NEWBERG GRAPHIC
Philippine Exports Exceed Imports
First Tim e Since Annexation.
R. H. WOODWARD,
NKwbEKG.
OREGON
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Il I
A Resume o f th o 'L o M Important but
N ot Leas Interesting Events
o f the Past W eek.
A general strike has been ordered in
Basáis in Aagast.
Dreyfus has been deoorated
croas o í tbe Legión of Honor.
with
a
Tbere has been a Wholesale alaoghter
of blacks by Germana in Africa
Perpetnal daylight in Alaska serions-
ly interiores with wirelees telegraphy.
Another row has broken ont in tbe
gorernment printlng office at Washing
ton, D. C.
A F reneh woman has been arrested
in Paria for robSery.
8he concealed
her plander in s wooden leg.
The wsrehonsss of the International
Harveater company at Sterling, Illinois,
b ere been dostroyed by fire.
Washington, Jaly 24.— Tbe two moot
noteworthy featoreo of tbe commercial
ntorna of the Philippine islands for
1006 are a balance in faror of the is
lands for the first calendar year period
in the history of the American occupa
tion, and the adrance of American
goods to the first rank in the import
trade. The favorable trade balance ia
doe to increased export values, which
aggregated $33,464,744, or more than
14.000,000 in excess of the exports for
1904.
An increase of $600,000 in
American trade in 1606 with tbe is
lands, combined with a decline in rice
imports, gives to the United States tbe
lead, and in view of tbe anticipated
farther decline in the demand for for
eign rice in the islands, the United
States ia expected to continue to in
crease its lead.
The increase of $3,000,000 in tbe
imports from the United States in the
last five years is largely made op of
imports of iron and steel and their
manufactures; cotton, raw and manu
factured, and illuminating oil. The
iron and steel trade approximated $3,-
000,000 in value. Great Britain gained
most in the iron and steel trade with
tbe islands, but the United States takes
tbe lead, whereas Great Britain was
formerly In the lead.
There is still
great room for improvement in the ex
ports from the United States to the is-
$ 100.000.
ALL BIDS ARE AT GOOD PREMIUM
A vera ge
The National Pure Food convention
Washington, July 24.— A steel pas
endorsed tbe stand taken by President senger car has recently been completed
Booeevelt os tbe pure food law.
in Pittsburg for tbe Southern railway
which
is regarded as the beginning of
General 8 to easel, commander of Port
Arthur, during the Russo-Japanese tbe general use of steel instead of wood
war, has been sentenced to death by a for all kinds of railway cars. Tbe car
m ilitary commission for surrendering is 74 feet 46 inches long over all and
weighs 110,000 pounds. There was no
to the Japaneee.
wood used in its construction except for
Missouri is after tbe ice trust.
tbe interior decorations, and that wood
Evidence is being secured againsf was made fireproof. I t is said that the
car could not he telescoped in a collis
tbe tobacco trust.
ion, neither could tbe ends be smashed
A French dirigible balloon recently in, and it is non combustible.
remained in tbe air eight boars.
Tbe government ia preparing to gauge
many Oregon and Washington streams.
The Virginia 3-cent-a-miie railroad
rate law has been declared uneonstitu-
A tramp steamer bumped into tbe
battleship Rhode Island, springing
her armour plates badly.
pecking homes have
five days to clean up or close op.
Kaiser as C zar’s Evil Genius.
St. Petersburg, July 24.— Tonight
stories were industriously spread that
tbe emperor’ s final decision to dissolve
parliament was not taken until he had
communicated with Berlin. According
to one story, a member of tbe German
embassy engaged a wire for direct com
munication with Emperor W illiam ,
and only after receiving and trans
mitting a 1 , 006 -word diipetqh from
Emperor W illiam to Emperor Nicholas
was the ukase finally signed.
Tbe executors of the estate of tbe
late Marshall Field estimate tbe value
Cigarmakers May Establish Stores.
of the property left at $36,000,000.
Chicago, July 24.— Tbe Cigarmakers’
A ll express companies operating on union, it is understood, has taken up
tbe Northern Pacific and Great North -eriously a proposal to establish far-
ern roads have consolidated and here ories for the making of cigars in all
after w ill be known as the Northern he large cities in the United States,
Express compea-. Tbe deal also in •od also of stores under tbe control of
cludes the Adame Express company on the nnioa, through which to get tbe
the Burlington.
manufactured goods to the
Premium
o f Nearly 4 P e r
Cent is O ffered— Interest at
3 Par Cent.
Washington, July 81. — Bids were
opened at the Treasury department
late yesterday for tbe $30,000,000 10-30
Panama Canal bonds, bearing 3 per
cent interest, under Secretary Shaw’ s
circular of July 2 an 1, although no
awards w ill be made until today oi
later, it is evident that the entire issue
has. been subscirbed for at an average
of from 103.94 to 103.96. Mr. Shaw
and other officials of the Treasury de
partment expressed themselves as high
ly pleased and entirely satisfied with
the figures obtained.
The total number and amounts of
bids made w ill not be ascertained until
today, but it la apparent that the whole
issue has been subscribed for several
times over. The largest and best sin
gle offer was that of Fisk & Robinson,
of New York, who made six bida of
$6,000,000, each at an average of
103.86. Smaller bids at higher prices,
however, w ill probably reduce tbe
amount which w ill likely be awarded
to i&em
to about $16,000,000.
One
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bid 9* 106 for the whole . issue came
from a man named Lindsay at New
Orleans, but on acoount of conditions
named and. for other reasons the bid
was not considered. Several telegraph
ic bids were received too late to be con
sidered, but the prices named were too
small to be successful.
The secretary having stated that the
bonds would be numbered serially be
ginning with the highest bid, one offer
was made at 126 for $1.000, thus secur
ing to the bidder bond No. 1.
An ex
amination of the best bids shows that
offers of }04 1-16 and up aggregated
$16,394,860; 104 to 104 1-16 aggregat
ed $1,100.880; 103.76 to 104 aggregat
ed $14,177,000.
L O S S L O O M IN G BIG.
San Francisco Insurance May Reach
Total o f »3 0 0 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 .
St. Petersburg, July 23 — Russia’
first experiment in parliamentary g
eminent came to an ignominious en<
Saturday night with the promulgation
of two imperial nkases, the first dis
solving the present parliament and pro
viding for the convocation of its suc
cessor on March 6, 1907, more than
six months hence, and tbe seooud pro
claiming the capital of Russia and the
surrounding province to be in a state of
extraordinary security, which is only
infinitessimally different from full mar
tial law. This measure of safety is to
provide for the outburst 'which un'
doubtedly w ill be provoked by this
daring measure. I t is now but a step
to dictatorship.
There is little doubt that the order
for the convocation of the new assem
bly w ill still further postpone the time,
an less the new parliament promises to
be more amenable than the present.
Tbe delay in fixing the time for the
new elections seems to indicate a de
cision to change tne present basis of
suffrage to perhaps a basis of universe
suffrage with which the advisers o f the
emperor hope to swamp the educated
liberals, the Socialists and the work
men with the vast mass of peasantry.
Tbe only uncertainty is the coming
storm— when and where it w ill break
The advocates of the ’ ’ mailed fist” be
lieve that, by dissolving parliament
and provoking a collision now, they
will find tbe revolutionary leaders not
prepared for an uprising at Moscow
whereas further delay would nearly
give tbe revolutionists tbe time neat
to organize and to continue the corrup
tion e iJ h e army.
Tbere are no precedents in Russian
history for the execution of an order of
prorogation, but today probably w ill
find the palace in possession of tbe mi
lltia and the surrounding streets d eliv
ered to the emperor’ s guards.
W IL L USE BO M B.
Terrorists Mark Victims fo r Death—
TrepofF is Warned.
.
St. Petersburg, Joy 23'.— Although
the victory of the reactionists seems at
present to be complete, neither tbe So
cialists nor the Terrorists have accepted
tbe eituation, and, w hile the people are
apparently completely overawed hy the
diaplay of force on the pert of the an
thoritiaa, it w ill be neceoaery to con
tinne the nae of the bayonet for tome
time. General Trepoff himself is an
thority for tbe statement that be has
again been warned that be is marked
for assassination. Despite thia fact, be
continues actively at work, although
at all times' surrounded by a heavy
gnard.
Tbe Socialist members of tbs dooms
have bald a number of secret meetings,
bat so far they have refrained from
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out their avowed determine-
ming e proclamation attacking
the csar, tbe reactionary element and
more especially their former allies, tbs
ConstHntionel Democrats. I f they do
so, trouble mast come.
PEOPLE ARE FLEEING IN PANIC
Extinct Volcano
Naar the Town Is
Suspected o f Reviving and
Causing 8hocks.
E l Paso, Tax., July 19.— Earthquake
shocks numbering between 50 end 60
have practically made a rain of the
town of Socorro, 160 miles north of this
piece.
Tbe oonrtbonse is a mass of
rains, and practically all the booses in
town ere damaged.
According to re
ports received, tbere is no loos of life
Tbe damage hes been wrought by
continuation of slight quakes, which
have canted tbe walls of structures al
ready cracked to tumble to tbe earth
Tbe first shocks were felt on Sunday,
bat tbe rani damage baa been confined
to tbe last two days.
E. M. Fink, a cattle buyer who came
from Socorro today, declares be *
sitting at dinner at tbe Winckler hotel
on Monday, when tbe entire aide wall
o l tbe dining room fell in, and tbe
guests and all tbs waiters scattered'
every direction. Tb e people are in
panic and all whnnan do M a r e leaving
town.
Tbere ia a crater of what is thought
to be an extinct volcano not more than
eight miles from Socorro, and the in
habitants think that perhaps tbe vol
cano has something to do with tbe
markable ear lee of shocka.
The tom
perature of tbe water in Hut Springs at
Socorro has increased over ten degrees
and it ia thought that this furnishes
new evidence of internal upheaval of a
local nature, end that tbe earth is dis
turbed at great depths in the immediate
vicinity of tbe town.
The National railroad ia sending box
cars into the town to take tbe people
away so great is their desire to leave
tbe town.
Huge boulders bave been jarred down
on tbe track from tbe mountain sidee,
and trains bave been delayed thereby
Tbe bridge abutments have been affect'
ed to such an extent that orders have
been issned to Santa Fa trainmen to
proceed with great caution over bridges
within a radios of 80 miles of Socorro
Washington, July 23.— In acordance
with a supplemental proclamation is
sued by tbe president, tue register and
receiver of tbe land office for Lander,
Wyo., district, shall receive entries for
lands in tbe ceded portion of tbe Sho
shone reservation at Sboshona, W yo.,
from Angnet 16 to October 3, 1906, in
stead of at Lander, as provided in tbe
proclamation of Jane 2. This action
was based on tbe fact that the railroad
now building into tbe reservation w ill
not be constructed from Shoshone to
Lander until after August 15, and the
change is made to accommodate pros
pective entry men.
A ll persons wbo draw numbers at tbe
drawing, which begina at Lander,
Wyo., on Angnet 4, 1906, which num
ber« entitle them to moke entry be
tween the dates of Aognta 15 and Oc-
tooer 3, inclusive, must proceed to Sho
shone, W yo., and make their entries
instead of going 1o Lander, as provided
in tbe first proclamation. After Octo
ber 8 entries w ill be made at Lander.
Salt Lake City, July 19.— R am on to
the effect that agents of tbe Federal
governmet era busy in Utah preparing
to institute suits of a sensational na
tars for the recovery of vast areas of
public domain, current here for several
months, were revived today, with an
additional statement that within ton
days suits wonld be brought in tbe Fed
eral court bere to recover to tbe g tv
eminent more than 30,000 acres of coal
lands, alleged to h *te been acquired by
coal companies through fraudulent
means, part m agricultural or grasing
lands through selection by tbs Utah
state land board, being later transferred
to the coal companies.
Other coal landa are said to have
been filed on ae each by dummies wbo
later traneferred them to the corpora
tions. More than 100 entries of this
character are said to have been ran
down.
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W hile these reports cannot be abso
lutely verified, a Federal official in this
city today admitted that salts are in
preparation, making the additional
statement that tbe Federal officials in
trusted with tbe matter had received
positive inetractions from Washington
not to talk, bat to prepare for action.
I t ia stated also that a Federal grand
jury may be called to sift tbe evidence
that bas been gathered in preparation
for tbe proeecntion of tbe civil cases.
Reciprocity Treaty With Spain.
Madrid, July 21.— American Minis
ter C ollier has left Madrid for San Se
bastian, where today he w ill sign with
Foreign Minister Gallon the new com
mercial treaty between the United State*
and Spain. Tbe document ia consid
ered most advantageous to both sides,
overcoming a number of increases in
tbs Spanish tariff, which became oper
ative July 1, end giving Spain recip
rocal advantages. The prese w elcom e
the agreement m entirely satisfactory
end as evidence of the friendly inter
course between tbe two governments.
Investigation T o Ba Made.
8an Francisco, July 23.— A m ilitary
inveetigation and a grand jnry inquiry
have been ordered to Inquire into tbe
ry surrounding the disappearance
e wagonloads of liqaora dispatch
ed from the Monlder school warehouse
to the Jefferson park hospital store
room.
Major General Greely, com
manding tbe department of tbe Pacific,
has ordered Lieutenant Colonel John
P. Wisaer, inspector general, to trace
the disposition of every bottle of liquor
seat here for relief purpose« that passed
through the army station.
Arkansas A fte r Trust.
L ittle Rock, Arfe., Jaly 19. — Sait
was entered today against tbe five cot
toneeed oil mills of this city by A ttor
ney General Rogers and Prosecuting
Attorney Rboton, charging them witn
being members of a combine in viola
tion of tbe anti-trnet law, and alleging
restriction of trade.
Tbe suits ask
judgment in the anm of $6,000 per day,
aggregating $130,000 against each com
pany, and ask also the revocation of
their charters in this state. I t ie an-
understood suits w ill be entered against
tbe remaining 34 m ill*.
Foreign Trade »2 ,0 7 0 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 .
Washington, July 21. — A statement
leaned today by tbe department of
Commerce end Labor rays tbe foreign
com mere of tbe United States In the
fiscal year jnst ended aggregated $2,-
970,000,000. I f the trade with Porto
Rico and Hawaii, which was included
in our foreign commerce prior to tbeir
annexation were added, tbe total would
materially axcead $8,009.000,000. To
tal Imports were $1.226,000,060, aad
exports $1,744,000,000.
Guatemalans Shot All Prisoners.
San Salvador, July 23. — Tbe Salva
dorean newspapers accuse the Guate
malan troops of having killed Salvador
an prieonera.
They say that General
Cristalee, when the armistice was
signed, returned to tbe Guatemalan
army all the Imprisoned offloera and
soldiers of Gnstemsls. bat tbs papers
assert the Guatemalans were nnebls tr
take a corresponding step because
all tbs prisoners they bad captured
were shot.
Crops May Rot.
Warsaw, July 19.— Tbe agrarian
■trike ie still, spreading and now ex
tends throughout several provinces, in
wh’ch the harvest is threatened with
destruction by the refneal of tbe peas
ants to work in tbe fieldee. The Land-
owners’ union baa refused to grant the
lemande of tbe strikers.
Paring tbe
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ft»»-«
terrorists have
attacked and robbed 20 government
■p m i Mores.
Wholesale murders o l
policemen h «v » «»rnrred
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G reet Demand fo r Troops.
Odessa, July 31.— General Kaulbers
has been overwhelmed recently 'w ith
appeals for m ilitary oasi stance from
landowners in the districts of Kherson,
Yekaterlnoelav and Poltava, against
tbs peasantry, who are organised and
led by revolutionists.
Stron boii.Opsns New Crater.
Threaten Revolt o f Fleet.
Rome.
Jnly 19.— An slarniii g erup-
Sebastopol, July 28.— A msetins o*
2,300 sailors from tbs •■arships here lon ie reported st Stromholi, the vol«
M*
*he Llparl islands off tbe
today drew up economic demands for
presentation to Admiral Skrydioff Un north ooast of Scily. A new crater bas
iMuit-fl, which is belching out tangs
less these demands are fulfilled tbe
men sey tbe whole of tbe Black sea qnantitiee of fiery matter, end all vege
tation in tbe vicinity is being destroyed.
float w ill revolt.
Boom ers’ Scene o f Operations Trans
ferred From Lander.
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Assistant Secretary Ryan Takan Initi
ative and Buys Sunnyslds Canal.
Soccesslve Light Shocks Shake
Down Earthen Walls.
San Francisco, Cal., July 21.— I t
now looks as if the insurance risks in
the burned district, of. San Francisco
w ill foot up considerably more than
$260,000,000, and the total may go up
to nearly $300,000,000.
Tbe esti
mates of insurance managers have been
crawling upward all tbe time, and tbe
figures given in reports filed by the
companies with the New York Ioeu r
ance department indicate that even the
highest estimate which they have made
is too low.
Several weeks after the conflagration
detailed estimate of tbe amount of
each company’ s risks fixed the total
insurance in the burned district at
$262,363,000. Thirty-three companies
which have made sworn returns to tbe
New York Insurance department, ad
mit a liability of $162^199,000. Tbe
estimate of their liability was $96,063,-
000.
Taking the same percentage of
difference for all tbe 108 companies
which were included in the list, tbe
total of their liabilities would be
placed at $269,271,000.
An addition must be
made for
Lloyds, for tbe “ undegrround” con
cerns, and for the companies which
bad some ricks bere but were not
named with tbe 108. This addition
may be estimated at
$10,000 000,
which brings the total up to about
$280,000 000.
From this calculation tbe German,
of Freeport, and the German National
are omitted, as their returns to tbe New
York Insurance department have a pe
culiar look.
On the basis of tbe re
turns of tbe thirty-three companies
above referred to, the German, of Free
port, and the German National, wonld
be involved to the extent of $6,213,000
in tbe disaster, hut they admit a loss
of only $2,817,000.
E N TE R LA N D A T S H O S H O N E .
RED T A P E T A T T E R E D .
IS
Czar Places Russia Back Under His
Own lOespotlc Rulev
$30,000,000 for Panama Canal
Horn Than Subscribed.
CANNED M EAT EXPO RTS.
Fire almost totally deatroyed the
plant of the United States Leatber com- Japan Used Large Quantities During
pony s i Plantías, Wisoonsin. The ‘
W ar With Russia.
I b placed at $600,000.
Washington, July 34.— Complete fig
Heneeforth the canal commiasion ures of the exports of American canned
w ill pay s il laborara tai si leer.
The meats far the pest fiscal .year are shown
changa wsa nado on accoant of West today ia a statement imued by (he de
Indian negroea, wbo woold rmtber partment of Commerce and Labor. Tbe
aterre than apend gold.
value of canned meats exported from
Two V i en na doctora callad in consol- the United States In June, 1906, was
tation on a case diaagreed and a dual $461,100, against $797,137 in June,
followed. fioth were woonded and aent 1906, and in the fiscal year 1906. $9,-
to the hospital. In toe meantime the 233.410, against $9,977,046 in 1906.
Tbe figures for the fiascl year 1906
patient recovered withont medical as-
included: Canned beef, $6,430,446
sistance.
canned pork, $1,216,86,7; and othe
I t ia baliered the csar w ill dissolre canned meets, $1,687,107. The quan
the dooma.
tity of canned beef exported in tbe fis
cal year was 64,623,850 pounds, as
Snppreaaion of newspapers cao sed
against 66,688,668 pounds in 1006.
riot in St. Peteraburg.
The redaction in exports occurred nl
Peace has been signad among the most exclusively in the shipments to
Central American repnblice.
Japan, which country took
large
The laat o f the ladrona chiefs in the amounts of American beef during the
wai, but greatly decreased her imports
Philippines has anrrandered.
on the disbandment of the army. The
Germany propoeee to saciado Am eri
exports to Japan daring the fiscal year
can cansad meat of erety deocription.
1906 were 3,306,683 pounds, against
A rerolntion in México is threat- 14,687,166 pounds in 1906, and in the
inspirad by bostiiity to A m eii month of June, 1906, were 34,413
oanda, against 3,613,188 pounds in
one, 1906.
The National L i'
Tbe United Kingdom was tbe great
nuances the reports recently made on
est
buyer of canned beef, exports to
the moat pecking industry.
that country
increasing
4,768,816
John D. Boeaefeller w ill be arrested pounds for tbe fiscal year, but decreas
immediately on his arrival in tbe ing for the month of June, 1906.
United States.
H e has sailed for this
country.
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Y E A R N FO R O L D H O M E .
Tb e whole city of Sysran. Russia,
has been destroyed by fire. The con N o Houses fo r Hundreds Who Would
flagration has rendered 36,000 persons
Return to San Francisco.
homeless, who are also without food.
San Francisco, July 24. — San Fran
Meager reports have been received of cisco’ s greatest need is homes.
The
a fierce fire in Yokohama, Japan. More people who were driven from the city
than a tbouaand bouses were d< stroyed at the time of the disaster are eager to
and some life is known to have been return, several thousand laborers are
lost.
imperatively needed to aid in the work
Tbe capital of Alaska bas been moved of rebuilding, but tbere are no bouses
for them
The rehabilitation commit
from Sitka to Juneau.
tee bas set po work to furnish relief,
Scotland w ill try to induce parlia but the resources at its command w ill
ment to grant home rule.
admit of only slight assistance. This
Santo Domingo w ill borrow $20,000, committee w ill build some 3,000 homes
for workmen, but this w ill not even
000 and pay all outstanding claims.
serve to house the thousands still Jiv
Germany and Austria w ill help the
ing in tents.
if another revolution breaks out.
I t is to individual initiative that tbe
A forest fire in Calaveras county city must look.
Evidences that this
threatna destruction to California’ s big w ill be forcthcoming are beginning to
appear.
trees.
In tbe Richmond district, the sec
Tbe bishop of Zululand accuses the
British troops of wantonly killin g many tion located between Golden Gate perk
and the neck of the bay, several bom
natives.
are being erected and have been rented
Santos Dumont has a new airship in advance.
which he believes an improvement over
Still it is to the stretch of land south
anything yet built.
of Market street that the people must
The mayor of Socorro, Tex., says re look for the rebuilding of homes ig s u f
ports o f tbe recent earthquake were ficient quantity to solve tbe problem.
Here dwelt tbe thousands of the city’ s
greatly overdrawn.
poorest and i . is to this section that
Tbe English parliament w ill appro they wish to return.
priate $1,060,000 for the relief of the
unemployed this winter.
Unbreakable Passenger Car.
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D O U M A D I8 8 0 L V E D .
SELL WELL
B A LA N C E F A V O R S IS LA N D S .
U TA H C O A L L A N D 8 S T O L E N .
Federal Agents Procuring Evidence
fo r Prospective Suite.
Washington, Jnly 20.— Acting Secre
tary of tbe Interior Ryan today ap
proved tbe purchase of the Sannyaide
irrigation canal in Eastern Washing
ton, and authorised tbe payment of
$260,000 for tbe seme to tbe Washing
ton Irrigation oom pany. The approval
of this purchase removes tbs last ob
stacle in tbe w «y of the construction by
tbs government of tbe Teton and Sun*
nyalde irrigation projects.
Had this sale not been concldned to
day, (b e Washington Irrigation com
pany wonld have withdrawn its offer
and tbe government would have been
obliged to abandon both its projects, or
else enter upon prolonged litigation.
Notwithstanding tbe fact that Secretary
Hitchcock approved tbe Tleton and
Sonnyside projects more than six
months ago and authorised tbe pur
chase of tbe Snnnyside canal at tbe
above price, the ow nen of the canal
have been enable to collect one cent
from the government, because the sec
retary of tbe Interior has not approved
tlie-tosssal purchase, some of tbe gov
ernment lawyers having found trivial
objections' which they believed ehonld
be corrected before tbe government
paid for tbe canal.
M r. Hitehcoek,
on hie counselors’ advice, refused to
pay over tbe money.
B IG G E 8T O F A L L D R Y D O C K S .
Will Be Built o f C oncrete at
ton Navy Yard.
Washington, July 30.— Pleas for. the
largest and best drydock In the world
are being prepared in tbe bureau o f
Yards and Docks at the Navy depart
ment, to cost $1,860,000 and to be con
structed at the Bremerton navy yard,
Pngetaonnd, Washington. This amount
is the largest aver appropriated for a
dock, and tbe new dock w ill be able to
take in tbe largest battleship, either in
oonrse of constraction or in contem
plation. Tbe location has already been
•elected, and borings are being made to
learn tbe depth of foundation. I t ie to
be a concrete dock of tbe largeet pat
tern and materials w ill be purchased on
the Pacific coast If practicable.
The dock is to be so constructed that
it can be lengthened H vessels of grant
or length should be b oilt ia tbe fntnre.
Tt w ill be 37 feet in depth over sill,
which w ill provide lor tbe docking pf
any vessel that can be bnllt, onTese
some now unknown system of building
ia developed. Tbe greater depth of tbe
new dock is also designed to meet casee
where a vessel bas been injured snd
draws much mors then the ordinary
depth on ecconnt of the injury.
N A T IO N E N T E R S B U S IN E 8 8 .
Japan Makes Greet Stride Forw ard
on Road to Socialism.
Washington, July 19.— According to
advices received by tbs bnreen of man
ufactures, tbe Japanese government bae
undertaken one of tbe greatest experi
ments in tbe world’ s history, which in
dicates a clear purpose to protect, su
pervise, develop snd nationalise all
Japanese industries. I t is stated that
the provision for tbe nationalisation of
railways was bat a single step in the
great plan of industrial naturalisation
toward which tbe country is fast ap
proaching.
Tbe movement for Manchurian na
tionalisation baa received careful atten
tion, end it is now proposed that a.
company shall be formed by the gov
ernment and private capitalists jointly
for tbs purpose of operating tbe rail
roads, forests end mines in Mancbnria..
I f successful along tbe lines Japan ie
now working, it is said that tbe indi
viduals and corporations of America
that ere striving for the trade of tbe
Orient w ill direrver , that they are not;
competing for this trade sgsinst indi
viduals and corporations o f Japan, bat
that they are in commercial conflict
with tbe Japanese nation itself.
Embezzles Igorretes’ Cash.
Washington, Jnly 20.— The War de
partment was advised today of tbe ar
rest in Chicago of Truman K . Hunt,
who brought to thia country a band o f
50 odd Igorrotes from tbe Philippines.
Acting n n d y {Detractions from tbe War
department, Hunt baa been formally
charged with bolding from the dog eat
ers for 16 months salariss which he
agreed to pay, and aleo with embeasiing
111,000, money they bad made by sell
ing souvenirs from tbsir far-away boms.
Hunt was at ons time governor of tbe
Igorrote district.
British Anti ClgarStts Bill*
London, Jaly 20.— Tb'j committee of
tbe boas« of lords on jnvsnile smoking
bas resulted in favor o f legislation on
tbs lines of Sir Ralph L ittler’ s bill in
the house of commons, providing a pen
alty for selling cigarettes to e child un
der 16 years of age, imposing e penalty
on anyone fonnd in possession of ciga
rettes or smoking tobacco, end author
ising tbs police, schoolmasters and
parkkeepers to stop youths from smok
ing and to confiscate tbeir tobacco.
Refugees A re Returning.
Sea Francisco, Jnly 30.— I t was sr*
timated that within three weeks of tbe
I ire on April 18, (a lly 385.000 people
left Sen Francisco. According to com
putations mads today, jnst three
months after tbs fire, tbere are now In
Pen Francisco 866,000 peoplet with 60,.
000 more waiting in nearby cities for
pportnnity to retara as soon as sa lt-
able accomodations eaa be had.