The Estacada News
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.