LEXINGTON WHEATFIELD
S. A. THOMAS, Publisher
LEXINGTON OREGON
MS OF THE WEEK
Id a Condensed Form for Our
Busy Readers.
A Resume of the Less Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
of the Past Week.
Turkey will not yield to the powers
and wants to fight.
Goreans at Seoul are fighting against
Japanese dictatorship.
The president is behind a movement
to investigate the Standard Oil.
Hermann's trial has been postponed
until after congress on account of the
press of business. -
A loss of 149 lives, 70 vessels and
nearly $7,000,000 has been sustained
in the three great storms on the Great
' Lakes this season.
The Washington congressional dele
gation is working up plans for a united
effort to induce Hitchcock to indorse
some Washington irrigation project.
The Trans-Mississippi congress has
gissued a pamphlet calling on congress
to make an appropriation for carrying
on work at the mouth of the Columbia.
W. C. Bristol has been appointed
United Sates district attorney for Ore
gon, B. L. Eddy register,' and J. M.
Lawrence receiver ot the Roseburg land
office.
Reports of further disasters during
the recent storm on Lake Superior.
The last vessel reported lost is the
steamer Ira H. Owen, carrying a crew
of 19 men. '
Owing to the recent embezzlement
from the Seattle assay office and a feel
ing among Alaskan miners that the
graft has not been stopped much of the
gold from the north is likely to go to
San Francisco for some time.
Land fi aud revelations are coming i
Nebraska.
Marquis Ito says Japan doeB not in
tend to annex Corea.
Senator Patterson, of Colorado, has
been fined $1,000 for contempt of court.
Hawaiian sugar planters will try to
secure Russian peasants to work on
their plantations.
Tammany is still fighting the order
for a recount of the votes cast in the
New York election.
Several men convicted of fraud in
the recent 'New York eletcions have
been sent to prison for four years.
An explosion in an oil warehouse in
Kansas City resulted in a loss of $175,
000 before the flames were extin
guished. Germany will appoint a receiver for
the Equitable Insurance company in
that country unless the reserve is in
creased. It is feared that Russia may be
forced to use paper money and a possi
ble bankruptcy is also staring the coun
try in the face.
Minister Squiers has resigned his
post at Havana. It is said that he did
so because the United States gave up
the Isle of Fines.
Germany has formally announced
her intention of terminating the pres
ent trade treaty with the United States
on March 1 next.
Senator Burton has been sentenced to
serve six months in the county jail and
pay a fine of $2,500. An appeal will
be taken to the Supreme court.
A great building strike threatens
New York.
The entire Russian peasant congress
has been arrested.
Sentence of Burton has been post
poned pending a motion for a retrial.
The first blizzard of the season has
left its mark through the entire Middle
WeBt.
The two branches of the British Lib
eral party are trying to patch up their
differences.
The Supreme court of the United
States upholds the Iowa law against in
surance trusts.
The New York Supreme court has or
dered a complete recount of ballots in
the recent city election.
President Roosevelt is holding daily
conferences relative to the work of the
coming session of congress.
Senator Smoot is said to have secured
railroad and trust support in exchange
for his vote on the rate bill.
Salt river 1b higher than ever known
but once and Phoenix, Arizona, and
many smaller towns are threatened
with a flood.
Mrs. Chadwick threatens to take a
number of bankers to the penitentiary
with ber if her appeal to the United
States Supreme court fails.
TAWNEY WILL BE LEADER.
Speaker Cannon Displaces Payne on
the House Floor.
Washington, Dec. 1.- Speaker Can
non has reached the important deter
mination that hereafter the chairman
of the appropriations committee shall
be the Republican leader on the floor.
This means that Representative Sereno
E. Payne, of New York, who will be
continued as chairman of the ways and
means committee, which has heretofore
carried with it the floor leadership,
will be deposed. Mr. Cannon was not
satisfied with his work last session, he
being unable to control the house in
emergencies, and will make this the
basis for the change.
Representative Tawnej, of Minne
sota, at present the Republican whip,
has been selected as chairman of the
appropriations committee, although no
formal announcement to this effect has
been made, and will be the new Repub
lican floor leader. Representative Mc
Cleary, of Minnesota, who was origin
ally chosen to be chairman of the ap
propriations committee, will be trans
ferred to the ways and means commit
tee, taking Mr. Tawney's place there.
Mr. Cannon is determined to abso
lutely control the house in the matter
of preventing tariff revision. He lost
control of the ways and means com
mittee last session. He does not feel
sure of Mr. Tawney on the question of
tariff revision and decided to take him
off the committee, and substitute Mr.
McCleary, who is unalterably opposed
to modifications of the tariff schedule.
CUT OFF FROM OUTSIDE WORLD
Operatives Driven From St. Peters
burg Telegraph Office.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 1. Communi
cation with the outside world ceased a;
3 o'clock this afternoon, when a strike
was called in the general telegraph
office. By a ruse, however, the man
agement succeeded in reopening the
cable shortly after 6 o'clock.
At 3 o'clock, when the strike went
into operation, many of the Russian
operators were reluctant to leave, but a
walking delegate promptly smashed a
bottle of hydrochloric acid on the floor,
and the fumes soon drove the men from
their keys.
The Danish cable operators remained
at their posts, but the receiving clerks
having fled, messages were refused for
three hours. Although troops occu
pied the building, the employes who
were willing to work were terrorized,
and were afraid to return.
M. Slevastianoff, superintendent of
posts and telegraphs, declares that he
government has ample evidence to
prove that the strike is a political con
spiracy planned by the revolutionaries,
the demand for the reinstatement of
the discharged leaders of the telegraph
ers' union at Moscow being a mere pre
text, which, however, has' deceived
many operators and other employes of
the service. M. Slevastianoff declares
that it is impossible for the govern
ment to yield or to be held up by its
own servants, and that it is determined
to fight out the matter to the bitter
end.
WILL ALL TALK IRRIGATION.
Whole Washington Delegation Will
Call on Hitchcock.
Washington, Dec. 1. Senator Piles
today talked with Secretary Hitchcock
about the irrigatioon situation in
Washington, but was unable to learn
anything positive as to the disposition
to be made of the various projects now
pending. The senator thinks it would
be wise for the delegation to call upon
the secretary in a body to discuss the
matter, and this will be done when the
entire delegation arrives.
Senator Ankeny and Representative
Jones are expected tomorrow.
Senator Piles . and Representative
Cushman this morning paid their re
spects to the president.
Fight For Joint Statehood.
Washington, Dec. 1. The strongest
effort yet made in the direction of se
curing the admission of New Mexico
and Arizona as a state is under way,
and the statehood advocates propose
that nothing will be left undone that
will induce favorable action by con
gress. Enormous petitions will be
presented in both houses. Senator
Beveridge, chairman of the senate com
mittee on territories, will introduce
and press the joint statehood bill as
early as possible in order to get it out
of the way of other important bills.
Klondike in Antartic.
Santiago de Chile, Dec. 1. Great
excitement prevails in the gold fields
bordering on the Straits of Magellan.
Many companies have been formed and
there has been a great opening of the
fields and washeries. The field prom
ises to be a second Klondike.
PLOT AGAINST CZAR
Plan Was to Capture the Entire
Imperial Family.
CZAR'S BODY GUARD IMPLICATED
Grand Duke Believed to Head Move
His Object Being to Proclaim
Himself Dictator.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 2. It is re
ported here that one of the grand dukes
plotted to arrest the czar at Tsarskoe
Selo, his object being to proclaim him
self dictator, relying on his promises of
complete reform to secure the support
of the Socialists and woiking men.
Owing to the indiscretion of one of
the grand duse's bgents, the plot was
.disclosed to one of the czar's aid-decamps,
who promptly ordered the ar
rest ot 20 officers and 25 men in vari
ous regiments.
The discovery of this plot has caused
great consternation in court circles,
more than any revolutionary movement
throughout the empire.
Can't Trust His Body Guard.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 2. The guards
arrested at Tsarskoe-Selo Thursday
night and Friday morning numbered
250, including 10 officers. Numerous
rumors are current, including the asser
tion that one of the grand dukes is in
volved in a conspiracy against the em
peror, but none of them can be verified.
It only seems certain that no confidence
can be placed even in tne guard regi
ments. Arrested soldiers are seen
every day, escorted by comrades with
drawn swords.
St. Petersburg is swarming with Cos
sacks, the only troops against whom
there is no suspicion of disaffection.
It is understood that the whole Cos
sack forces of the empire, some 650,
000, will be mobilized.
A conference was held at Count
Witte's residence last night to consider
the demands of the telegraphers. Count
Witte has declined to receive a deputa
tion from the telegraph and postal
strikers, on the ground that they are
violating their duty to the state, but
he sent a note to the deputation recom
mending that the strikers address them
selves to their Immediate chiefs.
TRY TO DESTROY TREATY.
Japanese Torpedo Boat Makes Dar
ing Attack on Commission.
Seattle, Wash., Dec. 2. The attempt
to murder the peace delegates and de
stroy the treaty between Japan and
Russia, which was drawn up by the
plenipotentiaries in Portsmouth, and
which was being sent to the mikado,
was witnessed by officers and passen
gers on board the Dakota, on the night
of her arrival in Yokohama. Dr. Wil
liam Lopp, surgeon of the Dakota, in
speaking of the incident, said:
"The whole thing happened the
night of our arrival in Yokohama. We
were lying in Mississippi bay, just out
side of the breakwater. All the tor
pedo boats and war vessels which es
corted the peace commission were
drawn up in a long line. The launch
containing the delegation and the
treaty left the warship and started for
the landing. Suddenly one of the tor
pedo boats, anchored 'near the end of
the line of battleships, slipped her
cab.e and started for the launch. .The
torpedo boat made for her at a right
angle course.
"The people on the launch saw the
torpedo boat leave the line of craft and
they knew what was coming. The
launch was slow, and the torpedo boat
came on like a comet. Like a shot
from a cannon she rushed on, and in a
minute struck the launch, cutting her
completely in two, and raced on into
the darkness. We could see the men
struggling in the water, and clinging to
the pieces of the wrecked boat.
"Launches from the battleships were
at once sent to their rescue, and saved
all but one of the occupants. The
treaty was also saved."
Two Killed in Wreck.
Philadelphia, Dec. 2. The Central
Railroad company of New Jersey's New
York flyer, which left Scranton early
last evening, was wrecked about ten
miles north of Mauch Chunk, a few
hours later. The latest information
received by the Associated Press by
telephone is that an engineer and fire
man were killed and about a dozen pas
sengers injured. The injured have
been taken to St. Luke's hospital, South
Bethlehem, about 60 miles north of
Philadelphia. Stoney creek is 50 miles
north of South Bethlehem.
Great Fire Rages at Buenos Ayres.
Buenoo Ayres, Dec. 2. A serious fire
broke out here today in a warehouse
containing inflammable merchandise,
including 100,000 cans of petroleum.
The fire is still burning as this dispatch
is filed. The loss is already estimated
at $1,000,000.
' ' WEALTH IN SANDS.
Government Gives Out Report About
Coast's Magnetic Iron Ore.
Washington, Nov. 29. From Fort
Stevens, at the mouth of the Columbia
river, southward 18 miles to Tillamook
Head, is one of the richest black sand
beaches on the Pacific coast, according
to the figures contained in the second
preliminary report of Dr. David T.
Day, of the United States geological
survey, on the results of experiments
on concentrating these sands. The
Clatsop beach sands were the first with
which experiments were made, and the
results obtained from them have just
been given out by the government.
Magnetic iron ore 1b shwon to be
present in immense quantities, in one
place attaining the remarkable average
of 643.559 pounds in one ton of sand,
but much gold and platinum were also
found. In fact it is said by Dr. Day
that the values in the precious metals
alone would in themselves probably
pay for the cost of working the sand.
It was-through the energy, of the
Astoria chamber of commerce in sack
ing and loading into cars at its own ex
pense samples to be experimented with,
that this sand first received attention.
A government geologist was Bent to ex
amine the beach from which the sam
ples were taken.
He found the sands 1,600 feet west
of Hammond station, near Fort Stev
ens, to be the richest. At this point
the sand is very black, becoming light
er in color toward the south, ranging
from dense black to light gray, at the
mouth of the Necanicum river. From
this point to Tillamook head, the sand
is very green, due to the presence of
olivine and other portions of decom
posed basalt. One mile from Tilla
mook head large basaltic boulders take
the place of most of the sand, which is
very thin from here on.
GREAT STORM IN EUROPE.
British and German Coast Resorts
Damaged and Lives Lost.
London, Nov. 29. Great damage
was done to the coast towns of Great
Britain by last night's storm. Many
small vessels were driven ashore, but
thuB far only a few lives are reported
lost. ,
During the night huge waves 'swept
the sea fronts of many favorite resorts.
Sea walls and promenades were washed
out, and houses and hotels along the
sea fronts were flooded. Some houseB
collapsed.
The small coasting steamer Peridot,
of Glasgow, was totally wrecked on the
Island of Magee. The crew was lost.
Seven bodies have been washed up.
The provinces report great damage
by the gale. The telegraph wires are
down, and the telephone line to PariB
is interrupted.
The Red Star line steamer Kronland
and the American Hamburg line steam
er Patricia, bound for New York, em
barked their passengers at Dover this
morning, after which they continued
their voyage uninterrupted by the
storm.
CUBANS ARM FOR HOI FIGHT.
Machetes, Rifles and ' Cannon Sur
round American Meeting.
Havana, Nov. 29. Letters received
from the Isle of Pines picture an in
teresting scene at Neuva Guerona Sat
urday. American flags were hoisted
on the American hotel, where the meet
ing of the Americans was held, where
upon Cuban flags were hoisted on every
Cuban house.
The mayor, apprehending that the
Americans would seize the town hall,
gathered more than a hundred men,
who were armed with machetes, some
of them with firearms, and stationed
themselves inside the building, while
many other armed Cubans were in the
immediate vicinity. Some of the writ
ers say that the women also were armed
with knives. In anticiptaion of what
the Americans might do, a couple of
small cannon were placed in front of
the town hall. Absolutely" nothing oc
curred, however, to justify the appre
hension. Lieb is Discharged.
Washington, Nov. 29. President
Roosevelt today removed from office
William S. Lieb, United States assist
ant treasurer at Philadeplhia, for "con
stant and persistent violation of the
civil service law while in office." In a
formal statement issued at the White
house today by the president, Mr.
Lieb' s removal is annonuced. The
president gave Mr. Lieb a hearing last
Friday, at the request of Senators Pen
rose and Knox. Mr. Lieb submitted a
long statement in answer to the charges
made against him.
Starve Out Mutineers.
Sevastopol, Nov. 29. Baron Gako
melski, who is now in charge of the
situation, will reduce the mutineers
wbo are enclosed on Admiralty point
by starvation. The water supply lead
ing to the point has already been cut.
WORK FOR RIVER
Roosevelt and TaftVon to Sup
port of Columbia.
CONTINUE WORK ON THE JETTY
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Fulton and Carey Successfully Plead
at the White House and War
Department.
Washington, Nov. 30. President.
Roosevelt and Secretary Taft are in
hearty sympathy with the movement,
started in Portland to secure an appro
priation at the coming session of con
gress for Continuing the imrovement of
the mouth of tbe Columbia river, and
so expressed themselves yesterday to
Senator Fulton and Judge Charles II.
Carey. Judge Carey, in presenting this
matter to the president, acted as repre
sentative of Portland's commercial in
terests and, together with Senator Ful
ton, made a full statement of the ne
cessity for an immediate appropriation,
for continuing work on the jetty
When they first explained the object,
of their call, the president declared the--matter
clearly beyond his province,
and cited numerous instances where
other states have asked him to interest
himself in behalf of their river and
harbor work. But, as the situation at
the mouth of the river was unfolded to
him, and as he became convinced that,
it would be good business policy for
congress to make an appropriation this.'
winter for keeping work under way,
he began to realize that he would be
ading wholly within his province in
advising that money be provided for
tbia work.
When he fully understood the situa
tion, the president asked many ques
tions about it. He informed Judge
Carey that, if the Portland commercial
bodies would present to him a full
statement showing the emergency that
exists and point out the reasons why it .
is essential that an appropriation
should be made this winter, he would,
submit that statement to Chairman
Burton, of the river and harbor com
mittee, and co-operate as far as was in
his power to secure the appropriation,
which Portland interests are seeking..
The president also promised to consult,
the army engineers and obtain from
them a statement of the necessity for
an immediate appropriation.
Greatly encouraged by the assurances'
given by the president, the senator and
Judge Carejj then called on Secretary
Taft, who was a schoolboy friend of
Judge Carey. When Judge Carey pre
sented the resolutions of the board of
trade, pointing out the need for an im
mediate appropriation, the secretary
promised to submit them to the chief '
of engineers, and to call for a report as
to the necessity for making an appro--priation
this winter for continuing;
work on the jetty.
STORM WHIPS GREAT LAKES.
Several Vessels Wrecked, Docks De
molished, Island Submerged.
Detroit, Mich., Nov. 30. .Lake Su
perior from Duluth to the Soo, the up
per peninsula of Michigan, the upper
ends of Lakes Huron and Michigan and
the northern counties of lower Michi
gan, have been swept by a terrific wind
and snow storm, and a number of ship
ping accidents have been reported..
The blizzard raged with a velocitv of
from 40 to 60 miles an hour and all the
harbors from Port Huron and from
Sault Ste Marie north on Lake Super
ior are filled with vessela which have
run in for shelter.
Tonight it was reported from Sault :
Ste Marie that the wind had fallen to
12 miles an hour and although the bar
ometer is falling the weather situation
is regarded as greatly improved. Tre
mendous seas are running on Lake Su
perior off Marquette harbor, and more
than a dozen vessels are riding out the
gale inside the breakwater there.
Storm Cuts Chicago Loose.
Chicago, Nov. 30. Blowing at the
rate of 45 miles an hour a gale swept
over Chicago and the surrounding terri
tory last night. It was accompanied
by a downpour of rain. Signs were
blown down, street car traffic delayed,
and boats were unable to leave the
harbor. A police patrol box was torn
from its fastenings and carried by the
wind acrcflH the sidewalk, crashing into
a plate glass window. Telephone com
munication With stations on the South
Side were interrupted, and many minor
accidents reported.
Change In Inauguration Day.
Washington, Nov. 30. The National
committee on inauguration has unani
mously decided to recommend a change
of date of presidential inauguration
from March 4 to the last Thursday im
April.