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LEXlgGTOH WKEATFiELD S. A. THOMAS, Publisher LEXINGTON OREGON NEWS OFTHE WEEK la a Condensed Form lor Our Bnsy Readers. A Resume of the Less Important but Not Less Interesting Events of the Past Week. Striking coal miners in Minnesota are to return to work. Salt Lake messenger boys have won their strike for alternate Sun days off. , Mayor Taylor, of San Francisco, has appointed a new board of sup ervisors. Valuable historical papers have been stolen from their archives In Havana; . The government says there is no danger of a coal famine this winter like that of last. North Carolina ticket agents have been indicted for violating the state railroad rate law. The approaching election In the Philippines is arousing but little In terest among the natives. New York is terrified by the con tinued assaults on young girls which the police seem unable to stop. A Chicago woman has been ar rested who has for years been secur ing babies from so called "hospitals" and then selling them around town. While the czar was reviewing troops near the palace one regiment of his guard mutinied and refused to take part In maneuvers unless a eer ytain commander was removed. Salvador has asked Mexico to act as mediator with Nicaragua. W.. J. Bryan has saved a woman from being run over by an auto. Heat records throughout the Middle states have broken all former records for this summer. New Edinburgh, a suburb of Ottawa, Ont., has been swept by fire. Esti mated loss, $300,000. The famine in St. Elizabeth district, Jamaica, is growing worse. Ten thou sand people are said to be starving. The efforts of the Wabash railroad to establish 2-cent passenger rates all through the East has been blocked by other roads. Japan has completed a treaty taking full control of Corea and the minister of foreign affairs says China may share the same fate. H. H. Rogers, head of the Standard Oil, has been Btruck down by heat and his doctors have ordered complete rest as the onJy hope of recovery. Three Indian girls are guarding the graves of their ancestors in Kansas City, Kan. The government has or dered the bodies removed and the land sold. A steamer has just arrived at Van ccuver, B. C, with ,1,177 Japanese from Honolulu. The Canadian Pacific railroad wants 5,000 coolies for con struction work. The Corean emperor has confirmed the report that he has abdicated. Mrs. Russell Sage has given $100,000 to the Syracuse, N.-Y., university. Germany will oppose at The Hague any movement towards disarmament. Japan has just tried to float $20,000, 000 of railroad bonds in England, but failed. German military officers are experi menting with a very successful dirigible v balloon. The people of Russia are refusing to register for the elections, as they recog nize it to be a farce. A bulldog belonging to the Roosevelt family treed the French ambassador and has been bani&ned. The recount of ballots in the mayor alty fight in New York has been further delayed by McClellan's lawyers. The prosecuting attorney of Missis sippi has sued the Standard Oil com pany for $1,400,000 for violation of the anti-trust law. ' American and Japanese bluejackets in France are to be kept apart for fear of a fight. Both countries have squad rons in French waters. Machinists are preparing to strike on all railroads. Two San Francisco boys are under arrest for placing dynamite caps on street car tracks. The Haywood trial at Boise will cost close to $250,000, including the ex penses of both sides. Aller, the Haywood witness charged with perjury, has been bound over to nswer in the District court. Chicago labor unions will not parade f.Vi la vanr n T a Knr Anxr Tlila Yaa Kaod one of the features heretofore. j LET ORCHARD PAY PENALTY. Borah Fervently Disclaims Thought , of Immunity. Boise, Idaho, July 26. The case of the State of Idaho against William D. Haywood, charged with the murder of Frank Steunenberg, a former governor of the state, will rest with judge and jury by tonight. Clarence Darrow, after speaking for 11 hours, concluded the final plea for Haywood's life at 4:20 p. m., and at 7 o'clock last even ing United States Senator Boiah opened the closing argument for the proEeeu tion. He will speak for three sessions or about seven hours. Judge Fremont Wood will instruct and charge the jury on Saturday morning. Mr. Borah's speech'was a sensation From time to time he turned on conn sel for the defense, fierce denunciation pouring from his lips, and at times brought protests irom Mr. Richardson and Mr. Darrow, but with blazing eyes and hot words he silenced every effort to break the rush of words. The ell max was reached, when in behalf of the state of Idaho, its people; its gover nor and himself he disclaimed all in tention or desire to give immunity to Orchard. Finally, his face pale and voice quivering with emotion, the sen ator raised his arm and said: "If I should ever join in or give ap proval , to immunity to this man nope tne great uod may wither my right arm in the socket." Mr. Borah declared the state did not want Haywood convicted of any crime for which Orchard or Pettibone or Moyer or Simpkins or anybody else was responsible, and desired a verdict of guilty only if the evidence was deemed sufficient to warrant such a conclusion The senator denounced Clarence Dar row's statement that the jurors' minds had been poisoned against the defend' ants in thia case. Nowhere, he de clared, could a fairer trial have been held than in Boise. GLASS CASE FINISHED. Attorneys Make Arguments to Jury in San Francisco. San Francisco. July 26. The Louis Glass bribery case should be in the hands of the jury by 1 o'clock this after noon. Jfrancis J. juenev. for the neo- pie, and T. C. Cooean. for the defense. yestereay made each his opening argu ment. At 10 o'clock this mornincr Del phin M. Delmas will begin the closing address for Glass. Popular prophecy is divided between a conviction and a dis agreement. No one affects to forecast an acquittal. ine cniei sensation ot tne trial came at 1:20 o'clock, when the prosecution having closed its case Mr. Delmas crisp ly announced: "So have we." This determination to offer no evidence in contradiction of the circumstantial web woven around Glass was a sudden and complete surprise to everyone, moEt of an to tne prosecution, for the previous day Delmas had casually, or so it seemed, mentioned Rudolph Spreckles as one of the witnesses we shall call. Henev. after statins franklv to the jury that the declination of Second Vice rresicienr. dimmer, the most important individual witness for the state, to tea tify had put it bevond the rjewer of the prosecution to establish definitely the connection of Ulass with the crime of bribing Supervisor Charles Boxton. de voted himself to a vieorous exposition oi tne circumstantial case made out. ... . - SUMMARY OF THE SURVIVORS. Revised Returns Show a Total of 93 Lives Lost. San Francisco. Julv 26. A recast of the returns from the work of rescue shows that of the 245 tiergon on fchn steamer Columbia, 152 have been saved, while five bodies have been re overed and 88 are reported lost. Of the entire number of lost, 39 were men, 49 women and five were children Of the 1S)1 passengers. 114 have been saved. Sixty-eight of these have been taken to Astoria, eight have arrived here and .the remainder are at Eureka. oron their way to this city. Of the 98 men, 70 were saved and of the 91 wo men 42 were saved. Two of the seven children survive. Of the 54 members of the crew, 38 are alive. Hansen Must Explain. San" Francisco, July 26. Not un til Captain Hansen and the members of the San Pedro reach here from Eureka, where they are now eneaeed in a squabble with the master of the ueo. w. Elder over the latter s claim for salvage, will Inspectors Bolles and Bulger begin the inquiry Into the cause of the wreck of the steam er Columbia. The Inspectors intend to eet from Cantaln Hansen a full statement of the affair, with parti cular reference to the charge that he misunderstood the signals given by Captain Doran of the Columbia. Predicts Saionji's Defeat. Victoria. R. C. .Tnlv 2fi Pnnnt Yanagisawa, of the Japanese House of Peers, says his government will be defeated soon by the attitude of Premier Satonjl on the difficulties with the United States. He expects the new government to be formed wnen me Diet meets in December. Admiral Yamamoto will be at Its head. He said that tho .Tnnnneaa are much exelted over the San Fran cisco riots. COLUMBIAISBLAMED San Pedro Oificers Say Disaster Could Have Been Averted. HUNDRED SEVENTY-SEVEN SAVED Seventy-Two Are Unaccounted and Chances of Being Found Alive Are Small. for Eureka, Cal., July 23. Arrival yes terday of the steamer George W. Elder with the battered steam schooner San Pedro in tow, brought the first news of a marine disaster which will rank among the worst of the Pacific coast. The San Pedro drove full speed into the stem of the steamer Columbia, bound from San Francisco to Portland, tearing a great gaeh in her side, and causing her to sink within eight min utes near Shelter cove about 12:30 o'clock Sunday morning. The first reports justified the belief that at least half of the 250 persons on board the Columbia had perished, but hourly the total shrinks. The best ad vices now are that 177 escaped death when the vessel went to the bottom. One hundred and seven of the Colum- Dia s passengers and 37 or her cew have been brought to this port by the steamer Geo. W. Elder, which towed the colliding schooner San Pedro from the scene of the disaster to Eureka. A late message from Shelter cove says that three more lifeboats have been picked up, one of them containing 18 persons, another 15 and the third not reported. Two hours after the wreck the fog lifted and a cold wind commenced to blow. The people in the boats suffered much. O. Swanson, a sailor of the Sail Ped ro, was at the wheel Saturday night when the fatal collision occurred. In his report to the sailois' agent, John Erickson, the blame is laid upon the shoulders of the Columbia's officers. Other members of the crew of the San Pedro substantiate the story of Swan son. He says that the crder was given to him when the lookout sighted the Columbia to put the wheel hard a port. Three points apoil carried the San Pedro seaward apparently out of the way of the approaching vessel, whose name at that time was not known. Short toots from the whistles of both vessels warned the skippers. The Co lumbia was on the ccaet side, the San Pedro on the sea side. Apparently both vessels were proceeding at full speed. If all had gone well, the San Pedro would have cleared the Colum bia, but it is evident that an order, put the wheel hard a-starboard," was given on the Columbia. This sent her directly across the bow of -the steam schooner. Whether or not the speed of either vessel was slackened is imma terial, for the crash of the vessels was terrific. The Columbia? an iron vessel, bore the brunt of the impact, and her iron plates cracked, and a gash seven feet across the forward hatch allowed the water free ingress at great velocity. Among tne survivors rescued and car ried north to this port by the George W. Elder are men and women from a score of states, not a few from the At lantic seaboard and the Middle WeBt Among these are a number of school i. 1 i ... wjauners, wno were varying with a sea voyage their home trip from the an nual convention of the National Educa tional association at Los Angeles. A segregation of the Columbia's pas senger list shows that in her cabins she carried 78 men and 90 women and i i i . gjns; in ner Bieerage zu men and one woman, a total of 189. Discrepancies. however, between the full list furnished the purser on sailing and some of the names given by the survivors who have reached here indicate that the total number of passengers may have been greater. Sixteen of the names given here are not found on the steamship company's certined list. Adding to the 189 accredited passengeiB the 59 or 60 members of the Columbia's crew gives a total of 249 lives ieoDardized in the midnight collision. It is known that at least 40 women were saved. Plot Against Czar Is Nipped. St. Petersburg, July 23. The police today arrested on the street a student long Buspected of belonging to the mili tary organization of the Social Revo lutionists. On searching them, the no- lice found plans of both the Tsarskoe Selo and Peterhof palaces, maps of the St. Peter and St. Paul fortress, and the fortress at Cronstadt, and a paper showing the disposition of the troops in tne m. Petersburg barracks. The police believe that they have nipped in the bud another attempt on the life of the emperor. Takes Sting Out of Rate Law. Asheville, Tenn., July 23. Federal Judge Pritchard today discharged Tick et Agents Wood and Wilson, of the Southern railway, on habeas corpus proceedings and declared the penaltv olause of the new rate bill unconstitu tional. ' GRILLS PINKERTON MEN. Haywood Attorney Says Steunenberg Murder Part of Conspiracy. Boise, Idaho, July 24. Forsaking the theory of vengeance as Orchard's motive for the murder of ex-Governor Steunenberg, E. F. Richardson argued that Orchard was in the employ of the Pinkerton detective agency when he killed Sheunenborg and that the mur der was a part of a conspiracy to hang Haywood. This sudden departure was followed by a tremendous denunciation of Cap tain James McParland and the Pinker- tons and pasHionate vltuperat'on of Orchard, Governor Gooding, of Idaho, Senator Borah and Governor Peabody, of Colorado, in fuct, all who have acted on the side of the pronecution of Hay wood came in fcr a share of Richard son's peroration. Mr. Richardson, having spoken for nearly nine hours, wound up by plead ing with the jury not to convict Hay wood on the testimony of the self-confessed criminal, Orchard, whose testi mony, he said, had not been corrobor ated by any tesitmony standing by it self and unsupported by Orchard, to connect Haywood with any conspiracy to commit crime. Mr. Richardson charged the Pinkerton detective agency with a systematic plot to secure the conviction of Haywood, Moyer and Pet tibone as a means to the desired ex termination of the Western Federation of Miners. Clarence' Darrow will commence his argument In Haywood's behalf when court meets this morning. It is ex pecttid that he will require two days to close for the defense. FIRE AT VICTORIA. Property Loss of $260,000 Results From Poor Pressure. Victoria, B. C. July 24. The great est fire in Victoria's history occurred yesterday afternoon, destroying five blocks and many detached buildings, and involving a loss of $250,000. Start ing in the unused boiler shop of the de funct Albion works, the fire wiped out the shacks of the tenderloin. From Store street to Quadra, four blocks east ward, between Herald and Chatham and Picneer streets, scarcely anything PHpnor1 . The poor pressure of water greatly r , handicapped the firemen, who, aided by the soldiers of the garrison and a host of volunteers, fought desperately, pull ing down many buildings in the path of the fire, which was brought under control at 7 p. m. Dynamite was brought in automobiles to blow up buildings, but Fire Chief Watson would not use it. Men, women and children were hurriedly carrying out their be longings from the houses in the threat ened district. The number of houses burned In the destructive fire is placed at 75, and the insurance at about $135,000. The total loss is estimated at $250,000. No cas ualties are reported. The police secur ed blankets and tents for the home less, but not one application for shel ter was received, all those burned out being sheltered by friends and at the hotels. The tenderloin was almost completely wiped out. Three churches were destroyed. COLUMBIA'S BOATS WERE GOOD Inspector Turner Kills Rumor That They Were Rotten. San Francisco, July 24. Sixteen names were added yesterday to the list of survivors of the Columbia-San Pedro collision. These 16 passengers were in a boat which landed at Shelter cove. The boat also contained two dead bodies. The list of survivors now include 160 names out of a reported total of 257 persons on board. Three dead bodies have been recovered. Ninety-seven persons are unaccounted for. Local Inspectors Bolles and Bulger today detailed Assistant Inspector Frank Turner to examine the lifeboat from the Columbia, which was picked up at sea, the report being circulated that the wood in it was rotten. Mr., Turner reported that, while the boat is not new, its condition is perfect. "It is built of solid oak," he said, "and the wood is bo hard that I could not chip it off with a knife." Great Cotton Strike Begins. Moscow, July 24 The strike of the men employed in the cotton mills of the Sava Morosoff oompany at Oriecko vozue, in Vladimir province, has as sumed dangerous proportions. Forty thousand men are out. Social Demo crats are bringing about sympathetic strikes and hundreds of thousands may be involved. The movement is accom panied by violent political agitation. Several big meetings were held in the suburbs yesterday. Troops were sum moned and had to fire befcre the crowds dispersed. Many were arrested. Cannot Convict Dr. McGee. Boise, July 24. Dr. I. L. McGee, the witness for the defense of W. D. Haywood, who was arreRted on the charge of perjury, was discharged from custody yesterday by the magistrate before whom the preliminary hearing was held. The justice ruled that the evidence brought by the prosecuting attorney was insufficient to warrant rhotding McGee. INVESTIGATION NOW Hot Words Between Oificers of Columbia and San Pedro. HAWSE CHARGED WITH CRUELTY" Captain Tells Why He Refused More Passengers Life Preservers Stand Hard Test. San Francisco, July 27. The in vestigation into the sinking of the steamer Columbia, whereby, accord ing to the latest figures, 81 lives were lost, was resumed today by Captain John Birmingham, United Stntes Supervising Inspector. Ofll cers and nioinbers of the crew of both vessels were examined and the depositions of Captain Hansen of tho' San Pedro and his first ollicer read. The testimony brought out the statement from Captain Bormlnghnm that it was the first time ho had ever known that life-preservers had ac tually been effective in saving life, qualifying it by adding that people were usually too frightened to don them correctly. Captain Hansen, in his report, de nied that he had been unnecessarily cruel in refusing to take any more survivors on board after he had res cued 75, giving as a reason for his action that his own vessel was in such a condition that it was danger ous to approach her, and therefore ordered the other boats to keep off. unier engineer Arthur V. Wil liams testified that the San Pedro- did not lower all her boats because the vessel was under-manned. The alleged action of Third Offi cer Hawse, of the Columbia, In re fusing to give his coat to a woman was brought out in the testimony of Quartermaster Curran. The latter testified that there were unclothed women In the boat, and when Hawse was asked to give his coot to one of them he had refused, saying that the coat belonged to him. The wo men, said Curran, had been exposed' for an hour before Hawse covered them up with a piece of sail. Hawse interrupted the proceed ings by interposing an indignant de nial, and for a few moments counter- denials flew back and forth between the two officers. Hawse was placed on the stand and testified that he had offered his coat to Miss Maybelle- watson, the plucky Berkeley girl. but she refused It and asked him to glve it to another woman more des titute than herself. GLASS CASE WITH JURY. Consumed Fourteen pays of Actual Trial Besides Arguments. San Francisco. Julv 27. Tho mra. against Louis Glass, first vice-president and ceneral manneer nf tho Pacific States Telephone and Tele graph Company, charged with the crime of bribing Supervisor Charles Boxton in the sum nf S (inn to vnto against an ordinance granting the nome xeiepnone Company a rival frnnn.hlso In Sun Ft-annlaAn ...a. - ... " " " 'n.liiliV ncuu 11 the Jury last evening rffter 14 days, of actual trial and a day and a half of arguments by Assistant District Attorney Heney for the people and T. C. CooEan and Tielnhln m riot- mas for the defense. The readlne of Charge to the lurv consumer! nno.x hour. At Its conclusion tho rnurt. room was cleared, tho lurv wnst given in charee of twn donntv sheriffs and by them conveyed in a lany-no 10 ine U'airmount hotel. Haywood Case Finished. Boise. Idaho. Julv 27. and argument is at an end and this morning the lurv win ho loft tn na. cide what penalty, if any, William D. naywooa snail pay ror participation, in a criminal consntropv i' - - " .1 fVDUltlUg U the , assassination of ex-Governor Frank Steunenberg, with which he m.farge2; Unlted States Senator' William E. 'Rnrah anrrnnA v.. it. State of Idaho as special counsel for the prosecution, spoke the last word last night. This morning Judge Fre mont Wood will charge and instruct ' the jury, which, it is expected, will i r, uousiaer "s verdict at about 11 C10CK. Save $1,000,000 Yearly on Mails. Chicago. .Tnlr 9? TKo j. - o-f j - aud lOCIl UU UC- rived from hauling the United State luaaio uy me railroads running west from ChicBcn. Sf T Minneapolis and the Misouri river 1b to be further reduced approximately $1,. 000,000 a year as the immediate result; of the renortfl of 19K in.w have been at work for the last " six uiunins Determining whether the space used in railwav nnstal eminent was in excess of space suffi. cient to accomplish the work. The railroads have been notified. Butte Plumbers Want Mai Butte, Mont., July 27.-The local Plumbers' union struck today for $8 per day of eight hours. The men now nmnrn.7, Buildin8B gating 000,000 in value under construction are tied up.