LEXINGTON WHEATFIELD
S. A. THOMAS, Publisher
LEXINGTON ... , . .OREGON
NEWS OFTHE WED
In a Condensed Form for Oar
Basy Readers.
A Resume of the Less Important but
Not Less interesting Events
of the Past Week.
Carnegie has given an endowment
$6,000,000 to Carnegie institute.
All railway employes east of the
Mississippi will demand more wages
Cubans are eager for a decision as to
when the end of intervention will come
President Joseph Smith eavs the
Mormon church has abandoned poly
gamy.
President Bonilla. of Honduras. Is
gathering forces to continue the Central
American war.
The amount of coffee being import
ed into the United States is decreasing
but the importation of cocoa is increas
ing.
Roosevelt is counting on compelling
congress at its next session to pass
reform land law by enforcing present
statutes.
Eight more indictments are coming
for San Francisco telephone men
Heney has sent a warning to Detwiler
that he had better give up.
England is becoming aware of the
fact that 75 per cent of the canned
goods used in that country come from
the United States unlabeled and that
English labels are put on by the
porters.
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A part of the outer wall oi" the vati
can has collapsed.
A denunciation of the czar may cause
dissolution of the douma.
Roosevelt says corporations have con-
Oitiwof) trt Aafant: Vita 1 1 .r in lOftQ
djicu w UDicau uia ill j. u v u .
Thaw has been declared sane, but
Jerome will appeal for a right to see
the evidence.
John A. Lewis has reached Chicago
from Mexico and will at once start the
fight to secure control of Zion City.
- Governor Swettenham, of Jamaica
resigned because he was ordered to
apologize by his home government.
The army .quartermaster's depart
ment at Manila is under fire because
the payroll has been found to be pad
ded.
Heney has found that the telephone
companies contributed to both sides in
the campaign of Schmitz for mayor of
ban irancisco.
Harriman's lawyers are defending
before the Interstate Commerce com
mittee the right of railroadB to water
stock. They also claim rival roads have
a right to combine.
Oklahoma elections gave Republicans
control .
Six men were overcome by gas in a
mine at Lead, S. D.
The Hermann defense has attacked
Hitchcock's methods of conducting the
land ofhce.
Doctors in the Thaw case have dis
agreed, some saying him sane and otfo
ers insane.
J. J. mil has formally retired as
president of the Great Northern and his
son Louis has assumed control.
As a result of the city election in St.
Louis the Democrats are in complete
control of every branch of the city gov
ernment.
All cities and towns of Colorado ex
cept Denver have just held municipal
elections. The liquor question was the
chief one and in a large number of
places the temperance people carried
the day.
A letter from Harriman to a friend
published in Eastern papers, says
Roosevelt asked him to raise $200,000
for the 1904 campaign fund, which he
did. The president says the statement
is false.
On the liner Siberia, due in San
Francisco May 3, are coming a number
of Chinese military officers being sent
by their government to the Jiamestown
exposition to study the warships of all
nations.
Nicaragua ns have captured another
Honduran port.
Ruef has appealed to the Supreme
court for release on bail.
A new movement has been started in
the South to end the race problem.
The government is to prosecute Hill
for violation of the 28-hour law for
stock.
' Railroad employes are willing to
yield on the question of wages but are
firm for nine hours
A storm at Havana drove waves into
the city, causing much damage. Many
lives were endangered.
WILL BE NO STR KE.
Railroads and Trainmen Have Reached
an Agreement.
Chicago, ..April 5. The differences
between :.the Western roads anji the
members of the Order of Conductors
and the brotherhood of Trainmen were
finallv adjusted yesterday. The men
abandoned their demand for a nine
hour work day and the roads made an
advance over their previous proposition
in the pay of baggagemen, flagmen and
brakemen of $7.50 per month.
The original demands of the men
were for an increase of 12 per cent and
for a working day of nine hours. The
managers offered an increase in pay of
10 per cent and declined to grant, the
nine-hour day. The agreement .was
reached mainly through the efforts of
Chairman Knapp, of the Interstate
Commerce commission, and Charles
Neill, United States labor commission
er. The agreement, which goes into
effect dating from April 1, follows:
me pay or conductors in the passen
ger service to be increased $10 per
month, that of baggagemen $7.50 and
that of flagmen and brakemen $6.50
per month as applied to the schedules
in effect November 1, 1906.
The railroads are not to make any re-
duction in crews or increase in mileage
for the purpose of offsetting the in
creased wages given the passenger
trainmen.
Oveitime ii the passenger service to
be allowed on the basis of 15 miles
per hour, to be computed for each part
of the run separately. Time is to be
gin at the schedule time of leaving.
Roads on a basis of more than ten
hours per day for a helper or construc
tion train service are to make no in
creasa in the rates paid for such ser
vice. The increases granted in the
agreement are to apply also to rates
for special services as specified in the
individual schedule.
Upon roads having a better basis for
a day s work or for payment of over
time or other allowances in all branches
of train service, the acceptance of this
agreement is not to act as a reduction.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men was also granted by the railroads
an increase of 10 per cent.
NEW SPELLERS GAINING.
Champions of Simplicity Rejoice Over
Number of Converts.
New York, April 5. Chairman
Brander Matthews, of the Simplified
Spelling board, at its first annual meet
ing today submitted a report stating
that at least 100,000 persons were us
ing the form of spelling urged by the
organization. Most of the criticism
against the board's activity, Professor
Matthews declared, had core from
men of letters, but this had been mere
than offset by the support of men of
science Professor Matthews says Presi
dent Roosevelt's warm attitude toward
simplified spelling had also been a
powerful factor in advancing the work.
Resolutions were adopted thanking
Andrew Carnegie for the aid he had
rende'ed the board and expressing the
conviction that through the helrj thus
rendered there "would be insured for
countless generations a great diminu
tion in the labor of teaching and learn
ing with a proportionate increase in
the things taught and learned; a vast
increase in the facility of spreading
ideas, and therefore a vast increase in
each individual's stock of original
ideas."
REGARDED AS PERSONAL.
Hermann Explains Why He Made Way
With Letterbooks.
Washington, April 5. During the
hour he was on the stand today Binger
Hermann narrated the circumetanees
under which he ordered the destruction
of his 35 private letterbooks, gave his
reason for so doing, and also explained
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tue uiBiincuon ne arew Detween per
sonal and official correspondence
While telling the story of the books, he
tor tne nrst time displayed signs of
emotion, ana his earnestness and
straigthforwardness as he talked direct
to the jury were convicing.
From his own testimony it was evi-
dent that Hermann never drew a fine
distinction between the official and the
personal in his correspondence with
Oregon friends, in fact, the bulk of his
correspondence with personal acquaint
ances at home was regarded by him as
personal, notwithstanding much of it
dealt more or less extensively with land
oflice business.
How Germany Understands It.
Berlin, April 5. The statement
made at the British foreign oflice today
that Great Britain had net in any way
altered her request that the Question of
the limitation of armaments be includ
ed in the program of the coming rjeace
conference at The Hague causes Eome
surprise in Berlin, as the German for
eign office understands that Great Brit
ain does not insist on the question be
ing formally included in the program,
but only reserves the privilege of rais
ing the question in the conference, thus
leaving the other powers free.
Two-Cent Fare for Michigan.
Lansing, Mich., April 5. Theseni te
wway, a to 6, passed a bill requ'rin? a
vtmvpHrmne passenger rare on all ,
i-ower Peninsula railroads, the net
earnings of which exceed $l,200a mile.
TORNADO IN SOUTH
Sweeps Through Louisiana, Mis
sissippi and Alabama.
CLAIMS A SCORE ' OF VICTIMS
Portions of Four Towns and an In
sane Asylum Devastated Loss
Placed at $500,000.
New Orleans, La., April 0. Probably
15 lives were lost today by a tornado
which swept across portions of three
Gulf states and which was traceable for
a distance of 300 miles. The tornado
moved from west to east over the south
ern extremity of Louisiana and Missis
sippi, and striking into Alabama for a
snort distance. Portions of four towns
were destroyed, and damage approxi
mating $500,000 was done.
The tornado began at Alexandria,
La., soon after 1 o'clock yesterday
morning, instantly killing four persons
there, fatally injuring three and seri
ously wounding 13 others.
Soon after daylight it reached the
Mississippi river, killing four persons
at Jackson, La., while at Bayou Sara,
La., at least half a dozen others were
killed. There was one fatal injury at
Jackson.
The tornado next appeared at Car
son, Mies., where great property dam
age was done. About noon near Selma,
Ala., the inhabitants saw the clouds
rise into the air and the storm disap
peared. The insane asylum at Jackson, La
was almost wholly wrecked, with a loss
of about $200,000. In addition to three
female inmates killed many sustained
injuries. Two negroes were killed on a
nearby plantation. Reports from the
surrounding country indicated that
there was probably more loss of life
among the negroes, whose flimsy cabins
quickly collapsed before the wind.
HONOR MEMORIAL DAY.
Commander-in-Chief of Grand
Army
Issues Proclamation.
Zanesville, O., April 6. Command
er-in-chief Brown, of the Gand Army
of the Republic, today issued his
Memorial Day proclamation, of which
the following is a summary:
On Thursday, May 30, will occur the
annual ceremony of garlanding the
graves of the dead, and the commander-
in-chief calls upon the posts to see that
the last resting place of every Union
soldier, sailor or marine in their re
spective localities is fittingly decorated.
Wherever practicable, public com
memorative services of the heroism of
the dead should be held at some central
point.
Department commanders are charged
with the duty of patriotic instruction
in the public schools insofar as the co
operation of the school authorities can
be secured. Let Friday, May 24, or
the last day preceding Memorial Day,
be set aside for this laudable purpose.
In accordance with a time-honored
custom, each post will attend divine
service in a body on Sunday, May, 26,
to render praise and thanksgiving unto
the God of nations for the manifold
blessings of the past and the undis
tiirbed enjoyment of the fruits of an
enduring peace won by the Union arms
CZAR TO ABDICATE.
Will Appoint Grand Duke Michael Re
gent for Infant Czarevitch.
London, April 6. The Daily Mirror
claims to be in a position to announce
upon the "highest authority" that the
emperor of Russia purposes to abdicate
within a mcnth and that Grand Duke
Michael will be appointed regent dur
ing the infancy of the czarevitch. For
the past three or four weeks, the paper
says, events have been proceeding in
this direction with lightning-like ra
pidity in St. Petersburg, but the secret
has been well kept. ,
Lately," eays the paper, "the em
peror's mind has given way even more
completely, and he has shown himself
incapable of performing the smallest
duties of his rank."
Warrants for Trainmen.
Colton. Cal., April 6. Coroner Van
Wie today swore out warrants for the
arrest of the employes of the Southern
Pacific who were held resonsible for
the wreck on March 28, in which 25
people were killed and 75 injured. The
following are the names of the men
against whom warrants were iesued:
L. R. Alvord, foreman of the switching
crew; J. G. Crusemeyer, ewitchman,
Clarence Warminfgton, engineer. The
complaints charge them with causing
the death of II. F. Walthers, of Sacra
mento, who was among the killed.
Tax Collector Short $40,000.
New Orleans, April 6. As - a result
of an examination of the accounts of
Ferdinand Hudenheifer, state tax col-
lector, it was announced today that
there was a shortage of over $40,000.
MAKE LAST PROPOSITION.
Mediators Still Hopeful of Preventing
Big Railway Strike. ,
Chicago, April 3. In a final effort
to avert the impending railroad strike.
Commissioners Knapp and Neill, the
agents of President Roosevelt, will
make a direct appeal to the full com
mittee of conductors and trainmen to'
day. The meeting will be held in the
Sherman House, and the Federal modi
ators will lay before the 170 delegate
the final propostion of thegoneral man
ageis. What that proposition is neith
er the commissioners nor the labor
chiefs would disclose tonight, but it i
unuerstoou 10 contain some minor con
cessions.
The decision of Messrs. Knapp and
Neill to visit the meoting of the labor
delegates and -appeal to thorn direc
was reported at a conference with the
labor chiefs, which lasted until 11
o'clock last night. It was taken to in
dicate that the committee which has
been conducting the negotiations refim
ed to accept the terms cf the manage!
and that it invited the Federal mediat
ors io auenu me meeting and nnd on
in a direct manner what the delegate
thought of the offer.
At the meeting today the entire mat
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uer wui do put up to the delegates and
it is believed that it will end the con.
Terences. The controversy will either
be settled or the threatened strike.
which has been suspended for several
days while the negotiations were pend
ing, will be declared. The prospects
for an amicable settlement seem more
remote.
Uuefs Morrissey and Garretson at
tended a meeting of the full committee
and it was said they learned the tempor
of their men as to what concessions
they would make in the interests of
peace.
"Is the nine-hour day the real stum
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uuug uiock in me way or peace ' was
asked of Mr. Garreteon.
I am not at liberty to discuss the
situation now," he replied, "but as a
matter of fact there has notbaena min
ute since the conference has begun that
the nine-hour day was not the real
stumbling block. The men are deter
mined on that issue."
In the event of the negotiations being
DroKen on and a strike resorted to
which is a strong probability, the real
issue will be the nine-hour day.
DUNNE LOSES OUT.
Chicago Voters Turn Down Mayor
for New Man.
Chicago, April 3. The Republicans,
neaoea oy iredenck A. Busse for may
or, carried Chicago yesterday. Perhaps
no one was more surprised at the result
than the Republicans themselves. It
marked the climax of the most mystify
ing and the filthiest campaign ever
waged in the city.
Chicago will now speedily settle its
streetcar problem, which has been
handed back and forth for 11 years as a
political asset, the service growing more
wretched and antiquated every vear
Within 90 days the traction companies
must accept the ordinances, rehabilitate
the lines entirely, provide sufficient
cars, abolish straps, repave the streets,
sprinkle and keep the streets in order,
build such extensions as the citv shall
order and turn over, as from February
j, or in is year, do per cent of the net
profits. The city may invest this sum
against the time it will buy the lines
lor fau,uuo,000 plus the amount spent,
or iu muy oe useu to lower lares.
FRISCO IN DARKNESS.
fciectric Light Plant Valued at Two
and a Half Millions Destroyed.
San Francisco, April 3. The destruc
tion of the electric light and power
house of the San Francisco Gas & Elec
tric Light company at Twenty-second
avenue South and Georgia street by fire
last night plunged almost the entire
city into darkness, resulted in the in
juring of five firemen and causing a loss
estimated at $2,500,000.
Extra police weie placed on duty at
the temporary hall of justice and city
prison at Eddy and Mason streets.
Owing to the darkness, the buildings
having no gas connections, no one was
allowed to enter or leave the city prison
and no prisoners were released on bail.
Hs Chauffeur Burns Spy.
San Francisco, April 3. When Su
pervisor James G. Gallagher was dash
ing about San Francisco last winter in
his red automobile, the quiet, unassum
ing young mahout at the wheel was
none other than a disguised detective in
the employ of William J.Burns. When
Gallagher went to Ruef's office to get
the boodle money, when he secretlv
sped to the home of Mayor Schmitz to
arrange upon franchise programs, when
he went to the Dank to denosit his own
share, this mahout was always with
him in the automobile.
Voto on Saloons In Newbraska.
Omaha, April 3. City elections
were held In all cities and towns of Ne-
braska except Omaha, South Omaha
and Lincoln. Probably three-quarters
of the 'towns ignored nartv politics.
voting onlv on the question of licensino
saloons. In only a few towns w ere the
existing conditions changed.
TO GIVE IIP PLUNDER
Harriman Coal Companies Oiler
Government Stolen Land.
PROPERTY IS WORTH MILLIONS
Asks Immunity In Return, but Only
a Small Part of Stealings
Is Offered.
Washington, April 4. It was learnod
tonight that the llurriiuan corporations,
whose rainillcations extend to coal land
and other vast interests in the Far
West, are offering to restore to the gov
ernment properties they June hereto
fore claimed as theirs by good and am
ple title. They prefer to do this rather
than bo prosecuted.
Coal land worth in the aggregate mil
lions of dollars is to be restored to the
public domain, as a result of the rocent
activities of the Interstate Commerce
commission. The commission several
months ago investigated the land frauds
in Wyoming, Colorado and Utah. It
was found that this whole section was
honeycombed with corruption and its
reports indicated that the goneral land
office had been either hopalessly incom
petent or worse in permitting the rail
road companies and their allied corpo
rations, the Union Pacific Coal com
pany, the Utah Fuel company and the
Colorado Fuel it Iron company to se
cure, by various and devious methods,
control of great areas of the richest coal
land in the West.
The Union Pacific Coal Company is a
subsidiary corporation of the Union
Pacific Railroad company. All the
stock of the coal company, except
qualifying shares for directors, is owned
by the railroad company. The coal
company secured control of a large
amount of scrip and used it to sccum
entry of land, which was rich in the
finest bituminous coal of the Wyoming
field.
As it is the coal company is anxious
to return the valuable land t ) the gov
ernment and end the matter . But the
matter will not be allowed to end
there. While there is no possible de
fense to the title under which this scrip
land nas been claimed, this, though
very valuable, constitutes only a small
part of the coal land now held by the
Union Pacific railroad, the Union Pa
cific Coal company, the Union Fuel
company and other concerns.
JAPANESE -SMUGGLED IN.
Hundreds Cross Border From Can
ada and mexico,
Washington, Manrh 4. Information
has reached the immigration bureau of
the Department of Commerce and La
bor that hundreds of Japanese have ar
rived in Mexico destined for the United
States. Inspector Braun, who was sunt
to Mexico to investigate, telegraphed
today that he had interviewed several
hundred Japanese, principally laborers,
who are now in Mexico. Many of them
are in straightened circumstances. They
have no intention of remaining in Mex
ico, but do desire to come to the United
States. They expect to obtain employ
ment on the railroads of the West and
Southwest. Some of them have al
ready applied for admission to the
United States and have been donied.
WANTS TO REGAIN STRENGTH.
Russia Says Time Is Not Rioe for
Limiting Armament.
St. Petersburg, April 4. According
to Professor De Marents,' who was re
ceived in audience by Emperor Nicho
las yesterday, Russia believes the time
is not ripe for the discussion of the
question of limitation of armaments, as
practical results cannot be obtained,
but if the United States and Great Brit
ain are determined to bring the subject
Derore tne conierence Kussia is not in
clined to insist on its exclusion.
In coriBequencre of the unsuccessful
war Russia's army and fleet are far
below her normal strength and she is
not willing to restrict her freedom of
action in regaining her naval strength.
Four Jurors Are Accepted. 4
San Francisco, April 4 Three of the
first talesmen who will sit in the iurv-
box, subject to peremptory challenge,
were passed by the prosecution and the
defense as a result of the second day's
proceedings in the trial of Abraham
Ruef for extortion. One having been
passed by both sides the first dav. four
talesmen have now been temporarily
selected. When this number has been
Increased to twelve they will be sub-
ect to peremptory challenge, the de
fense having the right to excuse ten
urors and the prosecution five.
Rejects Bering Tunnel Scheme.
St. Petersburg, April 4. The cab
inet today rejected a nroDosal made on
behalf tf an American syndicate for the
construction of a railroad tunnel under
Bering stiaits, by which it was honed
ultimately to connect the Trans-Siberian,
with the Canadian Pacific railroad.
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