A SHIP GOES DOWN CARRIES ADMIRAL MAKAROFF 800 MEN WITH IT. AND Vhlle Returning to Roediteed, After Steaming Out to Maat Japan Flaat th Russian Flagahlp Strlkai tub merged Mln and Turn Turtle Orand Duke Cyril Among Wounded. COLO RUNS O KUIiP. A10NEY TO RIVERS .fit. Petersburg, April 15. Striking embmerged mine at Port Arthur today, the Fetropavlovak, the flagship of the Russian fleet, went down and carried vllh her Admiral Makaroff and be tween 000 and 800 num. Grand Duke Cyril escspod, but la wounded. Admiral MakaroR ordered his entire equadron out to engage the Japaneae fleet of 40 vesiejls which appeared off the port early In the day and organ an attack which tat L 11 continueg. According to the Associated Press in formant whie Admiral Makaroff was returning after going out to attack ths Japaneae fleet the I'etropavlovsk atruck a mine on her starboaid aide amidiihip And Immediately began to keel. Before the crew could flood the port compart ments of the vessel, ahe turned turtle nd sank in few minutes, carrying down almost the entire crew. Captain Njakovloff, the Grand Duke Cyril and two other ofllcera were saved liecanso they wero standing on the super-bridge. The frightful lone of life among tiie ollkers and men wan due to the fact that they were all at their stations ready for action. BLOWN TO DEATH. Pacific Mall Liner Wrecked on Salvador Coait PatMBf tra Saved. Han FranIco, April 14. The M-Tchanti' Exchange baa received a cablegram atating that the Taciflc Mail steamship company' steamer Colon, which left till city March 22 for Pan ama, with a number of passengers and cargo of general merchandiae to Mexi can and Central American poinU, haa been wrecked. Tha Colon la reported to have struck on a rock at I'unta Rsmedloa, causing Injuries which mad it necessary to beach her at Acajutla, There was a big lint ol passengers when the vessel went out of this har- bor, but moot of them were bound lor ports north of Acajutla. The vessel left Acajutla yesterday afternoon bound south for Panama, and she had only gone about 16 miles when she hit on the rock. The reef where she struck is considered one of the most dangerous along the Central American coast, and many vessels have found graves on it. According to seafaring men who know the reef, the steamer was fortunate in getting afloat alter striking and getting back to tha harbor at Acajutla. house PASSES BILL U0OO.0OO. CARRYING1 Twenty-Nino nn Killed In Disaster on Battleeblp Missouri. Pensacola, Fla.. April 15. By the explosion of 2,000 pounds of powder in the after 12-inch turret and the hand ling room of the battleship Mi'souri, Captain William 8. Cowk-a, command ing, this afternoon, 20 men were in tantly kliled and five injured, of w hom two will die. This is the most serious accident that lias occurred in the American navy aince the blowing up of the Maine in Havana harbor in 1H08. The Misouri was on the target range with the Texas and Brooklyn at practice about noon, when a chsige of powder In the 12-inch left-hand gun ignited from ganea exploded and, dropping be low, Ignited four charges of powder in the handling room, and all exploded. Only one man of the entire turret , and handling crew survived. But for tha prompt and efficient action of Captain Cowles in flooding the handling room and ntitine with water, one of the magazines would have xploded and the ship would have been destroyed. PRESIDENT WAITS ON KNOX. Over With tbo Cabinet Ho Again does Chinese Exclusion Matter. Washington, April 14. Chinese ex clusion and the probable necessity for legislative or executive action, in view of the denunciation by China of the ex isting treaty, was again today the prin cipal topic of discussion at the meeting of the cabinet. The president and his advisers considered the subject in all its phases, but resetted no definite con elusion, chiefly perhaps because Attor ney General Knox has not been able yet to prepsre his opinion as to the legal status of the matter. As soon as the attorney general shall have decided whether, in his opinion, existing leg' islstion relative to the exclusion of Chi nese will be valid on the expiration of the traty with China, some decisive steps will be taken. If it should bo determined that the legislation will lapse with the treaty, then congress will provide against a general Chinese immigration by the insertion in a tend ing appropriation bill of an amend ment coveting the subject. No New Projects WUI Bo Undertake ' Channels are Only to Bo Maintained or Restored No Amendments Wore Made -Money Bocomea Immediately Available. Washington, April 13. Tho bouse today passed the bill reported by tho committee on rivers and harbors appro priating $3,000,000 for tho restoration or maintenance of channels, or for oth er river and harbor improvements. Burton (O.), chairman of the commit tee, in explaining the bill urged the adoption of settled principles with re gard to river and harbor work. Bur gess (Dera., Tex.) and Rsnsdell (Dem., La.) favored increases in tho appropria tion for river and harbor improvement, the former urging that they should be doubled and the latter regarding $100, 000,000 as not too much. Quite i large number of bills of minor import ance were passed. The bouse then went into committee of the whole for the consideration of t.'ie emergency river and harbor bill, general debate being limited to three hours. Burton, (O.), in charge of the bill, msde an explanation of it and gave general survey of the subject of river and harbor improvements. He said the amounts expended for this purpose, when the vast extent of our waterways was considered,- was very DEATH IN WRECK. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. ftaata Barbara Street Car Overturned and Five Killed Outright. Santa Barbara, Cal., April 13. A street car loaded with passengers re turning to town from tho Old Mission ran off tho track at Garden and Mis sion streets today and five deaths have resulted. All of the dead were Bant Barbara people. Over 20 of tho pas sengers wro injured, many of them being frightfully mangled. Over half of tho Injured bad bones broken about tho body and not a few of them suffered serious fractures of tho skull.' The accident was due to a defect in the brake apparatus, was as revealed from an inspection of the car, after the accident. While tho rear brakes wero tightly set against the wheels, the for ward brakes wero of no service because of the breaking of a part of tho gear ing. . Tbo motorman discovered that some thing wss wrong with the car several blocks above the point where the acci dent occurred and endeavored to set the brakes, bat failed to check the speed of the car. At the intersection of Garden and Mission streets there is a sharp curve, and the car was moving at its highest speed down a 6 per cent grade when the curve was reached. The car was thrown from the track upon its side, the passngers being thrown in evrey direction. One section of the car was smashed into splinters. Those who were instantly killed and many of those who were most seriously President .... Vice-President...... Secretary of Htat Secretary of Trenry, Secretary of Interior Secretory of War .. Secretary of Ney... foetmasterienerel... A Horney .general Caftod St tee. Theodore kooetvelt Soeretarrof jktrtcnltnre., Com OauaraJ Land Office.. W. R. Iet Lrman J. Gaee E. A. lfitchvck I. R. Root -John D. Lorn ..Chariot Emory Smilb I John w.i.rirrt I James Wilson I BlDr Herman TICKETS To and from all POINTS EAST vto meters, j State rod oral Official. John H Mitchell Che. W. Pulton r 1 - - -.Hi-Hi. I I .TbomaaH. Tongue Internal Revenue Collector ........ I). M. Imnn t,i...i. r b. Bellinger Circa It '"-'r w B. Gilbert lll.lrMlll,n.T , J. H. Hall V.B.J .Marat all , t. Matnewi 1MM state Land Ofleera. m ball, oaaoos. T- hi JaT P. ..ou rat bokt Lixa to Loe attersoa agister. LA obasdb, oaaeos. K. W. Bartletl . O. Swaekaelmer ST. P1UL, CUL8T1. KlUEiPCUS, CH1C&S9 AXD FOINTB BAIT. small. The system pursued in the ! injured were standing upon the guard United States, he thought, contrasted, most unfavorably with those of foreign countries. The bill then was passed without amendments. Under its provisions, t he money appropriated becomes imme diately available, and is to be. expend ed under the direction of the secretary of war and the supervision of the chief engineers. rail on the side of the car as it crashed into the ditch. As soon as the'news of the accident spread throughout the city every avail able physician was sent to be aid of the injured and many prominent resi dents of the eity were among those who aided the suffering and dying. A majority of the injured were taken to the hospital and the remainder were removed to their homes. tato of Oregon. i n X. Chamberlain Secretarr of State.. ..J. I. Dunbar Treeaoror , C. 8. Moor Governor.. Tnroogh Palace and Tourist Sleeper; Dining and Buffet Hmoklog library Can. A. 11. Crawforl I. H. Ackerrjen I J.B. Wh'tBeyl ...n. o. Been i A. Moor A ttorney-General... not rrlater ooDreme Jndiea ., ...,. . C. E. Wolrertoa Clark Board School Land Comm union ...Mart Chamberlain Oame Warden . A lp h a Qaimby run vommiMioner.. Vrtcrluary Burgeon.. PAILT TXAQfB. f AST TIKI. f. C. Reid, Aitorl .Wm. McLean. Fortland Sixth Jadlelal Dlatrlot. Ctrenlt Judg W. R. Kill ProaaouUog Attorney T. O. Bailey for rate, folden and fnU Information retaroV Ing ticket, route, a to., call on or addraa H. DICK80X, City Ticket Agent, Portland, Ot. J. W. PHAIX)N, T. P. A., - 122 Third St.. Portland, Ot A, B. C. DENNISTON, O. W. P. A, m Vint Ave.. Seattle, Wain. DIFFICULTIES OP IRRIQATION. for GREAT FORCE MASSED ON YALU. In EXPECTS JAPAN TO STRIKE. Wovostl Says, However, Think Ruaala Lacks Not It Must Loaders. Pt. Petersburg, April 15. The No vosti this morning growlingly eulogises Vice AdmTral Makaroff, recalling the vigilance and persistency with which he nat rolled the sea in emleavoi Ing to induos the Japanese to engage in com ljat. The paper says: ."In Russia the news of the untimely end of the lrave commander calls forth deep grief. The death of the experienced, warlike and gifted admiral, whose authority was recogniwl everywhere, especially in that land of sailors, Kngland, is in the highest degree regrettable. The bitterness is lightened only by the knowledge that the admiral died at the rot of duty and the fleet has other sifted ofllcera who will prolong the srsnd activity. In any case we have ot to reckon immediately with the conseonences of the catastrophe. Almvo all it is tho expected that the Ruastans Strongly Fortify a Town Manchuria to Oppoe Japanese. Beoul, April 14. Japanese advices from Northern Corea state that tho Rusaisns have strongly fortified Chiu Tien Cheng, a walled town on the Manchurlan side of the Yalu river, about ten miles north of Antung. It is estimated that there are 20,000 Rus- siana of all anna at Antung ready to onnoae the Japanese Groaning. Webb Hayes has retnrnea nere irom a journey to Anju, thence to the Amer ican mines at Unssn, and thence norm to the Yalu river. He reports that he received bofuiital and medical treat ment from the Japanese, and he com plimenta the equipment of the Japanese Held forces, the effectiveness oi uieir pontoon bridge st Anju and their trans port organization. PROTECTS CANNERYMEN. Geological Survey Polnta Out Need Qreat Clrvumstractlon. Washington, April 13. The pro gress made in the irrigation work oi the government is reviewed in a publi cation issued by the geological suivey, which points out the necessity for great caution and conversatism in the expan sion of the reclamation work. It says that of the irrigation projects favorably reported in 1903, which included those on the Truckee river in Nevada, on the Bait river in Arizona, on Milk river in Montana, on the Sweetwater river in Wyoming and on Gunnison river in Colorado, the Nevada and Arizona pro jects have-been found feasable and con struction on tho engineering works along tho Truckee and Bait rivers haa progresand to a leasonahle extent, The Montana project, however, has presented unexpected engineering diffi culties, as well as complications regard ing water rights, so that progress is slow. It has been found necessary to modify the first plans in order to achieve early results. Engineering difficulties are encount ered in the Colorado project. The amount of arid lands thereby iec tama ble is less, too, than was expected. Morrow County Offlelala. Joint Senator. ........... Walter PI roe ReproMntatlTa .Q. W. Phelp County Judge...- A. 0. Bartholomew n I F. M. Griffin w u u v' wwiiiMMvmi, 1 County Clerk Vawter County Sheriff E. M. Bhott County Tr.nr .. . ,,,,,, , .M. Llchtenthal County nun , . .. n. I, w h. laling County Surveyor 3. Keithly County School Superintendent-Jay w. Shipley County ' "" rtf KUtner Stock Inapeetot,. 8. C. Kirk ... P.M. Griffin 1 Ewrh.ffl "The Milwaukee" AUTOS FOR USB IN THB WAR. OPPOSES QENERAL ST AFP. Japanese will hasten to take of the catastrophe and renew their at tacks on Port Arthur. "The Japanese are greatly mistaken if they think this fatal accident can in the slightest measure shake the atrong and steady determination of Rusxia to carry on the war to a glorious end." Ruaalans Driven Back. Tokio, April 15. An official telegram from Wlju says that a company of Rus elan troops attempted to cross the first stream of the Yalu river west of Wlju ttil morninir. and that a company of Japanese attacked and drove the Rus elans back. The bodies of 20 dead Russians, the telegram adds, were found 'ter the fight. The dispatch adds that mnsll parties of Russians, without unl forms, attempted to cross the Yalu river at diffrecnt points bet ween Wlju and Yongampho and that they were all driven back. Fulton to Father a Bill of Retaliation Agalnat Brltlan Colombia. Wanhlnirton. April 14. 8enator Ful ton ia dishing, and will soon Intro duce, a Joint resolution authorising the president to prohibit tbo exportation of fresh salmon from Puget sound and tributaries during the canning season. This is in the nature of a retaliation to the action of British Columbia in re fusing American canneries the right to purchase fresh British Columbian salm on. The canning interests of the North Pacific coast have protested to Bcnator Fulton that, under the existing condi tions. Canadian canners are buying large quantities of Puget sound salmon, Secretary Moody Gives House Commit' n too His Reasons. dvnntage I canning them and reehlpplng them to tho United Btatee. while Puget sound canneis are denied the right to pur chase British Columbia salmon for can ing purposes. China Displeases Jspan. Toklo, April 15 The leading Japan se newspapers express great discontent that China haa failed utterly to enforce or attempt to enforce neutrality along the I.lao river, where the whole district has keen drawn upon by Russia for all kinds of supplies. The newspapers de clare that Japan seeks no favor, but asks fair play, and that China's con luct la craven and ungrateful, consider Ing that Japan Is defending her integ rity. Explosion Causes $200,000 Plro. Detroit, April 15. A gasoline explo sion at the Cadillac Automobile work today caused a 1200,000 Are. Four employes were Injured. A number of the 600 men employed at the plant were compelled to slide down poles alongside of the building and to Jump from tho windows. New Immigration Low Needed. Washington, April 14. There were anded atTacoma, Wash., recently, 60 ilipinos, who wero brought to the United Btates under contract to take art in the Philippine islands exhibit at the Bt. Luola exposition, inirty nine of the number were sfllicteu with trm linina. a disease of the eye. Un der a ruling by tho attorney general, natives of the Philippines and Porto Rico are not aliens in the meaning oi the immigration act, and they had to te admitted. Cogress will be asked for legislation to meet such cases. Washington, April 13. Secretary Moody is not in favor of the creation of a general staff in the navy modeled after the general av-ff of the organiza tion in the army. This fact he com municated to the house committee on naval affairs today in a hearing granted him on a bill of his own drafting, "to increase the efficiency of the navy." The secretary explained that this bill did not really enlarge his present au thority in the matter of an advisory board. He now has the right to create such a board of any number of officers and continue them on the board for any length of time. He said a civilian had been, and always would be, at tne head of the navy, and it was proper he should have expert advice, but as he was responsible to the country he Should be master of the situation. No board, he said, should be created which would usurp the powers of the secre tary. The committee took no action on the bill. First Shipment Started From St. Peters burg for tbo Front, 6t. Petersburg, April 13. It is stat ed that the Russian government has decided to make an extensive nee of armed automobiles during the coming campaign in Manchuria. A large number have recently been imported, they being the latest product of the se lect factories in Germany. ..France ad Belgium, and the first batch will be sent to the front from Moscow on a special train today. They are to be manned by experienc ed officers drawn from tho last gradu ates from the military, and it is expect ed that ther will bo of very great ad vantage to General Kuiliki, to whom I has been entrusted the making of all of I the arrangements for the trip of the Baltic fleet to the Far East, haa trans mitted to the czar the preliminay re port of what is expected to be accom plished. He declares that it will be possible to get the fleet to its destina tion before the last of August, should nothing unforseen happen. Two Rusisan army eorpa are to be mobilized during May. One of these will have headquarters at and will be drafted from Moscow and the surround ing towns, while the other will come from Siberia. .The officer who made this announcement stated that Russia did not consider herself in any danger from Japan .and that therefore she would not remove any of tho troops along her seaboard where they might be needed should any other nation have designs against her. Bfar ttwi Omearo. Mayor - , .Prank Qtlllera uoDerta ...Goo. NoW W. Rhea Phil Coon .Tom Quald ..O. X. Farn iwortb 1 P. William ' W.Brlgga Connoilmen. Itaoerd Traaau Marahal. .......................... J). O Cardan Heapaer School District. Director T. J. Matlock, E. U. Ehutt, J. Hifer. Clark U W. Brlgga. Prealaet Offleer. initio at the Peace J. Cooitabli P. William Q. B. Uatt X familiar name for the Chicago, Mil waukee A 8t. Paul Railway, known all over the Union aa the Great Railway running the "Pioneer Limited?' trains every day and night between Bt. Paul and Chicago, and Omaha and Chicago, "The only perfect trains in the world." Understand : Connections are made with All Transcontinental lines, assuring to passengers the best service known. Luxurious coaches, electric lights, steam heat, of a verity equaled by no other line. Bee that your ticket reads via "Tbo Milwaukee" when going to any point in the United States or Canada. All ticket agent sell 'them. v R! XDTIXLD VAN V ACTOR ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW Oflaa. OpaoalM Finn WaMvaal Bank. STeppa G. W. PHKLPS ITTOINEI-IT-tiW. Offlae In Odd Fellow New Bull ding. Bappner. Oregon. pnAX XB.KIBTKU PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON OfSaa, Pattaraoo'l Drag Store. D ft. A. X. EIQQS Room and 4 ODD FELLOWS' BUILDINd Kldno at Hnry Johnson's. Heppnar, Oregon, For rates, pamphlets or othe t&lor- I nation, address. J. W. Cabt, EL. B. Rowm, Trar. Paaa Agaat, . Oaneral Afeal PORTLAND. ORJtOON. Dr. M. B. Aletzler DENTIST Office In Odd Fellows' New Building. Call and Eee Me. Makaroff Again Puts Out. Bt. Petersburg, April 14. The Cos sack scouts on the banks of the Yalu river have not reported the appearance ol the Japanese there. The emperor received a telegram that reported that alliaouietat Port Arthur; that the naval squadron is again puuing out to aea. and that Vice Admiral Makaroff has sent a few torpedo boat destryoers in exnlore the coast wheie some ot the enemy's torpedo boats are believed to be lurking. America Host Pay for Loss of Ship. New York. April 14. After long lit lotion It was decided here today by Judge Adams. In the United States dis trict court that the United Btates must psy $203,203 to the owners of the Brit ish ship Foscolla, which was sunk on the night of May 18, 1808, by tho United Hlates cruiser Columbia, which waa doing scout duty off the North American coast on tho outlook for the Spanish floet nnder Admiral Cervora. Navy to Bo Seen In Miniature. An effort is to be made to have the attractive collection of United States battleships in miniature brought to the Lewis and Clara exposition. Une ot the provisions of the appropriation bill is to the elTect that President Kooseveit may name any additions he may see fit to the government exhibit ana on tne strength of this provision President It W. Scott, of the Iwis and Clark cor poration, will confer with Mr. Roose velt with a view to Inducing him to send on the reproduction of the United States navy. Convict's Sensational Suicide. Fresno, Cal., April 13. Richard Manootrian today, while waiting the return of a jury which bad tried mm . . j r . on the cnargo oi murueung vnvar Michael here on July 2, 1902, threw himself from the window ot Judge Austin's courtroom, on the third floor of the court house building, to the pavement below, receiving injuries from which he died. The lury naa al ready pronounced him guilty and would have given him life imprisonment. Irrigation In New Mexico. Washington. April 13. The census bureau in a preliminary report on Irri gation in New Mexico in 1902, shows 264.945 acres irigated Irom all sources. The number of farms represented as 9,285, and the average cost per irrigat ed acre 116.87. The 1,246 irrigation systems cost, initially for main canals and ditches and the necessary head gates, reservoirs, dams, pumping plante, etc., $4,301,915. The entire length of main canals ana aitcnes was 22,646 miles, an average length per sys tern of over two miles. G. W. EX A ITT0RNET-1T-LII V. a. OommlailoDer. Homestead Ulngi and aQ I Baal p roots raaaa. Office one door east p. 0 Borg's Jewelry Store. arrxxn OBKQOM c. ft. WOODSON. V. Sure Japan Lost a Chance. Nlu Chwang, April 13. The Russian officers commanding here openly declare that Japan haa lost her chance to capt ure this port by failing to assault be fore the modern artillery now In place could be mounted. The defenses are now declared to be ample to insure the repulse of any force that can be mus' tered by Japan. An excessive rainfall has flooded the railway and blocked all of the roada in Southern Manchuria, leaving the country Impassable. Congress to Bo Invited to Fair. Washington, April 13. Congress has been invited to attend the opening of the Louisiana Purchase exposition on Saturday, April 80. Senator Quay la Very IU. New York, April 13. United Btates Senator Quay is reported to be ill in Atlantic City. No one Is allowed to see him and the attending physician haa oiven strict orders that no verbal or written messages pertaining to pol itics or business shall be taken into the sick room. The senator, It was said, must have absolute rest and be free for the present from all care. He is 71 a years old. Mississippi Tears Out Loveo. Rolling Fork. Miss.. April 13. It is renorted tonight that a portion of the levee at Gales Head has caved In, seri ously impairing the strength of the embankment and causing grave fears of a crevasse. Large forces of men aro I engaged in reinforcing the levee. Attorney-at-Law. Oregon ITusnai I O a m m ni Only line East rla Salt Lake and Denier Offle to Palaoe Hotel, Beppaer, Oregon. TWO TRAINS DAILY OXKTftT, TORSORUL ARTISTS. SHAVING BS CKNTSl tin Bath Boom In connection. Shop two door north ol Palaoe Hotel. I DR. J. W. VOGLE EYE SPECIALIST. Pally TIM I SCHEDULES. Daily Dbtast Eimn, On. Aaarvas Fast Mall for JUat and Weal :00e.M. Fast Wall rrom&eat and Wort 1:10 a. sa. i t or JUal and West fiOOe-ia. Kxpreee f rom Kaat and Wast 1:10. a. MAKES REGULAR TRIPS TQ HEPPNER AND MOR ROW COUNTY. STEAMER LINES, ui FmAHcraoo-Poa'TUiJiO ftovro Steamer aall treat ForUand I a. as. every I dart GIBSON & LOGAN Shaving Parlora Dally Beat servlo between fortland. Astoria, Oregon City, Dayton. Salm, Independenee, CorvaUl and all Columbia and Willamette ftltM aolnu. Tare Doers Benta ol rottoOoa, navlao fetal row (Aao- sse SI. Bathroom la Coavaoatioau a, SNAKE RIVER ROUTE. Steamer between ftlparta aad Lewtaton leave ftlparla dally at 4:0) a. BL retoinlaj laav Lowlstoa daily at l:M a. av. I. ft. HMdlaeSaa. ftetfaoe, osfa