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B. N. WOODWARD. PubUshar
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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.
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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.
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burial.
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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.
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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.