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LEXIN6T0N WHEATFIELD S. A. THOMAS, Publisher LEXINGTON OREGON NEWS OF THE WEEK In a Condensed Form for Our Busy Headers. A Resume of the Less Important but Not Less Interesting Events of the Past Week. Alexander, of Equitable fame, is ser iously ill. A Moroccan gunboat has , fired on a Irencn steamer. It is now said that John D. fiocke feller is in Europe. There is a movement for congress to demand reform in the Congo state. Pat Crowe has been acauitted of kid naping and will now be tried for car lODDery. John A. McCall is slightly improved, but his physicians eay he cannot stand many sinking spells. Exports of American agricultural ma chinery to Russia this spring will amount to fully $25,00,000. The governor of West Virginia may call a special session of the legislature to consider the railroad rate problem. The senate committee on territories has agreed on a bill prohibiting gamb ling in all territories, including Alaska. The Iowa house has passed a bill prohibiting the discharge of revolvers, firecrackers and other explosives on July 4. The, Philadnlnhia & RpftHinc final company expects by April 1 to have enough coal on hand to last until next September. There are rumors of mediation in the Moroccan dispute. Great Britain may eetalish a national system of old age pensions. The Strandard Oil company is soon to be prosecuted under the trust law. The Austrian government will crush Hungarian liberty and a rebellion is sure to follow. HEYBURN'S DRASTIC BILLS. Would Stop Creating Reserves and Order General Survey. Washington, D. C, Feb. 16. Sena tor Heybnrn is going after the presi dent's forest reserve policy again. To day he introduced a bill far more dras tic than anything he has heretofore at tempted. It prohibits further with diawals of public land for forest reserve purposes in Idaho, and stipulates that t 1 I I .1 wnere iana nas neretoiore oeen witn drawo, and has not been created into forest reserves, it shall immediately be restored to the public domain. It also provides that no reserve or withdrawal made for forestry purposes in Idaho shall include sections 16 or 36, title to which was in the United States at the date of the admission of Idaho into the Union. It further stimilatng that nn forest reserves shall be created iu Iduho to include land heretofore classified as mineral. The effect of this bill, if enacted, would be absolutely to put a stop to forest reserve extension in Idaho,- but, like Mr. Heyburn's other forestry bills, it will not pass. Mr. Hevburn also introduced a bill appropriating 100.000 for the survey . a . -i - -4 11 J I 1? 11 v 1 I oi an uuHurveyeu puDiic lanu in mano. Mr. Hevburn savs Idaho's development is being retarded by reason of the fact tnat oniy one-tmra ot tne state nas been surveyed. Furthermore, the lack of surveys makes it impossible for the state to perfect many ot its selections made under various special grants IN THE NATIONAL HALLS OF CONGRESS The United States government has refused cpncessions to Germany to get tariff reductions. The Virginia legislature is consider ing a 2-cent a mile bill, the house hav ing already pass it. The government investigation of the Valencia disaster tends to snow cow ardice on the part of the "rescuing fleet. Every large colliery in the anthracite district is accumulating a large reserve ot coal in anticipation ot a strike on Aprn i. Should serious troule occur in China the government is almost sure to call for volunteers and the nationl guard of Oregon, Washington and California will likely have the first show. Pres ent plans of the government contem plate placing 38,000 troops in the Philippines, and as our standing armv is only a trifle over 60,000, including artillery, volunteers almost have to be assea lor. A snow storm has again blocked rail road traffac in the East. Ambassador White is ready to solve me Moroccan question. The government is investigating the wrecK ot tne steamer Valencia. China is sending trooDs into Man churia to replace the Japanese being wiiDarawn. Attorney General Hadley, of Mis souri, has a clear case against the Standard Oil. John A. McCall, ex-president of the New York Life Insurance company, is near death's door. Heinze, the Montana copper king, has transferred his mines to the Amal gamated Copper company. , Chicago police have beon ordered to see that no boy or girl under 18 years of age goes to a public dance unattend ed by parents. Government riprap work costing $500,000 is threaetned with destruction by the action of the Missouri river near Rulti, Nebraska, which shows a dispo sition to change its channel. Marie Ware MeKinley says she can reach her husband at any time. Senator LaFollette, of Wisconsin, has blocked a scheme to sell the coal lands of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians for $2,000,000, when they are really worth $5,000,000, and under the terms at which the land is now leased it will bring the Indians $105,000,000. Morocco conferees Btill hope for a settlement. Bryan has regisned as trustee of a college which asked money from Carnegie. CHINESE ATTACK MISSION. Viceroys Now Take Lead in Enmity to White "Barbarians." London, Feb. 16. The correspondent at Shanghai of the Standard telegraphs as follows: News has reached here of another at tack on a foreign mission at Ngankin province of Nganhwei. on the left bank of the Yangtse Kiang river. No loss of life is reported. Yesterday an attempt was'made here by a trusted Chinese servant to murder tne secretary of the rench municipal council while he was asleep. The at tempt was frustrated and the assailant arrested. Many of the great provincial viceroys are displaying a marked anti-foreign attitude, which they would hardly dare so openly to assume unleis they thought that Pekin approved their con duct. In the foreign settlements nf treaty ports efforts are being made quietly to recover privileges granted to foreigners. In some quarters Japan is believed io view tne possiDinty ot armed inter vention Deing necessary with eqnanim ity, since it would provide her with no. casion to obtain from China what ehe failed to exact from Russia. In Shanghai two additional mm panies of volunteers are being rained It is reported that the Municipal coun cil favors strengthening the Sikh police force by 500 men. Unfortunately, it is at this luncture that it has been decid ed to reduce the British China squad ron. Thursday, February 15. Washington. !. 15. Thn nnnt today passed to the consideration of the joint statehood bill and for an hour and a half listened to a snttpeh )v Dir b in support of the bill as reported from me committee on territories. He b;ll prohibiting the unftuthnrizn.l Wearing of the inni.niA nf thn . . V and other soldier organizations waB passeu. Bills Were nannnrl nst.nhlinhi houses and fog signals on Cape Hindi- uiurooK island, William sound and Cape Spencer, Cross sound, in Alaska. Washington. 'Pwh. IS 'YTn-i-w- hour" prevailed in thn hnnnn tn,U until after 5 o'clock. The net refill H was the Passac-p, nf a hill tn - -J ' - V V MUV lU OS . . f ou.uuu a year the Federal minrnnr a. tion to each state and territory fnr thn support of agricultural experiment etations and a bill repealing the present law granting American re intnr tn Inr. eign ships wrecked and repaired on the American coast in the discretion of the secretary cf the department of Com merce and Labor, and rpnnirinw a an cial act of congress to grant such regis ter. The feature of the dav was thn at. tempt of Payne, chairman of the ways and means committee, to get his bill for the consolidation of tion districts. A fur inn n nnnnolt i An developed and by a roll call a large ma jority voted against considering the oui. Again, when the exnerimnnt. ata. tion Din came up, the debate reverted into the Payne bill, and it wan with difficulty that it could he hrnnirht. tn an ena. An indirect compliment wnq nni.l tn Longworth bv a vote to adi nurn t nil an until Monday, although nothing will appear in the record of us purpose. the house committee, and ithe senate lenders, that the only possible way of getting an appropriation this session tor the nioutti of the Columbia is by an amendment to the siindrv civil hill There is absolutely no hope of passing special Dill, nor la there any hope of putting through an emergency river and harbor bill to provide for a limited iiumner of deserving projects, as was at one time contemplated. Wednesday, February 14. Wednesday. Feb. 14 At a fnw minutes after 6 o'clock todftv the annatn cast its final ballot on the subsidy shin. ping bill, which was passed by a vote oi ao to . . All the votes for the bill were by Republican senators, and five Republican senators voted with the uemorcats in opposition. They were BurKett. JJolllVer. La Follett.fi. Rnnnnnr and Warner. The vote on the bill was preceded by action on a number of amendments, and this by an entire day of debate. Manv important amend ments were accented, but only in one uaoo was a mouincaiion agreed to that was not in accordance with the winhes of the managers of the bill. The excep tion was on an amendment offered by spoon er eliminating the provision giv ing half pay to members of the naval reserve who have served less than six months. When the shinning bill wan din posed of the statehood bill was made tne unfinished business. HE. BLAMES THE GRAFTERS. Rojestvensky Says Bad Shipbuilding Caused His Defeat. St. Petersburg. Feb. 16. "Pern i am guilty to some extent tor our de feat, and perhaps mv subordinates did not do all they might have done, but at all events we who have fought the battles were not thieves," said Admiral Kojestveneky. who addressed the Im perial Technical society yesterday even ing upon the causes of the defeat of the Russians at the battle of the Sea nf Japan. The admiral made no specification!) regarding rascality in the constructinn or equipment of the ships, but he com mented at length upon the destructive force of the heavy Japanese shells, which, when they only exploded in the water near the Russian vessels, cracked their plates and opened great leaks, while those which hit thn R.nnninn ships Bquarely were as destructive as mines. A young lieutenant during the din. cusnion attempted to lay the blame on suDmanne Doats, but, the admiral de nied that submarine boats or mines were used during the engagement Must Pay Wages, for Shut-Down Warsaw. Russian Poland. Ph. 1R considerable comment has beea caused by the judgment of the communal court at Widzewo. near Lodz, orderinc t.hp Coates Thread factory to pay the wages oi buu employes during the ten weeks the factory was closed. Tim wnrki shut down November 30 and a shortage oi coai was given as the reason for do ing so. The court in rendering judg ment said it was not lack of coal, but tne nign price of coal which induced the closing, and found that this was not a good reason. Washington. Feb. 14. Aftnr snenrl ing almost the entire day in debate on the fortification bill, that measure was passed by the house today Tuesday, February 13 Washington. Feb. 13. The fortifira tions appropriation hill held the atten tion of the house today, and was the text for much heated argument, first. over the lax method cf expenditure of public money and second over the lo cation of the proposed ln. 000.000 c -- -- , , naval station for the Philippines ' Washington. Feb. 13. Senator El kins today introduced his bill for rail way rate regulation. The measure nrn vides that whenever any rate, fare or charge established by any common car ner snail ne r.nnmr, and nnreannnah n the Interstate Onmmerce rnmmiufiinn shall have power, after complaint and hearing, to make an order requiring eucu rate to De moaineu, bo iar as Bnau be necessary in nrrler to remove thn un reasonableness and unlawfulness. The order shall take effect on and after a date to be specified not less than 30 days after service noon the carrier, and shall continue in effect for one year un less restrained or set aside by lawful order nr dppran nf pnnrt...ir nnlpss rn. yoked or modified by a supplementary order of the coramipsion, which may be made nnnn Annluiatinn nr flfrpr nntirft to the carrier defendant in the proceed' ing Senator Fnltnn today offered an amendment, tn thn onndrv pi vil hill an propriating $400,000 for protecting and preserving work done on the ietty at ina mnutn nt t.ha im inmnia river. Mr. Fulton has concluded, after repeated conferences with Chairman Burtcn, of Monday, February 12. Washington, Feb. 12. The senate today adopted a joint resolution re potted by Tillman from t.h Buna to committee on interstate commerce, which directs the Intemt.ArA PnmmaFim commission to investigate the charge of uiuuriminaiion and combination in re straint of trade made against the rail- roaus. it was a joint resolution, and must be passed hv the, linn o..,t signed ny the president before it be comes effective. The adoption of the resolution waB preceded by a speech by llliman. in Which ha r,ronti,all charged that the admi nistratinn war not proceeding in good faith to secure rauroao legislation, because he was not satisfied with the president.' Among these he mentioned Secretary nuui ana senator Knox. Lodge also SPoke at Innoth nn iha rauroao question. He de verpH a carefully prepared Bpeech, in which he took a position for governmental regulation oi rates, but advised the ut most caution against too radical action He expressed the opinion thAr, thn ing of rebates was nrAntipallv th nni evil existing in connection with the rauroao systems of the country. Washington, Feb. 12. The house tooay nad sport with the bill providing ior tne wnipping-post for wifeheaters in the District of flnl aid u on the tabe, effectively dispos- ig oi it, Dy a vote oi lo3 to 60. A new gavel was rleriWtaii tn tda memory of Lincoln, by Speaker Cannon in opening the house, and the birth day ot the martyred president, m r. membered in the prayer of the chap- mill. Pacific Coast Protests. Washington. Feb. 16 Snrinnq nn. position from Pacific coast interpot.a hnn developed to the Cushman bill provid ing for new fiahing legulations for Alahka. The house committee on ter ritories is now considering the hill Ami today six Pacific coast senators and a number of representatives appeand be fore it and asked that the hearing hn kept open until parties interested can reacn here from the coast to be heard in opposition to it. The principal point of ohiertinn ia that the bill gives to the department of commerce and Labor power to make suitable regulations. It in rlnimorl the department would be absolute in this matter, and that any changes in the existing regulations wonlrl wnrk hardship, if not ruin, to the salmon nsning industr.es. Why No Statue of Lafayette? Washington. Feb. 16. The at.tpnt.inn o' Secietary Root has been called to the delay in completing the bronze Btntne, of General Lafayette at Paris, for whicn a large sum of money was raised in this country, to take the place nf the piaster cast placed on the pedestal dur ing the exposition of 1900. It in nn. cerstood that Mr. Root has started an investigation. The Daughters of the American devolution are interesting themselves in the matter. CHINA IN FERMENT. Hatred Spreads to All Foreigners, In cluding Japanese. Victoria, B. C, Feb. 14. According to advices by the steamer Pleiades, which arrived today, Chinese newspa pers are daily devoting more and more space to foreigners, and strong anti-foreign feeling was being shown. Japan ese correspondents in Pekin, in noting this, stated that the anti-Japanese fuel ing is also growing in China, and con siderable feeling is displayed by promi nent ollicials because of the continued influx of Japanese into Manchuria, Mongolia, Bhinkiang and Klangsi with in the last few months. Cantonese literati rpflftnt.lv unread a manifesto that the real menace of China's integrity came from .Turn, n ant this, augmented by the reports of the recalcitrant students who have returned to Shanghai from Tokio. as wnll ah th sentiments of politicians who detect in japan b action in Uorea the germs of an extensive Bggressive policy, has fanned the anti-Japanese sentiment. Everywhere the feel ing nf flirornnaivn. ness against the foreigner is being fostered, the bovcott heinir hut. An inpi. dent, and Russian activity was borne passively netore feeling of Chinese na tional Spirit Came into heinir. flhinn ia now demanding indemnities from Kussia ior riots which involve Chinese losses conseouent on the war and itn effects. Meanwhile Japanese correa- pondents at Pekin accuse Russians of having secretlv furnished arm tn Mn-' hammedanB at Sinkiang and in Mnn. golia, with a view of Inciting rebellion. ASKS NATION TO AID. Northwest Graduates at Annapolis. Washington. Feb. 14. Raleiirh F. Hughes, Portland; Frederick N. Per kins, Salem; Carroll G. Graves, Spo kane; Randolph P. Scudder, North Yakima: Robert L. Ghormlev. Mns. cow, and Vestal P. Coffin, Boise, grad uated from the Annapolis Naval acad emy yesterday. Last Hearing on Yakima Land. Washington. Feb. 14 Land f!nm. missioner Roes today had a final hear ing on his fight for the lapproval of the state Carey act selection of 55,000 acres in the Yakima valley. The ease wiU probably be decided in a few days. Lighthouse for Reurrection Bay. Washington. Feb. 14. Senator Pilen today introduced a bill authorizi no thn construction of a lighthouse at thn n. trance of Resurrection bay, Alaska, to COSt 'JD,UUU. Roosevelt Recommends Contributions for Famished Japanese. Washington. Feb. 14. Roosevelt, in an appeal today, tnnlr official cognizance of the famine, which nas grown to serious proportions in Northern papan. The appeal follows: "The famine situaitnn in Nnrtham Japan is proving much more Berious Al i r m . man at nrst supposed, and thoueanda Of persons are UPOn the varire nf ntarvo- tion. It is a calamity such as may oc camonally befalljany country. Nations, like men. should stand ever rpAriu tn. aid each other in distress, and I appeal to the American people to help from their abundance the Buffering men of the great and friendly nation of Japan. "I recommend that coiitrihnti.ma fi- th is purpose be sent to the American National Red Cross, which will fnrnjar1 such funds to the Japanese Red Cross, to do used as the Japanese government may direct. Contribntionn ran hn ma.ta to the local Red CrO"H trwannmra nr sent direct to Hon. Charles Hallam Keep. Red Cross ' vuucu States Treasury department,. Wnahi,.c ton, D. C." DELEGATES STILL HOPEFUL. Admit Deadlock on Questions of Po , lice and Finance. Algeciras, Feb. 14. The reports current in European capitals that a crisis has been reached at Algeciras are not warranted by the actual conditions here. The negotiations upon the po lice and finance questions are proceed ing uninterruptedly, but have reached a bedrock point on which neither the French nor the German deleiratpa ahor any disposition to yield. This firmness on ootn BMes has caused Borne appre hension of an eventual rlnar)1.ir h..- the delegates, so long as the negotia tions continue, will not admit, that crisis has been reached. BIG ORDER FOR CARTRIDGES. Government Getting Ready to Supply i roops tor China. PhiladelnhiA. T?nh M 1. y 1 1 - " a.u uiuci lur 4.000,000 ball cartridges has been re ceived from the Ordnance department at the Frankfort arsenal hprn Thm are to be of 30 caliber and of the Krag Jorgensen type. Although no informa tion could be obtained at th Arannal as to the reason for the order, they are intended for troops in the Philippines. These troops, it is understood, use the Krag-Jorgensen rifle exclnsivnlv and u is intimated that the' increased order is in anticipation of possible trouble in China. First Year Men Must StunV Cambridge. Mass.. Feh. 1 Th Harvard athletic committee voted to night to concur with Yale and Prince ton in an agreement nxnlndira year men and graduate students of all departments Irom university athletics. Spanish Trade Growing. Washinirt.nn Vuh. 1.1. Trade of the United Statea with Rnain and Portugal amounted in the fiecal year 1905 to over $54,000,000, according to a report issued by the department of Commerce and Labor. Of this. $15,000,000 was imnortn Ami tin flftfl flflf) exnnrts. Of the imports, $6,500,000 was from Port npal ami is finn nfl;l frnm Snain. Of the exports, $2,000,000 went to Portu gal and $17,000,000 to Spain. Imports from Portugal have greatly increased during the last few years, while the exports to that country have declined. Railroads on the Islands. Washington, Feb. 14. v The bid of Solomon & Co., Cornelius Vanderbilt, J. G. White & Co., all of New , York; Thomas F. Swift, Detroit, with whom is associated the International Banking corporation; H. B. Wilson and Heidel- oacti, ickolheimer & Co., has been ac cepted by the Philippine government for the concessionary contracts or grants for the construction, mainte nance and operation of railroads in the islands of Negros. Panav and f!phn Their bid provides for full government guaiantee authorized by congress. Beef Trust Trial Dragging. Chicago, Feb. 14. ButEtwn' wit.nnaaca were on the Btand today in the packers' trial, Dotn oi them empolyes of Swift & Co. Thnir testimony was simnlv a re hash of what others have told relative to the matter for which the agents of the government aBked for at the offices of the packers and of how they received it. When the court met pursuant to , the noon adjorunment, Judge Humph rey a eked the attorneys if t.hr -- j vuuiu not agree to hold longer sessions, sav- nig iiiat tne tnai was dragging and that he desired to expedite it. Cement for Irrigation Work. Washington. Feb. 14 The RAPrnta--. of the interior has called for proposals for furnishing 8,000 to 10,000 barrels of Portland cement for' use in connec tion with the Klamath irrigation pro ject. Bids Will be opened at r - Mb uug Angeles. i