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LEXIN6T0N WHEATFIELD
S. A. THOMAS, Publisher
LEXINGTON. OREGON
NEWS OFip WEEK
Id a Condensed Form for Our
Easy Readers.
A Resume of tha Less Important but
; Not Less Interesting Events
of the Past Week.
Spain and Belgium have arranged an
arbitration treaty.
The Odd Fellows sovereign grand
lodge will meet at Toronto next year.
The government is still paying five
pensions on account of the Revolution'
ary war.
Sockeye salmon are plentiful in the
Eraser river, B.C., but there is no
market for them.
A Santa Fe train was derailed : near
Newton, Kansas. Several persons
were injured, one of whom will die.
Minister Takahira, now at Washing
ton, will be sent to St. Petersburg, and
Baron Kaneko will probably succeed
him in this countrv.
A landslide on Mount San'Paolino,
Sicily, buried a town at the foot of the
mountain. The inhabitants had been
warned and most of them escaped.
A paymaster's train on the Beading
road collided with a milk train near
Harrisburg, Pa. Pay checks amount
ing to over $50,000 were scattered in
every direction.
A dynamite bomb exploded in a New
York tenement shook up the whole
neighborhood. That nobody was seri
ously injured appears remarkable. The
work was that of the Italian "Black
, Hand." .
The president of Venezuela has
snubbed a French diplomat.
Two men were killed and 43 injured
in the Nevada railroad wreck.
Advocates of a republic for Norway
are again coming to the front.
More 'earthquake Bhocks are being
felt in Italy. Panic reigns among the
villagers. -
The bank of Nordstrand, Minn., a
private institution, has closed its doors.
It is capitalized at $ 10,000. - - .
Vandals' visited the ' two' Catholic
cemeteries at Eseanaba, Mich., and de
molished the crosses on over 200 monu
ments. , V ' 1 5 J- .! "
President of : Hull, of the Great
Northern, in an address to farmers of
Southern Minnesota, condemned regu
lation of railroad rates. ' ';
Franco-Germman negotiations rel
ative to Morocco have been resumed
and it is believed a definite arrange
ment is nearing completion.
The Odd Fellows' sovereign grand
lodge is considering the erection of a
$1,000,000 sanitarium for consumptive
members at Las Vegas, New Mexico.
Rebels in German South " Africa sur
prised a convoy, practically annihilat
ed its escort of German troops, cap
tured thousands of cattle, 122 wagons,
many rifles and a quantity of ammu
nition. -
Germany has checked the outbreak
of cholera.
New York primary elections are to
be the scene of a warm contest.
A man in a dressmakers' convention
at Chicago caused a panic until he was
ejected.
Ohio Democrats Bay the tariff is not
to be the chief issue oi the campaign in
that state.
While all points have not been set
tled, peace between Norway and Swed
en is assured.
Anthracite coal operators will resist
the demands of the miners and another
great strie 1b looked for in the near
future.
Sixly of the moBt elaborately equip
ped Pullman cars ever used west of the
Missouri river have been put on the
Union Pacific from Omaha to California
and Portland.
President Paul Morton, of the Equitable-
Life, has discovered where nearly
a million dollars of the policy holders'
money has gone to pay bad debts. He
will Bue to recover.
The Japanese peace commission has
started for Japan with the treaty.
Aeronaut Beachey has sailed his air
ship from the Lewis and Clark exposi
tion grounds to the Vancouver bar
racks. On the return trip he was un
able to reach the starting point on ac
count of adverse winds, and a lack of
gasoline for his engine.
Witte has arrived in Europe.
Roosevelt will visit New Orleans in
October.
Anthracite miners are preparing to
make new demands on operators.
CREDIT FOR CANAL EMPLOYES.
Coupon Books Will Enable Panama
Merchants to Do Business.
Washington, Sept. 22. A new sys
tem of credit has been devised for the
employes of the Panama canal on the
isthmus and will be put into effect
about October 1. The system will
meet the needs of the employes and at
the same time comply with the request
of the Panama merchants to be put on
an equal footing with the commissary
stores run by the canal commission un
der the direct jurisdiction of the Pana
ma railroad officials.
- The system comprises coupon credit
slips, which will be issued to canal em
ployes in books containing credit re
spectively for $2.50, $5 and $25 gold.
The bookB are so made up that credits
for from 1 cent to $1 can be torn out as
required and will be issued on demand
up to a certain percentage of the wages
due them. ;, y "., . -
The merchants will accept the slips
under an arrangement which makes the
four banks of Panama the clearing
houses between the merchants and the
railroad company. No liquors or to
bacco are sold at the five government
commissaries, which are located along
the line of the road, and it has been
decided to carry in these commissaries
only such articles as shall be decided
to constitute the necessities of life.
LAND FRAUD IN COLORADO.
Register of Land Office Is Arrested,
, Along Wiih Two Others.
' Denver, Sept. 22. On the charges
of perjuring themslves to defraud the
government 1 ol ' lands in Eastern Colo
rado, warrants have been issued by the
United States district attorney's office
for the arrest of Peter Campbell, ex-
register of the United States land office
at Akron; Percy G. Beeney, county
treasurer of Washington county, and
D. W. Irwin, a real estate dealer of
Akron. '
Through the methods of these men it
is alleged that the government has been
defrauded of thodsands of dollars worth
of lands in Washington and Yuma
counties. (By various ways, it is
stated, Campbell, Beeney and Irwin
obtained possession of land which had
been abandoned by previous settlers
and sold it to other settlers. x
COMES DOWN WITH CRASH.
Bandstand Drops Load of People and
t . Injures Many.
Belleville, 111., Sept. 22. Three per
sons were seriously injured and it is
believed that nearly 2Q0 were more or
less painfully hurtby the coljapaeof a
bandstand tonight -'during a carnival
and street fair. . f ; : v-; . .
Seriously injured ' Mrs.' Damrich.
Beleville, internal; injuries. Frank
Dietz, Jr., Belleville, internal injuries:
Miss Bertha Schrieber, Belleville, in
jury to leg, sprained ankle and bruised
about body, hands and face , 1 j ,
As soon as the excitement subsided
and the injured were taken from among
the mass of timbers, others who were
on the carnival grounds attended them,
,' The accident was caused by people
crowding upon the bandstand as a van
tage point to witness a loop-the-loop
exhibition. Hundreds took standing
room on the stand. - .
DEMAND TREATY BE BROKEN
Anti-Peace Meeting at Tokio Demands
Radical Action.
Tokio, Sept. ' 22. An anti peace
meeting held in Uyena park today was
barely attended, owing to a heavy rain.
The tone of the meeting was quiet.
The approaches to the park ' were
guarded by troops, but no guards were
posted inside. Resolutions adopted at
the meeting demand that the cabinet
break the peace treaty or resign. It
was decided to bring pressure to bear
on members of the lower house to con
form with the resolution, threatening
not to re-elect those failing to so act.
The resolution also demands sweeping
reform in the administration of the po
lice. 'An address to the throne was
also adopted, but it has not yet been
published.
. Colorado Cuts Speed Record.
Boston, Sept. 22. The officers of the
armored cruiser Colorado, which put in
here today ior coal, report that in the
recent trials over the new one-mile
course near Rockland, M., the warship
attained the fastest speed ever made by
a naval crew. The cruiser made 22.22
miles an hour in a four-hour run to sea
on Sunday, which is within 0.4 of the
speed she made on her trial trip. ' On
the Rockland test the ship carried her
heavy armament, which was not on
board during her trial trip, and she
was run without a full firemen's force.
Keep Chinese at Home.
Marseilles, Sept. 22. According to
mail advices received here from China,
the Chinese minister at Washington,
Sir Shen Tung Liang Cheng, cabled his
government asking that it prevent
Chinese workmen from proceeding to
the United States in order to avoid pos
sible maltreatment. The advices say
that the government declined to accede
to the request. i
PACKERS PAY FINE
One Is Nervous Wreck and Jail
Sentence Is Remitted.
GUILTY OF ACCEPTING REBATES
An Aggregate Fine of $25,000 Is
Paid by Four Officials of
Beef Trust.
Chicago, Sept. 23.' Fouij officials of
the Schwarzchild & Sulzberger Packing
company, ot Chicago, were fined an ag
gregate of $25,000 by Judge Humphrey
in the United States district court here
today. The fines followed a plea of
guilty to indictments charging conspir
acy to accept railroad rebates. The
defendants were Samuel Weil, of New
York, vice president of the company;
a. S. Cusey, traffic manager; Vance D.
Skipworth and Chess E. Todd, assistant
traffic managers. Weil was fined $10,'
000, the other three $5,000 each.
With the entering of pleas the de
claration was made that unless at least
one of the cases is immediately settled
the life of Samuel Weil, vice president
of the company and one of the defend
ants, is in jeopardy. He is said to be
a nervous wreck, and fears were enter
tained for his life if he had been al
loed to continue under the stigma of
an indictment.
While in Chicago the attorney gene
ral was apprised of the condition of
Vice President Weil. '
These four defendants were charged
with unlawfully combining and agree
ing to solicit rebates for the Schwarz
child & Sulzberger company from the
Michigan Central Railway company,
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, the
Grand Trunk Western railway, the
Lehigh Valley Railroad company, the
Boston & Maine Railroad company and
the Mobile & Ohio Railroad company.
Charges were made that the defendants
conspired with each other in presenting
supposed claims for damages, which
were in reality claims for rebates.
BAD FAITH TO CHINA.
Conger Condemns Failure to Build
Railroad as Promised, 'l
Des Moines, la., Sept. 23 In an
address before the Grant club tonight,'
ex-Minister to China Edwin H. Conger'
said that by the failure of the Ameri
cans to build the Chinese railway, faith
had been broken ; with China, and
America's good standing with the Chin
ese seriously impaired. ("
""We made a very serious mistake
when we permitted our railroad conces
sion in China to be relinquished," said
Mr. Conger, ,"It will prove a sad blow
to our future efforts to establish ad
vantageous businss relations with that
country. It will set ; us back many
years. v ( . . . ..
' " When we were granted the conces
sionpersonally I made representations
to the Chinese that the railroad would
be built by the Americans who "got the
concession, assured them upon my hon
or that it was not secured for the pur
pose of exploitation, and that it would
not be sold or. relinquished. . Now,
however,' it has been, and the business
men of China feel that they have a
right to look upon future business
propositions from Americans with sus
picion." DISAGREE ABOUT FORTS.
Sweden and Norway Still Keep Ques-
tion of Demolition Open.
Karlstad, Sept. 23. The Swedish
and Norwegians commissioners met in
joint conference this evening after the
holding of separate conferences during
the day. The joint conference , lasted
nearly four hours and was then ad
journed until tomorrow.
It is understood that the Swedish de
mands that the transit trade through
both countries shall be secured against
unjustifiable obstruction, and for the
right of pasturing reindeer belonging
to Swedish Laplanders in Northern
Norway, have been amicably settled,
but that teh question of the demolition
of the fortifications still remains open.
May Talk Politics.
St. Petersburg, Sept. 23. A project
for granting the Russian people, under
certain limitations, the right of assem
bly for the discussion of political and
economic questions a reform second in
importance only to the convocation of
the representative assembly, and which
was elaborated by a commission under
the presidency of Count Agnieff is
now practically completed, and alter a
final review by the Solskoy commission
on Saturday will be immediately laid
before Emperor Nicholas. Its promul
gation 1b expected soon.
. Work Begun on Western Pacific.
Salt Lake City, . Sept. 23. Forty
teams began work on the Western Paci
fic road 20 miles west of the city, and
officials announce that 1,500 or 2,000
teams will be at work by October 1.
NO DELEGATE FOR ALASKA,
Legislators Who Visited Territory Will
Propose New Scheme.
Washington, Sept. 20. Those senat
ors and representatives . who visited
Alaska this summer, including Speaker
Cannon, were not favorably impressed
with the idea of giving that territory a
delegate to congress, but. have outlined
a substitute plan which they will bring
forward next session. They propose
treating Alaska as congress treats the
District of Columbia, appointing a spe
cial committee in the senate and house
to consider and handle all legislation
relating to Alaska.
This will place Alaska matters in the
hands of men directly interested in the
territory and, it is believed, will pro
duce better : results than could be at
tamed by a delegate. The committee
was satisfied that na one delegate could
Intelligently represent the whole of
Alaska, because ot its vast extent and
the varying needs of different sections,
and congress would never consent to
more than one delegate under any cir
cumBtances. If the nlan of these men.
which has the indorsement of the
speaker, shall be carried through, a
new committee on Alaska will be creat
ed in the next senate and house..'
The congressional party which visited
Alaska is also convinced that congress
should do as much to aid railroad
building in Alaska as it has done for
railroads in the Philippines,; and a
a movement will be put on foot to pass
a bill next session' under which the
government will guarantee 3 per cent
on bonds issued tor the construction of
Alaskan railroads. The special pressure
at present is for a road from Valdez to
Fairbanks.
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FOUR TRAINS IN ONE WRECK
Twenty-five People Injured and One
Man Killed in Nevada.
Reno, Nev., Spet. 20. Twenty-five
persons at this hour (1:30 A.M.) are
reported injured and one man, George
Wareman, is dead, as the result of a
terrible head-on collision on the South
em ; Pacific road between two freight
trains, followed by the rear-end collis
ion between . two passenger trains, at a
point nine miles west of Beowawe, be
tween 6 and 7 o'clock last evening.
The wreck, from the reports given
out, was caused by one of the engineers
on the freight trains running past his
orders. An effort was made to'stop
the incoming paseenger trains with sue
cess for the first section of No. 3,
though : moment " later the second' sec
tion, said to be in charge of Engineer
Koss and Fireman, Tmvillo, plunged
full speed into the first section. , .
The engineer and fireman are report'
ed among the injured. Many more
deaths are expected when complete
details are in. . :
Physicians, nurses and supplies, in
addition to three wrecking train, are
now either at the scene or rushing to it
to 'render aid to the suffering. The
office at Sparks will not give out any
definite details. The railroad has just
started a special train said to contain
four, badly injured passengers for the
railroad hospital at San Francisco.
JAPAN SETTLING DOWN AGAIN.
Capital Returns to the Banks and Is
Eager for Investment.
Tokio, Sept. 20. Despite the fact
that the ebullition of popular dissatis
faction over the' peace arrangements
continues unabated, there are indica
tions that the business contingent is
slowly sobering down. The capital in
tended for new enterprises, following
the successful conclusion of the treaty
of peace, ia gradually coming into the
banks aa deposits in amounts which are
nkely to lower the rate of interest.
The profound disappointment which
haa prevailed has at least proved a ben
efit to the extent of saving the people
from any feverish intoxication, result
ing in bubble enterprises, like those
which accompanied the close of the war
with China. The moneyed class has
resumed the attitude of frugality which
guided its transactions during the war;
the financial outlook is not so gloomy
and capital ia impatiently awaiting
solid investments.
Count of Uncle Sam's Cash.
Washington, Sept. 20. The count of
the cash, notes, bonds and other secur
ities in the treasury of the United
States, incident to the transfer of the
office of United States treasurer from
Ellis H. Roberts to Charles H. Treat,
was .completed todayj 1 and found to
agree exactly with the treasury books.
The total of July 1,. 1905, waa found to
be $1,259,598,278. This total is an in
crease of $462,672,839 over the amount
transferred by D. N. Morgan, the. out
going treasurer, to Mr. Roberts, on
July 1, 1897. "y i
More Cases In Mississippi.
Jackson. Miss.. Sent. 20. A total of
11 new cases of yellow fever waa re
ported from various infected nnints in
the state during the last 24 hours, as
follows: Vicksburg 6, Mississippi City
2, Natchez 2, Guildport 1. No deaths
at any point.
BETTER THAN GOLD
Vast Fields ot Copper Discovered
North ot Valdez, Alaska.
ORE IS VERY EASY TO BE MINED
Ledges On Nabesca, White and Cop
per Rivers Extend for a
Hundred Miles.
J Tacoma, Sept. 1. Henry Brant
fober, the noted copper mining expert,
who arrived from the North Monday,,
on the steamer Victoria, and who is
now a' guest . at the Donnelly hotel,
brings' news that he haB discovered at
the headwaters of the Nabesca, White
and Copper rivers, Alaska, what he be
lieves is the world's greatest copper
district. Copper is there so abundant,
he says, that it can be mined and trans
ported by rail 230 miles to Valdez, and
smelted at a probable cost of 5 or 6
cents a pound, thereby cutting in two.'
the present average cost of copper pro
duction. Mining men, already aware of Mr..
Brantnober's discovery, declare that it
outweighs in importance the discovery
of the Klondike and Nome placer dis
tricts. So important is it that Mr.
Brantnober and his associates will vig
orously push development work, and
within two years they expect to be pro
ducing daily.OOO'to 3,000 tons of cop
per ore running 10 to 30 per cent in
metallic copper. When this is accom-
plished the industry will be only start
ed. In conection with this develop
ment John Rosene and associates will
push the building of the Northwestern
& Copper River railroad, with the ob
ject ot building it to the Nabesca cop
per district within three years. Ros
ene's railroad will first (touch the Bo
nanza group of copper mines, owned by
the Havemeyers, the New York sugar
refiners, who are believed to be among
the Eastern moneyed men who are
backing Rosene in his railroad project.
Brantnober says he found the Tanana
river to bo a glacial stream with half &
dozen channels and everywhere very
shallow. In many plaecs on the upper
reaches it spreads out four or five-'
fniles. Four exDert Conner minora
with 40 tons of provisions were left on
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imucKi uicck. Willi lllBiruuuons 10 ex
plore the' 'fegiotf' thoroughly' for' the,
next two years..': rJ. , ' ,
The ore ist -of .. the' eanie character aa
Lake Superior copper eres. Nabesca '
copper is found . in bands of greenstone-
in shot like shape, often; carrying 10 to-
per cenp of meiallia copper., , .There
is ' also he says ' much copper on the '
White river where it is in a slab-like-
shape,'' arid pieces, were found running
from twoHd four feet in width and two
incheB thick. These slabs lay in seas-'
in the greenstone, making the most
wonderful surface showing Mr. Brant
nober haa ever seen in this , or foreiga
countries, ;.'; '
Eight miles ,further"up White river
copper occurs in the same formations,
nugget-shape, the ndggets running from
a hall ounce to two ounces. The form
ation, Mr. Brantnober says, is about 500
feet wide, with vast quantities of cop
per lying at the foot of the hills, where-
the greenstone has become decomposed!
and the copper ore has washed down in
ravines below. The gravel is full of
native copper, which lies on the sur
face in plain view.
Mr. Bratnober saya that one year'a'
vigorous development work will develop-
copper mines which can produce 2,000-
to 3.U00 tons ot ore per day. The ore
will be hauled by railroad to Valdez
and reduecd there by smelters. Tha
construction of the railroad, he de
clares, will quickly make it the largest
copper producing district in the world,
the surface showing undoubtedly the
most favorable that baa ever been dis
covered. The copper veins on Nabesca river
are three to eight feet wide and seem
very continuous. Mr ."Brantnober be
lieves that both smelters and refiners--will
be built at Valdez within a few
years, making that the largest city or
the Alaskan coast.
Ca nada Under Ban.
Victoria, B. C, Sept. 21. The belief
is general here that the crusade against
United States goods in China will be
extended to those of Canadian origin.
Simultaneous meetings are being held
in all tqe cities of Canada where Chi
nese have gained a foothold, at which
resolutions have been passed condemn
ing the treatment accorded Chinese by
the citizena and government of the Do
minion and calling the attention of the
Merchants' guilds in China to the same..
The Halifax Chinese have set the ball"
rolling.
Many Murders at Baku.
Tiflis, Sept. 21. The -governor of
Baku reports that there have been no
disorders on a large scale in the town
or in the oil fields, but there have been
scattered cases of assaults and murder..
The viceroy has placed the districts ot
Gori and DusLet under military ad
ministration.