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.