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NEWS OF THE WEEK
Iq a Condensed Form for On
Busy Readers.
A Rliumt of tho Lets Important bu'
Not Lest Interesting Event
of the Pett Week.
A slight earthquake was (elt through
oat Daly
The sul'an of Turkey shows signs of
yielding to the powers
Cuba has fnt gunboat to investi
gate the affair of the Isle of Pines.
Linievltch le raid to have put down
nni'iiiy in Manchuria after much
bloodshed.
The University of Pennsvvlania has
taken the initiative in suggesting new
football rule.
New York police authorities have
tlDublfd the tiumlier of police reserve
presumably in anticipation of a it rike
by ironworkers.
Heavy fens have swept away 100,000
feet ol the east cobbI of Coney island
and the inhabitants are terror stricken
lest more should go.
A terrible gale has swept the English
channel. It is reported that the Brit
lnh battleship King Edward VII Ion ml
ered during the storm.
Officials investigating the affairs of
the H.-attle assay ollice have discovered
evidence to show that Adams defalca
tiona extended as fur back as 100.1.
The United States sold to Canda
last year exports to the value of $1H
000,000. This is more than 62 ier
cent of the whole of Canadian import
nd but 11 per cent of the ex porta ol
the United States.
Oregon, Kansas. Teaxs, New Mexico
New York, Ddaware, Pennsylvania
Utah and Mar) l.ind all have men i
congress who would benefit their state
bv resigning, as their terms of useful
ness have passed.
Henry Watterson says he wants n
public office.
The British Liberal party has spli
on home rule.
Dowie has returned from his new rol
ony in Mexico.
There is a Browing disaffection in
the St. Petersburg garrison.
Russian police have found letters
telling ol a plot to kill the czar.
fa rah Bernhardt will build and
maintain a theater in New York, ac
cording to her manager.
Turkey is expected to offer no resist
nee to the allied licet unless troops are
landed, in which event a fight may en
sue.
The large number of accidents in
football sanies this season has arouse.'
college authorities to take action against
the game.
It is probable that in the reotganiza-
tion of congress Ankeny and rultoi
will se.'nre chairmanships of important
committees.
The m tnagement of the Rock Island
railroad has decided to practically re
build the entire system to secure
minimum grade.
Fifteen persons were injured and
many others badly shaken up in
wreck on the Missouri fad tic near
Leeds, Missouri. ,
The Russian minister of finance est i
mates that the expenditures for the
coming year will be $1,020,000,000 ami
the revenue $ 1,027,000,000
The powers may allow Austria to
seize Macedonia.
A fierce gale in Chicago did much
damage to property.
A fresh mutiny has broken out on
the Russian Black sea tleet
More gra't is being exposed in the
insurance inquiry at New York.
Bulgaria is anxious to invade Mure
donia, but is restrained by the powers
Russian employers have united to
fight the' strikers, who have nearly
ruined them.
Helena shippers have organised to
fight rate discrimination and may form
state association.
The cashier of the Hayti, Missouri,
bank has disappeared with $18,000 of
the institution's money.
A large colony of Boers is to locate
in Venezuela. A grant of over s mil
lion acres of land has been made by
President Castro.
Four prisoners In the Jefferson, Mis
sonri, penitentiary, made a desperate
attempt to escape. Two guards were
killed, a third seriously wounded, and
the prison gates blown up with nit r.
glycerine. The convicts were captured
after a fight in which one was killed
and one wounded.
The president has appointed 11. J.
Hagerman, of Roswell, N. M., as gov
ernor of New Mexico, to take effect
January 1, the expiration of Governor
Otero's term.
Balfour will
Great Britain.
resign as premier of
Missouri la continuing its fight
against the Standard Oil.
Four Berlin banks have organized a
bank to do business in Turkey and
Egypt.
Fire in a cr.al lare at I.on Ion de
stroyed '.',000 tons of coal.
The government's ca-e in the second
trial of Burton is completed .
Japan is working to raise Togo's
sunken flagship, the Mikana.
The allied fleet of the powers is
preparing to seize Turkish ports.
Spain will spend I I.2ii0,nofl for the
purchase of rapid fire field guns.
Anibii-'-.tdor Keid low contribute I
$."dil to t he Htid for I nl and's unemployed.
WtALTH IN bANOS
Government Gvs Out Report About
Coatt't Mgotic Iron Or.
Washington, No?. 29 From Fort
S evens, at the mooth of the Columbia
river, southward 18 miles to Tillamook
Head, is one of the richest Mack sand
beaches on the Pacinn coast, according
to the figures contained in the second
preliminary report of Dr. David T.
Dy, of the United States geological
survey, on the results of experiment
on concentrating thete sand. The
Clatsop beach sands were the fir-it with
which experiments were made, and the
results obtained from them have just
been given out by Xhe government.
Magnetic iron ore is shwon to be
present in immense quantities, in one
place attaining the remarkable averrie
of 644.659 pounds in one ton of sand,
tint much gold and platinum were also
found In 'act it is said by Dr. Day
that the values in the precious metals
alone would in themselves probably
pay for the coat of wui kins' the sand.
It was through the energy of the
Astoria chamtter of commerce in sack
ing and loading into cars at its own ex
pen se samples to lie experimented w ith
that this samf first received attention
A government geologist was sent to ex
amine the beach from which the cam
plea wete taken.
He found the sands 1.500 feet west
of Hammond station, near Fort Stev
ens, to Ihi the richest. At this point
the sand is very black, becoming light
er in color toward the south, ranging
from dense black to light gray, at the
mouth of the Necatiicnm river. From
this point to Tillamook head, the sand
is very green, due to the presence of
olivine and other portions of decom
iHised basalt. One mile from Till
mook head large basal' ic boulders take
i he place of most of the sand, which
very thin from here on.
GREAT STORM IN EUROPE.
British and German Coast Resorts
Damaged and Lives Lost
London, Nov. 2'J. Great damage
was done to the coast towns of Great
Britain by last night's storm. Many
small vessels were driven ashore, but
thus far only a few lives are reported
lost.
During the night huge waves swept
t ie sea fronts of many favorite resort
Sea walls and promenades were washed
out, and houses and hotels along the
sea fronts were flooded. Some houses
collapsed.
The small coasting steamer Peridot
of Glasgow, was totally wrecked on the
Island of Magee. The crew was lost.
Seven bodies have been washed up.
The provinces report great damage
by ttie gale. The telegraph wires are
own, and tie telephone line to Paris
is interrupted.
The Red Star line steamer Kronland
and the American Hamburg line steam
er Patricia, bound for New York, em
birked their passengers at Dover this
norning, after which they continued
their voyage uninterrupted by the
storm.
CUBANS ARM FOR HOT FIGHT.
Machetes, Rifles and Cannon Sur
round American Meeting
Havana, Nov. 20. letters received
from the Isle of Pines picture an in
teresting scene at Neuva Guerona Sat
urday. American flags were hoisted
n the American bote, where the meet
ing of the Americans was held, where
upon Cuban flags were hoisted on every
Cuban house.
The mayor, apprehending that the
Americans would seize the town hall,
gathered more than a hundred 'men,
who were armed with machetes, some
of them with firearms, and stationed
themselves inside the building, while
many other armed Cubans were in the
immediate vicinity. Some of the writ
ers say that the women also were armed
with knives. In antictptaton of what
the Americans might do, a couple of
small cannon were placed in front of
the town ball. Absolutely nothing oc
curred, however, to justify the appre
hension.
Would Dominate Manchuria.
Victoria, B. C, No?. 29. Tokio
advices say Baron Komura was recently
sent as a special ambassador from
Japan to Pekin to make certain ar
rangements to secure Japanese domina
tion in Manchuria, as well as to make
general post-bellum reajdustment.
Japanese publicists are afraid that Pe
kin will soon be again in tl e center of
intrigue, and they are a unit in de
manding Japanese occupation. Count
Okumo, in a recent speech, said Japan's
magnanimity alone should govern the
lisposttion of Manchuria.
Lieb is Discharged.
Washington, No?. 20. President
Roosevelt today removed from office
William S. Lieb, I'nited States assist
ant treasurer at l'hiladeplhia, for "con
stant and persistent violation of the
civil service law while in ollice." In a
ormal statement issued at the White
house today by the president. Mr.
.ieb's removal is announced. The
president gave Mr. Lieb a hearing last
Friday, at the request of Senators Pen
rose and Knox. Mr. Lieb submitted
ong statement in answer to the charges
made against him.
Carey Working for Jetty.
fVashington, Nov. 20. Judge Carey
intends as mum as possible to call on
President Roosevelt to interest him in
the need of an appropriation for ron-
inuing improvement at the mouth of
the Columbia river and to secure from
if possible, assurance that he will
id in procuring tbe necessary appro
priation at the coming session. He
will also call on S.rretary Tsft and
m il senators anil congressmen of in
fluence a can le reached.
Starve Out Mutineers,
rvastopol, Noy. 2!'. Baron Gsko-
mi'l-Ki, who is now in charge of the
itn.it mn. w ill reduce tbe mutineers
bo are enclosed on Admiralty point
s'arvi'inn. The waer supply lend
to tl e point ha alrca ly been cut.
SIDETRACK TARIFF
Rate Regulation the Only Prob
lem Before Coming Session.
CONCENTRATION OF ATTENTION
President Will Not Give Senate Any
Excuse to Avoid Action by De
bating in the Air.
Washington, No?. 28 For various
reasons President Roosevelt will not
urge congress at the approaching ses
sion to take bp the question of tariff
revision. He believes the r. 11 road 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 tli t subject. He proceeds on the
theory that the worst evil should be
first cured. Alter four years' experi
ence in the white bouse, and with
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 be fhonld make
tariff revision an issue of equal Import
ance with the regulation of freight
rates. He is aware that the senate
would quickly seize upon this opportu
nity and concentrate its attention on a
tariff bill, not so much with any idea
of modifying the Dingley tariff as to
distract attention and sidetrack the
rate bill before it leached a critical
stage.
There is other legislation which the
president hopes to have passed besides
the railroad rate bill, but he is mire
anxious about that measure than any
other, and he will concentrate bis
efforts to secure such a law as will,, in
his judgment, effectively check discrim
inations of all 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 will be writ,
ten on the statute books before the first
session of the Fifty-ninth congress ad
journs. CANAL ENGINEERS DEPART.
Ridicule Reports They Have Changed
Decision on Sea Level.
Washington, Nov. 28. The five for
eign delegates to the board of consult
ing engineers of the Isthmain Canal
commission left lor New lor It today,
and will sail for thuir homes. They
will meet again in Brussels during the
first days of January. General Davis
will go to that city as representative of
the American members of the board,
and will take with him the documents,
w hich are not yet drawn up, and which
then will have to be signed by the for
eign delegates.
Speaking of published stones that
tiiey had reconsidered their first vote,
one of the delegates made the following
statement:
"Whatever we have had to say will
be found in the report which will
shortly be in the hands of President
Roosevelt. That we should change our
vote on subject to which for three
months we had given the closest atten
tion, and should change it merely be
cause some parties are not contented
with it, is a great absurdity."
Leave Isle of Pinet to Cuba.
Washington, No?. 28. The Cuban
government will be permitted to settle
to its own satisfaction the existing
trouble on ttie Isle of Pines. The
State department has so announced. Of
course, il American citizens were to be
nnduly persecuted or maltreated be
cause of any exercise by them of their
right of freedom of speech or assembly
this government will take steps to se
cure for them Justice. But If those
Americans on the islands place them
selves outside the pale of the law by
refusing to recognize the authority of
the Cuban government, they will have
to take the consequences.
Peathouse Was Burglarized.
Butte, Mont., Nov. 28. A Great
Falls dispatch to the Miner states that!
the people of Teton county are in a fu
rore over what is believed to be a
threatened epidemic of smallpox as the
result of burglarizing of tbe pesthonse.
Several smallpox patients were confined.
in the detention house and the pi ace
has never been fumigated to the extent
that it is believed that all danger of
contagion is psst. The people have
been publicly warned by the health
officials to be on the alert for an? ar
pearance ol the disease.
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First Shot in Revolt.
Havana, Nov. 28. The first shots
between rural guards and insurrection
ists were exchanged today near the cen
ter of Havana province. A telegram
from the captain of the rural guards
says that his detachmen; discovered a
party of 20 insurgents led by Mario
Kodau and Rafael Castillc, who organ
ized the band from Saluda. The party.
says the telegram, after an exchange of
snots, tied, some to the mountains and
others across the fields. Nobodv was
hnrt with the exception of a sergeant
of tbe guards, whose horse threw him.
A lies Have Acted.
London, No?. 28. The Daily Mail
publishes the following dispatch from
Mitylene, dated November 27: "Eight
warships of the combined fleet arrived
here at 8 o'clock this morning. Admi
ral Ritter von Jedina, accompanied by
tbe Anstrian ronsul, proceeded to the
government house at 10:30 o'clock and
handed an ultimatum to the governor.
At 1 o'clock this afternoon 500 sailors
landed and seized the customs and tele
graph office. Everything is quiet."
Governor of Moscow Dismissed.
London, Nov. 28. The correspond
ent of the Standard at Moscow says that
General Drunovo, governor of Moscow,
has been dismissed in disgrace owing to
tbe revolutionary proceedings of the
congress of peasants.
GREATEST HAHVtS r IN HiSTUHY
Present Year Was Record Breaker In
United States.
Washington, Nov 28 "W alth pro
duction oil the farms o the United
Stales in 1WU5 reached the highest
amount ever attained in this or auy
other couulry $t 4l00y O'.'O."
In the first annual report ol bis third
term SocreUry ol Agriculture Wilson
presents au array of figures and a state
ment representing products and profits
of the farmers of this country, which
be admits "dreams of wealth produc
tion could hardly equal."
Four crops make new high records as
to value corn, hay, wheat and rice
although in amount of production the
corn is the only one that exceeds re
viou yields. In every crip tbe gen-
a level of production wa high and
that ul prices slill higher. Beanie the
enormous yield of wealth the secretary
estimates that the farm of tbe country
have increased in value during the past
five years to a present aggiegate of $6,
133,000.000.
"Every sunset during the paat five
years, u says, "baa registered an in
crease of 13,400,000 in the valne of the
farms of this country."
Analyzing the principal crops for tbe
year, tbe secretary says that corn
reached its highest production at 2
708,000,000 bushels, a gain of 42,000
000 over the next highest year, 189
bay is seconu in order ol value, ai
though cotton held second place during
the two preceding years. The hay crop
this year is valued at $00,000,000
Cotton comes third, with a valuation
of 1575,000,000; wheat, $525,000,000
oats, $282,000,000; potatoes, $138
000,000; bailey, $58,000,000; tobacco,
$12,000,000; sugar, cane and sugar
beets, $50,000 000; rice, $13,000
U00; dairy products, $:j(J,UOU,000, an
increase of $54,000,000, over last year
PLENTY OF MONEY.
Secretary of Interior Hat Not Been
Furnished Proper Figures.
Washington, Nov. 28. When the
secretary of the Interior and the Recla
mat ion service reach an understanding
as to tbe extent and condition of the
national reclamation fund, it is expect
ed that a number of new irrigation pro
jects, including projects in Eastern
Oregon and Eastern Washington, will
be approved and placed under contract
But until there is a complete under
standing, the present chaotic condition
must continue, and inactivity will be
the rule, rave on projects that are act
ually under contract.
Tbe great misunderstanding that now
prevails is at 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, hut 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
right, yet be is unable to figure out for
himself just bow much money he has
to spend, and how much he has spent
in the 3a years tlie (reclamation law
has been in force.
WRECK TAKES FIRE.
Fourteen Pertont Lose Llvet in Mat'
aachuaettt 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 Bri.'ge eta
tion, mile and a half west of Lincoln
on the main line of the Fitchburg di
vision of the Boston & Maine railroad
The 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
branch, 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 sp
parentl? instantly killed in the collis
ion, while others were either burned to
death or died from suffocation.
Oppose Rate Legislation.
Chicago, No?. 28. An organized
movement on the part of railroad era
ployea in every branch of the service
has been put on foot to secu re con
certed action against the Roosevelt idea
of rate legislation. Preliminary steps
have already been taken by a commit
tee of tbe brotherhoods of railroad men
for a general mass meeting. Rate reg
nlation, in the opinion of the em
ployes, means a subsequent reduction
in wages lor them, and they propose a
strong organization to oppose traffic
rates.
All Cut and Dried Affair.
Washington, No?. 28. Two things
are positively known about the coming
congress, namely, that Joseph G. Can
non, of Illinois, will be re-elected
speaker and John Sharp Williams will
be nominated for that office b? the
Democrats, thereby conferring npon
him the title of minority leader. Fur
thermore, it means that Messrs. Can
non and Williams will personally make
up the committee slates, the speaker
naming Republican members and all
chairmen, and Williams naming the
minority memliers.
No Flowers at Capitol
Washington, No?. 28. There will
be no flowers in either house on the
opening day of congress. A resolution
of the senate was adopted during the
last session of congress barring flowers
from the senate chamtier. Mr. Cannon
as already given notice that he will
not allow the flowers to be brought in
as heretofore. Rivalr?of admirers of
lifferent members of both houses
reached a stage where the desks were
buried in flowers.
Famine in Part of Japan.
Victoria, B. ('., Nov. 28. Famine
prevails because of the failure of the
ricecropin Northeast Japan. The gov
ernment has legun relief measures.
REFUSES TO CHANGE
Hitchcock Admits California Has
Share In Klamath.
BUT CHARGES ALL TO OREGON
Fulton's Plea for Umatilla .Irrigation
Falls on Deaf Ears Secretary
Denouncei Malheur.
Washington, No?. 25. Secretary
Hitchcock is now convinced of the in
terstate character of the Klamath irri
gation project and acknowledges that
California is to lieneflt by the work in
contemplation fully as much as Ore
gon, but be is not willing to change bis
order charging the entire allotment to
the state of Oiegon.
wnen Venator f ulton again took up
the matter of the Umatilla project with
the secretary, he found Hitchcock hold
ing the same views be voiced on tbe
occasion of bis previous visits, contend
ing mat uregon a Ol per cent reserve
fund has been appropriated and ex
plaining that there are no funds avail
able for construction of the Umatilla
project.
Mr. Fulton maintains that, even if
the secretary adheres to his detetmina
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
$2,600,000. 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
disxiBal ot 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 lias contributed to the fund since
July, but will advise the senator when
he ascertains the facta.
Notwithstanding that he denominates
the Malheur project a "steal," and al
ludes to the operation ol 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 Mai
heur allotment to lie 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 tha
project, but which is not being used.
TRY TO DAM SALTON 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 piledriveis 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 Ynma, by which the
California Development company hopes
to bring ttalton set to a standstill and
eventually restore the Sal ton Sink to a
dry bed of evaporation of the flood
wtaers that have wreaked such havoc
there.
If the dam is a success, the Southern
Pacific railway in ime will be able to
abandon its 16 miles of shoofly track
east of Sal ton, and resume its main
line. If the dam is a failure, 40 miles
and perhaps more of shoofly may have
to be built, the whole Imperial coun
try may be deprived of its supply of
canal water, and the Colorado river
may be diverted through the River
Padronea into Volcano lake, thence to
find its way northward, through the
new river into the Salton Sea. bat
this would mean may be conjectured
from the damage already done by the
flooding of the great sink.
Final Agreements 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 I
npon which to base the majority ano
minority reports which will embody
the views of the members up n the sea
level and lock projects. ihis wss
necessary because the foreign members
of the 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
Congrett Will Investigate Expense.
Washington, .ov. za. it w,is
stated at the War department today
that while congress would be ssked to
appropriate a total of $10,000,000 to
nieet be need j of the Panama canal
work to June 30 next, it is not ex
petted that congress will appropriate
it in a lump sum. The ranal ollicials
expect that congress will pass a hill
making available a portion of this
amount to meet the immediate wants
because, congress would probably in
vestigate to learn bow the money thus
far expended has been used.
Three Big Battleships.
Washington, No?. 25. Three first-
class battleships of at least 18,000 tons
d splacernent and 18 knots speed, thne
out cruisers of 6,000 tons displace
ment, one gnnlioat of the Helena class
nd four other gunboat of light draft,
two for use in the Philippines snd two
ir service in the river of China, with
dditional topedo boats and torpedo
boat destroyers, are the principal re
commendations of the general board of
the navy in its program.
Hyde-Dimond Case Postponed.
Washington, No?. 25. The hearing
by the Criminal court nti the demnrrer
filed in the Hvde-Dimond rase, in
hich fraudulent land transaction on
the Pacific coat are charged, which
wa set for today, wa postponed for
two weeks.
MAY. LOSE POSITION.
Mitchell Likely To Be Displaced on
Senate Canal Committee.
Washington, Nov. 17. Apparently
Senator Mitchell is to be deprived of
the chairmanship of the committee on
ioteroctanic canals wheu tbe senate re
organizes next month. This has not
bt-eu definitely decided, but it it tbe
concensus of opinion of arriving sens
tort that Mitchell will have to relin
quish bis chairmanship in order that
some active member of tbe canal com
mittee can preside at its' meeting! this
winter.
Congress must appropriate money
ea.ly in tbe coming session for contin
uing work on the Panama canal, and
roust decide whether tbe canal shall be
built with locks or at tbe tea level.
Thia legislation, together with all other
legislation pertaining to the canal and
the canal tone, must be considered by
the canal committee, and will be one
of the most important topics to be con
tidered. Bars use of its importance,
senators believe the ctnal committee
should hav an ective chairman, who
can not only preside at committee
meetings, but who can vote both in
committee and in tbe senate, and who
can furthermore take charge of canal
legislation after it bat been reported to
the tenate.
AMEND IMMIGRATION LAWS.
Sargent't Plan for Keeping Out All
Undesirables.
Washington, No?. 27. Radic
changes in me immigration laws w
be made next year, if the suggestions
of Commissioner (ieneral 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 deportation of im
migrants unfit to land here could
stopped, iielore an immigrant is per
mitted to take passage for America, l.
should undergo an examination at the
point of embarkation.
HITCHCOCK TO RESIGN.
Rumor That Western Congressmen
Have Got Hit Scalp.
Washington, No?. 27. The fact
leaked 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
siao 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 by
members of congress from western
states, who charge that Mr. Hitchcock
in operations against, land grabber
has permitted bis personal feelings to
enter into the prosecutions. While
this charge had been often repeated, it
is said that the retirement of Mr
Hitchcock will be wholly due to the
desire of the president to surround
himself with younger men.
MILLION WOMEN FIGHT SVIOOT
whsracteriie Him at Man Sanction
ing Practice of Polygamy.
Philadelphia, No?. 27. A meeting
ot ttie executive committee of the Na
tional League of Women't organira
lions, formed two years ago to oppose
the continuance in the United States
senate of Senator Reed Sinoot, of Utah
was held here today. W omen from all
sections of the country were present
It was announced that a petition would
be presented to tne senate asking for
the exclusion of Mr. Hmoot on the
ground that "he is a member of
heirarcby whose president and a major
ity of the memliers pratctice and teach
polygamy." fhe memorial will state
that "Mr. Smoot has never raised his
voice against these doctrines, and the
Mormon hierarchy has broken its co?
enants which it gave to the United
States when statehood was granted.''
Summoned bv Judge Hunt.
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 6 the complaint charging them
with having fraudulently obtained
lorest reserve scrip, under which 4,000
acres of Montana land was secured from
the government. The government seeks
to have the land retored to it. There
are a nnmher of Montana corporations
and individuals who tre tlso named as
defendants in the bill of complaint
Bled.
Sailors Want Discharges.
Ht. Petersburg, No?. 27. Details ol
the mutiny at Sevastopol are not availa
ble at the admiralty, the dispatch of
the Associated Press from the war port
giving the first intimation of the out
break. An officer of the staff said that
four equipages and the Black sea fleet
were at Sevastopol at present. He rx
plained that in addition to other long
existent causes of discontent the sailors
had been stirred up by their retention
in the service as reeervieesta, the ukase
releasing many of them from the ser?
ice having just been published.
Burton it Guilty.
Pt. Louis, No?. 27. Senator J. R
Burton, of Kansas, was Saturday night
found guilty on all six counts in the
indictment upon which be has Iwen on
trial for the past week in the United
States Circuit court, charged with ha?-
ing agreed to accept snd having ac
cepted compensation from the Rialto
Grain A Securities company, ot St.
Iuis, to apear for the company in the
capacity of an attorney before the Tost-
oflice department.
Will Cut Forests and Crops.
I ibsn, Noy. 27. Agrarian disorders
have broken out in the Baltic province.
A peasant meeting adopted resolutions
to rut forest on private land and to ap
propriate crops. The governor general
has issued a proclamation to tbe troot
to fire on such ffenijer, an 1 saying
that the participant at such meeting
II t e court, martialed and sent to dis
tant provinces.
UMATILLA PROJECT
riilton Endeavors to Obtain Ap
proval cf Kltcfeccck.
HOLDS OREGON TO THE LIMIT
Did
Not Know Half Klamath Tract
Wat in California fill Sena
tor Told Him.
Washington, No?. S3. Senator Ful
ton bad a conference with Secretary
Hitchcock today on Oregon irrigation
matters. He was advised, at previous
ly stated in these dispatches, that the
secretary will not tbink of building the
Malheur project under existing condi
tions, but was surprised to find the sec
retary unwilling to make any allotment
for the Umai ilia project. Afer some
argument, the senator obtained con
ditional promise from the secretary
which, if fulfil. ed, will mean early
adoption and consti action of the Uma,
tills project.
At the outset the secretary stated
that he Lad already allotted $2,000,
000, 1 1 the Klamath pioiect, which he
had charged up to Oregon. This
amount is wilbiu $4H5,000 of Oregon'
restricted fund; in ether words, it
within ttist amount of 61 per cent of
Oregon's contribution to tbe reclama
tion fund. The secretary, under the
law, is obliged to expend -this 61 per
cent in Oregon, but be clearly showed
to the senator that he is unwilling to
give Oregon more than its 51 per cent.
The senator told the secretary tiiat thr
Klamuth iB not entirely an Oregon pro
ject. He pointed out that about half
the land under that project lies n Cal
ifornia, and further slated that Kla
math trade, titer the project is built,
will go largely to California. He there
fore insists that it is unjust to build
the Kalainath roject entirely with
Oregon funds, ami demands that the
$2,000,000 allotment should be divided
and at least half of it charged to Cali
fornia. If this is done, the secretary
will have $1,600,000 for immediate ex
penditure in Oregon, and only $1,000,
000 is asked for the Umatilla project.
The secretary said he did not know
that the Klamath project included Cal
ifornia as well as Oregon land. He
bad supposed it was entirely an Oregon
project. He added that he could not
allot $1,000,000 for the Umatilla pro
ject unless it could be shown that the
whole Klamath tract is not in Oregon.
This, of course, is easy of demonstra
tion, and Mr. Fulton will tomorrow ob
tain from the Reclamation service mapt
and letters showing ttie interstate char
acter of the KlamHth project. Packed
up by these pax-rs, he will reopen the
case with Mr. Hitchcock, and is hope
ful that the Umatlila project may then
be authorised. No mention was made
today of any engineering or other flaws
in the Umatilla project, and it is as
sumed that nothing prevents its con
struction save "lack of funds," the
original excuse, which has su! sequel) t
ly been denied.
JAPAN'S GrtEAT NEW NAVY.
Will Build Many Huge Battleships of
High Speed.
Victoria, B C, Nov. 23. The Jap
anese almiralty hat entered npon an
elaborate scheme of naval expansion
which is expected to be approved at the
coming session of the diet. According
to news by the Shawmut today, admir
alty officials say Japan's best ship are
beginning to be out of date, and larger
ihips with much heavier armameat and
higher speed will las built.
The Jiji Shimpo says the battleship
of the future navy of Japan will dis
place 22,000 tons and have an arma
mnt of 14 12-inch guns and a speed of
20 knots, while the futnre cruisers will
displace 15,000 tons and have a speed
of 25 knot, but no official announce
ment has been made in this regard.
The five submarines recentl? added.
built in America in sections, gave such
success that the squadron will be in
creased.
Hungry and Bloodstained.
Tokio, Nov. 23. An eve witness who
left Vladiostok on November 18 reports
at Nagasaki that food is scanty there,
owing to the destruction of the store
houses, and that only sufficient barley
remains to snpport the people for 20
days. Another person who bat arriv
ed at Moji, having left Vladivostok on
November 20, reports that rioting had
ceased there. The etreefe. be savs. tre
msss of debris, and bloodstains are
in evidence everywhere. Many corrset
are still lying exposed, forming a grew
some sight.
Plan to Save the Buffalo.
New Yor. No?. 23. To nrevent ib
extinction of the buffalo, prominent
naturalist and men interested in soo
logical matters have planned to organ
ise an association to lie known as the
American Bison society. The society
will hold its first meeting in this city
next month. William T. Hornady, di
rector of the New York Zoological park,
who js one of the promoters of the new
society, recentl? talked with Prsidenf
Rooee?elt regarding a plan to establish
another government herd in the West,
and offered the government 15 head.
Tammany Man Accused of Fraud.
New York, Noy. 23. James A. Ma-
guire, chairman of the election hoard
in the Ninth election district of the
Nineteenth assembly district, was ar
rested yesterday on a charge of violat
ing the election laws. He i
of leaving the polling place in bis dis
trict at 3:30 e'ebak in the aft.
of election day and of going to the 20th
election district polling place snd vot
ing there under the name of llrr w
Jennings.
Beyond Control of Troopt.
Knrsk, Russia. No?. 23 Tbe rr.r.
ian disorders in the district of Subrba
ave assumed such violence that tb
troop arve unable to cot with l..m
The whole northern half of the district
'"e nanus or f easant rioters, who
are pillaging the e-tates and burning
the harvested crops.