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Hillsboro Independent K2LLMOKO. .OMOON NEWS OFTOE Iq a Cendensed Form for Our Easy Headers. A Return f the Lass Important but Not Less Interesting Events of th Past Wk. Raaalan Radicals bave Issued a naw trika manifesto. Tba Iowa Democratic convention will declare for Bryan. Many deatbi from beat acra reported on the Atlantic coast. Three negroes have been lynched bj a mob at Salisbury, N. C. An outbreak of Pulajanes and Igor rotea baa occurred In the Philippine! The seneral itrika in Russia will be a fiasco unlet! the railroad men Join it The Pan-American congress, in tea ion at Rio de Janeiro, voted (or nni venal arbitration. The crew of a Russian training ahip haa mutinied. The trouble ha! been suppressed and 35 mutineer! delivered to the autboritiea. A recommendation will be made to congress to ipend 1150,000 enlarging eod improving Ellii iiiand immigra tion aUtlon, Maw York. Report! from Ba Monger, 400 milea wat of Houston. Texai, are to the effect that nine lnchea of rain fell in 24 boon over an area Including leveral hundred to at re milea. Bridges are out, wirea down and cropa badly de vsetated. A member of the kaiaer'a cabinet it accused of grafting. - ' It la reported that Russian bankera will aid the revolutionists. A. St. Petersburg paper layi General Trepoff la to be minister of war. Ilarriman ia believed to be secretly buying np St. Paul railway itock. Heat in Chicago ia oppressive. Death! and proatrationa are quite nu meroui. An Italian anarchist baa been cap tured with a quantity of dynamite in tended for the king. Sarah Bernhardt haa been refused a decoration of tba Legion of Honor by Franca because aha doea not pay her debta. All Sooth America, aa represented at the Pan-American conference, li lined tip for arbitration and the peace of the world. Many witneasei are being called be fore the grand jury at Chicago to tell what they know of Standard Oil busi ness methods. Two electrio ears collided head on near Vermillion, Ohio. Two persona were killed, another fatally injured and icorei more or less seriously hurt. A mutiny in all Finnish forti baa been called by the Reda. E. A. Gage, a aon of Lyman Gage, committed auicide in Seattle. ' Rear Admiral Train, commander in chief of the Asiatic squadron ii dead. A fund of two and a half million dol lari ii to be raised to build cottagei for the bomelesi of Han Francisco. The forta at Sveaborg, Ruasla, are al most in total ruina ai the result of fighting between mutineer! and loyal troopi. san francisco ti threatened with an epidemic of typhoid, which the health board layi ii being carried by the com' mon house fly. The state law of New York restrict ing the labor by women and children to 10 hours a day haa beendeclaied un constitutional. The state auditor of Kansas aaya he will cancel the polices of all insurance companies who do not pay their San Francisco loesea in full. Provision contiactors on the isthmo have formed a trust and raised the price! lOOper cent. The canal com mission haa ordered supplies of 1 500 and over bought under the open bid system. Brigadier General William Bolton is dead. Mayor W. II. Moore, of Seattle, aeriously ill at Los Angeles. The business of the Lewis and Clark exposition hai been wound np. T. W. Davenport, of Silverton, Ore gon, father of Cartoonist Davenport, is dead. Fifteen hundred copper miners at Calumet, Michigan, have bad thel: wages voluntarily raised $2 per month hour men were killed and two wounded in a battle between a sheriff'! posse and bandita in Knott county, Kentucky. It haa been charged that General Wood ia drawing two salaries, one as governor and one at hit regular pay in the army. Tba president sayi this ii not so. A San Francisco woman baa Just i cored a divorce on the ground that ber husband had not spoken a word to her for eight years, although living in the same house. The National Sculpture society is to establish an old age home for it! mem ber!. A Forto Rican merchant haa sued Federal Judge Hunt, of Montana, for 1100,000 damagea. It Is claimed that at the time the Judge was governor of the island he was instrumental in min ing the merchant'! bnainees. The St. Paul is laying tteel for its new Pacific coast extension. The work is being done in South Dakota. Judge Jsmes F. Tracey, of th Phil ippine Saprem court, will likely be the next vice governor of the islands. John D. Rockefeller aayi there Is more good than bad in the world, and that everything ia for good in the end. MANY TO MEET AT BOISE. i.....t u;.k In Cominr Session of Irrigation Congress. North Yakima, Wash, Aug. 7. During the first week of September the National Irrigation eongresa will b In seision at Boise Idaho, with an attend anc of several thousand delegate Exhibit! of fruit and boney are being prepared by different localities and tta. Tha premiums are liberal. It is expected that tha governor of Wash inntin arill appoint 25 delegates, that aach eommerclal club will appoint ten and that each board of county commis sioners will appoint five. It ia behav ed that If a full delegation attend the convention it will be able to aecur the next national concrete at some point in this stat. It is hoped that th vari ous fruitgrowers' associations and tba Rtata Raekeeoera' association will have on exhibition prod art of the orchard and apiarv which will take silver cups and other premiums. The Yakima Count v Horticultural onion ii arrang ing to lend elegant exbibiti of fruit and boney. The delegation from that county will ask the convention to pass a resolution memorialising congress to aDDrcDriate 1300.000.000 for reclama tion of arid lands in th West. The State Beekeepers' association has secured a Biaelow observatory Hive, stocked with pure bred Italian bees, for the purpose of giving object lessons in tha anlarv. It will be nsed at the monthlv meetings of the association 10 teach the farmers and high school clats It will be one of the interesting feature! of the display at tha Washing ton State fair. The secretary of the fair haa asreed to set apart one of the prominent con men in tb main pavil ion for the apiary exhibit, and $200 baa been appropriated for premiums in that division. The three days' midwinter conven tion of the State Beekeepers' associa tion will be held at the Agricultural college at Pullman next January, and tb observatory hive will be in full operation to instruct the student! of that college. The students of the Ida bo Agricultural college, which is only nine miles from Pullman, are also in vited to be present at that meeting. The business of beekeeping is an ad unct of the orchard, bes being the best friend of tb fruitgrower, for the reason that these insect! cross pollenixe the bloeaoma and increaae the yield. These two induatriei go band in hand, and are rapidly becoming valuable sources of income. As an example of what organisation does, a few years ago the Yakima Coun ty Horticultural anion incorporated and sold its sbsres of stock at $10; th past year tha dividends were 70 per cent, a warehouse 50x180 feet has just been completed, tne material being stone nd the structure two stories and full basement, one front being on the Northern Pacific railroad and the other on the North Coast road. Tb iharei are now selling at $20, and it ia antici pated that the capital stock will have to be Increased in order to accommodate the demand. Fruit Inspector Brown, of Yakima county, says that in five years from now be calculates that 12,000 cars per year will be shipped from the warehouse at North Yakima. Call for Texas Rangers. Cold Springs, Tex., Aug. 7. Asa result of yesterday's election tragedy, in which E. B. Adams, a candidate for tax assessor, and his brother, Sam Ad ami, were killed and several others wounded, the sheriff has asked that rangers be sent here to prevent further bloodshed. C. L. Williamson, one of the participants, heard that a brother of Robinson was looking for him. A!f Carnes stepped into the door of a saloon where Williamson was and was shot and seriously wounded by mistake for Robinson. To Duplex Alaska Cable. Washington, Aug. 7. The Signal corps headquarters in this city has been advised that the cable duplexing apparatus sent to Seattle for nse on the Alaskan cable haa baen a complete sue cess. As soon as the cable ahip Burn- side completes its work of laying cablea between the forta defending the en trance to Puget sound, which probably will be in about a week, it will go to Alaska and install duplexing equip ment1 at the Alaskan end, thus giving tne Alatkan cable, which is now over taxed, twice the present capacity, Dooma Opium Using. London, Aug. 7. In a dispatch from Pekin in which he discusses the opium trade the correspondent of the Times expresses the belief that China will atk India to consent to an annual reduction in the import to China which would have the effect of extinguishing the trade in ten years. As an evidence of good faith China will issue an imperial edict condemning the use of orium and forbidding tb employment in the gov ernment service of any opium eater. Americans Caused Trouble. Mexico City, Aug. 7. The Imrar cial charges that the recently circulated handbills, warning foreigners to leave the country by September 16, were put out by an unknown American, who went from station to station distribute ing and posting the pretended proclam ation. The Imparcial also asserts that certain railway camps in Texas and California have taken part in promot ing the circulation of false and sensa tional reports. Raise tha Price of Bread. San Francisco, Aug. 7. As a result of the demands made bv tha union bakers for an increase of $3 a week in their wagea, which has been granted by the master bakers, the latter will raise the price of bread in this city. The msnner in which it will be done has not yet been agreed upon, but it is said that most of the bakers favor a loaf just a trifle larger than one-half the sue of the present loaf. Commerce Outstripa Population. Washington, Ang. 7. The foreign commerce of the United Slate has grown more rapidly during tne last de cade than its population. Completed figures for the fiscal year 1906 lust pre sented show that while the population nas grown sine 18!W but 20 per cent. imports have grown 67 per cent and exports 109 per cent. OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST REPORT ON OREGON. Irrigation Expert Invettigatea Stat and Issues Circular. Washington Oregon farmers who re sort to irrigation, will b deeply inter eeted in a 80-pago circular jutt issued by th department of Agriculture, en titled "Investigation of Irrigation Practice in Oregon." Tb book ia written by A. P. Stover, Irrigation en gineer, who spent last season in uregou making a study of Irrigation aa it practiced, so aa to find out tba erroi thai have been made and gather data which would bo helpful in instructing th irrigators bow to avoid mistakes of the past. Th report is not as compre hensive as might be desired, but con tains a great many valuable sugges- tions, and is worth tb persual of every farmer who is obliged to artificially water bis lands. Mr. Stover made a study of tb pre- cination in varioua parts of tb state and to a limited extent gathered data on th discharge of the principal streams that can be ntilixed for irrig tion. He states, in opening his report that tha greater part of the arable land of Oreiron lies in the arid section and can be brought under intensive culti vation only by irrigation. He found that the low water flow of most of the streams of Eastern Oregon has already been appropriated for private irriga tion, but aa yet practically no steps have been taken to conserve tb winter floods. lis finds that little of the water now being diverted la used economically, so that there ia a large supply for future development. Because of its comparatively low ele vation and conseqaent mild climate, Mr. Stover says that Northeastern Ore gon has advantagea over the southeast The practice of wintei irrigation now practiced along the Umatilla river ia described, and the value of this prac the is indicated. It ia shown that these Umatilla lands, under the Max well flood water cauala. yields net profit of $24 an acie, when planted in alfalfa. It seems that th Umatilla valley, however, is exceptionally well adapted for this sort of irrigation, be cause of tha unusual formation of the soil and tb underlying bedrock. Few localities will be found where winter irrigation will be as successful. On Butter creek, where winter irrigation has reached tha highest itage of perfec tion, fruit! 'are successfully grown by combining tb principles of winter irri gation and dry farming. Several pages are devoted to a detail description of irrigation canals along tb Deschutes river, which have been n operation for the past few yeara, and alio of the Maxwell and Irrigon canala in the Umatilla country. For lome reaion there ii nothing in the report bearing directly on private irr'gation in the Klamath country. The report, however, contain! something of interest to all Irrigators, and will be furnished by the department upon application Will Dry Tons of Prunes. La Grsnde Lssselle Bros., who ban die the prune crop of the Grand Ronde valley, and who own aad operate a dry er at union, are making arrangements preparatory to caring for this season crop here. It is their intention to make extensive improvements in the dryer, besidei a complete renovation. They are also considering the plan of operating In connection with the dryer a cannery, packing house and vinegar factory. This movement ia meeting with anpport from leading fruitgrower! and business men. Mammoth Crop of Cherries. Eugene A remarkable yield of Roy al Ann cherries has just been reported here. M. H. Harlow, who has a farm north of Eugene, has a two-acre cherry orchard from which he harvested this summer 23,700 pounds of cherries The cost o' picking and marketing the crop was $236, leaving a net profit of $712 or $356 an acre. Mr. Harlow ssys the crop would have been 20 per cent larger had it not been for the cold rains in June. Fix Hop Picking Price. Salem One dollar per 100 pounds. or 60 cents per box, will doubtless be the popular price paid for bop picking in the valley this year, since this seem ed to be the predominating sentiment as expressed at a meeting of about a score of members of the Oregon Hop growers' association, held in this city last week. The prevailing tendencv on the part of growers, slso, is that hops will go to 20 cents by harvest time and all present were in favor of holding out lor mat figure at least. Dry Weather Hurting Hops. Salem The continued drv weather is showing its effect npon tne hon cron. especially in old yards, and those not cultivated as thoroughly as they should oe, ana it is declared by many that the yield will be far under the 125.000 bales that has been predicted. Yards that have been well cared for are stand ing the dry weather in ood ahana The potato and corn crops are also keep ing a good appearance where cultivation has been good, and the recond cron f clover Is coming on in good shape. Linn County Wheat Heavy. Albany New wheat is com Intn the Red Crown mill in Albany daily now. Thii ia tha Port Mill'i Linn countv branch, and annn. a'ly receives all the wheat it can net in thia vicinity. The new wheat this year is quite heavy, and is running well op in yield. In msny localities the yield is reported more bushels to thm irr i t'lan in years past, and everywhere the crops are good. Harvesting in Yamhill County. McMinnville Harvest ia now In fr.ll wing in old Yamhill. Most of th threshing crews besan work La w ... runS win pronaniy extend from 25 to 30 days. The harvest this year will be the largest for a number of Tear. ti ... v. beat is yielding 23 bushels to th. acre. Oats yield 40 bushels to the sere and weigh 39 pounds to th Barley is yielding from 50 to 60 bushels I to th acre. MORE JUDGES NEEDED. Supreme p.... Badlv Behind With WUJ Its Appeal Docket. Salem Th. Uoi that tba Oregon 8u piema court is about a year behind in its work and hat been losing ground in tb lsst few mnthi has revivea in suggestion that tbs number of Judges be increased from tbree to five. There are now oo tbe docket ready fer trial 67 cases appealed from Western Oregon counties. Tt,, are also some on tb Eastern Oregon docket at Pendleton but tha exact nnmber la not known The cases now ready for trial extend back as far it December, 1905. There are also on th. nralimlnary docket 84 cases which .in ha ready for trial in the next few months, so tbst there is every prospect tbst th supply of cases to be beard will not dimtnisn. Tbe causes of the court getting be hind in itt wmk are severs!. The number of appealed cases has been un usually large and seveial cases of extra ordinary magnitude have occupied an nnusual amount of attention. Then there baa been a change on tbe bench which alwayscantes tome delay. Judge Hailey waa appointed to the supreme bench last sinter. He bad extensive business interact at his home in Pen dleton and could sot at tne adjust his private butinets to as to give bis whole time to his In.iirial duties. Then tbe political camnaian came on and took considerable tims for two months. Another change will b mad the first of th year, when Judge Eakin goes on tbe bench. Clover Huller In Linn County. Albany For tbe first time in tb historv of Linn countv a clover huller has b?eun a season's threshing. Frank Roth and Erneit Howard, proprietors of tbe huller, hsvsslready listed about 1.000 acres of clover to boll whicb assures a 40 day a run ana success tor the venture. In the past three years the rise of tbe clover industry in this county has been remarksble snd even if tbe present chenominal increase ia acreage does not continue, ciover nui- lers running tht aeon will be an es tablisheJ feature of Linn county's an. nual harvest. County Road Into BL River. Eugene Tbe county court haa ac cepted th petitioa of property holders asking for a county road through tbe Blue river minini district. Viewers will be appointed it one and tha sur vey made as soon u possible. This de cision will open the Lucky Boy road that has been blocked for some time by the peop'e who bailt it. A public road will be establnbtd throughout tbe Blue river district that will connect with both the lucky Boy and Gat Creek roads, so tiiat travel cannot be obstructed at any point. Farmers ! fobbed of Water. Salem Twhv farmers reeiding in the vicinity ot .famic, Wasco county, have complaint! to Governor Chamber lain that an irrigation company, the name of wnicl is not given, has taken all of the water out of Three-Mile, Gate and Rock creeks, thus shutting off the supply of the settlers for their housebote and stock use. They want to know whether the governor can start the machinery of the state government in proceeding! to protect their rights Ltne County Poultry Show. Eugene At a meeting of the lane County Poultry association it was de cided to hold the first annual poultry thow in Eunene from December 12 to 15, 1906. There are several bird fan ciers in and tbout Eugene and a poul try show will be a success here. Sucre- t.ary Williami was instructed to arrange for competent judges for tbe first show County Aseesior Keeney was chosen as Blatant secretary of the association. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Club. 6869c; bluestem, 70 71c, valley, 71 72c; red, 6666j. Oats o. 1. white feed, $30; gray, 29 per ton. Barley Feed. 123.60 per ton: brew ing, $23.50; rolled, $2424.60. Kye 11.50 per cwt. Hay Valley timothy, No 1, $11 12.60 per ton: clover. $8.60 9 J cheat, $fl.537; grain bay, $78; alfalfa, $11. Fruits Apples, common, $5075c per box; fancv. $1.26 2; apricots, 1.2531 35: peaches. 76c$l: pears, $2; plume, fancy, 5075c; black berries, 66c per pounl. Melons Cantaloupes, fi.ou(3Z.zo per crate; watermelons, lOlc per pound. Vegetables Beans, 67c; cabbage, 42c per pound; celery, 85c$l per oxen; corn, I5(320c per dosen; cu cumbers, 40fi0c per box; eggplant, 10c per pound: lettuce, head. 25c per dozen; onions, 1012)C perdoxen; peas, 4 5c; bell peppers, 12K15c; radishes, lOfllSc perdcren; rhubarb. 22Jc perponnd; spinsch, 23c per pound; tomatoes, COQSOc per box: parsley, 25c; sqiiaeb, $1(31.25 per crate; turnips, g0c(3$l per sack; car rots. $11 25 per sack; beets, $1 25 1.50 per eack. Onions XeWt l'4lc perponnd. Potatoes Old Burhenks. nominal; new potatoes, Oregon, 7690i. Butter Taney creamery, 2022c per pound. Eggs Oregon ranch, 21c per dnten. Poultry Average old bens, 13l4c per pound; mixed chickens, ISOlSe; springs, 15 16c; roosters, ft 10c; dressed chickens, 14 15c; turkeys, live, 1517e; turkeys, dressed, choice, J!022Sc; geMe( live, 859c; dncks. Hops Oregon, 1905, nomiral, 12 13c; olds, nominal, 10c; 1908 con tracts, 15li4C pfr pound. Wool Eaotern Oregon average beet 1620c per pound, according to shrink age; valley, 2022e, according to fine ness; mohair, choice, 28 30c per pound. Veal Dressed, 88c per pound. Beef Drftd bulls. 3c per pound; cow. 4435e; country steere. 66c. Mutton Dressed, fancy, 7 8c per pound; ordinary. 6 6c; lambs, fancy, 8.We. Pork Dretted, 78),C per pound. THREE HUNDRED DROWN. Italian Immigrant Ship Strikea Off Coast of Spain. Reef Cartagena, Spain, Aug. 0. A terri bla marine disaster occurred Saturday evening off Cap Palo. Th Italian steamship Sirio, from Genoa for Barce lona, Cadis, Montevideo and Buenos Ayres with about 800 persons on board was wrecked off Uormigaa island Three hundred immigrants, most them Italians and Spaniards, were drowned. Tb captain of th steamer committed auicide. Tb bishop of San Pedro, Braxil, also was lost and another bishop was for tin among tb missing. Th remain der of th passengets and tha officers and crew got away in th ship's boats or were rescued by means of boats sent to them from th tbor. A number of fishermen who made attempts at rescue were drowned. Those rescued from th vessel are now at Cap Paloa, in a pitiable condi tion, being without food or clothing Tbe Sirio struck a reef of rocks known aa Bajos Hormigas, and i xin afterward, stern first. Hormlgss islsnd lies about two and a half miles to th eastward of Cape Paloa. Tb Sirio, owned by the Navigaslono Italiana, left Genoa August 2. All the ship's books were lost. It ii impose bie al present to ascertain tbe full ex tent of tbe disabter. Nine-tenths tbe passengers were Italians, and the remainder Spaniard. Al, the aurviv ors have been landed at Cap Paloa Tb inhabitants provided them with clothing and nourishment. Thirty were landed at Hlrmagas island, about on mil from tb tragedy. Fishermen brought in tb first new of tbe foun dering of the Sirio, and it created con sternation here. Boatloads ot the shipwrecked passengers and crew began reaching shore shortly after the news became known. All the stokers went down with the ship. Tbey were unable to reach the deck in time to save tbemselves Among tbe survivors at Cape 1'aios are many mothers who weep and wring their hands for lost children, whil there are also a number of childreL who are nnable to find their parents These hsve been admitted to tbe city foundling asylum. JONES AND POTTER TO JAIL On Year and $2,000, Six Month and S600 Respectively. Portland, Aug. 6. Willard N. Jones and Thaddens S. Potter, convicted a midnight October 16, lUo, under an indictment returned by tha Federal grand jury charging them Jointly with conspiring to defrsud tbe government of its public lands, were given thei sentences by Judge Hunt in the United States District court Saturday. Jones received a fine of $2,000, in sddition to a term of one year at the government prison on McNeill's island Potter fared somewhat better, as Judge Hunt took leveral points into consider ation, which, coupled with the fact that Francis J. Heney made a strong plea for leniency in bis case, prompted his sentence of six month! In the Mult' nomah county jail and a fine of $500 Tube attorney! for both were given ten dayi to perfect any legal action looking to an appeal, and in the meantime Jones was required to give $8,000 bail double the amount of bis former bond while Potter was permitted to go npon his original security. The particular offense for which the two men were convicted consisted in inducing a large number of Grand Army men to file soldier homesteads in the Silets Indian reservation, under agreement to transfer title to Jones Ira Wade, county clerk of Lincoln county, was tried under the same in dictment, but in his case tbe jury re turned a verdict of acquittal, the evi dence not being considered sufficient to convict. John L. Wells, adjutant gen eral of the G. A K., was also involved in the scheme of conspiracy, bis influ ence being exercised in the direction of securing locators among the old sol diers. Wells confessed his share of complicity in the fraudulent undertak ng before the grand Jury and was made a witness for the government. A gene ral shake-up In the local u. A. K. was the result of tbe exposures, and Wells was compelled to resign. Hearty Welcome to Root. Santos Paulo, Braxil, lug. 6. Tbe American cruiser Charleston, having on board Secretary of State Root, Mr. Uriscom, the American minister, and a party of friends, arrived at Santos Paulo, from Rio de Janeiro today After a hearty welcome to Mr. Root in that city, the party ctme to this place, tb capital or the state. Tbe city was gaily decorated with flags and flowers in honor of the visitors. Dr. Tibirira, president of the state, welcomed Mr Root at the station. Salutes were fired by tbe artillery here. Coal Companies Merged. Scranton, Pa., Aug. 6. It was re ported today on the best authority that one of the largest deals in the history of the bituminous coal business was consnmated last week, whereby a cor poration known as the Pennsylvania, Beach Creek A. Eastern Coal company, with a capital of $8,000,000, acquired by a 999-year lease all the property and business of the Pennsylvania Coal A Coke company, tb Beech Creek Coal A Coke company and the North River Coal & Wharf company, and a number of electric light and water companies. Ssys Trust Contro's Trade. Chicago, Aug. 6. John Hill, Jr., has reopened bis war on the owners of public warehouses in Chicago with the declaration that the grain trade is in tbe clutches of a trnt. Mr. Hill says he now has evidence of the existence of an Illegal combination among the ware house men, and that he intends to fight it to its death. The Interstate Com merce commission will meet here next month, and Mr. Hill ssys be expects to see an investigation started. Goes to Isthmus in November. Panama, Aug. 6. General Magoon Ibis afternoon informed President Ama dor that President Roosevelt will visit tfaranalson in November. Benor Amadir, through Mr. Magoon. extend ed a formal invitation to Mr. Rooeevelt to visit tb city of Panama. I GENERAL STRIKE ON Workmen Iq Russian Capital Re sponding to Call. SIGNS POINT TO A DICTATORSHIP Grand Duk Nicholas to Lead Fight on Reds Disturbancss and Mutinien Continue. St. Petersburg, Aug. 4. St. Peters burg is iu darkness tonight. Tha em ploye of th electric lighting plants, always the earliest barometric record of political conditions, ceased work during tb afternoon in obedience to tbe call for a general strike. This call already haa been obeyed by 20,000 factory bands in the capital. It will be im possible, bowever, to predict tbe suc cess of this universal political atriks nntil Momlay, as the workmen in St. Petersburg and tbe provinces have two holidays Saturday, which is tha fete day of the dowager empress and a grtat religious feast, and their regular holi day of Sunday The pickets of cavalry and infantry were th most conspicuous features on tbe streets of St. Petersburg last night. Business houses generally have boarded up their windows as they did in th days of tha great October strike. Prac tically all of tbe street cars in tbe city have stopped running, and tb cab driv ers are threatening to cease work. In th meantime th fat of tb Stolypin cabinet sways in tbe balance and Russia i" upon tb verge cf disor ders which may lead to the reign of either tbe military or tbe proletariat. It can be stated definitely that tbe steps toward a dictatorship may be taken 8unday or Monday by tb nomination of Grand Duk Nicholas to the chief command of all the troops in Rusaii this would virtually place bim In con trol of all tbe disturbed districts of the empire where martial law has been proclaimed. Artillery in Open Revolt. Wsrsaw, Poland, Aug. 4. A portion of tba troops in tb Summer Rembert- off, near here, mutinied yesterday and are in open revolt today. The artil lerymen nave driven their officers out ot their quarters. A iqaadron of Cos sacks sent to overpower th mutineers waa received with grapeshot. Details are lacking, aa extraordinary precau tions are being taken to prevent tbe facts becoming public. Rebels Fir Big Woodyards. Harkov, Aug. 4 Fir broke out in several large woodyards in th vicinity of tb prison today. This evidently waa a device on the part of revolution ists, who hoped to free political leaders during tbe confusion. The authorities are apprehensive of a renewed effort to the same end. - PUT OUT OF BUSINESS. Insurance Commissioner Gives Body Blow to Two Companies. San Francisco, Aug. 4. Insurance Commissioner Wolf sent notice tcday to the president and directors of the Firemen s Fund Insurance company and the Home Fire & Marine Insurance company, both of San Francisco, that unless tbey made good tbeir deficiency in capital stock in four weeks he will request Attorney General Webb tc pro ceed to ascertain why their licenses to do business in California revoked. Both companies have been known to be in financial tronble sine th fire, The Home Fire A Marine has announce ed that it will do no more business, The Fireman's Fund has reinsured its r'sks to the amount ot $372,684,760, carrying premiums amounting to $4,- 471,117 with the new Fireman's Fund corporation, which haa been organised since the fire. Both companies have thus confessed failure. Wolf's order, it is expected, will permanently close tbeir doors. Japanese Police Send Aid. Washington, Ang. 4. On behalf of the Association of Police of Japan, K Ouraka, its president, has forwarded to the chief of police of San Francirco 600 yen in aid of the poll - sufferers from the esrtbquake and fire in that city The information was conveyed to Major Klchard Pylveeter of this city, presi dent of the International association of Police Chiefs, in response to a comrau- nicaiion irora nim to ail membe'S -l.-i! a tf m a of the association asking for aid for tbe policemen of the stricken city of San Francisco. Subpenas for Standard Men. rew i orx, Ang. 4. rorty or more ubpenas for officers and employes of the Standard Oil company have been forwarded to New York from Chicago. Several of the officials of the Standard Oil would not say whether they had re ceived the subpenas from Illinois. In- nines were referred to M. F. Elliott. general counsel for the company, who said so far ai he knew no attempt had been made to serve any of the officials Mr. Elliott would not say what atti tude the officials would tske in case tbe subpena servers put in an appearance, Investigation In Philippines. Washington, Aug. 4. An inveetiea- tion ot alleged irregularities in tbe Philippic islands is now being con acted by orrer of Major General Wood. he Inquiry being in charge of Colonel Wood, inspector general. At the re quest of General Wood the War depart ment nas made a special detail of offi. cers familiar with the metbids of busi ness and conditions in tbe Philippines to sssist. xso result has yet been re ported to tha department. Stampede to Windy Arm. Seattle, Aug. 4. Rich strikes report. ed in Soutbearstern Alaska have at tracted the longshoremen of Hkagwav. unetu and other towns. The men bo work along th front have stem- peded to Windy Arm in such numbers thst the sailors on the coastwise fleet av to unload their own boats. DARK HOUR IN RUSSIA. Naw Mutinies Break Out as Fast as Others Ar Supprtsssd. St. Petersburg, Ang. 3. Nearly S, 000 sappers, sailors, pioneers and min ers at Cronstadt mutinied about 11 o'clock last night. Tbey planned to seise tb forts.and tb bridg leading to Fort Cronstadt, but their plans war foiltd by tb precautions taken by tb commauder. After a severe fight th loyal troops opened fir on them with machine guns, and as they had no ar--tillery available and tb arsenal bad been stripped before tbey could seiie it, they bad no alruative but surrender. A court martial began sitting this morning, and is sentencing th mutin eers to death by hundreds. St. Petersburg, Aug. 3. Tbe crew of th srmored cruiser Pamyat Asova mu tinied off the Esthonian coast and is now in full possession of tb ship, which bs sailed northward in tbe di rection ot tbe Finnish galf. Reval, Aug. 3. Tb cruiser Pamyat Axova has arrived in the roadstead her in th posseetion of the loyal portion of ber cerw. Ooe hundred and fifty of the mutineers have been sent ashore and imprisoned. Tbe mutineers were overpoweied by tb loyal sailors while th ship was at sea. St. Petersburg, Aug. 3. The crew ot the Russiau cruiser Asia, which was sent to Abo, has hoisted the red flag. The vessel has left in th direction of Sveaborg. Tb ministry of marina has confirmed the report that Admiral Birileff bad gone to Helsingfors on board tb school ship Alia, whose crew has mutinied. St. Petersburg, Aug. 3. Military disorders have broken out at Reval. Details cannot be obtained. St. Petersburg, Aug. 3. Although th mutinies at Sveaborg have been ended and the one at Cronstadt has been practically put down, the outlook is still black. Th revolutionists, whose bands were suddenly forced by tbe premature rising at Sveaborg, ap parently are undaunted at tbese initial reverses and intend to persist in their program of calling a genera) strike on Saturday or Monday. St. Petersburg, Ang. 3. On tbe heels of th other had news comes the startl ing statement that the emperor baa flatly refused to accept the conditions to which Premier Stolypin aggreed in bis negotiations with Count Heydon, Alexsnder Gochkoff. Prince Nicholas Lvoff. Paul Vinogradoff and Senator Koni for the reorganixation of tba cab inet. There is an increasing apprehension that the emperor parposes to take tb final step of turning tbe country over to tha military dictatorship of Grand Duk Nicholas. Tha Streets of St. Petersburg ar again tilled with patrols. ISLANDS' RICE IMPORTS SMALL. Ida Says They Produce More, Mar- chants They Eat Leas. Manila, Aug. 3. Governor Ide has received reports stating that during the fiecal year ending June 30 the importa tions of ric to tbe Philippines decreas ed 61,072,411 pounds, valued at $3, 084,783 in gold. ' Commenting on the reports Governor Ide says: "From these reports it appears that the number of pounds of rice imported into the Philippines during the fiical year of 1906 was something less than three-sevenths of the importations of 1901, and the cash sent out from tbe islands for rice was lesa than four-elev enths of the sum sent in 1894. If tb same ratio of decrease for a year or even a semester, no more rice will be import ed and in two years the islands, besides supplying tbe home demand, ought to be exporting rice." The pub.icition of these reports has csused a cjntroversy. The local ship pers contend that the decrease of im ports' ions is a result of the poverty of the people, who, it is alleged, are not buying rice, but are living on yams and other food. The shippers declare that tbe Philippines will never export rice. Catholics for Limited Divorce. Buffalo, Aug. 3. At today's meeting of the American Fedeiation of Catholics a resolution waa adopted defining the position of the federation on the ques tion of diverc. It recommends the- ensctment of laws granting a separation or limited divorcs in those states which have no such Isws, and in states which grant absolute divorces tbe federation- asks that the applicant be allowed to ask for a limited divorce on th same grounds under which an absolute di votcs is granted. Limited divorce in extreme cases is recommended. Wants John Bull to Refund. London, Ang. 3. W. Burke Crck- ran, of New Yoik, presented $50 000 a year ago to SI igo for the benefit of in dustry. The trustees invented it in the form t ion of the Rl igo Saw M;Ils and Joinery company, wh'ch has now fail ed. In the house of cimiuona yester day Mr. Featheretonehaugh, Unionist, asked Chief Sec-etary for Ireland Bmco if, as alleged, this coropanv had been formed under the auspices of the de- partment of Agriculture and Technical Instrrction, the department would re fund the original sum. Rates for Irrigation Congress. Boise, Idsho. Aug. 3. A tl has been received bv Chairman M. B. Gwynn, of the ex. e Hive c iromittee, of th National Irrigation onngress, from Minneapolis, where th Western Pas- sengsr assoc ation is in session, stating tost that oigtnixation had granted a rat ot on far plus 60 cents to th meeting of the c msrrss in Boise. Sep. tember 3 to 8. Thia rate isexnfcd to assure even a larger crowd of delegate and visitors thsn bad been looked for. Wilson Will Surprise Peckers. Washington. Aug. 3. Secretary W1I. son left today to pay a surprise visit of inspection to several slanghtering and packing houses in th East. Upon leaving his office the secretsrv save in. structions that to all inquiries regard ing bim the answer should be that he is gone away and It ia not knn h.n lb would return.
