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LEXIN6T0N WHEATFIELD S. A. THOMAS, Publbher LEXINGTON OREGON NEWS Onp WEEK Id a Condensed Form for Oar Busy Readers. A Resume of the Less Important but Not Less Interesting Events of the Past Week. The Chinese boycott is believed to be dying out. Storer is still recognized as ambas sador at Vienna. Troops have been called out to sup press riots at Winnipeg, Manitoba. The Iowa legislature has passed a bill which will not allow any Btate offi cer to use a railroad pass. The miners convention has decided to accept the advance wherever granted by the Jcoal operators and work will continue in those mines. Representative Lacey, of Iowa, wants all agricultural lands now embraced in forest reserves thrown open to entry under the homestead laws. Thirteen miners who were' entombed in the French coal mine have just been found alive. They were in the mine 20 days and lived on horse feed. Another $25,000 has been sent to Japanese famine sufferers through the National Eed Cross. This makes $125, 000 sent through this source. Announcement is made at Cleveland, Ohio, of an advance of from to 1 centB per gallon by the Standard Oil in the price of gasoline and naphtha Governor Pattison, of Ohio, is grow ing worse. JuBtice Harlan, of the United States Supreme court, may resign. The Chicago beef trust trial has been set for the second Monday in Decem ber. TLe Ohio legislature has provided for a commission to revise the insurance laws of the state. The president 'ears congress will take no action on the Panama canal at the present session. Winnipeg, Manitoba, is in the hands of a mob. A street car strike is the cause of the trouble. President Roosevelt has again sent Bristol's name to the senate for con firmation as district attorney for Ore gon. The Mississippi river is rapidly ris ing and the danger line has been reached at several points near St. Louis, Great Britain has asked China for 5,000 taels for the recent Nanchang murder and the opening of the port of Wucheng Chi. The Iowa legislature has passed a resolution providing for an insurance investigation similar to that bad in New York last fall. The fire in the big natural gas well near Caney, Kansas, has again been extinguished by means of a hugs iron cap dropped over the opening. The Iowa legislature has killed the direct primary bill. Revolutionists of China are planning to depose the dowager empress. Germany is planning a navy equal to that of both France and England. Charles S. Francis has been appoint ed United States ambassador to Aus tria. A wealthy New York merchant has left $065,000 to the colored school at Tuskegee, Alabama. American delegates have solved the problem of the Moroccan conference and an agreement is assured. Steamship companies expect a weekly average of 2,000 Russian emigrants to the United States during this summer Fire at Johnstown, Pa., destroyed nearly $1,000,000 worth of property. One fireman waa killed and several seriously injured. Attorney General Hadley, of Mis souri, has completed the taking of evi dence in New York regarding Standard Oil operations in his state. The first of 18 bridge agents and cor porations to be tried at Sundusky, OhiOj on a charge of conspiracy in re straint of trade has been found guilty. Attorney General Moody believes a new man should be selected as district attorney for Oregon, but United States Attorney Ileney sayi Bristol is all right. The Moroccan conference is rapidly approaching an agreement. New York Republicans will ask Charles E. Hughes to run for gover nor. The senate committee on public lands has had a new timber law ..referred to them. " ' HALF MILLION TO STRIKE. Coal Miners of Whole Nation About to Suspend Work. Indianapolis, March 30. The joint meetings of the bituminous coal opera tors and miners of the central competi tive .district, composed of , Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illi nois, and of the Southwestern district, composed of Missouri, Kansas, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Indian Terri tory, last night reached a final disa greement on the wage scale to go into effect at the expiration of the present scale on April 1, and the conference of the central district adjourned sine die, while the joint scale committee of the Southwestern district decided to report a disagreement to the joint conference of that district today. It is expected that this conference will at once ad journ sine die without an agreement. The action of the two conferences will directly cause the suspension of work after Saturday by 178,000 miners unless something unforeseen, like sub mission of the differences to arbitra tion, should intervene, and indirectly will affect 206,600 more miners, not including its effect on 150,000 miners in the anthracite field, who were last night ordered to suspend work Monday. A national convention of the miners will be held today to decide whether miners will be allowed to sign the ad vance scale demanded and today re fused by all operators with a few excep tions, and to go to work where the ad vance is offered. Operators employing 25,000 miners in the central competi tive field have openly offered to pay the advance during the joint confertnce sessions. The wage scales of all miners, both anthracite and bituminous, will expire Saturday, except those in Tennessee and Alabama, where the scale will ex pire in September. One national offi cial of the United Mineworkers said: "It is a foregone conclusion that all the miners whose scales expire Satur day will cease work until officially no tified by the national and district offi cers that new contract arrangements have been made governing their scale." PROGRAM FOR CONGRESS. Pan American Committee Prepares Subjects for Action. Washington, March 30. A program of subjects to be considered at the Fan- American congress to be held in Rio Janiero, Brazil, beginning July 21, was agreed on today by the committee of the congress having that matter in charge, of which Secretary Root is chairman. In addition to Mr. Root the committee is made up of the ambassadors from Brazil and Mexico and the ministers from Chile, the Argentine Republic, Cuba and Costa Rica. The Bubjecta include sanitary and .not-ontino rnlatinnll nniln.mlU rA paicut jaws, jukoiumiuiiui jeuuguibiuu of diplomas of practicians of the learned UIUlDDDIUUDi UUrjOUlUUQ PUuUwIllK UUuililCI cial intercourse and an international railroad. It is expected that what is commonly known as the Drago doctrine, which is opposed to the forcible collection of private debts by one nation from anoth er, a doctrine adhered to by the United States,, will come up for consideration in some form. IOWA WILL INVESTIGATE. Legislature Orders Inquiry Into ViO' lation of Insurance Law. Dea Moines, Iowa, March 30. As a result of practically unanimous action by both houses of the Iowa legislature today, an investigation of insurarnce companies is to be undertaken in this state during the present summer, sirni lar to that which was conducted in New York last fall. The resolution which awaits the governor's signature pro vides for the appointment of a coramis sion to inquire into rumored abuse of Iowa insurance laws by state and East em companies, to conduct an inquisi- torial investigation whenever in the commission's opinion it is desirable, and report to the legislature of next year what changes should be made in the laws to prevent a recurrence of any abuses that may exist. Road Tied Up for Two Weeks. Los Angeles, March 30. The local railroad situation resulting from floods in Southern California and . vicinity is even worse than has yet been described. It ia given out from the office of Gener al Manager Wells, of the Salt Lake route, that the washouts between Can- ente and Las Vegas are so serious that the roadbed cannot be repaired short of two weeks to admit the passage of trains. The Southern Pacific also re ports further trouble today. Another waBhout has occurred somewhere in the San Joaquin valley. Referendum on Statehood. Washington, March 80. That the senate and house will reach a compro mise agreement on the statehood bill, which will permit Arizona and New Mexico each to decide for themselves the question ot their admission as one state, seems a correct solution from piesent indications. ijENATlONAL HALLS OF CONGRESS Friday, March 30. Washington. March 30 The house todav DaHHfiil the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill, carry- ing $30,000,000, aiier conmuering me measure two weeks. The feature of today's proceedings was the elimina tion o' the age limit oi cierns, a provis ion which created much discussion and which incited the fight against the bill. The bill as passed carries nearly $700, 000 less than the laBt appropriation bill for similar purposes. Thursday, March 29. Washinotnn. March 29. The senate today 1'b ened to speeches on the rail road rate bill by Clay, Carmack and Newlands and passed a bill which pro vides for the reorganization of the med ical department ot the army by autcor . . . . . i -i . lzing the appointment oi oiucen iu take the place of contract Burgeons. All the senatorB who spoke on the rate bill indicated a purpose to support it, but Clay expressed the hope that it would be so amended as to afford a limited court review of the orders of the Interstate Commerce commission. Hale criticized the military medical bill, saying it showed a tendency to in crease the army, wnicn wbb nui uemr able in time of peace. Culberson presented ana nau ine clerk read a memorial from the Cattle- raieers' association of Texas, urging the; passage of the railroad rate bill as it came from the house. A bill was passed authorizing the erection of three life saving stations on the coast of Washington between Cape Flattery and Gray"s harbor. The senate adjourned until Monaay. Washington, March 20. Today was a busy day for the house, considerable progress having been made on the ex ecutive, legislative and judicial bill. The committee on appropriationds Buf fered a defeat, the committee of the whole, by a vote of 58 to 22, expung ing a paragraph from the bill which was alleged to be properly part of the postoffice appropriation bill. An in crease of $10,000 over the appropria tion carried by the bill was voted for confidential agents of the Interior de partment to aid in ferreting out land frauds. Wednesday, March 28. Washington, March 28. Knox made his first set speech in the senate today He spoke on the railroad Tate question, and dealt almoit exclusively with the legal features of the problem. When he concluded the senate entered upon the consideration of the conference re port on the bill regarding the final dia position of the affairs of the five civil ized tribes of Indians and much objec- tion waa expressed to many of the changes. Several senators, including La Folette, Clark, of Wyoming, and Tillman, expressed disapproval of the conference provision authorizing the secretary of the interior to lease land Washington, March 28. lhe presi dent today transmitted to the house the rerjnrt of Assistant Secretary of Stale Herbert H. D. Peirce. regarding the consular service in the Orient. The visit of Mr. Peirce included many cities, but his severe criticism is reserved for ex-Consul General McWade at. f!nr.nn. and Consul WilliamB at Singapore. The charges against Mc Wade, ex-consul atjCanton, are drunk- enness. employment or a ieion, ihbu- ance of fraudulent Chinese certificates, extending protection to Chinamen who claim to be American citizens, peraecu tion of American citizens for purposes of revenge, and corruption in office. The charges against Goodnow are 82 in number, some Rerious and some light. Some are sofficient to support suits at law and give evidence of cor ,intinn In nffii'fi. The opinion of the hotter olemnnt. waa unfavrable too him in Shanghai. Tuesday, March 27;. Waabinoton. March 27. Tillman and McCumber divided the time of the senate todav. the North Dakota sen ator devoting himself to the railroad rate question exclusively and the South Parniina flpnatnr discussing various mifiotinns. Tillman made a special in nnirv r-nnrerninor the Status of his resO hit nn rn ative to ID6 UBB OI imuuimi i bank funds in politics, and Incidentally nf Diattict Attorney Jerome's recent utterances and oi Juuge iiuwpn " T - 1 TT rav'a dfifiiainn in the beef trust cases declaring in the latter matter that the decision against the attorney general nan mor fllv TPftnftd what he had sown hi tViA i an a nf at- Secretary Paul Mor Bill for Cattle Shipping. Washington, March 27. The houBe committee on interstate commerce to day favorably reported a substitute for Representative French's 36-hour live stock bill. The committee bill confers absolute power on the secretary of ag riculture to regulate Stock shipments, permitting him to extend or shorten the periods as he may deem proper. Under this bill, the secretary could continue to enforce the present 28-hour law, he could permit shipments for longer periods, or require unloading every eight hours, as demanded by some. ton. Foraker defended Judge Humphrey and Tillman declared that he had not meant to attack the judge, but the law. McCumber picked innumerable flaws in the rate bill, predicting that, if en acted into a law, it would fail entirely to meet the demands of the public. He said, however, he would vote for the bill if properly amended. Washington, March 27. The house today witnessed a most unusual scene, the speaker rising on the floor in the midst of a spirited discussion on recip rocity and tariff revision and disclaim ing responsibility for differences be tween minority members. It was to ward the close of the debate on the urg ent deficiency bill, which appropriated, among other things, for the forthcom ing conference at Riode Janeiro. The bill was passed. ' On motion of Tawney, the legislative and judicial bill was taken up, when Prince, of Illinois, and Hardwick, of Georgia, resumed the tactics inaugurat ed last week by raising a point of order against every paragraph in which there was a departure from existing law. A half dozen points of order were made and sutained affecting the officers of the subtreasuries at New York, Philadelphia, New Orleans and St. Louis. Monday, March 26. Washington, March 26. Following the president's suggestion, the house today passed resolutions to correct the useless printing of documents and to empower the printing committees of the two executive bodies to fix the number of documents to be printed, and, should the demand arise for ad ditional copies of a publication, then to have authority to order another edi tion. It was claimed this action would result in saving the government upward of $1,000,000 annually. Nearly the entire day was devoted to District of Columbia business. The fortifications appropriations bill oill was sent to conference. Washington, March 26. There was a hint in the senate today at an effort to fix a time for a final vote on the railroad bill, but it was surrounded by so much circumspection and doubt that no prediction as to the time would be justified. Tillman stated that he would bring the matter up tomorrow and, unless objection was made, he may ask to have a day specified. The suggettion as to a time arose . in connection with the more or less seri ous effort on the part of a number of senators to secure immediate consider ation of amendments offered by them selves. Saturday, March 24. Washington, March 24. Hazing at the Annapolis Naval academy was dealt with by the house today in the passage of a senate bill with a house substitute The action was taken after a protracted debate, which placed on record the impressions of the special committee which investigated the subject recently and a severe criticism by Hepburn of efforts to condone hazing. Several amendments were proposed, but all were rejected save one, it being the duty of cadet officers, as well as other academy authorities, to report mfrac tions of the rules. The bill repeals that portion of existing laws which makes it compulsory to dismiss mid shipmen guilty of hazing in any de gree, and substitutes punishment ac cording to the nature of the offense. Cruel and brutal hazing may be pun ished by dismissal. Previous to con sideration of the hazing bill, 265 pen sion bills were discussed and passed. Washington, March 30. General Luke E. Wright today took the oath of office as ambassador to Japan. He ceased to be governor general of the Philippines today. Henry C. Ide, of he Philippines commission, the pres ent acting governor, will continue until April 2, when the will be inaugurated governor general. Washington, March 80. The legis lation prompted by the recent wreck of the steamer Valencia off the Straits of Fuca was authorized to be reported favorably by the house committee on commerce today. It appropriates $200,000 for an ocean-going life-saving tug and for the establishment of a life saving station at Neah bay. Confer on Bristol. Washington, March 26. President Roosevelt today sent for Senator Fulton and Attorney General Moody to talk over the case of District Attorney Bris tol. What the conference accomplish ed cannot be stated, as none of the par ticipants will discuss it or give any ink ling of what disposition will be made of the case. It is stated, though not officially, that the Oregon Bar associa tion baa declined to take any action in the premises, having returned the pa pers submitted by the attorney general several weeks ago. STORM IS BREWING, Terrible Popular Revolt Coming Soorv In Russia. St. Petersburg, March 28. Despite the government's assurance that anoth er extensive outbreak in the immediate future is impossible, the clouds are lowering and there are other indica tions that a big storm may break before parliament meets. The resentment against the terrible repressive measures of the government is arousing the peo ple, especially the workmen in cities,, to fury. This is playing into the hands of the revolutionists who are planning a strike and a general uprising. They believe the right moment will come in miu-Apru ana botn Bides are- preparing for the fray. If it comes, it ia likely to be bloodier and more terri ble than anything previously occurring in this country. The record of arrests last week in St. Petersburg, besides showing an awful state of lawlessness in the capital, is eloquent testimony of the methods by which the government hopes to pre vent the threatened exploBion. Ac cording to the returns, 659 beggars, 215 persona without passports, 247 thieves,. 270 highwaymen and 1,067 "unclaBsi fled" persoDB, which means political suspects, were taken into custody. At no time during the war was the war office more busy than now, making dispositions to suppress the first evi dence of rebellion. Machine guns and ammunition are being dispatched in every direction, troops are being shifted and concentrated at strategic points. armored trains are being stationed at railroad centers and ironclad automo biles are being sent to the larger cities for use in street riots. Here and in Moscow the Cossacks and other cavalry are again patrolling the streets day and night, a project for a wireless telegraph system to enable the government to communicate with the interior in the event of a strike of the railroad and telegraph operators is being hastily worked out and soldiers are being in structed how to man trains and work the telegraph lines. JETTY BILL IN COMMITTEE. Strong Hope It Will Be Favorably Re ported to House. Washington, March 28. The bouse committee on rivers and harbors today took up Senator Fulton'a bill appro priating $400,000 for jetty work at the mouth of the Columbia river, but it waa decided to postpone formal consid eration of the bill until the committee gets together all available documentary evidence of the urgent need of this ap propriation. When the data has been collected and it will include the re ports of army engineers, a statement from Senator Fulton and papers from Portland commercial interests the committee will again be called together, Mr. Fulton will be given hearing and the committee v ill then determine what disposition to make of the bill. Nothing developed at today's meet ing to indicate how the committee will view this measure, but Repeeentative Jones, of Washington, a member of the committee and a very enthusiastic sup porter of the bill, said after the com mittee adjourned that he believed the bill would be favorably reported, if the committee could take such action with out being compelled to attach a large number of other appropriations to that for the Columbia river. He ia person ally convinced that this is a strictly emergency bill and is not in favor of adding other appropiations for which there is less necessity at this time. There 1b strong hope that the commit tee may become impressed with the pe culiar merits of thia bill and consent to report it without amendment or with out attaching other appropriations which would prove fatal. His Plea for Niagara. Washington, March 28. In submit ting to congress the report of the In ternational Waterways commission re garding the preservation of Niagara falls, President Roosevelt sent a recom mendation that a law be enacted along the lines of the recommendations of the report. The message of the presi dent concludes as follows: "I hope that this nation will make it evident that it is doing all in its power to pre serve the great scenic wonder, the ex istence of which unharmed should be a matter of pride to every citizen.' Emigrants in Shiploads. Liverpool, March 28. The Bteamer Carmania, which Bailed today for New York, carried upward of 2,600 passen gers, a large proportion of whom were emigrants. The Lake Champlain, of the Canadian Pacifio line, leaving at about the same time, tor k 1,200 emi grants. The steamship companies an ticipate an enormous rush of conti nental emigrants for America during h coming season,