LEXINGTON WHEATFIELD
S. A. THOMAS, Publisher
LEXINGTON OREGON
NEWS OFTBE WEEK
la a Condensed Form for Our
Readers.
A Resume of the Less Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
of the Past Week.
Streetcars in San Francisco are now
running almost full time.
Floods and high tides are causing
great damage in Louisiana.
Hearst and Pulitzer are both after
the franchise of the defunct Chicago
Chronicle.
It is said that the St. Paul Pioneer
Press has passed out of the control of
J. J. Hill.
Nebraska has adopted the referen
dum law and the courts declare it per
fectly valid.
The French cruiser Chanzy, which
went ashore on the Saddle Islands May
20, is a total loss.
Another company has been incorpo
rated to build a railroad from Port
land to Aft. Hood.
The American Meat Packers' Asso
ciation will hereafter buy all livestock
Subject to post-mortem government in
spection. The Banish government has decided
not again to take np the subject of;
selling the Danish West Indies to tne
United States.
Two English lieutenants who made
a balloon voyage recently have been
given up for lost. The balloon was
picked up at sea.
. Japanese in Honolulu are signing a
petition to the President to rescind
hig order forbidding the admission of
Japanese from the insular possessions.
Little progress is being made in se
curing a jury in the Schmitz case in
San Francisco. Schmitz' attorney was
'sentenced to 48 hours in jail for con
tempt. Guatemala is making every prepara
tion for a war with Mexico.
An American painter has won the
medal of honor at the Paris salon.
Two and one-half inches of snow
fell in Cloudcroft, N. M., and more is
expected.
Kuroki was welcomed to Milwau
kee, Wis., by thousands of citizens
with shouts of "Banzai."
Suit has been filed in the Missouri
supreme court to dissolve the merger
of the Gould railroad interests in that
Btate.
Chinese rebels say they have no ill
will against foreigners, their only aim
being to overthrow the present gov
ernment. Owing to the labor troubles at
Goldfield, Nev., the jails are full and
many are out on bail because there
is no room for them in jail.
A Virginia baby nine days old
called out the names of its parents,
grand parents and others, and then
the word "heaven." The child died
at the age of two weeks.
The Northern Pacific has ordered
35,000 tons of steel rails from the
Lackawanna Steel Company, in ad
dition to 65,000 tons recently ordered
from the Illinois Steel Company.
The Japanese Association, of San
Francisco, declares that attacks upon
Japanese residents of the city are
constantly repeated, and will insist
that the United States Government
take up the matter.
While returning from the funeral
of Mrs. McKinley, the President
grasped the grimy hands of workmen
as willingly as any others whenever
his train made stops. He was hearti
ly cheered at all stations.
A serious rebellion has broken out
in China.
The whole City of Canton, O., is
in mourning for Mrs. McKinley.
The body of Ian MacLaren (Rev.
Dr. John Watson) was laid to rest in
Liverpool, England.
Reuf appears as his own lawyer. He
will remain a prisoner while his mil
lionaire friends are all out on bail.
Heney refused a bookmaker on the
jury, saying a professional lawbreaker
would not be likely to try lawbreakers
impartially.
The body of an American priest
.u..u 111 iiuuk m a .new xorK
lodging-hose. Robbery is believed
to have prompted the murder.
A masked bandit held up a street
"r i" e ouisKirts ot Portland, killed
the conductor, wounded the motor
man, got all the cash and escaped.
The king and queen of' Norway,
with the baby prince, received a royal
welcome at Paris, on their way to
visii we queen s motner m England.
Governor Buchtel, of Colorado,
agrees witn Kooseveit that it would
be a good thing if certain idle, use
less rich men were knocked in the
iiead.
May Irwin, the noted actress has
married ner rormer ineatrical man
agar.
KUROKI DECORATES.
With Bared Head He Places Wreath
on Statue of Lincoln.
Chicago, May 31. General Baron
Kuroki last night gave a banquet to
50 Chicagoans, which, for expense,
splendor and unique features, has
arely been equaled. The baron gave
orders that no expense was to be
spared, and his orders were carried
out to the letter. The banquet hall
was transformed into a marvelous
maze of Japanese lanterns, draperies
and dainty scrolls, while the menu in
cluded the finest wines to be had.
Baron Kuroki entered heartily into
the spirit of Memorial Day. Early
in the morning the warrior-viistor
and his staff donned their regimentals
and it was decidedly a military party
which emerged from the Auditorium
Annex to go to the home of the Im
perial Consul, S. Shimizu. It was the
first time the Nipponese visitors had
worn their military uniforms. Gen
eral Kuroki was attired in a clay
colored uniforms, with but one deco
ration, a medal for bravery presented
by the Mikado. The other members
of the party were ablaze with deco
ration, but Kuroki wore the really
valuable emblem.
In the afternoon the general paid
tribute to the memory of Abraham
Lincoln in an impressive way a way
that touched the hearts of the Ameri
cans who witnessed it, and a way that
Chicagoans probably will remember
as the one thing more than any other
which gave an insight into the browni
little, grizzled warrior s character.
At 3 o clock the party left the Audi
torium Annex in two automobiles,
carrying a wreath of white roses four
feet in diameter. All the way to Lin
coln Park the general was silent, as
if impressed with the importance of
the tribute he was about to pay, and
aware apparently of whatever value it
might have as an international episode
of his trip to America. At Lincoln
Park, President Francis I. Simmons,
of the Park Board, met the party,' and
at the base of the great St. Gaudens
bronze , statue brief speeches were
made.
The general, head uncovered and
in full uniform, presented a great
contrast as he stood bareheaded be
fore the tall statue of the great eman
cipator, and the sight was one long
to be remembered. A vast crowd
had assembled, and General Kuroki,
aided by some of his officers, raised
the wreath and placed .it revenently
on the feet of the statue. Then salu
tations were exchanged all aronnd,
and the visitors departed, cheered by
the crowd.
Another incident was a call made
upon the general early in the morning
by a few baseball enthusiasts. Gen
eral Kuroki, holding a ball in one
hand and a bat in the other, eulogized
the American game, and said he
would boom it in Japan. He intends
to see the game between the world's
champion White Stockings and the
Detroits here Saturday.
RIOTS IN IRELAND.
Peasants Rebel Against Leasing of
Farms for Grazing.
Dublin, May 31 The latest phase
of the land agitation in the congested
districts of Ireland is taking the form
of a crusade against the holders of
grazing farms on the 11 months'
lease system, and is developing with
great rapidity. Kings County and
JNorth lipperary are the centers of
rioting. In bygone days these coun
tries saw many evictions, and today the
peasants are determined that the land
shall be redistributed to small hold
ers. Reports are received daily of the
gathering of large bands of peasants,
who destroy gates and fences and
clear the grazing ranches of cattle,
which they drive back over miles of
country to the farm of the owners.
In two cases men who had leased
ranches were compelled to abandon
their homes because of intimidation.
There have been serious conflicts be
tween the police and peasants, and
many persons on both sides have
been injured. There have been
numerous prosecutions, but the sym
pathy with the peasants is so strong
that in one of two instances even the
magistrates have declined to concur
in the conviction of the disturbers of
the peace, one magistrate even going
so far as to declare himself ready to
go to prison with the defendant.
Strike for Union Shop.
Louisville. Mav 31 A orpnoml
strike of machinists upon the Louis-
vine oc msnvuie Kailroad was or
dered today. Between 600 and 700
machinists are employed upon the
road, and 245 of them working
in the South Louisville shops. The
machinists ask recognition of the
union and a uniform scale of wages
in each Shoo. No inrrin in nrica
is asked. Reports received here carlv
tnis aiternoon snowed that the ma
r- ----- J
chinists went out in response to the
can as toiiows: At Covington, 15;
Mobile 60: Birmingham. !U: Nneh.
ville, 10.
Will Not Pay Damages.
Los Angeles, Cal., May 31. It is
announced from nffirial
the Southern Pacific Railroad will de
cline to pay any damages for injury
to passengers in the Glendale wreck
May 21. The fact that the arrAer,t
was caused supposedly by wreckers is
given as me reason, upwards of 20
passengers were injured, some of
SEAMEN ALL STRIKE
French Merchant Fleet Tied Up
by Labor Troubles.
DEMAND INCREASE IN PENSIONS
Entire Naval Reserve Quits Work'
Torpedo Boats Carry Mail
on Mediterranean.
Paris, June 1. A genoral striko of
sailors and others belonging to tho
French naval reserve began at almost
all the ports of France at daylight to
day and threatens tho complete paraly
sis of French commerce. The naviga
tion committees aro making energetic
representations to the government, say
ing that the movement is not directed
against them and that unless it is set
tled immediately it will cause untold
injury to French commerce.
The naval reserves comprise nearly
the entire maritime population engaged
in sea-faring life and number 117,000
men, of whom 25,000 are serving in the
navy. In addition to practically all the
seamen of the mercantile trade, most
of the longshoremen belong to the na
val reserve.
The strike was declared by the ex
ecutive committee of the National Sea
men's Union because the government's
new bill increasing pensions from
$40.80 to $72.50 in the case of seamen
and from $156 to $200 in the case of
captains is regarded as inadequate.
The tie-up is almost complete at the
Mediterranean, Atlantic and Channel
ports. The strikers generally left their
ships and the government commanded
the torpedo-boats and torpedo-boat de
stroyers to carry on the mail service
with the colonies and with Mediter
ranean ports. The French Trans-At
lantic Steamship Company announced
today that neither La Provence nor La
Gascogne will be able to sail for New
York tomorrow, both crews having
abandoned their ships. Similar condi
tions prevail at Bordeaux.
ufncials of the French line have re
quested the government to land them
crews from the state naval depots, but
no reply has yet been received. Le
gally all the companies are in a po
sition to coerce the men, as, being
members of the naval reserve, the
crews are subject to heavy penalties
for insubordination, but it is regarded
as more likely that they will try to
etrect a compromise.
At Marseilles the sailors and long
shoremen struck almost to a man, and
all the fishermen drew up their nets.
Tne strike is as complete at Havre,
but up to this evening the men had
not struck at Brest. At Toulon the
strike is complete; at Dunkirk and
Nantes the men are going out, and at
Rouen the longshoremen have aban
doned their work.
The men are well behaved, and as
an instance of the sentiments back of
the strike there is the fact that har
bor watches have been provided by the
strikers for all ships in port.
FIRST RIFT IN CLOUDS.
Strike of 10,000 Ironworkers in San
Francisco Is Settled.
San Francisco, June 1 The first
rift in the cloud of strikes and unset
tled labor conditions which- has over
shadowed San Francisco for many
weeks occurred today, when the strike
of 10,000 ironworkers was amicably
settled. The men went out several
weeks ago to enforce a demand for an
eight-hour workday and an increase in
wages. Tkis resulted in closing the
Union Iron Works, the Fulton Iron
Works and all the foundries, machine
shops and iron works, not only in San
Francisco, but in all the bay cities.
The settlement was brought about
by the active work of a conciliation
committee composed of delegates from
the commercial organizations, the fed
erated churches, Civil League and
peace committee of the Labor Council.
The men return to work upon the
same conditions of hours and wages as
prevailed when they struck, and which
shall remain in effect for 18 months.
The committee from the Metal
Trades Association, representing the
employers, conceded that commencing
December 1 1908, there shall be a re
duction of 15 minutes in the workday
every six months until an eight-hour
day is reached June 1, 1910, which
shall be in effect thereafter.
Zion Property to Be Sold.
Chicago, June 1. Over the objec
tions made by Mrs. Jane Dowie and
hor son, Gladstone Dowie, Judge Lan
dis, in the Federal Court today, en
tered an order granting authority to
John C. Hately, receiver of the Zion
City property, to sell the property im
mediately. As soon as the contests of
John Alexander Dowie 's widow and
son are overcome, and it is believed
this will Tin Affected bv compromise
soon, the trust estate of Dowie will be
disposed of to the creditors, most or
whom are connected with the church
established by him.
Whole Family Drowned.
Dallas, Tex., June 1. An entire fam-
ilv a 0 ui MAMAaa was drnwnAtl Tl Pfl r
Honey Grove last night as a result
or the sudden rise or a creeit. me rail
roads in Northern Texas are badly
crippled as a result of the recent
PUT RAILROAD MEN IN JAIL.
Clements Wants to Make Example of
Prominent Lawbreaker.
' Chicago, May 20. A dispatch to the
Tribune , from Washington, D. C,
says! . '.
"The Interstate Commerce Com
mission has entered upon a more rad
ical policy in the treatment of cor
porations which persist in violating
the law. , Possessed of authority to
investigate every phase of railroad
business, and having the power to
bring about the punishment of indi
viduals as well as corporations, the
commission is pushing its work with
determination. Commissioner Jud
son C. Clements, of Georgia, who has
had 15 years' service, yesterday, said:
"One of the most wholesome things
that could happen would be putting
in jail some man of prominence in the
railroad world. It would do more
than anything else to bring better
conditions.
"It would not be necessary to put
in jail all the men who ought to be
there. Just one or two who hold
high positions in the social and busi
ness world should be put behind bars.
This would act as a powerful deter
rent, for men then would hesitate to
jeopardize their positions and safety."
Questions of criminal prosecution
by the commission have been dele
gated to Franklin K. Lane, of Cali
fornia, one of the most energetic and
conservative members. When Mr.
Lane was asked, "Are you going to
send somebody in the railroad world
to jail?" he replied: "I hope that it
will not be necessary. If the rail
roads comply with the law we will
get along most harmoniously, but if
the law is broken, then there will be
trouble."
"Do you intend to have Edward II.
Harriman prosecuted?"
"That whole subject is under con
sideration by the commission. If
Harriman has been guilty of any in
fraction of the act to retaliate com
merce, he will, as a matter of course,
De prosecuted not at all because he
is Harriman, but because he is an of
fender against the law."
KNOCK THEM IN THE HEAD.
Governor Of ColoradoSayt Men With
out Ambition Are Worthless.
Denver. Colo.. Mav 29. The idle
rich were given a scoring by Governor
Henry A. Buchtel in his Memorial
Day address to veterans of the Civil
War last night. The chief executive
of the state agreed with President
Kooseveit, whom he quoted to the ef
fect that the idle rich should be
knocked in the head. These strong
words caused the veterans to sit up
and take notice.
Mr. Buchtels subject was "The
Character of Roosevelt." The church
was crowded with veterans. The at
tack on the rich made by the gov
ernor for the moment made the veter
ans turn their thoughts from the day
to the conditions of the present time.
The reference to "death for. the idle
rich" was made in a story of a
wealthy student. His professor asked
him what he intended to do when he
finished college. The young man re
plied: "Do you know, professor, there does
not appear to be anything in the
world quite worth while."
"When President Ruosevelt was
told this," the governor continued,
"he arose, pounded his fist on the
table and said:
" 'Professor, do you know that fel
low ought to be knocked in the
head.'
"And he ought to have knocked him
in the head. Such people, without
ambition and without purpose, are
valueless to the country, and ought
to be knocked in the head."
Cotton Workers Rejoice.
Boston, Mass., May 29. The gen
eral upward movement in the wages
of New England cotton mill opera
tives today affected about 85,000 oper
atives in Rhode Island, Southeastern
and Western Massachusetts, Ames
bury, Massachusetts, Vermont and
other places in Southern New Eng
land. The advance in the sections
named amounts to about 10 per cent.
Early next month it is expected an
increase of 5 per cent will be given in
many mills m other manufacturing
districts. The cotton mills of New
England employ upward of 200,000
hands when the machinery is fully
manned.
Treadwell Mine In Law.
New York, May 29. Suit has been
filed in the supreme court of this
city for an accounting from the estate
of the late Walter S. Logan, lawyer
and club man, and from Myra Mar
tin, secretary and treasurer of the
George A. Treadwell Mining Com
pany, and connected with many other
mining concerns. John J. Gibbs, a
director of the San Luis Mining Com
pany, one of the Logan-Martin prop
erties, brought the suit. The com
plaint seeks an accounting for about
$500,000.
Oregon Girls Visit Roosevelt.
Washington, May 29. The Presi
dent today received a party of Oregon
girls, who are guests of the Pacific
Northwest, on a trip to the James
town Exposition. This evening the
party left for the Exposition.
Two-cent Rate in Illinois.
Clnrincrfiplft Til Mow On Tt n
cent passenger fare bill was approved
by Governor Deneen tonight. This
bill makes a straight 2-cent-a-mile
KUROK
SHUDDERS
Warrior Turns From Bloody Work
ol Stock Yards.
BUT ADMIRES GREAT INDUSTRY
Sees Where Millions of Cans of Food
Were Prepared for'His Victor
torious Army of daps.
Chicago, May 30. "Russian losses
were terrible. The fighting on the
crest of the hill was altogether with
cold steel. The Russian officers, with,
swords aloft, leading the scaling col
umn, were literally lifted into the air
by the Japanese bayonets, and the
Japanese then bayoneted the first of
the Russian soldiers who piled in the
trenches. All the dead in the trenches
were bayoneted, their weapons bear
ing marks of the dreadful combat."
From an Associated Press description
of the battle of Mukden, where Gen
eral Kuroki led the Japanese right
wing.
General Baron Temcmoto Kuroki,
the great Japanese warrior, who shud
dered not at the terrible battle scenes
in the Japanese-Russian war, shrank
yesterday from the bloody killing
tloors at the Union stockyards. It
was at Swift & Co.'s plant that the
Japanese first got his view of the
commercial slaughter of the porkers.
As the stalwart butcher plunged his
knife into the hog's throat, the aged
general sprang to one side, deeply af
fected. General O. E. Wood, of the United
States Army, who was in charge of
the Japanese visitors, noticed General
Kuroki's agitation, and, holding up hi
hands, gave the signal to go on.
General Kuroki and his party
passed two busy hours in the stock
yards, which closed with a luncheon'
at the Saddle and Sirloin Club. Pre
ceding his visit to the packing firm.
General Kuroki paid his respects to
Mayor Busse at the city hall, smiled
at the unique position in which the
Columbus fountain was "squeezed" up
against the building; and commented
on the beauty of Michigan avenue as
a drive.
At the stockyards the general gazed
with amazement at the droves of cat
tle and watched with undisguised in
terest the packers of the meat indus
try. He saw the hog-killing at Swift
& Co.'s, the canning at McNeil &
Libby's, the office and sausage room
of the Nelson Morris plant, and the
killing and dressing of beef in the
wholesale market at Armour's. He
shook hands heartily with the owners
and managers of the different plants,
asked hundreds of questions, and
smiled at the rapidity with which the
cattle passed into the finished product
ready for shipment. He was especial
ly interested in the United States.
Government inspection of meats, and
the methods of seal-tight packing of
products for shipment to the Orient.
Re-count of New York Election.
Albany, N. Y., May 30 The senate
yesterday by a vote of 38 to 8 passed
the assembly bill providing for a re
count of the ballots cast in the Mc-Clellan-Hearst
mayoralty election of
1905 in New York City. The bill is
one of the measures urged for pas
sage by Governor Hughes. The bill
provides that upon petition of either
of. the mayoralty candidates the su
preme court of the district affected
must proceed to a summary canvass
of the vote. The recount of the bal
lots must be made in the presence of
the court, and the candidates or their
counsel.
Will Postpone Ruefs Sentence.
San Francisco, May 30. Tomorrow
is the day set for the sentencing of
Abraham Reuf on the charge to which
he pleaded guilty two weeks ago of
extorting $1,123 from Proprietor Mal
fanti, of Delmonico's Restaurant, on
a threat to prevent the renewal -of
Malfanti's liquor license. Reuf will
appear, the prosecution will move the
postponement of sentencing, and
Judge Dunne will acquiesce. The
prosecution prefers to delay Reuf's
punishment until after he has ap
peared as a witness.
Skeptical On Hague Conference.
Tokio, May 30 Absolute secrecy
is maintained by the Japanese govern
ment recardinor the snhtprta- it .irill
present to the coming Hague peace
comerence tor discussion, and it is
impossible to make a preliminary
forecast of the government's position.
It is generally felt that the confer
ence will not have much practical re
sult. The Japanese press is not en
thusiastic on the subject.
War Prisoners Free At Last.
Victoria, B. C, May 30. Advices
from Japan state that the crews of the
schooners Taifuku Maru and Taiyo
Maru. seized off Cnnner T.i.nj. C
-rw uiouuj vy
Russian cruisers during the war, and
imprisoned at Vladivostok, have been
rcieaseu.
Chinese Rebels Attack Town
....,, v.m.a, i.xajf ou. me revo
unionists are now attacking Chunz
Lang and Tung Chang, wealthy towns
in Clung Hai district. Many of the
inhabitants have fled to this city The
uprising is attributed: to excessive-
incut aeriuusiy.
storms.
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