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CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WEEK 'WORK ON Caissons MAINE PROGRESSES. Around Battleship pleted Successfully. Com MEXICO MADE SECRET PACT COLLIERY FIRE KILLS FIFTY. M«n Cut Off Like Rats Tunnel. In Blind Scranton. Pa. Fifty men ’and boys Havana, April 11. In the driving of the last few interlocking steel piles ! are believed to have perished without I of the 20 caissons forming the Indus- ' a moment's warning Sat unlay in a ■ mg wall of the huge basin or coffer mine fire in the Pancoast colliery at dam surrounding the wreck of the bat Throop, three miles from here. Some tleship Maine, the first stage in the work of removing the shattered re estimates place the number of dead at mains of the warship has been 60. Three l«nb«« have Ix-en rwnv- i brought to a successful /i nclusion. ered. John Evans, head of the United Distinguished Amtriczn Gr«et»d With Gvnaral Rosuma of Important Evant The work was accompllsh/d with American Envoy Discovers Document. States rescue car. died from suffoca Affectionate Familiarity By I rapidity, ami its progress wax un- Photographs If, end Hurries to Presented In Condanaad Form Wuting Thousands. j marked by a single mishap or hitch tion resulting from a defective rescue Wethington With Copy. for Our Quay Readers. until the introduction of the final pile, helmet. which failed to interlock properly Three men protected by helmets and with those on either side. Mexico‘City, April 10. President oxygen tanka pu»h«d ;x*t the ¡s>int Portlard. April^l No such greet- Ralph Smith, a Canadian Liberal, This gave rise to a rumor that the approves the reciprocity treaty. stability of the caisson was endanger- Taft gave President Dial of Mexico where the flames were first disoovered : ing has Portland ever given any in- e 1, but exan i u t on showed the trou six days to abrogate a treaty he is at 5 o’clock in the afternoon and : dividual as that which was extended More artillery will he sent to ble resulted from the piles being said to have made with Japan. stumbled over the bodies of two men by the populace to Theodore Roosevelt strengthen the defensea of Hawaii. slightly deformed by an accident« The hidden treaty was discovered by ami a boy, who had evidenty fallen yesterday. Mexican rebel chiefs are unanimous blow from the iron bucket of a dredge The extraction Ambassador Henry l-ane Wilson, who while groping their way to safety. Once before Portland welcomed him In their demand that Diaz must resign. working alongside. and replacing of three piles served to photographed it, returned the original, A majority of the missing men and when he came here as president of the In a speech at Seattle Roosevelt repair the damage. The second stage an<l proceeded post haste to Washing boys are foreigners, but two Ameri United State«. Then he was received made a strung plea for the opening of uf the work, that of filling the cais cans Foreman Walter Knight and ton to inform the State dejiartment. with all due (lump, ceremony, dignity sons, as fast as completed, with the Alaska. Fire Boas Alfred I*awe arc thought The treaty is said to have contained to have pcrished. and enthusiasm. mud, clay and rock dredged from the A Montana cattle rancher, insane harbor bottom, has beer, going on for clauses that gave Japan coaling sta The fire started in an engine house But there was a delightful informal over family troubles. killed four per ’some time, and, now that the ring is tion privileges and other big conces at the o|/cning of a slope leading from ity, a »pontaniety, about the Roosevelt sons and then committed suicide. completed, is Iwing ¡sished forward sions on the coast of Mexico, including the Diamond vein. 750 feet from the reception yesterday that leaves the oc Craig Lippincott, head of the great with the utmost rapidity. The steam the right to use Magdalena Bay fur surface. There were 400 men in the casion altogether unique and without mine, about 60 of them at work in a publishing house of Lippincott A Co., dredge Norman Davis, Ivnt to the gov target practice. Taft's order mobilising troops at “blind" tunnel at the end of th« precedent. committed suicide by shotting himself. ernment by the Huaton-Trumbo Dredg ing company, and the United States the border followed promptly. slop«. Escape was cotnpetoly blocked Portland, for the most part, took an The lighthouse tender Manzanita army dredge Barnard are dumping These are startling disclosure« made by fire, smoke and the generated has arrived at Fort Stevens to begin hundreds of tons of material into the here by an apparently authentic source gases. The other men. scattered in in a series of informal demonstrations mine planting in the mouth of th« Co caissons. today and which, as recited in narra other workings, gut out. which must have served to make it lumbia river. It is expected that the filling of the tive form, are given a« ths- cause of James Vickers, a fire boss, who was - . ■ , ■ < >’ .■ man has been fatally wouml/d caissons will lie completed by the «mi the hurry order that rushed 20,000 near the engine house when the fire held in high regard by everybody here and tevoral others seriously injured in of April, ami after that the OMNt Ito troops to the border. The relations broke out, gave the alarm, and tried abouts. It was not the mere cheering rioting by striking miners at Prince terrsting stage of the work that of reported to have existed between Mex to get to the tunnel where he knew a and applause that revealed the public Rupert. B. C. pumping out the great basin and leav ico and Japan are said to have prevail body of men was at work. He could mind and heart, but the evidences of go only a short distance before he was intimate regard that were manifested The Atlantic liner Princess Irene, ing the hull of the battleship in pre ed prior to March 1. Ambassador Wilson, of the United forced to turn back. He was so ex on every baud. with 1720 passengers, is ashore on cisely the condition she was on the Ismg Island. It is believed she can morning after her destruction 13 year* States, so the story goes, hail occa hausted that he had to l>e carried to the It was “Hello, Teddy” ami “Hurrah »ion many months ago to feel that surface. He gave it as his opinion for Teddy" everywhere along the ago will begin. be pulled otf without damage. «••¡lipa/l.v ■ t M«xi«si * «f nil that m» man could live five minutes in crowded streets where he appeared. A» a guaranty of the security of the A woman at Everett, Wash., has retaining wall around the basin, it is ...... u n < (. i rd t' « I ' - ■ th« tunnel. None thought of shouting "Hurrah become stone Mind from the nervous probable that riprap will be dumped States. In the celebration in honor of for Roosevelt.’’ And to have the pop shock which followed the accidental around the exterior of the ellipse of the foundation of the republic, when ulace calling one by his first name un- shooting by her of a young man. many Japanese of high rank came as caissons before the («imping begins. i reatralnedly is significant in itself. 1 i . w ri- » it • f w - I l.-iv« I « special ambassadors from their country The czar was severely rebuked by a "T/ddy in 1912!" shouted hundreds council of his own appointees for en carefully watched as the water level to the Mexican capital, the ambassn of his admirers, as he was taken forcing a law of the Zemstvo by de falls, there being some danger that, ax dor noticed that there had been priv San Francisco Having sjient four through the crowded streets in a big the support of the water and the mud ate audiences between Dial and a few cree during a recess of that Issly. years in Tahiti a* chief surgeon in the automobile, attend/si by members of in which it rents is withdrawn, the of his more influential ministers and It is reported from Chicago that the hull may careen, just as ships have the Japanese delegates. colonial army. Dr. L. Bellonne was a the reception committee. To this significant exclamation he wholesale prices of meat, (sjultry, but been known to do in drydock when in- To Ambassador Wilson It was re passenger on the steamer Mariposa gave no fuller acknowledgment than ter, eggs and nearly all cereal pro sufl ported that for 18 months every ship which arrived here Saturday. ed.- As a to the other greetings that came from ducts are much lower than a few As soon cs the wreck is fully ex of th« Toyo Risen Knisha, whose port bacteriologist. Dr. Bellonne said he the crowds. There was a n«d and a months ago, posed, the work of exploration in is San Francisco, were carrying from mail« im|»rtant discoveries which will baring of teeth in that irresistible search of human bmln-s will take pre 20 to 150 Japanese, j/assagc paid, be be of great moment to the medical Roosevelt smile for everyone. The PORTLAND MARKETS. cedence, It is practically certain sides cargoes of agricultural machin Wheat Track prices: Bluestem, that when this stage of the work 1» ery. household goods an-i general world when they are disclosed by his only one« who received especial atten 86c; club. 82c; red Russian, 81c; val reached, a United States man-of-war stores. At San Francisco these J«|>- report to the French government at tion were women with children, vet Pans. While unwilling to discuss in erans of the Civil or S|»anish-Ameri- ley. 82c; 40-fold. 93c. will be ordered to Havanna and will anese were transshipped to steamer» Barley Choice feed. 126.50«/ 27 ton. lie close to the wreck to receive the of the Pacific Mail line plying be detail his important medical discov can wars and groups of workingmen Millstutfa Bran. *21 per ton; mid bodies as fast as they are recovered, tween San Francisco ami Mexican ery, he intimated that he had found a outdoors for a few moments from cure for tuberculosis in the form of a their toil to see him pass. dlings, |29«i 30; short«. *22.50, rolled ami transjsirt them to their final rest porta. compound from a herb found only on It was a strenuous day not ar barley, *2861 29. In February Ambassador Wilson ing place. After that will come an duous, or fntigueing. or wearing, or Corn Whole, *28; cracked, *2'«/ exhausting scrutiny of the shattered was busy cultivating every source of the island of Tahiti. vigorous but strenuous. The over 28.50 per ton. wreck by experts, who. in the opinion information in the higher circles of ALL SAVED GROM LINER worked Rooaevelt adjective alone ap liny Timothy, Eastern Oregon. of engineer officer«, will be able to the Mexican government. Very near plies Into the nine hours that he No. 1. *2161,21.50; mixed, *16/..'18; determine beyond all question precise the end of the month, from * certain Cabin Passengers Given Precedence »pent in Portland there was crowded alfalfa. »12«/12.50. ly the character of agency by which w»urce in the government, Mr. Wilson, event upon event with but little inter to Steerage Folk. Apples Fancy, *2612.75 per box, the destruction of the Maine was ef it is said, obtained for a few hours val for rest choice, *l«/2; common, 50c«/*1. Ix>ne Hill, L. I.. Life Saving Sta fected. the orignal of a secret treaty between The hour ami a half of respite from Vegetables Asparagus, 6/ri 7c per Probably many months will ela(>»e Japan and Met co. He kept it long tion The 1,720 cabin and steerage public demonstrations that the com pound; green onions, 20c per dozen; before the final stage of the work enough to have photographs made of paanenger« on the stranded North Ger mittee provided was spent not in rest, hothouse lettuce, *1.25 |>er bos; rad the extraction and disposition of the it. Then it was returned to its place ishes, 306» 35c per dozen; rhubarb, wreck. It is known that the forward in the innermost archives of the Mex- man Lloyd liner Prinxeas Irene were but in attending to private matters. *1.25«/1,50 per box; sprouts, 9c per ;>art of the ship, about one-third of can state department. transferred to the deck of the Prinx Seemingly that famed reservoir of re serve energy is as remote from dimin pound; carrots, H5ct//*l per hundred; her length, is practically detached The document, the report here in Friedrich Wilhelm in five hour« and ution ss ever. parsnips, 85c/./ *1 ; turnips, 85c«/ *1 ; from the rest, and it is so shatter«*! dicates. was in the shape of several ten minutes Saturday afternoon and Exacting as were the demands made beets, 90c«/ *1. it will have to lx* extracted piecemeal. clauses which were to be a ;>art of a one hour after nightfall they were on upon his time, the genial colonel en Potatoes Oregon buying price. formal agreement on the part of the When the after part has been strip joyed it nil immensely. He said as *1.35«/ l.ti/i ;»er hundred. ped, so far as poaaible, of all heavy Mexican govern ent to allow the Jap their way to New York. The fi-at is Onions Buying prie«’, *2«/2.10 per weights, including the two turrets, anese commercial line of steamship* unparalleled in the history of marine much before leaving the city late last night and his manner was more ex hundred. weighing with their pairs of ten-inch to have its own coaling station at a disasters. pressive than his words. In at least Hops 1910 crop. 17j«/18c; 1909 gun* als/ut 200 tons each, it will be point on the Pacific const and to grant Not a life was lost, not a case of one event he was presented with a fea crop, 12«/13c; contracts, IGjc. ;>oxsible to build a bulkhead across th/ certain other colonisation rights in panic was reported. Th« first pas ture altogether new in his experience, Wool Eastern Oregon, nominal. !•» shattered end and float the hulk out of state* along the Western coast. senger off was a woman and the sec ami he said he will always remember 6/ 14c per pound; valley. 15«/ 17c; mo the basin, to be sunk in all probability The secret clause« of the treaty, The cabin [•assengers, it as a *|M-cial event in his travels. hair, choice, 32c per pound delivered hundreds of fathoms deep in the tho*o «aid to have been photographed ond a baby. masters of the situation and the lang It was the jungle dinner given early Portland. straits of Florida. by Mr. Wilson, the report continues, uage, generously gave precedence to in the evening in his honor at the Poultry Hens. 21c; broilers, 30c; Finally will come the extraction of gave Japan a lease of a coaling sta the more timorous steerage pas Commercial club. Here the Urge turkeys, 21c; ducks, 20«/23c; g<'<-.«>, the thousands of steel piles composing tion and maneuver pivileges in Mag banquet hall was made over into the 12«/ 14c; dressed turkeys, choice, 23«/ the 2o caissons and the dredging of dalena bay. with the alternative of « sengers. As for the liner on the bar. night replica <>f an African jungle. I the material with which they were coaling station nt one other of a few It was intensely realistic, with an Eggs Oregon ranch. 206121c dosen. filled. This may not bo completed be scattered (torts down the Mexican fall showtd her hard and fast in the girp of the »an/ls. ami Captain God array of grinning Africans in jungle- Butter City creamery, extra, 1 and fore the end of the year. coast. dard, of the Lone Hill Life Saving town full dress, monkeys climbing 2-pound prints, in boxes. 31c per Clauses also set forth Japan and station, estimates she will tie held alx/ut in the rank jungle foliage, lions l«>und; leas than l#xes, cartons and Mexico's mutual interest« in the Pa Sandhogs Unearth Relic. prisoner at least a week, perhaps a roaring, hunting horns sounding and delivery extra. cific. and while not stipulating an fortnight. Portland As the sinking of the all the atmosphere of a Roosevelt Pork Fancy. 10«/10jc per pound. offensive and defensive alliance, gav, In the 36 hours since »be struck she hunting camp in the land of the rfaino- first caisson of the Broadway bridge Veal Fancy, 85 to 125 pounds. 12 in a diplomatic way Ja;>an's keen in continues, “sandhogs” of the Union has l«-en favored by comparatively ceri. «/ I2|c per |s>und. terest in the protection of Mexico It 1« the first time in my exper Cattle Prime steers, *6.256/6.75; Bridge Jk Construction company are against aggression. The treaty had light weather, but a stiff blow from choice. *ts</6.25; good to choice. wagering that in medieval times then- been ratified, not by the Mexican sen the southwest might open her plates, ience that I have been provided with crush in her bulkheads and wrench real entertainment rather than being *5.5(*«i 5.75 ; fair to good, *4«/5; wax a sawmill on the waterfront, for ate, but by Diaz and his cabinet. apart her stout steel frame. left to furnish the entertainment my common, »4«/5; prime cows, *4.75«/ in their excavating operations there The day after he obtained the pho self,” the colonel said delightedly. 5; good to choice, *4.500/4.75; fair have been unearthed quantities of tograph of this treaty, Mr, Wilson Germ Not Disease Csuse. to good, »4.25«/4.50; poor, 4.25«/ slabwood that appears as if it bad !yft for Washington. 4.50; choice heifers, »5///5.25; choice la-en whip-sawed out of logs instead Pendleton, Or. All theories of Oyster Bay Goes Democrstic. bulls. ,4.50/1/4.75; gu/sl to choice, of being cut by modern steam saws. mo/iem medicine were contradicted New York Following up their vic Balloon Falls 4.000 Feat. *4.25</i4.50; fair to good, *3.75«/4; Beside«, it is found at a great dis Friday night by Rev. Mr. Vande- St. Lottis A balloon ascension here walker, and a retired physician, here, tory of last fall, when Martin W. Lit common. »3«/3.50; choice light cal tance below the river bed. where the tleton, Democrat, defeated for con- by four member» of the Signal corps who asserted that germs and bacteria Vos, *7.75/u 8; good to choice, *7.50 material is hardened more than silL gress 15. W. Cocks, Republican, the of the First regiment. National guan! were not the cause of disease, but 6/7.75; fair to medium. *7</<7.5O; Democrats in Nassau county, lamg Is Few Filipinos Go North. • if Missouri, terminated in an accident were rather the product This state choice heavy, ,5.25m5.50; go/>d to land, the home of Theodore Roosevelt, when the aerostat sprung a leak and San Francisco Most of the Filipino choice, *5<<i5.25; fair to medium, ment wm made at the regular meet were successful in two of three biero ,4.75/<l5; choice stags, *5,2561 5.50. lalxirerx who arrived here from Haw dropped like a plummet from an ele ing of the Pendleton City ami County nial township elections. In North Lieutenants Medical society. gi s s I to choice, *4.50/1/5; fair to me aii on the steamer Korea and who vation of 4,000 feet. Despite the inter Hempstead the Democratic ticket Drew ami Hart and Sergeant» Book brought their contracts to work in the esting manner in which Dt. Vamie- rolled up a plurality of about 3.300, dium, *4«/4.50. Hogs Choice, ,7.75<i/8; good to Alaska canneries have decided to re man ami Obermeyer. who comprised walker elaborated his theories for dis- ami in Oyster Ray township it was choice. *7.60/1/7.75; choice heavy. main in this state, hoping to secure the aeronautic party, raved themselves cussion, the j»hy icians present did not about 165. In Hempstead the Repub A few after colliding with the smokestack of indorse^his views. »7,25«/ 7.50; good to choice. »7«/ 7.25; employment in the interior. licans apparently have won by a nar common. *6.50«/ 7; stock hogs, *x«/ of them, however, left for the north a tobacco factory less than three mile* row margin of about 50 vote«. on the Continental and Oriental of the from the starting point, by dumping Unions Fight Guard Laws. 8.25. all their ballast overboard. Alaska Packers ’ fleet. Sheep Choice yearling wethers, Helena, Mont. Labor unions of Japan Cuts Duties for Britain. grain fed, *4.50/1/6.10; old wi ther«, Montana will begin Monday to circu Ix<ndun The new Anglo-Japanese 200 Persons Die in Fire. Rebels Besiege Canton. late petitions calling for a referendum commercial trreaty which was ratified *4«/4.25; choice ewes, grain fed. *4«>4.25; fair to medium ewes, *3«/ Bombay, British India Two hun election to determine whether the mil at Toklo provide« for large reductions London A special dispatch to the 3.50; spring lambs, extra quality. Daily Express from Hongkong «ay« dred men. women and children were itary law enacted at the last session in the rates of the new Japanese *10; choice lambs, grain fed. wool, that a serious uprising is rejwirted to bummi to death in a fire which de /hall remain on the statute books. tariff on the chief British textile and *5.506/5.75; choice lambs, grain fed. have occurred at Canbin. It is said stroyed a thatched structure in which The law puts the national guard on metal imports in Japan. Specialities sheared, *5.25«/5.50; good to choice the Tartar general commanding the they had gathered for a festival. Five the footing required by the Federal in Japanese manufacture will continue lambs, grain fed. f ’■ . f».r t troops has been murdered and that hundred persons were in the building luthorities. It will be the first time to be admitted to the Unitsd Kingdom good lambs. grain fed, *4.756/5, >ther troops have been hurried to the There was only one exit and a panic he referendum has been invoked sine* duty free. The treaty will remain in it was made four years ago. culls, *2.5064.3 50. ensued. city, which is in a state of siege. force 12 years. Doings of the World at Large Told in Brief. / Had (¡ranted Coaling Station on Coast. Streets of Portland Thronged With Enthusiastic Visitors. Tl BEK( I LOSES Cl RED BY TAHITIAN HERB EXTRAS
