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ROOSEVELT OPENS
HIS CAMPAIGN
mere party
DECLARES FAIR DEAL DEI WEEN
MAN AND MAN IS HIS
AVOWED IDEAL.
Asks Only Justice—Declares Present
Contest Is for Social and Industrial
Uplift of All—More Than Party
Tight—Letter Asserting Principles
Read at Meeting in Boston.
Boston.—A letter from Theodore
Roosevelt aad telegrams from former
Governor Fort of New Jersey, Governor
Stubbs of Kansas and Senator Clapp of
Minnesota, signalized the opening of
the Roosevelt progressive New England
campaign in Tremont temple Saturday.
The chairman also road a telegram
of congratulation from the president
of the Roosevelt committee in Chicago,
declaring the nation "appears to be
5 tu I for Roosevelt," and predicting
that Illinois will give Roosevelt 50 of
its 3$ delegates.
Colonel Roosevelt's letter said:
Good Will Among Men.
"This is more than
contest; this is a contest to establish
the right of the people to rule them
selves, and through their own efforts
to. work for the cause of social and
industrial justice and of good will
among men.
1 ' We are the true conservatives, for
it will be found that the only true
conservative is he who resolutely sots
his face toward the future and strives
to give wise guidance to those who are
struggling toward the ideal of fair
dealing between man and man.
"We believe only through the
triumph of the principles for which we
stand can business prosperity be pre
served to this country on a permanent
basis and we are certain that if these
principles can be embodied in action,
such prosperity will come.
"But prosperity must stand on a
foundation of justice, justice to wage
workers, to capitalist, to the general
public. All we ask is such justice and
we are anxious that it should be scru
pulously exacted.
No Loftier Ideal.
"We have announced our faith in
If a mother laid her baby in a
cradle, where would a brick layer!
aud our adherence to a lofty ideal, for
surely there can bo no loftier ideal
than that of the achievement of justice
through the rule of the people; and we
hold also that from the very fact that
we are idealists, we are in the truest
sense of the word practical men, - for
wo intend in good faith to try to real
ize our ideals; and their realization
will make, not only for the moral, but
for the material well-being of all our
people. ' '
Former Governor Fort attacked the
Payne-Aldrich tariff law as not be
ing a revision downward of duties
and said if President Taft had vetoed
it as a violation of the platform on
which ho was elected, "he would have
■stamped his independence and progress
iveuess in the hearts of the people at
(the very outset of his administration."
WOULD TAX NET INCOMES.
Democrats ia Caucus Endorse Measure
to Go to Congress.
Washington.—House aud senate lead
ers of all shades of political belief are
in a discussion of the sensatioual action
•of the house democratic caucus iu in
dorsing what is in effect an income tax
■on all net incomes, including salaries
above $5000 a year.
That the house will pass the meas
ure by a party vote within the next 10
days or two weeks was taken for
granted. Discussion therefore turned
largely on the reception the bill would
get in the senate. Its fate there seems
■doubtful.
Getting the Squirrels.
It is said farmers are getting rid of
ground squirrels with much less trouble
and expense.than in past years. J. C.
Graham of Palouse says his process was:
Ferrets are put into one hole and nets
made from seine twine are placed over
all the other holes. Mr. Graham says
that a few moments after the ferrets
are turned loose you can see squirrels
jumping in all the nets. Muzzles are
generally placed on the ferrets.
Morgan Art Treasures Guarded.
New York.—Unusual precautions
have been taken by the customs author
ities to guarantee the art treasures
valued at many millions and imported
by J. Pierpont Morgan from his Euro
pean museums and galleries to this city
during the transit to their final desti
nation. It is said Mr. Morgan has
placed a value of $20,000,000 on the
collection.
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WASHINGTON STATE
William Jennings Bryan spent Mon
day in Spokane.
Fire has destroyed G. Ewing's gen
earal store at Withrow. The loss is
estimated at $15,000, with insurance of
$8000.
Lith Standish, aged 9, and Muriel
Standish, aged 7, were drowned in
Green river, a mile and a half east of
Auburn, when a wagon in which five
persons were fording the stream, upset.
Construction of the Hanford-Ringold
power transmission line is under way.
Ranchers on the east side of the Col
umbia river, opposite Hanford, have
contracts for the delivery of power by
April 1.
Crushed beneath the elevator
weight that descended from the fifth
floor while the elevator was going up,
Joseph P. Schok, an elebator helper 80
years old, met instant death at Spo
kane Saturday.
Civilian employes at the Puget Sound
navy yard will not be" discharged for
participating in the municipal
paign last fall, when two of their
ber were elected to the city council on
the socialist ticket.
John Jarvis and Jack Duffy, both of
Sedro-Wool ley, were drowned in the
Skagit river, Sunday, when a launch
in which they were taking a pleasure
ride struck a snag and throw them into
the ice cold water.
Alleged payroll irregularities in the
freight department of the Northern
Pacific at Spokane promise to involve
many well-known Spokane railroad
men now in the employ of the North
ern Pacific freight house.
Private M. Barnard of Company K,
national guard, at Walla Walla, com
pleted a two-day sentence in the city
jail there for skipping drill, having
chosen the jail rather than pay the
fine of $4 levied against him.
Equipped for emergencies from
preaching sermous to gun fighting, W.
S. Edris was arrested at Walla Walla,
charged with several forgeries total
ing nearly $1000. Edris was traced
from points near Bellingham.
A new typographical union, which
will include all the printers in Kitti
tas county, who have heretofore been
under the jurisdiction of the North
Yakima local of the I. T. U., is in
course of formation at Ellensburg.
The Great Northern Railway com
pany can not build its projected line
down the San Poil valley until April
20, if at all, as Judge Rudkiu has ex
tended his restraining order against
the building of the projected line until
then.
The state public service commission
will announce - in Spokane during a
session on March 18-20 a new tariff,
giving a reduction of about 20 cents
per h un d re dweight on carload lots of
freight traveling from the Coast to
Spokane.
John Berg, of Port Crescent, and
Wallace Richter, a farmer, two sight
seers, were killed Sunday when a guy
wire attached to a derrick broke at
the plant of the Olympic Power com
pany, on the Elmwha river, seven miles
west of Port Angeles.
A two days' farmers' institute has
been arranged by the Colville Chamber
of Commerce to be held on March 11
and 12, with instructors from the state
college in charge. Soils, crops, dairy
ing, swine, fruit and poultry will be
the topics discussed.
Charles • H. Hufford, aged 47, a
liquor salesman, who shot and killed
Gladys Irene Tesche, aged 18, on a
crowded street corner in Seattle last
New Year's eve, was convicted of
murder in the first degree. Three
women were on the jury.
Marcel Parsons, aged 17, and Bessie
Klemgard, aged 16, the eloping college
youth and high school girl, whose dis
appearance from Pullman Wednesday
led to a search that covered the Inland
Empire, have been reconciled to their
parents, were married Saturday at
Spokane.
Permanent organization, the appoint
ment of an executive committee and
the formation of definite plans for an
appeal to President Taft and congress,
were agreed upon recently at the irri
gation congress at Colfax, called for
the purpose of considering the pro
posed Palouse irrigation and power
project.
Wapata.—Dunn Brothers, owners of
the famous shorthorn herd of cattle
winch has been exhibited at nearly all
the stock shows in the west for a num
ber of years, suffered a $2500 fire loss.
Two buildings were destroyed, one a
granary which contained considerable
grain. Insurance to the amount of $700
was carried.
A huge oil burning engine with a
gang plow attachment that will plow
eight furrows 10 feet wide has been
received by I. W. Buzby of Ellensburg.
The machine will be used to break up
virgin land under the new high line
canal. Mr. Buzby has contracts to
plow 1000 acres. The machine develops
142-horsepower.
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CHINESE SOLDIERS
TURN TO ROBBERS
FOREIGNERS DEING PROTECTED
BY THEIR RESPECTIVE
SOLDIER GUARDS.
Martial Law Declared in Peking—Gov
ernment Unable to Cope With Situ
ation—Chink Looters Are Beheaded
and Bodies Left in Streets—Manchu
Attack on Peking Threatened.
Peking.—The foreign ministers here,
after a conference, have decided to
bring into Peking all the available for
eign troops stationed in adjacent parts
in China.
Many missionaries have been slaugh
tered by the mutineers in Pao-Ting
Fu, according to a report.
A serious recrudescence of disorder
occurred when a detachment of artil
lery, headed by bands marched to the
palace of Duke Kucl-Hsian, father of
the empress dowager, and shelled down
the gate. They looted much property
and burned a portion of the palace.
It is evident that all the soldiers of
the northern Chinese army are in
agreement in the pillaging movement.
They are under the belief that the
coming of the republican delegates
from Nanking to Yuan Shi Kai means
the dismissal of the northern troops
from the service.
The government is unable at present
to cope with the situation and the for
eign ministers here are discussing con
certed action.
The situation at Swatow is becoming
more serious every day. The interior
of the province is in complete anarchy.
Although parties of soldiers belong
ing to the army commanded by Chang
Huai Chi were themselves engaged in
looting they fought the looters in the
outskirts of the city. Prisoners they
took were beheaded and many headless
bodies are lying in the streets.
Washington.—Messages from Min
ister Calhoun at Peking state that a
Manchu attack on Peking was threat
ened.
Intervention Inevitable.
Foreign intervention in China is be
lieved to be inevitable since the whole
movement connected with the mutiny,
judging from the looting of the Pao
Ting Fu mission, apparently may be
come anti-foreign.
The French and Russian legations
have received authentic news that the
French missionaries in Pao Ting Fu
have been massacred.
Martial Law at Peking.
Peking.—Marital law, which has
been proclaimed in the capital, is oper
ating successfully.
More Rioting.
Tientsin.—Rioting of a serious nature
took place here again on Sunday. The
outbreak had been feared, and precau
tions were taken so far as possible to
protect residents from harm. Between
9 and 10 o 'clock the soldiers mutinied,
set fire to a number of buildings, and
then began looting from house tobouse.
They were joined by the rabble. Shops
and banks in all important streets were
looted, and some of them were wrecked.
In order to intimidate the populace,
the soldiers kept up a continual gun
fire. The rattle of musketry could be
heard throughout the night. Only a
few police remained loyal, and they
were outnumbered and powerless to sup
press the disorders.
No less than 14 fires were raging
simultaneously in various parts of the
city.
GET THIS BANK ROBBER.
Tries to Make Escape in Ice Wagon,
But Is Caught Near Town.
Aurora, Col.—Shambling up to the
cashier's window at the Aurora state
bank, at. 9 o'clock a. m., a stranger
leveled a revolver at Assistant Cashier
Charles Wehn,, ordered him to turn
over all the money in the bank and
forced Wehn to lead the way to the
safe.
Backing out with bags containing
$800 in silver, he leaped onto an ice
wagon in which he had come and
lashed his team, driving toward
Denver.
A posse of citizens, armed with re
volvers and rifles overtook the bandit
a mile from the bank, and opening
fire, wounded him in the right arm,
He was
causing him to surrender,
identified as G. D. Briggs, a guest at
a Denver hotel, where it is claimed
he registered as Wright Day.
New Counterfeit Bill.
Washington.—The secret service an
nounces the discovery of a new coun
tefeit $5 silver certificate. It is an
imitation of the certificate containing
the Indian head, series of 1898, and is
described as a crudely executed etch
ing with silk fiber of the genuine bill
imitated by red and blue ink lines.
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LATE MARKET REPORTS
Dispatches concerning market quota
tions, conditions and phases are as fol
lows:
Chicago.
Lard (in tierces), $8.92 1-2.
Short ribs (loose), $8.30.
Butter, steady; creameries, 23(528c;
dairies, 22@26c; eggs, weak; at mark,
cases included, 21@23c; ordinary firsts,
23@24c; firsts, 26 l-2@27c; cheese,
steady; Daisies, 17 1-4@17 l-2c; Twins,
16 3-4@17c; Young Americas, 17 l-4@
17 1-2c; Long Horns, 17 1-4@17 l-2c.^
Cattle—Market slow, 10c to 13c
Beeves, $4.90@8.60; Texas
steers, $4.60@5.90; western steers, $ S@
7; stockers and feeders, $4@6.20; cows
and heifers, $2.15@6.65; calves, $5.13@
8.25.
down.
Hogs—Market dull, generally 10c off.
Light, $6.15@6.45; mixed, $6.15(5)6.43;
heavy, $6.15@6.45; right, $6.15(56.23;
pigs, $4.60@6.25; bulk of sales, $6.30@
6.45.
Native, $3.25
Sheep—Market steady.
@4.80; western,. $3.75(5)4.80; yearlings,
$4.90@5.75; lambs, native, $4.50@6.93;
western, $5@7.
New York.
Standard copper steadv. Spot. $14.10
@14.17 1-2; March, $il.l21-2@14.23;
April, $14.17 1-2. Lake copper, 14 l-2@
14 3-4c; electrolytic. 14 1-2@14 5-8c;
casting, 13 7-8@14 l-8c.
Tin easy. Spot, $42.30@43.12 1-2.
Lead quiet, $4@4.10.
Spelter steady, $6.35@6.73.
Antimony quiet; Cookson's, $7.30.
Iron—Quiet. No. 1 foundry, north
ern, $14.75@15.25; No. 2, $14.25@14.73;
No. 1 southern and No. 1 southern soft,
$14.73(5)15.25.
Bar silver, 58 3-8c; Mexican dollars,
47c.
Portland.
Cattle—Market firm. Choice steers,
$6@6.65; good to choice steers, $3.75@
6; choice cows. $3@5.60; good to choice
cows. $4.75@3; choice spayed 'heifers,
$5.23@5.90; good to choice heifers, $3@
5.25; choice bulls, $4.25@4.50; good to
choice bulls, $4@4.25; choice calves, $8
@8.60; good to choive calves, $6.75@7.
Hogs—Market steady. Choice light
hogs, $6.40@6.75; smooth heavy hogs,
$5.75@6; rough heavy, $5.50@5.75.
Sheep—Market steady. Choice yearl
ings, $4.50@4.75; choice 2s and 3s, $3.90
@4.25; choice killing ewes, $4.10@4.60;
culls, $2.50@2.73; choice grain-fed
lambs, $3.50@5.60; choice spring lambs,
$4.75@5; good to choice lambs, $4.50@
4.75; fair to good lambs, $4.25@4.30.
Wheat-—Track price : Club, 86@87c;
bluestem, 89@90c; fortyfold, 86@87c;
red Russian, 85c; valley, 87c. Receipts
—Wheat, 46 cars; barley, 1 car; oats,
7 cars; hay. 3 cars.
Butter—City and country creamery
extras, solid pack, 36c.
San Francisco.
Wheat—Steady.
Barley—Easy.
Spot quotations — Wheat—Shipping,
$1.55@1.60.
Bailey—Feed, $1.87 1-2@1.90; brew
ing, nominal.
Oats—Bred, $1.70@1.85; white, $1.70
@1.75; black, $1.65@1.80.
Liverpool.
Wheat—March, 7s 10 5-8d;
May, 7s 5 5-8d; July, 7s 5 l-8d. Weath
er cloudy.
Close:
Available Grain Supplies.
Special telegraphic and cable
munications received by Bradstreet's
show the following changes in avail
able supplies, as compared with pre
vious accounts.
I 'Mil
Available supplies:
Wheat—United States, cast of the
Rockies, decreased 193,000 bushels.
United States, west of the Rockies,
dccrcasded 376,000 bushels.
Canada, increased 1,
Total, United States and Canada, in
creased, 956,000 bushels.
Afloat for and in Europe, decreased,
1,700,000 bushels.
Total American and European sup
ply, decreased, 944,000 bushels.
Corn—United States and Canada, in
creased, 2,475,000 bushels.
Oats—United States and Canada, in
creased, 488,000 bushels.
000 bushels.
Pacific Northwest Wheat,
Tacoma, Wash.—Wheat:
87@88c; fortyfold, 86>4c;
86c; red Russian, 84c.
Wash.—Bluestem,
fortyfold, 8514c;
Bluestem,
club, 85@
Seattle,
club, 85i{.c;
85i4c; red Russian, 82 1 / {>c.
Portland.—Track prices: Club, 87@
88c; bluestem, 89@90c; fortyfold, 87@
88c; red Russian, 86c; valley, 88c.
Ritzville.—Bluestem, 75c; club, 73e.
Odessa.—Bluestem, 77e; Jones' fife,
88i/ac;
fife,
74c.
Colfax.—Red Russian, 71c; club, 72c;
fortyfold, 73c; bluestem, 75c;
$1.30; feed barley, $1.40; brewing bar
ley, $1.70.
oats,
Prices to Producers at Spokane.
The following list may be taken
fair standard of
as a
prices paid to pro
ducers for the commodities named:
Fruits and Vegetables—Potatoes,' $1
cwt; horseradish, 12Vie lb.; cabbage, $1
cwt; apples, $1@1.50 box; Californi
red onions, $1.20 cwt.
Butter—Ranch, 28o lb.
Eggs—Ranch, $9.50
$7.50 case.
Hay—Baled oat hay, $14 ton; wheat
hay, $15@16 ton; alfalfa, $15 ton; tim
othy, No. 1, $17 ton.
Grain Oats, $1.35 cwt.; barley, $2.30
cwt; wheat, $1.25 cwt.
(Hay and feed prices are f. o. b cars
Spokane.) " '
Poultry—Live hens, 10c lb; dressed,
12c lb; live springs, 10c Ibpdrossed,
lb; old roosters, 7c lb; dressed, 9c lb
Ive ducks and geese, 12c lb; dressed,
16c lb; live turkeys, 16c lb; dressed,
20c lb, '
i:i
case;
eastern,
12c
GREAT STRIRE IS
NOW ON IN ENGLAND
OVER A MILLION MEN IDLE
AND FOOD PRICES ARE
RISING RAPIDLY.
Much Suffering Near—Wheels of i a .
dustry Blocked by Great Coal Strike
—Iron Works Close—One Labor
Leader Thinks Strike Will Soon Be
Over.
London.—The prices of food are in
creasing everywhere as a result of the
great coal strike and alarm is increas
ing at the prospect of widespread suf
fering if the strike continues,
industries in many lines are now com
pelled to cease operations for lack of
fuel.
More
The great ports of the United King
dom, particularly those situated in
Wales, from which coal is shipped to
every part of the world and the
ters of the iron and steel industries
have naturally been the first to feel '
the effects of the strike of more than
1 , 000,600 miners iu England, Scotland
and Wales.
Many iron works in various districts
were closed March 4 and at Swanse:
and elsewhere work on the docks
tically has come to a standstill.
arriving and the
cen
prac
No vessels are
dockers and workmen employed in the
local industries have been thrown out
of work. Great crowds of these
gathered in the streets aud discussed
the dispute.
Thus far there have been
turbances anywhere,
however, the mine
ing for emergencies,
walls built around the mines and have
laid in great stores of provisions in
anticipation of a long siege.
The railroad and street car services
in many cities has been curtailed.
Only two small non-union mines i
the entire country are still at work.
One of these is in North Wales and
the other near Berwick on the Scottish
border.
The tinplate works of Wales
closing down rapidly owing to lack of
coal. Six hundred mills will be idle
within a few days and forty thousand
men will be thrown out of employ
ment.
men
no dis
In South Wales.
owners arc prepar
Thoy have had
1
:i I ■■
John Williams, labor member of par
liament for the Gower district of
Glamorganshire, South Wales, and
gen
eral secretary of the Amalgamated So
ciety of South Wales Colliery Workers,
expects a settlement the last of the
week.
WINDOW SMASHERS
SENT TO JAIL
"Will Go the Limit When We're
Freed, ' ' Says Mrs. Pankhurst.
London.—Mrs. Emmaline Pankhurst»
Mrs. Tukes
and Mrs. Marshall, the
three leaders of the recent window
smashing campaign, by which the suf
fragettes succeeded in terrorizing the
London tradesmen, were sentenced each
to two months' imprisonment.
These were the first three of the 124
women who
were arrested in the
course of the street demonstrations
and who are to be arraigned at the
Bow street court, chiefly on charges
of causing willful damages to stores in
Bond street; Piccadilly, Regent street,
Oxford street, the Haymarkct and the
Strand, as well as other busy shopping
streets.
The attorney for the prosecution an
nounced in court that the total damage
done by the suffragettes in their stone
throwing manifestations was estimated
at $25,000.
On the delivery of the sentence by
the magistrate, Mrs. Pankhurst de
clared that she intended to go farther
when she came out of prison and that
the suffragettes were prepared to go
to the fullest limit to show the gov
ernment that women wore going to
secure the vote.
Father Refuses to Aid Son.
Chillicothe, Mo.—Denied help by his
father, a circuit judge in South Caro
lina, who wrote that it would be best
for him to take his medicine like a
man, W. L. Mirams, a youth arrested
for passing a number of forged checks,
throw himself on the mercy of the
court after he had pleaded guilty. Sen
tence has been reserved.' He is said
to have realized about $ 2000 .
Counterfeiter Confesses.
San Francisco.—John Chambers, a
Healdsburg wood-chopper, has made a
complete confession regarding the op
eration of an elaborate mint for the
making of counterfeit coins,
bers and William
Cham
Hayes, another
Healdsburg man, whom the woodchop
per implicated in his confession, are in
jail.