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.
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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.
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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.
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.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.
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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.