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Washington County News Government Gives Out Report About Coast's Magnetic Iron Ore. iMaed Ba h Week POREST O ROVE. W E A LT H IN SAND S. OREGON NEWS OF THE WEEK In a Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. A Resume o f the L ets Importsnt bu* Not Less Interesting Events o f the Pest Week. A slight earthquake was (elt through out Italy. The aultan of Turkey shows signs of yielding to the powers. Cuba has sent a gunboat to investi gate the affairs of the Isle of Pines. Linievitch is said to have put down a mutiny in Manchuria after much bloodshed. The University of Pennsyvlania has taken the initiative in suggesting new football rules. New York police authorities have doubled the number of police reserves, presumably in anticipation of a strike by ironworkers. Heavy seas have swept away 100,000 feet of the east coast of Coney island and the inhabitants are terror stricken lest more should go. A terrible gale has Bwept the English channel. It is reported that the Brit ish battleship King Edward V II found ered during the storm. Officials investigating the affairs of the Beattie assay office have discovered evidence to show that Adams’ defalca tions extended as far back as 1903. Washington, Nov. 29. — From Fort Stevens, at the mouth of the Columbia river, southward 18 miles to Tillamook Head, is one of the richest black sand beaches on the Pacific coast, according to the figures contained in the second preliminary report of Dr. David T. Day, of the United States geological survey, on the results of experiments on concentrating there sands. The Clatsop beach sands were the first with which experiments were made, and the results obtained from them have just been given out by the government. Magnetic iron ore is shwon to be present in immense quantities, in one place attaining the remarkable average of 643.559 pounds in one ton of sand, but much gold and platinum were also found. In fact it is said by Dr. Day that the values in the precious metals alone would in themselves probably pay for the cost of working the sand. It was through the energy of the Astoria chamber of commerce in sack ing and loading into cars at its own ex pense samples to be experimented with, that this sand first received attention. A government geologist was sent to ex amine the beach from which the sam ples were taken. He found the sands 1,500 feet west of Hammond station, near Fort Stev ens, to be the richest. A t this point the sand is very black, becoming light er in eolor toward the south, ranging from dense black to light gray, at the mouth of the Necauicum river. From this point to Tillamook head, the sand is very green, due to the presence of olivine and other portions of decom posed basalt. One mile from T illa mook head large basaltic boulders take the place of most of the sand, which is very thin from here on. SIDETRACK TARIFF Rate Regulation the Only Prob lem Before Coming Session. ■ j CONCENTRATION OF ATTENTION President Will Not Give Senate Any Excuse to Avoid Action by De bating in the Air. Washington, Nov. 28.— For various reasons President Roosevelt w ill not urge congress at the approaching ses sion to take up the question of tariff revision. He believes the railroad rate question is the most vital issue which confronts the people of the United States today, and he is therefore un willing to bring to the front any other problem whose discussion would tend to postpone, if not defeat, legislation on that subject. He proceeds on the theory that the worst evil should be first cured. Atter four years’ experi ence in the white house, and with a comprehensive knowledge of the meth ods resorted to by congress to defeat legislation which is distasteful, the president is fully aware that he would materially decrease the chances of get ting rate legislation if he should make tariff revision an issue of equal import ance with the regulation of freight rates. He ib aware that the senate would quickly seize upon this opportu nity and concentrate its attention on a tariff bill, not so much witli any idea of modifying the Dingley tariff as to distract attention and sidetrack the rate hill liefore it reached a critical stage. There is other legislation which the president hopes to have passed besides the railroad rate bill, but he is m ire anxious about that measure than any other, and he w ill concentrate his efforts to secure such a law as will, in his judgment, effectively check discrim ination» of ail sorts. He wants a law which w ill apply the “ square deal” rule to railroad business, and if his in fluence. backed by public opinion, can bring it about, such a law w ill be w rit ten on the statute books before the first session of the Fifty-ninth congress ad journs. The United States sold to Canada G R E AT S T O R M IN EUROPE. last year exports to the value of $166,- 000,000. This is more than 62 per cent of the whole of Canadian imports British and German Coast Resorts and but 11 per cent of the exports of Damaged and Lives Lost. the United States. London, Nov. 29.— Great damage Oregon, Kansas. Teaxs, New Mexico, was done to the coast towns of Great New York, Delaware, Pennsylvania. Britain by last night’ s storm. Many Utah and Maryland all have men in congress who would henatit their states small vessels were driven ashore, but by resigning, as their terms of useful thus far only a few lives are reported ness have passed. lost. Henry Watterson says he wants no During the night huge waves swept public office. the sea fronts of many favorite resorts. The British Liberal party has split Bea walls and promenades were washed on home rule. out, and houses and hotels along the C A N A L ENG INEERS D E PAR T. Dowie has returned from his new col sea fronts were flooded. Some houses ony in Mexico. collapsed. Ridicule Reports They Have Changed There is a growing disaffection in Decision on Sea Level. The small coasting steamer Peridot, the St. Petersburg garrison. of Glasgow, waB totally wrecked on the Washington, Nov. 28.— The five for The crew was lost. eign delegates to the board of consult Russian police have found letters Island of Magee. Seven bodies have been washed up. ing engineers of tlie Isthmain Canal telling of a plot to kill the czar. The provinces report great damage commission left for New York today, Sarah Bernhardt w ill build and by the gale. The telegraph wires are and w ill sail for their homes. They maintain a theater in New York, ac down, and t i e telephone line to Paris w ill meet again in Brussels during the cording to her manager. is interrupted. first days of January. General Davis The Red Star line steamer Kronland w'ill go to that city as representative of Turkey is expected to offer no resist ance to the allied fleet unless troops are and the American Hamburg line steam the American members of the hoard, landed, in which event a tight may en er Patricia, bound for New York, em and w ill take with him the documents, barked their passengers at Dover this which are not yet drawn up, and which sue. morning, after which they continued The large number of accidents in their voyage uninterrupted by the then w ill have to be signed by the for eign delegates. football games this season has aroused Btorm. Speaking of published stories that college authorities to take action against they had reconsidered their first vote, the game. C U B A N S ARM FOR H O T FIG H T. one of the delegutes made the following It is probable that in the reorganisa statement: tion of congress Ankeny and Fulton Machetes, Rifles and Cannon Sur “ Whatever we have had to say will w ill secure chairmanships of important he found in the report which will round American Meeting committees. shortly he in the hands of President Havana, Nov. 29.— Letters received Roosevelt. Tb at we should change our The management of the Rock Island from the Isle of Pines picture an in vote on a snliject to which for three railroad has decided to practically re build the entire system to secure a teresting scene at Neuva Guerona Sat months wo had given the closest atten urday. American flags were hoisted tion, and shiHild change it merely be minimum grade. on the American hotel, where the meet cause bo me •parties are not contented Fifteen persons were injured and with it, is a great absurdity.” many others badly shaken up in a ing of the Americans was held, where wreck on the Missouri Pacific near upon Cuban flags were hoisted on every Leave Isle o f Pinea to Cuba. Leeds, Missouri. Cuban house. Washington, Nov. 28. — The Cuban The Russian minister of finance esti The mayor, apprehending that the government w ill be permitted to settle mates that the expenditures for the Americans would seize the town hall, Mr its own satisfaction the existing coming year will be $1,020,000,000 and gathered more than a hundred men, trouble on the Isle o f Pines. The the revenue $1,027,000,000. who were armed with machetes, some Htate itopartment has so announced. Of The powers may allow Austria to of them with firearms, and stationed course, if American citizens were to be themselves inside the building, while unduly persecuted or maltreated be seise Macedonia. many other armed Cubans were in the A fierce gnle in Chicago did much immediate vicinity. Some of the writ cause ef any exercise by them of their right sf freedom of speech or assembly, damage to property. ers say that the women also were armed this goV’ernnient w ill take steps to se A fresh mutiny has broken out on with knives. In anticiptaion of what cure fofr them justice. But if those the Americans might do, a couple of Amsrictins on the islands place them the Russian Black sea fleet small cannon were placed in front of selves outside the pale of the law by More graft is being exposed in the the town hall. Absolutely nothing oc refnsin|j to recognize the authority of Insurance inquiry at New York. curred, however, to justify the appre the Ctilflan government, they w ill have Bulgaria is anxious to invade Mace hension. to take the consequences. donia, but is restrained by the powers. Would Dominate Manchuria. Pesthouse Was Burglarized. Russian employers have united to Victoria, B. C., Nov. 29. — Tr.kio fight the strikers, who have nearly Bivtte, Mont., Nov. 28. — A Great advices say Baron Komura was recently Valia dispatch to the Miner states that ruined them. sent as a special ambassador from the (K-opie of Teton county are in a fu Helena shippers have organised to Japan to Pekin to make certain ar rore over what is believed to be a fight rate discrimination and may form rangements to secure Japanese domina threatened epidemic of smallpox as the a state association. tion in Manchuria, as well a* to make result of burglarizing of the pesthouse The cashier of the Hayti, M'asonri, a general post-bellum reajdustment. Several smallpox patients were confined bank has disappeared with $18,000 of Japanese publicists are afraid that Pe in the detention house and the piace kin w ill soon be again i* ti e center of has never been fumigated to the extent tbs institution's money. intrigue, and they are a unit in de that it is Believed that all danger of A large colony of Boers is to locate manding Japanese occupation. Count contagion is past. The people have in Venezuela. A grant of over a m il Okumo, in a recent speech, said Japan's been publicly warned by the health lion acres of land has been made by magnanimity alone should govern t l » ' officials to lie on the alert for any ap President Castro. disposition of Manchuria.« pearance of the disease. Four prisoners in the Jefferson, Mis- Carey Working for Jetty. sonri, penitentiary, made a desperate A lies Have Acted attempt to escape. Two guards were Washington, Nov. 29__ Judge Carey London, Nov 28. — The Daily Mail killed, a third seriously wounded, and intends as soon as possible to cal) on publishes the follow ing dispatch from the prison gates blown up with nitro President Roosevelt to interest him in Mitylene, dated November 27: "E ig h t glycerine. The convicts were captured the need of an appropriation for con warships of the combined fleet arrived after a fight in which one was killed tinuing improvement at the mouth of hero at 8 o'clock this morning. Adm i and one wounded. the Columbia river and to secure from ral Ritter von Jnlina, accompanied by The president has appointed H. J. him, if possible, assurance that he w ill the Austrian consul, proceeded to the Hagerman, of Roswell, N. M., as gov aid in procuring the necessary appro government house at 10:30 o’clock and ernor of New Mexico, to take effect priation at the coming session. He ha eded an ultimatum to the governor. will also call on Secretary Taf* and At 1 o ’clock this afternoon 500 sailors January 1, the expiration of Governor such senators and congressmen of in landed and soized the customs and tele Otero’ s term. fluence as can be reached. graph office. Everything is quiet.” Balfour w ill resign as premier of Great Britain. Starve Out Mutineers. G overn or o f M oscow Dismissed Sevastopol, Nov. 29. — Baron Gako- London, Nov. 28.— The correspond Missouri Is continuing its fight melski, who is now in charge of the ent o f the Standard at Moscow says that against the Standard O il. situation, w ill reduce the mutineers Genwal Dronovo, governor of Moscow, Four Berlin hanks have organised a wbo are enclosed on Admiralty point has Been dismissed in disgrace owing to bank to do business in Turkey and by starvation. The water supply lead the revolutionary proceedings of the ing to the point has already been cut. contuses pt peasants. Egypt. G R E A T E S T H A R V E ST IN H IS T O R Y Present Year Was Record Breaker in United States. Washington, N o v.28.— “ W ialth pro duction on the farms of the United States in 1905 reached the highest amount ever attained in this or any other country— $8,415,000,000.” In the first annual report of his third term Secretary of Agriculture Wilson presents an array of figures and a state ment representing products and profits of the farmers of this country, which he admits “ dreams of wealth produc tion ct>uid hardly equal.” Four crops make new high records as to value — torn, hay, wheat and rice— although in amount of production the corn is the only one that exceeds pre vious yields. In every crop the gen- eia level of production was high and that of prices still higher. Beside the enormous yield of wealth the secretary estimates that the farms of the country have increased in value during the past five years to a present aggregate of $6,- 133.000. 000. “ Every sunset during the past five years,” he says, “ has registered an in crease of $3,400,000 in the value of the farms of this country.” Analyzing the principal crops for the year, the secretary says that corn reached its highest production at 2,- 708.000. 000 bushels, a gain of 42,000,- 0Ô0 over the next highest year, 1899; hay is second in order of value, al though cotton held second place during the two preceding years The hay crop this year is valued at $60,000,000. Cotton comes third, with a valuation of $575,000,000; wheat, $525,000,000; oats, $282,000,000; potaloes, $138,- 000,000; bailey, $58,000,000; tobacco, $12,000,000; sugar, cane and sugar beets, $50,000,000; rice, $13,000,- 000; dairy produ :ts, $50,000,000, au increase of $54,000,000, over last year. P L E N T Y O F M O N EY. Secretary of Interior Has Not Been Furnished Proper Figures. Washington, Nov. 28 — When the secretary of the Interior and the Recla mation service reach an understanding as to the extent and condition of the national reclamation fund, it is exp-ct ed that a number of new irrigation pro jects, including projects in Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington, w ill be approved and placed under contract. But until there is a complete under standing, the present chaotic condition must continue, and inactivity w ill be the rule, save on projects that are act ually under contract. The great misunderstanding that now prevails is as to the amount of money available for use, and the restrictions under which that money may be ex pended. The Reclamation service has its own set of figures, but those figures do not coincide with the figures which have been furnished Secretary Hitch cock by the men in his own department upon whom he relies. The secretary, confronted with very different financial statements, from sources which ought to agree, has concluded that neither is right, yet he is unable to figure out for himself just how much money he has to spend, and how much he has spent in the 3% years the reclamation law has been in force. W REC K T A K E S FIRE. Fourteen Persons Lose Lives in Mas sachusetts Disaster. Lincoln, Mass., Nov. 28.— fourteen persons were killed, 25 were seriously injured, and probably a score of others cut and bruised in the most disastrous railroad wreck recorded in this state for many years. The wreck occurred at 8:15 o’clock, at Baker’ s Bridge sta tion, a mile and a half west of Lincoln, on the main line of the Fitchburg di vision of the Boston & Maine railroad. Ttie regular express, which left Boston at 7:45 o’clock for Montreal, by way of the Rutland system, crashed into the rear end of an accommodation train bound for points on the Marlborough brcnch, and which started from Boston at 7:15. Of the dead, a dozen were passengers in the two rear cars of the Marlborough train. The other two were Engineer Barnard, of the Montreal express, and his fireman. No passengers on the express train were injured. Of those who lost their lives, a number were ap parently instantly killed in the collis ion. while others were either burned to death or died from suffocation. Oppose Rate Legislation. Chicago, Nov. 28. — An organized movement on the part of railroad em ployes in every branch of the service has been put on foot to secure con certed action against the Roosevelt idea of rate legislation. Preliminary steps have already been taken by a commit tee of the brotherhoods of railroad men for a general mass meeting. Rate reg ulation, in the opinion of the em ployes, means a subsequent reduction in wages for them, and they propose a strong organization to oppose traffic rate*. No Flowers at Capitol Washington, Nov. 28.— There will be no flowers in either house on the opening day of congress. A resolution of the senate was adopted dnring the last se«sion of congress barring flowers from the senate chamber. Mr. Cannon has already given notice that he will not allow the flowers to be brought in as heretofore. Rivalry of admirers of different members of both houses reached a stage where the desks were buried in flowers. REFUSES TO CHANGE Hitchcock Admits California Has Share in Klamath. • BUT CHARGES ALL TO OREGON Fulton’ s Plea fo r Umatillailrrigation Fall* on Deaf Ear*— Secretary Denounces Malheur. Washington, Nov. 25. — Secretary Hitchcock is now convinced of the in terstate character of the Klamath irri gation project and acknowledges that California is to benefit by the work in contemplation fully as much as Ore gon, but he is not w illing to change his order charging the entire allotment to the state of Oregon. When Senator Fulton again took up the matter of the Um atilla project with the secretary, he found Hitchcock hold ing the same views he voiced on the occasion of his previous visits, contend ing that Oregon’ s 51 per cent reserve fund has been appropriated and ex plaining that there are no funds avail able for construction of tbe Umatilla project. Mr. Fulton maintains that, even if the secretary adheres to his determina tion to charge the entire cost of the Klamath work to Oregon, there is yet enough money in tbe reclamation fund to the credit of Oregon to build the Umatilla project. On June 30 last Oregon’ s restricted fund was practically $2,500,000. Deducting $2,000,000 al lotted for Klamath, there was yet $500,000 left, and it is Mr. Fulton’ s contention that since July 1, 1905, enough money has been received from disposal of public lands in Oregon to make the other $500,000 necessary for the Umatilla project. The secretary is unable to state how much money Ore gon has contributed to the fund since July, but w ill advise the senator when he ascertains the facts. Notwithstanding that be denominates the Malheur project a "s te a l,” and al ludes to the operation of the wagon road people as a “ graft,” the secretary will not formally set aside this project, though admitting that he will not con struct it. Nor will he permit the Mal heur allotment to be used in part for the Umatilla project. He says Oregon has had her full share of reclamation money outside of the Malheur project, and is not entitled to the benefit of the money which is now credited to th a project, but which is not being used. T R Y T O DAM S A L T O N SEA. Lerge Force Working to Save Rail road From Destruction. Los Angeles, Nov. 25. — Two hun dred men, divided into day and night shifts, 20 teams hauling brush and sand, two piledrivers thumping away almost incessantly, two sternwheel steamers carrying construction material and commissary stores from Yuma— these forces under Superintendent J. Tolin are engaged in the Herculean task of building a 600 foot dam across the west channel of the Colorado river four miles below Yuma, by which the j California Development company hopes to bring Salton sea to a standstill and eventually restore the 8alton Sink to a dry bed of evaporation of the flood wtaers that have wreaked such havoc there. I f the dam is a success, the Southern Pacific railway in •ime w ill be able to abandon its 16 miles of shoofly track east of Salton, and resume its main line I f the dam is a failure, 40 miles and perhaps more of shoofly may have to be buift, the whole Imperial coun try may be deprived of its supply of canal water, and the Colorado river may be diverted through the River Padrones into Volcano lake, thence to find its way northward through the new river into the Salton Sea. What this would mean may be conjectured from the damage already done by the flooding of the great sink. Final Agreementa on Reports. Washington, Nov. 25.— The board of consulting engineers of the Panama canal met today to add the finishing touches to the work and compare not- ■ npon which to base the majority and minority reports which w ill embody the views of the members op u the sea- level and lock projects. This was necessary because the foreign members of tbe board have arranged to sail for Europe on November 28, leaving the compilation of the preliminary reports in the hands of the American members, subject to their perusal and amending Three Big Battleships. Washington, Nov. 25. — Three first- class battleships of at least 18,000 tons displacement and 18 knots speed, three • -out cruisers of 6,000 tons displace ment, one gnnboat of the Helena class vnd four other gunboats of light draft, j two for nse in the Philippines and two I for service in the rivers of China, with additional topedo boats and torpedo boat destroyers, are the principal re commendations of the general board of the navy in its program. Hyda-Dimond Case Postponed. Washington, Nov. 25.— The hearing by the Criminal court on the demurrer Famine in Part o f Jspan. filed in the Hyde-Dimond case. In Victoria, B. C., Nov. 28.— Famine which fraodnlent land transactions on prevails because of the failure of the the Pacific coast are charged, which rice crop in Northeast Japan. The gov waa set for today, was postponed for ernment has begun relief measures. 1 two weeks. M AY LOSE P O S IT IO N . Mitch*ll Likely T o Be Displaced on Senate Canal Committee. Washington, Nov. 27. — Apparently Senator Mitchell is to be deprived of the chairmanship of the committee on iuteroceanic canals when the senate re organizes next month. This has not been definitely decided, but it is the concensus of opinion of arriving sena tors that Mitchell w ill have to relin quish his chairmanship in order that some active member of the canal com mittee can preside at its meetings this winter. Congress must appropriate money early in the coming session for contin uing work on the Panama canal, and roust decide whether the canal shall be built with locks or at the sea level. This legislation, together with all other legislation pertaining to the canal and the canal zone, must be considered by the canal committee, and w ill be one of the most important topics to be con sidered. Because of its importance, senators believe the canal committee should have an active chairman, who can not only preside at committee meetings, but who can vote both in committee and in the senate, and who can furthermore take charge of canal legislation after it has been reported to the senate. AM END IM M IG R A TIO N LAW S. Sargent's Plan fo r Keeping Out All Undesirables. Washington, Nov. 27. — Radical changes in the immigration laws will be made next year, if the suggestions of Commissioner General Sargent are put into effect. Mr. Sargent is anxious to have limits placed on the number of immigrants, and that persons who are either too young or too old to sup port themselves should not be per mitted to disembark. This would not, however, apply to those who can furn ish guarantees that they are on theii way to relatives. Mr. Sargent believes that by an ar rangement with foreign governments the useless traffic of deportatiop of im migrants unfit to land here could be stopped. Before an immigrant is per mitted to take passage for America, he should undergo an examination at the point of embarkation. H IT C H C O C K T O RESIGN. Rumor That Western Congressmen Have Got His Scalp. Washington, Nov. 27. — The fact letiked out tonight from a responsible source that at a recent cabinet meeting Ethan Allen Hitchcock, secretary of the Interior, expressed a desire to ten der his resignation July 1 next. The same authority announces that Vespa sian Warner, of Illinois, now commis sioner of pensions, is to succeed him. It is said the proposed change in the cabinet has been brought about ny members of congress from western states, who charge that Mr. Hitchcock, in operations against land grabbers, has permitted his personal feelings to. enter into the prosecutions. W hile this charge had been often repeated, it is said that the retirement of Mr. Hitchcock w ill be wholly due to the desire of the president to surround himself with younger men. M ILLIO N W OM EN FIG H T S M O O T . Characterize Him as a Man Sanction ing Practice of Polygamy. Philadelphia, Nov. 27.— A meeting of the executive committee of the Na tional League of Women’s organiza tions, formed two years ago to oppose the continuance in the United States senate of Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah, was held here today. Women from all sections of the country were present. It was announced that a petition would be presented to tne senate asking for m the exclusion of Mr. Smoot on the ^ ground that “ he is a member of a heirarchy whose president and a major ity of the members pratctice and teach polygamy.” The memorial w ill state that “ Mr. Smoot has never raised his voice against these doctrines, and the Mormon hierarchy has broken its cov enants which it gave to the United ^ States when statehood was granted.” o u m m o n e a o v u u a g e nunt. Helena, Nov. 27.— United States Judge Hunt today ordered Frederick A. Hyde. John A . Benson and other Cali fornians to appear and answer on Feb ruary 5 tbe complaint charging them with having fraudulently obtained a loreet reserve scrip, under which 4,000 acres of Montana land was secured from the government. The government seeks to have the land revered to it. There are a nnmber of Montana corporations and individuals who are also named as defendants in the bill of complaint filed. Burton is Guilty. 8t. Louis, Nov. 27.— Senator J. R. Burton, of Kansas, was Saturday night found guilty on all six counts in the indictment upon which he has been on trial for the past week in the United States Circuit court, charged with hav ing agreed to accept and having ac cepted compensation from the Rialto Grain A Securities company, of 8t. Lonis, to appear for the company in the capacity of an attorney before the Poet- office department. I| Will Cut Forests and Crops. Iiban, Nov. 27.— Agrarian disorders have broken ont in the Baltic province. A peasant meeting adopted reeolations to cat forest on private land and to ap propriate crops. The governor general has issued a proclamation to the troops to fire on snch offenders, and saying that the participants at such meeting* w ill be court martialed and sent to dic tant province*.