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LEXINGTON WHEATFIELD S. A. THOMAS, Publisher LEXINGTON OREGON NEWS OF THE WEEK In a Condensed Form lor Oar Bnsy Headers. A Resume of the Lets Important but Not Lets Interesting Events of the Past Week. Finland is reveling in the novelty of freedom. King Alfonso, of Spain, will en gage in breeding fine cattle. Socialists in Austria made sub stantial gains on a re-ballot. Stolypin gives warning to douma and condemns the more to expro' priate land. Four jurors have been secured for the trial of Mayor Schmitz and an other venire is ordered. Inspector McLoughlin, of the Chi cago police force, has resigned to get away from investigations. Judge Gaynor of the Supreme Court, of New York, says the rail roads have not reformed in the least. Oklahoma republicans denounce the work of their constitution mak ers and want the election postponed. At Guaymas, Mexico, 1,200 Chi nese tried to land forcibly from a British steamer in defiance of quar antine law. Coos Bay people have begun 110 Individual suits against the South em Pacific to compel the road to sell land In obedience to its government grants. IA Chicago grand Jury is invest! gating charges that doctors and midwives reguarly paid the author ities for immunity in performing criminal operations. The public utilities committee of San Francisco supervisors is consld erlng a resolution ordering the United Railways to operate their lines or forfeit their franchise. Secretary Garfield will Tleton irrigation project. visit the School directors of Chicago refuse to be fired by Mayor Busse. Fire at Trinity college, Hartford, did damage to the amount of $15,- 000. Denver millmen and woodworkers received an advance of 10 per cent in wages. Councilmen of Lockport, N. Y., are charged witty huge boodling op erations. One has confessed. President Corey, the deposed pres ident of the United States Steel Cor poration, has sold all his stock. Political bosses of New York have surrendered completely and Govern or Hughes word goes without ques tion. The North American Baptist con vention at Jamestown is opposed to a union with the Southern and Na tional conventions. A Colorado court has recognized the legality of a contract marriage by granting a divorce in the case. The contract was made in California in 1893. The Chicago City Railway Com pany has refused the demands of its employes for better hours, but con cedes the advance in wages asked for. Desperadoes loosened a rail on the Southern Pacific near Los Angeles, attached a wire, and when the Coast Line Limited train approached they deliberately pulled the rail aside, causing, a bad wreck in which two men were killed and a dozen injured. The wreckers were concealed in the brush and made their escape. Ireland has rejected parliament's offer of a limited council. Five workmen were accidentally killed in a Pittsburg steel furnace. There are now four candidates for the presidential nomination Taft, Fairbanks, Knox and Cannon. San Francisco builders are ham pered by constantly rising wages and banks are restricting credit. Pat Crowe has been acquitted of robbing street cars in Council Bluffs, la., two years ago. The victims said he was not the man. Mayor Busse of Chicago has trans ferred the entire police force of the lower districts in an effort to enforce existing laws. The Boise court has gone on a fishing trip while the Bherlff sum mons a new venire of 60 men for Jury duty In the Haywood case. John R. Hegeman, president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company has been indicted on seven charges of forgery and three of per jury. Mayor Schmitz is at liberty under bail bonds aggregating $50,000. A Georgia passenger train was wreck ed and 26 persona badly injuerd. Seventeen bodies of Shrlnera killed In the California wreck were buried at Beading, Penn., their home. TIMBER FRAUDS IN MANY STATES Two Senators Implicated In Bigget Land Conspiracy Yet. Chicago, May 24. A dispatch to the Tribune from Washington, D. C, says: "Amazing revelations of a conspir acy to defraud the United States of millions of dollars worth of mineral and timber lands will be laid before the grand juries of half a dozen states within a few days. The frauds, it is alleged, will Involve in criminal charges the names of men high in business and political circles. They include: "One United States Senator, one ex-United States Senator, a man re puted to be one of the wealthiest men in the world; a railroad man known from the Atlantic to the Paci fic; two of the wealthiest lumber barons in the United States; numer ous smaller fry, including railroad officials, coal operators, and men at the head of fuel companies. These men, whose names cannot be made public before the grand jury acts, it is declared here, will surely be indicted by the evidence which is now in the hands of the United States District Attorneys in half dozen Western states. These frauds, it was declared yes terday in an official quarter, extend into a number of states, including California, Colorado, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana. Minnesota and the Dakotas. Much of the evidence in these frauds was obtained by Detective Burns, who is engaged in the muni cipal graft prosecution in San Fran Cisco, and by Francis J. Heney, who prosecuting the same San Fran cisco grafters. Upon the conclusion of their work in San Francisco, Mr. Heney and Mr. Burns are expected to return to the government service for the prosecution of the timber and mineral land thieves. Some of the grafters in San Francisco are also said to be implicated in the frauds. FIVE WORKMEN KILLED. Bursting Ammonia Pipe Fillt Packing Plant With Deadly Fumes. Chicago, May 24. Five workmen were killed and several others ser iously injured this afternoon when an ammonia pipe exploded in the beef-killing department of Armour & Co.s plant at the stockyards. The building was full of workmen at the time, and the deadly fumes, escaping from under high pressure, pene trated through every department of the building in such a short time that 20 of the men were overcome before they could make their escape to the fresh air. All but five of these men were dragged from the place by their companions in such a serious condition that it was necessary to take them to a nearby hospital. An ineffectual effort to search for dead in the interior of the building was made by employes wearing safe ty masks, but they were driven back by the fumes, and it was not until six hours after the explosion that the first body, that of an unidentified man, burned beyond recognition, was taken from the fourth floor. A few minutes later four other bodies were found, all of them having been burned in a horrible manner. mrs. Mckinley near death. May Llvs a Day or Two., but Cannot Recover. canton, unio, May Z4. Alter a consultation yesterday afternoon at the McKinley home with Dr. Port- man, the family physician of Mrs. McKinley, and Dr. E. J. Eyman, sup erintendent of the Massillion State Hospital and a physician of wide re pute, a statement was issued that there is no indication that Mrs. Mc Kinley could long survive the attack of apoplexy from which she is suffer ing. The doctors say, however, that they think dissolution will not come for a day or two. Mrs. McKinley is a comatose condition, and it is stated that there are no grounds for nope or a better turn. Surgeon-General Rlxey reached here at 6:45 o'clock this morning. Strikers Are Active. San Francisco, May 24. In conse quence of Increased violence attend lng the extension of service by the United Railroads to several new lines yesterday, Thornwell Mullallay, as sistant to President Calhoun, made a demand upon Chief of Police Dlnan for better protection by the police for the company's property and em ployes. Shortly after 5 o'clock about 00 strike sympathizers mobbed an Eighth-street car at Eighth and Brv- ant streets. The strikebreaking crew operating the car, were badly beaten. Spain and England Getting Thick. London', May 24. The Madrid correspondent of the Telegraph says mai me relations Detween the Span ish and British royal families are ho. coming closer dally. Members of the uritisn Royal family propose hence forth to spend much of their holiday time in Spain. BIG CHIEFS INDICTED President of United Railroads I Grand Jury Net. MONEY TRACED DOWN THE LINE Huge Sums Required for Bail Many More Indictments in Reserve to Avoid Defects. San Francisco, May 25. "The people of San Francisco want acts not words. I will only say that we will make good wherever we accuse was the brief comment of William J Burns last night, and it was the only statement made for publication by the prosecution after it had ac compllshed what half of the citizen ship of San Francisco declared to be impossible the indictment of one of. the most powerful magnates known to Wall street in the person of Patrick Calhoun. The prosecution has traced the $200,000 with which the United Railroads secured its franchise from Wall , street to the San Francisco Mint immediately after the big fire in April, iUB, wnen tne Mint was used for banking purposes. There tne money remained for a few davs wnen it was drawn out n ecemeal in lots or J50.000, converted into cur rency and paid over to Ruef and by him passed on to the Mayor and the Supervisors. The evidence is strengthened by bits of conversation, records of conferences at the office of Tirey L. Ford, attorney for the United Railroads. The fact that the Mayor received $50,000 for signing tne ordinance granting the overhead ironey permit was learned through me testimony or Ruef. rourteen indictments were re turned charging Calhoun. Mullallv. Ford, Abbott, Schmitz and Ruef jointly with the bribery of the Sup ervisors, seventeen Supervisors were bribed, so it may therefore be seen that three of the indictments were held in reserve. This is the Henev method. The 14 indictments will act as a sort of advance guard to draw the fire of the defense. If the defense succeeds in shooting any noies in them, the three in re serve will be altered to make them impregnable, taking advantage of the facts brought out. Judge Coffey announced, after running his eye over the Indictments that he would fix bail in the sum of $10,000 on each of the 89 counts. He gave the accused until 11 o'clock today to furnish bonds and remarked that he would accept in lieu thereof cash bail of $5000 on each count Assurance was given that pending tne arrangement of bail no arrests will be made by the prosecution, so the nine men accused of the giving or taking of bribes are at liberty on tneir own recognizance until 11 o'clock today. The statement was made unoffi cially that all but $140,000 of the entire amount of the bonds of $890,- ooo will be forthcoming at the ap pointed hour today. Schmitz, in addition to $50,000 se curity he has already given to se cure his liberty pending the trial of the five counts of extortion brought against him and Ruef jointly, will have to put up $160,000 in bonds. Ruef will have to put up $140,000, but, inasmuch as he now is and lor more than two months has been a prisoner without any immediate hope of release, it is understood that he will make no attempt to give bail. It is said, indeed, that under the circumstances and in view of the fact that he turned state's evidence, he prefers to remain the prisoner of Elisor Biggy. President Glass, of the Telephone Company, already has given bonds in the sum of $90,000. He will have to put up $20,000 more to retain his liberty. Halsey has put up $110,000 In bonds, covering the 11 Indictments previously found against him. He will have to put up $10,000 addition today. When Foreman Oliver, of the grand jury, filed the 19 indictments in court, he stated that these were "only a partial report from the grand jury." This is taken to mean that more indictments are to follow. Huge Railroad Bridge. New York, May 25. Another step in the progress of the Pennsylvania Railroad's New York extension was taken this week when plans for the East River bridge of the New York Connecting Railroad were submitted to the Municipal Art Association. This bridge will form part of a steel viaduct connecting the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railway with the Long Island and the Pennsylva nia. It will be the longest and heav iest steel bridge in the world. Roosevelt Will Attend Regatta. New York, May 25. President Roosevelt expects to be at the Inter collegiate regatta this year on Hud son River, June 28. The presence of the Annapolis crew in the race is what Interests him. PERISH IN SI .H i OF RESCUE. Four Men Meet Awtul Death on Burn lng Lake Meamer Grand Haven, Mich., May 22. Five lives were lost aud 75 people had a perilous escape from death when the steamer Naomi, of the Crosby Transportation Company, burned early today In the middle of Lake Michigan, while on her night trip from here to Milwaukee. Four of the victims were coal passers, pen ned down in the forecastel by the flames, where many of the rescued passengers from the decks of the freighter Kerr and the steamer Kan sas Baw them nt the portholes, vain ly imploring for help, J. M. Rhodes, a passenger from Detroit, was the fifth victim. He was terribly turned in his berth and died soon after reaching the hospi tal at Grand Rapids. Fifty passengers and all of the crew except four coal passers were taken off in small boats by the steam er Stratford and the Kansas, which was en route from Milwaukee to Grand Haven. The loss to the Na omi, which was in comnmand of Cap tain Traill, is estimated at $225,000. I he rire started in the vicinity of the kitchen, between decks, and spread so rapidly that the whole ship was a seething furnace before the crew could get the fire apparatus working. Fire swept the whole length of the ship and the upper works burned like tinder. It is con sidered miraculous that the passen gers all but one escaped. Many of them were taken off in their night clothes, while scarcely any one was more than partly clad. Captain Thomas Traill was the last man to leave the steamer alive. and his clothing was almost burned off him. Sol Waterman, of New York, said: "Never will I forget the picture of those poor fellows in the forecastle wno were burned. The ship was a mass of flames. Suddenly the four men who had been asleep in the fore castle thrust their heads from the portholes and called for help. The captain of the freight steamer or dered a lifeboat to go to their aid. The boat went, but the men were un able to squeeze their bodies through the portholes. We could hear them Calling pitlfullly for help and Bee them through the flames, but the lifeboat crew came back and report ed it could not reach them. The cap tain erdered the boat to return and get the names of the men. Then we could hear the questions and an swers as the men told their names and residences. Finally one man called out, "Good bye; I'm gone," and fell back Into the flames." KUROKI HEARS YALE YELL. Japanese General Seet Where Many of His Soldiers Studied. New Haven, Conn., May 22. The visit to Yale University of General Kurokl today was brought about by the desire of the distinguished sol dier to see the institution in which many Japanese officers received a portion of their education. Many of these officers served with distinction at Port Arthur and the battles on Manchurlan soil. General Kuroki's party included General O. W. Wood, United States Army, retired, and Major Lynch, of the general staff. The party visited various depart ments of the college and at Wood- bridge Hall was received by Presi dent Hadley. Luncheon was served at the graduate schools. There were present Secretary of State Root, Gov ernor Woodruff, President Mellen, of tne New Haven Railroad, and a num ber of professors and faculty men. The party then visited University Hall, where Yale men numbering ,000 arose and gave the long Yale cheer. COMING TO THE COAST. Paesident Earling Says St, Paul Road Will be Finished by January. Miles City, Mont., May 22. Presi dent Earling of the Chicago, Mil waukee & St. Paul Railway, arrived in Miles City today with a party of St. Paul officials on a trip of inspec tion of the roadbed of the western extension of the road. The mag nates are making the journey la au tomobiles and carriages. President Earling in answer to questions stated there is no Inten tion of abandoning the work of push ing the Milwaukee through to the Coast. Steel laying commence at a number of points at an early date and trains will be running between Butte and Aberdeen by January 1 next. Price of Silk Rising. New York, May 22. According to the annual report of the Silk Asso ciation of America, Just issued, the consumption of raw silk by Europe and the United States aggregates 0,000,000 pounds .annually, of which the United States consumes 5,000,000 pounds. Franklin Allen, the secretary, reviews the silk trade for last year and asserts that pres ent conditions were never more fav orable. There Is one disturbing fea ture, however, and that is the high price of raw silk. No More Red Flags Chicago, May 22. Chief of Police Shippy yesterday announced that no more parades in which red flags or banners are displayed will be per mitted in Chicago. The Chief's atti tude is due to the abundant show of red color in the Moyer-Haywood "sympathy parade" last Sunday. STANDS BY HENEY Roosevelt Declines to Interfere In San Francisco Muss. CALHOUN HAS LAID DEEP PLOT Confers With Attoclatet on Quettlotv of Uniting to Get Full Control of City Government. San FranclBco, May 23. Reports are current that President Calhoun of the United Railways has engugod In a deep-laid plot to defeat Francis J. Heney, seize the reins of the mu nicipal government under the guise of a law and order movement, and go any length in order both to save himself from conviction and impris onment under the charges brought by the graft prosocutlon, and to the advantage of himself in his fight with the carmen. Calhoun has been working for sev eral days in a desperate effort to consolidate in aid of this movement all the more important financial in terests affected by the graft disclos ures. Men high in financial circles were seen going in and out of his office throughout the day and it is alleged that other conferences were held in the business center of the city. It is stated that, foiled in their attempt to get into touch with the prosecution, through intervention of the Committee of Seven, Calhoun and his associates, some of whom know they are fighting to save them selves from San Quentin, have planned a new stroke by which they hope to place themselves in control of affairs to such a degree that they will be able to block the efforts ot Spreckels, Burns and Heney. THelr scheme as outlined in these reports, is to form a new committee as a successor to the one which has Just resigned under fire, which will be prepared to resort to extreme measures. Grasping the opportunity of the carmen's strike and the riots and disturbances in the streets of the city, the reported plan is lor a mass meeting to be called under the pre text of a law and order measure. From this meeting those who have been active in the graft prosecution will be excluded on the ground that they have already refused to have anything to do with a committee which had been appointed to straighten out the tangle of munici pal government. At this meeting a committee on law and order will be appointed, which will go first to Chief of Police Dlnan and request his resignation in the name of the citizens of San Fran cisco. If Dlnan refuses to turn over the control of the police department to them the members of this com- . mittee will, it is claimed, immediate ly declare that the conditions in th city are so serious that the only solu tion is a vigilance committee and, acting as such, they will assume con trol of the city. A part of the plan Is alleged to be an attemnt to nsr- suade the governor to act in concert with this vigilance committee, using the carmen's strike as an argument to induce the governor to issue a call for troops, and possibly to bring about the Intervention of federal au thoritles. WANT TO BE AMERICANS. Japanese File Firat Citizenship Papers 1 at Lot Angeles. Los Angeles, May 23. Joseph Felsuo Wada and Mani Suski, Jap anese photographers and residents of this city for eight years past, today -filed declarations of intention to hn- come American citizens. These were tne nrst applications of that kind ever accepted in this county. Since the decision of the District Attorney that under the existing laws of the United States there is nothing to bar the naturalization of Japanese as cit izens, the County Clerk has decided to accept applications against which no specific objection is made. All apDllcations so ma da win w held pending a decision of the Fed eral autnorities at Washington,, which is expected to arrive at. nnv time. ' Tacoma After Standard Oil. Tacoma, May 23. The city coun cil will throw a gaff into the Stand ard Oil Company by endeavoring to pass an ordinance requiring the com pany to sink Its big tanks into the ground. This would be a very costly proceeding and the company is pre paring to fight the ordinance to the last ditch. The trouble came ahont through the company's building its; plant too near the Carsten jacking house on the tide flats, violating an ordinance that the plant should not be within 600 feet of any Inflam mable building. Linemen of Four State 8trike. Helena. Mont., May 23. All of the linenlen of the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company in this state went on strike today, demanding an increase in wages of 50 cents a day. About 150 men are affected. The linemen state the strike Is general1 also over Utah, Wyoming and Idaho