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t . D. AlCXANDtR. Publisher
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 Resume o f the Less Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
of the Past Week.
Cholera has almost disappeared in
Germany.
AT W O R K O N M ESSA G E.
President Devoting Much Time to the
Gathering of Material.
Oyster Bay, Sept. 26.— The president
is devoting considerable time each day
now to work on his annual message to
congrses. For some time he has been
assembling data for the message, but
since the adjournment of the |>eace
conference he has been writing the data
into definite form. The message w ill
not be completed until some time early
in November, l>ecause each mem(>er of
the cabinet w ill have to supply mater­
ial for discussion of the work of his
department. This information w ill lie
contained in the annual reports of the
cabinet officers, which have not been
completed.
Three topics highly important at
this time to the American people will
be discussed by the president in his
message. They are the Federal regula­
tion and supervision of life insurance,
the relations betweeu this country and
Venezuela and America’ s interest in
the fiscal affairs of the government of
Santo Domingo. Other important sub­
jects naturally w ill lie considered,
among them the scandals disclosed in
the Departments of Agriculture and
the Interior; the work of the depart­
ment of Justice in the beef trust cases,
the regulation of railroad freight rates,
the progress made in the construction of
the Panama canal and the conclusion of
peace net ween Russia and Japan.
Much of the material for the dis­
cussion of these subjects the president
has in hand, and the last few days of
his stay at Sagamore H ill are being
devoted to the preparation of that part
of his message which w ill deal with
them. Few visitors have been received
since the adjournment of the peace
conference, the president desiring to be
as free as possible from interruption
while working on his message. His
last week here is practically devoid of
engagements. The consideration of all
matters except those of immediate im­
portance is being postpone«! until the
president shall reach Washington.
PACKERS PAY FINE
One Is Nervous Wreck and Jail
Sentence Is Remitted.
GUILTY OF ACCEPTING REBATES
An
Aggregate
Fine of
$26,0 00
Paid by Four Officiala of
Beef Trust.
Is
P R O G R E S S IV E ID A H O .
No
Tim e Being L o ti on the Boite-
Payelte Irrigation W ork.
Washington, Sept. 25.— The Rectum
ation service has made the following
announcement:
"T h e engineers in charge of the
Boise-Payette project,
Idaho, have
made auch progress witli preliminary
work that the hoard of consulting en­
gineers w ill n eet at Boise October 18
to couaider plans and «iechle on future
ariangmeents. The splendiil work of
the Water Users’ association in harm
oniztng the many conflicting claims of
private interest in lands, canals ami
water rights is beginning to liear fruit,
and it is Udicved that practically noth­
ing staiula in the way of early construc­
tion.
“ About 100,000 acres are already ir­
rigated in this section, but plnns for
the full development of the natural re­
source« of the valleys which w ill come
under this project are of such magiii-
tu«le as to lie lieyond the reach of com­
munity effort.
“ The present estimate«! coat of the
entire system is m«arly $11,000,000,
and completed works w ill supply water
to approximately 372,000 acres of land.
On account of the restrictetl condition
of available reclamation funtls, how­
ever, a portion of the project has tieeli
selected which, though only an integer
of the whole, w ill yet complete the pro­
ject itself.
The l ’ayette and Boise valleys con­
stitute one of the most attractive sec­
tions ot the West.
Progress in agri-
culutre in this vciinity in the past few
years, ami the ronsetpient growth of
adjacent towns, furnish an excellent
example of the result of iirigation and
give promise of substantial ami won­
derful development in the future.”
BETTER THAN GOLD
Vast Fields of Copper Discovered
Norfh o( Valdez, Alaska.
ORE IS VERY EASY TO BE MINED-
Ledges On Nabsscs, White and C o p -
p e _ Rivers Extend for a
Hundred Miles.
Chicago, Kept. 23.— Four officials of
Tacoma, Sept. 21. — Henry Brant*
the 8chwarzchiltl A Sulzberger Packing
nober, the notc<l copper mining expert,
company, ot Chicago, were fineil an ag­
Many Americans are going into busi­
who urriveil from the North Monday,
gregate of $25,000 by Judge Humphrey
ness at Vladivostok.
on the steamer Victoria, ami who ie
in the United States district court here
now a guest at the Donnelly hotel,
More cases of cholera are being dis­
Unlay.
The fines followed a plea of
liringa news that he has discovered at
covered in Russian Poland.
guilty to indictments charging conspir­
the liendwaters of the Naheacn, W hite
A three-story brick building in Buf­
acy to accept railroad rebates.
The
and Copper rivers, Alaska, what he be­
falo collapsed, injuring eight men.
defeiulants were Samuel Weil, of New
lieves is the world’s greatust copper
York, vice president of the company;
district. Cop|>er is there s<> abundant,
Baron Komura, Japanese peace en­
B. 8. Cusey, traffic manager; Vance 1).
he says, that it can be mined ami trans-
voy, has almost recovered and has
Skipworth and Chess E. Todd, assistant
portixl by rail 230 m il«« to Valdez, ami
started home.
traffic managers. W eil was fineil $10,-
Hinelte«l at a probable cost of 5 or 6-
W hile the people of Norway are dis­
000, the other three $5,000 each.
cents a pound, thereby cutting in tw«>
pleased with the separation terms, they
With the entering of pleas the de­
the present average cost of copper pro­
w ill accept the treaty as the best that
claration was made that unless at least
duction.
could be done.
one of the cases is immediately settled
Mining men, alreaily aware of M r.
the life of Samuel W eil, vice president
Wilson Evans has been sent to^Chile
Brantuolier’ s discovery, declare that it
of the company and one of the defend­
for the purpose of studying trade rela­
outweighs in ¡inportance the discovery
ants, is in jeopardy. He is said to he
tions between that country and the
of the Klondike and Nome placer dis­
nervous wreck, and fears were enter­
United States.
tricts.
So important is it that M r.
tained for his life if he hail been al­
Hraiitmilier and his aswteiates w ill vig ­
The Canadian government w ill place
lowed to continue under the stigma of
orously push ilevelopment work, ami
quic-firing guns on its Great lakes rev­
an indictment.
within two years they expect to he pro­
enue cutters on account of the large
W hile in Chicago the attorney gene­
ducing daily 8,000 i n 8,000 t u n s of c o p .
number of poachers found of late.
ral was apprise«! of the condition of
per ore running 10 to 30 per cent in
Vice Presi«lent W eil.
The president has signed an order
metallic copper.
When this is accom­
These four defendants were charged
R E L I E F W O R K IN R U S S I A .
creating the Dixie forest reserve in
plished the industry w ill he only start-
with
unlawfully
combining
and
agree­
Washington and Iron counties. Utah.
wl. In conection with this develop­
ing to solicit rebates for the Schwarz- Government Seeking to Provide Food
The new reserve embraces 465,900
ment John Rosene uml associates w ill
child
A
Sulzberger
company
from
the
acres.
for Famine Districts.
push the building of the Northwestern
Michigan Central Railway company,
A
Copper River railroad, with the ob­
The dynamite cargo of a ship which
St. Petersburg, Sept. 25.— Special
the Chicago, Rock Island A Pacific, the
ject of building it to the Nabesca cop­
recently sunk in the Suez canal is to
committees
fiotn
the
Department
of
Grand Trunk Western railway, ttie
per district within three years.
Kos-
be exploded.
There are 80 tons in the
EXPER T ON TH E GROUND.
Lehigh Valley Railroa«i company, the Agriculture and Miuistery of the Inter­
ene’s railroail will first touch the Bo­
hold of the vessel, which w ill be the
ior
left
here
today
to
take
charge
of
B«iston A Maine Railroad company an«l
nanza group of copper mines, owned by
largest single explosion ever known.
Northern Pacific Sends Man to Select the Mobile A Ohio Railroail company. the relief work in the famine «lisrticts
the llavemeyers, the New York sugar
of
Russia.
The
cost
of
this
work
is
Charges were ma«le that the defendants
Norway and Sweden have signe 1 a
Sites for Portland Bridge.
refiners, who are believe«! to be among
estimated
by
the
government
at
$20,-
conspire«) with each «ither in presenting
treaty of separation.
the Eastern moneyeil men who are
North Yakima, Wash., Sept. 26.-—
000,000.
No
acute
«iistress
bus
yet
supplied claims for damag«*s, which
Norway now looks to Prince Charles, W hile the fact that the Northern Pa­
been repotted, and the government backing Roselle in bis railroad project.
were in reality claims for rebates.
cific is to construct a line down ihe
of Denmark, as her future ruler.
Brantnolier says bo found the Tatiana
hopes, by prompt «listribution of food,
north bank of the Columbia river from
see«l, grain and fishier and the employ­ liver to t>c a glacial stream with half a
In the Cuban elections Palmas was
Kennewick to Portland has already
ment of the famine stricken |s«pulace dozen channels anil ev«-rywbere very
BAD F A IT H T O C H IN A .
overwhelmingly elected president.
been publicly announced, Mr. Levey
on public works to tide over the people shallow. In many plaeca on the upper
Ex-State Treasurer Salmon, of Mis­ supplies some of the missing details
reaches it spreads out four or five
until the new harvest.
souri, has been indicted for banking which have been most eagerly awaited. Conger Condemns Failure to Build
F«iur expert cop|>er ininern
The rates for the trans|iortation of miles.
Railroad
as
Promised.
fraud.
'
Mr. I.evey left St. Paul Thursday
grain anil fishier into the government’ s with 40 tons of provisions were left on
Des Moines, la., Kept. 23. — In an stricken by famine have been reduced, \ Nabeaca creek with instructions to ex-
Three men were killed in a wreck on night. Accompanying him was Ralph
address
before the ( ¡rant club tonight, hut the deficiency in rolling stixk is plore the region thoroughly for the
Majeski,
a
bridge
engineer
and
expert,
the Oregon Short Line near Weiser,
who continued to Portland last night. ex-Minister to China Edwin H. Conger the chief obstacle to the work of relief. next two years.
Idaho.
Mr. Majeski comes from Chicago, and said that by the failure of the Am eri­
The ore is of tfie same character as
An observer of the situtaion who re
J. J. H ill, of the Great Northern has the reputation of being one of the cans to build the Chinese railway, faith
Nabesca
maineil here this week from a tour of Lake Superior copper ores.
railroad, has just celebrated his 67th best bridge experts in the country. It had lieen broken with China, and
Southern Russia, told the Associateti copper is found in bamls of greenstone
birthday.
w ill be his province to look over the America’ s good standing with the Chin­ Prese that hags of grain were pile«! up in shot like shape, often carrying 10 to
in the mountains at manv stations. 30 per cent of metallic copper. There
The Portland & Seattle railroad is to route by which the new line will enter ese seriously impaired.
“ We mane a very serious mistake Some of these were left from the 1904 i is also be says much copper on the
be extended from Kennewick, Wash., Portland, by way of Vancouver, Wash.,
and decide upon the best sites for when we permitted our railroad conces­ harvest, waiting for cars to move them. White river where it is in a slah-liko
to the Canadian boundary.
bridging the Columbia at the latter sion in China to be relinquished,’ ’ said The termination of the war has already *ha|ie, ami pieces were found running
The livestock show at the exposition city anil the Willamette at Portland.
Mr. Conger. “ It w ill prove a sad blow released some cars from the Silierian 1 from two to four feet in wiilth anil two
resulted in a great victory for Oregon
to onr future efforts to establish ad­ road.
inches thick. These slabs lay in seat*
breeders, who carried off awards in al­
vantageous husinss relations with that
N A V A L BASE A T S IN G A P O R E.
in the greenstone, making the most
most every class.
country. It w ill set us back many
wonderful surface showing Mr. Braut-
B U IL D N E H A LE M HOAD.
■ Great preparations are being made Great Britain Will Purchase Extensive years.
nobef has ever seen in this or foreign
“ When we were granted the conces­
countries.
for Portland day at the Lewis and
Docks and Sites.
sion, personally I made representations Lytle’s Announcement at Meeting of
Clark exopsition, when an admission of
Eight miles further up W hite river
Portland Chamber of Com m erce.
London, Sept. 26.— The fact that the to the Chinese that the railroad would
100,000 is looked for
copper occurs in the same formations,
British government purposes to estab­ be built by the Americans who got the
Portland, Sept. 25.— E. E. I.ylte an­
Representative Chineee in this coun­ lish a vast naval base at Singapore, concession, assured them up«m my hon­ nounces that be w ill build the Port­ nugget-shape, the nuggets running from
try are urging upon their government which was announced by the Sunday or that it was not secured for the pur­ land, Nehalem A Tillamook railroad, a half ounce to two ounces. The form­
the necessity of negotiating a new Observer with the suggestion that this pose of exploitation, and that it would which is now tie«! up at its first 20 ation, Mr. Brantnolier says, is Hliout 50(1
feet wide, with vas- quantities of cop­
treaty with the United States.
was the first tangible result of the new not be sold or relinquished.
Now, miles of roa«l through the tangle with
per lying at the foot of the hills, where
Anglo-Japanese
alliance
and
the
con­
however, it has been, and the business the Atlas Construction company. Since
The president has about concluded
the gn-enstone has liecome decomposed
his plans for a southern trip. He may clusion of the Ruseo-Japanese war, men of China feel that they have a the retirement of Mr. Lytle from the anil the copper ore has washed down in
not visit New Orltans at this time on affords the newspapers an opportunity right to look upon future business Columbia Southern and the suhse«|uerit ravines below. The gravel is lull of
account of yellow fever, but w ill make to discuss the situation of using Singa­ propositions from Americans with sus­ statement that it was his intention to native copper, which lies on the sur­
pore as a base, which was announced picion.”
engage in further railroad construction face in plain view.
a special trip to that city later.
some time ago when Admiral Fisher
work in the state, there has been much
Mr. Bratnolier says that one year’ »
Spain and Belgium have arranged an outlined the reorganization plan.
speculation as to where his activities vigorous development work w ill develop
D ISA G R EE A B O U T F O R T S .
arbitration treaty.
The newspapers now point out the
wouhl first make themselves telt.
copper mines which can produce 2,000
The Odd Fellows sovereign grand tremendous strategic vame of Singapore Sweden and Norway Still Keep Ques­
The announcement of Mr. L y tle’ s to 3,000 tons ot ore per day. The or«»
as guarding the gateway of the Pacific
lodge w ill meet at Toronto next year.
connection with the Portland, Nehalem w ill he hauled hy railroail to Valdez.
tion of Demolition Open.
and when open to Japan’ s war veesels
A Tillamook was not ma<le as a public
The government is still paying five
Karlstad, Sept. 23.— The Swedish utterance, but in the course of a meet­ an«l reduced there hy smelters. The
as giving Great Britain and Japan the
construction of the railroad, he de­
pensions on account of the Revolution­
upper hand over the other European ami Norwegians commissioners met in ing of the transportation committee of
clares, w ill «piickly make it the largest
ary war.
joint
conference
this
evening
after
the
countries where the Far East is con­
the Chamber of Commerce, calle«! to clipper proalticing district in the world,
Sockeye salmon are plentiful in the cerned. Some of this morning’ s papers holding of separate conferences during consider the feasibility of providing for
the surface showing undouhteilly the
Fraser river, B. C., but there is no are inclined to dwell upon this phase of the day. The joint conference lasted further river transportation by the Open
most favorable that has ever lieen dis-
market for them.
the acquirement of the Singapore nearly four hours and was then ad­ River association.
Several leading covere«!.
journed
until
tomorrow.
docks, as though just at the time it
business men were present at the meet­
The copper veins on Nabesca river
Minister Takahira, now at Washing­ were a demonstration of power by Great
It is understood that the Swedish de­ ing, among them being Mr. Lytle, who,
are three to eight feet wide ami seem
ton, w ill be sent to St. Petersburg, and Britain. But the government’ s inten­ mands that the transit trade through
while discussing the question before very continuous. Mr. Brantnolier lie-
Baron Kaneko w ill probably succeed tion to purchase'the docks at Singapore both countries shall lie secured against
the meeting, said that it would he in­ lieves that both smelters anil refiners
him in this country.
has been an open secret for many unjustifiable obstruction, and for the convenient for him to become active in
w ill he built at Valilez within a few
A paymaster’ s train on the Reading months, and according to goo«l authori­ right of pasturing reindeer lielonging the plans under discussion, owing to years, making that the largest city on
to
Hwe«lish
Laplanders
in
Northern
ty,
the
British
government
is
simply
his other interests, the chief of which the Alaskan coast.
road collided with a milk train near
Harrisburg, Pa. Pay checks amount­ facing the result of the new strategic Norway, have been amicably settled, was the Portland A Nehalem roa«l.
but that teh question of the demolition
ing tc over $50,000 were scattered in situation in the Far East.
Canada Under Ban.
of
the fortifications still remains open.
Wireless in the Navy.
every direction.
Victoria,
B. C., Hept. 21.— The belief
Calabria Is Wind Swept.
Washington, Sept. 25.— A report was ia general here that tbe crusade against
A dynamite bomb exploded in a New
May
Talk
Politics.
Rome, Sept. 26 — Another tornado
receiveil at the bureau ot equipment of Uniteil States goods in China w ill be
York tenement shook up the whole today caused enormous damage in Ca­
St. Petersburg, Sept. 23.— A project the navy from the Washington navy extended to those of Canadian origin.
neighborhood. That nobody was seri­ labria. A gradual clearance of the for granting the Russian people, under yard to the effect that tiie wireless telg-
ously injured appears remarkable. The buildings ruined by the recent earth­ certain limitations, the rigid of assem­ egrapb station bail the previous night Simultaneous meetings are being belli
work was that of the Italian “ Black quake shows that the number of per­ bly for the discussion of political and overheard signals transmitte«! from 29 in all tqe cities of Canada where Chi­
nese have gained a foothold, at which
Hand.”
sons who perisheil was greater than economic questions— a reform second in wireless stations along the Atlantic
resolutions have lieen passcil condemn­
given
in
the
first
estimate.
Large
importance only to the convocation of coat. Among the stations beard were ing the treatment accorded Chinese by
A Santa Fe train was derailed near
Newton, Kansas.
Several
persons numbers of bodies are being discovered the representative assembly, and whicti Hatteras, New York and Boston navy tiie citizens and government of tbe Do­
daily. The work of constructing wood­ was elaborate<l by a commission nnder yards; New Haven, Savannah, New­
were injured, one of whom w ill die.
minion and calling the attention of the
en cabins under government supervision the presidency of Count Agnieff— is port, Lynn, Mass., Highland of Nave-
Merchants’ guilds in China to the same.
Two hundred now practically completed, and after a sink, Atlantic City and Pliilailelphia;
A landslide on Mount San Paolino, is progressing rapidly.
The Halifax Chinese have Bet the hall
Sicily, buried a town at the foot of the have already been completed and 4,000 final review by the Solskoy commission the battleships Maine anil Alabama and rolling.
mountain. The inhabitants had been more w ill be necessary to shetler the on Saturday w ill lie immediately laid cruiser Columbia, now off the coast.
homeless people.
warned and most of them escaped.
before Emperor Nicholas. Its promul­
Many Murders at Baku.
gation is expected soon.
Jail Penalty for Striking.
Tiflis, Sept. 21. — The governor of
The president of Venezuela has
San Gabriel Swept by Flames.
Warsaw, Russian Poland, Sept. 25. Baku reports that there have lieen no
snubbed a French diplomat.
W ork Begun on Western Pacific.
Carmont, Cal., Sept. 26.— A brush
— The m ilitary governor has issue«l a disorders on a large s«;ale in the town
Halt I,ake City, Sept. 23.— Forty proclamation warning workingmen that or in the oil fields, but there have been
Two men were killed and 43 injured fire that burneil two days has devastat-
e«l San Gabriel valley, destroying all teams began work on the Western Paci­ they w ill he imprisoned for three scattered eases of assaults and murder.
in the Nevada railroad wreck.
the vegetation andiloing $100,000 «lam- fic road 20 miles west of the city, and months if they carry out their threat The viceroy has placed tbe districts o f
Advocates of a republic for Norway age. The main industry of the valley, officials announce that 1,500 or 2,000 to strike, as a protest against acta of Uori and Dusl.et under military ad
are again coming to the front.
bee raising, has been ruined.
the government.
teams w ill be at work by October 1.
ministration.