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■y» NEWBERG GRAPHIC DEWEY N A Y BE SENT. United Stales Government Has Not Been OfflcteNy Informed« B. n. woooward . v vW V V fvv •vi m m N $H OREGON NEWS 0E INTEREST PREPARE TO DISMANTLE PAIR. St. Louis Officials WIN Begin Word Wednesday at Midnight. MUST ATTACK St. Loaia, Nov. 29.— Promptly at Japanese Officials Insist Port Arthur Be Taken. . midnight next Wednesday, a force of BETTER THAN WHEAT. 76 men employed by the General NEW WING rOR ASYLUM. Service company of the Louisiana Par RUSSIA READY rOR BAD NEWS Eastern Oregon Tanner Raises 40 Recommendations to be Made to ham exposition, w ill shunt 200 freight A cres ot Potatoes. I Review of Important Happen- Oregon Legislature. can, loaded with empty packing cases, Certain That Stocsscl Will Make the I la a B fk t and Pendleton — John Ferguson, who 8alam— Governor Chamberlain, Sec into the several exhibit palaces, and Assault One o f the Costliest raised a crop of potatoes on his land retary of Stats Dunbar and Stats Treas th a w o ik o f dismantling tha W orld’s in W orld’s History. adjoining tha city limits on the sooth urer Moore visited tba (gate insane fair w ill begin. The c a r baa decorated AHexieif with aide of Pendleton, has drawn tbs con asylum a few days ago to investigate Piled at different parts of the expo Washington. Nov. 28. — The Associ the order of St. Geor«e, third degree. elation that potato raising ia much the need ol an addition to accomodate sition grounds are I $600 carloads of ated Press learns on excellent authority * The American Federation of Labor more profitable than raising wheat. tbs rapidly increasing number of pa-1 em^ty packing cases wbile outside the that the Japaneee army has received h u re-elected Samuel Goal per a as pree- On 40 acres of land Mr. Feignson tienta. That more room w ill be need grounds are others, aggregating 100 ordere to renew ite attack on Port A r ident. / ^ thur and to taka the main fortifications this asaaon niasd 40 sacks to the aa ed ia certain and-the only question be carloads more. These w ill be dis at any coat. Japaneee diplomats contend that _________ or 1,600 sacks. Aa the market price fore the board waa whether to recom tributed as rapidly as possible, and the Graat Britain ia supplying coal too Prepared for Bad Ncwa. freely to Roaaxa. has been on an average o la t leeat $1.26 mend to the legislature the construc packing of exhibits w ill be rushed. tion of a new closed cottage at the St. Petersburg, Nov. 28.— There is a a sack since the beginning of tbe pots The Raeaiana at Makden have de A t daylight, December 2, another asylum farm or a new wing at tha main lack of news from tba front today. The feated the Japaneee in etrategy and to eeaeon up to tbc present time, he building. large force of men will begin to tear up report that the Japanese are concen winter campaign now enema improba estimates that his crop has brought Because of the better facilities for the walks that conceal tbe tracks about trating their energies for a desperate ble. him in the neighborhood of $2,000, water supply and sewerage at the main the exposition grounds. They w ill aaaault on Port Arthur, in view of tbe The Rnaaian aupreme coart find« the without a greet deal of labor. This building it waa decided to recommend also tear up tbe switches in the rear of approach of the Baltic squadron, ie tbe construction of a new wing. Thia eeiiure of the Britieh eh ip Cheltenham, land waa in wheat last season, growing addition w ill cost about $40,000 and the Stadium and lay tracks connecting quite generally credited in official quar taken ta lly in July by the Veadivoatok tbe line with each of the exhibit build tets. Such a move has been expected about 30 bushels to the acre. A t the w ill provide room for 120 more pa ings. squadron, waa legal. to transpire as soon as tbe Japanese asms ratio had it been in wheat he tients. A bond has been filed with the Unit isarned that the aqnadron’a trip wae I t ia stated that if Secretary Hitch The population at the asylum ia in ed States 'government, through the a reality and no mere demonstration. would have bad 1,200 bushels, and at eock resigns, W illiam Richarda, com creasing at tbe rata of 60 to 60 a ym r, Treasury department, by the W orld’s The authoritiee are prepared to bear missioner of the general land office, the market price of 76 cents a bushel, or 100 to 120 in a biennial term. A Fair terminal railway company, mak terrible reporta of tbe projected aaaault. w ill be offered the poeition of eecretaiy would total $900. Besides the crop of new wing w ill therefore provide only ing it a common carrier, which w ill W bile not hasarding a gneet whether 1 of the interior. potatoes the land, aa a result of the for the increase in the next two years. facilitate the removal of the exhibita, the fortress can be carried, for ^fnj'bdf*"^, Fire in the Queens county coart cultivation, ia more benefited than had aa freight cars can be dispatched direct siegers are utterly regaidleaa of life» it been summer fallowed. house, Hew York, censed damage eeti Lane’s Display o f Products. from the exposition grounds to their they are confident that General Stoessel mated at 9100 , 000 , and for a time Tt«e potatoes grown in soil of the Eugene— The committee from the destinations. w ill be able to make auch an attack threatened the Jail in which more than nature of thia field are of the best qoal With the exception of Germany, in one of tbe coetlieet in history, ¡. Eugene Commercial club, which has JAPANESE OVES THE HUN. 100 persona were confined. ity. Being huge, smooth and free which case special permission was from clinging aoii, they command a been working for an exhibit of Lane cured, not a aingle exhibit haa been Russians Lack Ammunition. The rail and steel mills of the I l l i Rivera V I I Soon Bear the W eight premium of from 26 to 60 cents a sa county products at the'Lewia and Clark withdrawn nor w ill be allowqd to be London, Nov. 28. — The Post’* nois Steel company, of Chicago, have in California marksta, in direct compe exposition, has appointed E. I I . War withdrawn until tha new month haa Shanghai correspondent cables that, o f Transport W agons. closed down for an.indefinite period, ren, an enthusiastic farmer of Cobnrg, begun. Only a few of tbe German according to reliable information re Tokio, Nov. 30.— News received from tition with California potatoes. owing to a lack of business. Three to superintend the collection of agricul hibia have been taken away from the ceived there, the guns at Port Arthur Tbe whole of Umatil.a county has thousand men are thrown out of em the region of the Bhakbe in d ica te that tural and horticultural exhibits. M r. World’a »lair grounda, and they were have been silent for tbe past few days ploy men t. the Japanese have been across tha Hon the same soil aa thia particular field, Warren w ill take np the work at once shipped directly to the imperial palace owing to lack of ammunition. Thia and instead of rammer fallowing the river.. Farther repoits are to the Russians are finding the water prob and w ill devote his time and energies at Potsdam. \ sadden tarn for the worse in the con effect that the Russian outposts on the entire wheat arm , it has been demon lem at Mukden a serious one. towards making an exhibit that w ill ■trated time and again that a crop #f P. E. Phemeger, of Beattie, has been dition of the defenders of the fortress 4 right bonk o f ¿he Shakhe were within The government ’ 06 fair board has 300 yards of the Japaneee picket line. potatoes or corn can be grown with surpass anything of the kind ever be appointed general superintendent of the has been caused by tbe recent blowing He has General Service company, and declares ap of the most important magasine by begun the selection of exhibits at St. Frequent exchange of gun fire occurred profit and to better advantage for the fore shown fiom this county. had valuable experience in making ex that all exhibits w ill be out of the ex- Japanese shells. soil than tbe rest. Loaia. and minor attacks are quite everyday hibits at state and (ounty fairs, and poeition grounds by March 1. The war has cut off Poland’s market affairs. The rivers w ill soon be frozen already has a large assortment ot Electric Line Has Prec W ay. STARVATION IS NEAR. in Siberia and thousands of people are sufficiently to bear the weight of the La. Grande — Tbe La Grande city grains, grasses, canned finite, nuts, WATER NOT SURE. heavy transport wagons. The follow idle as a result. etc., and w ill add to this by securing ing report has been received from Field council, at a recent meeting, favorably Sassuns Population o f Turkey la In the beet that can be produced of alj A son in-law of Marquis Ito declares Marshal Oyama: a Terr I We Condition. considered the granting of a franchise kinds of products before tbe opening of Eastern Oregon Irrigation Project thatt be apparent delay of Oyama ia for ’ ’ From the night of the 26th to the May he Blocked. tbe exposition. Ib e county has al for a right of way ihto the city limits Washington, Nov. 28. — A story of Strategic reasons. morning of the 26th bodies of the Washington, Nov. 29.— Jnst as the sickness, hunger and starvation haa of tbe Eastern Oregon Development ready made an appropriation to defray The Prussian army budget for the enemy’s infantry attacked ns in the vi officials of ths reclamation service were come to the state department from Mr. company for an electric railway. As the expenses o f collection. coming year is estimated at $116,000, cinity of 8ignlntan, Fageig and Shaotn- preparing to make contracts for the Norton, the American coneoi at Har- kau. A ll these attacks were repulsed. tbe Union county court and the towns 000, an increase of $11,260,000. Rich Ore o f Bohemia. construction of the Malhenr irrigation poot, in a report upon the condition of In the afternoon of the 20th the of Union and Cove have granted a Iran Commissi oner Richards, -of the Gen enemy’s artillery met of Taaha hotly chise. the company w ill now go on with Cottage Grove — Twelve tons of ores project in Malhenr county, Oregon, the Sasson population in Mush district. eral land office, ia coming to Portland rannonadedua, bat we suffered no in- tbe work of connecting all principal selected from the Bohemia mining dis after having completed negotiations The consul says that of the 10.0U0 sur with farmers whose lands w ill be vivors of tbe recent maaaacre, few have to testify in the land fraud case. points in the valley with an electric ary- trict have neen shipped to Portland for claimed under the proposed canals, an saved anything bat their lives. Nearly line, including the Hot Lake sanator "T h e greater part of the village of General Chaffee recommends that the exhibit at the Lewis end Clsik expo unexpected obstacle arises which every house in the region was ransacked Vancouver, Wash., m ilitary reeervation Changtmimon has been burned by the ium, Union to Cove, and from Cove to Summerville. Elgin, Island C ity and sition. Three thousand pounds aie threatens to force the abandonment of and burned. be enlarged, and eatin ates the coat of Russians.” Extracts from the report were made- La Grande. The company has been already at Portland at the bureau of this attractive reclamation schema, the land at $30,000. given all necessary e^conragement as information. Another shipment w ill most promising now open to govern public at the stale department today in BUBONIC PLAGUE IN CHIU. Charles J. Bonaparte, a leading law the hope that the sad story may bring to tonnage, and part of tbe road w ill be be made in the spring. When all the ment adoption in Oregon. yer of Maryland, is mentioned aa a pos ora is «seembled Bohemia w ill be rep The grant made to the Willamette relief to the nnfortunste Sassona. completed by October, 1906. resented bv 20 tons of ore that cannot Valley and Cascade Mountain Military sible selection for a place in Roosevelt’s Consul W lnsns Charged with Giving ’ Worst of a il,” Mr. Norton eaya, Improper BINs o f Health. new cabinet as secretary of the interior. An Accommodating Raspberry Bush be excelled. D. H . Weyatt, solicitor road company traverses ths area pro "th e ir fiocka and herds, practically tbe Lim a, Pern. Nov. 30.— I t ia reported Albany— A raspberry bnah on whi<% of,minerals, baa been here several days, posed to be irrigated along Malheur only source of food, raiment and in The location of the Vladivostok bar. aaSiating in the accumulation of these river, and embodies about one-sixth of come, were swept away. here that Benor Martinss, the Chilean bar defense mines is uncertain and ai there are ripe raspberries, green rasp "Those unfortunates, after receiving a result a torpedo boat has been sank minister to the United States, w ill ra- berries, buds and fa ll blossoms stands .ores and announces that be is much the total irriagbls a re a .' The govern ment, after persistent efforts, procorad fot a short time an allowance from the gratified with this collection and the quest the State department at Wash and a German steamer badly damaged ington to cancel the authorisation o f in tbe door yard of tbe residence of vigorous manner in which the miners signed agreements from «11 farmers government of 1 cent per capita per day The need of office is for the ¡navy ia Charles 8. Winsns, American consul at George Wright, in this city. On one ai Bohemia collected these minerals. owning lends in the irrigation area, by foi subsistence, are now without food very pressing. which they pledge themselves to pay and withoat a prospect of food for the Iqniqne, to take charge ad interim of limb there are 12 ripe, fu lly developed their proportionate share of tbe cost of coming winter. The diseases usually Anarchy prevatila in Macedonia and the Peruvian consul at that place. The berries and 16 green berries. Poultry Show at Afoony. Bipe Christiana ar slain daily. request, it ia mid, w ill be founded on a raspberries and a raspberry bush in Albany— The executive committee of building this great project, namely, following upon «fright, exposure, ex haustion and insufficient food are rap charge that Mr Winans. has given im the Central Willamette Poultry asso $30 an acre. full bloom in the middle of November Robbers blew up the safe of a La I t had been assumed that the M ili idly becoming epidemic. Plata, Md., bank and seemed $3,000 proper bills of health to steamers leav are both curiosities, and when the twe ciation met in thia city and perfected ing Iqniqne. are combined in one the circumstance arrangements lor their third annual tary Roed. people would be willing to cash. WOULD MAKE WAR IMPOSSIBLE poultry show, which ia to be held in enter into a like agreement, inasmuch W hile the prevalence of bubonic is nnnraal. Mr. Wright selected Five submarine torapdo boats built plague baa not been officially declared lim b on which there were ripe and Albany, January 18 to 21, inclusive. as tbs construction of this irrigation (or Japan in America have arrived at in Chile, it is mid that there are cases green berries, and also bade and blos Prises for the three beat birds of each project would greatly enhance the val Britain Believed to ravor Re-Enact, Yokohama. that the Chilean government daily con soms and placed it on exhibition in the kind in each close w ill be given, as in ue of their lands and make them readi ment o f Olncy-Paunccfotc Treaty the post. Three silver cups are to be ly saleable. At present tbe roed com ceals in order that steamers may not window of a local office. Caban health officers challenge Glasgow, Nov. 28. — Ths Glasgow pany’s lands are vacant, unimproved offered as special premiums, one to be American marine corps to prove that omit touching at porta at which there Herald comments on tbe fact that the and practically valueless. It turns out given to the best pen in tbe American are no sanitary regulations. Thia al Apples by Carloads. yellow fever has appeared in that is, another for the beet pen in tbe that the assumption of the department mutual acceptance of the Anglo-Amer laged action ia considered a great peril country. La Grande— Tbe apple crop of Union Mediterranean claaa, and the other for was incorrect. The owners of Military ican treaty was announced on Novem to the Peruvian coast, Panama and tbe By the explosion of a boiler in the entire country bo dering on the South county is being picked and packed at the beat collection of cock, cockerel, road land, now residing in Paris, do ber 9, but that it has not yet been * suburbs of Vicksburg, Miss., two n not look with favor upon the govern signed. T he paper conjectures t hat tbe rapidly aa possible, and tbe Oregon hen and pnllst in the show. Pacific ocean. were killed and a number injured, two ment’s proposition, and are unwilling delay may be due to the inclination of Produce company, of La Grande, has seriously. to contribnte anything towards bnild both governments to bring about a re Contract for I .OOO-Poot Well. Sultan Greatly Alarmed. already purchased 31 cars of the best enactment of tbe Olney- Panncefote ing storage reservoirs and canals. The vessels of tbs Baltic fleet have La Grande — Senator A. McDonald, Salónica, European Turkey, Nov. 30. varieties to ship out to the markets Tbe officials of tbe reclamation set treaty of 1897, there being unmistak arrived at Port 8aid. E veiy precau — The Bulgarian revolutionary move From 12 to 16 cars have been shipped of A licel. haa just made a contract able evidence that the advisability of tion has been taken to insure a safe ment has recently assumed such alarm from the Cove district, and there are with Mr. Hunt, an epxert artesian vice, who had banked so much on this such a course is being considered. project, and had expected to see it passage through the canal. ing proportions that the saltan is pend now about 26 cars awaiting shipment well digger of California, providing for pressed to early completion, are very W hile the treaty of 1897 may not fit ing Nantir Pasha to Salónica aa special from there. The Oregon Produce com the sinking of a well 1,000 feet deep much disappointed at the tnrn affairs preeent conditions in its entirety, it Tbe permanent location of the W y envoy with instructions to take all pany w ill bnild another large storage for the Union County Artesian Well have taken. They are inclined to be would be an easy matter, tbe paper oming state capital was not settled at measures necessary to suppress tbe Bul building in tbe near future at I a company. Tbe location of the well de ys, to change it accordingly, retain lieve that tbe M ilitary Road people tbe last election. Cheyenne led in tbe garian movements by tbe quickest pos G rande. Six hundred boxes are being pends on which farmer in the vicinity who are opposing the government’ s ing, however, thoee provisions which contet, but did not receive the nece sible methods. Ten battalions from packed a day. Maqy apples are being of the well gives the most toward the plan are not dcing it in a spirit of ani are largely in excess of tbe bonds cre eary two-thirds. It w ill, however, re Albania are expected here soon and tb< stored for tbe growers also by this com expense. Thomas McConnell has a mosity, but because they do not under ated between tbe United States spd main at Cheyenne until tbe matter is well down at this time to a depth of Redifs w ill be probably mobilised in pany, awaiting better prices. stand what tbe government proposes ¿ther countries by the various treaties settled, which w ill not probably be for 614 feet and operations have been sus order to afford effective m ilitary pro now pending. I f this course were to do. many years. pended until tbe arrival of 900 feet tection in every village of Macedonia. Land Prices are Higher. taken, the Herald says, war between the Pendleton— County Asseeor C. P. more of casing which has been ordered. Snow is reported throughout the United States and Great Britain would Snow Storm in Manchuria. Agree on Ample Supplies. / Strain has jnst completed making the United Kingdom and there is great be almost an impossibility. Field Headquarters, General Knro- China Pheasants arc Scarce. misery in London. Tokio, Nov. 30.— The two principal real estate transfers to his assessment Albany— China pheasant* can now ki’a Army, Nov. .29.— A light snow They number political parties have issued manifestos roll for the past year. Urges Russia Make Treaty. Tbe secretary of the interior has tem unanimously declaring in favor of am nearly 1,000, not counting over 600 re ta legally sold. Tbe law provides that storm yesterday left two inches of snow St. Petersburg, Nov. 28.— The Bourse porarily withdrawn from all* entry ple supplies to carry on the war to tbs corded on the books as described by in the last 16 daya of/tne open season on tbe ground. Along tbe tops of the Gazette revives tbs question of a new about 9,000 acres of land in Idaho (or end. But whereas the language o f the meets and bounds. The latter are' i November 16 to December 1) tbe birds bills, which in many places form the commercial treaty with the United the Tekoa reservoir site, in connection manifesto of the Seiyuxai party sug principally the section 4n the vicinity may be sold, bartered or exchanged. advanced line of General Kuroki’ s States Tbe paper says it notes with with the Palonse irrigation project in gests unreserved support of tbe cabi of Milton and Freewater, where the None have appeared on the market in army, the snow is deeper. The satisfaction that the negotiation of Washington. Mr. this city,£ however, as they are very soldiers are living in earthen burrows commercial treaties forma a part of net’s budget, the progressives suggest s land is cut into small tracts. The birds are so scarce, in and snug shelters, constructed of corn President Roosevelt’s prvgram for the Minister Barrett reports that all is modification of the taxation schemes. Strain says the prices recorded on the scarce. Both insist on a strong policy toward land sales far exceed those of previous fact, that practically 'no hunting is stalks, and are able to keep warm coming administration, and that the again quiet in Panama. Cores, whose fate closely concerns Ja years. Several quarter sections are re being done or has been done in the through the freezing nights. It is im consummation is grealy to be desired Land Commissioner Richards urges past Two weeks, as tbe hunter; cannot possible to build campfires in the between Russia and America. Commer pan s national interest. The progres corded as having been sold at $9,500. that no more forest reeervee_.be created kill birds enough to pay. sives are outspoken in condemning the cial wars, the Gasette adds, are in the trenches within sight of ths enemy. nDtit experts have reported. Chamber O ffe r s Its Co-Operation. ' a* inefficiency of the latest convention. long run almost as costly and disas Paper Mills Resume Operations. Astoria— Tbs chamber of commerce Drcdgcmen Leave for Panama. trous as armed hoetilities, and equally Tbe case of Senator Barton, of Kan Students Ceasing I heir Rioting. Oregon C ity— After having been shut has directed tbe secretary to inform sas, accused of accepting a bribe, w ill Chicago, Nov. 29.— Two dredgemen, useless and unnecessary. Budapest, Nov. 3 0 — As s result Of the county court that the chamber villi downjfof five weeks because of an un the first engaged for work on the Isth come to trial in a few days. . ths order of tbe director of tbe univers co-operate witl^ the court in arranging precedented low stage of water in the mian canal, have left Chicago for Pan Tribesm en W orry Russians. Both armies in Manchuria occupy ity forbidding students to participate in for a Clatsop county exhibit at the river, tbe piper mills have resumed ama. They were William Patrs, dredf e Mnkden, Nov. 28.— Much difficulty such strongly fortified positions that political"demonstrations, which yester Lewis and Clark fair. Resumption of work engineer, and Ph ilip Bates, his brother, is being experienced with camp follow A communica operation here.- neither appear inclined to attack nnlees day culminated in a riot in which sev tion was received from Major Langfht at these lerge institutions famishes 425 cranetnan. They were engaged through ers, mostly Circassians, Tartars and possessing a preponderance of numbers. eral students were injured, it waa fear stating that soundings had been made men with regular employment and w ill the office of ths International Brother other tribesmen from the t ’snscasns. I be Japanese probably have moie ed that there Should be further trouble at the point where a barge loed of rock matorialy add to ths monthly payroll hood of Steam Shovel and Dredgemen, They swagger around in . loaks and fur available troops. today, but tbe big meeting of the op was recently dumped in the channel in this city. __________ the members ofwhich organization will hats, with daggers at their belts, and be hired for the work. The engineers hake committed so many depredations From a report just issued by the de posing parties was held and dispersed opposite the city, and 40 feet of water rinc Display from Blue River. * w ill receive $190 and the craemen $166 that severe measures have been adopt partment of commerce and labor, show quietly alter speeches bad been made were found. Eugene— The ora for the Bine river a month on tbe canal. ing amounts deposited in savings bonks by Francis Kossuth, Count Apponyi ed to get rid of them. The general exhibit at the Lewis and Clark exposi Looks for Eastern Apple Merkel. throughout tbe world, it ia found that and others. queetion of housing ths people of Muk riling on Port tb e United States; with less than La Grande— E. C. Carbine, one of tion is now being banled to Eugene and den is set ions, as they flock in from a ll Russia Will Copy America. the leading frnit growers in tbe Grand w ill b* stored until sneb time as ths per cent of the total population consid Tokio, Nov. 29.—-The general attack ths sarrounding country for the winter. St. Petersburg, Nov. 30. — A project Ronds, has left for the East with two exposition is In shape to receive It. on Port Aithnr is progressing, but the ered, contributes over 29 per cent of tbe total eevings deposits recorded. for applying tbe American scheme of car lands of choice apples grown hers, The miners are a ll interested in tha results are unknown. Generals Naka- Switzerland for Peace Congrcaa. mnra and Salto, leading specially The deposits in the United States total free land for settlers in Siberia in order end w ill visit New York and other im matter and w ill make a Ana display. Bern*, Nov. 28.— The president o f to attract colonisation from the con portant cities to look up a market for trained bodies of swordsmen, charged the Swiss federation has informed the $3,090,179*000» gested districts in European Rnssia is tbe many apples that the growers wish North w eal Wheat Markets. into the Russian forts and engaged the American minister that Switzerland ac The Rod Star line steamer Kroon- attracting much favorable comment. to ship East. If tbe experiment meets Pot tlaad— W a ll* Walla, 83c; bin*- Russians in a hand-to-hand and bloody cepts in principle President Roosevelt’s land, reported hist, hoe arrived in New The plan as proposed follows cloasly with favor, many car loads w ill be sent stem, 88c; valiay, 87Xc. encounter. T h * result of tbe charges invitation to be present at The Hague the American homestead system. York. oat from here. Tacoma— Blasstsm, 86c; dab, 88c. has not bean learned. conference *• "NEWBERG OREGON WEEK’SDOINGS Washington, Nov. 30.v-Gratified by the spirit which baa animated the con tracting parties in agreeing to intrust to a commission the ascertainment of the questions of fact connected with the North asa incident, the United States government w ill cordially oo- operate in the naming of the commis sion by the designation of one of its high naval officers aa a member of that body. The outcome ia especially pleas ing to the administration, following aa it doss so closely on President Roosevelt’s invitation to the powers of the world for a second Hague confer ence. The popular impression has been all along that Admiral George Dewey, the ranking officer in the American navy, would be asked to be the Ameiican rep resentative on the commission, al though othei names have also been mentioned in connection with the ap pointment. A decision w ill be reached promptly after the formal invitation has been received from the Russian and British governments aa to who ■hall be designated. This formal invitation has not yet been received, the two governments in the negotiations which have been in progiees between them acting entirely on the presumption that the United States would cheerfully give its assist ance and detail a naval officer ..... ...........................................1 t ........... — ............................................i
