THE STRYTON MAIL
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STAYTO N.
.OREGON
NEWS OF THE WEEK
In a Condensed Form lor Oar
Basy Readers.
A Resum « o f th e L ess Im p o rta n t b u t
N o t Less In te re s tin g Events
o f th e P sst W e e k .
The people of Oklahoma are to vote
on prohibition.
F O R E IG N W A R S H IP S C O M I N G .
E n ro p e and S ou th
a t J a m a s to w n
A m e ric a W ill ba
E x p o s itio n .
Washington, March 12.— In addition
to the great ironclads of the Atlantic
fleet, commanded by Admiral Evans,
j the naval display at the Jamestown ex
position w ill include smne of the finest
j vessels in the foreign navies. These
are mostly of the ciuiscr class, hut as
the at mured vessels of this type are
etpial to battleships In sUr ami scarcely
less formidable in npi>earuhcc, they
will make an attractive showing.
The Navy de|<artmeut has keen ad
vised up to date of the coming of the
following foreign ships:
Great Biitain— The armored cruisers
Good Hope, flagship Argyle. Mapstead
and Roxburgh, under command of Rear
Admiral Neville.
France — Armored cruiser« Klrber
and Victor Hrgo and another cruiser
to take the place of the Jean Bart, re
cently wrecked off the African ott*t,
commanded by Rear Admiral Thierry.
Japan— The cruisers Tsuguka and
Chitoee, under command of Vice Ad
miral Ijuin.
Portugal— One cruiser, probably the
Don Carlos.
Austria— The armored cruiser Clrnr-
lcs V II and another cruiser.
Italy— One armored cruiser and one
protected cruiser.
Sweden — One warship, not yet
named.
Brazil— One to "three warships, not
yet named.
Argentina— One to three warships,
not yet named
Chile— The cruiser Senteno.
Belgium— W ill send a military dele
gation ami China a military uml naval
delegation.
SAVES TIMBER LAND
President Creates Reserves by
Wholesale Before Too Late.
NEW RESERVES IN NORTHWEST
A dds N e a rly 0 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 A c re s to N a
tion al F o ra s te o f O re g o n , W a s h
ington and Id a h o .
T H IR D T E R M
TALK.
M o v e m e n t R e fu te s to D o w n and the
P re s id e n t M ay A ccep t.
Washington, March 11.— Politicians
in Washington are trying to figure out
the meaning of the sudden outburst of
the Roosevelt third term I m s iiii Imre
They regard as e«| «d u lly significant
the typewritten memorandum given
out by Representative Martin, of South
Dakota, after a conference with the
president, vigorously defending the
third term idea.
They have reached the concluaion
that the president ienlir.es that the
third term movement must lie allow««!
to run right on in order to head off the
progress of the I mkiiiis of reactionary
candidates.
The prevailing opinion
here remains that President Roosevelt
personally w ill go as far as he can to
prevent his own renomlnation, hut w ill
stop at' nothing to assure the nomina
tion of a successor in M<vord with his
policies.
Rather than Me them euocurnb, many
lielloxe that the piesidenl himself, if
prn|ierly appmuched, would take a re
nomination, providing no other candi
date satisfactory to himself and friends
is strong enough t<> unite the next Re
publican national convention.
ARCHIE HOLDS OWN
Physicians Hopefol tor Recovery
ot President’s Son.
REASSURING BULLETINS ISSUED
N o tw ith s ta n d in g C o n d itio n o f H it S o n ,
R oo sevelt A tten d s to B u f i
n o t i as U su al.
Washington, March B.— Prior to
Washington, March 9.—-Arabie Roose
signing tin« agricultural bill, which
velt restisi wcll last night and thè at-
M. Petkoff, the Bulgarian premier,
contains Senator Fulton’s amendment
tending physiclnns are Impelili of hls
prohibiting the creation of forest re-
ha? been assassinated.
recovery. Di. Aleaxndsr Ijirnlx-rt, wlm
serves in the Northwestern slates ex
was Miimiimiicd fr>im New York to tiik«*
Nicaragua os accused of spying on
cept by lire authority of congress, the
charge
of thè (*n*u. Ini« infornimi thè
the American minister.
president yesterday issued a proclama
prvtddcnt that wliile thè patient’scon
Premier Stolypin promises not to dis
tion creating 82 forest reserves in the
dii lon Ir « n ‘oumglng, he is not yet out
solve the Russian douma.
six states afficted by the Fulton amend
of danger.
ment.
His
proclamations
add
4,0A1,.
A conatiItalion wna hcld at thè W hlte
Nicaragua is suid to be preparring a
000 acres to the reserve area of Oregon.
House.
ft was attendivi by Dr. litio-
force with which to attack Honduras by
4.240.000 acres In Washington und
la-rt, Nurgmin General Itlxey and Au
sea.
580.000 acres in Idaho.
satali! Kuig(ois Kirhy, Hralatcd and J.
The Kansas house has (»assed the
The creation of th«*ee r«*serves prob P L A N T O F O R T IF Y P H IL I P P I N E S ( ’ . Pryor, of lite navjr. A t 10:80 Dr.
senate bill providing for 2-cent passeu
ably marks the end of r««serve extension
liiin b'rt g»\e out Ibis hullctin:
ger fare.
in the Northwest for many years to P resid en t C o n sid ers It and W ill Push
“ The isitlent is rcatlng comfortahly.
come, for the additions now Include
Russia and Germany will both op
No
complicai ion Ima develo|ax| sirice
C o n stru ctio n R apidly.
most of the desirable timber land of all
pose disarmament at The Hague {«ace
Thiirsday, and hi* conditimi ia ss gixsl
Washington, March I I . — Fort ¡cations a« coiild Ite cx|ax't<<d al Ibis stage of thè
six states, so far as known to the Forest
conference.
service. Being hastily made in or«ler of the Philippine Islands lor mo I the diserra).“
Knoxville, Tenn., by a majority of
to circumvent the restrictions of the subject of a lengthy conference at the
Ari carlier hullctin iasue.1 by Kerrc-
nearly 2,000, has voted to liave no sa
Fulton amendiiieiit, the reserves are W hite House tonight pailicipated In tary l.ochulso was of a rcassiiring na
loons in the city.
Usisely ereated and in doubt contain by the president. Major (I# iernl Frank ture.
much laud that w ill be found unsuited lin Hoi I, eh iff of staff; Brigadier Gen
Bristol has received a recess appoint
I l «H I stuted at thè W llite Hotiae
to forestry purpose* and which w ill ul eral Murray, chief «>f coast artillery; that Dr. Lambert will not leuve Wash
ment from the president as district at
Secretary of the Navy Metcalf, uml ( sp- ington tinti! Ite ia salisti. .1 that Arabie
timately be restored to entry.
torney for Oregon.
The largest reservation In Oregon tain Mason Sargent, of the naval gener is out of danger.
It is charged that Hermann’s attor
was an addition of 977,1)00 acres to the al Ixmrd Thera Is available at the
Notw Itlistamliug Ihe «erloua condi
neys have attempted to have witnesses
G R A N D J U R Y A T B O IS E .
Blue mountain reserves in Eastern Ore prerent time for this purpoec $1,435,(>(Nl ti ori of bis io.) thè prmldctit wa* in bis
for the government tel! a story that
gun. Other additions in existing re and tenetlve plans already have hi'en office tmn-acting business ut thè imnal
will help the defendant.
M u ch Speculation as to th e C ause o f s«‘rves are: 446,000 to the Siskiyou in procured for carrying out the project.
Imur y ester< lay moni ing, ami thè usuai
C allin g o f S p ecial Session.
A Texas man has just been arrested
Southern Oregon, 71,000 acres to the These were carefully gone overtixiay by Fridny cabinet mrctiiig was hcld.
for a crime for w hich he allowed his
Boise, h ’a'io, March 12.— Rumors W.-neha reserve, 514,000 acres to the Svretary Taft and Generals Hull and
father to hang in 1874. The deathbed are rife tonight that there w ill be some Cascade reserve, mostly on it* western Murray und it was the aeerefary’a in
H A R R IM A N l O H E L P H IL L .
confessionof a witness caused the arrest. startling sensutions as the result of the border, an l 154,000 to the Ashland re tention to be at the White House to
night and join In the conference, but he
Missouri valley lumbermen favor a sitting of the United State's grand jury serve in Southwestern Oregon.
S ug g estion o f In te rs ta te C o m m e rc e
was unavoidably kept away.
To
include
the
timber
land
of
the
beginning yesterday. What these mat
joint rate.
C o m m is s io n e r Lane.
ters are is not known, but there are Coast range the president created the
Russian reactionaries plan to dissolve many surmires. Hints are given that Tillamook reserve, containing 165,000
Washington, March 9. — Lumbermen
D IS A R M IN G IS E X C L U D E D .
the douma
in the Puget Sound region have com
some people high up in the scale will acres; the Coquil e r -erve, em l««lym g
Britain and Russia may unite to be involved. There are cases pending 140.000 aerts, and the Unqiqim reserve, Russia W ill N o t A llo w Discussion at plained to tin* lnter«tatc Coiuincre«'
Commission tlust they hav«> been un
in which persons are under indictment with an area of 802,0 K) acres.
keep order in Persia.
T h e H ag u e C o n fe re n c e .
able since Jnnuniy 20 to obtain trans-
The Wallowa and Chesnitiiinim re-
for alleged timlter land fraud cases in
War between unions may cloee the
><n ation of their pnxlucts to Eastern
serv«*s
are
combined
u
ider
tbe
name
of
St.
Petersburg,
March
11.—
Professor
Washington county, but it seems prob
Goldfield, Nevada, mines
able these will not be brought to trial. Iinnaha, and 783,000 acre-s are added. de Martens. Russian Ini|M-ri(sl coins'll lor points because of the Hated inability of
In Washington the Washington re of state, who has lieen making a tour of the Great Noitlicrn and Northern Pa
Jerome is confident of being able to
Colonel A. R. Greene, special agent
destroy the Thaw defense.
of the Interior department, has been set ve is enlarged by the addition of 2,- tl e capitals of Europe for Ihe piir|«>*o cific railroads to handle the tralfk'.
275,000acres, which includes practical of determining the program to be dis Commissioner Lane, of the Interstate
Garfield and Ballinger are to tour here for some weeks, and it is apparent
ly all government land lietw«*en the cilured at the next peuev conference at Commerce commission, ha* received
that
the
sensations
promised
are
par
the West in the interest of land reform.
present
Washington and Rainier re- The Hague, is expwt«*d hack in Ht letter* from lumbermen weal of the
tially the result of his work. It is
( ’oread* mountains, saying that it is
Secretary Straus has started a radical known that he has lieen investigating servee. This makes one con tin turn* re- i'cterslairg this week.
reform of the steamboat inspection ser some complaints made by contractors scrv«* along the (..arcade mountains from
The introduction of any measures for i in I sms 1 1#)«* for them to g«'t th«*ir pro
vice.
on reclamation works, but the under the Columbia river to the international the limitation of armament* is regard ducts to Missouil river point« and u*k-
standing
has lieen that it was simply boundary. This addition embrace* the ed here as definitely exclud««!, I «cause ing whether the commission cannot
Paris electricians have w on, their
afford some relief.
strike and the big city again has light an Interior depart m«>nt matter, the Northern Pacific grant, but railroad of the attitude «if several of the | kjwith
Mr. Ijine ha* suggested thut thi'y
lands
arc
not
made
j<art
of
the
reserve
United
States
Ambassador
Riddle
luta
contractors
complaining
they
have
not
and power.
can
make a formal complaint to the
and
no
right
of
lieu
selection
aivrue*.
ini|uirad
at
the
Foreign
office
here
re
been treated fairly
Eleven of Portland’ s sawmills and
One of the hints given out is in rela- A new reserve is created to include garding the nnxle of admission to th commission, requesting it to grunt
2,000 men are idle as a r«8 lit of the ion to the section line surveys for the 857.000 aeri-s of the Colville Indian next confer jnoe of certain South Amer them a through route from the Puget
labor troubles in that city.
government.
Another is that some lands; the I’riie-t river reserve is crest ¡cun and other state's which did not Hound region via Portland, Or., over
Pncifl«* railroad and
Michigan
copper companies are land matters in the vicinity of Sho- ed in Htevens county to contain 310,000 participate in the first conference. He tho Northern
thence
via.the
Oregon
Hhort Line and
acres;
the
Olympic
reserve
is
enlurged
was
informed
that
practically
ull
tin
hone
Falls
are
to
be
investigate«)
pleading with the governor to allow
them to form a trust so as to success There is a crooked section line there by 1 lJi,UU0 acres, and 730,000 acr«-s signatory's had agreed to the rncthcsl the Union Pacific to Missouri river
proposed by Kuaaia, namely, rmtifica |Miints.
which throws the falls into another e«>c are added to the Rainier n-serve.
fully fight their rivals.
The Great Northern an«l the North
Most of the fc:rout land in Idaho ha* tion of acceptance of the regulation«
tion from that in which it should be
The Nicaraguan government has in
ern
Pacific admit that they cannot car
already
U-en
reserv
ed
.
A
Palouse
re-
the
signing
of
the
protocol
of
the
first
embraced. There are other rumors in-
sulted the American flag and assaulted
olving names of prominent persons, m-rve is created with an area of 192,000 conference and the numlier of delegate* ry mote than one-third of Ihe I um 1 s t
Minister Merry, who has closed the
that is offered, but heretofore I hey have
ut nothing definite has yet lehked out. acres; the Port Neuf is created with an
legation and gone to Costa Rica.
refused to |*'rinit the Oregon Short
area of 100,000 acr«*s; the Big Horn is
Line or the Union Pacific to make a
enlarged by the addition of 280,((00 A L L P R IS O N E R S G O IN G N A K E D
Radicals have elected officers of the
H E A V Y S N O W IN E A S T .
through route or a joint rate with
acres, and about 100,000 acres is added
Russian dourna.
R efu se to W e a r C lo th e s Because In them. It is expected tliat the lumlier-
to the Wei*er reserve.
Jerome has decided to recall Mrs. Nine Inches a t A tlan tic C ity — D riftin g
men will art on the suggestion of Mr.
fected W ith L ep ro sy.
Thaw to the «kind.
and D elaying T ra in s .
8t. Petersburg,
March 11.— Four Lane.
M A N Y " D E A D D U C K S .’
II ears t has won another decision in
Philadelphia, Pa., March 12.— A
miidrcd |«>litieal prisoners at Smolensk
the New York mayoralty contest.
heavy snowstorm, which seems to have N u m b e r o f N o ted M e n W ill N o t A p have gone on a very original strike W IL L R A IS E C O M M O D I T Y R A I E S .
wwk ago they refused to put on
The sugar trust has been sued in a centeml along the New Jersey coast
p e a r in N e x t C o r g r e s a .
and Eastern Pennsylvania, visited this
any clothes and since then they have W estern R ailro ad M en to A g re e on
New York court by a crushed rival.
Washington, March 5_.— It is prob
section today. Snow fell continuously
walked around stark naked.
G e n e ra l A dvan ce.
Roosevelt is preparing to close the for 16 hours, to a depth of seven inches. able that the designation is resented
The reason is that the prison author
< liicsgo, Man h 9.— Following tho
but “ dead duck’ ’ is the name the sur
gates against Japanese immigration.
Report* from Atlantic City show that
ities took away their own clothes and example of Eastern rtilroads, Western
viving congressmen apply to those who
gave them clothes made from the pool lines are preparing to make inereas«»*
North Dakota solons pass«*! a la' the fall of snow there was nine inches, have failed of re-election.
The Wash
with as great a fall at other coast
est grade of burlap unfit for making in freight rates by changes in the com
providing a 2 % cent passenger fare.
ington game hag is full of “ dead ducks’
points.
hags.
After they had worn these modities. A cull has be«>n issued fora
today.
The woman suffragist bill has been
Throughout Pennsylvania the storm
cloth«*s a few days nearly all were suf
special meeting of the Western trunk
Nine memls-rs of the senate have
talked to death in the British parlia was almost as severe. At Pottspville a
yielded their seats to their successors fering with a rash covering their whole line committee, to bo held Monday,
ment.
fall of eight inches is reported, ami at
b<slies, but still the prisoners did not and it is said the purpose is to consldi'r
The surrendering ones are J. Frank Alee
An electricians’ strike in Paris put Lockhaven there was a fall of ten inch of Delaware, James II. B«'rry of Arkan mutter. When a number of them had th«1 advisability of chunging commodity
es.
At
Wilkesbarre,
Scranton,
Allen
be«'n infected with leprosy, one morn rates.
the city in darkness and demoralized
sas, Joseph C. 8. Blackburn of Ken
town, Harrisburg and other points in
the newspaers.
There is declared to he no doubt, that
tucky. Edward W . Carmack of Tennes ing all of the clothes, hlank<>ts and
the eastern end of the state, a similar
sheets were thrown out of the prison tho traffic men are preparing to make
The Spanish minister to the Untie«! fall is reported, and in many sections see, W illiam A. Clark, of Montana,
ers’ cells and they ihx-lared unanimous
John F. Dryden of New Jersey, Joseph
over the commodity rat«'« wherever it
State« says the battle of Manila bay
the public roads are closed to traffic.
ly thut they would go nak««l rather
was a victory of Iron over wood.
If. Millard of Nebraska, Fred T. Dubois
is thought possible to do so. As these
The storm was accompanied by a
than run the risk of contracting diseas
of Idaho, and Thomas M. Patterson of
are
always much lower than the class
Leonidas Pse-tfcon, a Texas million high wind, which caused drifting, and
es from wearing the prison garb.
rat«'H and are creat««! for the purpose
Colorado.
aire, committed suicide by taking poi trafFc on the railways, particularly in
In the house there were 72 memliers
of granting concessions, their abolition
son.
Physicians found enough of the the mountainous sections, was retarded.
W ill B rid g e G ap o f T im e .
necessarily raises the tariffs.
whose names w ill not be called at the
deadly hydrocyanic poison in his sto
next
session.
Washington,
March
11.—
A
sa
result
mach to kill six men.
Im p o rts S h o w In c re a s e .
of consultations between H«vretary Root
W ill Build N o M o ra S hip s.
W h at C o n g re s s A cco m p lish ed .
Washington, March 12.— A state
and Director North, head of the Ameri
The Kansas legislature has voted
New York, March 9.— If the Great
ment issued today by the bureau of
Measures which have failed— Publi can Tariff Expert commission, which Northern steamer Dakota is lost, hh
$10,000 for the Seattle fair.
Statistics shows that the importations city of campaign expenditures, Philip visited Germany relative to the making now seems almost c. r ain, J. J. H ill
President Bonilla, of
Honduras, of manufacturers’ mater ials continue to pine tariff reduction, citizenship for of some tariff arrangements before the
will not repine«« the vessel. He said
claims a victory
over
Nicaraguan increase. The value of the imports of Porto Ricans, copyright revision, eight- expiration of the German order sus
today
that he did not expect to build
troops.
raw materials for use in manufactures hour bill, anti-injunction hill, anti- pending for a year the application of any more slii)>e under the American
There is a promise of harmony be in the seven months ending with Jan chihl labor bill, removal of duty on the German maximum tariff rates to flag, and that, bo far as the traffic
uary, 1907, wa* $262,000,(XX), against works of art, conservation of public American exports a new arrangement which the Great Northern flteamship
tween the czar and the douma.
$223,000.000 in tlie same months of coal and oil land«, ship subsidy.
will have been made which will bridge company would lose because of the loss
A rich copper strike has been made last year, while materials imported for
Measure« whirh Hiie«'eed— Immigra over the period of time between that of the Dakota was concerned, the Jap
in Nevada not a great distance from further use in manufacture amounted tion restriotion, limitation of hours of date and the reassembling of Ihe next
anese lines would lie compelled to (are
Tonopah.
to $168.000,000, against $123,000,000 railway labor, all appropriation bills, congress.
for it. Ft was to give impetus to the
Harriman offers to co-operate with in the corresponding perirxl of last financial hill.
trade with the Orient that Mr. H ill
Priva’ e pension hills passed exceed
the government in settling the railroad year. Cement imports, $47,000,000.
T h o s e 0 0 0 N o t A venged.
built the ships Dakota and Minnesota.
«»ntroversy.
those of any previous congress.
Danville, III., March 11.— In the
Send B ritish 8 h ;p S o u th .
trial here o f W ill J. Davis, charg«>d
Raise F re ig h t R ates on C o a l.
Thaw 9 lawyers announce that the
A ccep ts T w o -c e n t R a t).
Victoria,
B.C., March 12 — H. M. fl.
with manslaughter, owing to the Iro
( hicago, March 9.— The «'oal carry-
defense is through. Jerome will fend
Shearwater is loading store* and provi
Lincoln, Neo., March 5.—Governor quois theater fire at Chicago, in which ing roads of 11 inoisi have decided to in
the case to the jury.
V
sions at Esquimalt for a trip to South Sheldon tonight received official notice nearly 600 lives were lost in 1903, crease the rates 10 cents a ton on all
The news of the acceptance of flwet- America to protect British interests en from the Burlington Railroad company Judge Kimbrough today held that part coal mined in this state and in Indiana
tenham’s resignation was received with dangered by the war in progress be that it will accept the 2-cent fare law o f the Chicago ordinance on which
and brought to Chicago for use. The
rejoicing at Kingston.
tween Nicaragua and Honduras.
without resistance and revise its rates. Davis was indicted is void.
increased rates will toko effect April 1.