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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.