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Readers National, Political, His
torical and Commercial.
plana to make Ger
by surrounding her
King Edward
many powerleea
with his allies.
There is danger of friction between
France and Germany in the Moroccan
conference.
Germany haa assured the sultan that
she will assist Turkey in resisting fur
ther demands by the powers.
Contributions to the relief fund for
Russian sufferers has reached a total of
$1,172,639 in the United States.
Miss Roosevelt's Oriental gifts are
valued at $20,000 according to the
amount of duty she paid on them.
General MacKenzie strongly recom
mends an appropriation for continuing
work at the mouth of the Columbia.
The plan of the Russian rebels is to
bankrupt the government by stopping
taxes and refusing to take paper money
A defiant manifesto of Russian revo
lutionists has been met by the govern
ment arresting the leaders and publish
era.
Thomas Lawson, of "frenzied &
nance" fame, has given a $1,000,000
mortgage on his property and admits
he may go bankrupt.
A ton of gelignite at the Central Star
mine, Rossland, B. C, exploded,
wrecking the mine buildings and shak
ing the entire country. One man was
killed and several score injured.
A strike haa occurred for the first
time in the British royal dockyards
The men were working overtime on
construction of a battleship being
rushed. Their demand for better pay
was granted and work was resumed.
Castro uaa withdrawn bis insult to
France.
A massacre of Christians is feared
in Egypt.
The Russian army in Manchuria is to
be disbanded and hurried homo.
The Montana legislature will be call
edain extra session to pass a railroad
rate regulation law.
New York'a employing printers are
preparing for war on the Typographi-
- al unioa Jaoiuu1 J. 1 - - '
Attorney General Moody will decide
whether Annapolis hazers shall be dis-,
missed or court martialed.
MADE PLAIN TO MR. SHONTS.
Panama Canal Affairs Discussed at
White House Conference.
Washington, ec. 19. President
Roosevelt tonight took up the matter of
the Isthmian canal scandals as devel
oped by debate in the senate during the
past three days. He is determined to
prevent further criticism of the char
acter put forward by Senators Tillman,
Culberson and others. Senators Alli
son and Hale, both members of the ap
propriations committee, were present
The president made it plain to Mr
Shonts that the literary bureau in
charge of Secretary Bishop must be at
once discontinued, and Mr. Bishop con
fine his service purely to adminiBtra
tive matters. He also discussed the
advisability of reducing his salary from
$10,000 now paid to $5,000. or some
other moderate sum.
It was also made apparent to Chair
man Shonts that if he still has an offi
cial connection with the Clover Leaf
railroad, it must be severed immedi
ately. Senator Tillman declared that
Mr. Shonta is still active president of
the system, and neither Mr. Shonts nor
any of the administration senators have
entered a denial of the declaration.
The president further gave Mr.
Shonts much advice regarding the con
duct of affairs on the isthmus. It is
prescribed in the president's order that
the canal commission must leave at
once for that place.
The hill appropriating $11,000,000
for the canal work, passed by the sen
ate on Saturday, provides that
within 90 days the secretary of the
treasury must furnish estimates to the
senate and house appropriations com
mittees of all salaries paid those em
ployed on canal work, except laborers
and unskilled workmen. This feature
of the bill was discussed with Senators
Allison and Hale.
It is believed that many reforms will
be instituted in the administration of
the canal before another appropriation
is requested from congess. This work
of reform must begin at once, as Secre
tary Taft says the $11,000,000 new be
ing obtained will last no longer than
April 1 at the outside.
In the meantime Senator Tillman
will begin a strong agitation after the
holiday recess for a thorough investiga
tion of the entire canal situation. He
will be opposed by the Republicans,
but supported by the Democrats. Even
gome of the Kepubiicans lavor an in
quiry, and Mr. Tillman threatens to
cause much trouble unless matters are
put on such a basis as to prevent just
critcism.
NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FROM THE STATE OF OREGON
CURE OF THE INSANE.
Good Record the Past Year at the
Oregon Asylum.
Salem An unusually good record in
the curing of patients has kept down
the number of inmates of the state in
sajie asylum and has probably averted
congestion at that institution. When
the last legislature met, there was
every reason to believe that the con
struction of a new wing would be abso
lutely necessary within the ensuing two
years. An appropriation for an addi
tion of three wards was made, but the
appropriation was included in the oru
nibus appropriation bill and was held
up by the referendum. Construction of
new rooms was therefore made impos
sible.
The usual rate of increase in popula
tion at the asylum is (0 per year, and
at that rate the institution would have
been crowded to the limit before anoth
er legislature could take action. Of
late, however, a large number of pa
tients have been discharged.
Should the next legislature make an
appropriation for a new wing, contain
ingt three wards, it will be at least two
years from the present time before the
addition would be ready for occupancy.
There is now room for 68 more patients
in the men's department and ten in the
women's department. Unless, there
fore, the present low rate of increase
continues, the building will be full be
fore the capacity can be enlarged.
In any event it will be necessary to
transform one of the men's wards into
a ward for women, and probably it will
be necessary to use some of the men's
smoking rooms for dormitories.
BUSINESS IS PROMISING.
TRADE WITH PHILIPPINES.
The czar is planning to issue more
manifestos on his name day, which will
grant more liberties to the peasants.
Secretary Richards has several pew
measurs in connection with land laws
which he would like to see enacted by
congress,
An experimental farm on every gov
ernment irrigation project is a recom
mendation from the Agricultural de
payment,
wo inen were shot, one badly if not
fatally, and the other eeriously, by two
masked men in Portland while holding
up a hotel. The robbers escaped with
something over $100.
President Roosevelt has written the
Merchants' Exchange, of San Francisco,
expressing the wish to see Chinese la
borers more closely barred from en
trance into this country, but he says
the exempt classes should be treated
more courteously.
The czar is afraid to leave his palace
Stern measures have been adopted at
Annapolis to stop hazing.
There is a great demand for invita
tions to Miss Roosevelt's weddiDg.
The Kansas board of railroad com
missioners has ordered the grain rate
cut.
A conflict between the president and
congress on the canal question is prob
able. Senator Heyburn, of Idaho, continues
to fight the president's forest reserve
policy.
Strikers at Riga, Russia, are held in
check by machine guns placed in the
streets.
Poland ia in a state of desperate an
archy and panic reigna in every quar
ter of the province.
The Great Northern railway and oth
ers have been indicted at Philadelphia
for granting rebates.
In the trial of the beef trust officials
at Chicago Commissioner Garfield will
be summoned as one of their witnesses.
Great Increase Shown Over Last Year
by Department ofCommerce.
"Washington, Dec. 19. Estimates
made by the bureau of statistics of the
department of Commerce and Labor,
based on the returns for ten months
ending with October, are that the ag
gregate commerce between the United
States and the Philippines for the cal
endar year 1905, will amount to about
$20,000,000, against about $15,000 in
1896, $1,000,000 in 1900, $4,000,000
in 1898 and a little more than $4,000,
000 iH 1897, trie J? P"ior to the
American occupation,
Prior to 1)399, tbJ exports from the
United States to the Philippines, the
bureau reports show, had never ex
ceeded $250,000, while in the present
year they will aggregate nearly $6,000,
000. Imports from the islands, which
ranged between $4,000,000 and $5,
000.000 per annum prior to 1899, were
in 1902, $10,000,000; in 1903, $12,
000,000, and in 1905 will be about
$14,000,000, according to the bureau
estimates.
The imports in 1905 are chiefly hemp
and sugar. Hemp imports for the first
ten months of 1905 amounted to $10,
376,528, and sugar $2,212,249.
Portaee Railroad Saves Farmers Five
Cents a Bushel on Wheat.
Salem That the operation of the
portage road from The Dalles to Celilo
has resulted in an increase of 5 cents a
bushel to wheat growing farmers, who
were able to reach the portage road, is
the report made by Superintendent L.
S. Cook, to the Portage Railway com
mission. Not all the wheat that brought
the increased price was shipped over
the portage road, however, for Mr.
Cook says that the O. R. & N. Co. has
met the cut brought about by the oper
ation of the state's railroad and farmers
have profited in ihat way.
The O. R. & N. met the cut by ab
sorbing drayage at Arlington and by
other means and thereby secured much
of the shipping. Only 18,139 sacks of
wheat went over the portage road dur
ing November, but more could have
been secured by seeking contracts and
more will be secured when the shippers
become familiar with the rates.
DIGGING LONG TUNNEL.
Baker City Irrigation Co. to Conduct
Water Through Hill.
Baker City The 500-foot tunnel of
the Baker City Irrigation company
through the hill on which is situated
the city reservoir ia ander way by a
gang of 40 men, with all the necessary
machinery. Work was commenced at
both ends simultaneously, and unless
the plans of the engineers go wrong,
the two crews will meet in the middle
of the hill.
When completed thia will be the
greatest irrigation tunnel in Eastern
Oregon.
The entire cost of the tunnel will be
about $40,000, while the ayttem thia
company ia putting in will cost over
$100,000. The headgates are on Pow
der river, about seven miles above
Baker City. The ditch follows the foot
hills down to the big reaervoir hill.
where a tunnel waa found necessary.
After leaving the tunnel the water will
be taken around the east side of Baker
City and out on about 5,000 acres of
land adjoining the city limits on the
northeast .
This land will be devoted to fruit
raising and small farming. E. L.
Smith, of Hood River, ia at the bead
of the company building thia ditch,
and it is the first and only irrigation
project of any magnitude in Baker
county. '
INSURGENTS RULE ON BALTIC
Gunners Refuse to Fire and Ships
Cannot Be Trusted.
Chicago, lkc. 18. The Daily New
correspondent sends the following from
St. Petersburg:
Expectation of the downfall pf the
government continues to grow in this
city. Insurgents still hold Riga, Reval
and other Baltic towns. The garrisons
in these provinces are insufficient to
put down the armed rebels and the ar
tillervmen refuse to fire on them
Strikes of railroad workers and crew
of steamships prevent the forwarding
of troops and ammunition to the revolt
ed provinces.
Though the government has been
urged to dispatch a fleet to the Baltic
ports Admiral Birileff hesitates to make
any move, fearing that his sailors will
join the rebellion.
Dispatches received from Manchuria
today report the situation of the army
as desperate. Many officers are in hid
ing from their own troops, fearing for
their lives. The men are burning and
pillaging everything within their
reach, while the civil population has
fled. Revolutionary proclamations
have been posted about in the barracks
and in the streets. Dissensions among
the chief officers seriously complicate
matters. The soldiers accuse the com
missaries of stealing large quantities of
supplies and have burned their houses
WORK DONE ON IRRIGATION.
Linn Farms May Yield Oil.
Albany Are the foothills of Linn
county charged with crude oil that will
make the owners of the land fabulously
rich? This question is agitating the
minds of a large number of people
since the investigation of the land has
been taken up by A. A. Horter, Wil
ham S. Harris and W. P. Keady. For
some time these men have been pros
pecting in the coal fields around La-
comb, and now have arranged to lease
several hundred acrea in that neighbor
hood for the avowed purpose of boring
for oil.
Connecticut Safe Looted.
Suflield, Conn., Dec. 19. After
binding the railroad watchman. W.
Jones, and his 12 year old son to chairs
in the railroad station here this morn
ing before daylight, six bank robbers
pried their way into the Sufiield Sav
ings bank on Main street, blew open
the safe after a fourth attempt and es
caped with $50,000 worth of registered
bonds and stocks not negotiable, ac
cording to President Newton, of the in
stitution. They overlooked $3,000 in
cash and negotiable bonds in a drawer
nearby.
Conference at White House.
Washington, Dec. 19. Senators Alli
son and Hale, who are members of the
committee on appropriations, and
Chairman Shonts and Secretary Biehop,
of the Isthmian Canal commission.
were in conference with the president
at the white house tonight. It is pre
sumed that the case of Secretary Bish
op, whose duties as agent 'or the com
mission has been the subject of discus
sion in congress, was among matters talk'
ed of, but no statement was made.
SALEM WOULD CAN FRUIT.
Movement Started to Form Company
to Handle Output.
Salem A movement has been started
for the organization of a co-operative
company among the fruitgrowers for
the purpose of cohstructiong and oper
ating a cannery. The plan is to form
a corporation with 400 shares of stock
at $25 a Bhare. Not more than 20
shares can be held by one person, and
transfers can be made only through the
board of directors. The board will
consist of nine men and will have
charge of the businesss of the concern
ihe purpose is to secure to growers
the highest possible price for fruit.
The movement was started by S. J
Lemmon, an Eastern fruit packer, who
expects to take the management of the
co-operative cannery.
Linn County Taxes Fixed.
Albany At the regular December
term of the county court for Linn
county the tax levy for Linn county for
all purposes was fixed. The total levy
to be paid by residents of the county
who are not subject to a city tax will
be 21 mills. This includes state,
county and the several special taxe.
divided as follows: State, 6 5 mills;
school, 5.4 mills; county, 3 mills;
roads and bridges, 4 mills; indigent
soldiers, 0.1 mills; special road, 2
mills; total, 21 mills.
The building in Philadelphia where
Betsy Ross made the first American
flag has been purchased by the govern
ment.
There is a movement on foot in Ha
waii to seen re Portugese laborers to
work the sugar plantations of the is
lands. A Tacoma mill has secured a con
tract for supplying 2,500,000 feet of
lumber to the government for the Phil
ippines. A Democratic mayor has been elected
in Boston.
The pope haa
maintain order.
appealed to Poles to
General Strike is Improbable.
London, Dec 19. The correspondent
of the Daily Telegraph at St. Peters
burg, in commenting on recent events
in Russia, says he is still optimistic
and is convinced of the impossibility
of an organized general strike, because
public opinion and the peasantry are
strongly averse to it. He insists that
the military outbreak at Moscow is in
no way an indication of general disaf
fection in th- army.
Furs Go Up in Smoke.
New York, Iec. 19. Two hundred
thousand dollars' worth of furs were
destroyed by f're today in the establish
ment of Max Paiseeki A Co., wholesale
furriers and manufacturers of automo
bile garments, 37-39 East Twenty-first
street. Other tenants in the building
will suffer heavy damages from water.
New Cut-Off Nearly Done.
McMinnville The new St. Joseph
L,aiayette cut-on, waicn ia nearly com
pleted, will enable the Yamhill divi
sion of the Southern Pacific to have
regular trains over the new rsad within
a short time. The new stretch of track
is nearly two and a half miles long,
and will do away with kepping up the
nine miles ot road from Whiteson to
Lafayette and the big bridge near the
latter place. If the present schedule
rema'na in force, three trains a day
will run into Portland at 6 and 8 a.
m. and 3 p. m.
Snow Falls Early.
Burns The fi'st snow storm of the
year has visited this county, and snow
is now 12 inches deep in the valley and
three feet on the mountains. This is
more Bnow than fell all last winter, and
old settlers say it is more than has fall
en tbiB time of year since the hard
winter of 1887-88, when 75 per cent of
the stock perished. The early snow
indicates a long, cold winter, but the
stockmen have plenty of fodder for five
months' feeding.
Take Water From Vinam River.
La Grande Articles of incorpora
tion have been filed for the Grand
Ronde Irrigation company, with a cap
ital stock of $100,000. The incorpora
tors are Walter M. Pierce. C. H. Craw
ford and T. R. Berry. The object is
to secure 10,000 inches of water for ir
rigating in Grand Ronde. The water
a to be secured from Minam river bv
means of canals, conduita and pine
lines. It will be the most extensive
irrigation project in this section.
Complaints on Illegal Fishing.
Tillamook Deputy Fish Warden H.
A. Webster has filed two complaints in
Justice Haberlack'a court on account of
the alleged violation of the fishing law
in Tillamook bay. One is agaisnt the
Elmore Packing company, and the oth
er against W. W. Ridehalgh. manager
of the cannery at Garibaldi.
Line to Run Through Vale.
Vale A corps of railroad engineers,
Who arrived in Vale several weeks ago,
left recently for the Malheur canyon,
about 14 miles west of Vale, in the yi
cinity of the proposed government irri
gation canal. Here they are surveying
the land for the road, which it is said
will soon be built through Malheur
valley, touching at Vale. Several very
important meetings of citizens have
been held to consider plans for benefit
ing the city.
Bright Outlook for Show.
Albany December 19 to 23 are the
dates set for the annual exhibition of
blooded fowls under the auspices of the
Linn County Poultry association. This
bazaar promises to be one of the best
yet held, and many prizes will be offer
ed for the best exhibits, for many of
which there is material in Linn county
Great Amount of Construction Done
b' Reclamation Service.
Washington, Dec. 18. A resume of
tiie work performed by the Reclama
tion service to date shows that 77 miles
of main canal, 54 miles of distributing
system and 186 miles of ditches have
been constructed, including dams, head
works, etc. Tunnels having a total
length of three and one-half miles have
been driven, including more than a
mile of the great Gunnison tunnel
More than 250 miles of telephone linei
have been installed and are in opera
tion; 126 miles of wagon road, many
miles of which were cut out of solid
rock in almost inaccessible canyons, 147
bridges and 50 office and other build
ings have been constructed.
The works above mentioned have
called for the excavation of 9,350,000
cubic yards of rock and earth, the lay
ing of 70,000 cubic yards of concrete,
12,000 cubic yards of riprap, 150,000
linear feet of sheet piling and 10,000
feet of bearing piles have been driven.
There have been purchased 130,000
pounds of railroad iron, 250,000
pounds of structural steel, 600,000
pounds of cast iron, 1,750,000 feet of
lumber, and 78,000 barrels of cement.
The government has erected a cement
mill at a cost of more than $100,000,
which has already turned out 15,000
barrels of cement, and is now furnish
ing about 300 barrels a day. The saw
mills operated by Uncle Sam have cut
2,880,000 feet of lumber from the gov
ernment reserves.
WARSHIPS SENT
TO ATTACK RIGA
Is Hotbed of Revolution In Russian
Baltic Provinces.
Provisional Government Established
by Home Rule Party Battles are
Fought in Streets Between Troops
and Rebel Workmen Government
Defied at St. Petersburg.
HOLD UP TRAIN.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Club, 72c per bushel; blue-
stem, 74c: valley, 73c; red, 68c.
Oats No. 1 white feed, $27.00;
gray, fzo.oU per ton.
Barley Feed, $22(322.50 per ton;
brewing, $22.50(323; rolled, $23
23.50.
Rye $1.50 per cental.
Hay Eastern Oregon timothy,
$14.5015.50 per ton; valley timothy,
$1112; clover, $89; cheat, $8.50
9.50; grain hay, $8(39.
Fruits Apples, $11.50 per box;
pears, il.zo(gl.oU per box.
egetables Beans, wax, 12c per
pound; cabbage, lljc per pound;
cauliflower, $1.25 per crate; celery,
4575c per dozen; cucumbers, 5060c
per dozen; pumpkins, (ctc per
pound; tomatoes, $11.25 per crate;
sprouts, 7c per pound; squash, ?4lc
per pound; turnips, 90c$l per sack;
carrots, 65g75c per sack; beets, 85c
$1 per sack.
Onions Oregon yellow Danvers,
$1 1.25 per sack.
Potatoes Funcy graded Burbanks,
65 ( 75c per sack; ordinary, 55i0c;
Mrced Bweets, sacks, $1.90; crates,
$2.15.
Butter Fancy creamery, 27)3,30c
per pound.
Eggs Oregon ranch, 35c per dozen.
Poultry Average old hens, 12c per
lb; young roosters, 10llc; springs
llg12c; dressed chickens,1212gc;
turkeys, live, loc; turkeys, dressed,
choice, 17)18c; geese, live, 910c;
ducks, 1415c.
Hops Oregon, 1905, choice, 10Q
lljC per pound; olds, 57c.
Wool Eastern Oregon average best,
1621c per pound; valley, 2426c;
mohair, choice, 30c.
Beef Dressed bulls, l2c per
pound; cows, 3(3,4; country steers, 4
Veal Dressed, 37c per pound.
Mutton Dressed. 'ancy, 77c per
pound; ordinary, 45c; lambs, 7
7Mc.
Pork Dressed, 67c per pound.
Safes of North Coast Limited Rifled
Near North Yakima.
North Yakima, Dec. 18. Overland
limited No. 1, due here at 2:50 o'clock
p. m., but running almost rive hours
late, was held up at Hillside, in the
Yakima canvon, 11 miles north of this
place, at 7:15 Saturday evening. Tiie
express car was dynamited, two safes
blown open and all contents of value
taken.
From a good source it is learned that
there was little currency in the safes on
the limited at the time of the holdup.
The main contents consisted of drafts,
etc
City Marshal Curren has ordered the
arrest of every stranger Been in North
Yakima who comes anywhere nepr an
swering the description given of the
holdup men. Up to midnight last
night there have been four arersts.
One man was arrested by Officer Lane
who aswered the description perfectly.
He was taken off a passenger coach on
a train coming Irom the scene of the
holdup, and was wet to the skin. It is
thought he may be one of the men.
It is thought possible the bandits
may have crossed the Columbia .and be
headed for British Columbia.
St. Petersburg, ia Eydtkuhnen,.
Dec. 16. It is stated upon the highest
authority that two cruisers and two
torpedo boats have been ordered by the
minister of Marine, acting under in
structions of Count Witte, alter an
audience with the czir, to proceed from
Libau to Riga and shell the city, if the
reovolutionieta refuse to surrender.
A provisional government haa been.
established there and the public build
ings are occupied by representatives of
the home rule party, who have determ
ined to make Riga the capital of t he
Baltic provinces.
Barricades have been erected every
where, and steamers arriving at the
port are unable to communicate with
the shore. Public buildings have been
burned. The population is fleeing
and merchants are abandoning their
business.
The Dew strike law provides heavy
penalties, and drastic punishment for
participators and instigators of strikes.
They may be sent to prison for from 16
months to four years for an offense.
Government Openly Defied.
Paria, Dec. 16. The St. Petersburg-
correspondent of the Matin, under date
of December 15, says the sudden re
turn of the government to reactionary
measures has aroused the interest of
the revolutionaries, who are holding
meetings and passing resolutions de
claring their determination to resist
the government. As the resolutions are
passed they are forwarded to the min
isters, who do not reply to them.
A fit. Petersburg dispatch to the
Journal, dated December 15, says:
At a meeting of engineers tonight
t was resolved to demand the immedi
ate release of Schmidt, the leader of
the mutiny at Sevastopol.
Alarming reports are arriving con
cerning the troops at Moscow, who ap
pear to be thoroughy disaffected, and
who, in addition to demanding in
creased pay and shorter terms of serv
ice, ask for liberty to read all news
papers."
DECREASE OF POSTOFFlCES.
second class, 1,258;
fourth class, 62,-
Christmas Presents by Shipload.
New York, Dec. 18. The American
line eteamer Philadelphia, which sailed
from New York today for Plymouth,
Cherbourg and Southampton, carried
3,226 bags of mail for Europe. This
represents the largest quantity of mail
matter ever carried by any one stermer
out of the port of New York. The
Philadelphia is the Christmas ship
from New lork this year and the major
portion of the mail she carries consists
of presents for relatives and friends
who are on the other side of the At
lantic.
Result of Rural Delivery Local Par
cels Post Proposed.
Washington, Dec. 16. The annual
report of Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General P. V. DeGraw says there has
been a decrease of 575 in the new post
masters commissioned, as compared
with the previous year. The actual
number of postofliccs in the United
States at the close of the fiscal year
was:
First class, 275 ;
third class, 4,120;
478; total, 68,131.
This, the report snys, was a reduc
tion, resulting mainly from the discon
tinuance of 3,492 fourth class poet offices
during the year by Teason of the estab
lishment of rural free delivery. The
aggregate compensation of the post
masters thus displaced amounted to
$198,994. City free delivery had been extended
during the year to 44 new postofiices,
as against 69 in 1904. The gross re
ceipts of free delivery offices during
the year had increased 8 per cent and
the cost only 2 per cent.
Mr. DeGraw renews the recommend
ation that a rate of 3 cpnts per pound
or any fractional part thereof be fixed
on packages not exceeding five pounds
mailed at the distributing postoffice of
any rural free delivery route. This
rate should apply only to packages de
posited in the local postoffice for deliv
ery to boxes of patrons on routes eman
ating from that office, arid not to mail
transmitted from one office to another.
Friends Will Give Aid.
Havana, Iec. 18. That the Ameri
cans in the Isle of Pines have friends
in the United States who are willing to
aid them in every way possible in their
efforts to have the island added to the
Union is manifest here in letters re.
centiy received irom prominent resi
dents of the Isle of Pines. These let
ters say that friends in the States have
offered hundreds of thousands of dollars
to aid in establishing a territory of the
United States.
Find Millions in Ground.
Winnepeg, Man., Dec. 18. Anthony
Blum, of Boston, principal owner of the
Laurentine mine in the Manitou dis
trict, 200 miles east of here, has un
earthed walla of gold that assay $400,
000 to the ton. There are millions in
eight. It ia the richest discovery ever
made in gold mining. He spent ten
years off and on in the district and has
made much money.
Army of Strike Breakers.
Chicago, Dec. 16. The Chicago Em
ployers' association, at a meeting to
day, formulated plans for the establish
ment of a standing army of laborers,
both skilled and unskilled and repre
senting every branch of trade to be pre
pared to go to any city in the United
States to fill the places of strikers when
necessary. The scope of the associa
tion will be extended so as to include
every city in the United States with a
population of 50,000 or more. Employ
ment bureaus will be maintained w here
nonunion workmen can register.
Promotion for MacArthur.
Washington, Dec. 15. The authora
tive statement was made at the War de
partment today that, on the retirement
in Septemler next of General Corbin.
who will eucceed General Bates in April
next as lieutenant general of the armv.
General MacArthur, the officer next in
line of succession, will be promoted to
the grade of lieutenant general. It
also was announced that General Wood
probably will succeed General Corbin
m tlw Philippine division.
Horizontal Reduction of Tariff.
Washington, Dec. 16. Senator Mc-
Creary yesterday introduced a bill to
reduce the tariff of the United States
by providing that there shall be levied
upon ail articles imported from foreign
countries a rate equal to three-fourths-of
the present schedule.