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I ¡WEM s a in NEWBERG GRAPHIC. causes K a n s a s flood . MS PAPERS ARE SIGNED 5 Rising W aters. .— EVENTS OF THE DAY W ook, i M to St. Lonis hat been warned to expect a flood. The house has passed the bill g iy ing Alaska a delegate. The Vladivostok squadron has sunk a small Japanese steamer at Gensan. Kouropatkin is to be made com mander of land and sea forces in the Far East. A dispatch from Port Arthur denies that 20,000 Japanese troops have land ed at Dalny. The foreign military observers as signed to Japan)s first army in Corea have been ordered to leave for the front. The Japanese are landing much ma terial and other supplies and preparing to build bridges m the neighborhood of W iju . The powers are expected to back Russia in declaring the use of wireless telegraphy constitutes espionage. The United States alone is expected to make certain reservations. The tomb of the famous Livingston family, near New York, was broken into and the bodies of several removed, while the bones of others were scat tered over the floor. The house has passed the senate bill providing that when the United States district judge of the district of Oregon is absent or unable to hold court, the circuit judge may hold district court and perform other dutres of the district judge. ■>* The can* has signed an order recall ing Viceroy Alexieff. The Japanese lines on the Yalu river now extend for 30 miles. I Bank robbers at Iola, W is .,. secured $1,200, but overlooked $9,000 in their haste. The Panama canal property has been formally turned. over to the ' United States. An American doctor and eight nurses have arrived in Japan to assist in Red Cross work. *> Fort Scott, Kan., April 27.— Fort 8cott is experiencing the most serious flood in its history. Marmatong river and Mill creek, which runs into tbe former stream here, have risen ten feet in the past 24 hours, the result of heavy rains. 8everal hundreds of per sons have been rescued in boats. A« far as known tonight no lives have been lost. Tbe estimated loss in livestock drowned and property damaged is $ 100 , 000 . The two streams began to rise at 10 o ’clock last night and today the city was divided into three sections and al most completely isolated. Normally Mill creek runs into the Marmatong liver, northeast of the city, but because of the rapid rise thejr formed a new channel which cut across one end of the city. Tonight thè entire northern part of the city is cut off, and part of tbe city is inundated. Ten feet of water is rushing through the streets in that part of the city and several hundred persons in what is known as Belltown have been forced to leave their homes. Many were taken away in boats. There were several narrow escapes from drowning. Late today an aged couple named Lemore, living north of tbe city near the river, were rescued in boats. They were completely hemmed in.1 Rescuers were out all day under the direction of Fire Chief Ausman, Mayor Congdon and Chief of Police Mendenhall, and they succeeded in sav ing thousands of dollars’ worth of prop erty as well as the hundreds of inhabi tants of that district. Many who refused to leave Belltown will still have to be taken away in boats, as all avenues of escape have now been cut off. The gas works is three feet under water and has closed down. Tbe en gine and pumps at the water station are 20 feet under water. The South western Wholesale Grocery company’s warehouse is flooded and the water has reached the office. The wholesale dis trict is completely surrounded and mer chants are removing their stocks of goods. All the railroads are tied up, bridges being threatened and tracks covered. Washouts are reported in all direc tions. In the low farming land the water is from five to ten feet deep and much stock has been drowned and heavy damage to property caused. It - . is estimated that 300 persons are hom e« less. SOLDIER KILLED IN WRBCK. Alaska Indian children will be W est Boned Santa N Train • With a Light Baglas. brought to the Chemawa, Oregon, school or education. - , L or Angeles, Cal., April 2 7 > -A w e e t bound special train carrying several Kouropatkin has forbid his generals carloads of soldiers bound for tbe pre to engage in any battles and even sidio. San Francisco, was wrecked at, ' poses small skirmishes. — • ■ Hartoum Station, tbe first station west Rumors of fighting on the Yalu, in of Needles, Cal, on the Santa Fe rail which the Japanese lost heavily con road. On« Soldier, James M. Bowen, tinue to come from Port Arthur. was killed and about a dozen injured. ; George A. Hammond, consulting en . According to the meagre information gineer, has been ordered to Eastern obtainable in this city tonight the Oregon to assist in tba examination of wteck occurred sometime during Hie afternoon Sunday and was caused by .the Malheur irrigation proposition. the colliding of a light engine east- The Indian agent at Colville, Wash., bound with the troop train. The en and the bonded superintendent at Net gine had helped a train over a heavy Perces, Idaho, reservation hjve been grade just west of Needles, and was re let out on account at indiscreet actions. turning to that point, presumably with Neidermeir, Marx and Vandhie, the out the knowledge of the special troop Chicago carbarn bandits, have paid the train. penalty of thehr crimes. . . TITLE TO PANAMA CANAL NOW RESTS WITH UNITED STATES. Ratify the Act el President and DL " rector of Company—Title la Perfect— U. S. First to Hear Naurs. * The cost of the war to Russia, up to April 6, is placed at $46,250,000. -> , s. ALL RBTIRB AT SBVBNTY YBARS. St. Teterbsurg is in receipt of a re port that Niu Chwang is being bom barded. Colorado militiamen clubbed the sec retary of tbe Miners’ Federation for de fying their chief. Hoase Committee tbe ( M Service. Washington, April 23.— The bouse committee on reform in th eciv il service authoriezd Chairman Gillett to intro* duce a bill providing that on June 30, 1907, every office in the classified serv ice of the United States held by is -per son jrbo is then over 70 years old, shall become vacant, and that thereafter each offices ehsll become vacant when the incumbent become* 70 years old. The Committee directed Mr. Gillett to report all pending bills granting pensions to civil employes of the gov ernment to the house, with the recom mendation that they lie on the table; also that the draft a bill reclassifying the clerical servioe of the govertunent, with f view to providing for more fre quent promotions in the smaller sal aried positions. Alaskan Fishing gnason Extended. Washington, April 25.— The secre tary of commerce signed an order today rescinding the regulation which limits the duration of the salmon fishing sea son in Southeastern Alaska. Under the former regulation,' eannerymen were prohibited from taking salmon until July 1, but the order issued today removes this restriction * entirely and no date is fixed. The repeal of tbe old regulation was demanded _ by the can- nerymen’s association, * and was also recommended by the Jordan com mission. Improvements at Paget Sound Yards. Washington, April 27.— Bids hsve been opened st the navy department for a steel storage betiding at the Puget sound navy yard, the lowest bidder be ing tbe 8t. Paul Foundry company, $30,736, and for a boatshop at the Puget sound yard, the loweet bidder being T. Ryan, Seattle, $165.000. * 1 ..........."■■■' ' » Spies la France are Trying to Plans of Russians. m Learn 8t. Petersburg, April 26.— The Buski Slavo prints a letter from an dfficial in the French secret service which reports the presence- e f - nemerous Japanese spies in France, well provided with money. They shadow Russians and watch the shipyards. Especially do they endeavor to ascertain the exact date of the departure of the Baltio fleet and the points en route at which it will coal. The Novesti states that the Russians should feel gratified at the strktegical achievement o f 't h e naval squadron, which imposed caution upon the Jap anese operations and gave Russia time to throw a prepondering military force into Manchuria. ' The most favorable time, the Novosti continues, for Japan ese military operations has passed. A letter written by Colonel Apsgeff, an officer of marines on the Petropavlo- vsk, who was drowned, describes the routine upon the battleship.' We rise, he wrote, at 6 o ’clock, learn tbe news of the night and drink tea. A t 8 o’clock we attend colors and then read the papers in hope of obtaining infor mation of the intentions.of the enemy Afterwards we go to a meeting at head quarters and discuss questions of de fense. Lunch comes st 1 o’clock. Af terwards we visit the city or transact our own affairs. Dinner at 6 o’clock, when rnmors of all kinds circulate. If reports of the appearance of tbe enemy are persistent, the letter states, the torpedo boats are sent out, and upon these craft falls the hardest ser vice, of the war. When Grand Duke Cyril arrived at Port Arthur, he was given command of a torpedo boat. The ships in the harbor, it is stated, were connected with the others and with the shore by telephone. Paris, A p r il 25.— The Associated Press is authorised to announce that the contract by which- the Panama canal passes to the United States is signed and sealed. The title to the canal is now vested in the United States. The document by which this transaction is conaumated bears the signatufbs of President Bo and Director Richman, o f the Panama eanal com pany, who signed for the company as its responsible officers. The transfer is complete and without reservation, and the United States secures a perfect title. i *'•’ * This result has been 'quietly accom plished, and unexpectedly, as the public bas been given’ to understand that the contract would not be executed until after the meeting of the stockholders of the Panama canal company tomorrow, at which* the question of ratification would be presented. As a matter of fact, however, when the meeting tafces place President Bo. will announce that the sale has been completed, and, in stead of asking for authority to execute a contract, it w ill only remain to ratify the contract of sale which the officers of the company have formally com pleted. Only a few of the highest offi cers of the company are now aware of the secret, which will not be known except by this' announcement in the United 8tates up to the time of the NOT TO WATBR meeting. It is confidently believed that the Nation Finds Crook County Field Taken completion at the sale before this meet by Private Concerns. ing will increase the vote for ratifica Washington, April 26.— The secre tion. tary of the interior bas received a pe tition from 300 members of the Farm RUSSIA ISSUBS PAPBR MONEY. ers’ co-operative irrigation association of Oregon asking that a thorough inves Finance Minister Says It Is Not Forced, tigation be made by tbe reclamation and No Loan la Dcsiryd. service to determine the irrigation pos St. Petersburg, April 25.— Russia has sibilities of Crook county. The pe made a new issue of $15,000.000 in tition has the indorsement of Senator paper currency against free gold in the Mitchell. x 8tato bank. Aft the ministry of finance It happens that representatives of it was explained that it was an ordin- the reclamation service have' made ex ary issue, and in no sense was forced, Uo<l6r Uw paper is issuable to dou- tensive investigations in Crook county,' and reached the conclusion that there ble the amount of gold up to $150,000, is no present opportunity for the gov 000 gold, in excess of which paper is ernment to enter this field. There are sued must be covered rouble for rouble. several attractive irrigation projects In the State bask «here are, in round along the Deschutes river, but all of figures, $400,000,000 in gold, which theee are now covered by segregations would permit of an Issue of $550,000,- made by the state of Oregon under the 000 ini paper, but tbe paper issue at Carey act, and the government does not present only amounts to $350,000,000. desire to interfere with the plana of / A ll sorts of figures of the cost of the private companies. war are printed abroad. The corres The only other water available for pondent o f the Assoeiated Press is au irrigation in Crook county is the thoritatively informed that tbe daily Crooked river, and the sommer flow expenses are averaging $760,000, and it of this stream is now fully utilized. is estimated that a year’ s expenditure As it would be very expensive to divert fo* the war will total $250,000,000. water of the Déachutea across thé To meet this there existed a free bal Crook river valley unto- the distant ance of $50,000,000 by reductions in arable lands, the government. l)as de the ordinary budgets, leaving ostensibly cided it can do nothing in Crook county $136,000,000. But a portion of the unless private enterprises under the latter is made up i y the increased earn Carey act are abandoned. - ings of the railroad* owned by the gov ernment. It being in reality a ques SPECIAL STAMP FOR ’05 FAIR. tion of bookkeeping, how the balance is to be raised has not* yet been determ- Festal la * r 4 v :, • : : thorite the I m im Soon. Carnival at Portland. Russia may not send her Baltic fleet Tile Federated Trades Council, repre to the Far East, as it would leave her senting 76 labor unions, and the Lewis European ports unguarded. and Clark Farternal Building associa A Port Arthur report says an entire tion, comprising 84 fraternal societies, Japanese column was destroyed on the have arranged to hold a mardi gras and Yalu river. No confirmation is obtain carnival in Portland June 28 to July able. 12 inclusive. It is intended to make this ¿flair the largest 'and most com It is reported that two Japanese, dis- ' gained as beggars, attempted to assassi plete ever attempted on the Pacific A spectacle employing 800 nate General Kouropatkin wbils he coast. people w ilfb e one of the chief attrac was in Niu Chwang recently. tions of the amusement features, as well Russian troops en route to the Far as a circus, baloon ascensions, etc. East have been denied liquor as there The management has promised that the is a determinatoin on the part of offi entire two weeks will be full of special cers that the army shall conduct itself ties and one cannot go once and see it all. There will be a monster Fourth well. of July parade, also ah illuminated pa The Hansbrough bill recently passed rade on the night of July 2. Reduced by the senate repealing the timber and rates have been secured on all transpor stone act, find authorising the sale of tation lines running into Portland. government timber to th e highest bid der, bas been practically killed in the Irrigation Investi ration house public lands committee. Washington, April 27.— District Many floating mines have been seen Engineer T. A. Noble, of the reclama off the Shan Tung promontory in the tion service, -at Spokane, Wash, has path followed by vessels bound to and been instituted to proceed to make the from Shanghai and Che Foo and Tien necessary investigations at the earliest Tsin. This is extremely dangerous to possible date concerning the develop shipping and probably w ill cause an ment of the Yakima valley, to ascertain whether the opportunities for irrigation increase in marine insurance. - % works there are of such a character as Twenty Russians engaged in planting to warrant the beginning of a large mines in the entrance to Port Arthur government work in this city. The in were killed by an accidental explosion. vestigation .will be for the purpose The senate has passed the pension largely of securing a better knowledge of the physical conditions of this region. and the river and harbor bills. LOSS IS MILLIONS SHADOWED BY JAPANESE. Protect* Water Sappty o Washington, April 26.— At the sug gestion of Senator Mitchell, the «post- office department has taken np the mat ter of preparing a special issue of post age stamps tc commemorate the Lewis and Clark centennial. The department can issue such stamps without special authority of congress, and in view of the department’s attitude on the ce- casion of other expositions, it is expect ed that the postmaster general will soon authorize a special Lewis and Clark issue. Senator Mitchell bas also requested the department to supply tbe Portland postoffice with a special cancelling stamp bearing some such words as ’ 'Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposi tion, 1905, Portland, Oregon,” or "W orld ’s Fair, Portland, Oregon, 1906.” This suggestion has been taken under advisement. Senator Mitchell believes She stamp issue and the special cancel lation stamps w ill be su excellent means of advertising the exposition. WUI Osr Beats Ordered by Oerasaay. New York, April 26.— Some sensa tion bas been caused in Berlin, says a Herald dispatch, by a rumor to the effect that Germany has ceded to Rus sia certain torpedo boats building in private yards, which are on the point of completion. Eight of these, which are being built by the Schichan yards, are the largest torpedo boats as yet constructed in Germany, being 560 tons, with an average speed of 28. In order to prevent a breach of neutrality it would be necessary that the German government annul its contract. Washington, April 25.— Protection Japeaese Laud Near Part Art bar. to the water supply of the city of Port 8t. Petersburg, April 26.— A report land was provided by the bouse today when it passed a bill prohibiting tres is current here that tbe Japanese have passing on the Bull Run forest reserve landed 20,000 troops st Kin Chan, above Port Arthur. This report, how- The maximum penalty for *er, cannot be confirmed tonight. was reduced to $500. LARQB BUSINESS PORTION RONTO DESTROYED OP TO BY FIRE. Placed aft $12,000,000 W ith $8,300,000 laseraace—City Acts for Saffwers—All Public Buildings are Placed at Their Disposal--Broctloa of Toaiporary Structaras Permitted. Toronto, Ont.. April 22.— The total loss by the fire which destroyed the wholesale district of Toronto last night w ill, according to the most conserva tive estimate, reach $12,000,000, the total insurance $8,360,000. The area swept by the fire embraces 14 acres, and 9,000 ^to 10.000 persons are thrown ont of employment. The work of tearing down the dangerous walls was continued until this after noon. The city council this afternoon placed all public buildings and the exhibition grounds at the disposal, of the fire sufferers, amended the fire regulations to allow the erection of temporary structures, and appointed a committee to wait on tbe legislature and secure an act ordering all wires under ground. The principal warehouses of the city were reduced to ashes and nearly 260 films were put out of business. The area covered by the fire is three blocks in length and varies Irom half a block to two blocks in width. Every build ing cm Bqy street, from Melinda street southward to the waterfront, was wiped out and the fire spread on Wellington and Front streets, along the waterfront from this section and the Eeplamade along the waterfront from this section with Bay street for a boundary for a* few hundred feet to a whole block. From the time the fire started on the north side of Wellington street, a short distance east of Bay street, in the E. &. 8. Currie .manufacturing plant, till it burned itself ont at daybreak, there was not a moment when a shift of the wind te the northward would not have resulted in the destruction of the great er pait of the city. At a meeting of the Toronto legisla ture tonight, the premier and. the leader of the opposition expressed sympathy with the fire sufferers, and it was decided to place a sum of money in the Supplementaly estimates: for the benefit of the firemen’s fund. It is probable that the prorogation o f the legislature, w ill be indefinitely de layed because of the fire. The burning of the Warwick brothers *and Ratter building delays the government print ing for th isyee* Tbe total number of bnildings des troyed iq 122; the number o f, fiime affected is 222. - >*v IRRIGATION WORKS FOR IDAHO.. Decides to Take la tbe Pay ette Valley Prefect. Washington, April 22.— The govern ment h%s finally decided to take up the Payette irrigation. project, in Idaho» which contemplates tjie reclamation o f 140,000 acres of land in Boise and Pay ette valleys, by diverting the waters o f Boise river. Examinations of this pro ject have been under way for several years, and the department is now con vinced the project is leasable and can be carried ont at a reasonable cost. * During the coming summer, final surveys w ill be . made for. canals and other works, and it is expected: that contracts'for the construction can be prepared and let by the end of the season. *. The board of consulting engineers w ill consist of ^ H. N. Bavdge, J. H . Quinton and W . H . Sanders which will soon examine the Umatilla and Mal heur irrigation projects in Eastern Ore gon to determine which of the two ia the better adapted for government con struction. The report of this board ia likely to lead to'tbe formal adoption of one or the other of these projects. Blizzard Rages la St, Louis. St. Lonis, April 22.— A severe storm raged here .today, at trmes assuming the proportions of a blizzard. The storm began with a sleet storm, fol lowed by a fall of 20 degrees of tem peratine. Following there was a know- fall of five inches. Street traffic was impeded and trains were late. The snow prevented the games between the 8t. Lonis and Chicago national league teams, and 8t. Louis and Cleveland American league teams, scheduled for today. Five to seven inches of snow fell within radios of 150 miles of 8t. Lonis» a Ost # 5 0 ,0 0 0 . Tiflis, April 22.— A train on the Trana-Caucasian railway was held np between Novoeenakai and A bas ha by four armed men, who entered the mail car and, after binding the officials, escaped with registered letters' and val uables worth $60,090.
