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A Resume of the Lees Important but
Not Lees Interesting Evento
of the Past Week.
Three jurors have been finally ac
eepted in the Thaw trial.
F. August Heines has been arreatel
for falsely certifying his brother's
checks
New York rent strikers threaten to
burn the tenements it they are ioccibly
ejected.
Officers of the Chicago Great West
ern railway deny that a receiver will
be asked for their road.
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A monument has been erected at
Pomt Loma, Uhl., in memory of the
dead of the Bennington.
New Mexico is working to get a
statehood bill through the senate.
Union with Ariaona is Dot wanted.
Memher* of tbe Mineowner» aasocia-
titon at Goldfield have agreed to pay
an increased wage to specially skilled
wurkmen.
VEBSkL IS SAFE.
Steamer Mount Royal Encountered
Sever« Ut irmr.
Attempted
Queenstown, Jan. A—The long over
due Canadian Pacific steamer Mount
Royal eteaorod slowly into Queenstown
Naw «CLAMA I H INJUaTnY
ALBANY QO i NG A BOQaTlNU
today, and tbe news of her safety was
received with gla.lc.eee In ahippng eir- Stockmen Organize Company to Op Plana Forming tor 4«curaion Into
olsa. She had been last reported off
erate PscKiog House
Mouteern CaHtorria.
Paris, Jan. 7.-—Ths newspapers con
tinu» to give much >p««» to tlie Amer
ican-Japanese situation.
The papers
print an alleged Interview with Count
Aoki. the rattling suitwaaadui ol Japan
at Washington, In whk<b be ia quoted
from Ban Frauclaoo as saying Japan
would consider as an offensive act lus
any attempt on the part of the Unitevi
Statsa to erelude tue Japanese, and
take this as a text for long articles.
Vlaoount Aokl'a denial of thia Inter*
view lisa not yet been published here.
Lacking this d«niai, the Journal Itas-
bats thinks that in hi» interview Count
Aoki has placed his lingers ou the real
■langer s(»>t.
"Japan refir»es to admit that any
where on the globe the Japanese are
svctal y inferior tu any other people,"
say* the taper.
"Japan claims to
have wou the absolute right to lie treat
ed as a great power everywhere, and
under all circumstance«.'*
In the oplnlou of Eclair, if the taro
governments accede to the sentiments
of the people and tlie logical neceesltv
ol the situation, a conflict would ap
pear very imminent.
"But Japan I»
without money. America is not ready,
and we doubtless shall nee both nations
champ their bits awhile longer."
The Gaulois bel is ves that the friend
ly and tactful powers at Washington
will brevent a break.
It leers ouly
that the American people may become
excited- Baron Karuino. the Japanese
anilwMtador to Frame, today gave oat a
statement that he was convinced that
Viscount Aoki only meant that Japan
would consider legislation offensive to
Japan as, for instance. If an exeluaion
act is proposed like the Chinese.
the Limrd, iMcember 10. and watch
was being kept tor her on both »idea
of tbe Atlantic, and as far south as
Bermuda. She left Antwerp Iteceuiber
7 for St. Johns, N. B.
She had on
board 300 Hungarian emigrants and a
crew of about 100 men.
She was definitely sighted off Old
Head of Kinoale, 16 miles »eat of thia
port, early today. She was then pro
ceeding slowly under her own steam,
and sigualed that she »as ooming in
here. She declined tlie help of a tug
sent out to aaeiat her, and came in
alone.
Trouble with her boilers was the
reason the Mount Royal had to put
back. She is at beet a slow boat, and
shortly after leaving the British coast
she encountered a serie* of violent
gales. She battled with the heavy
weather for a fortnight, until Christ
mas eve, when serious trouble with her
boiler* developed.
The rteauier waa
then in longitude 24.50 west and lati
tude 43 north. The engine room staff
ultimately got up steam, but in view of
the weather the captain made for the
Irish coast. Famengers and crew are
well.
Tne Mount Royal officer* described
tbe weather off Lizard as the wont ex
perienced on the Atlantic for many
years.
A grand jury has uncovered gross
fraud and graft in tbe affairs of 8L
have plenty of money
J.veeph, Mo. A number of indictments
have been returned against city offi Petition to Have Standard Oil Bond
cials.
Increased.
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The revenue cutter Theti*. now ata
Chicago, Jan. 8.—District Attorney
tinned at Port Townsend, Wash., will
Edward M. Symes filed a petition to
be moved to Neah bay as a rescue boat
until the new eaa going tug is com day in the United States court of Ap
peals. declaring that the Standard Oil
pleted.
has
assets
The streetcar strike at Muncie, Ind., company, of Indiana,
has been broken.
amounting to mote than 137,000.000,
and asking for an increase in the super-
Four large New York diamond firms
-edeas bond* of that corporation tiled
have gone to tbe wall.
on its appeal from the $29,340,000 fine
Fire at Culbertson. Mont., destroyed imposed by District Judge Landis.
property valued at $135,000.
The government renewed its original
Thousands of men are returning to plea that the bond of the oil company,
pending disposal of the appeal, should
work in all parte of the East.
be the same in amount as the fine. It
In his annual report Secretary Taft was originally fixed at a total of $6,-
urges more pay for the army.
000,000, on statements by attorney*
A scenic electric line will be built to for the defense that the property of
the company at Whiting, Ind., would
tbe Yellowstone National park.
be worth but $3,500,000 to $3,000,000
Senator La Follette is reeoeiving if sold at auction. The other holdings
quite s presidential boom in tbe East. of the company were alleged to be
Rapid progress is being made in se worth, on the same basis, little mor*
The
curing a jury for the second trial of tban $3,000,000 to $4,000.000.
government now charges that the actual
Thaw.
value of the company’s property sub
Seven men were drowned by the
ject to execution is largely in excess of
overturning of a skiff in the Missouri
$3,000,000 and tbe profits of tbe com
river near Kickapoo, Kan.
pany for tbe three year* embraced in
The mieeing steamer Mount Royal the indictments against it were $23,-
has been sighted off Ireland and a 067,126, and that the profits of the
aUamer »ent to her assistance.
company for 1906 alone—the year in
Fully 50,000 men have returned to which tbe indictments were returned—
th« ir old places in Ohio as the result were $10,516,062.
of general
activity.
resumption of commercial
PLUNGE OFF BRIDGE.
It is estimated that there are 125,- Wreck on Southern Railway Kill*
000 persons out of work in New York
Three and Hurts 80.
City. An appeal far aid has been made
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 8.—Running at a
to the nation, state and city.
Many deeperate criminals infest San speed of 30 miles an hear, the second
section of an excursion train on the
Francisco and Oakland.
Tbe second trial ' f Harry Thaw for Southern railway from Cleveland,
tbe murder of Stanfcrd White has known as the Collver Special, and
bound for Florida pointe,
plunged
started.
through a trestle over Copper Mme
Ambassador Aoki reiterated Japan- creek, about 30 miles west of Atlanta,
w>e friendship in a farewell speech at today, and as a result, three persons
Ban Francisco.
■ re dead, two others fatally injured and
Strikes in New York for lower rent 80 passengers were so seriously injured
are being settled by concessions on ths as to require medical attention.
It was nearly midnight when the
part of landlords.
Southern railway relief train reache«!
Japanese spies are said to be making
Atlanta bearing tbe body of Engineer
sketches and photographs around Port
James Edwards and about 50 of the in
T.iwnsend, Wash.
jured, among whom were Mrs. Emil
Haywood says the acquittal of Petti Hoover, of Columbus, Ohio, who is in
bone is a vindication for the Western a dying condition, and Florence A. Stu
Federation of Miners.
debaker, of Cleveland, internally in
Tbe Vancouver chief of police has jured and probably fatally hurt. Fore
refused to search Japanese for arms for man of Engines Schnapp and the negro
fireman,
Moae Baldwin, died soon
for fear of stirring up further trouble.
after reaching the city. Many of the
The three men entombed at Ely., other injured were lifted from the car
Nev., by a cavein in a mine December window in Atlanta and conveyed to
4 have not been reached yet by the hospitals, while some ot tbe hurt were
rescuers.
able to take cabs to hotels.
M. Harmand, ex-French minister to
After Government Land.
Japan, likens tbe situation between
the United states and Japan to a mine
Denver, Jan. 8.—Half a dozen suits,
which might easily be set off.
naming more tban three score defend
ants, for tbe recovery of thousands of
The jury has disagreed in the Power* acres of land estimated to be worth
cave. Tbe next htrial is set for July Beveral million dollars, were begun to
6. Powers is accused of complicity in day by the government in the Federal
the murder of William Goebel.
court here
The men accused of tim
Rio Janeiro is preparing hospitality ber, coal and other land frauds in tbe
indictments recently quashed by Judge
for tbe battleship fleet.
R. E. Lewis are defendants in these
The governor has ordered out troops
suits. Should the government win in
to suppress the Muncie, Ind., riots.
the present proceedings the lands in
The counties of Yarmouth, Harry volved will sgain be placed in the pub
Thaw’s sister, is suing for a divorce.
lic domain and thrown open.
Witte and Kuropatkin have had a
wordy controversy over the Rosso-Jap
anese war.
Banks of the country have made a
large Increase in business for the year
just ended.
Foraker denounces ths method of
holding Ohio primaries, while Taft
men defend them.
A hospital ship will be equipped ¡at
the Mare Island navy yard which will
meet the big fleet at Magdalena bay.
Judge Hunt has sent four Bntta labor
leaders to jail for contempt in connec
tion with the telephone strike in that
city.
The State bank of Rocky Fork, Colo.,
has suspended.
Seven of the nine companies of Unit
ed States Infantry at Goldfield have
been withdrawn.
Europe Is anxlcn«ly watching devel
opments l>et ween the United States and
Japan. The next two months are con-
si lered critical.
Asiatic labor is causing a crisis
British oolonies.
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J A.'AN WOUi D TAKE OFFENSE
Yucatan Has Big Scandal.
Merrill—The organiation ot the Kla
Albany—Plans are prosrassln* favor
math Packing A Commercial company, ably for Albany's "boosting" sxcur-
M. H. Gibbons,
incorporated ia about complete.
Tbe sion to Loa Angeles.
I who la arrangiti* the trip, stated that
capital stock ta $500,000.
practically enough business men had
Tlie couipauy has purchaee,! of N. B. J^aiBed'titolr~’lntatntk«i of
ing to
Merrill ten acts* of land at the foot of assure the excarmoa. Ths partv »ill
Front str.et, bordering on Lost riv«r. leave Albany probably Feb. 10, in a
The object of the concraii will be to special oar, which
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will be decorated
pack and ship all kinds of meat.
lour with appropriate banners, and every
ing the past season over 36.000 head ot where in CBIIfornia literature will be
mttle and sheep have been driven distributed advertising Albany and
through this city to Montague and Linn county.
The party will make
thence shipped to Sacramento and Oak stops at Red Bluff, Sacramento, Oak
land, where they are slaughtered for land, San Francisco. Han Jose. Bakers
market.
field and Loe Angeles and receptions
There are many conditiona which will be strangely for it at each point.
make thia long drive and shipment un At 1 am Angeles the party will disband
satisfactory. Among th«we are the l«isa and its members will return whenever
of flesh on the 100-mil« drive, the dam they desire.
aging of meat caused by the goad stick
of the cattender, the fevered condition
Many Countioa Represented.
resulting from the close confinement,
University of Oregon, Eugene—The
the cramped position in the crowded
following tsble. taken from the records
cars, and the general undtnees for
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office, CUI'WO
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market of the four footer» upou arrival
I students of the University ot Oregon
at their destination.
come trom every county in the staie.
The slaughter of these animals in
; There are now in attendance in the de
tbia county will insure perfectly health-'
partments at Eugene, exclusive of mu
ful and palatable meat, will eliminate
sic, 400 students, which is the largset
the shrinkage, and will double the
body of students of college rank enrolled
profits of the «tick raiser, as he will
any institution
receive not only his first profit aa pro- In
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tially earning their own way.
Most of
Because of the lateness of the season,
them are regiatered from the smaller
comparatively little wort can be done
cities of the etate that ea$rport gooii
thia yeai, but the company will be put
‘The following counties
upon a working basis and tevera) hun
are represented
Baker, Clackamae,
dred head of bogs will be converted
Clatsop. Columbia, Co«», Curry, Doug
into hams, bacon and lard. Early next
las, Gilliam, Grant, Jackson, Joeeph-
spring conveniences for tbe preparation
in«. Klamath, Lane, Linn, Marion,
of all by-products will be installed.
Multnomah, Polk, Sherman, Tillamock,
Umatilla, Union, Wasco, Washington,
W has hi ng ton, Wheeler, Yamhill.
ASK TIME ON RANGE TAX.
Wallowa Sheapmsn Don’t Want to Pay
• 14,000 Until Naxt August.
Toronto, Ont., Jan. 8.—Local option
Leadera of the Russian Revolution
was voted on yesterday in a number of
ary party have bran arrested.
small towns, villages and townships in
Rockefeller has given another $2,* Ontario. Returns from 68 sbow that
4)00,000 to Chicago university.
it was defeated in >7 and carried in 21.
Board Raises Teacher»' Pay.
Oregon City—The teachers of the
city schools will receive a eubatantial
Enterprise—At a meeting of the
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inervase in
In salaries
aalarlee next vear.
year. This
inis
Wallowa County Woolgrowere, in this
assured at tbe annual meeting of
city, resolutions were adopted request- | the local district, at which a special
ing the government to defer collection tax of 31» mills was tavlul. The levy
of range dues until after shearing, or ta 1 rnllli n excess of the recommends-
■bout August 1.
The theepmen of i tiom of the board of directors, and the
Wallowa pay about $14,000 for rent of 'excess will be added to ths salat lee of
ranges, and this would be hard to raise, tbe teachers, makmg tlie amount ex-
I pended next year about $10,000, in
under the present rcarvity of money.
It was recommended tliat tbe present compariaon with $8,000 for the year
county bounty of $1.50 a head on coy just cloeed. The annual report of the
otes be continued, and 11» cents ■ head directors shows the sehcxvls to be in a
tax on sheep be levied to pay for It. flourishing condition, and the financial
There are 146,000 sheep being fed in report shows that the floating indebt-
Wallowa county this winter. Twenty- ednese is $900 lees than last year.
two sheepmen joined the state aasivia-
tion and with the $2 yearly dues and
GIG to O. A. C. Girls.
$2 Meeesment on esrch 1,000 sheep
Corvallii—The gift of Mrs. Clara II.
shrared last June, tbe sum ot $257 was Waldo, state grange lecturer, to Wal<io
collected and sent to the state body.
hall, the young «ronien'a dormitory, Is
probably the ctwtlieet present ever do
nated to the Oragon Agricultural col
To Develop Oregon Borax.
Since the dedication of Waldo
Burns—Tbe Oregon Borax company, lege
of which Joseph Gaston, of Portland, hall the gift of Mrs. Waldo baa been
ia president, has commenced the work anticipated, but its arrival, which was
of developing tbe sola and borax de recent, completely overwhelmed all ex
posits at Alkali lake, on tbe edge of pectations. It is a beautiful clock of
Lake county near the Harney county i old fashioned type, which, from Its
ponderous
line at Gray’s Butte. A large amount ■ solid cherry case to its
speaks
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old
Puritan
of lumber tia« been ordered for perma I weights,
nent buildings, and Superintendent times.
Zell Young, with a party of carpenters,
New Hospital Completed.
is on the ground to carry on the work.
Chemawa—Frederick JL Erixon.fof
In addition to these preparations, the
sheet iron for boiling and settling Salem, has completed and turned over
tanks has been ordered in California . to the Iodian school the spacious brick
and will be shipped up to the lake by hospital for which he had the contract.
the narrow-gauge railroad from Reno The contract price was $19,978. The
to Alturas, where the tanks will be building is complete with steam heat
ing, electric lighting, sewer system and
constructed on the grounds.
the latest improved plan of ventilation.
The building is well adapte«l for both
Warnings to Entrymen.
Lakeview—The numerous decisions sexes an J is equippetl with fumigating
rendered the commissioner of the gen rooms and operating rooms, in addi
era) land office no longer leave any tion to the dispensary, offices, etc.
doubt in the minds of homesteaders as
to what they must do if they expect to
bold the lands in the Southern Otegon
pine belt.
In every caase of contest
where it wa- shown that the home
steader had failed to comply with the
law in any particular, no matter how
trivial, the decision has gone to the
contestant and the homestead entry
has been ordered cancelled.
Clyde Sayne Acting President.
Salem—The executive committee of
the rtate normal w-hoola has elected C.
E. Payne, of the department of science
at Ashland normal, to serve as acting
president tot the remainder of this
year in the place of B. F. Mulkey, re
signed.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Officials Are Strict.
Pendleton—That the O. R. A N. off*
cis Is intend to enforce the rule of the
company to the letter is shown by an
action taken by which Conductor C.
H. Norrie of the Pendleton-Huntingtcn
passenger run bee been taken out of
service because officials of the com
pany found the gas lighte burning In
the baggage car cl an O. R. A N. train
at Durkee a few days ago at 10 a. m.
As the conductor has charge of the
train he is supposed to see that all the
minor regulations are observed, at all
times.
8hort Courses Popular.
Corvallis—Much intereet is being
manifested in the coming short courses
at the Oregon Agricultural college. No
pains have been spared to make the
work this year mere complete and ex-
teneie than ever before, and some of
the beet lecturers in the state are on
the program. The new short courses
begin January 7 and include instruc
tion in general agriculture, dairying,
horticulture, mechanical arts,
and
household science.
City of Mexico, Jan. 8.—Seven hun
dred and forty thousand dollars ia mias-
ing from the Ban of Y’ucatan, according
to reports received here today from
Merida. Following the disappearance
of this enormous amount, Fernando U.
Roderiguex.
sub-director, and Mate
Ponce, ex-caehier of the bank, with ten
other persons, have been arrested. All
of the* money missing is said to have
been new bank notee and was taken
from a strong safe to which there were
Gold Cane for Cslbreath.
two keys.
Two other officials of the
Salem—The medical staff of the Ore
bank have also been arrested.,
gon state insane arlynrn last week pre
sented Buperintemlent J. F. Calbreath
Takahlra the Man.
with a fine goldheaded cane as a token
Tokio, Jan. 8.—While the selection of their esteem.
Dr. Calbreath has
of Baron Takahlra, Japanese ambas served eight years as superintendent
sador to Italy, to succeed Viscount and lias enojoye«! very harmonious re
Aoki at Washington has not been offi latione with hie subordinates and with
cially announced, it is admitted at the the board of trustée«. Hie second term
Foreign office that the appointment ha» ended January 1, when be waa sumeed-
been decided upon.
The Associated ed by Dr. E. L. Steiner.
Press understands that instructions
have been forwarded to the Japanese
Eugene Invites Visitors.
charge d’affaires st Washington to an
Eugene—The promotion depsrtment
nounce to the State department tbe of the Eugene Commercial club has
nomination of Baron Takahira.
had notices printed and will hang them
Ontario Vote* on Local Option.
E actúalo a
Will
Provahe
Insult, Bay» Aokl
Butter—Fancry creamery, 32%(£3Sc
per pound.
Veal—76 to 125 ponnds, 9c; 125 to
150 pounds, 7c; 150 to 200 pounds, 50
«Ho.
Poultry—Average old hens, 14016c
per pound; mixel chickens, 14c; spring
chickens, 14c; roosters, 8($10c; dress
ed chickens, 14c; turkeys, live, 16017c;
dressed, choice, 18020c; geese, live, 9
010c; ducks. 15c; pigeons, $101.50;
squabs, $203.
Eggs—Fresh ranch, candled, 300
32per dozen.
Pork—Block, 75'4150 pounds, 6J*0
7>*c; packers, 6J4<<$7H c .
Wheat—Club, 84c; bluestem, 86c;
valley, 84c; red, 82c.
Oats—No. 1 white, $27.50028; gray,
$27.500 28.
Harley—Feed, $27 per ton; brewing,
$32; rolled, $30.
Corn—Whole, $32; cracked, $33.
Hay—Valley timothy, No. 1. $18 per
ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, $21(422;
clover, $15; cheat, $15; grain hay, $16
016; alfalfa, $15; vetch, $14.
Fruita—Apples, 75c0$2 per box;
peaches, 75c(4$2per crate; pears, $1.26
'41-75 per box; cranberries, $9.50012
per barrel.
Vegetables—Turnips, 75e per rack;
carrots, 65c per sack; beets, $1 per
rack; beans, 15c per pound; cabbage,
1c per pound; (auliflower, 75c(4$l per
dozen; celery, $3.250 3 50 per crate;
onions, 15020c per dozen; parsley,
20c per d'zen; pem, 10c per pound;
peppers, 8017c per pound; pumpkins,
l@lj^cper pound; radishes, 20c per
dozen; spinach 6c pier pound; sprouts,
8010c per pound; squash, lQlLic per
pound; tomatoes, $2 per box^
Onions—$1.6001.75 per hundred.
Potatoes—40060c per hundred, de
livered Portland; sweet potatoes, $2.75
03 per hundred.
Hope—1907, prim* and choice, 50
7J4c 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, choioe, 29030c per
in every depot in the state, to the effect
that strangers will be marie welcome
at the rooms of the club, and inviting
any visitors to visit the city of Eu
gene. The cards state that the club has
nothing to sell, but in anxious to bs of
any service It can to strangers.
pound.
SOLDIERS CALLED HOME.
Hundreds of Japanese Leaving Brit
tas Columbia.
Vancouver, B. C., Jan. 7. — Hundreds
of Japanese, whose terms of service In
th« mikado's army liad not been com
pleted or who were on th« reestv« list
of fighting men, lisve bsen called home
to Japan.
Dvaena of Japanese quit their work In
Vancouver yesterday, and many mor«
ar* coming Into town today. Already
they are securing passage on vessels
outbound across the Pacific from Van
couver and Victoria. March 15 ia giv
en as the day when they must report
ready for whatever duty Is in store for
them.
The gathering of the Japanese la be
ing carried out with much secrecy. No
less than 200 landed In a bunch thia
morning from s
«mail
American
steamer, which slipped io and out of
the harbof before daylight and neither
entered oor cleared from tbe cuatoms
bouse.
Since Friday there has been a steady
stream of the brown men from the
logging camps.
No Japanese in th*
city will admit the coming of the order
for tbe return of ths eoldien, but offi
cer of the Asiatic Exclusion league
declare that they have abaoluts iulorm
at ion tlmt thio order has been received
in Vancouver since the departure of
the American fleet for Pacific waters.
CHICAGO TENANTS ORGANIZE.
Ghetto Residents Demand Reduction
in High Rants.
Chicago, Jan. 7.—Five hundred resi
dents of Chicago's ghetto formol last
night a Tenants' union with the avowed
purpose of forcing landlord* of the
district to reduce rents $2 a month.
Leaders of the movement advised the
memtiers of the new organization to re
fuse to pay the present rates which
were declared exorbitant and to force
the landlords to take all legal steps and
pay all court costs in case the latter
refuse to meet the demands for lower
prices.
At present, it was declared, four
rooms in a ghetto tenement cost $12 a
month, five rooms $18 a month and
six rooms $22. A flat reduction of $2
is sought.
The movement will be modeled after
the one In New York. It is the hope
of its leaders that it may spread to
laboring classes throughout the city.
With this end in view a committee was
appointed to confer with the Chicago
Federation of fjilior and seek the CO-
operation of that body.
More Rent Riots.
New York, Jan. 7.—Incipient rent
riots broke out on the East Hide yee
terday as a result of the tension be
tween the landlords and the striking
tenants, and before the disorders were
quelled by the police reserves, which
were call«! from several precincts,
many comtatanta were injured and
five were arreeted.
The police use«I
their clubs freely, but there was no
way to obtain the number of injure«!,
aa they hnrrietl away and were cared
for by friends.
The disorders were
general throughout the^istrict.
DECISION REVERSED
Syrern Cwt Orden New Trill
1er Vlllliinsoo.
JUOüt ADVISED JURY WIONGLY
Law Doss Net Rs quire Oath Denyirg
Agreement to Boll Whin Mak
•»•E Final Proof.
Washington, Jan. 7.—Itecene» the
judge belore whom si-Reprvaeiitatlve
Wlllistuaon was trleil erred in hi* iu
structlona to thè jury, thè judgnieut ot
thè lowet oourt waa yeeterday revetsed
bv thè United States Supreme court
and thè rase reinandeil fot retritl
That thè indietnrent «a» oorrect. tliat
thè tnluilasion ot «vldenM waa in ac
cordane» wlth law and that thè ralinga
of thè court were rlght and proper ■»
stilimeli, bui becauae thè trial judge
erred in admlttlng ecrtaln testirnony
wlth regwrd lo tinsi proof and becau»«
he erroneously inatructed ih» jury «Ith
regard to thi» Mnr» rvidetice, thè wl hole
ca»« must agaln go to trial or th» In-
dictuieut uniat Ire quaahed
The Supreme court conatrues the
tlmber and stona set »|w<eitically to re
quire entrymen, at th» tim» ot maklng
application (or land, to aubmlt au atti
davit ot giawi taith, ahowlng that they
bave no agieenivnt, actiral or iinplied,
to teli thè lami npon acquiring titl».
but thè te la no requlremeut that auch
ati affidavit aliali l>e made when linai
proof ia snbmitted. The Indlctineiit ol
Willianison made speciflc reference to
thè affidavit requlrod by law, and ilid
not mention tire »imitar affidavit whlch
ia exacted by thè land office istillatimi»
at ih» Urne of final proof. Yelsvldence
waa admitted to show tliat vartona en-
trytnen hml ccmmitted per jury in mak-
ing auch affidavit» wlth thsir final
pool, and III» judge. in Ina InstructioiM
to th» jury, specltically inforrueil It that
it could return a venirci of gullty il est
Isfled that tlie evidsnee showetl auch
per jury had been committed at the
tini» ot tnaklng final proof.
The ad
tu isolar, of that evldem-e and thè ía-
sttuctiona retatili* thrreto pioved tlie
undolng of thè csseagainsl Williamson.
RAILROADS TAKE MEDICINE.
Rate Law Accepted With Good Grace
by Nearly All.
Washington, Jan. 7. — More signifi
cant and important, perh*(w, than any
oilier atatement in the twenty-first an
nual report of the Interstate Gnninerce
commission, which was transmitted
today to congress, is that relating to
the attitude of railway officials toward
tbe new railrisul law. In a discussion
ol the operation of ths act, the oom mis
sion says:
"By railway managers, almost with
out exception, ths emended law has
been arx-epted in gcxxl faith, and they
exhibit, for the most pait, a sincere
and earnest disposition to conform
their methods to its requirements."
The cotnruiasmn adds that it was not
expected that reforms could I* brought
atiout without difficulty or delay, but it
Is unquestionably the fact that great
progress has liven made, and that fur
ther improvement ia clearly aeaured.
To a gratifying extent there has lieeii
adjustment of rstes and of "shusea"
by the carrier* themselves. Methods
and usages of one sort and another
which operated to individual advantage
have lieen voluntarily stoppeil and it >a
not too much to say that there la now a
free.lorn from forbidden discriminations
which is actual and general to a degree
never before apptiached. As thia pro
cess goer, on, as special privileges dis
appear an<l favoritism ceases to lie even
sus;iei'ted, the indirect but not l<-»s cer
tain lieneflts of the law will become
more and more apparent.
Hince the new rate becaaie effective
on October 24, 1906, the comtni-aslon
lias granted relief in the form of cor-
rective orders in many cams. Upon
November 4, 1907, tire commission had
rendered decisions in 105 contested
esses. In 45 ol these orders were made
against the defendant carriers; In 45
the complaints wre dienibsed.
RUEF GOEB TO JAIL
Leavss Mumptuou» Quarters tor a
Felon's Cell,
Han Franctoso. Jan.
6.— Quartate
were ai tanged al Ilia county jail today
(or Alie Ruef, the d«|iuoed lioea ot Hau
Franclsou, who, sluoe hie arrest sight
mouths ago, has occupied a suite of
looms In a |>rlvat» bouse und»t a spec
ial guard.
Sheriff O'Nail, the Hohmlti politician,
goes out ot office on January H. anti hie
p'acs will be taken by larry Ikilan,
ebaaea at the last election.
Judge
Dunne, who r«tua««l to place Hunt In
the county jail while O'Neil waa sheriff
(or tear Itial O'Ntll would allow the
prisoner to «Map», has unl«rr«l that
Ruel be transferred from hts parlor
prlMin as »ion as Ikilan aaaumes office.
Kuef will join the aaeeiiihl»*» ol dis-
tinguiaheil clllaena who have moved
from their liomra on the heights to the
branch jail. Knot will urcupy a cell
near that in whli h »»-Mayor Hi*hinita
reptwrs
He will have as n»ighl>ors
I ahi la (I lass, the millionaire manager
ot the I’aclflo State« Tsivphons com-
|vanjr, who waa convict«.! ol bribery; J.
I>ali»ll Brown, Walter J. Itartnett
and James Treadsrell, th« banker wloea
arrest followed the «ipsurwul the rot-
tenor»» ol the Cal (forms Hate Itrposlt
A Trust com|«ny, and George D. Col-
lias, ths tricky attorney who asa
brought lack hotn Catials to lacw
«barges o| bigamy and perary.
Ruel has lieen alloaeil to or«lel hí»
meals aa deal re. t and Las been living on
the brat in tlie land, lie 1» lar more
tlian a millionairs, and lie liss liceti al-
low««l a gn at «leal of liberty as a leeult
of the form of tils imprisonment.
All
this will now 1« changed.
Just »hat
effect this will have on Ruel's reluesl
bi testify without immunity remains to
bs seen. It Is thought that a gm«l Isa's
of reel prison III« may cause Ruef to
later hla views.
FINE FOR EXPRESS COMPANIES
Neg Ise ted to File Data Asked for by
Railroad Commission.
Lincoln, Neb., Jan. fl.—Alleging that
the United States, the Adams and the
American Express companies had failed
to tlie Hie amoants of the salaiira of
the officers and the assets and liabilities
of the ooncerns with the Nebraska State
Railway oomtniselon. County Attorney
Tyrrell I.«lay filed a penal suit in tlie
County court, asking that the fins pro
vided by the statute be Imposed.
That ths three eiprses cvimpanlre
neglected to file the date demand« d by
the I'ommlssion and January 1 was set
as the final date tor the appears! oe of
the o->mplets reports.
The railway
cooinilseiou notified Attorney Genera)
Thompson of the delinquency and he
directed County Attorney Tyrrell to be
gin proceedings.
Ths railroad commlMioo law paise.1
by the last seaaioti of the legislature
prescribe« a penalty of from (500 to
$5.000 for refusing to furnish the in
formation demanded by the rommis
sion. Ths laws direct that sei vice 1»
made upon the local »gents of the cur-
|s rations charged with violating the
laws.
PETTIBONE FREE
Jury Acquits Him of Complicity In
Steunenberg Murder.
Boise, Jan. 6.—The end of the prose
cution of ths men charged with lire
murder of ex-governor Frank Hteunen-
tieig with the exception of the cases < f
llarry Orchard and Jack Simpkins,
came Kslurdsy with the acquittal of
George I'ettllione.
Charles II. Moyer,
president of the Western Federation of
Miner», was formally released at 4
o'clock, »nd will return with Psttlhono
in a few days to Denver.
The case of On-hard, the self-con-
te««e<l assassin of Htsunenlierg, is In
the bands of Prosecuting Attorney Van
Duyn, of Canyon aunty. No state
ment ns to the future prcaediire In that
case has lieen rnrule, but it will Ire
called during the next term of court
at Caldwell, when It will prolwldy lie
finally disposed of.
Simpkins, a member of the executive
1« sc rd of the Western Federation of
Miners, who is charged with compli
city In the crime, is s fugitive from
justice and the charge against him will
stand.
Warrants for Eviction.
New York, Jan. 7.— More than 50(1
warrants for the sviction of tenants
participating in the strtte for lower
rente were issued Imlay in the Munici
pal court. The papers authorise Im
mediate eviction of the tenants against
whom they were drawn. It will un
doubtedly take a score of marshals
nearly two weeks to serve the noti ea
The tenants are maintaining a stout
fight and announced tmlay that the
landlords of 61 houses had already
agreed to reduce rente. The hast Hide
was calm today.
Soon Ready to Run Trains.
Chicago. Jan. 6.—The management
of the Chicago, Milwaukee A Hl. I'aul
ralined announced today that a Gain
service »ill lie established January 12
to Marmath, Mont., 30 miles west of
Bowman, N. I)., the pn-rent terminus
of the road's western extension. While
construction crews ate advancing »eat-
ward from Marmath, others ate work
ing eastward along the Musaellahell
valley. It is thought that the two
lines will lie connectsd and that
through trains will lie running lietween
St. Paul and Butte before June 1.
Give Back Indian Land.
8tock Show at Denver.
Denver, Jan. 7.—One of tbe biggest
crowds of the year will lie in fienver
January 20-25, to attend the Denver
Livestock exposition.
During rtock
show week there will be held a grand
horse fair, public sales of pure bred
cattle under the direction of the Na
tional Breeders' asetx-iation, the 11th
annual convention of the American
National Livestock
association, the
eighth annual convention of the Colo
rado Horaegrowers’ association and the
convention of the Colorado Graingrow
er*’ association.
Washington,
Jan. 7 —Robert L
Owen, United States senator from the
new state of Oklahoma, has lieen under
investigation by the Interior depart
ment. As a result, Secretary Garfield
proposes to lustitnte a suit in th« Fed
eral courts to cancel certain deeds held
by the senator in violation, It is al
leged, of the law. Mr. Garfield Is alive
to the situation.
Senator Owen has
been greatly concerned over the inves
tigation mtule by the Interior depart
ment ami will fight to keep the land.
He la wealthy and can afford the fight.
Ask Carnegie to Help.
New York, Jan. fl — An attempt to
Interest Andrew Carnegie in modern
tenements in New York is one of the
results of the rent strike which has
lieen on for several days. It lias lieen
proposed that the slty purchase a blrw-k
or two In lite thickly cong« st rd East
Hide and there build modern t.-neii« nta
which would be rented at a low price.
There seems to be no pro-pe* I of the
city lielng able to do this, at present at
least, so leader» in the atr ike move,
ment will try to get Mr. Carnegie to
erect these buildings.
Favors Local Option Law.
Wreckage Come* Ashore.
Providence,
R. I., Jan. 7.—The
washing ashore of a large amount of
wreckage, including four hatches, and
part of a name hoard which bore the
letters "B I M" on Block ¡aland today
led the lifesaving crew at Handy Point
to the belief that a schooner went
aahore somewhere between Long island
and Block island last night. Special
patrols from tbe life saving station
searched the shore, but nothing waa
found to identify the vessel.
Columbus, O., Jan. 7.—The message
of Governor Harris was real to the leg
islatore yesterday afternoon. The gov
ernor urges the enactment of a hill pro
viding for general primary elei lions
with the Anatra lian liai lot system;
placing of telephone companies under
supervision of the state railnad com
mission, with power to regulate rates,
and commends to the favorable consid
eration of the araembly the adoption of
county local option.
No News of Mount Roysl.
St. John, N. B., Jan. fl.—Although
It Is four weeks since the Canadian
Pacific steann r Mount Royal mi led
from Antwerp for this port with .304
Immigrants and a crew of more than
100, and nothing ha* been heard of her
in that, time, the officiate of the line
have not alwndoned hope that she ia
atill afloat. They are extremely anx
ious, nevertheless, and fear that the
vessel ia drifting about the Atlantic in
practically a helpleaa condition.
From Japan to Portland.
Work for 6,000 Men.
Bt. Louis, Jsn. 7.—According to sn-
notincement made today an aggregate
of 6,000 men will be re-employed Jan
uary 13 by many large Industrial
planto In East fit. Louis, III., and vi-
einlty.
Victoria, B. C., Jan. 7.—According
to advices by the steamship Empress of
China toilay, a leading paper of Tokio
says the Osaka Hhoshen Kayaahs Is
preparing to open s steamship line be
tween Portland, Or., and Japan and
China.
Mu4t Not Reduce Retes.
| Sioux Falls, Jan. 6.— Jndge Garland,
of the Federal court, today leaned a
temporary injunction reetralning the
South Dakota Railway
commission,
from reducing paseenger rates from 8
to 2jg cents per mile.