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Show EE FLEET ANCHORS AT SAN DIEGU Thousands of Enthusiastic Citizens Extend Welcome to Officers and Men of Big Battleship Fleet. The Splendid Condition of the Ships After Their Long Voyage Should be Source of Gratification to Every American Citizen. San Diego, Cal—The American battleship fleet was greeted here on Tuesday by hundreds of enthusiastic patriots. In four regular intervaled columns, with flagships leading abreast and pointing the wayto the first home an- chorage the fleet has found in its four months of cruising around the southernmost end of the Western hemisphere, the sixteen ships swept into the sheitered cove of the sea behind the towering headlands of Point Loma and halted for four days of merrymaking for men and officers. Governor James N, Gillett was here Officially to welcome the fleet, and his call upon Rear Admiral Thomas, commanding in the absence of Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, who took the fleet out of Hampton Roads last December, was repaid during the afternoon. Local committees also went to the Connecticut to tell Admiral Thomas, and through himall the men of the fleet, how glad the people of California are to see such a splendid representation of the American navy as the “battle fleet’ constitutes. The splendid condition of the ships was manifest in every way. Outwardfy they were the same sparkling, impressive, white and buff units of a powerful aggregation of fighting force that pointed their way out of Hampton roads on a home coast 3,000 miles away with the president showing the way on his cruiser-yacht, the Mayflower. Internally, the ships were in better condition than when they started, engines working with the smooth thrust and throw of perfect bearings and careful handling, and boilers making steam with less consumption of coal because of the increased efficiency in the firing rooms. The wash of the waves water line displayed along from the two to HAUSER LAKE DISASTER ‘THE MARITIME POWERS TO CAUSES LOSS OF A MILLION PARTICIPATE \N CONFERENCE | ana | Invitation Has Been Extended by Hundreds of Head of Stock Drown England and the United States by Breaking cf Dam. Will be Represented at the Railroad Tracks Washed Away Conference. Helena, Mont.—With several houses | destroyed in the little town of Craig,| torty-six miles north of Helena, hun- | dreds of head of cattle and livestock drowned, and the Great Northern railroad tracks washed away for miles, the loss from the flood caused by the breaking of the great seventyfoot dam at Hauser Lake, it is conservatively estimated, will be approxtmately $1,000,000, which includes the damages to the dam. Great Northern Agent Stewart of Wolf Creek reports that the track trom Wolf Creek egst as far as he can see is flooded to a depth of three feet, and that for three miles or more it is completely washed out, and in places overturned, while the rails are twisted and bent into every shape by the foaming waters. Twenty-eight miles of track are under water. it is figured conservatively that for ot least twenty days no trains can go | over the line, and no repair work can be done until the water between Wolf | Creek and Cascade recedes. In Chestnut valley the water is from a foot to fifteen feet deep over the ranches. Many smal! buildings have left their foundations and have been washed down the river. Hundreds ot haystacks have been carried away and fences are obliterated. PARADE OF BLUE JACKETS. Sixty-four Companies οἵ Marines March Through Streets of San Diego. San Diego, Cal—A parade of blue jackets and marines landed from the American battleship fleet—5,000 fight{ing men fresh from acruise of more than 13,000 miles—marked on Wednhesday the ceremonies of official welcome to the state of California. Sixtyfour companies of sailormen in their togs of the sea, with wide-flaring trousers reefed down in canvas leggings, and sixteen companies of marines, soldierly and straight, formed this most notable of the navy’s land displays. The landing party, equipped as infantry, armed with Krags, in light marching order and with canteens filled, equalled an army corps. The procession the men of the navy formed was more than two miles long. At the city park the sailors passed in three feet of red armor belts, and review before Rear Admirals Thomas, showed but comparatively little sea growth, despite the long stay in temperate and tropical waters. Sperry and Emery, and Governor Gillett and his staff. A crowd of many thousands of people surrounded the grand stands. TOWN UNDER WATER. Great Dam Breaks and People Are Forced to Flee from Homes. Helena, Mont.—As a result of the bursting of the great dam at Hauser lake on Tuesday afternoon, the town of Craig, forty-six miles north of Hel ena, was buried under a twenty-foot wall of water and thousands of dol lars worth of property destroyed. The 400 inhabitants had warning and es caped to the hills, The Hauser lake dam was com pleted last year at a toal cost of $1, 200,000, and many eastern capitalists are interested in the company, The down stream. At the time the structure gave way about thirty men were at work in the power house, which is situated about 100 yards below the dam site on the north side of the river. It is believed that all these men escaped and that no lives were lost at the dam. A heavily loaded Great Northern train from Great Falls to Butte nar. rowly escaped destruction by the flood. It was flagged just in time by the operator at Cascade, and re turned to Great Falls, not, however before taking aboard a tiock of sheer whose pasture was under water. To Improve Naval Station at Olon gapo, Subig Bay. Washington.—Most of the session of the house of representatives on Tuesday was devoted to a lively de bate in regard to the naval stations in the Philippine islands. The support ers of the Subig bay station, led by Messrs. Foss and Hobson, were vic torious despite vigorous oppositior from both sides of the chamber. Ac cordingiy, the sum of $100,000, as recommended by the committee, for improving and developing the naval station at Olongapo, Subig bay, was posed court would seem assured. the meantime it is predicted in an authoritative quarter that all governments will refrain from ratifying The Hague treaty establishing the prize court. The precise difficulty which the British government is seeking to have remedied through the conference lies in the existence of “the continental maritime law,” and the consequent question of which of these systems shall be administered in any given case before the court. Should the matter of settling this question be left to the court, the powers would in effect be legislative as well as ju dicial, a proposition which Great Britain declines to adhere to, Both Russia and Japan declined to sign the prize court agreement at The Hague precisely on the same ground. RIOTING IN FLORIDA. Strike-Breakers and Union Sympa thizers Engage in Battle. Pensacola, Fla.—The bringing of a earload of strike-breakers from St. Louis Friday afternoon by the Pensacola Electric company was the signal’ for rioting and disorder, which resulted in the injury of fifteen of the imported men. No sooner had the strike-breakers arrived and started for the car sheds than a fight occurred between them and the sympa- Obtained Money Under False tenses. Milwaukee, Wis.—Ira B, Smith, formerly a member of a prominent wholesale grocery firm of Milwaukee, was on Wedensday sentenced to two years in the Milwaukee house of correction by Judge Ludwig for obtaining money under false pretenses. Mr. Smith entered a plea of nolle contendre and threw himself upon the mercy of the court. Smith's case had been pending for nearly a year. He was indicted on four counts, charged with borrowing $5,000 on each of four notes on misrepresentation of security. Congress Turns Down Proposition for Construction of Four Battleships. Washington.—Bya vote of 199 to 83 the house of representatives on Wednesday decided against the president's program for four battleships and adhered to the recommendation ot its committee on naval affairs for two vessels of that type. The entire session was devoted to consideration of the navy increase provision of the naval appropriation bill. As this in- crease was provided in the last section of the bill the measure was practically concluded with the disposition of this provision. New York Delegates Uninstructed. New York.—In a two-days’ session which began with bitter factional dispute and was concluded amid scenes bordering on the riotous, the Demo cratic state convention squelched a boom for William J. Bryan; drove the Kings county faction, headed by Sen ator Patrick H. McCarren, from their | seats and chose an unpledged delega: | tion to the national convention at Den ver. The last hour’s business was| transacted amid a hub-bub that made | it almost impossible to determine the will of the delegates as expressed in their voting. heavy Extension of Salt Lake Route. ed Increase in Pension, Washington.—The house of representatives on Tuesday adopted the conference report on the special pen sion bill granting increases of pen sions to widows of soldiers and sailors. The report was also adopted by the senate, and now will go to the president for signature. In pursuance of their filibustering plans, the Dem. ocrats forced a roll call on the bill, although they voted as a unit for it, apd the report was agreed to unanimously. Life Insurance Company Back Taxes. Must Pay Columbus, O.—Bya decision handed down by the state supreme court on Tuesday, the Union Central Life Insurance company of Cincinnati, of which the late Governor Pattison was president, will be obliged to pay $182,000 omitted county estate taxes and penalties. The suit was filed during the campaign three years ago, and it was then claimed by the governor's Democratic friends that it was a campaign movement, but the judgment of the lower courts has been affirmed. Prescott, Ariz—Detinite news has reached here that Chief Engineer Ma guire of the Salt Lake Route has written C. C. Thornton of Flagstaff to secure his services in making a survey with the object of connecting the Salt Lake line with Jerome, where Senator Clark’s United Verde mine is located and also extending the road into southern Arizona. Engineer Maguire with his party, including Thornton as guide and timber scout, will leave Flagstaff as soon as the weather will permit and go over the ground. Fighting in Nicaragua. New Orleans.—A report that sixty whites and Indians have been killed in Niearagua in bloody bush warfare, waged by Mosquito Indians, was brought here by passengers on the steamer Dictator from Central American ports. The death list of whites numbers about twenty. The fighting started over a month ago on the Ci- ribbean coast, where the Indians live. Since then many troops have been sent into the Mosquito district and several skirmishes have occurred, and the Indians have attacked two towns. sticks and bricks. For over There Will be No More Friction Βε. tween breakers gradually getting nearer to the car barns, but before they reached there fifteen had been wounded. Residents of Chelsa, Massachusetts, Made Homeless by Flames and Two Lives Are Lost. A Square Mile of Territory Burned Over, the Manufacturing, Tenement and Retail District Being Scene of Worst Conflagration in His tory of City. Boston—An aparently insignificant fire, which started among rags on a dump in the city of Chelsea on Sunday, was fanned by a northwest gale into a conflagration which obliterated nearly one-third of the city. Five hundred dwelling houses and public buildings were destroyed, fifteen hun- dred families Were driven from their homes and ten thousand people are homeless. Two lives are known to Haytiens Must Settle Their Trouble Without Aid of United States. Washington.—The intention to adtere to the policy fo “hands off” in Hayti is expected to be in connection with the general and broader policy which has been adopted to govern American diplomacy—that of discouraging revolution in the western hem isphere, To further this policy, revolutionary refugees are denied asylum in American legations. Mr. Furniss is keeping the state department fully informed as to the situation in Hayti, which admittedly is one of extreme chaos. Notwithstanding these re ports, the attitude of the department continues to be one of declining to hundred persons were injured. impossible. The city solicitor mates it at nearly $10,000,000. fire raged before a 45-mile gale more than twelve hours, defying estiThe for the utmost efforts of the combined fire departments of Chelsea and several nearby cities and a large detachment of Boston firemen and apparatus. The fire area, which was in the form of an elipse, a mile and a half long and half a mile wide at its broadest part, extended diagonally across the city. All the banks, more than three-quar- ters of the churches, half of the business blocks and nearly all the school houses were wiped out. One hospital and a day nursery were destroyed. The fire started almost from the extreme southwest section of the city and cut a path to the end of Maverick street, at the extreme southeastern end of the city, which borders Chelsea creek. This is about one and a half miles from where the fire began. The flames spread through the heart of the retail business section, which was about midway between the twa extreme limits reached by thefire. of the sinking of the steamer Grand Lake of the sealing fleet and the serious injury of several others caught in the grip of ice floes, the steam sealer New Foundland limped into port Sunday leaking badly. The Grand Lake met with destruction on lentless jaws of two great ice floes until her sides gave way and even her engines were crushed. Her crew, cape to the steamer Vanguard, which was close by. A catch of 20,000 seals went down with the Grand Lake. This cargo was valued at $130,000 and was insured. The steamers Iceland and Ranget were also badly crushed by the ice. Congress Will Adjourn Early in May. Washington.—That the present session of congress will adjourn on or about May9 is the prediction of Representative James E. Watson of Indianapolis, Republican whip of the house. Mr. Watson bases this prediction upon information he has gath- structed, Boston.—Massachusetts Republicans, meeting in state convention here on Friday, elected four delegates at large who will go to the national Republican convention at Chicago uninstructed and unpledged for any particular candidate. Many differences of opinion on the question of instructions among the delegates were adjusted previously to the opening of the convention, the committee on res olutions having accepted a plank in which reference was made to the strong sentiment of many delegates in favor of an indorsement of Secre tary Taft. Fortune in Smuggling Chinese. Detroit.—The Free Press says: Through the bitter rivalry of thre« Canadian organizations for smuggling Chinese into the United States. a wholesale scheme of bringing the Orientals illegally across cure international border at Detroit was discovered on. Friday. It is said that some nights as many as twenty-five Chinese have been smuggled across the line, and that several fortunes have been made at the business during the past two years by enterprising young men, who have made Windsor, Ontario, their headquarters Girl's Neck Dislocated as Result of Folding Bed Accident. journment, and all of them are anxious for an early date. Mr. Watson thinks there is ample time between now and May 9 for completion of the legislative program. Roosevelt Plans a Year of Travel in Foreign Countries. Washington.—Should President Roosevelt’s present desires be real- Denver when they come to the Democratic national convention on July 7. This emblem has bee. selected in- stead of the prosaic d.nkey, 85 the striped king of the jungle lends himself more readily to the purposes of ornamentation. A special committee of citizens is at work devising plans for the suitable decoration city during the convention. of the Will Help Fire Sufferers. Helena, Mont.—Residents of Big Timber, Mont., the town which was almost entirely destroyed byfire last month, have been notified by the Northern Pacific company that they Los eision of the railroad is voluntary and not the result of civil suits. Angeles enarly from Salt Lake. two years agp rather upon officials proposed to attain their objects and not to the objects themselves. Therefore it may be stated that there will be no furtherfriction between the American consul and the Russian government at Harbin over this incident. PRESIDENT VETOES BILL. Doesn't Believe in the Giving Away will be paid 50 cents on the dollar to eover their losses. This action is taken by the railroad company from the fact that the. disastrous fire, which left hundreds of people homeless, was started by a spark from a Northern Pacific locomotive. The de House Committee Favors a Bill Mak ing Appropriation for Maintenance of Mining Schools. Washington —The house committee on mines and mining has reported favorably the bill made upof bills introduced by Representatives Bonynge, Haggot and Howell to establish schools or departments of instruction in mines and mining. The bill pro vides that $10,000 shall be appropriat- ed from the sales of public lands during the coming year to each state and territory for the establishment and maintenance of schools of mines or departments of mining in schools already established, this appropriation to increase $5,000 annually until the annual appropriation shal] reach $25,000. The money thus appropriated shall be expended for instruction, research and experiment in relation to mining, engineering, ore treatment, metallurgy and assaying, with a view fo teaching the best and safest methods of mining and especially for the study and preventing of explosions, fires and other dangers incident to carrying on the mining industry, Advocates of the bill report that it will do for mining what appropriations aiding agricultural schools have done for farming and agriculture, and are hopeful of securing its passage. LAST OF THE LOTTERIES. Twenty-eight Men Convicted, Their Fines Ranging From $100 to $6,000. Chicago—Fines aggregating $10,150 have been imposed by Judge Bethea in the United States district of Stream Rights. Washington.—In a special message vetoing a dam bill, President Roosevelt on Monday warned congress that there are pending in this session bills which propose to give away without price stream rights capable of developing 1,300,000 horse-power, whose production would cost annually 25, 000,000 tons of coal; urging in vigorous terms the establishment of a policy such as the filibustering minority in the house demands, which would safeguard the granting of bridge and dam privileges and require the grantees to pay for them; and definitely announcing a future policy on Πίβ part with regard to prompt utilization of construction privileges by refusing River Improvement company within which to build a dam in the Rainy river. Measure to Regulate Injunctions. Washington.—The senate committee on the judiciary had favorably re- ported a bill regulating the practice court against twenty-eight men who were ar rested in various parts of the country on the charge of being connected with a lottery. The heaviest fine was $6,000 and it was placed upon David H. Jones of Chicago, said to have been the owner of the Old Reliable Guaranty Loan & Trust company, and the head of the lottery concern. John Miner, the chief agent of Jones, was fined $1,000, and the other defendants were fined from $100 to $125 each. Cut Hole Through Wall and Appropriated $50,000 Worth of Jewels. San Francisco.—Some time during Saturday night and in the best natrolled district of the city, thieves entered the jewelry store of P. Lundy, 744 Market street, and robbed it of diamonds and other jewelry amounting to $50,000. Entrance was made by cutting a hole through the partition that separates the store from a candy shop. This was done without disturbing the lights that were burning in either store. This hole was made large enough to allow the thieves to erawl through, of granting injunctions by United States courts restraining the enforcement of state statutes. The bill provides that no circuit or district court shall issue such temporary injunctions on the ground of unconstitu- Cullom Says Castro Should Have Good Spanking. tionality until testimony shall have his committee, before which been taken by three judges, at least two of whomshall be circuit judges. It requires five days’ notice of such proceeding to the governor and attorney general of the state involved, unless in cases in which the loss of so much time may work irreparable damage, when a temporary order may be issued. FLOODS IN CHINA. Two Thousand People Are Drowned Like Rats in a Trap. in the province of Hu Peh, and it is stated that 2,000 persons have been drowned. The floods are said to be due to an unexpected freshet. The waters caught the people unexpectedly in the middle of the night, and the unfortunate Chinese were drowned like rats in a trap, many not having the slightest chance of escape. Accused of Murdering His Wife. New York.—Mrs. I. Liberman, the Tiger Will Welcome Democrats. Denver, Colo—A monster tiger, constructed of papier mache, located at the principal four corners of the city, will welcome the delegates to MacPherson, Angeles.—Dawn Therefore the objection of Ameriean Consul Fisher to full recognition wife of a shirtwaist manufacturer, who has a small factory in the Bronx ized, he will spend the first year after borough, was found murdered in her his retirement from office in travel | apartments in Courtlandt avenue outside the United States. Mr, Roose Monday. Her husband was taken into yelt’s itinerary, however, has not been | custody pending an investigation. Her determined. His plan is to see some throat was cut, and there was a great The janitor of the rugged and little frequented | cut in her left side. portions of foreign lands, as well as heard screams and found Liberman in to travel the beaten track of the tour- the hall with a blood-stained knife in ist. That the president will indulge his hand. On Sunday Liberman had his fondness for hunting big gameis applied to a lawyer to secyre a sum believed by those to whom he has con- mons for his wife, accusing her of in fidelity, but the summons was refused fided his intentions. because of Liberman’s condition. whose neck was dislocated July 15 1907, in a folding bed accident at 123 South Hill street, died Friday night at the county hospital, where she had been a patient for several months. Her case was considered one of the most remarkable on record, as she lived for almost a year with her spinal column injured. Miss MacPherson and her mother arrived in Los to rehabilitate that important trade center and resume the execution of the ambitious plans that had been formed by the Russian government jor the development of the city be fore the war with Japan. ered as the result of a confidential Shanghai.—Disastrous floods are resurvey of the situation in the two ported to have occurred at Hankow, ends of the capitol in regard to adUnin made plain to Secretary Root that the local Russian officials in Harbin were deserving of support in their efforts Steamers Caught in Grip of Ice Floe. his signature to a bill that gives an St. Johns, N. F.—Bringing tidings additional three years to the Rainy fluence there. and Washington.—Secretary Root had a long conference at the state depart ment on Monday with the Russian ambassador, Baron Rosen, the feature of which was the Manchurian situation, and in consequence when the ambassador left for New York on his way to Russia he bore with him the last words of the American state department on that important subject. The interview was eminently satistactory on both sides. From the Russian standpoint it was was found to be based take a hand or in any way exert in Unpledged and Accurate estimates of the loss are the form in which the local Russian houses of congress. During the past few days Representative Watson has conferred with the leaders at both Delegates Consul have been lost, and from fifty to one of the Russian authority at Harbin numbering 214 men, made their es: WILL NOT INTERFERE. the American Russian Government at Harbin. an hour the riot continued, the strike- [Apri 5. She was shut up in the re. alowed to stand. Widows of Soldiers and Sailors Grant. In thizers of the union men, Bricks, bottles and shells were hurled at the sirike breakers, and in Pre- turn the latter fired shots and used structure was 631 feet long, and near. ly 800 feet gave way and was washed Washkington.—Great Britain has ex tended an invitation to the great maritime powers te participate in a conference at London, preferably next fall, to determine if possible on definite principles of maritime international law capable of being applied by the proposed prize court provided for at the last Hague conference. The United States will be represent ed at this conference, according to announcement at the state department. While the conference is designated as “informal,” upon its deliberations and conclusions will undoubtedly depend the fate of the proposed international prize court. Should the conference of experts ‘succeed in formulating a code of maritime law wiich shall become international by being accepted by the maritime powers, the success of the pro- AND ROSEN SETTLE ‘TO CREATE DEPARTMENT FIFTEEN HUNDRED ROOFMANCHURIAN CONTROVERSY OF MINES AND MINING FAMILIES SUFFER | | i School Teacher Prevents Panic. Denver, Colo—A well conducted fire drill at the Fleming school, near the.corner of Grant and Coloreio streets in South Denver, saved 100 little children from death or injury shortly before noon Thursday, when an over-heated furnace set fire to the building. Presence of mind on the part of Miss Katherine Harris, in whose room the fire started, in all probability prevented a disaster. After the children had marched out, Miss Harris began playing a stream on the fire with the lawn hose. Pennsylvania Mob Warm Gives Officers Recention, Chester, Pa—A strike of conduct ors, motormen and other employes of the Chester Traction company, fol lowed by the importation of 150 strike-breakers and the summoning of a detachment of the state constabu lary to assist the local police in pre venting violence, precipitated a series of clashes between strike sympathiz ers and state police on Monday. The state police were stoned by the m and several officers and civilians wer? hurt, though none dangerously. a Washington.—Senator Cullom, chatr- man of the senate committee on foreign relations, talked with the prestlent on Saturday about the work of are number of important treaties. Cullom said the committee had a Mr. not had time to consider the Venezuelan correspondence, but would do so at its earliest convenience. He had no idea what the committee would do, he said, but on general principles he thought President Castro should have a good spanking, German Cruiser Launched. Kiel—The armored cruiser Bluecher was launched on Saturday at the imperial navy yard in the presence of Prinee Henry of Prussia and many high officials of the admiralty. Virtually a battleship in all except name, this latest addition to the armored cruisers of the German navyis built entirely of steel, with a displacement, of 15,000 tons. The estimated cost of the construction totals $6,195,000, of which $4,625,000 will be spent on the bull and machinery, while the artillery will cost $2,125,000. Recruits for the Asiatic Dlvision of Our Fleet. Washington.—Seven hundred blue jackets have been ordered from Newport and Norfolk to the Pacific coast by the way of Colon, and thence to Guam and Manila by a transport to replace men on the Asiatic division whose terms are about to expire. The men will be taken to Colon on the eruiser Prairie, arriving there about Μαν 14. They will be transferred across the Isthmus and will take passage on the Buffalo, which wili transport them to San Francisco, arriving there not later than June 1. Chicago College Crank Caught. Chicago.—O. L. Triggs, who as professor of English literature at the University of Chicago attracted wide notice by proclaiming that John D. Rockefeller is a greater genius than Shakespeare and that Longfellow is overrated, has been married to Miss Ada Bell Cox of Canton, 0. Professor Triggs’ connection with the University of Chicago was severed some years ago because of his views. It was testified at a trial in which he was divorced from a former wife that he did not regard marriage as conducive Ὃ morals. Nat Goodwin Taking Vacation. Reno, Nev.—Nat. C. Goodwin, the veteran actor, declared at Rawhide Saturday night, during the course of 1 speech at a banquet given in his honor by the prominent men of the camp, that the impression that he had left the stage for good was erroneous. “I am merely taking a said. recess,” he “If my friends in the east were to hear that it was thonght I had deserted the stage, they would suggest that Nat had better take a brandy and soda. The curtain has rung down for me for a little while--that’s al’” |
