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THRILLING RESCUES
Fire Culs Off Escape In Portland
Chamber of Commerce.
ONE MAN FALLS TO HIS DEATH
Tongues of Flame Leap From Eighth
Floor nnd Make Rescue
Almost Marvelous.
Portland, April 7. Flames that
sprang up as from a magician's wand
swept the upper part of tho Chamber of
Commerce block at 2:30 o'clock yeeter-
day afternoon, wrecking the Commer
cial club anil imperiling scores of livee.
With tho swirling, fearful Freed of a
whirlwind, great red sheets of fire and
dense volnmee of smoke passed from
room to room as it in a fiendish hunt
for human lifv. Dozens of people,
caught unawares, scurried before the
deadly blast with death at their heels.
The one to forfeit his life was Homer
II. Hallock, an employe of tho Wlllaw-
ctto Valley Traction company. With
smoke and flame close behind him, Mr.
Hallock attempted to climb from a
Commercial club window to a fire es
cape leading down the interior court of
the building. The fire escape has six
feet away. It was a desperate under
taking, and the unfortunate man failed.
His body plunged down seven stories to
a skylight on the second floor. He was
killed instantly.
The fire department was quickly on
the scene, nearly every piece of fire ap
paratus in Portland being brought into
service. Tho firemen performed cour
ageous and effective service. While
part of the force bnsUd itself laying
hose and directing streams of water,
others were at the equally dangerous
task of rescuing those whose retreat
bad been cat off in the upper stories.
The extension ladder fell 30 feet
short of the imprisoned men, and scal
ing ladders were used to reach the six
men imprisoned on the eighth floor.
Tom Richardson, manager of the Com.
mercial club, was among this number,
nnd when the firemen reached him it
looked as though neither would get
down alive. Some 60 persons who were
in the upper stories reached safety by
the fire escape.
The damage to the Chamber of Com
merce building will reach $100,000
fully insured, and the Commercial club
140,000. with 120,000 insurance. The
persona losses to occupants of the
building, such as lawyers and physici
ans, is not known, but it is estimated
they will reach several
thousand dot-
Jars.
INSURANCE REFORM BILLS.
Rapid
Progress In Driving Them
Through Legislature,
Albany, N.Y, April?. The bills
proposed by the special investigating
committee passed another stage of their
progress today toward the statute books
in the senate committee of the whole.
Of the bills introduced by the com
mittee originally ten, but since con
solidated into seven four have patstd
the assembly, and are At the stage of
third reading or final pwsage in the
eenate on the way to the. governor.
These are the bills designated:
First, to restrict lobbying by requir
ing registry of "legislative agents";
second, relative to the acquisition of
real p operty by life insurance compan
ies; third, making contradictory state
ments under oath presumptive evi
dence of perjury, and fourth, forbid
ding rebates.
A fifth, the bill further penalizing
falsification or omission of material
matters in the book I and records of
corporations, has passed the assembly,
but was amended in the senate, and
the bill must return to the assembly
for concurrence.
The so called "big bill" generally
amending the insurance laws and em
bodying most of the radical reforms in
insurance methods, was advanced to the
third reading in the senate today.
The seventh bill, that forbidding
campaign contributions by corpora
tions, was temporarily laid on the
table today with the concent of its
friends.
Increase In Foreign Commerce.
Wusbingtnn, April 7. According to
a bulletin issued by the department f
Commerce and Labor, the exports from
tho United States for the first eight
months of tne fiscal year 1000 were
1100,000,000 in value in excess of
those of the corresponding months of
1005. The imports for the eight
months of 1000 are $71,000,000 greater
than for the corresponding period t
1005. The growth in exports of manu
factures has been $45,000,000, and in
agricultural products, $133,000,000
-over the same period last year.
Thieves Loot Monastery.
Roetoff, province of Yaroslav, Rnssia,
April 7. Thieves looted the Troltze
Warnitxki monastery on the night of
April 3 and got away with $23,000 and
a quantity or vaiuauiu n.unca.
OFFER TO ARBITRATE.
Miners Willing to Let Conciliation
Board Settle Trouble.
Now York, April . Having failed
tocomo to an agreement themselves,
tho hard coal miners of Pennsylvania,
through their representatives, today
proposed to tho operators that all mut
ters in dispute bo referted to a board of
arbitration for settlement, tho tribunal
to bo composed of tho board of concili
ation which was created by tho award
of tho Anthraclto Strlko commission In
1003, with Judge Gray, of Delaware, or
any person ho may appoint, as chair
man and umpire. If tho operators ac
cept the proposition and a convention
of mineworkera approves tho plan, the
160,000 men now idlo in the anthra
clto fields wilt return to work at once.
While it had been reported for several
days that tho miners might ask that
tliM iltffArfltiraui Iia rliltrftt.til. flirt nron.
osltion camo to them as a great sur-
u u.-.vS...- m- n. . ..,, i, .... . ..-
prise, as they did not believe the union
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leaders were readv to leave the contro
versy to a third party at this time.
That tho operators will accept the
miners' proposal as submitted is not
generally believed ; in fact, it is inti
mated they may flatly refuse the offer,
on the ground that existing conditions
are the result of arbitration. The em
ployers have decided to consider the
miners' latest move and promise to
give President Mitchell and his men an
mumt MSI XfrttlilV w)in a tint It Mf I
meeting of the two sub-committees will
be held In this city.
The anthracite board of conciliation
consists of six members three repre
senting the operators and three the
miners. This board held frequent ses
sions during the last three years,
settling local disputes in the anthracite
region. The award of the strike com
mission provided that, when it could
not agree, a Federal Judge in tho Third
Judicial district should appoint an
umpire, who should make a decision.
Judge George Gray, president of the
strike commission, made the appoint
ments. During the first two years he
selected Carroll D. Wright, ex-United
States commissioner of labor, as the
nmpire, bat daring the last year
Charles P. Nelll, the present labor
commissioner, acted as the arbiter.
FURIOUS WITH FOREIGNERS.
Chinese Excited by Picture of Magis
trate Killed by Priest.
PekiL, April 6. The Kanchang affair
of February last, daring which a Chi
nese magistrate met death as the result
of a dispute with French Catholic mis
sionaries which caused a riot and the
killing of a number of French and Itrit
Ish missionaries, continues to inflame
the Chinese. The native papers in the
north of China this week print pictures
of the magistrate's corpse, showing his
wounds, with sensational articles writ
ten In a style which appeals to the
lower classes, exhoriing the people not
to forget the outrages and to prepare to
defend themselves against foreign bru
talities.
The belief that a French prist mur
dered the magistrate is universal and
probably no other incident ever excited
such widespread resentment against the
missionaries. In many plaoee the
Catholic converts and the other Chinese
are living on the basis of armed neu
trality, and bat for the presence of the
troops stationed near the missions by
the government's orders, the slightest
friction would result in massacre.
Disturbance in Coal Field.
Philadelphia, April 0. Tho situa
tion in the coal fields remains un
changed. Occasional disturoancea are
reported from various sections, but
they are regarded as inconsequential.
As a result of the attacks made on the
breakers of the Fernwood colliery, the
Erie, company, which owns the land
occupied by the mlneworkers, hat it
dered them to vacate the property.
The miners are said to have shot out
nearly every window in the breaker.
A detail of state police today arrested
seven Italian laborers at Mccanaqua,
near Wilkeebarre, who yesterday pre
vented non-union men from operating
the West End washery. They were
sent to Jail.
Wants AIIRallroads Appraised.
Wahington, April 0. By unani
mous vote today the National arsoria
tion of Railway commissioners adopted
the resolution of B II. Merer, of Wis
consin, offered yesterday, declaring it
to be the eenee of the association that
the congress of the United States should
authorize and direct the Interstate
Commerce commission, or some other
department of the Federal government,
to ascertain the inventory value of all
railways in the United States, and to
fix a valuation on the railway property
of each state separately.
Will Build Island for Fort.
Washington, April 0 The creation
of an artiflcal island In the middle of
the entrance to Ch'eapeake bay is pro
posed by the Joint board on coast de
fense, as an absolute essential to the
defense of the National capital and the
cities of Baltimore, Norfolk, Newport
News and evert Richmond. The gov?
eminent will dump stone on the middle
gronnd as foundation for a fort.
I OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
OFFICIAL CANDIDATE LIST.
Names as They Will Appoar on Pri
mary Ballots at Election.
Balom The follwlng is a list of tho
Republican and Domccratlc candidates
for nomination for senators and repre
sentatives in congress nnd state, o Ulcers
as thoy will appear on tho olllclal pri
mary ballots:
Republicans: Senator Short term,
Fred W. Mulkey, Multnomah county;
senators, long term, Jonathan Bourne,
Jr., Multnomah county; II. M. Cake,
Multnomah county; Stephen A. Low
ell, Umatilla county: K. L. Smith,
Wasco county; K. U. Watsvn, Multno
mah county.
Kepresentative, tirs.dis.rici- mis
n UvW Vrlnn Kfliiinnl H. Hail.
ton, Washington; Walter I. Tooxe,
WH ".. - --.- -- ---
Marion. Second district, w. K. Kills,
Umatilla; William J. Lachner, Baker;
John L. Rand, Baker; George S. Shep
herd, Multnomah.
Govrnor Harvey K. Brown, Baker;
T. T. Geer Marlon; C. A. Johns, Bak
er; Charles J. Sehlbrede, Coos; James
Withycombe, Benton.
Secrotary of etato Frank W. Benson,
Douglas; Claud Gatch, Salem; Lot L.
Pearce, Marion; Frank T. Wrightman,
Marlon.
Treasurer John II. Aitkin, Baker;
E. V. Carter, Jackson; Ralph W. Hojt.
Multnomah: Augustus C. Jennings,
Lane; Thomas F. Ryan, Clackamas;
George A. Steel, Clackamas.
Supreme judge Rolwrt Kakiu,
Union.
Superintendent public Instruction
J. 11. Ackerman, Multnomah.
State printer William J. Clarke
Marlon; Willis S. Dunlway, Multno
mah, J. R. Whitney, Linn.
Attorney general M. A. Crawford,
Douglas; George II. Durham, Joseph
ine.
Commissioner of labor O. P. Hofl,
Mnltnomah.
Democrats: Senator long term, John
M. Gearin, Multnomah.
Representative, First district P. A.
Cochrane, Marion; Charles V. Gallo
way, Yamhill. Second district, James
Harvey Graham, Baker.
Governor George E. Chamberlain,
Multnomah.
Secretary of state P. II. Hroat, Ma
rlon. Treasurer J. D. Matlock, Lane.
Supreme Judge T. G. Hajley, Uma
tilla.
State printer J. Scott Taylor, Kla
math, Attorney general Robert A. Miller,
Multnomah.
Each one of the above filed tho re
quired petition with the secretary of
state.
The names of 0,-lceby Toting and II.
R. Nicholas, Democratic candidates for
Circuit Judges in departments 3 and 4,
of Mnltnomah county, wilt not appear
on the official ballots. Secretary Dun
bar was obliged to reject their petitions
for the reason that they were verified
by J.T. Miiner, who had not himself
signed the petitions.
Insure Water for Land.
Salem The State Land board is pro
paring to enforce a rulo with regard to
the sale of lands reclaimed under the
Carey act, which will Incure the settler!
ample supply of water 'or all land pur
chased. Until recently contracts have
been entered into for the sale of land be
fore the irrigation canals were complet
ed or exart supply of water available
known. In order that there may be no
qneetlon In future, the board Hill insist
on knowing how much water is availa
ble for each segregation and the number
of acres to be sold will In no Instance
be moro than the visible supply of
water will irrigate.
Furnish Ditch is Completed.
Pendleton W. J. Furnish announces
that the Furnslh ditch, which is to re
claim 20,000 acres of land in the west
ern end of this county, la finished. Of
this amount of land, 10,000 acres are
now ready for water, and there are at
least 10,000 more which can bo brought
under the ditch This land is adjoin
ing the big Umatilla reclamation pro
ject which the government now has in
hand. The Pnrnlsh ditch Is 30 miles
in length, while the government canal
will be 22 miles long and will also sup
ply water for 20,000 acres.
Storing Wool in Heppner Warehouses
Heppner Wool Is beginning to ar
rive at the warehouses here, where it
will be stored until the sales days In
the latter part of May and the first of
June. A large crop will be produced
in this county this year, and very little
is being contracted, stockmen prefer
ring to hold until the sales days, when
it will be sold to the highest bidder.;
Cut Timber Illegally.
Prinevllle John Deo and A. R.
Eastwood were arraigned before United
States Commissioner M. R. Biggs last
week on a charge of cutting timber on
government land. They were held in
the snm of $50 to appear before the
United States grand Jury.
SPEAKERS FOR CHAUTAUQUA.
Willamette Valley Directors Making
Up Program for Year.
Oregon Oity Tho hoard of directors
of tho Willamette Valley Chautauqua
aisoclatton Is preparing tho program
for the 1000 assembly to bo held at
Gladstone next July. Dr. Charles Ed
ward IKke, who was in Portland 10
years ago, but Is now pattor of one of
the largest Methodist churches In the
United States, at Brooklyn, N. Y., will
Iki one of the siwakere. Captain Jack
Crawford, tho famous iioet-scout. has
been engaged for tho coming asieuibly,
as has also Rabhl I.0011 Harrison, of St
I.ouls, who will be heard in two lec
tures, on "Shylock" and "The Glory
and 8'ame of America."
Professor Mark R. Ileal, of tho Occi
dental college of oratory, of Lo Ango
le, will be the elocutionist this year.
Dr. W. 0. Sherman, of Sacramento,
who last year had charge of tho claps
In Bible study, iias bon retained for
another year. Other clauses will be
conducted as usual In music, domestic
science, United Slates history, elocu
tion, English literature, ph) ileal cul
ture, Junior Bible study and a W. C.
T. U. institute
Tho Chautauqua management I In
communication with a great many
other lecturers anil entertainers with
whom contracts will bo entered Into II
porslblo. Another mcciing of tho lioard
ol directors will bo called soon, when
the program wilt be completed.
New Rail Lines for Lane.
Eugene Portland, Now York and Eu
gene capitalists who recently applied to
the city council for franchise to ion
struct a system of street railways here,
announce that thoy Intend to build an
electric line between Eugeno and
Springfield and a steam railway from
there up McKsnzio river to the Blue
river mining district. length of the
electric line will be four miles. That
of the steam road atout -15 miles. The
Willamette river will bo bridged at
Euirrne, and the lino will reach Spring,
field up the eastern banks of tho river.
Plan to Supply Court Reports.
Albany The County court will prob
ably order the Supreme court reports
44 volumes for use of the court and
county officials and the Circuit court.
An effort may be made at the next ses
sion of the legislature to secure a meas
ure providing that the state shall furn
ish the County courts of each county
with tho Oregon reports as statutes and
teutons laws are supplied to county
officials and Justices of the peace.
New Mill at Scappoose.
Scappoosc The Brace l.nmber
pany is building a sawmill on a
bought of Rev. Mr. Brgwn. The
corn
tract mill
will cut 30,000 feet a day. This rnskes
fivo mill within a radius of eight miles
of Scappoose. The new mill will bo In
operation In about three weeks.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Club, o007n; bluestem, 00
008c; red, 04005c; valley, 08c.
Oats No. 1 white Iced, $27.60;
gray, $27 per ton.
Barley Fee.), $23.!024 per ton;
brewing, $2424.6d; rolled, $21,508
26 60.
II -y Eastern Oregon timothy,
choice, $176218 per ton; common, $1.1
814; valley timothy, $89; clover,
$7.508; cheat, $07; grain hay, $7
(3; alfalfa, $12.
Apples-"$2G2.75 per box.
Vegetables Asparagus, 8 1 2c per
pound; cabbago, 2c per pound;
cauliflower, $2.25 er crate; celery,
76000c per dozen; betid lettuce, 35
40c ;er dozen; onions, 40c per dozen;
radishes, 20c per dozen; rhubarb, $1(3
1.25 per box; spinach, $1 per box;
parsley, 25c; turnips, $1(41.26 per
sack; carrots, fl5076e jer sack; beets,
85c$l per sack.
Onions No. 1, 7000c per sack;
No. 2, nominal.
Potatoes Fanoy (traded Burbanks,
60000c per hundred; ordinary, nomi
nal; new California, 6aflc per pound;
sweet potatoes, 22Jc per pound.
Butter i-ancy creamery, 20Q25cper
pound.
Eggs Oregon ranch, lfic per dozen.
Poultry Average old hens, 13)j0
14c per pound; mixed chickens, 13
13)c; broilers, 25S0c; young roost
era, jatyiJXjc; old roosters, H0i.c;
dressed chickens, 15010c; turkeys,
live, 10 & 10 Wc; turkeys, dressed,
choice, 18020c; geese, live, 8 0 8c;
geese, dressed, 10311c; ducks, 170
10c.
Hops Oregon, 1005, choice, 7010c;
old. 67c.
Wool Eastern Oregon average best,
1620o; valley, 24M20c per pound;
mohair, choice, 25020c.
Veal 'Dressed, 3kQc per pound.
Beef Dressed bulls, So per pound;
cows, 405c; country steers, 406c
Mutton Dressed, fancy, OQDJc per
pound; ordinary, 405o; Iambs, with
pelt on, 10011c.
Pork Dressed, O08c per pound.
MOROCCO PROTOCOL LONG.
Powers Will Combine to Intluco Sultan
to Approve Reforms,
Algoelras, Spain, April 4. Tho pro
lucni ol tho conference on Moroccan
affairs, copies of which nro In roiirsu ol
preparation lor signature, by thu dele
gate on Saturday, Is a formidable dm;
anient of 123 sections.
Tho opening paragraph sets forth the
deslrn of tho powers to assure peace
and prosperity In Morocco by reforms,
without violating the thieo principles
of eoverelgnty of tho sultan, Integrity
of his domain and commercial equality,
at the same tlmo pointing out tho
method of procuring tho resources lie
rensary to carry out the reform pro
posed. Details follow, relative to tho dele
gates' decisions concerning tho organ
liatiou ot the xllco, thn repression of
cnulraluiud traffic In arum, tho ratal),
llshiucut of a state bank, tho creating
of free h revenue and tho control of cu
torn and public work. Thn signatory
lowers tiuduitakn to Introduce IrgUla
tlou ratifying the engagements of the
delegates.
Final ratification of thn protocol will
occur not later than December 13, of
this year at Madrid. Meantime the
signatory rowers reciprocally engage to
endeavor to obtain tho sultan Integral
adhesion to thn reforms outlined In or
der to make them simultaneously oper
ative. Tho reform will ho effective
December 31, 11)00. Existing treaties
between Morocco and the various K)w
era will retain validity, but In the
event ol con II let Iwlween tieatte and
the conference.'! protocol the latter will
tako precedence.
MINES OPENINQ.
Operators at Many Points Sign Scale
With Miners.
Pittsburg, April 4. With the eicep
tlon of one or two polnu outside of tho
Pittsburg district, the strained situa
tion Ik-Iw'poii the operators and miner
in tho soft coal llehli of Western Penn
sylvania 1 hourly growing more pa
cific. Following the signing of the scale
yesterday demanded by tho miners, tho
mines of the operator who signed thn
scale resumed their operations today,
although in many Instances with re
dticed forces.
In thn Pittsburg district there were
18,000 miner working and 1,200 Idlo.
Nearly all of the mine of the IMtahtirg
Coal company were In operation, and It
wr expected that those men who are
out would return within a day or so.
It was explained that follow liig boll.
days It wa generally several day l-
fore all the men returned to their la
bor. The catuu of tho Idlenee today.
however, was raid to bo their failure
to receive word of tho signing of the
scale.
The independent operator met to
night and decided not to sign the scale
and not to work their mine nonunion.
They employ betwoon 12.000 and H,
000 men, and they are all Idle.
Tho entire nonunion field of the Al
legheny valley will continue work with
out Interruption. This Is what Is
known as tho Froeport vein.
COMINQ DY THOUSANDS.
Extra Trains Required to Take Home
seekers to Northwest.
St. Paul, Minn., April 4. The
homeseekura' travel continue heavy
and tonight moro than 4,000 holder of
thero tickets hail appeared at thn Un
ion depot. All tho regular overland
partonger trains wera sunt out In
double sections, and the Canadian con
tlngent via the "Moo" llm went out to
night in thrco sections, taking about
1,000 pateengera.
Tho Great Northern and Northern
Pacific sent out each two special trains,
while each of the flvu regular trains
carried fiom threo to fivo oxlra concliim
to accommodate tho rush, Theso pna
sengers were bound for Oregon and
Washington.
Tomorrow railroad men say tho rush
will exceed any day sinuo tho low rates
wont Into (fleet, and tho moat ronser
vatlvo estimate thn arrivals ul 5,000.
The one-way colonist rate put In effect
February 16 will explro tomorrow, hut
will be renewed nnd continued through
out tho summer. Indiana, Illinois nnd
Missouri am furnishing tho hulk ot thn
homeeeekur' travel.
Texas Cattle Law Invalid.
Washington, April 4. In an opinion
by Justice Brown thu Supremo court o(
the United States today decided thu
case of tho Houston iV Texas Central
railway vs. J. A. Mayes In favor of tho
company. Mayes ordered 17 cars, In
which to ship 025 head of cattle. Thn
cars arrived 24 hours atfer tho tlmo sot
in tno ngrccmorit. Maye sued, under
a lexns law, for damage done M
cattle by tho delay and alio, under (jm
state law, to recover $26 por car on liU
contract with tho company. Thu lower
courts upheld tho complainant,
Conference on Statehood Bill,
Washington, April 4. Thr. senilnu o(
tho Joint conferonco on statehood today
was devoted to a tlltcimnlon of Urn main
proposition, tho senate, iiiunniliueiit
eliminating Arlionn and Now Mexico
from tho bill,
HOLDING JIER GRIP
Russia Refuses to (ilvo Up Min
cliiirlnn Claims.
CHINA CONSIDERS TIIHM INVALID
Deadlock Is Reached In Negotiation.
Uut Russia Is in Possasslon-
Uotlt Work Secretly.
Pitkin, April 5. Thn Russo-Chliiesa
negotiations appear to have reach -,
deadlock, At any rate, they are drsj.
glng along slowly. M. I'okutlloff, tl.
Kusolaii minister to China, and Tons,
the Chinese commissioner apixiluteil to
negotiate an agreement with Ituisl re
guiding Northern Manchuria, have con
ferred only two or linen time during
the past mouth.
KiimU ha thn upper hand, becati-o
she holds nearly all the privilege lm
contends for, while demanding tlm
China officially grant them, Tim ('h.
uein, on tho routrary, It, Is said, am
alio determined to withstand all for
eign encroachments. Both parti are
trying to keep tho details a secret
was the cam with thn Chluese-Japanete
treaty.
One contention Is Mlcvcl to 1
about thn mining and other eneief,t
which tho Tattar generals In Man
churia gave to HiiMlan oororatioiii,
and which Itusila want thn ('hlwn
government to ratify. Thn Chines,
however, Insist that their government
never sanctioned th-e oonrrMtoHi, and
that therefore they am invalid,
IRRIGATED LAND TOWNSITES.
House Passes Bill Allowing Sale of
Lots for Rsclamatlon.Fund.
Washington, April B. ltprpent
tlvn French today called up and j-l
through thn houio Senator lleylmrn's
general towtislto bill, authorlxurt the
declamation -ervlcn to set aildn town
sites on government irrigation tracts
ami soil lot at public auction, the
money going Into tho reclamation food
Instead of Into tho treasury, as itwouM
under the general townsito law. Thn
hill alio provide that loan on recla
mation tract and other town may re
celvo a municipal water (Upply from
government canals, and where there I
snrplu ocr dcrelopnl iimWr any
project, It may lw leased for ten-year
iwrlod. ttie money to go Into the re
clamation fund,
Tho Reclamation service consider
this bill highly important, Mlevlng it
will ultimately yield from $ 10,000,000
to $16,000,000.
Tho bill pined today I not the llvy
burn towmlto bill recently rrortel.
Thla bill probably will not bn panted,
because general oppnllion developed in
the homo.
DECLINES TO INTERFERE.
Preildent Refuses to Appoint Com
mission on Strike.
Washington, April 6. It la'statol at
tho White hmnn that thn president ha
madn a reply to thn tnlcgram received
from tho coal operator and that whiln
tho text will not I madn public, thero
is authority for thn statement that thn
president has decided not to interfern
as long as condltlous remain a they
now are.
Columbus, O., April ft. John II.
.Winder, prwldent ol the Ohio Operat
ors association, today gavo out part of
a letter ho hws received from President
Hmwevult, In which thu president
answers thn rcquost that a commission
Ik) appointed by him to settle tho min
ors' strike. Tho president said:
"To appoint a committee to meet
with thu miners ami operators, as you
request, would neo isltato action on tl
part ot congress. A yet, I am not
prepared to say what action I personal
ly will or can tako In tho matter."
Changes In Coour d'Aleno Dill.
Washington, April 6. By unani
mous consent of thu Idaho delegation,
tho Idaho delegation, thu sonato
amendment to thu Indian appropria
tion hill authorising thu opening ot tho
Coour d'Aleno Indian riirvtlnn to
stittlomunt was altered to make all save
mineral land subject to homestead en
try, hut no commutation l tinuinl on
timber land. Thin wan donn at tho In-
tailCU Ol Dubois to nrm-mil 1.r llm.
bur corrorntlons from imi.i.ii,,., ill
thu hvst timber. Chang,, wasmado to
open thu reservation by act of congress.
Prcpnros to Flfiht America.
Mok-w, April 6, acnernl von
Muck, thu Russian reprosentatlvo of
thu Ited (Jroas, has Juit returned hero
from Japan, Ho ilvcWrui that the Jap
iini'so uro actively ongaged In war prep
aration, mid ho adds that it is evident
tint llm oiminy lit view is America, and
Him operation nro being plauned
uynlust tho Philippine Islands.
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