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EVENTS OF THE DA
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happening of the Pat Week,
Presented In Condensed Form, Most
Likely to Prove Interesting.
Chicago hearse drivers have gone on
a strike and many funerals have been
postponed.
The senate has ratified the treaty
with China. Russia is not at all
pleased by it.
Women have been selected to act as
jurors in a Chicago trial, for the first
time in the history of the nation.
John R. Benson, a San Francisco tim
ber operator, has been arrested on a
charge of bribing a government official.
Sir Thomas Lipton, in accepting the
Bilver service presented him by Ameri
ca, says he will try once more for the
cup.
Senator Fulton, before the senate,
stated the aims of the 1905 fair and
made an eloquent plea for federal aid.
It was his maiden speech.
The search for the wealth of Pope
Leo has been ended by Cardinal Gotti
turning over $90,00,000 and an electric
ian accidentally discovering 11,850, 000.
The late p--pe asked Cardinal Gotti to
keep the money four months in order
that the new pope might learn how
difficult it ia to rule without money.
Senator Hoar severely criticises the
Panama poilcy of Roosevelt.
Japan will reject the answer of Rus
sia to her far eastern demands.
The house has passed the pension ap
propriation bill carrying $138,150,100.
The Nebraska grand jury has re
turned an additional indictment against
Senator Dietrich.
The kaiser's sister is found to be
suffering from a cancer and the news
created a sensation in Berlin.
American troops who have been
landed have discovered a force of Co
lombians which is probably building a
road toward Panama.
Colombia has ordered the American
fcCStMA wUVT BOW.
Qrcat brttaln tuifevrs that Other Is
Japan i Uo to War
Ivondon, IVc. 22. Official England
tonight alimwt to a unit is convinced
th. re is bin one way to, avert war be
tween Japan and Russia, and that ia
Lir the latter to accept ihe demands of
the mikado, made 'ii the advice of his
mianistry. There has been consider
able comnuiiiioatiauu during the past
12 h urs between iho British foreign
t llice and the Japanese legal i n in Lon
don, and the presumption almost ack
nowledged Kb a fact in official circles,
ia thai the brilUh government has
asked the Japanese minister for h'a ad
vices as to Japan's position in the pret
ent state of the negotiations between
that nai ion and Rur-.-ia.
Fr an the report current tonight it j
is assumed that the Japanese minister (
has been advised that the relations be
tween his government and Russia have
reached the breaking point. The be
lief has become general that the sj ark
which may strike tire into the inflam
mability of Japanese sentiment is an
eventuality to be expected now almost
any time.
The most that can be learned from
the Japanese capital i the acknowledge
ment that the situation is now uiore
menacing than at any previous stage of
the negotiations between Japan and
Russia.
The dispatches from St. Petersburg
are practically being subjected to a cen
sorship. They are meagre in extreme,
and merely announce that in spite of
public opinion and alarming newspaper
reports, the Ruoian officials believe a
peaieable outcome of the far Eastern
situation is still possible.
FOR THE 1905 FAIR
MITCHELL MAKES ELOQUENT PLEA
IN THE SENATE. '
Sets Forth Facts Showing That 'Oregon
Country' Well Deserves Aid of th
Government-Molds tha Rapt Atten-
1 tlon ol All by His Powerful Argument
for th Lswts and Clark Exposition.
t-RlAKS TO OKf LIT TLB MONEY.
Svnukate Is the Meal Owner of the
Philippine Lands.
Rome, Dec. 22. Considerable ex
citement prevailed in the mother houses
of the Dominicans, Augustinians, Fran
ciscans and the Recollects over the fri
ars lands question in the Philippines.
The friars were glad the negotiations
had been concluded, but think the ord
ers got little for the lands, since the
price they originally asked, $13,000,000
was, they dei lare, under the estimated
value of the lauds, the value 'of which
has much increased,' especially since
the Ameican occupation and the re-
establishment of order in the .archipelago.
will
Th friars sav the monev thev
cruiser Atlanta to quit the gulf of Dar-! receive is scarcely enough to pay w hat
ien, but the order has not been heeded. tney borrowed w hen they were deprived
The Atlanta has discovered a detach- j 0f everything by the revolution. Be-
ment of nearly 2,000 Colombian troops e'ueB they point out that only part of
of the gulf. She
schooner carrying
on the western side
also came upon a
armed men.
The Lewis and Clark exposition is
rapidly gaining friends in the senate.
The senate committee will recom
mend the promotion of General Wood.
Tammany will pnt np Bomke Cock-
ran to succeed Mayor-elect McClellan
in congress.
President Roosevelt has refused to a)
low a lodire if Oraneem"n to use his
photograph on a banner.
Perry Heath and other ex-officials
are seriously involved in the Conrad
Boneparte report on postal irregularities.
W. A. McKowan, secretary of the
board of regnets, robbed the univeristy
of California of $10,000 and spent it on
races. j
The friars are to get $7,250,000 for
their lands in the Philippines. They
originally asked $13,000,000 and Gov
ernor Taft offered them $4,000,000.
A Panto Dominican plot to kill Min
ister Powell has been unearthed.
Southern friends of Ilanna still have
hopes that he will run for president
Mayor Collins, Democrat, has been
re-elected mayor of Boston by a large
plurality,.
J. Henry Booth, reteiverof the Rose
bnrg, Oregon, land office will not be
reappointed.
Chicago citizens have organized to
put an end to the lawlessness which
reixns there.
A Connecticut bank cashier, whose
accounts are short, on being surprised
by the bank examiner, committed sui
cide. President Imbet, of France, will
visit Rome in April.
The remains of Herbert Sjiencer, the
philosopher, were cremated.
the money will go to the friars, as the
lands were really transferred to a com
pany formed in Madrid by the Marquis
Di Comillias, the head of the Spanish
Trans-Atlantic navigation company.
The Dominicans succeeded in so thor
oughly concealing their ownership of
lands that the vat'n an itself threatened
to punish them severely for having
tried to deceive even the ecclesiastical
authorities.
OR EAT PANIC AT FIRE.
Leap
from the cruiser Prairie
landed at Colon and sent to
Marines
have been
Panama.
The Utah fuel company says any
miner who desires to return to work
mast give up the union.
Senator Bailey nobis that the Cuban
reciprocity bill is invalid because it did
not originate in the house.
Rev. Edward Everett Hale, of Bos
ton, has licen appointed chaplain of the
senate for the session U-giuning Janu
ary 1.
Senator Fistcr has introduced a bill
dividing Washington into two judicial
districts, north and south. His bill
places Seattle In one district and Ta
coma and Spokane in the other.
The cotton mills at Adams and North
Adams, Mass., and Norwich, Conn.,
have made a 10 per cent reduction In
wages. The order affect 6,000 opera
tives. G. M. Stuart il likley to bi reap
points! postmaster at Seattle.
Comment at St. reterbaurg on Roose
velt's message is very friendly.
W. J. Bryan and son, who are tour-
In Euroi. held an audienee with the
po.
Students at Tennessee College
From Windows In Droves.
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 22. Five per
sons are known to have been killed and
perhaps 30j injured, 19 of them fatally,
in a fire here tonight, which consumed
the Central Tennessee college for young
negro women, a department of Walden
university. It is possible the ruins
mayc ontain the remains of other vict
ims.. The protierty loss is estimated at
$25,000.
The fire broke out about 11 o'clock
in the top of the building, which was
four stories high and without fire es
caies.
It was occupied by about 60 students,
who were asleep w hen the alarm was
given. The wildest panic ensued, wo
men and girls rushing to the windows
from which they jumped in droves, the
dead and injured lying in heaps where
they fell to be fallen upon by those
following them from the flaming win
dows. Every ambulance in the city
was soon on the scene, and the injured
were hurried to the hospitals.
When the flames were first discovered
they seemed to entirely envelop the
building and it is considered almost,
certain that some of the terrorized oc
cupants were overcome by smoke before
reaching the windows.
Steals $200 per Day for Months.
Chicago, Iec. 22. While working
on a salary of $'J a week, Gus A. Grigs-
by has roblx'd his employers at the rate
of $200 jK-r day, according to Manager
David L. Rose, of M. L. Barrett A Co.
When arrested $250 worth of costly va
ti i la. Is-ans were found concealed in
Grigsbv's clothing. In the few months
that his meager salary has kept him
attached to the firm it is believed lie
has stolen between $12,000 and $15,000
worth of stock. Grixsby held the
position of chemist's helper. He say
lie needed the money.
Washington, IVc. 19. "At the con
elusion of this political battle I ask the
senate to consider the Lewis and Clark
Cer.tennial Exposition bill," said Sen
ator Mitchell, as he rose and was recog
nised by the president pro tern of the
senate, at the termination of a heated
Panama debate that bad engaged the
leaders of both sides of the ehamlier
during the fore part of yesterday after
noon .
Commencing at 3 o'clock, Senator
Mitchell spoke continuously for more
than two hours, Senator Fulton presid
ing over the senate.
During the impressive delivery of his
elaborate appeal for government aid,
Senator Mitchell held the rapt atten
tion of the senators present," among
them being Senators Aldrich, Lodge,
Hoar, Foraker, Gorman, Ankeny, Fos
ter, Heyburn, Dubois, Cullom, Warren,
Fairbanks, Clapp, Daniel, Scott, Bacon,
Gallinger, Newlands and others, while
every Oregoniari now in Washington in
behalf of the fair occupied a seat in the
gallery.
Senator Mitchell's speech will form
the main argument on wihch the Ore
gon delegation will base its plea for a
liberal federal appropriation. Care
fully prepared as to facts and details,
it forms a convincing argument, not
only showing that the government is
in many ways indebted to the Oregon
country, but the event whose 100th an
niversary it is proposed to commemo
rate is of such importance as to warrant
federal recognition, especially in view
of the government aid heretofore given
to expositions held in various cities of
the United States as well as for exhib
its abroad.
Senator Fulton had intended speak
mg this evening, louowing nis coi
league, but, owing to the lateness of
the hour, he gave notice he would ad
dress the senate for 20 minutes or half
an hour at the conclusion of the morn
ing business tomorrow.
Senator Mitchell, in beginning bis
speech, said that almost half a million
dollars had been raised by the sale of
stock in the Exposition company, and
over $700,000 had been subscribed by
different states for the purpose of mak
ing exhibits, making a total of $1,086,-
907 of available money for the enter
prise. He said a magnificent site of
over 400 acres had been secured on the
Willamette river, which had already
been graded and planted to shrubliery.
Speaking of the event which the ex
position is intended to commemorate,
Mr. Mitchell said:
"No other historical event in our na
tional existence of an individual nature
has done so much toward the develop
ment of American occupation and set
tlement, American commerce, domestic
and foreign, and American civilization,
as has the geographical scientific and
military expedition across the then
trackless American contnient by Cap
tains Meriwether Lewis and William
Clark, 100 years ago."
Mr. Mitt! hell made a careful estimate
to show that the contributions of the
"Oregon country" to the national
treasury exceeded the amount expended
there to the extent of $37,000,000. He
said that if the United States could
afford to contribute over $6,000,000 to
MORH MONLY TO CRATl R LAkB.
Secretary of Interior Asks Liberal Ap
propriation tor Park.
Washington. Dec. 19. The interior
department recognises that more liber
al appropriations are necessary for the
improvement of th ' Crater I.ake Na
tional Park than have been made in
the past. The last sundry civil bill ap
propriated only $2,000 for this work
and out of this an allowance goes to
the salary of the superintendent.
With such a meagre appropriation lit
tle progress can bo made in the direc
tion of constructing roads and making
other improvements which will facili
tate the access to Crater Lake and
other points of scenic interest scattered
all through the park. This year, the
secretary of the treasury hopes to have
at least $4,000 made available so that
the improvements can be made during
the summer of 1904.
Mount Rainier National Park in
Washington is so far without a superin
tendent, and, beyond a road survey
PASSES CUBAN BILL
AIMED AT OUESMNO CONTESTS.
taw
SENATORS ARE FOR RECIPROCITY BY
DtClSIVE VOTE.
Ballot Is Taken After Day of Animated
Debate Spooner and llalley Lead It -Great
Rejoicing Throughout Cuba on
Receipt of th News There-Street
Parades, Speeches and Firework.
Washington, IVc. 18.1 By the decis
ive Vote f t 57 to 18, the senate yester
day passed the bill carrying into effect
the reciprocity treaty with Cuba. The
final vote came at the close of the day,
whleh was marked by a debate, which,
w hile at all times animated, was never
acrimonious. The principal speeches
were made by Spooner, for the bill,
and by Bailey, against it. Both sena
tors were subjected to frequent inter
, ruptions.
Bailey referred to the agreement of
the Democratic caucus to stand solidly
on party questions, and warned the he-
made btst summer, little has been done publicans that in the future they could
lookimf to its improvement. The sec- not depend on straggling Democratic
rotary -now asks for $2,(00 to lie ex
pended in the management and im
provement of this park and on the im
provement of roads. The Washington
lelegation will ask for a larger amount,
although there is some doubt if they
will. succeed in getting it.
SAW THEIR WAY TO LIBERTY.
votes in support of Republican party
measures, regardless of whether they
were or were not in accord with Demo
cratic doctrine.' ! s
After the passage of the Cuban bill
the senate agreed to the house resolu
tion providing for a holiday recess from
December 19 to January 4.
CUBA RKJOICBS OVER NEWS.
Arizona Prisoners Make a Sensational
Jail Break.
Tombstone, Arix., IVc. 18 A sensa
tional jailbreak occurred here tonight
and 13 prisoners effected their liberty
by sawing the jail bars and breaking
through the jail walls. Two of the
prisoners, Bert Alvord and W. A.
Stiles, were held as the principals in
the Cochise train hold-up in this coun
ty a year ago. The former was under
sentence of two years to the peniten
tiary, and the latter had six indict
ments hanging over him on the same
charge. The other escaped prisoners
are Mexicans held for petty crimes.
The prisoners left in a body, headed
toward the Mexican line. It was
learned that the fleeing escapes appro
priated a horse belonging to a citizen
living below town. The Mexicans on
the outside are suspected of assisting
the prisoners to escape.
Immediately after the alarm two
posses of well armed deputies started
in pursuit. lhe territorial ranger
force and all the local officers in the
county have been notified, and orders
have been given to patrol the boundary
line to prevent the prisoners from
getting into Sonora. This is the sec
ond jail break made by Stiles and Al-
vhrd within a year. Stiles wounded
Jailor Bravin at the time of the first
break.
Fireworks Are Set Off and Parades Are
Formed In Large Cities.
Havana, Dee. 1ft. The news that the
United States-Cuban reciprocity treaty
had passed the United States senate
and now only required the signature of
President Roosevelt to liecome tqierat-
ive, has created a profound sensation on
the island. While the Cubans have
been assured time aiid again that there
was no doubt of passage of measure, the
delay in reaching a vote in the senate
caused apprehension that could not be
dispelled until the cable announcing
the vote arrived tonight.
The good news was rapidly spread
through the island and impromptu but,
at the same time, very joyous celebra
tions were soon under way. In all of
the larger cities, street parades were
quickly organized, while in cities and
villages alike, fireworks were set off
and speeches made by the leading citi
zens. It is conceded on all sides that
the treaty means the commercial salva
tion of the republic of Cuba.
Cabinet Finds Mo Cause for Alarm.
Washington, Dec. 22. At the cab
inet meeting today the situaiton in
Panama and the situation in Washing
ton, relating to Panama, formed the
principal topics of discussion. At the
conclusion of the meeting Secretary
Motsly said official advices from I'ana
ma corresponded in salient features
with the new a dispatches from the isth
runs. Assurance is given that there
has been no important developments to
aroues concern.
Bloodhounds Unable to Trail Men.
Newcastle, Colo., Dec. 22. Blots!
bounds were unable to follow far the
trail of the men who blew up five
buildings here occupied by striking
union coal miners and their families,
and no clew to the perpetrators of the
crime has been found.
the St. Louis exposition, it could afford
to give one third of that amount to the
Portland exposition.
Arizona Fugitives Caught.
Tombstone. Ariz.. Dec. 21. Of the
19 prisoners who escaped from tin
county IaiL Tuesday night, two were
captured today-.v John James, indicted
for murder, and . Pedro Sandoval, sen
fenced to the jicnitentiary for two years
for smuggling. James was captured
without resistance. He told the offi
cers his comrades had separated and
are now trying to get across the Mexi
can line. The Mexican officials appre
hended Sandoval. Mexican rurales
have six of the fguitives surounded in
the San Jose mountains.
SAY5 BRITAIN WILL LOSB IT.
Penrose Would Also Amend Postal
to Reach Oet-Rkh.yukk Mm.
Washington, IVc. 17. Two bills
have licen introduced in the senate by
Senator Penrose, designed to strengthen
the laws regulating the use of mails.
One is aimed at the "get-rlch-qulck"
concerns and guessing contests, and In
cludes the District of Columbia and
"all territory within the jurisdiction of
the United States" in the law forbid
ding the use of mails for the transmis
sion of lottery tickets. The bills were
drawn in the law division of the post
office department. The act of 1800 for
bidding lotteries is amended by Insert
ing the following language in the pro
hibitory section:
"Or any person, or company, con
ducting any competition ur contest in
volving the award of prizes, and based
upon the relative accuracy of guesses
or estimates; or conducting any
schemes or device for betting, wagering
or making pools upon horse races or
other similar contests,"
This amendment Is held to be neces
sary by reason of the attorney general
holding that contests which Involve
the award of prizes obtained upon the
relative accuracy of guesses or estimates,
as to the number of votes in a political
election or the number of ticaua that a
certain jar contains, etc., are not In vl-
olation of the present lottery laws.
It Is sought by the amendment also
to protect the public aialnst fraud, as
well as to suppress gambling which ac
companies butting on horses. Betting
on horse races has lee a held not to be
within the purview of the lottery laws.
Consequently it is held that the only
way by which these turf Investment
schemes can Ik suppressed under ex
isting laws is upon the ground of fraud,
in which caes it is extremely difficult
to obtain sufficient evidence to warrant
an action. Such evidence cannot Im
obtained in any event until after the
scheme has been in operation some time,
and after the company has in its pos
session thousands of dollars of the peo
ple s money.
PROPOSES AN INCOMB TAX.
Williams
EXPLORERS FIND NEW LAND.
Carnegie Makes This Prediction Regard
lag South Africa.
New York, Dec. 19. At a meeting
here today of the Armstrong associa
tion, Andrew Carnegie surprised his
hearers by asserting he believed Great
Britain would surely some day lose
South Africa. He said:
"It is about as certain as we are liv
ing that Great Britain will lose South
Africa, because the Dutch population
there is increasing, while the British
are not. lhe Kamrs wont work.
What would Great Britain give for 9,-
000,000 negroes, as peaceable anil as
loving as those in th's country. These
men give us about 11,000,000 bales of
cotton every year and this, I contend,
helps make the United States the most
powerful nation in the world. Suppose
a fleet of British warships would attack
us. The president need only raise his
hand and say stop exporting cotton, and
the war would be won. What a happy
country this is to have the negro.
"My knowledge of the question leads
me to the opinion that no political
measure can eve.r save or benefit the
nenro. The Hampton institute shows
the only useful solution."
Antarctic Expedition Declares Present
Maps Are Inaccurate.
New York, Dec. 17. Dr. Nordensk-
jold and other members' of the Swedish
Antarctic expedition rescently rescued
by a gunboat sent to the Antarctic re
fcion by the Argentine government have
embarked for home on the German
steamer Tijuca, says a Herald dispatch
from Buenos Ayres, Argentina.
The explorer appeared la-fore the Ar
gentine geographical institute and gave
a description of his voyage. He de
clared the main object of the expe
tlition was not to make a record over
other parties for advancing southward,
but to make a thorough geographical
and bilogical study of regions never le
fore visited. As for the geographical
results, Dr. Nordenskjold said they had
drawn the first map of the coast from
liclgica canal to the (With degree. Van
ing through Louis Philippe land, the
explorers discovered laud adjoining
Iiius I'hilippfland and King Oscar
land. They found also that a canal ex
isted between that land and Admiralty
strait.
All maps tif that country, the ex
plorer said, so far pbulished are iuae
curate. There Is no broad land, but
only a narrow strip full of mountains.
The whole region is of granite origin,
surmounted by strata, in which fossils
abound. In these fossils are many sea
mollnsks, bones of vertebrates and
leaves of trees. The whole region
greatly resembles that of Patagonia, of
which it seems to Im a projection. No
lake animals of any kind are found
there, but marine fauna are abundant,
as well as birds. The climate is ex
ceedingly cold. Winds blow continu
ously, and Sometimes reach the force of
a hurricane.
Also Wants Over-lsiu of
Stocks Prevented.
Washington, IVc. 17. Represent-
tive Williams, of Mississippi, has intro
duced a concurrent resolution in the
house proposing an amendment to the
constitutlon to give congress power to
collect taxes on Incomes, and providing
that such tax shall not be construed to
be a direct tax within the meaning of
the constitution. Mr. Williams also
introduced the following bills:
To put on the free list, when coming
from countries which permit Identical
products of ours to enter free, hides of
alt animals, leather of all sorts, boots,
shoes, saddles and harness.
To prevent individuals or corpora
tions engaged in interstate commerco
from making it a condition of sale of
their products that the purchaser shall
not sell or ileal in products of any oth
er jxTHons, firms or corporations.
To prevent the over issue of stock by
corporation, or combinations of corpor
ations and defining such over issues a
public cheating."
Requiring the payment of interest
on public funds deposited with bank.
WILL 1AKB PART OP TtIB DEBT.
of
Noted Bank Robber Again Free.
Chicago, Dec. 21. James Dunlap, a
notorious bank rohlstr, is again at
large, through the clemency of the par
don hoard. Dunlap was serving time
for a bank robbery at Monmouth, III.,
which occurred two years ago. His
criminal record extends back a score of
years or more. Among his most dar
ing exploits was the roblery of the
Manhattan bank in New York, where
his lssity is said to have amounted to
nearly $1,000,000.
Russia to Make Oreat Exhibit.
St. Louis, Dec. 21. According to ad
vices received at the World's Fair
headquarters Russia will have the most
extensive exhibit which that country
has ever made at a foreign exposition.
The exhibit space w 111 cover more than
750,000 square feet, which will m oc
cupied by more than 2,600 individual
exhibitors.
May Be Ordered to Isthmus.
Washington, Dec. 19 Brig:t!icr-Gen
eral George E. Elliott, commander of
the marine corps, may lie ordered to
the isthmus to make a reconnaissance
of the country and, should the situation
niand, to assume command ol the
marine forces there. The matter has
not yet been decided, but it was said
by a high official of the navy depart
ment today, that the subject was re
ceiving serious consideration. The de
cision to send General Elliott will de
pend largely upon whether he can lie
spared here at this time.
Warship at His Disposal.
Washington, Dec, 19. As a result
of Minister Irishman's advices respect
ing the Alexandretta affair the stale de
partment has requested the navy depart
ment to place a warship t the disposal
tif Consul Davis, now at Beirut, upon
which he might return to Alexandretta,
at Ids pleasure. The navy department
accordingly cabled instructions to Ad
n iral Cotton, on board the flagship
Brooklyn at Alexandria, Kgypt, to
place a vessel at his disposal.
Friar Land Issue Settled.
Manila, IVc. 19. An agreement has
Is-en reached by Governor Tsft and the
friars providing for the settlement of
the friar land question. The pope has
given his approval of the terms of set
tlement, ami the approval of the war
department ia awaited.
Persians Lose Heavily In Battle.
St. Petersburg, IVc. IK. Sangui
nary confides lietwecii Persians and
Turcomans are reported to have of'
curred on the Russo-Persian frontier.
The trouble arose from the establish
ment of Persian custom houses.
Fights between customs officers and
Turcomans followed and resulted in
killing on Isith sides. The governor tif
Astrabad, with a large body of troops,
intervened and refused an indemnity
offered by the Turcoman Khans. In
the fight that ensued both sides sus
tained heavy losses.
Panama Will Propose Three Millions
Canal Money B Used.
Washington, Dec. 17. The state
ment from Imdon that F.ngland, Hol
land and Germany had decided to in
sist that the new republic of Panama
must assume a part of Columbia's for
eign debt, brought an Interesting re
port here today. It is understood that
the purpose of Minister Buna-Varrila's
recent visits to the state department
have been to make an agreement on
this very point. It is said that he has
prepared, and will probably sign, in a
few days, an agreement by which the
Panama republic binds itself to Colom
bia, for application on her foreign debt,
one-third of the $10,000,000 which the
United States is to pay Panama. Such
an agreement would lie very satisfactory
to the United Htatc government, which
is inclined to believe Panama, as a mat
ter tif equity, at least, should assumo a
portion tif Colombia's debt.
Montana Timber Stolen.
Butte, Dec. 17. Certain member tif
the Mormon colony in the Big Horn
Basin, Wyo., just across the Montana
border from Red Ilgc, are charged
with wholesale thefts of timber from
the public domain in Montana, accord
ing to a communication addressed to
United States District Attorney Carl
Rasch last night by the county commis
sioners tif t anion county, .Mot nana.
The Mormons are accused tif devastat
ing heave forests in Pryor mountain
and having sawmills in lhe -midst of
the timlicr on government land.
Big Fir Charged to Incendiary.
Ids liesu r, .-s. 1 ., jec. in. it is es
timated that the losw-s by the fires that
last night destroyed the plants tif the
Foster &. Armstrong Piano company,
the lloyt Mitst company and the Wen
dell Piano company, will reach total
of $500,000, with about 60 per cent ln
surtnee. It Is believed the fires were
started by incedniarics. Tim plants
were located in different parts tif the
city, and the fires started within a
short time of each tit her.
Hodson Miners Determined.
Stockton, Cal., Dec. 17. There Is a
possibility that the local military com
panies may be called to Ibslson, owing
to strike conditions there, which are
belle Veil to lie getting serious. A spec
ial telephone message to the Mail today
from Secretary Gisllove tif the Royal
mine at Hudson, staling that there was
held a big meeting of the strikers last
night and that the stiikers had threat
ened to take forcible possession of tho
mine.
Soo Concerns Sold at Auction.
New York, IVc. 18. Tho assets of
the Consolidated I-ako Superior com
pany, held by Spcyer A Co., for a loan
of $.r,or0,000, were bought in at public
auction by Hiieyer A Co. today for $4,
600.000. Thein ws the only bid.
Caaal Treaty In New York.
New York, IVc. 17. Tno steamer
City of Washington arrived ttslay from
Colon, bringing the signed copy tif the
canal treaty with tho republic of Pana
ma. The treaty was In a metal Imh in
charge of the purser, who turned it
over to a representative of the govern
ment on arrival at the dock. There
was no news of importance reported Ly
the officers and passengers.