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THE STAYTON MAIL t . D. AllXANDfR, Publisher S T A Y T O N ...................OREGON NEWS OF TOE WEEK In a Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. A Resume o f the Less Important but Not Less Interesting Events o f the Past W eek. Roosevelt predicts T a ft’ s nomination on the first ballot. A blanket o* snow covers the Dako tas, Iowa and Nebraska. Lord Canon has t een persuaded to re-enter English politics. An eminent French doctor says K a i ser W illiam has consumption. English are protesting against slav ery in the Portuguese colonies. Kansas City theaters have given up the tight agaiust Sunday closing. Nearly $1,000,000 more graft by the Schmitz gang haa been discovered. North Carolina has again refused to pay the bonds issued during the recon struction days. There is a monster shipment of war material on the San Francisco docks billed for Manila. The San Francisco health board has appealed to the people to continue the extermination of rats. Rcosevelt has allowed troops to re main in Goldfield on the promise of Governor Sparks to call a special ses sion of the legislature. New York is overrun by hundreds of unemployed. The Twenty-foarth Japanese diet has just convened. President Roosevelt is hunting tur keys at Pine Knot, Va. E X P R E S S C H A R G E S H IG H . W ells-Fargo Accused o f Discrimina tion Against Merchants. San Francisco, Cal.. Dec. 31.— Inter state Commerce Commissioner Frank lin K. lane, today held a hearing of the complaint of the California Com mercial association, compose 1 of 29 mercantile firms in this city, charging the Wells-Fargo Express com|>any with concealing from the publio tariff sched ules that hud tieen filed w ith the Inter state Commerce commieaion in Wash ington and with making unjust and dia criminatory rates. The actual question involved, however, wae whether or not the quantity rate cf 8 cents a pound from New York to San Francieco for shipments of 10,000 to 20,000 pounds applied to bulk or assembled ship ments, gathered and forwarded by a forwarding agency to one concern or association organised for the purpose of getting the lower rate, the shipment ultimately intended for numerous con signees who were designated by num bers of the labels to the one consignee. Th e charges of discrimination are based upon the refusal of the express company to transport a shipment of 16,000 pounds consisting of 443 pack ages, from New York to the California Commercial asrociation in San Fran cisco last August, at the bulk or quan tity rate of $8 per hundred pounds, the company charging the regular package rate. I t is also alleged that the ex press company charged a higher rate than that published and filed with the Interstate Commerce commission, the latter being w ilfully concealed and bid den from the public. This complaint avers that it is a distinct violation of the interstate commerce act. In answer, the express company denies all the allegations made, and charges that the association resorted to subterfuge in order to extort unjust dis crimination in its own favor, and based its refusal to grant a quantity rate upon the shiment in question on the ground that, while consigned to one consignee, it was intended for more than a score of firms. E X P A T R I A T E S IN C H I N A . State Treasurer Steel, of Oregon, has Judge Wilfley W arts C ongress to Maka Laws fo r Tham. filed hie new bond in the sum of $635,- 000 . San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 3.— Judge Cleveland, Ohio, manufacturers plan L. R. W ilfley , of the United States whom a resumption of work for fully 10,000 court at Shanghai, against charges of improper conduct of his former employes during January. court have been preferred at Washing Railroads throughout the country ton, arived in San Francisco this morn have shown the effects of the financial ing on the Pacific Mail liner Manchuria panic by a curtailment of orders for from the Orient, and after a stay of two rolling stock. f days in this city w ill proceed to the na On board the Man A t a meeting of the pacific Coast tional capital. Commercial Travelers’ association in churia with Judge W ilfley was A'. M. San Francisco it was voted to stop Brooks, a lawyer, who has filed an ac tion for $50,000 damages at Hono gambling among members. lulu, charging the head of the court in A paaserger train collided head-on the Far East, together with his clerk, with a freight near Lenox, Mich. Five L . R. Hickel, with constpiracy in stop tra nmen m et death. A ll passengers ping the practice of Brooks in Shanghai. escaped with bat slight injuries. Judg“ W ilfley denier! that he was go In a raid on Chinese gambling houses ing to Washington to meet the charges Portland police secured $10,166.90 in preferred against him. “ I am going to Washington,” he coin and currency and $4,445.09 of ex change on Hongkong banks. According said, “ to aid ip drawing an act that to law this money may into the w ill extend to Americans in China a more complete body cf laws than they state treasury. now have. The laws now in force com Raleigh, N . C., has voted prohibi prise little more than ie embodied in tion. the common law and are so Indefinite Dewey has just celebrated his 7fth as to be absolutely useless. It w ill be birthday. suggested to congress that the Califor Officers and crews of the big fleet are nia code of laws be made to extend to China, wherein such laws are applica enjoying life at Trinidad. ble. Heney says special privilege is the ‘ ‘ In addition to this matter, I am root of political corruption. journeying East that congress may E>e Reports of New York tanks show a asked for an appropriation for a proper Federal building at Shanghai, where recovery from the money crisis. the American consulate and courts may Accused members of the first Russian be under one roof.” douma deny they advised rebellion. Backed by Wealthy Men. Indiana Republicans have form ally indorsed Fairbanks as their candidate New York, Dec 31.— United States for president. District Attorney Stimson said today It is said a dark horse has been se that he had been served with the pa lected to fill Bristol’s place as United pers filed in the United States District court by counsel for Oscar W . Reid, a States attorney for Oregon. member of the battalion of the Twenty- Burning snowsheds near Truckee, fifth infantry. The plaintiff sued the Cal., has greatly delayed Southern Pa government to recover pay lost through cific trains between Portland and San his discharge from the army, but the Francisco. attorneys in the case have admitted Latest developments in the row be that they were retained by ‘ ‘ wealthy tween naval factions brings out the gentlemen of New England,” whose fact that it is over ranking of officers. real object is to determine the legality Two constructions of the revised stat of the president’s action. utes is possible and each faction claims Raises Rent o f Hot Springs. it is right. Chicago, Dec. 31.— A dispatch to the Five men were killed while working Tribune from Hot Springs, Ark., says: in a Paris subway. Annour.cement was made yesterday St. Joeeph, Mo., has started a crusade th t the United States would double against loan sharks. the price for its healing hot waters The New York Republican club has after the first of the year, and that all bathhouse leases also would be doubled declared for Hughes for president. A protest w ill be sent at once to W ash A ll signs of yellow fever has been ington. TJhe bot water now is dis driven from the Panam canal zone. pensed by the government at $30 per annum for each tub supplied. The Paget sound steamboat men w ill cut bathhouse owners state they are unable the pay of their engineers January 1. to meet the raise. Lawson says only the re-election of Rrxjsevelt can avert a national disaster. Garnets In New York Bedrock. A severe sleet storm has demoralized New York, Dec. 31.— That New York telegraphic communication around Chi City rests on a vast ma>t of garnets is cago. the discovery of Ralph E. Morgan, an The head of the Methodist Book con English mineralogist, now visiting cern calls labor unions the worst of ty here. In a mass of rock thrown up rants. from a subway excavation, he discov The Bank of Calistoga, Calistoga, ered a large garnet. On th# dumping Cal., has closed. Officers of the insti ground at Hheepehed bay he found a tution say it w ill reopen. number of excellent gamete. MOB CHINESESTORES Mounted Police Called Upon to Quell Canadians. DDE TO FALSE MURDER ¡STORY Baseless Rumor That White Man la Wounded Arouses Fury o f White People. Lethbridge, Alberta, Dec. 28.— Be cause they believed that a prominent citizen had been murdered in a Chinese restaurant, 1,600 men raided the O ri ental quarter late last night and left a wieck behind. Restaurants and laun dries wets smashed, doors and windows and entire fronts of buildings being re duced to splinters. The regular police of the town were powerless and a bri gade of mounted police had to be called out to quell the riot. It was just after 9 o ’clock that the mob began to form. The story had got abroad that Harry Smith, one of tbs best known ranchers of the rattle dis trict of which this oity is the center, had been fatally wounded in a reetaa- rant. Curiously enough, neither Hm th nor any one else bad been hurt, bat even the police were misled by the tale and two Orientals were placed under arrest, charged with hie murder. An indignant mob gathered oppoiete the eating house and there was talk of lynching. Suddenly someone threw a rock, which smashed a front window, and ia a moment the crowd was beyond control. Bricks and stones were used and, when the doors had been broken, the tables and chairs and dishes were smashed. The Colombia and Alberta restaurants were literally wrecked. W iiat could not be conveniently broken by the few men who could get inside was passed out to tiie street to the uioh in waiting, and there demolished. At 10 o’clock a detachment of mount ed police appeared and the crowd scattered. Hundreds of the rioteis merely shifted the scene of their pillag ing. Three blocks away, opposite ths Arlington hotel, they cleaned out an other Chinese restaurant and bpdly handled two Orientals who were cap tured within. Mayor Galbraith, who had rushed to the scene when the mounted police were first called, delivered a speech asking good citizens to disperse. Tha crowd listened to him and to Magistrate Townsend, who spoke later. A ll ¡>oeal- ble damage having been done, tha crowd went home. Five of the rioters have been arrsat- sd, but it ia doubtful if they w ili be prosecuted. LET TR O O P 8 STAY. Senator Row la nds T h in k s Needs T hem . Goldfield Washington, Deo. 30.— Senator New- lands, of Nevada, Is endeavoring to pre vent withdrawal of the government troupe (loin Goldfield until aome other means of protection ia had. Todaydie called upon Secretary Taft at the War department and atrongly urged that e i- ecutiou of the order Issued hy the aecre- taiy ior the withdrawal of the troopa l>e suspended until he hag had an opportu nity to communicate with Governor Sparks and induce him to call the Ne vada legislature together. Mr. Taft has been advising with Sec retary Root on this subject and tonight communicated with the president at Pine Knot on the subject. There was every disposition to refrain from break ing in upon Mr. Roosevelt's privacy at this time, and the only excuse for do ing so ia found in the tact that, unless ttie original order is modified, the troops must leave Goldfield before the president returns to Washington. The secretary declined to state what course he had recommended in the matter, nor would he say whether he trad heard from the president in turn. Secretarfy Leob said the W h ite House waa entirely without advice from Pine Knot, as the Goldfield question waa being handled by the War department. Administration official* feel that the present eituation In th# matter of Gold- field’ s rate cannot 1« continued, in view of ttie doubt that exists as to the con stitutional and legal right of the ex ecutive to employ any part of the regu lar army In Nevada under present con ditions. H E N E Y G I V E S F U L T O N A D IG . Saya All Im pl'c ated In Land Frauds A re S e n a to r's Frien d s. Washington, Dec. 30.— In an inter view telegraphed from New York, Fran cis J. Heney is quoted ss asying: ‘ ‘ I hope to close these Oregon esses with Mr. Bristol in two or three weeks.” Inquiry at the Department of Justice tailed to elicit definite information as to whether or not Mr. Bristol would as sist Mr. Heney w ith the prosecution. II no new district attorney is appointed by tire time the land trials begin, Mr. Bristol may assist Mr. Heney, but there appears to be an expectation that a new man w ill be available before then, in which case Mr. Bristol w ill 1« nut ami have nothing to do with the land trials. In the same interview Mr. Heney takes another rap at Senator Fulton. He denies having implicated Mr. Ful ton in the land frauds, but adds: ‘ ‘ A ll of these persons who have been implicated in organized land (rands are friends of Senator Fulton. Therefore it apiwiars whimsical to me that Senator Fulton should, through the power of senatorial courtcry, be able to defeat the nomination cf Mr. Bristol, who is capable of making It unpleasant for the yet unconvicted land thieves in Oregon.” U T E S R A ID S O U T H E R N COMMAND OF HOSPITAL SHIPS One Sqnt With Battleship Fleet Is In C om plete Control o f H os pital C orps. Washington, Dec. 26. — Harmony within the United States navy bureau cracy seems to be in for a severe jolt. Open war already has Irecn declared between the bureuu of navigation and the bureau of medicine and surgery, tire initial result of whlcii has tieen the resignation of Rear Adm iral Kmwuaon from his {meition as chief of the former bureau, and, coming just at a tim e when severe criticism is being aimed at the administration of the Navy depart ment, the charges involving the bureau system in iwrticular, tire ruction may culminate in some radical changes. Nuigoon General Rixt-y, whose re commendation in favor of putting a medical officer in alwolute command of a hospital ship was approved by Presi dent Roosevelt ugainst the view of Ad miral Brownson, throws down the gauntlet to the bureau of navigation ia a formal statement issued last night. Ttie surgeon general charges that th « bureau of navigation has Interfered in an unwarianted manner with the bu reau of medicine and surgery, arid to the extent of crippling its usefulness. Comparatively trivial events some times lead to sweeping reforms, and, if there lie defects in management, in naval construction and in methods of administration, the Roosevelt-Brown- son-Kixey im broglio is likely to be the means of bringing matters to a focus and causing remedies to lie applied where needed. It should not lie forgotten that the president is as staunch a friend of the navy as the navy has, in considering the present controversy, which eo ma terially involves himself Popular sen timent naturally would incline the in expert olwerver to side with the line officers In the conflict wltii tiie staff, tiecause the line ia the fighting conting ent from which heroes m<*t frequently are developed in days of war. In sid ing against ttie line officers in the pres ent case, the president may or may not be aiming his spear at the bureau sys tem. He baa taken a ground he think« ia for the beet interests of the service. FLOUR O U T P U T 8M A LLER . Fan Up C ow boys and Band o f Cattto in Canyon. Salt Lake City, liec. 30.— Colorado Ute Indians are traveling In bands in Southern Utah, raiding sheep and cat tlemen, according to a report received by Governor John C. Cutler. Aroord- ing to this report, a small l«and of In dians attacked three cowboys near Ven dor«, San Joan comity, on Decemtier 23, and at the mnzzle of rlflee com pelled them to drive the cattle lack into the canyon from which they were trailing onto the winter range, threat ening to kill them unless they did eo. Cowboys and cattle are still confined to the canyon. The governor w ill take up the mat ter with the authorities at Washington, as according to a ruling of the commis sioner of Indian affairs the Colorado or Southern Utcs are forbidden to enter Utah. Mexico City, Dec. 26.— W hat ie con sidered a very Important historical dis- oovery has resulted from the efforts af Dr. Hoerbert E. Belton, the Ameriean historian, who iS her! engaged in re search work under the auspices of the Carnegie institute of Washington. The discovery consists in the anearthing in this city of 18 of the 21 documents tak en from the possession of Lieutenant Zebulon N. Pike, of the United Htates army, by Spanish soldiers in 1806, when be was captured while making his famous trip up the Arkansas and Missouri rivers, visiting the Osage and Comanche Indians, at the instance of General James W ilkinson, then govern or of Louisiana. The whereabouts of the other three documents cannot be learned. Ho im portant is the discovery considered in A ttack on W e lls -F a rg o . the United .State« that Secretary Root has just sent Dr. Belton his congratula Han Francisco, Dec. 30.— Before In tions. terstate Commerce Commissioner F. K. Lane tomorrow charges of illegal rate Find Bodies by Hundred. making made against the W ells-Fargo Jaobs Creek, Pa., Dec. 28.— Rapid Express company by the California progress is being made in the removal Commerce association w ill he heard. of bodies from the Darr mine. A ll of The Commerce association, compOMd of the entries, except No. 27, have been prominent drygoode houses in the city, cleared and a total of 124 bodies alleges that the express com |«ny has brought from the mine. A nrm ber of violated the interstate commerce law of other bodies have been located and it ia 1906 in charging more than the pub expected that they w ill be brought to lished rate, and that it has kept the the surface during the night. In entry rates filed with ttie commission hidden No. 29, where the explosion apparently from the public, contrary to the law. took place, nnmerons bodies were found. Radical Decision in Hamburg. The pit cars were blown to pieces. It is said fully 100 bodies w ill be removed Hamburg, Dec. 30.— The suit of the from entry No. 27, as yet unexplored. harlmr authorities against the Fort- workers’ union, growing ont of the re Telephones fo r Submarines. cent dock strike, has resulted in a de Paris, Dec. 28.— Follow ing elaborate cision of the widest importance against experiments to prevent the rernrrencs the latter. The union is forbidden in of accidents to submarine vessels, the the futnre to interfere with the intro minister of the navy has issued orders duction of strike breakers, and a penal that all submarines be fitted out with ty of 1,600 marks Is provider! for each detachable telephone buoys, which, in instance in which s conviction ia ob case of accident w ill perm it of commu tained on the charge. The imion has nication with the surface. entered an appeal. Triumph o f Roosevelt. London, Dec. 28.— Th e Times in an editorial this morning disensses ths prospect ol peace in Central America resulting from ths peace conference held at Washington, which it regards as a great trinmph for President Roose velt’s diplomacy. Brownson Resigns as Chief of Bureau of Navigation. UTAH OLD DOCUM ENTA FOUND. Papers Takvn From Lieutenant Pike C om e to Light. " FEUD ARISES IN NAVY N egroes Bogin Suits. New York, Dec. 30.— Papers in a case to test the legality of the discharge if the private of companies B, C and D of the 25th Uniter] Htates infantry (co l ored), following the disorder« in the streets cf Brownsville a year ago, have bee* pvepar«4 by a law Arcs ef this sity. Minneapolis Statistics S h o w Effect o f Financial Stringency. Minneapolis, Dec. 26.— Flour ship ments from Minneapolis for 1997 w ill fall short of the total shipped during 1906 by nearly a m illion Iwrrels. This decrease lias been apparently due to the financial flurry, as the figures for each month ahow that only In three months of the entire year have the shipments for 1907 exceeded those for the same month in 1906. The number of Iwrrels of flour sent ont from Minneapolis hy the various m ills so far this year has been 13,825,- 376, while for the corresponding period in 1906 there were 14 673,123 barrels shipper], a deficit of 747,7n8 barrels. Despite the recent financial stringen cy, the «alee of flour for use in the coun try or lor ex|>ort did not Buffer so much as was generally ex preted. The ship ments for October this year were 1,449,- 802 barrels, against 1,693,097 last year. In November ol this year the greatest falling off is shown with shipments of 1,067,970 barrels, against 1,318,648 a year ago. For the trading days in De cember upjto the present, 679,271 bar rels ha^r been Bent out as against 979,- 494 for the corresponding days last year. Wheels Turn Again. Pittsburg. Dec. 2 «.— Christmas in Pitta bn rg mnd vicinity was marie doubly joyous hy the announcement that by •January 6 all of the thousands of wheels of industry in the mills of McKeesport. Glasspot, Duqnesne and allied plants In the Monongahela valley would l»e in operation. Over forty thousand men who have been idle for several weeks w ill return to work. It is aleo said that other m ills in te district w ill also resume, practically doubling the num ber of workmen employed within fifty miles of Pittsburg. Great Tinplate Mill to Resume. Newcastle, Pa., Dec. 26.— Ten of the 30 pot m ills of the Hhenango tin m ills here w ill resume operations January 6 next. Ten additional mills w ill resume shortly after, and it is expected that the entire plant w ill he running full force before the end of January. The m ill, said to be the largest tin plant in thè world, has been idle since Jnly 31. f » l l y A th esu n d m i a n attested.
