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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 9, 1906)
Heppner Gazette - Issued Thursday of Each Week - HF.PPNER OREGON RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS General Review of Important Hap penings Presented in a Brief and Comprehensive Manner for Busy Readers National, Political, His torical and Commercial. A member of the kaiser's cabinet is accused of grafting. It is reported that Russian bankers will aid the revolutionists. A. St. Petersburg paper says General Trepoff is to be minister of war. llarriman is believed to be secretly buying up St. Paul railway stock. Heat in Chicago is , oppressive. Deaths and prostrations are quite nu merous. An Italian anarchist has been cap tured with a quantity of dynamite in tended f jr the king. Sarah Bernhardt has been refused a decoration of the Legion of Honor by France because she does not pay her debts. All South America, as represented at the Pan-American conference, is lined np for arbitration and the peace of the world. Many witnesses are being called be fore the grand jury at Chicago to tell what they know of Scandard Oil busi ness methods. Two electric cars collided head on near Vermillion, Ohio. Two persons were killed, another fatally injured and scores more or less seriously hurt. A tiutiny in all Finnish forts has been called by the Reds. E. A. Gage, a son of Lyman Gage, committed suicide in Seattle. Rear Admiral Train, commander in chief of the Aeiatic squadron is dead. A fund of two and a half million dol lars is to be raised to build cottages for the homeless of San Francisco. The forts at Sveaborg, Russia, are al most in total ruins as the result of fighting between mutineers and loyal troops. San Francisco is threatened with an epidemic of typhoid, which tbe health board says is being carried, .by the com mon house fly. The state law of New York restrict ing the labor by women and children to 10 hours a day has beendeclaied un constitutional. The state auditor of KanBas sayB he will cancel the polices of all insurance companies who do not pay their San Francisco losses in full. Provision contractors on the isthmus have formed a trust and raised the prices lOOper cent. The canal com mission has ordered supplies of $500 and over bought under the open bid system. Brigadier General William Bolton iB dead. , Mavor W. II. Moore, of Seattle, is seriously ill at Los Angeles. The business of the Lewis and Clark exposition has been wound up. T. VV. Davenport, of Sikerton, Ore gon, father of Cartoonist Davenport, is dead. Fifteen hundred copper miners at Calumet, Michigan, have had their wages voluntarily raised $2 per mouth. Four men were killed and two woun ded in a battle between a sheriff's posse and bandits in Knott county, Kentucky. It has been charged that General Wood is drawinz two salaries, one as governor and one as his regular pay in the armv. The president says this is not so. A San Francisco woman has just se cured a divorce on the ground that her husband had not spoken a word to her for eieht vears. although living in the same boust. A Porto Ri an merchant has eued Federal Judge Hunt, of Montana, for $100,000 damages. It is claimed that at the time the ludge was governor of the island he was instrumental in ruin ing the merchant's business. The National Sculpture sccietv is to establish an old age home for its mem bers. The St. Paul is laving -steel for its new Pacific coast extension. The work is being done in South Dakota. Judge 7ames F. Tracey, of the Phil ippine Supreme court, will likelv be the next vice governor of the islands. John D. Rockefeller eaya there is more good than bad in the world, and that everything ia for good in the end. Fire in a Buffalo, N. Y., planing mill destroyed $170,000 worth of prop erty. Truck workers in Fan Francisco have etruck for more pay and thorter hour. The Pennsylvania railroad Las cot passenger rates to 2 cents per mile. Mileage books will be if sued at the rate of 2 cents per mile. Vat frauds bave been unearthed in Fan Francisco's municipal affair. Examination of pnblic records show that there has been an extensive graft in letting contract aDd that city pay rolls Lave been palded. MANY TO MEET AT BOISE. Interest High in Coming Session of Irrigation Congress. North Yakima, Wash, Aug. 7. During the first week of September the National Irrigation congress Will be in session at Boise Idaho, with an attend ance of several thousand delegates. Exhibits of fruit and honey are being prepared by different localities and states. The premiums are liberal. It is expected that the governor of Wash ington will appoint 25 delegates, that each commercial club will appoint ten, and that each board of county commie sioners will appoint five. It is believ- ed that If a full delegation attends the convention it will be able to secure the next national congress at some point in this state. It is hoped that the vari oos fruitgrowers' associations and the State Beekeepers' association will have on exhibition products of the orchard and apiary which will take silver cups and other premiums. Tbe Yakima County Horticultural union ia arrang ing to send elegant exhibits of fruits and honey. The delegation from that county will ask the convention to pass a resolution memorializing congress to appropriate $300,000,000 for reclama tion of arid lands in the West. The State Beekeepers' association has secured a Bigelow observatory hive, stocked with pure bred Italian bees, for the purpose of giving object lessons in tbe apiary. It will be used at the monthly meetings of the association to teach the farmers and high school class es. It will be one of the interesting features of the display at the Washing ton State fair. The secretary of the fair has agreed to set apart one of the prominent conrners in the main pavil ion for the apiary exhibit, and $200 has been appropriated for premiums in that division. The three days' midwinter conven tion of the State Beekeepers' associa tion will be held at the Agricultural college at Pullman next January, and the observatory hive will be in full operation to instruct the students of that college. The students of the Ida ho Agricultural college, which is only nine miles from Pullman, are also in vited to be present at that meeting. The business of beekeeping is an ad junct of the orchard, bens being the best friend of the fruitgrower, for the reason that these insects cross pollenize the blossoms and increase the yield. These two industries go hand in hand, and are rapidly becoming valuable Bourcea of income. As an example of what organization does, a few years ago the Yakima Coun ty Horticultural union incorporated and sold its shares of stock at $10; the past year the dividends were 70 per cent, a warehouse 50x180 feet has just been completed, toe material being stone and the structure two stories and full basement, one front being on the Northern Pacific railroad and the other on the North Coast road. The shares are now selling at $20, and it is antici pated that the capital stock will have to be increased in order to accommodate the demand. Fruit Inspector Brown, of Yakima county, says that in five years from now he calculates that 12,000 cari per year will be shipped from the warehouse at North Yakima. To Duplex Alaska Cable. Washington. Aug. 7. The Signal corps headquarters in this city has been advised that the cable duplexing apparatus sent to Seattle for use on the Alaskan cable has haen a complete suc cess. As soon as the cable ship Burn side completes its work of laying cables between the forts defending the en trance to Puget sound, which probably will be in about a weak, it will go to Alaska and install duplexing equip ment at the Alaskan end, thus giving the Alaskan cable, which is now over taxed, twice the present capacity. Americans Caused Trouble. Mexico City, Aug. 7. Tbe Impar cial charges that the recently circulated handbills, warning foreigners to leave the country by September 16, were put out by au unknown American, who went from station to etation distribut ing and posting the pretended proclam ation. The Imparcial also asserts that certain railway camps in Texas and California have taken part in promot ing tho circulation of false and sensa tional reports. Dooms Opium Using. London, Aug. 7. In a dispatch fr m Pekin in which he discusses the opium trade the correspondent of the Times expreesea the belief that China will a. k India to consent to an annual reduction in the import to China which would have the effect of extinguishing the trade in ten vears. As an evidence f good faith China will issue an imperial edict condemning the use of opium and forbidding the employment in the gov ernment service of any opium eater. Raise the Price of Bread. San Francisco. Aug. 7. As a reult of the derrande made by the union bakers for an increaee of $3 week in their wairfs, which has been granted by the maeter bakers, the latter will laice the nric" of bread in this city. The manner in which it will be done has not yet been screed npon, but it is said that most ff the bakers favor a loaf just a tnfl? larger than one-half the size of the present loaf. Commerce Outstrips Population. Washirgton, Aug. 7. The foreign commerce of the United States has grown mor rapidly during the laet de- rade tf an h ropula'ion. Completed figures f ir the fiscal year 1P-06 just pre- ented !iow that whi'e tin population bae grown eirce 1891 but 20 per cent, imports tiave grown 57 per cefct and exports 109 per cent. NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM THE STATE OF OREGON FOR EQUITABLE TAX. State Commission Proposes Revision of Present Law. Salem With a view to securing more equitable assessment of property in this state, the Oregon Tax commis sion has recommended a revision of the law governing the equalization of as sesements by the county board. In this tonnection, the commission gives its flat disapproval to the plan often agitated of having the assessment rolls published in the newspapers in the locality in which the property assessed is located. The proposed revision of the law re lating to equalization or. the assess ment is largely based upon inconsisten cies in the present law, but aleo upon a laxity in the law by which wealthy nronertv owners have been able to co erce county ourts into allowing an in eouitable assessment to stand. The commission proposes a law which seems to have "teeth in it," and which will be effective if county officers are dis posed to do their duty. The inconsistency in the present law lies in the fact that the county board of equalization ia required to meet on the last Mondav.in August, while the assessor is given until the first Monday in September to file his roll, or until the first Monday in October if the county court m'akea an order to that effect. At tbe Bame time there ia no authority of law for an extension of the time of meeting of the county board ol equalization. Assessors usually take the full time to prepare their rolls, and very fre anentlv ask for and are granted the extension of time. Commenting upon this condition of the laws, the commis sion saya that "the board of equaliza tion ia thus required to meet perhaps aix weeks before the assessment roll is completed, and as its functions lapse when it has been in session a week, it must have passed out of legal existence at a date before the assessor is required to have the assessment roll ready to equalize. "Under the present system we have practically two boards of equalization," eavs the commission, "one meeting after the other, and having full power to undo the work of its predecessor. The county board of r qualization con tinues in session one week, and if it does not complete its work within the week, the county court, at its next reg ular session, completes the examina tion and correction of the roll. The new law is to do away with this, making provision for the board meeting after the roll is completed. Thia propoaed law contains several provisions that seem to be an improve ment upon the existing law. In the first place, a taxpayer will not go before tbe county board of equalization unless he haa a real grievance, for the court baa power to raise hia assessment, and his formal petition will 'serve to call tbe attention of hia neighbors and the public generally to the representations he ia making governing the value of his property, flacing the matter of equal ization entiiely in the hands of one board instead of two will centralize the reEponsibilty and give time and oppor tunity for careful and well advised work. Fire Precautions at Asylum. Salem Lest friends and relatives of the 1,420 patients confined in the in sane asylum may be unduly concerned as to their welfare on account of tbe recent fire at that institution, an official of the asylum says that none of the pa t'ents were in danger, and would not be even in case of a tire serious enough to destroy a considerable portion ot the building. The facilities for getting patients out of the building an such that a disastrous fire need noteaue the loss of a single life. In this particular the building could scarcely be improved. Umatilla Canal Contract Let. Washnigton The secretary of the interior has awarded the contract to the Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging com pany, of Seattle, for the construction of the storage feed canal of the Umatilla irrigation project. The work of the contract involves the cosstruction of 25 miles of canal from the Umatilla river, near Echo, to Cold Springs reservoir, and censists of 700,000 cubic yards of earth excavation, 6,000 cubic yards of rock excavation, 2,300 cubic yards of concrete and 2.600 cubic yards of rip rap. The bid waB $161,388. Fire in the Cascades. I Albany A timber fire in the Cascade ' mountains near Detroit is spreading rapidly, threatening heavy damage. The fire started near the Santiam river and spread inio heavy timber. Two hundred acres of the finest forest in the Cascades is now burning, and the wind ia driving the flames into the heart of the mountains, where, if not stopped soon, immense damage will result. Everything is extremely dry and the flames are spreading rapidly. Wheat Yield About Normal. Pendleton The harvest in all parts of Umatilla county has commenced. The threshing up to this time has been too limited to make a very close esti mate of the yield, but from what haa been threshed on the reservation, and around Athena it is thought the vield in those districts will be about normal. and had it not been for the hct winds the yield would have been at least 25 per cent above the average. Flour Mills Closed Down. La Grande The flouring mills of La Grande. Island Ci'y and Union hae closed down, having utilized all the old supply of wheat. LAW UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Household Goods Not Entitled to Ex. emption, Says Supreme Court. Salem By holding, in a decision just rendered, that the householder's tax exemption is unconstitutional, the Ore gon Supreme court has declared void a statute that has been in force in this state almost continuously since 1859. Householders' exemptions have been allowed every year except 1904, when the exemption law had been repealed. It was re-enacted by the special session of 1903, but went into effect too late to be applicable to the assessment of 1904. Approximately $8,000,000 has been exempted from taxation in this state from year to year, and legialatora, county officers and the people generally have recognized the exemption as valid. Now the Supreme court haa declared all these exemptions invalid. This decision will make it necessary for county assessors in many counties to make a reassessment of property in their counties for 1900, for it ia the practice of many assessors not to lict property that is exempt. In some and perhaps most of the counties the assess ors list the exempt property and make the deductions afterward. Clackamas Farmers Are Happy. Oregon City There is an abundant yield of all hay and grain crops in Clackamas county this year that ear pass the average in quality. Early fruits and vegetables yielded heavily while the vineyard, field and orchard with maturing crops, give the producer every assurance of increased prosperity with the harvest. In celebration of the large and satisfactory crops, a nnmber of harvest festivals have been held and others are being-arranged. It haa been years since Clackamas county farmers were as prosperous and contented. Raise Railroad Assessments. tealem lhat railroad property in Oregon was assessed at only $10,815,- 915.41, when if had acommercial value of nearly $70,000,000, is one of the im portant and interesting'features of the report of the Oiegon Tax commission, which will be presented for the conaid eration of the next legislature. These figures relate to valuations in 1904, which was the latest year for which the commission could secure reliable information. Yields 90 Bushels an Acre. Weston A remarkably heavy yield of barley has just been harvested on the farm of O. C. Turner, two miles north of this place. Tbe yield from 14 acres was 529 sacks, or 1,267 bushels, an average of 90 bushels to the acre Turner Bros, were expecting a good yield, but did not look for more than 70 bushels to the acre, which ia a big yield. Half Million to Clackamas Roll. Oregon City By the decision of the Supreme court on the tax exemption law, Assessor Nelson reports that there will be added to the Clackamas county assessment rolls about $400,000 addi tional on which next year's tax levy will be made. Revision will delay the task of completing the rolls which were received from the state authorities ten weeks later than the usual time. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Club, 71c; bluestem, 73c; red, 69c; vallev, 71c; new club, 70c; new bluestem, 72c; valley, 71c. Oata No. 1 white feed, $30; gray, $29 p;r ton. Barley Feed, $23 50 per ton; brew ing, $23.50 per ton; rolled, $2424.50. Rye $1 50 per cwt. Hay Valley timothy, No. 1, $11 12.50 per ton; clover, $8.505f,9; cheat, $6.507; grain hay, $78; alfalfa, $11. Fruits Apples, $1.5002.25 per box; apricots, $1.251.35; cherries, 610c per pound; currants, 9(3 10c; "peach es, 75c$1.10 per box; plnms, $1.25; Logan berries, $1.35(331.40 per crate; raspberries, $l.401.50; blackberries, 8c per pound; gooseberries, 8c. Vegetables Means, 57c per pound; cabbage, l?42c; corn, 15 20c per dozen; cucumbers, 4050c per drzen; eggplant, 1015c per pound; lettuce, head, 25c per dczen ; onions, IU 12c; peas, 45c per pound; radish es, lUloc per uczen; rnunarD, zw 2c per pound; spinach, 23c; toma toes. $1.25 3 per box; parsley, 25c; nnnnsh. t 1(3)1.25 per crate: turnipe. 90c $1 per ssck; carrots, $1(31.25 per sack; beets, $l.251.50 per sack. Onions New, red, 14(1c per pound; new yellow, l?4'2c per pound. Potatoes Old hurhanka, nominal; new potatoes, 75c$1.25 Butter Fancy creamery, 2022c per pound. Egga Oregon ranch, 2121c pel dozen. Poultry Average old hens. 1 ?0t 14c per pound; mixed chickens, 13(313!$c; springs, 16 OS 17; roosters, ! luc; dressed chickens, 1415c; turkeys, live, 1517c; turkeys, dressed, choice, 2022c; geese, live, 80c; drnks, 11013c. Hops Oregon, 1905, ll12c; olds, 9c; 1906 contracts, 12(3 15c per pound. Wool Eastern Oregon average best, 1620c per pound, according to shrink age; valley, 2022, according to fine ness; mohair, choice. 2830c per pound. Veal Dreesed, 5J8c per pound. Beef Dressed bulls, 3c per ponnd; cows, Aftc; country steers, 56c. Mutton Dressed farcy, 7?8c per ponnd; ordinary, 5Gc; lambs, fancy, 8(38 c. Pork D.-esaed, 78c per ponnd. ' THREE HUNDRED DROWN. Italian Immigrant Ship Strikes Reef Off Coast of Spain. Cartagena, Spain, Aug. 6. A terri ble marine disaster occurred Saturday evening off Cape PaloB. The Italian steamship Sirio, from Genoa for Barce lona, Cadiz, Montevideo and Buenos Ayres with about 800 persons on board, was wrecked off Hormigas island. Three hundred immigrants, most of them Italians and Spaniards, were drowned. The captain of the steamer committed suicide. The bishop of San Pedro, Brazil, also was lost and another bishop waa for a tine among the missing. The remain der of the passengers and the officers and crew got away in the ship's boats or were rescued by means of boats sent to them from the shore. A number ol fishermen who made attempts at reacue were drowned. Thoee rescued from the vessel are now at Cape Palos, in a pitiable condi tion, being wiihout food or clothing. The Sirio etruck a reef of rockB known as Bajoa Hormigas, and sank BJon afterward, stern first. Hormigas island lies about two and a half miles to the eastward of Cape Palos. The Sirio, owned by the Navigaziono Italiana, left Genoa August 2. All the ship's books were lost. It is impossi ble at present to ascertain the full ex tent of the disaster. Nine-tenths of tbe passengers were Italiana, and the remainder Spaniards. All the surviv ors have been landed at Cape Palos. The inhabitants provided them with clothing and nourishment. Thirty were landed at Hirmagas island, about one mile from the tragedy. Fishermen brought in tbe first news of the foun dering of the Sirio, and it created con sternation here. Boatloads of the shipwrecked passengers and crew began reaching Bhore shortly after the newa became known. All the atokers went down with the ship. They were unable to reach the deck in time to save themselves. Among the survivors at Cape Faioa are many mothers who weep and wring their handa for lost children, while there are also a number of children who are unable to find their parentsv These have been admitted to the city foundling asylum. JONES AND POTTER TO JAIL One Year and $2,000, Six Months and $500 Respectively. Portland, Aug. 6. Willard N. Jones and Thaddeus 8. Potter, convicted at midnight October 15, 1906, under an indictment returned by 'the Federal grand jury charging them jointly with conspiring to deiraua me governmenr of its public lands, were given their sentences by Judge Hunt in the United States District court Saturday. Jonea received" a fine of $2,000, in addition to a term of one year at the government prisen on McNeill s island. Potter fared somewhat better, a Judge Hunt took several points into consider ation, which, coupled with the lact that Francis J. Heney made a strong plea for leniency in his case, prompted his sentence of six months in the Mult- nomah county jan anu a nne oi ?ouu. Tnhe attorneys for both were given ten days to perfect any legal action looking to an appeal, and in the meantime Jones was required to give $8,000 bail, double the amount of his former bond, while Potter was permitted to go upon his original security. The particular offene for which the two men were convicted consisted in inducing a large number of Grand Armv men to file soldier homesteads in the Siletz Indian reservation, under agreement to transfer title to Jones. Ira Wade, county clerk of Lincoln countv. was tried under the Bame in dictment, but in his case the jury re turned a verdict of acquittal, the evi dence not being considered sufficient to convict. John L. Wells, adjutant gen eral of the G. A R., was also involved n the scheme of conspiracy, his influ ence being exercised in the direction of pecuring locators among me oiu sol diers. Wells confessed his share of complicity in the fraudulent undertak- i . i ill ng before the grand jury and waa made witneps for the government. A gene ral shake-up in the local G. A. R. was the result of the exposures, and Wells was compelled to resign. Coal Companies Merged. Scranton, Pa., Aug. 6. It was re ported today on the best authority that one ot tne largest ueais in tne nisiory of the bituminous coal business was consumated last wees, wherehy a cor poration known aa the Pennsylvania, Beach Creek & Eastern Coal company, with a capital of $8,000,000, acquired by a 999-year lease all the property and business of the Pennsylvania Coal & Coke company, the Beech Creek Coal it Coke company and the North River Coal t Wharf company, and a number of electric light and water companies. Says Trust Contro's Trade. Chicago, Aug. 6. John Hill, Jr., has reopened his war on the owners of public wan houf-es in Chicago with the declaration that the grain trade is in the clutches of a trunt. Mr. Hill says tie now has evidence of the existence of ;m illegal cotnbinatim among the ware house men, and that he intends to fight t t its death. The Interstate Colu mn e rommirsion will meet here' rYext wntb, and Mr. Hill says he expects to ee an invert it-at inn etarttd. Goes to Isthmus in November. Panama, Aug. 6. General Ma goon 'his afternoon informed President A ma jor that Pns dent Roosevelt will visit tin f-Hiiiil zone in Novemlter. . Senor msdor, tl rough Mr. Magnon, -xtend- -d a formal invitation to Mr. Rooeevtlt to visit the city of Panama. SIGNS POINT TO A DICTATORSHIP Grand Duke Nicholas to Lead Fight Against the Rods. Order for General Strike Has Been Heeded by 20,000 in St. Peters burgCity in Darkness Revolt Breaks Out in Warsaw Big Fire in Woodyards. St. Petersburg, Aug. 4. St. Peters burg is in darkness tonight. The em ployes of the electric lighting plants, always the earliest barometric record of political conditions, ceased work during the afternoon in obedience to the call for a general strike. This call already has been obeyed by 20,000 factory handa in the capital. It will be im possible, however, to predict the suc cess of this universal political strike until Monday, as the workmen in St. Petersburg and the provinces have two holidays Saturday, which ia the fete day of the dowager empress and a great religious feast, and their regular holi day of Sunday. The pickets of cavalry and infantry were the most conspicuous features on the streets of St. Petersburg laat night. Business houses generally have boarded up their windows aa they did in the days of the great October strike. Prac tically all of the street cars in the city have stopped running, and the cab driv ers are threatening to cease work. In the meantime the fate of the Stolypin cabinet sways in the balance and Russia is upon the verge of disor ders which may lead to the reign of either the military or the proletariat. It can be stated definitely that the steps toward a dictatorship may be tiken Sunday or Monday by the nomination , of Grand Duke Nicholas to the chief command of all the troops in Russia. This would virtually place him in con trol of all the disturbed districts of the empire where martial law has heen proclaimed. Artillery in Open Revolt. Warsaw, Poland, Aug. 4. A portion of the troops in the Summer Rembert- off, near here, mutinied yesterday and are in open revolt today. The artil lerymen have driven their officers out of their quarters. A squadron of Cos sacks sent to overpower the mutineers was received with grapeshot. Details are lacking, aa extraordinary precau tions are being taken to prevent the facta becoming public. Rebels Fire Big Woodyards. Harkov, Aug. 4 Fire broke out in several large woodyards in the vicinity of the prison today. This evidently was a device on the part of revolution ists, who hoped to free political leaders during the confusion. Tho authorities are apprehensive of a renewed effoit to the same end. PUT OUT OF BUSINESS. Insurance Commissioner Gives Body Blow to Two Companies. San Francisco, Aug. 4. Insurance Commissioner Wolf sent notice tulay to the president and directors of the Fireman's Fund Insurance company and the Home Fire & Marine Insurance company, both of San Francisco, that unless they made good their deficiency in capital stock in four weeks he will request Attorney General Webb tc pro ceed to ascertain why their licenses to do business in California revoked. Both companies have been known to be in financial trouble since the fire. The Home Fire & Mirine lias announc ed that it will do no more business. The Fireman's Fund has reinsured its rrsks to the amount of $372,584 750, carrying premiums amounting to $4, 471.117 with tbe new Fireman's Fund corporation, which has been organized since the fire. ' Both companies have thus confessed failure. Wolf's order, it is expected, will permanently close their doors. Subpenas for Standard Men. New York, Aug. 4. Forty or more subpenas for officers and employes of the Standard Oil company have been forwarded to New York from Chicago. Several of the officials of the Standard Oi! would not say whether they had re ceived the subpenas from Illinois. In quiries were referred to M. F. Elliott, general counsel for the company, who said eo far as he knew no attempt had been made to serve any of the officials. Mr. Elliott would not say what atti tude the officials would take in case the subpena servers put in an appearance. Investigation in Philippines. Washington, Aug. 4. An investiga tion of alleged irregularities in the Philippine islands is now being con ducted by order of Major General Wood, t tie inquiry being in charge of Colonel Wood, inspector general. At the re quest of General Wood the War depart ment has made a special detail of offi cers familiar with the methids of busi ness and conditions in the Philippines to assist. No result has yet been re ported to the department. Stampede to Windy Arm. Seattle, Aug. 4. Rich strikes report ed in Southeastern Alaska have at tracted the longshoremen of Skagway, Juneau and other towns. The men who work along the front have., stam peded to Windy Arm in such numbers that the sailors on the coastwise fleet have to unload their own boats. f