Heppner gazette., December 05, 1907, Image 3

CANAL COSTS
MUCH MONEY
More Than $48,000,000 Has Been
Spent By Commission.
Style and Number of Gate Decided
On Hired Instead of Contract
Labor Believed to Be Best tor
Construction Work on the Great
Waterway.
Washington, Nov. 28. Full details
of the work done on the Panama canal
daring the fiscal year 1907, with a
showing of what has been accomplished
since the project baa been in American
hands, are disclosed in the annual re
port of the Isthmian Canal commission.
It is the firBt report made of the opera
tions on the Isthmus since construction
work has been in charge cf army en
gineers. Aside from the $50,000,000 paid to
the French company and to Panama,
an aggregate of $48,285,110 has been
expended by the government on the
project adopted by congress and which
it was estimated by the board of con
sulting engineers would ultimately cost
$39,075,200. This estimate, however,
did not include sanitation and expendi
tures of the zone government, water
works, sew era and paving in Panama
and Colon and the re-equipment of the
Panama railroad.
There is no reference in the report to
the proposition which has been brought
forward to extend the width of the locks
to 110 feet, so as to accommodate with
out difficulty the extreme breadth in
the development of shipbuilding, and
this will be made the subject of a spec
ial report from the commission. A
trong position is taken favorable to
the policy of doing the work by hired
instead of by contract labor, a step at
one time seriously considered by the
administration, and many arguments
are presented to justify the commission
In its conclusion that the canal can be
built better, cheaper and more quickly
fcy the government.
The commission has fully decided
upon the method of filling and empty
ing the locks and the number and type
of gates The gates are in duplicate
and of the miter type, except that the
rolling gate similar to that now in use
on the Ohio river will be substituted
for the duplicate set at the lower end
of each Bummit-level lock.
WILL MEET AT ST. LOUIS.
Pooulist Party Sets Date for
Next
Convention April 2.
Ft. Louis, Nov. 28. After protracted
balloting and consideration of the mer
its of all cities, the national committee
of the People's party late last night se
lected St. Louis as the place for the na
tional nominating convention and set
April 2 as the date for the gathering.
Kansas City, Chicago. Cincinnati, In
dianapolis and Oklahoma City were
discussed.
Besides disposing of the "convention
matter the co nmitteemen prepared an
address to the"voters of the country,
which was issued and in which the
leading figures of the older parties are
complimented for taking up "Populis
tic teachings."
READY TO PAY CASH AGAIN.
"Western Banks Encourage Chicago to
Begin Movement.
Chicago, Nov. 28. Direct reports
to the Chicago clearing house from
hundreds of Western cities encouraged
the local tankers yesterday to believe
a resumption of cash payments will be
possible within a fortnight. When
the clearing house committee met the
members had before them more than
600 letters in reply to their circular
letter sent out last week asking for
statements of conditions throughout the
West.
Practically all of the letters, it was
announced, expressed a willingness to
co-cperate with the Chicago bankers in
Tesuming a cash basis.
Imitates Early Day Rush.
Helena, Nov. 28. No little excite
mnet exists in the vicinity of Bozeman
over the discovery of considerable gold
in the placer diggings of the West Gal
latin basin. For nine miles on either
side of the river claims have been stak
ed out and prospectors have panned out
quite a quantity of gold. Frank BHsb,
of LivingBton, is reported to have pan
ned $9 in a half a dozen pans, and oth
ers have had equally good luck. Many
prominent residents of Bozeman have
left for the diggings, which in the early
days were noted as gold producers.
Big Storm on Black Sea.
Constantinople, Nov. 28. According
to reports received here, the recent
storms on the Black sea have resulted in
terrible suffering and great loss of life.
Among the disasters to shipping is the
f Hindering off Eregli, Asia Minor, of
the steamship Kaplan. The 110 per
sons on board perished. Numerous
smaller craft have been overwhelmed
and these disasters, together with the
loss of the Kaplan, bring the number
of casualties to more than 200.
Japan Makes Promise to Canada.
Tokio, Nov. 28. Rodolphe Lemieux,
Canadian postmaster general and labor
commissioner, had a conference lasting
four hours yesterday with Minister of
Foreign Affairs Hayashl, at which the
emigration problem was discussed. It
is understood he received assurances
that the Japanese government ia now
engaged in planning the limiting of
emigration to Canada,
COURT SUSPENDS LAW.
Railroads Again Attack State Rights
in Alabama.
Montgomery, Ala., Nov. 29. Judge
Thomas Jones, of the United States
District court, late today granted a
restraining order which has the effect
of temporarily suspending all of the
railroad legislation l ist passed by the
legislature as applied to the Louisville
& Nashville, the South & North Ala
bama, and Nashville, Chattanooga &
St. Louis and the Central of Georgia
railroads.
The court suspended the laws tern
porarily for an investigation of the al
legations made in the bills that they
are confiscatory and unusual. In the
case of the Central of Georgia, the
order is made returnable December 16
The order in the case of the other rail
roads is made returnable December 2.
These orders are directed to the sheriffs,
solicitors, clerks of the counties through
which the roads pass, and all citizens,
restraining them from attempting to
enforce the laws until the court dis
poses of the litigation.
SHIPPERS MUST MAKE GOOD
Interstate Commission Wants Evidence
to Support Complaints
Chicago, Nov. 29. Interstate Com
merce Commissioner E. E. Clark
sharply rebuked the dilatory tactics of
shi oners making complaint against the
railroad today during the hearing on
freight rates to the South Mississippi
river points.
' The time will come when the com
mission will not tolerate such indiffer
ence." said Mr. Clark. "We are con
tinually confronted with just such a
situation. Hundreds of cases have been
filed which the commission has only
wasted its time on, as the complainants
have failed to produce evidence. Only
a few weeks ago we had a case in which
there was apparently a lack of any
effort to prepare for it. In this present
ease some of the witnesses weie not
readv to testify at Kansas City, and it
is now the same here."
SHAW PLACES RESPONSIBILITY
Declares West Has Lost Corfidence
In the East.
New York, Nov. 29. Ex-Secretary
of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw, presi
dent of the Carnegie Trust company,
returned to New York yesterday from
Chicago, where he conferred with many
bankers regarding the financial situa
tion. In discussing conditions he said:
"The West has lost confidence in the
East. It will cost us here millions of
dollars before we regain the prestige
and cordial relationship of the past.
The men of the West .say that New
York is responsible for the financial
stringency; that when the squeeze
came the banks of New York resorted
to clearing house certificates first and
forced the rest of the country to do the
same.
"The bankers of Western cities have
no love now tor tne Dangers oi iew
York. They had placed their money
on deposit here, but when they asked
for it they were refused. They say
New York sought to protect only itself
and tied up everything so that all the
rest of the country was forced to adopt
urgent measures to save 'tself."
DRAW WHITES TO COAST.
Panama Canal Will Bring Desirable
Immigrants and Check Asiatics.
New York, Nov. 29. William R.
Wheeler, of San Francisco, one of the
special commissioners apporinted by
President Roosevelt to study abroad the
problem of immigration, said today:
"The completion of the Panama
canal and the consequent influx of Eu
ropean immigration through direct
eteamship routes, which will inevit
ably be established, will solve the
Asiatic problem in California and the
Facific coast.
"Now this must not be viewed with
alarm by the forces of labor on the
Pacific, coast. These newly-arrived
aliens will be of the desirable class,
and their presence will aid in the fu
ture upbuilding of California and the
Pacific coast states rather than retard
it."
Calling in Certificates.
Chicago, Nov. -9. The first step to
wards retiring the clearing house certi
ficates issued in this city was taken to
day when the executive committee of
the Chicago clearing house ordered de
stroyed $25,000 worth of certificates
that have been paid back to the clear
ing house. David R. Forgan, president
of the National City bank, announ?ed
this action at the weekly dinner of the
Chicago Association of Commerce, and
added that the procedure will be con
tinued daily until the entire issue is
paid back.
Turned Over to Uncle Sam.
Victoria, B. C, Nov. 29. The
steamer Tosa Maru arrived tonight
from Yokohama, and as was done on
the arrival of the Kumeric recently,
local immigration officers forced all
Japanese ticketed to this port with
passports made out for United States
points to proceed direct to Seattle. One
hundred and eleven who intended to
debark here were forced to continue,
the total for United States points being
222
Train Seized by Tramps.
Fresno, Cal., Nov. 29. Sixty tramps
seized a Southern Pacific train at Men
dota,' where the railway crosses the
river, and compelled the train crew to
give them a ride to Fresno. At Fresno
they seized another freight train, which
was outbound, and compelled the train
men to take them along. Word was
telephoned ahead and at Yisalia 20 offi
cers were awaiting the train, and suc
ceeded in arresting 48 of the tramps.
HAPPENINGS GATHERED IN AND
AROUND WASHINGTON, D. C.
STANDS UP FOR THE NAVY.
Assistant Secretary of State Says
Better One Exists.
No
Washington, Nov. 28. From time to
time during the last few months there
have appeared in various publications
comments concerning alleged defects in
vessels of the navy, particularly in bat
tleshipe and armored cruisers.
Toanswer these, Rear Admiral Capps,
chief of the bureau of construction and
repair, has Dommented in his annual
report to the secretary of the navy.
Admiral Capps covets responsibility for
the designs, such as they are, and pays
the highest tribute to his predecessors
in office. He declares our battleship
fleet is fully equal in all respects to
that of any equal number of ships in
any other navy, designed during the
same period. He further quotes one of
the most distinguished foreign authori
ties, as fellows:
"Extraordinary high figures for
United States ships afford food for
thought, for both in ships and high
power guns impervious to vital injury
at long range, the United States fleet is
superior to any other in the world."
Recurring to the criticisms o! tne bat
tleships, Admiral Capps says:
"The chief constructor hopeB that be
has demonstrated fully and clearly that
such serious faults as exist in any bat
tleships and cruisers were not due t
the arbitrary methods of the board of
construction or to the bureau of con
struction and repair, but were almost
wholly due to developments in mater
ial and the Insistence of seagoing om-
cere tnat certain military leatures
should be embodied in the original de
sign or, subsequently, that changes
covering the same should be made un
der these last conditions. The changes
obviously involved a very considerable
cost.
Estimates for the next fiscal year for
construction and repair on ships shows
an increase of $850,000 over the appro
priations for the present year.
Keeping It Secret.
Washington, Nov. 30. There was
another land grant conference in the
office of the attorney general today, but
nothing has been made public as yet.
So far, it is known that these confer
ences have been purely deliberative,
and no conclusions have been reached.
Even when it is decided what course
shall be pursued, either to compel the
railroads to comply with the terms of
their grants or to forfeit their lands, it
is probable no announcement will be
made, as the department deems it im
prudent to show its hand to the rail
road companies in advance of the insti
tution of legal proceedings. It is learn
ed that before a definite policy is agreed
upon all members of the Oregon con
gressional delegation will be called in
to conference, and will be consulted as
to the policy to be adopted.
Some of Utes Go To Work.
Washington, Nov. 28. The com
missioner oi Indian anairs has been
advised of the arrival of 130 of the
disaffected Ute Indians at Rapid City,
b. V., where they have argeed to ac
cept work on a railroad. The inform
ation comes from Superintendent of
Indian Employment Dagnett, who has
prevailed upon the Indians to work by
informing them of the attitude of the
government, which is opposed to in
dulgence to them so long as they re
main in idleness. There are 240 of the
malcontents who have not yielded.
Notaries to Take Evidence.
Washington, Nov. 27. The Inter
state Commerce commission today ap
pointed C. H. Sholes, of Portland, and
N. W. Bolster, of Seattle, as notaries,
to begin November 30 the taking of
depositions in the northwest lumber
rate cases. It is said there will be a
large number of witnesses whose tes
timony will be taken on the Coast, and
it will become a part of the record in
the lumber cases here when the hear
ings begin, December 11.
Japs to Prevent Trouble.
Washington, Nov. 29. Evident
ly desiring a more conservative course
on the Japanese question, Japan an
nounces the transfer of Consul Uyeno
from San Francisco to Sydney, Austral
ia. Chozo Koilk, a distinguished dip
lomat and consul general at New York,
goes to San Francisco, on December 2,
to be consul general, the post being
raised from a consulate.
Proposes Large Homesteads.
Wahington, Nov. 27. Soon after
congress convenes Senator Fulton will
introduce a bill authorizing 640-acre
homesteads in those parts of Eastern
Oregon where small acreage will not
sustain families. His plan has been
successfully tried in Nebraska, partic
ularly in sections which have but lit
tle rainfall and where irrigation is not
possible.
End of the Old Saratoga.
Washington, Nov. 29 The old sloop
of war Saratoga, famous in history for
her performance under command of Ad
miral Farraeut as well as under Com-
modore Perry, is to go on the junk pile, i
Thomas Butter A Co., of Boston, who
bought the ship for $3,210, intend to ,
demolish her for the sake of
any old
metal and scrap in the hull.
New Railway Mail Clerks.
Washington, Nov. 30. L. C. Osier
and F. H.Twohey, of Portland: Charles
' A. Crocker, Cornelius Roecoe. S. Steets,
Independence, and Guy N. Howell,
Salem, have been appointed
I mail clerks.
railway
SAYS RATES WERE EXCESSIVE
Lumber Firm Complains to Commis
sion Against Harriman.
Washington, Nov. 26. A complaint
was filed today with the Interstate
Commerce commffsion by the h. H.
Lewis Lumber company, operating in
Oregon and Washington, alleging that
the Harriman roads in the Northwest
in 14 different cases exacted freight
charges on cars of lumber shipped from
Oregon and Washington to the East in
excess of the legal rates published by
the roads.
All the (excess charges were made
subsequent to the time the new rate
went into effect, and on this ground
complainant asks the commission to
require the roads to refund the amount
of the excess and hereafter to conform
to their published rates.
Indorse Plan of Altchison
Washington, Nov. 29. The Oregon,
Washington, Idaho and Montana senat
ors who are here met today and adopt
ed a resolution favoring an amendment
to the interstate commerce law in ac
cordance with the terms of the resolu
tion introduced by Commissioner Aitch-
ison, cf Oregon, at the recent state rail
way commissioners' convention here,
providing that no increase shall be
made in any rate when shippers object
until the road can show the rate is reas
onable. Today's action was taken in
compliance with the wishes of the Pa-
cicfi Northwest lumbermen, who are
now before the Interstate Commerce
commission here with several cases in
volving proposed increase in rates on
coast lines.
Nothing As Yet Results.
Washington, Nov. 26. E. D. Town-
send, assistant United States district
attorney for North Dakota, having un
der investigation the Oregon and Cali
fornia land grant cases, had a confer
ence today at the department of justice
with A. McDonald McBlair, who was
the assistant of Mr. Townsend in the
investigation and Tracy C. Becker,
who was appointed by the attorney gen
eral to go over the report of Mr. Town
send, with the view of recommending
what action, if any, Ehould be taken.
No determination has yet been reached,
and it is not likely the conference will
result in a report to the department of
justice.
Let Bourne Get Mandate.
Washington, Nov. 28. The Wash
ington Poet today recommends a plan
to Senator Bourne to compel President
Roosevelt to serve another term. The
plan is to bring a mandamus suit in
the Supreme court requiring Roosevelt
to obey the will of the people. The
Poet says: "Bourne yearns for Roose
velt as a hart yearns for the water brook.
Not only is he deaf to the dissuading
tongue, but there is a menacing note in
hisovertures that is nothing short of
blood curdling. If Roosevelt withstands
him there will be tragedy."
American Trade With Cuba.
Washington, Nov. 28. In the nine
months ending with September, 1907,
the latest period for which figures have
been received by the bureau of statis
tics of the department of Commerce
and Labor, the total value of the ex
ports from the United States to Cuba
is, in round terms, $40,000,000, against
a little less than $35,000,000 in the
same months of last year, and the total
imports from the island, $84,000,000,
against $75,000,000 last year.
Should Pay the West.
Washington, Nov. 28. Senator Kitt
ridge, of South Dakota, discussing the
financial situation today, said: "If
the East pays the West what it owes
there will be no trouble. The East
has our crops and live stock and will
not give us a cent. What we really
need is a more elastic currency."
Cannot Work Government.
Washington, Nov. 27. The pro
nounced success of the 3 per cent cer
tificates enables Secretary Corlelyou to
defeat plans for the purchase of the cer
tificates for speculative purposes. Only
individuals showing that the purchase
price has not been withdrawn from the
banks will be favored.
Best Constitution Made.
Washington, Nov. 26. William J.
Bryan, in an address before students
and others at the George Washington
university last night, characterired the
new Oklahoma constitution as the best
constitution extant, and he added "and
I don't exclude the constitution of the
United States."
No Tariff Revision.
Washington, Nov. 27. "There will
be no tariff revision at the coming ses
sion," said Representative Payne, of
New York, chairman of the ways and
means committee of the house of repre
sentatives, after a conference with the
president today on tariff and currency
legislation.
Navy Needs Men
Washington, Nov. 27. The navv de-
partment announces that it wants from
2,000 to 3,000 additional workmen for
the .Bremerton and Mare Island navy
yards to prepare for Rear Admiral
Evans' battleships when they arrive at
those places.
Northwest Rural Carriers.
Washington, Nov. 26. Charles
Houtz has been"appointed regular. Em-
ma Houtz, substitute rural carrier,
route No. 1, at Krupp Wash.
STUDY NEW METHODS.
Peru Sends Men to United States to
Gather Information.
Lima, Peru, Nov. 27. The govern
ment of Peru has sent to the United
States two graduates of the agricultural
school to study the process of cultiva
ting sugar cane in Louisiana, and also
the cultivation, fertilzers and methods
pursued with cotton and rice, in the
proper places for the best results, from
i the planted seed to the preparation for
market.
President Pardo says that for the
purposes of making the best us5 of our
ocean wealth, in the proper conduct of
the fisheries and curing of fish, he has
contracted with a specialist in the
United States, who is now studying out
islands, coast waters and rivers in all
that relates to a scientific solution of
methods for securing the best results
both for the markets and to provide a
cheap food for the people, in the hope
to produce thus a new source of wealth
for the republic.
This government has also sent to
the United States two Peruvian sani
try engineers,-who will study in the
United States the branch of sanitation,
in company with the sanitary engineer
who was sent earlier to the isthmus of
Panama to study there the sanitary sys
tem established by the North Ameri
cans.
FAMINE IN ASIA.
Sultan of Turkey Forbids Export of
Barley Crops Fail.
Constantinople, Nov. 27. Famine
threatens a great part of Asia Minor
owing to the failure of crops and the
greatest distress prevails. The sultan
has already issued orders forbidding
the export of barley, of which large
amounts are annually shipped abroad
to foreign firms for brewing purposes.
This order, it is expected, will give
rise to great complaint from foreigners
who have made contracts.
The sultan has also exempted from
duty all wheat imported until 'the end
of January, and has given orders for
the agricultural bank to distribute seed
to the needy farmers.
Winter shows signs .of beginning at
an unusually early time and heavy
rains are hindering autumn sowing.
Added tc these calamities is the high
price of all necessaries of life bo that
it may be said without exaggeration
that the prospect for the coming win
ter is unprecedentedly gloomy.
Want Action on Notices.
Chicago, Nov. 27. Following an
agreement between Chicago banks
with savings departments which are
members of the Clearing House associ
ation that 30-day notices by depositors
desirous of withdrawing their accounts
would be met immediately, letters of
notification have been sent out" by
some of the banks asking that the ac
counts be withdrawn or the notices
canceled without deley. The requests
have met with little response. It was
learned today that one bank which had
received 300 notices of intended with
drawals heard from only 12 of its let
ters. Asks League to Give Up.
Chicago, Nov. 27. The city council
last night by a unanimous vote asked
the Chicago Law and Order league to
abandon its campaign against Sunday
saloons and let the question be submit
ted to a vote of citizens at the next
election. In the same resolution the
aldermen asserted that the Sunday clos
ing law now on the statute books is
"obsolete. The resolution was adopt
ed without debate and by a viva voce
vote. Officers of the league spent the
day in classifying the evidence secured
by their volunteer detectives.
Oil for British Warships.
London, Nov. 27. The sailing of the
admiralty owned . tank steamer Petro
leum for Port Arthur, Texas, marks a
new departure in the British navy, as
it is the first time that the admiralty
has tried the experiment of importing
a cargo of oil in its own ships. It is
anticipated that the Petroleum is only
the forerunner of a small fleet of ad
miralty owned tankships which will
be continually employed in meeting
the increasing requirements.
Ashes Fall at Nome.
Nome, Alaska, Nov. 27. Showers of
volcanic asbes are falling in Nome,
Teller and Tin City. The snow is no
ticeably blackened by the ashes. The
place of their origin has not yet been
fixed. oleanic eruptions and earth
quakes have been of frequent cccur
rence in Alaska since last July. Vio
lent shocks of earthquake have been
felt at sea and on land snowslides have
started as result of earthwaves.
Ships Nearly Ready.
New York, Nov. 27. Notice was
served this morning that 700 men
would be laid off at the Brooklyn
navy yard in a few days. Two hundred
and fifty are to be discharged today.
The work on the boats for the Pacific
cruise is nearly completed.
Population of Brazil.
Rio Janeiro, Nov. 27. According to
the census, just completed, Brazil con
tains 19,910,646 inhabitants. The
Brazilian government has resolved to
establish eight naval schools, to fit offi
cers and men for the navy.
Buy Russian Poland.
Berlin, Nov. 27. A movement to
Germanize Prussian Poland has leen
inaugurated. A bill asking for $100,
000,000 with which to buy out the na
tive land owners has been introduced.
Spain Contracts for Navy. I
Glasgow, Nov. 27. It is announced
that loial shipbuilders have contracted
to furnish Spain with a Davy for $J5,-j
000,000. J
NO MORE DELAY
IN LAND TRIALS
Attorney General Bonaparte goaded
to Order Action.
If Heney Cannot Leave San Francis
co, Trials Will Proceed Without
Him Bristol to Handle Hall and
Hermann Cases Hall's Protest Is
Headed.
Washington, Nov. 26. Further post
ponement of the trial of the Oregon
land fraud cases is not to be tolerated.
Because of complaints and criticisms
the department of Justice has decided
to take radical steps, which will force
trials at an early date, f nd it is expect
ed that District Attorney Bristol will
soon receive instructions to proceed.
Only recently John Hall, under in
dictment, wrcte the president, asking
for trial. His request was transmitted,
to the attorney general and thence to
Mr. Bristol, who replied that he could
not proceed, as that was one of F. J.
Heney's cases.
The department says that, if Mr.
Heney cannot get away from San Fran
cisco long enough to prosecute Hall and
Binger Hermann, some one else will be
found who can take up this work. In
fairness to those under indictment, the
department believes these long delayed
cases ehould be tried. It is probable
that Mr. Bristol will be Instructed to
prosecute Hall and Hermann, as well
as all others under indictment for land
frauds.
BURNED IN REVENGE.
Thirteen Persons Roasted in New
York to Gratify Malice.
New York, Nov. 26. Thirteen per
sons lost their lives and several others
were injured early today in a tenement
house fire at 109 Eighth street and Sec
ond avenue. All the dead were Italians.
Six of the 13 were children. The bodies
were huddled together in rooms on the
top floor of the four-story building,
where the terror-stricken people had
been driven by the flames, which rush
ed up from the lower floors. Some had
been enveloped in the flames and.burn
ed alive. Others, overcome by smoke,
were spared the agonies of death by the
flames.
That the fatal fire was the work of
incendiaries who sought revenge is the
opinion of the police and firemen, who
made the first hasty examination.
Three weeks ago three Italians were
caught in the act of trying to rob a safe
in the saloon of Guiseppe Cudano, on
the ground floor. The Eafe contained
more than $2,000 which the saloonist'a
friends bad withdrawn from the banks
during the monev panic. The would
be robbers were arrested and are now
awaiting trial.
The fire of today started in Cudano's
saloon, and the police believe it may
have been the work of friends of the
prisoners, who take this means of squar
ing accounts with the saloonist.
OPEN MORE LAND,
Nearly Million and a Half ACres Sri
Montana to Be Sold.
Helena, Mont., Nov. 26. The mem
bers of the commission recenOtly ap
pointled to appraise the remaining gov
ernment land on the Flathead Indian
reservation have perfected an organiza
tion. Orders from Washington are to
go into the field at once and begin work.
The reservation contains approximately
1,425,000 acres, of which 175,000 acres
have been allotted to the Indians, leav
ing 1,250,000 acres to be inspected,
classified and apraised. The land will
be divided into agricultural land of the
first class, agricultural land of the sec
ond class, timber land, mineral land
and grazing land.
Settlers under the homestead law,
who shall reside upon and cultivate the
land for five years, shall pay one-third
of the appraised value in cash, at the
time of entry, and the remainder in
five equal installments, one, two, three,
four and five years, respectively, with
the usual homestead fees.
To Prfce Philippines.
Boston, Nov. 26. Historic Faneuil
hill was last night, the scene of a not
able meeting in support of a plan for a
pledge of independence to the Philip
pine islands accompanied by neutraliz
ation of the territory. Among those
who addressed the meeting were Con
gressman James L.. Mayden, ot iexas,
James H. Blount, fomrerly judge of
the first instance in the Philippines,
and Congressman Samuel W. McCall,
of Massachusetts, the mover of the res
olution in congress embodying the plan
for Philippine independence.
A New Source of Heat.
Virginia City, Nev. Nov. 26. Some
engineers of Virginia City, reflecting
on the scarcity of fuel every winter in
that rigorous climate, have hit upon an
odd idea for mitigating the tempera
ture and warming the buildings of that
town. One of them has undertaken to
struggle with the difficulty by utilizing
the superfluous heat of the adjacent
mines, which he proposes to tap with
an iron tube, and so ventilate the
mines while heating the houses.
Government Checks Plague.
San Francisco, Nov. 26. The plague
report issued by the board of health
was as follows: One new suspect; none
verified; 101 verified to date; 63
deaths; 30 discharged as cured; 8 re
maining. The Federal authorities have
decided to take over the work of sanitation.