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Hillsboro Independent URGE ONE BUILDING. Utm4 frioWv W lack W HILLSBORO. NEWS OFTHE WEEK Iq a Condensed Form lor Oar Busy Headers. A Return of th LM Important but Not Lest Interesting Events of the Patt WmIc. Russia it preparing for another ral itrike. Japan's pride ii barb by the Japanese sentiment in America. Richard Croker, former leader of Tammany hall, Nef York, will toon visit hit old home. Should Hughe be elected governor ol New York, La may us the office as a stepping ttone to the presidency. The president of the Cnicag elevator trost has admitted grain men only technically obey the spirit of the law. The earnings of the Denver A Rio Grands rtilroad for the year ending Jane 30 showed an Increase of more than 2, 000,000 over the previous year. In the trial of the Standard Oil for conspiracy at Findlay, Ohio, one of the company's lawyert declared the corpor ation to be the only good trost in existence. Cuban rebels have petitioned for the retention of Commander Colwell in Havana, as he is liked by all and a good officer. Colwell is comxander of the U. B. cruiser Denver. A Federal grand jury at Jackson, Tenn., has indicted the Standard Oil company on 1,624 counts. The max Imum fine would be $30,480,000 and the minimum $1,524,000. Wholesale dealers in diamonds have announced an advance inn prices of 20 per cent. Congress is very likely to approve a plan to advance the salaries of postal employes. Chicago commission men have lodged a protest with Secretary Wilson, claim ing the new meat inspection law creates a monopoly. The threatened lockout in the build ing trades at Oakland it on. Nearly all the mills are closed and building it almost at a standstill. Oregon Men Want United Northwsst at Jamestown Exposition. PnrtUn.i rut irt A movement for OREGON I . . . at the a joint nunuwni """'" - Jamestown Ter-Centennlal exposition was launched at a recent meeting of the Oregon Jamestown Exposition commit tee at the Portland Commercial club. President Jefferson Mysit ana recre tary John II. Stevensono, of the com mission, were directed to writ an offi cial letter to th governors of Washing ton, Idaho and Montana, notifying them ol th attitud of th Oregon commission, and asking them to take action in their official capacities to bring about participation P1BD gen- on the part of fieir rvpetiv states. Th plan is conceived by th Oregon . . . ... . A antl- commission ts lor Joint acuon uu part of the four Noitnwestern simee id the erection of on magnificent exhibits and headunarters structure, in which each state shall have a department of its own, th expense to be born equal ly by th several states. It was point ed oat at the commission session tost such co-operative action wonld have th effect of impressing the East with the onity of Northwest interests and of exerting both a political and commer cial insignificance. It also teemed ap parent that with th combined capital of the four states a building of such imnoin sixa and iieautv could be erected that it could not fail to attract wide attention, while a building by any one of the states, singly, could not hav this effect, and, besides, joint ac tion could reduce the expense oi put ting np individual buildings. President Myers was authorised to go to th seen of th exposition and ne gotiate for a lite for an Oregon build ing, in the event it it desired to erect one, and also keep in mind the possi bility of joint state building. He will defer bis departure for th East until pe has had time to hear from the governors of th Northwest ttatet on th plan taggested. In the event th other states do not show a disposition to adopt th plan proposed, tbit will not b allowed to Interfere in any de gree with Oregon' p'an to make an ex hibit, should th legislator warrant it. Upon his return from the East Pres ident Myers will make a report to the commission, and Governor Chamber lain on th result nf Lis investigation!, and this report, letting forth in detail the cost of making an exhibit and the facilities for erecting a building and installing an exhibit, wben delivered, will be need as the basis for appearing before the legislature to ask such an appropriation as shall be necessary to ONE HORECHANCE Anneiailon Sure to Follow Next Failure ot Cuba. NEXT PoPE N0TA SAINT. Need of th Vatican It SELF GOVERNMENT IMPOSSIBLE Sugar and Tobacco Man Will Object to Fr Competition, But It Mutt Com. make a creditable showing. Senator Burton, of Kansas, has been denied a rehearing by the Supreme court and will have to go to jail for six monthi and pay a fine of $2,600. Independent grain dealer! of Chicago hav told the Interstate Commerce commission how they have been mined by rebate being given the favored. Sam Jones, the well known evange list, dropped dead of heart failure on bis way from Olahoma City to hia home in Georgia. Death came on hi fifty ninth birthday. An explosion in a coal mine near Durham, England, killed 25 and en tombed 200 miners. Rescue parties re working to reach thei mprisoned men, woo may not survive. A new Elijah has appeared in Maine China will ask all powers to make Japan give up Manchuria. Moody says he has evidence to con vict the Standard Oil company. An explosion on a government steam er on the Ohio river killed three men. Military supplies for use by the American army in Cuba are admitted free of duty. FARMERS MUST DRAIN. Magoon has assumed the government of Cuba and Taft and Bacon have re turned home. All mail for United States troops in Cuba is sent to Havana and from there sent to its destination. A Lne Angeles sthreet car ran away on a steep grade because the brakes would not work. Two men were killed and a score seriously injured. The railway mail clerks running out of Houston, Tex., on the Southern Pa cific, have gone on a strike as a result of trouble with th railroad company. Detectives from London are investi gating the alleged Importation of Eng lish girls to work in South Carolina cotton mills .contrary to the contract labor laws. Mount Pelee ii again in active erup tion. 1 Wrangle! of unions cause a threat of a general building lockout in Chicago. A Toronto university student was th first to be killed by football this season. Wife says that, while he has no ill feeling against the ciar, he will never again serve him. An Atlanta grand Jury has Indicted u wrme men lor complicity in the ie- rem outrages against negroes In his farewell address Taft told the vunans ttiat th United States will not reave tin lair elections are assured. Secretary Taft his informed a delegi tlon of Isle of Pines citiaens that it nseieas to think of Cuba. Department of Agriculture Issues Bul letin of Instruction. Washington, Oct. 16. For the guid ance of the great number of people from humid regions who settle on the im mense areas of Western lands opened to settlement, th Department of Agricul ture has issued a report on "Practical Information for Beginners in Imita tion." There are leveral million acres open for settlement In the United State, and irrigation workt built by prlvat enterprise and works being constructed by tbe national government will pro vide a water mpply for more than 1,. uuiyiuo acres of arid lands. Th re port discussei arid soils and water sup pliei generally and describee how to locate and build farm ditcher, prepare land to receive water, irrigate staple crop and how much water to apply. "Experience throughout the arid re gion," the report says, "is demon strating that the greatest danger to irri gated lands Is lack of drainage. Water applied to crops raises the ground wa ter, which brings with it the salts dis solved from the anil; capillarity brings this water to the surface, where it evaporates, and the salts accumulate until all vegetation is destroyed. The only insurance agdnst this) is proper drainage, but anything like economy in the use of water and thorough cultiva tion, which will check the rise of ground water or lessen evaporation, will decrease the danger." Washington, Oct. 18. Republican senators and congressmen who have been in Washington lecen'ly and offi cial closely identified with th admin istration agree with th president that Cuba shall bar another opportunity to try self government, but the opinion is almost nniversal that annexation it only a matter of tim. Little is being said publicly about th probability of annexing Cuba to th United States, bnt the subject is receiving a great deal of attention in Washington and public men are seriously discussing tb best method of bringing th island under tb protecting arm of tb United State. President Roosevelt it absolutely tin cere in bit declaration against the present annexation of Cuba and be has hopes that th Cuban people, on thier second attempt, will be able to form and maintain a satisfactory govern ment. He does not want th island mad part of th United State if, by any possibility, th Cubans can con duct their own affairs and protect the lives and property of all their citizen!. Ha doe not believe that the United States at this time would be justified in taking over the island, merely be cause vast amount of American capital hav been invested. But if tb words of other administration officials can be held to be authoritative, it is to be in- feired that the president will interpose no further objection to annexation in cat tb second Cuban government ii a failure. While annexation it generally ex pected, no one lookt forward to it with enthusiasm. Rather, tbe Cuban prob lem is regarded in the light of on of the unpleasant outgrowths of th Span ish war, as perpleing in tome icepecti as tbe Philippine question. Southern men would like to lee Cuba made American territory, but they want the tariff wall kept Dp agalmt Cuban sugar and tobacco, and torn bar erected against the immigration of native Cu bans into th Unite States. Th South has mora than iti share of dusky citi- teni. It ii probable that tbe men in con gress who are fighting a reduction of the duty on Philippine engar and to bacco would join the South in demand ing the retention of the tariff on sugar and tobacco from Cnba in case of an nexation. If Philippine sngar ii a menace to the beet sugar Industry of tne west, it will re argued that the sugar from Cuba, closer and much more abundant, would be a still greater menace. Palitir;.. at Rome, Oct. 1$ ! spit of tb fact that th pop, .ojoying perfect health, th matt,, of po"'l '",ul' of th next ti.n. u.a. whenever It doe occur, it beiug Jiscosfed among tbe cardinals, and j, with no detir to anticipate th election or to b diir spettful to th p0ntifl. Tb feeling among Hi cardinal bi changed great ly inc August, 1903, nJ tod,T Utn exists a tendency quits opposit to that wbicb triumphed thres year ago. In view of th Vatican's xprincM with Franc, th cry tbii tim will b not for a merely (hKiooa pope, bat a po litical pope: nm inr a saint, but for statesman. Even th ttmnreit opponent of three yean ago 0f Cardinal Kampolla now favor hit lctioo. Kampolla failed in 1903 chiefly becaut h was vetoed by Cardinsl Puiyna, in th tame of Austria speaking for th en tire Triple AIHmcsj. Although Pope Pios bai inppressed me rigui ol veto tbroagtea ry ceriain power, th reason hlcb Induced tbe Triple Alliance to oppose Cardibal Kampolla still ex,t, and the church today it lees able to tffoid displeasing th Central Empire. Consequently there are rumors olso experiment with a foreign pope, iD rpit of th disfavor of th Italians. For tbt last four cen turies all the pope bave been Italians BAY CITY IS ARMED) HUNDREDS ARE BURNED. Vigilance Committee May Be Or eaolzed tor Protection. MAYOR DOES NOT LIKE PLAN Carnival of Robbery and Murder Hat Stirred Honest Citxn to a High Pitch. FOOTPADS HARD AT WORK. Polic Round Up AH th Sutpicioua Characters They Se. San Francisco, Oct. 1H. -Despite the energetic measures taken by tbe polic in rounding np all ex-convicts and sus picious characters yesterday and today, the activity of ths footpadt and high waymen continued Several report of robberiet and attempted bold-opa were made to the polic. irt Wilson, a laborer, was .held up and robbed of $6 by two men, while walking on Rush itrset, near Kearney, about 10 o'clock tonight. As th foot padt stopped him Wilson fired a ihot at them in the darkness. In their bast in learchins bim. tbe robben overlooked the pistol wblch he had. Attracted by the shot, nightwatcb man cam ruLnini np and also began shooting at the fleeing men. Edward Lang, a itreet-car conductor, reported to the police today that h wat held np by two masked men at tb north end of the Ferry building shortly Deiore 12 o'clock last night. While on of them held a pistol against Lang' head the other footpad went through nil pocket, and, according to Lang, robbed bim ol 150. An attempted hold-up wat reported from Golden Gat park. Th approach of tome pedestrians frightened away the highwaymen. San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 13. Th general alarm caused by th numerous report! of hold-up and robbery has seriously affected th attendance at all placet of amusement. Hotel managers and othen entrutted with th handling of larg tutus of money Lav mad lab or at deteniiv preparaticnt and there I a general arming on tb part of citi sent. Diecuising th propriety of th or ganisation ol a committee of tafety in toll ttat today to deal with petty criminal! who now infest th city, Act ing mayor uaiiagner said: "There shall be no lynching in this city, and I sincerely hope that at the meeting to be held in Union square touay in leaden will hav enongb sens to do nothing that will injur th cny. iney will call it a committee of safety," th mayor continued, "but other cities will call it a vlgilaoc com mlttee, and that will do irrevocable harm to San Francisco. It wonld be a cconiession that th people of thia city are not capaDie of protecting them selves, and when I say tb people I mean tbe authorities with whom the people hav vested th power of gov ernment The plan it un-American. "Th lurpation of tb powers of tap pressing crime by unauthorised persons ii a crime in itself. I shall regard it as sued and will not permit it. "Should those men desire to co-ODer at with tb autboritiet in ridding the cuy oi mugs anj criminals, I shall be giaa to hav their assistance, but they uju.i noi act independent of tbe munic ipality. I will not allow millionaire to take those atepa any sooner than I would allow laboring men. There most be no violence committed by citi em. Lynch law doet more harm than good." Vestal With Two Thousand Chinas On Board Catch Fir. Hongkong, Oct. 15. Th British steamer Hankow, from Canton, was burned at 3:10 o'clock yesterday morn ing, whil lying alongside her wharf. Ilnndsrdt of Chines parteugert were burned to death and a valuable cargo wat destroyed. AH th European pat longer and crew were saved. Tb steamer Hankow, with J, 000 Chines pasienrs, man, women and children, and seven Eoiopeans, and cargo including 3,700 bales of mattlag, (00 bale ot raw tilk and 400 balea of wast tilk, arrived from Canton at 3 o'clock and wat tbortly afterward moored at th wharf. Her chief officer reported to Captain Branch that th thip wtt a fir. Tb captain than directed th chief engineer to turn on th water through tb fir bos. Tbit waa isupossibl for tb rea son that within nv minute after th alarm wat given th Hankow wai able fur and aft. Captain Branch then awakened the European paieenger. who rushed down th gangway, th ladle in their night- clothes. Th crew was compelled to leave th ship, wbicb by thit tim wtt a veritable furnace. Responding to signals, th British cruiser Flora and th naval dockyard distpacbed contingents of engine! and assistants. Th floating brigades ol firemen made heroic, tfforts to extin guish th flames, which leaped to a helibt of over 60 feet. Tbe Chinese steerage passengeis were thrown into a frightful panic. Horri fying shrieks and cries to save their live were heard, but escap wa im possible, owing to tb infiammabla na- .i it. iure oi me cargo. Hundreds were burned to death and many othen jumped lato th harbor and were drowned. BELL IN COMMAND funston Will Return to United States With Secretary Taff. COMMAND WAS ONLY TEMPORARY On Faction of Cuban Declared Func tion Deserted Them In War Against Spaniards, ARIZONA UNITED. OLD GIRARO SLAVE PEN. BIG GUNS NEEDED. STORM SPOILS BANANAS. separation from The Chilean congress, city and prop eriy owners ol alparaiso, a ill com- oine xo rebuild the city destroyed by ww i biiijuaslB, w jonn isarrett, now minister to Co- iomti!a, is slated for a better position, miner amnasaador to Hiasil or vice gov ernor of the Philippines. Tl.. .1 ..... no i-iariiivn( oi justice is gaining irmu rviueuce mat nundreda of men "to mine ami niacK, are held in vir tnal slavery in Southern Flordia y the luiiioermen. Cuban Liberals hail Taft and Racon as avionr. A son of Vice President Fairbanks has eloped with a Pittenurg girl. A lone highwayman held up a stage in the Tonopah, Nevada, district, aad eenred nearly 15,000. Th Newfoundland cabinet is still worrying over the fishing privileges lost to th United State. Battling; With a River. Imperial Junction, Cal., Oct. 18. seldom has a more desperate battle wun nature been waged than that for the turning of the Colorado river. Rockwood gate went out last Thursday, and a great disappointment was occa sioned, but the outlook is much bright er. Yesterday the trestle below the Raie was prepared, 100 car of rock uemg oumped as an experiment. This morning the rock was found In the same position, indicating that the on was nrm enongh to support it. Another trestle is being built. Cleaning Streets of Debris. San Francisco, Oct. 16. The task of tboronghly e'eaning the streets and sidewalks of the city was comsnenced today nnder the direction of tbe Board of Pnblic Works. Five hundred m.n were placed at work on Mariet street near tbe ferry. Rubbish was thrown from tbe streets onto vacant property and the result was protests from own! ers. Many building sites had been en tirely freed of debris, and nronr. owners particularly objected to having basements that had been cleaned filled with bricks and iron again. Big Travel to California. Fan Francisco. Oct. lfl 1 h. month has seen a steady flow of popu lation into California from the sta es The flares of the railroads and the California Promotion commit tee Mat that 14,000 settl-rs have come here in that time. Manv of th... ,..-. irone to the country, but a fair propr. tion have remained in San Franci. It is believed that this is aimnl. ti. vanmiardof an army of immig,nts Woo am pmntna 1 .-...a i - 1 ' in lauiornia. Silver Advances to 70.13. Washington. Oct. lfl Th a.. of the mint yesterday purchased 160. 000 ounces of silver at 70 13 cents n. one ounce, delivered at tbe mint in I'enver. For the mnvanl.n. wi.i rfere it ha been decided to open bids ur me taie of Silver Hurrlcan Sweeps Throuch Central America, Waating $1,000,000. New Orleans, Oct. 16. Damages of fully $1,000,000, including the partial demolition of one town, was done bv il a. i . w me unrricane on trie coast of Central America which wai reported by a brief wireless message received here laBt night. Wireless and cable advices to. day to the United States Fruit company say that probably no loss of life oc curred. The hurricane appeared to be central near Blueflelds, on the east coast of Nicaragua. It ewept In from the sea, its first fury striking Little and Great Corn islands, which were iwept bare of vegetation and their topography even altered by tbe wave. On the mainland the sjorm'i damage was con fined mostly to a path about 80 miles wide, in which banana and rubber crops were destroyed and plantations blown down. Great damage is report ed from Rama, a town on the coast aooui u miles from Blueflelds. Mrs. Jefferson Davit Dying. New York, Oct. 16. Mre. Jffrson Davis, widow of the president of the Confederate states, is dying of pneu monia at the Hotel Majestic here. It is believed she cannot survive more than a few hours. Mrs. Davis has been ill for several da h., u 1 . 1 been believed sh would recover op to last night, when a sudden change for the worse was noticed. Mrs. Davi went to the Majestic a short time ago on her return from the Adirondack . .... r,,rui most oi the for her health. General Wood Alio Want Cavalry Sent to Philippine. Wahington, Oct. 16. An argument against tbe reduction in tb number of troops in th Philippine 1 made by major General Leonard Wood, com manding that dvnion, in hi annual report. Tb total arrUioo, on June 30 last, numbered, 043 men. "W are far fron home,", say Gen eral Wood, "andih case of foreign dis turbance!, evei with all our troopi concentrated at Xanila, tb fore avail able would be fctrecly sufficient to de lend it from a itrious attack. More over, a strong garrison should be main tained here until conditionns pertain ing to the civil pvernihent are well es tablished and Uu animosities and dis appointments incident to the building up of a local government under new and perhaps itrained condition! have passed away." General Wood suggests adding some artillery to tlx present garrison and sending to thsPhilippinei one iquad ron of each of ths t avarly regiment! in the United States. Public order has greatly improved in Miindanao. The rice output there is said to exceed my previous year and the people hare gone to work. As there is an large Mohammedan ilement there, and unexpected disturbances niay occur as ths result of action of re ligious fanatic returning from Mecca, the repoi t say the garrison should be concentrated. Ditcovery Mad by Subway Workman at Depth of IOO Feat. rnnadelprjla, Oct. 13. Subway workmen digging beneath Water street tor tne new tunnel atation, uncovered at tbe depth.of 100 feet what is clear ly an old alav prison. The Den i composed of narrow rll in iku u witb three-foot corridors between hesvy wans, ine cent run tlx to the tier. fcsch is large enough to held six men packed in closely. Heavy iron bars covered th window and in each cell were manacle supports. Directly above tbem 1 th boos of Stephen Girard, an eccentric millionaire, who gave Gi raid CO' lege to Philadelphia, and whose state is now valued at 1100,000,000. In tearing down the old Girard home that the traction company bought, the prison wa discovered. The old house ia within half a square of tbe Delaware, and secret access by water would be easy. Girard believed in slavery, owned slaves and many Louisiana sugar plantation!. Determined to Preserve Her Identity and Will Refute Joint Statehood. Phoenix, Ari Oct. 15. Th terrl- tory of Ariiona, rich in American citi xenship, a well a natural resources, is making a determined fight to retain its identity. The people at a whole are bitterly opposed to th plan of Joint statehood with New Mexico. Tbey ad vance various reasons for their opposi tion, some of them potent and others of little apparent weight. Whatever tbe reason, they are overwhelmingly airainit joint statehood, and will kill the prop osition at the polls next month. Tbe leader of tb "Jointists" in Norther Arixona acknowledges that he doe not count upon more than 15 per cent of th vote in favor of jointure. Tb chief objection to union with XT iew juexico appear 10 D Dased npon the disparity in lite and quality of population. Tbe Mexiean element in New Mexico numbers at least 60 per cent of the total population. In Ari xona the Mexican vol is about 15 per cent of the total. Much of the Mexi can population in Arisona is floating. consisting of laborers on railroads and rrigation enterprises, etc.. whil the living m rew Mexico are. as a rule, native of th territory. Havana, Oct. 11. General Frederic Funston will not continue in commi d of th American force in Cuba. Gov ernor Taft announced tonight that h and General Funston will leave Havana for th Unitd State on Saturday on th battleship Louisiana. With them, will go Assistant Secretary of State ba con, and th affairs of Cuba will be left in th hand f Governor Magoon and General J. F. Bell. Kxplaining th chang of plans, Mr. Taft said : 'General Funston waa summon,! n a hurry call from th Pacific coast be cause he was well acquainted witb many of the Insurgent chiefs here, and n wa mought he could aid us, as he did greatly, in bringing the men in arms to an agreement. General Funj ton was put temporarily in command of th troops in Cub merely as a conven ience nntil General Rl should arrive. General Funston, Mr. Bacon and my self, with Mrs. Taft and Mrs. Bacon and our secretaries, are returning to our permanent duties." Taft' especial confidence in the chief of the general staff' ability to carry out the program the governor ha ini tiated resulted in the decision to con tinue him in the island. Many Cuban! of tbe faction to mhlph Mendtt Capote and others who organ ised the Moderate party belong, were outekpoken against General Funston, alleging that he bad deserted tbem in the war to throw off the yo of Spain. SMUGGLE CHINESE. Fishing Schooner On New England Coast Landa Orientals. Providence, R. I.. Oct. 11. Eighteen Chinese were arrested todsy after tb capture by th United State immigra- lion authorities of tb schooner yacht Frolic, for which revenue officers hav been searching along the New England coast for tbe past two weeks, were held tonight by United States Commissioner Cross in $1,000 bail each for examina tion next Wednesday. All the men declared they had been in the United State before, but that their certificate had been lost, some in New York and others in the fire at San Francisco. This declaration contradicted a state. ment alleged to have been made ly John C. Lehnemann. of Boston, one of the men arrested for complicity in th smuggling operations, who says th traffic has been extensive and effective. FURNITURE MEN PROTEST. BLOW TO DEMOCRATIC PARTY. Armour'a Case Before Wilton. Philadelphia, Oct. 13. State Food and Dairy Commissioner Warren this week caused warrants to be issued for the arrest of several o' Armour & Com pany's agents In this city on tbe charge of exposing for sale hams and other meats containing boracic acid. Assist ant Food and Dairy Commission r D. Schick and N. B. Critcl field, secretary of agriculture of this state, today went to Washington to meet Secretary of Ag riculture Wilson and Dr. II. W. Wiley, chief chemist of the department, and lay the facts in the case before them, summer No Word From Peary. NewY ork Oct. 16.-Th middle of October having been reached, the time "rait set for receiving news from the" V7 A'CtL W"" hope practi Ini ,l7" ha",W1 "t night of hoar- ir? Lh T,,he band of "P'or " nt"ho M from this port 15 monthi ago. It . . would com. through t,7eVh7, Zn h7enTr Hin, D.nnd"' 8c"'nd at the end of their cruise this f.H. fhe whaler have failed r i!!. he ..I .v.:. i- . "- uiio port. .u wns in laxen that nnn...i ' conditions prevail in the Arctic. Trial of New York Central Nw WYok,r0,'V WThe tri' ' for th. .11 R"ilro,, romp.ny RefinfnV ,h" AnM'n Pugar Otl ITnnfTB Wednesdays and Fridays of each week! instead of on WednM.L--a ni. heretofore. st "MuirnnT nn nnnmm i the West i tv,. ... . V . . Infraction of th. r w,. " "'' 'or the dertaken in thu .i Z. "W..'v" " ia ina.,,..... . " lr'.' action it-. - "-" " or in Feder.l nrt that m.. k. . . -rrciel iwcFffliM terms to Criminal to last with Postal Deficit Less. Wasnhlngton, Oct. 16. Postmaster General Cortelyon has given out an ad vance statement of tb receipt! and expenditures of the postal lervice for the fiscal year ending June SO, 1906. It shows a reduction of the annual de ficit from II4.1i7 Km for 1005 to 110.. 516,996 for 1906, over $4,000,000, or 27.832 per cent The total receipts for 108 were I7 932.783, an increase over 1905 of $15,106,198, which il tbe ureaiesi increase for any year In the history of the service. The per cen of increase in receipt for 1906 ii 9.88. Ambasiarfor Resinned. Mexico Citv M. vt. 16. Joaouln n I assasnn, Meiiran ambassador to the United Staets, has formally tender ed his resignation' to President Diax, and the announcement of the fact will be made, public in the next issue of the Diary Official. 8eDOr Casasius gives is a reason for his resignation the fact that for somi tjtrie pst his health has been seriously impaired. According to the rumors jn circi,tion, th mo-t Ijxely canlidat to iacceed Cassssius is Enrique Cree' governor of th Stat of Chihuahua. Cold Peraiats In East. Washington, Oct. 13. The cold wava ia persisting in the East. An other cold wave in tbe Rocky Moun tain region, in Idaho and Montana, and moderating In tbe South and con sidersbly warmer in the central valleys ia tb weather situation in a nutshell, a announced tonight by tbe Weather bureau. It I warming up In th West generally, reaching over 60 degree in th vicinity of Chicago and th Missis sippi valley and over 70 degress wtst of there. leiist a vr .'.,0 ,"ms 'or at Fruar,iy mocn jong gr Army n Cuba Given Nam,. J m r-T U VJ ; A iTns.al J a of th nresid-'n . : 7 ?wctlon . "'"img mat Ury force, now .VsVmbled " to be assemble 1 an armv the mill- U Cuba ni amrm . . Cuban pi!Ttion.OWnMth,Arni' Economy In British Navy. London, Oct i The Standard this morning says the government purposes, netore the end ni h. vear. to remove 5!0 efficient si. in. i.m artive duty, in order to economi.. (or an active fleet B'X battleship, 0f the Majestic clasi will be remov.,1 ill of these will be Placed in the hn'm. reserve. The entire Royal Sovereign elm. iKht fin " el. will I. pgC(Ki in reserve without ffews, and four armored cruiser! will be paid off. Rsin Damages Cotton. Houston. T.. vt. 16. A heavy 'in hat fall.n ' . the around In part cf Texai the ... i hnnn. doing con siderable dim... tha cotton crop. Tner will b a heavy In lic' Why Bell Wa Put In Command. Washington, Oct. 13. The detail of General F J Bel to command the Amerlan military forces in Cuba was made directly by, the president, and the reason for that order waa that bv his administration as military gover nor of the prnvianre of Rttangas, one of the most tnrbnlent of the Philippine subdivisions, just after the crisis bad been reached In the Aguinaldo rebel lion, General Bell showed such a com bination of the soldier and diplomat that till selection was deemed exnedi ent to undertake similar duties in Cuba Say Railroada Discriminate In Freight Rate to Pacific Coaat. Waablngton, Oct. 15. A complaint as been made to the Interstate Com merce commission by the North Caro lina Caseworkers' association, whose membership consists of firms engaged in the manufacture and sale of furni ture, against many lines of railroads in the West, became of alleged unjost and discriminatory cbargei for the trans portation of fnrniture, especially irom High Point, N. C, and Danville, V. to Pacific coast terminal point!. The complainant! declare that the railroads charge them $1.70 per hun dred poundi for carrying fnrniiure from the North Carolina territorv to Pacific coast points, and insist npon a minimum carload weight ol 20,000 pounds, whereas they c lalm to be able to put into a car only 12,000 ponnds of furniture. They insist, therefore, that the rates are unreasonable and ark the commission to issue an order re quiring the railmadi to limit 36-foot carload lots of furniture to 12,000 poundi. Chinese May Stay Here. Cincinnati, Oct. 15. Although a la borer at the present time, the fact that he wai merchant wben tbe Chinese exclusion law wai passed, laved Jung Yuen, Cleveland Chinese, from de portation, the United States Circuit court of appeal having so decided to day. District Judge Taylor ordered Jung Yuen deported, ai he was working in a Cleveland laundry when arrested. His attorney maintained that as Yueu was a merchant in New York at the time the law was passed, be waa there fore exempt from deportat on. Had Planned Great Send-Off British Envoy Worried. St. Petersburg, Oct. 11. What is described here tonight as the "ignomini- . ous fissle" of the much heralded visit to Moscow and St. Petersburg of a Bi it-, ish depntation to present a memorial of sympathy to the dissolved tarlia ment is another blow to the Ccnstitu-. tional Democrats, who were arranging a reception to the depntation as a bril liant send off in the campaign. This proposed visit was extremely embarrassing to the British ambassa dor, Sir Arthur Nicholson, in view of the negotiations for an entente between Russia and Great Britain. Pressure wai brought to bear in London to stoo the movement, and it wai decided not I to receive the depu'ation officially at the empassy her. This device ii thought to hare inspired the interview given out by the Britieh consul at Mos cow, who (It dare I that th members of the'deputation were not known, and that the proposed visit was in bad taste. Mikado Urged to Rescue. Tokio, Oct. 11 A demand that the mikado rescue the Japanese in Califor nia from persecution to which it il charged they are subject, is made in the Yorcxu Cboho, a widely circulated Tokio paper. Ever since the Califor nia Republican adopted a platform de manding Japanese exclusion, the paper ravs, the mikado's subjects there bave . suffered all kinds of mistreatment. To leave 60,000 Japanese to mch a fate, It ia argned, ii to diicourage immigra tion and check attempt! at national ex-pansion. Foreit Reserve! Safe From Fire. Washington, Oct. 13. Gifford Pin- chot, chief of the bureau of forestry, ho f ai Just completed a tonr of the government forest reserves, called upon ine president ioiay. Mr. Finchot ex pressed gratification with the results of his inspection tonr and and of the ex cellent condition in which he fonnd tbe fjrest reserve. There hai been only one big fire on the reiervei dnring the summer, he says, and the burned area did not exceed 2,000 acres. Japanese Designs on Java. Rom. Oct. 13. Th newspapers here today publish a prlvat letter from Tokio that numerous Japanese emissaries hav been sent to th Island of Java, Dutch East Indie, with tb mission to creat incident Justifying a Japan naval demonstration. It it reported that th Dutch authorities ar much alarmed. Hard to Reconcile Them. Cienfuegos, Oct. 15. Consul Gener- al Steinhart' endeavors to settle local difficulties and reconcile the homil. factioni hava not yet boroe much fruit. The Liberal continue to demand tbe removal of all the police and would ht. glad to have the mayor of the city onst- eo. ine amnestying of all persons connected with the murder of Congress man Villuends last year li serving to : ... k. j i ii .. .. iuirt iu .'uu leeiings i net iiave pre vauea. me volunteer!, Instead of turning in all their gnm, have conceal ed aom and buried others. Mutt Shelter No Stranrera. St. Fetershnrg, Oct. 15. The minis ter of the Imperial cort has issued an order forbidding officiali ar.d emn!ov of tbe conrt to rent roomi or otherwise shelter any persons without the special permission of the minister. The order is due to the arrest of Klermikcff ami other Terrorists at Peterhof, September 28, and tbe discovery that many of the participant! In the conspiracy were liv. ing uninspected in the immediate l. clnity of the palace. More Yellow Fever Cat. Washington. Oct. 15. Th. Hf.in. HwpiUI servlc ha been advised of tbe appearance of three new r.... yellow fever at Havana and of one at uieniuego ana on at Guinea. Trylner To Hold Together. Helsingfors, Oct, 11. At tody' session of the Constitutional Democrat ic convention ttie committee' reoslu tionp reclaiming the impossibility of pa-dive reMslsnce wai adopted. 84 aye to 44 noes. The minority amendment lerommending organisation fur passire reistnce was rejected by 83 ajes to 53 noes. The congress has shown stiikirg weakness in the party, nhirh is highly dangeron in view of th approaching electoral ramtiaiun. anil tb in In rtttA of the Influen-e toward cohesion remit ing from vovernmental prosecution Snow Over Middle West. Chicago, Oct. 11. Various point throngbont Ohio report record tweak ing weather yest.r-lar. At Zinesville the snow fell for three hnnr, and tbe remarkable thing a,t t ) tflRt ,ho mow came before any frost bad rnms In that vbinity. An in. h of rnow fell at Findlay. At Louisville there waa a light fall of snow, and in the mountain regions of Kentocky. Thii breakt all records for early snowfalls. At South Bend, Ind., four Inches of snow fell. Four From a Thousand. Chicago, Oct. II Thn. t, ndtb venireman waa passed today in be case of Cornelius P. Shea, the labor leader accused of oonsnirac tn ..i..t money from large enmlnon i Only four I lout of 1,000 candidate iamind.