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mm m NEWBERG GRAPHIC Fleets on Both Coasts Must Be P re pared in Peace fo r War. B. N. WOODWARD. PubUshar N E W B E R G ..................... O R E G O N ta i Condensed Form lor Oor Itoj »witei. A Resume o f the Lese Important but N ot Less Interesting Events o f the Pest W eek. Japen has sent s m inister to Cabo. I t is mid thst Hermann is determin ed to take his seat in the house. Marshal Field is slowly sinkng and his death is expected at any time. Germany seeks harmony about Mo rocco, but w ill fight if her honor is at tacked. The Chicago Commercial association w ill send 15 of its members on a tour o f the Western states. Meriwether, the Annapolis cadet who was responsible for the death of Branch, w ill be tried for hasing. ▲ house to house search in Riga, Rsusia, by the police for bomba has given startling results. Many weapons wre found. Th e entire Caucasus is in the hands o f the revolutionists. The severe meas ures practiced by the authoritiea in other parts of Russia are inapplicable there. Th e bank examiners o f Massachu setts have been forced to resign. They were negligent in their duty and several banks failed by the officers loot ing the deposits. BOXER COIN FOR COLLEGES. TR A N S PO R T SERVICE WEAK. Washington, Jan. 16.— A remarkable exposition of the fatal weakness of the army transport resources in case of war is contained in a paper prepared by the general staff, transmitted by Secretary Taft to Senator Gallinger, chairman of the Merchant Marine commission, in charge of the shipping bill now pend ing before the senate. Id the course of its work . in prepsr- ing in time nf peace for war, the gene ral staff has discovered that even the present limited m ilitary force could not be transported over the tea, in case of a war with a foreign country, or to de fend our insular possessions, unless there should be an immediate and great increase in the number of American steamships suitable for transport ter- v ce. It is pointed out that foreign ship ping could not be drawn upon in tim e of war because of the neutrality laws, so that under present conditions " th e quick first blow, so very and in creasingly important, cannot be struck s t a l l . ’ ’ Incidentally, the staff- criti cises with the greatest freedom the con ditions under which the first little American army was transported to San tiago to begin the Spanish-American war. This report w ill be presented to the senate tomorrow by Senator Gallinger, who w ill inform the War department that ships of the size and speed describ ed as most desirable for transports are also ships of the sise and speed equip ped for several of the most important mail lines provided for in the bill of the Merchant Marine commission, which stipulates that ships receiving subvention from the government shall be held at the disposal of the govern ment in tim e of war. PANACEA FOR INSURANCE. Senator Dryden Has Bill That Would Russell A . M cKinley, Jr. of Boise, Cure All Ills. nephew of the late president, has been Washington, Jan. 16.— Senator Dry granted a pension of $100 a montn. H e lost the sight of both eyes while den has revised his bill contemplating government control of insurance, and serving in Cuba. w ill reintroduce it in the cenate today. Marshall Fieia continues very sick. He had followed very cloeely the in France has recalled her envoy from vestigation being conducted by the New York legislative committee, and Venesuela. this has aided him in perfecting his The revolution in Ecuador has been measure until now he expresses the suppressed. belief that it w ill correct practically all The Russian government is gradual insurance evils exposed by the New ly reconquering Siberia.——---- York i n q u i r y . ------------------- * :— Publicity is the keynote of the bill, Morales has sought refuge in the and coupled with this are safeguards American legation and resigned his for the detection of wrongdoing and the office. punishment of those offending. I t de Mrs. Chadwick is now in the Ohio fines policies or insurance contracts as penitentiary serving her 10-year sen instrumentalities of commerce, and pro tence. vides for the regulation of the business Russia pays an annual interest of through the medium of a controller of $211,600.000 on her national debts of insurance and along the lines similar to the control exercised over national a ll kinds. bsmks. The author says he believes pastern papers have contained sever- this w ill go far towards meeting the ob articles on Representative jection of those who have questioned Hermann. the constitutional possibilities of feder W all street has been shaken by the al regulation of insurance. The senator says the b ill has the in discovery of several m illion dollars’ dorsement of the president, administra worth of forged stock certificates. tion officials, eminent constitutional The New Tork L ife Insurance com lawyers, in and out of congress, and pany has again been admitted to Mis others, who are fam iliar with its gen souri for the transaction of businees. eral features, as coming nearer to meet France may soon resort to force in ing the demands of the situation than settling her Venesuelan troubles. 8be any of the other numerous pending Senator Dryden has long w ill act in full concert with the United measures. been a champion o f federal regulation. States. OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST C O NTAIN S MANY DIFFICULTIES. Oregon State Primary Law Hard for Irrigationists Say Conditions in Idaho Candidates to Follow. Are Better Than in Oregon. Salem— Another very serious prob lem has arisen in connection with the direct primary law. The law requires that candidates for state offices shall file petitions from not less than seven counties, and that at least 10 per cent o! the precincts shall be represented in each of the seven counties. Tw o i>er cent of the votes cast at the last state election for supreme judge by each par ty must be represented on the petition. I t has been the supposition until re cently that so long as the required number of oountiee and precincts were represented by the signatures of one or more voters that the, bulk of the signa tures on a petition to make up the 2 per cent might come from one county, so long as the required number of names was filed with the secretary of state. I t is now discovered that there must be 2 per cent of the vote cast by the party represented in each county and precinct represented, as well as throughout the state. The attorney general w ill probably be asked to render an opinion in regard to the number of signatures required from the counties and precincts.- To secure 2 per cent of the voters in seven counties, and 10 per cent of the pre cincts in each of the seven counties, and in addition have 2 per cent o f the party vote in the entire state, w ill add to the difficultiee of securing a petition. States by Several Million. Jews Have Been Duped. A statement issued by the Rbseian government shows that the recent war with Japan cost $1,050,000,000,. Of this amount $202,500,000 is yet un paid. Large quantities of dynamite have disappeared from government store houses in Denmark and it is believed to have been stolen and sent to Russian rebels. The deepest copper mine in the world, at 'Calumet ,Mich., is on fire. Three men have been burned. The fire is from half to three-quarters of a mile below the earth’ s surface. Tw o men were killed by a cave-in at a mine near Eureka, Utah. A great forgery of railway stock has been revealed in New York. Troops sre running down Morales. Harvard university has announced a set of revised football rules. « > A fire at Schenectady, New York, destroyed $100,000 worth of property. Fire destroyed the Wormwood ware house, Boston, entailing a loss of $126,- ©00. Moscow, Russia, Jan. 16.— Wholesale arrests sre being made throughout Rus sia for the sole purpose of preventing the victims registering in tim e to par ticipate in the coming election for members of the new legislative assem bly. Officials of the government are resorting to tactics of intimidation to compel the people to vote for "select e d " candidates who w ill perpetuate the old regime of absolutism. The Social ists and labor leaders are being offered enormous bribes to use their influence in favor of certain candidates. Yaqui Stories Bring Retaliation. El Paso, Tex., Jan. 16. — Because of the slander of foreigners who alleged they had not been given proper protec tion from alleged Indian outrages in Sonors and Lower California, and, o ring to the circulation of such stories, the Mexican government has issued an order forbidding mining agents in those states to allow foreigners to file mining claims. This is the outgrowth of the circulation of alleged Yaqui stories in the United States by prospectors. American To Be Retained. Seoul, Corea, Jan. 16.— The govern ment has decided to retain the services Hermann’ s trial has been definitely of Durham White Stephens, the Am eri sat for the last week in March. The ca- dfniomatic adviser to the emperor •i Corn. hearing w ill be in Washington. Salem— Prominent irrigators of Ore gon are considering the advisability of asking the next legislanre to amend the irrigation laws in several particulars. A t the present time all the contracts with the state for the reclamation of desert lands under the Carey act are based upon the theory that the owners of the canals And ditches are entitled to collect a perpetual annual rental from the landholders. In Idaho the land holders w ill eventually own and control the canals, ditches, head gates, etc. In the contract with the state of Idaho for the construction of the Twin Falla canal it is provided that a com pany shall be formed among the land- owners on the basis of one share of stock for one share of water right, and that within seven years the e introl of the canals, ditches, dams and headgatee shall ^tass to the corporation formed among the water users. Previous to the formation of this company and be fore the expiration of the seven years’ lim it, the construction company is en titled to collect annually not exceeding 80 cents an acre. The same theory of ownership prevails in all government work. A ll the contracts for the reclamation of arid lands under the Oarey act in this state allow the construction com panies the right to collect $1 an acre perpetually, the company agreeing to keep the canals and ditches in repair. FORM NEW ORGANIZATION. Fruit Inspector in Linn. Albany— The Linn county court has Independent Telephone Companies of appointed E . C. Armstrong, residing Oregon Unite. Portland— In order to fortify them selves and protect their interests, rep resentatives of the independent tele phone lines in Oregon met here last week and formed a permanent orgnisa- tion. It w ill be known as the Oregon Independent Telephone association, and is formed after similar orgnisations in other states of the Union and affiliated with the national association of inde pendent telephone lines. The objects of the association are to encourage development; foster and stimulate the growth; protect the mu tual interests; promote and systema tise uniformity of accounting, opera tion, maintenance and construction of independent (non-Bell) telephone inter eats, and to defend the same from un fair encoractments of competition by co-operation and by such other avail able means as may, from time to time, seem advisable._________ Favor Woolen^Mills. Albany — The business men of the city met and discussed the proposition of securing the new woolen m ill for this city. Judge Stewart, of the stock committee, withdrew from the active work of soliciting subscriptions, and Frank J. M iller was selected to fill the vacancy and tbe committee w ill push the work. The purpose of the com mittee is to secure subscriptions to the stock aggregating $15,000 toward the capital of $100,000, when the m ill w ill be built and fitted up. The business men at the meeting were enthusiastic in support of the project, and the spirit manifested was in favor of co-operation The body of Thomas Nast, famous for OUR COMMERCE W ITH FRANCE. among tbe business interests of the city his cartoons during Boss Tweed’ s time, for the upbuilding of Albany and its w ill be brought to the United States for Balance o f Trade Against the United industries. _________ burial. » The kaiser is making great prepara Washington, Jan. 16.— The total tions to suppress Socialist demonstra tions which are expected throughout commerce between the United States and France, as shown by figures com Germany. piled by the Bureau of Statistics of the Two Annapolis hasers have been Department of Commerce and Labor, found guilty of basing. amounted in the fiscal year 1905 to France has broken off all diplomatic about $166,000,000, of which $76,000, 000 was the amount of the exports to relations with Venesuela. t France, and $90,000,000 was the value Southern cotton planters condemn of the imports from that country negro labor and want immigration. France gets most of its provisions and Russian authorities are preparing for breadstuffs from her colonies, and ex trouble on Red Sunday, January 22. ports mainly high grade manufactures Cleveland declares himself to be in and wine. The United States exported to France favor of publicity of campaign ex nearly all the copper and the cotton penses. used by that country, the total amount Sir Thomas Lipton is msking plans of these two articles being about $48, for another challenge in 1907 to race 000,000. Agricultural implements ex for the Americas yacht cup. ported from the United States this ye were approximately $3,000,000, against The Carnegie steel works at Green $500,000 a decade ago. v ille , Pa.t have been destroyed by fire. Th e loee w ill reach $600,000. AMEND IRRIGATION LAWS. Plans an ElectricJLine. Senator Piles, o f Washington, Will In troduce Such a Bill. 8eattle, Wash., Jan. 15.— United 8tates Senator 8. H . Piles w ill intro duce in congress a bill appropriating the $20,000,000 paid this country by China as damages in the Boxer upris ing to defray the expenses of Chinese students to be educated in American colleges. A part of this sum, it is pro posed, shall be expended in schools conducted by Americans in China. A b ill prepared under the direction of the faculty of the University of Washington has bean forwarded to Sen ator Piles, and the co-operation of coas educational institutions has been asked in the campaign. Out of this move ment, it is believed, w ill grow some thing satisfactory to China, and result ing in abandoning the boycott against American goods. The measure was agreed uopn at meeting of the faculty of the Universi ty of Washington, with A . W. Bash promoter of the Canton-Hankow and other Chinese railroads, and an inti mate friend of many high Chinese offi cials, and Dr. W . A . P. Martin, an ed ucator long employed in Chinese schools, who came West to welcome tbe high commission just landed at San Francisco. M r. Bash has been official ly designated by President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Root. Mr. Bash started the movement on the coast be cause he has been a resident here, and because he believes the Pacific Coast states originating the movement woul< strengthen the fight. For that reason the co-operation of Oregon and Cali fornia educators was asked. Under the plan adopted here, the in demnity money would be spent; First to invite Chinese students to the Unit ed States and provide for their educa tion in this country; second, to aid worthy American colleges already tablished in China; third, to provide for helping Chinese students at the American consulates in China. at Marion station, Marion county, to act as fruit inspector for Linn county, temporarily, on the recommendation of Horticultural Commissioner C. A . Park, of 8alem. M r. Park wished to secure here a man who would be ready to begin war on pests at once. Tbe COMBINE FOR COLONIZING. court w ill at once select a man for per manent appointment who w ill be asked Western Railroads Establish Bureau to take a short course in training under for Handling Business. Professor A . B. Cordley, at the Oregon Chicago, Jan 15.— General passenger Agricultural college. agents of Western lines, after three N ew port as Winter Resort. days of almost continuous discussion Albany — Many Albany people are have agreed upon a plan for the organi spending a portion of the winter at Newport on Yaquina bay, where the sation ot a general colonisation bureau weather as a general thing has been de to handle the details of the iseuance of lightful. Only a tew days during the certificates and tickets for land and im holiday season was the sea rough. migration business. Some of the leading people of the val Reports from those who attended the ley citiee— Salem, Eugene, Albany, In dependence and Corvallis— have spent Western Passenger Association meetings a portion of the winter at the seaside, during the debates on This proposition and Newport is gaining a reputation as indicate that there were some repre sentatives of railroads in the conference ‘a winter resort. who were in favor of abolishing the privileges the colonisation departments New Railroad for Gilliam. Salem — Article« of incorporation have found so valuable in-building up have been filed with the secretary of communities along the railroads. " W e were fearfu l," said a passenger state for the Oregon Northern Railway company. Tbe incorporators are: agent of one Western road, "th a t the W illiam J. Mariner, R . W . Robinson issuance of certificates would be abro and C. E. Jones. The road runs from gated and that every Wee ter o'” state’s Blalock, in G illiam county, to Hard development would be materially affect man, in Morrow county. The capital ed by the shutting off of the homeseek stock is $25,000, divided into 1,250 ers’ colonisation certificate provisions." According to one ot the passenger shares of $20 each. The principal agents, the bureau w ill handle the col place of business is Heppner. onisation business for all the roads in the Western Passenger association, and Contracts at Interest. Salem — The State Land board re there w ill be no diminuation in Lie ports interest bearing contracts out volume of business. standing December 31, as follows: School land contracts, $669,516.30; Shaw to Stay Another Year. Agricultural college, $28,993.82; U ni Chicago, Jan. 15.— A dispatch to the versity, $3,788. Chronicle from Washington says: At the meeting of the cabinet President PO RTLAND MARKETS. Roosevelt asked Secretary Sbaw to re main at the head of the Treasury de Wheat— Club, 71@71c; blueetem, 73 partment until March 4, 1907, and @74c; red, 68@69c; valley, 73c. Mr. Shaw agreed to do so. More than Oats— No. 1 white feed, $27; gray, a year ago Mr. Shaw let it be known $26.50 per ton. that he expected to retire from the Barley— Feed, $23.00<g23.50 per ton; cabinet in February of this year. The brewing, $24.00@24.50; rolled, $23.50 president did not understand that this 024.56. was the secretary’ s determination until some unusual reference was made to it Buckwheat— $2.50 per cental. H ay — Eastern Oregon timothy, a few weeks ago, and then he lost ro $18.60014.60 per ton; valley timothy, time in urging the secretary to remain $9010; clover, $9010; cheat, $8.600 in the cabinet for another year. Forest Grove— A t the meeting of the Forest Grove city council last week, State Senator E. W . Hainee, in behalf of the Forest Grove transportation com pany, a new organisation, applied for a 26-year franchise for an electric railway in Forest Grove, to run)from tbe South ern Pacific depot to the business section of the city, about two miles. Accord ing to the terms of the ordinance, the new line must be begun in 90 days, and completed in eight months. It is to carry the United States mail, express and passengers. Senator Haines furn ishes electric light to Forest Grove from his plant about 12 miles distant, and, it is understood, w ill furnish pow 9.60; grain hay, $809. er for the new road from his plant. Fruits— Applee— 75c@$1.50 per box, persimmons, $1.25 per box; pears, Buys Ranch in Gilliam. $1.2501-00 per box; cranberries, $13 Condon— A. 8. Hollen has purchased 013 60 per barrel. Vegetables — Beane, 20c per pound; he 860-acre ranch on Trail fork, G il liam county, belonging to J. W. Booth. cabbage, l@ 2 c per pound; cauliflower, The transaction, which involves about $1.25 per dosen; celery, $303.50 per $15,000, ia one of the most important crate; pumpkins, S iO lc per pound; per pound; squash, 1H real estate transfers for some time here, snrouts, and givee Mr. Hollen a most valuable O l %c per pound; turnips, 90cO$l par farm and stock ranch. In thedeal Mr. sack; carrots, 65 0 76c per sack; beets, Booth takes residence property in Con 85cO$l P « ' sack. * don valued at about $6,000, consisting Onions— Oregon, No. 1, $101.26 per of several fine dwellings. Mr. Hollen sack; No. 2, 76O90c. is proprietor of the Condon Flouring Potatoes — Fancy graded Burbanks, m ill. He w ill take possession of the 65 0 75c per sack; ordinary, 60060c; ranch about March 1. Merced sweets, 2c per pound. Butter— Fancy creamery, 27 ) { @ 32 )£c Allen Wants O regon Boys. per pound. Corvallis— Lieutenant Qninlan, com Eggs — Oregon ranch, 29O30c per mandant of the cadet regiment at the dosen. college, has received instructions to Poultry— Average old bens, 12)A9 recommend six additional graduates 14c per pound; springs, 12>A013c; from the Oregon Agricultural college mixed chickens, 12@12>^c; broilers, for positions as Third lieutenants in 16016c; dressed chickens, 14016c; tbe Philippine constabulary. • Three turkeys, live, 16c; turkeys dressed, similar recommendations were recently choice, 17O20c; geese, live, 9011c; made, and from these one appointment ducks, 1 6 0 16c. has already been made, that of Lieu Hops— Oregon, 1906, choice, 10011c tenant Floyd Williams, who has gone per pound; prime, 8 ) { ® 9 ) { ; medium, to Manila. 70 8c; olds, 607c. W ool— Eastern Oregon average best, Few Hops Left In Josephine. 16021c per pound; valley, 24026c; Grants Pass — Several sales of hops mohair, choice, 30c. have been made here recently at from Beef — Dressed bulls, 102c per to 10 cents. About 500 bales have pound; cows, 30 4c; country steers, changed hands, aad by February 1 but 4 0 4 * c . few hops w ill be held by tbe growers Veal— Dressed, 8 0 8 per pound. in Josephine county. There are quite Mutton— Dressed, fancy 6 ® 6 ){c per a few baby hops still held and a few pound; ordinary, 4<§6c; lambs, 7 0 old ones, though not to exceed 500 7 * e . bales in all. Pork— Dressed, 6#7>Ac per pound. A c e r- All) EVERY SCANDAL Senate Committee to Investigate Affairs of Canal. MAY ABOLISH CANAL COMMISSION Latitude Will Be Given in Taking Tes timony in Hope o f Showing Mismanagement. Washington, Jan. 13.— W hile the senate has labored to mask the truth, the fact is that next Tuesday Theodore Roosevelt, W illiam H . Taft, Theodore P. Shonts, John F. Stevens and, inci dentally, John F. Wallace, are to be arraigned and tried before the none too impartial judges who constitute tbe senate committee on interoceanic can als. The trial is to be called an investiga tion, but it means simply that every suppoeed scandal, every petty criti cism, every report of friction between officials, every story of an unearned salary, every tale of a discharged em ploye and every fleeting bit of gossip is to be told in public, and from them all the members o f the committee expect to get— possibly some of them hope to get— the basis for a direct charge of in competence, or it may be of guilt. There ia not a soul in Washington whq believes that anything w ill come of the investigation save the knowledge al ready held that some of the heads of the enterprise have had their bickerings and their disagreements. It may be that in the course of tbe hearings the public may learn t^ie real reason for the resignation of M r. Wal lace. I t may learn whether or not there was any train in the reports of friction between Mr. Taft and Mr. Shonts. It may learn whether or not Poultney Bigelow drew the long bow, but that anything substantial can come from the investigation no one . in bis heart believes. I t is understood that the greatest lat itude w ill be given in the matter of asking questions, and, if curiosity about personal differerencee between officials is to be considered one of the chief things which it is necessary satisfy, tbe senate and the people may have their fill of satisfaction. The senate declares that President Roosevelt practically challenged tbe investigation and that it has been de cided not to deny him. There was nothing for the president to do, appar ently, in the present condition of af fairs, except to "ch a llen ge" an inves tigation. There i i a feeling in Wash ington that he tdbk the course that he did to win eventually the right to con duct the canal construction unhamper ed by a commission of seven men. I f the result of the investigation leads to the statutory abolition of tbe canal body, it may be that trouble and rumors of.trou b le w ill disappear and that the work w ill go forward, showing that a strong hand is behind it. SEETHING WITH EXCITEMENT. Young China Wants Reform Old China Adheres to Graft. Pekin, Jan. 13. — Reports from the South and from the Yangtse valley re gion show the anti-foreign sentiment to be very strong. China undoubtedly is in a ferment of politcial excitement, but the movement is directed as much against the government as against the foreigners. The government ia between two fires. The young China party is clamoring because reforms are being executed too slowly, while the conservatives and the officials, tbe latter having their per quisites threatened, are resisting all efforts at reform. In spite of the protests in Northern Chins, the foreign ministers have not changed their minds for the withdrawal of foreign troops from Chile province, the only exception being the legation gi arda. the ministers believing that the Chinese government is both able Russia Gets Help in Paris. St. Petersburg, Jan. 15.— Confirms and determined to protect foreigners in tion has been received of the report the event of a revolution. that ex-Minister Kokovsoff has been partially surceesfkl in his mission to Demand a Low er Rate. Paris. A credit of $60,000,000 bss Juneau, Alaska, Jan. 13. — At a been obtained from the French bankers, meeting attended by 36 Douglas C ity with the assurance of an increase in the shippers lest night a telegram was or amount, should it prove necessary to dered to be »«nt that no contract would maintain the stability of the rouble. be signed with the two steamship com I t is explained, however, that the panies now .doing business unless a rat» credit is not in the nature of a loan to of 25 per cent less than the present ra t» tbe Ruseian government, but is strictly be granted. A t present only three con an operation between the State bank of tracts have been signed in Juneau w ith Russia and the French banks. the two companies. A ll other shippers were waiting'for some move by Tacoma Calhoun Will Ifigke Report. or Portland. There is some agitation Washington, Jan. 16.— Mr. Calhoun, to get Tacoma to pool the issue with the president's speeial minister to Portland. Venesuela, has telegraphed Mr. Root from Chicago that be w ill submit early Castro Will Sell Asphalt'Lake. this week the report on the asphalt con New York, Jan. 13.— According to troversy tailed for in the depsrtment private advicee received from Caracas, as a basis for tbe »sum ption of active President Castro w ill offer for sale to negotiations with Venesuela looking to the higheest bidder the concession for a settlement of the claims. The cable the asphalt lake Gnanaioco, of which company has reported to the secretary (be New York A Bermudec company that its line« connecting with Venesu was deprived about a year and a half ela are interrupted. ago. The asphalt property, which is in the state of Bermudes, is now being Needs o f Railway Mail Clerks. operated by Ambrose Howard Carner, Washington, Jan. 16. — Tbe annual as a receiver under appointment by the report of the general superintendent of High Federal court. railway mail service for the fiscal year 1905 shows tbe total number of miles More Jamaicans for Canal. of service by railroad, electric, cable Kingston, Jan. 18.— Four hundred and steamboat lines to have been 876,- men sailed from Kingston this after 684,037. An urgent plea is made for a noon on the steamer Tagus for Colon to retirement and superannuation fund for k employment in the canal sone. the benefit of clerks disabled in line of Each man deposited $6.26 with t h » duty or worn out through long and treasury under the immigrants protec faithful service. tion law.
