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SLAVES IN RAILWAY CAMPS.
N e g ro e s by the H u n d re d M a k e C o m
p laint to D is tric t A tto rn e y .
Knoxville, Teuu., Sept. 18. — The
Federal grand jnry now sitting in this
city is investigating alleged peonage
cases at seveial railroad camps in this
vicinity where hundreds of negroes are
employed. The investigation is going
on secretly under the direction of a de
tective sent here by the government
from Washington on the complaint of
numerous negroes to District Attorney
J. R. Penland.
All last week the government build
ing was crowded with negroes, who
one by one told their tale of woe and
maltreatment before the justice. It is
believed indictments will be found this
week against some prominent railroad
contractors and their subordinates.
The government detective visited the
railroad camps in the role of a man de-
siroas of purchasing timber lands. He
spent a week or more in several differ
ent camps located in Blount county
and quietly gathered a volume of e\t
ALL TALK PEACE
AROUND HAVANA
N U I HING FOR JET I Y.
Congress Not Likely to
M a k e A p p ro
p rm tin n nt N e x t S essio n .
IMPROVE MOUTH
• OL RIVER FIRST
I'lrtland, Kept. 17.—That the $2,
500,000 lire, led for completion of the
Columbia bar jetty cannot he secured
Insurgents Show No Signs of Yield- next year from congress is the opinion Colonel Roessler Advises I Hurts Be
of Congressman Hanadell, of Louisiana,
ing to Government.
Centered on liar.
and Jones, of Washington, members ol
the rivers and harlwirs committee, who
General Review o f Important Hap
Army of 3 ,0 0 0 Men Surround Cuban have just inspected the Jetty, escorted After That ia Finished Turn Attention
pening* Presented in a Brief and
Capital and Only Await Coming by members of the chambers of com
to Deepening of R iver— United
Comprehensive Manner for Busy
of Guerrera to Commerce Ad merce of Portland and Astoria, mem
States
Engineer Addresses Meet
Readers— National, Political, His
bers of the Oregon delegation in con
vanca—Liberal
Leader*
Appear
on
ing of Portland Open River En»
torical and Commercial.
gress, Governor Chamberlain, Lieuten
Street*.
thusiaats.
ant Colonel Roessler, who Is United
States engineer of this district, and
Dowie eave he ii going to Mexico to
others.
Havana,
Sept.
18.—The
only
results
die.
Portland, Kept. 16.— Conditions are
That it is inadvisable to resume work sudi that the national appropriations
thus far of President Palma's order for
Seiratary Root may go from Panama
the suspension of hostilities have been on the jetty until this sum shall he fur the improvement of the Colombia
to Havana.
that Liberal leaders who hitherto have available, either as an appropriation or river should be concentrateti and di
Mrs. Nichulas Longworth ie to go
had every reason for anticipating arrest under continuing contract, if very rected upon tk> work at the mouth of
bear hunting in October.
are circulating openly in Havana again wasteful construction is tu be avoided, the river, and that the other projects,
General de Dionlin has been ap
and even conferring with members of was the opinion ol the two committee having for their purpose the opening
pointed as Trepoff’s suceeeor.
the government with regard to peace, members, who accorded with the view up of this great waterway, should wait
An attempt has been made to kill deuce.
Most of the negroes were brought and that such insurgents in the field as of (xdonel Roessler announced before a or prove«*« I slowly until live biggest and
the heirjto the Austrian throne.
here horn North and South Carolina have been consulted, while expressing meeting of the Chamber ol Commerce of moat vital undertaking of them all is
A great immigration to the North and other neighboring states. Witness
themselves as agreeable to settling mat Portland Friday night. Colonel K< Ba om pieted.
west is predicted by railroad men.
This is the opinion of
es hkve told some frightful stories of
ters amicably, at the same time assume ler advise«! further that money should Lieutenant Colonel Roessler, of the
The steamer Mongolia may be saved the manner in which they were held
not l>e di vert«-« 1 from the bar project,
from the rocks at Midway island.
prisoners at the camps for debt. They an independent attitude, which cannot by insistericj on snms of money for United Ktates engineers, voiced by him
tie
said
to
bode
particularly
wel>
tor
A large shipment of sheep has been allege that a guard line is kept and no prompt settlement of existing differ other improvements on the river, lar at tlie tne«-ting of the river and heritor
ger than are necessary |<«r maintenance improvement enthusiasts, held last
made from Grand Forks, B. C., to Chi man is allowed to pass this line. They ences.
say tnat outrageous commissary prices
cago.
of
present work and slow construction. night at the Chamber of Commerce.
in the meantime, Cienfuegos is in a
are charged them and they get deeply
This
plan is op|>o*ed by Representa
The American minister to Morocco in debt to the contractors. One or two state of siege, communication by tele tive Jones, who rather considers the
One hundred or mure of the moat
graph
being
severed
uot
only
in
the
di
w ill demand the payment of claims of witnesses told etoriee of eeeing negroes
prominent
and earnest citisens ol Port
Celilo project more important than the
citisens of the United States.
killed and assert that the bodies were rection of Havana, but to Santiago as bar project, at least to the up|>er Co land gathered at the chamber to I h » en-
well. It is kuown that Cienfuegos had
Gifford Pinchot, chief of the foieet sunk in the river.
not been attacked up to midnight Sun lumbia river region, which wants lower lightene<l as to the moet effective meth
service, will attend * Canadian forestry
day, but what has transpired since that transportation rates to and from tide ods to pursue in securing the ultimate
convention at New Westminster.
water. lie takes the view that the Co-
time is not known here.
BIG FLEET IS SENT TO SEA.
¡Improvement of the Columbia river as
AII accounts agree that there easily ilo harrier, which now prevents navi it should l»e improved. Congressman
Harriman has bought a controlling
gation
up
and
down
the
river,
should
interest in the Batltimore A Ohio rail Force of 4 ,0 0 0 Men Can Be Landed are 3,000 insurgents a few miles south
Rans«lelt, chairman of the rivers and
east of Havana, and rumors are in cir he opene«l as soon as possible, and that harbors congress anti member of the
road, giving him lines from ocean to
in Cuba by United States.
culation that they will enter the city the bar improvement is not as urgent
ocean.
Washington, Sept. 18.—It is an peaceably if they are not molested, hut as is alleged, het ause ships of 23 and house committ«M- on rivers and heritors,
Congressman Jones, of Washington,
The transport Buford has been or nounced at the Navy department to
that they will fight if they meet with more feet draft can already pass in and and others, addresse«! the meeting, hut
dered to proceed from Honolulu to
out.
resistance. All visitors to insurgeit
Midway island and get the passengers night that the battleships Louisiana,
This opinion is shared by Mi. Rans- the remarks of the prominent engineer
camps
in Havana province return with
Virginia and New Jereey have been or
created the greateRt interest because of
of the steamer Mongolia.
this impression, hut it is l>elieved no d e ll, and he urges that the two projects his advocating the "mouth of the Co
dered
down
the
Altantic
coaet
on
a
l>e
striven
for
together,
saying
that
An American bank is to be opened in
attempt will be made against Havana
shakedown cruise, and that they had until the arrival of Pino Guerrera'e otherwise, there will l>e a divide«! lumbia river first; then the other pro
Berlin.
effort, which will react against the in jects.”
Coming as they «lid fmm a man pos
Anarchists continually dog
the been directed to keep in touch with the force, which now is variously reported terests of the entire river.
government at Washington by wirel«-ss to be from 20 to 40 miles distant. The
kaiser.
sess*-«!
of the exjvert know ledge as is
Mr. Jones and Mr.Ransdell said that
general impression is that the presence
Colonel
Knessler, and one sc thorough
telegraph
and,
if
necessary,
in
the
event
it
is
extemely
nnlikely
that
the
jetty
General MacArthur is now lieutenant
in Havana harbor of the American
ly
familiar
with every phase and detail
of an emergency arising, they will be cruiser Denver will not act as a deter can obtain $2 600,000, or that even the
general.
of
the
various
works of improvement,
whole
Colombia
river
can
secure
such
sent to Havana.
It was also stated
There is 14 inches of snow on the that the crnisers lacoma, Cleveland, rent to such a movement, the auxiliary a sum.
his address last night carried great
Both
were
even
fearful
that
cruiser Dixie having gone to Cienfuegos
mountains in Weetern Colorado.
Minneapolis and Newark have sailed and the cruiser Des .Moines having gone there will he no river and harlmr hill weight and made a deep and lasting
impression upon the representative as
Stensland’s son has betrayed the hid from Norfolk, Va.
presumably to bring to Cuba Secretary at all next year.
It will 1« impossible, they said, to semblage.
ing place of much of his plunder.
The Minneapolis and Newark carry of War Taft and Assistant Secretary
"I>et me impress upon von the one
pnt through an emergency approprta
The government of Ecuador is ar abont 700 men altogether and the Ta Bacon.
tion, as was done at the last session of thought which lias )>een uppermost in
coma
150.
Should
all
these
veteels
go
ranging for a loan of $27,000,000.
congress for $400,000, because that sum my mind in making these remarks,
co Havana the navy would he able to
As a whole the Caban people wel land a force of 4,000 men in Cuba by GERMANS WANT P R O TE C TIO N . was allowe«! simply in order that the namely, that it is good from an engi
come the American offer of mediation. Wednesday or Thursday, if any devel
government might not lose several hun neer’s standpoint, from a commercial
dred
thousand dollars* worth of con standpoint and from all points of view
Terroiists claim credit for the death opments should occur rendering such M u r d e r o f Bush C auses a V ig o ro u s
struction
works at the jetty, (or want to finish the great work at the mouth
action
nsces^ary.
of Trepoff, believing him to have died
P ro te s t by A m b a s s a d o r.
of money to finish the stone depneite i of the river before asking large sums
Final instructions will be given the
of poison.
for works farther ap the river,” said
St. Petersburg, Kept. 18.—The inse- under the tramway then in place.
Cleveland and other vessels when they
8pe< ial precautions are being taken reach Key Waet. The Cle\ eland tailed j , curity of life and propeity in the Baltic
It was not the most cheerful outlook he, "am! that in my judgment it would
to prevent the shipment of contraband from Norfolk Saturday, wane the Ta provinces, which culminated iast Satur for the river intereits that were repre l«e contrary to the best inte'ests of all
goods to the Cuban rebels.
coma left there Sunday. The Louisiana day in the murder of Herr Bush, a rich sented in the party. Its men le-rs be the improvements, taken as » connect
ed whole, to advo« ate the policy of «li
The curts have decided that there is and the Virginia left Newport Saturday German manufacturer and the leader of gan busying their heads with devices vid ing up any sum that congress may
the
German
colony
at
R
ga,
has
led
the
for
obtaining
the
required
$2,600,000
after
hurriedly
coaling.
The
New
Jer-
I
nothing in the way of municipal owner
Germai embassy here again to make right away, i»«<-atiae, in their minds, decide to appropriate foi the Columbia
sey s tiled from Boston.
ship for Chicago, as the law is valid.
energetic representations to the Foreign completion of the jetty is extremely river valley in such a way as to prevent
Cashier Hering, of the defunct Chi
the early fulfillment of the commercial
office concerning the adoption of meas urgent.
TW O -C EN T FARES IN EAST.
cago bank, is declared by handwriting
aspirations which are centered in a
ures for the protection of German sub
experts to be the champion forger of
deep channel at the mouth of the
jects. Bush was killed by agents of
TREPOFF IS DEAD.
river.”
the world.
the
revolutionary
organization
engaged
Western Governors Say Population is
in
levying
tribute.
Dr.
von
Miquel,
Too Sparse in Their States.
The Japanese government has sent
first secretary of the German embassy, Tyrant of Russian People Succumb*
repreeentativee to New York and Lon
Harrisburg. Pa., Set. 16.— S. M. called today at the Foreign office and
WOMEN LOSE THEIR VO TES.
to Heart Disease.
don to arrange a new loan. Her for Williams, secretary of the Pennsylvania
presented the report of the German
St. Petersburg, Kent. 17.—General
eign and domestic debts already reach
State Board of Trade, today made pub consul at Riga regarding the killing of Dmitri Feodorovitch Trepoff, command F em ale S u ffra g e . Says A u s tria n M in
$1,011,500.
is te r, ia F a ilu re on C o n tin e n t.
lic copies of letters received from the Bush, who was struck down in his own ant of the Imperial palace, died at «
France and Japan will likely agree
factory.
He
called
attention
to
the
o’clock
Saturday
evening
in
his
villa
at
Vienna, Kept. 16. — Under the new
governors of several states on the move
on an Asiatic policy.
length of time the reign of terror has Peterhof of angina pectoris.
electoral reform hill the privilege here
ment to obtain uniform legislation lasted.
Colorado Republicans have nominat
General Trepoff, whose nam? is in
thioughout the United States for a 2-
Although the armed revolt was crush delibly linked with reactionary repres tofore accorded women w ho are landed
ed Philip B. Stewart for governor.
cent maximum fare on all steam rail ed and the country reconquered by trie
proprietors of voting at parliamentary
The Caban congress in special session roads. A number of the governors are forces under General Orloff last winter, sion in Russia, was a remarkable man.
He
was
a
natural
despot,
a
tryant
by
elections
is abolished. At a meeting of
has voted men and money to fight the personally favorably to a 2-cent fare, robberies and murders have continued
inclination,
education
and
conviction.
the
electoral
reform committee today
rebels.
and, in a few instances, they tell of the unchecked for over a year and a halt. He was one of those men who have con
several
of
the
«leputies
urged the reten
General Corbin has ret r d as head of movements in their states to obtain the There are 5,000 German subjects living stantly appeared in Russian history, tion of the prvivilege and its extension
the American army on account of the passage of such legislation in the next in Riga.
just at the time when conditions were to women earning $200 yearly or inde
session of the legislature.
The American consul at Riga has not most promising for putting an end to
age lim it.
pendently carrying on business or ad
Tne governors of some of the West joined in this demand tor protection.
Ambassador Leiehman has been noti ern states say that because of the Thera are scarcely any Americans there. despotism, to turn the Russian rulers ministering estate.
from litieralism to reaction.
Baron von Blenerth, the minister of
fied that the sultan will receive him sparsely settled condition of their states
Alfred Bush was a partner in the
It was he who became the guiding the Interoir, pointed out that all at
September 21.
the time is not yet ripe for a radical Bush-Hinge Manufacturing company.
spirit of the reaction after Nicholas II tempts to extend female suffrage on the
Wyoming Democrats have nominated reduction of fares, but that such a re
from Odessa, where the conditions had issued his manifesto in the fall of
Continent had failed, especially where
8. A. D. Keiser for governor and in form will come arxmt when the popu are almost as had as in the Baltic pro 1906, promising the people a share in
lation increases to give the business to vinces. the embassies have been in the government. Holding the position universal suffrage had been introduced,
dorsed Bryan.
justify a cut. The Weetern governors formed that guards have been furnished of master of the palace, in league with and he doubted the advisability of the
step. Victor Adler, the Socialist leafi
Turkey has called the attention of express their approval of the movement for the consulates and the residences of
the court intriguers who were deter er, though an advocate of female suf
Europe to the evident preparation of so far as it applies to the thickly popu the various consuls.
mined to restore the old regime, he frage, also considered the present un-
Bulgaria for war.
lated states of the East.
constantly had the emperor’s ear.
propitious for an extension of the right.
A handcar with 12 men plunged
Typhoon Hits Hongkong.
Earthquake Felt at Sea.
through an open draw of the Maumee
Manila, Kept. 18.—Cable reports
Dawson City i* Excited.
Cut Down Big Land Holdings.
San Francisco, Sept. 18.—The lum from Hongkong state that a typhoon
bridge at Toledo, Ohio.
All were
Winnipeg, Kept. 17.— Advices from
Izmdon,
Kept. 16.— The Times’ Wel
drowned.
ber laden ship Robert Searles Las ar which sprang up euddenly at 10 o’clock Dawson City say there is more excite
rived from Tacoma and northern ports. this morning did enormous damage to ment over the dredging here at present lington correspomlent says that the
The steamer Oregon, from Seattle Captain Piltz, in command, states that the shipping in that port.
The Ger than there has been since the earlieest government land proposals are the most
drastic in the history of colonial leg
for Valdez, Alaska, was wrecked at the among other incidents during the trip
man steamer Johanne and the British days. The whole population is mad islation and are creating intense inter
entrance to Prince William sound. No the officers of the vessel recorded a se
steamer Kan Cheung were sunk. The over dredging, and stampedes have oc
est in New Zealand, especially the law
lives were lost. The vessel may be a vere earthquake shock, which caused a
Hongkong, Canton A Macao company’s curred every day and night for several
total loss.
compelling owners to sell within a de
panic among the crew and threatened steamer Fatshan foundered and of the weeks.
Phenominal success has been
The preeident has sent Secretary of »serious harm to the vessel. Captain crew the purser and mate alone sur attained by the Bear creek dredge and cade the excess of land held beyond
War Taft and Assistant Secretary of Piltz Bays that on the morning of Sep vive. .The Canadian Pacific Railroad at the mouth of the Yukon river. The $260,000 unimproved value and the
State Bacon to Cabs in an endeavor to tember 14, when the ship was within company’s steamer Monteagle went arrival of the Gnggenhimes, of New provisions preventing the present own
straighten out affairs without inter 250 milee of her destination, a severe ashore. All business in the city is at York, as well as other capitalists whose ers of 1,000 acres of first class land or
those holding 6,000 acres of seew d
disturbance of the water was felt. The a standstill.
vention with troops.
names are household words, has in class land adding to their estates by
shock lasted several seconds.
fused new life into Dawson City.
Russian Democrats will hold a con
free holds or lease holds.
Watching for More Loot.
vention in Sweden.
Steamer Mongolia Aground.
Chicago, Sept. 18.— Acting upon in
Plotter*’ Nest In Peterhof.
May Build Fouth Shamrock.
Secretary Root was showered with
Midway Island, North Pacific Ocean, formation that loot from the wrecked
St.
Petersburg, Kept. 17.—The police
Glasgow,
Sept. 16. — John Ward,
honors at Lima, Peru.
Sept. 18.—The Pacific Mail steamship Milwaukee Avenue bank, of which Paul have arrested 14 revolutionists in Pe
managing director of Denny Bros.,
Mongolia,
a
sister
ship
of
the
Man
Stensland was president, is hidden in terhof, including several students. The
Colorado Democrats have nomrinated
churia, is aground on Midway reef. Chicago, the police have placed guards fact that one of the men arrested was a builders of the last two Shamrocks, has
Alva Adams for governor.
sailed for New York. It is understood
The ship is being lightered and her over two banks with deposit vaults in
E. H. Plnmacher, American consul nass6ngers have been landed safely. which it is suspected some of the court lackey caused a rumor that a plot the Dennys have submitted proposals to
at Maracaibo, Venezuela, has discov The weather is fine and the sea ie plunder may be fonnd. The sum may against the emperor had been discov Sir Thomas Upton for the construction
ered, but there is no definite informa of a Shamrock IV’, they to be given a.
ered a care for leprosy.
smooth.
run into the hundreds of thousands.
tion to thia end.
free hand in designing and building.
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