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The Estacada News Panama Canal Affairs Discussed at White House Conference. E ST A C A D A . OREGON NEWS OFTHE WEEK Washington, Dec. 19. — President Roosevelt tonight took up the matter of the Isthmian canal scandals as devel oped by debate in the senate during the past three days. He ia determined to prevent further criticism of the char acter put forward by Sanatora Tillman, Culberson and others. Senators A lli son and Hale, both members of the ap propriations committee, were present. The president made it plain to Mr. Shonta that the literary bureau in charge of Secretary Bishop must be at once discontinued, and Mr. Bishop con fine bis service purely to administra tive matters. He also discussed the advisability of reducing his salary from (10,000 now paid to (6,000, or some other moderate sum. It was also made apparent to Chair man Shonts that if he still has an offl cial connection with the Clover Leaf railroad, it must be severed immedi ately. Senator Tillman declared that Mr. Shonta is still active president of the system, and neither Mr. Shonta nor any of the administration senators have entered a denial of the declaration. The president further gave Mr. Shonts much advice regarding the con duct of affairs on the isthmus. It is prescribed in the president’ s order that the canal commission must leave at once for that place. The b ill appropriating (11,000,000 for the canal work, passed by the sen ate on Saturday, provides that within 90 days the secretary of the treasury must furnish estimates to the senate and house appropriations com mittees of all salaries paid those em ployed on canal work, except laborers and unskilled workmen. This feature of the bill was discussed with Senators Allison and Hale. It is believed that many reforms will be instituted in the administration of the canal before another appropriation is requested from congees. This work of reform must begin at once, as Secre tary Taft says the (11,000,000 new be ing obtained w ill last no longer than April 1 at the outside. In the meantime 8enator Tillman « i l l begin a strong agitation after the holiday recess for a thorough investiga tion of the entire canal situation. He will be opposed by the Republicans, but supported by the Democrats. Even some of the Republicans favor an in quiry, and Mr. Tillman threatens to cause much trouble unless matters are put on such a basis as to prevent just critcism. OKEGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST GUIDE T O E LE C T IO N S . 8ERV ICE IMPROVED. Explalnation o f Complicated Primary Southern Pacific Arranges New West Side Time Card. System by Secretary Dunbar. Portland— Requests for better freight Salem— The adoption of the direct primary law has given Oregon such a service on the Southern Pacific between complicated system of elections that not Portland and Corvallis have been fruit even the accomplished politician can ful, for the company has arranged a carry in his mind all the details of the A R uum e o f tha L e t t Important but proceedings leading up to the general supplementary timecard which will N ot Leas Interesting Events election of state, district and county give that territory a daily freight in o f the Past Werk. officers. One of tha moat difficult each direction instead of a tri-weekly things to ascertain and remember is the service. dates upon which the various steps in Simultaneously with the inaugura Balfour declares himself as a free the nomination and election of officers tion of the new train, the St. Joseph- trader. must be taken. In fact, the ordinary Lafayette cut-off is opened, and this citizen cannot figure out the dates if means the eight and one-half miles of Martial law has again been pro he has the statute before him, for the track between Lafayette and Wbiteaon, claimed throughout Poland. language varies and different methods on the Yamhill division, will not be Japan is angry because China delays of computing time must be adopted. used to any extent and may be aband the new Manchurian treaty. The following list contains all the oned entirely. dates of interest to the voter and the Insurance investigators are now at The principal advantage in the new candidate for offices as figured out by passenger time schedule will be that work on the small companies. Secretary of State Dunbar: residents of Dayton and Newberg can A British fleet is to maneuver off the Registration— ride into McMinnville, thi county seat, coast of Morocco while the conference Registration books opened by county and return home the same day, as the ia on. clerks Tuesday, January 2. trains wi.ll be operated via Dayton and France, Germany and Russia are said Registration books closed tor primary M cMinnville. to be backing China in her move election April 10, 6 p. m. There are no stations on the Yamhill aganist Japan. Registration books opened after pri line between Lafayette and Whiteson, mary election, Ap ril 26. and but two spurs, so it is figured no A San Francisco woman has secured Registration books closed for general particular harm,will result if that por a divorce from her insane husband and election, May 16, 6 p. m. tion of the road is torn up. The deter married his keeper. Dilative petitions— mination of the Southern Pacific to The chief sanitary officer of the Pan Number of signers required to initiate place a daily freight train on the route ama canal says yellow fever has been laws or amendments, 7,489. pleases shippers, both in Portland and almost exterminated. Last day for filing initiative peti along the West Side division. For tions, February 3. some time a strong effort has been The Chicago brick trust has pleaded Last day for filing pamphlets oppos made by the shippers of McMinnville, guilty to illegal combinations and the ing measures, February 6. Dayton, Forest Grove and Hillsboro to members have been fined. Direct primaly election— secure a better service, but this could Chinese boycotters have attacked for County clerks give notice of primary not be satisfactorily arranged until the eigners at Shanghai,. An American election not later than March 21. cut-off was completed, which cost (43, warship w ill be sent there. Last day for filing petitions for plac 647. _________ ing names on ballot for state, congres A Russian troop train was wrecked sional and district officers, March 30. by rebels and half \lts occupants sur Good Library at Asylum. Last day for filing petitions for rendered to save their lives. Salem— The lack of a supply of good county offices, April 4. books for the prisoners at theBtate pen Three Chicago banks, all of them Date of primary election, April 30. itentiary formed the subject of comment controlled by John R. Walsh, have Canvassing votes of primary election in the report of Secretary Cornelia Mar suspended. Depositors are fully pro for state offices. May 6. vin to the Oregon Library commission. tected. General election— What is true of the prison is true also Last day for filing certificates of of other state institutions, and Miss The sugar brought into the United nomination for state offices by assembly Marvin is leading a movement to pro States during the year about to end w ill exceed (160,000,000 in value. of electors, April 19. vide the state’ s charges with good read About (60,000,000 of this comes from i-aet day for filing nominating peti ing matter. A t the insane asylum a tions for state offices, May 4. our island possessions. large library was found, but it ie used Last day for filing certificates of by comparatively few patients. Miss King Edward plans to make Ger nomination for county offices by assem Marvin remarks upon the fact that the many powerless by surrounding her bly of electors, May 4. insane asylum has a large library of with bis allies. Last day for filing nominating peti unusually good books without great There is danger of friction between tions for county offices, May 19. use, while across the way, at the prison, France and Germany in the Moroccan General election, June 4. TRAD E W IT H P H ILIP P IN E S . there is nothing to be deed and a great conference. I t should be explained that petitions demand. Germany has assured the sultan that Great Increase Shown Over Last Year for nominations for distriet offices, such as circuit judge, district attorney, joint she w ill assist Turkey in resisting fur Suffrage Petition Filed. by Department o f Commerce. senator and joint representative miiBt ther demands by the powers. Salem— Petitions for the submission Washington, Dec. 19. — Estimates be filed in the office of the secretary of of the equal suffrage amendment have Contributions to the relief fund for made by the bureau of statistics of the state, and not with county clerks. been filed in the office of Secretary of Russian sufferers has reached a total of department of Commerce and Labor, State Dunbar, with 9,985 signatures (1,172,630 in the United States. based on the returns for ten months O RGANIZE S C H O O L LIBRARIES. affixed. The number necessary is Miss Roosevelt’ s Oriental gifts are ending with October, are that the ag 7,489. The petitions were brought to valued at (20,000 according to the gregate commerce between the United State Library Commission Passes an Salem and filed by Mrs. If. W. Coe, States and the Philippines for the cal Important Resolution. amount of duty she paid on them. Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway, Miss Gail endar year 1906, will amount to about Salem — The State Library commis Laughlin, Mrs. Jefferson Myers and General Mackenzie strongly recom (20,000,000, against about (16,000 in mends an appropriation for continuing 1696, (1,000,000 in 1900, (4.000,000 sion, composed of Governor Chamber M ìbs Laura Gray. Mias Laughlin said work at the mouth bt the Columbia. in 1696 and a little more than (4,000,- lain, W . B. Ayers, President Campbell, that the petitions were thorough>y ex of the State University; Miss Isom, amined and all signatures that- were The plan of the Russian rebels is to 000 in 1897, the year prior to the librarian of the Portland library, and not thought to be properly affixed as bankrupt the government by stopping American occupation. required by law were stricken out. Prior to 1899, the exports from the State Superintendent of Schools Acker taxes and refusing to take paper money. United States to the Philippines, the man, met in bi rnontby session last A defiant manifesto of Russian revo Weyerhauser Road for Lumber. bureau reports show, had never ex week, and Mies Marvin, the secretary, lutionists has been met by the govern Klamath Falle— Following the defi ceeded (260,000, while in the present submitted an elaborate report dealing ment arresting the leadeis and publish with the work of the commission from nite announcement that the Klamath year they w ill aggregate nearly (6,000,- ers. 000. Imports from the islands, which its organization to date, and with the L#ke railroad interests have been pur Thomas Lawson, of “ frenzied fi ranged between (4,000,000 and (5,- methods to be employed in the organ chased by the Weyerhaeuser Lumber company it is announced that the Wey nance" fame, has given a (1,000,000 000,000 per annum prior to 1899, were isation of local ilbraries. W ith regard to school libraries, the erhaeuser people do not contemplate mortgage on his property and admits in 1902, (10,000,000; in 1903, (12,- 000,000, and in 1906 will be about commission decided to ask for bids for building to this city, but will only aim be may go bankrupt. (14,000,000, according to the bureau all school libraries to he submitted to use the road as an outlet for the A ton of gelignite at the Central Star next June. A rule was adopted by the large timber interest they hold in this mine, Roasland, B. C., exploded, estimates. The imports in 1906 are chiefly hemp commission prohibiting schools from part of the country. They will remodel wrecking the mine buildings and shak purchasing dictionaries, sets of supple the roadbed, cutting out the switch- ing the entire country. One man was and sugar. Uemp imports for the first mentary readers and general encyclope back in getting from the Klamath river ten months of IH06 amounted to (10,- killed and several score injured. dias with money belonging to their li bottom to Pokegama, by driving a long 376,628, and sjgar (2,212,249. brary funds. tunnel. A strike has occurred for the first Miss Marvin reports that several tim e in the British royal dockyards. Connecticut Safe Looted. cities in the state would soon employ Bank Takes Over Sawmill. The men were working overtime on Snffield, Conn., Dec. 19. — After trained librarians to look after their li construction of a battleship being Weston— The largest sawmill plant rushed. Their demand for better pay binding the railroad watchman, W. braries. in Umatilla county, 12 miles eaBt of Jones, and hie 12 year old son to chairs was granted and work was resumed. Weston, waB recently taken over ny the in the railroad station here this morn Lang Sells Big Wheat Ranch. Fanners’ bank of Weston, the Fletcher Castro uas withdrawn his insult to ing before daylight, six bank robbers Pendleton— James Leng has sold bis company, which had become involved France. pried their way into the Suffield Sav wheat ranch of 2,100 acies, known as with the bank, retiring. W. H A massacre of Christians is feared ings bank on Main street, blew open the old C. J. Smith place, to A . C. Fletcher, manager of the company, has the safe after a fourth attempt and es Friedly of this city. This place, which in Egypt. been in the sawmill business for 16 caped with (60,000 worth of registered is one of the best ranches in this sec years on Weston mountain. Included The Russian army in Manchuria ia to bonds and stocks not negotiable, ac tion, is located in Juniper canyon. with the property are 1,000 acres of be disbanded and hurried homo. cording to President Newton, of the in This year 1,000 acres have been seeded fine timber, which w ill be cut into They overlooked (3,000 in to wheat and the balance was summer The Montana legislature will be call stitution. lumber. ed.ln extra session to pass a railroad cash and negotiable bonds m a drawer fallowed last yeir. Wheat land in this nearby. rate regulation law. district is improving each year since P O R TL A N D M AR K E TS . the farmers undeistand better how to New York’ s employing printers are Dowie Gives Up Scepter. cultivate it. Instead of plowing shal preparing for war on the Typographi Wheat— Club, 72c; bluestem, 74c; Chicago, Dec. 19.— John Alexander low, they have learned that -better re cal union January 1. red, 68c; valley, 73c per bushel. Dowie, head ot the Christian Catholic sults can be obtained by plowing deep. Oats— No. 1 white feed, (2 7 ; gray, Attorney General M oidy will decide church, has given up his rule a..d will (26.50 per ton. whether Annapolis hasere shall he dis soon leave for one of the islands of the Buys Chittim Treer. Barley— Feed, ( 22@22.50 per ton: missed or court martialed. Caribbean sea, there to remain until Eugene— Realizing that the supply brewing, (22.50@23; rolled ,(23@23.50. The "sar is planning to issue more spring, in hopes of regaining his health of chittim bark ( t ’ascara Segrada) will Rye— (1.50 per cental. manifeave on his name day, which will Announcement of the abdication of the ba exhausted in this part of the state Hay — Eastern Oregon timothy, leader of Zion City was made at Zion within a few years, Dr. L. W. Brown grant more liberties to the peasants. (14 50(3)15 50 per ton; valley timothy, City today by Overseer John C. Speich- Two men sere shot, one badly if not er. Saturday Preeiudent Dowie made recently contracted for 1,000 sprouts ( l l @ 1 2 ; clover, (8 0 9 ; cheat, (8.50(3 of the chittim tree, which he w ill set 9.60; grain hay, (8(39. fatally, a n i the other seriously, by two it known that he would transfer all au masked m .n in Portland while holding thority over to the church, unreserved out on his farm southx.est of this city. Fruits— \pples, (1(31.60 per box; Tha sprouts, when planted, grow very up a hotel. The robbers escaped with ly, to a triumvirate and leave f< r the pears, (1 25® 1.50 per box. rapidly, and it will not be very many something over (100. Vegetables — Beans, wax, 12c per south as soon as possible. years until they are large enough to pound; cabbage, l(3 1 l tc per pound; President Roosevelt has written the peel the bark from. The last load of rauliflower, (1.25 per dozen; celery, 45 Confaranca at White House. Merchants’ Exchange, of 8an Francisco, tha young trees on the contract has (375c per dozen; encumbers, 60@60c expressing the wish to see Chinese la Washington, Dec. 19.— Senators A lli been delivered and in the early spring per doxsn; peppers, 6c per pound; borers more cloeely barred from en son and Hale, who are members of the he w ill plant th<m. pumpkins, 4s@lc per pound; sprouts, trance into this country, but he says committee on appropriations, and 7c per pound; suaah, 4«(91c per pound, the exempt classes should be treated Chairman Shonta and Secretary Bishop, Weston Proparty Transfers. turnips, 90c(3(l per sack, carrots, 66 more courteously. of the Isthmian Canal commission, Weston— J. B. Ifa rt baa purchased <375c per sack; bisets, 85c(9(l per sack. were in conference with the president 82t( acres of alfalfa and wheat land in Secretary Richards has several new Onions— Oregon, (1(91.25 per sack. measure in connection with land laws at the white house tonight. It is pre the Walla Walla valley near the state Potatoes— Fancy graded Burbanks, sumed that the case of Secretary Bish line from R. O. Fitch for (6,000. The 66(3~5c per sack; ordinary, 55<360c per which he would like to see enacted by op, whose duties as agent for the com place is located about two miles from sack; Merced sweets, sacks, (1.90; congress. mission has been the subject of discus the ranch recently purchased by Trajan An experimental farm on every gov sion in congress, was among matters talk- Tucker. Mr. Fitch w ill go to Alberta. crater, (2.15. Butter— Fancy creamery, 27)*@30c ernment irrigation project Is a recom sd of, but no statement was made. Frank King, a prominent fanner form per pound. mendation from the Agricultural de erly of Helix, has purchased the W eav Eggs— Oregon ranch, 32(933c per partment. General Strika 1s Improbable er property in this city and w ill soon dozen. London, Dec 19.—The correspondent become a resident of Weston. He has The csar ia afraid to leave his palace. Poultry — Average old hens, 11 ',<9 of the Dally Telegraph at 8t. Peters been making extensive imrovementa 12c per pound , young roosters, 10(91 lc: The Kansas board of railroad com burg, in commenting on recent events springs, l l a i l t f c ; broilers, 12 S @ missioners has ordered the grain rate in Russia, says he is still optimistic Surveying Weed Road. 14c; dressed chickens, 12012S,c; tur out. and ia convinced of the impossibility Klamath Falls— Some excitement was keys, live, 16(3l?c; turkeys, dressed, of an organised general strike, because caused in Klamath Falls recently by choice, 18 0 21c; geese, live, 9 0 10c; Stern measures have been adopted at public opinion and the peasantry are tha arrival of Engineer D. D. Griffiths ducks, 14(915c. Annapolis to stop hazing. strongly averse to it. He Insists that with a craw of a dozen railroad engin Hops — Oregon, 1906, choice, 10® There is a great demand for invita the m ilitary outbreak at Moecow is in eers and surveyors and the announce 11 S c ; prime, S ^ Q O ^ c ; medium. 8c; no way au indication of general disaf ment went forth that they were the ad olds, 5@7c. tions to Miss Roosevelt’ s wedding. fection in the army. vance guard of the California North Wool— Eastern Oregon, average best, A conflict between the president and eastern Railroad tompany, successor to 16<921c; valley, 24026c; mobar, congress oo the canal question is prob Furs Go Up in Smoke. the Weed Railroad company, yhich is cLoice, 30c per pound. able. New York, Dec. 19.— Two hundred to receive a bonus of (100,000 to build deef — Dressed bulls, l(92c per pound; cows, 304c; country steers, Senator Heybnrn, of Idaho, continues thousand dollars’ worth of furs were a railroad into the town. 404 S c . to fight the president’ s forest reserve destroyed by Tie today In the establish F rutt Man Meat at La Qranda. ment of Max Paiseeki A Co., wholesale Veal— Dressed, 3t*@ 8c per pouud. policy. furriers and manufacturers of automo La Grande — Tha next annual meet Mutton— Dressed, fancy, 6061*0 per Strikers at Riga,’ Russia, are held* in bile garments, 37-39 East Twenty-first ing of tha Northweetern Fruitgrowers’ pound; ordinary, 4 0 6c; lambs, 7 0 eheek by machine guns placed in the street. Other tenants ia the building aaaoeiation will be held in La Grande 71*c. w ill suffer heavy damages from water. Janaary S fi. Pork— Dressed, 4 1* 0 7 c per pound. l i i Condensed Form lor Onr Bosy Readers. M M tm » IN S U R G E N T S MADE P LA IN T O MR. 8 H O N T 8 . RULE O N B ALTIC . Gunners Refuse to Fire and Ships Cannot Be Trusted. Chicago, Dec. 18. — The Daily News correspondent sends the following from St. Pcteieburg: Expectation of the downfall of the government continues to grow in this city. Insurgents still hold Riga, Reval and other Baltic towns. The garrisons in these provinces are insufficient to put down the armed rebels and the ar tillerymen refuse to fire on them. Strikes of railroad workers and crews of steamships prevent the forwarding of troops and ammunition to the revolt ed provinces. Though the government baa been urged to dispatch a fleet to the Baltic porta Admiral Birileff hesitates to make any move, fearing that bis sailors will join the rebellion. Dispatehea received from Manchuria today report the situation of the army as desperate. Many officers are in hid ing from their own troqpe, fearing for their lives. The men are burning and pillaging everything within their reach, while the civil population has fled. Revolutionary proclamations have been posted about in the barracks and in the stieets. Dissensions among the chief officers seriously complicate matters. The soldiers accuse the corn ai iasaries of stealing large quantities of supplies and have burned their houses. IN THE NATIONAL HAUS OF CONGRESS Monday, December 18. The canal emergency appropriation bill was received in the house from the senate. .Discussion of this was followed by another debate on Insurance mat ters. The house disagreed to the amendments to the canal bill and sent it to conference. ally. A b ill providing for a public whip ping post for the District of Columbia was Introduced by Adams, of Pennsyl vania. t A fourth Federal judge for Alaska ia provided for In a b ill by Jones, of Washington. Hale and Teller were named as the senate conferees on the canal bill. The senate in the afternoon took up the house ship subsidy bill, which makes it the unfinished business before that body. A joint resolution was adopted pro viding for adjournment from December 21 to January 4. Dolliver has a new rate bill which he w ill introduce soon as a substitute for all measures now pending. Wednesday, December 13. The eenate was in session for only one hour and a half today, and a por tion of that time waa spent in the con sideration of executive business. A number of private bills were introduced in the open session, and Allison pre sented the report of the committee on appropriations on the canal bill, giving notice that he would call it up for con sideration tomorrow. He said that the committee waa of the opinion that (11,- 000,000 would be sufficient for present purposes and that the amount bad been left as fixed by the house. Senator Gallinger introduced an amendment to the statehood b ill to pro Dibit the sale of liquor in the etate proposed to be created by the admis sion of Oklahoma and Indian Territory for a period of 21years, and then only after an amendment of the state con stitution permitting liquor traffic. Saturday, December 10. The senate today passed the Panama emergency appropriation bill. The only change in the measure as it passed the house is a provision which requires that congress Bhall be supplied with regular estimates of all salaries except those paid to laborers. Senator Dubois, of Idaho, w ill retain all his present committee places and se W O R K DONE ON IRRIG ATIO N. cures membership on the irrigation Speaker Cannon announced the trans Great Amount o f Construction Done committee. fer of Mondell (W yom ing) from the b - Reclamation Service. The house indulged itself again to committee on m ilitary affairs to that of Washington, Dec. 18.— A resume of day to the extent of four hours of what public lands, and of M iller (Kansas)* toe work performed by the Reclama was many times termed academic dis from public lands to military affairs. tion service to date shows that 77 miles cussion of Federal control of insurance. The transfer gives the two members of main canal, 54 miles of distributing The holiday recess was fixed from the same committee assignments htey system and 186 miles of ditches have next Thursday to January 4. had in the laBt congress. been constructed, including dams, bead- Committee reference of the annual works, etc. Tunnels having a total Friday, December 16. message of President Roosevelt was length of three and one-half miles have The Panama canal was again under made according to the subjects treated. been driven, including more than a consideration by the Benate today and The question of Federal control of in mile of the great Gunnison tunnel Tillman occupied the entire time given surance was assigned to the committee More than 250 miles of telephone lines to that subject. He did not indicate on ways and means. In explanation of have been installed and are in opera any intention of opposition to the pass this. Payne said that, in bis opinion, tion; 126 miles of wagon road, many age of the appropriation bill, but he the only way the United States can miles of which were cut out of solid criticized the methods of the canal com deal with insurance companies is rock in almost inaccessible canyons, 147 mission in many of its transactions. through the taxing power, and over bridges and 50 office and other build When the senate adjourned the bill th's the ways and means committee has ings have been constructed. was still pending, but there was an jurisdiction. The works above mentioned have agreement for a vote tomorrow. Among the bills introduced in the called for the excavation of 9,350,000 In the reorganization of the senate house today were the following: cubic yards of rock and earth, the lay committoes, now about completed, Ful By Mondell, of Wyoming, providing ing of 70 000 cubic yards of concrete, ton secures the chairmanship of the for the appropriation of not more than 12.000 cubic yards of riprap, 160,000 committee on claims, retains bis place (20,000 annually from the sales of pub linear feet of Bheet piling and 10,000 on public lands and on irrigation, and lic lands to the endowment of etate feet of bearing piles have been driven is assigned membership on one or two schools of mines and mining or depart There have been purchased 130,000 smaller committees. Ankeny becomes ments of mines and mining in connec pounds of railroad iron, 250,000 chairman of the irrigation committee tion with colleges already established. pounds of structural steel, 600,000 and secures a place on commerce. Bv Needham, of California, transfer pounds of cast iron, 1,760,000 feet of Piles is made chairman of coast and ring the Yellowstone, Yosemite, Se lumber, and 78,000 barrels of cement insular Burvey and given a place on quoia, General Giant, Mount Rainier, The government has erected a cement public lands and territories, in which C ratef Lake and Wind Cave national m ill at a cost of more than (100.000, letter place he w ill be able to work for parks from the control of the Depart which has already turned out 16,000 Alaska. Heybnrn did not get a single ment of the Interior to the Department barrels of cement, and is now furnish committee asked for. The only new of Agriculture. ing about 300 barrels^ day. The saw place given him was public buildings. By Delegate Andrews, of New Mexi mills operated by Uncle Sam have cut The fate of Dubois is not as yet settled, co, providing for the admission of the 2.880.000 feet of lumber from the gov the Democrats not having completed territory of New Mexico as a single ernment reserves. their slate. stale. A bill abolishing the Isthmian Canal The house today devoted 4 % hours H O LB U P TR AIN . commission was introduced by Repre to lively debate on the possibilities of sentative Mann, of Illinois. In it dis cretion is given the president to put the Safes o f North Coast Limited Rifled controlling insurance. Jones, of Washington, introduced work of building the canal under any Near North Yakima. bills appropriating (25,000 for a fish one of the executive departments, and North Yakima, Dec. 18. — Overland hatchery in Yakima county, and grant also to operate the Panama railroad limited No. 1, due here at 2:50 o'clock ing Washington 60,000 acres of land through the same means. p. m., but running almost five hours for the benefit of the Soldiers’ home. late, was held up at Hillside, in the Yakima canyon, 11 miles north of this C U T S O U T BO ND S. Thursday, December 14. place, at 7:15 Saturday evening. The The senate spent four hours today in express car was dynamited, two safes discussing the Panama canal emergency Senate Committee Favora Canal Ap blown open and all contents of value appropriation bill and, when it ad propriation of 811,000,000. taken. journed, the bill was still under con Washington, Dec. 13. — The emerg From a good source it is learned that sideration. A separate bill regulating there was little currency in the safes on the issuance of bonds for the canal and ency appropriation bill to provide the the limited at the time of the holdup. placing them on the same basis as Isthmian canal commission with funds The main contents consisted of drafts, other bends of the government was to carry on the construction of the Pan ama canal w ill contain no general leg etc. passed without debate. islation. This was decided hy the sen City Marshal Curren has ordered the Senator Fulton introduced a bill ap ate committee on appropriations at a arrest of every stranger seen in North propriating (100,000 to erect a public Yakima who comes anywhere near an building at Raker City, another carry meeting lasting all of yesterday, at which it was agreed to report the swering the description given of the ing (15,000 for improvement of the holdup men. Up to midnight last grounds at Salem, and a third to ratify measure appropriating (11,000,000, night there have been four arersts. the treaty with the Klamath Indians the amount named by the bouse bill. The first section, in relation to the One man was arrested by Officer Lane and pay them (500,000. issuance of bonds, was stricken out. A who aswered the description perfectly. The pure food bill was reported by bill containing this feature was intro He waB taken off a passenger coach on 8enator Heyburn. duced in the senate by Teller, and it a train coming from the scene of the holdu(r, and was wet to the skin. It is The Republican members of the w ill be dealt with by the finance com thought be may be one of the men. house caucus today unanimously de mittee. The bill was amended to fur It is thought possible the bandits clared in favor of admitting Oklahoma ther provide that in the future no ex may have crossed the Columbia and be and Indian Territory as one state, and penditures shall be made for the canal headed for British Columbia. by a vote of 10 to 65 declared in favor except by authority of congress, and of admitting Arizona and New Mexico when appropriations have been made Christmas Presents by Shipload. as one state. Both statehood questions by congress. New York, Dec. 18.— The American line steamer Philadelphia, which sailed from New York today for Plymouth, Cherbourg and Southampton, carried 3,226 bags of mail for Europe. This represents the largest quantity of mail matter ever carried by any one stermer out of the port of New York. The Philadelphia is the Christmas ship from New York this year and the major portion of the mail she carries consists of presents for relatives and friends who are on the other side of the A t lantic. are to be contained in one bill. Representative Cushman introduced a bill providing for the election of one delegate from Alaska to congress. Representative Lacey, of Iowa, intro duced a bill grafting grazing privileges on public lands to homestead settlers and holders of small farms in semi- arid and arid lands. Prices are to range from 1 to 6 cents an acre annu- Rivals For Coveted Place. Washington, Dec. 14. — As the situ ation sizes up today, it looks as if Sena tor Ankeny would secure the vacant position on the commerce committee formerly held by Senator Foster of Washington. Mr. Ankeny and Mr. Fulton have beeD making a neck and neck rare for this place. New M exico Willing to Units. Washington, Dec. 14.— Joint state hood for New Mexico and Arizona was discussed by the president today with a delegation of New Mexicans, among whom were Solomon Luaa, Republican National committeeman; Major W. H. H. Llewellyn, United States District attorney; Judge A. A. Freman and A. M. Hove. Judge Freeman said he be lieved the people of the two territories would be glad to accept joint statehood. Major Llewellyn and Mr. Luna took up with the president some appoint ments in the judiciary of New Mexico. Rate Bill After Holidays. Washington, Dec. 13.— Railroad rate legislation w ill be allowed to rest until after the holidays. Members of the house committee on interstate and for eign commerce have agreed to take up and dispose of less important measures before the recess. In the senate alro there is a disposition to let rate legisla tion slumber. The members of tha in terstate commerce committee in that body have decided to hold but one meeting a week before Christmas and there ia a general understanding that rate legislation w ill not be pushed. High Price for Portrait. London, Dec. 18.— The famous Whist ler portrait of the late Sir Henry Irving as King Philip I I of Spain, was sold at auction today among the remainder of the actor’ s effects for (25,200. Sarg ent’ s portrait o( Ellen Terry in the character of l4idy Macbeth realized (6,- 300. The Whistler picture goes to America. The name of the purchaser of “ The Whistler” was carefully with held by the representative of a firm of booksellers of London, who bid it in. Woolen Trust Raises Wages. I t is rumorod, however, that J. Pier Boston, Dec. 13.— Beginning on Mon pont Morgan was the actual purchaser. day, January 1, 1906, 30,000 operat ives employed by the American Woolen Friends Will Give Aid. company, of this city, w ill have their Havana, Dec. 18.— That the Ameri wages advanced 10 per cent. The cans in the Isle of Pines have friends Celia Worsted mills, of Woonsocket, in the United States who are w illing to R. I , controlled by an independent aid them in every way possible in their concern, and employing 175 hands, to efforts to have the island added to the night posted notices of a similar ad Union is manifest here in letters re vance. It is estimated that the advance cently received from prominent resi will give the American company’s oper dents of the Isle of Pines. These let atives an aggregate of abont (1,000,000 ters say that friends in the States have more each year than they have been re offered hundreds of thousands of dollars ceiving. to aid in establishing a territory of the United States. N o Ship Subsidy Possible. Washington, Dec. IS.— There is tr Finds Millions in Ground. he no ship snbisidy legislation at this Winnepeg, Man., Dec. 18.— Anthony ision of congress. The senate is lake- Blum.ol Boston, principal owner of the warm . The hones is opposed to such Laorentine mine in the Mamton dis legislation. The new merchant marine trict, 200 miles eest of here, has un committee appointed by Speaker Can earthed walls of gold that assay (400,- non is said to have ten members 000 to the ton. There are millions in against four who are favorable to the sight. It ia the richest discovery ever proposed measure. The speaker ia an- made in gold mining. He spent ten deretood to oppose the project at this veers off and on in the distriet and has time, because of the likelihood of a made much money. tariff discussion. Bridge Bill Passes Congress. Washington, Dec. 14.— Both houses of congress yesterday passed the bills permitting the Portland A Seattle Rail way company to build a bridge across the Columbia river, near Vancouver. Senator Fulton bad his bill reported in the morning, and later called it up and secured passage. It was the first b ill to pass the senate this session. On the house end. Representative Cushman called up bis bill, which ia identical with Mr. Fulton’ s, and it waa accorded the honor of being the second b ill to pass the house. Cut Out Opposed Section. Washington, Dee. 14. — The Santo Domingo treaty waa referred back to the committee on foreign relations. I t ia understood that it is the desire of the administration that the treaty be modi fied by striking out the provision an- tboriiing the president to send an armed force to Santo Domingo, if at any time necessary. It is the belief of friends of the treaty that, if this pro vision were removed, there would bn less opposition to ratification.