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PEACE TREATY
Washington Selected for
the Conference:
ASTORIA, OREGON. FRIDAY, JUNK 16, 1905.
ANNOUNCEMENT MADE
Foreign Powers Impress Upon
QJapan Necessity ol modera
tion in Demands.
MAY GO TO SUMMER RESORT
1mu and Russia Preparlnj to Select
Their RepresnUUs to Co to Wash.
intton tad it U Expected that tht Ap-
pointatntt Will bt Mtdt this Week.
Washington, Jm 18.-H officially
4nnoim.td that the Huo Japan- I''"'
wnfi-anou will I held iu Washington.
The announcement in U' 'l,ru'
of aa official Utrltlfnt iiiel tjr See
twtary Lob, by dirctiun of the prel-
-dent. The etalement follow:
"When tht two (vromiu -
bin to upon ithr Clwf.w or
VrU, the president suggested Hw 1LK'
but both vernment hvt now r'uei-
d tint Washington be chosen the
IiW of meeting, and the president ha
accordingly formally notified bom gov
rnracnti that WsiuBgton will be se
lotted;"
It U ugirctd at the White Houe,
informally, that after meeting and or
ganlising the plenipotentiaries of the two
government, if It should le found to
be uncomfortably hot in Washington
rniuht adjourn the meeting to aorne aum
mer resort in the North, where they may
continue their sitting until such time
a the weather in Washington ahall be
more eomfoi table.
Pressure la being brought to bear up
on Japan to Induce her to fix the aum
he will demand a an Indemnity for the
pending war at a low a figure in cash
a possible under the circumstance
This pressure l being exerted princl
pally by Kureopean governmenta. Tree
ideiit Rooaevelt it la Intimated In an tm
portant quarter, also baa advised the
Japanese government that modification
In her demand for i esh Indemnity not
only would facilitate the negotiation ot
peace terma which would lie regarded by
the power with particular favor
The payment by Russia of any audi
aah Indemnity aa 1 ,00O,00O,0(K) not only
would embiraaa acrioualy the St. Peters
l.nr.r nnvrnitllllt. bllt IirollublV WOllld
disturb the finanue of the entire western
world. Indeed it haa la'cn suggested that
audi a payment, to. all intents and pur-
poNpa, might render RukhIk a practical
bankrupt. The opinion and view of
the United Statea and other power on
thia aubjet, hav bn prmittd to racb
the principal adviser of the Japanese
mpcror.
The time of the conference, while not
o Important, I of concern, especially to
diploamtiats. A midsummer conference
anywhere la not regarded with entirely
pleaaurably anticipation. It ia pointed
out. however, that the proposed con
ference la acarcely likely to be convened
before the middle of August and perhapa
not until a later date. It may be July
1. possibly a little later, before the ar
Tengementa for the meeting of the plenl
notentariea finally are completed.
Both Russia and Japan aro moving
with the utmost deliberation,, for the
game of diplomacy now being played I
oven of greater Importance to eacn gov
rnment that are the movement of the
armies on the baltlflld.
ttonal announcement made shortly be
(me nil. Illicit that tlm Grand Duke
Alxk high ailmiral, who ia an uncle of
emperor, and Avcllae, head of the
Ituiiaa admiralty department, had re
signed, Tbli announcement waa confirm-
en a few minute later by Imperial re
script relieving the grand duke of the
supreme direction of the navy, which he
had held aine the day of the emperor
father. Alexander HI, when Russia re-
aolved to enter the liU a a flnt-da.i
aeapower and build up a great navy
the remain of which were deatroyed In
the era of Japan. Although from time
to tlm lnr tha war began there baa
been rumor that the grand duke would
retire on account of aavage criticism,
not to uae harder terma, directed agalnat
the navy administration and apecially
in the construction of hi. the announc
ment of hi relgnation came like a thun
iler Udt from the blue aky. and had not
Wn preceeiled by any rumor which ua-
uallv tlve earning of audi an act. tn-
Muetilly It la aumed that aome aud
den event precipitated it and ugly torle
lmiiielitely came to the nurto.
The word of tlie rewript give no lnni
of initial anger and r'al explanation
u ill not be known for aeveral (laya. uui
Ihe inatant dkpoaltion wa regarded, in
the retirement of Alexl and Avella a.
the concrnau of publiu opinion, follow
ing the tragedy In the Sea of Japan,
t barge of niUmnnagcweiit and tale of
corruption and even wore againat the
niariuo department ha been rue ior
... .1 - M III
year. Alter ine r
,-rewaed let fold and laUly regular
campaign againat the department . ha
been oity wnducted iy ue
pxr.
MILWAUKEE
Bed of Corruption Stirred
Up.
ftlthin the next decade Chim-ae charac
ter whidi are now uaed in Japan, will
be replwed by the lea complicated Ito-
man letter.
"Roman charactera," continued M
Toyama, "are being ued by the aociety
in all of It eorreepondence.''
The (oviety include in it memberahlp
many government official and notable
of the Japaneee empire.
ON CITY CONTRACTS
District Attorney Making invest!
gation'Jnto Many Graft jj
Scandals.
, COLLEGE FOOTBALL.
WILL PROBE TO THE BOTTOM
Stanford Uniwaity Will Play Unlrer-
ity of Waahinftoa.
Stanford Univeraity, Cal June 15.
Athletic Manager R. W. Barrett announc
ed today that he had about completed
arrangement for an inter-collegiate
football game with the Univeraity of
! Wellington. The contest will take place
at Stanford late in October or early in
November and Washington will alao
play a game with the University of Cal
Ifornia within a few daya from the Stan
ford game .
Friend of Frank C. Biglow Have Detert
ed Him Sine Hi Conviction and it is
Rumored that H Will Give Evidoct
of a Startling Mature.
LAND FRAUD THIAL
Case Against Senator Mitchell
Commences Next Week.
A MOST IMPORTANT CASE
Not Thought that tht Cate Will Last
Longer than Four Day Witneawi
aro Beln Subpoened and Trial Prom-
laea to bt Biterly Conteited.
RUSSIAN SCANDAL.
Iel6natioa of Dukt Alexii Cauiei Stor
ies of Corruption.
.St. fttcrJmrg, Juue 13.-TUe ena-
Portland, June 15. With the ground
cleared for action In the land fraud trial
the effect of the'apeedy dUpoaal of the
demurrer to the Indictment pleaded b
the coueel for Senator Mitchell, the big
guna in the battle will boom next week,
and, a announced In court, the trial ot
the moat prominent defendanta, Sena'
tor Mitchell and Congressman Herman
....I Vil1i,imann. will come first. All
object lona that could be urged, now that
the date for triul haa been act, have
Ihtii swept away and the battle will be
on curly next week.
Subpoena for witnesses are Wing
made ready, and apparently no alone
will be left unturned by the proseeu
i..n tn ucure convictions on the In
.. . . t VI I 11.. WAM.l i.irv
dictmenis urougm oy ie n'",m J"v
in. stubbornly will the case be
fought from the other aide, and. with
two remarkably able lawer to tight tot
him. Senator MiU'hcll will be able to
give tht agent for the government a
muwl flirht.
O " ol
The trial of Senator Miteiieii, ine nrsi
on the docket, will not, in all probabil
ity last long, but it will be spirited ana
i .,..!. i it u hoiieved tnat me
aubtnittinc of teatimony by the prose-
cution need not last more than three or
fimr davs. ao that the case may go to
the iurv the last of next week. Poasibly
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the defense will spring some eurpriae,
u .n.l tnnv nrolonir the argu
mint mora than i now anticipated.
Anvuav. Senator Mitchell' fate in re
gard to the Krib indictment-and this
is one of tlw strongest case me govern
ment haa made against the distinguish-
.i ,i..r-n,l.int.. tha others lHmg similar
rit a ' 1 11
i.. n.ir charEea-will be decided in all
probability before Pre9e,,t n,ontl1
cuds.
Milwaukee, June 13. Milwaukee'
graft acamul, exposed by DUtrict At
torney Mc (Sovern' investigation int
the petty teal in conniN-tion with conn
ty contract, will probably result in the
impeachment of Otto J. Siedel, Jr., the
recorder of deed, and the indictment of
a down members of the board of super
visor.
A number of prominent tnic m'o
interested in the county contract 'Way
be Involved before the grand jury, Aet
convened last Tuesday, "complete its
work. While the present investigation
being carried on by the district attor
ney ha already stirred the people and
the politkdana, the men concerned in it
are practically only email fry. It
generally predicted that the state' at
torney will lotdc after tht bigger game
nd that the grand jury will seek to get
at the bottom of the alleged $100,000
boodle transaction in connection with
the granting of the street car franchises
to the Milwaukee Railway and Klectrir
Light Company. In this deal one city
official is said to have received a lump
aum of tOO.OOO.
The conviction and sentence to the
penitentiary of Frank O. Bigelow will
it ia aaid, change the entire atatua of
affair. Bigelow I reported to have been
financially interested in the treet car
franchise. Th men who formerly back
ed Bigelow have now deserted him, and
it i said that he may resent their action
by revealing aome of the secrets which
former grand juries have not been able
to learn.
Brootherhood of Foundry Employe Ex
tending the Strike.
New York, June 15. A strike inaug
urated by the International Brother
hood of Foundry Employee against the
New York 4 New Jersey Foundrymens'
Association, baa extended rapidly. There
are 2,000 men out here and in the New
I Jersey plant. Today 2,000 bras work-
era will quit and 1,000 more including
the coremakers, will be out by the end
of the week. It ia said the foundry in
Xe wJeraey will be closed by the strik
ers.
TEXAS WOOL CROP.
NEW YORK RIOT
Three Men Shot in
Street Riot
la designed to be the finest custom
house in the world, both aa a structure
and aa an office for the transaction of
custom officer. It I 100 feet high.
with a frontage of 191 feet on Bowling-
Green and 278 feet on State and White
hall street. The architectural tyle U
that of the renaissance.
BOY STARTED TROUBLE
The Scene of the Riot Occured
in Harlem's Little Italy
Colony.
MOBBED BY THE CROWD
STRIKE INCREASING.
Sateen-Year-Old Boy Loads tip Two Re
volver and Shoots Into a Crowd and
When his Ammunition Gart Out Ht
Was Attacked by Mob and Killed.
HEIR TO MILLIONS
New York Woman Claims Urge
Tract in the Heart of Quebec
THE PIAINS OF ABRAHAM
Property Valued at o,ooooo hast been
Escheated to tht Kingdom of Great
Britain Three Timet, But Heirs Now
Appear and Contett Property Rights.
Entirt Crop Sold at an Advance Ovei
Last Year.
San Angelo, Tex., June 13. The entire
eight months spring wool clip of Concho
county, the largest clip of short wool
in the state, was sold yesterday. The
clip amounted to 1,125,0110 pounds Prices
are held strictly secret, but they are !
lieved to be between 20 and 22 cents a
pound.
The twelve months wool clip, also the
largest in the state, amounting to 8,
000.000 or 0,000,000 haa not been sold.
yet, but will be disposed of this week.
Competition is brisk among the buyers
here, evey big wool house in the L nited
States being represented. Sheepmen are
delighted with the prices, an advance of
6 to 8 cent over last year and the high
est prices paid since 1893 being anticipated.
TRICK'S STATEMENT.
Makes statement About Affair of tit
Zqtiitabls Lift.
New York, June 15. For the first
time since he presented his report of the
Equitable investigation, Henry C. Fncle
b quoted as having spoken ol tue so
ciety's affairs. He waa interviewed
while attending the Princeton Comence-
ment exercise.
"When the board of director of the
Equitable society failed," he aid, "to
adopt the report, or any part of it, ol
the committee they appointed to invest
igate the present management, of course
my connection with the society ended.
'Mr. Ryan's purchase of the Hyde
stock relieved the situation and will
till further relieve it if he give the
name of all the policy holders who
joined him in that action. There is no
mvsterv about it. As a matter of tact,
the mystery which has surrounded thi
whole subject in the past haa resulted
in inferences beyond the real facta. A
policy of frank publicity should be pur
sued."
SOMAN LETTERS.
Japan to Discard Japanese Characters
and Adopt Modem One,
San Francisco, June 15. M. Tayama,
of Toklo, a member of the Roman char
acter society of Jspan, is here. Thi so
ciety is really a government commission
appointed to make a report on the ad
visibility of the adoption of Roman char
acter inthut country. While it i not
known when this commission w ill make
it rYnort. M. Tayama says it is the be
lief of all well Informed Japanese that
New York, June 13. Seeking to es
tabliah her claim to a (20,000,000 estate
which include a tract a mile and a half
long and a mile wide through t the heart
of the city of Quebec and eight acres
th famous Plains of Abradant. Mrs
Caroline Lambert Campbell, wife of Wm
A. Campbell, an assistant auperintend
ent of schools in Brooklyn, has engaged
counsel to push her case in the domin
ion courts. The property , waa escheated
for three generations by the British gov
ernment in 1760.
In 1887 the privy council refused a
joint application from representatives
of the Catholic church, the Church of
Enutand and citirens of Queliec asked
ing that $150,000 held by the British
government and collected as rental
should be equally divided between the
two Churches in Quebec. The Privy Coun
cil. with the assent of Queen Victoria.
decided that the heir would in time ap-
near and that the property and it
usufruct from the time the decree of
eachest termineted in 1863 belonged to
the heir of Louis Joseph Lambert, who
gave largely of his vast fortune to the
French church and Indian war. When
the Enirlish conquered he was deprived
of hla estate snd those of hi wife, the
Demoiselle Genevieve de Milleray, who
inherited 1130 acres hi Quebec city from
her father.
Mrs. Campbell claim descent from
Augustine Lambert, with whose lite me
escheat ended. He bad removed to the
!-r,t Sl.iu anil fter hi demise
Ullivru sv
some of the heir tried, but failed, to re
nnver the nropertv. It is said by Mrs
Campbell that the estate is emauea so
the most she hopes to secure is a me
interest. On her death the claim passes
to her first cousin, Henry Lambert, pre
iilent of the Grand Avenue National
Bank of Kansas City, who make hi
home in St Louis, Mo.
New York, June 15. In a riot at sec
ond avenue and Fifteenth atreet one man
ha been fatally wounded and two others
seriously wounded. Twenty shots were
exchanged in the street before the police
arrived. All the participants were for
eigners, the scene of the riot being
known aa Harlem'a Little Italy.
A 19-year-old boy started the trouble.
lie cot Into a fight and was being worst
ed when a friend ,an to hi home and
warned the fighter's 16-year-old brother
The latter loaded up two revolver! and
sallied forth. Approaching the crowd,
which had gathered to witness bis broth
er's discomfiture, the youngster unhm
be red both revolvers and fired. One man
in the crowd fell and the rest scattered.
He then beat his brother's opponent
over the head snd wounded him with an
other shot.
By this time the crowd had plucked up
courage and rushed back. The shooter
calmly boarded a wagon and forced the
owner to drive away while he sat on the
rear end shooting at his pursuers. Sev
eral of them fired back and the police
are astonished that several persons were
not kiried.
The boy's ammunition soon ran out.
He was dragged from the wagon and the
crowd was trampling him under foot
when the police arrived. Knives were
drawn by the infurated Italians and
even after the police had surrounded the
boy's prostrate form, they had to batter
manv heads. Nearly a hundred cuts
were found on his body, many of them
to the bone, and one pierced his lungs.
Baseball Scores.
At Los Angeles. Oakland 7, Los Ange
les 0.
At San Francisco. Portland 6, San
Francisco 3.
At Seattle. Tacoma, 5, Seattle 2.
IRON TRADE S
Weeks Business Shows Falling
off in Demand for Rails.
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LARGE JAPANESE ORDERS
Orders Sufficient on Hani to Xtep all
the Mill Running on Foil Time for
Many Months With Prospects for a
Large Increase ia Foreign Orders.
WOULDN'T STAND THE RAISE.
New York Race Track Managers Com
pelled to Reduce Prices.
New York, June 15. Efforts to pro
cure $3 from the public for admission to
the Metropolitan race tracks will, says
the World, be abandoned in the midsum
mer meet at Brighton Beach. It is said
the old rates of $2 for grard stand and
75 cents for field stands tickets will tnen
be resumed.
The advance to $3 was made at the
beginning of the Gravesend meet which
closed yesterday. Results on the whole
were from what the track owners an
ticipated. Thousands of persons who
visit the tracks daily and formerly paid
12 for srand stand tickets, took the field
where the cost was only $1, excepting
on half-holidays, the crowds have not
been uncomfortably large. .
NEW CUSTOM HOUSE.
Bowling Green Custom House Nearlng
Completion.
New York. June 15. Work on the ex
terior of the grand custome house at
TWlinir Green in this city has been pra
tically completed and it is expected that
the buildine will be ready for occupancy
within fifteen months. The contractor
were only two months behind in complet
i exterior work. This has cost
$3,000,000 and it is estimated that th
interior will cost $1,500,000.
In all its appointments, the building
Cleveland, June 13. The Iron trade
Review this week says:
The most important transactions of
a rather quiet week were in rails, the
principal orders being: Erie 15,000 tons;
Biff Four ,000; Chicago k Alton ,5,000;
Illinois Central, 10,000; Buffalo, Roches
ter and Pittsburg, 3,000; Volley road,
Cleveland Traction Company, 6,000. The
Dominion Iron 4 Steel Company at Sid
ney, Nova Scotia, has obtained an or
der for 25,000 tons of rails from the In-
ter-Collonial Railway Company, in com
petition with the mills of the United
States, Germany and Great Britain.
The Pressed Steel Car Company has
received an order from the Japanese gor-
ernment for 900 box cars, which, close-
lv following an order for 1,000 cars
awarded to the American Car A Foundry
Company, gives some indications of the
demand for American products which
may be expected as soon as peace is cer
tain.
The demand for merchant pipe shows
still further improvement and the low
prices of a few weeka ago do not pre
vail. None of the furnaces or steel
works supplying the mills producing
heavier forms of material have been shut
down nor will they be closed, even for
the regular summer repairs, on account
of the tremendous tonnage now being
carried on all the steel manufacturer
books.
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Killed By Explosion.
New York, June 13. Two men have
been instantly killed by the premature
explosion of a heavy blast in a atone
quary near Mont Clair, . J. mree
other were badly injured. The victim
were all Italians. Those killed were In
charge of the blast. After the explos
ion they were found beadles among the
rocks. . .