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About Lexington wheatfield. (Lexington, Or.) 1905-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 12, 1906)
LEXINGTON WHEATFIELD S. A. THOMAS, PmblWwf LEXINGTON OREGON NEWS OF THE WEEK lb a Condensed Form for Our Busy Headers. A Resume of the Less Important but Not Less Interesting Events of the Past Week. Hails tonea as big as oranges created havoc near Valencia, Spain. Columba river salmon packers will receive better protection under the new pure food law. W. R. Hearst has stated positively that he will not be a candidate for pres idential nomination. August Rosenberg, of Seattle, has been arrested in Germany, accused of designs on the kaiser's life. General Trepoff declares that the Jews are leaders in the present revolu tionary movement in Russia. For giving rebates to packers the Chicago & Alton railroad and two of its employes have been found guilty. The premier of New Zealand has called upon President Roosevelt to urge a reciprocity treaty with the United States. Finance Minister Kokoosoff has sent a message to the Russian parliament that the government is in sore straits for money. The kaiser is said to have given or ders to German insurance companies that they must pay their San Francisco losses in fall. S. ArB. Futer has been sentenced to two years in the county jail and to pay a fine of $7,600 tor his complicity in the Oregon land frauds. Ex-Surveyor General Meldrum received a fine of $5, 200 and nearly three years in the gov ernment prison at hard work. Ex-President Cleveland is ill at his home at Princeton. An American warship is in every , harbor of Santo Domingo. Two regiments of the garrison at La mara, Russia, are in revolt. The new rate law, with the exception of two provisions, is now in effect. The United States will probably act as peacemaker between Guatemala and Salvador, as both are tiring of pro longed war. During the session of congress just closed 3,393 laws were enacted. The house passed 4,501 bills and 362 were left undisposed of. By ereror the sundry civil law carries an appropriation for a lighthouse at Swiftsure bank, at the entrance to the Straits of Fuca, Washington. A warrant has been issued by Han cock county, Ohio, against John D. Rockefeller, charging him with violat ing the anti-trust law through the Standard Oil company. The new star in our flag for Okla homa will not be officially added un til July 1, 1907, as several Ihings re main to be done before the new state is actually admitted and changes in the national ensign are only made at the beginning of a fiscal year. The battleship Nebraska made a good showing in a trial spin at Seattle. Two bills fathered by Hermann fail ed tno receive the signature of the pres ident. Another attempt will be made this summer to reach the north pole by balloon. President Roosevelt is preparing to spend a quiet vacation at Oyster Bay this summer. The courage of Americans injured in the Salisbury wreck was the admiration of the British. . Rebaters under conviction have filed bills of exception in the United States court at Kansas City. The report of the New York Life Insurance trustees shows the company to be in good condition. The government of the United States is the most economical on earth accord ing to Representative Tawney. Extravagant Republicans spend the nation's income to keep up the tariff wall, says Representative Livingston. A committee of trustees of the Penn sylvania railroad says Kb officers and employes should have no entangling investments. Hot weather is causing prostrations and deaths in the East. Hearst says Senator Bailey, of Texas, is a lackey for Standard Oil. A harvest crew near Hutchinson, Kansas, struck to attend a ball game. The battleship New Hampshire has been successfully launched at Camden, .New Jersey. DOINGS OF CONGRESS. Saturday, June 30. Washington, June 30. Promptly at 10 o'clock tonight, Vice President Fair banks in the senate and Speaker Can non in the house declared the final ad journment of the first session of the Fifty-ninth congress. , For the first time congress adjourned on the day which closed the fiscal year. Other Bess ions had adjourned before and some after June 30, but the Fifty ninth congress ended its first session on the day when the government strines its balances and closes its books. The work of the first session of the Fifty-ninth congress is summed up as follows: Railroad rate bill passed. Pure food bill passed and meat in spection agreed upon. Stricter naturalization laws passed. Law providing immunity for wit nesses in government inquiries passed. Denaturized alcohol bill removing in ternal revenue tax passed. Lock type settled upon for Panama canal. Consular service remodeled and re formed. Total of nearly $900,000,000 appro priated for various purposes. "Largest battleship afloat ' author ized, but naval increases receive set back. Annual appropriation for state mili tia doubled; to be $2,000,000 hereafter. Bill to preserve Niagara Falls passed. Philippine tariff revised. Employers' liability law passed. Appropriation of $1,325,000 for Jamestown exposition granted. Appropriations of $2,500,000 for re lief of San Francisco fire sufferers granted. Private pension bills in usual num ber pasBed. Friday, June 29. Washington, June 29. "We're go ing home; we're going home tomor row," was on the minds of the menv bers of the house today when they assembled for the last day's work pre vious to adjournment. Conference re ports were considered throughout the day. The final report on the agricul tural appropriation bill, containing the meat inspection provision, was adopted, the senate eventually agreeing that the government should pay the cost of inspection. Other matters of vital moment were the agreement to the conference report on the pure food bill, the Ohio and Lake Erie ship canal and naturalization bills. Both houses of congress tonight adopted the conference report on the sundry civil appropriation bill and that measure now goes to the president for signature. Hale presented the report in the senate. The total amount carried in the bill as agreed to 1b $98, 257,184. The senate receded on the amend ment providing for a steel light vessel at Swiftsure bank, at the entrance to the Straits of Juan de Fuca, Washing ton. The Jamestown exposition appropria tion stays in the bill as arranged by the conferees. The appropriation of $3,000,000 for the building for the department of State, Justice and Commerce and Labor was stricken out, that being provided for in the public building bill. Condition Is Improved. Washington, June 30. Secretary Shaw tonight issued the following com paison with this and the previous fiscal year: The deficit last year was $24,000,000 in round numbers. -This included $6, 000,000 extraordinary expenses on the Panama canal. The actual deficiency on ordinary expenses was therefore, in round numbers, $18,000,000. This year the surplus is $25,000,000, and in addition there has been paid on the Panama canal $18,000,000. The actual excess of revenues over ordinary ex penses is, therefore, $43,000,000. The difference between $43,000,000 excess and $18,000,000 deficit on ordinary ex penses is therefore $61,000,000. The treasury on ordinary expenses is $61, 000,000 better off at the close of the fiscal year than at the close of the fis cal year 1905. Will Cost $1,000,000 a Year. San Francisco, July 2. According to the budgets submitted to the relief commission today, it will cost consider ably more than $1,000,000 a year to dispense the money contributed for the destitute residents of San Francieco. The expenses of administration will total this vast sum, if the finance com mittee approves the estimates prepared, and the expenditure will not include a cent for food or clothing. Major Gas ton stated that the expenses of his work would be approximately $39,000 for the one month. Company Increases Capital. New York, July 2. At a special meeting of the Hanover Fire Insurance company today it was voted to increase the capital stock of the company from $500,000 to $1,000,000. This action was taken as the result of the losses sustained by the company in the San Francisco fire. The new stock will be issued at $150 a share, thus adding $750,000 to the company's resources. "GENERALLY CLEAN" Products of Chicago Stockyards Declared Wholesome. ALL NOT NICE PACKING PLANTS Some Products ire Lacking in Nutri- tion Cannin Departments in Fairly ClOean Condition. Chicago; July7. The report of the juini committee ot the Chicago Com mercial association and Illinois Manu facturers' association, appointed to in vestigate the packing industries of Chicago, together with the report of tne experts who accompanied them, was made public today, The commit tee says: "That a board of experts of the char' acter employed, with professional ideals and guided and influenced by an 'esthetic sense,' which embodies some thing of necessity and something more of 'luxury,' should find the product wnoiesome,' the yards 'generally clean,' and the inspection 'efficient,' seems to your committee to cover the situation. "As a result of this investigation, we ourselves have no hesitancy in srat ing that the products at the yards are wnoiesome and proper food. We find that the companies have been improv ing the conditions and products from year to year." A summary of the report is: Part of the plants are up1 to date. In each of these parts are Borne Bee tions indifferently good and in most of them things that meet disapproval. The worst conditions are in old build' ings added to as business expanded. Further scientific inquiry recom mended on preservatives. Not all of carcasses affected with tu berculosis1 and lumpy jaw need be thrown away. Ante-mortem inspection of less im portance than inspection of dressed meat. Dressed meat of yards is wholesome and a proper article for human food. Methods for tne most part cleanly. Canning departments are in a fairly clean condition. Some products are lacking in nutri tion Better inspection of sausage depart ments is recommended. Lard companies are wholesome. Conditions of hygiene and sanitation are very bad. Not much spitting goes on. MANEUVERS WITHOUT SIGNALS Plan- To Be Tried With Largest Amer ican Fleet Ever Assembled. Washington, July 7. PlanB for ex tensive maneuvers of the Nortth At lantic fleet are being matured by the general navy board, in conjunction with Rear Admiral Evans, command ing the fleet. Admiral Dewey, presi dent of the board, hes Bent Admiral Evans a copy of the piogram of the maneuvers of the French fleet in xthe Mediterranean. These maneuvers are under command of Admiral Fournier, who not long ago visited the United States and was a guest of some of our naval officers. Before autumn, Ad miral Evans will have a fleet of 16 battleships, which will be the largest fleet of effective vessels ever assembled at one time by the United States. A new feature is to be introduced in the maneuvers this summer, and the ships are to practice evolutions without signals in order to meet emergencies in battle, when owing to smoke or when signal apparatus has been shot away, signals cannot longer be given. While it is regarded as somewhat hazardous to maneuver big battleships without signals, it is thought necessary to have the officers familiar with this duty in case they are engaged in actual warfare at some time in the future and a situa tion should arise necessitating the abandonment of signals. To Make Bigade Posts. Washington, July 7. Secretary Taft has determined to make a trip of in spection westward next October to Fort Riley and Fort Leavenworth, as well as to Fort Sam Houston, at San An tonio. His purpose is to examine these places, with particular reference to the execution of the plans of the general staff for the creation of large briagde posts at these points. He will likely also approve of such posts at American Lake, Wash.; Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo. ; Chickamauga, and some post in the Middle states. From Oldest to Youngest. Loudon. Julv 7. A large number of signatures of members of the British parliament have been attached to a message which will be forwarded to the Russian Darlinmont extending to it the congratulations of the oldest to the youngest parliament, expressing the hope that some of the members of the latter will attend the international ar bitration conference to be held here at the end of July. RIOTS AT VLADIVOSTOK. Battery of Artillery Captured and Cos sacks Driven Off. Tokio, July 6. Additional details received here of rioting in Vladivostok indicate that so far the loyal troops have been unable to gain control of the situation. Fighting is going on on all sides, both in the city and the ou' skirts. Especially severe fighting ban taken place in the neighborhood of the outlying harbor defenses, where the rioters succeeded in capturing a batteiy of artillery. The gunners made buc a scant show of resistance, it being plain that they were in sympathy with the rioters. A detachment of Cosiacks attempted to recapture the battery, but the rebels tired heavy volhys of grapeshot and shrapnel into the attacking column and forced it to retreat, with heavy loss. At last accounts, the rebels were still in command. Wild mobB have burned the govern ment stores in the heart of the city, and have secured possession of Biipplies valued at a large sum. One mob stormed the city prison in an attempt to rescue a number of persons who had been arrested, after looting the mili tary Bupplj Btation of a quanity of dy namite. Severe fighting, which lasted several hours, followed, but the prison guard was finally successful in driving awav the attacking forces. Information has been received here that all the Russian troops on the Manchurian border are in a state of mutiny, and it is all their officers can do to keep them in reasonable subjec tion. Revolutionary propaganda is making headway among the Russian Boldiers in Siberia, and it would not be surprising if news of a general revolt there were soon to be received. BAY CITY SALOONS OPEN. Police Will Strictly Enforce the Law Against Drunkenness. San Francisco, July 6. For the first time since April 18 the saloons were permitted to reopen yesterday. Licenses had been granted to about 600 drinking places and all did a lush ing business. To a large number of persons the resumption of business at the Baloona appeared to be quite a nov elty, and many were on hand when the barroom doors swung open. Nearly all the resorts were crowded, but up to noon no serious trouble had been re ported. Extra policemen were detailed for duty in all the blocks containing sa loons. It in planned to place all men arrested for intoxication at work clean ing away debris from sidewalks. "All persons who show the effects of intoxication are to be quickly gathered in," said Chief of Police Dinan today. "Patrolmen have been instructed to maintain order. Up to noon today but few arrests have been reported from the Bub stations, and but one or two have been booked for drunkenness at the main station. I do not expect that we shall have much trouble in hand ling the situation." BATTLING WITH CHOLERA. Manila Bureau of Health is Holding -Disease in Check. Manila, July 6. The cholera situa tion has improved. The report at 6 o'clock last night showed 19 new cases since midnight of July 4 and 10 deaths. The report for July 4 shows 28 cases and 19 deaths. Two Americans, Robert Lombertz and Hart, are dead, but to date only five Americans have been seized with the disorder. Thus far cholera has not appeared in the Amer ican section of the city. The Ameri cans wbo bave been stricken live in the native sections of Manila. The bureau of health has refused to permit the sale of foodstuffs that may have been liable to infection. The efforts Of the doctors engaged in com batting the disease show results in the decrease in the number of new cases re ported. While the disease started in stronger than the great epidemic of 1002, the authorities believe they have the situation now under control. For the week ending July 4 there were 116 cases and 99 deaths. For the 24 hours ending at 8 o'clock on the morning of July 5 there were 12 cases and five deaths in the provinces. Ticket in Kansas. Topeka, Kan., July 6. After an ex tended wrangle of speechmaking, in which more or lses bitter feeling was displayed, the Populist state party del egates yesterday voted to place a party ticket in the field. The vote stood 94 to 68. After naming a portion of the Congressional committee, the Populist State convention proceeded to the nom ination of a state ticket. Horace Keel- er, ol Leavenworth, waa named for gov ernor by acclamation. J. A. Wright, of Smith county, was named for lieu tenant governor. May Tie Up Black Sea Ports. St. Petersburg, July 6. According to information received here, the em ployes of the Siberia, Southwestern and Caucassian railroads are ready to join in a general strike, and the longshore men of the Black sea ports are prepared to take part in the movements. WAS SAFE AND SANE Fourth ot July .Claims Thirty . Three As Its Toll. OVER ONE THOUSAND ACCIDENTS Death and Accident List of Country But Little Behind Figures for July 4, 1906. Chicago, July 5. Chicago and the nation paid dearly yesterday for the Fourth of July celebration, White in some respects the day in Chicago was quieter than usual, the deaths directly attributable to the use of explosives number two, including one of a few days ago, and the injuries mount up to nearly 100. At midnight the Chi cago list of maimed and hurt contained 80 names, and the reports are still com ing in. Throughout the country the same story was told. Independence day seemed to be less boisterous, but when the final recapitualtion was made the total of fatalities and seriously injured waa large. There were 31 Heth ra. ported at midnight from outside cities and towns, with New York and other large municipalities holding back re turns. One year ago Chicago showed no deaths and 115 injured, and the country at large 46 dead and 2,505 in jured. The Fourth of 1906, then, promises to l i . . run up aimoBi as many deaths, witn the list of hurt so incomplete that onlv an estimate can be made. The outlook is that in minor casualities this year will not be far behind last. Cannon crackers, stray bullets and exploding torpedo canes were responsi ble for the majority of injuries in Chi cago. Following closely in their wake in numbers, and with even more seri ous tesults for their victims, came the, toy pistol, the toy cannon and the re volver. PLAYING AT GROWN-UPS. N Tolstoi Expresses Great Disgust for Russian Parliament. Yazenya, Polania, July 5. Count Leo Tolstoi, in the course of an inter view today, said the Russian parlia ment interested him very little. "It seems to me," Count TolstoB said, "as if they were playing at. mt i . gruwu-ups. ine proceedings snow nothing new, nothing original, nothing interesting. Everything has been said hundreds of t'mes before. Our parlia ment reminds me of fashions in the provinces. Hats and gowns out of date in the cities are sent to the interior, where they are eagerly worn under the impression that they are the latest style. "It irritates me to see so-called re presentatives of the people, who are really below the very classes whom tbey are supposed to represent, assumes the task of solving problems which wi't decide the fate of 140,000,000 human beings. The irrelevancy of the argu ments of the members and their blind self assurance and intolerance disgust me." ROOSEVELT'S SENTIMENTS. Tells Neighbors at Oyster Bay About Work of Past Year. Oyeter Bay, July 5. President Roosevelt spoke to a gathering of his neighbors bere today. The sentiments he expressed are summed up as follows: 'When it becomes necessary to curb a great corporation, curb it. I will do my best to help you. But I will do it in no spirit of anger or hatred to the men who own or control that corpora tion ; and if any seek in their turn to- do wrong to the men who own those corporations, I will turn and fight for them in defense of their rights, just as hard as I ngbt against them when I think they are doing wrong. If the man is a decent man, whether' well off or not well off, stand by him; if he is not a decent man, stand against him, if he be rich or poor. Stand against him in no spirit of vengeance, but only with the resolute purpose to make him act as decent citizens must act if this republic is to be. Casinos Are Dismantled. West Baden Springs. Ind.. Julv 5 Officers representing the state todav he. gan tearing out the gambling dens at the casinos of the West Baden and French Lick Springs hotels. The para phernalia filled two large freight para and will be taken to Paoli and placed in the custody of the sheriff. The prop erty confiscated included 82 slot ma chines, 10 roulette tables, four poker tables, two faro tables, two Klondike tables, two wheels, bookmaking appa ratus, one keno outfit and several bush els of chips, carda and dice. Yellow Fever Appears In Cuba. New Orleans, July 5. Reports that yellow fever has appeared in Cuba were made public here today by the state board of health.