Heppner gazette., October 18, 1906, Image 3

FUNSTON TO
COME HOME
Cubans Denounce Him for Deserting
Them In Spanish War.
Hi$ Command Was Only Temporary
Affairs ot the Island Will Be
Left in the Hands of Governor
Magoon and Major General Bell
for the Future.
Havana, Oct. 11. General Frederick
Funeton will not continue in command
of the American forces in Cnba. Gov
ernor Taft announced tonight that be
and General Funston will leave Havana
for the United States on Saturday on
the battleship Louisiana. With them
will go Assistant Secretary of State ba
con, and the affairs of Cuba will be left
in the bands of Governor Magoon and
General J. F. Bell. Explaining the
change of plans, Mr. Taft said:
"General Funeton was summoned on
a hurry call from the Pacific coaBt be
cause he was well acquainted with
many of the insurgent chiefs here, and
it was thought he could aid ut, as he
did greatly, in bringing the men in
aroiB to an agreement. General Funs
ton was put temporarily in command of
the troops in Cuba merely as a conven
ience until General Bell should arrive.
General Funston, Mr. Bacon and my
self, with Mrs. Taft and Mrs. Bacon
and our secretaries, are returning to
our permanent duties."
Taft's especial confidence in the chief
of the general staff's ability to carry
out the pfogram the governor has ini
tiated resulted in the decision to .con
tinue him in the island.
Many Cubans of the faction to which
Mendtz Capote and others who organ
ized the Moderate party belong, were
outckpoken against General Funeton,
alleging that he bad deserted them in
the war to throw off the yoe of Spain.
SMUGGLE CHINESE.
Fishing Schooner On New England
Coast Lands Orientals.
Providence, R. I., Oct. 11. Eighteen
Chinese were arrested today after the
capture by the United States immigra
tion authorities of the schooner yacht
Frolic, for which revenue officers have
been searching along the New England
coast for the past two weeks, were held
tonight by United States Commissioner
Cross in $1,000 bail each lor examina
tion next Wednesday. All the men
declared they had been in the ILnited
States before, but that their certificates
had been lost, some in New York and
others in the fire at San Francisco.
This declaration contradicted a state
ment alleged to have been made by
John C. Lehnemann, of Boston, one of
the men arretted for complicity in the
smuggling operations, who says the
traffic has been extensive and effective.
BLOW TO DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Had Planned Great Send-Off British
Envoy Worried.
St. Petersburg, Oct. 11. What is
described here tonight as the "ignomini
ous fizile" of the much heralded visit
to Moscow and St. Petersburg of a B. it
ifih deputation to present a memorial
of sympathy to the dissolved parlia
ment is another blow to the Constitu
tional Democrats, who were arranging
a reception to the deputation as a bril
liant send-off in the campaign.
This proposed visit was extremely
embarrassing to the British ambassa
dor, Sir Arthur Nicholson, in view of
the negotiations for an entente between
Russia and Great Britain. Pressure
was brought to bear in London to stop
the movement, and it was decided not
to receive the deputation officially at
the empassy here. This device is
thought to have inspired the interview
given out by the British consul at Mos
cow, who declared that the members of
the deputation were not known, and
that the proposed visit was in bad taste.
Tryinr To Hold Together.
Helsingfors, Oct. 11. At today's
session of the Constitutional Democrat
ic convention the committee's reosln
tionp reclaiming the impossibility of
passive resistance was adopted. 84 ayes
to 44 noes. The minority amendment
lerommending organization for passive
resistance was rejected by 83 ayes to 53
noes. The congress has shown stiiking
weakness in the party, which is highly
dangerous in view of the approaching
det-toral campaign, and this in spite
of the influeme toward cohesion result
ing from governmental prosecution.
Snow Over Middle West.
Chicago, Oct. 11. Various points
throughout Ohio report record break
ing weather yesterday. At Zinesville
the snow fell for three hours, and the
remarkable thing about it is that the
enow rame before any frost Lad come
in that vicinity. An in h of Enow fell
at Findlay. At Louisville there was a
light fall of snow, and in the mountain
regions of Kentucky. This breaks all
records for early snowfalls. At South
Bend, Ind., four inches of snow fell.
Four From a Thousand.
Chicago. Oct. 11. The one thous
andth venireman was passed today in
the case of Cornelius P. Shea, the labor
leader accused of conspiracy to extort
money from large epmloyers of labor.
Only fonr jurors have been accepted
out of 1,000 candidates examined.
NOBLES FLY COUNTRY.
Stampede of Russian Rich to Refuge
in Free England.
Loudon, Oct. 12. For some time
past statements have been made with
more or less authority to the effect
that some members of the Czar's fam
ily were making secret arrangements to
leave Bassia, should certain eventuali
ties occur, and take refuge in England.
These statements have been regarded
as part of the inevitable rumors to be
ex Dec ted to arise from the state of
affairs in the M uscovite dominions. In
veatigations by the Publishers' Press
correspondent, however, reveal circum
stances which point to their truth.
Large quantities of jewels, pictures
and furniture have arrived in this
countrv from the imperial palaces in
Russia just lately, and have been
placed in safe storage. A leading
banker told the Publishers'g Press cor
respondent that consignments of prop
erty of enormous value had recently ar
rived there from Russia.
"We have received packets of jewels,
costly furniture and numbers of pic
tures, the value of each of which runs
well into five figures." he said. "The
owners are very highly placed."
The Question put point blank as to
whether they belonged to the Roman
offs, the reply was made that it was
against the rules to give such informa
tion. A confirmation of the assertion that
at least two of the grand dukes and
grand duchesses intend to give the ter
rorists a wide berth, and to find an
asylum in England, is found in the fact
that inquiries for the best estates and
houses in the market are being made
among West End estate and house
agents by Russian gentlemen, who,
while asking for particulars of the most
valuable estates, refuse to give the
names of the people for whom they
are required.
CAR BLOCKADE IN THE EAST
Orders for Thousands Are Given
That Cannot Be Filled.
Chicago, Oct. 12. The congestion of
freight traffic has increased so fast
within the last few days that railway
officials fear they are soon to be face to
fuce with a blockade. Conditions on
the Eastern roads which have not only
to handle the business which they orig
inate but have the crops of the West
pouring in upon them for export, are
naturally the worst, but those on the
Western lines also are rapidly becom
ing extremely serious.
With the approach of winter the
movement of coal has grown heavier,
aggravating the c ingested conditions
which already exist, and traffic men
say they do not know what they will do
for cars when the year's enormous crop
of corn is ready for market, as it will
be now in a short time.
A line belonging to one of the big
Eastern railway systems had orders for
4,235 cars which it could not fill. The
Pennsylvania proposes to give notice
that for 36 hours it will receive no
consignments from the Pittsburg dis
trict, the object being to get the tracks
partly clear of cars which have accu
mulated on its lines.
BUFFALO PLAGUED WITH SNOW.
Tears Down Wires, Wrecks Orchards
and Kills Two Men.
Buffalo, Oct. 12. The storm of snow
and sleet which swept over this part of
the country last night and today was
the worst in many years.
Telegraph, telephone and trolley lines
were prostrated in all directions. The
damage to the rich fruit celts of Chau
tauqua, Niagara and Orleans counties
is incalcilable. Whole orchards of
pouch trees and other small fruits were
crushed to the ground by the wet,
clinging snow; which fell steadily for
many hours.
Tonight the weather is clear and
cold, and the lines of communication
are being slowly re-established.
Buffalo bore the brunt of the storm.
The damage in this city alone is not (ar
from a quarter of a million dollars, and
two deaths cccurred, which were direct
ly due to the effects of the storm. All
night the telephone and electric light
systems were paralyzed. The streets
were littered with broken wires.
Indians Out On a Big Hunt.
New Westminster, B. C, Oct. 12.
The Stony Indiana of Alberta have
again broken loose, and are now on a
wild game drive along the west line of
the R ky mountains. The game au
thorities have taken steps to have them
pursued and driven out of the country,
and a posse has been sent out. These
Indians have always given the British
Columbia game authorities trouble, as
every fall they come into the province
through the various passes and hunt
for several months at the west foothills
of the RcckieB.
Wireless Heralds the Charleston.
San Francisco, Oct. 12 Heralding
her approach a thousand miles away,
by means of wireless telegraphy, the
protected cruiser Charleston rame into
port this afternoon and went to an an-cho-age
near Sttneaiito. It was not un
til late tonight that the quarantine offi
cials completed their examination of
the men on board. The Charleston
comes here to be the flagship of the Pa
cific equadron, and will fly the pennant
of Rear Admiral Swinburn.
Two More Transports Sail.
Newport News, Va., Oct. 12. The
transport Admiral Schley Bailed from
this port today, bearing the Seventeenth
and Eighteenth batteries of mountain
artillery. The City of Washington
with the First battalion of the Eleventh
infantry sailed tonight.
DECIDE TO
LET CONTRACT
Work On Canal Would Be faster and
More Satisfactory.
Decision of Roosevelt and Shonts
Chinese Laborers To Be Turned
Over to Contractors Taft Will
Have Hand in Letting Contracts
for Chinese.
Washington, Oct. . 9. It has been
finally decided that the Panama canal
will be completed by contract. In a
few days the commission will make
public a statement setting forth its rea
sons for favoring the contract system,
and at that time a form of contract will
also probably be published showing ex
actly the sort of documer t believed by
the commissioners to be necessary for
safeguarding the work.
President Roosevelt is known to sup
port the commission in its position that
the work can be done more satisfacton
ly by contractors than by the govern
ment. He had a long conference with
Chairman Shonts today on the subject
and the various arguments in favor of
the contract Bvetem were discussed
fullv.
This change in building the canal
will in no way affect the employment
of ChineBe labor. Proposals for turn
ishing the Chinese labor were made
under such conditions that they can be
transferred to contractors and the terms
can be fulfilled in such a manner that
the government can give the coolies
Init as much protection as it could if
the s-overnment were the direct em
plover. It is likely that no disposition
will be made of the bids for supplying
Chinese labor until after the return of
Secretary Taft from Cuba, aa he assist
ed in drawing the soecifications under
which proposals were offered and is
much interested in the conditions under
which the ChineBe are to be taken to
the isthmus.
The president still intends to visit
the isthmus this fall and, unleBS there
be some change for the worse in the
Cnhan situation, will probably leave
for Colon a short time after the election
BRITAIN ACCEPTS TERMS.
Real Fishermen of Newfoundland Con
cede American Rights.
Washington, Oct. 9. The news that
the modus vivendi between the United
States and Great Britain regarding the
Newfoundland fisheries had finally been
signed wss conveyed to Secretary Root
in a cablegram from Ambassador Reid
today, advising him that the British
government had accepted the terms.
No information has been received at
the State department concerning the
proposed resignation of the officials of
the Newfoundland government on ac
count of the new agreement.
Some facts in relation to the New
foundland government and the fisheries
were stated, in which it appears that
the British government has been very
much embarrassed during the negotia
tions on account of the demands ol
Newfoundland. The Newfoundland
government is under the control of the
merchant fishermen of the island, those
who buy, cute and sell the fishing pro
ducts. They oppose any American
fishing rights, including those guaran
teed by the treaty of 1518, and are dis
satisfied with any arrangement that the
British government makes to carry out
tho terms of that treaty.
The real fishermen of the island are
not in harmony with the restrictions ol
the Newfoundland government, such a
denying the privilege of selling bait
and of allowing the fishermen to take
e iiployment on the American fishing
vessels. The Newfoundland govern
ment has no real responsibility in the
way of carrying out obligations. That
devolves upon the British government.
Joint Salmon Fishery Regulations.
Victoria, B. C, Oct. 9. An Ottawa
dispatch says recommendations for
amendments to the fishery regulations
have been made by the joint fishery
commission of British Columbia and
Washington. The Americans asked
that fishing be prohibited in the Fraser
liver above New Westminster, but the
Canadian commission did not agree to
this. The American commissioners
will recommend to the Washington leg
islature a series of resolutions with the
object of protecting certain salmon
schools.
Hard on Veal Shippers.
Chicago, Oct. 9. Commission men
in this city today prepared a petition
to the government that the time for
the use of a new quality of paper on
shipments of veal be extended from
October I to November 1, the date by
which the etcckyaids packers are to
change the labels. The express com
panies are refusing to pick up ship
ments not wrapped in the legally speci
fied paper and the loss to the Chicago
market alone is thousands of dollars.
Plot to Destroy Nome.
Tacoma, Wash., Oct. 9. A report
reached this city today to the effect
that a plot was discovered to destroy
the city of Nome by fire September 24.
One fir was started, but timely efforts
prevented its spread. It is understood
fiat important arrests are to be made.
MGOON ARRIVES.
Will Take Charge of Cuba as Pro
visional Governor.
Havana, Oct. 10. Charles E. Ma
goon, the ntwly appointed provisional
governor of Cuba, arrived here this af
ternoon. Coincident with his coming,
Governor Taft gave out a general decree
proclaiming amnesty not only to the
rebels, but top 11 persons charged with
political offenies or crimes in any way
connected with the revolution.
The steamer Mascotte, with Mr. Ma
goon, General J. Franklin Bell, Mrs.
Taft and Mrs. Bacon, entered Havana
harbor at 4 o'clock this afternoon. In
the wake of the Mascotte came the bat
tleship Texas with a detachment of 300
marines from Norfolk.
A laucch carrying Mr. Taft, Assist
ant Secretary of State Bacon and Cap
tains McCoy and Martin, aides to Mr.
Taft, harried omt to the Mascotte.
There followed another launch with
(jenerai Funeton and his aide, and a
third with a committee of Cuban news
papermen, who carried huge boquets of
flowers which were delivered to Mrs.
Taft and Mrs. Bacon with a brief ad-
drees of welsome.
After the presentations to the mayor
and the city council the party entered
carriages and was driven to the palace,
where Mr. Taft and Mr. Bacon and Mr.
Magoon had a long conference in the
governor's office.
Following this conference Mr. Ma
goon received the members of the
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press, lie declined to aiscuss niB pians
for the future. He said he bad expect
ed, upon arriving at Washington, to
have 30 days' leave of abBence prior to
his departure lor the Philippines. He
did not regret, however, the change in
program and he declared himself grati
fied with being in Cuba. He said he
won d take up his residence with Min
ister Morgan as the minister's guest
pending the departure of Mr. Taft.
General Bell will reside at the army
headquarters at Marianao. General
unston will make his headquarters at
Camp Columbia.
BID TO DIG CANAL.
Commission invites Proposals to Com
plete Work on Isthmus.
Washington. Oct. 10. Invitations
for proposals to complete the Panama
canal were issued today by the canal
commission and the form of contract
under which the work is to be done
was made public by Chairman Shonts,
who also gave out a letter written to
the secretary of war giving the com
mission's reasons for contracting the
work.
The contract provides that each bid
der must undertake the entire work of
construction. . No bar will be offered
to corporations associating in the un
dertaking, but they must be legally
organized into a single body with which
the government can deal. Bidders will
not be considered who do not have
available capital of $5,000,000. A
certified check for $200,000 is required
with each proposal fnd a bond of $3,
000,000 will be required from the suc
cessful bidder. The bidding is not
limited to American contractors. All
proposals are to be in before noon of
December 12, when they will be open
ed.
Proposals are to be expressed in terms
of percentage upon the estimated coet
of construction, which is to be fixed by
a board of five engineers, three repre
senting the government and two the
contractor. The chief engineer of the
canal commission is to be chairman of
the engineering board.
In support of the commission s posi
tion that the canal can be contracted to
greater advantage than it can be built
by the government, Mr. bhonts letter
says that, "because of the unprecedent
ed and greatly extended industrial ac
tivity of the time and the consequent
violent competition for all classes of
superintendents, foremen, sub-contractors,
skilled mechanics and even ordi
nary laborers, it would take the com
mission years to secure men to build
up departmental construction organiza
tions which would equal in efficiency
those now controlled by the leading
contractors of the United States."
Hope of Annexation High.
Havana, Oct. 10. President Roose
velt's statement at Washington yester
day to Nicholas M. Riviero, the Ha
vana editor, that "the means taken by
the United States to prevent disorder
in Cuba must always be determined by
the exieting conditions and with refer
ence to our solemn obligations to the
people of Cuba," is causing consider
able gratification here. ThiB is not be-
cau?e the woms lnaicaie any aenmie
change in his intentions, but because
he did not sav anything about the early
restoration of sovereignty.
Illinois Has Lost Much Revenue.
Springfield, 111., Oct. 10. The asser
tion was made today before the railroad
committee of the state board ol equal
ization bv W. B Fleming and J. M.
Duffy, representing Colonel James
Hamilton Lewis, corporation counsel
of Chicago, that by two errors in meth
ods of assessing railrnad property by
the state hoard of equalization, the
state of Illinois has lost revenue in the
past 30 years which would amount to
hundreds of millions of dollars.
Opens Another Reservation.
Washington. Oct. 10 The president
issued a proclamation today fixing 1 -
o'clock noon on October 29 as the dae
for opening the Walker river Indian
reservation, in Nevada, to settlement.
There are 268,000 acres of land to be
disposed of and the law permits its ac
auisition under the eeneral land laws.
The reservation is in the Carson City
land district.
VAST IRRIGATION PROJECT WELL UNDER WAY.
Work Is being pushed on the vast
Klamath, Ore., reclamation scheme,
well under way, to make productive
230,000 acres of land now useless. Of
that area there will be 15.000 acres
ready for the plow of the Irrigator
nert spring, says C M. Ilyetell In the
Portland Journal.
The main canal, which leads from the
lower end of the upper Klamath lake
to a point In the desert nine miles east
of the town of Klamath Falls, Is being
rapidly constructed. The water Is car
ried from the upper lake through a
tunnel under a hill Just north of the
town. This tunnel Is being rapidly con
structed. It Is being driven from both
ends, and also by drifting from shafts
sunk along the right of way. The tun
nell will be completed during the com
ing winter. It will be 3,300 feet long,
13 feet wide on the bottom and 14
feet 4 Inches high, with an arched roof.
Through it will flow a volume of water
11 feet high.
The nine mile section of the main
canal to be completed In next February
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Quaint and Curious.
Style of Long: Ago.
The monstrous appearance of the la
dles' hoops, when viewed behind, may
be seen from the following cut, copied
from one of Rlgaud's views. The ex
ceedingly small cap, at this time fash
ionable, and the close upturned hair
beneath It, give an extraordinary mean
ness to the head, particularly when the
liberality of gown and petticoat Is
iioors ix 1740.
taken Into consideration ; the lady to
the left wears a black hood with an
ample fringed cape, which envelops her
shoulders, and reposes on the summit
of the hoop. The gentleman wears a
small wig; the skirts of his coat are
turned back, and were sometimes of
a color differeut from the rest of the
stuff of which It was made, as were the
cuffs and lapels.
Egyptian War Ctwirlot.
This chariot, which Is mentioned In
various parts of scripture, and more es
pecially lu the description of the pur
suit of the Israelites by Pharaoh, and
of his overthrow In the Red Sea, was
a very light structure, consisting of a
wooden framework strengthened and
adorned with metal, and leather bind
ing, answering to the descriptions
which Homer has given of those en
gaged In the Trojan war.
The sides were partly, and the back
wholly, open; and It was so low that
a man could easily step Into It from
behind; for there was no seat, the
rider always standing In war or hunt
ing, though when wearied he might
WAR CHARIOT OF ANCIEXT EGYPT.
occasionally sit on the sides, or squat
In eastern fashion, on his heels. The
body of the car was not hung on the
axle In equlllbrio, but considerably
forward, so that the weight was
thrown more uixin the horses. Its
lightness, however, would prevent this
from being very fatiguing to them, and
this mode of placing it had the advan
tage of rendering the motion more easy
to the driver. To contribute further
to this end. the bottom or floor con
sisted of a network of Interlaced
thongs, the elasticity of which In some
measure answered the purpose of mod
ern springs.
The Egyptian chariots were Invaria
bly drawn by two horses abreasLwhlch
were richly caparisoned. The
chariot of Egypt ordinarily carried two
persons, one of whom acted .is the war
rior, the other as the charioteer. Oc-
will cover about 13,000 acres of first
class agricultural land that la now
semlarld, excepting for one-third of this
area that la already susceptible of lr
gallon from an old project, known as
the Ankeny canal, now owned by the
government A large part of the re
mainder Is covered with sage-brush and
still held In private ownership, al
though subscribed by the present own
ers to the government project and sub
ject to sale under the formula prescrib
ed by the Irrigation law. Bach private
owner Is allowed to retain 100 acres,
lie must sell the rest of his holding or
ultimately submit to having the Water
Users' Association sell It at public sale.
Ultimately there will be hundreds
of miles of canals and ditches.
Through this whole project and ex
tending from Klamath Falls to Tule
lake, will run the channel of the Klam
ath river, providing perpetually water
transportation for the farmers. While
the lakes will be lowered nearly 15 feet
by the Irrigation plan, the present riv
er channel will be dredged and deepen
ed, forming a canal for navigation uses.
caslonally we find three persons In a
chariot, os when two princes of the
blood, each bearing the royal scepter,
or flabellum, accompanying the king la
a state procession, requiring a char
ioteer to manage the reins.
Pre-Adamlte Done Cave.
Among the wonders of the world, the
bone caves of the pre-Adamlte period
deserve a prominent place. It Is to
this period that the extensive remains
of Mammlferm found In the strata of
the Pampas of Buenos Ayres, and la
the caverns which are scattered In such
vast numbers over t! continents of
Europe and America, and even In Aus
tralia, are to be ascribed. Of these
caverns, a most extensive one, and
among the first which attracted atten
tion, la situated at Baylenreuth, la
Franconla, and the engraving which we
here given represents a section of It
The entrance of this cave, about
seven feet In height, Is placed on the
face of a perpendicular rock, and leads
to a series of chambers from fifteen
to twenty feet In height and several
hundred feet In extent In a deep
chasm. The cavern Is perfectly dark,
and the Icicles and pillars of stalactite
reflected by the torches present a high
ly picturesque effect The floor Is lit
erally paved with bones and fossil
teeth, and the pillars and corbels of
stalactite also contain osseous remains.
Cuvler showed that three-fourths of
the remains In this and like caverns
were those of bears, the remainder
rRE-APAMITE BOXE CAVERNS.
consisting of bones of hyenas, tigers,
wolves, foxes gluttons, weasels, and
other Carnlvora.
Arabl Panha.
In a little house up a by-street of
the Mohammedan quarter, old. friend
less, broken, lives the man who might
have ruled Egypt.
If you ask twenty people In Cairo
today, Where is Arabl I'asha?" fifteen
will toll you that he Is dead, while the
other live do not know. In fact, after
the bombard men t of Alexandria he was
sent to exile for life in Ceylon, but wa9
allowed some four years ago to return
to his native city.
It was only after a week's hard fer
reting that I discovered, through a na
tive Journalist the whereabouts of the
great man.
Even now. In his seventieth year, he
Is a big man; In his prime he must
have been Immense. White hair and
beard; a broad, thoughtful forehead,
surmounted by the Turkish tarboosh:
kindly eyes, dulled a little by age but
lighting up wonderfully when he talks
.ilont thincs which Interest him; a
straight, powerful nose; a large mouth.
which must once have been, hard and
cruel. now softened by adversity.
Though the day Is warm, he wears aa
overcoat and he walks heavby on a
massive ebony stick. Pall Mall Ga
zette.
When vou pass a pig In a peri It
Is hard to Imagine how good pork will
taste next winter.
After a family has kept a cow la
town a few year. It l-eina to low
around for a parrot