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1 — Washington County Hews D O ING S iN C O N G RESS. ARE BEATEN BACK Thursday, January 26. The agricultural appropriation bill U »ated Each Week waa considered in the house today, but the debate turned principally upon the FOREST GROVE.______OREGON topic of restricting railroads in the matter of freight rates. The house adopted a joint resolution appropriat- j ing $40,000 to defray the expenses of , the senate in conducting the trial of Judge Swayne. The senate passed the army appro priation bill after modifying the provis ion concerning the assignment of retired army officers to active service with m il itia organizations. This w ill relieve Battle Carried On in Blizzard by Jap A n e w m e o f the Lees Important but General Miles from its application, anese When Forced to Fight j The bill transferring the control of Not Less Interesting Events to Save Position. forest reservations from the interior to o f the Past Week. the agricultural department was passed. Russian Advance Ends in Dis astrous Defeat. NEWS OF THE WEEK AWFUL SUFFERING OF SOLDIERS in a Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. Three would-be assassins of the czar have been captured. A number of senators are opposing the Malheur irrigation bill. The Japanese have captured another veeselb ound for Vladivostok with con traband of war. The federal grand jury working on Oregon land fraud cases is still grind ing out indictments. Thirty-six Russian refugees from Port Arthur on their way to Chefoo in a junk were ¿aught by a storm and drowned. Grand Duke Vladim ir defends the action of the Russian government and says she has not deserved the fierce ex ecrations of the world. Russian officers declare before the North sea commission that they saw torpedo boats of a foreign country among the fishing boats. Governor Deneen ruges the Illinois legislature to appropriate sufficient money for the Lewis and Clark fair to enable a buildng to be erected. In the Colorado election contest case Peabody urges that all fraud-tainted precinct returns be thrown out. A number of ballots from precincts out side of Denver have been examined and found to have been made out in the same handwriting. The provincial council as warned the czar to grant freedom or hate his crown. Friday, January 27. The Swayne impeachment case was brought up in the senate today and af ter several preliminaries bad been ar range»! the time for the real trial was set for February 13. The rest of the day was spent ia considering the joint statehood bill. Gallinger addressed the senate in support of bis amend ment prohibiting the sale of intoxicat ing liquors to Indians. The house today passe»! the agricul tural appropriation! bill without ma terial amendment. The usual discus sion on the free seed distribution was indulged in. The house committee on naval affairs today decide»! that the bill should provide for two battle ships of 16,000 tons each. Three were asked for. The bill carries approximately $100,070,000. Saturday, Jan. 28. Eulogies upon the departure of the late Henator Hoar, of Massachusetts, particularly engrossed the attention of the senate today. There were 16 speeches by as many senators. After the conclusion of the memorial serv ices the senate adjourned out of respect to the dead senator’s memory. In a session of less than two hours today the house passe»l 373 pension bills and received for the calendar the naval and diplomatic appropriation bills. The session was devoted to leg islation entirely devoid of discussion. Tokio, Jan. 31. — The troope which twice captured Port Arthur, once from the Chinese and then again from the Russians, have administered a defeat to General Kuropatkin’s army from which it cannot possibly recover during the winter. Field Marshal Oyama has sent a dispatch to the imperial headquar ters indicating that the conquerors of Port Arthur were sent by him to meet the enemy in the bloody battle just de cided, owing to their long practice un der arms and their tried ability to withstand the hardships of the awful Manchurian winter. The result of the struggle so far has proved th e ’wis dom of his course. Every dispatch received from the front tells of winter horrors such as no other battling army ever had to contend with. Many inches of snow cover the country as far as the eye can see. The ridges are snow-capped. Avalanche upon avalanche has tumbled into the trenchs, inflicting untold suffering upon the soldiers therein. Field Marshal Ovama’s dispatches have convinced the m ilitary authori ties here that he was by no means anx ious to engage in the battle, and, in fact, permitted the Russians to take several positions in his vicinity to save the troops from the unspeakable strain of fighting in the storm. But the Rus sian advance was made withh such en ergy and determination by large bodies of troops occupying miles of ground that Oyama finally decided to accept the challenge. A large portion of General Nogi’ s army, both his regulars and his re serves, were placed in the vanguard. Among them were thousands of veterans of the C'hino-Japanese war, who, hav ing done service in Manchuria in the winter, were able to make progress and use their arms where less seasoned troops would have been paralzyed. The victory gained over the fcuasian right army is considered here even a greater feat than was the capture of Port Arthur, for, while the battle raged, there were no trenches to seek protection in and every shot of the enemy was made more deadly by the indescribable cold. For this reason the news from the front that Field Mar shal Oyama is now following up his advantage with relentless energy has been received with amazement. Monday, January 30. Russians accuse British of inciting The senate today agreed to vote on the riots and Great Britain has asked the joint statehood bill before adjourn for an explanation. ment on Tuesday, February 7, the A canvass of the Denver vote in the amendments to lie considered on that Colorado contest shows one-third of the date under the ten-minute rule. The ballots to 1« fraudulent. larger part of the day was occupied in The thermometer in Manchuria general debate on the statehood b ill. where the fighting is now in progress Fulton offered amendment!/ to the In dian appropriation b ill referring to the registers 20 degrees below zero. court of claims of Chinook and Cath- The residence of Governor Trepoff, lamet Indians; also conveying title to of 8t. Petersburg, was almost demol persons who have purchased grazing ished by a bomb. The governor was lands from the Umatilla Indians. absent. A lter a protracted debate the house It is believed that Kuropatkin re adopted the conference report on the ceived orders from Ht. Petersburg to as executive, legislatve and judicial appro sume the offensive or else he would not priation b ill. As agree»l to the bill have moved against the Japanese at Carries $29,132,242. A bill was passed dividing the state of Washington into present. two judicial districts, the Eastern and Twenty members o f the Chicago Western. The bill extending to the Commercial cslub have gone to Cuba, Philippines the provisions of the revis C IT Y O F BLOOD. where they will devote two weeks to ed statutes concerning the extradition studying the commercial possibilities of fugitives from justice was passed. of the island. Battle Rages in Warsaw Streets with No Respect to Age or Sex, Kdwin Stone, of Albany, manager of Tuesday, January 3l. the Corvallis A Eastern raliroad, was . Warsaw, Jan. 31.— Another day anil The senute today continued the con assaulted and the room in which he was half a night of horrors have passed. asleep set on fire. The flames were sideration of the joint statehood full As this dispatch is sent, the city is not discovered until, with the injuries with Nelson as the principal speaker. ruled by savage mobs and more savage received from the assailant, they proved A number of bills were passed, includ soldiers. Both are intent upon killing. fatal. There is no clew to the inur ing one largely increasing the fees for No official statements are obtainable at stock companies in the Ditsrict of Co derer. this hour, hut when the cost in human lumbia. lives comes to l>e counted there w ill be The naval appropriation bill provides In the house the semate amendments found dead by the hundreds— men, ever 1100,000,000. to the army appropriation bill were women and children. The Prussian government has ap disagreed to and the bill was sent to Everybody— young and old, men, conference. Williams, (Dem ., Miss.) pointed a commission to investigate the women and children— was attacked by started a lengthy debate by bringing up coal strike. the soldiers and ruthlessly shot down. the treatment by General Miles of One soldier aimed a sabre blow at a Chile has refused to sell war vessels Jefferson Davis, president of the Con woman. In self defense she drew a re to an American firm, presumably for federacy, when he was a prisoner at volver and fired a shot, which went one of the nations now at war in the Fortress Monroe. The nostoffice ap wild. A second later a volley was di Far East. propriati! n bill was d< bated for an rected at her, and she fell dead, riddled Secretary Taft wants a reduction of hour. by a score of bullets. This is but one tariff on Philippine products and de of a hundred instances. clares the islands w ill ultimately be May Shelve Statehood Bill. For the most part the soldiers who given their independence. Washington, Jan. 27. — Numerous rode and tramped through the streets Syin|>athizcrs with the Russian strik conferences were held on the floor of during the late afternoon of Monday ers marched through the streets of the senate today regarding a vote on were drunk. They seemed to take a Boston with a red flag, but they were the statehood bill. An effort was made particular delight in attacking harmless not not allowed to make speeches. to get Senator Beveridge to agree to persons. They killed for the mere some order for voting on amendments. sake of killing. People fleeing from Ht. Petersburg He saiil he was not oppnse»l to such an for safety say the present half-calm is argeement and further, that he did not All Agree with Hay. only a periisl of prejiaration for greater care much whether a vote was had on Berlin, Jan. 31.— The Russian gov resistance to the government and that the statehood bill at the present ses active smuggling of arms and dynamite sion. W ith 12 new senators coming ernment’ s reply to China's declaration is going on across the Austrian frontier. in with the opening of the next con that she has not infringed neutrality, nor |>ermitteil Japan to do so, is a reas The president has issued an order, gress, he said, he felt that the bill sertion that she has done so. The Rus would be passed in its set form. effective March 1, taking into the com sian note is such that it is inferred petitive classified service all customs that Russia is not likely to carry the Will Now Build. service positions in Alaska, except discussion milch further. It is learned tlnsie restricted to navigation season $ Sacramento, Jan. 27. — The lyrwis here that Russia found that all the ami Clark appropriation bill, which powers, particularly Germany, held only. passe» 1 the senate on Monday by a views identical with those of the The Russian strike has spread in unanimous vote, today passed the Unite»! States on lim iting the zone Poland and Baltic cities. assembly. It w ill be signed by the gov of war and the keeping China out of A plot against the life of the czar has ernor as anon as it can lie engroese»!. it. The money appropriate») by this bill, been frustrated. with the appropriation of two years ago, Run Down by Cavalry. Pealssly declares he w ill conitnue $90,000 in all, w ill be inime»liately the contest for governor to the end. London, Jan. 31.— The foreign office available, uniter the direction of Gov has received a telegram from Consul The new cruiser Maryland exceeded ernor Pardee, who is authorized to act Gneral Murray, at Warsaw, reporting speed requirements on her trial trip. in hia own diacretion. that himself and Vice Consul Mucu- Officials in charge of the canal zone kain were charged by RiiseianI cavalry Illinois Will Exhibit. are employing drastic measures to men engaged in clearing the streets of Springfield, 111., Jan. 27.— With the Warsaw. It ap|>ears that Mr. Murray stamp out yellow fever. The cabinet has diaruaaed the advisa sanction and official approval of gov is partially deaf, and when he endeav bility of teaching jiu-jitsu in the m ili ernor Deneen, a bill w ill be introduced ored to make known his personality, it in both branches of the general assem was without avail. Ambassador Hard, tary and naval academies bly next Monday providing for an ap inge has been ordered to make urgent labor Commissioner Wright says he propriation of $36,000 for an Illinois pr»»test at Ht. Petersburg. fielieves both sides were to blame in building at the Is»wis and Clark cen the Colorado labor trouble tennial expnaition which w ill open next Beef Trust a Monopoly. June at Portland, Oregon. Along witM Washington. Jan. 31.— The supreme Workmen in Russia are returning to the bill w ill be presented a special mes court of the United States today decid- work, the government forcing conces sage from Govenor Deneen. ed the Unite«l States vs. Swift A Co., sions from their employers in Ht. known as the beef trust case, charging Petersburg and Moscow Burning the Factories. conspiracy among the packers to fix Father Gopon, th priest leader of the Guidon, Jan. 27.— A dispatch from prices on fresh meats and like products. strikers, is in the hospital recovering Ht. Petersburg late tonight to a news The opinion was handed down by from wounils. As si sin as well he w ill agency here reports that Fahl’a factory Justice Holmes an<i affirmed the de be court martialed ami if found guilty and a large cotton m ill have been set on cision of the court below, which was w ill be hanged, firs and are burning flarcly. against the packers. C O L D K IL L S TH E W OUNDED. Stream o f Sufferers Pours Into Muk den—Japanese Spread Dissension Mukden, Feb. 1.— Constant streams of wounded men are arriving here from the right flank, including* Lieutenant General Mistchenko, who is in excel lent spirits and is receiving visitors. According to the official army organ, the wounded number 3,500. The cold is intense and the condition of the wounded causes the greatest anxiety, because the exposure of their wounds to the frost induces gangrene. The Japanese are taking goof care to see that the Russian rank and file are not left uninformed regarding the dis turbances in Russia. They are carry ing on a regular campaign to spread se dition and discouragement among the troops. Letters are daily thrown with in the Russian lines declaring that all Russia is aflame with riot and revolt, arguing that the soldiers are shedding their blood in vain, and calling on them to surrender or desert. The sol diers eagerly read and discuss these communications, especially accounts of the events at Ht. Petersburg January 22. GIVES U P A T T E M P T . Kuropatkin Will Not Try to Break Through Oyama's Line. Mukden, Feb. 1.— There is no appar ent connection between starting of the battle of January 26 and the domestic excitement at Ht. Petersburg, nor the orders just issued to abandon the plan ned advance against the Japanese posi tions. The effect of the trouble in Russia is as yet inperceptible here. The facts are not generally known. Officers possessing information of oc currences at home say that the disaf fected are probably using the present war as a pretext for their periodical demonstrations, which are regarded no more seriously that formerly. The commander in chief’ s orders to abandon the advance are reported to reasons for stopping the advance: First, the losses sustained: second, the failure of a quick attack upon which the advance' depended. The precise meaning of the above is not apparent. Notwithstanding the o r '“ r to cease, a tenacious conflict continues in the vicinity of Sanchiapu, a fortified out post on the Japanese left, where it is reporte»l the Russians have taken the outer works. T O W N S ON IR R IG ATE D LAND French Proposes to Sell Lots Water Rights fo r Fund. and Washington, Feb. 1 . — Representa tive French, of Idaho, today introduced a bill authorizing the secretary of the interior to withdraw from entry any public lands needed for townsite pur- lioseH in connection with any irrigtion project under the national irrigation law and to subdivide them into lots. Such lots shall be sold at public auc tion to the highest bidder for cash, the proceeds to be expended for the con struction of water and sewer systems and other municipal improvements and for payment for rights to the use of water. Money so expended for muni cipal improvements shall be repaid by the town authorities in 20 annual in stallments into the reclamation fund. The secretary may sell rights to the use of water available under the recla mation act for domestic, fire and other purposes to any city or town establish ed as above provided, and also to other cities or towns. DEAD IN HEAPS. Warsaw Streets Full o f Human Bodies as Result o f Battle. Warsaw, Feb. 1. — More blood has been shi-il in the streets of Warsaw during Tuesday and early Wednesday morning. The number of strikers is increasing, and conditions throughout the city are fast becoming chaotic. The worst disturbances occurred in the suburbs, while the city proper was somewhat more quiet. Many streets in the city pro|>er are like chanel houses. In some disticts the dead lie in heaps, as it has lieen impossible to bury them all. Author ities admit that at least 700 corpses are still in the streets. They are pu trefying fast, and in some quarters the stench is becoming unbearable. Can't Collect Old Debts. Washington, Feb. 1.— A ll the mem- t>ers of the cabinet wen- present at the meeting today except Secretaries Hay and Wilson, the former still being con fined to his home by a severe cold. Again the president emphasized his in terest in the arbitration treaties pend ing before the senate. He holds that the opponents of the treaties are pro ceeding on wrong premises in maintain ing that they may he used by foreign countries as a basis for action against certain of the Southern states in the collection of old claims. Must Obey the Court. Washington, Feb. 1.— It can be said by authority that unless the corpora tions constituting the alleged beef trust shall heed the injunction made perma nent yesterday by the decision of the supreme court of the United States, the government w ill institute proceed ings against the individual members of the corporations to enforce the decision of the court. The proceedings w ill he tinder the criminal law. if such can he instituted. Carrying Out New Forestry Law. Washington. Feb. 1.— By order of the president, the forest division of the general lan»l office was abolisbe»! today, and its work w ill he continued by the bureau of forestry of the de partment of agriculture, under Chief Forester Gifforti Pinchot. — .. ------------ — ---------------------------------------------- ~w ' T OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST IN TH E LE G IS LA TU R E . Salem, Jan. 25.— A score of bills dealing with the salaries of state and county officers have been introduced in the house, and more are to follow. The most important of all is the bill for flat salaries for state officers. Speaker M ills was absent today and Bailey, of Multnomah, was elected speaker for the day. Thirteen bills were passed by the house, of which eight related to charter amendments or incorporation acts. Twenty-eight new measures were pro posed. In the senate eighteen bills were passed, a large majority relating to municipalities. One appropriates $45,000 for Indian war veterans. Eight new bills where introduced. The house passed a concurrent reso lution asking an investigation of the methods by which the Northern Pacific railway secured 400,000 acres of Ore gon timber lands. The house w ill pass a bill to grant each county a prosecuting attorney and do away with district attorneys. Representative 8teiner, of Lake, has a b ill intended to end range wars. It forces the county in which the damage is committed to pay one-half of the value of the stock injured or destroyed. The senate went on record to»lay against making trainrobberv punish able by death. A bill fixing imprison ment at not less than 10 nor more than 40 years was favorably reported. Salem, Jan. 26.— That the legisla ture w ill not adjourn short of a 40 days session was indicated today when the house voted down the resolution for final adjournment February 10. A large number of bills were favor» ably reported to the house by the vari ous committees to which they had been assigned. Twelve new bills were intro duced. Three house bills were passed, as follows: To extend time for Cottage Grove to give notice of tax levy; to authorize Clatsop county to erect a court house; for deficiency and legis lative appropriations. The senate con- cured in the adoption of the house con current resolution to investigate North ern Pa ific land transactions. Fifteen senate bills were passed by the senate, among them being: Increasing the penalty for train robbery to imprison ment for 10 to 40 years; to create juve nile courts and provide for control of neglected children; to apppropriate $25,000 for the operation of the port age road at C elilo; to appropriate $45,- 000 for the Indian war veterans. Eleven new bills were introduced in the senate. * At the close of today's session 179 bills had been introduced in the senate and 281 in the house. K ay’ B flat salary bill passed the house today with only two opposing votes. The yearly sal aries proposed by this measure are: Governor $5,000; secretary of state $4,- 500; state treasurer $4,500; supreme judge $4,500; attorney general $3,600. trict with Wasco. Strong opposition will develop in the senate, where the Wasco people have centered their forces. Nine other measures were passed by the house. • Th Jayne local option bill w ill be amended by eliminating the emergency clause and the reduction of the number of voters required on a petition for a prohibition election from 40 to 30 per cent of the electors of a precinct. Comparatively few salary bills have been introduced in the senate thus far, but it is known that others w ill be in troduced later. As a rule these bills being local, they pass without question upon the recommendation of the dele gation from the counties affected. Salem, Jan. 31.— A bill was intro duced in the senate today to suppress poolseiling and poolrooms. Eleven other new measures were introduced. Nine bills were passed, one of them appropriating $15,000 for fish hatcher ies. This bill has already passed the house. The senate b ill authorizing the Lewis and Clark fair corporation to condemn private property was passed by the house. Ten new bills were introduced in the house, one of them being the anti- cigarette bill, identical with that intro duced in the senate. The house rejected the senate con current resolution for a joint assembly tomorrow to consider a constitutional convention. This stops any further possibilities of a constitutional conven tion. Electric bells at railroad crossings is the object of a bill introduced in the house today. They are to be of suffi cient weight and sound to lie heard 100 yards and are to be placed at every crossing where a public road crosses a railway track where the view is ob structed either way. The house committee on mining fa vors the passage of the b ill relieving such mining companies of thp annual license tax as have an annual output of less than $1,000. A new bill in the house provides that all sheep driven into the state for pas turage shall lie taxed 20 cents a head and 5 censt a head shall lie paid for each county through which the sheep are driven. The Cascade county b ill w ill appear in the senate tomorrow or Thursday. Talk New Railroad. Tillamook— Another railroad propo sition has been made to the citizens by Mr. Simmons, who says he is backed by Portland capital, to giçe Tillamook county railroad connections. He made a proposition to build a standard guage railroaiLfrom either Forest Grove or North Yam hill, and have it constructed within one year, provided the citizens could get a 100-foot right of way, give $35,000 subsidy and a suitable site for a depot in this city. It is the inten tion to extend the line, provided it is Salem, Jan. 27.— Nineteen bills were built to this city, to Netarts bay. passed by the senate today. Twelve Church Colpny fo r Oregon. new bills were introduced. The house Spokane — The People’ s United passe»! 21 of its measures. A bill has made its appearance in the church, at the head of which is Bishop senate intended to regulate the frater David N. Mclnturff, is to be disrupted in Spokane and a colony formed in Ore nal insurance orders in the state. Bishop M cln The Coe measure raising the age of gon or the Big Bend. consent has been unfavorably reported turff has made arrangements to pur by the committee and a substitute re chase 5,000 acres of land in one of the ported favorably. It is thought the places named, and every member of the church w ill move to the new colony new bill w ill pass. The bill providing for agricultural after turning over all his worldly pos institutes and carrivng a $2,500 appro sessions to the church. The church priation passed the house with votes to has now $50,000 or $60,000. spare. Little Wheat is Left Over. Salem, Jan. 30. — Sixteen new bills Pendleton — E. W . McComis, agent were introduced in the senate today. for the Puget Sound Warehouse com One prohibits the sale of cigarettes to pany in this city, says that there is minors and makes the use of them by only between 150,000 and 200,000 bush a person under 16 years a juvenile de els of wheat left in the county out of linquency which may be dealt with the 5,000,000 grown in Umatilla county under the juvenile law. Another is to last year. Nearly every farmer keeps approppriate $50,000 annually for nor a supply of seed on hand, even for fall mal schools. sowing, in case of the grain freezing Nine bills were passed by the senate. out. This seed is included in the One of these is the bill raising the sal amount left in the county unsold. ary of the assistant warden of the peni tentiary from $900 to $1,200 a year. Union Farm Sells fo r $18,000. Another raises the salary of the clerk Union— The sale of 400 acres of hay of the state land tioard from $1,800 to land to W illiam Hutchinson by Floyd $2,400 a year. Wilson has been reported here. The In the house the bill creating a state land brought $45 an acre, a total of tax commission looking to a revision of $18,000, paid in cash. This is the the tax code was passed. The b ill cre second largest land sale made in this ating Cascade county was passed. section this winter, the Nichols tract, Hood River is given as the county which sold for $54,000 cash, being en seat. It the new county is created it titled to first place. w ill be in the judicial district with Multnomah and joint legislative dis- Union County's Hog. La Grande— The big Union county Will Abandon Contests. hog which is being fattened by Kiddle Ajax— Few nf the score-odd contests Bros, at Island City for the Lewis and instituted against Gilliam county set Clark fair, which weighed 900 pounds tlers in the vicinity at the instance of a few months ago when purchased from W illiam Tw illey, of D evil’s butte, w ill Sam Brooks, now weighs 1,000 ponnds, probably be carried to trial, most of and continues to grow fatter. It is in the contestors having realized that sen tended to make it weigh more than the timent in this community and in the prize St. Louis fair hog. county generally is against them. In the oast six weeks 22 homesteads in the PO R TLAN D M ARKETS. Ajax section have been contested. Three or four were heard at The Dalles W h ea t— W alla W’ alla, 83c; blue- and the rest were set for hearing before stem, 88c; valley, 87c. the Gilliam county clerk at Condon. Oats— No. 1 white, $ 1 .3 2 * # 2 .3 5 , Feeling isbitter against Tw illey. gray, $1.35(31.40 per cental. Hay— Timothy, $14016 per ton; Not Much Snow in the Hills. clover, $11012; grain, $11012; cheat, Pendleton— The melting snows and $12(313. falling rains of the past few days has Potatoes — Oregon fancy, 86(390c; filled the streams of the county. Water common, 800 75c. is now plentiful enough to run all Apples— Baldwins, $1.25; Spitsen- mills that have heretofore suffered by bergs, $1.7502 per box. the dryness of the fall. Irrigationists Eggs— Oregon ranch, 27028c. are fearing that there w ill not be a Butter— Fancy creamery, 25030c. sufficient quantity of snow in the Hope— Choice, 270 28c; prime, 26« mountains to insure a flow of water per pound. through the summer. Usually there W ool — Valley, 19020c; Eastern is from five to six feet at Kamela, hut Oiegon, 10017c; mohair, 25026c per now there is but a few inch««. pound.