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The Estacada News Issued Each Thunder E S T A C A D A .................. OREGON NEWS OF THE WEEK In a Condensed Form lor Our Busy Readers. A Resume o f the Lees Important but Not Lees Interesting Erente o f the Past Week. The deepest enow of the winter now covers the Middle West. The government w ill try to bring Hermann to trial in March. The Russian national assembly has been called to meet May 10. Filipinos are anxious to organize a volunteer regiment to tight China. Missouri’ s Supreme court has decided that Standard Oil men must give evi dence. War between France and Germany is declared inevitable on account of the stand of Emperor W illiam . C H ILE 'S TRAD E F A LLS OFF. IR R IG ATIO N B ILLS KILLED . English Tonnage Exceeds by Far All Others Entering Those Ports. No Leave o f Absence or Condemna tion o f Private Land. . Washington, Feb. 27.— Consul Gen eral Field, at Valparaiso, in a report to the State department, says that out of a total of 17,000,000 annual tonnage of vessels entering Chilean ports, those flying the American Hag represented only 135,000 tons. Great Britain’ s flag covered 8,000,000 tons, and Ger man ships aggregated 3,000,000 tons. The trade of the United States fell back from $11,000,000 in 1903 to $10,000, 000 in 1904, notwithstanding Chile greatly increased her purchases. The Chilean government, the consul says, is planning many new railroads and extensions. The trans-Andine railway, when completed, w ill rhorten the time between Chile and Europe 10 or 12 days. Consul Leroy, at Durango, writes that Mexico w ill soon import wheat. Consul General Thackeray, at Ber lin, reports that the United States pur chased nearly $15,060,000 more mer chandise from the empire last year than in 1904, mostly manufactured goods, but that the sales of American manufactured goods to Germany, aside from lard and petroleum, in 1906, did not equal $15,000,000. Washington, Feb. 26.— The senate irrigation committee today adversely reported Senator Heyhurn’s bill per mitting homesteaders under govern ment irrigation projects to obtain leave of absence from their entries for six months of each year up to the time water is turned into the main canal on land to be irrigated. The Interior de partment opposed the bill. The committee voted to table Senator Fulton’ s bill authorizing the condem nation of land in private ownership when required as part of any irrigation project. This bill was intended to permit the acquisition of the wagon road land under the Malheur project, but the committee doubts the constitu tionally of the b ill and is furthermore deterred by the fact that the Owyhee High Line Canal compary, of Boise, now proposes to reclaim even more land than was embraced in the govern ment Malheur project. I f it be shown that this company means business the government will abandon the Malheur project. TRAD E W ITH SC AN D IN AVIA. Roosevelt is suspicious of China, be United States Sells S20,000,000 lieving the officials are trying to lull M ore That It Buys. this country into false security. Washington, Feb. 27.— According to The Cash Buyers union, a Chicago a bulletin issued by the department of concern which sold most of its stock to Commerce and Labor, the trade of the farmers, has failed. The farmers are United States with the Scandinavian out $1,000,000 and merchants $250,000. countries, under which term are in cluded Sweden, Denmark and Norway, A special grand jury at Pueblo, Col for the fiscal year 1905, amounted to orado, has returned indictments against $32,000,000, of which $6,000,000 is the Colorado Fuel A Iron company, imports from and $28,000,000 export- •the Colorado Supply company and the to those countries. In 1895 the total American Smelting company for using trade with these countries was $11,- the “ scrip system” in paying their em 000,000, showing an increase of prac ployes, in violation of the law. tically 200 per cent in the last decade, Roosevelt favors the ship subsidy while our total foreign trade has in b ill. creased but about 70 per cent. The bulletin says that the Scandina A ll parties in Russia are attacking vian population of the United States W itte’ s cabinet. bears a larger ratio to the present pop Forty persons were hurt in a street ulation of their countries of nativity car wreck in Pittsburg. than any other class of our foreign born The rate b ill w ill pass the senate population. Imports from Sweden in 1905 aggre without the court review amendment. gated $2,935,581, and exports to that Failure of the Moroccan conference is country, $7,197,171.3 now expected, but war is not looked Imports from Norway, $2,204,580, for. and exports. $4,420,469. Imports from Denmark, $1,01)3,750, The Philippine tariff bill passed by the house w ill soon come up in the and exports, $14,881,568. senate. C H E C K O N C H O LER A. The Panama canal commission will likely be reduced from seven members Maritime Quarantine Found Effective to three. at Manila. West Virginia’s governor has appeal Washington, Feb. 27. — A report of ed for aid to down the railroad trust in the public health and marine hospital that state. service, which has just been issued, Coal operators have offered a com gives a summary of the quarantinable promise to the miners and a strike may diseases reported for the city of Manila be averted. during the calendar year 1905, shows Russia is negotiating a new loan in that there were 254 cases and 225 France of $240,000,000. The interest deaths from cholera, 45 cases and 43 deaths from pla-'ue, and 27 cases and w ill be 6 per cent. two deaths from smallprx. The report, W . K . Vanderbilt, Jr., was mobbed discussing the cholera situation in the and arrested in Italy for running down provinces there, says that, while the a boy with his auto. number of cases has remained about Three boys were burned to death and the same for several weeks, their loca nine injured ion a fire at Kenyon M ili tion is constantly changing, and adds tary academy, Gam bier, Ohio. that cholera has practically described an entire circle of a radius of about 25 W itte’s cabinet is falling to pieces. miles around the city of Manila, its Japanese are said to be oppressing course indicating, the report says, that Coreans. the maritime quarantine has been en Johann Hoch, the modern bluebeard, tirely effective. In view ot the very few cases in the has been hanged. city of Manila and their sporadic char Minister Rockhill says he fears no acter, the outgoing inter-island quar trouble in China at present. antine placed on vessels has been con Attorneys for the Federation officers siderably modified. have secured habeas corpus writB at Ordered to Shoot Suspects. Boise. .. London, Feb. 27.— The correspondent The drydock Dewey has had to put of the Tribune at Pekin ¿ays that in at Las Palmas, Canary islands, for since the reported appearance of the repairs. Chinese bandits in Tsinwantao, the Wilson Mixner, the youthful husband Germans and French have been kept at of Mrs. Yeikes-Mizner, has agreed to a arms at Hhanhaikwan, Tsinwantao ami Tongaban, while the Germans are pa separation for $20,000. trolling the villages with orders to The State department has taken up shoot all suspicious Chinese. The Ger with the Russian government the al man officers, who formerly dined at the leged holding up of postal orders issued hotel at Hhanhaikwan, the correspond by the United States. ent adds, are now confined to barracks Congressmanen are receiving many after nightfall. protests against llie Hepburu-Dolliver b ill now pending. This measure is Bids for Mexican Silver. practically a Federal tecognition of Mexico City, Feb. 27.— The exchange prohibition. and currency commission has received Philippine officials say the tariff re bidstrom both New York and London duction on sugar w ill not make any hankers for another $1,000,000 silver difference with the producers of the money, in pursuance of the policy of United States, as the product of the exchanging silver for gold to expedite the work of placing the country on a islands w ill go to China anyway. gold basis. Gold money is already en Taft made three speeches on Wash tering Into circulation, though in some ington's birthday. cases people who do not comprehend The Longworth’ s received a warm that the change* is permanent are hoarding the yellow money. The gen welcome in Cuba. eral financial situation is remarkably Democrats control the senate com good. mittee on the ra»e bill. One of New Orleans' largest whole Hostile Camps in Palace. sale grocerv firms has suffered a fire Pekin, F'eb. 27. — The Chinese gov loss of $130,000. ernment is taking appa-ently evejy The German reichstag has extended step possible to guard against any at the most favored nation tariff to the tack by fanatics on the foreign lega tions here, and officials at the several United States for one year. legations are not backward in supple G. A . R. national officers are pre menting these measures with precau paring for a big time when the national tionary ones of their own. This, too, encampment meets in Minneapolis Au- despite the fret that higher Chinese gusti:). officials declare there is absolutely no possible chance of an attack being made The Canadian government has raised upon the foreign compounds. Picked $26,000 worth of Hour which will be Chinese troops have been detailed for sent to the famine sufferers of Japan. duty as legation guards. The various foreign legations at Pe Will Clean Out Foreigners. kin are beginning to fear an outbreak Willemstad, Curacao, Feb. 27.— Ad and the sentries on duty have been vices received here from Venezuela are doubled. to the effect that President Castro says John D. Rockefeller is said to have he will humble France, to break the been discovered in his own office trans Monroe doctrine, clear out the French acting business as usual. Home of the from Venezuela and then start on best detectives have been trying to lo Americans. Flnglishmen and Germans, cate him. whom he declares are worse than Chi Garfield denies hs promised the beef nese. He is reported as saying that he w ill clear the country of foreigners. packers immunity. He Is very bitter against Americans, The New York legislative committee who, he says, are after his country. baa made its report. The management of the big insurance companies Is se Dominion Loses Million. verely criticised. Immediately follow Ottawa, Out., Feb. 27. — The Do Ing the report eight bills were intro minion government loea Is from $ I ,- duced in the legislature radically 000 000 to $1.600,000 by fire that rage.I changing insurance laws. in Moncton, N. B., late last night and I f re. Julia Ward Howe is seriously today, when the Inter-Colonial railway •hops, with 100 cars and several build III. ings of different kinds, were destroyed. Georgs W . Guthrie, reform candi One thousand workmen are thrown out date, has beau elected mayor of Pitts of employment. There was no insur burg. ance. BOOM IN O R C H A R D LAN D S. Homeseekers Looking for on Hooe River. P R IM A R Y LAW C O N S TR U E D . Locations Candidate May Run for O ffice on T w o Different Tickets. Hcod River — That Hood River is ge ting its share of the colonist traffic is indicated by the fact that ten fami lies bave arrived here this week look ing for land. Toe newcomers are from Minnesota, North Dakota, Kansas and Missouri. They are anxious to go into applegiowing, and real estate men are busy showing them over the valley. Fitch day records several purchases of a id wl ich is now set to apple trees or will be cleared for that purpose, and indications are that there w ill be a still greater demand for fruit land. The homeseekers who have arrived say many more w ill come as soon as spring opens in the Middle West, peo ple there being slow to believe that spring is so much earlier here. Real estate purchases are not confined to Eastern people, as Portland men are investing in : pple linds, goirg as far as beck of Mount Hoed. They are re lying on the effect the Mount Hood railroad w ill have on land in the upper valley. This road is now nearing com pte i in, and the first car of freight was shipped over it last week, consigned to Moro. Much of the wood formerly burned in clearing fruit lands will soon be marketable at a nominal expense, thus reducing the cost of clearing land. The warm wet weather of the past few days has started plant life into ac tivity and berry growers w ill soon com mence cultivating. Halem— That one man may be the candidate of both political parties has been decided by Attorney General Crawford in an opinion rendered in re sponse to an inquiry from W. J. Moore, district attorney at Lnkeview. The hypothetical case submitted was that of a candidate who, in the primaries, was on both the Republican and the Democratic tickets and received a plur ality vote for the office in each instance. The ruling of the attorney general is that the office eeeker thereby becomes the nominee of both parties, and his name must be so printed on the general ballot at the election in June The same would be true if a man were an aspirant fora Republican nom ination and his name were written into the Democratic primary ballots, there by giving him a plurality of the Demo cratic votes. Catch Salmon in Closed Season. Grants Pass— Fishermen on Rogue river, taking lessons from the cannery- mon on the Columbia, are doing a b!g business even if the season is closed. Last year they shipped from Grants Pass and Merlin over 200 tons of fish to Portland. T*his year the shipments w ill amount to considerable more, as they are shipping more than a ton a day, A set net on the Illinois river, about 20 miles from where it empties into Rogue river, is daily making big catches of fine salmon. Fishermen on Rogue river are also doing a good busi Room fo r Settlers in Umatilla. Pendleton— The rapid manner in ness. which Umatilla county is being settled Fruit Cannery at La Grande. has drawn attention of late to the fact La Grande— An Eastern syndicate, that there is much good wheat land left on what was once the Umatilla Indian through its special agent, George T. reservation. A tract of this land was Powers, has purchased from the Oregon bought by the government in 1897 and Produce company the large storage sold in parcels at low prices to settlere. warehouse No. 2. In ad lition to the In many cases 80 acres out of a quarter plant purchased, Mr. Powere left in soction are to be found, on different structions with his agent here to select parte of the reservation, wnich were sites for a cannery, fruitdryer, a jelly, then thought useless. With proper at vinegar and cider factory. The Oregon tention this land may yet become as Produce company retains warehouse good as the land that was Bold. 8ome No. 1, and w ill buy and sell, but w ill of the land sold then, near Weston, not take fruit on storage or consign Athena and Adams, at from $10 to $20 ment. It w ill give possession of ware an acre, grows wheat of the finest qual house No. 2 June 1. ity. _________ Goes to Brazil as Missionary.. Poaiflc University, Forest Grove — Miss Grace C. Wood, who has been an instructress in Tualatin academy for the past three years, having come to Pacific from Drury college, Mo., has left for Brazli to engage in missionary work, for which she will be peculiarly adapted. Her poeition w ill be filled immediately by Mr. Zimmerman, from Riverside academy, Portland. Before going to Brazil to commence her work, she will attend the missionary conven tion, which is held at Nashville, Tenn., and from there she w ill go di rect to Brazil. Baker Tax Roll Ready. Baker C ity— County Clerk Combs has completed the fa k e r county tax roll and turned it over to Sheriff Brown. The sheriff, according to custom, will not commence collection of taxes until he has complet'd his notices and re ceipts, about March 1. The tax roll shows the total amount to be collected this year to be $208,041 09, of which amount $149,394.31 goes into the gen eral fund, including the county, state, county schools, roads and courthouse funds. The balance is for special school taxes, the city and polls. Elk fo r Harney County. Burns— J. E. Wallace has returned from the southern part of Harney coun ty, where he went to get an elk pre sented to the Harney County Fair asso ciation by the Pacific Livestock com pany. It w ill be mounted and placed in the taxidermy display at the pavil ion. The large elk on exhibition at the Lewis and Clark exposition was sold for $250 before the Harney county exhibit of birds and animals was re turned. School District o f “ First Class.” Halem— State Superintendent Acker man has gone to Hood River to assist in the campaign for the organization of a school district of the first class by consolidating six country districts. The object of the consolidation is to es tablish gtaded schools, and a district high school. Under the law a majority of voters in each district, at they now exist, must vote in favor of the consoli dation It is thought all the Wasco districts are favorably inclined ’ except Sheep Bring High Price. one, and public sentiment favorable to Pendleton— About 10,000 head of co solidation is gaining ground there. yearling sheep have been purchased from Umatilla county stockmen within Harney Horsemen Lose Heavily. a few days by John Howard, of Dakota, Burns— Horsemen of Harney county the ruling price being $3 a head. Those are suffering losses which w ill total from whotr purchases were made are A. several thousand dollars, by reason ot Knotts, Charles Johnson, Douglas the deep snows on the mountains. Cold Belts and Charles Matthews.' None weather has brought a thick crust to of the sheep were select stock. the snow, and the horses, allowed as Inspecting the Sugar Plants. has long been the custom to forage for theinrelves all winter, are unable to I.a Grande— H. T. Dyer, of Ogden, paw through the crust and snow to the Utah, general manager of the Amalga garss below. Few owners in Harney mated sugar factories, is in the city on valley gather up their horses to feed for a tout of inspection. F. G .T a ylo r, of the winter. Most winters the hardy L*gan, Utah, accompanied Mr. Dyer animals pull through in good condi and will take the place of factory super tion. intendent at I a Grande, succeeding Charles Woodhouse, who has resigned.. Logging Road on Rock Creek. La Grande— Work has been resumed PO RTLAND M ARKETS. on the Grand Ronde Lumber company’s railroad ,up Rock creek. A large Wheat— Club, 67; blnestem, 68070c; amount of the grading and several red, 65c; valley, 71072c. miles of tracklaying were completed Oats— No. 1 white, feed, $28029; last year, but work was discontinued on gray, $27.50028 50 per ton. account of the winter weather. It is Barley— F'eed, $23 60024 per ton; the intention now to continue the work brewing, $24(324.50; rolled, $24025. until the road is completed. The road Buckwheat— $2 25 p erc e n ta l. will be used exclusively in bringing Hay— Eastern Oregon timothy, $13 logs to the river from an extensive tim 0 3 4 per ton; valley timothy, $809; ber district in the Rock creek territory. clover, $7.6008; cheat, $ 6 0 7 ; grain hay, $708. Return Money to Counties. Fruits— Apples, $102 50 per box; Salem — State Supenitendent of In cranberries, $12.50014.50 per barrel. struction J. H. Ackerman, one of the Vegetables— Cabbage, 1 *4 0 2 J4 c per promoters of the FMticational congress [O in d ; cauliflower, $2 per crate; cel at the Lewis and Clark fair, has pr< - ery, $4 7 50 5 per crate: sprouts, 6 ly 0 7 c pared his report of receipts and expend per pound; squash, l t 4 0 1 t^c per itures of the committee. The money pound; turnips, 9Oc0$l a sack; car which Mr. Ackerman is accounting for rots, 65 0 75c per sack; beets, 8 5 c0$l was donated on his solicltaiton by the per sack. counties for expenses of the congress Onions— Oregon, No. 1. 65070c a There is a balance of $269.86, wnich sack; No. 2, nominal. will be returned to the counties in pro Potatotes— Fancy graded Burbanks, portion to the amount contributed. In 6 0 0 70c per hundred; ordinary, nom $1,944 86 was received. inal; sweet potatoes, 2 ' 4 0 2 iyc per pound. Building Boom on at Baker. Rutter — Fancy creamery, 27ly03Oc Baker City— The excavation for a one per pound. Flggs— Oregon ranch, 16017c per story stone building at First and Court streets, to cost about $6,000, marks the dozen. Poultry— Average old hens, 13014c beginning of the building boom for which the architects have been prepar per ponnd; mixed chickens, 12ly013c; ing all winter. In the next six months broilers,200 22c; young roosters, 12^ c ; roosters, 10 0 10iyc; dressed more building w ill be done in baker old City than during any previous year in chickens, 14015c; turkeys, live. 160 the history of the place. Plans have 17c; turkeys, drtssed, choice 18020c; been ma<le and contracts let for a large geese, live, 8 0 9 c; geese, dressed, 100 . number of big business blocks, and 12c; ducks, 16018c. Hops— Oregon, 1905, choice, 100 many fine residences and cottages will lOl^c; prime, 81409c; medium, 708c; be erected. olds, 507c. Cream ery at Wallowa. Wool— Eastern Oregon average best, Wallowa — The Wallowa Bnilding 16021c; valley, 24026c per pound; association has begun work on the mohair, choice, 30c per ponnd. Beef— Pressed bulls, 2 i f 0 3 c ponnd: creamery to be installed by the Rlne Mountain Creamery company, of I-a cows, 3 lf0 4 )4 c per ponnd; country Grande. The ire honse is to be fin steers, 405c. Mutton— Dressed, fancy, 81409c ished by April 1. The same company w ill also have a plant at Enterprise. per ponnd; ordinary, 4 0 5 c; lambs, 8 This w ill secure a profitable indnsGy 0 » * e . Veal— Dressed, 81408c per ponnd. to the farm*re of Wallowa vallsy. Pork— Dressed, 6 0 9 c per ponnd. which ia a perfect dairy country. B U L L E T S FOR CHINESE. British Government Sends Monitions to Fleet. London, Feb. 26.— The British gov ernment takes a rather gloomy view of the Chinese situation and is preparing for any ¡[eventuality there. Warships are being loaded with munitions on the China Btation and heavy shipments are being made to the commander of the British fleet in Chinese waters, so that he w ill be able to protect British inter ests should there be any serious upris ings. The missionary societies also have been warned to have their followers re main in touch with the various British consulates, so that they can take refuge there, should it become necessary. Commercial bodies dealing with Chi nese trade believe a general uprising in China is imminent. On the other hand, the Chinese lega tion here declares there is not the slightest danger of any uprising and states that the disturbances in South China have been due entirely to the efforts of certain discredited leaders to organize a revolution to take over the throne from the present emperor. W A N T EIGHT H O U R S ON C AN A L. Labor Leaders Ask President to Veto Deficiency Bill. KILL MISSIONARIES Riot at Nanchang, China, Canse of the Massacrer STORIES TOLD ARE CONFUCTING Chinese Accuse Priest of Burning Mission— Pekin Government De nies Cause fo r Alarm. Shanghai, Feb. t l .— Somewhat con fused reports have reached here of a massacre of missionaries at Nanchang, province of Kiangsi. As nearly as can be ascertained, six missionaries were killed and one child of an English missionary wounded. I t ia alleged that after long contin ued disputes between the Catholic priests and the Chinese magistrate of Nanchang, the priests invited the magistrate to a banquet where they tried to compel him to sign an agree ment tor the payment of a large indem nity for the destruction of Catholic mis sion property. According to one re port, the magistrate became indignant and committed suicide; the Chinese as sert that a priest attacked and killed him. The officials fearing to arrest t i e priest, called a public meeting, where upon the Catholics, according to the Chinese version of the trouble, eet fire to their own premises. The public meeting of the Chinese developed into a riot, in which, according to one story, six of the Catholics were killed, though a later account sayB the number of Cathol'cs killed was four. H. C. Kingman, a Protestant mis sionary, and his wife also were killed and one of their two children was wounded, the other being rescued. The only Protestant mission buildings de stroyed were those of the Plymouth Brethren. Fourteen Americans eceaped in boats in safety. Minister 8atow today interviewed the foreign office officials regarding the masascre. They expressed to him the deepest concern and regret, which un doubtedly was genuine, the government being particularly anxious to preserve good relations with foreigners at the present time. Only last week Prince Ching, on representations by the Jap anese minister and others that reports of anti-foreign movements were current, telegraphed to all the viceroys directing them to repress vigorously any signs of such a movement and to punish people who were circulating the rumors. Chi nese hostility, to Catholics and other Christians has been prevalent in the province of Kiangsi lately, as in the provinces of Honon and Hupeh. Na tive papers report that the Catholic bishop had trouble with the authorities for issuing appeals for subscriptions for the church, which were written in an official style, to which he had no right. Chicago, Feb. 26.— Labor organiza tions of this city have appealed to President R losevelt to veto the urgent deficiency bill, paesed by congress, which abolishes the eight-hour work day on the Panama canal. The names of President Jojin Fitzpatrick and E. N. Nockels, of the Chicago Federation of Labor, were signed to a telegram sent to Washington as follows: “ Organized labor is unanimously protesting against the urgent deficiency bill so long as it contains the provision repealing the eight-hour law or any part of it, and most respectfully re quests a veto.” The action of the lccal unions follow ed instructions from President Gompers B O U ND AR Y C O N T E S T FILED . of the American Federation of Labor. In a statement Mr. Gompers asserted Supreme Court Will T ry Claim to that the law was intended as the be Jurisdiction Over Columbia. ginning of an attack upon the eight- Washington, Feb. 27.— The Supreme hour statute aB applied to all govern court today granted leave to the state ment service. of Washington to file a bill of complaint against the state of Oregon in the suit T H R E A T S FROM FOREIGNERS. brought to determine the location of the boundary line between the two Exclusion From Black Hills Mines Btates in the Colnmbia river, Assistant Causes Bad Feeling. Attorney General McDonald appearing Lead, 8. D., Feb. 26.— As a sequel to for Washington, and Senator Fulton the explosion at the home of a mine filing the reply of Oregon. The court foreman, letters have been received by decided that the testimony shall be Huperintendent Grier, of the Home- closed by August 6. stake mine, and some of the mine fore Oregon will contend that her juris men, threatenjng bodily harm unless diction extends to a line beginning at certain changes are made in the man a “ point due west and opposite the agement. The governor has been asked middle of the north ship channel of to offer a reward for the apprehension the Columbia, thence easterly up the of the writers. middle of the widest channel to a It is thought the letters result from point near Fort Walla W alla,” but an order prohibiting the employment Washington claims jurisdiction over of men who could not speak or under many islands and fishing grounds lying stand English. It is considered that south of this line. Oregon w ill ask the safetv of the other miners was en that the boundary be finally estab dangered by the employment of work lished as described above and as defined men unable to understand the signals. in the act admitting Oregon to the Union. » Will Fight Two-Cent Rate. Four Companies Withdraw. Philadelphia, Feb. 26. — Driven to Jefferson City, Mo., Feb. 27. — Four the point of reorganizing their lines to meet the 2-cent-a-mile legislation re insurance companies have notified W . cently adopted by the Ohio legislature D. Vandiver, the Missouri commis and by threats of similar action ip sioner, that they would withdraw from Pennsylvania, officials and representa the state March 1, when their present tives of many big railroads met here licensee expire, becanse of the require fffflay and perfected planB for fighting ment that they file an annual complete The companies are the all such legislation, in response to a tta’ ement. call from James McCrea, first vice Bankers’ Life of New York, the Mutual president of the Pennsylvania railroad. Reserve Life of New York, the Cos It is said that plans were laid, not mopolitan L ife of Freeport, 111., and only to carry on the fight in Ohio, but the Northwestern Mutual Life of Min neapolis. Mr.Vandiver stated that this in any other state necessary. saved him the trouble of ousting them. May Show Up Witte’s Tricks. Castro Asks Arbitration. Haratoff, Russia, l eb. 26. — Matn- Willemstad, Island of Cnracoa, Feb. sheneky, the absconding assistant of F'ather Gapon, was arrested here today. 27.— It is learned from official 'sources He was located by a committee of Hr. at Caracas, Venezuela, that President Petersburg workmen, but refused to Cestro’ s next move in the French ques deliver up the $12,000 belonging to the tion w ill be to call upon the United funds of the workmen's organisation, States to arbitrate the question of which he is alleged to have embezzled. the amount of damage done by France Matushensky w ill be taken to Ht. in permitting the filibustering steamer Petersburg for trial. The proceedings Ban Righ at Fort de France, island of against the prisoner are expected to be Martinique, to prey upon Venezuelan sensational on account of his connec commerce and transport troops during tion with Premier Witte, ex-Comtnerce the Matos revolt. The United States’ claim against Great Britain in the case Minister Timiriaxeff and others. of the Alabama is cited as a precedent. May Postpone Meeting at Hague. T w o Thousand Killed. Washington, Feb. 26. — Secretary New York, Feb. 27. — A cable dis Root has issued a call for a meeting in Washington this week of the American patch to the Herald, dated Puena Ven delegates to the approaching Hague tura, Colombia, says: An earthquake conference, Messrs. Choate, Porter and occurred at 25 minutes to 11 on the Rose, for the purpose of cot-sidering morning of the 21st, lasting about sev< n the program of the conference and mak minutes, the movement being from the Following the ing the necessary arrangements for the north to the south. trip. I t w ill be impossible for the con earthquake there was a tidal wave, ference to meet before next tall at the which was of no consequence here, but earliest, and a further postponement is the reports from the coast, including an area of 50 leagues to the south, state probable. ;bat 2,000 were killed. Wealth Limit o f «10,000,000. Yellow Fever on Canal. Washington, Feb. 26.— Representa tive Lloyd, of Missouri, by a resolution Washington, Feb. 27.— Surgeon Gen in the house today, proposed an amend eral Wyman, of the Public Health and ment to the coneiRation, so as to lim it Marine Hoepi al service, has notified private fortunes to $10,000,000. When the various governasflnt quarantine ever the lim it is exceeded the excess stations of the appeatan-e of yellow shall be deemed a “ public nuisance, fever at Bocae del Toro, Panama, and tolly or p e ril," and be forfeited to the the usual measures of inspection aa8 detention w ill be adopted. United States. SE ALE R S M AY SUE UN CLE SAM . Bill Allowing Courts to Adjust Claims fo r Compensation. Washington, Feb. 23. — A favorable report was made today on Senator Ful ton’s bill which permits owners of sealing vessels seized lor pelagic sealing in Behring sea to go into the Circuit court for the Ninth circuit to recover from the government an amount equal tu the loss they sustained through the seizure of their vessels. Years ago, when Pehring sea was held to be a closed sea, the United States claimed jurisdiction over the east half and Russia over the iemain- der, and sealing was prohibited. Many sealing vessels were captured by the two governments. The Supreme court subeequently held Behring sea to be an open sea and denied the jurisdiction of this government beyond the three ma rine leagues lim it. Following this, BritisL sealers whose vessels were taken bv American reve nue cutters sued and recovered from the United States, and owners c l Amer ican ships taken by Russians recovered from that government. But this gov ernment has never paid the claims of American sealers whose vessels were illegally seized by the American gov ernment. It is to pay these claims that the b ill is pressed. In the aggre- gate'it is not believed the claims w ill exceed $1,000,000. ■TWIXT H O PE AND FEAR. M orocco Delegates Doubtful o f Suc cess o f Conference. Algeciras, Feb. 23.— Although the Franco-German deadlock remains un broken, the opinion of the delegatee to the Moroccan conference fluctuates as to tLe results, the view today being rather more hopeful that some solution ¡ b possible. This is dun largely to the German attitude that an adjustment eventually w ill be reached. The American delegatee also continue con fident, despite the French and British pessimism. Some of the delegates ex press the view that some conciliatory movement w ill be made directly from Berlin. A t the afternoon session tbe con ference settled a few minor points on the bank question, including the adop tion of a gold basis. The Italian delegates are discucsing the possibility of the appointment of a number of tbe conferees as arbitra tors for the settlement of the contro versial points of the French and Ger man projects, should agreement rela tive to the majority of the details be attained. Ambassador White persists in his optimistic view of the ultimate result of the conference. R U SSIA W IL L BRAND CO W ARD S. Officers Who Surrendered Without Cause T o Be Disgraced. St. Petersburg, Feb. 23. — Unprece dented regulations to purge the army of officers accused of cowardice and sur rendering during the war for no reason able cause were announced today by the military organ, the Russky Invalid. Captive officers returning from Japan will, unless they were wounded when captured, be tried before courts of honor, and unless reinstated by the unanimous decision of their fellow officers, w ill be dismissed in disgrace. “ Contusions,” a frequent excuse for surrender, w ill not be accepted. The higher officers who were respon sible for the surrender of their organ izations must secure a vindication from a court of honor and the minister of war. Such cases w ill be submitted to the emperor individually. The troops which composed the gar rison at Port Arthur are exempt from these provisions, the responsibility for the surrender of that fortress falling upon General Stoessel. Men Won’t Let Women Talk. Washington, Feb. 23.— Discord in the congress for uniform divorce laws be came so great this afternoon that Miss Fannie Leake Cummings, the sole rep resentative of Washington state, w ith drew and left for her home. Her reas on was “ the man won’ t let the women talk.” Of these offenders, she said, ministers were the worst. It was earl ier in the day, while she was making a speech on the “ Real Causes of Divorc es,” that C. Larue Munson, of Phila delphia, asked her to cease, because hu considered her remarks “ nauseating.” Wilt Not Birch His Sailors. London, Feb. 23.— Edmund Robert son, tbe new financial secretary of the admiralty, announced in tbe house of commons today that punishment by birching had been suspended in the navy until further orders, and that caning would be inflicted only by order of a captain of a fb ip. Commanding officers have been requested to rrport at the end of the year the effect of the new regulations on discipline. Captain Hervery, the only active sailor in the present parliament, protested against this “ grandmotherly action.” Drydock Dewey Adrift. New York, Feb. 23.— According to a dispatch to the Herald from Las Pal mas, Canary islands, the drydock Dewey broke adrift three times and was picked up with difficulty by the fleet whith is towing it. This ia re ported, tbe dispatch says, by tbe tug Potomac, which recently reached Las Palmas. The fleet ami drydock are now 480 miles west of the Canaries, the dispatch says, and everything is going well. Condemns Export Tax on Coal. London, Feb. 23. — The British ex port tax on coal apparently is slated for removal in the forthcoming budget of Chancellor of tbe Exchequer Asquith. Mr. Asquith informed a deputation today that, while be declined to make any decla{ation in regard to the taxa tion until he presented tbe budget, be considers the coal tax vicious and un necessarily injurious to an important industry He said that the members of tbe deputation would find him anx ious to remove it.