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ORBQON
INCREASE ARMY PAY.
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.
It is so altered its makes wouldn'
recognize it.
Bryan says Roosevelt is protecting
railroad corpoiations from prosecution
The New York teamsters' strike is
marked with numerous acts of violence
The Chinese legation at Paris denies
that the dowager empress is seriously
111.
GFreat Britain has just launched a
third battleship of the Dreadnaught
clas.
E. F. Noel has received the Demo
cratic nomination for governor of Ten
nessee.
Labor Commissioner Neill etill has
hopes of compromising the telegraph
ers' strike.
Two persons were killed in a cyclone
which swept over Eau Claire county
Wisconsin.
Nearly all Euroepans are leaving
Morocco on account of the gravity of
the situation.
The Hamilton club, the great Chi
cago Republican organization, is to
buili a $2,000,000 skyscraper.
Taft advises the people of Oklahoma
to reject the constitution framed for
use when the territory becomes a state
The Chicago & Alton railroad has
been sold to the Toledo, St. Louis &
Western.
Raisuli, the Moorish bandit, has de
feated the army sent by the sultan to
capture him.
eatern railroads are again issuing
warnings to coal dealers to lay in a
winter supply before too late.
jjeatns irom tne Duoonic plague in
India promise to exceed all former rec
ords during theg present year.
Heney and Delmas continue to fight
every step in the Glass ' bribery case
now being tried in San Francisco.
Japanese have sued the city of San
Francisco lor $2,575 damages on ac
count of the restaurant wrecked by a
mob.
A heavy electric storm has done much
damage to telegraph and telephone
wires in Northern California and South
ern Oregon.
Texas has begun suit against the In
ternational Harvester company for $1,
100,000 for alleged violation of the
anti-trust laws.
Vice Preeident Zimmer, of the Paci
fic States Telephone company, has been
sentenced to imprisonment for three
months for coontempt in refusing to
answer questions in the Glass trial.
He has appealed.
Count Boni has been snubbed by
Gould in London.
The Philippine government has sup
pressed the flag of a Becret rebel soci
ety. Diivers and stablemen employed at
the wholesale beef packing houses in
New York are on strike.
Congressman McCall, of Mass., pre
dicts hardtimes as a result of the heavy
fine imposed oon the Standard Oil com
pany. The new San Francisco police board
has accepted Chief Dinan's resignation
and elected O. M. Anderson as acting
chief.
Canadian telegraph operators have
not struck but threaten to walk out un
less the companies refuse to take mes
sages from across the boundary.
Patients at the New York etate hos
pital for the criminal insane rtvolted
and were not subdued until one of their
number had been shot and killed.
Governor Vardman, of Mississippi,
has been apealed to for protection to
the Western Union strikebreakers
ine company omciais say their men
have been driven from Holly Springs
Grenada and Greenwood.
In a speech at Provincetown, Maes
President Roosevelt scored the rich
lawbreakers.
The New Zealand senate baa turned
down a measure allowing women a seat
in that body.
In an explosion of dynamite at Tsing-
tau, China, two Germans and 100 Chi
nese were killed.
The War department has advertised
for material with which to improve the
Honolulu harbor.
Congress Likely to Approve Plan at
Next Session.
Washington, Aug. 27. Increase in
pay of the army, but no increase in its
size is the compromise which has been
reached between the president and
leaders in congress who control legisla
tion. The president has given his
hearty approval to the plans of the gen-
'eial 6taff of the army which included
both increases, but after consultations
and conferences, it has been decided
that it will be impossible to do more
at the nest session of congress than to
secure an increase in pay for the army
Immediately upon convening bills will
be introduced in the senate by Mr.
Dick, of Ohio, and in the house by Rep
resentative Capron, of Rhode Island,
carrying out the agreement which has
been reached.
These bills will provide for an in
crease of 10 per cent in the salary of
lieutenant gerenal, 15, per cent in
crease for majors and brigade generals,
20 per cent for colonels, lieutenant col
onels and majors, 25 per cent increase
for captains and lieutenants and 30 per
cent increase for noncommissioned
officers and privates. It is thought
that such a measure will become law
It was desired by War department
officials that congress should authorize
an increase in the strength of the army,
not so much by increasing its strength
numerically at this time, but by provid
ing for creation of new regiments to be
given skeleton organization in time of
peace.
HAVE NO COAL FOR EXPORT.
NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FROM THE STATE OF OREGON
CHANGE LOOKED FOR.
FAIL TO KEEP LAW.
American Companies Obliged to Re-
fuse European Orders.
Philadelphia, Aug. 27. Because of
its inability t) fill the order, the Phila
delphi & Reading Coal & Iron company
was compelled to decline a contract for
25,000 tons of anthracite, the order for
which was tendered by a representative
of the Austro-Hungarian chamber of
commerce. Ihe proposed purchaser
was willing to pay the regular price for
placing the coal on board vessels either
here or in New York.
Another order for 200.000 tons of bi
tuminous coal, wanted by the Italian
government, is also being offered tc the
largest soft coal operators of the Unit
ed States, with little prospect of its be
ing taken, because of the great expense
in delivering it to its destination.
The great demand for coal by foreign
governments is attributed to the in
creased coal consumption by their war
ships. All native coal is being used
for this purpose, and the supply is not
equal to the demand.
WHOLE FLEET TO COME.
Statute Requiring Killing of Weeds
Disregarded in Marion
Salem There is evidence that there
has been a pretty general disregard of
the provisions of the Barrett law, paas
ed by the last legislature, providing for
the extirpation of Russian, Canadian
and Chinese thistles and other obnox
ious weeds in this county, and if a
strict enforcement of the act were to be
insisted upon many of the road super
visors of the county, as well as a ma
jority of municipalities, would be liable
to the penalties imposed for neglect in
observing its provisions, ranging from
$50 to 500 fines for each offense.
This law, which is the repetition of
old laws upon the subject, except that
its provisions are made more stringent
and its scope enlarged to embrace white
mustard, cocklebur and silver salt bush,
commonly called, requires the road su
pervisor of each district to make a tour
of inspection of the properties within
his territory and serve notice upon all
property owners upon whose land any
of the weeds mentioned in the list are
found to destroy the same before they
have bloomed and seeded, and a copy
of the notice must be filed with the
county court. If the landowner neg
lects, fails or reftises to comply with
the law in this respect, the road super
visor has authority to employ men to
destroy the pests and charge the cost to
the property owner, which applies as a
iien upon the land.
ABANDONS SCHOOLS,
and
Ore-
Board of Regents Will Let Drain
Monmouth Go Alone.
Salem The board of regents of
gon state normal schools has rescinded
its action of July 18, ordering that the
Monmouth and Drain normals be cper-
ateu mis year and instead a resolution
was adopted declaring that the schools
shall not be operated unless donations
are received and that "no donations
shall be received without the express
understanding and agreement, that no
claim will be made for repayment by
tne state or legislature."
The faculty already elected at Mon
mouth was discharged and the execu
tive committee authorized to elect a
new faculty when funds are available.
No faculty has been elected by Drain
normal. Ex-President Ressler. of
Monmouth, Bays that his institution
will meet the conditions imposed and
that the school will run next year.
Ex-President Briggs, of Drain, could
not say what the friends of that insti
tution will do.
BIG PRUNE CROP.
FIR BLOCKS ARE THE BEST.
Secretary Taft may change all his
Philippine trip plans owing to the ill
ness of his mother.
Reports from Cental Weet and Cali
fornia indicate an almost complete re
sumption of wire serivce.
By means of wireless telegraphy the
station at San Francisco sent the cor
rect time to Midway island, 2,700
miles away.
Sympathy in Portland for the strik
ing telegraph operators is making itself
known by popular subscriptions for a
relief fund. One contribution of $50
was by a former county official.
Sixteen Battleships to Sail for Pacific
in December.
Washington, Aug. 27. The torpedo
flotilla which will go to the Pacific
coast when the battleships kBail in De
cember consists of eight vessels, the
Hull, Truxton, Whipple, Hopkins,
Worden, Stewart, Lawrence and Mc
Donough. Whether all will be fit for
the voyage is doubtful.
The flotilla will be commanded by
Lieutenant H. I. Cone, who commanded
the Dale to China four years ago.
The number of battleships which
will go to the Pacific is 16, not six, as
stated in dispatches by an error in
transmission. Ships already on the
Pacific will increase this number to 19.
The official statement of the presi
dent after his conference with acting
secretary of the Navy department, Rea
Admiral Bronson, chief ;of the bureau
of navigation, and Rear Admiral Evans,
who will command the fleet, is as follows:
The conference between the presi
dent and the three officers of the navy
was called to decide details in connec
tion with the Atlantic fleet going to the
Pacific.
"The fleet will consist of 16 battle'
ships. It will Etart some time in De
cember. The course of the fleet will
be through the Straits of Magellan and
up the Pacific coast to San Francisco
"The fleet also will, in all probabili
ty, visit Puget sound. The question of
the routejby which it will return to the
Atlantic has not as yet been decided.
Steal From Hetty Green.
New lork, Aug. 27. Expert ac
countants were busy all today and to
night in the offices of the Chemical
National bank in lower Broadway and
it was reported that a large defalcation
had been discovered in the big institu
tion, which has been known tor years
as "Hetty Green's Bank." Detective
Sargeant McCafferty, head of the bu
reau at headquarters, and several of his
aides were out tonight Beraching for one
of the men in the cashier s department
who is declared to have disappeared
with a large amount of money.
Oregon Product Excels Other Woods
for Switch Blocks.
Salem Another instance of the su
periority of fir wood over the harder
varieties of forestry products for com
mercial and industrial purpoees is illus
trated in a communication to the rail
road commission received from Man
ager E. Lyons, of the Northern Pacific
Terminal company, of Portland, who
states that fir wedges will be used in
future for swith and frog blocks in
place of hard wood blocks because it is
superior adaptation to this use has been
demonstrated fully by past experi
ments. Mr. Lyons' letter is in reply to a
notice from the commission calling at
tention to the dereliction of the com
pany in permitting swi
blocks to remain out of place
minal yards, and Mr. Lyons assures (
the commission that this matter, the
blame for which he attaches to the ne- j
gleet of the track department, will be j
attended to more carefully in the fu- I
ture. He savs that the hard wood.
blocks work out of place on the light
track and under heavy traffic, while fir
blocks remain securely wedged where
driven.
Picking Will Begin About September
I in Linn County.
Albany Prunes are surely a bumper
crop this year and the picking in most
i of the orchards hereabouts will begin
about the first week in September.
.Growers are experiencing small difli
'culty in obtaining pickers on account
!of the high wages to be paid. The
'prevailing wages for pickers is 6 cents
per bushel, this being an advance of 1
cent over the amount paid last year.
It is said that a good picker can clear
about $3 per day and that children
should be able to pick on an average of
about 30 pushels per day and thus earn
$1.80.
It is an interesting fact that while
! the prune industry was conisdered a
failure a few years ago, on account of
the lack of a market, this condition has
been eliminated and growers will re
ceive on an average of 50 cents per
bushel for all they can produce and
bring into the market. The orchards
that have been properly cared for will
do better this year.
Construes Mill License Law,
Salem Attorney General Crawford
has construed the definition of what
constitutes a mill, factory or workshop
for the purposes of inspection and levy
of fees to include all institutions where
itch and frne n machinery is operated for manufac-
in tha tor. i turuig purposes, whether conducted
soieiy Dy tne owner ot the plant or not
Under this interpretation all little
shops wherein articles of furniture,
etc., are made, come within the mean
ing of the act and the owners will be
required to pay the annual license fee
of not less than $5.
Telegraph Operators Expect Peace
Overtures Soon,
Chicago, Aug. 26. A crisis will be
reached in the telegraphers' strike
within the next few days, according to
the expectations of Chicago operators
Announcement to this effect was made
today by Frank Likes, chairman of the
local strike committee, at a meeting.
Mr. Likes declined to disclose fully his
reasons for making this statement, but
from other sources it was learned that
the operators are expecting that some
sort of an offer will be received from
the companies within a short time.
In view of the determined stand
taken by both corporations against
dealing with the strikers collectively,
this report was viewed with skepticism
in many quarters.
It is Baid that many of the strikers
would be willing to return to work up.
on the promise that they be given free
use of typewriters and a moderate wage
increase. Recognition of the union, it
is declared, would not be insisted upon
ino statement oi jir. taxes concern
ing a possible crisig was made during a
dispute concerning the advisability of
holding a strikers' meeting tomorrow
(NEW explosive
WORKS WONDERS
United States Has Secret Which May
Win Next War for Us.
Can Tear Ships to Pieces Dunnite
Proves Superior to Shimose Pow
der, With Which Japan Won Her
Great Naval Victories Over Rus
sian Fleets.
DOGS SMUGGLE IN OPIUM.
Dis-
Good Coal in Lane Conty.
Eugene There is no longer any
doubt that coal exists in reasonably
large quantities in Lane county and
two months will see the commoditv
fiom the mine of the Spencer Butte
Coal & Petroleum company on the local
market. This concern has been de
veloping its properties for several
months past, and now knows definitely
just what it has. The mine is ten
miles west of Eugene, and includes 301
acres of land. Considerable of the land
consists of a hill about 400 feet high,
and large croppings show near the base
of this bill, a six and one-half foot vein
being an average of the croppings nieas
ured.
Hop Crop Heavy.
Aurora The hop growers in this sec
tion are between the devil and the deep
sea this year as far as prices for their
hops go, for there are no prices, and the
growers have no means of knowing
when a price will be made, or what it
will be. In the Aurora, Butteville and
Hubbard districts, the hop crop is as
large, if not larger, than last year
The yield is bo heavy in many yards
that the hops are breaking down the
wires and pulling down the posts.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Many Coyotes in Linn.
Albany The coyote is running ram
pant in the hills of Linn county and
proving a menace to the safety of the
flocks and small stock of the farmers.
In spite of local coyote clubs that offer
a bounty for scalps, these rapacious
beasts seems to flourish and multiply.
The court has at times been petitioned
to lend assistance by offering an addi
tional bounty. The ranchers unite in
saying that the coyote is far from ex
tinct in Linn county.
Mead Takes English Job.
Laramie, Wyo., Aug. 27. Dr. El
wood Mead, formerly Etate engineer of
Wyoming, later professor of irrigation
engineering at the Colorado Agricul
tural college, and afterward chief of
the bureau of irrigation of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, has accepted the
position of chief of irrigation investiga
tion for Australia, from the British
government, at a salary ot f lo.uuu per
annum. Dr. Mead lo-t an arm in a
streetcar accident a few years ago.
Crops Are Good at Bly.
Bly Owing to a heavy rainfall, hay
ing is progressing slowly, though there
is a good crop to harvest. There is lit-
tele grain sowed through this district,
though what there is is headed well
and will make a very heavy crop. Al
falfa is being cut the second time.
Other crops show up very favorably.
New Instructor Arrives.
Ashland Professor H. II. Wardrin,
who will have charge of the new man
ual training department of the state
normal and of the work in physical
culture, has arrived at Ashland, and is
superintending the installation of the
equipment required for the new de
partment.
Jzpan Blames America.
Tokio. Aug. 27. It is reported that
the investigations made on the part of
Japan concerning the Pribyloff incident
of June 19 show that the Japanese
fishermen offered no resistance what
ever and that the firing by the Ameri
can guards was unprovoked. Ihe
Washington government has been no
tified to that effect, and Tokio ie now
awaiting reply. The public is watch
ing the affair with keen interest.
Cannery a Failure.
Milton The cannery at Freewater
has closed its doors. Inability to se
cure funds for running expenses is the
cause or its action. A great deal of to
matoes, corn, berries, etc., which had
been contracted for by outside parties
will not be forthcoming owing to the
shutdown.
Clatsop Building New Road.
Astoria Clatsop county is buildinea
public highway along what is known as
the coast route between this city and
the Tillamook county line, the plan be
ing to secure a good road as soon as dos-
eible to Tillamook city.
Wheat (New crop) Club, 7879c;
bluestem, 8082c; valley, 80c; red,
7677c.
Oats (New crop) No. 1 white,
$23.50; gray, $23.
Barley (New crop) Feed, $22
22.50 per ton; brewing, $2424.50.
Corn Whole, $28; cracked, $29, per
ton.
Hay Valley timothy, No. 1, $1718
per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, $21
23; clover, $9; cheat, $910; grain
hay, $910; alfalfa, $1314.
Butter, Fancy creamery, 3235c
per pound.
Poultry Averageold hens, 1313c
per pound; mixed chickens, 12c;
spring chickens, 14(150; old roost
ers, 89c; dressed chickens, 1617c;
turkeys, Jive, 1516c; turkeys, dress
ed, choice, nominal; geese, live, 8
10c; ducks, 10c.
Eggs Fresh ranch, candled, 2526c
per dozen .
Veal Dressed, 6)8c per pound.
Pork Block, 75 to 150 pounds, 8
8Je; packers, 78c.
Fruits Apples, $11.75 per box;
cantaloupes, 65c $1.10 per crate;
peaches, 50c$l per crate blackber
ries, 57c per pound; prunes, $1.50
1.75 per crate; watermelons, lljc
per pound; plums, $1.501. 65 per box;
pears, $1.50 per box; apricots,
$1.502 per box; grapes, $1.251.75
per box.
Vegetables Turnips, $1.75 per sack;
carrots, $2 per pack; beets, $2 per sack;
asparagus, 10c per pound; celery, $1.25
per dozen; corn, 2535c per doren;
cucumbers, 10 15c per "dozen; lettuce,
hfad, 25c per dozen: onions, lo20c
per dozen;, peas, 45c per pound;
pumpkins, l)2c per pound; rhu
barb, 3c per pound; beans, 35c per
pound; cabbage, 2c per pound;
squash, 50c$l per box; tomatoes,
6090c per crate; sweet potatoes, 5
52'c per pound.
Onions $2.252.50 per hundred.
Potatoes New, $11.25 per hun
dred. Hops 46c per pound, according to
quality.
Wool Eastern Oregon, average best,
1622c per pound, according to shrink
age; valley, 2022c, according to fine
ness; mohair, choice, 2930c per
pound 1
Customs Officials Make Unique
covery Near Blaine, Wash.
Seattle, Aug. 26. One of the most
clever methods of smuggling silk and
opium into the United States from
British Columbia yet known has been
discovered by customs officers at Blain,
Wash., on the international boundary
line. Trained dogs were used to carry
on the busineisjjand the customs officers
believe that hundreds of pounds of the
contraband drug have been brought
into this country in that manner. As
a result of the discovery by the officers
Thomas Smith is in custody awaiting
trial on a charge of smuggling.
The first inkling that dogs were used
for smuggling came a few days ago
when Officer Lane, of the Bellingham
station, shot a dog which he saw run
ning through the thick timber near
Blaine. The canine was loaded down
with a leather saddle in which was
found three pounds of opium and a
package of silk. Where the dog came
from and where he was going were
mysteries which the officials at once
began to ferret out.
The oflicers took a coon dog with
them to the boundary line where the
first caninel was seen. For three days
they waited before anothe dog came
along with a pack saddle on its back.
This time there were three dogs loaded
down with the drug. The men let
them pass, and then, with the aid of
the coon dog, they traced them to an
old shack near Blaine. The officers
afterwards arrested Smith on a charge
of smuggling.
New York, Aug. 24. The Times to
day says:
"The experiments at the bandy Jlook
proving grounds with Dunnite, the high
explosive invented by Major Dunn, of
the Ordnance corps, U.S.A., have
proved that the United States possesses
in Dunnite the secret of an explosive
perhaps more powerful and destructive
than any other explosive ever invented.
'Dunnite, army oflicers say, is more
powerful than Shimose, the explosive
with which the Japanese did such ter
rific execution in the naval battles off
Port Arthur and Vladivostok and in the
Sea of Japan. Shimose ordnance ofli,-
cers say the explosive is a compound of
picric acid, the secret of which is known
to the ordnance officers of all the first-
class powers. On the other hand, the
secret of Dunnite is in the exclusive
possession of the United States government.
"In the recent tests of Dunnite at
Sandy Hook it is said that the very best
five and six-inch armor plates that
could be obtained were used as targets.
The result oi every shot was the same.
The armor plate was smashed into
thousands of small pieces, it is said, by
their impact. The impact of the Dun
nite is also all that is necessary to ac
complish the destruction of the target.
Penetration is not necessary, the impact
being Eiieh that the armor is shattered
into countless pieces.
"The droping of a Dunnite shell on
the deck of a battleship, it is said by
many ordnance oflicers, would mean the
immediate sinking of that ship, not by
penetration of its vital parts, but sim
ply by racking the vessel until her
seams opened and the inrush of water
sent her to the bottom. This, it is said
by some ordnance officers, was the way
that the Japanese put the Russian ship
out of commission. They would dror
the Shimose shells on the decks, and
the destructive Shimose did the rest.
SAILS NEXT DECEMBER.
JUDGE SEARS DEAD.
Member of State Circuit Court for
Multnomah County.
Portland, Aug. 26. Judge Alfred F.
Sears, Jr., of the State Ciriuit court,
one of the foremost jurists of Oregon,
died of apoplexy at his residence, 590
East Madison street, shortly before 4
o'clock yesterday morning. Death was
altogether unexpected, for not the
slightest warning to members of the
family foretold the end. The funeral
will bo held Tuesday.
Judge Sears was in his usual health
Saturday. He was about the city, and
to many of his friends and associates
seemed in the best of spirits. He re
tired about10 o'clock Saturday night,
rather earlier than usual, and it was
not until Mrs. Sears stepped into his
room at 4 o'clock to see if he was sleep
ing well, that it was known he had
passed away.
Dr. A. J. Giesy was immediately
called, but the judge was past all med
ical aid. He had ceased breathing
when found by Mrs. Sears, and the
opinion of the physician is that he
had died but a short time before. No
scund was heard from his room, and
this leads to the belief that the end
was peaceful and painless.
Bank Notes From the Sea.
Berlin, Aug. 26. A package of bank
notes of the National Provincial bank
of England recently was washed up on
the beach f the Island of Foehr, off
the Schleswig-Holstein coast, and found
by a workman on his way to his fac
tory. It is supposed, as no owner has
appeared to claim them, that they be
longed to a passenger on the ill fated
Berlin, which went down off the Hook
of Holland. The notes have been de
posited in the safe keeping of the po
lice. If unclaimed in nine months
they will be handed over to the finder.
Four Shot in Holdup.
Billings, Mont., Aug. 26. Four men
were shot, one fatally and one maimed
for life, in an attempted holdup this
morning at Huntley, one of the govern
merit townsites on 1 the recently opened
Huntley irrigation project. Six Finns
and one American were sleeping in a
box car when Ihey were awakened by
an order to hold up their hands. The
Finns refused and the robbers opened
fire. Three Finns and one robber were
wtunded.
Roosevelt Will Send Only Six Battle
ships to Pacific.
New York, Aug. 24. Secretary Loeb
announced tonight that a fleet of six
battleships will start for the Pacific
some time in December via the Straits
of Magellan, touching at San Francisco
also probably at Puget sound.
A destroyer flotilla will leave for the
Pacific about the same time, but will
not accompany the battleships.
This is the first positive announce
ment of the date when the battleship
fleet will sail for the Puci fic coast. The
first announcement was made by Secre
tary of the Navy Metealf on July 4, and
the details were given out the following
day, but the date of departure was only
given vaguely as some time in the fall.
It was stated in July that 16 battle
ships four cruisers and the gunboat
Yorktown would come through Magel
lan Straits, but the above dipatch says
only six ha ttleships are coming. This
may be an error in transmission, which
it is impossible to have corrected in the
present condition of the telegraph serv
ice. It is quite probable, however,
that the number six is correct and
that the number has been cut down,
either because the government thought
it unwise to bo nearly denude the At
lantic coast of battleships or because it
was desired to deprive the movement of
any appearance of, a hostile demonstra
tion against Japan'.
Assuming that the fleet starts on ita
voyage about the middle of December,
it should arrive at San Francisco about
the middle of February, 1908, as 60
days is considered ample time for the
voyage.
Sultan's Brother on Throne.
Tangier, Aug. 26. A courier from
Morocco t i ty confirms the reports that
the sultan's brother was proclaimed
sultan Augiift 16, and assumed the
throne. The new sultan declares his
intention of appointing another brother
kalif of Fez, and then proceed to take
command of the Moorish forces besieg
ing Casa Blanca.
Sentence Postponed.
San Francisco, Am. 24. John A.
Benson and Dr. Edward B. Perrin, con
victed by a jury in the United Statea
District court of conspiracy to defraud
the government in securing 1,200 acres '
of land in Tehama county, weie to have
been sentenced today by Judge De Ha
ven, but when the case was called at
torneys for the defense asked for time
in which to prepare a motion for a new
trial. The prosecution did not object,
and Judge De Haven granted a post
ponement of sentence until next Tues
day morning.
Schumaker Will Tell.
Philadelphia, Aug. 24. James M.
Schumaker, ex-superintendent cf the
capitol building at Harrisburg, who
pleaded illness and remained secluded
in his home, during the inventigation
of capitol building scandals, now de
clares that he will tell everything he
knows. Schumaker alleges that the
manipulation of funds was engineered
by a high state official to cover up a
shortage in the treasury and to save the
name of a deceased U. S. senator.
Cholera Outbreak in China.
Berlin, Aug. 24. A Shanghai special
says that there is a cholera outbreak in
China, and several Europeans have suc
cumbed thereto. Preventive measures
have been adopted in the foreign quar
ter. Several Chinese and Japanese
towns are affected but a spread through-
ocean steamers is regarded improbable-