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About The Estacada news. (Estacada, Or.) 1904-1908 | View Entire Issue (May 11, 1905)
The Estacada News Issued Esch Thursday E S TA C A D A OREGON NEWS OF THE WEEK In a Condensed Form for Oar Busy Readers. that congress may give a commission that power. Heavy snow has fallen in North Da kota, Montana and north to Winnipeg. The railroads have had to bring out their snow plows. The Chicago strike continues the same. Two thousand officers are guard ing the wagons making deliveries to the boycotted firms. Pat Crowe, the alleged kidnaper of Eddie Cudahy, has turned up in Oma ha and told the story of his wander ings. He wishes to reform and go into business. A Resume o f the Less Important but Rojestvensky has started south to Not Less Interesting Events meet Nebogatoff’s squadron in order to asve his fleet from the Japanese. o f the Past Week. A retired British admiral advocates war with Germany. Reign of terror is renewed saw. in W ar Tariff revision is again a leading sub ject in Washington. A typhoon has scattered and dam aged the Russian fleet. Yellow fever is on the decrease in the Panama canal zone. CANAL WILL CURE V E S S E L S IN C O L L IS I O N . Southwest Gale Causes Havoc In San. Francisco Bay. San Francisco, May 9.— A stiff gale from the southeast caused damage to several vessels in the upper bay today. The torpedo boat destroyer Paul Jones, at anchor off Stewart street, dragged her anchors and collided with the cruiser , Marblehead, staving in a plate of the Paul Jones and iuining one of her life boats. The schooner Ruby, although she had two anchors out, was carried by the gale down the bay from her posi Rates by Government Railroad Must tion off llarrision street, and it was be Very Low to Offset Loss necessary for the Marblehead to shift her anchors to avoid being struck by in Handling. the schooner. The big collier Eureka, lying on the north side of Folsom street wharf, San Francisco, May 9. — A matter of parted her stern lines and was carried great commercial importance to the by the high sea against the tug boat Pacific coast is discussed in a report General Mifflin. The Mifflin whb dam that has been prepared for the informa aged to the'extent of perhaps $5,000. tion of President Roosevelt, Secretary i The stern of the Eureka was damaged to the extent of several hundred dol Taft, of the War department, and J. L. lars . Bristow, a special commissioner ap The river steamer Alvise, at H arri pointed by President Roosevelt to visit son street wharf, was buffeted about this coast and acquire facts. The ques by the rough seas and in her lurching lost her smokestack, besideB smashing tion refers to the utility of the Panama her fantail and the guard rail from route for the movement of freight be stem to stern, the damage amounting tween San Francisco and the Atlantic to about $1,000. . states. The report was submitted to W . R. Wheeler, W. J. Dutton and B O A TS ARE N EAR LY D O N E. Rufus P. Jennings. I t was adopted by Shipment by Panama Now Slow and Expensive. REPORT SENT TO PRESIDENT The Japanese fleet awaits the Rus Snow has injured Wyoming sheep sians in Corean straits. , . . . , i t , just sheared and on unprotected ranges. Americans have obtained valuable r e mining conceptions in Corea. Chinese will fight the exclusion law Both sides claim gains in the Chi in the United States courts. cago strike. Conditions are returning Philadelphia has been asked toTjring to normal. ' the liberty bell to the Lewis and_Clark Surveyors report having* found a exposition. route for the new railway across Cana Nebogatoff’ s squadron has passed da that is practically level. Singapore on its way to join Rojest- Bunan Varilla, ex-minister from vensky’s fleet. the trustees of the chamber of com American Designer Rushing W ork in Panama to the United States, says he The third trial of Nan Patterson re merce and forwarded to Washington in Russian Yards. has a plan whereby the canal may be sulted in the jury disagreeing. She printed form by the chamber. built in four years. The report says in part: Sebastopol, May 9. — The torpedo- may not be tried again. “ The present freight schedule via boats which are being built at the gov In a race between the battleships The Russian fleet under Admiral Ne- Panama is I apparently based on the ernment yard here, under the general Missouri, Alabama and Massachusetts bogatoff is believed to have been in overland railroad freight schedule, the supervision of Lewis Nixon, of New the Missouri gained a mile and a half English waters for a week. charges of the former varying from 78 York, are nearing completion and their on the other two, covering 126 miles to 90 per cent, with an averagejof about in eight hours. The McCormick family has given 83 per cent of the latter; in other trials in the Black sea w ill begin, in a few days. In order to overcome the Herbert Bowen, American minister $1,000,000 to the McCormick Theo words, the differentials in favor of the difficulty always encountered in work logical seminary of Chicago. to Venezuela, has returned home in Panama route, with its 30-day trip as in a foreign country, Mr. Nixon pro answer to a summons from Secretary The sheriff has taken charge of the compared with the transcontinental vided his own organization, with which Taft in connection with the Loomis- Chicago strike and w ill swear in 2,000 route with its 14-day trip, are so small he has pushed the construction of these Bowen controversy. deputies. Troops w ill not be Bent by that the shipper either east or west boats to a state of completion. does not consider the saving sufficient Russian advices say that Admiral i the governor Much is expected of these torpedo to cover the risk of damage or breakage boats. The Russian admiralty already Togo’s flagship has sunk with all on board. No confirmation can be ob- 1 The government has withdiawn over in the necessary several handlings of has had practical evidence of the sea tained. I f true, it means a heavy loss 400,000 acres in the Great Falls, Mon goods via Panama. worthiness of the Nixon boats in the “ Under government ownership of the performance of the Gregory, which to the Japanese, as both the admiral tana. land district in connection with Panama railroad and the sea route to the M ilk river irrigation project. and his ship are badly needed. crossed the Atlantic in the face of New York from Colon, the only ques heavy weather, but the future pres Kuropatkin is to be recalled to St. Further trouble is expected at War tion to be considered would be whether tige of the designer of the American Petersburg. the freight rates could be made suffi battleship Oregon w ill depend in Rus saw. ciently low to make the saving on trans sia upon the result of the coming trials, The Chicago teamsters’ strike seems portation expense an object to the ship which will be much more severe than to be dying out. Stockmen to Organize. per and enough to offset the additional usual, in order to test certain thingfe The United States mint exhibit has j Denver, May 9. — Today leading time required in transit.” claimed for them by their American arrived at the Lewis and Clark fair. stockmen from all parts of the country constructor. The president’s hunting trip is over w ill assemble in this city to take up M A D E T W E N T Y - D O L L A R B IL L S and he has taken up the duties of his the work of concluding the organiza Sunk in Dense Fog. tion of the American 8tockgrowers’ office again. Vineyard Haven, Mass., May 9. — association. This association was par Counterfeiters Caught After Chase The Multnomah county grand jury The Joy line steamer Aransas, Captain tially formed during the annual con from Coast to Coast. w ill investigate alleged frauds in se Rood, was sunk in collision with the vention of the National Livestock curing Oregon school lands. Portsmouth Va., May 9. — After i barge Glendower one and one half association held there in January last. vigorous chase that led through sev miles southeast of the Pollock Rip. A grand jury at Peoria, Illinois, haa| Those who went into the new organ eral Atlantic coast cities, Secret Ser- [ 8hoals lightship at 1 o'clock thismorn- returned indictments against two high ization were displeased with the admis- vice Officer T. E. Land, of Boston, to- ing. One life was lost, that o f M am ie officers of the Standard Oil company. | sion to membership in the old associa- day arrested Thomas Brewster, Charles Kelley, a passenger for New York from The Polish Socialist party has issued I tion of packers, railroad representa Fairbanks, and Robert Blacky all of Boston, whose address is unknown. a manifesto calling upon the workmen tives and persons of that class. San Francisco, charged with extensive She was about 25 years of age. The to return to their places of employ counterfeiting operations. The trio other passengers, of whom there were Officers T o rn to Pieces. ment. were located at Key West, Fla., but 37, together with the crew of 25, were Ekati, Rinsburg, Russia, May 9.— In Homer Davenport has started for revenge for the death of a workman they succeeded in eluding arrest until brought here by a tug and landed at midnight. the Lewis and Clark fair with his col who was drowned in attempting to es they reached here. It is said that large quantities of lection of birds, horses and other ani cape from a patrol, a mob of workmen bogus money have been circulated in Wants Fleet Driven Out. mals, where they w ill be exhibited. gathered and tore to pieces two officers. all the cities through which the men Tokio, May 8 — Popular attention is China w ill request Japan to restore Order has been restored. passed. Together with the prisoners now centered in the presence of the Manchuria to its rightful owner as soon the secret service officer captured $5,- second Russian squadron in French as the war is over. The Pekin govern- \ 000 in counterfeit money, most of which aters. W h ile the assurances ot France P O R TLA N D M A R K ETS . ment plans to station 50,000 troops in is in the denomination of $20 bills. . relating to the Kamranh bay incident the province. Officer Land said today that he dis- afl generally accepted, the later discov- Wheat— Club, 84®86c per bushel; IT e n . 1 4 PV ft t A 1 a afftit V— ■ — A . L - km a t _ — _ _ . * . ■ _ covered that a large number of spurious Germany is anxious for a reciprocity bluestem, 90(892c; valley, 87®90c. ery that the Russian ships continued bills were made at Buffalo, N. Y . t teaty with the United States. their stay at Kamranh bay, and then Oats— No 1 white, $28 per ton; gray which was the distributing point ot entered other French ports, has created Cuba refuses to favor Great Britain $28 per ton; the gang that was operating. a feeling of keen disappointment, rap H ay—Timothy, $14® 16 per ton; lest she offend the United States. idly growing deeply resentful. The local clover, $11®12; grain, $ 11 ® 12; cheat, Japan has renewed her protest to $ 11 ® 12 . press charges France with bad faith, Made Russian Naval Base. France and Russia may protest to H >1- Eggs— Oregon ranch, 17@ 17V^c per London, May 9. — A telegram from and repeats the demands for independ land. dozen. Hongkong to a news agency gives a ent action by the Japanese. Butter— Fancy creamery, 17>,®19c. long dispatch, which it alleges the Union Pacific stockholders have vot Potatoes— Oregon fancy, $1®1.05; French authorities at 8aigon refused to ed to issue $100,000,000 of preferred Austria Shuts D o o r on Poles. common, 80®90c. stock. transmit April 30, detailing how for St. Petersburg, May 6 — In order to Apples— fancy, $1.75® $2.60 per box; ten days the Russian Pacific squadron stop the flood of Poles who are fleeing Tacoma’ s trolley system may be ex choice, $1®1.25. was allowed to convert Kamranh bay across the border to escape conscrip tended ot Portland, application having Hops— Choice 1904, 23\ ® 2 5 c per practically into a Russian base, freely tion, and on account of the troubles in been made for right of way part of the pound. coaling and provisioning under the di Poland, Austria has ordered that all distance. Wool— Valley, 241»® 26c; Eastern rection of Prince Lieven, captain of the Russian citiaens desiring to cross the Attorney General Moody holds that Oregon, beet, 17S@ 20c, mohair, interned Russian cruiser Diana, the frontier must he provided with pe»s- courts cannot make railroad ratea, b u t, choice, 31032*40 per pound French admiral being present. pofts, vised by Austrian «onto.-