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Newspaper Page Textmm mtvirj&'kW ' i n ym -"m ' "' r-Tiiwnwwriirixji. "Tf nrtlani New Ag TOL. xr. POHTLAKD, OKEGOK-, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 190G. NO. 22. j 'i - P THE FiRST NATIONAL BANK OF KALI SPELL KALISPELL, MONTANA I), n. PEELER, rres , V. 3. LERERT, V. Pro., U. E. WEBSTER. Cash., W. D. LAW80N, A. Cash, Tranacts a general nanklng-buslncn. Drafts Issued, nvntUblo In nil cltlci of the United StntOH and Europe, Hong Kong and Manila. Collections ma Jo on favorable terms. LADD &, TILTON, Bankers Portland, Oregon Established In 1859. Transact a General roslts. Collection made nt all points on favorable terms, tatter of Credit Issued available In s matte in an points on lavoramo terms, tatters of Credit Issued available In latent States. hlitht ExchaiiKo and Telefrraphtc Transfers sold on New York, igo.Bt Louis, loner. Omaha, Han Francisco and various point In Oregon, a, Montana and llrltlsh Columbia. Excnango sold on London, Paris, Ilerllii, l.uroK) aim mo r.nsiern Dimes, W'nshltmton. Idaho. ! I rankfort and Hour Kong, UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK OF PORTLAND, OREGON. 3. C. AIN8WORT1I, President. W. II. AVER, Vice-President. It. W. BCIIMEER, Cashier A. M, WRIUIir, Aslstant Cashier. Transacts a gcnoral banking business. Drafts Issued, available In all cities of the United fitates and Euro,llong Kong and .Manila. Collections mado on favorablo terms. NORTHWEST CORNER THIRD AND OAK STREETS. r FIRST NATIONAL BANK 0fSgHS,6ND Cnpltul, $800,000 Surplus, 1,000,000 DupOMltM, $13,000,000 FIRST NATIONAL BANK of North Yakima, Wash. Capital mml Surplua $130,000 OO UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY W.St. LADt) CHA8. CARPENTER W. L, BTEINWEO. A. II. CLINK President Vice President Cashier Assistant Cashier FIRST NATIONAL BANK Walla Walla, Washington. (First National Dank In the Htato.) Transacts a General Banking Business. ' CAPITAL IIOU.OW. 8URPLU8 IIOO.UW. LEVI ANKENY, President. A. II. REYNOLDS. Vice Presldonl. A. R. 1IURF0RD, Cashier THE NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE TAOOMA, WASH. UNITED STATES DEPOSITARY Capital $200,000 Surplua $200,000 SAVINGS DEPAR1MENT OFI'ICERH Chester Tliornc, I'rtsliteiit: Arthur Albortsou, Vlco President and Cashier; Frederick A. Rico, Assistant cashier j Dclburt A. Young, Assistant Casl.lvr. JNO. C. AINHWORTII, Pros. JNO. 8. RAKER, Vlco I'rrs. P. ('. K AU1T.MAN, M Vlco Pros. A. U. PRICIIARD, Cashier. P. P. IIA8KEI.L, JR., Assistant Cashier. THE FIDELITY TRUST COMPANY BANK General Ranking CAPITAL AND SURPLUS, $390,000 Safe Deposit Vaults SAVINGS DCPARTMCNTi Interest at tho Rate of S ot rent per Annum, Credited Hcml-Aiiniially TAOOMA. WAHHINOTON ALI'REI) COOI.lIKli:, Pres. A. I McCLAINK Vlco Pres AARON KUIIN, Vlco Pres (III AS. K. BUtltlKIt, Cashier. I). C. WUODWARD, Ami. Cashier. THE COLFAX NATIONAL BANK of Colfax Wash. Oapltal, $120,000.00 Transacts n general banking business. Special facilities' or handling Kastorn Washington nuil ldulio Items. W. K. KETTENHACII, Pres, J. ALEXANDER, Vice Prrs. LEWISTON NATIONAL BANK Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits, $215,000.00 Capital recently Increased from $.V).0OU to IOO,(VO htirplus Increased from IVlXi) to (100,000 DIRECTOllr-Jos. Alexander, C. V. Ilunnoll, J. R. Morris, draco K. Pfatllin. It. 0. Reach, O. II. Kostor, W. K. Kettmbach, (). E. (Inernsoy, Win. A. Libert, Jno. W. (llwns, A. hreldenrlch, Twenty-two Yean a National Bank. Oldest Bank In Lewiston, Idaho. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK Moorohoucl, JOHN LA.MI1, DAVID ASKEOAARD, LEW President Vlco President Intercut Pnld on FIRST NATIONAL BANK of East Grand Forks, Minn. Turin Loans Negotiated. Fira and Cyclono Inimnuied Written. General Hanking BusidosB. Capital, 150,000 K. AKNKbOK, Pro. (I. R.JACOHI Cashier 4 Pur Cunt InturuMt PnlU on Tlmo Dupoalta FIRST NATIONAL BANK BISMARK. NORTH DAKOTA ertmmlMnd In 187 B. OapNal, $100,000. Intaeamt Palm cm Tlmm DmpaaHm C. II. LITTLE. President. P. D. KENDR1CK, Vlco President. H. SI. I'VE, Cashier. J. I- HELL. Aist. Cashier. GENERAL BANKINO BUSINESS TRANSAOTED. THE FIRST INATIOINAL, OR DULUTH, MINNESOTA.. CAPITAL, snoO.OOO SURPLUS 73H.OOO U. S. Government Depository. ,JKORQE PALM Kit President F. L. MEYERS GEO. Cashier La Brando National Bank "JgSgg? Oamltal an Surplus, $120,000 DIRECTORS: J. M. Kerry, A. B. Conley, K. J. lioluies, K. M. liyrklt, rL.Mejers. Geo. L Clearer, Geo, Palmer. THE W. G. M'PHERSON COMPANY Heating, Ventilating and Drying Engineers . WARM AIR FURNACES "NOTHING BUT THE BEST" 47 PORTLAND FUEL. COMPANY Successor to PIONEER, C R. DAVIS and PHOENIX fUEL CO. PHONE EAST 26 287 E. MORRISON ST. COAL Rock Springs, Diamond, Richmond, Roalyn, New Cas tle, New Cattle Nut, Franklin, Carbon Hill, Coke. WOOD 4-Foot Fir, 4-Foot Oak, 4-Foot Aah, Sawed Oak, Sawed Fir, Sawed Atk, Sawed Knot. The Merchants National Bank Of St. Pnul, MinnuMOtu UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY Capital, 41,000,000.00 Surplus, 480,000.00 Tranaactaa gstnoral banking bualns. Correspondonco Invited OFFICERS-KEXNETH CLARK, President GEO. II. PRINCE, Vice President! II, W. PARKER, Cashier; 117 VAN VLECK, Assistant Cashier. DIRECTORS-CrawforJ Urineston, Kenneth Clark, J. IT. Skinner, Louis W. nill, Geo. n. llanklntr Iluslncss. Intorcst allowed on tlmo do CEO. II. KEHTER, Cashier. CSTABUSIltD 18H1 MlnncHota A. Ill'NTOON, ARTHUR II. T08TAIN, ('ashler Asst. Cashlor Tlmo DupoHltM Does a BAINK I CLEAVER W. I. JIRENH0LT8 Asst. Cashier Asst. Cashier Firat Street PORTLAND, OREGON NEWS OF THE WEEK In a Cdndensed Form for Onr Busy Readers, HAPPENINGS OF TWO CONTINENTS A Rosumo of tho Loss Important but Not Loss Interesting Events of tho Past Wook A now treaty with San Domingo 1b proposed. A new law in Russia grants more re ligion freedom. General Fanston will Join Tatt and Dacon at Havana. The stench from corpses at Hongkong is causing sickness. Tho sugar markets of the worid ar unsettled by tho Cuban revolt. American arsenals are preparing am munition for use in Guba in case an army is sent to the island. Suit has been commence! to oust the WaterS'Plerce Oil com any from Texas. Violtion of the anti-trust law is the ground for action. Sailors of tho navy havo sued for damagos because they are excluded from amusement places. Thoy are backed by tho government. Taft and Dacon have warnod all par ties in tlio Ouban controversy that fail ure to agree will bring an army from the United Slates to tho island. Kstlior Mitchell and Mrs. Orofllold cannot distinguish between right and wrong, according to tho insanity com mission, ar.d are dangerous persons to bo at large, Tho Pacific Steamship company's stcauer City of.Seattlo has gone on the rocks at Trail l. and, noar Vancouver, B. 0. Tho parsengora wore all landed safely and it is thought the vessel can bo saved. Tho cruiser Minneapolis has sailed for Guba. The Cuban government has agents In Kansas buying horses. More railroad bridges are being buruad by Cuban rebels. Vollva has been elected overseer of Zlon City by the residents of tho Dow lelte town. Many riots are occurring in Moscow, Russia. Hulldings are being burned by the revolutionists. A card sharper has swindled rich PittBurRers out of $1,000,000. Some of tho plunder has been secured. Gompers says tho American Federa tion of Labor has but just begun its campaign against unfriendly congress men. A Yokohama paper claims that a largo part of the funds for tho relief of destitute Japaneso have boen embez zled. The stoun at Hongkong has proven much mora serious than at first thought. At least 20 vessels were wrecked, many of them being total losses. Tho Interstate Commerce commission has iesued notice to the railroads of the country regarding passenger rates. Spe cial excursion rates are not to be pro hibited. Dowle says he is going to Mexico to die. Secretary Root may go from Panama to Havana. Mrs. Nicholas Longworth is to go bear hunting in October. General de Dloulin has been ap pointed as Trepoff's suceseor. An attempt' has been made to kill the heirjto the Austrian throne. A great immigration to the North weat ia predicted by railroad men. The steamer Mongolia may be saved irom trie rocks at Midway island. A large shipment o( sheep has been made from Grand Forks, B. C., to Chi cago. The American minister to Morocco will demand the payment of claims of citizens of the United Slates. Gifford Pinchot, chief of the foiest service, will attend a Canadian forestry convention at New Westminster. Harrlman has bought a controlling interest in the Batltimore & Ohio rail road, giving him lines from ocean to ocean. The transport Buford has been or dered to proceed from Honolulu to Midway island and get the passengers of the steamer Mongolia. An American bank ia to be opened in Berlin, Anarchist coatlnually dog the kaiser. Geaeral MacArther ia bow Iiecteaaat ajeaeral. BIDS FOR CHINESE. Four Firms OfTor to Supply Them for Work on Isthmus. Washington, 8ept. 21. Proposals were submitted to the Isthmian Canal commission yesterday for tho furnish ing of Chincso labor to be employed in the construction of the Panama canal. The requlreraentB of tho specifications were, in brief, that tho contractors should Bgree to supply tho commission with at leftist 2,600 Chinese, the com mission having the privilege of calling upon the successful contractor for adl tional labor not exceeding 15,000. It was further specified that the laborers should bo on the isthmus ready for work within threo and a half months of the opening of proposals and that the contractors should deposit with their proposal a bond of $50,000 as n guarantee to fully carry out the terms of the contract. Whllo tho commission has been In communication with about 150 individ uals and corporations who had signified a possible desire to Hubmlt proposals, only four proposals were finally offered to the commission. In the prosence of the contractors and others interested the propositions wero opened by W. Loon Pcpperman, assistant chief of the office of administration of the commis sion. At tho conclusion of the reading of the proposals, Mr. Pepperman an nounced that no award would be made of the contract until the proposals had been examined by thn commission and its general counsel. In accordance with the specifications, the proposals wore made for tho furnishing of different olasses of labor at a price fixed by tho hour in Aniorlcnn gold. A summary of tho four proposals sub mitted follows: The Amorican-China Contracting company: Common laborers, 10 conts per hour; foremen and Interpreters, 20 cents an hour; physicians, 40 cents pur hour; cookB and barbers, 16 cents per hour. International Contracting company, Washington, D. C: l.aborora and cooks, 13 cents per hour; doctors, 30 conta per hour; assistant doctors, 30 cents per hour; interpreters, 2)4 times 13 contfl per hour; foremen, 1 times 13 cents per hour. Wah Me Lee Hang & Co., Baltimore: Laborers, clerks and' barbers, 12K cents per hour; loremon and interpre ters, 15 cents per hour; doctors, 25 cents per hour. Joel Julian Reuben, Washington, D. C: For the first 2,600 Chineso labor ers, 11 cents per hour; foremen, 40 cents per hour; doctors, 00 cents per hour; interpreters. 00 cents per hour; cooks and barbers, 30 cents per hour, For additional laborors abovo 2,500 per hour: First 1,000, 11 cents; second 1,000, 10K cents; third 1,000, 10?4' cents; fourth 1,000, 10 conta; fifth 1,000, 10)4 cents; sixth 1,000, 10?a cents; seventh 1,000, 10 conts; eighth 1,000, 10 cents; ninth 1,000, 0) cents; tenth, 1,000, 9)4 cents; eleventh 1,000, 0)4 cents; remalndor of 16.Q00 9 cents. Tho last pro porn I is assumed at tho department to provido that, if the com mission enters into a contract with Mr. Reuben and wans the full quota of 15,- 000 Chineso, ho will furnish them at the rate of 0 cents per hour for common laborers. TESTIMONY IS SHELVED. Interstate Commission Turns Down Pacific Coast Lumbermen. Chicago, Bept. 21. Various Eastern aud Western railroads, through their legal representatives, mado strenuous objection! today beforo tho Interstate Commerce commission to the presenta tion of testimony by tho Pacific Const Lumber Manufacturers association in its petition against 25 Western rail roads. The lumber manufacturers are asking to compel thu railroads to furn ish adjustable racks on flat cars foV the transportation of lumber. They claim that the roads furnish proper facilities for the ebihpping of other commodities, and is not doing likewise for the lum bermen, discriminating against them, After the attorneys on both sides of the lumber case had made exhaustive argu ments, the commissioners declared that the case would be indefinitely post poned, New Points Under Meat Law. Washington, Sept. 21. The decision of the acting attorney general has been asked by the secretary of agriculture regarding certain previsions of the new meat inspection law, particularly aa to whether or not foreign meat products, or food products in which mentis large ly a component part, will bo absolutely prohibited from entering tho United States and whether England, Germany and France will be forced to provide a system of governmental inspection and labeling which will be acceptable to this government. Opens More Oklahoma Land. Oyster Pay, Sept. 21. The president haa issued a proclamation opening the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indian lands in klahoma. Tfie Interior de partment will announce the date for the reception of sealed bid 1 under which the 50,5000 acres of land are to be dis poned of to homesteaders. ' DEAD IN THOUSANDS Many Chinese Were Drowned in Hongkong Typhoon, ALL COMMERCE IS PARALYZED Half the Harbor Craft Wrecked and Many Buildings Destroyed Camo Without Warning. Hongkong, Sept 20. The typhoon which swept this port, destroying a great number of vossols and causing much loss of life, was of a local naturo, It came suddenly and without warning. Tho observatory hnd predicted moderato winds. Half an hour after the gun signal had been fired the storm was at its holght. It lasted two hours. Most of the damage was wrought on the Kowloon peninsula. The losaos are estimated at several million dollars. Over 1,000 sampans and junks are missing from Hongkong alone. Wharves were swept away and houses collapsed. The military barracks are in ruins. The harbor is strewn with wreckage thrown upon tho shore. Hundreds of Chinese bratmon and their families were saved by tho bravery of the police and civilians, but several thousand of tho Chinese water-dwellers must havo perlshod, many within short distances of tho shore. Tlio'losses in lives and proporty among tho Chineso were ap palling. Today tho pollco stations in Hongkong nro surrounded by Ghinoso Identifying their dead. Tho families of tho Hongkong boatmen llvo night and day on the sampans, and thousands of those peopln aro now homeless. Tho Chinese tako tho disaster calmly and show no manifestation of griof. One launch that was capsized had 130 Chinese on board, Thoy wero all drowned, Sir Matthew Nathan, governor of Hongkong, and tho authorities, are doing all everything posslblo to render assistance. Reports of fresh disasters aro arriving every hour. Only a few Europeans aro missing! It Is now estimated that 6,000 Chi nese lost their lives. Reports aro daily Increasing the mortality. BEGIN THEIR TASK. Taft and Bacon Hear Storlos of Both Factions In Cuba. Havana, Sept. 20, The presidents of both tho Moderato and the Liberal parties this afternoon submitted to Sec retary of War Taft and Assistant Secre tary of State Bacon, representing Presi dent Roosevelt, their respective state ments of the facts leading up to the revolution and the conduct of belliger ents. Each of tho presidents tomorrow will present a written statement ol the forms ho is willing to agree to in the interest of peace. General Meuochal, representing the veterans, also related to Messrs. Taft and Bacon the effort tie had made in the lino of peace and the difllcultiei he had encounteiod and gave Ills opinion aa to what courses hold any promise of an amicable settle ment. Today's hearing began at the homo of Minister Morgan in the villago of Marianao, which is only three miles from the most advauced post of the in surgent force, that of Colonel Baldo- mero Acosta, which is encamped In the vicinity of Arroya Arenas. After the hearings Mr. Taft raid to the Associated Press that he had just begun his work and that it was evident the mission upon which he came would require more tlmo than he had antici pated before his arrival. He intimated that ten days would be required to complete tils errand, but be could not say whether or not it would be neces sary to visit insurgeut camps or other cities than Havana. A private telegraph wire Is being strung fiom Mr. Morgan's house to the cable office in order that Messrs. Taft and Bacon may be able to report direct to Mr. Roosevelt. Scotch Train Wrecked, London, Sept. 20. The crowded Scotch express train on the Great Northern Railway, leaving London Inst night, was wrecked outside of Grunt ham At midnight. The train should have stopped at Grantham, hut failed to do so. Soon after passing the sta tion the train left the rails and then jumped a bridge. The engine and sev eral coaches were dashed over the em bankment. There aro many passengers beneath the debris. Of ton extricated five have died. The number of lives lost is not known. Artillery General Killed Warsaw, Hept. 20. General Nlcolal eff, of the artillery, has been assassin ated. He was erroneously thought to be a merahr of the field court martial. General Nlcolaieff was walking on Weilka street this mmning, when he was surrounded by rive r vriuttonist and shot dead. The murderers escape J, BRIDGE COLLAPSES. Many Killed and injured In Oklahoma Train Wreck. Guthrie, Okla., Sept. 10. Eight peo ple are dead, 20 more or less injured, and aa many more are missing In the moat disaatroua wreck in tho recent his tory of the Rock Island, which occurred three miles from Dover, Okla,, yester day. Tho engine, tender baggago and mail cara, smoker and day coach of paeaen gor train No. 12, northbound, left tho high bridge that spans tho Cimarron river, and plunged into tho current flanked by treat horoua quicksands. Tho locomotivo disappeared from sight Almost immediately. The mail and baggage clerks escaped from their coaches and swam to the shore. The accidont was due to the defective condition of the bridge which was swerved out of line by the pressure of driftwood carried down by tho swollen stream. Tho train was an hour late and was running nt high speed to make up time. Tho engineer did not see the condition of the bridge until ho was within a fow yards, when it was too late to stop. He shouted to his fire man, throw on tho brakes and jumped. He landed on the very vorge of the river bank and escaped unhurt. The fireman was leas fortunate, sustaining severe injuries. When the engine struck the bridge the whole structure suddenly collapsed, precipating the engine and coaches into the water. The chair car and two heavy Pullmans were not pulled in, but remalnod on tho track. The most authentlo accounts place tho number of passengers in the smok er at between 26 and 30. With but few exceptions these havo not boon ac counted for. Tho only hopeful news la contained in messages received from rural districts. Men on blta of drift wood havo boon aeon going down stream nt various points, but attempts at res cuo havo in most Instances proved futile. NEW STORM ARISES, Santo Domingo Again Infected With Revolutionary Fever. Washington, Sept. 10. Just as the Cuban Insurrection appears to be on the point of harmonious adjustment, the United States government is con fronted with a new outbroak in Panto Domingo. Commander Boutherland, senior American naval officer In Do minican waters, reported to the Na.vy department by cable late this afternoon that an Insurrection Mfaboot to break out in Santo Domlngo'lrt any time. He eaya that tho governksent haa sent force of 400 men to Monte Ohristo. The situation is declared to be acute). Ho fears that an uprising may taker placo. He requests that the Dixie, which is now in Ouban, waters, be re turned at once to Santo Ddmlngo. When the advisability of withdraw ing the naval forcea from Dominican waters was dlecuBsod when the crisis came in thu Cuban rovolt, a suggestion was made that it might give encourage ment to tho Insurgents in that island. It was finally decided, however, that the Dominican government had matters well in hand and that no chance was to bo apprehended with tho present fleet of gunboats in those waters. FUNSTON TO LEAD. Will Be In Command of American Army In Case of Intervention, Washington, Sept, 10. General Frederick Funston, who ia now on his way to Washington under orders from the War department, will probably be assigned to command the army in Cu ba, if intervention should be found ne cessary. Whllo orders have not been issued for the movement ol troops to Cuba, the army waa never bettor pre pared for quick action, if It ia found necesaary to send them to Cuba, General Funston la probably aa well Informed regarding conditions in the Island aa any officer of the army. He made a good reputation in the Philip pines, and only a few months ago at tracted attention by the manner in which he handled tho difficult situa tion growing out of the employment of troops in San Francitco after the earth quake. Theifact that he la under or derH to come to Washington and to await further instructions indicates that ho ia wanted for important duty. Dynamite From the Sky. Brureela, Sept. 10, Sensational ru mors of a plot agalnat the Russian czar and his family are being circulated here. It ia stated that tho revolution aries, finding It impoBalhlu to approach the palace at Peterhnf by lauu or sea, have purchased balloons from an Amer ican inventor, the purpose being to as cend from the German frontier and drop down explosives on tho palace. It Is intended to destroy the infant czare vitch and Grand Duke Vladimir. It is eaid the authorities became aware of the plot and arrested the ringleaders. More Troops Ready for Service. Richmond, Ind,, Sept. 10. Com panies G and 0, of the Fourth United States infantry, on the way from Fort Benlamln Harrison, near Indianapolis, to Fort Wayne, Mich., were today or. derod to report to Fort Thomas, Ky., In anticipation of be ng sent to Cuba. !; r - ! 1 r; -auraaia Ait ivmmmej