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