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About Lexington wheatfield. (Lexington, Or.) 1905-19?? | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1906)
LEXINGTON WHEATFIELD 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. Dowie and Voliva are negotiating for a compromise. 1 A great bank is being proposed to help Wall street men. Roosevelt is being boomed for re election despite his refusal. Flatt says be will not be a candidate for re-election to the senate. Correspondents on the isthmns say Colon could be made a model city. The government will spend $1,400, 000 on the Jamestown exposition. The eruption of Vesuvius has almost entirely subsided, leaving a barren land. Governor Higgins, of New York, has signed two more laws regulating insur ance business. The meeting of the second Hague conference will be held some time after September 20. The Pennsylvania's officers report that in target practice with 6-inch guns 17 hits were scored in 90 seconds. Future Governor Smith, of the Phil ippines, is home for a rest. He says lower tariff rates with the islands is imperative. The Northern Pacific announces that a third passenger train service will be added May g0 between St. Paul and Pacific coast points. Prospects of the Columbia jetty bill are improving. France is satisfied with the success of the Moroccan conference. Germany is urging Turkey to resist the demands of Great Britain. Anthracite coal operators have e jected the terms ol the miners. Russia has agreed to a postponement of The Hague peace conference. The New York board of education has adopted resolutions favoring re form in spelling. Dowie's health is faliing fast and it may be that his death will settle the fight for control of Zion City. A bill has passed both houses of con gress providing for the establishment of a life saving station at Neah bay. Preparations are being made for the early beginning of work on the rail roads to be built on the islands of Panay, Negros an Cebu, in the Philip pines. The house committee on elections is working on a bill which provides for the election of senators by direct vote of the people and makes the terms of house members four years instead of two. Chairman Shonts has returned to the canal zone. Maxim Goiky, the Russian revolu tionist, is in New York. Congressman and Mrs. Longworth are making preparations for a trip to Europe in June. The president hai taken a hand in urging the prosecution of the Chicago packers aB individuals. President Roosevelt ha cabled con dolence? to the kin? cf Italy on the havcc and loss of 1 fe r a used by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Cotton woikers of New Bedford, Mass., will ffck for an increase in wages. There are abont 12,000 em ployed in the New Bedford mills. The anthracite coal operators have offered a new arbitration fcheme to the miners and the indepenent operators call the miners union anarchists. General orders have been issued to naval commanders to observe the strict eft economy in the use of coal, on ac count of a deficiency in the coal appro priation for the navy. Boys from two of Chicago's schools engaged in a war and it took eight pol icemon to quell the trouble. Many pupilB were severely hurt. Alrgnns, slingshots, baseball bats, bricks and other weapons were sued. Japan has opened Manchuria to for eign trade. Witte again threatens to resign as premier of Russia. Dowie savagely denounces his wi'e and vows he will not live wih her again. Another attack on engineers and oth er officials of the Lena, France, coal mines has bean made by the miners wives. LAVA COOLS AND ASHES FALL. Naples Recovers From Panic and Is Cheered by King and Queen. Naples, April 13. Frequent deton ations are still heard on Mount Vesu vius, but faintly. The main crater is gradually enlarging. The most con soling news is that the lava is cooling on all sides. Ashes are falling everywhere, houses are collapsing and burying their occu pants. Roads near the volcano are no sooner opened than they are closed again. The heaviest fall is now over Somma, Santa AnaBtasia, Ponticelli and other villages in a section opposite and distant from the city. The people have recovered from the panic of yesterday, are less sullan and downhearted. It is largely due to the presence ol the king and queen. They are mingling freely with the populace, doing everything in their power to alle viate the condition of the injured and mingling their tears with those who have lost friends or relatives. The inhabitants of this city are en during the yellow gray atmosphere of yesterday, which is even more oppres sive than before. The popular costume of those who can afford it consists of an automobile coat, cap and goggles, which enables the wearer to maintain a semb lance of cleanliness, but the people generally have to be contented with paper masks and raised umbrellas. The drivers of trolley cars are wearing masks of some transparent material under the visors of their caps. More shops were opened today and the cily is slowly resuming its normal life. The latest reports say that 243 houses have been damaged at Portiei, 195 at San Giovanni and Teduccio, 432 at Kesina and 1,000 at Torre del Greco. It is impossible to determine the ex act number of buildings demolished at Torre Annunziata. It is estimated that about 5,000 houses in all have been partly or entirely destroyed. In villages on the Ottajano side of the mountain all the houses are dam aged. At Nola desolation reigns', the place having been almost entirely abandoned. A committee has been formed to col lect funds and organize assistance for sufferers. It is presided over by the Duke of Aosta. The government heads the subscription list with $100,000. The amount collected up to the present time is $300,000. Firemen have been sent from Paler mo, Sicily, and other places to the vil lages in this vicinity which have suf fered the most from the fall of ashes, to assist in removing the ashes from the roofs and relieve the exhausted soldiers. Camp kitchens have been established and free meals are being served. COAL TRAFFIC IS POOLED. Eastern Roads Admit They Have an Agreement as to Rates. Philadelphia, April 13. That rates are fixed by the Traffic association com posed of various coal carrying roads was the admission drawn from railroad offi cials at the final hearing of the Inter state Commerce commission investiga tion into the affairs and abu-es of the coal trade. Through Joseph G. Searles, coal traffic manager of the Pennsylva nia railroad company, who iB also chairman of the All-Rail Traffic asso ciation, it was learned that this organi zation not only fixes the percentage of tonnage alloted to each rGad, but also establishes the rates. Counsel for the commission produced the minutes of the meeting of the Tide water Bituminus Steam Coal Traffic as sociation, held on September 19, 1900. The records showed that a resolution offered by the Norfolk & Western com pany permitting that company and the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad to carry tidewater roal at the rate of $1.25 a ton wa voted down and that the rvate waB fi ted at $ 1 .40 a ton. Mr. Searles ad m'tted that there had been an agree ment as to the tonnage to be allowed each road, and that, if ore road ship ped more and another hps, a ettlement was made. He adh that there had been no settlement since 189 '. Mr. Searles denied that there was an under standing to mainain ia'e letweenal rail and all water associations fi.r the purpose of preventing competition. Wild Stampede for Gold. Carson, Nev., April 13 -The report ed strike of koM in Churchill county has sta'npeiled Carson. Ka ly this morning thee a n string of vehicles and automobiles h.ti lint? for Churchill county to irarh the Cooney Springs strike. The town peems to have been almost deserted todav in the pell mell rush. News comes lio n Virginia City and other towns that the stampede has affected them in the fame manner. Tonight there are rumors ot another strike within 20 or 30 miles of this city. Castro Quits Temporarily. New York, April 13 General Cipri ano Castro has retired temporarily from the presidency of Venezuela. General Juan Vicente Gomez, first vice presi dent of the republic, is the present ex ecutive. This information was con tained in an official cable dispatch re ceived today from Caracas by Carlos Benito Fipuerdo, vice consul general in this city. IN THE NATIONAL HALLS OF CONGRESS Friday, April 13. Washington, April 13. Owing to the fact that none of its members were prepaied to speak on the railroad' rate bill, that measure was temporarily laid aside today in the senate, permitting the devotion of the entire time to the consideration of other bills on the cal endar. Of these more than 800 were passed, most of them being private pen sion bills. Among the general bills passod was one increasing the pensions of ex soldiers who lost limbs in the service; another retiring and pensioning petty officers and men of the army, navy and marine corps after 30 years of service at three-fourths their regular pay; and a third bill increasing the pensions of ex-Mexican war soldiers to $20 per month and making the attainment of 75 years of age evidence of disability. Washington, April 13. After spend ing much time in useless debate and wrangling, the house took up the post office appropriation bill. The bill was finally perfected at 5:45 o'clock, when Moon, of Tennessee, en tered a motion to recommit to the post office committee with instructions to report the bill to the house immedi ately with the Southern railway mail subsidy stricken out. On tbiB motion Crmpacker, of Indiana, demanded a rollcall, which was ordered. Moou'b i motion was lost, 96 to 99. This re tained the subsidy in the bill, and without further objection the bill was passed. Thursday, April 12. Washington, April 12. The feature of today's proceedings in the house of representatives was the speech made by Cochran, of New York, who, under an agreement made on a previous day, waB given an hour to elucidate the subject of "general debate" on appropriation bills. Ia view of the announcement that Cockran would speak, the galleries were crowded and a very large propor tion of the members were in attend ance. Cockran, after a short discussion of the fiction of "general debate" and the failure of members to attend the sit tings of the houEe while subjects cover ing the widest possible latitude were being illuminated, launched into a de fense of the Hepburn rate bill and the high position taken by the house, not only in the exceptional character of the legislation, but in the dignified way in which the billl paseed the lower branch of congress. In this connection he ridiculed the constitutional debaters in the senate. Washington, April 12. After a brief speech by Lattimer on in support of the house railroad rate bill, Foraker today took the floor on that measure and consumed practically all of the re mainder of the day's session of the sen ate. He spent some time in the discus sion of Borne of the amendments he has suggested, aDd then entered upon the consideration of the entire question of railroad rate regulation, arguing against the constitutionality of the pending bill from various points of view. He was frequently interrupted by other senators. Lodge spoke briefly in support of the practice of granting lower rates on goods intended for export than on those used in domestic con sumption. Wednesday, April II. Washington, April 11. Among the many bills paseed by the senate today was one granting land on Morton is land, in Snake river, Oregon, to that state as a fish hatchery. Other bills passed follow : Authorizing the allotment of land to natives of Alaska; prohibiting the use of diving apparatus in the taking of spongefl; authorizing the state of Mon tana to select lieu lands; prohibiting aliens from gatheringrfponges in Amer ican waters. In response to a request by Tillman to Hx a time for taking a vote on the rate bill, Aldrich expressed the opinion that before the end of the week the speeclu s would be ho far disposed of as o e.iable the senate to foresee the end of gener.il discussion. Washington, April' 11. When Speaker Cannon called the house to order today, a senate bill ratifying an agreement with the Lower Brule band of the Stotix tribe of Indians, in South Dakota, was passed. The postoffice ap propriation bill was then taken up. The military record of General Jacob H. Smith was the subject of a speech May End Race Problem. Washington, April 10 Dr. 8. Har ris, professor of medicine in the Uni versity of Alabama, at Mobile, talked to the president today about the ravages of consumption among the negroes of the South. He expressed the fear, and he added that his opinion was concurr ed in by the medical fraternity general ly in the South, that the negro race was likely to becorab extinct in this country. Statistics showed, he declar ed, that the death rate among the mem bers of the negro race in America was greater than the birth rte. by Banon, Ohio, who defended the ac tions of General Smith, in the Philip pines, stating that General Wood's achievements were a complete vindica tion of the case of General Smith, Hayes, Cal., Bpoke in favor of an in creased salary for postal clerks. Tuesday, April 10. Washington, April 10. For seven hours today the house had under con sideration the postoffice appropriation bill, but in only a few instances were the provisions considered. During the debate on the special appropriation for railway mail pay, bitter words were exchanged between representatives from North Carolina, Arkansas and Kentucky, but all were within the rules of the house. A humerous speech waB made by J. Adam Bede, Minn., and CharleB A. Towne, New York, spoke in behalf of the Jamestown exposition. Both Bede and Towne rep resented the Duluth district in Minne sota in other congresses. They were warmly congratulated on their speeches. Washington, April 10. For more than four hours today Bailey held the undivided attention of the senate with a speech in reply to Spooner and Knox, and just before its conclusion there was a significant suggestion from Hale indi cating the possibility of an understand ing and an early vote on the railroad rate bill. The day was one of the most notable in the recent history of the senate. Very few senators were absent at any time during the day and every seat in the galleries, public, private, senatori al, exacutive and diplomatic, was held by its occupant with marked tenacity. Monday, April 9. Washington, April 9. McLaurin and Morgan addreeied the senate today on the railroad rate question, the former advocating the legislation and the lat ter opposing. The Mississippi senator announced his intention to support an amendment providing for a court re view of the decisions of the Interstate Commerce commission and also stated bis adherence to the Bailey amend ment, prohibiting the temporary sus pension of the commission's orders by the inferior courts. He criticized what he characterized aB an effort to inject politics into the consideration of the bill. Morgan took the position that the proposed legislation was an inter ference with the rights of the states to control the corporations created by themselves, and said that the best way to check exorbitant railroad rates was to keep the waterways in such condi tion as to insure competition. Washington, April 9. Notwith standing that this was District day in the house and that body resolved itself into a common council for the purpose of making laws for the District of Co lumbia, general interest was shown in the bills requiring non-resident pupils to pay tuition and regulating the em ployment of child labor. Hepburn, of Iowa, replying to a long speech of Sims, q( Tennessee, in which he contended for self government for the people of the. District of Columbia, made a de fense of the lorm of government, but criticized its administration. He did not think two newspaper men and one army officer, who constitute the board of commissioners, the proper personnel for such a government. Saturday, April 7. Washington, April 7. The house did not induge itself in the usual half holiday today, but continued the con sideration of the postoffice appropria tion bill, and in the latitude accorded under general debate the discussion took on a wide range, including rail way mail pay, increased pay for rural letter carriers, the American smelter trust and the corrupt use of money in elections, with side lights on na turalization laws. Dalzell, Republican, of Pennsylva nia, called up the bill amending the in ternal revenue laws to prevent the double taxation of certain distilled spirits. He asked that the bill be con sidered by the house as in committee ol the whole, possibly anticipating some debate. Before he could make any statement, the speaker had the bill read a third time, indorsed and passed, while general laughter over the expe ditious way the speaker disposed Jf legislation ran around the chamber. No Limit on Use of Franks. Salt Lake, April 10. That there is no law limiting or prescribing the char acter of printed matter which congress men may authorize to be sent through the mails under official frank, is the gist of a decision rendered here today by Judge John A. Marshall, of the United States District court. L. R. Anderson, chairman of the Republican committee of Sanpete county, Utah, was indicted for alleged illegal use of the (rank of Congressman James A. Tawney, of Minnesota, for distribute in Utah of political matter. POURING DOWN ON POMPEII. Lava Stream Changes Course and May Again Bury Ruins. Naples, April 11. The volcano is re suming great activity, especially at Cericola. The Btream of lava which staited in a new direction toward Torre Annunziata reached the come- tery of that town and then turned to ward Pompeii. The troopB are conveying provisions, surgical instruments and other material for the relief of the injured near Ot tajano. A violent storm of sulphurous rain occured today at San Guiseppe, Vesuv iana and Saviano. brupt'on Grows Worse. Naples, April 11. A great eruption of sand is observed on the east side of the main crater, 1 This is worse than ashes, as it ia heavier. The ejection of ashes seems to have diminished. Fresh shocks of earthquake are being felt, especially in the direction of Ot tajano, Somma and Nola. Fortunately the great amount of usheaon the ground seems to have counteracted the telluric action of the shocks. Another part of the main cone of the volcano has fallen in, causing a great discharge of red hot stones, flame and smoke. Blinded With the Ashes. Naples, April 11. There has been a considerable diminution in the fall of red volcanic sand since last night. The newspaper Pungolo today graph ically described a visit of a member of its staff to Ottojano San Guisippe and VeBuviana. Ottajano was enveloped in black smoke. The troops are clearing the ruins, demolishing tottering build ings and re-establishing communica tion. Entire families perished in the town and the terrible scenes occurred when refugees returned in search of missing relatives, whose bodies are un recognizable. The aBhes and clouds which fill the air ai'e causing much eve trouble, many persons in the worst affected districts being threatened with blindness. RAILROADS AID MONOPOLY. Private Car System Drives Out the Small Coal Operators. Philadelphia, April 11. That the bituminous coal traffic is divided among six railroad companies was developed today at the first hearing of the Inter state Commerce commission held here for the purpose of determining whether the railroad companies are int;ested directly or indirectly in the oil or coal which is transported over their lines. The commission also brought out the fact that by means of the private car system large mining companies are able to enter into contracts for delivery of coal at stated places, while small com panies which own no such cars are una ble to guraantee the exact time when their coal will be delivered. The Pennsylvania road, it was learn ed, declines to handle private cars un less the owner guarantees to have at least 500 cars, the possession of which would involve an outlay of $520,000. AVOIDS ZION CITY. Dowie Reaches Chicago but Will Go No Further at Present. Chicago, April 11. Dr. John Alex ander Dowie will not advance on the "hosts of Zion" as suddenly as he ex pected. Tonight, after a long consul tation with his legal adviser, Emil J. Wittel, Dowie gave out the statement that it might be several days before! bo saw tit to enter the city which he had founded. "The First Apostle" arrived in the city of Chicaso this morning shortly before 9 o'clock, completing the firs stage of his lonir journey from Mexico to the City of Zion, where he is to face his accusers. An immense crowd wa at the station to greet the Belf-styled Elijah III. ' After a short rest Dowie summoned his legal advieers and then ensued n, conference which lasted the greater part of the evening. Just what proceeding? will be taken to reinstate the "Fires Apostle" in Zion City were not definitely slated, but Dwie did state most emphatically that there would be no compwmVo with Voliva and that John A. D iwio must be the leader of Zion or nothing at all. Many Went to Klamath Falls. San Francisco. April 1 1. It is esti mated that at least 12,000 people out of the 25,000 that came to this coat on the colonist rate this spring have settled in California and Southern Ore aon. This rat went into effect on February 15 and closed April 7, and was in existence for 52 days, "s against 76 days the prrvious year. These 12, 000 people who have remained are pretty well distributed. They have gone into the Sacamento and San Joa quin valleyB, and hundreds have gone as far north as Klamath county, Ore. Great Output of Transvaal Mines. London, April 11 The output f the Transvaal gold mines for March was 343,723 ounces, valued at $9,943, 075, which constitutes a nw record, being 12,129 ounceB over thi "MVue highest monthly output.