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THE STAYTON MAIL C. D. AttV*Nl>f K. Publisher S T A Y T O N .................... OREGON NEWS OF THE WEEK I d a Condensed Form for Our Bosy Readers. A Resume o f the Lesa Important but Not Less Interesting Events o f the Past Week. A Montana forest killed for a deer. ranger has been French troops have repulsed an at- lark of tribesmen near Ain Hfa, Algeria. The Japanese ambassador to France denies that his country is after another foreign loan. Carnegie would base the issue of pa per mi'Hey on the gold reserve instead of government bonds. The Northern Pacific railroad will re duce grain rates from Montana points to St. Paul and Minneapolis. Findlay, Ohio, was badly shaken by the explosion of a glycerine factory. Much property damage was sustained. ROOSEVELT AS A SAIN T. Russian Peasants Worship Pic'ure o f President San Francisco, Dec. 17.— Americans think a great «leal of PreeUlent Theo dore Roosevelt, but it has been reserv ed for the Russian peasants settled in Eastern Hibetia to reverence the well known picture, which shows the gleum I of teeth, as that of a saint. That they | do so is asserted to be a fact b> Alex- I under G. Denbigh, who arrived on ttie steamer Siberia, and is uow staying at fhe Ht. Francis hotel. “ The people there are of the lowest class of Russian peasants, ami know nothin«; about the cutside world,” said Denbigh. “ In every house, no matter how poor it may be, there is sure to he an ikon of some kind, anil if it is possible for the owner of the place, he also has a picture of a saint. “ The picture of our president has gone over the world, and can be found in many queer places. I remember asking one of my men from the Ural mountain district, who ha«l never heard of Rooeevelt, what picture he had inline tent. He at once told me that it was one of St. Peter— without the beard and with specs on. Curious to see such a picture, I went to the hut and found that it was a chromo of the president of the United States. The man assured me that he had the best of good fortune since he hail obtained the picture of the ‘ holy saint.’ *' MEXICO'S A N N U A L EXPENSE HiU told the Interstate Commerce commission that it means a lose of $80 a car to keep the old lumber rate in What It Costs to Conduct Affairs o f Southern Republic. effect. Mexico City, Dec. 17.— In congress Secretary Taft is having a rongh pa«s- age across the Atlantic and his vessel yeeterday the report of the minister of will be a day or two late in reaching finance was read and the budget for tbe coming year was^made public. The es New York. timated receipts for the coming year Goldfield mineowners have asked the total $103,385,000, while the expendi government to dissolve the Western tures will reach $103,203,842, leaving Federation of Miners and proeecute it an estimated surplus of $181,158. The as treasonable. total increase of this year’ s budget is Liquor men propose to fight river and $6,695,275, the largest item in the In harbor appropriations by congress for crease being for $1,367,589 for main dry states. They say twc-thirds of the tenance of the department of war. The revenues for the fiscal year just national revenue is derived from the ended total $114,062,000, the expendi liquor business. tures $100,208,132, leaving a surplus England has just been visited by a of $14,077,989. The surplus of the severe storm. previous year, $29,049,081, and the The Colorado State bank, of Durango, falling off of the past year, was dne to has suspended. large sums spent in public works— $17,- Minister Limanteur main The revolutionary agitation is grow 208,608. tained that the recent crisis in the ing in Portngal. United Htates would make itself felt in The Yaqui Indiane are again on the the coming jear in Mexico, in that in warpath in Mexico. vestments would be curtailed. Inter est rates are higher, but this would on The National Bank of Commerce, of ly affect mining industries. He believ Kansas City, w ill reopen. ed that in the end it would work for Japan and Russia have combined to good rather than evil. freexe China out of Manchuria. The bridal gifts of Marshall Field's daughter were stolen in England. RELIEF FOR VICTIM S. The peace conference of the Central Committs Taking Contributions to Bs American republics has been concluded. Sent to Mononga. Scotchmen in London are again Fairmont, W. Va., Dec. 17.— The adopting the kilt as a regular wearing permanent relief committee, headed by apparel. Governor Dawson, to provide for the The East has just exeprienceda great widows and orphans in distress through storm. Heavy snow fell and many the recent explosion at the mines of the Fairmont Coal company at Monon- wires are down. gah, today prepared an appeal for funds Premiums are being offered for the that is being sent to chambers of com new gold pieces without the motto “ In merce and kindred organizations all God We Trust.” over the conntry. Contributions of A petition to allow women to vote clothing, toys for the orphans at Christ on municipal affairs in Paris was greet mas time and similar donations are to ed with laughter by the council. be sent to W . H. Moore, mayor of Mo- General Funston finds the Goldfield nongah, and chairman of the commit tee, looking after the temporary wants situation serious. of the victims. Commissioner of Indian Affairs The appeal says that fully 250 wid Leupp says Indiane are losing millions ows and 1,000 children are left without yearly in timber lands. any means of support. As near as can A house-to-house canvass at Monon- be determined. $50,000 from all sources The committee gah, W. Va., shows 18 still missing an has been snbfcribed. feels that a total of $200,000 will be re a result of the mine disaster. quired to tarry on the relief work. All Plans are complete for re-organizing checks should be made payable to the the Merchants’ National banlTat Port Monongah Mines Relief committee, J. land and it is expected to open soon. E. Hands, treasurer, Fairmont, W . Va. District Attorney Langdon, of Ban Francisco, also admits that the evidence New Use o f Fpsom Salts. of Ruef w ill be required to convict Cal New York, Dec. 17.— Announcement houn. of the discovery of the new anaesthetic, The American Can company has con according to the American today, will trol of the Pacific coast, having absorb soon tie made by the Rockefeller Insti ed the United Can company, of San tute for Medical Research. ^The new anaesthetic is nothing else than plain, Francisco. common salts, or, to give it its scientific Goldfield mineowners have with name, sulphate of magnesia. It was drawn their new scale and opened nego discovered by Dr. Hamuel ,T. Meltszer, tiations with the American Federation one of the Rockefeller experimenters. of Labor. The object seems to be to Its greatest value is that it permits any get this organization into a fight with sort of operation without any danger to the Western Federation of Miners. the heart of ihe patient, as is the tase D. L. Anderson, president of the with other anaesthetics. F’oochow university, who has just re turned to this country, says China is Fiat Money Saves Life. on the eve of a bloody revolution that Han Rafael, Cal., Dec. 17.— Stewart w ill mark tier entrance into the parlia Dunbar, a prominent insurance broker ment of the world as a power to be of Honolulu, while on his way to meet reckoned with. a party of friends last night, fell The campaign against rats is being through a cattle guard on the narrow gauge tracks of the Northwestern Paci kept up vigorously in Han Francisco. fic railroad and caught his foot so that The Michigan state treasurer is to he he would have been crushed to death removed for putting funds in a rotten beneath an approaching handcar had he bank. not ignited a clearing house certifiate The great fleet of warships is all and used it for a danger signal ready to start on its voyage to the Pa cific. Forty Lives Lost. London, Dec. 17.— The gale along The presence of General Funston at Goldfield is believed to have a good the British coast on Frhlay ami Satur day, which was described by Captain effect. Jameson, of the steamship Ht. Louis, Bristol’s nomination has been with as the worst in his experience, subsid drawn from the senate as district at ed yesterday. It was responsible for torney for Oregon. the loss of eome 40 lives. SHOWS PARTIALITY Hill Give Canadians Better Rate Than Americans. BENEFIT OF WINNIPEG MARKET One Lumberman Sayt Trust Controls All o f the Northern Pacific. Land Grant Timber. Washington, IXw. 14.— Washington himtwrmen who appeared as witnesses yesterday before the Interstate Com merce commission, took particular pains to “ rub it in” on Jatuce J. H ill, because of his threat to drive more lumbermen into bankruptcy. One wit ness brought out the fact that, while the railroads assert that the old rate on lumber from Puget Hound to Chicago, Denver ami Kansas City was not corn- pensut««ry, the Great Northern is today loading lumber at Vancouver, bringing it to Puget Hound, thence East through the United Htatee and back to Canada, landing it at Winnipeg and more dis tant points, for 40 cents, the rate fi r- merly in force on Puget Hound lumber shipped an equal distance in the Unit ed Htatee. Another witness recalled Mr. H ill’ s assurance given Washington lumberuieu at a banquet some time ago to the effect Hurt his n>ade would never impose a rate on lumber that would be injurious to the milling industry of the Northwest. The Oregon men cbmed their testi mony by submitting further curni«ari- sons of lumlier rates from the Hotith and from the West to Chicago and Kansas City. Heveral witnesses testi fied as to the techniia) case of the Ore gon and Washington lumbermen, ac cording to the amount o ' output of their companies, the points of destina tion of theii product and the prices paid fi r it. The rates which the Ore gon and Washington lumber producers were forced to pity were offered in testi mony and the assertion was made that these rates were such as to compel the producers of lumber In the Pacific Northwest to cloee their mills. Wit- ne-ses testified that they were unable to place their product on the market East of the Ricky mounatins at a pro fit, and that they could not depend up on the local market in 0>eir territory to provide such a market as would en able them to maintain their b-isiness. The line of croea examination indi cated the purpose of the railroads to show that the rates were not exorbi tant, but really were fair and equitable compare«! with the rates given produc ers of manufactnre«l lumber in tha yel low pine districts. W . C. Miles, president of the South western Washington Lnnilierinen’ i as sociation, testified that 90 per cent of the mills in his section of the state had closed since it became known the lum ber rate was to be advance«], and those mills now have on hand 70,000,000 feet of lumber, for which there is no mark et. He said the Weyerhaensers now owned all the timber lands of the Northern Pacific grant and virtually controlled the price within 100 inline of the roatl. They bought 1,000,000 acres for $6,000,000 and sold one section of that for $75,000 stumpage. He said they now controlled prices and empha sized the fact that the members of his association were anxious that the Inter state commission should open the Port land galeway to Washington lumber so that Bouthwestein Washington millmen could dump their common st«ck into Oregon and other Harriman territory. No indication of an end of the hear ing is in sight. Heveral other cases are pressing for hearing by the commission, but it is not likely that the pending cases will be concluded before the mid dle of next week. Recover 320 Bodies Monongah, W. Va., l>ec. 14.— The search in mines No 6 and 8 of the Fairmonnt Coal company fur victims of last Frblay’s explosion was suspend ed early toniirht. partly bemuse fire had again broken out in mine No. 8, and partly because practicajly every section of the two mines has been ex plored and it was not believed that further search along the same lines would result in the finding of more bo-lies. Three hundred and twenty holies have been removed. Of these 71 were Americans. Lowest Bidder on Canal Lumber. Washington, Dec. 14.— The Olson- Mahoney Lumlier oornpany, of Han Francisco, was the lowest bidder at $124,372 for furnishing the Isthmian Canal commission with approximately 6,000,000 feet of lumber, ranging in sizes from 1x3 to 12x14 inches. The material is to be delivere«! at Colon or LaBoca. There were 21 bidders. It is expected that the Oleon-Mahoney com pany will get the contract. WILL DO NO I HING «meli Chance Congress Will Hstorm Currency Washington, I He. 16.— It ran te rtited on the highest authority timi if the *ubc«>nitiiitU'o of the house commit tee on hanking and currency now «hill ing with the subject can havo its w*y no effort will he made by the present congress to adopt legislation temedial of the present financial condition. All the energies of that committee will be diiecte«! toward the framing ami pass age of laws moie general In character and which will tie intendi«! to piet-lmle shrinkage of the circulation, entailing widespread financial distress. The sulioommittee held a four hours’ conferem-e today with its chairman, Representative Fowler, of New Jersiy, at which the bill which the eubccni- m i t t e e has undertaken to draft was •-arnesily discussed, hut no decision a« to Its precise character and sriqie w«s reached. It is not likely the sulicom- mlttec w ill lie reaily to report «>n the hill until after the holidays. Men high in the woild of finance will tie given an opportunity to ap|>ear before tiie com mittee to present their views on the proposetl measure. Much time will I n « sjs-nt in both the house anti senate in eonaidering the bill when riporteli, and it is the hope of the members of the tanking committee that the finances of the country will huve so atljusletl themselves by that time that there will tie no necessity lor legislation lo«iking to the correction of present conditions. WOMEN IN TERROR. Afraid for Their Lives Until Arrived in Golafield. Troops Goldfield, Nev., l>ee. 16.— iHdrga- tiona from the Woman’s club, of Gold field, ami from the chain lier of com merce, Merchants’ association and Min ing exchange calietlon General Funston this afternoon to ac«|tiaint him further with the conditions which have prevail ed in Goldfieh! previous to thr coming of the Unite«! States t ro o p * and the sit uation which le«l to the sending of Gov ernor H(«arks’ dispatch to Washinaton asking that trcojis be sent here. The visit of these delegations doubtless wna liecause of the efiorts that are constant ly being ma«le to have the troops recall««!. General Funston said, after the con ference« were over, that the statements were a revelation, especially those made by the women, who are wives of prom inent citizens of (¡oldfield. The state ments, he sal«!, showed that fur «lays the women of Goldfield ha«l IIve«l in a rta e of constant terror, until ths com ing of the troops though no instances of anything more than trivial annoyances were cite«!. MAKE CANADA INDEPENDENT Destiny la Union With United 8tates or Morerchial Independence Ottawa, Ont., Dec. 16.— The imle- penitence of Canada is now tieing open ly discusNed snd in a measure promoted before some of the most im|>ortant pub lic botlies of the dominion. T«xlay the idea of Canada as a nation is looming large on the public miml, ami it has in a very short spec« of time marvelously « hanged public sentiment in that re gard. fipcaking before the Canadian club at Ottawa, J. H. Ewart, K. C ., of T o r o n t o , predicted that Canrnla would yet til) an indejiemlent jxmitiori in the world. Tnen she would pursue either one of three courses— a union with the United Htates ns an indepemlent republic, a union with Great Britain as an inde- prmlent monarchy with her own sov ereign, or an imlepemlent monarchy with allegiance to the British sovereign. Canadian opposition against ttie im perial government was directed not against the king, hut ugainst the colo nial secretary, who is g«;nerally ignor ant of colonial matters. REPEATS DECISION Roosevelt Says He Will Not Run (or President. LEAVES CLEAR FIELD TO OTHERS Quotea Hit Statement o f 1004 and * Baya He Haa Not Changad His Decision. Washington, IH«. 12. — President RiMisevelt will not he u «'«miniate fur a third term. All doubt on Ihl* point was last night dispelled by the author- ativr statement, from the White House, that Mr. Roosevelt still adhere* to the declaration of renunriathm mads on the night of the election thiee years ago. It ap|ieara that the president hail been awaiting the call for the Kepuh- liiso national convention t<> affcKl t.hn proper opportunity for making hi* po sition clear ami unmistakable, thus leaving the field cleat for other de clare«! <>r receptive camlhlutes for the Republican nomination. The presi dent's statement follows- “ In view of the ca'IIngof the Reptih- I ¡can convention, the president makee the following statement: “ 'On the nigtit aftei e1ect!on|I made the following annom cement: “ 'I am deeply sensible of the honor done me by the American |ieople in thus expressing their confidence in what 1 have done and have trinl to do. I appreciate to the full the solemn re sponsibility this confiilenre Imposes upon me, and ! shall do all that lies in my power not to forfeit it. On the 4th of Match nest, 1 shall have serve«! three and a half years ami tiua three and a half years constitutes my first term. The wise custom a huh limits the president to tw«< terms regards the suletance and not the form, ami under no circumstances will I tie a candidate (or or accept another nomination.” " 'I have not charigrtl and ahall not change the decision thus announced.’ ” W ILL DISSOLVE MERGER. Harriman Negotiating for Immunity From Prosecution. Chicago, Dec. 12.— A «llspatch to the Tribune (rein Washington, says: Negotiations are umlrr way tx-twern the attorney general and K. H. Harri man looking to an agreement by which the Union Pacific will alemlon all its direct control of the Boot hern Pacific, in return for which the government will agree not to prosecute Mr. Harri man for violation of the anti-irual law ami of the competitive clauses in the interstate commerce law. The in-gntia- tions have not actually l>een concluded, hut they have reached a stage where it is believed an agreement will l>een- tered into. NEW YO R K PAPERS' O PIN IO N S . What Wat Expected, But Third Term- era Can't Be Silenced. New York, Dec. 12.— Regarding I’ res- iilent Roosevelt a anneunremerit that lie adheres to his determination mil again to be a candidate, the New York paper* this morning sny: Herald— Thtiee who from the first have I ad full faitli in the sincerity of Mr Roosevelt’s declaration that h* wonld not accept a nomination will now say, “ Why, of com on. ” On the other lutnd, those who have argued that he coulil not decline if the conven tion should overwhelmingly «Icnmml him a* a candidate will remark, “ W e shall see.” Ami there yon are. Time*— Mr. Roosevelt's statement is what those wiio respete«! him most ami knew him best expected him to make. No different statement was possible. W orld— Ho far »* words go, Preside nt Roosevelt could not take a more posi tive stand. At this late day can he stop it? Can ho turn hack the tide? Huppcse the Roosevelt shooters, as Governor Hooh, of Kansas, has threat ened, ride over the convention like a heril of Texa* steers, will he still «le- cline? W ill he lie able to decline? Banker« Go Scot Free. Chicago, Dec. 16.— Five directors of the defunct Milwaukee Avenue State hank were freed t«Hlay when Judge Wimies held that the statute under which they had been indicted is nnoon- stitutional. Michael A. Lahuy, Josh Lister, Marcus Kirkeby, Frank R. Crane and E. L . Johnson are the men who profit by the decision. Paul O. Steusland, president of the hank, and Henry Herring, cashier, who were found guilty of embezzlement and aie Steamers Dodging Texas Law. now serving terms in the sate prison, Pensacola, Fla., Dec. 12 — Fearing w ill not be affected by the decision. that tli« vessels might be seized open the judgment secure«! against the com Buy Ties in Hawaii pany by the state of Texas, the Htand- I.os Angeles, Deo. 16.— The Santa Fe ard Oil company yesterday ordered the Railioatl company has just contra« te«l steamer Captain A. F. Lucas and Bark for 5,000,(XX) road ties in Hawaii, the No. 96 to proceed from this port to sea biggest contract ever let for such mate and not to come within three mile* of rial to bo shipped by water. The ship shore until further orders were re ments may result in the establishment ceived. The vessels, both of which are of a freight steamship line between Han among the largest of the oil carrying Petlro and Honolulu. The Southern fleet of the company, ha«l just returned Pacific may also place similar orders in from London, where they carried an immense quantity of oil. Hawaii. Old Suit Cleared Up. fit. Louis, Dec. 16.— The decision of a jury in the Probate court today on an Will Continua 2 1-2 Cent Rate. instrument of writing confirmed as the Montgomery, Dec. 14.— The Southern will of Solomon P. Sublette, a pioneer railway today agreed to keep in force who died in 1857, and title to 208 acres the 2)k*cent passenger rate nntil the of land in the southwestern part of Ht. other state rate question# are settled. Louis, valued at $2,500,000, la cleared. Mrs. Longworth III. Washington, Dec. 12.— Mr*. Nirh olas Longworth, wife of Representative Longworth, of Ohio, a daughter of President Roosevelt, is ill at the W hits House, suffering from appendicitis. It was stateti last night that Dr. Finney, ef Baleniere, will perfora an operation.