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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.