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COTTAGE GROVE. . . OREGON.
NEWS OFTHE WEEK
Iq a Condensed Form for Onr
Busy Readers.
A Return of the Less Important bu
Not Lett Interesting Events
of the Past Week.
Henry Watterson says he wants no
public office.
The British Liberal party has split
on home rule.
Dowie has returned from his new col
ony in Mexico.
There is a growing disaffection in
the St. Petersburg garrison.
Russian police have found letters
telling of a plot to kill the crr.
Sarah Bernhardt will build and
maintain a theater in New York, ac
cording to her manager.
Turkey is expected to offer no resist
ance to the allied fleet unless troops are
landed, in which event a fight may en
sue. The large number of accidents in
football games this season has aroused
college authorities to take action against
the game.
It is probable that in the reorganiza
tion of congress- Ankeny and Fulton
will secure chairmanships of important
committees.
The management of the Rock Island
railroad has decided to practically re
build the entire system to secure a
minimum grade.
Fifteen persons were injured and
many others badly shaken up in a
wreck on the Missouri Pacific near
Leeds, Missouri.
The Russian minister of finance esti
mates that the expenditures for the
coming year will be $1,020,000,000 and
the revenue $1,027,000,000.
The powers may allow Austria to
seize Macedonia.
A fierce gale in Chicago did much
damage to property.
A fresh mutiny has broken out on
the Russian Black sea fleet
More graft is being exposed in the
insurance inquiry at New York.
Bulgaria is anxious to invade Mace
donia, but is restrained by the powers.
Russian employers have united to
fight the strikers, who have nearly
ruined them.
Helena shippers have organized to
fight rate discrimination and may form
a state association.
The cashier of the Hayti, Missouri,
bank has disappeared with $18,000 of
the institution's money.
A large colony of Boers is to locate
in Venezuela. A grant of over a mil
lion acres of land has been made by
President Castro,
The president has appointed II. J.
Hagerman, of Roswell, N. M, as gov
ernor of New Mexico, to take effect
January 1, the expiration of Governor
Otero's term.
Four prisoners in the Jefferson, Mis
souri, penitentiary, made a desperate
attempt to escape. Two guards were
killed, a third seriously wounded, and
the prison gates blown up with nitro
glycerine. The convicts were captured
after a fight in which one was killed
and one wounded.
Balfour will resign as premier of
Great Britain.
Missouri is continuing its fight
against the Standard Oi).
Fire in a coal barge at London de
stroyed 2,000 tonB of coal.
The government's case in the second
trial of Burton is completed.
Japan is working to raise Togo's
sunken fUgahip, the Mikasa.
The allied fleets of the powers is
preparing to seize Turkish ports.
Spain will spend $4,200,000 for the
purchase of rapid fire field guns.
A Nebraska man has been fined $50
and costs for making a cigarette.
Four Berlin banks have organized a
bank to do business in Turkey and
Egypt.
Ambassador Reid has contributed
$500 to the fund for Egnland's unem
ployed. Another national strike of coal min
ers is imminent. Should it occur,
300,000 men will be affected.
Lieutenant General Chaffee has re
itred from active service. Jle is suc
ceeded as chief of Btaff by Major Gen
eral John C. Bates.
Acting Public Printer Ricketta has
forbidden the making of handbooks on
the racse among employes of his office,
under pain of dismissal.
Ohio Democrats plan to control both
houses of the legislature by unseating
Republicans.
Witte is seriously ill.
Iowa is fighting a trust of fire insur
ance companies.
The British army it to have a gene
ral staff at its head.
Twenty-four Russian provinces are
in a state of anarchy.
The cruiser Minneapolis is said to be
ground off the French coast.
MAY LOSE POSITION.
Mitchell Likely To Be Displaced on
Senate Canal Committee.
Washington, Nov. 27. Apparently
Senator Mitchell is to I deprived of
the chairmanship of the committee on
Interoccanlc canals when the senate re
organise next month. This has not
been definitely decided, but it is the
concensus of opinion of arriving sena
tors that Mitchell will have to relin
quish his chairmanship in order that
some active memWr of the canal com
mittee can preside at its meetings this
winter.
Congress must appropriate money
eaily in the coming session for contin
uing work on the Panama canal, and
must decide whether the canal shall be
built with locks or at the sea level.
This legislation, together with all other
legislation pertaining to the canal and
the canal tone, must le considered by
the canal committee, and will le one
of the most important topics to be con
sidered. Because of its importance,
senators believe the canal committee
should have an active chairman, who
can not only preside at committee
meetings, but who can vote both in
committee and in the senate, and who
can furthermore take charge ot canal
legislation after it has been reported to
the senate.
AMEND IMMIGRATION LAWS.
Sargent't Plan for Keeping Out All
Undesirables.
Washington, Nov. 27. Radical
changes in the immigration laws will
be made next year, if the suggestions
of Commissioner General Sargent are
put into effect. Mr. Sargent is anxious
to have limits plat-ed on the number
of immigrants, and that persons who
are either too young or too old to sup
port themselves should not be per
mitted to disembark. This would no',
however, apply to those who can furn
ish guarantees that they are on theii
wav to relatives.
Mr. Sargent believes that by an ar
rangement with foreign governments
the useless traffic of deportation of im
migrants unfit to land here could be
stopped. Before an immigrant is per
mitted to take passage for America, he
should undergo an examination at the
point of embarkation.
HITCHCOCK TO RESIGN.
Rumor That Western Congressmen
Have Got His Scalp.
Washington,. Nov. 27. The fact
leaked out tonight from a responsible
source that at a recent cabinet meeting
Ethan Allen Hitchcock, secretary of
the Interior, expressed a desire to ten
der his resignation July 1 next. The
same authority announces, that Vespa
sian Warner, of Illinois, now commis
sioner of pensions, is to succeed him.
It is said the proposed change in the
cabinet has been brought about Dy
members of congress from western
states, who charge that Mr. Hitchcock,
in operations against land grabber,
has permitted his personal feelings to
enter into the prosecutions. While
this charge had been often repeated, it
is said that the retirement of Mr.
Hitchcock will be wholly due to the
desire of the president to surround
himself with younger men,
MILLION WOMEN FIGHT SVIOOT,
Characterize Him as a Man Sanction
ing Practice of Polygamy.
Philadelphia, Nov. 27. A meeting
of the executive committee of the Na
tional League of Women's organiza
tions, formed two years aao to oppose
t h rontinuance in the United States
senate of Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah,
was held here today. Women Irom all
sections of the country were present.
It was announced that a petition would
be presented to tne senate asking for
the exclusion of Mr. Smoot on the
ground that "he is a member of a
heirarchy whose president and a major
ity of the members pratctice and teach
polygamy." The memorial will state
that "Mr. Smoot has never raised his
voice against these doctrines, and the
Mormon hierarchy has broken its cov
enants which it gave to the United
States when statehood was granted."
Sailort Want Discharges.
St. Petersburg, Nov. 27. Details ot
the mutiny at Sevastopol are not availa
ble at the admiralty, the dispatch of
the Associated Press from the war port
giving the first intimation of the out
break. An officer of the staff said that
four equipages and the Black sea fleet
were at Sevastopol at present. He ex
plained that in addition to other long
existent causes of discontent the sailors
had been stirred up by their retention
in the service as reservicests, the ukase
releasing many of them from the serv
ice having just been published.
Burton is Guilty.
St. Louis, Nov. 27. Senator J. R.
Burton, of Kansas, was Saturday night
found guilty on all six counts in the
indictment upon which he has been on
trial for the past week in the United
States Circuit court, charged with hav
ing agreed to accept and having ac
cepted compensation from the Rialto
Grain & Securities company, of St.
Louis, to appear for the company in the
capacity of an attorney before the Post
office department.
Will Cut Forests and Crops,
libau, Nov. 27. Agrarian disorders
have broken out in the Baltic province.
A peasant meeting adopted resolutions
to cut forest on private land and to ap
propriate crops. The governor general
has issued a proclamation to the troops
to fire on such offenders, and saying
that the participants at such meetings
will be court martialed and sent to dis
tant provinces.
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
NEW LUMBER CENTER.
Two Mills Building and Three Under
Consideration at Dallas.
Dallas Though situated in the midst
of a splendid fruitraising and hopgrow
lug territory, Dallas promises to become
a great lumber center as welt. In ad
dition to the Cone mill, now being
built, and the Nap mill, which will be
remodeled, three more propositions are
now before the business interests of the
city for consideration.
Plans for the remodeling of the Nap
mill are completed. The mill will be
rebuilt several hundred feet west of the
present location, and enlarged to a 50,-000-foot
plant. A pond will be exca
vated between the "Y" tracks of the
Falls City railroad and will be ted with
water from the same source as the Cone
mill.
The Cone pond is completed, and the
superstructure of the mill under cover.
The sawing frames and carriage trucks
are being put in place and everything
indicates the early completion of the
plant.
Every house in Dallas is occupied,
and new cottages are springing up in
every quarter. The common comment
of all newcomers is that Dallas is a
beautiful town and has the finest court
house lawn in the state. Although
the Lewis and Clark fair is said to
have drained the valley of all the stray
change, the merchants say trade is
good.
"
Big Land Deal.
WeBton Two of the largest real
estate transactions consummated in
this section for some time were record
ed this week. One was the sale of 240
acres of land, with fine Improvements
by Mrs. Annie O'Hara to Charles M.
Price for $18,500. This is one of the
finest farms in this section of the coun
try, having npon it a handsome brick
residence. Mr. Price also owns a third
interest in what is known as the Steen
place, located on Dry creek, consisting
of 6t0 acres. This, it is said, he is
about to dispose of to his brothers.
Old Picture of General Lane.
Salem State Librarian J. B. Put
nam has received from New Orleans an
old photorgaph of General Joseph I.ane,
Oregon's first territorial governor and
one of this state's first senators. The
picture bears no date, but was taken in
Washington, D. C, presumably while
Lane was delegate in congress or senat
or. No communication or explanation
came with the photo further than the
words, "Compliments of William Beer,
Howard Memorial library, New Or
leans, La."
Extensive Plant at Carlton.
Carlton The Carlton Lumber com
pany's new mill and extensive plant,
representing an outlay of over a mil
lion dollars, will be in full operation
by April, 1906. With the natural ad
vantages Carlton already enjoys
through its position among the foot
hills of the Coast mountains and the
other improvements now being made.
Carlton expects soon to be numlered
among the leading scenic and indus
trial towns of the Willamette valley.
Southern Pacific After G-avel.
Eugene Southern Pacific surveyors
have laid out a route for a spur in the
nnrlhooalorn nnrt of the ci'.V to the
, . . . . -f - -
gravel beds across the river, just out
side the city limits, it is sain mar, trie
company intends getting its ballast ma
terial for its proposed new line from
Natron across the mountains from the
extensive beds here. A trestle will
have to be constructed across the river,
which is narrow at that point.
River at Very Low Stage.
Eugene The river at this point is
almost as low as it was during August
and lower than was ever before known
in November. Loggers find great scar
city of water above here for driving
logs, and would welcome a few days of
rain. There is plenty of snow high up
on the mountains, which full a month
ago, but the weather has continued
cold and the snow does not melt.
Buys Indian Creek Mill.
Elgin J. G. Brown, of the firm of
Shockley & Brown, sawmill men, has
disposed of his interest in that firm to
his partner, and has purchased the
Cummins mill, located on Indian
creek, together with 320 acres of timber
land. II. (i. and II. E. Reed, experi
enced sawmill men, are interested in
the deal. A new engine, edger and
gang lath mill will be added.
Want Pay for Dead Cattle.
Elgin F. E. Graham, of this town,
has presented a claim against Union
county, amounting to $290, for the loss
of cattle killed by the collapse of the
Wallowa bridge. Hector McDonald,
who was also driving a herd of cattle
across the bridge at the time and suf
fered a similar loss, has also put in
a claim against Wallowa county for
damages.
No Right to Sell the Land.
Salem Attorney General Crawford
has held that the State Land Board has
no authority to sell land bequeathed to
the state for the Soldiers' home. He
holds that the board can sell land only
when it has authority of law to do so
and its general authority extends only
to the sale of state land granted by the
government.
ADVANCE IN PRICE OF LOGS.
Logging Camps Soon to Shut Down,
and Shortage is Expected.
Astoria While several of the loggert
in the 1iwer Columbia river district
are under contract to deliver logs at
$7.60 per thousand until the first of
the yeaf, the Others hare advanced the
price (or tlr logs to $S and a few sales
are said to have been made at figures
a shade higher. In spite of thin ad
vance in price, the demand is excellent
and the logs sro lieing taken as fast as
they are put in tide water. A number
of the larger logging companies will
clone down their camps for at leas a
month or six weeks as soon as the
heavy rains set in and as, with the
single exception of the Eastern A
Western LnuiWr company, none of the
mills have a large supply of logs on
hand, a shortage is looked (or before
the end of the winter season.
Notwithstanding the advance In the
price of tlr logs, spruce is still selling
at about $7.
Buys 2,000 Lambs.
Priueville Stockmen here are sti'l
commenting on the sale recently ol
2,000 lambs by Williamson Gesucr
to the Baldwin Sheep it I .and com
pany, at 12 f0 per head. Such a large
sale at this time of the year is consid
ered as remarkable, particularly when
the price is such a good one. In the
spring there would be nothing extra
ordinary about the transfer. That such
a huge baud should be transferred just
as the feeding season is coining on, and
at a good figure, is taken to mean that
there are indications somewhere of a
good price for both mutton and wool
next spring.
West Coast Lumber In Demand.
Portland Within the last few weeks
a new market has been openend up for
Oregon and Washington lumber, ai.d
already shippers are preparing to trans
port by water , more than 11,000,000
feet to New York. Part of this lumber
will go from Portland on sailing vessels
and part of it will be taken from the
mills of Puget sound. Outside of the
extreme heavy timber heretofore there
has beeu oractically no demand for
Oregon amhWashington lumber in the
New York markets, and the suddenness
and niHgitude of the orders of recent
date have come as a sutprirse.
Can Corn at McMinnville.
McMinnville If preseut interest in
the matter does not wane, next year
will see McMinnville with a large corn
canning factory. Several years ago
samples of corn were sent to this coun
ty to test soil, climate and other con
ditions. The results sent back to the
promoters show the quality first class
in every particular. The Eastern peo
ple contemplating building a factory
here state the plant will be the same
size as the one they now operate, pay
ing out about $10,000 each year for the
product and about fti.OOO in wages.
Irrigating Harney Land.
Burns Ten thousand acres of the
best sagebrush land in the state will
Ce put on the market as soon as in
spected by the proper state official, as
a result of the operations of the Port
land Land company. It will le sold in
tracts of from 40 to 100 acres at $10
per acre, a lower price than that for
any irrigated land yet put on the mar
ket in Oregon. This company was first
to get a contract from Oregon to irri
gate land.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Club, 71c per bushel; blue
stem, 7874c; valley, 74(i$75e; red,
67c.
Oats No. 1 white feed, $26; gray,
$26 per ton.
Barley Feed, $21.50(322 per ton;
brewing, $2222.50; rolled, $22.50
23.50.
Kye $1.501.f0 per cental.
Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $15
16perton; Valley timothy, $1112;
clover, $8g; grain hay, $H(T$!).
Fruits Apples, $1 (41.50 per box;
huckleberries, ;7c per pound; pears,
$1 251 .50 per box; grapes, $1.25
1.65 perliox; Concord, 15c per basket;
quinces, $1 per box. .
Vegetables -r Beans, wax, 12c per
pound; cabbage, ltfrjL'fc per pound;
cauliflower, $1.75(($2.25 per crate; eel
ery, 75c per dojen; cucumbers, 60G0e
per dozen; pumpkins, . ?4lc per
pound; tomatoes, $1 per crate; sprouts,
7c per pound; squash, ?4lc per
pound; turnips, 0c$l per sack; car
rots, 6575c per sack; beets, 85c$l
per sack,
Onions Oregon yellow Danvers,
$1.25 per sack. ' ,
Potatoes - Fancy graded Burbanks,
65 70c per sack; ordinary, 6560c;
Merced sweets sacks, $1.00; crates,
$2.15." ! i j
Butter i Fancy creamery, 2527c
per pound. . f
Kggs Oregon ranch, 85c per dozen.
Poultry Average, old hens, 11c;
young roosters, U;10c; springs,
11c; dressed 'chickens, 12 ($ 14c;
turkeys, live, 17018c; geese, live,
89c; ducks,ll4(415o per pound.
Hops Oregon, 1005, choice, 810c;
olds, nominal, 66c.
Wool Eastern Oregon average best,
1621c; valley, 2426c per pound;
mohair, choice, 80c.
Beef Dressed bulls, l2o pr pound;
cows, 84cj country steers, 44e.
Veal Dressed, 37c per pound.
Mutton Dressed, fancy, 77c per
pound; ordinary, 45c; lambs, 7(3
.
Pork Dressed, 6Q7o per pound.
BE GENEROUS TO PHILIPPINES.
New ork "Board of Trade Wants
Restriction! Removed.
New York, Nov. 24. Resolutions
favoring abolishing American duties on
Philippine products nud repeat of the
new law to regulate shipping between
this country and the Philippines were
adopted today by the New York Board
of Trade. The resolutions read in
part:
"If the Islands are our wards, they
are not part of the United States and
we should not make the mistake that
what is good for the United States is
good for the Philippines. Intense de
sire is evinced in the Philippines (or
the removal of our duties on their pro
ducts and, insofar as such abolition
would benefit them, we should gener
ously grant them that advantage."
In urging upon congress the repeat of
the shipping net, which willlecomo
operative on July 1, lUOtl, the resolu
tions declare that the act will reduce
the facilities for commerce between the
I'nitcd States and the Philippines and
materially enhance the cost of produce
(rom the United States or of American
manufactures imported into the Phil
ippines. The resolutions continue:
"There are no American ships in the
trade between the Philippines and the
Atlantic ports, and there would not be
enough Aiuetican tonnage to carry
425,000 bales of Hour annually import
ed at these ports. A great deal of it
would have to come via the Pacific
ports and over transcontinental rail
road:, and this unnatural route affords
the only competition to check the ex
horhitant rates to Atlantic ports made."
SMOOT WILL NOT RESIGN.
No Action on Senator'! Case Likely
Before January.
Washington, Nov. 24. Senator Ueed
Smo.it, who arrived here this evening,
says most emphatically that there is
no foundation for the story that he in
tends t ) resign from the senate, and he
is at a loss to understand the source of
the report, lie is surprised to learn
that the senate committee will reopen
his case ami give further hearings, but
has iuk objection to that course. He
furthermore declares his w illingness to
abide by any decision which the senate
may make when it comes to a vote on
his case.
It will probably be late in January
belore the committee on privileges and
elections makes a report on the case.
Hearings cannot bo resumed before the
first week in January. After their con
clusion the committee will take some
lime to digest the great mass ol testi
mony and it w ill he remarkable if it
can reort in January. Once the case
goes to the seriate it will receive
prompt consideration, as it is a matter
of the highest privilege and w ill I e dis
poned of before legislative matters can
receive consideration. It is expected
the debate will occupy several weeks.
ELKINS PROPOUNDS IDEAS.
Offers Suggettiont for Federal Reg
ulation of Railroads,
Washington, Nov. 21. The senate
committee on interstate commerce to
day continued the discussion of meas
ures relative to amending the railway
regulations. Many ideas were ex
changed, but there were no develop
ments of importance. Senator Elkins,
chairman of the committee, occupied
much of the session in making siiKges
tions and discussing propositions which
he thought oughts to lie incorporated in
any bill that may be reported. These
suggestions were numerous and would
mean a lengthy measure aside from
regulation provisions.
Mr. Elkins did not bring forward the
pooling proposition, but intends to
present it later in some modified form,
so that there may be freer traffic be
tween railroads. One particlar point
made by him looked to compelling
trunk lines to afford better facilities
to lateral lines and small roads which
are compelled to use big roads to reach
a market. The better management of
the private car lines so as to meet the
demands of shippers and amendment of
the laws bearing on terminal compa
nies and terminal charges also were
suggested.
Says Cattro It Only Bluffing'
Paris, Nov. 24. Inquiry at the For
eign office today brought out the state
ment that the report that France ac
cedes to President Castro's request to
indicate what portions of the Venezuel
an note to Mr. Taigny, the French
charge d'affaires, are offensive, is in
correct. The officials say the president
has heretofore been completely inform
ed regarding the offensive features of
the note and therefore the report that
France will give further explanations is
characterized as "a bluff intended to
delay and confuse the situation."
Shanghai Oytter Men.
Peliadelphia, Nov. 24. Having re
ceived numerous complaints that men
have been shanghaied for service on
board oyster lioats in Chesapeake bay,
and that some of them have been ill
treated, resulting in two men losing
their lives, Captain of Detectives James
Donaghey, of this city, has applied to
the authorities at Washington and to
the attorney general of Pennylvania for
aid in invetgiating the report submitted
to him by relatives of the victims.
Japan's New Big Gun Factory.
Victocrla, B. C, Nov. 24. An im
mense gun factory, with 20 large build
ings, covering 83 acres, is being estab
lished on the Sumida river, near Tokio,
by the Japanese military authorities,
where 4,000 men will be employed in
i making heavy ordnance.
REFUSES TO CHANGE
Hitchcock Admits California Has
Share In Klamath.
BUT CHARGES ALL TO OREGON
Fulton's Plea for Umatilla Irrigation
Falls on Deaf Eart Secretary
Denounce! Malheur,
Washington, Nov. 25. Secretary
Hitchcock Is now convinced of the in
terstate character of the Klamath Irri
gation project and acknowledges that
California Is to benefit by the work in
contemplation fully as much as Ore
gon, but be is not willing to change bin
order charging the entire allotment to
the state of Otegoti.
When Senator Fulton again took up
the matter of the I'matilU project w ith
the secretary, he found llitchrtsk hold
ing the same views he voiced on the
ocean ion n( his previous visits, contend
ing that Oregon's 51 per cent reserve
fund has been appropriated' and ex
plaining that there are no (un. In avail
able for construction of the I'malllU
project .
Mr. Fulton maintains that, even if
the secretary adheres to his determina
tion to charge.! he entire cost of the
Klamath work to Oregon, there is yet
enough money in the rcclamat ion fund
to the credit id Oregon to build the
I'malllla pioject. On June !I0 last
Oregon's restricted fund whs practically
f.'.MlO.OOO. Deducting f 2,(11)0,0(10 al
lotted for Klamath, there was yet
f.iOO.OOO li ft, and it is Mr. ! niton's
contention that since July 1, 11)05,
enough money has been received from
disposal of public lands in Oregon to
make the other f.'iOO, 000 necessary for
the I'inatilla project. The: secretary in
unable to state bow much money Ore
gon has contributed to the fund since
July, but will advise the senator when
he ascertains the (acts.
Notwithstanding that he denominates
the Malheur project a "steal," and al
ludes to the operation id the wagon
road people as a "graft," the secretary
will not formally set aside thi project,
though admitting that he will not con
struct i'. Nor will he permit the Mal
heur allot merit to Im used in part for
the I'inatilla project. He says Oregon
has had her full share of reclamation
money outside of the Malheur project,
and is not entitled to the benefit of the
money which is now credited to that
project, but which is not being used.
TRY TO DAM SALTON SEA.
Lerge Force Working to Save Rail
road From Destruction.
Ixis Angeles, Nov. 25. Two hun
dred men, divided into day and night
shifts, 20 teams hauling brush and
sand, two piledriveis thumping away
almost incessantly, two stcrnwheel
steamers carrying construction material
and commissary e tores from Yuma
these forces under Superintendent J.
Tolin are entiag'-d in the I leri'illeau
tai-k of building a MX) foot dam acroes
the west channel of the Colorado river
four miles below Yuma, by which the
California Development company hopes
to bring Salton sea to a standstill and
eventually restore the Salton Sink to a
dry bed of evaporation of the Hood
wt fieri that have wreaked such havoc
there.
If the dam is a success, the Southern
Pacido railway in ime will be able to
abandon its lit miles of shoolly track
east of Salton, and resume its main
line. If the dam is a failure, 40 miles
and perhaps more of shoolly may have
to be built, the whole Imperial coun
try may he deprived of its supply of
canal water, and the Colorado river
may be diverted through the Kiver
Pad rones into Volcano lake, thence to
tind its way northward through the
new river into the Salton Sea. What
this would mean may b conjectured
from the damage already done by the
flooding of the great sink.
Congrett Will Investigate Expense.
Washington, Nov. 25. It w.is
stated at the War department today
that while congress would be linked to
appropriate a total of fid, 000, 000 to
meet 'he needs of the Panama canal
work to June 30 next, it is not ex
pected that congress will appropriate
it in a lump sum. The canal ollicials
expect that congress will pass a bill
making available a portion of this
amount to meet the immediate wants
because, congress would probably in
vestigate to learn how the money thus
far expended has been used.
Three Big Battlethlpt.
Washington, Nov. 25. Three first
class battleships of at least 18,000 tons
displacement and 18 knots speed, three
scout cruisers of 6,000 tons displace
ment, one gunboat of the Helena class
nd four other gunboats of light draft,
two for use in the Philippi nes and two
for service in the rivers of China, with
additional topedo boats and torpedo
boat destroyers,' are the principal re
commendations of the general board of
the navy in its program,
Hyde-Dlmond Case Pottponed.
Washington, Nov. 25. The hearing
by the Criminal court on the demurrer
filed in the Hyde-Dimond case, in
which fraudulent land transactions on
the Pacific coast are charged, which
was set for today, was postponed for
two weeks.