Hillsboro Independent
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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-