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The Estacada News The gulf between Norway and Swe den is widening and they are on the verge of war. Issu ed Each Th u rsday Foreign engineers on the consulting board believe a sea level canal at Pana ma w ill prove best. E S T A C A D A ....................OREGON NEW S« IF TÜ E WEEK I d a Condei ísed For m for Oar Bo sy Reade rs. The government has completed its side in the third trial of the W illiam - son-Gesner-Biggs case. The old Grant farm of 440 acres near St. Louie, long the home of General U. S. Grant, has been sold for $113,000 and w ill be convertedl into an amuse ment park. By an explosion in a fuse factory at A Resume o f the Less 1 mportant but Avon, Conn., seven persons were killed Not Less Interestin g Events and seven more fatally burned. o f tl le Past W eek. Western Iowa and Eastern Nebraska have been visited by a . tornado. Five people are known to have been killed W itte has arrived in Europe. and many hurt. The property loss Roosevelt w ill visit New Orleans in w ill be heavy. October. Spain has ordered a quarantine Anthracite miners are preparing to against German vessels putting into make new demands on operators. her ports. Physicians attending Baron Komura The state auditor of Indiana has been have decided that he haB a mild form removed by the governor and accused of typhoid fever. of embezzlement. Fire at Nome, September 18, de Admiral Rojestvensky has entirely stroyed 60 buildings and caused a mon recovered from the wounds he received etary loss of $200,000. in the battle of tbe sea of Japan President Roosevelt has yielded to Baron Komura, the Japanese peace the czar the honor of issuing the call envoy, is recovering from his illness for a second peace conference. and expects to start home October 2. Norway and Sweden have agreed to The president has approved the con sign an arbitration compact and the de tails of separation w ill be left to a com tract for the hotel and subsistence con cession on the Panama canal zone, let mittee. by Chairman Shonts. Russia has purchased a number of Oyama and Linievitch have arranged steamers from Great Britain to be used as troop ships to carry prisoners home an armistice. from Japan. Represeatative McCleary, of Minne A ll rivers in Kansas and Missouri are sota, favors an import tariff on coffee to on a rampage and large areas are under offset the government deficit. water. A t St. Lou ii the water rose 10 The Baldwin airship Gelatine has feet in 24 hours. made the most successful flight of any Capitalists from New Mexico have airship in tbe world. During the last purchased a Bite in the suburbs of Port flight the aeronaut started from the ex land and w ill erect an immense wool position grounds, beat the street cars scouring plant. into the city, maneuvered over the bus The big tent of Ringling Bros.’ circus iness portion and returned to the start collapsed during a performance at ing place. M aryville, Missouri. Two men were A crank who desired to Bee the presi fatally injured, five seriously hurt and more than two score others bruised and dent and talk with him about the price of coal has been placed in an asylum. trampled on. Chinese are returning to their homes in Manchuria. The czar has ordered more troops to Baku to guard the oil fields. Nan Patterson has married her mer husband, Leo G. Martin. for NEEDS M A N Y M O T O R C AR S. Union Pacific Must Build 300, and Will Enlarge Shops. Omaha, Neb., Sept. 19.— The Union Norway and Sweden are said to have Pacific needs 300 gasoline motor cars of compromised on terms of separation. the type just finished, according to the The mikado has cabled Komura that statement of W . R. McKeen, superin he wishes the peace fienvoy to speedily tendent of the motive power and ma chinery. A t the rate of 50 a year, he recover. says, the road cannot be supplied with An official report says the recent the cars as rapidly as it w ill require riots in Japan were not in any manner them. anti-foreign. The present facilities for making Heavy rains have caused much dam them are being tested to the lim it, but age in parts of Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa they are far from adequate. Additions to the shops are to be built at once, at and Missouri. ,a cost of $700,000, which w ill increase The presidential campaign now on in the facilities. Representatives of other Cuba is proving decidedly strenuous. roads and of suburban lines who have A number of prominent men on both sought to place orders for cars with the aides are in jail. Union Pacific have been told they can Lieutenant Mitchell, son of Senator not be supplied. Mitchell, discovered a plot of 21 Feder al prisoners at Fort Hamilton, New Scandal at Bremerton. York harbor, to escape. Washington, 8ept. 19.— The Navy A plan is on foot to have the govern department has received a report on ment move the navy yard from Brem the investigation made at the Puget erton to Lake Washington. The latter Sound navy yard into charges against place is more convenient to railroads. Master Shipwright George W . L Tra- hey, alleged to have sold his influence A formal call has been issued fcr a in getting appointments for workmen convention to meet in Chicago October in that yard. I t is not known what 28. The object is to impress upon con the report contains, but it is believed gress the extent of the demand of the nothing startling w ill bo brought to people for railroad rate legislation. light, nothing to form the basis of a Slight earthquake shocks continue in great sensation. Italy. New M exico Irrigation Project. Whloeeale assassinations are the or Washington, Sept. 19. — The secre der at Baku, Russia. tary of the interior has ordered the The yellow fever situation at New withdrawal from entry of 300,000 acres Orleans is improving. of land in the Roswell, N. M ., land Five cases of yellow fever have been district, on account of the Carlsbad ir rigation project. discovered at Cincinnati, Ohio. ONLY FOUR REMAIN Many Changes To Be Made in President’s Cabinet. SPECULATION ON NEW MEMBERS Roosevelt Will Consider Man's Ability Before He Considers His Place o f Residence. Washington, Sept. 19.— It is proba ble that only four members of the pres ent cabinet w ill remain to the end of President Roosevelt’ s term: Elihu Root, secretary of state; W illiam H. Taft, secretary of war; G. B. Cortelyou, postmaster general, and C. J. Bona parte, secretary of the navy. Considerable uncertainty surrounds the future of the other five members of the cabinet, or rather, four mem bers, for it is known that Secretary Shaw w ill resign next February. Some speculation is indulged in as to whether or not the president, in re forming hiB cabinet, w ill have a regard for geographical lines, or w ill pick the men best suited for tbe places, regard less of where they come from. In the present cabinet New York and Iowa have two members, and Ohio, Massa chusetts, Maryland, Missouri and Cali fornia one each. The South is not rep resented, but all o t"er sections are. New York w ill continue to have at least two members (R oot and Cortel you) ; Iowa w ill lose one in Shaw an 1 another if Wilson resigns, but Ohio and Maryland w ill retain their repre sentation. I f Hitchcock retires, some Western man is almost certain to suc ceed him, but it would be utterly im possible to pick the man. And so it goes. Tbe probabilities a’ e that the new cabinet w ill be composed of men from all parts o f the country, but Pres ident Roosevelt w ill consider a man’ s ability before he considers his place of residence. B U RNING T H E FO R T S . Incendiaries Make Repeated Efforts to Destroy New York Defenses. New York, Sept. 19.— Four mysteri ous fires in three of the four forts pro tecting New York harbor within the last two months have caused the m ili tary authorities of the department of the East much concern. Two of the fires have been at Fort Hamilton, one on the night of July 17 and the other last Friday night. On the night in July of the fire at Fort Hamilton there was a disastrous fire at Fort Wadsworth. The latest fire was at Fort Slocum, on the David island, in the Sound, Sunday night. In each case there have been suspi cious circumstances concerning the or igin of the fires. Magazines, barracks, hospitals, forage and even big siege guns have been destroyed and damaged in these fires, and despite the most thorough investigation nothing is known definitely as to how the fires started. Can't Grow Cotton in West Africa. Washington, Sept. 19.— The depart ment of Commerce and Labor has just published a report stating that the re sult of the attempt to grow cotton in West Africa has been discouraging, owing to the absence of transportation fanilities. The Cotton association tried American seeds, but the planta tion did not prove to be a success. Under the most favorable conditions. Sierra Leone could produce 140,000 bales, but for the next ten years not more than 6,000 bales a year may be expected. L O O K IN G TO JAPAN . China P refers to Seek Knowledge From Her Neighbor. New York, Sept. 19. — What effect the war in the Far East w ill have on the propaganda of the Christian relig ion in Japan was the subject of a lec ture at the West Branch Young Men's Christian Association by Dr. Ibuka, president of an institution of learning in Tokio, and himBelf a Christian. That the recent outbreak in Tokio and the attack upon the churches was the result of merely a local feeling and did not represent any widespread anti- foreign feeling in the empire, was the assertion of the lecturer. “ When the war with Russia first began, I and my fellow Christians in Japan were uneasy for fear that the struggle should result in a lasting ani mosity toward the Christian religion in the empire. A t first the cry was raised that it was a struggle of Buddhism ver sus Christianity, and the Russians did many things to foster this sentiment, but it was not long until thiB illusion was dispelled and the people were brought to see that religion and re ligious beliefs had no part in the war. “ Already China haB become aroused to the fact that she hae much to learn, and she is seeking this knowledge from Japan rather than from European countries. Hundreds of the yonng men of Japan are taking positions as in structors in the Chinsee institutions of learning, and hundreds of the young men of China are coming to the col leges of Japan for instruction. I t is vitally necessary that the young men should be taught the truths of the Christian religion if it is to be spread in China.” REVISE LAND LAW S. One Great Measure Roosevelt Recommend in Message. Will Washington, Sept. 19.— President Roosevelt, in his forthcoming message to congress, w ill urge the remodeling of the public land laws, and among other things w ill specifically recom mend the repeal of the timber and stone act, the law which has been re sponsible for more fraud and which has caused the government greater actual loss of money than any other public land statute. The president w ill base his recommendation upon the report of the Public Lands commission, consist ing of Commissioner Richards, of the general land office, F. H . Newell, head of the Reclamation service, and Gifford Pinchot, chief forester. This commission submitted to con gress at its last session a second report on its investigation, and, among other things, said: “ Instances of the beneficial operation of the timber and stone act may be cit ed, but when it is considered from the point of view of the general interest of the public, it becomes obvious that this law should be repealed.” Since the foregoing report was pub lished, the commission has submitted to the public printer a great appendix, containing data and facts upon which its conclusions were based. This ap pendix has not yet been made public. Again at Out* on M orocco. Paris, Sept. 19.— Franco-German ne gotiations relating to the Moreccan con ference have again taken an unfavora ble turn, causing anxiety in official and diplomatic circles, and renewing the depession en the Bourse. This is due to the continued insistence by both sides on points which were considered to be susceptible of compromise. Therefore the rumor circulated naming the plenipotentiaries and fixing the date of the conference is purely speculative, as serious difficulties still remain to be overcome. Conspiring Against Germans. Victoria, B. C., Sept. 14.— Tien Tsin newspapers publish news of a wide spread conspiracy in Shantung to rise against the Germans on September 16. L ’ Impartial says each family is to provide one fighting man, whose equip ment w ill be paid for by subscription.