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S T A Y T O N . ............... .. OREGON
NEWS OF THE WEEK
In a Condensed Form for Our
Busy Readers.
Resume o f the Less Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
o f the Past Week.
A general strike has been called in
Finland.
China’ s army made a good showing
at the recent maneuvers.
Von Buelow says Germany wants a
trade treaty with the United States.
St. Petersburg is wild with rejoicing
over the manifesto of the csar granting
freedom.
Russia has a number of vessels at
Japanese ports arranging to take home
prisoners of the late war.
The rumo-ed mutiny of the Russian
B'ack sea fleet and mu der of two ad
mirals cannot be confirmed.
In a head-on collision between two
freight trains on the Rock Island at
Casey, Iowa, six men were killed.
Acting Public Printer Ricketts has
submitted estimates of the expenses for
the coming year. They are much low
er than formerly.
M A N Y NOW D ESERT.
Army is Little Considered in Time o f
Peace by Americans.
Washington, Oct. 81.— Major Gen
eral F. C. Ainsworth, the m ditaiy si
retary, in his annual rep >rt, devotes
much attention to desertions from the
army. “ Those who know how the can
teen came to lie abolished," he says,
“ are not hopeful of its restoration
there is no likelihood of any such in
crease in the soldiets’ pay as w ill offset
the greater inducement offered in civil
pursuits; the comforts and even luxur
ies that are furnished to enlisted men
in our service are even now criticised
hv some as being not only extravagant
but injurious in their effect on men
whose real business is to fight and
march, e no uni be red with few comforts
and no luxuries; and tiie discipline
and instruction to which the soldier is
now subjected are not likely to be re
taxed in future.
“ Our |>eople have little real interest
in the army in time of j>eace, and from
the earliest day of the republic have
been accustomed to look upon it as a
more or less unnecessary institution
Enlistments in the army in time of
peace is not uncommonly regarded as
evidence of worthlessness on the part
of the recruit.
“ It is safe to predict that desertions
from the army w ill continue to tie ex
cessive until there shall have been a
radical change of public sentiment to
ward the army and until the deserter
shall come to be regarded as the crim
inal that be is, to be ostracized and
hunted down as relentlessly as any
other transgressor of the laws.”
B U R ST MAIN C A U S E S D EATH .
Thirteen persons were killed and 30 Many Families Made Homeless and
injured in a wreck on the Santa Fe a
Much Property Destroyed.
mile out of Kansas City.
A number
Chicago, Oct. 31. — Three lives were
of the injured may die.
lost, property valued at 1150,000 was
A t Lodz, Russia, where 130,000 men destroyed, scores of families were made
are on strike, the infantry were ordered homeless and freight traffic on the
to fire into their ranks, but instead Nickel Plate railroad was delayed Tor
pointed their guns high in the air.
several hours as the result of the
Rear Admiral Train, commander of breaking of a water main at Eighteenth
the American Asiatic sqnadron, and his and Clark streets today.
The fatalities resulted indirectly
son, were the victims of an attack by
Chinese at Nankin.
Marines were from the bursting of the water pipe,
compelled to fire twice in order to sub- 1
H°°ded the immediate neigtdsir-
due the mob.
hood for several blocks, damaging a
1 number of business houses.
Two of
Suit ha« begun to oust the New \ork the persons who lost their lives were
Life and Mutual Life from Ohio.
overcome by gas in the Illinois tunnel
The Standard Oil company owrs
Eighteenth street and Armour ave-
$27,000,000 of Santa
Fe preferred nue. while attempting to ascer.ain if
gtoek,
the fljod had damaged the property of
the company.
T h ' other death was
Strike leaders have formed a govern the result of a shock to an invalid, who
ment at Moecow to act independently awoke and tound her room Hooded with
of the imperial authorities.
I water.
8o great was the force of the water
Fifteen of 107 patients treated at the
Portlsand sanitarium for consumptives that all the business houses and homes
on Clark street from Sixteenth to
have been discharged as cured.
Twentieth street, and those on I .a Salle
Russia will be unable to get the new
street were flooded. The tracks of the
loan of $250,000,000 she wants until
Lake and Michigan Southern railway,
after the present trouble is settled.
between
Seventh
and
Eighteenth
A maniac killed two men at Chenoa, ; streets were undermined, and the
Several freight
Illinois, and made a fortress of the steel foundation caved in.
vault in the bank.
He was captured cars were overturned and their contents
, damaged.
by the use of chloroform.
Apostle Dowie is recovering his
BIG RANCH C U T UP.
health and w ill soon return to Chicago
from Mexico, where he has been ar
i Chehalis Countv Will Have Additions
ranging for his new Zion City.
to Population
An extradition treaty has been ap
Aberdeen, Wash., Oct. 31.— The sale
proved by the United States and San
Marino.
A consul w ill be sent to of the “ Blockhouse" Smith ranch, near
Washington. San Marino is the small ! Oakville, in this county, for $25,000,
calls attention once more to the activ
est and oldest republsic in the world.
ity in farm lands in this vicinity. It is
The Russian cruiser Leena, now at an indication that lumber is not to lie
San Francisco, may be seized by revo altogether the ruling passion. The sale
lutionists as soon as she reaches the of this ranch follows in the wake of
Black sea. The crew sympathizes with several others which have been re-
the present movement against the gov
| corued in the past month or six weeks
ernment.
quite as important.
The Smith ranch comprises over 800
Secretary Taft has completed his es
timates of the appropriations required acres and was settled upon as far hack
for the War department for the next | as 1854 by the man from whom it takes
fiscal year.
They total $104,988,- its name. Sm th is a quaint character
267.75, $10,000,000 less than the last and prides himself on the nickname of
“ Blockhouse.”
This cognomen was
congress appropriated.
the result of his having built a block
Taft has started for Panama.
house on his ranch for protection
Southern congressmen are united against Indians.
for a rate bill.
It is understood the ranch is to be
A split in Maryland Democracy may cut up into small farms and disposed
of to first comers. In connection with
end Gorman’ s rule.
the sale of big ranches, it is important
Fire has destroyed one of the Prince to note that logged-off lands are show
ton college buildings.
ing a steady sale in various parts of the
King Oscar has declined (he Norwe county for colonization purposes. It is
gian throne for a member of his family. also interesting to the people of this
section to know that an Eastern farmer
A prairie fire near Minot, N. D., has has purchased a large tract of land near
dsetroyed thousands of tons of hay, this city for the raisingof Angora goats.
some buildings, a large amount of grain
and some stock.
Great Increase in Trade.
The steamer conveying President
Roosevelt from New Orleans to the
warship at the mouth of the river col
lided with a fruit steamer. No one
was injured, and after a short delay the
president proceeded.
Acting Pnhlic Printer Ricketts has
been in conference with the senate and
house committees on printing.
Ac
cording to him thousands of dollars
might be saved every year by refusing
to print worthless reports.
Washington, Oct. 31.— A bulletin is
sued by the Bureau of Statistics of the
Department of Commerce and Labor
estimated that the foreign commerce of
the United States for the calendar year
1905 w ill amount to more than $1,000,-
000. For the nine months ended in
September the imports of materials for
use in manufacturing amount to $422,
000,000, and the exports of manufac
tures to $424,000,000. Manufactured
materials imported in the nine months
of 1905 were practically twice*as great
in value as in 1890.
A Louisville
Southern passenger
train traveling 50 miles an hour plung
ed through a bridge eight miles west of
Japanese Leaving Manchuria.
Lexington, K y.
A large number of
Tokio, O it. 31. — The evacuation of
passengers were injured, many of whom
Manciiuria by the Japanese is being
w ill die. The death list is expected to
actively carried on, and troops are ar
reach at least 16.
riving daily at various ports. General
The only trains running in Russia Knroki is expected here by the middle
of November.
are manned by soldiers.
BLOOD MUSI FLOW
Russian Revolutionists Try to
Provoke Conflict.
ST. PETERSBURG IN FULL PANIC
Streets A re Deserted Except
for the
Troops and Lights Are Out—
Shops Are Closing.
St. Petersburg, Oct. 28.—-That the
I resent situation cannot end without
bloodshed is the conviction prevailing
in the higher government circles, which
(rum moment to moment ate expecting
a conflict between the troops and the
revolutionists in St. Petersburg, and
news of trouble in the provinces, espec
ially at Kharkoff, which has been de
clared in a state of siege. Governors
have been instructed to take all neces
sary precautions to preserve ord»r.
One of the most important members
of tlje emperor’ s council received the
Associated Press representative today
and said, with every evidence of deep
emotion;
The situation is a grievous and
painful one, and I see no way out of it
except by the employment of armed
force. Please do not misunderstand
me. I look upon the prospect with
tears, but it is becoming more and more
evident that the troops w ill be com
pelled to fire. I can see no other pos
sible outcome. The revolutionists and
terrorists are absolutely b -nt on forcing
a conflict upon us, and nothing we can
do will satisfy them. The extension of
the suffrage and the right of assembly
will be nothing to them. They are de
termined to have bloodshed and we
annot avoid the issue. It is a fright-
fill disease from which Russia is suffer
ing, and sad and painful as it is, the
government must act with force."
In the city, in spite of the absence of
{¡Borders, there is a condition of actual
pnnic. H alf of the population is com
pelled to rely on candles or kerosene
lamps for light, while the street lamps
in a large part of the city have been
extinguished.
The Streets are deserted except for
the squads of infantry and cavalry
which are everywhere.
Tiie shops begin to close in the after
noon in even tiie Morskaia, Nevskj and
other central streets. Many of the in
habitants shut themselves in their
houses, scarcely venturing out to make
necessary pnrehases of food, which l.as
mounted to famine prices.
G RE AT INCREASE IN TRADE.
Exports and Internal Movements ot
Grain and Cattle.
Washington, Oct. 28 — Derided in
creases in trade movements are shown
during September, as well as in the
total for the nine months of this year,
compared with periods of last year by
summaries issued hy tiie department of
Commerce and I abor. The grain ex
ports for the nine months this year
amounted to 105,219,693 bushels, as
compared with 48,673,706 for the same
months last year. This ypar the corn
exports have been 82,753,212 bushels,
as compared with 34,441,771 bushels
for the corresponding months last year.
The September exports of grain th in
year amounted to more than 10,000,-
000 over September of 1904;.
The domestic movement of trade dur
ing September shows the same in
creases. Nearly 2,000,000 head of live
stock arrived at five of tiie largest dis
tributing centers in excess of Septem
ber a year ago, while the increase in
the receipts of grain in 12 important
interior centers aggregated over 27,-
000,000 bushels more than tiie corres
ponding month last year.
MUST HAVE LIBERTY
NO A P P R O P R IA T IO N .
Taft Will Not Recommend Money for
Bar or Celilo Canal.
Washington, Oct. 30. — Secretary
Taft, in his estimates this year, will
not recommend any appropriation I >r
completing jetty work at th« mouth of
the Columbia river, nor will he ask for
an appropriation to continue the con
struction of The Dallas-Celilo .anal.
Army engineers who have been advised
of the secretary's attitude are of the
opinion that, unless some special legls
lation Is enacted making appropriations
for these projects, work will have to he
suspended befoie another river and
harbor hilt can pass, something that ia
deplored |>y the engineers as much aa
it w ill ho by the people of the North-
vest.
Mr. Taft is not discriminating against
the Columbia river in refusing to ask
for an appropriation this winter, for he
has decided to recommend no appropri
ations for river and hbilarr works.
Those projects known as continuing
contracts w ill lie cared tor in the sun
dry civil bill without any recommend
ation on tiie part of the War depart
ment, hut, unfortunately for the Co-
lumhia river, neither the imr project
nor tiie Celilo canal is in tliia class.
Had Oregon full representation in
congress this winter, a good strong del
egation, it might lw> possible, witli tiie
aid of tiie dc legal ions from Washington
and Idaho, to tiave tiie liar project
made a continuing contract and thereby
provide means for getting annual ap
propriations until tiie work is complet
ed. But with only one representative
in Washington and no reiiesculation in
tiie house, where such legislation usu
ally originates, this accomplishment is
considered im|K>ssible.
W IT H O U T A HEAD.
Czar Vacillates While Russian
lution Grows.
Revo-
St. Petersburg, Oct. 30.— W hile tiie
day passed quietly without bloodshed
in tiie Russian capital, and while the
city is outwardly calm, today's devel
opments all indicate that a crisis is
imminent.
Although the streets arc
filled with troops, ami reinforcements
are now pouring in from Finland, the
government seems utterly |siwerless to
co|*e witli tiie situation, and many calm
observers seem seriously tojbelieve that
tiie present regime is tottering to its
fall.
Differences have developed la-tween
Connt Witte and General Tre|siff, ami
while tiie precious moments puss, tiie
emperor, surrounded hy tiie imperial
family, remains shut up at PeterhofT,
M’en,inK,J
hesitating as to wl.at
course to pursue.
Tiie situation cannot well !>« exagger
ate«!. W itli tiie present indecision of
the emperor, the government
lias
neither a head nor a policy to meet tiie
crisis, and things seem to he drifting
lowanl anarchy.
Tiie revolutionists
°P *n,|r «l«ctare that the government l.as
rt* he'1 * ° ®l l *t * nd that nothing re
mains to Ins majesty except to abdi
cate. With a firm head at tiie helm,
however, all might quickly be changed.
Representatives of tiie Associated
Press drove through all sections of tiie
city today.
Troops were everywhere
in evidence, as if io overawe tiie | k * o -
ple, hut although there were many ru
mors of bloody collisions, none of them
could he authenticated.
There were
great crowds of workmen in the indus
trial quarters, hut they were orderly.
WHERE M UCH M O N E Y GOES.
Buildings Are Full o f Useless G ov
ernment Printing.
Washington, Oct. 30. — In his testi
mony before the joint printing commit
tee today, Foreman Brewer, of tiie
Senate folding room, said that there
were 475,000 uncalled for publications
stored in his
department.
Arnzi
Smith, who lias been in tiie Senate
document room for 30 years, said that
tiie supply of documents there has
quadrupled during his incumbency, Gut
there are not too many to meet tiie de
mand.
I
J. R. Halverson, superintendent of
tiie House folding room, testified that
there are no fewer than 1,000,000 doc
uments stored, including 200,000 bound
volumes o f ‘ lie Congressional record.
Sergeant at-Arms Kansdell, of tiie sen
ate, stated that tiie senate documents
are stored in an abandoned ear barn,
Smashed by Runaway Car.
New York, Oct. 28. — A runaway an«] that it is almost ftilj.
street car on the new Williamsburg
Oystermen Are Pirates.
suspension bridge across the East river
Houston, Tex., Oct. 30. — Captains
toilay caused the injury of 25 persons,
two of them being fatally hurt. For C. Walker and Constantine Argo, of tiie
1,000 feet down the incline on tiie oyster fleet, are in jail here on piracy
Manhattan approach of tiie bridge a charges preferred hy the Federal au
Christopher street car ran with its thorities, growing out of methods pur
brakes oat of order until it hit and sue«! Gy the G ulf Coast Oyster company
demolished a standing
Fourteenth to control the flsli and oyster market
street car. It was 10 minutes before after several armed clashes in which
the broken roof, sides and floor of this tiie trust’s fleet overpowered independ
car could he taken off from the last ent fishermen and diiinpe«l their car
goes into the gulf.
Federal interven
passenger under the wreckage.
tion was asked, with the result men
tioned.
The trust employs 140 men
Sun Spotted on Puget Sound.
Tacoma, Oct. 28.— From Puget sound and 0 |>erate 8 36 boats.
points a large spot on the sun was
Decrease in Pension Roll.
clearly visible today.
A heavy fog
this morning caused the sun to appear " Washington, Oct. 30.— Tiie Pension
as a red Gal I about the size of a dinner bureau reports a loss of 2,003 C ivil
plate, and the spot was very distinct, war pensioners by death during Sep-
about the size of a dollar. As the fog tern tier. The net decrease of pension
lifted, people viewed the strange sight ers was 941, leaving a total of 996,270
through smoked glasses.
on the pension rolls September 30.
Witte Will Take the Helm and
Seek to Rule Storm.
CZAR MAY LEAVE THE EMPIRE
Social
Revolt Shakaa
Russia
From
End to End—St. Petersburg
Cut O ff by Strikers.
Ht. Petersburg, Oct. 26.— Confronted
Gy a situation more serious than any
since tiie tieginning of tiie political and
social upheaval of Russia, which at tiie
time tills dispatch la tiled, shows no
signs of amelioration, tiie emperor's
ministers,
under tiie leadership of
Count Witte, s|«ent almost all of yes
terday in conferences in tiie hope of
finding some way out of tiie crisis into
which the revolutionists have cast tiie
country.
The general strike on tiie
railroads is «xuuplet« except in a few
border provinces, ami St. Petersburg,
Moscow and other large cities sre al
most as closely beleaguered as if they
were invested Gy besieging armies. At
tiie same time tiie industrial strike lias
assumed large dimensions and tiie tur
bulent elements in several localitiea
are forming open resistance to the
Insipe. The ministers who hsd been
ill session during tiie day resumed their
meeting after a abort interval lor din-
net and continue«! deliberations until
long alter midnight.
The result oi
these delilx rations is not known.
After a night of inexpressible terror,
Russia today ia piling««! into the «leep-
est gloom. Following tiie d«-i laiation
by tiie workingmen yesterday afternoon
of a general strike to reinforce tiie rail
way strike which lias paralyiisl the in
dustry of tiie country, rioting and
street fighting kept tiie city in a slate
of terrible unrest all last night. What
makes tiie situation seem hopeless in
that the crisis, apparently, is not yet
reached.
So serious are tiie conditions that it
is saiil tiie czar will soon leave Russia,
paying a two months’ visit to Den*
mark. Tiie czar's visit w ill Ire osten
sibly to recuperate from the strain oi
tiie last two years. In reality, it in
laid, those lieliind tiie government de
sire him out of tiie way am! in a place
of safety shnultl an uprising evolve
itself out of tiie present labor ilifhcul-
ti«*s. Count Witte, according to in-
formatbm f'om Peterhof, will hohi an
office equivalent to that of regtuit «lur
ing the almence of tiie emperor, ami
will hold full powers as head of tiie
government.
REFORM PU B L IC LAN D LAW S.
Time is Opportune for Congress to
Act at Coming Session.
Washington, Oct. 26.— There is stone
doubt in tiie minds of members of tiie
Public Lantls commission as to their
aGiltiy to make a final report to the
president before congress convenes on
December 4. but there is little doubt
tfin' the president, in Gin annual mes
sage, w ill forcibly remind congress that
it lias a duty to perforin in redrafting
some of tiie public land laws which are
now so «irawn as to foster ami encour
age fraud. If tiie Public Lamls com
mission makes its isst report during
tiie coming session, tiie president w ill
semi tGut rejxjrt to congress witli a
special message, ami w ill renew' and re
inforce what he has to say on that sub
ject at tiie opening of tiie session.
The president is more determine«!
than ever before to have tiie laud laws
revised, especially the laws that permit
tiie disposal of timber lands at a nom
inal price, nml which, furthermore,
offer so many opportunities to specula
tors ami thieves. In light of tiie con
victions at Portland and of other con
victions soon likely t«> follow, both in
Washington and in Portland, it would
see in that the coining session is tiie
pioper time for land law reform. With
several notable examples «)! land thieves
clearly fixed in tiie public mind, ther«*
will he more incentive to remodel tiie
laws now titan a year or two hence.
Ate Match Heads and Died.
Butte, Mont., Oct. 26.— An autopsy
on tiie remains of James F. I la rues, the
alleged murderer of Patrick Hanley,
allowed that lie had committed suicide
Gy eating off tiie lienils of phosphorus
matches, much phosphorus being found
in his stomach.
Barnes hailed from
Chico, Cal., where a wife and two ch il
dren resiile.
Itarncs apparently had
been eating tiie matches for a number
of days, which accounted for Gis eating
nothing for several days, leading to the
belief that tiie prisoner was starving
himself to death.
Not Seeking Presidency.
Washington, Oct. 2. — The Post to
morrow w ill say: Secretary Taft has
announced: “ I have no intention o f
resigning from tiie cabinet to make a
campaign fAr tiie presidency, and, fur
thermore, I have no intention whatever
of making a campaign for the office o f
the nation’ s chief executive.”