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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.
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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.