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THE STAYTON MAIL r. D. AirXANOCR. P « * l * » w S T A Y T O N ................. .OREGON NEWS OF THE WEEK In a Condensed Form 1er Onr B u y Headers. A Rotumt o f ths L u e Important but Not Lass Interesting Event« o f the Psst Week. Two men were burned to death in a fire at Limestone. N. Y. Jews of Pittsburg have raised a fund to aid distressed Jewish families. Whitelaw Reid has returned to his poet as amEwssador to Great Britain. A Corean and Japanese Exclusion league has been organised at Denver. A pearl necklace ard a pin of extra ordinary beauty, valued at $60,000, have been stolen from Countess von Watteuslebe, at Berli. Miss Emily Currier, for 43 years a teacher in Chicago public schools, is dead. For the past 41 years she never missed a day from her duties. Utilisation of automobiles to trans port rubber from the track country of the Congo to the river is planned by the American-Ccngo company. W hile the driver of a Wei Is-Far go expre-s wagon was delivering a package in Reno a thief stole a sack containing. $5,500 in gold. No arrests have been made. S TA TE H O O D N O T PLEDGED. New Mexico Must Depend on Future Developments. Washington, Feb. 18. — Notwith standing reports Bent from Washington, no agreement has been made by leaders in congress to pass a bill at the next session of congress admitting the teril- tory of New Mexico into the Union. The facts of the case are briefly as fol lows: A delegation of New Mexicans, head ed by the governor, came to Washing ton several weeks ago to survey the field and determine whether or not there was prospect of statehood legis lation this session. This delegation was to have been backed by 100 or more New Mexicans had the outlook been favorable. Hut after conferrng with the leaders in both branches of congress, the advance guard decided that statehood legislation could not be secured this session, no matter bow many men appeared on the scene to urge its enactment. Thereupon the “ big lobby,” was called off and the original delegation went home. Two propositions were submitted, but no pledges of any sort were given. First, it was suggested that It might tie well to send a congressional party to New Mexico during the ooming summer to make an investigation and determine whether or not conditions in that terri tory were such as to justify its admis sion into the Union. The other propo sition was merely to allow the New Mexicans to come to Washington in force next winter and appear before the territories committees of senate and house in eupportof their statehood bill. TO WELCOME FLEET. Honors o f Vico Admiral for Evans at Callao, Pern, is making great prepa Callao, Peru. ration to welcome the battleship fleet. Lima, Peru, Feb. 18.— The Ameii- The Kentucky legislature is still in can fleet, which is steaming up th« deadlock over the election of a aenator. west coast of South America, is expect The Spokane Athletic club will admit ed to arrive at Callao next Thursday, women to its boxing and athletic con and the government has ordered that tests. Smoking will be barred. Rear Admiral Evans tie tendered the Local labor unions in San Francisco are doing everything in theii power to honors of a vice admiral. The ernieer aid the fight against bubonic plague. Cor ne Bolognsi left Callao tonight for thie port. Banker Morse, of the New York ice trust, was much surprised at his arrest Everything is in readiness at Lima when he landed from a Euiopean trip. and Callao for a glorious welcome to the Americans. The official program Two Mexican woodchoppers in Cali includes a great banquet which w ill te fornia ate toadstools for mushrooms and given by President Pardo to the officers both died before a physician could in commemoration of Washington's reach them. birthday. On Friday Admiral Evans, Fight for the privilege of railroad if his Fiealth permits, will visit the building in Turkey and Austria is cre president and the visit will be leturned ating serious inharmony among the on board the Connecticut. A bull fight powers of Europe. has been fixed for Monday, at which it Baron Takahira, who has returned to is expected nearly ail the officers and at the United States as ambassador from least 5,000 of the sailors will have an Japan, says the idea of war with Japan opportunity to see the sport of the country. An excursion to Mount is “ too hellish to think of.” Meiggs lias been arranged for Tnegday It is Eieieved that the larger part of and on Wednesday there will be a re the battleebip fleet w ill eventually ception at the American legation. The make a visit to the Orient, in the in war minister will give a dinner to the terests of preeerv.ng the entity of American officers on Thursday, Febru Qhina. ary 27, and the following evening the Secretary Metcalf lias made pnblic National club will give an officers’ ball. the report of Admiral Convese on the effectiveness and standing of the Amer P IN C H O T W ILL Q U IT. ican navy, which is to the effect that our navy is as good as the.best in every Reported He Has Plant for Career thing but numbers. in the Senate. There is an outlook o f plague in Washington, Feb. 18.— The story haa Germany’s West Africa colonies. been pat in circulation in Washington The report Is again current that to the effect that Gifford Pinchot, chief Japan is trying to float a loan in of the Forest service, will retire from Paris. service at the close of President Rooee- Premier Franco has reached velt’s term, and go Weet to grow np Genoa badly worn out by his flight with the country. The report goes on from Lisbon. to say that Pinchot has a desire to mix The garrison at Fort Yellowstone in politics, with the hope of ultimately will be increased to four troops of being sent to the senate from the state in which be takes his residence. cavalry o f 100 men each. Since Mr. Roosevelt became presi Two men were killed while walk ing on the railroad near Billings, dent, Mr. Pinchot has been a very pow Mont. They were too drunk to no erful man in the administration. He tice an approaching train. was holding an insignificant office as The house committee on military chief of the forestry division of the Ag Government affairs has agreed to recommend ricultural department. more pay for enlisted men. forestry work was then in its infancy J. Pierpont Morgan was an inter and the work of Pinchot’ s division ested spectator during the senate de counted for little. Mr. Pinchot qnickly bate on the pending currency bill. interested the president in the subject Turkey is withdrawing her troops of rational forestry, and when the pres from the Russian frontier o f Persia ident became interested the division and the outlook seems to be for sprung into prominence, and has grown peace. , steadily to its present proportions. Its Manager Conreid, of the New York growth and the extension of its work opera, has resigned and will be suc would not have been possible but for ceeded by a famous director fron\ the aid of president Roosevelt. Milan, Italy. After being In the hands o f re Dead ock Is Unbroken ceivers for eight years the assets of Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 18.— The Ken a New York bank shrunk from $150,000 to $36,000. tucky general assembly has balloted for Count Roni de Castillane was fined a month to elect a United States sena $20 for his recent assault on his tor to succeed James B. McCreary, and rival, Prince de Sagan, and the lat is apparently no nearer an election ter was given 20 cents damages. than it was on the first twllot. In the In a speech before the Lincoln first vote ex-Governor Beckham, who club of Kalamazoo, Mich., Senator bad been nominate«! at the Democratic Knox, o f Pennsylvania, said federal primaries, received 66 votes: ex-Gov regulation of railroads had been en ernor Bradley Republican caucas nomi tirely justified and was not an at nee. 64 votes, while seven Democratic tack on business. votes were scattered and one Republican ab«ent through illness. There has been Nine miners were killed by an ex plosion of gas in a Kentucky coal no change. mine. Lumber Company Assigra. A New York grand Jury has re Murfreesboro, Tenn., Feb. 18.— The turned two indictments against Ice firm of W. B. Eirthman A Co., dealers King Morse. in lumber, have assigned. IThe liabili Beach Hargis, the young man who ties. it is said, will approximate $700,- shot his father, a Kentucky feudist, 000 with assets b-tween $500,000 and $600,000. 1« held without baiL CAN’T MAKE RATES State Railroad Commission Has No Such Power. COURT SO DECIDES WHEAT CASE Mute Constitution Glvts Rate Making Pow er to Legislature—Extra betsion May Be Called. Olympia, Wash., Fob. 16.— Thut the Washington state railroad com mission has no authority to fix max imum rutes is the gist of a decision handed down by Judge Hanford in the federal court in this city in a de cision in the joint wheat rate case. Judge Hanford holds that under section 18, o f article XU, o f the state constitution, the power to es tablish and fix maximum freight and passenger rates is reserved to the legislature and cannot be delegated to a commission. By this decision the usefulness of the railroad commission ns to rate making Is destroyed, and Governor Mead stated tonight that he has un der consideration the advisability of calling an extra session of the legis lature to consider submitting at the next general election a proposed amendment to the state constitution giving the railroad commissiou the power o f rate making. The decision Is a victory for the O. R. & N. and the commercial Inter ests of Portland as opposed to the efforts of the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern to divert Kasteru Washington wheat traffic from Port land to Puget Sound seaports. The case will immediately be car ried to the supreme court of the United States. If the ruling Is up held In the higher court of appeals, the state commission will have power only to take testimony and gather data relative to rates and forward this to the legislature with recom mendations for fixing rates. CH ILEAN S CHEER FLEET. Navy Thunders Salute—Roosevelt end Event Toasted. Valparaiso, Feb. 15.— The great American fleet of 16 battleships, un der command of Rear-Admiral Evans, passed Valparaiso yesterday afternoon and continued on its voy age northward for Callao, Peru, the next stopping place. All Valparaiso and thousands of persons from every city in Chile witnessed the passing o f the fleet. President Montt and the other high officials o f the republic came out from shore to greet the battle ships, and almost the entire Chilean navy exchanged salutes with them as they swung around Curaumilla Point and into Valparaiso Bay in single ffle, headed by the Chilean cruiser Chacabuco and five Chilean torpede boat destroyers. President Montt and other Chilean officials embarked on the training ship General Baquedano and took a position well out in the harbor. Around the Baquedano the fleet swung at a speed of four knots, fir ing the presidential salute as they passed in review. It was one hour from the time the head of the fleet entered the bay until the last vessel had passed the president's ship and turned toward the open sea. SH IP GOES ASHORE. Vestel end Cargo o f Cost Lost on Oregon Coast. Bay City, Ore., Feb. 15.— The American wooden ship Emily Reed, 103 days out from Newcastle, N. S. W., with a cargo o f coal for Port land. went ashore half a mile south o f the Nehalem river, on the Ore gon coast .at 1:30 o ’clock this morn ing. The vessel Immediately broke in two and ten members of the crew were drowned. Captain Kessel, his wife, Second Mate Charles Thompson and three members of the crew were saved. The survivors were brought to Bay City yesterday morning and are now quartered at private residences. The ship has broken up and will be a total loss, as w ill also the cargo o f 2,110 tons of coal. The vessel was consign«*! to the Pacific Coast Com pany at Portland. Army of Buyers in New York. New York, Feb. 15.— The Mer chants Association estimates that fully 700 more buyers reached town yesterday, making nearly 4,000 now in the city. Although yesterday was a holiday, large wholesale houses were compelled to keep open all day because of the great number o f buy ers, The winter goods season which Is supposed to close In January has been lengthened and many large or ders are reported as placed yester day. Merchants and buyers from the west report a great increase o f busi ness. After Fxpress Compsey Cincinnati, O., Feb. 15.— Viola tion o f the postal laws by carrying first-class mail matter was charged against the American Express Com pany in a suit filed In the United States district court here today. T A K A H IR A » A Y 8 "N O W AR." Mercenary Newspapers Have Caused All the Disturbance. New York, Feb. 17.— Declaring that war between the United Btates itud Japan would be the most "In human event in the world’s history," ttud was " too hellish” to be thought of, Baron Kognro Takahira, the new Japunese ambassador to Washing ton, said today, upon landing In New York from the steamer Etruria, that the Japanese know absolutely noth ing of u break In the cordial rela tions which have bean historic be tween the two nations. Talk of wur, Huron Takahira declined, with much emphasis, was utterly unintelligible to hint, unless, us some one hud sug gested, it was spread broadcast to serve the commercial ends of some newspapers. Thu new uiubussudor said there might be some matters peudlng in Washington which would require his attention, but they were not ser- lous. As to the cruise of the Am er ican fleet to the Pacific occun, he regurded It purely as u naval man euver ou a grand scale— designed to Bhow to the world at large that America has u wonderful naval pow er which cun be dispatched uny- where at a moment's uutice "In sup port of u legitimate cause which al ways is at the bottom of Aiuericuu diplomacy." —— ltarou Takahira will leave for Washington tomorrow morning at 11 o ’clock to present his credentials to President Roosevelt. Ho is u warm personal friend of Mr. Roose- velt, and Is looking forward to his meeting with the chief executive with u great deul of pleasure. The buron Is returning to the American cupilul after an absence of two years M AROONED ON GLACIER. Nineteen Japanese Fishermen Found Freei ng end btarviny, Seattle, Wash., Feb. . 17.— Cast ashore ou Mulasplna glacier near Yu- kutat, Alaska, November 5, after a severe gale lasting 72 hours. 18 members of the Japanese fishing schooner Satsutua Muru lived In a camp at the foot of the glacier for three months. Then nine of them escaped in their sampan to Yakutut, where the ship Jeanke was hailed. The Jeanle went to the glacier that afternoon. With seven sailors the Japunese sampan, which wus towed to the glacier by the Jeanie, put off towards the beach to rescue their comrades. The Jeanie’s big lifeboat followed in the wake of the sampan, but did not approach the surf. The sampan had hardly entered the surf when it wus rolled over re peatedly. Four o f the men were picked up unconscious by the life boat and taken back to the ship a mile away. The officers o f the Jeuuie saw the catastrophe and the ship wrecked men on shore rushed into the sea and took out the bodies of the other three sailors. Whether they were alive or dead is not known. The Jeanie stood off for two hours, but the sea was running so high that no boat could live to pass the surf. A revenue cutter has sailed to the glacier to rescue the other men. FLE FT W ILL GO TO O RIEN T. United States Will Take a Hand in Far Eastern Question. Washington, Feb. 17.— The ques tion of preserving “ Chinese territor ial and administrative entity" has suddenly assumed new Importance In the eyes of the diplomatic world in connection with the cruise of the American battle fleet to the Pacific — especially since it became an as sured fact that the fleet is to pro ceed to the Orient b ^ od after reach ing San Francisco. Several months ago it was stated that certain Interests closely in touch with commercial affairs in China professed to be informed that the real significance of the fleet’s move ment to the Pacific had to do with affairs affecting the Flowery K ing dom, and that in time their state ment of the case would be justified. Always the well-informed have been aware that there was something—-if nothing more than a remote contin gency— aside from the practice fea tures of the cruise involved. A pop- ular impression has been that the immigration question was behind It all. The Immigration question now is practically settled, but there Is to be no change In the program of send ing the fleet under Admiral Evans to the Far East. L ib o r WiH Go to Law. New York, Feb. 17.— New York labor unions contributed about $5,- 000 to the fund asked for by Presi dent Samuel Gompera, of the Am er ican Federation of Labor, for the purpose o f fighting the Injunctions issued by the District of Columbia courts in the suit against the F*>d- eration by the Ruck Stove 41 Range Company. The suit Is to determine the right of the federation to black list manufacturers who do not em ploy union labor. The cases are to be taken to the supreme court Grip Hes Got London. Lon «Ion , Feb. 17.— Influenza Is claiming thousands of victims In London and the vlsltntlon of thn present time Is the worst that has been known In many y««nrs. No leas than three members of ihe mMnnt, confined to their beds with the mal ady. ROAD TO PROSPERITY Rush to W boltlile Biases la Replenish Stocks. od BUT HEAVIER THAN LAST TEAR Country Fast Recovering From Fi nancial Depreseiof— Factorise Resuming Operations. Chicago, Feb. 13.— Thut the na tion again is on the high rood to prosperity wus shown today by re ports from ail sections of the coun try. On every hand It Is agreed thnt the depression following the finan cial flurry of last fall is a thing o f the past, and thut the outlook is for a steadily increasing volume of bus iness uutil normal conditions have been reached, iu sliimi branches o f truJe prosperity In a full measure has been recorded, uud other lines show an Improvement that promlaea aoiue satisfactory records at the close of the year. - Following Ihe uud of the stringency lu money comes an Improvement In collections and a corresponding facil ity of barter and aale. It also has been demonstrated completely that the general public escuped the effects of the flurry. The people have cash with which to supply their needs, uud their needs are Just us great us ever. With more fartorl«* resuming op erations every day, the number o f the unemployed is decreasing, uud It is believed that before long the idle mill will be the exception. Chicago wholesalers report that the country merchants are coming In with their sprlug orders In greater numbers than u year ago. In ultoost every case they say that their stocks are low and must be replenished Im mediately to cure for the demands o f their customers. The steel business, recognized as the barometer of trade in general, has shown marked Improvement within the last few weeks. Much ar ticles as wire and nails, which get to the general public quicker tbun the other products, are in great de mand, and the railroads are coining into the market for large quantities of supplies. The outlook Is for bigger business, both in quality und In quuntity, than last year," said W alter D. Moody, business manager o f the Chicago As sociation .of Commerce. "1 have been around the whoh-sale district a good deul lately, und 1 find it is op timistic over the outlook for the spring business. 1 have had direct reports from many o f the targe houses, and they all read the same. "T h ere are many merchants In town, and they are coming by every train. They are flocking to the wholesale houses, and In practically every case they are buying freely. JAPS A T TARGET PRACTICE Have Small Cannon Mounted Along California Coast. Santa Monica, Cal., Feb. 13.— On an unfrequented bluff, which marks the northern limit of 8auta Monica bay, a party of seven Japanese, with a small cannon in th«dr possession, have been for several days pusi en gaged In experiments that have aroused the suspicious of the settlers in the homestead district, and the news of their operations, reaching here tonight, has created some little excitement, particularly as It Is known that the portion o f the Am erican battleship fleet will remain several days in thv waters enclosed by Point Duma, where the party of Japanese made Its h«-adquurters. Their evident unxb'ty to qpc.ipe ob servation, he said, drew upon them the careful observation of several of the settlers, who found them on one occasion In possession of a small pivot gun, which, mounted on n cliff 185 feet above the water, was being fired, first in one direction and then In another. „ The Japanese, unaware that they were being watched, seemed Inter ested in determining the range o f the little pl«‘cp of artillery, which threw missiles over a mile from th » Bhore. The gun was operated with smokeless powder. Nesd o f Mora Vessels. Marshall, Mich., Feb. 13.- Every available scut was taken at Ihe an nual banquet of the Calhoun Coun ty Lincoln Club, at which ex-Secre- tnry of the Treasury Leslie M. Shnw and Second Assistant Postmaster (}«'ncral McCleary were the princi pal speakers. Mr. McCleary In speak ing on "Present Day Problems” de voted considerable attention to tho fai't that the nuxlllnry fleet, carry coal and supplies for the battleship cruise to the Pnclflc, sailed under many foreign flags. Portugal Growing Quiet. l^indon, Fob, 13.— The Times thla morning publishes n long Lisbon dis patch relative to r«>oor.t events In Portugal. It saya thnt the aituatlon Is Improving dally and that the gov ernment adheres to Its policy o f con ciliating public opinion, but that It would be a mistake to consider «11 danger over.
