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About Beaver State herald. (Gresham and Montavilla, Multnomah Co., Or.) 190?-1914 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1908)
NEWS OF THE WEEK In 1 Condensed Form tor tar Busy Beaders. riPKNINGS OF TVO CONTINENTS Ik Reaume of the Lee« Important but Not Lees Interesting Event* of the P*»t Week. Federal troop* at Goldfield will be reduced to two companies. Secretary Taft advocates free trade with the Philiinea in sugar and to bacco. Ambassador Aoki has started for Japan, confident of settling the imrni- g tat ion question. The government has replied to ths Biandard Oil company, saying that its fine of $29,240,000 is perfectly jurL All indictments against Colorado coal land grabbers have been quashed. The oourt could find no law applicable. New York mothers have declared war on tte nerve-racking initiations of the societies of private and public schools maintained by girls. George Edward Adams, who stole about $60,000 from miners while in the Seattle assay office, will leave pris on worth a quarter of a million. In a speech by Secretary Taft it was declared that the money panic was due mainly to dishooeet finance. He also said socialism will come if a moneyed oligarchy grows up. LADD WILL PAY. EXPRESS CHARGES HIGH. Agrees to Meet Account of Busted Bank in Throe Year« Wella-Fergo Accused ol Discrimina tion Against Merchant*. Portland, Jan. 1.—W. M I add has agreed to take over the assets of the R om bank and pay all Its deposits within three year*. Details of the plan ware arranged vMtarday in a conference between a committee of deoaitora, agents of Mr. I .add, John Manning, district attorney, and W. C. Bristol, special counsel for the state, and lor the American Buret, company. Mr Ladd will not be prosecuted, but officers of the hank. Mr. Manning says, will be indicted next Monday. Investigations of the smashed bank's accounts will he continual, in order to gather evidence for prosecution, Offi cere involved are J. Thotbutn Ross, George H. Hill, T. T. Burkhart.jJ. E. Aitchison and F. M. Warren. Experts continue to dig up senaations in the bank's scccunte, and to confirm the knowledge that its dealings were the moat acandaloua Portland „has ever seen. Committee of depositors will insist on payment of intereat by Mr. Ladd until claims are fully met. Whether the reoeiwrhip will be con tinued has not been decided, but if it shall be, C. K. Means may be supersed ed by a receiver of Mr. ladd's selec tion. Mr. Ladd will succeed to whatever claims the bank may hold against the 3202.000 property of R om . The Iwnk continually ran behind in ita earnings, but Ross had a happy fac ulty of marking up assets with "en hanced value" to make up the defi ciency, and entered it in a mysterious account called "suspense earnings,” which is full of puxx.ee for tbe exerts. UPPER HAND OF PLAQUE. Roosevelt predicts Taft’s nomination Dying Out in San on the first ballot. Francisco—Seven Cases in December. A blanket o* snow covers the Dako tas, Iowa and Nebraska. Lord Cur son has teen persuaded to re-enter English politics. An eminent French doctor says Kai ser William has consumption. English are protesting against slav ery in the Portuguese colonies. Kansas City theaters have given up the fight against Sunday closing. Nearly $1,000,000 more graft by tbs Schmits gang has been discovered. North Carolina has again refused to pay the bonds issued daring the reccn- atraction day*. There is a monster shipment of war material on the San Francisco docks billed for Manila. The San Francisco health board has appealed to tbe people to continue the extermination of rate. Roosevelt baa allowed troops to re main in Goldfield on the promise of Gcvernor S Mrks to call a special see- aion of the legislature. New York is overrun by hundreds of unemployed. Ran Francisco, Jan. 1.—With only seven case* cf bubonic plague reported daring the month of I>eeember and but threre cases remaining under treatment at the isolation hospital, tbe plague in Sen Francisco ia sI moot eradicated. More that 3600,000 has been expended in the sanitary campaign, of which the Federal government is paying three- fourths. It is estimated that approxi mately 130,000 rats have been de stroyed during the past four months. Thirty-five thousand, six 'hundred and forty two rats were brought to tbe la boratory of the health department. Of thia number, 11,391 were examined by bacteriologists for plague and 106 found to be infected. "The situation is greatly improved,” said Dr. Blue today, “desp'te the apa thetic attitude of tbe people of Ban Francisco, some of whom have been inclined to hostility toward ns for the work that we are doing for their bene fit ’’ The total number of cases reported to date io 136; deaths 73; cured 60; re maining under treatment 3; suspected cases 18. RUSSIA GIVING UP ALL HOPE The Twenty-fourth Japanese diet has just convened. Japan Slowly Strangling Foreign In President Roosevelt is hunting tur keys at Pine Knot, Va. State Treasurer Steel, of Oregoo, has filed his new bond in the sum of $635,- OUO. Cleveland, Ohio, rmn^liiturers plan a resumption of work for fuiiy 10,000 former employee during January, Railroads throughout tbe country have shown the effects of tbe financial panic by a curtailment of orders (or rolling stock. At a meeting of the Pacific Coast Commercial Travelers’ association in Bin Francisco it was voted to stop gambling amODg 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 110.166 90 in coin and currency and 14,448.09 of ex change on Hongkong banks. According to law this money may go into the state treasury. Raleigh, N. C., has tion. voted prohibi 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 root of political corruption. Reports of New York banks show a recovery from the money crisis. Accused members of tbe 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 cific trains between Portland and San Francisco. Latest developments in the row be tween naval factions bring* out the fact that it is over ranking of offioers. Two constructions of tbe revised stat utes is possible and each taction claims it is right. vestor* in Manchuria. PekiD, Jan. 1.—Ivan Shipoff, agent of the Russian finance ministry, has concluded a three-menths’ investiga tion of the serious conditions which confront the China Eastern railway, and as a result he has recommended that expenditures be rofuced in every direction possible. This action is con strued here as a reflection of the hope lessness of Russia’s position in Man churia. The railroad was isolate«! dar ing tbe Russo-Japanese war and Ja pan’s policy since then has practical.y strangled it. It is believed that tbe deficit of the Chinese Eastern railway for 1908 will amount to 315,000,000. Traffic over the line is declining, par ticularly at Harbin. Japan has forbidden China to extend the Hein Min Tun railroad in the di rection of Tsiteikhar. This step ’has aroused exasperation among the Eng lishmen who have capital invested in the line, and it is characterised as an other evidence of the monopolistic atti tude of Japan in Manchuria. Protest From Iroquois Survivors. Chicago, Jan. 1.—Continued use of the site of the Iroquois theater disaster for a playhouse was denounced as a public scandal by speakers at the fourth anniversary meeting of the Iro quois Memorial association yesterday. It was announced that the permanent aim of the association would be the ac quirement of the theater and it* site for the purposes of dedicating the premises to some other use. A monu ment will be erected on the grave in Montrose cemetery of the woman who was the sole unidentified victim. New Road Finished. Portland, Jan. 1.—The first electric car operated over the Oregon Electric railway between Portland and Salem traveled over tbe new line Monday, reaching Fulton Park at 5:40 p. m. The car was run through under the di rection of R. L. Donald, on behalf of Barstow A Company, the construction company, of which Mr. Donald is resi dent engineer. The operation of this car completes the contract of Barstow A Company, which call* for the opera- tion of the road by December 30. The trip was made witboat a hitch. Registered Mail Stolen. Five men were killed while working Waco, Texas, Jan. 1 .—Officer» have in a Paris subway. just disclosed the fset that a bundle of St. Joseph, Mo., has started a crusade letters, registered packages, etc., was stolen from the mail tracks at Temple, against loan sharks. Tex., probably 8unday, and taken to The New York Republican club has the brush near here and opened. About declared for Hughes for president. 315,000 worth of checks, money orders All signs of yellow fever has been and drafts was found in a pile where the letters had been torn open, but all driven from the Panam canal sone. registered packages and money in let Puget sound steamtxat men will cut ters had been taken oat. It Is impos sible to tel) how much was secured. the pay of their engineers January 1. Lawson says only the re-election of Rouwevelt can avert a national disaster. A severe sleet storm has demoralized telegraphic communication around Chi cago. Heney is in Washington arranging with Attorney General Bonaparte for tbe Oregoo land fraud trials, which will login at Portland January 13. I Calls Extra 8e**ion. Carson, Nev., Jan. 1.—Governor Harks yesterday afternoon called an ex tra session nt the legislature to convene January 4, 1908. For the last 24 hours the governor has been deluged with dis patches from ail over the state and many places outside Nevada, urging tbe call ing of the extra aeoaion to Bettie labor troubles. EPIDEMIC OF GRIPPE Han Francisco, CAL, Dec. 31.—Inter FULL OF »UGAR. Good Report on Klamath Sugar Beets. APPLE SHIPMENTS INCREASE Country Railroad* Give Out Figure* Showing Oregon’s Sal* of Fruita. Klamath Fa 1 It—Frank Ira Whit« of Portland—More than twice aa many the Enterprise Land A Investment com apple* were shipped out ot this atate pany has just received reporta from the duiing 1907 than in 1906, according to department of agriculture relative to repot* complied by the railromls. The samp I m of sugar beets raised on the Hc.ithern Pacific and O. R. A N. lines Enterprise tract. The beets were taken have completed figures allowing the from the same tract at «ere those sent car* of apples shipped from every point to Profeaeoc Kniaely eune time ago. on the allied lines, and the total uum- but were fully matured, while the ber ot cars is a surprise. others were not. Ptofeesor Knl-ely’a I “Nearly all there pa pise were bought teet showed from 17.40 to 19.35 per t. o. b. at the station nearest the or cent pure sugar, while the department chard*," said General Freight Agent teat ia one or two per cent higher, with Miller, of the Harriman lines. ’This a very high degree of purity. shows th* fruit is in demand, and These beets produced 8,386 pounds Eastern buyer* coiue here In search ol to the quarter-acre tract, or nearly 17 IL The pirces thia season are letter tons to the acre. i than ever before. One station on our Ths department of agriculture in a lines that never shipped an apple be letter to X|r. White says Klamath fore this year sent away 40 cats to th* county's sugar beets are of the most ex East a short time ago. Tbla indicates cellent quality and that prospects are how the apple industry Is going ahead. bright for tbe industry in thia county. I predict it will only be a few years be fore apple growing will be one of the biggest activities of Oregon people.” Signs of Oil at Bonanxa. Bonanza—The poeeibilltiee id devel oping oil «rails in this immediate vicin ity are now more encouraging titan at any previous time. In boring a well for a new livery stable in thia town a strata of black oil sandstone eras struck and specialists have pronounced it an unnnstakrwble sign of the existence of oil. Several other places in Klamath county, especially in that portion sur rounding Bonanxa, show signs of oil. The prospects are gooj and the develop ment of tbe same may result in the dis covery of one of the richest oil region* on this coaeL Can't Use Wood. Burn»—The forest i angers of the Blue mountain forest reserve have fined several Harney citissns for cutting tim ber in the reserve without permits from the forest guards. The largest tine im- poeed was on B. A. Dickenson, who operates a sawmill about eight mile* from Harney. He was caught taking timber from government land and fined $300 for about 17 trees. The sawmill men have been making thia a practice for year* before the reserve was creat ed, and thought it no barm to continue the practice. Last fall was the first time a forest guard has bean stationed here to give permits for cutting timber for wood and other purp<i*ee. There lias always been plenty of timber out side the reserve for wood and timber for building purposes until lately when it was all »«cured by outside peo ple. to be transferred in time to large timber companies. Mor* Traveling Libraries. Salem—Tbe Oregon Library com mission held it* regular session last week at the comnnasione'a rooms in the state bouse. W. B. Ayer and Mis* Iaem, members of the commission, were in attendance, besides the gover nor. It was divided to buy 25 more traveling libraries, making 90 in all, Want Rural Delivery. that will be placed in circulation aa a Pendleton—A movement ha* been result of the commission's fir-t year's work. It was decided to establish sn started in the vicinity of Pilot Rock to exchange station for Eastern Oregon at secure a rural mail delivery route,since tbe stage line which lias been operated Baker City. over that route haa been superseded by the Pendleton-Pi'ot Rock railroad Fruitgrowers Plan Meeting. The farmers along the old stage road Eugene—The Commercial club pro have enjoyed a daily mail service for motion department lias decided to join year*, the stage drivers leaving mail in with the Lane County Horticultural boxes at every house along the route. society in sharing the expense of tbe The rural route would embrace the tac proposed mass meeting of raitgrowere tion included its, the Birch creek, Mc and citixens, to be held here Saturday, Kay creek and Tutilla creek settle January 4. Prominent speakers will ments. address the meetings and the people throughout the coun'y will be asked to Fall Pack Poor. send in questions which they would Astoria—During tbe fall fishing sea like the expert* to answer. The com son there were aix cold storage plant* mittee in charge baa selected Dr. D. A. and 11 canneries in operation on the Paine to act as chairman ot the mas* various st reais* along th* Oregon coasL meeting. Tbe season there as at nearly all other points was a comparatively poor one. Hood River Apple Crop. The total pack of picLIed fish put up Hood River—Complete returns from by the cold storage plants wsa about Hood River's 1907 apple crop show 880 tierces, while the total output of that the growers will receive In round canned salmon packed by the tanneries numbers 3200,000 for tbeir product, was about 104,500 ease*, "as they notwithstanding tbe money trouble, car run.” shortage and reduced crop. This is ap proximately what the Hood River crop Railroad Buy* Laidlaw. brought last year when it was in the Laidlaw—The rumor has been rife in neighborhood of 20,000 boxes more, thia community for some time that the and is accounted for ty the fact tiiat Laidlaw townsite had been sold to the the applee brought a much larger aver Mount Hood Railroad company, but age price. The entire crop ia now until now these rumors could not 1« placed at 110,000 boxes. verified. The verification comes from the fact that the abstracts n| title are now being prepared at Prineville pre- Yellow Pine Market Active. Pendleton — Notwithstanding the parator to a formal transfer of the prop temporary financial flurry in the North erty to the purchasing company. west, timber land his continued to sell in the yellow pine belt Several claims of 160 acres have recently leen sold on the Blue mountains near Ukiah in Umatilla county, for from 32,000 to 32,700 each and other sale* are now pending. Thia belt of yellow pine lies «boat 45 milM south of Pendleton on the proposed extension of the Pilot Rock branch of the O. R. A N. and is one of the largest remaining bodies of naw timber in Eastern Oregon. i To Indict Nevada Sheepman Pendleton—Through the efforts ot Dr. W. H. Lytle, state sheep inspector, indictment* will be returned against P Anderson, a millionaire sheepman of Nevada, for bringing flocks over the state line into Oregon without first giving notice to tbe state sheep inspec tor. Wheat Moving Again. Pendleton—Now that wheat has gone up to 70 rente in the local wheat mark Ealem Hopgrowers Sign. et some of the growers are selling. For Salem—Thirty-seven ont of the 42 a time the price was down to 66 cents, hopgrowers who attended the meeting and very little wax being sold. of growers here last week signed the . PORTLAND MARKETS. by-laws, prepared for a Pacific Coast I Butter—Fancy creamery, 35037Jkc Hopgrowere’ anion. These growers rep- ’ resent aboat 800 acres ol hope. A per pound. Veal—75 to 125 pounds, 8X<A9c; local organization wx< formed with J. H. Fletcher »t chairman and James 125to 150 pounds, 7c; 150 to 200 Winrtanley as secretary. Attorney A. pounds, 506 i^c. Poultry—Aversge old hens, 12c per L. Hhinn, of Sacramento, explained the plan and purposes of the proposed or pound; mixed chicken*. 11 He; spring chickens, 11012c; roosters, 8c; dressed ganization to the meeting. chickens, 14c; turkeys, live, 15c; dressed, choice, 18fl20c; geeee, live, Colonizer at Klamath. Klamath Falls—George L. Me Don- 15c; ducks, 14c; pigeons, $101.50; aagh, colonization agent of the Union squabs, $203. Egg*—Freeh ranch, candled, 32)4fl Pacific railway, who is expected to ar- ' rive in Klamath Falls next week, ia 35c per dozen. Pork—Block, 75 to 150 pounds, 60 no* at MacDoel, the new Dunkard I town on the California Northeastern 6Xc; packers, 606Hc- Wheat—Club, 83c; blueetem, 85c; railway in Butte valley. He comes to Klamath Falls to become familiar with valley, 83c; red, 81o. Oats—No. 1 white. $28; gray, $28. colonizing possibilities here. He will Barley—Feed, $27 per ton; brewing, be accompanied by a Dankard elder, D. $31; rolled, $30. C. Campbell, of Colfax, Wash. Corn—Whole, $32; cracked, $33. Hay—Valley timothy, No. 1, $16 per Sawmill In Christmas Sock. ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, 122023; Marshfield—Tbe new office building clover, $15; cheat, $15; grain hay, $16 of the big planing plant of the U. A. 016; alfalfa, $15; vetch. $14. Smith Lumber A Manufacturing com Fruita—Apples, 75c0$2 per box; pany was opened a(gl dedicated Christ deachwt, 75<0$1 per crate; peers, $1.25 mas Eve. Festivities were held and 01.75 per lox; cranberries, $9.50012 many citizens attended. The office per berrel. building is now completed and in nee. Vegetables—Turnips, 75c per sack; The mill proper will be finished and carrot*. 65c per ao <; iieets $1 per eack; ready for operation in February. beans, 709c per pound; cabbage, 1c per pound; cauliflowers, 75cfl$l per Select by Cor ven tion* dozen; celery, $3.2503.50 per crate; Salem—In answer to an inquiry from onions, 15020c per dozen; parsley, 2Oc Chairman G. A. Westgate, ot the Re per dozen; p«es, 11c per pound; pep publican state central committee, At pars, 8017c per pound; pumpkins, I fl torney General Crawford has rendered IJie per pound; radishes, 20c per doz an opinion in which he says that dele en; spinach 6c per pound; sprout*, 8c gates to the national conventions and per pound; aquaah, 101 He per pound; candidate* for presidential elector must tomatoes, $1.50 per box. be chosen at conventions and not under Onions—$1.7501.85 per hundred. the direct primary. Potatoes—50065c per hnndred, de livered Portland; sweet potatoes, $2.75 Shut Down on Keno Canal. per cwt. Klamath Fall*—The reclamation ser Hops—1907, prime and choice, 50 vice has closed down on the Keno can*, 7Hc per pound; olds, 1 fl2c per pound. on account of the wet weather, keeping Wool—Eastern Oregon, average best, only the derrick gang and the engi 13020c per poand, according to shrink neering corp*.»Tb* shutdown was made age; valley, 18030c, according to fine- neoeeeary on acetount of tbe wet n*M.; mohair, choice, 29030c per weather. pound. •tat* Commerce Commissioner Fiauk- lin K. Lsuis, today held a hearing of th* complaint ol ths California Com msrcial association, composed of 29 mstcaulilv firms in thie city, charging the Wells-Fargo Express company with concealing from th* publie tariff ached- idea that had been A led with the Inter state Commerce commirelon in Wash ington aud with making unjust aud dia criminatory rates. The actual queelien Involved, however, wae whether ot nut the quantity rat* cl 8 rents a pounJ from New AAirk to Ban Francieeo lor shlpiuenl* of 10,MH) to 20,000 nound* applied to bulk or aarembled ehip- metita, gathered and forwarded by a forwarding agency to one conceni or aaeociatlon organised for the purpose of getting the lower rate, the shipment ultimately intended for nuuieroua eon- aiguee* who were dreignatrd by num bers of the lal>el* to the one consignee. The chargM of discrimination are bsae.l upon the refusal of the expreaa company to tianaport a shipment of 18,000 pounds consisting ot 443 pack ages. from New York to th* (Hlifornia Comtnercial association In Han Fran- ciaeo last August, st the bulk or quan tity rate of $8 per hundred pounds, the company charging the regular pa>kage rate. It is also alleged that the »■- press company charged a higher rate than that published and filrvl with the Interstate Commerce commisaion, the latter being wilfully concealed and hid den from the public. This complaint aver* that it is a distinct violation ot the interstate commerce act In answer, the express company deme* all the allegation* made, and charge* that the association tee-'rted to subterfuge in order to extort unjuat dis crimination in its own favor, and baaed ita lefiiaal to grant a quantity rate upon the shiment in question on the ground tiiat. while consigned to one conalgnee, it sraa intended lor more than a score of firms. EX«ATRIATES IN CHINA. Judge Wnfley Wart* Coegres* to Make Laws for IKm Han Francisco, Cal , Dec. 3__ Judge L. R. Wllfley, of the United Htatea court at Shanghai, against whom charges of improper conduct of his court have been preferred at Washing ton, arived in Kan Franclaoc this morn ing on the Pacific Mail liner Manchuria from the Orient, and after a a lay of two <iaya in this city will proceed to the na tional capital. On hoard the Man ohuria with Judge Wilfiey was F. M. Brooks, a lawyer, who haa filed an ac tion for $50,000 damage* at Hono lulu, charging the bead of the court In the Far East, together with his clerk, L. R. Hickel, with conatpiracy In stop ping the practi-eof Brooks in Hhan»hai. Jodg* Wilfiey denied that he was go ing to Washington to meet the chargee preferred against him. ' “I am going U> Washington,” he said, “to aid in drawing an act that will extend to Americans In China a mote complete body ct laws than they now have. The laws now in force com prise little mo-e than la euibralied in the oommon law and are so Indefinite as to be abeolutely uaeliM. It will be suggested to congrees that the Califor nia code of law* be made to extend to China, wherein such laws are applica ble. “In addition to this matter, I am journeying East that congress may lie asked for an appropriation for a propt r Federal building st Shanghai, where the American ronoilate and court* may be under one roof.” Jail Wrecking Glass' Health. Han Francisco, Dec 31.—Affidavits have been (Lived on District Attorney Langdon by T. C. Coogan, Louis Glass' attorney, in his attempt to get his client out of jail. The dletii-t attor ney will file counter affiilavlte. Dr. Roland E. Hartley and Dr. J. M Wil liamson state In their atfblavita that they visited Ixiui* Glass at the county jail and that he showed ‘marked gene ral physical deterioration and general derangement.” They ray they found him in a nervons coidltion which will permanently injure hie health. Raize* Rent of Hot Spring* Chicago, Dec. 31.— A dispatch to the Tribune from Hot Springs, Ark., says: Announcement was made yesterday that the United Ktatee would double the price for its healing hot waters after the first of the year, and that all bathhouse leases also would 1« ilonbled A protest will I* sent at once to Wash ington. The hot water now ia dis pensed by the government at $30 per annum for each tub enpplied. The bathhouse owners state they are unable to meet the raise. Spreads Ihroegh the East Like Prairie Fire. VICTIMS BY TENS OF TIOUSANDS Feared That Epidemic May Burpees That of 1889 90-8 tree I Oar •ervlce I* Orlppled. Chicago, I've. 31.—tieadly grippe, which lisa already Isstened itself upon nearly every city east of the Mlseimlppl river, la spreading westward with ap palling rapidity. Not since the lerrl- tie epidemic ol 1889 90 liave there been such ravage* by th* tearful malady as at the present time, »wording toapecial diapatohe* gal her*l from many sources. Mild, Opeo Wiaiher, highly iinsvaaoiia hie, is held responsible by health *U- thorltlw. Pittaburg Is the chief roiiiplainsnt. Ho many people there are ill that the streetcar service I* crippled anil office buildings are practically empty. Be side* Pittsburg, New York, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Boaton, Milwaukee and other Eastern and Western .Itiee were reported to I* wrestling with the disease, a number ol death* in each city ceenrrltig daily. "La grippe, a* the French call it,” •aid Dt. Herman Spalding, of the Chi cago llewlth department, "travel* with the speed of a prairie tire. Il travels along the line* ot transportation, aa i' is carried by travelers flsnii one city to an ither. It is decidedly contagious and tt>ere is no effective way of check ing it* spread. It other cities become badly affevtol, Chiago Is auro to be lilt, taxa use of th* thousands of traveler» who arrive dally in Chicago from every point ot the oompaM. ” From New York »ord come* that th* grippe, baa begun a devastating crusade in that city and that among its victims have been opera eingers and man) actor* and actreeaea. There »ere 63 deaths in the metropolis last week Beside* this there were many deaths from pneumonia, influenced by th* grippe baeillos. I'hysicans in Boston say there are al least 60,000 Caere now in that city. Cincinnati has 2.000 cases and physi cians say tiiat new cases ai* dsvsioplug by the score every hour. LET TROOPS 8TAV. Senator Newland* Think* Noeda Them. GolufleM Washington, I No. 30.—Henalor New- lands, ol Nevada, I* endeavoring to pre vent withdrawal <>f lhe govsrumeiik troupe from Goldfield until oom* other iumu * ol protection la had. Today ba called upuu Hecretary Tall al lhe War department and strongly uigsd that **• seutlon ut llie order Issued by the aecre- laiy lor the withdrawal ol the troops bo suspended until he ha* had an opportu nity to ooiiimurilcate with Governor H;«rks end Induce him U> call th* Ne vada legislature together. Mt left lies iieen advising with Bee- istary Root on this subject ami tonight oom mu nice lad with the president at Pine Knot on III* subject. There we* every dl»|s»ltii>ti hi refrain from break lug In upon Mr RooMvell’a privacy at this time, and th* only «sense lor do ing so Is found In the I act that, unlees the original order I* nmdified. lhe tloope must leave Goldfield Iwfot* th* preeident returns hi Wa-hlngum. The aw-ratary declined to sl> te what coiiree be bad recommended in the matter, nor would lie aay whether he had heard from the president In turn. Hecretarfy lamb said the While House wsa entirely without advice from I’lno Knot, a* th* Goldfish! quastion was being hnndled by the War department. Administration officials feel tiiat the present situation In the rnstter ot Gold- field's rase cannot lir continued, In view of th« doubt that ex isle as to the con stitutlonal and legal right of th* ex- eentiv« to employ any part of the regu lar army In Neva<la under preteut con dition*. HENkf GIVES FULTON A D'G. 8*>e All Impl eaten In Land Fraud* Are Senator'« Friend«. Washington, I've. 3l> —In an Inter view telegraphed from New York, Fran cis J. Heney ia quoted a» say Ing 1 ”1 bc.p* to ckee three Oregon cases with Mr. Bristol in twuor thiee weeks " Inquiry st the IWparlmenl of Justice failrel to elicit definite information as to whether or not Mr. Bristol would M- • Isl Mr. Heney with th* prosecution. It no new dielilct attorney la appointed ly the tinia the land trials begin, Mr. Bristol may aseiol Mr. Ileney, but there appears to lie an expectation that a new man will 1« available before then, In which case Mr. Brlefol will l>e nut and ha«e nothing to <•<> with the land trial«. tn the aame Interview Mr. Heney lakes another rap al Senator Fulton. He dsnlee having Impllcaled Mr. Ful- t«m 111 th* land fraud«, but adds “All of three persons who have been Implicated In organised land frauds are Inetida of Senator Fulton. Therefore It appear* whimsical to uie that Henakor ON SECUND STAGE. Fulton should, through Uie power ot Battleship Fleet Leave* Trinidad for senatorial oourtrey, be able to Jefrek the nomination ci Mr. Bristol, who 1* Rio Janeiro. capable ot making II unpireaant tor the Port ol Hpain. Dec. 31.—The Ameri yet uncouvicted land thievre in Oregon.” can balllealilp fleet weighed anchor at 4 o'clock Bunday afternoon and etMmed UTES R»ID SOUTHERN UTAH tor Rio Janeiro. Accompanying th* fleet were the supply ship* Culgoaaml Pen Up Cowboy« Bend of Cattle Glacier. Faily id th* morning the In Canyon signal went up from Rsar Admiral Hall lake City, Dee. 30.—Colorado Evane' Hsgvhip Connecticut Io prepare Ute Indiana are traveling In band* tn for deartuie at 8 a. ui., but owing to a Houthern Utah, raiding sheep and cat delay in tbe coaling of the lattleehip tlemen, according to a report received Maine from the collier Fottuna, it WM by Governor John 0. Cutlre. Accord oscMaary 10 change the time of railing ing to this report, a «mall bend of In Long before the hour set a myriad of diana attacked ihl** cowboys nrer Ven small cr-.fl, chiefly launches and steam dur* Han Juan county, on livcember yachts, tuovt-d up and down along the 23, end at th« muule of rltlre com lines of anchored battleship*, the mer pelled '.hem to drive ths cattle lark ry parties str «rd shouting farewells to into the canyon Iroin which they were the departing visitors. Thousands of residents climlml the surrounding hills trailing onto the winter range, thrrel- to view the great ships as they moved ening to kill them unless they did 00. outward on their journey of 3.1MHJ miles Cowboys and cattle are »till confined to and more, while t> at Ina-Is of excursion the canyon. Th» g ivernor will take up the mat- ists went to the small Islands in the I ter with the authorities al Washington, gulf and others to the thwting dock to aa according to a ruling ol the commis catch ih« last glimpse of the ship* The fleet prrretited a magnificent ap sioner of Indian affairs the Colorado or Kouthern L'tre are forbidden to enter pearance as it steamed out in four * I- _________________ nmns with the supply ship, trailing, a Utah. distance of 4MI yards separating one di viaion from another. With the Con necticut In the lead the battleship* headed for the Bona* and ateamed ma jestically through the grand B< km and thence along tbe northern coast of Trin idad. An aversge of from 10 to II knots an hour will carry the fleet to the end of the second lap of the 14,000- mile journey In alxxit 12 dava, and It was announced by Admiral Evane be fore hi* de;«rtnre that he expe<-ta to reach Rio Janeiro on Friday evening January fO. Nat.vv* Facing a Famine. Hillsdale, Mich., Dre 31.—Hecretary H. H. Mvers, of the general conference of Free Baptiste, raid today: “Ac cording to advices just received by m« from our mlMione in Bengal and Oria- aa, India, four months of rain is tbe usual allowanre in Lucknow, India, in a year, but during the year 1907 it haa rained only four days. The result is famine everywhere. Thousands of the population are suffering and tietore re lief comes next August hundreds ol Backed by Wealthy Men. thousands must die unless relief coniM New York, Dec 31.—United Htatea from Christian lands.” Diatrict Attorney Htimson said today Provide for President*. that he had been aerved with the pa pers filed in the United Htatea District New York, D<o 31 —Ez-PtMi<lent court by connael for Oscar W. Reid, a Grover Cleveland, under the title of member of the battalion of the Twenty "Our People and Their Ex-Presi fifth infantry. The plaintiff sued the dents,” has contributed an interesting givemmeet to recover pay lost through article Io the Youths’ Corr pan ion for hi* discharge from the army, but the January 5. Referring to the poverty of attorneys in the case have admitted Jefferson after be left the prenidency aa that they were retained by "wealthy a blow to national pride, Mr. Cleveland gentlemen of New England,” wlnwe declares definite and generous provision r al object is to determine the legality should tn made for the maintenance ot of the president’s action. chief magistrate». He deals with the anbject at length, and sxplains that he Headquarter* Ar* Secured feela he can do ao without hi* sincerity Denver, Dec. 31. — The headquarters being questioned. of the Democratic National convention Fatal Row Over 5 Cents. will lie at the Brown Palace hotel, which has registered a request from Ran Francisco, Dec. 81. — Arthur Chairman Tom Taggart, of the commit Hamman, a conductor of the United tee, through Hecretary Mills, of the Railroads, was shot and killed today at Convention leegne of Denver, to re the Intersection of Twelfth and Folsom serve 50 additional rooms, besides those street* by Runaventnra Arvieal, a pas already reserved. As soon as these senger. Previously Arrleri had ten reservations are made the other hotels dered a transfer which Hsssrnsn hsd of the city will beign to make reserva refused to honor, lie then psid a cash tions. fare and began to argue the matter. HaMman slapped Arcieri in the face Garnet* In Naw York Bedrock. and the latter drew a revolver and New York, Dec. 31.—That New York shot Hausman. City rest* on a vast mas* of garnet* ia Earthquake Breeka Company. the dieoovery of Ralph K. Morgan, an English mineralogist, now visiting Hamburg, Dbc. 31. — The Trane- here. In a mas* of rock thrown up Atlantic Fire Insurance company has from a subway excavation, he discov voted to liquidate on account of the ered a large garnet. On th* dumping fact that more than half of ita capital ground at Hheepahed bay he found a was lost by the Han Franciaoo fire and number of excellent garnet*. Mrtbqaake. Declare« Labor Union a Truaf, Cleveland, O., Dec. 30 —In thn Com mon I’lear court today Judge Phillipa held that If the allegation* ot lhe cut ters and flatten«»» are true, the Amal gamated asairiatioti of Window Glare Workers is an organisation in rreiraint of trade. The cutter» and llatlenera brought suit to enjom the aaauM-iatlon from expelling them for an ept ing em ployment In factories where mscliinety is tised in their work. The culler» and flattenera aaaert that the expulsion clause, if enforced, deprives them of an occupation. 4 Attack on Wells-Fargo Han Francisco, Dec. 30. — Before In. te re late Commerce Commissioner F. K. Iutne tomorrow charge* of illegnl rate making made against the Wells-Fargo Express company by the California Cornmerce aaws'latlon will lie heard. The Commerce association, Ooni|.oeed of prominent drygooda house* in the city, allege* that the express com;«ny haa 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 h -ldera ot stock in the Hist« National bank will receive from $150 to $200 per »hare for their stock and all ri apo» I lore will Im paid In full,” was the official announcement baler of W Hpsrterson, nonnsel for the institution, who»* di rector* have railed a s'o-khtiMers* meeting to decide whether the bank • hall go out ot business. The benk hss Iieen declared aolvent by National Bank Examiner Cooper. Radical Decision In Hamburg. Hamburg, Dec. 30.—The «nil of the harlnr authorities arair at. the Port worker»’ union, growing out of the re cent dock »trike, haa resulted In a de cision of the wide«» Importance against the latter. The union la forbidden in the future to Interfere with the intro- ductlon ot strike breakers, and a penal ty of 1,500 marks I* provided for each Instance in which a conviction ia ob tained on th* charge. Th* union haa entered an appeal. Negroes Begin Sult*. New York, Dec. 30.—Paper* In a case to test the legality of the diacharga »1 th* private of oompan lea R, C and D of the 25th United Htatea infantry (col ored), following the disorder* in tl.o afreet* cf Brownavllle a year ago, havo ^•88 prepare* by a taw firm of thia city.