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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 li I Condensed Fora lor Our Buy Beiders. W tfPEMNCS OF TWO CONTINENTS Ik Reauma of tha Leal Important but Not Laaa Interesting Events of the Past Week. Federal troops si Goldfield will be reduced to two oompaniee. Secretary Tsft advocates tree trade with tbe Phlliinea in sugar and to- bateoo. Am bases dor Aoki bss started for Japan. confident of settling tbe immi- giation question. The gov.rnment has replied to the Standard Oil company, saying that its flue of $29,240,000 is perfectly jiuL Al) indictments against Colorado coal land grabbers have been quashed. Tbe oourt oould 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 tbe Seattle array 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 dishonest finance. He also said socialism will come if a moneyed oligarchy grows up. Roosevelt predicts Taft's nomination on the first ballot. A blanket o* snow covers the Dako tas, lows and Nebraska. LADD WILL PAY. IXPR6BB CHARat» HIGH. Agrees to Moot Account of Busted Bank in Throe Years. Welle-Far go Accused of Discrimina tion Against Merchants. Portland, Jan. 1.—W. M. Ladd has agreed to take over the assets of the Roos bank and pay all Its depoalta within three years. Details of the plan were arranged yaaterday in a conference between a committee of devwitors, agents of Mr. Ladd. John Manning, district attorney, and W. C. Bristol, special counsel for the state, and for the American Surety company. Mr Ladd will not be pr<«ecuted, but officers of the bank. Mr. Manning ray», will be indicted next Monday. Investigations of the smashed hank's accounts will be continued, in order to gather evidence for pioeecutioa. Offi cere involved are J. Thotburn Rose, George H Hill, T. T. Bnrkliart.JJ. E. Aitchieon and F. M. Warren. Experts continue to dig up sensations in the bank's accounts, and to confirm the knowledge that its dealings wete the moat scandalous Portland _has over seen. Committee of depositors will insist on peyment of interest by Mr. Ladd until claims are fully met. Whether the receiverhip will be con tinued has not been decided, but if it shall be, C. E. Mrwro may be supersed ed by a receiver of Mr. Iadd’s selec tion. Mr. Ladd will succeed to whatever claims the bank may bold against the $202,000 property of Ross. The bank continually ran behind in i> earnings, but Roes 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 earning«," which is full of puzzle« for tbe exerts. UPPER HAND OF PLAQUE. Dying Out in San Francisco—Seven Cases in December. Roosevelt baa allowed troops to re main in Goldfield on ths promise of Gcvernor Sparks to call a special ses sion of the legislature. Sen Francisco, Jan. 1.—With only seven case« cl bubonic plague reported during the month of December and but tbrere cases lemaining under treatment at the isolation hospital, the plague in San Francisco is almost eradicated. More that $600,000 has been expended in the sanitary campaign, of which the Federal government is paying three- fourths. It is estimated that approxi mately 130,000 rate have been de stroyed during tbe past four months. Thirty-five thousand, six hundred and forty two rats were brought to the la boratory of the health department. Of this number, 11,391 were examined by bacteriologists for plague and 106 found to be infected. “The situation is greatly improved," eaid Dr. Blue today, “desp'te the apa thetic attitude of tbe people of San Francisco, some of whom have been inclined to hostility toward us for the work that we are doing for their bene fit ” The total number of cases reported to date is 136; deaths 73; cured 60; re maining under treatment 3; suspected Now York is overrun by hundreds of unemployed. RUSSIA GIVING UP ALL HOPE 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 baa been discovered. North Carolina has again refused to pay tbe bonds issued during the reccn- atrocticn day«. There is a monster shipment of war material on the San Francisco docks billed for Manila. The San Francisco health beard has appealed to tbe people to continue the extermination of rate. cases 18. Tbe Twenty-fourth Japanese diet has just convened. Japan Slowly Strangling Foreign In President Roosevelt io hunting tur keys at Pine Knot, Va. State Treasurer Steel, of Oregon, has filed bis new bond in the sum of $635,- OtM. Cleveland, Ohio, manufacturers plan a resumption of work for fully 10,000 former employes during January. Railroads throughout tbe country have shown tbe effects of tbe financial panic by a curtailment of otders (or roiling stock. At a meeting of the Pacific Coast Commercial Travelers* association in Bin Francisco it was voted to stop gambling among members. A passenger train collided head-on with a freight near Lenox, Mich. Five tra nmen met death. All passengers escaped with but alight injuries. In a raid on Chinese gambling houses Portland police secured $10.166 90 in coin and currency and $4,445.09 of ex change on Hongkong banks. According to law this money may go into the state treasury. Raleigh, N. C., has tion. voted prohibi Dewey has just celebrated hie 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 the first Russian douma deny they advised rebellion. Indiana Republicans have formally indorsed Fairbanks as their candidate for president. It is said a dark horse has been se lected to fill Bristol’s place as United States attorney for Oregon. Burning snowsheds near Truckee, Cal., has greatly delayed Bouthem Pa cific trains between Portland and ban Francisco. Latest developments in the row be tween naval factions brings out the fact that it is over ranking of offioers. Two constructions of tbe revised stat- ntee is possible and each faction claims it is right. vestors in Manchuria. Pekin, Jan. 1.—Ivan Shipoff, agent of the Russian finance ministry, has concluded a three-months’ investiga tion of the serious conditions which confroot tbe China Eastern railway, and as a result he has recommended that expenditures be roinced 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 isolated dur ing tbe Rnaeo-Japaneee 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 $15,000,000. Traffic over the line is declining, par ticularly at Harbin. Japan has forhidden China to extend the Hein Min Tun railroad in the di rection of Tsitsikhar. Thia step ’has aroused exasperation among the Eng lishmen who have capital invested in the line, and it is characterized 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 tbe fenrth 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 its site for tbe 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 the 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 calls for the opera tion of the road by December 30. The trip was made without a hitch. Registered Mail Stolen. Five men were killed while working Waco, Texas. Jan. 1.—Officershave in a Paris subway. just disclosed the fact that a bundle of 8t. Joseph, Mo., has started a crusade letters, registered packages, etc., was stolen from the mail trucks at Temple, against loan sharks. Tex , probably Sunday, and taken to The New York Republican club has the brush near here and opened. About declared for Hughes for president. $15,000 worth of checks, money orders All eigne of yellow fever has been and drafts was found in a pile where the letters had been torn open, but all driven from tbe Panam canal sone. registered packages and money in let Puget sound steamboat men will ent ters bad been taken out. It Is impos sible to tell how much was secured. the pay of their engineers January 1. Lawson says only the re-election of Bouaevelt can avert a national diaaater. Calls Extra Sassion. Carson, Nev., Jan. 1.—Governor A severe sleet storm has demoralised Harks yeeterday afternoon called an ex telegraphic communication around Chi tra session of the legislature to convene January 4, 1908. For the last 24 hours cago. the governor has been deluged with dis Heney is in Washington arranging patches from all over the state and many with Attorney General Bonaparte for places outside Nevada, urging the call- tbe Oregon land fraud trials, which will ing of the extra session to settle labor i troubles. begin at Portland January 1$. OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST FULL OF BUGAR. G oed Report on Klamath Sugar Beats. APPLE SHIPMENTS INCREASE Country Railroads Give Out Figures Showing Oregon's Salo of Fruits. Klamath Fhlls—Flank Ira Whit« of the Enter prise Land A Inveetment com pany has just received reports from the department of agriculture relative to •amples of sugar beets raised on the Kuterpriee tract. The beets wete taken from the same tract as were those sent u> Profeaaot Knieely some time ago, but were fully matured, while the others were not. Profewsoi Knl-ely’s teat showed flora 17 40 to 19.35 per cent pure augat, while the department teat is one oi two per cent higher, with a very high degree of purity. These beets produced 8,286 pounds to the quarter-acre tract, or nearly 17 tone to the acre. The department of agriculture in a letter to Mr. White rars Klamath county’s sugar beets are of the moat ex cellent quality and that prvwpeota are bright for the industry in this county. Signs of Oil at Bonanza. Bonanza—The possibilities of devel oping oil wells in this immediate vicin ity aie now more encouraging than at any previous time. In boring a well for a new livery stable in this town a strata of black oil sandstone was struck and specialists have pronounced it an unmistakrable sign of the existence of oil. Several other places in Klamath county, especially in that portion sur rounding Bonanza, show signs of oil. The prospects are good and the develop ment of tbe same may result in the dis covery of one of the richest oil regions on this coasL Mors Traveling Libraries. Portland—More than twice as many appleo were shlppod out of this alate duiiug 1907 than m 1906. acvordiug to repo ts compiled by the railroads. The Southern Pacific and O. R. A N. lines have completed figure« showing the cars of apple« shipped from every point on the allied lines, and the total num ber of cars is a surprise. "Nearly all there paplee were bought f. o. b. at the station nearest the or chards," said General Freight Agent Miller, of the Harriman line«. "This shows the fruit is in demand, and Eastern buyers come here in search ol it. The price« thia season are better than ever before One station on our line« that never shipped an apple be fore this year sent away 40 cats to the East a short time ago. This indicates how the apple industry is going ahead. I predict it will only be a few years be fore apple growing will t>e one of the biggest activities of Oregon people." Can’t Use Wood. Burns—The forest rangers of the Blue mountain forest reserve have fined several Harney citizsus for cutting tim ber in the reeerve without permils from the forest guards. The largest tine im posed was on B. A. Dickenson, who operate« a sawmill about eight miles from Harney. He was caught taking timber from government land an<l fined $300 for about 17 trees. The sawmill men have been making thia a practice for years before the reserve was creat ed, and thought it no barm to conliuue the practice. Last fall was the first time a forest guard has been stationed here to give permit« tor cutting timber for wood and ottier purpose«. There has always been plenty of timber out side tbe reserve for wood and timber for building purpose« until lately when it was all secured by outside peo ple. to be transferred in time to large timber oompaniee. Salem—Tbe Oregon Library com mission held its regular session last week at the comtniasione’s rooms in the state bouse. W. B. Ayer and Miss Isom, members of the commission, were in attendance, besides the gover nor. It was decided to boy 25 more traveling libraries, making 90 in ail, Want Rural Delivery. that will be placed in circulation as a Pendleton—A movement baa been result of tbe commission’s fir-t vestr's work. It was decided to establish an started in the vicinity of Pilot Ruck to exchange station for Eastern Oregon at secure a rural mail delivery route, since the stage line which lias been operated Baker City. over that route Has been superseded by the Pendleton-Pi 'ol Kock 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 years, 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 sec proposed mass meeting of ruitgrowers tion included la* the Birch creek, Mo- and citizens, 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 counry will be asked to Fan Pack Poor. send in questions which they would Astoria—During the fall fishing sea like tbe experts to answer. The com mittee in charge has selected Dr. D. A. son there were six cold storage plants and 11 canneries in operation on the Paine to act as chairman of tbe miss various streams along tbe Oregon coast. meeting. Tbe season there as at nearly all other points was a comparatively poor one Hood River Appts Crop. The total pack of pickled fish put up Hood River—Complete returns from by the cold storage plants wea about Hood River’s 19<J7 apple crop show 880 tierces, while tbe total output of that the growers will receive in round canned salmon packed by the canneries numbers $200,000 for their product, was about 104,500 cases, “as they notwithstanding the money trouble, car run." shortage and reduced crop. This is ap proximately what the Hood River crop Railroad Buys Laidlaw. brought last year when it was in the Laidlaw—The rumor bar been rife in neighborhood of 20,000 boxes more, thia community for some time that lhe and is accounted for ty the fact t list Laidlaw townrite had been sold to the the apples brought a much larger aver Monnt Hood Railroad company, but age price. The entire crop is now until now these rumors could not lie placed at 110,000 boxes. verified. The verification come« from the fact that the abstracts o| title are now being | repared at Prineville pre- Yellow Pins Market Active. Pendleton — Notwithstanding the parator to a formal transfer of tbe prop temporary financial finrry in the North erty to the purchasing company. west. timber land has continued to sell in the yellow pine belt Several claims of 160 acres have recently teen sold on the Blue mountains near Ukiah in Umatilla county, for from $2,000 to $2,700 each and other sales are now pending. Thia belt of yellow pine lies about 45 miles south of Pendleton on the proposed extension of the Pilot Rock branch of the O. R. A N. and is one of the large«t remaining bodies of saw timber in Eastern Oregon. Han Francisco, CRI., Dec. 31.—Inter •tale tXtiutuercs CouimissliMisi Frank lin K. Laue, today held a hearing of th« complaint of th« (Mllforuia Com mercial aasociation, compuawd of 29 msicantil* Arma in thia eity, charging th« W«ll«-Fargo Express company with concealing from the publie tariff sched ules that bad been filed with the Inter state Commerce oumasiaalon in Wash ington aud with making unjust and die criminatory rates. The actual qiieeliau Involved, however, was whet Let or not the quantity rats cf 8 cents a j*>unJ from New York to Han Frwnciaxi for sliipiiiMils of 10.1)00 to 20.IHX) coiiude applied to bulk or aaretuhled ship ments. gathered and forwarded by a forwarding agency to one coocern or aaeociatior organ I tad for the purp<«e of getting the lower rate, the shipment ultimately intended for numerous oon- siguees who were designated by num bers of the laliele to the one consignee. The charges ol discrimination are baaed upon the refusal of the express company to transport a shipment of 16,000 pounds consisting of 443 pack ages. from New York to the IMlifornia Commercial association In Han Fran cisco last August, at th« bulk or quan tity rate of $8 per hundred pounds, the company charging the regular package nite. It is also alleged that the ex press compeny charged a higher rate than that published and filed with the Interstate Commerce commieelon, the latter being wilfully concealed and hid den from the public. This complaint avers that it is a distinct violation of the interstate conitnen-e act. In answer, the express compeny denies all the allegation« made, and charge* that ths aaaociatlon te»>rted to subterfuge in order to extort unjust dis crimination in ila own favor, and based its refiiaal to grant a quantity rate upon the vhlment lu question on the ground that, while consigned to one consignee, it was Intended for more than a score of firms. EXOATRIATES IN CHINA. Judge Wnfley Warts Coegress to Make Laws for Th*m. Han Francisco, Cal , flee. 3__ Judge L. R. Wllfley, of the United States court at Shanghai, againat whom charge* of improper conduct of bis court have been preferred al Washing ton, arived in San Franclsoc this morn ing on the Pacific Mail liner Manchuria from the Orient, and after a stay of two day* in this city will pmered to the ria tlooal capital. On Gwrd the Man ohuria with Judge Wllfley was F. M. Brooks, a lawyer, who has filed an ac tion for $50,u<M damage* at Hono lulu, charging the head of the court In th« Far East, together with his clerk, L. R. Hickel, with const pi racy in stop ping the practi eol Brooks in Shanghai. Judg* Wllfley denied that he was go ing to Washington to meet the chargee preferred against him. * "I am going to Washington," bs «aid, "to aid in drawing an act that will extend to Americans in China a more Oomplete body cf laws than they now have. Tbe laws now in force com prise little mo-e than Is enbodied in the oomraon law and are so Indefinite as to be absolutely tiaeh-M. It will be suggested to congress that the Califor nia code of laws bo made to extend to China, wherein such laws are applica ble. "In addition to this matter, I am journeying East that congress may tie «sited for an appropriation fora ptoptr Federal building at Shanghai, where the American consulate and courts may be nnder one roof." Jail Wrecking Glass* Health. Ban Francisco, Dec 31.—Affidavits have been served on District Attorney Langdon by T. C. Coogan, Louis Gls*s' attorney, in his attempt to get hie client out of jail. The dietri-t attor ney will file counter affidavit*. Dr. Roland B. Hartley and Dr. J. M Wil liamson state In their at!i<lavita that they visited Louie Glass at the county jail and that he showed ‘marked gene Wheat Moving Again. ral physical deterioration and general Pendleton—Now that wheat has gone d«rsngernent.” They ray they found up to 70 rente in the local wheat mark him in a nervous coidition which will Ealsm Hopgrowers Sign. et some of the growers are selling. For permanently injure hie h<-alth. Salem—Thirty-seven ont of the 42 a time the price wan down to 66 cents, hopgrowers who attended the meeting and very little was being sold. Raises Rent of Hot Springs of growers here last week signed the Chicago, Dec. 31.—A dispatch to the PORTLAND MARKETS. by-laws, prepared for a Pacific Coast Tribune from Hot Spring«, Ark., says: Butter—Fancy creamery, 35037Jtc Announcement was made yeeterday Hopgrowers’ union. These growers rep resent abont 800 acres ol hope. A per pound. that the United States would double Veal—75 to 125 pounds, 81^ 09c; the price for its healing hot waters local organization wz< formed with J. H. Fletcher af chairman and James 125 to 150 poands, 7c; 150 to 200 after the first of the year, and that all Winstanley as secretary. Attorney A. pound«, 5fj.fi bathhouse lease* a Iso would t<e doubled Poultry—Average old hens, 12c per A protest will he sent at once to Wash L. Shinn, of Sacramento, explained the plan and purposes of the proposed or pound; mixed chickens, ll)$e; spring ington. The hot water now is dis chickens, 11012c; roosters, 8c; dressed pensed by the government at $30 per ganization to the meeting. chickens, 14c; turkeys, live, 15c; annum for each tub supplied. The dressed, choice, 18020c; geese, live, bathhouse owners stale they are unable Colonizer at Klamath. Klamath Falls—George L. Me Don- 15c; ducks, 14c; pigeons, $101.50; to meet the raise. augb, colonization sgent of the Union aqnabe, $203. Eggs—Fresh ranch, candled, 3200 Pacific railway, who is expected to ar Backed by Wealthy Men. rive in Klamath Falls next week, is 35c per dozen. New York, Dec 31 .—United States Pork—Bl<<:k, 75 to 150 pounds, 60 now at MacDoel, the new Dunkard District Attorney Stimson raid today town on the California Northeastern 60c; packers. 60600. Wheat—Club, 83c; bluestem, 85c; that he had been served with the pa- railway in Butte valley. He comes to pers filer! in the United State« District Klarnath Falls to liecome familiar with valley, Me; red, 81c. court by counsel for Oscar W. Reid, a Oats—No. 1 white, $28; gray, $28. colonizing possibilities here. He will Barley—Feed, $27 per ton; brewing, member of the battalion of the Twenty be accompanied by a Dunkard elder, D. fifth Infantry. The plaintiff sued the $31; rolled, $30. C. Campbel), of Colfax, Wash. givernmeet to recover jmy lo«t through Corn—Whole, $32; cracked. $33. Hay—Valley timothy, No. 1, $16 per hie discharge from the army, but the Sawmill In Christmas Sock. ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, $22023, attorneys in the case have admitted Marshfield—The new office building that they were retained by "wealthy clover, $15; cheat, $15; grain hay, $15 of the big planing plant of the C. A. gentlemen of New England,” whrwe 016; alfalfa, $15; vetch, $14. Smith Lumber A Manufacturing com Fruit«—Apples, 75c0$2 per box; r al object is to determine the legality pany was opened and dedicated Christ deaches, 75<0$1 per crate; pears, $1.25 of the president's action. mas Eve. Festivities were held and 01.75 per lox; cranberries, $9.50012 many citizens attended. The office Headquartera Are Secured per barrel. building is now completed and in nse. Denver, Dec. 31.—The headquarters Vegetables—Turnip«, 75c per sack; The mill proper will be finished and carrots, 65c per act; Imets $1 per sack; of the Democratic National convention ready for operation in February, beans, 709c per pound; cabbage, lc will ire at the Brown Palace hotel, per pound; cauliflowers, 75c0$l per which has registered a request from Select by Cor »actions dozen; celery, $3.2603.50 per crate; Chairman Tom Taggart, of the commit Salem—In answer to an inquiry from onions, 15020c per dozen; parsley, 20c tee, through Hecretary Mills, of th« Chairman G. A. Westgate, of the Re per dozen; pras, 11c par ponnd; pep. Convention league of fienver, to re publican state central committee, At per«, 8017c per pound; pumpkin«, 1 <4 serve 60 additional room«, lies ides those torney General Crawford has rendered 10c per ponnd; radishes, 20c per doz already reserved. As soon as these an opinion in which he says that dele en; spinach fic per ponnd; aprouta, 8c reservations are made the other hotels gatee to the national conventions and per pound; squash, 1010c per pound; of the city will beign to make reserva candidates for presidential elector must tomatoes, $1.50 per box. tion«. be chosen at conventions and not nnder Onions—$1.7501.85 per hnndred. the direct primary. Garnets In New York Bedrock. Potato««—50065c per hundred, de Shut Down on Keno Canal. Klamath Falla—The reclamation ser vice has closed down on the Keno cana. on account of the wet weather, keeping only the derrick gang and the engi neering corps.»The shutdown was made necessary on acctount of tbe wet wsatber. To Indict Nevada Sheepmen Pendleton—Through the efforts of Dr. W. H I.ytle, state sheep inspector, indictments will be returned against P Anderson, a millionaire sheepman of Nevada. for bringing flocks over th« state line into Oregon without first giving notice to the state sheep inspec tor. livered Portland; sweet potatoes, $2.76 per cwt. Hope—1907, prime end choice, 50 70c per pound; olds, 102c per pound. Wool—Eastern Oregon, average beet, 13020c per pound, according to shrink age; valley, 18020c, according to fine ness. ; mohair, choice, 29030c per pound. EPIDEMIC OF GRIPPE Spreads Ihranyh the Eut Like Prairie Fire. Vidius BY TENS OF THOUSANDS Feared That Epidemic May flurpass That of IBB0 BO~«treot Oar Iter vice Io Crippled. Chicago, Ih-e. 31.—Itesdly grippe, which has already fastened Itself upon nearly every city east of the Mississippi river, is spreading westward with ap palling rapidity. Not since the terri- t le epidemic of 1889 9U have there been •iK’h ravages by the fearful malady as at the present time, eOMfding to Special dtopatohee gatheted from many soutce*. Mild, open w<alher, highly iinsvaaoiia ble, is held responsible by health au thorities. Pittsburg is the chief complainant. So many people there are ill that lhe streetcar service Is eiipplrd anil ottlce lull Id i ng. are practiiwlly empty. Be side« Pittsburg, New York, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Boston, Milwaukee and other Eastern •nd Western <ltiee weie reported to lx< «resiling with the disease, a number ol deaths in each city ocvnrriug daily. "La grippe, «« the French call it," •aid Di. Herman Spalding, of the Chi cago Health dr|«itiueiil, "travel« with the speed of a prairie lire. It tiavels along th* line« of tra isportatlon, a* i» ie carried by tiavelers fbom one city Io an >ther. It is decidedly contagious • nd there is no effective way of check ing its spread. If other cities become ha.tly affected. Ch Iago Is sure to be hit, I>osuse t.f the thousands of travelers «ho arrive dally in Chicago from every point of th« oompsas." From New York word come« that th« grippe, haa begun a devastating irusade in that city and that among its victims have been opera singers and nun) acton and actresaee. There were 63 deaths in the metropolis last week Beside* this there were many deaths from pneumonia, influenced by lhe grippe liacillua Phvaican« in Heaton say there are at least 64I.UOO casee now In that eity. Cincinnsli has 2,001) case« ami physi cian. say tl>at new rum ate dsvsloplug by the «core every hour. LET TROOPfl SrAV. Senator Nawlanda Thinks Needs Them. Goiufiald Washington, lhe. 30.—Senator Near- lamia, ol Nevada, Is endeavoring to pre vent withdrawal of th« guvaroutMk troupe from Goldfield until aom« other luaaus of protection la had. Tuday ha vallali upou Secretary Tati al Ilia War department and strongly utgvd that aa> eeution of Hi« order Issued by the secre tary tor th« withdrawal of th« troopa ba ■iiapended until he lias had an opportu nity to communicate with Governor 8|«tka and induce him to call the Ne vada isgl.lature together. Mt lati baa been advising with Nee- istary R<«4 on this subject and tonight communicated with ths president at Pin« Knot on liie subject. Ther« was every dlspoallloa to refrain from break ing In upon Mr ltoo«ev«ll‘e privacy at tins lune, and lhe only .scuse for do ing so la brand In the tact that, uni**« the original order le nnaliltml, th« troopa must leave Goldfield Iwfore th« president return« to Wa«hlngloii. The «eerstary declined to >l> la what course he Imd recommended in th« matter, nor would lie say whether he liad heard troni the president In turn. Hecreisrfy f-eob said the Whit« lloua« was entirely without advice from Pine Knot, as lhe Goldfield qnaetion was being liendlwl by the War d«parlm«pl. Administration officials feel liuti th« preaent situation In th« matter of Gold- field's cess cannot la-continued, In view of the diuibt that esiats as to th« con atitutlonal and legal right of the ei- ecnlivs to employ any pert of the regu lar army In Nevada under preaeut e- 3- d illune. HENkf GIVtB FULTON A D'Q. Haye AH Impl eaten In Land Frauda Are Benator'e Friend«. Waaliingtun, l>ec. 30 —In an inter view lelegraphed fiora New York, Fran cis J. Heney le quote.I as aaylugt "I hop« to dies these Oregon casse with Mr. Bristol in twoor ihiee weeks " Inquiry at lhe 1>» par I meet of Justice failed to elicit definite information aa to whether or not Mt. Bristol would aa- alal Mr. Henry with the prosecution, tl no new district attorney la appointed ty the time the land trials begin, Mr. Bristol may assist Mr. llensy, but there appears to t>e sn sxpsclalioti lliat a new man will I» available before then, In which case Mr. Bristol will I» out and tie «e nothing to <to with lhe land trials. In the same Intsrvlew Mr. Heney takes another rap at Senator Fulton. Ils deiilee having Implicated Mr. Ful ton in tfis lend fraud«, but adds "All of Uire» persona who have been Implicated In organise.! land frauds ar« friends of Senator Fulton. Therefore it appear« whimsical to in« that Senator ON SECOND STAGE. Fulton should, through the poser of Battleship Fleet L«av«a Trinidad tor •maturisi oourtesy, b« sbls to defeat the nomination cf Mr. Bnatol. who is Rio Janeiro. lapilli« of making II unp'eaaant for th« Port of Spain. Deo. 31.—The Ameri yet uncouvictad land thievee in Dragun." can battleahip Heel weighed anchor at 4 o’clock Sundsy attern<«>n and atasmed UTEB RMD SOUTHERN UTAH for Rio Janeiro. Accompanying the fleet were lira supply shi|i« Culguaaml Pen Up Cewtoeye and Band ef Cattle Glacier. Early In th« morning th« In Canyon signal went up from Rear Admiral Hall lake City, Dee. 30.—Colorado Evan«’ flagship Connect rout Io prepare Ute Indiana ars travsling In bands Hi for dearture at 8 a. m., but owing to a Southern Utah, raiding aheap and cat delay in the coaling of the lattlewhip tlemen, according to a report received Maine from lhe collier Foltuna, it was Accord necesaary to change the time of ealling by Governor John C. Cullar. ing to thia report, a small hand of In 1-ong before the hour set a myriad of ■mallcrrlt, chiefly launches and steam dians attacked ihr*e co«boys near Ven- yachts, moved up and down along the dure Han Juan county, on lircemher 23, and st the morale of rifles com lines nt snehored battleship«, the mer pelled 'hem to drive th« cattle lack ry partie* atxeird shouting farewells to into the canyon from which they were the departing visitors. Thousands of trailing onto the winter range. thr.Wl- resident* climbed tire surrounding trills to view the great strips as Urey moved ening to kill them unless they did ao. outwanl on tlirir journey of S lum miles Cowboys and cattle are still confined to tlie canyon. an<l mor«, while Is sthwls of excursion. The g ivemor will take up the rnat- 1st« went to the small lalands in the : ter with the authorities al Washington, golf and other* to the floating dock to as according to a ruling ol the comrnia- catch th* last glimpse of the shipe aloner of Iridian affair* the Colorado or Tire flee t presented a magnificent ap Southern Utra are forbidden to enter pearance as it steamed out in four « 1- _________________ umns with the supply ship* trailing, a Utah. distance of 404) yards separating one di vision from another. With the Con necticut In the lead the battleehip« headed for the l<o>«a and «teamed ma jestically through ths grand Booa ami thence along the northern roast of Trin idad. An average of from 10 to II knots an hour will carry the fleet to the end of the second lap of the 14,000- rnile journey In abont 12 days, and II was announced by Admiral Evans be fore his de|iarture that he expects to reach Rio Janeiro on Friday evening January 10. Nahv.a Facing a Famine. Hillsdale, .Mich., Dre 31.—Secretary H 8. .Myers, of the general conference of Free Baptists, said trslay "Ac cording to advices just received by me from our missions in Bengal and Oris sa, India, four months nf rain is tbe usual allowance in Lucknow, India, in a year, but during the year 1907 it has rained only four days. The result is famine everywhere. Thousands of the population ars suffering and liefors re lief comes nest August hundreds of thousand, must die unless relief cornee from Christian lands." Declares Labor Union a Trust. Cleveland, O , Dec. 30 —In the Com mon Pleas court tcalay Judge Phillipa held that if the allegations of the cul lers and flattenrra are true, the Amal gamated association of Window Glaea Worker* ia an organisation in restraint of trade. The cutters and flatlenen brought suit to rnjom the asma iatlon from ei|>elllng thrm for act ept Ing em ployment In factories where machinery 1« tsaed in their work. The culler- and flattenera aasrrt that the expulsion clause, if enforced, deprive« them of an occupation. s Attack on Walls-Fargo Provide tor Presidents. Han Francinto, Deo. 30—Before In terstate Commerce Commissioner F. K. Ian« tomorrow charge« of illegnl rat« making made against the Wells-Fargo Express company by the California Commerce •«■.rlatlon will l>e heard. The Commerce aaarnlation, eom|«we<l of prominent drygrsds house« in the city, allege« that the exprrsa company baa violated the interstate commerce law of 1906 In charging more than the pub lished rate, and that II ha* kept the rates filwl with the commission hidden from lhe public, contrary to the law. New York, D<c 31 — Ex-President Grover Cleveland, under the title of "Our People and Their Ex-Preai- rlente," has contributed an interesting article to the Youths' Corr pan ion for January 5. Referring to the poverty of Jefferaon after he left the presidency as a blow to national pride, Mr. Cleveland declares definite and generous provision should b) made for the maintenance ol chief maglatratea. lie deala with the subject at length, and explains that he feels he can do so without his sincerity being questioned. New Orleans, Dec. 30.—"All h Ider« of stock in the Ststs National lank will receive from $150 to $200 per she»« for their st-a-k and all depositor« will be paid In full," ws> the official announcement t<*lay of W Hparkerson, counsel for th* institution, whose di rectors have railed s stonhhirldera* meeting to decide whether lhe bank shall go out of business The tank ha* l>een declared solvent by National Batik Examiner Cooper. Fatal Row Over 6 Cants. San Francisco, Dec. 31. —Arthur Haaaman, a conductor of the United Railroads, was «hot and killed today at ths intersection of Twelfth and Folaom stri-eta by Bonaventure Arclaflf, ■ pas senger. Previously Arcieri had ten dered a transfer which Hasstnsn had refused to honor. He then paid a cash fare and began to a^ne the matter. Hamman slapped Arcieri In the face and the latter drew a revolver and New York, Dec. 31.—That New York •hot Saaaman. City rests on a vast mass of garnets is Earthquake Break« Company. the disoovery of Ralph E. Morgan, an English mineralogist, now visiting Hamburg, Dhc. 31.—The Trana- here. In a mass of rock thrown np Atlantio Fire Inaurance company has from a subway excavation, he disoov* voted to liquidate on account of the ered a large garnet. On tbe dumping fact that more than half ol its capital ground at Hheepehed bay be found a was loat by the Han Franciaoo fire and number ef exMlient garnets. aartbqoaka. Will Liquidate W.th Profit Radical Daclslon In Hamburg. Hamburg, Dec. 30.—The anil of lhe harlor authorities arairst the Port workers' uriloB, growing out of the re cent dock strike, has resulted In a de cision of the «Ideal importaree against the latter. The union Is forbidden in lhe future to Interfere with the intro duction of strike breakers, and a penal ty ol 1,500 marks la provided for each instance in which a conviction is ob tained on th« charge. The union has entered an appeal. Negroes Begin Sulfa. New York, Dec. 30.—Papers in a MB8 to teat the legality of the discharge if the private of companies R, C and D of llta 25th United State« infantry (eo|. ored), following lhe diaorders in the street« cf Brownavllle a year ago. have ba* ptwparaffby a taw firra of thia city.