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ST. HELENS, OKECJON, FIUDAY, . JA2S UAIIY 22, 1904.
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J. B.GODFREY,
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W. II. POWELL,
ATTORNEY -AT- IA W.
tmrury dutkioi ArroaHKV.
IT. MKIKN, I I OKKQON.
Dr. Edwin Ross,
Physician and Surgeon.
BT. HELENS, OREGON.
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QATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OP THE
TWO HEMISPHERES.
Comprabenalva Ravtrw of tba Import.
ant Happening of tba Paat Week,
Pra anted la Condcnasd Form, Moat
Likely to Prove Intoreatlng to Our
Many Raadar.
liryao aaya the Kana City platform
la aotind In every plank.
The czar will not yield to Japan'a
demand regarding Manchuria.
Hull Caine, the noted novclint, ia
gufferlng from a general breakdown.
liuaula fi-r America more than
Ilriuin in the proaent Far Ka titer n
trouble.
The United Mlneworkera of America
are holding their annual convention in
ImliaiiHpolia.
A hot (ln'it ia on in Ohio ltween
Haniia and Foraker aa to the Indorae
nictit of Rooaevelt. ,
A new religione nect baa aprong up
in Id ia tun. One of it" teachinK ia that
the millennium ia to come in ltil'S.
(ieorge Francia Train, author and
traveler, la dead. Heart diwam follow
ing an attack of acute nephritia was
the cause. He wag almoat 75 yearn
old.
The Chicago city council ia framing
a new theater ordinance, which ia
much more atrinirent than the prernnt
one and they will aee that it ia en
forced. I'.rilain haa abandoned tiopea of peace.
The American guard at Seoul, Corea,
baa been increaaed.
The Illinoig medical aociety will
flght the anti-lux In combine.
A month of debate ia ahead on the
Panama affair in the aenate.
The Japaneee minister at London
aye war muat come now or later.
Pure food eiperta find America ia be
ing gioaaly deceived by French wine
maker.
ltryan will isue a daily paper in St.
Ixiuig during the national Iteuiocratic
convention,
Jaiiic L. Blair, a prominent St.
Ixmia atUirney indicted for forgery,
haa d ied from worty.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilgxra aayi
America ahould wake up in the matter
of breeding fine animala.
The houae expecta to paaa an appro
priation bill a week until all aupply
meamire are out of the way.
The jury in the caae of R. II. Ken
iiU. tl. HilMn.ru. Oreiron. minister
on trial for burglary, baa returned a
verdict of not guilty.
Ex-Governor Aaa 8. Buahnell, of
Ohio, ia dead.
Tl, I'an.ina canal treaty ia aure to
be accepted by the aenate committee.
Japan'a reply to Russia's latest note
haa Wn oivon. It is a denial of every
material proposition.
ITvmi llima tnna retaliation unless
the United State removea the export
duty on Manna uenip.
Tn.lim Ft Haven haa ruled that a
Cbinoae born in this country may be
readmitted on return iroin aoroau.
A tilll haa been intrtxlticed in
congress granting pensions to all union
veterans 82 yoars of age, who served 90
dava.
The Corean press ia urging the peo
in alaiiL'Mor all foieiiriiera. The
American minister aaya he will protect
his people.
Htnn aii almost entirely
.in. iv, '"' l .
destroyed by the fire a few days ago.
Alter 11 was lltotlglll lo lie unuer cuiiirui
ll airaln bnke forth. Only one business
houae of any consequence ia left. The
loss ia placed at iaou.wu wun no,-
000 Insurance.
There ia great flood of Alaskan blils
In congress.
The Ohio legislature has re-elected
Senator Ilanna.
I A gang of Italian robbers haa been
' caught at Irrlgon, Oregon, with much
loot.
Ex-Governor Bushnell, of Ohio, is
very low and bia death may occur at
any time.
Germany has informed Britain that
she ia ready to conclude a commvrical
treaty with Canada.
American ships will maintain a close
watch and prevent any landing of Co
lombian troops on Panama soil.
I Ex-Congressman Priggs, of New
York, haa been flued $10,000 and given
one day in Jnil for accpeting a bribe.
I JVemoir Balfour's statement that
I BriUin will carry out its trade treaty
obligations la deeply resented by Ktts
1 .i.
The senate engaged in a warm discus
sion over a resolution looking to arbi
tration of Colombia's claims against
Panama.
The national Democratic committee,
in session at Washington, indorsed the
1005 fair. The national convention to
select a candidate for president will
meet in St. Louis July 6.
The Iowa legislature ii in session.
A new cabinet has been formed in
Chile.
Three more war vessels are on the
way to Panama.
Ex-Governor John Young Brown, of
Kentucky, ia dead.
BfJI OHM FOR RUSSIAN PEASANTS.
Cxar Takaa a Step That la Bound About
With Restrictions.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 20. Minister of
the Interior I'luhve has completed the
draft of the pesHniit code, or scheme,
for the peasant reforms ordered in the
czar s recent manifesto, and it will
probably lie sent to the local commit
tees throughout the empire within a
few days.
Members of the nobility in each
province and district will be allowed to
elect representatives on these commit
tees, but the Zemxtvos (elective provin
cial assemblies, composed of landed
proprietors and representatives of the
artisan and peasants) will be appointed
by the governors.
The committee will be allowed free
dom to discuss the project and propose
any changes therein, except ou three
points, which the emperor has reserved
from discussion. Namely: That the
peasant clans must remain entirely sep
arate, legally, from the other classes;
that the commune is to remain un
touched by legislation, and that the
peasant lands are to remain inalien
able. These points stamp the forthcoming
legislation as const-native in the main,
but the present chaos is so great end so
much room is left for the arbitrary
conduct of the lice and the local rep
resentatives of the ministry of the in
terior, as well as of the peasant courts
and administrative machinery and
their commune town meetings that the
liberals declare any codification would
be in the line of progress.
The ministerial project proposes to
retain the system of corporal punish
ment, but the emperor did not include
this atflong the matters not subject to
change. The emperor regards the
preservation of the peasant class, the
retention of the economic commune and
the Inalienability of peasant lands as
necessary for the protection of the peas
ants from exploitation.
MANCHURIA TrlE I5SLB.
Japanese Demands Cannot Be Oranted
, by Russia.
St. Petersburg. Jan. 20. The Asso
ciated Press correspondent on high
authority, is able to give the following
as the present status of negotiations be
tween Russia and Japan:
Russia recognizes Japan's predomi
nance in Corea and Japan recognizee
Russia's special position in Manchuria.
There are two main questions still
al irsue, the Russian demand for a
neutral zone upon the Corean side of
the Yalu river, which Japan met with
a proposal for a similar neutral strip
on the Manchurian side. Japan also
auks for certain guarantees covering
Manchuria, which Russia bos tbns far
declined to grant. It is pointed out,
however, that the assurance given a few
days ajjo by Russia regarding open
ports in Manchuria and respect lor
treaty rights is a concession on this
point.
That the two countries are not so far
apart may tie fairly inferred from the
following statement made by Mr. Kur
ino, the Japanese minister to the Asso
ciated Press correspondent:
"War now would only be disastrous
to both countries. Owing to the geo
graphical situation, an armed conflict
wou!d result in a great drain on the
man and treasury of both Japan and
Russia, without being derisive. Be
sides, I believe it would not lie worth
while to go to war on the questions
still in dispute."
NOT A JUNKETING TRIP.
Senatorial Subcommittee Had Llgbt Ex
penses la Honolulu Inspectloa.
Washington, Jan. 20, Accounts ren
dered to the senate by Senator Mitchell
show that the subcommittee which vis
ited Hawaii in the summer of 1902 ex
pended only $3,039 in gathering and
formulating data and information for
the benefit of the senate. .
This would scarcely justify the as
sertion that the trip of the subcommit
tee on territories was a "junket," for,
considering the distance traveled and
the amount of information collected, it
is, without a doubt, one of tho cheap
est investigations ever conducted by a
subcommittee from congress.
But of the total amount $540 was
paid out as steamship fare for the mem
bers of the party from San Francisco to
Honolulu and return, and $1,020 was
disposed of in settling the hotel account
at Honolulu.
Mother ol Captain Hobson.
Boulder, Colo., Jan. 20. The moth
er of Cuptniu Richmond P. Hobson
liotl at the home of Shirley lavls to-
dav alter a long niness. tier son was
with her when she died and will leave
with the remains tomorrow for Greens
boro, Ala., where they will be interred.
Sarah Croon Pearson was born at Rich
mond Hill, N. C, February 24, 1843,
and for tho past 20 years she had been
a sufferer from dyspepsia. She came
to Boulder last summer and has since
remained'here on account of the benefit
to her health.
To Look Alter Emlgranta.
Rome. Jan. 20. The United States
continues to be the chief objective
point of Italian emmigration, tho num
ber of emigrants going there in 1903
reaching a total of nearly 250,000.
The government has entrusted Adolfe
Rossi with a mission to the United
States for the purpose of studying with
the United States industrial commis
sion the best means of directing Ital
ians to agricultural Btates and prevent
ing their concentration in large towns.
Turks Massing Troops.
Salonica, European Turkey, Jan. 20.
An important concentration of Turk
ish troops has begun at Ku ma nova, on
the road leading to the Bulgarian
frontier.
HAPPENINGS HERE IN OREGON j
WANT FIRST TIP. I OWNERSHIP IN DOL81. I
Landgrabberg Heretofore Have Had Ad
vantage of Leak.
Salem "Give the state the first tip"
was one request the state land board
made of the department of the interior
through GifTord Pinchot and r. It.
Newell, when they consulted at Port
land a few days ago.
As representatives of the president
Messrs. Pinchot and Newell asked the
members of the state land board to
meet them and express their opinion
regarding local land matters in Oregon
Among, other things the members of
the board explained the manner in
which speculators have gobbled up
state lands in Oregon in advance of the
creation of reserves. The state wants
a chance to keep these lands.
In almost every instance in which
the department of the .interior has
withdrawn land from entry for the pur
pose of making a forest reserve, it has
been found that some private capital
ists had in some way secured informa
tion as to what would be done, and then
bought up the state land at $ 1 .25 per
acre. As soon as a reserve had been
created the land became worth $4 to
$5 an acre as base for the selection of
lien land.
The members of the board explained
to the representatives of the Federal
government that if a forest reserve is
to be created, the state would likt to
be in 'ormed as soon as any one else, so
that the state land could also be with
drawn, and the state profit by whatever
rise there might be in the value of toe
land. The state does not ask to be in
formed in advance of every one else as
to what the department intends to do,
but the board wants to receive the first
information that is given out, at the
same time that others receive it.
The conference between the state land
board and Messrs. Pinchot and Newell
was a very pleasant one and resulted in
a better understanding between the rep
resentatives of the state land and fed
eral land departments. The men from
Washington learned more regarding
the needs and wishes of the state, and
the Oregon authorities gained informa
tion concerning the plans and purposes
of the government.
There were mutual assurances of co
operation in land matters with a view
to the accomplishment of the best re
sults.
Beet Lands Near Echo.
Echo Three representatives of the
Amalgamated sugar company were here
last week and inspected the land ad
jacent to this place to see if it was
suitable for the culture of sugar beets.
They were more tban satisfied with the
prospects, and before leaving town ar
ranged for a mass meeting ol farmers
tube held here at 2 P. M., Saturday
January 23. They will endeavor to
get the farmers each to put in a small
crop, and where satisfactory terms can
be arranged the company will lease
land to plant to beets.
Olves Names ol State Officer.
Salem Secretary of State Dunbar
has recently compiled and bad pub
lished a small pamphlet entitled:
Official Directory, State of Oregon."
It contains the names of all state
olficers, members of state boards, com
missioners, officers of state institutions,
and schools, and also a list of ail
county officers. Many request are re
ceived for information such as ia given
in this pamphlet and by means of it
the secretary of state can promptly
answer all such requests.
Congers Killing Cattle.
Eugene Farmers in the vicinity of
I e-ane are annoyed more than usual
this winter by cougars, and a number
of instances have been reported where
stock has been killed by them. The
animals are very sly and can rarely be
seen, but frequently they are heaid in
the evening very near the settlements.
Last week Dr. Tetric went out from
Cottage Grove with his hounds and
succeeded in killing one very fine
8)ecimen. There have been several
chases without results.
Noticeable Increase In Fees.
Corvallis A considerable increase in
revenue will result from the new law
affecting the fees in the county re
corder's office. The office in Benton
carries a salary of $1,000, and last
year the fees aggregated $1,014. A
mortgage filed the other day cost $3.50
that under the old law would have cost
but $1.70. For another the fee was
$3.25, instead of $1.60. It is esti
mated that the increase of fees will
make the office pay a net profit of $500
to $1,000 per year.
Excellent Outlook lor Wheat.
Pendleton Not in years have the
farmers been as jubilant over existing
conditions for the coming wheat crop.
There are indications that the crop of
1904 will be one of the largest ever pro
duced in this Beet ion of the Blue moun
tain country. There has hardly been a
day of weather all this winter that was
injurious to the growth ol grain. Th
most springlike weather prevails, and
with the occasional rains fall sown
wheat has been growing steadily.
Work n State Printer's Office.
Salem State Printer Whitney has
just completed the task of setting up
and running off 1,500 copies of the gen
eral laws, as enacted by the special
session of the legislature. The book is
composed of only 50 pages. He is
now ready to go to work on the special
laws, which will make about 200 pages.
The journals of the two branches of the
session will not be ready for the printer
for about two months.
Joba Day Property Claimed Both as
Mineral aod Timber Land.
John Day F. C. Knapp, a wealthy
lumberman of the firm of Knapp dt
Brewer, is in town making an attempt
to settle the question of ownership of
several claims in the Black Butte group
of mines. Ife has held a conference
with the manager of the mine, Ed C.
Allen, of Portland, but no settlement
has so far been reached.
The land in question ia just outside
of the forest reserve lines, 15 miles
north of John Day, and has been held
partly as quartz and partly as placer
mining ground, lor a number of years.
The npper workings of the main lead
were worked out a few years ago, bnt
the ground was patented. The outside
claims were represented in yearly as
sessment work by the group system of
development, and as some of them
were heavily timbered, they were
scripped by the Knapp Brewer com
pany under the direction of Cruiser
Johnson.
Notwithstanding the fact that many
thousands of quartz and placer gold
have been taken from these claims, Mr.
Allen says that an affidavit of their
nonmineral character was made when
scrip was placed on the land.
A number of wealthy Pendleton cap
italist are stockholders in the mining
company, and it is understood that
United States District Attorney Hall is
investigating the matter. Work on
the property will be actively resumed
should the company 'a title be confirmed.
Want a Parcels Post Law.
Oregon City The quarterly meeting
of the Clackamas county Pomona
grange was held at Oswego last week.
There was an attendance of 150 mem
bers, and there were 20 initiation.
Officers elected for the ensuing year
were installed, the ceremony being con
ducted by Mrs. Niblin, of Evening Star
grange, of Multnomah county. Resolu
tions addressed to the state's represen
tatives in congress were adopted asking
for the passage of the parcels poet law
and also for the creation of postal
notes.
Poultry Show a Great Saccca.
Albany The annual poultry show
of the Central Willamette Valley Poul
try association was the most successful
in the history of the valley poultry
growers. More people attended and
more birds were exhibited than hereto
fore. Many targe offer were made for
prize winning birds, and some were
sold at good figure. These will form
a nucleua for new yards, which will in
turn increase the percentage of blooded
chicken raised in the country.
Big Flow Order.
La Grande A shipment of 10 cars of
flour has just been made from the flour
mills of La Grande and Island City to
Tacoma, from whence they will be sent
to Japan. This ia only a small portion
of the order received and before the
order is completed fully 103 car will
be shipped.
Penitentiary Fill Up Faat.
Salem The report of Superintendent
C. W. Jamea, of the Oregon peniten
tiary, for the quarter ending December
31, show an increase in the number of
prisoner from 289 to 311. There were
received during the quarter, 63; dis
charged, 39; transferred to the asy
lum, 2.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Walla Walla, 7374c; blue
Btem, 7980c; valley, 7S80c.
Barley Feed, $20 per ton; brewing,
$20(320.50; rolled, $21.
Flour Valley, $3.753.85 per bar
rel; hard wheat straights, $3.90(34.10;
clear, $3.55(33.75; hard wheat pat
ents, $4.20(34.50; graham, $3.75;
whole wheat, $4; rye flour, $4.50(3
4.75.
Oats No. 1 white, $1.07i1.10;
gray, $1.05(31.07 per cental.
Millstuffs Bran, $17.50(918 per ton;
middlings, $26; shorts, $19(319.50;
chop, $18; linseed, dairy food, $19.
Hay Timothy, $17 per ton ; clover,
$13; grain, $13; cheat, $13.
Vegetables Turnips, 65c per sack;
carrots, 75c; beets, 90c; parsnips, 85c
$1; cabbage, llVc; red cabbage,
1 Sc ; parsley, per dozen, 25c; toma
toes, $ 1.50c 2 per crate; cauliflower,
75c$l per dozen; beans, 12c; celery,
75c per dozen; pumpkins, lc per
pound.
Potatoes Fancy, 75(380c per sack;
common, 50 60c; sweets, 2V4C in
sacks; 2 He in crates.
Onion Yellow Danvers, $1(31.10
per sack; Fannos, $1.10(31.15.
Honey $3(33.50 per case.
Fruits Apples, fancy Baldwin and
Spitzenbergs, $1.60 per box; cooking,
75c8$l pears, $1(31.50 per box;
grapes, $1.50.
Butter Fancy creamery, 27M30c;
dairy, 2022c; store, 12Hc per
pound.
Cheese Full cream, twins, 14015c;
Young America, 1516c.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, ll(311Hc
per pound; springs, small, 13(31 4c;
hens, 11(312; turkeys, live, 1718c;
dressed, 20c; ducks, $77.50 per doz
en; geese, live, 8c per pound.
Eggs Oregon ranch, 2627c per
dozen; Eastern, 22323c.
Hop Choice, 2627c per pound;
prime, 25; medium, 22c.
Wool Valley. 17(3 18c; Eastern Ore
gon, 12(Jll5c ; mohair, 82(3 35c.
Beef Dressed, 67ic per pound.
Mutton Dressed, 697c; lambs, 7!jc.
Veal Dressed, 7(39c.
Pork Dressed, 66Kc
ON THE SIDE OP PAIR.
House Committee Unanimous la Favor of
I00S Expoaltlou.
Washington, Jan. 19. The hearing
before the house committee on interna
tional cipo.it ions today developed tha
fact that the committee is in favor of
rarrwrnlelno' IIia .1 r l
n ' n -vwn.aau. viaia expo
sition by government participation,
; and an appropriation, which will aid
1 in commemoriating the wonderful .
dition of the explorer wbo made tha
wonderful overland Journey to the Pa
cific Northwest.
Chairman Tawney of the committee
said after the hearing:
"The Lewis and Clark expedition
was of mfficient importance to warrant
a celebration and the participation of
the gorernment of the United State."
Thii program now is to have the Ore
gon exposition committee, the delega
tion and a subcommittee of the house
committee confer and draft a bill
which will meet the approval of tha
boose committee and secure a report
upon it at an early day.
It is fully understood that to secure
favorable action in the bonse the bill
must conform to the idea of the com
mittee and though uch a bill may not
be all that i wanted, it ia desirable to
get a report and action by the house a
soon aa possible. Rnnrwni.il..
Tawney will consult the state depart
ment regarding the form of the bill in
reference to foreign exhibit. He haa
taken hold of the matter in earnest and
at the hearing tnrlaw K rnrnann t I a. a
Williamson thanked him for the inter
est he had shown.
The Oregon men feel that substan
tial progree haa been made by the
meeting today. The Portland commit
tee find it nereaaarr. in via nf .u-
suggestion and deelopmenta, to remain
in n ssningron a wnue longer, In order
to confer with the house subcommittee
upon the draft of another bill.
RUSSIA CANNOT YIELD.
Reply of Japaa Contains Several On
Jectleaabls Features.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 19. It is almost
practically certain that Russia will not
accept Japan's last proposal aa an en
tirety. Russia ia ready to agree to
certain points, but on others, the for
eign office believe Russia cannot yield.
The officials believe that the way ia
open for continuing the negotiations,
and there is no indication that Russia
will seek to delay her answer! which
probably will be ready in a few day.
The czar conbtinue to ' talk peace
and the dowager czarina, in rnnwam.
tion, remarked: "War ia a horrible
thing. There will be no war."
In the meantime. Virwmv AWi.fr
and Baron de Rosen, as well as the for
eign office, are studying the Japanese
document. Army and navy circle con
tinue peasimitic. The best feature of
mo situation is tne tact thai tbe Jap
anese reply haa in no tense tbe char
acter of an ultimatum. It is couched
in pacific terms, does not fix a time
limit, and the araenranr h pnia
certain of the proposition therein
mark an advance toward a settlement.
HOSPITAL SHIPS PREPARED.
Red Cross Charters Tww Vasaala of tba
Nippon Line.
Victoria. B. C. Jan. 19. Advice
were brought by the steamer Toss Mara
that the Red Cross hospital ships Ka-
kuai Maru and Koeai Mara, chartered
from the Nippon Yusen Kaisha line,
are now ready for service in the event
of war. Vladivostok harbor has been
frozen over In this connection the
Hochi of Tokio say a telegram has re
ported that four vessels have been
caught in the ice and will hold all
'inter.
A Seonl corresDOnrlnnt aan tha wt
of the Russian minister has become
very influential at the Russian court
and that, owing to this influence, the
Russian minister has been enabled to
make a com doc t with tha Cnraan am.
perorer whereby he may take refuge at
me nusaian legation in tne event 01
war and issue all administrative order
from the Russian legation.
Ran Down by Farmers.
Paola, Kan., Jan. 19. Two men giv
ing their names as Charles Gorney,
aged 29, of St. Paul, Minn., and
Thomas Borers, aged 30, of Butte,
Mont., who are suspected of attempting
to rob the bank of Cleveland, Mo., and
of blowing open the safe of the Mis
souri, Kansas & Texas station with
nitroglycerin, wrecking the safe and
the interior of the station of Louisburg
last night, were surrounded and cap
tured here today by a posse of 300 farm
ers and members of the anti-horsethlef
association.
Porte Plata la Captared.
Cape Haytien, Jan. 19. The govern
ment troops which disembarked recent
ly at Sosoua were yesterday ordered to
march on Porto Plata. A brisk attack,
supported by the guns of a Dominican
war vessel, began in the evening.
This morning operations were resumed
and the government troop entered
Porto Plata, causing the flight of Gen
eral Deschamps, who took refuge in the
United States consulate. The British
cruiser Pallas has landed marines.
Coal-Breaker Burned.
Scranton, Pa., Jan. 19 The Ollphant
breaker and washery of the Delaware
& Hudson company, at Oliphant, was
destroyed by fire today. The loss 1
$110,000.