"WEEKLY .2XTJD SB1I-"WBEKL:
Vol. XVIIL-No. 17.
CORVALLIS, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 9. 1905.
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Offic8 at Washington Peace
Treaty is Signed and' En
voys Leave Ports
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News. ' '
Honolulu, Sept. 5. The steam
ship Sierra, which arrived here
from Australia on the way Jto Sao
Francifcco, reports a volcanic out
break on the island of Savaii in the
Samoan group which is very ex
tensive. The outbreak is three
miles south of Mantiu and has cre
ated a new mountain estimated to
be nearly 7,ooo feet high.
The lava flows from the base of
this mountain a distance of several
miles.- Travelers report that five
or six hills are moving, apparently
on lava foundations. Some have
advanced several miles from their
starting place, indicating a vast
molten lava area beneath.
Ernest Neill and George Furlong
who visited the scene say many
million tons of lava are being eject
ed. ine mus are moving very
slowly and the lava is . solidifying
on the surface. This will event
ually 8 top their further progress
which threatened much damage.
The natives have held gatherings
and bad decided to abandon the
threatened towns, but having be
come assured that there is no dan
ger of loss of life they are settling
down again.
. Portemouth, Sept. 5. The treaty
of Portsmouth was signed shortly
before 4 o clock this afternoon in
the conference room of the naval
general store at the nayy yard
The firing of a national salute of
19 suns was the signal which told
the people of Portsmouth, Kittery,
and Newcastle, that the peace of
Portsmouth was an accomplished
fact and that the bells in the three
towns were Boon pealing forth
joyful refrain.
For 47 minutes those outside the
conference room anxiously waited
the signal. Suddenly an orderly
dashed to the entrance to the peace
building and waved his . hand to
the gunner a few feet away and the
opening shot of the salute rang out
on the clear air of the soft Septem
ber afternoon proclaiming peace be
tween Russia and Japan.
Three o'clock was the hour set
for the final session of the confer
ence. An hour before that time a
neavy tnunderstorm was in prog
ress, but as Mr. Witte and Baron
Rosen left the hotel in an. automo
bile at 2:15 o'clock for the navy
yard, the rain stopped. When Ba
ron Komura and Mr. Takahira en
tered their automobile twenty min
utes later, the sun suddenly shone
which called forth the remark from
Baron Komura:
"It is a good omen for peace.
This remark was cheered by the
crowd gathered to see the Japanese
depart.
The Russian plenipotentiaries
reached the yard at 2:45 and receiv
. ed an ambassadorial salute of 19
Salem, Oregon, January 31, 1904.
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guns, ine yard presented a lively
Bcene as the automobile bearing Mr
Witte and Baron Rosen dashed
up to the conference building. On
one side in special full dress were
two companies of marines ' com
manded by Major Moses, who ren
dered the prescribed honors as Mr,
Witte and Baron Rosen
their front.
Washington, Sep. 5. When the
committees of the United States
senate are being organized next
December a fight is to be made to
wrest the chairmanship of the Is
thmian canal committee from Sen
ator Mitchll of Oregon. Bacause
of the prominence which canal leg
islation is likely to attain at tne
coming session, it is aesiraoie mat
that the senate committee snouia
be in the hands of some good strong
man, fully competent to conduct
bearings, direct the work of the com
mittee, and assume charge of what
ever canal legislation may be re
ported to the senate. It is recog
nized hat Senator Mitchell can do
none of those things. Therefore
there is a general desire that a new
chairmanbe selected.
Even though he did not care to
resign his seat in the senate, Mr.
Mitchell might relinquish his chair
manship in order that there be no
figm topry him Ioosp. This would
simplify the situation and make
way for some other and more active
man. But it is not believed Sena
tor Mitchell will pursue this course
It will be up to the committee on
committees to solve this problem,
and it would be along guess in
deed to predict what that commit
tee will do,
Japanese party was also h artily
cheered.
At the navy yard the work has
already begun of restoring the gen
eral store to its former condition.
The furniture will be shipped back
to Washington, including the table
on which the treaty was signed
This piece of furniture may be pre
served by the department of state,
and also the chairs on which the
plenipotentiaries sat. The build
ing will be cOntinued to be known
as the Peace building.
Mr. Pierce, the assistant secre
tary of state, will rema n here this
week to wind up the government's
business in connection . with - the
conference.
Captain Winslow, commanding
the Mayflower, was among the last
to take leave of Mr. Witte. The
Russian plenipotentiary thanked
Captain Winslow in his own name
and the emperor's, for the hospit
ality which Mr. Witte and his mis
sion had eojoyed aboard the May
flower, and presented an autograph
photograph. In the . perpetuation
of the historic part which the navy
yard has played in the last month,
it nas been suggested that a broeze
tablet he placed on the walls' of the
peace building commemorative of
the "Peace of Portsmouth" brought
about within its walls.
Washington, Sept. 5. It is 'offi
cially announced that the hou-e
and senate committees on printing
will assemble in Washington early
in September, to begin an investi
gation of the government printing
office. Chairman Landis of the
house committee, the man who put
an end to the selling of liquor in the
capitol building ' at Washington,
has been itching all summer long
to get at the investigation, but no
other member of either committer
has shown the least disposition t
act. Senator Tom Piatt of New
York, chairman of the senate com
mittee and chairman of the joint
committee has been unwilling to
come to Washington "on account
of the warm weather." Senato El
kins, his able republican colleague,
has been spending the hot spell in
the mountains of West Virginia,
and has put forth the excuse that
as chairman of the interstate com
merce committee, he has been
obliged to devote his time to the
railroad rate problem, but as a mat-.
ter of fact, he has been directing his
political beochmen to patch up his
political fences, for Elkins comes
up for re-election next year, and
must overcome an opposition now
in process of formation. Senator
Arthur P. Gorman, perpetual prea
sidential aspiraot, the' nominal
bead of the democratic party in the
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Portemouth, Sept. 6 Life in the
picturesque section of New England
which for the past four weeks has
centered around the proceedings
of the peace conference, began slip
ping back into normal conditions
today with the departure of Mr.
Witte and the Russian mission on
a special train for New York and
of the members of the JaDanese en
tourage who did not go with Baron
Komura last night. Mr. Witte was
up early this morning and before
he had taken breakfast a crowd had
gathered on the hotel veranda to
gee him off. He shook bands with
each of the persons who had gath
ered and wnen ne started ne was
given cheers and crieB of adieus.
Mr. Takahira, who beaded the
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