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\ THE STAYTON MAIL » - ——♦ C. D. AlEXANDCR. PaMfeh«* S T A Y T O N .................... O R E G O N NEWS OF THE WEEK l i a Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. A R e s u m « o f th e L e s s Im p o rte n t b u t N o t L e s s In t e r e s t in g E v e n ts o f th e P e s t W e e k . Burns and Ruef clashed in court and almost came to blows. The miners’ federation may defeat the Nevada constabulary law. Colorado stockmen in their conven tion upheld the government’s forestry policy. W alsh, the convicted Chicago bank wrecker, says he merely made invest ments. A New York grand jury ia making a searching investigation into banking frauds. P L O T IS R E V E A L E D . A n a r c h is t C o n s p ir a c y In R io J a n e ir o to B lo w U p Fleet. Rio de Janeiro, Jan. 21.— The Bra silian police have discovered an anar chist ic plot here having as its object the destruction of part of the American spiracy. while centering in Rio Janeiro and Petiopolis, has ramifications in Sao Paulo and Minas Oeraes. An individual named Jean Fedher, who resided in Petropolis, was the chief conspirator here, although it is understood that foreign anarchists are deeply Involved in the plot. Fedher is believed to have tied to Sao l’aulo and the police, who know him, have been sent to that place fcr the purpose of apprehending him. One of the detec tives who was well acquainted with Fedher, having served on tire police force at Petropolis for some time, re turned from that place today. After having made investigation there and had a long conference witii the chief of police at Rio Janeiro, the latter gave it to be understood later that tne Sao Paulo police are on the track of the arch-conspirator and expect to arrest him soon. MAKE GOOD PRO G RESS. B u t P h ilip p in e D e le g a t e s S a y It I s T o o • S o o n f o r H o m e Rule. The Sovereign bank of Canada, which has failed, was largely a Morgan institution. conditions in San Francisco, Jan. 21.— Speaking of the Philippines, Benito Legarda, delegate to congress, who, The government may decide to run with his colleague, Pablo (Vam pa, has steamers on the Pacific coast to defeat arrived here en route to Washington, said today that his people )>ad made the monopoly of the Pacific M ail. great progress under American rule, Judge McPherson holds the Missouri and especially along educational lines, law against the transfer of railroad and added: suits to the Federal court invalid. > “ It is useless to talk of independence Louis Glass, convicted San Francisco now. I want independence, of course, briber, who is ill with pneumonia, is but how can we have it? That is the somewhat improved. H e is 63 yeare question. I do not care to risk the old. property I own in another civil war or Senator Borah opposes the Aldrich to anarchy that might follow an at tempt on the part of my countrymen currency bill. to govern themselves at present.” New York banks have a surplus over It is asserted that his fellow delegate the legal reserve. would work in harmony while in the There is a great deal of revolutionary house of representatives, his only aim being to improve the economic condi agitation in India. tions of the islands, worse now than it The three miners entombed at E ly, has t>een for 30 years. Both delegates Nev., December 4, have been released. want to secure, if possible, the reduc Boyertown, Pa., has buried all of its tion of the United States duties on dead. The total fatalities numbered Philippine sugar and tobacco. Both are greatly interested in the Japanese 173. question. The United States has found it neces Legarda ie a member of the Progres sary to Interfere in the Haytian revolu sive party, w h ile Ocampo is affiliated tion. w ith the National party. German scientists have succeeded in manufacturing rubies of remarkable K E E P IN G R E S U L T 8 8 E C R E T . beauty. P a r t o f L e m ie u x ’ P a rt y R e t u r n s F r o m Japan. San Francisco, Jan. 21.— Hon. Jos California shippers are determined eph Pope, Canadian secretary of state, that the Southern Pacific rebate inves and Madame B. Lemieux, wife of the tigation shall not be a farce. Canadian postmaster general, returned The Chicago, Milwaukee A St. Paul on the ship Mongolia from Japan, road intends to have its line finished where Lemieux went to straighten out into the Northwest in time to handle the difficulties between the two coun tries, which arose over the question of a part of the 1908 crop. John R . W alsh , president of the Japanese immigration to Canada, and Chicago National bank, has been found the consequent riots at Vancouver and guilty on 54 counte of misapplication in other Canadian cities. Lemieux re of the bank’s funds The minimum turned on a preceding steamer. The secretary of state, and the poet- penalty is imprisonment for 270 years master general were sent to Japan sev and the maximum penalty 540 years. eral months ago with instructions to The Sovereign bank of Canada has reach some agreement with the Japan failed. ese government, whereby the immigra Four Scranton, Pa., girls were burn tion of coolies to Canada would be re stricted. W h a t success attend'd the ed in a factory fire. mission is very carefully guarded by The United States torpedo flotilla Pope. Madame Lemieux had not been has arrived at Rio Janeiro. made a confidante by the government The Japanese premier considers the officials. The party w ill leave here to day for Ottawa. emigration problem settled. Montana mineowners have united to build a smelter and fight the trust. Haytien rebels have captured two towns and the president threatens bom bardment. Pope Pius has the gout, but the alarm ing rumors about his health are not justified. An effort is being made to keep Eve lyn Thaw from telling nher story at the second trial of Thaw. Colonel Goethals thinks about $32, 403,863 w ill be needed to carry on the canal work this year. W aters o f Lake A re Blessed. St. Petersburg, Jan. 21.— The annual ceremony of blessings the waters, dur ing which, in 1905, the emperor nar rowly escaped assassination by means of the saluting cannon, took place at Tsarkoe-Selo instead of at the waters of the Neva. The imperial blessing was bestowed on the waters of the lake in the palace park amid the salute of guns. After the ceremony I he emperor, accom panied by his mother, reviewed the guard regiments. The empress did not take part in the celebration, as illness etili confines her indoors. The president has decided to let the Ruef H is Nothing to S a y . Federal troops remain at Goldfield until San Francisco, Jan. 21.— The case some action haB been taken by the Ne which was begun against Abraham Ruef vada legislature. yesterday before Judge Law lor is the The largest savings bank in Dallas, one in which indictments were brought Texas, has suspended. against him for the alleged bribery of The temperature has reached 6 de supervisors in connection with a fran grees below zero at St. Paul. chise of an overhead trolley system for Japan denies that there is any secret the United Railroads. Ruef refused to make any statement tonight regarding about the location of her fleet. the change in the attitude of the prose A majority of the house committee cutors toward him and their decision is opposed to the Seattle fair appropri not to give him immunity. ation. The National Woolgrowers’ associa tion is opposed to Roosevelt’s land policy. The Kentucky legislature remains deadlocked on the senatorial election. Governor Beckham still leads. The* New York Federal court is in quiring into Harrim&n’s stock deals •nd has ordered him to answer ques tions. G la s s T a k e n to H o sp it a l. Ban Francisco, Jan. 21.— Louis Glass, former vice president and general man ager of the Pacific Telephone A Tele graph company, who was recently con victed of bribery and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, was transferred from the county jail tonight to the Lane hospital, he being quite ill with pnenmonia. F O R F E IT » IM M U N IT Y . D is t r ic t A t to rn e y L e n g d o n S a y * g o t ia t io n s A r e O v e r . MAKING PROGRESS Ne Han Francisco. Jan. 20.— It was an Hall and Nays Trial Making bnt Little Progress. nounced late Saturday night that continue all negotiatlona with Abraham cases, In the matter of HENEY IS MOVING WITH CAUTION the gtaft prosecution haa determined to dis Ruef, the central figure In fleet now lying in the harbor. The con Evelyn Thaw w ill again tell her story to the jury despite the efforts of Jerome. Attorney General Yoong, of Minne sota, is a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor. DEFENSE 13 FIGHTING RUEF immunity. the graft granting him It was further Hated that today the prosecution would Jury Secured I d Hall Laud Case I d One Day. demand WILL TRY BUT TWO DEFENDANTS that Ruef be put on trial befora Judge S a a a io n L a r g e ly G iv e n U p to R e a d in g o f L e it e r s S e id to S h o w C o n s p ir a c y . Portland, Jan. 18.— The government yesterday continued laying the founda tion of the case agaiust John H . Hall and Edwin Mays. Heney introduced some 50 letters, written from June, 1901), to Septem ber, 1902., by H all, Mays, Loomis, Stratford and Putnam. Mote such U t ters will follow today. H all objected seriously to only one letter, written by Secretary Hitchcock to Special Inspector A . R. Greene, di recting Greene to investigate the fence«. Heney’ purpose ia to show that thie investigation was prompted by settlers, who had appealed vainly to H all to act against the fences. Hall objects to the letter because a copy and not the original letter has been offered and because it is irrelevant. Judge Hunt will decide tbe questions tins morning. Unlike H all, Maya raised numerous objections in the course of the day. The steps in the government’s evi dence of conspiracy will be abont as follows: First— To prove Hall and Maya bad frequent knowledge from protesting set tlers of tbe fences as eatly as March, 1901 ). Becond— That Stelwer, Zachary and Hendricks caused various persons to tile on land for their company, in order to complete tire company’s enclosure cf public land. Third— That Hail and Mays took no steps to prosecute the offenders, though they had full knowledge of the fencing ami the conspiracy for mors titan three years. At this stage, Bteiwer is expected to testify abont the alleged understanding by which H all and Mays were not to prosecute him and his ass*x:iatet. One of the terms of this alleged agreement was Betiwer’s vote for Fulton. George Brownell is expected to testify that Hall promised him immunity from land fraud prosecution for his with drawal from the eon tee t for H a ll’s office. Dunne on one of the many charges of hrlliery for which he has lieen I ml id cl. This determination of the prosecution c&iue st the end of several days’ fruit less negotiations with Ruef. It Is ssld that some time sgo llie preaemition promised Ruef (xirtial immunity in consideration of his taking the witneae stand ami truthfully teatifying in full to all iiis transactions with public serv ice corporation officials to be tried on tlie charge of bribery. When the District Court of Appeala rendered its division declaring void the ludictinente for extortion Mgalnat ex- Mayor Bchmita, to which Ruef had a l ready pleaded guilty, it Is charged that Ruef, realising that the deciaion placed him in an advantageous position, de manded full immunity. This the pros ecution would not concent to grant, and there followed a seriee of ronferencea in which Ruef endeavored to »«cure better terms. R U S S IA N Naval FO LLO W S FLEET. O ffic e r o f tha C z a r W a t c h in g E v e r y M o v e m e n t. 8t. Petersburg, Jen. 2U.— The portance attached by the tniratty to tbe leaeous Russian to be im ad learned from the vauyage of the American bat- tied.ip fleet under Rear Adm iral Fivans is shown by the fact that officer, Commander Alexis the naval Diatchkoff, is following the fleet around the Horn, traveling (nun port to port by any means lie can obtain. He adopted thin course only after his r e la t e d requests for permission to join the ships had been refused. It is reported here that Diatchkoff succeeded in getting on board one of tbe American waisliipn at Rio Janeiro, and the entire incident of this officer’s activities had been a source of some friction bt tween the Russian foreign minister here and the admiralty. When Baron Koeen, (he Russian ambassador to the United States, was instrui te*! to ask for a permit for Diatchkoff to join Adm iral Evans, he decline*! on the grounds thst lie knew his request would be unfavorably received at Washington. Thereupon the Russian admirait*, T E N A N T S IN R I O T S . after further correapomlenre with the Foreign office, instructed Diatchkoff to O b je c t to P a y in g M o r s T h a n R a t s apply personally to Secretary Metcalf. This the officer did, but in vain. He T h e y F ix T h e m s e lv e s . was therefore ordered to fellow the New York, Jan. 18.— Forcible resist fleet as closely as he could, making use ance by tenants whom an Upper East of private steamers. Bide landlord was trying to evict result ed‘yesterday in the gathering of a crowd of two thousand or more sympathiseis P R O G R E S S 18 8 L O W . in the neighborhood, who made so much trouble for the police that the H a ll- M a y s T ria l at P o rt la n d M a y T a k e precinct reserves were called ont. Dur W e e k s to E n d . ing the rioting four women and a num Portland, Jan. 20.— Neither Prose ber of men were taken into custody. The riotous demonstration began cutor Heney nor the lawyers for the de when a city marshal and about 25 as fendants w ill hazard a prediction as to sistants visited the block on the south the time that w ill web required to con side of F-aat One Hundred and Fourth street, between First and Becond ave clude the H all-M ays conspiracy trial. nues, with 80 dispossess warrants for One week already has been consumed families who had unitedly demanded and the government has scarcely made reductions in rents of a dollar a month a beginning, only one of its many im and had refused to pay the landlord’s portant witnesses having iieen examin collector more than the new rate they ed. More than 70 witnesses lor the had fixed. The taking ont of the furn government are in the city, summoned iture from the rooms of the first family to testify against one or more of the 12 visited was the signal for an attack on defendants named in the indictment, the marshal and his men by scores of but Bine« tiie prosecution has decided to try only H ail and Mays at tiiia time, tenants. Angry women surrounded a patrol Mr. Heney says he may not call all of man who had gone to the niHrrhal’s as the government’s witnesses. sistance and had half torn his coat from In this way the trial may he shorten tils back when assistance arrived. He ed somewhat, but if all cf the witnesses arrested four women. Several demon take the stand, the case will drag along strative men were also sent to the sta for weeks. There is little doubt that tion house. The police were by this between two and three weeks more at time, struggling with little success to the least will lie require*l to complete disperse an increasing crowd of angry the introduction of testimony and sub demonstrators, hut other arrests by the mit the case to the jury. Thus far the officers finally had the effect of putting testimony lias not been damaging to a stop to the trouble. H ail or Mays. The immediate purpose of the dem onstration was effected, the marshal H a r v e s t e r T r u s t Is F in e d . deciding not to attempt the serving of TopekH, K an., Jan. 20.— Judge Dana, more dispossess warrants at the time. in the Shawnee County District court here today, assessed a fine of $12,600 Hayti is in Revolution. against the International Harvester Port Au Prince, Hayti, Jan. 18.— company, which the court found guilty The first actual operation of a revolu on 43 counts of violating the Kansas tionary movement against the present anti trust law. The maximum fine is government of Hayti took place yester $1,000 a count, and the minimum $100. day, and so far lias been successful. An The criminal suit was filed a year ago expedition composed of Haytiens, who by Attorney General Coleman, who have been in exile, under the command contended that the harvester company of Jean Juneau, effected a landing not was being operated In Kansas in viola far from Gonaives, 65 miles northwest tion of the anti-trust laws. An appeal of here, and occupied that town. The w ill lie taken. government is taking measures to resist the movement. The revolutionary J u d g e R e c e iv e s E x p lo s iv e . forces also oocupied Bt. Marc, some 20 Cleveland, Jan. 20.— Jndge George 8. miles from Gonaives. Addam, of the Juvenile court, today W a r s h ip s S a il f o r M a g d a le n a . Ban Diego, Cal., Jan. 18.— A ll that was left here of the Pacific squadron sailed this morning for Magdalena, to remain for six or seven weeks, Indulg ing in target practice. received in his mail a stick of wiiat ap pears to dynamite or solidified nitro gtyclerine, six inches in length. Thrre was no mechanism to detonate the ex plosive. Jndge Addam opened th e tube in the'eourt room, without h a v in g an idea of ita contents. E x - U n it e d N ta te s A t t o rn e y H a ll a n d E d w in M a y s at B a r — N o E x p la n a tio n la Q lv « n . Portland, Jan. 18.— Twelve jurors, satisfactory alike to the government and to the defense, were selected yes terday to determine the guilt or Inno cence of John II. H all, ex-United HtaUe attorney for Oregon, nnd Edwin Mays, who are jointly charged with il legally fencing public lands in Eastern Oregon. The first juior, Allred Fieetk- ■en, a fanner ot Lelanon, Linn conaiy, waa accepted at 11 o’clock and the jury was completed at 6:35 o'clock yesterday afternoon with the acceptance of Henry Freerkaen, a fartnet of Hhedda, I.lnn county, and a brother of the first tuan selected. Both sides had exhausted their three peremptory challenges be fore the name of Henry Freerkaen waa reached, but he waa subjected to a thorough questioning by Hpecial I’reee outor Heniy la-fore being accepted. When oourt convened yesterday tn«rnlng Mr. Heney created a arurallion by announcing that of tbe 12 defendants named in the indictment only H all and Edwin Mays would be tried at this time. His failure to indicat when W . W . Bteiwer, Hamilton II. Hendrick* an«l Clarence B. Zachary would be ’ * v If at all, ia believed to give color to report that them* three defendants ha been promised immunity in return fax important testimony against their eo- defendants. The testimony of three defendants, it has been rumored, ia considered ee»elitlul to the ras« of the government aguinst Hall and Mays. ID E N T IF Y IN G THE DEAD. M a n y B o y e r t o w n V ic tim a ’B u rn e tj P a s t R e c o g n itio n . Boyeratown, Pa., Jan. lfl.— One hun dred ami seventy persons perished at the Rhoades opera house fire Moa*iay night, according to figures compile*! by Coroner Hlntseer last night. The list of dead includes one fireman, a ho l««t hi* life fighting the fire, and one man, Jacob Johnson, who died from injurie* received in tne biasing playhouse. Three charred ho*lie* were recovered from the ruins of the building yester day, and of the 16H bodies or remains that lie in the improvised ruins of tbe building 114 have been officially or par tially identified by sorrowing relative« or frienda. Not more than 25 of the entire nuwi- ber of bodies removed from the fire have heads. There ate several trnnka which will never be recognised, as they were etrangera In tbe audieuoe that witnessed the play. I N D O R 8 E 8 S P A R K S ’ A C I IO N . Caucus o f N e v a d a L e g is la t o r s S u p - p o rt a G o v e r n o r . Carton, Nev., Jan. 1 «.— A joint cau cus of the special committee« of tbe senate and assembly of the Nevada leg islature met yesterday and fruined a joint resolution which w ill he introduc ed in (he senate today B a k in g the preei- dent of the United Bitten to retain troop« in Goldfield until such time a t the state can provide either a police force or oilier means to maintain order in the camp. This ia a decided victory for Governor Sparks, as the committee framing the resolution is c nip* Hed of 20 memiiern, both Republhans and Democrats, with the pro and anti labor elements both represented. The resolution will undoubUwlIv pnae the senate, while the general expres sion among the rtiemtiers of the lower house is that It will go through that laxly by a small majority, the senate being Republican and the assembly strongly Democratic. W a n t s to F in e S t a n d a r d , Chicago, Jan. 1 «.— District Attor ney Sims, upon arriving trainy from Washington, where he ¡ h thought Us have discussed the matter with Presi dent Roosevelt, announced that he will make an effort to bring the Standard Oil company of Indiana to trial next week on the remaining 4,00f counts in the indictments returneid against the corporation. It will be possible in the event that the company should be con victed on each count of the indictment to impose fines aggregating a total of $80,000,000. P o a t p o n a 8 e attle F a ir. Beattie, Jan. lfl.— W h ile the idea ia not received by with approval hy the majority of the people, Colonel Blethen and others have recently began a move ment to postpone the Alaska-Yukon exposition until 1910. The flnanaial condition in a ll parts of the oonntry and failure to realise on certain Invest ment« cause this plan to b « considered.
