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Washington County News RUSSIA HAS OFFERED TE R M S Official Admission at St. Petersburg — Bluffing on Indemnity. Issu e«] B a c k W e e k 8t. Petersburg, March 2 ».— After a meeting of the council of ministers, which lasted until after midnight, the positive information was g iv e i out through an official channel this morn ing that Russia has outlined the terms under which she is prepared to nego tiate peace. It was asserted on the same authority that, thanks to the good offices of the United States and France, A Resume o f the Less Important but the (question of bringing about the Net Less Interesting Events termination of the war hail assumed o f the Past Week. tangible form and that preliminary steps in the negotiations would be Russians have kidnaped the Chinese taken in the immediate future. governor of Manchuria. Of the terms upon which Russia Secretary Morton and a congressional would be w illing to begin negotiations, party are visiting in Havana. enough was known tonight that Russia Mrs. Msybrick says failure to receive w ill maintain to the eleventh hour an money due her caused her conviction. absolute opposition to any Japanese President Roosevelt has accepted a proposal to impose a direct indemnity plan for receivers of Dominican reve upon her conquered foe. It is also in timated that a demand for thg cession nues. of Russian territory would meet with China is arming 500,000 men for the the same vigorous opposition. defense of the country against foreign It is apparent, however, that the czar nations. I himself is convinced of the Russian The United States will help Presi situation in the Far East and of the in dent Morales, of 8anto Domingo, main ability of the Russians to resume hos tilities with any chance of success in tain the present government. the event of a suspension of prelimin Castro denies that there is cause for ary negotiations. attack on Venezuela, as he is paying The opinion was expressed yesterday of! the national debt as fast as possible. by all exceptionally well informed for Admiral Evans has taken command eign diplomats here that the demon o f the North Atlantic fleet, succeeding strative declarations of the ministers Admiral Parker, who retires from on the subject of indemnity and cession of territory are intended as a balloon active service. d ’ essai to draw out opinion on the sub A report that he would investigate ject in Tokio. Eventually, this diplo the general land office is denied by mat asserted, Russia is prepared to ac Hitchcock, who says affairs in that de cept peace on any terms that Japan partment are all right. may l>e w illing ot offer. An entire absence of news from its army cuases Russian officials at St. FIXING A W IT N E S S . Petersburg to fear communications have been cut and possibly the army itself Charge" Placed Against Armour’ s Gen cut off. eral Superintendent. Renewed disturbances in Russia FOREST GROVE..........OREGON NEWS OF THE WEEK Condensed Form for Readers. cause great alarm. President Castro is threatened with revolution and foreign war. The Japanese fleet has sailed from Borneo to meet the Baltic squadron. Mrs. Chadwick has been sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. She has appealed. An American warship will carry home the body of the late Henor Aspiroz, Mexican ambassador to the United States. Russian officials (relieve now that the pressure on Linievitch lias has lieen re lieved, the Japanese w ill next be heard from in front of Vladivostok. President Roosevelt and President Diaz, of Mexico, inay meet on the in ternational boundary when the former makes bis Southern trip early in April. A report from Japanese sources says that a large part of Harbin has been burned. fireat qua ititis of reserve supplies intended for the Russian army are also reported to have lieen burned. The Chicago, Milwaukee A St. Paul has completed surveys to the Pacific coast, touching all the principal cities. Construction will commence at once an I $*10,000,000 is placed as the amount of expenditures to put the line in work ing order. HostiPties in Manchuria are sus pended while the armies reorganise. Thousands of tocked-out workmen in 8t. Petersburg threaten an outbreak. Santo Domingo may ask the United Htates to act as receiver for that coun try. ' Castro's attitude continues menacing. France and the United States may combine to discipline him. Violent storms throughout Oklahoma have caused four deaths and numerous injuries besides a heavy property lists. Contracts for rock for the jetty at the nth of the Columbia have l>een let deliveries w ill liegin next month. The two big ocean liners Parisian and Albano collided while entering the Halifax, N. 8., harbor, and lioth were badly injured. A Pennsylvania oil authority says nothing has ever lieen seen to compare with the oil territory of Kansas und Indian Territory. A man has confessed to pulling the spikes and rails loose from the Rock Island track in Iowa to see what would happen w hen a train passed. Work on the Tacoma public building w ill tar delayed another year in the hope of securing an addition to the $1100,000 already appropriated. Julet* Verne, the noted French novel ist, is dead. Santo Ikuningo may ask protection of the United States. The Oregon City land office w ill removed to Portland. be Mrs. Chadwick admits of debts amounting to $760,000. Henor de Aspiroa, the Mexican am- bassador at Washington, is demi. Peasant revolts in Russia are becom ing widespread and soldiers object to shooting. French hankers have agreed to make Russia a loan on condition that she make peace. A consular dispute between Norway and Rweden may dissolve the union be tween them. Venezuela refuse* to arbitrate dispute with United States and diplomatic re lations may be broken. Damage to Ocean Liners in Collision Worse Than Thought. Suspected Purpose of Hay’s Eu ropean Trip. Halifax, N. 8., March 28.— The two ocean steamers, the Parisian and the Albano, whose 1,800 passengers were saved from poesible death at sea after the collission between the two vessels off the harbor’s mouth yesterday by a thrilling 15-mile race for shallow water, showed plainly today how serious was the accident, the Parisian resting on the bottom at her dock and the A l- bano’s fore peak being full of water. The Parisan, which came up the har bor at 0 o'clock last night with a gap ing hole in her starboard side from the Albano's sharp prow, filled gradually during the night, and at dawn her engine room had been flooded, her fires extinguished, her lower deck was awash and her keel resting in the mud. A large part of her cargo is damaged by water, but the bulk of the mail, consisting of 400 sacks, wa9 recovered in good condition. The statements of the two i o nmand- ers of the vessels as to the probable cause of the collision are conflicting, and the courts w ill be invoked to place the responsibility. Proceedings have been begun in the Adm iralty court against the Haraburg-American com pany, owners of the Albano, and today that steamer was libelled for $150,000 damages in behalf of J. A A . Allan, owners of the Parisian. Later it was announced that a counter suit would be brought by the German company. ,000 Waits o f Land Office to Portland Only One Large Lot of Coming o f Ass r. is Bitterly Opposed. Pendleton— Assessor in reports Oregon City— There w lil be vigorous opposition offered to the proposed re but one lot of wheat of any n sequence thie year. moval of the land office from this city. in the county to be asses L The claim that the removal of the This is 40,000 bushels beloi lg to the Whenever Hay Has Been Reported III, office to Portland is being made for Balfour-Guthrie Warehouse' impany economical reasons is not accepted as in this city. A ll other larg»| ts have a Great Stroze o f Diplomacy genuine by Oregon City people, who been disposed of long ago aij^uoet of Has Quickly Followed. think they see in the plan a move pre it shipped from the county. The Puget Sound warehouseVeports liminary to the consolidation of the government’s land business in this the purchase of a small loti Washington, March 28. — Several state in a central office with headquar bushels of wheat from Oliver prominent diplomats in Washington be ters at Portland. A t present there are grocers of this place, but asid lieve that John Hay, secretary of state, six land offices in the state, those other that there are practically no Ales. during his trip to Italy, w ill make an than in this city being located at The Some of the farmers who hatApeff effort to see what can tie done in the Dalles, La Grande, Lakeview, Roseburg w heat saved over from last fall, wk, h way of mediation and settlement of the and Burns. At any rate it is believed they did not need to use, are o ffe t g war in the Far East. The news from here that a consolidation of the Oregon that for sale, and sum« small purch%8 the Azores that Mr. H ay’s health was City and Roseburg offices could lie have been made. improved, and that he expected to re Estimates are that not over 75,0m effected to the improvement of the ser turn to Washington by May 12 adds vice. But so far as the move being in bushels remain in the county, and a» color to this theory. the interest of economy, Oregon City those are in small holdings. ThosJy The diplomats attach great import people laugh at the idea. The Oregon who have not sold w ill likely hold over' ance to the news that Henry White, City office now occupies a suite of five until another year, as the prices of late the new United States ambassador to rooms, for which a monthly rental of have been declining instead of advanc Italy, was ordered to hasten his arrival _________ $30 is paid, and it is argued that sirh- ing. at his post. Mr. Hay and Mr. W hite ilar rooms could not be had at Portland are warm personal friends, and the sec T O C O N T R O L F R U IT PRIC ES. for several times that amount. In ad retary has great confidence in Mr. dition it appears that accommodations W hite’ s adroitness in diplomacy. must be previded for the land office at Growers' Associations Arrange f o r It lias been figured out in the diplo Portland, all available room having Single Selling Agents. M EXIC O ON GOLD BASIS. matic corps here that Italy is practi been otherw ise appropriated in the gov Hood River— In order to prevent cally the only country of importance in ernment buildings. In their present Europe that might lie expected to take President Diaz Issues Decree Author quarters the officials of the Oregon City overstocking of the fruit markets, the fruit associations of Hood River, Puy part in friendly mediation without be land office have no extra room and ized by Congress. allup and Yashon propose to unite in ing suspected by either Russia or Japan Mexico City, March 28. — President could not transact the business of the having one representative salesman of ulterior motives or hostile intent. Diaz has issued a decree for the reform office in more limited quarters. each at Helena, Butte and Great Falls, Mr. Hay has come to be regarded The land office here is the first land of the monetary sygtem authorized by and also at other points east. almost as a fetich by diplomats sta office that was established in Oregon, At local points it is proposed that tioned in Washington. They recall congress in December last. The decree and one of the first created west of the one broker shall act for the several as that he frequently has been ill, con establishes the 2-peso, or silver dollar, Mississippi river. sociations. Fruitgrowers are determ fined to his house, and inaccessible to at a value of 50 cents gold, and the ined as much as possible to fix prices Relics From Jackson County. diplomats, and half a dozen times after theoretical unit of the Mexican cur Job Medford— The curious and interest in each of the different markets. these illnesses something of great im rency is defined to be the dollar or peso ing relics found in an Indian grave on bers and commission merchants w ill portance lias happened bearing on dip of 75 centigrams of gold An important feature of the decree the farm of J. H. Ring, Jackson handle the fruit on a fixed basis, and lomatic affairs. is a provision for a reserve exchange cou-ity, a few days ago, w ill be sent to as soon as any market is likely to lie fund, which, at first, w ill consist of Portland, as a part of the Jackson overstocked, the representatives w ill M U S T GIVE SPAIN HER^GUNS Chicago, March 21*.— The Federal $18,000,000 or $15,000,000, and may county display at the Lewis and Clark advise the shipping associations to di grand jury tonight returned an indict lie increased. The original plan did fair. In the grave, besides the skel vert the shipments elsewhere. ment against Thomas J. Connors, gen Secretary Taft Calls on Cuba to Carry not provide for the immediate estab eton of the brave, there was found a Out Terms o f Treaty. lishment of this fund, but it is now decayed plainsman's blanket, a U. 8. Test Standard Ores. eral superintendent of Armour A Co., deemed wise to start with one simul army coat, the buttons of which bore Washington, March 28. — Spain has Sumpter— D. L. K illen and E. F. ou a charge of interfering with a wit never been able to sceure from Cuba taneously with the beginning of the the dates of 1837 and 1487. Three Warner, of the firm of Killen, Warner ness summoned to appear liefore the the ordnance left there at the termina new monetary system. Mexican dollars of the stamp of 1840 A Co., mining promoters, are now at jury investigating the beef trust. Mr. tion of the Spanish-American war, and The mint w ill lie closed April 16 to were also found. Then there was a Denver, where a test is being made of Connors, who is J. Ogden Armour's Henor Ojeda called on Secretary Taft the free coinage of silver and the new scalping knife, beads of all sizes and the ores of the Standard group, in the monetary system w ill go into effect lines and other articles taken by the (Juartzburg district. This firm has most confidential employe and the act today to learn the position of this gov May 1. The publication of the decree brave from unfortunate victims of In financed the Standard, and expects ernment in the matter. ive head of one of the largest packing Under the terms of peace it was held gives general satisfaction in business dians during the early days. large returns from the immense body companies of the w orld, was arrested on that Spain was entitled to all movable and financial circles. It assjres busi of ore opened on the porperty. The a bench warrant by a deputy United ordnance in Cuba and Porto Rico, and ness men against losses in importing. Bronze Statue o f Sacajawea. object of the test is to decide upon the Htates marshal and taken to the grand in the latter case its claim had been Portland— The clay model for the character of the reduction plant to be jury room, where he was released on recognized and the ordnance trans S T A N F O R D CASE IS DROPPED. statue of Sacajawea has been shipped installed at the mine this season for $5,000 bonds. After his release Mr. ferred. from Chicago to New York, where the the proper treatment of the ores. The Rut in the case of Cuba there Connors refused to discuss the matter. appears to lie some difficlnty in secur Every Clew Known to San Francisco bronze casting w ill be made. Miss Standard is one of the many properties The indictment charges that John ing the recognition by the Cuban gov Alice Cooper, the sculptor, has achieved shipping ore to the smelter here. Police is Run to Earth. Edward Shields, of Brisiklyn, a former ernment of the obligation entered into a most remarkable success in her work. San Francisco, March 28.— It was employe of Armour A Co., who testified by the United States. After the exposition the statue w ill be Cottage Grove Mill May Start. announced at police headquarters today before the grand jury, was approached, Secretary Taft caused a cablegram to presented to the city of Portland. The Cottagee Grove— It is rumored that that every known clew in the Stanford favored and entertained by Mr. Con be sent to Minister Squiers in Havana cost of the statue w ill lie $9,000, of the Long A Bingham sawmill, which ners, and specifically states that on instructing him to notify the Cuban case had lieen run to earth, and that which $7,000 has been subscribed, all was recently sold to Eugene and other March 25 the offense upon w hich Mr. authorities that the ordnance in ques the complexion of the matter had not but $200 of this amount coming from parties, w ill soon be started up. A Conners was indicted occurred. It is tion remains the propearty of Spain, changed in the least. Barring a con persons outside of Portland. July 6, also charged that Shields was given the that it was never possessed by the fession or something “ turning up,” *the Sacajawea day, all children under 15 few meetings have been held between use of Armour A Co.’s offices at 205 I.a United States ami should lie returned police admit that they will never solve years wearing Sacajawea badges w ill be the interested parties, and it is the ex pression that the m ill w ill start up in the mystery of how, January 14, in this Halle street to transact his business to Spain. admitted to the fair grounds upon pay the near future. This m ill was run city, strychnine poison was placed in while in Chicago and also the use of a ment of 10 cents. successfully for several months, as the the Poland water used by the late Mrs. private telegraph wire in the office of S T E P T O HOME RULE. timlier was taken from the territory Stanford. Heavy Rains on Arid Land. the packing company. crossed by the O. A S. E. RaiDoad. That portion of the mystery connect Irrigon— This whole section has re Census o f Philippines is Completed— ed with her tragic death at Honolulu, George H. Kelly, of the Booth-Kelly ceived such a drenching as the oldest Legislature in T w o Years. W A IT IN G FOR C A S T R O 'S L E T T E R the police say, has lieen solved on the inhabitant never heard of at this sea Lumber company, and W. E. Brown, Washington, March 28. — Secretary theory that Mrs. Stanford died by son. The precipitation of last week of Eugene, have been investigating the Government Will Continue Negotia Taft today notified President Roosevelt natural causes and that the powdered exceeds three week inches, and the en matter. that the census of the Philippine strychnine found in the bicarbonate of tire section east of the Cascades and tions Unless It Is Insolent. Electric Line Man Will Not Talk. soda was placed there by some druggist west of the Bltfes is soaked down to the Washington, March 28.— It has lieen islands hail been completed and pub Salem— Isaac W . Anderson, of Spo lished, and under the law of July i, and intended as a tonic. gravel. This means wonders for the decided to await the reception of the l!t02, two years from this date the pres The police detectives working on the wheat licit in Morrow, Gilliam , Uma kane, who is a representative of the exact text of President Castro’ s refusal ident shall direct the Philippine com case have all turned their attention to tilla and the Horse Heaven countries, Rhoades, Sinkler A Butcher syndicate, to accept Minister Bowen's arbitration mission to call a general election for other matters, and while nominally and to Irrigon it means that people of Philadelphia, which recently bought a large interest in the Salem Electric proposition before proceeding further the choice of delegates to a popular men are detailed on the case, in reality need not resort to irrigation for many the department has entirely dropped it. weeks. Settlers have already put out Light Power A Street Railway system, assembly. with the negotiations in this line. It is in Salem inspecting the plant. He All legislati/e power on the islands over 150,000 tre*s this spring. is realised that there may only tie a declined to either affirm or deny the will thereafter lie vested in a legisla C O R T E L Y O U T O SUCCEED SHAW fair difference of opinion as to whether reports that it is the intention of his ture consisting of two houses, the Phil Craw ford as Grammarian. or not the Venezuelan response was company to build interurhan trolley ippine commission and the Philippine Will Become Secretary o f Treasury in Salem — Attorney Genetal Crawford couched in discourteous language, and lines in the valley. He gives the inr assembly. The condition on which the holds that the tax exemption law oper pression, however, that there is no Another Year. it may lie that at this distance from election is to lie called is that complete property present foundation for the stories that the seat of negotiations and after the Washington, March 28.— Leslie M ates to exempt personal peace shall have continued in t"he terri (household goods) to the extent of $300 have been published. lapse of a few days the words which tory of the islands not occupied by Shaw, secretary of the treasury, has worth and no more. The question appeared to Mr. Bowen to lie insolent Morns or other non-Christian tribes. signified his intention of retiring from arose out of a mistake in punctuation w ill admit of a different construction. public office on February 1, 1906, at Will Take the Oregon Census. The popular election is not to extend The disposition is to move circum the end of a four-year term. It is re in the exemption clause of the Shelley Pendleton— The blanks for the regu to the Moro trilies. act, w herein several articles of property spectly at least at this end, and, unless lar state census have been received by Two resident commissioners to the ported in official circles in Washington President Castro chooses to force an United States will lie elected when a that Postmaster General George B. Cor- were set off with a semicolon and then Assessor C. P. Strain, and the work of numerous other articles of furniture issue by another move at Caracas, it is telyou will succeed him. No authoriz taking it with the regular county as legislature is chosen. beliveed that some time w ill be con ed statement has been made on this and household goods were punctuated sessment w ill begin on A pril 1. ’ The with commas, preceding this clause: sumed in reaching a settlement. point, but the assumption is generally last census taken of Umatilla connty, Would Federate with Canada. “ To the value of $300 shall be exempt accepted as correct. five years ago, showed 13,000 popula Toronto, Ont., March 28.— M. Fil- from taxation.” tion, and Assessor Strain believes that No Big Game Hunting in Alaska. lian, a member of the Dominican legis Kansas' Figh$ with the Trust. this year w ill show at least 22,000. Washington, March 2!*.— As the re lature, now here, says the sentiment Indians are Dying Out. In taking this census Mr. Strain asks Topeka, Kan., March 28.— The Kan sult of representations by Secretary of in the British West Indies is strongly Chemawa— From reports received Agriculture Wilson, it was determined in favor of federation with Canada. sas Natural Gas company, through its from the Grand Ronde reservation it the co operation of the people of the bv the cabinet today that no permits “ There are among us, said h«^ attorneys, has filed in the Supreme appears that the Indians of the North county to assist the census takers. should be issued this year for big game "hardly any hut would lie glad to see court an amendment to its answer to west are either rapidly passing away or Oregon Stock in Good Health. hunting in Alaska, except for autborix- some scheme inaugurated for bringing the suit brought to compel it to show else lieing absorbed by the body politic. Salem— W ith the exception of mange «1 representatives of museums. Sim il the two more closely together. I think cause why it is operating in Kansas. In the official report for 1878 it was in one hand of horses in Eastern Ore ar action was taken last year because of a union would be helpful to both.” The petition asks that the suit lie dis stated that there were 807 Indians on the knowledge that game in Alaska Mr. Fillian has seen Premier Laurier missed at the cost of the state. The the Grand Ronde reserve: in 1886 510 gon, in which case two head have teen was rapidly lieing destroyed and it was on the subject and is hopeful of good suit was brought against the company were reported; in 1897, 399; while at killed and the rest are lieing dipper), desired to preserve it so far as possible results, and w ill also interview the last fall by the attorney general. It the present time there are living there the general health of stock in this as alleged that the company had no state is good. This is according to the for the tienefit of the natives, although Ontario premier. 353, of whom 56 are old and decrepit,be authority to transact business in the verbal report made by State Veterina they arc required to comply with the ing supported by the government. state, the charter hoard having refused rian McLean to the Domestic Animal local game laws. Tornado Wipes Out Town. commission. Fleeces Average 12 Pounds. St. Paul, Minn., March 28.— A re to grant a license. Japanese Again Advancing. port reaches! this city tonight that the Pendleton— Charles Cunningham has P O R T L A N D M ARKETS. In Very Strong Position. Gunshu Fass, Manchuria, March 2t*. little town of Louistmrg in the extreme 35 men shearing sheep on his ranch St. P tersbuig, March 28. — A dis south of here, near Pilot Rock. — The Japanese are again moving for western portion o f the state had lieen Oats— No. 1 white, $1.37 \ <8 1.42; Thus ward and the Russian guard has fallen practically wiped out by a tornado and patch received from Sypingai states far they have shea n il 10,000 and have gray, $1.50 per cental. that the Russian commander has suc tiack from its position, about 13 miles that seven persons had been seriously 11,000 to shear. His sheep are pure Hay— Timothy, $14(816, clover, $11 north of Sipinghai (74 miles north of injured. It was also stated that from ceeded in withdrawing all of his rear bred Merino and are yielding, on an @12: grain. $11(812; cheat, $11(812 Tie Pass) to Chaomiaudzi, whiojh is j two io seven were killed, hut up to a guard to a very stiong position, where average, fleeces weighing 12 pounds per ton. situated 40 miles lielow Gunshu Pass late hour it lyte been impossible, owing they w ill be able to withstand any at each. Mr. Cunningham contracted all Wheat— Walla Walla, 86<887c; Blue- The dispatch of his clip to the Union woolen mills item, 94c; valley, 87c. Practically complete reports show that to lack of telegraph facilities, to verify tack of the Japanese. states that the spirits of the men is of the Russian army sacrificed general the latter statement. Louisburg is a for 17 cents a pound early in the Eggs— Oregon ranch, 18(818 4 c per the best and that they are becoming season. commissariat stores to the amount of town of about 100 people. dozen. more and more confident. It is further $1,250,(MX) and stores for an army corps Butter— Fancy creamery,27 4 (832,4c stated that General Kuropatkin is dis Will Run a Long Tunnel. amounting to $500,000 at Mukden. Call to Jamestown Exposition. Potatoes— Oregon fancy, *85(890c; tinguishing himself. Silverton— The Lewis A Clark Min common, 65(880c. Wash inton, March 28.— Befose Presi ing A M illing company has let a con Try Again in Wisconsin. dent Roosevelt starts on his South Apples— Fancy, $1.75(82.50 per box; Hit by a Bomb. tract for their 300-foot tnnnel, to be choice, $ 1 @ 1.25. Madison, Wis.. March 20.— Unfavor western trip next week he w ill issue a Warsaw, March 28.— A bomb was increased to 500 feet, and the work w ill able action on a bill for an exhibit at proclamation inviting foreign nations to Hops— Choice 1904, 23 4 (8 24c per the Portland exposition was reconsid participate in the exposition to be held thrown into the carriage of Baron von begin at once. I-sat year this company pound. ers! by the Wisconsin assembly today, in the summer of 1X07 in the vicinity Nolken, chief of police of Warsaw, at 8 equipped the mine with modern ma " — Valley, 19(820c per pound; and a new bill appropriating $24,000 of Hampton Roads in celebration of the o’clock this evening. It was reported chinery and now this new contract will Eastern Oregon, 12(817c per pound; thoroughly develop the ledge. that the Baron was severely wounded. settlement of Jamestown, Va. was introduced. mohair, choice, 28@30c oer pound. Removal