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LEXIH6T0H WOATFELO S. A. 1MOMAX, LEXINGTON. OREGON NEWS OFTHE-VfEEK Id a Condensed Form for Our Bnsy Readers. A Resume of the Lees Important but Not Less Interesting Events of the Past Week. Congressman Hoar, a son of the late Senator Boar, is dead. The navy is badly in need of hospi tals on the Pacific coast. - High prices of meat in Germany makes the Germans vegetarians. Steel building constructors fn New York refuse to deal with the unions. Fifteen leaders of the recent Russian revolt have been sentenced to Siberia. Count Boni refuses to bslieve his American wife really intends to divorce him. Norway and Sweden are disputing about the ownership of the island of Spitsbergen. Secretary of War Taft addressed a great audience at Posatello, Idaho, on law and order. A heavy storm has twept over France, accompanied by heavy snow and a tidal wave at Toulon. It is said the czar is practically a prisoner of the grand dukes, who force Him to acquiesce to their orders. Up to November 1 the number of sa loon licenses issued in Chicago for the ensuing quarter was 129 less than six months ago. By comparing finger prints a soldier in the penitentiary at Fort Leaven worth, Kan., has been discovered to be an escaped murderer from England. Reecnt storms have dislodged large quantities of mud. from the sides of Mount Vesuvius, causing damage to the railway and farmB on. the mountain side. ' It is said that the prosecution has evidence that Mayor Schmitz and Bobs Bnef, of San Francisco, made over a million dollars from grafts on building permits. Morocco is torn by anarchists of dif erent bands and beliefs. The Panama Canal commission is having a hard time to find laborers. An independent telephone company has gained a right of way in Chicago. A German steamer collided with a four-masted ship and sunk, 23 of her crew being drowned. A German princess of royal blood has been investigating Blums oi Chicago un der an assumed name. Eight person, charged with ' com plicity in a recent daring robbery in St. Petersburg were executed. Ten anarchist speakers and leaders were arrested in New York charged with inciting to riot and disorderly conduct. CAPTURE SOLDIERS' SUPPLIES. LEGISLATORS MEET Utes Loot Wagon, While Troops Go on Short Rations. Sheridan, Wyo., Nov. 2. A band of 100 Ute Indians, it is reported, cap. tured ,a wagon loaded with flour and supplies bound from Arvada to the Tenth and Sixth Cavalry. The driver was held at a rifle's muzzle while the rprlKldna nnpkerl the load and carried it away allowing the driver to proceed PENDLETON ENTERTAINS THEM with the empty wagon. Oregon Solons Seeking Informa tion on Public Matters. Sheridan. Wvo.. Nbv. 2 Further details of the raiding. of a government Visit Washington's Jute Mill and Ore- supply train bound for the camps of g0n State Normal School the Tenth and Sixth Cavalry from at Weston. Arvada characterizes it as a very olever nlenn of work, evidently plan- r ... . . . nea Dy some oi me u. uu. Pendleton. Or.. Oct. 20. Whnthnr TTl. A 11 i 1 ll VaP I U III I'M I Foreen no Indians were in sight until Oregon should supplant its stove torn a hunch of about 100 mounted red- dry in the Salem rrrlsnn with a intn ....... a - Jnllla I sums suddenly oasnea oui ui a mu ln BtUQe(i todar In thn Wnlln In the hills and quickly surrounded wa BluQled todar tne Walla him. They made little noise outside Walla jute plant of the Washington of a few sharo yells in the nature of state prison by Governor Chamberlain. commands, and, while several woians or Oregon, 33 members of the Oregon kept Forgen under their rifles, the i bal- legislature, C. W. James, superintend ance looted his wagon train of 3,000 ent of the 0regon penitentiary and pounds of flour the sacks of which otherfl wu, lawmakers hae not were strapped to the cayuses or tne . . t. , ,, K Utes, who then disappeared into the "e,,r op nions on the sub- jlls jcv;i neeiy, u ig evident mat many oi As the result of the raiding of the tne.m do not favor the change, supply train, the troops are ln need, This is the attitude also of Governor and operations looking to a chase of Chamberlain and Superintendent the Utes are practically at a stand- James. They argue that the stove still until supplies can be had. More foundry brings to the state a revenue suddiv trains win De sent uui uuiu w. Do Kt . f . ,. JSF that a Jute mill would launch the state rrrr rtfcT nf thT Tent ta a business, which is in large meas. near Moorhead. ure 8Peculative and risky and liable The Utes have completely outwitted neavy losses Decause the raw pro- the military, and are now reported duct from India is manipulated by a back In Wyoming, on Little Powder trust; that the finished bags would be river, retracing the route by which 80ld to consumers near the factory, they entered Montana, iney evident- thereby discriminating against others ly Know oi tne arrival oi iroope w. not favc.reQ by proximity to the plant; Asmami, aiiu uuve enuci Biycu uli ,n t Qreiron'q narticl nation ln the him. the attempt to reach the Cheyennes J" Oregon s participation in the bus- or are waiting ror that Dand to meet ; - , ' them in some other part of the coun- tt"Be it couiu maie vmj a per cent try. The Utes on Bear Creek have of the bags used, and the Washington not moved, according to a telephone plant doubled in size could make only message received yesterday afternoon. 25 per cent of the bags used in that state; and that the change to a juts FIRST BRUSH WITH INDIANS. DEBT DECREASED $2,074,829. mill would entail upon the state an ex penditure of perhaps $125,000. v The Oregonlans examined the Jute mill with keen interest. It was not running, because the day wag one of the idleness But Treasury Has Comfortable Cash Bal ance of $373,300,810. Washington, Nov. 2. The monthly its alternate idle ones, statement of the public debt shows coming from short Jute supply, that at the close of business October several of the 70 looms were put in 31. I90fi the total debt, less cash in motion for exhibition.. The visitors , tao,,rv Imnnt.H tn mm 1 71 .- headed by Governor Chamberlain, 364. which is a decrease for the month were conducted through the plant bj ' . I V" w - w l a 1. of $2,074,829. The debt is recapltu- governor jaeao ana i. . luncam, tne lated as follows: , new superintendent, Interest-bearing debt $925,159,270. The chief argument for the jute mill Debt on which interest has ceased ia that manufacture of erraln sacks, un- since maturity, $i,id,zu5. iiKe that of stoves, does not compete ueni Deanng no interest, aus,io,- w,tll frp. ,flhnr Bn(1 thnf ,t , far. ' I ana eanlra )iaanai t)i on t Vi a mavlr.l The rnsh tn tho trensnrv la rlassl- Pnce' fled as follows: Alter viewing tne w ana w ana piant, Gold reserve, $150,000,000: trust the visitors went to Weston to view funds, $1,103,897,869 to offset certifl- the Normal School at that place and cates and treasury notes general fund, thence came to Pendleton, where they $174,029,968; in National bank deposi- attended a dinner and smoker tonight, Soldiers Outwitted and Lose Band of Captured Ponies. Butte, Nov. 1. A special to the Miner from Sheridan, Wyo., Bays: Re ports of the first bruBh botweon troops and Utes have reached here by tele phone from Blrney. A troop of the Tenth Cavalry rounded up and at tempted to drive off 60 head of ponies being grazed by the fugitive Indians. The herders sent the alarm to the main band. As the soldiers were driv ing the ponies away a band of 100 bucks came riding up, and, circling the troops, succeeded in stampeding the ponies and recovered all but five, which were shot by the soldiers. The Indians did not fire, but their determined rescue of their ponies in dicates their temper. The Boldiers felt themselves unable to cope with the force and the shots killing the ani mals were fired as the herd was being driven away. The Indians are outwitting the troops now in the field. A troop of the Tenth Cavalry marched all Tues day night ln hope of capturing a small band of Utes on Bitter Creek, arriv ing there only to find the band had moved. Later a scout reported the Indians 20 miles away. The troops then, made a forced march to Powder river. Soldiers are complaining bitterly against the actions of the Indian scouts, American Horse, Women's Dress and White Cow Bull, employed by the government. The Indians pro fess not to know the country, but the belief is growing that they are pur posely leading the troops in a fruitless search in order to gain time. Another detachment of the Tenth Cavalry met and turned back a small band of Cheyennes under Chief Two Face. He said they were hunting and they were started toward the reserva tion. The band of a hundred Crows under Sweet Mouth, which hurriedly left Sheridan Monday night, was also met and turned back by the Tenth Cavalry. The Indians are making forced marches at night to elude the soldiers, and, owing to the poor work or treach ery of the scouts, the soldiers are un able to keep track of them. Railroad men running Into Sheridan tonight report having passed a band of a hundred Sioux marching south east within 60 miles west of Sheridan. Neither Indians nor troops have ar rived at Blrney. The settlers are fearful of a Chey enne uprising if the Utes reach the reservation border near Ashland Troops from Fort Keogh and Fort Meade are converging on Ashland. IS FARTHEST NORTH Peary Expedition Makes a New Arctic Record. BUT DID NOT REACH THE POLE Gale Prevents Further Advance Re turns Short of Food, Being Forced to Eat Dogs. torles, $145,975,346; in treasury of Philippine Islands, $4,730,063; total, $1,581,633,247, against which there are demand liabilities outstanding amount- given by the Commercial Association At the Weston Normal School the party was greeted by Robert C. Ing to $1,208,332,437, which leaves a French, president of that institution It has developed that San Francisco saloons which bought their supplies from one certain firm got their licenses easier than otherB. A W. O. T. U. speaker Bays there are 10,000 women and girls in Chicago working for $5 a week or lees, and there are 5,000 saloons. People In Montana and adjacent stateB are in grave fear that the entire Cheyenne Indian nation, numbering at least 800 fighting men, will go on the war path. A crisis is approahcing in the Nor wegian court. Vice President Fairbanks ia drawing great crowds in Kentucky. Standard Oil company is fined $5,000 by Ohio judge, when law permitted a fine of millions. Wealthy widows of Chicago have been robbed of $100,000 or more by a pretended broker. Money transports in Russia are now guarded by strong forces of Cossacks in stead of gendarmes. Demands for a shorter work day and new wage scale have been made on all lines of the Pennsylvania railroad. A second consignment of 100 labor ers from Vigo, Spain, has arrived at Colon for wokk on the Panama canal. Widow of Russell Sage gives 150,000 to build a echoolhouBe at Sag Harbor, L, I., in memory of her grand parents. Fifty-three bodies have been taken from the wrecked street oars at Atlan tic City. It is believed this is all. The English honse of lords has ap proved a bill making the teaching of religion compulsory in the English echoola. Taft speaks plainly for tariff revision. Six bodies have been recovered from 4he lost French submarine. cash balance of $373,300,810. DALNY OPEN TO THE WORLD and was led to the assembly hall of the school where some 240 students were gathered. President French, to show that the institution was not a local high school for Weston, isked the pupils residing in Weston to arise, then those whose homes were beyond was the town. The latter number visibly Buy Free Port in Manchuria Can Many American Products. Washington, Nov. 2. Dalny opened to the trade of the world on exceeded the former. septemDer i witnout any ceremony Pr.cM.nt w.nh o-M mtiarmarA 7LfSJ!L!t EP&"S2,! at of the 138 pupils in the normal -.T-Th7 T; ;' cZr department, only 22 are residents of Mr. .Tones savs that manv JaDanese Weston. In addition are 102 young cargoes have arrived. At present no pupns in tne training department, an business houses are available, but Mr. from Weston, their studies ranging Jones says a number of, Japanese from kindergarten to eighth grade The firms have obtained permission to re- Bee of normal nunlla raneea from 15 to pair DUiiaings wmcn were aamasea m 27j mo8t of thfm beinj 17, IS and 1, me taie war urn uiuuiv oi u u. Governor Chamberlain spoke com. Haste is necessary, however, the Con- mendlngly of the school say ng it mil navs I wuu'u always nave a iihc in uis heart. Representative Darey, of Ma as their staple crop, Mr. Jones says rion, encouraged the friends of the It Is likely that the Sungari Valley will school by declaring that it is one of be entirely devoted to wheat ne the indlsnensnhln ndiicatlonal lnstitu- year, and In consequence, there will tlons of Oregon. Representative Vaw- ue a uemano lor laruniig iiiuuuiueig. ter, of Jackson, spoke the same sent a a.io tt, fohrino irov ment ni jocularly said that Governor nave been received, hut japan is worK- ""u lng hard for the trade. The Chinese record and that they would be reraem- want dyed cloths ready to make up, hered when he should pass upon the and are especially fond of light and appropriation bill of the Republican dark blue colors. Food Is scarce and legislature. Other speakers were high-priced and it is almost impossible Senator Smith, nf Umatilla, and J. H. a. i. 1 1 I to gei lauor. Raiey 0f Pendleton 'J - The town of Weston took an after- Radical Laws for France. noon holiday to receive the visitors Paris, Nov. 2. The Cabinet has de- At the station, a mile distant from the cided to include In its Parliamentary school, numerous conveyances were proKram uie i pure ase oi me wbbiwu waftlng their arrival, to convey them Railway, and a bill providing for the I . ,'. 4 ,m00, abolition of the death penalty. War "V , Tr MiniHtpr Piminrfo ninn for thA rpform ln normal school was evidenced by of courtmartlal amounts to their en- the appreciation its citizens showed of tire suppression, substituting therefor the visit of the Governor and the Log civil procedure in the case of offenses Islators, punishable by common law, while dls- At tonleht'n dinner Governor Cham. ciplinary courts will deal with lnfrac- berlaln urged co-operation of Oregon tlons of discipline. and Washfnnn fnr improvement of Minister of Public Works Barthous' fVlo , fiWi project for the revision of the 1 I n rontemnlntes the taking over by the f !al;mon- Governor Mead responded state of all mines. rnai ln improvement or tnat river Washington "ought to co-operate witn Female and Child Labor In Spain. yur state." But he pointed out tnat 'ALCOHOL, MAKING AND USE. Bulletins Containing Useful Informs tion to Be Issued. Washington, Nov. 1. The United States Department of Agriculture has In press and will soon issue two farm, era' bulletins, Nos. 268 and 269, relat Ing to Industrial alcohol, the former treating of its sources and manufao ture and the latter of its uses and sta. tlstics. - These bulletins have been pre pared by Dr. H. W. Wiley, chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, and are designed to meet the popular demand for infor mation in regard to denatured alcohol, relating to which a law was passed by Congress on June 7, 1906. These bulletins define in a proper way what denatured alcohol is, the sources from which it is obtained, the processes and appliances used ln its manufacture, the cost of manufactur ing, the uses to which it may be ap plied and the officials of the govern ment charged with the enforcement of the law. The bulletins are illustrated and BTe for. free distribution. Application should be made to members of Con gress or to the United States Depart ment of Agriculture. r I CI . 411 . ... X A.. . M XI.. MnrtrM vnir o Tha Pohinot haa P controlled a (treat part 01 Uie decided to intrndiipo a hill with the legislative power of Washington. ( object of ameliorating the conditions tftat it was not so well informed of the of women and children who are com- needs of the Columbia river as ' It polled to work for a living. might be. v No Soldiers Need Apply. Leavenworth, Kan., Nov. 1. Two soldiers of Company K, Eighteenth In fantry, stationed at Fort Leavenworth, were refused admittance to a skating rink here recently and Captain M. Mc- Farland, commanding the company, who was appealed to by the men. wrote a communication to the Military Secretary of the War Department stat ing that the proprietor had said that he would admit soldiers only in cltl iens' clothing. Captain McFarland referred the let ter to Lieutenant-Colonel William Paulding, who indorsed it by stating that "It is very unfortunate and to be deplored that the uniform of the Na tion's Army should be held in such lack of esteem by individuals in this community, and it is to be hoped that some means may be found in correction." Badges to Identify Soldiers. Washington, Nov. 1. Acting upon the recommendation of Surgeon-Gen eral O'Reilly, Acting Secretary Oliver has ordered that hereafter identifica tion tags of aluminum, the size of a silver dollar, stamped with the name, company, , regiment or troop of the wearer, be suspended from the neck of each officer and soldier underneath the. clothing by a cord or thonsr. These badges will be issued gratui tously to enlisted men and at cost price to officers. The imnortancp. of such badges is shown by thousands of graves of unidentified soldiers. RECORDS OF FARTHEST NORTH'. Commander Robert E. Peary, 1906 87 dog. 6 mln. Duke of Abruzzi 86 deg. 34i mln. Frithjof Nunsen, 1896.86 deg. 14 min. Robert E. Peary, 1902.84 (leg. 17 min. A. W. Greeley, 1882... 83 deg. 24 min. C. S. Nares, 1876 83 deg. 20 min. W. E. Parry, 1827 82 deg. 45 min. C. F. Hall, 1870 82 deg. 11 min. Julius Payer, 1871.... 82 deg. 6 min. Walter Wellman, 1889.82 deg. 0 ,mln. New York, Nov. 3. The United States now holds the record of "far thest north," 87 degrees 6 minutes. This feat was accomplished by Com mander nooert ts. feary, of the United States Navy. The intrepid Arctic ex plorer failed to reach the north pole, as he had confidently hoped to do with his specially constructed vessel, the Roosevelt, but he penetrated nearer to the pole than the Duke of Abruzzl's expedition, which had held the Arc tic record 86 degrees 34 minutes. What Commander Peary did and his experiences during -the past year in the north are rather briefly but certainly vividly summarized in a communication received by Herbert L. Bridgeman, secretary of the Peary Arctic Club. This communication follows: Message From Peary, Hopedale, Labrador, via Twllllngate, N. F., Nov. 2. Herbert L. Bridge man. Roosevelt wintered north coast Grantland, somewhat north Alert winter quarters. Went north with sledges February, via Heckla and Co umbla Delayed by open water be tween 84 and 85 rWrpoa Tnj or six days. "o -v,uU o Gale disrupted Ice, destroyed cache, cut oft communication with supporting bodies and drifted due east. Reached 87 degrees 6 minutes north latitude over ice, drifting steadily eastward. Returning ate elghf dogs. Drifted eastward, delayed by open water. 'Reached north coast Grantland in straitened condition. Killed musk oxen and returned along Greenland coast to ship. Two supporting parties driven on north coast Greenland. One rescued by me in starving condition. After one week recuperation on Roose velt, sledged west, completing north coast Grantland and reached other land near 100th meridian. ,t'rmeward voyse incessant battle with ice, storms and hc-id rin. Roosevelt .magnificent Ice lighter and seaboat. No deaths or illness expedition. "(Signed.) ' PEARY." AFTER UNION PACIFIC. Roosevelt Orders Vigorous Action By iviouaysend Officials to Prison. Washington. Nov. 31 Whnipania criminal prosecutions are to be begun by the Department of Justice against high officials of the Union Pacific Coal Company and others, who are alleged to be- mixed UD in the franrtnlpnt- acquisition of vast areas of coal land In Utah and Wyoming. President Roosevelt h as IntprpnfprT himself personally in the land fraud cases and after a careful examination of the report of the Interstate Com merce Commission, which was made direct to him, he has turned over the papers to the Department of JnsM with Instructions to act, and act vig orously, against all who were shown to have been concerned in tho fraudu lent entry and fraudulent acquisition of land by the coal company and by the railroad company. B. T. Marchand, attorney for the oommission, and ex-Judge Elmer E. Thomas, of Omaha, are arranging the evidence for presentation to the Fed eral grand juries in at least two places. Indictments will be sought for perjury, subordination of perjury and violation of the land acts under which the coal land, valued at many mil lions of dollars, is alleged to have been stolen from the government by the railroad company for the use of the coal company, which It owns. Mint Buys 8ilver at 70.71. Washington, Nov. 1. The Director of the ' Mint today purchased 100,000 ounces of silver at 70.71c Der fine ounce, for delivery at the Denver mint Utes Depose Chief Ahpah. Sheridan ,Wyo., Nov. 3. Chief Ah pah has been deposed. In a trihar" council today the Utes exprepsed thelr dissatlsfactlon over their leader's con sent to a pow-wow with the whites,, by deposing him and electing the more warlike Black Whisker in his place. Black Whisker made an impassion ed harangue, urging the members of the tribe to fight for their right to live. He charged Ahpah with havlng prevented a junction with the Chev ennes, 600 of whom, he declared, only await the- signal to come to thn Utes'- aid. Japan's New Battleship. London, Nov. 3. The Daily Tele graph says It is reported that Japan has decided to begin the construction of a battleship exceeding the displace ment of the Dreadnaught by 3,000t tons.