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About Lexington wheatfield. (Lexington, Or.) 1905-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 11, 1907)
LEXIN6T0N WHEATFIELO S. A. THOMAS, PublUhcr LEXINGTON ....OREGON mn OFTBE HEB In a tested tan for Dor A Return of th Leu Important but Not Luf InterMtinf Events of tha Past Wock. A row betweed Tillman and Dolliver has led to talk of a duel. The Hague conference is having some lively debates over the Americaan prop ositions. ( Express companies in Nebraska Will fight the new state law reducing rates n r l A, no per ceui. ( Japanese have formally demanded censea m San Francisco preparatofc to suine for damaees. Commissioner Neill is making a strenuous effort to keept he telegraph ers strike from spreading. The Jamestown fair has borrowed another $350,000. The company's property is given as security. Sedition is spreading in India and it as predicted that England will soon have another war on her hands. Archbishop Glinnon, of St. Louis, has been appointed to take a census of American Catholics, estimated at 15, 000,000. The Union Pacific at the Omaha shops has just turned out two all steel box cars and it is probable the change will be adopted. Judge Charles Swayne, of the North' ern district of Florida, is dead. The judge was brought into prominence a short time ago by an attempt to im peach him. Telegraph operatocrs are to vote on a general strike. It is reported that the Moqui Indians in Utah are on the warpath. Philadelphia has forbidden games at school in which there is kissing. Odessa is again the scene of rioting in which many Jews are being 'killed. A tornado in Eastern Wisconsin struck several towns and killed two people. The Hague conference is receiving many propositions to mitigate the hor rors of war. Negotiations are in progress to settle the dispute between United States, Co lombia and Panama. Grover Cleveland, who has been ill for three weeks, is improveud suffi ciently to be around the house. Bandit Raisuli has captured General MacLean, commander of the body guard of the sultan of Morocco. The Miners' Federation has voted to continue Moyer and Haywood in office and given abcut $45,000 to aid in their defense. Chester B. Runyon, cashier of the "Windsor Trust company, of New York, has disappeared with $96,317 of the company's money, leaving no trace of his whereabouts. Harriman has ordered full publicity of all rail read accidents on his lines. The Miners' Federation convention at Denver has adpoted a Socialist plat form. Thousands of Japanese are being smuggled into the United States from Mexico. A new ordinance passed in Philadel phia makes the city a partner in tall street car lines. A French emigrant agent has been arrested by his government for sending weavers to America. Navajo Indians in Arizona threaten a revolt because the agent killed one of them in self defense. President Cabrera has passed whole sale death sentences in Guatemala for alleged revolutionary acts. The contest for the Republican na tional convention city is now on, Chi cago seems to have the preference. The garbage drivers of New York have returned to work. The men will trust Mayor McClellan to give them a fair hearing of their case. Arrangements are almost complete for the transfer of 16 battleships from Atlantic to FaciQo waters. This is be lieved to be a move to offset action by Japan. Japan threatens to start a boycott against American goods. ' Prospects of a settlement of the tele graphers' strike seem better. Corean delegates have protested to The Hague conference against annexa tion by Japan. The French senate is seeking to cor rect a number of things complained of by wine growers. CARNAGE PALLS FOURTH. Celebration Victims Up To Former Records for Number. Chicago, July 5. The annual slaugh ter has been done in the name, or rather under the guise, of .; "patriot ism." With 58 known victims, and hundreds of others groaning out their lives in hospitals, it is certain that the list of victims to the "Glorious Fourth" will exceed 158, the total last year. In 1906, with -all the precautions that couk be taken by authorities, the total injured reached nearly 6,000 and the total this year when all the returns are in, will be quite as large, more likely larger, for the foolkiller has been sadly remiss in his duty. Inventors have brought forth new engines of destruc tion. The toy pistol and cannon cracker and deadly dyanmite cane have claimed their usual quota. One peculiar feat ure of the casualties this year is the number of deaths frcm fright. Of the five instant deaths in this city, four were from fright. This is a splendid tribute to the manufacturers of explo sives and the blithering Idiots who use them to cause suffering. In New York three persons were killed -by explosives, and a girl was trampled to death under the hoofs of a panic stricken horse scared by celebra tors... Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Milwaukee and several other large cities report no deaths, but hundreds of accidents. The total fire loss attributable to fire works was $304,000. This was greatly reduced by heavy rains, which were general over the Middle West the night before the Fourth. SUE SAN FRANCISCO. Injured Japanese Claim Damages from Bay City. San Francisco, July 5. Suit against the city and county of San Francieco was filed this afternoon in the Superior court for the recovery of $2,575 for damages alleged to have been sustained by the proprietors of the Horseshoe res taurant and a Japanese bath house at Eighth and Folsom streets on May 23, when a row, caused by an attack by la bor union men on two nonunion men, who were eating in the restaurant, re sulted in the fronts of the two places being smashed by stones and cjubs. The Buit was brought in the name of J. Iimoto, proprietor of the bath house, but includes the damage to both estab lishments, the proprietor of the restau rant having assigned his claim to the plaintiff. The papers were filed by Carl E. Lindsay, attorney for Timoto. Asso ciated with him are United States Dis trict Attorney Robert Devlin, who ap pears at the request of United States Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte, and Earl H. Webb, of counsel for the proscution. Japanese Acting Counsel Matsubaio is also taking an active interest in the case, which is the first legal action re sulting from the f declaration of the United States government that, by due legal process, reparation should be made for whatever damage the Japan ese may have sustained. BIG LEVEE LETS FLOOD GO. One Million Dollars Damage to Farm Lands In California. Bakersfield, Cal., July 5. The Buena Vista lake levee has broken, flooding 30,000 acres of land belonging to Mil ler & Lux and the Tevis Land company, and causing $1,000,000 damage. The Sunset railway has been put out of commission and the oil fields are cut off from communication with this city. The levee held back the waters of Buena Vista lake, covering 19 square miles, and protected a body of re claimed land extending for a distance of 15 miles, including the old bed of Kern lake, the property of the Kern County Land company and Miller & Lux. This land was covered with crops of growing grain ready for the harvests and with alfalfa. Of the flooded land, about 22.000 acres belonging to the Kern County Land company and 8,000 to Miller & Lux. The territory is divided into four big ranches, and the work of re clamation has been in progress for nearly 20 years. The levee was built in 1886-7 jointly by the two corporations at a cost of $250,000. Throws Sop to Peasants. St. Petersburg, July 6. The govern ment is showing feverish activity in pushing the distribution of the 25,000, 000 acres of crown, state and peasant land, which it has decided to distribute in average lots of 25 acres to individual peasant soldiers on easy payment terms, in order to make a showing before the convocation ot the new parliament. Four of the participants in a pawnshop robbery here June 12 have been tried by court martial and condemned to be hanged. Eight bandits at Riga have been sentenced to death. Straus Probes Immigration. Montreal, July 5. Oscar S. Straus, secretary of commerce and labor, left here tonight for Honolulu, via Toronto and Winnipeg. Mr. Straus is studying conditions at the ports where immigra tion into the United States is the heaviest. OPEN DOOR IN CHINA Japan Has Blocked It and Broke Many Promises. BATTLESHIPS COMING TO PACIFIC Navy Department Officials Still Try to Minimize the Importance of the Demonstration. Washington, July 6. Interest in world politics and the possibility of conflict with Japan was renewed here today when the definite news that i great fleet of United States warships would be sent to the Pacific coast be came generally known. Also a new phase,, was put on the matter when it became known that the move, calculat ed as it is to impreBS Japan that she Is not dealing with a pewer like Russia, hinges on something deeper than the resentment of Japan at the treatment her citizens have received that San Francisco. The real issue; it is pointed out here, is the open door in the Far East. Ostensibly it was for the open door that Japan went to war with Russia. But after her victory the door of trade in Manchuria and Corea was pretty well blocked up with obstacles placed by Japan, much to the discomfiture of American and British merchants. America was given assurances that the door would remain open and, though the president is at Oyster Bay and other officials of the government are out of the city, it is reported here that the United States Intends, if it should become necessary, to be prepar ed to insist that the Japanese govern ment put no restrictions in the way of trade with the continent cf Asia. While it has been constantly declar ed by the Navy department that no menace to Japan is intended by the dispatch of the fleet, and Ambassador Aoki, of that country, has asserted that Japan will not construe the presence of the fleet in the Pacific as such, it is understood here that the arrival of the battleship squadron in the Pacific marks the initial step towards the maintenance of a permanent fighting fleet in the Pacific hereafter. Whether te entire fleet of 18 vessels which is now destined for the Pacific remains there or not, it is asserted on the authority of well informed officials that the American navy in the Pacific will never again be inadequate to, cope with any emergency on that side of the continent unless there is a vast change in the aspect of international politics. BELIEVE SCHMITZ BARRED. Prosecutors Say Name Cannot Legal ly Go on Ballot. San Francisco, July 6. Announce ment by Eugene E. Schmitz that be would be a candidate for re-election to the mayoralty this fall to a fourth term unless his appeal for a new trial is in the meantime denied by the Appellate and Supreme courts, has raised the question whether he can legally go upon the ballot. An examination into the law on this point was made today by Assistant District Attorney Robert Harrison, and the tentative conclusion was that the mayor is barred. Schmitz maintains that he is not con victed until his conviction by the jury in Judge Dunne's court is finally passed upon and sustained by the Supreme court of the state. Fiji Islands Devastated. Victoria, B. C, July 6. News of a disastrous hurricane in a portion of the Fiji group, resulting in the com plete devastation of Futuna island, causing ereat nronertv loss, but no loss w - sr r- of life, was brought by the steamer Moana, Captain Davidson, which ar rived from the scene of the hurricane. The island, which towered high with beautiful vegetation, now is a great burnt-up brown lump of earth. The island is a scenn nf dpunlation. strewn completely with debris, and that no lives were lost is considered remarkable. Coal Will Be Scarcer. Rock Springs, Wyo., July 6. As a result of the suits filed by the govern ment against the Union Pacific Coal company, forcing that company to abandon coal property alleged to have been illegally secured from the govern ment, three of the big coal mines situ ated on the disputed property have been closed down. The mines belong to the Superior Coal company, which Is owned by the Union Pacific. The effect will be a further shortage of coal in the West. No Idea of Boycotting. London. Julv A. "The leadlne chambers of commerce assure me," cabled the Tokio correspondent of the uany leiegraph, that they never even entertained the idea of boycotting American goods. Such a boycott would be considered suicidal, in view of the existing trade conditions." HOLDS OFF DAMAGE SUITS. Japanese Consul is Also Investigating Refusal of Licenses. San Francisco, July 3. In response to an inquiry, the Japanese consul to day informed the Associated Press that no'decision has yet been reached as to whether suit shall be brought in the oourts to rocover in behalf of Japanese residents of San Francisco who suffered loss in the wrecking May 23 of a Jap anese restaurant and bathhouse on Fol som street by a mob. The matter was described as being at the present time in statu quo. It was said by "a representative of the consul general that the consulate is not awaiting instructions from Tokio. It was further said that the consulate was investigating the complaint of local Japanese that their race Is being discriminated against by the board of police commissioners in refusing to grant them liquor licenses, intelligence office licenses and licenses for similar municipal privileges. The reply of the board is that it is acting under an ordinance which forbids the issuance of liquor licenses to any save citizens of this country and persons who have declared their intention of becoming citizens, and in accordance with the rules of the board that the other licenc es named shall not be granted to for eigners until American residents have more fully recovered from the business shock of last year's earthquake. The consulate looks with suspicion on this defense, but wishes to be un derstood as desirous of investigating further before making any definite re commendation to the Tokio govern ment. EACH SHOUTS OF VICTORY. Conflicting Claims in Strike of Tele graph Operators. San Francisco, July 3. "The strike is over," said Superintendent Storror, of the Postal Telegraph company. "The strike is over," said Mr. O'Brien, of the Western Union office, in the ferry building. "The strike has just begun," said President Small, of the Commercial Telegraphers' union. These three laconic statements ade quately describe the attitude of the op posing parties and give a hint as to their future action. Although the officials of both companies here in San Francisco are but subordinates and could not of their own volition take any steps towards a settlement, it is not thought likely that any such steps will be taken while the local officials report that they are handling the busi ness without unreasonable delay. The operators on the other hand, state that they will carry on the fight, even though the companies find a man for every key, and they declare they are prepared to stay out six months if nec essary. Their leaders, however, say that they expect to win in much less time, and Mr. Small yesterday prophe sied that the "lightning would strike soon' in an unexpected place," but did not explain his remark. ROCKEFELLER TO TESTIFY. Oil King Surrenders to Orders of Federal Court. Cleveland, 0., July 3. John D. Rockefeller has decided to give himself up and testify before Judge Landis in the Federal court in Chicago. It was learned tonight upon trustworthy in formation that the oil king had reached an understanding with the government officers through his counsel and that he hereafter will not be molested by Unit ed States marshals. According to the present program, Mr. Rockefeller will arrive in Cleveland on the Fourth to spend the summer at his summer home, Forest Hill. No government officers will meet him to serve summons for his appearance in the Chicago court. Instead, service will be obtained upon the oil king's counsel, who have promised to have Mr. Rockefeller testify in the Standard Oil cases before Judge Landis in the United States court in Chicago July 6, or whenever his testimony is desired. It further was learned that the gov ernment has sent subpenas for Mr, Rockefeller to United States marshals in., districts where they thought he might be or might visit. Both Must Share Loss. San Francisco, July 3. -Another one of the important legal points developed by the late earthquake was settled to day, when Judge Seawell decided that contractors and property owners were put upon a level by the act of God and neither could recover from the other in cases of misfortunes resulting from the quaking earth crust. The court held that both parties must stand equally whatever less results to buildings under construction the property owner that portion already erected and the con tractor the cost of material used. Trust In Umbrella Frames. Philadelphia, July 3. An indict ment was returned by the United States grand jury here today against the so called umbrella frame trust. The in dictment contains three counts and charges the National Umbrella Frame company of this city, the Newark Rivet Works and the Newark Tube & Metal Works with a conspiracy to form a combination in restraint of trade DENIES WAR REPORT Government Will Not Materially Strengthen Pacific Fleet. NO BATTLESHIPS ARE COMING Rumor of Such Movement Came From Naval Expert Only Two Ships Ordered to Pacific. Washington, July 4. The govern ment is not going to throw fuel on the anti-American flames now burning In Japan by ordering 16 battleships from the Atlantic to the Pacific, as has been reported in some dispatches. Assist ant Secretary Newberry of the Navy de partment said today that no large movement of warships from the Atlan tic to the Pacifio was contemplated. The Washington and Tennessee, now in Bordeaux, are under orders to join the Pacifio squadron later on, but aside from that no general movement Is con templated. His statement is substan tiated by an official announcement made today at Oyster Bay. It is pointed out in diplomatic circles that the Japanese government does nob countenance the anti-American agita tion that is in progress in that country. and this government, as such, enter tains the most friendly feeling for Japan. It therefore being mutually understood that the relations of the two governments are most amicable, there could be no reason for now moving 16 battleships to the Pacific. Some naval experts who can scent war every time they-smell firecrackers are responsible for sensational reports that have been in circulation, but these experts are not speaking by authority. There is to be no general change in the stations f our warships. Ultimately the Pacific fleet will be strengthened, as it needs to be, but there is no inten tion of unnecessarily exposing the At lantic coast with its many great cities at a time when it is believed there is no danger of war on the Pacific. GARFIELD TOURS MONTANA. Secretary Speaks on Saving Land for Public Good. Helena, Mont., July 4. Secretary of the Interior Garfield, accompanied by Senators Carter and Dixon. Gifford Pinchot, cheif of the reclamation bu reau, and a host of administration offi cials, arrived yesterday. The visitors completed an inspection of the Huntley ana Jjulord projects, and after deliver ing a Fourth of July oration at Missou la will visit St. Marys and other Mon tana projects. Mr. Garfield delivered an address here last night. Mr. Garfield spoke at the auditor ium, urging the people of the state to co-operate with the government in itsi efforts to save the natural resources of the state for the public and from fall ing into hands of private interests,, which, he said, was done with the re sources of the'East. Mr. Garfield and party left this morning for Missoula. A review at Fort Harrison in his honor and in that of Brigadier General McCaskev, com manding the' department of Dakota, was given. 1 , Telegrams Not Delayed. New York. Julv 4. Colonel R. C. Clowry, president and sreneral manaser of the Western Union Telegraph com pany, today sent the followine to the- company's general superintendents at iNew York, Uhicago, Atlanta and San Francisco: "The notice to acftenfc hnsi. ness for San Francisco and Oakland sub ject to delay is hereby withdrawn. uenerai superintendent Jaynes reports that the business at San Francisco a"d Oakland is moving without delay; that 10 out of 13 branch offices have been, reopened." Big Lumber Yards Burn. Denver. July 4. Fire which was dis covered in the Hardwood Lumber com pany's yards in this city at 1:45 this morning did nearly $50,000 damage be fore broueht under control. Tha vnrda are a thickly populated portion of the cityjand it was only by hard work that the flames were kept from spreading As it was, nearly all the windows in the residences for a radius of 100 yards were Droken by the extreme heat. Offers Drago Doctrine. The Haeue. Julv 4. Josenh H.. Choate, United States delegate, yester day presented a definite draft of his proposition regarding the collection of debts, embodying the principles also, made public. M. Bourgeois, French, president of the arbitration committee, received MrChoate's proposition and: ordered it to be minted and distributed to all the delegates before being read to the subcommittee on arbitration. 1 Earthquake In the Alps. Rome, July 4. Slight earthauake- sbocks were felt today at Tolmezzo, Bandaniele and Amaro, near Udeni, capital of the province of that name- Tolmezzo is in the Alps.