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CORVALLIS GAZETTE CORVALLIS.. CRBGON NEWS OF THE WEEK la a Condensed Form lor Our Busy Readers. A Resume of the Less Important but Not Less Interesting Events of the Past Week. The Servian cabinet has resigned. The bank at Goldfield, Nevada, has failed. Efforts to settle the Chicago strike have been renewed. The German empress fell down stairs and sustained severe injuries. Minister Russell is coming home to testify in the Bowen-Loomis dispute. The fraternal temple at the Lewis and Clark fair has been formally dedi cated. , The Machen-Lorenz-Crawford post office fraud case is on trial in Wash ington. The St. Fan! railroad is to reach the coast by connection with the Oregon Short Line. The Hague arbitration tribunal has decided that Japan cannot tax foreign concessions. A number of colliers accompanying the Russian fleet caught fire and will be total losses. A. number of St. Louis fair exhibitors have asked for a hearing, holding that the awards were unfair. v . The resident will call an extra ses ion of congress in October to act on . the railroad rate question. The divided Russian fleet will meet at the Babuyan islands, north of Luzon and proceed to Vladivostok. The Presbyterian general assembly has decided on union, but the Cumber land Presbyterians have not yet reached a decision. General Chaffee will make a tour of the army posts in Alaska. The Venezuelan supreme court has cancelled the asphalt concession. The president has been asked to make a national investigation of life insurance companies. The Goulds will extend the Western Pacific road from Winnemucca, Nevada, to Portland. itojestvensKy nas ten nis siow- snipe in a French port and wilt make a dash with the fast ones. The body of John Paul Jones will be brought to this country from France with an escort of three warships. Negotiations to end the Chicago teamsters' strike have again failed and ' it is believed the strike will be extend ed. Speaker Cannon says supplies and materil for the building of the Panama canal will be purchased in the United States. Judge Holt, of the United States court, has ordered that John A. Benson be tried in Washington for defrauding the government of land. ; The United States government has as yet taken no definite action towards lr rigating a tract of 55,000 acres in the Yakima valley and the state may pro ceed under the Carey act. " A new commander has been sent to Vladivostok.; i, ; Both armies in Manchuria are ready for another great battle. Chicago teamsters are seeking a way out of the strike, acknowledging their defeat. Pala, the. outlaw Moro chief, has been killed by the. troops under Gene ral Wood. "The fourth division of Rojestvensky's squadron will sail for the Far East June 14. Henry E. McGinn, of Portland, will likely be appointed ags Judge Belling er's successor. . Taft's position on buying canal sup plies has split the cabinet and may re sult in tariff revision. . Bojestvensky is said to have asked St. Petersburg to be relieved from com' mand of the Russian fleet on account of sickness. - Of the land to be reclaimed in Kla math basin, 146,400 acres is in Oregon and 90,000 acres in California. Work will begin on the Oregon side. A number of papers relating to the Bowen-Loomis case, sent to Secretary Hay by the minister to Venezuela, have been lost. Mr. Loom is has charge of the documents as acting secretary of state. , . A Japanese steamer has been sunk at Port Arthur by coming in contact with a uoauug uiuic. General Nogi and his army is mak ing a forced march to reach Tsitsihar. a station on the Siberian railroad, and cut off communication with Harbin. Russian troops are said to be massing on the northern confines of the Balkan peninsula in a way that arouses the fear of Turkey and the Balkan states There is talk of China putting trade - reprisals in force as a result of the strict exclusion oi suDiects irom me unitea States. CANAL, POLICY UNCHANGED. Plain Statement is Given Out From V . Washington, May 23. The follow ing statement was given out at the War department tonight: 1"- ; "No little amusement has been cre ated in the administration at Washing ton and among its friends over the at-1 tempt to distort ' the facts about the Panama purchases, and especially in the attempt to show that under pressure there has been an alteration in policy. Ever since Secretary Taft and the Panama commissioon, with the presi dent's approval, announcced their in tention, there has not been the sngnt est change,' and all statements to the contrary have no foundation whatever." The statement seems to indicate some difference of opinion between the pres ident and Secretary Taft regarding the policy of purchasing supplies for the Isthmian canal wherever they can be secured at the lowest prices. After the policy of buying supplies either in America or abroad had been announced, great pressure was exerted by the "Stand-patters" to have the matter left for determination of con gress. . Speaker Cannon was at the White house and urged this course on the president. The matter was pre sented to the cabinet meeting Friday and the subsequent intimation given that concessions had been made the ultra-protectionists to the extent that only necessary material would be pur chased nntil an opportunity had been given congress to enact 'legislation en the subject. This is how followed by. declaration from Secretary Taft that there has been no change of policy There will undoubtedly be a renewal of pressure upon the president .either to have supplies bought from American manufacturers at increased prices or nothing done until after assembling of congress'. STANDARD PIPES IN KANSAS. Connections Completed to Reach Half Across the Continent. Kansas City, Mo., May 23. W. F Gates, of Independence, Kan., superin tendent of all the pipe lines of the Standard Oil company in Kansas, Mis- souri, Indian Territory and Oklahoma, said today: "We are preparing to take care of all the oil production in the Kansas field The Whiting, I. T., pipe line will be oompleted in a few days, and then we can handle all the oil produced west of the Mississippi river." The Standard s pipe line at Whiting from its Sugar Rock refinery is nearly established on the outskirts of Kansas City, and will be completed next Fri day, according to officials who have visited the local plant. The Whiting line the construction of which was be gun last September, is to supply an outlet for 6,000,000 barrels of oil stored by, the company at Humboldt, Canea, Ramona and Needesha, Kan At Whiting the pipe line will connect with the company's lines to Bayonne, N. J., thus completing a line that will reach half way across the continent.' The effect of the completion of the line to Whiting will be thatthe Stand ard Oil company will be able to handle 75,000 barrels of oil a day. Already pipe line superintendents of the com pany are laying out new plans in an ticipation of the ' completion of the Whiting line, v One of these lines will run from Paola to Rantoulo. The con struction forces of the company are also working on an order, recently issued. for the construction of 150 tanks of 35,- 000 barrels capacity each. Fire Burns Ail Day Long. Wilkesbaire, Pa., May 23. One of the most disastrous fires that has oc curred in this city in years started early today, and not until afternoon were the firemen able to control the flames. The loss will reach $300,000. The fire originated in the millinery department of the Isaac Lorg dry goods house in the Wells building, on the west side of the public square, one of the handsom est and costliest structures in Wilkes barre. When first discovered the flames were promptly controlled by the firemen in less than one hour. A sec ond fire broke out in the basement of the building an hour after the first one had been subdued. ' Fighting with Pulajanes. . Manila, May 23. Colonel Wallace Taylor, of the constabulary, was se verely wounded in an engagement with the Pulajanes, May 17, at Magtaon, on the coast of Samar. One private was killed and ten wounded in the engage ment. Many Pulajanes were killed Two companies of the Twenty-first in fantry will leave Catbalogan to rein force the constabulary. Desultory fighting continues in the islands south of Jolo. Maior-General Wood, who recently conducted a campaign against Moro outlaws; has arrived in Manila. Duty on American Imports. : St. Petersburg, May 32. The desir ability of securing the revocation of the imposition by Russia of the maxim duty on American imports levied in retaliation for the . imposition of countervailing duty by the United States on Russian sugars, which Am bassador .Meyer is trying to adjust, is assuming additional importance, owing to the fact that the new Russo-German tariff, will form a basis for a "most favored nation" clause. Reina Mercedes Repaired. Portsmouth, May 23. The cruiser Reina Mercedes, captured at Santiago during the war with Spain, sailed to day for Newport, R. 1., after having been remodeled as a receiving ship; The cruiser has been undergoing re pairs for nearly five years and is said now to be one of the best equipped re ceiving snips in the navy. S REPORTED DEAD Paris Report Says Rojestvensky Is No More. NEBOGATOFF NOW IN COMMAND Russian Embassy Without News, Al though It Is Admitted That It Might Be So. Paris, May 23. A sensation has been created here by the circulation of a report that advices have been received by a well known firm of -French bank ers, who have been active in the pasty in floating the' Russian loans, from their confidential agent at St. Peters burg, stating that Admiral Rojestven sky has died of dysentery and that Ad miral Nebogatoff has assumed command of the joint fleets of Russian Far East ern waters. The report caused a semi-panic in certain quarters, but it is impossible to trace it or to determine where it origin ated." At the Russian embassy the agent of the Publishers' Press was in formed that, while thev had heard such a report, they had received no advices of that character from the home gov ernment, and tne secretary declared that, if such a report had been received at St. Petersburg, it would . have been communicated to the embassy without delay. He waa not inclined to believe the rumor, although he admitted that it might be so. On the other rand, persons best, ac quainted with Admiral Rojestvensky's condition declare that the report may be well true, as the last information received from the Baltic fleet stated that he was very ill and had to have a Burgeon in constant attendance upon him. MINE CAVES IN. United Verde in Arizona 'Is Reduced to Ruins. Prescott, Ariz., May 23. Millions of tons of rock and earth caved in at noon today in Senator Clark's United Verde copper mine, at Jerome, Ariz,, the ground dropping- from the surface to the 700-foot level. Crackling timbers gave the alarm and 300 miners fled for their lives and escaped uninjured. For several days the ground has been settling and timbers creaking. Today with a mighty crash the earth caved, carrying with it the new shaft, levels, drifts and slopes. irom nssures on the surface come clouds of sulphur smoke from that part of the mine which has been on fire for several years. The extent of the damage cannot as yet be ascertained, but if it is as bad as feared the great 'property will be closed and the existence of Jerome will be doomed. The hoisting works, which are over the mine, have settled, and the machinery cannot be worked. The smelting plant has a's ) been shut and all activity ceased. The officials of the company take an optimistic view of the situation,- and say the damage is not irreparable, and the smelter will be 'Working again within a month. SCHOOL LAND NOT AFFECTED. M Richards Decides State May Still Make Indemnity Selections. ; Washington, May 23. Land Com missioner Richards, in response to an inquiry, has advised Oregon State Land Agent Oswald West that the act of March 3, 1905, repealing the lieu land law has no bearing whatever on the right of the state to make indemnity selections of land in place of school sections which the state may lose in forest reserves. Whenever school sec tions are hereafter included in forest reserves in Oregon or any other state, the state will be entitled to make in demnity selection as heretofore, regard less of whether the school sections so included are surveyed or unsurveyed. Life Through Chemistry. Berkeley, Cal., May 23.' Professor Jacques Loeb, the biologist of the Uni versity of California, has, it is claimed. succeeded in - developing by artificial chemical means the eggs of the sea urchin so that the larvae produced in the laboratory cannot be distinguished from the living forms produced during the process of fertilization. The order of events in the process of fertilization is in both cases the same. Dr. Loeb's new method is in every respect a com plete imitation of natural fertilize tion. Will Pacify East Samar. Manila, May 23. In response to the request of Governor General Wright Major General Corbin has detailed Brigadier General William H. Carter, commander of the department of the Visayas, to assume the pacification of the east coast of Samar. All the Fed eral troops that are required have been furnished. The native scouts who have been on civil duty on the island of Sa mar have returned. General Carter has sailed to take the field in person. Sigsbee Will Sail About June 8 ' Washington, May 23. Orders .were prepared at the Navy department today directing Rear Admiral Sigsbee, whose squadron has been selected for the trip to France to bring to the United States the remains of Paul Jones, to be ready to proceed from New York not later than June 8. AjjAN CONTROLS KOREA. Minister Runs Countryand ; Removal ;. of Emperor is Proposed. Paris, May 22 Reports received here through authoritive channels rep resent Japan as carrying things with a high, hand in Corea. Whether the re ports are influenced by sentiment it is mpossible to say, but they recite a number of specific facts supporting the view that M. Hayashi. the JaDanese minister to Corea, no longer observes the position of the other ministers at Seoul. He is said to consider himself sort of resident general or viceroy. thus taking precedence over his diplo matic colleagues, who are obliged to await his J convenience in dealing with the court and government. The gen eral commanding the Japanese troops is represented as seconding the assump tion of precedence on the part of the Japanese minister. The official reports confirm reports from Pekin that the Japanese recently exerted strong pressure upon the em peror of Corea to induce him to leave the country and go to Japan with the evident purpose of removing him as an .obstacle to the development of Japan- control. The emperor is said to have requested the departure of the Japanese officials who had made this representation and to have taken dis creet means to permit the European government to learn of the prospects of nis removal. finally, when this in formation reached , the St. Petersburg Foreign office, it issued a protest against Japan's assumption of control of the affairs of Corea. . ; FILLS IN GAP. President Creates New Forest Re serve in Cascades. Washington, May 22. The president will soon sign a proclamation creating tne xafcima forest reserve in Kittitas and King counties, Washington, em bracing nearly 2,600 square miles of land. This reserve will include the summit and slopes of the Cascade mountains and virtually all the timber country between the Washington and Rainier reserves. When this proclamation is signed tnere will be one continuous reserve following the Cascade mountains from a point a few miles north of the Colum bia clear to the British Columbia boun dary. Running through the Vakima reserve is the Northern Pacific land grant, em bracing alternate sections. These lands will not be included, so the forest re serve will be one immense checker board, although for practical purposes the entire area of railroad as well as public lands will be brought under the care of the government. The Northern Pacific sections will be worth little to the railroad when the reserve is creat ed, and it is possible some plan will be devised whereby the government can purchase or otherwise acquire them in order that the Yakima reserve may be come a compact body. FERRY BOAT RUNS AWAY. Loaded Down With Excursionists It Smashes Into Wharf. San Francisco, May 20. The lives of over 2,000 passengers, most of whom were women and children on their wav to the annual picnic of St. Dominic's church, were endangered today by an accident on the ferry boat Tamalpais Running at full speed, the boat, with engines entirely beyond control, crashed into the dock, ripping out piles and woodwork and throwing the frightened passengers into a wild panic. A break in the engine room was re sponsible for the accident. When the captain gave the engineer the signal to slow down, 100 yards from the ferry slip, the levers gave way and the boat ran at full speed straight into the dock. Realizing the impossibility of averting a crash, the officers drove the crowt's back from the forward deck and sound ed the danger signal to attract the em ployes on the wharf . The steamer struck with a terrible crash, but hawsers were thrown aboard and, though the engines were still run ning at full speed, the apron was low ered and the frightened crowd rushed ashore. Several women fainted during the excitement. Use Wireless on Coast. Vallejo, Cal., May 22. It is pro posed by the Navy department to es tablish wireless telegraph stations at Point Loma, Cape Blanco, Cape Flat tery, North .-, Head, ' Point Wilson and Bremerton. The establishment of these new stations will - practically cover the Pacific coast, and they will be especially valuable to warships car rying wireless instruments. The Weather bureau has ' offered to turn over to the Navy department some ma terials and instruments to help fit out the new stations. , President's Keen Interest in War. Washington, May 22. Secretary Morton and Commander Seaton Schroeder, chief of the bureau of naval intelligence, had an interview with President Roosevelt "today" concerning the prospective battle between the Rus sian and Japanese fleets. Commander Schroeder has prepared a document in which he compares the strength and qualities of ' the two fleets. He ex plained to the president his figures and deductions. The president is interested, " ! ! ' Germans Get Big Contract. St. Petersburg, May 22. Arrange ments tor the return of 50.000 invalid soldiers from the front has been per fected by the North GermanjLloydJcom pany, The contract givesjihe company 165 roubles ($84.71) for each soldier. The Americans overlooked thisjbusiness at tne nrst and now are cut out. ' OREGON STATEITEMSf OFflNTERESf I ' , YELLOW WITH GOLD. Rich Strike Made in Southern Oregon Mine Creates Excitement. Medford A strike was made ' in the Opp mine last week that eclipses any thing that has ever been made on the Pacific coast, and even beats the great district of Tonopah and Goldfield, in a true-fissure vein that is between slate and porphyry, which averages 15 feet in width. An ore chute was opened which is 100 feet in length and feet in width, all specimen rock, which will be exhibited at the Lewis & Clark fair, in Portland, nis rock is literally cov ered with the yellow metal, and runs $40,000 to the ton. v One man took out $10,000 in one shift, and the rock is now on exhibi tion at the Medford permanent exhibi tion building.. Some sacks go as much as $1,000 per sack. -Thie, strike has caused the greatest excitement among miners and prospectors of anything that has occurred since the great Gold Hill excitement in 1865, which this exceeds. Dr. J. F. Reddy came to Medford from Spokane, Wash., one year ago, in search of a quartz property, and was advised by many so-called experts that there was nothing in the district that would warrant an investment or expen diture of any capital along these lines, but as inasmuch as Dr. Reddy could plainly see that nothing but surface work had ever been done, save where a mine had paid from the crass roots, and having unbounded faith in the district, after careful examination, he decided to erect on this mine a ten-stamp mill, and since the erection of the same it has earned $100 per diem net, which only shows that Southern Oregon today has more undeveloped resources than any territory west of the Mississippi river. WORKING NIGHT AND DAY. Pendleton Scouring Mill Has Bought Much Wool This Season. Pendleton The Pendleton wool scouring mills have purchased 3,000, 000 pounds of wool, this year and has its plant running day and night with shifts of 35 men each, cleaning the wool. Four thousand pounds of the scoured product are turned out daily from 16,000 pounds of the raw mater ial put . through the vats. The wool shrinks about 74 per cent in the clean ing process. The scoured wool is sell isg at 65 cents a pound f. o. b. Pen dleton. This is being baled as fast as cleaned, and the grease wool baler will be started next week to bale such wool as will be sent east uncleaned. The Furnish warehouse has received so far this season about 400,000. pounds of wool from north of the city, Echo and from the Pilot Rock district, with dozens of loads coming in daily. A second baling machine is being installed, which will handle a larger amount than last year, which was over 3,000,000 pounds. The larger part of the wool being brought to town is sold and as soon as baled will be shipped to the Boston markets. Ready for the Water. Pendleton One of the maDy meri torious irrigation enterprises under con struction in Umatilla county is the Hermiston project, being finished up by the Maxwell Land & Irrigation company of Maxwell, or Hermiston, four miles west of Echo on the main line of the 0. R. & N. A dam was built across the Umatilla four miles above the townsite and water diverted into the canal, which is about eight miles long At present the company has 9,000 acres under the ditch ready for cultivation and has 160 acres in. alfalfa and pota toes to demonstrate what the land will produce if water is put on it. Make First Payment. Giants Pass C. N. Matthews, who has been interested in mining proper ties on .Sucker creek for a number of years past, , and who in conjunction with his partner, M. F. Hull, has reported some excellent properties in that'district, was in the city this week and reported, the first payment of $1, 000 on the $6,000 bond recently taken by Frank Fowler and his associates upon the Gold Pick mine, situated on Bolen creek, m the Sucker creek dis trict. Mr. Matthews reports the prop erty showing up exceedingly well. Promising New Group. Sumpter A new property is being developed in this ; district that gives promise of being developed into a pay ing proposition. This is the Empire group, consisting of four claims ,and is under the management of A. M. Harris, who for some - time past has been identified with the Sumpter dis trict, and is thoroughly posted as to its possibilities. He has succeeded in interesting Detroit capitalists who are able to carry on development. ' i Settlers for North Powder. North Powder A letter received by a prominent citizen of North Powder states that 50 families, comprising about 200 people, from Iowa, . Indiana and Illinois, have agreed to purchase tickets for this point. The advance guard is expected to arrive within the next 30 days. 'To Reopen Hatchery, i Eugene J. A. Talbert,' of Clacka mas, is at the site of the state salmon hatchery on the McKenzie river, 28 miles east of Eugene, making prepara tions to reopen it. . He expects to be collecting spawn within a few days, as the salmon, are collecting in large schools. STATE ON CREDIT BASIS. Referendum Petitions Stop Projected. Improvements of State Institutions Salem The filing of th for the referendum . upon the general appropriation bill with the secretary of state, throws the state upon its credit until the next legislature makes good the deficiency, unless the people? see fit to sustain the action of the last legit lature and adopt the measure at ine june election of 1906. The gen eral appropriation bill carries a total of $li454,379.90, and the invoking of the rcierenaum upon it not only blocks thft progress of the normal schools, inclu sion of which in the bill was the direct cause of the ,- referendum movement against it, but also seriously impedes the contemplated work of improvement and enlargement of the asylum for in sane ana omer state institutions, which depend upon the aDDrorriation for maintenance. All this raises the ouestion of what action the secretary of state and mem bers of the boards of trustees of the different state institutions will take upon the act adopted by the last legis lature. Drovidinsr that all state institutions, educational, penal. reiormatory, eelymosenary, etc., shall be paid monthly, instead of nnarterlv. This act prescribes that at the end of eacn montn and upon presentation of the duly verified and approved pay rolls oi any of the institutions by the superintendent or other authorized offi cial to the secretary of state, accom panied by a surety bond in & rinffiriant sum to cover all liability, the secretary oi state is required to draw a warrant in full of the amonnt nf thn ntwrnH . . . i j and in favor of the sueprintendent. wno is authorized to draw the money from the treasury and required to pay the employes the amount due them for their labors CROP OUTLOOK GOOD. Wheat, Rye, Barley and Hay Promise to Eclipse Josephine Records. Grants Pass - Farmers from the out lying district report the cereal crop for the Rogue river valley in excellent condition this year, and to be headingc from two to three weeks in advance of several years past. Larger quantities of wheat have been planted in - the past year in Josephine county than every before, and it is believed that a number of men who have recently purchased their farms, will pay off the first cost with the banner yield of this year. Wheat all over the county is three to four feet high, and has a uniformly heavy growth. A great deal of rye and barley is be ing grown on the lowlands of the Rogue; river valley this year, and these are proving very lucrative crops. The hay crop in the Upper Applegate, Williams and Slate creek districts will show a heavier tonnage than ever before in. the county, and the second crop of al falfa and red clover is ready for cutting; in many localities. Motor Car Arrives. Portland The Southern Pacific's, new motor car for service between Portland and Forest Grove has arrived and is at the Southern Pacific shops in East Portland. As soon as possible, it will be put in condition and given a trial run over the West Side branch of the Southern Pacific. Some slight re pairs must be made before the car is. operated, but it is expected that the trial run will be made in a few days and as soon as practicable thereafter will be put in commission, running; regularly between Portland and Forest Grove, making stops at way points-. Regents of University of Oregon. Salem Governor Chamberlain has appointed Judge R. S. Bean to succeed himself as a member of the board of regents of the University of Oregon. Senator M. A. Miller, of Lebanon, was appointed on the same board to succeed Charles Hilton, of The Dalles, whose term has expired, and J. C. Ainsworth,. of Portland, was appointed to succeed the late Judge TJ. B. Bellinger, whose term on the board would -expire in 1909. Judge Bean and Senator Miller are appointed for a term of 12 years, each. $200 Gold in a Day. . Albany Encouraging reports con tinue to come from the Blue river min ing district. Henry Winkley has just come out from the mines and reports greater activity than ever before. The Great Northern mine, with a small four-stamp mill, is taking out $20O worth of fine gold daily, and before July 1 will have a 65-stamp mill aU work on the property. The company-. has delved in the ground only 250 feet,, but has much gold ore in sight. Wheat Club, 8486c per bushel; bleustem, 9092c; valley, 8590c. Oats No. 1 white, feed, $2829 per ton; gray, $28.50. Hay Timothy. $1416 per ton: clover, $1112; grain, $11 12; cheat, $1112. Eggs Oregon ranch, 18c per doz. Butter Fancy . creamery, 17J20c per pound. . Apples Table, $1.502.50 per box Strawberries Oregon, 1015c per pound. Potatoes Old, $1.051.15; new potatoes, 22e per pound. Hons-i-Choice. 1904, 23)$25c per pound. ., . . Wool Eastern Oregon, " best, 199 n. . 17 07l. nnnnil' mfthftlT 4iC, valley , Y K1 . lr"""" ' w choice, 3132c per pound., t ' .-