The Santiam news. (Scio, Linn County, Or.) 1897-1917, April 13, 1906, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text> x< » tfXJ Brwdrr «»•• A* • tea« a • «Ar CO.. OHf t.ON By T. L DUGGEF Defective lilies Hsrsaa Aterrear ..I Itile |'»»|«r«4 t>y IM PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY AT 4’IO,e I.INN of NEWS OF THE WEEK TRADÌ WITH ISLAND OF CUBA FLEE IN TERROR Imports and Exports for 1905 Far Exceed Any Previous Year. Peasants Seek Rafuga in Naples from Fiery Vesuvius. Wsshington, April 10. —A report la sueil by lb« J»partmrnl ot Commerc« and labor on the Cuban trade xayx usy Cutie ranka second In imp».rtence in the trade relations of the United States with oilier American countr »-a. The total trade of the United States with I the principal countriee of America in the calendar year ol IVOft wax Can ada. » ’ u.l.Otm ixhi. Cube, IltA.OO»».- K Resuma of the Less Important but 000; lireall, II11.000.00» Mexico, Not Lota Interesting Events | I of the Past Week. Th« vslua of merrhandiav imported In to the United Btatee from Cui« in the Japan haa opened Manchuria to tor- calendar rear llrOft. according to figures prepared by th« department of Com- ■ sign trade. mer. «■ «r I 1 V- ■ »»• 4 - ■ ■ Witte again threatens to resign as against »-S7.i2n.229l in 1903. »<1.747.- premier of Russia. »It i ■ Dowle savagely denounce« his wi'e in which y ar our imports front Cula amt vows 1.« will not livs wih her toucher! the lowest punt in the last again. half-century. The exjxitts fr.un tie Many troojw in tbs Philippines •re Unite-! Stat«e to Cui»s sggregsted »44. I suffering from malaria caused t»y II»* » » pure water. IrrM. m which year 4hey were smaller Another attark on engineers ami otb- than in any preMeding year m the last er officials of th« Lsng, Franc*, coal half century. In both in.j«»rtx and ri ’ mine* baa t»e«n ma*!e by tti« miners porta the figures of the year 190ft are j wives. larger than those ot any earlier year it N'rarly all countries have joiner) with our trade with Cut«. Suga* and niotasce. to'.wcco, cigars 'tbs United Ktates in asking for a later 'date as tlie lime of the second Hague amt fruits are the principal articles forming the imports into the United j caotervncu. Stat«* trot» Cuba. The value of sugar Anthracite coal o|»cratore asy they Imports in 190ft ass over »72.000,000, are willing to arbitrate, but have pre t sented new terms to the miners as a I i , t»a*ie lot the arbitration. »1.23U.O2H (o< which all but I’»,1» I Burlington officials claim no know re presented the value of bananas), and ledge of a wreck on its road near Lin iron ores, II ,’>37,* HI. coln. N»t>., while men who were on the train say there was a wie k and th* y SWEPT BY TIDAL WAVE •aw at Iras: two prisons who were Naples, April V.—Mount Vesuvius is ' a culnaaai cauldron of fire and the town of Buaeatrveaw, on its southern declivi REALLOT WtNAHA RESERVE ty. haa t»««n tranefornied into a gray is Sheepmen Jubilant Over Confirmation land ot ruin by the ashes from the crat of Reconaideratlaa. er uf the volcano. Torrvnts of liquid Pendleton — Thera ia joy among fire, resembling m the distance serpents •lieepmen of Umatilla county over the with glittering yellow and black stale«, news tliat the Wrnaha reserve will be are coursing in all directions, amid rw.livl.led, f-r It is underato.nl that the rumblings, det-»nations an<l earth trem allotment la to lie made again. Hev blings. while a jw i i of sulphur-aa emoke •ral days ago J. E Smith received a that hovers over all makes breathing letter from Ranger J. M Hmilt. invit difficult. The streams of lava are reeistleee. ing the Oregon men to meet at Walla They snap like plpvetems the trunks ot Walla April 27 to conanlt regarding the chestnut tree« hundreds o' years old, division of the reserve. It «setup and blight with their torrid breath the poae»l that the meeting would l-e matw- blooms ou the pea* h tree« l«tore the ly to hear complaints, and that little Irsee themeelvee Lave be »U rra. hod. * r no g rut a*»uid result to the Oregon The m -Iton streams >Li u<»l epare the homes <>t the peasants, amt ah«n these sheepmen. However, Dau I*. Smythe, have t»een raa»«t they dash Into the •e. relary of the t maliHa con^y aaao- a* is as though «erking to slake their elation, hat b««n Informed that the thirst, ami, after filling tliem continue their course down th« mountainside. reearva »as to he re»livlde<l. Everywhere in the vicinity of the When the Wanaha reaarva was first volcano pitiful sewn«* ar« witi>e-s»«l — allotte»! among storkmen revaral women ar« tearing titeir hair in tl.e r months ago Oregon men complaiued griei and old men are crying aloml al bitterly l»«ca'iM in making the dlvie th« lose of then hetoved homesteads. ion the Oregon part ot the rwetve had Neu stere . ■ e>! a liflarent I*ecn practically given »»ver tn Washing ton growers, thus cutting off many points on the mountain, but it is Im- Umatilla county men from their sum p leeil'le to ascertain their numl>»r or «her« they ars situated. mer range« Naples is the mecra of the alarmed Them is a general belief that a inora eqnitabla division will tw made thia country people amt they have l«*n time, a« the Umatilla county men will t! « king into the < i y in great numl-ers The lava tl a approached the out l»e on hand to aa»ert their rights. Perry Gould, president of the Uma skirts of tiie village of I arem and than tilla county association, I aa called a suddenly cwaserl advancing Eilty acres meeting <>f that body April 20, al which I of gr uml about the village were over- time a line ot action will 1« agr»««l (lowed ami the crops rume*! The rruptmn ha« can«ed a great deal upon. of *lam«gi- a« the I »-at g lava alrtama Oregon's Boundary Dispute. have nitherrd vegetation, »hila the Salem—Attorney General Crawford aehea have settled on everything. sn.l Male I g i >”» i I '• • after vi« tmg Astoria to lo>k up evidence in the NEW RECIPROCI 1 Y I REA I Y. boundary line suit (»ending between Oregon and Washington before the America Gatling Woriti.l by Present United Slat.-« Supreme court, are more Agreetner t With Cuba. thoroughly Convince. I than ever that Washington, April 9. —Acting nnder • • regun is in the right. Mr. I<ewie con tends that emigre»« must hare lieen instructions from the Mtate department, guided in fixing the boundary line by 'Edwin Morgan, minister al Havana, the latest government surveys nf the has Imen in conference with ’lie Cuban month ot the Columbia river. Hy slip foreign tiffice, with the porp»«e of ulation, oral evidence will be taken be framing • new reciprocity treaty. The treaty may Ire ready for enbmiaeion !>«• fore a notary. tore the adjournment <4 the the present I eenate seaeioti. Notifies Attorney General. The reason for the preparation of Salem—Th» Portland General Elec tric company baa notified the attorney this Hew treaty Is that the < ffirtala tier» general that it lias Alni answer to the have become coaviaced that America la alate'« aine-idei complaint in the Cir getting by far the worst of the bargain cuit court of Multnomah county. The tinder the prvumt arrangement. While elate aura to compel an accounting for neatly all of the esporte from Cuba the past 30 yea's of buaineaa Iransact- . 'come to our ports, only a little more ed. In Ils answer the company stales than one tliir I ot the imports into that the lot k« ami canal at Oreg on City Cuba are furnished by tie American have changed hands twice in that per i farmers and merchants, Europe fur Imi. They also art lip that the atate'a nishing practically the balance. Tlie Culiaii government <iid not rare claim for interest is outlawed. fir make the concveeione, but it was contronteil with the fact that otherwise Land and Lot System To Be Used there would be no treaty at all at the Astoria—County Assess.,r Cornelius capitation of the preaent convention, lots decided to use the laud and lot sya- and, without the preferential rates of trm in preparing the I906 «•«■••rami the trea'y it would l»e impoMible to roll in place ol segrega'.ing tire proper market Co »an sugar and other staple« ty under the name« ot the various own tn America al pr »diable raise, thus ers, aa haa t»een the riiatom heretofore. threatening rum to Cuba. Mr. Cornelius believes the new system will rreutt in a great saving to the HUMPHREY S USGENT PLkA county. Linn County Abstract Co. In 3 Condensed Form for Our B Readers. HAPPENINGS Of TWO CONTINENTS J. J. Barnes & Son, II hr^ «nt < < jj mo ast a s ATTORNEYS AT LAW n Blatt At BA NV ORIUIOW H MONT«NiK J General Slacksmiths and Wagonmakers Rriet»« Horseshoeing a Specialty ATTORNEY AT LAW Solari l*»btl< an t «..lieimr »•( h«n«lon« ai- l I stenla tutu» SU West M mr«»l W» buy our st»«-k In large qriantitir-s anil ke« p a full line of ramage and wag o material. Ail kitela of work tn our line done on short notice. SCIO, OREGON U FAST. < W fill ATTORNEYS AT I AW AI.MAXY C Scio ONKOOK s<la MP Graduate Eclectic Medical College N IO OKKoOK D. \ PHYSICIAN ani SURGEON ftclo, Cr»gsn • »!»pboas Sx:bxae» K: XI. REAL ESTATE BROKER, *2«tl:a cf ths Tues Kourr FaUlc Scia Crsjea Lunch Previ lent t'aahier.. T J Mr’trrr W. A Ewtau Counter Mt kit I Op g DeVANfY, Prop» Busi 2(k. Mt'ail in the Valley Open All Night Al RAN V. OftfGON <io 1<> The killed. About 160 L,vaa and Much Property <>ffi* ials of the Chicago ¿»Alton and Lost in South Seas. D *« a general banking and exchange Chicago, Burlington A Quincy railroa<le Ran Francisco, April 10.—The «team- bus ueaa L - ns made at current rates must stem! trial in Kansas for giving reliateo. The Uniletl Htates Diatrict 'er Marlp ea arrived today from Tahiti, ami drafts issued on principal cities. pviurt at Kansas City has refused to bringing additional particulars of the 'storm which «wept the Society and oth- ‘grant them immunity. ! er South hex islands laat February. Roosevelt and Tillman may Iw-come Acc<>r*jing to the late«! ertiruatea about ' reconciled. 160 live» were lost anJ the proj»erty amonnte»! to »1,600,000. G wky and other Russian revolution- damage Among the Mariporra's passengers were I 1st» will tour America B Clialee, C. Brown and J. Harris, Tugmen of Chicago have struck for a ViA niemls»r» of the i rew of tlie British ship raise * I I • per month. County of R*»gburgli, Captain J. Leslie, There are many candidate, for Al- which went ashore during the hnrri- ger’s rest In the ssnate. cane at Tokarva, in the Paumolre group À A) great majority of the bitumlnoua of islands. Out of her crew of 24, ten coal miners are at work. • lives were lost. Other vrvsels lost during the storm The governor of Tver, Russia, has were the French schooner Tahlienne. l»eeri blown up by a l»onih. . 53 tons, with Ca|,taln Dexter and eight The Itemocrslic victory in Russia <>( her crew, and tlie french schooner may lead to the granting of a constitu Touture. 2M tons, with all on lr»«rd I Die brencii schooner Hituiini, lu tons, tion. went asl ore at Momhi. Her crew was Dowie's European converts refuse to I a veil. The French schooner .Morurora believe that their leader has fallen from <7 Ions, went aaliore st Tikehou, but Traini tetre alvi an-1 way grace in Zion City. the crew was save*!. •talksht al 1 -*<f a tu leav<< tur Alleati) at Bryan will also tour Russia during l.U |* W» The French schooner F’.itneo, 150 his present trip around tlie world. He tons, ie overdue and it is supposed that Ijraw« l'Gfllatril • X'a m * * p tu ie in India at present. she ia lost with all on boaid off Tike |>a*«a AlhAtty li llf m 11 * | Arrtvaa i»hlan<1 o a m II 1 a m Ikiwie's enemies are bringing more . hou. Thirty seven cutters of 12 to 16 Affli* Mrfbftirnlo * ■■ p tn * ■ a n» charges against him and preparing a I lone were also lost in the storm. Affile* ** ) ratti ”* * a tn hot reception for the agrd prophet. EAST ANO SOUTH SALMON Albainy Oregon cmcxM t laclnaall. oblo I» 1 k • Bank Stute l'ulitnan at<*l Tvuri»! rara <»n t»>th traina < i » f rara barrar lo an>l >.l ('•au. ar>d 1 utirrara t«» < ho ago. M Loula, Sa» i ■ • • a »• 1 U a » » • « unttrciii < at «tati FranrlMB wllb tha»«tafal »trai!. »Iiiu . • ra t»»e liti > ■* •». Japan. » faina, I.’» cents Ft»tll|rfti>«a. A entra* atul M»uth Amrflra NOT SO BAD AS PAINTED Most Crops in Pendleton Section Are Turning Out Well. Pendleton—Investigation of tire con- dill a of gr wing wheat In various (»arte ot Umatilla county shows the damage sustained in the March cold epell was slight. Instead of many thousand scree to reseed, as at first re ported. not more than 2,000 acre« in the entire county have t»«n reeaeded. Many farmers secured seed whist and vitro), in many instancaa paying fancy price« fur blueatem, which was scare«, 'inly to find tliat their gram was not In jured or only slightly. Th« only s««- lion where there was any lias was the north western (»art, wiiere the soil ie light and there was comparatively no •nowfall. The »care sir du« to the fact that th« to ( hi of t|;e grain in some place« wee frosen, but this ie Consider ed a benefit instead ot an Injury by many, as they say that it has ca it»«>l 'be grain to stool out more than other- wise. The fruit ia also ccming out nicely and the damage will not he nearly eo great as was feared. The j-sachee suf fere.) mnet, but there will be a partial crop and an tree a later frost orrurs there will be a full crop ot all other va rieties of fruit. TWO CENTS AN ACRE Estimate foe Coming Year by Secre tary ot Waterugarg' Association. Klamath Falla—Secretary Applegate, ■>f the Klamath Watrrn«ers' a»« x-iatn n, in hie annual mjHirl to the alia khold- era’ meeting here, April 7, stated that the receipts of the association to March 31, I'HIO, were »0,729.00, while dis bursements were ffi.’.M 20. leaving a deficit of »122 ft4. Principal expense was filing and recording deeds, etc., »1,40ft 20. salary <>! attorney. »1,500; •alary of secretary, »1,200, and direct- ■ rs' per diem and ex|iense«. ti.u.l I'l He rwtlmatee exjieneea for the coining year at 41.000. As there are about ISO IMH) acres aubecrilied to the assorts ti *n, tlie aaaesement per acre will only lie about 2 rents. There are about 20,- 000 acres of private land under the project as yet unsubscribed. Favors Spelling Reform. Salem—State Su|»ermteinlrut Acker man is a firm (reliever in the reformed • pelting, so much talked about by An drew Carnegie. He rays that there is only one war to bring atrmt the refor mation ejieedily and »ffectiveiy, and that was for the newspapers of the country to agree to adopt tlie new ni wle >f spelling. Should this lie done, Mr A'-kertnan says that the country at large sill accept the new form and forget the old inside of one year. He «aid that the National Educational aaeot talion lied adojiteil the new form. The street car strike at Winnipeg has NEW JERSEY FOREST FIRE ended, the car men getting an advance ot I cent an hour after asking tor 2. State Wax About to Purchase Large May Send E«pert Here Ei|>ert» who have gone over the ami Tract for Reservoir. Port an I — After consulting with KI- Nhavtng.................................. itur'a books ot Indiana have found a Egg Harbor City. N. J., April 10.— wood Mr a. I. chief of the drainage and Hair Cutting............. Jfi •* T'«e shortage ►♦r Mra M F Woo4n«ua»o, »feci at W<»t shortage of » <90.)>'' •». A forest and swamp tire was started irrigation investigations of the depart *« BhampiMilng . ........ .25 covers every year back to 19H3. hci<» fitaiioti. or ad*1r«*s i here rarly thia morning and in the ment of agriculture, Senator John M •• Hath« Senator Alger, of Michigan, is not a course of a few hours mummed threaten Gearin has advieed the board of trade Mf. £« OOMAM. O. P. A. ing dimarisi'-ns. The fire’s origin is that the department will pr.duihly die (illlklll I >\N II I’UOI’RII I OR Portland. Oroffon. candidate for re election. unknown It started a sliort distanre patch a man to the Willamette valley Dowie premiers to |>erform a miracle frwro the botue of Congreseman John J this season to study agtirnllursl condi when lie leai lns Zion City. < larriott and did coneiiferahle damage tions. If the appropriation provided Returning merchants aay Chine«» are liigli winds fanner! the tlamee into a for in the agricultural bill it large > now buying Americaan goods. i roaring furnace and drove it in a west- enough lie will tiegin his work about Vesuvius is in violent eruption •nd ■rly directum toward the towns of July 1. i thousands uf juviple are tleelng in tei • Weymouth and Weal Egg Harbor. The Of Portland, Oregon } village of Carmentow n was completely Initiators Printing Bdl. | ror. I encircled and eevetal buildings destroy- Salem—There lias been much specu More n.iting baa taken pls « at Win- jod. lation aa to ttia probable expense en I the uij»eg. Manitoba, on account A path over a mile wide and over tailed upon the state by the initiative ' street car strike. DUES $1 00 ‘ PER MONTH four miles long was covered by the inrasurre which have been prop<*ed for NO MEDICAL EXAMINATION The soft coal mine operators of the I flame«. Ttrouaanda of SH-rea of valuable the people's adoption at the June elec >t r j artlrulsr» »«<e East have offered to arbitraste their I timber which the state of Ji,w Jersey tion tips year, hente the following fig GROVER POMEROY T I- DUGGER i was about to purchase as a foreat re urea, obtained from the secretary of differences with the minera. Agent SC IO. OREGON Colle« tor I serve were deetmyed, making a tract of state, will be of interest •bow ing the amount thus expended All the inde|»enderit coal operate** of 25,000 acre« almost worthleaa. II.- 017 . 'printing. I <,472, binding. II. the Pittaburg district have signed the acale. Thia will maure work for alarut nlO. t* tel, »6,099. Bold Diamond fhievet. 20 <»00 men. New Orleane, la , April 10.—That The United Stelee Circuit court of he «as robtied <>f diamomla valued st Postpone Booth-Kelley Indemnity Bill Salem—Governor Chamberlain haa ap|»eala of New York says the patent »5.000 at Ibe muule ol a revolver tn a for day I ight loadint film cart* dgea for í store in a crowdvd Street ia th» etory wired Senators E niton and tirarin i to i luid to the pólice by I M*»e», a ¡«weler have the senate postpone action on the i photographic cameras is void. Il D. latxlon, of 'he Bilyeu ¡bn >aw milla, i* prepared M*»ee aaid that «hile al work in bis K-a>lh Kelly Lumber company's indem to fill orders fur A steamer has arrived at I'hiladal- store, wilh hundreds of people pusning, oily hill, authorising the company to 1 pina troni Bombay, India, with what late last nighl, two mrn entere»! and •elect lands in lieu of its boldli g« in is believed to toe bubonic plague among aske.1 to luok al sume dlamomi rings the Klamath In lian reservation, , until Ì the crew. and brrxw tice. Afler aeveral trays had a copy of the bill ia received and I th« One hundred printer* have loeen dis <>ern pul out, Musa saya <»ne o! the mam matter investigated hy state Ian I an- charged from the government printing sbovsd a revolver ín lita I se« and the thoritiee. office aa the first step toward economy other took tl>e jewela an»l e caped into Curry Healthiest County. , in that department. The mechanical the crowded Street. Wedderburn—Curry county ia one of department will lie completely reorgan- the healthiest in Oregon. Thia county Nurses Go On Strike. ( lard. boasts only one physician, showing that New Orleans, April 10 — A numi»' Many lives were boat by the collapse it Is a desirable place to live, even if of nnreee in the Ja< kann sanitarium of a hotel in Germany. Have gone on strike Iwcauee a négro it is uff the map of homee«»ekere. No Speaker Cannon admits the present patient was admitted to one of the epitlemu- of any kind ever vielte thia tariff laws should be rvviMnl. wards The niirsee quit in a braly. de place, and the physician ia not often The ka.aer abandoned his trip to the claring that St ey did not intend to wail newleil. Mediterranean for fear of aaaaaeination. on neymee. The patient is a railroad Discovers Black Diamond. The New York chamber of com emp'oye on one ol the rnade with Il W'alderbnrn-Wtil. p.nn.ng.n the merce urge« congrega to para the Phil which the hospital haa a contract The negro nurse faile»l to re;«>rt for ippine tariff bill. 'duty and th« whit« women were nr Eliott dlarovsrwd a black diamomi. Prince von Buelow, rham-vll r <4 dered to attend the man. The itone i« a« larga as a kernel ol Germany, fell in a faint while add fees • corn, and haa all charai teriatice of thè ing the rvu hetag. diamomi. It ah imo at night and le an Cruiser Ready for Trial Spin. Rorkland, Me., April 10.— The nee elee Unni giace cotte*. The senate plane to do awav with the I'll office ot en per I nt endent of Indian af cruiser Washington, which haa j'let Money for School Fund. faira in Alaska and turn the work oyer t>een completed lor the United Htatee government, arrived there today and Satan—Itere! pts of the Slate I At nd to the governor. anchored onteide the breakwater in board from sale of public school lande, The Republic Oil company, a dum readme«» for her epeml triale. whirl defet rod payments and interest on loans my of the Ntandard, has withdrawn will take place off thia port during th* • m »enteil to 127,«I3A nA for March. from Nebraska, I >wa and Indiana. Its week. The Washington's contract call» Thia sum has been paid to the state boaineee will be continued by the toy a minimum apeed ot 22 knots per 'reosnrer tn lie added to the permanent Standard. scbixi! fund. boor. PACIFIC AID ASSOCIATION Pays Sick, Accident, Death Benefits LUMBER! LUMBER! Common « Finishing Lumber LANDON! LANDON! yi Governor Would Sign Protest Salem—Governor Chamberlain rays that he does not think the United htatea quartermaster's office should I* moved from Portland to Seattle, be- e*u«e Portland was the more central point. The governor eapreeara willing lies» to join in a proiret to the secretary ol war againat the prop-ieed change. PORTLAND MARKETS Wheat — Club, owe; blueatem, Ottifi *9c; red, 00c; valley, OMc. Oats — No. 1 white taed, »27,ftO. gray, 127 per ton liarley —Eee.|, t i 50 4 24 |wr ton ; brewing, »24)424 50; rolled, •24 500 25 50, timothy. Hay _ Ea •tern Oregon cli »ice, 11 7'4 1' j*er < n. common, »13 I (7.6O4H, cheat, f'»47;, grain hay. • 7«H, alfalfa. 112. Apple*—»202 7ft j»er bog. Vegetable« — tvparague, H0l2^e per pound, cabbage, 2lgo per pound; raulit! >wer, »2 25 pet crate; celery, 76 igoOc per doaen, head l«<tucw, 26c jier dosen; onions, 4<»c peril aeu; radishes, 20025c per d> sen; rhubarb, »101 25 tier tag; gpinach, II per les . parsley, 26c; turn pe. »101 2ft per sack; car rote, 1'50. h - |ier «a. k; bvete, Hftc4|l per sack. On one — No. I, 700Mk- per eack. No. 2, n'Mninal, Polvtoea—Eancy grade! Burbanks, ttftc per hnndrel; ordinary, 50056c; new California, 5c (>»r pound Butter—Ean y creamery, SO0225»c j*er pound. Eggs—Orrgcn ranch, 115011! Sc l*f doaen. Poultry—A verage old hens. 1S0I Ttgr per pound; mix«I chickens, I2»g013c; broilers, 25030c; young roosters, 12kg 013e; old roosters. 10'^*411 !»e: dreea rhl,krn._ j tgj^; turkey., live. 1« -............ •>-«'- H-ue. 204 21c; geeae, live, 110.tgc; geese, drees ed. 10011c; duck«, 17019c. Hope—< »rvgun, 1906, 7010c; old., 507e. Wiw i—Eastern Oregon average best, 16020c; valley. 24026c per pound, mohair, choice, 2ft029c. Veal—n»easrrf 3 07 l^c per pound. Beef—Dressed bulls, 3» per pound; cows, 405c; country steers, 41*05!^. Mutton—Dressed, fern y, 9(49%<■ per pound; ordinary, 40ftc; lambe, with pelt <>n, 1001 Ie. Pork—Dressed, 603 tgt per p >und. He Predicts D savter if Ship Subsidy Hilt Should Fail. Washington, April if — Re|»rraente- live Humphrey, ot Wldiington, today Informed the president that, unlvse tlie ■tiip •utwiify bill la peaMnl, Japan will eoen control the entire Oriental com merce ot the Pacific < a»l He hoped : ao to alarm the president that he will ' actively take uj< the cause of the suh- • idv advocate« end < nipel the •|»eaker ar d house irmlers to 1st tins bill pass. Mr. Humphrey «aid the Japan«»« alr«a*!y have an >q>ti»>n on six shi|* of the Pai ifir Mail, find can buy them, It the subsidy hill Is defeated. He also •aid the Japan«-«e are trying to get the I Hill shlpe on Puget Soiind He went on to aay that there is a British-French- tierman ahlpping trust that now fixe« rate« lietwreu Pacific i ‘«st ports amt Liverpool, having recently double«! the rat« **n wheat. Unless the snl*ei‘ly law ie enacted, Mr. Humphrey «aye Pacific cnaat exporters shipping »*• I verp ol will remain al the mercy of tins trust. Desperate E «press Robbers Foiled. I ■ • M . • k| 1 e attempt L. r dr the Write 1 ergo fliers in tbie city of over » ’.im.otW wee thwarted by the prompt action of the trilire last night. E spreta M.«'»igrr Painter was assaulted by masked men while in charge of the i<- npanv's safe, but the ro'.tiers were driven iff. This afternoon four men entered the office and after they left a ma«k was discov ered on the rt or. bearing a second at tempt at robbery, a detail ol polire guarded the exprès« company's aste all right. Tidal Wave in Aroras. Lmdon. April 9. — Lloyds at mid night receive.! a dispatch from Ikrlin which atatee that the German govern ment haa received a rumor that the Aa .me lelande have been devastated by a tidal wave, and that several thousand people have perished. There la no confirmation of the report at preaent. The report is amplified aa received In Berlin, declaring that some of the out lying islands ot the A so res group have been submerged. Will Reappoint Judge Moore. Washington, April 9. — It was an nounced at the White bouse today that Jndge Alfred B. Moo** would 1« reap pointed United Htatea ndge at Soma, Alaska.