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About Lexington wheatfield. (Lexington, Or.) 1905-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 26, 1906)
LEXIN6T0N WHEATFIELD & A. THOMAS PabMnr LEXINGTON OREGON NEWS OF THE WEEK Iii a Condensed Form for Cor Busy Readers. A Resume of the Less Important but Not Less Interesting Events of the Past Week. It is believed the czar will dissolve the douma. Suppression of newspapers caused a riot in St. Petersburg. Peace has been signed among the Central American republics. The last of the ladrone chiefs in the Philippines has surrendered. Germany proposes to exclude Ameri can canned meat of every description. A revolution in Mexico is threat ened, inspired by hostility to Ame i cans. The National Livestock exchange de nuances the reports recently made on ! the meat packing industry. John D. Rockefeller will be arrested immediately on his arrival in the United States. He has sailed for this country. The whole city of Syzran, Russia, has been destroyed by fire. The con flagration has rendered 35,000 persons homeless, who are also without food. Meager reports have been received of a fierce fire in Yokohama, Japan. More than a thousand houses were d stroyed and some life is known to have been loat. The capital of Alaska has been moved from Sitka to Juneau. Scotland will try to induce parlia ment to grant home rule. Santo Domingo will borrow $20,000, 000 and pay all outstanding claims. Germany and Austria will help the czar if another revolution breaks out. A forest fire in Calaveras county threatns destruction to California's big trees. The bishop of Zululand accuses the British troops of wantonly killing many natives. Santos Dumont has a new airship which he believes an improvement over anything yet built. The mayor of Socorro, Tex., says re ports of the recent earthquake were greatly overdrawn. The English parliament will appro priate $1,000,000 for the relief of the unemployed this winter. The National Pure Food convention endorsed the stand taken by President Roosevelt on the pure food law. General Stoessel, commander of Port Arthur, during the Russo-Japanese war, has been sentenced to death by a military commission for surrendering to the Japanese.' Missouri is after the ice trust. Evidence is being secured against the tobacco trust. A French dirigible balloon recently remained in the air eight hours. The government is preparing to gauge many Oregon and Washington streams. Kansas packing houses have been given five days to clean up or close up. The Virginia 2-cent-a-mile railroad rate law has been declared unconstitu tional. A tramp steamer bumped into the new battleship Rhode Island, springing her armour plates badly. The executors of the estate of the late Marshall Field estimate the value of the property left at $25,000,000. Canada hai received an address from King Edward in which he says it will be impossible for him to make the much desired visit. The Cleveland, Ohio, grand jury ad journed without indicting any Standard Oil men. Prosecutions of the company 1b to bs resumed in other cities. All express companies operating on the Northern Pacific and Great North ern roads have consolidated and here after will be known as the Northern Express compan-. The deal also in cludes the Adams Express company on the Burlington. A strike of Portland street car men seems imminent. Siam has started a movement for the abolishment of gambling. Plans are being prepared for a new lightship off the Columbia bar. Major Dreyfus has been assigned to command nf the crack French regiment. Alfred Beit, who controlled the sold and diamond output of Africa, is dead. A peace conference between Central American republics may be held on a United States warship. TO KILL LIBERTY. Car Will Use Army to Enforce His Will In Russia. St. Petersburg, July 18. If reports in circulation in official circles this morning are grounded on fact, the su preme crisis in the affairs of the Rus sian nation is impending, and within a fortnight at most events muBt transpire that will result either in the perpetu ation of absolutism in Russia or the map of Europe will be changed. According to reports, the czar, after weeks of swinging from one extreme to the other, decides that he cannot grant the reforms demanded by the people, and has decided that the arbitrament of physical force shall be appealed to. He has, through Generals Trepoff, Kaulbars and other leaders of the offi cial military class, canvassed the offi cers of the army, and has decided that they can be depended on, if it Bhould come to a clash with the people, and bo he has decided that from now on the wishes of the czar and his wishes alone shall be considered. This means, should the rumors be true, that the douma will soon be dis solved and that the new cabinet will represent more than ever the wishes of the governing classes and disregard the demands of the people already made through the douma. None of the members of the cabinet who could be reached last night would discuss the matter. However, the de lay in announcing that the various de mands of the douma are even being considered, the concentration of tried troops at all centers where advocates of a constitutional form of government are strongest, and the generally defiant at titude of the bureaucracy, all tend to lend credence to the report. Disturbances in all interior Russia continue, and riot, murder and rapine are the rule. In many camps pitched battles between soldiers and malcon tents are reported, but all details are completely censored and are not per mitted to become public. CLIMAX OF ADMINISTRATION. Roosevelt Will Invoke Conspiracy Law and Dissolve Standard Oil. Washington, July 18. Dissolution of the great Standard Oil trust may be the result of the prosecutions soon to be begun against that corporation by the government. Assistant Attorney General Purdy, who has direct charge of the preparation of the prospective caseg, returned to Washington today (rom St. Paul, where for two weeks he has been in consultation with Special Counsel Kellogg, of the latter ciy, and District Attorney Morrison, of Chicago, and, while be refuses to discuss details as to the plans under way, there is good authority for the statement that the administration is aiming at a more vital object than fines or even impris onment for the trust offenders. The cases against Standard Oil will be made under the conspiracy act. It is of recent memory that conspiracy in restraint of trade in violation of the provisions of the Sherman anti-trust law resulted in the dissolution of the Northern Securities eompan. More recently the government won another sweeping victory in the courts and dis solved the Western paper trust. The same sort of success met the movement against the elevator trust in California. The breaking up of the monster Standard Oil combination may come as the culminating grand climax of the Roosevelt administration, and in the light of today's developments persons in Washington have recalled to them with striking force these words spoken by President Roosevelt shortly before the adjournment of congress: "The prosecution of the Standard Oil company is the most important thing in this administration." Bartlett Was Short $33,000. Washington, July 18. It was stated at the Treasury department today that an investigation recently concluded of the affairs of the late Major George A. Bartlett, disbursing officer of the Treas ury department, shows a shortage ap proximating $33,000. About $14,000 of this amount, however, isjsaid to have been innocently paid out on fraudulent vouchers presented hy James Boyd, a clerk in the Marine Hospital service, who in September last was arrested and is now in jail pending his trial for mis appropriating government funds. Colombia Wants Commercial Treaty. New York, July 18. The following cable dispatch was received in this city yesterday from Bogota, Colombia: "Colombian National Commercial con gress, assembled in Bogota, represent ing all partB of the republic, has unan imously adopted resolutions endorsing favorably the negotiations begun by President Reyes and Minister Barrett for new treaties with the United States and Panama. This action is most im portant, assuring the support of the business interests." Armistice Stops Fighting. San Salvador, July 18. The bellig erents today agreed upon an armistice. It 1b claimed that the Guatemalans during the recent fighting used explos ive bullets, notwithstanding the fact that Guatemala signed the Geneva convention. BONDS SELL WELL $30,000,000 for Panama Canal More Than Subscribed. ALL BIDS ARE AT GOOD PREMIUM Average Premium of Nearly 4 Per Cent is Offered Interest at 2 Per Cent. Washington, July 21, Bids were opened at the Treasury department late yesterday for the $30,000,000 10-30 Panama Canal bonds, bearing 2 per cent interest, under Becretary Shaw's circular oi July 2 an 1, although no awards will be made until today or later, it is evident that the entire issue has been subscirbed for at an average of from 103.94 to 103.96. Mr. Shaw and other officials of the Treasury de partment expressed themselves as high ly pleased and entirely satisfied with the figures obtained. The total number and amounts of bids made will not be ascertained until today, but it is apparent that the whole issue has been subscribed for several times over. The largest and best sin gle offer was that of Fisk & Robinson, of New York, who made six bids of $5,000,000, each at an average of 103.85. Smaller bids at higher prices, however, will probably reduce the amount which will likely be awarded to ihem to about $15,000,000. One bid of 106 for the whole issue came from a man named Lindsay at New Orleans, but on account of conditions named and for other reasons the bid was not considered. Several telegraph ic bids were received too late to be con sidered, but the prices named were too small to be successful. The secretary having stated that the bonds would be numbered serially be ginning with the highest bid, one offer was made at 125 for $1,000, thus secur ing to the bidder bond No. 1. , An ex amination of the best bids shows that offers of 104 1-16 and up aggregated $15,394,860; 104 to 104 1-16 aggregat ed $1,100,880; 103.75 to 104 aggregat ed $14,177,000. LOSS LOOMING BIG. San Francisco Insurance May Reach Total of 4300,000,000. San Francisco, Cal., July 21. It now looks as if the insurance risks in the burned district of San Francisco will foot up considerably more than $250,000,000, and the total may go up to nearly $300,000,000. The esti mates of insurance managers have been crawling upward all the time, and the figures given in reports filed by the companies with the New York Insur ance department indicate that even the highest estimate which they have made is too low. Several weeks after the conflagration a detailed estimate of the amount of each company's risks fixed the total insurance I in the burned district at $252,363,000. Thirty-three companies which have made sworn returns to the New YoTk Insurance department, ad mit a liability of $102,499,000. The estimate of their liability was $96,063, 000. Taking the same percentage of differences for all the 108 companies which were included in the list, the total of their liabilities would be placed at $269,271,000. An addition must be made for Lloyds, for the "undegrround" con cerns, and for the companies which had some risks here but were not named with the 108. This addition may be estimated at $10,000,000, which brings the total up to about $280,000 000. From this calculation the German, of Freeport, and the German National are omitted, as their returns to the New York Insurance department have a pe culiar look. On the basis of the re turns of the thirty-three companies above referred to, the German, ol Free port, and the German National, would be involved to the extent of $6,213,000 in the disaster, but they admit a loss of only $2,817,000. Reciprocity Treaty With Spain. Madrid, July 21. American Minis ter Collier has left Madrid for San Se bastian, where today he will sign with Foreign Minister Uullon the new com mercial treaty between the United States and Spain. The document is consid ered most advantageous to both Bides, overcoming a number of increases in the Spanish tariff, which became oper ative July 1, and giving Spain recip rocal advantages. The presB welcomes the agreement as entirely satisfactory and as evidence of the friendly inter course between the two governments. Great Demand for Troops. Odessa, July 21. General Kaulbars has been overwhelmed recently with appeals for military assistance from landowners in the districts of Kherson, Yekaterlnoslav and Poltava, against the peasantry, who are organized and led by revolutionists. , RED TAPE TATTERED. Assistant Secretary Ryan Taken Initi ative and Buys Sunnyslde Canal. Washington, July 20. Acting Secre tary of the Interior Ryan today ap proved the purchase of the Sunnyside irrigation canal in Eastern Washing ton, and authorized the payment of $250,000 for the same to the Washing ton Irrigation company. The approval of this purchase removes the last ob stacle in the way of the construction by the government of the Teton and Sun nyside irrigation projects. Had this sale not been concldued to day, the ' Washington Irrigation com pany would have withdrawn its offer and the government would have been obliged to abandon both its projects, or else enter upon prolonged litigation. Notwithstanding the fact that Secretary Hitchcock approved the Tieton and Sunnyside projects more than six months ago and authorized the pur chase of the Sunnyside canal at the above price, the owners of the canal have been unable to collect one cent from the government, because the sec retary of the Interior has not approved tlie formal purchase, some of the gov ernment lawyers having found trivial objections which they believed Bhould be corrected before the government paid for the canal. Mr. 'Hitchcock, on his counselors' advice, refused to pay over the money. BIGGEST OF ALL DRYDOCKS. Will Be Built of Concrete at Bremer ton Navy Yard. Washington, July 20. Plana for the largest and best dry'dock in the world are being prepared in the bureau of Yards and Docks at the Navy depart ment, to cost $1,250,000 and to be con structed at the Bremerton navy yard, Puget sound, Washington. This amount is the largest ever appropriated for a dock, and the new dock will be able to take in the largest battleship, either in course of construction or in contem plation. The location has already been selected, and borings are being made to learn the depth of foundation. It is to be a concrete dock of the largest pat tern and materials will be purchased on the Pacific coast if practicable. The dock is to be so constructed that it can be lengthened if vessels of great er length should be built in the future. It will be 37 feet in depth over sill, which will provide lor the docking of any vessel that can be built, unless some now unknown system of building is developed. The greater depth of the new dock is also designed to meet cases where a veBBel has been injured and draws much more than the ordinary depth on account of the injury. NATION ENTERS BUSINESS. Japan Makes Great Stride Forward on Road to Socialism. Washington, July 19. According to advices received by the bureau of man ufactures, the Japanese government has undertaken one of the greatest experi ments in the world's history, which in dicates a clear purpose to protect, su pervise, develop and nationalize all Japanese industries. It is stated that the provision for the nationalization of railways was but a single step in the great plan of industrial naturalization toward which the country is fast ap proaching. The movement for Manchurian na tionalization has received careful atten tion, and it is now proposed that a company shall be formed by the gov ernment and private capitalist s jointly for the purpose of operating the rail roads, forests and mines in Manchuria. If successful along the lines Japan is now working, it is said that the indi viduals and corporations of America that are striving for the tra le of the Orient will d if cover that they are not competing for this trade against indi viduals and corporations of Japan, but that they are in commercial conflict with the Japanese nation itself. Embezzles Igorrotes' Cash. Washington, July 20. The War de partment was advised today of the ar rest in Chicago of Truman K. Hunt, who brought to this country a band of 50 odd Igorrotes from the Philippines. Acting under instructions from the War department, Hunt has been formally charged with holding from the dog eat ers for 15 months salaries which he agreed to pay, and also with embezzling $1,000, money they had made by sell ing souvenirs from their far-away home. Hunt was at one time governor of the Igorrote district. Refugess Are Returning. San Francisco, July 20. It was es timated that within three weeks of the fire on April 18, fully 335,000 people left San Francisco. According to com putations made today, juBt three months after the fire, there are now in Fan Francisco 365,000 people, with 50, 000 more waiting in nearby cities for opportunity to return as soon as suit able accomodations can be had. SOCORRO IS RUINED Successive Light Shocks Shake . Down Earthen Walls. PEOPLE ARE FLEEING IN PANIC Extinct Volcano Near the Town Is Suspected of Reviving and Causing Shocks. El Paso, Tex., July 19. Earthquake shocks numbering between 60 and 60 have practically made a ruin of the town of Socorro, 160 miles north of this place. The courthouse is a mass of ruina, and practically all the houseB in town are damaged. According to re ports received, there is no loss of life. The damage has been wrought by a continuation of slight quake, which have caused the walla of structures al ready cracked to tumble to the earth. The first shocks were felt on Sunday, but the real damage has been confined to the last two days. E. M. Fink, a cattle buyer who came from Socorro today, declares he was Bitting at dinner at the Winckler hotel on Monday, when the entire side wall of the dining room fell in, and the guests and all the waiters scattered in every direction. The people are in a panic and all who can do so are leaving town. . There is a crater of what is thought to be an extinct volcano not more than eight miles from Socorro, and the in habitants think that perhaps the vol cano baa something to do with the re markable series of shocks. The tem perature of the water in Hot Springs at Socorro haa increased over ten degrees and it is thought that this furnishes new evidence of internal upheaval of a local nature, and that the earth is dis turbed at great depths in the imn edUte vicinity of the town. The National railroad is sending box cars into the town to take the people away so great is their desire to leave the town. Huge boulders have been jarred down on the track from the mountain sides, and trains have been delayed thereby. The bridge abutments have been affect ed to such an extent that orders have been issued to Santa Fe trainmen to proceed with great caution over bridges within a radius of 30 miles of Socorro. UTAH COAL LANDS STOLEN. Federal Agents Procuring Evidence for Prospective Suits. Salt Lake City, July 19. Rumors to the effect that agents of the Federal governmet are busy in Utah preparing to institute suits of a sensational na ture for the recovery of vast areas of public domain, current here for several months, were revived today, with an additional statement that within ten days Buits would be brought in the Fed er 1 couit here to recover to the gjv ernment more than 30,000 acres of coal lands, alleged to have been acquired by coal companies through fraudulent means, part as agricultural or grazing lands through selection by the Utah state land board, being later transferred to the coal companies. Other coal lands are said to have been filed on as such by dummies who later transferred them to the corpora tions. More than 100 entries of this character are said to have been run down. While these reports cannot be abso lutely verified, a Federal official in this city today admitted that suits are in preparation, making the additional statement that the Federal officials in trusted with the matter had received positive instructions from Washington not to talk, but to prepare for action. It is stated also that a Federal grand jury may be called to sift the evidence that has been gathered in preparation for the prosecution of the civil cases. Arkansas After Trust. Little Rock, Ark., July 19. Suit was entered today against the five cot tonseed oil mills of this city by Attor ney General Rogers and Prosecuting Attorney Rboton, charging them witn being members of a combine in viola tion of the anti-trust law, and alleging restriction of trade. The suits ask judgment in the sum of $5,000 per day,, aggregating $130,000 asainst eoh mm. pany, and ask also the revocation of their charters in this state. It is un underatood suits will be entered against the remaining 34 mills. StromboliOpens New Crater, Rome, July 19. An alarming erup tion is reported at Stromboli, the vol canic isle in the Lipari islands off the north coast of Scily. A new crater haa opened, which is belching out huge quantities of fierv matter. and all . tation in the vicinity is being destroyed.