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s-t fH jfl 0 - U1UBHCB FULL AttOOIATIO Mill rWOUT OOVin THE MORNINQ FfCLO ON THI LOWEft COLUMBIA VOLUME m: NO. 237 ASTORIA, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 15 1905. PRICE FIVE CENTS ALL AGR 111 STATUS IS ACCEPTED Russia and Japan to Both Evacuate Manchuria. -OPEN DOOR" IS ASSURED Tares Article f Jipia'i Fust Condi tioni Amicably Ssttled Negotiation Coatiau Cession of Saklutola Ii Yft to Come Fear BU. PortMuuutb, Aug. M.-Althoiigh rapid progress wee made with the peace ne illations today, thre of tli IS article, whkh constitute the Jpsne.e conditions of peace having been agreed 10 by M. Witt ami Baron Kwn, neilher of ths two article, to whk-h M. Wltte. la hi reply, returned in absolute negative reached tbe erW. therefore, are till to mr, It my b reached the ee(on f SskhsMu cotue fifth In the Iit Tlie three "article found." as they w ofncislly designated In ths brief com munication authorised to I given to .he pre, ilUpoMfd of today, are In sub wiancei First, Russia's recognition of -Japan's "preponderating Influence." and epeclsl position In Ktrea, whlrh Rusl. henceforth, agrees f outside her sphere t Influence Jiipun bcnilliijf brrwif Jo rwwgnlw Suutrtlnty, the relffning fam ily, but with the riht to tle tvU- nd Utnr to Improve the civil ad tiiinlntratlon of the empire. fecond, a mutual ohllj(tion to evac uate Mam-hurla, eaoh to urreniler all .-lul prlvllejfea In that province, a . mutual obligation of r-t to the "ter ritorial Integrity" of China and to main tain a principle of the eipial right to all nations to that province (the open dmr). ' In the iliw-uaxiun of the aemnd article It ia positively atated that Ruia won victory, llaron Komiira. it la ao de nrcd. wanted a li'it to the Ku-ui obligation to evacuate Manchuria and a tirn-ndcr of apecial prnvlaiona In the province, whereaa M. Wltte contended fivr an obligation for evacuation and that the mirrender of opeclal privilege fhmild U mutual and the evacuation of trmip to lahe place concurrently. M. Wltte la Mild to have contended that lie waa defending, not only the inter- e.U of Rua-la. but of all neutral power. I Third, the ceeion. to ()),ina. of the j (Idneae Ka.tern railway from Harbin eoiithward. ..'here never waa any quetin about the acceptance, on the part of M. Wltte, of those nrticlca, the flrt two covering: in more emphatic form the contention of Japan in the diplomatic struggle whkh preceded hoatTlitie. f 1 1 1 JEWS ASE DISCUSSED. Portamouth, Aug. 14. Free exchange of views on the condition and treatment of the Jew in RukhIs wa held tonight In a conference between M. Witte, Raron Iloaen and (War Strauit, Jacob It. Kchlff, Iaac K. Seligman and Adolph TiCwIaohn of New York and Adolph Kan of Chicago. A statement wa made Vy the delegation, calling on the Ruaaian plenipotentiaries, but nothing tangible ha reunited, but future benefit - is looked for. The financial condition of J Kutwla waa not mentioned in the dla cuion and not suggested a topic for discussion, according to Mr. Kraus. t ; FEAR NO BATTLE. ,1'oiUmouth, Aug. 14. It eem to be taken for granted among the attache of both the Japanese and Russian mi, sion that there will lie no general battle Itt. Manchurit while the Ktace negotla tiona arc on. Oyailfa i prepared to trik the iiiotnent negotlutlona fail and there may be mom or le oulpot en gagement while the troopt are getting In poltlon, but it 1 admitted on each aide, that If either Oyama or Llnevltch ia delila-ralety trying to bring on gen eral engagement' which might coat 60,' 000 or WfidO Uvea, hi country will b accuacd of bad faith la negotiation and will Inevitably ! prestige in the eye of the world. In larger aenoe, therefore, it can be aid an armatiot already exlate In Man churl. Tortamouth, Aug. 14. Both aeaatone of tb conference today are described a "amkable." There were aeveral alight jan, but none of them wa Krlou. The plenipotentiariee ahowed admirable temper. , , , BUT FACT0IY IS URI. Sugar FUat Capitalist to Invest Hear Uy at Payette. Payette, Idaho, Aug. 14.-Payette 1 now sure of a beet augsjr factory. B. P, Shawhan, preaident of the Commercial club, has received for the company a deed from J. T. Clement for all of hi land eaat of the railroad, about 00 acres, which adjoin the Wind! land, on which the factory will be built. Final pay ment for thl location ws made nev er! day ago. The capiUllat putting In thl plant will InreH very heavily, and work will commence toon. The ma chinery will be shipped ia ae soon a the railroad company put in a siding. JAILBREAK1S FRUSTRATED Colorado Sheriff and Deputies ' Shoot to Kill. Convict Attempt Delivery While Being Served With Supper Strike Turnkey With TabU Leg-Sheriff Shoot and Kill Two Jaiibnaku. Moulder, Colo., Aug. 14 A break for liberty by primmer of the county, jail waa fruatrnted by SlicrifT Kartell and hia deputies who fired into the corri dor of the jail, killing Uml Cinku and wounding Jame Rutan. Recently a plot to break jail wa dlacnvered. A chwe watch wa kept and tonight, when t'ndcr-aherilT Thorne wa acrving euper to the prisoner, Sheriff Kartell and a deputy, heavily armed, tmxl outide. A Thorne wa leaving the corridor he wa utriiik down with a heavy table leg In the hand of Cinkua. Sheriff Bar tell and the deputy Immediately fired, 1 '" T,,,,,n' b,,,""'t1' ?,ft "f ,mrm'" "' ,,"ri t!,p fvlM- killing Cinku and wounding Rutan. ; .. MUKUtKtl) BY DRUNKEN I MILITIAMEN ' I ' 4 4 Helena, Mont., Aug. 14. A ' dispatch to the Record, from ' Billings, aay a member of the Red Lodge company of militia .returning from the state encamp t 4 ment was murdered on the train 4 4 by his companion, many of 4 4 whom were intoxicsted when 4 4 the train left Billings this mow 4 4 ing. The murdered man's name 4 4 la not known. 4 4444444444444444 . WILL VISIT EXPOSITION. Salt lake City, Utah, Aug. 14.-The City council of this city will leave to morrow for Portland to attend the ex ercises at the exposition on -Salt Lake City day, August 24. , Mayor Morri will be unable to make the trip and has designated president of the council Frank J. Hewlett, to represent him. . . DEATHS ONLY TWELVE SITUATION IMPROVED "Yellow Jack" Epidemic , In Crcscnt Qty Chcckcl OUTLOOK IS VfRY PROMISING Snrgeot Wfeit Ferceo Start Work oo KeorgaaiM(ioB PU Fumigating Is Doner front District Station Many Case Ar Holdovers. . Kew Orleans, Aug. 14. Following is the offloisl report of the fever situation up to 8 P. M.i Kew casee S3, total 111; deaths 12, total ICO; new sub foci 8, total S10; case under treatment 450. The figures for the day were surpris ingly small, considering that 19 of the cee reported today really belonged to yesterday's list, not having been re ported at the closing of Sunday's re port. ' Monday ha usually been a heavy day for new case on account of the bold over from Sunday, and if the number of new case for the next few day con tinue small, then it can be ssid the sit- Nation is really improving. Of the Dew foci, four are uptown and four are be low Canal street. Surgeon White's force went to work today on a reorganisation plan, all the fumigating and screening being done from district headquarters instead of from the central headquarters, a here tofore. BOYCOTT SPREADS IW BENGAL Movement Against European Good Be ing Directed by Chinese. Calcutta, Aug. 14.--A movement to boycott European good is spreading rapidly in Bengal and i causing anxiety to merchants. The ostensible reason for the movement is a desire to indicate that Bengal sentiment is offended at the government proposal to partition ie presidency of Bengal. But it Ia significant that Chinamen were present at the meeting which passed the boycott resolution. SCHOONER IS CAPSIZED. Believed Whole Crew I Lost on Cap Breton Schooner. North Sydney, Aug. 14. A smalr schooner JeisurAy sailing off Lingen head was struck by a severe squall this afternoon and capsized. Before those on shore could make preparations for assistance the storm fncreased to an in tensity hurricane and one by one the crew was seen to fail away from the bottom of the overturned craft. It is believed all were lost. STUBBS SAYS RAILWAY IS Trouble Btweea Washington Railway Commission and Road. Spokane, Aug. 14. Trouble between the state railwsy commission and the Harriman lines ha arisen at the very outset of the commission's work. The clash is over the right of th commission to order a joint rate for the handling of coal from Roslyn to Colfax, Wash. I. L Stubb. traffic manager of the Har riman lines, said: "The commission may make a joint LSAZy, HUHCXY LOST ARD ILL. Spokane Man, It I Feared, May Perish in Columbia River Bottom. Clcone, Ore,, Aug. 14. Crazed, prob ably by love; sick, lost and hungry, a man supposed to be "Jack" Origg, of Sjioksne Is wandering somewhere in the brush around Rear take today, with tb chance that be will perinb unlet j found and cared for. IjuH night a party of young Clcone people, while out for a walk around Bear lake, found Crigg lying In a desolate, little visited spot, with his bead covered by gunnysack, coatSesa, and with the general appearance of a dead man." Thinking they bad tumbled on a corpse, the member of tbe party hastened back to Clcone to give alarm. When aeercber returned' tbey found Origg gone, but holes and hollow in tbe ground around where he had laid showed hew be bad wallowed around in agony of body or of mind. His identity i known by tb content of bis coat, which was found by the party just before tbe body ws detected s little farther on in clump of brush. The group at first thought tbe coat had been baadoaed, as it wa much the worse for wear, but on going through the pocket found a letter addressed to "Jack Origg" and signed "Simmon.", It wa postmarked 8po kt. Sixty cents was also in one pocket, while a bat, once a god one, lay near by. f- Saturday evening a man, apparently demented, called at the' cheese ranch jut north of here, talking at intervals of a "girl in Spokane be was going to marry just as soon as the Lord would let blra After leaving, he proceeded along the Sandy road some distance, then crawled under tbe fence and went across the bottom. A bsggage check for Spokane was also found in his coat pocket. - J TRAIN WRECK K1US TW0NE0R0ES . Macon, (is., Aug. 14c In a head-on collision, two miles from Macon, between a northbound Central-of-Ceorgia passenger 0) train and a southbound freight, late today, two were killed and three so seriously injured, death will brobnbly result. The two killed were negroes. " JACQUES GETS HUFFY. Sahara Emperor Will Stand No ing from France. "Fool Paris, Aug. 14. Claiming redress for fancied injuries, M. Jacquea Lebaudy, the emperor of the Sahara, has issued through his minister for foreign affairs a note to the French premier informing the republic that if compensation is not awarded to him the emperor will for merly declare war on France. This his torio declaration is couched in the tol lowing terms: "If his majesty, the Emperor Jacques I, is the victim of hostile or disloyal proceedings on the part of any human being (other than his majesty's subjects) dwelling upon tbe surface of this planet, then his majesty's government will take measures of reprisal against those who have acted in such manner, and will carry on the reprisals on all part of the earth' surface." TODAY'S WEATHER. Portland, Aug. 14. Oregon and Wash ington: TuesKay, fair and warmer ex cept near the coast. READY TO FIGHT rate on Roslyn coal if it wants to, but we wont conform to it. Hf the commis sion wants to fight, all right. "Do you think we are going to let the Northern Pacific ahorthaul us on that Colfsx coal trade, after the way the Northern Pacific is treating u.on the Sound f continued Mr. Stubba. "Do you know that the Northern Pacific is wont to join with us In billing competi tive freight for Seattle or Tacoma over the line to Portlardt" ( 1 1 1 H I 1 1 H WTnnr mm nm SOON MATTERS OF INSURANCE New York Life Will Be The First Company Examined. Will CUACE INVESTIGATION Minnesota Inesranco Commitsisset Say Investigation of Affair Will Commence in October Delayed to Per mit of Proper Legislation. St. Paul, Aug. 14. State Insurance Commissioner O'Brien returned from New York today and confirmed the re port of tbe investigation of big Eastern Life Insurance companies by the insur ance departments of several Western state would not commence before Oc tober. The first company to be investi gated will be the New York Life, and it will be followed by other if the show ing of the New York Life demands, it. "The prtponed investigation wa de layed," explained Mr. O'Brien, "to" al low the New York legislative committee, now at work, to proceed entirely un hampered with drafting new legislation for tbe future conduct of .all life insur ance companies. WENDLING MILL SOON TO OPEN. Agent Searching for Men to Operate Big Lane County Plant Eugene, Ore., Aug. 14. New comes from the headquarters of tbe Booth- Kelly Lumber company, in this citVj that agents of the company are scour ing the country for men to operate the big mill at Wendling, at the end of the branch railroad which extends from Springfield up the Mohawk valley 20 miles. The mill has been idle for nearly two year. More men are also wanted for the Coburg mill. It is said that the Wendling mill will resume operations between September 1 and October 1, and operate at its full capacity. The company has just secured 750,000 with which to improve its sys tem of sawmill in this county and it is reported that one, or probably two, more mills will be erected in the near future. The lumber market has picked up won derfully during the last few months and every, mill in Lane county is "rushed with orders and aeveral mills have had to turn many large orders away, owing to inability to fill them. The resumption of operations at Wendling and the Increase in the crew of the other mills will create again the prosperity which up to two years ago Lane county had enjoyed through the lumbering Industry for a number of years. TRADER KILLS SQUAW. Shotgun Hi Weapon of "Wiping Out" ineyenne woman. Helena, Mont, Aug. 14. United States Attorney ' Raseh has ben notified that Mrs. Williant Russell, member of the tribe, was killed by George Walters, a white trader, on the Cheyenne reserva tion. A shotgun was the weapon. A deputy United States marshal has been dispatched to the reservation to arrest Walters. HUNT GRANTS PLEA. Helena, Mont, Aug. 14. In the United States court today Judge Hunt made an order In the suit of the United States against William A. Clark and R. M. Cobban, granting the motion of the defense permission to file a plea of""bona fide" purchase. , MUST USE AIRBRAKES. Interstate Commerce Commission It .,;,;;: . Again After .Railway. Washington, Aug. l4 The Interstate commerce eomrabsbn is about to take step to require ' all railroads engaged in' interstate commerce, to Increase the minimum percentage of air brakes used on freight trains to as great an extent as' the conditions of their equipment wilt rrait. ' The ' commission has be come impressed with tbe danger at tending the operations of great trains on which an insufficient number of car is equipped with airbrakes operated by the engineer. . r " . Becent accidents, involving loss of life and property, were caused by "buck ling" freight trains, when emergency applications of air bad been made on train partiatly air braked, and demon strated that such trains were not actu ally under tbe control of tbe engineer a is required by law. JUDGE SOT SELECTED. Moody Will Not Giv n of Mew Magistrate. Oyster Bay, Aug. 14. Moody was ia conference with President Roosevelt to day, and among other matters it ia be lieved a successor for the late Judge Bellinger of the district of Oregon was discussed. Attorney General Moody, however, would not admit this, but he did say that the name of a certain man was entertained for tbe capacity and that it would be a number of month before tbe appointment was announced. Tl KILLED Automobile Struck by Train a Rutland, VI Harris Liadsey of New York and Mis E. P. Willing of Chicago Are Instant ly Killed Both Prominently Connect ed and Were Engaged. Rutland, Vt, Aug. 14. Deputy Police Commissioner Harris of Lindsley, New York, and Miss Eliza P. Willing of Chi cago, were almost instantly killed at Pike's crossing, near Bennington, Vt, this afternoon when a North branch train of the Rutland railroad struck their automobile. The engine was thrown about 13 feet and the tracks were torn up. for 100 feet. The automobile was dashed to pieces and was afterwards destroyed by fire. Miss Willing and Lindsley were to have been married next week. Chicago, Aug. 14. Miss Willing wa the daughter of the late Henry J. Willing, a partner of Marshall Field for many years and one of Chicago's wealthy men. The announcement of her engage ment to Harris Lindsley of New York, was a surprise to the fashionable set in Chicago. SANTA FE AND S. P. AGREE ON EUREKA LINE. San Francisco, Aug. 14. An agree ment has been entered into by Presi dent E. II. Harriman of tie Southern Pacific company, and President E. P. Ripley of the San Fe, under which the California Northwestern, of which tho former has secret! control, will soon be extended north to Pepperwobd, there to connect with the San Francisco & Northwestern, the property of the Santa Fe, and thus furnish a direct overland route from San Francisco to Eureka. In other words, Harrimsn and Ripley have agreed that one railroad line U sufficient to handle all traffic originat ing in tho vicinity of Humboldt bay, and that Interests of both transcontinental lines can be best served by so inter change of trackage privilege in North ern California. ' ; N 10 LI II