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.