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About The Estacada news. (Estacada, Or.) 1904-1908 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1905)
The Estacada News immense amount of food for home use in case of war. Issued Each Thursday Police has unearthed a counterfeiters outfit in Portland and arrested six peo ple in connection. E S T A C A D A ....................OREGON NEWS OF THE WEEK I d a Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. AFTER BIG FELLOWS District Attorney Jerome of New York is now taking a turn at the tricky lawyers of that city. One Millionaire in Jail Worth a Thousand Others. Revenue officers in New York are Beeking men who have used internal revjnue stamps a second time on cigar boxes. STATEMENT OF ATTORNEY HENEY A t the end of the eighth week of the fair tho total admissions aggregated Doer Not Believe in Convicting Man nearly 900,000. A Resume of the Less Important but Who Has Been Bought and George T. Moore, connected with the Not Less Interesting Events Agricultral department, has reisgned Letting Buyer Go Free. of the Past Week. on account of connection with graft in that department. A cholera epidemic prevails at Mad Native bankers of China have decid ras, British India. ed to boycott foreign banks doing busi ness in the Flowery Kingdom. Norway and Sweden w ill not favor making the Baltic a closed sea. Great Britain w ill send several war ships to the Baltic to discount the Germany is suspected of bad faith by effects of the kaiser’ s visit to the czar. France in the Morocco matter. Southern Pacific property to the ex The court of inquiry into the Ben tent of $100,000 is endangered near Los nington disaster has begun its sessions. Angeles by the overflow of water at Suit has been commenced against the Salton Sink. directors of the Equitable to make them Secretary Francis has registered the return their ill-gotten gains. names of more than 300 delegates to Fire in Swift & Co.’ s packing plant the Trans-Mississippi congress from 17 at South St. Joseph Mo., destroyed states and territories. Several special trains from different parts w ill carry over $250,000 worth of property. the delegates to Portland. According to reports made by the county assessor Portland has a popula Germany’ s commercial relations with tion of 110,500. This is 20,000 more the United States will be an important than in 1900. subject before the next session of the Britain and Japan have nearly com senate. The present treaty w ill soon pleted a new treaty. The new alliance run out and Germany is anxious to ne will be decidedly more comprehensive gotiate a new understanding on lines of reciprocity. than the present one. Investigations have disclosed the fact Great Britain w ill press its claim for pay for a number of steamers sunk by that many widows of former Equitable Russian auxiliary cruisers after the officers are receiving large pensions. Mrs. Hyde, mother of the former vice battle of the Sea of Japan. president, is receiving $25,000 a year. W hile a few new cases are appearing in New Orelans, the health authorities A North German Lloyd steamer has believe they have the yellow,fever situ gone ashore on Geurnsey island, off the ation in hand and that in a few days its coast of England. It is said the vessel spread w ill have been stopped. will be a total wreck. The Chinese boycott has caused large Cardinal Gibbons declares that pub orders from a 8an Francisco firm to be licity through the newspapers keeps cancelled. many men from becoming grafters. A ll of the peace'envoys are now in Publicity, he says, is the best cure for Washington excepting M. W itte and corruption. his party. The kaiser and czar are said to be W A R W I T H B R IT A IN IM M IN E N T . contemplating declaring the Baltic a German Paper Says German Navy Is closed sea. Ready for Action. The Japanese now have an army be Berlin, Aug. 1.— A very considerable tween Vladivostok and the main Rus sensation has tieen caused by the pub sian army. lication in the Tegel Zeitung of a state Germany and Britain are at dagger’ s ment that a war between Germany and point about sending the British fleet to Great Britain is imminent. The paper the Baltic. says : Europe regards Roosevelt as arbiter “ According to the most reliable in in case Japan and Russia deadlock in formation furnished to the editor, war between this nation and England may their peace conference. not be averted. A ll German warships Louisiana is quarantined on all sides have been fully prepared for prompt and new cases of fever have broken out action, having received secret instruc despite the efforts of the health author tions that war is considered inevitable.” ities. Tegel is a Berlin suburb, where are In a row in th city council of Spring- located the extensive works of Messrs. field, Illinois, the mayor came off vic- Borsig, the well known machine and torios by calling in police, who used gun manufacturers. This firm controls their clubs freely on the city fathers. the newspapers and the assumption is Warren, Pa., was visited by a cloud that the “ reliable information” eman burst which did thousands of dollars’ ated from that firm. worth of damage to property. The Rojestvensky Is Recovering. people escaped drowning by staying in second stories of buildings. Tokio, Aug. 1.— Rear Admiral Ro- Sweden is negotiating for a war loan. jestvensky’ s condition has made satis factory progress since the operation that A national bank is to be organized at was performed on his forehead. He Nome, Alaska. was able to leave his bed and sit in a Pains in one foot, France and Germany are again quar chair yesterday. however, prevent his walking freely, reling over Morocco. but no cause for uneasiness exists. Huarriman wants to gather the I lli The admiral has expressed his sincere nois Central railroad into hie system. satisfaction with the treatment accord Japan will not cease hostilities pend ed him. ing the outcome of the peace conference. T aft Party at Nagasaki. A new plot has been discovered Nagasaki, Aug. 1.— The steamer against the life of the snltan of Turkey. Manchuria arrived here at 7 o’clock Germany is furious at the proposed this morning. The governor, mayor cruise of British war vessels in the and other officials went aboard and ex Baltic. tender! official welcome to Secretary of Great Britain is planning to store an War Taft and Miss Roosevelt. Portland, Aug. 1.— Scathing in his denunciation of graft in public life, merciless in his arraignment of the mo tives of the defendants, severe in his charges against the attorneys for the defense, dramatic in his earnestness of speech and effort, Francis J. Heney made his argument yesterday in pre senting the case of the government in the Williamson-Gesner-Biggs trial to the jury. Those high in public life who used their offices for private gain and for the practice of illegal business were held up before the jury as men worse than thieves and robbers. “ It has been intimated by the de fense in this case,” said Mr. Heney, “ that I have told the witnesses when they came before the grand jury as witnesses that I was not after the little fish, but after the big ones. It has been insinuated that back of my move ments lurked a political motive, but I need only to bring this to mind for you to know how false it is. Though the defense has never been able to get a witness to say that I told him I was after the big fish, I w ill say it myself. I am after the big fish, and as long as there is a hook and a line or a bit of tackle in the government box I will keep after them. Graft is ruining Russia today; graft ruined Rome, the ancient empire of the woiId, and, un less the juries of the nation sustain the laws of the United States, graft w ill ruin this country.” Turning to the defendants and their motives, the attorney held that when a guilty man attempts to prove defense for himself he always hews as close to the truth as possible. “ But crime leaves its scar upon the conscience and the mind,” said Mr. Heney, “ until if we open wide enough the windows of the soul we can see the markings left. It is this consciousness of scar that has led the defendants in this case to plan the defense they have. I am after the big fish I do not want the poor devils who have been seduced through the in fluence power and wealth. I want the big fish. One millionaire in the penitentiary is worth one thousand of the poor devils he bought, as an exam ple to the world.” Lest Japanese Fleet Enter. Berlin, Aug. 1. — The newspaper Reichsbote, in a leading article, de clares that the Baltic sea should be closed to all foreign warships, because, should the peacejnegotiations fail, the Japanese can be expected to send a fleet to harass the Russian Baltic ports. The initiation of hostilities in the Balt ic, with the incidental placing of float ing mines there, would gravely endang er the shipping of neutral powers and be exceedingly obectionable to Germany, Sweden and Denmark more than to other powers. Many Quarantined at Havana. Havana, Aug. 1.— Seventy-eight ar rivals today from Mexican and South ern state ports again increased the num ber of passengers detained at the Tris- cornia station. Of 19 passengers on the Excelsior from New Orleans, 14 were detained as well as were all the 28 passengers on the Martinique, from Miami, Fla. The Yucatan, bound from Vera Cruz to New York, brought one feverish passenger, who was isloated and taken to the fever hospital. T O C O N S ID E R C A N A L . President Desires Congress to Decide What Type Shall Be Built. Washington, Aug. 1.— It it be true, as reported from Oyster bay, that the president intends to call an extra ses sion of congress early in November, it is not probable any attempt w ill be made to force the prompt consideration of a railroad rate b ill. That would be out of the question ; at least it would be impossible to secure final action on such a bill within a month. The probabilités are, and observing officials here believe, that the president intends, at the early session, to have congress take up and settle once for all the question of whether the Panama canal shall be built, as originally planned, with locks, or shall be a sea- level canal, as advocated by so many prominent engineers. ThiB is a ques tion that congress must decide, and the sooner it is out of the way the better the men in charge of the canal can operate. The president has not taken the pub lic into his confidence; he has not an nounced what his object may be in calling an extra session, but it is diffi cult to figure out how anything could be gained on a railway rate bill at a session convening only three weeks in advance of the regular session. It takes that long for the house to orgainze. elect a speaker, and for the speaker to appoint committees, and the senate con sumes almost as much time in its or ganization. S T A N D S BY A L L Y . Japan’s Peace Conditions Will Receive Endorsement of Great Britain. Washington, Aug. 1.— Japan comtB to the Washington conference assured that, whatever her peace terms, they w ill have the sympathetic approval of Great Britain. Several suggestions from Washington to London that ’the cause of peace would be served by an explanation to Japan from her ally fa voring moderation in her demands up on Russia have not availed to change the British government in its apparent ly unalterble determination to stand by Japan, however severe she makes her conditions of peace. Nor has the Brit ish government seen its way clear to render assistance to Washington in the efforts which this government is mak ing to obtain an armistice. Advices reaching here show that London is opposed to an armistice until Japan has been satisfied that Russia’ s plenipotentiaries are prepared to do more than discuss means of ending the war. I f Russia is ready to conclude peace and has so empowered her pleni potentiaries, Great Britain, it is said, might favor an armistice, but even in this event she would, it is said, not be w illing to offer Japan advice on the subject. Distress Am ong Italians. New Orleans, Aug. 1.— Much dis tress is beginning to appear among the Italian population growing out of the practical suppression of the fruit busi ness from Louisiana on account of the quarantines, and relief work is one of the tasks which the Italian societies and citizens’ committees w ill now have to address themselves to. W hile the six-day detenti >n order of the board of health lasts, all the lines which have been operated from the steamers into New Orleans w ill divert their ships to Mobile. W ar Party Has U p p e r K a id . St. Petersburg, Aug. 1.— News of the utmost importance is daily expected from tl e army in Manchuria. At arn y headquarters there are evidences of great activity, and there is no doubt that word fo a general engagement is looked for. The war part) still has the upper hand and there is still little talk of peace.