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.