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LEXIHSTOH WHEATFIELO &. A. TUOSiAS, PuHMnr LEXINGTON.. OREGON NEWS OFJHE WEEK In a Condensed Form for Oar Busy Readers A Resume of the Less Important but Not Less Interesting Events of the Past Week. Mount Fetee is again in active erup tion. Wrangles of unions cause a threat of a general building lockout in Chicago. A Toronto university student was the first to be killed by football this season. Witte says that, while he has no ill feeling against the czar, he will never again serve him. An Atlanta grand jury has indicted 20 white men for complicity in the le cent outrages against negroes. In his farewell address Taft told the Cubans that the Uniced States will not leave till fair elections are assured. Secretary Taft has informed a delega tion of Isle of Pines citizens that it is useless to think of separation from Cuba. The Chilean congress, city and prop erty owners of Valparaiso, will com bine to rebuild the city destroyed by earthquake. John Barrett, now minister to Co lombia, is slated for a better position, either ambassador to Brazil or vice gov ernor of the Philippines. The deparment of Justice is gaining fresh evidence that hundreds of men, both white and black, are held in vir. tual slavery in Southern Flordia y the lumbermen. Cuban Liberals hail Taft and Bacon as saviours. A son of Vice President Fairbanks has eloped with a PittsDurg girl. The Isle of PineB iB not affected by American intervention in Cuba. Bussia is expelling all Japanese from that part of Manchuria controlled by the czar's troops. A lone highwayman held up a stage in the Touopah, Nevada, district, and secured nearly $5,000. The Newfoundland cabinet is still worrying over the fishing privileges lost to the United States. Booker T. Washington in an address to negroes strongly advised them to re main calm during the present trouble in the South. China wants American engineers to take charge of her railway construc tion and will pay $25,000 a year on a five years' contract. In the suit against the Standard Oil company in Ohio it has developed that one of the large English oil com panies is owned by Rockefeller in terests. Immediately upon the return of Taft from Cuba a vice governor of the Phil ippines will be appointed. This is the post originally intended for Magoon, now governor of Cuba. Another negro Las been killed in Arkansas. Ohio has succeeded in breaking up the bridge trust. Many bold robberies are occurring daily in San Francisco. The political campaign in New York is becoming a very warm one. Newfoundland will make a hard fight for fisheries awarded to America. Black Hundreds of Russia are spread ing terror, especially in Odessa. The big British battleship Dread naught has developed a speed of 22 knota. The second tube of the Pennsylvania railroad tunnel under the Hudson liver at New York has been completed. An east bound Union Pacific passen ger train was wrecked near Evanston, Wyoming. No one was seriously hurt. The Mexican government has arrang ed to nave the United States mint at San Francisco coin 2,500,000 Mexican half dollars. Recent floods in the states of Colima and Jalisco, Mexico, have lestilted in great destruction of property and the loss of at least 123 lives. Some British paperB accuse the gov rnment of making a complete surren der to the United States in the New foundland fisheries question. The trial of the Standard Oil in Ohio has commenced. Radicals are again in control of the Russian Democrats. Snow has fallen for the first time this year at Minneapolis. Taft will heal old feuds in Cuba be fore proclaiming amnesty. NOBLES FLY COUNTRY. Stampede of Russian Rich to Refuge in Free England. London, Oct. 12. For some time paBt statements have been made with more or less authority to , the effect that some members of the Czar's fam ily were making Becret arrangements to leave Rasaia, should certain eventuali ties occur, and take refuge in England. These statements have been regarded as part of the Inevitable rumors to be expected to arise from the state of affairs in the Muscovite dominions. In vestigations by the Publishers' Press correspondent, however, reveal circum stances which point to their truth. Large quantities of jewels, pictures and furniture have arrived in this country from the imperial palaces in Russia just lately, and hav3 been placed in safe storage. A leading banker told the PuDlishers'g Press cor respondent that consignments of prop erty of enormous value had recently ar rived there from Russia. "We have received packets of jewels, costly furniture and numbers of pic tures, the value of each ot which runs well into five figures," he said. "The owners are very highly placed." The question put point blank as to whether they belonged to the Roman offs, the reply was made that it was against the rules to give such informa tion. A confirmation of the assertion that at least two of the grand dukes and grand duchesses intend to give the ter rorists a wide berth, and to find an asylum in England, is found in the fact that inquiries for the best estates and houses in the market are being made among West End estate and house agents by Russian gentlemen, who, while asking for particulars of the most valuable estates, refuse to give the names of the people for whom they are required. CAR BLOCKADE IN THE EAST Orders for Thousands Are Given That Cannot Be Filled. Chicago, Oct. 12. The congestion of freight traffic has increased so fast within the last few days that railway officials fear they are soon to be face to face with a blockade. Conditions on the Eastern roads which have not only to handle the business which they orig inate but have the crops of the West pouring In upon them (or export, are naturally the worst, but thoBe on the Western lines alto are rapidly becom ing extremely Berious. With the approach of winter the movement of coal has grown heavier, aggravating the c ingested conditions which already exist, and traffic men say they do not know what they will do for cars when the year s enormous crop of corn is ready for market, as it will be now in a short time. A line belonging to one of the big Eastern railway syBtems had orders for 4,235 cars which it could not fill. The Pennsylvania proposes to give notioe that for 36 hours it will recaive no consignments from the Pittsburg dis trict, the object being to get the trscks partly clear of cars which have accu mulated on its lines. BUFFALO PLAGUED WITH SNOW, Tears Down Wires, Wrecks Orchards and Kills Two Men. Buffalo, Oct. 12. The storm of snow and sleet which swept over this part of the country last night and today was the worst in many years. Telegraph, telephone and trolley lines were prostrated in all directions. The damage to the rich fruit celts of Chau tauqua! Niagara and Orleans counties is incalculable. Whole oichards of peach trees and other Email fruits were crushed to the ground by the wet. clinging snow, many hours. Tonight the cold, and the which fell steadily for weather is clear and lines of communication are being slowly re-established. Buffalo bore the brunt of the storm. The damage in this city alone is not (ar from a quarter of a million dollars, and two deaths occurred, which were direct ly duo to the efffcts of the storm. All night the telephone and ehctric light systems were paralyzed. The streets were littered with broken wires. Indians Out On a Big Hunt. New Westminster. B. C, Oct. 12. The Stony Indiana of Alberta have again broken loose, and are now on a wild game drive along the west line of the Rocky mountains. The game au thorities have taken steps to have them pursued and driven out of the country, and a posse has been sent out. These Indians have always given the British Columbia game authorities trouble, as every iau uiey come into tne province through the various passes and hunt for several months at the west foothills uf the Rockies. Two More Transports Sail. Newport News, Va., Oct. 12. The transport Admiral Schley sailed from this port today, bearing the Seventeenth and Eighteenth batteries of mountain artillery. The City of Washington with the First battalion of the Eleventh infantry sailed tonight. BAY CITY IS ARMED Vigilance Committee May Be Or eanized. for Protection. MAYOR DOES NOT LIKE PLAN Carnival ot Robbery and Murder Has Stirred Honest Citizens to a High Pitch. San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 13. The general alarm caused by the numerous reports of hold-upa and robbery has seriously affected the attendance at all places of amusement. Hotel managers and others entrusted with the handling of large sums of money have made elab orate defensive preparations and there is a general arming on the part of citi zens. Discussing the propriety of the or ganization of a committee of Bafety in this Btate today to deal with petty criminals who now infest the city, Act ing Mayor Gallagher said: "There shall be no lynching in this city, and I sincerely hope that at the meeting to be held in Union square today the leaders will have enough sense to do nothing that will injure the city. "They will call it a committee safety," the mayor continued, "but other cities will call it a vigilance com mittee, and that will do irrevocable harm to San Francisco. It would be a cconfeBsion that the people of this city are not capable of protecting them selveB, and when I Bay the people mean the authoritiea with whom the people have vested the power of gov ernment. The plan is un-American "The surpation of the powers of sup pressing crime by unauthorized persons is a crime in itself. I shall regard i as such and will not permit it. "Should those men desire to co-oper ate with the authorities in ridding the city of thugs and criminals, I shall be glad to have their assistance, but they must not act independent of the munic ipality. I will not allow millionaires to take those steps any sooner than would allow laboring men. There must be no violence committed by citi zens. Lynch law does more harm than good." OLD GIRARD SLAVE PEN; Discovery Made 'by Subway Workmen at Depth of IOO Feet. Philadelphia, Oct. 13. Subway workmen digging beneath Water street for the new tunnel station, uncovered at the depth of 100 feet what is clear ly an old slave prison. Tne pen is composed of narrpw cells in three tiers, with three-foot corridors between heavy walla. The cells run six to the tier. Each is large enough to held six men packed in closely. Heavy iron bars covered the windows and in each cell were manacle supports. Directly above them is the house of Stephen Girard, an eccentric millionaire, who gave Gi rard college to Philadelphia, and whose estate is now valued at $100,000,000 In tearing down the old Girard home that tbe traction company bought, the prison was discovered. The old house ia within half a square of the Delaware, and secret access by water would be easy. Girard believed in slavery, owned slaves and many Louisiana Bugar plantations. Armour's Case Before Wilson. Philadelphia, Oct. 13. State Food and Dairy Commissioner Warren this week caused warrants to be issued for the arrest of several o' Armour & Com paoy's agents in this city on the charge of exposing for sale hams and other meats containing boracic acid. Assist ant Food and Dairy Commission' r D. Schick and N. B. Critchfield, secretary of agriculture of this state, today went to Washington to meet Secretary of Ag riculture Wilson and Dr. H. W. Wiley, cLief chemist of the department, and lay the facts in tbe chsb before them. Cold Persists In East. . Washington, Oct. 13. The cold wave is persisting in the East. An other cold wave in the R icky Moun tain region, in Idaho and Montana, and moderating in the South and con siderably warmer in the central valleys is the weather situation in a nutshell, as announced tonight by the Weather bureau. It is warming up in the West generally, reaching over 60 degrees in the vicinity of Chicago and the Missis- sippi valley and over 70 degress west of there. Japanese Designs on Java. Rome. Oct 13. The newspapers here today publish a private letter from Tokio that numerous Japanese emisparies have been sent to the island of Java, Dutch East Indies, with the mission to create incidents justifying a Japanese naval demonstration. It ij reported that tbe Dutch authorities are much alarmed. MAGOON ARRIVES. Will Take Charge of Cuba as Pro visional Governor. Havana, Oct. 10. Charles E Ma goon, the newly appointed provisional governor of Cuba, arrived here this af terncon. Coincident with his coming, Governor Taft gave out a general decree proclaiming amnesty not only to the rebels, but to rll persons charged with political onenaeB or crimes in any way connected with the revolution. The steamer Muacotte, with Mr. Ma goon, General J. Franklin Bell, Mrs. Taft and Mrs. Bacon, entered Havana harbor at 4 o'clock this afternoon. In the wake of the Maacotte came the bat tleship Texas with a detachment of 300 marines from Norfolk, A launch carrying Mr. Taft, Assist ant Secretary of State Bacon and Cap taina McCoy and Martin, aides to Mr, Taft, hurried out to the Mascotte There followed another launch with Generai FunBton and his aide, and a third with a committee of Cuban news papermen, who carried huge boquets of flowers which were delivered to Mra Taft and Mrs. Bacon with a brief ad dress of welcome. Atter tne presentations to tne mayor and the city council tbe party enterod carriages and was driven to the palace, where Mr. Taft and Mr. Bacon and Mr. Magoon had a long conference in the governor's office. Following this conference Mr. Ma goon received the members of the press. He declined to discuss his plans for the future. He said he had expect ed, upon arriving at Washington, to' have 30 days' leave of absence prior to his departure for the Philippines. He did not regret, however, the change in program and he declared himself grati fled with being in Cuba. He said he would take up his residence with Min ister Morgan as the minister's guest pending the departure of Mr. Taft. General Bell will reside at the army headquarters at Marianao. General unston will make his headquarters at Camp Columbia. BID TO DIG CANAL. Commission invites Proposals to Com plete Work on Isthmus. Washington, Oct. 10. InvitaMons for propoBals to complete the Panama canal were issued today by the canal commission and the form of contract under which the work is to be done was made public by Chairman Shonts who also gave out a letter written to the secretary of war giving the com mission's reasons Lt contracting the work. The contract provides that each bid der must undertake the entire work of construction. No bar will be offered to corporations associating in the un dertaking, but they must be legally organized into a single body with which the government can deal. Bidders will not be considered who do not have available capital of $5,000,000. A certified check for $200,000 is required with each proposal tnd a bond of $3,- 000,000 will be required from the suc cessful bidder. The bidding is not limited to American contractors. All proposals are to be in before noon of December 12, when they will be open ed. ' , Proposals are to be expressed in terms of percentage upon the estimated cost of construction, which ia to be fixed by a board of five engineers, three repre senting the government and two the contractor. The chief engineer of the canal commission is to be chairman of the engineering board. ' . In support of tbe commission's posi tion that tbe canal can be contracted to greater advantage than it can be built by the government, Mr. Shonts' letter Bays that, "because of the unprecedent ed and greatly extended industrial ac tivity of the time and the consequent violent competition for all classes of superintendents, foremen, sub-contractors, skilled mechanics and even ordi nary laborers, it would take the com mission years to secure men to build up departmental construction organiza tions which would equal in efficiency those now controlled1 by the leading contractors of the United States." Hope of Annexation High. Havana, Oct. 10. President Roose velt's statement at Washington yester day to Nicholas M. Riviero, the Ha vana editor, that "the means taken by the United States to prevent disorder in Cuba must always be determined by the existing conditiona and with refer ence to our aoleran obligations to the people of Cuba," ia causing consider able gratification here. This ia not be cause the words indicate any definite change in hia intentions, but because be did not say anything about the early restoration of sovereignty. Opens Another Reservation. Washington, Oct. 10. The,president issued a proclamation today fixing 12 o'clock noon on October 29 as the date for opening the Walker river Indian reservation, in Nevada, to settlement. There are 268, 00Q acres of land to be disposed of and the law permits its ac quisition under tbe general land laws. The reservation ia in the Caraon City hnd diatrict. BELL IN C OMMAND Funston Will Return to United States With Secretary Taft. COMMAND WAS ONLY TEMPORARY One Faction of Cubans Declared Fun ston Deserted Them in War Against Spaniards, Havana, Oct. 11, General Frederick Funston will not continue in command of the American forces in Cuba. Gov ernor Taft announced tonight that he and General Funston will leave Havana for the United States on Saturday on the battleship Louisiana. With them will go Assistant Secretary of State Ba con, and the affairs of Cuba will be loft in the handB of Governor Magoon and General J. F. Bell. Explaining the change of plans, Mr. Taft said : "General Funston was summoned on. a hurry call from the Pacific coast be cause he was well acquainted with many of the insurgent chiefs here, and it was thought he could aid ub, aa he did greatly, in bringing the men in arms to an agreement. General Funs ton waa put temporarily in command of the troopa in Cuba merely as a conven ience until General Bell should arrive. General Funston, Mr. Bacon and my self, with Mrs. Taft and Mrs. Bacon and our secretaries, are returning to our permanent dutieB." Taft's especial confidence in the chief of the general staff's ability to carry out the program the governor has ini tiated resulted in the decision to con tinue him in the island. Many Cubans of the faction to which Mendts Capote and others who organ ized the Moderate party belong, were outskpoken against General Funston, alleging that he had deserted them in the war to throw off the yoe of Spain. SMUGGLE CHINESE. Fishing Schooner On New England Coast Lands Orientals. Providence, R. I., Oct. 11. Eighteen Chinese were arrested today after the capture by the United States immigra tion authorities of the Echooner yacht Frolic, for which revenue oflicera have been searching along the New England 1 coast for the past two weeks, were held tonight by United States Commissioner Cross in $1,000 bail each for examina tion next Wednesday. All the men declared they had been in the United States before, but that their certificates had been lost, some in New York and others in the fire at San Francisco. This declaration contradicted a state ment alleged to have been made by John C. Lehnemann, of Boston, one of the men arrested for complicity in the smuggling operations, who says the traffic baa been extensive and effective. BLOW TO DEMOCRATIC PARTY. Had Planned Great Send-Off British Envoy Worried. St. Petersburg, Oct. 11. What is described here tonight aa the "ignomini ous fizzle" of the much heralded visit to Moscow and St. Petersburg of a B.it ish deputation to present a memorial of sympathy to the dissolved parlia ment ib another blow to the Constitu tional Democrats, who were arranging; a reception to the deputation as a bril liant send-off in the campaign. Ihia proposed visit was extremely embarrassing to the British ambassa dor, Sir Arthur Nicholson, in, view of the negotiations for an entente between Russia and Great Britain. Pressure was brought to bear in London to stor the movement, and it was decided not to receive the deputation' officially at tbe empassy here. This device is thought to have inspired the interview given out by the British consul at Mos cow, who declared that the members of the deputation were not known, and that the proposed visit was in bad taBte. Tryine To Hold Together. Helsingfors, Oct. 11. At today's session of the Constitutional Democrat ic convention the committee's reos'u tionp reclaiming the impossibility of passive resistance was adopted, 84 ayes to 44 noes. The minority amendment lecommending organization for passive resistance was rejected by 83 ayes to 53 noes. .The congress has shown stiiking weakness in the party, which ia highly dangeroua in view of the approaching electoral campaign, and this in spite of the influence toward cohesion result ing from governmental prosecution. Four From a Thousand. Chicago, Oct. 11. The one thous andth venireman was passed today in the case of Cornelius P. Shea, the labor leader accused of conspiracy to extort money from large epmloyers of labor. Only four jurors have been accepted out of 1,000 candidates examined.