T É P .ía + o M o ro ;. S h e rm a n i ca V i HEWS FROM OUR NATIONAL CAPITAL Chairman Underwood W IL L IA M M MORGAN , Tariff Bills Will Be Ready After Holidays. Mfitngton.—Congress starts off aeoond week with undigested laat'B m essages and with still to follow. it Taft will Mara nretty near • deoade of work laid out for tba law-mahers if all hla suggestions to the present the Senate has has y considering nominations by (be president and mulling ovar B e Presidential m essage on the and foreign affairs, of the com m ittees of the w ill get busy this week. The sa Interstate and foreign sailed from New York Sun­ day to Inspect the Paaaam Canal, ffhto esm m ittee will bave charge of B e lx ln g of tolls and snacting the regulation* governing the Panama “Dellar-a-Day" Pension*. Advocates of increased pensions for veterans of the Oivll War battled on |b e floor of the House in the final of the fight to pass th* Shsr- “tfollara-dsy" pension bill. This bQl lb to pass the House before the sad s f the w e e ^ There were few •p r ese n ts of the increased pension, t h e sea test lay between those who favered the 8 her wood bill, which es- InhUebee a pens io a based on length gf service, and the advocate* s f the kwHeway age pension trUL which was by the house but failed in the h s t le n e l C apital B r ev ttlss. T M m eeting of the Republican Na- Osmmlttee this week brought a number of politicians to Wash- ^£5« Tbe Stanley steel iavestlgsttng eom ggJttss resumed its hearings Monday pg B e work of the steel corporation Igveetlgatlon, sad Andrew Carnegie to escpsotsd to testify before the oom- •Mttee during the week. The first redemption of postal sav tog* bank bonds at par was made, Postmaster General Hltshoook i f f in sash for two 1100 bonds gnat Bern New York M Tbe United States battleship Maine, P— In Havana Harbor In February. Ifigfi. aa a result of an explosion, wan MAtm np from the outside. This was announced by the Naval Board that bfife been examining the wreck. la taking a stand against legislation to allow American skips Brough th* Panama Canal, while Imposing tolls on fer- (tgn yeaaels, Representative Wnrbur- ton s f Washington comes out a* an gnthuatnetlc advoeate of a free ship bill, ©©»tending that snob a policy B an* w|U solve the American mer chant marine problem. Postmaster General Hitchcock, In |l a annual report, expresses kope that ppngrsirr. bow that ths postal deficit b a ss wiped out, will lose a s time to aothoriilng the eetabllabmeat of a He rates B is at the Important postal problem to be and next t o U be places B e readjustment of postal rats* and B o fixing of the compensation of hallways for carrying the malls. A formal aaport to .the House from B o committee oa expenditures In the iagsrlor Department dismissed iron Cbagresslonal consideration the Con tonffar Bay ebargee, the keystone d( wfctah was B e widely quoted “Dlcto to-Dfck“ letter and the accusation B a t Bichard 8. Ryan was acquiring a mfiMWly lv W * V- - Copyright to William Morgan Shuster, the Ameri- can treasurer-general of Psrsia, whose removal was demanded by Russia. Brief News of the Week. Returns from all the 1 « counties of Georgia show that ex Governor J. M Brown swept the state in the Demo­ cratic primary for governor. Oeorgla. North Carolina and South Carolina have gained thus far thia year more cotton than ever before was grown within their herder*. Dispatches from Smyrna announce that Turkey, in reprleal for tbs Italian attack in Morocco, has expelled all Italians from Smyrna and confiscated their property The famous Shaker settlem ent founded 107 year* ago in Mereer eounty, Ky.. will soon be a thing of the past Fifteen brothers and sla­ ters, all three score and ten, are all that remain. Though the Chinese rebellion Is in no sense of the word over,' the Man chus, after ruling China since 1(46. have been swept from power, and ae matter which side is crowned victor, henceforth the Chinese will m le their own country. News of Noted Persons. Edouard de Reszke, the famous basso, and brother Jean arq near death from heart trouble. Sir Wilfrid Laurier will soea su o oeed Lord Strathcona la London as the Canadian high commissioner. Queen Victoria of Spain gave birth to a daughter Monday. This I* the filth child born to Queen Victoria. President Emeritus Charles W Eliot, of Harvard, was operated on for appendicitis at Kandy, Ceylon. The dtapatsh eeld the operation was appar­ ently successful. Thomas A. Edleea. whe recently startled th* world by «ay leg that be would make It pos0 mile* north, while clrse behind them are almeet 2000 Intantrymen who will accompany them to ths capital. McNamara Agent Held for Bribery. Ixis Angeles.—Bert Franklin, an Investigator employed by th* defense n the murder trial of James B. Mo- Namara, Just ended, wae held to the Superior Court by Justloe William P. Young to answer to eharges of bribing a juror and attempting to lnfluenoe h e verdict of the jury The 910,000 /ash bond furnished at the tim e of his arrest by oounsel for McNamara was again made surety far Franklin's liberty. ; ------------------------- Thirty Convict* Ar* Paroled In Day. Ban Francisco. — Tb* California State Beard of Prison Directors, at Its last meeting, granted tb* largest number of paroles ever allowed by the prison dtreOtoro of this state. Chances were given to *0 prisoners to begin life over again. Among B o number paroled wore three women, vaJgabie AJaakfc bar one of whom had «orvod M yearn Mr the rnnHer e( W "T FIVE MEN TU E N RUVEFRUM MINE A ■ S( » i h ftfiM iit D ecem ber OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERALJNTEREST FR A N K LIN K. LANE 100 Men Entombed Two Miles Says •a d gamed. They may ba oonsldered fcat tkar wfU not all ba workad out fista law. Perhaps the piecemeal men- f - g r Will become popular In time, but MM abort message covering every- thing would find favor If it la ever •Pled Tariff Blits After Holidays. C h airm an U n derw ood announces be will be ready with some of the Im­ portant tariff revision bills lmmedl- •taty after the holidays. He will bring forth tbs wool, ootton and steel re- 0111* In the order named The Reral Impression In the House la there will be little change. If •a y . la the new bills to be presented by the Democrats of the ways and m eans committee from the revision bills presented at the last session. The ways and means committee •H l m eet this weak and take up work aa all the important schedules of the tariff. An innovation will be that the speaker may attend the sessions of the oom m lttse to give its members B e benefit of his judgment and ex- perteace on tariff legislation. Doss Little Work. The Senate has been marking time Soring the past week and will con- to do so until the house shall seat across some bills which B e Sonata think* worth tte time to C o u n ty , O re g o n , F r id a y , Events Occurring Throughout From Mouth of Mine by the State During the Past Explosion. Week. KntavW e. Tene —For the second tim e in lfi yearn a great mine disaster In s made th e Knoxville colliery din- t r i e « e ie with d « aoba and walls of wemkn and ebildren,—relatives of the mm »h en s Uvea were snuffed out in a •neh aa they worked. One handred m a» ■perhaps more. perhnH a few le d* , pre entombed In the Cram Mountain asine near Brlce- n t p mdn have been brought gftve B ern th e mine. and rescuers are making strong efforts to reach at 'east thflee-m ofe whom they believed still «jwdr* .,- ffevnn figari men discovered sitting B • ' B a ta In Cross Entry No. 24, tar» - *»»«• from the mouth of the O a^e-M eontnia mine breught the list afi hpffwn fiend from the explosion of SatuMgy morning ap to lfi. , Th< etpleeloa la believed to have occurred two mile* from the opening and about (00 feet below the surface. Ahrsady a large relief fund has been started and an appeal mad* for food aod dotb lag for the fam ilies of the men In the mine. With winter upon them, many are without enough mil pry to loot for more than a few days and R la feared famine will add to the horror of the situation. Sev­ eral thousand dollars has been eub- aorlbed In KnexvlUp glone. Preetdeat fitepbenson. of the Knox­ ville Iron Company, which owns the mine*, said B a t the explosion prob afirty had been caused, by a windy shot Thia might have Ignited gases accumulated In one of the many “rooms” to the mine or might have set the seal dost oa the floor. Drugstore Men Arrested. Astoria.—Fallowing the lnveatlga tlon that was started eome months ago. by Dr. Macey, poet surgeon at the Fort Stevens barracks, and L. L. Lsvlnga. a Portland detective em­ ployed by th o Btato Board of Phar- maoy, Theodor* F. L*urln. proprietor of the Bogle drug store, and Ross A. Parr, clerk in the same store, were arrested on ckargee of selling cocaine, without having a prescription, to sol dlors. stationed at Fort Stevens. R IR L W ANTS $25.000 Monoyad CKJaona, Principal» In Tar Party, Would Pay. ' Lincoln Center, Kaas.— Miss Mary Chamberlain, th* victim of the Shady Bend “tar party," w ill net receive less than 92B.OOO damages, aqd It 1* probable that the coarts have heard the last ef the affair E. O. Clark. Jay Fltxwater and Watson BomnUm, who pleaded guilty, and John Behmldt, who was convict­ ed, are worth la the aggregate more than 9100,000, Clark alone being rated in exeees ef fififi.000 Their pleas of guilty and th* oonvtetlon of Schmidt leave them exposed fer an action for damages. It is said that upon the advice of