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The Estacada News fa—ii d Each Thursday ESTACADA OREGON NEWS OF THE WEEK I d a Condensed Form lor Onr Rosy Headers. Resume o f the Less Important but Not Less Interesting Events o f the Past Week. Russian soldiers are killing off rebels by the wholesale. Zero temperature prevails throughout the central states. Rnssca is negotiating for treaty with China. a nc Georgia traveling men have started a ‘ ‘ clean sheet” crusade. A worn 6ve-cent piece led to the ar rest of s burglar in Heattle. One of Dowie’ s leading Elders de clares that the prophet is a failure. Wallace says there is ton much red tape connected with the work on the Panama canal. Portland is to be invaded by a drug trust, a newly formed concern with a capital ol »10,000,000. An appropriation of $4,839,993 ior fortifications in 1907 has been agreed upon by the house committee on appro priations. The Reorganised Mormon church has been started in Balt Lake Citv and its members w ill be the principal witness es against Smoot. One regiment of infantry and two squadrons of cavalry are being held in readiness at Manila to go to China at the first sign of an outbreak. W. C. Bristol, United 8tates attorney for Oregcn, w ill have to go. The charge of ‘ ‘ unprofessional conduct” is placed against him. It is said that he attempted to draw fees from both sides of a case. Castro vows vengeance on France. Democratic senators have united fight the Ban Domingo treaty. to The w ill of the late Charles T . Yerkes may be contested by hie widow. The Union Pacific has bought a con trol of the Illinois Central railroad. W. 0. T. U. workers will ask Miss Roosevelt to bar wine from her wed ding. Kansas authorities are after a broth er of John D. Rockefeller for land fraud. John A. Linn, clerk of the Cook county, Illinois, court, is charged with 6mbesaling $50,000. From present indications the dispute between France and Germany in Mo rocco cannot be settled. The Washington railroad commission may make a stricter ruling on issuing passes by railway companies. Germany Is exasperated because of her inability to secure a reciprocity treaty with the United Slates. The governor of Iowa w ill call a meeting of the various governors early in the summer for the purpose of unit ing on a plan to secure election of United States senators by the people. W itte is preparing a plan to sell land to peasanst. Roosevelt denies that he is acting as dictator to congress. The pope has advised French Cath olics to give in to the state. Colonel Colton reports that pe-ce has been restored in Santo Domingo. Twenty-seven bodies have been re covered from the wreck of tho Valencia. Heattle people are indignant over the Valencia investigation and demand a more rigid inquiry. A cold wave has strnck the eastern portion of the United States. In plac es the temperature dropped 40 degrees in 24 hours. The American Smelting trust is buy ing control in the large copper compan ies and it is believed a huge trust is being formed. The United Mlneworkers of America have decided to call a strike in every s*at April 1. The order is expected to affect 000,000 men and cut off the fuel supply of tho nation. Senator Heybnrn, of Idaho, is seri ously ill ami an operation for appendi citis cannot long be delayed. Hermann has offered a bill to the house providing for $200,000 for the construction and maintenance for the first year of a sea-going dredge for Ore gon harbors. Great Britain may institute radical reforms in her army to please Japan. Cossacks in Siberia after an armed conflicth with rebels threw over 1,300 into Lake Baikal through holes in the ice. Vladivostok rebels have driven out the Cossacks and enforced an armed truce. The annual report of the Philippine commission shows the island to be in good condition. tieneral Chaffee has retired is chief of staff of the army. He is succeeded by John 0 . Bates. Many bodies are being recovered from the wreck of the Valencia which are not being identified. I f í j i * - 3 * - Fire destroyed tn entire block in thg citv of Panama. The loss will reach $600,000, with very little insnranee. TO FLEECE INDIANS LEASE RANGE LAND. T E M P E S T OF FLAM E. Day o f Small Cattleman Is Near at Hand in West. Great Fire Devours Elevator, Wheat and Horses in St. Louis. Washington, Feb. 8. — The time is unquestionably coming when congress w ill authorise the leasing of that part of the public domain suitable for gras- ing, but not a* the present session. The tendency of the times is to break down the large stockmen who have dominated the public range in times past and to protect and encourase the small stockowner. The cattle baron of the past, like those of his number who (till survive, had little interest in the public welfare. His was a war of ex termination on the small stockman; be bad no care for the future; he looked only to the profits of today. The result has been that, when allowed full swing, be has demolished all competi tion, be has ruined the Dublic range, and has grown rich to some extent at public expense. But this order of things is coming to an end. The Roosevelt administration is no lover of the wanton cattle baron. It perfers to see the West filled with small stock owners, for theee men be come citizens, and good citizens; they have an interest in the public welfare; they exert an influence for good, and it is the purpose of the administration to help them as far as possible. But the process of evolution must be slow; it cannot be accomplished in a day One of the most effective means of pro tecting the small stockowner is to adopt a system of leasing the public grazing lands and exerting a government con trol which will preclude monopoly and give the settler and the small stock owner a ‘ ‘ square deal” in the parceling out of the public range. A bill for this purpose, which in general meets the approval of the administration, was drawn and introduced by Representa tive Lacey, of Iowa, chairman of the bouse committee on public lands. True, it stands little chance of passing the present congress, because there is strong sentiment among certain West ern senators and representatives against the leasing of the public domain. It s a new departure; it is a radical move, and, while it is bound to come, the sentiment against it is sufficiently strong at this time to defeat the Lacey bill Bui the bill serves a good purpose — it brings the leasing question before the public; it will lead to general dis cussion throughout the West; it will be instrumental in shaping public sen timent., and in the end it, or some sim ilar bill, will go through, and a mater ial check w ill be placed upon the oper ations of the cattle baron. The bill is the basis of what in timo w ill become a notorious fight in congress. St. Louis, Feb. 5.— Fire, which orig inated in the Union Grain elevator in East St. Loais, III., last nigbt, after completely destroying that structure, spread to surrounding buildings and freight cars in the yards of the Termin al association, and caused damage esti mated at $1,250,000 before its progress was checked. A t an early hour this morning the flames were still casting a ruddy glare, but it is believed that the fire is well under control, and there is little further danger of its spreading. A detailed estimate of the losses fol lows: Union elevator, $300,000; grain in elevator, $950,000; St. Louis Car company, barn, $15,000, horses, $16,- 500, feed, $3,000; Waters-Pierce Oil company, $5,000; seven dwellings, $7,- 000; 20 box cars, $20,000; total, $!,- 316,500. The fire originated in a brick engine house, 30 feet away from the elevator proper, and was discovered by the night watchman. Before the arrival of the fire department, the dames had spread to the elevator. Assistance was sent from St. Louis, and the efforts of the firemen were principally directed toward preventing the fire from spread ing to adjoining elevators and ware houses, the Union elevator having been converted into a furnace within a few minutes alter it caught fire. The heavens were brightly illum i nated and it is estimated that 50,000 persons viewed the fire from both banks of the Mississippi river and the bridge. Seven dwellings were covered by horning oil by the explosion of four tank cars and entirely destroyed. The occupants, however, were either outside viewing the conflagration, or were able to escape before the flames consumed tbeir homes. PU B LIC W O R K S IN HAWAII. Delegation Comes to Urge that Cus toms Money Be Used There. Washington, Feb. 6 — A delegation of Hawaiian citizens arrived here today to appear before a committee of con gress to advocate legislation requiring three-fouths of the customs duties and internal revenues collected in the terri tory to be expended on public works there. It is said $1,200,000 a year, equal to $8 per capita of the population, is taken out of the territory, which the members of the delegation say consti tutes a heavy drain on its resour’ es. The members of the delegation include W. O. Smith, attorney general of the island before the annexation; George W. Smith, president of the board of supervisors of Oahu county, in which Honolulu is situated; Mark B. Robin son, J. R. Galt, E. A. McQuerny, D. H. Case and A. B. Loebenstein. W. O. Smith, the chairman of the commis sion, in speaking of the visit of the delegation, tonight, said: “ We ask nothing for the exclusive benefit of Hawai’ . We are here to ask that 75 per cent of the customs duties and internal revenue collected in the territory for the next twenty years be expended on public works. We do not ask a dollar for our own current ex penses. The only benefit the people of the islands w ill reap w ill be that the money spent for wages on the proposed public works w ill be ktpt in circulation in the islands instead of being shipped in gold to Han Francisco. Italy Has Forest Fire. Milan, Feb. 6.— A forest fire that started three days ago on the St. Goth- ard railroad is still burning, and now covers 12 square miles. Several hun dred workmen are endeavoring to save the signal posts along the track and peasants are working to preserve their homes from destruction. A number of factories and a chapel have been destroyed. The big electric station at Anrasca. near Dommodisila is sur rounded by fire, and several towns are without light, and many factories have (hut down for want of motive power. Even Swap with Italy. Washington, Feb. 6 — A statement prepared by the secretary of Commerce snd Labor shows that the commerce between Italy snd the United States in tbs fiscal year 1905 aggregated $77,- 600,000, almost equally divided be tween imports and exports. Exports from the United States to Itsy tbs last fiscal year were valued at $38,740,007. Imports from Italy in the same year were valued at $38.028,579. * In 30 years our trade with Italy has aggregat ed considerably more than $1,000,00),- 000 . O rder for Coal Strike. Indianapolis, Ffeb. 6. — It was inti mated at the national headquarters of the United Mineworkers of America to day that before the adjournment of the present session of the executive hoard. Secretary.Treasurer W . B. Wilson will he instructed to prepare a formal strike order, effective April 1, in order to avoid tbs necessity of reassembling the hoard after the adjournment of the present seesion. No meeting of the board was held today. Fire broke out in the transport Meade at San Francisco. Three lives were lost. The property damage will not be great. It has jnst been given ont that for the past tonr years the Equitable Life Japan to Increase Navy. Insurance society hat insured free the Tokio, Feb. 6. — At a meeting of the lives of Its 900 employee for $1,000 eecional budget committee today dele each. gatee repreeenting the government said A suit has buen started In Nebraska that Japan expected to increase the to break up a combi uu of firs insurance tonnage of her navy to 400,000 tone for the fiscal year 1908-7. TEN M EASURES FILED. ROAD T O BE R EBUILT. Questions T o Be Submitted to People Government Work and Immigration for Their Decision. Stimulates Klamath Lina. Salem— The last day for filing initia tive measures in the office ol the secre tary of state has passed and six meas ures were added to the four already on file. The bills and proposed .amend ments to be voted upon are as follows: The $1,000,000 appropriation bill passed b ' the last legislature and held up by referendum petittions. The local option bill proposed by the Liquordealers’ association as an amend ment to the present local option law. The bill filed by the owners of the Barlow road, requiring the state to buy the road for the sum of $24,000. The proposed constitutional amend ment filed by the Equal Suffrage league, extending the elective franchise to women. A bill by the People’ s Power league making it unlawful for public service corpo-ations to give passes or free or reduced rate Bervice to public officials. A bill by the State grange, levying a license tax upon the gross earnings of refrigerator and sleeping cars and eil companies. A constitutional amendment proposed by the People’ s Power league to amend section 1 oi article 12 so that the pub lic printing will be entirely within the control of the legislature, and may be let by contract, or a printer elected appointed, upon a salary or other com pensation. An amendment proposed by the Peo ple’s Power league to amend article 4 of the constitution so that the referend um may be demanded upon any item or section of a bill and extending the rights of initiative and referendum to municipalities. An amendment proposed by the Peo ple’ s Power league to amend sections 1 and 2 of article 17, so that one legisla tive assembly may submit constitution al amendments, and that when the vote upon an amendment has been canvassed by the governor and a majority found in its favor he shall proclaim it adopt ed, and it shall then be a part of the constitution, beyond the power of the courts to pass upon; also that no law for a constitutional convention shall be in force until approved by a vote of the peopla. An amendment proposed by thu Peo ple’s Power league to amend section 2 of article 11, giving the legal voters of a municipality power to frame and adopt their own charters, and forbid ding the legislature to create municipal corporations. Large Depot at Austin. Sumpter— The Sumpter Valley R ail road company has just finished an 80 foot depot at the terminus of the road now known as Austin station. Much freight is received at that point, neces sitating a larger depot than is generally found at other stations on the line of the road. A few other buildings have been erected at Austin and the place is beginning to assume the proportions of village. There is no authenticated repo-t current as to whether the Sump ter Valley intends to extend its line be yond that point during the coming sea son or not. Klamath Falls— Inf irmation received at Klamath Falls indicates that the Klamath - Lake railroad, connecting with the Soutbern Pacific at Thrall and extending to Pokegama, recently ac quired by the Weyerhaeuser Lumber company, w ill be practically recon structed during the present year, track laid better to enable the line to corn- mad traffic of the Klamath Falls region for some time, while also better serviog the purposes of its new owners in the development of lumber industries. Four new locomotives have been order ed, a new passenger coach and a num ber of cars are to be purchased, which is understood to be indicative of the in tentions witn reference to the railroad. No official information is had as to the intentions in the way of adding mileage, but it ¡ b known that investiga tions made before the acquisition of the property were with a view to determin ing the traffic assured by reason of the government work in constructing the canal for which Mason, Davis A Co., of Portland, now have the first contract. With absolute knowledge of the ton nage of traffic that was handled during 1905, and its great increase over the preceding year, and an additional ton nage for the next year that will surely double the commodity traffic of 1905, to say nothing of the immigration that w ill mean a great deal of bueiness, the railroad officials feel more than justi fied in large expenditures and will com plete their projected work at the ear liest possible date. State to Buy Books. Salem— Mies Marvin, secretary ot the Stale Library commission, an nounces that the contract lor the pur chase of al>out $15,000 worth of books for school libraries w ill be awarded at the next meeting the of commission. The commission called for bids some time ago, and several publishing houses aro figuring on the contract. Under the law, each county is required to levy a tax sufficient to equal 10 cents a head for each child of schcol age in the county for the purchase of books for the school librarv. Operate Eugene Mill. Eugene —■ Final papers have been made out in Salem for the sale of the Eugene Woolen mill to a Salem organ ization, to be known as the Eugene Woolen M ill company. The Thomas Kay Woolen M ill company of Salem is the principal stockholder. John P. Wilbur and W ill Wright, of Union, Or., more than a year ago purchased the plant at a receiver’s sale. The company which has just bought it an nounces it w ill have the m ill running within 69 days. The plant has been idle about three years. P IC K IN G UP THE V IC T IM S . United States Revenue Cutters Are Cruising O ff the Straits. Victoria, B. C., Feb. 5. — ’A epecial dispatch to tbe Associated Press from Bamtield tonight says the United States cutter Perry landed a party at Darling creek today and succeeded in getting nine bodies from the beach, and also took off Lieutenant Grotnville and six men let there the previous night. The Perry also picked up one male body al sea, badly decomposed. The United States steamer Grant also found a male body badly decomposed and unrecognizable. This is the 30th body recovered. The 11 bodies have been landed at Bamfield and w ill be shipped to Victoria by a tag leaving to morrow morning. A ll the bodies have now been taken from tbe ebore at Dar ling creek, but the searchers w ill re main in the hope that some others may come ashore. I t is feared, however, that those now coming ashore w ill be in such bud condition that they w ill be unrecognizable. The tug Wyadda brought eight bod- ies, five that were picked up by tbe Perry on Friday and three taken from the beach at Darling creek, a landing having been effected from the Wyadda this morning in a dory. The majority are in a badly decomposed condition, some with parts of the head and skull missing. Both the revenue entters Perry and Grant w ill remain cruising near the wreck in search of other bodies that may be fonnd floating. Plans Cheese Factory. Dallas— R. Robinson, of Tillamook, is in Dallas and plans to establish a cheese factory here. Mr. Robinson says if the farm.ers will guarantee 250 cows to start with he will immediately make all arrangements for the plant. He expects to rent space in the Dallas ice plane, where cold storage w ill be New Sawmills for Linn. Albany — Two sawmills are looking convenient, thereby avoiding the ex for locations in this city, and it is ex pense and delay of building. Mr. Rob B LIZZARD SW E EPS D A K O T A S. !>ected both will establish here before inson already owns several plants in the end of the coming Bummer. One Oregon. Mercury Falls 65 Degrees in 24 is the m ill at Lyons, east of this city, Use Sagebrush Fuel. Hours— Railroads Blockaded. in the Cascade mountains. It is the Salem — W. E. Burkp, of Harney property of N. H . Wheeler. The other Grand Forks, N. D., Feb. 5.— One of county, representing the Portland Land is a sav and planing m ill of large ca tbe most severe blizzards of the winter pacity now located at another point in company, was before the State Land is raging in this state. While there board at its last meeting arranging to this state. The m ill w ill employ has been only a slight snowfall here, about 100 hands, and, if it comes here, perfect proof of reclamation for abont the western part of the state has had 9,000 acres, under the Carey act, in w ill require at least 15 acres for a site. a general and heavy snowfall. The The owners are not ready to have their Harney county, near Burns. This com wind has blown a gale all day and pany will obtain water from wells by names made public. night, and no trains have arrived from pumping, using sagebrush for fuel to the west since morning. At midnight generate the steam power. Klamath Horses Sell High. the storm was unabated, and it promis es to tie up railroad traffic badly. M errill— J. Frank Adams has just For Experiment Station. sold 100 head of horses to Charles Echo— The United States government 8tewart, of San Fraucisco, for prices has decided to establish an experiment Deadwood, S. D., Feb. 6. — A high ranging from $100 to $150 each. Mr. station of 40 acres on the East Umatilla wind and driving snow all day has Stewart purchased the hoisee to take irrigation project. Land w ill be set broken the summer weather here, the to San Francisco and perhaps a large apart fur this purpose. mercury falling 65 degress in the last portion of them will go to Honolulu or 24 honre. Tonight the thermometer lie transnrted for service in the United registers 10 below zero. P O R TL A N D M A R K E TS . States army. Sixty head of the ani Wheat— Club, 6 9 4@ 7 0 4 c ; bine- mals brought $100 each and 40 head Many Burned in Mine. were sold at $150 each. Theyaveraged stem, 70>8@72c; red, ti7@68c; valley, Genesee, N. Y ., Feb. 5. — Fifty men Ironi 1,250 to 1,500 pounds each, and 73c. Oats— N o .'l white [feed, $28; gray, were burned, many of them seriou-ly, some of them were only hnlter broken. in a fire at the Sterling company's (27. This is considered a good price. Barley — Feed, $23@ 28.50 per ton; mine, near Schuyler today. The ex plosion was caused hv an accumulation brewing, $24; rolled, $24@25. Road Taps Mining District. of gas in the sandhonee near the sur Buckwheat— $2.25 per cental. Baker City— A special from Sampler Hay — Eastern Oregon timothy, face. The men were coming up the says ¡1 is assured that the Sumpter $13.60(0014; valley timothy, $9(310; shaft at the clone of today’s work when Electric railroad to the mining camp the gas wan ignited by one of their of Rourtie will he built thin spring. clover. $7.50(38; cheat, $7(38; grain lamps. A blinding explosion followed. bay, $7(38 per ton. W. E. Hurd, of Portland, and Antbon Fruits— App'ea. common, 75r<3$l per The men were all brought to the sur Mohr, of Sampler, are in the East, in box; choice, $1.2(31.50; fanev, $2@3; face by reecne parties. The most seri the interest of the new road, which is pears, $1.25i31.50 per box; cranber ously injured include Manager John B. planned to handle ores more cheaply. Knox, Jr. ries, $13(313.50 per barrel. They say the road is practically financ Vegetables — Cabbage, 2 ® 2 4 c per ed. I t w ill be an electric line abont Baltic-Black Sea Canal. een miles long, serving one of the rich- pound, cauliflower, $1.85 per crate: St. Petersbnrg, Feb. 5. — An Ameri celery, $3.50 per crate; pnmpkiDS, \ tst mining camps In the Northwest. ® tc per pound; sprouts, 6 4 ® 7 c per can named Wendell Jackson has a pro pound; squash, 1 4 ® 1 4 c per ponnd; ject for linking the Duna and Dnieper Range Horses Die by Score. parsley, 25c; turnips, 90r(3$l per sack; rivers by a canal near Vitebsk and Raker City— It is reported here .'rom carrots, 85®75e per sack; beets, 85c forming an international waterway from the ranges of Baker county that scoree the Baltic sea to thn Black sea. Tbe (3$1 per sack. of horses, turned out by their owners Onions— Oregon, No. 1, $1.10(31.25 plan is seriously thnnght of in some to feed tinin-elves during the winter quarters snd a committee was estab per sack; No. 2, 70 <3$1. months, have starved to death, while Potatoes — Fancy graded Bnrbanks, lished today and authorised to examine many others are in n most pitiable con 60c per hnndred; ordinary, nominal; and make a report on tbe matter, dition. This is raneed by the unusnal- though, owing to the financial situa sweet potatoes, 2 ® 2 ' 4 C per ponnd. ly deep snows, which prevent the ani Bntter— Fancy creamery, 27.4(330c tion, there is no prospect of immediate mats t'om reaching the dried grasses of further action being taken in the mat per pound. the ranges, on which they nsnally de Eggs — Oregon ranch, 23® 24c per ter. pend (or tbeir winter euhetenance. dozen. Will Not Sell Telegraph. Poultry— Average old hens, 11 (312c Buying Heavy Draft Horses. Washington, Feb. 5.— The secretary per pound; mixed chickens, 10 ® 104 c; John Day — J. D. Combs, n local broilers, 16®17c; young roosters, 10c; of war hae turned down afpropoeal made bnyer, has been picking up a -ood old roosters, 8 ® 9c: dressed chickens, by the local telephone company of Nome many hor-es during tbs past week for 13®!4c; tnrkeys, live, ]6®17c; tur to take over the entire government tele the Willamette valley trade. He pur keys. dressed, choice, I8(B20o; geese, graph system of Alaska nn condition chased, among other heavy draft live, 9® 10c; geese, dressed, 12® 14c; that it shall operate the same and horses, the fine team owned by Senator docks, 16®18c. transmit government business free of Iztycock, paying therefor the enm of Hops— Oregon, 1905, choice 10®U r cost for the next 25 years. Tbe depart $360. This team is generally thought per ponnd; prime, 8 4 0 9 c ; medium, ment is not ready to dispose of the gov to ,be the best in Grant county, and 7 ® fie; olds. 6 ® 7c. ernment telegraph system, bat when It w ill probably be sold in Portland. Wool— Eastern Oregon average beet, decides to take this step, w ill not sell Prices generally are good. 16®21c; valley, 24®26c per pound; it for less than its actual value. mohair, choice, 90c. Money from State Land. Msny N ew Rursl Routes. Beef — Dressed bulls, 2 ® 2)$c per He'em— The State Land hoard has re sound; cowt, 31$ ® 4 '$c; country Washington, Feb. 5. — According to ceived from the sale of public lands end steers, 4®5c. the report of Fourth Assistant Post interest, on behalf of the public school, Mutton— Dressed, fancy, R®8,4e per master General De Graw, 271 rural de the Agricultural college snd thn uni pound; ordinary, 4 0 5 c; lambs, 7® livery roatse were established during versity, funds during Jannary $74,- 7 * « . January. Of the 3,488 applications 138.78. The money has all been tam Veal— Dressed, 3 4 0 8 4 c per pound. for rontas now pending, >2 have been ed into the state treasury. Pork— Dressed, 8 0 7 4 c per pound. assigned for establishment. Lawyers Lobby to Get Big Fee for Sate of Land. HITCHCOCK STANDS IN THE WAY Opening of South H alf o f Colvllls Reservation May Ba Defeated by Crooked Scheme. Washington, Feb. 3.— An attempt of eertain lawyers to hold up the Colville Indians for $150,000 cash is apt to de feat tbe bill now pending in congress to open tbe south half of tbeir reservation and pay tbe C olville Indians $1,600,- 000 for the land which they relinquish ed in tbe north half of the reservation ten years ago. These lawyers have been itching for many years to get a large slice of money which they believ ed tbe government would pay tbe In dians, but so far have not succeeded, because congress has never made an ap propriation to pay for the C olville land. Back in 1894, Acting Secretary of tbe Interior Simms approved a contract be tween the Indians and Marsh A Gor don, under which the latter were to se cure the passage of a hill through con gress paying the Indians $1,500,000, tbe lawyers, in turn, to receive a fee amounting to 10 per cent, but this con tract expired in ten years, and, when the lawyers sought to have it renewed, Secretary Hitchcock put his foot down and refused to permit the Indians to become involved in any such deal. Ex-Senator Marion Butler, of North Carolina, and Hugh Gordon, of the old law firm, are now lobbying before con gress in behalf of securing an appro priation of $1,500,060, and then pull ing down a fat fee of 10 percent of that amount. Mr. Bntler became an at torney in the case by assignment, and has been pusy on the Colville b ill lor a year or two, though not invited to take a hand by any member of the Washington congressional delegation. Only last year Mr. Butler appeared before the senate committe in advocacy of this bill, ande, when questioned, as to his rights in the premises, declared that he and other lawyers were acting under an approved contract with the Indians. Yet at the same time he made that statement, the contract had been void for more than a year. Mr. Butler, it is learned, lakes the posiiion that the old contracts are still in force, notwithstanding that they have not been renewed by Mr. H itch cock. SO O N T O T R Y FRAUDS. Heney Says He Will Prosecute mann Among the First. Her San Francisco, Feb. 3. — Francis J. Heney is engaged in mapping out plans for tbe continuation of the land fraud prosecuions in Portland. For three days he has denied himself to callers at his office, but today Btated that be had not completed his arrange ments. He is confident, however, that he w ill be able to reach all the offend ers who have not yet been brongbt to justice. The disappearance of 8. A. D. Puter, Horace M cKinley, Marie Ware M cKinley and Emma L. Watson does not worry him g-eatly. “ I can got. along without the four people mentioned in probably every pending case except one,” remarked Mr. Heney today, "b u t I believe we will locate most of them. I know where Marie Ware McKinley is. She is in San Francisco, and I have every reason to believe does not intend to re fuse to be a witness again. I under stand Horace G. McKinley has gone to tbe Orient, deserting his wife, Marie Ware M cKinley.” Mr. Heney added that he w ill, in a day or two, be able to announce his plans. It is known that, while in Washington, he promised President Rooeevlt that the case againet Con gressman Binger Hermann would be one of the first taken up. M INERS W ILL S T R IK E . Every Mine In Country T o Be Tied Up Till Better Pay Is Secured. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb 2.— Tbe re jection of the counter proposition offer ed bj the coni operators of the central competitive district by an almost unan imous vote of the National convention of the United Mineworkers, and tbe adoption of a resolution offered by Sec retary Ryan, of Illinois, placing the miners on record ns a unit in refusing to sign an agreement for any district until an agreement was sigued for all districts under the jurisdiction of the United Mineworkers, has created a situation which, in the opinion of the officials of the miners' organisation, will result in the disruption of the joint agreement and probably, one of the greatest strikes of organised labor the country has ever known. Immediately after the rejection of the operators’ proposition tbe conven tion set about to provide means for ac cumulating a strike fund of $6,000,000 in addition to a like amount now on deposit in tbe international, district and sub-district treasuries of tbe min ers’ organisations. To provide for an emergency Secretary Wilson moved that a per capita tax of $1 a week be voted and that all districts take care of the dependent miners within their jurisdiction tor at least six weeks. He said that alter that time he believed tbe international organisation would be in a poeition to take care of the inineis. After tbe motion had been amended to substitute ten weeke for six as the time during which the districts should care fur their dependents, the matter was referred to the international executive board with power to act. R IO T S A T C H U R CH E S. Catholics Resist Entrance by Officers o f French Republic. Paris, Feb. 2. — Flverywhere in France the actual patting into opera tion of tbe clause of church and state separation bill which pruvides for the making of inventories of the p.operty uf the churches has aronsed a storm of protest. In several provincial parishes Catholics have gathered in thechnichea and made such strong resistance that the government commissioners were unable to enter the edifices. In Paris today violent scenes took place in several churcbeB, notably that of St. Clothilda. An inventory of the property of the church of St. Roche has not yet been made, owing to tbe op position of the congregation, but the defenders of the church of St. Clothilde succumbed before the arpault of an armed force which acted on the avowed intention of the government to use every means at its disposal to compel obedience to the enactment. In the chamber of deputies this after noon Premier Rouvier replied to an in terpellation on the subject by a Social ist deputy. Tbe government, however, secured a vote of confidence by 384 against 166, after the premier bad assured the chamber that the govern ment was desirous of using tact and moderation in carrying out the law, but that it was fully determined to per form its duty, no matter what the^cost. A dispaeth from Dijon says fresh dis turbances broke cut today in front of tbe church of St. Michael. The square waB closed only after the free use of fire hose and the efforts of mounted gendarmes. Many arrests were made. T U R N LIG H T ON H AR R IM AN . Democrats Propose an Inquiry Into Southern Pacific Combination. Washington, Feb. 2.— The Tost w ill say tomorrow: The minority members of the house committee on Pacific railroads got to gether and agreed upon a plan of action through wbica they hope to throw the searchlight upon an alleged combine of the Southern Pacific and its tributaries, which they assert is on all fours with the Pennsylvania, Baltimore A Ohio, and Soutrern in the East. A resolution w ill be introdneed in the honse requiring the president to transmit to congress all information that may be in tbe possession of the Interstate Commerce commission or any other division of any department of tbe government bearing upon the al leged fact that the Southern Pacific Railway company is the holding com pany of the Union Pacific, tbe O. R. A Deficit Nearly Wiped Out. Washington, Feb. 3. — The monthly N. Co. and the Oregon Short Line, statement of the government receipts Gale Breaks Up King David. and expenditures issued today (bows a condition of the treasury which is emi Victoria, Feb. 2. — The steamer nently satisfactory to the authorities. Queen City, which reached Clayoquot One year ago today there was a deficit today, reported that the British ship of over $28,500,000, which has now King David, which was wrecked on been reduced to less than $3,400,000, Bajo reef December 13, and abandoned with the prospect that this amount will by her crew while standing high and be entirely wiped ont. within tbe next dry at low water on the reef, broke up 30 days. This improved condition is during the gale on Monday, January due almost entirely to a Urge increase 23, when the steamer Valencia was in customs and internal revenae re wrecked. Captain Davidson and crew, ceipts. excepting tbe chief officer and eight men, who were lost when goi.ig to Cape Beale, to seek assistance were Will Adopt Plan o f Defense, Washington, Feb. 3. — The joint saved by tbe Queen City. srray snd navy board, of which Sec re- Revision o f Custom Laws. tary Taft is the head and which was created to revise the plans projected by New York, Feb. 2.— After careful tbe Endicott board for national coast work, covering more than six years, defense, met today to consider a final tbe merchant associations’ committee report. Upon creation of tbe board on the revenue laws and customs serv it was divided into sub-committees, ice yesterday completed a thorongb re each taking up a particular branch of vision of the customs administrative the work, aud these various commmit- act and forwarded its report to Secre tees have been at work ever since in tary Sbaw, The committee makes two specting, investigating and stndying important recommendations, namely, the defenses as they now exist :n order a more practical definition of foreign to make a detailed report. mirket values and the abandonment of the present system of “ star chamber Imports Double in Seven Years. investigations,” in reappraisement Washington, Feb. 3. — The imports cases. into the United States have practically doubled in valne in the last seven Caucasus Again in Revolt. years, according to a bulletin issued by St. Petersbnrg, Feb. 2.— I t is report the bnrenn of Statistics in the depart ed here that the village of Salugordon ment of Commerce and Labor. In tbe has been bombarded by tbe artillery in calendar year 1905 tbe imports aggre conseqnence of tbe refusal of tbe inhab gated in value $1,179,000.000, as itants to give in to the organisers of against $635,000,000 in the calendar last month’ s disorders. The Caucasus year 1898. Tbe increase in importa is again in a state of rebellion. Mobs tions is distributed through nil classes are plundering in K ntali Shnea and and all articles of merchandise. Elinbethpol, and there have been many fierce encounters between the Military Reserves ih Hawaii. Mussulmans snd Armenians. The Washington, Feb. 3.— The president troops are unable to qoell them. by proclamation has set aside certain lands at or near Diamond Head and at Let People Elect Them. Knpikipikio and at Punchbowl H ill, in Colombo«, O., Feb. 2.— Tbe boose the territory of Hawaii, for m ilitary today adopted the senate joint insola parpoaee, nntii it can be determined tion urging congress to submit a consti by aetnal survey what portions of the tutional amendment providing for the land described w ill be required for election of United States senators by permanent m ilitary reeervntioae. direct vote oi the people.