Image provided by: Newberg Public Library; Newberg, OR
About Newberg graphic. (Newberg, Or.) 1888-1993 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1904)
PROTECT TIM BER Forth by Managers Leals Exposition. EVENTS OF THE DAY Review o f the In p ort- Past W eek, of Form, M ost la IJksfy to Prove Interesting. Coates Kinney, the author and poet, is dead. Secretary Root is prepared to turn over his office to General Taft. Japan and Russia are growing bitter and regard each other with suspicion. Mayor Carter Harrison, with seven others has been held for the Chicago theater Are. The house has passed the army ap propriation bill, carrying approximate ly $75,000,000. Major Hoyt Sherman, brother of General W . T. Sherman and of Secre tary John Sherman, is dead. The Middle West is suffering from severe cold snap. The temperature is far below zero at many points. Representative Hermann says it is false economy not to pass a river and harbor bill at the present session. Roosevelt has decided to ignore the charges against H. Smith Woolley and has reappointed him assayer at Boise. Secretary Root is strongly opposed to the proposed law that all Philippine freight be carried on American vessels. He says it will place the country at the mercy of ship owners. It is reported that Po^e Pius intends to retire in a short time. Japan proposes to make a military demonstration in Corea. Russian military activity at Black sea ports is greater than ever before. Although war rumors are very num erous, the trend of affairs makes more for peace. St. Louis, Jan. 37.—The Louaiaina Purchase exposition com ready and is waiting for the full and generaWinstallation of exhibits. The point has been reached where the man agement of the exposition is no longer occupied with the rapid advancement toward completion of the buildings, but instead, - it now lays particular stress upon the importance of the speedy shipments of exhibits, especial ly those assembled by domestic exhibit- o ^ Officials of the exposition make the statement to the Associated Press that the one thing of paramount importance to insure the anticipated successful and auspicous opening of the fair is the im mediate commencement by domestic exhibitors to ship cars as rapidly as can be had. Owing to the unprecedented partici pation by both foreign and domestic ex hibitors* vast amounts of exhibits have been and are now in course of arrange ment and collection. The time for the opening of the exposition is rapidly ap preaching, but apparently the know ledge of the fact is not causing the shipment of exhibits to be rushed for ward with the promptness and dispatch that is absolutely rteceseary to secure rapid delivery of the cars to the fair site, and to avoid possible congestion in the handling of the cars after they have reached 8t. Louis. , The fair management has devoted more than ordinary attention to prep aration for the handling of cars and the arrangements are now completed. Ad equate railroad facilities are ready, the warehouses have all been erected and all the buildings are in such a state of completion that installation of exhibits can be commenced immediately. What the management now most ardently desires is the prompt ship ment of exhibits from the different parts of the country to begin immedi ately. Otherwise, if there be delay, congestion in traffic handling after 8t. Louis is reached is almost an assured condition. NOI THAT KIND OF POWER. Seventeen men, including the man Corea Joining W ith Japan Would Not Drag France la. agers, will be indicted for the Chicago theater tragedy. Paris, Jan. 27.— The attitude of Corea in the event of war between Thefl ood danger is over at Pittsburg and the general Eastern situation is Russia and Japan has been the subject of much comment among the diplo much improved. mats here, as it is believed Corea’s giv A noted diamond thief, suspected of ing aid to Japan might constitute two a San Francisco offense, has been cap powers attacking Russia, thus bringing tured in Minneapolis with $12,000 in in France, under the terms of the diamonds. Fianco Russian agreement. One of the ambassadors, therefore, asked For 1 General'Taft has reached the United States and w ill assume the duties of eign Minister Delcasse what the result secretary of war as soon as he-arrives at would be if Corea joined Japan and the answer is in substance that Corea is Washington. not considered to be that kind of a sov ® Senator Burton, of Kansas has been ereign independent power, whose assist indicted for bribery in connection with ance to Japan against Russia would St. Louis grain concern, placed under a bring about the contingency contemp ban by the postal department. lated by the Franco-Russian agree The accidental death of a Corean hit ment. Although the answer was con by an American electric car in Seoul fined to Corea, it is understood that a started a serious riot, which was quick similar view prevails, thereby confirm ly quelled by the American legation ing previous reports on the same sub- ject that China’ s joining Japan would guard. Japan has landed troops at Masam- not constitute/ two powers attacking Russia. . ,_______ r • pho,*Corea. Henry Waiteraon says Brayn is a tool in the hands of Republicans. Coreans are attacking Japanese in many sections and serious trouble is feared. Russia is reported to be growing nervous over the continued delay in negotiatoins. The house committee has decided that there will be no river and harbor bill this session. Fulton s bill protecting the Colum bia against misbranded salmon has been reported feet the senate. Pleasant Armstrong was hanged at Baker City last Friday morning for the murder of Minnie Ensminger. — .. A thaw in the East is causing great floods and many cities are greatly alarmed, particularly Pittsburg. The senate has passed the Gorman resolution calling on Roosevelt for pa pers relating to the Panama aaffir. The United States has sounded both Japan and Russia and finds that neither cares for the good offices of any outside power to bring them together. Ice'blocks many Eastern streams and floods are feared. A Canadian multimillionaire will build a yacht to compete for the America’ s cup. Senator Hanna is confined to his bed with a severe clod. His doctor says he must have rest. Fire at the Greensboro, N. C., state normal college destroyed $100,000 worth of property. The internal revenue receipts for December show a decrease of $166,061 over the preceding month. AMERICA NOT FRKMTBNED. It Expects No Trouble Over Sensing Con suls to Manchuria. Washington, Jan. 27.— Count Cas sini, the Russian ambassador, had a long talk today with Mr. Loomis, act ing secretary of state, on the Far East ern situation. The ambassador’ s ad vices gave some hope of peace, though the phase of the question which re ceived most attention was the uncon tradicted statements which have ap peared in certain newspapers regard ing the attitude of this government. The Russian government, of course, could not presume to question the pre vious assurances received from this country regarding its neutrality because of any newspaper publication, but the recurrence of these statements has proved annoying. There is no anticipation on the part of this government of any hitch in the reception of our consuls in Manchuria. The evidence of approval of the com mercial treaty which Russia has given convinces the state department that the consuls w ill receive every courtesy. la Chicago Skyscraper ‘ - Stick to tbeir Posts. THIRTY-SEVEN FATALITIES IN ALABAMA TORNADO. AN Came la the Night When People W ere la Bed—Oae Hundred People are In lured—Articles are Scattered Over i Distance el Tea Miles—T^s Is Ho wed Down. Chicago, Jan. 26.— Fire in the 20- story Masonic temple caused a panic among the 4,000 occupants of Jlhe build ing, and damaged the stock and fixtures of tenant^ to the extent of $80,000. All occupants of the b u llin g escaped without serious injury through the bravery of the elevator men, who re mained at their posts operating their cars while dense clouds of smoke filled the building. The fire broke out in the suite of five rooms on the fifth floor occupied by Robert Friedlander A Co., manufactur era of X-ray apparatus. A lighted match, carelessly thrown by an em ploye into a pile of excelsior in the packing room is believed to have start ed the fire. There was a large number of X-ray vacum tubes stored in the company’s rooms, and these exploded the moment the heat reached them; The thousands of occupants of the building, with the memory of the Iro quois theater holocaust, which oc curred but one-half block away, fresh in their minds, were alarmed when clouds of smoke filled every floor and rushed to the elevators. Many women fainted in the scramble to get into the elevate re, but none was seriously in jured. The large building was emptied within half an hour after the fire was discovered.' Hundreds of men and women groped their way through the smoke and came down the stairs. That the damage to property and in dividuals was not greater was probably due largely to the efficiency of the fire drill of the employes. When the great fire bell at the top of the rotunde sounded the alarm of fire, every jani tor, engineer and fireman in the build ing responded and long before the fire department bad reached the scene the temple fire brigade had attached hose to the stand pipes which extend from the basement to the roof of the struc ture and eight streams of water were turned upon the conflagration by the volunteer firemen. The fire depart ment used but little of its hose, the building’s equipment being called into use. Tuscaloosa, Ala., Jan. 25.— A diaas trous tornado* swept over Moundvilla, Ala., a town of 300 inhabitants, lfi miles south of Tuscaloosa, early today, and as a result 87 persons were killed, and more than 100 injured. Every business house, with the ecxeption of a small store, was completely destroyed. The tornado struck the city from the southwest, and mowed a path a quarter of a mile wide through the town. Surgeons were rushed to Moundville from Greensboro and Tuscaloosa, and all possible was done to alleviate the sufferings of the injured. By the force of the Storm persons were blown him dreds of feet from their beds in the blackness of the night. Through ter ror, a father, mother and three chil- dren fled from their home to seek ref uge, and in their excitement left a 5- year-old boy in bed. Today he was pulled from beneath some timber, and thus far it is impossible to find any other member of the family. Bedding, carpets and wearing* ap parel are scattered over a distance of ten miles through what was a forest, but vyhich is now as clear as if cut by the woodman’s ax. Freight cars were torn to splinters, the trucks from them being hurled hundreds of feet from the track. The depot, the hotel, warehouses, gins, 30 homes, seven storehouses, together with their stocks, were completely des troyed. Where they stood it is impos sible to find, even the pillars upon which these structures rested. Bales of cotton which were stored in warehouses were torn to atoms, the fragments of lint lodging in trees, mak ing it appear as though that section had been visited by a snow storm Heavy iron safes, the doors of whioh in some instances were torn from their WORK CAN QO ON. hinges, were carried away by the force of the wind. The Dalles Canal W ill Not Be Delayed r* for Lack of Ponds. IS ABLLB TO FIRBPROOF WOOD. A Chicago Chemist Makes Use of Sul phate of Alluninola. Chicago, Jan. 25.— Joseph L. Fer rell. of Philadelphia, threw handfulls of exoelsior on a hot gas lire in the rooms of the Western Society of Engi neers last night in demonstrating a theory. It smoked, but did not blaze Mr. Ferrell, who is a chemist, had been asked to address the engineers on the subject of fireproofing wood and combustible fabrics. He told them it could *be done cheaply, and then he made the practical demonstration des- Li l u c u . M t i i i i l p n i K i n n t t t n î u a l I m ft ln T * III ~ u u r m » i i i s l i l i u 1 i n » ‘ « l 1 l » l ^ r composition Mr. Ferrell had used to fireproof the wood and cotton. His plan is to saturate the material under pressure. From a commercial viewpoint Mr. Ferrell said there was nothing in the way of making any theater safe from spreading flames. W hile Bulphate of amonia, which has been used, is ex pensive,*' sulphate of aluminum is cheap, costing 75 cents a hundred weight, and the expense of using it is comparativley small. TO LBT PANAMA QO ITS WAY. War Feeling In Colombia Is Dying Out Very Fast. New York, Jan. 25.— Mail advices re ceived from Bogota indicate, according to a Herald dispatch from Panama, that the war feeling in Colombia is dy ing out, and there is a general desire to allow Panama secession to pass with out a disastrous war. Heretofore tho newspapers of the capital have been filled with patriotic declarations that it would be necessary to have a war to reclaim the lost terri tory. Now all uge^reconciliation or anything to avoid further serious com plications. John B. Perezzote, who has been agitating war with the United States by speeches and writings, is re Destruction of the Cotton-Boll W eevil. ported to have been placed under ar Washington, Jan. 27.—The secretary rest. of agriculture has aproved the plans for the cotton boll weevil investigation in Fire Drives Families Oat. the Southwest, for which an appropri Chicago, Jan. 25.— The plant of the ation of $250,000 has been available. Secretary Wilson believes that the best Pittsburg plate glass company, 442-452 methods for meeting the ravages cab sed Wabash avenue, was destroyed by fire by the boll weevil will be put into tonight and from this building the actual practice the facts which have flames were communicated to the seven- been accumulated by the department story factory and apartment building of during the past two years in the matter the Buckler medical company, just east of improving culture conditions, the of the building of the glass company. planting of early maturing varieties of A number of families who lived in the cotton, substitution of other crops, etc. Bucklen building were compelled to make hasty exits, but all escaped un harmed. The Bucklen building was Destructive Fire la New York. New York, Jan. 27.— The buildings badly burned on the west end, but not at 544-548 Broadway, occupied by destroyed. Loss, $800,000, A gas explosion followed by fire in a Marion, Ind., hotel, wrecked the build ing and caused the death of three per Morimura Bros., Japanese goods; E. sons. $200,000 Plre la Factory. R. Donar A Co., hats, and Cranford A New York, Jan. 25.— Fire in the up A torando which struck Austin, Tex Quigley, Rossenware Bros., and Finkle- per floors of the six-story factory of the steln A Maaget, clothing, was destroyed as, caused several thousand dollars’ E. W. Bliss company, in Plymouth by fire early today. Estimated lose, loss by unroofing houses. No one was street, today did $200,000 damage. $250,000. hurt. Washington, Jan. 26. — Senators Mitchell and Fulton have made a thor ough investigation of the status of Ore gon improvements, in view of no river and harbor bill at this session. They found that only one project can be taken care of in the ordinary way— in the sundry civil appropriation bill— and. that is the canajj nd locks at The Dalles. The senators were advised by the chief of engineers that there was on hand January 1 an unexpended bal ance of $1,200,000 for the bar at the mouth of the Columbia river. The amount for the river between. Portland and the sea was less than $100,000. For this project Major Langfitt recom mended $1,200,000, but the war depart ment cut the amount down t<^$500,000, believing that no more than that amount could be utilized in one year. It was stated by the chief of engineers that the half million, if it could be ob tained this year by any means, would be sufficient until a river and harbor bill could be passed early in the ses sion, perhaps before the holiday recess. The engineers recommended, and the war department concurred in the rec ommendation for the... appropriation of $500,000. ' In addition, $125,000 is favored for 'dredging. It is deemed very important, the senators say, that this appropriation should be made, but under ths existing conditions it cannot go in the regular sundry civil bill, in nhe regular course. All of the Oregon improvements, except The Dalles, are affected, and it is-, doubtful whether anything can be done before January of next year. It is the intention of the delegation to make the very best fight possible to get the necessary funds for carrying on the Oregon improvements. Russian Troops Expect W ar. Victoria, B. C., Jan. 26.— Four Ital ians, who have been working on the Manchurian railway, who arrived by the Victoria from Yokohama today, re port the Russian soldiers all expectant of speedy war with Japan, have been passing through there and large detach ments of artillery have been arriving. Great camps of soldiers are being made at many points ready for concentration on the Yalu frontier when necessary. Fortifications were being hurriedly erected in many places in Man churia. (treat Radiant Discovery. Austin, Tex., Jan. 26.— What is said *> be the richest radinm bearing earth n the world has been discovered in the Llano gold and coal fields, 115 miles north of this city. Rumors of the dis covery of the earth bearing a large per cent of radinm in the Llano have been tersistent for some time, and today them rumors were verified by the re turn of a party of scientists who had visited the mine to investigate the re ports. ^ y Li St jjJ H u sd L SH P » NEW LAW A0REED UPON BY HOUSE PUBLIC LAND COMMITTEE. Railroads Are Likely to «offer—Much Their Holding* within Forest serves Is Devoid of Timber, aad Un der the Mondell BUI Exchange W in Be on Bqual Basis. Washington, Jap. 22.—The house public lands committee today author ized Representative Mondell to report favorably his bill providing that pub lic lands chiefly valuable for tim ber shall pot be subject to location or selec tion in lieu of tracts relinquished with in forest reserves, and that selections made or sought to be -made on lands chiefly valuable for the timber they contain, in lieu of lands within forest reserves, shall be void and of no effect. Mondell’s bill has the approval o f the interior department, which in its report to the public lands committee upon it, said that the area of forest re serve lands now actually created exceed 63,000,000 acres, with the addition of the large temporary withdrawals for future incorporation in reserves, and called attention to the fact that under the present law all private holdings within reserves may be made the basis for securing like areas of lands ontside of reserves. The pendency and prac tice is to appropriate timbered lands in lieu o f those surrendered, whether the latter are timbered or denuded, and the experience of the general land office shows that great areas of valuable tim ber lands have been acquired in ex change for lands included in reserves, and from which the timber has been stripped. At the present time various railroads with land grants embraced in forest re serves have 2,500,000 acres of land available as basis for making lieu land selections. Much of this Iknd is de void of timber, but under the present laws it may be exchanged for valuable timber lands. Advantage has been taken of the present law relating to- lien selections, and great areas o f worthless land turned over to the gov ernment in exchange for lands contain ing valuable timber. It is expected the Mondell bill will prevent the con tinuation of these abuses. FOR ANNEXATION OF PANAMA. Morgan’s BUI Also of Washington, Jan. 22.— Senator Mor gan today introduced a bill providing for the annexation of Panama to the- United States, “ the rights and proper ty of Panama resting in the United States without reserve." The bill appropriates $10,000,000 as compensation to Panama for its conces sion; places $10,000,000 at the disposal of the president for the. compensation of Colombia and appropriates $60,000,- 000 for the purchase of the property o f the new Panama Canal company in Colombia, including the Panama canal. It is especially provided that the pro visions of the bill shall not have the effect of repealing the Spooner act. Mr. Morgan gave notice that he would submit some remarks on the bill tomorrow. A preamble to the bill sets forth that, many nations have recog nized the secession of Panama, and the independence of that republic is an ac complished fact. The bill asserts that the president of the United States ap proved and protected the secession with the naval forces of the United States, and the president and the senate recog nized the independence of the new re public by appointing and accrediting a minister to that republic. After providing for the construction o f $he Panama canal by the United States, the bill declares that all the rights and properties of the republic of Panama of every description shall vest in the United States of America with out reserve and shall be subject to its sovereign jurisdiction. Morgan also introduced a concurrent resolution'‘d irecting the president to enter into negotiations with the govern ment of Nicaragua and Costa Rico for the Construction of a canal via the Nic araguan route. President and Leader Confer. Washington, Jan. 22.— President Roosevelt and Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island, the Republican floor leader of the senate, had a long confer ence today. It is known that the stat us of the Panama canal treaty was un der consideration. The president is taking occasion to discuss the matter with the Republican senators with a view to an early ratiflation of the treaty if possible. It is understood.he talked on the subject with 8enatcir Hanna, chairman of the interoceanic canal committee. Trouble Feared at Seoul. Seoul, Jan. 22.— The emperor of Co rea has ordered that 700 revolvers and clubs be distributed to the “ peddlars," who are nominally secret police and a dangerous element. Many Coreans aie leaving Seoul, fearing trouble. f jjJ i ' * “ '*'*'* ■ - .UP»., fti.x I > s ; O n v n . i K u in m ■ ‘ Si :
