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Bohemia Nugget Bohemia NatYt Pub. Co. COTTAGE GROVE. . . OREGON. NEWS OF THE WEEK la a Condensed Form for Easy Readers Oar A Resume of the Lets Important but Not Less Interesting Events of the Past Week. Riotintr bv Chicago teamsters has again caused trouble. England has just added two new bat- tleshisp to her navy. Railway officials say they can run trains from New York to Chicago in 14 hours. Russia has tried to change the pence conference to The Hague, but Japan would not consent. Germany and France have both ex plained their positions to Roosevelt and seek his support. Mayor Dunne, of Chicago, will ask the citv council to construct 100 miles of street raliway lines to be operated by the city The Japanese have successfully float ed two Russian battleships sunk at Port Arthur and work is almost com plete to save a third. It would now seem that a prince of the bouse of Bernadotte will be selected to rule Norway, King Oscar not being opposed to such an arrangement. Powie has practically completed ar rangements for the purchase of 1,000, 000 acres of land in Mexico, and a tropical Zion City is to be established. General Maximo Gomez, the idol of the Cuban populace, and the one man above all others to whom the little island republic owes its existence, is dead. He was 74 years old. The Franco-German dispute about Morocco nears a crisis. General Maximo Gomez is very low and may die at any time. Norway is likely to become a repub lic, as no one desirable for a king is willing to accept. President Roosevelt is striving to prevent another big battle in Manchu ria before peace is concluded. The next step in the Far Eastern peace negotiations will be the signing of an armistice by the generals com manding on the field of hostilities. Governor Brady, of Alaska, wants to attend the Lewis and Clark fair, but Secretary Hitchcock has ordered him to remain at his poet for the present, as he may be needed. The Federal grand jury at Chicago has turned in a number of indictments against beef trust offiicals, but particu lars will not be given out until the jury has finished its work. Not a man was saved from the Rus sian battleship Alexander III, and but one each from the battleships Borodino and Navarin, sunk by the Japanese in the battle of the sea of Japan. Commissioner Richards, of the Gen eral Land office, has been ordered to Portland to attend the land fraud trials and lend assistance to the prosecution. A number of clerks are al'io being sent with records. The kaiser is planning to become master of Europe. Japan's peace terms have been out lined and will be moderate. Washington has been chosen as the meeting place of the peace envoys. Turkish troops have 'completely ex terminated a Macedonian insurgent band. Grand Duke Alexis and Admiral Avellan, heads of the Russian navy, have resigned. Missouri railroads have united in en joining the estate lrom enforcing the maximum rate law. A case of plague has been reported on a vessel arriving at Manchester, Eng land, from Iluenos Ayres. Orders have been issued at the War department for the formation of two provisional regiments of fbild artillery. Taft says he will not run for presi dent ot succeed Roosevelt, but desires to become chief justice of the Supreme court. The Mexican Central railroad has increased its capital from 150,000,000 to $100,000,000, and will acqure con trol of other important roads. Secretary Hay is home from Europe. His health is greatly improved, but he Las not entirely recovered. He says he has no intention of resigning. The premier of Greece lias been mur dered by a gambler. Germany will fortify Kiao Chou bay, on the Chinese coast. Britain and America refuse to join in the conference on Morocco. Russia has formally announced the acceptance of Roosevelt's paece offer. One of the seven largest locomotives ever built will be placed in service on the O. R. & N. lines. Supreme Justice Warren R. Hooker has announced his intention of resign ing. He is accused of postal grafting. The number of plenipotentiaries and pace of meeting to conduct rwaee nego tiations between Japan and Russia are now to be decided. TRAINS COLLIDE. Eighteen People Killed and Sixteen Others Badly Injured. Baltimore, Md., Juno 1!. Eighteen persons are known to have leen killed and a score more injured tonight in a train wreck on the Western Maryland railroad about a quarter of a mile from Patapseo, a small station between Westminster and Finksbnrg. Pas senger train No. 5, westbound, was running at a very high rate of speed w hen at the point named it crashed in to a double header freight running east. All three of the engines were reduced to scrap iron, two baggage and express cars smashed and a number of the freight cars splintered. The passenger coaches sustained little injury and almost without exception their occu pants ecsaped with nothing worse than a bad shaking up. The fatalities occurred among the crews of the engines and workmen em ployed by the railroad. Not being teg ular passengers they had boarded the baggage cars and engine. Those in the baggage cars were badly mangled and the crews of all three engines were killed outright. The three coaches in the passenger train remained on the track and none of the passengers was seriously hurt, all but a few escaping with a bad shake-tv and bruises. As soon as word of the accident was received a special train with physicians was sent out from here and by 9 o'clock the in jured were being conveyed to hospitals. The patients were distributed between City hospital, St. Joseph's and others near the railroad. I'DON'T BE TOO HARD ON US. Plea of Russian Papers to Japan Some Suspect America. St. Petersburg, June 19. The press of all shades of opinion is discussing Japan's probable terms and declares with practical unanimity for a continu ation of the war rather than the accept ance of humiliating conditions. In this the newspapers are upheld by pub lic opinion, which is steering around to support of the war policy if Japan's terms prove too hard. Only the Nashi Shisn advises Russia that she need not balk at the payment of an indemnity, the cession of the Sakhalin islands, the renunciation of her right to keep warships in Far East ern waters or the surrender of Vladi vostok, but the paper holds that Russia must retain Northern Manchuria and the Vladivostok railroad. The Bourse Gazette draws a gloomy picture of Russia s relations with France, Great Britain, Germany and Austria. The Novoe Vremya and the reactionary Sviet sound notes against the United States. The Novoe Vremya reiterates that Russia's chief enemies in the Far East are not the Japanese, but the British and the Americans, on account of their commercial rivalry, while the Sviet objects to Washington as the place of meeting of the pleni potentiaries, declaring that the atmos phere there is unfriendly, and asserting that Russia's representatives will be subjected to prejudical influences in "the capitol of the enemy's ally." BAD AIR IN THE SUBWAY. Scientist States that Gases May Ex plode as in Mines. New York, June 19. Foulness of air in the subway has reache 1 the satge when the fainting of women is of al most daily occurrence and the indica tions are that as the summer advances conditions will grow worse. Nicola Tesla makes a statement that indicates that tht poisonous character of the sub way air is not its most dangerous characteristic, but that it is really a violently explosive union of gases that may at any time cause such a catas trophe as is occasionally reported from deep mines. Tesla in his statement says in part: "The danger to which I refer lies in the possibility of generating an explos ive mixture by electrolytic decomposi tion and thermic disassociation of water through direct currents ued in the operation of the cars. Such pro cess might go on for hours ana days without being noticed, and with cur rents of this kind it is scarcely practi cable to avoid i. altogether." England Stands Ready. London, June 19. It is probable that the crisis that Germany is forcing upon the nations of Europe will soon assume a new phase. Every move thus far made by the kaiser has been aimed at France, although chielly designed to damage British interests. The British government has not the slightest desire the shelter itself behind its more exposed neighbor. There is . reason to believe that Lord Lansdowne will soon take occasion to make Eng land's position clear and the direct issue. Yellow Fever in Panama. Panama, June 19. The greatest ex citement prevails here over the sudden increase in the number of cases of yel low fever which have been discovered. Residents of the city as well as the la borers of the isthmian canal are much alarmed over the spread of the disease that has been made recently. Samuel Davis, a former detective sergeant of New Y'ork, who was brought here by President Amador to reorganize the po lice force, died last night. Big Pay for Wallace. Panama, June 19. It is reported that Chief Engineer G. F. Wallace, of the canal commission, who left here some time ago to go the United States, may not return. It is said he has been offered a position with a railway in the United States that will pay him $0, 000 a year. READY FOR A FIGHT Oyama lias Russian Army Com pletely Surrounded. MAY PROVE SEDAN FOR RUSSIA Before Peace Negotiations Can Begin, Greatest Battle of the War May be Fought. Ixmdon, June 17. The practical cer tainty now that the peace negotiations cannot begin for another month leads to the conviction that another battle will be fought in the interval. Accord ing to the Daily Telegraph's Tientsin correspondent, a Japanese forward movement has already commenced, in spite of the rainy season. The Daily Telegraph's Tokio cone spondent gives an interesting idea of tlie situation from a correspondent who is said to 1h in a good position to know the actual facts. This correspondent says that the principal Russian depot is at Gunshu Pass, whence many light railways are being constructed north ward to facilitate retreat. Lieutenant General Linievitch, bewildered by the ecrategy of the Japanese, is making repeated reconnaissances and throwing out innumerable scouts. Nevertheless, at the present moment, the correspond ent says, all his army is completely enveloped. FRANCE SAVED FROM WAR. Delcasse's Resignation Prevented a Conflict with Germany. Paris, June 17. When M. Delcasso resigned the potrfolio of the foreign orfice a few davs ago, tiermanv and France were on the verge of war. M. Delcasse thought that Germany was bluffing. Prime Minister Itouvier, re membering 1870, believed otherwise. Germany had been for some weeks strengthening her garrisons nqar the French frontier. France responded with a similar move. The kaiser, ig noring his own provocation, notified France that, if she did not cease this military movement, Germany would consider it an unfriendly act. This, of course, was equivalent to an ultima tum, and M. Rouvier sent a concilia tory reply. Within a few hours after M. Del casse s retirement, -U. liouvier made certain representations to Russia which had far greater influence upon the czar's present course than even Mr. Roosevelt's letter. M. Delcasse had done everything in his power to support the Russian policy and uphold the alliance, and had refrained from pressing advice, peaceful or otherwise, on the czar's government. M. Rouvier said to Russia, in effect. that the vitial interests of France re quired the czar to do something under the terms of the alliance for her pro tection against German aggression It was imperative that Russia restore her military strength on her western frontier and be prepared to take an active part in the campaign if France were attacked. DODGE IMMIGRATION LAW. Inspectors Discover Men in London Who Post Undesirables. London, June 17. Marcus Braun and Mr. Fischberg, the American in spectors who have been inspecting the emigration from Continental countries to tlie United States, having concluded their labors in Austria, Hungary and Russian Poland, respectively, are now looking up the conditions prevailing at the embarking points of the big At lantic liners. Messrs. Braun and J-ischherg say that the steamship companies have in augurated a very strict inspection of emigrants, but that even in London persons claiming to be agents of the companies are publishing guaranties to secure the admission of any emigrant to the United States for a few pounds in addition to the fare. How the sub- agents carry out this agreement is now under investigation by the inspectors. Klamath Fish Reserve. Washington, June 17. President Roosevelt has interested himself in the establishment of a fisli preserve along Spring creek and Williamson river, on the Klamath Indian reserva tion. Two engineers of the Relaxation seivice who have been studying condi tions in the Klamath basin discovered that both these streams are well stock ed with trout and afford fine sport in season. They found, however, that many Indian allotments were being made along the banks of both streams, and the fish were being exterminated. Gould Must Pay His Architect. New York, June 17. A verdic t for Ahner J. Ilaydel, an architect, to re cover $24,183 form Howard Gould for services in drawing plans for the Gould castle at Port Washington, L. I., was awarded by a jury in the New York state Supreme court at Mineola, L. I. This amount represents about 24 per cent of the original contract price of $937,000, which it was estimated the Gould castle would cost. Haydel had sued for $60,000. Russian Cruiser on Rampage. London, June 17. The Singapore correspondent of the Daily Mail says that the Russian cruiser Rion left June 14 for Odessa, and that great uneasi ness is felt for the safety of British ! shipping. PEACE ENVOYS ARE NAMED. Japan Announces Three, and Names of Two Russians are Known. St. Petersburg, June 10. There only remain (Wing of the time of meeting and the number of plenipotentiaries for the peace conference with Japan. Finding that Japan was not disposed to accept Paris, w hich was Kiissia a tlrst choice, or The Hague, which President Roosevelt suggested, Russia readily consented to the selection of Washing ton. Japan, it la understood, also sig nified that she would name three exalt ed personages as plenipotentiaries, and specific information here points to Marquis Ito, Karon Komura, the min ister of foreign affairs, and Marshal Yamagata, chief of the general staff, as plenipotentairies. It is regarded as certain that two of Russia's representatives will lx Huron Rosen, who has been appointed to suc ceed Count Cassini as ambassador at Washington, ami M. Nelidoff, ambassa dor at Paris. The name of M. Witte continues to be li mentioned, but there is no evidence that the emperor will give him a brief to conduct negotia tions. Considering hid well known views against Russia's aggressive policy in the Far East, the selection of M. Witte would be regarded as tantamount to an assurance that peace would U the outcomhe. The selection of Washington makes it certain that several weeks must elapse before the first meeting of the negotiators is possible. Unless President Roosevelt is able to induce the belligerents in the mean time to agree to an armistice, the fear is general that the interim will witness another bloody battle in Manchuria. Russia, while she could not place her self in the position of directly request ing an armistice, might welcome it, if the suggestion came from the president. FOR CONFERENCE CITY. Choice by Russia and Japan is Nar rowed Down to Three. Washington, June IS. Gradually the negotiations for peace in the Far East are Hearing a focus. The one point to which the energies of those di rectly concerned in them now are !eing directed is the choice of a place for holding the conference of the pIeniH tentiarics of the belligerents. It is known officially that three cities are under consideration by Russia and Japan. These cities, named in the order of the likelihood of their final fl ection, are Washington, The Hague and Geneva. Thus far no decision has been rcach d. Paris and Ixmdon have been elim inated from the question. It is under stood that the Russian government ob jects to an Asiatic city, its preference being for some European capital. After objecting to the holding of the confer ence in Paris, the Japanese government expressed a willingness to consider oth er places which afforded adequate facil ities, although it is assumed that Ja pan's preference would be for some Far Eastern city practically within the theater of war. Finally, however, the selection seems to havi narrowed down to the three cities named. NEW MOVES TO END STRIKE. Hanrahan will Take a Hand Team sters's Offer Rejected. Chicago, June lf. While apparent ly there was no surface change in the strike today, a powerful agent for peuce was at work. Grand Master J. G. Hanrahan, of the P.rotherhood of Loco motive Firemen, 'arrived in the city, and after a conference witli Mayor Dunne, announced that he would use his good ollices to settle the strike. Chairman John V. Farwell, Jr., of the Employers association, declined to consider a tentative strike settlement proposition presented to him today by the state board of arbitration. The proposition was an offer that, if the employers would agree to use all honorable influence to have police and deputy sheriffs and all armed guards withdrawn immediately, the strike would be declared off, even as to the express companies, and that orders to deliver anywhere would be obeyed by the teamsters. The offer had the ap proval ol President bhea and the na tional executive board of the teamsters Linievitch Takes Some Outposts. St. Petersburg, June 10 In a dis patch to the emperor, dated Juno 13, General. Linievitch says the Russians, after a fight June 11, occupied the vil lages of Syfoiig-Toy, Chilipou anil Chakhed.i. The same day another de tachment approached the mines near Chakhedzi,. A Japanese company evac uated the mines and retired southward, where it was reinforced by a battalion of Japanese with quick-firing guns. The Japanese detachment on tlie darin road retired to a position of Minhuagay. Man south Death Penalty Suggested. Honolulu, June 16 Considerable at tention has been attracted by a Chinese poster, which has appeared in Kilo's Asiatic quarter. It says that the Chin ese government proposes to retaliate for the American exclusion policy, and that the government at Pekin will issue an order against the purchase of Amer ican goods, with a death penalty for vioation of the order, and will proceed to have Americans fumigated at the port of entry and charged $5 per head. i Will Fight In Spite of Mud. London, June 16. The Japanese correspondent of the Daily Telegraph at Moji, Japan, says: "The rainy season has started in Manchuria, and the mud in the roads is knee deep, but this will not interfere with military operations, glad tidings of which may be expected within a few days. OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST HIGH PRICE FOR WOOL. Million and a Half Pounds Go Under Sealed Bids at Shnniko. Sbaniko The highest price paid for wool In Eastern Oregon in 25 years was (mid to the growers of this set t ion of the state at the public auction sales here last week. The sales were con ducted on the sealed bids system, and prices ranged from 21 to 24 cents tor Merino wools. One small clip of cross bred Lincoln wool sold for 20 14 cents. These wools were formerly marketed at The Dalles, but since the completion of the railroad to this point sales have been conducted here. The prices are the highest paid this season at any Eastern Oregon point, and Waco conn ty maintains its reputation as the lead ing wool market m the state. The high prices which prevailed at these sales are especially gratifying to the growers, by reason of the fact that their loyalty to the sealed bid system has liecn rewarded by from 3 to 5 cents per pound increase over prices paid those who contracted earlier. Fully three-fourths of the wools grown in the state were contracted during the winter add early in the spring, this section be ing the only noticeable exception w here the offers of tempting prices failed to make serious inroads into the clip to be marketed. Local growers who held are highly elated over the success of the public sales, while the few who contracted here are correspondingly sorry that they diil not stand by the sealed bid plan. The success of this year's public sales firmly establishes the popularity and proves the wisdom of the plan. This being the only point in the state where a large quantity of the choice winds would be offered for sale on the sealed bid plan, a large number of buy ers were attracted to the sales, and 20 representatives of the leading wool merchants and manufacturers in the East and West were present. SUIT BY ASYLUM AUTHORITIES. Judse Galloway Sustains Demurrer by Secretary of State. Salem Judge Galloway has sustain ed the demurrer to the writ in the mandamus proceedings brought by asyl um employes to compel Secretary of State Dunbar to issue a warrant for the amount of their monthly salaries. Judge Galloway holds that the Kav law paused in 1005, does not repeal the act of 1901 which prohibits the secretary from issuing a warrant when no appio priation is available. Under Judge Galloway's decision it will be the duty of the secretary of state to issue a certificate of allowance and not a warrant for the amount of the salary roll. In rccordance with the plan already announced, a notice of appeal was given and the question will be presented before the Supreme court as soon as ossihle. Smelting Not the Only Plan. Grunts Pass The big customs smelt er projected for the Southern Oregon district by Messrs. Fleck, Corliss, Wil liams, Stiowgoose and others is now an assured fact, and construction will be gin this week. Articles of incorMira tion have been filed for the Rogue Kiv- er Mining, Smelting and Power com pany. Smelting is not to be the only object of the new company, which ex- peels '.o put in a huge dam. Ibis, with the 00-foot fall the river has at Savage rupids, where the smelter i to bo built, they feel sure, is capable of generating at leat 45, (MM) horse power lor irrigation and power purposes. In 176 Feet on Buckeye, Sumpter W. F. Kippen, who holds the bond on the P.uckeye group, located at the head of Little Cracker creek, reports the lower drift started last sea son as being now in 170 feet. He and associate, Thomas Kennersly, have not decided just where they will com mence active work on the property. The rich rock already located is still showing up well, and Mr. Kippen has in his possessoin the little gold brick realized from panning only 17 ounces of ore takeit a day or two ago from the ledge. Working on Owyhee Survey. Vale Engineer Herbert E. Newell, of the Reclamation service, now has a force of men at work on the Owyhee', where preliminary surveys in connec tion with the proposed irrigation project will be made this summer. It is stated that the government is contemplating the construction of two reserviors, as it is claimed there are aliout 20,000 acres of valuable government land that cannot be" covered by water from the Harper basin project. Covered by Inheritance Law. Sulem Attorney General Crawford holds that a conveyance of real proper ty made to a man's children with the reservation of possession until his death, is an advancement within the meaning of the inheritance tax law and that the property is subject to the tax. The opinion was rendered at the re quest of the state treasurer in the mat ter of the Johanna O'Brien estate. Boring for Artesian Water. Elgin For several weeks a crew has been engaged in boring an artesian well near Alicel. Work is under the super vision of a contractor from San Fran cisco. The well at this time is a little over 700 feet in depth and as yet no rock and but little water that will flow has been found, but the work is still being continued. HARVEST OUTLOOK IS BRIGHT. Little Grain In Clackamas Injured by Continued Showers. Oregon City Damage to fall grain, which in localities has I n felled to the ground, has resulted from the con tinuous showers of the last wck. (K'orge Ijielle, a farmer from New Km, reports that the rains have low eied to the ground an acre Held of his) velvet chaff wheat, which he fears will have to be cut for hay. This field wan one of the finest pieces of grow ing grain in the county, the stalks having attain ed a height of six feet, and the grain was well headed out. Barring further unfavorable weather conditions, the grain crop of Clackamas county this year will be without prece dent with respect to yield, Mr. Laelle estimating that this field would have produced between fill and till bushels to the acre. The aphis pest appeared on wheat and oats in some sections, but not to the extent but that a few days of waim weather will rid the grain of the destructive visitor. Except unfavorable weather inter feres with the harvest, the yield of hay in this county this year w ill be a rec ord breaker, the stand of grass being exceptionally heavy slid of fine quality. AUTO LINE IN VALLEY. Connecting Link Established Between Independence and Salem. Indepvudeuce An automobile line has I een put on between Independence and Salem. There is a missing link of 12 miles let ween these two jHtints in, the transportation facilities of the val ley. For years then has been talk of a motor connecting the Southern Pacific lines on the East and West sides. Tin spring the roads have been improved and the automobile brought the solu tion. Local capital at Independence and Salem has had the matter under con sideration. A surprise was sprung w hen a ten-seat hotel bus machine was put on the run by the Oregon Suburban Auto company. It is understood tin Oroogit City Transportation company is largely concerned in the movement. A regular schedule w ill he announced shorty. It is the purpose to connect as closey as possible with Southern pMcitlc trains at Salem and the motor cars here. Good Sign of Prosperity. Washington These changes in sal aries of Oregon postmaster have been announced: Increase Albany, Tim Dalles, $2,200 to $2,300; Arlington, Hums, Condon, Elgin, $ 1 ,200 to $ 1 ,300 ; Athena, Monmouth, Myrtle Point, $1, 000 to $1,100; Corvulli's, $I,H(I() to f lt(H); Dallas, Forest Grove, $1,500 to $1,1100; Independence, $1,300 to $1, 400; Junction City, I,chanon, Milton, $1,100 to $1,200: Klamath Falls, $1, 300 to $1,M)0; La Grande, $2,100 to $2,200; Mount Angel, Woodburn, $1, 200 to $1,400; Newhvrg, Ontario, $1, 400 to $1,500; Oregon City, $2,000 to $2,200; Wasco, $1,100 to $1 3IM. De crease Sumpter, $2,ooo to $!,7M). Golden Chariot and Orleans. Sumpter A prominent mining ex pert is here this week from Philadel phia for the purpose of inspecting the Golden Chariot and Orleans groups. The first named is located near here and the hitler in close proximity to the (iolconda. Senator Fiilche, of Pennsylvania, is interested in these properties to such an extent as to con sider them worthy of investigation, and on the result of the expert's report will depend whether lie and asoiciates will take hold of the mines and develop them to a producing stage. Salmon Reach the McKenzie. Salem According to reports that have Ix-en received bv Master Fish Warden II. G. Vbii Dusen, the McKen zie river is full of salmon, this condi tion evidently having been brought about by the construction of a good fish way over the falls at Oregon City. Mr. an Dusen is inclined to think the re ports are exaggerated, but he is pleased with the outlook and has placed rocks in the river just below Gate creek, ami hopes to take a large number of salmon for hatchery purposes. Promises Road to Tillamook. Hillbsoro The hoard of trade hist week listened to an address by William Reid, who states that Isolds have been Bold for the construction of the railway to Tillamook. Mr. Reid asked Hills boro to furnish the right ol way from this city to Banks, and Mayor II. P. Cornelius will appoint a committee of seven to devise ways and means to se cure the necessary deed contracts. Mr. Reid promises to commence construc tion soon. PORTLAND QUOTATIONS. Wheat Club, 82(tf83o per bushel; blnestein, 88S0c; valley, Hoc. Outs No. 1 white, feed, $30 per ton; gray, $30. Hay Timothy, $14010 per ton; clover, $1112; grain, $11012; cheat, HOT 12. Eggs Oregon ranch, 1810e per dozen. Butter Fancy creamery, 176 21 ic per pound. Strawberries $1.25(3)2.00 per crate. Apples Table, 1.5002.50 per box. Potatoes Oregon fancy, $1.2501.35;. new potatoes, $1.2501.50. Hops Choice, 1004, 19021c per pound. Wool Eastern Oregon, best, lpfi 23c; valley, 27i02tlc; moVg T choice, 3132gc per (pound L