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NEWS OF THE WEEI In a Condensed Form Icr Cur Busy Readers. HAPPENINGS OF TWO CONTINENTS A Return of the Less Important but Not Lets Interesting Events of the Past Week. The bandit Raisuli is again active. A number of Alaskan bills will come up in the senate soon. Carnegie has given Boston $540,000 for an industrial school. Both armies in Manchuria are aeri ously hampered by cold weather. . New York ia inquiring into the mat ter of building a city light plant Kuropatkin, when he receives more troops, may try to relieve Port Arthur Tratlic has been considerably de laved in South Dakota and Nebraska bv snow . Stoeasel has arain tieen wounded. this time by a rifle bullet, but not seri- ousiy. Fire destroyed property at the Silver Lake mine, Suverton, Col., valued at $100,000. The remains of Kruger have been ' laid in the tomb at Pretoria with mi posing ceremonies. The crown prince of Denmark, w ho is very anxious to meet Miss Roosevelt is looking for a wife. An American captain just home from the Orient says he saw General Kuroki in November. . The general was re ported, killed early in October. A Japanese cruiser is reported ashore m lungehing bay. The. Oregon land fraud case has been postponed until April. A Japanese wing of Oyama's army driveii back recently is again advancing. The Japanese are fearful lest the Russian government buys a number of ' warships from Chile The suspension bridge at Charleston, W . Va., collapsed, drowning three school girls and injuring five people Brigadier General S. M. Whiteside is dead, lie had command of the de partment of Santiago during the Span ' ish war. Four men were scaldedd to death and four others badly injured by an explosion on the battleship Massa chusetts. The new Portland postoflice will not be large enough and the architect has been asked to provide for the construe tion of another wing. A number of prominent rural mail carriers who were too active politically daring the recent campaign, have been removed. They were all York and New Hampshire. in JSew ireless telegraph messages have been sent" from Kansas City to Cleve land. Ohio, 725 miles, without relay This is said to be the longest distance overland messages ever covered . Fire destroyed an immense coal bun' ker at Buffalo. The real work will not begin nntil ear.y in January. John D. Rockefeller has given Chi cago University $300,000. The nomination of Govrenor Brady, of Alaska, has been held up by the senate. The national convention of Traveling Passenger agents will meet in Portland in 1995. The international commission to in quire into the North sea incident is eip'Cted to meet in Paris December 20. Barbed wire stretched in front of the Japanese trenches ia proving the worst foe of the Russian army in Manchuria. A number of Boxer leadeis in North ern China have been placed in prison and it ie thought probable that the in tended uprising has been nipped in the bud. At the last cabinet meeting Secretary Hitchcock spoke briefly of the land fraud cases, indicating that some start ling developments in them might be expected in the near future. The second trial of the Oregon land fraud case is in progress in Portland. The Rough Riders will have a place of honor in the inaugural parade. A Chinese capitalist declares that he knows Port Arthur has provisions for three months. Of the 100 locomotives ordered for the Harriman lines, 60 are for the Southern Pacific. Dowie has paid the last installment on his debta and Zion City is again on a sound financial basis. DOINGS IN CONGRESS. Monday, December 12. The senate committee on privileges and elections has taken up the 8 moot case, inree witnesses were examined and several new points brought out Senator Stewart has Introduced a bill to raise the salary of the president to $100,000 a year, of the vice president ana speaker of the house to (20,000 each, and each senator, representative and delegate to $10,000. It is provided that the bill shall take effect March 1909. The house passed a bill to give the agricultural department control ever forest reserves. The senate discussed the pure food and Philippine government bills. Tuesday, December 13. The house passed a resolution Im peaching Judge Swayne, of the North ern district of Florida, for "high crimes and misdemeanors" A committee was appointed to notify the senate The senate passed a bill to throw open for settlement 800.000 acres in the Yakima Indian reservation. Nothing of any importance was de veloped in the Sn.oot case today rive witnesse were examined. The house resolution for an adjourn ment from December 21 to January 4 was adopted by the senate. senator Mitchell is sure of securing the chairmanship of the committee on canals. - Wednesday, December 14. The senate has appointed a commit tee to arrange for the trial of Judge fcwayne, of Honda. A bill was passed in the senate ap propriating $25,04)0 for the improve ment of Mount Rainier national park. In the house the urgent deficiency bill and several other bills of a public nature were passed. Thursday, December 15. The senate spent practically the en tire day discussiing the Philippine ad niinistrative bill. A number of amend ments were made. Under unanimous agreement the vote on the bill will be taken tomorrow and the disposal of all amendments w ill occur at the same time. The urgent deficiency bill was passed without debate. In the house an attempt was made to call up the bill to improve currency conditions. This matter occupied ul most the entire day, only a few minor items com tug before the house Friday, December 16. The senate by a vote of 44 to 23 passed the Philippine government bill As passed it exempts from taxation all bonds issued by the Philippine and Porto Rico governments: authorizes municipalities to incur a bonded in debtednesa amounting to 5 per cent of the assessed valuation of their property ; authorizes the Philippine government to incur a bonded indebtedness of $5, 000,000; establishes a system for the location and patenting of mineral, coal and saline lands, and gives tho civil governor the title of governor general. The greater part of the day was put in discussing and voting on amend ments on the Philippine bill At 5:05 p.m. the senate adjourned until Monday. ' Today s session of the house was given over almost exclusively to con sideration of the . bills on the private calendar, a dozen or more being passed The senate amendments to the urgent deficiency bill were agreed to. A resolution was adopted providing that tho exercises appropriate to the reception and acceptance from the state of Kansas of the statue of the late John Ingalls, erected in Statuary hall, of the capitol, be made a special order for January 21. The house adjourned until Monday. OREGONWINS MANY PRIZES. W. H.Wehrung Says State Made Fine Showing at St. Louis. Portland, Dec. 17. After several months in St. Louis, where he had charge of the Oregon exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase exhibition, W. II. Wehrung returned to Portland yester day. He reported wide interest among Easterners in the Lewis and Clark ex position and predicted there will be heavy westward travel next year for the purpose of seeing the Western World's fair. ' Mr. Wehrung speaks highly of the showing made by Oregon at the St. Louis fair, saying that the state held up well against states with much larger appropriations. He also says that he has been told that Washington a repre sentatives bought a consignment of Ore gon cherries from a dealer and exbib- ted them as Washington product. Thus Oregon competed in the cherry contest against her own product. Men on Battleship Quarrel. New York, Dec. 17. George Wash- ngton, a negro seaman, shot and wounded two others of the Illinois crew, on the United States battleship Illinois, in the New lork navy yard today. Henry More, an apprentice, received a bullet in the arm and Seaman Shap, another in the back. More and the colored man occupied adjoining ham mocks and Washington was said to be inoffensive until More's tantalizing ac tions casued Washington to . lose his temper today, and he shot More. Shap interfered and was shot. BIG EXHIBIT AT FAIR Missouri Will Make a Fine State Display at Portland. WILL MEAN OUTLAY OF $300,000 Special Commissioner It Now Actively At Work Nation Boxing Ex hibltt Nebraska's Part. St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 19. "Missouri is to bo splendidly represented at tho Lewis and Clark exposition at Port land," states M. T. Davis, president of the .Missouri State World s Fair com mission today. "We will send out there an exhibit that could not 1k duplicated for $:100,- uuu, tie continued. The displays for the western fair will le selected and prepared for shipment by E. S. Carver, special commissioner troin .Missouri to the Lewis and Chirk exposition. He is now actively' at work. The work of boxing the government exhibits that aw to Im shipped from the World's fair to Portland for the Lewis and Clark exposition has la-en commenced, and by Januarv 1 thev will Ihj ready to he sent away. They will not 1h shipped until March 1, how ever, according to the present plans. Portland is to get about 5 per cent of the government's exhibits. The re mainder will Ihs returned to Washing, ton, D. C. The machinery in the Dinner coining display will be sent as soon as possible to ivnver, lolo, where it will be used to enlarge the United States mint. The great ordnance which proved such an attractive exhibit here may Ihj re turned to the East. Its disposition has not lcen definitely decided upon as yet, on account of the possibility of obtaining great rifles and other gun's on t lie Western coast so much closer to Portland. Nebraska to Have Big Exhibit. Lincoln, Neb., Dec. lit. J. B. Dins- more, Nebraska commissioner, and in charge of the livestock exhibit of the St. Louis fair, nnd ex-president of the state hoard of agriculture, said today that Nebraska would have a big .exhib it at Portland, MUCH FEELING AGAINST CHILE Japan Still Fears She Will Sell Her Warships to Russia. jiokio, uoe. iv. me Japanese are watching with great interest the a! leged plan of tho Russian government to purchase warships from the govern menta of Argentine and Chile. In res ponse to a diplomatic iiniuirv, the gov eminent of Argentina frankly disavow ed any intention to sell warslupe to Russia, but tho answer received from Chile is said to 1m3 evasive The cor responuenco on me subject is still in progress. There is a growing feeling of resent ment here against Chile. Discussing the question with the Associated Press correspondent today, an official said that in the event of Chile selling war ships to Russia, Japan will unques tionably take the first opportunity to settle the score. PROTECT FLOODED VALLEYS Engineers Have Scheme to Redeem One Million Acres. Sioux City, Ia., Dec. 10. A commit tee of distinguished engineers chosen y California to solve the problem of protecting the valleys of the San Joa quin the Sacramento rivers from regu lar Hoods made its report todav. If successful their plan will redeem J,- UuO.UUu acres. The floods were caused primarily bv deposits from hydraulc mines filling the channel. The project will cost 1,000,000 at least While the report is not made public, it is understood it recommends the construction of dykes to confine the water to the channel. and thereby carry out the debris. Conservative Reforms for Russia. St. Petersburg, Dec. 19. A special council was held this afternoon at Tsar-koe-Selo, under Emperor Nicholas, at which President of the Ministerial council C Witte, Minister of the Inter ior Sviatopolk-Mirsky and Minister of Justice Muravieff disessstied the ques tion of reforms. It is understood that the emperor advised with them on the question of a manifesto which will be published today. This document, it is believed, outlines a policy of careful conservative reform. Federal Building for Honolulu. Washington, Dec. 19. Senator Per kins introduced a bill today to make an appropriation of $1,400,000 to ac quire a site to construct a Federal building at Honolulu, Hawaii. Repre sentative Csuhman, of Washington, in troducedthe same bill in the house. AMERICA LOSINQ FLOUR TRADE. Shaw Confers With Miller Regarding Drawback on Imported Wheat. Washington, Deo. 17. At the re quest of Secretary Shaw', representa tives of a number of the leading flour ing mill Interests of tho country were at the treasury department today In conference with tho secretary on the subject of the regulations now in prep aration to allow drawback on exported flour nmdo in part from imported wheat. During the conference the sec retary questioned the millers present on several matters of detail in connec tion with the milling of wheat, the condition of the export trade and the necessity for the action asked for. At the conclusion of the conference a statement made by Secretary Shaw was given out in which lie says: "The iniportacno of tho question will la appreciated w hen it ia known that during October, lOOH, 1,800,000 barrels of American made Hour were exerted, and in OcIoIkt, 1W)4, less than 800,000 barrels. In other words, the exporta tion oi American made Hour has falUn of! during the present season more than one-half. If the European bakers tha have Im-cii using the American made Hour change, it w ill be next to impos sible to get the trade back, and it never can lie gotten back until the American farmer sells his wheat cheap euouuh t permit the. American miller to under sen." SLAIN BY DRUNKEN RUSSIAN Chinaman Singled Out by Sailor and Filled with Bullets. OI .1 t . a an. . . niinngiiai, inc. ii. ine uisoniers created by the sailors of tho dismantled Russian vessels Askold and (iromovol reached, their climax yesterday when one of the crew of the Askold murdered a Chinaman without the slightest prov ocation. ' Tho Russian was apparently intoxi cated and rushed through one of the streets of tho Chinese settlement with loaded revolver in his hand. He fired several shots at passers by, but failed to do any damage. Then he made for a Chinaman who was stand ing in front of his store, and, seizing him by tho throat, emptied the remain ing chamlers of the pistol into his vic tim's body. A iH-tition has leen pre sented to tho authorities here request lug that tlie Kussian crews bo excluded from the Chinese settlements, where tlicy have been making life a burden for the residents. The matter will, in all propabbility. be submitted to the foreign consuls, as not a day has passed during tho past month or so without some complaint lteing made against the Russians. So far as can !o learned, the ( hinese ollicials have kept the matter secret, but this latest exploit could not la kept from tho knowledge of the people ill general, and united action is likely to be taken against the Russian sailors. TO GET PHILIPPINE EXHIBIT. 1005 Fair Deal Only Awaits Approval of Insular Department. St. Louis, Dec. 17. Tho Chronicle this evening says: The sale of a large Philippine exhibit for $10,000 to tho Lewis and Clark ex position company, is awaiting the au thorization of thoInsnlaf department at Washington. A careful and exten sive list of displays, making a very comprehensive inanimate exhibit, was prepared by the Philippine board for tho Portland company. The price of $lf!,000 was accepted by the Western fair corporation, ami the conclusion of the deal only awaits the approval of the Washington authorities. The exhibit includes displays from the ethnological, agricultural, forestry and other important departments' at the St. Louis fair. It is estimated that the Lewis and Clark company could hot duplicate the exhibit in the islands and ship to Portland for double tho Bum It will pay for the exhibit to be se cured In this way. No News of Missing Attache. Paris, Dec. 17. The foreign office has not received any information which it considers creditable concerning the disappearance of Lieutenant Decuiver- vule, the French naval attache at Port Arthur. - The statement was brought out by sensational London papers to the effect that tho officials here had been advised that Japanese torpedo boats deliberately sunk a junk on board of winch were the trench and German naval attaches. Tho officials point out that the $2,000 reward for news of its missing attache is still unclaimed. Robber Locks Cashier In. Hibbing, Minn., Dec. 17. A lone robber held up tho bank at Chlsholm during business hours today, secured Z,2UU, and escaped. He forced Cash ier Grieser Into the vault at the muz- le of a revolver and locked the door. REFORM JSJIELAYED Land Laws Will Not Be Changed At Present Session. DELAY WAS BATHER EXPECTED Commission Appointed by Roosevelt to Decide on Needed Changes Hat Not Yet Made Final Report. Washlntgon, Dee. !. The house committee on publie lands today voted to postjHine indefinitely the bill to re peal the titular and stun act. This action means there will Is no land law reform this session. This result was excctod, especially in view of the fact that the public lands commission has not yet made a final report. The bill passed on was by far the most ini- Mirtaut of the land reform bills etid lug, but when it was passed by the sen ate last session there was a distinct understanding with ! members of the house committee ttuit It should not ln rcnrted to the house during the present congress. The house committee turned the bill down by a vote of 10 to 4, those voting for rejtenl being: Chairman Lacey, of Iowa; Miller of Kansas, Nccdham of California and Volstead of Minnesota. In turning down this bill the commit tee slated that the repeal of the tlmler and soute act would shut S! the source of the greater portion of the reclama tion fund, and would seriously handi cap irrigation work liegun by the gov ernment. Furthermore, it was said that the rceal of this 1 would be of immeasurable lsniclU to railroad com panies ami other large holders of forest reserve lands, as it would cause a con siderable rise in the value of scrip, which would 1h the only remaining way of getting large tracts of govern ment timber land. There was, more over, a general U-licf that the timber and stone act, if properly administered, is not a bad law . ROOSEVELT URGES ACTION. Anxious Interstate Commerce Com mission to Have Greater Power. Washington, Dec. In. President Roosevelt considered today w ith several friends his recommendation that in creased jxiwers be conferred by legisla tion upon the Interstate Commerce commission. Those to w hom he talked were not only memlx-rs of congress. but men in other walks of life. To all he indicated his earnest desire that ac tion of a den (lite nature action that would bring results to the iteople should ho taken as soon as practicable. A day or two ago be considered the question with Judge (Jrosseup, of Chi cago. Todav ho discussed It with Judge William W, Morrow, of tho United States court at San Francisco. Py invitatoiu of the president, a sih- cial committee of the Commercial Trav elers' Protective association called on him today to consider his recommenda tion that the powers of the Interstate Commerce commission las extended so as to enable the commission to pass up on questions oi railroad freight rates. subject only to review by th coiirla. MITCHELL MUCH GRATIFIED. He Wins Important Committeeship In Face of Much Opposition. Washington, Dec. 10. Senator Mitchell was highly gratified today to receive the appointment as chairman of the committee on interoeeanie ca nals, wjiich handle all legislation hereafter enacted affecting the Panama canal and the canal rone. Ho succeeds the late Senator Hanna. A very strong fight was made to keen Senator Mithcell out of his liositlon. and it was only when all endeavor to force Senator Piatt to accept tho place failed that the position was given to the Oregon senator. Friends of Panama really wanted to make Kittredge, of South Dakota. chairman of this committee, but could not consistently jump him over Mitch ell. Senator Mitchell was fonght because he was an earnest advocate of the Nic aragua route. Dredge for Oregon Harbors. Washington, Dec. 16. Representa tive Hermann appeared before the riv ers and, harbors comniitteo in support of his bill asking an appropriation of iuu.uuu lor a dredge to be used on Oregon coast bars. Representative Hermann has rceeived assurances from Ch airman Burton and ohr members of the committer which lead him to heliveo tho committee will incorporate in tho river and harbor bill a provision for the dredge. The committee is un willing to make further appropriations for the coast projects. Canada Will Not Come to Fair. Ottawa, Ont., Dec. 18. The Domin. ion government decided todav not ta send an exhibit to the Lewis and Clark exposition.