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Hillsboro Independent WAR TO THE END. Friday of tadk Wk HILLSBORO. OREGON NEWS OF THE WEEK Iq a Condensed form for Our Easy Readers. A Resume )f the Less Important but Not Lets Interacting Events of the Past Week. Several member of the Russian par liament bave been ai retted A successful teat baa just been made of a it earn motor tar on the Or eat Northern railroad. Rear Admiral W. T. Swlnboroe will succeed Rear Admiral Goodicb ai com' mander of the Pacific squadron. Paper makeri in S3 milla of the In ternational Paper company of the Unit ed States and Canada threaten to strike. Preiident Stickney, of the Great Weetern railroad, has been offered a eat on the Interstate Commerce com mission. William Rockefeller says be will re tire from business, (specially the Standard Oil. Ill health ii given ss the reason. Enforcement of the ei(bt-hoar law on government work mar cause the government to discontinue contract work and handle everything itself. German immigrants charge peonage In its worst form agalntt Iibe Jackson Lumber company at Lock hart, Ala It is claimed the company seen res new arrival in this country nnder the promise of high wages. But fl per day was received and the men were subject ed to many bdeatings and weie poorly fed. The Pan-American congreta is in session at Rio Janeiro, Brazil. Germany says she has no intention of interfering with Russia'! affairs. The czar is holding down tke capital with an immense army and will form a provisional army. Russell Sage it dead. He leaves a fortnne of about $100,000,000, most of which will go to charity. Ry order of the president the provis ions of the eight-hour law have been eztended to the Navy department. The state of Michigan baa Just won a nit against tho Michigan Central rail way involving $4,000,000 in back taxes. The taxes covered the yean from 1858 to 1894. A westbound passenger train on the Great Northern was wrecked SO miles from Spokane at Diamond lake. Part of the train went into the lake and even persons were drowned. A collision between freight and pas fenger on the Seaboard Airline near Raleigh, N. C, resulted in the death of 20 person and the injury of 24. Of the killed 12 were colored, and 19 col ored people were injured. A general strike has been ordered in Russia in August. Dreyfus has been decorated, with croe of the Legion of Honor. There has been a wholesale slaughter of black by Germans in Africa Perpetual daylight in Alaska serious ly interferes with wireless telegraphy Another row ha broken out in the government printing ollice at Washing' ton, D. C. AF rench woman has been arrested in Pari for roblery. She concealed her plunder in a wooden leg. The warehouses of the International Harvester company at Sterling, Illinois, have been destroyed by Are. Loss, $100,000. Fire almost totally destroyed the plant of the United States Leather com pany at Prentiss, Wisconsin. The loss is placed at $000,000. Iiencelorth the canal commission will pay all laborer in silver. The change was made on account of West Indian negroes, who would rather starve than spend gold. Two Vienna doctor called in consul tation on a case disagreed and a dutl followed. Both were wounded and sent to the hospital. In trie meantime the patient recovered without medical as istance. It is believed the ciar will dissolve the dou ma. Suppression of newspaper caused riot in St. Petersburg. Peace has been signed among the Central American republics. The last of the ladrone chiefs in the Philippines has surrendered. Russian Pfmltr Orders Governors to Preserve Order. St. Petersburg, July 25. Wsr to the knife with revolution and the knife to the hilt was proclaimed today by Pre mier Stolvpin in a telegram sl dressed to the governors general, governors and nr!wt throughout Russia and to the vicerov of the Caucasus, who are or dutmii to strike and snare nothing in efforts to preserve order and crush "the enemies of society." Included in this catego.v. as shown by the events of the day, are not only revolu tionists and Socialists, but also Hie i ncatcd Liberal and landed classes rep resented in tke Constitutions! Demo cratic party, whose clubs every wnere have been closed, and all the progres- sive newspapers, which are not permit' ted to lift their voices anywhere throughout the entire land. The manifesto bears a remsrksD.e similarity to the earlier compositions of Ministers of the Interior von Plebve snd Bouligsn and the reactionary press has had slight difficulty in cutting 11 down, as thev alreadv bad done with veeterdav s imperial manifesto, Into an appeal to the "League of Kusbiao Mtn and other old school Russians to rise and smite all the progrenive classes Kven before the declarations of the dissolution of the lower home of par llament, the War office bad perfected its plan for handling expected disorders both military and civilian. General Mailer Fakomelegy, who suppressed the Sevastopol revolt and co-operated with General Rennnkampf in the re duction of the Siberian rebellion last winter, wss recalled irono command of a corps and placed at the disposition of the War office, to be used wherever trouble may arise. Both the govern ment and the revolntionists expect this outbreak in the south, and that it will roll northward to the two capitals. OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST BALANCE FAVORS ISLANDS. OIL KINGS ESCAPE PRISON. Government Will Try Only to Impose Fines. Cleveland, O., July 25. The govern ment has altered its plan, of action against the Standard Oil company,-and the result will save its officers from a possible term in prison. It was stated tonight that the Federal authorities have decided to prosecute the oil in, quiry under the charge of misde meanor, which means that only a fine can be imposed in case of conviction. Heretofore the charge has been felony, which meant both fine and imprison' ment. The government will proceed with the inquiry in Chicago by filing infor mation against the Standard and its officers. A grsnd jury will be dispensed with altogether. The district attorney will file an information against the oil company's officers, they will be hauled into court and, if convicted, will be fined. The change of action is of national importance. It is said that Attorney General Moody has concluded that the heat results can tie obtained bv the ln diction of heavy fines under the Elkins law. THANKS FOR NEW FOOD LAW. GOOD WAGES IN HAYFIELDS. Klimith Bailn Farmers Pay $2 Per Day and Board. Klamath Falls Laboring men can do well in Klamath basin. Haying has brought on a tremendous demand for men of brswn, and wages started at $2 a day and board in the hayflelJs Mason, Davis & Co., contractors on tbs canal, promptly met the wage with the additional inducement of an eight-hour day, and farmers generally realise tbat an eigbt-bour day in caring for a crop of alfalfa would hardly do. It is bumper crop of bay that is being cut in this county, too, and many rancnes re port that tonnage of from four to five tons is not unusual. With all of this vsst production, ap pearances indicate that good prices will be realized, as there are more animals to be fed than ever before. Especially will the demand for bay suitable for horses be called for in large quantity for the animals employed la construct ing canals, laterals and other portions of the government work and building the railroads rescbing this wsy for the tonnage the valley is to produce. The government has decided to build the second nnit of its csnsl without asking for further bids on the work and will immediately proceed to equip the addi tional camps necessary for that work The wages of men at the government camps has been increased to correspond with that offered by farmers and tbe contractor. Work on tbe canal system is now go- inn ahead raoidlv. D. O. Henny. su pervising engineer, who succeeded J. B Llppincott on this project, .is acquaint ing himself thoroughly with the work tbat has been done and tbat is outlined for immediate construction. He bas scent most of the time on the work since bis arrival from Portland. and Retail Grocers Proclaim It Good .Want More of It. Chicago, juiy zo mrougn its exe cutive committee, which met here to day, 150 000 members of the National Retail Grocers' association thanked President Roosevelt for the stand he took In regard to the pure food law re cently passed bv congress. "Although the law has some defects, it is a big step iu the right direction," said John A Greene, president of the association, It Is the retail grocers who sre most leeply concerned in the pure food movement, and it was our sssociation which started and helped to maintain the campaign. We bad a committee in Washington most of last session of con gress, we now will make a campaign in the various ststes for laws ti con form to the national pure food law and to make conviction under the itate aws possible We predict that inside of two year the manufacture of impnre lood will be impossible." Other business considered pertained mostly to the grocers' national conven er 1.1.1- ,, I. . v mm, which is 10 De neiu next January in lianas, lex. Barley Stands H at Best. The Dalles Headers are running all over the county in tbe farming sec tions, and tbe grain is being stacked ready for threshing. As yet no thresh Ing machines have started, but several will begin this week. As harvest ad vances, it is shown thai tbe wheat crop is better than was thought a week ago The quality of spring grain is inferior. None of tbe spring grain is No. 1. The fall wheat is of good quality, but most farmers estimate that their fall wheat will not yield over 15 bushel to the acre about half a crop. Barley is the best crop this season, having stood the bot weather better than wheat or oats. Have 72 Psr Cent of Offices. Salem Out of 842 county offices in the state the Republicans hold 249 and the Democrats hold 88, while only two are filled by Independents, one by a Prohibitionist and one by a woman who bas no political party designation. One office is vacant. The Republicans bold 72.8 per cent of the county offices and the Democrats 25.7 per cent. The In dependent elected secured the office of surveyor in two counties and the Pro hibitionists elected a coroner. The woman elected is Miss Emma Warren, who was elected school superintendent of Clatsop county. No one was elected coroner of Wheeler county. For New Woman's Building. Albany After holding a meeting of the board of regents of the Oregon Agri cultural college at Corvallis, tbe mem bers of the board cam,e to Albany last week and at an adjourned session in this city awarded the contract for the new woman's building, to I e erected on the csmpue, to II. Snook. Tbe con tract price is $HO,0'0, that being the lowest bid by $2,000. The building will be constructed of the granite from the quarries at Detroit, the eastern terminus of the Corvallis & Eastern railroad, and the building Hone at Ya- quina bay. Fifteen Dead in Ruins. Ron h Framlnghara, Mass., July 25 The finding; today of the bodv of Henry L. Sawyer, a prominent bard- ware dealer, who went to the collapsed building on Concord street to inspect the plumbing plans, brought the num ber of dead np to 11, and it is believed that there are four mors bodies in the ruins. The csnse of the sccldent cnnld not be definitely learned today. The town has no hnilling laws, snd any proceedings In connection with fanlty construction will have to be brought by state otticiais Harvesting Begins In Linn. Albany Harvesting has begun in Linn county. While some damage to spring grain has been reported, as a re sult of unusually warm weather lasting or several days, these reports are the exception rather than the rule. Fall sown grain wss damaged but little, and an excellent crop will be garnered. Late sown spring grain will improve considerably yet under tbe influence of the cool weather now prevailing. Hay- ins is practically over, and the baler will add the finishing touches before the fall rains set in. BEST IS UNION. Iowa Expert Says Dairying Conditions Excel His State. Salem That Oregon can produce butter cbes per than any other stste in the Union and that Oregon creamery men are nevertheless figuring on iui porting cresm from Minnesota, were startling assertions mad at a dairy men's meeting ,,. Lt week. Professor McKay, of the dairy de partment of the Iowa fetate Agricultural college, was the Drincioal speaker. He said that although bis stste produces more butter than an other state, be freely acknowledged thtt this is a mors advantageous region for dairying, for tbe reason tbat tbe climate is less sub ject to inch extreme conditions. He said Oregon should not import a pound of butter, but rhould be an exporter when that product can be shipped to New York for 2 cents a pound and to Liverpool for 2i cents. He urged the extension of dairying ai means of re taining lartu fertility. Director James Withvcombe. of the Oregon experiment station, said that tbe dairy products iu this state, this year will have a vain of $8,000,000 and in a few years dairying will sur pass lumbering, which Is now our great eft wealth producing Industry. He said that ons creamery operator is figuring on importing cream from Min neeota, and deplored such a condition, when the Willamette vslley will pro duce 10 to 15 too of green corn feed or 3U tons of green alfalfa per acre. Dairy Commissioner J. W. Bailey spoke in a similar strain, saying tbat be bas seen hsy offered for sale this year at $2.60 a ton in the field and yet tbe farmer had no stock to sell. Philippine Exports Exceed Import First Time Since Annexation. Washington, July 21 Tbe two most noteworthy features of the commercial returns of the Philippine islands for 1905 are a balance iu favor of the i lands for the first calendar year period In the history of the American occupa tion, and the advance of American goods to tbe first rank in tbe import trade. The favorable trade balance is due to increased export vslues, which aggregated $33,454,744, or more than $4 000,000 in excess of the exports for 1904. An increase of $500,000 in American trade in 1905 with tbe is lands, combined with a decline in rice imports, gives to tbe United States the lead, and in view of the anticipated further decline in the demand for for elgn rice in the islands, the United States is expected to continue to in crease its lead. Tbe increase of $2,000,000 in the imports from tbe United States in tbe last five years is largely made np of imports of iron and steel and their manufactures; cotton, raw and manu factored, and illuminating oil. The iron and steel trade approximated $3, 000,000 in value. Great Britain gained most in the iron and steel trsde with tbe islands, but tbe United States takes the lead, whereas Great Britain was formerly in the lead. There is (till great room for improvement in tbe ex ports from the United States to the i lands. JAPPEAL TO PEOPIfL DOUMA DISSOLVED. Russian Parliament Tells Them Not. to Pay Taxes. CZAR MAY IMPRISON LEADERS Guards Prevent Newspapers From Publishing Revolutionary Man ifestoMuch Disorder. CANNED MEAT EXPORTS. Japan Higher Pries for Hops, Salem On news that the English and German crops hsve been seriously injured transactions in futures bave been reported at 12 cents. It is esti- mated that about one-half of the Ore gon crop for 1906 has been sold, and George L. Ruse predicts that the mar- ket will open at not less than 16 cents, Crop estimates vary from 95,000 to 125,000 bales for Oregon Latest local advices from place the probable English from 200,000 to 300.000 this year. England yield at cwt., against 700,000 cwt. last year. Builds Road for County, La Grande Tbe railroad company is trading two miles of county road ex, tending from Five Points creek to old Pelican ststion. This road is to lake the place of the highway that will be destroyed by the changes along Dry creek, where the drainsge tunnels are In progress. The new road is located along the south hillside, and when completed will bs a better road in every rerpect than tin old one. The entire construction win be ionm by the rail road, free of any erpense whatever to tbe county. Athena Needs Laborers, Athens there is a scarc'ty of labor ers in this vx inity. Farmers bave ad vertised for men, but few respond and owing to tie fact that tbe warm weather bas hastened the harvest many men are needed ana good wages are offered. Much wheat on light soil is mined and will not be harvested. A few weeks ago this wheat was Very promising. John Bannister, a large farmer, says tbat his crop is damaged or.e half in many plaes. Convicts Make Escape. Salem A low of 10 per cent of the prisoners is tbs record of the Oregon penitentiary thus far this season in working convicts on the public high- ways. About 60 men are kept at work on the roarfi and at the stale fair grounds. Six Lave escaped and are till at large. Used Large Quantities During War With Russia. Washington, July 24. Complete fig ures of tbe exports of American canned meats for tbe paat fiscal year are shown today in a statement issued by tbe de partment of Commerce and Labor. The value of canned meats exported from the United State in June. 1906, was $461,100, against $797,127 in June, 1905, and in tbe fiscal year 1906. $9, 233,410, against $9,977,045 in 1905. Tbe figures for tbe fiascl rear 1906 included: Canned beef, $6,430,446: canned pork, $1,215,85,7; and other canned meats, $1,587,107. The quan tity of canned beef exported in tbe fl cai year was 04,623,300 pounds, as against 66,688,568 pounds in 1905. Tbe reduction in exports occurred al most excluaively in tbe shipments to Japan, which country took large amounts of American beef during the wai, bnt greatly decreased -her imports on tbe disbandment of the army. The exports to Japan during the fiscal year 1906 were- 2,306,683 pounds, against 14,687,165 pounds in 1905, and in the month of June, 1906, were 34,412 pounds, sgsinst 3,612,188 pounds in June, 1905. The United Kingdom wa tbe great est buyer of canned beef, exports to tbat country increasing 4.758,815 pounds for the fiscal year, but decreas ing for tbe month of June, 1906. St. Petersburg. July 24. The great news of today is tbe adoption ol an ad dress to tbe people by the deputies to parliament, who assembled at iborg tbe language of which, with its re vol u tionary demands that tbe people cease to furnish money and troops to the gov ernment and repudiate further loans, affords pretext enough for tbe govern meut to lodge Its authors in the fortreei if it feels strong enough. A rumor was spread tonight tLai this course bad been decided upon. Copies of tbe appeal to tbe people are in the bands of all St. Petersburg newspapers, but it will scarcely be printed tomorrow, for tbe reason tbat a detachment of police is posted at tbe door of every newspaper printing office in tbe city, with orders not to permit any payers to leave tbe building until authorised by tbe censor. Tbe author ities hope by equally vigorous measures to prevent tbe publication of the appeal in other cities, and in tbe meantime to nullify tbe fears of tbe people as to tbe possible effect of tbe appeal. Meanwhile tbe masses of tbe Russian people, slow of thought and action, bate not yet roused themselves to the gigantio npbeaval which is sure to fol low the dissolution of their parliament. Minor disorders are reported from half a dosen cities. An Incipient anti-Jew ish outbreak at Odessa bas been check ed by the police. A sympathetic strike bas been begun at the Khatkov rail road shops, which may inaugurate a general tieup of communication, but St. Petersburg, Moscow and most of the other great centers are still calm. v Places Russia Back Under His Own Despotic Rule. St. Petersburg, July 23 Russia's first experiment in parliamentary gov ernment came to an ignominious end Saturday night with the promulgation of two imperial ukases, the first dis solving the present parliament and pro viding for tbe convocation of its suc cessor on March 6, 1907, more than six months bence, and tbe second pro claiming the capital of Russia and the surrounding province to be in a state of extraordinary security, which Is only inflnitessimally different from full mar tial law. This measure of safety is to provide for the outburst which un doubtedly will be provo-ed by this daring measure. It is now but a step to dictatorship. There is little doubt that tbe order for the convocation of the new assem bly will still further postpone the time, unless tbe new parliament promises to be more amenable than the present. The delay in fixing tbe time for tbe new elections seems to indicate a de cision to change tbe present basis of suffrage to perhaps a basis of universal suffrage with which tbe advisers of the emperor hope to swamp the educated liberals, tbe Socialists and tbe work men with tbe vast mas of peasantry. Tbe only uncertainty is toe coming storm when and wbere it will break.. The advocates of tbe "mailed fist" be lieve tbat, by dissolving parliament and provoking a collision now, tbey will find tbe revolutionary leaders not prepared for an uprising at Moscow, whereas further delay would nearlr give tbe revolntionists the time needed to organ ire and to continue tbe corrup tion ol tbe army. There are no precedents In Russian history for tbe execution of an order of prorogation, but today probably will find tbe palace in possession of the mi litia and the surrounding streets deliv ered to the emperor's guards. SECRETS OF DREADN AUGHT. Her YEARN FOR OLD HOME. PORTLAND MARKETS. .Germany proposes to exclude Amerl can canned meat of every description. John D Rockefeller will be arrested Immediately on his arrival in the United States. He bas sailed for this Country. A revolution in Mexico is threat ened. inspired by hostility to Ameri cans. The whole city of Pysran. Russia, bas been destroyed by fire The eon- flagr.tion bas rendered 35,000 persons homeless, who are also without food Meager reports have been receive. I of a fierce fire in Yokohama, Japan. More than a thousand bouses were d. stroyed and some life is known to bave been lost. The National Livestock exchange de nounce the reports recently made on the meat packing industry. The capital of Alaska has been moved from Sitka to Juneau. Scotland will try to induce parlia ment to grant borne rule. A forest fire in Calaveras county thre.tns destruction to California's big trees. . The bishon of Zulnland accuses tbe British troop of wantonly killing many natives. Great Strike Impending. Ht. Fetersbnrg, July 25. A secret meeting of tbe recentlv reorganised Council of Workmen was held tonight. It wss sttended bv delegates rep.eent. Ing all the important factories In St. Petersbnrg, deputies from the Leagne of Leagues and representative nf tbe Social Democratic and Social Rvoln- tionsrv parties. The meeting dicned snd accepted a reposition from the So cialistic grnnp of tbe dissolved lower house of parliament to nnite with It In the formation of a central group to in augurate a strike movement. Cossacks Attempt to Kill. Odessa, Jnlv 25. There bas been no srtnal program here today. Drnken Cossacks endeavored to instigat an anti Jewish rrassacre In the Indstrial snhnrb of Ma'dovsnka but were scat tered bv In'antry, who Instantlv cor- dned the JewUh quarter and threat ened to annihilate the Cossacks. The latter were withdrawn to tbeir bar- racks bv order of their commandants. Under sndden terrc.r 50(1 Jewish fami lies sought re'nge in other places. Czar Filling His Jails. Fsrls, July 25 The St. Petershnrg correspondent of tbe Jonrnal telegraph tia, despite the prerailing es'rn In at ritv. there were 200 r-et Tue. d '- and that fonr newspaper were seised. Delegates to Irrigation Congrats. Salem Governor Chamberlain has sppolnted the following delegates to represent the state of Oregon at the fourteenth annual region of the Na tional Irrigation congress at Boise Sep tember 3 to 8: W. N. Peterf,n, S. 1). Petereon, Athena; F W. Slietlield. L. H. Bell. C. VV. Mallet, Ontario: Zera Snow, K M Bratmick. Portland! n M. Redfleld, Redmond: D C. Brown- ell. Umatilla: F. W. Triplett. R..H F. 8. Bramweil, C. W. Niblev. La Grande; A. D. Stillmsn. Pen,lltnn- II. F. Jones. Redmond. Pure Wster for Agricultural College. Corvallis Students at the Agrlcnl. tnral college are to have pure mountain water hereafter. At its last meeting the board of regents mails provision to have the water brought by the munici pality of Corvallis from Marv'a peak supplied in abundance for nse at tbe college, and the president and secretary were authorised to contract with the city water board for 100,000 gallon or more at a rate of 15 cents per 1,000 gal lons per month. New Combine Attracts Attention. Athena A combine harvester has been purchased by John Walter which will he the first of Its kind to he n.i in this section. The machine is pro pelled by a 20-hose power engine, which runs all of the machinery, tai lor only a anfTHent number of horse to draw the ma.-hine. The sepsrstor and cntting machinery is operate.' .n tirely Independent of the draft. The feature tbat most interesta famrsi fa that of doing away with many horses required by other combines. Wheat Clnb. 70c: bluestem. 72c: red, 68c; valley. 71c; new club, 68c; new blnestem, 50c. Oats No. 1 white feed, $32; gray, $31 p. r ton. Bailey Feed. $23 50 per ton ; brew- ng, $23.50 per ton; rolled, $24024 60. Kye $1 fiO per cwt. Hsy Vslley timo'liy, No. 1, $11 2 60 per ton: clover. $8 60(99; cheat. i6U7; gi bay. $78; alfalfa, II. Fruits Apples, $1 60(32.25 per box; apricots. $1 25ial 35; cherries, 610c per pound; currants 9310c; peach es, 5c(a$.l0 per box; plnms, $1.25; Logan berries. $1 3"ai.40 per crate; raspberries $1.40(31.60; black berries, 8c per pound; gooseberries. 8c. Vegetables Renns, 5(7c per pound; cabbage, l,V2c; corn. 2535c per dosen; encumbers, 75c$l per box; egg plsnt, 3040c per pound; lettuce, hea l, 2fSc rer d ren ; onions, 10 I'Sc; peas, 4o)5c per pound ; radish es. 10(3 16 rr d sen ; rhnharb, 2(9 2e per p n-,1. R,,inah 23c; toma toes, $1 : 5(11 per I ox; parsley, 25c; quasn, Ilia, 2. nr cia'e; tnrniri. 90c$l pprji,. ,-arrots, $Ual 25 per sacs; heets l 2Sal M pevack uniont sfw rfd, llic per pound; new yellnw, 14 (3 2c per pound Potatoes old Furr-anka, nominal ; new potatoes. ?5r9$1.60. duttsr Fancy creamery, 17K20c r.gs Oregon ranch. 219Z1XC per oozen. Poultry Aversge old hens. 13rtsl4c per pound; tniied chickens, 181S V; springs, 16U17; rosters, 8 10c; dressed rhbkens. 14018c; tnrkeys. live, 15ai7p Hre eed. choice. 1722isc; live, 839r; ducks. 11013c. HopsOregon, 1905. llffllSc; olds. 8c; 190r contract. 1213 per pound. Wool F.sTn Oregon average rt 1720c pr ponnd. according to skrink ; vallev. J0(?22 according to fine ness; mohsir choice. 2830c per ponnd. Veal Dressed, fiOSc per pound. Beef lr 'mil. 3c per p"nd; cows 4S(3P. eonntry steer. 6r,e Mutton D-eseed fancy, 78c per ponnd; orainirT 6(Sc; larr be, fancy, 8a8V,c. Pork Dressed, 1$ie per pound. ' No Houses for Hundreds Who Would Return to San Francisco. San Francisco, July 24. San Fran, Cisco's greatest need is homes. The people who were driven from the city st the time of the disaster are eager to return, several thousand laborers are imperatively needed to aid in the woik of rebuilding, but there are no bouses for them The rehabilitation commit tee has set to work to furniBh relief, but the resources at its command will admit of only slight assistance. This committee will build some 3,000 homes for workmen, but this will not even serve to house the thousand still liv ing in tents. It is to individual initiative that tbe city must look. Evidences that this ill be forcthcoming are beginning to appear. In tbe Richmond district, the sec tion Iocs ted between Golden Gate park and the neck of the bay, several homes are being erected and bave been rented in advance. Still it Is to the stretch of land south of Market street that the people must look for the rebuilding of homes in suf ficient quantity to solve the problem. Here dwelt the thousands of the city's poorest anl i. is to this section that tbey wish to return. Relic from River Bottom. Philadelphia, July 24 Valuable relics o' the historic frigate Constitu tion bave been dug from the bed of tbe Delaware river by a crew of a clam ure ige on Newcastle, 11. it is a china urn, presented to the famous o d fighting ship of the American navy by the city of Philadelphia in 1797, and long ago lost and forgotton. How the urn came to he at the bottom of the river is a mystery. The Constitution. although over a century old, is still in existence, and in a lair state ol preser vation. British Admiralty Makes Pulbic Plan of Armament. London, July 24. The first official announcement regarding the battleship Dreadnaught i contained in a white book on naval construction the past year, wbicb was issued tonight. Be sides ten 12-inch guns annonnccd, tbe Dreadnaught will have 27 12-pound quick firing anti-torpedo boat guns and five submerged torpedo tubes. In tbe arrangement of tbe armament six of the big guns are mounted in pairs on tbe center line of the ship, and the re' maining lour are mounted in pair a broadsides. In view of the modern potentialities of torpedo boats, and considering1 es pecially tbe chances of a torpedo attack toward the end of the battle, tbe anti torpedo boat guns are widely separated so that the whole of them cannot be disabled by one shell. The apeed ia designed to be 27 knots. Tie bunker capacity is 2.700 tons. with which the Dreadnaught can steam 6,800 sea miles at economical rpped and 3,600 miles st 18), knots. The estimated cost of the Dread naught, including guns, is $8,987,485. MANY BURIED ALIVE. WILL USE BOMB. Building In Massachusetts Town Col lapses on Workmen. South Frsmingham, Mais., July 24. At least eight and perhaps twice that number of masons, plumber and Ital ian laborers were crushed to death to day in the sudden collapse of a build ing in process of erection on Concord street, while ten others were dragged or dug out of the wreck, some seriouMy injured. At a late hour tonight ten men were mfssing and a large force of laborers was at work on the ruins Sesrching for the dead. Fireu-en and members of tbe Ninth regiment of infantry of the stats mill tia, in camp here, succeeded in digging out nan a dosen Iriired. and libr found other. Terrorists Mark Victims for Death TreporT is Warned. St. Petersburg, Juy 23. Although the victory of tbe reactionists seems at present to be complete, neither the So cialists nor the Terrorists have accepted tbe situation, and, while the people are pparently completely overawed by the isplay of force on the part of the au thorities, it will be neceesary to con tinue the use nf the bayonet for some) ime. General Trepoff himself is au thority for the statement that be baa again been warned tbat be is marked for assassination. Despite this fact, be continues actively at work, although at all times surrounded by a heavy guard. Tbe Socialist members of tbe dooma bave held a number of secret meetings, but so far they bave refrained from carrying out their avowed determina tion of issuing a proclamation attacking tbe csar, tbe reactionary element and more especially tbeir former allies, tho Constitutional Democrats. If they do so, trouble must come. ENTER LAND AT SHOSHONt. Unbreakable Passenger Car, Wasblngtm, July 24. A steel pss- senger car ht recently been completed in Pittsburg for the Southern rsilwsy hich is legarded as the beginning of the general nse i f steel instead nf wood for all kind of railway cars. The. car is 74 feet 46 inches long over all and weighs 110.000 pounds. There was.no wood used in its construction except for the interior decorations, and tbat wood was made fireproof. It ia said that the csr could not be telescoped in a collis ion, neither could the ends be smashed in, and it is non combustible. Kaiser as Czar's Evil Genius. St Petersbnrg, July 24. Tonight stories were industriously spread that the emperor's final decision to dissolve parliament was not taken nntil he had mmmnnirated with Berlin. According o one story, a member of the German embsssy engaged a wire f.r direct com munication with F.mperor William. and only after receiving and trans mitting a 1,000-word dispatch from F.mperor William to Emperor Nicholas was tbe ukase finally signed. Cigarmakers May Establish Stores. Chicago, July 24 The Cigarmakers' union, it is understood, bas taken np erionsly a proposal to establish fac tories for the making of cigars in all the large cities In the United State. and also of store under the control of the union, through which to get the manufactured goods to tbe consumers. Bay Schools Are Opened. Kan rramiscn, July 24. The public I 1 n cnoois oi nan rrancieco opened Mon day for the first time since the fire and were well attended. As nesrlv SO school buildings were destroyed, th i . ..... - w.noois in som oi the districts were badly overcrowded, and will he rnn. ducted on tbe half-day session plan. The conditions, however, were more favor able than bad been expected by the au thorities. School Direcctor Oliver esti mated that the registration 1 l.,t 60 per cent of the children registered before April 18. Panic Among Odessa Jews. Odessa, July 24. The Jew here are in a stste of psnic. fearin Jewish outbresk as the re.nlt f.h. killing of a dinnken Cossack cently wam'ered through the Jewish qnarter brandishing bis saber and shouting: "Death to the Jew. ernor General Kaulbm, addressing a delegation of Jews todsy. said-' "I vouch for my soldiers, bnt I st unable ""' vobssosb or Christian c.v i.-n. m.gnt do." The al gbtest mciueni migni start trouble. Cossacks win morning looted three Jewish shops Foreign Trsde $2,070,000,000 .......R.on, j. ly zi. A statement je-ae,, looay ny lrit department of Commerce and Labor says the foreign commere of the United Nt.te in the flcal year just ended aggregate,) $2 . 970,000 000. If the trade with Porto Rico and Hawaii, which wss Included in our foreign commerce rrlor to their annexation were added, the total would materially exceed 13.003.000.000. To- ... .u.,n,IWI were si zzu ,000.000 exports $1,744 000,000. ' and British Express Sympsthy. L-ndon JOW24.-A British address of sympathy with the Rui. pp,. and P im.nt i. being circulated Already the signatures of m.ny p,,. bave been obtained. ' Boomers' Scene of Operations Trans ferred From Lander. Washington, July 23. In acordanco with a supplemental proclamation is sued by the president, tne register and receiver of the land office for Lander. Wyo., district, shall receive entries for lands in tbe ceded portion of the Sho shone reservation at Shoshone, Wyo., from August 15 to October i, 1906," in stead of at Lander, as provided in the proclamation of June 2. This action was based on the fact that the railroad now building into the reservation wilt not be constructed from Shoshone to Lander until after Airgnst 15. and the changn is made to accommoJate pros pective entrymen. All persons who draw numbers at tho drawing, which begins at Lander, Wyo., on August 4, 1908, which num bers entitle them to make entry be tween ths dates of Anguts 15 and Oc-. toner 3. inrludve, must proceed to Sho- ' shone, Wyo., and make their entries instead of going to Lander, as provided In the first proclamation. After Octo ber 3 entries will be made at Lander. Camps Will Soon Be Abolished. San Francisco. July 23. Rudolph Spreckles and Allan Pollok, of tbe fl nance committee, investigated five of the refugee camps yesterday. They went to the speedway camp, to the Harbor View camp, to two in the l... trero and one south of Market street, Inspecting the tents, shacks and soup kMchen. As a result nf the in,,, t. Pollok state that the camna mn.t hL alxiiwhed as soon as rosihla .n,i re.ugees housed in permanent dwell ings He d,jed that most of the soup kitchens will be discontinued August 1. Invssiigatlon To Be Made. 8n Francisco. Jnlv 2:1 a investigation and a grand jury inquiiy hsve been ordered to Inquire into tl. mystery surrounding tbe Hi..n.,.. . , . -- . j. j., r i i us of nine wagonlosd. of iqUort Oicpateh. ed from the M,ulde, .,1,1 warehouse to the Jefferson nark -i room. Maior General manding the dep.rtment nf the Pacific. nas ordered Lieutenant Colonel John I. Wisse-, Inspector genr,). to u,vv tl dispositmn of every bottle of llqnor hrou't,0' " ie'P" M througn the army station. Guatemalan, Shot All Prisoners. doreVn 8W",or' Jny 23- - Tb. S.lvr. dorean newsP,per. .cense the Gnat., malar , troop, of having killed S.lv.,1 . Cri.?. -"""I. Th7 y'tOener,I iLi . " ,n 'nisMce returned to the rmy ail the soldiers of wss Gnatemalan imprisoned officer. .. Guatemala -;'U,,Gn.tem.,.n; we're un.'bleto lace a Corresnnn.il.... . K ,rp rjecanse prisoners thev bad nr,in...i all the were shot Threaten Revolt of Fleet. 2 30 s.nPVn,y 23 -A """n of toZd ''rom th '"hips her. present.,, to A,,mlri1 pfc 'or 1-t will rsvolt. 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