y fycs && ( vury' ,-r ' X flarfnm.ii Nrtu Anr VOL. XI. POKTLAD, OTtEGON, SATUHDAV, JUNE J, J 900. NO. 8. "JSSS" rnr Fins- national bank of kauspell KALI8PELL, MONTANA D. n. PKELKlt, Pre., F. J, LEnEKT, V. Prcs.. II. K. WEBSTER. Cnh., V. D. LAW80N, A. Cmh. Transacts a Konoral banking buslnoss. Drafts Issued, available In nil cities ot the United -Stato sad Europe, Hong Kutig and Manila. Collections made on favorable tctmi. LADD & TILTON, Bankers Portland, Oregon Established In 1869. Transact a Gonoral Hanking Ilusl posits. Collections made nt nil points on favorablo terms. r.uropo nnu mo ciisioru mines. Letters of Credit Issued nrnllililn In Mffht Exchanira nnd Toloffriinhla Transfers sold on New York. nasmngwu, -jnit'HKii, si ijuis, uenvcr. -.-ninna, ear Washington, Idnho, Montana nnd British Columbia. Franklort and iiong Kong, I.ouls, Denver. Omaha, Ban Francisco and vnrlnus points In Oregon, j-.xcntiugo told on London, rani, llerllu, UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK OF PORTLAND, OREGON. J. C. A1NBWORTU, Pmsldent. W. II. AYKIt. Vice-President. II. W. SCIIMKKH. Cashier A. M. WllIUHT, Assistant Cashier. Transacts a general banking business. Drafts Issued, available in all cities of the United States and Kuro, Hong Kong and Manila. Collections made on tavorablo forms. NORTHWEST CORNER THIRD AND OAK STREETS. NEWS OF THE WEEK In a Condensed Form. for Oar Bosy Readers, HAPPENINGS OF TWO CONTINENTS DRIVE THEM FROM STATE. California Declares War on Dishonest Insuranco Companies. 8n Francisco, Juno 15. The ofllclil TROOPS JOIN MOBS lirurncVSich'VfS Czar Can No Longer Trust Sold- lers to Resist Revolution. A Rosumo of tho Loss Important but Not Less Intorostlng Events of tho Past Wook. FIRST NATIONAL BANK of NorthYaklma, Wash. Ompllal mnd Surplum 9130,000 OO UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY w.m.i. Ann President C1IA8. CARPENTER Vice Prcsldont W. L, BTK1KWEO. Cashier A. n. CLINK Assistant Cashier FIRST NATIONAL BANK alia Walla, Washington. (First National Bank In tho State) Transacts a General Banking Business. CAPITAL tlOO.CKM. BURPLU8 1100,000. LEVI ANKKNV, President. A. It. REYNOLDS. Vice Prcsldont. A. It. RURFORD, Cashier JOHN I). RYAN. Prcs. 1). J. HENNESSEY, Vlro Pres. " JOHN O. MORONY, Cashlor K. J. BOWMAN, Asst. Cashlor. MA UK HKINNER, Asst. Cnshlor. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF GREAT FALLS, MONTANA Capital, $200,000. UNITED STATCS DEPOSITARY Deposits $1,200,000 .ABSOCIATK RANKS: Daly Ilnnk A Trust Co., Hut to; Daly Hank A Trust Co., Anaconda THE NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE TAOOMA, WASH. UNITED STATES DEPOSITARY OmnUml $200,000 Sumplum $300,000 SAVINGS DEPARTMENT OFFICP.RH-Chi-torThnrni Pnsldeut; Arthur Albortson, Vlro President and Cashlor; Frederick A. Klro, Assistant Cashlor; Dulbcrt A. Young, Assistant Cashier. JNO. C. AINHWOItTII, Pros. JNO. 8. IIAKEIt, Vlco Pr.-s. P. C. KAUFKMAN, Jd Vice Pre. A. t). PRICIIARD, Cashier. 1. P. IIAttKELL, Jit., Assistant Cashlor. THE FIDELITY TRUST COMPANY BANK General Banking CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $390,000 Safe Deposit Vault SAVINGS DEPARTMENT: Interest at the ltato ol S or cent per Annum, Credited Bond-Annually TACOMA, WASHINGTON ALFRED COO I.I DO K, Prcs. A. F. McCLAINK Vlco Pres AAHON KUIIN, Vice Pros. CIIA8. E. BCRIRER, Cashlor. 1). C. WOODWAHD, Asst. Cashier. THE COLFAX NATIONAL BANK of Oolf ax Wash. Oamltal, $120,000.00 Transacts n gonoral banking business, Spocinl facilities for handling Eastern Washington nnd lda)io items. W. I". KETTKNIIACII, Pres. J. ALEXANDER, Vlco Pres. GEO. II. KE8TEH, Cashlor. LEWISTON NATIONAL BANK Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits, $215,000.00 -Capital recently Increiuod from t-IO.Ooo to 1100.000 Surplus Increased from V),000 to f 100,000 DIRECTOR8 Jos. Alexander. G. Bunnell. J. II. Morris, (iraco K. Pfalllln. It. C. Poach, , H. Hosier, W F. Kottrnbach, (. K. Guernsey, W in. A. Libert, J no. W. ulrrus, A, Froldeurich, Twenty-two Years a National Hank, Oldest Bank in Lcwiston, Idaho. Send Your Washington, Idaho and Montana Business to the OLJD INATIOINAL, BANK Spokane Washington THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK ESTABLISHED 1881 Moorchotid, Mlnnusotit JOHN LA Mil, President DAVID AfiKFOAAlll), Vlco President LEW A. Hl'NTOON, Canlilor AUTIIt'H II.CORTAIN, Asst. Cashlor Intcrottt Piild on Time Dupo.sltM FIRST NATIONAL BANK of East Grand Forks, Minn. Farm Loans Negotiated, Firo and Cyclono Insurant).) Written. Does u General Hanking Iiusidess. Capital, liO.ooo E. ARNK&ON, Pre.. O. It. JACOI1I Cashier - Pop Cent InturoMt RiiUI on Tlmo DopomIIh FIRST NATIONAL BANK R ISM ARK, NORTH DAKOTA Cmtmkllmhmd In 187 0. OmpHml, $100,000, Intmrmmt PmM ma Tim DmpmmNm C.ll.LITTLE. President. F. D. KENDUICK, Vice President. 8. M. I'VE, Cashier. J. I- 11ELL. Asst. Cashier. OENERAL BANKINB BUSINESS TRANSACTED. THE JAMES RIVER NATIONAL BANK Of JAMESTOWN, NORTH DAKOTA. The Oldest and Largest Banking House in Central North Dakota Collection made on all points in North Dakota. Foreign and domestic exchange bough and told. Telegraph transfers to all parts of America. Tiiero in n general feeling throughout Russia that a revolution cannot help but come soon. Thirty-two insurance companies havo refused to cut payment of San Francisco losses 25 per rent and will pay In full. Roosevelt condemns tho moat inspec tion bill and thrcatus to call an extra session If action is not taken on tho canal. A mooting of Illinois farmnrs at Chi cago decided to form an organization to fight tho commission men who are now robbing them. Tho government has secured evidence at Olovoland, Ohio, of rebating to Standard Oil and will prosecuto the oil company and tho railroad. A committee from th National Asso ciation of Manufacturers, after nn In vestigation ot Chicago packing Iioubo conditions, says it can find nothing wrong. Stato Insurance Commissioner D.wls, of Nevada, has notified insurance com panlcH to pay 100 cents on the dollar of their San crnnciBco Iobsch or quit bus), noes in Nevada. Germany soya America la not the only country wlioro bad moat origin atoa. The kaiser's inspectors relttse admittance to shipments from several other countries. Tho president and senate continue at loggerheads on important measure. A storm Is brewing in the Russian parliament about duplicity regarding executions. All shipping on San Francisco bay continues tied up on account ot a strike of tho freight handlers. The house has voted to allow do money to soldiers' homes for malitfen nee Which have Unteens. " Chicago courts are trying to decide who is tho head of Zion City at the present tlmo. Dowie is tho star wit ness. Tho I.ongworths are receiving splen did entertainment in London. Mrs. I.ongworth dined wilit tho king a few dajsngo. A New York Fedoral grand jury has asked that several officers of the tobacco trust bo adjudged in contempt and sent to jail for failuro to produce certain hoolts wanted by tho jury in an inves tigation of the business methods of tho trust. A million dollar tiro at Baltimore wiped out tho big Savannah docks, to gether with all tho freight stored thore; totally destroyed tho steamer Essex and a number of scows loaded with cotton and resin. Two lives aro believed to have beon lost. A now moderate party has been or ganized in Russia, An ontire regiment at Poltava, South Russia, has mutinied. A committeo from the Iioubo is work ing on a meat inspection bill. The eenato committeo has reported that Smoot is not entitled to a seat in the senate. to meet their obligations nnd pay their tosses in inn will not only be driven from tho stato, but ruined beforo tho world, if the widest publication of their methods can accomplish that end. In suranco Commissioner 13. Marion Wolf io bucked by Attormy General Wtbb. Tho nttornoy goneral expressed himself forcefully todny regarding tiio proposi tion made by 00 cumpunies at a moot ing in Oakland Tuesday to pay only 75 per cent of adjusted losses. "Under tho law of California," he said, "the atato insuranco commission er can rtvoko tho license of any insur ance company for tho stato when there Is rniiso. Certainly tho payment of only 75 per cent of Iosboh would bo cause. And not only would It bo proof of unsoundness and unfitness to do business, but it will bo the plainest evidence of dishonesty. It would be eauso for tho commissioner to revoke the atato llcenso of auy company stand ing for such a proposition, and I know that Mr. Wolf, whose heart is iu the situation, will tuko such action towatd companies that enter such an agreement. "This 1b tho limit of his power of punishment under tho Oalflornta law, mil lie can go much further. Tho in surance commissioners of all tho states slaml together. Through them, Com missioner Wolf can ndvortlflo to all the world tho dishonesty of tho companies that refuse to meet their obligations. am certain that lie will uso that pow er against thoao that give him causu." There was no change today in tho alignment of insuranco companies on the proposition to make a general 125 per cent cut, but tho companies that voted for full payment still hopo to win over many of those that took tho stand for a percentage settlement. STRIKE THREATENED AT MOSCOW Governor of Poltava Clamors for Froah Troops Slnco Mutiny Court Party Exposed. LIFE DISGUSTS DOWIE. Aged Prophot Lay Down to Dio Onco, But Could Not. Chicago, Juno 15. John Alexander Dowlo, on tho wltnoss stand in Judgo Laudls' court today, tremblingly begged for death to roliovu him of his sorrows and his defeats. He declared also that should ho dio ho would come back to earth again as Elijah tho Restorer. Dowie, In the course of his testi mony, gave tho following rules to guide a man who is about to die: "Do things In order oven when you go to die. Don't make a splash and mess of it. Go to your death couch and await the end in calm." Tho occasion for tho dlecueelon of death cimo when Dowie, fighting for tho ownership of Zion City and re claiming poseesslon, which is now in tho hands of Wilbur G. Vollvu, was telling of liia first serious illness an part of the testimony on his present competency to rule tho city which he hullt. uowio mado tho amazing asser tion that after he was first stricken he lay down to dio, but awoko two hours later, allvo. "I wns never so dlrgustcd as when I awoke two hours later alive," he said, "and I am still alive and disgusted." St. Petersburg, Juno 14. Ominous of tho government's ability to copo with prospective agrarian disorders is tho news from Poltava, ono of the rich est and most populous farming pro vinces of RtiBBla, that tho governor 1b in dBily receipt of requeats for troopa for tho protection of estates from tho peasants, who havo not tho slightest fear of tho rural guards. The governor is unnblo to comply with thoso requests, bocauso tho local troops, one regiment of winch' muti nied Sunday, are so Infected by tho re volutionary propaganda that detach ments sont to tho villages Immediately fraternise with tho peasants. Tho uov- ornor thoteforo bees tho St. Petersburg aHiuoriues io Bond mm Irenh troopn. Two dally newspaper organs of tho Revolutionary Socinllats, the Naiodny Veatnlk (Peoplo'a Messenger) nnd tho Ievestla (Peasant News) were suppress ed today. Tho final number of the Narodny Veatnlk gives ntntlntlcH of Gonoral Trepofl'a reactionary party in the council of the empire, which It says is composed of three princes, four count, threo baroiiB, 21 ex-governors general, governors and other high ofll rials, nnd ono metropolitan, who, to gether draw from tho government over fOUO.UUO hi salaries, lirsldes this, nil thc9o reactionaries own immenbo cb tatOH, that of M. Polotseff being 1,600, 000 acres. An industrial tempest scorns to bo on tha point ,of breaking nt Moscow, whence it may again spread over the empire. A dual conference between the employers and printers, whose slrlko produced the genornl strike of last October, is being hold tonight. If it should bo fruitless, tho result will be a lockout of the printers and probably a sympathetic factory strike. INDEPENDENTS ASK FAIR PLAY. MASSACRE AND PILLAGE. THE CAPITAL. BOO.OOO FIRST rsJATIOlNAU BA1NK OP DUL.UTH, MINNESOTA. SURPLUS 73H.OOO (J. S. Government Depositary. GEOKGK PALMEK President F. L. MEYERS Cashier OEO.L.CLEAVEK W L. HKENHOLT8 Asst. Cashier Asst. Cashier Lb Grande National Bank "oSPSSS Capital and Surplus, $120,000 DinECTOrtS: J. M. Berrj-. A. B. Conlejr. F. J. Holmes. F. M. Iljrrklt, F. L. Meyers, Geo. L Clearer, Geo. Palmer. ,.,,.. The Merchant National Bank OF SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA United Simtmm Dmpomitory CAPITAL, ONE MILLION DOLLARS Transacts a general Unking business. Drafts Issued, arailable In all cities of the States and Europe, Hong Kong and Manila. Collections made on favorable terms. OFFICERS-KENNETH CLARK, President; C. 1L BlGfcLOW, Vice President; OEO PRINCE, Vice President; II. W, PARKER, Cashier; II. VAN VLECK, Assistant Cashier. DIRECTORS-Cratrionl Livingston, Kenneth Clark, J. U. Sklnntr, Lnuii W, Hill, Geo. II Prince, C. U. Bigelow, U. R. Noyes, V, M, Watklns, L. P. Ordiay, F. B. Kellogg, E, N, Saund'ers United li. Republican leaders in both houses have agreed to a compromise on the statehood bill. General Toledo, leader of the Guate- malan revolutionists, claims to be win ning his fight. A committee of San Francisco buii. ness men is at'Washington to get Fed eral aid for their city. United States secret service men hare discovered a scheme by which Chinese were being smuggled into this country at Vancouver, O. 0. Threa of the largest insurance com panies having losses In San Fianclco have refused to make a cut of 25 per cent in tbeir payments. Reports from Hankow, China, show that the great floods this spring in the Hunan district caused a loss of life amounting to tens of thousands. A famine will follow, for the fiooda have brought disaster to an immense area. The Longworths have arrived In England. Manila business men have petitioned congress to establish an agricultural lank. Btorms in Pennsylvania and Ohio have canted loss of Ufa and destruction of property. The Mexican board of trade has started an investigation of American canned meats. Bomb Flung at Christian Parade In Russia Provokes Riot. Rlalyptok, Russia, Juno 15. A Jew If li anarchist threw a bomb among tho Corpus Christ) procession, which wan in progress hero today, and killed or wounded hundrrda of persona. In con sequence the Christiana attacked nnd massacred the Jews and demolished their shops. The bomb wae thrown from the bal cony of n houeu In Alurandrnv street A Russian clergyman named Federoff wan among those killed. Immediately a'tcr the explosion Jews began to Are from tho windows of the house. Soldiers surrounded It and fired two volleys. Meanwhile the enraged Christians attacked the Jewish stores in Alexaudrov and Suraz streets, demo, iehing the fixtures and windows, throw ing the goods into the gutters, and beating and murdering tiio Jews. Many Jews fled to tho railroad etatlon, pur sued by the mob, which killed several there. Hold-Up Must Stop. Washington, Juno 16. Judge James Wickersham, of Alaska, will be con firmed by the senate before adjornment Notice was served on Senators Nelnon and McCumber today by the steering committee that the senate will not per mit them to continue their hold-up of thin nomination which it is apparent to practically the entire senate that Wick ersham has been unjustly accused and that the fight against him is not being made in good faith. It is unusual for the senate to take such drastic meas ures with its own members. Major Scott To Be Superintendent. Washington, June 15 Major Hugh L. Scott, Fourteenth cavalry, now in the Philippines, hat been selected by Secretary Taft Io succeed lirigadiir General A. L. Mills, as superintendent of the military academy, who Is to be given charge of nn army department, probably in the Philippines. Independents In Ohio Ask for Spoclal Legislative Session. Olovoland. Juno H. Tho Leader tn. day says: An extra session of tho Ohio legisla ture in ntkod by tho Independent oil men of tho state. A formal request for the issuance of n special call Is being prepared lor Governor Paulson, while letters bearing upon this subject aro to bo sent from Olovoland to ovury mom her of tho legislature. Should tho special session bo railed, the independent oil men will urge the amendment of tvo laws which thoy deem necessary to Insure them fair pluy as ngainat tho Standard Oil company. Tho flrat la tho nntl-dlacrlmnatlon law now iu operation In Kansas and Iowa. Tho eecond in the maximum freight law, which has enabled tho Independ ent operators in Kansas to obtain equal rights from tho railroads, thus placing them on the ciwnu coinputitlo basis ad the vast combine. FORCE ISSUE ON CANAL TYPE. Amendment to Sundry Civil Bill May Come In House, Washington, Juno 14. An unexnect. ed Biiag was struck today in the move ment lor an early adjournment, and it is possible that tho type of the Panama canal must be settled before congress closes us sessions. Secretary Taft wbs in conference wlt'.i Speaker Cannon and Chairman Hepburn, of the committee on interstate and foreign commerce, which handles the canal legislation, and there is a disposition tn settle the type of canal beforo the adjournment of congress. Steamer Empire Is Sold. City of Mexico, June 14. The steam er Empire, now at Corlnto, Nicaragua, and said to be assisting tho Guatemalan rebels, has been sold to tho Nlcaraguan government, accordlnj to a dispatch re ceived here from Salvador, and cannot now be seized. Tapachula advices report that Ayutla, Guatemala, Iihh not been retaken by Guatemala regulars. Ocon Is faid to be still in the poi-sesslon of tim revolutionists. Tho leaders of tho Guatemalan revolution scout the adverse reports sent out from Guatemala City. Goose Lake Land Withdrawn. Washington, June 14. The secre- tiry of the interior today withdrew from disposition under the public land laws a strip of land extending around Goose lake, in Northern California, nnd Southwestern Oregon f.ir in- in ton net Ion with the I'iM river irrigation project. TiiH area covers approximate ly 40,000 acres. GERMANIA TO QUIT. Strong Insuranco Company Withdraws From Callforola. Sm Francisco, Juno 13. Tho Gor niania ItiBUranco company, of New York, will writo no more insurance in this stato, will close all its otllcos nnd abandon California as an hiBuranco flold. Telegraphic liiBtructlons havo beon recoived from tho homo odlco to that effect and will bo followed. Two rcaaotiB nro glvon for this action. Ono, gonoral In its scopo, is that of nn ultrn-consorvntivo company not caring to risk nny more of its capital In Cali fornia losses. Tho other is morn snn. clflc, nnd enya tho doclalon of tho com pany wbb influenced by tho legislature a d Insuranco Commissioner Wolf. Tho notion of tho Gormnnln company Is tho talk of insuranco circles. When It wns rcportod that tho Eagle and nomo ot mo ouior smaller companies would quit California, thoro was little com mont It was expected but when a company like tho Gormonln declared Itself In tho samo manner the ontlro commetclal community of tho city was startled. Tho Germanla Is ono of tho strong companies doing business in California, having assets of 17,000,000, and is pay-, Ing its losses as rapidly nn thoy nro nd-' Justed. Among Insuranco men tho Gormanla in noted for its cunsorvntlsni. It wan thought probable that tho com pany had beon frightened out of the stato by Its recent losses. This was not fully admitted nt tho o dices of tho company, though it wns conceded that tho character of tho loss nnd tho man ner in which It wnn Incurred may havo lud Its effect on tho dlrectornto. Thoro is every likelihood Hint n num ber ol companies will follow tho oxam plo of the Gormnnln, Smaller com panics eeo in it n precedent under which they may clnlm n reasonable ox ctiso for quitting tho stato, and on tho other hand It may bo tho ploneoMiiove mont In what may develop Into" con certed notion to secure tho repeal of tho act nt tho next session. CYCLONE IN MONTANA. Loss at Havre Placed at 8200,000 Rain Accompanied Wind. Havre, Mont., Juno 13. Havre and Fort Asslulbolno wero struck by a hur ricane this aftornoon that did damage estimated at 1200,000. Jlulldlngs were toppled ovor without warning when tho cyclone struck and not a structuro in the path of tho terrific wind escaped damage. Several persons were injured, hut up to a late hour this .evening no fatalities were reported. Tho florco wind carried rain with It, which fact precluded tho possibility of damage by fire. Men nnd women wero swept from thoir feet by the hurricane nnd for several minutes it was courting injury to venturo outside. I.ntor tho wind subsided somewhat nnd tho work of rescue commenced. A report tonight stntes that both of tho reservoirs at Fort AsMlnlboIno have burst and that thu quarters of tho sold iers nro being Hooded. Four troops of tho Second cavalry end (our companies of the Second Infantry nro stationed there. LAWYERS TO BE PAID. by an Graft on Colvlllo Indians Passed tho House. Washington, Juno 13. Choosing opportune moment yesterday, when nobody wan looking, Chairman Sher man, of tho house Indian committee, called up and secured the approval of tho conlen-nco report on tho Indian bill, which embodies thu Colvlllo In dian graft. It had been tho intention of Representative l-'ltzxgurnld, of New York, to mako n light on tills feature of thn report, but ho wbb not present at the tlmo. Reference to tho text of tho bill dis closes the fact that It Is specifically stated mat iidu.uuu cash appropria tion, the first payment of f 1, 500, 000 to tho Colvllles for the north half of their reservation, is made "'or tho use and lienrflt of the Indian," and yet Senator McCumber, In defending the lawyers' graft, stated in the senate that It was understood iu committee that this first appropriation would go to the lawyers, the Indians not to receive any pa-t of it, It Is now up to tho president to eith er permit thin graft to go through or veto the entire Indian appropriation bill. Economy the Cry inlChlna. Pekin, Juno 13. China is In finan cial straits, The expenses of tho gov eminent aro multiplying without In creased revenues, The pay of the new army Is considerably In arrears, and a great percentage of desertions lsresut ing. Tho dowager empress has issued a long edict, impressing on all ofllciala the necessity for economy. Tho edict Is addressed to tho people, and attempt to Justify the course of tho government. It says that no one appreciates so much as the throne tho Bufferings of the peo ple from tho taxation necessary, Trembler Cracks Buildings. Nogales, Ariz., June 13. An earth. quake occurred at Guaymas, Mox., yes terday about noon. Several buildings were cracked, but nobody was Injured. TV7 4KHUbj2. i