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S T A Y T O N ................... OREGON
NEWS OF THE WEEK
I d a Condensed Form for Our
Busy Headers.
A Resume o f the Less Importent but
Not Less Interesting Events
o f the Pest W eek.
Four mail clerks were injured in a
train wreck near Flovilla, Ga.
I
W ork is about to begin in New York
on a building for the various Irish so*
cieties.
New York hotel clerks have organ
ised a club under the name of the
Greeters.
Dr. Em il G. Hirsch, in an address
at Chicago, denounced Germany as a
menace to the peace of the world.
Sixteen persons were injured, five
seriously, by the derailment of a car on
the scenic railway at one of Denver’ s
amusement parks.
Mrs. Yerkes. widow of Charles T.
Y’ erkes, intends to devote a por i xi cf
her $10,000,000 estate to the erection
of a hospital in New Y ork.
A man disguised as a girl obtained
employment in the St. Louis telephone
office and was only discovered when he
proposed to one of the girls.
First-class west bound ocean travel
is at its loweet ebb at the present time.
Four big liners have just arrived with
their cabins practically empty.
S ystem
St. 1 etersburg, Feb. 25.— The skilful
pctlormai.ee of the police in the round
up of the great band of plotters has
won praise throughout the city, bearing
witness to the thoroughness of the
methods evolved for fighting terrorists.
The secret police are s e n d in g unlim
ited sums in bringing the terrorists to
justice and have drafted agents of in
ternational experience who aie thor
oughly familiar with the by-ways of
Western anarchists and w ho w ill in
troduce an ^improved technique here.
The police depaitment has entered
into relations with detective agenciee
abroad, ami lias organised an extensive
service in a ll thecenteis where Russian
emigrants congregate, particularly in
New York, Paris and Switzerland. and
are making a special effort to penetrate
within the innermost councils ef the
Social IVmocratic and Social Revolu
tionist organizations.
Ia connection with the latest plot the
men of the secret service were al*«>-
lutely trusted by comrades of the revo
lutionists, who attended the meetings
held in Finland, where the final plan
for the assassination of Grand Duke
Nicholas Nicholiavitch and Judge Tube-
glovitoff, minister of justice, was elab
orated.
Two hundred plain clothes
meu wete called in by heads of the po
lice department and given precise in
structions as to what action should be
taken and apparently they arrested
without error the persons Involved.
Thus far the police have failed to ex
tract a confession from any of those ar
rested as to their identity, but seveial
undoubtedly are members cf aristocrat
ic houses. It is certain that numbers
o f the conspirators have managed to
evade arrest, and a careful watch is be
ing kept f -t these.
BLACK H AN D BUSY.
That there is less graft and business T h re a te n to B lo w U p G o vern m en t
dishonesty in America tx la y than there
P o w d e r S to re s .
was in Washington’s time, is the opin
New York, Feb. 26.— In a letter
ion of Dr. R. H. McArthur, of New
signed “ Black Hand’ ’ and addressed to
York.
Commander Braunstrueter, in charge
American naval officers were ban of the United States naval magazine at
Iona island, the threat has been made
queted at Lim a, Peru.
that the enormous stores of smokeless
A Frenchman has invented a wireless
powder on the island w ill be blown up
electric power system.
unless the married men discharged
Mexico is devising ways for the re from employment on tne island Janu
form of the public credit system.
ary 1, 1908, be put back to work at
The Hearst Independence league has once. There are 3,000,000 pounds of
decided to nominate a national ticket. smokeless powder and other explosives
stored in the nnmerons magazines.
The sale of ex-M inistei Conger’ s Chi
Secret service men are working to
nese curio collection has realized $26,- discover the identity of the writer of
£33.
the letter. Printed by hand,'the letter
Japan has asked for a larger appro was mailed at the Haverstraw postoffice
priation for the Tokio exposition in two weeks ago. It was as follows:
“ I f the married men that were dis
1912.
charged from Iona island are not taken
Russian authorities have captured back again at once all the magazines
plotters against the life of Grand Duke on the island w ill be blown op. The
Nicholas.
writer does not fear death.
Black H and.”
Fire for a time eeriously threatened a
On January 1 between 30 and 40
large part of the business district of
men, who had been employed on the
New Orleans.
island, were discharged, owing to delay
A mortgage for $225,000 has been
in forwarding funds from Washington
foreclosed on the Yerkes home and art
to continue work.
This delay was
collection in New Y ork.
looked upon at the time as temporary,
A Columbia, Mo., man has just died and it was understood the men would
who for the past 20 years has drunk at be taken back aa soon as the money ar
least a quart of whisky a day.
rived.
Among the men discharged, most of
The children of Eureka, Cal., have
whom were laborers, were many Ita l
petitioned the forest serv.ee for the cre
ians.
ation of a redwood national forest.
Since the receipt of the letter every
An attempt was made to burn the approach to the island has been guard
Soales hotel, at Muskogee, Okla., where ed day and night by marines, it ie.said
about 100 delegates to the Democratic and the civilian employes have been
convention were quartered.
kept under the strictest surveillance.
Inna island is about seven miles south
Railroad unions deny the necessity
of West Point.
for wage reductions.
The Northern Pacific has reduced
W ill B are R u e f’s S e c re ts .
grain rates from Montana points to
San Francisco, Feb. 25.— Every de
Chicago.
tail of the negotiations between the
Senator Ankeny has given a banuet graft prosecution and Abe Ruef w ill be
to a number of senators, at which he bared in the exhaustive affidavits to be
filed iD Judge Lawlor’ scourt this morn
boomed the Seattle fair.
ing by District Attorney Langdon, As
Early fruit and vegetables for ship sistant District Attorney Francis J
ment to th6 North have been damaged Heney and W illiam J. Burns.
Heney
in Louisiana by a cold wave.
and Burns spent yesterday in preparing
The Illin ois Supreme court holds that their affidavits, and while they would
a labor unionz’ s unfair list is in effect not discuss the contents of the docu
ments, both said that the sworn state
a boycott and can be enjoined.
ments would include every important
The Pullman car company has iesned
detail of their relations with Ruef.
orders to sell no liquors while the cars
are passing through dry districts.
R e p a ir a t P u g e t Sound.
The cruisers West
Virginia and
Seattle, Feb. 25.— The Colorado and
Maryland are to undergo extensive re
the Pennsylvania, armored cruisers of
pairs at the Mare Island navy yard.
the first class, arrived at the navy yard
Members of the marine hospital ser today for dry docking and repairs. The
vice have condemned a large part of Colorado w ill be e juipped with a new
San Francisco’ s packing house district. main battery of four eight inch breech
Changes w ill be made at once.
loading rifles. The two vessels w ill he
Consolidation of the large coal min followed by eight other warships which
ing interests of Illin ois and Indiana for w ill be repaired by A p ril 26.
the purpose of regulating the output
and upholding prices is under way.
M ain W a te r P ipe B ursts.
Paris, Feb. 25.— The main water
Russia discourages talk of war with
pipe of Paris, under Tuilleries street,
Turkey.
burst last evening and converted the
The American fleet has arrived at street into a torrent. The water flooded
Callao, Peru.
cellars in various side streets, extin
A number of Stanford students have guishing fires and stopping the dyna
mos in at least one large hotel, putting
been expellede for drinking.
the building in darkness.
Miss Dorothy Whitney, of New
York, is to wed a Hungarian nobleman.
Russia B acks D o w n .'
General Nelson A. Miles w ill make
his home in Washington, D. C., here
after.
Secretary of the Navy Metcalf w ill
go to San Fanrcisco to welcome the fleet
on its arrival there.
Copenhagen, Feb. 25.— It is under
stood in diplomatic circles that as a re
sult of pressure from other powers Rus
sia has abandoned her plan of fo rtify
ing the Aland islands and that an en
tente w ill aoon be arranged.
BUILD TO INTERIOR
Central Oregon Is Premised Rail
Connections.
FROM SUMPTER TO PRINEVILLE
Line
Up
Hood
R iver V aliev M ay Be
E xten d ed S ou th east to C o n n act
W ith O th e r L in as.
F ulto n D enies E very A ccusation M a d s
by H aney.
Portland, Feb. 2 4 .—In a long state-
merit given to the newspapers of Port
land lor publication, Charlea W . Ful
ton, senior Uulted Ntates senator from
Oregon, answers In detail the charges
made against him by Francia J. Heney,
special prosecutor for the government
in the land fraud canes, in a speech de
livered in the Firat Congregational
church In this city on the night of Jan
uary 2H of the present yesr.
At that time Mr. Heney made the
direct charge that Senator Fulton's long
part iciiiat inn in cnxiked political and
business deals in Oregon, notably in
timber laud frauds, had unfitted him to
occupy the high office lie now holds ami
announced a determination to oppose to
the utmost the senator's candidacy' for
re-election,
Mr. Ileuey further charg
ed that 8enator Fulton is the tool of
the railroad interests at Washington
and represents, not the people of his
state, tint tiie law-defying coipoiatiuns
In oongress.
The specific charges made In the
Heney speech are taken up one by one
in Senator's Fulton’ s answering state
ment and denied comprehensively and
in detail as to every material fact.
Senator Fulton does not mince matters
in laying before the people of his state
his defense. He strikes squarely from
the shoulder and charges in the plainest
terms that 1 i i accuser delilierately fal
sified in his Congregational church
speech, which Senator Fulton points
out to have !>eon the climax of a cam
paign of malicious persecution and v il
li fication begun more than two years
ago.
Senator Fulton impugns the honesty
of Mr. Heney’s rnoti.es.
Revenge and
partisan politics, he says, are the fatal*
of the graft proesecutor’ s enmity to
ward him, and Mr. Heney'a olmesaion
by an irrspresailile ambition to stand
in the lim elight is given aa an added
incentive for what Senator Fulton calls
the lawyer’ s utter disregard for the
truth.
Hood River, Or., Feb. 22.— I f pre
liminary plans being promoted
by
wealthy capitalists of Salt la k e City,
who own the Mount Hood Railway ex
tending up Hood River valley and also
the Sumpter Valley, runuing out of
Baker City, materialize, Central Ore
gon may have a railroad in the near fu
ture that w ill open up Its many re
sources. The project provides for an
extension of the Mount Hood line
through the mountains east of Mount
Hood, and a party of surveyors is now
in the field trying to locate a pass
through the mountains. The work is
in charge of Joseph A. West, chief en
gineer of the Sumpter V a lley.
F^arly last fall a large surveying p».rty
headed by Mr. West was taken into the
Central Oregon country from Heppuer
Junction to determine the feasibility of
building a railroad on that side of the
mountains and bis report is said to
have been favorable. The money pow
er behind to proposed railroad is David
F^ocles, the m illionaire sugar manufac
turer and lumberman, of 8alt lake
C ity. I f the project is completed the
two roads w ill connect at some point in
Crook county.
By extension of the
Sumpter V alley road south it would
P R IE S T IS 8 L A I N .
pass through Canyon City. Grant coun
ty, and also Prineville.
A narchist S h o o ts C a th o lic L o a d e r in
An extension of the Mount Hood road
D an ver C h u rc h ,
has already been commenced.
A big
Itenver,
Col.,
FVb. 24.— Father Leo
gang of men with a steam shovel was
put to work at Dee, the present term Heinrichs was shot and killed when
inus of the lice, and w ill build aa soon administering sacrament at tariy mass
as it can be pushed through the six in 8t. KlizaU-th's Catholic church,
miles of road toward Mount Hood that Eleventh and Curtis streets, thin city,
Kneel
has been surveyed and staked.
This at 6 a. m. yesterday morning.
w ill he done to accommodate the rapid ing ut the alter rail between two wo
ly developing frnit land in the Mount men, (inaranaccio pressed the muzzle
Hood settlement. It is admitted, how of a revolver against the body of the
ever, by W . H. Eccles and Charles T. priest after receiving from him the con
Karly, president rind manager of the secrated wafer and shot the man of God
Mount Hood road, that it may form through the heart.
The murderer was hurried to the city
part of the connecting link nf the pro
posed new line. Officers of both roads jail, and hb threats of summary justice
recently went over the territory that were marie by many men In the crowd,
would be tributary to the project and it which quickly gathered in front of the
is learned that it is considered most chnrch, Chief of Police McHale De-
favorably.
In addition to reaching larey called the reserve force of patrol
many acres of fertile farm lacds, m il men.
“ I just went over there because I
lions of feet of timber, for which there
have
a grudge against all priests in
is now no outlet, it is said, could be
there. They are all agamst the work
utilized.
ingman. 1 went to the communion rail
because 1 could g«-t a better shot. 1
T U N N E L U N D E R R IV E R .
did not give a damn whether tie was a
German priest or any other kind of a
M a n h a ttan Island N o w Jo in ed to Long prieet. They are all in the same class.”
Island C ity.
New York, Feb. 22.— The first of the
great system of tunnels and subways by
which the Pennsylvania railroad w ill
be enabled to run a train from Phila
delphia under the Hudson river across
Manhattan island and under the Flast
river to Long Island City was completed
today. The two ends of one of the four
tubes connecting Manhattan
Island
with Long Island city were brought to
gether under the bed of the middle of
East river off Thirty-fourth street b *
fore noon today and steel rings cornp'H-
ing the shell of the tube were for the
first time bolted in one continuous
string from shore to shore.
This tube
was begun in August, 1905, and is 4.-
000 feet in length.
Two other tubes
w ill be completed within a few days
and the fourth w ill be finished within
three months, according to an an
nouncement made by the company.
So accurate were the measurements
of the engineers that the ends came to
gether with a variation of only three-
eighths of an inch.
E x p act Evans to R e c o v e r.
Washington, Feb. 22.— W hile not
yet form ally advised
by
Adm iral
Thomas that he has assumed command
of the Atlantic fhet, the officials of the
Navy department are expecting seme
such announcement, on the basis of
preceding reports on the condition of
Admiral Evans. These reports are not
regarded as indicating that the Admiral
is suffering from any permanent inca
pacity, but that he is sim ply again a
victim of rheumatic gout, which Is di
rectly the result of the injury he re
ceived at Fort Fisher in the C ivil war
K entucky S till D ead lo cked
Frankfort, K y., Feb. 2 2 — The F* a 1 lot
for United Htates senator in the joint
session of the legislature today resulted
a follows: Beckham, 67; Bradley, 65j
Allen. 1; Blackburn, 1; Campbell, 4.
Necessary to a choice, 65.
IS LOSING
C H A R G E S ARE S L A N D E R O U S .
RETU RN JBY S U E Z .
A tlan tic F leet M ay C o m p le te I t i T r ip
A ro u n d the W o rld .
Washington, Feb. 22.— Interesting
and important news rela'ive to the fu
ture movements of the American battle
ship fleet was made public at the con
clusion of tbe cabinet meeting yester
day by Heeretaiy Metcalf, comprising
an invitation from the Australian gov
ernment to have the fleet, or at least
some of the vessels, visit that country,
and Secretary Root's reply. This reply
is the first authentic information of
the movements of the fleet after its
journey to Han Fiancisco has been com
pleted. After expressing the apprecia
tion! of the nation, the secretary says:
“ The eventual movements of onr
fleet have not been determined. W h ile
it is possible the vessels w ill return by
way of Suez, I would be glad if some
of them could he sent by the Australian
route, but it would be piemature to
promise this,”
Rebate Prosecutions Raise Rates
to the Orient.
JAPAN CONTROLS ALL MANCHURIA
P ro vo kes
C hina
by
H e r A gg ression
and Shuts O u t Rival Nations
— P o w ers M ay P ro te s t.
Washington, Feb. 20.— In'orm stlon
from unofficial and individual sources
evidencing the aggressiveness of Japan
in Manchuria has been accumulating
in the State department for some time.
That this condition is irritating In In-
crcaaing degree to China is also a mat
ter of knowledge here. It is said with
authority, however, that in no manner
has the Chineae government biought
the matter to the attention of the
American government, and no report
on the subject is looked for.
A remarkable explanation of the at
titude of our government In this im
portant matter Is developed a the result
of inquiry directed toward officials who
cnanot be quoted, but are in positions
to direct our policies. In effect, it is
aa follows:
“ It is frankly admitted that America
is losing her commercial foothold in
the Orient. This loan, however, is not
charged to Japan. Rather it is assert
ed to be tbe effect of the growing ten
dency toward International government
al regulation in the Unitsd States. As
an illustrwtion of this, attention is call
ed to these facts:
“ Five years ago flour in hairuls was
being shipped to the Orient from the
Northwest, steel rails fretn Pittsburg,
and cotton in bales from Texas. These
shipments were made |x.asible because
of an exceedingly low ocean freight rat«
arrived at by a railroad combination.
This rate lias been condem n»! by our
courts a s a conspiracy against trade,
and the development of this trade has
been abandoned.
The domeelio war,
aa it is characterized, agsinst tbe Stand
ard Oil company, which is credited
with the largeet Oriental trade of any
American enterprise, is declared to
have been disastrously effective in the
Orient, while the tobacco and cotton
gixxla trade« are said to have t>een dealt
heavy Injury through the operation o f
the railroad legislation here.
“ From this point It seem »! easy for
government officials here convirsant
with foreign matters, to view Ja|«ne*»
commercial aggression in Manchuria
with a greater degree of complaisance
than would Ire the case in the face o f
an urgent domestic demand for govern
mental assistance. Japan, it ia assert
ed. without great difficulty, justify
everything she has done in Mnnchuria
aa sanctioned try the ‘ open diror' policy
initiated by the late Secretary Hay,
and adhered Ur by the greater nations,
inclnding Japan.
W hile Japan may justify these thin ga
through the “ open door' policy, it has
been charged that thrre exists evidence
of her use of many methods and prac
tices which might not bear tire light of
impartial investigation.
lkgda« her
claim Ut an equal footing with other
nations in Manchuria, on the ‘ open
diror’ basia, she has, it ia asserted, ob
tained
many
valuable concessions
through which her control of the rail
road and telegraphic facilities is prac
tically complete. Thiscontrol Is known
to Ire need prim arily in the interest of
Japanese tradesmen and Ur the detri
ment of all foreign competitors.
M ichig an T ra in s S no w bo u n d
Detroit, Mich. Feb. 20.— At least lit
passenger trains poked their pilots into
imrorvious snow drifts
throughout
Michigan, and late this afternoon re
ports from out in the state indicate that
some of there trains are still snow
bound. Traffic was completely aband
oned in some instances
The blizzard
which awept down upon the lower por
tion of Michigan from the Wezt yester
day afternoon still prevails with great
severity, and the snowfall ranges from
T h r e a t to B low U p D o c k s .
eight Inches In Detroit to 18 inches in
W innipeg, Manitoba, F’eh, 24.— It the Houthwest section of the state.
has just come to light that certain Ita l
ians at Port Arthur and Fort W illiam
B ra zil C ontinues R ebates.
attempted last week to blow up the
Washington, Feb. 20.— The president
huge Canadian Northern railway coal of the republic of Brazil, to commemo
docks recently erected at an enormous rate tfie visit of the Atlantic fleet to
cost. Following the custom of the the city nf Rio Janeiro, has signed a
“ Black Hand” and similar blackmail d.oree authorizing the continuation of
ing societies, they first sent a letter to rebates on tariff charges cn articles o f
the manager of the dock that they American merclandise during the fiscal
won hi blow him and his Institution up year 1908. The rebates which are con
unless he found them work, naively tinued apply to wheat, flour, condensed
a<iding that an explosion would create milk, manufactures of robber, watches,
plenty of work for the shovelers.
writing ink, varnishes, typewriters, re
S n o w s to rm C osts S 2 5 .0 0 0 .
Chicago, Feb. 24.— The city has com
pleted the ta«k of clearing the husinees
section of the enow that fell in Ihe
great storm of last week. Four thou
sand men were kept busy for four days
and -8,000 wagon loads of snow were
removed. The expense to the city was
abont $26,000.
frigerators, pianos,scales and w indm ills.
B lizza rd In A d iro n d ack^ ,
Plattsburg, N. Y ., Feb. 20.— A north
west storm of such severity as to be nn-
uusal, even in this blizzard-accustomed
region, is raging in Northern New York
tonight, and is rapidly adding to t h »
snow that coven the whole Adirondack
region.
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