The Oregon mist. (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.) 188?-1913, October 04, 1907, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text; HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1007. : TO. 43. N .V r C IK " ' ' II I '" LINK OF ROCK ISLAND. I M-M mm -aura m esse- m w " T SI IB l 3APFEKKC3 CF 113 CPHXERTS A Keevrow of ! Um Important but Kol Use tnterttnf Iventa eftho Past Week. Hwedan ha Issued ohalUng (ur Ui Aincrk cup. ui. ruihlUiiaia Ihrounhotit tha eminlry ars damandlog tbs removal of the tariff on paper, Criminal nrneceullos mV fallow th ttenmt (o kidnap Fremont Older, of ' .. .. .1 ..I- Ul MO f imicirdv wuitmn. Fvldencs has boon offered In tb Han Fraiwtwjo Kft ease to hoW t t Rtutl, ford and Mullalw often bsld confer- UM. Tli Oieol Northarn has a (torksdt II iady fur eulksbteaker who are to take th nlaoes of moo et Uie II lllyarU, Wah., aiiop. Thsr ai lgn of onMlnM In many parts of Cat. Troop are el moat eotitntly pursuing outlaw ami strike hv tied 00 tb railroads. Tuft promises to explain to Japan why ths Atlantic fiit If coming to th faclUe , II ran also Strang e settle ment of lb Irumlgralluu quswtloa. Harvey K. Hroo, of Baker City, et. tbtnfl o Baker eoonty, fa Hit victim ol t murderous aawtult which im al mml e durll-Ul Jhs attack which killtd -UovrOf Meunnlnr, of Idaho, II may recover. OM tor Bin ere believed 4o b the perpetis low, ferrttery Toll has arrived In J pan. Germany'f Influence la Turkey U growing, Rudyard Kipling Ii at Montreal, Canada, and will visit lbs Paclne reaat. li)rn will Mnoonoo lilt candidacy for pieeidental nomination oo th JVm. oristie ticket DoMMitbtt 7. A H Ms man who had been boonJ by tht emirt oat to boot hi wits htrwJ rMhet man to do It for bln. Mi. aula, Moot., ki Mt4 ko b th only Uxri lufl oo tho Noitlwro rlfic bcra iho hultiiokrt' itrlk la full. On of lha dummjr kxotart . nard In tha I laho lanM frou4a tat bo 8II on lb ipiarniuat hod J tut 10 ctoinniO da la a lilaod. Han Franclaro (fmbira kldnapod tha warwg ng editor of too flullrtln, who la boatii 10 than. It wot Mn bourt blra ha waa raacood. Through tha awralawnfa of an opar lot lu throw Bwtteo paaaanirai train oo tha Itatlliruora A Ohio vraaliad Into Iraigl.t train at Holla Ira, W. Va. Fit Uwi man wort blllad aod acor Injur ad, aaverol UUlly. . Tha AaUtlo oquadraa ha anlrad at Ban Fraiiolaco. Thvra haf tan o troall ootbraak of Bowrlam lo Chin. , Tha atrika of railroad boiler maker aaama to hare bran broken. There bate' been rmnr daathiand much inin from floode In Hpeln. Judge Wiokaraliam, of Alaaka, Iw laalgnad and will glee up the light. Tb I)p Waterway! commieelon hai Urtod down the Miaaleaippl from Pan? . - , About J.SOO eoal miner In Mon tana have rooolved an lnoriwae In wga, An entire Vnra In Japan hai boon drtmrd b the overBowIng of a river and Out) lUe ket. Hmnore ere eorreol In New York that railroad ielesiapher may aoon iln lo the atrlke with the ooruumrclal man. " Kpuiientatlve Lorntle of Illlnola, may be appointed chairman ol the bouan oonimlttee on river nod harbor In place of Burton, who baa letlgned to take a place On the waterway commie aluo. ,. .. ; , . , . I.I'ton will tend new ohellenge tor Ue Amarlra'a cap. , , Tha Japaiirxe govfrnmant I erttllng lb Vauooover trouble with Cnnada di rect. . ' .:' P. II, McCarthy hai been nonilnateil for mayor by the fion Vranolaoo Labor Py-A. : ,: sv'!: '" Th llarrlman and Flh faotlon an Rln flghtlni over the Illlnol Central railway. . ,.;., ,, A goner itrlke on tbe lallwkyi of Havana ha atatted and may apread thronghout the lelnnd. U I reported that the Federal grand jo'y In Han Franoiaoo ha found all lodiotmttnta agalnat the Southern Pa "'Bo and PaciBo Malt Bteainablp com Pny for giving rebate. Chicago' new ordinance covering treetcM line will add 1,850,000 yr to (he ineome ol that elty. I ! HlmaUd thai Joln D. Booke idler baa given to yarlona Inatitutlona, P'lnolpally eol.ege 1108,066,000. Tbe Indiana Pin. llna a luil,llar "I the Standard Oil, mad a profit of ".vwi.uim in NMffl on a total lnvet ""nU of a.Jgg.TOS. HearKt aay he hae no Idea of telng " nui(ut for president In 1V0S. Tlgraj,hr Want to Oall Out Laatad Wire Men. CMoago, Oct. l.-Mre aggreaalve warmre agaliiat the commercial tolo graiib rointianliia U Ulnu r,i....i i .. tbeatrlklngoporatora. At llwlr meet- rig uxuy Chairman Like announecd tliat vlthln a lew day the comtllr -Uu. rr,,H uiai uiry were In a leal flghl. Th auggmllon fiotn New York that all operator working laed wlrne be callrd uil wavloro.wlyapplaiidl. Iriidnt Uu all, bo l.-ft the clly iilday night wlih a lot of dKimiutry evldnnr againat the telegraph comn Iro, wa In Weahlnglon loly on a e cret mtaalon. ft leaked out th.t th vlalt Huiall made to HI, Ix.ula Thuraday waa for the purtKate of meeting Com mlanloner of Ubr Naltl, who wa In lhat clly al th time. It la aald Dial Comittiaaionnr Nrlll U relutUnl to lake up the trouble until It la dnHnitv. Iv draldwl who hae power to act! le lor the opeiaU. Ho lar each city haa been bmklng after tti own atrlke, and no one haa been eniowered to pmptaw ternt of rnare. Commlaaloner Ntlll 1 aald to he ready to call on the cumpanlwi provid ed be I given aaauianoe tliat any ret tlement he may make will be accepted by tbe men on atrlke. Ii la laid lhat within a lew daye a vote of the varlon anion will be taken to place the entire aural ion of a aettlenmit In the l.nn.l. of the national exerutlr xmri. WANT HOME RULE. Vote at Aleak Prlmarl Wa Prac tically Unanlmoue, fteattle, Wa.1... Oct. 1. Bringing with him lindane of anytlilng Oovi-rnoi Willnrd Ii. Ilnggatt aald to tbe cootie, ry, Tom tiale, lung term delegate to tbe national congreee from Alaa ka, arrived in town t"day from Nome on hard the eUmmahlp Aotthweatrrn. Uale la eniiuialia in de claring thai 00 per cent ol the retident of the north Und are aniioo for home rule and are atanding on their demand for aome aort of llalion by the na tional lawmaker whireby Alaaka aba II be Ireol Irom tbe chain allien, now hantwr her piugreiM. tial bat oven all over the territory and haa kept In touch with the poli tician and with the eiliieii., Tbe prlma'liw were juat over alien Uale led Nome, a ad he ray that tbe majority caat for borne rule wa practically unanlmou. He haa with him a rough draft of a bill whkdi will be Introduced Into the neat conge by United Htata Henalor Samuel 11. Pile and which, it la hopet1, will become a law. If It doe It I calculated to remove the legiala live awaddling from Alaaka. While lVlfkete Hale doe not go Into detail regarding tbe claim of Uover not Ilwatt, he went ao far aa to aay that the governor' oft repealed aeeer- tlona regarding Ute antipathy to home nil In AUwka are creature of hia own dralrc. and ol the dolree of the big mining iuiereata, twaid whom Hover nor llcggalt ia dec land to be extremely friendly. BROWN AFTER VENGEANCE. Calhoun' Attorney Alone Instrumental In Kidnaping of Older. Ran Vranrlaoo. (VI. 1. The alleged attempt to kidnap Fremont Older could not truthfully u maue to app-r u i.... K.n muUr thoee defimding them- atlv from chaigre of biliary, accord ing to Patrick Calhoun, ol the uuiteu ftatlil cotnny. "The fact are," aald Mr. Calhoun, ih-k Me. l.nihr Brown, who I a law- ... ..I tia Aiimlea. and one of the aaao- elate eounael of mv defenae. wa attack ed by the Bulletin, which printea an infamou ttry concerning own . -nrl l.tn with an alleged attempt to kid nap e-Hnperiaor Lonergan. 'Mr. Hiown wor out a warrant In Lrei Angele txwnty and had ine war rant appioved by Judge Cook, f Ban Frenaleco county, viuer w a. i ....i . .tbunot wa made to II .. . - - - . , tka him lo l Angele. It wa but nordlniyrret." It la further polnteo oiu ny ruwu fiienda that II I l.rf.ly obvloii Uiat i, ...i.i ,, in faille to have at tempted the arraignment of Older In 8an Kranoleoocotmly In view of th cMrelallonlling between Older and Uie proaecutln, ollicial of Bau rrnclco wunty- . Great Dlalr in Spain. i iv.f. 1 Tim ercateat .. L. I..M. la nrnvHlttlll a a (liaurer vi'ij" - . reanlt of the atorm and I; uoi to of bat week The government wiin uii"v la preventing fainlahcl people aeialng and eating decayed loodatuffa thai have lwHn thrown out by the Many twllM hv found In the nwdf A band Of Immigrant, which had oncamped on the uay awaiting a ate.merba.not been .eon. In, and it I feared all wore hwt. The damage done U placed at W.SOO.OOO. Fifteen hundred itowit were ruined. Would Rfua to Go Back. 1 Thnmaa M. Plef- .ou. Kaatern vice prealdent of the Ot lof'of Mallwar TeFegrapbera. .ddred meeting of commercial telegraph op- work penaing aioi"-vi refuae. , Mexico to Greet Root. . rv-t. l. The Mexico uuy, . , a omolal mn-ptlon m"tJ Ti.it that will be .jH'nt In the Interior. II ' ' " " HI ', ' OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST 8TATk'8 POSITION STRONG. Altomay General Crawford Confident of Talephone Cat. Rl-m .Attorney General Crawford atiitn that be I pMpailng tbe brief for the atata In I La flul.t cldc Hlate Telephone couiainy In re- unr i io uie gioa earuiiiga ol the corn pan r In which the tulcnluma attack the conatltutionality ot tbe vmiiuii inniaiive law. "I do not fear for the etate' por tion In till malLnr." aal.l Mr. t'raa.. lord. "Th Initiative waa enacted elm- piy a a corrective and doe not deatioy the reureaolitatlva form of of the atata conatitulion. Tbe tele- piwne company ba undoubtedly pre- Darad ita .Irnnunat anil I will atnrk along the llnca which I have Juat ctaled ao rar a l can tell al preaent. "lb rufuretUM In Ita MBAra fllml h the company to the election of United Hlate collator by direct legislation wa done .imply to Involve tbe Federal law lit. ..; a .a wnn view vo carrying me case to tlie United Htatea Hnorema aourtahould tim Itate be ucceifui In ita fight agalnit the telephone company In the state oourla." Money In Clover Seed. Albany Local dealer are building up a lufirative bnainea In handling the clover teed produced by th grow ot till section. Carter 4 Bobton, of thl city, bav made a .peclalty in op plylng lyk and red clover teed to one ot the largeet teed concern In Wiacon ain. Hhould it be poaalbl to obtain the cart, a total of 140,000 pounda will have been tent to Milwaukee by th end of thl week. Th local dim teeka to purchase sufficient aeed lo make out a ahipment of seven carload with total valuation of about 126,000. Thia open up a new market for th elover aeed raised lu thia section and will have a tendency to strengthen the local market and bring the top price to tbe valley grower. It ia eald that the upply I not equal to the demand and lhat a lucrative buainea await grow er who will specialis In tbe growing of clover for sued put pose. Freighting at Klamath. Klamath Fella An average ot 150, 000 pound of freight every Ave day 1 being hauled into Klamath Fall by tha J. M. Mclntyre Traxwportatlun company. Other Iielgtiter are carry ing smaller amount. Tb mercliaut are stocking up tor winter trade, a tb freight late srs higher during lit bad roads season. The Mclntyre company it keeping 13 team on the road, each making a round trip every fire days. AfUr October 1 the freight will be un loaded at Keno, 18 miles down the river from Klamath Fall, and bronght up on the (learner Klamath. While tbe haul from tbe end of the track of the California Northeastern railway to navigable water, and thence by boat to Klamath Fella, wonld be eaaier thau (he present one It it not likely that there a 111 be any cliange in me present. route until spring. Hermiaton Want Experiment Station. Pandlvton Whether or not an expe rimental slntion will be established at H.-rmintrin nndttr tbe Urination project now seems to lie in the band of tbe hoard ot regent ot the Agricultural col Knil tha membeia will be here In a hort time for the purpose of Investi gating the matter, it win wen do up fa lha rtaann la ot lha initiation Section a.,J of Um ivinnt la show the neoce- sity for the branch station In order to secure it. Rush for Lake Lands lllaA vnah la belnff made from this part of the atata to the north ern part of Lake county, where the 1 . . Ml t I Fremont lore reeerve win im upon a i... I-. rv.tnl CB. Tha land .office ofUelal are anticipating great crowd of entry men wnen uie omvo uiu ou Mm. rwinln are mil off tire rjared to slay on the land and attempt to get squatters' rights. Every means of con veyance will be pressed Into aervice. Railway Neara Completion. Pnn,it..ir,n Tinik lavlne on the Umatilla Central, the branch line ol the 0. K. A N. running lo fllol hoc, m iia Hlatiint from Pendleton, ia progreanlng rapidly, and it I under- etood mat trie line win uo nuuiin within six week' time. Thl will mean much for the I'llot Koca oouuiry. Hopplckar Dig Beet. Ta ft ramie A large force of Japan ee are now harvesting the beet In Grand Konde. Met of these ate fr.)m the bop field In the wiuameuo tl lay. The fields will be dotted with beet digger After a week' work the La Grande factory will be started for the fall run. Inquire Into 8. P. Shortage. r 1 Tl. .... In MlluraW Minimi. tsiflin-um kwi. - - . i J . I ,l I InuaaMtratjl nil Its gton na umm ... .v.r - -own motion the car slux ago on the Motilhem lacino. m hearing be. not Won aet exactly, but it will probably be aboat OotoberTO'. Pottoffiee Called Harrlman. t.i ...n in A Tumtnfnoe ha been ea- te.bllahel in Harney county near Low- en. The now omoe ia uu mo iiui. Buraa-Ontarlo railway line and has been named Harrlman by the Postoflioe department. Sturgeon Welgha 610 Pounds. Astotla One ot the largest sturgeon i.t in iia Cniiimhla river waa brought to Bchmldt'l cold ttorage plant few day ago. u weigueu w nd wa caught In a Baker' bay trap. SIGN UP FOR ARID LANDS. Agreement Reached ' for Closlig Up Deal In Crook County. Balero Without yielding a single point In the condition, the state land board ha reached an agreement with J. E. Morrison, president of the Dea chuta Land eomrieny, and the new contract lor the original Oregon Devel opment company' segregation of 81, OuO acre of arid land In Crook county ba been fully signed and sealed. Tbe new contract, which giant an increaae of lien price per acre to $30, provide that the land shall be reclaimed and tbe ytem turned over to tbe Water Users' association within five years and free from incumbrance.- Tbe company entered objection to several of the most material condition, all of which were overruled, and the contract waa accepted practically In toto. Fine Showing at University, University of Oregon, Eugene Tb University of Oregon opened It dome Tuesday, September 24. The first and second day' registration haa shown an increase of more than 20 per ceot over tbe registration of the same time last year. , Almost every high school ind academy in tbe state ia represent ed, and a large number are presenting credential from Eastern preparatory schools. Tbe year will mark the high est point In enrollment that tbe uni versity has yet reached. The very ser ious question that is presenting Iteelt I bow to take core ot all student. The lack of fund ha made it Impossible to furnish and heat all of the rooms in the library building, and for the same reason, tbe new girl' dormitory will have to lie idle tor the year. Students, however, are adjusting . themselves readily to the conditions, and the out look for the year's work 1 exception ally good. , Rich Strike In QuartzvUI. Albany A rich ledge of quarts has been discovered in the Quartsvllle min ing district by Giant Llndley, a resi dent ot Lebanon. Llndley came out of the moon tains thia week with samples of some remarkably rich ore, but aald little about tbs mine, as he had not yet filed his notices of location. He has now returned to the lite for that puipot. . Tbe samples of ore Llndley found have not yet been essayed, bnt the discoverer expects it to prove richer than anything yet found in the Quarts villa country, and says be has plenty ot tbe ore. Many After Timber Land. Klamath Falls A section of forest reserve land near Klamath Ft III ia to be opened at an early date and already many locators are ready for the rueh to the toll timber. . Several parties are expected thia week from Michiagn and Wisconsin expecting to secure claim, aud it 1 aald that nearly every section ot tb state is already represented here. There is but little interest locally, al though It is said tbe claims are excep tionally good ones. Rhodes Man Win Distinction. . i University ot Oregon, Eugene Har vey Pensmore, the well known Rhodes scholarship student,1 who went to Ox ford from the University o! Oregcn, has returned and ha accepted a position at the University ot Washington as an in structor in the classics. He outranked manv ol th beet English echoltrs in branches especially affected by their learned men. FORI LAND MARKETS. Whuet Clnb, 83c; bluestem, 85e; valley, 82c; red, 81c Gate No. 1 white, f 25!6.60; gray, $24.60(325. Barley Feed, 2324 per ton; brew tag. 2tt27; rolled, 2BI. . Corn Whole, $31; cracked, S2. Hay Valley timothy, Mo. 1, $17 18 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, 119(420; clover, $11; oheat, $11; grain hay, $U12 alfalfa, $1213. - Frails Apples, $ll.75 per box; oantaloupee, 78c$t.50 per crate; peaches, 86c$1.10 per crate; prunes, 6( 76o per crate; watermelons, l13:o per pound; pear, $1. 2501 .80 per box; grapes, 60c9ll.60 per crate; eataba, $2.25 per doien; quinces, $11.25 per box. - . ' . - Vegetables Turnips, $1.25 per sack; carrot. $1.25 per sack; beet, $1.26 per ssck; cabbage, IX1? per pound; celery, 75cMl perdoxen; corn, $1(1.60 per sack; cucumbers, 10(J16c per doxen; onions, 160200 per dosen; mm In. 20a ner dosen: DePDers. 8a j 10c per pound; pumpkins, per pound; radishes, sue peraoten; spinach, 60 pel pound; squash, 60o $1 per box; tomatoes, 4060oper box; tweet potatoes, 2Mo per pound. Onions $1.50 per sack. . : , Potatoes 7585c per sack. Butter Fancy creamery, 27(835c per pound. - , Veal 75 to 125 pounds, 8ro8)c per pound; 126 to 150 pound, To; 150 to 200 ponndi, 7c. ;' Pork Block, 75 to 150 pounda, 8 8,o; packers, 7K8o. Poultry Average old hen,' 1314c per pound; mixed chickens, 1213c; spring chickens, 13Hc; old roost ers, 89o; dressed chickens, 1617e; turkeys, live, old, 1617c; young, 1$ 19c; geeee, live, 8e; duck. 16o. Eggs Freth ranch, candled, 31 82 o per doxen. Hops 1007, 7Oo per pound; old, 45o per pound. ' Wool Eat tern Oregon, average best, 10(322o per pound, according to shrink age; valley, 2022c, according toflne- Mohair Choice, 2930o per pound. Mt. Hood Railroad Headed for Salt . Ukf City. Portland, Bept. 30. There 1 abund ant reason to believe that Portland and Salt Lake are aoon to be connected by a new link In a transcontinental rail road chain that 1 to be forged as fast a labor and sufficient capital can' com plete Uie task. ..Concealed behind the seemingly local electric tin enterprise of tbe Mount Hood Hallway & Power company are said to tie the matured plans for tbe Halt Lake project, backed by the mil lions of Senator W.A.Clark and bis aesociate interests. E. P. Clark, of Lo Angeles, directing genius of the Mount Hood toad, who gave his per sonal attention to the initial work done in Portland, came to tbe Pacifio North west ss the personal representative of bis distinguished namesake. With the secrecy that smack of the previous conquest of George Gould, but which, it 1 believed by person well advlied, ia in reality the linking ol the - Book 11 and system and the Moffat railroad between Denver and Salt Lake City, the plans for tbs new road into Portland have been practi cally completed. Though It ha been denied, and will be denied again, it can be asserted with confidence that tbe site ol tb Inman A Ponlsen Lumber company yards and docks between Esst Sherman and East Caruthars streets will the be water front termual of the new line. Practically all details for the entrance of the road to tbe city have been concluded and meanwhile engineering parties have completed tbe location across to tbe Eastern slope of tbe Cascades, thence outhc?ster)y to ward Central Kevada to the eastern teratinus at Salt Lake City. It may aurpriae some englaeera to learn that a route ha been found by which the line will make a gradual as cent ot Mount Hood, to the southeast of that eminence and through to the upper Deecbntes on a compensating grade of lees than 1 per cent, bnt such is a fact and the conati action crews already en gaged in the vicinity ot Bull Bun and between that point and Fairview will be rapidly advanced along the route so that considerable of tbe heavier part of the work wilt probably be completed during tbe winter months. Aproaching the Deschutes at a point not far from the mouth ot Warm Spring creek, it will follow np the Deschutes, cross the spur ot Walkers range and thence proceed In a south erly ocuree to the dralnsge ot Sprague river and thence up that stream to the southeast, through the Klamath Indian reservation and thence in a nearly di rect line to Winnemucca. - . The main line will be built with re ud to the shortest mileage and beet route, while branches are projected to tap the irrigated districts of Crook, Klamath and Lake counties, but these are to follow tbe completion ot the through line which is jus: at present the objective feature of the entire en terprise. Engineer have been over the route repeatedly, parties having easily main tained the secret of their purpose and work because of the activity of the Harriman system engineer in the same territory. BORAH JUROR ILL. Possible That Sickness May Block Idaho Land Fraud Trials. Boise, Sept. 30. Peter Neth, one of the juror em paneled to try United State Senator W. E. Borah, was taken violently 111 last night and it is said bis indisposition may stop the trial, al though this cannot be definitely told until today. Tbe nature of Neth's illness is being carefully withheld, but one ot the gov ernment e counsel said last nigbt tnat he believed Neth to be suffering from temporary mental drangement due to tbe excitement of the trial. Many rumor were afloat last night as to Neth's condition but no authors tive statement wa given out. The day following hi acceptance a a juror Mr. Neth asked - many questions 01 Judge Whitson aa to whether buying Improved homestead property consti tuted a crime. He speaks English rather brokenly and but little atten tion was paid to him. Stubba No Longer Dictator. Chieaffo. Sent. 30. With the advent fot the Eastern railroads into the Trans continental Freight bureau there disap pears from the railway field one 0 the moat. powerful dictatorships in railroad history. With the Eastern roads en joying an equal voice in the making of transcontinental freight rates, J. C. Stubbe is no longer the autocrat of the traflic world. Until the recent admis sion ot the Eastern . roads . into the freight bureau, Mr. Stubbe, as general trafiio director ot the Harriman lines, held a position which was unique. Extend Strike to Railroads. New York. Sept. 30. Report that the commercial telegraphers' strike would extend to the railroad telegraph' era were revived here and elsewhere today. Samuel J. Small, national prof icient of the union, is now in St Louis, and from there it was reported that be waa in conference with the national ofiloers ot the railroad telegraphers, and that inside of the next fortnight development might be expected in that direction. Another Blow to 8 1 loon. ... Knoxville, Tenn., Sept. 30. The state Supreme court "today held the Pendleton law to be constitutional This statute abolisbea saloons in all cities of 100,000 or loss, "hereafter in oorporated." BORAH IMPLICATED Gorernment Prefaces Letters Showing His Connectlao. STECKENBEBG DEEPLY INVOLVED Correspondsnc Is Thst of William Sweet, One of the'. Men ' Indicted for Fraud. . , Eolse, Sept. 28. Half a score of let ters which the government attorneys in the trial of Senator Williaam E. Borah declare go to show the complicity of ex Governor Steunenberg in the alleged timber land fraud conspiracy were in troduced in evidence late yesterday and read to the jury. The letters were written by William Bweet, cne ol the indicted men, who, it is reported, will take tbe stand as a witness for the United States. Tbe documents were produced by J. H. Bicbanls, ths local attorney, to whom they were written and who acted aa legal adviser to Sweet. Most of ths letters were dated from New York and Boston and several of them were replies to letters or tele grams nrging him to return to Idaho. "I can't see wby I should come book unless it is in regard to timber, and that is all in the governor's hands," wrote Sweet in one of hia notes.- Then he proceeded: "As to the money coming to me, put it in the bank. I have absolute faith in the governor. He came to my assist ance and helped me out of a mess I never ought to hsve got In. I don't know wbat I would have done if it had not been for tbe governor." In another letter 8weet gave the amounts be was "in" on the timber deal. Ibe total amount was about $20,000, including a $7,500 note signed by himself and Steunenberg. Shortly after this Sweet wrote to his attorney that be had read in the paper of a timber inspector being sent to Idaho. Borah's name was drawn into the case for tbe first time just before ad journment, when Henry 8. Worthman, another local attorney, took the stand and produced more letters from Sweet. In one letter to Worthman be wrote: "Richards used bis power of attor ney to turn all my money, $10,000, over to Steunenberg, and it hi like pulling a cat throngh a stocking to get it back. I wish you wonld see W. E. Borah about this snd get him to make a little statement of the governor's ob ligation to me. He is the govern nor 's attorney, bnt is a first class gentleman and knows a little statement is only fair to me. Tell him I haven't the scratch of a pen from Steunenberg to show that he haa $10,000 of my money. He said the copy of our agreement was lost" . ' - ; INDICTS HARRIMAN2LINES. Federal Grand Jury at San Francisco Finds 124 Counts. San Francisco, Sept. 28. The Fede ral grand jury yesterday returned five indictments of 124 counts sgainst tbe Southern Pacifio company and the Pa- oidc Mail Steamship company charging violations of the interstate commerce law. These indictments, if followed by convictions, are sufficient to render tbe corporations liable to fines aggregating from $124,000 to $2,489,000, the mini mum fine prescribed by law on each count being $1,000 and the maximum fine $20,000. The defendant corporations are ac cused of secretly cutting to $1 the pub lished rate ot $1.25 on throngh ship ments of matting from Kobe, Japan, to San Francisco and thence through the United States. Two indictments of eight counts each were returned against tbe Pacifio Atall Steamship company, which transported the cargo from Kobe to San Francisco, and one indiotment of eight counts and two indictments of 60 counts each were returned against ths Southern Pacific company for for warding tbe cargo in broken lot Ship ments from this city eastward. Rebel Leaders Arreated. Havana, Sept. 28. The secret police today, arrested General Masso Parro, General Juan Ducassl and General Lara Millret, charged with conspiring against public order. General Parro ia tbe alleged leader of tbe conspiracy to start a revolution against the Amer icans in Cuba, with the use ot funds supplied through some firm in New York. Simultaneously " with the ar rival ot Parro at Havana three Santo Domingans, well known on account of their previous revolutionary records, also arrived. .; Oppose Breaking Contract. ' Chicago, Sept. 28. Three member of the national executive board of the Telegrapher' union declared today that they would vote against calling a strike of union operators employed in broker and newspaper offices, in which event, being a majority of the board, the request of tbe striking New York operators will be refused. No official action has been taken, for tbe reason that no communication has yet been re ceived from the New York local. Cruiser Colorado Arrive. San Franolsco, Sept. 28. A wireless manna da (mm tha armored orniser Col orado, of Rear Admiral Dayton's squad. ron, received today at the naval train ing station In this harbor, report that all nn hoard ara well and that the ImriM (mm Honolulu had been nn- jeventfol. The, vessel will arrive nere tomorrow. WILL BECOME STATE. President Roossvslt to Approve tha Constitution. Washington, Sept. 27 President Roosevelt announced thl afternoon that be had decided tc approve the Ok lahoma constitution, which means that all doubt regarding the addition of an other star to the national flag ia re moved ; that two more Democratic sen. ators will soon lake seats In the opper branch ot congress; that four Demo crats and on Republican will be added to tbs roll of the house snd that seven bran new votes will be sdded to th Democratic column, In all probability, In the next electoral college. Announcement that Oklahoma's eon. dilution la to receive formal executive approval comes a a surprise to many of those most directly interested, for ths tip had gone out that tha constitu tion wonld be rejected. Undoubtedly it would have been re jected, too, had ths president felt free, after consultation with hi legal advis ers, to act upon the merits of ths docu ment as they appeal to him, or bad ths convention's work not been so over whelmingly 'ratified by tbe voter of Oklahoma and Indian Territory. It was stated at the White Hows that tbe tremendous majority for ths constitution at the recent election was ths impelling force. Furthermore, It wa pointed out .that the executive judgment was, generally (peaking, con fined to the question of whether th provisions of the enabling act bad been ebserved. The final decision followed a conference with Attorney General Bonaparte thia noon. ' Approval, a ap plied to tbe president' action ia con nection with the constitution, I tech nical and does not express ths execu tive's real position. He does - net ap prove of tha constitution stall, but imply signs his name in response to tbe will of the people who musk live onder it, tor the reasons above stated. Mr. Roosevelt's actual opinion of ths constitution, according to those who are in his confidence, would hardly be fit for publication. IDAHO FRAUD CASE. Thirteen Dummy Entry en Tad of Saks of Claims. Boise, Sept. 27 After having spent all of the previous day in bringing oat ths testimony of 13 person who ad mitted they bed taken claims to timber land for the express purpose of selling them to members of an alleged land grabbing conspiracy, ' the government attorneys in the trial of United State Senator Borah yesterday turned ths line of evidence into new channels, which they say will tend to affect the defendant senator. . The testimony ad doced np to until now hss been eon. lined to the activities of John I. Wells' and Loots M. Pritchard, two ot the men under indictment. None ot the -dummy" entrymen examined waa cross examined and the testimony that they received from Well the money with which to prove their claims and from Pritchard the $250 bonus for sur rendering their titles went uu contro verted. Just prior to adjournment the prose cuting attorneys Identified the signs tores of ex-Governor Frsnk Steunen berg snd William Sweet to a document said to have been a oontract. It is al leged that Steunenberg and Sweet jointly furnished the money with which the first alleged faudolent trans actions were carried on. The government has divided its ease into three sections. The first deals with the claims which were turned over to Albert E;-Palmer, ot Spokane, who Is said to have acted aa "dummy'' trustee for the Barber Lumber com pany. All the testimony bearing on these claims, it ia alleged, was handled through Horace S. Band, of Burling ton, Iowa. Tbs third snd last set were hsndled by George S. Long, who, ths government promises, will eventually take the stand ss the most important witness for the prosecution. Wsr With Japan Inevitable. St, Petersburg, Bept. 27. Secretary Taffs tour of the world is' being fol lowed with nnnsoal Interest here. Th government hi taking measures to pro tect the journey throngh Siberia snd European Russia, and tbe press is bus ily speculating on the likelihood of tb adoption of a Russo-Amerlcan conven tion, the object ot Mr. Tuft's visit to Russia being, it is alleged, to negotiate n agreement between the United States and Russia. Ihe oonvlotlon pre vails heie that war between Japan and the United States ia inevitable. . Puts Veto on Colonial Law. St. Johns, N. F., Sept. 27. An im perial rescript forbidding the service by any colonial authority of any legal process regarding fishery rights aboard any American vessel and suspending all colonial statutes snthorising offi cials to seiae American vessels for alleg ed fishery offenses was proclaimed here today. This, it is believed, will make it praotioally impossible for Premier Bind to carry out a recently announced decision to enforce the fishery law. Great Radium Depoalt In Tunnel. nana a. Rant. 27. A newinanar states that Professor Joly ha completed m gvuiugiia.1 wbuuiumiwi vi ppmiiuiw. 1 of the strata collected in tbe boring for ' the Simplon tunnel. He found rich ' . - l ...ll.. lJ!ll. lama. 4a- ' posits than hitherto discovered la ' Europe. ..