The Estacada News
France Assures United States She
Respects Monroe Doctrine.
E S T A C A D A ....................OREGON
NEWS OF THE WEEK
li i Condensed Form for Onr
Busy Readers.
A R tw m a o f tho L m Important but
Not Lata Interesting Events
o f the Past Week.
Freeh trouble baa appeared
Balkan atatea.
in
the
Rockefeller has given $1,450,000 to
Chicago university.
A b ill to revive the canteen bee been
introduced in congreee.
Taft deniee that the Philippine com
missioners speculate in land, as has
been charged.
#
The government has abandoned the
Harney irrigation project and will let
the private company go ahead with the
work.
Representative French, of Idaho, has
introduced a b ill appropriating $10,000
for experimental dry farming in semi-
arid regions.
The Brazilian warship Aquidaban
blew' up, killing all the officers and
crew excepting 50.
The dead w ill
number 300.
The members of the Montana Press
association will leave Butte February
10 on an excursion to Los Angeles and
Southern California points.
The mild weather throughout ther
East has been followed by a blizzard.
In some sections a drop of 30 dgereee
in 12 hours has been recorded.
Washington, Jan. 23.— Convinced of
the sincerity of the assurances received
from France regarding her loyalty to
the Monroe doctrine and all that it in
volves, the Washington government
has given the Paris government a free
band in the execution of the program
for the solution of tbe Venezuelan prob
lem. The conference on this phase of
tbe question occurred some time ago,
and M. Juseerand, the French ambas
sador, has final assurances that the
efforts of France to obtain diplomatic
treatment for ber charge d ’ affaires at
Caracas w ill not be interrupted at
Washington as in any violative of the
Monrore doctrine.
The first move in the execution of
tbe French program may be expected at
any time, but on this point the French
government is observing tbeetiicteet
secrecy. M. Taigny, tbe retiring French
charge, who, it is believed, is now st
Curacoa, w ill come to this country on
bis way borne, and on his arrival at
New York be w ill find an invitation
from the French ambassador at Wash
ington to spend several days here in
conference with M. Juseerand, on whom
the burden of an important phase of
the Venezuelan negotiation naturally
falls, that he may have the benefit of
the facts about tbe situation.
I t is
not unlikely that M. Taigny will also
see Secretary Root.
The whereabouts of the French ships
remain a mystery so far as the officials
of tbe State department and French
embassy are concerned, it is said. It
is assumed, however, that they are
daily in touch with the ministry ol
marine at Paris, and ate awaiting an
opportunity to take such action as
their instructions may provide for.
Great interest is felt in diplomatic
circles here about the exact nature of a
sentence found objectionable in the
note of President Castro to M. Taigny.
French and German delegatee at the
Moroccan conference have openly dis EUROPEAN C R O P S IN DANGER.
agreed. The debate may be the begin
ning of fresh controversies between the Weather is Unseasonably Warm and
two countries.
Excessively Humid.
K ing Edward is ill.
Washington, Jan. 23. — The foreign
Six men hate been killed by snow- crop report for December showB that
over large areas of Europe tbe prevail
slides in Utah.
ing characteristics were unseasonably
The Moroccan conference has so far
warm weather aud excessive humidity.
dodged the dangerous points.
Crops lightly sown have germinated
Few invitations w ill be issued to the finely and entered on the winter in
strong, healthy condition. Late sowing
Longworth-Roosevelt wedding.
of crops, in Europe, however, were un
Beet sugar men have planned a fight
usually extensive, and some anxiety is
on the Philippine b ill iu the senate.
(elt concerning them.
Several midshipmen at the Newport
In Great Britain the winter wheat
navy yard have been attacked with area has been extended. Tbe acreage,
spotted fever.
however, is still believed to be dimin
Jacob Riis has stirred up some sena ished, as compared with last year. The
tors by declaring it possible that Roose growing crops have an improved ap
pearance.
velt may run again.
In France tbe win at area is the aver
The Liberal victory in the recent age.
British elections assures Irish home
In Germany weather conditions were
rule and radical labor laws.
unfavorable and there was no marked
A soldier from Fort Lawton was sen improvement.
In Roumania the area under whe-.t
tenced to one minute’s imprisonment
is 25 per cent short of last year. The
by the Seattle municipal fudge.
1905 crop is now estimated at from 60,-
France is acting cautiously in the 000,000 to 65,000,000 bushels. The
Venesuelan affair, not wishing to gain hulk ol it is said to be out of condition,
the ill w ill of the United States.
hence no important export movement
'T w o French scientists w ill go as far to north of Europe points is expected
south as possible by boat and then en until spring.
No important definite news regarding
deavor to reach the pole by balloon.
the condition of winter sown cereals in
Canal zone medical authorities have
Russia are reaching the outside world.
imposed a six days quarantine on Co
lombian and Venezuelan ports, as the
WHERE DID THE M O NE Y GO?
sons is now free from disease.
Judge Hunt, of the Montana United
States court, says cutting of govern Colorado Propounds Searching Ques
tions to Insurance Companies.
ment timber must stop. He has just
lined a man $200 and says each suc
Denver, Jan. 23.— A ll of the 222 in
ceeding conviction w ill bring a heavier surance companies doing business in
fine.
this state have been asked, through
Senator Depew’s health has broken their head officials, to make oath to re
plies to a list of questions compiled
down.
by the Colorado Insurance department.
Heyburn’s pure food bill is likely to
Some of the questions asked are
be come a law.
whether money has ever been contrib
I t is said the United States will offer uted to campagin funds, particularly
to sell the Philippine islands to Japan. during tbe last six years, and if so,
whether or not it is proposed to con
Berlin fears further Socialist riots
tinue the practice, and also if the item
and troops are being held in readiness.
“ legal expenses" in the report of 1906
Secretary Taft is investigating affairs included contribution to funds for cam
in the Philippines for a possible graft paign purposes or to influence legisla
tion.
by officials thers.
Ohlel Engineer Stevens, of the canal,
has been elected vice president of the
Panama railroad.
Luke Wright has been appointed am
bassador to Japan. General Smith will
succeed him as Philippine governor.
Admiral Endicott, chief of the bu
reau of yards and docks, wants a new
dry dock at the Puget Sound navy
yard.
Porto Ricans are making a strong
plea for home
government.
They
claim the American officials ignore
their wishes.
C O N T R O L TH E CASH.
GIVEN FREE HAND.
Short Shrift for Rebels.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 23.— Dispatches
from aibau and Mitau show that Gov-
-n o r General Sollojub coninues to
punish with merciless seventy revolu
tionists in Courland caught with arms
in hand or convicted of participation in
incendiarism or murder. Twenty-one
more persons have been tried by drum-
head court martial and shot near L i
lian. The troops aie now advancing on
Fraunberg, which has become a revo
lutionary headquartt rs.
Two leaders
of an uprising among school teachers
have been executed near Mitau.
Brown University, New York, will
Trade with the Netherlands.
build a $400,)00 library in memory of
Washington, Jan. 23.— According to
John Hay. Carnegie has given $150,- a report of the bureau of statistics ol
000 toward the fund.
the department of Agriculture exports
Jacob Riis, a close friend of the pres for the fiscal year 1905 amounted to
ident, predicts a long war of the people $73,000,000 and our imports $22,000,-
Our ex
agalnat special privileges, with Roose 000 from the Netherlands.
ports to Belgium in the same year were
velt as the people’s champion.
$28 000,000 and our imports from that
Taft wanta the government to lay a country $20,000,000. The Netherlands
cable to Panama,
and Belgium rank next to the United
France baa expelled the Venezuelan Kingdom, Germany and France in im
envoy and will make a naval attack on pôt tance as markets for products of the
United State*. Copper exports to tbe
Castro.
Netherlands aggregated $20,000,000.
Hamburg
Socialists
and
police
eltebed and a number of the latter aie
Arms to Overthrow the Czar.
wounded.
Baltimore, Jan. 23.— At a meeting of
An American has been arrested in H -brews held last night in celebration
Russia for aiding the revolutionary of the anniversary of “ Red Bonday,”
Jacob Pauken, of New York, aroused
ssevement.
the large audience to great enthusiasm
Eighteen men were killed by an ex by his appeal for funds with which to
plosion in a coal mine 25 miles from purchase arms for the peasants and
working claeeea in Russia. “ The revo
Charleston, W. Va.
Roosevelt has been naked to bring lution has begun," said Pauken, “ and
will never stop. It would be accom
about peace In Turkey.
plishing more now, but tbe people have
A scandal has broken out In England no guns."
ever the recent election. A number of
prominent persona are involved.
Drydock Dewey Spoken.
Washington, Jan. 23.— The drydock
The house will pace a b ill suspend
ing the eight-hour law on the isthmus Dewey, on the way to tbe Philippines,
has again been heard from. The com
daring construct ion of the canal.
mandant of the coaling station at Ban
The signatures of American women
Juan, P. R, reports that the Dewey was
« h o desire to see Bmoot ousted from
spoken Friday night by tbe cruiser
the senate fill 30 volumes and w ill be
Maryland. The Dewey was in latitude
distributed among the senators.
27 62 north and longitude 48.29 west.
Fire almost destroyed Convoy, a Bhe waa traveling four knots an hour.
•mall Ohio town.
A ll were well.
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
IOO S T A M P S A T G O LD CO IN .
LAN D TRADE IN D ISPU TE .
Senators Want Hand In the Allotment
o f Reclamation Funds.
Washington, Jan. 22.— The senate
committee on irrigation today discussed
tbs proposition to amend tbe national
irrigation law by placing tbe distribu
tion of the reclamation fund in tbe
band* of congress, instead of tbe secre
tary of the interior, ae at present.
Strong sentiment in favor of the change
developed.
Several senators on tbe
committee believe it unwise to permit
the secretary of the interior to have
undisputed control of this fund, now
aggregating $32,000,000. No bill for
this purpose was pending, but probably
such a bill w ill be introduced and
passed this session.
The discussion today was incident to
a debate on Heyburn’ s townsite bill,
which authorizes the withdrawal of
land for townsite purposes on govern
ment irrigation tracts, and provides
that money derived from the salu of
town lots shall be turned into the re
clamation fund for expenditure on town
improvements. This bill was referred
to a sub-committee for report.
The committee also gave attention
today to Fulton’s b ill authorizing the
condemnation of land needed as part of
national irrigation projects. No action
waa taken, but members expressed the
opinion that such a law would be un
constitutional. This bill was drawn
particularly with a view to enabling
the government to acquire private land
under the Malheur irrigation project.
It will be acted upon later.
Extensive Preparations Made to Con Deal Involving 4,000,000 Feet o f
Lumber in Court.
tinue Operations.
Baker City— A land trade between
Baker City— Dr. T . H . White, one
of the three owners of tbe Gold Coin Stoddard Bros, and Henry Hewitt is
Hewitt
mine, has just returned from Portland, occupying public attention.
where be arranged for the addition of filed an action at law against tbe Stod
100 stamps to their ten-stamp m ill al dards, asking $2,862 damages, because
ready in operation, and purchased a- he alleges the defendants in that action
new hoist to be shipped to the mine at cut sawlogs on his property. The Stod
once. Tbe machinery w ill all be msde dard Brothers have come back with a
crossbill in equity, alleging that they
in Portland.
Since tbe favorable decision in the traded Hewitt a quarter section of land
injunction case by the Circuit court, for a like amount of property in this
given the other day, the mine will be county.
Under the agreement, they say, they
in full operation the balance of tbe
were to build a railroad spur onto the
winter.
Managing Owner James A . Panting, land and cut the timber thereon, and
of the Gold H ill mine, in the Durkee Hewitt was also to cut immediately the
camp, 2ti miles southeast of Baker City, timber on tbe land they traded him.
is here and reports that be bas had a The party securing more than $1,900,-
full force of men at work retimbering 000 feet of good sawlogs was to put up
They ask
some of the tunnels and Btopes, and the difference to the other.
that he has cut the main ledge ten feet that Hewitt be forced to comply, as
wider on tbe lower levels.
In doing they have been under expense iu build
this work he struck another stream of ing the railroad spur.
watsr in the mine, which will give him
a sufficient supply to irrigate another
Visit Excites Speculation.
100 acres of tbe home ranch.
He says
Baker City — It is reported on good
the recent heavy snow storm w ill bene authority that George L. Thayer, of
fit both farming and mining interests.
Walla Walla, engineer for the North
western Gas A Electric company, who
has been in this vicinity for the past
No Longer Superintendent.
8alem — David E. Baxter, who was few days, has been investigating a pro
appointed county superintendent of ject for a mammoth reservoir at the
schools in November by the county Rock creek power plant, which at pres
court of Wheeler county, is out of ent furnishes the current for Baker N
office.
The county superintendent City’ e lights. This reservoir would be
S L A Y W O R K M E N IN THREES.
died, and tbe county court appointed used to furnish power for the plant
Mr. Baxter to fi.l the vacancy.
A t during the dry season. Another report
torney General Crawford held that the states a project is under consideration How Soldiers Strike T error— Enraged
Reds Plan Reprisals.
-appointment . was for tbe unexpired "to cut Baker City off the Rock creek
term, and that Baxter would hold office circuit, and that the company w ill u»e
St. Petersburg, Jan. 22.— It is be
until 1908. Recently it was discovered that plant for power for the mines and
lieved that workmen employed in the
that Baxter did not bold a first-grade Bourne alone, and w ill us^the plant
certificate, and again a question came being installed in South baker to fur government works are being shot after
brief trials by courts martial. It is re
up as to Baxter’ s eligibility to hold the nish power for this city.
office. This time the attirney general
ported that tbe victims selected for
Change Site o f Bridge.
held that unless Baxter could show a
slaughter are ltd out three at a time
certificate as required by law, the office
E ’gin— The judges of Wallowa and
and executed before the eyes of their
was vacant. The court notified Baxter Union counties, with the county com
to produce his certificate or give up the missioners, are now conferring with comrades, who are awaiting their turn
Chief Engineer Pollard, of the O. R. A to face the soldiers.
As soon as one
office. He resigned.
N., in the effort to reach a definite con batch has been dispatched, three other
clusion as to how much the railroad
Many Men at Opp Mine.
prisoners are lined up in the same spot
Grants Pass— At the Opp mine, near will pay for moving tbe wagon bridge
and shot. Firing bas been heard at
over
the
Wallowa
to
its
new
location.
Jacksonville, about 60 men are at work
m and around the mine. A ll the ma The company’ s located line includes the scenes of execution, continuing
The military has
chinery, even the sawmill, is operated about 40 feet of tbe old site, and when without cessation.
by electricity. The company owns 240 the old bridge collapsed, some months also resorted to beaming girls brutally
acres covered with timber, and all the ago, the O. R. A N. made a proposition as a means of punishment.
Stories of the cruelties that are being
lumber for building purposes at tbe to pay all extra expense if the counties
practiced have become noised about,
mine and the timbers used in the mine would change tbe location.
and they have entirely inflamed the
are cut by the sawmill.
This is ihe
revolutionists, who are planning re
Pays $ 3 5 ,0 0 0 for Store.
first sawmill in this part of the state to
be operated by electricity.
A ll the
Eugene— The largest price paid for prisals.
In the south of Russia there is a
main tunnels and drifts at the Opp any one piece of Eugene real estate in
mine are lighted by electricity.
The many years was when F. E. Dunn, a great congestion of grain, as it has been
company has juBt finished installing an dry goods merchant, purchased from J. accumulated for some time, and there
air compressor and power drills.
II. McClung the two story brick block is no means of transporting it, as the
and the lot on which it stands at Eighth authorities are too busy with their
and Willamette streets for $35,000. campaign of repression against the re
“ Short Gulch” in Operation.
volutionists to think of the administra
Grants Pass—The recent heavy rains Tue building is 70 by 120 feet and is tion of every day affairs.
have started all the giants in the placer occupied by a dry goods store, a book
mines of Southern Oregon, and even store and a drug store on the lower
the "short gulch” men are at work. floor, and offices on the upper floor. It
BUDS SW E LL IN CH IC AG O .
This is tbe first time in two years that was built about four years ago by Mr.
McClung.
Mr.
Dunn
w
ill
move
hiB
they have been able to do any work of
Warmest Winter Day in History May
value. About a dozen giants are work stock of giods into the building.
Injure Growing Things.
ing on the Applegate that were not
Fruit Pests Must Go.
Chicago, Jan. 22. — Something has
operated at all last winter.
Tbe rain
Albany — Last week the orchardists gone wrong with the weather machine.
has been about half snow in the valley,
and in consequence there has been a of Linn county met at the courthouse A ll residents of this city are willing to
heavy fall of enow on the higher moun and listened to the newly appointed
The mercurv
tains, insuring a long run in tbe fruit inspector explain the evils of the swear to this fact.
various fruit pests, and the means of reached 63 at 4 p. m. today, breaking
spring.
eradicating them. Those present took all records since New Year’s day of
home with them formulae for the de 1876, when it stood at 65 above. Gar
Meat for New Railroad.
Arlington — Henry O. Bueey has struction of every pest that blights deners at the parks and along the
purchased a half interest in the meat Linn county fruit, and the crusade
boulevards have become greatly wor
business here from O. C. Clark.
A l against vermin will begin immediately.
'flie mild rains, light snows
though the contract has been let to a The effort to rid Linn county of fruit ried
large Canadian firm to furnish the fresh pests will not stop with orchardists. and general springlike weather of tbe
past two weeks have brought the sap
meat for all the contractors of the
Sawmill Closes Down.
into motion and buds are beginning to
Northern Pacific railroad now being
Maple tries are said to be ae
Albany— The big sawmills of the swell.
built down the north bank of the Co
lumbia river, this Arlington firm is Curtiss Lumber company, at M ill City, far advanced as they should be on
providing tbe meat for the railroad men on the Corvallis A Eastern railroad, March 1, and many of the more or less
for 25 miles east and 20 miles west of has shut down for a few daya. I t was delicate vines are well along toward the
Arlington.
Several hundred dollars stated the mills needed overhauling, spring rejuvenation. Now that a cold
each week come into the coffers of this and the deep enow in some portions of wave is predicted for tomorrow, with a
the Cascade mountains has interfered drop of nearly 40 degrees, great fears
town for meat alone.
somewhat with the logging operations are expressed lest all vegetation now
of the company and a shortage is tbe started may suffer such a set-back as
New Industry for Gresham.
Gresham — The Gresham Trading A result. This condition is not expected w ill cause great loss in the floral and
shrubbery display of the many miles ol
Packing company has begun work on a to prevail very long.
parx and boulevards in tbe spring.
cold storage plant, which will cost be
P O R TL A N D M AR K E TS.
tween $3,000 and $5,000. The com
pany intends to engage in an extensive
All States Should Act.
Wheat— Club, 71@72c; blnestem, 74
packing business, and w ill operate
New York, Jan. 22. — A general de
largely in dressed meats of all kinds @75c; red, 68@69c; valley, 73c.
cision that insurance reforms should
Oats— No. 1 white feed, $27.50@
and the storage of all perishable pro-
be inaugurated immediately by state
Incts. It is the intention of the com 28.60; gray, $27@28 per ton.
legislatures throughout the country
Barley— Feed, $23 50024 per ton;
pany to conduct a business aggregating
was arrived at by tbe insurance com
about $400,000 during the coming year, brewing, $23 50024; rolled, $24026.
missioners of several states who con
Buckwheat— $2.50 per cental.
tnd it w ill be prepared for hot weather.
ferred with the New York legislative
Hay — Eastern Oregon timothy,
committee which investigated the mat
$13 50014 60 per ton; valley timothy,
Contract Let for Ties.
ter.
Conferences between this com
Elgin— Another large contract for 9010; clovar, 9010; cheat, $8.500 mittee and the state commissioner*
ties for the Wallowa extension has 9.50; grain bay, $809.
have covered a period of two days.
Fruits — Apples,« 75cO$l per box;
been let by tbe O R. A N. Co. to
Senator Armstrong, chairman of tbe
George Edwards, of Spokane. Mr. Ed choice, $1.2501.50; fancy, $20 2 50; New York committee, said that there
wards is equipping two camps and hir pears, $1.2501.60 pet box; cranber would probably be no more conferences.
ing men tn commence work at once. ries, $13013.50 per barrel.
Vegetables — Beans, 20c per pound;
His contract calls for 20,000 ties to be
More for National Guard.
delivered by June. He has the urivil- cabbage, lL i0 2 c per pound; cauli
Washington, Jan. 22. — Adjutant
flower,
$2
per
crate;
celery,
$303.50
ege of accepting another contract for
per crate; bell peppers. 35c per pound; General J. A. Drain, of the Washing
30,000 more, if he so desires.
pumpkins, \ 01c per pound; sprouts. ton National Guard, w ill this week at
6 S O 7c per pound; sqnash, 1 1 i O 1 X c tend the meetings of the executive com
T o Build Railway.
mittee of the National Guard associa
Salem — Articles of incorporation per pound; turnips, 90cO$l per sack;
tion and later attend the sessions of the
have been filed with the secretary of carrots, 65@75c per sack; beets, 85c<R
national board for the promotion of
state for the United Railways company. $1 per sack.
General Drain, with
Onions — Oregon, No. 1, $101 18 rifle practice.
The incorporators are W. D. I.arralree.
other National Guard officers, is work
M. 11. French and J. White Eveans. per sack; No. 2, 70O82c.
Potatoes — Fancy graded Burbanks, ing to secure an increase in the appro
The road is to run from some point in
priation for the National Guard from
Portland to Peak, in Washington coun 70O~5c per hundred; ordinary, 500
202^c
per $1,000,000 to $2,000,000 per annum,
ty. The capital stock is $5,000, divid- 60r; sweet potatoes,
bat there is slight
prospect that
pound.
ed into 60 shares of $100.
Butter— Fancy creamery, 27)%R32>^ the increase can be secured this session.
per pound.
Oregon Firms Dissolved.
Stevens for Lock Canal.
Eggs — Oregon ranch, 27 j$028c per
Salem — Governor Chamberlain has
Washington, Jan. 22. — Secretary
issued a proclamation, as required by dozen.
Poultry — \verage old hens, 12S O Taft called at the white house tonight
law, dissolving about 6,000 corpora
tions that have not complied with the lSt^c per pound; springs, 12013c; and famished to the president the mi
provisions of the corporation license tax mixed chickens, 12012t%c; broilers, nority report of tbe hoard of consulting
law. Most of the companies have al 15016c; d reseed chickens, 14015c; engineers of the Isthmian Canal com
turkeys, live, 16c; tnrkeys, dressed, mission. This report waa prepared by
ready gone out of business.
choice, 17 O 20c; geese, live, 9011; Chief Engineer Stevens, who, it is
geese, dressed, 12014c; ducks, 160 stated, is in favor of a look canal. The
Subscribe Many Acres.
secretary stated tkat bis visit had noth
Echo— More than 6,000 acres of land 1 7 *c .
Hops— Oregon, 1905, choice, 10(4 tic ing to do with the Venesuelan ques
have been subscribed to the Umatilla
Watsrusera’ association. The «locative per pound; prime, 8l% 49l^c; me tion, which is entirely in the hands of
the officials of ths State department.
committee has met and signed the arti dium, 7 0 8c; olds, 607c.
Wool— Eastern Oregon average beet,
cles of incorporation ami the paper*
Cruiser Denver to Watch Castro.
have been forwarded to the secretary of 16021c per pound; valley, 24026c;
mohair, choice, 30c.
Washington, Jan. 22.— The protected
state.
Reef— Dressed bulls, 202,t^c per cruiser Denver, which has been tempo
State Loan* $61,200.
pound; cows, 3 V, O 4 v ,c ; country rarily detached from the fifth division
Balem—The State land board has ■leers, 4 (45c.
of the Atlantic fleet, hat sailed from
approved 44 farm losuis amounting to
Veal— Dressed, 31%08 H r per pound. Culebra tor San Juan.
Tbe Denser
$61,200. Tha monsy loansd belongs
Mutton — Dressed, fancy. 7l%$)8c; w ill be detained ia West Indian waters
to the stats school fund and draws • ordinary, 405c; lambs, 7 0 ? H c .
for the present, awaiting the turn ot
per cant interest.-
Pork— Pressed, 607>%c psr pound.
«vents in Veaeauele.
INSULT TO AMERICA
Castro Not Satisfied With Trouble
With France.
FRENCH WARSHIPS ARE AT HAND
Falling Inatant Apology, Thsir Guna
Will Talk— United Statea
May Taka a Hand.
Washington, Jan. 20.— Three French
warships are now off the Venesuelan
coaat preparing to deliver the auewer
of France to President Castro’ s treat
ment of U . Taigny, the French repre
sentative at Caracal, by a naval demon
stration in Venesuelan water*. Two
additional warahipa w ill join them aa
soon as they can make the trip across
the Atlantic. Until the demonstration
has been initiated, the French govern
ment w ill share with the preaident and
Secretary Root the knowledge of the
exact form which this expression of her
displeasure at Preaident Caatro’a action
will take.
Meantime the delicacy of the situa
tion at Caracas is greatly increased by
news which bas recently reached here
from that city regarding the attitnde
Preeident Castro now appears to be
assuming toward Mr.
Russell, the
American minister. Unlesa this atti
tude is radically modified, it may be
necessary to dispatch an American war
ship even nearer the Venesuelan coast
than has already been planned. Preai
dent Castro, it is said, w ill be given to
understand that any treatment of an
American representative such as that
accorded to M. Taigny w ill not be tol
erated.
The cause which
can be
ascribed here for Mr. Castro’ « attitude
toward Mr. Ruseell ia that the former
insists npon regarding as personal
rather than official the efforts which
Mr. Knesell has made to assist a peace
ful settlement of thejFranco- Venesuelan
troubles.
Tbe request of the French
government that its interests in Vene
zuela be looked after by Mr. Russell
was Immediately granted for tbe reason
that such a request is invariably grant
ed by a friendly power however difficult
the task.
France has adopted a simple pro
gram for her treatment of tbe Venezue
lan situation. I t provides for an im
mediate and comprehensive apology by
Castro for bis treatment of M. Taigny,
which treatment the PariB officials re
gard as insulting and intolerable.
Ooe dispatch sent to Mr. Russell
last Sunday bad not been delivered to
him up to the time the laet dispatch
was sent by him to the State depart
ment. Thia is being inquired into by
the department.
B U R TO N W IL L H ELP.
Many Obstacles in Way o f Appropria
tion fo r Columbia Jetty.
Washington, Jan. 19. — Chairman
Barton, of tbe bonse committee on riv
e n and harbors, today gave a bearing
to Senators Fulton and Gearin, H . W.
Scott and J. N. Teal, of Portland, on
th* Columbia river jetty project. Rep
resentative Jones, of Washington, who
is a member of the committee, was
also present and took part in the dis
cussion.
Mr. Burton ia thoroughly familiar
with tbe situation at the mouth of the
Columbia aud ia fully aware ol tbe fact
that it would be good business policy to
make an appropriation this session, not
so much to extend the jetty as to pro
tect tbe work that haa been done dar
ing the past season. He realises that,
unlesa an appropriation ia made, the
sea end of the jetty, and particularly
the unprotected tramway, w ill be left
at the mercy of the heavy eeaa and lia
ble to be damaged to the extent of sev
eral hundred thousand dollar*.
But, while Mr. Burton is in sym
pathy with the Oregon men and while
he recognixei the wisdom of an appro
priation to protset the new portion of
the jetty, he ia not willing to give any
assurances that each an appropriation
w ill be made.
There is no general
river and harbor bill this session, and
it is a serioua question in Mr. Burton’ s
mind whether it w ill be possible to
pot through special legislation in the
interest of only a few emergency pro
jects.
Mr. Burton stated, and the Oregon
delegation agreed with him, that it
would be utterly impossible to pass a
special b ill making an appropriation
for this one project. Such a bill would
be amended in tbe house aud senate by
tbe addition of appropriations for in
numerable projects until in the end it
would become a regular river and har-
bor bill, and under existing conditions
a bill of that character would aland no
show of passage.
But there are three or four other pro
jects of importance, where emergencies
exist similar to that at the mouth of
tbe Columbia. Unless appropriations
are made this session for tbe preserva
tion of these works, the government
will sustain a heavy loss. Mr. Burton
ia considering the advisability of ro-
prrting an emergency bill making ap
propriations for these specific projects
only, but he is not yet satisfied that
such a bill could get through without
being amended to embrace many other
projects.
Mr. Burton, because of ths condi
tion that exists in congress and because
of tbe difficulties that stand in the way
of special riVer and harbor legislation,
will hold out no promises to the Ore-
gen representatives, though he freely
admits his interest in Columbia river
improvement and expresses liis per
sonal belief that an appropriation
should be made.
An appropriation of $1,800,000 can
not be bad, but it is possible that
$400,000 may be procured.
Mr. Bur
ton explains that it would be impossi
ble to pass any b ill which did more
than provide funds to protect work al
ready done.
FUND S FOR SEA W ALL.
EACH IS L E T A RE PU BLIC.
California Supreme Court Gives Fa
vorable Decision.
Russian Revolution Spreads to Dots
San Francisco, Jan. 20. — The Su
o f Land In Baltic.
preme court this afternoon banded
St. Petersburg, Jan. 18.— In addition
down a decision by which funds will to tbe Caucasus and a few localities in
soon be available for tbe completion of Siberia, the open revolt ia now chiefly
tbe San Francisco sea wall. The court confined to small islands off the Baltic
sustained the validity of tbe so-called coaat, where the difficulty of landing
sea wall act, passed by the legislature troops hampers the subjugation of tbe
in March, 1903, which authorized tbe revolutionists. Tbe icebreaker Yermak,
state board of harbor commissioners to carrying detachcments of marines and
issue $2,000,000 in bonds to complete infantry, bas been unable to reach tbe
tbe San Francisco sea wall.
principal island, Osel, at the entrance
Tbe harbor commissioners proceeded to the Gulf of Riga, and ia now await-
to issue bonds under this act, but State ng a light-draft steamer to land tbe
Treasurer Reeves refused ¡o approve troops.
tbe issue.
The commissioners there
Following tbe example of their
upon applied to the Supreme court for brothers on tbe mainland, the peasan
a writ of mandamus to compel the try ot even tbe tiniest islands in the
state treasurer to sign tbe bond issue. Baltic have instituted independent re
The coart by its decision today di publics. One of these, on tbe islet of
rect* the state treasurer to sign the Linsuitt, probably the smallest state in
bonds. Tbe harbor commission, it is
the world, already boasts of a second
understood, w ill now issue bonds under revolution and a second president, the
the art from time to time until tbe full citiiens having risen and overthrown
$2,000 000 worth are on tbe market.
the first president. The present chief
Afraid to Show Hi* Face.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 20.— Distrustful
of tbe spirit of his capital and perhaps
remembering the incident of last Janu
ary, when one of the saluting guns
showered grape on tbe imperial chapel,
the emperor w ill not come to 8t.
Petersburg for the ceremony of the
blessing of the waters of the Neva to
morrow. For tbe first tim e since the
Empress Anna laid the foundations of
the winter palace in 1732, the great
church featival of the Epiphany w ill
pass without the presence of the sov
ereign.
magistrate, Jamneenson, is addressing
them in proclamations as “ my faithful
subjects.”
,
Pehtion to Save Constitution.
Boston, Jan. 19. — Eric Pape, the
artist, left Boston yesterday for Wash
ington with the “ Constitution peti
tion,” which he expeeta tn present to
congress. W hile in Washington Mr.
Pape w ill try to secure th? signatures
to the petition of many men prominent
in national life, who have expressed
themselves as favorable to t le move
ment to save "O ld Ironsides.” The
petition ia an immense affair, and re
quires four men to carry it. I t ia esti
Massacred by Black Men.
mated that over 20,000 persons bsvo
V’ icoria, B. C., Jan 20. — Advices of signed it.
massacres by bla :ks in New Guinia
an i North Anstralia were received by
Expect T o Gat Increase.
the steamer Moana today.
In New
Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 19.— Adjust
Guinea a party of warriors mad a raid ment of the wage scale, w biih was ef
on the village of Ekiriat, 30 milea from fected at a meeting held at 7 o'clock
the capital, Port Moresby, and killed night, was tbe first step towards the
33 of the inhabitants, who were sleep paramount business of the convention
ing. The bodies wer* much mutilated. of the United Mineworkers.
That an
Tbe village was looted and destroyed, increase in wages w ill be tbe principal
anything of valne being carried off feature of tbe report of the scale com
The village constable escaped, though mittee is no longer in doubt, and tbire
his loin cloth was pierced by spears is very little doubt among tbe major.ty
thrown at him.
of the delegates that their requests for
more money w ill be readily conceded
Big Grain Firm Falla.
by tbs operators when they meet in
Chicago, Jan. 20. — Announcement conference.
waa made this aiternoon of tbe suspen
sion of the grain and commisaion firm
New Governor for Alaska.
of McReynolde à Co,, of this city, one
Washington, Jan. 19. — Assuming
of the best known firms on the board of that J. G. Brady, governor ol Alaska,
trade. Tbe affairs of the firm will be proposes to resign his position, M. H.
wound np and it w ill go oat of busi Perkins, of Nome, bas been reco in
ness, bat tbe creditor* w ill be paid in tended strongly for that office.
Sen
fall and tbe aaoeta are fully equal to ators Allison, Lodge and Piles railed
the liab<litiee.
The house has been on tbs preeident yesterday, with ex-
a large handler of cash grain and con Governor 8wineford and 8. 8. Ryan, of
trol* three large elevators.
Alaska, to recommend Perkins’ ap
pointment. It ia not known absolutely
Funston May Go to China.
that Governor Braday intenda to re
San Francisco, Jan. 20. — The Call sign.
«rill aay tomorrow that Brigadier Gen
eral Frederick Fnnaton w ill soon be
Paac* With Insurgants.
relieved from the command of tbe de
San Domingo, Jan. 19. — A treay of
partment of California and ordered to peace between tbe insurgent generals at
tbe Philippines, where he w ill be Monte Crieti end the government was
placed in charge of one of the brigadee signed today on board tbe American
which i* being formed in Lnson with a cruiser Yankee.
Thia «sears* perfect
view to their poeaible utilisation in tranquility throughout tbe repnhlic.
connection with any move which may Moot* Crieti i* now in the hands of the
be made against China.
constitutional government forcte.