CORVALLIS
WEEKLY.
Sxr5:i.b,:,i,el?7.iCoiisoMatC(I Feb., 1899.
CORVALIilS, BENTOH COUNTr, OREGON, FKEDAX, OCTOBER 31, 1902.
VOL. XXXIX. NO. 45.
EVENTS OF THE DAY
GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OF THE
TWO HEMISPHERES.
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week,
Presented in Condensed Form, Most
Likely to Prove Interesting to Our
Many Readers.
Negotiations for Cuban reciprocity
will be renewed by Secretary Hay.
Governor Yates, of Illinois, is suffer
ing from an attack of typhoid fever.
Two of the largest anthracite coal
companies in Pennsylvania are to con
solidate.
The Alaska salmon Dack ehows on
increase of 400,000 cases over that of
last year.
As far as in, the evidence in the
Molineux case looks very bad for the
defendant.
Another man has been arrested for
holding np the Northern Pacific train
in Montana.
W-. J. Bryan's special train collided
with a fieight in Colorado, and three
people were injured.
The cholera death rate in the Philip
pines is constantly going higher. At
present 75 per cent of the cases prove
fatal.
Colombia's delay in presenting
canal note is probably due to its being
vexed over American activity at
Panama.
The business man who is contented
with his business has stopped growing.
The man who eaya he has business
enough, therefore has no need to adver
tise, has reached the full flood of the
tide. But after the flood ia the ebb
always. It is a law of nature that
nothing shall remain in a state of rest.
Everything grows, or it decays. No
business can remain at a standstill for
any considerable time. Printers Ink.
Wu Ting Fang, Chinese minister to
the United States, has been lecalled.
A riot over nonunion labor at Chi
cago resulted in injuries to seven men.
A wealthy Quincy, Illinois, farmer
has been arrested for the murder of his
daughter's suitor.
The chief of the naval ordance bureau
reports in favor of sacrificing speed for
armament in the construction of bat
tleships. President Hill, of the Great Northen,
in a speech tc Montana farmers, said
bis road would make another cut in
freight rates soon.
A Northen Pacific special agent has
expressed his doubt of the man ar
rested for holding up a train in Mon
tana a few days ago being the right one.
President Roosevelt celebrated his
44th birthday October 27. He spent
the day attending to his customary du
ties. Many messages of congratulation
were received.
A Louisiana train was wrecked by
running into a drove of cattle. The
engineer and a tramp were killed and
the fireman fatally injured. "None of
the passengers were hurt.
A Wyoming woman has been arrest
d for having four husbands.
The fire relief fund raised in Wash
ington amounts to a little over $5,000.
Minister Henry L. Wilson declines
to be transferred from Chile to Greece.
Dr. Woodrow Wilson has been form
ally installed as president of Princeton
university.
A Dunsmuir, Cel., constable was
slain by thugs because he had run them
out of town.
frank Norris, a well known novelist,
died at San Francisco from the effects of
an operation.
Senator Hanna says his purpose in
politics is to establish better relations
between labor and capital.
Major Generals Corbin and Young
are home from Europe, where they
have been inspecting foreign armies.
England is becoming alarmed at the
condition prevailing among the Irish.
Shipments of arms to the island have
been prohibited.
Three persons were seriously and a
great many others slightly injured as
the result of an explosion in the rapid
transit subway of New York.
Roosevelt has issued the order to re
duce the army to its minimum
strength.
The cruiser Olympla is being de
tained at the New York navy yard for
lack of a supply of coal.
Governor Stone, of Pennsylvania,
has issued a general order withdrawing
the troops from the coal fields.
The coal strike arbitration commis
sion baa perfected an organisation.
Judge Gray was chosen chairman.
It has been announced that H. R.
Nickerson, vice president and general
manager of the Mexican Central rail
road, has been offered the presidency of
the Southern Pacific.
All members of the New York build
ing trades threaten to go on strike.
Seventy-five thousand men are involved.
Orders are to be placed at once for
the manufacture of the new three-inch
suns to supply the field artillery. It
will require 180.
One of the worst storms that ever
raged in the Behring sea raked the
Nome coast from October 11 to 14,
Three lives were lost In the fiome sea
and a large amount of damage was done
to bandings along the water front.
FOUND RUSSIAN SURVEYS.
Old Monuments Located as Indicated by
Anglo-Russian Treaty.
Seattle, Oct. 30. Advices were re
ceived frcm Juneau on the steamer Dol
phin, which arrived today, that the
missing Russian boundary monuments
which have been so energetically
searched for by Lieutenant Emmons for
the past two seasons, have been discov
ered by a prospector of the Porcupine
district named James H. de Blondeau.
He is a native of Marseilles, France,
but he has been interested in the Por
cupine district and the modus vivendi
strip for several years. Throuh hie
friendship with the Chilkat Indians he
gained information which gave him a
clew to the position of the first monu
ment. From this start he followed
along and discovered several more of
the old landmarks put up years ago by
the czar's followers. The line marked
by these monuments is about five min
utes inland from Pleasant camp, which
is 17 miles from Klukwon. The latter
is five miles from tidewater, on the
Chilkat river. This makes the Russian
suivey line approximately 27 miles in
land to the Summit less than 10 ma
rine leagues, and just where it would
be expected to be from the language
used in the Anglo-Russian treaty of
1825. The Rainy Hollow district is
within American territory. .
LITTLE HOPE FOR CHINA.
Southern Portion Reported in a Terrible
State of Lawlessness.
Tacoma, Oct. 30. "It will take 100
years or more of hard work and the ex
penditure of hundreds of thousands of
dollars to civilize Southern China."
This statement is made by Henry W.
Huntzell, a Methodist Episcopal mis
sionary, sent out by the Chinese mis
sion two years ago to the Chosong sta
tion in Southern China. He is now on
his way back to Chicago on account of
ill health.
"In Southern China murder is as
frequent as meals, and it is called cus
tom instead of crime. Natives have
little or no moral laws. There is mar
riage law, but it is only for protection
of male inhabitants. A Southern Chi
nese woman, once married to a man,
can never desert him. A man can have
as many wives as be likes.
Slave traffic is rampant in all parts
of the southern provinces. Fathers
dispose of their daughters and wives in
the same manner as in this country we
dispose of livestock. Notwithstanding
conditions, within three years since our
mission waB opened we have . made 260
converts. We have established two
schools, and our meetings are well at
tended." BANK SAFE BLOWN OPEN.
The Robbers Take Their Time, While Pals
Keep Off Intruders.
Des Moines, la., Oct. 30. At Prairie
City, early this morning, robbers dyna
mited the sa fe of the Iowa State bank
and secured an amount approximating
$4,000. They exchanged a fusillade
of shots with local officers and escaped.
Night Watchman Erekine discovered
four men approaching the bank at 1
o'clock. One of the men cornered him
and kept him covered with a rifle for
three hour, while another broke open
the bank door and worked on the cafes.
The other two men patrolled the street,
and by a system of signals were able
to hold at bay several citizens attracted
to the scene. Five dynamite shots
were fired by the man in the bank be
fore he succeeded in getting at the cash
box. At 4 o'clock the men escaped,
after firing a number of shots rto terrify
the citizens and shooting through a
door at Erskine, who had opened fire.
A posse was quickly formed and is now
on the trail.
PLANS FOR CRUISER OUT.
Tennessee Will be a Powerful, Instead of
a Fast Boat.
Washington, Oct. 30. Acting Secre
tary Darling has settled the question
which has divided the naval construc
tion board relative to the proposed
armored cruiser Tennessee,' by accept
ing the lecommendation of the majori
ty of the board, which jis in favor of
power instead of high speed. The de
cision was influenced, perhaps, by Ad
miral Melville himself , who assured the
acting secretary that the majoiity
plans, though short in speed, would
give the government a most formidable
and desirable warship. Therefore, by
direction of Mr. Darling, 'Judge Advo
cate General Lemly today sent out ad
vertisements calling for proposals for
the construction of two armoredjeruisers
of the Tennessee class of about 14,500
tons displacement, the bids to be open
ed January 6, 1903. The construction
board now will penect the plans for
two small gunboats to be advertised
For Chinese Trade.
Chicago, Oct. 30. The Record-Herald
tomorrow will say: The manage
ment of the Harriman lines is prepar
ing to make a vigorous campaign for
increased Oriental traffic. With this
end in view, orders will be given for
the construction of four mammoth
ocean going steamers to ply between
Portland and Asiatic ports. The cost
of the steamers will be between $2,
000,000 and $3,000,000 each, and con
struction will begin at once.
Got the Wrong Man.
Butte, Mont , Oct. 30. A special to
the Miner from Missoula says that Van
hazendoct, who was held on suspicion
of being the lone bandit who held np
the North Coast Limited on the North
ern Pacific at Bearmonth last week,
has been released by the authorities.
Trainmen who confronted the prisoner
today were nnable to identify him as
the robber.
(NEWS OF OREGON
ITFMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS
OF THE STATE.
Commercial and Financial Happenings of
the Past Week Brief Review of tn
Growth and Development of Various
Industries Throughout Our Common
wealthLatest Market Report.
Governor Geer is making a tonr of
the eastern part of the state.
Judge Gray, a prominent citizen of
Astoria, ana a native of Oregon, is
dead. He was 63 years lod.
The merchantable lumber of the
Cascade forest reserve is estimated at
50,000,000,000 feet, board measure.
The assessment valuation of Marion
county has increased 4 per cent during
the past year, according to the assessor,
Senator Mitchell, has departed for
Washington, where he will take up his
labors prior to the opening of congress
The Willamette river ia "chanpinfir its
course at balem and threatens to leave
that city high and drv unless steps are
taken to stop it."
Men under governmental supervision
have been doing considerable dynamit
ing in the Willamette near Independ
ence the past week. Several large
snags and boulders were dislodged,
making the upper river transportation
much safer than last winter, when two
or three steamers were sunk by running
into submerged snags.
Tke Willamette Valley Prune asso
ciation, of Salem, is shipping three
carloads of prunes a day and is operat
ing its packing house day and night.
All prunes are shipped in boxes bearing
th association brand. Sales are being
made on the basis price of 2 cents
for the four sizes in bags and a half
cent more for fruit in 25-pound boxes.
Judge Burnett has rendered a de
cision which seems to be very sweeping
in its effect and which will prevent
hopbuyers .from recovering possession
of hops covered by the ordinary con
tract. The decision is to the effect that
the contract is a mortgage and that the
grower can discharge it by paying the
money advanced to him, with interest.
Hops have reached 25 cents at Salem
and a good many sales are now looked
for.
Three hundred goats were shipped to
Montana from Monmouth a few days
ago.
Two new steamers, one for tbe
Columbia river and one lor Puget sound
are being built in Portland.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
new Booth-Kelly sawmill at Spring
field. The company hopes to have the
mill in operation by the first of tbe
year. It will have a capacity of 250,
000 feet of lumber per day.
Oregon has a most promising copper
district in a section little known.
This is the Imnaha, on the Snake river,
not far from where the Seven Devils is
located on the opposite side. As yet
litle development has been done.
The recent rains throughout the Wil
lamette valley have enabled the farm
ers to push the work of fall seeding.
All fruit is picked and other fall work
over and a few days more of good
weather will enable the farmers to fin
ish seeding.
Printers of Oregon City have formed
a union.
The Necanicum spruce lumber com
pany, of Seaside, is making some ex
tensive improvements to its plant.
A majority of the Lewis and Clark
fair directors favor a special session of
the legislature to make an appropria
tion for the exposition. They believe
this nhould be done at once in order to
let the other states have an opportunity
to see what we have done in the matter
and allow them to act accordingly.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat WallaWalla, 6768c: blue-
jstem 7374c; valley, 67c.
Barley Feed, $21.00 per ton; brew
ing, $22.00.
Flour Best grade, 3.203.50; grah
am, $2.903.20.
Millstcffs Bran, $19.00 per ton;
middlings, $23.50; shorts, $19.50;
chop, $17.
Oats No. 1 white, $1.051.07S ;
gray, $1.02K1.05 per cental.
Hay Timothy, $1011; clover,
$7.50; cheat, $8 per ton:
Potatoes Best Burbanks, 6070c
per sack; ordinary, 5055c per cental,
growers' prices; Merced sweets, $1.75
2 per cental.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $3.50
4.25 ; per pourd, 10c; hens, $44."50 per
dozen; per pound, 11c; springs, $3.00
3.50 per dozen; fryers, $2.503.00;
broilers, $2.002.50; ducks, $4.50
6.00 per dozen; turkeys, young, 12
13c; geese, $6.006.50 per dozen.
Cheese Full cream, twins, 14
15c; Young America, 15 17j
factory prices, lljc less.
Butter Fancy creamery, 2730c
per pound; extras, 30c; dairy, 18
20c; store, 12&15.
Eggs 2530c per dozen.
Hops New crop, 2225c per pound.
Wool Valley, 1215c; Eastern
Oregon, 814c; mohair, 26 28c.
Beef Gross, cows, 33c per
pound; steers, 4c; dressed, 67c.
Veal 78Kc.
Mutton Gross, Sc per pound;
dressed, 6c.
Lambs Gross,. 3c per pound;
dressed. 6Kc
Hoga Gross, 6J6c per pound;
dressed, 77Xc
PEACE BOARD MEETS.
Anthracite Coal Strike Commission Holds
Short Session Work Outlined.
Washington, Oct.' 28. The anthra
cite coal strike commission yesterday in
the hearing room of the interstate com
merce commission held its first confer
ence with parties to the controversy
in the. anthracite regions. There was
a full representation of both operators
and' miners and members of the press,
and a number of other interested parties
were present. The commission ocu
pied the elevated seats generally filled
by members of the interstate commerce
commission, Judge Gray, as president,
occupying the center. President Baer
tendered the commission a special train
which, was declined, the members de
ciding to ask or accept no favors.
The commission met at 2 P. M. Mr,
Mitchell, president of the United Mine
workers, Walter Edward Wehl and Dis
trict President Fahay appeared for the
miners, and the co&l carrying roads
were represented as follows : President
Biter, of the Philadelphia & Reading;
E. B. Thomas, chairman of the board
of the Pennsylvania coal company and
Hillsdale coal and iron company; Al
fred Walter, president of the Lehigh
Valley; W. H. Truesdale, president of
the Delaware, Lackawana & Western;
David Wilcox, vice president of the
Delaware & Hudson; John B. Herr,
vice president of the Scran ton coal
company and Elkbiil coal and iron
compiany ; J. H. Torrey, attorney for
the Lehigh valley company.
The proceedings covered about two
hours' time, and were given up en
tirely to a discussion of the time and
method of proceeding with the pro
posed investigation. . The commission
decided to begin its work next Thurs
day morning at 9 o'clock, the first days
of the investigation to be devoted to a
physical examination of the miners and
the homes of the miners, starting in
the vicinity of Scranton. The entire
anthracite field will be covered. There
was much discussion over a proposition
made by the commission to have expert
accountants appointed to audit the
statements of wages and classification
of miners to be made by the operators
for use of the commission, but no de
cision was reached on this point beyond
tbe announcement by the chairman of
the commission's intention to appoint
such an accountant in case his services
should be found necessary.
Judge Gray, the president of the
commission, lead the order of th pres
ident creating the commission, and in a
general way outlined the procedure to
ue followed from the presentation of
the issues. He stated that in accord
ance with the immemorial practice
among English speaking peoples, the
commission would first receive the
statement or deaands of the miners,
who were to be regarded for the pur
poses of this case as tbe prosecutors.
The reply of the other side would then
be heard, Judge Gray said, in order
that the commission might have before
it a definite issue.
CHICAGO SWITCHMEN AGAIN.
Demand an Advance of 5 Cents an Hour
or a Strike Will be Ordered.
Chicago, Oct. 29. Grand Master
Morrissey, of the Brotherhood of Rail
way Trainmen, and Vice Grand Master
W. G. Lee, have arrived at Chicago to
look after the interests of the 7,000
yardmen employed in the Chicago dis
trict, who have presented a demand to
the railroads for an increase of 5 cents
an hour. The railroads have been not
ified that an answer is expected Dy next
Friday.
The action taken by the Chicago
yardmen is said to be the first step in
the movement which started in Kansas
City last June, when the chairmen on
the scale committe of all systems, rep
resenting both the Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen and the Older of
Railroad Conductors, met in joint ses
sion and decided to demand a general
increase in wages for all members of
both organizations. The question was
submitted to a referendum vote of the
membership of both organizations, and
this vote is not all in yet. About
three-fourths cf the entire vote is now
in the hands of the executive officers of
both organizations, and the remainder
is expected before November 1. The
Chicago district of the switchmen is,
however, separate, and the vqte was
almost unanimous in favor of demand
ing the increase.
NO MORE AID NECESSARY.
Miners are Now at Work, and Can Take
Care of Themselves.
New York, Oct. 29. Daniel S. Ja
cobs, chairman of the miners' defense
fund committee of the Central Federat
ed union, said, at a meeting of thai
body today, that as the strike of the
anthracite miners had been declared off
the committee did not think it neces
sary to levy any further contributions
for the miners.
For Puget Sound Navy Yard.
Washington, Oct. 29. In his annual
report the chief of ordnance recom
mends that an appropriation be made
for erecting an ordance workshop at
the Puget sound navy yard, also a
storehouse for guns. Fifty thousand
dollars appropriated last session for
ordnance machinery is asked for imme
diate use in commencing work on the
workshop. Negotiations are in pro
gress looking to acquisition of a site on
Dye's inlet for a naval magazine.
Sharp Naval Battle Promised.
Colon, Oct. 29. The safe arrival of
the Colombian cruiser Bogota at Pana
ma promises a sharp naval engagement
in isthmian waters very shortly, as
American gunners are pn . board both
fleets. The government's hopes are
now centered in the career of the
Bogota.
VESSEL GOES DOWN
STEAMERS CAPITAL CITY AND TRADER
COLLIDE ON. PUGET SOUND.
An Immense Hole was Torn In the Hull of
the Former and She Sank Twenty
Passengers Aboard, but An Escaped
Court of Inquiry Will be Necessary to
Place the Blame.
Tacoma, Oct. 30. The well known
stern wheel steamer Capital City, Cap
tain lid wards, operating between
Olympia, Tacoma and Seattle, and the
small Canadian freighter Trader, Cap
tain H. Parsens, which was en route
from Steveston, B. C, to Tacoma with
a cargo of canned dog-fish salmon for
export on the steamer Tremont, collid
ed about 6 :30 last evening off Dash
point, three-quarters of a mile past
Brown's point, towards Robinson's
point. The Capital City was sunk.
No one was seriously injured, although
the Capital City had about 20 pas
sengers aboard. .
An immense hole was torn ' in the
sternwheeler's hull, on the port side,
just abaft of the forward companion-
way, bhe filled rapidly, and had bare
ly time to run for the beach, where
she sank. It was within a couple of
hours of low tide when the mishap oc
curred, and the after top of the Capital
City's house aft was barely out of
water, her paddle wheel entirely out of
eight. Forward the main deck was
clear. At high tide only the Texas
was out of water.
The Trader's stem was torn off and. a
hole gouged in her bow above the
water line. She made port in safety.
A court of inuuiry will be necessary
to determine blame for the accident.
fhe captain of the Trader claims that
he signaled twice to pass the Capital
City on the starboard side. The first
whistle was not answered, but the
second was responded to with the star
board signal. Tbe next thing he knew
the Capital City attempted to cross his
bows. The captain of the Capital City
says he did not see the trader. The
night was perfectly clear.
CONTRABAND OPIUM SEIZED.
Chinese Steward on Government Vessel
Charged with Smuggling.
Seattle, Oct. 30. Eighty pounds of
epium, which a Chinese steward on
the coast survey steamer Gedney will
be charged with attempting to smuggle
from Victoria to Seattle, was seized
aboard the cutter by customs inspectors
today. Eight parcels, worth m the ag
gregate $1,024, were found in the
steward's department. Gong Gee, the
steward, is in tbe county jail awaiting
trial for attempting to smuggle a coun
tryman between the same points on
the same voyage. A strange feature is
the smuggler's cool nerve in selecting a
government vessel for a vehicle with
which to carry on his illegal practice.
Secretary Shaw's son, a guest on the
Gedney, was induced by some represen
tative of the Celestial te say that Gong
Gee wanted his effects thrown over
board. This gave the officers a cue to
search for opium.
SMUGGLING. WORK EXPOSED.
Many Contraband Chinamen Have Been
Conveyed from Mexico.
El Paso, Tex., Oct. 30. What ap
pears to be a gigantic smuggling con
spiracy for conveying contraband China
men from Mexico to California has
just come to light here. For the past
six months a half dozen United States
marshals and secret service men have
been working on the case, but the facts
only became public today. It seems
that the Chinamen have been stowed
away in box cars of outgoing freight
trains and carried as far West as the
California line.
For these services the Chinese agent
is said to have paid $100 for each man
smuggled to Tucson and $150 for each
one carried 1o Yuma. It was reported
today that certain trainmen had been
discharged for participation in the con
spiracy, but this report has not been
verified.
JURIST VENTS HIS SPITE.
America Now Understands How and Why
It Lost the Samoan Case.
Washington, Oct. 30. The officials
here find an ample explanation of the
adverse decision of King Oscar in the
matter of the Samoan claims in the
statement that comes from Stockholm
to the effect that the king's decision
was influenced by three jurists, one of
whom was M. Cedarkranz, at one time
chief justice of Samoa. It is stated
that while filling that important post,
M. Cedarkranz came into frequent col
lision with Judge Chambers, the Amer
ican land commissioner, who afterwards
succeeded Cedarkranz as chief justice,
and it is believed that the personal ill
feeling that followed undoubtedly in
fluenced the character of the advice given
to King Oscar.
Korea Breaks Pacific Record.
San Francisco, Oct. 30. The Pacific
mail company's new steamer Korea ar
rived at noon today from Yokohama,
breaking the record across the Pacific.
The steamer made no stop between the
coast of Japan and her home port, and
came flying through the water at the
average of nearly 500 miles a day.
Yokohama, in a direct line to San
Francisco, is 4,700 miles, The Korea
made the passage in 10 dayn, averaging
470 miles a day.
Entire Freight Train Burned.
La Porte, Tex., Oct. 30. An engine
spaik today started a small prairie fire.
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blaze and cotton on a flat car was ignit-
ed. The entire train was burned.
TITLE IS VALID.
Report of Attorney General Knox
Panama Canal May be Sold.
Says
Washington. Oct. 28. "The title to
the Panama canal is valid," is the gist
of the report to President Roosevelt by
Attorney General Knox on his investi
gation of the offer of the Panama com
pany. The next step, on the part of
the United States, will be to negotiate
and ratify a treaty giving to it the
rights demanded under the canal legis
lation of last session. President Roose
velt will do everything in his power to
secure the completion of such a treaty
in time for presentation to congress at
the coming short session, as he believes
ample time intervenes for accomplish
ing this object. Should the Colombian
government delay or decline to accede
to the conditions laid down by congress,
thereby causing a postponement until
the first session of the Fifty-eigth con
gress, there is a possibility that the
president will again take under consid
eration the construction of the canal
over the Nicaraguan route. The opin
ion prevails here, however, that a
treaty of satisfactory character will be
negotiated, and that the first steps
looking to the construction of a canal
will be undertaken early next year.
BOLD BANDIT TAKEN.
Mtin Who Is Believed to Have Held Up the
Train in Montana is Captured.
Missoula, Mont., Oct. 28. Deputy
Sheriff W. W. McCormick arrested
near Bonita today a man believed to be
the individual who, single-handed, hi Id
up the North Coast Limited1 passenger
train and murdered Engineer O'Neill
near Bearmouth. The man's size and
general description answer to that of
the robber. He gives the name of
Alfred Vanhazendoct, and at times tries
to talk with German accent and again
uses plain English. He is of medium
statue, has heavy shoulders and is in
clined to stoop, and wore when arrested
a gray suit of clothes and a peculiar lit
tle cap of blue color, and had two 45-
caliber Colt's revolvers strapped to his
body.
He acknowledges he was" at Gold
Creek the night previous to the hold
up, and says he is a tie maker looking
for'employment and "that he was en
route to Missoula when he nassed
through Gold Creek. He explains his
slowness in getting over the ground and
his not being seen all day yesterday
along the road from Gold Creek to
Missoula by stating that he missed his
road shortly after leaving Gold Creek
and had to retrace his steps. The
officers discredit the man's story.
JAPANESE BARRED.
Washington Court Decides They Cannot
Become American Citizens.
Olympia, Oct. 28. The supreme
court, in a decision handed down today,
decides that a Japanese cannot become
a citizen of the United States. The
point came up directly in the matter of
the admission of a young Japanese
lawyer to the bar of this state. Takuji
Yamashita, of Seattle, passed a very
creditable examination for admission to
the bar in the examinations last May,
but the law making citizenship a qual
ification for admission to the bar of
this state is very plain and is undis
puted. The main point in the case
which was presented to the supreme
court in the form of briefs was whether
a native of Japan could become a citi
zen of the United States, and whether
the superior court of Pierce county act
ed within its jurisdiction in granting
naturalization papers to Yamashta.
Tbe decision on this point covers a
matter on which it is said there is no
recent decision by any court, and it
therefore becomes a matter of wide in
terest. WRIGHT GIVEN A VOTE.
Recorder Is Added to Coal Strike Peace
Commission Both Sides Agree.
Washington, Oct. 28. At the request
of the members of the anthracite coal
strike commission, and with the assent
of both the operators and miners, Pres
ident Roosevelt haa appointed Carroll
D. Wright, recorder of the commis
sion, a member of that body. Mr.
Wright has accepted the appointment.
Mr. Wright, as recorder of the com
mission, has received replies from most
of the coal mine owners who are parties
to the controversy, indicating their ac
ceptance of the invitation of the com
mission to attend the conference to be
held for the purpose of agreeing upon
plans for the hearings to be given by
the commission, and also a reply from
Mr. Mitchell, saying he would be rep
resented at the meeting.
Cubans Up In Arms.
Santiago de Cuba, Oct. 28. The
International Brotherhood league sent
to New York by the steamer Orizaba
today 20 children, whose destination is
the league school at San Diego, Cal.
The representatives of the league offer
to educate free an unlimited number of
intelligent children. Their operations
are being opposed by the Cuban press,
the Catholic church and Protestant
missionaries, who declare the league is
making proselytes to Buddhism.
New Torpedo Boat to be Tested.
San Francisco, Oct. 28.- The sub
marine torpedo boat Grampus, recently
built at the Union iron works, is in
drydock here being made ready for her
official trial on the bay. This will in
clude not only the submarine trip, but
a cruise of some distance, with perhaps
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J a test of her efficiency in approaching a j
vessel unawares.
CANAL IS DELAYED
COLOMBIA PUTS UP THE PRICE ON
THE PANAMA ROUTE.
United States is Now Asked to Pay $10,
000,000 The Old Figure $7,000,000
Wants Yearly Payment of $600,000
to Begin at Once, Instead of Waiting
14 Years Negotiations Not Closed.
Washington, Oct. 29. The long ex
pected response of the Colombian gov
ernment to the proposition made by the
state department for the negotiation
for a canal treaty on the lines of the
Spooner act has reached Washington,
and was presented to the state depart
ment by Mr. Herran, secretary of the
Colombian legation. It is difficult to
learn the exact nature of this commun
ication, but it is known that it is not
altogether an unqualified acceptance of
the state department's proposition. It
is. However, friendly and dignified in
tone, and does not close the negotia
tions by any means, though it unques
tionably sets back the date of final
agreement by opening up new topics
lor argument.
For one thing, the Colombian govern
ment is now entirely diseatisfied with
the small amount of the payment to be
made to it by the United States under
the terms of the protocol, which it is
proposed to use as the basis for the
treaty. This sum is $7,000,000.
Colombia wants at least $10,000,000.
Moreover, the original proposal looked
to await 14 years before' beginning the
payment of annual rental, the . amount
of which was to be fixed then Dy mut
ual agreement. Colombia now asks the
United States to agree at :nce upon a
lump yearly payment of $600,000,
which will largely increase the imme
diate cost of the enterprise. The
Colombian government clings to its
contention that it has no constitutional
authority to alienate any Colombian
territory, and reiterates that the best it
can do to meet the language of the
Spooner act, which looks to perpetual
control by the United States over the
canal strip, is to make a 100- year
lease, with a distinct stipulation that
the same shall be renewable by the
United States at the expiration of the
first century.
TRUE VALUE OF TEXAS OIL;
Geological Survey Says the Field Equals
Russian District in Size.
Washington, Oct. 29. The Texas-
Louisiana oil field is discussed exhaust
ively in a report of the United States
geological survey. The existence of
petroleum in the Gulf Coast Plain,
which extends inland for 100 miles, '
has been known as far back as 1860.
The report says the extreme porosity
of Spindle-Top oil rock favcrs the
storage of a very large volume of oil
and a very rapid yield when the reser
voir ie tapped. But it also favors the
early exhaustion of the oil in the pool,
and its rapid replacement by the under
lying salt water. Beds of sulphur
bearing sand are reported fiom some of
the wells on Spindle-Top, and beds of
gypsum and of salt from others. The
conclusion is reached with regard to the
Spindle-Top field that the rock contains
about one-fourth of its volume of oil.
Even if the estimate is one barrel ob
tained for every 26 cubic feet for
Spindle Top, and a little less for other
fields, there should be a yield equal to
the Baku fields in Russia, and a much
greater output than that for all of the
other American fields.
The report savs that the apparent
concensus of opinion among chemists
who have examined the field is that the
gulf petroleum is unsuited for the pro
duction of illuminating oil, and that it
is doubtful if it can be made to yield a
good lubricating oil on a commercial
basis. Its value as a source of asphalt
and as a gas oil are as yet undeter
mined. The experiments seem to
establish both its availability and its
economy as a generator of steam.
Whether the Beaumont petroleum may
be successfully used in metallurgical
processes is not yet settled.
CUBA TURNS IT DOWN.
Rejects Treaty Offered by United States,
and Makes Counter Proposal.
Havana, Oct. 29. The represent
ative here of the Associated Press has
learned from official sources that the
proposed treaty between the United
States and Cuba was returned to Wash
ington bv mail last Saturday. With
the treaty was sent a counter proposi
tion by the government of Cuba to
that of the United States, the nature of
which is not known, but it is under
stood that President Palma, in a letter
sent with the treaty, says the accept
ance of tbe propositions made by the
United States would be ruinous to
Cuba, as it would result in a large re
duction of the customs revenue of the
island.
Mrs. Elizabeth Stanton Dead.
New York, Oct. 29. Elizabeth Cady
Stanton, the well known woman suf
fragist, died today at her home in West
Ninety-fourth street, in this city. Old
age was given as the cause of death.
She was conscious almost to the last.
About a week ago Mrs. Stanton began
to fail rapidly. This became more
noticeable last week, and then it was
known to the family that her death
was only a question of days or hours.
She was born in 1815.
Explosion of 600 Kegs of Powder.
Fairmount, W. Va., Oct. 29. The
Fairmount powder works, located 18
miles from this city, was damaged to
the extent of $30,000 by the explosion
of 600 kegs of powder. No one was in
jured. The machinery was completely
wrecked and iron was thrown for miles
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