LEXIHBTON WHEATFIELD
S. A. THOMAS, Psbtatar
LEXINGTON OREGON
NEWS OF THE WEEK
lb a Condensed Form for Oar
Easy Readers.
A Resume of the Less Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
of the Past Week.
The war in Central America may in
volve Honduras and Nicaragua.
The government has begun an inves
tigation of the elevator business.
Italy wants Great Britain and France
to reduce their Btanding armies and
Bays Bhe will do likewise.
Thirty-nine laundry companies of
Cincinnati, Ohio, have been indicted
for violating the anti-trust law.
The only hope of averting an open
contest in Russia is for the czar to
make terms with the moderates.
Esther Mitchell and Mrs. Creffield
admit they conspired to kill George
Mitchell. No others were in the plot.
The Vatican is fast falling into decay
and it will be necessary for the pope to
spend $100,000 to put the building in
condition.
Japan says she is not trying to mon
opolise the Manchurian trade, but that
the door is wide open and every coun
try has an equal chance to capture the
prize.
The whole of the province of Vero
neth, Russia, is affected by excesses
arising from the agrarian movement.
The peasants are rising everywhere and
burning estates. ,
Extensive reforms are proposed in
the British army.
Some of Bryan's admirers say he will
organize a new party.
The Russian cabinet has offered its
resignation to the czar.
Anarchy reigns in Russia and open
rebellion is expected at any time.
Thousands of Jews are fleeing from
Russia. It is claimed 40,000 left War
saw in a single day.
The most destructive fire in 80 years
has Just swept Stockholm, Sweden.
The loss la placed at (710,000.
Captain Dreyfus has been declared
innocent and will be restored to his
old rank and shortly promoted.
Ex-President Regalado, of Salvador,
has been killed in battle while leading
a force against the Guatemalan troops.
The grand jury of the District of Col
ombia has indicted the ice company
officials of Washington for conspiring
to control and raise the price of ice.
Admiral Chouknin, commander of
the Russian Black sea fleet, died from
the wound inflicted by a sailor in re
venge for the admiral having refused to
pardon some men who had mutinied.
The Longworths are visiting in Paris.
Lord Roberts wants a larger British
army.
Rebels are in full control of Motto
Grosso, Brazil.
The czar has offered to appoint a
Democraticl cabinet.
The open door in Manchuria ia block
ed by Japan, who 1b absorbing the
trade.
The upper house of the FRuBsian par
liament favors the abolishment of the
death penalty.
Admiral Rojestvensky has been ac
quitted. It was held that on account
of his wounds he was not responsible.
Turkey opposes having an American
ambassador, fearing thereby that the
American claims will be forced upon
the sultan.
Leroy Beaulieu, the great French
historian, predicts the overthrow of the
czar unless he yields to the demands
of the people.
More than 1,000,000 immigrants en
tered the United States through the
New York station during the fiscal year
ending June 30 laBt. The immigrants
brought with them $19,000,000.
Cossack troops have refused to serve
on police duty.
A grand jury is after the ice trust of
Washington, D. C.
After a boycott of three years Great
Britain has received a minister from
Servia.
A regiment of Russian cavalry has
mutinied and barricaded themselves in
the barracks at Tambor.
The Civil Service commission has re
commended the inclusion of the Inter
nal Revenue service in the classified
service.
The Chicago council proposes the
death penalty for assailants of women
and children. Attacks have become so
frequent a woman is not now safe in
ber own home.
SHOT BY SISTER.
Slayer of Holy Roller Creffield Mur
dered in Seattle.
Seattle, July 18. Esther Mitchell
shot and killed her brother George, the
slayer of Franz Edmund Creffield, in
the Union depot at 4:20 o'clock yes
terday afternoon, as George and his
brother Perry were on their wav to
take a Northern Pacific train for Port
land. Miss Mitchell was walking behind
the two brothers, in company with a
third brother, Fred. She had gone to
the depot for the purpose of killing her
brother, and though Bhe greeted him
with a smile and a hearty handshake,
she loitered behind to get her opportu
nity. A revolver purchased the day
before by Mrs. Creffield for the assassi
nation was carried concealed under a
cape thrown carelessly over Esther
Mitchell's left arm.
Fred Mitchell offered to carry the
cape, and as Bhe handed it to him, the
sieter raised her revolver and fired.
The bullet struck young Mitchell be
hind the left ear and he died instantly.
A s the gun was brought up Fred
Mitchell leaped to seize the weapon
but he was too late. He grabbed Es
ther's arm just after she fired and the
girl collapsed in his arms. She stayed
there until depot policemen hurried up
and placed her under arrest.
Both Esther Mitchell and Mrs. Cref
field, who waB arrested at 7 o'clock
last night while on her way back from
the cemetery where "Joshua" Creffield
is buried, acknowledged in statements
taken before Chief Wappenstein that
they had conspired to kill George. Had
it been necessary Esther Mitchell was
prepared to follow her brother to Port
land. It was this insane demand for
vengeance that prompted her to refuse
to accompany her father on his return
to Illinois.
"I killed George because he had
killed an innocent man, and because he
had . rrined my reputation by saying
that Creffield seduced me," Esther
Mitchell declared, but both her state
ment and that of Mrs. Creffield indi
cate that the two had conspired to as
sassinate. Mrs. Creffield prompted the shooting
and she bought the gun with which it
was done. It had been agreed between
them that the first one seeing George
should slay him.
REBELS WIN GREAT VICTORY.
General Toledo Routs Government
Forces With Great Loss.
Mexico City, July 18. According to
advices received here, General Toledo,
the Guatemalan revolutionist, who has
been recruiting his forces and has now
some good artillery, offered battle yes
terday to Guatemalan regular troops in
the department of Jutinpa, at a point
about four miles from the Salvadorean
border, inflicting decisive defeat on
Guatemalan forces. There was heavy
loss on both sides. The revolutionists
are jubilant over their success.
Regalado, former president of Salva
dor, and the leader of the Salvadorean
troops in the present conflict with
Guatemala, was killed in the battle.
Guatemala Claims Victory.
Panama, July 13. Senor Barrios,
foreign minister of Guatemala, cabled
to the Panama government this after
noon as follows:
"Guatemala, July 12. The Salva
dorean government has invaded Guate
malan territory, compelling us to
make an energetic defense. We ob
tained a complete victory yesterday at
Jicardo, where General Tomas Regala
do, the chief commander of the Salva
dorean army, was killed."
Plans to Suppress Revolt.
St. Petersburg, July 12. The pre
parations which the War office has
been making at all principal cities to
meet an armed revolutionary movement
prove to have been very elaborate. The
plans for the defense of Riga have
fallen into the hands of the revolu
tionary paper Misla, which this morn
ing publishes the entire plans of de
fense. The garrisoii ia divided into three
divisions of two battalions of infantry,
half a company of Cossacks and three
machine guns each, to prevent the in
vasion of the city from 'three open
sides, namely, the canal, the dam and
the river Dana.
Asks Root to Give Help.
San Juan Porto Rico, July 13. The
lower house of the insular legislature
adopted a resolution asking Secretary
Root to use his good offices in behalf of
Porto Rican citizenship and an elective
insular senate. The Republicans, who
constitute the minority in the legisla
ture, opposed the resolution, holding
that Mr. Root was the island's guest
and that the time and place were inop
portune. It is reported that the docu
ment was not presented before the sail
ing of Mr. Root, the authorities not de
siring to interfere with his visit.
Trade With Britain Killed.
London, July 18. In June of last
year there arrived at the Albert docks
from Boston and New Orleans 27,000
cases ot tinned meats; in June of this
year the receipts were only 4,000 cases.
Iu July, 1905, 24,000 cases were re
ceived, but thus far this month none
have arrived from the United States.
NO EXPENSE SPARED
Hill Says North Bank Road Is
Best Ever Built.
MAY BUILD DIRECT TO SPOKANE
A Road With Low Grades and Easy
Curves is the Main Object
Sought by Builcer.
PortlandJuly 14. James J. Hill,
president of the Great Northern, and
one of the most dominant figures in the
railroad world, reached Portland last
evening by the steamer Capital City
from The Dalles. With him are Louis
W. Hill, vice president of the Great
Northern; Howard Elliott, president of
the Northern Pacific; W. L. Darling,
chief engineer of the Northern Pacific;
A. H. Hogeland, chief engineer of the
Great Northern; all of St. Paul; C. M.
Levey, president of the Portland &
Seattle railway, and B. E. Palmer,
assistant general superintendent of the
Northern Pacific, of Tacoma, and Cory
T. Hutchinson, an electric engineer
from New York. In the party are four
stenographers and Mr. J. J. Hill's ser
vant. In speaking of the new road down
the north bank, Mr. Hill said :
"It is likely the Portland & Seattle
will be extended to Spokane. We can
not say definitely, but there are survey
ors in the field, and if we can get a
low grade, we will no doubt build.
We could use the Northern Pacific line
from Pasco, but it is expected that the
line will extend from Portland to Spo
kane. The Portland & Seattle railway
will be the best new road that was ever
built in the United States. It will be
a road of low grades and few curves,
and it will be very expensive, but when
it is built it will be the best construc
tion ever undertaken in this country.
"Low grades aie equivalent to deep
water in the harbor. Portland can
overcome the lack of deep water by
easy grades. The Columbia river
offers great opportunities in low grades,
but construction is fearfully expensive.
There are miles where the cost of build
ing the road will run over $100,000 to
the nllie. And this is exclusive of the
cost of tunnels, of which there are sev
eral to the mile in many places.'"
Mr. Hill said that he does not need
to look over his terminals in the city,
as he knows already what they are.
Work will be begun soon, he said, on
the required buildings to care for the
business handled by the new Hill road
in this city.
CHAINS WELDED ON THEM.
Brutal Treatment of Sealers Cap
tured by Russians.
1 Victoria, B. C, July 14. Captain
T. II. Thompson and Joe Knapp, Amer
ican citizens; Edward McNeill, George
McCamish, Canadians; Jose Villoa, a
Spaniard, who reached Kobe after be
ing released from prison in Siberia af
ter serving two years, were cruelly
treated, according to letters received
here. The prisoners were seal hunters
employed on the Japanese sealer Kyo
ichi Maru, formerly the Diana, of San
Francisco, and were captured by the
cruiser Gromoboi in August, 1904, and
taken to Nicolaiefsk, and thence to
Khaborovsk.
Captain Thompson, navigating officer
of the sealer, whose borne is in San
Francisco, was suspected of being a spy
because of some drawings found in a
notebook. ' He was loaded with chains
welded on his arms and legs by black
smiths, and confined for six months in
a small, unlit cell, built of wood and
Bwarming with vermin. When brought
out for trial be was unable to walk,
and was practically dragged to the
court along the snow. The trial had
been concluded when the prisoners
were brought in, and each had been
sentenced to 16 months' imprisonment.
Forest Fire Near Sandpoint.
Butte, Mont., July 14. A Sandpoint
special Bays: Owing to a bad forest
fire burning for the second time this
seaion, the Spokpane International
Railroad company has suffered losseB
near Colburn. Several hundred ties,
poles and piling, which belonged to the
company, went up in smoke, caught in
the path of the fire, which is thought
to be under control this morning. The
fire drove out Contractor Purvis, the
men and horses being hurried to Col
burn for safety. The railway company
lost two culverts.
New Outbreak In Santo Domingo'.
Washington, July 14. Broken tele
graph wires between Monte Christi and
Cape Haytien, the cable terminus ii
Santo Domingo, are reported to the
Navy department today by Commander
Sutherland, an almost invariable sign
of revolutionary trouble there.
JOHN BULL IN GLASS HOUSE.
Disgusting Conditions In Sausage and
Jam Factories.
London, July 11. The Britishers,
who have been so virtuous recently
over the Chicago meat packing revela
tions, were today confronted with the
annual report of the inspector ot fac
tories and workshops, which shows
that the conditions here are quite as
revolting as anything alleged of the
Western packing centcs.
Dirty factories and disgusting meth
ods seem to be the rule, instead of the
exception. Jam factories, bakeiies and
sausage makers are all censured as be
ing equally filthy, and the description
of one fits most of the others. Here is
the report of a typical jam factory:
"The boiling factory lay between the
yard and the stable, and the horses
reached the latter through the boiling
room. The sanitary accommodation
was hardly separated from the rooms
where the fresh fruit and uncovered
jam were kept, and the floors were dir
ty and undrained."
Another factory inspector found jam
pots being washed in "liquid like dark
soup, which smellfed abominably."
The manager informed the inspector
that the water was changed "about
once a week." When fished out of
these evil-Bmelling tanks the pots were
allowed to stand until dry, when they
were considered ready to refill.
Inspectors of bakeries found that it
was a frequent custom to bathe the
children in them after the close of work
on Saturdays, and the family's weekly
collection of dirty clothing was sorted
in the bakeries for dispatch to the
laundry.
The sausage factories, says the re
port, are mostly owned by Germans,
are small, dilapidated and poorly lit,
and are infested with rata."
UNCLE SAM'S GUARANTEE.
Roosevelt Offers It for Government
Inspected Canned Meat.
Sheffield, England, July 11. The
Grocers' federation, whose annual con
ference is proceeding here, has received
a communication from Ambassador
Whitelaw Reid, enclosing a message
from President Roosevelt, as follows :
"You are at liberty to inform the
Grocers' federation that under the new
law we can and will guarantee the fit
ness in all respects of tinned meats
bearing the government stamp. If any
trouble arises therewith, protest can at
once be made not merely to the sellers
of the goods, but to the United States
government itself."
The secretary of the federation stated
that Mr. Roosevelt's message was in
reply to one sent by him on behalf of
the federation, saying trade was almost
paralyzed and that dealers must be as
sured of the wholesome character of
tinned goods, or otherwise they would
have to atop stocking up with Ameri
can brands. The speaker hoped the
publication of the president's message
would lead to a revival of the trade.
He said the loss to the members of the
federation in the canned meat trade
had been very heavy.
Drastic resolutions were referred to
committees, one of which pledged the
grocers not to stock with American can
ned meats until the peckers have initi
ated an inspection system guaranteeing
the wholesomeness of their output.
MITCHELL IS FREE.
Slayer of Holy Roller Leader Is Ac
quitted by Jury.
Seattle, Wash., July 11. George H.
Mitchell, who shot Franz Edmund
Creffield, leader of the Holy Rollers,
on First avenue, May 7, was acquit
ted late yesterday afternoon. After
nearly an hour and a half in the jury
room the 12 men who have listened to
the testimony in Mitchell's trial filed
back and announced their verdict:
"Not guilty."
Despite the advance warning of the
court that no demonstration would be
permitted, irrespective of the verdict,
i roar of applause greeted the an
nouncement and the court officers were
powerless to still it. The courtroom
was crowded, but aside from those who
sat in the front row, directly under the
eye of the presiding judge, the spectat
ors applauded almost unanimoulsy
when the clerk had read the words that
freed Cremeld's slayer.
Turmoil Grows In Strength.
Odessa, Russia, July 11. Agrarian
outrages and politico-industrial strikes
occur daily, and are alarmingly spread
ing in the Southern provinces. The re
volfing peasantry are now" evidently or
ganized and led by profesisonal propa
gandists. In an interview today a mar
shal of the nobility of Kherson ex
pressed the firm conviction that the
situation is inevitably and rapidly
drifting to a colossal and calamitous
uprising of the peasants against the
landowners and that the movement
will be supported by the soldiers.
Blank Sea Fleet Mutinies.
Sevastopol, July 11. It is reported
that the ironclads Pantelemon and
Three Saints have joined the garrison
of the llatoum forces, which has been
in mutiny. The Three Saints hoisted
the red flag and the mutineers are forc
ibly detaining two other ironclads
which had refused to join them.
TAKES ON NEW LIFE
San Francisco's Business Resum
ing Normal Condition.
BIG BUILDING BOOM HAS BEGUN
When Insurance Companies Pay Up
Reconstruction of Metropolis
Will Proceed in Rush. ,
San Francisco, July 12. Although
the city's building laws were in a
chaotic state during the month of June,
building permits were issued to the
value of $1,000,000, and in this sum
are not included those one story tem
porary structures which may be erected
for a time without special permit.
Now that the building law has been
promulgated, reconstruction will take
its real start. It is hampered solely by
the slowness of the insurance com
panies. Up to the present time but $15,000,
000 has been paid out in insurance.
Were the various companies to loosen
their purse strings as the situation de
mands, San Francisco would at once
enter upon a building boom such as
has never been known before. As it
is, plans at this transitory stage are be
ing drawn for a dozen tall buildings to
be erected in the heart of the burned
district.
An Oakland department store, ob
serving that it was unable to meet its
augmented trade by the small order
system, determined to place an order
for a train load of goods in the East.
A few days before the goods arrived,
the proprietor of the Oakland stbre be
came alarmed, fearing he had placed
an order beyond his capacity to handle.
He telephoned to a large department
store in San Francisco, asking to be re
lieved of half of the consignment. The
San Francisco firm consented.
When the goods arrived, the San
Franciscan disposed of them before he
bad fairly placed the goods on the
shelves, telephoned to his Oakland
friend, purchased the rest of the con
signment and disposed of it with the
Bame alacrity as he had done the first
part. This simply illustrates that San
Francisco is not to be displaced as the
main trade center.
The bridging of the bay, which was
a pet scheme of some of the earlier
railroad magnates, is now to be put
through. President Harriman has or
dered that work begin immediately.
By this improvement freight will not
be brought across by boat from Oak
land, but all freight trains can be de
flected Bouth around the loup and
brought direct into San Francisco. In
connection with this work the railroad
is also building a cut-off into San Fran
cisco for its coast trains.
ADMIRAL FATALLY SHOT.
Chouknin, Suppressor of Black Sea
Mutiny, is Wounded.
St. Petersburg, July 12. An attempt
was made at 1 o'clock this afternoon at
Sevastopol to assassinate Admiral
Chouknin, commander of the Black sea
fleet. The admiral was wounded and
taken to a hospiral.
The would-be-assassin is a sailor,
who hid in the bushes and shot at the
admiral as he was walking in the gar
den of his villa. The culprit has not
been apprehended.
Admiral Chouknin'a condition is ex
tremely serious. The bullet lodged in
bis lungs, making breathing difficult.
The doctors hold out no hope of his re
covery. The admiral's assailant is thought to
be one of the sailors of the battleship
Otchakoff and his act is supposed to be
in revenge for the execution of Lieuten
ant Schmidt, the revolutionary leader.
Admiral Chouknin was univercally hat
ed by his sailors and at the time of the
execution of Schmidt the revolutionists
condemned him to death, 100 of their
number pledging themselves to carry
out the sentence.
Rebate Inquiry at Jamestown.
Jamestown, N. Y., July 12. Inves
tigations into the charges of violations
of the interstate commerce laws by the
Standard Oil company and the Penn
sylvania railroad relative to rebates at
Olean began yesterday afternoon before
Judge Hazel and a jury in the First
district court. According to the find
ings of the commissioner of labor and'
commerce, the Standard company saved
$115,000 in 1904 by its rebates from
the Pennsylvania railroad for oil ship
ped from the refineries at Olean to
Rochester.
Alaska Gold is Stolen.
Seattle, July 21. Over $100,000
consigned to the Alaksa-Pacific Express
company here has been stolen from
aboard the steamer Ida May and no
clew has been obtained to the robbers.
The shipment was Bent from Fairbanks
and was transferred atNenana. The
Ida May was to transfer it to the Sarah
at Fort Gibson and it was there that
the loss was discovered.