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LEXIN6T0N WHEATFIELD S.A. THOMAS, Publisher LEXINGTON OREGON NEWS OF THE WEEK Id a Condensed Form for Our , Busy Readers. A Resume of the Less Important bu Not Less Interesting Events of the Past Week. The Baltic coast is lighted by burn ing mansi db. The czar has refused to grant uni versal suffrage. An attempt to assassinate President Reyes, of Colombia, failed. Dewey wants the Annapolis hazers expelled without a chance of returning. The Virginia and North Carolina coasts have been swept by a heavy gale. A Los Angeles cottage was wrecked by the wind and three persons injured, two perhaps fatally. A collapse of scaffolding in the New York tunnel under East river injured five men, three of them fatally. Columbia university has positivley fttrbidden football in the future. Oth er leading colleges are expected to fol low this lead. An American who has just returned from Japan says there iB sure to be dis tress in that country when all the troops are returned from Manchuia. The president haf signed the canal emergency appropriation bill carrying $11,000,000. This is the first law cre ated by the present session of congress. Odell has attacked Roosevelt for al leged political interference in New York. The president ii accused of wrecking the party to gratify ambition, but does not seem to worry over the charge. Montenegro has adopted a new con stitution. Poland is again the scene of rioting and troops cannot be spared to suppress the trouble. Denver has not yet disposed of all its election fraud cases incident to the preidential election. Secretary Bonaparte has found that he has not the power under the present laws to dismiss the Annapolis hazers. A Des Moines, Iowa, , baby show broke up in a row because the first prise was given to the baby of a Jewess. Hawaiian planters have completed plans to bring 1,000 families of labor ers from the Azores or some other European source. Governor LaFolletjte, of Wisconsin, has resigned to accept a seat in the United States senate. The resignation takes effect the first of January. Thorough reorganization of the man agement aid methods of the Mutual Life Insurance company is demanded by its 80,000 British policy holders. Admiral Rojestvensky has returned home. He has not yet entirely re covered from the wounds he received during the battle of the Sea of Japan. A bomb hurled through a window of the Allied Iron association in New York wrecked the room used for tele phone purposes. The concern is non union and this is given as the reason of the outrage. Balfour declares himself as a free trader. Martial law has again been pro claimed throughout Poland. Japan is angry because China delays the new Manchurian treaty. Insurance investigators are now at wojk on the small companies. A British fleet is to maneuver off the coast of Morocco while the conferer.ce is on. j France, Germany and Russia are said to be backing , China in her move aganist Japan. ' A San Francisco woman has secured a divorce from her insane husband and married his keeper. The sugar brought into the United States during the year about to end will exceed $150,000,000 in value. About $50,000,000 of this comes from our island possessions. The chief sanitary officer of the Pan ama canal says yellow fever has been almost exterminated. The Chicago brick trust has pleaded guilty to illegal combinations and the members have been fined. Chinese boycotters have attacked for eigners at Shanghai,. An American warship will be sent there. Three Chicago banks, all of them controlled by John R. Waltfh, have suspended. Depositors are fully protected. GENERAL STRIKE. Russian Leaders Openly Defy Gov ernment by Manifesto. St. Petersburg, Dec. 20. A call for a general political strike throughout Russia, to begin Thursday at noon, was issued tonight. The call is approved by the Union of Unions, the Union of Peasants, the General Railway union and the Council of Workmen of St. Petersburg and Moscow. A response received from the railroad men of Mos cow is unanimous for a strike.' The leaders have declared their abil ity to Btop every train in Russia. The strike order renders every member of the unions signing it liable to arrest and punishment under the new strike law, and Minister of the Interior Dur novo attempted to telegraph orders to Moscow to arrest members of the Rail way union and of the workmen's coun cil, but the dispatches were held up by the railroad telegraphers. The members of the St. Petersburg Council of Workmen had been notified by the General Railway union and the Moscow Council of Workmen that in principle they were ready for a strike, but that they hesitated on practical grounds. The St. Petersburg leaders, however, felt that their prestige would suffer severely unless they could answer the government's determined offensive with a counter stroke, while many who were committed to full revolution sec retly decided that the ground would be swept from under their feet should the government promulgate a law granting universal suffrage. WITTE ONLY TITULAR RULER. Governor Whom He Removed Gets Higher Office. Boston, Dec. 20. A communication to Russian revolutionist branches in Boston Las been received by mail from Russia. It is issued by authority of the League of Leagues, and in part reads as follows : Our suspicion of an inner and secret government superseding that of Count Witte has been confirmed. A case has just happened that proved the truth of our assertions. The governor of Odessa, Meidgard, who organized massacres in that city and province, was dismissed by Witte for the hand he took in the work'; he has now been appointed gov ernor of Nijni Novgorod. Count Witte, on being asked how he could give a new and even greater and higher appoint ment to such a notorious villain, re plied that the appointment was made not only without his consent, but even without his knowledge. The comunication relates that in sev eral of the provinces the czar's mani festo of emancipation was withheld by order of the secret government. Had the" manifesto been made public, , the letter says, wholesale massacres would have been prevented. WRECKERS DRAW SPIKES. , Smash In Kansas Causes Two Deaths and Two Fatal Injuries. Reading, Kan., Dec. 20. Santa Fe train No. 17, west bound, was wrecked at Badger, creek, five miles west of Reading, at 3 o'clock this morning. One express car turned over and caught fire. Express Messenger K. E. Der rick, of Kansas City, -was killed out right, and Engineer Henry Davis, of Topeka, was so badly injured that he died soon after being taken out of the wreck. Two other express messengers were probably fatally injured. Two passengers in the smoker were slightly injured. ., , , . It is believed the train was ditched by wreckers. The spikes securing one rail had been removed. " Three other passenger trains, including Superin tendent Fox's" special, had passed over the same tracks a short time before No. 17 was wrecked. ! Walls Fall on Them. Chicago, Dec. 20. One fireman was killed and several employes may'have lost their lives in a fire which de stroyed the enamel sign factory of the Charles M. Schonk company, 7 to 15 Park street, tonight. Until the , rains of the building have been searched, it will not be positively known whether any of, the employes were killed, either in the explosion which started the fire or by the falling of the walls and floors w'-ich. followed soon afterward. The loss on the building and contents is estimated at $250,000. Only Guns Prevent Bloodshed , St. Petersburg, Dec. 20. A big loy alist demonstration had been planned for today, and was abandoned at the request of the prefect of police, who be lieved that it might provoke bloodshed. Batteries of machine guns are stationed at several points of vantage throughout the city, and infantry and Cossacks are everywhebe. A specially heavy guard is stationed in the neighborhood of the Jewish market. Cuba Will Kill Off Mosquitoes.' Havana, Dec. 20. President Palma has authorized an additional expendi ture of $200,000 for sanitary purposes in Havana. Although 'yellow fever is disappearing, the extermination of mosquitoes will be continued. One new case of yellow fever was reported today. i ii -r-revnss I , 11 I iiiii 1 ii.ii.ii'! i , IN THE NATIONAL HALLS OF CONGRESS Thursday, December 21. The senate was in session but a little more than an hour today. Of this time only about a half hour was legislative in character. The credentials of Gearin, of Oregon, were presented and the senator sworn in. The bill extending for one year the time allowed for building the Council City &. Solomon River railroad in Alas ka was passed. Adjournment was taken until Janu ary 4. There was but a ten-minute session of the house today, when the holiday adjournment until January 4 was taken. Two speeches, one attacking and the other defending the cotton crop estimates of he government, werevto have .been made, but permission was granted to print these speeches in the' Recorrd. Wednesday, December 20. The senate adopted a motion recall ing its confirmation of canal commis sioners. It is understood that the ob ject of the move is to permit a protest against Chairman Sbonts holding a po sition on the commission and the presi dency of the Clover Leaf railroad at the same time. The only notable feature of the open session today was a brief discussion on the question of railroad legislation by Foraker and Culberson. i The house continued to "shoot clay pigeons" today, as one member re marked, and debate on several topics continued for five hours. The general debate which has been in progress for several days ended with today's session, and tomorrow the session will be brief. The house agreed on the conference report on the Panama canal appropria tion bill. Just before adjournment a bill was passed extending until 1909 the time in which the 50 miles of railroad from Council City to Solomon, Alaska, may be completed. Payne gave notice that the Philip pine tariff bill will be called up for consideration January 4. Needham, of California, introduced a bill providing for the repeal of the Cuban reciprocity treaty. He said the treaty had resulted in serious loss of revenue, as the Cubans buy extensive ly in the United States, and does not give Americans an opportunity to get anything p , return for the reductions in tariff on Cuban products. Tuesday, December 19 The senate today accepted the Pana ma canal emergency appropriation bill as originally passed by the house.. Hey burn, made a new move in his fight on forest reserves by introducing a resolution calling on the secretary of agriculture for a statement of receipts and expenditures made by the forest service, also the amount of school land included in forest reservations. Fulton inroducd a bill to relieve bona fide settlers on Northern Pacific lands where such settlements were made sub sequent to January 1, 1898. A large grist of appointments were confirmed. Senator Dolliver introdeuced his rate bill today. It authorizes the commis sion to fix and enforce a maximum and reasonable rate, to go into effect 30 days after notice. The commission also provides for seven members. i .The houie continued debating the insiranue question today. The day was passed without legislation and endr ed with an amusing debate on the ques tion of the appointment of a janitor at $60 per month to the reception room on the minority Bide of the chamber. In the end the janitor was not appoint ed. The house committee on ways and means favorably reported Payne's bill admitting all Philippine products into the United States free, excepting sugar and tobacco, , which are to pay 25 per cent of the Dingley rate until 1909, when they are also to go on the free list. ' I'-'.'. ' Monday, December 18.. The canalv emergency appropriation bill waa received in the house from the senate. Discussion' of this was followed by another debate on insurance mat ters. , The house disagreed to the amendments to the canal bill and Bent it to conference. Hale and Teller were named as the senate conferees on the canal bill. The senate in the afternoon took up Preachers on Canal Payroll. v Washington, Dec. 20. Senator Lodge today presented to the senate, in am plification of his denial made on Friday of the charge that women had been taken to the Isthmus of Panamia nnder the authority of the canal commission and distributed among laborers for im moral purposes, a letter from Secretary Taft and all of the correspondence that has been has on this subject. The sec retary denies this and says that already there are several preachers of different creeds on the isthmus in the pay of the commission. the house ship subsidy bill, which makes it the unfinished business before that body, A joint resolution was adopted pro viding for adjournment from December 21 to January 4. 1 Dolliver has a new rate bill which he will introduce Boon as a substitute for all measures now pending. Saturday, December 10 The senate today passed the Panama emergency appropriation bill. The only change in the measure as it passed the house is a provision which requires that congress shall be supplied with regular estimates of all salaries except those paid to laborers. ' Senator Dubois, of Idaho, will retain all his present committee places and se cures membership on the irrigation eommittee. The house indulged itself again to day to the extent of four hours of what was many times termed acadamic dis cussion of Federal control of insurance. The holiday recess was fixed from next Thursday to January 4. Committee Places Filled. Washington, Deo. 20. Northwestern senators were assigned committees to day. Piles, In addition to the chair manship of coast and insular survey, goes on interoceanic canals, pensions, territories, Canadian relations and ex amination of the civil service. Hey burn, in addition to his old commit tees, goes on immigration and public buildings. There are several minority places vacant, from which assignments will be made for Gearin. They are for est reservations, pensions, industrial expositions, national banks and claims. Oppose the Joint Bill. Prescott, Ariz., Dec. 20. At the close of the annual banquet of the Northern Arizona Bar association, a strong resolution was unanimously adopted declaring its unalterable oppo sition to the joint statehood bill and instructing the secretary to forward a copy, with the signature of each mem ber attached, to Speaker Cannon, Dele gat Mark Smith and Congressmen Hamilton, Tawney, and Adams, and Senators Foraker, Flint and Perkins. Strong speeches denouncing the bill were made. Charter for Alaska Cable. Waghington, Dec. 20. Senator Ful ton today introduced a bill authorizing the North American Telegraph & Cable company, incorporated in the state of Washington, to construct telegraphic cables from the coast of Washington to Alaska, the Aleutian island, Siberia, Manchuria, China, Japan and the Philippines and requiring the operation of the cable within five yearj. Among the directors of the company are prom inent Northwestern men. Abandon Malheur Project. Washington, Dec. 20. Secretary Hitchcock today called on the Reclama tion service to show why the Malheur irrigation pToject should not be aban doned. It is believed that this is a pre liminary step to be followed by the withdrawal of engineers from that country, leaving Malheur county to p-ivate enterprise. No Interest in Black Sand. Washington, Dec. 20. The house today refused to . consider a resolution to ask the secretary of the interior the results of experiments in ascertaining the mineral value of black sand. . NEW BUILDINGS IN RUINS. Two Great, Railway Terminals on the Hudson River Burned.' New York, Dec. 22 The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad, which a few months ago suffered the loss of its Hoboken terminal buildings by fire, sustained a still heavier loss todays when the new ferry terminals of steel frame and supposedly fireproof con struction, at the foot of West Twenty third street, Manhattan, were burned to the ground. Workmen were putting tbefinishing touches on the building when the fire started, shortly before the noon hour. i ; i The flames quickly communicated to the new ferry . house of the Cenfral Railroad of New Jersey, which, with the Lackawanna terminals, was con sidered the finest ferry, building in the East, and this Btructuie also was al most totally destroyed. Warships Prevent Riots. London, Dec. 22. According to offi cial advices received here today from Shanghai, it is believed that the situa tion, while most unsatisfactory, can be controlled by the warships already there. The only danger is that dis affection may spread to the interior. It is thought that it will not be neces sary to send troops, as the Chinese gov ernment is taking precautions to pre vent an uprising. The foreign office has disapproved the action of the Brit ish assessor in confining Chinese wo men prisoners in a foreign jail. MADE PLAIN TO MR. SHONTS. Panama Canal Affairs' Discussed at White House Conference. Washington, Dec. 19. President Roosevelt tonight took up the matter of the Isthmian canal scandals as devel oped by debate in the senate during the past three days. He iB determined to prevent further criticism of the char acter put forward by Senators Tillman, Culberson and others. Senators Alli son and Hale, both members of the ap propriations committee, were present. The president made it plain to Mr. Shonts that the literary bureau in charge of Secretary Bishop must be at once discontinued, and Mr. BiBhop con fine his service purely to administra tive matters. He also discussed the advisability of reducing hlB salary from $10,000 now paid to $5,000, or some other moderate sum. It was also made apparent to Chair man Shonts that if he still has an offi cial connection with the Clover Leaf railroad, it must be severed immedi ately. Senator Tillman declared that Mr. Shonts is still active president of the system, and neither Mr. Shonts nor any of the administration senators have entered a denial of the declaration. The president further gave Mr. Shonts much advice regarding the con duct of affairs on the isthmus. It is prescribed in the president's order that the canal commission must leave at once for that place. The hill appropriating $11,000,000 for the canal work, passed by the sen ate on Saturday, provides that within 90 days the secretary of the treasury must furnish estimates to the senate- and house appropriations com mittees of all salaries paid those em ployed on capal work, except laborers and unskilled workmen. This feature of the bill was discussed with Senators Allison and Hale. It is believed that many reforms will be instituted in the administration of the canal before another appropriation is requested from congess. This work of reform must begin at once, as Secre tary Taft says the $11,000,000 new be ing obtained will last no longer than April 1 at the outside. In the meantime Senator Tillman will begin a strong agitation after the holiday recess for a thorough investiga tion of the entire canal situation. He will be opposed by the Republicans, but supported by the Democrats. Bren Borne 'of the Republicans favor an in quiry, and Mr. Tillman threatens to cause much trouble unless matters are put on such a basis as to prevent just critcism. TRADE WITH PHILIPPINES. I Great Increase Shown Over Last Year by Department of Commerce. - Washington, Dec. 19. Estimates made by the bureau of statistics of the department of Commerce and Labor, based on the returns for ten months ending witn October, are that the ag gregate commerce between the United States and the Philippines for the cal endar year 1905, will amount to about $20,000,000, against about $15,000 in 1896, $1,000,000 in 1900, $4,000,000 in 1898 and a little more than $4,000, 000 in 1897, the year prior to the American occupation. Prior to 1899, the exports from the United States to the Philippines, the bureau reports show, had never ex ceeded $250,000, while in the present yea: they will aggregate nearly $6,000, 000. Imports from the islands, which ranged between $4,000,000 and $5, 000,000 per annum prior to 1899, were in 1902, $10,000,000; in 1903, $12, 000,000, and in 1905 will be abont $14,000,000, according to the bureau estimates. - - The imports in 1905 are chiefly hemp and sugar. Hemp imports for the first ten months of 1905 amounted to $10, 376,528, and sugar $2,212,249. . Connecticut Safe Looted. , ' Snffleld, Conn., Dec. 19. After binding the railroad watchman, W. Jones, and his 12 year old son to chairs in the railroad station here this morn ing before daylight, six bank robbera pried their way into the Suffield Sav ings bank on Main street, blew open the safe after a fourth , attempt and es caped with $50,000 worth of registered bonds and stocks not negotiable, ac cording to President Newton, of, the in- stitution. They overlooked $3,000 in cash anil negotiable bonds in a drawer nearby. - ' ', ', ; ,f General Strike Is Improbable. Londnn, Dec 19. The correspondent of the Daily Telegraph at St. Peters burg, in commenting on recent events in Russia, says he is still optimistic and is convinced of the imnossibilitv of an organized general Btrike, because public opinion and the peasantry are strongly averse to it. He insists that rthe military outbreak at Moscow 1b in no way an indication ol general disaf fection in the army. . .- . Furs Go Up In Smoke. New York Dec. 19. Two hundred thousand dollars' worth of tarn destroyed by fire today in the estab lishment ot Max Paiseeki & Co. whole sale furriers and manufacturers of auto mobile garments 37-39 East Twenty- nrst street. Other tenants in the build ing will suffer heavy ily from water.