BRIEF NEWS
OF THE STATE
Logging camps are resuming in var
ioxii parts of the slate.
There were 198 marriage licenses is
sued in Union county during 1908.
The Pacific Express company has
filed its report for 191)8 witn the secre
tary of state.
Four thousand acres of timber land
in the Siletz river country has just
been sold for $250,000.
Wisconsin lumbermen have purchas
ed a heavily timbered tract in Tilla
mook county. The consideration is
said to have been almost $1,000,000.
The transfer involves 14,000 acres.
Timbermon are of the opinion that
Oregon timber will change hands with
more activity the coming summer than
ever before, and at steadily advancing
prices.
The Tillamook county tax levy has
been fixed at 15 mills.
The Josephine county court has fixed
the tax levy at 23 mills.
Irrigation ditches around Milton and
Freewater are badly choked with ice.
Athena farmers are agreed that the
deep miow assures a good wheat crop
next year.
The Gerking wheat ranch west of
Athena has been sold for $24,000, or
$100 an acre.
An old water suit, which has been
pending in Kaker county courts for two
years, has been settled.
Flour is 25 cents per barrel higher
in Portland.
Chinese at Astoria are shipping salt
ed shad to China.
The Coos county tax levy has been
fixed at 15 mills.
Weston plans to lay crushed rock on
the principal streets.
A man has been shot near Cottage
Grove who was mistaken for a deer.
The Roseburg Commercial club has
moved into new and more commodious
quarters.
Eugene objects to the formation of a
new county with the seat of govern
ment at Cottage Grove.
Lincoln county is anxious to have an
ocean line established between the Ya
quina bay and San Francisco.
An automobile line is to be put on
between Vale and Burns, taking the
place of stages. The trip will be made
in six hours.
T. M. Dimick, of Marshfield, has
been appointed treasurer of Coos coun
ty to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of John D. Dully.
Reports from the Umatilla Indian
reservation say there is great suffering
among cattle and horses because the
Indians failed to provide sufficient food
for the winter.
The broom handle factory at Bandon
is doing a rushing business.
Milton fruit growers will use a bet
ter system in packing fruit and thus
realize more money for their crops.
Thirty more births were recorded hi
Tillamook county during 190 than the
previous year.
A new law is proposed that will pro
tect China pheasants better than the
one now in force.
The new glass doors to the senate
and house chambers are proving a great
convenience to all.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Barley Feed, $27e 27.50 per ton;
brewing, $28.
Wheat Bluestom, $1.05; club, 92c;
fife, 92c; red Russian, 90c; 40-fold,
90c; valley, 95c.
Oats No. 1 white, $33 per ton.
Hay Timothy, Willamette valley,
$14 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $17(rT8;
clovre, $12; alfalfa, $1213; grain
hay, $12013.
Fruits Apples, 75c0$3 per box;
pears, $10 1.75 per box ; quinces, $10
1.25 per box; cranberries, $14,500 15
per barrel; persimmons, $101.25.
Potatoes $1.500 1.65 per hundred;
sweet potatoes, 2'4c per pound.
Onions Oregon, $1.50 per hundred.
Vegetables Turnips, $.1500 1.75
per sack; carrots, $1,250 1.50; par
snips, $1,5001.75; beets, $1.50(, 1.75;
horseradish, 80 10c per pound; arti
chokes, $1.40 per dozen ; beans, 22'cc
per pound; cabbage, 2'(c per pound;
cauliflower, $1.50 per dozen; celery,
$ 1,5005 per crate; cucumbers, $1.75
02.25 per box; eggplant, 11c per
pmnd; lettuce, $101.25 per box; par
sley, 30c per dozen; peas, 20c per
pound; poppers, 150 20c per pound;
pumpkins, 10 1 c per pound ; radishes,
30c per dozen ; spinach, 2c per pound ;
sprouts, 10c per pound; squash, lofl Js'c
epr pound; tomatoes. $1,7502.
Butter City creamery, extras, 3G01
37c; fancy outside creamery, 320 ''35c
per pound; store, 180 20c.
Eggs Oregon ranch, 47SjO50c:
Eastern, 37J..040C per dozen.
Poultry Hens, 15c per pound;
spring, large, 140T5c; small, 160 17c;
mixed, 140 1 4 c; ducks. 19 0; 20c;
geese, 100 11c; turkeys, 18020c.
Veal Extra, 10(T0ac per pound;
ordinary, 70 8c; heavy, 5c.
Fork Fancy, 8.jc per pound; large,
70i7sc. .
Mutton 60 8c per pound; lambs, 8
(aS hie
Hops 1908, choice, 7,k-c per pound;
good prime, 6,S0z7c; fair prime, 60:
6Lac; medium, 5a06c; 1907, 202s'c;
1906, 10(1 hie
Wool Eastern Oregon, average
best, 100114c per pound, according to
shrinkage; valley, 15(l6)s'c; mohair,
choice, 18(J19c.
ANTI-JAPANESE BILLS.
Measures Before Californir Legisla
ture Attract Attention.
Sacramento, Cal., Jan. 15. The
three anti-Japanese bills introduced in
the assembly by Grove L. Johnson, of
Sacramento, and the one by A. M
Drew, of Fresno, prohibiting aliens
from holding land in the state, have
attracted such wide interest that the
1,000 copies of each ordered printed
are aireaay exnausieu ana there is a
demand for more.
The Johnson bills are designed to
prevent Japanese being members of
corporations ; to segregate all Japan
ese, by defining the limits within which
they must live. The two first named
were introduced last session by Mr.
Johnson, and action upon them was
suspended at the telegraphic request of
President Roosevelt during the diplo
matic negotiations between the United
States and Japan over the action of
the San Francisco school board in ex
cluding Japanese youths from public
schools and assigning them to the in
stitutions set aside for "Mongolians."
The Japanese claimed they were not
Mongolians, and Assemblyman John
son introduced an amendment speeify-
ng "Japanes'1" in the law. It was
this measure to whose enactment the
president objected, and it was killed.
lhe bill relating to directors of cor
porations prohibits aliens from being
members of such boards, and its pur
pose is to prevent competition of pow
erful Japanese concerns witn Ameri
cans. The thirJ Johnson bill is new. It
gives municipalities power to pre
scribe the limits within which unde
sirable, improper and unhealthy per
sons, or persons whose practices are
dangerous to the public morals and
health of a community," shall live.
ONE JUROR PASSED.
Difficulty of Securing Talesmen to Try
United Railroads Official
San Francisco, Jan. 15. Patrick
Calhoun, traction magnate on trial for
alleged giving of a bribe, adopted his
expected defense today, when Attorney
Stanley Moore, by his questioning of
Auuust Hansen, attempted to show
that the indictment was the result of a
plot hatched by Rudolph Spreckels to
make out a case atrainst the head of
the United Railroads. Other frag
mentary evidence of Calhoun's scheme
of defense has been brought out in the
examination of prospective jurors,
touching on the late car strike, the
granting of immunity, and the juror's
general sentiment in the matter of
unionism.
The third day of Calhoun's trial saw
the first juror in the case temporarily
passed. He is Joseph Dixon, a sales
man for Marcus Hart, a haberdasher.
He sits subject to peremptory chal
lenge. Dixon was passed by the de
fense last night, and after a brief ex
amination tnis morning was accepteud
by the prosecution. During the exam
ination the clerk said he could try the
case thoroughly and squarely.
The juror said he knew Ale Ruef,
but did not care to comment on his
conviction, that he favored Calhoun's
stand in the last car strike, and that
he was at one time a union man, but
withdrew because of the hours he had
to work.
Before the prosecution finished the
examination of Dixon the juror made
complaint to Judge Lawlor that an
agent hail approacted his wife yester
day afternoon and questioned her in re
gard to her husband s feeling in the
graft case?. Mrs. Dixon said the man
claimed to be a real estate agent.
FLAY FORESTRY POLICY.
Work Is Total Failure, Gooding Tells
Sheepmen's Convention.
Foeatello, Idaho, Jan. 15.- One thou
sand sheepmen attended the opening
session of the National Woolgrowers'
convention in this city yesterday and
listened to a bitter arraignment of the
Federal forestry bureau by President
F. W. Gooding, of Shoshone. Declar
ing that the government in its admin
istration of the national forests and
the reclamation service has failed woe
fully, President Gooding urged that
congress be asked to name a commit
tee of Western men to intesvtigate and
report any needed changes in the rules
and regulations governing these two
bureaus.
From nearly every Western state
delegates are present. The biggest
single delegation arrived from Boise,
Idaho. It included Governor Brady
and a number of state officials, also
about half the members of both houses
of the state legislature.
The forenoon session of the conven
tion was devoted entirely to the mid
winter sheep show. More than 600
sheep are entered.
Predicts Tree Famine.
Washington, Jan. 15. "The time is
coming in this country when trees will
be as scarce as diamonds, unless im
mediate steps arqtaken to preserve our
forests." This was the dark picture
painted in an address by Secretary of
Agriculture Wilson at the 29th annual
meeting of the American Forestry as
sociation. The secretary declared our
forestry growth is getting scarcer and
scarcer and we are using three times
as much wood as we are growing.
Japan Takes Slight Notice.
Tokio, Jan. 15. Though certain of
the Japanese newspapers are seriously
exercised over the anti-Japanese bills
before the California legislature,
others style the matter as a tempest
in a teapot. There is no tendency to
find sinister design in the increase in
the American navy, newspapers gene
rally expressing the opinion that
America's growing interests in the Pa
cific demand a stronger navy.
BRIEF DAILY REPORT ON
THE WORK OF GONGRESS
Saturday, January 16.
Washington. Jan. 16. The entire
Bession of tHe senate today was devot
ed to a memorial service for the late
Senator William Pinckhey Whyte, of
Maryland. Alter the adoption of reso
lutions of respect the senate at 2:38 p.
m. adjourned.
Washington. Jan. 15. An elaborate
analysis of the Sherman anti-trust law,
bv Jenkins, of Wisconsin, was the
feature of tcday's session of the house.
The pension appropriation bill techni
cally was under consideration, but the
tfime was given over to general debate
Other speakers were Nye, who enter
tained the house with an address on
law and lawmakers: Douglas, of Ohio,
who advocated autononmy for the Por
to Ricans, and Burton, of Delaware,
who made a plea for postal savings
banks.
In reporting the naval appropriation
bill to the house today the committee
on naval affairs fixed the amount need
ed for the maintenance of the naval
service duriner the fiscal year 1910 at
$135,062,888, as compared with $122,-
062,485, the present appropriation
The bill contains recommendations for
an increase of the navy by two 26,000
ton battleships, ' five torpedo boat de
stroyers, four submarine boats and
four fleet Collier3.
Friday, January 15.
Washington, Jan. 15. An amend
ment in the legislative, executive and
judicial appropriation bill increasing
the salary of the president to $100,000,
of the vice president and speaker of
the house of representatives to $20,
000, with $5,000 additional allowance
for carriages and coachmen for the
vice president and speaker, and in
creases for the judiciary aggregating
$328,500, precipitated a lively discus
sion in the senate today.
Washington, Jan. 15. Private bills
had their inning in the house of repre
sentatives today, almost the whole ses
sion being given up to their consider
tion. Many were passed.
The bill of Representative Hawley,
of Oregon, to pay surviving volunteers
of the Cayuse Indian war of 1847 and
1848 $1.50 a day lor their services as
shown by the muster rolls, passed the
house today. The benefic.aries are
John Minto, Charles Bolds, Ellen E
Hackett, M. A. Cornelius, Mary J.
Keizur, Amada Reese, Mary Carnahan,
Polly C. Butler and Sarah E. Schautz.
President Roosevelt today sent to
the house of representatives a special
message vetoing the bill authorizing
William H. Standish to construct a
dam across the James river, in Stone
county, Missouri, to divert a portion
of the waters of that stream through a
tunnel, to create electrical power.
The president holds that the bill guar
antees valuable monopolsitic privileges
and does not rovide for conditions OS
S' ntial to protect the public interests.
He refers to former communications
showing a tendency to monopolistic
encroachments upon natural resources.
Thursday, January 14.
Washington, Jan. 14. The Ananias
club was discussed in the senate today
by Tillman, who declared that state
ments made by Attorney General Bona
parte and Postmaster General Meyer
in leply to his reply to charges made
against him by the president in rela
t on to his contemplated purchase of
Oregon timbtr land made them eligible
to membership in that organization.
Tillman wanted to know what degree
of falsehood was to be charged to the
two cabinet officers "or Leaf clerks or
bootlicks and whatever the pres'dent
has around him." lie suggested that
there should be a meeting of the exec
utive committee of the Ananias club to
determine what degree should be con
ferred upon "Charles J. Bonaparte and
this man Meyer."
Washington, Jan. 14. For a time
today in the house it looked as though
that body would further resent the
president's statement affecting mem
bers of congress and the secret service
by ordering the printing of 2,000,000
copies ot the proceedings or last r ri
day, tabling his remarks. A resolution
to that end was presented by Landis,
of Indiana, but so strong was the sen
timent against it that it was tabled.
Wednesday, January 13.
Washington, Jan. 13. Senator Ba
con today introduced a resolution as
serting the right of congress to call on
the executive departments for all pa
pers and information in their posses
sion. An appropriation of $161,018,000 for
pensions was agreed to today by the
committee on pensions in drafting the
annual pensions bill. This amount is
over $2,000,000 less than the appropri
ation last year, which was $163,053,
000. In the report to the house it will
be shown that. the republic has expend
ed since its beginning $3,751,108,809
in pensions. The committee inserted
in the bill a provision that the IS pen
sion agencies throughout the country
be reduced to one, to be located in
Washington. Congress has failed to
$438,000 for Bremerton.
Washington, Jan. 14. Among the
appropriations to be made for the Tug
et Sound navy yard in the naval appro
priation bill are the following jtems:
Continuing construction of the new
drydock, $400,000; railroad extension,
$10,000; sewer extension, $8,000; im
provement of construction plant, $20,
000. Representative Jones has been
requested by the people of Spokane to
secur an apprporiation to aid the Na
tional Irrigation congress.
agree to such a proposal heretofore.
Washington, Jan. 13. Working
with only a' small quota of members,
the house of representatives devoted
its entire time today to consideration
of the District of Columbia appropria
tion bill. Mann, of Illinois, furnished
a little diversion for an otherwise dull
day by defending the house rules, and
this led him into several sharp brushes
with Gardner, of Massachusetts, one of
the so-called insurgents.
Tuesday, January 12.
Washington, Jan. 12. A spirited
speech by Foraker, of Ohio, on the use
of private detectives in investigating
the Brownsville affair was the feature
in the senate today. Foraker laid aside
his manuscript several times during
his address to inject remarks that
were pointedly aimed at the president,
although hs refrained from the men
tion of Mr. Roosevelt's name. Evi
dently referring to the president, he
declared that men who made charges
and insinuations would some time "be
where they can be called to account."
Lodge replied to Foraker's remarks,
declaring that the use of the $3,000,000
fund appropriated in 1899 as an emer
gency war fund for the president dur
ing the Spanish war in the employment
of detectives on the Brownsville case
was not in violation of the law.
The senate adopted Foraker's reso
lution calling on the secretary of the
treasury for an itemized statement of
the expenditure of the $3,000,000 ap
propriated by act of March 3, 1899, to
be expended at the direction of the
president as an emergency fund.
The bill granting permission to the
city and county of San rrancisco to
use the Hetch-Hetchy and Lake Elea
nor valleys of the Yosemite National
park for a reservoir was again under
consideration at a public hearing of
the house committee on public lands to
day. No action was taken by the com
mittee pending the hearing of further
evidence.
An amendment to the executive and
judicial appropriation bill was offered
by Senator Knox today providing for
the creation for an under secretary of
state at a salary of $10,000 and a
fourth assistant secretary of state at
$4,500 a year.
Monday, January II.
Washington, Jan. 11. For acquiring
all private holdings in the Sequoia and
General Grant National parks, Califor
nia, in which are located the big trees
and other wonders, the senate today
passed a bill appropriating $90,000.
The senate spent the greater part of
the day listening to Tillman in an at
tack on the president in connection
with the secret service. The presi
dent has intimated that the senator
was implicated in Oregon land frauds
and this is denied by Tillman.
Washington, Jan. 11. Representa
tive Englebright, of California, today
introduced a bill requiring the secre
tary of the interior to procure the ap
proval of congress before he expends
any money after July 1, 1909, for irri
gation works for the storage, diversion
or development of water supply for re
clamation of arid and semi-arid lands.
Another bill by Mr. Englebright re
quires like approval before he fan cre
ate or add to any national forest with
in the state of California.
An amendment to the legislative,
executive and judicial appropriation
bill, increasing the salary of the pres
ident to $100,000 and the salaries of
the vice president and speaker of the
house to $20,000, was today reported.
It was then referred to the committee
on appropriations.
Soil Surveys Failure.
Washington, Jan. 12. A serious blow
was given to the plan for the continua
tion of soil surveys by the Department
of Agriculture when the executive com
mittee of the Association of American
Agricultural colleges and experiment
stations appeared today before the
house committee on agriculture and
testified that the work as now carried
onw as of little value to the farmer.
Members of the executive committee
who criticized the present work of the
bureau of soils included Dr. W. K.
Jordan, director of the New York Ag
ricultural Experiment station and four
others.
Employes Carried Free.
Washington, Jan. 13.- The Inter
state Commerce commission has insti
tuted an inquiry into the matter of
transportation by interstate carriers
of employes and property of ex-employes
free of charge. It has developed
that, through contracts made by ex
press companies with the carriers, a
considerable amount of property and a
large numbers of persons are transport
ed free by the carriers. The commis
sion will investigate these contrcts.
Pitchfork Prepares for Jab.
Washington, Jan. 14. "Many peo
ple are sending me material in regard
to Roosevelt's dark and crooked ways
and I am preparing a speech in which
I will try to redeem my promise," said
Senator Tillman today. He said he
did not know how soon he would be
able to deliver his speech, but he wou'd
make it before the president retired
from office.
Roosevelt to Hear Gompers.
Washington, Jan. 14. President
Roosevelt will have a conference with
President Gompers and other officials
of the American Federation of Labor at j
the White House today. The confer
ence ia at the request of Mr. Gompers.
READY FOR CALHOUN.
Heney Thinks Trial Will Be Shorter
Than Ruef's Last.
San Francisco, Jan. 13. Patrick
Calhoun, president of the United Rail
roads, flanked by his corps of attor
neys, faced Judge Lawlor today at the
opening session of his trial on a charge
of offering a bribe of $4,000 to Super
visor Fred P. Nicholas.
Assistant District Attorney Francis
J. Heney, standing at the prosecution's
desk for the first time since he was
shot down during the trial of Abe Ruef,
began the preliminary motions of what
promises to be the most renowned trial
in the history of California.
Twenty months have elapsed since
Calhoun was first indicted on charges
of offering bribes to the men who com
posed the boodling board of supervis
ors under lorm.-r Mayor Schmitz.
During that time three supplemented
indictments were returned against the
traction magnate and on one of them
he now faces the bar of justice.
The court's ban has been placed on
delays. The prosecu; ion has announc
ed that no further continuances will be
asked and the defense has professed
itself ready for trial for several
months. Calhoun, in his desire for a
speedy hearing, has instructed his at
torneys to lay aside all technicalities.
Attorneys predict it will take but
two weeks to secure a jury and but
another two weeks to put in all the
evidence. Should this be the case, the
hearin will not e.ual in length the
Ruef trial, which consumed four
months.
SANTA FE FINED.
California Railroad Commission En
forces Rate Law.
San Francisco, Jan. 13. The Santa
Fe Railroad company was found guilty
before the State Railroad commission
today of carrying oil shipments be
tween Bakersfield and this city at a
lower rate than that fixed by state
law and fined $5,000 by unanimous
vote of the commissioners. The com
pany was also adjudged guilty on six
other counts charging unjust rate dis
crimination, but no penalty was fixed.
The specific charge on which the
commissioners acted was that the rail
road company had carried oil shipments
from Bakersfield to this city for the
Associated Oil company at 25 cents a
barrel, whereas the legal rate fixed by
the board is 37.8 cents a barrel.
The board also found the Southern
Pacific company guilty of rate discrim
ination on six counts, but no penalty
was fixed, as the board declared no
proper legal foundation for the pro
cedure had been laid by the previous
board of commissioners.
SECOND MINE HORROR.
At Least One Hundred Men Caught
in Colliery by Explos'on.
Welch, W. Va., Jan. 12. At least
100 miners were trapped by an ex
plosion in the Lick Branch colliery
today, marking the second disaster in
the mine within two weeks.
Relatives of the victims of the pre
vious explosion, when 50 men were
killed, are known to be in the mine to
day. The explosion this morning occurred
jut after the full quota of the day
shift had gone to work and it is known
positively that 250 " men were in the
mine at the time.
A relief train with surgeons and sup
plies was rushed from Bluefield and
the buildings about the shaft have
been turned into hospitals.
The state mine inspector and four
assistants inspected the mine just be
fore the previous explosion and pro
nounced it one of the safest and best
ventilated in the region. Another in
spection was made after the explosion,
but did not reveal the cause.
Switchback, the scene of the disas
ters, is in McDowell county, in the
center of the Flat Top coal fields.
Kansas Wants Reforms.
Topeka, Kan., Jan. 13. Governor
Walter R. Stubbs delivered his first
message to the Kansas legislature that
convened yesterday in its 16th bien
nial session. Mr. Stubbs earnestly
recommended the enactment of a pub
lic utilities law; asked the legislature
to pass certain amendments to the pres-;
ent primary election law to make it '
still more effective, and urged careful
consideration of some safe bank guar
antee plan; demanded a flat two-cent
passenger rate law, ana sam an anti
pass statute should be passed.
Mayor Would Send Bell.
Philadelphia, Jan. 13. Communica
tions from officials and clubs of the
chief cities of the Pacific coast states
requesting Mayor Reyburn and the
members of the council to agree to j
send the Liberty Bell to San Francisco. !
Portland and Seattle during the com- j
ing summer are arriving every day at
the city hall. No replies have been !
sent, but the mayor has declared him-1
self in favor of sending the bell if it
can safely be done.
'
Find Judge for Oil Case. j
Chicago, ' Jan,. 13. Judge Albert
Anderson, of Indianapolis, will preside '
at the next trial of the cases against
the Standard Oil company in which
Judge K. M. Landis imposed a fine of i
$29,240,000. Judge Anderson will be
in charge of the case Monday and will
convene court to set the case for trial.
Turkey Agrees to Sell Soil.
London. Jan. 13. A central news
dispatch from Constantinople states (5240.000,000) at 4 l.. per cent. A
that Grand Yizier Kiamil Pasha has part of the loan will probably go to
notified Austriam Minister Tallavincini , Mher continental countries, but it does
that Turkey accepts Austria's indem-. not appear that the United States sub
nity offer of $10,800,000. scribed for any part of it.
W00LMEN TO TALK
OVER WAREHOUSE
Pinchot Sends Caustic letter Which
Bears on Grazircj Question.
Association Not Favcrable to Exist
ing Hubs of Go.vernmert Ques
tion of Tariff on Wool Will, Cause
Shrrp Debate- Some Vill Want It
Increased.
Pocatello, Idaho, Jan. 14. Questions
of great concern to the sheepraisers of
the United State3 and especially of the
Western range states will arise at the
three days' convention of the National
Woolgrowers' convention, which will
begin here today.
The storage warehouse plan, which
is, in brief, to place the bulk of the
wool crop in the hands of a co-operative
selling agency, to hold for what
is considered a fair price, meanwhile
borrowing money on the stored pro
duct, will be the principal subject at
issue. A committee has been busy for
several months securing pledges of
wool and arrangements have been
made to lease a warehouse in Chicago
or some other center as soon as the re
quired 25,000,000 pounds of wool is
guaranteed.
It is not thought that much opposi
tion will develop, but the details of
the plan may be criticised and its feas
ibility que.-tioned.
Government regulations in relation
to grazing on forest reserves will un
doubtedly be attacked. It was the
known attitude of the association on
this point that prompted the chief for
ester, GifFord Pinchot, to decline an in
vitation to the meeting in a sharp note
which further strained the relations
between the Forestry department and
the woolmen.
In his letter Mr. Pinchot advised the
secretary of the association that he did
not care to attend the convention until
it should show by its action that it wa3
prepared to view the grazing question
in a more liberal spirit.
While all the delegates will be in
favor of a tariff on wool, there may be
a debate a3 to whether the present
duty is sufficiaent. Utah woolgrowers,
and perhaps others, have adopted reso
lutions asking that the present duty be
increased. In other quarters the pre
vailing tariff is regarded as ample
the needs of the industry.
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SAIL WITH FLEET.
Son of Turkish Ruler Will Probably
Return With Battleships.
Constantinople, Turkey, Jan. 14.
Great excitement prevails among Turks
on account of the visit of the American
fleet to Turkish waters. Four battle
ships are now at Smyrna, and four
more are coming to remain until Janu
ary 24. Admiral Schroeder, second in
command, is coming to Constantinople
in the battleship Louisiana. One of
the sultan's sons probably will go with
the squadron to America, and it is re
garded as certain that 30 Turkish offi
cers will go.
The grand vizier, naval minister and
naval circles generally are intensely
interested in the visit of the fleet, as
this will be the first occasion since the
revolution when warships of a great
power have entered the Ottoman ports.
Authorities are anxious to impress the
visitors with the fact -that they are
thoroughly civilized now, and that
Turkey is on th road to become one of
the great naval powers of the world.
The American vessels w'll carry the
Turkish officers as guests, two officers
going on each battleship.
New Shocks Cause Panic.
Rome, Jan. 14. A slight earthquake
shock was exper'enced at an early hour
this morning throughout Lombard,
Yenetia and Tuscany. No damage was
done, and no one was injured, but ow
ing to the general unea---iness resulting
from the recent visitations in Calabria
and Sicily, the people for a moment
were thrown into a condition bordering
on a panic. According to the records
of the observatories, and especially the
establishment maintained at Florence
by the Jesuit Fathers, the center of
the disturbance was near Lembach.
I Take Evidence in East,
j Pittsburg, Jan. 13. Testimony to be
used in five United States land cases
! now pending in Oregon will be taken
1 here tomorrow before United States
Commissioner William T. Lindsey.
i Considerable secrecy is maintained re-
garding the cases, but it is known that
five expert chemists, members of the
Carnegie Technical school, have been
summoned as witnesses and it is said a
number of prominent Pittsburgers will
also be called.
Russia to Borrow Again.
St. Petersburg. Jan. 14. The Rus
sian finance ministry has closed an ar
, rangement with a syndicate, including
the principal banking houses of Paris,
for a loan of 1.200,000,000 francs