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
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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.
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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.