Heppner gazette., August 30, 1906, Image 2

Heppner Gazette
Issued Thursday of Each Week
HEPPNER 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.
Ran Francisco car men have declared
a general etrike.
It is reported that Cuban insurgents
are beginning to desert.
Secretary Root has arrived in Chil
ean waters on board the cruiser
Charleston.
Trains are beginning to arrive at
Valparaiso with provisions for the
earthquake safferere.
Cuban rebels are recruiting tneir
army up to 5,000 men, and preparing
for an attack on Pinar del Rio.
A relative of Russell sage, wno was
overlooked in his will, claims incom
petence and will contest the will.
France thinks Roosevelt's spelling
reform is a move to supplant French
by English as the language of interna
tional diplomacy.
Iriving Long, aged 21 years, who had
been released on parole from the Call
fornia state prison, where he had been
doing time for highway robbery, was
sentenced to ten vears more for break
ing his parole.
A terrorist bomb has wrecked th
home of Premier Stolypin, badly
wounding the premier and his 3-year
old son, and killing over twenty others
including the premier's daughter, aged
15, and several prominent officers.
One hundred and fifty looters have
already been shot in Valparaiso.
The Cuban government is offering $2
per day for volunteers for the army.
Wealthy people of Valparaiso are do
ing their utmost to aid their more help
less fellows.
Enthusiasm is increasing for a 20
foot macadam road from Portland to
Mount Hood.
Letters received in Chicago from
London say that Paul 0. Stensland is
touring Europe.
A new comet, visible through a email
telescope, has been discovered by the
Kiel observatory.
The body of Admiral Train, who d:ed
at Chefoo, has arrived at Seattle, and
been forwarded to Annapolis for burial
A bogus baron who married a rich
American girl in Manila has decamped
with his wife's jewelry and most of her
cash.
REBELS SWARMING IN BRUSH.
Wi,h
A burglar who attempted to rob a
millinery store in JBaker City was put
to flight by a frail woman with a pair
ot scissors.
Ine (southern Pacific is preparing to
spend $ 00,000 or more to turn the
Colorado river back to its original
channel and dram the Salton sea.
Roosevelt has given his approval to a
new spelling reform which includes
800 words, and has ordered that it be
adopted on all his official correspond
ence.
The rueh of depositors to receive the
first installment of their deposits in the
defunct Milwaukee Avenue bank, af
Chicago, overwhelmed 60 policemen
who had been detailed to keep order
Mutinous spirit is growing in the
Russian army.
Heat in Chicago is causing many
deaths and prostrations.
The czar has decided to immediately
give land to the peasants.
Japan will investigate the killing of
seal poachers by Americans.
Southern railroads have announced
that they will obey the rate law.
Valparaiso is under martail law, and
is fast recovering from the earthquake.
Cuban citizens residing in New York
will ask Roosevelt to take ' a hand in
affairs in Cuba.
A Jewish massacre is threatened at
Liedlfcs, Poland, where the chief of
police has been killed.
xne ran-Amencan conference aims
to make gold tht universal money basis
ol tne western hemisphere.
i.onaon papers predict tne annexa
tion of Cuba by the United States and
say it is the only thing to do.
A St. Louis woman has married the
wrong man through a mis'ake in send
ing letters by a marriage bureau.
San Francisco will erect a temporary
wooden city hall to be used until the
present structure can be repaired.
Cuban officials believe the ineurrec
tion has reached its limit.
The government has withdrawn negro
troops from Texas garrisons.
Anxietv of Government Grows
Increase of Insurrection.
Havana, Aug. 28. The anxiety of
President Palma to extend every possi
be opportunity for peace without
bloodshed, and his desire to permit
those who joined the insurrection un
der misguidenco to repent and return
to their homes unmolested, combined
with the general wish to end the situa
tion fraught with so much Jobs and
suffering, has led to consideration by
the president and his cabinet of a pro
ject decreeing a 80-day amnesty period,
during which the insurrectionists are
invited to lay down their arms and re
turn to their peaceful pursuit?.
It was proposed to issue the decree
tomorrow, but persons close to the
president strongly opposed the meas
ure and the matter was referred and
may be relinquished.
So far as actual conflict went, Sun
day proved to be h day of inactivity,
but preparations proceeded without
abatement. A fund of $2,000,000 has
been set aside by the treasury for de
fense, and drafts on it are heavy.
The situation is so increasingly seri
ous that it is tccitly admitted in all
government circles that the enlarge
ment of the army will not stop at any
given number.
While the number of men at present
leaving their regular occupations to en
list is small, employers are beginning
to find that they soon will be confront
ed with a considerable scarcity of labor.
Many laborers are gathered in front of
the bulletin boards on which is die
played the call for volunteers issued
by the president Saturdiy night. They
discuss the attractiveness of a 'soldiers
life at such unusual pay. and may en
list.
It was said today that eeveral new
insurgent bands had taken to the
brush. The growth uf the insurrection
certainly seems to keep pace with the
preparations for suffocating it.
RUSSIAN GENERAL KILLED.
NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FROM THE STATE OF OREGON
From
Young Girl Fires Five Bullets
Automatic Revolver.
St. Peteisburg, Aug. 28. Saturday's
unsuccessful attempt on the life of Pre
mier Stolypin, with its sickening, use
less slaughter of 32 persons, was fol
lowed today by another revolutionary
outrage, in which General Mm, com
mander of the Seminovaky Guard regi
ment, and who since hiB promotion
to be a general has been attached as
personal adiutant to the suite of the
emperor, was Killed on tne station
platform at Peterbof by a young wo
man, who fired five shots into his loly
from an automatic revolver and then
without resistance submitted to arrest.
The capture of the girl was effected
bv General Min's wife, who held her
until the arrival of an officer.
This was the third successive at
tempt on the life of General Min, wno
was condemned to death by the terror
ista immediately after the Moscow re
volt last December, on account of stern
repression practiced by a battalion un
der his command, and especially for
the wholesale execution of persons con
demned by drumhead courtmartial for
being caught with arms in their hands
General Min was returning from his
Bummer residence at Peterhof and had
iust greeted hie wife and daughter on
the platform when a young woman
almost a girl approached from behind
and fired two shots into his back and
then three more into his body as it
eank to the ground. Further shots
were prevented by Mme. Min, who
threw hereelf upon the murderers and
seized the hand which held the pistol.
The woman did not attempt to escape,
but she cautioned Mme. Min not to
ouch a hand bag which she bad planed
cn the platform before shooting the
general, adding that it contained a
bomb. To the police the girl acknow
ledged that she had done the deed, Bay
ing that she had executed the sentence
the fighting organization of the So
cial Revolutionists.
Harriman is gaining control of the
North western as well as St. Paul road.
The National Red Cross will receive
funds for the relief of stricken Chilean
cities.
Ibe steamer Manchuria, which went
on a reef in the Hawaiian islands, is
riapidly going to pieces.
The towon of Llaillai is reported to
have entirely disappeared as a result of
the Chilean earthquake.
Drops a Bomb Accidentally.
Odessa, Aug. 28. Late Saturday af
ternoon a girl dropped a bomb in the
Nicholas boulevard, 50 paces from the
palace of governor Kaulbars. There
was a deafening detonation and a wild
stampede of the promenaders. No one
was injured except the girl who drop
ped the bomb. Her hand wbb shat
tered. It is supposed the bomb acci
dentally fell from her hand before she
reached the entrance to the palace. She
nd another girl and a university stu
dent, who was accompanying them,
were arrested.
MILKING MACHINE TESTS.
Demonstration of Their Value To Be
Given at State Fair.
Salem Milking machines Id opera
tion will be one of the principal fea
tures of the dairy department at the
State fair, which opens here September
10. Faimeraand dairymen have al
ways been interested in the subject of
milking machines and their interest as
become particularly strong in the last
Few vears when dairying in this state
has been hampered by the difficulty in
securing milkers. Men do not like to
milk and will not take work of that
kind if they can get anything else at
the same wages. But milking machin
ery has not generally been found to be
successful and dairymen have been
compelled to depend upon such labor
as they could get.
There are Eome manufacturers of
milking machines who think the have
contrived apparatus that will extract
the lacteal fluid from the patient or im
patient cow, whether Bhe be a hard
milker or an easy one. Machines so
simple that a boy can run them, are al
leged to be ready for the farmer v ho
doesn't like tc milk and cannot biie
Bomebody else to do it for him. Ma
chines adjustable for tall cows or short
ones, kickers and nonkickera, Jerseys,
Holsteins or scrubs, await the doubting
owner of the dairy herd. It's all a
question of proof and the state board of
agriculture proposes to give the manu
facturers of milking machines the op
portunity to prove by actual demon
stration. There will be plenty of cows at the
fair and the owners of machines will be
called upon twice a day to do the milk
ing. If the machines work to the sat
isfaction of the farmers, there will be
some business in milking machines.
If they don't work, the cows and their
owners will give the machine manufac
turers the laugh.
But whether the machines work or
don't work, the state board of agricul
ture will give the farmers a chance to
uee them tried, and beyond doubt there
will be ranchers around the stock pens
twice a day to see the demonstration,
and the fun, if any of the cows object
to the unaccustomed treatment.
VALLEY VALUES AREfRISING.
Land Purchased Last Year Increases
About 28 Per Cent.
Salem That the big profits in Ore
gon real estate are not made in Port
land alone, or in city property alone.
is indicated by an investment made less
than a year ago by A. M. La Follette.
a Mission bottom farmer. La Follette
bought a 90-acrefarm last fall at $62.50
an acre, paying all that his neighbors
thought the place worth. He bought
it more for the investment than for use,
for he already has all the farm land he
needs. A few days ago he was offered
$80 an acre for the same farm, or an
increase of $17.50 an acre.
The total investment was $5,625,
and the amount offered a year later was
$7,200, or an increase of $1,575, or
about 28 per cent. Mr. La Follette
thinks it will advance still further and
yield him a much larger profit, so he
refused the offer. He thinks the build
ing of electric roads through the valley
will raise farm land values in the next
few years.
.Physician to Indians.
Chemawa Dr. F. E. Slater, of Sa
lem, has been appointed physician for
the Omaha and Winnebago Indians of
Nebraska, and will leave for his poet
soon. Dr. Slater was the physician at
the Chemawa Indian school for nearly
a year. He became interested in the
Indian work and requested a perma
nent appointment from the commis
sioner ol Indian affairs. Dr. Slater
gave excellent satisfaction at the Indian
school here in treating the diseases in
cident to Indians.
TERRORISTS WRECK HOUSE.
Bomb Ki
New Hospital at Chemawa.
Chemawa Plans and specifications
have been received at the Indian school
here for a new brick $15,000 hospital,
for which bids will be received and the
contract awarded September 13. The
building is to be supplied with the lat
est improved methods of heating and
ventilation, and will be equipped with
the best sanitary appliances. It will
be steam heated and electric lighted.
The main building will be two atones,
80x33, and will have two wings, 31x24
In .connection with the new hospital
the school management will continue
and extend the open air sanitarium
which it has been running since spring
with excellent results.
Nevada Capitalists Buying.
Lakeview Dr. W. II. H. Patterson,
a Reno, Nev., capitalist, and Mr. Norn
ardy, a Tonopah mineowner, arrived
here reently and went to the Coyot
nine BtriKe. jbom gentlemen are ex
tensive mmeowners in the Tonopah
mining diBtritt. Tbey have also inves
tigated the Pine creek mines, 15 miles
from Lakeview, and it ia stated on good
authority that Dr Patteraon paid $10,
000 for a tenth interest in a group of
claims there.
Wheat Record at Westen.
Weston Weston claims the largest
crop threshed in Oregon, and perhaps
in the Northwest, in proportion to the
acreage seeded. J. M. Banniater had
exactly 5,642 sacks from 208 acres, one
mile west of town, an average of 63
bushels an acre, at 140 pounds to the
sack. The wheat is Dale Glory, which
has been grown to a considerable extent
around Helix but haa just been intro
duced in the Weston country.
Oregon Flax Good.
Salem George verbeke, son of one
of the wealthiest linen manufaturers of
Ghent, Belgium, and a member of the
firm of Morel & Verbeke, is in Salem to
make a scientific inveatigation into the
possibilities for the development of the
flax and linen industries of Oregon
lie said: 1 have been able to arrive
at only one conclusion as a result of the
limited investigations which I have
made during my etay here, and that is
that Oregon certainly produces a very
high grade of flax, equal to any that I
have ever seen, and, in my judgment,
it is capable ol being manufactured in
to the choicest of linen fabrics."
Coquille Mills Are Busy
Coquille The sawmilla in this vi
cinity are running overtime, which ia
practically the first time they have run
even full time since the San Francisco
earthquake. Many of them would run
night and day if hands could be ob
tained. All kinds of laborers
scarce, especially carpenters. 1
are
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Stolypin's Daughter Alive.
St. Petersburg, Aug. 28. The daugh
ter of Premier Stolypin, who was in
jured by the bomb explosion in the
premier's summer home Saturday and
who was erroneously reported to have
died, is etill alive, and passed a quiet
night under the effects of an opiate
The premier's son, who was also hurt,
ia better today. The dowager empress
this morning made inquiries as to the
condition of the children. Two more
persons injured by the explosion died.
Burned Trees Have Value.
Albany Experienced lumbermen
state that activity on the part of mill
men will save much of the timber in
the burnt district up the North San
tiam river. The fire as it rushes
through th green timber burns those
parts of the trees which are loaded with
pitch, and leaves the wood but little
charred. All the limbs and foliage are
devoured, and the pitchy bark is burn
ed through, but the part that is valua
ble for lumber ia injured but little.
This charred timber may be utilized
for milling purpoeea at any time within
four years after the fire aa a rule.
Ready for Trial Trip.
London, Aug. 28. The Daily Mail's
Christiana correspondent says that a
steamer from Spitzbergen brings a re
port that the Wellman Chicago Record
Herald North Pole expedition's shed
nd balloon were finished last week,
and that Mr. Wellman intends shortly
to make a trial trip.
Yacht Galilee Damaged.
Yokohama, Aug. 28 The magnetic
survey yacht Galilee, which sailed from
San Francisco about a year sgo in the
nterests of the Carnegie Institute, waa
driven on the breakwater here during a
typhoon August 24. She was coneid-
erab'y damaged, Hit has been floated
and dotked for rerairs.
State Will Profit.
Salem That the sale of the Oregon
Central wagoi. road lands to Minnesota
and North Dakota investors means
much to the settlement of Southeastern
Oregon is the belief of W. F. Dunlap,
oi me state printing office, wno wis
formerly a newspaper man in North
Dakota. He bases his opinion on his
knowledge of the work these men hare
done in North Dakota in the way f
colonizing large tracts of land purchas
ed in tnat state.
Clackamas Farmers Are Pleased. ;
Oregon City Gottfried Moehnke, I
farmer at Shubel, reports a yield of 71
buahels per acre from a five-acre fieli
of oats. An exceptionally good viel!
of wheat and oats, both in quality anc
quantity, is reported by Clackamai
county farmers as far as the harvest hai
progressed. A yield of 70 bushels o'
oais per acre is also reported from th
larm of George Lazelle near New Era.
Cuts Heavy Crop of Oats
La Grande James Hallev harventoc!
A .
iu acres oi oats last week, which willl
average 80 bushels. The straw was sol
heavy and thick that the binder cnuhM
i .
cut oniy nan a swath at a time, and id
wo i wo oays to cut the grain. This!
mould not be considers! k.i
hall-crop" year. j
Wheat Club, 6768c; bluestem,
70071c; valley, 71c; red, 64ra66c
Oats No. 1 white, $2222.50; gray,
$zuca-i.
Barley Feed, $20 per ton; brewing,
$22.50; rolled, $2d24.
Rye $1.30 per cwt.
Corn Whole, $26; cracked, $27 per
ton.
Hay Valley timothy, No 1, $11
12.50 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy,
$16; clover, $77.50 cheat, $6.50;
grain hay, $7; alfalfa, $10; vetch 'hay,
s(S.ou.
Fruits Apples, common, 5075c
per box; iancy, $1.Z52; apneota,
f 1.251.35; grapes, $1 1.75 per crate;
peachea, $11.10; pears, $1.75, plums,
fancy, 5075c per box; common 50
75c; blackberries, 56c per pound;
crab apples, 75c per box.
Melons Cantaloupes, $l.752 per
crate; watermelons, ll)c per pound.
vegetables Beans, 57c; cabbage
2e per pound; celery. 85c$l per
dozen; corn, 1520c per dozen; cu
cumbers, 4060c per box; egg plant
iuc per pouni; lettuce, nead, zoc per
dozen; oniona, 1012)6c per dozen
peaa, 45c; bell peppers, 12Kl5c
radishes, 1015c; per dozen; rhubarb,
22)6c per pound; spinach, 2 3c per
pound; tomatoes, 60(9 90c per box
parsiey, 20c; squaan, per
crate; turnips, 90c$l per sack; "car
rots, $1(3 1.25 per sack; beets, $1,250
1.50 per sack.
Oniona New, IJ4 Ol per pound
Potatoes Oregon Burbanka, 70 76c
sweet potatoes, 44c per pound.
Gutter Fancy creamery, 22925c
per pound.
Eggs Oregon ranch. 21)22c per
dozen.
Poultry Average old hens, 13c per
pound; mixed chickens, 12J13c;
springs,. 1 3 (3 14c, old roosters, 9'S
10c; dressed chickens, 1415c; tur
keys, live, 1622c; turkeys, dressed.
choice, 2022s'c; geese, live, 810c;
ducks, 11 (g 1 3c.
Hops 1906 contracts, 18 20c;
1905, nominal ;1904, nominal.
Wool Eastern Oregon average best,
1519c per pound, according to shrink
age; valley, 2022c, according to fine
nees; monair, cnoice, Z83uc per
pound.
Veal Dressed, 58c per pound.
Beef Dreoaed bulls, 3c per pound;
cows, l4h country steers, 5(3 6c.
Mutton Dressed, fancy, 78c per
pound: ordinary, 5(3 6c: lambs, fancy.
for a,'88Kc
Fork Dressed, 78$c per pound.
s 27 Persons and Wounds
Over 30 Others.
St. Petersburg, Aug. 26. Twenty
eight persons are dead and more than
30 wounded ae the result of a dastardly
attempt yesterday afternoon to assass
inate Premier Stolypin with a bomb
while he was holding a public reception
at bis country house on Aptekaaey is
land. The premier was slightly
wounded on the face and neck by flying
splinters.
Among the dead are the premier's
15-year old daughter, who had both
legs broken by the explosion and sub
sequent)? succumbed to her injuries;
General Zamatin, the premier s person
al secretary; M. Kbosvoff, ex-governor
of the province of Penza ; Colonel Fod
oroff, chief of the premier's personal
guard; Court Chamberlain Davidoff,
Chamberlain Voornin, Aid Doubasoff,
Prince Nakashidge, Police Officer Ko-
nunzeff, several guards, several ser
vants. four women and two children.
The wounded include M. Stolypin's
3-year old son, who is seriously if not
fatally injured, and a number of per
Bona prominent in the society and offi
cial world.
Of the four conspirators who engi
neered the outrage, two were killed
with their victima, while the third,
who acted aa coachman for the party,
and the fourth, who remained inside
the carriage, were badly wounded.
Whether the assassins who entered
the crowded reception hall threw the
bomb or accidentally dropped it prob
ably will never be known, aa all the
immediate eye witnesses were killed.
The tremendous force of the explosion
absolutely blew out the front of the
premier's residence, and carried away
the ceilings above and the floors be
neath and the walls of the adjoining
rooms.
People were literally blown to pieces.
Those who were not killed instantly
were horribly mangled and the othera
were proatrate by the ehock. The pre
mier's escape was miraculoua, for only
a moment before the explosion he had
stepped inside his study at the rear of
the salon to speak to Prince Shakovsky.
Although be wae but slightly injured,
he is completely prostrated by the ca
lamity. The havoc wrought by the explosion
waa indescribable. Bodies were bo torn
or mangled aa to make identification
impossible, some of them headless,
armleea or legless, lying among the
blood-dripping wreckage.
CUBAN REBELS
WELL SUPPLIED
All Western Cuba Reported To Be In
Sympathy With Them.
Msny Government Rural Guards Are
Deserting to the Rebel Forces
President Palma Buys Cargo of
Arms and Ammunition, Including;
Rapid-fire Guns.
RAILWAY GIANTS CLASH,
$25,000,000 Cash and St. Paul Road
is the Prize at Stake.
Chicago, Aug. 27. A special to the
Tribune from New York says:
A financial battle, with $25,000,000
in cash and the control of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway system
ia on between J. Pierpont Morgan and
E. II Harriman
In the battle
many millions
times as many
railroads aa were
famous fight for
are involved twice as
of dollars and three
thousands of milea of
represented in the
the poosessioD of the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, which
resulted in the memorable Northern
Pacific corner, when the price of that
stock waa rushed up to $1,000 a share
and a panic in Wall street followed.
The opposing forces consist of J. P.
Morgan, James J. Hill and their
friends, foreign capitalists, on one aide,
and E. II. Harriman, practical owner
of the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific
roadB, with Sir William Van Home,
Sir Thomaa Shaughnessy, as controllers
of the vast Canadian Pacific system,
with their friends, on the other. Re
maining neutral lor tne time being, but
inclined to throw their weight to Har
riman, are James II. Smith and Wil
liam Rockefeller, aa principal stock
holders in the St. Paul.
On the outcome of the war depends
whether the St. Paul road is to be ex
tended to the coast, for which purpoee
new $25,000,000 stock issue was
voted, in a northerly direction, and so
seriously injure the traffic of the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific systems.
or southerly, to impair the future pro
fits of the Union and Southern Pacific.
Early this summer there waa a mys
terious bunching of thres Pacific coast
lines stock. Before Harriman or Hill
could discover who were the purchas
ers, the Canadian Pacific had obtained
sufficien. interest in the road to wield
the balance of power.
Havana, Aug. 25. Unofficial advices
received from the western part of the
province of Pinar del Rio are to the
effect that the insurgent forces now
concentrating west of San Juan de Mar
tinez are fai more formidable and bet
ter supplied for camping and a long
and aggressive campaign than had been
supposed.
A prominent resident of Havana
whose word is beyond question, has
juat returned from a three daya' tour in
the vicinity of San Luia and San Juan
de Martinez. He informed the Associ
ated Press that Pino Guerrera'e follow
ing in Pinar del Rio is now from 1,500
to 2,000 men. He said the idea of his
not having sufficient ammunition was
ridiculous, and that he is abundantly
supplied with every possible necessity.
The behavior of nis forces is excellent.
He said the insurrectionists had
eight mules loaded with dynamite and
that lately they had received supplies
from unknown sources. He positively
declared that fully a hundred mem
bers of the rural guard had deserted
and joined the insurrectionists since
the trouble began, and that practically
all Cubans in Western Cuba were sym
pathizers with the movement
Word haa been received here from
Santiago that General Jeeua Rabi, with
2,000 veterana, will come to the Vuelta
Abajo to help put down the insurrec
tion. This, however, ia not confirmed.
The government's extra expenses
Bince AuguBt 19 have been $270,000.
Aside from Blight encounters in the
provinces of Havana and Santa Clara,
nothing of importance has transpired
here. The enlistment ol rural guards
and volunteers ia going on very slowly,
in the provinces, but in the city of
Havana enlistments are somewhat bet
ter. The city council haa appropriated
$50,000 for the support of the city
militia, of which there are two divio
ions, the interior and the exterior.
The government expects that the
steimer Mexico, which wiil sail from
New York today, will bring eight
rapid-fire guns, 10,000,000 cartridges
and 12,000 Lee rifles.
The government force in the city of
Pinar del Rio consists of 250 artillery
men and 150 guards. The inhabitants
of the city of Pinar del R'o are re
ported to be loyal and it is said that
most of them are armed and will assist
the troops in resisting an attak on the
part of the insurgents.
WHEN AMERICA MAY STEP IN.
Guerrera Gets Ammunition.
Fan Juan de Maitimz, Aug. 27. A
correspondent of the Associated Preaa
who rode out from here today says
that when Pmo Guerrera left San Luis,
he took from that town 40,000 rounds
of ammunition he found there. He also
secured 28,000 rounds in San Juan de
Martinez. It is reported that Colonel
Julian Eretancourt, the Havana Lib
era), who is second in command o
Guererra's force, was slightly wounded
n the engagement near San Luis
No order for advance have yet been
given.
Provisions of Piatt Amendment for
Keeping Peace in Cuba.
Wehington, Aug. 25. The Piatt.
amendment, as the legislation which
defined the conditiona on which the
United States ahould withdraw from
Cuba and turn the island over to the
control of the Cuban people was known,
provided that a pait of the new re
public's conatitution should contain
certain provisions concerning the future
relations of the United State with
cuna. xne tmru 01 tbese provisions
was as follows:
"That the govenment of Cuba con
sents that the United States may inter
vene for the preservation of Cuban in
dependence, the maintenance of a gov
ernment adequate for the protection of
life, property and individual liberty
and for discharging the obligations
with respect to Cuba imposed by the
treaty of Paria on the United States to
be assumed and undertaken by the gov
ernment of Cuba."
Must Spell in Old Way.
Washington, Aug. 27. The preei
dent s order adopting the new system
of spelling may be put into practice in
several departments, but it will cut no
figure with the Civil Service commie
ion in examinatiosn. Applicants will
be graded in spelling according to the
standard dictionaries and not accord
ng to the rules of spelling reform.
PI onetic fp-lling will hereafUr be used
n the tmn-mifeion of district govern
mental correspondence.
Bring in Valencia Victims.
Washington, Ang. 27. Notification
was sent to the revenue rutter Grant
today to prore-d to Bamfield, B. C, f T
he bodies of the Valencia victims. The
Grant is not seaworthy, so cannot so
ircct to the scene of the wreck.
Date of Convention Postponed.
Salem, Or., Aug. 25. Notice has
been sent eut that the date of the in
terstate convention on the subject of
election of senators bv direct vote of
the people has been changed from Sep
tember 5 to December 5. The conven
tion is to be held in Des Moines. Ia.
The purpose is to adopt a plan of pro
ceed ure which shall result in two-
thirds of the states of the Union de
manding that congress call a constitu
tional convention to draft an amend
ment providing for popular election of
United States senators.
Opposed to Joint State.
Tucson, Arizona, Aug. 25. The Re
publican party in Tucson and Pima
county, at the primary held today.
went on record as opposed to joint
statehood. In Tucson the anti-jointiirn
ticket received 402 votes against 263
cast for jointure. In outside precincts
the result was similar. Great feeling
waa exhibited between the opposing:
factions at the polis. There were many
challenges and several fist fights before
the day closed.
San Francisco Gave First.
Washington, Aug. 25. 8an Fri ncis to
made the first American contribution
to the Valparaiso earthquake sufferers.
diepafch received by the State de
partment today from American Minis
ter Hicks, at Santiago, announced that
donation of $10,000 had been received'
from San Francisco.