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About The Estacada news. (Estacada, Or.) 1904-1908 | View Entire Issue (July 13, 1905)
“ pull” in securing promotions in the | army and navy. The Estacada News BRISTOW REPORTS The Sioux river is on a rampage at j Sioux City, Iowa, and has overflowed thousands of acres of crops and has | washed away many houses. Issued Each Thursday ESTACADA..................... OREGON Commissioner to Examine Trade Conditions Affecting Canal. NEWS OF THE WEEK Dunnite, a new explosive, is claimed to be the most effective in the world. A small charge will crumple in the side of the heaviest armored vessel. In a Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. It is said that the Russian Reaction ary party desires to dethrone the czar , and put in a stronger ruler who will be able to restrain the reform party. A report from Odesa says that a part A Resume of the Less Important but of the Black sea squadron met and en Not Less Interesting Events gaged the rebel ship Potemkin. The of the Past Week. vessel escaped. The entire fleet has been ordered to capture or destroy the Extreme heat is killing many in Italy Potemkine. and Germany. One lesson gained by the American Terrific heat has killed many people navy as the result of the Far Eastern in New York and Pittsburg. war is the uselessness of the conning Norway has offered to make Prince tower on war vessels. The Japanese > gunners invariably disabled the ma Charles, of Denmark, her king. chinery in these towers early in battle. Lord Roberts declares ttiat the Brit ish army is in bad condition and could Germany has forbidden French So- not withstand invasion by another \ cialists to speak in Berlin. power. A French submarine boat foundered Dr. Sven Hedin, the Swedish explor- with a crew of 12 on board. er, sounds a warning against Norway, Twenty-six people were killed in the who, he says, is preparing to attack tornado which just swept over TexaB. Sweden. END PACIFIC MAIL CONTRACTS Advises Government to Open Panama Route, Cancel Monopolist Con i tracts and Open New Lines. [ Washington, July 11.— The report of SAKHALIN A POWERFUL LEVER Japan Now Given Opportunity to In crease Her Demands on Russia. St. Petersburg, July 11. — With the Japanese flag hoisted for the first time on Russian soil after 18 months of war, the importance of the landing on the island of Sakhalin is generally admit ted both in newspaper comment and in government circles. Complete occupa tion of the island is regarded as a fore gone conclusion. The Novoe Vremya voices the general sentiment in holding that control of Sakhalin puts a powerful lever in the possession of Japanese diplomacy, which finally has something tangible in its hands to throw upon the scales with the sword in the coming confer ence. There is a divergence of opinion with regard to the effect it will have upon the negotiations at Washington, some of the irreconcilables declaring that it makes peace at the present juncture more impossible than before, as Japan will be able to demand the cession of the islands and a heavy indemnity as well, at which terms peace will be too costly, but the more prevalent view iB that Japan has now in her hands enough trumps to take the game. The attack on the island certainly dissipates one of the hopes of the peace advocates, who have been suggesting that its voluntary cession might be an offset with Port Arthur and the Chi nese railway against the payment of a large part or all of a monetary indem nity. No further report of the landing operations has been received. JoseI,h Briit° w’. who .■PP0*.nt®d a special commissioner to investigate trade conditions and other matters af fecting the Panama railroad and steam ship companies, was made public to day. The ieport discusses from several points of view the question of what policy should be pursued by the gov ernment in the management of the rail road, and.makes a number of import ant recommendations. Among these are the continuance of the railroad as a commercial line, with improved facili ties for handling commerce, including double tracking and re-equiping the Paul Jones’ body has been handed line with modern tolling stock; the Reform leaders at Moscow are de termined, if Nicholas continues in his over to the American navy by the ' enlargement of its port facilities, the present unyielding attitude, to elect a French navy with great ceremony. retention of the steamship line between New York and Colon, the cancellation new czar. The city of Theodosia, Russia, has Forest fires are threatening the Lick been set on fire by the rebel ship Po- | of the contracts with the Pacific Mail observatory, in which is located the temkin and the garrison, instead of de Steamship company and the South famoous Lick telescope. The fires are fending the town, has looted the stores American lines, and the opening of the ports of Colon and Panama to all steam within eight miles of Mount Hamilton, and houses. ship lines on equal terms; and in cer on which the observatory is located. A report at Odessa says that the tain contingencies the establishment by NEW TRIAL ASKED. Th8 appointment of Charles G. Ma- rebel ship Potemkine has been sunk, j the railroad of steamship lines between goon as American minister to Panama, Confirmation cannot be had. It is Colon and Gulf ports and Panama and while at the same time permitting him known that the Russian government important United States Pacific coast Judge De Haven Listens to Mitchel s ti^ hold the office of governor of the has sent a torpedo boat after the vessel. ports. It is recommended that in traf Attorneys in Land Case. canal zone, has created an excellent im fic connections American steamship Portland, July 11.— Whether or not pression in all circles at Panama. American electricians have obtained lines be favorer! as far as consistent Senator Mitchell will have a new trial Assistant Secretary of State Pierce the contract for the electrification of an with the treaty obligations of without appeal to the higher courts of has announced that the peace envoys of Italian railway and have also closed United States. the United States now rests with Judge contracts for electrical equiment to lie Mr. Bristow spent several months in D ; Haven. Russia and Japan have agreed upon Yesterday morning, and installed in Japan. The value of these his investigation, visiting the Isthmus for a part of the afternoon, the court Portsmouth, N. H., as the meeting contracts is about $2,000,000: of Panama, important ports on the listened to the arguments of ex-Senator place of the sessions of the peace con Bennett and of Mr. ference to be held outside of Washing-1 Ore of the eight convicts who eecap- western coast of Central America, the Thurston> Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico and Heney, contending for and against the ton. j ed from the government prison on Mc- the Pac'fic coast of the United States. motion entered in behalf ot the defend The crew of the Russian battleshipi Neil’ s island, has been recaptured. His report reviews the entire history of ant. Potemkin has surrendered. the railroad and discusses allegations At the conclusion of Judge Bennett's that its local freight and passenger argument the court announced that he France and Germany have reached How Shall He "Fire” Kelley. charges were excessive and its traffic would take the matter under advise an agreement about Morocco. Topeka, Kan., July 11. — After an contracts with steamship lines monopo ment and would decide upon it at his Fire in the business section of Spo j all day conference with his advisers, listic. leisure, as soon as it might be. kane destroyed $120,000 worth of prop Governor Hoch has not yet decided J. N. Williamson fell the first direct erty. what to do about requiring State Treas- breath of the government's case against REVOLT IN ARMY. The foreign press generally praises I urer Kelley to vacate his office. The him yesterday afternoon, when John Elihu Root and say he is a fit successor I governor’ s legal advisers told him 8. Watkins testified in the Federal to the late Secretary Hay. there was no law under which he could Officers Sentenced to Death and Cos court that he had met the congress- require the treasurer to give a bond of sacks Routed by Rebels. m in in the woods near Prineville, and John F. Stevens, new chief engineer of the Panama canal, is on bis way to $500,000 to repay the old bond. The Vienna, July 11. — Dispatches re that Williamson had taken his day | conference then considered means of book from him and entered in it the the isthmus to take charge of the work. relieving Kelley of his office. Governor ceived here from St. Petersburg state d-ascriptions of the land he desired him Two blocks of the business and resi- Hoch may bring action in the courts, that 24 officers of the Russian army and his wife and brother-in-law to dence section of Goldfield, Nevada, but this would be a long process, with have been courtmartialed and sentenced file upon under an implied contract to have been destroyed by fire. Loss, results doubtful. to be shot within the last few days for deliver the claims to the firm as soon $ 200 , 000 . refusing to obey orders to proceed to as patented. The witness further tes More Teamsters Will Strike. Three more of the convict« who re Manchuria. They set up in their de tified to his tacit contract with the cently escaped from the government Chicago, July 11.— Five hundred ad fense that other officers who possessed firm of Williamson & Gesner, and to prison on McNeil’ s island have been ditional teamsters will go on strike of private fortunes had succeeded in his intention to pay for the filing fees taken. The other four are likely to be Wednesday morning if the Chicago evading the orders to go to the front by and other expenses incident to secur captured soon. Cartage company, organized by the city i ^ " ¿ ‘¡‘ng the officer", of the'genera'i’ staff, ing the claim out of his own money, in express companies, attempts today to Pittsburg has been stirred by the whose duty it was to make the assign order that he migh* thus avoid illegal revelation of the fact that the million deliver goods to the boycotted houses ment of officers to proceed to the front. ity and keep himself clear of the law. aires of the city are paying scarcely any with nonunion men. This was decided A Lithunian regiment refused to It was the first tightening of the web taxes. H. C. Frick, worth possibly last night at a meeting of the Team carry out an order given by a brigade which the prosecution promisee to sters’ Joint council, after the Depart $70,000,000, pays taxes on $10,000. commander, and a detachment of Cos weave around the three defendants. ment Store Drivers union had threat- The rest of the session of the after Advice from various parts of Russia! ened to abandon the strike unless the sacks was detailed to place the revolt- noon, delayed as it was by the argu show that the effects of the war are united drivers employed by the city ex- ers under arrest. When the mounted ment upon the Mitchell motion for a troops tried it they were fired on by telling terribly upon that unhappy __ press companies quit work if their em- new trial, followed the lines shown by country. Foreign merchants are clos- plovers attempt to work nonunion men. the Lithuniands and a sanguinary en the witnesses of the preceding days. counter followed, which resulted in ing their stores for lack of business and 200 Cossacks being killed or wounded. native merchants are barely kept alive. Dynamite Wrecks Joints. The revolters were finally placed under Torn in Fragments. Raron Komura, Japanese peace en- j Iola, Kan., July 11.—Three saloons arrest in barracks. Harrisburg, Pa., July 11. — Eight voy, has sailed for the United States. in West street were wrecked with dy- men were blown to pieces and two A crisis is approaching in the Nor-1 namite early today. Much damage others were injured by the premature Convict Strike Quelled. way-Sweden matter. Swedish troops was done to other business property in explosion of a big blast of rock powder Salt Lake City, July 8.—Twenty con on the Pennsylvania railroad improve are being mobilized along the frontier.th e vicinity, and the loss is conserva- j tively estimated at $100,000. J. E. victs at the state penitentiary struck ments near New Cumt«rland at 7:30 omce or Elihu Root will assmne the office of — Thorpe, the owner of one of the sa- today, refusing to work until improve o’clock this morning. The accident oc - - - - - soon, . but . . . . will n not i be . joon|' wag jn j ure<j not seriously. ment was made in the food and other curred directly across the Susquehanna secretary of m state able to give it his entire tie until Sep The dynamite was exploded apparent accommodations. After the strikers had river from the scene of the Pennsyl tember. ly by some temperance reformer. No been placed in solitary confinement and vania railroad accident May 11, in The mayor handcuffed to the ceiling for several which 23 persona were killed and many President Roosevelt is deteimiend to arrests have been made. hours, the strike lost its popularity. others injured. •liaainate entirely the use of any has offered a reward. J