The Stayton mail., March 27, 1908, Image 2

THE STftYTON MAIL
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STAYTXDN . - ......... . . .O REGON
N E K OF THE WEEK
I d a Condensed Form lor Our
Busy Readers.
A Resume of the Less Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
of the Past Week.
China has invited the battleship fleet
to visit her ports.
China is very bitter against the Jap­
anese and the boycott is growing.
Hope for the recovery of Governor
Guild, of Massachusetts, is slight.
A wind and rain storm in Louisiana,
Mississippi and Alabama has done
great damage to projierty.
The health of Count Tolstoi, who has
been ill for some time, has been re­
stored, and he is again at work.
The Interstate Commerce commis­
sion has compiled figure« showing the
panic has not hurt the railroads.
The annual lumber cut In Michigan
has dwindled to less than lialf of what
it was In 1888. The total of 1907 was
1,743,684,000 feet.
BO N FIR E O F C L O T H E S .
Chinese Declare Boycott on Japanese
Goods
Canton, March 24.— The greatest in­
dignation prevails here aaginat the gov­
ernment for yielding to the Japanese
demands in the Tatsu Maru case, it
being considered that the government’s
action in this matter haa brought dis­
grace upon this provinoe. The Self
Government society of Canton has or­
ganised several monster indignation
meetings, at which resolutions were
adopted that the anniversary of tire re­
lease of the Tatsu Maru be otiserved as
a day of public mourning. The resolu­
tions also declared a boycott against
Japanese goods.
More than 50,000 persons attended
the mass meetings held yesterday;
buildings were draped in mourning and
20 or more orators delivered denuncia­
tory speeches.
Among the speakers
was a 12-year-old, whose declaration
against the Japanese caused the greatest
enthusiasm.
A great number of those who had as­
sembled thereupon diverted themselves
of Japanese-made garments, including
raps and handkerchiefs, and made a
huge bonfire of them. One dealer in
Jajianeee goods offered to sacrifice his
entire stock.
The meeting recommended the Im­
peachment of Yuan Hhi Kai of the
hoard of foreign affairs for weakness in
yielding to the Japanese.
O V ER M ILLIO N U N E M P L O Y E D
A letter addressed: "Y o u r Kxcel-
lency, Sir Abraham Lincoln. Fifth ave­ Effects of the Recent Panic in East
nue, New York, D. 8. A .,’ ’ has just
and South.
arrived in the foreign m ail.
New York, March 24.— In a canvass
The American Dredging company’ s of the country to ascertain the number
$100,000 dredge burned to the water’ s of unemployed] men, dispatches have
edge at Oakland, Cal. It was the larg­ been received from many industrial
est vessel of the kind on the Coast.
centers with reports of conditions, and
An agent of the immigration bureau, from these it is estimated that more
who has been investigating the subject than one m illion men are minus jobs.
of undesirable foreigners, says thou­ The reports indicate more than 600,000
sands of anarchists and indigeuts w ill unemployed in the chief cities and
nearly 600,000 in the states outside the
be deported.
cities.
Illinois is in the midst of a bitter
That there are more unemployed men
liquor war.
and women in New York City today
The American cruiser Tacoma is at than at any previous tim e in many
years past is the belief of union leaders,
La Guajara, Venezuela.
charity workers and students of social
Senator Borah says it was the plain
conditions. Estimates of the number
people that saved the day in the recent
out of work vary from 100,000 to 500,-
money panic.
000. It is probable that half of the
A San Francisco Chinese woman latter number, or 250,000, is about cor­
wants to be deported to avoid prosecu­ rect.
The following estimate is given by
tion for stealing $400.
responsible labor leaders: Carpenters,
A ll union miners have been warned
10,000; tailors, 8,000; rockmen and
to stay away from Alaska until the la­
excavators, 8 000; bricklayers, 7,000;
bor trouble has been settled.
laborers, 20,000; housesmiths, 9,000;
Two train robbers cut their way asphalt workers, 2,000; paperhangers,
through four sets of steel liars at the 2,000; painters, 7,000; rockdrillers,
county jail at Helena and are at liberty. 2,000; engineers, 2,000; pavers, 2,000;
Dr. Hall-Edwards, one of England’s plasterers, 2,000; steamtitters, 600;
greatest physicians, has lost his left arm sheet metal workers, 500; compositors,
as a result of constant use of the X-ray. 2,000; pressmen, 1,000; mis-ellaneous
trades, 20,000; unorganized labor, 145,-
Congressman Humphrey says that 000; total, 250,000.
without ship subsidy Japan could whip
the United States as easily as she did
D E C ID E S IM P O R T A N T C A SE.
Russia.
The largest crowd of sightseers ever
Interstate Commerce Commission.Has
in San Francisco is expected when the
No Control Over Ocean
battleship fleet arrives.
Accommoda­
tions are being arranged by the hotels
Washington, March 24.— A decision
was promulgated today by the Inter­
for 250,000 people.
state Commerce commission in one of
Fulton says he w ill return to Oregon
the most important cases it has been
to answer Heney.
called upon to determine for some time.
Senator Bryan, of Florida, is eerious- It is that of the Cosmopolitan Im port­
ly ill with typhoid fever.
ing company, a Philadelphia organiza­
There is a rumor that Heney is in­ tion, chartered under the laws of New
Jersey, against the Hamburg-American
vestigating Chicago graft.
Packet company, the North German
Canada has appealed to Great Brit­ Lloyd Steamship company, the Wilson
ain to keep out Asiatic labor.
(H u ll) lines and the Hcandinavian-
Hearst’ s Independence league intends American lines.
The complainant’s petition was filed
to keep the old parties guessing.
with the commission nearly a year ago.
Roosevelt is to write a message on Home tim e sulaequently the defendants
amendments to the anti-trust law.
filed a demurrer, attacking the juris­
Travel to the Coast from the Eaet diction of the Interstate Commerce
commission.
w ill be $2.50 cheaper than last year.
The opinion in the case, wiiich is
Fire destroyed the Grand!Pacific ho­
very voluminous, was prepared by
tel, Chicago, to the extent of $100,000.
Commissioner Franklin K . Lane.
The Susquehanna river is so high
In brief, and in effect, the commis­
that the iron works at Harrisburg have sion decides against itself. It holds
that it has no authority over oceanic
had to close.
transportation and thus determines the
The Shanghai, China, council has
case adversely to the contention of the
voted to reduce the number of opium
complainant.
smoking dens by one-fourth.
The United States Steel corporation
made earnings of over $60,000,000 last
year. This is more than $4,000,000
above the earnings of 1906.
Anna Gould says she has had enough
of married life.
Count Leo Tolstoi is reported to be
ill at Yaenaya Polana.
Another affidavit by Ruef says Burns
used threats to get false testimony.
Abraham Hummel, prominent in the
first Thaw trial, lias been released from
prison.
Miss W ilheim ina Crawford, of Low­
e ll, Mass., 29 years old, has adopted as
her son James Butler, who is 46.
WILL VISIT JAPAN
President Accepts Invitation tor
Battleship Fleet.
MAY CALL AT CHINESE PORT
Cordial Reception Promised at Yoko­
hama— All Other Invitations
Are to Be Declined.
Washington, March 21.— The Am er­
ican lattleehip fleet is to visit Japan.
The desire ot the emperor of the Island
Kingdom to play boat to the fleet was
laid before Secretary Root Thursday
by Haron Takahira, the Ja|ane«e am­
bassador. The Invitation, which was
couched in most cordial terms, was
made the subject of extended consider­
ation by President Roosevelt and his
entire cabinet yesterday. Mr. Root was
direr*ted to accept the invitation and
the acceptance was laid before the Jap­
anese ambassador late yesterday. It is
regarded in cfiicial circles here as more
than likely that China w ill he next to
bid for a look at the fleet, and tliat,
should this be the case, the ^invitation
w ill be accepted.
Secretary Metcalf and Adm iral Pitts­
burg, chief of navigation, are arranging
the details of the new Itinerary. W ith
the exception of China, It is deter­
mined that all other invitations, should
any be received, w ill be declined, for
at the beat the fleet w ill not now be
able to reach the Atlantic seaboard be­
fore the first of next March.
The itinerary, which seems to be the
most direct, includes stops at the H a­
waiian islands, .Samoa,
Melbourne,
Sydney,
Manila, Yokohama— should
that port be selected us the stopping
place in Japan— possibly a Chinese
port, back to the Philippines, and then
home by way of the Suez canal, with
only such stops as aie necessary tor
coaling.
The fall target practice has been
planned to occupy a month at Manilla,
either before or after the visit to Japan.
Although target practice is regarded a-*
decidedly im poitant, and the custom
is to have the ships occupy a month in
each spring and fall in gun practice,
the desire to have the fleet return to its
home station may lead to a curtailment
of the month planned for Manila.
Japan w ill have the ships a week,
according to the tentative plans. W hile
the stops in foreign ports so far made
have been on an average of ten days’
duration, a part of that time was occu­
pied in taking on coal. W ith a ’ Isit to
Manila, no coaling operations w ill be
necessary in Yokohama.
This would
enable the entire stay there to lie given
up to festivities and show features of
the visit.
The acceptance of the Japanese invi­
tation is regarded in naval circles as of
considerable importance in the way ol
showing the cordiality existing between
Japan and the United States.
The
added trip is nearly equal in distance
to a voyage from New York to Europe.
H IN T S DIRE P L O T .
Houae Committee Voice to Forfeit
Railroad Land Grants
Washington, March 23.— Tw o m il­
lion acre« of land in California ami
Oregon vested in the Oregon »V Califor­
nia Railroad oom|>auy, owned by the
Central Pacific and controlled by K. 11.
Harriuian, w ill lie subjected to suit for
recovety of title by the United States,
if action taken by the committee on
public landa is sustained by the house.
The committee agreed to report favor­
ably without amendments a resolution
which has already panned the senate,
empowering ami directing the attorney
general to nring suits for the recovery
by (he United HUtes of the title to the
public lauds grunted to certain Western
railroad companies in cases where the
oonditiona stipulated in the giants have
not b«en complied with— such condi­
tions, (or example, us governed tlie
grant of laud to the Oregon A C alifor­
nia Railroad company in the sixties.
Under the grant the land was to he
thrown open by the company for sale to
bona fide settlers of the i ’ n ile l States
at not more than $2 60 an acre and in
parcels not exceeding 160 acres each.
It Is charged that some of this land whs
sold by the Oregon A California tailroad
in violation of the conditions named.
The refusal of FL H . Harriman, an­
nounced by him at the Irrigation con­
gress at Nacrmento last year, to sell
any portion of the remaining 2,000,000
acre«, led to the intr< duel Ion hy Senator
Fulton o f the resolution which the pub­
lic lands commit tee acted on favorably
today. Chairman Mondell was author­
ized to draw the report of the com m it­
tee which he w ill do this week.
R O O S E V E L T 'S PROGRAM .
Undertakes to Get New Laws Through
Congress.
Washington, March 23.— President
Roosevelt has determined on a legisla­
tive program the enactment of which
will be urged upon congress in a a|>eciul
message w hich he said today w ill go In
this week. Flach of the measures to be
proposed involves perplexing difficul­
ties and each w ill have far-reaching
effects on business and economic condi­
tions of the country. The program is
the product of important conferences
thiough wiiich the president has been
put in possession of the views of all in­
terest* concerned.
Likewise the atti­
tude of the leaders in both branches of
congress has been made known.
Ita
success depend« upon the combined
effort, which he believes can be brought
to bear in behalf of the whole plan by
those affected esjiecially by some one of
Its features.
The program includes:
A declaration In favor of revision of
the tariff in a special sisr-on to be held
after March 4, 1909.
An amendment to the Sherman anti­
trust law ao as to make important con­
cessions to Combinations of both labor
and capital.
Lim itin g the powers of certain courts
in the use of the injunction in labor
disputes.
Passage cf an employers’ liability
bill.
Passage of the Aldrich financial bill.
LA B O R A S K S C A B IN E T B E A T .
Heney Imagines Effort Will Be Made Will Urge Congress to Create Gov­
ernment Department.
to Spirit Ruef Away.
Han Francisco,March 21.— Abe Ruef,
indicted on 116 counts, thinks the sum
of $1,115.000 is too much bail, and gays
there are 37 counts against him on
w h iih the bail is $370,000, of which he
should be relieved, and that the bail on
the remaining counts is excessive. Ruef
was in conrt on a w rit of habeas_corpus.
Assistant District Attorney Heney
presented an affidavit stating that Ruef
was wealthy, and that he believed that
there was a conspiracy to get Ruef ont
of the country. He cited the attempted
kidnaping of James L. Gallagher, on
whose testimony he said Ruef would be
convicted, and also the attempted kid­
naping of ex Supervisor l>onergan, just
befocre the Tirey L. Ford trial.
Murphy pointed out that at the preB
ent rate of progress— over a year and
not one tria l— it would take 116 years
to try Rnef on all the charges. He said
a conviction on one or two charges
would practically send him to the peni­
Robbers Make Rich Haul.
Reno, Nev., March 24.— Three rob­ tentiary for life.
bers, heavily armed, overcame Edward
Land to Be Thrown Open.
Hoffman and a companion on a road
Washington, March 21.— By author­
two miles from Rawhide late this after­
noon, threw tnem to the g/otind, anti ity of the secretary of the Interior, the
made off in their victim s' two-horse public lands in 131,643 acres excluded
rig, taking gold and tiank notes amount­ from the Blue Mountain forest reserve,
ing to about $47,000 with them. The Oregon, by proclamation of January 9,
money was consigned to the Coalition 1908, w ill become subject to settlement
Mining company at Rawhide to be used on June 1, 1908, if not otherwise with­
in paying miners’ wages and to im et drawn, reserved or appropriated, but
the final payment on one of the proper­ not to entry, filing or selection until
ties purchased last week by the Coali­ July 1, 1908, at the United States land
offices at Burns, La Grande and The
tion company. Posses are in pursuit.
Dalles. Sixty days’ notice by publica­
tion in newspapers near the lands re­
Hundreds Perish at Sea.
Tokio, March 24.— The Mutsu Maru, stored haa been authorized.
Old Benicia brrracks, near Han Fran­
cisco, which has been an army poet for a 900-ton coasting steamer belonging to
the Yusen Kaisha line, was sunk in a
60 years, is to be abandoned, but the
collision with the Hideyoshi Maru, 696
arsenal w ill be retained.
tons, at 2:30 o’clock this morning two
Letters have been received by Mayor miles off Todohokke, near Hakodate.
Buaee, Chief of Police Hhippy and As­ The captain of the Mutsu Maru, a ma­
sistant Chief Hcheuttler, of Chicago, in­ jority of her 244 passengers and 43 of
the crew perished.
form ing them they w ill be shot.
O F O N E O P IN IO N .
New Battleship in Commission.
Phlladt Iphia, March 21.— The new
battleship New Hampshire, with Cap­
tain Cameron M cK. W inslow in charge,
was placed in commission at the League
Island navy yard teday. The warship
w ill be ready for n a in about a month.
Washington, March 21.— At the cen-
cluding session yesterday, of the execu­
tive council of the American Federation
of Labor it was decided to urge upon
the house committee on lalxir tlie neces­
sity for the pas-age of the pending bill
creating a department of lalior, the
head of which shall be a member of the
president’ s cabinet.
I t was decided to make a vigorous
effort to secure the passage of laws in
the various state legislatures for the
abolition of child labor.
A memorial
of protest sim ilar to the one presented
to congress yesterday is to be sent to
organized labor and the public general­
ly; it w ill he prepared by a committee
consisting of President Gompers, Secre­
tary Morrison and Vice President O’ Con­
nell.
The council was not notified that the
hill of grievances presented to Vice
President Fairbanks yesterday was laid
before the senate and referred to the
committee on judiciary.
Indictments Aro Dismissed.
San F’ rancisco, March 23.— Judge
Dunne this morning dismissed the four
remainingext> rtion indictments against
FL y .. Schmitz, with the recommenda­
tion that the i aae ije submitted to an­
other grand jury, and annaunced that
Theodore V . Halsey w ill be brought to
trail for bribery as soon as as the court
is able to take up hiscase. Henry Ach,
attorney for Abraham Ruef, was in­
formed by Judge Lawler that he must
make a complete showing in the mattek
of affidavits In the immunity contract
hearing by next Wednesday.
Tillman Seriously III.
SENTENCE IS DEATH
Orchard Must Pay Penalty lor
Many Crimes.
STAY RECOMMENDED BY JUDGE
Does Not Believe Orcherd Only Men
Guilty— Other Prosecutions
Will Come.
Boise, Idaho, March 19.— Stating
that lie believes Harry Orchard, in hie
testimony in the trials of W illiam lb
Haywood and George A. Pettlbone for
the murder of ex-Governor F runk Hteu-
nenberg, told the exact truth, attempt-
ing to o mreal nothing, Judge Fremont
Wood, In the District court yesterday,
recommended that the ntate Imard of
pardons commute Orchard’s sentence of
death to life imprisonment in the state
penitentiary.
The sentence ol death
was pronounced in accordance with the
plea of guilty entered hy Orcltatd Tues­
day of laid week when arraigned. Judge
Wood presided at lioth the Haywood
and Petttibone trials.
In sentencing Orchard and recom­
mending the commutation of hia sen­
tence, Judge Wood reviewed the case
from the time of the killing of Frank
Kteunenlierg to the present.
In regard to the part of Orchard In
the trials, Judge Wood said:
" I am more than satisfied that the
defendant now at the bar of this court
awaiiing final sentence has not only
acted In good faith in making the dis­
closures that he did, but that he also
testified fully and fairly to the whole
truth, withholding nothing that waa
material and declaring nothing which
had not actually taken place.”
Judge Wood, alter reading Ids ruling,
formally sentenced Orchard and fixed
May 16 as tiie date (or the execution.
Orchard asked for |H-rmiasion to i-penk,
and it was grunted.
He thanked th »
oourt lor the review of the case given,
and (or the kindly remarks in regard to
him. He repeated that he had told tho
whole truth and that no promise of im ­
munity or of rnerey had ever l»een made
to him. Before he had concluded, teara
were streaming from his eyes, and he
all hut broke down na he again, in a
broken voice, thanked Judge Wood for
his recommendation to the hoard o f
pardons.
#,
In Judge Wood's ruling he laid spe­
cial stress u|>on the crimes in Idaho
and plainly intimated that the end of
prosecutions of those believed to have
perpetrated them had not come.
18 " IN N O C E N T P U R C H A S E R "
Harriman Is Reported to Hava Sold
Oregon Land Grant
Washington, March 19.— It is believ­
ed in government circles that a secret
contract has been made by the Oregon
A California Railroad com|>any, under
which it has already agreed to sell the
remaining 2,000.000 a< res o f its grant
to one single pur baser, and that a large
sum of money has been paid to the tall-
mad corn|*uny on account hy this pur­
chaser. The attention of a representa­
tive of the Booth-Kelly Lumlier com­
pany, who has been contending for an
innocent purchaser amendment to the
Fulton resolution, was today called to
this report, and he remarked:
"Thert
whoever has purchased this lund ought
to be protected like the rest of u s ,"
merely showing that the lumlier corn-
ismies would he willing that the gov­
ernment should make any sacrifice in
order to give them a sound title where
they now hold a shaky one.
The lumbermen left for home today
pretty w ell disheartened.
They were
confident when they came here that
they wot)Id have an easy fight, hut d e ­
velopments before the committee were
somewhat surprising to them, and p ri­
vately they a Im it they are defeated.
Nevertheless it is expected that an at­
tempt w ill be made when the resolution
goes into the liotiBe to secure the adop­
tion of the innocent purchasers’ amend­
ment if the committee re|>oit« the reso­
lution as it passed the senate.
Italian Tries Bunco Game.
Fan Francisco, March 19.— An elabo­
rate bunco game was revealed In Judge
l-awlor’ s cnnrt. today on the hearing o f
an application for extradition for Louie
Dondero, who is wanted in Victoria, B.
0 . He is charged with the theft of $1,-
400 from Tony Perravicni. In company
with two others, Perravicni and Honde­
ro were to be partners in buying a farm.
A ll put their money on the table as a
guarantee of good faith, but when the
valise In which the money was suppos­
ed to l*c was opened by Perravicni,
there was nothing l ut some newspapers.
Abandon Marinu Post
Honolulu, March 19.— The United
States tug Iroquois, which rails tomor­
row for Midway to bring hack the ma­
rine guard of 20 marines located there,
has orders to bring buck also their
stores, munitions and guns, Indicating
that ths marine pout there is to be
alandoned, after being maintained
Columbia, 8. C., March 23. — United
States Senator Tillm an is seriously ill
at his home at Trenton, this state,
suffering from a nervous attack due, it
is believed by his physicians, to hard
work.
about four years.