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0APPEMGS OF TWO CONTINENTS
ft Resume of ths Lett Important but
Not Lest Interesting Eventt
of the Past Week.
Russia tbreatons armed Intervention
In PorBln.
Prohibltlonlsta nlm to mnko Wash
Ington, D. 0., dry.
Tho crown nrlndo of Japan 1b to visit
Coroa to investigate affairs thcro.
China hns takon a docldod atop to
ward parliamentary governmont.
Many Kaatorn Democrats aro uniting
on Governor Johnson, oi umo, lor proa
idont,
Thn Standard Oil innuirv at Now
Y ork Bhown Rookofollor'B incomo to be
')out $40,000,000 a year.
VfumtlfA nfc Zlnn Oltv luivo been nr
rested for torturing a woman to death
in order to drivo tho dovlla out oi nor
body.
Franco and Canada havo JiiHt algnod
n rinw rnmmnrnlid trofttv. Franco If)
jdven many moro favorablo terma than
boforo.
Eaatorn critics can't provent tho voy
svn of tlio battloBhln Hoot to tho Pacific.
na Roosovolt Jh dotorminod it shall
tnako tho trip.
Kmmn Goldman, who haa been ot-
tonding nn anarchist congress at Am
sterdam, may not bo adrnlttod when
ulio nttempta to return to (ho United
ifitftU'H.
Japan may annox Corca to end tho
rebellion.
Attornoy Dolmas may defond Thaw
3il ins scconu iruu.
Delegates to Tho Haguo aro unanl
mona for holding regular conferences.
England ia preparing to build a
fourth battleship of tho Dreadnought
-ClllHII.
Russia ia to apend 410,000,000 con
intruding new fortlflcationa at Vladl-
vottok.
Burhank, tho horticultural wliard,
linn nn apple treo on which 73 varieties
aro grown.
The Western Union claims to bo ablo
to hnndlo promptly all business cast of
Buffalo and north of Washington.
A wreck on tho Moxican Central rnlN
rnnd near tho northern boundary of
Mexico resulted in tho doath of 32 per
sona.
II. II. Rogora' breakdown la said to
be duo to immense losses on a new rail'
road ho wbb backing. Ho hua lost $60,
000,000. Tho Bruco Arctic expedition ia be
lieved to bo lost.
Free trade in Philippine tobacco and
tiugur la likely to paaa congress.
Tho Thaw trial will llkoly 1)0 post
ponod from October to December.
Alton II. Parker acoucoa Roosevelt of
-doatgnlng to overthrow the constitu
tion. Both Great Britain nnd tho United
States want W. LI. Adsott, who waa
nrreatod In Chofoo, China, 'for murder.
A man hna been arrested who was
try! nn to fleo the president in ordor to
ocuro his aid in collecting 110,000,000
from llockofollor.
YiBcount Aokl, Japanoso ambassador
at Waahington, may bo transferred to
Berlin and Baron Kanoko Is looked on
as tho now Waahington appointee.
A Russian girl at 8t. Petersburg
mado horRolf a living bomb by dressing
In guncotton. Bho intended to blow
up a polico station but was dotoctod.
Thomna R. Potter, treasuror of tho
Masonic grand lodgo of Ponnsylvanlu,
has died leaving $2,000,000 to cducato
iiiil support malo orphuns of Pennsyl
vania Maeona.
Tho dond in tho Cannnn, N. H., train
wreck number 20.
Engineers and dromon on tho Mis
souri Pacific railroad may strike.
Tho postmaster gcnoral will urge con
gross to eslublish postal snvlrsgH banks
Worry ovor tho outcome of his trial
1h causing Tlroy L. Ford much oai of
uloop.
II. II. Rogers, vIcq president of thn
Standard Oil company, haa Buffered a
atroko of paralysis,
Unconfirmed roports say tho Associ
ated Pros8 ia about to grant tho de
mands of Its Btriklng tolograph opera
tors. A ftassnngorr on tho Southorn Pacific
waB put tiff near Los Angeles bocauso
ho would not pay his faro. Ho shot at
tho conductor and was klllod by tho
train crow.
Evidence gathorod at tho court mar
tial of Gonoral Btoossol shows that ho
could have hold Port Arthur at least
nnotlior wook,
Tho railroads affcotod by tho boilor-
tiinkora' strlkn urn trnttlnt? now men aa
lascas tnoy can. Over l.ui'U men
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nnmoil UIIU KI1U 11IU ITIIIWH UUIUINID
Secretory Straus ' Is formulatinsr a
pian ior an industrial peace ooramis-Ion.
MORE JAPANESE OOMINQ.
vierpber of Parliament Says Britain
Should Be Careful.
Vancouver, B. 0., Sopt. 17. Soven
thousand flvo hundred dollars ia unofll-
jlally fltated to bo tho amount of dam
lgos which, will bo paid by tho Dornin
Ion government for Japanoso windows
amanhod. Tho bill will bo dispatched
tomorrow to Ottawa and Is to bo paid
Immediately.
In tho mean timo Mayor Bothuno is
today still trying to socuro irovornmont
cooporation to provldo for tho Buffering
Hindus. Tho condition is rondorod ex
cecdinglyjjad by tho cold rain of the
last day ana a half. Many are In tonts.
and when they get a chanco to lie down
It is in pools of wator with wind and
rain blowing into tlioir faces. The
greatest crowd la at tho Maplo Loaf
boarding houso, an old shack near tho
waterfront, Horo 250 aro Quartered.
Temporary bunka wore put up last
night and the Hindus, surrounded by
turriblo conditions, lie in tho successive
tiers of tlioir stuffy quarters. Cook
Ing, sleeping, eating and bathing go on
in ono room and men aro crowded so
oloaely that only by careful manipula
tlon ia tho apaco largo enough for all to
stay indoors. Tho stench is frightful
and tho clvio authorities foar epidemic.
Tho steamers Woollch and Indiana
aro now overdue with moro than 1,000
Japanoso, tho formor from Yokomhama
and tho Indiana making her second trip
from Honolulu. Tho mayor beliovcs
thoro will bo no furthor troublo whon
tiioy arrive R. G. MacPhorson,
member of parliament for Vancouvor,
declares that Great Britain should bo
waro of another Boston tea incident, if
tho flood of Japanese immigration is
allowed to continue.
ROOT OF EVIL NOT REACHED
Physicians Opposed to Compulsory
Pasteurization of Milk,
Brussels, Sot. 17. Dr. Henry I. Colt,
of Newark, N. J., resident of tho Amor
loan association of medical milk com
mission, la strongly opposed, in an ad
dress today at tho International Milk
congress, tojtlio compulsory pasteuriza
tion or milk as u means of eiiectiveiy
Improving tho supply of milk. Dr.
Colt said that to employ pasteurization
as anything moro than a temporary ox
podiont would bo undesirable, because
it would removo tho incentivo to tho
public to compel tho producer to ac
complish an improvement. Pasteur
ized milk in bulk is not only intrin
slcally lcrs deairablo than cloan raw
milk, declared Dr. Colt, but is uctually
unsafe unless it is conaumod within 24
hours and is kept at or belcw 10 do-
grcss centigrade 50 degrees Jtahren
holt. Dr. Colt aliio paid:
"To resort to thn compulsory pas
teurization of tho milk supply in largo
citlea na a protection against tuberculo
sis instoad of taking moro radical meas
ures for its eradication from milk
herds, would bo protecting only thoso
who livo in tho cities and would ex
poeo all who livo in the rural districts
Tho only real safeguard lies in tho
completo eradication of bovine tubercu
lide iu."
DISPATCHER BUNGLES ORDERS.
Trains Collide In New Hampshire and
24 Are Killed. .
Whito Rivor Junction, Vt., Sopt. 17.
A fearful head-on collision between
tho south bound Quebec express and
a north bound freight train on tho Con
cord division of tho Boston & Maino
railroad occurred four miles north of
Canaan station Sunday, due to n mis
(ako in train dispatcher's orders, and
from a demolished nasseneor coach
there voro takon out 24 dead und dying
and 27 other passongora, most of thorn
seriously wounded.
Nearly all those who were in the
doath car woro returning from a fair at
Shcrbrooko, Quobcc, 00 miles north.
Tho conductor of tho frnight train
waa given to understand that ho had
plenty of tlmu to reach u. siding by tho
night operator at Cnnmm htutiui, re
ceiving, according to tho ttiperliitond-
out of tho division, a copy of a tele
graph order from tho train dispatcher
at Concord, which confused tho train
numbers 30 and 34.
No Thought of Resigning.
Boston, Sept. 17. "You may fctuto
positively (hat in' resignation is not in
tho hunch of tho president, und therv
4 ho likelihood of its being offered.
calil United Stales Attorney General
llonapiutu today prppurab ry to bin tilii
to Chicago to take up tho ciku of tho
government against tho Chicago it Al
ton railway. Aecoidiug to a dinpatoh
in (ho morning p iper. Iiu had ie-ln'iied
on account of tho (.'ranting ot immunity
lo tho Chicago & Alton by .Mr. Morn-
hod, who began thu suit against tho
Standard Oil.
Bookkeeper Is Arrested,
Goldflold, Nov., Sopt. 17. Herbert
Rlggs, bookkeeper for Broker Paul ew
man, who was found unconscious in
Newman's olllco lato I-riday night and
$1,160 mlBalng from tho open eafo, 1ms
boon takon into custody. Whllo thoro
in no direct ovldonco connecting him
with tho robbory, his conflicting Btato
inonts regarding tho affair havo led the
polico too sue pec t that ho knows moro
than ho has told, and ho will bo hold
until tho mystery haa boon cleared up,
Earnings Show Increase.
Donvor, Sopt. 17. Tlio twonty-first
annual report of tho Donvor & Rio
Grundo Railroad company, Issued yes
torday by President K T. Joffroy,
shows that tho lpcomo of tho company
for tho fiscal year ending June 30, 1007,
was $21,025,420, an inorcaso of $1,764, -181,
as compared with tho provioua
year, and the nut earnings wero $3,150,
820, an inoreasj of $574,080,
NEWS FROM THE
GARFIELD LEARNS TRUTH.
Bona Fide Settlers Crowdod Out of
Irrigation Tracts.
Washington, Sept. 20. Speculators
aro overrunning govornmont irrigation
projects, crowding out bona fldo Bottlers
and aro undertaking to hold land until
after wator ia turned on, when thoy
propoeo to soil at a good profit. This
iact was uiscovorou uy Hecrotary oar
field and Director Nowoll on thoir to
cont tour though tho West, and in
sorno localities it was found that a ma
jority of thrf entries had boon mado by
porsons who intend to sell out, and
who havo no idea of muking pernio
nent homos on the land.
How to olimlnato speculators is a
prooiom on which tho department is
now working. Tho most feasiblo nlau
at hand appears to bo tho requirement
mat an settlers on land under govern'
mont projocts bo compelled to Day ono
tenth of tho cost of their water right at
tho umo thoy moko filing in the local
land office. Usually thn first payment
is not uemanuod until ono year after
water is dollvorod on tho Jand.
At Huntley, Montana, advance pay
ments woro required and in conso
quonco that is tho only prnject in the
West that is froo from speculators. Mr.
Garfiold la expected soon to take eome
action looking to chocking speculatoa.
GO FROM PHILIPPINES.
Orders 8end Infantry and Cavalry to
Other Ports.
Washington, Sopt. 18. According to
orders issued today by Acting Secretary
of War Oliver, the following military
disposition will bo mado within the
next four months: Tho Fourth, Four
teenth and Twonty-third infrantry regi
ments and the First cavalry will.roturn
from the Philippines and thoir "places
will bo fillod by the Second, Eighth and
Twenty-fourth infantry and tho Third
cavalry. Another paragraph of tho
ordor rolioves tho Twenty-second from
duty at Fort McDowolI, and Presidio at
Monterey, Cal., whence thoy aro order
ed to Alaska, taking station at Fort
William, Fort Egbert, Fort Gibbon,
Fort St. Michaol, and Fort Davis.
Thoy will roliove at thoso places tho
Tenth Infantry, which ia ordered to
toko station at Fort Benjamin Harri
son, probably constituting tho nucleus
of tho now brigade post at that point.
JUio Nineteenth infantry battalion at
Fort Reno, Oklahoma, is ordered to
Fort MoKonzIo, Wyo., March 1, to re
llovo at that point tho battalion of tho
Fourth infuntry, which is ordeed to tho
Philippines.
Defense Is Foolish.
Washington, Sept. 21 Captain Wil
liam Judson, of tho engineer corps of
tho United States army, has issued an
extraordinary government document,
which threatens to stir up a hornets'
nest In an official roport ho criticises
naval ofllcors and members of the di
plomatic corps and remarks on tho
"foolishness" of sending battleships to
tho Pacific coast, which do not acxeo
with tho president's sentiments in this
regard.
JudEon is ono of the officors eont to
Manchurria to roport on the operations
of the Russian and Japanese armies.
Ho takes a fling at tho military at
taches, declaring they should not bo
allowed to accompany armies in the
fluid, and tells of tho weakness and
embarrassments growing out of tho
Philippines, tho Panama canal and tho
Monroe, doctrine.
Small Hope of Promotion.
Waslrngtcn, Sept. 10. Colonel Me-
dorein Cniwfoid, of the artillery corp,
United States army, now in command at
Fort Wudsworth. will rctiio from act
ive MTvleo in January next. Colonel
Ciuvtford, an Oretiotiiau by biith, ap
pealed to Senato r Boiirnohouio t uio ago
in tho hopo of securing promotion to
thu gnulo cf htigndier general lieforo re
tirement. Tho senator took tho two
up with President ltoosovclt and urged
Colonel Crawford 'b promotion in Octo
ber, when a vacancy occurH In tho umdo
of brigadier general, bill tho president.
after duo consideration, hold t lint an-'
other office t was more entitled to this
recognition.
' Fre.'xa Out Shvstors.
Washington. Sent. 10. Land Com-
mih.siniir llalliner lodav issued an or
dor requiring registers nnd rcelvers of .
local lumi oincoa to preparo applications
to make entries and filings on public
land whonovor bo requested by pros
neotivo entrvmcn. Blank forms will ba
w - -
supplied for thu purpose and service bo
rendered without chargo to outrymen.
This ordor ia mado to shut out shyster
lawvors. who havo boon oharcintr from
$1 to $5 to mako out applications for
gontrymen. amen or uioir woric nas
boon inncourato.
Yellow Fever In Cuba.
Washington, Sopt. 18. In a dispatch
from Havana, Governor Magoon Enys
that four now cases of yollow fever woro
discovorod in Cionfugoos yesterday und
throe today. All aro Spaniards excopt
ono American soldier, Prlvato William
Foster, of tho Fifteenth cavalry. Dis
covery of thoso cases 1b attributed to tho
naroasod efficiency of tho medical pa
trol. Thoro is also ono caso at Ala-
cranes and ono at Nuea Paz, both Span-
arda.
Order Restored in Honduras
WaBhington, Sopt. 21. Mlnistor Ur-
garto, of Honduras, has informed tho
department of Btato that on September
15 tho constitutional reglmo waa ro-
esabliahed in the ropubllo of Hon
duras,
NATIONAL CAPITAL
WIPE OUT 8TOCK DI8EA8E.
Forest 8ervlce Will Furnish Vaccine
Free to Stockmen.
Washington, Sept. 17. Further ovl
donco of the government's concern over
tho improvement of range conditions in
tho national forests is shown in tho an
nouncement Just mado that stock own
ors will bo furnished freo of charge sup
plies of vaccino for thoUrcatment of
stock afliioted with blackleg, tubercu
losis and other animal diseases. This
arrangement has been made by the
Forest service with Dr. A. D. Melvin,
chiof of tho bureau of animal industry.
Stockmen holding permits for graz
ing in tho national forests will now bo
furnished with an effective means of
combating without coat all of the most
dangerous diseases to which stock is
aubjoct. Tho vaccine can bo obtained
aimply by applying to the supervisor of
tho forest upon which tho stock is
grazed, who will at onco forward tho
approved roquest to the bureau of ani
mal industry, whoro it will bo filled.
Full directions will bo furnished for
its UBO.
Tho Forest service and tbo. bureau
of animal industry are working hard in
an ondeavor to eradicate cr diminish
tho common forma of stock disease
found in Western ranges, and their
efforts aro meoting with much success.
It ia anticipated that a large number of
stockmen will avail themselves of this
latest offer of assistance, and, as a re-
suit, the loss of stock will be greatly
reduced and range conditions improved.
8CHOOL FOR NEW CON8ULS
State Department Drills Them Before
Sending Them Abroad.
"Washington. Sept. 21. No moro
green consuls are to bo sent abroad to
represent America, if the plana of the
State department which have just been
put in practice realize expectations.
bver Bince tho establishment of the
consular service it has been customary
to allow a newly appointed consul 30
days with pay buforo leaving for his
post. A room In tho department bos
been equipped as a complete working
American consulate, suitable to tran
sact tho business of an American con
sul in any part of tbo world, civilized
or uncivilized.
Appointees are no longer permitted
to Bpend that 30 days' period in their
own way, but are required to report
every day at the State department for
duty and to spend a certain number of
hours in this model consular office, re
ceiving instructions and acquainting
themselves with every practical detail
of a consul's daily work. The beat of
instruction is provided.
Orders to Army Officers.
Waahington, Sept. 18. Second Lieu
tenant George U. Rockwell, Tenth
infantry, will proceed to Vancouver
barracks and report to the command
ing general, Department of the Colum
bia, for temporary duty at Vancouver
barracks. Contract Surgeon Robert C.
Wooley i8 relieved from duty at Fort
Gibbon, Alaska, and will proceed to
Fort Davis, Alaska, for duty, relieving
Contract Surgeon Albin McD. Coffey,
who, upon being relieved, will proceed'
to Vancouver barracks and will report
by telegraph to tho adjutant general of
the army for furthor orders.
Martyr to Yellow Fever.
Washington, Sopt. 19. Major James
Carroll,'' surgeon TJ. S. A., who was a
momber of tho commission which was
sent to Cuba .to study yellow fever just
after the close of tho Spanish war, died
at his homo heio late yestorday. It
was his commission that fixed definite
ly on tho mosquito as the medium of
truiiHinit-Hion of infection. Dr. Carroll
altou'ul himself to bo bitten by a mos
quito that had been infected from the
threo distinct yollow fever caBee. Ho
developed tho disease within four days
after being bitten.
Op rators' Appeal to Labor.
Waliiuuton, Sept 19. The promised
appeal of President Small, of the Tele
graphers' union, and President Gom
porn, of tho American Federation of La
bor, to organized labor throughout the
country for tlnancinl assistance to strik
ing telegraphers, was Issued teday from
the federation headquarters.' The di
rect appeal is signed by Mr. Small.
Mr. Gompora gives a general indorse
ment of tho purpose of tho appeal to
friends of labor.
Retired Admirals Will Not Command.
Washington, Sept. 10. Secretary
Metcalf states that no officor on tbo re
tired list would bo assigned to tho com
mand of the Atlantic battloshlp fleet on
its voyage to tho Pacific. Ho made the
declaration whon his attention was
called to published leoorts indicating
tho possibility of tho assignment of
Roar Admiral McCalla or Rear Admiral
Browneon to tho place of Rear Admiral
Evans. Both McCalla and Brownson
uro on tho rotired list.
Agree to Peace Conference.
Washington, Sopt. 10. A protocol
was signed at tho state department to
day by tho diplomatic representatives
of tho flvo Central American ropublics,
accepting tho invitation of (ho United
States and Mexico to meet horo at aa
onrly dato to negotiate an agreemont,
providing for permanont peace between
tho countries represented.
Beals Wants Messenger Boy.
Washington, D. 0., Sept. 17. An
examination will bo hold at Portland,
October 12, to fill tho position of mos
son go r boy of tho woather bureau at
Portland, salary $300 per annum. Boys
from 14 to 20 years are eligible.
, YEARN FOR STATEHOOD.
Governor of New Mexico Urged to
Call Convention.
Santa Fe, N. M., Sept. 10. Delo
gate Andrews, national commltteman,
Lunar II. O. Bursum, chairman of tho
Republican central committee, ex-Unil
cd States Attorney1 Childors, Judge A.
L. Morrison, General John P. Victoria,
a Domocrat, Postmaster Walters and
other citizens today called upon Gov
ornor Curry to urgo him to call a con
stitutional convention within two
months so that a constitution may be
drafted, submitted and adopted by tho
people boforo congress meets after the
holidays, with a plea for admission to
statehood. It is proposed to call to
gether the dolegates elected to draaft
the constitution under tho joint state
hood plan a year ago, moat of whom
have expressed willingness to servo
without compensation.
Governor Curry declared himself In
hearty accord with this plan and prom
ised to take action after his return
from a consultation with President
Roosevelt.
Within the past fow days nearly
every newspaper in New Mexico has
come out in favor of holding a constitu
tional convention this fail and senti
ment for statehood is practically unani
mous. CITY BURNED LIKE TINDER.
Particulars of Hakodate Fire 8how
Destruction Was Great.
Victoria, B. C, 8ept. 16. The
steamer Shawmutt, which arrived last
night from Manila via Japan and China
with a cargo of hemp, tea, silk and
general freight and 40 saloon passon
gora, including many naval, military
and civie officers from the Philippines,
brought further news of the great fire
at Hakodate.
It Beems the big conflagration origin
ated in a soap factory near the Higa
ahigawa school and spread with great
rapidity, sweeping away hundreds of
bamboo houses. During the fire a pow
der magazine at Kisliomachie exploded,
involving much loss ot life. In all
300 lives were lost during the confla
gration and 13,000 homes burned, a
strong wind fanning the fire, which
spread with great rapidity.
All the foreign consulates, adminis
trative offices, banks, company offices,
schools, theaters, etc., were burned
with tho exception of the American
consulate, courthouse, railway station
and tbo customs house.
One steamer, tho Nanaye Ma.cn, was
burned and sank in the harbor.
CEMENT, SI A BARREL.
New Factory in Montana May Become
Boon to Northwest.
Helena, Mont, Sept. 16. Work has
begun on the construction of a $600,000
cement plant at Three Forks, a town
'east of Helena, at the junction of the
Gallatin, Madison and Jefferson rivers,
on both the Northern Pacific and St.
Panl railways. As a result of cheap
basic materials, the company proposes
marketing the product at $1 a barrel,
aa againet $4 at present.
The plaint will have an ultimate ca
pacity of 1 ,000 barrels a day, and will
be tho largest of its kind in this sec
tion of the Northwest. The company
has a fully subscribed capital of $2,
400,000, and is said to have five miles
of limestone and silica lands.
James and Hyrum Pingree, of the
Pingree National bank, of Ogden, Utah,
are at the head of the enterprise, while
C. Boettcher, of the Billings sugar fac
tory, F. T. McBride, a Butte lawyer,
and Joseph Scowcroft, of Utah, are tho
main factors.
Strike Hampers Traffic.
St Paul, Sopt. 16. A general strike
of boiiermakera on the Chicago & Great
Western, Great Northern, Omaha,
Northern Pacific and Soo railroads was
called Saturday. The boilermakers aro
aided in their fight by their helpers
and in the case of tho Great Western
tho machinists in tho big shops at Oel
weln went out in sympathy. The
strike of boilermakers followed a re
fusal of the railroads to accede to a
demand for 45 cents an hour east of
tho Missouri rivor and 47 cents west
of that river.
Drude Threatens Vengeance.
Paris, Sept. 16. Sultan Mulai el
llafig, it is reported, has announced
that he will pay tho cost of the French
expedition to Morocco, on condition
that tho French evacuate the country.
Only two columns of tribesmen aro now
reported to be under arms in tho Casa
Blanca district. The latest advices re
ceived from General Drude said that,
if the delegates from the tribes suing
for peace did not appoar at noon today,
ho would destroy the Moorish camp.
Boycott Dishonest Roads.
Now York, Sopt. 10. By tho use o!
a rigid boycott on unscrupulous lines
and by tho elimination of insidious
proforences to favored shippers, tho
latter declared to be worse than opon
rebates, the railway magnates of tho
aet propoeo to make a Btronueus effort
to reduce tho impending fall car short
ago, which admittedly is threatening
tho industries of the entiro country.
Oppose All Expositions.
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 10 Senator
E. J, Burkett, who leaves this evening
for Washington, today declared that
he would fight tho Alaska-Yukon ox
position appropriation in congress. Ho
doolnrod that tho exposition at James
town had been, a lamentable failure and
ho would 0,00030 all such projects in
the future.
SCORES 0. R. & N. CO.
Car Shortage Is Caused by Lack
oi Rolling Stock.
ALL HARRIMAN LINES ARE SHORT
Interstate Commerce Commlsioner
Thinks Shippers Have Cause for
Complaint Against Roads.
Portland, Sept. 17. That the Ore
gon Railroad & Navigation company is
not adequately equipped to handle tho
traffic entrusted to it, and that it is tho
worst offender in this respect in the en
tire torrltory of tbo Northwestern lines,
is tho verdict of Interstate Commerce
Commissioner Franklin K. Lane, whose
Investigations in Portland yesterday in
cluded a look into tho car shortage. Ho
found the outlook very gloomy in thia
state. Ho talked with lumbermen and
other shippers during the day, and ex
pressed himself freely on this subject
last night.
Tiie car situation is very serious,"
said he. "Shippers have a legitimate
cauee for complaint at their inability
to get equipment. The railroad men
themselves admit they are unable to
handle tbo traffic offered. The O. R.
& N. seems to bo the worat road in this
territory as far as car supply goes.
"There is some complaint of discrim
ination in the matter of cars. It is
charged that the eastern end of the sys
tem is favored as against this end.
There is no way to remedy this, except
for the roads to get a larger number of
cars. Of course the question is still
unsolved whether the O. R. & N. is
using all its equipment to the beet ad
vantage, but there is no doubt that for
an originating road, it has too little
equipment.
"The Northern Pacific last year put
into service four times as many new
cars as the O. R. & N. owns today.
The O. R. & N. had on its line in June
of this year about 5,421 cars, of which
4,900 were borrowed and 500 its own.
The Oregon Short Line owns 7,000 cars
and had in June approximately that
number on its tracks. The O. R. & N.
has 500 cars ordered, and the Oregon
Short Line 600.
"The managers have on the Southern
Pacific system a car pool, by which cars
owned by any of tho Harriman lines
are treated as at home, no matter on
which of the allied lines they are, but
there is a strong rivalry between all
parta of the system to make a showing,
so that the O. R. & N., which is tho
worst off for cars of any road in thia
territory, has a difficult time of its
own, owing to its short equipment, in
keeping within seeing distance of ita
business."
DOORS THROWN OPEN.
Canada Will Not Restrict Japanese
Immigration.
Vancouver, B. C, Sept. 17. Thirty-
eight thousand Japanese have been
given permission by the government to
come immediately to British Columbia.
They will cross the Pacific as rapidly
as steamers can be secured to bring
them. The news that Vancouver will
see an immigration hitherto unprece
dented waa received today by the
steamer Woolwich, which brought 230
of the brown men. Tho steamer In
diana is overdue now from Honolulu
with 300. Best informed circles de
clare that the Dominion government
will do nothing at all to prevent tho
further Influx of Japanese despite the
protest of Vancouver.
The demand for labor is bo great in
the interior of British Columbia and
on the prairies of the Northwest that
aa many Japs'as wish to come will be
allowed. On the other hand, official
statements come from Ottawa that
Premier Laurier and Delegate Ishii will
confor tomorrow and arrang a nominal
limit Nobody in Vancouver believes
that even if this is declared it will be
adhered to.
There was no demonstration today
on tho nrrival of tho Japanese on tho
steamer Woolwich.
Moors Have Had Enough.
Casa Blanca, Sept. 17. Willi tho
submission of all tho tribes, wliuh now
seems practically assured, it would up.
pear today that tho nilssoii whvh took
General Drude into Morocco haa b en
fully accomplished. Persons acquainted
with the country declare that the move
ment of tho tribesmen is ovor. They
are essentially agriculturists and they
are in a hurry to return to thoir fields
for thoir first rains. It is understood
that when absolute calm le re-established
hero tho troops will be distrib
uted to eight seaports.
Reduce Rates One-Third.
Topeka, Kan., Sept. 17. The state
board of railroad commissioners has
nwAnaMA.l n In ! Ft oIiaaI nun.. .1 1 .. ..
duotlon in freight rates ot about 33
livi vein, wuiuu ii win preeuiu iu uiu
lnr.l.lnlii.n If n annlnl 1
icmmtuio ii u Bjjcumi BCBaiuu 10 UilllUU.
Governor Hoch has practically said ho
will call a special session if tho roads
do not grunt tho two-cent faro rate.
wi.: i is i
iiuo pma uiu iiuuaiiuu oquuruiy up to
the railroads of either granting tho
two-cent fare or of facing a fight.
Russians Emigrate to Siberia,
St. Petersburg, Sept. 17. A tele
gram received here from Riazan eaya
that 51,000 emigrants have passed
through thero ainco the beginning ot
the year, bound for Siberia.
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