Hillsboro Independent
THANKS OF NATION.
friday af lac Waafe
HILLSBORO.
OREGON
NEWS OFTHE WEEK
la a Condensed Form (or 0&r
Busy Readers,
A Riiumt of the Leas Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
Of tha Past Week.
canto Dumont has won a $100,000
air ship prize In Franc.
Anna Held, the actress, bad $161.
uuu worm of Jewell atolen.
A wholesale Increase in tbe salaries
of postal clerk ia proposed.
Ex-Senator Burton ia a privileged
prisoner in the Ire n ton, Kansas, jail.
President Roosevelt will itop at San
Juan, Porto Kico, on bia war back
lrova Panama.
English women are creating disturb
ances in the Louie tf commons, clamor
ing for suffrage.
Tribesmen are terrorizing Morocco
towna and tioops mar Lave to be sent
to erstore order.
More Russian soldiers are being ar
rested, charged with belonging to revo
lutionary organizations.
Ilarriman Las purchased Fish's Ir
terest in the Illinois Central railroad,
giving the former control.
The New Yoik Life Insnrance com
pany is threatened with injunction pro
ceedings against election methods.
A man has just died at Pittsburg
who, the past five years has lived and
clothed himself on au average of six
cents per day.
The Interstate Comrrerce commission
has learned more about rebates and
monopoly in the wheat trade at its
Kansas City sitting.
Two boys have lost their lives in the
South Dakota blizzard.
Ex-Senator Burton, of Kansas, is
serving bis jail sentence.
Preparations are being made for
President Roosevelt's trip to Panama.
China is fast getting together an
army of well-drilled and well-armed
men.
Negroes threaten a riot in Philadel
phia against Dixon's production of
"Tbe Clansman."
One firm has the monopoly of ship
ping grain over the Milwaukee road
from Kansas City,
Hearst is extending bis campaign
work into other states to capture the
presidential nomination.
Certificate holders have commenced
proceedings to attach $1,000,000 of the
funds of the Hartiord Life Insnrance
company.
A steamer struck a floating mine in
Kangoose bay, tbe port of Vladivostok.
and an unknown number of persons lost
their lives.
Colorado shippers have petitioned
the interstate Commerce commission to
grant them the same railroad freight
rates as Standard Oil Las been receiv
ing.
. Secretary Taft will soon start on a
speecn-maaing trip and expects to
come as far west as the coast. Inci
dentally he will Inspect a few army
PUBIS.
ranciaj. Ileney is to probe the
charges of graft at San Francisco.
An unknown vessel Las been wrecked
near Cape Henry, on the Virginia coast.
President Calls on People toObseiv
November 29.
Washington, OA. 24. The presiJent
has lesuid a pioclanation naming
Thiir.Jiv Knvm,r SO. as a day of
thanksgiving. The text of the rocla
(nation is as folloas:
"A proclamation.
"Tha tima nf the vear has com
when, in accordance with the wise cu
torn of oar fathers, it becomes my duty
to set aside a special day of tbankegiv
ing and praise to the Almighty because
nf ),! nam mm Lav received and 01
power prayer that these blessings may
La Ann tinnttl. Yat another vear of
widesprtad well-being has passed
Never before in our history or In th
hiatorvtjf anv other nation baa a peo
Die en lived more abounding rsaroriai
prosperity tban has ours; a prosperity
a great that it should arouse in os no
spirit of reckless pride, and least of all,
a spirit of heedless disregard of our
responsibility; but rather a sober cense
of our mini b essinus. and a resolute
Dnmoee. under Providence, not to for
feit them br an 7 action of our own
"Material well-being, Indispeusanie
though it is, can never be anything but
the foundation cf true national gieat-
ness and happiness. If we build noth
ing upon this foundation, then our na
tional life will be as meaningless and
empty as a house where only the found
ation baa been laid. Upon our mater
ial well-being must be built a super
structure of individual and national life
lived in accordance with the laws of
the highest morality, or else our pros
perity itself will in the long run turn
out a curse instead of a blessing. We
should be both reverently thankful for
what we have received and earnestly
bent upon turning it into a means of
grace and not of destruction.
'Accordingly, I hereby set apart
Thursday, the 29th day of November
next, as the day of thanksgiving and
supplication, upon which the people
shall meet in their homes or churches,
devoutly acknowledging that which
has been given them and to pray that
they may in addition receive the power
to use these gifts aright.
"In witness whereof I Lave hereunto
set my Land and caused the seal of the
United States to be affiled.
"Done at the city of Washington this
22d day of October, in the year of out
Lord, 1906, and of the independence of
tbe United States tbe 131st.
"(deal) Theodore Roosevelt.
By the president.
"Eliha Root,
"Secretary of Stat
citnnr rrTC nrcncD catc01.0.n Wyoming.
.iiimii iir i.i in i i it
UllUII ULIU as-.a-a twaa s . oac,,on Accom-
n go"'"
pani.a by H" Wind
Cheyenne, Wyo., Oct. 23. The
worst stonu kn0 in years fur the
season now prevails over Wyoming. It
is acoooipaniej Dy beT snowfall, and
in sow section, vary biK 'nJl' Tb
Union Pacific i... .now plows out on
WORST STORM LN TVENTT YEARS! u her nd - LOSS REACHES INTO MILLION'S
uen. west of n.n River, Wyoming,
Sheepmen In Wyoming, Colorado
and New Mexico Suffer.
IHUNDRED5PERISII
Storm Sweeps Florida, Cuba and
Central America.
SALT LAKE WIND SWEPT.
r;JlS GUILTY OF CRIME
Sugar Men Rebates.
LATOR BLAMES PUBLIC OPINION
Whole Country Between th Hocky
Mountain and Missouri River
Under Whit Pall.
CHANGES IN CABINET.
Denver, Oct. 23. Snow, wind and
cold have extended over nearly the en
tile country between th Rocky moun
tains and th Missouri river today,
causing Heavy loss ot uvestcca auu
fruit. Telegraph wire have been pros
trated and railroad schedules disarrang
ed. Th storm is almost unprecedent
ed for severity at this reason of tbe year
and takes rank, according to the weath
er bureau, with the snowfall on April
22 and 23, 1885.
Up to 6 o'clock this evening about 20
nches of snow bad fallen in Denver
nd indications were that th snow
would continue all night.
Locally but little damago was done.
Sheepmen in Wyoming, Colorado and
New Mexico, it is believed, will softer
heavy losses, as tbey were unprepared
for such weather. There are hundreds
of tons of sugar beets and thousands of
barrels of apples still in th open, in
the northern part of Colorado and
should the cold continue, tbe damage
will be very great to the ranchers.
Telegraphic service throughout the
West is badly hampered and trains in
definitely late.
The bliriard which has been raging
In Pueblo and vicinity since early Sat
urday afternoon is slightly abated this
morning. Railroad and street car traf
fic is badly crippled. The Rio Grande
west of Pueblo has suffered most from
the snow, which is unusually heavy
along its line, ranging from 10 inches
at Florence to 30 inches at Buena Vis
ta. Trains from the East are generally
from a few minutes to several hours
late. Cattle and other stcck on ranges
suffered from tbe wet snow and cold.
Colorado Springs reports that the blii
card, which has been in progress for
the past 48 hours, broke this merning.
Trains are somewhat delayed. The
temperature in Colorado Springs this
morning was about 15 above tero.
th line Is blockJJ, and all commun
ication shut off. All ira down.
A dispatch (ronl G'M0 Kiver "yl
the highest ini inWB l" 25 year
I now blow in, .ith tbe temperature
10 degree above aero, and snow falling.
On Cagman Dual Granger was found
dead and another mn wM '0UDj 00
th track u neon.,. inns and badly frcien.
On building. at Green River was de
molished by th wind. Tbe new from
Northern and Central Wyoming re
ports practical!, the earn condition.
Stockmen ar apprebenlv of great
losses, as th atorm cam npon them
unprepared. Xh itortn i slightly
abating here.
Shipping Receive Serious Blow and
Everywhere Loss of Life I
Reported Groat.
Company and It Traffic Manager
May Each Be Fined In Sum of""
SI 20,000 for OfTens.
PACKERS MAKING MONEY.
I
Talk of Sale to English Syndicate
Not Crsdited.
Washington, Oct. 23. Tb Agricul
tural department official are very
much luterettHil in the report from
Chicago that the big packing houses
are contemplating s gigantic company,
to be financed b Kaglish capital.
They do not look for the carrying out
of any such project. For year the
packing compares bav been straining
every neive to create tha impression
that they are acting independently of
eacch other.
Officials here dl" that notwith
standing the rlgoroos beef inspection
measures now being enforced, tha pack
ing bouse are being operated witb a
big profit. They cannot see wherein
there would be any serious disadvant
age for the packer! as "the outcome of
such a deal, for foreign corporations
would be absolutely at the mercy of the
respective states.
Miami, Fla., Oct. 20. Th steamer
St. Lucie, Captain Pravo commanding,
has sunt on the Florida coast. On
steamer arrived in port tonight bring
ing 60 injured, who were taken to the
hospital, and it is said 28 dead bodies
will be brought np tomorrow.
Captain Bravo says that he anchored
on th lee side ot Elliott's Key, 25
miles south of Miami, yesterday morn
ing and soon afterward a tidal wave
engulfed tbe entire island.
II says Iheie were 250 residents n
the island, all of whom where lost. The
St. Incie was crushed by th same
wave and of the 100 passengers on
board 25 were killed. CaDtain Bravo
was seriously injured.
A Darge containing 100 people is
said to bav been torn away from its
moorings at Elliott Key and after
ward picked up near th Bahama
islands, 60 of her passenger having
been drowned.
Havana, Oct. 20. A cyclone of un
precedented severity, accompanied bv
a terriffic downpour of rain, swept oyer
the p.-ovincea of Havana and Plnar del
Rio Wednesday night and resulted in
20 deaths in this city and th serious
injury of a dt.aen or more persons.
The damage is estimated at fully $2,.
000,000. Tbe dead are all Cubans of
the pooler class.
Building Raied and Packing
Destroyed by Fir.
Salt Lak City, Oct. 12. For 24
IrZ Says VantlcrMIt Road Gave
ity. In addition to time serious act I
dents to persons, property Las been
devastated over a wide area, a fire
fanned by the wind has obliterated the
new plant of the Utah Packing com
pany, and a monetary loss of apppioxi
tnately f 250,000 is entailed.
Dating th full period of th storm
train bav arrived irregularly or not
at all. For much of th time the street
car service baa been at a standstill, and
th alectrio lighting plant are out of
commission.
Th burning of th Utah packing
plant, north of th city, is th moat
serious single loss. Th building bad
Just beon compleetd at a coet of 1100,.
000, and was to bav been put into use
in a few day. Tbe project was inaug
urated by Western cattlemen and was
in opposition to tb large packing
bouses in the East. Tbe cause of the
fire ha not been ascertained. Only a
small fraction of th loss is covered by
insurance.
Ruined building, fallen chimneys,
broken windows, locs?ned signs nJ
toppled trees throughout tbia and ad
joining town are the most common
souvenirs of the storm and aggregate an
immense loss. The wind attained a
maximum Telocity fo 52 miles an hour.
For hours at maintained an average
speed of 38 miles an hour. The local
weather bureau ha been handicapped,
but expresses tbe opinion that the
storm is local and with little tffect
north of Ogden or south of Provo.
LOSS WAS HEAVY.
CHULO VOLCANO BELCHES.
A 62 mile gale has swept Charleston,
. Mi practically no damage has
been leported.
The Department of Agriculture has
adopted rules for the enforcement of
me pnre food laws.
Herbert U. Sailers, of New York.
Las been appointed to succeed Magoon
iu i a inier at ranaiua.
A man canht in the act of highway
robbery at Kan Francisco has been
given iu years in the penitentiary.
i ne imntesB of Carlislo, president
ui me iwiuen W. U. T. U., Las been
elected Head of the world's association,
n r
ran rrancisco police have captured
five men suspected of having a know
ledge of the recent robbery of the Jap-
SB II A a am L, "
mm uoni USUI,
a gigantic wheat corner is planned
by farmers who will meet at Topeka
ur wia purpose oi lormtng an organlra-
iuu w control me market.
Prnmlnant - 1 - .
..mm,.cui vuniii innif lort are
planning a conference between the war-
ring factions with the Idea of headii
r rt u . . . a
ni. iuwing sentiment tor annexa
tion.
The provincial governors of the Phil-
ippmes nave petitioned the commission
tor uome rule.
Koooevelt is said to be working to
B uro i iau s place in the senate when
nis term as president expires.
Aiiorney Ueneral Moody will fight
the railroads in their effort to break
aown me employers liability law.
.... ...ui.ns m Wyoming, on
learning troops have been sent after
them, have broke camp and headed for
moniana.
Russia is in terror lest worse reac
tionary outrages tnan tb conntry has
jv anown ioiiow in enpgreds of
rime Hundred" organisation at
men.
By the verdict of the Jury In the
rianniara nil rase at rlndlay, Ohio,
that company is liable to a fine of frcm
au to 11.1,000.
A grand jury at San Francinco In its
report onds that the pollc of th bay
city Lav been larking in discipline
an i recommends tnat a new chief be
appointed.
The New lork Central railroad has
been fined f 102,000 for granting re-
betes to the sugar trust and F. L. Pom
eroy, traffic manager, must pay 1 6,000.
An appeal has been taken.
General Shifting: of Position to Tak
Place Soon.
Washington, Oct. 24. The follow
tag statement regardira prospective
changes in President Roosevelt's cabi
net was made pnbilc tonight:
"On the retirement of Secretary
Shaw and Attorney General Moodv
irom ine cabinet, tbe following chang
ea will be made:
Secretary of the treasury George
B. Cortelyou.
'Postmaster general George Von
L. Meyer.
Attorney general Charles J. Bona
parte.
Secretary of the navy Victor II.
Metcalf.
Secretary of commerce and labor-
Oscar 8. Straus."
ine general understanding lor some
time has been that Attorney General
Moody will retire on January 1 and
that Secretary Shaw will follow him on
M i ch 4 next.
Mr. Meyer, who will become post
master general, is ambassador to Rus
sia. He is a native of Massachusetts
and has beeu well known as a business
man.
lhe appointment of Mr. Straus
caused considerable surprise, as it will
be tbe Brst cane where a citizen of the
Hebrew faith has been made a member
of the president s cabinet. Ha WAN
born in 18j0 and is well known as a
merchant, diplomat and author. He
repreented the United States as minis
ter to Turkey on two different o ca
tions and was annoint,l ) Pi.l.iont
RoopevBlt to fill the vacancv caused bv
the death of ex-President Harrison as
a member of the permanent court of
arbitration at The Hague.
WISCONSIN REMITS TAXES.
Increase In Railroad Assessmedt Sun-
pliea All Funds Necessary.
Madison, Wis., Oct. 23. All the
state taxes, with the exception of the
school tax, which was reduced to half
of one mill, were remitted today by tbe
state board of assessors. There is al
ready so mnch money in tbe state treas
ury that none of the officials know
what to do with it.
With the prospect of more than 12.-
500,000 coming in from this year's
taxes, State Treasurer Kempf threw np
bis bands in despair and said there was
no way to spend it. Accordingly Gov
ernor Davidson, Secretary of State
Homer and Mr. Kempf met todav and
decided to remit the taxes.
The railroads are foot ins the hilla.
That, in the main, is the reason for the
action today, tha first time such a
sweeping move has been made in the
history of the state. It i one of the
results of Senator -LaFollette'e long
fight when he was in the eovernnr'a
chair. Under the new ad valorem law
the roads pay about $2,000,000 annu
ally, or one-third more than thev did
under the old license fee eyBtem.
ine amount of taxes remittal la a 1 .
818,235. Instead of raisinir thia
amount from the taxpayers, the admin
istration will deduct it frrm the gene
ral fund of the stata in mo
fixed expenditures. The school Ut
amounting to $643,680. goes back to
the taxpayers in the support cf the
public schools.
Volume of Sulphur Water Swampa a
Salvador Town,
San Salvador, Oct. 23. Telergaphic
communication witb interior points
ha been restored, snd new of tbe dis
aster wrought by the terrific storm
which has swept over tha country is be
ing received. Over 100 persona were
drowned in Coatepeqae. A vast quan
tity of sulphur water was thrown out
of the Chnlo volcano, and inundated
the town of Panchisaloo, killing moat
of the Inhabitants.
From other poind also reports of ter
rific devastaticn arecoming in. Pimi
nento and other toens are reported to
have been swept any by the floods.
Tbe schooner Asdene, with a num
ber of passengers on board, has been
lost between Cmitto, Nicaragua and
Aknapala, Hoodtiraa. Everybody on
board was drowned. .
Tbe floods liars disinterred a number
of corpses Iron cemeteries and are car
rying them 4wn the streams. It is
reported that t railroads in Hondur
as have suffered serious damage.
Ban Jnan, Porto Rico, Oct. 20. The
Red Star Line steamer Philadelphia,
from La Uuayra, Venesueia, for New
York, arrived here today. Her cap
tain reports that a Dutch iteamer was
lost in the cyclone at a point between
Caracas and La Guayra.
Twenty miles of th railroad con
necting La Guayra with Caracas have
been totally destroyed by the storm,
according to officers and passengers of
th Philadelphia.
San Salvador, Oct. 20. A tempest
has raged incessantly tor ten days
throughout th republic, flooding tbe
rich valleys, principally that of Majada,
and resulting in great loss of life and
the destruction of cattle and crop.
Th topography of vaiiou depart
ments has been changed, buildings have
fallen, burying their tenants in the
mine, and tha iron bridges over the
prinicpal rivers Lave been carried away.
The rivers are bringing down the bodies
of persons drowned in th storm and
th carcasses of cattle, and the sight of
these tends to increase the terror of the
people.
Gnatemala and Honduras also have
suffered greatly. It is said the losses
there will amount to many million of
dollar.
Cuban Hurricane Crosses th Island,
Leaving Death In Trail.
Havana, Oct. 2?. More complete re
ports bav been received by Governor
Magooon and show that tbe recent bur
lican, which swept across Cuba, has
caused greater damage than was at first
supposed. Scares of lives are now
known to have been loet as the result of
the storm.
The worst reports come from the Ba
tabano, on the south coast of Cuba, the
point where the cyclone first struck the
island. Forty fishing schooners are
now known to have been loet Many
corpse Lave been picked np floating In
the Lay, and it is believed the dead at
this point alone will reach nearly 100.
The majority of the victims are Spanish
fishermen. Wreckage from the vessels
which were destroyed litter tha shores
for miles. It is believtd that several
small' schooner were swept out to sea
ana lost, wieir crew perisning.
Tb town itself suffered severely.
Nine bodies have been removed so far
from the ruins. On every Land are to
be seen evidence of the storm' fury.
House were blown down, tree were
uprooted, and devastation has been
wrought generally. A conservative es
timate of the damage in that city is
$600,000. The greatest damage was
caused in the lower portion of the citv.
The upper section away from the shore
escaped almost mtracnlonsly. The
wharves were hadly damaged, in many
cases completely wrecked.
New York, Oct. 18. A verdict of
gamy oi granting rebates on sugar
shipments was returned by a jury in
the United States court here today
against the New York Central Railroad
company and Frederick L. Pomeroy,
the company's general traffic manager!
Sentence was deferred nntil Friday to
permit the attorneys for the defense to
file motions with the court.
In d.acnaeing the Jury' verdict, Aus
tin G. Fox, counsel for the defendants
placed the resposibility for the convic
tion of hi clients upon public opinion.
"You can't defend rebate cases Jin the
present state of public opinion." said
he.
According to the provisions of the
Klkin act, under which the convictions
were secured, the maximum penalty is
a flue of $20,000. As both the Central
and the personal defendant, Frederick
L. Pomeroy, at convicted by the deci
sion of th jury on all of the count
charged in th indictment, th total
fin for each ran be $120,000.
Letter from Lowell M. Palmer,
manager of the traffic business rf the
sugar refining company, to Mr. Pome
roy, acknowledging the receipt ol draft
amounting to thousands of dollars,
were admitted. It is charged that
these drafts represented the payment of
a rebate of 6 cents per hundredweight
on shipments of sugar to W. II. Edgai
& Son.
CHINA ARMING FOR FIGHT.
GRAIN TRAFFIC BLOCKED.
BUOY MESSAGES FOUND.
Choked With 'Snow.
lenver. Oct. 24. Eastern O.lnra.tn
nas been In the throes of a hltzzar.l tn.
l. .. .
uui me weather bureau Lolde out
me nope of clearing weather tonight.
Snow ceased falling in Denver this af.
temoon, the storm center bsvini.
moved eastward. The actual fall nf
snow in Denver since Friday night was
about 21 inches and in some portions
v i no state It was fnnr Ft nr
L-eiay oi ireignt and passenger traffic
Is the principal damase done btha
storm thus far, although fruit crops
uu tivratura are threatened.
May Be Loat In Hurricane.
iew lOIK. Oct. 24 Nn n... h.
been received from the British steamer
Arabistan, which is now several Hi
overdue at Pan Juan. P. R. P. R
Norton A Co.. the
.u-. ... .. -'.
";" mai me snip is all right and
will soon appear. The Ar.hi.t.n k.
-.nr. miscellaneous cargo, carried $3
um ,uu in gold and 70 men. On her
way irom Buenos Ay re for New York
She stopped at St. Lncla tnr
sailed for Pan Juan on October 12, and
nv" crossed th Caribbean sea
in irom nve to seven days.
Plan for English Tachr Tour.
lorn, Oct. 24. An l.h..i.
iar oi in Un ta.1 Rt.t.. K..
"-o I'rrru
pianne.1 ror the 600 English teachers
who are TO Visit th a rnnntrw mn
der the directions of Alfred Mowlv. C
M.O. The teacher mill 1.... t
I.-. i i . "
-..u ... groups oi iia and remaia in thi.
country from two weeks to th,..
m.imiiB. ine nrst irnnn a
to arrive at the end of November and
the la-t in March. Mr. Misely will
.rmain uniu me last group has left.
Worst Blinard In Hitor.
Cheyenne. Wvo.. Ort si u-. i
s in the grasn of tha am ki,....j
the history of the atata. nl.l n
concede they have never seen lanyihing
to equal the present orm, which has
. .! ,00r d'yf- AU 'lroad line
out of Cheyenne wer blocked today.
Relief Fund for Winter.
Washington, Oct. 23. The exwntl
committee of the Red Cross has finally
approved the estimates of the Nn
rrancieco relief committee tnr th
tinuance of the relief work in that city
up to July 1 next. Originally placed
at $8,OUO,000, these estimates have
nr!aced b little more than
$700,000. Most of the money is already
in sight, as the San Franciarn nmms.
tee has a balance of $2,382,000. with
unfilled subscriptions subjtct to call of
$900,000. The Red Cross nro net hnl.U
a little over 12. Ann nnn
Idle Negroes to Dig Canal.
Washington, Oct. 23 N. ir Th
on of Chattanooga, Tenn., called at
pJLii . M.tod'J nd invited
-t"" "uneven to attend the Im
migrat on ,d quarantine conference to
be held In Nashville next month IS
rllh' P'lff invitation Mr.
""'"i'""ncaiie.i again tonight. The
r'T"'."111". "owever. deellnad th.
nvitation. because ha mnU . a. .. .:
nna.ikl. 4. . "?" uu
r auena. Mr.
.-.u us suggested to thi
Set Adrift by1 Baldwin-Zeigler Polar
Expedition in 1901.
Buffalo, N. T., Oct. 23. Two buoy
messages, set 'adrift from Fran Josef
land by the Baldwin Zsigler polar ex
pedition in 1901, have been found and
forwarded to Erelvn B. Baldwin, the
founder of the expedition, who is liv
ing in this city. The message were
picked np on July 10, 1906, on Moffet
island, by Captain Slrenerson, of tbe
Arctic whaler Gottfried, and forwarded
to the United States State department.
They were mailed to Mr. Baldwin from
Washington and , delivered to him to
day. The messages ars typewritten on film
paper, and show tbs tff-eta of their
journey in the Arctic sea. The mes
sages were an anneal for coal, the lack
of which forced the expedition to turn
back.
Insane Kept In Filth,
Havana, Oct. 23. Governor Magoon
visited the national asylum this after
noon and discovered a deplorable state
ot affair there. One thousand six
hundred and sixty persons of both sexes
are crowded into filthy and dilapidated
buildings with a capacity for 400 per
sons only. They ars sleeping on brok
en cots, relics of ths last American oc
cupation. Ccngress made an appropri
ation to enlarge tb asylum, but the
money was never emended. The ccn-
ditions today are very little better than
under upanish control.
Shippers May Appeal to interstate
Board Against Railroad.
New York, Oct. 20. There ba for
some time been active complaint by the
New York grain trade at tha railroad
delay in bringing wheat and corn to
thi port.
The comlpaint have besom so gen
eral, says the Journal of Commerce, to
day, that the railroads bav finally de
cided that nntil they ceo secure pos
sesion of equipment they will not re
ceive any more grain. This refusal is
absolute and applies to new as well as
old business.
The grain trade is creat'y excited
over the decision, and a joint meeting
of the Produce Exchange grain commit
tee with the committee on trade and
transportation was held today with the
steamship interests to devise ways and
means, take legal advice, and if neces
sary make formal appeal to the Inter
state Commerce commission against the
action of tbe roads.
Thompson
th. IJI. ' . yiniueni mat
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Alaska Mining Industry.
Washington. (Vt. 23 No romance
is keener than the story of mining In
dastry in Alatka during the last de
cade. It is ta.1 ronahly by the
increase in the value of its annual out
put from $24. Of) nnn In 1895 to more
than $15,000,000 in 1905. Tbe gold
production of 1905 according to reports
of the United Stata. Geological survey
increased by 60 per cent over JHUi.
An important fact in the advancement
of Alaska' mineral Industry during tb
last dtcale, says tbs report, Is the great
reduction in mining companies.
Governor Called To Account.
Mexico City, Oct. 23. A sensation
was caused tod k the announcement
that documents have been presented to
congress accusing Rfel Isabel, gover
nor of the stata flnnora. of being re
sponsible for tha .inl.tion of territorial
fights. The armsation refe" to the
entrance on Mexican tuH ' Arisons
"ngers, alleged to have been In the
governor's convoy at the time of the
Cananea riot. The c' trII), ' tb
document are not a 7' known.
Clemanceau Is Summoned.
Paris, Oct. 23 Ai "r'"5' M
Clemlnceaa, minister of the Interior,
was summoned to th pal to&J nd
Intrusted with the task of forming a
nw ministry. It .ill take him four
day to choos hi mlniitr and anoth
er four or flv day for th nw minis
try to agree on a program 1
Little Chance for Students.
San Francisco, Oct. 20. Tbe Federal
authorities are now investigating a con
cern called the Interstate School, incor
porated, which is Inducing young men
to part with considerable money in the
hope of securing appointment as immi
gration inspectors. C. L. Synder, the
secretary of the Civil Service commis
sion, declared that no examinations for
th office of immigrattion inspector
have been announced by the commis
sion, and there are now 1,379 eligible
on tbe isit snonid any vacancte occur
in the service.
Blaze In Freight Sheds.
Ban Francisco, Oct. 20. Fire broke
ont last night In the freight shed of
tha Southern Paclfio on Berry street,
between Fifth and Sixth, and made
rapid progress on account of tha inflam
mable material in it path. Some
alarm was felt throughout the city on
account of the quickly spreading action
of tbe flames, but th reorganised fire
department proved itself equal to tha
emergency and surrounding property
wa protected. Tb water supply was
ample and In good order. Alongside of
the shads SO freight car war consumed.
Laya Claim to No-Man'a-Land.
Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 20. Attorney
General Herbert 8. Had ley, of Missou
ri, has decided to Institute proceedings
in the United State Snprem court to
establish title to Island Park, in the
Missouri river, between Clay county,
Mo., and Wyandotte county, Kan. Is
land Park comprise nerly a section of
land in the Missouri river. Pritefights
and other lawbreaklng have taken place
without hindrance on the island, it be
ing outside all stat jurisdiction.
McKlnley Memorial Fund.
Canton, O., Oct. 20. Secretary Hart-
cel, of tbe McKlnley National Msmori-
1 association, today gav ont a atata-
ment showing total contribution of
$550,504, to which shonld be added $74.-
061 interest. Of thi anm thsr ha
been expended $178,886.
More Delay for Hermann.
Washington, Oct. 22. Representa
tive Binger Hermann will not be placed
on trial in this cit- on the indictment
charging destruction of 85 official let
terpress copybooks nntil sometime after
the Christmas holidays. No definite
arrangement for the trial has been
made, but the court's docket is now so
filled that it will be impossible to hear
the cae within the next three months.
Since the car was last postponed at the
time Mr. Heney was called to San
Francisco nothing has been beard from
Hermann and his whereabouts are un
known to the court. No anxiety i felt
on this score however.
Quake Wreck Trestle.
Portland, Me., Oct. 22. Two earth
shock la.'t uUbt desttoyed about 100
feet fd a temporary highway structure
which crosses the upper harbor. . The
first shock was felt at 6 o'clock and the
second at 7:07. Both ehoiks were
light, but were distinctly felt by p des
mans. Accompanying the rumbling
was the sound made by the cracking of
the timbers of the temporary structure
It is feared 'hat great damage has been
done to the foundation of the new hiph
way bridge nearby, for which $260,000
was appropriated recently.
4
Combine Packing Houses.
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unicago, ici. m. rtumori tnat an
English holding company 1 being or-
ganned to take over all 'he packing in
terests of the United States flew thick
and fast In Laballe street today. Tbe
capital of the concern is said to be close
to $500,000,000, and J. Ogden Armour
is mentioned as the pracvicatl chief,
While nobody in a position to give th
fact would say anything one way or
the other on tbe subject, certain things
that Lave recently transp'rxi in the
s'reet are railed significant by student
of similar financial proceedings.
Increasing Army and Revenue Under
Two Great Statesmen.
Washington, Oct. 18. Conditions in
China, which were generally supposed
to have improved since the cessation of
tbe boycott on American goods and it
consequent agitation, are really much
worse, and the anti-fore.'gn feeling ia
greater than it ever was. Information
of an absolutely trustworthy character
has raeched Washington to this effect.
Tbe Chinese army, under the guid
ing hand of Yuan Shin Kai, considered
by those who know China to be the
greatest man in the country, is being
increased at a tremendous rate, and tha
government is putting a great deal of
money into its main fighting force.
Yuan Is vicercy of the province of Chi
li, in which Pekin is situated. He has
very great influence and his main poli
cy aeema to be to increase the ariny.
This fact, coupled w ith the show of for
eign hatred, which is becoming mora
and more apparent, makes the situation
serious.
Tank Shao Yi i rapidly becoming
one of the most powerful men in China.
Not only has he an enormous salary as
viceroy, but he is also vice president of
the foreign office and director general
of the railway between Hankow and
fekin, and occupies the stme position
in regard to the railroad from Pekin to
Niu Chwarg.
PLOTTING AGAINST ALLY.
Charge I Made by Russian Writer
Against Japan.
St. Petersburg. Oct. 18. The St.
Petersburg Telegraph Agency Las re
ceived a dispatch from Tokio saying
that the anti-British movement in In
dia la receiving much encouragement
from Japan, where every effort is being
made to foster a feeling of kinship he
tween the two dark races and to preach
the lessons of the Rosso Japanese war.
The Hindoo students now in Tokio,
the correspondent of the agency contin
ues, have just published an address, in
which they appeal to India to heed
the call of "Asia for the Asiatics," and
to rise and cart off the British yoke.
Sub-Treasurer I Short.
St. Louii, Oct. 18 The Republic to
day prints the f dlowing: Three expert
account tnts from the Treasury depart
ment at Washington, working under a
deputy United States treasurer, ccunt-
Ing more than $20,000,000 in the vault
of the United States sub treasury, have
discovered a shortage of $61,200. Unit
ed State Sub-Treasurer Thomae J.
Akin admitted that tbe expert are in
St. Louis, bnt said that no definite
statement would be made by him nntil
tha representative at Washington bad
finished their Investigation.
Black Hundred Attacks Stolypin.
St. Petersburg, Oct. 22. The strain
ed relation between Premier Stolypin
and tna Reactionary league I evi
denced by the publication of the first
attack directly npon the premier. The
Banner, the Black Hundred organ, nnb-
lishe revelations roncerning th nego
nation enterea into a month ago when
tna premier gav certain assurance to
a big delegation from at least 100
branches. The Banner charge th
premier with Laving broken faith.
Roldiera Go In Pursuit.
Sheridan, Wyo., Oct. 22. Ten
troop of th Tenth cavalry left Fort
Robinson, Neb., at noon todav from
Gillette, Wyo., to ronnd np tha band
of marauding Ute Indian from th
Whit Kock gency, Utah. The mm
mending officer is said to have' instruc
tions from the War department to take
tn Indian dead or alive.
Snowstorm lr South Dakota.
Slooi City, Iowa, Oct. 22. Dl
patrhe received at tba Chicago. Mil
waukee A Bt. Panl office In thi city
- . - . V. -. . I. -
aw .un utj enow atorm with
wind prevailed all night on th Rapid
City extension of that road In South
uatota. Tha (now I drifting and
nowplow have been ordered to Cham
berlain and Praaho.
For United Tariff Revision.
Logan sport. Ind.. Oct. 18. Senator
Beveridge spoke here tonight, before a
large audience, making hi first Domi
cal speech in the Indiana campaign.
Tha senator devoted the n,ot of tbe ad
dress to a discussion of the tar'fT. He
made a plea for a limited tariff revis
ion. He said there shonld he rbanirea
in some tariff schedules because the
condition onder which thev ra
made have chaneed and it wonld ba
better not to imperil the whole pro.
tectlve system by putting of! admitted
ly needed change.
Drowned Lika Rata.
Biserta, Oct. 18. Preiaration for
an attempt to raise the n marine boat
Lutin, sunk near thi nort veaterde.
werebegnnat dawn. Although tha
bottom is sandy three miles off the
coat, where the LnMn is supposed to
have sunk, the chances of raising the
Lotlnt o the eurfare in tima to save tha
live of tb crew are reearded a. slim.
Tha officer engaged In the salvage work
with tbe certainty that tha crew of tba
Latin had perished.
Militia Ordered Out.
Columbia. 8. C. Oct. 18 nnvarnn
Heyward ha ordered ont th militia to
prevent a threatened disturbance at th
banging Friday at Conwav of Com.
mandsr Johnon, a whit man of
meas, aorsned of having murdered
Ry. Harmon D, Grainger.