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.
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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.
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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-
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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.