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.