Image provided by: Washington County Cooperative Library Service; Hillsboro, OR
About Washington County news. (Forest Grove, Washington County, Or.) 1903-1911 | View Entire Issue (March 23, 1905)
Washington Cunt; News D O IN G S IN CO N G RESS. W e d n e sd a y , M a r c h 16. Issued Bach Week EXPLODING BOILERS Republican leaders of the senate are all at sea respecting the action ad visable to take in regard to the Santo FOREST GROVE..........OREGON Domingo treaty. Recognizing that the Democrats control more than one-third of the votes, and that two-thirds are required to ratify the convention, the Republican leaders think that the treaty should he withdrawn by the president. On this subject the senate and the president do not agree, and the idea prevails that, after one or two days more of inconsequential discussion, the special session of the senate w ill be S h o e F a c t o ry S w a r m 'n g W ith P e o p le A R e su m e o f the L e s s Im p ortan t but allowed to adjourn without date, and R ip p e d A s u n d e r by B u r s t in g N e t L e s s In te re stin g E v e n ts the treaty lapse. But this plan is not B o ile r a n d B u rn e d . o f the P a s t W eek. popular in the senate and a way to avoid it is being sought. Kill at Least Sixty Persons at Brockton, Massachusetts. NEWS OF THE WEEK THEIR BODIES ARE CREMATED In a Condensed Form for Onr Busy Readers. Strikes and peasant revolts are being renewed in Russia. T h u r s d a y , M a r c h 16. Senator Morgan occupied practically Japan is raising the sunken Russian the entire time in opposition to the ships at Port Arthur. Santo Dominpo treaty in the executive The president has announced his in- session of the senate today. te ition to change thecanalcommission. A new plan suggested is to let the Kuropatkin l as been appxiinted com whole matter go over until the next mander of the First Manchurian army. regular session of congress, when a joint resolution w ill be passed to authorize Russian bureaucrats are being driven the president to do the very things that to make peace by terms dictated foi a are proposed by the treaty. new Fn n 'h loan. The United States government has tailed for arbitration of the Venezuelan dispute, with the alternative of force. Over 3,000 men live been thrown out of emplofment as the result of the shut down of the Ifavemeyer sugar refinery in Brooklyn. A island has risen in the sea of Jap. .»used by the action of a vol cano.* - The mikado’s Hag has been raised on its top, which has a circum ference of two and three-fourths miles. Although the cit> ordinances of New York forbid the erection of brick and stone buildings in frosty weather, some 75 fiat buildings have been finished since January 1, and now that the mor tar is thawing they are falling down. News of another crushing blow to the Russian army is being withheld. A Chicago judge says a woman has a right to kill her husband in self- defense. Italy has sent a warship to Santo Domingo to demand the payment of her claims. An addition is being built to Presi dent Roosevelt’ s summer home at Sag amore H ill, L. I. F rid a y , M a r c h 17. In the executive session of the senate today Morgan continued his speech of yesterday. He spoke until 4:45 p. m., when Foraker took the floor in defense. Adjournment is looked for tomorrow. It is not determined whether the treaty w ill be recommitted or whether it will be allowed to lapse without action of any kind. Senator Spooner discussed brieflly the rlations between the Philpipines and tliis country, and said he believed the time would come when the islands would have their own government. S a tu rd a y , M a r c h 18. The special session of the senate was at 3:30 today adjourned without day. A ll the nominations sent in were con firmed with the exception of five, the most important of which was that of Judge James Wickersham to succeed himself as judge of the District court of Alaska. Several unimportant treat ies were ratified, but beyond these mat ters no legislative business was tr a n s acted. Most of the session was devoted to the Santo Domingo treaty and at ad journment no action had been taken on the matter and it was allowed to re main on the calendar. The war party in Russia is caricatur ing Rojsevelt and trying to draw France and Germany into war. C H E C K P U T O N D E F IC IE N C IE S . The governor of Viborg province, :n Southern Russia, has been mortally C o n g r e s s P r o v id e s A g a in s t E x p e n d i wounded by a terrorist. tu re s in E x c e s s o f A p p ro p r ia t io n s . Two masked men held up messengers Washington, March 20.— One of the of the Pacific Coast Oil company near wisest acts of the late congress was the Berkeley, Cal., and secured $10,000. insertion of a provision in the general The Chicago council has taken away deficiency bill that became a law on the franchise of the largest street rail March 3, that hereafter deficiencies way,. The property is valued at $36,- shall not be created except upon some great emergency. Officers of the gov 0 0 0 , 000. ernment have been altogether too free One of the most perplexing questions in making contrats and purchases with confronting the administration is the out regard to the appiopriations on Panama canal. It is admitted that the hand, trusting that the deficiencies commission is a failure. would he supplied. When a deficiency bill amounts to The United Statos court of claims has awarded the Cherokee Indians the enormous figure of $31,000,000, it $4,500,000 for lands secured in 1838 gives the members of congress some but never entirely paid for. Of this cause for alarm, and it seems some amount $1 ,111,284 is principal and the method was necessary to compel officers not to make these enormous expendi balance interest. tures for which no provision of congress Chinese complain of outrages by Jap had been made. The creating of defi an *se. ciencies was in a way unlawful, and if There is a great rush of homeseekers congress desired, it could repudiate from all parts of the East to the North these expenditures. But very seldom has any just expenditure been refused west. in a deficiency bill, although sometimes Porch, a small town near Hobart, criticised. Oklahoma, has been wrecked by a cy clone. S m a ll H o p e f o r K u r o p a t k in . The armored cruiser Washington has London, March 17. — The advices been launched at the Camden, N. J., from the Far East are believed here to ship yard. indicate that Genebral Kuropatkin and Secretary Hay’ s health has broken his forces in Manchuria w ill he forced down and he may resign. He has gone to surrender to the Japanese within a to Europe for a rest. very short time. The correspondent of Root. Taft and Knox are three strong the London Daily Mail at St. Peters Republicans who are already being burg, tplegraphing late last night, says spokenh of as the next candidate for that advices received by the Russian war office indicate that a very large president. force of Japanese have succeeded in French faith in Russia's ability to carrying out Marshal Ovama’ s envelop cope with the Japanese has lieen severe ing movement and is now far to the ly shaken by the latest defeats to the northward of the fleeing Russiaa col umns. czar’s arms. The Missouri legislature elected W il P e a b o d y is Se a te d . liam Warner, Republican, of Kansas Denver, March 17. — James H. Pea City, United States senator to succeed body today won his contest for the Francis M. Cockrell. office of governor, from which he re Oyama announces that he will enter tired on January 10 after serving a Harbin on April 10 and that Vladi term of two years, but his victory was vostok w ill also be in possession of the achieved only after he had given his Japanese on that date. pledge to resign and surrender the A special wire w ill run from Pott- chair to Lieutenant Governor Jesse F. land to the W hite house and by press McDonald. The vote in joint conven ing a button the president w ill open tion of the general assembly by which Governor Alva Adams was ousted and the Lewis and Clark fair next June. Governor James H. Peabody installed r.x-oenator Hawley, of Connecticut, was 55 to 41. Ten Republicans voted is dead. with the Democrats for Adams. The czar is breaking down under the C a lls P e a s a n try to A r m s . continued nervous strain. Paris, March 17.— Father Gopon, the The Japanese are pursuing the Rus leader of the St. M ersbu rg workmen sians beyond T ie pass and are inflicting in the demonstration of January 22, terrible loss. who, according to the Tribune Russ, is Twenty thousand prisoners were cap still hiding in France, has issi e l an tured by the Japanese when T ie pass other stirring appeal to the Russian peasantry, calling on them to follow was taken. the directions of the revolutionary com The Japanese minister to the United bative committee, forgetting all differ States denies any danger of his govern ences of religion and race, and rise as one man, armed for a general insurrec meut going to war with this country. tion against czar ism. Governor Peabody resigned as gov ernor of Colorado as agreed and Lieu B o m b f o r P o b ie d o n o stse ff. tenant Governor McDonald has stepped Linden, March 17.— A dispatch from in. St. Peterswburg to the News agency re An entire division of Russians have been cut off from the main army and its capture is certain. The main body is also in grave danger of being cut off from Harbin. ports that late last night a bomb ex ploded on the tramway line close to the residence of M . Pobiedonostseff, pro curator of the H oly Synod. No one was injured. Brockton, Mass., March 21.— At leas: 60 persons were killed early today by the explosion of a boiler in a large shoe manufacturing establishment in the Campbell district conducted by the R. B. Grover company. The explosion was immediatey followed by a Hash of Uame which consumed the factory, a long, four-story structure, as if it were a house of cards, and incinerated an unknown number of men and women who were unable to extricate them selves from the mass of tangled wreck age formed by the terrific upheaval in the boiler room. More than 50 of the employes in the building were maimed, burned or bruised by the time they reached safe ground. The fire extended from the factory to seven other buildings in the vicinity and destroyed them. One of these buildings was a three-story wooden block, the others being cottages of small value and a blacksmith shop. The wooden dwellings near the engine room were practically demolished by the flying boiler, but none of their oc cupants were seriously injured. The total financial loss is estimated at $250,000, $200,000 of which falls on the R. B. Grover company. It may never be known just how many persons perished in the wreckage. No one knows exactly how many per sons were in the factory. The number has been estimated at 400, but Treas urer Charles O. Nelson said tonight he doubted whether there were so many at work. Two hundred and fifty survivors have been accounted for, and at mid night the remains of 50 bodies had been recovered from the ruins, the search being continued all night. S A Y A M O U N T IS E X O R B IT A N T A m e r ic a and B rita in Hold O u t A g a in st P a y in g S a m o a n Claim. C O N F E R E N C E O N IR R IG A T IO N . E x p e r ts fro m W e ste rn G ove rn m e n t Station e M e e t in C alifo rn ia . San Francisco, March 21.— At a smalt but very significant conference of half a dozen irrigation experts connected with the experiment stations of the United States Agricultural department on the Pacific coast, held yesterday and today at the Universit) of California, import ant plans were made for the future of irrigation and drainage investigation in all the western states. The meeting was attended by Profeesor El wood Mead, chief of the irrigation bureau of the Department of Agriculture; Profee sor Samuel Fortier, of Montana; Pro fessor G. H. True, of Nevada; Professor O. L. W aller, of Washington; Profes sor J. H . Withycombe, of Oregon; and Professors E. W . Hilgard, R. H. Lough- ridge, and E. J. Wickson, of the agri cultural experiment stations at Berkley. The chief task of the conference was the preparation of plans for experi ments to determine the quality of water which will give the best results in irri gation under dfferent conditions. This is an undertaking almost limitless in extent. In addition to this, a cam paign of education is being arrunged. Professor El wood Mead, who has just arrived in California to commence his series of unnuul lectures at the State university, is very hopeful over the future of irrigation on the coast. Professor Withycombe reported on the work and its possibilities in Oregon. He w ill return north and continue the measurements of streams. Today’ s conference is considered as opening new possibilities in irrigation on the Pacific coast,. SLAU G H TER B Y B U L G A R IA N S . G r e e k V illa g e A tta c k e d a n d In h a b ita n ts S la in . A ll M a le Constantinople, March 21.— Advices received from Salonica state that the Bulgarian bands are again .causing trouble, and that reports of outrages are coming in rapidly. The result of this is that ihe relations between Greece and Bulgaria are again stretched near to the breaking point, the former government alleges that the Bulgarian government is not making any effort to keep these bands under control but permits them to ravage at w ill on con dition that they confine their assaults to Greeks and Turks. A t a monastery near Vodena a band of armed Bulgarians attacked a party of Greek priests and the latter must have been killed had not a party of Greeks come to their resile and at tacked the Bulgarians. The latter were beaten back, leaving 15 dead behind. Angered at their losses the Bulgar ians attacked the villages of Mossi- merion and ruthlessly massacred all of the male inhabitants and carried off the women and children. They then terrorized the entire district of Vodena and so far have managed to escape the troops that were sent to punish them. London, March 21.— The Associated Press understands that there are no prospects of an early settlement of Ger many’s Samoan claims. A tentative offer of $40,000 has been declintd. Germany’s claim of $120,000, when divided betweed the United States and Great Britain, is conceded to be not worth haggling over, hut the two gov ernments stand together oil principle on the refusal to settle. The claim for $120,000 includes moral damage, and the American and British experts to whom the accounts were submitted report that the claim represents ten times the actual losses. Germany has been informed that the C A S T R O S E IZ E D C O A L M IN E S . two governments are anxious to settle, and would be w illing to pay any rea sonable sum, as other claims are await P r o t e s t E n te re d by Italian G o v e rn m e n t f o r O p e r a t in g C o m p a n y . ing the result of this settlement. New York, March 21.— The Herald this morning prints the following dis B IG G U N S M A Y T A L K . patch from Port of Spain, Trinidad: F r e n c h W a r s h ip s O r d e r e d to P ro c e e d News has reached Port of Spain that A t O n c e to V e nezue la . the governor of Barcelona, Venezuela, Washington, March 21.— The French has received from President Castro or Cable company complications ha\e ders to take possession at once of the reached a crisis, and Minister Bowen coal mines of Guantanaricual,.situated has informed the State department that tiie French minister at Caracas, by in near Barcelona, and leased in 1898 for structions of his government, has not- 33 years by the Venezuelan government fied the Vennezuelan government th. t to an Italian company. The same day the Venezuelan troops there must be no further proceedings on its part toward the cancellation of took possession of the mines by armed the company's franchise or interference force, as in the similar case of the New York and Bermudese company, this, with its property. Further, Mr. Bowen reports that two notwithstanding the protest of the Ital French warships, the cruisers Dupleix ian government. The action has been and Jurien de la Graviere, have been taken without a judgmnt of the court ordered post haste to Venezuela to act of Caracas. The Italian legation has been notified in accord with the instructions of the Italian charge French minister. The warships are and Baron Aliotti, d'affaires, is represented as having now in the Caribbean sea. entered a protest. F ig h t in g H a w a iia n F o r e s t F ire s. Honolulu, March 21.— Five hundred or more piersons, mostly plantation la borers, were today fighting the forest fires at Wahiawa. The file is now be lieved to l»e under control. About 2,- 000 acres were burned, being mostly land recently acquired by the United States for a m ilitary reservation. A trail 30 feet wide was burned around it. The forest is being patrolled to night. The fires in Olaa and Kona are also believed to be under control. Rain helped to extingish the fires in the Olaa district. S p a r t a n R u n s on a R o c k . Block Island, R. I., March 21.— The steamer Spartan, ot the Boston and Philadelphia steamship company, ran aground on the southeastern end of Block island during a fog early today while on her way from Providence to Ph lalelphia. A 15-foot hole was stove in the ship’s bow and soon the vessel sank so her decks were awash. Tonight the vessel is rapidly breaking up. The crew of 23 remained aboard the ship during the day, but were taken off tonight. Wreckers have been sent to lighter the cargo. E x t r a S e s s i o n in O c to b e r. Des Moines, March 21.— Senator A l lison is authortiy for the statement that President Roosevelt w ill call congress in extra session October 1, two months in advance of the regular session, for the purpose of considering the railroad rate investigation. Senator Allison also expressed his own views relative to the rate question. He stands for empowering the commission to adjust rates, declaring that there are many abuses which are subject to correction. M is t a k e O v e r D a m a g e C la im . 8t. Petersburg, March 21.— The Rus sian press is bitterly attacking the claim for damages for the sinking of the Brtish steamer Knight Commander, on the theory that the demand is for exemplary damages put forward by the Brtish government in violation of inter national law and entirely a|>art from the owner's elaim, whereas the fact ia that it is simply the owner’s claim, the misapprehension having been created by erroneous report in English piapiers. W itte A s k e d P e a c e D iz c u t tio n . Paris, March 21. — In the course of an interview in the Matin today, Vis coant Hayashi stated that M. W itte, w-hen in Berlin last July, sent an emissary to London asking the Japanese minister there to meet him to disruss peace. Minister Hayashi consented, bnt received no further communica tion. M e a t T o o H ig h f o r the P o o r . Mexico City, March 21.— Meat deal ers are exercised over the rise in the price of meat, which haa been advanced from 25 to 50 per cent in the last month, and charge that there is a meat trust at work. The situation is seri ous, as meat is almost beyond the means of the lower claaees. R E S U M E W O R K O N U M A T IL L A Irrig a tio n P ro je ct H a s Attention G ove rn m e n t Engineere. N U M BER ALL NO SES. o f N e w Le gisla tiv e A p p o rtio n m e n t to B e M a d e in 1807. Pendleton— John T . Whistler, en gineer of the reclamation bureau for Oregon, says work w ill be resumed on the Umatilla irrigation project in a short time. The engineers w ill con tinue their investigations of the John Day river proposition and ascertain if the river can be diverted from its chan nel over the desert lands of Southern Marrow county. The feat would be a difficult one, and, contrary to the belief of |the pub lic, who think the river would leave its channel at the headwaters of W il low creek, the canal would necessarily follow the deep canyon of the river for miles, emerging to the top at a point west of lone, Morrow county, and take an easterly direction toward Umatilla county until the grade neces sitated running north to the Columbia. This project would probably cost from $2,500,000 to $3,000,000, hut Mr. W histler states that should it be fo^nd that 250,000 acres could be reclamed it would be feasible. Should the amount of land be much smaller than this it w ill be deferred until such a time as lands are of a sufficient value to warrant the expenditure of such a sum, or at least until the reclamation fund reaches such an amount as to war rant the commencement of such a scheme. Other investigations in the Umatilla project proper w ill be continued, as a site was found late last fall which might prove feasible. The character of the soils in that district is such that great care is being exercised upon a site. Some have proved after tests to be of suqh a nature as not to hold water through the hot season and would lose a great amount by the per colation through the sides and bottom of a reservoir. In s tru c tio n s f o r T a k in g C e n s u s . Salem— Secretary of State Dunbar has issued the blanks and instructions to county assessors governing the tak ing of the state census of 1905. Sup plies w ill he sent to each assessor in a day or two. The legislature, at its last session, having failed to pass any act amending the old censiiB law, Secretary of State Dunbar has adhered closely to the law, out of date though it is. Two blanks are provided, one for the enu meration of inhabitants and the other for the enumeration of industrial pro- duels. F’or the convenience of assessors the military roll »a s included in the enumeration of ini abitants. The in structions given are very complete and if studied and carefully followed the census should give a very accurate col lection of statistics. T o E x h ib it S u m p t e r O r e s . Sumpter— The building which w ill contain the permanent ore exhibit of the Sumpter mining district, is com plete in its interior decorations and now ready for the reception of a dis play i-pecimen. The object of the ex hibit is the concentration at one piont of the many different kinds of minerals that are produced in this district. This w ill permit of inspection of ores without the necessity of visiting the many different sections where they are found. Many visitors from the East, visiting the Portland exposition, are expected to stop over ami inspect this section, and the mineral display w ill be one of the most important objects lo attract their attention. U m a iilla C o u n ty B o o k le t. Pendleton— The Commercial associa tion is preparing matter for a booklet containing information of Umatilla county, to be distributed among the in coming homeseekers to induce them to locate in the county. A number of the newspaper men and business men have been asked to contribute articles for the book, and it w ill be printed as soon ss possible. F ifty thousand copies will be printed for distribution among the visitors who pass through to the Lewis and Clark fair this summer. Salem— A new legislative apportion ment, based upon the state census of 1905, must be made by the legislature of 1907, and for that reason it behooves each county to see that a full enumera tion of inhabitants is made this year. The growth of Eastern Oregon and the city of Portland in the last five years is supposed to have been more rapid than the growth of the Willamette valley counties, and if the state census should show much of a difference, Multnomah county and Eastern Oregon may profit by securing larger representation in the legislature. From computations made by Labor Commissioner O. P. Hoff last summer, that official reached the conclusion that some of the older settled valley counties are not increasing very rapidly in popu lation. His report showing that opin ion raised a storm of criticism from the counties that received an unfavorable showing, but Commissioner Hoff assert ed that his computations were made ac cording to plans approved by the beBt statisticians, and he anticipates that the census w ill hear out his figures. The apportionment into senatorial and representative districts is not al ways made in strict compliance with the constitution, and therefore some counties get a larger representation than their population entitles them to, while other counties get less. Should the legislature of 1907 be actuated by a desire to follow the constitution, there might he some important changes in the apportionment of representatives. W a te r W a r On. Klamath Falls— The Klamath Canal company ordered the headgate of ita canal opened on Link river and the water went coursing down the canal through the tunnel,under Ankeny canal, down Eleventh street, in Klamath Falls and out onto the fiats bordering L ’.ke Flwauna. Immediately Sheriff Obencliain served the manager of the company with an order from the court directing him to shut off the water, be cause the property owners on Eleventh street brought suit against the company for damages, as the secretary of W ar had notified the company that taking water out of Link river would he il legal. The company w ill now undoubt edly have th i attention of the United States district attorney. O r e g o n H o p s a re D irty . Silverton— F’red Arthur lias just re turned from a four mouths’ visit in England, and among other things he brought back a sample of choice hops upon comparison with which the liest hops of Oregon are found to be less clear and bright in appearance. Mr. Arthur says that although many of Oregon's hops found a market in Eng land this year the buyers there com plain that the hope are too dirty and that instead of getting better they are picked less clean each year. He fears that the reputation of Oregon ho,1« will suffer unless there is an improvement in the picinkg. K la m a t h * M u s t P a y T a x e s . Salem— Attorney General Crawford has rendered an opinion in which he holds that the Indians of the Klamath reservation, who have just received their allotments from the government, are subject to government under the laws of this state, and are entitled to enjoy the same privileges as other citi zens. This means that the lands held by these Indians are subject to taxation the same as those of white men. A l though the act making this allotment passed congress in 1899, it has just lieen approved by the president. P la n f o r L a r g e r Ir o n W o r k s . Ashland— The Ashland Iron Works company, whose plant was partially de stroyed by fire a few months ago, haa let the contract for new buildings and machinery on a new site and on a great ly enlarged scale. The company haa lieen reorganized with a nominal capital of $20,000, but the plant when com T o W o r k in S a n t ia m D istric t. pleted w ill represent an investment of Portland— There w ill he more or less nearly $75,000, it is said. The new of a rush into the Santiam district as buildings are to he completed and the goon as the snow melts, hut advices new plant installed by May 1. say that there is considerable snow in the mountains as yet. Late last season P ru n e T r e e s A b o u t to B lo o m . silver values were found in that coun Corvallis— By the latter part of this try for the first time, altho igh so ne finds of ores had lieen made there week the Italian prunee in the big 156- for years past. Ore has been assayed acre orchard north of Corvallis will be from that district, which carries as in full bloom. The event is nearly a high as 3,000 ounces to the ton of sil month ahead of time, the usual date ver. How extensive the ore bixlies are being about the middle of A pril. Five will be determined during the present years ago the same orchard began blos soming March 11, and that season season as fully as possible. yielded a heavy crop. Peach, almond and apricot trees in the vicinity have L o w P r ic e * f o r C attle. nearly finished blooming. Pendleton— 8tock growers of the county are disappointed at the poor cattle market and a few are selling re PO RTLAND M ARKETS. gardless of the fact that only the lowest figure of the season can lie obtained. A Wheat — Walla Walla, 86 fit 87c; short time ago the market promised to bluestem, 94c; valley, 87c, per bushel. reach 4 cents for steers and 3 % cents Oats— No. 1 white, $1.371*01.42; for cows, and in one or two instances gray, $1.60 pier cental. those figures were paid, but after those Hay— Timothy, $14016 pier ton; sales the prices immediately fell until clover, $11012; grain, $11012; cheat, only 3>k cents is paid for the choicest $11012. animals. Eggs— Oregon ranch, 18c pier dosen. Butter — Fancy creamery, 27 ) * 0 W ild w o o d M ill to S ta rt. 32 He. Cottage Grove— The Wildwood Lum Potatoes — Oregon fancy, 86096c; ber company, which owns a large saw common, 66080c. m ill near the end of the Oregon A Apples— Fancy, $1.7502.50 pier box; Southeastern track, above W ildwixd. choice, f 101.26. has decided to put the mill into active Hope— Choice 1904, 23 4 0 2 4 c pier operation. There are plenty of logs pxiund. close to the m ill. I. L. Smith, a well Wool— Valley, 10020c; Eastern Ore known samwill man, haa lieen put in gon, 12017c pier pxiund; mohair, charge. • choice, 25026c pier pxiund.