The Estacada News JO T A C A D A ORBGON NEWS OF THE WEEK In a Condensed Form lor Oar Busy Readers. T O P E K A ON R O C K S. M AY N O T 8ECURE CH INESE. Tw o Great Holes Torn in Vessel at Point Arena. Orientals Not Anxious to Help Dig Panama Canal. San Francisco, Srpt. 11.— The Pacific Coast Steamship company’s steamer City of Topeka draggtd her way into port at noon today, two great boles in her side and tbe men at the pumps. Tue steamship bad run on the rocks a. Point Arena in the early morning and had come within an ace of going to tbe bottom. It was 3 o’clock this morning when the vessel, bound to San Francisco from Eureka crowded with passengers, was cautiously feeling her way through a thick fog near Poin: Arena. For some reason yet unexplained, the lighthouse whistle was as silent as the grave. A strong current was running and the greatest caution was being taken aboard tbe steamer. Suddenly with a crash the steamer impaled herself on the reeky reef which juts out from the land at this point, the rocks which have sent a many good vessel to the depths. In an instant the passengers hurried in their oight attire to the deck, but Captain Swanson with quick orders prevneted a serious panic. The vessel paused a moment in the rocks, and then, caught by a great wave rose higher in the air and settled high­ er up on tbe rucks. The situation looked desperate, and life preservers were seized and the lifeboats swung into position. Another great wave caught the ship and threw her clear of the reef. The captain manned the pumps, reassured the passengers and brought the vessel safely into tbe harbor. She shows two gaping wounds and will be out of com­ mission for a considerable period. New York, Sept. 10. — Charles Yip Tin, the Pierpont Morgan of China, is in this country investigating the opera tion ol tbe American railroad systems He is an AmericanizeJ Chinaman, who is a financial and political power in China, having recently been created taotai by tbe emperor. Speaking of tbe plan to build the Panama, canal with coolie labor, he said today: “ It is easy for your president to say the solution of tbe labor problem on the Panama canal may be met by tbe importation of Chinese coolies. It is quite another matter to get coolies in any great number to woik on your great enterprise under the conditions named. Neither my government nor my people are anxious to further this work. The government realizes that tbe coolies wou'd not receive tbe same consideration shown the laborers of other nationalities and the common people tbemaelvee have become thor­ oughly conversant with all tbe details of your exclusion laws, of tbe climatic perils of Panama and of the bonding scheme affecting coolie laborers on the canal. I think I can sum up ibeir feel ings best by saving that they w ill not belp buy $10,000 worth of American prosperity at the expense of $1 worth of Chinese labor aud suffering. “ I f the United States must have la­ borers’ lives to sacrifice why not em­ ploy a few of the thousands of other foreigners who are admitted to your country at this port every year? We know tbe valne of our labor and intend to keep it at home as much as possi­ b le ." ________________ BIG SALE OF G O A T S . Polk County Sends Eight Hundred Angoras to Washington. F O R T U N E S IN ORCH ARD S. Fruit Grower's Opinion o f Hood River Apple Land. ALL OVERTURES FAIL Cuban Insurgents Assume Ag­ gressive With Force. ARMISTICE MET WITH DYNAMITE E X PO SE S LAN D FRAUD. Putar Implicates Hermann, Mitchell, Williamson and Others. Portland, Sept. 7. — Stephen A. Douglas Pater, whose connection with ' the Uregon land-fraud scandals is no­ torious and who foi many years lived by his wits and his knoweledge ot methods of defrauding the Federal gov­ ernment by corrupt practices in the United States land offices, took tbe stand as a witness for the proseuction in tbe Blue Mountain conspiracy case yesterday and laid bare his entire con­ nection with that and other plots, suc­ cessful and unsuccessful, to rob the United States of its lands. By his testimony he implicated, not only in the Blue Mountain case, but in others similar, some of tbe moat prom­ inent politicians and public men of the state of Oregon, and furnished to the last and strongest link in the chain of evidence against Franklin Pierce Maya, Willard N. Jones, George Sorenson, ex- Commissioner of the General Land Office Hermann, ex-Congreetman W il­ liamson and the late Senator Mitchell, against whom the indictment in the case now on trial was returned. In his story, complete as to names, dates and circumstances, be revealed with remorseless candor revolting se­ crets as to the operations of the land- (rand ring, ot which he was a member, showing the actual partnership of the high officials mentioned, and others of scarcely less social and political promi­ nence, in the operations of the ring and their participation in the profits. Hood River — The prices now made Independence— Last week 700 fine buck lambs, for which a good price was public by independent buyers (or Hood paid, were shipped from Independence River Newtown and Spitzenberg apples to Wyoming for breeding purposes. Querrera Blows Up Railroad Bridges This week 800 fine Angora goats were have caused rpple growers to do some A Resume o f the Less Importent but A well known apple man, shipped from here to the state of Wash figuring. and Issuas Ultimatum— Hopes Not Lese Interesting Events ington. The goats were held here sev who is an authority on this subject, in o f Peace Now Gone. o f the Pest Week. eral days awaiting cars for shipment. talking about the matter, said: Hundreds of men have looked at the " A t the prices this year for the d if­ band and all pronounce it the finest ferent sizes of Spitzenbergr, which were A revolution is threatened in Vene- Havana, 8ept. 8. — A ll peace over­ large collection of goats ever seen in $8, $ 2 . 76 , $2 50 and $2 26 per box, suela. the Weet. Tbe purchasers were Car- tures are blocked by the refusal of Pino growers obtained an average price of son A Littlejohn, of 8teilacoom, Wash. An attack on Havana by rebels ie Querrera, the insurgent leader