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About The Estacada news. (Estacada, Or.) 1904-1908 | View Entire Issue (April 6, 1905)
NEWS OF THE WEEK The ydllow peril scare against Japan has been revived in Europe. I d a Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. The railway rate b ill w ill be < ready in October, when the president will call congress together. HAPPENINGS OF TWO CONTINENTS NEW MEN NAMED The Bannockburn company may re build its woolen mills at Albany. President Announces Reorganiz ation of Canal Commission. A ll reports of mediation and peace are denied by Russian authorities, who say the war w ill go on. ONLY ONE OLD MEMBER REMAINS Incendiaries set fire to the ship building works at Sevastopol, doing great damage to work under way. A Reiume of the Lee» Important but Puring March 79,000 immigrants Consists of Seven Members, but All came into this country through the Not Less Interesting Events Actual Work Will Be Done port of New York. Last year for the of the Past Week. by Three Only. same month the arrivals were only 47,- 877. An anonymous threat to dynamite Both armies in Manchuria are ready the Warsaw police has caused the offi for another big battle. cers to beat everyone coming in the di Italian warships are at hand to en rection ot the barracks, compelling force demands on Venezuela if neces them to go in another direction. sary. Hayti is threatened with anti-Syrian I t is officially announced that the riots. Russian fleet has finally started for The kaisers visit to Morocco irritates Vladivostok. France and raises British hopes. I t is announced that King Alfonso of A newly arrived Russian at New Spain w ill marry the Princess of Con York has been found to have leprosy. naught, of England. Japanese statesmen propose a triple Returns seem to indicate that the Re publican state ticket has carried in alliance of Japan, United States and Michigan by upwards of 70,000 ma Britain. jority. The Salvation Army has established Taft proposes to take the leaders of a fresh air home for Chicago waifs on the antis to the Philippines in hopes of a farm of 50 acres. showing them the necessity of reducing Baron Science hall, with a number the tariff. of valuable instruments at Denison un Roosevelt has announced that he would make no move toward securing peace in the Far East until both na tions have announced their readiness to discontinue hostilities. iversity, Granville, Loss, $100,000. Ohio, Washington, April 4.— The president has carried out his plans for the reor ganization of the Isthmian canal com mission as to the personnel and busi ness methods, generally on the lines of the legislation he suggested to congress at the last sessiion, which failed in the crush of business in the closing hours. Today, within half an hour after the president’s departure from Washing ton, Secretary Taft, directly in charge of canal matters, made public the names of members of the new commis sion and the division of duties among them. Only one member of the old commission was reappointed, Benja min M. llarrod. Otherwise the com mission is new from top to bottom, for there is a top and bottom and consider able difference in the functions and pay of the commissioners. Finding he was obliged legally to appoint seven commissioners, the president did so, but be carried out his own plan by making three of them practically the full commission. The other four, though bearing the title of commission ers, not only receive a much lower com pensation, but are assigned much smaller fields of activity. The personnel of the new commis sion is as follows: Theodore P. Shonts, chairman; Charles E. Magoon, governor of the canal zone; John F. Wallace, chief engineer; Rear Admiral M. T. Endicott, United States navy; Brigadier General Peter C. Hains, United States army (retired ); Colonel Oswald M. ErnBt, corps engineer, Unit ed States army; Benjamin M. llarrod. burned. Japan w ill insist on an indemnity large enough to pay the cost of the war and cession of territory. It is reported in Washington that be- A homeseekers’ train on the Cana force his departure from the city the dian Pacific, carrying G00 passengers, president issued an order recalling T . was wrecked near Dryden. Several Cader Powell, recently appointed passengers were slightly injured. United States marshal of Alaska. Heney has announced that Mitchell ! The president of the National Packing w ill be the first tried for land frauds. company has been indicted for tamper- Hermann and Williamson w ill follow ! ing with witnesses before the Federal and then the others. The trails w ill grand jury sitting in Chicago, and commence early in June. Heney says ! others are threatened. he w ill also not work for other indict Russians have kidnaped the Chinese ments until some convictions are se governor of Manchuria. cured . Russia w ill float another internal loanof $100,000,000. Congressmen say needs a prote torate. Santo Domingo Payne says the coming congress will not change the present tariff laws. Good Roads Train to Fair. F IF T Y M IN ER S ARE Washington, April 4.— President Moore, of the Good Roads association, today procured a promise from Secre tary Wilson to be a member of a party which w ill travel from Chicago to Portland, Oregon, and diffuse good ! roads literature on the way. The train op which the party w ill leave w ill be I run as a good roads special to the Lewis and Clark exposition. The party w ill include senators and repre- ! sentatives. officials of the National Go* d j Roads association, and expert govern- ment road engineers. EN TO M B ED . Double Explosion Wrecks Shaft and Kills Majority of Men. Benton, 111., April 4.— Some 50 min ers were entombed today in JoBpeli l i t e r ’ s mine at Zeigler by a terrific Government receipts for March ex explosion of gas, and it is probable that ceeded the expenditures by nearly $1,- .10 or 40 of the buried men are dead. 000 , 000 . Thus far four bodies have been found. Robert J. Wynne, recently appointed 1 When between 35 and 40 miners had consul general at London, has left for descended into the mine today to re his post. j sume work, a terrific explosion blew the timbers about the mouth of the The Japanese are making a turning mine high into tbe air. One of the movement on Kirin, preparatory to an steel cages was blown to the surface attack on Vladivostok. Czar Still Hopes to Win. from the bottom of the 500-foot shaft. The Seattle representative of a Jap St. Petersburg, April 4.— A meeting The shock of the explosion was felt at anese concern has offered to furnish of all the members of the Grand Ducal Benton, 12 miles distant. 20,000 Japanese laborers to dig tbe , citcle was held in the palace of the Panama canal. ! Grand Duke Vladimir late last night, Awful Havoc by Bomb. The president has selected Theodore ' at which the czar was present and at j St. Petersburg, April 4.— Seventy i which the question of war or peace was P. 8honts, president of the Toledo, St. persons, 30 artillerymen and 40 Chi A m ajority of I nese,were killed Monday by the terrific Louis A Western railroad, as head of thoroughly discussed. j those present favored the beginning of the new Panama canal commission. explosion of a bomb in the artillery de I peace negotiations, but the Grand The man Nothing has been heard for several Duke Vladim ir and his intimate asso pot at Harbin, Manchuria. days of the Japanese army following ciates stated that in their opinicn it who caused the explosion was also General Linievitch, and St. Petersburg would be far better to continue the killed. The entire laboratory, a huge authorites are fearful that another sur fighting, at least for the present. This establishment, was wrecked, and 10,- projectiles were destroyed— 2,- prise is about to be sprung. j view apparently met the czar’ s view. 000,000 000 packing cases containing 5,000 Tnhe Venezuelan court has decided each. Millions of other projectiles, not Decides to Indict Packers. gainst the American asphalt trust, ac yet completed, were made useless. cusing it of aiding the recent revolu Chicago, April 4. — Well-authenti- , tion. A decision has also been rén cated reports that the Federal grand f Commission on Port Arthur’s Loss. denle against the French cable com jury which is investigating the business St. Petersburg, March 31.— (1 a. m .) pany. j methods of the meat packers w ill re — The membership of the commission turn indictments when it reconvenes to investigate the circumstances of the Oyama’ s army has resumed a general | next Wednesday were prevalent today. surrender of Port Arthur, under the advance. | The report was that the adjournment presidency of General Roop, has been Russell Sage has retired from active taken yesterday was really decided announced. I t consists of General business. | upon in order to allow Assistant Attor Reuberg, of the engineers; Giebenckoff Many Japanese prisoners in Russia ney General Pagin time to draw up the and Kamaroff, of the infantry; Denion- i bills at hia leisure and give due con- enkoff, Krijanorsky and Bogaviesky, of commit suicide. | sidération to the mass of testimony the artillery ; and Admirals Dikoff and Russians say the Japanese are busy : taken since the jury first went into DoubasofT. The sitting w ill begin at stirring up the boxen again. session. j the middle of May. J E N R IC H T H E LAN D . Great Irrigation Project for Southern . Idaho Receives Approval. Washington, April 4.— The Payette* Boise irrigation project in Idaho has received the formal approval of the sec retary of the Interior, who recently set aside $1,300,000 for initiating the work of construction. This action has been anticipated for some time, and is largely the result of the splendid enter prise of the citizens of that section.. For more than a year the landowners, organized into a water-users’ associa tion, have labored indefatigably to har monize the many conflicting claims of private interests in lands, canals, and water Vights, with the result that today practically the valley as a unit stands pledged to the government enterprise. Great as the satisfaction of the citi zens may be on account of the favor able action of the secretary, it is no greater than that felt by the reclama tion service, which has long recognized the fact that the Payette-Boise project is one of the most attractive in the arid West, and but for the many and complicated private and corporate in terests involved, would have been se lected for the initial work of the gov ernment in Idaho. The people, having worked out satisfactory solutions to the divers problems, are deseiving of the success which has finally crowned their efforts. W hile the citizens were straightening out their difficulties the government engineers thoroughly investigated the physical conditions and worked out comprelensive plans for irrigation, which have been presented to and re ceived the approval of the board of con sulting engineers. These investigations show that the project is entirely feasi ble from an engineering standpoint. The lands to be reclaimed are of excel lent quality, and with the climatic conditions prevailing are capable of sustaining a dense population. The fertility of the lands now under irriga tion insures the financial soundness of the undertaking. Nearly 90 per cent of all the irrigable land in the valley is pledged to repay the government its ex penditure for providing a permanent water supply. The estimated cost of the entire sys tem is $10,732,000, or an average cost not to exceed $30 per acre for the land which has no facilities at present for irrigation. This amount includes main tenance for ten years, also the value of existing works which would be utilized but which would not have to be paid for by the government, and the pur chase of rights of way, which w ill have to be provided from the reclamation fund. The full utilization of the water sup ply in the Foise and Payette rivers w ill possibly be the complete reclamation of nearly fiOO.OOO acres, which, divided into farm units of 80 acres, w ill mean 7,500 farms, a rural population of 30,- 0)0, and a population in towns and villages of double that number. The agricultural wealth of the val ley, estimated on the basis of the last census, would be approximately: Irr i gated land, $30,000.000; farm build ings, $4,600,000; implements and ma chinery, $1,410,000; live stock, $9, 300,500; canals and reservoirs, $12,- 000,000; total, $57,210,500. In 1900 the value of farm property for the whole state of Idaho was $07,271,200. It seems safe to assume that with the c< mpletion of the Boise-Payette project the farm property of this section would have a value equal to 50 per cent of that of the whole state. The Boise and Payette valleys consti tute one of the most attractive sections of the West. In the past few years they have undergone a transformation that is nothing less than marvelous. The progress in agriculture is reflected in the splendid growth of the towns ad jacent, and the whole bits1 n presents an alluring picture to the visitor, and fur nishes an excellent sample of the result of irrigation. It requires no particular acumen to see that these valleys have entered upon an era of substantial de velopment which is destined L, unite them in one of the richest agricultural communities on this continent.