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S.A. THOMAS.
LEXINGTON ......... OREGON
NEWS OFTflE WEEK
la a Condensed Form lor Our
Bnsy Headers.
A Resume of the Less Important but
Not Lets Interesting Events
of the Past Week.
The Chicago & Alton railioad has
been sold to the Toledo, St Louis &
Western.
Raisuli, the Moorish bandit, has de
feated the army sent by the sultan to
capture him.
Western railroads are again issuing
warnings to coal dealers to lay in a
winter supply before too late.
Deaths from the bubonic plague in
India promise to exceed all former rec
ords during theg present year.
Heney and Delmas continue to fight
every step in the Glass bribery case
now being tried in San Francisco.
Japanese Lave sued the city of San
Francisso tor $2,575 damages on ac
count of the restaurant wrecked by a
mb.
A heavy electric storm has done'much
damage to telegraph and telephone
wires in Northern California and South
ern Oregon.
Texas has begun suit against the In
ternational Harvester company for $1,
100,000 for alleged violation of the
anti-trust laws.
Vice President Zimmer, of the Paci
fic States Telephone' company, has been
sentenced to imprisonment for three
months for contempt in refusing to
answer questions in the Glass trial.
He has appealed.
Count Boni has been snubbed by
Gould in London.
. Ninety cases of typhoid fever are re
ported at Rldgeway, Pa.,
The Philippine government has sup
pressed the flag of a secret rebel soci
ety. Drivers and stablemen employed at
the wholesale beef packing houses in
New York are on strike.
Congressman McCall, of Mass., pre
dicts hard times as a result of the heavy
fine imposed con the Standard Oil com
pany. '
The new San Francisco police board
has accepted Chief Dinan's resignation
and elected O. M. Anderson as acting
chiei.
Canadian- telegraph operators have
not struck but threaten to walk out un
less the companies refuse to take mes
eages from across the boundary.
Patients at the New York state hos
pital for the criminal insane revolted
and were not subdued until one of their
number had been shot and killed.
Governor Vardman, of Mississippi,
has been apealed to for protection to
the Western Union strikebreakers.
The company officials say their men
have been driven from Holly Springs,
Grenada and Greenwood.
In a speech at Provincetown, Mass.,
President Roosevelt scored the rich
lawbreakers.
The New Zealand senate has turned
down a measure allowing women a seat
in that body. ,
In an explosion of dynamite at Tsing
tau, China, two Germans and 100 Chi
nese were killed.
The War department has advertised
for material with which to improve the
Honolulu harbor.
Secretary Taft may change all. his
Philippine trip plans owing to the ill
ness of his mother.
Reports from Cental West and Cali
fornia indicate an almost complete re
sumption of wire serivce.
By means of wireless telegraphy the
station at San Francisco sent the cor
rect time to Midway island, 2,700
miles away.
Sympathy in P6rtland for the strik
, ing telegraph operators is making itself
known by popular subscriptions for a
relief fund. One contribution of $50
was by a former county official.
, The Standard Oil company has is
sued a pamphlet saying that the courts
are biased and that under vindictive
warfare waged by the Federal govern
ment rights of corporations are tram
pled on.
Hearst is laying his plans for 1908.
Boston has started a crusade against
grafters.
While on his trip around the world
Taft will visit the czar,
Both telegraph comapnies in San
Francisco say business is improving.
Speaker Cannon approves the presi
dent's plan of sending a fleet to the Pa
ific.' ' . .
ANXIOUS FOR TRIAL.
Borah Will Do Nothing to Impede
Legal Proceedings.
Boise, Idaho, Aug. 23. -The state
ment made by Attorney General Bona
parte that Senator Borah was to be
given an immediate trial was shown to
District Attorney Ruick, and he was
asked if he had received any word from
Attorney General Bonaparte respecting
the trial of Senator Borah. He replied
that he had nothing to say. When
asked as to the date for the convening
of court next month, he replied that
the session would take up September 9.
The matter referred to is the reported
indictment of Senator Borah by the
United States grand jury that sat here
in March. No official statement on the
subject had ever been made until the
attorney general gave out the statement
eent from Washington. The under
standing is that an indictment was
found charging the senator with having
had some irregular connections with
timber transactions under which the
Barber Lumber company acquired title
to certain timber lands. ; Great secrecy
was maintained about the whole matter
at the time the grand jury was in ses
sion and nothing'whatever of an official
character had been given tc the public
until the department of justice gave out
the statement that an immediate trial
was to be given the senattor. That is
the first official utterance indicating an
indictment was found. .
IMBUED WITH HOPE,
Portland Operators Far From Dis-
couraged Over Situation.
Portland, Aug. 23. There was noth
ing in the countenances of the little
group of telegraph operators gathered
in the strike headquarters at the Es
mond hotel last night that would indi
cate discouragement over the situation.
They discussed with earnestneesvaiious
phases of the progress of the strike.
They say:
"We have the wires tied up all over
the country in spite of reports to the
contrary. Why, if a man puts a mes
sage on the wire, say, at Chicago for a
coast point it is more than likely to go
up intq the air before fairly getting un
der way. He has no way to find out
whether it got started, even, or not.
"We have daily reports from the
chief officers in the East and letters in
every mail and can say that Portland
seems to have a better service today
than any place in the country, and you
know what we have here. The latest
we have from Chicago is the dispatch
received this evening stating that out
of the 1,700 operators in that city we
have not lost a man through desertion.
"We also hear that a strike has
taken effect among the strikebreakers
in that city. It seems that the com
pany makes no distinction between
first-class operators and novices in the
mattter cf pay." -
MANNING W'l L PROSECUTE.
District Attorney Will Investigate Fail
ure of Portland Bank.
Portland, Ann. 23. Two announce
ments stand out as the most important
developments yesterday in the Oregon
Trust & Savings bank failure: Dis
trict Attorney Manning's statement
that he would prosecute the officers and
directors of the bank if bis investiga
tions warranted such action, and Presi
dent W. H. Moore's assurance that the
bank's assets would be able to pay the
depositors dollar for dollar if he were
given reasonable time, unhampered by
criminal prosecution or Federal bank
ruptcy proceedings.
Sitting as a grand jury this morning,
District Attorney Manning will ( hear
the testimony of depositors who en
trusted funds to the Oregon Trust &
SavingB bank on Tuesday, the last day
of its existence. If this evidence shall
be that officials of the bank accepted
deposits after the institution was in
solvent, active prosecution will be
started and Mr. Manning promises to
land the guilty in the penitentiary.
A complaint has been made out for
the arrest of the officers of the bank
and a Tuesday depositor will sign the
oomplaint today, should Mr. Manning's
investigation prove the truth of the
accusations already made by late de
positors. Specimen for Mining Congress.
Joplin, Mo., Aug. 23. The produc
tion of lead and zino in the Missouri
Kansas district this vear will be larger
than ever before. Last year the pro
duction amounted to more than $15,
000,000. During the 32 weeks of this
year the district has produced almost
$12,000,000 worth, Great care is be
ing taken to get fine ore specimens for
the exhibit to the be made at the Amer
ican Mining congress which convenes
here in November. Recently a piece of
lead ore weighing 1,500 pounds was
hoisted from a mine at Granby, Mo.
Jews Yet to Conquer World.
The Hague, Aug. 23. The close to
day of the eighth International Zionist
congress, which has been in session in
this city since August 14, was marked
with gieat enthusiasm. Dr. David
Wolfz, of Cologne, delivered the clos
ing speech. He said, among other
things, that the Jewish people must
yet conquer the world.
WONDERFUL POWDER
United States Possess Secret ol
Deadly New Explosive.
CAN TEAR ANY SHIP TO PIECES
Dunnite Proves Superior to Shlmose.
With Which Japan Won Her
Great Naval Victories.
New York, Aug. 24. The Times to
day says:
"The experiments at the Sandy Hook
proving grounds with Dunnite, the high
explosive invented by Major Dunn, of
the Ordnance corps, U.13. A., have
proved that the United States possesses
in Dunnite the secret of an explosive
perhaps more powerful and destructive
than any other explosive ever invented.
"Dunnite, army officers say, is more
powerful than Shimose, the explosive
with which the Japanese did such ter
rific execution in the naval battles off
Port Arthur and Vladivostok and in the
Sea of Japan. Shimose ordnance offi
cers say the explosive is a compound of
picric acid, the secret of which is known
to the ordnance officers of all the first
class powers. On the other hand, the
secret of Dunnite is in the exclusive
possession of the United States govern
ment. "In the recent teBts of Dunnite at
Sandy Hook it is said that the very best
five and six-inch armor plates that
could be obtained were used as targets.
The result oi every shot was the same.
The armor plate was smashed into
thousands of small pieces, it is said, by
their impact. The impact of the Dun
nite is also all that is necessary to ac
complish the destruction of the target.
Penetration is not necessary, the impact
being such that the armor is shattered
into countless pieces.
"The droping of a Dunnite shell on
the deck of a battleship, it is said by
many ordnance officers, would mean the
immediate sinking of that ship, not by
penetration of its vital parts, but sim
ply by racking the vessel until her
seams opened and the inrush of water
sent her to the bottom. This, it ia said
by Borne ordnance officers, was the way
that the Japanese put the RusBian ship
out of commission. They would drop
the Shimose shells on the decks, and
the destructive Shimose did the rest.
SAILS NEXT DECEMBER.
Roosevelt Will Send Only Six Battle
ships to Pacific.
New York, Aug. 24. Secretary Loeb
announced tonight that a fleet of six
battleships will start for the Pacific
some time in December via the Straits
of Magellan, touching at San Francisco
also probably at Puget eound.
A destroyer flotilla will leave for the
Pacific about the same time, but will
not accompany the battleships.
This is the first positive announce
ment of the date when the battleship
fleet will sail for the Pacific coast. The
first announcement was made by Secre
tary of the Navy Metcalf on July 4, and
the details were given out the following
day, but the date of departure was only
given vaguely as some time in the fall.
It was stated in July that 16 battle
ships four cruisers and the gunboat
Yorktown would come through Magel
lan Straits, but the above dipatch says
only six battleships are coming. This
may be an error in transmission, which
it is impossible to have corrected in the
present condition of the telegraph' serv
ice. It is quite probable, however,
that the number six is correct and
that the number has been cut down,
either because the government thought
it unwise to so nearly denude the At
lantic coast of battleships or because it
was desired to deprive the movement of
any appearance of a hostile demonstra
tion against Japan.
Assuming that the fleet starts on its
voyage about the middle of December,
it should arrive at San Francisco about
the middle of February, 1908, as 60
days is considered ample time for the
voyage.
Sentence Postponed.
San Francisco, Aug; 24. John A.
Benson and Dr. Edward B. Perrin, con
victed by a jury in the United States
District court of conspiracy to defraud
the government in securing 1,200 acres
of land in Tehama county, were to have
been sentenced today by Judge De Ha
ven, but when the case was called at
torneys for the defense asked for time
in which to prepare a motion for a new
trial. The prosecution did not object,
and Judge De Haven granted a post
ponement of sentence until next Tues
day morning. ' ' .
Cholera Outbreak in China.
Berlin, Aug. 24. A Shanghai special
says that there is a cholera outbreak in
China, and several Europeans have suc
cumbed thereto. Preventive measures
have been adopted in the foreign quar
ter. Several Chinese and Japanese
towns are affected but a spread through
ocean steamers is regarded improbable.
GET ALONG WITHOUT ZIMMER.
Heney Produces Damaging Testimony
Against Louis Glass.
San Francises, Aug. 21. The break
ing of Franois J. Honey's automobile
yesterday morning delayed for nearly
half an hour the resumption of the trial
of Louis Glass for br'.bery. The assist
ant district attorney and Rudolph
Spreckels completed on foot their jour
ney to the court while Judge Law lor
and the jury waited.
John Krause, who was T. V. Halsey's
assistant in the alleged bribing of su
peivisors in behalf of the Pacific States
Telephone' Telegraph company, was
called. He told of approaching Super
visor ThomaR F. Lonergan, showing
him the company's plans, lunching him
and suggesting to him the "inadvisa
bility" of having a rival telephone sys
tem In this city.
Krause told of the visits of supervis
ors to an unfurnished suite of rooms in
the Mills building temporarily rented
by Halsey for the , purpose, as alleged
by the prosecution, of paying over bribe
money., Krause acted as doorkeeper
and admitted the supervisors one at a
time to an inner room, where Halsey
was.
With the announced intent of show
ing that Glass, acting as president of
the Pacific States company, during the
absence from this city of John I. Sabln,
in 1905, authorized the expenditure by
Halsey of moneys in Oakland to defeat
the Home Telephone company applica
tion for a franchise there, and that the
expenses of the investigation trip of the
Oakland city council to Los AngeleB in
that year were defrayed half and half
by the two telephone companies.
TO PREVENT INTERRUPTION.
Railway Telegraphers Send Man to
v Prevent Pulling of Plugs,
Portland, Aug. 21. Local features of
the telegraphers' strike yesterday were
the sending of A. O. Sinks, executive
member of the Oreder of Railway
Telegraphers, out on the Southern Pa
cific lines in Oregon to stop the pulling
of plugs and other interruption of serv
ice by railway telegraphers; the deser
tion of Mrs. L. I. Dolphin from the
strikers and her return to work at the
Postal office, and the partial reorganiza
tion of the messenger forcejat the West
ern Union office.
Despite these circumstances, striking
operators formerly employed by both
companies are standing firm and make
the statement that they are more con
fident bf winning now than at any time
since they walked out. It is said the
strikebreakers are being worn out by
the long strain and that the companies
are unable to get any competent opera
tors whatever.
Brokers' offices were silent yesterday,
not a telegraph key clicking in either
the offices of Overbeck & Cooke in the
Couch building, or Downing & Hopkins
in the Chamber of Commerce. Wire
trouble south of Ashland is ascribed as
the reason for the failure of the former
company to receive quotations, while
the latter is said to have refused the
fragmentary service offered, the firm
declining to carry on operations in the
present demoralized condition of the
stock maket without complete informa
tion of conditions in Chicago and Wall
street. Yesterday was the first day for
years that Portland people who dabbled
in stocks could not learn the state of
the market.
WARNS CHINA AGAINST JAPAN.
Diplomats Point Out Grave Danger of
Further Incursions.
Victoria, B. C, Aug. 21. Advices
from Pekin state that Prince Ching
is warning the Chinese government
of the menace of Japan. The interview
with Viscount Hayashi, minister of
foreign affairs for Japan at Seoul, in
which he pointed out that China should
take warning by Corea's fate lest some
strong nation be moved to imitate events
at Seoul and put her house in order,
has created a sensation among Chinese
officials. Chinese look with suspicion
on the Franco-Japanese agreement as
intended to cover aggression in China,
and officials have pointed out in memo
rials to the government that while Ja
pan's impenetration into Manchuria is
irrecoverable, any further incursion
should be prevented, even if foreign as
sistance were invited to exclude Japan.
Root Not In Sympathy.
Boston, Aug. 21. The Boston News
Bureau says: "Notwithstanding offi
cial denials, we have confirmatory ad
vices again warranting the publication
of the rumor that Elihu Root and Rob
ert Bacon are likely to retire from the
State department. They are not in
sympathy with the recently published
utterances of Attorney General Bona
parte, which appear to reflect the desire
of the administration to use the power
of the government to punish individuals
rather than to secure th enforcement
of the law."
Arbitrate Fisheries Dispute.
London, Aug. 21. Great Britain has
accepted the proposition of the United
States to submit the Newfoundland
fisheries dispute to arbitration by The
Hague tribunal. Meanwhile the mo
dus Vivendi will continue the same as
last year.
GOLD DUST STOLEN
$45,000 In Alaska Malls Disap
pears Without Clew,
THIRD THEFT WITHIN A MONTH
Miners Ship Dust by Mall to Avoid
Excessive Tariff Charged by
Express Companies.
Seattle, WaBh., Aug. 22. A Fair
banks, Alaska, special says: What is
believed to be the biggest plot for rob
bing the United States malls ever dis
covered is now in operation in Alaska.
Only yesterday word was received from
the const that the third pouch missing
in a month had been reported at Skag
way. The sack contained $45,000 in
gold dust addressed to Soattle banks.
Postoflice inspectors already in the
North working on the two former rob
beries have taken up the latest loss.
It is almost certain that the sacks we re
stolen while in transit on the Yukon
river boats plying between this point
and Dawson. Several men are under
suspicion but no arrests have been
made. Reliable clews are scarce.
Ever since gold dust shippers have
decided to use the malls for sending out
their metal, instead of patronizing the
express companies, as they previously
did, because of the increased tariff,
the present trouble has existed. It will
necessitate the employment of guarda
by the government to watch the gold
shipments. As they have been prac
tically unguarded up to date, robberies
have been easy and it is believed that
the thefts have resulted from syste
matic operations of bandits working
with well-laid plans.
PORTLAND BANK FAILS.
Unable to Meet Obligations and Is
Forced Into Receivership.
Portland, Aug. 22. The Oregon
Trust & Savings bank closed its doors
yesterday. Its liabilities were $2,653,
927.35. The value of assets depends
upon what disposition can be made oi
the bank's holdings of Independent tel
ephone bonds, which aggregated about
$1,300,000. '
President Walter H. Mpore, of the?
bankrupt institution, said last night;
that some assets not counted upon
when the bank closed its doors have
been found, and he hopes to pay every
depositor eventually in full. For ex
ample, the lease on the corner of Sixths
and Washington streets is estimated to
be worth $50,000, and the fixtures of
the bank, including the safety deposit
vaults in the rear of the building, are
valued at a like sum. This makes an
additional $100,000, which was not
counted upon when it was decided tc
close the bank's doors.
SEEK OTHER WORK.
Striking Telegraph Operators In Port
land Prepare for Siege.
Portland, Aug. 22. Striking tele
graph operators in Portland are scatter-'
ing in many different directions and
are taking up other lines of wcrk. The
majority of those who went on strike
have either left the city or have secured
positions away from a telegraph key.
Many will go to the hop fields, while
others are away on vacations.
The men expect the strike to continue
for some time, but they express confi
dence in the outcome and are standing
firm. The watchword is "stick," at
union headquarters. The strikers say
the, Western Union is out $1,000,000 a
day in excess of its usual expenses
while the strike lasts, and the men be
lieve they will win, no matter how long;
the telegraph companies resist the de
mands for the concessions sought.
Messenger boys on strike against the
Western Union held a meeting yester
day and some broached the matter of
going back to work. This was firmly
opposed and upon a ' vote being taken,
the poll showed 15 to 3 in favor of
staying out. '
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Sell Gems at Auction.
New York, Aug. 22. The announce-"
ment was made today that almost all
the diamonds belonging to the estate of
the late widow of Leland Stanford have
been auietlv dlsDosed of and thn nrn-
ceeds will be devoted to Stanford uni
versity in compliance with the owner's;
will. The sale was held at, thn whnln.
sale house, Lonon, under the supervi
sion of a committee. It is said only
$350,000 was realized, althnnch e-s-norta
appraised the gems at half a million.
ana regaraea tnem as especially valua-
Die, ana nave interesting histories.
Stole Money Orders In Chicago.
Syracuse, N. Y.. Auir. 22 Julius F.
Eller was arrested today for return to
Alamosa, Colorado, where it is alleged
he stole $2,000 in money orders from
the Rio Grande railroad. , Eller dn-
clares he was duped by a friend and got
none oi tne plunder.