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SALES, OREGON, FBIDAT, APRIL 12, 19193.
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THE DAY !1A$ BROUGHT FORT!
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BIG DRY DOCK IS LAUNCHED
AIID STEAMSHIP LlflE FROM
SAD FRAIJCISCO TO NEVVYORK
Bill Is Introduced in Congress Providing for Building and
Operating a Thousand Miles of Railroad in Alaska by the
General Government Line of Steamships to Be Put on via
Panama Canal by German Company-Drydock Ga"tes, Larg
est in the World, Launched at San Francisco Today.
Washington, April 12. Government
construction and equipment of a thou
sand miles of railroad In Alaska, and
the establishment of a naval coal sup
ply base off Its shores are advocated
In a bill Introduced In the senate here
today by Senator Smith, of Michigan.
The bill calls for an Alaskan rail
road commission to aid the president
In building the line. It also provides
the acquisition of existing railroads in
Alaska, and rights of way by lease
and condemnation.
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion is empowered to control the rail
road's operations.
Steamship Line.
New York, April 12. Plans for the
establishment of a fleet of German
steamers for service between San
Francisco and New York via the Pan
ama canal, are believed to be fore
shadowed In the announcement today
VVILL't.lEET
IIEXT YEAR
If NEVADA
DNITKD PRKSH I.KASKO WIKI.
Stockton, Cal., April 12. The 45th
annual encampment of the G. A. R.,
department of California and Nevada,
adjourned today after selecting Reno,
Js'ev., for the next meeting place.
The Sons of Veterans elected the
following officers: Colonel C. S.
Scott, San Francisco, division com
mander; George O. Lockwood, Los
Angeles, senior vice-commander; C.
B. Zeek, Bandon, Ore., junior vice
commander; division council, Past Di
vision Commander H. A. Longfellow,
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Salem and Vicinity: Fair
tonight, with light frost.
Saturday fair and warmer
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ICXPLANATOHV NOTKS,
flnt rvilin tnki'ij tHa. m 7r,ih mirlrtlnn time Air pressure reduced loe Invel. Isobari (contlnuout linn) rii throu(th point
of Hiunl air tire.isure. Isullirrinii Iduiu-d linos) puu tliruudi polnu ul eiul impcrtlura; drawn oul fur zero, frecilng. W, md MP.
O O partly cloudy: O cloudy: ruin: snow: reporl mlulnt. Arrowi fly with the wind. First Bguroi, lowoitlem-
l raiure pun l hours: tccond, preclplutlun of .01 Inch or more for past 24 boura; third, maximum wind velocity.
Oregon: Fair tonight with light
Cooler east portion tonight. Saturdaay fair, warmer except near the coast
snippers' forecMt.
Protect shipments as far north as Seattle against minimum temperatures of about 38 degrees; northeast
Spokane ,32 degrees; southwest to Boise, SO degrees; south to Siskiyou, 28 degrees. Minimum temperature
Portland tonight, about 38 degrees.
River Forecast
The Wlllametet river at Portland will rise slightly during the next few days.
EDWARD A. DEALS, District Forecaster.
I 1 0 DUILD RA LROAD
that the North German Lloyd has giv
en orders for the building of a liner
of 14,000 tons, larger than any at
present In the company's service.
The new boats will cost $10,000,000
each, it Is said, and will be luxurious
In the extreme. They will he three
times as large as the flagship Con
necticut of the United States navy. .
Rig Drydock Launched.
San Francisco, April 12. Destined
for use on the Pearl Harbor drydocks,
Hawaii, the largest drydock gate In
the world was launched , here today
from the Union Iron Works. It will
leave this port next Tuesday for Hon
olulu, whither It will be towed by the
tug Hercules.
The big casslon Is 126 feet long, 20
feet wide, and has a depth of 43 feet
Its bulk Is 950 tons, and It required
14 months to build It, at a cost of
1130,000. .
Oakland; 'J. A Pouter, San Fracalsco,
and P. E. Newman, Santa Ana. "i '
Staff officers: A. J. Cloud, San
Francisco, secretary; J. Frank Leff
ler, San Jose, treasurer; Rev. C. F.
Coy, Linden, chaplain; O. B. Parkin
son, Stockton, counsellor; M. W.
Washburn, Hanford, patriotic Instruct
or. Delegates at national encampment:
M. F. Loventhal, San Francisco; F.
E. Wood, Hanford; M. P: Seeley, San
Francisco. Alternates, D. H. Latlmler,
Hanford; A. J. Cloud, San Francisco,
and C. A. McCurdy, Oakland.
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WILL GIVE GRAM
A DIG FUNERAL
UNITKO riUCRB IXJSKD WlltK.
Washington, April 12. The war de
partment today is preparing to1 give
the late General Frederick Giant a
great military funeral in the national
cemetery at Arlington. Mrs. Grant's
consent Is being sought.
S. Department of Agriculture,
WR4THCD mine ait
Forecast Till .", p. in. Saturday.
frost northwest and freezing temperatures
Union Indrscs 'I hem,
Taconia, April 12. Answering
the charge repeatedly made in
the recent strike at the St. Paul
mill here that even organized
labor was hostile to the I. W.
W.'s and their methods, the Ta-
coma Trades council Is on rec-
ord today with a ringing en-
dorsement of the Industrial
Workers.
Resolutions supporting the I.
W. W. In every effort to better
the condition of working men
were passed by the council by
an almost unanimous vote.
RAILROADS ,
ARE FACING
BIG STRIKE
ENGINEERS ON ROADS EAST OF
CHICAGO AND NORTH OF OHIO
RITES DEMAND INCREASED
WAGES WILL STRIKE IF NOT
GRANTED.
ftWlTSD FRKSS L11SID WIM.
New York, April 12. A gigantic
strike of railroad' engineers .affecting
all lines east of Chicago and North of
the Ohio river, If threatened here to
day, unless the officials grant de
mands for Increased wages. Word to
this effect was today sent to J. S.
Stuart, chairman of the railroad com
mittee, by Warren Stone, grand chief
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En
gineers. The counting of the ballots
was concluded today, the vote show
ing 94 1-5 per cent of the engineers
favored the authorizing the general
officers of the brotherhood, to order
the strike, whenever they deemed It
necessary.
The demand of the engineers, ac
cording to the ultimatum sent to
Stuart, must be met by April 15. The
railroads are preparing to Invoke the
Erdmnn act In an effort to prevent a
walkout. The engineers are confi
dent that the firemen will support
them in their fight.
'Senator1 I.a Follette's wife, who ac
companied him on his tour, will make
several speeches in favor of equal
suffrage.
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southwest and eust portions.
Westerly winds.
Effects of Mew Religion.
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San Antonio, Tex., April, 12.
Believed to be another sacrifice
to a new mysterious "religion"
among the negroes of the south,
the corpses of a negro, his wife
and three children were found
at their home here today. All
had been brained with an ax.
A similar method was used to
murder a score of negroes In
Texas and Ixmislana during the
past year. A Louisiana negress
recently confessed to all these
murders, saying that she com-
niltted them In accordance with
the rites of the new religion.
Pamphlet Issued by London
Society Shows That Thirty
One Million Are Starving in
Eastern Provinces.
THOUSANDS 1 MASSACRED
Of Children Under Six Years of Age
400 of Every 1000 Die 108,000 Held
In 1'rlNou Without Trlul 100,000
Serving in Siberia Five Million
' Jew Treated as Pariahs 87,000
MusNarred' In Six l'em
tC.tlTID PBHB UiniD win.
London, April 12. Thirty-one mil
lions starving In the eastern provinces
of Russia.
Average death rate throughout Rus
sia.', 32 per 1000, as compared with 14
In London. '
Of children under 6 years at oge,
400 die out of every 1000.
Sixty millions of non-Russians po
litically oppressed.
Five Million Jews treated as par
iahs. During the last six ytrs 37,000 per
sons massacred In pogroms; 3500 ex
ecutions. One hundred thousand men and wo
men starving In Siberia.
One hundred and eight thousand
persons now being held In prison
without trial.
This Is the terrific arraignment
agaluBt the Russian empire summar
ized In a pamphlet IsHiied here by the
London Atrocities Protest Conference,
which Is holding a series of public
meetings In an eflort to awaken suf
ficient sentiment In England to de
mand official representatives by the
MritlBh government on the subject.
LA FOLLETTE
INTRODUCED
BY GOVERNOR
TKYINU TO hMTIlE THE OPERA
HOl'SE 1 CASE OF HA IN AMI
MAY H0M TWO MEETI.MiS IN
THE CAPITAL CITY.
Announcement Is made that Gov
ernor West Ih to Introduce Senutor
I -a Kullletle Monday evening at his
Salem meeting. He will probulily
hold two meetings at Balvm one
from the steps of the courthouse and
one at the Grand Open House.
Senator I.a Follette will reach Sa
lem ut 7:12 Monday evening, the
1.1th, from Albany.
Mr. V. L. HoiiHcr, chairman of the
National Progressive Republican
campaign committee, of Washington,
D. C, will be In Salem In charge of
the Ia Follette meeting. Notwith
standing that the opera house will
not hold as many as would like to
hear Senator l-n Follette, It will be
secured to d'Mlver a night address.
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(innip 1'oxtponcdt lialu.
St. louls, April 12. The second
game of the opening series of the
Nationals, between the Pittsburg
pirates and the cardinals today was
postponed account of rain.
TERRIBLE
CONDITIO!
ID RUSSIA vjoeuw of
POOR 0
LD 00ITE
IflSOIILYSSO,
Soliinltx' Fate In Riilance.
San Francisco, April 12.
Whether or not Eugene E.
Schmltz, once mayor of San
Francisco, Is to be further pros-
ecutcd for alleged malfeasance
In office will be definitely known
next Thursday, the sixth annl-
versary of the fire and earth-
quake which laid , the city In
ruins.
This decision was made
known today by Superior Judge
Lawlor before whom 27 Indict-
ments against Schmltz are still
pending.
FAME DEAD
CLARA BARTON, THE "ANGEL OF
THE BATTLEFIELD," FOUNDER
OF THE RED CROSS AND 8PLEN
DID HUMANITARIAN PASSES
AWAY.
(DMITID P1MR IJMStD WIKI.
Washington, April 12. Miss Clara
Barton, founder of tte national Red
Cross movement, died today at her
home In 01 en Echo, Md. She. had been
111 for months.
Clara Barton was more than 90
years old, having been born In Oxford,
Mass., in 1821. She first came Into
national prominence during the Civil
War, where she participated In and di
rected relief work on the battlefields,
and also organized the search for
missing men, for which congress made
extensive preparations.
After the close of the war Miss Bar
ton associated herself with the Jnter
natlonal Red' Cross of Geneva, and
served In rellof work throughout the
Franco-Prussian war, finally securing
the adoption of the Geneva treaty by
the United States In 1882. Ten years
later she was active during the famine
In Russia.
Mrs. Barton founded and organized
the National Red Cross In this coun
try In 18(11, and remained Its presi
dent until her resignation In 1904.
Throughout her life she was active in
relief work at almost every great
lamlty, Including the Johnstown and
Galveston disasters, at which latter
place she personally conducted the
Red Cross work, despite her advanced
age. She served on the field through
the Spanish-American war and In re
lief work In Cuba .She was the author
of numerous works published In con
nection with relief operations with the
Red Cross.
(lenernl Fred finint Dead.
tTNITSD PSKSS I.HAHRD WlllR.l
New York, April 12 Major Gen
eral Frederick Dent Grant, com
mander of the eastern division of the
United States army and son of Gen
eral U. 8. Grant, died here early to
day as a result of heart failure.
The death certlflrute of General
Grant which was filed this afternoon
fixed the cause of death of cardiac
tromhoHsts or a blood clot on the
heart.
Four Both Drowned,
t'wrrrn pnr.ss irabud win I
Cast Liverpool, Ohio, April
Four boys Henry Brandt,
12.
Earl
Brandt. Hugh Htrout and Clifford
Howard, were drowned In the Ohio
river at midnight near here. A fifth
boy escaped by swimming when the
boat In which they were rowing cap
sized. SENATE SAT DOWN
ON THE
1101 SK HILL
Washington. April 12. The senate
this afternoon struck from the army
appropriating bill every feature of
the army reorganization plan Includ
ed in the bill as passed by the house.
It also rejected Items Included In the
plan to lengthen the term of enlist
ment from three to five years.
Clatsop county has 2437 registered
voters.
WORLD W DE
D STATES STEEL
000,000 MIS OF enE
EXPERT SAYS IT WAS KEPT
OUT OF SUPERIOR DISTRICT
FOR MORE THAU 25 YEARS
Testimony of Joseph Sellwood. an Ore Expert, Shows That
the U. S. Steel Corporation Uses Twenty-Five Million Tons
of Ore a Year and Has an Ore Reserve That Woild Last
Only Twenty-Five Years, Which, He Thinks. Is Not Exces
siveCompany Never Kept Any One Out of Any Place.
tONITHD PRKSS LI1SKD WIUB.
Washington, April 12. The United
States steel corporation never ordered
"everybody to stay off the Mesaba dis
trict," and the so-called steel trust
,1b not all-powerful over Its competi
tors in the Lake Superior districts.
These were the outstanding features
In testimony given today before the
Sianley house committee, which Is in
vestigating the activities of the steel
truBt by Joseph Sellwood, an Iron
and ore expert of Dulutbv Minn.
Sellwood ridiculed the assertons of
Leonldas and Albert Merrlt, given sev
eral months ago to the committee, to
KENTUCKY
BETS IUT0
TAFT RAI3IIS
Louisville, Ky., April 11. Ken
tucky's four delegates at large to the
Republican National convention were
Instructed to vote for President Taft
by the state convention here yester
day afternoon, but the Roosevelt
leaders in Kentucky will carry a
contest to the National convention in
an effort to unseat them.
The action of the convention com
pletes the Kentucky delegation of 26,
of which 23 are Instructed for Taft
and three for Roosevelt. Four of
Tuft's district delegates and two of
Roosevelt's are contested.
The delegates from the state at
large are Senator W. O. Bradley, ex-Attorney-general
James Dreethitt, W.
D. Cochran and J, E. Wood.
The convention Indorsed the presi
dent's . policies and instructed the
delegates unqualifiedly to support
him In the convention.
Contrary to expectations, the con
vention proved to be one of the quiet
est ever held In the stato. The ex
pected bolt for the Roosevelt faction
did not take place. The Roosevelt
delegates decided to remain In the
convention, but to protest the adop
tion of the roport on the contests
mude by the committee on creden
tials and to carry the light to Chica
go without offering a contesting dele
gation.
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liEGRO THANKS
THE JURY THAT
CONVICTED HIM
unitsd ncss i.miuru wnii.l
San Hafaol, Cal., April 12. The
palm for politeness anion); criminals
Is believed today to belong to Ed
ward Dclhuntle, giant negro, con
victed of murder In the first degree
for killing William Kaufman, a fal
low convict at Hun (juentln, fur his
action In thunklng the Jury which
convicted him.
When the verdict was heard l)el
han'le politely thanked the Judge and
the attorney for the defense, and
then, fucing the Jury, said pleasant
ly: "If the Jury knew all of the facts
they would not have flung me Into
etomlty. Hut 1 thank the Jury also."
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The entire floor space of the Al
bany armory has been applied for by
manufacturers, for April IS, 19, 20;
when the big exposition will be held
' there.
I the effect that John D. Rockefeller,
aided by his phllanthropio agent, the
Rev. Mr. Gates, had '"fleeced" the
brothers,' pioneer Mlnensota mining
men, In mining property now valued
at millions. To prevent his assertion
that the trust was not all-powerful,
Sellwood declared that the corpora
tion was forced out of business in the
Lake Superior district for 25 years.
He said:
"The United States steel corpora
tion Is using 25,000,000 tons of ore an
nually, and now has a supply of only
550100,000 tons. I don't consider that
an excessive reserve supply.'
IT SAVED
HOEY FOR ,
THE STATE
v.
Just $9135.14 was saved during the ,
past year by the state board employ
ing an architect on a salary Instead
o! a commission, according to figures
prepared by State Architect Knighton.
According to the figures,' he drew
plans for buildings the cost of which
aggregated $600,000. The total 90m
mission, based on the regular charges
of an architect, had this work been
done on a commission basis, would
have been $20,868.31. The total oper
ating expenses were $11,925.17, leav
ing a balance of $8943.14. There was
$192 turned over to the general fund,
making a net saving as Indicated
above,
Tho board, upon assuming control
of things, decided that money could
be saved by hiring an architect, in
stead of letting the work on the com
mission plan, and Knighton was em
ployed, The showing, the members
contend, bears out their contention,
and, In addition, Is an argument In
favor of having a law passed provid
ing for the creation of the office of
state architect by law.
Had the architect been allowed ta
exercise control over other buildings
in the state now pot under Jurisdic
tion of the slate board, the saving
would have been Increased by several
thousand dollars.
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AIIGRY WIFE
SLAPS HUBBY'S
AFFINITY
UNITSD MMS UtSID WIBI
Alameda, Cal., April 12. Slapited
half a dozen times In the face on the
streets here by Mrs. Ivy Mae Clurk,
wife of Dr. J. Kmmlt Clark, former
president of the Alameda Hoard of
Health, Mrs. Florence Robinson, a
trulned nurse, and alleged alllnlty of
Dr. Clark, Is throatonlng the Iruto
spouse with arrest today.
Mrs. Clark recently caused her hus
band's arrest on a charge of failure to
provide for their three minor children
When she passed Mrs. Robinson, she
says, the latter "tossed her head and
gave her an Impudent look." The en
counter, a decided victory for Mrs.
Clark, followed.
A snow storm Blurting lu northern
California yesterduy, d lifted north
Into the Klamath country, where
there was a six-Inch full, and at
Deadwood 15 Inches.