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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (July 25, 1906)
SOCORRO IS RUINED Successive Light Shocks Shake Down Earthen Walls. PEOPLE ARE FLEEING IN PANIC Extinct Volcano Near the Town It Suspected of Reviving and Causing Shocks. Kl TftNO, Tel., July ll. Karthquake shocks numbering between 60 am 00 have practically made a ruin of the town o( Nocorro, 1(10 ml Ion north of this place. The court house it a maim of r ti I nit, and practically all the houses in town are damaged. According to re porta received, there in no loon of lllu. The damage has been wrought hy a continuation of alight quakes, which have caused the walla of structures al ready cracked to tuinhle to the earth. The II rut iihocka were full on Kunday, nit the real damage had been confined to the taut two day. K. M. Fink, a cattle buyer who came from Hocorro today, declare he was silting at dinner at the Winikler hotel on Monday, w hen tlm entire aide wall of the dining room fell in, and the gnpcW and all the waitera scattered in every direction. The people are in a panic ami all who can do ao are leaving town. There in a crater of what in thought to he an extinct volcano not more than eight mi lea from Hocorro. ami the in habitant! think that ptrhapn the vol cano haa something to do with thf re markahle rcrlcs of shocks. The tern pern tore of the water in Hot Springs at Socorro haa increased over ten degree and it ia thought that this furnifdies new evidence of internal upheaval of a local nature, and that the earth ia dia turhed at great depths in the imii edUte vicinity of the town. The National railrrnd ia Rending box cam into the town to take the people. Hway ao great ia their desire to leave the town. Huge boulders have heen jarred dow n on hi track from the mountain aides, and trains have heen delayed thereby. The bridge abutments have heen affect ed to such an extent that orders have been issued to Santa Ke trainmen to p'oceed with great caution over bridges within a radius of 30 milts of Hocorro. UTAH COAL LANDS STOLEN. Federal Agents Procuring Evidence for Prospective Suits. Salt Lake City, July 10. Rumors to the effect that agents of the Federal governmet are busy in Utah preparing to institute suits of a sensational na ture for the recovery of vast areas of public domain, current here for several months, were revived today, with an additional statement that within ten days suits would be brought in the Fed eral court bete to recover to the gov ernment more than 30,000 acres of coal lands, alleged to have been acquired by coal companies through fraudulent nieuns, part as agricultural or gracing lands through selection hy the Utah state land board, being later transferred to the coal companies. Other coal lands are said to have been filed on an such by dummies who later tiansferrud them to the corpora tions. More than 100 entries of this character are said to have been run down. While these reports cannot be abso lutely verified, a Federal oflicial in this city today admitted that suits are in preparation, making the additional statement that the iede'al officials in trusted with the matter had received positive instructions from Washington not to talk, but to prepare for action. It is stated also that a Federal grand jury may be called to sift the evidence that bus been gathered in preparation for the prosecntion of the civil cases. Arkansas After Trust. Little Rock, Ark., July 11). Suit was entered today against the Ave cot tonseed oil mills of this city by Attor ney General Rcgers and Prosecuting Attorney Rhoton, charging them witti being members of a combine in viola tion of the anti-trust law, and alleging restriction of trade. The suite ask judgment In the sum of $5,000 per day, aggregating $130,000 against each com pany, and auk also the revocation of their charters in this state. It is an understood suits will be entered against the remaining 34 mills. Crops May Rot. Warsaw, July 19. The agrarian etrike is still spreading and now ex tends throughout several provinces, in which the harvest is threatened with destruction by the refusal of the peas ants to work in the fleldes. The Land owners' union has refused to grant the demands of the strikers. During the last three days Warsaw terrorists have attacked and robbed 20 government epirit stores. Wholesale murders of policemen liave occurred. StrombollOpens New Crater. Rome, July 19. An alarming erup tion is reported at Btromboll, the vol canio isle in the Lipari islands off the north coast of Scily. A new crater bas opened, which is belching out huge quantities of fiery matter, and all vege tation in the Ylclntty is being destroyed. RED TAPE TATTERED. Assistant Secretary Ryan Taken Initi ative and Uuys Sunnysido Canal. Washington, July 20. Acting Hecie lary of the Interior Ryan today ap proved the pure base of the Hunnyside irrigation canal in Cartem Washing ton, ami authorized the ps merit of $250,0(10 for the same to the Washing ton Irrigation company. The approval of this purchase removes the last ob stacle In the way of the construction by the government of the Teton and Hun nyside irrigation projects. Had this sale not leen concldued to day, the Washington Irrigation com pany would have withdrawn I In offer and the government would have heen obliged to abandon both its projects, or else enter upon prolonged litigation. Notwithstanding the fact ttiat Secretary Hitchcock approved the Tieton and Hunnyside projects more than six months ago and authorized the pur chase of the Hunnyside canal at the above price, the owners of the canal have teen unable to collect one cent from the government, because the sec retary of the Interior has not approved t'.ie formal purchase, some of the gov ernment lawyers having found trivial objections which they believed should be corrected before the government paid for the canal. Mr. Hitchcock, on his counselors' advice, refused to pay over the money. BIGGEST OF ALL DRYDOCKS. Will Be Built of Concrete at Bremer ton Navy Yard. Washington, July 20. Hans for the largest and best drydock in the world are being prepared in the bureau of Yards and Hocks at the Navy depart ment, to cost $1,21)0,000 and to be con stiucted at the Hiemerton navy yard, Puget sound. Washington. This amount is the largest ever appropriated for a dock, and the new dock will be able to take in the largest batHeship, either in course of construction or in contem plation. The location has already been selected, and borings are being made to learn the depth of foundation. It is to he a concrete dock of the largest pat tern and materials will be purchased on the Pacific count if practicable The dock is to tte so constructed that it can be lengthened if vessels of great er length should be built in the future, (t will be 37 feet in depth over sill, which will provide lor the docking of any vessel that can be built, unless some now unknown system of building is developed. The greater depth of the new dock ia also designed to meet cases where a vessel has been injured and draws much more than the ordinary dipth on account of the injury. NATION ENTERS BUSINESS. Japan Makes Great Stride Forward on Road to Socialism. Washington, Jaly 19. According to advices received by the bureau of man ufactures, the Japanese government has undertaken one of the greatest experi ments in the world's history, which in dicates a clear pnrpese to protect, su pervise, develop and nationalize all Japanese industries. It is stated that the provision for the nationalization of railways was but a single step in the great plan of induttrial naturalization toward which the country is fast ap proaching. The movement for Manchurian na tionalization has received careful atten tion, and it is now proposed that a company shall be formed hy the gov ernment and private capitalists jointly for the purpose of operating the rail roads, forests and mines in Manchuria. If successful along the lines Japan is now working, it is said that the indi viduals and corporations of America that are striving for the trade of the Orient will ditover that they are not competing for this trade against indi viduals and corporations of Japan, but that they are in commercial conflict with the Japanese nation itself. Embezzles Igorrotes' Cash. Washington, July 20. The War de partment was advised today of the ar rest in Chicago of Truman K. Hunt, who brought to this country a band of 50 odd Igorrotes from the Philippines. Acting under instructions from the War department, Hunt has been formally charged with holding from the dog eat ers for 15 months salaries which he agreed to pay, and also with embezzling $1,000, money they had made by sell ing souvenirs from their far-away home. Hunt was at one time governor of the Igorrote district. Millions Left by Beit. London, July 18. Friends of Alfred Beit, the South African financier, who died July 16, estimate that he left a fortune of between $125,000,000 and $150,000,000, and expect it will be found, when bis will is published, that legacies aggregating many millions, if not the bulk of his fortune, will be de voted to public benefactions in Eng land and South Africa. It is not prob able that the terms of t'e will will be published for several weeks. Refugess Are Returning. Ban Francisco, July 20. It was es timated that within three weeks of the fire on April 18, fully 335,000 people left Ban Francisco. According to com putations made today, just three months after the fire, there are now in Bun Francisco 365,000 people, with 60, 000 more waiting in nearby cities for opportunity to return as soon as suit able accomodations can be bad. CONVICT STANDARD Government Will Prove Guilt ol Heads ol Monopoly. RAILROAD MEN AS WITNESSES Testimony To B Used for Indict ment of Standard Oil Officers Who Extort Rebates. Cleveland, July 17. The Plain-Dealer this morning says: Itasing his opinion upon the testi mony already submitted to the Federal grand jury in this district, Attorney General Moody believes that the gov ernment has at last secured the evi dence which will bring the Htanda-d Oil company to its knres. The return of District Attorney Sullivan this morn ing from an all day conference with the attorney general a New York yesterday will make a complete change of the government's policy in connection with the fight to stamp out trade discrimin ations in favor of giant corporations. The change of plans includes a com plete reversal regarding C. J. Grammar, vice president of the I-ake Shore A Michigan Southern railway. Gram mar will not be indicted in this or any other Federal district. Instead, he will le asked to assist the government in forging a chain of evidence about the necks of some of the biggest Stand ard Oil officials in the country. It is known that the government offi cials are eager to obtain one more link in the evidence already secured against the Standard Oil company. A most determined effort will be made to com plete the chain through Grammar and Clark. What the government officials particularly want ia the names of the Standard Oil officials through whom, it is alleged, rebating arrangements were mp'le with the Lake Shore and other ra 1 oads. With these names in their possession the government attorneys will be ready to strike. MANY MEN OF MANY MINDS. Railroad Men Cannot Agree As To Meaning of Rate'Law. Chicago, July 17. Executive officials and general counsel of every railroad west of Chicago bad a conference today with a view to determining the mean ing of all of the provisions of the new rate law. J. C. Stubbs, traffic director of the Harriman lines, presided and outlined the purposes of the gathering. It developed, however, that there were almost as many views regarding the interpretation of the statute as there were lawyers and traffic men present. It was decided, therefore, to appoint two committees, one of traffic men and one of .egal men. The traffic men are to meet and arrange their plans for carrying the law into effect, and whenever they encounter a provis ion that they are unable to solve tbey are to call on the legal committee for opinions. In the meantime the com mittee of lawyers is to bold meetings and determine what it considers the statute requires. GRAIN BAGS RISING. Shortage is Accentuated by Recent Fire in San Francisco. Ban Francisco, July 17. It is esti mated that 6,000,000 grain bags were destroyed by the recent fire and in con sequence the market is paralyzed. New orders cannot he filled and brokers on 'Change are in a quandary as to tLe future. The price for bags has jumped nearly 50 per cent, and at that the com modity is not to he had. Formerly sacks sold for C38 to cents and to day the price of 1034 cents prevails. The prospective supply reaches in round figures to 40,760,000 sacks, and aeainet this must be chalked the needs of California, computed at 23.500,000 racks, and for the north 27,000,000 sacks, leaving a deficit of 9,750,000, with no possible output to cover the shortage. Czar May Keep Goremykin. St. Petersburg, July 17. There are no developments in the cabinet situa tion. The murder of General Koslov is reported t) have made an exceeding ly bad impression on the emperor and the Novoe Vreiuya denies that the cab inet has resigned. The hesitation at Peterhof has raised hopes in the minds of some of Premier Goremykin's col leagues that he can bold on, even in the face of the adverse vote in the up per bouse of parliament on Saturday. Russia will be represented at the Inter parliamentary union in London. Earthquake in New Mexico. Albuquerque, N. M., July 17. This section of New Mexico experienced a slight earthquake today. Objects moved perceptibly, and a dull, sicken ing sensation was experienced. No serious damage has been reported. The people in the Armijo building thought that the building was about to collapse and ran into the street. Towns south of Albuquerque also felt th shock and residents of Socorro and San Marciale are in a state of alarm. Put Rojestvensky to Work, fet. Petersburg, July 17. It is under stood that Admiral Rojestvensky, who was acquitted by court martial of the charge of cowardice in surrendering to the enemy after the battle of the sea of Japan, will be restored to the active list of the navy and assigned to a prom inent position on the technical commit tee of the navy. CLEARING AWAY DEBRIS. Hundreds of Carloads Dumped Daily From San Francisco. San Francisco, July 17. Certain vis itors to Han rrancisco have given loud voice to their disappointment at seeing the city debris strewn three months after the disaster. "It is an impossi ble task that Nan Francisco has under taken," they write home, and their la mentations come back by wire to this city. It is true that almost three months have elapsed, and it is also true that acres and acres of debris lie in the heart of the city. Moreover, it is high ly possible that much of the debris will remain for several months. What these visitors have neglected to observe is that the debris is being cart ed away at the rate of 240 carloads a day. The dirt is carried in wagons to the bunkers on First street, and from there trains convey it to the Protero swarnps, wiiere it is doing reclamation work. Throughout the old business section of the city dangerous walls still stand, but the board of works has taken steps to have them torn down. This board has also railed upon property owners to clear away the sidewalks on which their buildings front. When this is done many of the streets still blocked will be opened. Such important streets as Stockton and Pine are not passable their entire length. The city is not waiting idly for the disappearance of the debris, but reconstruction and cleaning are going on simultaneously. MINING FRAUDS IN BRAZIL. Country is Full of Schemes to Obtain Money of Gullible. Washington, Jnly 17. Consul Gen eral George . Anderson, in a report to the bureau of manufacturers from Rio Janeiro, charges that while some bona fide Rraz;''an diamond mines may re sult prob ably, that country is full of schemes v. hich are either out-and-out frauds oi ire based on claims and facts so slight as to make them little lees than fraud. The report says the United States and- Gr.Rt Britain, especially New York, Chicago and London, sre the chief financial base of operation! for a number of promoters, who have never done any mining, and that tbere are a number of so-called mining companies now soliciting stock subscriptions in the United States whose officer are not even certain where the land they claim as property lies. The report states that experienced men in Brazilian mining fields say that not a single mining company operating in the gold and diamond fields of Brazil has paid a dividend. The consul gen eral adds that it is a lamentable fact that a large proportion of the Brazilian mining enterprises are frauds and that tbere are now men of the United States with enterprises which represent noth ing more than the money tbey can get from the American public. TEST OF CANNED MEATS. Congress Will Know What Is the Ef fect of Age. Washington, July 17. The bureau of chemistry, Agricultural department, is to carry on a series of tests this sum mer to ascertain definitely whether canned meats deteriorate. One of tbe bitter contentions over tbe meat in spection amendment to tbe agricultural appropriation bill hinged on tbe senate requirement that packers should place the date of manufacture on each can of meat. The packers, however, insisted that this was unwarranted, because they claimed that meat, once put up in air tight cans, would last forever. They declared that canned meat was as good in ten years as it was in ten days, ard they brought to bear testimony of an official of the department to corroborate their statements. Borne members of congress bad their doubts about this, however, so it has been decided to make a thorough invedtigation and find out whether the packers were correct or not. Officers Preach Revolution. Bt. Petersburg, July 17. At a meet ing held today at Gatcnina, 30 miles from St. Petersburg, attended by three of the (iuard regimentB, an officer ad dressed the men on the subject of the soldiers' union, which is being organiz ed. He pointed out that the league was democratic and was being organiz ed for the purpose of guarding the con stitution and establishing constitution al institutions and to prepare tbe army to come over to the people when they were ready and armed for resistance. The speech was received with applause. Killed at Peterhof. London, July 17. A dispatch to a news agency from St. Petersburg says that General Koslov, of the headquart ers staff, was murdered in the park at Peterhof Saturday. His assailant used a revolver. The three shots fired were all effective. Tbe murderer was a well dressed man. Ha bas been arrested, but not identified. The case is regard ed as mysterious, as General Koslov was not connected with any political agitation. Thousands Without Homes. Nizhni, Novgorod, July 17. A fire which broke out here today raged for six bours before it was checked. When it was finally extinguished 275 houses bad been destroyed and more than 3,000 families had been rendered homeless. The lost is placed at $100,000. HOW MONEY IS MARKED. It l lln with n I'ln, il with I'm, nm Mnpixtxil. ' Mow Is money inn i-k ! V" repented a heiiilquiirtera' detective to a Star re porter's query. "Well, It I not marked In tli: milliner Unit the public thinks it is. 'Tho average person no doubt be lieve that money Is marked hy pri vate marks placed on the hills with pen and Ink ; tterliaps some employers thus mark tho bill they place In the cash drawer which Is being robbed hy a dis honest clerk. Of course 'marked mon ey' of this kind Is good evidence In court on the trial of a man ujkwi which It has been found. Itut a check mark In Ink, unless very exjertly put on, might, with the aid of a good lawyer for the accused, be shown to have been iierbnps accidental, and thus would tho ever-sought, reasonable doubt of the accused's participation in the robbery be raised. '"There arc several different ways of marking money by police experts to the end that they may establish Its iosl tlve Identity of having previously been lu their hands before the thief extract en! IL The way I personally employ, und which Is perhaps the safest to se cure certainty and conviction, Is the 'pin prick method.' "Let us take the familiar silver cer tificate of the $5 denomination for an Illustration, one that has been some what worn Is better than n new note from the treasury. In the center Is tho well-known vignette of the head of an Indian chief In full regnlla of feathers and trappings, presenting a full-fuce view. We now take this pin and make two punctures right through the bill und directly through the pupils of the eye so. I hand you the bill, and, even though you saw me make the punctures, they are not visible at a cas ual and even critical glance. I now raise It to the light, and you can see the two tiny holes made by the plu liolnt as distinctly us windows In a building. I then apply the pin ioint very neatly at tbe twist In the neck of tbe large figure 5 ut the two upiier Ureux ends of the note. You will hservo that these two diminutive twists do not appear In the necks of the two figures of 5 which are In both ends at the bottom of the note. I theu pierce the note at the extreme ends of the scrolls on either side of the word 'Ave which mny be seen In the direct center of the note nt Its lower edge. "The marking of the note Is now complete. It is exhibited to one or two persons in the secret for the purposes of preliminary examination and ldentl I ticatlon, ond then placed in the money drawer, jierhups with several others of tbe same denomination, all exactly marked alike with tbe greatest care. The thief may be on the lookout for marked bills, usually Ink marks, but he Is a slick one who will get on to the Invisible but surely present pin pricks. You see, this class of thieving does not admit of a crucial examination of tbe money before taking ; It la usually done very quickly by palming the bills, placing them in some preliminary place of safety, to be later removed. Theu we count on detection with the bills on tbe ierson before the thief has a chance to exchange or to spend them. "And the pin pricks remain? Indeed they do. The money Is afterward care fully placed in envelopes and is not promiscuously handled. When they ure exhibited In court and their prelimin ary preparation explained under oath conviction is practically certain." Not It la Property. Antolne Rlvarol, the French epi grammatist of the eighteenth century, was so brilliant that something good was expected of him every minute. Dnce when he had heen Invited to din ner, at which the hostess especially wished him to shine, he sat quite si lent. The attitude or aisapiointea expect ancy In the company nettled him, and (it last Rlvarol made a stupid remark. Everybody uttered an exclamation. "There," said Rlvarol, "I cannot say a stupid thing without every one's cry ing, 'Thief!'" At a dinner In the house of some Germans he made a ke. Ills hosts put their bends together Inquiringly. Ulvarol said to his neighbor, a French man : "iiOon at tue uermans pooling tneir wltfl to understand a Joke." Needed Wettlnn. When a delightfully ojen winter was suddenly followed In March by a spring of deep snows and heavy kv, many New EnglandVrs were puzzled to understand the need of such unwel xmie weather. Not so Uncle Ned Wll loughby. "I told 'em! I told 'era!" he said, cheerfully, as be drove his express sleigh about town In tbe teeth of rbe third blizzard. "What 'd you tell 'em, Uncle Ned," asked a curious villager. "Oh, I told 'em! I says, says I, 'Winter,' I says, can't rot aout yit,' I says, 'not withaout more wettln' 'u it he'z bed. " Foretold. "Did you know that Shakseare fore told tho craze for automobile record breaking?" "No; will you tell me where?" "When be speaks of men seeking tbe 'bubble' reputation." Baltimore Ameri can. Nothing Oat. "I understand your daughters In tended calling last night" "Yea." "Were you out?" "No, I was In j I held four aces." Houston Post However, tbe short change man isn't necessarily short of change. The largest frog Is now stated to he the new Rana gollath from the Canier oons, with a head and body measuring not less than ten inches. Hitherto the 'largest known has been a specie living in tho Solomon Islands. Root (MMietratlon In the soli has been tested by excavating about six feet so as to leave a vertical wall, and then spraying from a garden hose. The bared roots retained their natural posi tions. Rye, beans and peas each showed a matted felt of white fibers reaching down about four feet, wheat had ex tended 3 feet In seven- months, ami maize and clover were traced to a depth of ten feet In light, rich soil. The flying frogs of the Malays ap pear to be mythical, but three tree snakes of Borneo, lately described to the London Zoological Society by It. Hhelford, are credited with taking fly ing leaps from the boughs of trees to the ground. It Is found that scales on the lower part of the body may be drawn Inward so that the whole lower surface becomes concave. The resist ance to the air Is thus greatly increased, and experiments Indicate that the snakes do not fall In writhing colls, but are let down gently In a direct line I by the parachute-like action of their pe culiar bodies. Speaking at Glasgow recently, B. II. Brough summed up many facta about the use of iron by the ancients. Inter esting In the light of recent metallurgi cal practice is a part of an Iron tool found In the Great I'yrumld, because It contains not only nickel, but also com bined carbon, showing that It is not of meteoric origin. Under a sphinx at Karnak an Iron sickle was found. At Delhi there still exists an Iron pillar, 50 feet high and 18 Inches In diameter, made up of 50-pound blooms welded to gether. ThU pillar, Mr. Brough sug gested, may me regarded as "tbe doyen among products of the heavy iron In dustry." The use of Iron and steel In China bas been traced to the year 2357 B. C. The Japanese are said to have had a curious method of making steel. They burled forged Iron In marshy ground, and after eight or ten years, through some alchemy of nature. It came out steeL Interesting experiments have recent ly been made at the Kew Observatory near London on tbe effects of the elec tric currents produced in the earth by the electric traction system of the British metropolis. The delicate mag netic Instruments of the observatory are affected by tbe currents. Metallic plates burled In the ground were con nected with a photographic recording apparatus, and the tracings recorded by the Instrument formed a picture of tbe time-table of the London Central Railway, although the nearest point o approach of that line is six miles from jKew. Even accidental breakdowns oc curring on the traction line were Indi cated in the photographic record. By connecting tbe earth-plates" with a sen sitive galvanometer, tbe effect of the' movements of the tramway controllers was rendered evident, and, a telephono being attached, sounds were beard at each controller movement Two projects for the construction of railway tunnels of unprecedented mag nitude are now under discussion. One of them, which appeals strongly to the Imagination if It does not enlist much sympathy among puctlcal men, Is Mon sieur do Lobel's plan for tunneling Bering Strait to connect Siberia with Alaska. The author of this plan ex plained It before a large meeting of the Navy and Military Club at St Peters burg recently. Bering Strait, he said. Is about 3S miles broad and 157 feet deep, but It has two Islands so situ ated that the tunnel could be divided Into three sections of about 12V& ml lea each. The other project is older, and relates to tunneling the English Chan- nel between Dover and Calais. French engineers have recently been studying the enterprise anew. The distance ia about 23Mi miles. The work would be relatively easy because the tunnel would ruu through chalk. Not So Very Kind. Mrs. Wllks It be kind of you, doo tor, comln so far to see Wllks. Doctor Not at all. I have a pa tient on the way, so I can kill two birds with one stone. Tatler. The Hullnir I'naalon. The trading-stamp agent was before the court. "I'll have to hold you In $1,000 ball,' remarked the magistrate. "All right, Judas-," said the prisoner; "do you give stamps with a transaction like that?" Philadelphia Ledger. Just th Prima of Life. "When do you consider a man at hit prime of life?" "When he's old enough to quit writ ing poetry and not old enough to begin writing love letters to hi stenog rapher. Cleveland Leader.