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LEXINGTON WHEATFIELD
& A. THOMAS, Publisher
LEXINGTON OREGON
NEWS OFTHE WEEK
Id a Condensed Form for Oar
Readers.
A Resume of the Less Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
of the Past Week.
Dowie is gradually dying of dropsy
and cannot last long.
. Recent earthquake shocks have caus
ed a Cuban mine to cave in.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis is much im
proved though still quite ill.
Congress is receiving many protests
against the prohibition of passes
San Francisco saloons have been clos
ed indefinitely by the authorities.
John F. Wallace has formed a $12,
000,000 electric company in New York.
The Btrike of funeral drivers in New
York has caused the postponement of
many funerals.
Count Lamsdorff , Russian minister of
Foreign affairs, has resigned for a place
in the council ol the empire.
The British fleet is all ready for an
attack on Turkey should that country
continue her hostile movements.
Chicago printers have declared a boy
cott on Methodist rituals on account of
.Jflbor troubles with the Methodist Book
tOnCern.
Taft refuses to confine purchases of
canal supplies to the United States and
has told congress if they want him to
buy all at home to pass neceseary laws.
The first steamer of the season has
left Seattle for Nome.
The withdrawal of troops from San
Francisco has begun. '
The first Btep of the Russian lower
house will be to demand amnesty.
The State department has forwarded
$200,000 to Japan for use by the starv
ing people.
Senator Ankeny wants the govern
ment to use all home material for the
Panama canal.
Great Britain will advocate disarma
ment at the coming sessions of The
Hague conference.
The United States will not allow a
revolution in Panama. Conditions
there are now bordering revolt.
Dowie and Voliva are said to have
reached an agreement for a joint man
agement of the affairs of Zion City.
Governor Pardee says Santa Rosa
Buffered more proportionately than San
Francisco and that conditions there now
are heartrending.
M. Gorky, the Russian author, de
clares the douma a farce and Bays the
Russian people know they must have a
revolution in order to be free.
Shonts reports progress on the Pan
ama Canal.
Import statistics show that the Chi
nese boycott is waning.
Republican Senators have agreed to
support a limited court review of rateB.
Anthracite miners have formally ac
cepted an agreement with the operat
ors. There is talk of Taft for President,
with Roosevelt as his Secretary of
State.
Roosevelt lias asked CongTess for an
other $500,000 for relief work in Cal
ifornia. Elaborate measures have been taken
to protect the Czar at the opening of
parliament.
Measures have been taken to protect
San Francisco property from foreclos
ure of mortgage
San Francisco authorities are driving
ablo-bodicd men from the bread lines
with the idea of compelling them to
work for a living.
Turkey has seized more Egyptian ter
ritory and declares she will fight Great
Britain. The latter country is sending
warships and soldiers to fight the Sul
tan. Voliva has organized a strike against
Dowie in Zion,
Tho anthracite miners and operators
have finally agreed.
Britain and Turkey each stand firm
and prepare to fight.
Russian democrats propose to
all land to the peasants.
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Free restaurants are proposed to feed
the destitute of San Francisco.
The president will co-operate with
the several states in Standard Oil prose
cution. Leading architects estimate that the
rebuilding .of San Francisco will take
but one year.
Franz E. Creffleld, chief of tho Holy
Rollers, has boon shot and killed at
Boattle by George Mitchell, brother of
two of the women the self-stylod
"Joshua" led astray two years ago,
when excitement over the new religion
was high at Corvallis.
PARLIAMENT MEETS.
Elect or Russian People Assemble In
Open Session.
St. Petersburg, May 11. Without a
single hitch and with only a minor in
cident to mar the memorable day, the
Russian parliament was inaugurated
yesterday. The emperor's message in
reality was less a throne speech than a
greeting, and required only three min
utes for its delivery. Emperor Nicho
las read slowly. The admirable and
even cordial tone of the sovereign in re
newing his pledges and asking the CO'
operation of parliament for the regen
eration of the country was only nega
tively satisfactory.
Courtiers and spectators other than
members of the national parliament led
the cheering, but the members were
ominously silent. What rankled most
was the failure of the emperor to men
tion amnesty, and later, when the
membars assembled in the lauride pal
ace, away from the spell of the throne
room, many of them were with diffi
culty restrained from precipitating
matters by offering resolutions on the
subject. The Constitutional Democra
tic leaders, however, who 'dominated
everything, were anxious not to weaken
the reply which the lower house will
prepare to the speech from the throne,
in which issues with the crown will be
joined, and succeeded in staving off
premature action.
By the irony of fate, Ivan Fetrunke-
vitch, whose first mention of the word
constitution 12 yean ago was dismissed
by Emperor Nicholas II as "a foolish
dream," today stood in the front rank
of the members of the representative
chamber, while Emperor Nicholas put
his official seal upon the Russian par
liament. GIVES MANY BRIBES
Inner Workings of Standard Oil Made
Public by Former Employe.
Chicago, May 11. Corruption of
railroad employes and agents of inde
pendent oil companies, dishonest meth
ods of procuring land leases, the giving
of short measure, the selling of three
different kinds of oil out of the same
tank and misrepresentations aa to the
quality of oil sold, were charged against
the Standardl Oil company at today'B
hearing before the Interstate Commerce
commission. Incidentally, it was
charged that the Frisco road gives a
rate of 2 cents a hundred pounds to the
Standard Oil company when it charges
competitoTB of that corporation 10 times
as much for the same haul.
. The inquiry was held under an order
of congress and this session held here
today was along the same lines as that
held some time ago in Kansas City.
The principal witnesses today were E.
M. Wilhoit, of Springfield, Mo., form
erly for ten years agent of the Standard
Oil company at Topeka. but now an in
dependent operator; H. C. Deran, of
Fremont, O.; E. P. Ripley, president
of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
road, and M. Maxon, a former agent of
the Standard Oil in Illinois.
PUT OVER HEAD OF HART.
China Appoints New Officials to Man
age Customs Service.
Pekin, May 11. An imperial edict
which may "radically affect the status of
Sir Robert Hart, director general of the
Chinese customs and the customs estab
lishment, waa published today, as fol
lows: "Tieh Liang, president of the board
of revenue, is hereby appointed super
intendent of customs affairs. Tong
Shao, junior vice president of the For
eign board, is appointed associate min
ister of Customs affairs. All Chinese
and foreigners employed in the various
customs are placed under their control."
Both these offices are new creations
in the customs service. Hitherto the
customs have been nominally under the
direction of the Foreign board, but
practically Sir Robert Hart haa exer
cised absolute control.
The diplomats here are unwilling to
comment on the edict until ita inten
tions and full force are appaient. If it
means a step toward active Chinese
management of the customs, the foreign
governmenat are expected to resist it.
London Companies' Instructions.
London, May 11. At a meeting to
day of managers of insurance companies
here involved in the San Francisco dis
aster, it waa voted to telegraph the fol
lowing instructions to the companeis'
representatives at Ban Francisco: "We
desire a committee to act with Ameri
can companies ia adjusting losses in
strict conformity with each company's
separate policy conditions, acting on
Ipsral and expert advice, referring home
disputed cases which involve import
ant principlea and doubtful to legal
ability."
Will Make Jefferson Statue.
Washington, May 11. Secretary
Root announced today that Augustus
St. Gaudens had been secured as Bculp
tor for the proposed Thomas Jefferson
monument to be erected in Washington.
IN THENATIONAL HALLS OF CONGRESS
Friday, May II.
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voted much time to considering a point
of order made by Ta'"ty against an
appropriation for a new steel floating
drydock, provided in the naval appro
piation bill. The chair held the point
of order well taken, in a carefully pre
pared opiuion.
Hepburn, of Iowa, made a vigorous
attack on the court martial system of
the navy, especially criticising the offi
cers responsible for the accidents that
have happened to ships of the navy.
A point of order against the appro
priation for the naval training station
at Lake Bluff, Illinois, was pending
when the house adjourned until Mon
day.
Washington, May 11. Bailey'a non-
suspension amendment, applying to or
ders of the Interstate Commerce com
mission as covered by the railroad rate
Din, wnich has occupied bo much of the
attention of the senate in connection
with that bill, was today adversely dis
posed of by the decisive vote of 23 to
54, practically a party vote.
An amendment bv Rayner confining
the court review to constitutional ques
tions was also voted down. A number
of other amendments were rejected.
An amendment limiting to two years
the life of the commission's orders was
adopted.
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Thursday, May 10.
Washington, May 10. In connection
with the consideration of the railroad
rate bill by the senate, La Follette to
day attempted to secure the imposition
of imprisonment for violations of the
provisions of the Intestate Commerce
law. He proposed terms from one to
five yeara, in addition to finea from
f 1,000 to $20,000 for unjust discrimi
nation, for false representation to se
cure business at less than the estab
lished rate.
After much discussion an amendment
was adopted restoring the penalties of
the old law.
Washington, May 10. Sheila and
projectiles for the Navy, department
will, after June 30, 1906, be purchased
by the bureau of Ordnance in the open
market, instead of, as now the practice,
in secret markets from firms engaged
in the manufacture of these articles.
This change in existing conditions was
brought about through the efforts of
the chairman of the appropiations
committee, Tawney, ot Minnesota, who
offered an amendment to the naval ap
propriation bills which the house hud
under consideration today.
Wednesday, May 9.
Washington, May 9 The senate spent
the greater part of the day again m
the consideration of the question of di
vorcing the. production of coal and oth
er commodities from their transporta
tion, and closed that branch of its
work by adopting a modified provision
formally offered by Elkins, but origin
ally suggested by McLaurin. There
was again much sparring over parlia
mentary points, but there was at no
time as much confusion as on Tuesday,
and, when the coal question was finally
closed, the progress was so rapid that
the first section was entirely disposed
of before the senate adjourned. Other
amendments were also adopted, but a
long-and-short-haul provision suggested
by LaFollette was voted down by prac
tically a party vote, allbut two re
publicans voting against the amend
ment. Washington, May 9. Nearly the en
tire time of the house was today taken
up by two propositions first, whether
the navy department should go into
the open market and purchase anchors,
chains and cordage, or continue to man
ufacture these articles in .the govern
ment navy yards, as is now done; and,
second, whether tho cost of transport
ing coal from 'Atlantic and Gulf ports
to the Philippines in American bottoms
should be limited to $5 or $6 per ton.
On tho first proposition a substitute
was adopted, giving tho secretary of
the navy the right to purchase these
articles in open market if a saving could
be made.
The second proposition did not carry.
Tuesday, May 8.
Washington, May 8. Aside from a
few minutes devoted to the reception
of the Allison amendments to the rail
road rate bill and a half hour given to
routine business, the Senate devoted its
entire session today to the ineffectual
consideration of the Elkins amendment,
prohibiting common carriers from en
gaging in mining coal or in the pro
duction of other commodities in compe
tition with shippers, and adjourned at
5 p. m. in a state of great confusion as
May Vary Size of Farms.
Washington, May 8. The house to
day passed the bill authorizing the sec
retary of the interior to fix farm units
on government irrigation projects any
where from 10 to 160 acres, according
to the productivity of the soil and the
kinds of crops that can be raised. The
bill contains a provision authorizing
the sale of lots in the townsites of Ru
pert, Heyburn and Sherer, Idaho, the
expenses to be defrayed from the recla
mation fund. Until this bill passes,
these lots cannot be sold, for the land
office has o funds to sell them under
tne general townsite laws. .
beforo it. Tho dis-
10 liu't that a num
for amendments to
, her of substitutes
tlio original amendment wore intro
duced. During tlio day, tho Senate de
cided in tho affirmative tho disputed
point that under the agreement, tho
chair can entertain a motion to lay on
tho table. It refusod, howover, by a
vote of 29 to 47 to lay tho Elkins pro
vision on tho table. That amendment
and tho various motions will therefore
be in order when the rate bill is taken
up tomorrow.
Washington, May 8. Tho IIouso of
Representatives dovoted tho day to tho
naval appropriation bill, and accom
plished tho reading for amendment of
tho first 15 pageB. During this time sev
eral topics incident to tho measure wore
discussed, including tho difficulty of ob
taining enlisted men in the navy, the
locution of tho naval training station on
the Great Lakes, the cost of smokeless
powder, and finally tho expenditure of
200,000 a year for chains for ships. This
last matter was undor consideration
when the IIouso adjourned.
Tho army appropriation bill was sont
to conference with all of tho Senate
amendments disngrood to,
Monday, May 7.
Washington. May 7. The senate to-
lay spent the major portion of its time
in one amendment, but instead or ac
epting it, adopted a substitute. The
provision which was made the basis of
ho discussion was that suggested by
Foraker prohibiting the granting of re
bates, passes, drawbacus, or special
rates to passengers on railways and also
prohibiting discrimination in the way
of accommodations where equal rates
are paid.
The discussion took a broad range,
covering nrst tne pass question anu
then the race question in the Southern
States. The race issue was raised ia
connection with tho clause rolative to
discrimination, which was interpreted
ns referring to separate .cars for the
races, and it called out vory warm pro
tests from Bacon, Money, Culberson
and other Southern senators.
Washington, May 7. Notwithstand
ing that this was tlio speaker's seven
tieth birthday, the house, after a splen
did demonstration to Mr. Cannon as no
ascended to tho speaker's table, settled
down to one of the biggest days in the
history of the present session. Tlio
day was notablo for the number of bills
passed, forty-five in number, covoring
a large number of subjects. Many of
the bills could have been passed by
unanimous consent, but with Williams'
"determination to object to any legis
lation by unanimous consent," these
bills came up under suspension of the
rules, this .being known as ' ' suspension
day."
The following were among tne bills
To authorize the Minnesota, Dakota
& Pacific Railroad Company to con
struct a bridge across the Missouri
river.
' Granting to the Chicago, Milwaukee
& St. Paul Railway Company the right
of way through the Fort Keogh mili
tary reservation, Montana.
To punish the cutting, chipping or
boxing of trees on the public domain.
To amend an act concerning leases in
the Yellowstone National Park.
T,o provide for the subdivision and
sale of certain land in the state of
Washington.
To amend the act to provide a gov
ernment for the territory of Hawaii.
Statehood Compromise.
Washington, May 5. All of the minor
amendments to the statehood bill are
either disposed of or in shape to be
made the foundation of argument at
a moment's notice.
At today's session of the conferees on
that measure the climax of the situa
tion -was reached for the first time.
Tho question of tho admission of Ari
zona and New Mexico as one state was
discussed at length.
No proposition for a compromise was
offered,i and the meeting adjourned un
til Tuesday.
In a general way it is known that the
compromise will be the Foraker amend
ment, allowing the people of tho two
territories to vote upon the question of
being joined in statehood.
Whethex this vote is to be coupled
with the election for state officers or is
to be held prior to such elections is
one of the questions yet to be decided.
Were Cruel to Insane.
Washington, May 5 Inquiry into the
conditions at St. Elizabeth's asylum
for the insane was begun today by tho
special committee of the housa of rep
resentatives appointed by Speaker Can
non. Nearly a dozen witnesses were
heard, Evidence was adduced showing
that some of the patients who worked
in the hospital laundry had been cruelly
treated, and some of the witnesses tes
tified that Foreman E. L. Maench, of
the laundry, frequently was intoxicated
while on duty.
Navy Men Did Well.1
Washington, May 8. Acting Secre
tary of the Navy Newberry has laid
before the president a report of cases
of gallantry and signally efficient per
formances of duty by officers and men
of the navy in connection with the San
Francisco disaster. The data were col
lected by direction of the president, and
the acting secretary's report embodies
extracts from letters and telegrams
from Rear-Admiral Goodrich, command
er-in-chief of the Pacific squadron; Rear-
Admiral is. a. Mcuaua, and Lieutenant
Commander Henry C. Haines, of the
I to tho exact subject
order was duo to tl
I marine corps.
LOOT RELIEF CARS.
Toughs Bronk Open on Docks and Take
Much of Contents,
Oakland, Cal., May D. A now and
heretofore unsuspected loophulo for
wholesale grafting of supplies intended
for relief work waj this morning dis
closed by Colonel Mans, of tho Quarter
master's Department, who has been su
perintending tho distribution of food
stuffs. Somewliei'o between people who
load cars of stuff at outsldo points and
disputeli thorn to San Francisco and tho
authorities who should rocoivo thorn,
wholesale looting has boon dono.
Colonel Matis states that ho has re
ceived bills' of lading for cars of stuff
which ho has found on opening to bo
oiitiroly empty. This Information haa
been laid before both the civil and mil
itary authorities, and an effort will bo
mudo to locate the looters and confis
cate tuoir ill-gotten goods.
Thoro is no thought in the minds of
tho authorities now that tho thefts kjive
boon by rosponsiblo parties, but simply
by somo of tho many gangs of toughs
which have their hoadqunrtors on tlio
water front. It is believed that thoso
people have broken into the cars on the
docks while in transit across tho bay.
A thorough search of their camps will
bo made, and it is expoctod a groat
amount of stolon property will bo un
covered. General Crooly fools that tho food
situation is rapidly becoming hotter..
The kitchen system will bo given ai
trial, and Major Febiger is superin
tending tho establishment of five head
quarters in various pnrts of the city,,
whero cooked food will be distributed,,
rather than tho customary broad and
canned stuff.
Tho net is gradually being drawn
tighter to decroaso tho number of free
eaters. All applicants for rations are
now challenged and tho cases of all
suspicious characters thoroughly inves
tigated. Men earning wages are -refused
free supplies and froo meal tick
ets. THREE MORE ARRESTED '
Another Bag Among Oshkosh Lumber
men for Fraud in Oregon.
Oshkosh, Wis., May Three moro
Wisconsin lumbermen have been served
with warrants charging them with com
plicity in Oregon timber-land frauds,
tlio warrants being issued on indict
ments formulated by a Federal grand
jury Bitting in Portland during April.
Tlio last men to bo served wero Joseph
Black, John C. Black and August An
derson, all of Shawno. Eight Wiscon
sin men nro now under arrest as tho
result of Federal capiases issued at
Portland. The Shawno men wero ex
pecting tlio indictments, and accepted
service through' their attorney, M. J.
Wallrieh, who furnished bail for their
appearance, with the Oshkosh men be
rore Federal Court Commissioner Mc
Donald in this city Friday.
In the indictment it is charged that
the Blacks and Anderson conspired with
Sumner A. Parker, of Ashland, Or., to
obtain land by means of proving up on
false statements of alleged settlors in
the Lakeview district, and that these
lands were obtained for the Oshkosh
Land & Lumber Company, of which tho'
Oshkosh defendants were members.
STEVEDORES QO ON STRIKE.
Paid Full Wages, They Refuse to Settle'
for Their Meals.
Oakland, Cal., May 9. A situation
humorous and serious at once was cre
ated today by a group of some 50 steve
dores who were at work on the Folsom
street dock unloading Government relief
supplies. While other men are donat
ing their services and sncrificincr thoii-
businesses to aid in tho relief work,
ineso sons or ton nave been receiving a
bright half dollar for each hour of work '
they have done.
Jrow, when the Government officials
ask these men to paf 40 cents for the
three meals they eat each day on the
transport Crook, the laborers are in
censed and withdraw their services. In
a word, the stevedores have geen paid
the same wacns ns tlmv rniniiroi iinfn.
the fire, go say tho Government officials,
aim iney siriKe wne.n asked to pay for
their meals a mere fraction of what it
would cost them at other places. .
The work of unloading is as a conse
quence at a standstill, but if the strik
ers do not return, men from the refugee
camps will bo impressed into service.
LESSONS OF THE DISASTER.
Merits of Steel and Worthlessnflsq nf
Granite, Says Metcalf.
Washington Mnv O .qra(r,.. irt
calf returned to Washington today from
San Francisco. In discussing the .situ
ation today with a representative of
tho Associated Press, Mr. Metcalf said
tho destruction of San Francisco and
other Californ
. , mu buvvug xur-
nisned the best object lesson to archi
tects and builders in this country and
in the world. Th
sively, he said, that steel structures had
ueoi, wiiuBiooa xno snocK and fire, and
that granite, under itina im
-t una,, wttjf;
practically worthless.
Another point which impressed him
considerably was the fact that the sit
uation disclosed a less proportion 1 of
poor persons in San Francisco than gen
erally had been supposed. It was found
that there was on deposit on the day
of the calamity in savings banks over
$165,000,000, or an average of $6300 per
capita for every citizen of the city.
Vesuvius Breaks Out Again.
Naples. Mav 0 v 1 1 TT 1 .. J 1
showing considerable activity. Today a
flense Pnlumn nf amlr ; J
-.- D.Mune in arising irom
the crater and spreading liVa ... .
i I. i ou um
brella. accomnnniAil w i.,a j-i
tions and electrical discharges which
are especially noticeable from Resina.
the main eratnr is lianl,n: i . ,.
cinders. .na