The Columbia register., March 30, 1906, Image 2

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COLUMBIA REGISTER
HOULTON OREGON
NEWS 0F1I1E WEEK
In a fnmtal Form for Onr
Busy Readers.
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A Resume of tha Lets Important but
Not Lets Interesting Events
of the Past Week.
The Iowa legislature has killed the
direct primary bill.
Revolutionists of China are planning
to depose the dowager empress.
Germany is planning a navy equal to
that of both France and England.
Charles S. Francis has been appoint
ed United States ambassador to Aus
tria. A wealthy New York merchant has
left $665,000 to the colored school at
Tuskegee, Alabama.
American delegates have solved the
problem of the Moroccan conference
and an agreement is assured.
Steamship companies expect a weekly
average of 2,000 Russian emigrants to
the United States during this summer.
Fire at J hnstown, Pa., destroyed
nearly 11,000,000 worth of property.
One fireman was killed and several
seriously injured.
Attorney General Hadle), of Mis
souri, has completed the taking of evi
dence in New York regarding Standard
Oil operations in his state.
The first of 13 bridge agents and cor
porations to be tried at Sandusky,
Ohio, on a charge of conspiracy in re-1
straint of trade has been found guilty,
Attorney General Monly believes a
new man should be selected as district
attorney for Oregon, but United States
Attorney llency tayj Bristol is all
right.
The Moroccan conference is rapidly
approaching an agreement.
New York Republicans will ask
Charles E. Hughes to run for gover
nor. The senate committee on public lands
has had a new timber law referred to
them.
Taft eays the government paid the
cost of General Wood's trip around the
world.
Standard Oil officials are giving At
torney Gener1 Hwity, of Missouri, al!
the evidence he asks.
Four New York firemen lost their
lives while attempting to save lives
from a burning factory.
Commissioner of Corporations Gar
field has agents at work in Kansas se
curing information relative to the
working of the oil trust.
Governor Curry, who was believed to
ha7e been captured by Pulajanes in
the Philippines, is alive and says he
will helo exterminate the treacherous
nativee.
An explosion in the powder room of
one of the largest mines at Cripple
Creek wrecked the mine buildiigs.
iwo tiunureu men rial narrow escapes
from death.
A construction train on the Chicago
A Northwestern railroad went through
a bridge 20 miles west of Caeper, Wy
oming. Nine men are known to have
lost their lives and 21 others were in
jurd, some fatally.
J. P. Morgan has fled Italy in fear of
assassination.
Carnegie favors a reform in the spell
ing of the English language.
The czar ie said to be paving the way
for a constitutional monarchy.
Representative Landis, of Indiana,
hae a plan for reform in government
printing.
Russia has openly declared for France
in the Moroccan dispute and Germany
has raised a protest.
Heary wind storms along the Atlant
ic have damaged shipping and lessened
th chances of saving vessels which went
ashore during recent storms.
C. E. Grunsky, consuslting engineer
of the Reclamation service, has made
an adverse report on the Palonse irri
gation project, saying the cost is to ex
cessive. John D. Rockefeller has given $1 to
a New Jersey hoepital in the name of
hiB grandson. The Bame mail contain
ed a gift from Mrs. Marshall Field,
Jr., for $100.
Capitalists have purchased the site
and buildings of the LewiB and Clark
'air andwill save the buildings from
further destruction!) for use in housing
large manufacturing plants.
Governor Pattison, of Ohio, is im
proving. An alliance of Britain, France and
Russia is proposed.
The famine in Japan grows worse
and disease followB hunger.
Heney says Bristol charges are base
less and Bristol will retain his office.
Twenty-six miners perished in the
Century coal mine disaster in West
Virginia.
The Interstate Commerce commission
ia investigating underbilling frauds by
shippers.
It is claimed that only the details of
the Algeciraa conference remain to be
settled. Roosevelt is credited with
olving the problem.
STORM IS BREWING.
Terrible Popular Revolt Coming Soon
in Russia.
St. Petersburg, March 2$. Despite
Ith government's assnranc that anoth
er extensive outbreak in the immediate
future it impossible, tt e cloud are
lowering and there are other indica
i Hons that a hi)! storm mar break I fore
r" ? v
, against tne ten 101 reprsive measure
of th government is arousing th peo
ple, especially th workmen in citit1,
to fury. This is playing iuto the hand
of the revolutionists mho are planning
a strike and a general uprising.
They believe th right moment will
come in mid-Apt il and both rides are
preparing for the fray. If t come, it
is likely to be bloodier and more terri
ble than anything previously occurring
in this country.
The record of arreets last neck in St.
Petersburg, besides showing an awful
state of lawlessness in the rapital, is
eloquent testimony of the methods by
which the government hopes to pre
vent the threatened explosion. Ai
cording to the returns, 659 beggars, 215
persons without passports, 247 thieves,
270 highwaymen and 1,067 "unclassi
fied" persons, which means political
suspects, were taken into custody.
At no time during the war was th
war otlice more busy than now. making
dispositions to suppress the first evi
dence of rebellion. Machine guns and
ammunition are being dispatched in
every direction, troops are being shifted
and concentrated at strategic points,
armored trains are being stationed at
railroad centers and ironclad automo
biles are being sent to the larger cities
for use in street riots. Here and in
Moscow the Ccsacks and other cavalry
are attain patrolling the streets day and
night, a project for a wireless telegraph
svstem to enable the government to
communicate with the .nterior in the
event of a strike of the railroad and
telegraph operators is being hastily
worked out and soldiers are being in
structed how to man trains and work
the telegraph lints.
JETTY BILL IN COMMITTEE.
Strong Hope It Will Be Favorably Re
ported to House.
Washington, March 2S. The house
committee on rivers and harbors today
took up Senator Fulton's bill appro
priating $400,000 for jefy work at the
mouth of the Columbia river, but it
was deciied to poitpone formal consid
eration of the bill 2til tbe committee
gets together all available documentary
evidence of the urgent need of this ap
propriation. When the data has been
collected and it will include the re
ports of army engineers, a statement
from Senator Fulton and papers from
Portland commercial interests the
committee will again lie called together,
Mr. Fulton will be given hearing and
the committee v ill then determine
what disposition to rrake of the bill.
Nothing developed at to lay's meet
ing to indicate how the committee will
vipw tv,;s measure, but Reoeeentative
Jones, of Washington, a member of the
committee and a very enthusiastic sup
porter of the bill, said after the com
mittee adjourned that he believed the
bill would be favorably reported, if the
committee cjuld take such action with
out being compelled to attach a large
number of other appropriations to that
for the Columbia river. He iB person
ally convinced that this is a strictly
emergency bill and is not in favor ol
adding other appropiations frr which
there is le necessity at thn time.
There is si r-jng hope that the commit
tee may become impressed with the pe
culiar merits of this bill and consent to
report it without amendment or with
out attaching other appropriations
which would prove fatal.
His Plea for Niagara.
Washington, March 2H. In submit
ting to congress the report of the In
ternational Waterways commission re
garding the preservation of Niagara
falls, President Roosevelt sent a recom
mendation that a law be enacted along
the lines of the recommendations of
the report. The message of the presi
dent concludes as follows: "I hope
that this nation will make it evident
that it is doing all in its power to pre
serve the great scenic wonder, the ex
istence of which unharmed should be a
matter of pride to every citizen.'-
France Demands Indemnity.
London, March 28. According to a
dispatch from Shanghai to the Morning
Post, France hss demanded that China
admit that the magistrate at Nanchang,
whose violent death last month led to
the murder of six Catholic missionaries
and one child of an English missionary
named Kingman, was not murdered;
pay an indemnity of 350,000 taels for
the murder of the priests, execute six
Chinamen and pay 90,000 taela for the
school-!.
Emigrants in Shiploads.
Liverpool, March 28. The steamer
Carmania, which sailed today for New
York, carried upward of 2,600 passen
gers, a large proportion of whom were
emigrants. The Lake Champlain, of
the Canadian Pacific line, leaving at
about the same time, to k 1,200 emi
grants. The steamship companies an
ticipate an enormous rush of conti
nental emigrants for America during
the coming season.
I OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
STUPIDITY OF CANDIDATES
Aspirants for State Legislative Honor
Show Great Density.
Salem Mm who seek to he lawmak
ers or judges have the greatest trouble
In preparing their primary petitions in
such a manner as to comply with the
provision of tie direct primary law.
If it wer not a cniel uiikindiicM t
the who aspire to these high and im
portant otuc, many stories could be
told of the great dithcult? some of them
have had in understanding the law and
complying with it term.
One candidate tor the circuit bench
has propounded a simple question con
cerning the iqnirmnU of th law,
and has volunteered his own opinion s
to its meaning, whereas the law itself
contain a plain and unequivocal pro
vision directly at variance with his
view. Should he have a great dim
cutty in understanding the law after
he secured a place on the circuit bench,
there will be plenty of causes for ap
peal to the Supreme court.
Seven times Secretary of Stat Pun
bar has been compelled to write to on
man regarding th manner ol preparing
hi petitions, and that man wants to
com to Salem and help make laws for
the state of Oregon. There is still a
possibility that he will uot get his
papers drawn in substantial compli
ance with the law and will be shut out
of the privilege of being a candidate in
the primaries.
Petitions are now being rnhed to
th effice of th secretary of Stat and
th clerks in that department are being
kept busy early and late chocking up
th papers, to see that they contain the
required number of names, from the
specified number of counties ai.d pre
cincts. March SO is the last day upon whirh
nominating petitions can be tiled for
places on tne primary billot. lmo
crats express the fear thf t some of their
candidates will not get their petition
completed by that time.
Roads Over Umatilla Reserve.
Pendleton Agitation continued for
years fur public roads across the Uma
tilla reservation will at last be sueer-s-fill.
Under an act of congrf , public
roads may be laid out across a reserva
tiun in the same manner as elsewhere,
except that the road has to he approved
by the department. In the past it has
been held that the county had no rights
upon the reservation, and consequently
the use of the toa ls has been at the
pleasure of the Indians. For several
years the taking of sheep across the re
serve has been prohibited.
Abandon Cascade Road.
Albany Charles Altschul, represent
ing the Willamette Valley A Coast Cas
cade Mountain Wagon Road company,
has notified county clerk It. M. Payne
that the company will abandon the
road across the Cascade mountains and
will not be responsible hereafter for
repairs or for accidents on the road.
As a result, a number of men here are
taking steps to file on some of the lends
of the company's land grant under the
timber and stone act. The ruad was
built a third of a century ago.
Josephine Farmers Talk.
Grants Pass Farmers living in the
Applegate valley have formal a tele
phone company to he known as the
Applegate Valley Te'ephone company.
Arrangements have been made with the
Pacific States Telephone company by
which they can connect with the latter
company's lines in Grants Pas. Farm
ers living around Merlin, down Rogue
rivtr and on Jump ff-Joe will have a
meeting in a few days to form a com
pany to run a, line from those sections
to Giants Pass.
Favorable Weather Follows Freeze.
The Dalles Weather conditions are
the most favorable since the recent
freeze, and farmers gmerally believe
that their grain that was, frozen will
c me out all right. In a few places,
directly exposed to the east winds, the
grain will have to he renown, but it is
believed that a very great percentage of
the fall sown grain will make an aver
age crop, or better, as the weather since
the thaw has been cloudy and light
rains have prevailed.
Old Deed is Filed.
Albany A deed has been recently
filed for record here that was made be
fore Oregon was a slate. It was signed
by Joab Powell and Anna Powell, No
vernbsr 25, 1858, and acknowledged be
fore Jacob Snoderly, a justice of the
peace. It was written with a quill on
a large sheet of paper, now yellow and
dimmed. Powell was a pioneer minis
ter, and has many descendants in Linn
county.
Material for Central Rrilway.
La Grande A carload of plows,
scrapers and other tools for grading
have been received at Union for nse in
work for the Central railway of Oregon.
Some of the Eastern parties interested
in the electric railway enterprise have
also arrived at Union and their pres
ence is accepted as the signal for the
commencement of active operations.
Oregon Horses for Japan.
John Day Henry Trowbridge and
C. I. Officer, stockmen of the Ixee coun
try, have purchased a hand of 100
horses for a contract of Seattle shippers
with the Japanese government. The
horses are all young geldings, from 16
to 15 hands high, and without blem
ish. From $40 to $60 per Lead was
paid.
POPULATION DECREASES.
Inaccurate Work by Assessor in Tak
ing Census.
Salem - According to county asses
ors' returns already examimd the total
population of Orison will b Irs tl an
that given by th Federal census of
ll'Oii.
In many instanctt tie letuniN show
on theit face thai n attempt was mad
t accuracy, and this lack of car is of
nch a natur that Secretary of Slate
Dinhar will hardly I abU to complete
th tabulation of th tat rrnmis of
1905 until some time this (all, possibly
uot before next winter.
There was no appropriation mad to
provide extra help to do this work, con
sequently it must be done by th regu
lar otlice force. Th primary ami gen
eial elections furnish all the woik th
employes of th otlice can handle for
som lime to ciiine. It will I neces
sary to work overtime to tabulate the
returns of th primary election, and to
get th official ballot out for the June
election.
The census returns in many instan
ce wer not properly extended. It will
be necessary to go over all th papers
and check them up, a slow and tedious
process. With th present help, it will
require weeks, and possibly months, to
tabulate the returns properly.
Buy'ng Timber for Speculation.
EugeneOne of th largest timber
'and transactions in this vicinity Is re
ported to have Iwn consummated,
wherein ti e Olean (.and comnany of
Clean, N. Y has secured 15 000 acres
of timber in the vicini'y of Gate crerk.
besides this large tract, th same c m
pany is negotiating for several other
b lie8 id good timber along the Mc
K:'ie river, aggregating probably 25,.
OHO hi rs or mure. It is-said the pur
cluing company has no intention of
cutting the timber from there lands.
but is buying for purposes id specula
tion and will hold for an advai.ee in
price.
Electric Line in Six Months.
A-toria W.I. Dudley, prim iter ol
the piopiHrd electric lino between this
city and SeasMe, was here a few day
ago and say the line will be completed
and in operation within six months if
the nuterial is delivered within th
specified time. He says permission
from th government to build the
bridge across Young's bay has been se
cured and th contract (or the steel
draw, as well as fur 1 .500 tons of lit),
pound steel rails have been awarded
Th rail are to be delivered within 90
days.
Find Indian Burying Ground.
Th Dalles Workmen clearing off a
lot in the southern part of the city,
belonging to M. J. Anderson uncovered
an old Indian burying ground, and ex
humed the skeletons of seven braves,
together with trinkets that hail been
buried with them, including a large
number of elks' teeth. Mr. Anderson
will have the bones and trinkets col
lected and placed in a suitable burial
place, to be selected by survivors of the
dead whose graves were disturbed.
Small Force at Woolen Mill.
Fugene The Eugene woolen mill
has started operations on a limited
scale. The new company which recent
ly purchased the property has l-en
making improvements, and intends
putting the mill into full operation as
soon at possible.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Club, Me; bliiestem, fill.;;
red, dtic; valley, 0!r.
Oats No. 1 white feed, $27.50;
gray, $27 per ton.
Barley Feed, 2.l..r.lif(21 per ton;
brewing, $24r2.5i); rolled, $21.50(4
25.50.
Hay Eastern Oregon timothy,
choice, $17(18 per ton; common, fill
flil4; valley '.imothy, $S(i.!l; clover,
$7 508; cheat, $037; grain hay,
$7ft8; alfalfa, $12.
Apple $1.50f-t2.75 per box.
Vegetables Asparagus, Hi: per pound ;
cabbage, 1 ,'4 1 ?. c per pound ; cauli
flower, $2fd2 25 per crate; celery, 75
90c per dozen; onions, 50c per doz
en; rhubarb, $1.50 per box; spinach,
1.25?$2.50 per box; parsley, 25c;
turnips, $11.25 per sack; carrots,
6575c per sack; beets, 85cl per
sack.
Onions No. 1, 75e(i90c per sack ;
No. 2, nominal.
Potatoes Fancy graded Burbanks,
5055cper hundred; ordinary, nom
inal; sweet potatoes, 242c per
pound.
Butter Fancy creamery, 270 30c
per pound.
F'ggs Oregon ranch, 16c per dozen.
Poultry Average old heno, 14(f?
14cper pound; mixed chickens, 13
13c; broilers, 2829e; young
rooster, 1313c; old roosters, lie;
dressed chickens, 15 ($160; turkeys,
live, lfl17c; turkeys, dresfed, choice,
18(320c; geese, live, 8c; geese, dressed,
10311c; ducks, lti18c.
Hops Oregon, 1905, choice, 10(9
10c; prime, 8$89c; medium, 78c;
olds, 57c.
Wool Eastern Oregon average b"Bt,
1621c; valley, 242Cc per pound;
mohair, choice, 25028c.
Veal Dressed, 38c per pound.
Eeef Dressed balls, 2$3c per
pound; cows, 84)c; coiuirj
steers, 45c.
-Mutton Dressed, fancy, 8(9c per
pound; ordinary, 45c; lambs, 8(3
Pork Dressed, 68c per pound.
OUR TRADE WITH CANADA.
Growth Ha Ben Enormous, Despite
Attempted Reduction.
Washington, March 27. Trad of
th United State w ilh Canada in th
fiscal year 1905 activated $'.'0?,94V
IIS, against $s;i,429.0'.Ml In I Nti ac
cording to a bulletin lUfd by th do
partment of Commerce and lbor. It
show that in the )cars from s75 to
IK115 our tiade with Canada ii creased
$(17,000,000, and from ist5 to 1903 it
increased $114 000,000.
Tlie laiger portion of this growth lias
been oil th export side. Th imports
increased from $27,Nt7,U5 In IH75 to
$02,46!1432 in lt'05, and export ad
vanced from $34,547,219 In 1875 to
$140,529,581 Id in 05.
"This rapid growth in trad relation
with Canada," say the bulletin, "ia
especially interesting in view of the
varying condition to which commerce
with Canada has been subjected. Dur
ing th period from 1H55 to lSUo a re.
ciprocity treaty was in fore ltwn
Canada and th United Stat, but In
the the latter year it w determined,
0 that commerce Mwecii th two
countrle was unaffected by iecial
trade airangement until April, IHllH,
when th United States was placed at a
slight disadvantage a compared with
th United Kingdom, products from
that country entering the iKuninion of
Canada being admitted, by special ar
rangement, at a reduction of 121, per
cent of the tariff levied on Imports
from other countries,
"August I, 1 H'lH, th reduction of
British product was lnirasl to 23
per cent, and on July I, 1900, was still
further im-reuscd to 3St, per cent.
IV spit these advantages in favor of
goods entering Canada from the 1'inted
Kingdom, exports to Canada from that
country grew from $29,74:1,712 In IS 7
to $.V.,tU);l,55tl in 1904, while exports
from the Uiiitd States grew (nun
$i4,92H,825 in IS.17 to $ 1 40,529,5s I t
1903."
The 1 ereeiitse of imports lo Canada
from the United SIhIih in 19U5 wns
Ml i and (mm the United Kingdom 24
I er cent.
MISERY OF STARVING.
Japanese Live on Flour Mined With
Straw and Weeds.
Tokio, March 27. The misery and
suffering in the famine district has
hern slightly relieved by the prompt
and liberal aid from lorelgn sources
and the abatement of the rigor ol
winter. The local authorities are try
ing to provide work for the ahletxxiird,
hut the extent of the work is inade
quate, and tens of thousand are still
on th verge of starvation.
Many parents are parting with their
children, sending them to the already
crowded Oksyama orphanage. Several
children are iiaitercd at the Ueyno
railway station in thii city. Among
them was a girl i years old. who was
found treasuring a package of dirty old
newspapers. On examination the pai k
sge was (mind lo contain a postal ard,
with the ad lren id the parents of the
child, who had lccn told to mail the
card upou her arrival at her destina
tion. The severity of the suffering un
dergone by the children is clearly de
picted in the faces of those who are
compelled to part from their homes,
w here the fiMid consitH of Hour mixed
with straw and weeds. The mixture is
beaten fine, forming a pHste, which
contains only 25 per cent actual food
value.
The government Iihs remitted the
lowest tsx in the famine dixtriet, but
this will not sff'ird immediate relief.
The liberal contributions from Ameri
cans are already effective, and the re
lief in the for 111 of food slid clothing is
commanding the heartiest apprecia
tion. Another appeal for aid in presentcrd
by the sufferers from the iHrthmke
in Formosa, hundreds of whom are
homeless. The local government is
busy providing food, caring for the in
jured, and recovering and removing
corpses, several hundred of which are
b iried under the debris.
San Jacinto in Danger.
I.os Angeles, March 27. A dispatch
to the Times from Han, Jacinto, Cal ,
says: Baging down its course in the
maddest fury known in 25 years, the
San Jacinto river threatens great dam
age to the town of Hau Jacinto, to the
extensive ranclrng regions near by and
to many other places down the valley.
Bridges have been washed away, lands
have teen flooded, and it has been only
with the greatest difficulty that the
waters have been prevented from
sweeping through the main street of
San Jacinto and entailing heavy loss.
Ship Afire Hits Rocks.
St. Johns, N. F., March 27. After
being in peril from fire at sea and man
aging by desperate efforts to reach this
port in the midst of a gale and a blind
ing snow storm, the British freight
Hteimer Titania struck a submerged
rock in entering the harbor late last
night, had a hole torn in her hull, and
today lies on th bench, where she was
put to prevent sinking. The'fire in the
cargo of the midship hold is still burn
ing fiercely.
Fire Destroyed Eleven Buildings.
Fayetteville, N. C, March 27. A
fire which sfsrte l In the Frank Thorn
ton Dry Goods company's store last
night, in the center of the city, de
stroyed 11 buildings. Loss, $300,000.
No one was killed, but several persons
were injured.
MINERS' LAST WORD
Ultimatum Is Presented to ttic
Scale Committee.
OPERATORS HILL RFJLCT TtRMS
Demand I (or Restoration of Wan
Stalo ot 1903 All Prepare
(or Dig Strike.
Indianapolis, March 27. 1 he United
Mlneworkera ol America, through John
Mitchell, prealdeut of th organisation;
T. I.. l ew is, vie president, and Her
man (I. l'erry, of the Illinois miners,
today presented to th coal operator In
the extcutlva sensiou of the Joint calt
commute ot the central competitive
diitriet their ultimatum on the dispute
over th wag rcsl.
Th demand of the mlnsrs, a stated
lu their ultimatum. I for a restoration
o tb wag real of 100:1, which I an
ir.creaso of 5 55 per cent. I'pon tho
rrc ipl ol the ultimatum, the operator
si cured an adjournment of th c.uii
mittee until tomorrow, when It is ex
pected a definite annwer will l given.
It i anticipated that this reply will lm
a lefusal, and the committee will reMirt
a disagreement to th Joint conference
of miner and operators. Th tight in
that case will lm continued 011 the Hour
ol the Joint convention.
Tonight there is little prospect of an
agreement. The (cling tonight U that
th milieu under no cin uuirtaiu e will
allow one district to sign even thn ad
vance telle demanded unlrsa it is paid
in ail tti (our statu of the central
c topftltlV Held.
Kepurts are coining to the miners'
delegates Iriim theil hi ll unions thai
tint e irtl c impaiiies are taking prelim
inary slept to get on a sink bams.
They are filling in the miners' n- innt
book", iuc tiding to these reports, with
draw ing 1 tedit ftuin the miners at com
p.my stmes, prtssing collet linns, and
III some 1 a!' Ihii ateliing eviction.
IUmiiIh ihu the companies are l uil I
ing stiM k it lei re without foundation,
but the milieu are being put ill the best
pnHKiblo condition for 11 shutdown,
liven should an agreemeul he reached
(or all tields, the bittiminoii ami most
f the anthracite mine w ill close Sat
urday night, many of them to remt-u
closet I ill) days.
The local manager are letting their
men know this, and in many cases tell
ing them that a strike may a well
come a far a they are concerned,
PUTER CAUGHT.
But the Oregon Land Fraud Artist
Escape Again.
Boston, March 27. After having fob
lowed his man (or many thousand of
miles, first dow n the Pacific roast from
I'ortUnd, Or., to San Francisco, and
then clear serosa th country to Boston,
Secret Service Agent W. J. Burns to
night arnsted Stephen A. H. I'nler,
who is wanted bv the Federal authori
ties foHiis connection with thu fam
ous Oregon land fraud cases, only to
hive the man pull a gun and escape.
This dramatic ending to a chase w hh h
lute. (or weeks, and during which Mr.
Burin) has shown no lit'le detective
ability in tracing hia ijuarry from one
place to another, occurred at th corner
of Itoyhstoii street and Massachusetts
avenue in this e ty, in front of the I en
way postal station, and at a time wnen
the street was crowded with pimple and
strings of cars weie passing. I'uter
made bis escape in truly Western fah
ion, drawing 11 revolver from some plan
o( concealment and aiming it straight
at Mr. Bums' head with repeated
threats to kill, while st ores of peoplo
Iim ked on as though paralyzed and
mmle no effort to help the ollieer or to
cull police aid. In this manner I'uter
bucked slowly nwny from his unwel
come companion ami, before many had
realized just what it all meant, he had
turned the comer of Miiism husetts ave
nue nml disappeared from view.
Hums followed, but the crowd closed
in about him and, although, lie. saw
his man turn down Falmouth street, ho
dared not use his own gun.
Hermann Trial April 18.
Washington, March 27. Representa
tive Binger Hermann will he placed on
trial in the Supreme court for the Dis
trict of Columbia on MondayApril 10.
This order was made by Judge Gould
today, on motion of District Attorney
Baker. Mr. Baker first asked that the
trial be set for April 9, but II. I'. Gat
ley, one of Hermann's attorneys, stated
that A. 8. Worthington, who will direct
the defense, will be unable to appear in
court on that date. One week later
was then agreed to. The trial will bo
for destroying .15 letterpress books.
Wrangel in Ashes,
Tacoma, March 27. A special to the
Ledger eays: Fort Wrangel, Alaska,
was entirely destroyed by a fire that
started in the barber shop of the Pion
eer hotel late Saturday night. The en
tire town was wiped out, with the ex
ception of a dock and one store belong
ing to Robert Reid. Thirty-eight
houses, which composed the town's res
idence district, were burned to the
ground. Wrangel lias a population of
400 persons.
Great Blaze at Newport.
Newport, R. I., March 27. Fire
early today destroyed the Fall River
line steamer Plymouth as she lay at her
dock here, the north pier of the freight
shed and hbistlng apparatus adjoining,
and damaged the freight steamer City
of Lowell. Loss about $1, 000,000.