m NEWS OF THE WEEK 111 n Condensed Form (or Our Iiusy Readers. HAPPENINGS OF TWO CONTINENTS A Hotuma of (ho Lou Important but Not Lot Interesting Events of tho Ptt Week. A Japanese cruiser In reported ashore in Yuiigehlng liit)'. ' The Oregon IuikI fruiul cnxo Imit been postponed until April. A Jiipuiiifi! wing nf Oyaina'n nriny driven I nick recently Ih again iiilvmirlug. 'l'lii Jupiuii'co ur foarful lent tlin HllW llll! gllVI'mlllt'llt llllJ'K It IllllllllCr of MirxlilM from (.'hllo Tim suspension bridge nt ('Imrliwluu, W. Vu., collapsed, drowning threo hiIhmiI iItIh mill Injuring llwt people. llrlgaillor (liiimriil K. .M. Whltililo Iniliitd. Ho had command uf the de partment of Hunting!! during tint Hjnn IhIi war. I'otir ini'ii were niiMinM to death ntul ditir ittliiTH IkuII)' Injure! Iiy mi Clpllwlllll Oil till! iHtttltwIlIp MllSHil I'llUSUttH. Tim new Portland MMitilllri will not In large- enough iiihI tlin iirrlillisit Iiuh Im'i'H uskisl to provlili' for tho construe tit ill nf another wing. A iiiiuiImt of prominent rural until carriers who were. tHiiu'tlvi polltlmlly tl it r I UK tin ri'i'unt iiiiii'Milgu, haw Im'cii ri'inoMHl. They were nil In New York mill New Ilimphlro. Winder telegraph iiUHHHige have Im'cii rent from Kiiiinim City to ('lev land, Ohio, "So iiillcx, without ri'lity. nil is mini to Ih' inn longi-sl illstnneo overland iiiomtgen ever iMtvt'rcil. Fire destroyed an Immerfso coal bun ker nt Huffalo. Tim real vrork will not begin until eary In January, John I). Rockefeller haa given Chi cago Urilmslly f.100,000. Tho second trial of tho Oregon land fraud case In In progress In l'ortlninl. The nouiinittluii of Oorrenor Ilrady, of Alaska, baa been bold up by tho m-natc. The national convention of Traveling Passenger agenta will incut lu Portland In 1W)6. Tho International commission to In qulru Into the North sea Incident la ipt-ctcd to meet In I'irli D.ccmber 20. Harbed wire stretched In front nf tho Japanese trenches I proving tho wotat foa of tlin Russian army lu Manchuria. A numbor nt lloier leadeia In North ern Olilua have born plarrd In prison and It It thought probable that tho In toiuUd uprising baa bovn nipped In thr bud. At tho Ut cabinet meeting Fecrctar) Hitchcock spoke briefly of tho laud fraud canes, Indicating that rornti start ling duvulnpniunta In them illicit lie expected In tlin near filturu. Tho Hough It filers will huvo n place of honor lu tho Inaugural pntudu. A Cblni'Rii capitalist declare that bo known Port Aitlnii ha prut lalona fur three tnonthf. Of tlio 100 locomotives ordered for tho Hnrrimnn lines, 60 nro (or the Southern Pad He. Dowlo hnn paid tlio last Installment on lila ilulitH and 'Aon City la again on a sound financial hauls. Tlio HuwiUn battleship Sevastopol nt Tort Arthur linn not been sunk and la adoption ilefi'iif Ivo measures. A Hussion captain has linn ariestod for criticising tho admiralty. A dispatch from Mukden says tho Japauvru havo driven tho Russians on tho right bank of tho Hun rlvor west ward. Tho proaldont has sent tho nomina tion of U. P. Nelll to Biuxood WrlKht a coinuiltalnnor of labor to the lenate for couflrmatlon. Tho Pritfsh American arbitration treaty linn lecn signed by Secretary liny and tho Ilrltlsh ambassador, It Is ex pected that the Italian treaty will bn ready book. The Japanese havo turned their nt tontlon to Onldon Hill fortress and Homo dnmngo bun boon Infllutod. Washington lias four aspirants for thoollleo of flab coiiimlHslpiier. Tho Boutiiorn atntoa nro Hood Inn Uooaovolt With InvltntloiitJ to visit thorn. ' Tho romnlna of Krugor, tho ox-prosl-dont of tho Tjnnuviial, havo arrived nt Pretoria, Hovoro Bklrmishea havo occurrod on tho Bhabko " river in which tho Hub aluns wore dofoatod. FIRE IN MINNEAPOLIS. HIrIi Wind Fans Flninos and Loss Will Honch $0,000,000, Minneapolis, Deo. 16. Firo which hroko out lu tho photoxinphlu supply hmiso of tho (). II. i'eck company on I'lllh street aiiulh, nt lOiHO o'clock Inst ulKht, aproad to adjoining build lima and caused u Iota roughly estlmnt od nt $3,000,000. Tho Peck building was entirely gutted, wbllu tho fllx-story fiirultuo house of lloiilell Ilros,, ono of tho lamest establishments o! its kind In tho Northwest, wan ruined and a uuiii borof smaller bulldingn nlso destroyed Tlin causo of tho blaxu In na yet tin. known. Tho I'owurn inerrnutllo company, an Immeiiso departnu'tit store Just across First avenno Ninth, wnn threatened with destiui'tlon, but heroism upon tho part of the Minneapolis and Ht. Paul tiro diips.it iiientn piuveutixl tl.u destruetlort, at'hougli Iminenw) ilmiingu whs dime to tlin stock by water. Ht. Paul wan railed upon for aid soon after tho llntui'H were dlwovered and sunt all hor nvnilabln tiro nppaintua. Fur a llino tho Inut port of the re tail part of tho city wan threatened, mid tho firemen seemed uualiln to stay Ihooiiiiisb of tlin Humes, which were driven by a high wind from tho north. Iiy allowing tho bullillnga already on lire to burn thimiaolvon oul and confin ing tholr iffirln In adjacent buildings the llremin had the conllagrntlon well under control at 2 o'clock this morn ing. On man was rojKiitvd killed by coming Into contact with a live wire, and two firemen aro also believed to have been kll'od. TO OPEN LAND. Yakima Indians Will Qlva Up Aprox Imately 000,000 Acres. Washington, Dec. 16. Tho senate today par sim) without amendment Hep reseutatlvn Jones' bill oK'iiing to set tlement tbi) unallotted lands of the Ynklma Indian retvrvntlon lu Kaatern Washington, emlxxlylng approximately 800,000 ncrtn. The bill having pre vloiisly pansvtl the bounn, rivpilres only tho signature of tho president to make it a law. It provides that tho lands shall ho clnssllled aa grazing, titular and arid lamia, capablo of irrigation, then appraised and thiown open to entry nt not lets than tho appralwl value. Tfio exact manner of the open lug In to bo prescribed by tho presi dent. Mineral lands will Ixt sublect to location under mineral laud laws. To make It easy for settlors, it Is pro vided that payment shall U made In live nnnual Instalments, but eiitrymen falling to make payments Iom tbolr rights to lauds entered. The receipts from the sales of lands will be deposit oil in tho treasury to tho credit of tlio Indians on tlio Yaalum reservation and nxpeniled for their benefit. The bill recognizes tho claim of the Indians to a disputed tract of 203,000 acrea ad joining their reservation on tho west, but also rccognliet tho rights of bona II do settlers who now hold landa in this nrea. TO PASS MILLION. Lewis and Clark Exposition Attend ance.Will Do Qreat. Portland. Dec. 16. What the prob able attendance at tlio Lewis and Clark exposition will In) is a subject that has arnud no emi nt interest, lor upon the attendance depends the success of tho great enterprise. There Is no one, ifrlmps, better able to apeak on thlr iUestlun than Hecretnry H. K. Heed, wliu. with tlio co-operation ol oilier exposition ollhilals lias siwtit much time lu compiling statlBllrn ana inves tigating the factors that will contribute to tho attendance. In arriving nt defi nite conclusions, comparisons have been ;uado with such expositions as tlioso nt Omaha, Han Francisco, Nash ville and Atlanta, which were of much tho same muguUudo and acopo as tho Lewis and Clark exposition. Secretary Heed hnn estimated that tiiu total attendance during the entire expoiltlon period will bo somewhere between 1,260,000 and 1,600,000. "This otttlmate," said ho, "compaios favorably with the attendance nt Oma ha, Ban Francisco, Nnahvillo and At lanta. At Omaha the paid admissions numbored 1,778,600; nt Han Francisco, 1,315,01'iJ; at Nashville, 1,100,(101'; at Atlanta, 770.600." Askold May Orenk Out. London, Dec. 16. TheMorntng PoBt'fl Hhnnghni coriUBpondont cables that notwithstanding all denials, tho pro tected rrultwr Askold Is still coaling and has alroady shipped 1,000 tons of Cardiff coal, Tlio commander of tho vohboI, tlfti correspondent adds, is open ly superintending tho proceVa, which will probably be completed in tho courso of n day. Tho or respondent nays tho fact that tlio Askold wan dis armed does not mean that tho parts of machinery which woro removed could not bo duplicated and replaced. Snow Delays Stroet Cars. Now York, Deo. 16. ', Neatly seven Inches of Miow In thin city gavo the street railway companies tbolr first real wlnter'oxperieuco UiIh year. Aa tiBual, conditions wero bad In tho outlying sec tions, whtro tho enow drifted Into cuts, making travol of nil kinds dlfllcult. OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST DEVELOPMENT OF LINN. Object of Club That Has Organized flecontly nt Albany. Allmny. Torn Itlclinrdflon, of tho Portland Commercial Club, dollvorod nn Interesting mid Instructive uildronn before Albnuy'a business men In tlio Oram! Oporu hounu. Mr. HIchardHon displayed it thorough knowledge of methods of municipal and stnto devel opment, and gave a lucid explanation of tho UBBontliila of auccona In a corn, ruorclnl organization, and tho uddrosu waa productive of rosulta. At tho closo of his talk Mr. IllcJinrd sou took charge of tho organization of n local commercial body for tho devel opment of Albany and I. Inn county. A numbor of pcoplo pledged $C per month for tlio Hupport of n puali club, others Htnnllcr sums, and n committee of htiHlncBH men wan appointed by Muyor Dnvln to take chargo of tho or ganization work and secure n member ship Htilllclently largo to establish tho club on n good financial baals. It In tho punioBu of the organization to advertise tho county and place men In the fluid to work for the develop ment of I-Inn county'n great resource. It waa unanimously decided to Join the Oregon Development Loaguo nnd co opvratu with that body In tho dovolop mont of Oregon. Tho organization committee van authorized to find a name for tho club nnd nomlnnto offl- cora, tho nominations to bo ratified at the next meeting, when organization will bo porfeclod. Mr. Itlchurdson wan given nn In fo nn a I reception at the Alco Club nt tho adjournment of tho meeting. OH Spoils Water Supply. Salem. Farmers from tho Waldo Hills report oil discoveries In tho vi cinity of Pratum. whore oil wan discov ered by Hlco llrothcra last spring. Many wells have been abandoned be cause tho wntor ennnot bo used. No effort has been mado to sink a deep well for tho purposo of determining whothiT oil can bo found In paying quantities. I.ocal capitalists nrrnnged last fall to sink n well aa deep na might bo necessary, provided tho farm ers would bond their property, agree ing to sell their oil on n percentage basis. Mnny farmers would not ngrco to this, proferlriR to profit by tho re sults of experiments conducted by others, nnd nn n consequenco tho woll digging enterprise was abandoned. Willamette Flshway Completed. Hnlom Tho now flshway over tho falls nt Oregon City haa been com pleted nt n cost of I2973.C0, and En gineer J. W. Moffntt reported that fact to tho Htnto Fish Commission today. Tho cnnlneer exprossea bis confldnnco that tho flshway will make It prac ticable for salmon and othor fish to ascend tho Wlllamotto Tlver. In re porting tho work ut tho sovOrnl fish hntchorlea, Maater Fish Wordcn II. O. Vnn Dusen sayn that G.GGO.OOO Chinook and 3,tG,000 allverrddo egga havo boon taken at tho South Coos rlvor hatch ery, whllo 2,607.000 Chinook nnd 1, 000,000 Hllveraldo egga have boon tnkon nt Ynqulnn, Thoso results nro considered very satisfactory. Improvements t Hood Rlvor. Hood Itlvor. It la featlmnted that tho O. It. & N. Co. Is expending $10,000 In Improvements to tho depot grounds and track ynrtlB nt this point. Tho pna Monger depot la being romodolod nnd enlarged, nnd n freight dopot nnd warehouso hnH boon erected throo blocka woBt of tho proBent location. Tho facllltlos for handling freight nt this point hnvo afforded very poor nc cominodatlonu for tho last threo years, and tho Improvements now being mndo nro n nnurco of satisfaction to tho ship ping IntoreatB. Claim Jumpers Busy. OrantH Pass. Claim Jumpora con tlnuo to do tbolr work In tho Suokor Crook district. A clolm owned by Shorlft IajwIb, of this city. hnB recently boon Jumped, and us the claim Is valued qWlto highly by tho Shorlff nnd haa bad two yearn assossmont work dono upon It, Mr. I.owls Ih anything but plousod ovor tho usurpation of his right and ana gone to iIIhcubs tho mat tor nt closo range with tho Intrudor. Phono Lino for Farmers. Chomawn. Chanuhvn Ih to bo tho center of a rural tolophono lino, to bo oBtnbllshod nt onco. Fifteen fnTmors In tho vicinity of Chomnwa mot last evening at tho realdonco of Frank Uoatty nnd formed nn lndopondont rural enmnnuv. Material has boon or- dorod for tho lino, nnd will bo horo In about threo wooks. Tho centrnl oftlco will bo established nt unomnwn. Selling Sugar Plant Stock. Milton. nobort H. Krnzlor of thlB nlnen In In Portland Holllm; stock of tho Moxlcnn Nntlonnl Sugar Hotlnlng Company, of which no Ih n inomuor. Tho company will clispoBO of $250,000 ivnrlii of nroforred stock In ordor to In stall a nugar roftnlng plant. Tho com- nanv b composed largely or Auuon nnd Walla Walla capitalists.. Mohair Show January 10-20. nniliiH Tim cnnimlttoo of nrrange- nionta for tho Polk County Mohntr AH1 Boclatlon appointed to urrango for tho fair, bus numod January 10 ami 20 as Mm tlmn for holdlnc tho fair at Dallas, This 1b primarily a goat fair, but poul try and snoop will niBO uo nn iiuuruoi Ing foaturo of tho show. Entries nro open to all Oregon. TO DEAL IN FINE HOR8E8. New Industry Opened in Pendleton by Former Eugene Man. Pendleton. A. C. Huby, formerly of Kugono, Ore., haa purchased tho Ore gon food yard of this city, nnd pro poses to maintain a distributing depot fur imported horaen, Ho baa at his es tablishment 27 horses nnd sit jack assos. Tho horses aro I'erchcTons, French druft, Uolglan shlro and coach ntalllonH, Every horse was nclcctcd by him In Europe and shipped to thin country from Germany and Franco, Tho animals nro of tho gentlest dispo sitions, Mr. Ituby not purchasing any that showed signs of III temper. Tho animals will bo kept at Pendle ton, and, an tho occasion requires, dis tributed over Oregon and Washington. Tho McLaughlin Jlros., of Cincinnati, proposed to establish a station bore, but finally decided upon Ogden, Utah. Mr. Ituby will either purchaso resi dence property or build and remove his family to tills place, where ho will havu permanent headquarters. This Btatlon means much to eastern Oregon and Washington, not only for tho convcnlcnco of It, but for the material Improvement that will be asadu In tho horsos. Until the last fow years llttlo attention to tho breeds of horses was given. Of late years prices have Increased until it pays handsome ly to ralso n grado of horses that com mand tho highest prices In eastern markets. Tbo day of the cayuso Is past, and the farmers havo learned bow much rnoro work can be expected from n horse of good size than from a small cayuso, , Not only nro the farmers demanding good horsos, but aro raising mules. Tho Jacks owned by Mr. Ituby are from Missouri, and aro much sought after by breeders. To Bore for Artesian Water. Ilakor City. Manager Vinson, of tho Emma mine, six miles east of the city, has closed a contract with C. A. Fredericks, of Spokane, to bore for water on his property. Mr. Fredericks has tho most oxtenslvo boring appa ratus ever brought to Eastern Oregon. It having a capacity for boring 6000 feet. Tho contract with Mr. Vinson calls for 2000 feet or less, boring to ceaso whenever a sufficient flow of water Is encountered. Ho docs not ex pect water under 600 fce'u Tho work will bo commenced at once. Mr. Fred ericks also has n contract to boro for aitouinn hot wntcr for the Hot Springs Notatorium Company of this city. Tbe hot springs of tho company are within tho city limits. Fewer Catllo Fed Than Usual. Echo, Flvo hundred head of cattlo aro being fed in tho Immediate vicinity of Echo. This Is a small numbci com pared with what aro usually wintered ac tills placo and Is occasioned by tho extremely low prices paid for beef. As largo herds aro herded upon small alfalfa fields, tho pasturage afforded Is oaten close, and hay feeding begins about tho 2Bt of November. Cattle raisers nro hoping for higher prices tho coming season, believing that tho visitors to tin) 1905 fair will consume n great nmount and bring up prices. Several small shipments havo been mado alroady this fall, and tho highest prlco received Is $3.25 per cwt., llvo weight. Anxious for Good Roads, a rants Pass. Tho good roads move ment has struck Josophlno county with greater forco this sonson than ever be foro, and there Is n more general de sire to hotter tho highways of tho county than this section has cvor bo foro known. During tho past two months nearly $5000 has been paid out by mining companies and Individual mining men for tho Improvement of roads In Josephlno count)! and as a result many of tho Camps that woro al most completely Isolated during tho winter will bo readily reached by wag on hereafter, COMING EVENTS. Inland Emplro Sunday School Insti tute, Pendleton, Oro January 30. Oregon Stnto Dairymen's Associa tion, Portland, Decombor 20-21. Oregon Stnto Horticultural Society, Portland, January 10-11. National American Woman Suffrago Association, Portland, Juno 22-28. Lewis and Clark Contonnlnl Exposi tion, Portland, JXino 1-October 15. Sell Land Near Helix. Pondlctqn. William Kupers nnd Q. C. Shroeilcr, fnrmors residing near Helix, have disposed of threo quarter sections of lund to Joseph Solvere of that locality for $8000 a quarter. Mr. Kunora, who sold ono of tho sections, and Shroedcr, wfco Bold two, hnvo pur- chasod land nenr Nez I'erco, paying $4500 and f!0G0 a eoctlon.- Irrlgatlon Work. Milton. Workmon nro building Humes for tho Finis irrigation ditch, which will wntor n body of land near the Hudson liny section. Many other Humes aro being built under tho rail road nt different points, nnd nn lm nionso territory hitherto bnro will bo put under cultivation noxt season. NORTHWEST WHEAT MARKET. Portland Walla Walln, 83c; Mue sli m, 8805 valley, 87)&c Tacoma Uluestem, b0o; club, 8O0. LARGEST VOTE FOR PRE8IDENT. Roosevelt Defeated Parker by a Ma jority of 2,040,100 Votes. Now York, Dec. 14 The Times to morrow will ray: A canvass by 'the limes of the popular vote at the last presidential election, romplcto except as to one county in Tennessee, and four counties In Michigan, where estimate) are given, shows that President Itoow velt defeated Judge Parker by 2,604, 160. Ho pol.ed tho largest voto ever given a president of tjie United States, 7,040,600. This is rnoro than 400,000 in excess of the voto cast for M:K!nley in 1000. The official flgureo for Mlsnonri show that Hooeevelt carried that state by 26,000. In Maryland ono Kepnbllcan elector received tho largest vote, but his col leagues weie defeated. The Democrats of Maryland, Ihereloro, will hove seven votes in the electoral college, while tho Hcpubl leans will have only onn. A comparison with the vote table of 1000 shows a marked change in tho ftociallst vote. Debs, tho candidate of the party that year, was also this year's candidate, and his vote (hows an In crease of rnoro than 30. Walon, tho Populist candidate, ran strongest in his own state, Georgia, where he received 22,036 votes. lie received most of his votes in the Houth and West, bnt only one vote was cast for him in Foutli Carolina. The electoral vote will bo 330 lor Hooeevelt and 140 for Parker. OREGON HAS GOOD FRIEND. Appropriation for Fair Due to Influ ence of the President. Washington. Dec. 14. Oregon .has. reason to congratulate itself on having secured the appropriation for its expo sition at the Jast seeaion of congress. It now appears that tbo $476,000 ap propriated for government participa tion in the Lewis ard Clark fair is tbo last money that congress will expend for expositions for many years to come. The action of the house committee on expositions in flatly refusing to make any appropriation whatever for the Jamestown exposition is an indica tion that congress has had enough, and hat finally reached tbe stago wbero It will put Its foot down. Had it not been for tbe interest President Roose velt took in the Oregon enterpriee and for the influence which he ex erted in behalf ol the Lewis and Clark appropriation bill' Oregon would havo Buffered the same blow that baa been dealt to Jamestown. congress was just as much opposed to exposition appropriations a year ago as It Is now, out Oreson had n friend at court, and the onjy friend who could be of real service. ASK FOR FULL AMOUNT. Oregon Senators Assured Support of River and Hirbor Committee. Washington, Dec 14. Senators Mitchell and Fulton havo united in a letter to Chairman Durton or tho Riv ers and Harbore Committee, strongly urging that liberal appropriations bo mado for tho Columbia river and othor Oregon waterways. They point out tho necessity for securing at this ses sion enough money to complete tho kjetty at tho mouth of tho Columbia. asking for $1,300,000. They urgo tho appropriation of tho full amounts rec ommended by Major Langfltt for tho Dallcs-Cclllo canal nnd nil other pro jects In which Oregon is Interested. This letter Is filed to back up argu ments which tho Senators hnvo mado orally to Chairman Durton nnd to Rep resentative Jono,s. of Washington, who Is on tho committee. Durton and Jones show great friendliness toward tho Columbia and givo nssurnnco which leads to tho belief that ade quate amounts will be appropriated. Vessel to Return to Mextco. Mexico City, Dec. 14. It Is report ed horo that tho contract for the Drlt Ish steamship line betweon British Co lumbia and Mexico has been awarded to Andrew Weir & Co., of Glasgow. Scotland. Tho agreement calls for first-class steamers capablo of carry ing 4500 tons of freight each, 50 first class passengers und from 300 to 400 steerage passengers. Tho line will bo subsidized, and will rocelvo $50,000 from the Canadian government and n llko amount from tho Mexican govern ment It Is thought that tbo first boat will sail from Vancouver January 14, 1905. Zero Weather In Manchuria. General Kurokl's Headquarters In tho Field. Dec. 14. Tho army has had Its first tasto of tho real quality of a Mnnchurlan winter tho past week. Last night tho thermometer fell to six degrees bolow xero, Fahrenheit. Tho days aro cold also, hut sunshine and tho nbaenco of sovero winds makes Hfo tolorablo. Tho hills aro covered with snow, which on tho plain Is ono Inch in depth. AH streams nro thickly frozon. s Snow Falling In New York. Few York, Doc. 14. A enow storm, nccompanied bv n high wind, descend ed upon New York early today and jtill continues. Nearly two inches has fallen. Traffic in the city haa not been eerlonsly Impeded, but craft of all kinds have been delayed. II