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About Lexington wheatfield. (Lexington, Or.) 1905-19?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 5, 1907)
LEXIHGTOS WHE1TFIELD S.A. THOMAS LEXINGTON OREGON NEWS OFTHE WEEK Id a Condensed Form lor Our Busy Headers, A Resume of the Less Important but Not Less Interesting Events of the Past Week. A Chicago labor leader is accused - of grafting. Central Americana welcome Roose velt and Diaz as peacemakers. The government may ask for a receiv ership for the Harriman roads. A railroad ia projected from the northern part of Nebraska to the gull Senator Warren, of Wyoming, says the West wants to renominate Roose velt. All railroads in the Northwest are granting a nine-hour day in machine shops. A greater rush of homeseekers to the Northwest is predicted for September than ever before. Elevator companies in Minnesota owned by farmers are to be merged for mutual protection. The government will need 125,000 tons of coal to carry the battleship fleet into Pacific waters. Prince Wilhelm, heir to the Swedish throne, is thoroughly enjoying his visit to the United States. i The kaiser is anxious to have his only daughter wed Prince Leopold, son of Prince Henry, of Battenberg. Portland commercial bodies and the . Oregon representatives in congress are working to have the battleship fleet visit Portland. The new sultan of Morocco is mak ing many changes in his foreign minis ters. A large number of prisoners have also been liberated. Los Angeles councilmen are consider ing a measure which would provide against the invasion cf indigent tuber cular patients shipped from outeide points in hopeless condition. Nelson Msrris, millionaire packer of Chicago, is dead. Four girls were burned to death in a fire at Oklahoma City. The Moors have again attacked the French, but were defeated. . " Costa Rica has established a quaran tine against all vessels from. Cuban ports. The Wells-Fargo Express company is moving into its new 12-story building at Portland. Cannon says that he is not a candi date for president ; that he has more important work to do. ' Many battleships of the Atlantic fleet cannot enter Puget Sound because the water 1b too deep to anchor in. In an address at Los Angeles K. Ishii, of the Japanese foreign office, said talk of war between Japan and the United States is ridiculous. There is no sign of yielding in the telegraphers' Etrike. Reports say many of the strike breakers are about to desert and oin the men already out. Mulay Ha fig is leading a great army of Moors against the French. v , A German has perfected a new air ship which gives good success. Venezuela is defiant against America and Roosevelt may call on congress to act. An American judge in China takes Chinamen's word against that of Amer icans. The Union Pacific is again experi menting with motor cars at its Omaha shops. Garfield is back in Washington from a 10,C00-mJle trip, principally through the West. He has planned many re forms. There is a small army of detectives in Berlin watching noted anarchists at tending the congress. Emma Gold man is one of the delegates from the United States. The Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis rail road has taken off part of its trains and will run others as mixed passenger and freight on account of the two-cent pas senger rate law. - A train on the Southern railway was wrecked near Charlottsville, Va., and 21 persons injured. Every car over turned and great loss of life was only averted by the slow speed at which the train was running. The Chinese legation at Paris denies that the dowager empress is seriously 111. Japanese have siied the city of San Francisco lor $2,575 damages on ac count of the restaurant wrecked by a mob. JAPAN WILL NOT FIQHT. Luke Wright Says She Has No Money lor Gigantic War. Seattle. Wash,. Aug. 30. Luke E Wright, ex-ambassador to Japan and prior to that governor of the Philip pines, returned . to this country today on the steamer Minnesota. Speaking of Japaneee conditions, Mr. Wright said: "There will be no war between this country and Japan. In the first place I do not believe that Japan is able financially to wage such a war as a con flict with America would invelve. Be sides, it is a fact that the Japanese gov eminent is sincerely in favor of peace and will bend every effort lo keep the relations between the two governments amicable. "I hope nothing will happen that would induce this government to con sider giving up possession of the Philip Dines. We must retain those islands and develop them as they are capable of being developed. Furthermore, we need them to strengthen our trade re la tions with the Orient." ITO'S REFORM PLAN. Would Get Greater Revenue From Cores Out of Land. Tokio, Aug. 29. An important state council which was to have been held today has been postponed until Friday, owing to the fact that some of the min isters and elder statesmen from out of town have been detained on account of the recent flood and consequent damages to the railways. The council has been specially called to consider Marquis Ito's plan of Corean policy, necessitated by the new relations established by the last convention between Corea and Japan. The details of Marquis Itos plans are unknown, but the fundamental points are believed to consist in effecting a thorough reform ia the' land system, which is now in a chaotic condition, and also the-establishing of a new sys tem of judiciary and police on the Jap anese plan. These measures will naturally be considerable of a drain on the Japanese treasury. It is thought that Marquis Ito plans to ask an extra annual outlay of a little over 1,000,000 yen for a period of five years. Scared Foreigners Flee.' Pittsburg, Aug. 30. With their houses slipping and creaking and win dows breaking, several hundred for eigners have deserted their homes at Port Yue, a suburb, fearing death in a landslide which threatens to bury Scott street and 25 dwellings. The trouble is caused by the digging of a new rail road cut 100 yards below. The earth between the cut and the hillside where the houses stand is underlaid by a soft shale soapstone, and the whole mass is slowly moving towards the cut. The past 24 hours 100 yards of Scott street dropped 30 feet below its original level. Anarchy Rules French Navy. Paris, Aug. 30. A full report of the senatorial commission on the explosion March 12 at Toulon, which destroyed the battleship lena, just published, charges that the disaster is directly traceable to irresponsibility, general indifference and lack of harmoy pre vailing in the navy. The report de mands the inauguration cf several re forms, and says that the various branch es of the naval service are divided by jealousy and there is no superior au thority. Each branch works apart, re sulting in a state of ansreby. Want American Education. Seattle, Wash., Aug. 30. Tactai Wan, a mandarin of the second rank, came to Seattle today on the Hill liner Minnesota in charge of a party of ten young men and six young women, pick ed by the Chinese government for edu cation in this country. The girls will be taken by the mandarin to Wellesley for a five year course of training and the young men are to enter Yale and Columbia universities. Some will be graduated as engineers and the others given a preliminary training for diplo matic missions. Oppose Anti-Japanese Agitation. Boston, Aug. 30. The Boston cham ber of commerce today adopted resolu tions deprecating agitation as tending to call forth all feelings between the United States and Japan. It declared opposition to any legislation intended to discriminate against Japan or her citizens. Will Trap Hostile Moors. CasaBlanca. Ausr.30. General Drude has decided to dispach a portion of the French force five miles south to endeav or tojjtrap the Moors. The preliminary trials of 60 prisoners charged with as sassination, pillage and connivance with hostile Moors has begun. , Sultan May Be Killed. London. Aua. 30. The T.norl respondent of the Tribnnn tfilptrrnnha under reserve that there is a Tumor that Sultan Abdul Aziz has been assassinat ed in the palace at Fez. Mazagan Acclaims New Sultan. Tangier, Aub. 30. It is announced that the sultan's brother has been ac claimed sultan by the entire population of Mazagan. BRIDGE COLLAPSES Scores of Workmen Thrown Into St. Lawrence River. DEATHS REACH AT LEAST SIXTY Structure Near Quebec Was Mile and Half Long, and Half of It Fell Without Warning. Quebec, Aug. 31. A section of the new bridge across the St. Lawrence river, five miles below this city, col lapsed late yesterday, carrying scores of bridge workmen and mechanics into the water. It is estimated that the loss of life is at least 60, and may exceed that number by 20. The bridge was about a mile and a half long and half of it, from the Bouth shore to midstream, crumpled up and dropped into the water, Junety men were at work on this section of the structure, 'and the whistle jiadblown at o:S0 lor them to quit work for the day, when there came a sudden grinding sound from the bridge midstream. The men turned to see what had hap pened, and an instant later the cry went up: "The bridge is falling." The men made a rush shoreward, but the distance was too great for them to escape. The falling section of the bridge dragged others after it. The snapping girders and cables boomed like a crash of artillery. Terror lent fleetness to the feet cf the frightened workmen as they sped shoreward, but only a few of them reached safety before the last piece of iron wcrk on the south shore was dragged into the river. bear the shore the wreckage of the bridge did not go below the Burface cf the water and eight workmen who re mained above water were rescued and taken to the hospital at Levis. Ine steamer Glenmont had just cleared the bridge when the first sec tion fell. The water thrown up by the debris came clear over the bridge of the steamer. The captain at once ordered out all the small boats. They plied backward and forward for half an hour. but there was no sign of life. The Quebec bridge was begun about seven years ago, and was to have been finished in 1909. Subsidies had been granted by the Federal and Provincial governments and the city of Quebec, and the-, estimated cost for work was 110,000.000. The Phoenixville Bridge company, of Pennsylvania, had the contract for the construction of the bridge. STRAW COMPANY FORMED. Organized by Pacific States Concern to Keep Out Rival. San Francisco, Aug. 30. The task of showing that the Pacific States Tele phone & Telegraph company in 1905 sought to prevent the entrance into Oakland of the Home Telephone com pany by organizing a "straw" Home Telephone compaoy and obtaining for it a franchise was resumed ht the con tinuation of the Glass bribery trial yesterday. William A. Beasly, an at torney of San Jose, testified that he had bid in the franchise and furnished a surety bond of $2,600 to the Oakland council, and then bad signed and de livered through Halsey all of his stock holdings in the "straw" company to E. J. Zimmer who at that time was auditor of the Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph company. Subsequently the scheme was abandoned and Zimmer went to the clerk of the Oakland coun cil and caused the franchise to be for feited and the bond released. He re ceived for bis services $100 a month and about $11 ,000 for expenses. Delmas elicted from the witness the statement that the legal papers con nected with the attempts of the tele phono company to suppress opposition had been prepared by the legal depart ment of the company presided over by Mr. Pillsbury, who on the stand swore that this work had been solely under the direction of Glass. New Call for Arbitration. Salt Lake City, August 31. The Commercial club of Salt Lake City to day passed and through its committer on arbitration telegraphed to President Roosevelt, the presidents of both the big telegraph companies, the president of the Commercial Telegraphers' union and over 50 commercial clubs in various parts of the country a resolution urging that the differences between the com panies and their striking operators be submitted to arbitration. The good offices of the local commercial club to this end were tendered. Enjoins New Rates to Creameries Chicaso. Ancr. SI .Judge Kohlsatt. In the Federal court, on complaint of 14 creamery concerns of the Middle West, temporarily enjoined 14 West ern railroads and five express compan ies from OHtahlinhlnff. fientamher 1. new rates for transporting milk and ouirer. EVIDENCE PILES UP. San Francisco Supervisors Bribed by Telephone Company. San Francisco, Aug. 28. Secretary Treasurer F. W. Eaton, of the Paoillc States Telophone & Telegraph company, was called to the stand yesterday by the prosecution in the cuse of the Glass bribery trial. He testified again to the drawing by him of about $50,000 worth of checks in February of 1900 for which no vouchers were turned in. He did not know who ordered the checks drawn or who signed them. The re cords thereof were destroyed in the fire. Cashier William J. Kennedy was called. He testified to the drawing of $10,000 and $5,000 checks in February, and told of the subsequent return to the company of $7,000 or $7,600 in ferentially comprising the bribe mon eys relumed by several supervisors on demand of Halsey, after the granting of the Home Telephone company's fran chise application, according to the claim of the prosecution. Mr. Heney introduced memoranda from five local banks showing the with drawal of approximately $50,000 in February, corresponding to the total amount alleged to have been paid to the supenyisora at that time. Thomas E. Sherwin, formerly traveling auditor ef the telephone company, testified to a similar $50,000 entry on the books of the corporation, which he was auditing when they were destroyed in the the. JUDGES FOR HAGUE COURT. United States Proposes the Allotment Among Nations. The Hague, Aug. 28. The United States delegation announces its willing ness for all countries on the American continent, including the United States, to have four judges of the new interna tional court appointed for the 21 coun tries of this continent, on the under standing that thiv reduces the number of judges to 15. It is understood that the Americans hope Asia will be allot ted two judges and Eurone nine. The examining committee has com pleted the first reading of the revised version of th3 American permanent tri bunal proposition. Mr. Choate ex plained some doubtful jurisdictional points. The Mexicaa delegation an nounced that it opposed the court be cause it is impossible to secure equality for all countries in the appointment of judges. Ruy Barboso, of Brazil, made a long speech in which he protested against the appointment of judges as projected in tne American proposition. He in sisted that this question must be settled in a manner which fully recognized the equality of the powers. The meeting was then adjourned until September 2. TREELESS IN TEN YEARS. Secretary Wilson Predicts Future Un less Forests Are Saved. Chicago, Aug. 28. Secietary of Agri culture James Wilson, who was in Chi cago today on his way to Washington after inspecting the government forest preserves in the West, declared that if better care, more general propagation and a fostering of conditions are not ob served, the forests of the country will practically be wiped out in len years. "Forest fires," he said, "should be guarded against, and for that protection the government has employed thous ands of, men to watch for fires. A per son can ride for miles through Michi gan, Wisconsin and Minnesota and see barren sections where formerly grew great pine forests. Fires have wiped out millions and, millions of dollars worth of the best of hardwood. . "President Roosevelt has done much for the preservation of the forests. He has added more than 160,000,000 acres to the forestry reserves and would have made more had not the last congress cut him down. He appreciates more than many private citizens the great worth ol our forests. The East is de pendent entirely upon our Western for ests for its best timber." Bomb Sent to Cortelyou. Philadelphia,, Aug. 28. The. ex plosion of what appears to have been a large percusion cap in a package ad dressed to the secretary of the treasury, George Cortelyou, created excitement in Nicetown, a substation of the Phila delphia postofrice, today. The box, which was collected from a box in the northern section of the city, was re ceived by Mr. Roberta, a clerk, who says it was four inches long by two inches wide. What was inside the package, aside from the explosive, the officials will not say. Big Fire in Frisco. San Francisco, Aug. 28. The book and printing establishment of John B. McNicholl, at 615 Sansome street, was totally destroyed by fire last night. The firms of Bacigalupi Rossi & Co. and Main & Winchester, adjoining on San scme street, also suffered sever p v. nn did Greenwood, Heise & Co. and H. Rothenberg, on the Washington street side. The total Iobs is estmiated at $60,000. . Europeans Leave Capital, Fez, Morocco, Aug. 28. The Euro pean residents of Fez, excepting the Germans, left here yesterday for El Aralsh. They were escorted by troops. STRIKERSFORM MOB Drive Wisconsin Telegraph Op erator From Ills Key, OFFICE IS SACKED AND CLOSED Western Union Office and Records at Arkansas City, Kan., Burned by Firebugs. Chicago, Aug. 29. Attacked by a mob of striking telegraph operator, John Laux, a non-union operutor In charge of the Postal company's office in Waukegan, Wis., was forced to leave his key yesterday and flee for his lifu. Thb office was closed last night. When the strike ordor was issued Mr. Laux refused to walk out. He was visited Tuesday by a committee of strikers from Chicago and urged to join ia the fight against the companies, but he refused. Yesterday a large crowd of strikers went to Waukegan and pro ceeded to the office. As it entered Mr. Laux escaped through a rear door and hid under a barn, where he remained for several hours while the strikers searched for him. Telegraph blanks and others papers were torn up and thrown around the office and the strik ers completed the job by nailing a big sign across the door with the word "scab" printed on it in large letters, The Western Union office in Waupke gan is closed, the operator having quit when the strike was ordered. In spite of the efforts of the telegraph companies to discover the men who are tamperingwith the telegraph wires, mere trouble was experienced last night than at any time since the strike began. There is practially no trouble in send ing messages East from Chicago, but the service to the Pacific coast and to the Southwest is uncertain. "If the telegraph companies got com petent operators they would have less trouble with their wires," said Secre tary Wesley Russell. "We know of a dozen cases where incompetent oper ators have burned out the wires." - At the offices of both telegraph com panies the usual information was given that all business was being handled promptly. Dispatches from Arkansas City, Kan., today stated that the Western Union office there was completely destroyed by fire. All the records, furniture and instruments were destroyed and the lo cal authorities say the fire was of in cendiary origin. LUKENS IS WITNESS. Subjectes to Severe Examination In Glass Bribery Trial. San Francisco, Aug. 29. State Sen ator Russell Lukens was a witness yes terday in the trial of Louis Glass tfor bribery and was subjected by Assistant District Attorney Heney to an examin ation which could not have been more severe had he been placed on the stand by the other side. Senator Lukens was preceded in the witness chair by Benjamin A. Pendle ton and Eugene T. Thurston, Jr., who were members of the city council of Oakland in the fall of 1905 when the Home Telephone company was seeking a rival franchise in that city against the efforts of the Pacific States com pany to maintain its monopoly. Mr. Pendleton and Mr. Thurston tes tified to hospitalities extended to them by Agent Halsey, of the old company, and by Lukens, who was in ita employ ment as a lawyer, but no testimony was forthcoming of any Improper offers being made to them. The prosecution will conclude today. Deep Enough, but Not Too Deep. Seattle, Wash., Aug. 29. The state-' ment contained in yesterday's dispatch es from Washington that most of the water for anchorage in Puget sound is more than 60 fathoms and that hence all of the naval vessels coming to the coast cannot be accommodated here has called forth theprotestof SenatorfcPiles, members of the chamber of commerce and others. They point out that tho government charts show the harbor at Bremerton and vicinity has an average depth of about seven fathoms, with an extreme depth of 24 fathoms. V I 1 Cleveland Is Very III. New York. Aub. 29. It is announced that Grover Cleveland has amain been attacked by acute Indigestion, and has consequently relinquished his idea of visiting his summer home in New Hampshire. Mrs. Cleveland has re turned to Princeton from New Hamp shire with their children. "