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NEWS OF THE WORLD i
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
fresh from the daily
telegraph wires.
FROH FOREO AND DOMESTIC FIELDS
Happenings National, Historical and
Political and Personal Events
Told in Brief Paragraph«
for Busy Readers.
William F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), is
very sick at Knoxville, Tenn.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, is
quite 111.
The heaviest rains of the season
fell in Rice and Reno counties, Kan
sas, Saturday.
Federal forces south of Monclova.
Mexico, are reported to have retired
to Monterey or Saltillo.
The recent reunion of Umatilla
county, Ore., pioneers at Weston was
attended by nearly 2000 people.
The democratic Prince Albert
George, second son of the king of
England, is visiting in the United
States.
It seems almost certain that the
Balkan peace conference will be
broken if Turkey persists in certain
minor demands.
Even the pending "billion mark bill,
appropriating »250,000,000 for German
armaments, is not enough to satisfy
German milatirists.
William S. Coffield, 84 years old
veteran of the Mexican war, as well
as two Indian wars and the civil war,
is the father of a girl baby, born
Saturday at St. Joseph, Mo.
James Wilson, former secretary of
agriculture, and Henry Wallace of
Iowa, an authority on agriculture, are
in England to make an exhaustive
study of the English tenant farmer.
New York.—"By January 1, 1915,
anything that floats can pass through
the Panama canal between the Atlan
tic and Pacific oceans," declares Colo
ael George W. Goethals, chief engi
a-eer of the canal zone, now at Wash
iagton, D. C.
McAIester, Okla.
Levis of Ksxsas City, Mo., was killed
irui ii persons were injured, only one
serkKisi?, when a south-bound passen
ger train of the Missouri, Kansas &
Tiuä railroad was derailed near Mo
-ÜKtaser.
Mrs. George W. |
Tie XTcited Irisn League of Great
is quite a separate organize
tion from that in Ireland, and though
its purpose is the same its methods
are necessarily different. It devotes
itself mainly to the organization of
the Irish vote in the British constitu
encies and to active work at election
times.
Walter Hines Page, the new Amer
ican ambassador to the court of St.
James, received his baptism recently
of fire as an after-dinner speaker in
London, at a welcoming banquet given
In his honor by the Pilgrims' society.
Twenty years ago June 7 the town
of Fargo, N. D„ was all but wiped from
the map by a disastrous fire, and thir
ty years ago was established the Scot
tish rite in Fargo.
DRESSED AS LADY, HE ESCAPED
Rich Mexican Rancher Passes Line
With Money Without Detection.
Douglas, Ariz.—George Bagartis,
Mexican-American rancher of wealth,
attributes his personal safety and the
possession of his money to his success
at feminine^impersonation. He arrived
here June 7 to relate how, by donning
women's clothes, he escaped bandits
here June 7 to realte how, by donning
who had demanded his money
Captured near Oputa, Sonora, Bogar
tis was ordered to pay $5000 for his
life. He took the bandits to his ranch
house and told them to wait outside
while he fetched the money. In the
house he put. on women's clothing and,
secreting his money, boldly passed
through the picket lines which had
been placed about the premises.
The bandits doffed their big hats as
the supposed woman passed and the
rancher safely made his way to the
border, depositing his money in a local
bank here.
_ . , _. .. ^ _ ... i
a a oo ing a eat e
Seattle. Abe . urner, 18 years old, I
was shot and probably fatally injured I
and City Detective Giles Humphrey I
was shot and dangerously wounded
Tuesday night when Humphrey and
another detective engaged in a pistol
fight with Turrer after he had at
tempted to rob a street car conductor.
These Women Were Wise
Kaslo, B. C.—The Women's institute
has received a carload of flour, which
it is offering for sale at a close margin
as a protest against the prices asked
by merchants.
Cold Weather East. I
Washington.—The coldest weather
ever recorded during June in the mid
die Atlantic and New England states,
the Ohio valley and lake regions was I
reporte' 1 .
was
Montana Boy Suicides
San Francisco.—Because he
short $200 which he needed to lease a
ranch in this state, Martin Eyraud of
Collins, Mont., ended his life by jump
ing into the bay.
i
MONTANA BRIEFS
The Glendive school bond election
occurs Juno 20.
Glacier park is to be opened for the
season June 15.
The Spokane and Montana territory
tariffs will go into effect August 1.
W. D. Buzard of Bozeman on June 3
sheared in nine hours 372 sheep, the
world's record.
"Billy" Mann, buyer, of Big Horn,
Wyo., is at Miles City seeking polo
horses for use in the east.
The official count for the first six
offices in the miners' union election at
Butte shows the conservatives elected
all the officers.
A new orchestra to be known as the
Whitefish orchestra, has been organ
ized in that city under the leadership
of Amos Walters.
A huge development project, involv
ing approximately 200,000 acres of
land in the vicinity of Helena, has
been undertaken by a group of Spo
kane capitalists.
Electrical workers employed by the
street railway company a f Butte have
been called out, and for the first time
in its history the company finds itself
in a labor difficulty.
The Alaska ranch is one of the best
farms in the state. It comprises 1,600
acres of irrigable land located near
Twin Bridges and was located by
'Governor" Pollinger.
The Blackfeet and other Montana
Indian tribes may now refer claims
they hold against the federal govern
ment to the United States court of
claims for determination.
Durward Shepard, a Great Northern
fireman who was hostling nights at
the roundhouse at Whitefish, was
killed recently by being buried under
several tons of fine coal.
The story told by Frank Diamon
I who was alleged to have confessed to
tne murder of former Governor Thorn
as Francis Meagher in 1865, has been
found to be entirely unsubstantiated
by facts.
Eleven Nortaern Pacific engineers
have started out of Bozeman surveying
toward Logan, with the iutention of
laying out a route with an easier grade
on which the Northern Pacific road
westward may run.
The middle and south forks of the
| Flathead river are gradually subsid
ing, and although the north fork is
still rising slowly, all danger of flood
ing is believed to be passed unless
heavy rains come.
Max Fried of Butte, who recently
was adjudged guilty of contempt of
court in connection with the "white
slavery" charge against him in the
federal court, was ordered to pay
fine of |100 on each of three counts
Montana's 1913 wool yield will reach
I about 25,000,000 pounds, a falling off
of about 5,000,000 pounds, a loss of
more than 16 per cent as compared
with the production of last year, ac
1 cording to reports.
The following is a list of the coun
ties which have appropriated money
for the San Francisco fair: Sheridan,
$500; Deer Lodge, $750; Jefferson,
$500; Beaverhead, $750; Lincoln, $600;
Fergus, $950; Custer, $950; Dawson,
$750; Hill, $600; Silver Bow, $1000.
When Governor Stewart returned
home from Salt Lake City, a meeting
of the state tax commission was held
to frame rules and regulations that
county assessors will be required to
follow in the assessment of banks,
mortgages, money and solvent credits.
The Kalispel land office has
ce ived formal notice of transfer from
the Helena land district to the Kalis
pell lan(1 dis trict of lands within the
Blackfeet Indian reservation and other
i an( j s lying west of the continental di
vide and north of the Missoula land
district boundary. The transfer of
records and archives must be complet
ed by July 1.
Protests against the increase of pas
senger tariffs, effective July 1, by the
Northern Pacific and Milwaukee from
points in Montana to points in Wis
consin, Illinois and eastern states,
with a request that such traiffs be
suspended pending an investigation of
their reasonableness, have been for
warded to the interstate commerce
commission at Washington by the
Montana railroad commission.
The law passed by the last leglsla
i ture providing "that before declaring
a q Uaran tine a veterinary shall exhibit
I to the owner or person in charge a
I specimen of the parasite, under inlcro
I scope or otherwise, for his inspection,'
I h as nothing to do with the public
ran ge, and the livestock sanitary board
j ias amp i e authority to compel the dip
ping of range stock> un(ler the provi .
sions of section 1888 of the Revised
Codes.
s ^ e con ti nen,; al divide ol the
Rocky mountains about three miles
A cloudburst which swept the Butte
east at Butte Saturday afternoon,
stopped a ball game of the Union
league teams and interrupted street
car and Great Northern traffic for a
number of hours. A torrent of rain
an< i ^aM an i nc h °' haü descended, a
wal1 of water three feet in height
tearing down the canyons and raising
I bavoc at the Columbia Gardens. It
covered railroad tracks many feet un
der mud and rock. Rocks weighing
half a hundred tons were tossed about
I like corks.
I Guests nearly always get more en
1 joyment out of the entertainment pro
vided than the host
MOST ALL ARE NOW IN ERUPTION
SENDING OUT GREAT FLAME8
AND DENSE SMOKE.
KAIL STEAMER BRINGS AIL THE NEWS
Many Volcanoes on West Side of
Coast Inlet Showing Unusual Signs
of Actavity—Great Clouds of
Smoke Pour Out.
Seward, Alaska.—All the volcanoes
along the Alaska peninsula and adja
cent islands as far to the westward as
Unimak Pass are in eruption, emitting
flames and dense volumes of smoke.
News of the activity of the volcanoes
was brought by the mail steamer Dora,
from her monthly voyage to Dutch
Harbor.
Mount Shishaldin on Unimak island,
arrivals by the Dora said, was shoot
ing flames high into the air, and
Mounts Pavlof and McCushion were
smoking when the steamer passed
them. Mount Katmai, which was in
violent eruption just a year ago and
which covered fertile Kodlak island
with a thick layer of ashes, is send
ing up a great column of smoke, fill
ing the heavens with a haze discerni
ble at Seward
Redoubt, Ilamna and St. Augustine
i *1,~ rwi.
volcanoes, on the west side of Cook
inlet, are also showing unusual signs
of activity, smoke in increasing vol
umes pouring out of their craters.
As Reported Tuesday
Seward, Alaska.—Although a west
wind has been riving smoke and I
fumes from Katmai volcano over Sew I
ard no alarm is felt here as there are
fourcraters on the mountain giving I
vent to the internal convulsions and a
terrific outburst like t' at of last year
not anticioated It is believed how
not anticipated, it is Denevea, now |
ever, that Katmai will continue to
emit vast columnsof smoke indefinite
|
lr. The fumes from the smoking
mountain we~e noticeable here.
NOTED PERSONS DIE.
I
Mark H. Cobb, a contemporary of I
,
Horace Greeley in newspaper work,
died in Philadelphia of old age Sun
day.
Charles M. Faye, for 15 years man
aging editor of the Chicago Daily
News, died Sunday at his home in Au
rora, 111.
The Rev. James I. T. Coolidge of
Cambridge, Mass., is dead. He was 95
years old and was graduated from I
Harvard in the class of 1838.
The Rev. Dr. Charles Augustus
Briggs (Presbyterian), one of the moat
widely known theologians of the coun
try, is dead at his home in New York
city. He was 72 years old.
Charles H. Cramp, former head of
the shipbuilding firm of William H.
Cramp & Sons, is dead, after a linger
ing illness. He was about 85 years
old, and was the eldest son of William
Cr^inp, who founded the business.
GENERAL BLANCO NOT FOR SALE
Mexican General Says Government
Would Give 300,000 Pesos for
Treachery.
Eagle Pass, Texas.—General Lucio I
r „ , .. . . .. f „i
Blanco, who directed the successful
rebel attack on Matamoras last week,
constitutionaiist" leader, that he has
been approached with an offer of 300,-1
000 pesos if he would betray Carranzo
and join the forces of President Huer
ta. Blanco reported that he had caused
the arrest of the federal emissary,
uruno Trevino, who presented creden
tials Irom Governor Gonzales of the
state of Nuevo Leon, and that he had
been sentenced to death by a court
martial. The sentence was carried
out, Carranzp, to whom Trevino ap
pealed, refusing to interfere. Trevino
was one ofthe leaders in the Monterey
revolt of last February.
WM. WOOD, BIG BOSS, ESCAPES
Was Found Not Guilty at Boston, of
Serious Charge.
Boston.—William Wood, president of
American Woolen mills, accused of
conspiracy to plant dynamite to dis
credit the Lawrence strikers, Is a free
man. Following an all-night session,
the Jury in the case returned a verdict
acquitting Wood on all counts.
Rode 1500 Milea for $1000 Prize.
Kansas City.—A 1500-mile cowboy
race for a prize of $1000 started from
Kansas City June 7. Miller Hawk of
Spur, Texas; William Benton of Sierra
Blanco, Texas, and T A. Anderson,
ar ® tke coi ntestai 018
and their destination is Winnipeg, Can
ada. Each of the riders has a pack
pony besides his mount They will go
by the way of Omaha, over the same
route to Minneapolis. There each will
choose a separate trail.
London "Martyr" Die#
London.—Emily Wilding Davison,!
first "martyr" to the militant efforts |
of woman to obtain the suffrage, died
Sunday -t the hôpital as the result of
a fracture of the skull s ustainnd in «n
a fracture of the skull sustained In an
pttempt to stop the kings horse, An-|
mer, during the running of the derby
June 4.
SPORTINQ COLUMN
Charlie Miller and JeBs Willard may
box four rounds in San Francisco on,
June 20 or 27.
Edward Payson Weston, the veteran
pedestrian, is walking from New York
to Minneapolis.
A meeting between Leach Cross and
Bud Anderson is the Independence day
fight program at Los Angeles.
John Paul Jones of Cornell, holder
of the mile record of 4:14 2-5, has an
nounced his retirement from athletics.
The Ad Wolgast-Johnny Dundee 20
round bout scheduled for Tuesday
night, was declared off on account of
Ad's thumb injury.
Jimmy Britt says Bud Anderson will
soon be the lightweight champ. He
thinks that Bud is the class of the
bunch, and Brltt knows.
Browns of the old American associa
tion, was buried Sunday,
Chris Von der Ahe, owner of the
four -time winners, the St. Louis
The swimming championships of the
p. N. A., to be held in Spokane Mon
day, June 16, will be the first that have
ever been held in an inland city.
Lightweignt Champion Willie Ritchie
having agreed to make 134 pounds
ringside, or 133 three hours before the
Fourth of July fight at San Francisco. I
Spokane has secured a new $50,000
f h ut0 ^!!f
Ithe actual field of active manuiactur
ing in the course of the next few
weeks.
Agreements have been signed up by
the regatta committee in charge of
the first annual Coeur d'Alene regatta
July 4-15, and the Portland, Nelson, B.
I C„ Victoria
I crews,
and Vancouver rowing
Alfred Crane of the Stadium high
I school, Tacoma, broke the American
interscholastic record for the running
high jump recently when he cleared
the bar at six feet 2% Inches - Crane
| 1 fi ^
| is 18 years odl.
Forhall Keene, captain of the newly
selected American polo team, broke his
collar bone Saturday in a Practice I
at New York. The accident will
game
compel the selection of another mem
ber of the American team.
Playing tennis that ran the gamut
from sensationalI to mediocre, the Aua
tralian team defeated the United
pair in the double match of
]^ av j s CU p preliminary at New
(jalgary.
York by 2—6, 6—2, 5—7, 6—2, 9—7.
There is little fear of Arthur Pelky,
the American heavyweight, being
brought to trial to answer the charge
of manslaughter as a result of his
Although it, is still early horses are
I arriving at Butte for the July race
meeting and the Butte track will he
pushed, it is believed, to accommodate
| all the applicants for stable room. The
killing Luther McCarty in the first,
round of their fight for the American
white heavyweight championship at
prospects for the successful^ cornple
tion of the Montana circuit of 58 days
I -were never brighter.
In the skirmish at New York Wil
liam Hoppe, champion of the world at
both styles of balk line billiards—18.1
and 18.2—successfully defended his
title at the latter brand of play by
defeating the challenger, Koji Ya
mada of Tokio, Japan, by the unpre
cedented score of 500 points to 33.
Baseball is invading France; the
English people are dissatisfied with
crlc ket and are beginning to oo to
the American game as a substitute; 1
Jg aw B akenlng to a Ueep in
terest in outdoor sports with the hold
ing o£ the n€Xt olympiad at Berlin;
baseball has won Cuba, and is making
rapid strides in Central America, and
it has been introduced with marked
I success among the savages of North-1
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POW WOW WEEK AT SPOKANE
This Will Be One of Biggest Affairs
Ever Pulled Off in the Northwest,
June 16 to 21.
With 39 towns assured the Inland
Empire's participation in the ' Pow
Wow at Spokane, June 16 to 21, will be
on a large and active scale.
Twenty high schools in many sec
tions already have selected their ath
letic teams for the hcampionship in
| terscholastlc track and field meet.
The tov/ns mentioned above will be
represented each by a band, float and
princess. The princesses will rule
| over the Pow Wow the entire week,
I and the bands will compete in a tour
nament Tuesday morning, June 17,
I and will play during the Inland Em
pire industrial parade the same after
noon. In the evening all these bands
will be massed for a grand concert
under Alexander Liberati.
The following towns are sure of
participating: Attalia, Colfax, Coeur
d . A i ene> ciarkston, Colville, Cheney,
Deer Park, Fairfield, Garfield, Hill
yard Kettle Palls> Leavenworth, Mos
cow, Nez Perce, North Yakima, Pros
8€r / Pa8CO> Pull man, Quincy, Rockford,
Waterville, Wilson Creek, Zillah, Se
attle, Ellensburg, Wardner-Kellogg,
Republic, Chewelah, and Wenatchee
Most of the following also will be
represented: Milton-Freewater, Oakes-1
dale, Grand Forks, B. C., Rosalia, Fer
| D, ^> c -. Lewiston and Palouse.
Entries for the interscholastic meet
bee ® re °e iv ed from high schools
6 towns: Colfax, North Yaki
ma> 0rangev!Ue> Republic, Lind, Coeur
d'Alene, Nez Perce, Missoula, Sand
point, Lewiston, Lewis & Clark High
I School, Spokane; North Central High
TIFF BILL LENGTHY
THE RATES, AS PROPOSED, WILL
BE LOWEST AND FREE LIST
THE LONGEST KNOWN.
AS REVISED BÏ SENATE COMMITTEE
Among the Articles on Free List are:
Meats, Flour, Live Stock, Wheat,
Probably With Countervailing
Duty.
Washington.—As they will go to the
Democratic caucus, the tariff rates
will be the lowest in history and the
free list will be the longest ever
known. As revised b& the senate sub
committees, and likely to have the ap
p rova i 0 f the finance committee ma
jority, the free list will contain, among
other articles, the following:
Meats, flour, live stock, wheat, prob
ably with a countervailing duty; oats
land oatmeal, barley, rye, lumber, coal,
boots and shoes, breads and biscuits,
raw wool, sugar to be free in three
years; buckwheat and buckwheat
flour, cocoa, coffee, tea, cornmeal, fish,
bananas, jute, hides, India rubber, in
digo, cottonseed oil, castor oil, codliver
r"' potPtoes ' sag0 ' ve ^ables, ivory,
sew i ne: machines, tvoewriters. orinl
sewing machines, typewriters, print
paper, steel rails, pig iron, ferro man
ganese used in manufacturing steel
photograph films, and many chemicals
used in manufacturing.
Comparative Figures.
A table prepared by the senate
finance committee showing compara
tive figures based on the Underwood
tariff bill and the present tariff law
shows the average ad valorem rate in
the proposed law to be 32.99 per cent,
aS againat 43 64 per cent Under the
Payne-Aldrich law. The estimated
loss of revenue through the augmented
free list in the Underwood bill would
be $ 2 4,718,.29 on an import valuation
Revenue under the
•
ov ,.i„ si v B nf th« in
proposed bill exclusive of the income
tax is estimated at ♦266,701,130, as
compared with $304,216,694 under the
present rates. With the income tax
revenue estimated at approximately
$80,000,000 the total revenue under the
proposed bill would aggregate about
$347,000,000.
School, Spokane; St. Maries Indian
Mission School, Riverside, Pendleotn,
and Prosser.
Every town will send Its delegation
of boosters, tue railroad rate of fare
and one-third for the round trip re
ducing the cost to a minimum
Monday's feature will be a pictorial
pageant in which 4,000 school children
in costumes and with floats will par
ticipate. The evening event will be
the grand coronation ball at Natalo
rium parl>.
Tuesday, June 17, will be the great
j Qr i n i an( j Empire, with an
afternoon parade illustrating the
varied resources of all parts of this
district. The parade will be nearly 40
blocks long, and there will be a band
in every block. Four moving picture
concerns will secure reels of this pa
rade to be shown in all parts of North
America. Tuesday evening the big
concert by the massed Inland Empire
bands will be given in the stadium,
followed by an elaborate pyrotechnic
display.
..
w m precede the opening of the two
northwest Shriners will be held, fol
A parade by high school athletes
day interscholastic meet in the sta
dium Wednesday afternoon. The
militia tournament will be held the
same day, and Aviator Johnny Bryant
will make the first of two afternoon
flights, rising from the stadium field.
Wednesday evening the parade of
lowed by the first of two nights of
boxing and wrestling between the
champions of western athletic clubs.
Thursday afternoon will see the con
clusion of the interscholastic meet, a
military tournament by Uncle Sam's
troops, and an aeroplane flight. The
parade of northwest fraternal orders
will be held on the downtown streets
in the evening, followed by the finals
of the boxing and wrestling meet.
Friday afternoon will usher in the
big track and field meet of northwest
colleges and Olympic stars, and in the
evening comes the Mardi Gras celebra
tion and confetti battle. The Pow
Wow masked ball will be held in four
large halls.
The Pow Wow will be concluded on
Saturday with a floral automobile pa
rade and a flower show at the armory,
which will be open Sunday afternoon
also.
Rev. Cooke Sets Nuptial Day.
New York—Some time within the
next week or 10 days Jere Knode
Cooke, the former Hempstead, N. Y„
clergyman, whose wife divorced him
June 7, will be married to Floretta
Whaley, with whom he eloped six
years ago. The date of the marriage
probably will be set for the day Cooke
receives a certified copy of the divorce
decree.
This Is a Lobbyist.
Washington.—"A man who threatens
to close his factory or to create a panic
if congress does thus and so is a lob
byist of the worst character," declared
Senator Kern of Indiana. "This does
not apply, of course, to men who are
presenta
sincere and honest In their
tion of their case, he added.
—
A divorce decree costs a good d ®»l
more than a marriage license, but one
expects to pay more for luxuries.
ON PACIFIC COAST
Dr. Herbert Metcalf, resident sur
geon on the lonely Fivn"'* - *- ♦»'••*\d, is
dead.
Three men are under arrest at Se
attle pending an examination ïor an
attempt to extort $1000 from Nick
Pantages by blackmail methods.
While walking with friends near
the summit of Mount Wilson, Cal., J.
D. Cole of Albert, Colo., lost Iiis foot
ing Friday and fell over a precipice
to his death.
At high noon Monday Rex Oregonus
and his retinue were welcomed in
Portland, where, with suitable cere
mony, he inaugurated the seventh an
nual rose festival and carnival of flow
ers.
A petition signed by 60,000 Oregon
school children expressing the desire
that the battleship Oregon be detailed
to lead the parade through the Panama
canal at its formal opening has
reached Secretary Daniels.
Frank Esola, former police detective
in San Francisco, was found guilty of
grand larceny in complicity with the
operations of the "Forty Thieves"
bunco gang which operated in that
city for many months.
Southern Pacific train, northbound
from Albany for Portland, was
wrecked near Salem Saturday and
several persons slightly injured. The
train struck a "kinked" rail and three
coaches turned partially over.
Because of a split in a switch both
engines and two baggage-mail ex
press cars of the Santa Fe Overland
were ditched near Pomona, Cal. The
passengers were unhurt but the en
gine crews were badly scalded.
Those of the 700 or more amateur
wireless operators on the Pacific coast
who do not by July 1 report to the
government the location and descrip
tion of their plants will be prosecuted
and subject to imprisonment, fines of
<>500 and the confiscation of their out
fits, it is said.
Dawson, Y. T.—The much-talked-of
rate war on the Yukon river began
yesterday when the White Pass steam
er Canadian and the Side Streams
Navigation company's steamer Videtto,
operated in connection with the boats
of the Northern Commercial company,
departed side by side from Dawson for
White Horse, the head of navigation.
Each company cut last, year's freight,
and passenger rates 50 per cent.
It. is announced officially that all the
heavy concrete work of the six locks
of the Panama canal lias been com
pleted. The lower guard gates at
Gatun and Pedro Miguel and the upper
guard gates at Miraflores will be
closed as soon as possible after June
15, the plan being to allow Lake Gatun
to fill. Gatun lake will be an artificial
body of water of 110 square miles.
It's greatest depth will be 90 feet.
FAVORS CALIFORNIA LAND BILL
Washington Grange Adopts Resolution
at Colville Convention—Advo
cates Abolishment of Tariff.
Colville, Wash.- At the closing ses
sion of the Satte Grange convention
here a resolution submitted by the
legislative committee, favoring an
alien land ownership law similar to
the one recently passed by the Cali
fornia legislature, was adopted by an
overwhelming majority.
A resolution was passed advocating
that all lobbyists before the legisla
ture should register, pay a fee and
file a statement of authority and by
whom employed. The grange declared
itself against the collecting of fees re
quired of candidates .at the primary
elections. An educational campaign oil
the organization of townships was ad
vocated.
Resolutions were passed favoring
the abolishing of all tariff on farm
products; a commission form of gov
ernment for the state; a boycott of
all publications carrying advertise
ments of whisky, tobacco and drugs;
increased work for the extension de
partment of the state college, and
stricter enforcement of the laws re
garding pure foods. A resolution fa
voring the abolishing of jury trials
was defeated by an almost unanimous
vote.
HUERTA THREATENS
Warns Rebels to Lay Down Arms at
Once or They Will Be
Exterminated.
Eagle Pass, Texas.—A letter pur
porting to be issued by the Huerta
minister of war in Mexico City, warn
ing constitutionalists to lay down their
arms immediately, has reached here.
The note threatened constitutionalists
with being "pertinaciously punished
until they are exterminated without
pity."
Boy Confessed to Two Murders
Ironton, Ohio.—A cording to local
authorities Berkeley Flemming, aged
20, a farmer, conf< ssed here tonight
to the murder of his mother, Mrs.
Emma Flemming, aged 45 years, and
his brother Culbertson, : "el 25, July
14, 1910, at Coryvilla, one mile north
of Ironton.
Confederate Memorial Day
Washington.—Confederate memorial
day exercises were held Sunday at Ar
lington national cemetery under the
auspices of southern organizations In
Washlrgton.
The output of the Anaconda Copper
company's smelters la..t month was
1,800,000 pounds greater than In April
and 2,700,000 pounds larger than the
March production.