Heppner Gazette
Issued Thursday of Each Week
HEPPNER OREGON
RESUME OF THE
WEEK'S DOINGS
General Review of Important Hap
pening? Presented in a Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers National, Political, His
torical and Commercial.
Henry Watterson says he wants no
public office.
The British Liberal party has spli
on home rule.
Dowie has returned from his new col
ony in Mexico.
There is a growing disaffection in
the St. Petersburg garrison.
Russian police have found letters
telling of a plot to kill the czar.
Sarah Bernhardt will build and
maintain a theater in New York, ac
cording to her manager.
Turkey is expected to offer no resist
ance to the allied fleet unless troops are
landed, in which event a fight may en
sue.
I he large number ol accidents in
football games this season has aroused
college authorities to take action against
the game.
It is probable that in the reorganiza
tion of congress Ankeny and iulton
will secure chairmanships of important
committees.
The management of the Rock Island
railroad has decided to practically re
build the entire system to secure t
minimum grade.
Fifteen persons were injured and
many others badly shaken up in
wreck on the Missouri Pacific near
Leeds, Missouri.
The Russian minister of finance esti
mates that the expenditures for the
coming year will be $1,020,000,000 and
the revenue $1,027,000,000.
The powers may allow Austria to
seize Macedonia.
A fierce gale in Chicago did much
damage to property.
A fresh mutiny has broken out on
the Russian Black sea fleet
More graft is being exposed in the
insurance inquiry at New York.
Bulgaria is anxious to invade Mace
donia, but is restrained by the powers.
Russian employers have united to
fight the strikeis, who have nearly
ruined them.
Helena shippers have organized to
fight rate discrimination and may form
a state association.
The cashier of the Hayti, Missouri,
bank has disappeared with $18,000 of
the institution's money.
A large colony of Boers is to locate
in Venezuela. A grant of over a mil
lion acres of land has been made by
President Castro.
The president has appointed H. J.
Hagerman, of Roswell, N. M., as gov
ernor of New Mexico, to take effect
Janaary 1, the expiration of Governor
Otero's term.
Four prisoners in the Jefferson, Mis
souri, penitentiary, made a desperate
attempt to escape. Two guards were
killed, a third seriously wounded, and
the prison gates blown up with nitro
glycerine. The convicts were captured
after a fight in which one was killed
and one wounded.
Balfour will resign as premier of
Great Britain.
Missouri ia continuing its fight
against the Standard Oil.
Fire in a' coal barge at London de
stroyed 2,000 tons of coal.
The government's case in the second
trial of Burton is completed.
' Japan is working to raise Togo's
Eunken flagship, the Mikasa.
The allied fleet of the powers is
preparing to seize Turkish ports.
Spain will spend $4,200,000 for the
purchase of rapid fire field guns.
A Nebraska man has been fined $50
and costs for making a cigarette.
Four Berlin banks have organized a
bank to do business in Turkey and
Egypt.
Ambassador Reid has contributed
$500 to the fund for Egnland'B unem
ployed.
Another national strike of coal min
ers is imminent. Should it occur,
300,000 men will be affected.
Lieutenant General ChaffVe has re-
itred from active service. He is suc
ceeded as chief of staff by Major Gen
eral John C. Bates.
Acting Public Printer Ricketts has
forbidden the making of handbooks on
the racse among employes of his office,
under pain of dismissal.
Ohio Democrats plan to control both
houses of the legislature by unseating
Republicans.
Witte ib seriously ill.
Iowa is fighting a trust of fire insur
ance companies.
The British army is to have a gene
ral staff at its head.
Twenty-four Russian provinces are
in a state of anarchy. .
The cruifer Minneapolis is said to be
ground off the French coast.
GREATEST HARVEST IN HISTORY
Present Year Was Record Breaker in
United States.
Washington, Nov. 28. "W. alth pro
duction on the farms o the United
States in 1905 reached the highest
amount ever attained in this or any
other country $6,415,000 000."
In the first annual report of his third
term Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
presents an array of figures and a state
ment representing products and profits
of the farmers of this country, which
he admits "dreams of wealth produc
tion could hardly equal."
Four crops make new high records as
to value corn, hay, wheat and rice
although in amount of production the
corn is the only one that exceeds pre
vious yields. In every crop the gen
eral level of production was high and
that of prices still higher. Beside the
enormous yield of wealth the secretary
estimates that the farms of the country
have increased in value during the past
five years to a present aggregate of $0,
133.000.000.
"Every sunset during the past five
years," he eavs, "has registered an in
crease of $3,400,000 in the value of the
farms of this country."
Analyzing the principal crops for the
year, the secretary says that corn
reached its highest production at 2,
708,000,000 bushels, a gain of 42,000,
000 over the next highest year, 1899 ;
hay is second in order of value, al
though cotton held second place during
the two preceding years. The hay crop
this year is valued at $(10,000,000.
Cotton comes third, with a valuation
of $575,000,000; wheat, $525,000,000;
oats, $282,000,000; potatoes, $138,-
000,000; barley, $58,000,000; tobacco,
$12,000,000; sugar, cane and sugar
beets, $50,000,000; rice, $13,000,
000; dairy products, $50,000,000, an
increase of $54,000,000, over last year.
PLENTY OF MONEY.
Secretary of Interior Has Not Been
Furnished Proper Figures.
Washington, Nov. 28. When the
secretary of the Interior and the Recla
mation service reach an understanding
as to the extent and condition of the
national reclamation fund, it is expect
ed that a number of new irrigation pro
jects, including projects in Eastern
Oregon and Eastern Washington, will
he approved and placed under contract.
But until there is a complete under
standing, the present chaotic condition
must continue, arid inactivity will be
the rule, save on projects that are act
ually under contract.
The great misunderstanding that now
prevails is as to the amount ol money
available for use, and the restrictions
under which that money may be ex
pended. The Reclamation service has
its own set of figures, but those figures
do not coincide with the figures which
have been furnished Secretary Hitch
cock by the men in his own department
upon whom he relies. The secretary,
confronted with very different financial
statements, from sources which ought
to agree, has concluded that neither is
right, yet he is unable to figure out for
himself just how much money he has
to spend, and how much he has spent
in the 3g years the reclamation law
has been in force.
WRECK TAKES FIRE.
Fourteen Persons Lose Lives in Mas
sachusetts Disaster.
Lincoln, Mass., Nov. 28. Fourteen
persons were killed, 25 were seriously
njured, and probably a score of others
cut and bruised in the most disastrous
railroad wreck recorded in this ftite
for many years. The wreck occurred
at 8:15 o'clock, at Baker's Bridge sta
tion, a mile and a half west of Lincoln,
on trie main line oi me t nciiourg en
vision of the Boston & Maine railroad.
The regular express, which left Boston
at 7:45 o'clock for Montreal, by way of
he Rutland system, crashed into the
rear end of an accommodation train
jound for points on the Marlborough
branch, and which started from Boston
at 7:15.
Of the dead, a dozen were passengers
n the two rear cars of the Marlborough
rain. The other two were Engineer
Barnard, of the Montreal express, and
his fireman. No passengers on the
express train were injured, lit those
who lost their lives, a number were ap-
arentlv instantly killed in the collis-
on, while others were eitrier ourneu io
death or died from suffocation.
All Cut and Dried Affair.
Washington, Nov. 28. Two things
are positively known about the coming
congress, namely, that Joseph G. Can
non, of Illinois, will be re-elected
speaker and John Sharp Williams will
be nominated for that otlice by the
Democrats, thereby conferring upon
him the title of minority leader. Fur
thermore, it means that Messrs. Can
non and Williams will personally make
up the committee slates, the speaker
naming Republican members and all
chairmen, and Williams naming the
minority members.
No Flowers at Capitol
Washington, Nov. 28. There will
be no flowers in either house on the
opening day of congress. A resolution
of the senate was adopted during the
last session of congress barring flowers
from the senate chamber. Mr. Cannon
has already given notice that he will
not allow the flowers to he brought in
as heretofore. Rivalry of admirers of
different members of both houses
reached a stage where the deEks were
buried in flowers.
Famine in Part of Japan.
Victoria, B. ('., Nov. 28. Famine
prevails because of the failure of the
rice crop in Northeast Japan. Thegov
ernment has begun relief measures.
NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FROM THE STATE OF OREGON
NEW LUMBER CENTER.
Two Mills Building and Three Under
Consideration at Dallas.
Dallas Though situated in the midst
of a splendid fruitraiaing and hopgrow-
ing territory, Dallas promises to become
a great lumber center an well. In ad
dition to the Cone mill, now being
built, and the Nap mill, which will be
remodeled, three more propositions are
now before the business interests of the
city for consideration.
Plans for the remodeling of the Nap
mill are completed. The mill will be
rebuilt several hundred feet west of the
present location, and enlarged to a 50,-000-foot
plant. A pond will be exca
vated between the "Y" tracks of the
Falls City railroad and will be led with
water from the same source as the Cone
mill.
The Cone pond is completed, and the
superstructure of the mill under cover
The sawing frames and carriage trucks
are being put in place and everything
indicates the early completion of the
plant.
Every house in Dallas is occupied,
and new cottages are springing up in
every quarter. The common comment
of all newcomers is that Dallas is a
beautiful town and has the finest court
house lawn in the state. Although
the Lewis and Clark fair is said to
have drained the valley of all the stray
change, the merchants say trade is
good.
Big Land Deal.
Weston Two of the largest real
estate transactions consummated in
this section for some time were record
ed this week. One was the sale of 240
acres of land, with fine Improvements
by Mrs. Annie O'Hara to Charles M
Price for $18,500. This is one of the
finest farms in this section of the coun
try, having upon it a handsome brick
residence. - Mr. Price also owns a third
interest in what is known as the Steen
place, located on Dry creek, consisting
of 560 acres. This, it is said, he is
about to dispose of to his brothers.
Old Picture of General Lane.
Salem State Librarian J. B. Put
nam has received from New Orleans an
old photorgaph of General Joseph Lane,
Oregon's first territorial governor and
one of this state's first senators. The
picture bears no date, but was taken in
Washington, D. C, presumably while
Lane was delegate in congress or senat
or. JNo communication or explanation
came with the photo "further than the
words, "Compliments of William Beer,
Howard Memorial library, New Or
leans, La."
Extensive Plant at Carlton.
Carlton The Carlton Lumber com
pany's new mill ana extensive plant,
representing an outlay of over a mil
lion dollars, will be in full operation
by April, 1906. With the natural ad-
Aautages Uarlton already enjoys
through its position among the foot
hills of the Coast mountains and the
other improvements now being made.
Carlton expects soon to be numbered
among the leading scenic and indus
trial towns of the Willamette valley.
Southern Pacific After G-avel.
Eugene Southern Pacific surveyors
have laid out a route for a spur in the
northeastern part of the ci'y to the
gravel beds across the river, just out
side the city limits. It is said that the
company intends getting its ballast ma
terial for its proposed new line from
Natron across the mountains from the
extensive beds here. A trestle will
have to be constructed across the river,
which is narrow at that point.
River at Very Low Stage.
Eugene The river at this point is
almost as low as it was during August
and lower than was ever before known
in November. Loggers tind great scar
city of water above here for driving
logs, and would welcome a few days of
rain. There is plenty of snow high up
on the mountains, which fell a month
ago, but the weather has continued j
cold and the snow does not melt
Buys Indian Creek Mill.
Elgin J. G. Brown, of the firm of
Shockley & Brown, sawmill men, has
disposed of his interest in that firm to
his partner, and has purchased the
Cummins mill, located on Indian
creek, together with 320 acrea of timber
land. H. G. and II. E. Reed, experi
enced sawmill men, are interested in
the deal. A new engine, edger and
gang lath mill will be added.
Want Pay for Dead Cattle.
Elgin F. E. Graham, of this town,
has presented a claim against Union
county, amounting to $2!H), for the loss
of cattle killed by the collapse of the
Wallowa bridge. Hector McDonald,
who was also driving a herd of cattle
across the bridge at the time and Buf
fered a similar; loss, has also put in
a claim against wallowa county for
damages.
No Right to Sell the Land.
Salem Attorney General Crawford
has held that the State Land Board has
no authority to sell land lieqneathed to
the state for the Soldiers' home. He
holds that the board can sell land only
when it has authority of law to do so
and its general authority erten.Ij nnltr
I. j ... ..... . w...j
to the pale of state land granted by the
government.
8c.
ADVANCE IN PRICE OF LOGS.
Logging Camps Soon to Shut Down,
and Shortage is Expected.
Astoria While several of the loggers
in the Lower Columbia river district
are under contract to deliver logs at
$7.50 per thousand
the year, the others
price for fir logs to
until the first of
have advanced the
$8 and a few sales
are said to have
been made at figures
a shade higher.
In spite of this ad
vance in price, the demand is excellent
and the logs are being taken as fast as
they are put in tide water. A number
of the larger logging companies will
close down their camps for at leas
month or six weeks as soon as the
heavy rains set in and as, with the
single exception of the Eastern
Western Lumber company, none of the
nulls have a large supply of logs on
hand, a shortage is looked for before
the end of the winter seaaon.
Notwithstanding the advance in the
price of fir logs, spruce ia still selling
at about $7.
Buys 2,000 Lambs.
Prineville Stockmen here are sti'.l
commenting on the sale recently of
2,000 lambs by Williamson & Gesner
to the Baldwin Sheep & Land com
pany, at $2 50 per head. Such a large
sale at this time of the year is consid
ered as remarkable, particularly when
the price is such a good one. In the
spring there would be nothing extra
ordinary about the transfer. That such
a large hand should be transferred jus
as the feeding season is coming on, and
at a good figure, is taken to mean that
there are indications somewhere of a
good price for both mutton and wool
next spring.
West Coast Lumber in Demand.
Portland Within the last few weeks
a new market has been openeud up for
Oregon and Washington lumber, and
already shippers are preparing to trans
port by water more than 9,000,000
feet to New York. Part of this lumber
will go from Portland on sailing vessels
and part of it will be taken from the
mills of Puget sound. Outside of the
extreme heavy timber heretofore, there
has been radically no demand for
Oregon and Washington lumber in the
New York markets, and the suddenness
and magitude of the orders of recent
date have come as a surprirse.
Can Corn at McMinnville.
McMinnville If present interest in
the matter does not wane, next year
will see McMinnville with a large corn
canning factory. Several years ago
samples of corn were sent to this coun
ty to test soil, climate and other con
ditions. The results sent back to the
promoters show the quality first class
in every particular. The Eastern peo
pie contemplating building a factory
here state the plant will be the same
size as the one they now operate, pay
ing out about $10,000 each year for the
product and about $6,000 in wages.
Irrigating Harney Land.
Burns Ten thousand acres of the
best sagebrush land in the state will
be put on the market as soon as in
spected by the proper state official, as
a result of the operations of the Port
land Land company. It will I e sold in
tracts of from 40 to 160 acres at $10
per acre, a lower price than that for
any irrigated land yet put on the mar
ket in Oregon. This company was first
to get a contract from Oregon to irri
gate land.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Club, 71c per bushel;
blue
red. stem, 7374c; valley, 45c;
67c.
Oats No. 1 white
feed, $26; gray,
.5022 per ton;
rolled, $22.50
$26 per ton.
Barley Feed, $21
brewing, $2222.50;
23.50.
Rye $1.501.60 per cental.
Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $15
16 per ton; valley timothy, $1112;
clover, $89; grain hay, $8W.
Fruits Apples, $11.50 per box;
huckleberries, 7c per pound; pears,
$125 1.50 per box; grapes, $1.25
i.fi5 per box; Concord, 15c per basket;
quinces, $1 per box.
Vegetables Beans, wax, 12; per
pound; cabbage, 11,'4C per pound;
cauliflower, $1.752.25 per crate; cel
ery, 75c per dozen; cucumbers, 5060c
per dozen; pumpkins, ?4'lc per
pound; tomatoes, $1 per crate; sprouts,
7c per pound; squasn, ?iic per
pound; turnips, 90c$l per sack; car
rots, 65 75c per Back; beets, 85c$l
per sack.
Oniona Oregon yellow Danvers,
$1.25 per sack.
Potatoes Fancy graded Burbanks,
65 70c per sack; ordinary, 5560e;
Merced sweets, sacks, $1.90; crates,
$2.15.
Butter Fancy creamery, 2527aC
per pound.
Ejfjja Oregon ranch, 35c per dozn.
Poultry Average old hens, 11c;
young roosters, S 10c; eprings,
11c; dressed chickens, . 12 14c;
turkeya, live, 17 18c; geese, live,
8a9c; ducka, 1415c per pound.
' HopsOregon, 1905, choice, 810c;
olds, nominal, 56c.
Wool Eastern Oregon average best,
1621c; valley, 2426c per pound;
mohair, choice, 30c.
Beef Dressed bulls, l2c pr pound;
cows, 34c; country steers, 442c.
Veal Dressed, 37j'c per pound.
Mutton Dressed, fancy, 772o per
i.nnd; ordinary, 45c; lambs, 7ja'
Pork Dreseed, 67c per pound.
MAY LOSE POSITION.
Mitchell Likely To
Senate Canal
Be Displaced on
Committee.
27. Apparently
Washington, Nov
Senator Mitchell is
to be deprived of
the chairmanship of
the committee on
interoeeanic canals when the senate re
organizes next month. This has not
been definitely decided, but it ia the
concensus of opinion of arriving sena
tore that Mitchell will have to relin
quish his chairmanship in order that
some active member of the canal com
mittee can preside at its meetinga this
winter.
congress must appropriate money
eaily in the coming session for contin
uing work on the Panama canal, and
must decide whether the canal shall be
built with locks or at the sea level
This legislation, together with all other
legislation pertaining to the canal and
the canal zone, muBt be considered by
the canal committee, and will be one
of the most important topics to be con
Bidered. Because of its importance
senators believe the canal committee
should have an active chairman, who
can not only preside at committee
meetings, but who can vote both in
committee and in the senate, and who
can furthermore take charge of canal
legislation after it has been reported to
the senate.
AMEND IMMIGRATION LAWS.
Sargent's Plan for Keeping Out All
Undesirables.
astnngton, rov. 27. Kadiea
changes in the immigration laws will
be made next year, if the suggestions
of Commissioner General Sargent are
put into effect. Mr. Sargent is anxious
to have limits placed on the number
of immigrants, and that persons who
are either too young or too old to sup
port themselves should not be per
mitted to disembark. This would not
however, apply to those who can furn
ish guarantees that they are on theii
way to relatives.
Mr, bargent believes that by an ar
rangement with foreign governments
the useless traflic of deportation of im
migrants unfit to land here could be
stopped, tfetore an immigrant is per
mitted to take passage for America, he
should undergo an examination at the
point of embarkation.
HITCHCOCK TO RESIGN.
Rumor That Western Congressmen
Have Got His Scalp.
Washington, Nov. 27. The fact
leaked out tonight from a responsible
source that at a recent cabinet meeting
Ethan Allen Hitchcock, secretary of
the Interior, expressed a desire to ten
der his resignation July 1 next. The
same authority announces that Vespa
sian Warner, of Illinois, now comrnis
sioner of pensions, is to succeed him.
It is said the proposed change in the
cabinet has been brought about ty
members of congress from western
states, who charge that Mr. Hitchcock,
in operations against land grabber",
has permitted his personal feelings to
enter into the prosecutions. While
this charge had been often repeated, it
in said that the retirement of Mr
Hitchcock will be wholly due to the
desire ot the president to surround
hiniEelf with younger men.
Million women fight svioot.
Characterize Him as a Man Sanction
ing Practice of Polygamy.
Philadelphia, Nov. 27. A meeting
of the executive committee of the Na
tional League of Women's organiza
tions, formed two years ago to oppose
the continuance in the United States
senate of Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah,
was held here today. Women from all
sections of the country were present.
It was announced that a petition would
ie presented to the senate asking for
the exclusion of Mr. Smoot on the
ground that "he is a member of a
eirarchy whose president and a major-
ty of the members pratctice and teach
polygamy." The memorial will state
that "Mr. Smoot has never raised his
voice against these doctrines, and the
Mormon hierarchy has broken 'its cov
enants which it gave to the United
States when statehood was granted."
Sailors Want Discharges.
St. Petersburg, Nov. 27. Details ot
he mutiny at Sevastopol are not av.tila
hie at the admiralty, the dispatch of
ie Assoxiated Press from the war port
iving the. first intimation of the out-
reak. An officer of the staff said that
four equi pages anil the Black sea fleet
were at Sevastopol at present. He rx-
lained that in addition to other long-
existent caues of discontent the sailors
had been stirred up by their retention
in the service as reservicests, the ukase
releasing many of them from the serv
ice having just been published.
Burton is Guilty.
St. Louis, Nov. 27. Senator J. R.
Burton, of Kansas, was Saturday night
found guilty on all six counts in the
indictment upon which he has l)een on
trial for the past week in the United
States Circuit court, charged with hav
ing agreed to accept and having ac
cepted compensation from the Rialto
(irain & Securities company, of St
Louis, to appear for the company in the
capacity of an attorney before the Post
office department.
Will Cut Forests and Crops.
Iibau, Nov. 27. Agrarian disorders
have broken out in the Baltic province.
A peasant meeting adopted resolutions
to cut forest on private land and to ap
propriate crops. The governor general
has issned a proclamation to the troops
to fire on such offenders, and saying
that the participants at such meetinga
will le court martialed and sent to dis
tant provinces.
CHARGES ALL
TO OREGON
Refuses to Make Change in Favor of
Klamath Project.
Hitchcock Admits California Will Have
Share In the Benefits ' Fulton's
Plea for Umatilla Irrigation Falls
on Deaf Ears Secretary Openlv
Denounces Malheur.
Washington, No?. 25. Secretary
Hitchcock is now convinced of the in
terstate character of the Klamath irri
gation project and acknowledges that
California ia to benefit by the work in
contemplation fully aa much aa Ore
gon, but he ia not willing to change hia
nrdnr r'huro'ino' t.hn nt.ir allotment. tr
the state of Oregon.
When Senator Fulton again took up
the matter of the Umatilla project with
the secretary, he found Hitchcock hold
ing the same views he voiced on the
occasion of hia previous visits, contend
ing that Oregon's 51 per cent reserve
fund has been appropriated and ex
plaining that there are no funds avail
able for construction of the Umatilla
project.
Mr. Fulton maintains that, even if
the secretary adheres to his determina
tion to charge the entire cost of the
Klamath work to Oregon, there is yet
enough money in the reclamation fund
to the credit of Oregon to build the
Umatilla project. On June 30 last
Oregon's restricted fund was practically
$2,500,000. Deducting $2,000,000 al
lotted for Klamath, there was yet
$500,000 left, and it is Mr. Fulton'a
contention that since July 1, 1905,
enough money has been received from
disposal of public lands in Oregon to
make the other $500,000 necessary for
the Umatilla project. The secretary ia
unable to state how much money Or-
gon has contributed to the fund since
July, but will advise the senator when
he ascertains the facts.
Notwithstanding that he denominates
the Malheur project a "steal," and al
ludes to the operation of the wagon
road people as a "graft," the secretary
will not formally set aside this project,
though admitting that he will not con
struct 1'. Nor will he permit the Mal
heur allotment to he used in part for
the Umatilla project. He says Oregon
has had her full share- of reclamation
money outside of the Malheur project,
and is not entitled to the benefit of the-
money which is now credited to tha
project, hut which is not being used.
TRY TO DAM SALTON SEA.
Lerge
Force Working to Save Rail
road From Destruction.
Los Angeles, Nov. 25. Two hun-
Ired men, divided into day and night
shifts, 20 teams hauling brush and
sand, two piledrivers thumping away
almost incessantly, two sternwheel
steamers carrying construction material
anil commissary stores from Yuma
these forces under Superintendent J.
Tolin are engaged in the Herculean
task of building a 600 foot dam across
he west channel of the Colorado river
four miles below Yuma, by which the
California Development com pany hopes
to bring Salton sea to a standstill and
eventually restore the Salton Sink to a
lry bed of evaporation of the flood
wtaers that have wreaked such havoc
there.
If the dam is a success, the Southern
Pacific railway in . ime- will he able to
abandon its 16 miles of shoofly track
east of Salton, and resume its main
ne. If the darn is a failure, 40 miles
and perhaps more of shootly may have
o be hunt, the w hple Imperial coun
try may he deprived of its sumdv of
anal water, and the Colorado river
may he diverted through the River
Padrones into Volcano lake, thence to
nd its way northward through the
ew river into the Salton Sea. What
this would mean mav be conjectured
rom the damage already done by the
flooding of the great sink.
Congress Will Investigate Expense.
Washington, Nov. 25. It wmb
stated at the War department today
that while congress would be asked to
appropriate a total of $16,000,000 to
meet he needs of the Panama canal
work to June 30 next, it is not ex
pected that congress will appropriate
it in a lump sum. The canal officials
expect that congress will pass a bill
making available a portion of this
amount to meet the immediate wants
because, congress would probably in
vestigate to learn how the money thus
far expended has been used.
Three Big Battleships.
Washington, Nov. 25. Three first-
clans battleships of at least 18.000 tons
displacement and 18 knots Ppeed, three
scout cruisers of 5,000 tons dinnlai P-
ment, one gnnWt of the Helena class
Bnd four other gunboats of liirht draft
two for use in the Philippines and two
for service in the fivers of China, with
additional topedo boats ami torpedo
boat destroyers, are the principal re
commendations of the general board of
the navy in its program.
Hyde-Dimond Case Postponed.
Washington, Nov. 25. The hearing
by the Criminal court on the demurrer
filed in the Hytle-Dimond case, in
which fraudulent land transactions on
the Pacific coast are charged, which
was set for today, was postponed for-
two weeks.