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Government Troops Stop Advance o f
Insurgent Army.
EVENTS OFJHE DAY
Newsy Items Gathered tra» AH
to ts ol ike fo r ti
L u t Important but N ot Loss Inter-
esting Happenings from Points
Outside the Stats.
Hoot in Tozss is causing much suf
fering.
Tw o arrests hare been made in Chi
cago fo r bomb throwing.
W. D. Connor w ill try to secure La
F oletto’s seat in the senate.
Immigration officials are at El Paso,
T e x ., inquiring into Chinese smuggling.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and three
children are at Naples, on their way to
Rome.
E. EL Calvin, the Southern Pacific
officer, is not yet out o f danger, but is
doing well.
Bryan says the time is at hand for
all states to act in the ratification o f
the income tax.
A Detroit woman has confessed mis
deeds in order to save her husband
from the gallows.
Pekin, July IS.— A remarkable story
o f the tragic fate o f a youthful pre
tender to the Dragon throne and a
large number o f his follow er» comes
through missionary channels from dis
tant Yunnan province.
- Under the influence o f Taoist priests
a prosperous member o f the country
gentry named Chu conceived the 0oo-
viction that he himself was a descend
ant o f the Chus’ M ing emperors, and
his son, aged 12 years, the rightful
occupant o f the throne.
He rallied the clansmen and his
neighbor t> the number o f upward o f
2,000 men, variously armed with old
guns, bows and spears. W ith the pre
tender at their head, this insurgent
array marched upon Yunnan Fu, the
provincial capital, preaching an anti-
Manchu crusade.
Near Yunnan Fu a detachment o f
the viceroy’s modern troops overtook,
attacked and routed the* insurgents.
Several hundred o f them are reported
killed and wounded.
A ll the members
o f the Chu fam ily were promptly
slaughtered by the viceroy’s orders.
-The youthful claimant, whose bpad
was so lately adorned by the halo o f the
Son o f Heaven, was after his execu
tion, being paraded through the prov
ince in a cage as an exhibit and warn
ing to all questioners o f authority in
Mancha.
R IO T IN G IN B O LIVIA.
Canadian officials say the report is
false that the bars are to be let down Mobs at La Paz Engage in Pillaging
to Chinese immigration.
and Looting.
Flood conditions along the Missouri
L a Paz, Bolivia, July 13.— La Pax
and Kansas r iv e n have improved but is given over tonight to rioL The
little and much apprehenaon is felt.
people swarmed into the streets and
M. Sakao, president o f the Japanese did much damage. The electric light
sugar company, committed suicide
wires were cut and pillaging was be
when convicted o f graftin g by the gov
gun on all sides. Shots were heard in
ernment.
every direction. The situation fo r for
The Austro-Hungarian union is again eigners, especially Peruvian and A r
gentine residents, is extremely serious.
The guards protecting the Peruvian
Hundreds o f new cases o f cholera
are appearing daily in St. Petersburg. and Argentine legations were suddenly
withdrawn last evening fo r some un
Prince Miguel, son o f the Portuguese
known reason.
When this became
pretender, is to marry an American
known, street mobs renewed their a t
woman.
tacks. Senor Foseaca and his w ife
English suffragettes bave succeeded bad a narrow escape. They made their
in reaching Prem ier Asquith with their way out o f the legation and ran eight
petition.
blocks, finally seeking protection in
Ambassador Reid has given a dinner the home o f the president o f Bolivia.
Manifestations have been numerous
and dance to the king and queen o f
in
pablie places, and at a meeting held
England.
Saturday a portrait o f Figora Alcorta,
Bolivians have mobbed the Argen president o f Argentina, was held down
tine legation at La Pax, because o f an ward on h pole and stoned to pieces. /
adverse arbitration ruling.
I t is reported here that considerable
There is an immense building in excitement prevails at Lim a and Bue
crease in Chicago. A t the present rate nos Ayres, and the Argentine govern
1909 w ill show a gain o f 60 per cent ment’s silence in the face o f Bolivian
protests is regarded as ominous.
over 1908.
A vigilance committee at Los Ange
T W O -C E N T FARE C O S T L Y .
les prevented the elopement o f a white
woman with a negro. The colored man
was horsewhipped.
Roads Lose Heavily Because o f Re
duction in Charges.
John D. Rockefeller has given an
other $10,000,000 to the General Edu
Chicago, July 13.— The claim o f I lli
cation board. The board now
nois railroads that the 2-cent rate,
endowment o f $62,000,000.
while stimulating travel to a marked
A severe earthquake shock is re degree, had reduced the , revenues o f
roads from passenger traffic almost to
ported in India.
the ruination point, is borne out by a
The Colombian revolution has control comprehensive investigation by tbs
o f the chief port.
Santa Fe road.
The Illinois railroad commission in
English suffragettes have gained an
sists tbe law has been beneficial to the
audience with the k it « .
roads. The latter say they have been
Persian rebels are near Teheran and compelled to employ much additional
the shah has prepared to flee.
equipment and more help to handle the
An association has been formed at increased travel, which did not, by a
L o i Angeles to reform auto speed man large sum, compensate them fo r tbs
extra expense.
Tbe Santa Fe worked under the
Calhoun has been refused a change operation o f a similar law in Kansas,
o f venue and the second trial is set for where a careful record was kept for
July 19.
the first year. The Santa Fe carried
The steamer Mauretania crossed the 654,0(10 more passengers than it did
A tlantic in 4 days, 16 hours and 36 the year previously under the 3-eent
law. Meanwhile revenues from pas
minutes.
senger traffic for the same period de
The Missouri floods have begun to
creased $297,000.
fall, leaving death and ruin in their
Railway men say this does not begin
wake. Fully 2,000 people are homeless
to tall tbe real loss, which is to be
and the property damage w ill re ah $1,-
found in the great expense for equip
600.000.
ment and additional employes, the re
The only bank conducted by Indians vision o f schedules and wear and tear
is at Fort Lapwai, Idaho,. I t has a o f property due to more constant
capital stock o f $10,000 and over $46,-
000 deposits. The affairs o f the bank
Upper Air to Be Studied.
are conducted by three Indians.
San Francisco, July 18.— A meteor
Missouri crops have suffered greatly ological and astronomical observatory
from the heavy rains.
at an'altitude o f about 14,000 fe et is
Nine men vers killed by an explosion to be erected on Mount Whitney by the
o f gas in a coal mine near Trinidad, Smithsonian institution. The work o f
preparing tbe trail up the mountain
Colo.
over which the material w ill be trans
The mission steamer A bler is miss ported by psckmules is already under
ing in the A rctic ocean with 19 per- way. I t is expected the station, which
w ill be temporary, w ill be completed
The American Sagar Refining com by September 1, when Professor W.
pany says it is not guilty o f violating W. Campbell and Professor Abbott, o f
tbe Lick observatory, w ill go to Mount
the anti-trust laws.
Whitney to make observations.
Wheat has been damaged in Nevada
by the extreme cold weather.
Iec
Prince Names Successor.
formed in many places.
Berlin, July 13.— The emperor has
Damage from rain is reported from asked Prince von Buelow who be would
many points in Nebraska.
A t Omaha suggest as his successor in the chancel
part o f the streetcar system is out o f lorship and the prince has recommend
commission.
ed Dr. von Bethmann-Hollwegg, min
Railroad blockades in various parts ister o f the interior and vice chancel
o f Colorado, doe to heavy rains, have lor. The opinion among government
delsyed more than 1,000 delegates to officials appears to settle upon Dr. von
Betbmann-Hollweg, especially as the
conventions in the West.
widening circle learns o f Chancellor
Latest reports o f accidents due to von Buelow’s recommendation.
Tbs
Fourth o f July celebrations show 76 emperor is expected in Berlin today.
dead and 2,774 injured. This is onS-
half less than last year's record.
F rog Drifts Stop Trains.
A fter seven years o f legal delays,
John A . Benson, convicted at San Fran
cisco o f conspiring to defraud the gov
ernment o f land, has been sent to pris
on to servo his sentence o f one year.
Utica, N. Y ., July 13.— A message
from Gouverneur tonight states that in
a heavy wind and rain storm there
thousands o f small frogs fell, covering
the sidewalks to such an extent that
w «Iking was difficult. The rails o f a
railroad for half a mile were covered
and rendered so slippery tbs spend o f
tbe trans was materially 1
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
Revolutionists in Persia Gaining o n
Government Forces.
B U ILD T O 8 IU 8 L A W .
O RE G O N M EN T O S P O K A N E .
Strong Delegation to Attend National Holding Company Will Back Eugene A
Western in New Road,
Irrigation Congress.
Salem— Governor Frank W . Benson
has appointed the delegates who w ill
attend the National I:
in Spokane representative o f the state
o f Oregon. In’ a few days five
w ill be appointed by C. N. McArthur,
speaker o f the late house, aad five
more w ill be appointed by Jay Bower-
man, president o f the late senate. Fol
lowing are the delegates named by Gov
ernor Benson:
Professor P. L . Campbell, o f Eu
gene, president o f the University o f
Oregon; D. W. J. Kerr, o f Corvallis,
president o f the Oregon Agricultural
college; C. W . Fulton, former United
States senator; J. N. Teal, F. S. Stan
ley, E. B. Piper, John T. Whistler,
Tom Richardson, R. M. Brereton, C. B.
Merrick, Joseph B. Knapp, all o f Port
land; Jay Bowerman. Condon; John
H. Lewis, Salem; H. L . Holgate, Bo
nanza; Francis M. Saxton, A . V.
S w ift, John L. Rand, Baker C ity ; W .
J. Furnish, Gilbert W. Phelps, Poodle-
ton; S. D. Peterson, M ilton; W alter
M. Pierce, W. J. Snodgrass, L a
Grande; Clyde T. HocketL Enterprise;
Malcolm A. Moody, The Dalles; E. T.
Early, Hood R iv er; F. H. Hokpins,
Central Point; J. D. Heard, Jackson
v ille ; Dan P. Ras, Jacksonville; H. A.
Brattain, Paisley; A . T. Buxton, W .
A . W illiams, Forest G rove; H. V.
Gatos, Dallas; H. A . Rands, Oregon
C ity ; Drew Barnum, Moro; W ill R.
King, Ontario; R. N. Donnelly, Rich
mond; John Ellis, Frank White, Kla
math Falls; H. C. Levens, Burns; F.
EL W aite, Sutherlin, and Georgs E.
Davis, Canyon Ciy.
The list o f delegates probably pre
sents the strongest selection ever made
in this state by a ehief executive to
attend any convention
I t is composed
o f leading men in all walks o f life and
all o f them take a keen interest in
the science o f irrigation.
Every one
o f them has promised to attend the
congress.
M U CH W H E A T 8 H IP P E D .
M e ore Than the Puget
Portland Shii i pS M
Sound Ports.
Portland— During the cereal year,
ending June 30, Portland shipped in
the neighborhood o f 3,000,000 mo
bushels o f wheat than was sent from
Puget sound,, while from there not quite
1,000,000 more barrels o f flour w
sent out.
The wheat shipments to Europe from
here were 6,182,778 bushels, while
those from Puget sound were 4,164,481
bushels; to the orient, South America
and A frica, Portland shipped no wheat,
Puget sound sending out 316,286 bush
els. California wheat shipments from
here were 2,932,861 bushels and from
the sound 2,032,492 bushels were ship
ped. Wheat from Portland to Mexico
was 166,267 bushels and from Puget
sound to Mexico it was 203,678 bushels.
During the year just completed Port
land shipped the follow ing amount o f
flour: To tbs orient and Hawaii, 642,-
193 barrels; Europe, 15,000 barrels;
California, 296,716 barrels.
In tbe
same order are the shipments o f flour
from Puget'sound ports: Orient, 909,
513 barrels; South America, 109,847
barrels; Europe, 23,681 barrels; Cali
fornia, 278,666 barrels, and to Mexico,
8,600 barrels. The grand total fo r tbe
season, 1908-1909, being 26,811,269
bushels o f wheat from here and the
sound.
The Portland barley shipments for
this season are 822,609 bushels.
Eugene— The Eugaoe-Siualaw rail
road, which has long been talked of,
appears now to soon be a reality. The
proposition Nr build the road has
reached a point where the promoters o f
the enterprise feel that the building of
the line is a certainty. The Lane
County Asset company, which was or
ganised in Epgene last winter fo r the
purpose o f promoting the line, w ill be
the holding company fo r the Eugene A
Western Railway company, which was
incorporated a few weeks ago to build
the road. Offlcea have been opened
here and operations w ill be directed by
the aa«et company.
I t is the intention to offer fo r sale to
the people o f Eugene and vicinity at
lehat $160,000 o f the stock o f the Lane
County Asset company, the funds to be
used in building the first section o f 20
miles o f the road. When this has been
accomplished it is proposed to turn all
the assets over to tbe Eugene A West
ern Railw ay Company, issuing stock
holders tbe same amount o f stock in the
railroad company as they have paid for
in the asset company and to issue and
sell the bonds o f the railway company
for tbe purpose o f completing the road
to Florence.
C a lf Coats Ten Thousand.
Klamath Falls— I t took the jury just
25 minutes to find a verdict fo r the de
fendant in the Kelley-Arant damage
suit, last o f the cases resulting from
the criminal prosecution o f Jay A rant,
who was indicted fo r the larceny o f a
calf more than tw o years ago.
A rant
was tw ice tried on a charge o f larceny,
the first trial resulting in a disagree
ment, while the second acquitted him.
Three cases resulted over tbe ownership
o f the calf. Tbe ca lf involved in the
litigation was worth approximately
$10. Tb e money expended in litigation
will aggregate close to $10,000, and o f
this amount the taxpayers o f the coun
ty w ill be forced to pay not lees than
$ 6 , 000 .
Summer School at Albany.
Albany— The Albany college summer
school began with an enrollment o f 48
pupils. President H. M. Crooks and
County Superintendent Jackson are "in
charge o f the work, assisted by Pro
fessor L . A . W iley, o f Portland, and
Professor Torbet, o f Albany • college.
All branches o f public school work, as
well as teachers’ review and Bible
study are being taught.
President
Crooks reports that the attendance w ill
reach the 100 mark.
Surveyinf fo r New Road.
Marshfield— Chief Engineer Haines,
o f the Coos Bay, Oregon A Idaho rail
road, who has been making preliminary
surveys, reports that in a few days the
first 12 miles w ill have bean surveyed.
Tbe preliminary work o f finding a
grade through the mountains has been
carried on in a thorough manner, and
the engineer is pleased with the result
so tar. I t is hoped to finish the survey
work before fall.
PO R TLAN D M ARKET8.
•
Wheat— Bluestemj, milling, $1.80;
club, $1.18(3)1.20; valley, $1.17.
Corn— Whole, $86 per ton; cracked,
$86 per ton.
Oats— No. 1 white, $ 10@40.60 per
ton.
Millstuffs— Bran, $26 30 per ton;
middlings, $88; shorts, $29f<$32; chop,
N ew Buildings fo r Indians.
$24@30; rolled barley, $34(3,35
Klamath Falls— Superintendent H
■ c ette
ite valley,
Hay— Timothy, W illam
G. Wilson, o f the Klamath Indian res $17@20 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $20
ervation, is making preparations to @ 28; mixed, $16@20.
enter upon a campaign o f improve
Grain Bags— 6j£e each.
ments. During the past week several
Fruits— Apples, $1@2.60 per box;
contractors have visited the agency to strawberries, $1.75(3)2 per crate; cher
look over tbe ground for the purpose of ries, 8@10c per pound; gooseberries,
filing bids for the construction o f the 4@ 5c; apricots, $1.25@1.60 per box;
large modern school budding which currants, 7 He per pound; loganberries,
w ill be erected during the rummer. $1.26 per crate; raspberries, $1.60;
Tbe bids w ill be forwarded to Washing black caps, $1.76@2.
ton and w ill not be opened fo r several
Potatoes — $1 @ 1.76 per hundred;
weeks. Work is to be begun shortly ndw, 2^lft2%e per pound.
on a large gymnasium.
Mr. Wilson
Vegetables — Asparagus, 75c®90c
believes that the Indians should be g iv per dozen; beans, 8e; lettuce, head,
en all the exeroise possible and with 25c per dozen; onions, 1214@16c;
this end in view be will endeavor to peas, 4®5c per pound; radishes, I6c
have the gymnasium roomy and equip per dozen.
ped with a view to making it attract
Butter— City creamery,extraa,26
;
ive. The school grounds are to be im fancy Outside ereamery, 25(326 X c;
proved and many o f the old buildings store, 18c.
Butter fa t prices average
renovated.
l j l c p e r pound under regular butter
prices.
Dam Has N o Fish Ladder.
Eggs— Oregon ranch, candled, 25c
M ills City— Anglers and others resid per dozen.
ing in this vieinity complain that thous
Poultry — Hens, 12@13c; springs,
ands o f salmon in the Santiam river 16Xe<S18e; roosters. 8@9c; docks,
are unable to reach the natural spawn young, 12@18c; geese, young, 9®10c;
ing ground above this city because the turkeys, 18c; squabs, $2® 2.25 per
Curtis Lumber company maintains a dozen.
dam withoot a fish ladder. A s nearly
Pork— Fancy, 10c per pound.
every one in the vieinity is connected
Veal— Extras, 8@ 8)<c per pound;
in some way with the lumber company ordinary, 7e; heavy, 6c.
no formal complaint has ever been
Hope— 1909 conracts, 16c per pound;
made. The condition, however, is de 1908.crop, 11 (9? 12c; 1907 crop. 7e;
plorable.
1906 crop, 4e.
Wool— Eastern Oregon, 16®28c per
Baker Courthouse Dona.
pound; valley, fine, 23c; coarse, 21 ¿¡¡c;
Baker City— The County court has
mohair, choice, 24@25c:
,
accepted tbe new courthouse from C.
Cattle— S teen , top, $4.60@4.60; fa ir
A . Gray A Son, o f Portland, who were
to good, $ 4 «4 .2 6 ; common, $8.76®4;
contractors for tbe interior work. Tbe i
cows, top, $8.60; fa ir to good, 83®
building is now completed and awaits [
8.26; common to medium, $2.60®2 75;
tbe arrival o f tbe new office furniture, j
calves, top, $6(86.60: heavy, $3.50(94;
I t has cost Baker county less than the
bulls and stags, $2.76(88.25; common,
$120,000 appropriated.
$2(3)2.60.
Asylum Improvements Awarded. ,
Hogs— Best, $8@8;.15; fa ir to good,
stockers, $6 @ 6 .6 0 :
Salem— Tbe asylum board has award $7.60 « 7 . 7 6 ;
ed the contract fo r improvements at Chins fats. $6.75®7.
Sheep— Top wethers, $4; fmir t<"
the asylum farm to Dennison A Mc
Laren, o f Salem, fo r $6,790. A new good, $8.60@8.76; ewes, He less on all
amusement hall w ill be built, tbe kit- grades; yearlings, beet, $4.16; fa ir to
chen enlarged, tbe main building re g o o i, $8.76(84; spring jambs, g4.75<3
roofed and the dining room repaired.
S t Petersburg, July I t . — The Rus
sian expedition from Baku whieh.land
ed at Enseil, a Persian seaport on the
Caspian yesterday, is made up o f 1,000
Russian and 800 Cossack cavalry, with
guns.
Despite tbe correct attitude
maintained by the Russians, the natives
are demonstrating their unfriendliness.
The unopposed advance o f 8ipbidar,
the leader o f the revolutionists, and
Sardarasad, the chief o f the Bakhtian
tribesmen, towards Teheran, is taken
here to mean that General Llakhoff,
the governor o f Teheran, considers bis
force inadequate to engage in a general
battle, and that he has decided to em
ploy his Cossack brigade merely as s
guard over the life o f the shah.
Persona w ell informed here regard
the entrance o f the revolutionists into
Teheran as a foregone conclusion, while
the deposition o f the shah, which sev
eral times has Been mooted, w ill now
arouse no surprise.
E S K IM O W IL L SE EK PO LE .
Boy Brought Here by Peary Will fr y
fo r A rctic Honors.
New. York, July 12. — Separated
from his native home fo r 18 years,
Mens W allses, an Eskimo boy brought
to this country with five o f his people
by Commander Peary from the Polar
regions, sailed today on the Red Cross
line steamship Rosalind, fo r S L Johns,
N. F., whence he w ill be conveyed to
his horns in Greenland.
Before Mens sailed, the A rctic club
extracted from him a written agree
ment that he would not again return to
this country and that while in Green
land he would not bears arms agsinst
the Peary expedition. This was due,
it is believed, to the fact that Mene,
angered at the attitude o f Peary and
the A rctie club in refusing to take
him back to Greenland, once safe in
bis native home, might seek revenge
for tbe treatment he received while in
this country.
Mene said he would organise an ex
pedition o f Eskimos to find the North
pole.
P R E S E N T W R IT IN G TA B O O E D .
Uniform Method to Be Used in Phila
delphia Schools.
Philadelphia, July 12.—*Both vertical
and Spencerian handwriting have been
tabooed in tbe public schools o f this
city, and after this a uniform method
o f penmanship w ill be adopted.
Numerous complaints have been re
ceived from business men wbo can’ t
decipher the w ritin g o f their clerks and
applicants for jobs wbo have learned
tbeir peculiar style o f chiragraphy in
tbe public schools.
For some time Superintendent Brum
baugh has been a t work on a plan to
unify and improve the writing, and
this plan was adopted at a meeting o f
the elementary schools committee.
A free, legible style o f w riting,
slightly slanting to the right, w ill be
taught. Students, no matter bow ad
vanced they may think their flourishes,
w ill have to begin again with pot hooks
and eipbers.
According to the new code, writing
w ill be taught like calisthenics or a
manual exercise.
The teacher w ill
clap her hands and count, and the en
tire class w ill make letters with books
and tails and crosses simultaneously.
The exercise is intended to g ive a free
mechanical movement to the arm and
increase the speed.
Earthquakes in France
Marseilles, July 12.— Berth shocks
occurred last night throughout tbs same
region whieh suffered seismic disturb
ances in June. Tbe shocks lasted four
or five seconds, and were in a direction
from east to west. The inhabitants o f
Rogues, Lamboseo and SL Carinat and
other communes in the A ix district
were panic stricken bik P rushed from
their dwellings. They are now camp
ing in tbe open.
A t Marseilles the
patients in L a Conception hospital
were greatly alarmed , but they were
reassured by the surgeons.
Teachers’ Occupation Is Gone.
Ssn Joan, Porto Rico, July 12.— The
steamer Carolina bas sailed from here
for N ew York, having on board all tbe
American school teachers who taught
in Porto Rico last year under contract.
The failure o f the United States senate
to pass the Olmstesd bill, which was
designed to remedy tbe deadlock exist
ing between tbe executive council and
tbe house of.delegates, leaves the is
land without money to begin tbe fiscal
year, since the legislature bas made no
appropriation.
Judgeship fo r Hughes.
Chicago, July 12.— A Washington
special to tbe Tribune * today says:
There is a strong impression in Nsw
York and Vermont that President T a ft
w ill offer Governor Hughes the first
vacancy that occurs in the United
States Supreme court The Under o f
the appointment is regarded as conting
ent upon tbe coming o f a vacancy at a
time when the New York governor can
accept iL Many friends o f Governor
Hughes no not think be would accept
• T roo p s Rush to M orocco.
Madrid. July 12.— Tbe First brigade
o f Cazadors, composed o f six battalions
if infantry, three batteries o f artillery
and a squxdr >" o f cavalrv, as well as
•he cruiser Numacia and the transport
Admiral Loho, have been ordered to
Mel ilia, Morocco, where yesterday four
Spanish workmen were killed by natives
!
TAFT TU T O R WEIT
Plus 1er extensive Trip It Pl
eine Cessi This NIL
GOING 01BECT TO SEATTLE H it
Executive Will Vielt Portland and f l e
on 8outh to California and
Gulf States.
Washington, July 10. — President
T a ft today gave an outline o f the ten
tative plane fo r his tr ip , through th *
West and South this fall.
Tbe president bas abandoned all idea,
o f visiting Alaska this year, la rg e ly .
because Mrs. T a ft w ill not be able to*
go with him. - Upon his arrival hero
today the president received word from.
Beverly that Mrs. T a ft was rapidly
improving in health.
He feels, how
ever, that she Is hardly strong enough
to take the long Western trip this fall*
which w ill occupy about two months.
A s soon as tha tariff bill is out o f the-.
way tbe president w ill leave Washing
ton for Beverly, to remain until Sep
tember 17, his 62d birthday— whan ho
hopes to begin his Western trip. The
president w ill go directly to Seattle*
stopping for b rief visits en route a t
Denver, Salt Lake end Spokane.
A fte r visitin g tbe Alaska-Yukon-
Pacific exposition, tbe president w ill
swing down to tbe Southwest, stoppings
for a time at Portland, Or., where ho
wilt be the guest o f Senator Jonathan
Bourne, and proceeding thence to San
Francisco.
Leaving San Francisco, tbe president
w ill g o to Los Angeles, where he w ill
stop for several days with bis sister.
From Los A n gslts tbe president w ill
go to San Diego and then into Arizona
and New M ez co
I f the weather i s
pleasant and his arrangements permit,
Mr. T a ft hopes to y ia it tbe Yoaem ito
valley before going to Los Angeles.
Coming out o f Mexico, the president
w ill stop fo r a time s t El Paeo, where
he expects to meet President Dias, o f
Mexico.
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A fte r his stop at El Paso the presi
dent w ill visit San Antonio, where be
w ill inspect Fort Sam Houston, whicR
he was instrumental in building up.
A fte r visitin g Austin and Dallas, tb e
president expects to spend several daya-
on the ranch o f bis brother, C. P. Taft*
at Corpus Christi, Tax.
Continuing East, the president w ill
stop at Houston and go to N ew Orleans
to attend «th e meeting o f the D eep
Waterways convention. A fte r attend
ing tbe convention, Mr. T a ft wants t o
stop for a time in the Bayou Tech*
country o f Louisiana, the land o f Evan
geline and Arcadia.
From there tbe president w ill pro
ceed to Jackson, Miss., thence to Mont
gomery, Birmingham and
Macon.
From Maeon the preeident w ill go to*
Augusta.
Leaving Augusta the president goes
to Savannah and tbence begins bia
northward trip to Washington, stop
ping at Wilmington, N . C., and Rich
mond, Va.
DAM T H R E A TEN8 V A L L E Y .
Great Pathfinder Structure 8aid to B *
in Perilous 8ha|>e.
Cheyenne, W ye., July 10.— R eport»
received hero tonight indicate that con
ditions at tbe PathAnder dam at Alcova*
said to be tbe largest in tbe world, arc
moat serious. The dam is held only by
a temporary dike built on gravel foun
dations. Seventy men are working day
and night to strengthen the dike.
The government geological survey
bas a force o f men scattered along th *
river for more than 100 miles abov*
the dam. taking measurement’s o f th*
river’s flow to g iv e indications o f any
sudden rise in the stream.
Preparations have been made to dy
namite the dam i f the water carriea
away the temporary dike.
Arrange
ments have also been made toward
warning the people livin g in the valley
below in case o f danger.
Man Convicted by Proxy.
San Francisco, July 10.— An extra
dition esse with unusual features cstne
up for hearing this afternoon before
United States Commissioner Hancock.
Mosys don Amaral, arrested on a State
department warrant, was accused o f
murder committed on one o f tbe A sores
islands, and though bs bad fled from
the country, was tried and convicted, a
man appointed by tbe Portuguese court
representing him st the trial. Recent
ly be was captured at San Luis Obispo
in this state, and now is resisting th*
attempt o f extradition.
Chinas# Honor Traveler.
Pekin, July 10.— Prince Chun, th*
regent o f China, today receivsd Tang
Shao Y i, who has just returned to the
eapital from a tour o f the world, whieh
included in extended visit to the Unit
ed States. An imperial edict was is
sued today making Tang Shao Y i ex
pectant vice president o f one o f the
imperial boards, which is interpreted
as meaning that his services are to be
govem -
recognised by the Chine
menL
T o Guard Mexican Border. .
El Paso, Tex., July 10.— Daniel J.
Keefe, commissioner general o f immi
gration, accompanied by F. W. Berk
shire, chief inepector for Texas, reach
ed this ity today on r tour o f Icnspec-
tion o f the entire R i i Grande border«
preliminary to establishing stringent
regulations to prevent smuggling o f
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