LEXINGTON WHEATFIELD
&. A. THOMAS, PsMMnr
LEXINGTON OREGON
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Io a Condensed Form for Our
Busy Readers.
A Resume of the Less Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
of the Past Week.
King Haakon and Queen Mand have
been formally crowned aa rulers of
Norway.
The Russian douma blames the gov
ernment for the recent massacres and
calls on the cabinet to resign.
Experiments are being conducted in
Kansas to ascertain the result of meat
preservatives. Bogs are the subjects.
General Greely says at least 50,000
people in San Francisco are still de
pendent on the supply camps for food.
Formal announcement has teen made
by Attorney General Moody that he
will prosecute the Standard Oil for ac
cepting rebates.
The Transcontinental Insurance
company is reported to have only assets
sufficient to pay 10 per cent of its San
Francis :o losses.
A grand jury at Portland has indict
ed 12 men for connection with frauds
in the recent state election. More in
dictments will probably be made.
Insurance companies have refused to
pay a dollar of insurance at Santa Rosa,
California, claiming the earthquake
ruined the city. The state insurance
commissions has pledged his support.
The peasant revolt is growing in
Southern Russia.
English woman suffragists have been
arrested for rioting.
Fresh mutinies have occurred in sev
eral big Russian garrisons.
Bryan says his kind of conservatism
were he president would be to destroy
the trusts utterly.
The passage of the lock canal bill by
the senate is considered a personal vic
tory for Roosevelt.
Idaho is asking or information re
garding the insurance companies which
refuse to pay their San Francisco losses
in full.
A bulletin just issued by the census
bureau shows that there are 83 manu
facturing concerns in Alaska with a
capitalization of $10, 000,000.-
Los Angeles physicians have just re
moved the heart of a man and after
washing it replaced the organ. The
patient's chances of recovery are good.
In an accident the prong of a wooden
rake pierced the man's breast, carrying
in dirt which lodged on the heart.
The United States has a lower death
rate than any country in Europe except
Norway and Sweden, according to a
bulletin issued by the Census bureau.
Consumption is far in the lead as the
cause of death, but this disease has
shown a decrease of nearly 40 per cent
in the past six years.
The Corean revolt is spreading.
Japan plans to monopoloze the trade
of the Orient.
Fire at Los Angeles destroyed a block
in the wholesale district.
A number of Russian newspapers
have been suppressed for printing news
of the Bialystok massacre.
The house baa passed a bill granting
California 5 per cent of the net pro
ceeds of the sale of public lands.
It is expected that the Italian gov
ernment will soon issue an order for
the complete exclusion of American
canned meats.
Count Witte expresses the opinion
that the Russian douma is becoming
revolutionary in its character. He
also says the Jews have brought their
troubles on themselves.
A submarine eruption recently threw
np a small island near Boroslov, an is
land in Alaskan waters. Boroslov was
upheaved in the same way 100 years
ago and another small island in 1882.
Dr. W. T. Harric, commissioner of
education, has tendered his resignation
to the president and the latter has an
nounced the appointment of Dr. Elmer
E. Brown, professor of education at
the California university, as his suc
cessor. Revolutionary feeling is spreading in
Russia.
Tobacco trust officials have been in
dicted for conspiracy,
Evidence is being found that Dreyfus
was convicted by forgery.
California 1b ' pushing the fight on
"six-bit" insurance companies.
The president and house committee
have agreed on a meat inspection bill.
The Hermann land case trial at Fort
land is expected ta take place the first
of July.
AFTER STANDARD OIL.
President Decides to Have Criminal
Action Begun at Once.
Washington, June 22. Plans to be
gin immediate criminal prosecutions
against officials of the Standard Oil
company for violations of the Sherman
anti trust law and prosecution against
Standard Oil offiicals and high officials
of railroads for violation of Ibe Elkins
rebate law have been completed by the
administration, according to informa
tion from a high authority tonight.
These plans, it is understood, were
considered at a mysterious meeting of
five cabinet officers at the White House
last night which aroused much specula
tion in all circles today. It is said to
nave been the intention to keep the
matter Becret for a few days until the
department of Justice was ready to
strike the initial blow.
Wall Btreet, however, which seems
to get information from every conceiv
able source, even when the secret is
supposed to be confined to the presi
dent and his confidential advisers, got
a "tip" today that Standard Oil and
the railroads were in for new trouble,
and on the strength of this stock tum
bled. Reports from New York tonight
say that Washington had already heard
of the "leak" and that steps had been
taken to locate it.
A person of high authority declareb
that the department of Justice, as a re
sult of investigations conducted prior
to and since the Garfield report, has
enough evidence on hand to secure the
conviction of high Standard Oil and
railroad officials under both laws under
which prosecutions are to be made.
PREDICTS MUTINY OF SAILORS.
Narodny Says Army and Navy Officers
and Nobles are Rebels.
New York, June 22. Ivan Narodny,
a Russian who came here in the inter
ests of the Revolutionists, said yester
day: "There will be soon a great mutiny
in the Baltic fleet at Cronstadt, with
vastly more success than the already
historic mutiny of the Black Sea fleet.
The captains commanding are in sym
pathy . with the revelutionary move
ment and will declare at the appointed
time for reforms.
"The army officers drawn from the
noble class are on sympathetic terms
with the men from the peasant and ar
tisan classes. The common people and
the nobles in Russia are not separated
by the gulf that stood between these
classes under the ancient regime in
France. The nobles throughout Rus
sia, and the gentry, too, are the peas
ants' closest friends, on the most cor
dial and friendly footing. The nobles
are the backbone of the revolution in
Russia. The bureaucracy is drawn from
neither class, and is bated by both
classes.
"It is the system, which causes
riots like that at Bialystok. The rea
son why the bureaucracy stirs up this
resentment against the Jews is that
they are Been to be an element strong
for revolution radicals."
TEST CASE ON INSURANCE.
Lawsuit About Earthquake Clause
Losers Unite for Defense.
San Francisco, June 22. Two test
cases, brought by two women, who are
refugees from San Francisco, against
the Palatine Insurance company, of
London. England, to recover $600 in
surance money, were tried in Justice of
the Peace Quinn's court in Oakland
yesterday and decided in favor of the
plaintiffs. Notice of appeal was given
in each case, and the matter will be
thrashed out eventually in the superior
cuurts.
The defendant company announced
its intent to rest its defense on the le
gality of the "earthquake clause" in
the policies.
The Judge said no evidence had been
produced showing that the loss was
caused by the earthquake.
The several commercial bodies of San
Francisco will meet Monday, June 25,
to organize a policy holders' protective
association for the purpoBe of tecuring
prompt and fair settlements for their
members from the various insurance
companies in which they bold policies.
Britain Will Not Intercede.
London, June 22. In the house of
commons today Walter Runciman, par
liamentary secretary to the local gov
ernment board, in behalf of Foreign
Secretary Gray, again declined to in
form the government of Russia of the
views of the British people concerning
the anti-Jewish outbreaks. He said
the impression made and the sympathy
aroused not only in this country but
everywhere by the disturbance and loss
of life in Russia were known to the
Russian government, and further pro
tests would be useless.
Hail Destroys Corn and Fruit.
Dallas, Tex., June 22. A severe
wind, rain and bail storm caused much
damage throughout the Brazos river
section tonight and has practically de
stroyed all the growing corn and fruit.
Travel on the Texas Paciflo railroad be
tween Tallas and Fort Worth has been
suspended because of washouts, and all
of the section crews have been called
out to repair the damage.
EN THE NATIONAL
Friday, June 22.
Washington, June 22. The oposition
in the senate to the committee amend
ment to the sundry civil bill appropri
ating $25,000 annuslly for the payment
of the traveling expenses of the presi
dent, which waB begun by McLaurin,
resulted today in the withdrawal of the
amendment by Hale, in charge of the
bill, and the subsequent passage of the
independent bill providing practically
for the same appropriation, which was
recently passed by the house of repre
sentatives. Washington, June 22. Pure food
held the attention oi the house through
out today. The constitutional features
of the pure food bill were debated by
the leading lawyers of the house, the
Democrats splitting wide on the ques
tion whether the bill took away from
the states their police powers. Vari
ous features applicable to localities and
interests were discussed earnestly, but
it was early apparent that the bill will
be adopted practically in the form in
which it came from the interstate and
foreign commerce committee.
General debate was closed at 3 :S0,
when the bill was read and amend
ments offered.
The so-called "package" section was
passed over, it being evident that this
amendment will create much discus
sion. The bill waB laid aside until to
morrow. Thursday, June 21.
Washington, June 21. The senate
today took a position in accord with
the president and the house of repre
sentatives by declaring for a lock canal
across the isthmus of Panama. The
result was reached after a day's discus
sion that was almost devoid of interest
ing incident There was only one re
cord vote, and that was negative in
character, coming on a motion to lay
on the table the lock type substitute
for ihe sea level bill. This motion was
made by Kittredge, and was voted
down, 31 to 36.
Washington, June 21. The space
in front of the speaker's desk of the
house today resembled a small section
of a delicatessen store and a corner gro
cery, with cereals, jams, jellies, tins of
peas, tomatoes, corn, bottles of whis
key and wine, imported sausages,
brandied cherries and other edibles and
drinkables scattered over the tables.
To complete the picture, there were a
standard scales with weights, a grad
uate and a funnel. These were used
to demonstrate the contention of the
majority of the committee on inter
state and foreign commerce that a pure
food bill is necessary for the protection
of the people.
The house spent the entire day in
consideration of the bill and had not
completed it at adjournment. It will
be taken up again tomorrow.
Wednesday, June 20.
Washington, June 20. The meat
inspection provision of the agricultural
appropriation bill was today made the
subject of discussion in the senate. The
question name up on motion by Proctor
to grant the conference requested by
the house. The bill went over without
action.
There were two speeches on the Pana
ma canal, one by Morgan in support of
the sea level plan and the other by Per
kins in opposition.
The senate held its first night ses
sion, which was devoted to the consid
eration of the sundry civil appropria
tion bill.
Washington, June 20. Twenty bills
of more or less general interest were
passed today by the house under sus
pension of the rules. Among them
were measures appropriating $25,000
for the traveling expenses of the presi
dent, which excited considerable de
bate; providing for the subdivision of
land entered under the reclamation act;
increasing the efficiency of the bureau
of insular affairs by conferring the rank
and pay of a brigadier general upon the
chief; and regulat'ng the checking of
baggage by commjn carriers.
The joint resolution increasing the
terms of representatives to four years
failed to receive the necessary two
thirds vote.
Tuesday, June 19.
Washington, June 19. Knox ad
dressed the senate at length today in
support of the lock type for the Pan
ama canal, contending that in point of
President and Committee Agree.
Washington, June 19. The basis of
a complete agreement on the meat in
spection bill between President Roose
velt and the hoase committee on agri
culture was arrived at today at the
White House. Speaker Cannon repr
sented the committee in this instance
and subsequently spent some time ex
plaining the situation to the committee
in its room at the capitol. It will au
thorize an annual appropriation of $3,
000,000 to pay the cost of inspection
but contains no provision for court re
view at the suggestion of the president.
HALLS OF CONGRESS
feasibility and economy it is far super
ior to the sea level plan. He took di
rect issue with Kittredge bb to the
safety of the Gatum dam.
The agricultural appropriation bill,
containing the meat inspection provis
ion, was received frcm the house and
the house substitute ordered printed.
The senate ordered another confer
ence on the naval appropriation bill.
Washington, June 19; With practi
cal unanimity the house today adopted
the substitute for the Beveridge amend
ment to the agricultural appropriation
bill relating to meat inspection, the ob
jectionable features of the former
amendments being eliminated and the
amendment perfected to meet the
wishes of the president. An effort was
made to extend the time of debate, but
Wadsworth, chairman of the commit
tee on agriculture, desiring to get the
bill into conference as soon as possible,
objected. After the adoption of the
amendment the bill was Bent to confer
ence, the conferees beinx Wadsworth,
Scott (Ken.) and Lamb (Va.)
A large number of bills were passed
under suspension of rules. Through
the efforts of Champ Clark, of Mis
souri, and Williams, of Mississippi, the
subsidiary silver coinage bill tailed to
secure enough votes to pass it under the
rule.
Monday, June 18.
Washington, June 18. After another
day devoted largely to the Lake Erie &
Ohio river canal bill, the senate today
passed that measure with only 11 votes
in the negative. In addition, several
bills to which there was no objection
received favorable action. There also
waB further discussion between Tillman
and Hopkins over tbe resolution of the
former for an investigation of the ques
tion of national bank contributions to
political campaigns, which involved a
renewed reference to the failure of the
Chicago national bmk.
The session adjourned upon the offi
cial announcement of the death of Les
ter, of Georgia.
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Washington, June 18. A black
draped desk in tbe hall of the house
of representatives today told the story
of the passing of Rufus Lester, late a
representative in congress from the
First Georgia district. Previous to
any announcement Wadsworth, of New
York, asked unanimous consent, which
was granted, that the agricultural bill,
with senate amendments, be recom
mitted to tbe committee on agriculture.
Payne, of New York, by unanimous
consent, then fixed Tuesday and Wed
nesday as suspension days, instead of
today, in view of the early adjourn
ment of the house.
Bartlett, of Georgia, announced the
death of his late colleague, stating that
he had been a member of the house for
nearly 18 years. He offered the usual
resolutions, which were agreed to. As
a further mark of respect, the house
then adjourned until tomorrow.
Saturday, June 18.
Washington, June 16. The senate
spent the entire day debating the bill
to incorporate a ship canal connecting
lake Erie with the Onio river, and
again adjourned without action on it.
The bill was savagely attacked by Pat
terson as in the interest of speculation,
and was as warmly defended by Knox
and Nelson. LaFollette offered a num
ber of amendments, which were laid
on the table.
During a lull in the proceedings the
president pro tern announced his signa
ture to the statehood bill.
The senate adjourned at 4:30 p.m.
for want of a quorum.
Washington, June 16. After 40
minutes debate today tbe house by the
vote of 129 to 82 adopted the senate
resolution providing for the purchase
of material and equipment for use in
tbe construction of the Panama canal of
domestic manufacturers and of the low
est responsible bidder, unless the presi
dent shall in any case deem tbe bids or
tenders therefor to be extortionate or
unreasonable. The adoption of the
resolution came after a long discussion
of purchasing canal material in open
markets, while the sundry civil bill
was under consideration.
The sundry civil bill also was passed.
It carries a total appropriation of $94,
578,040, nearly $26,000,000 of which
is for the continuation of work on the
canal.
Lcse Unused Rights.
( Washington, June 19. The senate
today passed the house bill providing
that every right of way grant to any
railroad under the act of March 3,
1875, where such railroad has not been
constructed and shall not hereafter be
instructed within five years after defi
nite location, shall be forfeited to the
United States, all land along the un
constructed parts of the road to revert
to the government. Roads now build
ing to Portland and elsewhere in the
Northwest are excepted, as are all that
are being built in good faith.
DISHONEST MORTAR THE CAUSE
Japanese Tells How to Make Earthquake-Proof
Buildings.
San Francisco, June 20. "Dishonest
mortar a corrupt conglomeration of
sea sand and lime- was responsible for
nearly all of the earthquake damage in
San Francisco," said Dr. T. Nakaiuura,
professor of architecture of the Imper
ial university of Tokio and a member
of tbe committee dispatched to this
city by the Japanese government to in
vestigate the effects of the tretnblore
and lire. Dr. Nakamura will Bail on
the Korea today, to report to his gov
ernment. '
"I find," said Dr. Nakamura yester
day, "that much of the damage to San
Francisco from the earthquake was due
to poor mortar and faulty construction,
and the greater portion of the damage
to lha class 'A' buildings by tire was
the result of misguided use of hollow
tiling and so-called fire blocks instead
of concrete.
"There has developed as a result of
the earthquake in San Francisco, great
prejudice against brick buildings. How
ever, they are largely employed in
Japan, where earthquakes of greater
severity than the one experienced in
this city are not uncommon. The se
cret of their success, however, lies in
the fact that good mortar is used. Tbe
mortar should either be composed of
one part cement to two parts of sand,
or of one part cement, three of lime
and five of sand. The bricks should be
thoroughly wet before being laid, and
when the mortar has set under these
conditions, a wall becomes practically
one stone."
COMPANIES WOLF MAY SUE.
Names Those Which Disobey Law
and May Forfeit Licenses.
San Francisco, June 20. The foil ow
ing insuiance companies, by reason of
their failing to comply with Insurance
Commissioner Wolf's demand that they
either sign stipulations extending the
time for filing proofs of loss to August
18 or furnish tbe commissioner with
their lists of policy holders, have ren
dered themselves liable to forfeiture of
their right to do business in the state
of California:
Agricultural, American of Boston,
American of Philadelphia, Dutchess,
Eagle, German of Peoria, Germania,
Globe and Rutgers, Girard, New York
of New York, Northwestern Fire & Ma
rine, National Union, North Germai
of New York, Spring Garden, Security
of Baltimore, Traders, Union of Phila
delphia, Westchester, Western Under
writers. Commissioner Wolf intends to pro
ceed against these companies without
delay unless advised to tbe contrary by
the attorney general of tbe state. He
made this statement yesterday and
added:
"Furthermore it will be my business
to see that these companies are com
pelled to meet their just obligations.
If any retire without paying, I shall
ask that action be taken against them
by the insurance commissioners of the
state under whose laws they are incor
porated." SHAW WILL MAKE BIG DEPOSIT.
San Francisco Assured of $12,000,
OOO of Government Funds.
Washington, June 20. A tacit Agree
ment was reached today by tbe presi
dent. Secretary Shaw and the delega
tion of representative citizens of San
Francisco by which substantial aid will
be given San Francisco by tbe govern
ment. It 1b proposed that the United
Slates treasury deposit with the San
Francisco banks $12,000,000 of govern
ment money, with bonds of the city as
security, the money to remain in tbe
banks until the government shall call
for it.
Under the law the secretary of the
treasury has authority to deposit gov
ernment funds in this way, but cannot
bind his successor. It is hoped in Cal
ifornia to organize a corporation with a
capitol of several millions of dollars, to
issue bonds to guarantee the govern
ment against loss through tbe banks.
Other plans have been suggested for
tbe raising of money to enable the, peo
ple of California to rebuild their homes
and business houses, but thus far noth
ing has been proposed that will meet
the ideas of congress.
Troops in Mutiny.
Odessa, June 20. General Kaulbars
has received word from 11 of the best
garrisons in Russia to tbe effect that
the troops there are mutinous and have
refused to act as police in quelling
street disturbances. The identity of
these garrisons is being concealed, but
all the facts have been telegraphed to
the minister of war. It can be stated
on theButhority of a general officer of
the Btaff that the reason why the gov
ernment has not carried out its plnn to
mobolize 700,000 CoBBacks is the fear
of civil war.
Militia Fund is Doubled.
Washington, June 20. The milit'a
bill, which finally passed congress yeo
terday, will double the annual allot
ment to various states for their Nation
al Guard. Under the new apportion
ment Oregon will receive $15,958;
Washington, $19,947, and Idaho $11,.
984. This annual appropriation will
begin July 1, 1906.