Heppner gazette., June 28, 1906, Image 6

Heppner Gazette
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HEPPNER OREGON
TRADE OF UNITED STATES.
RESUME OF THE
WEEK'S DOINGS
General Review of Important Hap'
penings Presented in a Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers National, Political. His
torical and Commercial.
General Greely has reorganized the
.relief work in San Franciico.
The friendship of Russia and Great
Britain has been cooled by the Jewish
massacres.
The sultan of Morocco has signed the
treaty promulgated by the Algeciras
convention.
Political signs in the East point to
Booseveit as the candidate to ran
againet Bryan.
Cross Creek, a small Pennsylvania
town, baa been wiped out by fire
caused by an electric storm.
The strike of bituminous coal miners
in Michigan has been endedjby the men
accepting the 1903 wage scale.
The president will likely visit the
canal zone nest fall and see for himself
the progress being made on the canal.
Canada proposes laws which will stop
business of every kind on Sunday, even
railway trains. .No games or perform
ances will be allowed where an admis
eion is charged.
At a meeting ot the board of super
visors of San Francisco city and county
the tax levy was fixed at $1,322 per
$100. The new levy is 16 cents and 2
mills higher than last year.
King Haakon and Qaeen Maud have
been formally crowned as rulerB of
Norway.
The Russian douma blames the gov
ernment for the recent massacres and
calls on the cabinet to resign
Experiments are being conducted in
Kansas to ascertain the result of meat
preservatives. Dogs are the subjects
General Greely says at least 50,000
people in San Francisco are still de
pendent on the supply camps for food
Formal announcement haa been made
by Attorney General Moody that he
will prosecute the Standard Oil for ac
cepting rebate.
The Transcontinental Insurance
company is reported to have only assets
sufficient to pay 10 per cent of its San
Francis o losses.
A grand jury at Portland has indict
ed 12 men for connection with frauds
in the recent state election. More in
dictments will probably be made.
Insurance companies have refused to
pay a dollar of insurance at Santa Rosa,
California, claiming the earthquake
ruined the city. The state insurance!
commissions has pledged his support
The peasant revolt
Southern Russia.
Foreign Commerce is Greatest With
European Countries.
Washington, June 26. An analysis
of the foreign commerce of the United
States, contained in a bulletin issued
by the department cf Commerce and
Labor, says that in the fiscal year
1905, 48 per cent of the imports into
the United States was drawn from Eu
rope, 20 per cent from North America,
13 per cent from South America, 14 per
cent from Asia. Of the exports from
the United States in the same year, 67
per cent went to Europe, 17 per cent
to North America, 4 per cent to South
America, 8 per cent to Asia, 2 per cent
to Uceanica and 1 per cent to Africa
A comparison with the figures fo
earlier years shows a gradual decline
in the share of our imports supplied by
Europe and in the share Europe takes
of our expots. This is due largely to
the enlargement of our trade with the
Orient.
imports irom Europe cave grown
from 1384,000,000 in 1895 to $541,
000,000 in 1905: from North Amer
ica, $134,000,000 in 1895 to $227,000,
000 in 1905; from South America, from
$112,000,000 to $151,000,000, but the
bulletin adds that in 1906 they will fall
about $14,000,000 below those of 1905.
chiefly on account of a reduction of the
quantity of coffee and India rubber im
ported. From Asia the imports have
grown from $78,000,000 to $163,000,
000 in 1905.
Exports to Europe have grown from
$628,000,000 in 1895 to $1,021,000,000
in 1905; to North Amercia, from $108,
500,000 to $260,500,000; to Siuth
America, from $33,000,000 to $50,000,
000, and to Asia from $17,330 000 to
$128,500,000.
NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FROM THE STATE OF OREGON
CHANGE CRIMINAL LAWS.
Would
MARINES ARE READY.
is growing in
English woman suffragists have been
arrested for rioting.
Fresh mutinies have occurred in sev
eral big Russian garrisons.
Bryan says his kind of conservatism
were he president would be to destroy
the truets utterly.
The passage of the lock canal bill by
the senate is considered a personal vie
tory for Roosevelt.
Idaho is askins or information re
garding the insurance companies which
r fuse to pay their San Francisco losses
in full.
A bulletin just issued by tbe census
bureau shows that there are 83 manu
facturing concerns in Alaska with a
capitalization of $10,000,000.
Los Angeles physicians have just re
moved the heart of a man and after
washing it replaced the organ. The
patient's chances of recovery are good.
In an accident the prong of a wooden
rake pierced the man's breast, carrying
in dirt which lodged on the heart.
The United States has a lower death
rate than any country in Europe except
Norway and Sweden, according to a
bulletin issued by the Census bureau.
Consumption is far in the lead as the
cause of death, but this disease has
shown a decrease of nearly 40 per cent
in the pan six years.
TLe Corean revolt is spreading.
Japan plans to monopoloze the trade
of the Orient.
Fire at Los Angeles destroyed a block
in tbe wholesale district.
a numoer oi Kussian newspapers
cave been suppressed for printing news
of the Bialystok massacre.
Tbe boue has passed a bill granting
California 5 per cent of the net pro
ceede of tbe sale of public lands.
It is expected that the Italian gov
ernment will soon issue an order for
the complete exclusion of American
canned meats.
May Be Called Upon to Quell Incip
ient Revolution at Panama.
Panama, June 26. The administra
tion of President Amador has been per
petuated as the rresult of tbe electiens
here today, but the conditions are now
such on the isthmus that were it not
for the presence here of a large body of
American marines, well armed and
equipped, and several gatling guns
mounted along the canal strip, a revo
lution would already be in progress. As
matters stand there is a feeling of sul
len discontent among the more progres
sive of the inhabitants of the Panama
republic, which may yet break out in
open revolution.
Threats of assassination are freel
made and it is openly asserted by tb
Liberals that Dr. Amador will hard!
live much longer.
Today s election, while only for
members cf the Municipal council, was
admitted to be a test, and upon its out
come depended the result of the gene
ral elections to be held later.
It is rumored that a large number
of Guatemalans are on the way here for
the purpose of aiding in an attempt to
overthrow the Amador administration
Color is lent to this report by the pres
ence on the outskirts of the city of a
detachment of 300 American marines
with gatling guns. They were sent by
Governor Magoon, who has so far de-
lined to explain their pretence.
IMPORTED YELLOW FEVER.
Single Case is Reported at Missis
sippi Quarantine.
New Orleans, June 26. One case of
yellow fever was reported today at the
Mississippi river quarantine station, 95
miles below New Orleans. This is the
first case of yellow fever reported in
Louisiana this year by the state board
of health. The patient is a Cuban
sailor who arrived at quarantine June
18 on the steamer Hotstein from Ha
vana, the rlulstein is still detained at
quarantine,- having been disinfee'ed.
No other cases of elevated temperature
have yet appeared on the Holstein.
Dr. C. II. Iron, president of the state
board of health, said to the inspecting
party that be does not believe yellow
fever is epidemic in New Orleans or in
Louisiana. The existence of yellow
fever at Rio Janeiro and also of two
cases of bubonic plague at that port
were reported to the state board by offi
cere oi the steamer fcaliust, arriving
here today. The Sallsust was disin
fected at quarantine.
Attorney General Crawford
Remedy Many Defects.
Salem Attorney General Crawford
has started a movement for the revision
of tbe criminal laws of the state by re
moving defects and enacting new laws
so that tbe guiity shall not escape upon
technicalities, lie has addressed a let
ter to each of the prosecuting attorneys
of the state, asking tbem to submit to
him such recommendations upon the
need of criminal legislation as they
may think best, and he will lay the
whole matter before the judiciary com
mittee of tbe next legislature.
In his letter Mr. Crawford says that
probably every district attorney haa in
his experience found some laws which
are so defective in their terms that men
who are guilty cannot be convicted,
and have found some offenses for which
no statute whatever is provided. lie
says that the time to remedy the de
fects in the criminal laws is during a
session of the legislature, and, in order
that this mav be done pronerlv. the
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laws should be drafted before the legis
lature meets.
The prosecuting attorneys, he thinks,
are in the best position to learn of the
defects in the laws, and he wants them
to suggest tbe changes that should le
made. With recommendations befoie
him from all the prosecuting attorneys,
the attorney general will be able to lay
before the legislature information that
will enable that body to place the crim
inal laws in a much better condition
than they have ever been before.
A very striking illustration ot the
defective condition of the criminal laws
was found when the state land fraud
prosecutions were begun in Marion
county something over a year ago.
There was no law under which men
could be convicted after they bad sworn
falsely in making applications for the
purchase of school lands.
There was no statute making it a
crime to sign a fictitious name to an ap
plication for the purchase of school
and. There was no law to ha found
for the punishment of a notarv public
who arixed his stal to an instrument
which he had drawn, and to which he
bad signed a ficticious name.
At nearly every term of court men
who are placed on trial escape punish
ment, although proven guilty, because
the statute does not quite cover the
crime comm'tted. It is defects o' this
kind that Attorney General Crawford
wishes to remove. He is not seeking
to make crimes of small offenses which
are of no importance, but merely so to
correct the laws that n will be possible
to secure conviction when men are
found guilty of acts which eveiy one
recognizes as criminal in character
WILL SHIP 400 CARS.
Settlement Named After Wagon.
Arlington Some 30 years ago a few
men settled on a flat about 12 miles
south of Arlington. In the crew was
only one wagon an old Schutler. In
some way they began calling this neigh
borhood Schutler, from the old wagon.
A few years later it was. as it is now.
known as Schutler Flat. When the
Condon branch railroad of the O. R. &
N. Co. was built, a station waB estab
lished near this place, and is named
Schutler. This is one of the finest
farming sections in Gilliam county, and
inus irom an oia wagon a name is
found for a fine wheat belt,
Bountiful Yields From Grand Ronda
Orchards is Assured.
La Grande It is estimated by the
principal fruit growers of Grand Ronde
valley that the output for his section
this year will be 400 carloads. The es
timate on apples, which are the largest
crop, is 3i4 cars; prunes, 65 cars;
pears, peaches, plums and cherries, 20
cars, lhese figures are considered reli
able, as there was but little variance in
the different estimates given and the
estimates on prunes all agreed. This
forecast is made on the expectation of a
continuation of the present favorable
conditions, which could hardly be im
proved upon; the fruit is set on the
trees as full as it can be to give first-
class quality.
In securing the foregoing report it
was also possible to obtain some inter
esting figures relative to the enormous
increase in the apple orchard acreage.
There are now 200,000 apple trees in
this valley and of this number 146.000
are in bearing. That is to say, this is
the number of trees of five years old
and upwards. Five years hence, when
the whole number of trees are in bear
ing, the yie.d of an average crop year
win be a million boxes, or about 1.666
car loads. It is not too much to sav
that within a short time the apple crop
ncome of this valley will be a million
dollars a year.
Even at the cider factory price of $5
per ton, ten-year-old trees will on aver
age yearly ield at the rate of $142.63
per acre.
While the apple is in the ascendancy
as the commercial fruit of this valley.
the cherry plays quite a part. Can-
ery representatives are here now niak-
ng contracts for cherries at 4 to 4?4'
cents per pound. The La Grande fruit
rowers will have about 20 tons to offer,
but this includes only the sweet varie
ties suitable for canning, such as Royal
Anns and Centennials.
Old cherry trees in some orchards in
the valley have yield?d as high as 800
po mds to the tree. The price paid is
$80 per ton and at this rate old trees
will yield $3,200 and upwards per acre.
All these figures and estimates are
based on as reliable facts as are obtain
able. It is not necessary to exaggerate
the fruit industry of Grand Ronde.
The truth ie good enough.
WHIPPED INTO LINE.
Count Witte expresses the opinion
that th Russian dooma is becoming
revolutionary in its character. He
also says the Jews have brought their
troubles on themselves.
A submarine eruption recently threw
up a small island near Boroslov, an is
land in Alaskan waters. Boroslov was
upheaved in the same way 100 years
ago and another small island in 1882.
The Hermann land case trial at Port
land is expected te take place the HreX.
of July.
Secret Convent Found.
Mexico City, June 26. A building
on Moscas street has been raided and
discovered to be a convent existing in
violat;on of the laws of reform. The
place had many cells, a chapel, a re
fectory, and other features of convent
life. The inmates wore tbe garb of
Carmelites with face veils. Legal pro
ceedings will be taken against the nuns
in the court of the First district. It i
long since a convent has been discover
ed and raided here. Religious orders
engaged in teaching and works of chari
ty have not been interefered with.
Track Cast Into Swamp.
Salt Lake, June 26. A pang of 100
men in the employ of the Oregon Short
Line picked 60 feet of Rio Grande
Western track at 3:30 this morning
and threw it into a swamp. Ignoring
a deputy eheriff who atternpred to serve
a writ of injunction from the JJietrut
court, the men put down Short Line
steel and ran a train of flat cars on
the new trai k. The contested right of
way is in the northern part of the city
and gives a'-cess to a factory.
Governor Harris III.
Chicago, June 26 A special to the
Rex.-ord-Herald from Cleveland Mys:
Governor Andrew L. Harris, of Ohio,
is ill at his home in Eaton, Preble
connty. He i" suffering from exhala
tion and scute indigestion and it is
doubtful if he will be able t return tr
Columbus to take up Lis duties. ,
Grain Sack Problem Serious.
Pendleton The grain sack problem
promises o be serious for the f irmers
of Umatilla county, who will use 2,
000,000 this year. -At the present
prices, 10 cents each, this means $200,-
000 in this county. Other Eastern
Oregon counties, it is estimated, will
use at least 2,000,000 more, making a
total of $4,000,000 for this section.
This entails the expenditure of nearly
half a million dollars for grain sicks,
which, together with the expense of
harvesting the crop, represents an
enormous expenditure of money before
anything is realized from the crop.
May Test New Law.
Salem Just what additional revenue
will come to the state treasury as the
result of the passage of the laws taxing
the gross earnings of telegraph, tele
phone, express and other corporations
is not known for a certainty. The
Western Union Telegraph company will
have to pay about $3,800. The Pacific
States Telephone company will have to
pay more probably. None of the cor
porations will pay until it has tested
the law in the courts, so it is said.
Some have estimated the revenue at
irom iou.uuu to f iuu.uuu a year.
Working for Coast Railroad.
Newport J F. Stewart, William
S.-arth and O. Krogstad, members of
the Toledo corporation organized for
the purpose of securing the right of
way for the coast railroad, were" in this
city last week agitating the forming of
a company of Newport people to help
in the endeavor to bring the railroad
through this section. They succeeded
in arousing tbe citizens to such an ex
tent that a company with $5,000 cap
italization is proposed to be formed.
Few Insurance Companies Have Failed
to Comply With Law.
San Francisco, June 25. That the
insurance companies fear the weight of
official displeasure is shown by the fact
that there are now but five or six com
panies which have neither furnished
their lists of policy holders nor extend
ed time for pronf of loss. Assistant
Attorney General George Sturtevant
said today that his office is now ready
to commence action against the com
panies which have not been dealing
fairly. He added:
'We have found u way to reach both
the six-bit concerns and the outlaw
companies, as we term those who have
neither filed lists of policy holders nor
granted extension of time for filing
proof of loss. Wherever it is found
necessary, both penalties under the
statutes will be enforced forfeiture of
bond and ejectment from the state
The financial condition of practically
all of the companies involved here will,
it is stated, be disclosed on July 1,
when the companies will be compelled
to tile in the state of Georgia semi-an
nual statements of their condition.
Georgia is said to be the only state in
the Union requiring semi-annual state
ments.
Chairman Spencer, of the "dollar for
dollar" committee of the board of un
derwriters, said today that the outlook
is dubious.
There are undoubtedly a large num
ber of companies which must go to the
wall soon," he said. "I do not want
to specify, nor would I say that all the
honest and solvent companies are in
the 'dollar for dollar' class. I do not
want to impugn the motives of any of
the companies that propose a compro
mise. Some of them undoubtedly
cannot pay and ars offering the best
they can.
"Some of the companies are now
making a delay to learn the extent of
their liabilities and will then pay what
they owe. Others are delaying in bad
faith. These will have to wait and go
out of business, unless they can mak
good soon."
GREAT DANGER
TO IRRIGATION
Congress May Divert Fund to Drain
age of Swamps.
Movement to Use Western Money to
Drain Private Land in Eastern and
Southern States Gains Impetus
Nine Separate Bills Now Pending
for This Purpose.
GUERILLA WARFARE IN RUSSIA
Peasants
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Historic Sites To Be Marked.
Eugene Acting upon a suggestion
made by Profess ir F. G. Young, of the
State university, the Native Daughters
of Martha Mulligan cabin No. 3 nave
taken up tbe matter of marking s )me
of the early historic places of interest
in or about Eugene. Miss Ann White
aker has appointed committees of fi
nance, location and program. It was
decided to mark with basaltic columns,
taken from Skinner's bulte, the loca
tion of the Skinner cabin, the first built
in hugene, the hrst sehoolhouse and
the place where the first court was held.
Prunes Promise Great Yield.
salem the rains of the past two
weeks have not done as much damag
to berries in this vicinity as expected
and a good crop is being gathered.
The wet weather has made pasturage
excellent and an enormous crop is as
sured. With few exceptior.g, prune
growers report bumper crops, and in
some orchards the fruit is so abundant
that weak limbs are already breaking.
A few cherries have been cracked by
ti e wet weather.
Bend Ships Horses.
Bend Many horses are being ship,
ped from Bend and vicinity to Portland
and other points in the valley. Many
riders are out on tbe ranges rounding
up all available horses. It is feared
that considerable horse thieving has
been going on in this section, as a num
ber of valuable horees are missing, and
s some suspicious characters have been
een on the ranges of late it is feared
that the animals have been run off.
Wheat Club, 7273c; bluestem,
7475c; red, 7071c; valley, 72c.
Oat? No. 1 white feed, $31.5032;
gray, $31.50 per ton.
Barley Feed, $24(324.50 per ton ;
brewing, nominal; rolled, $2526.
Hay Valley timothy, No. 1, $12.50
13perton; clover, $7.508; cheat,
$6(37; grain hay, $78; alfalfa, $13.
Fruits Apples, $2 503.50 per box;
apricots, $1.25$2 per crate; cherries,
75c$l per b-x; strawberries, 57c
per pound; gooseberries, 57c per
pound; Logan berries, $1.75 per crate
Vegetables Beans, O'aSc; cabbage,
1?4C per pound; lettuce, head, 15025c;
onions, 810c per dozen ; peas, 45c;
radishes, 1020c per dozen ; rhubarb,
3c per pound; spinach, Z 3c per
pound; parsley, 25c; turnips, $11.25
per sack; carrots, 6575c per eack;
beets, 85c$l per eack.
Onions New, 1 22c per pound.
Potatoes Fancy graded Burbanks,
50360c per hundred; ordinary, nom
inal: new California, 22jc per
pound.
Putter Fancy creamery, 17J2'20c
per pound.
Eggs Oregon ranch, 2122c per
dczon.
Poultry Average old hens, 13f3
13)s per pound; mixed rhicketiS, 12fii
12gc: broilers, 15(316c; roosters,
9,($llc; dressed chickini, 13(314c;
turkeys, live, 17 (3) 17c; turkeys,!
dressed, choice, 2022c; geese, live,
8 (39c; -ducks, old, 11 12c; young,
12)$13c.
Hops Oregon, 1805, 9ai2c.
Wool Eastern Oregon average best,
182318'c; valley, coars, 22'$2'tc;
fine, 2425c; mohair, choice, i'830c
per pound.
Veal Dressed, 4.37c per pound.
Beef Dressed bulls, 3c per pound;
cows, 45)c; country steers, 6(ffic.
Mutton Pressed, fancy, 7$8c per
pound; ordinary, 56c; lambs, with
pelt on 8c.
Pork Dressed, 79c per jou;iJ.
Murder Two Rural Police
for Killing a Cow.
ei. rerersnurg, June L'a. The peas
ants ot the village of Kruntyagork, en
raged at the killing of a cow by two
members of the rural police, called
commune meeting, formally condemned
the two men to death and executed the
sentence.
At Kiev messengers on the South
wesiern ranroau, wno were carrying
$125,000, were attacked yesterday by
four robbers who killed one messenger
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wounueu a Beconu, seized the money
and drove away in a gallop in a cab
Two of the messengers pursued the rob
L 1 ll.t i.
oers anu wounuea tne robber who was
carrying the money, with the result
that he fell from the cab and the money
was recovered.
At Ufa, Prince Manveloff. an extens
ive landed proprietor and a former offi
cer of the guards, was killed on the
streets yesterday. The crime, it is
suppose!, was committed for poiitical
reasons.
Dispatches from Bialystok report that
the citizens there a'e panic stiicken
owing to unconfirmable rumors
that the excesses would be revived to
day. Patrols are to be seen every
where, and strict martial law is en
forced. Three men, two of whom were
Christians, were recently shot for fail
ing to obey orders to halt.
Washington, June 23. Early in the
present session of congress Senator
llansbrough, of North Dakota, intro
duced a bill authorizing the expendi
ture of $1,000,000 out of the national
reclamat'on fund for draining swamps
in his state. When the bill went be
fore thecommittee on irrigation it was
found that every acre to be benefitted
was in private ownership, and the bill,
if enacted, would not open to entry a
single acre of public land. Notwith
standing these disclosures, the senate
committee ordered a favorable report
out of courtesy because llansbrough is
a member of the committee. It was
then stated that a majority of the com
mittee believed the bill a bad one, and
it was sttaed by several senators that it
would never be permitted to pass the
seriate. Nevertheless the bill did pass
and is now before the bouse, where its
chances of passing seem equally good.
A bill is now pending to divert $1.-
030,000 from the reclamation fund to
drain the Dismal swamp in Virginia
and North Carolina; another is pending
to drain the J-.verglades of Florida;
only a few days ago a bill was intro
duced to take another $3,000,000, and
expend it in draining the big swamps
of Arkansas and Missjuri, and, in ad
dition, there are two bil's pending for
the drainage of swamps in Minnesota,
and three general bills providing for
the government drainage of swamps in
all parts of the United States.
If the Hansbrough bill passes, it will
open the way for these other measures
of similar character, and it will be only
a short time before tbe greater portion
of the reclamation fund, inatead of be
ing nsed for irrigating the desert lands
of the Wsk. as originally intended.
will be expended in reclaiming swamps
in states that have contributed not a
cent to the reclamation fund and never
will contribute. This legislation is a
rank injustice to the West, which is
counting on using its cwn public land
receipts for the reclamation of its des
erts, and unless somebody calls a halt,
the work of government irrigation will
soon be brought to a standstill.
It muHt be remembered that, once
this precedent is established, it will be
easy for delegates from the East and
South to combine and force through
bilh for the drainage of tbe swamps in
the non-a.id states, and if the East and
South ever do combine for this purpose.
he West will never have enough votes
to check the onslaught.
REGISTER FOR CROW LANDS.
NO PRISON FOR JOHN D.
Government Not Likely to Indict Big
Oil Trust Men.
Washington, June 25. Although the
department of Justice has announced
that it proposes to begin criminal pro
ceedings against the officials ol the
Standard Oil company, the intimation
is given out that it is doubtful if in
dictments may be found against such
men in the Standard Oil company as
John D. Rockefeller, H. H. Rogers and
John D. Archbold. An official in the
department of Justice indicated today
that while the government would prets
the prosecutions vigorously, he did not
have an idea that the officials of the
Standard Oil company would be reached
in the criminal proceedings any more
than the presidents of railroads, per
sonally, are reached through similar
proceedings.
Recognize Only the Douma.
Moscow, June 25. It is reported
that troops in the local garrison have
notified their officers tl at they will
remain loyal to the crown as long as
the czar and the government respects
the rights and privileges of the douma.
It is asserted, but not yet confirmed,
that the soldiers have notified the offi
cers that they will decline to obey anv
orders from them should the douma be
dissolved, but will hold themselves un
der the orders c f the president of that
ody, declining the recognize the presi
dent of the present government.
Crowds of Easterners Are Arriving at
Billings, Montana.
B"tte, June 23 A Miner special
from Billings states that Easterners are
flocking to that place by the hundreds
to register for the Crow lands. Today
they numbered approximately 850,
which is 200 greater than it was yeeter
day. The crowds which arrived today
were larger than any since the registra
tion began, which was a week ago.
The delegation of 200 came in this
morning on the Burlington train from
the East. Most of those on board came
from Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska.
points. But one hailed from Connec
ticut, while another gave his addresB
as South Carolina.
The Noithern Pacific brought in
numbers from Michigan, Wisconsin
and Minnesota. Many of the prospect
ive settlers have secured tents and have
gone to the reservation, where they
will establish camps and make a thor
ough inspection of the lands. At the-
present rate tbe registration in this city
will not exceed 10,000.
House Built With Cactus.
Paadtona, Cal., June 25. Luther
Rurlank, the California wizard, is
I'U.lding himself a $5,000 residence at
Santa Rosa. Two cactus leaves which
ie iaiei on Ins own land will pay lor
t. T'ii is the interesting statement
na 'e by Burba k lo D. W. Coolidge,
'ecreiarv of lb.- Pacadena board of
'e h jppt returned from a
visit to the I'url.ank home. It means
that $5,000 was tl.e reward for produc
ing bis new epineltes cactus.
Appeals to English Women.
London, June 23. The newspapers
this morning print an appeal from the
women of Georgia, Russia, to tbe wo
men of England, complaining that by
order of the Russian government Cos
sacks invaded the central and western
provinces of Georgia and destroyed,
burned and looted four towns and 200
villages, treating the population with
the utmost brutality, not even children
escaping murder. The names of the
signers are withheld at their own re
quest, but they include a princess and
the wives of many high officials.
Roosevelt Signs Traveling Bill.
Washington, Ji:ne 25. Late this
ftern-n President Roosevelt signed
fie bill making an appropriation of
2S WO a year for the traveling expens
es of the president.
Dowie's Place of Refuee.
Chicago, June 23. WillurG. Voliva
was again on the stand in the Dowie
bearing today. He told of a secret
room in the basement of Dowie's resi
dence, tbe door of which was lined
with steel. He said Dowie had told
him many times that he had construct
ed this chamber for a refuge because he
believed members of the Masonic order
were constantly plotting against his
life. Dowie frequently declared, he
sail, that he was in constant danger.
Root Considers Action on Massacre.
Washington, June 23. Secretary
Root is giving consideration to the Jew
ish massacres in Russi i.Jhaving already
discussed them with the president. So-
far he has taken no action.