Heppner Gazette
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Issued Thursday of Each Week
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HF.PPNER OREGON
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.
A member of the kaiser's cabinet is
accused of grafting.
It is reported that Russian bankers
will aid the revolutionists.
A. St. Petersburg paper says General
Trepoff is to be minister of war.
llarriman is believed to be secretly
buying up St. Paul railway stock.
Heat in Chicago is , oppressive.
Deaths and prostrations are quite nu
merous. An Italian anarchist has been cap
tured with a quantity of dynamite in
tended f jr the king.
Sarah Bernhardt has been refused a
decoration of the Legion of Honor by
France because she does not pay her
debts.
All South America, as represented at
the Pan-American conference, is lined
np for arbitration and the peace of the
world.
Many witnesses are being called be
fore the grand jury at Chicago to tell
what they know of Scandard Oil busi
ness methods.
Two electric cars collided head on
near Vermillion, Ohio. Two persons
were killed, another fatally injured
and scores more or less seriously hurt.
A tiutiny in all Finnish forts has
been called by the Reds.
E. A. Gage, a son of Lyman Gage,
committed suicide in Seattle.
Rear Admiral Train, commander in
chief of the Aeiatic squadron is dead.
A fund of two and a half million dol
lars is to be raised to build cottages for
the homeless of San Francisco.
The forts at Sveaborg, Russia, are al
most in total ruins as the result of
fighting between mutineers and loyal
troops.
San Francisco is threatened with an
epidemic of typhoid, which tbe health
board says is being carried, .by the com
mon house fly.
The state law of New York restrict
ing the labor by women and children
to 10 hours a day has beendeclaied un
constitutional. The state auditor of KanBas sayB he
will cancel the polices of all insurance
companies who do not pay their San
Francisco losses in full.
Provision contractors on the isthmus
have formed a trust and raised the
prices lOOper cent. The canal com
mission has ordered supplies of $500
and over bought under the open bid
system.
Brigadier General William Bolton iB
dead. ,
Mavor W. II. Moore, of Seattle, is
seriously ill at Los Angeles.
The business of the Lewis and Clark
exposition has been wound up.
T. VV. Davenport, of Sikerton, Ore
gon, father of Cartoonist Davenport, is
dead.
Fifteen hundred copper miners at
Calumet, Michigan, have had their
wages voluntarily raised $2 per mouth.
Four men were killed and two
woun ded in a battle between a sheriff's
posse and bandits in Knott county,
Kentucky.
It has been charged that General
Wood is drawinz two salaries, one as
governor and one as his regular pay in
the armv. The president says this is
not so.
A San Francisco woman has just se
cured a divorce on the ground that her
husband had not spoken a word to her
for eieht vears. although living in the
same boust.
A Porto Ri an merchant has eued
Federal Judge Hunt, of Montana, for
$100,000 damages. It is claimed that
at the time the ludge was governor of
the island he was instrumental in ruin
ing the merchant's business.
The National Sculpture sccietv is to
establish an old age home for its mem
bers.
The St. Paul is laving -steel for its
new Pacific coast extension. The work
is being done in South Dakota.
Judge 7ames F. Tracey, of the Phil
ippine Supreme court, will likelv be
the next vice governor of the islands.
John D. Rockefeller eaya there is
more good than bad in the world, and
that everything ia for good in the end.
Fire in a Buffalo, N. Y., planing
mill destroyed $170,000 worth of prop
erty. Truck workers in Fan Francisco have
etruck for more pay and thorter hour.
The Pennsylvania railroad Las cot
passenger rates to 2 cents per mile.
Mileage books will be if sued at the rate
of 2 cents per mile.
Vat frauds bave been unearthed in
Fan Francisco's municipal affair.
Examination of pnblic records show
that there has been an extensive graft
in letting contract aDd that city pay
rolls Lave been palded.
MANY TO MEET AT BOISE.
Interest High in Coming Session of
Irrigation Congress.
North Yakima, Wash, Aug. 7.
During the first week of September the
National Irrigation congress Will be in
session at Boise Idaho, with an attend
ance of several thousand delegates.
Exhibits of fruit and honey are being
prepared by different localities and
states. The premiums are liberal. It
is expected that the governor of Wash
ington will appoint 25 delegates, that
each commercial club will appoint ten,
and that each board of county commie
sioners will appoint five. It is believ-
ed that If a full delegation attends the
convention it will be able to secure the
next national congress at some point in
this state. It is hoped that the vari
oos fruitgrowers' associations and the
State Beekeepers' association will have
on exhibition products of the orchard
and apiary which will take silver cups
and other premiums. Tbe Yakima
County Horticultural union ia arrang
ing to send elegant exhibits of fruits
and honey. The delegation from that
county will ask the convention to pass
a resolution memorializing congress to
appropriate $300,000,000 for reclama
tion of arid lands in the West.
The State Beekeepers' association has
secured a Bigelow observatory hive,
stocked with pure bred Italian bees, for
the purpose of giving object lessons in
tbe apiary. It will be used at the
monthly meetings of the association to
teach the farmers and high school class
es. It will be one of the interesting
features of the display at the Washing
ton State fair. The secretary of the
fair has agreed to set apart one of the
prominent conrners in the main pavil
ion for the apiary exhibit, and $200
has been appropriated for premiums in
that division.
The three days' midwinter conven
tion of the State Beekeepers' associa
tion will be held at the Agricultural
college at Pullman next January, and
the observatory hive will be in full
operation to instruct the students of
that college. The students of the Ida
ho Agricultural college, which is only
nine miles from Pullman, are also in
vited to be present at that meeting.
The business of beekeeping is an ad
junct of the orchard, bens being the
best friend of the fruitgrower, for the
reason that these insects cross pollenize
the blossoms and increase the yield.
These two industries go hand in hand,
and are rapidly becoming valuable
Bourcea of income.
As an example of what organization
does, a few years ago the Yakima Coun
ty Horticultural union incorporated and
sold its shares of stock at $10; the past
year the dividends were 70 per cent, a
warehouse 50x180 feet has just been
completed, toe material being stone
and the structure two stories and full
basement, one front being on the
Northern Pacific railroad and the other
on the North Coast road. The shares
are now selling at $20, and it is antici
pated that the capital stock will have
to be increased in order to accommodate
the demand.
Fruit Inspector Brown, of Yakima
county, says that in five years from now
he calculates that 12,000 cari per year
will be shipped from the warehouse at
North Yakima.
To Duplex Alaska Cable.
Washington. Aug. 7. The Signal
corps headquarters in this city has
been advised that the cable duplexing
apparatus sent to Seattle for use on the
Alaskan cable has haen a complete suc
cess. As soon as the cable ship Burn
side completes its work of laying cables
between the forts defending the en
trance to Puget sound, which probably
will be in about a weak, it will go to
Alaska and install duplexing equip
ment at the Alaskan end, thus giving
the Alaskan cable, which is now over
taxed, twice the present capacity.
Americans Caused Trouble.
Mexico City, Aug. 7. Tbe Impar
cial charges that the recently circulated
handbills, warning foreigners to leave
the country by September 16, were put
out by au unknown American, who
went from station to etation distribut
ing and posting the pretended proclam
ation. The Imparcial also asserts that
certain railway camps in Texas and
California have taken part in promot
ing tho circulation of false and sensa
tional reports.
Dooms Opium Using.
London, Aug. 7. In a dispatch fr m
Pekin in which he discusses the opium
trade the correspondent of the Times
expreesea the belief that China will a. k
India to consent to an annual reduction
in the import to China which would
have the effect of extinguishing the
trade in ten vears. As an evidence f
good faith China will issue an imperial
edict condemning the use of opium and
forbidding the employment in the gov
ernment service of any opium eater.
Raise the Price of Bread.
San Francisco. Aug. 7. As a reult
of the derrande made by the union
bakers for an increaee of $3 week in
their wairfs, which has been granted by
the maeter bakers, the latter will laice
the nric" of bread in this city. The
manner in which it will be done has
not yet been screed npon, but it is said
that most ff the bakers favor a loaf
just a tnfl? larger than one-half the
size of the present loaf.
Commerce Outstrips Population.
Washirgton, Aug. 7. The foreign
commerce of the United States has
grown mor rapidly during the laet de-
rade tf an h ropula'ion. Completed
figures f ir the fiscal year 1P-06 just pre-
ented !iow that whi'e tin population
bae grown eirce 1891 but 20 per cent,
imports tiave grown 57 per cefct and
exports 109 per cent.
NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FROM THE STATE OF OREGON
FOR EQUITABLE TAX.
State Commission Proposes Revision
of Present Law.
Salem With a view to securing
more equitable assessment of property
in this state, the Oregon Tax commis
sion has recommended a revision of the
law governing the equalization of as
sesements by the county board. In
this tonnection, the commission gives
its flat disapproval to the plan often
agitated of having the assessment rolls
published in the newspapers in the
locality in which the property assessed
is located.
The proposed revision of the law re
lating to equalization or. the assess
ment is largely based upon inconsisten
cies in the present law, but aleo upon a
laxity in the law by which wealthy
nronertv owners have been able to co
erce county ourts into allowing an in
eouitable assessment to stand. The
commission proposes a law which seems
to have "teeth in it," and which will
be effective if county officers are dis
posed to do their duty.
The inconsistency in the present law
lies in the fact that the county board
of equalization ia required to meet on
the last Mondav.in August, while the
assessor is given until the first Monday
in September to file his roll, or until
the first Monday in October if the
county court m'akea an order to that
effect. At tbe Bame time there ia no
authority of law for an extension of the
time of meeting of the county board ol
equalization.
Assessors usually take the full time
to prepare their rolls, and very fre
anentlv ask for and are granted the
extension of time. Commenting upon
this condition of the laws, the commis
sion saya that "the board of equaliza
tion ia thus required to meet perhaps
aix weeks before the assessment roll is
completed, and as its functions lapse
when it has been in session a week, it
must have passed out of legal existence
at a date before the assessor is required
to have the assessment roll ready to
equalize.
"Under the present system we have
practically two boards of equalization,"
eavs the commission, "one meeting
after the other, and having full power
to undo the work of its predecessor.
The county board of r qualization con
tinues in session one week, and if it
does not complete its work within the
week, the county court, at its next reg
ular session, completes the examina
tion and correction of the roll.
The new law is to do away with this,
making provision for the board meeting
after the roll is completed.
Thia propoaed law contains several
provisions that seem to be an improve
ment upon the existing law. In the
first place, a taxpayer will not go before
tbe county board of equalization unless
he haa a real grievance, for the court
baa power to raise hia assessment, and
his formal petition will 'serve to call
tbe attention of hia neighbors and the
public generally to the representations
he ia making governing the value of his
property, flacing the matter of equal
ization entiiely in the hands of one
board instead of two will centralize the
reEponsibilty and give time and oppor
tunity for careful and well advised
work.
Fire Precautions at Asylum.
Salem Lest friends and relatives of
the 1,420 patients confined in the in
sane asylum may be unduly concerned
as to their welfare on account of tbe
recent fire at that institution, an official
of the asylum says that none of the pa
t'ents were in danger, and would not
be even in case of a tire serious enough
to destroy a considerable portion ot the
building. The facilities for getting
patients out of the building an such
that a disastrous fire need noteaue the
loss of a single life. In this particular
the building could scarcely be improved.
Umatilla Canal Contract Let.
Washnigton The secretary of the
interior has awarded the contract to the
Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging com
pany, of Seattle, for the construction of
the storage feed canal of the Umatilla
irrigation project. The work of the
contract involves the cosstruction of 25
miles of canal from the Umatilla river,
near Echo, to Cold Springs reservoir,
and censists of 700,000 cubic yards of
earth excavation, 6,000 cubic yards of
rock excavation, 2,300 cubic yards of
concrete and 2.600 cubic yards of rip
rap. The bid waB $161,388.
Fire in the Cascades. I
Albany A timber fire in the Cascade '
mountains near Detroit is spreading
rapidly, threatening heavy damage.
The fire started near the Santiam river
and spread inio heavy timber. Two
hundred acres of the finest forest in the
Cascades is now burning, and the wind
ia driving the flames into the heart of
the mountains, where, if not stopped
soon, immense damage will result.
Everything is extremely dry and the
flames are spreading rapidly.
Wheat Yield About Normal.
Pendleton The harvest in all parts
of Umatilla county has commenced.
The threshing up to this time has been
too limited to make a very close esti
mate of the yield, but from what haa
been threshed on the reservation, and
around Athena it is thought the vield
in those districts will be about normal.
and had it not been for the hct winds
the yield would have been at least 25
per cent above the average.
Flour Mills Closed Down.
La Grande The flouring mills of La
Grande. Island Ci'y and Union hae
closed down, having utilized all the old
supply of wheat.
LAW UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Household Goods Not Entitled to Ex.
emption, Says Supreme Court.
Salem By holding, in a decision just
rendered, that the householder's tax
exemption is unconstitutional, the Ore
gon Supreme court has declared void a
statute that has been in force in this
state almost continuously since 1859.
Householders' exemptions have been
allowed every year except 1904, when
the exemption law had been repealed.
It was re-enacted by the special session
of 1903, but went into effect too late
to be applicable to the assessment of
1904.
Approximately $8,000,000 has been
exempted from taxation in this state
from year to year, and legialatora,
county officers and the people generally
have recognized the exemption as valid.
Now the Supreme court haa declared all
these exemptions invalid.
This decision will make it necessary
for county assessors in many counties
to make a reassessment of property in
their counties for 1900, for it ia the
practice of many assessors not to lict
property that is exempt. In some and
perhaps most of the counties the assess
ors list the exempt property and make
the deductions afterward.
Clackamas Farmers Are Happy.
Oregon City There is an abundant
yield of all hay and grain crops in
Clackamas county this year that ear
pass the average in quality. Early
fruits and vegetables yielded heavily
while the vineyard, field and orchard
with maturing crops, give the producer
every assurance of increased prosperity
with the harvest. In celebration of the
large and satisfactory crops, a nnmber
of harvest festivals have been held and
others are being-arranged. It haa been
years since Clackamas county farmers
were as prosperous and contented.
Raise Railroad Assessments.
tealem lhat railroad property in
Oregon was assessed at only $10,815,-
915.41, when if had acommercial value
of nearly $70,000,000, is one of the im
portant and interesting'features of the
report of the Oiegon Tax commission,
which will be presented for the conaid
eration of the next legislature. These
figures relate to valuations in 1904,
which was the latest year for which
the commission could secure reliable
information.
Yields 90 Bushels an Acre.
Weston A remarkably heavy yield
of barley has just been harvested on
the farm of O. C. Turner, two miles
north of this place. Tbe yield from 14
acres was 529 sacks, or 1,267 bushels,
an average of 90 bushels to the acre
Turner Bros, were expecting a good
yield, but did not look for more than
70 bushels to the acre, which ia a big
yield.
Half Million to Clackamas Roll.
Oregon City By the decision of the
Supreme court on the tax exemption
law, Assessor Nelson reports that there
will be added to the Clackamas county
assessment rolls about $400,000 addi
tional on which next year's tax levy
will be made. Revision will delay the
task of completing the rolls which were
received from the state authorities ten
weeks later than the usual time.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Club, 71c; bluestem, 73c;
red, 69c; vallev, 71c; new club, 70c;
new bluestem, 72c; valley, 71c.
Oata No. 1 white feed, $30; gray,
$29 p;r ton.
Barley Feed, $23 50 per ton; brew
ing, $23.50 per ton; rolled, $2424.50.
Rye $1 50 per cwt.
Hay Valley timothy, No. 1, $11
12.50 per ton; clover, $8.505f,9; cheat,
$6.507; grain hay, $78; alfalfa,
$11.
Fruits Apples, $1.5002.25 per box;
apricots, $1.251.35; cherries, 610c
per pound; currants, 9(3 10c; "peach
es, 75c$1.10 per box; plnms, $1.25;
Logan berries, $1.35(331.40 per crate;
raspberries, $l.401.50; blackberries,
8c per pound; gooseberries, 8c.
Vegetables Means, 57c per pound;
cabbage, l?42c; corn, 15 20c per
dozen; cucumbers, 4050c per drzen;
eggplant, 1015c per pound; lettuce,
head, 25c per dczen ; onions, IU
12c; peas, 45c per pound; radish
es, lUloc per uczen; rnunarD, zw
2c per pound; spinach, 23c; toma
toes. $1.25 3 per box; parsley, 25c;
nnnnsh. t 1(3)1.25 per crate: turnipe.
90c $1 per ssck; carrots, $1(31.25 per
sack; beets, $l.251.50 per sack.
Onions New, red, 14(1c per
pound; new yellow, l?4'2c per pound.
Potatoes Old hurhanka, nominal;
new potatoes, 75c$1.25
Butter Fancy creamery, 2022c
per pound.
Egga Oregon ranch, 2121c pel
dozen.
Poultry Average old hens. 1 ?0t 14c
per pound; mixed chickens, 13(313!$c;
springs, 16 OS 17; roosters, ! luc;
dressed chickens, 1415c; turkeys,
live, 1517c; turkeys, dressed, choice,
2022c; geese, live, 80c; drnks,
11013c.
Hops Oregon, 1905, ll12c; olds,
9c; 1906 contracts, 12(3 15c per pound.
Wool Eastern Oregon average best,
1620c per pound, according to shrink
age; valley, 2022, according to fine
ness; mohair, choice. 2830c per
pound.
Veal Dreesed, 5J8c per pound.
Beef Dressed bulls, 3c per ponnd;
cows, Aftc; country steers, 56c.
Mutton Dressed farcy, 7?8c per
ponnd; ordinary, 5Gc; lambs, fancy,
8(38 c.
Pork D.-esaed, 78c per ponnd. '
THREE HUNDRED DROWN.
Italian Immigrant Ship Strikes
Reef
Off Coast of Spain.
Cartagena, Spain, Aug. 6. A terri
ble marine disaster occurred Saturday
evening off Cape PaloB. The Italian
steamship Sirio, from Genoa for Barce
lona, Cadiz, Montevideo and Buenos
Ayres with about 800 persons on board,
was wrecked off Hormigas island.
Three hundred immigrants, most of
them Italians and Spaniards, were
drowned. The captain of the steamer
committed suicide.
The bishop of San Pedro, Brazil, also
was lost and another bishop waa for a
tine among the missing. The remain
der of the passengers and the officers
and crew got away in the ship's boats
or were rescued by means of boats sent
to them from the shore. A number ol
fishermen who made attempts at reacue
were drowned.
Thoee rescued from the vessel are
now at Cape Palos, in a pitiable condi
tion, being wiihout food or clothing.
The Sirio etruck a reef of rockB
known as Bajoa Hormigas, and sank
BJon afterward, stern first. Hormigas
island lies about two and a half miles
to the eastward of Cape Palos.
The Sirio, owned by the Navigaziono
Italiana, left Genoa August 2. All the
ship's books were lost. It is impossi
ble at present to ascertain the full ex
tent of the disaster. Nine-tenths of
tbe passengers were Italiana, and the
remainder Spaniards. All the surviv
ors have been landed at Cape Palos.
The inhabitants provided them with
clothing and nourishment. Thirty
were landed at Hirmagas island, about
one mile from the tragedy. Fishermen
brought in tbe first news of the foun
dering of the Sirio, and it created con
sternation here. Boatloads of the
shipwrecked passengers and crew began
reaching Bhore shortly after the newa
became known.
All the atokers went down with the
ship. They were unable to reach the
deck in time to save themselves.
Among the survivors at Cape Faioa are
many mothers who weep and wring
their handa for lost children, while
there are also a number of children
who are unable to find their parentsv
These have been admitted to the city
foundling asylum.
JONES AND POTTER TO JAIL
One Year and $2,000, Six Months
and $500 Respectively.
Portland, Aug. 6. Willard N. Jones
and Thaddeus 8. Potter, convicted at
midnight October 15, 1906, under an
indictment returned by 'the Federal
grand jury charging them jointly with
conspiring to deiraua me governmenr
of its public lands, were given their
sentences by Judge Hunt in the United
States District court Saturday.
Jonea received" a fine of $2,000, in
addition to a term of one year at the
government prisen on McNeill s island.
Potter fared somewhat better, a Judge
Hunt took several points into consider
ation, which, coupled with the lact
that Francis J. Heney made a strong
plea for leniency in his case, prompted
his sentence of six months in the Mult-
nomah county jan anu a nne oi ?ouu.
Tnhe attorneys for both were given ten
days to perfect any legal action looking
to an appeal, and in the meantime
Jones was required to give $8,000 bail,
double the amount of his former bond,
while Potter was permitted to go upon
his original security.
The particular offene for which the
two men were convicted consisted in
inducing a large number of Grand
Armv men to file soldier homesteads
in the Siletz Indian reservation, under
agreement to transfer title to Jones.
Ira Wade, county clerk of Lincoln
countv. was tried under the Bame in
dictment, but in his case the jury re
turned a verdict of acquittal, the evi
dence not being considered sufficient to
convict. John L. Wells, adjutant gen
eral of the G. A R., was also involved
n the scheme of conspiracy, his influ
ence being exercised in the direction of
pecuring locators among me oiu sol
diers. Wells confessed his share of
complicity in the fraudulent undertak-
i . i ill
ng before the grand jury and waa made
witneps for the government. A gene
ral shake-up in the local G. A. R. was
the result of the exposures, and Wells
was compelled to resign.
Coal Companies Merged.
Scranton, Pa., Aug. 6. It was re
ported today on the best authority that
one ot tne largest ueais in tne nisiory
of the bituminous coal business was
consumated last wees, wherehy a cor
poration known aa the Pennsylvania,
Beach Creek & Eastern Coal company,
with a capital of $8,000,000, acquired
by a 999-year lease all the property
and business of the Pennsylvania Coal
& Coke company, the Beech Creek Coal
it Coke company and the North River
Coal t Wharf company, and a number
of electric light and water companies.
Says Trust Contro's Trade.
Chicago, Aug. 6. John Hill, Jr.,
has reopened his war on the owners of
public wan houf-es in Chicago with the
declaration that the grain trade is in
the clutches of a trunt. Mr. Hill says
tie now has evidence of the existence of
;m illegal cotnbinatim among the ware
house men, and that he intends to fight
t t its death. The Interstate Colu
mn e rommirsion will meet here' rYext
wntb, and Mr. Hill says he expects to
ee an invert it-at inn etarttd.
Goes to Isthmus in November.
Panama, Aug. 6. General Ma goon
'his afternoon informed President A ma
jor that Pns dent Roosevelt will visit
tin f-Hiiiil zone in Novemlter. . Senor
msdor, tl rough Mr. Magnon, -xtend-
-d a formal invitation to Mr. Rooeevtlt
to visit the city of Panama.
SIGNS POINT TO
A DICTATORSHIP
Grand Duke Nicholas to Lead Fight
Against the Rods.
Order for General Strike Has Been
Heeded by 20,000 in St. Peters
burgCity in Darkness Revolt
Breaks Out in Warsaw Big Fire
in Woodyards.
St. Petersburg, Aug. 4. St. Peters
burg is in darkness tonight. The em
ployes of the electric lighting plants,
always the earliest barometric record of
political conditions, ceased work during
the afternoon in obedience to the call
for a general strike. This call already
has been obeyed by 20,000 factory
handa in the capital. It will be im
possible, however, to predict the suc
cess of this universal political strike
until Monday, as the workmen in St.
Petersburg and the provinces have two
holidays Saturday, which ia the fete
day of the dowager empress and a great
religious feast, and their regular holi
day of Sunday.
The pickets of cavalry and infantry
were the most conspicuous features on
the streets of St. Petersburg laat night.
Business houses generally have boarded
up their windows aa they did in the
days of the great October strike. Prac
tically all of the street cars in the city
have stopped running, and the cab driv
ers are threatening to cease work.
In the meantime the fate of the
Stolypin cabinet sways in the balance
and Russia is upon the verge of disor
ders which may lead to the reign of
either the military or the proletariat.
It can be stated definitely that the steps
toward a dictatorship may be tiken
Sunday or Monday by the nomination ,
of Grand Duke Nicholas to the chief
command of all the troops in Russia.
This would virtually place him in con
trol of all the disturbed districts of the
empire where martial law has heen
proclaimed.
Artillery in Open Revolt.
Warsaw, Poland, Aug. 4. A portion
of the troops in the Summer Rembert-
off, near here, mutinied yesterday and
are in open revolt today. The artil
lerymen have driven their officers out
of their quarters. A squadron of Cos
sacks sent to overpower the mutineers
was received with grapeshot. Details
are lacking, aa extraordinary precau
tions are being taken to prevent the
facta becoming public.
Rebels Fire Big Woodyards.
Harkov, Aug. 4 Fire broke out in
several large woodyards in the vicinity
of the prison today. This evidently
was a device on the part of revolution
ists, who hoped to free political leaders
during the confusion. Tho authorities
are apprehensive of a renewed effoit to
the same end.
PUT OUT OF BUSINESS.
Insurance Commissioner Gives Body
Blow to Two Companies.
San Francisco, Aug. 4. Insurance
Commissioner Wolf sent notice tulay
to the president and directors of the
Fireman's Fund Insurance company
and the Home Fire & Marine Insurance
company, both of San Francisco, that
unless they made good their deficiency
in capital stock in four weeks he will
request Attorney General Webb tc pro
ceed to ascertain why their licenses to
do business in California revoked.
Both companies have been known to
be in financial trouble since the fire.
The Home Fire & Mirine lias announc
ed that it will do no more business.
The Fireman's Fund has reinsured its
rrsks to the amount of $372,584 750,
carrying premiums amounting to $4,
471.117 with tbe new Fireman's Fund
corporation, which has been organized
since the fire. ' Both companies have
thus confessed failure.
Wolf's order, it is expected, will
permanently close their doors.
Subpenas for Standard Men.
New York, Aug. 4. Forty or more
subpenas for officers and employes of
the Standard Oil company have been
forwarded to New York from Chicago.
Several of the officials of the Standard
Oi! would not say whether they had re
ceived the subpenas from Illinois. In
quiries were referred to M. F. Elliott,
general counsel for the company, who
said eo far as he knew no attempt had
been made to serve any of the officials.
Mr. Elliott would not say what atti
tude the officials would take in case the
subpena servers put in an appearance.
Investigation in Philippines.
Washington, Aug. 4. An investiga
tion of alleged irregularities in the
Philippine islands is now being con
ducted by order of Major General Wood,
t tie inquiry being in charge of Colonel
Wood, inspector general. At the re
quest of General Wood the War depart
ment has made a special detail of offi
cers familiar with the methids of busi
ness and conditions in the Philippines
to assist. No result has yet been re
ported to the department.
Stampede to Windy Arm.
Seattle, Aug. 4. Rich strikes report
ed in Southeastern Alaska have at
tracted the longshoremen of Skagway,
Juneau and other towns. The men
who work along the front have., stam
peded to Windy Arm in such numbers
that the sailors on the coastwise fleet
have to unload their own boats.
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