Bohemia Nugget
1 OOTTAGl GROV1 . . OREGON.
NEWS OFTHE WEEK
la a Condensed Form (or Our
Easy Readers.
A Return of the Lett Important but
Not Lett Interetting Eventt
of the Patt Week.
A general itrike bat been.ordered in
Rusia in Angutt.
Dreyfot hat been decorated with a
rroet of the Legion of Honor.
There haa been a wholesale alangbter
ot blackt by Germane in Africa
Perpetual daylight in Alaska serious
ly interferes with wireless telegraphy.
Another row has broken oat in the
government printing office at Washing
ton, D. C.
AF rench woman haa been arretted
in Paria for robry. She concealed
her plunder in a wooden leg.
The warehouse of the International
Harvester company at Sterling, Illinois,
have been destroyed by fire. Loes,
$100,000.
Fire almost totally destroyed the
plant of the United State Leather com
pany at Prentiss, Wisconsin. The lost
it placed at f 600,000.
Henceforth th canal commission
will pay all laborers in silver. The
change waa made on acconnt of West
Indian negroes, wbo would rather
starve than spend gold.
Two Vienna doctors called in consul
tation on a case disagreed and a duel
followed. Both were wounded and sent
to the hospital. In tne meantime the
patient recovered without medical as
sistance. It is believed the czar will diesolve
the donma.
Suppression of newspapers caused a
riot in St. Petersburg.
, Peace has been signed among the
Central American republics.
The last of the ladrone chiefs ia the
Philippine haa surrendered.
Germany proposes to exclude Ameri
can canned meat of every description.
A revolntion in Mexico ia threat
ened, inspired by hostility to A me i
cans.
The National Livestock exchange de
nounces the reports recently made on
the meat packing industry.
John D. Bocaefeller will be arrested
immediately on his arrival in the
United State. He baa sailed for this
country.
The whole city of Syrran. Euesia,
haa been destroyed by fire. The con
flagration has rendered 35,000 persons
homeless, who are alao without food.
Meager reports have been received of
a fierce fire in Yokohama, Japan. More
than a thousand houses were d. stroyed
and some life is known to have been
lost.
The capital of Alaska has been moved
from Sitka to Juneau.
Scotland will try to induce parlia
ment to grant home role.
8anto Domingo will borrow $20,000,
000 and pay all outstanding claims.
Germany and Austria will help the
czar if another revolution breaks out.
A forest fire in Calaveras county
tbreatns destruction to California's big
trees.
The bishop of Zululand accuses the
British troop of wantonly killing many
natives.
Santos Dumont has a new airship
which be believes an improvement over
anything yet built.
The mayor of Socorro, Tex., says re
ports of the recent earthquake were
greatly overdrawn.
The English parliament will appro
priate $1,000,000 for the relief of the
unemployed this winter.
The National Pure Food convention
endorsed the stand taken by President
Roosevelt on the pure food law.
General Stoeesel, commander of Port
Arthur, during the Russo-Japanese
war, has been sentenced to death by a
military commission for surrendering
to the Japanese.
Missouri ia after the ice trust.
Evidence is being secured against
the tobacco trust.
A French dirigible balloon recently
remained in the air eight hours.
The government is preparing to gauge
many Oregon and Washington streams.
The Virginia 2-cent-a-mile railroad
rate law has been declared unconstitu
tional. A tramp steamer bumped into the
new battleship Rhode Island, springing
her armour plates badly.
Kansas packing bonnes have been
given five days to clean up or cloee up.
The executors of the estate of the
late Marshall Field estimate the value
of the property left t $25,000,000.
All express companies operating on
the Northern Pacific and Great North
ern roads have consolidated and here
after will be known a the Northern
Express compan-. The deal also in
cludes the Adams Express company on
the Burlington.
DOUMA DISSOLVED.
Ciar Placet Ruttia Back Under Hit
Own Despotic Rule.
St. Petersburg. July 23. Russia's
firat experiment in parliamentary gov
ernment ram to an Ignominious end
Satarday night with the promulgation
of two imperial ukases, the firt di
solving the present parliament and pro
viding for the convocation of its sue
cesser on March 5, 1"07, more than
six months hence, and the second pro
claiming the capital of Russia and the
surrounding province to be in a state ot
extraordinary security, which is only
infiniteeeimally different from full mar
tial law. This measure ot safety is to
provide for the outburst which un
doubtedly will be provoked by this
daring measure. It it now but a step
to dictatorship.
There it little doubt that the order
for the convocation of the new assem
bly will still further postpone the time,
unless the new parliament promises to
be more amenable than the present.
The delay in fixing the time for the
new elections seems to indicate a de
cision to change tne present basis oi
suffrage to perhaps a basis of universal
suffrage with which the advisers of the
emperor hope to wamp the educated
liberals, the Socialists and tb work
men with tb vast mas of peasantry.
The only uncertainty is the coming
storm- when and where it will break.
The advocate of the "mailed fist" be
lieve that, by dissolving parliament
and provoking a collision now, they
will find the revolutionary leader not
prepared for an uprising at Moscow,
whereat further delay would nearly
give the revolutionist the time needed
to organire and to continue the corrup
tion of the army.
Tbera are no precedent in Russian
history for the execution of an order of
prorogation, but today probably will
find the palace in possession of tbe mi
litia and the surrounding streets deliv
ered to the emperor's guards.
WILL USE BOMB.
Terrorists Mark Victims for Death
Trepoff it Warned.
St. Petersburg, Juy 23. Although
the victory of the reactionists seems at
present to be complete, neither the S
cialists nor the Terrorists have accepted
tbe situation, and, while tbe people are
apparently completely overawed by tbe
display of force on tbe part of tbe an
thorities, it will be necessary to con
tinue tbe use of the bayonet for some
time. General Trepoff himself is an
thority for tb statement that he ha
again been warned that be is marked
for assassination. Despite this fact, h
continue actively at work, although
at all time surrounded by a heavy
guard.
The Socialist members o! tbe douma
have held a number of secret meetings,
but so far tbey have refrained from
carrying out their avowed determina
tion of issuing a proclamation attacking
tbe czar, tbe reactionary element and
more especially their former allies, the
Constitutional Democrats. If they do
so, trouble must come.
ENTER LAND AT SHOSHONfc.
Boomers' Scene of Operations Trans
ferred From Lander.
Washington, July 23. In acordance
with a supplemental proclamation is
sued by the president, tue register and
receiver of the land office for Lancer,
Wyo., district, shall receive entries for
lands in tbe ceded portion of tbe Sho
shone reservation at Shoshone, Wyo.,
from AuguBt 15 to October 6, 1906, in
stead of at Lander, at provided in the
proclamation of June 2. This action
was based on the fact that the railroad
now building into the reservation will
not be constructed from Shoshone to
Lander until after August 15, and the
cbanga is made to accommodate pros
pective entrymen.
All persons who draw numbers at tbe
drawing, which begins at Lander,
Wyo., on August 4, 1906, which num
bers entitle them to make entry be
tween the dates of Auguts 15 and Oc
tober 3, inclusive, must proceed to Sho
shone, Wyo., and make their entries
instead of going to Lander, as provided
in the first proclamation. After Octo
ber 3 entries will be made at Lander.
Investigation To Be Made.
6n Francisco, July 23. A military
investigation and a grand jury inquiry
have been ordered to Inquire into the
mystery surrounding the disappearance
of nine wagonloads of liquors dispatch
ed from the Moulder school warehouse
to the Jefferson park hospital store
room. Major General Greely, com
manding the department of the Pacific,
has ordered Lieutenant Colonel John
P. Wisser, Inspector general, to trace
tbe disposition of every bottle of liquor
sent here for relief purposes that passed
througn the army station.
Guatemalans Shot All Prisonera.
San Salvador, July 23. The Salva
dorean newspaper accuse the Guate
malan troops of having killed Salvador
an prisoners. They say that General
Cristalee, when the armistice was
signed, returned to the Guatemalan
army all the imprisoned officers and
soldier of Guatemala, but the paper
assert the Guatemalans were unable to
take a corresponding step because
all the prisoner they bad captured
were tbot,
Threaten Revolt of Fleet.
Sevastopol, July 23. A meeting of
2,300 sailors from the warships here
today drew up economic demands for
presentation to Admiral Skrydloff. Un
less these demands are fulfilled the
men say the whole of the Black tea
fleet will revolt.
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
GROW RUBBER IN UMATILLA.
Colorado Man Sayt th Climate and
Soil Are Good.
Tendletnn- -There is a propect that
Umatilla county may become the rub
ber growing center ottoe Pacific North
west in the near future. G. T. Ikmg
las, of Durango, Col., representing the
rubber trust of the United States, i
here for the rurpoa of looking over
the country and making an esamina
tion of the toil. He it now looking
over the country in the vicinity of
Echo, where the soil and climate is
similar to that of New Mesico, Arizona
southern Utah and southern Colorado,
where the plant la grown very success
fully. The plant is said to flourish in
dry sandy soil, and in semi-arid dis
trict. Mr. Douglas believe this sec
tion to be adapted to the eucceetful
growing of the plant which he says re
quires about two years to come to ma
turity. It can be put in at from $8 to
$10 per acre and will yield from $100
to $200 per acre. Mr. Douglas will
make a report of bis investigations to
bit company in a few days.
Sodavill at Seat of Learning.
Albany Article ot incorporation
have been filed in tae county clerk's
office for the Mineral Springs college,
at Sodaville. Tbe college w ill be open
ed next fall in the building at Soda
ville formerly occupieJ by the old Min-
eial Springs seminary, which closed it
door several years ago from lack of
financial assistance. It is now planned
to establish a school tbe equal of any
institution in Oregon, except those sup
ported by tbe state. Classical, icien
tific, literary, normal, business and
musical course will be taught, and the
institution plans to give degrees as
high as master of arts.
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Demand for Labor in Linn County.
Albany There is no excuse for a la
boring man to complain for lack of
work in Oregon this year. In Linn
county there is a demand for laborers
of every sort, and especially those wno
will do farm work during the i arrest
ing season, and who are willing to work
around a sawmill, or in the woods.
Farmers in Linn county are looking in
vain for needed assistance to garner
their crop1, and tbe lumbering mills
along the rivers of Linn, Marion and
Lane counties are advertising for help
all the time. Many college students
are spending their vacation weeki at
the sawmills.
Labor Famine in Valley. -Salem
At an illustration of bow
great is the demand for manual and
team labor in tbe Willamette va ley,
tbe Willamette Valley Traction com
pany, in commencing work upon the
Portland Salem electric line, was un
able to secure men and teams, and
employed a steam traction engine to do
tbe ground breaking. It is quite prob
able that help will have to be imported
from other states in oider that the com
pany may be able to fulfill its contracts
with the city council of Salem to have
the line completed between this city
and Chemawa and ready for operation
on or before September 10.
Watco Farmers Begin Harvest.
The Dalles Haying is well advanced
throughout Wasco county, the bulk of
the grain hay now being in the stack
and the second cutting of alfalfa has
begun. More bay has been cut in tbe
county this year than for many years
previous. This waa owing to so much
of tbe grain having been injured by
heat, makiDg it unfit to thresh. Next
week cutting of grain will begin in sec
tions where fall grain is raised, and in
moet sections barley will be ready to
cut by the last of the week. Farmers
estimate that about half a crop will be
harvested. The fall wheat will be No.
1, bufrmst of the spring wheat will be
inferior.
Hot Weather Hurriet Harvest.
Eugene The condition of tbe crops
in the Upper Willamette valley, espec
ially around Eugene, during the raat
week have been excellent, and all the
farmers are happy. The haying season
is about half over and tbe crop to he
harvested will be one of the largest for
years. The warm wave wnicn nas ex
tended over the valley has been some
what detrimental to the wheat crop,
which, according to the farmers, has
advanced too far. Harvest hands are
reported scarce, even with the good
wages offered.
Construction Slow.
The Dalles W. F. Nelnon, president
of the Oregon Trunk road, says con
duction work is progressing slowly be
cause of the scarcity of laborers. Mr.
Nelson expects to secure plenty of la
borers after harvest. It is the purpose
of the company to push the road on to
Madras, a distance of 110 miles from
the Columbia, as soon an it can be
built, and then to build through Cen
tral Oregon and make connection with
some southern road.
Exhibits for Jamettown Fair.
Salem Jefferson Myers, president of
tbe Lewis and Ulark lair commission,
and on of the commissioners to the
Jamestown exposition, was in Salem
recently closing up the affairs of hit
commission and also consulting with
officer of the etate fair board relative
to the collection of exhibit! for the Or-
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egon exhibit at Jamestown, uoionei
Myers sayt that all exhibitors at the
etate fair will be asked to preserve as
nrticb of their products as possime anu
the commission will purchase euch as
It meritorious for exhibit at Jamet
town.
FOOD LAW QUESTIONED.
Legal Interpretation of Two Words
Mean Much to Ms Friends.
Salem I'pon the legal interprela
lion of the words "adulterants" and
"adulteration" hangs the fate of Ore
gon's pure food law when it comes np
for desision liefnre Judge (irorge II
tfurnett, of the Circuit court, for this
county in the caps of the state vs
George Fendorick, who is charged wit!
selling the state lard that has been
adulterated with tallow.
Fondorick, who is a meat dealer in
this city, is under contract to furnish
the state insane asylum with a quantity
ot lard, and it is charged by the mate
dairy and food commissioner that the
lard furnished contains a certain per
centage of tallow.
The point at issue Is whether an
adulterant in foods means the substitu
tion of a substance which is injurious
to th human system for a pure article
and if the court holds that tallow Is not
an adulterant it will throw the whole
art open to Uchnical violation in al
lines of trade in foodstuffs.
Big Real Estate Deaat Eugene.
Eugene One ot the largest real ea
tate dealt ever made in I-ne county
was consummated recently when Eli
Bangs, Eugene's pioneer liveryman,
told a quarter block of ground at the
corner of West Ninth and Olive ttreete
to G. M. Bonnett, a farmer of this city,
for $35,000. A two story brick build
ing and a large frame livery stable
building are on tbe ground, and they
are included in the sale. Mr. Bangs
secure in the deal a 960 acre stock
farm in Harney county, which hit son
Abraham, ot this city, wiil conduct.
Grocers Not To Buy Infected Fruit
Salem County Fruit Inspector E. C.
Armstrong has called upon all retail
grocery men and secured from them an
agreement not to buy from fanners any
fruit infected with San Jose scale. The
dealers were willing to make the agree
ment and will keep it in letter and
spirit. If the retail merchants prevent
the sale of diseased fruit to them, the
inspector can give his entire time to
watching tbe far-ners who peddle fruit
about town direct to the consumers.
Hot Wave Spoilt Prospectt.
Moro The he-t wave that has pre
vailed in thia section for the patt two
weeks has materially shortened the
very flattering prospect for a big wheat
crop. Report from farmers are con
dieting, bnt there can be no doubt but
that all grain ia more or lest shriveled
and there will be not over half an aver
age crop. Many are already cutting
their wheat for hy, but at the present
price for hay that will bring very satis
factory returns.
Treaturer-Elect Filet Bond.
Salem State Treasurer-elect George
A. Steel has filed his official bond in
the sum of $50,000, which was approv
ed by the governor. Later he will be
rqeuired to furnish an additional bond
in the sum of about $500 000, the
amount to be determined by the gov
ernor.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Club, 71c;
bluestem, 73c;
red, 69c; valley, 71c.
Oats No. 1 white feed,
$31 per ton.
$32; gray
Barley Feed, $23.75 per ton; brew
ing. $24: rolled, $24.50(325.50.
Ifye $1.60 per cwt.
Hay Valley timothy No. 1, $11
12.50 per ton; clover, 18 60(39; cheat,
$6.5007; grain hay, $78; alfalfa,
$11.
Fruits Apples, $1.5001.75 per box;
apricots, $1 601.75 per crate; cher
ries, 48c per pound; currants, 0(3 10c
per pound; peaches, 75r$1.10 per
crate; pears, $150(32 25 per box;
plums. $1(3125 per box; Logan ber
ries, al. 35(31. 40 per crate; raspberries,
$1 75(31.85 per crate; blackberries, 8c
per pound; gooseberries, 8c par pound.
Vegetables Beans, 6(37n per pound;
cabbage, lc per pound; corn, 25(335c
per dozen; cucumbers, 75c$l per box;
lettuce, bead, 25c per dozen, onions,
10Ol2)c per dozen: peas, 4 (35c per
pound; radishes, 10(315c per dozen;
rhnbirh, 22c per pound; spinach,
23c per pound; tomatoes, $1.25(32.25
per box: parsley, 25c per box; squash,
$1(31.25 per crate; turnips, 90c(3$l
per sack; carrots, $1(3125 per sack;
beets, $1.25(31 50 per sack.
Onion New, red. Mc per
ponnd, new yellow, l(32c per pound.
Potatoes Fancy graded old Bur
banks, 4050c ptr sack; ordinary,
nominal; new potatoes, 76c(3$l 60 per
hundred.
Butter Fancy creamery, 1720c
per pound.
Igg,s Oregon ranch, 222a per
dozen.
Poultry Average old hens, 124
13o per pound; mixed chickens, i
ai2c; fryers, 16017c; broilers, Ififd
16)c; roosters, 9(310cj dressed chick
ens, 14(315c; turkevs, live, lfl317c;
turkeys, dressed, choice, 17(322cj
geese, live, 8(38c; ducks, 12.(3 1 3
Hops Oregon, 1905, 11c; olJs, 8c
per pound.
Wool Eastern Oregon average best,
1823c; valley, coarse, 22U23c;
fine, 24c; mohair, choice, 2830c per
pound.
Veal Dressed, 5(37c per pound.
Beef Dressed bulls, 3c per pound;
cows, 4(35)c; country steers. 6(36c.
Mutton Dressed, fancy, 738o per
pound; ordinary, 66c; lambs, fancy,
8(38o.
Pork Dressed, 78c per pound.
TO KILL LIBERTY.
Car Will Us Army to Enforce Hit
Will in Russia.
St. Petersburg, July 1. If report
in circulation In official circles this
morning are grounded on fact, the su
preme crisis In the affairs of the Rus
sian nation is impending, and within a
fortnight at most event must transpite
that will result either In th.t perpetu
ation of absolutism in Russia or the
map of Europe will be changed.
According to reports, the rr.nr, after
weeks of twinging from one extreme to
the other, decides that he rannot grant
the reforms demanded hy the people,
and has decided that th arbitrament
of physical force shall le appealed to.
He has, through (ienerals Trepoff,
Kaulhars and other leadeis of the oil)
clal military class, canvassed the olli
cers of the army, and has decided that
they can be depended on, if it should
come to a clash with the people, and ao
he has decided that from now ou the
wishes of the riar and his wishes alone
shall le considered.
This means, should the rumors I
true, that the donma will soon be dis
solved and that the new cabinet will
represent more than ever the wishes of
the governing classes and disregard the
demands .f the people already made
through the donma.
None ot the members of the cabinet
who could be reached last night would
discuss the matter. However, the de
lay in announcing that the various de
manda of th douma are even being
considered, th concentration of tried
troop at all centers where advocates of
a constitutional form of government are
strongest, and the generally defiant at
titude of the bureaucracy, all tend to
lend credence to the report.
Disturbance in all interior Russia
continue, and riot, murder and rapine
are the rule. In many camps pitched
battles between soldiers and malcon
tents are reported, hut all details are
completely censored and are not per
mitted to become public.
CLIMAX OF ADMINISTRATION.
Roosevelt Will Invoke Conspiracy Law
and Dissolve Standard Oil.
Washington, July 18. Dissolution
of the great Standard Oil trust may 1m
the result of the prosecutions socn to
be begun against that corporation by
the government. Assistant Attorney
General Purdy, who has direct charge
of the preparation of the prospective
casee, returned to Washington today
from St. Paul, where for two weeks he
has been in consultation with Special
Counsel Kellogg, of the latter city, and
District Attorney Morrison, of Chicago,
and, while he refuses to discuss details
a to the plans under way, there is good
authority for the statement that the
administration is aiming at a more
vital object than fines or even impris
onment for the trust offenders.
The cases against Standard Oil will
be ma le under the conspiracy act. It
is of recent memory that conspiracy in
restraint of trade in violation of the
provisions of the Sherman anti-trust
law resulted in the dissolution of the
Northern . Securities company. More
recently the government won another
sweeping victory in the courts ami dis
solved the Western paper trust. The
same sort of success met the movement
against the elevator trust in California
The breaking np of the monster
Mandaiil Oil combination may come as
the culminating grand climax of the
Roosevelt administration, and in the
light of today's developments persons
in Wahington have recalled to them
with striking force these words spoken
by President Roosevelt shortly before
the adjournment of congress:
"The prosecution of the Standard Oil
company is the most imjortant thing
in this administration.
Bartlett Wat Short $33,000.
Waehington, July 18. It was stated
at the Treasury department todav that
an investigation recently concluded of
the affairs of the late Major George A
Bartlett, disbursing officer of the Treat
ury department, snows a shortage ap
proximating $33,000. Ahout $14,000
of this amount, however, is)saidto have
been innocently paid out on fraudulent
vouchers presented hy James Boyd, a
clerk in the Marine Hospital service.
who in September last was arrested and
is now in jail pending his trial for mis
appropriating government funds.
Colombia Wants Commercial Treaty.
New York, July 18. The following
cable dispatch was received in this city
yesterday from Bogota, Colombia:
Colombian National Commercial con
gress, assembled in Bogota, represent
ing all parts of the republic, has unan
imously adopted resolutions endorsing
favorably the negotiations begun hy
President Itayes and Minister Barrett
for new treaties with the United States
and Panama. This action is most im
portant, assuring the support of the
business interests "
British Anti Cigarette Bill.
London, July 20. The committee of
the house of lords on juvenile smoking
has resniien In lavor of legislation on
the lines of Sir Ralph Littler's bill in
the house of commons, providing a pun
a'ty for selling cigarettes to a child un
dr 16 years of ago, imposing a penalty
on anyone found in possession of ciga-
r-ne or smoic i g tohacco, and author-
zing the police, schoolmasters and
parkkei.rs to stop youths from smok-
g and to confiscate their tobacco.
Utlc4 Stopt Fighting.
San Salvador, July 18. The bellig-
erenta today agreed upon an armistice.
It is claimed that the Guatemalana
during the recent fighting used explos
ive bullets, notwithstanding the fact
that Guatemala signed the Geneva convention.
BONDS SELL WELL
530,000,000 lor Panama Canal
More Than Subscribed.
ALL BIDS ARE AT GOOD PREMIUM
Average Premium of Nearly 4 lrr
Cent Is Offered--Interest at
2 Per Cent.
Washington, July 21. HMa were,
opened at the Trensiiry department
la'c yesterday for the $30,000, 000 lO-IU.
Panama Canal bonds, bearing 2 per
rent interest, under Secretary Hhaw'a
circular ol July 2 an I, although no
awards will be made until today or
later, it Is evident that the entire issii.
ha hern s'ibs Irbed tor at an averagn
,f from 10.I H4 to lo.'l iM. Mr. Hhaw
and other officials of the Treasury de
partment a pressed themselves aa high
ly pleased and entirely satisfied with
the figures ohtalned.
The total number and amount of
bids made will not be ascertain .1 until
today, out it ia apparent that the whole,
issue has been subscribed for several
times over. The largest and beat tin
gle offer was that of Hk A Robinson,
of New York, who mad ad bids of
$5,000,000, each at an average of
103 85. Smaller bids at higher prices,
however, will probably reduce the
amount which will likely awarded
to .hem to about $15,000,000. Due
bid of 106 for the whole Issue came
from a man named Lindsay at New
Orleans, but on account of condition
named and for other leaaons the bid
was not considered. Several telegraph
ic bid were received too late to tm con
sidered, but the price named were too
small to he successful.
The secretary having Stated that the
bond would be numbered serially be
ginning w ith the highest bid, one offer
was tun le at 125 tor 11.000, thus s. cur
ing to the bidder !ond No 1. An ex
aminatiori of the I -est hid shows that
offer of 104 1 11 and up aggregated
$l6.H!U,HtU); 104 to 104 I -1 i aggregat
ed $ 1 , 1 00. HH0 ; 103.75 to 104 aggregat
ed $14,177,000.
LOSS LOOMING BIG.
San Francisco Insurance May Reach)
Total of 300.000.000.
San Francisco, Cal., July 21. It
now looks as if the insurance risks In
the burned district of San Francisco
will foot up considerably more than
$250,000,000, and the total may go up
to nearly $300,000, COO. The esti
mates ol insurance manager have been
crawling upward alt the time, and the
figures given In reports tiled by the
companies with the New York Insur
ance department indicate that even the
highest estimate which they have mad
is too low.
Several weeks after the conflagration
a detailed estimate of the amount of
acli company's risks flied the total
insurance in the hurried district at
$,.'.r)2, 363. 000. Thirty. three companies
which have made sworn returns t the
New York Insurance department, ad
mit a liability of $102, )!'., 000. The
estimate of their liability whs $'.MI,0ll.'i..
000. Takiiig the same percentage of
differences for all the 1 OH compsnies
which were included in the list, the.
total of their liahilitha would he
placed at $26i,271.0UO.
An addition must h made for
Lloyds, for the "uiidrgrround" con
cerns, and for the comi anies which
hail some risks here but were not
named with the 108. This addition
mav li estimated at $10,000 000,
which brings the totaU up to ahout
$280,000 000.
From this calculation the Herman.
of Freeport, and the ( ierman National
are omitted, as their returns to the New
lork Insurance department have a pe
culiar look. On the basis of th r.
turns of the thirty-three companies
above referred to, the German, ol Free-
port, ami the (ierman National, would
he involved to the eatent of $6,213,000
in the disaster, but they admit a loss
of only $2,817,000.
Reciprocity Treaty With Spain.
Madrid, July 21. American Minis-
ter Collier has left Madrid for San Se
bastian, where today he will sign with
Foreign Minister Ctullon the new com
mercial treaty between the United Slatei
and Spain. The document is i-nnsid.
ered most advantageous to both sides,
overcoming a number of increases in
the Spanish tariff, which beca ma nnsr.
ative July 1. and olv
rocal advantages. The mess welcnm-ii
the agreement as entlrelv i.atiafntnrv"
and as evidence of the friendly inter
course between the two governments.
Foreign Trade $2,070,000,000.
Washington. J-v 21 A ruim.nt.
issued today hv the rinmirtinnnt nf
Commerce and Labor says the foreign
commere of the United Stales In the
flcal year just ended aggregated $2,
070,000,000. If the trade with Porto
Rico and Hawaii, which was included
In our foreign commerce rrior to their
annexation were added, the total would
materially exceed $3,003,000,000. To
tal Imports were $1,226,000,000, and
exports $1,744,000,000.
Great Demand for Troop.
Odessa, July 21. General Kaulhars
has been overwhelmed recently 'with
appeals for military assistance from
landowners In the districts of Kherson,
Yekaterinoslav and Poltava, against
the peasantry, who ar organized andr
led by revolutionist.