pontifical vestments, and assisted by other high church olllcials, blessed the sacra ment, the cathedral and palace1 cnoirs cnanrea tne itinera Mo ' ana to the Intoning of "lie Profundis" the coffin of the Crown Prince was transported between double ranks of archers, preceded by a long proces sion. In a similar manner the body of the King was borne to the tomb. Imprison Cit'zsns and Burn Tobacco and Warehouses. Hopklnsvllle, Ky., Feb. 10. Iist night at 12 o'clock a band of about 150 mounted night riders, masked. heavily armed and wearing the In signia of a secret clan, Invaded Fre doniu, Crittenden county, captured James Scarberry, operator of the Cumberland Telephone Company, and cut all telephone connections. They then forced Have Potter, a clerk In a drug store, to open his store, In which they corralled several citizens and held them prisoners. Leaving a largo guard In the town, the others galloped to the village of View, five miles away, and blew up Alfred II. Cardln's tobacco factory, containing 35,000 pounds of tobacco belonging to him and his croppers. The Ions aggregates $10,000, with $5,000 Insurance. After firing volleys Into the air the nlnht riders returned through Fredonla and released their prison ers. Eighty per cent of Crittenden county farmers have tobacco pooled I In the Society of Equity. Mr. Cardln is not a member, lie is a prominent citizen, aged 73, end was formerly a candidate for governor on the Popu- ! list ticket. The Planters Association has no organization In this county. Boiler Tubas Fxplode. Vallnjo, Cal., Feb. 11. Boiler tubes on the cruiser St. I-ouls blew out at noon today while the St. Louis was off Sausllito. E. E. Scott, coal passer; F. Thompson, water tender; E. W. Baker, fireman of the first class, and li. Lewis, fireman of the first class, were horribly scalded with steam. The origin of the ex plosion is not known, but It is sup posed to have been mused by cold water running Into hot pipes. It Is not believed any of the injured will die. A rigid investigation is under way. Mourned by All Creeds. Washington, Feb. 11. Memorial services in honor of the late Rev. Dr. Stafford, pastor of St. Patrick's hurch, were held at Chases theater, hen tributes to the life and char acter of Dr. Stafford were paid by men prominent In public life. Ice- : northwestern frontier, to punish the rresident r airnanKS spose or nr. Stafford as "The Citizen"; Senator lieverldne of Indiana as "The Ora tor"; Ilannls Taylor, ex-Mlnlster to Spain, as "The Scholar nnd Philan thropist," Bnd ex-Cotnmldsioner of SendaTronps Against Afridis Calcutta, Feb. 11. The Indian government has derided to send Im mediately two brigades of troops un der Major-General Sir James Wll leres Into the Bazaar valley, on the ge; vslley, l'-wa s"rl:r.i 8s- ; taoW A.s. t3 P" Pensions James Tann r, as trlot." The Pa- Wreck en Wabssh. Detroit. Mich.. Feb. 1!. The Con tinental Limited passenger train on the Wabash railway, westbound, W'is derailed today by a broken rail at Delhi, (Int., l.'O miles east of D" troit. None of the passengers nor triln crew sustained any Injuries, other than bruises. Mrs. J. W. Dm lels, of Wallace, Idaho, was taken from the train at St. Thomas, suffer ing from nervous shock and with this exception all of the passengers con tinued to their destinations. Zakkakhela, a powerful tribe of Af rldls, who have bei'ti raiding villages In that territory and ambushing members of the mounted police. At Hawal Plndi. where the troona of . . , . , , , ,, - .iiiiu "in mien wiiii iiiiiny corgi's and he two brigades are mobilizing forl,t , believed that the men have mudo r.!...,!.!...,, in Kii-hi n.iiT- eooil th.. r .-u.ni.o Frustrate Mepiiblirsn Plot. Marseilles, Feb. 10. Tho frustra tion on Friday last at Oporto of an elaborate plot to proclaim a republic Is announced In a telegram which was received today from one of tho highest officials lu Oporto by his brother, who has Just arrived hero from Lisbon. According to the tele grurii a large number of conspirators have been arrested. Including the leaders. It was also slated that numerous bodies ot militant repub licans had been seen about the sub urbs of Oporto. The police captured a large store of revolvers and car bines. Blow Up Bank. .loplln. Mo., Feb. 10. Four men early this morning blew open tho vault of the Bank of Sulphur Springs, Ark., snd secured over $1,300 In rash, besides notes and other val uable. The cltzens of Sulphur Springs were aroused by two explo sions, but by the time the officers, reached the downtown district, tho work of the thieves had been com pleted and four men were seen to mount their horses and ride, west ward. The mountains In thU direc tion are filled with many gorges and lty. It Is said the movement will be surprise to the disorderly natives. Tsmpsrsncs Worker Dead New York, Feb. 11. John W. Oliver, editor and principal owner of the Yonkers Statesman, died st his home In Y'onkers today, aged 2 tsars. Mr. Oliver was an early lead tr In the temperance movement, and Its his brother, Isaac Oliver, found H tAo Sroa of Tumpsrance. Frareo Trsvsls Again. Bordeaux, France, Feb. 11 Senor Franco, the ex-I'rernler of Portugal, with bis wife nnd son, left this city by train at 7:43 this morning for Marseilles. The departure whs sikI di n, the hotel authorities being noti fied of the step at the last moment. Senor Franco appeared reste,i from his stay here. He is esg depressed and he walked over to tho train at a quick step. He was accompanied by Frenrh defective. There were no people at the railroad station Snow in South Carolina. Spartanburg. S. C, Feb. 11 Spar tanburg is burled under seven In ches of snow. It Is the heavlent fall In many years. It occurred lsst night and today. The wther Is now the coldest ot the WisHo It degrees above lero. Demand t f"how Hard. Paris, Feb. 10. Tho recent fight ing In Morocco, us well as the protest which Abd-el-Aziz, the Sultan, Is re ported to hav submitted to Germany against French occupation and ag gression In tlii't country, has led M. Juares, the Socialist leador, to formu late a new Interpellation on the sub ject. In the Chamber of Deputies tomorrow he will formally demand from thr. government another ex planation of the Moroccan policy. Archbishop Returns. New York, Feb. 1 0. Arrhblshop Tntrlik William Rlordan, of San Francisco, whose recent mission In Rome was both for rest and to advo cate the appointment of Rev. Edward J. Hanna. of Rochester, as Coadju tor Arrhblshop of Sn Frsnclsco. re-
