LEXINGTON WHEiTFIELD S. A. THOMAS, Publisher LEXINGTON ...OREGON NEWS OEJHE WEEK In a Condensed Form lor' Our Bnsy Readers. A Resume of the Less Important but Not Less Interesting Events of the Past Week. A St. Louie couple will be married Boon at the ages of 101 and 100. Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York have been visited by a snow storm. Early fruit in Tennessee is reported iu oe severely aamagea Dy coia weatner. A slight'earthquake shock at Charles- ton, S. C, threw the people into a panic. ' There is no chance for the election of a senator from Rhode Island the present session of the legislature. Chinese famine sufferers are dying Dy nundreds and there is difficulty in securing the dead suitable burial. ine Austrian premier declares every cclony of the various nations should be made an independent government. President Roosevelt has about made up his mind that the best way out of the national campaign trouble is for the government to pay the legitimate ex- . penses of all candidates. San Francisco street railway employ es are receiving back pay. The arbitra- tion board granted the men an increase from the time the trouble began last fall and now $415,000 is being distrib uted. Dr. Kennard, an American agent in Russia, says the suffedring there from famine is appalling. Not less than 20,000,000 aie dependent on aid until another harvest. Epidemics of disease add to the suffering. Hearst is said to be building up a third party. There is a deadlock in the Wisconsin senatorial contest. Jerome is investigating a charge of tampering with a Thaw juror. The vice president of the New York Central railroad favors government control. ine Jiricisn pudgec proposes a pen sion for old age and increased taxes on the rich. i Southern cotton manugacturers com plain of rate discrimination by the i ail roads. Captain George Curry has been in augurated governor of New Mexico in place of F. C. Ilagerman, who resigned. The thief who stole $25,000 from the Northern Pacific Express company at bt. Paul has been captured and the money recovered. The Illinois Supreme court has de cided the municipal ownership .law in- valid and Chicago will not be able to own her own street railway system. Regis II, Post has been inaugurated governor of Porto Rico in succession of Beekman Winthrop, who resigned to become assistant secretary of the treas ury at Washington. The Hermann trial is approaching tine ena. San Francisco street car employes may strike for 8 hours and $3 a day. Coal miners at Coleman, Alberta, nave struck tor an increase ol 10 per cent in wages. The Chicago & Allton railroad has been fined $60,000 for granting rebates in meat shipments. Bpain nas outlined a program for a new navy which calls for an appropria tion Of $04,000,000. Robbers held up the Northern Pacific Express company's office at St. Paul and secured $25,000. . , 1 Portland piolce have captured the "pink domino," a bold burglar who has terrorized the Nob Hill district for several weeks. R, . , ..I nrtnr arirmfl ann fvaaviniv traafhoit . prevail iroin Wisconsin aown lnic Jvan- sas. In places trains are delayed on M J mi t i . ,r account oi the snow. placed Seattle's population in 1906 at 104,169. Senator Piles is indignant and declares the city has over 200.000. Governor Buchtel, of Colorado, has asked tne governors oi all states con taining public land to join him in a conference June 18, 19 and 20 at Den ver to discuss the question of public land lawB. A Northern Pacific train was wrecked near Jamestown, N. D., and five per Bons injured. itussia ana japan nave completed me . . I . I ' evacuauon oi wancnuria, leaving oniy . W t t I t 1 I a lew runway guarus. Officials cf the Zorjtman, Mont., minse deny that the stage robber got $28,000 for his work. I DEEP SNOW ON PRAIRIES. Six Inches Ruins Fruit Prospect, But Benefits Wheat. Omaha, April 19. Five inches of snow fell during the night, and the storm continued during the forenoon The fall was general over Eastern Ne braska, and is the heaviest kncwn in April for many years. The extent of damage is not known. Opinion as to the storm's effect upon fruit and early vegetables varies. In some counties along the southern and central belts cherries, peaches, plums, a"hd berries are said by some authorities to have been ruined almost entirely, while other groweis report that fruit was not far enough advancd to become seriously endangered. In grain circles it is believed the snow will kill all the green bugs that have been threatening the winter wheat crop and spreading over the cential portion of the state. A Norfolk dispatch eays Northern Nebraska, Southern South Dakota Northeastern Wyoming and the Black Hills aie covered with a blanket of snow six inches deep upon the level which is still falling. At Northwestern railroad headquarters here it was said the storm was practically over the en tire system west of the Missouri river, DEATH LIST GROWING. Mexican Earthquake Proves to Been Most Disastrous. Have City of Mexico, April 19. Today the Associated Press was in direct commu nication with a number of towns in the district affected by Sunday's earth quake. From the telegrams received it is certain that the death list will ex ceed 100. There are a number of small towns yet to be heard from, but up date the average number of fatalities at these places has ranged from 9 to 12 and the number of injured from 30 to 40. In Chilapa 33 persons were injured and 779 buildings destroyed. Nobody was killed, as reported yesterday After the first great shock the air was filled for many miles with a thick sickening, sulphurous odor. This caused great distresslto the survivors, There are many speculations as to the cause of the peculiar freak of nature and some consider it a proof that the earthquake had its origin in some sub terranean explosion. FIRST ANNIVERSARY. San Francisco Remembers Earthquake i Year Ago, San Francisco, April 19. While there was no general cessation of the work of rehabilitation, the first anni versary of the earthquake and the fire which left this city a mass of ruins was observed yesterday by appropriate re ligious services and commemorative ex ercises by the Building Trades Council and other organizations. V The crowning event of the day was trie banquet of the Merchants' associa tion at the Hotel Fairmount, at which the material and civic regeneration of the city was amply discussed and faith expressed in a new and greater San Francisco. The principal business streets weie decorated with bunting and incandescent litrhts. Flaes were flying everywhere and the dome of the city hall, still in a partly wrecked con dition, was illuminated as on gala occa sions "before the fire." WILL GO FOR SIX-BITTERS Frisco Policy Holders Brine 1.800 Suits for Payment. San Francisco, April 19. More than iuu suits agamBt insurance companies lor the payment of policies held during the great fire a year ago were filed to day at the county clerk's office, bring ing the total well over 1,800. At 5 o'clock, when the office closed, there was a long line of attorneys, clerks and messengers waiting, and it took three clerks nearly an hour to dispose of the overflow. Today was practically the last day tor the filing of such suits, although in some cases the year allowed will not expire until tomorrow. During the past two days the county clerk's office has taken in nearly $3,000 in fees on these cases alone. After Men With Guns. New York, April 19. While squads nf rietectlvpft nro aoni-irinv rho fnvaivn ... - M ' " vjh" i i. . .. ders of Police Commissioner Bingham, arresting all the armed men they find. " " o r'"1-" t.h 5,.iir.il nftw.M of their intention to co-operate with the pol'ce in oreaking up the practice of carrying uiaaiy weapons, .uistrict Al torney Jerome has prepared 50 cases against men charged with carrying con ceaied weapons, .and will present them to the grand jury tomorrow. In all, 215 ineu ha ve been locked up. Volcano Erupts In Andes. Valparaiso, Chile, April 19. News has reached here that; the'Renihue vol cano, in the province of Valdivia, is in I t i a . mi i viniPnr primi inn. inn enmtinna aia unoomnflnled hv awful si,w0r.non 1 - - - HfHIUllH H4V rumblings, earthquakes, intense dark 1 J VXM1VMM ne(,88 eiectneul displays, ashes and boiling water, The flowing lava i has set Are to the surrounding forests, and the inhabitants are fleeing in terror. FIRE IN PHILIPPINES Ilo ilo, Second Town In Islands, Suffers Heavy Loss. TYPHOON IN CAROLINE ISLANDS One-Fourth the Population of One of the Islands Dead and Rest Are Starving. Wanna, April 20. Latest reports from Iloilo say the fire has been checked. The native quarter of the city was destroyed. The property Iobs is estimated at $100,000 gold. The busi ness section of the city was untouched it being saved by the military and con stabulary. Seven hundred houses were destroyed and 800 or 1,000 natives made home less. Adequate relief measures have been taken. The homleess have been housed in schools and other buildings The province and the city will prov'de for the refugees and no physical suffer ing is feared. There was no loss of life by the earthquakes. The shocks, while the most severe experienced in 15 years were not violent enough to cause much destruction. Dispatches from points in several provinces report severe shocks but little damage. The total damage caused by the earthquakes in the entire archipelago will not exceed $10,000. Typhoon Sweeps Caroline Islands, Berlin, April 20. Colonial Director Dernburg informed the budget commit tee of the reichstag today that a cable message had been received from the governor of the island of Yap, an nouncing that a disastrous typhoon swept over the Caroline islands on Good Friday, March 29, and that 230 cf the 800 natives of the Ululthi group were drowned, that the cocoanut trees were destroyed, and that famine threat ens the surviving natives. The steamer Planet, of the German navy, which has been engaged in geo detic work, and the steamer Mani, of the Jaluit company, proceeded to Ulul thi islands, taking food and help. It was prbposed to bring as many of the suffering natives as possible to the Pe lew and Ladrone islands. Less Than IOO Lives Lost. Mexico City, April 20. Communica tions have now been opened with all the important points in the section most affected by the earthquake. The latest reports indicate that the loss of life will not reach 100, but many persons have been injured and the property loss is very great. Vice President Corral, in a commu nication published here today, declares that the whole of the state of Guerrero has been devastated. Thousands of dollars are being sub scribed to the fund being raised in this city for the relief of the earthquake sufferers. WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN. Bryce Speculates on Result If Revolu- tion Had Failed, Philadelphia, April 20. James Bryce, ambassador from Great Britain, in an address at the banquet of the Trans-Atlantic society of America here tonight, declared that, if America had remained as a colonial ward of Ens- land, President Roosevelt would not have been confronted with such world- mportant problems as he is now called to solve. Had the countries not been separat ed, Mr. Bryce said, the development of the United States would have been more gradual. He was of the opinion that slavery would not have endured so long and wculd have gone, perhaps, without bloodshed. There would have been fewer railroads, less internal strife and consequently fewer big economic problems to solve. Build Terminals at Oakland. , San Francisco, April 20. The West ern Pacific railroad has decided to com mence immediately the construction of its trans-baj terminal along the north retaining wall of the Oakland estuary. This work will involve the filling in of mole 1,000 feet in width and between ,000 and 5,000 feet in length. The construction of the mole, together with the erection of a modern depot building and slip approaches at its western end, will take about 17 or 18 months, and will involve a financial outlay of some thing like $2,500,000. Georgia Peaches Killed, -Atlanta, Ga., April 20. State En- tomologist Smith today received reports from the various peach growing dis tricts of the state, a summary of which shows that at least 75 per cent of the crop has been killed by the recent, cold J weather. - " , WILL FIGHT HENEY. Big Corporations Have Banded To gether In San Francisco. San Francisco, April 17. A conspir acy which puts into the shade the $5, 000,000 affair that recently aroused the inmates of the White House has evolv ed from the graft proceedings in San Francisco, and, like the conspiracy' in Washington, it has its headquarters in Washington. Moreover, one of the leaders of the $5,000,000 conspiracy is one of the chief actors in this latest plot. In short, the big corporations, which have sighted the Bpector of indictment, have banded together against the com mon foe. Combined they represent one of the most powerful forces that America has known, and they are pre pared to expend a large Bhare of the un limited capital they control. The United Railroads, an $80,000,000 cor- poration; the Pacifio States Telephone & Telegraph company, the Home Tele phone company, and lastly the South ern Pacific company, have joined hands to fight down the graft prosecution. I he head and front of the plot are reputed to be Patrick Calhoun and E. H. Harriman. It is no secret that above all others it is the desire of Mr. Ileney to direct the fire of the prosecu tion againBt Calhoun and the men who occupy the seats of the mighty in the councils of the Southern Pacific. Har- riman's representative on the Pacific, W. F. Herrin, is oi)e of the chief ob jects of Mr. Heney's investigation. Mr. Herrin has always refused to come into the open and even now, with public attention centered upon him, he ro- mains in the background. MEXICAN SHOCKS CONTINU- Destruction Grows-as Reports Come From Outlying Districts. City of Mexico, April 17. Heavy eartnquake shocks continued on ine west coast until 4 o'clock this morning. Late news of the earthquake shows that the devastation wrought was greater than at first supposed. Beside the de struction of Chilpancingo and Chilapa, it is now said that Tut la also was lev eled. Messengers reaching Chilpancin go say the towns of Ayutla and Omete pre have been wiped out. The population of Ayutla is small, and it is thought the loss of life there will be insignificant. Ometepre is a town of about 4,000 inhabitants and the loss of life probably is large. Tlapa, near the bolder line of the state of Oaxaca, is also reported to be wiped out. A report from Chilpancin go says the whole of the west coast from Acapulco Eouth of Salina Cruz has been badly damaged. The damaged places are remote, and news from the stricken district conse quently is incomplete. Only one wire is working to Chilpancingo. Standard Dodges Taxes. Chicago, April 17. Taxing authori ties of Lake county, Indiana, have in- tigated an action against the Standard Oil company of Whiting as a result of investigations in charge of County As sessor William E. Black and his assist ant, Towns Assessor Bert Escher, of Hammond. They have; discovered, they say, that the company for four years has sequestered millions of dollars' worth of valuable property from tax duplicates. It is estimated by the officials that the Standard Oil company should be paying taxes on $40,000,000 worth of property when it is assessed on the tax duplicates for only $3,000, 000 worth. Will Test the 16-Hour Law. Butte, Mont., April 17. A Helena special to the Miner states that Attor ney General Albert J. Galen in an opinion rendered today states that he holds the recent anactment by the leg islature of the statute limiting the hours of employment of railway em ployes to 16 hours to be valid. Wil liam Wallace, Jr., counsel for the Northern Pacifio, has served notice upon the board of railway commission ers that the company will ignore the new Btatute. Mr. Galen has advised the commissioners to at once begin a test case against the railways. Accused of Taking Bribe. Chicago, April 17. Perry L. Hed rick, chief sanitary inspector of the city Health department, was arrested today on charges of soliciting and ac cepting a bribe. It is alleged the $200 paid to him by George A. Beckway, an inventor, was found in his pocket when he was arrested. Hedrick was released on $10,000 bonds. According to the charges made against Hedrick, he agreed with Beckway that on payment of the money he would recommend Beckway's invention to the Health, de partment. Wisconsin Central Is Guilty, 1 WMinneapoiis, April 17. A jury in the United States District court last night found the Wisconsin Central rail road and two of its officials guilty of rebating. Burton Johnson, general freight agent, and G. T. Huey, his assistant, were convicted on all the 17 counts named in the indictment. '- ONE DOLLAR WHEAT Society of Equity Will Fix Mini mum at Omaha Convention. ALSO PREVENT GLUT IN MARKET Farmers' Trust Has Organized Sys tem to Control Price and Dis tributionBankers Help. Omaha, Neb , April 18. In the great wheat producing states of five the ce- country the minimum price of this real this year will be $1 a bushel. This, at least, is the plan of the Ameri can Socioty of Equity, the grain grow ers' department of which will hold its annual convention in Omaha June 5, ft and 7. Minnesota, North Dakota. South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas will send large delegations to the con vention. Oklahoma, Iowa and oth r states are also to be represented. Ihe purposes of this society and tho scope of its membership were explained at length today by J. A. Everitt, of In dianapolis, its president, who said: Ihe American Society of Equity i s business organization of funiiern. with local societ ies in 2,700 of I lie- 3,000 agricultural counties, of the United Stiitx-a. Its purposo is to carry on its organization work through local societies, organized into state unions. Its business sido is being strongly de-veV-ned along the line of departments, overhg various farm products, such departments already organized being those of fruit and produce and of to bacco. The grain growers' department is the third. "The convention at Omaha in June will launch this department on a solid, basis. A central bureau will guther and disseminate information concern ing supply and demand; fix a mini mum price below which the farmers ajiree not to sell, and handle and divert the giain from the source of supply to the points of- demand, as needed, not causing a glut of the market at any point at any time. "The state union of North Dakota, at its anMial meeting, was invited by the State Bankers' association to ap point a committee to confer with a like bankers' committee to arrange for car rying along the poor farmers who might otherwise be forced to sell below the- minimum price." REGULATE 2-CENT FARES Nebraska Cnmmlssion Rules on Ter minal and Pass Matters Lincoln, Neb., April 18. The Ne braska railway commission issued i ta li m order today bearing on 2-cent fares and streetcar pauses. It is a notice to steam railroad eoumanienR.to post pla cards in every station railing attention to the fact thai the 2-cent passenger fare does not apply to tickets purchased to a destination be vond the state bor der. In addition to tii? order the com mission has addrcs'ed a letter to the Lincoln Traction conn any, the Citizens' Railway company, of Lincoln; the Omaha Lincoln & Beatrice Interuiban and the Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Railway corporation, notifying them that they are subjoct to the terms of the new anti-pass law and will be ex pected to obey it. , GO FROM COPY TO CROPS. Newspaper Men to Take Up Farms in Colorado. Denver, Colo., April 18. A colony of newspaper ium is to be established in the Little Si'iakc river valley, in Routt county, Coloravi, where the state of Colorado will 'hrow open for settlement this summer, under the Carey act, 60,000 acres of land. This land is under the Little Snake river canal system. The plan is to make this colony an up-to-date farming com munitv, where each man will own hid own farm and improvements, the only connection in which the community idea will prevail, if at all, being in re gard to labor, Shocks Still Continue. City of Mexico, April 18. Owing lx the great difficulty ' in establishing communication with the cities situate! in the region of the earthquake details-, are coming to this city slowly. Frora the latest reports it is learned thtt shocks occurred as late as noon ' today. In the list of known dead, which now totals 50, and of the injured, which ap proximates 300, are many names of Mexicans prominent in the official and social life of the region. So far the name of no American has appeared in the meager list. ! Cubans Want No Regular Army. Havana, April 18. Opinion here is opposed to the plan of the American general Stan to esiaDiisn a vuua regu lar army of 12,000 men to replace the rural iraard. It is said that it will be difficult to recruit that number of men.