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About The Estacada news. (Estacada, Or.) 1904-1908 | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1905)
The Estacada News Issued Each Thursday E S T A C A D A .................. OREGON NEWS OF THE WEEK I d a Condensed F o ri for Oar nize the Sweden. disunion of Norway and Deadly riots continue throughout the interior of Russia and hundreds of peo ple are being killed. The business of the Portland post- office for A pril shows an increase of 35 per cent over that of A pril, 1904. Paul Morton, now secretary of the nary, has been elected chairman of the Equitable Life Assurance society. DISCONTINUE WAR T O R R E N T FLO O D S SU BW AY. Electric Current Short-Circuited and Traffic Stopped fo r Hours. New York, June 13.— A break in the Roosevelt Sends Messages to Russia and Japan. 48-inch high-pressure water main in Park avenue, near Forty-seeond street, today resulted in block just below the flooding of the the Grand Central station, the street-car tunnel and the SUGGESTS DIRECT NEGOTIATIONS Subway, the stoppage of traffic in the Subway for many hours, serious dam Admiral Enquist’s report to the czar age to the underground road and great on the naval battle says Rojestvedsky’s fleet was defeated in the first houi. O ffers to Help in the Preliminary Ar. danger to many passengers. The dam age is estimated at $100,000. Inci A R e su m « o f the L e s t Im portant but The National Editorial association in rangements if Wanted by the Not L e t s Interesting Events dentally it resulted in the caving in of. its convention at Guthrie, Oklahoma, Warring Nations. o f the P a st W eek. adopted resolutions favoring immediate Park avenue over an area of 20 feet, statehood for the territory. from which ran cracks that meant dan Swedish and Danish princes have re ger to adjacent buildings. Water was Washington, June 10.— An identical Mount Pelee is in eruption. fused the Norwegian throne and Nor first seen trickling between the paving _ ^____ ____________ _ _ note, the text of which, by authority of way is preparing to establish a repub A smallpox epidemic prevails in lic. Great Britain urges the choosing the president, was made public late to- i blocks near the entrance to the Park- Chile. of Prince Arthur for king. H is sister night at thi W hite house by Secretary avenue tunnel, through which the sur Norway will send a special envoy to is to marry the crown prince of Sweden. Almost immediately Loeb, has been forwarded to the gov face cars run. all the powers to ask recognition. The Russian warships at Manila have ernments of Russia and Japan by Presi there came a heavy explosion under Yellow fever cases continue to be re disarmed. dent Roosevelt. In the interest of hu ground, and a moment later the water ported from the Panama canal zone. gushed forth in a cataract, pouring into The Japanese are said to have cut off manity, the president urges the warring Two bombs were found in one of the Forty-second street, which was soon nations to conclude peace. It is sug- Vladivostok. public school buildings of Pittsburg. | gested by the president that the nego covered to a depth of several inches. The Michigan flood is subsiding. tiations for peace be conducted “ direct The quarantine service at Nome has The rising water in the Subway soon been abolished, despite the protests of A British submarine boat has been ly and exclusively” between the bellig erent nations. The note indicates tbe made connection between the third r a il, citizens. lost with 14 lives. president’s belief that an intermediary and the outer rails, short-circuiting the The biggest trust company on earth In the Norway-Sweden dispute Brit may not be necessary to effect conclu electric current, which was attended by is to be organized to handle the Euita- ain is standing by Norway and Germ sive negatiations, but likewise expresses a series of explosions that endangered. ble funds. any baexs Sweden. the president’s wilingness to do all that | ., ... ... . , .. Sherbourne, England, has just cele 8weden may not resist the dissolving he properly may do to promote the ' the llve* of thol,e who were in the cara' brated the 1,200th anniversary of its of union with Norway, but desires an preliminary arrangements for a time The air was pungent with the smoke of. foundation. and place for the meeting of represent burning insulation, and bright flashes alliance against Russia. atives of the Russian and Japanese gov from wheels and rails were continuous. Near Warsaw, Russia, 24 Jews have Chicago teamowners may split on the ernments. A formal reply to the note been killed and 38 others injured in strike question. If they do it will be a One train got to within a block of a may not be received for several days, riots in the past tew days. great winning for the strikers. but, as already made clear, informal station and then came to a final stop. Russia and Japan are considering Russia’s willingness to make peae assurances that it would be welcomed The passengers got out and waded choice of envoys and place of meeting has been announced to Japan and a re are already at hand. In view of the through the water to tbe station. They to conduct peace negotiations. ply received. The Geiman emperor significant character of the document avoided the third rail and nobody was Frank G . Bigelow, the defaulting leads the European powers in aiding and of the attitude toward it which injured. Gradually the enire service both Russia and Japan have assumed, Milwaukee banker, has been sentenced Roosevelt to make peace. it is regarded in official and diplomatic south of Seventy-second street and to to 10 years in the Federal prison. He General Gomez has arrived in Hava circles as the first firm and decisive Fourteenth street was shut off, and is a nervous wreck and has been taken na and is in somewhat better health. I step toward ultimate peace. A t a late later the entire service \ to the prison hospital. discon tin- ' hour tonight M r. Tapkahira, Japanese W hile the president has announced | minister, had not been advised from ued. The Pennsylvania road now has a train running from Chicago to New no definite date for calling congress in { Tokio of the delivery of the president's Finaly, after the flood had continued York in 18 hours, an average of 60 extra session, it is now believed it will message to the emperor, but he was ex- for four and a half hours a foreman for miles an hour. One stretih of three be convened the middle of November j pecting a cable dispatch to that effect the construction company, who has instead of October. The delay raises j at any moment. The minister was able miles has been made in 85 seconds. the hopes of the antis of defeating the yesterday to transmit to the president supervision of the installation of the Attacks on Chicago strikebreakers railroad rate bill. a message from the mikado that Japan mains in Park avenue pointed out a have again caused rioting in tbe streets. was, with Russia, desirous of peace, pro gate at Third avenue and Forty-second Germnay is drafting a new commer Success o f Japanese. vided it could be obtained under proper street which, on being closed, shut off cial treaty for submission to the United Tokio, June 13. — The following re conditions. the torrent. Traffic was not resumed States. Aware of the preference of Japan to port has been received from the head until after midnight. An automobile in Chicago went quarters of the Manchurian armies: communicate her peace terms to Rus sia directly, the president in the last through an open draw, drowning three “ June 9, at 4 in the morning, we drove few days has been active in counseling persons. SW EDISH ANGER RISING. the enemy from the northern heights moderation to Japan rather than in A ll Europe joins in praise of Roose of Liangshuchuan and Nanchengtsu endeavoring to draw from Tokio some velt over his success in bringing about Norway Accused o f Ignoring Rights of and occupied those positions. On the etateuient of probable terms. peace negotiations.. Sweden by Her Action. At the Russian embassy tonight same day we occupied the vicinities of A collision between trolley cars near Ershihlipa, ten miles Stockholm, June 12.— It is impossi northeast of Count Cassini remained without advices Princeton, New Jersey, resulted in the Changtu, Shufangtai and Tungchiatzu, from 8t. Petersburg, and he was unable ble to forecast Swedish policy in rela injury of 16 persnos. ten miles north of Changtu and Ho to comment on any phase of the situa tion to the Norwegian rebellion but tion. signs are lacking of any willing acqui In the case of the state of Kanass vs. ingtungshan, 13 miles northwest of escence therein. The king, crown the Standard Oil company, the state Changtu. Otherwise the situation is prince and many others, official and unchanged.” Chinese Slow and Weak. has won the first point. Mexcio City. June 3. — Contractors unofficial, are disposed to regard the London papers believe that the large on the Vera Cruz and Pacific railway acta of Christiania as those of a rebel Loss by Fire and Flood. money indemnity Japan will ask of lious cotiere of politicians which New York, June 13.— Nearly 100 au have decided to exclude Chinamen from Russia will break off peace negotia They not conBidered 88 necessarily repre- tomobiles belonging to various depart the ranks of their laborers. tions. the will of the Norwegian peo- ment stores were destroyed tonight in have experimented with them and find ! ple. However, it is difficult to see Both Russia and Japan have accepted a fire in the garage of ‘.he Rainier Ve that their work is unsatisfactory. The how an official protest can be made, has 3,000 men at work reballast- President Roosevelt’s aid in making h ic le Equpiment companv . m m ; road --------------------------------- —- -------------.ince nothin« . company ar at « Ninth peace. Negotiations w .ll be earned on avlenue , nd Twenty-seventh street. The ln* and constructing. Planter, along l ln8 ^ ,ort ol • "nccessful war in Washington. I I n « on m a c h i n « « i. « .. ¡ m a t e d .t *350 . 1 the line of the road who used Chinese ke y to restore _ ----- I loss on machines is estimated at $.350 , - 1 — - — - ■ — • — — » ,, - .. . ____ , the situation. In Busy Readers. The French government has called ___ __________ * ____c-__________ u home its governor of French Indo- China, to confer on plans for the de fense of the colony. 000, in addition to which the plant of i the . w - _________ _ a ______^ to the _______. garage was damaged amount of $75,000. The premises of the Cor bett Chair company and the Sutro Braid company, occupying the upper A test is to be made of the effective floors of the building, were also dam ness of the defenses at Fort Monroe and aged to the amount of $100,000. Old Point Comfort, conceded by army and navy officers to be the chief defense Water Receding Near Keokuk. to Washintgon. Des Moines, la ., June 13.— The flood Attorneys in the beef trust inquiry which has overflowed thousands of have disagreed. acres of fine land in the vicinity of Japan's terms of peace have been Keokuk, is slowly receding, the water having fallen about two feet since stated to Russia. reaching a standstill last night. Dam Bowen wants to contine the Loomis age to farmers near Keokuk is esti investigation in Venezuela. mateli at $300,000, and the losses at American troops have killed a band Keokuk, Davenport and other places along the river w ill aggregate hundreds of 40 rebels in the island of Samar. of thousands more Riley Smallwood, The kaiser and czar w ill not recog- aged 75, was drowned at Alexandria. he,P a' 8° hav® *’* * “ ob,i8ed *° them go. e the nese do go. W W h h ile the Ch Chinese do not not shirk shirk work or lay off, they are very slow and have not strength enough for heavy work. Butte County Canal Open. ’ , ... k "»and such a course. tion w ill survive the mentary session may ful. T, , . . . That this heat of a be slightly , c? "1* hesita- parlia doubt Insist Japs Lost Ships. Gridley, Cal., June 12.— With the 8t. Petersburg, June 12.— A long dis opening of the headgates and the tnrn- patch from Rear Admiral Reitzenstein ing on of the water into the Butte I to the minister of marine, dated Shang- county canal today, what is probably hai, June 6, gives the official report of the most important irrigation enter- the torpedo host destroyer Bodri, which prise in Northern California is now in 1 recently arrived there in tow of a mer- working order. There were no hitches 1 chant steamer, but adds little to the or accidents, the river pouring its water knowledge about the battle of the sea into the canal as the gates were raised, of Japan. The officers of the Bodri The canal is 14 miles long. 30 feet wide j and the rescued men on board of her on the bottom and carries 25,000 inches reiterate that the Japanese lost two of water, equivalent to 500 cubic feet, | battleships, one of which was of the a uoonn.l ill Ck ____I M I L ____________ 1 .t .. ... —................... a second, and and w w ill irrigate Q 80,000 acres Mikasa and the other of the Shikishima. of fine land. type, and four cruisers.