LEXIN6T0N WHEATF1ELD
S. A. THOMAS, PaUblMr
LEXINGTON OREGON
NEWS OFTHE IEK
la a Condensed Ferm lor Our
A Resume of the Less Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
of the Past Week.
The Gila river in Arizona has over
flowed its oanks and ia doing much
damage.
The- president haa signed the bill
passed by both housea of congres8 for
the relief of Kingston. '
. ; Andrew Carnegie is reported to have
said he would give $200,000,000 to ex
tend his lease on life ten years.
The high water in the Ohio river is
causing immense damage in Western
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky.
The San Francisco school board is
enraged atj President Jordan, of Stanford
university, because he favors the Jap;
anese in the controversy now on in Sari
Francisco. v .'.
A Big Four passenger collided with a
freight at Fowler, Ind. A number of
people are reported to have been killed
and their bodies cremated; in the fire
which followed the wreck. .,
Never before in the history of West
ern Canada have the snow storms been
bo heavy. All railroads are blockaded
and suffering may result in many places
. from lack of food and fuel." '
A robber at San Bernardino, Cal.,
walked away with a box containing $6,
500 in gold bullion. 'The gold was on
an express truik. at the depot and was
bound for the mint.
Admiral Alexeff has regained the
favor of the czar. , . - 5
Ex-Mayor Ballinger, of Seattle, is to
be land commissioner. - .,
A pledge to propose a remedy for car
.shortage has. been given by -the presi
dent. ' " i '
'"Boss "Murphy, of New York,' is said
i to have made a deal to support . Hearst
lor president. " ' ,"
Roosevelt urges congress to build
" onlv big battleships and thiks two
1 j i. i.i : i .1 .v, ,.. r,., .
session.
1WU UUlllLRlIlieS i'Cff lUlft uuvc
,, been found guilty of forming a combine
to control the licorice trade and fined
i $18,000. ' '
Senator Bailey appeared before, the
Texas legislature in an impassioned de
nial of the charges of connection with
. the oil trust.
The steam schooner Sequera, of San
Francisco, went on the rocks at Hum
boldt bav and is a total wreck. The
crew was saved.
Thousands of people along the Ohio
river are homeless on accout of the pre
- vailing high water. Indications point
to the greatest flood since 1884.
arejdestitute M.in-icjce8sath--!(9f Said-
, trom noliie. iney nave seni a peuuon
to their government for help and a fin-
eer from each student was enclosed as
emphasizing the fact.
Bailey has won the first round in the
Texas inquiry f'-fki':
An Ohio grand jury has retuned 939
more indictments against; Standard Oil
men. ' ; -
The State department doubts the aa
thority of this governmenht to act in
the Congo affair.
Twoi bookkeepers' in the Brooklyn
navy yard have been arrested for receiv
ing bribes as inspectors.
Benjamin F. Shively, ex-congressman
from Indiana, hns been mentioned as
Democratic candidate for vice president.
Seven persons were injured in a col
lision between two passenger trains at
One Hundred and Twelfth street, Chi
cago.
Pacific coast insurance underwriters
say rates will soon be reduced to what
they were before the San I rancisco dia
aster.
The Nebraska Federal court has is
sued an order to the United States
marshal to destroy fell fences on govern
ment land.
The National Manufacturers' associa
tion proposes tariff revision in 1909.
A Eock Island passenger train ran
Into n, freitrht at Watldron. Mo., killintr
three trainmen and injuring a number
of passengers.
Bryan admits he is a candidate for
president.
Kadical reforms are promised in the
Chinese government.
Seven rioters have been shot in the
1 presence of the populace at Orizaba,
Mexico. .
EPIDEMIC IN CHICAGO.
Scarlet fever and Diphtheria Ram
pant Among Children.
Chicago, Jan. 18. With 6,000 school
children in Chicago and suburbs pros
trate with scarlet fever and diphtheria
and the announcement from the state
capital last night that smallpox and
scarlet fever are practically epidemic
throughout Illinois, the health author
ities have awakened to the most serious
condition they have experienced for
years. Kadical steps were taken at
once in closing many schools, and, if
the disease continues to spread, it may
result in the closing of all places of en
tertainment and resorts where people
congregate in large numbers.
Reports of new cases flooded into the
health office with increasing rapidity.
Seventy-six new cases of scarlet fever
and 30 cases of diphtheria were report
ed within the city limits in three
hours .
In all 118 cases of contagious dis
eases were reported to the . Chicago
health department yesterday, includ
ing cases of scarlet fever and diph
theria, against 107 reported the t pre
vious day.
Dr. Herman Spalding, the city's con
tagious disease expert, declared there
were about 3,000 cases of scarlet fever
in the city at present and 2,000 cases
of diphtheria. In Evanston and Oak
Park there were probably 1,000 addi
tional cases. , ,..
In Evanston 4,550 pupils were bar
red from school by order of Dr. Wil
liam E. Parkers, of the Evanston board
of health. In Oak Park 3,500 more
children were barred. It is estimated
that more than 25,000 pupils were kept
home from schools in Chicago yester
day by the parents. ,-,
SINKING INTO SEA.
Ruined City of Kingston in Danger ot
Being Engulfed.
St. Augustine, Fla., Jan. 18. Wire
less messages received at the station
on Anastasia bay today by Chief Elec
trician Elkins say that Kingston is
sinking gradually; that many holes
and cracks 100 feet deep were formed
by the earthquake, and that grave fears
are felt that the entire ' city will slip
into the bay. . . '.- ...- - , ;.- :
Havana, Jan. 18. Eear -Admiral
Evana, in a message to the cruiser Co-
lumbia here, Btates' that "a : "huge tidal'
wave has changed the coast line of Ja
maica, .leaving the entire south side of
Kingston under water.
No bay is reported left, and the
whole coast line is reported sinking.
Kingston, Jamaica, Jan. 18. Thous
ands of persons were killed in the
earthquake and the dead bodies are be
ing taken from the debris by hundreds.
The whole town is in ruins and the
greater portion is still smoldering in
ashes. The smell of burnt flesh per
vades the air.
The earthquake came as a sudden os
cillation, not from any particular direc
tion, but up and down. Thousands of
persons wera on the streets of Kingston
at the time and great numbers of them
were crushed.
Many Americans in Kingston were
killed and have been buried.
TEST CASE FOR JAPANESE.
Boy, Will Demand Admission to White
C' School and' Be Refused.
San Francisco, Jan. 18. The initial
step in the international test case be
tween Japan and the United States over
the exclusion of Japanese children from
the piiblic schools of this city attended
by whites will be taken this jnofhing. '"
At 9 o'clock in the morning Kei
Kechi Aoki, a ten-year-old Japanese
boy, accompanied by his father, will
appear at the Redding primary school
and demand admission. His demand
being made, it will be refused by the
teacher, Miss M. F. Deane, on the
ground that she is acting under ' the
state law and under the instructions
from the school board. Witnesses will
be on hand to make affidavits to the ex
clusion of Aoki from the school. The
issue having thus been declared, suit
will at once be filed in the Federal
court by the United States district at
torney. Plan Car Clearing House.
New York, Jan. 18. Local officials
of the American Railway association
said yesterday that the reports . from
Chicago that many of the large railway
systems of the country had agreed to a
pooling arrangement for all their freight
cars was premature. What is in con
templation, it is said, was the estab
lishment of a freight clearing house,
with the object of increasing the effi
ciency of car service. The railroads
entering Chicago have already consent
ed to the establishment oi' an experi
mental clearing house.
Japanese Spies at Tort Clark.
El Paso, Tex., Jan. 18. Three Jap
anese who had been employed as serv
ant" by the officers at Fort Clark have
mysteriously disappeared. Their ac
tions in examining the fort and equip
ment, their close attention to the drill
ing and the discovery that they were
frequently making memoranda led to
the belief that they were Japanese offi
cers. "' "
PROCEEDINGS OF OREGON LEGISLATURE
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE
Recommendations Made by Chamber
lain to Legislature.
Salem, Jan. 15. Governor Chamber
lain delivered his biennial message this
afternoon to both houses of the legisla
ture in joint session. His recomuiou-
dations follow:
Election of Jonathan Bourne and
Frederick W. Mulkey to the long and
short terms, respectivefy, aa United
btates senators, in accordance with the
result of the direct primary election.
Passage of a law creating a railroad
commission, following generally the
measure prepared by the Portland
chamber of commerce.
Enactment of laws to niake the tax
burden fall more evenly on personal
property and corporations.
Amendment of the inheritance tax
law to the graduated system, with addi
tional clauses to make evasion impossi
ble. . '
A graduated tax on incomes from
$3,000 up. '
Decided increase in cost 'Of c6mmis
siona to notaries public. . v, .,
Withdrawal from sale for 10 years of
the remaining state tide lands. '
Purchase of the Willamette locks. ,
Appropriation to operate the portage
railway until the 1909 session. A new
personnel for the board of portage
commissioners.
Appointment-of an expert accountant
to audit the books of all state officers.
Creation of the office of expert ac
countant, with duties to make1 uniform
all Btate and county bookkeeping and
check funds of Siate and county officials.'
Enactment of an anti-pass law, with
an appropriation to pay expenses of
public ofheers on public business.
A reciprocal demurrage law.
Continuance of the library commis
sion. Investment of compulsory - visitorial
power in some state authority to cover
private asylums for insane. ' ' '
A law providing for supervision of
banks in Oregon.
A stringent anti-lobbying law.
Deposit of surplus state funds in banks
at interest, the deposit to be safeguard-
ea Dy wona or timer wiiHuwr.
Escheatment to Jthe state, of funds, in
banks where the depositors have not
been, heard from for over seven' years.
-' Prompt action to establish" an insti
tute for feeble-minded and epileptic
children.
Publication of itemized statements of
the source of campaign funds and pro
hibition of campaign contributions by
corporations.
Compulsory lectures to their classes
by public school teachers on tubercu
losis.
Measures looking toward eradication
of scabies in sheep.
Punishment of wildcat mine promot
ers. Flat salary for the state printer and
erection of a state printing office build
ing. Board of control for normal schools,
with the normal school appropriations
in one fund, to be distributed by this
board. -
New apportionment of senators and
representiatives.
Transportation of convicts to the pen
itentiary by penitentiary officers.
Conservative legislation for employ
ment of convicts in new fields, without
abandonment of the present system at
once. '
Appointment of a state engineer to
supervise construction of new roads.
AtoDropriation for state representation
at"' the. Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition,
and some kind of representation at
Jamestown.
A, new irrigation code. Extreme
caution should be used in changing the
tentative measure framed by the Port
land board of trade irrigation bill com
mittee. ..
Tuesday, January 15.
Salem, Jan. 15. The senate was
called to order at 10 o'clock a. m. by
President Haines. There was but a
short session in order that both houses
might attend the inauguration of Gov
ernor Chabmerlain and listen to his
message. In the brief time, however,
a large number of bills and resolutions
were introduced. Among those present
ed was one to provide for the lending
of surplus funds in the state treasury
and the state to receive the interest
thereon.
Salem, Jan. 15. Having perfected
organization yesterday, the house today
gave evidence of great capacity tor dus
iness. Although the session of the
house this morning was not convened
until nearly 11 o'clock about 40 resolu
tions were offered, the report of the
committee on apportionment of clerks
was received and approved, and more
than a dozen bills were received and
passed to second reading this in time
to admit of an adjournment at 11:50
o'clock.
A large number of investgating com
mittees and junketing trips are already
in prospect.
A railroad commission bill, including
reciprocal demurrage was among the
measures introduced.;
Wednesday, January 16,
Salem, Jan. 16. Five bills curbing
railroads in the house, and none in the
senate, indicates the apparent differ
ence betwoen those two bodies on the
question of railroad commission, rato
regulation and reciprocal demurrage.
."Apparent difference" means there
are plain signs that opposition to the
plan of disciplining the railroads will
center in the sonaate, and that foes of
that plan will not spend energy in the
house, unless they shall porceive grow
ing sentiment tliore in their favor.
It is rather too early yet to moasure
up sentiment on this important ques
tion, obviously the most important bo
fore the lawmakers. ' Not yet have the
lawmakers taken sides on the railroad
matter.
Both the house and the senate effect
ually put an end to the calendar graft;,
nnd in doing so the state's; lgeislators
had the cheerful co-operation of State
Printer Duniway, who recmometulod
and materially aided in accomplishing
this reform.-. ' ": ki it
Clerkship graft was reduced tq a
minimum in both houses today. Each
house adopted the . report . of its . com
mittee on resolutions, in which it was
reconiended that no clerks be employed
on any of the various joint investigat
ing and junketing committees that may
be created, unless it is shown that the
services of such clerks are essential.
More than $050,000 will be asked of
the legislature by educational institu
tions this session anJncreaHe of $300,
000 over what they reeceivedat the last
session for the biennial period. De
mands of the four normal schools will
be more than double the total sum al
lowed by the last legislature.
Demands of the several institutions
are as follows: Monmouth normal,
$110,000; Drain normal, $40,000; Ash
land normal, $00,000; Weston normal,
$70,000; Argicultural college, $125,000;
Experiment station at Union, $15,000;
State university, $250,000; total, $670,
000. Both houses adjourned until Monday.
Ther have now been 59 measures pro
posed in the house and 69 in the senate.
' A bill has been , introduced in the
senate to abolish the normal schools at
Ashland and Drain.
. A bill has also appeared in the sen
ate appropriating money for the Third
Eastern Oregon District Agricultural
society.
May Refund Money. -
Salem Holders of fraudulently pro
cured state school land certificates are
to receive their money back, if the re
commendation of Governor Chamber-.
lain shall be carried out. At the re
quest of the governor Attorney General
Crawford has prepared a bill, authoriz
ing the state land board, in its discre
tion, to refund to a holder of such' a
certificate whatever money had been
paid to the state thpreoni !-
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Club. 6667c; bluestem,
6869c;valley, 66c; red, 6465c.
Oats No. white, $2526; gray
$24.5025. ,;
Barleyi Feed,1 $21.S022 per ton;
brewing, $22.60; rolled, $2324.- "
Rye $i.401.45 per cwt. ,
Corn4-Whole, $26; cracked, $27 per
ton. f - ,
Hay Valley timothy, No. 1 $1314-
per ton Eastern Oregon . timothy, f 14
16; clover-,' $8(8.60; cheat;' $f.50
8.50; grain hay, $7.5O8.50j,;.'alfalfa,
$11.50: vetch hay,'$88.50. ,
Butter v- Fancy' "creamery,' "30$35c'
per poiind. m.:-
Butter :Tat First grade, cream. 33t
per 'pound; second grade cream", ' 2c less
per pound.
Eggs Oregon ranch, i;, 35c .:p$z;
dozen.
Poultry Average old hens,1314c
per pound; mixed chickens, I2ldc;
spring, 1415c; old roosters, .10lJ.Ci
dressed . chickens, lbl7c; turkeys
live,1717c; turkeys, dressed, choice
2022c; geese, live, 1012c;. ducks
1415c. .
Veal Dressed, 5)9c per pound. ..
Beef Dressed bulls, 1 2c per pound :
cows, 45c; country steers, 55e.
Mutton Dressed, fancy,' 89c per
pound; ordinary, 67c.
Pork Dressed, 68c per pound. ,
Fruits Apples, common to choice,
5075c per box; choice to fancy, $1
2.50; pears, $11. 50; cranberries,
$11.5012 per barrel; persimmons,
$1.50 per box.
Vegetables Turnips, 90c$l per
sack; carrots, 90c$l per sack; Deets,
$1.251.50 per sack; horseradish,
910c per pound; sweet potatoes,' 3c
per pound; cabbage, 2c per pound;
cauliflower, $1.25 per dozen; celery,
$3.754.25 per crate; onions, 10
12c per dozen; bell peppers, 8c;
pumpkins, 2c per pound; spmacn, 4
5c per pound; parsley, 1015c; squash,
2o per pound.
Onions Oregon, $11.25 per hun
dred.
Potatoes Oregon Burbanks, fancy,
$11.30; common, 7590c.
Hops ll13)o per pound, accord
insr to Quality.
Wool Eastern Oregon average best,
1318c per pound, according to shrink,
age; valley, 2023c, according to fine,
ness; mohair, choice, 2628c.
MANY BUILDINGS IN RUINS.
Hospital Burned With 40 Soldiers
Sir James Ferguson Killed.
London, Jan. 16. The colonial offlco-
last night rocoived confirmation of the
terrible disaster which has overtaken
Kingston, Jamaica, in a disputvh from,
llamar Greenwood, M. P., sent from
Holland, at the east end of the island.
The telegram says Kingston has boon
ruined by an earthquake which occurrod
without warning Monday afternoon at
3:30 o'clock. A very great number of
buildings and dwellings were destroyed
either by the earthquake or by the con
sequent fire.
The military hospital was burnod
and 40 soldiers wore reported to have
been killod, together with several
proininont citizens and many other in
habitants of the city. Sir James Fer
guson is reported to have been killed
instantly, but no other Englishmen,
Canadians or Americans were missing.
. The city is quiot, but disciplined
workers are -needed. The governor of
the colony, Sir Alfrod Jones, is direct
ing affairs.
Up to this1 hour the foregoing is tho
most correct dispatch regarding the
Kingston disaster that has been receiv
ed here. The absence of details is ac
counted for by the breakdown in cable
communication, but the announcement
that no Englishmen, Canadians ' or
Americands are missing will greatly re-
assure the public concerning the fate of
the unusual number of tourists and
others who are spending the winter in
Jamaica or who were attracted thoro by '
the agricultural and cotton conferences;
DcniiPLG cucn in omucunnn
Residents ot Tacoma Are Even Cut
ting Up Their Sidewalks.
Tacoma, Jan. 16. "Coldest weather
in ten years" is the official report on
the cold snap in this section. Ther
mometers in Tacoma registered less
At. ..J. lrt .. 1 4-,. t .
mtiu xu u.Duve zuru, wiiiiu it-pui ta iruiu
Western Washington points place the-
mercury as low as 2 above. Water
pipes throughout the city froze oespite
precautions of householders. There is
much suffering from lack of fuel. The
less fortunate borrowed coal from neigh
bors. As an instance of the extremity of
the weather, a resident of E street, near
Ninth, vainly endeavored to get fuel.
The cold made him desperate, and .tak
ing a sharp axe he reduced his wood
shed to stove-length fuel. He put in
four hours chopping. Other people de
molished fences and board walks in the
vicinity of their residences.
The High school has been closed, ow
ing to cold and lack of fuel. Its reop-.
ening is indefinite. The Northern Pa
cific general offices are suffering from
the lack of fuel, and little work is be
ing done.
The entire North End is without
water.
SNOW AN" FROST RULE. ,
Railroads'Blockaded by Huge-Drifts
and Raging Blizzards,
St. Paul, Jan. 16. Unusual' cold
weather, prevails throughout the North
west with no immediate relief insight.
Snow block! the railroads and tho tem
perature has fallen many degrees. ,. It '
k reported at the Great Northern gen
eral jslhce4h&t the mercury registered
30 below zero this morning at Bjown
lTf!, Montj, and there is no point be
tween Grand Forks and Spokane where
uie maximum temperature ib aoove as
degrees 'below zero. Great "Northern
employes are battling against snow-
dfifts which are 20 to 30 feet higli'.' ' '
''r) The " greatest tie-up on the Great
Northern line has occurred in the dis
trict between Browning and Cutbank,
Mont..' a distance of about, 40 milns.
In this district rotary plows are sent
against the banks without result, and
.though. plows are kept going continual
ly it is impossible to clear the tracks.
The snowfall in the West is greater
than has ever been known before. Be
tween; the , Cascade and the Rocky
mountains, where there is scarcely ever
any snow, drifts are now piled seven
feet high. The Great Northern line
between Kenmare and Thief River
Falls has been abandoned. Trains
which connect with the Canadian . Pa
cific railroad trains at Moose Jaw have
been delayed badly.
On the lines where traffic is at all
possible the trains are run with three
and even four engines and preceded by
rotary plows, but even then have been
delayed from one to three days.
Typhoon in Philippines.
Manila, Jan. 16. The islands of
Leyte and Samar were swept by a ty
phoon January 10. One hundred lives
were lost on the island of Leyte. The
barracks and officers' quarters on the
east coast of Samar were destroyed. No
estimate of the damage to property has
yet been made. No damage to shipping
has been reported. The storm was the
worst that has occurred within the last
ten years. Communication with Leyte
and Samar has been cut off for the past
six days and only meager particulars of
the Btorm were received today.
Twenty Below at Prineville.
Prineville, Or., Jan. 16. After two
weeks of moderately cold weather the
mercury has dropped to 20 below zero,
the coldest known in this city for many
years. There is prospect for colder.