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Bohemia Nugget COTTAGK GROVE . . OREGON. NEWS OFTHE WEEK la a Condensed Form for Oar Easy Readers. A Rasume of the Let Important but Not Lata Interesting Events of the Past Weak. HALF MILLION TO STRIKE. Coal Tillman will liave a hard fight to be re-elected senator. Bristol's confirmation as district at torney (or Oregon is assured. American money has saved thousands of lives in the Japanese famine dis tricts. The president and senate leaders have agreed on the court review amend xnent to the rate Mil. Germany has found through the Mo, rcccan conference that she has hut one friend in all Europe, Austria. Sir Thomas Iipton has completed arrangements for tte building of a challenger for the America's cup in 1907. The New York Central and Pennsyl vania roads are aid to have agreed on consolidation. The present lines will also be greatly extended. Ad Indiana bachelor found eight babies on his doorstep a few mornings ago. He immediate!? sent for the county officials to take charge. A storm at English, Indiana, blew down a lerge tree, revealing the hiding place of $21,000 placd in the roots of the tree by an old miser may years ago. Representative Jones, of Washing ton. has a bill requiring all American vessels to carry sufficient oil to clm the sea whenever the Teasel may be in danger in storms. The Chinese bovcott is believed to be dying out. Storer is still recognized as ambas sador at Vienna. Miners ot Whole Nation About to Suspend Work. Indianapolis, March 30. The joint meetings of the bituminous coal opera tors and tnineis of the central coiupett tive district, composed of Western Pennsylvania. Ohio. Indiana and 1 1 1 i nois, and of the Southwestern district, composed of Missouri, Kansas, Texas, Arkansas. Oklahoma and Indian Terri tory, last night reached a final disa creement on the wate scale to go into effect at the expiration of the present scale on April 1, and the conference of the eeutral district aljonrned sine die, while the joint scale committee of the Southwestern district decided to reort a disagreement to the joint conference of that district Unlay. It is expected that this conference will at once ad journ sine die without an agreement. The action of the two conferences will directly eanse the suspension of work after Saturday by 178,000 miners unless something unforeseen, like sub mission of the differences to arbitra tion, should intervene, and indirectly will affect 20t,500 more miners, not including its effect on 160,000 miners in the anthracite field, who were lat night ordered to suspend work Monday. A national convention of the .miners ill be held today to decide whether miners will be allowed to sign the ad vance scale demanded ami today re fused by all operators with a few excep tions, and to go to work where the ad vani-e is offered. Operators employing; 25,000 miners in the central competi tive field have openly offered to pay the advance during the joint coufertnee sessions. The wage scales of all miners, lotl anthracite and bituminous, will expire Saturday, except those in Tennessee and Alabama, where the scale will ex pire in September. One national offi cial of the United Mineworkers said: It is a foregone conclusion that all the miners whose scales expire Satur day will cease work until officially no tified by the national and district offi cers tbat new contract arrangements have been made governing their scale." OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST PROGRAM FOR CONGRESS. Troops have been called out to sup press riots at Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Iowa legislature tins passed a bill which will not allow any state ofli cer to nse a railroad pass. The miners convention Las decided to accept the advance wherever granted by the fcoal operators and work will continue in those mines. Representative Lacey, of Iowa, wants all agricultural lands now embraced in forest reserves thrown open to entry under the homestead laws. Thirteen miners who were entombed in the French coal mine have just been fonnd alive. They were in the mine 20 days and lived on boree feed. Another $25,000 has been sent to Japanese famine sufferers through the National Red Cross. This makes $125, 000 sent through this source. Announcement is made at Cleveland, Ohio, of an advance of from to 1 14 cents per gallon by the Standarl Oil in the price of gasoline and naphtha Governor Pattison, of Ohio, is grow- APg, worse, Pan American Committee Prepares Subjects for Action. Washington, March 33. A program of subjects to be considered at the Tan- American congress to be held in Rio Janiero, Brazil, beginning July 21, was agreed on today by the cr in in it tee of the congress having that matter in charge, of which Secretary Root is chairman. In addition to Mr. Root the committee is made up of the ambasadors from brazil and Mexico and the ministers from Chile, the Argentine Republic Cuba and Coeta Rica. The subjects include sanitary and quarantine regulations, uniformity of patent laws, international recognition of diplomas of practicians of the learned professions, questions affecting commer cial intercourse and an international railroad. It is expected tnat wnat is commonly known as the Drago doctrine, which opposed to the forcible collection private debts by one nation from anoth er, a doctrine adhered to by the United States, will come up for consideration in some form. STUPIDITY OF CANDIDATES. Aspirants for State Legislative Honors Show Great Density. Salem Men m ho seek to be lawmak ers or Judges have the greatest trouble in preparing their primary petitions in such a manner as to comply with the provisions of the direct primary law It it were not a cinel unkindness those who aspire to tliese high and 1m portant offices, many stories conld le told of the great difficulty some of them have had in understanding the law and complying with its terms. One candidate for the circuit bend has propounded a simple question con cerning the requirements of the law and has volunteered his owu opinion a to its meaning, whereas the law itself contains a plain and unequivocal pro vision directly at variance with his views. Should he have as great ditti culty in understanding the law alter he secured a place on the circuit U'tich there will be plenty of causes for ap' peal to the Supreme court. Seven times Secretary of State Pan bar has been compelled to write to one man regarding the manner of preparing his petitions, and that man wants to come to Salem and help make laws for the state of Oregon. There is still possibility that he will not get his papers drawn in substantial compli slice with the law and will be shut out of the privilege of being a candidate in the primaries. Petitions are now being rushed to the cilice of the secretary of State am the clerks in that department are being kept busy early and late chunking up the papers, to see that they contain the required number of names, from the sjecified number of counties and pre cincts. March SO is the last day npon which nominating petitions can he filed for places on the primary ballot. Dtno- crats express the fear thtt some of their candidates will not get their petitions completed by that time. is of Justice Harlan, of the United States Supreme court, may retdgn. The Chicago beef trust trial has been set for the second Monday in Decem ber. The Ohio legislature has provided for a commission to revise the ineurance laws of the state. The president fears congress will take no action on the Panama canal at the present session, Winnipeg, Manitoba, is in the hands of a mob. A etreet car strike is the cause of the trouble. President Roosevelt has strain sent Bristol's name to the seriate for con firmation as district attorney for Ore gon. The Mississippi river is rapidly ris ing and the danger line has been reached at several p-Miits near St Louis. Great Britain has asked China for 6,000 taels for the recent Nanchang murder and the opening of the port of Wucheng Chi. The Iowa legislature has passed a resolution providing for an insurance investigation eioiilar to that -Lad in New York last fall. The fire in the big natnral gas well near Caney, Kansas, has again been extinguished by means of a bugs iron cap dropped over the opening. The Iowa legislature has killed the direct primary bill. Revolutionists of China are planning to depose the dowager empress. Germany is planning a navy equal to that of both France and England. Charles 8. Francis has been appoint ed United States ambassador to Aus tria. A wealthy New York merchant has left $605,000 to the colored school at Tuskegee, Alabama. American delegates have solved the problem of the Moroccan conference and an agreement is assured. Steamship companies expect a weekly average of 2,000 Russian emigrants to the United States during this summer. Fire at Jmnstown, Pa., destroyed nearly $1,000,000 worth of property. One fireman was killed and several eriously injured. 1 IOWA WILL INVESTIGATE. Vio Legislature Orders Inquiry Into lation of Insurance Law. Des Moines, Iowa, March 30. As a result of practically unanimoui action by both houses of the Iowa legislature today, An investigation of insurarnce companies is to be undertaken m this state -during the present summer, siroi lar to that which was conducted in New York laBt fall. The resolution which awaits the governor's s;gnature pro vides for the appointment of a commis sion to inquire into rumored abuse of Iowa insurance laws by state and East ern companies, to conduct an inquisi torial Investigation whenever in the commission's opinion it is desirable, and report to the legislature of next year what changes should be male in the laws to prevent a recurrence of any abuses that may exist. Road Tied Up for Two Weeks. Los Angeles, March 30. The local railroad situation resulting from floods in Southern California and vicinity is even worse than has j et been described. It is given out from the office of Gener al Manager Wells, of the Salt Lake route, that the washouts between Cali ente and Las Vegas are so serious that the roadbed cannot be repaired short of two weeks to admit the passage of trains. The Southern Pacific also re ports further trouble today. Another washout has occurred somewhere in the San Joaquin valley. Germany Hungry for Islands. London, March 30. The London Times correspondent at ilobart, the capital of Tasmania, states that, accord ing to reports from the Fiji islands, a German syndicate, probably ha' ked by the German government, is trying to secure tl e ownership of Fanning inland, which will he sold at auction April 17. It is feared that the transfer of the ownership rr.ay prove a hindrance to the station of the British Pacific cable on the island. Referendum on Statehood. Washington, March 30. That the senate and house will reach a compro mise agreement on the statehood bill, which will permit Arizona and New Mexico each to decide for themselves the question of their admission as one state, seems a correct solution from present indications. Roads Over Umatilla Reserve. Pendleton Agitation continued for years for public roads across tbe Uma tilla reservation will at last be success ful. Under an act of congress, public roads may be laid out across a reserva tion in the same manner as ebewhere. except that the road has to be approved by the department. In the past it bus been held that the coun'y had no rights upon the reservation, and consequently the use of the roads has been at the pleasure of the Indians. For several years the taking of sheep across the re serve has been prohibited. Abandon Cascade Road. Albany Charles Altschul, represent ing the Willamette Valley A Coast Cas cade Mountain Wagon Road company, has notified comity clerk B. M. Payne that the company will abandon the road across the Cascade mountains and will not be responsible hereafter for repairs or for accidents on the road. As a result, a number of men here are taking steps to file on some of the lands of the company's land grant under the timber and stone act. The road was built a third of a century ago. POPULATION DECREASES. Inaccurate Work by Assessors In Tak ing, Census. Salem According to county assess ors' returns already examined the total population of Orenon will he less than that given by the Federal ceiious of I WOO. In many instances the returns show on their face that no attempt was made, at accuracy, and this lack of care is of such a nature that Secretary of Slate Donlwr will hardly be able to complete the tabulation of tbe state census of lt05 nntil some time this (all, posnibly not Indole next winter. There was no appropriation made to provide extra help to do this work, con sequently it must le done by the regu lar office force. The primary and gen eral elections furnish all tbe work tbe employes of the office can handle for some time to come. It will be neces sary to work overtime to tabulate the returns of the primary election, and to get the official ballot out for the June election. The census returns in ninny install. cea were not properly extended. It will be necessary to go over all tbe papers and check them up. a slow and tedious process. With the present help, it will require weeks, ami Hssibly months, to tabulate the returns properly. Buy'ng Timber for Speculation. Eugene One of the largest timber 'and transactions in this vicinity is re ported to have lieen consummated, wherein the Olean I .and coinimny, o mean, i ., nan secured if) oou acres of timber in the vieini'y of Gate creek liesides this large tract, the same c in panv is negotiating lor several other Ixidies of good timber along the Mc- Kenzie river, aggregating probably 25,- 000 acres or more. It is said the pur- basing company has no intention of cutting the timber from these lands. hut is buying for purposes of specula tion and will hold for an advance in price. Electric Line in Six Months. Astoria W. L. ludley, promoter of tbe proposed electric line between this ity and Seaside, was here a few days ago and says the line will le completed and in operation within six months if the material is delivered within the pecified time. He savs permission from the government to build the bridge across Young's bay has leen se cured and the contract for the steel draw, as well as for 1.500 tons of fc). pound steel rails have been awarded. The rails are to be delivered within i'O days. STORM IS BREWING. Terrible Popular Revolt Coming Soon In Russia. St. Petersburg, March 2H. Iesplt the government's Hsstirance that anoth er extensive outbreak in the Immediate future is impossible, the clouds are lowering and there are other indica tions that a big storm may break before parliament meets. The resentment against the tot l idle repressive measures of the government Is arousing the peo ple, especially the workmen In cities, to fury. This Is playing Into the hands of the revolutionists who are planning a strike and a general uprising. They believe the right moment will rome In inlil-Aprll and both sides are preparing for the fray. If It comes, It Is likely to he bloodier and more terri ble than anything previously occurring in this country. Tbe record of arrests last week in kit. Petersburg, besides showing an awful state of lawlessness in the capital, is eloquent testimony of the methods by which the government hopes to pre vent the threatened eiplotioti. Ac cording to the returns, (IMi hcggais, 215 perrons without passpoits, 247 thieves, 270 highwaymen and 1,0(17 "unclisi. Hud" persons, which means political suspects, were taken into custody . At no time during the war was the war office more busy than now, making dispositions to suppress the fi ret evi dence of rebellion. Machine guns and ammunition are being dispatched in every direction, troops are being shifted and concentrated si strategic points, armored trains are being stationed at railroad centers and ironclad automo biles are being sent to the larger cities for use in stieet riots. Here ami in Moscow the (Vs-ucks and other cavalry are again patrolling the streets day ami night, a project for a wireless telegraph system to eunhln the government to communicate with the .nterior in the event of a strike of tbe railroad and telegraph operators is Ix-ing halily worked out ami soldiers are bein in structed bow to man trains und work the telegraph lines. JETTY BILL IN COMMITTEE. IJEWS ARE DOOMED Russian Police Have Planned Massacre at Taster. SPURRING ON BLACK HUNDRED Proclamations of Blood League of Writers, Issued, Says Which Appeals to Russians. Strong Hope It Will ported to Washington, March 2H. The committee on rivers ami harltors Be Favorably Re-Mouse. house today Josephine Farmers Talk. Grants Pass Farmers living in the Applegate valley have form' d a tele phone company to be known as the Applegate Valley Te'ephone company. Arrangements have been made with the Pacific States Telephone company by which they can connect with the latter company a lines in orants I'ass. farm ers living around Merlin, down Rogue river and on Jurnp-cff-Joe will have a meeting in a few days to form a com pany to run a line from those sections to Grants Pass. Favorable Weather Follows Freeze. The Dalles Weather conditions are the most favorable since the recent freeze, and farmers generally believe that their grain that was frozen will "rue out all right. In a few places irectly ex pose. J to the east winds, the grain will have to le resown, but it is believed that a very great percentage of the fall sown grain will make an aver age crop, or better, as the weather since the thaw has been cloudy and light rains have prevailed. Find Indian Burying Ground. The Dalles Workmen clearing off a lot in the southern part of the city, belonging to M. J. Andersm uncovered an old Indian burying ground, and ex humed the skeletons of seven braves, together with trinkets tbat had been buried with them, Including a large number of elks' teeth. Mr. Anderson will have the bones and trinkets col lected and placed in a suitable burial place, to be selected by survivors of the lead whose graves were disturbed. Old Deed is Filed. Albany A deed has been recently filed for record here that was made be fore Oregon was a state. It was signed by Joab Powell and Anna Powell, No vember 25, 1858, and acknowledged be fore Jacob Hnoderly, a justice of the peace. It was written with a quill on large sheet of paper, now yellow and dimmed. Powell was a pioneer minis ter, and has many descendants in Linn county. Material for Central Rrilway. La Grande A carload of 'plows, scrapers and other tools for grading have been received at Union for use in work for the Central railway of Oregon. Some of the Eastern parties interested in the electric railway enterprise have also arrived at Union and their pres ence is accepted as the signal for the commencement of active operations. Small Force at Woolen Mill. Fugene The Eugene woolen mill has started operations on a limited scale. The new company w hich recent ly purchased the property has been making improvements, and intends putting me mill into tun operation as soon as possible. Oregon Horses for Japan. John Day Henry Trowbridge and C. I. Officer, stockmen of the Izee coun try, have purchased a band of 100 horses for a contract of Seattle shippers with the Japanese government. The horses are all young geldings, from 16 to 16 6 hands high, and without blem ish. From $40 to $00 per bead was paid. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Club, 67c; blueetem, CHc; red, i5c; valley, 0!e. Oats No. 1 white feed, $27.60; grav, $27 per ton. Barley Feed, $23.50(324 per ton; brewing, $24(324.50; rolled, $24.60(3 25.50. Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, choice, $17(318 per ton; common, $13 (314; valley '.imothy, $8(3!); clover, $7 50(38; cheat, $0(37; grain buy, $708; alfalfa, $12. Apples $1.50(32.75 per box. Vegetables Asparagus,8c per pound ; cabbage, lJ'4,3l?4C per pound ; cauli flower, $2 25 per crate; celery, 75 90e per dozen ; onions, 40c per doz en; rhubarb, $1 .25 per box; spinach, $1.25(3 1.60 per box; parsley, 25c; turnips, $1(31.25 per sack; carrots, C5(375o per sack; beets, 85c$l per sack. Onions No. 1, 75c90c per sack ; No. 2, nominal. Potatoes Fancy graded Burhanks, 50(3 dOc per hundred; ordinary, nom inal; sweet potatoes, 2J42JijC per pon ml. Butter Fancy creamery, 25327c per pound. Egg Oregon ranch, lflc per dozen. Poultry Average old hens, 14(3 I4)c per pound; mixed chickens, 13 13c! broilers, 2530c; young roosters, 13(313)4c; old roosters, 12c; dressed chickens, 5rjtttc, turkeys, live, 10(cJ17cj turkeys, dresfed, choice, 18(320u; geess, live, 8c; geese, dressed, 10(3llc; ducks, 17llc. x Hops Oregon, 1906, choice, lOfa 10c; prime, 89cj medium, 78c; olds, 6r37c. Wool Eastern Oregon average b'-st, 15(320cj valley, 242(c per pound; mohair, choice, 25(a28c. Veal Dressed, (&?c Per pnnnd. Peef Pressed bulls, 2i(33e per pound; cows, 34c; country steers, fibii. Mutton Dressed, fancy, SQOc per pound; ordinary, 45c; lambs, 10 11c. Fork Dressed, 68c per pound. took up Senator Fulton's bill appro priating $400,000 for Jetiy work at the mouth of the Columbia river, but It was decided to postpone formal consid eration of the bill until the committee gets together all available documentary evidence of the urgent need of this ap propriation. When the data has been collected -and it will include the re ports ot army engineers, a statement from Senator Fulton and papers from Portland commercial interests the committee will again le called together, Mr. Fulton will be given hearing and the committee vill then determine what disposition to n ake of the hill. Nothing developed at today's meet ing to indicate how the committee will view this measure, hut Kepesentative Jones, of Washington, a member of the committee ami n very enthusiastic sup porter of the hill, said after the com mittee adjourned that he believed the bill would be favorably reported, if the committee could take such action with out being compelled to attach a large number of other appropriations to that for the Columbia river. He is person ally convinced that this is a strictly emergency hill and is not in favor of adiling other appropiHtions fi r which there is less necessity nt this time. fhere is si rong hope thnt the commit tee may become impresed with the p culiar merits of this bill and consent to report it without amendment or w ith out attaching other appropriations which would prove fatal. St. Petersburg, March Ml. The League of Knssiaii Witters has Issued an appeal to the Uusslaii people to unite In the name of their conscleiice and self-respect to preveot the Jewish masvacrc whih, they say, are beyond doubt being prepared In Southwestern Knssla for Eastertide. The appeal say that it is not fancy but fart tbat the police and gendarmes are arranging lo let loose the lilrtt'k Hundred iiniii the members of the poor, helpless race. It recalls that the kishineff, (Join! and Odessa anti-Jewish outrages were com milled at the instigation of Minister id the Interior Von 1'lehve, Chief of Pollen Nei,iardt ami Count Podgerichanie, Chief of the gndarinel ie of I iomel. Just as in the past times St. Bartho lomew day were arranged by agents ol the government, the appeal declares, tbe recent pioclamalioiis emanating from the printing ollice id the police matcr at St. Petersburg an I that of the military at Odessa leave no doubt. I but tbe authorities are privy to tlm present propaganda. The appeal furth er declare that M Ka'-lsoimky's book warning Jiwi to have Uui immedi ately or le trea'ed as tlm Jews wrro treated by the Spaniards in tbe middln age was pnnliti ami niriiiiiii imm t he i llire of t he pol ice innntrs of St. Petersburg and Kkittc rtmrlav. Tbe league of Writers claims to hold proof tbat uiMssacres have been pinned to tnke place at Ale xandrovrk, Minsk, itrest-I.itovsk, Kostof on -Poll and K.e llieiitcbllg. It also points out ttist thn anti-Jewish pres istprradmg insidious rumors to eicite tbe Ignorant. His Plea for Niagara. Washington, March 28. In submit- ting to coheres the report of the In ternational Waterways commission re garding the preservation of .Niagara falls, President Roosevelt sent a recom mendation that a law be enacted along the lines of the recommendations of the report. The message of the presi- lent concludes as follows: "I hope that this nation will make it evident that it is doing all in its power to pre serve the great scenic wonder, the ex iitence of which unharmed should be a matter of pride to every citizen.' France Demands Indemnity. London, March 28. According to a lispatch from Shanghai to the Morning out, France has demanded that China admit tbat the magistrate at Nanchang, whose violent death last 'month led to the murder o' six Catholic missionaries and one child of an English missionary named Kingmnn, whs not murdered ; pay an indemnity of 350,000 taels for the murder of the priests, execute six Chinamen and pay 00,01)0 taels fur the schools. Emigrants In Shiploads. Liverpool, March 28. The steamer Carinania, which sailed today for New York, carried upward ot Z.uuo passen gers, a large proportion of whom were emigrants. The Lake Champlain, of the Canadian Pacini) line, leaving at about the same time, toi k 1,200 emi grants. The steamship companies an ticipate an enormous rush of conti nental emigrants for America during tha coming sea ton. BIGGEST OF ALL BATTLESHIPS. Naval Officers Divided on Building of 22,000-Ton Monster. Washington, March 31. Since thi decision of the house committer on na val t ft lire to recommend an appropria tion of n, 000,000 for the construction of a battleship larger than any now all tat, naval esperls in Washington have beg"!! a heated discussion of the size of battleship, which shows that Admiral Dewey is not supported tiy many naval ollicers in hi advocacy of a battleship greater than the 1 H, 000 ton Krilish battleship Dreadiiaught . Naval constructors are agreed that an effective battleship with a displace ment of 20,00') tons or more can con structed for the American navy, but ti e advisability of nu'horir.ing one ship of this type at tbe present time, ami not making an effort to provide addi tional Hl.O'.IO-toll battleships to supple ment tbe (jouta of smaller i-lnps, and thus make a desirable- working unit out of them, is ipiestioued by many naval authorities. ' At least four hattlcMhip of the sumo speed and with similar batteries and equipment are necessary, according to the view of the constructors, to be effective in an engagement. One great battleship, even if It bo swifter and have more guns than other ships ell nit, they contend, cannot ac complish anything in actual warfare, and is no more effective than the slower and less formidable ships with which it is j'rtnt'd in action. Scranton Ready for Strike. Scranton, Ph., March 31. The an nouncement of a Hispenidoii of mining in the anthracite Ihdd was not wholly unexpected here. The companies have taken it for granted that tin re would he a strike and preparations were made accordingly. Stockades have been built, guards have been hired to pro tect property, and all the minor olll- cials, firemen and ollice clerks have been asked to sign an agreement to help protect the company's properties In case of a strike. All the companies will make an effort to operate. Changes Plan of Tunnel. St. Petersburg, March 31. Baron I.oicq de I.obid, in order to meet the wishes of the national defense commit tee, has altered his Bering Strait tun nel and Siberian railway project to make the railroad run due east front Kansk to the HOlh degree of longitude and thence northea jtery to Yakutsk. Unofficial intimations are given that Uussia would he glad to have the con cession accompanied by an American loan. New Battleship Is Speedy. Boston, March 31. The performance today of the battleship New Jersey in maintaining a speed ol 10.18 knots an hour in a four-hour endurance run off the New England coast, coupled with her remarkable speed yesterday over a measured ml'ie at Rockland. Me., at a 10:18 knot gait, places this vessel at the head of all American built battle ships so far ac speed ii cone uned.