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S T A Y T O N .....................OREGO N
NEWS OF THE WEEK
In a Condensed Form lor Onr
Busy Readers.
A R tiu m e o f tha Less Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
o f the Past Week.
The streetcar strike at Muncie, Ind.,
has been broken.
Four large New York diamond tirms
have gone to the wall.
Fire at Culberteon, Mont., destroyed
property valued at $125,000.
Thousands of men are returning to
work in all parts of the Fast.
In his annual report Secretary Taft
urges more pay for the army.
A scenic electric line w ill be built to
the Yellowstone National park.
Senator La Follette is recoeiving
quite a presidential boom in the Fast.
Rapid progress is being made in se­
curing a jury for the second trial of
Thaw.
Seven men were drowned by the
overturning of a skiff in the Missouri
river near Kicfcapoo, Kan.
The missing steamer Mount Royal
has been sighted off Ireland and a
steamer sent to her assistance.
JAPAN W O ULD TAKE OFFEN8E
Attempted
Exclusion
Will
Insult, Says Aokl.
Provoke
Paris, Jan. 7.— The newspapers con­
tinue to give mudi space to the Amer­
ican-Japanese situation.
The l'apers
print an alleged Interview with Count
Aoki, the retiring smtossatlor of Japan
at Washington, in which he is quot'd
from Ban Francisco as saying Japan
would consider as an offensive, action
any attempt on the part of the United
Btates to exclude toe Japanese, and
take this as a text Tor long articles.
Viscount A oki’ e denial of this inter*
view has not yet been published here,
lacking this dsnial, the Journal Dea-
bats thinks that in his interview Count
Aoki has placed his Augers on the real
danger spot.
“ Japan refuses to admit that any­
where on the globe the Japanese are
acciai y inferior to any other people,"
says the paper.
“ Japan claims to
have won the absolute right to be treat­
ed as a great power everywhere, and
under all circumstances.’ ’
In the opinion of Fclair, if the two
governments accede to the sentiments
of the people and the logical necessity
of the situation, a conflict would ap­
pear very imminent.
“ But Japan is
without money. America is not ready,
and we doubtless shall see both nations
champ their bits aw hile longer.”
The Gaulois believes that the friend­
ly and tactful powers at Washington
w ill breveut a break.
It fears only
that the American people may become
excited- Baron Karuino, the Jatanese
amt<assador to France, today gave out a
statement that he was convinced that
Viscount Aoki only meant that Japan
would consider legislation offensive to
Japan as, for instance, if an exclusion
act is proposed like the Chinese.
S O L D IE R S C A L L E D HOM E.
Fully 50,000 men have returned to
their old places in Ohio as the result
o f general resumption of commercial Hundreds o f Japanese Leaving Brit­
ish Columbia.
activity.
Vancouver, B. C., Jan. 7.— Hundreds
It is estimated that there are 125,-
000 persons out of work in New York of Japanese, whose terms of service in
C ity. An appeal for aid has been made the mikado’ s army had not been com­
pleted or who were on the reserve list
to the nation, state and city.
of fighting men, have been called home
Many desperate criminals infest San to Japan.
Francisco and Oakland.
Dozens of Japanese quit their work in
The eecond trial of Harry Thaw for Vancouver yesterday, and many more
the murder of Stanford W h ite has are coming into town today. Already
they are securing passage on vessels
started.
outbound across the Pacific from Van­
Ambassador Aoki reiterated Japan­
couver and Victoria.
March 15 is giv­
ese friendship in a farewell speech at
en as the day when they must report
Ban Francisco.
ready for whatever duty is in store for
Strikes in New York for lower rent them.
are being settled by concessions on the
The gathering of the Japanese is be­
part of landlords.
ing carried out with much secrecy. No
Japanese spies are said to be making lees than 200 landed in a bunch this
small
American
sketches and photographs around Port morning from a
steamer,
which
slipped
in
and
out of
Townsend, Waeh.
the harbor before daylight and neither
Haywood says the acquittal of Petti- entered nor cleared from the customs
bone is a vindication for the Western bouse.
Federation of Miners.
Bince Friday there has been a steady
The Vancouver chief of police has stream of the brown men from the
No Japanese in the
refused to search Japanese for arms for logging camps.
city
w
ill
admit
the
coming of the order
for fear of stirring up further trouble.
for the return of the Boldiers, but offi­
The three men entombed at F ly ., cers of the Asiatic Exclusion league
N ev., by a cavein in a mine December declare that they have absolute inform­
4 have not been reached yet by the ation that this order has been received
rescuers.
in Vancouver since the departure of
M. Harmand, ex-French minister to the American fleet for Pacific waters.
Japan, likens the situation between
the United states and Japan to a mine
C H IC A G O T E N A N T S O R G A N IZ E .
which m ight easily be set off.
BIG UNER MISSING
Mount Royal With 400 Passen­
gers Long Overdue.
OWNERS ABANDON ALL HOPE
Sailed
December
for St. John,
7
From
Antwerp
N. B , and Not
Heard From Since.
Victoria, B. C., Jan. 4.— A private
dispatch frotd Toronto says the U. P.
K. has given up hope for the steamer
Mount Royal overdue from Antwerp
with 400 passengers.
N o Word Received.
Bt. John, N. B., Jan. 4.— No word
has yet been received here of the Cana­
dian Pacific lino steamer Mount Royal,
which left Antwerp on December 7 for
St. John, having on board 304 im m i­
grants, mostly Italians and Jews, lie-
sides a crew numbering more than 100
men.
The Canadian Pacific officials in this
city, while expressing anxiety regard­
ing the vessel, stated today that they
believed the strainer probably had met
with some accident to her machinery
which had caused her to drift far out
of her course, and that she would be
heard from in dae time at some other
port.
Leaves
Sumptuous Quarters
Felon's Cell.
fo r a
Ban Francisco. Jan.
6.— Quartets
wore tit tanged at the county jail today
for Abe Kuef, the de|>oa«d boea of Bau
Francisco, who, since hie attest eight
months ago, luut occupied 3 suite of
rocuia In a private house under a spec­
ial guard.
Blieriff O’ Neil, theBohm lti politician,
goes out of olfioe on January H, and his
place w ill be taken by la tr y Dolan,
chosen at the last election.
Judge
Dunne, who refused to place Ruef In
the county jail while O’ Neil was sheriff
(or fear (hat O ’ Neil would allow the
priaotier to escape, has ordered that
Ruef be transferred from hla parlor
prison as soon as Dolan asaumea office.
Ruef w ill jnin the assemblage ol dis­
tinguished citizens who have moved
from their home« on the heights to the
brauch jail. Ruef w ill occupy a cell
near that in which ex-Mayor Schmitz
reposes. He w ill have as neigldwrs
Louis Glass, the m illionaire manager
of the Pacific Htatc* Telephone com­
pany, who was convicted of bribery ; J.
Da I zell Brown, W alter J. Hartnett
and James Treadwell, the banker whose
arrest follower! the exposures ol the rot­
tenness of the California Bafc l*e|xisit
A Trust company, and George D. Col*
lira, the tricky attorney who was
brought lack from Canada to (ace
charges of bigamy and porury.
Ruef has I wen allowed to order hla
meals ua desired and has been living on
the beet in the land. He is far more
than a m ill onaire, and he has been al­
lowed a great deal of ldx>rty as a result
of the form of bis imprisonment.
All
this w ill now lie changed.
Just what
effect this w ill have on Ruef’s refusal
to testify without immunity remains to
b« seen. It is thought that a good taste
of real prison life may cause Ruef to
later his views.
May Have Gone to Rescue.
London, Jan. 4.— The non-arrival of
the Allan line steamship Hungarian,
which sailed from Greenock, Scotland,
Dei ember 14, and is now a week over­
due at Portland, Me., leads shipping
meu to believe that she bus fallen in FINE FOR E X P R E S S C O M P A N I E S
w ith the Canadan Pacific liner Mount
Royal, which is now long overdue at Bt. Neglected to File Data Asked for by
John, N. B.
Railroad Commiaaion.
B O Y C O T T THE E X P O S IT IO N .
Seattle Unions Disgruntled at Action
o f Committee.
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 6.— Alleging that
the United Btates, the Adams and the
American Express companies had failed
to file the amoants of the ralaries of
the officers and the assets and liabilities
of the concerns with the Nebraska State
Railway commission, Connty Attorney
Tyrrell t<slay filed a penal suit in the
County court, asking that the tine pro­
vided by the statute be im(>osed.
That the three expre-s companies
neglected to file the data demanded by
the commission and January 1 was set
as the final date for the appearance of
the complete reports.
The railway
commission notified Attorney General
Thompson of the delinquency and he
directed County Attorney Tyrrell to be­
gin proceedings.
The railroad commiaaion law parsed
by the last session of the legislature
prescribe« a penalty of from $500 to
$5,000 for refusing to furnish tfie in­
formation demanded by the commis­
sion. The laws direct that service he
made npon the lrsal agents of the cor­
porations charged with violating the
laws.
Beattie, Wash., JaD. 4.— At a meet­
ing of the Bnilding Trades council last
night, the assembly voted to call upon
labor organizations everywhere in the
country to lend support to opposition
to the 1900 fair.
Action was taken
after the executive committee of the
exposition had refused to incorporate in
the building contracts a clause specify­
ing that only union men he employed.
J. F. Chi!berg, president of the
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition, says:
“ A fter considering the demands of
the union, the executive committee de­
cided >t could not discriminate. Money
subscribed for the exposition came from
all people. W e do not object to union
nor union men.
We refuae to play
favorites.”
By the declaration of the open-shop
policy, notices of which went into e f­
fect yesterday, tausing the walking out
of 160 employes in the metal works of
this city, Beattie is facing a general
strike which means that at least 5,000
P E T T IB O N E FREE.
m en.will become Involved, and at lea-t
$1,000,000 in bnilding w ill tie retarded
Jury Acquits Him o f Complicity
Reduction before a settlement is reached.
Steunenberg Murder.
The jury has disagreed in the Powers Ghetto Residents Demand
case. The next htrial is set for July
in High Rents.
6. Powers is accused of com plicity in
Chicago, Jan. 7.— Five hundred resi­
the murder of W illia m Goebel.
dents of Chicago’s ghetto formed last
R io Janeiro is preparing hospitality night a Tenants’ union with the avowed
for the battleship deet.
purpose of forcing landlords of the
The governor has ordered out troops district to reduce rents $2 a month.
Leaders of the movement advised the
to suppress the Muncie, Ind., riots.
members of the new organization to re­
The countess of Yarmouth, Harry fuse to pay the present rates which
Thaw ’ s sister, is suing for a divorce.
were declared exorbitant and to force
W itte and Kuropatkin have had a the landlords to take all legal steps and
wordy controversy over the Russo-Jap­ pay all court costs in case the latter
refuse to meet the demands for lower
anese war.
prices.
Banks of the country have made a
■At present, it was declared, four
large increase in business for the year
rooms in a ghetto tenement cost $12 a
just ended.
month, five rooms $18 a month and
Seven of the nine companies of Unit­ six rooms $22. A fiat reduction of $2
ed States infantry at Goldfield have is sought.
been withdrawn.
The movement w ill be modeled after
Foraker denounces the method of the one in New York. It is the hope
holding Ohio primaries, while Taft of its leaders that it may spread to
tailoring classes throughout the city.
men defend them.
W ith this end in view a committee was
A hospital ehip w ill be equipped 'a t appointed to confer w ith the Chicago
the Mare leland navy yard which w ill Federation of Labor and eeek the co­
meet the big fleet at Magdalena bay.
operation of that body.
Judge Hunt has sent four Butte labor
leaders to jail for contempt in connec­
Stock Show at Denver.
tion with the telephone strike in that
Denver, Jan. 7.— One of the biggest
city.
crowds of the year w ill lie in Denver
Europe is anxiously watching devel­ January 20-25, to attend the Denver
opments between the United States and Livestock exposition.
Dnring stock
Japan. The next two months are con­ show week there w ill be held a grand
sidered critical.
horse fair, public sales of pnre bred
The State bank of Rocky Fork, Colo., cattle under the direction of the Na­
tional Breeders’ association, the 11th
has suspended.
annual convention of the American
Asiatic labor is causing a crisis in National Livestock
association, the
British colonies.
eighth annual convention of the Colo­
Leaders of the Russian Revolution­ rado Horsegrowers’ association and the
convention of the Colorado Graingrow-
ary party have been arrested.
ers’ association.
Rockefeller has given another $2,-
000,000 to Chicago university.
Work fo r 6,000 Men.
8t.
Lonis,
Jan. 7.— According to an­
Receivers have been appointed for
nouncement made today an aggregate
the Seaboard A ir Line railroad.
of 5,000 men w ill be re-employed Jan­
Vancouver, B. C., laboring men are uary 13 by many large industrial
bitter in their denunciation of Asiatic plante In East Bt. Louis, III., and v i­
labor.
cinity.
In
Vancouver, B. C., Jan. 4.— Yhe un­
explained
arrival
of 300 Ja(>an-
ese in Vancouver yesterday and the
prospect of an influx of another 1,200
within tiie next month from Honolulu
are the features of the Oriental situa­
tion in Vancouver.
W hy the 300 Japs
came to Vancouver yesterday is a mys­
tery. A ll the morning they poured in­
to town from the coast logging camps,
and some even from the American side
of the boundary line.
The hoarding
house keepers of Japtown had a buy
time housing them. I-ast night there
was the usual crop of rumors that they
came in view of possible trouble, and
officers of the Asiatic Exclusion league
arsr much perturbed over the event.
Yesterday it was announced that at
least 1,000 Japanese would come from
Hawaii during the next three weeks.
Cost o f N ew Y ear Celebration.
New York, Jan. 4.— Men who are
fond of figures say that New Y ork ’s
New Year celebration cost $1,750,000.
At one restaurant that night receipt*
were over $20,000, 2,000 quarts of
champagne being drunk.
It is esti­
mated that the diners around town
made away with 42,000 quarts ol cham­
pagne and 66,000 quarts of claret, not
to mention the barrels of other drink­
ables consumed.
Souvenir hunters
were out in force and every hotel and
restaurant lost great quantities of glass
and other ware.
Ask Carnegia to Help. *
New York, Jan. 6.— An attempt to
interest Andrew Carnegie in modern
tenements in New York is one of the
results of the rent strike which has
been on for several days. It has been
proposed that the eity purchase a block
or two In the thickly congested East
Hide and there build modern tenements
which would be rented at a low price.
There seems to be no prospect of the
city being able to do this, at present at
least, so leaders in the strike move­
ment w ill try to get Mr. Carnegie to
erect these buildings.
All Lost Except Three
City of Mexico, Jan. 4.— Ramon
Portae, second officer of the steamer
Idero, has arrived at Vera Crux and re­
ported that the vessel sank in a storm
on the night of December 2, and all on
board were lost except three.
Must Not Reduce Rates.
Bioux Falls, Jan. 6.— Jndge Garland,
of the Federal court, today Issuer! a
temporary injunction restraining the
Houth Dakota Railway
commiusion
from reducing passenger rates from 8
to 2 }* cents par m il*.
Fifteen
Hundred Coming to Vancou­
ver From Honolulu
Conference Is Called by Secre­
tary of War Department.
ADJUTANT GENERALS WILL GO
Manning
of Coast
Fortifications
by
Stats Rasarvaa to Be Subject
o f Council at Capital.
Portland, Jan. 2.— Adjutant generals
of the three Pacific states— Oregon,
Washington and California— have been
invited by the War department to go to
Washington. I). C., for a conference at
(lie earliest possible date on the «ob­
ject of coast defense.
Adjutant Gene­
ral W . K. Finzer, of Oregon, and Gen­
eral J. H 14«uck, of California, are
leaving for the capital toiuotrow, while
General Otis Hamilton, of Washing­
ton, w ill start Eaat Bat unlay.
The request from the W ar depait-
ment for this oonfi re nee is regarded a«
peculiarly significant, indicating the
government'« determination to priqaire
for any emergencies that may arise
from the Went. The principal topic of
consideration at the conference w ill lie
that of training voluuteer i t last in til-
lery reserves to man Oregon. Washing­
ton aud California fortification». The
subject of |>erfocling the Infantry regi­
ments of the three states in coast de­
fense operations w ill likewise be taken
up. It is «»sored that the meeting w ill
result in assignment of National Guard
troops to coast artillery work. The
tnrre adjutant generals w ill very llkeljr
return with the task ahead of lecruit-
lug new ciaist coin|atnies for this ser­
vice.
For several months General O liver
has been in communication with Gene-
rsla Finzer, l,auck and Hamilton on
the subject of c<at«t defense. Only a
few dayrf ago he submitted memoranda
from the chief of artillery recommend­
ing assignment of the Oregon troo|>s to
coast defense maneuvers in May, aa
well as the permanent setting aside of
certain infantry companies for heavy
artillery training.
This plan was not regarded by the
three coast adjutant general« as feasi­
ble. There appeared to tie a disinclin­
ation among infantry commanders to
apportion their companies for artillery
work.
Concerted objection was alsO
made to the month of May for maneuv­
ers, as it is difficult for the sversge
guardsman to leave his business or
work at tht busy time of the spring
rush.
I t Is known, however, that the W ar
department w ill find It necessary to
offer more tiian a plan of coast defense.
The carrying out of such a plan w ill be
Attended by more or lees expense. That
the states should foot the bills does not
seem just. I t is believed that the gov­
ernment w ill lie asked flatly what aid
can lie given in the organisation of re­
serves or the assignment of infantry a l­
ready organised.
V I C T I M S OF J A P MOB.
Boise, Jan. 6.— The end of the prose­
cution of the men charged with the
murder of ex-governor Frank Hteunen-
berg with the exception of the cases cf
Harry Orchard and Jack Hiinpkins,
'•¡line Saturday with the acquittal of
George Petti bone.
Charles If. Moyer,
president of the Western Federation of
Mineis, was form ally released at 4
o’clock, and w ill return w ith Pettihone
in a few days to Denver.
The case of Orchard, the self-con-
fess* d assassin of Hteunenl>erg, is in
the hands of Prosecuting Attorney Van
Dnyn, of Canyon county. No state­
ment as to the future procedure in that
case has been made, but it w ill be
called during the next term of court
at Caldwell, when it w ill prolaibly be
finally disposed of.
Simpkins, a memlier of the executive
hoard of the Western Federation of
Miners, who is charged with com pli­
city in the crime, is a fugitive from
justice and the charge against him w ill
stand.
IN F L U X O F J A P S .
DEFENSE OF PACIFIC
RUEF G O E S T O J A IL .
Three Firemen Badly Irjured at Van­
couver, B. C .
Vancouver, B. CL, Jan. 2.— Allan
Anderson, fireman, is dying and two
other yonns men, also members of t io
city fire diqiartment, are Imdly wound­
ed and in the hospital as the result of a
fliiht they had early this morning in
the Japanese quarter with an over­
whelming riumlMT of the subjects of the
mikado. The fight was the worst in
the city since the Heptemiier riots, and
indicates that the Jafianese are at all
times ready for trouble and eager to
fight with their long knives that have
bl idea keen as razors.
Anderson, accompli riled by J. Frost
and T . McDonald, wsa pawing h Jap­
anese store, when Frost stumbled and
fell hard against the plate-glass window
front. The glass smashed and the frag­
ments were still rolling on the s dewalk
when a score of Japanese appeared from
tiie inside and rushed at the trio of
whites. The firemen were in uniform,
with brasH buttons snd official rufis, tint
I he Japuuese knifed them furiously.
8teal Chest o f Nickels.
Rochester, N. Y ., Jan. 2.— Two men
stole a chest containing $2,850 from a
street car standing in front of tiie Main
street East carbarns at fl:25 o’ dock this
morning and got safely away with it in
an automobile. The stolen money rep­
resented the earnings of the Rixheater
Railway company yesterday on what is
known us the Eastern division. It was
being transferred according to custom
from the Federal street carbarns to the
Htate street office to be counted when
the robbery occurred.
Officers are in
pursuit.
Torpado Boats in Paris.
Paria, Brazil, Jan. 2.— The torpedo
boat flotilla which is preceding the bat­
tleship fleet to the Pacific, arrived here
today from Port of Hpaln, Trinidad.
The flotilla, which had a rough voyage,
encountering head seas, was delayed
« " • d*7 on **»• ran by bad weather.