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! \ THE WASE© NEWS VOL X V II. WASCO, SH E R M A N RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOII E X P R E S S C H A R G E S H IG H . Wells-Fargo Accused o f Discrimina tion Against Marchants. Newsy Items Gattiered from All Parts of the World. G eneral R iv io w o f Im portant H ap pening* P reaented In a B rie f and C o m p r« h o n *iva M an n ar fo r Bu«y R e e d e r *-N a tio n a l, Political, H i>- torlcal and C om m ercial, Roosevelt predicts T a ft’» nomination on til« that ballot. A blanket o* ano« rover« the Dako ta», Iowa and Nebraska. l/u d CursoO baa lean persuaded to re enter English politic«. An eminent French d«ict<>r nays Kai- aer W illiam baa oonaurnption. English are protesting against slav ery in the Portugueae oolonlea. Kan«*« C ity theaters have given tip the light againat Sunday closing. Nearly 91,000,000 m<»re graft by the Schmit« gang haa been diacovered. North Carolina baa again refused to (« y the bond» issued during the recrn- strurtion daya. There Is a monster shipment of war m aterial on the San Franrtaco docks hilled for M anila. The San Francisco health txwrd haa appealed to the people to continue the ««term ination of rata. R owe veil haa allowed troop« to re main in Goldfield on the promise <«f Governor Spark« to ra il a «|>«rtal see- • IOO of the legialature. New York ia overrun by hundred« of unemployed. The Twenty-fourth Japanese diet haa just convened. President Ro>eevelt is hunting tu r keys at Pine Knot, Va. State Treasurer Steel, of Oregon, baa ftlewl bis new bond in the sum of 9636,« 0 00 . Cleveland, Ohio, manufacturers plan a resumption of work for fully 10,(MM) former employes during January. Railroads throughoot the country have shown the affects of the financial panic by a curtailm ent of orders for rolling stock. At a meeting of the Pacific Coast Commercial Travelers’ association in San Francisco it w»« voted to rtop gambling among meml>era. A passenger train Collided hiwd-on with a freight near Ix*nox, Mich. Five tra nmen met death. A ll passengers encaped with hut slight Injurie«. In a raid on Chinese gambling house« Portland police secured 910,166.00 In coin and currency and 94.446.09 of ex change on Hongkong hanka. According to law thia money may ’go into the state treasury. Raleigh, N. C ., haa voted prohibi tion. Dewey haa just celebrated his 7Cth birthday. Officers and crews of the big fleet are enjoying life at Trinidad. Henry says epecial privilege ia the root of |Militical corruption. Reports of New York lenks show a recovery from the money crisis. Aceuaed members of the first Ruaaian douma deny they adviaed rebellion. Han Francisco, C al., Dec. 31.— In te r state Commerce Com in Isa loner Frank lin K. lame, today held a hearing of the complaint of the California Corn tnercial a»«<iriatinn, oompoaed of 29 mercantile firms in this city, charging the Well« Fargo Express company with concealing from the public tariff sched ules that had l>«en 6 led w ith the In te r state Commerce oomrniaslon in Wash ington and with making unjust and dis criminatory rate«. The actual question involved, however, was whethei or not the quantity rate ci 6 cents a jxuind from New York to Han Francisco for shipments of 10,(MM) to 20,000 pounds applied to hulk or assembled ship ments, gathered and forwarded by a forwarding agency to one concern or association organixed for the purp<«e of getting the lower rate, the ahiprnent ultimately intended for numerous con- signeea who were de«ignated by num ber« of the lalwd« to the one consignee. The charges of discrimination are haned upon the refusal of the expreee company to transport a ahiprnent of 16,(MM) pounds consisting of 443 pack» age«, from New York to the (California Commercial association In Han Fran cisco la*t August, at the hulk or quan tity rate of 9* per hundred pounds, the ooiupany charging the regular package rate. I t ia also alleged that the ex- press company charged a higher rate than that published and filed with the Interstate Commerce commission, the tatt«r being w ilfu lly concealed and bid den from the public. Thia complaint aver« that it ia a distinct violation of the interstate commerce art. In answer, the express oompany denies ail the allegations made, and charge« tliat the aaaociation reeorted to subterfuge in order to extort unjust dis crimination in its own favor, and based its refusal to grant a quantity rate upon the shiinent in question on the ground tliat, while eonsigned to one consignee, it was Intended for more titan a score of firms. E X P A T R IA T E S IN C H IN A . Judge Wilfley W arts Congress to Maks Laws for Them . Han Francisco, C al., Dec. 3 .—-Judge L. K. W ilfley, of the United State« court at Hhaughai, against whom charges of improper conduct of his court have lawn preferred at Washing ton, artved in Han Francisco this morn ing on the Pacific M all liner Manchuria from the Orient, and after a stay of two daya in this city w ill proceed to the na t Iona I capital. On board the Man ohnria with Judge W ilfley was F . M. Brooks, a lawyer, who has filed an ac tion for 960,(MM> damage* at Hono lulu, charging the head of the court in the Far East, together with his clerk, L. R. Hickel, with constpiracy in stop ping the practice of Brooks in Khanghai. Judg« W ilfley denied that he was go ing to Washington to meet the chargee preferred against him. “ I am going to W ashington," he said, "to aid in drawing an act that w ill extend to Americans In China a mote complete body cf laws than they now have. The laws now in force com prise little more than is embodied in the common law and are so Indefinite as to lie absolutely useless. It w ill be suggested to congress that the Califor nia code of laws be made to extend to China, wherein such laws are appllca hie. " In addition to this matter, I am journeying East that congress may be asked for an appropriation for a proper Federal building at Shanghai, where the American consulate and courts may lie under one roof." Raises Rent o f Hot Springs. Indiana Republicans h a\e formally Chicago, Dec, «31.— A dispatch to the indorsed Fairbanks an their candidate Tribune from Hot Springs, A rk., says: for president. Announcement was made yesterday It is said a dark horse has been se that the United States would double lected to fill Bristol's place as United the price for its henling hot waters Htates attorney for Oregon. after tho first of the year, and that all Burning snowsheds near Truckee, bathhouse Icaaesalso would lie doubled C al., has greatly delayed Houthern Pa A protest w ill lie sent at once to Wash cific trains I« tween Portland and Han ington. The hot water now is* dis pensed by the government at 930 per Francisco. annum for each tub supplied. The Latent developments in the row be bathhouse owners state they are unable tween naval factlcns bringa out the to meet tho raise. faot that it is over ranking of otfioera. Two constructions of the reviscxl stat- Garnets In New York Bedrock. utes ia possible and each faction olslins New York, Dec. 31.— That New York it is right. City rest« on a vast mass of garneta ia Five men were killed while working the discovery of Ralph E. Morgan, an in a Paris subway. English mineralogist, now visiting 8t. Joseph, Mo., has started a crusade here. In a mass of rock thrown up from a subway excavation, he diacov against loan sharks. ered a large garnet. On the dumping The New York Republican clnb has ground at Hheepshed bay he found a deolared for Hughes for president. number of excellent garnets. CO UNTY, OREGON, JA N U A R Y ANGRY CANADIANS TURN ON CHINESE Mob Wrecks Restaurants at Leth bridge, Alberta. All Furniture and Dishes Smashed to Pieces — Chinese Baaty Beaten — Attack Was Dua to False M urder Htory— Mounted Police Called Out But Arrive Too Lata. 3, 1<X)8. NO. L E T T R O O P 8 8 TAY. Senator Newlancfs Thinks Goldfield Needs Them . Washington, Dec. 30.— Senator New- lands, of Nevada, Is endeavoring to pre vent withdraw«! of the government tr<xjps from Goldfield until some other means of protection is had. Today he called upon Secretary Taft at the W ar department and strongly urged that ex ecution of the order issued by the secre tary for the withdrawal of the troops be suspended until be has had an opportu nity to communicate with Governor Sparks and induce him to call the Ne vada legislature together. Mr. Taft has been advising w ith Sec retary Root on this subject and tonight communicated with the president at Pine Knot on the subject. There was every disposition to refrain from break ing in upon M r kooeevelt's privacy at this time, and the only excuse for do ing so is found in the fact that, unless the original order is modified, the troops must leave Goldfield before the president returns to Washington. The secretary declined to rtate what course he had recommended in the matter, nor would he aay whether he had heard from the president in torn. Hecretarfy Leob said the W h ite House wsa entirely without advice from Pine Knot, as the Goldfield question was being Itandled by the W ar department. Administration officials feel that the piesent situation in the matter of Gold field’s case cannot tie continued, in view of the doubt that exists as to the con stitutional and legal right of the ex ecutive to employ any part of the regu lar army in Nevada under present con ditions. Lethbridge, Alberta, Dec. 26.— Be cause they believed th a t a prominent citizen had been murderexYin a Chinese restaurant, 1,6(M) men raided the O ri ental quarter late last night and left a wieck behind. Restaurants and laun dries were smashed, doors and wlndiws and entire fronts of buildings being re duced to splinter« The regular police of the town were powerless and a bri gade of mounted police had to be called out to quell the not. It was just after 9 o'clock tliat the mob began to form. The story had got abroad that Harry Smith, one of tbs twat known ranchers of the cattle dis trict of which this city is the center, had been fatally wounded in a rest se ra nt. Curiously enough, neither Hmitk nor any one else had been hurt, bat even the police were misled by the tala and two Orientals were placed under arrest, charged with hia murder. An indignant mob gathered oppoista H E N E Y G IV E S F U L T O N A D IG . the eating house and there was talk of lynching. Suddenly someone threw a rock, which smashed a front window, Says All lrv.pl cated in Land Frauds Are Senator’s Friends. snd in a moment the crowd was beyond oontrol. Bricks and stones were used Washington, Dec. 30.— In an inter and. when the doors had been broken, view telegraphed from New York, Fran the tables and chairs and dishes were cis J. Heney is quoted as saying: smashed. The Columbia snd Alberta " I hope to close three Oregon cases restaurants were literally wrecked. with M r. Bristol in two or three weeks." W tial could not lie con«-enlently broken Inquiry at the Department of Justice by the few men who could get inside failed to elicit definite information as was passed out to the stre.d to the mob to whether or not M r, Bristol would as in waiting, and there demolished. sist M r. Heney w ith the prosecution. At 10 o'clock a detachment of mount If no new district attorney is appointed ed police appeared and the crowd fcy the tim e the land trials begin, M r. scattered. Hundreds of the rioters Bristol may assist M r. Heney, but there merely shifted the scene of their pillag appears to tie an expectation that a new ing. Three blocks sway, opposite the man w ill be available before then, in Arlington hotel, they cleaned out an which case M r. Bristol w ill be out snd other Chinese restaurant and badly have nothing to do with the land trials. handled two Orientals who were cap In the aame interview M r. Heney tured w ithin. takes another rap at Senator Fulton. Mayor G albraith, who had rushed To He denies having implicated M r. F u l the scene when the mounted |>oliee ton in the land frauds, but adds were first called, delivered a speeeh ‘ ‘A ll of these persons who have been asking good citisens to disperse. The implicated io organised land frauds are crowd listened to him and to Magistrals friends of Senator Fulton. Therefore Townsend, who spoke later. A ll possi it spi>ears whimsical to me that Senator ble damage having been done, Mie Fulton should, through the power of crowd went home. senatorial oourtesy, be able to defeat Five of the rioters have been arrest the nomination cf Mr. Bristol, who is ed, but it is doubtful if they w ill be capable of making it unpleasant for the prosecuted. yet unconvicted land thieves in Oregon." OLD D O C U M E N TS FO U N D . Papers Taken From Lieutenant Pike Come to Light. U T E 8 RAID S O U T H E R N LINE AND STALE IN DEEP EEUD Each Wants to Be Supreme In Re gard to Hospital Ships. Rear Admiral Brownton, C hief o f the Bureau o f Navigation, Resigns Be cause Surgeon General Rixey Wins Decision— May Result in Radical Change in System. Washington, Dec. 26. — Harmony w ithin the United States navy bureau cracy seems to be in for a severe jo lt. Open war already has been declared between the bureau of- navigation snd the bureau of medicine and surgery, the in itia l result of which has been the resignation of Rear Adm iral Brownson from his position as chief of the former bureau, and, coming just at a tim e when severe criticism is being aimed at the administration of the Navy depart ment, the chargee involving the bureau system in particular, the ruction may culminate in some radical changes. Surgeon General Rixey, whose re commendation in favor of potting a medical officer in absolute command of a hospital ship was approved by Presi dent Kooeeveit against the view of Ad miral Brownson, throws down the gauntlet to the bureau of navigation in a formal statement issued last night. The surgeon general chargee that the bureau of navigation has interfered in an unwarranted manner with the bu reau of medicine and surgery, and to the extent of crippling its ueefulneee. Comparatively triv ial events some times lead to sweeping reforms, and, if there be defects in management, in natal construction and in methods of adm inistration, the Hooeevelt-Brown- ron-Rixey imbroglio is likely to be the mean« of bringing matters to a foe us and causing remedies to be applied where needed. It should not be forgotten that the president is as staunch a friend of the navy as the navy haa, in considering the present controversy, which so ma terially involves himself. Popular sen timent naturally would incline the in expert observer to side with the line officers in the conflict with the staff, because the line is tbe fighting conting ent from which heroes most frequently are developed in days of war. In sid ing against tbe line officers in the pres ent case, the president may or may not be aiming his spear at the bureau sys tem. He has taken a ground he thinks is for the beet interests of the service. UTAH FLO UR O U T P U T SM ALLER. Fen Up Cowboys and Band o f Cattle In Canyon. Halt I> k e C ity, Dec. 30.— Colorado Ute Indians are traveling in bands in Houthern Utah, raiding sheep and cat tlemen, according to a report received by Governor John C. Cutler. Accord ing to this report, a small hand of In dians attacked three eoa boys near Ven- duie, Han Juan county, on lMvember 23, and at the musale of riflee com pelled them to drive the cattle lack into the oanyon from which they were trailing onto the winter range, threat ening to k ill them unless they did so. Cowboys and cattle are still confined to the canyon. The governor w ill take up the m at ter with the authorities at Washington, as according to a ruling of the commis sioner of Indian affairs the Colorado or Southern Utee are forbidden to enter U t a h . ________________ • • Mexico C ity, Dec. 26.— W liat is ooa- sidered a very Important historical dts- Oovery has resulted from the efforts ef Dr. Hoerbert E . Belton, the American historian, who is here engaged in re search work under the anspices of the Carnegie institute of Washington. The discovery consists in the unearthing in .his city of 18 of the 21 documents tak en from the poeeeeeion of Lieutenant Zebulon N. Pike, of the United States army, by Spanish soldiers in 1806, when he was captured while making his famous trip up the Arkansas and Missouri rivers, visiting the Osage and Comanche Indians, at the instance of General James W ilkinson, then govern or of Louisiana. The whereabouts of the other three documents cannot be learned. Ho im portant Is the discovery considered in Radical Decision in Hamburg. the United States that Secretary Root has just sent Dr. Belton his congratula Hamburg, Dec. 30.— The suit of the tions. h arlo r authorities against the Port- workers’ union, growing out of the re telephones for Submarines. cent dock strike, has resulted in a de Paris, Dec. 28,— Following elaborate cision of the widest importance against experiments to prevent the recurrence the latter. The union is forbidden in of accidente to submarine vessels, the the future to interfere with the intro minister of the navy has issued orders duction of strike breakers, and a penal that all submarines be fitted ont with ty of 1,600 marks is provided for each detachable telephone buoys, which, in instance in which a oonviction is ob case of accident w ill permit of commu tained on the charge. The union has nication with the surface. entered an appeal. Triumph of Roosevelt. London, Deo. 28.— The Times in an editorial this morning discusses the prospect of peace in Central Amerita resulting from the peace conference held at Washington, which it regards as a great trium ph for President Roose velt’« Aìplo 24. Negroes Begin Suits. New York, Dec. 30.4-Papers in a case to teat the legality of the discharge it thè private of companies B, C and D of the 26th United States infantry (col ored), following the disorders in the streets cf Brownsville a year ago, have been prepared by a law firm of khiasity. Minneapolis Statistics Shovr Effect o f Financial Stringency. Minneapolis, Dec. 2 6 — Flour ship ments from Minneapolis foi 1907 w ill fall short of the total shipped during 1906 by nearly a m illion barrels. Thia decrease has been apparently doe to the financial flurry, as the afiguree for each month show tliat only in three months of the entire year have the shipments for 1907 exceeded those for the same month in 1906. The number of barrels of flour sent ont from Minneapolis by the various mills so far this year has been 13,826,- 375, while for the correrponding period in 1906 there were 14 673,123 barrels shipped, a deficit of 747,7s8 barrels. IM»spite the recent financial stringen cy, tbs sales of flour for use in the coun try or for export did not suffer so much as wns generally expected. The ship ments for October this year were 1,449,- 802 barrels, against 1,693,097 last year. In November of this year tbe greatest falling off is shown with shipments of 1,067,970 barrels, against 1,318,648 a year ago. For the trading days in De- cemlier npjjto the present, 679,271 bar rels have been sent out as against 979,- 494 for the corresponding days last year. Great Tinplate Mill to Resume. Newcastle, Pa., Dec. 26.— Ten of tho 30 pot m ills of the Sherango tin m ills here w ill resume operations January 6 next. Ten additional m ills w ill resume shortly after, aud it is expected that the entire plant w ill be running full force before tbe end of January. The m ill, m id to be the largest tin plant in the world, has been idle since July 31. Folly a theoaaod mea are a Vested.
