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LEXINGTON WHEATFIELD S. A. THOMAS, PmMUmt LEXINGTON OREGON NEWS OOP WEEK In a Condensed Form for Our Bnsy Headers. A Resume of the Less Important but Not Less Interesting Events of the Past Week. A tornado and tremendous rain storm did heavy damage in St. Joseph, Mo., and vicinity. The Elks national convention is con sidering plans to stop the slaguther of elk to get teeth. The Corean delegate at The Hague denounces Japanese, but the other dele gates favor Japan. Rioting in Seoul results from abdi cation of the Corean emperor. At least 25 Japanese were killed. In the Glass trial the court has ruled y that evidence showing similar offenses may be introduced, a decided victory f or Heney. Connellsville, a town of 300 inhabi tants near Zanesville, has been almost wiped off the map by flood. No lives are reported lost. The property loss will be large. A Chinaman is on trial in Los Ange les for practicing medicine without a license. So far 340 talesmen nave Deen summoned and but five have qualified, all others being biased on account of defendant being a Chinese. F. M. Holbrook, E. E. Lonabaugh and Robert McPhillaney, prominent men of Wyoming, have been found guilty of conspiracy to defraud the gov ernment of coal lands in that state. The maximum penalty is two yeais in the penitentiary and a fine of $10,000. The Indian Territory Democratic con vention ended in a riot. The Northwestern xailroad is'prepar ing to extend its lines to the coast. The emperor of Korea has abdicated, after a vain appeal to Marquis Ito. Foreign Minister Hayashi, of Japan, eays his country will trust in Ameri can justice to prevent war. A heavy rain brought relief from ex cessive heat in Washington, but not before many persons were prostrated. The Postal Telegraph company has made an offer to its former employes in ban irancisco to return to tneir work. Thousands were prostrated by the heat during the Elks' parade at Phila delphia. The emergency hoospitals treated 1,500 and other hospitals 1,000. , Two ticket agents in North Carolina have been found guilty of selling tick ets in disregard to the new rate law and each sentenced to 30 days in the chain gang. 1 Canada will send an exhibit of irri gation products to the Interstate fair to be held in Sacramento next September in connection with the National Irriga tion congress. King Oscar, of Sweden, is anxious to secure the return of the hundreds of thousands of his subjects who have em igrated to America and has begun an investigation to learn the reason for the people leaving their native land,. The floods in Missouri are subsiding. The Hague conference is considering limited armament. Korea is in a panic, expecting the emperor to be dethroned. Burglars broke into the South San Francisco postoffice and secured $1,800 in stamps. The 40,000 Japanese troops in Mex ico is in reality but 400, according to a Mexican army officer. Corvallis business men have raised $39,C00 to build a railroad into the in terior of Benton county. The Alabama legislature has elected , ex-Congressman John II. Bankhead to the United States senate. Heney is having trouble with wit nesses in the Glass case and has offered to fight Attorney Delmas. Retains of deaths from the plague in India Bh:w the appalling total of 1, 060,067 for the six months ending June 30. Eugene business men have started a movement to boycott Harriman lines by asking wholesale houses to freight over other lines so far as possible. The "Four hunderd" of Newport, R. I., have formed a gambling club. A Chinese tong war is on In Los Angeles and several Orientals have been killed. Richard Croker has declined to be come a candidate for the English parll ament. ; Congressman Jones, of Washington, announces that he is a candidate for the senate. LAWYERS HAVE INNING. Devote Entire Day to Arguments In Haywood Case. ' Boise, Idaho, July 19. A day of ar gument on the admissibility of points of evidence followed the announcement from the defense that they had no fur ther witnesses to offer in behalf of Wil liam D. Haywood. The jury was not brought into oourt, Judge Wood having been informed by counsel of their de cision to rest without offer of sur rebuttal. Clarence Darrow spoke for an hour and a half of the morning ses sion. Senator Borah replied in the afternoon and was followed by E. F. Richardson. Judge Wood wtll prob ably announce his decision today. The point argued was the proposition to exclude from consideration by the jury the evidence offered by the de fense to show, by proof of deportation of minners from and the employment of detectives in the Cripple Creek dis trict of Colorado, that a conspiracy was formed among the mine owners and the citizens of the district to prevent the employments of members of the West ern Federation of Miners. The posi tion taken by the Haywood defense was that Harry Orchard was employed by the Mineowners' association through detectives to commit crimes which were then charged to the Federation, and public opinion aroused against the uri ion workers, and it therefore followed that, if Colorado evidence for the state was admitted, the defense had the right" to show a counter-conspiracy. The reply of the state was that the de fense had failed legally to connect its case in these particulars and therefore its evidence merely confused that issue. In the absence of the jury the argu ment gave ceunsel an opportunity to take a wide range in commenting on the methods employed on both sides. Mr. Darrow was impassioned and vitu perative. He bitterly assailed Orchard and the Pinkertons. Mr. Borah confined himself largely to the legality of the question of admis sibility. He spoke for an hour, force fully reviewing the evidence and alle gations made by the defense, which, he said, failed to show by the member of the alleged conspiracy between the mine-owners and the Pinkertons that any such conspiracy existed. DISSENSIONS IN THE RANKS. Striking Telegraph Operators Criti cise National Chiefs. San Francisco, July 19. Yesterday was a busy day in the ranks of the strik ing telegraphers at Oakland. There were committees appointed and many impromptu consultations held, and dur ing the afternoon several operators waited on the three members of the executive committee, M. J. Reidy, S. J. Konenkamp, and J. M. Sullivan, but absoluthte silence was maintained as to the meeting or the trend of the discussions. It was evident from the bearing of the conferees that the situation was considered serious and there were hints of increasing friction among the leaders of the strikers. The executive commit tee came in for severe criticism on ac count of its reported remarks deprecat ing the calling of the strike and its ap parent lack of sympathy for the local operators. It has been rumored persistently for the past few days that there was a ser ious split between President Small and his executive committeemen. Mayor Taylor Takes Office. San .Francisco, July 19. Dr. Edward R. Taylor, dean of Hastings Law col lege and acting president of Cooper Medical college, today received his commission as mayor of the city and county of San Francisco. Regarding his plans for reforming the oity govern ment, Mr. Taylor said: "I have no plans at present. In fact, the whole thing has come on me so suddenly that I have not had time to .think about it as yet. I intend to conduct the govern ment on a nonpartisan basis, but fur ther than that I have no plans." tqual Pay for the Sexes. St, Joseph, Mo , July 19. The thir teenth biennial convention of the Retail Clerks' International union today elect ed F. H, Conway, of Chicago, presi dent. Resolutions were adopted de claring that women clerks should be paid the same wages as male clerks where they do the same work. The conventicn also will declare for an eight-hour day. President Conway de nounced department stores as a curse to humanity, paying only starvation wages to women employes. Acquitted of Land Fraud. Eureka, Cal., July 19. A jury in the Federal court this afternoon after less than 10 minutes deliberation and on the first ballot found George W. Brace.Jformerly of Eureka, new of Oak land, not guilty of conspiring to defraud the government out of valuable public timber land in Trinity county. Hundred Jackies Desert; Norfolk, Va., July 19. During the past few weeks 100 desertions have been listed and advertised from the battleship Minnesota, one of the war ships in Hampton Roads. The local police were notified of 15 desertions yesterday. WORST OF CRIMINALS Hawley Declares Truth ol Orch ard's Story Proven. MAKES THE DEFENSE FURIOUS )' Judge Wood Rules Out Evidence of Mineowners' Conspiracy Point Won for Prosecution. Boise, Idaho, July 20. The Held for argument both for the prosecution and defense of William D. Haywood has been limited by Judge Wood, who in a decision handed down yesterday remov ed from consideration by the jury all evidence bearing on the alleged conspir acy by mineowners and others against the Western Federation of Miners. Judge Wood decided that the defense of Haywood had made no legal connection of the Mineowners' association, the Citizens' alliance, of Colorado, and the Pinkerton agency with the crimes as laying a foundation for the evidence in troduced by the defense to show that the charge against Haywood and his co defendants is the outcome of a conspir acy to exterminate" the Federation. Immediately following the announce ment of this decision, argument com menced. J. H. Hawley, leading coun sel for the state, spoke for two hours and 15 minutes of the afternoon session, the morning session having been ad journed to enable the judge to prepare his decision. Counsel for the defense repeatedly interrupted Mr. Hawley with protests and objections, but these only seemed to stir him to greater efforts. Mr Hawley concluded with the state menfc that already he had shown enough to convict and that any juryman not willing to convict on the evidence con necting the conspirators with the blow ing up of the Bunker Hill & Sullivan concentrator in 1899 and the explosion iaat the Vindicator mine in 1903 alone "sought only to rid himself of an un pleasant duty to his state." Mr. Hawley will continue his argu ment today. Judge Wood has notified counsel for the defense that he expects argument for their Bide to commence on Monday. READY TO FIGH f PACKERS. Livestock Exchange Convention to Consider Post Morten. Kansas City, Mo., July 20. Live stock commission firms in the 15 prin cipal markets of the country, that do an annual business estimated at $800, 000,000, were represented here today at the opening of the National Live stock Exchange association. The live stock centers represented included near ly every city of importance from Buf falo to Denver and from St. Paul to Fort Worth. Twenty delegates came from Chicago. . The National Exchange is practically the clearing house for the various local exchanges. James O. Swift, of Kansas City, the president, said this morning that the mortem question, among other things, will be discussed and said of it in his annual address: "While we regret the passing of the 7-cent hog, we rejoice that his memory bears no taint of post mortem, and that he left with us the ever-welcome 7-cen seers and the lowly sheep, with his high-priced fleece and strong-smelling mutton." Mr. Swift said that livestock ex changes for years had been the butt for shafts of cheap ridicule and the basis for criticism born either of malice 'or ignorance. Canada at Irrigation Fair. Sacramento. Cal.. Julv 20. Canada will send an exhibit of irrigation pro ducts to the Interstate Exposition to be held in this city next September in connection with the National Irrigation congress. A representative of Alberta province called at headquarters to ar range for the installation of a big dis play. The outlook points to the larg est and most important exposition of the kind ever held in the West. Twenty thousand dollars in trophies and prizes are to be offered" for the best collective and individual entries. f Telegraphers Will Arbitrate. San Francisco, July 20. After being on just a month, the strike of the tele graph operators in the Oakland and San Francisco offices of the Western Union and Postal Telegraph companies was setttled this afternoon . The operators almost unanimously voted to return to work under the same conditions and salaries as prevailed when they went on strike and to arbitrate their griev ances and differences, as provided for in the compromise offer contained in the letter from Colonel R. C. Clowry of June 20. Express Money Package Stolen. . Columbia. 8. C' Julv 20. It is re ported here that an express package of $10,000 has been lost at the Florence, 8. C, office. ORCHARD CORROBORATED. Prosecution Offers Evidence to Rebut Showing of Defense. Boise, Idaho, July 17. In the last stages of the case against Willira D. Haywood, the prosecution put six wit nesses on tire Btand yesterday to rebut the evideence of the defense. They testified to conditions in the Coour d'Alenes in 1899, and to the situation in Colorado during the strike period of 1903 and 1904. The important wit nesses of the day were called to contra dict the showing made by witnesses for the defense for calling out the militia of Colorado other than a desire upon the part of the mine owners t( drive members of the Western Fedoraticn of Miners from the mining district. One witness flatly ontradcited the evidence introduced by the defonse to show that the explosion at the Vindicator mine was due to an accident, While the big trial was going on in the District couit, before Judge Fre mont Wood, an interesting offshoot of the case was being heard by Justice of the Peace Savage. W. 11. Aller, the depot agent, who was arrested charged with perjury, was brought before the magistrate for preliminary hearing. The state was represented by Prosecut ing Attorney Koelsch, and the prisoner by Peter Breen, an attorney of Butte, who has been associated with Hay wood's counsel, having been retained by the Miners' union of Butte to watch the case. Fred Miller, who was Orch aid's counsel at the preliminary hear ing at Caldwell, immediately after the murder of Governor Steunenberg, as sisted Mr. Bieen.. A motion to dismiss will be argued this afternoon. Aller was released on deposit of $2,500 bondB. FAIRBANKS GOES HOME. Vice President Starts East After His Portland Banquet. Portland, July 17. Charles Warren Fairbanks, vice president of the United States and generally conceded to be a candidate for the presidency in 1908, spent yesterday in Portland. His com ing was .attended by.no salute of artil lery nor rataplan of drums. He was here in a purely unofficial capacity and save for the informal dinner tendered him by the Portland Press club at the Sargent brill, there was no public dem onstration in his honor. The second citizen of the land was accompanied only by Private Secretary King and took his chances on securing a room at the Portland hotel like any ordinary private citizen. The Press club had, the night before, extended Mr. Fairbanks an invitation by telegraph to be the' guest of honor at dinner, which invitation he accepted by wire, and that dinner was the feature of his visit and one of the most suc cessful affairs ever held here in compli ment to a public man. Vue President Fairbanks had already made himself en rapport with all the diners by his unaffected friendliness, but it remained for his addiess, which was entirely impromptu, to disprove completely the charge of frigidity so often made against him. While he attempted no oratory, his address was eloqueont in the highest sense, and its sincerity was so appirent that all his auditors were deeply im pressed. He willleave this morning at 8:30 over the O. R. & N. for his home in Indianapolis, making no stops en route. Colorado Graft Ridden. Chicago, July 17. "Colorado is the most corrupt state in the Union. It is overriden with graft. Even the wo men, who are possessed of the right of franchise, have been reached by corpor ate Interests. ,. A franchise grant in Denver is indorsed by the people, no matter how bad it is. Throughout the commonwealth wealth overrides hones-1 ty and the popular will is smcthered in dollars." Judge Ben B. Lindsey, Den ver's bel linger en t Juvenile court judge, sat in the Great Northern hotel and re cited a story of a politically rotten state. Count Bonl Finally Loses. Paris, July 17. The appeal of Count Boni de Castellane from the decision of the court on November last granting a divorce to the Countess Boni de Cas tellane, formerly Miss Anna Gould, was dismissed this afternoon and a final decree of divorce duly entered. Attorneys for the count made practical ly no contest. Summer Blizzard In Austria. Vienna, July 17. A sudden cold wave has struck Austria-Hungary and conditions are prevailing such as have not been experienced in 130 years. Ten degrees registered here yesterday. There is some snow in the mountain districts. Summer visitors ato the hotels are snowed in and the railways are not working. Why Dreyfus Resigned. Paris, July 17. The Patrie says the real reason for the recent resignation from the army of Major Alfred Dreyfus as because General Plcquart, the min ister of war, refused to give him the rank of lieutenant colonel. General Picquart thaoughfc it would be impolite to repoen the affair by making , this promotion. TRIES NEW TACTICS Heney Would Prove That Glass Bribed Others Than Boston. DEFENSE OBJECTS TO TESTIMONY Change of Plans Made Necessary Be bause of Silence of Vice Pres ident Zlmmer. San Francisco, July 18. The trial of Louis Glass for bribery reached a cru cial stage yesterday, when the prosecu tion made its first attempt to begin the introduction of the testimony of 10 or more supervisors other than Box toa that their votes were bought by Theo dore V. Ilalsey, acting under direction of Vice President Glass, of the Pacini States Telephone & Telegraph company. Such testimony is called "evidence of similar offenses" and it is often admit ted in criminal trials for the purpose of showing corrupt intent on the part of a defendant in the commission of the act for which he is being tried. Glass at the present time is being tried for the bribery of Boxton; the prosecution contends that It ' has the rlght to lay before the jury the inlerence of his guilt contained in the proof of his having bribed other supervisors, like Boxton, against the granting of a rival franchise to the Home Telephone company. The defense denies this right, mainly on the ground that the state is not privileged to prove other crimes in an effort to establish the crime on trial. The argument of this point, conceded to be of even more than its original im portance, since the defection of Second Vice President Zimmer from tho ranks, of the prosecutor's witnesses, occupied the last two hours of the afternoon ses sion and was in progress at adjourn ment. The jury waB excused at the commencement of the argument and was taken by bailiffs to a point near the Temple Israel, later to be returned to its quarters at the Fairmount hotel. ATTEMPTS TO BRIBE JURORS. Cudworth and Fish Testify Against Friends of Schmitz, San Francisco, July 18, Charges, that efforts were made to bribe two. members of the jury which tried and convicted Mayor Schmitz on the charge of extortion, were laid before the grand jury yesterday at a special session. The jurymen involved in the charges are Royal W. Cudworth and Charles D. Gish, both of whom gave their testi mony. Mr. Cudworth and his wife both told the grand jury of the efforts that had been made to communicate with him while he was locked up at the St. Fran cis hotel with his fellow jurors. Mr. Gish gave testimony showing efforts had been made to reach him while the case was on trial. The grand jury also heard the evi dence of D. Capelli, a teamster in the employ of Mr. Cudworth, and of F. Owings, whose Btory was corroborative. The grand jury took the matter under advisement. Henry T. Scott, president of the Pa cific States Telephone company, who is accused by Assistant District Attorney Heney of seeking to mislead the prose cution in regard to thef whereabouts of T. V. Halsey and of being instrumental in preventing E. J. Zimmer, vice presi dent of the company, from testifying in ' the GlasB case, was called before th& jury. Small Denies Friction Talk. Oakland, Cal., July 18. After a' meeting of the telegraphers in Sunset ball, West Oakland, today, President Small gave out the following statement: "I expect to leave Oakland within the next 48 hours for Chicago, where I will hold a conference with prominent leaders on next Tuesday, and recom mend that our executive board meet in that city on that day. The strike in San Francisco and Oakland will contin ue. The fact of the matter is there are, not enough telegraphers to fill the po sitions, and there is no worry about strikebreakers." Cabinet Follows Old Custom, Tokio, July 18. Although Korea i under an absolute monarchy, the dem oncratic custom has existed since olden days of demanding the retirement from the throne of a sovereign whose conduct endangers the national welfare. When such an occasion arises, the usage pre vails that all the cabinet ministers shall appear before their ruler. One of them, acting as a spokesman, humb ly states the advisability of the emper or's retirement in favcr of a rightful successor. When this state is reached, the emperor is bound to abdicate. Halsey Pleads Not Guilty. San Francisco, July 18. T. V. Hal sey today, in Judge Dunne's court, pleaded not guilty to ten indictments; charging bribery of supervisors as the agent of the Pacific- States- Telephone company.