■w*' VC5- NEWBERG GRAPHIC E. H. WOODWARD, I EVENTS OFTHE DAY N ew sy irons uaniereQ ironi ah Farts of tte Vartd. ,1 L u t Important but N ot Loaa Intar* •sting Happenings from Points Outeid« the State. The British war seat« against Ger­ many is condemned as hysteria. French seamen have gone on strike, tieing np shipping at all the principal ports. The government has disproved the charges that Heney is in its pay while prosecuting grafters. A b ig Eastern syndicate is said to be preparing to operate a string o f SO dry goods stores in the West. A San Francisco chemist claims to have discovered a method o f making whiskey non-intoxicating, but exhiliar- ating. Evidence is being gathered that ex­ plorers from Sweden came to America in 1862, more than a century before Columbus. I t is said that the reforms demanded by Great Britain and the United States have not been pot into effect in the Congo Free State. The Criminal court o f Veenesuela has dismissed the charge agminet ex- Preeident Castro o f complicity in a plot to murder President Goman. aider legislation aside from the tariff measure, many river and harbor im­ provements are being held up, indod- ia g those o f the Northwest. France has decided to materially in­ crease her navy. A change in lumber duties is likely to be adopted by the senate. The bill against b ig hats has been rejected by the Illinois legislature. Prominent N ew Yorkers have been indicted fo r coal land frauds in Wyom­ ing. Abdul Hamid is said to have tu n ed over $5,000,000 more to the Turkish government. Celeatino Castro, brother o f the de­ posed president o f Venezuela, has been ordered to leave Curacoa. Great Britain w ill start construction on four more Dreadnoughts before the close o f the present fiscal year. Jap strikers on the Hawaiian planta­ tions are to invade Honolulu and par­ ade. I t is estimated there w lil be from 3,00 to 4,000 in line. President T a ft has nominated Charles D. E lliott, o f the Minnesota Supreme court, as a justice o f the Su­ preme court o f the Philippines. B ailw ay freigh t troubles have just tisgini Actions are to be commenced against roads operating into Pacific coast terminals demanding the same treatment as Spokane. WAR A T S E A T T L E . D E M O N 8 TR A T E “ M O O N S H IN IN Q " Fair Exhibitors Will Resist Efferts to Deface Grounds With 8hops. Reconstructed Illicit Still to Be Shown •t Beattie Fair. Seattle, Wash., May 86.— W ar to a finish with a * appeal to the courts, through injunction proceedings, i f ne­ cessary, was decided upon Sunday by the A . Y . P. exhibitors who are re­ sisting the efforts o f the exposition company to erect booths on grounds al ready allotted to various states, Ore­ gon being the first to precipitate the fight against the unseemly disfigura­ tion o f its beautiful grounds. T o carry this determination into effect, an organization to be known as the Exhibitors' dub, was formed at the Oregon building. Colonel J..A. Filcher, executive commissioner for California, waa elected treasurer- chairman, and W. H. Wehrung, presi­ dent o f the Oregon commission, was elected secretary. Attorney General Crawford, who had been summoned to advise the Oregon commission as to its rights in the controversy, took the po­ sition that the exposition authorities bad no right to erect booths on the Oregon grounds, or on any othe/ grounds assigned to different states, counties and the government. Encour­ aged by this view o f the situation a resolution was unanimously adopted at the meeting firmly protesting against locating any booths kon kanyj grounds without permission. Meanwhile the exposition authorities are standing pat and say they w ill erect the 100 booths planned. They promise to incur as little friction as possible, but declare their authority is supreme, and they must have their w a y .l Should the Exhibitors’ club be upheld in the courts, and it now seems sure the case w ill reach the courts, it w ill devolve upon the exposition au­ thorities to establish a special place fo r the booths, as the exposition au­ thorities themselves declare that the booths should not be installed in the court o f honor, thus marring that bright feature o f the grounds. In a romantic gulch near the Pay Streak o f the Alaska-Yukon-Paciflc ex position, in a place shaded by lo fty lira end hidden by a dense growth o f vine maples and yellow broom, w ill be found a typical "w ild -c a t" still. This pest o f the mountain revenue officers w ill be reconstructed from a still destroyed in the Tennessee mountains years ago, and the battered copper kettles and rusted worm w illjtgain be mooted for duty. N o corn, however, w ill be boiled into the " o i l o f jo y ’ ’ in the exposition "w ild -c a t;” only'the operation show­ ing how it used to be w ill be demon­ strated. A ll the settings o f the illic it distiller have been gathered from the high hills o f Kenucky and Tennessee, end the corn w ill be shelled, the fires kept np and tha trail watched by a bunch o f long boarded gentlemen, grown grey in practicing their unsanc­ tioned profession. The’ arsenal o f weapons o f offenss is made up largely o f Winchester 44s, but scattered within easy reach w ill be seen the long barreled squirrel gun with which "Grand Pap” got meat fo r the fam ily, and incidentally made new jobs fo r governmental amployment aspirants. The "w ild -catter” repre­ sents s class unable to withstand the encroachments o f certain brands o f progress, and hia once highly respected calling has fallen into ill repute and the operator o f the mountan still Is no longer looked upon as a prominent eiti- RO AD F R A N C H ISE 8E C U R ED . W IL L 8 P E N D M IL L IO N S . Eastern Capitalists Said to Be ' Inte­ O. R. A N. Company Gives Out Plans fo r Extensive Improvements. rested in C ove Bey Project. Marshfield— The terms o f the fran­ chise granted to J. H. Somers and J. F. Clark fo r an electric railroad on the county roads have been made public. The commissioners have given them the privilege o f choosing between the road from M yrtle Point to Rose burg or the Coos bay wagon road from Sumner to Myrtle P o in t The franchise pro­ vides that those receiving the franchise must select one o f the tw o routes and begin work o f construction within six months and hsvs half o f the line com­ pleted within eighteen months, and all completed within Coos county in two years. The same parties promoted the efforts o f the Coquille M ill A Merest) tile company at Coquille in securing a franchise for s road through that city. Somers and Clark hava not y et di­ vulged their plana further than to state that outside capital w ill be interested. T R O U B L E O VER B O U N T Y . N ew O regon Law Is Misunderstood in Umatilla County. Pendleton— From present indications there is to be much trouble relative to the payment o f bounties on coyotes when the new law goes into effect. Though the new law doea not operate until May 22. all coyotes killed since February 1 are subject to bounty. Hundreds o f the destructive animals have been killed in this county since that date and the trouble is to come from these scalps. Copies o f the law have been received and it has been discovered fo r the first time that all four feet, as wall as the scalp, must be attached to each hide, aixkit is this provision that has been disregarded by the killers. Though hundreds o f hides are ready to be pre­ C U T G O V E R N M E N T E X PE N S E 8 sented the day the law goes into effect, it is not believed that more than a score T a ft's Policy o f Economy Being Car­ o f them have the claws attached. ried Out in A ll Departments. Rogue Bridged at Woodville. Washington, May 25. — Secretary Medford— The court o f Jackson coun­ M eyer has cat off $10,000,000 in N avy ty has ordered construction o f a new department estimates fo r the next fis­ ■teel bridge serosa the Rogue river at cal year. This is a sample o f what Woodville, below Gold H ill, which w ill may be expected on the pert o f other open s large agricultural district adja­ cent to W oodville but aeroas the river. cabinet officials. The trade o f this section has hithsrto I t may not be possible to reduce ex­ been diverted to Grants Pass but now penditures in all departments to as no­ the little city w ill g et all o f the trade ticeable a degree as in those pertaining o f that section. A planing mill, a box to the army and navy branches o f the factory and a brick yard have recently m ilitary service, but the thing that been added to the industries o f Wood- w ill be accomplished in ell directions ville and work has just started on a is a more intelligent idea o f the rela­ large brick scboolbouse. .6. tions between, or rather harmonising Forest Made Into Orchard. of, estimates and'appropriations. Grants Pass — From the prim itive Secretary o f the Treasury MscVeagh expects to have in hand by June 1 esti­ foreet to a field o f 50 acres planted to mates o f all beads o f departments. th rifty pear trees, apple trees and To­ Between then and the time fo r the kay grapes is s task that has just been meeting o f congress in regular session accomplished by W. B. Sherman, o f Just a in December, painstaking study and this place, w ithia five weeks. investigation with a view to ascertain­ little over a month ago thia same 60- ing the exact requirement o f various acre tract waa studded w ith pine, fir bureaus embraced in different depart­ and underbrush. Today the improve­ ments, or just what work each is per­ ments placed thereon have increased form ing and a detailed analysis o f re­ thia property three-fold in value. The sults as compared to expense involved, tract o f land in question lies up the river near Tokay Heights, and is with­ w ill be carried on. in plain view o f town. Every employe o f the Standard Oil company suspended work tw o boors R E V O L U T IO N IS A C T IV E . during the funeral o f H. H. Rogers, Two-Day Festival at Lebanon. vice president o f the company. There Lebanon— The committee appointed Santo Domingo Republic in Throes o f by the Lebanon Business Men’s league are 67,000 on the payroll. Another 8trife. to make arrangements fo r the Lebanon W heat has reached $1.80 at Chicago strawberry fa ir has announced that Cape Haytian, Hayti, May 26.— The and $1.58 at Cincinnati. revolutionary movement is spreading. Friday and Saturday, June 4 and 5, A controlling interest in the SL General Camacho, the ex-governor have been decided upon as the dates P u l Pioneer Frees has been sold to the o f Monte Chriati, who la working in for thia festival. The committee has S L P u l Dispatch. unison with General Quirito Felice fo r invited the ladies o f Lebanon and v i­ W illiam Adler, the N ew Orleans the overthrow o f the government, has cinity to join with them and have a bank wrecker, has been given six years attacked and seized Guayabin and Da- rose festival at the time o f the fair. in the penitentiary. jabon, which are on the Haytian fron­ I t was also decided to hold s horse show at the same time. The horse ex­ More Jap laborers on H a w a iiu tier, the Dajabon river being the north­ hibition w ill occur Saturday afternoon, plantations have gone on strike u d west boundary between H ayti and the June 5. Dominican republic. 6,000 men are now involvled. There has been fighting between the Complaints Against Rates. The Philippine general assembly has revolutionists and the loyal forces at passed a resolution declaring in favor Monte Christi. Salem— D. B. Lhamberlen, of Cot­ o f th e independence o f the islands. The fate o f Jose Bordas, governor o f tage Grove, s poultry raiser, has filed Allen Parker, a member o f the B rit­ Puerto Plata, is not known, but i t . is an informal complaint with the r a il ish parliament declares that the race reported he is either dead or a prisoner. road commission in which he charges Communications are interrupted, and that the rates on fancy poult-# and to build dreadnaughts is crazy u d sin­ government troops are expected to eggs enforced by the Southern Pacific ful. are prohibitive. M. C. Smith asks that h the disaffected districts by Evidence is being secured at Chicago the Southern Pacific be compelled to that various labor leaders called strikes construct a sm ill freigh t shed at China is Standing Firm . in order to levy blackmail on employ- W ilker, • flag station on the Southern Lisbon. May 25.— The dispute be­ Pacific, toward the southern pert o f Tbe members o f the Turkish cham­ tween Portugal end China over the the state. possession o f the dependencies o f Macao ber o f deputies have taken oath to sup­ has become acute. The Portugese gov­ Presbyterians Plan Big Meat. port the new sultan and uphold the con­ ernment is sending General Joee Mach­ stitution. Interest in the Presbyterian Brother­ ado to induce Chine to come to an ami­ Mrs. Longstreet, widow o f the C ivil cable agreement, notwithstanding the hood convention in Portland June 8 and A banquet w ill be w ar general, was awakened by a burg­ fa ct that the government has received 9 is increasing. given the first night o f the convention, lar. She took six shots at him, wound­ word that China absolutely refuses to the second day being devoted to ad­ in g the man. enter into negotiations with the Portu­ dresses and conferences by leading lay­ C a stellu e ha lost his appeal to gain gese delegates unless Portugal an­ men o f the state. The convention w ill nounces the dependencies, including the custody o f his children. close the second evening with s mass neighboring islands. meeting addressed by officers o f the Funds are being raised fo r a $100,- National Brotherhood. 000 statue o f Grover Cleveland. Dreadnaughts to Grow. London, May 25.— Reginald McKen­ A p lu has hem presented to the Face Potato Famine. British parliament fo r the care o f the na, first lord o f the admiralty, in reply­ Marshfield— Coos county is facing a ing to criticisms on the government’s potato famine and it is expected that unemployed. Three Nevada men tried to send their naval policy, said today that the bat­ the prices w ill soar higher and reaeh mother to the insane asylum in order tleships to be built under this year’ s the record mark in this locality. There program woo Id be at least 80 per cent ere practically no old potatoes obtain­ to g et her money. superior to their immediate predeces­ able and dealers are offering as high M u y moneyed men o f the East are sors. In what way that superiority is as 2 cents s pound*. The shortage is visitin g the Northwest in search for to be obtained has not been entirely not confined to Coos county but the suitable investments. disclosed, but at least two o f the im­ district in general is affected. provements to be introdoeed have been Authorities o f Westminster abbey, made known. Willamette to Get 8tadh