Washington County news., July 06, 1905, Image 2

Washington County News
Issued Bach Waek
F O R E S T G R O V E . .......... O R E G O N
NEWS OF THE WEEK
In a Condensed Form tor Our
Busy Readers.
A Resum e o f the Less Im p o rta n t but
N ot Less Interesting Events
o f the Past W eek.
More mob outbreaks are occurring in
Poland.
The largest bank in Topeka, Kansas,
has failed.
Five hundred perished in the flood
at Guanajuato, Mexico.
July 4 the admissions to the Lewis
and Clark fair were 58,708.
Further claims of success are made
by the Japanese army in Manchuria.
Six desperate prisoners have eecaped
from tiie government prison on McNeil
island.
Canton. China merchants have pro­
tested to Roosevelt against Chinese ex­
clusion.
P U S H IN G F O R W A R D A T C E N T E R .
Japanese are F o rtify in g Each Village
They O ccupy.
Headquarters of the Russian Army,
Godzyadani, Manchuria, July 4.— Ac­
cording to information brought by per­
sons arriving from the extreme west,
the reports that the Russian right had
I been turned are incorrect. On the con­
trary, it is said that General Nogi’s
army which, on June 16 was far to the
westward of the other Japanese armies,
has since been moving in the direction
of Changtufu, and the pressure brought
to bear against the Russian cavalry
flank it was thought was for the purpose
of covering the retreat of the main
force.
The Japanese are slowly pushing for­
ward their center. They are strongly
fortifiyng each village occupied by
them, and are making a demonstration
of considerable force near Hailungcheng
90 miles east of Changtufu. The oper­
ations are proceeding slowly, and a
general engagement is improbable be­
fore the end of July.
F O R C E D T O D E L IV E R G O O D S .
C h icag o P arcels Exp ress C om panies
Enjoined by C o u rt.
Chicago, July 4.— Action taken yes­
terday by Judge Holdom, of the Supe­
The beef trust has an army of law­ rior court, is likely to cause a spread of
yers to defend them against the attack the teamsters’ strike to the drivers em­
of the government.
ployed by the local parcels express
King Oscar will not find a new king companies, who do business through
for Norway and the Swedish govern­
ment is mobilizing the army.
As far as can be ascertained Inde­
pendence day cost 42 livts, while 2,431
people were injured. The property loss
by fire w ill reach $115,800.
Admiral Rojestvenskv's conditoin is
such that he has not yet been informed
of the complete annihilation of his
squadron. He is under the impression
that a substantial part of the fleet
reached Vladivostok.
The entire Russian Slack sea fleet is
now in open revolt.
Germany is very angry at Great Brit­
ain's influence with France.
Secretary Taft says he does not ex­
pect to succeed the late Secretary Hay.
Wirless telegraphy has lieen success­
fully used on Chicago & Alton trains.
James F. Tracey, of Albany, N. Y .
has been appointed associate justice of
the Supreme court of the Philippine
islands.
Indications seem that Norway and
Sweden are on the verge of war.
The
armies of both nations are being rapid­
ly mobilized.
The meeting of the Trans-Mississippi
congress to be held in Portland in A u ­
gust promises to be the most interest­
ing of any yet held.
A company has been formed in San
Francisco to place on the market a gas
which is claimed to be free from the
poisonous matter that causes death.
Indictments have been
returned
against 7 packing house officials by the
Federal gram! jury sitting in Chicago.
Ten counts show violations of the She:-
man anti-trust law.
In speaking of the death of Secretary
Hay, the president said “ the American
people have never had a greater secre­
tary of state than John Hay, and his
loss is a national calamity.”
John D. Rockefeller has given $10,-
000,000 for higher education in the
Dailed states.
Martial law has been declared at
many points and the entire Russian
empire is shaken with revolt.
Great Britain views w ith alarm the
growth of the navy of the United
States, and fears she w ill lose her su­
premacy of the Pacific in the near
future.
John F. Wallace, ex-chief engineer
of the Panama canal, says he will soon
give a statement to the public which
will show that he was justified in ten­
dering liis resignation.
The German Naval league declares
that of the 38 battleships listed in the
German navy,
13 aie called “ old
boxes” scarcely fit for liarlmr defense.
Number 83 has not yet been begun.
Of the remainder only 10 approach the
modern battleships of other powers.
German papers take an extremely
dark view of the Russian situation.
It is not believed that the government
can depend on its army, and, with the
navy already in revolt, a revolution is
sure to come.
By an agreement between the rail
manufacturing companies of England,
France, Germany and Belgium, in Eu*
rpoe, and those of the United ¡States,
the markets of the world have been
divided.
American companies ate to
keep out of Europe and in return w ill
have an undisptued control of the
United States.
Four soliders have lieen arrested in
Honolulu for making spurious gold
coin.
Charles J. Bonaparte has entered
into his duties ias secretary of the Navy
department.
It is said that a former employe of
the beef trust has told the president all
the details of the workings of the trust.
The crew of the Russian battleship
Kniaz Potemkine fired two shots into
the city of Odessa, tearing great holes
ion the buildings in the path of the
shells.
A semblance of order has been re­
stored in Odessa, but the situation is
still moat critical.
Troops fired into
th e rioters with macihne guns, killing
1 , 000 .
A T T A C K S I N D IC T M E N T .
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
R O G U E R IV E R V A L L E Y H O P S .
H O P G R O W E R S IN P O O L .
A creag e Has Been Doubled and Yield
P rom ises W ell.
Lane C ounty Lines U p U n d e r K re b s ’
M an agem ent.
Grants Pass— Hop prospects in the
Rogue R iver valley are superb this
year, and this district is rapidly getting
to be one of the steadiest and best hop
producers on the Pacific coast.
It is
too early yet to say what prices w ill be,
but they stand at present at 24 to 25
cents, without buyers, and little or
none offered by growers.
The “ Eng­
lish clutter” is a litlte “ off” in some
sections of the valley this year, but the
natives are reported very strong.
The
crop of 1906 w ill nearly double the
acreage of that of 1904, which wae in
the|neighborhood of 300 acres, or about
300,000 pounds; the average yield be­
ing 1,000 pounds per acre.
Hop growers have at last been arous­
ed from their long sleep, and many of
them have given their yards splendid
fertilization and cultivation this year.
John Rauazan, who has the largest
yards in the county, comprising 87
acres, and several others in his vicini­
ty, whose yards lie along the bank of
Rogue river, have installed splendid
gasoline engines and pumps, so that
their yards w ill be finely irrigated.
“
The total acreage of yards in the
county at the present time is 708 acres,
of which the new yards planted this
year and which will not be in full bear­
ing until next year, comprise 160 acres,
leaving 548 arcei of yards which will
be in full bearing the present year. A
great many parties have purchased land
in the far famed Rogue river valley
with a view to putting in yards next
year, and should the price of hops go
up, the Rogue river valley w ill become
one of the big hop districts of the coast.
Eugene— A large number of hop
growers of Lane county met in Eugene
last week to take preliminary steps to
help form a gignatic corporation to
handle the crop of the Pacific coast and
to control prices.
Conrad Krebs, of
Balem, president of the Krebs Hop
company, which has 624 acres of hope
at Independence and Brooks, is at the
head of this big movement.
A general convention w ill bo held at
Salem some time in July attended by
delegted elected from the several hop
districts. At this convention the cor­
poration w ill be formed.
After its
formation the crop of each grower will
be transferred to the corporation, which
will do all the selling. A board of di­
rectors w ill be elected and the directors
w ill appoint a selling committee which
will meet in Salem every Saturday for
the purpose of making sales and report
on the condition of the marketts, etc.
Hop experts w ill lie called in to ascer­
tain the quality of each crop and keep
it in its proper grade.
Mr. Krebs is encouraged over his
project, and stated that he believes
that 90 per cent of the 1905 crop will
lie turned into this corporation. After
he gets Oregon thoroughly organized he
will go to Washington, and then to New
York state, and expects to have the en­
tire c o p of the United States under
control of the corporation.
G et Rival Phone Line.
Albany— The city council of Albany
has granted the oft requested franchise
to the independent telephone people,
and in the near future construction
will be commenced on the exchange of
the independent people in Albany. All
the independent lines in Linn and
Benton counties are included in the
company that has secured the fran­
chise in Albany, and when the system
is completed there w ill be a free ex­
change between the principal towns of
T h e Late John Hay
these counties.
I t ' is expected that
spirited competition will secure a need­
the city and suburbs. The Employers’ ed better service in Albany.
association filed, two days ago, an ap­
plication for an injuention preventing
File Petitions W rongly.
these eompanies from refusing to make
Salem— Unless the friends of the wo­
deliveries to and from the boycotted
houses, as they have been refusing to man suffrage amendment exercise more
do since the commencement of the c ire than they have been doing, their
strike.
initiative petitions for the submission
Jouilge 1 loldom isseud a temporary
injunction against three of the express of the proposed amendment w ill be fa­
Secretary of State
companies which have refused to de­ tally defective.
liver merchandise.
Those against Dunbar has re-eived several petitions
whom the injunctions were issued are: on the blanks prepared by the advocates
The Johnson Express company. Page of woman suffrage, but in his opinion
Brothers Express company, and the the signatures on these petitions cannot
South Chicago Steamboat Express com­ be counted in making up the total num­
pany. These companies, by the court's ber of signatures for the iniative. He
oruer, w ill lie compelled to make d eliv­ holds that the separate sheets upon
eries for all merchants without discrim­ which the signatures are written should
be gathered together and filed at one
ination.
time.
S T U D E N T S M A K IN G B IG F U S S
Chinese G overnm en t Does N o t W ant
C oolies to C o m e to A m erica.
Road M ay G o Into the Nehalem .
Rainier— A logging railroad into Rai­
nier is practically assured. The Ham­
mond interests have secured a right of
way from Dean Blanchard, the Deerdorf
estate, and the Western Cedar company.
W. E. Newsome has proven the only
obstacle so far.
The company owns
1,200 acres of heavMy timbered land
about three miles from this place.
It
iB surmised that it is the intention to
push on to the Nehalem, as the same
parties were negotiating with 8. Bei s in
for his Clatskanie road. It is possible
that Mr. Rookie’ s railroad will be ab­
sorbed by the new company.
Detroit, July 4.— Charles Denby,
diplomatic adviser to the viceroy of
North China, who is visiting relatives
here, does not take a serious view of
Chinese threats to boycott American
goods owing to the Chinese exclusion
act. Mr. Denby, who has for 20 years
l>een in close touch with political and
commercial affairs in China, said:
“ The Chinese government is not back
of this agitation, and it is not support­
ed by the merchants.
It is probable
that Chinese students ate making the
trouble. The students of China, like
Big C anal at Gold H ill.
those of Russia, are a factor in politics,
young, hot-headed fellows, educated
8alem—The largest private water fil­
abroad and with advanced reform ideas. ings that have been made under the
new water right law, were received
by State Engineer Lewis when the
Stevens Succeeds W allace.
Washington, July 4.— Secretary Taft Gold H ill Canal company filed on
has appointed John F. Stevens, of Chi­ seven streams to secure feeders for their
cago, chief engineer of the Panama immense canal system lending from the
canal commission, with residence on mountains to the town of Gold H ill,
the isthmus.
Mr. Stevens succeeds in Jackson county. The filing notices
John F. Wallace.
Mr. Stevens also and the accompanying notices show
will be made general manager of the that the company will have 76 miles
Panama railway.
He w ill not be a I of main canals, liesides several miles
member of the isthmian canal commis­ of feeders. The notices are signed by
sion. His salary w ill be $30,000 a Daniel Lesley.
year. Mr. Stevens is now in the serv­
M usic at Chautauqua.
ice of the Philippine commission as
Oregon City— Professor Frederick \V.
inspector in the construction of 1,000
Goodrich, of Portland, who has lieen
miles of Philippine railways.
engaged as instructor and musical con­
ductor for the Willamette Valley Chau­
O pen to Japanese T ra d e .
Washington., July 4.— The State de­ tauqua association, reports that there
partment has been advised by the will lie 100 voices in the large chorus,
American minister at Tokio that the which w ill include Mrs. Rose Bloch-
Japanese m ilitary commander has, by Bauer and many other prominent Port­
proclamation, opened to the Japanese land singers. This chorus w:ll be aug-
merchants for trade and travel the fol­ umented by lietween 50 and 75 voices
lowing Manchurian towns:
Pashiko, from this city. Two cantatas will be
(old Niu Cliwang), Iliacheng, Anclian- p esented during the session.
ticn, I.yaonoang, Kaiping, Sengvang-
W o ol-C lipp ing Delayed.
cheng, Saimaehf. The information was
given the American minister that this
Enterprise— Sheep shearing in this
action was purely military measures.
county has been greatly handicapped
by the heavy rains of the past weex.
D arling O ffe re d Stevens’ Place.
■Unless better weather prevails the wool
Washington, July 4.— W. A. Darling clip of this county will not be disfosed
of Chicago, who is connected with the of until the latter part of July.
Rock Island Railway, has l>een tendered
an appointment to succeed J. F. Stev­
Refuae to Sign Lands.
ens in the work of railway construction
Klamath Falls— The Shook brothers,
in the Philippines.
His appointment of Dairy, B. B. Beekman, of Jackson­
has not yet been announced officially, ville, and Mrs. D. E. Ralston, of Ash­
hat it is understood he w ill accept the land, are holding up government irri
place.
gation by refusing to sign their lands.
B A N K S C O M E T O A ID .
Take
Up
Asylum Em ployes' C e rtifi­
cates o f A llow ance.
T h u rs to n
Says It Is Im possible
Convict M itc h ell.
to
Portland, July 1.— Still another day
bus passed and the last word is yet to
be spoken in behalf of Senator Mitch­
ell. It was fully expected that when
ex-Senator Thurston began yesterday
morning that he would conclude his
argument in the afternoon, but he was
yet half an hour away from his con­
cluding remarks, when Judge De Haven
adjourned the court until 10 o ’clock
this morning. This means that the
case w ill not go to the jury before late
this evening, if then, for United States
District Attorney Heney must answer
the arguments made by both of Senator
M itchell’ s attorneys.
When the speaker laid aside his eu­
logistic tribute to the senator, when he
had given hie audience a glimpse of the
living room of Senator Mitchell in
Washington, a room which he said con­
tained a bed and a trunk; when he told
of the love, veneration and honor in
which he held the defendant and turned
the floodgates of his oratory and legal
shrewdness upon the indictment under
which Senator Mitchell is being tried,
then he became the lawyer and pleader.
Listening members of the bench and
bar who listened to this argument mar­
veled at the adroitness with which this
document was attacked.
It was done
with such Bkill and cleverness, for each
count was taken up and riddled and
scoffed at— that now the government
must make answer.
The attack upon the indictment fol­
lowed the lines of the argument that
ex-Senator Thurston had made before
Judge De Haven. He stated that the
indictment held that Senator Mitchell
had received money from Kribs, and be
showed by the testimony of both Kribs
and Tanner, that Kribs had never paid
money to the defendant.
The speaker
held that before the government could
maxe this count in the ini i tment
stick, it must prove that Senator Mitch­
ell had received his payment either in
gold, silver or currency. He cited that
the Supreme court had held that a
check was not money, and contended
that when Tanner deposited the Kribs
checks, those checks were purchased by
the bank, was their property to burn or
tear up if they wished. The money
that the senator received as liis share
of the monthly receipts of the firm’s
business, no matter if that share con­
tained a part of the Kribs’ payment,
could not be construed as having been
paid to Senator Mitchell by Kribs.
Salem — Arrangements have been
made by which all employes of state
institutions at Salem w ill receive the
face value of their salary claims each
month. Portland banks have agreed to
take up the certifictaes of allowance is­
sued by Secretary of State Dunbar for
the amount of the pay-roll of each in­
stitution, and hold these certificates
until an appropriation becomes availa­
ble. They w ill depend upon the next
legislature to allow interest on the
money, and Governor Chamberlain has
said that he w ill recommend that in­
terest be allowed. The amount of the
salary claims w ill probably lie $180,-
000 up to the adjournment of the next
R E F U S E T O F IR E .
legislature. There w ill be no more
discounting of salary claims, but claims
for supplies w ill be shaved as hereto­ C re w o f Second Russian S hip Joins
in the M utiny.
fore.
London, July 1. — A telegram has
Land O ffic e in P o rtla n d .
been received here from Odessa timed
Oregon City— At the close of business
June 30 the business, together with the 10 o’clock this morning which says:
“ The men of a second battleship
records and archives of the Oregon City
Land office, were transferred to Port­ have mutinied. Can see no possibility
land and installed in the Blazier build­ of an early resumption of work.
The
ing, corner of West Park and Washing­
position undoubtedly is critical.”
ton streets. Simultaneous with the re­
moval of the land office from this city,
London, July 1.— In a second edition
takes place a change in the name of
issued today the London Daily Mail
the office, which w ill now be officially
prints a dispatch from its correspond­
designated as the Portland Land office.
ent at Odessa, timed 1 :23 Saturday
Register Dresser and Receiver Bibee
morning in which he says:
w ill remove with their families to Port­
“ It was at first reported by the au­
land this summer.
thorities here that the battleship Po­
temkine surrendered unconditionally.
Plant R ainbow T ro u t.
It is now confirmed that the mutineers
Cottage G rov" — Thirty thousand on board that ship were joined by the
rainbow trout have arrived here, ship­ crew of the battleship Georgi Pobiedo-
ped by the governmnet bureau of Fish­ nostseff, whose officers were taken pris­
eries. Twenty thousand came to D. T. oners and are now confined in the
Awbrey and 10,000 to the Oregon & ship’ s brig.
Southeastern railroad company. These
“ Both ships are now anchored in the
trtiut are to be distributed in branches roadsted, cleared for action, and using
tributary to the Willamette
river. their searchlights vigorously, appar­
They w ill be placed in small clearwater ently expecting an attack from the rest
streams and w ill be held there until of the fleet, which is 15 miles distant.
old enough to breed, and then turned “ The commandant of the port here has
loose.
received a telegram from St. Petersburg
directing him to sink the rebel ship
Fields Lie Flat.
without regard to any possible oom-
Fln'e-prise— Recent h 'avy rains in bardment.”
this section have caused much of the
No other London paper has any such
heavy grain and first crop of hay to information, all printing:
“ Official
fall. The grain which has fallen will dispatches from both St. Petersburg
necessarily have to lie cut for hay, as it and Odessa declaring that the crew of
cannot be harvested with a binder or the Potemkine surrendered uncondi­
header.
tionally without a shot,” detail at 6
o’ clock last evening.
23c; Taller, 28927c;
81932Hc per lb.
John H. Mitchell Convicted of
Crime Against Nation.
STEPS TAKEN FOR NEW TRIAL
I f N ecessary
C ase
W ill Be T a k e n to
the S u prem e C o u rt o f the
U nited States.
Portland, July 4.— At 11 o ’clock last
night, with the din of exploding fire
crackers almost drowning the words of
Captain Sladen, Senator John H .
Mtichell, who for 22 years has sat in
the senate of the United States, list­
ened to the reading of the verdict that
pronounced him guilty.
Although hard hit, as a man must
be under such awful conditions, Sena­
tor Mitchell retained his composure.
Tears welled into his eyes and his
voici shook, and, as he slowly rose
from his seat, after the jury had been
polled and court was adjourned, he
tottered and for the brief spell of per­
haps a minute the shocking force of
the verdict seemed suddenly to unload
upon his shoulders every one of those
70 years through which he has passed,
and he became old, very old. W ith an
effort which showed that he was still
fighting, still not without hope, for ex-
Senator Thurston, as soon as the jury
was polled had moved for a new trial,
he straightened up his bent figure ill
a way that seemed to say, “ there is
yet another chance.”
Senator Mitchell w ill not rest under
the verdict of the jury as returner! last
night, but will take the matter to the
Supreme court of the United States,
if necessary. Senator Thurston, one of
the counsel for the defense, when asked
as to (he future course of the defense,
said:
“ On Monday next the court w ill hear
a motion for a new trial on the part of
the defense, and if that is denied, the
matter w ill pe taken to the Circuit
court of Appeals in San Francisco, and
from there, if necessary, to the Su­
preme court of the United States. Of
course, other than that statement, I can
have nothing to say as to what I think
of the outcome of the trial.”
John Newton Williamson, Dr. Van
Gesner and Marion R. Biggs w ill lie
brought face to face with the United
States court on F’riday morning at 10
o’clock to answer to the indictment
charging them with subornation of
perjury, in having induced 100 persons
to swear falsely in regard to entries
made upon timber and stone land in
the vicinity of Prineville.
Judge De Haven set Friday morning
as the time for beginning the trial
when court was called yesterday morn-
in '. He also stated that he would fix
Wednesday morning as the time for
taking up all land fraud cases in which
demurrers had been filed against the
indictments. He would then set apart
a time for hearing thfe arguments in
those cases where such hearing was
necessary.
D E S T R O Y R E B E L S H IP ,
Russian G overnm en t Sends T o rp e d o
Boat on T ra il o f P o tem kin.
Bucharest, Roumania, July 5.— Ad­
vices to the government from Kustenji
state that the Russian torpedo boat
Smeltiloy had appeared off that port
and by signal had requested informa­
tion concerning the rebel Russian bat­
tleship Potemkin. It is said that the
torpedo boat is manned by a select
crew and has lieen commissioned to at­
tack and sink the rebel ship upon
sight. When the port authorities sig­
naled back that the Potemkin had left
the port, the torpedo lioat retired in
the direction of Odessa, for which place
the Potemkin is beleived to have set
out.
At all Roumanian ports where Rus­
sian warships are now lying there is
reported great agitation among the
sailors. The Russian vessel Bulgarie,
owing to an outbreak among her crew,
has been indefinicely delayed at the
port of Ismalia.
✓
PO RTLAND M ARKETS.
Wheat — Club, 82(883c per bushel;
blnestem, 89(890; valley, nominal.
Bariev— Feed, $22@22.50 per ton;
lolled, $23.50.
Oats— No. 1 white, feed, $30 per
ton; gray, $30.
Hay— Timothy, $14916 per ton;
clover, $11912; grain, $11(812.
Eggs— Oregon ranch, 20921c per
dozen.
Butter— Fancy creamery, 17 1*921 >4c
Poultry — Fancy hens, 12I^@13c;
mixed chickens, 1 1 9 1 2 c; turkeys, live,
18<819c per lb.
Fruits — Strawberries, $2(82.25 per
crate; apples, table, $1.50(8 2.50 per
box; apricots, S5c(8$l
per crate;
peaches, 75 (8 85c; plums, 60c(8$l;
Logan
berries, $1.25; blackberries,
75c; cherries, 5(88c per lb; prunes,
90ccf$t per crate; raspberries, $1.75.
F'resh Vegetables — Corn, 30 (8 40c
per dozen; cucumbers, 40c(8$l; let­
tuce, head, 10c; parsley, 25c; peas,
2(85c per lb; radishes, 10912c per
dozen; tomatoes, $1.75<<i3 perorate;
turnips, $1.25(81 40 per sack; carrots,
$1.2591-50; beets, $1(81.25.
Potatoes — Oregon fancy, old, $19
1.10; Oregon, new, $191.25.
Beef — Dressed balls, 192c per lb;
cows, 3tf94V|C.
Mutton— Dressed, fancy, 5c per lb.
Hops— Choice, 1904, 19(821c per lb.
Wool — Eastern Oregon, best, 199
VERDICT IS GUILTY
Rebels P roclaim G en eral S trik e .
S kim s O v e r C ity L ik e a B ird .
Toledo, July 3.— One of the most re­
markable flights ever made in an air­
ship was performed today by A . R.
Knabenshue, who sailed through the
air at a distance of three miles, landed
on top of » ten-stroy office building in
25 minutes from the time of starting
and then returned to the depot from
which he started. The day was ideal
for the daring feat. A light wind was
blowing from the east, and Knabenshue
sailed his aerial craft directly in the
face of the wind without any apparent
difficulty.
St. Petersburg, July 5. — The execu­
tive committee of the Social Revolu­
tionists has issued a stirring appeal
summoning the workmen
and all
classes of society interested in the
overthrow of the present regime to
show sympathy with all those who
fought for freedom at Lodz, Warsaw,
Odessa and other places, as well as
with the sailors who mutinied at
Odessa and Libau, by inaugurating a
general political strike.
The leaders
have supplemented this by proclaiming
a general strike for Thursday.
A rm istice is N e x t T h in g .
Flood Brings Big Snakes.
New York, July 3. — The recent in­
undation of the River Parana has had
strange cortsequences, cables the Her­
ald’ s correspondent at Buenos Ayres.
By the great extension of the River
Platte, the docks of Buenos Ayres and
the harbor have lieen invaded by float­
ing islands of land torn from the banks
of the Parana.
These have brought
hosts of tropical animals, hundreds of
big serpents, and many crocodiles.
Even a tiger cub has lieen captured.
8t. Petersburg, July 5.— With the
completion of the arrangements for the
Washington peace meeting, President
Roosevelt has resumed his efforts to
bring about an armistice.
No light
is thrown upon the actual status of the
negotiations and the character of the
communications passing between the
Russian and Japanese governments and
Washington. The matter is exceeding­
ly delicate, but the ontlook for success
is not unpromising.
P re p a res to F ig h t H ungary.
Panam a S an itation Im p ro v in g .
Panama. July 3. — The sanitation of
the city is improving, the number of
deaths for June being 25 per cent less
than that recorded for May, though
mohair, choice, June ia ocnaidered the worst month of
the year.
London, July 5.— The correspondent
of the Daily Mail at Vienna asserts
that Archduke Francis Ferdinand has
initiated military preparation with s
view to the eventuality of Hungary at­
tempting to recede from the dual mon­
archy.