The Stayton mail., April 17, 1908, Image 2

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THE STAYTON MAIL
F O R TY MILLION BUSHELS.
Oregon, Washington and Idaho Make
New Record for Wheat.
Total 1007 Grain Crop
Buahels
Wheat .............................. 58.0U0.000
B a r le y ................................10.000.000
Oats .................................. 12,000.000
ANARCHY A MENACE
FLAMES DEVOUR C H E 1 BEA.
IS UNPRECEDENTED
Boston Buburq Swept by Firs -Four
Bodies Found.
Boston, Mass., April lS .~ ~ F lr # yes­
OREGON
STAYTON.
terday devastated the manufacturing,
tenement and retail sections of Chel­
sea, burning over one square tulle of
territory and leveling tuuny of tho
Total ............................ 80,000,000
city's heat structures, l.ate last night
four bodies had beeu recovered from
. _
.
n
I
S h ip m e n t» b) W ate r to » p il I
the ruins. The fire started at 10:40
a. in., and was not under control un­
Barley .............................. 1,057,000
til 9 p. in., notwithstanding that half
of the Boston fire department's
S h pm ents E a s t by R a il to A p ril I
100.000 Thousands o f Suspects on Govern strength and steamers from a dozen Twice Has Unitad States Gone to
A Resume o f tho Las» Important but Wheat ..............................
other cities and towns wout to tho
ment Lists—Details of Discov­
Republic's Aid and Is Now A c­
Not Less Interesting Events
aid of the Chelsea brlgado.
Oats ..............................
500,000
Thu flro originated In the rear of
• f the Past Week.
eries Kept Secret.
cused of Aggressiveness.
Stocks on Hand April I
tho
Boston
Blacking
Company's
Wheat ..............................11.250, OuO
works on West Third street, near tho
Barley .............................. 1,850,000
eastorn division of tho Boston &
Washington, April 11.— As a result Maine Railroad, In closo proximity
Oats .................................... 2.240,000
Washington, April 0.— Administra­
Anna Gould has sailed for Europe.
of the work of the government, recently t«p U m BvereM Oily line, a terrific tion officials loday expressed amuse­
Portland,
April
14.—
With
the
de­
Nearly 5,000 acres of hops have beeu
parture this month o f seven char­ undertaken for the stamping out of an gale from the northwest, which at ment over the statements in President
plowed up in England.
tered ships now loading at Portland, arciiy and anarchists in the United times had u velocity of 60 miles nil Custro's official organ, Kl ('nnsiltuoion,
hour, carried burning shingles, em­ having as their latsis the Tacoma mall
Several Mexican towna have been and five loading on Puget Sound, the States, it leaked out today that govern
bers and myriads of sparks to n score pouch
men!
officials
are
alntolutely
astounded
greatest
season
In
the
history
o
f
the
0 |<eiilng Incident. The editorial
shaken by an earthquake.
North Pacific grain trade w ill he at the widespread growth of anarchy in uf wooden buildings, most of them of received the closest attention. Mingled
cheap construction.
At the Los Angjlee hearing Santa Fe practically over. There are a few ! this country.
Groups of anarchists
The fire started almost from tho with the feeling <»l amazement over the
officials have admitted rate discrimina­ straggling ships coming along for , have been discovered in almost every
extreme southwest section of thu sentiments of President Castro is one
May-June
loading,
and
at
least
two
tion.
state in the Union and In most uuex- city, and cut a path to the end uf of regret and inysliticatloii over th>
more steamers will load wheat for
Detailed infurmation Maverick street at the extreme south­ whole coutse which Venezuela hss pur­
A new copyright treaty has been en­ the Orient, but the movement has i pec ted places.
tered into by the Onited States and been so rapid this season that May 1 concerning their Uxatiou and numbers eastern end o f the city, which bor­ sued in dealing with the United Slates.
"T h e United Statue has been a good
U e i ico.
will find the business nearer cleaned was refused by high officials today, hut ders Chelsea Creek. This Is nbout
it is known that Bteps are now being one and a half miles from wherix tho friend to Venezuela," said a high offi­
up
than
In
any
previous
"b
ig
crop"
Sir Henrv Campbell-Bannerman, ex-
began.
Tho flames spread cial of the State department today.
When the returns are all In taken by the government to get ac­ flro
premier of Great Britain, ia growing year.
through
tho
heart
of tho retail bus­
quainted
with
the
various
groups
and
for April, it will be found that Ore­
"T w ice within the last 16 vents we
weaker.
gon, Washington and Idaho for the their individual members, and that the iness section, which was about mid­ have gone to Venezuela's aid when
way
between
the
two
extrome
limits
The Portuguese premier has offered first time In their history, have Red* w ill be kept under strictest sur reuched by tho fire.
that country needed assistance."
bis resignation, but the king has re­ shipped (flou r included). 40.000,000 veillance hereafter.
For this reason he could not under­
Among
tho
structures
destroyed
bushels of wheat, and still have some
The clue to the location of the anar
fused it.
stand why Venezuela ban acted as it
on hand to tide over the dull season chists is said to have been furnished liy were 13 churches, two hospitals, tho
Public
Library, City
Hall,
five halt.
liming President Cleveland’ s
Massachusetts Republicans
have until the new crop arrives.
a list containing the names of several achoolhousea, 20 business blocks, second term, when ,Great Britain was
elected nninatructed delegates to the
The 1907 wheat crop of the three
states was a record-breaker by near­ thousands which recently (ell into the nearly a score of factories, and up­ threatening to encroach upon Vene­
national convention.
Tracing ward of 309 tenements and dwelling zuela's territory, Mr Cleveland sent a
ly 10,000,000 bushels, reaching a hands uf the government.
Rooeevelt may send a special mes­ grand total of 58.000,000 bushels, down the list, it has been found thal houses.
message to congress which had the re­
Among the places burned were:
sage to convresa on the question of the and on account o f the good prices for every name on it there are several
sult of referring the question to the
Frost
Hospital,
Children's
Hospi­
number of battieahipe to be built.
prevailing throughout the season. It anarchists, ranging from two or three
tal, F'ltz Public Library, Stanislaus king of Holland for Impartial settle­
German building trades employers moved more rapidly proportionately to a group of 10 or 20, or even more, Polish Catholic Church, Chestnut ment.
.
..
,
. ___ ,__ . „ j than any of Its predecessors.
Not
living in the same town.
Several years later, when the allied
ave disagreed with their workmen s
street; First Baptist Church, Central
the,/_.W f k_“ ! “
d I only was the wheat crop the largest
According to the local police, extra avenue: Central Unitarian Church, powers were threatening a blockade o f
60.000 of the latter are out of work.
on record, but barley, which has been men have been assigned to the neigh­
Hawthorne street; St. Luke's Catho­ Venezuelan ports to coni|>el payment of
Chicago has just receive« $863,340 ! steadily Increasing In prominence as borhood in which Postmaster General
lic Church (old building), Haw­ her foreign obligations, the United
as its share of the net earnings of the , <’ne ° f
* rpat, staples o f the Pacl- Meyer livee, and that official was ac­ thorne street; First MethodUt Epis­
States, through Minister Bowen, step­
street railway companies for the past ■flc Northwest, also established a new companied by plain clothes men when copal Church. Carey avenue; Elm- ped in and averted such a move.
mark with a crop o f nearly 10.000,-
year.
Synagogue;
Walnut-street Again the question wsa averted to Hol-
000 bushels. Oats, exclusive o f the he went to Boston to preside ever the street
Synagogue;
Chelsea
Presbyterian
Republican
convention
today.
crop
grown
In
the
La
Conner
dis­
I anil.
Clerks and other officials in the var­
Church;
People's
Afro-Methodlst
ious government departments at Wash- trict on Puget Sound, is credited with
The Navy department toda> received
Episcopal
Church,
Fourth
street;
RUSSIA T O S T A T E POSITION
ingtno, D. C., have been warned not to a yield of 12,000,000 bushels In the
s report from Commander John Hood,
Uuiversallst
Church;
Second
Adven­
three states.
mix in politics.
tist Church; New England Telephone of the cruiser Tacoma, containing de­
These figures which show a grand
The American government is not total o f 80,000,000 bushels of the Will Reassert Attitude Set Forth by A Telegraph Company's central o f­ tails touching the o|>enilig of the mail
fice; Austin A Young's cracker fac­ carried by that vessel at the l.a (iuayra
Baron Rosen.
three leading cereals, are complied
likely to intervene in Hayti.
tory; Chaplis A Sodden Car Com­ postoffice. It ugrees substantially with
from accurate statistics, kindly sup­
Ft. Petersburg, April 11.— I* is the pany's shops; Rosenfelt Bros.' three-
The Republican National convention plied by the railroad companies,
the published statement«, and the offi­
w ill have two Taft delegates from New which moved the big crop and by purpose of the Russian government story rag-picking factory; the Tide cials are satisfied the 0 ]>eiilrig was in­
York.
prominent grain exporters in various shortly to Issue a statement in the mat­ Oil Company's three Immense tanks advertent.
ter of the question of teriitorial ad- near th t east end of Margin street.
All the correspondence'on the Vene­
Another record breaking year for parts of the three states. The figures ministration that has arisen at Harbin
St. Rose’s Roman Catholic Church,
fall short of some of the earlier esti­
zuelan
questi on is nowr I wf o r r congress.
tran«-Atlantic passenger business is in mates made on the crops, and natur­ and Chailar.
It is understood that Broadway, loss $2 5,000; St. Roso
Administration officials frankly ad­
Roman
Catholic
School,
loss
$40,-
sight
ally are several million bushels ttds announcement will reasseit the at­
000; State Armory, loss $100,000; mit they will not be surprised should
Harriman has secured control of the smaller than the government figures titude set ferth recently in Washing­ Sacred Heart Convent, loss $40,000; there be some delay. The issues pre­
on
oats
and
barley.
ton by Barm Rosen, the Russian am­ Y. M. C. A. building, loss $75,000;
Erie railoard, giving him an ocean-to-
sented are such that time should be
Washington’s 40,000,000 bushel bassador there.
This entire question
ocean line.
crop of wheat dwindled to about 35.- was brought to the front about three Boston Elevated Rallrond station and given, they m y , for thorough study of
The Olive Street bank, St. Louis, 000,000; that of Oregon was slightly weeks ago by the refusal of F. D. barn, loss $50,000; Cohnty Havings the situation.
having a capital of $100,000 and de­ un^er 18,000,000, and Idaho's was Fisher, the American consul at Harbin, Hank, Chelsea Savings Bank, Chelsea
Truat Company, tho Providence Co­ ITINERARY FOR THE SQUADRON
somewhat over 5,000,000 bushels.
posits of $350,000, has been closed.
to recognize Russian jurisdiction and operation Bank.
The funds of all these banks with
his insistence that he was accredited
A Chicago grand jury is inquiring
the exception o f the County Savings Will Laavs Ban Francisco for Puget
W ILL GO ABROAD.
solely to China.
into charges against doctors and law­
The
Sound on May 18.
The Novoe Vremya today publishes a Bank are still In the vaults.
yers of working up fake damage suits
money
nnd
securities
of
the
County
President Will Leave Matters Entirely dispatch from Harbin detailing the
Washington, April 9.— A program
againet the city.
progress of the conflict and saying that Bank were taken to Boston before for the movements of the Atlantic fleet
T o His Successor.
the fire reached the building
The Navy department says at least
the antagonism between Russian and
after the review by Secretary Metcalf,
Washington,
April
14.— Should
three war veseels will visit Portland
China is growing steadily. China op
in Han FraDcisco bay, on M hv 8, was
President
Roosevelt’s
present
desires
during the rose carnival and a battle­
CA
LL
JAPAN
T
O
AC
COUNT.
poses
all
Russian
administrative
estab­
made
public at the Navy department
be realized, he will spend the first
ship will be included.
today. The fleet will leave Han Fran-
year after hla retirement from office lishment in Manchnria on the ground
One of the largest grain firms in In traveling outside the United that the railroad concession tarries Roosevelt Will Demand Facts Ab ut cieco May 18, and on arriving at Puget
London is in trouble from over-specula­ States.
Mr. Roosevelt’s itinerary, with it only the rights of a common
sound, May 21, four ahips will visit
Mukden Affair.
tion. Its liabilities will exceed its as­ however, has not been determined. carrier and does not imply government
Port Angeles, eight will visit Belling­
Washington, April 13 - The attack
His plan is to see some o f the rugged functions*
sets by nearly $500,000.
ham bay and three will go to Port
on Consul-General Straight, and the
and little frequented portions of fo r­
The American consulate at Mukden eign lands, as well as to travel the
servants of the American Consulate, Townsend. One ship will proceed at
DRAFT CODE OF PROCEDURE
at Mukden, by Japanese rowdies led once to Bremerton to lie docked.
has been invaded by Japanese and a beaten track o f the tourist.
That
On Saturday. May 23. all Ihe ships
by a postman haH stirred the admin­
Chinese servant assaulted. No apology the president will indulge in his
Powers Will Move to Establish Inter­ istration to action. It Is regarded as of the fleet, with the exreption of tho
has been offered and an inquiry is tc fondness for hunting big game is be­
national Prize Court.
a much more serious affair than ap­ one in dork at Bremerton, will rendrz-
lieved by those to whom he has con­
be made.
fided his Intentions.
Washington, April l i . — Great Brit­ pears upon the surface, and prompt vous in the vicinity of Port Townsend
The Navy dpeartment ia considering
It was at the recent dinner o f the ain has invited the governments which action will undoubtedly be taken to and proceed to an anchorage in the vi­
obtain the reparation that Japan has cinity of Seattle.
the establishment on tho Atlantic and Boone and Crocket Club In this city
participated in the last Hague confer­ so far refused.
Pacific coasts of home bases for the that the president last told of his In
On Tuesday. May 2fl. 12 ships will
ence to send expert« to l*ondon whose
A conference upon the subject was
fleets, where the enlisted men will be tentions for next year. He was told
duties
shall
be
to
formulate
a
coda
of held at the White House late tonight leave their anchorage near Seattle and
afforded an opportunity to purchase of the opportunities for hunting in
procedure for the preposed internation­ by President Roosevelt, Secretary will go to Tacoma, so that the people
their own homes and where the ships Alaska, and urged to arrange for
al
prize court, the establishment of Taft and Secretary Root. It was as­ In that vicinity may have a view of the
trip there. This, he said, would In­
will call at regular intervals.
Thence,
withont anchoring,
terfere with his plan for foreign which is provided for in each of the sumed at the conierence that Mr. fleet.
Straight had made a report o f the eight shi|>s will sail for San Francisco,
Anna Gonld pays she will not marry travel and would have to be consid­ treaties resulting from the conference
ered, If at all, at some future time
the Prince de Sagan.
The American government will be incident to Minister Rockblll. at Pe­ leaving four ships at anchor near Taco­
kin, and that Mr. Roekhlll would ma for a visit of three days, when those
Mr. Roosevelt Is quoted as adding represented at the London conference.
The South Dakota Republican con­ at this time:
communicate
the facts to the State vessels will go to Bremerton for docking.
This conference is regarded as inform­
vention elected Taft delegates.
" I f W illiam H. Taft Is nominated al in character, and the participation of Department without delay.
It is erpected that the eight ves­
To Insure his doing b o , cable mes­ sels will arrive at San Francisco on
In Minnesota Taft has carried all but and elected President, which would the United States will require no legis­
sages were sent tonight to both Mr.
two counties and those are for La Toi­ be very gratifying. It would make Im­ lation, except, perhaps, a small appro­ Roekhlll and Mr. Straight asking for Friday, May 29, where they will be
possible criticism If I were abroad,
docked in succession.
lette.
to the effect that I was dictating to priation to meet the expenses of the all the facts. A reply is expected to­
The ships docking at Bremerton will
American representatives.
The date morrow. A prominent cabinet officer
A New York grand jury could not him and being followed, or that
sail
for Han Francisco as soon as prac­
said
tonight;
for
(he
conference
has
not
been
fixed.
find sufficient evidence to indict the ice had dictated and had been turned
ticable,
the last one not to arrive until
"
I
don't
think
I
am
betraying
any
It is stated here that the ratification of
down in my suggestions."
trust.
the treaty providing for this court will secret when I say that the decision July 3.
Canada ie arranging with the home
After the grand review in San Fran­
donhttess be delayed by the nations un­ to send the fleet to the Pacific was
New Emblem foe Democracy.
largely determined by the Insuffer­ cisco hay on May 8, the Pacific flvet
government to stop immigration of
til
after
the
report
of
this
body.
Denver, April
14.— A
monster
able tactics of the Japanese in offi­ will leave the next day or the South to
Hindus.
tiger, constructed of papier mache,
cial Intel course."
carry out a program of drills and exer­
Absorbs Cooper College.
France prefers Russia’ s acheme for will welcome tho delegates to Denver
cises.
reforms in Macedonia to that of Great when they come to the Democratic
Stanford Univeratity, Cal., April 11.
Railroad Pays Half the Loss
Britain.
National Convention July 7.
This — President David Starr Jordan today
Scandal In French Army
Helena,
Mont., April 13.— Resl
Admiral Evan is much improved emblem has been selected Instead of announced the affiliation of Cooper dents of Big Timber, Mont., the
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Paris,
April 9.— It is believed that a
town
the prosaic donkey, as the striped
but w ill he unable to join the fleet at king of the jungle lends himself Medical college, o/ Han Francisco, with which was almost entirely destroyed i
•’oirimis-'ary depart­
Htanford University, and said that the
San Diego.
more readily to the purposes of or medical institution and Lane hosital by tho fire last month, have been ment of the French navy has been dis­
Wisconsin Republicans have elected namentatlon. A special committee of will hereafter be under the control ot notified by the Northern Pacific covered. It was learned rec ntly that
Railroad Company that they will be the rations sent to some of the garrisons
La Follette delegates to the national citizens Is at work devising plans the university trustees.
This is the paid 50 cents on the dollar to cover
for
the
suitable
decoration
of
the
on the Kastern frontier were unfit for
convention.
city. The decision Is to erect a mam­ first step towards making a real uni­ their losses
This action I h taken consumption.
Minister of War Pic-
There is no change in the Venezuelan moth figure of a tiger at Sixteenth versity at Htanford by the addition of from the fact that the disastrous fire quart issued orders that the supplies of
graduate schools in the professional which left hundreds of people home­
situation. The cruiser Tecoma is at street and Broadway avenue
food delivered by certain contractors be
courses. At present, the law depart­ less, was started by a spark from a
La Guayara.
sent to Paris for microscopic examina­
Northern
Pacific
locomotive.
T
h
e
1
t|on
ment,
is
the
only
one
iiavitrg
complete
Populism Wined Out.
In Michigan only four of 14 counties
derision Is not the outgrowth o f c iv il1 tion. That much of the food was un­
Topeka, Kan., April 14.— The Pop­ graduate courses.
which voted on the liquor question de­
suits,
but is a voluntary action on clean and unfit to eat has been estab­
ulist party in Kansas is officially
lished and the investigation is being
cided to continue saloons.
the
part
of the railroad officials.
dead. The Republican state canvass­
Protests Against Quirantine.
continued.
ing
board
has
refused
Its
candidates
The South Dakota Democratic con­
Havana, April 11.— Governor Gene-
Sixty nine Days in Trance.
vention elected delegates instructed to a place on the official ballot because ral Magoon sent an earnest protest to
No Jurors 8ecured Vet.
the
party
at
the
last
state
election
Los
Angeles, April 13.— Mrs. Beu­
vote for Bryan "first, last and all the
did not poll 1 per cent o f the total Washington today against tho quaran­ lah Hawkins, the woman who fell
San
Francisco,
April 9.— The panel
tim e,” and to "vo te for no one else.”
His message is
vote of the state, as provided by the tine against Cuba.
Into a cataleptic trance on February was exhausted in the Rncf trial today
An enlisted man with the battleship new primary election law passed in •upported by reports from Amecirran 5, will tomorrow enter the 69th day a and
n d n n ì . i » n . n I__ ____
’ *
no jurors have yet • been^""seenred*
ffirials throughout the is and denying of her sleep. Her condition is ap- A new panel will he drawn
fleet says that the efficiency of the navy January. The party In 1906 polled
• » L i , .
...
------- tomorrow
that fever exists anywhere.
fewer than 1200 votes.
has been doubled by the cruise.
parently unchanged.
and ...............
the trial w ill then proceed.
E. D. ALEXANDER. Publisher
Widespread Fxlstence In United
States Is Astounding.
Government Officials Cannot Un­
derstand Castro’s Action.
In a Condensed Form for uur wheat ................. 37.700.000 ALARM FELT IN OFFICIAL CIRCLES
Busy Readers.
CHAMPIONED VENEZUELAN CAUSE
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