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— NEWBERG GRAPHIC Bountifu' Indemnity fo r Murder o f an American Missionary. B. (I. WOODWARD. NEW BERG............ OREGON NEWS OF THE WEEK i _________ ta a Condensed Form for Onr Busy Readers. A Resume o f the Less Importent but Not Less Interesting Events o f the Pest Week. Russis plena to spend $200,000,000 on rebuilding her navy. Missouri may appropriate $200,000 fo the Lewis and Clark lair. - The Colorado legislature has declared Adams elected governor., but Peabody Buy cmitwt. 1 ■ ~... Committees of Atlantic steamship lines and railroatds met to take steps against the rigid inspection of immi grants by the government, which, they say drives business from American to Canadiaan steamer lines. Andrew Carnegie has intimated to the officials o f the Franklin institute, of New York, that if they can secure the Franklin fund, amounting to $155,- 000, be w ill duplicate the amount, as he did in the case of Franklin union, of Boston. A tt the railroads centering in Chi- _ cago w ill apply to the United States district court January 17 for a perma nent injunction restraining all local brokers from dealing in any form of non-transferable transportation. The scalpers propose to appeal to the United 8tates supreme court." The beef trust case is before the su preme court. Russian revolutionists early outbreak. 8H A H P A Y S PRICE. predict an Several severe engagements have oc curred near Mukden. Russia’s Third Pacific squadron w ill be ready to sail February 14. The movements.of the Second Pacific Russian squadron are still undecided. The Nebraska supreme court has de clared the sugar bounty law unconsti tutional. A m illion dollars in gold has been engaged in San Francisco for shipment to Japan. The North sea inquiry commission has adjourned u a tii February. When it reconvenes Russia promises to have some sensational testimony to offer. One man was killed and half a dozen persons seriously injured in a rear-end collision in which three trains crashed together on an elevated road in New York. Fire damaged the cotton m ill of the Edwards Manufacturing company at Augusta, Me., to the amount of $75,- 000. Firemen had to fight not only the flames but a temperature of 32 de grees below zero. The czar has decided to send 200,000 more troops to Manchuria. The Japanese found 48,000 prisoners in Port Arthu,r of whom one-third are sick. The flagship of the Baltic squadron is reported to have struck a rock and sunk. The czar’ s decision to continue the war causes great indignation and brings a revolution near. The interstate commerce committee of the senate is working on a bill to regulate freight rates. As a result of a collission on the Lake Shore road near Angolsa, N . Y ., eight passengers were injured. The continued internal strife in Santo Domingo may necessitate the UnitedUStates to step in and put a stop to it. Secretary Hay recommends that the naturalization 1 aws be amended so as to restrict many courts from granting papers. Although orders have not been is sued, it is positive that the Russian Baltic squadron w ill return to Euro pean waters. In an address before the American Forestry congress the president declared we must make and enforce laws that w ill protect the great forests of the United States. Russia scouts all talk of making peace. Washington, Jan. I I . — Information has reached the State department that, complying with the insistent demands of the United States, the Persian gov ernment has made to the widow partial reparation for the murder of the Rev. Benjamin W . La barree, an American missionary, by a gang of fanatics, and has promised that all the guilty per sons involved in the crime w ill I » pun ished. The following statement re garding the case was made by an offi cial of the State department: ' "M arch 15th last the Department of State received the telegraph intelli gence of the murder of Rev. B. W . La- barree, an American missionary, near Ouroma, in Persia, by a gang of fanatic Kurds. " A demand was immediately made for the arrest and trial of the murder ers, whose leader, Seyd M ir Ghafar, was looked upon as a lineal descendent of the prophet. This circumstance and the fear of arousing religious dis turbances evidently interfered with the prompt and efficient action on the part of the local authorities. The most pressing and earnest representations of the American legation at Teheran re mained fruitless until October 12, when Mr. Ray instructed its minister by cable to make known to the govern ment of the shah the president’s con cern in the adequate punishment of all the criminals and his intention to lay the matter before congress with appro priate recommendations, with his de mands for full justice, were further de layed. ‘■‘The murders were thereupon ar rested, but the Persian government, holding the life of a descendant of the prophet sacred, offered a pecuniary in demnity in lieu of the death penalty for Bevd M ir Ghafar. and promised e l ocution of the accomplices. After con sultation with the widow of Rev. Mr. La barree, the offer was- accepted and aq indemnity of $30,000— greatly in excess of the sum named by the widow — was paid to the American legation June 3. Solemn assurance was given that the guilty would receive effective and swift punishment and that no special tax would be leived on Christians in the province to recover the amount of the indem nity."i M A Y BE A B A N D O N E D . New M exico and Arizona Likely to be L eft Out o f Statehood Bill. p- WILL FIGHT IT OUT Wednesday, Jan. 4. Upon reconvening today after the holiday recess, the senate plunged di rectly into the consideration of the bill for the admission of two states to be composed of Arizona and New Mexico and Oklahoma and Indian territory. Heyburn introduced a b ill for the regulation of corporations, which was refered to the committee on judiciary. Senator Newlands introduced a joint resolution providing for a commission to frame and report to congress a national incorporation act for the con Europa Agrees Our President Will Be struction and consolidation of railroads employed in interstate commerce. phosen to Bring About Peace In the, house Representative Mann When Tim e Comes. intoduced a b ill to abolish the isthmian canal commission and providing that the powers now invested in the presi Washington, Jan. 9.— Japan has not dent be extended until the end of the made overtures for peace to Russia, di fifty-ninth congress. rectly or indirectly, through the U nit ed States or any other power, and con Thursday, Jan. 6 . templated no such action, and now The joint statehood b ill again occu- that Port Arthur has fallen, purposes pied the major portion of the day in to press the war in the North all the the senate. . more vigorously by reinforcing the Jap Senator Bard introduced two bills anese armies at Liao Yang with the intended to clear away obstacles that greater part of the troops which have threaten to interfere with the construc been besieging Port Arthur. This, in tion of the Klamath reserve irrigation brief, represents the views of M r. Ta- project in Southern Oregon and North kahira, the Japaese minister. ern California. I "T h e fall of Port Arthur,” said the Senator Bailey submitted a proposed minister, " i s but a step in the war amendment to the constitution fixing which Japan is waging for a principle. the term of office of the president at Certainly it is an important step, but six j e a n and making him ineligible nothing could be further from the for re-election. truth than the assumption that, be The house committee on fortifications cause Japan has captured a stronghold, reported the fortifications bill, carrying the fall of which has long been expect $6,747,893, which is $770,299 less than ed, the Japanese government w ill wow appropriated last session. Represents make overtures for peace- Japan is too tive Adams, o f Pennsylvania, intro busy fighting. W e are as much in ear duced a b ill providing for the establish nest today as we were at the outset of ment in the District of Columbia of a the war. W e have made no overtures whipping post for wife-beaters. for peace, either directly or indirectly, nor have the powers approached us Friday, Jan. 6. ** '■ Ji with an idea of intervention.” Arbitration treaties between the The Russian embassy reiterated that Russia would fight all the harder in United States and seven foreign coun view of the temporary loss of Port A r tries were made public today by order of the senate. The countries making thur. Europe, it is learned, is firmly of the the conventions are: Great Britain, conviction that, however dark the out Portugal, France, Switzerland,' Ger look for peace at this moment, when many. Ita ly and Spain. The nomination o f W . B. Crum, a the prospect brightens, it is to Presi negro, to be collector of customs for the dent Roosevelt that the neutrals well as the belligerents, w ill look as port of Charleston, S. C., was confirmed the intermediary through whom peace by hte senate. The house passed the fortifications negotiations w ill be initiated. A s a bill. European ambassador said today, the Both houses adjourned until Mon American government is practically day. the only government to which both When Peace Is Wanted, Roosevelt . Will Be Mediator. ALL HAVE CONFIDENCE IN belligerents w ill be w illin g to look for N O T H IN G FOR RIVERS. * assistance in reaching a settlement when that time comes, and, aside from this fact, the high personal regard in Small Chance o f Congress Passing a which the president is held, both at St Bill at This Session. Petersburg and at Tokio, makes it all Washington, Jan. 7. — Members of the more probable that through him, when Russia and Japan have fought congress interested in securing river their fight, the powers hope for peace. and harbor appropriations are becom ing uneasy over the repeated warnings S U B M A R IN E S FO R J A P A N . f - of Speaker Cannon and other Republi can leaders that the strictest economy Sbe Has Had Thirty Shipped Fr^m m ost J>e observed from now until ad journment. W h ile talk of this sort is Seattle in Sections. always in evidence at the beginning of Victoria, Jan. 9.— The steamer Kan- each session, there is more seriousness agawa Mara, which arrived today from in the tones of the speaker and party Japan, took a cargo of submarine boats leaders than usual, and the fear & on her last trip from Seattle. These spreading that they mean what they were shipped in sections. It is under say. stood that the Japanese government So far as waterway appropriations now has ahput 30 submarine vessels, are concerned, the fear is not alone many of which are now ready for ser based on the attitude of the party lead vice. Others are being put to o th er at ers, but the further and very signifi Kure. Some foreigners w ill assist to cant fact that the rivers and harbors man them. committee, though it has been in ses Captain Orlan Cullen, inventor of sion more than a month, has accom the Cullen ball-bearing gun, arrived on plished absolutely nothing. One of its the Kanagawa Mara, from Tokio, after members declares that, notwithstand- taking a cargo of submarines and heavy ingalm ost daily meetings have been ordnance to Japan. He left Trieste in heki, not a single line of the b ill has November on an Austrian steamer via been framed, not a single item agreed Constantinople, having the guns mani upon. He declares that in past ses fested as agricultural im plements.' sions, when bills were reported and passed, the committee did more actual T O F O R T IF Y AG AIN . work in two days than it has done this winter in more than four weeks. Japan Already Has Men and Material This dawdling policy, this postpone fo r Port Arthur. ment of action, is what causes the real Chefoo, Jan. 9.— General Nogi is pre alarm, and no member can understand pared, through agents who have been what it means, unless it is that the de recruiting for months, to put a horde of lay is inspired by the speaker for the Chinese coolies at work in the reforti sole puropse of staving off action until fying of Port Arthur immediately that it is too late to put through a river and the Russians are disposed of. Vast harbor b ill. I f it is found that this quantities of cement and timber are policy of delay is continued, there is ready on the Yalu river for this pur apt to be a general revolt of members pose, while steel plates and other man from districts which are sorely in need ufactured necessaries are ready in Japan of money to continue the improvements of their waterways. for transportation to the fortress. Washington, Jan. 11. — The joint statehood b ill w ill continue to be the principal topic of discussion in the sen- P ite during the present week, but ulliei * measures, w ill receive attention each ~ day during the morning hour, includ ing the omnibus bill, for which Senator Warren stands sponsor. The b ill com prises more than 200 pages, but the senator already has succeeded in hav ing it read by utilising odd hours, and this has put a large and important part of the work of consideration to the rear. An effort w ill be made to get through the bill providing for the compensation of American fishermen whoee vessels were seized previous to the arbitration of 1893. This measure is in the hands of Senator Fulton, who w ill press it as an act of justice to men who have been discriminated against. s The pure food b ill w ill remain in the background for the present, not be cause the friends of that measure have abandoned it, but because they consider that its chances w ill b e ' improved by not pressing for immediate considera tion. They have been assured by the Republican leaders that the bill shall have first place on the calendar aside from appropriation bills, after the statehood bill is disposed of and there fore they w ill not antagonize the state hood bill for the present if at all. The only real fight is against the uniting of Arizona and New Mexico, and there is talk of eliminating these territories entirely from the statehood proposal. It is believed if this were done the bill for the consolidation of Oklahoma and Indian Territory would pass. Thus far there has been no con ference of opposing factions on the sub ject and probably little w ill be done to change the present status so long as the leaders are anxious to keep other The Japanese are confident that the mattersfin the background, as appears refortifying of Port Arthur w ill place to be the case at present. it.in a better condition than ever. Wracks O ff British Coast. London, Jan. 11. — Stormy weather still continues on the British coast, and several shipping casualties are re ported. The Glasgow steamer Stella Marie collided off Holyhead with the Spanish vessel Oris and both sank. The cfews were saved in the boats after drifting all night. The Belfast schoon er Dispatch collided with the Sunder land steamer Dillington off Ramsgate this morning. The IMspatch was towed into Ramsgate, but the Dillington is believed to have sunk with her crew of ten men. Worn by G rief and Labor. New York, Jan. 9.— General Nogi is visibly affected by the tremendous sac rifice of Japanese lives in the success of his plan, according to a dispatch from a correspondent with the third army. His very outward appearance has changed. He has grown careless in ^iress, and strangers often find it diffi cult to pick out the aged, haggard man as the man who refers to General Sjoea- sel as the hero of Port Arthur, notwith standing he surrendered the fortress. General Nogi, it is recalled, lost two sons, his only children, in the war. Naval Station at Arthur. Tokio, Jan. 11. — The Japanese in tend to establish a naval station at Port Arthur. Vice Admiral Sbibayama w ill probably be placed in charge of it. The m ilitary administration at Port Arthur w ill retain only a small garri son as soon as the prisoners are with Th e czar gave General 8tossed a free drawn and order is restored. The fleet hand at Port Arthur tq do as he is busily engaged in clearing mines, but owing to their great number naviga thought best. tion w ill be unsafe for a long time. There is a movement on foot to se Only government craft enter the harbor, cure legislation during this session of Fire Burned fo r Five Hours. congress that w ill abolish the isthmian canal commission and place the con Philadelphia, Jan. 11.—-A fire which struction under the direct supervision burned for five hours occurred tonight of a board of engineers. I t is under at the plant of the Atlantic refining stood the president favors this plan. com pan v in the southwestern section The present commission is fooling away of the city. The loss, it is estimated, too much time quarreling. w ill reach $280,000. T o Resume Smoot Case. Salt Lake City, Jan. 9. About 30 witnesses for the defense in the Smoot investigation, which wiH be resumed in Washington tomorrow, have been subpoenaed in Utah and Idaho. Most of these are men prominent in the bus iness and political life of the two states. Two women have been sum moned. Senator Smoot, Congressman Howell, Attorneys Worthington and Van Cott and a large number of wit- nesses departed for the East today. More charges of land frauds im pli cate Idaho citizens, including Senator Heyburn, also Senator Clark, of Mon tana. •4 An Ohio river steamer blew up near Huntingdon, W. V.a, killing 16 people and injuring 12 others. The steamer and 20 barges burned. More than 600 delegates were present at the opening session of the American Forestry congress in Washington. Sec retary Wilson welcomed the delegates and in his address advocated needed changes in present laws to protect the forests and water supply. D O ING S IN C O N G R E S S. Conference on Reclamation. Washington, Jan. 9.— The engineers who are employed in the government reclamation service began their second annual conference here today. Repre sentatives were present from a ll parts of the West. Asks Fee o f 8200 ,00 0. Newark, N . J., Jan. 7.— A fee of $200,000 for James 8mith, Jr., for act ing as receiver for the Unitod States Shipbuilding company was asked of Judge Lanning In the United States District court here today. Counsel for the Sheldon reorganization committee opposed the application, and said that the sum demanded was exhorbitant. He said all the money Mr. Smith han dled in the receivership was not more than $1,126,000. The credit for the resurrection of the company, he said, is due to the reorganization committee. . New Russian W ar Loan. Berlin, Jan. 7.— The prospectus of the new Russian loan of $81,000,000 w ill be issued tomorrow. Subscription lists w ill be opened in Germany, Rus sia and Holland January 12. The price of the issue in Germany w ill be 95. The bankers’ syndicate has paid into the Russian treasury 90X . These terms are considered here very favora ble for Russia, inasmuch as the holders can demand redemption at par after khi yiiXi.. Another New Russian Loan. St. Petersburg, Jan. 7.— Official an nouncement of the issue of a new loan is published here for the first time. Tb s amount of the loan w ill be $116,- 750,00 . bearing interest at 4)$ per rent from January 1. The first call of oonaa w ill not be made earlier than 1917. The whole loan w ill be extin guished in 1985. OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST A L L ARE B U YIN G C A T T L E . ------ LE G IS LA TU R E M E ETS. Good Prices and Brisk Market Pre House Organizes, But Senate Does Not A gree an President. vail in Grant County. Salem, Jan. 10. — The senate was John Day — Cattle buying among Grant county stockmen has been quite active since the heavy sales last fall. So many engaged in this rather un usual form of stock transaction that the home supply became practically exhausted some time ago, and they are reaching out into the , surrounding territory. The bulk of the busineea was carried on very quietly, and re sulted in ' a good many surprises. Growers who make a practice of selling off young stock were approached by local buyers, and asked whether they knew of any such for sale in their neighborhood. The reply was general ly that they had bought up all to be found. Conditions favor this demand. Prices have been down to bedrock, close sales of fat stock had been general throughout the county, and feed and pasture are unusually plentiful. Izee cattlemen have made the largest pur chases of young stock and steers, and several large bands have been taken in to that section for wintering. Henry Trowbridge and Johnny Laycock have just driven 436 head of steers over to their pastures in that valley. They were purchased chiefly in the Burnt river country, at prices ranging from $12 to $25 per head. Gold Found Near Mosier.~ The Dalles— Parties from Moeier, who were in The Dalles say considera ble excitement has been caused in Moeier over the discovery of gold on the head of Mosier creek. A man named Thomas is reported to have come into Moeier a few days ago with a handful of goM that he stated he had dug out of the ground five or six miles south of the town. Thomas is said to be a responsible person, and his report of finding a valuable mine is given cre dence by the people who know him. Several residents of Moeier have ¿one to the vicinity of the reported find, in tending to locate claims if the alleged mine proves to be what Thomas repre sents it to be. New Company at W ork. Grants Pass— The Michigan Mining A M illin g company, which recently bought a large tract of mineral ground on Applegate creek, of Murphy district, near Grants Pass, has gone enterpris ingly to work under the supervision of W . T . Perry, of Portland, in the devel opment of the property. The land em braces much good timber, water right and quartz and placer diggings. The quarts ledges w ill be given especial at tention by the Michigan company, as the veins -give projnise of unusual worth. Buildings and quarfers for the workmen w ill be erected at once, and the opening up of the claims wiH pro ceed with the beet possible dispatch. called to order by Brownell, of Clack amas, who was president of the senate at the session of 1903. He was made temporary president and a committee on credentials appointed, t h e senate then adjourned until 2 p .m . A t the afternoon session the commit tee on credentials reported and the new members were sworn in. A mo tion that the senate proceed to elect a president was carried. Kuykendall, M iller and Carter were nominated. On the first ballot thrf vote stood Kuyken dall 14, Carter 9, M iller 4, Pierce 1» blank 2. The vote remained practi cally the same for 39 ballots, when, at 4:30, the senate adjourned until 7 :30. In the evening 16 ballots were taken with no change except as the Demo crats shifted their votes from one to another. Adjournmentwas taken until 10 o’clock Tuesday morning. The house is organized and ready for business. Mills, of Multnomah was elected speaker over Kay of Marion, the ballot standing 26 to 24. » ROAD T O SW E E PSTA K E . New Railway From rfed ferd Along. Crater Lake Route. Medford— For several months past the Southern Oregon Development com pany has been engaged in running sur veys, securing rights of way, and doing other preliminary work toward the building of a railroad to the big tim ber belt located about 20 miles east of Medford, on the Crater lake road. The surveys have been made lrom thé site of the Butte Falls Mining company's plafcfcto a point on the des ert some eight miles from Medford, and rights of way have been secured over most of the route. The Medford and Crater Lake Railroad company has been oragnized by A . A . Davis, B. F . Adkins, J. M. Keene, R. H. White- head, B. H. Harris, W . F. Enthrop and W. I. Vawter.- Articles of incor poration were prepared and filed with the secretary of state. The capital stock of the incorporation is placed at $600,000, and its object is to construct and operate a railroad from Medford east to the timber belt and Crater Lake. ;— - " Lina Ipto Nehalem. Astoria— W hile no information of an official nature can be obtained, there is an authentic report that the Astoria A Columbia Rjyer Railroad company has purchased the six miles of logging road built by the Benson Logging company at Clatskanie, and is preparing to ex tend it into the Nehalem valley, as an excellent grade can be found in that section. The road, which is of stand ard gnage, was built and equipped for conducting logging operations. Re cently all the logging trains were taken Coming Events. off, and the line is now used exclusive Inland Em pire Sunday school insti ly by the railway in hauling freight to tute, Pendleton, January 30. Clatskanie and vicinity. - Animal shows, Polk County Goat, Poultry and Sheep association, Dallas, Pow er fo r Trolley Roads. January 19-20; poultry show, New- Eugene— Chief Engineer Dierg, of berg, January 10-13; poultry show, the Willamette Valley Electric Rail Albany, January, 18-21. State Horticultural society, Portland, way company, is now preparing to put a force of men at work at Martin’s January 10-11. Prohibition Oratorical -League con Rapids, on the McKenzie river, where the waters are to be taken out by test, McMinnville, April 14. National American Woman Suffrage means of a flume and conducted to the site selected for the power station some association, Portland, June 22-28. The engineer esti Lewis and Clark Centennial exposi distance below. mates that 5,000-horsepower w ill be tion, Portlaand, June 1-October 15. developed, which, he thinks, -w ill be sufficient for operating the entire sys Only One Foot o f Snow. tem of electric roads as planned at the Canyon City— Although winter has present time. fairly set in here, the snowfall is very light. The ground is hardly coveted T o Enlarge Brick Plant. in the lower valley, while the depth in Eugene— After a year or more o f the mountains scarcely exceeds one planning and experimenting, Messrs. foot. This is not considered a promis Martin A Mack, who own the brick ing feature of the season, for though yard on Wallace butte, near this city, heavy falls of snow may come later, have finally completed arrangements they do not have the same opportunity to enlarge their plant to a great ex to freeze and harden, and melt too rap tent. They intend to put up a large idly in the spring. But as the surface building, a new mud m ill to be secur of the ground is but slightly frozen, the ed, and several other pieces of machin- \ moisture w ill mostly sink into the ery, which w ill make their plant com- ) ground. > plete. The new plant w ill be a great addition to Lane county. Bores fo r Artesian Water. * Baker City— W . L . Vinson, manager Prize-Packed Fruit. of the Emma mine, a few miles east of La Grande— The Oregonian Produce this, city, has begun to bore an artesian well to obtain water for the mine. company, of I d Grande, has been The work is being watched with a great awarded first honors by a committee of deal of interest by a number of people over 60 commission men and dealers in who own land in the vicinity of the San Francisco, for the best packed mine. I f Mr. Vinson succeeds in pro fruit, competing with Colorado, Cali curing water it w ill demonstrate the fornia, Washington and Idaho. A . A. fact that perhaps other land can be Gust, manager of the company in this brought under cultivation by boring city, has just returned from 8an Fran cisco. wells foi irrigation Reserve Land Restored. Oregon City— By the recent order of the Interior department there is rein stated for public entry substantially the same acreage in the Cascade forest reserve that was withdrawn about one year ago, pending an investigation by the department. Much of this land, having been restored to settlement, wifi be open to settlers within three months through the Oregon C ity land office. Cot Alex L road f: point compì long the 8w d to Sweepstake. Grove—John Brand and have built 600 feet of the Sweepstake group to a the Vesuvius mine. When the road w ill be two miles be of great advantage to a locality. Year’ s W ork Shows Progress. Cottage Grove— The year that has just passed finds the Bohemia mining district in advance of the years that have gone by. There has been no boom, but lots of good hard work that showed when the books were closed at the end of the year. The quantity and quality of the ores are satisfying to the owners. i l l ......- * » •• Wheat — Portland — W alla W alla, 85c; blueatem, 88090c; valley, 87c. Tacoma— Blueatem, 88c; club, 85c. Eggs Oregon ranch, 2 7 ){0 2 8 )ic . Butter—Fancy creamery, 26027 Me. Hope— Choice, 29030c; prime, 270 28c. Wool— Valley, 19020c; Easter j Ore* gon, 10017c; mohair, 25026c.
