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About The news=record. (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Or.) 1907-1910 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 24, 1909)
THE NEWS-RECORD Issued Once a Wee'i ENTERPRISE OREGON NEWS OFTHE WEEK In a Condensed Form for Our Easy Readers. A Resume of the Let Important but Not Less interesting Events of the Past Week. Carroll D. Wright, the noted econ omist, is dead. Mrs. Yerkes accuses her executor of paying her income with talk. Harriman announces that he will spend millions on railroad extensions in the West. English surffagettes are still busy in an effort to secure recognition before parliament. J. M. Dickinson, of Tennessee, is said to have been selected as Taft's secretary of war. The Utah senate has turned down a . drastic anti-saloon bill for a more con servative measure. A new branch railroad is to be built from Spokane to connect with the Crow's Nest Pass line of the Canadian Pacific. Report says Ethel Roosevelt is on the verge of becoming engaged to Willim Phillips, third assistant secre tary of state. King Alfonso witnessed a flight by Wright in hia aeroplane, but the ruler was forbidden to accompany the fam ous aeronaut. . Fire at Lvoelock, Nev., destroyed property valued at $40,000 and for a time threatened destruction of the en tire town. The lives of 30 people were endangered. The courts have decide!) that the Snell fortune shall go to a niece. Castro has left Berlin on account of the large number of beggars bothering him. The United States sent $1,000,626 in cash to the Italian earthquake suf ferers. Prince Ferdinand has asked the pow ers to recognize the independence of Bulgaria. . Guardians have been appointed for a German prince of the royal family be cause of his extravagances.' A number of the Danish royal fam ily were on the cruiser which was rammed by a freight steamer. Fifty villages and 50,000 acres of land are under water in Prussia as a result of the Elbe river being out of its banks. Trains cannot get across the Rocky mountains in Colorado on account of the heavy snow. All roads have large gangs of men at work. Grand Duke Vladimir is said to have been involved in a conspiracy to ap ' point a regency for the czar and an in vestigation had just started when he died. An immense irrigation scheme is planned in New Mexico which will water 500,000 acres. The largest dam in the world will be built to store the necessary water. Hill has incorporated a company to build railroad in Canada. Governor Gillett will sign the bill closing all California racetracks. A permanent tariff reform organiza tion has been formed at Indianapolis, Three San Francisco firemen were injured while rescuing Chinese from a burning building. English and Soctch suffragettes started a riot in an attempt to inter view Premier Asquith. The Kansas legislature has passed a .bill prohibiting the sale of liquor by druggists except as used in prescrip tions. The California senate has gone on record as favoring election of United States senators by direct vote of the people. The International opium conference is in session at Shanghai, China, in an endeavor to devise plans to stop the use oi the drug. Frequent quarrels betwen opposing attorneys mark the progress of the Calhoun trial in San Francisco. The jury is not yet complete and 12 Bpecial venires have been exhausted. The opening of .the Portland gate way, so that passenger traffic from the bast could go to the Sound over Harri man lines to Portland and from there over Hill roads, would affect railroads throughout the United States. King Edward has opened the British parliament. The BenaU is likely to recommend that half the navy be kept in the Pa cific Explosion of gas in an English coal mine cost 180 lives. Soldiers at Fort Worden, Wash., boat up the Port Townsend police. King A lfonso is determined to make a flight in Wright a aeroplane. , An attempt to revive the anti-Jap schoolb ill in the California legislature failed. At the present rate a month will be required to secure a jury in the Cal boun bribery case. MANY WIRES DOWN IN EAST. Telegraph Companies Expect Weeks of Repair Work. Chicago, Feb. 19. In point of dam age done, it was learned today that the storms of last Saturday, Sunday and Monday were the worst ever experi enced by the telegraph companies and railroads. Thousands upon thousands of poles are still dawn, and hundreds of miles of wires are prostrate. Throughout the states of Indiana, Ohio, New York, West Virginia, Penn sylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Dela ware and all of New England, tele graphic service is curtailed, and in sec tions discontinued. One Eastern rail road alone is said to have lost 80 miles of cable. Every repair man in the afflicted territory is still working to the limit, but resetting poles in frozen ground is slow work and it will be weeks, it is said, before normal condi tions are restored. ENGULF PERSIAN HAMLETS. Quakes Swallow Whole Villages With Inhabitants. Teheran, Feb. 19. The government of Burujurd, a town in Southwestern Persia, has sent out agents to investi gate the damage wrought by the earth quake of January 23. The center of disturbance apparently was two days' journey from Burujurd. Up to the present time only meager reports have reached here. The devastation was particularly severe in the mountainous region between Burujurd and Luristan province. It has been already estab lished that 15 villages were wholly or partially destroyed and it is estimated that the total number will undoubtedly be more than 50. ' Only a small proportion of the inhab itants of the area where shocks were most severe escaped. Some villages disappeared completely, and no trace can be found of the hamlets of Bahrem and Leben. It appears that not a sin gle soul belonging to these communi ties was left alive. A severe quake was felt at Ispahan, 100 miles away, the morning of January 23. VON BUELOW IN CONTROL. German Chancellor Again in Kaiser's Favor as Advisor. Berlin, Feb. 19. "Upon the solu tion of the finance problem depends the power and safety of the nation." These words, spoken by Chancellor von Buelow, in an address delivered before the German Agricultural asso ciation, signalize the government's purpose to push the fight for the finance bill with increased vigor, taken with the chancellor s declaration that he "is likely to remain in office longer than his adversaries hope." Ihey are thought to mean that Prince von Buelow is again restored to favor, since it is improbable that he would make such a remark without the authorization of the kaiser. The forthcoming fight in the rcichs tag promises to assume an acutely criticaf character, as every ' important leature of Prince von Buelow's plan for increasing the nation's revenue is violently opposed by one faction or an other. On the other hand, the steady increase in the annual deficit in time of peace is creating a situation which the government feels to be impossible. Object to Panama Line. Sacramento, Cal., Feb. 19. By a vote of 43 to 30, the amendment by Assemblyman Grove L. Johnson, of Sacramento, striking out all references to the report of United States Senator Joseph L. Bristow, of Kansas, special i'anama Kailroad commissioner, in the resolution by Senator J. B. Sanford, caning upon congress to establish a government owned line of steamships between California ports and Panama was made this afternoon by the lower house of the legisliature. This places the assembly on record as being op posed to the proposed b plan to estab lish a steamship line to compete with the Harriman interests. High Honor to Dr. Angell. Ann Arbor, Mich., Feb. 19. Dr, James B. Angell submitted his resig nation as president of the University of Michigan -toduy and was offered bv the regents the position of chancellor at a salary of $4,000 a year, with the continued free use of the president's mansion. 1 he duties of the chancel lorship are to be such as suggested by tne new president, and as Dr. Angell may be willing and able to perform. Dr. Angell recently celebrated his 80th birthday, and has been president of the university since 1871. Forty Winks Wrecks Train. Billings, Mont., Feb. 19. Alleging that Engineer Belsinger, of the pas senger train which was wrecked at Young s Point on the Northern Pacific railway, on the morning of September so last, sending zu persons to death, was asleep, while the tlagmen were trying to give him the signal of dan ger, James T. Hiekey and Willard F. bmith, conductor of the freight train. were acquitted of the manslaughter cnarge lonignc . Porto Rico Given Tremble. San Juan, Porto Rico, Feb. 19. Heavv earthcuakta wvm flt thmnirk out the island of Porto Rico at 3 o'clock this morn in P. The inhabitant war awakened by the oscillations and their aiarm was great. No damage was done, however. The vibrations lasted for at least 20 seconds, and the move ment was from east to west The weather today is very stormy. PROCEEDINGS OF OREGON LEGISLATURE Saturday, February 20. Salem, Feb. 20. Both houses of the legislature cleared away all accumu lated business before adjourning, but it was nearly 11 o'clock before all were finished. Appropriation bills amounted to $1,100,000 more than the session of two years ago. A number of laws needed by the state were - passed and several of the new measures will in crease the revenues. The house bill appropriating $210.- 000 for new buildings and improve ments at the Agricultural college pass ed the senate by a unanimous vote this morning. The Weston, Ashland and Monmouth normal schools were all left in exist ence, but both houses refused to pass appropriations for their maintenance. The house passed the game code practically as it came from the senate. Both houses passed a tuberculosis sanatoria bill carrying an appropriation of $45,000. The dairy inspector bill, which had been killed Wednesday, was reconsid ered by the house and passed. Only 12 members of the house voted for the bill creating a state highway commission. Whether or not Oregon shall have a constitutional convention will be de cided by the voters of the state at the election of 1910. By a vote of 16 to 9 the senate re fused to sanction the bill providing for an additional bank examiner. Repeal of the grant to railroads of valuable tide lands in Lincoln county was voted by the senate this afternoon. Only four members oppoBed the meas ure. Friday, February 19. Salem, Feb. 19. The senate this af ternoon, on recommendation of the ways and means committee, killed in succession house bills appropriating $106,000 each for Weston, Ashland and Monmouth, by indefinite postpone ment, rejecteJ minority amendments to the Monmouth bill appropriating $10,000 each for the normals for the rest of the school year, and $70,000 for permanently continuing Monmouth. Both houses have adopted the joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment for the division of the state into 30 senatorial and 60 representa tive districts, with one member from each district. The armory bill, practically the same as the people voted down last June, has passed both houses. During the evening session the mem bers of the house presented Speaker McArthur with-a fine gold watch and guard. County division fights will not bother the legislature hereafter, a bill having been passed leaving the matter to the voters of the district affected. The house passed the bill raising ap propriations for state fair premiums from $20,000 to $30,000 for two years The bill had already passed the senate. lhecenate bill for an experimental farm in Eastern Oregon has passed the house, carrying an appropriation of $7,500 per year. The water code bill was passed by the house with only one vote against it. the insurance bill, creating an insur ance commissioner, has passed the house. The measure will bring a net income of $20,U00 a year to the state, it ib estimated. The senate passed the house bill for extension of the portage road with only nve votes against it. At the 1910 election the people will have a chance to vote on the Eastern Oregon asylum, both houses having passed the bill. Ihe game and fish laws of the state are. to be published and 10,000 copies distributed free, according to a senate bill passed today. - The bill abolishing secret societies in high schools has been passed by the senate and received the approval of the house today. Thursday, February 18. Salem, Feb. 18. The senate killed appropriation bills today which will mean a net saving of $101,091.69 to the state. The senate bill exempting mnnieinnl bonds from taxation was passed by the house. , Reform taxation amendments allow ing segregation of state and county taxation, as favored bv th utnto grange, will be submitted to the peo ple in iiu. By a senate bill passed by the house today, minors will not be allowed to engage in any game of cards, pool or otner public amusement in a public place. The house passed the senate bill re quiring that all male persons before securing a marriage license must pre sent a certificate or health not more than 12 hours old. Owners of bank stock are not to be made liable for the mismanagement of the bank or its debts, the house having refused to pass such a measure. The senate bill requiring operators of warehouses to have storage rates plainly stated on receipts passed the house. At the night session the senate pass- Buying Gilliam Sheep. Condon Gilliam county and Condon have been visited this last week or 10 days by four or five sheepmen from Montana and Wyoming. One Montana man from Fort Benton bought 10,000 hed of mixed yearlings for April de livery to Condon for $4 a head with the wool on. The prevailing price for sheep is $4 a head with the wooljm and $3 after being sheared. From all indications wool will be a good price this year. ed the house bill appropriating $7,000 for claims against the Drain normal school. At the night-session the house ap propriated $362,000 for improvements of state insitutions at Salem and in creased the agricultural college main tenance appropriation from $50,000 to $80,000 a year. By the terms of the new military code bill Adjutant General Finzer will hold his place during good service, which practically means life. Wednesday, February 17. Salem, Feb. 17. The governor sent a special message to the legislature to day urging the passage of a consittu- tional amendment providing for state construction and operation of railroads. Central Oregon is the territory the governor aims to help and such a bill is pending, but its passage is doubtful. The house refused to consider the bill providing that county assessors should assess at actual value and fix the levy on a basis of 50 per cent of that amount. The senate passed the house bill fix ing a bounty on scalps of coyotes, cou gars, wildcats and wolves. 1 he charity appropriation bill as passed by the house carries a total of $41,618.35. Two examiners of state banks and two deputies are provided for in a bill passed by the house. The house passed a bill abandoning the Dram normal and authorizing the regents to turn the property over to the common school district of Dram. The senate passed a bill providing for a free ferry over the Willamette at Independence and another measure re quiring all doors of public buildings and halls shall open outward. The house passed a senate bill mak ing 10 hours a day's work for females in telephone and telegrah offices. The senate ways and means commit tee is not' in favor of three normals and further changes may be made be fore the session is ended. Tuesday, February 16. Salem, Feb. 16. Appropriations for $418,000 passed in the house today, and for $10,000 in the senate. Yes terday the total in the house was $1, 739,000 and in the senate $726,000. The house tonight reconsidered the vote by which the $25,000 appropria tion for the Alaska-Yukon exposition was defeated and passed the appro priation. At a late hour the house also considered and passed the $200, 000 appropriation for an Eastern Ore gon asylum. Appropriations for about $1,000,000 more pave passed one or both houses. and continuing appropriations of past sessions amount to $500,000 additional. with allowances made for items in this session's budget These figures .show that the state expenditures for the next two years may exceed $4,000,000, and will probably not fall short of that figure. The senate today voted $20,000 for buildings and grounds for a tubercular sanitarium; provided for a third judge in the Second judicial circuit: passed the Columbia river pilotage bill ; put to a vote of the people the question of number and location of normal schools, and provided $10,000 for a bridge across the bnake river at Ontario. ine nouse Killed Urton s bank guar antee bill; authorized counties to levy not to exceed a Js'-mill tax for adver tising purposes; appropriated $50,000 for Indian war survivors, and voted $210,000 to the agricultural college. Both houses will adjourn sine die Saturday and night sessions are being held in an effort to get all pending Dins disposed oi before that time. Monday, February 15. - Salem, Feb. 15. The house today passed the treneral aopronriatinn hill for 1909-10. , The deficiency appropria tion oui was also passed and $75,000 for extension of the state portacre rail way, A great many other measures got tnrougn, Dut lor the most part they were of local character. The senate was in a slaying mood and killed 13 bills. Some of them were important and on less strenuous days would have provoked hours of de- Date.- The senate also passed the bill creasing the state fair appropriation from siu.uuu to $15,000 per year. In the afternoon both houses and many pioneers of the state united commemorating the 50th anniversary oi tne admission oi tnia state to 1 Union. The exercises were held the hall of representatives and many prominent men spoKe. At a session tonight the senate passed a bill appropriating $100,000 lor one normal school at Portland, onnosed to the bills nnssuH hv I house for $318,000 for three normals; cut down the agricultural poIIpco main tenance appropriation and voted down a dim ior a new $tu,uou agricltural college at Union. The appropriation bills passed bj the house amounted to $1,727,000, cut ting the bills only $2,440. Revival of Hop Industry. Salem Hop contracts far in excess of the contracts for a similar period for lust year, and advices received by growers and dealers here from every hop center in Oregon, indicate a won dcrf ul revival of the hop industry. The prevailing price in contracts . is 10 cents, and thousands of pounds are be ing contracted for by all the dealers here. Reports from Oregon City indi cate a condition even more favorable to hopgrowers than that found her. . DEATHS MAY TOTAL 350. Acapulco Dazed by Theater Horn r, Due to Incompetence. Mexico City, Feb. 17. Late dis patches from Acapulco, wher the Flores theater was burned while the structure was crowded at a perform ance given in honor of Governor Dami an Flores, of the state of Guerrero, bring varying estimates of the loss oi life. They agrep in declaring, how- . .. . ' ... j rrt ever, that the dead win exceed while some place the figure as nign as 350. Most of the dead were burned beyond recognition. Acapulco is dazed by the catastropne. All business at the port has ceased, the shops have closed and the people are crowding the churches where mass es are being celebrated for the dead. The fire, which spread with incredi ble rapidity through the immense wood en and adobe structure, was due, it is charged, to the carelessness and inex perience of the operator of the moving picture machine. There was an explo sion, a burst of name, which ignited the bunting used for decoration, and in a few minutes the entire structure was in flames. The exits were all in the front part of the building, which was almost im mediately turned into a wall of fire and the people were entrapped. The wo men and children suffered most and comprise a majority of the dead. A search of the rums has thus far re vealed no recognizable human form. Charred bodies, from which legs and arms have been burned, have been taken from the ruins, and as there was no chance of identifying them, all have been buried in a common trench. DECLARES WAR THREATENED Calitornia Legislator Says He Saw Letters to Prove It. San Francisco, Feb. 17. That this country was on the verge of war with a naval power of the Orient recently was the assertion of State Senator Richard J. Welch, who is here with a legislative committee which is insti gating the Islais creek project. Welch said : "If you had seen the correspondence that passed between President Roose velt, Governor Gillett and Speaker Stanton that I have seen, you would know that there was only a short ime ago the danger of a conflict between two great naval powers of the Pacific." This statement was made in answer to the argument of an opponent of the Islais creek project that supporters of the plan had attempted to gain, sup port for it by maintaining that a gov ernment navy yard would be estab lished at Hunters point. Welch insist ed that such a navy yard would be built within the next ten years. MONTANA STILL AFTER JAPS Exclusion Memorial Expected to Pass Segregation Fight Ahead. Helena, Feb. 17. After having can vassed the house thoroughly, Repre sentative Norton, of Silver Bow, an nounces that the memorial of which he is the author, asking that congress continue in force the Chinese exclusion act and enlarge its scope to include all Mongolians, will pass the house by a large majority. There are many mem bers of labor unions in the house, and many other members whose constita ents are largely union men and they win, tney declare, support the measure. At the present time the bill is in the committee on labor, but a report will De made th'S week. Speaker McDowell referred the bill which would exclude Mongolians from the public schools to the committee on military affairs and Norton declares he will have it re-referred to the com mittee on education. That this bill will not pass seems certain. Argue Land Grant Case. Los Angeles, Feb. 17. Arguments in the Oregon & California railroad and grant case will be made on a de murrer in the United States Circuit court.at Portland on March 1. Tracy j. cecKer, special assistant to Attor ney General Bonaparte in the prosecu tion of the Oregon cases, has just re turned from the East and will leave to morrow for Portland. The case in volves about 2,300,000 acres of rich Oregon land, said to be valued at about $4U,000,000 at a low estimate. Mr. Harriman's California lawyers. W. F TT ! J r. v. i . . . nernnanor. t. uunne, will appear against Mr. Becker and B. D. Town- send, who is associated with him. Build Schools in Russia. St. Petersburg, Feb. 17. The min ister of education today introduced a bill before the douma providing for a building fund for the erection of 148, 179 new primary schools throughout tne empire within ten years. These schools are to be built and maintained by the provincial authorities on gov ernment subsidy. A substitute pro viding for general compulsory educa tion is to be discussed as soon as the agrarian debate is terminated. Ho Boys to Be "Sporty." Sacramento, Feb. 17. The assembly passed a bill today by Grove L. John son making it a misdemeanor for a minor to attend a cockfight, prizefight or horserace, and fixing a penalty of $50 fine or 25 days in jail for lessees or owners of places where such contests are held to allow minors to enter. Four Caught in Mine. Benton. I1L. Feb. 17. Shaft No. lfi of the Deering Coal company, south of Benton, blew up tonight The explo- sum wrecnea ana cnotcea ine main air shafts. It will be hours before aid can reach the four entombed men there. There is little hope for their lives. CASH F0RC0LUMBIA Total Appropriations of $950,000 Reported to House. COAST STATES WELL CARED FOR Beside Columbia, Bills Provide for Federal Buildings and Surveys of Yakima and Willamette. Washington, Feb. 20. Two bills re ported to the house of representatives today carry an aggregate appropriation of $950,000 for the mouth -of the Co lumbia river. The sundry civil bill contains $250,000 to complete outstand ing contracts, and the river and harbor bill carries $500,000 for new contracts, and $200,000 for repairing and operat ing the dredge. The sundry civil bill also carries $164,700 for completing the existing contract on the Celilo canal. : , The sundry civil bill also carries ap propriations of $114,400 for two double barracks and $42,000 for a field artil lery barracks at Vancouver, and $2,000 for new barracks at Fort Stevens ; and also items to complete public buildings at Eugene, $20,000; La Grande, $45,- 000; Spokane, $75,000, and Walla Walla, $40,000. Crater Lake park gets but $3,000. In the rivers and harbors bill no sin gle channel or improvement is to be al lotted more than $50,000 out of the ap propriation for emergencies. Six hundred thousand dollars is ap propriated for investigations, surveys, contingencies and incidental repairs for river and harbors for which . there is no special appropriation. The most important waterways for which pre liminary surveys and examinations are provided aside from the Interacos tal Waterway across the Atlantic and Goulf coasts are: Oakland harbor, Monterey bay, Wil mington harbor, Humboldt bay and the Sacramento and Feather rfrers, California; Kahului harbor, on the' is land of Maui, and Kanappe bay, on Kani island, Hawa.i; the Chicago and Rock rivers, Illinois; the harbors and rivers at or near Chicago, including Chicago harbor. Preliminary surveys of the Colum bia, Yakima and lower Willamette riv ers, in Oregon and Washington; Are cebo harbor, Porto Rico; Aransas Pass harbor and Sabin- Pass and the Port Arthur ship canal are also provided for. Others are the Grand river, Utah; Ta coma harbor and the Columbia river, Washington. MAKE VIOLENT THREATS. Heney Warns Defense He Will Not Take Insults in Future. San Francisco, Feb. 20. Recalling the attempted assassination of last November, Francis 'J. Heney 'today charged that Henry Ach, attorney for Abraham Ruef, knew of the intention of Morris Haas to shoot the prosecutor. The accusation was flung at the attor neys for the defense during one of the most heated exchanges that have oc curred during the trial of Patrick Cal houn, and before the session assumed its usual calm complexion Judge Wil liam P. Lawlor had threatened two of the belligerent atorneys with imprison ment in the county jail. There were references to armed gun men, to the use of dynamite and to the prospects of imprisonment before the court succeed ed in inducing both sides to lay aside the immediate basis of disagreement and cease their objectionable references WAR THREATENS TURKEY. Hostile Races Ready to Fly at Each Other's Throats. Constantinople, Feb. 20. The old troubles in Macedonia threaten to break out again as badly as ever and strong measures are needed to restore tranquility in Asia minor, especially in Diarbtkir, Kaisariyeh and Bassoora, where the Mussulmans and Armenians are about to fly at each other's throats. One of the strange symptoms devel oping here is the fact that naval offi cers are holding meetings on all war ships "to consider the attitiude of thel new minister of marine." Army offi cers are also holding meetings. Turkey before long may be convulsed with massacres and civil war, although the pressure exerted by the menacing external situation tends to prevent an outbreak fpf internal strife. . Nevada Dooms Gambling. Carson, Nev., Feb. 20. By a vote of 26 to 19 the members of the Nevada assembly today ordered that the bill to prohibit licensed gambling .within the state be made a special order of busi ness next Wednesday afternoon. The committee on public morals reported the bill today, recommending that it be amended to make the bill effective ' from January 10, 1910, instead of from September 1, 1909. The bill in this form will undoubtedly pass. Grove Made National Park. Washington. Feb. 20. The presi dent today signed the bill making the Calaveras big tree grove a national park. The pen which the president used was handed to Representative Smith, of California, to be presented to Mrs. Lovell White, president of the California Outdoor Art league.
