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About Lexington wheatfield. (Lexington, Or.) 1905-19?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 9, 1906)
LEXINGTON WHEATFIELD S. A. THOMAS, PiMMr LEXINGTON OREGON NEWS OF THE WEEK In a Condensed Form for Our Bnsy Readers. A Resume of the Less Important but Not Less Interesting Events of the Past Week. A mutiny in all Finnish forts has been called by the Rede. E. A. Gage, a son of Lyman Gage, committed suicide in Seattle. Rear Admiral Train, commander in chief of the Asiatic squadron is dead. A fund of two and a half million dol lars is to be raised to build cottages for the homeless of San Francisco. The forts at Sveaborg, Russia, are al most in'total ruins as the result of fightingbetween mutineers and loyal troops. San Francisco is threatened with an epidemic of typhoid, which the health board Bays is being carried by the com mon house fly. The state law of New York restrict ing the labor by women and children to 10 hours a day has been declaied un constitutional. The state auditor of Kansas says he will cancel the polices of all insurance companies who do not pay their San Francisco losses in full. Provision contiactors on the isthmus have formed a trust and raised the prices lOOper cent. The canal com mission has ordered supplies of $500 and over bought under the open bid system. Brigadier General William Bolton is dead. Mayor W. H. Moore, of Seattle, is seriously ill at Los AngeleB. The business of the Lewis and Clark exposition has been wound up. T. W. Davenport, of Silverton, Ore gon, father of Cartoonist Davenport, is dead. Fifteen hundred copper miners at Calumet, Michigan, have had their wages voluntarily raised $2 per month. Four men were killed and two wounded in a battle between a sheriff's posse and bandits in Knott county, Kentucky. It has been charged that General Wood is drawing two salaries, one as governor and one as hii regular pay in the army. The president says this is not so. A San Francisco woman has just se cured a divorce on the ground that her husband had not spoken a word to her for eight years, although living in the same house. A Porto Rican merchant has sued Federal Judge Hunt, of Montana, for $100,000 damages. It is claimed that at the time the judge was governor of the island he was instrumental in ruin ing the merchant's business. Fire in a Buffalo, N. Y., planing mill destroyed $170,000 worth of prop erty. The National Sculpture society is to establish an old age home for its mem bers. The St. Paul is laying steel for its new Pacific coast extension. The work is being done in South Dakota. Judge James F. Tracey, of the Phil ippine Supreme court, will likely be the next vice governor of the islands. John D. Rockefeller says there is more good than bad in the world, and that everything is for good in the end. The Pennsylvania railroad has cut passenger rates to 2 cents per mile. Mileage books will be irsued at the rate of 2 cents per mile. The failure of tbe sultan to receive an ambaasrdor instead of a minister is likely to be the cause of diplomatic differences between the United States and Turkey. Two transcontinental railway com panies say tbey will shortly install theater cars on their trains in which plays will be given while the trainB are in progress. Vast frauds have been unearthed in San Francisco's municipal affairs. Examination of public records show that there has been an extensive graft in letting contracts and that city pay rolls have been padded. Truck workers in San Francisco have struck lor more pay and shorter hours. Nihilists wrecked a train in Belgium, thinking Grand Duke Vladimir, of Russia, on it. Dowie says he will appeal from the recent decision of the court ousting him from control of Zion City. The Paciflo Coast Steamship company is raid to be considering the manning of its vessels with Indians. DARK HOUR IN RUSSIA. New Mutinies Break Out as Fast as Others Are Suppressed. St. Petersburg, Aug. 3. Nearly 8, 000 sappers, sailors, pioneers and min ers at Cronstadt mutinied about 11 o'clock last night. They planned to seize the forts and the bridge leading to Fort Cronstadt, but their plana were foiled by the precautions taken by the commander. After a severe fight the loyal troops opened fire on them with machine guns, and as they had no ai tillery available and the arsenal had been stripped before they could seize it, they had noallernative but surrender. A court martial began sitting this morning, and is sentencing the mutin eers to death by hundreds. St. Petersburg, Aug. 3. The crew of the armored cruiser Pamyat Azova mu tinied off the Esthonian coast and 1b now in full possession of the ship, which has Bailed northward in the di rection of the Finnish gulf. Reval, Aug. 3. The cruiser Pamyat Azova has arrived in the roadstead here in the possession of the loyal portion of her cerw. One hundred and fifty of the mutineers have been sent ashore and imprisoned. The mutineers were overpowered by the loyal sailors while the ship was at sea. St. Petersburg, Aug. 3. The crew of the Russian cruiser Asia, which was sent to Abo, has hoisted the red flag. The vessel has left in the direction of Sveaborg. The ministry of marine has confirmed the report that Admiral Birileff had gone to Helsingfors on board the school ship Ada, whose crew has mutinied. St. Petersburg, Aug. 3. Military disorders have broken out at Reval. Details cannot be obtained. St. Petersburg, Aug. 3. Although the mutinies at Sveaborg have been ended and the one at Cronstadt has been practically put down, the outlook is still black. The revolutionists, whose hands were suddenly forced by the premature rising at Sveaborg, ap parently are undaunted at these initial reverses and intend to persist in their program of calling a general strike on Saturday or Monday. St. Petersburg, Aug. 3. On the heels of the other bad news comes the startl ing statement that the emperor has flatly refused to accept the conditions to which Premier Stolypin aggreed in his negotiations with Count Heydon, Alexander Guchkoff, Prince Nicholas Lvoff, Paul Vinogradoff and Senator Koni for the reorganization of the cab inet. There is an increasing apprehension that the emperor purposes to take the final step of turning the country over to the military dictatorship of Grand Duke Nicholas. The Streets of St. Petersburg are again tilled with patrols. ISLANDS' RICE IMPORTS SMALL. Ide Says They Produce More, Mer chants They Eat Less. Manila, Aug. 3. Governor Ide has recived reports stating that during the Steal year ending June 30 the importa tions of rics to the Philippines decreas ed 61,072,411 pounds, valued at $3, 084,783 in gold. Commenting on the reports Governor Ide says: "From these reports it appears that the number of pounds of rice imported into the Philippines during the fifcal year of 1906 was something less than three-sevenths of the importations of 1901, and the cash sent out from the islands for rice was less than four-elevenths of the sum sent in 1894. If tbe same ratio of decrease for a year or even a semester, no more rice will be import ed and in two years the islands, besides supplying the home demand, ought to be exporting rice." The public ition of thpse reports has caused a controversy. The local ship pers contend that the decrease of im portations is a result of the poverty of the people, who, it is alleged, are not buying rice, but are living on yams and other food. The shippers declare that the Philippines will never export rice. Catholics for Limited Divorce. Buffalo, Aug. 3. At today's meeting of the American Federation of Catholics a resolution was adopted defining the position of the federation on the ques tion of divercj. It recommends the enactment of laws granting a Beparation or limited divorce in those BtateB which have no such laws, and in states which grant absolute divorces the federation asks that the applicant be allowed to ask for a limited divorce on the eame grounds under which an absolute di vorca is granted. Limited divorce in extreme cases is recommended. Wilson Will Surprise Packers. Washington, Aug. 3. Secretary Wil son left today to pay a surprise visit of insprction to several slaughtering and packing houses in the EaBt. Upon leaving his office the secretary gave in structions that to all inquiries regard ing him the answer should be that he is gone away and it is not known when he would return. GENERAL STRIKE ON Workmen in Russian Capital Re sponding to Call. SIGNS POINT TO A DICTATORSHIP Grand Duke Nicholas to Lead Fight on Reds Disturbances and Mutinien Continue. St. Petersburg, Aug. 4. St. Peters burg is in darkness tonight. The em ployes of the electric lighting plants, always the earliest barometric record of political conditions, ceased work during the afternoon in obedience to the call for a general strike. This call already has been obeyed by 20,000 factory hands in the capital. It will be im possible, however, to predict the suc cess of this universal political strike until Monday, as the workmen in St. Petersburg and the provinces have two holidays Saturday, which is the fete day of the dowager empress and a great religious feast, and their regular holi day of Sunday. The pickets of cavalry and infantry were the most conspicuous features on the streets of St. Petersburg last night. Business houses generally have boarded up their windows as they did in the days of the great October strike. Prac tically all of the street cars in the city have stopped running, and he cab driv ers are threatening to cease work. In the meantime the fate of the Stolypin cabinet sways in the balance and RusBia in upon the verge of disor ders which may lead to the reign of either the military or the proletariat. It can be stated definitely that the steps toward a dictatorship may be tiken Sunday or Monday by the nomination of Grand Duke Nicholas to the chief command of all tbe troops in Russia. This would virtually place him in con trol of all the disturbed districts of the empire where martial law has been proclaimed. Artillery in Open Revolt. Warsaw, Poland, Aug. 4. A portion of the troops in the Summer Rembert off, near here, mutinied yesterday and are in open revolt today. The artil lerymen have driven their officers out of their quarters. A squadron of Cos sacks sent to overpower the mutineers was received with grapeshot. Details are lacking, as extraordinary precau tions are being taken to prevent the facts becoming public. Rebels Fire Big Woodyards. Harkov, Aug. 4 Fire broke out in several large woodyards in the vicinity of the prison today. This evidently was a device on the part of revolution ists, who hoped to free political leaders during the confusion. The authorities are apprehensive of a renewed effort to the same end. PUT OUT OF BUSINESS. Insurance Commissioner Gives Body Blow to Two Companies. San FranciBCo, Aag. 4. Insurance Commissioner Wolf Bent notice tcday to the president and directors of tbe Fireman's Fund Insurance company and the Home Fire & Marine Insurance company, both of San Francisco, that unless they made good their deficiency in capital stock in four weeks he will request Attorney General Webb tc pro ceed to ascertain why their licenses to do business in California revoked. Both companies have been known to be in financial trouble since the fire. Tbe Home Fire & Marine has announc ed that it will do no more business. Tbe Fireman's Fund has reinsured its risks to the amount of $372,684,760, carrying premiums amounting to $4, 471,117 with the new Fireman's Fund corporation, which has been organized since the fire. Both companies have thus confessed failure. WoH'b order, it is expected, will permanently close their doors. Subpenas for Standard Men. New York, Aag. 4. Forty or more subpenas for officers and employes of the Standard Oil company have been forwarded to New York from Chicago. 8everal of the ofScialB of the Standard Oil would not nap whether they had re ceived the subpenas from Illinois. In quiries were referred to M. F. Elliott, general counsel lor the company, who Baid so far as he knew no attempt had been made to serve any of the officials. Mr. Elliott wouU not say what atti tude the officials would take in case the Bubpena servers jut in an appearance. Stampede to Windy Arm. Seattle, Aug. 4 -Rich strikes report ed in Southeastern Alaska have at tracted the longshoremen of Skagway, Juneau and other towns. The men who work along the front have stam peded to Windy rm in such numbers that the sailors rf the coastwise fleet have to unload tkeir own boats. MUTINEERS SEIZE SVEABORG Only Four Companies of Infantry Re main Layal to Czar. Ilelsingfois, Aug. 1. Sveaborg i entirely in the hands of the mutineers, who now have in their possession every kind of armament. Horrible Bcenes occurred during last night' when the fierce fighting was con tinued. The heaviest artillery waB used during the conflict. Several officors were killed or wound ed, The wounded were transported to Helsingfors. Colonel Nararoff waB bayoneted. He begged for transportation to the hospit al, promising forgiveness in exchange. Instead he was stoned and thrown into the water with a stone tied around his neck. Helsingfors, Aug. 1. A gigantic mil itary conspiracy, aiming at the simul taneous capture of Russia's thiee great sea fortresses, Ci'onstadt, Sevastopol and Sveaborg, arranged by the Revolu tionary Military league, was prema turely sprung here yesterday by an at tempt to arrest members of a company of sappers who had mutinied on ac count of the death of one of their com rades, alleged to have been due to ill treatment. The entire garrison of the fortress at Sveaborg flamed out instantly in revolt. All the artillery and eappers garrison ing the phce were invoked. Only four companies of infantry . remained loyal. The mutineers Bbized 40 machine guns and practically all the quick-firers and light artillery in the fortress, but even with this aid they were unable to hold the main fort against the loyal infant ry. The fighting continued all night long. The heaviest firing was heard from 10 o'clock in the evening until 1 in the morning. WILL OPEN DOOR. Baron Komura Says Japan Will Keep Treaty Pledges. Victoria, B. C, Aug. 1. Baron Ko mura, recently appointed Japanese am bassador to Great Britain, arrived to day by the Canadian Pacific railroad steamer Empress of Japan on his way to London, via Quebec, from where be sails by the Empress of Ireland on August 9. Baron Komura said with regard to Japanese action in Manchuria that tbe Japanese government would undoubted ly carry out all the pledges made before and since tbe war to maintain "the open door" in Manchuria. Regarding the criticism of foreign merchants, he said these were due to impatience. The terms of occupation demanded that Japan adopt the measures now in vogue, but as soon as the military occupation was ended and this would be soon, ar rangements would be made to carry out the pledges regarding an "open door" policy. Tiue, the bulk of ' the army had been repatriated, but there wae still a large force ii Manchuria. There was also Russian troops In occupation. While it was not known definitely what Russia was doing regarding the with drawal, it was known that troops were steadily being withdrawn and it was necessary that tbe Japanese military administration continue to occupy the country until the withdrawal was com plete. "Has Dalny been made a free port and are other nations than Tapanese re stricted from trading via that port with Manchuria?" "That I cannot tell you," replied Baron Komura. "This much I can Bay, though, the pledges made by Japan re garding Manchuria will be carried out in every particular as soon as the term of occupation by the military forces has expired." Battleships in Collision. Newport, R. I., Aug. 1. Rear Ad miral R. D. Evans, commanding the Atlantic fleet, received reports in detail today of a collision which occurred dur ing a fog last night between tbe battle ships Alabama and Illinois about eight miles southeast of Brenton's reef light ship. The side of tbe Illinois waB scraped by the bow of the Alabama and several plates of the forward part of the Alabama were injured. It is also thought that one or more of the six inch guns on tbe two battleships were damaged. Admiral Evans states that neither ship was damaged below the water line. Not Bound Up In Reef Tape. Washington, Aug. 1. The facility with which the Civil Service commis sion furnished inspectors to the depart ment of Agriculture in the execution of tbe meat inspection law is shown in a statement issued today by the commis sion. Although the law was not enact ed till June 30, the commission in ex actly three weeks from that date con ducted examinations throughout the country. Arrangements were made to examine 3,386 applicants. Durintr the week ending July 28 2,640 sets of pa pers were received by the commission. Rain Makes Canal Zone Unhealthy. Colon, Aug. 1. The month of July has witnessed a series of teavy rains on the isthmus, which have hampered the work of sanitation in Colon. The con ditions today are worse than ever be fore. Preparations are being made to pavo the principal streets of Colon with brick. MAY EXPEL EUROPE Paris Paper. Fears South Ameri can Trade May Be Lost, CALLS ON FRANCE TO WATCH ROOT The United States Already Dominates North America and May Se cure South America. Paris, Aug. 2. The Liberte of Wed nesday night, under the caption of "Victims of the Monroe Doctrine' printed a long and vigorous article on Secretary of State Root and the Pan American congress. It taunts the French press for grudgingly printing a paragraph about Mr. Root's toasting South America between a list of con testants in a recent swimming match and the names of meritorious agricul turist. It ironically quotes aneditir, who said that foreign politics are noc sufficiently Parisian to interest the elite public and then twits the leaders of the republic with making the question of conferring tbe decoration of the Legion of Honor on Sarah Bernhardt the prin cipal affair of state and tacitly asking why they should worry over South Americans, who interest Parisians only in vaudeville. All thiB time, Bays the Liberte, Mr. Root was preparing, if he had not al ready made effective, tbe most redoubt able operation in political economics, of which the French will be dupes and with them all other Latin people, who, imitating them, try to be Parisians. The results of ten years of intrigue in Pan-America are likely to be effective soon. Europe has already been expell ed from North America, and she will be expelled from South America in less than six years unless there is energetic resistance immediately. Continuing the paper says that a few facts today are startlingly clear. Among them is the fact that Europe has no right to defend her financial and commercial interests in South America, the United States Baying in effect that each nation is master of its own home with the United States at borne every where. Against 73,000,000 Latin peo ple stood Secretary Root and to that Yankee intruder went favors and bene fits because he alone spoke, flattered and menaced. He alone acted, wbile Latin Europe abstained. Already dis tant lands have slipped into Yankee hands, while at Constantinople, St. Petersburg, Tokio and Algeciras tbe same Root intervened at his conven ience and Europe stupidly respected the Monroe doctrine. Before the conclu sion of the third Pan-American congreie it will have cost the Latin peoples a. continent they peopled and financed. MUTINY SPREADS TO FLEET. Ships Go to Aid of Forts, Which May Have Given Up. Viborg, Aug. 2. It is reported here that the Russian fleet, stationed at Hango, Finland, has mutinied, impris oned the officers and Hailed to the as sistance of the mutineers at Sveaborg. Helsingfora, Aug. 2. At 7 o'clock, last evening the battleship Czarevitch and the cruiser Bogatyr opened fire on the mutineers at a distance of 60 cable lengths. The mutineers replied, but their shots scemsd to fall short. The firing ceased at 9 o'clock and tbe boats, were then seen leaving the islands with wounded. Helsingfors, Aug. 2. he latest new' from tbe fortress tends to confirm a previous report that the mutineers have surrendered. The mutineers had the upper hand until the battleships arrived and began to bombard them with telling effect. The men were undoubtedly led to surrender because of their lack of big: guns, their need of provisions, which they had failed to secure, and the ar rival of the warships. Reinforcements have arrived here and have been hurried to effective positions. Jeers for Dr. Dev'ne. San Francisco, Aug. 2. A banquet was given to Dr. Devine, the national1 Red Cross representative who had charge of the relief work here after the fire and who is about to return to hie home in the East. A number of the discontented persons who are living in the refuge camps took advantage of the occasion to work up a demonstration against the methods of the relief com mission, and as a result a throng of people gathered at Union square in front of the St. Francis hotel, where the banquet was held. Rebels Steal Machine Gun. St. Petersburg, Aug. 2. A machine gun was stolen last night from an arms factory in the Vatsil Ostrov dis'ri t of this city. It is Buspected that the rob bery was committed with cognizance of the sentinels on duty at the factory.. At a secret meeting last night of the Putilof works employes, a spy was dis covered and killed.