The Estacada News
I s m ic 4 Cach Thuradar
ESTACADA
OREGON
NEWS OF THE WEEK
In a Condensed Form lor Oar
Bosy Readers.
A Raauma o f the L ee« Important but
Not L e e « Interesting Evente
o f the Pest Week.
Roosevelt predict« Taft's nomination
on the firBt ballot.
A blanket o1 snow covers the Dako
tas, Iowa and Nebraska.
Lord Ciirz in has teen persuaded to
re-enter English politics.
An eminent French doctor says K ai
ser William has consumption.
English are protesting against slav
ery in the Portuguese colonies.
Kansas City theaters have given up
the fight against Sunday closing.
Nearly $1,000,000 more graft hy the
Schmitz gang has been discovered.
North Carolina has again refuser! to
pay the bonds issued during the recon
struction days.
There is a monster shipment of war
material on the Han Francisco docks
billed for Manila.
The San Francisco health board has
bppealed to the people to continue the
extermination of rats.
Roosevelt has allowed troops to re
main in Goldfield on the promise of
Governor Sparks to call a special ses
sion of the legislature.
New York is overrun by hundreds of
tfnemployed.
The Twenty-fourth Japanese diet has
just convened.
President Roosevelt is hunting tur
keys at Pine Knot, Va.
E XPRESS C H ARG ES HIGH.
LE T T R O O P « S T A Y .
W ellt-Fargo Accused o f Discrimina
tion Agsmst Merchants.
Senator Newlanda T h ln l« G o ls flttf
Needs Them.
Washington, Deo. 30.— -Senator New-
land*, of Nevada, Ig endeavoring to pre
vent withdrawal of the government
troops from Goldfield until some other
means of protection is had. Today he
railed upon Becretary Taft at the War
department and strongly urged that ex
ecution of the order issued hy the secre
tary for the withdrawal o( the troop« be
suspended until be has had an opportu
nity to communicata with Governor
Sparks and induce him to call the Ne
vada legislature together.
Mr Taft haa been advising with Sec
retary Root on this subject and tonight
oommunicated with the president at
Pine Knot on the snbject. There was
every disposition to refrain from break
ing in upon Mr. Roosevelt’* privacy at
this time, and the only excuse for do
ing so is found in tire tact that, nnless
the original order is modified, the
troop* must leave Goldfield before the
president returns to Washington.
The secretary declined to etate what
coarse he had recommended in the
matter, nor would he say whether he
had heard from the president in turn.
Secretarfy Leob said the W hite House
was entirely without advice from Pine
Knot, as the Goldfield question was
being handled by the War deportment.
Administration officials feel that the
present situation in the matter of Gold-
field’s case cannot be continued, in view
of the donbt that exists as to the con
stitutional and legal right of the ex
ecutive to employ any part of the regu
lar army in Nevada under present con
dition*.
H ud Francisco, Cal., Dec. 31.— Inter
state Commerce Commissioner Frank
lin K. I-Hue, today held a hearing of
the complaint of the California Com
mercial association, compote l of 29
mercantile firms in this city, charging
the Wells-Fargo Express company w th
concealing from the public tariff er-hod-
ulee that had been filed with the Inter
state Commerce commiaaion in Wash
ington and with making unjust and dit
criminatory rates. The actual question
involved, however, was whetbei or not
the quantity rate cf 8 cents a pound
from New York to Han Franciaco for
ebipments of 10,000 to 20,000 nounda
applied to bulk or aarembled ship
ments, gathered and forwarded by a
forwarding agency to one concern or
association organized for the purpose ol
getting the lower rate, the shipment
ultimately intended lor numerous con
signees who were designated by, num
bers of the labels to the one consignee.
The charges of discrimination are
based upon the refusal of the express
company to transport a shipment of
16,000 pounds consisting of 443 pack
ages, from New York to the California
Commercial asiociation in Ban Fran
cisco last August, at the bulk or quan
tity rate of $8 per hundred pounds, the
oompany charging the regular package
rate. It is also alleged that the ex
press company charged a higher rate
Ilian that published and 8ied with the
Interstate Commerce commiaaion, the
latter being wilfully concealed and hid
den Irom the public. This complaint
avers that it is a distinct violation of
the interstate commerce act.
In answer, the express company
denies all the allegations made, and
charges that the association lesorted to
subterfuge in order to extort unjust dis
crimination in its own favor, and based
its refusal to grant a quantity rate
upon the ghiment in question on the
ground that, while consigned to one
consignee, it was intended for more
than a score of 6rms.
E X P A T R IA T E S IN CHINA.
State Treasurer Steel, of Oregon, has Judge Wilfley Warts C orgress to Make
Laws for Them.
filed hie new bond in the sum of $835,-
000 .
Ban Francisco, Cal., Dec. 3.— Judge
Cleveland, Ohio, manufacturers plan L. K. W ilfley, of the United Htates
whom
a resumption of work for fully 10,000 court at Shanghai, against
charges of improper conduct o f. his
former employee during January.
court have iieen preferred al Washing
Railroads throughout the country ton, arived in Hgn Francisco this morn
have shown the effects of the financial ing on the Pacific Mall liner Manchuria
panic by a curtailment of orders for from the Orient, and after a stay of two
rolling stock.
days in this city will proceed to the na
On lioard the Man
A t a meeting of the Pacific Coast tional capital.
Commercial Travelers' association in churia with Judge Wilfley was F. M.
Sen Francieoo it was voted to (top Brooks, a lawyer, who has filed an ac
tion for $60,000 damages at Hono
gambling among members.
lulu, charging the head of the court in
A passenger train collided head-on the Far East, together with his clerk,
with a freight near l.enox, Mich. Five L. R. Hickel, with constpiracy in stop
tra nmen met death. A ll passengers ping the practice of Brooks in Shanghai.
escaped with but slight Injuries.
Judge W ilfley denied that he was go
In a raid on Chinese gambling houses ing to Washington to meet the charges
Portland polioe secured $10,166.90 in preferred against him.
“ I am going to Washington,” he
coin and ourrenoy and $4,446.09 of ex
change on Hongkong banks. According said, “ to aid in drawing an act that
to law this money may 'go into the will extend to Americans In China a
more complete body cf laws than they
state treasuiy.
now have. The laws now In force com
Raleigh, N. C., has voted prohibi
prise little more then is embodied in
tion.
the common law and are so indefinite
Dewey has just celebrated his 7fth as to be absolutely useless. It will be
suggested to congress that the Califor
birthday.
nia code of laws be made to extend to
Officers and crews of the big fleet are
China, wherein such lawe are applica
enjoying life at Trinidad.
ble.
Heney says special privilege la the
“ In addition to this matter, I am
root of political corruption.
journeying East that congress may he
Reports of New York lianks show a asked for an appropriation for a proper
Federal building at Hhanghai, where
recovery from the money crisis.
the American consulate and courts may
Aooused members of the first Russian be under one roof.”
douma deny they advised rebellion.
Raises Rent o f Hot Springs.
Indiana Republicans hate formally
indorsed Fairbanks as their candidate
Chicago, Dec. 31.— A dispatch to the
for president.
Tribune from Hot Hprings, Ark., says:
It is said a dark horse has been se Announcement was made yesterday
lected to fill Itriatol’ s place as United that the United Htates would double
the price for its healing hot waters
States attorney for Oregon.
after the first of the year, and that all
Burning snowsheds near Truckee, bathhouse leases also would lie doubled
Chi., has greatly delayed Southern Pa A protest will he sent at once to Wash
cific trains between Portland and Han ington. The hot water now iB dis
Francisco.
pensed by the government at $30 per
Latest developments in the row l>e- annum for each tub supplied. The
tween naval factions brings out the bathhouse owners state they are unable
fact that It is over ranking of ottioors. to meet the raise.
Two constructions of the revised stat
Jail Wracking Glass' Health.
utes Is possible and each faction claims
Han Francieco, Dec. 31.— Affidavits
it is right.
have been served on District Attorney
Plve men were killed while working
Langdon hy T. C. Coogan, Louis Glass'
in a Paris subway.
attorney, in his attempt to get his
Bt. Joseph, Mo., has started a crusade client out of jail. The district attor
against loan sharks.
ney w ill file counter affidavits. I)r.
The New York Republican club hue Roland E. Hartley and Dr. J. M. W il
liamson state In their affidavits that
declared for Hughei for president.
they visited lamia Glass at the county
A ll signs of yellow fever has been jail and that he showed ‘ marked gene
driven from the Panam canal sons.
ral physical deterioration and general
Puget sound steamboat men w ill out derangement.” They say they found
him in a nervous condition which will
the pay of their engineers January 1.
permanently Injure his health.
Lawson says only the re-election of
Rousevelt can avert a national disaster.
Backad by Wealthy Men.
A severe sleet storm has demoralized
New York, Dec 31 .— United State«
telegraphic communication around Chi-
District Attorney Stimson said today
cagn.
that he had been server) with the pa
The head of the Methodist Book con pers tiled in the United Htates District
cern calls labor unions the worst of ty court by counsel for Oscar W. Reid, a
rants.
member of the battalion of the Twenty-
The Bank of Calistogs, Oslistoga, fifth infantry. Tire plaintiff sued the
Cal., haa closed.
Officer« of the Insti government hr recover (ray lost through
tution say it w ill reopen.
his discharge from the army, but the
Heney is in Washington arranging attorneys in the case have admitted
with Attorney General Bonaparte for that they were retained by "wealthy
the Oregon land fraud trial*, which w ill gentlemen of New England,” whose
real object is to determine the legality
begin at Portland January IS.
of the president's action.
A detachment of 900 Chinese soldiers
In Manchuria murdered their officers
Haadquarter* Ara Secured
and pillaged the neighboring villages.
Denver, Dec. 31.— The headquarters
Cavalry haa been sent after them.
of the Democratic National convention
Philadelphia la facing a atieet oar will be at the Biown Palace hotel,
which has registered a request from
strike.
Chairman Tom Taggart, of the commit
The A rat woman jury In Colorado tee, through Secretary Mills, of the
has decided against a woman.
Convention league of Denver, to re
Secretary Taft says self government serve 60 additional room«, beside« those
fa auoceeding very well In the Philip already reserved. A t soon as these
reservations are made the other hotels
pines.
of the city w ill heign to make reserva
New York hank atatement* show a tion«.
complete recovery from the financial
sringenry.
Garnets In New York Bedrock
New York, Dec. 31.— That New Yotk
Goldfield mine owner* are trying to
prevail on the president to allow the City rests on a vast tua «a of garnets is
th* dieoovery of Ralph E. Morgan, an
troop* to remain.
English mineralogist, now
visiting
In an addreee at Chicago Attorney her«. In a mass of rock thrown up
General Bonaparte said all the rich from a subway excavation, he discov
law breakers teemed to think the law ered a large garnet. tin the dumping
exempted them amt they should be Im- ground at Hheepahed bay ha found a
mnoe from prosecution
number of excellent garnet«.
INCREASE » IN
F U L L OF SU GAR.
Good
Report on Klamath
Sugar Beats.
T ILLA B LE
AC RES
Country Umatilla County Show a Big Gain in
Fiva Years.
Klamath F alli— Frank Ira W hite of
the Enterprise Laud A investment com
pany has just received reporrs from the
departme.it of agriculture relative to
samples of BUgar beets raised on the
Enterprise tract. The beets were taken
from the same tract as were those sent
to Professor Knisely some time ago,
but were fully matured, while the
others were not
Professor Kni ely ’a
test showed from 17.40 to 19.36 per
centtpure sugar, while the department
test is one or two per cent higher, with
a very high degree of purity.
These beets produced 8,286 pounds
to tire quarter-acre tract, or nearly 17
tons to the acre.
The dep rtment of agriculture in s
letter o Mr. White says Klamath
county’s sugar beets are of the moat ex
cellent quality and that prospects are
bright for the industry in this county.
Pendleton— Umatilla county’s rapid
development is' shown In the recent
nummary of the taxable property in the
county, recently farnlahed the secre
tary of etate by Assessor Strain. This
summary, compared with the one made
five years ago, shows the number ol
tillable acres as increased by 90,000.
The total number of acres of arable
land in the county at present is 46,000.
The number of acres classified as non-
tillable is given at 688,144.
The figures for the latter do not, of
course, Include the forest reserves and
other government land not subject to
taxation. The amount of non-tillahle
land in the county is constantly in
creasing, also, by reason of the fact
that so much | ov rnment land is being
taken up and deeded to settlers.
The increase in the number of till
able seres is due in large measure to
the different irrigation projects which
are being completed. This is not the
only source of increase, however, as
thousands of acres of land in the west
ern and southwestern parts of the
county are now plowed up and growing
wheat that a few years ago were consid
ered worthless for anything more val
uable than range for stock. Much of it
was given oyer entirely to sagebrush
and jackrabbits. The Pilot Rook and
Birch creek countries have experienced
the greatest development In this line.
Big s o f Oil at Bonanza.
Bonanza— The possibilities of devel
oping oil wells in this immediate vicin
ity are now more encouraging than at
any previous time. In boring a well
for a new livery stable in this town a
strata of black oil Bandstone was struck
amt specialists have pronounced it an
uninistakeable sign of the existence ol
oil. Beveral other places in Klamath
county, especially in that portion sur-
rounding Bonanza, show signs of oil.
The prospects are good and the devel- p-
Each Farm to Be Named.
ment of the same may result In the dis
Grants Pass— Among the bnsineas
covery of one of the richest oil regions
transacted at the Josephine County
on this coast.
Fruitgrowers’ unicn at its laat meeting
was the adopting of individual letter
Fruitgrowers Plan Meeting.
heads and letter paper, upon which
Eugene— The Commercial club pro will be designated the name of the fruit
motion department has decided to join farm aod the brands packed by the
with the Lane County Horticultural grower. I t was thought best for each
society in sharing the expense of the member to have some appropriate
proposed mass meeting of ruitgrowers name for his fruit tract, and by insert
and citizens, to be held here Baturday, ing it upon letter sheets it wonld also
January 4. Prominent speakers will give prominence to individual effect,
address the meetings and the people and at the same time give the union
throughout the county will be asked to greater notice and strength, which
send in questions which they would would moie favorably attract the buyer
like the experts to answer. The com to this locality.
mittee in charge lias selected Dr. D. A.
Paine to act as chairman ot the mass
Want Rural Delivery.
meeting.
Pendleton— A movement has been
started in the vicinity of Pilot Rock to
Yellow Pine Market Active.
secure a rural mail delivery route, since
Pendleton — Notwithstanding
the the stage line which has been operated
temporary financial flurry in the North over that route has been superseded by
west, timber land has continued to sell the Pendleton-Pi’ot Rock railroad.
in the yellow pine belt Beveral claims The farmers along the old stage read
of 160 acres have recently been sold on have enjoyed a daily mail service for
the Blue mountains near Ukiah in years, the stage drivers leaving mail in
Umatilla county, for from $2,000 Jto boxes at every house along the route.
$2,700 each and other sales are now The rural route would embrace the sec
pending. This belt of yellow pine lies tion included in the Birch creek, Mc
about 46 miles south of Pendleton on Kay creek and Tutilla creek settle
the proposed ^extension of the Pilot ments.
Rock branch of the O. R. & N. and is
one of the largest remaining bodies of
8alem H opgrowers Sign.
saw timber in Eastern Oregon.
Halem— Thirty-seven out of the 42
hopgrowera who attended the meeting
Hood Rivar Apple Crop.
of growers here last week signed the
Hood R ivet— Complete returns ftom by-laws, prepared for a Pacific Coast
Hood River's 1907 apple crop show Hopgrowers’ union. These growers rep
that the growers will receive in round resent about 800 acres ol hops. A
numbers $200,000 for their product, local organization was formed with J.
notwithstanding the money trouble, car H. Fletcher as chairman and James
shottage and reduced crop. This Is ap Winstanley as secretary. Attorney A
proximately what the Hood River crop L. Hbinn, of Hacramento, explained the
brought last year when It was in the plan and purposes of the proposed or
neighborhood of 20,000 boxes more, ganization to the meeting.
and is accounted for by the fact that
Railroad Buys Laidlaw.
the apples brought a much larger aver
age price.
The entire crop is now
Laidlaw— The rumor has been rife in
this community for some tim e that the
placed at 110,000 boxes.
Laidlaw townsite had been sold to the
Mount Hood Railroad company, but
M ore Traveling Libraries.
Halem— The Oregon Library com until now these rumors could not be
mission held it« regular session last verified. The verification Comes from
week at the commissione’ s rooms In the fact that the abstract* of title are
the state house.
W. B. Ayer anil Miss now being prepared at Prinevilie pre-
Isom, members of the commission, parator to a formal transfer of the prop
were in attendance, besides the gover erty to the purchasing company.
nor. It was decided to buy 25 more
T o Indict Nevada Sheepmen.
traveling libraries, making 90 in all,
Pendleton— Through the efToita of
that will be placed in circulation as a
result of the commission’s first year’s Dr. W . H. Lytle, state sheep inspector,
work. It was decided to establish an indictments w ill be returned against P.
exchange station for Eastern Oregon at Anderson, a millionaire sheepman of
Nevada, for bringing flocks over the
Baker City.
state line into Oregon without first
giving notice to the state sheep inaptc
Fall Pack Poor.
Astoria— During the (all fishing sea tor.
son there were lix cold storage plant«
P O R T L A N D M A R K E TS .
and 11 canneries In operation on the
various streams along the Oregon coast.
Wheat— Club, 82c; bluestem, 84c:
The season there as at nearly all other
points was a comparatively poor one. valley, 82c; red, 80c.
Oats— No. 1 white, $28; gray, $28.
The total pack of pickled fish put up
Barley— Feed, $27; brewlDg, $31;
hy the cold storage plants wsa about
880 tierces, while the total output of rolled, $30.
Corn— Whole, $32; cracked, $33.
canned salmon packed hy the canneries
Hay— Valley timothy, No. 1, $16;
was about 104,600 cases, “ as they
Eastern Oregon timothy, $20023; clo
run.”
ver. $15; cheat, $15; grain hay, $160
$16; alfalfa, $15; vetch, $14.
Colonizer at Klamath.
Butter— Fancy creamery, 35937 )yc
Klamath Falls— George L. McDon-
augh, colonization agent ol the Union per pound.
Veal— 75 to 17
pounds, 8 ){0 9 c ;
Pacific railway, who is expected to ar
rive in Klamath Falls next week, is 125 to 160 pour , 7c; 150 to 200
now at MacDoel, the new Dnnkard pounds, 6 0 6 >«e.
Pork— Block, 75 • 150 pounds, 6 0
town on the California Northeastern
¿c.
railway In Butte valley. He comes to 6 )*c ; packer*, 6(-
Poultry — A» ige old hen*, lOo
Klamath Falla to become familiar with
I chirkena,
10c;
colonizing possibilities here. He will per pound; ir
10c; rooaters. 8c;
he accompanied hy a Dunkard elder, D. spring chlrkt
dressed chick.
12013c; turkeys,
C. Campbell, of Colfax, Wash.
live, 16c; dr v !, choice, 18019c;
geese, live, 8<« ; ducke, 12>*013tgC;
Sawmill in Christmaa Sock.
pigeons, $l(<tl J; squab*, $203.
Marshfield— The new office building
Eggs— Freeh >auch, candled, 36c per
of the big planing plant of the C. A.
doaen.
Smith Lumber A Manufacturing com
Fruits— Apple«, 76c0$2 per box;
pany was opened and dedicated Christ peaches, 76c(d$l perorate; peers, $1.25
mas Eve.
Festivities were held and
91.75 per box; cranberries, $9.60012
many citixene attended.
The office
per barrel.
building it now completed and in use.
Vegetables— Turnips, 75o per sack;
Th* m ill proper w ill he finished and
carrots, 66o per aeck; beet«, $1 per
ready for operation in February.
sack; beans. 7<99c per ponnd; cabbage,
1c per ponnd; cauliflower, 76c0$l per
Select by Conventions
doaen; celery, $3 2693 60 per crate;
Salem— In answer to an inquiry from onions, 16920c per doaen; parsley, 20c
Chairman G. A. Westgate, of the Re per doaen; peas, 11c per pound; pep
publican etate central committee, A t per«, 8017c per ponnd; pnmkpine, 19
torney General Crawford haa rendered 1 Sic per pound: radishes, 20c psr doa
an opinion in which he says that dele en; spinach, 6c per ponnd; sproats, 8o
gate* tn the national conventions and per ponnd; squash, 191 He per pound;
candidate« for preeidential elector must tomatoes, $1 60 per box.
he chosen at conventions and not under
Onions— $1.7691.86 pet hundred.
the direct primary.
Potatoes— 60066c per hnndred, de
livered Portland; sweet potatoes, $3.76
Shut Down on Keno Canal.
0 3 per hundred.
Klamath Falla— The reclamation ser
Hops— 1907, 607c per ponnd; olds,
vice haa closed down on the Keno cana 109e.
Wool— Eastern Gregory-average best,
on acconnt of the wet weather, keepirg
only the dsrnok gang and the engi 13020c per pound, according to shrink
neering corpa. The ahntdown was made age; valley, 18030«, according to flne-
necessary on arotonnt
of tbs wet nesa; mohair, ehoiee, 29030s per
wrether.
pound.
H ENEY GIVES F U L T O N A DIG.
Says All Irrpl cited in Land Frauds
Are Senator’s Friends.
Washington, Dec. 30.— In an inter
view telegraphed from New York, Fran
cis J. Heney ia quoted as saying:
“ I hope to close theee Oregon case*
with Mr. Bristol m two or three weeks.”
Inquiry at the Department of Justice
failed to elicit definite information aa
to whether or not Mr. Bristol would as
sist Mr. Heney with the prosecution.
II no new district attorney is appointed
ky the time the land trials begin, Mr.
Bristol may assist Mr. Heney, but there
appears to be an expectation that a new
man w ill be available before then, in
which oase Mr. Bristol w ill be out and
ha>e nothing to do with the land trials.
In the same interview Mr. Heney
takes another rap at Benator Fulton.
He denies having implicated Mr. Ful
ton in the land frauds, but adds:
“ A ll of these persons who have been
Implicated in organized land frauds are
friends of Benator Fulton.
Therefore
it appears whimsical to me that Benator
Fnlton should, through the power of
senatorial oonrteey, be able to defeat
the nomination cf Mr. Bristol, who is
oapable of making It unpleasant for the
yet uneonvicted land thieves in Oregon.”
MOBCHINESESTORES
Mounted Police Called Upon to
Quell Canadians.
DUE TO FALSE MURDER ¡STORY
Sateless Rumor That White Man Is
Weunded Arouses Fury o f
Afhlta People.
Lethbridge, Alberta, Dec. 28.— Be
cause they believed that a prominent,
citixen bail been murdered in a Chinese
reatauiant, 1,600 men raided the Ori
ental quarter lute laet night and left a
wieck behind. Restaurants and laun
dries were smashed, doors and windows
and entire fronts of buildings being re
duced to splinters. The regular police
of the town were powerless and a bri
gade of mounted polioe had to be called
out to quell the not.
It was just after 9 o'clock that the
mob began to form. The story had got
abroad that Harry Bmith, one of tba
best known ranchers of the cattle dis
trict of which thia city is the center,
had been fatally wounded in a restau
rant. Curiously enough, neither 8m th
nor any one else had been hn t bat
even the police were misled by tha tale
and two Orientals were placed under
arreat, charged with hia murder.
An indignant mob gathered oppoiete
the eating house and there was talk of
lynching. Suddenly someone threw a
rock, which smashed a front window,
and in a moment the crowd was beyond
control. Bricks and stones were need
and, when the doors had been broken,
the tables and chairs and dill ea wars
smashed. The Columbia and Alberta
restaurants were literally wrecked.
What coaid not be conveniently broken
by the few men who coaid get insida
was passed out to the atreet to the mob
in waiting, and there demolished.
At 10 o’clock a detachment of mount
ed police appeared and the crowd
scattered.
Hundreds of the riotara
merely shifted the scene of their pillag
ing. Three blocks away, opposite th*
Arlington hotel, they cleaned out an
other Chinese restaurant and badly
handled two Orientals who were cap
tured within.
Mayor Galbraith, who had rnshed to
the scene when the monnted police
were first called, delivered a speech
asking good citixeng to disperse. The
crowd listened to him and to Magistrate
Townsend, who spoke later. A ll possi
ble damage haying been done, the
crowd went home.
Five of the rioters bava been arrest
ed, bat it ia doubtful if they w ill ha
prosecuted.
O PE N H E AR TS AND P U R S E «.
San Francisco Banks Generous With
O varwo{ked Clarks
Fan Franciaco, Dec. 26.— Elated at
the calm course of bui-iueea which*
luaikttd the discontinuance of the holi*
daya, the local bankers opened their
hearts and puiaea and their clerks and
other employee were richer by $30,000
than they Were yesterday.
Almost
eveiy hank in the city reaarded its
men for the long hours of tgil during
the recent trying daya.
The Crocker National bank led off
yesterday morning, when a yellow en
velope was placed on the desk of every
employe.
It contained an amount
equivalent to one month’s salary. The
amount thus distributed exceeded $10,-
000, The Crocker interests are very
large and they rewarded « i n a similar
fashion thair employes in other lines.
Othei banka have generously treated
their men. Some added turkeyi to the
present« of gold. Others added boxes
of fruit.
The Merchants Exchange gave every
one of its employes a big, fat tnrkey.
It employes 100 people. One meican-
tile firm provided eveiy one of its em
ployes with all the things that go' to
make up a Christmas dinner— turkeys,
vegetables, fruit and piee.
The Standard Oli company distrib
uted a large sum among it« local em
ployes.
The usual Christmas dinners to the
poor, the orphans, cripples and others
began Sunday and w ill continue on a
greater scale than ever until after
Christmas.
8 P E C IA L SESSIO N PR O B AB LE .
Governor o f Utah Wants P eata As
sured at Goldfield.
Goldfield, Nev., Dec. 26.— “ I t is pos
sible that the governor will tall a spe
cial session of the legislature,” said
Captain Cox, “ if by so doing any im
mediate reslults which w ill better the
situation can lie obtained.”
The rumor has been current here
that a company of rangers is contem
plated, and, as this could not bs done
without action by the legislatme, the
statement of Captain Cox is taken to
mean that, such a plan is decided upon,
the legislature w ill be conveued.
A suit against the Western Federa
tion of Miners is to be brought by the
Goldfield Mineowners’ association in
the Federal court.
An injunction w ill
be.asked for restraining the members
of the local miners union, which is
affiliated with the Western Federation,
fiom interfering in any wey with the
operation of the mines in Goldfield.
This suit w ill be filed December 26.
It has been definitely decided that
after December 30 each individual miDe
owner or each company operating a
mine or lease, shall take care of his
own property, independent of the asso
ciation. This will necessitate the put
ting on of many more guards.
Acting President Mahoney has made
nc attempt yet to appear before the
U T E 8 RAID SO U TH E R N U TAH
mineowners and present any proposi
O LD D O C U M E N T S FO UND .
tion looking to a solation of the difficul
Pen Up Cowboys and Band o f Cattle
ties. if he has prepared any such propo
Pspsrs Taksn From Lisutsnant Pika
in Canyon.
sition, which he denies.
Coma to Light.
Salt Ixtke City, Dec. 30.— Colorado
Ute Indians are traveling In bands in
Mexico City, Dec. 26.— What la con
F LE E T A T TR IN ID AD .
Southern Utah, raiding sheep and cat sidered a very Important historical dis
tlemen, according to a report received covery has resulted (rom the efforts sf B.ttlsahips Complete First Stage o f
by Governor John C. Cutler.
Accord Dr. Hoerbert E. Belton, the Amerioan
Long Voyage.
ing to this report, a small band of In historian, who ia here engaged in re
New York, Dec. 26.— Special dis
dians attacked three cowboys near Ven- search work nnder the auspices of tha
date, Ban Joan county, on December Carnegie institute of Washington. Tha patches from Port of Bpain, island o f
23, and at the mnzxle of rifles com discovery consists in the unearthing in Trinidad, announce the arrival there of
pelled them to drive the cattle back this city of 18 ol the 21 documents tak the Atlantic fleet on its way to the Pa
into the canyon from which they were en from the possession of Lieutenant cific. The fleet is said to have passed
trailing onto the winter range, threat ZebuloD N. Pike, of the United States into the Gulf of Paia and anchored
ening to kill them nnleee they did so. army, by Spanish soldiers in 1806, there in four columns five milee off the
Cowboys and cattle are still confined to when he was captured while making town.
According to the disoatches, the only
the canyon.
his famous trip up the Arkansas and
The governor w ill take np the mat Missouri rivers, visiting the Osage and mishap on tftfe trip from Hampton
temporary
ter with the authorities at Washington, Comanche Indians, at the instance of Roads to Port of Bpain wu
iteering
as according to a ruling of the commis General James Wilkinson, then govern derangement oi the Kentuc*.
gear. They also say that L.
entire
sioner of Indian affairB the Colorado or or of Louisiana.
Southern Utes are forbidden to enter
The whereabouts of the other three fleet stopped engines for nine L ¡notes
Utah.
documents cannot be learned.
So im Btinday and half masted flags while Or
portant is the discovery considered in dinary 8eaman G. E. Piper, who died
Declares Labor Union a Trust.
the United States that Becretary Root of meningitis aboard the Alabama, waa
Cleveland, O., Dec. 30.— In the Com has just sent Dr. Belton his congratula buried.
The harbor of Port of Bpain, while
mon Pleas court today Judge Phillips tions.
well protected, is shallow for a long
held that if the allegations of the cut
distance out from the ieach and ves
Mexicans Left in Poverty.
ters and fiatteners are true, the Amal
gamated association of Window Glass
L ob Angeles, Dec. 26.— The action of sels of great draft like the battleships
The fleet w ill
Workers is an organization in restraint the transcontinental railroads in dis anchor a long way cut.
of trade. The cutters and fiatteners charging hundreds of Mexican or part remain in the harbor for several daya
brought suit to enjoin the association Mexican laborers during the weeks pie- and will coal there. Supplies w ill also
from expelling them for accepting em ceding Christmas has given rise to a be taken on hoard of the supply ship
ployment in factories where machinery pitiable condition of poverty among thia Culgoa and the refrigerator ship Glacier.
is used in their work. The cutters and
fiatteners assert that the expulsion
clause, if enforced, deprives them of an
occupation.
very numerous class of people.
It ia
estimated that about 800 men in all
were let out.
Most of them have fam
ilies, and nearly all were without money
when discharged. I t is estimated that
about 600 ablebodied Mexicans with
Attack on Wslla-Fargo.
Ban Francisco, Dec. 30.— Before In their families are destitute in this city
teratate Commerce Commissioner F. K. at the present.
Lane tomorrow charges ol illegal rate
Find Bodies by Hundred.
making made against the Wells-Fargo
Express company by the California
Jaobs Creek, Pa., Deo. 28.— Rapid
Commerce association w ill be heard. progress is being made in the removal
The Commerce association, composed of of bodies from tbs Darr mine. A ll of
prominent drygoods houses in the city, the entries, except No. 27, have been
alleges that the express company has cleared and a total of 124 bodies
violated the interstate commerce law of brought from the mine. A number of
1906 in charging more than the pub other bodies have been located and it is
lished rate, and that it has kept the expected that they w ill be bronght to
rate* filed with the commieeion hidden the surface daring the night. In entry
from the public, contrary to the law.
No. 29, where the explnelon apparently
took place, numerous bodies were found.
Will Liquidsta With Profit.
The pit cars were blown to pieces.
It
New Orleans, Dec. 30.— " A l l h ddere is said fully 100 bodies w ill be removed
of stock in the State National hank from entry No. 27, as yet nnexpiored.
w ill receive from $160 to $200 per
Turkey May Have Famine.
share for their stock and all depositors
will be paid in full,” was the official
Bo ton, Dec. 28. — The American
announcement today of W. Sparkerson, boa id of commissioners for foreign mis
counsel for the institution, whose di sions has raceived advices from the in
rector* have railed a stockholders’ terior of Turkey showing unusually se
meeting to decide whether the bank vere famine conditions.
Bread is
shall go out of buainese. The bank has double its former price and other necee-
been declared solvent by National Bank sitiee are four or five times higher than
Examiner Cooper.
16 years ago.
The British consul at
Bitlia reports that several hnndred per
Radical DaciaiotvJn Hamburg.
sons in the Monsh plain and Bnlarik
Hamburg, Dec. 30.— The suit of the districts probably will starve daring the
harbor authorities against the Port- winter unless relieved soon.
workers’ anion, growing out of the re
Telephones for Submarines.
cent dock strike, has resulted in a de
cision of the widest importance against
Pari*, Dec. 28.— Following elaborate
the latter. The union ia forbidden in experiments to prevent the recurrence
the fntnre to interfere with the intro ol accidents to anhmarine vessels, the
duction of strike breakers, end a penal minister of the navy has issued order«
ty of 1,600 marks Is provided for each that all submarine« b* fitted out with
instance in which a conviction ia ob detachable tele phot.* booys, which, in
tained on the charge. The union haa case of accident w il' permit of commu
entered an appeal.
nication with th « variate.
•
N e g ro «* Begin Suite.
New York, Drc. 30.— Papera in a
case to test thè legality of thè disrharge
if thè private of componi*« B, C and D
of thè 25tta United State« infantry (eoi-
ored), following thè disnrderi in IL «
•frotta cf Brownsville a year ago, havs
bssn preparrd by a law A ro of tbi* city.
Triumph oi Roosevelt.
London, Dec. 36.— The Tims* In an
editorial this morning discos*«« th«
prospect ot peace in Central America
resulting from the peace conference
held at Washington, which It regard«
•• • great triumph tor President Roose
velt’« diplomacy.
Reduce Entire Force.
Saciamento, Dec. 25.— That there fe
to be a great reduction of the force em
ployed in the local railroad shops after
the first of the year waa admitted yes
terday hy officials of the company, who
say that the retrenchment is to be gen
eral on the Harriman system.
In an
interview, an official said;
“ The or
ders for the general layoff Christmas
week came from New York, not San
Franciaco, and apply to the entire sys
tem, not Sacramento alone. It is pure
ly an economical measure, paving the
way for a reduction ol force.”
Indicted Officiala Giva Bail.
Helena. Mont., Dec. 26.— Still an-
otbei indictment of a Federal official
was made public yesterday when A. 8.
Hovey, a former draughtsman in the
Uniteli States surveyor general’s office
in thia city, but who was recently trans
ferred to a similar position in Portland,
Or., gave bond for hia appearance at a
date later to be fixed. Hovey is indict
ed on two charges— conspiring with O.
C. Dallas, the chief clerk of the office,
and the forgery of field notes to m thing
claims. Dallas and.McLeod, who have
already been arrested, also gay« bonds.
Largest in Navy
Troy, N. Y ., Dec. 26.— Order* have
been received at Waterviiet arsenal for
two of the new type 14-inch coast gura.
The work w ill be commenced January
1. The guns will he the first of thia
type ever made in this country.
The
14-inch weapon is about 40 feet long
and weighs about 50 tons. It throwa a
heavier projectile than the 12-inch grin
to a greater distance. The 14-inrh tuba
will In time supplant the 12-inch riff*
on the taa coast.
Denver Begins to Pay.
Denver, Dec. 28.— The first install
ment ($25.000) of the $100,000 fund
pledged to tha Democratic National
committee by the Den vet Convention
league was forwarded yesterday to
Chairman Thomsa Taggart, at French
Lick, Ind. The remainder w ill be paid
In equal inatallmente on January 33,
February 32, and March 33.