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TO HOLD RAILWAY CONGRESS
ALL ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE
MEETING IN WASHINGTON
HAVE BEEN MADE.
Over Two Hundred Foreign Dele
gates Are Expected to Ceme
Across Big Pond.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 10 —
Practically ail the arrangements for
the meeting of the International rail
way congress, which Is to be held In
this city next May, have been com
pleted. The sessions will be held in
the Willard hotel and they will last
ten days. The headquarters of the
International congress Is in Brussels.
A. DußoiS, the president, is the min
ister of railways in Belgium.
This is expected to be the largest
meeting the association has ever held.
It is understood that the number of
foreign delegates will be over 200 and
perhaps as lirge ;cs 400. Every tw%»
years the association holds a meeting,
hut tin's will he the first gathering in
A merica.
After tiie meeting there are to be
two tours. ( vie w ill be over the Penn
sylvania railroad from this city "to Al
toona, v heT% a day wiil he spent at the
company's shops. Then Pittsburg will
he visited, where an inspection of the
Westinghouse electric plant as well
as some of the other large industrial
establishments will be made. From
Pittsburg a run will be made to Cleve
land; then to Ashtabula, and from
there to Buffalo and Niagara Falls.
Then tiie party will be divided, some
taking the Grand Trunk to Montreal
ami then g< ing to Boston. The rest of
the party will go over the New York
Central to Schenectady. where the
plants of the General Electric com
pany and thi- American lyocornotive
works will be inspected.
The other trip will take in Pittsburg,
Cincinnati, St. Louis. Chicago, Buffa
lo and Niagara Falls, in addition to 1
the shops on the first tour. A num
ber of th" foreign railroad offiei.-ds will
spend some time in New York and
Philadelphia.
BEGIN WORK ON FLAX FACTORY.
Manufacturing Plant Assured for the
Town of Chehalis.
CHEHALIS, Feb. 10.—Chehalis is to'
have a flax fiber factory. Yesterday
evening the deal was closed whereby
another manufacturing plant will soon
be added to those already in operation
at this place. Some time ago George
E. Nolan, of San Francisco, repre
senting the American Flax Fiber com
pany, came to this city to look into
the prospect of securing the planting
of a sufficient flax acreage to justify
the company in building a fiber factory
here. Several years ago Robert Getz
and other local farmers had planted
experimental flax plats near this city,
under direction of the agricultural de
partment experiment station. The
bread thus cast upon the waters has
returned after many days. The crop
did exceptionally well in both the
Chehalis and Newaukum valleys, and
it was on the reports of its growth
that Mr. Nolan came here, a stranger,
to all the people, to put under way an
other industry that is expected to be
come an important one.
At a special meeting of the Citizens'
club, called yesterday, the business
men agreed to build a spur to the
tract of land in the southern part of
the city on which the company will
erect Its plant. Seven acres have
been secured for the site, the company
buying this outright from W. M. Urqu
hart. Mr. Nolan left on the evening
train for San Francisco. After closing
up a few details he will return in
about ten days and at once work will
begin on the plant.
There will be four' buildings erected
at this time, but the plant has been
planned looking to its growth. Six
hundred acres of flax have been con
tracted to be raised by the farmers
of the Chehalis and Neuaukum valleys.
Mr. Nolan expects to be so pleased
with their return on their flax crops
that they will go into the business very
extensively. Inside of two or three
years he expects to see fully 2000 acres
of flax growing in the valleys here.
When the acreage increases sufficient
ly the company will increase its plant,
adding spinning mills and oil works
for producing linseed and oilcake.
The factory will employ thirty per
sons the year round as soon as started.
When the acreage increases it is likely
that 200 may be employed.
The site selected is an ideal one in
the southern part of the city, joining
the platted portion The land is a part
of the McFadden estate, which Mr.
Urquhart recently purchased.
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THEY MAY RECEIVE MILEAGE
BILL TO INCREASE SALARY FOR
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS IN
» THE STATE.
They Will Be Paid Ten Cents Per
Mil* for Each Mile Actually
Traveled.
So as to provide for more money
for county commissioners serving in
counties in the state of Washington
above the seventh class, Representa
tive Stilson has introduced a bill in
the legislature providing that in ad
dition to the regular salary provided
by law they shall receive mileage for
every mile traveled in going to and
from the county seat.
The provisions of the bill are as fol
lows :
Section t. That section 340 of Bal
linger's annotated codes and statutes
of the state of Washington, the same
being section 4121 of Pierces Wash
ington code, be amended to read as
follows: County commissioners in
counties of the eighth, ninth, tenth,
eleventh, twelfth, thirteenth, four
teenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth
eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth,
twenty-first, twenty-second, twenty
third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth,
twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh, twenty
eighth and twenty-ninth classes may
charge and receive mileage as herein
after stated and not otherwise.
First. For attendance on any reg
ular session, ten cents per mile for
each mile traveled in going to and re
turning from the county seat: Provided,
That only one such trip shall be
charged for at each regular session.
Second. For attendance upon extra
sessions of said board, and for other
necessary (traveling) on account of
business, such mileage not exceed
ing ten cents per mile for each mile
traveled, as may be allowed or ordered
by the superior court of the proper
county under the provisions of this act.
HANDCAR CHASES LITTLE WILL.
Father of Four Year Old Child Lost
Him In the Count.
LEWISTON, Idaho, Feb. 10.—If
President Roosevelt could have seen
Otto Steinebach working a handcar
from Potlatch junction to Lewiston, a
distance of 15 miles, while at nearly
every turn in the track he expected to
find the body of his 4-year-old son
Willie, the president might be able to
see some virtue in the action of peo
ple who raise small families.
Mr. Steinebach, with his wife and
seven children, has just come west
from Prowers county. Colorado, en
route to Stltes, Idaho, where he In
tends to' start farming. At Potlach
junction it became necessary to
change cars. This Mr. Steinbach did
and intended to take all his family
with him, but evidently forgot to call
the roll after getting on the Clear
water train. The result was that lit
tle Willie was left asleep in a seat
of the train bound for Lewiston. This
train left the depot first, but the ab
sence of little Willie was not noticed
till after the Clearwater train had gone
about a mile on its way to Stites.
Then it was that a pale-faced woman
and a trembling man grabbed Con
ductor Smith and asked for little Wil
lie. Mr. Smith has gained a wide rep
utation for being accommodating, and
as his train does not run at a speed to
exceed 90 miles an hour, it came to a
stop in about two jumps, but these did
not bring forth little Willie. The con
ductor even went so far as to back his
train to Potlach junction, thinking
that perhaps Willie was watching the
Indians, but still there was no little
Willie. Then it was that the fright
ened parent spied a handcar and with
a couple of laborers to assist him he
started on a mad race after the Lewis
ton train. ,
Little Willies Adventures.
And in the meantime little Willie
slept peacefully till the train was near
ly to Lewiston. On awakening he
was so interested in the sights that ne
did not miss his parents and when the
train stopped at Lewiston he held his
seat till after the train was empty, ex
pecting his father and mother to come
after him. Conductor Hough saw the
little fellow and remembered that his
father had changed cars at Potlatch.
but before he could get Willie to
leave the train the little fellow had to
search through every car before he
would believe his panents were not
on board and even after he was taken
up town by Policeman Masters he had
to be taken back to have one more look
at the train before he would stop
crying.
Conductor Hough telegraphed word
back to he parents that their boy was
safe, but this was after the father was
breaking his back pumping a handcar
on the road toward Lewiston. There
was a happy reunion at the Lewiston
hotel and this afternoon father and
son left for Stites.
CORK LEG FOUND.
Discovery Made Near Spokane That
Points to Murder Mystery.
SPOKANE. Feb. 10.—Considerable
excitement has been cauaed at Lock
wood, a small hamlet near Rockford.
over the discovery of bloodstained
cork leg in a deserted cabin.
Hoboes reported the find to the res
idents of Lockwood and upon investi
gation the leg was discovered partly
hidden by a pile of rubbish.
Suspicion is directed to a party of
desperate men who made their head
quarters in the cabin two years ago.
The leg is supposed to have be
longed to a peddler whom it is sup
posed they murdered and robbed.
The best hay and grain on the mar
ket at Alheit's feed mill.
Dowie Claims Direct Revelations.
CHICAGO. Feb. 10.—Apostle John
Alexander Dowie yesterday pro
claimed for the first time in his career
that he was receiving direct revela
tions from God. The news of the
apostle's latest attitude was made
known In a telegram from Nassau,
Bahama islands, in which he said he
had received more clear revelations
from God as to how the new Zion in
Mexico should be built.
This telegram came as a surprise to
the followers of the apostle in Zion
City. Hitherto he has never said that
he was in communication with God
and received directions from him as to
what should be done in Zion. Hints
to the effect have often been current
in Zion, but nothing definite had ever
been said about the matter.
Musical instruments. Just the thing
for these long winter evenings. Full
Cried Graft; Cancels Steel Order.
NEW YORK. Feb. 10.—The con
tract between the. United States Steel
.corporation and the Russian govern
ment for 125,000 tons of steel rails of
the Siberian railroad, was cancelled
by the failure of the latter to make the
■
initial guarantee payments in London
last Tuesday.
The disturbed condition of affairs in
Russia is the ostensible reason given
for failure to make payments. As a
matter of fact, it is understood that
high Russian officials demanded a
"rake oft" of such proportions that
it was equivalent to half a million dol
lars on a $3,000,000. contract.
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Learns Today Sen Is a Murderer
CHEHALIS. Wash., I, b. 10. Sob*.
time today the aged fathei 0 f Prask
Kelly, now confined in the CreseM
City, Cal., jail awaiting trial for the
confessed murder of Pat Dunn >>ii jh t
Grant's Pass-Crescent City stage road
will hear for the first time that his
son is a murderer. It was not defi
nitely known here until yesterday that
the man who assisted Harrj Rrowti
in the brutal slaughter of th" eld j O .
sephine county storekeeper for his
supposed hidden hoard of gold was
really the child of Pat Kelly, a ranch*
who has lived for many years in east
ern Lewis county, although dispa|a_a
at the time said young K<
formerly lived in Chehalis. Tim fat
ly, brother of the murderer, however,
passed through Chehalis yesterday af
ternoon on his way to th" t'yspm
River district, in eastern Lewis coun
ty, to carry the tidings to his father.
Tim Kelly has been in Portland, and
was informed of his brother's deed
only a few days ago by John Kelly,
another brother residing in San Fran
cisco. The latter wrote Tim Kelly,
asking him to go to Lewis county and
give their father the details. The
father's residence on the Cyspus is so
isolated that he had beard nothing of
the affair.