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THE CONDON GLOBE
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CONDON ..OREGON
NEWS OF THE WEEK
la a Condensed Form for Our
Basj Headers.
A Rmuim of thej Lim Important but
; Not La Interesting Event
of th Part Week. ,
It it believed th caar will dissolve
the donma.
Suppression of newpapif caused a
riot in St. Petersburg.
Peace hat been signed among the
Central American republic.
Tbe latt of the ladrone chieft In the
Philippine! baa surrendered.
German; propoaea to exclude Ameri-
can canned meat of every description.
A revolution in Mexico it threat
ened, inspired by hostility to Ame I
cant.
Tbe National Livestock exchange de
nunncea the reports recently made on
;, the meat packing industry.
John D. Rockefeller will be arrested
immediately on hit arrival in the
Cnited Btatea. He hat tailed for this
Cuontry.
The whole city of 8yiren, Russia, I
hat been destroyed by fire. The con
flagration hat rendered 36,000 persons
homeless, who are alto withont food.
Meager reports have been received of
a fierce fire in Yokohama, Japan. More
than a thousand honsea were di atroyed
and some life it known to have been
lost. . .
Tbe capital of Alaska bat been moved
from Sitka to Janean. ,. : ,.
Scotland will try to induce parlia
ment to grant home rale. (
Santo Domingo will borrow $20,000,
000 and pay all outstanding claimt.
Germany and Austria will help the
cur if another revolution breaks oat.
A forest fire in Calaverat county
threatns destruction to California's big
treea.
The bishop of Zulnland accuses the
British troops of wantonly killing many
natives.
Santos Dumont hat a new airship
which he believes an improvement over
anything yet built.
The mayor of Socorro, Tex., says re
ports of the recent earthquake were
greatly overdrawn.
The English parliament will appro
priate 1 1,060,000 for the relief of the
unemployed tbit winter.
That National Pare Food convention
endorsed tbe stand taken by Preaident
Roosevelt oo tbe pare food law.
General Stoessel, commander of Port
Arthur, during the Basso-Japanese
war, baa been sentenced to death by a
military commission for surrendering
to the Japanese.
Missouri is after the ice trust.
Evidence is being secured against
the tobacco trust.
A French dirigible balloon recently
remained in the air eight hoars.
The government is preparing to gauge
many Oregon and Washington streams.
Kansas packing houses have been
given five days to clean op or close np.
The Virginia 2-cent-a-mile railroad
rate law haa been declared unconstitu
tional. A tramp steamer bumped into the
new battleship Bhode Island, springing
her armonr plates badly.
The executors of tbe estate of the
late Marshall Field estimate tbe value
of the property left at $25,000,000.
Canada hai received an address from
King Edward in which he says it will
be impossible for him to make the
much desired visit.
The Cleveland, Ohio, grand Jury ad
journed without indicting any Standard
Oil men. Prosecutions of the company
is to b 9 resumed In other cities.
All express companies operating on
the Northern Pacific and Great North
ern roads have consolidated and here
after will be known at the Northern
Express compan-. Tbe deal also in
cludes the Adams Express company on
the Burlington.
A strike of Portland ttreet car men
teems imminent.
Siam hat started movement for the
abolishment of gambling.
Plant are being prepared for a new
lightship off the Columbia bar.
Major Dreyfus hat been assigned to
command of tbe crack French regiment.
Alfred Beit, who controlled the sold
and diamoLd output of Africa, it dead.
A peace conference between Central
American republic mty be held on a
United Statee warship.
TO KILL LIBERTY.
Crar Will Use Army to Enforce Hit
' Will In Russia.
St. Petersburg, July IS. It reports
in circulation In official circlet this
morning are grounded on fact, the su
preme eritls In the affairs of the Rat
tian nation la impending, and within a
fortnight at moat events mast transpire
that will result either in the perpetu
ation of absolutism in Russia or the
map of Europe will be changed.
According to reports, the caar, after
weeks of twinging from one extreme to
the other, decide that be cannot grant
the reforms demanded by the people,
and hat decided that tbe arbitrament
of physical force shall be appealed to.
He haa, through Generals Trepoft,
Kaolbart and other leadeit of the offi
cial military clast, canvassed the offi
cer of tbe army, and hat decided that
they can be depended on, if it should
come to a clash with the people, and to
be hat decided that from now on tbe
wishes of the ciar and hit wishtt alon
thatl be considered.
Thit meant, should the rumor be
true, that the donma will soon be dis
solved and that tbe new cabinet will
represent more than ever the wishea of
the governing elassea and disregard the
demands of the people . already made
through the donma.
None of the members of the cabinet
who conld be reached last night would
discuss the matter. However, th de
lay in announcing that the various de
mand! of tbe donma are even being
considered, the concentra'ion of tried
troops at all centers where advocate of
a constitutional form of government ar
strongest, and the generally defiant at
titude of the bureaucracy, all tend to
lend credence to the report.
Disturbances in all interior Russia
continue, and riot, murder and rapine
are tbe role. ' In many camps pitched
battles between soldiers and malcon
tents ar reported, but all details are
completely censored and are not per
mitted to become public.
CLIMAX OF ADMINISTRATION.
Roosevelt Will Invoke Conspiracy Law
and Dissolve Standard Oil.
Washington, July 18. Dissolution
of the great Standard Oil trust may be
the result of the prosecutions soon to
be began against tbat corporation by
.the government. Assistant Attorney
General Purdy, who hat direct charge
of the preparation of the prospective
cases, returned to Washington today
from St. Panl, where for two weekt he
hat been in consultation with Special
Counsel Kellogg, of the latter city, and
District Attorney Morrison, of Chicago,
and, while he refnsea to discuss details
at to the plant underway, there it good
authority for the ttatement that the
administration is aiming at a more
vital object than fines or even impris
onment for the trust offenders.
The caset against Standard Oil will
be made under tbe conspiracy act. It
it of recent memory that conspiracy in
restraint of trade in violation of the
provisions of tbe Sherman anti-trait
law resulted in tbe dissolution of tbe
Northern Securities compan'. More
recently the government won another
sweeping victory in the courts and dis
solved the Western paper trust. The
same sort of success met the movement
tgainst the elevator trust in California.
The breaking np of the monster
Standard Oil combination may come as
the culminating grand climax of the
Roosevelt administration, and in the
light of today's development! persons
in Washington have recalled to them
with etriking force these wordi spoken
by President Roosevelt shortly before
the adjournment of congress:
"The prosecution of the Standard Oil
company it the most Important thing
in this administration."
Bartlett Wat Short 833,000.
Washington, July 18. It wat stated
at the Treasury department today tbat
an investigation recently concluded of
the affairs of tbe late Major George A.
Bartlett, disbursing officer of the Treas
ury department, shows a shortage ap
proximating $83,000. Abont $14,000
of tbit amount, however, isjsaid to have
been innocently paid ont on fraudulent
voucher! presented by James Boyd, a
clerk in the Marine Hospital service,
who in September last wai arrested and
is now in jail pending his trial for mis
appropriating government funds.
Colombia Wants Commercial Treaty.
New York, July 18. The following
cable dispatch was received in thit city
yesterday from Bogota, Colombia:
"Colombian National Commercial con
gress, assembled in Bogota, represent
ing all parts of the republic, has unan
imously adopted resolutions endorsing
favorably the negotiations begun by
President Reyet and Minieter Barrett
for new treaties with the United States
and Panama. Tbit action it most im
portant, assuring the support of tbe
business interests."
Armistice Stop Fighting.
San Salvador, July 18. The bellig
erents today agreed upon an armistice.
It it claimed tbat the Guatemalans
daring the recent fighting used explos
ive bullets, notwithstanding the fact
that Guatemala signed the Geneva convention.
BONDS SELL WELL
$30,003,009 for Panama Canal
: Eore Than Subscribed.
ALL BIDS ARE AT GOOD PREMIUM
Average Premium of Nearly 4 Per
Cent I Offered Interest at
2 Per Cent.
Washington, Jnly tl. Bid were
opened at the Treasury department
late yesterday for tbe $30,000,000 10. SO
Panama Canal bonds, bearing S per
cent interest, under Secretary Shaw's
circular of July S an I, although no
award will be made ontil today oi
later, it it evident that the entire issue
hat been tubscirbed for at an average
of from 103.94 to 103.96. Mr. 8uaw
and other official of the Treasury de
partment expressed themselves at high
ly pleased and entirely satisfied with
the figures obtained.
The total number and, amounts ol
bldt made will not be ascertain d nntll
today, but it it tpparent that tbe whole
issue hat been subscribed for several
timet, over. The largest and best tin
gle offer wat tbat of Flsk koblnson,
of New York, who made tlx bidt of
$5,000,000, each at an average of
103.86. Smaller bidt at higher prices,
however, will probably reduce the
amount which will likely be awarded
to ;bem to about $18,000,000. One
bid of 106 for the whole issue came
from a man named Lindsay at New
Orleans, but on account of conditions
named and for other reasons tbe bid
waa not considered. Several telegraph
ie bids were received too lata to be con
sidered, bat the prices named were too
small to be successful.
Th secretary having stated tbat tbe
bonds would be numbered serially be
ginning with the highest bid, one offer
wat made at 125 for $1,000, that secur
ing to the bidder bond No. 1. An ex
amination of the beat bidt thowt tbat
offers of 104 1-16 and np aggregated
$15,394,860; 104 to 104 1-16 aggregat
ed $1.100.8H0; 103.75 to 104 aggregat
ed $14,177,000.
LOSS LOOMING BIG.
San Francisco Insurance May Reach
Total of 8300,000,000.
San Francisco, Cel., July 21. It
now looks at if the insurance risks in
the burned district of San Francisco
will foot np considerably more than
$250,000,000, and the total may go np
to nearly $300,000,COO. Th esti
mates of Insurance managers have been
crawling upward all tbe time, and the
figures given in report filed by the
companies with the New York Insur
ance department indicate tbat even the
highest estimate which they have made
it too low.
Several weekt after the conflagration
detailed estimate of the amount of
each company's risks fixed the total
insurance tin the burned district at
$252,363,000. Thirty-three companies
which have made sworn returns to tbe
New York Insurance department, ad
mit a liability of $102,499,000. The
estimate of their liability was $96,068.
000. Taking the tame percentage of
differences for alh tbe 108 compsnles
wbicb were included in tbe list, the
total of their liabilities wontd be
placed at $269,271,000.
An addition must be made for
Lloyds, for the 'Sindegrround" con
cerns, and for the companies which
bad some risks here but were not
named with the 108. This addition
may be estimated at $10,000 000,
which brings the total up to abont
$280,000 000.
From this calculation the German,
of Freeport, and the German National
are omitted, a! their returns to the New
York Insurance department have a pe
culiar look. On the basis of the re
turns of tbe thirty-three companies
above referred to, the German, ol Free
port, and the German National, wonld
be involved to the extent of $6,213,000
in the disaster, but they admit a loss
of only $2,817,000.
Reciprocity Treaty With Spain.
Madrid, Jnly 21. American Minis
ter Collier has left Madrid for San Se
bastian, where today he will sign with
Foreign Minieter Gallon the new com
mercial treaty between the United States
and Spain. Tbe document ii consid
ered most advantageous to both sides,
overcoming a number of increases in
the Spanish tariff, which became oper
ative July 1, and giving Spain recip
rocal advantages. The press welcomes
the agreement a entirely satisfactory
and as evidence of tbe friendly inter
course between tbe two governments.
Great Demand for Troopt.
Odessa, July 21. General Kaulbars
has been overwhelmed recently witb
appeals for military assistance from
landowners in the dietrictt of Kherson,
Yekaterinoslav and Poltava, against
the peasantry; who are organised and
led by revolutionists.
RED TAPE TATTERED.
Assistant Secretary Ryan Taken InUl
atlve and Buy Sunnytld Canal.
Washington, July 10. Acting Secre
tary of th Interior Ryan today ap
proved the purchase of th Burnyald
irrigation canal in Eastern Washing
ton, and authorised th pa) meat of
$250,000 for th Mm to th Washing
ton Irrigation company. Th approval
of tbit purchase removes th last ob
ttacl in the way of tb construction by
th government of tb Teton and Sun
nytld Irrigation project.
Had thit tal not been ooncldutd to
day, th Washington Irrigation com
pany wonld have withdrawn it offer
and th government would have been
obliged to abandon both lta project, or
It enter npon prolonged lltlpstlon.
Notwithstanding tbe fact that Secretary
Hitchcock approved th Tleton and
Sannytld projects more than tlx
montht ago and authorised the pur
chase of the Sunnytld canal at th
above price, the owner of th caual
hav been unabl to collect one cent
from tbe government, because th sec
retary ol th Interior haa not approved
tUe formal purchase, some of the gov
ernment lawyer having found trivial
objection which they believed should
be corrected before the government
paid for th canal. Mr. Hitchcock,
on hi counselor' advice, refused to
pay over th money.
BIGGEST OF ALL DRYDOCKS.
Will Be Built of Concrete at Bremer
ton Navy Yard.
Washington, July 20. Plan for th
largest and best drydork in the world
ar being prepared In the bureau of
Yard and Dock at the Navy depart
ment, to coat $1,250,000 and to be con
structed at tbe Bremerton navy yard,
Puget sound, Washington. Thit amount
It th largest ever appropriated for a
dock, and tb new dock will be able to
take in the largest battleship, either In
coarse of construction or in contem
plation. Tbe location has already been
selected, and borings ar being made to
learn the depth of foundation. It it to
be a concrete dock of the largest pst
tern and materials will be purchased on
the Pacific coatt If practicable.
Tbe dock is to be so constructed that
It csn be lengthened If vessels of great
er length should be built in tbe future,
(t will be 37 feet In depth over sill,
which will provide lor the docking ol
any vessel that can be built, unless
torn now unknown system of building
it developed. Tb greater depth of the
new dock it also designed to meet cases
where a vessel his been injured and
draw much mora than th ordinary
depth on account of the Injury.
NATION 'ENTERS BUSINESS.
Japan Make Great Stride Forward
on Road to Socialism.
Washington, Jnly 19. According to
advices' received by tbe bureau of man
ufacture, th Japanese government hss
undertaken one of the greatest experi
ments in tbe world's history, which in
dicates a clear purpose to protect, su
pervise, develop and nationalise all
Japanese industries. It it ttated that
the provision for 'the nationalisation of
railways wat but a single step In the
great ulan of industrial naturalisation
toward which the country It fast ap
proaching. The, movement for Manchnrian na
tionalisation hat received careful atten
tion, and it It now proposed that a
company shall be formed by the gov
ernment and private capitalists jointly
for the purpose of operating the rail
roads, forests and mines in Manchuria.
If successful along the lines Japan is
now working, it is said tbat the indi
viduals and corporations of America
that are striving for the trade of the
Orient will dlroiver that they are not
competing for this trade against indi
viduals and corporations of Japan, hut
tbat they are in commercial conflict
with the Japanese nation itself.
Embezzles Igorrotes' Cash,
Washington, July 20. The War de
partment was advised today of the ar
rest in Chicago of Truman K. Hunt.
who brought to thit country a band of
60 odd Igorrotes from tbe Philippines.
Acting under instructions from the War
department, Hunt has been formally
charged with holding from the dog eat
ers for 15 months salaries which he
agreed to pay, andalsowith embezzling
$1,000, money tbey bad made by sell
ing souvenir from their far-away home.
Hunt wat at one time governor "of tbe
Igorrote district.
Refugett Are Returning.
San Francisco, July 20. It wat es
timated tbat within three weeks of the
fire on April 18, fully 835,000 people
left San Francisco. According to com
putations made today, jost three
months after tbe fire, there are now in
San Francisco 865,000 people, with 50,
000 more waiting in nearby cities for
opportunity to return as soon at suit
able accomodations erfn be had.
SOCORRO IS RUINED
Successive Light Shocks Shake
Down Earthen Vails.
PEOPLE ARE FLEEING IN PANIC
Extinct Volcano Near th Town la
Suspected of Reviving and
Causing Shocks,
El Paso, Tax., July 19 Karlhqutke
shock numbering between (0 and tO
hav practically mad a rnla of th
town of Bocorro, 160 mile north of this
place. Th coarthous It a mas of
ruins, and practically all the houses in
town ar damaged. According to re
ports received, there I no lot of tit.
Thdmtght been nronght by a
continuation of slight quak, which
hav caused th wall of structure al
ready cracked to tumbl to th earth.
Th first shock were felt on Sunday,
bat the reel damage ha been confined
to tb last Wo day.
E. M. Fink, a cattl buyer who cam
from Socorro todty,' declares he was
silting at dinner at the Wintkier hotel
on Monday, when the entire tide wall
of the dining room fell In, and the
guetts and all tbe waiter scattered in
every direction. The people are In
panic and all ho can do to ar leaving
town.
There it a crater of what It thought
to be an extinct volcano not more than
eight miles from Socorro, and the In
habitant think that ptrhapt the vol
cano has something to do with tbe re
markable terlea of thorks. The tern-,
peratttre of tbe water in Hot Springs at
Socorro htt Increased over ten drgreee
and It la thought that this furnlthea
new evidence of Internal upheaval of a
local nature, and that the earth 1 dis
turbed at great depth in tlielmn edltl
vicinity of the town.
The Nstinual railroad Is tending box
cars Into th town to tak the people
away to great it their detlrt to leav
tb town.
Hug boulder hav been jarred down
on th track from the mountain side,
and trains have been delayed thereby.
Tbe bridge abutments have been affect-,
ed td such in extent tbat order have
been issued to Santa F trainman to
proceed with great caution over bridges
within a radius of 30 nile of Bocorro.
UTAH COAL LANDS STOLEN.
Federal Agents Procuring Evidence
for Prospective Suit.
Salt Lak City, July 19. Rumor to
th effect that agent of th Federal
governmet are busy in Utah preparing
to institute suit of tensatlonal na
ture for the recovery of vast area of
public domain, current here for several
months, war revived today, with an
additional statement that within ten
days suits would be brought in the Fed
er 1 court here to recover to the giv
ernment more than 30,000 acret of coal
lands, alleged to have been acquired by
coal companies through fraudulent
means, part as agricultural or grazing
lands through selection by the Utah
state land hoard, being later transferred
to the coal companies..
Other coal lands are said to have
been filed on te tuch by dummies who
lster transferred them to the corpora
tions. More thin 100 entries of thia
character are said to have been run
down.
While these reports cannot be abso
lutely verified, a Federal official In thit
city today admitted that' suits are in
preparation, nmktng the additional
statement that the Federal officials in
truded with the matter had received
positive instructions from Washington
not to talk, but to prepare for action.
It is stated also that a Federal grand
Jury may be called to alft tbe evidence
tbat hat been gathered in preparation
fojr the prosecution of the civil caset.
Arkansas After Trust, .
Little Rock, Ark.. Julv 19. Suit
was entered today against the five cot
tonseed oil milla of thit city by Attor
ney General Rogers and Prosecuting
Attorney Rhoton, charging them witn
being members of a combine in viola
tion of the anti-trust law, and alleging
restriction of trade. The tultt ask
judgment In the mm of $5,000 per day,
aggregating $130,000 against each com
pany, and ask also the revocation of
their charters in thit state. It It on
understood suits will be entered against
the 'remaining 84 mills.
Stromboli;Opsnt New Crater.
Rome. Julv 19 An Alarm Inn Ann
tion is reported at Stromboll, tbe vol
canlc isle In the Llpari islands off th
north coast of Scily. A new crater haa
opened, which it. belching out bnge
quantities of fiery matter, and all vege
tatlon in the vicinity is being destroyed.
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