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CONDON.... OREGON
III a Condensed Fern tor Our
Easj Readers.
A Return of the Less Important but
Not Lett Interesting Events
of the Past Week.
The Russian army is retreating to
Kirin.
Another earthquake in India has
wrecked two towns.
The Russian fleet has changed its
course and gone eastward to coal.
Bloody disturbances are expected
throughout Russia on May day.
Paul Jones body has been found in
Faris and will be brought home for
burial.
The ciar has announced his inten
tion of revising the land laws in order
to quiet the peasants.
The Winnebago Indians, in Nebras
ka, have protested to Washington,
claiming to have been robbed of their
lands by agents,
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The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
company will spend $500,000 on new
lines in Utah, Idaho, Montana and
Wyoming in 1905.
An unknown malady is killing many
people at Tonopah, the new mining
camp cf Nevada. Hundreds aie fleeing
from the dsitrict to escape the disease.
A commission has been appointed to
decide the dispute 1 on international
rivers. The waterways in question are
the Rio Grande and Colorado on the
south and the Milk river on the north.
Cader Powell has assumed office as
marshal at Nome, Alaska, pending in
vestigation. Japan has been called upon to pun
ish Formosans who murdered eight
American sailors.
Four beef trust officials have been
indicted by the Federal grand jury at
Chicago for spiriting ajvitness away.
Both parties in the Chicago strike
refuse to confer and the employers have
adopted a plan by which they hope to
win.
President Roosevelt has left Okla
homa for Colorado. lie may be in
duced to cme on to Portland and at
tend the fair.
It is said the interned Russian ships
are preparing for a dash from Shanghai
and China will be unable to prevent it,
as she has no war vessels near.
The two hostile fleets in Asiatic wa
ters have not yet come together, but
they are fast approaching each other
and a battle is expected at any time.
General Dragomiroff urges the czar
to continue the war, saying that in
four yeais Japan's resouices will be ex
hausted and she will then be at the
mercy of Rsssia. .
Representative Jones, of Washing
ton, expresses the opinion that Santo
Dominog- is not capable of governing
herseli and internal strife will continue
until some government takes charge.
The Japanese are sending large forces
against Vladivostok.
Edwin H. Morgan, of Aurora, N. Y.,
has been appointed United States min
ister to Corea.
Admiral Sigsbee, commanding the
Carribean squadron, reports all quiet
in Santo Domingo.
Two miners were killed and a num
ber seriosuly injured in a strike riot at
Ijibbing, Minnesota.
The houses of two nonunion miners
at Blossburg, Alabama, were blown up
by dynamite and a child killed.
The Chicago teamsters' strike con
tinues without any material change
Riots are of frequent occurrence.
The question of the government ac
cepting railroad rebates on material
used in connection with the irrigation
reclamation service has been referred
to the attorney general for an opinion.
The Franklin county, Kentucky,
grand jury has returned about 400 in
dictments against the Standard Oil
company for failure to take out ped
dlars' license.
Dutch warships have reported to
their government the commencement of
a naval battle between the Japanese
and Russian squadrons near the Anam
bas islands, east of the Malay penin
sula. Japanese cruisers have been seen
headed for Singapore
Commissioner Garfield has started
his investigation into the doings of the
Standard Oil in Kansas.
" A Little Rock, Ark., lodge of
Knights of Pythias accidentally killed
a man who was being initiiated.
ADVANCE IN ALL BIQ MARKETS.
Packers Raise Price and Lay Blame
on Cattle Growers.
Chicago, April 14. Prices ol beef
have advanced in every important mar
ket of the United State. . The cou
sumer is paying the advanced price,
which to him represents seveial cents
per pound over what he paid up to ten
days ago.
Swift Co., Armour and Nelson
Morris state that no leef has been sup
plied to the retail markets of Chicago
or to any other market in the country
during the last month and a half ex
cept at a lose. This, it is declared,
has been partially due to the fact that
breeders of stock and the handlers of
range rattle hare been holding back on
supply until the grass of the range be
comes nourishing. Swift A Co., speak
ing for the packing interests, tins after
noon, Issued the following statement:
"During the last six weeks the pro
ducers of beef cattle have been receiv
ing about f 1 advance over past prices
for choice cattle. This simply means
that the advance to the consumer in
prices would be about $2 on the one
half of choice cattle that can be used
for food purposes. The range cattle
producer is the master of the situa
tion." ATTEMPT TO WRECK WARSHIP.
Caution Saves Connecticut from Being
Ruined in Drydock.
New York, April 14. During the
process of placing the new battleship
Connecticut in drydock at the navy
yard here today, what might have
proved a serious accident was avoided
by the officer in charge sending down a
diver to make thorough examination of
the hull before the water should I
pumped out and the vessel lowered into
the keel blocks.
The diver discovered a heavy timber
stuck fust to the hull on the' port side
of the keel, where it had adhered to
the rough plating while the vessel was
on the ways and had not been released
in launching. A failure to discover the
timber, it is said, would have resulted
in the buckling or crimping of the keel
and lower frames when the vessel set
led on the blocks.
Several days previous to the launch
ing of the Connecticut last fall divers
were sent down to examine the ways
and found a large spike placed where it
would have pierced the hull, had it not
been found. Later, an official investi
gation disclosed holes bored in one of
the plates.
LOW GRADES FOR SANTA FE
Will Spend Ten Millions on New Road
Through Mountains.
Chicago, April 13. The Record
Herald says: Official announcement in
made that the Santa Fe has decided to
build a $10,000,000 cut-off to the Pa
cific coast with a view to getting rid of
the mountain grades which now are en
countered in the trans-continental
travel. Orders have been given for the
purchase of all the material necessary,
and work will begin in 30 days. The
work will be pushed to completion rap
idly, and the new transcontinental low
grade line will be ready for opening
within a year or 15 months.
The Western end of the cut-off will
be at Belen, N. M., 27 miles south of
Albuquerque, on the El Paso line, and
the Eastern will be at Texico, 250
miles away on the Pecos valley lines of
the Santa Fe. The new load will cross
the Sierra Nevada mountains at Aho
Pass-, at an elevation of 6,491 feet, but
at a maximum grade east-bound of 1 x
per cent and west-bound of 6-lOths of 1
per cent. The line will cross the Santa
Fe Central near Willard and the El
Paso & Northwestern at Llano, N. M.
Ready to Fight Once More.
Paris, April 14. Captain Rode tele
graphs to the Matin that he has been
the guest of Kaulbars, commander of
the second Manchurian army at the
Russian front: The captain's observa
tions showed that the Russian- army
had been reinforced and is prepared to
renew the battle. The troops maneuv
er daily in battle formation. The Jap
anese cavalry advance guard, the dis
patch adds, is barely 10 miles away,
and frequent cavalry skirmishes take
place. The prisoners captured have
sabre cuts on their heads, showing
hand-to-hand skirmishes.
Flood Damages Arizona Railroad.
Phoenix, Ariz., April 14. For two
or three days it has been raining heav
ily in Ariozna. Early this morning
300 feet of the pile structure built to
repair the Phoenix & Eastern railway
bridge over Salt riverat Tempe was
washed away. Salt river is still high
tonight and some fear is expressed for
the Maricopa & Phoenix railway bridge
at Tempe. Reports from the Roosevelt
dam site is that the river is higher
than at any time this year and is fully
as high at the Arizona canal dam gs at
any previous time.
Submarines at Vladivostok.
Tokio, April 14. It is reported here
lhat the Russians at Vladivostok are
conducting experiments with six sub
marine vessels, and that these vessels
are all of foreign manufacture, and in
clude French, British and American
j types.
TO HEAR ALL SIDES
Senate Committee Will Consider
Railroad Rates.
NEW BILL IS TO BE PREPARED
Two Months Will Be Devoted to Heal
ing Testimony of Experts
on Question.
Washington, April 15. Railroad
rate legislation and kindred topics will
again be brought prominently to the
attention of the public with the meet
ings here, beginning Monday, of the
senate committee on interstate com
merce, which will assemble for the
purpose of ventilating the subject in a
manlier more thorough than any here
tofore on record. The meeting will lie
held in the committer's rooms at the
capitol and will bo public. Senator
Elkins, of West Virginia, will preside.
The Republican member are Culhmi,
Illinois; Aldiich, Rhode Island; Kean,
New Jersey; Dolliver, Iowa; Foraker,
Ohio; Clapp, Minnesota; and Millard,
Nebraska. The Democrats are Till
man, South Carolina; McLaurin, Mis
sissippi; Carmark, Tennessee; FoMer,
Louisiana; and Newlauds, Nevada.
As a Iwsis ( consideration, the
Each-Townsend hill, passed by the
house at the last session, will U ex
pected to serve. The committee had
the measure before it many days lefore
the adjournment of the last congress
and was urged to put it on its passage.
Arguments were advanced, liowever,
protesting against hasty action because
of the alleged radical character of this
measure, and the importance of the in
terests involved. Chairman Elkins
and Senator Foraker were among those
who, advocated delay, and the commit
tee, near the close of the session, after
much time had been devoted to hear
ings, reported to the senate a resolu
tion authorizing it to continue the
hearings during the recea. This
authority was granted and Monday's
meeting will m the initial meeting
under that authority.
Although the house committee on In
terstate commerce, which evolved the
Esch bill, took sufficient testimony to
fill several large volumes, and although
the senate committee was not idle in
that regard, the investigation of the
subject now imminent promises to be
most exhaustive. Both sides, in fact
many sides, of the case will he heard.
BUTCHERS DENOUNCE PACKERS
New York Trade Up in Arms About
Advance in Beef.
New York, April 15. Prices of all
kinds of meat have begun to rise in
New York because of a reported in
creased tost to dealers of about 2 cents
a ound. This advance in dressed beef
by the packers means a corresponding
increase of from 4 to rt cents er pound
at retail on the average grade of sir
loin steaks, porterhouse steaks and
prime ribs of roast beef.
Retail dealers say they received
notice of the first advance ten days
ago, but postponed an advance to their
customers. "However, on receiving
notice of a further raise next week it
was found necessary to make a change
in retail prices.
Meetings of the Retail Butchers'
and Meat Dealers' Protective associa
tion will be held in all boroughs to
take action. The Brooklyn branch of
the association already has met and
discussed the situaiton. Several re
taijers bitterly denounced the packers,
w ho were alleged to be taking concerted
action. It was declared that while the
advance of wholesale prices was attrib
ute'1 to falling off in supplies of cattle
at the Chicago stock yards, no such
falling off had taken place, and that
the raising of prices was entirely un
justified. Preparing for Long Siege.
Tokio, April 15. It is rejrcrted here
that the Russians are continually rein
forcing the garrison at Vladivostok and
that the work of strengthening the
fortress is constantly progressing. It
is said that the plans of the Russians
contemplate a garrison numbering 100,
000 men, with 500 guns. Many addi
tional batteries, redoubts, barriers, and
pits are in course of construction and
enormous stores of ammunition are be
ing accumulated. The Russians, it is
said, have equipped their fortress to
withstanding a siege.
Ten Million Dollars for Good Roads.
Albany, N. Y., April 15. The pro
posed constitutional amendment au
thorizing a state issue of $10,000,000
for building good roads under the state
aid law passed the assembly today.
Having passed the legislature last year,
the proposition will now be submitted
to the popular vote at the November
election.
HE IS DEFIANT.
Castro Insults United States Minister
Bowen.
Washington, April 12. Throughout
the diplomatic corps keen In ton's t ex
ists regarding the sensational answer
which President Castro is said to have
made to Minister How en's latest re
quest for arbitration of the pending
questions between the United State
and Venesuel. Although the Veue
suelan legation official say the text of
the dispatch was not Included In the
mall reaching the legation today, which
left Caracas after the answer was de
livered to Mr. Bowen, it has become
noised among the diplomats that the
answer was undiplomatic and almost
threatening m wording.
The knowledge possessed by certain
diplomats on the subject here indicates
clearly that the character, If not the
exact text, of the answer has been
known for some time to the diplomatic
eorp in Caracas, and there i reason
to believe that several foreign govern
ment have already been advised of it
text.
While diplomats who have inquired
at the State department lve been, in
formed that practically no action will
W taken regarding Venesuela until
President Rtswevelt returns from hi
Vetern trip, they also have received
the information that, if the exact text
of Castro's answer comprise an insult
to the American minister, it will not
pas unnoticed.
WILL DOUBLE FIELD FORCES
Japan is Ready to Meet Russia's Re
inforced Army.
Tokio, Apri 12. Japan is meeting
the Russian plan of reorganisation and
reinforcement of its armies in Man
churia with an extensive expedition
from its own military organisation.
The detail and figures are carefully
concealed of what seems to 1h a plan to
double the present army units, but it
i reliably estimated that by autumn
next the total military orgauuution
w ill exceed 1,000,000 men actually cm
ployed in the Held. The lighting force
is roughly estimated at 700,000 men,
with increases largely in the Infantry
and artillery, although an enlargement
in the cavalry branch is also contem
plated. As a result of the manufacture at the
arsenals in Japan, together w ith rap
tures and purchases of guns, it is pre
dicted that this year will we a Japan
ese artillery supcr'or to that of the
Russians, in quality as well as numeri
cally, and it is confidently believed
that the Russians will le incapable of
overcoming these numerical advantage.
Wherever railway improvement are
possible they will be carried out, when
Japan will he suclliieutly strong to take
and hold Harbin, and simultaneously
continue operations against the Rus
sian forces to the eastward of that city.
ALL BEEF TRUST SECRETS OUT
Seized Trunks Reveal Inner Workings
of Packers' Combine.
Chicago, April 12. An investigation
by the Federal grand jury which is in
quiring into the working methods of
the alleged beef trust, of a much deeper
nature and a w ider scope, it is asserted,
is to result from the examination of the
contents of the eight trunks taken yes
terday from the safety vauslts in the
First National bank building. When
these truifks were opened, it is said,
the entire secret transactions of the
Aetna Trading company, a corporation
through which the secret business of
the big packers was transacted, was re
vealed to the jurors, and as a conse
quence many new witnesses will be
subpoenaed.
The trunks and contents have been
impounded by an order by Judge San
Isirn, so that no one by legal process
can obtain possession of them.
Among the names of new witnesses
subpoenaed today is said to be that of
U. II. tiodfrey, alleged secretary and
treasurer of the Aetna Trading com
pany, and R. H. Cowan, another offi
cial of the company. The initials'"!.
H. C." appear on each of the eight
trunks taken from the vaults, and it is
believed They belong to Cowan,
Frauds in Trinity Timber.
San Francisco, April 12. William
II. Iloren, indicted for subornation of
perjury in the Trinity county land
frauds, was on trial before Judge De
Haven in the United States district
court today. Boron's co-defendants,
Harry VV. Miller and Frank E. Kin
cart, will be tried in Portland. Iloren
is accused of having persuaded John M.
Layton to falsely swear out an applica
tion for a parcel of land under the
homestead act. It is claimed that the
defendants were representatives of the
Tacoma Land & Lumber company.
Total Deaths by Earthquake.
Lahore (Punjaub), India, April 12.
Commissioner Jullundur reports that
as a result of his investigations he esti
mates the fatalities resulting from the
recent earthquake in the Kangra dis
trict at 10,000, and in the Palampur
district at 3,000. The total number of
persons killed at Dharrnsala was 424,
besides the Gurkhas, who were crushed
to death by the falling of the stone barracks.
SOON LET CONTRACT
Plans for Tiie Dalles-Celila Canal
Are Almost Complete.
WILL BEGIN WORK AT UPPER END
Enough Money Now on Hand to Build
Upper Lock and Entrance
to the Canal.
Washington, April 13. Within two
weeks, It is exected, Major Ijtngtltt
will lie instructed to advertise for bids
for the construction of the first lock of
The Dalles-Celilo canal, thus launching
project that ha lieen under consid
eration in one shape (it another for a
generation. The chief of engineers has
received Major Ingfttt's plan for le
ginning construction, but, owing to
the (act that several details are not
quite clear, the papers are to lo re
turned for explanation. When they
get back t Washington it is thought
the plans will be approved and author
ity granted to invite proposals.
Major Langtltl' plans, which have
U'en carefully worked out in great de
tail and with apparent care, contem
plate beginning construction on the
upper end of the canal ami working
down stream. This is done to enable
contractors to make use of the canal a
it is completed, section by section.
Major 1-atigtlU ha prepared plana
for approaches to the canal at its upper
end, for the gun rd gate for the first
lock near Celilo, ami for a considerable
stretch of canal, It ia impossible to
tell how much work can lie done with
the money appropriated in the rivers
ami harbors law, but it la anticipiated
there are funds enough to complete the
Celilo hnk snd canal entrance, and to
do considerable blasting ami straight
canal work. Near the first lock it will
be necessary to build an immense em
bankment a the north wall of the ca
nal. This part of the canal, and In
fact all other parts not cut through
solid rock, will lie lined with cement.
All embankments will lie solid of con
struction and will Ins faced with im
mense rocks to prevent washing in sea
sons of high water.
ONLY ONE FARE.
Reduced Rate to Portland Fair from
All Eastern Points.
Chicago, April 13. The action of the
Trunk Line association meeting held
at New York yesterday w as supplement
ed in this city today by the Central
Passenger association meeting, which
decided to concur with the former asso
ciation in granting a one-way rate plus
tl from all points east to Chicago for
those desiring to attend the I-cw is and
Clark fair at Portland.
The Trunk Line association at its
meeting yesterday receded from its for
mer demami- for a rate of K0 jht cent of
the round-trip fare, and agreed to make
a one-way rate plus $1 from all points
in its territory on the Atlantic sea
board west to Pittsburg and lluffalo.
This was to lie done, provided the Cen
tral Passenger association would taku
the same rate from the two latter cities
through to Chicago, w here the rates
could be joined with the same conces
sions made by the transcontinental
lines, giving a one-way round-trip rate
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The
action of the Central Passenger associ
ation ratiiied this agreement today,
which makes the one-way rate from
coast to coast certain.
This action assures a large attend
ance at the Lewis and Clark exposition
from all of the territory lying east of
Chicago, extending to the Atlantic
coast, between the Canadian boundary
and the Ohio river. The Central Pas
senger association territory take in all
the cities of the east, and tho rate of
one fare will induce thousands of well-to-do
persons to make Portland the ob
jective point in their summer and fall
vacations.
Illinois Will Show Lincoln's Home.
Springfield, 111., April 13. The
commission which is to have charge
of the state exhibit at the Lewis and
Clark exposition nt Portland, Or., this
summer, elected Cyrus Thompson
chairman and Reuben II. Tiffany, of
Freeport, as secretary. Tho commis
sion will hold a meeting at Springfield
next Tuesday. Unless objections are
raised the commission will make the
state building a copy of the Lincoln
home. It. was practically decided to
exhibit all available Lincoln mementos
n the building during the fair.
British Steamer Captured.
Tokio, April 13. The British steam
er Henry Uolckow was seized by the
Japanese guardships off the island of
Hokkaido, April 7. The character of
her cargo has not been divulged and
her destination is not stated in the
official announcement. It is presumed,
however, that the vessel was bound for
Vladivostok.
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