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18 TH O R N LEB B W ONDER.
NEWS ROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL
LATIN-AMERICAN COMMERCE
LANE’S
NORTHWESTERN
TOUR
Total Hat Mora Than Doubled Dur­ Will , Hear Rate Oasea in Portland,
ing Past Ton Yoara.
Spokane and Seattle.
Washington, Sept. 4.— According to
official flguiaa, the trade of the United
States with the La tin-American coun­
tries in the fiscal year just ended aggre­
gated more than 1600,000,000, against
$234,000,000 in 1897. In LaGn-Amer­
ican countries are included British
Honduras, British and Dutch Guiana,
and the West Indian islands under
British, Dutch and Daneish control.
The imports from the same countries
in 1907 amounted to $360,000,000,
against $166,000.000 in 1897, having
thus a little more than doubled during
the decade, while the exports thereto
aggregated $266,000,000 in 1907 against
$80,000,000 in 1897, having a little
more than trebled during the decade.
From the Latin West Indies and the
French W est Indian possessions the
imports in 1907 were $124,000,000,
against $24,000,000 in 1897, and the
exports thereto in 1907 $82,000,000
against $17,000,000 in 1897.
Comparing the trade of 1907 with
that of 1906, a gain of over $20,000,000
in exports is shown, composed almost
exclusively of manufactured articles,,
which form nearly 6 per cent of the
exports to Cuba, about 70 per cent of
those to Mexico, and about 86 per oent
o f those to Central and South Am eri­
ca, while from all of the countries in
question, the imports oonsist chiefly of
foodstuffs and manufacturers’ materials.
Great Engineering Feat.
Washington, Sept. 6.— A report has
just reached the State department of
what is declared to be the greatest en­
gineering work of the kind ever at­
tempted on the European continent.
I t is to be a oanal under the Rove
mountains to connect the port of Mar­
seilles more directly with the river
Rhine.
Consular Clerk M. B. Kirk,
o f Paris, reports that the minister of
public works in Franoe and the conns*!
general of bridges have recently report­
ed the expenditure of over $16,000,000
fo r the construction of the tunnel canal,
which is to be four and one-half m iks
long, 73 feet wide and 43 feet above the
water level to the vaulted room. I t
w ill be completely lighted by electri­
city and possess a small railroad run­
ning along the side.
Wahington, Sept. 6. — Interstate
Commerce Commissioner Lane w ill be
In Portland September 16 to hear argu­
ments on oomplaint of the Oregon Rail­
road commission against the Chicago A
Alton and varioua other roads, the com­
mission alleging that the rate on de­
natured alcohol shipped from Chicago
and Missouri river points is excessive.
Before reaching Portland Mr. Lane
w ill hear arguments at Spokane, Sep­
tember 9, on complaint of rthe oity of
Spokane against the Northern Pacific,
Great Northern and O. B. A N., alleg­
ing that their rate on sheet steel from
Pittsburg to Spokane la excessive and
out of proortton to the rate from Pitts­
burg to Seattle. On September 18 Mr.
Lane w ill hear arguments at Seattle in
several oases against the Northern Pa­
cific, in which it is alleged that .Its
rates on shingles from Avon and Edge-
comb, Wash., to points in Minnesota
and Texa are unreasonable.
UNCLE 8AM FIGHTS PLAGUE.
Roosevelt Orders the Public Health
— Service to Aid 8an Francisco.
Washington, Sept. 7.— By direction
of President Roosevelt, the public
health and marine hospital service haa
assumed charge of measures to stamp
out the plague in San Francisco. This
step was taken today by request of
Mayor Taylor, of San Francisco, who
added that the city would do all that is
possible towards providing funds to
carry on the work.
_ Acting promptly on telgraphio in­
structions from Oyster Bay, Surgeon
General Wyman Issued the necessary
orders and advised the mayor of San
Francisco that the corps of the service
officers already on duty there would
be augmented and that additional
measures would be taken to prevent the
spread of the disease.
Burbank Telle Irrigation Congress o f
Latest Creation.
Sacramento, Chi., Sept. 6.— Most in­
teresting among the addresses delivered
at the Irrigation congress jesterday wae
one by Luther Burbank, the wizard,
who told of efforts to prodooe e thorn-
leas cactus.^ Resolutions on national
land policy were adopted end a elate
for officer! prepared by the committee
on organisation.
A resolution was Introduced by the
Outdoor League department of the Cal­
ifornia club, through its chairman,
Mrs. Lovell White, declaring that N i­
agara Falla are menaced with destruc­
tion through the rapacity of the power
oompaniee located on both sides of the
river. The resolution, which was re­
ferred to the committee on resolutions,
urged that the oongress approve the act
of the American Civic association in lta
attempt to preserve unimpaired Niag­
ara Falls, and urging congress to enaot
necessary legislation.
Luther Burbank, the expert
on
plants, who appeared before the con­
gress Wednesday night, wae again
called on for an address. He told the
congress of his experiments in toying to
produce a thornless cactus. He had all
but succeeded, he said, a lack of nutri­
tion being the only obstacle to be over­
come. He predicted that thia thorn­
less cactus would become the greet fod­
der of the arid region, for ell kinds of
stock relish it end fatten quickly.
About 200 tons can be grown per acre,
an extraordinary output compared with
other kinds of feed. The development
of the high nutrition is being assidu­
ously pursued by M r. Burbank, and the
grazing men w ill soon have some im ­
portant news from the wizard.
The congress adopted a resolution de­
claring that there should be no thought
of making a profit for the government
through the sale of timber or granting
of grazing privileges. Bona fide min­
ers, stockmen and farmers should be
only charged a rate for such privilesgee
which would meet the government ex-
Evans' Fleet Starts,, North.
Washington, Sept. 5.— Admiral Ev­
ans has taken his big battleship fleet
on a cruise northward from Hampton
Roads. I t is understood at the Navy
department that the fleet w ill make no
haste in going north, but w ill engage in
drills and various kinds of fleet and
squadron maneuvers on the cruise. The
tall target practice is to begin next
Has Scent o f Lumber Trust.
Monday and this w ill be the last op­
Washington, Sept. 6.— An investiga­
portunity the big ships w ill leave have
to test their guns before they drop an­ tion of the lumber industry is being di­
chor In Magdalena bay, on the West­ rected by Herbert Knox Smith, com­
missioner of the bureau of corporations,
ern coast of the continent.
which may develop sufficient informa­
tion to warrant the government’s pro­
Roseburg National Bank Licensed
Washington, Sept. 6.— The controller ceeding against the lumber trust. A t
o f the currency has approved the appli­ present the inquiry is proceeding in
cation of A . C. Masters, C. W. Parks, Wisconsin and Michigan and in the
It is along purely
1. Abraham, J. F. Baker, N. Rice and Southern states.
E . V. Hoover to organise the Roseburg eoonomic lines to develop the amount
National bank, with capital stock of of standing timber. After the source
$60,000. F. P. H ill has been appoint­ of supply is ascertained, M r. Smith
ed a guard in the Cascade national for­ w ill inquire into the cost of production.
est, Oregon, and Thomas Monroe to a
Filipinos in Island Service.
similar position in the Imnaha national
Washington,
Sept. 3.-—Twenty-two
forest
Mrs. Olive C. Swennlng has
been appointed a clerk, temporarily, in of the young Filloinos who were edu­
cated in the United States have arrived
the Cascade forest.
at Manila to undertake a period of ser­
No Fees for Heiurn Certificates.
vice for the government equal to the
Washington, Sept. S.— Commissioner time spent in this qpuntry acquiring an
Sargent has ordered immigration offi­ education at government
expense.
cials to inform resident Chinese who Those having been graduated from the
intend to visit China with the inten­ normal, engineering and agricultural
tion of returning to the United 8tates, oourses w ill be given employment under
that the immigration officials w ill make the Philippine board of education and
out return certificates free of charge aa the law graduates w ill be given other
a part of their duties. The order is is­ employment.
sued as a result of Sargent’s discovering
while in Salt Lake recently that the
New Oregon Postmasters.
Chinese believed return certificates
Washington, Sept. 4.— Oregon post­
must be made by a lawyer, and they masters appointed:
Miles, W illiam
paid $6 to $60 therefor.
H. Colton, vice Rena E. Camming,
resigned; Salmon, W innie M. McIn­
Oysters Are Plentiful.
tyre, vice L . fe. Palmer, resigned;
Washington, 8ept. 6.— There is no Springbrook, Michael G. Marked, vice
occasion for those of the delicate palate Anna L. Christopher, resigned; W al-
to* grow apprehensive over reports of tervilie, W illism H. Rennie, vice
an oyster famine.
A t the bureau of Irene 0. Brown son, resigned.
Rural
fisheries the officials do not credit the route No. 1 ordered established No­
rumor. W hile they have at present vember 1 at Sunset, Whitman county,
no means of measuring definitely the Washington, serving 300 people.
oyster crop that w ill be harvested, they
Old Rumor Killed Again.
do not look for a famine or a greater
shortage than has marked recent years.
Washington, Sept. 6.— Rumors orig­
The commission is working hard to pre­ inating in Portland to the effect that
vent the extinction of the oyster.
headquarters of the department of the
Columbia were to be* removed from
Colonel Halford Retires.
Vancouver barracks to Seattle are flatly
Washington, Sept 8.— Lieutenant discredited by Adjutant General Aina
Colonel Elijah W . Halford, pay depart­ worth, the one man above all others
ment, U . 8. A ., was relieved today, who keeps posted on such matters.
having reached the statutory age of 64 When the attention of Senator Bourne
years. Colonel Halford was attaohed was called to this rumor he took it at
to headquarters of 'the department of once to General Ainsworth, and stcured
California, at San - Francisco, and was from him a flat denial.
one of the most widely known offloers
in the pay corps of the army.
He was
Philippine Wood for Lead Pencils
private secretary to the late President
Washington, Sept. 4.— It is learned
Benjamin Harrison from 1889 to 1893. from Manila that samples of Philip­
pine woods believed to be available for
Northwest Postal Changes.
making lead pencils have been sent to
Washington, Sept. 4.— Nells A . Jen­
New York to be tested.
Lead pencil
son has been appointed regular, Thomas
woods have become so scarce that if the
Johansen substitute, rural carrier, route
Philippine woods are satisfactory it w ill
2, at Enumclaw, Waah.
Robert Pat­
create e large market therefor.
The
rick haa been appointed postmaster at
samples shipped to New York are O
Newcastle, Waah., vice E ll Manning,
red lauan and balbalbaoan.
resigned. __ ________________
Straus Fixes Date o f Return.
New Ohlef for Oreeks.
Washington, 8ept. 8. — Secretary
Straus, who lain Yellowstone park, has
written that he expects to resume de­
partment dutv September 12, after dis­
cussing his Intended inspection trip
with President Roosevelt.
Washington, Sept. 6.— The president
today authorised the secretary of the
interior to appoint Bnbehief Mety Tln-
ger, of the Creek Indiana, to sucoeed
General Pleaeant Porter aa chief of the
tribe.
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Roosevelt Does Not Propose New One
for Atlantic.
Washington, Sept. 6.— I t is anthorl-
itatively stated at the Navy department
that President Roosevelt does not con­
template the creating ef two battleship
fleets. Nor does Secretary Metcalf, nor
even the general board, which ia sup­
posed to repreaent the extreme views in
naval development, favor either the
division of the present magnifioent
fleet under Adm iral Evans’ command
or the creation of another fleet in order
that there may be a formidable Am eri­
can! navy In both oceans— the Atlantic
and Pacific.
On, the contrary, it ia regarded at
the Navy department as bettor policy
to maintain one perfectly equipped,
well drilled fleet, free to move at w ill
to any part of the globe at short notice,
and the present plane contemplate the
increase of the strength of the existing
Atlantic fleet from 18 to 28 battleahipa.
This w ill afford a command as large as
can be properly directed by any one
officer and it w ill moreover about mark
the capacity of porta and dry docks in
any particular section of the world.
So it is seserted positively at the de­
partment that there ia not the least in­
tention of keeping the battlehipa which
w ill go to the Pacific permanently in
thoee waters.
That fleet, it is added,
w ill surely return to the Atlantic sea­
board after it has fulfilled its mission
and demonstrated the feasibility of
transferring such a vast naval force be­
tween'oceans.
I t ia suggested at the Navy depart­
ment that before the gathering of a
similar number of naval veeeels in the
Pacific becomes necessary the problem
w ill be solved by the completion of the
Panama canal
It ia pointed out at the department
that, even were the president or the
department eo disposed, it would be
impossible for them to provide for an­
other such fleet aa Admiral Evans'
present command without congressional
authority.
Antwerp Strike is Serious
Antwerp, Sept. 6.— M ilitia controlled
the situation here today, though the
rioters attacked a number of freight
cars in which strikebreakers were rid­
ing. About 3,000 of the locked out
laborers, porters and men in similar
trades, who struck in sympathy with
the locked out laborers, held a meeting
during the day and adopted a resolu­
tion setting ferth that they were not
responsible for yesterday’ s disorders.
Twenty rioters were wounded last night
by the sabers or revolvers of the police
in dispersing them.
Try to Kilt Grand Duke.
Berlin, Sept. 6^—The Prussian rail­
road administration has offered a re­
ward for the diseovery of the persona
who wrecked the 8t. Petersburg-Berlin
express near Berlin shortly before mid­
night, resulting In 11 persons being In­
jured. Presumably it was the work of
anarchists or Ru slan revolutionists,
who hoped to k ill e member of the im­
perial fam ily who waasald to have been
on the train. The train was derailed
and several oara telescoped.
Would Use Boars as Doga.
Copenhagen, Sept. 6. — Captain
Amundsen, who in 1906 concluded the
navigation of the northwest passage, ie
making plans for a larger expedition to
the polar regions.
He ie oredited with
the intention of using polar bean in
the n m e manner as dogs are used now.
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Old Marion and Arizona— that tawny South­
west land of aunihlne, where tun and air
rejuvenate with marvelous power.
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Arrives at A lb a n y ............................11:41 A M
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r t is Company trains, both at Albany and Cor-
a. as
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I well as train for Dotrolt, g ivin g dl-
rest servies to Newport and adiaoent
as w ell os Bratton baso H ot Spring«.
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B. M. BOLES, Agent. Albany.
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Other resolutions adopted provide for
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A resolution
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celling on oongress to aid irrigation in
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any way possible was also passed.
Cannot Give Tents to Sick.
Washington, Sept. 3.— The War de­
partment has decided to grant the re­
quest of the mayor of San Francisoo for
tents to accommodate the patients in
city hospitals who are to be removed
from the buildings to reduce the chance
of extending the ravages of the plague.
Acting Secretary Oliver was urged te
comply with the application by Sur­
geon General Wyman, but failed to find
any legal authority for the gift of the
tent«. He repplied, however that he
would sell the city of San Francisco
any number of the tents necessary. So
far no answer has been received to, his
offer.
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