LEXINGTON WHEATFIELD
t. S. A. THOMAS, PubtUhw
LEXINGTON...". . ".7. OREGON
NEWS OrVTHE WEEK
Iri a Condensed Form or Our
Busy Readers.
A Resume of the Leu Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
i of the Past Week.
Five hundred lawyers are attending
the meeting of the American Bar aseo
ciation in St. Paul. '
San Francisco has contracted for the
building of 4,000 email houses, to be
finished im 12 weeks.
It is estimated by the Panama canal
commission that $25,000,000 worth of
work can be done annually.
Four Greek laborers were killed and
another fatally injured by being struck
by a Baltimore & Ohio tram.
Chinese are planning to establish a
chain of newspapers in Canada with
which to combat the $500 per ' capita
tax.
The city scaler of Chicago has order
ed suits begun against four of the larg
est packing houses in that city for eel
ling short weight lard. j
President Roosevelt has cabled to
King Frederick, through the American
minister, his congratulations on the
opening of the cable to Iceland.
The Swift Packing company, which
is about to establish an immense pack
ing plant in Portland, will also build
its own cars and steamtihip docks.
" If the Standard Oil company is re
quired to give bonds for its appearance
in all the indictments against it at the
same rate that has been required in the
first indictment, it will have to put up
a bond of $3,350,000.
Holland will inspect and stamp all
meat hereafter exported.
The American Bar association is now
holding its annual convention in St.
Paul.
The police of Riga captured a depot
of revolutionary stores, including 24
bombs
A policeman, two gendarmes and a
conductor were killed on a train by a
band of seven revolutionists near Tarn
bofi, Russia..
The Japanese government announces
that after September 1, 1906, Dalny
will be a free port of entry for goods
of all cations.
The Nevada state insurance commis
sioner says he will revoke the licenses
of all companies which fail to pay their
San Francisco losses.
' Senatoi W. A. Clark will build a
branch railroad line from Las Vegas,
N. M, into San Francisco. Over half
the line is already completed.
The czar is badly scared by the re
cent terrorist outrages, and it is
thought he is about to place the gov
ernment in the hands of a dictator.
A man traveling overland in New
Mexico found two men sitting upright
in their wagon, dead, and their four
mule team also dead. They had been
struck by lightning.
The city of Troy, Montana, suffered
a $10,000 loss by fire in its business
district.
Three were killed and ten Injured
in a Great Northern trainwreck in
Montana.
Smoke from forest fireB is causing
serious trouble to ships along the Ore
gon coast.
A Worcester, Mass., daily paper tried
the new spelling for one day, but had
to have extra help in several depart
ments President Eliot, of Harvard, says it
will be a long time before President
Roosevelt's spelling reform becomes
general.
San Francisco is so badly in need of
lumber that it is being imported from
British Columbia, and paying the duty
of $2 per thousand feet.
San Francisco people have to get np
extra early so as to walk to work, the
street car companies making no at
tempt to run cars since the strike be-
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An Oakland, Cal., man laid his cigar
on his desk, where it came in contact
with a few grains of cyanide of potas
sium. Later he placed the cigar in his
mouth, and the poison caused his death
in a few hours.
A sack containing Bixty pounds of
giant powder wasg picked up by the
wheel of a steamer on the Columbia
river. It is supposed the powder was
a "mine" laid for boats which trespass
on the seining grounds. "" . , t ,
Baa Francisco car men have declared
a general strike. , , ",- , , '.,
It is reported that Cuban Insurgents
are beginning to desert. v" '" "
REBELS ARE GAINING.
Cabanas Taken by Guerrera and Santa
Clara Is In Danger.
Havana. Aug. 81. The surrender
of some of the more vigorous insurgent
leflders in the provinces of Matanzas
and Santa Clara, and the coming in of
a scattering few insurgents in response
to the government's offer of amnesty,
is vastly more than offset by the in
surgent sentiment looking stronger
daily in the country districts of the
provinces of Havana, Pinar del Rio
and Santa Clara, which is now report
ed to be gaining headway in Santiago,
from which province, however, there
are as yet no reports of organized
bands.
The testimony of persons arriving
here from the country is unanimous to
the effect that the people are restless
and becoming more and more excited.
The talk of the towns is of these who
have gone out to join the insurgents
and the chances of winning against the
government. There are grave doubts
of the loyalty of the recruits, especially
of negro recruits, who are suspected in
many quarters of a willingness to join
the other Bide, with which many of
their people are identified.
The undeniable evidence of the
growth of insurrectionist sentiment is
causing increasing doubt as to whether
the government will, after all, be able
to cope promptly and successfully with
the movement, and there is much dis
cussion of the possibilities of a peaceful
settlement. Interest centers in a pro
jected meeting of Cuban veterans and
other prominent men to consider the
question of approaching Pino uuerrera
and other insurgent leaders of the Lib
eral party and members of the gov
ernment, with a view to ascertaining
whether the difficulty cannot be settled
through some compromise.
Meanwhile a rapid-fire artillery
orps is being organize d under Amer
ican officers, ammunition and guns are
being unpacked and the historic La
tillo de la Punta, fronting on the har
bor entrance, is the scene of the great
est activity. The insurrection in the
province of Pmar del Rio haB spread
across the mountains to the north coaBt,
and the town of Cabanas is now in the
hands of the insurgents, who are re
ported also to have gone in the direc
tion of Bahia Honda. The insurgents
took arms from a small detachment of
rural guards, and captured 50 horses
which the governor had requisitioned
The government telegraph lines are in
terrupted.
look For label on meat.
How Government Inspectors Will In
dicate What is Good,
Washington, Aug. 81. Owing to the
new meat inspection law, the number
of inspectors' labels used will be more
than doubled. Already the Agncul
tural department ' has contracted to
supply 10,000 for the month of Sep
tember, and after the law becomes
effective this number will be increased
to 15,000.
The tag is about one and one-quarter
inches square. It is a thin sheet of
gelatine, with a few threads running on
it. There is printed in blue letter a
legend like this: "United States. In
spected. Passed 207." The number
at the end is that of the abattoir in
spector, who simply slaps the little tag
on a piece of meat and the heat and
moisture of the freshly-killed meat
makes it stick. In a short time the
gelatine dissolves, the linen threads
rub off, and there is left nothing but
the print of those blue letters in the
meat. It cannot be removed, except by
cutting. It is absolutely harmless.
Planning Immense Dam.
Denver, Aug. 31. Papers have been
filed with the state engineer of Colo
rado which have for their purpose the
redemption of nearly 1,000,000 acres
of arid lands, the largest irrigation
proposition that has ever been under
taken by private capital. Frank J
McCarthy, a civil engineer of Denver,
is now drafting plans to build a reser
voir that will cover 24 square miles,
have an average depth of 35 feet, and
use the entire surplus water of the
Platte river. Heretofore, it has been
estimated that . 88,115,000,000 cubic
feet of water was wasted yearly in the
Platte river, water which, if properly
diverted and used on land adjoining,
would irrigate 1,000,000, acres of land
and would support 100,000 people.
Food and Water Plenty.
SantiagoChile, Auir. 81. President
Riesco today expressed the belief that
all the villages and towns of Chile de
stroyed by the recent earthquake would
be rebuilt on their old Bites, the elec
tric light system would soon be in op
eration in Valparaiso, and the city
would speedily establish the tramway
service and the customs service would
soon be reorganized. ' The prisoners in
the Valparaiso jail, except such as are
known to be dangerous, and those who
are serving second terms, have been set
at work improving the port.
; Wilson Inspects Stockyards.
Chicago, Aug. 31 Secretary of Agri
culture Wilson spent part of today at
the stockyards, inspecting .the packing
plants, and expressed hlmseif .as great
ly pleased with the excellent, sanitary
conditions-he founds m
PRICES GO SOARING
Increase In Pay Little Benefit to
San Francisco Workmen. .
RENTS ALMOST OUT Of REACH
Bread and Butter Free, but Restau
rants and Hotels Recoup
on Other Things.
San Francisco,. Sept. 1. Two months
ago it was stated that labor in 6a Fran
cisco had reached the highest known
record for wages. Since then labor has
eclipsed its own record. Not only has
labor advanced, but house rents anl
food have gone up with rapid strides
during the laet two months.
Today another modest little restau
rant crossed out its printed prices and
inked in advances on the margin. For
a small slice of roast beef which was
formerly procured for 25 cents, 30 cents
must now be paid. It is a little cafe
where the patrons sit up to a counter
bare of cloth. It is patronized mostly
by the workingmen in the burned dis
trict and the newspaper employes, and
its prices are as low as they can be
placed.
The proprietor for some reason or
other felt called upon to explain. The
increase, by the way, is about 20 per
cent.
"It is this way," apologized the
host. "I pay half again as much for
things as I did before the fire. To be
gin with, I get five loaves of bread less
than formerly for $1. The bakeis
struck, and to meet the increase in
w&ges the price of bread bad to be
raised.
"Then the price of meat went up
again tbis wees. ine delivery men
got an increase to something like $78
a month, so the butchers have boosted
the price.
"Fruit and butter are way up, and
just the other day the waiters threat
ened to strike and we had to raise
them. They need to get $14 a week,
now they get $16 60. So what could I
do? I had to raise my prices or go out
of business."
He told the truth, but only part of
the truth. Wages in nearly every
line have advanced since the fire. Some
bricklayers are now receiving $10 a
day. In many cases bod carriers re
ceive $6, marble cutters $7, electrician e
$5 50, plumber $7, plasterers $10,
structural iron workers $6, tile setters
$7.50, cement workers $6, steamfitters
and sheet metal workers the same,
painters $5 and foremen on general jobs
$10. , .
The figuree quoted represent the
highest wages paid in the trades men
tioned at the present time. The aver
age would be slightly less. The union
scale counti for very little at present.
All contractors are forced to exceed it
in order to get men. They are bidding
against each other, and the end does
not seem to have been reached. Strike
has followed strike, and now, with in
creased wages in almost every line of
industry, nobody is any better off than
before.
DEFECTS IN BIG WARSHIPS.
Wrecked Montague and Great Dread-
naught Poorly Riveted.
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London, Sept. 1. Statements have
been circulated about defective work
manship on English battleships. ' It
was asserted that in salvaging the
Montague, which went on the rocks off
Lundy island in June last, grave de
fects in her riveting were discovered,
but these statements were immediately
denied from authoritative quarters.
The Daily Mail's correspondent at
Portsmouth makes a similar statement
about the new monster battleship
Dreadnaught, alleging that in the bur
ry to get the vessel completed her
plates were badly fixed. Soon after
the vessel was launched, the corres
pondent says, some holes were found
without rivets, and the men responsi
ble were dismissed. Some leakage also
was found and she is now in dry dock.
Sudden Voyage in Air.
Middletown. N. Y., Sept. 1. A wo
man spectator at a balloon ascension at
the Ulster County fair at Evansville
today had her foot caught by one of
the guy ropes of the balloon, and bang
ing head downwards, was carried many
feet into the air. The young woman
aeronaut was hanging from the para
chute bar, She reached out and grasped
the woman, at the same , time letting
the gas out of the balloon. It descended
and struck with considerable force half
a mile from the starting joint. Both
women were badly hurt.. (
' New Spelling In College. -
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Cuerrera Alone Holds Out and Wants
Roosevelt tp Arbitrate.
Havana, Aug. 29. Senator Dolz, a
leader of the Moderate party, at the
conclusion of a conference with Presi
dent Palma at midnight, stated that
practically all the insurgent leaders of
consequence except Pino Guerrera had
signified their willingness to disband
their men, if all were positively guar
anteed immunity for their insurrec
tionary actions.
On account of the insurgents wil
lingness to quit the field, there will be
no further enlistments.
Havana, Aug. 29. At the moment
today when the government was issuing
its proclamation offering pardon to
rebels who would lay down their arms,
its forces were dealing the most telling
blow that baa yet been . struck against
the insurgents in the field. 4 For seve
ral days it had been stated that General
Guzman's force of insurgents, which
was variously estimated at .from 200
upward, contemplated an attack on
CienfuegOB. Colonel Valle, with a de
tachment of rural guards, was dis
patched to Cienfuegos for the purpose
of engaging Guzman and breaking up
the band. The encounter of the two
forces resulted in the worst disaster
which the insurgents have sustained up
to this time. They lost 17 men killed
and many wounded, while the loss to
the government force was one man
killed. The government is without
further particulars of the fight.
That the insurrection is in a shaky
condition seems to be a (act, although
the end may not be as near as mem
bers of the government forces profess
to believe. Pino Guerrera, the insur
gent leader operating in the province
of Pinar del Rio, in a signed statement
telegraphed to the Associated Press to
night, declares that he is as determined
as ever that the last presidential elec
tion shall be annulled before there can
be peace in Cuba.
That Guerrera's force of 2,000 men
is well armed and supplied with food
and ammunition is amply verified. Its
greatest drawback ia now lack of mon
ey, but the people of the western part
of Pinar del Rio are furnishing it with
all the supplies needed, taking in re
turn therefor orders on the ' Cuban
government," and in many cases re
fusing to accept any consideration.
Rapid fire guns and considerable
war material arrived today for the gov
ernment, and more is expected from
New Orleans.
It s reported that Guzman's force,
the vanguard of which was defeated by
Colonel Valle near Cienfuegos, numbers
1,000 men, well armed and mounted.
The report is undoubtedly exaggerated.
As a result.of a meeting in Havana to
night, many congressmen inscribed
themselves as volunteers.
VALDEZ FORESTS BLAZING.
Dense Smoke Blots Out Sun and
Steamers Slow Down.
Vancouver, B. C, Aug. 29. One of
the largest fires which has occurred up
coast this season is now raging in Val-
dez island.
Steamers which arrived in today
were somewhat delayed by dense smoke,
and passengers say that in the viciuity
of the scene of the fire massive clouds
of dark smoke entirely obliterated all
view of the flames.
Valdez island is covered with a mag
nificent growth of first-class timber.
and many local timber holders have
large claims there. The fire's pres
ence on the island has caused anxiety
in local business circles, which is all
the more heightened by the fact that
nothing can stop it. Rain is badly
needed along the coast.
Fire Warden McKay stated today
that Nthe recent big bush -fire near
Gower Point had done more damage
than was at first supposed. While the
fire destroyed a large tract of timber, it
also burned the bridges and destroyed
the roads in the vicinity, and the
people who live within the territory on
which the timber was destroyed will
haye no access to the water until new
roads and bridges are built.
"The people in the vicinity," said
Mr. McKay, "will be practically desti
tute this winter unless something is
done very quickly to relieve them and
to aid them in building new roads and
bridges."
Excursion for Irrigationists.
Boise, Idaho, Aug. 29. Arrange
ments are completed for extensive excursions-
for delegates to the Irrigation
congress. These will ruri west to
Weiflter and east to Twin Falls and St.
Anthony. At Twin Falls the delegates
will be taken to all points of scenic in
terest. The trains will then go to
Idaho Falls and St. Anthony, giving
the delegates an opportunity to see
th&rrigation of the Upper Snake. A
feature of the congress will be a series
of illustrated lectures ' by representa
tives of government departments
i Bryan Declines Private Car,
New Haven. Conn.. Aug. 29. Mr.
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Bryan has declined the proffer of Prea-
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ident Mellen'e private car on his trip
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DISCUSSRATE IAW
Railroad Men and Shippers Urge
Claims Before Commission.
MORE TIME TO FILE TARIFFS
Railroad Men Object to Change in
Export and Import Rates
Shippers Favor It.
Washington, Aug. 30. To discuss
certain phases of the railroad rate law,
which is now in effect, there was a
conference which lasted the greater
part of the day, between the members
of the Interstate Commerce commission
and representatives of the railroads and
shippers of the country. The railroad
officials present numbered 34, among
whom were: Vice President Caldwell,,
of the Delaware, Lackawanna & West
ern; Vice President Gamer, of the New
York Central, Counsel Massey, of the
Pennsylvania, and General Counsel
Clardy, ol the Missouri Pacific, while
F. Bentley, of Chicago, J. A. Farley,
of Dallas, Tex., and James Maynard,
of Knoxville, Tenn, were among the
speakers for the shippers. The Amer
ican Shippers' association and the Illi
nois Manufacturers' association were
represented.
The railroad representatives uni
formly gave assurance of their inten
tion to comply fully with the new law,
but presented their views as to the
operation of certain provisions, among
the points uiged being extension of
time in which carriers may file their
tariffs with the commission; continu
ance of the present method of posting
tariffs; objection to any change in ex
port and import rates pending a full
hearing, and the absolute concurrence
of ah the carriers interested before the
establishment of joint rates.
The shippers' representatives urged
the protection of their interests, par
ticularly against ttie railroads shifting
classifications so as to put up rates.'
STRIKEBREAKERS EN ROUTE.
Four Trains of Armed Men Are Now
Rushing to San Francisco. :
New York, Aug. 30. Another spe
cial train loaded with strike breakers
was started for San Francisco last night
by James Farley, who has been em
ployed to put an end to the big street
railroad strike in the Golden Gate city.
Three Farley trains are now trying to
cross the continent in four days, saving
a day on the average passenger sched
ule. Another train will leave Jersey
City tonight, and still another may
leave tomorrow night.
Parleys' headquarters resembled the
headquarters of a general in the field
yesterday. His expedition is being,
equipped with ammunition, medical
supplies and surgical attendants. Seventy-five
rounds'of cartridges have been
ordered for the men, 1,000 revolvers of
heavy calibre have been furnished, and
only the pick of men seeking adventure
or high wages has been selected.
Farley will send a New York sur
geon, who will get in San Francisco a
staff of assistants. He has already
commissioned an agent to provide for
the men at New York and at cities be
tween here and Chicago, while other
commissary agents will look out for
the men west of Chicago.
Society People's Opium Den,
Chicago, Aug. 30. A sumptuously
furnished opium den, which both men
and women in fashionable Chicago so
ciety are said to have frequented, was
raided today by detectives at 2828 Cal
umet avenue. The den was found to
consist of an entire fiat of six rooms on
the third floor, furnished and equipped
throughout in Oriental hangings and
most costly furniture. Dozens o( be
jeweled and silver mounted opium
pipes and layouts were found And con
fiscated. Jour persons were arrested.
About a dozen others escaped through
a secret door discovered by the police
in a search of the premises . after the
raid.
Iceland Wants American Goods.
Copenhagen, Aug. 30. Telegrams
from Reykjavik, Iceland, intimate that '
the Icelanders are planning to bring
about the direct importation of Ameri
can goods instead of by way of British
ports, as heretofore. The imports from
America, especially petroleum, wheat,
sugar and tobacco, have largely in
creased during recent years. The legis
lature of Iceland haB decided to invite
40 members of the Danish parliament '
to accompany the king of Denmark , on
his projected visit to Iceland in the
summer p,f 1907.
Strikers Destroy Mine.
Santander, Spain, Aug. 30. The
strike situation ia growing worse and
the mine owners have sent an urgent
demand for TeinforcementB of troops.
The strikers at Camargo are destroying
the mine and the railways have been
pillaged of their dynamite stores.
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