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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Or.) 1903-1931 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1906)
f - t- NEWS OFJTHE WEEK In a Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. HAPPENINGS OF TWO CONTINENTS A Roiumo of tlio Lett Important but Not Lost Interesting Event of tlio Past Week. A general strike has boen ordered In Poland. Hccretary Wilton linn announced rig Id rules (or meat Inspection. Martial law linn liceii proclaimed nt Cronstadt, Utuola, to provont mutiny, Dotnim leaders havo deferred a gene ml strike, but have ipllt on Ilia que tlou. The Kovernment lint brought suit to recover Utah col laml obtained by fraud. Turkey objrcti to recolvlng I.clsh iiian a ambassador from the United ritntes, Tlio Itiirnlnn province o( Kharkov It arming to establish an Independent re public. Great Ilrltaln will build tbiro morn battleship (mm tio plant ol the Orcadnaught Ilutioll Hago left nearly all lilt wraith to lilt widow. Hlie will ipend largo turn (or charity. Tin In'o t to Commerce commlrtton liai called on the railroads to revltu their ratea under tlio new law. Iloth Dowln mill Vollvn have lott their tula (or potiesslon o( .Ion, and the court ordered the election ol an overtcrr by the people, There are a lew catrt ol tmallpoz at the Colon end ol the canal. Germany hope to abtorb Holland when (Jiieen Wllhelmlna dlea. The Kovernment haa bought the An keny canal (or Irrigation work. Hevolutlonltta are Uniting large tup pllrt of armt and ammunition on the coatt ol Mnlaud. I'rernlei Htolypln drclaret that the poller ol the new Ituttlau cabinet will be one of reform China propoies a radical reform in her IpkI code. Trial by Jury and em ployment of countet It to be the llrit tep In westernising her courtt. Ultlient of lender, Wyomnlg, are up In armt at tlio Idea of a colony of II0I7 Holleri locallnK there. It It under tood a large number are on tholr way. Police are looklnK for the tellei ol the Ht. Loud Union Tiutt company, who la tliort $6,000 in hit accounta. lie wat lonsldored an exemplary clti xen. The coolie employed In the Chinese laundrlea of Han Francisco ttruck (or a ralte In wge. They demanded III per week, a raise of $1, Tho matter vrat compromised by giving the men a ralto of 60 cents, Hororal mombori of the Ilusslan par llament havo boen arrested A successful teat hat Juit boen mnde of a (team motor (ar on tho Great Northern railroad. Hear Admiral W. T. Bwlnburno will aucceed Hear Admiral Goodich at com inaniler of tho Pacific squadron. Paper makers In b3 mills of the In tornatlnunl Paper company of tho Unit vd Htatcs nnd Canada threaten to strike. President Htlcknoy, ol thn (heat Western railroad, has been offered n neat on tho Interatato Commerce com tnlralon, William Rockefeller says hu will re tiro from business, especially tho Standard Oil, III health Is Riven as tho reason, Enforcement of tho eight-hour law on government work may cause the Kovernment to discontinue contract work and handle everything itself. German Immigrants charge poonago in Its worst form agalntt tho Jackson Lumber company at Loikhnrt, Ala. It Is claimed the company sooures now arrivals in this country under tho promlso of high wages, Hut f 1 per day was received and the men wero subject od to many bdcatlnga and weio poorly fed. Tho Pan-American congress la in session at HIo Janeiro, Uracil. Gormnny says alio ha no intontion of Interfering with IlusBln'a affairs. Tho czar la holding down tio capital with nn immonso army nnd will form a provisional army. Ilussoll Hago Is dead. Ho leaves n fortuno of about $100,000,000, most of whlclr will go to charity. Ily order of tho prosidont tho provis ions ol the olght-lioui law havo been extended to the Navy department. BALANCE FAVORS ISLANDS. Philippine) Export ExceoiJ Imports First Tlmo Slnco Annexation. Washington, July ill Tlio two most noteworthy featured of tho commercial retiinis of tho Philippine Itlanda for 11)00 arn a balance In favor of the Is lauds for tho llrsl calendar year period In tlio history ol tho American occupa tion, and tho advance of American goods to the first rank In tho import trade, 'Ilia favorable trado balance it duo to Increased export values, which aggregated .'13,454,74-1, or mora than 14,000,001) In excess of tho exports (or 11)01. An Increase of 1500,000 In American trado In 1005 with the Is lands, combined with a decllnn in rice imports, gives to tho Unltod Htatcs tho lead, and in vlow of the anticipated further docllne In the demand for for elgu rice In the lalands, tho United Ktatea Is expected to continue to In crease ltd lend. Tho Inornate ol (2,000,000 In the Imports from the United Htatcs In tho last five years Is largely made up of Imports of Iron and steel and their manufactures; cotton, raw and manu (actured, and Illuminating oil. The Iron and steel trado approximated 3, 000,000 In value. Great Ilrltaln gained most In the Iron and ateel trade with the Islands, but tho Unlttd Htatcs takes the lead, whereas Great HrlUln was formerly In tl.o lead, Thero Is still great room for Improvement In the ex ports from the United Htatcs to the Is lands. CANNED MEAT EXPORT8. Japan Used Large Quantities During War With Russia. Waihlngton, July 24. Complete fig ures of thn exiort of American canned meats for the patt Ureal year are shown today In a statement Ittued by tho de partment ol Commerce and Labor. The value of canned meats exported from thn United Htatcs In June, 1000, was 1(11,100. against 1707,127 In June, 1005, and In the fiscal year 1000. 0, 233,410, agalntt $0,077,015 In 1006. The figures for the flaacl rear 1000 Inrludrd: Canned beef, $0,430,410; canned pork, $1,216,85,7; aid other canned meats, $1,687,107. The quan tlty of canned beef exported In the fis cal year was 114,623,860 pounds, as agalntt 00,088,608 pounds in 1005. The reduction in exports occurred al most exclusively In the thlproents to Japan, which country took largo amounts of American beef during the wai, but greatly decreased her import 011 the dltbandment of the army. The exports to Japan during the fiscal year 1000 wore 2,300,583 pounds, against 14,087,105 pounds in 1005, and In the month of June, 1000, were 34.412 pounds, against 3,012,188 pounds In June, 1005. The United Kingdom wo the great est buyer of canned beef, export to that country Increasing 4,768,816 pounds for tho flical year, but decreat ing for the month of Juno, 1000. YEARN FOR OLD HOME. No Houses for Hundred Who Would Roturn to 8an Francisco. Han Francisco, July 24. Han Fran cisco' greatost need is homos. The people who were driven from thn city at the time of tho disaster are eager to return, several thousand laborera are imperatively needed to aid In the work of rebuilding, but there are no house for them The rehabilitation commit ten has set to work to furnish relief, but the resources at Its command will admit of only slight assistance This committee will hull J some 3,000 home for workmen, but this will not evon servo to house tho thousands still liv ing In tents. It Is to individual initiative that tho city must look. Evidences that this will he forthcoming aro beginning to appear. In tho Richmond district, tho sec tion located between Golden Gate park and tho nock of tho bay, several homes aro being erected and havo been rented In advance. Htlll It is to the stretch of land south of Market street that the people must look for tho rebuilding of homes In suf ficient quantity to solve tho problem. Here dwell tho thousands of the city's poorest and I. Is to this section that they wish to return. Unbreakable Passenger Car. Washington, July 24. -A steel pas senger car has recently boen completed In Pittsburg for tho Southern railway which is tegardod as tho beginning of tho general ubo of steel Instead of wood (or all kinds of railway cars. The car Is 74 feet 40 Inches long over all and weighs 110,000 pounds. Tiicro was no wood UBod in Its construction except (or Jtho interior decorations, nnd that wood was mnde fireproof. It is said that the car could not bo tolescopod in a collis ion, neither could tho ends bo amnshod lu, nnd it is non combustible. Clgarmaker May Establish Stores, Chicago, July 24. Tho Olgurmakei' union, It la understood, ha takon up aoriously a proposal to establish faa torloa for tho making of cigar In all tho largo cities in tho United States, and also of storos under the control of the union, through which to get the manufactured goods to tli consumer. APPEAL TO PEOPLE Russian Parliament Tells Tlicm Not to Pay Taxes. CZAR MAY IMPRISON LEADERS Guards Prevent Newspaper From Publishing Revolutionary Man ifesto MOch Disorder. Ht. Petersburg, July 24, Tho great news of today Is the adoption of an ad dress to the people by the deputies to parliament, who assembled at Vlborg, the language of which, with its revolu tionary demand that the people cease to furnish money and troops to tho gov ernment and repudiate further loans, affords pretext enough for the govern merit to lodge Its author lu the fortress If it feels strong enough, A rumor was spread tonight that this course had been decided upon. Copies of the appeal to tho people are In the hand of all Ht, Petersburg newspapers, but It will scarcely be printed tomorrow, (or tho reason that a detachment o( police is posted at the door ol every newspaper printing office In the city, with orders not to permit any paper to leave the building until Authorised by the censor. Tho author ities hope by equally vigorous measures to prevent the publication of the appeal in other cities, and In tho meantlmo to nullify thn fears of the people as to the possible effect of the appeal. Meanwhile tho masses of the Itusslan people, slow of thought and action, hate not yet roused themselves to the gigantic upheaval which Is sure to fol low tho dissolution of their parliament Minor disorders are reporkd from ha a doxen cities. An incipient anti-Jew lib outbreak at Odessa has been check ed by tho ollco. A sympathetic strike hws been begun at the Khaikov rail road shops, which may Inaugurate a gineral tleup of communication, but Ht. Petersburg, Moscow and most of the other great center are still calm. SECRETS OF DREADNAUQHT. British Admiralty Makes Public Her Plan of Armament. London, July 24. The first official announcement regarding the battleship Drcadnaught Is contained In a white book on naval construction the past yenr, which was Issued tonight. Be tides ten 12 Inch guns annonnccd, the Drcadnaught will have 27 12-pound quick firing anti-torpedo boat guns and five submerged torpedo tubes. In the arrangement of the armament six of the big guns are mounted In pairs on the center line of the ship, and the re maining fonr are mounted in pairs as broadside In view of the modern potentialities of torpedo boats, and considering es pecially the chance of a torpedo attack toward the end el the battle, the anti torpedo boat guns are widely separated so that the wholo of them cannot be disabled by one shell. The speed Is designed to be 27 knots. T'jo bunker capacity Is 2,700 tons, with which the Drcadnaught can steam 6,800 sea miles at economical speed and 3,500 mile at 18H knots. The estimated cost of the Dread- naught, including guns, is $8,087,486. MANY DURIED ALIVE. Building In Massachusetts Town Col lapses on Workmen. South Framlngham, Mass., July 24. At least e'ultt and perhaps twice that number of masons, plumbers nnd Ital ian laborera wero crushed to death to day lu the sudden cnllupse of n build ing In process of erection on Concord street, while ten others were dragged or dug out of tho wreck, some seriously Injured. At n late hour tonight ten men wero missing and a largo force of laborera was at work on the ruins, search log (or the dead. Firemen and members of the Ninth regiment of Infantry of tho slat mili tia, in camp here, succeeded In digging out half a dozen injured, and later found others. Panic Among Odessa dews, Odessa, July 24. The Jews hero aro in n statu of panic, fearing an nntl- Jewish outbreak as tho result of tho killing of n diunken Cossack who re cently wandored through the Jewish qunrtor brandishing his saber nnd shouting; "Death to the Jews." Gov ernor General Kaulbars, addressing a delegation of Jew today, said: "I vouch for my soldiers, but I nra unable to sny v. hat the Coaeacka or Christian civilians might do." Tho slightest Incident might start trouble. Coaeacka this morning looted throe Jewish shops. British Express Sympathy. London, July 24. A British address of sympathy with tho Itusslan peoplo and parliament is being circulated. Alroady the signatures of many persons havo been obtained. j tn.. CHANQEO IN DIRDQ' HAOITfl. Willi .Xr-ir ('onitlllaiia ti,mi Artxpin Htm IHei'ilri! ty I(-nai. Among tho fiiinlllnr example of tho change lu tlio habit of bird) which linvo resulted from association with mankind nro those of the chimney swift, or K))iilnrJy named "chimney swallow," which formerly nested In tho hollow of tree and now In all settled regions' using tho chimney of tho houses, and' tho barn and cave, wal lows, tho former originally nesting In eaves and now building on tho beams inil rafter of barns, and the latter, inco n cliff-dweller, now attaching Its -unions mud tenement under the abet ter of tho eave of barns and dwell ing. lu n series of Interesting notcti In the Auk on the change In tho habit of birds Oeorgo F. Ilrenlnger records hav ing observed In Mexico the old nnd tbo now way of nwallow-nostlng. In tho ancient town of Tuxpan ho found nu merous Instance of barn swallows nesting In tlm living-rooms, and In tbo unsettled portions of tbo Htate or Chi bualiua, 100 miles back from the rail road on one of the large hacienda a region dorold of the time-honored adobe barn swallows still nested on tho rock. Mr. Ilrenlnger notes other change In tho nesting habit due to tho removal of Inrgo timber. Thero Is, for exam ple, the Lucy' warbler, which normal ly next In natural cavities In the trunk of tree, most commonly In the mewiulte, but lu the vicinity of Tucson, where tho larger tree havo been cut away, tho warblers haro In aome In ataiices had recourse to rebuilding their net In the abandoned nest of other species, and, most curious of nil, among the small limb of a mctqulto tree. lu timbered countries tho dicker cut hole lu tho trunk of tree for their lie-its. In ftomo sections, where the large trees have been remorcd and the lllrkers havo no longer such nesting sites, they have taken to tbo telegraph Kile. "Along the railroad between llensou nnd lllsbee, Ariz.," write Mr. Ilrenlnger, "the telegraph pole and femv hh show evidence of tho work of woodpeckers, nil by tho Texan wood lieeker. Throughout this region trees nre few and the woodpeckers are forced to uio anything that Is dead nnd large enough to penult of a nesting cavity being excavated In It. Dead stalks of the century plant are often used. About l'lioeulx, Ariz., this woodpecker Is com mon. Timber to their needs Is still lu abundance and tho pole along the rail road and elsewhere nre untouched. In some part of Mexico tho work of wood peckers on telegraph polo ha reached the stage of a nuisance And a source of much outlay of money to keep tlio lino lu repair. Over a piece of road running between Han Luis Potosl and Tamplco the uulsauco has become o great that the management threatened to dip the iole In a solution of creo note." Forest nd Stream. Inslitont Polllvn. Good-tempered, kind-hearted, and liked even by the Russians, Is the dev scrlptton which the author of "With ltiiHAlaii, Japaueoe and Omnchuso" up- pile to tlio Japanese soldier. Ho also ghes an Illustration of the determina tion of the Japanese, even when the ohjtvt I courtesy. Wl after the Ilattlo of Tnshlhchln, tho Russian garrison, evacuated Xluchwuug by order of General Kuro putklii, the Japanese were not long lu taking command of the place. Two scouts wore the first to enter the town. They rode straight to the civil admin tstrutlon building. There, lu one of the smaller rooms, they came upon n KuknIuu holdler who had munngvd to get loft behind Ids bruttieni-ln-nr.ns. Me hlowly rote from behind some fur niture nnd faced ht captors. They mulled amiably tit him, nnd, reassured, hu pulled off hi cap nud commenced to fan blniKolf with It. Now It Is n common custom for tho Japanese soldier, lu war and peace, to carry about with him lu the hot weath er 11 small fan. On this occasion 11 fan was forthcoming, nud handed to (be Itusslan. lie refused to take It, preferring to use tbo cap. Still with nn nmlnblo smile on his face, 0110 of tho Japanese, a short man with abnormally broad Bhouldcra, again proffered tbo rejected fnn with tho loft hand, at tho same tlmo covering him with a revolver. Tho captlvo took tho gift without further reluctance nud fanned hluwolf with vigor. It cooled him far more than the cap. Hint urtfoi)ita, Certulu bird seem to (Kisses n re .unrknblo Instinct for Hurgery. Tho woodcock, tho partridge nud hoiuo oth er are said to bo able to dress tholr wound with considerable skill. A nat uralist observe that ho ha shot sev eral woodcock that wero recovering from wounds previously received. In every Instance bo found tho Injury neat ly dressed with down plucked from the stums of feather and skillfully ar ranged over the wound, evidently by tho long bonk of the bird. In other cases ligature had been applied to wounded or broken lliuba TUBBED LOOSE Illllfiitgfgb ltu,, . . 1 MSk rw IFllliliilP ayiBg 8131 JJrm K .'fM, LUZON'S LONGEST RAILWAY. Nw (Intrrnmrnl I.lne ltanThrouKb h Frrllli- (Vianlrr The longest railway In tho Philip pines will Ie the government line lead ing through the wonderfully fertile In terior of Luzon from Manila to Apar rl. the northermoxt port of the Island. It will Ik, as It were, the great trans continental system In the Islands. The survey calls for a line 83! miles In length. With the exception of one il If lieu It grade, the rond will be com paratively level, nnd trains should make the trip In ten hour. Recent ly the writer traveled over tho line of this survey on horseback. In nil the trip there wo only rccn one hillside of about three acres which wns barren land, and here It was being worked for n lime quarry. From Manila the road will run northeast 125 mile through the val ley of the Pnmpntiga to the Caraballo Mountains, which run north and south from ten to thirty mile from the west LUZON HAILWAY BOLTC coast of Luzon. It will cro these mountain over the South Caraballo pass, elevation 3,750 feet. The sum mits nre covered wltfj Immense hnrd wood tree. The railroad will climb for thlrty Ilve or forty miles through these moun tains. The country reminds ono of the Cumberland mountain of Teuuessee. Thero are occasional little settlement In tho val leys where tho Indian Igbrrote from Iteuguct Province grow coffee. Every little farm I protected with a bum boo fence to keep out tho deer nud wild boar. Thero aro no native Tag alogs dwelling lu the mountain. These Indians are stronger and more Indus trious than tho Filipino of tho plain". About twenty-live miles above Bam bang in Neuva Vlzcaya Province tho survey strike a tributary of the Mngat Illver at an altitude of n little more than 2,500 feet. From this point until near Apnrrl thero 1 nn almost Im perceptible docllne In the grade. Kambnng is the prettiest llttlo town In tho Philippine Islands. Tho peoplo aro "pncltlcos" and took no parMn tho Insurrection. Only ono company of American troops has over been In llntu bnng. Fifty years ago the Spanish built great cathedrals and bridges and Improved the roads. The country Is rolling nnd tbo valley I open. Tho long, low, slanting foothill aro dense ly covered with timber, Tho country Is capablo ot supporting an immense population. From Ilambang tbo railroad will run almost directly oast down the Magnt A'alley to the Cagoynu Valley, flfty nluo mile by tbo rail, then down the k. . fcT ' f W Klt-tatf Bf jW-iVBB0--K&r' - IT W. I" LI yH .4bMfc.VMME: Wrm I r 'i 3arak. - . "-s t&i. fil fa.wiJf ON THE WORLD. i lggS, 1 rv SkHk L-. vn. JTjf J4L. "Kmm- Cngayan Valley almost due north to Apnrrl, in all this traveling one I Impress ed by tho fact that tbo Philippine Islands still posef vast stretche of Immensely fcrtllo but unsettled coun try. CARELE8SNE88 IN AMERICA. I.nrirrr Pt-rcenlagr of Accident than In Other Ljinila. Our national carelessness I tho ex planation given by the Literary Digest for our dreadful record of accident, say American Medicine. In reviewing an article by O. E. Walsh upon accident-preventing devices In America (Casilcr's magazine), It Is shown that we stand flrxt In the world In the acci dent record nnd tbnt the rule seem to npply to nil trade and profession. The proportion of miner killed, for Instance, Is nearly treblo that In France, nnd about double that In other Kuro ean countries. For every Ave men killed by accident In the United 8tatea there are only three In nil nations of Europe combined. Our railroads alone kill twenty-one jieople every day. The remarkable fact I brought out that w lead the world fa the Invention or tvccl dent-preveutlng devices, and adopt fewer of them than any otb CClsifjv Indeed, many of the luveutlona tTST to Europe for recognition and adoption. It is claimed that our workmen wllj. not use the safety device, a sometjilng childish, but prefer to run the risk like men. This Is true, but It Is also true of European workmen. Indeed, the old story of the safety lamp In mine snow that accustomed dangers are forgotten or minimized. Permanent "museum of security," such nn that In Amsterdam.. Walsh say, should bo established. In thero thero are on constant exhibition every concelvabto device for lesseulng risk to life from accident. They will educate the public, nnd the workmen will grad ually be brought to the point of de manding protection. It Is suggested that employer be held to a stricter accountability nud bo compelled by law to safeguard employes, as In Europe, but It cau be replied that American workmen will not submit to restriction easily Imposed In Europe. They aro freo agents, with n right to kill them solves. If they please, or Injure other. No man Is his brother' keeper hero, nnd this Is probably tho real basis for our national disregard of the right of others. It 1 more than carelessness. The surgeons of the country see nil these nccldouts, nnd carefully investi gate each case. It seems reasonable to suggest that they should be nblo to see the causes and suggest remedte. Knowing more of the matter than any other body of men, can they not take homo concerted action which would make life safer In America? American disregard for human life I the fact which seem to Impress Euro pean visitor moro profoundly than any other characteristic. Since wo claim to bo tbo most democratic people on earth, It seem remarkable that with more power lu our hand than nny oth er nation, wo nro unnblo to safeguard ourselves to anything like the extent accomplished by monarchic nations of tho enlightened parts of Europe. Stopped AValktnir. "I suppose your husband hasn't dona much walking slnco he bought his uow auto?" "No, Indeed. Ho broke hi leg tho tint tlmo ho went out In It." Clever land Leador. When people want to sny real mean things about a druggist tbey accuso him ol charging for sample bottled of medicine.