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.