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THE STAYTON MAIL High W ords o f P raise to r C ondition o f C hinese G overnm ent. C. D. AlEXANDtR, Pubh.hrr S T A Y T O N .............................O R E G O N NEWS OF THE WEEK In a Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. A Resum e o f the Less Im p o rta n t but N e t Less Interesting Events o f the Past W eek. Strikes are breaking out in Russian cities. GREAT BEYOND C O N G E R B A C K F R O M C H IN A . many The judge who tried Nan Patterson says she is guilty. The Russian fleet is said to tie an chored south of Hong Kong. Loomis and Bowen each have stated his side of the controversy to the presi dent. Japan is growing more angry with France and may involve her and Brit ain in war. A lire in the heart of Vienna caused an explosion of celluloid which injured between 35 and 40 policemen, firemen and passers-by. The Federal grand bujry, sitting in Chicago, has secured all the innermost workings of the beef trust from the trunks seised a short time ago. Government officials say there are al ready too many mints and the hopes of the Northwestern cities for mints or assay offices are not likely to be real ized. San Francisco, May 1«V.— K. II. Con ger, ex-American minister to China, who was lecently appointed ambassador to Mexico, arrived today on the steam er Siberia, from the Orient. Mrs. Conger accompanied him. It is Mr. Conger's intention to prove«>d almost immediately to the City of Mexico, un less he receives orders to the contrary. Mr. Conger said that diplomatic mat ters in China are in a satisfactory con dition. To a quest ion as to China’s neutrality in the Russo-Japanese war, he said: “ China has always l>een disposed to maintain the strictest neutrality l»e- tween the warring nations, and, al though there has !>eon considerable criticism from Ixrth Japanese and Rus sian sources, I believe that the Chinese government has never shown partiality one way or the other, but has always adhered strictly to the requirements of the international law.” Mr. Conger was asked concerning the periodic rumors of Boxer uprisings and replied: “ There is absolutely no truth in such reports. There is no danger of another Boxer outbreak. Of course, there are occasional troubles in the interior, but they arise from purely local causes which have no bearing on the presence of foreigners. There is no organized movement in China against foreign |>eo- ple. There never has been a time in the history of the country when the government was more ¡ready or better prepared to put down any incipient organized effort that might be directed against resident foreigners." F IG H T IN G M O K O S . A m erican T ro op s Slay 3 0 0 M em b ers Judge C. B. Bellinger Succumbs to Inroads of Malady. DUE TO THE LAND FRAUD CASES H earin g of Case* T im e Since Last O ccupied All His N ovem ber— M itch ell C a te the C lim ax. Pottlaml, May 13. — United State« District Judge Charles B. Bellinger surrendered in his long struggle for life yesterday afternoon and passed peacefully away at 3 :46 o'clock, sur rounded by the memlters of his family and a few of his most intimate and long-time ft ¡ends. The outcome was expected and the family had been waiting for the worst during all of the day. The judge passed a restless and unsatisfactory night on Thursday and was much weak er when day dawned yeetetday morn ing. During the morning he sank into a semi-conscious condition, and as the «lay lengthened into the afternoon the stupor became more marked, until it was im)>oaeible to rouae the patient to consciousness. The death of Judge Bellingecr ran be traced directly to the Oregon land fraud cases, which have filled his time from the middle of November last. On Bon- «lay, April 23, the judge worke«lall day on the decision which he was to hand down the following morning on the Mitchell plea of abatement. He went early to his office, and the weather l»e- ing warm, worked in his shirtsleeves until noon, when he walked home to luncheon, returning again directly afterwards and working until late in the afternoon. The next day he also worked on ttie decision, and Tues«lay, the day upon which it was delivered, he awoke with a fever ami feeling ill. Judge Bollinger was born in Maquon, Illinois, November 21, 1839, anti cross ed the plains with his parents in 1847 and settled in Marion county. He was a veteran of the Modoc war. In 1863 he was admitted to the bar and served as clerk and official reporter of the Su preme court from 1874 to 1878. He was judge of the Fourth district Circuit court from 1878 to 1880, and was ap pointed United States District jndge for Oregon by Grover Cleveland in 1893. Statistics show that there has never o f O u tla w Band. been a president who did not take sev Manila, May 18. — Fierce fighting eral vacations during his term of office. bus been going on the last few weeks Washington was absent from the cap on the island of Jolo, between the out ital 181 days. law chief Pala, with 800 well armed Recent arrests in Chicago have re followers, and troops under the per vealed the fact that hired sluggers are sonal command of Major General Leon Pala’ s losses thus far are being employed by the Chicago unions ard Wood. engaged in the strike. A regular scale 300 killed, while those of General Wood are seven killed and 19 wounded. of prices exists. Pala and his remaining followers, in The Chicago strike w ill be continued accordance with Moro tradition, prefer and extended. death to capture. Strikers are again breaking out in Pala was a noted slave trader and many Russian cities. warrior when the Americans occupied France is becoming alarmed lest Ja the islands. latter he escaped with his followers to the island of Pula Sekar, pan attack Indo-China. near Borneo. One of Pala’ s leaders de The Japanese have pushed back the serted and took refuge on the British Russian left in Manchuria. settlement at I .a bad. Pala, discover Secretary Morton says he has no in ing his whereabouts, landed with a fol tention of resigning from the cabinet at lowing and demanded of the British magistrate that he turn the deserter present. S H O R T N O T IC E O N B ID S . over to him. The demand was not The beef trust officials w ill appeal to complied with, and Pala ordered a Roosevelt against the prosecution’ s massacre. Twenty-five persons, includ C anal C om m ission Allow s the C oast methods. but a Few Days. ing several British, were killed. Tornadoes have struck several towns San Francisco, May 13.— A great stir in Kansas and Texas. A ll were small was created texlay among San Francisco B ID S O N P A N A M A L U M B E R . and not much damage was done. me.chants when it was ascertaiml that the Isthmian Canal commission will A ll charges against Colorado miners Com m ission Extends T im e T en Days open bids May 16 and 19 for supplies, for participation in the Victor riot in Upon Request. the contract prices for which w ill easily June, 1904, have been dropped and the San Francisco, May 18.— The efforts aggregate $1,000,000. One conumxlity men released. made by the commercial bodies of San — lumber, rough an«l dressed— will call The president w ill not appoint a suc Francisco to have the time extended for the expemiiture «»f more than $300,- cessor to the late Judge Bellinger for for Pacific coast people for making 000 alone. In all, 26,000,000, feet of some time. This being a life position, bid to fill contracts for supplies of lum lumber are needed at once. The other he wants to be sure he has the right ber for the Isthmian canal commission supplies range all through many lines, man when he is named. to be delivered at the Isthmus of Pana and in all instances the quantities de A ltogeher manded are large. The president has removed W . F. ma have been successful. For several days the wires between Matthews, United States marshal for 28,000,000 feet of lumber are needed Orgon, and appointed C. J. Reed. immediately by tlie canal commission Sa.. Francisco ami Washington have This action was taken at the request of for use in the great works to be under been kept busy carrying dispatches from Han Francisco asking for blank District Attorney Heney, who was able taken. Recently the personnel of the com proposals. Wednesilay last there were to show that Matthews is too friendly mission was changed and the offices at no lumber proposals in the city, and no with accused land fraud men. Washington, D. C., were also remove«] one here knew what the commission Seven miners' were killed in an ex from one place to anrrther. In the wishe«l to buy in that line, and conse- plosion at Butte, caused by careless confusion that resulted the coast cities «prently no bills could l*e frame«!. handling of dynamite. Local merchants say the entire coast failed to get blank proposals early The Chicago grand jury investigating enough to compete for the lumber or has t«een shabbily treatcil, and a loud the beef trust has secured Arm or’s se ders, which alone amount to more than wail has gone up. T<xlay there was a $300,000 at a conservative estimate. A rush for proposals to supply, among cret code used in making rebates. dispatch was receive«! by Secretary other commodities, steam pumps and The financial l<>ss at Snyder, Okla Burks, of the chamber of commerce, pipes, hydrants ami water meters, fire homa, w ill reach $500,000. Several from Washington, which said: extinguishers, linen hose and h««se more injured persons have been found. “ Referring to poster circulars invit reels, eejuipments for bridge gangs, Togo’ s fleet has been seen off the ing bids for yellow pine an«] Douglas railroad tools and supplies, foundry Pescadores islands, and it is believed a fir, to be «jpene«! on the 18th and 19th, supplies, belting, r«>ofing, wagons and battle w ill occur near Hong Kong soon, inform bidders on Pacific coast that so on through a list of hundreds of ar as the Russians must fight before June opening of May 18th (xrstporied until ticles. Both the chamber of commerce and 26th.” or be caught by the typhoons. the Manufacturers’ and Prrxlucers’ The president has established a for ass«)ciation have requested Major G al Bowen A rrives at W ashington. est reserve in Wallowa county embrac lagher, the purchasing agent at Wash Washington, May 16.— Herbert W. ing about 300,000 acres of land, and ington, I). CL, for the Canal commis Bowen, recently American minister to w ill create several more in Oregon. sion, to extend the «late for making the Venezuela, accompanie«l by Mrs. Bowen, Altogether nearly 10,000,000 acres will reache«! Washington t«xlay from New proposals. Vie placed in reserve. York. Mr. Bowen, after leaving his N ot U njust, Says C um m ins. Nan Patterson has been released from bags at the hotel, went to the White Washington, May 13. — Governor jail. It is not probable that she w ill house and left his car«l for the presi- Vie called upon to face another jury, as «lent. He spent the evening quietly at Cummins, of Iowa, testified t«xlay be District Attorney Jerome believes his his hotel, where he received a number fore the senate committee in interstate It is expected that the commerce, which is considering rail- assistants have done their best and of friemls. He criticise«l the president w ill send for Mr. Bowen to road legislation. further efforts would be useless. morrow and receive from him his state statement by railroad men that rates The Chicago Teamowners’ associa ment concerning the charges which have were low enough now, and the impres tion say they have the strikers beaten. been brought against Mr. loom is. sion he sai«l they endeavore«l to convey — that the object sought was to give American employes in the Panama power to the commission to fix rates. Route o f Irrig a tio n C o m m itte e s . canal zone are leaving as fast as pos Washington, May 16.— June 1 a con He said that ‘ here was nothing unjust sible on account of yellow fever, and charge the officials with taking no steps gressional party, forme«l of members of in giving the commissiim the power both irrigation committees of congress which the proj>o8e<l legislation would toward protection of health. and others, w ill leave Kansas City on confer upon it. France accuses Japan of bluffing on a personal trip of inspection of irriga the neutrality question. S tre a to r People’ s N a rro w Escape tion construction at El Paso, San Fran Htreator, 111., May 13. — A torna«lo cisco and other California points; Has- The Union Pacific is building six gas en, N ev.; Ogden, Salt Lake and points struck Htreator today, tearing down oline motor cars at the Omaha shops. in Oregon, Montana, Wyoming and trees an«l barns. No one was injured, The Japanese have made the first Colorado. The trip w ill conclude July although there were many narrow es capes. 4, in Denver. move towards a new flank attack. OKLAHOMA TORNADO W IL L O P E N F A IR . V ice P resident C om ing to P o rtlan d as R epresentative ot President. Washington, May 16.— Vice Presi dent Fairbanks intendixl to leave for his Indiuna home last night to spend the next two months with his family, but he received word that the president wanted to see him, and called at the White house at 11:30 ttxlay. The president told him of his ileep interest in the lx<w is and Clark exposition and his regret that he himself could not attend the opening of It. Hu said, however, that the administration should I k « represented, and to his mind nothing wouhl be more appropriate than that the second official of the na tion should represent tin* president on that occasion. M i. Fairbanks prompt ly fell in with the president’s sugges tion, and expr«*s«ed his thorough w ill ingness to go to Portland, ami has now change«l his plans so as to reach Port land the last week in May. He ami Mrs. Fairbanks w ill Is« present and participate in the o|>ening cereiiionies. The vice president w ill make the jirin- cipal speech of the occasion. Being uuahle to get to Portland either at the opening of the exposition or later in the summer, the president lias ac cepted the invitation extended to him by President Goode to press the button which w ill l>e the signal for the formal «(«eiiing of the ex|sisition, at 1 o'clock on the afternoon of June 1— that is, 1 o’chick Portland time, 4 o'clock Wash ington time. A special through tele graph wire will l«e run from the East room of tlie White house into tlie ex position grounds at Portland. At the Washington end w ill be the same gold key which Pnwident Roosevelt used to open tlie Ht. b u n « ex|xxiiti<>n last year, ami which former presulents used to o(x»n tlie Chicago, Buffalo ami other «'Xpositioiis of times past. K IT T IT A S A S K S IR R IG A T IO N . Reclam ation S ervice P ro m is e * A tten tion to Its P ro je c t. Demolishes Town ol Snyder, Kill ing Many Inhabitants. HALF OF THE POPULATION GONE C am e at N ight W hen People W e re Asleep— Five H undred Dead and In ju red . Oklahoma City, May I I . — Telephone reports front Ilobart.Okla., indicate lliat thè eiitire town of Hny«ler, O. T., wa» deatroyed hy a tornado. A traili of doctora, nnrsea ami other assistitola ia said to bave left llobart for Snyder. The wires are reporttxl «town bctween Snyiier ami other neigldsirliig town« and all eom musicati un ia Iteing re- ceivtxl from llohart. H undreds Dead and In ju re d . Guthrie, O. T., May 11. — la»te re- (xirts from Hobart, Okla., and Chicka saw, I. T ., place the numlier of dea«l and irijure«l in tlie tornado at Snyder, Okla., at 500. The storm broke over tlie town at 11 o'clock at night, completely demolish ing it, aa near aa reports can lie ob tained. The Aral news of the disaster was received at Hobart, by telephone, giving a bald statement of the torna«io’ a having struck tlie town. Tlie wir«*s, lioth .telegraph and telephone, then went down and no further newa has lieen obtained directly from Snyder. It is now ini|xissitile to reach I j i w - ton, the m-arest town to Snyder, ami alj the telegraphic communications are report«-«! down between that place and Snyiler. Rescue trains have lx«en start«*«! from llol>«rt ami Chickasaw, which will ar rive at Snyder tiiis morning. T R A IN S T R IK E S D Y N A M IT E . Washington, May 15.— The Reclama tion service has receive«! a resolution T a rrific E x o lo tio n Kills F ifty and lu - paase<l hy the Commercial club of K it ju ra s a H undred. titas county, Washington, asking that Harrisburg, Pa., May I I . — An ex- it make a careful and s|>eedy survey pr«*«s train on the Pennsylvania rail- and investigation «if the feasibility of road ran into a freight train in which there were two cars loaded with <lyna- the construction of a high line canal mite at 1 .30 « ’clock this morning in for the pur|Hiee of reclamation ami cul South Harriahurg, near the plant of tivation of about 100,000 acres of laml the Paxtang Light, Heat and Power in that county, which are fertile in the corn|>any. Thr«*e terriffic exploaiona, production of all kinds of hay, grain, that broke window« all over tlie city, fruit and vegetables, including sugnr followed, and the two trains were c««m- beets. It is urged that the irrigation pletely wrecked and took fire. It was of tliis large body of laml will result in «‘Stimated at 3 o'clock that 60 |x*rs«ins effecting storage ot the water so ustni j were killed and 100 injured, though for lamls Ixdow in the Yakima valley, I tiiese figures may lx* too smalt. for tlie reason that all the water so It is im|x)flsibie to ascertain the exact used naturally drains hack into the number of fataliti«*a, Ix-cause the Yakima river. wreckage, in which many of .the passen The Rec!amati«>n service states that j gers and some mernl«ers of the train it fully recognizes the great itu)>ortance crews are pinned, is still ablaze and of tlie Yakima project to Kittitas coun unapproachable, and many small ex ty, and tiiat a careful investigation to plosions occur continually. determine its f««asihility from an engin When the first exlposion «xrtirrixl, eering as well as from a financial staml- • Ixxlies were thrown clear out of tin* point w ill be made. txTths in the sleeping car ami lamleil down the railroatl embankment, some even having b«ten hurled into the Sus G O M E Z C U B A ’S P R E S ID E N T . quehanna river, which parallels the Liberals and M o d erates W ill Hold railroad at that place. N om inating C onventions. Havana, May 15.— The national nom- inating convention of the ¡New Liberal party will open tonight. A ll indications point t«> tlie nomina tion for tlie presidency of Cuba of Jose Miguel Gomes, who was appointed gov ernor of HantH Clara province hy the government of intervention ami after ward was elected to that position. The convention w ill he ma«le up of 160 delegates, of whom 90 will lx* Nation alists. Maximo Gomez having posi tively refuse«l to lie a camlidate, tlie only «jtiier prominent person mentioned is Governor Nunez of Havana province. The M«xlerates w ill shortly hold a convention to nominate President Pal ma hy acclamation for tlie presidency and Mendez Capote, former president of the senate, for the vice presidency. The election w ill take place in Decem ber. M A Y F IG H T F R A N C E . j Japan Accuses H e r o f Lending Active Aid to Russia. I/ondon, May 11. — The news from Tokm is of the most alarming charac ter. The outburst of p«q>u!ar indigna ! tion against France for her violation« of neutrality is growing and aln-iuly «•quills the liitter f«*eling that previled against Russia prior to tlie hr<-aking out *>f the war. Shouhl Rojestvensky now return to French waters, it is donhtful if the Japanese governmei t could calm the populace, and hostiii- ti«-s must result. These would sutely involve (ireat Britain in tlie war, and the outcome would lx- in doubt. Diplomats here in Ixmdon unite in characterizing the situation as ex tremely grave. France’ s attitude, while on the surface conciliatory, un derneath is far from that, and the French official class seem determined Judge D eHaven W ill T ry C ases. to resent Japan's protests, claiming San Francisco, May 15. — United that French neutralitv is on a standard States Circuit Judge W illiam B. G il hy itself, ami should not lx; compared bert, presiding justice of the United with that of any other nation. Htat«-s Circuit court of Appeals, lias an- nounced Ids intention of detailing M illions fro m Alaska. United States District Jmlge DeHaven Seattle, May 11.— F. A. Wing, United to the United States District court nt States assuyer, stat«-s that from inform Portland, Oregon, to take the place ation he lias received from Alaska, and temporarily «jf the late Judge Ikdlinger the Northwest Territory this winter, of that court. Judge DeHaven will lx« the output of gold from the northern requested to open the c«»urt on June country this year w ill total $22,000,- 12, the date set for the trial of the land 000, if not more. So far this winter frami cases, and proceed witii tlie trial he has not beanl any unfavorable re- of the cases. |x>rts from any section in which mining is lreing carried on. From the Klon Valuable Relics o f Pom peii Found. dike alone Mr. Wing prixlicts an out Rome, May 16. — Excavations near put of from $10,000,000, to $12,000,- Pompeii have resulted in the finding of 000, the balance coming from the a human skeleton and n««arhy four solid American side. gold hraclets of beautiful design and T w o Inches o f S no w in W yom ing. set witii emeralds, a pair of («earl ear rings, two golden necklaces set witii Cheyenne, May 11. — South western pearls and emeralds, an«l two emerald Wyoming is covered with a heavy snow rings. The articles of jewelry, being after the storm of yesterday an«l last The snow ia over two inchee from the Pompeiian epoch, are of great night. deep on the level. artistic value.