Heppner Gazette
bMid Thursday of Each Week
HEPPNER
.OREGON
RESUME OF THE
WEEK'S DOINGS
General Review of Important Hap
penings Presented in a Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
Readers National, Political, His
torical and Commercial.
Many desperate criminals infest San
Francisco and Oakland.
The second trial of Harry Thaw for
the murder of Stanford White has
started.
Ambassador Aoki reiterated Japan
ese friendship in a farewell speech at
San Francisco.
Strikee in New York for lower rent
are being settled by concessions on the
part of landlords.
Japanese spies are said to be making
sketches and photographs around Fort
Townsend, Wash.
Haywood says the acquittal of Petti
bone is a vindication for the Western
Federation of Miners.
The Vancouver chief of police has
refused to teirch Japanese for arms for
for fear of stirring up further trouble.
The three men entombed at Ely.,
Nev., by a cavein in a mine December
4 have not been reached yet by the
rescuers.
M. Harmand, ex-French minister to
Japan, likens the situation between
tne united states ana Japan to a mine
which might easily be set off.
The jury has disagreed in the Powers
case. The next htrial is set for July
6. Powers is accused of complicity in
the murder of William Goebel.
Rio Janeiro is preparing hospitality
for the battleship fleet.
The governor has ordered out troops
to suppress the Muncie, Ind., riots.
The countess of Yarmouth, Harry
Thaw's sister, is suing for a divorce.
Witte and Kuropatkin have had a
wordy controversy over the Russo-Japanese
war.
Banks of the
large increase in
just ended.
JAPAN WOULD TAKE OFFENSE
country have made a
business for the year
Seven of the nine companies of Unit
ed States infantry at Goldfield have
been withdrawn.
Foraker denounces the method of
holding Ohio primaries, while Taft
men defend them.
A hospital ship will be equipped Jat
the Mare Island navy yard which will
meet the big fleet at Magdalena bay.
Judge Hunt has sent four Butte labor
leaders to jail for contempt in connec
tion with the telephone strike in that
city.
Europe is anxicusly watching devel
opments between the United States and
Japan. The next two months are con
sidered critical.
The State bank of Rocky lork, Colo.,
lias suspended.
Asiatic labor is causing a crisis in
British colonies.
Leaders of the Russian Revolution
ary party have been arrested.
Rockefeller has given another $2,
000,000 to Chicago university.
Receivers have beed appointed for
the Seaboard Air Line railroad.
Vancouver, B. C, laboring men are
bitter in their denunciation of Asiatic
labor.
Recognizing the improved condition
of finances in the United fctates, Eng
land has lowered the rate of discount
on gold.
Rioting is in progress at Muncie,
Ind., where a streetcar strike ia on.
The governor threatens to Bend troops
if peace is not restored.
Russian police discovered a plot to
kill the dowager empress. So sure
were the conspirators that they issued
invitations to the funeral.
Count Boni and Prince de Sagan en
gaged in a street fight in Paris. The
count is Anna Gould's ex-husband and
the prince has several times been re
ported engaged to Madame Gould.
Secretary Taft advocates free trade
with the Philiines in sugar and to
bacco. Ambassador Aoki has started for
Japan, confident of settling the immi
gration question.
The government has replied to the
Standard Oil company, saying that its
fine of $29,240,000 is perfectly juEt.
All indictments against Colorado
coal land grabbers have been quashed.
The court could find no law applicable.
' New York mothers have declared war
on the nerve-racking initiations of the
societies of private and public schools
maintained by girls.
Federal troops at Goldfield will be
reduced to two companies.
Attempted Exclusion Will Provoke
Insult, Says Aoki.
Pari, Jan. 7. The newspapers con
tinue to give much space to the American-Japanese
situation. The papers
print an alleged interview with Count
Aoki, the retiring ambassador of Japan
at Washington, in which he is quottd
from Pan Francisco as saying Japan
would consider as an offensive action
any attempt on the part of the United
States to exclude tne Japanese, and
take this as a text for long articles.
Viscount Aoki's denial of this intei
view has not yet been published here.
Lacking this denial, the Journal Des-
bats thinks that in bis interview Count
Aoki has placed his ringers on the real
danger spot.
"Japan refuses to admit that any
where on the globe the Japanese are
sccial'y inferior to any other people,"
says the paper. "Japan claims to
have won the absolute right to be treat
ed as a great power everywhere, and
under all circumstances."
In the opinion of Eclair, if the two
governments accede to the sentiments
of the people and the logical neceesitv
of the situation, a conflict would ap
pear very imminent. "But Japan is
without money. America is not ready,
and we doubtless shall see both nations
champ their bits awhile longer."
The Gaulois believes that the friend
ly and tactful powers at Washington
will brevent a break. It fears only
that the American people may become
excited- Baron Karuino, the Japanese
ambassador to France, today gave out a
statement that he was convinced that
Viscount Aoki only meant that Japan
would consider legislation offensive to
Japan as, for instance, if an exclusion
act is proposed like the Chinese.
NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FROM THE STATE OF OREGON
RUEF GOES TO JAIL,
ASK TIME ON RANGE TAX.
Wallowa Sheepmen Don't Want to Pay
$14,000 Until Next August.
Enterprise At a meeting of the
Wallowa County Woolgrowers, in this
city, resolutions were adopted request
ing the government to defer collection
of range dues until after shearing, or
about August 1. The cheepmen of
Wallowa pay about $14,000 for rent of
ranges, and this would be hard to raise
under the present scarcity of money.
It was recommended that the present
county bounty of $1.50 a head on coy
otes be continued, and l4 cents a head
tax on sheep be levied to pay for it.
There are 146,000 sheep being fed in
Wallowa county this winter. Twenty
two sheepmen joined the Btate associa
tion and with the $2 yearly dues and
$2 assessment on each 1,000 sheep
sheared last June, the sum of $257 was
collected and sent to the state body.
ALBANY GOING A-BOOSTING.
Into
APPLE SHIPMENTS INCREASE
Railroads Givo Out Figures Showing
Oregon's Sale of Fruits.
Portland More than twice as many
apples were shipped out of this state
duting 1907 than in 1906, according to
repots compiled by the railroads. The
Southern Pacific and O. R. & N. lines
have completed figures showing the
cars of apples shipped from every point
on the allied lines, and the total num
ber of cars is a surprise.
"Nearly all these paples were bought
f. o. b. at the station nearest the or
chards," said General Freight Agent
Miller, of the Harriman lines. "This
shows the fruit is in demand, and
Eastern buyers come here in search of
it. The prices this season are better
than ever before. One station on our
lines that never shipped an apple be
fore this year Bent away 40 cars to the
East a Bhort time ago. This indicates
how the apple industry is going ahead.
I predict it will only be a few years be
fore apple growing will be one of the
biggest activities of Oregon people.'
SOLDIERS CALLED HOME.
Hundreds of Japanese Leaving Brit
ish Columbia.
Vancouver, B. C, Jan. 7. Hundreds
of Japanese, whose terms of service in
the mikado's army had not been com
pleted or who were on the reserve list
of fighting men, have been called home
to Japan.
Dozens of Japanese quit their work in
Vancouver yesterday, and many more
are coming into town today. Already
they are securing passage on vessels
outbound across the Pacific from Van
couver and Victoria. March 15 is giv
en as the day .when they must report
ready for whatever duty is in store for
them.
The gathering of the Japanese is be
ing carried out with much secrecy. No
less than 200 landed in a bunch this
morning from a email American
steamer, which slipped in and out of
the harbor before 'daylight and neither
entered nor cleared from the customs
house.
Since'Friday there has been a steady
stream of the brown men from the
logging camps. No Japanese in the
city will admit the coming of the order
for the return of the soldiers, but offi
cers of the Asiatic Exclusion league
declare that they have absolute inform
ation that this order has been received
in Vancouver since the departure of
the American fleet for Pacific waters.
Plans Forming for Excursion
Southern California.
Albany Plans are progressing favor
ably for Albany's "boosting" excur
sion to Los Angeles. M. H. Gibbons,
who is arranging the trip, stated that
practically enough business men had
signified their interntion of going to
assure the excursion. The party will :
l . A 11 1 Ul i7u in I
.ra,,, f'""- from Harney.
onortiol star nrhinh irtll hn HAiAnfA.I
with appropriate banners, and every
where in California literature will be
J:i..'i i : ; i u v i
uh,uuiu auveiuuiiK Aiuany no f ars before the reserve was
linn niintti In A vrta rn mi I I wi. lrr I
stops at Red Bluff, Sacramento, Oak-1
land, San Francisco, San Jose, Bakers-'
field and Los Angeles and receptions
will be , arranged for it at each point. !
u r a i . 'ii iii i
ii pany wm aisuana hag a, way8 5 plent y of timber out
and its members will return whenever tha ' a , ' A onA f!,
Can't Use Wood.
Burns The forest rangers of the
Blue mountain forest reserve have fined
several Harney citizens for cutting tim
ber in the reserve without permits from
the forest guards. The largest fine im
posed was on B. A. Dickenson, who
j operates a sawmill about eight miles
He was caught taking
timber from government land and fined
$300 for about 17 trees. The sawmill
men have been making this a practice
creat
ed, and thought it no harm to continue
the practice. Last fall was the first
time a forest guard has been stationed
here to give permits for cutting timber
for wood and other purposes. There
Leaves Sumptuous Quarters for a
Felon's Cell.
San Francisco. Jan. 6. Quarters
were arranged at the county jail today
for Abe Raef, the deposed boss of San
Francisco, who, since his arrest eight
months ago, has occupied a suite of
rocms In a private house under a spec
ial guard.
Sheriff O'Neil, the Schmitz politician,
goes out of office on January 8, and his
place will be taken by Larry Dolan,
chosen at the last election. Judge
Dunne, who refused to place Ruef in
the county jail while O'Neil was sheriff
for fear that O'Neil would allow the
prisoner to escape, has ordered that
Ruef be transferred from his parlor
prison as soon as Dolan assumes office.
Ruef will join the assemblage of dis
tinguished citizens who have moved
from their homes on the heights to the
branch jail. Ruef will occupy a cell
near that in which ex-Mayor Schmitz
reposes. He will have as neighbors
Louis Glass, the millionaire manager
of the Pacific States Telephone com
pany, who was convicted of bribery;
Dalzell Brown, Walter J. Bartnett
and James Treadwell, the banker whose
arrest followed the exposures of the rot
tenness of the California Safe Deposi
& Trust company, and George D. Col
iis, me tricay attorney wno was
brought back fiom Canada to face
charges of bigamy and perury.
Ruef has been allowed to order his
meals as desired and has been living on
me Desi in tne land. Me is iar more
than a millonaire, and he has been al
lowed a great deal of 1 berty as a result
of the form of his imprisonment. All
this will now be changed. Just what
effect this will have on Ruef's refusal
to testify without immunity remains to
be seen. It Is thought that a good taste
of real prison life may cause Ruef to
later his views.
VESSEL MISSING
WITH 400 SOULS
Steamer Mount Royal Long Overdue
With Host of Immigrants.
Sailed December 7 From Antwerp
for St. John, N. B , and Has Not
Been Heard FromSteamer Hun
garian, Also Overdue, May Have
Qona to Her Aid.
FINE FOR EXPRESS COMPANIES
they desire.
Signs of Oil at Bonanza.
Bonanza The possibilities of devel
oping oil wells in this immediate vicin
ity are now more encouraging than at
any previous time. In boring a well
for a new livery stable in this town a
strata of black oil sandstone was struck
and specialists nave pronounced it an
unmistakeable sign of the existence of
oil. Several other places in Klamath
sounty, especially in that portion - sur
rounding Bonanza, show signs of oil.
The prospects are good and the develop
ment of the same may result in tine dis
covery of one of the riehest oil regions
on this coast.
Warnings to Entrymen.
Lakeview The numerous decisions
rendered the commissioner of the gen
eral land office no longer leave any
doubt in the minds of homesteaders as
to what they must do if they expect to
hold the lands in the Southern Oregon
pine belt. In every caase of contest
where it was shown that the home
steader bad failed to comply with
side the reserve for wood and timber
for building purposes until lately.
when it was all secured by outside peo
ple, to be transferred in time to large
timber companies.
Board Raises Teachers' Pay.
Oregon City The teachers of the
city schools will receive a substantial
increase in salaries next year. This
was assured at the annual meeting: of
the local district, at which a special
tax of 3 mills was levied. The levy
is 1 milh n excess of the recommenda
tions of the board of directors, and the
excess will be added to the salaries of
the teachers, making the amount ex
pended next year about $10,000, In
comparison witn is.ouu lor tne year
just closed. 1 be annual report of the
directors shows the schools to be in a
flourishing condition, and the financial
report shows that the float ire indebt
edness is $900 less than last year,
New Hospital Completed
Chemawa Frederick A. Erixon, of
Salem, has completed and turned, over
f ha to the Indian school the spacious brick
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law in any particular, no matter how I hospital for which he had the contract.
CHICAGO TENANTS ORGANIZE.
trivial, the decision has cone to the
contestant and the homestead entry
has been ordered cancelled.
Ghetto Residents Demand Reduction
in High Rents.
Chicago, Jan. 7. Five hundred resi
dents of Chicago's ghetto formed last
night a Tenants' union with the avowed
purpose of forcing landlords of the
district to reduce rents $2 a month.
Leaders of the movement advised the
members of the new organization to re
fuse to pay the present rates which
were declared exorbitant and to force
the landlords to take all legal steps and
pay all court costs in case the latter
refuse to meet the demands for lower
prices.
At present, it was declared, four
rooms in a ghetto tenement cost $12 a
month, five rooms $18 a month and
six rooms $22. A flat reduction of $2
is sought.
The movement will be modeled after
the one in New York. It is Ihe hope
of its leaders that it may spread to
laboring classes throughout the city.
With this end in view a committee was
appointed to confer with the Chicago
Federation of Labor and seek the co
operation of that body.
Short Courses Popular.
Corvallis Much interest is being
manifested in the coming short courses
at the Oregon Agricultural college. No
pains have been spared to make the,
work this year more complete and ex-
tensie than ever before, and some of
the best lecturers in the state are on
the program. The new short courses
begin January 7 and include instruc
tion in general agriculture, dairying,
horticulture, mechanical arts, and
household science.
The contract price was $19,978. The
building is complete with steam heat
ing, electric lighting, sewer syetem and
the latest improved plan of ventilation.
The building is well adapted for both
sexes and is equipped with fumigating
rooms and operating rooms, in addi
tion to the dispensary, offices, etc.
Neglected to File Data Asked for by
Railroad Commission.
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 6 Alleging that
the United States, the Adams and the
American Express companies had failed
to file the amounts of the salaries of
the officers and the assets and liabilities
of the concerns with the Nebraska 8tate
Railway commission, County Attorney
Tyrrell today filed a penal suit in the
County court, asking that the fine pro
vided by the statute be imposed.
inac me tnree express companies
neglected to file the data demanded by
the commission and January 1 was set
as the final date for the appearance of
the complete reports. The railway
commission notified Attorney General
Thompson of the delinquency and he
directed County Attorney Tyrrell to be
gin proceedings.
The railroad commission law passed
by the last session of the legislature
prescribes a penalty of from $500 to
$5,000 for refusing to furnish the in
formation demanded by the commis
sion. The Jaws direct that service be
made upon the local agents of the cor
porations charged with violatiLg the
laws.
PETTIBONE FREE.
Stock Show at Denver.
Denver, Jan. 7. One of the biggest
crowds of the year will be in Denver
January 20-25, to attend the Denver
Livestock exposition. During stock
show week there will be held a grand
horse fair, public sales of pure bred
cattle under the direction of the Na
tional Breeders' association, the 11th
annual convention of the American
National Livestock association, the
eighth annual convention of the Colo
rado Horsegrowers' association and the
convention of the Colorado Graingrow-
ers association.
Gold Cane for Calbrealh.
Salem The medical staff of the Ore'
gon state insane aslyum last week pre
sented Superintendent J. F. Calbreath j
with a fine goldheaded cane as a token
of their esteem. Dr. Calbreath has
served eight years as superintendent j
and has enojoyed very harmonious re
lations with his subordinates and with
the board of trustees. His second term
ended January 1, when he was succeed
ed by Dr. E. L. Steiner.
Colonizer at Klamath.
Klamath Falls George L. McDon
augh, colonization agent of the Union
Pacific railway, who is expected to ar
rive in Klamath Falls next week, is
now at MacDoel, the new Dunkard
town on the California Northeastern
railway in Butte valley. He comes to
Klamath Falls to become familiar with
colonizing possibilities here. He will
be accompanied by a Dunkard elder, D.
C. Campbell, of Colfax, Wash.
Wreckage Comes Ashore.
Providence, R. I., Jan. 7. The
washing ashore of a large amount of
wreckage, including four hatches, and
part of a name board which bore the
letters 'S I M" on Block island today
led the lifesaving crew at Sandy Point
t3 the belief that a schooner went
ashore somewhere between Long island
and Block island last night. Special
George Edward Adams, who stole ' patrols from tbe life saving station
about $60,000 from miners while in
the Seattle assay office, will leave pris
on worth a quarter of a million.
Roosevelt predicts Taft'a nomination
on the first ballot. s
A blanket o' enow covers the Dako
tas, Iowa and Nebraska.
Lord Curzon has been persuaded to
re-enter English politics.
searched the shore, hnt nothintr
Work for 6,000 Men.
St. Louis, Jan. 7. According to an
nouncement made today an aggregate
or o,000 men will be re-employed Jan
uary 13 by many large industrial
plants in East St. Louis, III., and vicinity.
Eugene Invites Visitors.
Eugene The promotion department
of the Eugene Commercial club has
had notices printed and will hang them
in every depot in the state, to the effect
that strangers will be made welcome j
at the rooms of the club, and inviting
any visitors to visit
gene. The cards state that the club has
nothing to pell, but in anxious to be of
any service it can to strangers.
Sawmill in Christmas Sock.
Marshfield The new office building
of the big planing plant of the C. A.
omicn iinmoer x Jianuiactunng com
pany was opened and dedicated Christ
mas Eve. Festivities were held and
many citizens attended. The office
building is now completed and in use.
The mill proper will be -finished and
ready for operation in February.
Wheat Moving Again.
Pendleton Now that wheat has gone
np to 70 cents in the local wheat mark
et some of the growers are selling. For
a lime the price was down to 66 cents,
and very little waa being sold. -1
Clyde Sayne Acting President.
Salem The executive committee of
the state normal schools has elected C
rayne, ot tne department 01 science
at Ashland normal, to serve as acting
president for the remainder of this
year in the place of B. F. Mulkey, re
signed.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Butter Fancy creamery, 3537c
per pound.
Veal 75 to 125 pounds, 8)9c;
125 to 150 pounds, 7c: 150 to 200
pounds, 56c.
roultry Average old nens, lzc per
pound; mixed chickens, ll6c; spring
chickens, ll12c; roosters, 8c; dressed
chickens, 14c; turkeys, live, 15c;
dressed, chcice, 1820c; geese, live,
15c; ducks, 14c; pigeons, $11.50;
squabs, $23.
Eggs Fresh ranch, candled, 32)$!
35c per dozen.
I Pork Block, 75 to 150 pounds, 6
6c; packers, 66c.
I Wheat Club, 83c; bluestem, 85c;
valley, 83c; red, 81c.
Oats No. 1 white, $28; gray, $28.
Barley Feed, $27 per ton; brewing,
$31; rolled, $30.
Corn Whole, $32; cracked, $33.
Hay Valley timothy, No. 1, $16 per
ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, $2223;
clover, $15; cheat, $15; grain hay, $15
16; alfalfa, $15: vetch, $14.
Fruits Apples, 75c$2 per box;
deao tes, 75c$l per crate; pears, $1.25
(a)1.75 per box; cranberries, $9.5012
per barrel.
Vegetables Turnips, 75c per sack;
carrots, 65c per sack; beets $1 per sack;
cabbage, 1c
75c$l per
dozen; celery, $3.253.50 per crate;
onions, 1520c per dozen; parsley, 20c
per dozen; peas, 11c per pound; pep
pers, 817c per pound; pumpkins, 1
14C per pound; radishes, 20c per doz
en : spinach 6c per pound ; sprouts, 8c
per pound; squash, lljc per pound;
tomatoes, $1.50 per box.
Onions $1.75fa)1.85 per hundred.
Potatoes 5065c per hundred, de
livered Portland; sweet potatoes, $2.75
per cwt.
Hope 1907, prime and choice, 5
7c per pound; olds, l2c per pound.
Wool Eastern Oregon, average best,
1320c per pound, according to shrink
age; valley, I8(azuc, according to one
ness. ; mohair, choice, 2930c per
pound.
Jury Acquits Him of Complicity in
Steunenberg Murder.
Boise, Jan. 6. Tbe end of the prose
cution of the men charged with the
murder of ex-governor Frank Steunen
berg. with the exception of the cases cf
Harry Orchard and Jack Simpkins,
fame baturday with the acquittal of
George Fettibone. Charles H. Moyer,
president of the Western Federation of
Miners, was formally released at 4
o'clock, and will return with Pettibone
in a few days to Denver.
Jhe case of Orchard, the self-con
fessed assassin of Steunenberg, is in
the hands of Prosecuting Attorney Van
Duyn, of Canyon county. No state
ment as to the future procedure in that
case has been made, but it will be
called during the next term of court
at Caldwell, when it will probably be
finally disposed of.
bimpkins, a member of the executive
board of the Western Federation of
Miners, who is charged with conipli
city in the crime, is a fugitive from
justice and the charge against him will
stand.
Victoria, B. C, Jan. 4. A private
dispatch from Toronto says the C. P.
R. lias given up hope for the steamer
Mount Royal overdue from Antwerp.
withj400 passengers.
No Word Received.
St. John, N. B., Jan. 4. No word
has yet been received here of the Cana
dian Pacific line steamer Mount Royal,
which left Antwerp on December 7 for
St. John, having on board 304 immi
grants, mostly Italians and Jews, be
sides a crew numbering more than 100
men.
The Canadian Pacific officials in this
city, while expressing anxiety regard
ing the vessel, stated today that they
believed the steamer probably had met
with some accident to her machinery
which had caused her to drift far out
of her course, and that she would be
heard from in due time at some other
port. May Have Gone to Rescue.
London, Jan. 4. The non-arrival of
the Allan line steamship Hungarian,
which sailed from Greenock, Scotland,
December 14, and is now a week over
due at Portland, Me., leads shipping
men to believe that she has fallen in
with the Canadan Pacific liner Mount
Royal, which is now long overdue at St.
John, N. B.
BOYCOTT THE EXPOSITION.
Seattle Unions Disgruntled at Action
of Committee.'
Seattle, Wash., Jan. 4. At a meet
ing of the Building Trades council lasts
night, the assembly voted to call apon
labor organizations everywhere in the
country to lend support to opposition.
to the 1909 fair. Action was taken
after the executive committee of the
exposition had refused to incorporate in
the building contracts a clause specify
ing that only union men be employed.
J. h. Chi 1 berg, president of the
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition, says:
"After considering the demands of
the union, the executive committee de
cided it could not discriminate. Money
subscribed for the exposition came from
all people. We do not object to unioa
nor union men. We refuse to play-favorites."
By the declaration of the open-shop,
policy, notices of which went into ef
fect yesterday, causing the walking out
of 160 employes in the metal workB of
this city, Seattle is facing a general
strike which means that at least 5,000
men will beccme Involved, and at least
$1,000,000 in building will be retarded
before a settlement is reached.
INFLUX OF JAPS.
. w , . v:- , r r
per pound;, cauliflowers,
Ask Carnegie to Help,
New York, Jan. 6. An attempt to
interest Andrew Carnegie in modern
tenements in New York is one of the
results of the rent strike which has
been on for several days. It has been
proposed that the eity purchase a block
or two in tne thickly congested East
Side and there build modern tenements
which would be rented at a low price.
There seems to be no prospect of the
city being able to do this, at present at
least, so leaders in the strike move
ment will try to get Mr. Carnegie to
erect these buildings.
St
it is four
No News cf Mount Royal.
John, N. B., Jan. 6. Although
weeks since the Canadian
Fifteen Hundred Cominar to Vancou
ver From Honolulu.
Vancouver, B. C, Jan. 4. The nn-
xplained arrival of 300 Japan
ese in Vancouver yesterday ai.d the
prospect of an influx of another 1,200
within the net month from Honolulu
are the features of the Oriental situa
tion in Vancouver. Why the 300 Japa
came to Vancouver yesterday is a mys
tery. All the morning they poured in
to town from the coast logging camps,
and some even from the American side
of the boundary line. The hoarding
house keepers of Japtown had a buy
time housing them. Last night there
was the usual crop of rumors that they
came in view of possible trouble, anil
officers of the Asiatic Exclusion league
arer much perturbed over the event.
Yesterday it was announced that at
least 1,000 Japanese would come from.
Hawaii during the next three weeks.
Cost of New Year Celebration.
New York, Jan. 4. Men who are
fond of figures say that New York's
New Year celebration cost $ 1 , 750,000.
At one restaurant that night receipt
were over $20,000, 2,000 quarts of
champagne being drunk. It is esti
mated that the diners around town
made away with 42,000 quarts of cham
pagne and 66,000 quarts of claret, not
to mention the barrels of other drink
ables consumed. Souvenir hunter.
were out in force and every hotel and
restaurant lost great quantities of glass
and other ware.
Way to Prolong Life.
Chicago, Jan. 4. Dr. J. C. Siebel.
a pnysician 01 ttiis city, announced to-
Pacific steamer Mount Royal sailed day before the American Association
from Antwerp for this port with 304
immigrants and a crew of more than
100, and nothing has been heard of her
in that time, the officials of the line
have not abandoned hope that she is
still afloat. They are extremely anx
ious, nevertheless, and fear that the
vessel is drifting about the Atlantic in
practically a helpless condition.
Must Not Reduce Rates.
Sioux Falls, Jan. 6. Judge Garland,
of the Federal court, today issued a
temporary injunction restraining the
South Dakota Railway commission
from reducing passenger rates from 3
to 2 cents per mile.
for the Advancement of Science that
he has discovered a method of generat
ing energy within the human body. He
asserted that electricity stored In the
human body can be released and made
to do the work of prolongation of life
through the additional vitality supplied
to the human tody working as its own
electrical generator.
All Lost Except Three
City of Mexico, Jan. 4. Ramon
Portas, second officer of the steamer-
Idero, has arrived at Vera Crus and re
ported that the vessel sank in a storm
on the night of December 2, and all on
board were lost except three.