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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.
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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.
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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.