The Estacada dews X T ACADA NEWS OFTHE WEEK I d d Condensed Form lor Our t o y Headers. A Rnum a o f the L e ts Important but Not Laaa Interesting Events o f tho Past Weak. Secretary Root restored health. has returned with The French government has decided that Morococ must pay damages to for­ eigner. Owing to the strict quarantine main­ tained Han Diego lias little (ear of the plague. It is likely that Canada will have to pry heavy damages on account of the Vancouver anti-Japanese rioting. China has just sent representative« to a number of countries for the pur­ pose of studying the constitution ques­ t 'd . Messenger boys at Tacoma have struck and (lie telegraph company is considering the advisability of using girls. TfH JST 18 W ITH S P R E C K LE S . IS T H O R N L E S S W ONDER. Has Large Interest In Fprsckela Oom pany, but Does Not Compete. Burbank Telia Irrigation C o r g r e tt o f Latest Creation. San Francisco, Sept. 10. — John Spreckles, president of the Western Sugar Refining company, testified yes terday be ore United States Commie sioner Richards In regard to the rela­ tione existing between his company and the American Sugar Refining company of New York, the so called Havemeyer sugar trust. It was established by his testimony that Mr. Havemeyer and his men own a large minority ol the stock of the Western Refining company, but he denied tliat either he or his father Claus Spreckles, has any interest in the American Sugar Refining company He declared that the price of sugar on the coaat was held low enough to prevent competition from Mr. Have- meyer, except in a few special grader, which the Western does not manufac­ ture. Mr. Spreckles’ testimony is to be used in a suit brought by the receiver of the Pennsylvania Sugar company against the American Refining com­ pany for $30,000,000 damages as the result of the ilavemeyer interests get­ ting control of the Pennsylvania con Cern and shutting down the plant. The suit is both for conspiracy and for vio latiou of the Sherman anti-trust law, and is brought in the United States District court of New York. Sacramento, Cal , Sept. 6 — Most In­ teresting among the addresses delivered at the Irrigation congress yssterday was one by Luther Burbank, the wizard, wbo told of effort* to produce a thorn- lees cactus. Resolutions on national land policy were adopted and a slate for officers prepared by the committee on organization. A reeolut on waa introduced by the Outdoor League department of the Cal ifornia club, tiirougb its chairman, Mis. Lovell White, declar ng that N i­ agara Falla are menaced with destruc­ tion through the rapacity of the power companies located on both aides of the river. The resolution, wnicb was re­ ferred to the committee on resolutions, urged that the congress approve the act of the American Civic association in its attempt to preserve unimpaired Niag­ ara Falls, and urging congress to enact necessary legislation. Luther Burbanx, the expert on plants, wbo appeared before tire con gress Wednesday night, was again called on for an address. He told the congress of his experiments in tryiDg to produce a thornless cactus. He had all but succeeded, he said, a lack of nutri­ tion being the only obstacle to be over­ come. He predicted that this thorn less cactus would become the great fod­ der of the arid region, for all kinds of stock relish it and fatten quickly. About 200 tons can be grown per acre, an extraordinary output compared with other kinds of feed. The development of the high nutrition is being aesidu- ousiy pursued by Mr. Burliank, and the grazing men w ill soon have some im­ portant news from the wizard. The congress adopted a resolution de­ claring that there should be no thought of making a profit for the government through the sale of timber or granting of grazing privileges. Bona fide min era, stockmen and farmers should be only charged a rate for such privileges which would meet the government ex­ penses. Other resolutions adopted provide for the establishment of b treaus of hy drology and drainage in connection with irrigation work. A resolution calling on congress to aid irrigation in any way possible was alro passed. G ATH E R IN G A T SA R A T O G A . Fifty Thousand Grand Army Veterans The Wetern Union still claims to be Expected at Encampment. getting its old men back all over the Saratoga, N. Y ., Sept. 10.— Amid country, but the service de>es not im­ gaily decorated streets, veterans of the prove. Grand Army of the Republic have been Conrgessman Longworth says the arriving all day for the Forty-first Na­ Roosevelt w ill net become a candidate tional encampment, which w ill be held for a renomination unless the whole here this week. Fifty thousand veter­ country demands it. ans are expected. This may be the last encampment A Harvard scientist has found that spleens are edible and says his discov­ held anywhere but in Washington. At ery will add 50,000,000 pound to the the business session of the organization a resolution probably w ill be introduc­ nation’s annua! meat output. ed fixing that place as the permanent Secretary Root’s health is fully re­ meeting place cf the organization here stored. after. It is also probable that within Senator Depew says he favors Roose­ a few years the annual encampment velt for another term. will become only a meeting of delegates, A fire in the Ksperanzas mines, Mus- for the veterans, it was stated by Grand Army officials, are becoming too feeble quiz, Mexico, cost 27 lives. to attend the meetings In a body and to The rival sultans of Morocco are to take part In the annual parade. settle their claims in a big battle. Tim encampment program begins to­ A crusade is to start to exterminate day. the Monte Carlo gambling house. NEW R U LES T O BEGIN WAR. Britain is considering the advisabil­ ity of giving back the Sthetland islands Hague Conferen R tq jlre s Notice to to Norway. Enemy and Neutrals. Heney is expected in Portland soon The Hague, Sept. 10.— The fifth ple­ in connection with the Oregon land nary sitting of the peace conference was fraud cases. held today. The whole American dele­ Vancouver, B. C., laborers are mob­ gation was present. The following bing Japanese and international trouble rules regarding the opening of hostili threatens. ties were adopted, a few countries rnak A now telegraph company has been ing reservations: “ The contracting powers agree that formed in Chicago that hopes to extend Its service over the entire United hostilities must not begin without pre v I oub unequivocal notice having been States. given, either in form of a declaration J. K. Hall, president of the Belding of war setting forth its motives or in H all Manufacturing company, Chicago the form of an ultimatum with the has appropriated $315,000 of the com­ additional declaration of vypr. pany’s money to his own use and a re “ A state of war must be notified < cover now has charge of affairs. without delay to the neutrul powers, Jerome has called a grand jury to in the effect of the latter beginning after they receive notice, which can be given diet traction trust officials. even by wire. In any case the neutral Commissioner Lane Is to inquire powers cannot protest against the lack Into rebating on Western railrcads. of this notice. If it is established that The cases against the Standard Oil they undoubtedly knew that a state of oompany of Ohio w ill lie tried soon. war existed.’ ’ Kxtreme measures are being adopted in Han Francisco to stamp out the plague. MOB S A ILO R S IN JA P A N . The International Harvester com Four Men From Cruiser Chattanooga pany has jusl paid a fine of $35,000 to Flea for Thsir Lives. Texas for being a trust. Toklo, Sept. 10.— W h ile the United W illiam H. Taft, secretary of war, States cruiser Chattanooga was at llak- was royally entertained while In Port­ odate on her way here from Vladivo­ land on his way to the Philippines. stok, four of her men had a thrilling Government officials at Washington experience and a narrow escape from believve the loan of $1,000,000 to the serious injury at the hands of a Japan­ Jamestown fair can never be recovered. ese mob. In a dispute over prices, one of the A Wisconsin woman after being in American sailors struck a Japaneso prison 16 years convicted of murder, shopkeeper. A mob quickly formed, has been found innocent and released. armed with clnbe, and started after the Twelve persons were killed and as assailant and his three companions. many more injured in tire wreck of an Two of the sailors were forced to jump express train on the Rock Island at from a dock and swim to a sampan. The others were rescued from the Norris, Iowa. mob by the police, who took them Pickpockets on a Rock Island train aboard the ship. ln'Nebraska robbed many sleeping pas­ sengers and after a fight with the con- C ar Shortage Again. doctor escaped. Chicago, Sept. 10.— A New York A monument to Wtn. McKinley has special to the Record Herald says: Is been dedicated at Buffalo, N. Y . the prosperity of the country again to The moral effect of the change in the be threatened this fall and winter by police administration of Ban Francisco a shortage in freight equipment and Is apparent. cost merchants and farmers untold m il­ A group of American capitalists with lions? This question is being asked Thomas F. Ryan a the head is said to in high railway circles in the Hast and on W all street, and, as a rule, it is be preparing a typewriter trust. being answered in the affirmative. Men The French fleet has bombarded the in the traffic world who control vast Moorish fanatic stronghold of Maxagan systems are shaking their heads and >d- and almost completely destroyed the mitting that a recurrence of the disas­ town. trous car shortage is threatening. Lewis Htuyvesant Chauler, of New Eskimos Sail Woman York, is mentioned as Bryan’s running mate in the next presidential cam- Noma, Alaska, Sept. 10.— Action is paign. to lie taken by the city and federal au­ Train wreckers drew spikes from the thorities to stop the practice of barter­ rails of the Baltimore A Ohio 20 miles ing their women as indulged in by na­ east of Pittsburg . A freight train wns tive Kskimo boys, which has grown to alarming proportions. Young native wrecked lmt no one hurt. lads have been found enticing drunken Roosevelt is not satisfied with re­ men to their tents on the aand spit and sults gained at The Hague and may call oil the Ixwch, where they offer them a peace congress of his own to embraoe their girls and their women. The re­ the ambassadors at Washington. volting practice and the disgusting or­ An Illinois woman is suing for di­ gies which occur late at night la the vorce on the ground that she married direct result of the natives' desire for the wrong brother. The two men are Hootch, or whisky. twins and she couldn’ t tell them apart. M oors Fall to 8how Up. Attorney General Bonaparte denies Paris, Sept. 10.— The heralded Moor­ be w ill resign. ish peace delegations failed to material- Congressman Burton is to run for lie at Tangier Saturday, according to official reports received here tonight. mayor of Cleveland, Ohio I f the delegations do not appear to­ Inquiry into the lumber Industry night, the report adds, m ilitary opera- has been begun by Federal authorities. tiona w ill be resumed energetically to­ Antwerp Is in the hands of a mob of morrow. General Dnide says he has ■trlken and the m ilitia has been called profited by the suspension of fighting out. by determining the exact positions of Blx persons were killed and 20 in- the enemy. Admiral Philibert cables Jureu in a wreck on the Canadian Pa­ that all the porta are orderly. cific. Vaccinated by the Thousand. An anarchist has been arrested in Vienna, Sept 10.— There are no signs Milan who was threatening the Italian of abatement in the smallpox epidemic. king’s life. During the laat few days 166,000 per­ The French troops have drawn the sons have been vaccinated. Pnhlic Moors into a trap and inflicted a ernah- meeting* and proceaaiona have been forbidden. GOOD O U T L O O K FAIR G R O U N D S A D E LIG H T. I FOR O REG O N ----- Attractive Plan o f Beautiful g it Bairg Large Freshman Class En:art Stata | University 1 his Year.. Carried Out Eugene— Prospects are the best for a Salem— Not the least important of the many improvements being made at banner year at the University of Ore ihe lair grounds in preparation for the igon. The freshman clans w ill In all Greater Uregon State fair, September 16-21, is the transformation of the un­ 1 probability number 200, an increase of sightly and barren wastes of dry grass 60 per cent over last year. One favor and weeds into beautiful landscape able sign of the growth of the univers effects. This is the first appeal to the ity in attendance and in its standing artistic sense that has been attempted among the institutions of the West is along this line, and, although it has been found impossible to make all the the fact that a large number of Port­ needed changes in one year, the most land students who have been attending glaring faults have beer remedied. The Berkeley and Stanfoid w ill this fall concessions have all been remove 1 to transfer to Oregon. Freshmen from one district, and dozens of unsightly shacks destroyed. New walks have Portland w ill number about 50. A great advance Is also noticed this been laid throughout the grounds, the idea being to combine beauty with con­ year in the standing of the high schools venience as far as possible Buildings throughout the state. Scarcely a bigb have been moved whenever necestary, school from Roeeburg to Pendleton but n 1 other conditions made to conform to the new arrangements. The walks that w ill send from one to a dozen stu­ will all be of fiue gravel, dressed with dents to the university. The unsettled granite sand. status of the normals will also contrib­ The main improvement is noticeable ute to the attendance at Oregon. in the square between the main pavil­ Accommodation for the increase has ion and the dairy building, which iias been moved to a site northeast of its been seen to, and a good aized women’s old position. The visitor is no longer dormitory has just been completed. confronted with the row of candy stands The new library, which has been under and lunch counters of all sizes, ages construction since about June 1, has The and colors, and the expanse of dry been completed and accepted. grass which formerly assailed the eye time for moving in has not been defi The only remaining relic of the old nitely set. regime is the fountain, with its famil The campus this year will be a great iar figure in the center, but even tbii improvement over the past. Captain has been rt printed and remodeled until Briggs has kept a small force steadily it is haruiy recognizable, and is now at work on the grounds all summer, surrounded with a bed of Howers, and a and is getting them in splendid condi­ winding path. tion, in appearance very much like the There are many other tlower beds Lewis and Clark fair grounds. also, in the shape of crescents, stars and other designs, and all w ill be in T U T T L E A C T INVALID . blossom fair week. The big center bed contains lart #, spreading palms. Where Unequal Assessment Makes New Road there are no (lowers green lawns have Law Unconstitutional. been planted. Water has been piped Salem— In a decision just rendeerd to this section, and the work of beauty Judge W illiam Galloway, of the State is being rapidly completed. A pretty feature is the statues which Circuit court for Marion county, de­ w ill be placed in this square. Just clared the Tuttle good roads law, as en east of the main wing of the pavilion, acted by the legislative assembly of the large, reclining figure, representing 1905, unconstitutional, because of Its the state of Oregon, was seed last year, provisions of unequal assessment of and will again occupy the same posi­ costs for such improvement. The ques­ tion. In front of the pavilion, the tion was raised In the case of the St. fountain and its small statue have al­ Benedictine Abbey vs. the Marion ready been noted. Rack of ihiB foun­ County court and other county officials, tain, the large standing figure of Ceres, in connection with the proposed con­ goddess of agriculture, which last year struction of a macadam road between was located in the pavilion, but seemed Marquam and Silverton for a distance rather cramped and out of place, w ill of four miles. The law provides that be set up. O d either side of this statue the coat of such improvement shall be two smaller images w ill be placed, assessed to the property located within making five pieces of statuary in all. a radius of one mile upon each aide They w ill be set upon suitable bases and ac each end of the proposed im and bordered with flower beds. A ll provement, and the plaintiff com these statues were secured from the plained that, under this system, a Lewis and Clark exposition of 1905 in property owner at either end of the stretch of road to be improved would Portland. be doubly assessed in case the improve­ ment be extended. Public W harf at Oregon City. Oregon City— After trying for more Ask the Old Men. than a year to bring about the estab­ Salem— In or ler to secure informa­ lishment of a public wharf in Oregon City, the promoters of the project have tion which will form a basis for the at laat been successful and the city determination of what are just and council has authorized the establish­ equitable freight and paesenger rates, ment of a grade on Moss and Kleventh The Oregon Railroad commission has streets from Main street to the water decided to investigate the actual cost front, this action being taken prelim ­ of the construction and equipment of inary to the improvement of the streets the railrods of Oregon. To a large ex leading to the site of the proposed dock. tent this investigation will be conduct­ The coat of the new wharf w ill be ed by calling before the commission about $1,600, the money being sub­ the men who have had personal know­ scribed with the provision that the ledge of the cost of construction by rea son of their connection with the roads streets be improved by the city. as contractors or managers. Fruit Goes Out by Carloads. Railway Lotas Franchise. Freewater— The Freewater Canning Albany— The city council has au­ and Preserving company has leased its cannery to the Webber-Russell Can­ thorized the city attorney to institute ning company cf Seattle. This firm ia proceedings to revoke the franchise of The fran­ shipping by carloads peaches, pears the Albany street railway. and prunes tc the coast cities. Ranch­ chise is to be revoked has been running ers everywhere are complaining of their about 25 years and was renewed a few inability to secure pickers, and a far years ago for another quarter century. more serious shortage In fruit boxes. Only a horse car line has been oper­ However, the fruit seaBon in this vicin­ ated. The line was sold last winter to ity lias I>ean unexcelled for three years, C. E. Sox. trustee, representing an un­ and six ami seven carloads are being known purchaser, who agreed to elec­ trify it within a year. shipped daily to eastern points. O N L Y O NE FLE E T. Roosevelt Does Not Propose New One fo r Atlantic. Washington, Sept. 6.— It is author!- itatively 6tated at the Navy department that President Roosevelt does not con­ template the creating of two battleship fleets. Nor does Secretary Metcalf, nor even the general board, which ia sup­ posed to represent the extreme views in naval development, favor either the division of the present magnificent fleet under Admiral Evans’ command or the creation of another fleet in order that there may be a formidable Ameri canl navy in both oceans— the Atlantic and Pacific. On, the contrary, it is regarded at the Navy department as better policy to maintain one perfectly equipped, well drilled fleet, free to move at will to any part of the globe at short notice, and the present plans contemplate the increase of the strength of the existing Atlantic fleet from 18 to 28 battleships. This w ill afford a command as large as can be properly directed by any one officer and it w ill moreover about mark the capacity of ports and dry docks in any particular section of the world. So it is aeserted positively at the de­ partment that there is not the least in­ tention of keeping the battlehips which will go to the Pacific permanently in those waters. That fleet, it is added, will surely return to the Atlantic sea­ board after It has fulfilled its mission and demonstrated the feasibility of transferring such a vast naval force be­ tween oceans. I t ia suggested at the Navy depart­ ment that before the gathering of a similar number of naval vessels in the Pacific becomes necessary the problem will be solved by the completion of the Panama canal. It ia pointed out at the department that, even were the president or the department so disposed, it would be impossible for them to provide for an­ P O R T L A N D M A R K E TS other such fleet as Admiral Evans’ They Seek the Noble Elk. present command without congressional Albany— To kill an elk is the pro­ Wheat — (New crop) — Club, 82c; authority. nounced ambition of most of the hunt­ ers who are now leaving for the moun­ blueetem, 83c; Valley, 80c; red, 78c. Oats— (New crop) — No. 1 white, Antwerp Strike It Serious tains in this part of the state. After a cloaed season of several years, it will tie $23.50; gray, $23. Antwerp, Sept. 6.— M ilitia controlled Barley— (New crop)— Feed, $22.60@ lawful to kill elk after the 15th of this the situation here today, though the month, for a period of one month. 23 per ton; brewing, $24024.60; roll­ rioters attacked a number of freight ed, $24.60(3)25. Each hunter ia limited by law to one cars in which strikebreakers were rid­ Corn— Whole, $28 per ton; cracked, elk, but the members of tire hunting ing. About 3,000 of the locked out $29. parties now equipping for the moun­ laborers, porters and men in Eimilar Hay— Valley timothy, No. 1, $17(5) tains will be satisfied with this legal trades, who struck in sympathy with 18 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, lim it, thonsh they are very desirous of the locked out laberers, held a meeting $ 19(2)20; clover, $11; cheat, $11; killing that one. during the day and adopted a resolu­ grain hay, $11012; alfalfa, $12013. tion setting forth that they were not Butter— Fancy creamery, 3 2 )t0 35 c responsible for yesterday’ s disorders. Rai'road Refuses Caossing. per pound. Oregon City— At a recent meeting of j Poultry— Average old hens, 13c per Twenty rioters were wounded last night the city council a communication was pound; mixed chickens, 12c; spring by the sabers or revolvers of the police read from the Southern Pacific in re­ 'chickens. 12tgc; old roosters, 8(§9c; in dispersing them. gard to the erecting of a steel overhead dressed chickens, 16017c; turkeys, Cannon to Help Alaska. crossing at Sixth street. The company live, 15016c; geeee, live, 8@10c; refused to agree to erect a steel croes- ducks, 10c. Fairbanks, Alaska, Sept. 6.— Con­ Ing, but said it would construct one of | Eggs— Freah ranch, candled, 27028c gressman W illiam Sulxer, of New wood if the council would accept it. per dozen York, predicts that Alaska w ill be a After eome discussion the city fathers Veal— Itressed, 6 @ 8 i{e per pound. territory before 1909 is ended. In an lecided that they would erect the steps Pork— Block, 75 to 160 pounds, 8 0 interview Congressman Sulxei said that themselves, and furthermore, they 8)^c; packers, 7)$@8c. he lias obtained the absolute promise would force the ordinance requesting Fruits— Apples, $101.50 per box; of the speaker of the house of repre­ the railroad to station a flagman at cantaloupes, 6Oc0$!.OO per crate; sentatives and some of the members of every crossing. peaches. 40(«t85c perorate; blackber­ the committee on territories that the ries. 406c per pound; prunes, 60076c Alaska territorial bill will be acted Hat Brood o f 220 "C h in a*" per crate; watermelons, 101 v«c upon early in the next session of con­ Albany— Chris Van Dran, of this per pound; plums, 50015c per gress, which convenes in December. city, has raised 220 Chinese pheasants box; pears. 75c 0$1.26 per box; He is certain that the bill will pass and Alaska will get the rank of territory. this season. He has been more suc­ grapes, 5Or0$1.5O per box. cessful this year in hatching and rais­ Vegetables— Turnips, $1.75 per sack: Try to Kill Grand Duke. ing the birds than ever before. Van , carrots. $2 per sack; beets, $2 per sack; Berlin, Sept. 6.— The Prussian rail­ Dran was one of the pioneer pheasant asparagus, 10c per pound; beans, 3Q raisers of Oregon, but this la the larg­ 5c; cabbage, 2c; celery, 76c0$l per road administration has offered a re­ est brood he ever raised in one season. doxen; corn, 25 @ 35c per doaen; cu- ward for the discovery of the persons The demand for Chinese pheasant« is , cumbers, 10QI5o per doaen; lettuce, who wrecked the St. Petersburg-Berlin such that he conld easily sell twice as bead, 15c per doxen; onions, 15020c express near Berlin shortly before mid­ many as he raises and could contract per doaen; peas, 306c per pound; night, lesnlting in 11 persons being i i - for nil his brood in advance. pumpkins, lt y ( 92 c per pound; rad­ Jnred. Presumably it was the work of ishes, 20c per dosen; rhubarb, S ^ o anarchists or Russian revolutionists, Many Hops Moldy. per pound; squash, 5Oc0$l perorate; who hoped to k ill a member of the im- Aurora— The hopgrowers in the Au­ tomatoes. 30@50c per crate; sweet po­ p- rial fam ily who v w said to have been on the train. The train waa derailed rora, Hubbard and Bntteville districts tato*«, 2’ 4 c per pound. and several cars telescoped. are in the hardest kind of luck this sea- Onions— $2.26(32.50 per hundred. i. The weather for the past week or Potatoes— New, $101.16 per hun­ Would U s* Basra aa Dog*. 10 days has been an Injurious factor in dred. the ripening of the crop, and In a num­ Hope— 406c per pound, according to Copenhagen, Sept. 6. — Captain ber of the yards mold has appeared to quality. Amnndsen, who in 1906 concluded the such an extent that the yards w ill not Wool— Eastern Oregon, average beat, navigation of the northwest passage, ia be picked. In fact the yards are very 16022c per ponnd according to ihrlnk- making plans for a larger expedition to scarce where there is not more or less age; valley, 20022c. according te fine- the polar region*. He ii credited with mouhi. The prairie yards are the neea; mohair, choice, 29030c per the intention of naing polar bears in ponnd. freest from mold. the *am* manner aa dogs are used now. INDORSE ROOSEVELT Irrigation Congress Approres ot President’s Course. PRESERVE CALIFORNIA BIG TREES Also Ask That Grating Charges on Reserves B* Reduced to Actual Coat. Sacramento, Cal., Sept. 7.— After four days of addresses and discussions, the Fifteenth National Irrigation con­ gress yesterday took up the big work of the gathering, when the report of the committee on resolutions was submit­ ted by its chairman, ex-Governor George C. I’ardee. There is an indorsement of the policy of President Roosevelt and his adminis­ tration in connection with the policy of reclamation, irrigation, forest pres­ ervation and conservation ol resources. The departments that have the big work in hand are indorsed. There ie a recommendation that the government only charge enough for timber cut from forest reserves to pay for maintenance of the forest service. Congress is asked to pass a law providing for the preserv­ ation of the Calavers big treeB by the exchange of other timber land for them. ¡J The irrigation congress is asked to make every effort to have the seven­ teenth session of the congress held in Wash ngton at the same time the Na tional congress is in session, and pro­ vide lor a committee of live to promote the matter. Protection is also asked for the beet sugar industry and aid for the work of irrigation, reclamation, preservation and conservation. The only resolution objecting to ad­ ministration ideas is one protesting against further enactment of legislation favoring Philippine eugar to the injury of the beet sugar industry of in Amer­ ica. Not an objection was made as the resolutions were read and hearty ap­ plause followed. There was a spirited discussion on an amendment which Judge Itaker, of Modoc county, California, sought to bave added. This was made a special order for today. Judge Raker’s amend­ ment asked for the removal of the duty on lumber coming into this country. Today’ s session which is to mark the close of the congress, promises lively development*. JAPAN E SE SEIZE ISLAN D . May Establish Naval B at* at Gat* o f Philippines. Washington, Sept. 4.— News from Yokohama that Japanese “ explorers” had occupied and hoisted the national fl«g ovei the island of Pratas, near the Philippines, attracted much attention here b