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LEXINGTON WHEATFIELO S. A. THOMAS, Publisher LEXINGTON .OREGON NEWS OF THE WEEK Id a Condensed Form for Oar Busy Readers. A Resume of the Less Important but Not Less Interesting Events of the Past Week. Senator Alger, of Michigan, iB not a candidate for re-election. Dowie promises to perform a miracle when he reaches Zion City. Returning merchants say Chinese are now buying Americaan goods. Vesuvius is in violent eruption and thousands of people are fleeing in ter ror. More rioting has taken place at Win nipeg, Manitoba, on account of the street car strike. The soft coal mine operators of the East have offered to arbitraate their differences with the miners. All the independent coal operators of the Pittsburg district have signed the scale. This will insure work for about 20,000 men. The United States Circuit court of appeals of New York says the patent for daylight loading film cartridges for photographic cameras is void. A steamer has arrived at Philadel phia from Bombay, India, with what is believed to be bubonic plague among the crew. One hundred printers have been dis charged from the government printing office as the first step toward economy in that department. The mechanical department will be completely reorgan ized. Many lives were loBt by the colbpse of a hotel in Germany. Speaker Cannon admits the present tariff laws should be revised. The kaiser abandoned his trip to the Mediterranean for fearaof assassination. The New York chamber of com merce urges congress to pass the Phil ippine tariff bill. Prince von Buelow, chancellor of Germany, fell in a faint while address' ing the reichetag. The senate plans to do away with the office of superintendent of Indian af fairs in Alaska and turn the work over to the governor. The Illinois primary law has been declared invalid by the state Supreme court and a special session of the legis lature called to enact a new one. The Republic Oil company, a dum my of the Standard, has withdrawn from Nebraska, Iowa and Indiana. Its business will be continued by the Standard. t Those in control at Zioi City claim that Dowie intended to start a harem with seven wives whom he had select ed. The prophet denies all charges and has started home from Mexico City. A new medical corps is to be organ ized for the army. Japan will soon open Manchuria to the trade of the world. China has sent a demand to Russia that she evacuate Manchuria at once. The United States cruiser Baltimore will visit the principal ports of Aus tralia. Russia has asked the United States to fix the date for The Hague peace conference. Dowie says he will return to Zion City and oust his enemies from control of the colony, Kansas City, Mo., has elected a Re publican mayor on a municipal owner ship platform. Colonel Gilberto Escobo, governor of Jonotega, a province in Nicaragua, has been assassinated. Chicago has voted for municipal ownership and against municipal oper ation of traction lines. The French chamber of deputies sev erely scores the management of the mine in which the recent disaster oc curred. It was declared the horror was due entirely to negligence. The house river and harbor commit tee has deferred action on the Fulton bill appropriating $400,000 for the mouth of the Columbia. The commit tee will meet again in a few days. Troops will protect the Russian Jews durin Eastertide. The New York legislature is rushing bills for the control of insurance. All Zion City has revolted against Dowie, taking away his power and property, Municipal ownership is the principal campaign topic in many eastern city elections. OFFER TO ARBITRATE. Miners Willing to Let Conciliation Board Settle Trouble. New York, April 6. Having failed to come to an agreement themselves, the hard coal miners of Pennsylvania, through their representatives, today proposed to the operators that all mat ters in dispute be referred to a board of arbitration for settlement, the tribunal to be composed of the board of concili ation which was created by the award of the Anthracite Strike commission in 1903, with Judge Gray, of Delaware, or any person he may appoint, as chair man and umpire. If the operators ac cept the proposition and a convention of mineworkers approves the plan, the 160,000 men now idle in the anthra cite fields will return to work at once. While it had been reported for several days that the miners might ask that the differences be arbitrated, the prop osition came to them bb a great sur prise, as they did not believe the union leaders were ready to leave the contro versy to a third party at this time. That the operators will accept the miners' proposal as submitted is not generally believed ; in fact, it ia inti mated they may flatly refuse the offer, on the ground that existing conditions are the result of arbitration. The em ployers have decided to consider the miners' latest move and promise to give President Mitchell and his men an answer on Monday, when another meeting of the two sub-committees will be held in this city. The anthracite board of conciliation consists of six members three repre senting the operators and three the miners. This board held frequent ses sions during tne last tnree years, settling local disputes in the anthracite region. The award of the strike com mission provided that, when it could not agree, a Federal judge in the Third judicial district should appoint an umpire, who should make a decision. Judge George Gray, president of the strike commission, made the appoint ment a. During the first two years he selected Carroll D. Wright, ex-United States commissioner of labor, as the umpire, but during the last year Charles P. Neill, the present labor commissioner, acted as tne arbiter. FURIOUS WITH FOREIGNERS. Chinese Excited by Picture of Magis trate Killed by Priest. PekiL, April 6. The Nanchang affair of February last, during which a Chi nese magistrate met death as the result of a dispute with French Catholic mis sionariea which caused a riot and the killing of a number of French and Brit ish missionaries, continues to inflame the Chinese. Tbe native papers in the north of China this week print pictures of the magistrate's corppe, showing his wounds, with sensational articles writ ten in a style which appeals to the lower classes, exhorting the people not to forget the outrages and to prepare to defend themselves against foreign bru talities. The belief that a French priest mur dered the magistrate is universal and probably no other incident ever excited such widespread resentment against the missionaries. In many places tbe Catholic converts and the other Chinese are living on the basis of armed neu trality, and but for the presence of the troops stationed near the missions by tbe government's orders, the slightest friction would result in massacre. Disturbance in Coal Field. Philadelphia, April 6. The situa tion in the coal fields remains un changed. Occasional disturbances are reported from various sections, but they are regarded as inconsequential. As a result of the attacks made on the breakers of the Fernwood colliery, the Erie, company, which owns the land occupied by the mineworkers, h&n er dered them to vacate the property. The miners are said to have shot out nearly every window in the breaker. A detail of state police today arrested seven Italian laborers at Mocanaqua, near Wilkesbarre, who yesterday pre vented non-union men from operating the West End waahery. They were sent to jail. Wants AlRailroads Appraised. Washington, April 6. By unani mous vote today the National associa tion of Railway commissioners adopted the resolution of tt. 11. Meyer, of Wis consin, ottered yeBterdav. declaring it to be the sense of the association that the congress of the United States should authorize and direct the Interstate Commerce commission, or some other department of the Federal government, to ascertain the inventory value of all railways in tbe United States, and to fix a valuation on the railway property of each state separately. Will Build Island for Fort. Washington, April 6 The creation of an artificial island in the middle of the entrance to Chesapeake bay ia pro posed by the joint board on coast de fense, as an absolute essential to the defense of the National capital and the cities of Baltimore, Norfolk, Newport News and even Richmond. The gov ernment will dump stone on the middle ground as foundation for a tort. IN THE NATIONAL Friday, April 6. Washington, April 6. In making an effort today to get the senate to agree upon a date for taking a vote on the railroad rnt bill. Tillman made the important statement that one week more probablv would exhaust the gen eral debate. He failed, however, to secure the consent of Aldrich, who said that he would not be willing to agree to vote on the bill until it was more, nearly perfected than it now is. During the day there were three speeches on the rate bill. The flrBt of these was made by Elkins, who, while expressing the opinion tnai me situa tion demands legislation, indicated many defects in the pending bill. Gamble followed in support of the bill, and Kean closed in opposition. Elkins was frequently interrupted, and several spirited colloquies marked the progress of his remarks. No senator being pre pared to speak tomorrow, the senate adjourned until Monday. Washington. April 6. Tariff railway mail subsidies, denaturized alcohol and enlarged postal facilities for Western cities were the features of the debate in the house today. What were al leged to be the iniquities of the Ding- ley law, so far as the manufacture o( watches is concerned, were discussed by Rainey, of Illinois, whose tariff revis ion speech was listened to with much interest. The "stand-patters" made copious notes for the discussions on protection which are foreshadowed. Without touching the merits of the postoffice appropriation bill, which nominally was under discussion, the house at 5:15 adjourned until noon to morrow. Thursday, April 5. Washington, April 5. The postoffice appropriation bill, following an imme morial custom, was made the vehicle for a number of speeches today having no bearing on the Bubjectr under dis cussion, but of general interest to the country The rights of labor were dis cussed by Towne, of New York : goods road, by Lee, of Georgia ; railway mail pay by Steenereon, of Minnesota, and protective tariff by Rainey, of Illinois. Incident to his speech on labor, Towne spoke of the increased power given tbe speaker of the house by the rules now in force. He said that, if the house ever has its ancient dignity and power restored, it will be after it has vindi cated the right pf discussion of all pub lic questions. Y, Washington, April 5. In the senate today there was a re-echo of the White house conference of last Saturday rela tive to the pending railroad legislation, and, while tbe discussion ended in good nature, there was a time when the feeling wab quite intense The incident occurred at the close of a speech by Stone, which was devoted largely to a discussion of that conference. Elkins has given notice of a speech on the rate bill for tomorrow and Bailey for a speech on that subject Tuesday. The Texas senator will reply especially to the criticisms made by Spooner and Knox, of his plan for a limitation of the powers of inferior courts in granting injunctions in rate litigation, Newlands continueud his argument in support of his proposition for the national incorporation of railroad com panies. A supplemental extradition treaty between Japan and the United States has been signed. Wednesday, April 4. ton, April 4. In the senate today Newlands discussed the railroad rate bill and Daniel the question of the lack of representation by the Southern states in the public service. New lands advocated amendments to 'the rate bill providing for the national in corporation of railroads, and announced himself as favorable to the govern mental ownership of these utilities. Daniel's speech was based on a provis ion in the urgent deficiency appropria tion bill for the representation of the United StateB at the next Pan-American congress, to be held in Rio de Janeiro next July. The deficiency bill was amended bo as to provide for more delegates, and as amended was passed. Washington, April 4. The house during its session today listened to a criticism of the president on the part of Fitzgerald, New York, for the fail ure of the chief executive properly to advise the house as to the objections he had to the bill opening 505,000 acres of land for grazing purposes in Okla- Pay for Conference at Rio. Washington, April 3. The senate committee on appropriations today re ported the urgent deficiency hill with a number of amendments. The proviso is added to the appropriation for dele gates to the International Conference of American States at Rio Janeiro, Bra zil, that the delegates shall be appoint ed so that as far as practicable they shall represent the different sections of the country. An appropriation of $50, 000 is made to enable the government to participate in the second interna tional peace conference at The Hague. HALLS OF CONGRESS homa territory, instead of advising the members of the Indian Affairs commit tee as to the weakness of the measure, so that it might be amended to meet the wishes of the commissioner of In dian affairs. The postoffice appropriation bill was taken up, but beyond an explanation by the chairman of the postoffice com mittee, Overstreet, no headway was made. Tuesday, April 3. Washington, April 3. Senators Long and Allison were under cross ex amination by their brother senators to day on the White house conference on the former's court review amendment to the rate bill. After Long had spoken at length in support of his amendment, both the railroad senators on the Re publican side and the Democratic sen ators wanted to know more about its paternity. They scented in its" being discussed with the president and his advisers by a few of the friends of the bill before its introduction in the sen ate an invasion of the sacred preroga tives of the upper house. Long and Allison successfully fenced with the questions and refused to divulge what transpired at the conference. Washington, April 3. By a vote of 202 to 26 tbe house today passed tLe national quarantine bill. The bill places the control of all quarantine stations, grounds and anchorages under the secretary of the treasury and di rects that as soon as practicable after the approval of the act he shall select and designate such suitable places for them and establish the same at such points on or near the seacoast of the United States or, the Mexican border as in his judgment are beet suited for the same, in order to prevent the introduc tion of yellow fever into the United States. The bill further gives the secretary oi tne treasury tne ngnt to establish a quarantine station at the Dry Tortugan islands and at such other points at or near seacoasts, not to exceed four in the aggregate, as be deems necessary. The bill carries an appropriation of $500,000. Monday, April 2. Washington, April 2. The amend ment to the house railroad rate bill agreed to at the White house Saturday by friends of the bill, providing for a limited review of orders of tbe Inter state Commerce commission, was offer ed in the senate today by Long, of Kansas, but he was not able to get the floor to make his speech. The princi pal speech was made by Fulton, of Ore gon, who spoke for the bill. It .was a legal argument bearing upon the con stitutional questions involved, and in terruptions were so frequent that the speech amounted to a debate on law points, where the speaker divided time with the a majority of the lawyers of tbe senate. Nelson, of Minnesota, and Heyburn, of Idaho, made brief speech es on the bill. Washington, April Z. Uhiet among the measures passed by the houBe today was the so-called "personal liability" bill, which has been. favored by the army of railway employes throughout the country, and which practically had a unanimous report from the commit tee. Members of the house showed great interest in the measure, and, had a division been called for, the bill would have had an almost unanimous vote. Another measure changing exist ing law, which excited a filibustering- opposition, was the bill permitting tne fortification of sweet wlneB ana levy ing a tax of 3 cents a gallon on all wines thus fortified. A number oi dihb were passed under suspension of the rules. The personal liability bill makes each party responsible for its own neg- igence. It also renders void any con tract intended to restrict the liability of the employer for the negligence of employes. , Saturday, March 31. Washington, March 13. This being war claim day in the house, only those directlv interested in the legislation in the private calendar were in attend- n.1 , 1 . I V ance. ine nouse auring tne iour nours it was in session considered and passed 179 bills, many, however, Bending the particular claim to the court of claims for adjudication. Previous to taking up tbe calendar a bill was passed granting to the Capital City Improvement company, of Helena,, Montana, the right to construct a dam acrosB the Missouri river in Montana. Square Deal in Alaska. Washington, April 2. The secretary of the interior today sent to congress a draft of a bill which he recommends to be passed providing that, whenever mineral entries are made in Alaska, six months' notice shall be given instead of 60 days, as at present. Under existing laws it has become a common practice, particularly in remote mining districts, for entrymen to hold off until the mails are virtually closed by bad weather and then forward their notices to Juneau. In this manner persons wishing to in stitute a contest are precluded. MOROCCO PROTOCOL LONG. Powers Will Combine to Induce Sultan, to Approve Reforms. Algeclras, Spain, April 4. The pro tocol of the conference on Moroccan affairs, copins of which are In course of preparation for signature by the dele gates on Saturday, is a formidable doc ument of 123 sections. The opening paragraph sets forth the desire of the powers to assure peace and prosperity in Morocco by reforms, without violating the three principles of sovereignty of the sultan, integrity of his domain and commercial equality, at the same time pointing out the method of procuring thn -n -viwwmivoo ua" cesBary to carry out the reform pro- Details follow, relative to the dele gates' decisions concerning the organ ization of the police, the repression of contraband traffic in arms, the estab lishment of a state bank, the creating of freeh revenue and the control of cus toms and public works. The signatory powers undertake to introduce legiola tion ratifying the engagements of the delegates. Final ratification of the protocol will occur not later than December 13, of this year at Madrid. Meantime the Signatory Powers raninrnniillw endeavor to obtain the sultan's integral adhesion to the reforms outlined in or der to make them simultaneously oper ative. Aiie rerorm will be effective December 31, 1906. Existing treaties between Morocco and th ers will retain validity, but in the event of conflict between treaties and the conference's protocol the latter will .!... . 1 m&e preueuenue. MINES OPENING. Operators at Many Points Sign Scale With Miners. Pittsburg, April 4. With the excep tion of one or two points outside of the, Pittsburg district, the strained situa tion between the operators and miners in the soft coal fields of Western Penn sylvania is hourly growing more pa cific. Following the signing of the scale yesterday demanded by the miners, the mines of the operators who signed the scale resumed their operations today, although in many instances with re duced forces. In the Pittsburg district there were 18,000 miners working and 1,200 idle. Nearly all of the mines of the PittBburg Coal company were in operation, and it wfB expected that those men who are out would return within a day or so. It was explained that following holi days it was generally several days be fore all the men returned to their la bor. The causo of the idleness today, however, was said to be their failure to receive word of the signing of the scale. The independent operators met to night and decided not to sign the scale and not to work their mines nonunion. Tbey employ between 12,000 and 14, 000 men, and they are all idle. The entire nonunion field of the Al legheny valley will continue work with out interruption. This is what ia known as the Freeport vein. COMING BY THOUSANDS. Extra Trains Required to Take Home seekers to Northwest. St. Paul, Minn., April 4. The homeseekers' travel continues heavy and tonight more than 4,000 holders of these tickets bad appeared at the Un ion depot. All the regular overland passenger trains were sent out ia double sections, and the Canadian con tingent via the "Soo" lint went out to night in three sections, taking about 1,000 passengers. The Great Northern and Northern Pacific sent out each two special trains, while each of the five rponiav trains carried from three to five extra coaches to accommodate the rush. These pas sengers were bound for Oregon and Washington. Tomorrow railroad men say the rush will exceed any day since the low rates went into effect, and the most conser vative estimate the arrivals r nnn The one-wav colonist rates nnf in aff ant- February 15 will expire tomorrow, but win oe renewed ano continued through out the summer. Indiana, Illinois and Missouri are furnishing the bulk of the homeseekers' travel. Texas Cattle Law Invalid. Washington. April 4 fn an ' UjMlllUH by Justice Brown the 8n u the United States today decided the case of the Houston & Texas Central railway vs. J. A. Mavea i company. Mayes ordered 17 care, in wuiuu to Bnip ozo nead of cattle. The cars arrived 24 hours atfer the time set in tbe agreement. Mayes sued, under a Texas law. for damnKa U! cattle by the delay and also, under the state law, to recover $25 per car on his contract with the company. The lower courts upheld the complainant. Conference on Statehood Bill. Washington. Anril i Tk, ! r 1U BBBBIUU Ul the joint conference on statehood today Was devoted to a diRfilinsinn a VA UAJO UiUJU proposition, the senate amendment eliminating Aiiaona and New Mexico from the bill.