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> * • ■ a.. •«•■ « « FLIES FAR OVER SEA. Daring Air Mtn Eclip**« All Across- Watar Flight*. Nice, France. Lieutenant Hague I accomplished a sensational and daring feat Sunday by flying over the Medi terranean from Antibes to the tittle ; island of Gorgon* off the Italian roast. I He covered more than 200 kilometer* 124.5 mile* establishing a new I record for over-sea flight. Thi* he I did without the assistance of tug*. Gsnsral R**um* of Important Evant , torpedo boat* or any other craft to I guide him or to add to hi* confidence. Presented In Condensed Form Hague start*«! at 7 :30 o'clock in the for Our Busy Reader*. morning in a Blériot monoplane, with the intention of landing on Corsica and proceeding thence by way of Sar- Owing to a strike of printers, Chi- - dmia and Sicily to Tunis, cago dailies are issued with only four The aviator left the ground, rising at once a considerable height. He pag««*. shaped hi* course southward and aoon Carter Harriaon has been renomi vanished. Aide«! by a strong wind, natwi for mayor of Chicago by the i hi* progress wa« rapid and a dispatch Democrat*. | was finally received here that he had Long Beach, Cal., authorities have arrive«! at Gorgon*. Thia island Iles begun a crusade agaist immodest between Corsica an«! lx-ghorn Hague land«-«! there at 1 o'clock in bathing suits. the afternoon, the decent being made Train torviee is established on the with awkwardness and with danger on Oregon Trunk from Fallbridge, Wash., account of the trv«-s an«! rocka. The to Metolius, Ore. monoplane «truck heavily and was badly damaged, but Hague wa« not Sir Thomas Lipton has raised a cry hurt. He had intend«-«! landing at of alarm over annexation as a result Ajacio, on the west coast of Corsica, of the reciprocity treaty with Canada. but, losing hi* way, he aha|ied his course b«i far north, going further A s«|uaw captur«'«l in th«- fight with renega«!e Indians in Nevada says the I than he Intended. Hague'« over-sea flight break* the previous held by J band killed nine men during the past A. I). McCurdy, wiui, on January 30 year. last, flew from Key West to within Fire destroyed the big plant of th«-, ten miles of the Cuban shore, a dis Oregon A Washington lumber com tance of 91 miles. pany at Portland, causing a loss of j MUNICIPAL DANCE IS GIVEN. 375,990. Dvings of the World at Urgí Told in Brief. FARMERETTES” Xew York Working (¡iris Start Farm Life. Clsd in Blouse and Harem Skirt. Pro tege* of Mr*. O. H. P. Belmont Tackle Agricultur*. WAR ON ELECTRIC TRUST i 4 Gu*«rnm«nt Begin* Sult Allagad Combm*. Against Cleveland, March 4. The United State* government b«*gan a fight here Uxlay against what i* allege«! to be one of the m<«st complete monopolies in the rountry, when suit was fll«*i against 36 concern* rngag«M| in the manufacture of incandescent light*. The National Electric 1-amp com- ¡•any, which ha* it* beadquarter* here. an<i th«- General Electric company, of New York, an- named a* two of the defendants, and together are charge.1 with being the keystone of a trust that has ramifications in every state in the Union. According to the government’s pe tition, the defendant companies are in a conspiracy in restraint of trade and Bands oí Starving People Sack large Villages. Citiran* Resist *nd Fighting I* Des perat* Marauder* Trapped and Burned to Death. Victoria, B. C,, March 2. Rendered Mineola, L. I . March 6. Mr*. O. de«[>erate by th* famine, band* of H. P. Belmont's "farmerette«.” wh«» hundreds of starving refugees are rov are to make the Blockbolt estate blos ing through the stricken district* and som and produce like the Vale of Kaa- plundering ami killing, ami a reign of mir without the help of mere men. got! terror prevail*. Some harrowing in down to "braas tack«”' today. Four- j teen of them, all from the borough of thereby have control of 97 per cent of cidents are reported by arrivals by the steamer Tamba Maru. which reached Manhattan, came down to Hempstead the country's supply of electric lights. The trust is alleged to have had it* port from the Orient today. with hope* high ami drests suit case* At Kunshan. a wailed village within origin soon after 1904. the year in filled with farm clothes. 60 miles of Shanghai, the villagers, which the ¡«at«-nts on carbon fllament Those farm clothes are a very im after a d«--per*te raid in which stores portant feature of Mrs. Belmont's I am [ mi expired. In 1906, it is charged, were loot«*! and many killed, meted Mrs. a combination known as the Independ out punishment, peculiarly Chine-e in farm project for •urffagettea. Belmont designed them herself. As ent Lamp Manufacturers association its grim callousness, to the raiding obtained control of the lamp output refugees. A band of more than 500 ««»in as the 14 new “farmerette*” and flxed prices, allotted business and were surrounded in a compound and joined six others at their new head prescribed rules of sale for its mem burned to death. quarter*. making 20 “farmerette«“ ber*. The refuges had taken jossession of The General Electric company of Kunshan ami for two days ransacked in all, they unpack«-«! their dre*« suit New York i* stated to have owned the stores of everything eatable, kill cases ami got right into their farm 75.2 per cent of the stock in this com ing or wounding all who resisted. togs. bination and is accus'd of having ob- Many villager* were slain and others Each wore a wide-brimmed atooeh | tained exorbitant profits by n-strain- taken prisoners and held for ransom. hat. blue blouae. full but chic, with jnK trad«- ami forcing high price«, When the raiders moved on to «•mfortabl.- «leevce, m«t too much, The ¡wtition asserts that the profits plunder the next village the Kunshan puff«-«i at shoulder* to be absolutely ! o( the combination, a* ¡mid in divi- people held a council of war afid or out of style, but nevertheless qualify I d«-nds. were 350,000 in 1904; 3260.000 ganised to pursue the refugees. They ing with rm-fish suggestlvem-ss. in 1909 and 3300.000 in 1910. Ij*»t came up with them in a small village The skirts arc so near th«- ''harem | year the rompany i« said to have held and surrounded the houses. Gate« as to I h - well adapted to bedding d.wn 31,439.158 as an undivided aurpliu. surplus. w< r<- li. ki-d a: -I kero -tie -tir'd over cow» and to the picking of bug* from The capital is now listed at 35.000.- the house* and fired. More than 5(H) «taro vines. potato vine*. 000. perished in the holocaust. 1 wenty wvnty of th«- pi<«nc«-rs pi"nv«-r* got to work | )„. extent of (' ’ the industry thus i The refugees took five prisoners in* today learning just how a farm b' u-«.- brought und«-r fire shown i in the ’ to the compound in view of the be- should lie run. The six who gut there statement that approximately 80.090.- seigers and threatened to kill them un- firet heard the alarm clock round at 6 (M>o lam|«s are sol«! in this country less the siege was raised and. on the a. m. When the 14 others, who were every year for an aggregate purchas villagers’ pressing them back to the met at the station by Mr*. Belmont, ing amount of 3l8.ooo.ooo. burning buildings, they hacked the were driven to the farm house in farm five men slowly to death. Prisoners wagon* (not automobiles) work was were tied to stakes in the burning AVIATION RECORD BROKEN. taken up immediately. buildings and were burned with «their Mr*. Belmont opened up the future. captors. Two fly lOfl Mlles in 2 Hours «nd 7 She told them it is her purpose to pur A number of the refugees who es Minute* in Army Areoplane. chase 2,000 additional acre* strutting caped were reinforced by other bands on the 1,100 of Brockholt and that «he Lardo, Tex.— \ world’s aviation and returned, and desperate fighting intended to block out those expensive record was broken between this city ensued, in which many villagers were acre* into nice small farms for “far ami Eagle Pass when Lieutenant Ben killed. Troops were then sent for and merette*." have been hurried to the scene. Mrs. Belmont Is nothing if not con jamin Foulois, U. S. A., and Aviator sistent. It is said that she will wear Philip C. Parmalee drove an army VOLIVA IS RULER OF ZION. the real “farmerette" get-up, divided aeroplane 106 mile* in 2 hour« an<l 7 skirts, slouch bat and all. minutes. Payments of Debts Removes Receiver Thi* is a world record in point of and City Shriek* With Joy. time and also a record for the United BRYAN TO RUN NO MORE. States for a two-men flight. Chicago. A wild shriek of joy Under ideal weather conditions thr burst from the throat* of the inhabi- Democratic Leader Says T. R. and machine arose at Fort McIntosh at 2 tan is of Zion City, when they learned .Taft Carry Out His Policy. o'clock thi* afternoon and the funding that the “blight” of being a prophet Chicago Replying to a humorous was made at Eagle Pass at 4 :07. A who must take orders from the Federal sally of the toastmaster at a Press club speed of a mile a minute was made on court had been removed from the luncheon here, William Jennings several spurt*. Great crowds cheered shoulder* of Wiltiur Glj-nn Voliva and Bryan reiterated the statement that hr the aviators when they started and that the great estate left by John Al would not be a candidate for office greeted them on landing. exander Dowie had passed finally into « again. Dr. G. Frank Lydsten, the his hands. toastmaster, hail remarked facetiously The payment of 1700,000 in Judge Lorimer Willing to Pay. that the running for office of Colonel Landis ’ court by Cobe A McKinnon, Washington, March 4. An item to Bryan had become an institution reimburse Lorimer for expens«-« in Voliva'« brokers, to Gus D. Thomas, rather than an instance. defending hi* title to his seat was receiver for the estate, placed the 3L- Mr. Bryan, in hi* reply, declared «truck out of the general deficiency 350.000 property in the hands of the that Roosevelt and Taft had borrowed bill by the senate tonight, on motion overseer*. Cobe A McKinnon were Itemocratic doctrine, "so,” said he. of (»rimer himself. Even after Lori secured in this payment by a $950,000 “why should I seek the hardships of Isind issue. mer had made his motion several sen the White House when I can get other From the moment the news reached ators protested against the item ever men willing to carry out my policies? having been |>ut in the bill. Culber the city founded by Dowie there were Do not think, however, that because I son ami Clarke, of Arkansas, and scenes of delirious joy in the street*. am not a candidate for office, I am out Borah, the former two with much an Thousand* of horns were dragged forth of politic*.” ger, suggested that some memlier* of from nobody knows where and blown the committee on appropriation« had as long as men. women and children TAFT TO REST IN SOUTH. not known that the item was in the behind them could muster lung power. It is believ®d that Abe Ruef'a last ho|M> for frexvkim is gon«« an«l that he Experiment in New York Esp«ct*d to Bring Good Result*. must serve his 14 year «entence at . New York The experiment o f giv San Quentin. ing municipal dances is being tried Two mask«<d am! heavily arm«««! rob- out ............... .. ___ _ Commis- ____ _ in New York City. _ Park her* hel«l up and loot«! an express car sp7vJr has d.-ci'<k-«fth«t such within the city limits of St. Ixiuia. given in a manner wupplrtnont- escaping with several valuabl«- pack- r-.cial work in more crowded ag«-s ami the money box. parts of the city, should be productive Prohibition of profanity am! vulgar- : result*, ami acronlmgly the ity <.n the slag. - . rxHlUMM i* U 'I'1" “ * " * 1 l,,; being u>g.d ui-.n th.- New York alder- r d,’*c‘‘on •" men by representatives of a hundre«i Hamilton F ish park at Houston and church«.-» and religious societies. V5 lllett street* tonight Howard Bradstreet, superintendent Junction City, Wash., ha«l a 3100.- of th«- playgrounds urxb-r Commission- I er Stover, aided In managing thr 000 lumber fire. affair. Mr. Stover said Unlay that San Francisco will have a ncw this is the first time that any dance >800,000 hospital. » under any sort of municipal supervis ion has liven plar.ntsl in New York PORTLAND MARKEIS. City. Hamilton Fish park is located in Wheat Track price*: Bluestem, one of the most densely [»pulat«*! sec- 81c; club, 78c; red Russian, 76-77®; tion« of the East Side, where the valley, 80c; forty-fold, 78-79c. problem of recreation is always a diffi Barley Feed, 323-23.50 ton; brew cult one. ing, nominal. Millstuff* Bran. 321 22 per ton; TITIAN BRINGS *160.000. middlings, 327-28; shorts, 322 24; rolled barley, 325.50-26.50. Genuineness of Painting, Bought for Corn Whole, 328; cracked. 329 ton Trifle, Shown by Cleaning. Oats No. I white. 327-27.50 ton. I .on« ion Sir Hugh Lane, honorary Hay Track price«: Timothy, East ern Oregon. No. 1, 319 20; mixed, director of the Municipal Art Gallery 316-18; alfalfa. 312-12.50; grain hay, at Dublin. an«l governor of the Nation al Art Gallery of Ireland, has sold 313-13.50; clover. 311-12. Apple* Fancy. 31.50-2.50; choice, Titian'sl "Portrait of a Man in a Rc«i ; Cap” to an English collector for 31-1.25; common, 50c-31 per box. Green Fruit* Pears. 31.50-1.75 per 3150,000. The [Mirtrait, which is *uppos«<d to box; cranberries, 313.50 per barrel I m - that of Direnxo di Medici, became Vegetable* Cabbage. 31-25-1.50 per cwt; celery. California. 33-3.25 famous after Sir Hugh l«ought it at |>er crate; garlic, 10-12c per lb; I auction at Christie's in 1906. It was pumpkins, 2c; sprouts, 8c; carrots/ then *o dirty that numerous ex|«erta. OOc-il per cwt; parsnip*, 31; tur-j although recognising that it was a ' gtsMl painting, doubted that it wa* by nips. 90c-31; beets. 31 25. Potatoes Oregon, buying price«: Titian, to whom the catalogue aacril>e<l I it, and Sir Hugh was practically the 31.25- 1.40 per cwt. ' only firm believer in it. 12.50 per Onion« Buying price: The Colnaghi* and Itowdeswela, cwt. ran up the bidding until i however, Hens, 18-19c; Poultry r — Live: turkeys, 29c; 311.025 was reached, at which price 18-lajc; spring«, Cleaning re gaoao, 12-12|c* Sir Hugh secure«! it. 2O-23c; ducks. ! vealed its genuineness. The present Dressed: Turkeys, choice. 23-25c. President Plan* Trip to Atlanta and Egg* Oregon ranch, candled. 21- buyer is unknown. He i* believ««d to Chattanooga Thi* Week. lie a prominent la>n«lon financier. 22|c per d<»xen. In the Washingutn, March 6. Butter City creamery, extras. 1 Paraguay I* In Revolt. month'* interim tietween today and the and 2-pound print*, in boxes, 33c per Washington Serious revolutionary assembling of the extra session. Pres pound; les* than boxes, carton* and disturbances in Paraguay are report ident Taft expect* to spend several delivery extra. ed to the State department by Edwin week* in the South, resting. Pork Fancy, 11-1 !jc per [siund. On March 10 he will address the Veal Fancy. 85 to 125 pounds, 13|- Mogan, Unitid States minister to Paraguay and Uruguay station«'! nt Southern Commercial congress at At 14c per pound. Montevideo in the latter country. The lant*. Tuday he parvtically promised Hop« 1910 crop. 18*18®; 1909 revolutionists have control of the Representative Moon, of Tennessee, crop, 12-I4c; contract*. 15-16c. southern end of the railroad betwean that on hi* way to Atlanta he will Wool Eastern Oregon, 1218c, ac Concepcion and Asuncion and 3,000 stop for a day or a portion thereof at cording to shrinkage; valley, 17-19c; government troops have been sent to Chattanooga. After his visit to At mohair, choice, 30c per pound. i oppose them, All traffic on the rail- lanta thr president probably will go Cattle Prime steers. 36-6.85; grxxl mad has lx-en suspended. The revo- to Augusta to spend a week or 10 days to choice, 35.75-6; fair to good, lutionists with flve veaael* have start- in taking life easy, playing golf and 35.25 5.75; common, 34-5; choice to «si north on the LaPlata river, three forgetting for a short time all about prime cows, 35-5.25; good to choice of the craft flying the Argentine flag, the care* of state. beef cow*. 34.75-5; common to fair beef cows, 32-4; choice spayed half- Rockefeller'* Pastor Quit*. Religious Right* Upheld. era, 35.25-5.50; good to choice heif- | New Y'ork Frankly stating the dis- New York “ Religious rights are er*, 35-5.25; choice ••» good fat bull*. appointment he hail experienced in his just as important as property rights,” 34.25- 4.50; fair to good fat bull*. ministry to the wealthy Fifth Avenue said Judge Foster in granting a trial 33-3.50; good to choice light calves, Baptist church, the Rev. Charles F. by jury to William Vernon Cole, a 37.75-8; fair to good light calves, 37- j Aked announced Sunday that he had faith healer, charged with practicing 7.50; good to choice light calves. received a unanimous call to the First medicine without a license. William 33 .75-4.75; good to choice stags, 35- . Congregational church of San Fran- Travers Jerome, counsel for Cole and 5.25; fair to good stag», 34 4.50;. I cisco, lie said he hail been unable to indirectly representing influential 38.25-8.75; good to, any go«x! I reason why he should Christian Scientists here, demanded a Hog* Choice. < ; not accept. Hi choice, 38 1-3.25; poor. 3«-7.50. He regretfully acknow- jury trial instead of a hearing before Sheep Choice yearling wether*, leged his fear* that the great enter a justice to whom a magistrate hail grain fed, 34.25-4.60; old wethers, prise* which he had hope«! to lead sent the case. The grand jury must grain fed. 34-4.26; choice ewes, grain were only “such stuff as dream* are now return an indictment before the fed. 33.5O-4.SO; fair to medium ewes, made of.” case can proceed. grain fed. 32.75-3.25; choice lambs, Hunt Send Home Many Million*. King To Be “Kids'“ Host. grain fed. 3-5.75-«; gnmi to choice, grain fed. 35.50-5.75; fair to good. Vienna The record« of the Hungar Iondon King George will entertain 34.50-5.50; poor lamb«, 32.50-3.50. 10,000 children in London, according ian pmtoffice »how that $37,0*0.000 Hay fed sheep and lamb* 50c lower to announcement, at a coronation fete was sent to Hungary during 1910 by | to be held in Crystal Palace. June 30. Auatro-Huganana living in America. than grain fed. i « bill. Wildor Call* for Mor* Help. 100,000 Bible* Ordered. New York One hundred thousand Bibles have been ordered for general distribution by the Gideons, as the members of the Christian Travelers’ associativa of Americas style them selves. The order is said to be the largest ever placed and it forms part of a national plan bi place a Bible in every hotel bedroom in the country. W E. Henderson, national secretary of the Gideons, »aid here that he had been promised one-fourth of the order for San Francisco and the Pacific coast. Twenty '‘Worker*“ Released. Fresno. Cal., March 4. Twenty In- dustrial Worker* of the World had been released from the county jail up to noon Uwlay. This is exclusive of the 37 released yesterday. The men felt jubilant over the compromise on the free speech question arrived at with the city authorities, and indulged in songs a* they ¡mcked up their be longing*. preparatory to their libera tion. Washington. To meet the pressing needs of thr starving people of China, American Consul General Wilder at Shanghai has cabled the secretary of state in an urgent appeal to the Amer ican people for the contribution of 1100.(100 more to be sent by cable to the stricken people. Mr. Wilder makes it plain that thia amount will be nenle«i lie fore the army transport Buford, now loading at Se attle, can reach China with supplies. “Wets" Win Back Cities. Indianapolis, Ind. The “wet*" gained several of the larger cities of Indiana that previously had been on the “dry” aide in local option elec tions in 14 counties of the state; The "dry*” held the county, township* ami some cities, but the people decided for the return of saloons in the cities of Marion. Wabash. Vevay. Rushville. Huntington, Connellsville, Decatar ami Kokomo. Cities that voted to re main dry were Delphi. Tipton. Peters burg. Green Caatle, Gaa City and No blesville. Suffragist* Dealt Blow. Border Will Be Watched. Topeka. Kan. Presidential suffrage for women was voted down by the Kansas house in committee of the whole, 50 to 43, after it had been acted upon favorably by the senate. Roth houses have already voted to sub mit a woman suffrage constitutional amendment to the voters, but this proposition does not include the ballot for president Washington Disturbances are in creasing along the Mexican frontier and the situation necessitates the cloee watching by the American troops of practically every inch of the line in order to preserve the neutrality of the United State*. A shipment of arms en route to Mexico has been cap tured by United State* marshals near Douglas, Ari* f