Heppner Gazette
taaacd Thursday of Cach Wk
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.
New York is overrun by hundreds of
unemployed.
The Twenty-fourth Japaneee diet has
juet convened.
President Roosevelt is hunting tur
keys at Pine Knot, Va.
State Treasurer Steel, of Oregon, has
filed his new bond in the sum of $635,
000.
Cleveland, Ohio, manufacturers plan
a resumption of work for fully 10,000
former employes during January.
Railroads throughout the country
have shown the effects of the financial
panic by a curtailment of orders for
rolling stock.
At a meeting of the Pacific Coast
Commercial Travelers' association in
San Francisco it was voted to stop
gambling among members.
A passenger train collided head-on
with a freight near Lenox, Mich. Five
tra nmen met death. All passengers
escaped with but slight injuries.
In a raid on Chinese gambling houses
Portland police secured $10,166.90 in
coin and currency and $4,445.09 of ex
change on Hongkong banks. According
to law this money may go into the
state treasury.
Raleigh, N. C, has voted prohibi
tion.
Dewey has just celebrated his 7Cth
birthday.
Officers and crews of the big fleet are
enjoying life at Trinidad.
Heney says special privilege is the
ioot of political corruption.
Reports of New York banks show a
recovery from the money crisis.
Accused members of the first Russian
douma deny they advised rebellion
Indiana Republicans have formally
indorsed Fairbanks as their candidate
for' president.
It is said a dark horse has been se
lected to fill Bristol's place as United
States attorney for Oregon.
Burning snowsheds near Truckee,
Cal., has greatly delayed Southern Pa
ciflc trains between Portland and San
Francisco.
Latest developments in the row be
tween naval factiens brings out the
fact that it is over ranking of officers
Two constructions of the revised stat
utes is possible and each faction claims
it is right.
Five men were killed while working
in a Paris subway.
St. Joseph, Mo., has started a crusade
against loan sharks.
The New York Republican club has
declared for Hughes for president
All signs of yellow fever has been
driven from the Panam canal zone.
Puget sound steamboat men will cut
the pay of their engineers January 1
Lawson says only the re-election of
Roosevelt can avert a national disaster
A severe sleet storm has demoralized
telegraphic communication around Chi
cago. '
The head of the Methodist Book con
cern calls labor unions the worst of ty
rants.
The Bank of Calistoga, Calistoga,
Cal., has closed. Officers of the insti
iution say it will reopen.
Heney is in Washington arranging
with Attorney General Bonaparte for
the Oregon land fraud trials, which will
begin at Portland January 13.
A detachment of 900 Chinese soldiers
in Manchuria murdered their officers
and pillaged the aeighboring villages
Cavalry has been sent after them.
Philadelphia is facing a Etreet
strike.
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The first woman jury in Colorado
has decided against a woman.
Secretary Taft says self government
is succeeding very well in the Philip
pines.
New York bank statements show a
complete recovery from the financial
sringency.
Goldfield mine owners are trying to
prevail on the president to allow the
troops to remain.
Work is progressing slowly at the
Darr mine, Jacobs Creek, Pa. Only 13
bodies have been recovered.
The Hamilton Powder works at
Nanaimo, B. C, blew up, shaking the
surrounding country badly, but no one
was hurt.
In an addrees at Chicago Attorney
General Bonaparte said all the rich
law breakers seemed to think the law
exempted them and they should be im
mune from prosecution.
A Hawaiian official has written an
angry letter to the Japanese consul,
saying among other things that the
mikado's subjects are nuisances wher
ever they go. The governor has ex
torted an apology.
The rush of aliens to Europe has
subsided.
EXPRESS CHARGES HIGH.
Wells-Fargo Accused of Discrimin
tion Against Merchants.
San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 31. Inter
state Commerce Commissioner Frank
lin K. Lane, today held a hearing of
the complaint of the California Com
mercial association, composed of 29
mercantile firms in this city, charging
the Wells-Fargo Express company with
concealing from the publio tariff schod
ules thai had been filed with the Inter
state Commerce commission in Wash
incton and with making unjust and dis
criminatory rates. The actual question
involved, however, was whether or not
the quantity rate cf 8 cents a pound
from New York to San Francisco for
shipments of 10,000 to 20,000 pounds
applied to bulk or assembled ship
nients, gathered and forwarded Ty
forwarding agency to one concern or
association organized for the purpose of
getting the lower rate, the shipment
ultimately intended for numerous con
signees who were designated Dy num
bers of the labels to the one consignee
The charges of discrimination are
based upon the refusal of the express
company to transport a shipment of
16,000 pounds consisting of 443 pack
ages, trom rsew iora to tne uu norma
Commercial association in San Fran
Cisco last August, at the bulk or quan
tity rate of $8 per hundred pounds, the
company charging the regular package
rate. It is also alleged that the ex
press company charged a higher rate
than that published and filed with the
Interstate Commerce commission, the
latter being wilfully concealed and hid
den from the public. This complaint
avers that it is a distinct violation of
the interstate commerce act.
in answer, tne express company
denies all the allegations made, and
charges that the association resorted to
subterfuge in order to extort unjust dis
crimination in its own favor, and based
its refusal to grant a quantity rate
upon the shiment in question on the
ground that, while consigned to one
consignee, it was intended for more
than a score of firms.
EXPATRIATES IN CHINA.
Judge Wilfley Warts Congress to Make
Laws for Them.
San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 3.-
-Judge
States
L. R. Wilfley, of the United
court at Shanghai, against
charges of improper conduct
whom
of his
court have been preferred at Washing
ton, arived in San Francisco this morn
ing on the Pacific Mail liner Manchuria
from the Orient, and after a stay of two
days in this city will proceed to the na
tional capital. On board the Man
churia with Judge Wilfley was F. M
Brooks, a lawyer, who has hied an ac
tion for $50,000 damages at Hono
lulu, charging tne head ol tne court in
the Far East, together with his clerk,
L. R. Hickel, with constpiracy in stop
ping the practice of Brooks in Shanghai.
Judge Wilfley denied that he was go
ing to Washington to meet the charges
preferred against him.
"Iam going to Washington," he
said, "to aid in drawing an act that
will extend to Americans in China a
more complete body cf laws than they
now have. The laws now in force com
prise little more than is embodied in
the common law and are eo indefinite
as to be absolutely useless. It will be
suggested to congress that the Califor
nia code of laws be made to extend to
China, wherein such laws are applica
ble. "In addition to this matter, I am
journeying East that congress may be
asked for an appropriation for a proper
Federal building at Shanghai, where
the American consulate and courts may
be under one roof."
Backed by Wealthy Men.
New York, Dec 31. United States
District Attorney Stimson eaid today
that he had been served with the pa
pers filed in the United States District
court by counsel for Oscar W. Reid, a
member of the battalion of the Twenty-
fifth infantry. The plaintiff sued the
government to recover pay lost through
his discharge from the army, but the
attorneys in the case have admitted
that they were retained by "wealthy
gentlemen of New England," whose
real object is to determine the legality
of the president's action.
Raises Rent of Hot Springs.
Chicago, Dec. 31. A dispatch to the
Tribune from Hot Springs, Ark., says:
Announcement was made yesterday
that the United States would double
the price for its healing hot waters
after the first of the year, and that all
bathhouse leases also would be doubled
A protest will be sent at once to Wash
ington. The hot water now is dis
pensed by the government at $30 per
annum for each tub supplied. The
bathhouse owners state they are unable
to meet the raise.
Headquarters Are Secured.
Denver, Dec. 31. The headquarters
of the Democratic National convention
will be at the Brown Palace hotel,
which has registered a request from
Chairman Tom Taggart, of the commit
tee, through Secretary Mills, of the
Convention league of Denver, to re
serve 50 additional rooms, besides those
already reserved. As soon as these
reservations are made the other hotel
of the city will beign to make reserva
tions. Garnets in New York Bedrock.
New York, Dec. 31. That New York
City rests on a vast mas of garnets is
the discovery of Ralph E. Morgan, an
English mineralogist, now visiting
here. In a mass of rock thrown up
from a subway excavation, he discov
ered a large garnet. On the dumping
ground at Sheepehed bay he found a
number of excellent garnets.
NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FROM THE STATE OF OREGON
FULL OF SUGAR.
Good Report on Klamath Country
Sugar Beets.
Klamath Falle Frank Ira White of
the Enterprise Land & Investment com
pany has just received reports from the
department of agriculture relative to
samples of sugar beets raised on the
Enterprise tract. The beets were taken
from the same tract as were those sent
to Professor Knisely some time ago,
but were fully matured, while the
others were not. Professor Knleely's
test showed from 17.40 to 19.35 per
cent pure sugar, while the department
test is one or two per cent higher, with
a very high degree of purity.
These beets produced 8,286 pounds
to the quarter-acre tract, or nearly 17
tons to the acre.
The department of agriculture in a
letter to Mr. White says Klamath
county's sugar beets are of the most ex
eel lent quality and that prospects are
bright for the industry in this county
Many Make Own Way.
University of Oregon, Eugene A
canvass of the students of the Universi
ty of Oregon just made shows that be
tween 60 and 70 per cent of the men in
the university this year are either
wholly or pattially making their own
way through college. The greater part
of the earning is done, of course, during
tne summer. Tne canvass enows tnat,
since the vacation is comparatively
short, the men got employment in the
harvest fields, mills, mines and labor
of various kinds paying good wages. It
shows also that the engineering stu
dents find no trouble in getting work
in their line. The engineering depart
ment has a large number of graduates
in the employ of the Southern Pacific,
O. R. & N., Northern Pacific and the
government reclamation service, and
the majority of the engineering students
are engaged before the session closes in
June. A number of students are part
ly earning their own way during the
session, lne university maintains an
employment bureau under the direction
of the registrar, but it haa not been able
this fall to supply all calls made on it
for students to work.
Wheat Trade Stagnant.
Pendleton Business is dull in the
local wheat market, the price being
down, and the farmers are unwilling
to part with the holdings at a figure
that is 10 cents lower than what they
could have secured early in the fall.
Until recently the local quotation on
lub has been 67c, but another drop of
a cent has occurred. However, wheat
is said to be worth 68c in Pendleton,
and at least one buyer is offering that
figure. Others declare they are out ef
the market for the time being.
Hood River Apple Crop.
Hood River Complete returns from
Hood River's 1907 apple crop show
that the growers will receive in round
numbers $200,000 for their product,
notwithstanding the money trouble, car
shortage and reduced crop. Thu is ap
proximately what the Hood River crop
brought last year when it was in the
neighborhood of 20,000 boxes more,
and is accounted for ty the fact that
the apples brought a much larger aver
age price. - lne entire crop is now
placed at 110,000 boxes.
More Traveling Libraries.
fcaiem lne uregon .Library com
mission held its regular session last
week at the commissione's rooms in
the state house. W. B. Ayer and Miss
Iscm, members of the commission,
were in attendance, besides the gover
nor. It was decided to Duy lt more
raveling libraries, making 90 in all,
that will be placed in circulation as a
result of the commission's first year's
work. It was decided to establish an
schange station for Eastern Oregon at
Baker City.
Fall Pack Poor.
Astoria During the fall fishiug sea
son there were six cold storage plants
and 11 canneries in operation on the
various streams along the Oregon coast.
The season there as at nearly all other
points was a comparatively poor one.
lne total pack or pickled nsn put up
by the cold storage plants wsa about
880 tierces, while the total output of
canned salmon packed by the Tanneries
was about 104,500 cases, "as they
run."
To Attend Scientists Meet.
Corvallis A. L. Knisely, Federal
chemist for Oregon, expects to start
East immediately after Christmas, to
attend the midwinter meeting of the
Association for the Advancement of Sci
ence and the American Chemical socie
ty at Chicago. He also expects to visit
the Chicago, New York and Washing
ton pure food laboratories before com
ing back to Portland, which will be his
headquarters.
Select by Corventiona.
Salern In answer to an inquiry from
Chairman G. A. Weetgate, of the Re
publican state central committee, At
torney General Crawford has rendered
an opinion in which he sayi that dele
gate to the national conventions and
candidates for presidential elector must
be chosen at conventions and not under
the direct primary.
Shut Down on Keno Canal.
Klamath Falls The reclamation ser
vice has closed down on the Keno canal
on account of the wet weather, keeping
only the derrick gang and the engi
neering corps. The shutdown was made
neceesary on acctount or the wet
weather.
INCREASE IN TILLABLE ACRES
Umatilla County Show Big Gain in
Five Years.
Pendleton Umatilla county's rapid
development is shown in the recent
summary of the taxable property in the
county, recently furnished the secre
tary of state by Assessor Strain. This
summary, compared with the one made
five years ago, shows the number of
tillable acres as increased by 90,000.
The total number of acres of arable
land in the county at presont is 46,000.
The number of acres classified as non
tillable is given at 588,144.
The figures for the latter do not, of
course, include the forest reserves and
other government land not subject to
taxation. The amount of non-tillable
land in the county is constantly in
creasing, also, by reason of the fact
that so much government land is being
taken up and deeded to settlers.
The increase in the number of till
able acres is due in large measure to
the different irrigation projects which
are being completed. This is not the
only source of increase, however, as
thousands of acres of land in the west
em and southwestern parts of the
county are now plowed up and growing
wheat that a few years ago were consid
ered worthless for anything more val
uable than range for stock. Much of it
was given over entirely to sagebrush
and jackrabbits. The Pilot Rock and
Birch creek countries have experienced
the greatest development in this line
Each Farm to Be Named.
Grante Pass Among the business
transacted at the Josephine County
Fruitgrowers' union at its last meeting
waa the adopting of individual letter
heads and letter paper, upon which
will be designated the name of the fruit
farm and the brands packed by the
grower. It was thought best for each
member to have some appropriate
name for his fruit tract, and by insert
ing it upon letter Bheets it would also
give prominence to individual effect,
and at the same time give the union
greater notice and strength, which
would moie favorably attract the buyer
to this locality.
Salem Hopgrowers Sign.
Salem Thirty-seven out of the 42
hopgrowers who attended the meeting
of growers here last week signed the
by-laws, prepared for a Pacific Coast
Hopgrowers' union. These growers rep
resent about 800 acres of hops. A
local organization was formed with J
II. Fletcher as chairman and James
Winstanley as secretary. Attorney A
L. Shinn, of Sacramento, explained the
plan and purposes of the proposed or
ganization to the meeting.
Railroad Buy Laidlaw.
Laidlaw The rumor has been rife in
this community for some time that the
Laidlaw townsite had been sold to the
Mount Hood Railroad company, but
until now these rumors could not be
verified. The verification comes from
the fact that the abstracts of title are
now being prepared at Prineville pre-
parator to a formal transfer of the prop
erty to the purchasing company.
To Indict Nevada Sheepmen.
Pendleton Through the efforts of
Dr. W. H. Lytle, state sheep inspector,
indictments will be returned against P.
Anderson, a millionaire sheepman of
Nevada, for bringing flocks over the
etate line into Oregon without first
giving notice to the state sheep inspec
tor.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Club, 82c; bluestem, 84c
valley, 82c; red, 80c.
Oats No. 1 white, $28: gray, $28.
Barley Feed, $27; brewing, $31;
rolled, $30.
Corn Whole, $32; cracked, $33
Hay Valley timothy, No. 1, $16;
Eastern Oregon timothy, $20(3)23 ; clo
ver. $15; cheat, $15; grain hay, $15
$16; alfalfa, $15; vetch, $14.
Butter Fancy creamery, 3537c
per pound.
Veal 75 to 125 pounds, 8J9C;
125 to 150 pounds, 7c; 150 to 200
pounds, 5(5)6(jC.
Pork Block, 75 to 150 pounds, G
6c; packers, 66)c.
Poultry Average old hens, 10c
per pound; mixed chickens, 10c;
spring cnickens, luc; roosters, tic;
dressed chickens, 12(5)1 3c; turkeys,
live, 15c; dressed, choice, 1819c;
geese, live, 89c; ducks, 1213gC;
pigeons, $11.50; squabs, $2r3.
Eggs Fresh ranch, candled, 35c per
dozen.
Fruits Apples, 75c$2 per box;
peaches, 75c(j$J per crate; pears, $1.25
1.75 per box; cranberries, $9.6012
per barrel.
Vegetables Turnips, 75c per sack;
carrots, 65c per sack; beets, $1 per
sack; beans, 79c per pound; cabbage,
leper pound; cauliflower, 7oc(2)fl per
dozen ; celery, $3 25(33.50 per crate;
onions, 1520c per dozen; parsley, zuc
per dozen; peas, 11c per pound; pep
pers, 8(t)l7c per pound; pumkpins, i(w
ljc per pound; radishes, 20c per doz
en; epinacn, oc per pound; sprouts, ec
per pound; squash, lljc per pound;
tomatoes, $1.50 per box.
Onions $1.751.85 per hundred.
Potatoes 5065c per hundred, de
livered Portland; sweet potatoes, $2.7."
3 per hundred.
Hops 1907, 5(3) 7c per pound; olds,
l2c.
Wool Eastern Oregon average best,
1320c per pound, according to shrink
age; valley, 1820c, according to fine
ness; mohair, choice, 2930o per
pound.
LET TROOPS STAY.
Senator Newlands Thinks Goldfield
Needs Them.
Washineton, Deo. 30. Senator New
lands, of Nevada, is endeavoring to pre
vent withdrawal of the government
troops from Goldfield until some other
means of protection is had. Today he
called upon Secretary Taft at the War
department and strongly urged that ex
ecution of the order issued by the secre
tary for the withdrawal of the troops be
suspended until be has had an opportu
nity to communicate with Governor
Sparks and induce him to call the Ne
vada legislature together.
Mr. Taft has been advising with Sec
retary Root on this subject and tonight
communicated with the president at
Pine Knot on the subject. There was
every disposition to refrain from break
ing in upon Mr. Roosevelt's privacy at
this time, and the only excuse for do
ing so h found in the fact that, unless
the original order is modified, the
troops must leave Goldfield before the
president returns to Washington.
The secretary declined to state what
course he had recommended in the
matter, nor would he say whether he
had heard from the president in turn.
Secretarfy Leob said the White House
was entirely without advice from Pine
Knot, as the Goldfield question was
being handled by the War department
Administration officials feel that the
piesent situation in the matter of Gold
field's case cannot be continued, in view
of the doubt that exists as to the con
stitutional and legal right of the ex
ecutive to employ any part of the regu
lar army in Nevada under present con
ditions.
HENEY GIVES FULTON A DIG.
Says
All Implxated In Land Frauds
Are Senator's Friends.
Washington, Dec. 30. In an inter
view telegraphed from New York, Fran
cis J. Heney is quoted as saying:
"I hope to close these Oregon cases
with Mr. Bristol in two or thiee weeks
Inquiry at the Department of Justice
failed to elicit definite information as
to whether or not Mr. Bristol would as
sist Mr. Heney with the prosecution
II no new district attorney is appointed
by the time the land trials begin, Mr
Bristol may assist Mr. Heney, but there
appears to be an expectation that a new
man will be available before then, in
which case Mr. Bristol will be out and
have nothing to do with the land trials.
In the same interview Mr. Heney
takes another rap at Senator Fulton.
He denies having implicated Mr. Ful
ton in the land frauds, but adds:
"All of these persons who have been
implicated in organized land frauds are
friends of Senator Fulton. Therefore
it appears whimeical to me that Senator
Fulton should, through the power of
senatorial courtesy, be able to defeat
the nomination cf Mr. Bristol, who is
capable of making it unpleasant for the
yet unconvicted land thieves in Oregon."
UTES RAID SOUTHERN UTAH
Pen Up Cowboys and Band of Cattle
in Canyon.
Salt Lake City, Dec. 30. Colorado
Ute Indiana are traveling in bands in
Southern Utah, raiding sheep and cat
tlemen, according to a report received
by Governor John C. Cutler. Accord
ing to this report, a small hand of In
dians attacked thrpe cowboys near Ven
dure, San Juan county, on December
23, and pt the muzzle of rifles com
pelled them to drive the cattle back
into the canyon from which they were
trailing onto the winter range, threat
ening to kill them unless they did so,
Cowboys and cattle are still confined to
the canyon.
The governor will take up the mat
ter with the authorities at Washington
as according to a ruling of the coramis
sioner of Indian affairs the Colorado or
Southern Utes are forbidden to enter
Utah.
Att3Ck on Wells-Fargo.
San Francisco, Dec. 30. Before In
terstate Commerce Commissioner F. K
Lane tomorrow charges of illegal rate
making made againet the Wells-Fargo
Express company by the California
Commerce association will be heard
The Commerce association, composed of
prominent drygoods houses in the city
alleges that the express company has
violated the interstate commerce law of
1906 in charging more than the pub
lished rate, and that it has kept the
rates filed with the commission hidden
from the public, contrary to the law
Will Liquidate With Profit.
New Orleans, Dec. 30. "All holders
of stock in the State National bank
will receive from $150 to $200 per
share for their stock and all depositors
will be paid in full," was the official
announcement today of W. Sparkerson,
counsel for the institution, whose di
rectors have called a stockholders'
meeting to decide whether the bank
ehall go out of business. The bank has
been declared solvent by National Bank
Examiner Cooper.
Radical Decision in Hamburg.
Hamburg, Dec. 30. The suit of the
harbor authorities against the Port
workers' union, growing out of the re-
cent dock strike, has resulted in a de
cision of the widest importance against
the latter. The union is forbidden in
the future to interfere with the intro
duction of strike breakers, and a penal
ty of 1,500 marks is provided for each
instance in which a conviction is ob
tained on the charge. The union has
entered an appeal.
Negroes Begin Suits.
New York, Deo. 30. Papers in a
case to test the legality of the discharge
f the private of companies B, C and D
of the 25th United States infantry (col
ored), following the disorders in the
streets cf Brownsville a year aeo. have
been prepared by a law firm of this city.
ANGRY CANADIANS
TURN ON GHINESE
Mob Wrecks Restaurants at Leth
brldge, Alberta.
All
Furniture and Dishes Smashed to
Pieces Chinese Baoly Beaten
Attack Wat Due to False Murder
Story Mounted Police Called Out
But Arrive Too Late.
Lethbridge, Alberta, Dec. 28. Be
cause they believed that a prominent
citizen had been murdered in a Chinese
restaurant, 1,500. men raided the Ori
ental quarter late last night and left a
wieck behind. Restaurants and laun
dries were smashed, doors and windows
and entire fronts of buildings being re
duced to splinterB. The regular police
of the town were powerless and a bri
gade of mounted police had to be called
out to quell the riot.
It was just after 9 o'clock that the
mob began to form. The story had got
abroad that Harry Smith, one of the
best known ranchers of the cattle dis
trict of which this city is the center,
had been fatally wounded in a restau
rant. Curiously enough, neither Sm.th
nor any one else had been hurt, but
even the police were misled by the tale
and two Orientals were placed under
arrest, charged with his murder.
An indignant mob gathered oppoiste
the eating house and there was talk of
lynching. Suddenly someone threw a
rock, which smashed a front window,
and in a moment the crowd was beyond
control. Bricks and stones were used
and, when the doors had been broken,
the tables and chairs and dishes were
smashed. The Columbia and Alberta
restaurants were literally wrecked
What could not be conveniently broken
by the few men who could get inside
was passed out to the street to the mob
in waiting, and there demolished.
At 10 o'clock a detachment of mount
ed police appeared and the crowd
scattered. Hundreds of the rioteis
merely shifted the scene of their pillag
ing. Three blocks away, opposite the
Arlington hotel, they cleaned out an
other Chineee restaurant and badly
handled two Orientals who were cap
tured within. '
Mayor Galbraith, who had rushed to
the scene when the mounted police
were first called, delivered a speech
asking good citizens to disperse. The
crowd listened to him and to Magistrate
Townsend, who spoke later. All possi
ble damage having been done, k the.
crowd went home.
Five of the rioters have been arrest
ed, but it is doubtful if they will be
prosecuted.
OLD DOCUMENTS FOUND.
Papers Taken From Lieutenant Pike,
v Come to Light.
Mexico City, Dec. 26. What is con
sidered a very important historical dis
covery has resulted from the eflorts of
Dr. Hoerbert E. Belton, the American
historian, who is here engaged in re
search work under the auspices of the
Carnegie institute of Washington. The
discovery consists in the unearthing in
this city of 18 of the 21 documents tak
en from the possession of Lieutenant
Zebulon N. Pike, of the United States
armyf by Spanish soldiers in 1806,
when he was captured while making
his famous trip up the Arkansas and
Missouri rivers, visiting the Osage and
Comanche Indians, at the instance of
General James Wilkinson, then govern
or of Louisiana.
The whereabouts of the other three
documents cannot be learned. So im
portant is the discovery considered in
the United States that Secretary Root
has just sent Dr. Helton his congratula
tions. .
Find Bodies by Hundred.
Jaobs Creek, Ta., Dec. 28. Rapid
progress is being made in the removal
of Indies from the Darr mine. All of
the entries, except No. 27, have been
cleared and a total of 124 bodipt
brought from the mine. A nnmlier of
other bodies have been located and it is
expected that they will be brought to
the surface during the night. In entry
No. 29, where the explosion apparently
took place, numerous bodies were found.
The pit cars were blown to pieceB. It
is said fully 100 bodies will be removed
from entry No. 27, as yet unexplored.
Turkey May Have Famine.
Boston, Dec. 28. The American
board of commissioners for foreign mis
sions has received advices from the in
terior of Turkey showing unusually se
vere famine conditions. Bread ia
double its former price and other neces
sities are four or five times higher than
15 years ago. The British consul at
Bitlis reports that several , hundred per
sons in the Moush plain and Bularik
districts probably will starve during the
winter unless relieved soon.
Telephones for Submarines.
Paris, Dec. 28. Following elaborate
experiments to prevent the recurrence
of accidents to submarine vessels, the
minister of the navy has issued ordera
that all submarines be fitted out with
detachable telephone buoys, which, in
case of accident will permit of commu
nication with the surface. .
Triumph of Roosevelt.
London, Dec. 28. The Times in an
editorial this morning discusses the
prospect of peace in Central America
resulting from the peace conference
held at Washington, which it renarda-
as a great triumph for President Roose
velt a diplomacy.