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About The Estacada news. (Estacada, Or.) 1904-1908 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 16, 1905)
NEWS OF THE WEEK In a Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. HAPPENINGS OF TWO CONTINENTS General Stoessel has answered his ac passed the bill providing for the regula cusers by showing that food and am tion of freight rates. The senate devoted today’ s session to munition would not have held out more the agricultural appropriation bill. I than four days longer. There was a renewal of the discussion AI new blizzar is raging east of the of the policy of distributing the appro Rocky mountains, with the tempera priation bills among a number of com ture ranning from 4 below at Chicago mittees. to 20 below at Duluth. All trains are After the passage of the freight rate Late on account of wind and snow. bill by the house a spirited discussion Eleven Eastern Oregon projects for was indulged in over the deadheads A resolution the reclamation of arid land are now carried by transports. under consideration by the government was adopted approving of the carrying engineers. Malheur ranks first, but of schoolteachers and members of the obstacles are still in the way which families of officers and men on trans ports. may cause it to be abandoned. A Resume of the Less Important but The president has appointed Joseph Not Less Interesting Events H. Kibbey, of Arizona, to be governor of the Past Week. ] of that territory. MORE ARE INDICTED Grand Jury Turns Its Attention to Eastern Oregon Company. PUBLIC LANDS WERE FENCED UP Tnreats of Violence Used to Drive .Legitimate Settlers From Their Friday, February 10. Lands in the Vicinity. After maintaining its record for the rapid disposal of private pension bills, Grand Duke Nicholas is reported to 433 being passed in an hour and a half, Ice has stopped navigation on the be going to Manchuria to help Kuro the house today considered for a short Portland, Feb. 11.— Two indictments patkin. time the hill providing a government were returned by the Federal grand UpperC o^umbia. for the Panama canal zone. An early Several deaths have been reported in John Barrett, minister to Panama, adjournment was taken to enable the jury yesterday afternoon, by one of Montana from the severe cold weather. says that there are but few cases of yel Republicans to confer on the statehood which the long-drawn-out investiga low fever on the isthmus. bill. tions into the dealings of the Butte A proclamation is to be issued grant • Before the routine proceedings of the j Creek Latid, Lumber & Livestock com ing great liberty to the Russian work The American Tobacco company has senate began, President pro tern Krve men. declared an initial dividend of 2>£ per announced his selection of Perkins to pany were brought to a close, while the The president proposes the recovery cent on its common stock for a period read to the senate Washington’s fare second added another mark to the list of the body of Paul Jones, who was not yet stated. well address on February 22. Bills already against the names of Henry buried in Paris. were passed authorizing the secretary | Meldrum and his associates. In New York in a single quarter last Turkey is preparing for war by hur- year, with a total population of 3,838,- of war to sell magazine rifles to rifle The indictment against the Butte rying guns and troops to the disturbed 824, there were 24,034 births and 21,- clubs upon request of governors of the Cieek company and some of its em various states, and permitting Okla districts of Macedonia. I 058 deaths, a natural increase of 2,050 homa Territory to appropriate money ployes charges a conspiracy to prevent It is stated on what is believed to be in the popultion of the city. to construct agricultural college build and obstruct the free passage over and good authority that Kuropatkin is to be free use of certain of the public lands Albert T. Patrick, who is under sen ings. relieved and General Grippenberg given | tence of death for the murder of Wil situated in Wheeler county. The docu his place. ment also alleges that threats of vio liam M. Rice in New York, hopes to Saturday, February II. lence and other means of intimidation The Missouri Pacific railroad is hav escape by proving at a second trial As an outgrowth of the investigation were used to drive those legitimate ing much trouble with snow blocking that embalming causes congestion of of the General Slocum disaster, the homesteaders already settled on the The prosecution proved its tracks. As high as six trains have the lungs. that Rice died by chloroform adminis house today passed a number of bills land from the vicinity. As defendants been lost at a time. amending the laws relating to steam the indictment names Winlock W. Stei tered by Patrick. At the time of the North sea incident boat inspection service and making far ner, ex-state senator; Hamilton H. war was much nearer than was admit A conference of 100 ministers in New more rigid provision for the regulation Hendricks, secretary of the Butte Creek ted to the public by either of the na York has decided to start a crusade | and control of steam vessels. A bill Land company; Clarence B. Zachary, tions concerned. against vice by holding a series of was also passed authorizing the con- Adelbeit C. Zachary, Charles A. Wat j struction of a bridge across the Pend son and Clyde E. Glass, employes of It is annuonced that as a result of mass meetings. | d’ Oreille and Kootenai rivers in Koote the company; Binger Hermann, John the disturbances at Lodz, Rusisa, 144 H. Hall; Edwin Mays, ex-assistant people have been buried and that over The Industrial General Trust com nai county, Idaho. The entire time of the senate today, United States attorney; Franklin P. 200 persons are still in the hospitals. pany, of London, has asked the New which was not spent in executive ses Mays; Clark E. Loomis and Edward D. Senator Mitchell declares he will not York supreme court for a special jury sion, was given to the Swayne impeach Stratford. give np his seat and that he will be to try its suit for over $1,000,000 ment triasl. Four witnesses were ex The second indictment is against able to explain everything in connec against J. Kennedy Tod and others for amined. In executive session eight Henry Meldrmu, ex-surveyor general; tion with the many indictments in a damages for unauthorized sale of bonds treaties of arbitration between the George E. Waggoner, Meldrum’s clerk ; for the Birmingham, Sheffield & Ten- satisfactory manner. neessee railroad company, the ground United 8tates and European govern David W. Kinniard, Benjamin F. Min The Japs have captured a hill on the being that an ordinary jury would not ments were ratified. The treaties are ton and Gustave Klaetsch, deputy sur with Great Britain, France, Portugal, veyors; George Sorenson, Livy Stipp Hun liver. understand the case. Switzerland, Germany, Spain and Aus and Frank H. Duncan, notaries public. The czar says he intends calling'a na- tria-Hungary. It is brought under the same section of DOINGS I N CONGRESS. tionaAongress. the revised statutes of the United States J. Pierpont Morgan has gone for a as the foregoing and alleges that the Monday, February 13. Tuesday, February 7. cruise in European waters. defendants conspired to defraud the The senate heard 10 witnesses in the government of the United States by After a continuous session of nine Russian war vessels have been or Swayne impeachment trial today and dered to leave German port in Africa. hours the senate tonight passed the devoted the remainder of its time to false and fraudulent surveys. joint statehood bill. As passed the Representative Williamson has been bill provides for the admission of the the consideration of the agricultural Must End War. indicted on the charge of subornation states of Oklahoma, to be comprised of appropriation bill. London, Feb. 10. — The St. Peters The leaders of the house today began of perjury. Indian Territory and Oklahoma and active work to get the statehood bill burg correspondent of the Chronicle St. Petersburg strikers keep quiet, New Mexico according to the present into conference. A paper is being cir sends an interview with a Russian who but trouble continues in Poland and boundaries, with Arizona eliminated. culated to get enough signatures to is in the confidence of M. Witte, in the The house devoted the entire day to the Caucasus. After that it course of which the Russian asserts debate on the railroad freight bill, with bring the matter up. Orossed electric wires in a six-story the exception of a tew minutes just be will require a vote that the bill be that M. Witte recently said that peace Chicago building caused a fire loss of fore adjournment, when a message from taken from the committee and sent in the Far East must be obtained at any cost. This Russian says Russia is over $000,000. the president was read recommending direct to conference. willing to evacuate Manchuria and al A. II. Tianner has confessed that he a board of survey for the Philippine low China to grant Japan a 99-year Woman Suffrage in Kansas. committed perjury in order to shield archipelago. lease of Manchuria and the Liaotung Topeka, Feb. 10.— Late this after Senator Mitchell. peninsula. Russia would retain Sag- noon the woman suffrage bill passed Wednesday, February 8. halien, Vladivostok and the Ururi dis Fire damaged the historic Catslno the house. In substance the text is : Although the result of the presiden trict. She would pay no indemnity. theater in New York and caused a tial election was known early in the “ Section 1. That in any election here panic among the chorus girls. after held in this state for the election evening of November 8, it was not until Storm Shuts Off Electricity. The cold wave which crossed the today, when the house met in joint of presidential electors, the right of Louisville, Feb. 11. — While condi mountains from the East has caused session, that Theodore Roosevelt and every citizen to vote therefor shall not some los»to stockmen. The temper- Charles W. Faribanks were officially be denied or abridged on account of tions resulting from the long continued aturer ranged from 17 above at Port declared to be elected. An immense sex. A woman may vote at such elec rain and sleet storm show a slight im land to 40 below in Idaho points. andienoe gathered to witness the cere tions the same as men, under like re provement in the Southwest today, strictions and qualifications. Sec. 2. there is no betterment of the situation All the resent members of the presi mony. i..e house devoted five hours today This act shall take effect and be in force from the Mississippi to the Atlantic dent's wabinet will continue in office coast. The telephone and telegraphic except Postmaster General Wynne, w ho to debate on the railroad freight bill. from and after its publication in the ' companies in this vast area have lieen is to be appointed consul general at A ntlmber of the members spoke on session lawe.’ ’ practically out of business since last London. Mr. Cortelyou will be nom both sides of the question. Saturday night. Atlanta has been May Accept the Goldsborough. Very little business was transacted inated postmaster general. in the house today. Kearns, of Utah, Washington, Feb. 10. — The senate shut off twice since Sunday and noth Japan will next besiege Vladivostok. claimed to have voted against the joint today passed a bill authorizing the sec ing has been heard from there by wire for 14 hours. Workmen at 8t. Petersburg have statehood bill, and his vote is recorded retary of the navy to accept the torpedo struck again and increased their de for it. Discussion as to whether it boat Goldsborough, constructed by Wolff mands. should be changed was lengthy. A Zwicker iron works, of Portland, Arizona Glad She is Left Out. Phoenix, Ariz., Feb. 11. — Roth Many German coal minres have been Friends of the statehood bill claim it which has repeatedly failed to stand the government test. The bill author houses of the legislature passed a con will pass in the house. blacklisted and the strike may be re izes the secretary of the navy in his current resolution thanking the United newed. discretion to waive the 30-knot require States senate for eliminating Arisona Thursday, February 9. Many conflicts between police and ment and to accept the Goldsborough at from the statehood bill and askng the strikers in Poland canse hundreed of After nearly four days’ discussion the a reduced price, to be govern med by house of representatiives to concur in deaths. boose today, by a vote of 326 to 17, the speed. the amendment affecting this territory.