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J, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1905.
ROOSEVELT
mi U In condition financilly to prosecute
lh war without imriouii tiiiliKUiiy.
HAKES NO
REQUEST
to
FOR AN ARMISTICE
Spokesman of Japanese
Peace Commission Is
Interviewed
Mr. SMA Slat President Roosevelt
Mid Mo Request For n Armistice
At Meeting With Baron Komuu and
Minister Takahlu Ytstsiday.
Insurance Men Want Corportion
Facilitate Adjustment.
New York, July 2H. Kt1i)iihmrnt of
an adjustment bureau to more econom
ically handle lo In the East wa di-
ued here yesterday at a largely at
tended noting of men representing fire
insurance companies doing buines in
the Eastern field, A plan wu presented
to the underwriter suggesting the for
mation of an incorporated company to
tarry on th business of adjusting loe.
Under thi scheme ft was proposed to
invite ail the equitable fire Insurance
state to become members by Uking
stuck In the name of the company and
the fai'illlitatfng representative.
These outline were thoumughly dis
cussed and resolutions adopted appoint
ing a committee of seven upjn which
the adjustment commutes of the Na
tional Board shall be represented, to
consider the question and draft a form
of agreement for the creation of an ad
justment bureau for submission to the
companies.
ROWING RACES
Kew York, July 2.-No statement
wa given oii at the headquarters
the, Japanese peace petiipo!'ntairie
today relative to the visit to President
l!.Hevelt of Baron Komur and Mini
ter Takahira the .lapane commission
n. Mr. Sato, minister resident to the
F.mperur of Japan, who I the ollbial
.wjkeitttn for tlie commission.
liowever, that President Roosevelt ha
made no request for an arntiU. When
n.tiry wa mad of Mr. Sato a to the
altitude of the Japanese on the question
sil an armistice, he replied:
-Japan ia perfectly willing to agree U
an armistice after th credential of
V.,,it. Ninnniinii have Is-en examined
and vrrltlcd. The examination of rr
nential must necessarily I th !ht
duty of th pcure delegatea to ascer
tain that all are qualified to a-l in the
-.iparity to which they are represented
"However, I think an armi-tif
'U agreed n after the tmmi-iion
.ri-r f.irmsllv 11 noil their work. It lot
: the ruatom of all p' negotla
itiona to reae hoatilitiea during Hi "n
entlon of the (wae pleniMtentiuria."
Mr. Sato wa aked to define the pow
r of hi eommiian. lie aaid:
"Thev have the power to fj-'t any
proposal and to commit the .Tapanea
covernment to any d-ument they may
nil(n, auhjei-t, of course, to the eawtion
fo the emperor.''
'.The rrports that China Intended ak
"lug an Indemnity, Mr. Sato dieutd and
regarding this he eaitf:
"irhln could not fak any Indemnity
of Japan. It waft her inability or tin
villingnes to keep Huseia out of Man
, .rhuria that forced u into tl war, .
jin.i.in. (Suturdav) July 2! The
"Stalfcefc this morning published an in
lervit-w with Koretiyo Takashl, apeciai
itinnme commissioner of the Japanese,
who reporta hinwdf hopeful that p-uie
wTl result from the coming negotiations
lit Portsmouth,
He bases hi hope on the ennvh tion
that Japan' terms will be leasnnahle,
and that the true Interests of Russia
require that she make peace.
The uppointment of M. Witi'e, he adds,
utrengthen the hoje. Should the hos
tilities continue, Mr. Takashl says, Jap-
TO ADJUST LOSSES.
RUPTURE MAY
ATTEND
sent home at the expense of the govern
ment. Ho far such request have come
for two of the bodies, and it la likely
that a majority of them will be xbumed
and acnt away.
VOTING
MOROCCAN CONFERENCE
PORTLAND
Germany Will Advocate
Unanimity of AH
Receptions.
DANIELSOW SEHDS TELEGRAM
While Astor lodae, H. P. O. E., mem-
bera were in the midst of ft sumptuous
repast at the California restaurant last
night, the occasion being ft banquet,
they were delightedly astonished to re
ceived the following cablegram, purport
ing to I from an absent brother; j
(StockholmJuly 28. Nelson, Astoria:
I'nable to leave. Oscar away on fishing ;
trip. Left me in charge.
AUGUST DANIFXHON,
Acting King
The bannuet was select affair and
was pronounced upsurpasaable by all in
attendance. They do say thai the re
cipient of the cablegram from the act
ing king of Sweden was quite overcome
and showed hi appreciation of the dis
tinction accorded him by the psueoo
monarch by glowingly eulogizing Broth
er Danielson.
German Mission Informs Moroccan Fr
ei'O Office That the Program Must be
Communicated to Her Ia Advance As
Condition of Her Acceptance.
Alex Pape of San Francisco De
feats Gloss of Portland.
Several Races Pulled Off on Guildi Lake
Betweea California and Oregon Wit
neued By a Large Crowd of People
Local Clubs Give Good Eihibitioai.
Tangier, Ju!r 2S.-Count von Tatten
Hack-Ashold, head of the Ortnaa mi
ion to Morocco, Informed the Moroccan
foreign of!l that Germany stipulates
that the program of the international
conferelK le communicated to her in
advance a the condition of her accept
ance of th invitation. France, Great
llritain and fpelii have already made
similar request. It is feared much dir
Acuity will attend the question of vot
ing at the conference. It is irsdriod
that Germany will advocate that all th
receptions of the conferen- must be
made unanimous, the votes to include
those of the sultan's delegate.
Portland, July 2. Ales Pap of the
l)ilpliin Rowing ulub of Pan Francisco,
he holder of the amateur championship
of the IVinV Coat, f'r single sculls,
easily defeated K. 0. Gloss and William
I'atton of Portland Howing club in a on
and on half mile nee on Guild lake
thi a(ternsn.
George Luderw, of the Portland Row
ng rluh, defeated K. B. Hartley, of th
sume club, in a junior single race. In
he rai-e f'r four-oared Ismts a crew com
Htiet of A. E. Allen. A. S. Allen, W. T.
Alien and At A. Alien derated a crew
composed of A. R. Stringer, E. Orth. A.
Peterson and A. Pafender. BUh crew
were members of the Portland local
club. The junior doubles were won by
E. B. Hartley and George Luder who
defeated C. Marshall and J. Rosenfteld
iiy four inches after a terrific race. The
race wer? witnessed by a large crowd
of people who enthusiastically cheered
the winner. ' ;
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OFFICERS ARE ELICf 0. ",'
New York, .fuly Tlie fourth annu
al meeting of the S'atiohal Circle Trade
association closed Its three day ses
sion her yesterday with the election of
olti.ers. E. J. Lloyd of Pittsburg was
chosen president. New board of direc
tor Include Jamn Fintw, Newark,
Ohio, and C. L. F.lyea. Atlanta, Ga., A.
M. SehetTey was re-elected aecretary and
treasurer. The movement to obtain the
co-operation of manufacturer and job
bers in automobile supplies, it was said,
had received considerable Impetus.
BOARD OF WQUIRV.
Washington July 2.The navy de
partment today ordered Captain Moore,
commander of the cruiser Chicago, at
Fan Diego, and Captain Thoma Phelps
stationed at San Francisco, to report to
Rear Admiral Goodrich for duty. Com
modore Stevenson, retired, waa ordered
from San Francisco yesterday. It ia in
dicated that these officers with ft junior
officer as recorder will compose the court
of inquiry into the Bennington dwast-r
DETROIT BANKER KILLED
AND ROBBED
NORWEGIAN
PEOPLE TO
car and trains of the Crater Lake Rail
road, now being built from Medford.
Prospect is the largest settlement on
the road to Crater lake, and is 22 miles
from the newly established national
park. The consummation of the big pow
er enterprise of the Condor company
will make Prospect a place of importance
in Southern Oregon.
DECIDE
DISSOLUTION QUESTION
TROUBLE OVER 1A5D.
Referendum Will Be Sub
mitted to People
August 13. .
Suicide of Mrs. John Ambrose at Seattle
Is Inexplicable.
Seattle, Wash- July 28. Sending her
husband into another room to open a
bottle of beer for her this morning, Mrs.
Anna Ambrose, wife of John Ambrose,
ft lineman, drained bottle containing
carbolic acid. Her husband grabbed the
bottle, but it waa too late. The woman
died an hour afterwards without telling
why she wanted die. The suicide is ft
mystery, as Mrs. Ambrose was in good
health and negihbors aay waa happy.
TAKE PRECAUTI05S.
Agrarian Disturbances of Serioua Ifft-
ture in Russia.
Odessa, July 2S. Serioua agrarian dis
turbances are reported to hve occur
red near Zhorinka in the government of
Kb" IT. General Ignatieff, president of the
special commission for the revision, of
the exceptional lawa for safeguarding
public order, having completed hia in
vestigation of the causes of the Odesa
riot, ha proceeded to Zhormka.
Stortbini Unanimously Adopts Pro
po sal to Set Date. Recommended Re
ferendum Be Considered Isolated Fact
Will Enable Understanding.
TWO MORE DEATHS
Italians In New Orleans Die. of
Yellow Fever.
Christiania, July 28. The storthing at
this evening's session unanimously d
opted tlie proposal to fix Aubuat 13 a
the date for the submission of the ques
tion of the dissolution with Sweden to
the people.
The special committee of the storth
ing in its report says the referendum
will enable foreign nations to fully, tin
derstand the real standpoint of the Nor
weeian people. The committee recom
mends that the referendum be considered
as an belated fact and not as in line
with the chain of conditions set up
Sweden,
REPORTS ARE CONFLICTING
Unofficially Claimed Number of Deaths
Exceeds that of Thursdsy bnt Official
Report! Say that But Two Italians
Succeumbed. Situation Well in Hand.
Detroit, July 29. Thomas .
Meyer, aired (M. a broker, near DO-
lice headquarters, was killed to
night by thieves who caught him
alone in his office. TUey got
away with' about $000 in money,
and perhaps $4,000 worth of diamonds.
SUSPEXSIOfT IS PERMANENT.
Pt. Petersburg, July 28. The suspen
sion of Novosti. the leading Jewish, lib
eral organ, for three months', i made
permanent, on account of it alleged
pernicious and provocative tone.
New Orleans, July 28. The following
report as to the progress of yellow fever
in New Orleans is up to 6 P. M., today:
New cases, 21; totsi cies to date,
227; death, today, 3; deaths to date,
47; new foci, 8, .
New Orlcan, July 22.-Althougn the
unofficial reports made public' to
day showed ft larger number of deaths
than yssterdaj", there" were" only two,
and the appearance of ft number of new
cases. Aufnoritiee are confident that
the situation is still Well in hand and
with no immediate proepWt of becom
ing alarming.
The authorities continue to hold al
so that th plague remains an Itarial
Infection, all except two of the twenty
six cases reported today being of that
nationality. Today's dcatha were pnn-
ipally Italians.
WORK BEING RUSHED.
Candor Company Will Have Unlimited
Power At Prospect Fall.
WOMAN DRINKS ACID.
New York Officials Place Yellow Fever
Suspects ia Quarantine.
New York, July 28. Twenty-five per
sons today were removed from the steam
er Alamo, from Galveston. They were
suspected of, being infected with yellow
fever and transferred to Hoffman Island
for inspection.
Only ten of thi number really have
high temperatures, the other fifteen be
ing near relatives who refused to be sep
arated from the suspects.
VAN GE8NER AND
BIGGS TESTIFY
Attempt to Impeach Ooyermcnt
.Witnesses In Land Frauds.
STAY OF EXECUTION
FOR BLUEBEARD H0CH
Chicago. July 2a.-Jhftn lloch (Blue
'beard), the confessed bigamist sentenced
to.be hanged today for poisoning one
of hi wive, was this afternoon grant
ed ft reprieve until August 25 by (iov
erncr Deneen. The stay f execution
which followed hour of anxiety on the
part of Koch, who had never given up
hope, was allowed by Oovernon Deneen
only after the latter had been assured
the necessary funds for sn appeal of
the case had been raised.
The amount, $."00, was given by an
attorney and ft friend of loch's couu-
I, The attorney said he wu actuat
ed purely by humanitarian motives.
An incident at the jail during the prep
aration for the execution was the np-
pea ram of. a physician and ft woman
who told Jailer Whitman "that they
wanted to help in lloch' battle for
life. They said they wished to raise
fund for the condemned man and asked
tlie jailer to delay the hanging a long
as possible.
l!och' attorney, however, had already
RELATIVES WILL GET
SAILORS' REMAINS
(Continued on page three.)
Forgotten Law Provides for Transmis
sion of Dead Sailors.
San Plego, Cal., July 2S. The bodies
of the Bennington's victims, who were
buried in the military Cemetery on Point
Ixima. are not to remain where they were
laid with impressive ceremonies. Nov.'
that they are at rest the officials have
discovered that after the Maine disas
ter cor.gress enaeter a law providing for
the transmission of bodies of dead
or to their homes. After the explosion
ha nnil,rtiiker telcctuohed to the nar-
.... v - i
est relativs of the dead with instruct-1 well lor twelve rounus
ion regarding the disposition of the re
mains. In many cases answer were
made that the bodies should be shipped
at the government's expense. Accord
ing! ythe bodies of the 4! boys were inter
red, unembalmed, in the little burial
ground on the hill.-Now Paymster Morse
is telegraphing to relatives that upon re
quest' the bodies will be disinterred and.
Prospect, Or., July 28. The Candor
Water and Power Company, which last
year purchased the great natural water
power embraced by Rogue river and the
Mills Falls, at Prospect, from E. U. Wiat
strom, the longhaired hermit, is fast
completing the mammoth power enter
prise the old man worked so faithfully
upon the many years past. A broad can
al is beins: cut at the brink of Rogue
riv?r Fall, and thi will lead th.? w
ft distance of some iwo miles, droppttj
it over the canyon wall into the Rogue
river agllll, ' Vnlimited power at com-
oaratively small eXperiss will thus be
generated at both ends of (be canal.
The Condor company has a ere Of
fifty men at work at Prospect, a sum
mer camp being established in the deep
forest Oft the border of the Upper Rogue
reserve. Power from the enterprise will
first be used id the operation of ft large
Dr. von Gesner Admits Lending Honey
to Entrymen bat Denies Making say
Contracts for Purchase of Lands From
Any of the Claimants.
NOTES OF THE RING
Telegraphic Advices Relative to Three
Fistic Mixups.
Vancouver, Wash., July 28. Tommy
Traeey, of Portland, knocked out Jack
Kerns, of Chicago in the fourteenth round
tonight. i
Portland, July 28. Dr. van Gesner
and Marion Biggs were on the stand for
the defense in the land fraud trials to
day. The testimony of both men was ad
ffyrt to jmpeaqh the witnesses for the
6Secutldri; Both disclaim any knowl
edge of conspiracy or subornation of per
jury in connection with acquiring Und
titles to Eastern Oregon ranges.
Gesner admitted, lending the entry
men money and said he had stated to
certain entrymen that the clalma would
be worth, upon final proof, about $500
to him, but he denied ever having made
any contract with any of the entrymen
to acquire title to lands filed upon or
saw mill and ultimately in hauling the proved upon by them.
THREE YOUNG WOMEN
DROWNED IN COLUMBIA
Vancouver, Wash., July 28. (Special) so soon as they reached this place and
NEIL BESTJS TENNY.
San Francisco, July S3.-Frankie Kiel,
the bantam weight champion was given
a decision over Harry Tenny at the end
of twelve rounds before the Colmft club
tonight. The last half of the contest
was all Neil's. Tenny did remarkably
KELLY-BURNS DRAW.
Los Angeles, July 28. Hugo Kelly and
Tommy Burns fought ft twenty round
draw tonight. Burns had all the best
of the fight but owing to an agreement
both men were on their feet at the end
of the contest, the fight was declared ft
draw.
Lillie Ziegler, aged 20, Edna Fisher,
aged 10, and May Ziegler, aged 18, three
of fishing party of five from Fisher's
landing, were drowned in the Columbia
river today. Lulu Ziegler nd Mrs. Tin-
none, who were of tne party, were the
survivors. While in bathing the unfor
tunate young women slipped beyond
their depths and met death although
Miss Ziegler and Mrs. Tinnons made
frantic attempts to save them.
The party left here shortly after noon
for ft row to Governor's Island where
they planned to fish. Reaching the is
land, 30 minutes were devoted to ft
rest after the long pull. Following Ed
na Fisher and Lillie and May Ziegler
nnmnwl In thin in the river. Enter-
,..,.. c
ing the water they waded out short
distance. The nature of the river bed
here is hard clay and unknown to the
young women bathers it is extremely
slippery. The girls lost their footing
found themselves in water more that
eizht feet in depth. None could swim
and in moment Miss Fisher and the
Misses Ziegler were battling for their
lives. They shrieked in terror and Lulu
Ziegler and Mrs. Tinnons rushed to their
assistance but were unable to aid them.
Lulu Ziegler would have entered the
water but knowing the girl could not
swim Mrs. Tinnons prevented this.
The frantic cries of the women on
shore attracted the attention of the
Hiokey family who reside on the island
snd their guests, the Bartletta. They
hurried to the scene, too late, however,
to lend any assistance. Mr. Hickey
plunged into the river in the hope of
rescuing the girls but ere he reacnea
them all had drowned. The bodies were
recovered and word of the awful acci
dent communicated to the parents of
tne young women. The drowned girls
lived at Fisher's landing and were pop
ular there.