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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Or.) 1903-1931 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 23, 1908)
EVENTS OE THE DAY Newsy Items (iiitlicrcd from All Paris ot the World. IWAItm UK THE HUSY HEADER Lett Important but Not Less Inter citing Happenings from Points Outittla the 8uie. A heat prostration Is reported from New N lllk. Four ieriii were cremated liy forest fires near Hunt, Mich, 'I lie program of ilic Balkan confer rni'r it prnvoMttg many protests. Hlriix In thr paper milU of the ICul nwy cause mmt fnttinic at election.- Rttotevclt l to Uil Kuglaml and France mi his return from the African hunt. Sixty people Mere icscncd nt l-i Uoqiie, Muh, after spending a night in burning forests. Smnkc is mi dense on the Great l.ikrs frHU forest fire that navigation is al most ilUHSlhlc. I'turt fire Iwve attain broken out in Chippewa county, Michigan anil are IhleMtenuiK ' the cxlicinc. The American fleet encountered a ter rible I) Ihkh off lite uUltd of l.iiiun. Owr MaH mis lost overboard. An Ahmisthh aeroplane has Iwen wrecked hi England ami the inventor hurt Drmonttralioti of the machine were being given before army men. A rolnfril hi to it ha Iwen arrestee! at OskUnd fur roMting Southern Pa cific dining cars. Officers watched ami mw her pK'K ii Imk of supplies winch liad Iwen thrown friHii the dining car It)' her confederate. A Miiii iihiIi of black men hung another eulored man. Thaw may rt testify in the bank ruptcy mn,reditigs Jgaui4 him. The trial of Charles Morse. w!k reked a New York hank, Iws lgun The I'aeifK cruiser fleet has left Hon olulu fur Magdalcua bay for target prac tice. Or rat Ilritain, France ami Russia have KUeil ihi n program for the llalKau inference. Bulgaria says she is ready tn give Turkey a cash consideration for the loss if territory. There is much activity on hoard ling lish war veneU, as the result of the Balkan troiiUlc. A Seattle man received Mi.ooo volts of electricity ami lives. If he recovers, however, he wilt probably lose his hands ami feet. A third balloon, which was taking IMM in the international races at llcrhn, Iws fullest into the North sea. The oc cupants were rescued. Six men were instantly killed ami XI others injured by the cxphwum uf a uosed clurge of il)iiainile near Fort Collins, Col. They were all Greek and Mexican laborers. District Attorney Jerome Is after New York gamblers. The Pacific fled has reached Ho nolulu on Its way home. Pacific coast business men in Ja pan arc receiving a warm welcome. Many Servians in America are pre paring to go home to fight if neces sary. The crown prince of Servia threat ens to attempt an overthrow of King Peter. Great Ilritain proposes financial aid to Turkey in compensation for lost territory. Neither of the two great political parties arc receiving very large miii.',"".""' "i 1 iVCr' iV. . J 11 ri "itf .algu contributions. In Japan will be completely ft led witf. 1 . receptions and sightseeing trips ar- Governor Folk, of Missouri, dc clarcs the United States Is more in need of reform than is Missouri. One of the balloons In the Inter national race at Merlin fell into the North sea. The occupants were res cued. Five thousand troops were placed around the hall of the llritish parlia ment to prevent women suffragists from making a demonstration in the house of commons, Servians have seized a Hungarian town. Roosevelt has refused to go on the mump. Ferdinand has entered Sofia as czar of Bulgaria. Turkey Is sending cruisers to the Island of Santos, Japa fricudl inncse massacred a party of idly Cor cans by mistake for in surgents. Castro's health has Improved so much that he is again able to be out on the blrccts. During n quarrel nt Tucson, Ariz., between two carpenters, one lilt the other, breaking his neck, The French government says the Dardanelles should be opened while the Balkan trouble Is being settled, PIIEY TO CMMULEfl8. Thousands of Land Stinkers Are Left Pminllnsi In 8oulh Dakota, Dallas, S D, Oct. 13. It is cstl mnted that l.ooo land-seekers who have come to Dallas mid Gregory have lost their money at Raining ta bles and nre "broke " Many more who have lust all their ready cash have been forced to telegraph for money. Nearly fio.ooo persons have regis tered at these two points already and nearly as many more arc expected be fore the period of registration closes. Hundred return as quick as they have registered, hut thousands have re mained for the drawing. (.amblers hac operated their games without restraint and arc said to have made remarkable winnings. They run pell tucll 24 hours a day, with the games .11 strong at daybreak as when the sun sets. To he broke In this -ountry means something to a man, because he is without fiicnds, generally, and at a time when it is not easy to make new ones Kvery outgoing train car ries many men who hive lost their money ami risk their l.vcs riding on brake beams. No land opening has ever brought more people, ami they all come with money. Those who have the gam bling spirit stick to the roulette and faro tables, with the result that scv eral hundred are living on charity until they can get out of the country l6ndon CENTER OF INTEREST. St. Petersburg Watching Outcome of Conference in England. St Petersburg, Oct 13 The cen ter of interest in the Near Mast crisis has been transferred to London, and the Russian foreign office is marking time in its negotiation with other powers concerning the convocation of a congress until the outcome of the conferences between M. Iswolcky, Sir Kdward Grey and King F.dward are known. Kmperor Nicholas has decided to leave the letter of Ktuperor Francis Joseph unanswered until M Iswolsky returns to St. Petersburg. Count llerchthnld, the Austrian ambassador. was closeted with M TcharyknfT, the acting foreign minister, the entire af ternoon. At the close of the Inter view he reiterated the statement that Austria would refuse to participate in a congress unless the llnsnia question was excluded from this program The question of the recognition of Unitarian independence has for the time lieiug dropped out of sight, I nit Itussia has assured Bulgaria that she will support her pretentions before the congress. The foreign office has received from a score of cities in Turkey tele grants protesting against the Austro-Hiingarian-llulgariau action, which have been adopted at mass meetings held under the auspices of the Young Turks The telegrams are Identical in text, showing a certain origin JAPANESE GREETING WARM. Yokohama Turns Out to Oo Honor to San Francisco Ouslnes Men. Yokohama, Oct. 13 Yokohama is a blaze of color with American and Japanese (lags flying from every building, in honor of the delegation of Pacific Coast business men who arrived at 7 o'clock on the Japanese liner Teuyo Martt from San Fran cisco The visitors were greeted at the dork by a crowd which numbered hundreds of representative businr men of Japan, assembled from the cities of Tokio, Osaka and Kyoto. The officially prepared program of entertainment lor the Americans com menced ns soon as they stepped ranged by their Japanese hosts. On Thursday the Americans wilt he the guests of Count Kotnura, minister of foreign affairs, at .1 luncheon in honor of the visitors. The Tenyo Marti had nu excellent trip across the Pacific. Chicago Alp Very Dirty. Chicago, Oct. 13. The health de partment, in a report just issued, states that the dust and soot in the atmosphere of Chicago, as shown by tests just taken, Is three times ns great ns that in the atmosphere of London ' Samples of the air taken nt a height of 40 feet above the street level at four points of the city were subjected to analysis. The report says: "This excess may be partly at tributed tn the long contjuued drouth. The dirt hnd not been washed out of the nlr for some time previous to the collection of specimens," Austria Still Reaching Out. London, Oct. 13. The Dally Mall's Belgrade correspondent says that the fall of the Servian ministry Is immi nent and that n vonlitlou cabinet will he formed. He also states that the Attstrlans nre preparing to seize two islands in the Drlna river on the Servo-Bosnian frontier. Humors of war, he says, have caused a run on tne ueigraue banks. I I NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL ISSUES REPORT ON CROPS, Department of Agriculture Sends Out Supplemental Bulletin. Washington, Oct IS A supple mental report on crop conditions has been issued by the department of agri culture Besides giving the crop fig ures announced previously, it gives the following: Condition per cent aged apples, 1H4; cranberries, f.H.'l; grapes, HSU; hops, quality, tnefl; peanuts, 83 4; sorghum, HI 3; sugar beets, 85 4; sugar cane, HUfi; sweet potatoes, 85 S 'I he preliminary estimate of rye total production is given as 30.U21.ooo bushels, against :il,sr,e,uuu for 1U07, and hay, 07,743,000 tons, against 03, 077.0O0 last year. The production estimates on a liatls ol 100 representing a full crop include: Beans, dry, TJ; cabbage, 7.15; clover seed, tiOH; hemp, S5 2; hops, pounds per acre, 1,004 ft; onions, 83.4; tomatoes H"i wall r melons, 7U7. The average condition of seventeen important crops representing nearly tm ier cent of the value of all farm crop, weighed according to thrir rel ative importance, was on October 1 for the United States 77 8, against 70 7 September 1. Workmen Favor Private Yards. Washington. Oct 17 A siecial com miltee representing SOW unemployed workiiisjttien formerly with the Bethle hem steel works, is prraring to itit President Roosevelt next Monday. Tlie committee will endeavor to convince the president that the prottcrily of thou- nam) of workmgmeu would lc assured if more government contracts went to private firms than to tin- navy yard President Roosevelt was apealcd tn yes terday by Representative J. D. Broad head to enlarge the vcojie of private contract fur government construction work. 011 the plea that many Idle men would I given work. Ilroadhead ar ranged for the workmgmen's committee to see tlte president. New Cattle Rate. 'ahmgtim. Oct 17. The sweeping reduction of from i to & cents er too loumW on range cattle lupment. which the mtertate commerce cihiiiuusmhi had ordered on August 27, of this vear, went into effect tndsy The order was the mult of an investigation made by the commission 111 consequence of a protest of the Texas cattle raisers against the Misitoiiri, KaiiMs Texas railroad and a great many other western and south western road, which had advanced the rates on range cattle last spring The order, which went into effect today, ap plies to Mi railroads 111 the western and southwestern parts of the country. Hospital Gets $1,000,000. New York. Oct 10 It was an nounced today that James S. Ken nedy, the New York banker, hid given si.noo.ooo to the Presbyterian hospital of this city, of which he is president The money is to be used in construction of buildings. Other gifts made by Mr. Kennedy and pre viously announced arc $500,000 to Co lumbia university, $300,000 for a building of the United Charities and mn.ooo to the School of Philan thropy. Mexican Ambassador Resigns. Mexico City. Oct. 10 The Mexi can foreign office has confirmed the tcMgnatiou of P.nriquc C. Creel as ambassador to the United States. Seuor Creel for some time put has held the double position of governor of the state of Chihuahua and am bassador at Washington. His suc cessor in the post at Washington, which is the highest in the Mexican diplomatic service, has not yet been decided upon. May Kill Li's Biographer. Pckiu. Oct. 10. Madame Lien. wife of the biographer of the late Li Hung Chant;, has been arrested in .Shanghai on imperial order. The reason for the action is found In the fact that Madame Lieu has of late been making brnvc efforts to clear the character of a female teacher, who was beheaded last year charged with revolutionary activity. Madame Lieu is .1 Chinese woman of education. Ronds Improve Service. Washington. Oct. 13. Franklin Lane of the interstate commerce com mission, opened the proceedings of the annual convention of the National Association of Railway Commission ers. He stated that durlnn the nres- cut year practically nil American mil roads hail been able tn furnish trans portation facilities within a reason able time. Hands Off, Says sludge. Davenport. la.. Oct. 10. Judge Smith McPlicrson, in the United States court, today gave n final de cision in the case of the United Breweries ngntnst the Civic Federa tion of Davenport- lie declared the Iowa Honor statute n ounsi criminal law nml said that the federal court had no power to Interfere with Its enforcement by state courti. GOVERNMENT FIGHT8 DUST. Officials Trying to Make Roads Suit able for All Purposes, Washington. Oct 17 "Dust Pre vrritivcs." by Prcvost Hubbard, issued a lliillciiri No 31, United States office of public roads, is the latest contribution to literature on road construction and maintenance Mr Hubbard's nancr has been prepared to meet the growing de-ibcrgen by an international agreement, inanil by road engineers for specific in-1 The Norwegian fishermen and formation on the important subject of. huntsmen were for a long time undis dust prevention He has made a re- puled masters of Spitzbergen and search of all literature on the subject, enjoyed unlimited freedom In follow supplementing this with the results of ing their occupations. Recently, how- actual experiments nude by the office of public roads Interest lias Im-cii recently reawakened ill the problem of the prevention of dust ofi country highways, the well-nigh uni versal use of Die automobile being rc ijxiuaihlc for the additional study and experiments. Road engineer arc now agreed that the automobile, when mov ing at a high speed, is destructive to macadam roads, the broad soft tires lifting the rock dust and scattering it over adjacent fields. AWAITS RIGHT MOMENT. Roosevelt Said to Have Plan to Settle Balkan Trouble. Washington, Oct. 13. President Roosevelt is watching the Balkan sit uation closely Instructions, it is said in diplomatic circles, have been sent to every American diplomatic agent in the Balkan peninsula, and in all Kuropc, 10 rciun uauy on ine progress ot alfairs When the right moment arrives President Roosevelt will have a nlan of arbitration ready to submit to the powers, declare the friends of the chief executive. The visit of Charles S. Francis. American ambassador at Vienna, who is at home on a vacation, to President Kooscvelt recently is taken to mean that the president will have some thing to suggest to Rmneror Franz Josef when the time arrives. New Stamp Issue. Washington. Oct. 15 The bureau of engraving and printing is prepar ing to issue the new postage stamps, designs for which have been com pleted at the suggestion of Postmaster-General Meyer. The new stamps arc to be the most simple printed by the government for years. They will be of the following denominations: I, '.'. 3. 4. 5. 0. 8. 10. 15 and 50-cent and SI. The 1'A and $1 denominations now in use will not be reprinted. The printing of the 2-ccnt denom ination is to be begun at once, and it is thought they will be ready for dis tribution some time in November. I he stamps arc very simple in de sign. Die lettering is in straight Uric At tne ton arc the words. "U S. Postage." and at the bottom the words, "Two Cents." or according to tlie denomination, the 1-cent stamps contain the head of Franklin and all the others the head of Washington The heads are all profiles. The col ors are the reds and blues of early stamps. Make Them Go to School. Washington, Oct. 14. In his an nual report just made public, Com missioner of Kducation U. II. Brown recommends compulsory school at tendance by the native children of Alaska. He says: "Experience has shown that in many sections of Alaska regularity of attendance in the public schools for natives cannot be maintained without a legal penalty for truancy. The passage of a bill requiring the attendance of all chil dren of school age unless mentally or physically disqualified is desir able.'' Cross of Honor for King. Washington. Oct. 14 Victor Em manuel III, king of Italy, will be awarded an American ero.v of honor at a ceremony to be held in this city, October 15. The board of governors of the American Cross of Honor as sociation will convene here on that date and make the award to the king, who was elected an honorary mem ber of the order last February, and who accepted by letter May 31, lOOfl 12,000 Deaths This Year. Washington, Oct 13. Approxi mately 13,000 deaths from cholera in the Philippines since January 1 of this year are announced in n detailed report made to the public health serv ice by Chief Quarantine Officer Mc Clintick, nt Manila. The report says that cases of cholera continue to lie renortcd in the Philippines, but the disease shows little tendency toward spreading. tn Honor of Bryce. Washington, Oct. II Ambassador Brvce has cone to Boston to attend a banquet to be given in his honor by the British organizations of that city. The occasion will be the first ap pearance of the British ambassador before the people of New England. Stewart Is Out, Washington, Oct. 14. President Roosevelt has approved the report of the retiring board recommending the retirement of Colonel William F. Stewart, the Fort Grant exile, from the army. 8PITZHERGFN IN DISPUTE. Conference to Be Called to Settle Ownership of Land. Berlin, Oct. 12. An international conference will be summoned In the near future to regulate the future of Spitsbergen, and it Is expected that delegates will attend from Great Brit ain, the United States, France, Russia, Germany, Sweden and Norway. The Norwegian government, which has taken the Initiative in proposing the conference, desires to safeguard the rights of the Norwegian fishermen who work alonir the coasts of Soltz ever, two minim; companies, one I financed by British and Norwegian capital ami tlie other financed by American and Norwegian capital, have begun operations in Advent Bay arid both companies have annexed ftwirrtiritlc aroai rtf tan, I ami linv prohibited Norwegian fishermen and huntsmen from trespassing on these territories. It Is expected that Nor way will jay claim to the possession of Spitzbergen by virtue of the prior rights 01 Norwegian fishermen and huntsmen, but in this case it is ex pected that Sweden will raise a coun ter claim oil the ground that Swedish scientific expeditions have been mainly instrumental in opening Spitz bergen to the outside world. PUT POACHERS TO DEATH. Russians Make Short Work of Jap anese Seat Butchers. San Francisco, Oct. 12. The United States gunboat Yorktown, which has arrived here after a cruise in Alaskan waters, confirms the news of the sum mary execution of several Japanese seal poachers by the Russian authori ties on the Homandorsky islands. rfter a speedy trial on charges of piracy, the men were convicted and put to death. ' Two Japanese schooners, with their crews, found sealing withtn the three mile limit by the revenue cutter Bear, were taken to Valdez. Following the custom of previous seasons, it is thought the men wilt- be allowed to go free. Lieutenant-Commander Pollock, of the Yorktown. which has been doing police duty around the I'ribtlof islands, states that the rookeries there are covered with dead and dying pups. Their mothers had been killed at sea and thr young left to perish. During the season the Yorktown encountered H Japanese sealers, but none was within the three-mile limit. While off Cane St. Ehas the York- town was in a terrific gale, and was compelled to heave to for 30 hours. The gunboat was washed from stem to stern, and one of her lifeboats was carried away. This was the same gale in which the bark Star of Bengal was wrecked on Coronation island, with the loss of 111 men. TRY WIRELESS TELEPHONY. Apparatus to Connect Admiralty Of fice With Ships at Sea. London, Oct. 12. The De Forest system of wireless telephony is short ly to be put to the test by the ad miralty, who will endeavor to com municate by wireless telephone with the channel fleet from the admiralty offices In St. James Park. The experiments, which may extend over some weeks, are expected to demonstrate the possibility of the of ficials in London keeping in touch with the warships at sea and also of the ships . communicating with the land station. Wireless telephony over long dis tances has already been shown to be possible by the invention of Mr. Poul seu, the famous Danish inventor. By means of powerful arc lamps of a spe cial form continuous etcctrical waves cm be sent from one place to another impressed with the effects of speech in such a way that these impressions can be reconverted into speech at the receiving station. The electrical waves are bent out of shape so to sneak, by the telephone connected with the transmitting ap paratus, and these modified waves are capable of carrying the impression to the receiving apparatus. Not Aggressive, Says Servia. Budapest, Oct. 12. Servia has re plied to the Austro-Hungarinn de mand tfor an explanation ol her pur pose in summoning the reserves to the colors by granting that this step has no aggressive character. Speak ing nt Saturday's session of the Aus-tro-Huugarian delegation, Foreign Minister von Aehrcutlul expressed the belief that he would be able to carry through the annexation of Bos nia and Herzegovina peacefully. He said that already lie wns negotiating with some of the powers with the view of smoothing out difficulties. Acquits Mob Leader. Snrincfield. III.. Oct. 13. The iurv in tlie case of Ernest Humphrey, one of the alleged mob leaders indicted for malicious destruction of property on August IS Inst, has returned a ver dict of not guilty. This is the third case growing out of the recent race riot in which a verdict of not guilty has been returned. JOIN IN CONFERENCE Great Britain Gets In Line With Oilier Powers. ACTION WAS A GREAT SURPRISE Russia Would Rather Keep Straits of Dardanells Closed Until New Navy I Completed. London, Oct. 13. M. Iswolsky, the Russian foreign minister, has sua cecded in impressing upon Sir Kd ward Grey, the British secretary for foreign affairs, the necessity that not only should a conference of the pow ers be held to settle the crisis in the Near East, but this conference should take under advisement other ques tions besides those involved in the annexation by Austria of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the declaration of Bulgarian independence. This change of front on the part of Great Britain, which has caused great surprise, was announced by the for eign office at the conclusion of a long: conference between Sir Edward Grey and M. Iswolsky. after, a meeting of the cabinet, in which Sir Edward set forth the position he had taken and explained the views of the Russian minister. It is doubtful whether Russia is anxious to reopen the Dardanelles for the present, for, if this is done, it must be for all nations, and Russia is not likely to desire that while her fleet is weak. The point in her previous stand Great Britain if continuing to insist upon, apparently, is that no modifica tion of a treaty can be permitted without the consent of all parties to that treaty, and at her proposal the powers have instructed their ambas sadors at Constantinople to affirm this principle What end can be served by this is not stated by the foreign office, but it can hardly be expected that cither Bulgaria or Austria-Hungary will consent to restore the legal stauts in Bulgaria and Bosnia and Herzegovina FIGHT WITH MANIAC. Policemen Tussle With Crazy Man on Tall Tower. New York. Oct. 13. Joseph Krats. an insane man of Brooklyn, who in an attempt to throw himself into the East river Sunday fought desperately with seven policemen on the dizzy top of a Williamsburg bridge tower, yesterday morning gave attendants and physicians at the Eastern Dis trict Hospital a furious fight. He burst the canvas strait-jacket into which he had been forced and with maniacal fury assailed nurses and oth ers in charge. After a prolonged contest lie was overpowered and bound. Later he calmed down and was taken before a court, charged with attempted suicide. The magistrate, in committing him to the observation ward of Kings County Hospital, praised Policeman Clarence Smith, who had followed the crazed man in his climb to the tower's narrow top and after an aw ful hand-to-hand conflict, during which Krats got out a razor, subdued him and summoned assistance. The magistrate said: "Heroes like you deserve special recognition. You are a brave man." PLEADS FOR LARGER.NAVY. Senator Lodge Says Pacific Coast Must Be Protected. Boston, Oct 13. Declaring that Japan was ready to make insulting demands on the United States, did she dare, and that the only way to guard against them was to increase the American navy. United States Senator Lodge launched into a strong and vigorous plea for a bigger and better navy at a Republican ratifica tion meeting last night, held under the auspices of the Republican club of Massachusetts. "What we want to look out for Is our navy," insisted the speaker "We should protect both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and it is the policy of the Republican party to do this." Nicholas Ready to Fight. Cettinie. Montenegro. Oct. 13 The Montenegrin National Assembly opened here yesterday in extraor dinary session, lhe war tever re sulting from the annexation by Aus tria-Hungary of Bosnia and Ilerze govina has been strengthened by a bellicose message to parliament from rrmce Nicholas, who ueciarcu tint the annexation of these two prov inces had Inflicted a crying wrong upon the people of Montenegro, and that the people were prepared to sac rifice their last drop of blood unless the peaceful endeavors now on foot resulted in righting the grievance. .All Except Austria Join. Constantinople, Oct 13. The Ger man and Italian ambassadors yester day made the same declaration to the porte against the infraction of treat ies without consent of the signatories as has already been made by the British, French and Russian ambassa dors. Austria still holds aloof.