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NEWS OF THE YEEK
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EAFFEKIXGS CF HO CONTINENTS
A Rstum) of tht Lst Important but
Not Lata Interesting Events
of th Past W.
The Ituasian strike Iihm spread to
nearly rvrry town of importance In the
empire.
The ! m locomotive work, at
Patermm, N, J., have Wn Bold to the
American I.ocomotlve company.
Meeting throughout Germany de
nounced the 'il mine owner, but
they rrfiwe to yield to the striker.
Father Gopun, ladcr o( the Hi.
Petersburg strikers, ha lMued a proc
lamation ahaolvlng soldier from oath
of allegiance to the war.
Tlie bllla providing dental urgHin
for the navy and to increase the tll
rienry of the navy huftpital rorp will
In reported favorably to the houae.
, B. J. Yoakum, a director of the Rock
Island road, haa bought the (Colorado
Hpring A Cripple Crwk district rail
road, which rum between Colorado
Coring and Cripple Crtnl,
A. ti. Chaplin, fl reman, wa killed,
and aeveral paMuhgvr were Injured in
wreck of an I llinoia Terminal railroad
train near AlU.n, 111. A ear contain
ing 30 passenger turned over.
The aupreme rourt$ of Hawaii baa
decided that ail nil lea of the trans
I'M'iflc cable, which lira within the
three-mile limit Mow low water mark,
in taxable, and value It at $1(1,000.
A new French cabinet hat been
formed by Houvler.
All printing worka in St. Petersburg
art cloned ami no newapaers art being
; laaued. , .....
Expert examining the Ienver bal
Iota 1 declare one-third of them are
fraudulent.
T. J. O'lirien, of Grand Rapids,
Mich., haa accpt-ted an offer to become
minister to Denmark.
The senate will confirm the nomina
tion of T. C. Powell, of Portland, to be
tnaralial at Nome, Alaska.
Tlie Oregon delegation ia confident
of a amall appropriation with which to
begin work on the Celilo canal.
A Ruftxlan admiral who waa in Tort
Arthur w hen it aurrendcred denounce
General Stoel aa incapable and the
eilr render aa a disgrace.
Four publishers of large St. Peters
burg paxra declare their intention to
iaaue their papera ao aoon aa men can
lie secured, in defiance of the conaor
orders.
The California legislator haa appro
priated $70,000 for the tawia and Clark
fair. Already $20,000 haa been given
, and with thia last aum that atate ii
ure of a fine ahowlng at Portland thia
year.
It ia now regarded aa certain that
there will be no atrike of the employea
of the Pennsylvania railroad.
Four Americana and one Mexican
were ambuahed and killed by Yaqul
Indiana So milea eaat of Ia Colorado,
etata of Sonora, Mexico. Mexican cav
alry ban been ordered to the ecene to
capture the Indiana.
It ia claimed that the government
officials investigating he Oregon land
f rauda have unearthed a deal in which
Mitchell, Hermann and Maya were im
plicated by which the government
would have been roblied of .100,000
acrea in Southwestern Oregon through
'Middle Oregon. The profita of the
deal would have been $500,000.
The'principal cause of the outbreak
of Russian workingmen is the ruinous
monetary burdens borne by the people.
The main items are: National debt.
$3,600,000,000; annual interest on
debt, $80,000,000; expended on Siberi
an and Manchurian roads, $1,500,000,
000; taxes paid by peasants In 1900,
-60,000,000; loss by industrial depres
. ion In three years, $300,000,000; war
loss to date, $400,000,000. There are
100,000,000 Russian peasants and the
average dally earnings of each is 8 to 9
-cents.
The City Savings Fund A Trust com
pany's bank, of Iancoster, Pa., has
closed down with deposits of about $1,
000,000. , ,
Williams, of Mississippi, may resign
a Democratic leader in the house,
The Baltic fleet is not expected to
reach the scat of war for three months.
Senator Mitchell, it is said, will
come home and demand a speedy trial.
The United fltates may use force
against Venezuela In the -asphalt dia
lute. , 1
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DOINGS IN CONQRESS.
Wednesday, January 18.
The houae today adopted the 12 arti
cle) of Impeachment against Judge
Charlea Swayne. The speaker was au
thorlaed to appoint membera to present
the raae to the aenate and conduct the
impeachment proceeding before that
body.
Senator Stone occupied considerable
time with hla speech asking an investi
gation of the campaigns of 1898 and
1004, Clay spoke In opposition to the
statehood bill. Ha bad no objection
to the consolidation of Oklahoma
and Indian Territory.
Thursday, January 19.
The houae of repreaentativea today
completed consideration of the army
appropriation bill and will vote on it
tomorrow. A vlgoroua attack waa
made on the army transport service
by Humphrey and offered an amend
ment aliollahlng it. The house filed
Friday, February 17, aa the date for
holding appropriate exercinea in Stat
uary hall accepting the statue of Fran
ces K. Willard. A bill waa paused ex
tending the extradition laws of the
United Statea to the Philippine.
Consideration of the statehood bill
waa continued in the senate today and
Stone spoke for two hour in oppoaitlon
to it. The bill for the remuneration of
American fur aealer who aufferd loam
because of their suppression, waa also
debated at some length, but no action
waa taken.
Friday, Jan. 20.
The atatehood bill and the fur seal
indemnity bill again divided the atten
tion of the senate today, and both went
over without action. Fulton tpoke in
support of the indemnity bill, and Mc
Creary and -Bate in opposition to the
atatehood measure.
Immediately after the senate was
called to older President Pro Tern Frye
laid before it a telegram from the gov
ernor of New Mexico, transmitting a
memorial adopted by the legislature of
that territory protesting against the
union of New Mexico and Arizona in
one state, and urging the admission of
New Mexico aa a , atate according to
present boundaries.
The houae panned the army appro
priation bill. "The Indian : appropria
tion bill waa considered for the re
mainder of the day. but waa not con
eluded when the houae adjourned until
tomorrow,
Monday, January 23.
The scetion of the house today waa
devoted entirely to the consideration of
bills relating to the District of Colum
bla. Severval efforts were made to take
official notice of the rioting in St.
Petersburg, but they were ail turned
uown.
lk'veridge made another ineffectual
effort in the senate to have a time fixed
for voting on the atatehood bill. The
fortifications appropriations bill was
panned. A joint resolution appropiat
ing $7,000 to pay the necessary ex
penacs of the inaugual ceremonies was
paused.
Tuesday, January 24.
The senate todav organized as a high
court to try the imcachment charges
against Judge Swayne. Piatt, of Con
necticut, waa elected to preside at the
trial sessions, further proceedings
were postponed until Friday , when
Judge Swayne is expected to appear be
fore the bar of the senate. - The Phil
ippine railroad bill was passed. , Much
time was consumed in discussion of
various mcasura pending. One senator
wanted to admit each of the four terri
tories included In the joint statehood
bill as a state.
The District of Columbia appropria
tion bill again occupied the attention
of the house today. An amendment to
increase the salaries of all school ofn
cials and teachers precipitated a long
debate. It wos finally ruled out of
order and other amendments taken up.
At 4:15, when the house adjourned,
nothing had been accomplished.
'many lost in flood.
Reports From Arizona Deluge Only
Begin to Come In.
El Paso, Tex., Jan. 20. Information
comes from Clifton, Ariz., that five
lx)dies have been recovered since the
flood there last week, and that others
are still entangled with the drift. But
two of the five bodies already recovered
have been identified. They are John
Hunt and Jesus Romeo.
Persons are hourly being rejwrted
missing and it is impossible to deter
mine how many have perished in the
flood.
Three, Train$ In a Wreck.
London, Jan. 21. -An alarming col
lislon in which three trains were in
volved, including two Scotch expresses,
occurred on the Midland railway near
Barnsley today. Four passengers and
two railway men were killed, and
score were injured, of which seven were
seriously hurt. The accident occurred
in a fog, the third train crashing into
the wreckage resulting from the first
collision. The cars of one of the
Scotch expresses hurst into flames,
and soon was ablaze from end ' to
end. '
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
IN THE LEGISLATURE.
Salem, Jan. 18. The right of the
people to exercise the referendum pow
er ia to be protected by Governor
Chamberlain and notice to thia effect
waa today served upon the two houae
of the legialaturt. In a special mee-
aage the governor told the member in
plain language that they are attaching
emergency clauat to many tneaaorea
which are not designed to meet real
emergencies and that he will feel
bound to disapprove such bills if passed
In that form.
Seventeen bills were passed by the
senate, all of minor importance except
ing to the localities directly interested,
being mostly changes in city charters.
Aiming the new measure introduced
were: To raise the salary of the assist
ant warden of tlie penitetiary from
f'.HM) to $1,200; to amend general road
laws; to make it unlawful to shoot
from or upon any public road; to de
fine right of riparian owners fronting
on the Columbia river; to provide for
forming of dyking districts.
The senate defeated the house joint
resolution asking congress to call a
constitutional convention for the pur
pose of adopting an amendment provld-
ng for election of United States sen
ator by direct vote of the people.
Three bill passed the house today,
follows: To extend the Bancroft
bonding act for sewer and street im
provement to all incorporated towns;
to empower corporations to act as ad
ministrators, executors, receivers,
guardians and trustees; to authorize
county courts to appropriate land for
road purpses.
Twenty-seven new bills were read
for the first time in the house.
The first large appropriation bill ap
peared in the houae toIay carrying
$133,147.42, of which $47,000 i to
cover deficiencies, $50,000 the expense
of the present legislative session and
$35,881.31 for meeting unpaid scalp
bounties.
Salem, Jan. 19. Thirteen senate
bills and two house bills were passed
by the house today, among them were;
To establish a Third Eastern Oregon
District Agricultural society ; to estab
lish county and city boards of health;
to require teacher in public schools
to give 30 days notice of intention to
quit; to fix the fees to be charged by
county recorders.
A bill was introduced to take the
appointment of fish warden from the
board composed of the governor, secre
tary of atate and state teasurer and give
it to the governor. A similar bill will
bo introduced in the house tomorrow.
Among the other new measures were:
To amend the code so aa to change the
name of the Estate Krfornr school ; for
state conventions of county school su
perintendent; to compel attendance
of children at school; requiring all en
trances to saloons to be in the front or
most conspicuous place, to abolish all
state normal school) except one; to-
provide for creation of bureau of mines;
to protect . railroad companies from
ticket scalping and requiring railroad
companies to redeem unused tickets.
Twelve bills passed the house today,
four of them municipal charters.
Seventeen new bill were introduced,
among them being: Amending law as
to upport of poor; to exempt certain
mining corporation from Eddy license
tax; for holding agricultural institutes
and appropriating money therefore.
The bill raising the age of consent
from 16 to 18 year wo brought up in
the senate today and made a Bpecial
order for 11 o'clock tomorrow. Many
senators and representatives favor the
measure and it is believed it will pass
both houses.
Salem, Jan. 20. Two bills designed
to lie in the interest of laborers were
defeated in the senate today by indefi
nite poHtponement. One of these pro
posed extending to all occupations the
provisions of the employers' liability
act, applying only to railroads. The
other was to raise from $5,000 to $10,
000 the maximum limit of damages
that may be recovered for injuries caus
ing the death of any persons. Eight
bills were passed by the senate and
seven new ones introduced. One of the
new measures appropriate $25,000 for
the operation of the portage road and
another ia for the employment of, con
vict labor on public roads.
The fiercest fight in the legislature
will be waxed over' the proposed cre
ation of three new counties in Eastern
Oregon, The new counties proposed
are Cascade, with Hood River as its
county seat; Nesmith, with Antelope
Willamettea Display at Fair.
Willamette University, Salem Dean
W. C. Ilawley haa been given charge of
the arrangements for an. exhibit of
Willamette university at the Lewis and
Clark air and is arranging one along
novel lines, the idea being graphically
to illustrate the pioneer history of the
school. Willamette is the oldest edu
cational institution west of the Mis
souri river. Professor Ilawley viBited
St. Louis this summer and made a spe
cial Study of the educational exhibit at
the Louisiana Purchase exposition in
order to get ideas. '
aa its county teat, and Hot Lake, w ith
Union a it county seat. All three
proposed countie had lobbie working
all H-k and were opposed by coanter
1'ibbie from Wasco, Crook and Union.
Five bill were passed by the bouse.
On provided for an appropriation of
$15,000 for aalmon hatcheries and an
other fixed the time for the Lewi and
Clark fair from June 1 to October 15,
1905.
Nine bill have beea pasaed by both
houses, 33 by the senate only and' aix
by the bouse only. In the senate 143
Mils have been introduced and in the
house 227,
Both house adjuorned until Monday.
Salem, Jan. 23. Three charter
amendment bills were passed by the
senate today and a bill protecting wild
fowl.
Thirteen new measures were intro
duced. One of them was to provide for
the publication of special law and an
other to provide a state board of con
trol.
It seems unlikely that any of the
normal schools will be discontinued.
The appropriation asked for theee in
stitutions will axzrecate $221,000.
This would be an enormous increase
over the appropriation of 1903, hen
the total appropriation were but $88,-
000.
Five bill passed the house today-
one to regulate the sale of fertilizers,
one to provide a penalty for casting
sawdust and other waste lumber into
streams, one to require sheriff to
keep a record of addresses of taxpayers
on the stub of tax receipts, one to cure
defects in deed and judicial sales of
executors and one to provide that title
sliall not descend to the heirs of a de
ceased trustee or executor. All five
bills were passed without opposition.
Among the 18 new bill waa one to
amend code on child labor, one 1o
create board of internal commerce com
missioners and making appropriation
of $25,000 for Improvement of Willan
ette river, and one to provide better
mnhod of collecting poll tax.
Salem, Jan. 24. Of the 24 bills
passed by the hosue today only one en
countered opposition that for the cre
ation of a state library commission
The secretary of this commission is to
receive $1,200 a year and traveling ex
penses. The bill creating the Eighth
(Baker county) and Tenth (Union and
Wallowa) judicial districts were among
those passed.
The senate held only a very short
session today, adjourning at 11 :15 until
tomorrow at 10. Besides disposing of
all the senate business on hand, the
senate received a few house bills and
referred from that branch to the vari
ous committee.' The senators spent
the afternoon on committee work.
Half a dozen bills have been intro
duced at this session for the creation of
a mining bureau, but it ' is doubtful
whether any of them will become laws.
The creation oi a Lewis and Clark
county is a new proposal before the
legislature. The new county is to be
the northern half of Grant, except
narrow strip along the eastern side1,
and make Long Creek the county seat'.
The intention is to eventually take in
a strip of Baker also.
Waaco Farm Sells for $8,000.
The Dalles Thomas Lea bo has
bought the Ed. Harriman farm, of 520
acre on Eight Mile creek, south of The
Dallee, for $8,000. The tract contains
about 150 acrea of tillable' land, the re
mainder being pasture. The sale is
considered one of the best that has been
made in the county for some time, and
is an evidence of the advance in the
price of Wasco county lands.
Briggs Find is Under Mortgage.
Grants Pass A mortgage for $140,
000 has been given on the famous Briggs
claims, of Upper Sucker creek, the
scene of the $40,000 strike last sum
mer. The mortgage is given by David
Briggs, lowner fo the claims. The
mortgage is taken by E. F. Staples, of
Ashland. Ihe two chums designated
in the mortgage are the "Wounded
Buck" and the "Pay Streak." The
claims are located Bide by side, and
range directly oh the contact of por
phyry and granite on which the rich
surface strike was made.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Walla Walla, 83c; blue-
Btem, 88c; valley, 87c.
Oats No. 1 white, $1.3202.35
gray, $1.35 1.40 per cental.. .
Hay-r-Timothy, $1416 per ton
clover, $1112; grain, $1112; cheat
$1213.
, Potatoes Oregon fancy, 8595c
common, 60 75c. '
, Apples Baldwins, $1.25; Spitzen
bergs. $1,752 per box.
Eggs Oregon ranch, 2728c.
Butter Fancy creamery, 25 30c.
Hops Choice, 2829c; prime, 27c
per pound.
Wool Valley, 1920c; Eastern
Oregon, 1017c; mohair, 2526c per
pound, "V
Battle for Open River Between Calito
and The Dalle I Won.
Washington, Jan. 25. The govern
ment will build the Dal lea-Celilo canal.
This decision was reached by the
rivers and harbor committee tonight
after aeveral hour spent in . final con
sideration of the project. The rivers
and harbors bill, which will probably
be reported to the house tomorrow, will
appropriate $50,000 cash for immediate
nse on the canal and will authorize the
expenditure of $200,000 additional,
this money to be carried in the sundry
civil bill, probably at the next session.
Today action of the committee com
mit the government to the canal pro
ject and insure the ultimate construc
tion of thia waterway by the govern
ment at an aggregate contof $3,800,000.
Tlie fight to secure adoption of this
project U one of the hardest that the
friends of tho of the 'Columbia river
have ever been called upon to make.
In some way it waa harder than that
in behalf of the Lewis and Clark bill last
session, for on that measure tlie dele
gation had the active support of Presi
dent Roosevelt. Thi fight waa made
without such aid.
Senator Fulton, Representative Wil
liamson and Representative Jones have
been working unitedly and unremitting
ly on behalf of the Cehlo canal project
ever since the river and harbors com
mittee .commenced framing it bill.
Representative Jones, by reason of his
membership of the committte, has been
able to render and ha rendered most
valuable service.
IN CZAR'S PLACE.
Reformers Will Create a Provisional
Government in Russia. ,
St. Petersburg, Jan. 25. Russian
officials today stand aghast before the
possibility of a provisional government
being established by a number of Lib
eral and moderate Socialist who, it is
stated, are men of wealth and position.
The authorities lost no time when this
report became known in arresting M.
Anneeky, one of the few leader of this
latest movement whose name are
known to the public, and it is stated
that Maxim Gorky, the novelist, also
Identified with the political revolt, has
received weming to withdraw from act
ive participation if he values his lib
erty. Others are also stated to have
been taken into custody, but their
names will not be divulged at present
by the officials.
At this hour it would seemas though
the government had succeeded in im
pressing the strikers with the useless
ness of mob resistance to the guns of
the troops. The general opinion is,
therefore, that clashes will become less
frequent, and that those who consider
violence the only fitting reply to the
government's course will resort to
bombs.
One incident of this character, at
least, has already occurred, but the at
tempt was frustrated. The crowds, it
is thought, may now scatter. Their
places will then, according to the So
cialist leaders, be taken by small
groups of two or three, who will make
their way to the government buildings
and palaces, and, by placing bombs, in
flict more damage and loss of life than
would be in the power of the full force
of strikers.
S TATE OF SIEGE.
Will Be Proclaimed In Russian Capital
With Trepoff as Governor.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 25. St. Peters
burg will be declared in a state of siege,
tomorrow. General Trepoff, until re
cently chief of police of Moscow, has
been apopinted governor general of St.
Petersburg, and has taken up quarters
in the winter palace. Strangely
enough, the only precedent is the case
of General Trepoff 's father during the
reign of Nihilistic terrorism under
Alexander II, and it is also a strange
coincidence that unsuccessful attempts
were made on the lives of both. . Gen
eral Trepoff is a man of great energy,
but tlie measures he adopted at Moscow
for the suppression of the student dem
onstrations in December last provoked
much resentment, and the revolution
ists recently condemned him to death.
Anarchists Busy in London.
London, Jan. 25. A number of anar
chists are known to be here who at
tended an international anarchist meet
ing in London on January 20. -The
police say several minor gatherings
have been held in these quarters since
the reception of the news from St
Petersburg and that a big meeting is
called for January 29 in : a notorious
hall in the Last End for the an
nounced purpose of expressing . in
dignation , at what the circulars
term as the St, Peterbsurg massa'
ere."
, Bad for Kuropatkin.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 25. A new
grave danger has arisen in the inter
ruption of dispatch of supplies to the
front as a result of the strike. Unless
some means con be found to secure the
provisions and other munitions of war
which were to be started from bt. r&
tcrsburg on January 30, General Kuro-
patkin's army may find itaelf in a moat
serious predicament.' ' .
HIS P01RJS GONE
Czar Ea Im FcrccJ ta Ne!J
t3 (ted
VLACIIIIH AND SEROUS EtlE
Rioting and Bloodshed Spread to All
Parts of Empire Revolution
Under Full Headway.
Libao, Russia, Jan. 24. The imper
ial yacht Standard is expected here to
convey the czar and hi family to Co
penhagen.
Report from St. Petersburg aar that
the actual government ia no longer in
the hands of the czar. This statement '
is made with deliberation and with a
full knowledge of the dav's doinmi.
The grand ducal coterie, always power
ful, but until very recently held in
check by the people's pathetic faith
in tne power ol the "Little White
Father," is in absolute command.
Grand Duke Vladimir command the
troops, and every order, whether it be
one of leniency or stern repression, is
issuea oy mm. urana uuke Bergiu ia
stated to be in control of the internal
situation.
The utmost secrecT is maintained as
to the czar's present whereabouts.
Some have him atTsarskoe-Selo, other
at Peterhoff, still others insist that he
has been at the winter Dalace rizht
along. All questions put to men in
authority on that score are met w-'th
tne very courteous reply that they
know a little as the interrogator.
MOSCOW IN TURMOIL,
Workmen Force Closing of All the
Large Factories.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 24. The most
startling feature in the situation to
night is the news that several factories
in Moscow have closed and that the
workmen in the old capital of ItnsHsa
are repeating the tactics of their fallow
workmen of the new capital, marching
from Bhop to shop and mill to mill, de
manding that the establishment shut
down. The whole city is reported to
be in a state of great excitement over
the news of the bloodshed which haa
precipitated immediately the strike
that had been scheduled for Wednes
day.
The tension, which was somewhat
relaxed during the morning, continued
to increase during the day. Conditions
appeared to be omnious, when, shortly
after dark, the workmen in two electric
light plants walked out, refusing triple
pay to remain, and plunging half the
city into utter darkness, including the
Nevsky Prospect. The water supply
was also cut off, and a veritable panic
ensued.
IT IS REVOLUTION.
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Sailors at Sevastopol Mutiny in Mass
and Destroy Buildings.
Kieff, Jan. 24. Details of the burn
ing of the admiralty yards at Sevasto
pol have arrived here, showing that it
was the result of a mutiny of 8,000
sailors, such as never before occurred
in Russia. , '
All Saturday there had been consid
erable talk all over the city that the
sailors in the Sevastopol barracks had
grown retitive and . that . numerous in
stances of insubordination had oc
curred. Shortly after the noon hour
Monday the doors of the barracks were
thrown open and several thousand sail
ors forced their way out into the street.
One squad of mutineers rushed to
the rooms of a captain, w ho is said to
have been particularly disliked. The
officer was seized and thrown to the
floor. They beat in his skull, and his
face was mangled beyond .recognition,
and then they wrecked his rooms and
took every weapon they could find.
Meanwhile, those on the outside had
set fire to the building, which, being
old and mainly constructed of wood,
was burned to the ground.
From there the mutineers rushed
wildly through the streets, setting up
the cry of: "The revolution has be
gun." One of the Horrors of Revolt.
St. Petersburg, Jan. 24. Among the
authenticated horrors of yesterday is
the case of an aged general, whose
sledge was stopped by the infuriated
people as ,he was driving in the direc
tion of the troops. "Are you going to
order them to fire on us?" yelled the
crowd. The general ordered his coach
man to drive on, when he was instantly
struck on the head by a well dressed
individual in a sable fur coat. The
general was then thrown out of the
sledge,: brutally beaten and finally
rampled to death. , . ... v,
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To Loot for Provisions. ,
St. Petersburg, Jan. 24. A report
has gained currency that the strikers
intend to storm the market in 'Vassili
Osrtoff and seiie the provisions there