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THE CONDON GLOBE
OREGON
NEWS OF THE WEEK
In a Condensed Form for Our
Busy Readers.
A Rum of the Lei Important but
Not L Interesting Event
of tho Past WNk.
The Illinois Central will spend 2,-'
000,000 electing ita track in Chicago.
One day recently 4,650 steerage pas
nengers arrived in New York from Eu
rope. There is a coal shortage in San Fran
cisco and the price, has been boosted 3
per ton.
At its next session congress will lie
asked to pay for entertainments by our
foreign ambassadors and ministers.
It is alleged that an attempt has been
made to poison one of the Twitnesses
in the land fraud trials now on at Salt
lake.
Tenement house residents of New
York's East Side have begun a war on
butcher shops for raising the price of
meat.
Realty in Victoria, B. C, has in
creased 25 per cent in value on the an
nouncement of improvements by the
Canadian Pacific.
A new all-Canadian mail service re
cord lias been established by the trip
from London to Vancouver, B. C, be
' ing made in 11 days.
Investigation has shown tliat large
amounts of money intended to relieve
Russian famine sufferers has been pock
eted by those intrusted with the funds.
British Columbian Indians are in the
habit of selling their girls as soon as
they are ol denough to find a buyer.
An effort is to be made to stop the prac
tice. With the thermometer standing near
the xero mark a large number of proni
inent citizens of Payette, Inalio, held
up a coal train and took iwo cars for
their own use. Thye were prevented
from taking nioreb y a promis eof relief
by the railroad company.
Helena lias voted to own her own
wa er plant.
The use of tobacco in any form is be
ing driven from the university at Lin
coln, Neb.
The Canadian governoment has agreed
to place a lifeboat service on the south
ern portion of Vancouver island coast,
the marine graveyard.
The Alabama Great Southern rail
road has given an increase of 5 per cent
in wages to all its employes receiving
less than $200 per month.
In thel nterstate Commere hearing at
Salt Lake a witness declared the Unon
Pacifier ailroad prevented opposition
from acquiring coal lands by the use of
dynamite.
Dr. I). P. Barrows, director of educa
tion in the Philippines, says the is
lands are in good condition generally
speaking. There is no market for sugar
and tobacco.
The Japanese governments said to
nnderstand the recent school situation
in Kan Francisco. While she may
punish the Bay City a bit, nothing
more will come of the affair.
An international committee has been
appointed in China to secure relief for
the hungry. An appeal will be made
to Europe and America. Ten thousand
people are on the point of starvation.
Booker T. Washington, leader of the
colored race, nays Andrew Carnegie
wean shoes made in a ngreo industrial
school.
The United States governmnet has
been asked to furnish protection to the
leader of the street car strike now on at
Ilamiltton, Ont.
The president, vice president and
counsel of the Mutual Reserve Life In
surance company are on trial in New
York on a charge of grand larceny.
While holding up passengers on a
Chicago & Alton passneger train near
Kansas City a bold robber was captured
by the conductor and later turned over
tojjthe police.
Advices have just been received of a
disastrous tidal wave which followed
an earthquake at German New Guinea.
Many natives were drowned and the
property loss is enormous.
Mrs. Stilwell, head of the Salvation
Army rescue work in Chicago, beileves
the bete way to cure vice in that city
would be to take pictrues of the fre
quenters of notorious places and publish
(hem in the newspapers.
The American Insurance company
has been barred from doing further bus
iness in Massachusetts and the justice
of the State Supreme court says com
panies must show that they can protect
before they will be allowed to continue
writing policies.
CONDON
EVIDENCE OF MORE CRIME.
No Influence Can Protect P.underer
of Coal Lend.
Salt Lake, Nov. SO. Powerful influ
ence is being brought to bear at Wash
ington to prevent threatened prosecu
tions of corporations and individuals in
conne-Hion w ith the land frauds which
have been disclosed by the Interstate
Commerce commission. These efforts,
however, have been unavailing and the
course which the government has
mapped out will be pursued unfalter
ingly. When the Interstate Commerce com
mission resumes its hearing here today,
evidence will lie produced by J. T.
Marcliand and K. K. Thomas to prove
tliat the Ctah Fuel company, ever since
it organization six or een years ago,
has received rebates from the IVnver A
Rio Grande and Rio Grande Western
systems. It is expected to prove this
by William O. Williams, auditor for
the Utah Fuel company, and it will lie
shown, it is said, that by moans of
these rebates the fuel company, and
also the Pleasant Valley Coal company,
were better able to maintain the mono
poly, which they are charged w ith hav
ing, of the coal business in I'tah. It
is alleged that both of these coal com
panies enjoyed a blanket rate of cent
a mile per ton on all of the commodi
ties which the railroad company men
tioned transported for them. These
preferential rates were enjoyed upon
both state and interstate tratlic.
BRING GRAFTERS TO JUSTICE.
Stolyp'n Start Vigorous Inquiry Into
Famine Fund Scandal.
St. Petersburg, Nov. 30. Prompt
steps have been tuken by Premier
Stolypin to deal with the famine relief
contract scamlal in w hich Lidvnl and
M. Gurko, assistant minister of the In
terior, are involved. The premier has
called a special meet ing of the council
of ministers for tomorrow to discuss
the affair.
M. Gurko has resigned. When he
presented his resignation, the premier
told him he should not quit ollice, but
that, for his own sake at least, lie must
face the court.
Th premier is expected to appoint
an inter-ministerial commission com
posed of assistant ministers to investi
gate the case, lie will then bring it
before the first deiMrtment of the sen
ate in public session. Orders have
been given to collect evidence and cross
examine all persons connected with the
affair, and General .Fredericks, gover
nor of Nizhni Novgorod, has been sum
moned to St. Petersburg to answer to
the charge of standing sponsor for Lid
val. A certain Sotskich, an assistant
of Lidval in buying grain in the pro
vinces, also has lieen summoned by the
minister of the Interior, but has failed
to answer and is thought to be in hiding-
GREAT FIND OF EXPLORERS.
Fragments of Gospel-end Many Other
Ancient Writings.
Chicago, Nov. 30. A cable dispatch
to the Tribune from London says: It
now is possible to give further details
of the remarkable find of 'papyri as a
result of the efforts of Drs. Grenfell
and Hunt, of the Greco-Roman branch
of the Egypt Exploration Fund at Oxy-
rhynchus. The lind consists or no few
er than 130 boxes of papyri, ranging in
date from the second century, B. C, to
the sixth century, A. I). They com
prise all classes of literature, many
fragments of the lost or even unknown
classical works, and some most import
ant fragments unknown to Christian
literature.
The most important find is a vellum
leaf containing 45 lines of gospel which
has a variation from the authorized
version. The subject is the visit of
Jesus and his disciples to the temple of
Jerusalem and their meeting there with
the Pharisee, who rebukes them for
their failure to perform the necessary
ceremonial of purification. In the dia
logue which follows, which resembles
in some respects Matthew xxiii:25, the
Pharisee descrilies with considerable
fullness and detail the formalities he
has observed, whereupon Jesus delivers
an eloquent, crushing reply, contrast
ing outward with, inward purity.
Send Colony to Africa.
London, Nov. 30. A report was cur
rent in this city today that the South
Africa company has offered the Salva
tion Army 1,000,000 aTcs of land in
Rhodesia for colonization purposeSj
with the stipulation, however, that in
the event of the colonizing scheme
proving a failure, the land should re
vert to the company. General Booth
said tonight tliat the plan had been
prematurely disclosed. He declined to
commit himself to any statement of
details, because he said the plan might
still fall through.
Czar Fixe Twelve-Hour Day.
St. Petersburg, Nov. 30. The em
peror has approved the resolution in
troduced by the council of ministers
fixing 12 hours as a working day, in
cluding two hours for meals, in all in
riiiHtriiil and other circles. This law
j will become operative six weeks after
I its promulgation.
FIVE ARE INDICTED
Ualoa Pacific Railroad, Coal Com
pany and Otllclals.
SENATOR'S BROTHER IS IMMUNE
Government Charge That Men Were
Hired To File On Lend for
Railroad Company.
Salt Lake City. I'tah, IVc. 1. Itls
understood tliat the Federal grand jury
now hearing testimony concerning the
gigantic grab of coal ami timber land
by railroads and coal companies, has
voted to return Indictments against the
Vn ion Pacitla Railroad company,, the
Oregon Short Line, the I'nion Pacific
Coal company, and twoolllcialsof these
coiMnies will be included when the
indictments are returned. It is said
the bills would have been reported nut
before now, but the government olll
cials are waiting to hear additional
evidence at Pueblo and IVnver next
week.
The indictments will charge the de
fendants with fraud In obtaining gov
ernment land by suliornution of perjury
In hiring persona to swear that they
were making entry upon the land for
their own jiersonul use, and then turn
ing them over to the companies.
A brother of a I'nlted State senator,
who, it is said, was linpllinted In these
dealings, was unwittingly ermi:ted to
testify, thereby securing an Immunity
bath.
CONTROL OF RA'LROAOS.
Issue Raited In Oklahoma Conven
tion State Rights Revived.
Guthrie, Okla., Pee. 1 . The actual
formation of a constitution for Okla
homa was Inaugurated this afternoon
when propositions were introduced In
the constitutional convention of two
plunks providing respectively for rail
way regulation and separate coaches for
whites and negroes.
The railway regulation, bill, Intro
duced by Delegate Clint Graham, Is
summarized a follows: Railroad, ex
press, sleeping car and oil pipe line
companies shall be (lectured common
carriers; to provide for stock Inspec
tlon; to prevent consolidation and pro
hibiting free passes.
The "Jim Crow", resolution was
offered by Judge Ledbettcr, of Ard
more, I. T. Both propositions were re
ferred to the committee on railroads.
A feature of this morning's session
was the address of lHOcgute Ledlietter,
who opposed Uie adoption of a resolu
tion recognizing the Federal constitu
tion ait paramount to that of the state
of Oklahoma. Mr. Ledlietter reiterat
ed his view that state sovereignity
should be strictly observed.
BONDS BY THE TON.
Frenchmen Purchase Securities of the
Pennsylvania Railroad.
New York, Dec. 1. Fifty million
dollars in bonds wns unloaded at the
French line pier yesterday ami at once
put aboard the La Provence, of the
French line, for shipment to Pairs.
The bonds filled 140 mud-splashed
boxes and furnished loads for 12
trucks.
The shipment consisted of Pennsyl
vania railroad bonds covering a loan to
the railroad taken by Paris investors.
A special express train bearing the
bonds left that city at 0 o'clock and
arrived in Jersey City at 10:50.
Thirteen special service men acted as
guard. In all there were 400,000 lxinds
of 5,000 francs denomminution and
230,000 of 2,500 francs denomination.
The issue required for execution 1,2(10,
000 signatures and the affixing of 1,
200,000 seals, 10 specially appointed
secretiiries having continually signed
their names each day for two months.
If the total number of sheets in this is
sue were laid lengthwise in one contin
uous lino they would reach 2)S
miles. The bonds weighed 14) tons.
Crusoe's Island Live.
Mexico City, Dec. 1. Eugene Met,
Chilean consul to Mexico City, received
an ollicial notice from his government
last night to the effect that the report
circulated hist August, at the time of
the disastrous earthquake, saying that
Juan Fernandez island had sunk into
the ocean, was untrue. The doctor said
that the rejiort of the disappearance of
tho-island was at first credited every
where. A short time ago, however,
warships were sent out by the Chilean
government, and the island and it in
habitants were found uninjured.
Will Not Pay American Claims.
Tangier, Dec. 1. The American
minister,- Mr. Gummere, is said to
have left. Fez, the capital, without ob
taining satisfaction from the sultan in
regard to the claims for indemnity
made by citizens of the United States
for alleged outrages, or assurances re
garding the safety of American citizens
resident in Morocco.
COAL TRAIN HELD UP.
Mob of LewAbldlng Cltlien Take
Meaiure to Relieve Ftmli.e.
Ontario, Or., Nov. 28. The coal
famine wns teniiorarily relieved here
by a mob of about 250 men, among
them some of the liest cltixen ami bus
iness men of the tor n, who held up a
west hound freight train on the Oregon
Short Line, containing 35 acre of Rock
Spr ngs coal consigned to the 0. R. A
N., and demanding that four cars lie
sidetracked. The train was a through
train and wa Ragged by members of
the hold-up party. The ottlclals of the
oomiany were notified by wire tliat the
train could not leave until the request
was complied with. They in turn
telegraphed the train crew and station
agent to consign four of the cant to J.
M.Farley, a local coal dealer. The
four cars were aidetraeekd at Farlye's
coal bunkers and the train proceeded to
fayette, lilaho, Uie next station, where
it Is rciiorted a similar hold-up occurred.
There was not a ton of coal in town at
the time efie hold-up occurred here.
The train was stopcd at Nyssa, Ore.,
12 milea east of here, the previous
evt ning and two cars were taken from
the train. There had not lieen a car of
coal shipped to Nyssa since last May.
The mol at each town were orderly
and well behaved, but determined.
SUGAR TRUST PINED.
Rebate Received From New York
Central Prove Expensive.
New York, Nov. 28. Tho American
Sugar Holloing company was fined $18,.
000 today for accepting rchutcM from
thoNewinrk Central. The radroad
was fined the same amount last week
for giving rclmtce to the comiaiiy.
The claims for a rebate of 5 cents a
hundred pounds on all sugar shipments
to IVtroit were made ont in the ollice
of Lowell M. Palmer, tratlic manager of
the trust . They were sent to the Buffalo
ollice of the Fast Freight lines ojiemt-
uig over the andcrbilt mails. J hey
were not paid oieuly by cheek. The
cashier of the Ruffulo ollice would go to
the Bank of Buffalo and buy a draft on
the Chemical National hank of New
York. This draft, which on its faiv
bore no mark of the railway eoriioration
or any of its otlicials, was mailed to
Palmer, who delimited it to the credit
of one of the sugar trust accounts.
THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.
Will Touch Every Pht of the Pan.
ma Canal Queitlon.
Washington, Nov. 2R. - President
Roosevelt, bronzed and invigorated in
hcatlth from his long sea trip to l'nn
ama and Porto Rim, was in his ollice
early today. Secretary liiieb took to
him a large amount of cnrrcHpondcmv,
which had accumulated since the pnwi
dent's departure, and was with him
until the time of the cabinet meeting,
at 1 1 o'clock .
The president's special message on
the Panama omul, it is now said, w ill
la sent to congress prolmhly about a
week after it convenes on Monday. It
will deal with every phase of the ques
tion and give a graphic and detailed de
scription of conditions on the isthmus
as the president found them. There
will lie recommendations for the lietter
ment of conditions, which suggested
themselves during his visit.
DOUBLE-DECK BRIDGE.
Disgraceful Scene at Ruth Hour
Call for Relief.
Now York, Nov. 28. Tho daily
crush of the Brooklyn bridge is receiv-
mg the earnest attention of Mayor Mc
Clellan and other city officials. At a
conference yesterday Important plans
for temporary and permanent reliof
were discussed. Iinger trains and in
creased headway, it is expected, will
bring temporary relief.
Plans for permanent relief Include
an almost entire rebuilding of the
bridge. Double decking will probably
lie resorted to in order to make room
for addit ional lines of railroad tracks.
The engineers have informed the may
or that the stress on tho anchor bars
is only a third of their capacity and
that the double decking of the struct ure
is entirely feasible. This form of re
lief, however, will lie a matter of years.
Irrigate Their Stock.
Indianapolis, Nov. 28. The "water
ing" of railroad stocks or over capitali
zation by the large transportation lines
is commented upon by the Slate Rail
road commission in its first report which
will be made to the governor of Indi
ana in the next few days. The report
is the first the commission will have
filed since its creation by the last, gen
eral assembly two years ago. The re
port shows that 43 roads reporting to
the commission state the value of the
road and equipment, and give the value
of each per mile.
Keeping Up It Record
Wilburton, I. T., Nov. 28. With a
record of 19 horrible deaths during the
past year, the Degnan & Mc.Connoll
mine No. 19 at Wilburton blew up
with frightful force last evening. Six
men In the shaft miraculously escaped.
It cannot yet be determined whether
any lives were lost.
MUCH LAND STOLEN
Government Grip Tightens on
Plunderer's ot Domain.
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MANY HIGH OfFICIALS INVOLVED
Machinery of Law At Work Again!
Men Who Ruled Land Office
To Rob Nation.
Salt Lake, Nov. 20. The grip of tho
government and of just'.ce a tithtcuititf
slowly alsiut the organic! ,,iui.s which,
It la alleged, have for youin, with the
connivance of the bind desrtiiieiit,
rohticd the public domain of nnl, min
eral and timber land valued at many
millions of dollars. In the end, It Is
stated, every member of these gangs,
whether he lie a plain citnten of tho
I'nitod States or occupies high ollicial
position, will !e made to answer in tho
criminal courts for his complicity in
the most gigantic frauds said ever to
have been xrctmtcd on tho I'nlted
States government.
Every agency of the government, in
eluding the Interstate Commerce coin
mission, the secret, service, the Federal
grand jury and 'the omirt of equity,
has been set in motion to accomplish
the end desired. While the Interstate
Commerce commission Is taking testi
mony here tending to show that the
Rio Grande railroad and its allied com
panies, the I'tah Fuel coiiqmny and the
Pleasant Valley Coal conimy, have
been wearing by fraudulent menus all
of the coal land in the stale of L'lah
and consequent ly building up their
monoMily in Ibis line, the Federal
grand jury here is awaiting the out
come of the hearing with a view to
gathering all of the guilty ones Into
its net.
The peculations of which the govern
ment complains have been htihI rated
in Wyoming, I'tah, Colorado, Mon
tana, New Mexico, (alfioruia, Oregon
and possibly in other stab's. The rob
lieries of the public domain have Nvn
slmiMt as extensive, it is charged, in
timlier bind as in mineral land.
That such enormous frauds, extend
ing through a long period of years,
could not have been iieriet rated with
out the complicity of the 1 u nd depart
ment is wild to lie a jinteiit fact.
During the hearing here yesterday a
glimjMc of the real powi-r behind the
throne was given when It was staled by
government laud agents that they had
been comicllfd to aeo Senator Francis
E. Warren rcpirding ollicial business
of the 1 ill id iemrtinelit. Senator War
ren is charged with having ruled the
land ollliv for a number of years. It
wus his influence and that of Senator
Clark which secured the appointment,
during President McKinley's adminis
tration, of Willis Yaiidevmiter to ho
assistant attorney genemt for the Inter
ior department. Yandevanter was tho
legal conscicnon of the Ijind depart
ment . and Yaiidf vtiutcr had been at
torney for the fomKinics charged with
shilling the land. It was Warren who
made Congressman Frank W. Mndcll
assistant land commissioner, who later
put Binger Hermann in the pudtinn of
commissioner, and who succeeded him
by present Commissioner Richards. It
is Warren, it is claimed, who still con
trols the land olllces from Nebraska and
the Dukotus to California and Alaska.
CALL FOR OIL TRUST PAPERS.
Texas Want to Know All About It
Dealing With Bailey.
Austin, Tex., Nov. 21). Attorney
General R. G. IHlvidson and Counsel
associated with him in tho prosecution
of the suit of the stale to oust tho
Waters-Pierce Oil company from Texas
yesterday served on former Attorney
General George Clark, one of the at
torneys for the oil company and filed
with the clerk of the court a dciiMind
for the production of the hooks, records,
vouchers, etc., of the oil company,
showing agreements with other com
panies, corresH)iidMico between the at
torneys of tho oil company and J. W.
Bailey, and purporting to show pay
ments of money by II. C. Pierce and
said oil companies on divers dates.
Copies of all letters passing between
J. D. Johnson and George Clark, coun
sel for the oil company, or written by
them to J. W. Bailey and to parties in
New York during 11100 minting to the
settlement of the cases pending In
Waco, Tex,, against said oil companies,
letters written by or to said parties are
called for. The other matters called
for are copies of the original trust
agreements, agreements with the Eagle
Refining company and the Texas Oil
and Gasoline compay, agreement as to
the division of territory and agreement
with Attorney General Dudley of Mis
souri as to ownership of Waters-Pierce
stock by the Standard Oil company.
Plan for N,w Sugar Trut.
New Orleans, Nov. 20. Plans to
form a $28,000,000 merger of Louisiana
suagr plantations and sugar houses are
announced by a committee in charge of
the project.