NEWS NOTES OF
CURRENT WEEK
LEATHER FILLED WITH SALTS
Resume of World's Important
Events Told in Brief.
Wilson 'announces that no compro
mise on the tariff is possible.
Secretary Lane commits himself to
Federal ownership of Alaskan rail
ways. All movements of American troops
and warships are to cease while the
Japanese controversy is on.
Companies writing tornado insur
ance in Omaha have been rushed with
business since the recent disastrous
storms.
The threat that any wage reductions
will be rigidly investigated by the
government caused a warm debate in
the house.
A tank containing 500 barrels of
gasoline expolded at Richmond, Oil.,
breaking many windows and causing
much alarm for a time.
All French army proposals carried
in the chamber of deputies, and all
men whose terms have expired are be
ing retained in the service.
Walter II. Page, newly appointed
ambassador to England, is being op
posed by 50,000 trade unionists in Lon
don, as being a bitter enemy to labor.
William J. Calhoun, retiring minis
ter to China, says he fears the Chinese
will take the whiskey to replace
opium, which is prohibited by the new
government.
Conferences of labor officials with
the officers of the San Francisco Gas
& Electric company were without re
Bult, and the strike against the com
pany in that city is still on.
Canada claims $500,000 from the
United States on account of lumber
stolen from Canadain forests having
been used by the contractor in build
ing army barracks in this country.
Japanese radicals are much aroused
over the prospects that Governor
Johnson will sign the anti-alien land
bill, but the more conservative ele
ment believes the question may be
settled amicably and honorably.
A 4-year-old girl at St. Joseph, Mo.,
threw herself flat on the track and lay
still when she saw a freight train
train approaching so fast she could not
get out of the way. The engine and
12 cars passed over her, but she re
ceived only a slight Bcalp wound.
Oregon naval reserves destroyed the
target in practice at Fort Canby.
A submarine collided with a small
steamer at Norfolk, Va., sinking the
latter.
Department Says 12,000,000 Pounds
of Adulterants Used Yearly.
Washington, D. C. Americans,
with the possible exception of the
barefoot boy, are walking around on
not less than 12,000,000 pounds of glu
cose and Epsom salts, which constitute
adulterants in sole leather. The
assertion is made by the department
of Agriculture, which has just conclud
ed investigations of the leather in
dustry, and has issued a bulletin en
titled, "The Composition of Some Sole
Leathers." The adulterants add noth
ing to the wearing value of the
leather, says the department, and
where present in large quantities may
shorten the life of the leather.
"Sixty-three per cent of the leath
ers examined were weighted with glu
cose, with Epsom salts, or with both,
according to the findings of the de
partment's experts. "The quantity
of loading varied from 1 to 7.3 per
cent of Epsom salts, with an average
of 3 per cent. The maximum quanti
ty of glucose in the loaded leathers
was 10.4 per cent, and the average 5.5
per cent. The maximum amount of
these loading materials found in any
leather was 16 per cent and the aver
age where both were present was 8
per cent. The results obtained indi
cate that not less than 12,000,000
pounds of glucose and Epsom salts are
sold annually to the American people
as leather."
The "loading" is done to increase
the marketable weight of the leather.
NAVY SECRETS ARE STOLEN
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
General News of the Industrial and Educational Development
and Progress of Rural Communities, Public Institutions, Etc
SUFFRAGETTES GET MEDALS
ROAD FUND IS GETTING LOW
Not Especially Valuable, But Ser
ious Leak Is Indicated.
Washington, D. C. Special agents
of the department of Justice, officers
of a nationally-known detective agency
and the local police have been called
in by the Navy department to investi
gate a "leak" through which, during
the last four months, several relative'
ly unimportant plans of battleships
and also minor documents have disap
peared.
The first losses were discovered the
night of March 4. Some minor struc
tural plans of the dreadnaught Penn
sylvania, now building, and other
ships were among them. Documents
not especially secret also disappeared.
Navy officials say they are not so
much concerned over the importance
of what already has been lost as they
are to find the leak and prevent furth
er losses. Each battleship has sev
eral sets of plans, which are some
times widely distributed among the
bureaus and contractors. The general
plan is never much of a secret.
GREEKS EXPEL MISSIONARY
More than 500 Huerta troops were
left dead on the field after the battle
at Guayinaa.
Discovery of ancient manuscripts in
Egypt gives additional light on doings
of H i 1I o days.
Taft refers to the Progressive recall
plan as a "hair-trigger" reform lead
ing to anarchy.
President Farrell, of the United
States Steel corporation, says the
association was not organized to con
trol local trade, but to deveolp foreign
business.
PORTLAND MARKETS
Wheat Track prices: Club, idle;
bluest em, Wui il'tc ; forty-fold, 92c;
red Russian, HTdiXSc; valley, 90c.
Oats No. 1 white, $:!k,32 per ton.
Cm Whole, $2H.50; cracked,
$29.50 per ton.
Millstutrs Hran, $24d25 per ton;
shorts, $2('ki27 per ton; middlings,
$31 per ton.
Parley-Feed, $2(5. 50(.i 27 per ton;
brewing, nominal; rolled, $27.50(11'
28.50.
Hay Eastern Oregon timothy,
choice, $17(n$18; alfalfa, $13il4;
straw, $tii 7.
Vegetables Artichokes, 75c per
dozen; asparagus, Oregon, 75c(n$l
per dozen; beans, 12jin 15c per pound;
cabbage, 21(n.'ic; cauliflower, 35ci$l
per dozen; celery, $1 per crate; egg
plant, 25c per pound; head lettuce,
$2.50 per crate; peppers, 35di40cper
pound; radishes, 10oil2e per dozen;
rhubarb, loi2Je per pound; spinach.
75c per box ; turnips, S5c per sack;
parsnips, 85c; carrots, S5o.
Onions -Oregon, $1.25 per sack;
Herniudii, $1.50(n2.25 per crate.
Relief of Distress Causes Suspicion
of Americans.
Boston The Poard of Commission
ers for foreign missions has received
a cable dispatch from the United
States consul at Saloniki saying the
American missionaries, Rev. P. B.
Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy, have
been expelled from their station in
Kortcha, Southern Albania, by Greeks
and now are in Salonika.
Secretary Parton, of the board, said
Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy were sent to
Kortcha six years ago and have been
conducting a school for Albanian girls
there. They were in the city when
the Greeks took possession.
"Mr. Kennedy," Mr. Barton added,
"has given himeelf fully to the work
of relieving the great distress prevail
ing in the city and in the neighboring
villages. In the last letters received
from him he reported that apparently
the Greek officials were suspicious of
this, as a guard was placed in front of
his house and the names of all those
who came to the house were kept."
Hoof at New High Record.
Portland Following the sharp ad
vance in cattle prices at the stock
yards, packers have announced an ad
vance in the wholesale price of dressed
beef to 11J cents a pound. This is the
highest price ever qouted to butchers
hero. It is possible that prices will
advance still further before the supply
of grass cattle is sufficient to check the
rise. The wholesale price of dressed
pork has not been changed, but hams
are half a cent higher, and bacon has
advanced a full cent, as it usually
does at the opening of summer.
Work of Convicts on Columbia
Auto Highway Nears End.
Hood River The fund of $10,000
donated for the Columbia River auto
mobile road by S. Benson, the Port
land lumberman who passed the win
ter in Southern California, has been
depleted, according to County Judge
George R. Castner. However, the
work, done by state convicts, who be
gan their task May 23, 1912, is almost
completed. Governor West went from
Salem to Wyeth, the nearest station
on the line of the O.-W. R. & N. com
pany, to inspect the work and to con
fer with Adam Shogren, who is in
charge of the crew of convicts. -
Up to the present time no agree
ment had ever been reached between
the county officials and the railroad
company. However, because of the
contract that was signed recently be
tween the railway authorities and the
Multmonah county officials, the local
commissioners tthink that they will
soon come to an agreement with the
railroad company.
Local citizens are urging that the
Columbia River road be made to ex
tend east from this city up the Colum
bia gorge to Mosier and thence on to
The Dalles. At the present time a
road crosses the range of hills separat
ing the Mosier district from Hood Riv
er. I he grades on this stretch are
difficult.
County Roadrnaster Marshall recent
ly inspected the route up the side of
the gorge, which he believes is feasi
ble, but he declares the time for build
ing it has not arrived.
O.-W. R. & N. ORDERS SURVEY
BEAUTIFY RURAL CENTERS
Condon-Fossil and Ukiah- Pilot
Rock Routes Considered.
Surveys for two proposed rail lines,
one from Condon, Gilliam county, to
Fossil, Wheeler county, and the other
from Pilot Rock, Umatilla county, to
Ukiah, in the same county, have been
ordered by the O.-W. R. & N. com
pany, and crews will start to work on
each project at once.
These surveys are to determine the
cost of the work and upon the reports
of the engineers will rest the proba
bility of the eventual construction of
either road. It is understood, how
ever, that if the expense will not be
too great both lines will be built.
"We don't knpw whether we ever
will build either road," said J. P.
O'Brien, general mannager of the O.
W. R. & N. company. "We have
these two projects in mind as amotfg
the most important in the develop
ment of Oregon, and if conditions jus
tify we will authorize early construc
tion work.
I Powers Occupy Scutari.
! Iondon An international naval
j force has occupied Scutari and the
I Montenegrins have already begun the
! evacuation of the town. Official fig-
j urea of the Hulganan losses in the war,
j published at Sofia recently, give the
following estimate: Killed, 330 ofli-
lotatoos Kurtianks. 4(lnfllc iur
new. 3c i.-r nound- i....i i,''-s '"' 29. ill men; wounded, 950
hundred
4c nor pound
Poultry Hons, l('c; broilers, 25(f
30c; turkeys, live, 19n20c; dressed,
choice, 25c; ducks, 17(n25c; geese,
young, 15(.i 17c.
Eggs Oregon ranch, case count,
lSJc per dozen; candled, 19J(ii2('c.
Putter -City crvamory butter cubes,
28c per pound; prints, 23m 25' Jo per
pound.
Pork Fancy, 11 Ji. 12c per pound.
Veal Fancy, 14ui 14 Jc per pound.
Hops 1912 crop. 1 0m 15c pound;
15'13 contracts, 13t.i 14c.
Wool - Eastern Oregon, lOmltV;
valley. 14:nl7c; mohair, 1913 clip,
3tW33e per pound.
Cattle - Choice steers, $8. 50m 9;
good, $7.75(d S. 25 ; medium. $7.25r
7.75; choice cows, $7oi7,85; good
f 6.50ii 7; medium, $6:ti.50; choice
calves, $Sdi9; good heavy calves,
$6.5iVi7.50; bulls. $5.85m 6.25.
Hogs Light, $8.50w8.C5; heavy,
$7.45.,! 7.55.
Sheep Yearling wethers. $6.25ii
7.50; ewes. $5
officers and 52,550 men; missing. 3193.
A conference of the Austrian and Hun
garian ministers will be held to ar
range for further demobilization.
"Bad" News Is Set Aside.
St. Paul "Never read bad news be-
fore breakfast," remarked J. D. Hal
ey, an insurance agent, at an early
hour one morning, after he had been
I called from his bed to receipt for a
I cablegram. He left the unwelcome
j message unopened and returned to
I bed. When he read the cable after
breakfast he discovered that a fortune
j of $100,000 had been left him by the
i wi'I of a relative in London.
Butter Record is Broken.
I'tiea. N. Y. It is announced that
Spring Farm Pontiac Lass, a cow
owned by F. M. Jones, of Clinton, has
broken the world's butter record.
The previous record was a fraction
over 288 pounds in 60 days, and the
world-beating cow has exceeded this
5(ji 6. 75; lambs, $7iti8. !by 20 pounds.fgiving 308.877 pounds.
Curry County Is Progressing.
Gold Bouch The Brookings Lum
ber & Timber company, a Missouri
corporation which is developing the
large timber interests of Southern
Curry county, has filed a mortgage
with the county clerk here to secure a
bond issue of $350,000. The St.
Louis Union Trust company, of St.
Louis, Mo., is the trustee which is
handling the bond issue.
The company is incorporated for
$1,500,000, and will spend over $1,
000,000 in building mill and other im
provements in Southern Curry county,
before they begin cutting lumber for
the market. This is the beginning of
an epoch of development for Oregon's
backward county, yet in natural re
sources one of its richest.
Superintendent Ward stated that he
hoped to have the plat of the new
town of Brookings ready to file at the
July term of the County court. Work
is progressing rapidly on the logging
road, millH)nd and wharf.
Garden Prize Offered.
The O.W. R. & N. company will
award a sterling silver cup to the
school making the best score of points
in its garden contest, gardens to be
judged on the following basis: Larg
est average size vegetables, 20; larg
est variety, 20; quality, 20; quantity,
20; general character, 10; best story
of how the garden was planted and re
sults secured, 10. This prize is an
open competition to all of the 23
schools having community gardens,
without regard to size. This is the
first new prize offered this season.
High Court to Organize.
Salem The Supreme court, with its
new members, Charles McNary, of
this city, and William Ramsey, of Mc
Minnville, will be organized the after
noon of June 7. The court will be di
vided into two deparments, Chief Jus
tice McBride presiding over both. The
departments will alternate weekly in
hearing arguments and rendering decisions.
Cross-Roads and School Grounds to
Be Made Attractive.
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
vallis A movement to assist in the
beautification of Oregon school
grounds, county buildings, cross-roads
meeting places, and all places of pub
lic gathering by the planting of judi
ciously chosen shrubs and vines has
been begun by the extension division
of the Oregon Agricultural college
through A. L. Peck, professor of land
scape gardening.
Already Prof. Peck has given his
services, with much time and thought,
to assisting in the solution of prob
lems of the school grounds at Lake
view, Independence and elsewhere,
helping with the planning and plant
ing of the grounds about the Mon
mouth Normal where a large amount
of work has been done. He took the
teachers and children of the Monmouth
public schools into the woods and
fields to collect suitable native plants
for the decoration of the school
grounds.
"If people would only come to real
ize that it is not necessary to pay a
fancy price in order to have beautiful
shrubbery and vines," exclaimed Prof.
Peck in discussing the work. "The
Oregon grape is as handsome a shrub
as one could wish. A man in Cali
fornia paid $3 apiece for what we can
have for the digging any day. Then
there is the waxberry bush, the vine
maple, red flowering currant, moun
tain spray and the sweet brier rose.
For heavy massing there is the red
bark dogwood, and a number of other
fine native bushes."
Recently Prof. Peck gave a talk at
the East Portland library on "The
General Landscape Treatment of the
Modest City Lot." Whenever his col
lege duties will permit, he is always
glad to give his personal services, free
of charge, for advice and assistance in'
plannning the plantings for school
grounds, property about country build
ings, vacant city property, and espe
cially the little cross-roads meeting
places where there are, perhaps, a
general store, a church, a Grange hall
and carriage sheds.
"With foresight and an eye to beau
ty, such community centers may be
come very attractive," said Mr. Peck.
"There should be a good place for
games at these points, where the
young men, instead of sitting on the
store platforms smoking and chewing
tobacco, may get together in the even
ing and pitch quoits, jump, run races
and use simple gymnasium parapher
nalia, such as the traveling rings and
the horizontal bars. It would not only
furnish fun; it would build them up
bodily, mentally and morally. Some
thing of the improvement probably
would be carried home to the farm
grounds, as well."
"Fed By Force" Crosses Most Ex
pensive Decoration.
London How the militant suffra
gettes bestowed medals and other dec
orations on those who distinguished
themselves in the "cause" was
brought out in the hearing Wednesday
of the "conspirators" who are being
tried under the malicious damage to
property act. A medal manufacturer
testified about the decorations sup
plied to the Women's Social and Po
litical Union. He said that medals
inscribed "for valor" cost $1.50 each;
"hunger strike" medals, $2.36, and
"fed by force" crosses $5.
The most distinguished decorations,
known as "grille" brooches, cost
$10.50, he said. Bars were also sup
plied for addition to the ribbons on
the medals when subsequent acts were
considered worthy of special mention
in dispatches. Testimonials recording
acts of lawlessness by adherents of
the militant organization were dis
tributed among the rank and file by
the leaders of the union.
"General" Mrs. Flora Drumonmd,
the militant suffragette, is in a state
of collapse and will be unable to ap
pear at the resumed hearing. A doc
tor testified in court that, owing to
her illness, she had been removed to a
nursing home. He said it would take
two weeks for her to get into condi
tion to undergo an operation which
was necessary, and another two
months before she would be able to be
tried.
HILL SAYS RUSH IRRIGATION
BRYAN PLEADS
WORLD PEACE
No War Without Due Delibera
tion Is Text of Speech.
United States Should Lead,
Related by Blood Ties
Nearly All Nations.
Being
to
Storage Plant Flanned.
Medford At a meeting of the mem
bers of the Rogue River Fruit & Pro
duce association Saturday it was de
cided to build a cold and dry storage
plant, to be available for the 1913
fruit crop. Twenty thousand dollars
had been raised by the sale of first
mortgage bonds, and it is planned to
raise $20,000 more by subscription.
Fish Oil to Be Manuiactured.
Oregon City The Columbia Fish
Oil and Fertilizer company, of which
H. W. Plach, of this city, is one of
the principal stockholders, has been
organized and is building a fish oil
plant in this city.
CHEAPER WATER FOR VALLEY
Santiam Company Hopes to Give
Supply Within Year.
Salem I. D. Turner, one of the in
corporators of the Santiam Water com
pany, announced that rights of way
for the pipeline had been obtained
one-third of the distance, and that the
County court would be asked to grant
a franchise along county roads for the
remainder of the proposed route. He
said that W. E. Pierce, of Boise, and
Charles Theis, of Spokane, had agreed
to provide $300,000 for use in giving
Salem, Stayton, Turner, Aumsville
and Sublimity a pure water supply.
They will be the principal stockholders
of the company.
"We expect to have our plant in
operation within a year," said Mr.
Turner. "We own 100 acre s on the
hills three and one-half miles from
Salem, where a reservoir will be built.
The power will be sufficient to force
water over Salem Heights. We pro
pose to give the people water for half
of what they are now paying, or, if
the city wishes to have charge of the
water business, we shall furnish it an
adequate supply."
Rural Sidew alks Built.
Orenco The committee building
sidewalks into the surrounding country
held a special meeting and found that
they have raised enough funds to build
more than three miles. Sidewalks
will be built to Quatama, for the con
venience of the school children; to
Orenco Acres, and to the poultry
ranches northwest of town; to Bor
wick Acres, and also to the small fruit
and poultry tracts west of town.
These funds are being raised jointly
by the citizens of Orenco and the farm
ers. Five miles will be built now.
Great Railroader Says Government
Should Quit Business.
Washington, D. C. "Hurry up and
complete the reclamation projects al
ready under way, and be sure you have
competent men in the field," was the
advice James J. Hill, the railroad
magnate, gave to Secretary Lane at a
reclamation hearing.
He reiterated his statement that it
cost the reclamation service more than
twice what it cost over services of
private enterprises to reclaim the
desert lands.
Mr. Hill based his statement as to
the high cost of reclamation work on
a report of the census bureau. Di
rector Newell of the Reclamation serv
ice, and Senator Walsh, of Montana,
questioned him about having personal
knowledge of the Reclamation service.
"I never built an inch of irrigation
works in my life," said Mr. Hill, "but
I know that when private enterprises
in Canada can sell the land and water
for $30 an acre, and the water on
reclamation projects in the United
States costs $45 an acre, there is some
difference in the cost."
Director Newell replied that the
government work was more perma
nent; that private enterprise was
prone to take in too large an acreage
for the water capacity and further,
that the government could work only
eight hours a day and private enter
prise works ten.
New York William Jennings Bry
an, speaking at a dinner given in hon
or of the foreign members of the in
ternational conference that is arrang
ing the celebration of 100 years of
peace among English-speaking peo
ples, declared that "the new peace
plan offered by President Wilson to
all nations is the latest and longest
step toward peace.
"It contemplates time for investi
gation and deliberation," he said,
"and this makes the possibility of
war remote."
Mr. Bryan's subject was "Progress
Toward Peace." He said that the
part of the United States in the cause
must of necessity be large, because
"more than any other nation it had a
population which is attached by blood
to nearly all other nations."
Peace for all time between the Uni
ted States and Great Britain was the
.keynote of other addresses of the even
ing, delivered by Lord Weardale,
chairman of the English delegation;
Sir Edmund Walker, of Canada; Sir
George Houstoun Reid, of Australia,
and Judge George Gray, of Delaware.
The function marked the last of many
that have engaged the delegates here
for the last week. Unstinted applause
greeted all remarks that emphasized
the cordial relations between the two
nations and the cause of universal
peace in general. The enthusiastic
singing of "America" and "God Save
the King" was one of the features of
the evening.
CARRANZA TO HANG IIUERTA
Lane County Aids Fairs.
Eugene For the purpose of aiding
fairs and agricultural shows in Lane
county, the county court has appropri
ated $2500. Of the total appropri
ated, $1750 is for the Lane county
fair, to be held at Eugene, and $250
is given to each, the Junction City
Pumpkin show, the Cottage Grove
fair, and the Lane County Poultry
show, which is to be held in Eugene
late in the year.
Lane to ImproVe Roads.
Eugene Bids for the construction
of nearly eight miles of permanent
macadam road will be called for by
the County court immediately, and it
is intended that the work shall be done
this summer. The work includes five
sections of road, and in every case the
macadamized road is to connect with
other macadam roads or Ureets.
Jury Reform Bill Is Beaten.
Trenton, N. J. The senate defeat
ed the jury reform bill passed recently
by the house. Attached to it was an
amendment providing for the referen
dum, and the statement was made that
the bill as amended had been approved
by Joseph P. Tumulty, President .Wil
son's private secretary.
The Democrats could muster only 10
votes in its favor, 11 being necessary
to pass the measure. Both houses
have adjourned for the week and the
prospect for the passage of jury re
form legislation at the extraordinary
session of the legislature is not very
bright.
Pupils Threat to Lynch.
New York The streets around pub
lic school No. 14, in Brooklyn, were
black with children just let out for
luncheon Wednesday noon when an
automobile truck belonging to a Jer
sey City coal dealer became unman
ageable and charged a group of little
girls on the sidewalk. Mable Balmer,
aged 10, was killed, and Marcella
Kelly, aged 4, was fatally hurt. Led
by a few grown-ups, the children at
tacked O. L. Mount, the chauffeur,
and were threatening to lynch him
when police reserves rescued him.
Militants Invade Ireland.
Dublin The recent outbreak of mil
itantism is only a foretaste of a cam
paign which, according to information
received by the police, the suffragettes
have planned to carry out in Dublin
for the purpose of showing their re
sentment at the action of the Nation
alist members of parliament, whom
they hold responsible for the defeat
of the suffrage bill. Several expert
militant firebugs are here from England.
Suffragettes Burn Boat Club.
London One of the bands of mili
tant suffragettes, assigned to interfere
with the pastimes of the men of the
British Isles, celebrated Whit Mon
day, which is a general holiday, by
burning down the headquarters of the
Nottingham Boat club, on the banks
of the River Trenton.
contained many valuable racing and
other skiffs. The loss was $10,000.
Constitutionalist Leader Declares
He Will Capture Capital.
Washington, D. C. A condition of
affairs has developed in Mexico as a
result of the revolt against the gov
ernment of President Huerta, which is
causing the Wilson administration
deep concern.
It is not too much to say that offi
cials here fear a repetition of the
bloody scenes in the Mexican capital
which resulted in assassination of
President Madero and his brother and
Vice Prf sident Suarez.
General Carranza, leader of the so
called Constitutional party, has openly
declared that upon his capture of
Mexico City he will hang the following
Mexican officials: General Huerta,
president of the republic; General
Felix Diaz, nephew of the former dic
tator, Porfirio Diaz; General Blan
quet, who aided in the downfall of
Madero; General Mondragon, one of
Huerta's lieutenants; General Garcia
Granados, who was minister of the
interior for a short time under Huerta;
General Rodolfo Reyes, a Huerta sup
porter; Francisco de la Barra, minis
ter of foreign affairs under Huerta.
All of these men, acording to Car
ranza, participated in the conspiracy
which resulted in the assassination of
Madero. They will he treated with
the same scant mercy that was accord
ed to Madero. Other officers now
with Huerta will not be molested, pro
viding it is shown that they did not
personally participate in the plot
against the life of the deposed presi
dent. The important question is: Can
Carranza and his allies "make good?"
They believe they can, and their
operations up to date indicate they
have an excellent chance of success.
President Huerta has 10,000 men in
the Mexican capital. He has no mon
ey save that which he receives in the
way of customs receipts from Cari
bean Sea and Pacific Coast ports.
Comparatively nothing is crossing the
border from Texas. The revolution
has reduced the buying capacity of the
Mexicans, so that imports have fallen
off.
Twenty-Five Federals Executed.
Nogales, Ariz. Twenty-five Federal
officers, including an infantry and ar
tillery colonel, taken prisoners during
last week's fighting above Guaymas,
have been shot at a public execution
by order of the Constitutionalist com
manders. The execution is admitted
officially by state autorities. The offi
cial statement also admits the loss in
killed of 200 state troops during the
three days' fighting which resulted in
the driving of the retiring Federals in
to the first station north of the gulf
port town.
Political Scheme Is Seen.
St. Paul That the farmers consider
the government suit for the dissolu
tion of the International Harvester
company "just a political scheme to
help get some fellows into office," was
the statement of Frederick R. Crane,
in charge of the agricultural develop
ment work of the Great Northern
Railway, who was called as a witness
for the defense at the hearing here.
China Shows Gratitude.
Washington, D. C. The gratifica
tion of the people of China over the
recognition of their republic by the
United States was described in a mes
sage received at the State department
from the American legation in Pekin.
The structure Deputations from commercial and oth
er organizations, students and teach
ers held a popular celebration in hon
or of the United States and a parade
stopped at the American legation
waving the Stars and Stripes.
Report Hayti President Poisoned.
New York Poison, administered in
his food, caused the death on May 2
of President Auguste, of Hayti, ac
cording to a dispatch from Kingston,
Jamaica, printed here. The story is
based on news received in Kingston by
mail from Hayti.