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jL LEXIN6T0N WHEATFIELD S. A. THOMAS, Publisher LEXINGTON. OREGON NEWS OFip WEEK Id a Condensed Form for Our Easy Readers. A Resume of tha Less Important but ; Not Less Interesting Events of the Past Week. Spain and Belgium have arranged an arbitration treaty. The Odd Fellows sovereign grand lodge will meet at Toronto next year. The government is still paying five pensions on account of the Revolution' ary war. Sockeye salmon are plentiful in the Eraser river, B.C., but there is no market for them. A Santa Fe train was derailed : near Newton, Kansas. Several persons were injured, one of whom will die. Minister Takahira, now at Washing ton, will be sent to St. Petersburg, and Baron Kaneko will probably succeed him in this countrv. A landslide on Mount San'Paolino, Sicily, buried a town at the foot of the mountain. The inhabitants had been warned and most of them escaped. A paymaster's train on the Beading road collided with a milk train near Harrisburg, Pa. Pay checks amount ing to over $50,000 were scattered in every direction. A dynamite bomb exploded in a New York tenement shook up the whole neighborhood. That nobody was seri ously injured appears remarkable. The work was that of the Italian "Black , Hand." . The president of Venezuela has snubbed a French diplomat. Two men were killed and 43 injured in the Nevada railroad wreck. Advocates of a republic for Norway are again coming to the front. More 'earthquake Bhocks are being felt in Italy. Panic reigns among the villagers. - The bank of Nordstrand, Minn., a private institution, has closed its doors. It is capitalized at $ 10,000. - - . Vandals' visited the ' two' Catholic cemeteries at Eseanaba, Mich., and de molished the crosses on over 200 monu ments. , V ' 1 5 J- .! " President of : Hull, of the Great Northern, in an address to farmers of Southern Minnesota, condemned regu lation of railroad rates. ' '; Franco-Germman negotiations rel ative to Morocco have been resumed and it is believed a definite arrange ment is nearing completion. The Odd Fellows' sovereign grand lodge is considering the erection of a $1,000,000 sanitarium for consumptive members at Las Vegas, New Mexico. Rebels in German South " Africa sur prised a convoy, practically annihilat ed its escort of German troops, cap tured thousands of cattle, 122 wagons, many rifles and a quantity of ammu nition. - Germany has checked the outbreak of cholera. New York primary elections are to be the scene of a warm contest. A man in a dressmakers' convention at Chicago caused a panic until he was ejected. Ohio Democrats Bay the tariff is not to be the chief issue oi the campaign in that state. While all points have not been set tled, peace between Norway and Swed en is assured. Anthracite coal operators will resist the demands of the miners and another great strie 1b looked for in the near future. Sixly of the moBt elaborately equip ped Pullman cars ever used west of the Missouri river have been put on the Union Pacific from Omaha to California and Portland. President Paul Morton, of the Equitable- Life, has discovered where nearly a million dollars of the policy holders' money has gone to pay bad debts. He will Bue to recover. The Japanese peace commission has started for Japan with the treaty. Aeronaut Beachey has sailed his air ship from the Lewis and Clark exposi tion grounds to the Vancouver bar racks. On the return trip he was un able to reach the starting point on ac count of adverse winds, and a lack of gasoline for his engine. Witte has arrived in Europe. Roosevelt will visit New Orleans in October. Anthracite miners are preparing to make new demands on operators. CREDIT FOR CANAL EMPLOYES. Coupon Books Will Enable Panama Merchants to Do Business. Washington, Sept. 22. A new sys tem of credit has been devised for the employes of the Panama canal on the isthmus and will be put into effect about October 1. The system will meet the needs of the employes and at the same time comply with the request of the Panama merchants to be put on an equal footing with the commissary stores run by the canal commission un der the direct jurisdiction of the Pana ma railroad officials. - The system comprises coupon credit slips, which will be issued to canal em ployes in books containing credit re spectively for $2.50, $5 and $25 gold. The bookB are so made up that credits for from 1 cent to $1 can be torn out as required and will be issued on demand up to a certain percentage of the wages due them. ;, y "., . - The merchants will accept the slips under an arrangement which makes the four banks of Panama the clearing houses between the merchants and the railroad company. No liquors or to bacco are sold at the five government commissaries, which are located along the line of the road, and it has been decided to carry in these commissaries only such articles as shall be decided to constitute the necessities of life. LAND FRAUD IN COLORADO. Register of Land Office Is Arrested, , Along Wiih Two Others. ' Denver, Sept. 22. On the charges of perjuring themslves to defraud the government 1 ol ' lands in Eastern Colo rado, warrants have been issued by the United States district attorney's office for the arrest of Peter Campbell, ex- register of the United States land office at Akron; Percy G. Beeney, county treasurer of Washington county, and D. W. Irwin, a real estate dealer of Akron. ' Through the methods of these men it is alleged that the government has been defrauded of thodsands of dollars worth of lands in Washington and Yuma counties. (By various ways, it is stated, Campbell, Beeney and Irwin obtained possession of land which had been abandoned by previous settlers and sold it to other settlers. x COMES DOWN WITH CRASH. Bandstand Drops Load of People and t . Injures Many. Belleville, 111., Sept. 22. Three per sons were seriously injured and it is believed that nearly 2Q0 were more or less painfully hurtby the coljapaeof a bandstand tonight -'during a carnival and street fair. . f ; : v-; . . Seriously injured ' Mrs.' Damrich. Beleville, internal; injuries. Frank Dietz, Jr., Belleville, internal injuries: Miss Bertha Schrieber, Belleville, in jury to leg, sprained ankle and bruised about body, hands and face , 1 j , As soon as the excitement subsided and the injured were taken from among the mass of timbers, others who were on the carnival grounds attended them, ,' The accident was caused by people crowding upon the bandstand as a van tage point to witness a loop-the-loop exhibition. Hundreds took standing room on the stand. - . DEMAND TREATY BE BROKEN Anti-Peace Meeting at Tokio Demands Radical Action. Tokio, Sept. ' 22. An anti peace meeting held in Uyena park today was barely attended, owing to a heavy rain. The tone of the meeting was quiet. The approaches to the park ' were guarded by troops, but no guards were posted inside. Resolutions adopted at the meeting demand that the cabinet break the peace treaty or resign. It was decided to bring pressure to bear on members of the lower house to con form with the resolution, threatening not to re-elect those failing to so act. The resolution also demands sweeping reform in the administration of the po lice. 'An address to the throne was also adopted, but it has not yet been published. . Colorado Cuts Speed Record. Boston, Sept. 22. The officers of the armored cruiser Colorado, which put in here today ior coal, report that in the recent trials over the new one-mile course near Rockland, M., the warship attained the fastest speed ever made by a naval crew. The cruiser made 22.22 miles an hour in a four-hour run to sea on Sunday, which is within 0.4 of the speed she made on her trial trip. ' On the Rockland test the ship carried her heavy armament, which was not on board during her trial trip, and she was run without a full firemen's force. Keep Chinese at Home. Marseilles, Sept. 22. According to mail advices received here from China, the Chinese minister at Washington, Sir Shen Tung Liang Cheng, cabled his government asking that it prevent Chinese workmen from proceeding to the United States in order to avoid pos sible maltreatment. The advices say that the government declined to accede to the request. i PACKERS PAY FINE One Is Nervous Wreck and Jail Sentence Is Remitted. GUILTY OF ACCEPTING REBATES An Aggregate Fine of $25,000 Is Paid by Four Officials of Beef Trust. Chicago, Sept. 23.' Fouij officials of the Schwarzchild & Sulzberger Packing company, ot Chicago, were fined an ag gregate of $25,000 by Judge Humphrey in the United States district court here today. The fines followed a plea of guilty to indictments charging conspir acy to accept railroad rebates. The defendants were Samuel Weil, of New York, vice president of the company; a. S. Cusey, traffic manager; Vance D. Skipworth and Chess E. Todd, assistant traffic managers. Weil was fined $10,' 000, the other three $5,000 each. With the entering of pleas the de claration was made that unless at least one of the cases is immediately settled the life of Samuel Weil, vice president of the company and one of the defend ants, is in jeopardy. He is said to be a nervous wreck, and fears were enter tained for his life if he had been al loed to continue under the stigma of an indictment. While in Chicago the attorney gene ral was apprised of the condition of Vice President Weil. ' These four defendants were charged with unlawfully combining and agree ing to solicit rebates for the Schwarz child & Sulzberger company from the Michigan Central Railway company, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, the Grand Trunk Western railway, the Lehigh Valley Railroad company, the Boston & Maine Railroad company and the Mobile & Ohio Railroad company. Charges were made that the defendants conspired with each other in presenting supposed claims for damages, which were in reality claims for rebates. BAD FAITH TO CHINA. Conger Condemns Failure to Build Railroad as Promised, 'l Des Moines, la., Sept. 23 In an address before the Grant club tonight,' ex-Minister to China Edwin H. Conger' said that by the failure of the Ameri cans to build the Chinese railway, faith had been broken ; with China, and America's good standing with the Chin ese seriously impaired. (" ""We made a very serious mistake when we permitted our railroad conces sion in China to be relinquished," said Mr. Conger, ,"It will prove a sad blow to our future efforts to establish ad vantageous businss relations with that country. It will set ; us back many years. v ( . . . .. ' " When we were granted the conces sionpersonally I made representations to the Chinese that the railroad would be built by the Americans who "got the concession, assured them upon my hon or that it was not secured for the pur pose of exploitation, and that it would not be sold or. relinquished. . Now, however,' it has been, and the business men of China feel that they have a right to look upon future business propositions from Americans with sus picion." DISAGREE ABOUT FORTS. Sweden and Norway Still Keep Ques- tion of Demolition Open. Karlstad, Sept. 23. The Swedish and Norwegians commissioners met in joint conference this evening after the holding of separate conferences during the day. The joint conference , lasted nearly four hours and was then ad journed until tomorrow. It is understood that the Swedish de mands that the transit trade through both countries shall be secured against unjustifiable obstruction, and for the right of pasturing reindeer belonging to Swedish Laplanders in Northern Norway, have been amicably settled, but that teh question of the demolition of the fortifications still remains open. May Talk Politics. St. Petersburg, Sept. 23. A project for granting the Russian people, under certain limitations, the right of assem bly for the discussion of political and economic questions a reform second in importance only to the convocation of the representative assembly, and which was elaborated by a commission under the presidency of Count Agnieff is now practically completed, and alter a final review by the Solskoy commission on Saturday will be immediately laid before Emperor Nicholas. Its promul gation 1b expected soon. . Work Begun on Western Pacific. Salt Lake City, . Sept. 23. Forty teams began work on the Western Paci fic road 20 miles west of the city, and officials announce that 1,500 or 2,000 teams will be at work by October 1. NO DELEGATE FOR ALASKA, Legislators Who Visited Territory Will Propose New Scheme. Washington, Sept. 20. Those senat ors and representatives . who visited Alaska this summer, including Speaker Cannon, were not favorably impressed with the idea of giving that territory a delegate to congress, but. have outlined a substitute plan which they will bring forward next session. They propose treating Alaska as congress treats the District of Columbia, appointing a spe cial committee in the senate and house to consider and handle all legislation relating to Alaska. This will place Alaska matters in the hands of men directly interested in the territory and, it is believed, will pro duce better : results than could be at tamed by a delegate. The committee was satisfied that na one delegate could Intelligently represent the whole of Alaska, because ot its vast extent and the varying needs of different sections, and congress would never consent to more than one delegate under any cir cumBtances. If the nlan of these men. which has the indorsement of the speaker, shall be carried through, a new committee on Alaska will be creat ed in the next senate and house..' The congressional party which visited Alaska is also convinced that congress should do as much to aid railroad building in Alaska as it has done for railroads in the Philippines,; and a a movement will be put on foot to pass a bill next session' under which the government will guarantee 3 per cent on bonds issued tor the construction of Alaskan railroads. The special pressure at present is for a road from Valdez to Fairbanks. i : FOUR TRAINS IN ONE WRECK Twenty-five People Injured and One Man Killed in Nevada. Reno, Nev., Spet. 20. Twenty-five persons at this hour (1:30 A.M.) are reported injured and one man, George Wareman, is dead, as the result of a terrible head-on collision on the South em ; Pacific road between two freight trains, followed by the rear-end collis ion between . two passenger trains, at a point nine miles west of Beowawe, be tween 6 and 7 o'clock last evening. The wreck, from the reports given out, was caused by one of the engineers on the freight trains running past his orders. An effort was made to'stop the incoming paseenger trains with sue cess for the first section of No. 3, though : moment " later the second' sec tion, said to be in charge of Engineer Koss and Fireman, Tmvillo, plunged full speed into the first section. , . The engineer and fireman are report' ed among the injured. Many more deaths are expected when complete details are in. . : Physicians, nurses and supplies, in addition to three wrecking train, are now either at the scene or rushing to it to 'render aid to the suffering. The office at Sparks will not give out any definite details. The railroad has just started a special train said to contain four, badly injured passengers for the railroad hospital at San Francisco. JAPAN SETTLING DOWN AGAIN. Capital Returns to the Banks and Is Eager for Investment. Tokio, Sept. 20. Despite the fact that the ebullition of popular dissatis faction over the' peace arrangements continues unabated, there are indica tions that the business contingent is slowly sobering down. The capital in tended for new enterprises, following the successful conclusion of the treaty of peace, ia gradually coming into the banks aa deposits in amounts which are nkely to lower the rate of interest. The profound disappointment which haa prevailed has at least proved a ben efit to the extent of saving the people from any feverish intoxication, result ing in bubble enterprises, like those which accompanied the close of the war with China. The moneyed class has resumed the attitude of frugality which guided its transactions during the war; the financial outlook is not so gloomy and capital ia impatiently awaiting solid investments. Count of Uncle Sam's Cash. Washington, Sept. 20. The count of the cash, notes, bonds and other secur ities in the treasury of the United States, incident to the transfer of the office of United States treasurer from Ellis H. Roberts to Charles H. Treat, was .completed todayj 1 and found to agree exactly with the treasury books. The total of July 1,. 1905, waa found to be $1,259,598,278. This total is an in crease of $462,672,839 over the amount transferred by D. N. Morgan, the. out going treasurer, to Mr. Roberts, on July 1, 1897. "y i More Cases In Mississippi. Jackson. Miss.. Sent. 20. A total of 11 new cases of yellow fever waa re ported from various infected nnints in the state during the last 24 hours, as follows: Vicksburg 6, Mississippi City 2, Natchez 2, Guildport 1. No deaths at any point. BETTER THAN GOLD Vast Fields ot Copper Discovered North ot Valdez, Alaska. ORE IS VERY EASY TO BE MINED Ledges On Nabesca, White and Cop per Rivers Extend for a Hundred Miles. J Tacoma, Sept. 1. Henry Brant fober, the noted copper mining expert, who arrived from the North Monday,, on the steamer Victoria, and who is now a' guest . at the Donnelly hotel, brings' news that he haB discovered at the headwaters of the Nabesca, White and Copper rivers, Alaska, what he be lieves is the world's greatest copper district. Copper is there so abundant, he says, that it can be mined and trans ported by rail 230 miles to Valdez, and smelted at a probable cost of 5 or 6 cents a pound, thereby cutting in two.' the present average cost of copper pro duction. Mining men, already aware of Mr.. Brantnober's discovery, declare that it outweighs in importance the discovery of the Klondike and Nome placer dis tricts. So important is it that Mr. Brantnober and his associates will vig orously push development work, and within two years they expect to be pro ducing daily.OOO'to 3,000 tons of cop per ore running 10 to 30 per cent in metallic copper. When this is accom- plished the industry will be only start ed. In conection with this develop ment John Rosene and associates will push the building of the Northwestern & Copper River railroad, with the ob ject ot building it to the Nabesca cop per district within three years. Ros ene's railroad will first (touch the Bo nanza group of copper mines, owned by the Havemeyers, the New York sugar refiners, who are believed to be among the Eastern moneyed men who are backing Rosene in his railroad project. Brantnober says he found the Tanana river to bo a glacial stream with half & dozen channels and everywhere very shallow. In many plaecs on the upper reaches it spreads out four or five-' fniles. Four exDert Conner minora with 40 tons of provisions were left on T1 ...... 1. - '.U ! i i! i ' imucKi uicck. Willi lllBiruuuons 10 ex plore the' 'fegiotf' thoroughly' for' the, next two years..': rJ. , ' , The ore ist -of .. the' eanie character aa Lake Superior copper eres. Nabesca ' copper is found . in bands of greenstone- in shot like shape, often; carrying 10 to- per cenp of meiallia copper., , .There is ' also he says ' much copper on the ' White river where it is in a slab-like- shape,'' arid pieces, were found running from twoHd four feet in width and two incheB thick. These slabs lay in seas-' in the greenstone, making the most wonderful surface showing Mr. Brant nober haa ever seen in this , or foreiga countries, ;.'; ' Eight miles ,further"up White river copper occurs in the same formations, nugget-shape, the ndggets running from a hall ounce to two ounces. The form ation, Mr. Brantnober says, is about 500 feet wide, with vast quantities of cop per lying at the foot of the hills, where- the greenstone has become decomposed! and the copper ore has washed down in ravines below. The gravel is full of native copper, which lies on the sur face in plain view. Mr. Bratnober saya that one year'a' vigorous development work will develop- copper mines which can produce 2,000- to 3.U00 tons ot ore per day. The ore will be hauled by railroad to Valdez and reduecd there by smelters. Tha construction of the railroad, he de clares, will quickly make it the largest copper producing district in the world, the surface showing undoubtedly the most favorable that baa ever been dis covered. The copper veins on Nabesca river are three to eight feet wide and seem very continuous. Mr ."Brantnober be lieves that both smelters and refiners--will be built at Valdez within a few years, making that the largest city or the Alaskan coast. Ca nada Under Ban. Victoria, B. C, Sept. 21. The belief is general here that the crusade against United States goods in China will be extended to those of Canadian origin. Simultaneous meetings are being held in all tqe cities of Canada where Chi nese have gained a foothold, at which resolutions have been passed condemn ing the treatment accorded Chinese by the citizena and government of the Do minion and calling the attention of the Merchants' guilds in China to the same.. The Halifax Chinese have set the ball" rolling. Many Murders at Baku. Tiflis, Sept. 21. The -governor of Baku reports that there have been no disorders on a large scale in the town or in the oil fields, but there have been scattered cases of assaults and murder.. The viceroy has placed the districts ot Gori and DusLet under military ad ministration.