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GUARANTEE OF PEACE.
CARNAGE PALL8 FOURTH.
Demonstration o f H ow Both Coasts
Can Be Protected.
Calibration Victims U p T o Formar
Records fo r Num ber.
The Estacada News
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ESTACADA.
Tokio— Coming of fleet regard ed'j
inopportune; better be deferred.
i
London— Heavy debt of Japan ;
considered a bar to conflict, but j
United States is makiDg an enemy j
of that country.
:
Berlin— Japan believed to be pre- j
paring to fight United states for ;
mastery of the Pacific, regardless of ;
San Francisco incidents.
The Hague— Fleet may cause pop- :
ular excitement which Washington j
government may not be able to con- j
trol.
Paris— United States and Japan S
not believed to be near conflict, but ;
fleet w ill force Japan’ s hand if Jap- ;
anese have aggressive designs.
ORBOON
NEWS OF THE WEEK
i Condensed Form lor Oar
Buy Headers.
A Resume o f the L e ts Important but
Not L a st Interesting Events
o f tha Past W eak.
K ing Edward and Queen Alexandra
are visiting Ireland.
A St. Joseph, Mich., pastor lias ta
booed the “ Teddy bear” fad.
The governor of Ngaukwei province,
China, has been assassinated.
Telegraph companies in New York
are accused of forming a trust.
American delegates at The Hague
have proposed a permanent arbitration
court.
,
Vice President Fairbanks saved a
woman from drowning in Yellowstone
park at the risk of his own life.
Governor Chamberlain, of Oregon,
says the transfet of the fleet to the Pa
cific is a good move and none of Japan’s
business.
The Standard Oil company has offer
ed no evidence against being fined by
Judge Landis and he will pass sentence
August 3.
A jury it being secured in the case
against Louis Glass, of the telephone
company, charged with bribing San
Francisco supervisors.
An influential Japanese naval ex
pert says the movement of the Am eri
can navy is of no concern to his coun
try and wishes the fleet would visit
Japan.
General Bell says the nation is not
prepared for war.
A crisi is near at Chicago
telegraphers’ dispute.
in
the
Crown Prince George, of Servia, w ill
visit the United States.
A prediction is made that Japan will
invade Europe and fight Germany.
NEW NORM AL REGENT8.
C h an g« in G a m « Law s Not Generally
Known by Hunter«.
Men Placed on Board Hava N o Affil
iation With S la t« Schools.
Albany— That net more than 6 per
cent of the sportsmen of Oregon know
that the open season for deer tiegins
this year July 15, is the opinion of a
local hunter. The fact that the last
legislature changed the deer season lias
not become known at all in this part of
the state arrd men who always begin
deer hunting as soon as the Beasou opens
are making no plans to go into the
mountains until next month.
According to the new law, the open
season for buck deer is from July 15 to
November 1.
It was formerly from
August 15 to November 1. The season
for fetna.e deer remains the same under
the new law as it was under the old
from September 1 to November 1.
These changes in the deer season are
embodied in house bill 161, which is
recorded on page 341 of the 1907 see
sion laws.
Another change In the deer law is
that it is now a misdemeanor to kill
dogs chasing deer.
It was formerly
illegal to hunt deer with dogs and that
provision is also contained in the new
law. Under the old law many dogs
caught chasing deer were shot and
killed and the new provision was in
serted in order to protect owners of val
uable dogs, which would break loose
and chase deer without the knowledge
of their owners.
•
Salem— Governor Chamberlain has
named the members cf the new board
of regents who will have control of all
state normal schools. The regents are
C. E. Spence, of Cams, Clackamas
county, to serve one year; E. Hofer of
Salem, two years; E. E. Bragg, of La
Granue, three years; W . B. Ayer, of
Portland, Four years; Henry J. Maier,
of The Dallee, five years; Stephen Jew
ell, of Grants Pass, eix years.
Not one of these men live in a normal
school town, or has any connection with
a normal school. It is evident that in
making the appointments the governor
studiously avoided appointing men who
might by past assooiations, geographical
location or political interests, be pre
judiced for or against any one of the
four normals. Not one of the men is
interested particularly in either the
Unitersity of Oregon, the Agricultural
college, or any other state institution.
This fact will leave them more free to
handle the normal school problem free
from other influence.
Spence is a farmer, a Democrat and a
member of the executive committee of
the State Grange.
Hofer is editor of the Capital Journal
and a Republican.
Bragg is county superintendent of
Union county and a Democrat.
Ayer ie a lumber manufacturer and a
Republican.
Maier is a merchant and a Democrat.
Jewell is county judge of Josephine
county and a Democrat.
The state board of education, com
posed of the governor, secretary of state
and superintendent of public instruc
tion, are ex-ofticio members of the
board of regents.
Among educational workers in attend
ance at the session of the State Teach
ers’ association, it was generally re
marked that tiie governor has selected
a strong board that will be free to man
age the normal schools with a view to
the best interests of the state.
Ontario— Messrs. Allbright and Eg
gleston, of Portland, Christian Co
operative representatives, have re
turned from Upper W illow creek.
They state work is progressing rapidly
on the irrigation project, and that work
of survey for the laterals is still going
on. The huge reservoir in Cow valley
will be in readiness to deliver water
next year, and while the project of the
federation is a vast undertaking and
will take a long time to construct, they
say it will surely be completed to irri
gate thousands of acres of high land in
Malheur county.
H A S A N O T H E R T H IN K C O M IN G .
Funds fo r Condensing Plant.
Water fo r Irrigation Next Year.
Seek Location for Library.
Albany— Linn county subscribers to
Consul Jenkins lias been recalled for Japaneas Admiral Says American M a the fund to erect a big milk condensing
plant in Albany met last week and per
favoring President Zelaya in Salvador.
rines Would Desert.
fected
temporary
organisation
with
Tokio, July 9.— The Hochi this morn Frank J. M iller as chairman and L. L.
The kaiser has offered to buy an air-
aip if its Inventor can sail it across ing prints an interview with Admiral Hwan secretary. A committee, consist
Germany.
Sakamoto, in which the admiral is ing of L M. Curl, N. H. Ellis, C. H.
quoted as follows:
Stewart, J. R. Wyatt and H . Bryant,
The railroads of the country have
“ Should hostiliites break out be was named to prepare and file articles
adopted a plan of publicity toconciliate
tween Japan and America, the result of incorporation.
One hundred and
the people.
would be indecisive, owing to a want twenly-six shares of $500 each
have
Mrs. H . F. McCormick, daughter of of bases of operations. Even should the been subscribed, 4,621 cows listed to
John D. Rockefeller, says her father is Washington government decide on a supply milk, for the first year and twice
being persecuted.
war, it is doubtful if the Americans that number for the second year.
Endeavorers from all parts of the serving in the navy are sufficiently
United States are on their way to Seat patriotic to fight.
"Am erican naval officers are brilliant
tle to attend the conventiono.
St. Louis publishers are to sue the
government because tbeir publications
have been barred from the malls as sec
ond class matter.
Aa an evidence of the large amount
of money sent out of the United Status
by Japanese it is shown that those in
Portland annually send $120,000 to
Japan.
The Hague conference is having some
lively debates over the Americaan prop
ositions.
Salmon Reach the Calapooia.
Albany— Salmon are rpeorted to have
been seen in the mouth of the Cala
pooia river, where it enters the W il
lamette at this city.
I f salmon are
successfully passing the falls at Oregon
City and ascending the Willamette a
long deferred hepe of residents of the
upper valley is being realized. In spite
of all the contrivances which have been
placed in the river at Oregon City to
M U S T O P E N BIG E L E V A T O R S .
enable salmon toa scend, very few "o f
the fish have ever been seen as far south
Wisconsin Railroad Commission Gives as this city.
figures at balls and social gatherings,
but they are very deficient in profes
sional training and practice. It is too
much to expect a burning patriotism
in the American naval service in case
of war with Japan.
I t ia very likely
that most of the crews would desert
and leave the ships.”
Peremptory O rd er.
Will Find Klamath Reds Active.
Madison, W is., July 9.— The W is
Express companies in Nebraska w ill
Klamath Falls— The Klamath Indian
fight the new state law reducing rates consin Railroad commission issued an
order today requiring the Great North reservation is a busy place this sum
26 per cent.
Japanese have formally demanded li
censes in San Francisco preparatory to
suing for damages.
Commissioner N eill is making a
strenuous effort to keept he telegraph
ers strike from spreading.
The Jamestown fair has borrowed
another $360,000.
The ocmpany’s
property is given as security.
Sedition Is spreading in India and it
la predicted that England will soon
have another war on her hands.
Archbishop GUnnon, of St. Louis,
has been appointed to take a census of
Amerioan Catholics, estimated at 16,-
000 , 000 .
ern and the Eastern Railway companies
of Minnesota, and the Chicago, 8t. Paul
Minneapolis A Omaha Railroad com
pany to open their big grain elevators
at Superior to the use of the general
public.
If the order stands and is not over
turned by the courts, it will, it ¡ b be
lieved, re-establish the grain business
in Superior on the basis of two years
ago, when the railroad companies, in
order to get around the Wisconsin
grain inspection law, leased their ele
vators to private parties, thus practi
cally closing them to the public use
and putting the independent grain
dealers out of business.
Desire Coolie Labor Admitted.
The Union Pacific at the Omaha
Washington, July 9.— That the Jap
shops has just turned out two all steel
anese <j-, erri merit will not consent to
box cars and it is probable the change
the renewal of the present treaty w ith
w ill be adopted.
Telegraph operatocrs are to vote on a
general strike.
the United States if this government
reserves the right to insert a clause in
the compact excluding Japanese coolie
labor from continental United States Is
Indicated hy semi-official advices pur
porting to give the views of Foreign
Minister Ilayarhi, which were received
hete today hy Ototaki Yamoaka, the
personal representative of Count Oku-
nia, leader of the Progressive party, now
in power.
It is reported that the Moqui Indians
In Utah are on the warpath.
Schmltx Aska fo r H it Pay.
Judge Charles Swayne, of the North
ern district of Florida, is dead.
The
judge was brought into prominence a
short lime ago by an attempt to im
peach him.
A row betweed Tillman and Dolliver
has led to talk of a duel.
Sen
Francisco,
July
9. —‘ Mayor
Philadelphia has forbidden games at Schmltx yesterday sent a formal de
school in which there is kiseing.
mand upon Auditor Norton for his full
Odessa is again the scene of rioting salary and for the $300 contingent
in which many Jews are being killed. fund allowed the mayor’s office, for Ju
ly.
The letter contained a
warning
A tornado in Eastern Wisconsin against payirg these or any other sums
struck several towns and killed two upon the order of James L. Gallagher.
The auditor was notified that he would
people.
be held personally responsible.
Audit
The Hague conference is receiving
or Norton has decided that his only safe
many propositions to mitigate the hor
course is to refuse to pay demands un
rors of war.
less they beer the signatures of
both
Alliany— Albany’s public library will
be started as soon as a suitable build
ing ran be found. Arrangements are
complete for instituting it and as soon
as temporary quarters are rented the
library w ill be opened. Nine directors
have been elected and their election
has been confirmed, in accordance with
the state laws governing public libra
ries, under which this institution was
formed by the city council. These di
rectors are Frank J. M iller, Mrs. J. K.
Weatherford, H. H . Hewitt, Fred P.
Nutting, Mrs. H. F. Merrill, Mrs. 8.
E. Young, M. H. Ellis and Miss Lucy
Gard.
mer, and Secretary Garfield will find
much to Interest him when he visits
the home of Uncle Sam's wards in the
middle of July.
At the Klamath
agency, where the schools are located,
about $40,000 is being expended in im
provements The chief improvements
being made are the constructing of a
sewerage system and an electric light
and water system.
N aw Clerk In Land Office.
Burns— There is rejoicing among the
patrons of the United States land office
iiere over the assurance just received
from the department at Washington
that a clerk is to be added to the work
ing foiee with the opening of the office.
The work of the atfice has been Istdly
congested and this w ill relieve the
strain and permit the completion of
important transactions which have been
awaiting action for some time.
Diversified Farming Possibilities
Fieewater— H. Miller, of the State
Line, about four miles from Freewater,
gives a splendid illustration of intensi
fied farming. Mr. M iller farms about
40 acres, of which five acres are in
fruit, 16 acres are in alfalfa and ten
acres in potatoes.
Five acres of the
potatoes are of the Early Fortune vane-
ty. The early potatoes are ready for
the market, and a Seattle company has
written Mr. M iller to contract for the
whole output at $4 per hundred, or $80
per ton. A commission firm in W alla
Walla is also after the consignment.
S . P. Behind Spencer P o w e r Plant.
Klamath Falls— The positive an
nouncement has at last been made that
the work being done at Spencer’s on
Klamath river ia the begiL».:ng f a
large power plant which the Southern
Pacific company will complete in the
couree of a few years. The operations
of the workmen engaged on the plant
have been rather mysterious and em
ployes who have woiked there for six
months or more did not know what
they were woiking at or for whom.
PO RTLAND M ARKET8.
Wheat— Club, 86c; bluestem, 88 0
89c; valley, 86c; red, 84c.
Oats— No. 1 white, $27.50 0 28; gray,
nominal.
Barley— Feed, $21.50022 per ton;
brewing, nominal; rolled, $23.500
24.50.
Corn— Whole, $28; cracked, $29 per
ton.
Hay— Valley timothy, No. 1, $170
Buy Land for Waaton Brick.
Weston — The proprietors of the 18 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy,
Westn brickyard have purchased of $21023; clover, $9; cheat, $9010;
James D. Gish his addition to Weston, grain hay, $9010; alfalfa, $13014.
Fruits— Cherries, 8010c per pound;
consisting of nearly 10 acres in the low
er part of the city. Before making the apples, 76c0$l per box; storage Spitz-
purchase the brickyard people quietly eubergs, $3 60 per box; gooseberries,
demonstrated that the soil was well 7c per pound; cantaloupes, $3.5003.76
adapted to the making of a superior per crate; apricot«, 75c0$2 per crate;
quality of brick. The price paid was peaches, $1.2601.50 per box; plums,
$1.85 per box; blackberries, $1.250
$ 2 , 000 .
1.60 per crate; loganberries, $1.26 per
crate; raspberries. $101 60 per crate;
Ontario Wants N aw Land District.
prunes, $1.5001.76 per crate.
Ontario— A petition is being circulat | Vegetables— Turnips, $2 per sack;
ed in Ontario and numerously signed
carrots, $2.50 per sack; beets, $2.60
asking the government tc create a new
per aack; asparagus, 10c per pound;
land district for this section and the beans 7010c per pound; cabbage,
appointment of a register and receiver,
2 % c pet pound; corn, 35060c per doi-
the office to be located at Ontario or en; encumbers, $1 per box; lettuce,
Vale. At present parties having land
head, 26c per dozen; onions. 16020c
office business to tiansact have to go to
per dozen; peas, 406c per pound; rad
Burns, a distance of 160 miles.
ishes, 20c per doaen; rhubarb, 3)$c
per pound; tomatoes, $1.50 per crate.
Clackamas Land Boom irg.
Potatoes— Old Oregon Burbanks, $3
Oregon City— The large Increased fees @ 3 . 2 6 per sack; new, 3c per pound,
of the recorder's office in Clackamas
Butter— Fancy creamery,
creamery 22>v025c
county ia a good indication of the per pound.
healthy growth in the real estate busi
Poultiy— Average old hens, 11012c
Negotiations are In piogreas to settle Schmiti and Gallagher.
the dispute between United State«, Co
lombia and Panama.
Plan to Find 8outh Pole.
London, July 9.— To continue the ex
Gtover Cleveland, who has been 111
10c;
tor three weeks, is iroproveud suffi- ploratory work of the discovery expedi ness. The fees of County Recorder per pound, mixed chickens,
tion in the Antarctic, a party has been Ramsby for June were $421.01, against spring chickens 13014c; old roosters,
cientiy to be around the house.
organised hy Lieutenant Bhaekleton, $269 36 for the same month during the 9c; dressed chicken», 16017c; turkeys,
Bandit Raisuli has captured General who was a member of Captain Scott’e previous year.
live, 11012c; turkeys dressed, choice,
MacLean, commander of the body crew, and will shortly start for the Far
nominal; geese, live, 7010c; young
guard of the sultan of Morocco.
Month. Lieutenant Shack let on has se
Murphy Fstate Valued at 8 7 0 ,0 0 0
ducks, 13014c; old dnrka, 10c.
cured an Ideal veseel for his purpose.
Salem— The w ill of the late Judge J.
Eggs— dandled, 24025c per doaen.
The Miners' Federation has voted to
She is the Rndurance and spent many J. Murphy, has teen protested here. It
Veal— Dressed, 5 V y 0 7 4 r per pound.
eontlnne Moyer and Haywood in office
seasons in the North Atlantic In search leaves an estate estimated at $70,000
B eef— Dr eased bulla, Sty 0 4 c per
and given abcut $46,000 to aid in their
of seal«. She ia now being refitted tor to be equally divided between the wid pound; cows, 6 0 6 tyc; conntry steers,
defense.
the two yesra’ voyage.
ow, F.lliabeth C. Murphy, and the aon. 6t$07c.
Cheater R. Runyon, cashier of the
Cheater G. Murphy, the latter being
Mutton— Dreaaed, fancy, 6c per lb;
W indsor Trust company, of New York,
Lebeeton May Succeed Schmitz
named aa executor without bonds.
ordinary, 6 0 7 c ; spring lambs, 9 0 9 (ye
has disappeared with $96,317 of the
per pound.
San Francisco, Tuty 9.— District A t
company's money, leaving no trace of torney Langdon, it ia aaid, has derided
Fruit Box Factory fo r Waaton.
Pork— Dreaaed, 608t$e per pound.
bis whereabouts.
Hope— 6 0 6e per pound, according to
to advocate the selection of W . J. Le-
Wee ton— C. W . Avery, manager of
Harriman lias ordered full publicity breton to succeed Eugene E. Schmiti aa the Bine Mountain sawmill, haa gone | qnallty.
W # l — Eastern Oregon average best,
soon aa the latter is sentenced by Judge to Portland to purchase machinery lor
oI all rail read accidents on his line«.
Dunn. Mr. Lebreton la a hanker and the equipment of a box factory to be 16022c per pound, according to shrink
T h « Miners’ Federation convention philanthropist.
He has been active in run In connection with hia m ill. The age; valley, 20022c acccading to flna-
at Denver has adpoted a Socialist plat- previous non-partisan political move demand at present ia far in excess of
ments.
I tha aupply with present facilities.
n*M ohair— Choice, 20030c par pound.
OPEN DOOR IN CHINA
Japanese Consul is Also Inveatigatirg
Refusal o f Llcens- S.
'—
San Franclaco, July 3.— In response
Chicago, July 6.— The annual slaugh
to an Inquiry, the Japanese consul to
ter has been done in the name, or
day informed the Associated Press that
rather under the guise, of “ patriot
no decision has yet been reached as to
ism.”
W ith 68 known victims, and
whether soft shall be brought in the
hundreds of others groaning out their
courts to recover In behalf of Japanese
lives in hospitals, it is certain that the
residents o f San Francisco who suffered
list of victims to the “ Glorious Fourth”
loss in the wrecking May 23 of a Jap
w ill exceed 168, the total 'ast year. In
anese restaurant and bathhouse on Fol
1906. with all the precautions that
som street by a mob. The matter was
coul- be taken by authorities, the total
described as being at the present time
injured reached nearly 6,000 and the
total this year when all the returns are Navy Department Officials Still Try to in statu quo.
It was said by a representative of the
in, will be quite as large, more likely
Minimiz« th« Importane« of
consul general that the consulate is not
larger, for the foolkiller lias been sadly
awaiting instructions from Tokio.
th« Demonstration.
remiss in his duty.
Inventors have
It was further said that the consulate
brought forth new engines of deet ruc
was investigating the complaint of
tion.
Japan Has Blocked It aid Broke
Many Promises.
DE E R 8 E A S O N O P E N S J U L Y 16
Oyster Bay, N. Y ., July 9.— The sig
nificance of Bear Admiral Brownson’s
addition to the somewhat meager in
formation which has come from Presi
dent Roosevelt regarding the contem
plated two-ocean maneuvers of the A t
lantic battleship fleet is regarded here
as having been overlooked in the com
ment, expert and otherwise, which has
since been indulged in on both conti
nents.
Admiral Brownson came to Oyster
Bay Friday to take lunch with the
president, professing entire ignorance
of the maneuver plans. When he left
Sagamore H ill to take the train for
Washington, fhe admiral had one
thought which he wished emphaeixed—
that it was desirable and important to
demonstrate to the world how quickly
the American navy could transfer its
fighting strength from one ocean to the
other. This was distinctly an addition
to the president’s previous statement
¡Bsued through Secretary Loeb, wherein
the object of the maneuvers was said to
be an exercise movement for the benefit
of the navy, to perfect its training in
fleet exercise on an extended scale, the
purpose and effect of the plan being for
the benefit of the navy alone.
In everything that has come from the
president regarding the movement, it
has been indicated that the fleet, wher
ever it may go, is to be brought beck to
the Atlantic, and that the return is to
be as great a demonstration of speed as
the outward journey.
H O L D S O F F D A M A G E S U IT S .
BATTLESHIPS COMING TO PACIFIC
The toy pistol and cannon cracker
and deadly dyanmite cane have claimed
their usual quota. One peculiar feat
ure of the casualties this year is the
number of deaths frem fright. Of the
five instant deatlis in this city, four
were from fright. This fis a splendid
tribute to the manufacturers of explo
sives and the blithering Idiots who use
them to cause suffering.
In New York three persons were
killed by explosives, and a girl was
trampled to death under the hoofs of a
panic stricken horse scared by celebra-
tors.
Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Milwaukee
and several other large cities report no
deaths, but hundreds of accidents.
The total fire loss attributable to fire
works was $304,000. This was greatly
reduced by heavy rains, which were
general over the Middle West the night
before the Fourth.
S U E S A N F R A N C IS C O .
Injured Japanese Claim Dam ages from
Bay City.
Washington, July 6.— Interest in
world politics and the possibility of
conflict! with Japan was renewed here
today when the definite news that t
great fleet of United States warships
would be sent to the Pacific coast be
came generally known.
Also a new
phaee was put on the matter when it
became known that the move, calculat
ed as it is to impress Japan that she is
not dealing with a power like Russia,
hinges on something deeper than the
resentment of Japan at the treatment
tier citizens have received that San
Francisco. The real issue, it is pointed
out here, Is the open door in the Far
East.
Ostensibly It was for the open door
that Japan went to war with Russia.
But after her victory the door of trade
in Manchuria and Corea waB pretty
well blocked up with obstacles placed
by Japan, much to the discomfiture of
American and British merchants.
America was given assurances that
the door would remain open and,
though the preeident is at Oyster Bay
and other officials of the government
are out of the city, it is reported here
that the United States intends, if it
should become necessary, to be prepar
ed to insist that the Japanese govern
ment put no reetrictions in the way of
trade with the continent cf Asia.
W h ile it has been constantly declar
ed by the Navy department that no
menace to Japan ie intended by the
diBpatch of the fleet, and Ambassador
Aoki, of that country, has asserted that
Japan will not construe the presence of
the fleet in the Pacific as such, it is
understood here that the arrival of the
battleship squadron in the Pacific
marks the initial step towards the
maintenance of a permanent fighting
fleet in the Pacific hereafter.
Whether te entire fleet of 18 vessels
which is now destined for the Pacific
remains there or not, it is asserted on
the authority of well informed officials
that the American navy in the Pacific
will never again be inadequate to cope
with any emergency on that gide of the
continent unless there is a vast change
in the aspect of international politics.
San Francisco, July 5.— Suit against
the city and county of San Francisco
was filed this afternoon in the Superior
court for the recovery of $2,575 for
damages alleged to have beeD sustained
by the proprietors of the Horseshoe res
taurant and a Japanese bath house at
Eighth and Folsom street« on May 23,
when a row, caused by an attack by la
bor union men on two nonunion men,
who were eating in the restaurant, re
sulted in the fronts of the two places
being smashed by stones and clube.
The suit was brought in the name of
J. Timoto, proprietor of the bath house,
but includes the damage to both estab
lishments, the proprietor of the restau
rant having assigned hia claim to the
plaintiff. The papers were filed by Carl
E. Lindsay, attorney for Timoto. Asso
ciated with him are United States Dis
trict Attorney Robert Devlin, who ap
pears at the request of United States
Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte,
and Earl H . Webb, of counsel for the
proscution.
Japanese Acting Counsel Matsubaio
ie also taking an active interest in the
case, which is the first legal action re
B E LIE V E 8 C H M IT Z B AR R E D .
sulting from the declaration of the
United States government that, by due
legal process, reparation should be Prosecutors Say N a n }« Cannot Legal
made for whatever damage the Japan
ly G o on Ballot.
ese may have sustained.
San Francisco, July 6.— Announce
ment by Eugene E. Schmitz that he
BIG L E V E E L E T S F L O O D G O .
would he a candidate for re-election to
the mayoralty this fall to a fourth term
One Million D ollar« Dam age to Farm unless his appeal for a new trial is in
the meantime denied by the Appellate
Lands in California.
and Supreme courts, has raised the
Bakersfield, Cal., July 5.— The Buena
question whether he can legally go
Vista lake levee has broken, flooding
upon the ballot. An examination into
30,000 acres of land belonging to M il
the law on this point was made today
ler & Lux and the Tevis Land company,
by Assistant District Attorney Robert
and causing $1,000,000 damage. The
Harrison, and the tentative conclusion
Sunset railway has been put out of
was that the mayor is barrgd.
commission and the oil fields are cut off
Schmitz maintains that he is not con
from communication with this city.
victed until his conviction by the jury
The levee held hack the waters of
in Judge Dunne’s court is finally passed
Buena Vista lake, covering 19 square
npon and sustained by the Supreme
miles, and protected a body of re
court of the state.
claimed land extending for a distance
of 15 miles, including the old bed of
Coal Will Be Scarcer.
Kern lake, the property of the Kern
County Land company and M iller &
Rock Springs, Wyo., July 6.— As a
Lux. This land was covered with crops result of the suits filed by the govern
of growing grain ready for the harvests ment against the Union Pacific Coal
company, forcing that company to
and with alfalfa.
Of the flooded land, about 22.000 abandon coal property alleged to have
acres belonging to the Kern County been illegally secured from the govern
Land company and 8,000 to M iller A ment, three of the big coal mines situ-
Lux. The territory is divided into ated on I he disputed property have
four big ranches, and the work of re been closed down. The mines belong
clamation has been in progress for to the Superior Coal company, which
nearly 20 years.
is owned by the Union Pacific. The
The levee was built in 1886-7 jointly effect w ill be a further shortage of coal
by the two corporations at a cost of in the West.
$250,000.
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T h ro w s S o p to Peasants.
St. Petersburg, Inly 6.— The govern
ment is showing feverish activity in
pushing the distribution of the 25,000,-
000 acres of crown, state and peasant
land, which it has decided to distribute
in average lots of 25 acres to individual
peasant soldiers on easy payment terms,
in order to make a showing before the
convocation of the new parliament.
Four of the participants in a pawnshop
robbery here June 12 have been tried
by court martial and condemned to be
hanged. Eight bandits at Riga have
been sentenced to death.
Strike In Another City.
San Francisco, July 6.— President 8.
J. Small confirmed the report that he
had ordered out the operators in an
other city. “ I have ordered the union
operators in at least one more city cn
(trike,” said he. “ I will not divulge
the name of that city, hut the tele
graphers will be ont in less than a
week. W hen the whistle sounds in
the office designated, the keymen w ill
leave their places. Until then or until
I choose to make the place known
neither the telegraph companies nor
the public will know.”
Pouring Into British Columbia.
Victoria, B. C., July 5.— It is ex
pected over 3,000 Japanese will arrive
in British Columbia during this month
from Japan and Honolulu, and as many
if not more are expected in August.
The steamer Kumeric w ill bring the
first large contingent of 2,000 Japanese
from Honolulu, to be followed by other
steamers. The numbers brought across
the Pacific are constantly increasing.
Five steamers due dnring the next two
weeks have over 600 on board.
Straus P robe« Immigration.
Montreal. July 6.— Oscar 8. Straws,
secretary of commerce and labor, left
here tonight tor Hanolnln, via Toronto
and W innipeg. Mr. Straus Is studying
conditions at the ports where immigra
tion into tha United States ia the baav-
Finns Arming to Fight Russia.
St. Petersburg, July 6.— The Novoe
Vremya declares it has learned from
an official English source that the re
cent seizure o f arms and ammunition
totaled 90,000 rifles and also several
million roubles' worth of ammunition.
A ll this war material came from Ger
many and was reshipped via Newcastle.
The size of the ahipment, the paper
says, is taken to indicate that the pur
chasers are Finns, as none of the Rus
sian revolutionary bodies is sufficiently
wealthy to buy so much arms and am
munition.
Fiji Islands Devastated.
Victoria, B. C ., July 6.— News of a
disastrous hurricane in a portion o f
the Fiji group, resulting in the com
plete devastation of Futuna island,
causing great property loss, but no loss
of life, was brought by the steamer
Means, Captain Davidson, which ar
rived from the scene of the bnrricane.
The island, which towered high with
beentifnl vegetation, now ia a great
bnmt-np brown lump of earth. Tne
island is a scene of desolation, strewn
completely with debris, and that no
lives were loet is considered remarkable.
Flecking O ver B order.
Mexico City, July 6.— Two hundred
and seventy five Japaneee landed at
Santa Crux yesterday. The Japanese
are headed for the coal mines in the
district of Las Esperanza. Joaeph Z.
Strand, a Chinese immigration inspec
tor stationed at E l Paso, who arrived
in this city today, stated that the Jap
aneee are flocking to the border in great
numbers and baying tickets
from
Jnares through to Canada, In order to
enter the United States.
N o Idea o f Boycotting.
London,
Jnly 6. — “ The leading
chambers of commerce assure me,”
cabled the Tokio correspondent of the
Daily Telegraph, that they never even
entertained the idea of boycotting
American goods. Such a boycott would
be considered suicidal, in view of the
existing trade rendition«."
local Japanese that I heir race is being
discriminated against by the board of
police commissioners in refusing to
grant them liquor licenses, intelligence
office licenses and licenses fur similar
municipal privileges.
The reply of
the board is that it is acting under an
ordinance which forbids the issuance
of liquor licenses to any save citizens
of this country and persons who have
declared their intention of becoming
citizens, and in accordance with the
rules of the board that the other licens
es named shall not be granted to for
eigners until American residents have
more fully recovered from the business
shock of last year’s earthquake.
The consulate looks with suspicion
on this defense, but wishes to be un
derstood as desirous of investigating
further before making any definite re
commendation to the Tokio govern
ment.
E A C H S H O U T S O F V IC T O R Y .
Conflicting Claim « in Strike o f Tele
graph O perators.
San Francisco, Jnly 3.— “ The strike
is over,” said Superintendent Storror,
of the Postal Telegraph company.
“ The strike is over,” said Mr.
O’Brien, of the Western Union office,
in the ferry building.
“ The strike has just begun,” said
President Small, of the Commercial
Telegraphers’ union.
These three laconic statements ade
quately describe the attitude of the op
posing parties and give a hint as to
tbeir future action.
Although the
officials of both companies here in San
Fraacisco are but subordinates and
could not of their own volition take
any steps towards a settlement, it is
not thought likely that any such Bteps
w ill be taken while the local officials
report that they are handling the busi
ness without unreasonable delay.
The operators on the other hand, state
that they w ill carry on the fight, even
though the companies find a man for
every key, and they declare they are
prepared to stay out six months if nec
essary. Their leaders, however, say
that they expect to win in much less
time, and Mr. Small yesterday prophe
sied that the “ lightning would strike
soon in an unexpected place,” but did
not explain his remark.
R O C K E F E L L E R T O T E S T IF Y .
Oil
King Surrenders to O rd ers o f
Federal Court.
Cleveland, O., July 3.— John D.
Rockefeller has decided to give himself
np and testify before Judge Landis in
the Federal court in Chicago.
It was
learned tonight upon trustworthy in
formation that the oil king had reached
an understanding a ith the government,
officers through his counsel and that he
hereafter w ill not be moleslod by Unit
ed States marshals.
According to the present program,
Mr. Rockefeller w ill arrive in Cleveland
on the Fourth to spend the summer at
his summer home, Forest H ill.
No
government officers w ill meet him to
serve summons for his appearance in
the Chicago court.
Instead, service
w ill be obtained upon the oil king’s
counsel, who have promised to have
Mr. Rockefeller testify in the Standard
Oil cases before Judge Landis in the
United States court in Chicago July 6,
or whenever his testimony is desired.
It further was learned that the gov
ernment has sent Fnbpenas for Mr.
Rockefeller to United States marshals
in districts where they thought he
might be or might visit.
Both Must S hare Lota.
San Francisco, July 3.— Another one
of the important legal points developed
by the late earthquake was settled to
day. when Judge Seawell decided that
contractors and property owners were
put upon a level by the act of God and
neither coaid recover from the other in
cases of misfortunes resulting from the
quaking earth crust.
The court held
that both parties must stand equally
whatever less results to buildings under
construction— the property owner that
portion already erected and the con
tractor the coat of material used.
Pierce Will Face Trial.
St. Louis. Jnly 3.— M. Clay Pierce,
chairman of the board of directors of
the Watere-Pierce company, arrived in
SL Louis today, and in response to a
question if he is on his way to Texas to
surrender to the authorities in answer
to an indictment at Austin, in which
he is charged with perjury, it was an
nounced that he w ill return to New
York tomorrow night. His son, Clay
A . Pierce, is authority tor the statement
that Mr. Pierce will face trial in Texaa
before hie fight against extradiction
reaches the United States court.
Reno O perator« on Strike.
Reno. Nev., July 3.— As a result of
action of Superintendent A . N . May in
dismissing two operators in the Reno
Western Union office, fonr other oper
ators have quit work, and Manager
Brown states that he will not be sur
prised if a general walkout results from
the dissstisfaction felt among the em
ployee on account of the strike in Son
Francisco. One result of the shortage
of men ia that business with the Salt
Lake office is six hours behind.
Trust in Um brella Fram es.
Philadelphia, July 3.— An indict
ment waa returned by the United State«
grand jury hare today against the so-
called umbrella frame trust. The in
dictment contain« three counts and
chargee the National Um brella Frame
company of this city, the Newark Rivet
W orks and the Newark Tube A Metal
Works with a conspiracy to form a
combination in restraint of trade