“ 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.
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