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t BtiU Hilt BxUj BMBIA illlQ VOL. I. IIOULTON, COLUMDIA COUHTT, OHEOON- FIHDAY, FEimUAllY 17, 1905. NO. 43. COL MEG c?nrTrTTYv 11 NEWS OF JE YEEK la a Condensed Perm (or Cor Busy Readers. HAPPENINGS OF TWO CONTINENTS A Resume of the Lei Important but Not Leil Interesting Events of tho Put Week. Ei-(ovirnor Role, of Iowa, is seri ously III. - Adams ha completed hi case in the gubernatorial contval case in Colorado. The fierce roM wave hat broken and the weather it moderating all over the United State. Fire partially destroyed the Rrevoort hot I, on Madison street, Chlcaog Loss, $100,000, John W. Gates, In the Chicago ex chanire, declared that wheat will go to $1.50 andpoaalbly $2. Conrgea will likely give the Lewli ml Clark fair $30,000 remaining un umnl from the St. lxuld fair. Bigna indicate that a revolution againat President Caatro may break out in cneiuela In the near future. Run-Ian strikers contlnne idle and they are furniahde money from a mys terious source to enable them to Vive. The United State revenue collector for the Northern district of Iowa ha lieen ailed to resign because of irregu laritlea. Joe Figrebelhs an Itallian of Tort land, who killed a woman recently m rauM the would not marry him, ha committed suicide to racapo Ixj ing rap tured. Theer la now much doubt aa to whether the Third Russian lUUic squadron will aail for the Far Kaat The meat aupply order hna Ikh-d count vruiaiulcd. Ice haa ftoped navigation on the Upper Columbia. ' Several death have been irjorUl la Montana from the aevere cold weather. A proclamation la to he laaned grant ing great liberty to the Uuaaian work men. , The president projKieea the recovery of the body of Paul Jonea, who waa buried in Parla. Turkey ia preparing for war by bur rying guna ami trooj to the disturbed districts of Macedonia. It la stated on what la believed to be good authority that Kuropatkln it to be relieved and General Urippenburg given Ma place. The Missouri I'aoiflo railroad i hav ing much trouble with enow blocking Ita tracks. Aa high aa six tralna have teen loet at a time. At the time of the North aea incident war waa much nearer than waa admit ted to the public by cither or the na- tiona concerned. It ia annuonccd that aa a rcnult of the diaturltanccs at Lodz, Rusiaa, 144 people nave been burled and that over 200 pernona are at ill in the. hoapital Senator Mitchell declnrcH he will not give up hia neat and that he will bo able to explain everything in conncc tion with the many indictment in aatiafactory manner. v The Jape have captured a hill on the Hun liver. Tbe cxnr says be intends calling a na tlonal congress. ' J. Ficrpont Morgan haa 1 gone for a crttiae in European watura. Russian war vcshoIs have Imhmi or dered to leave German port Id Africa Representative Williamson haa boen indicted on the charge of subornation of perjury. St. Petersburg strikers keep quiet but trouble continues In Poland and the Caucasus. Crowed electric wiroa in a six-story Chicago building caused a fire loss of over $1100,000. A. II. Tiannor has confessed that he committed perjury ' in order to shield Senator Mitchell. Fire damaged the historic Cateino theater in New York and caused a panio among the chorus girls. The cold wave which crossed the mountains from the Fast has caused eomo loss to stockmen. The temper aturer ranged from 17 above at Port land to 40 below in Idaho points., All the resent member of the presi dent' wabinot will contlnne in office except Postmaster General Wynne, who is to be appointed consul general ' at London. Mr. Cortelyou will be nom inated postmaster general. Japan will next besiege Vladivostok Workmen at 8t. Petersburg have struck again and increased their de mands. DOING! IN CONGRESS. Wednesday, February 8. Although the result of the presiden tial election waa known early in the evening of November 8, it wai not until today, when the house met In joint eaaion, that Theodore Roosevelt and Charles W. Faribanks were officially declared to be elected. An Immenae audience gathered to wltneae the cere mony. The houae devoted five hours today to debate on the railroad freight bill. number of - the members vpoke on both sides of the question. Very little bualneaa waa transacted n the houae today. Keamt, of Utah, claimed to have voted against the joint statehood bill, and hi vote is recorded for it. Discusaion a to whether it should be changed was lengthy. riends of the statehood bill claim it will pass In tbe honse. Thursday, February 9. After nearly four days' diacuaalon the bouae today, by a vote of 320 to 17, passed the bill providing for the regula tion of freight rates. The senate devoted today seeeton to the agricultural appropriation bill here waa a renewal of the discussion of the policy of distributing the appro priation bill among a number of com mitteea. After the passage of the freight rate bill by the houae a spirited discussion waa Indulged in over the deadheads carried by transports. A resolution waa adopted approving of the carrying of schoolteacher and members of the families of officer and men on trans port. Friday, February 10. After maintaining it record for the rapid disposal of private pension bills, 433 being pasaed in an hour and a half, the house today considered for a short time the bill providing a government for the Panama canal tone. An early adjournment was taken to enable the Itepublicans to confer on the statehood bill. Before the routine proceedings of the senate began, President pro tern Frye announced his selection of Perkins to read to the senate Waahinirton's fare well address on February 22. Bills were paused authorising the secretary of war to sell magazine rifles to rifle clubs upon request of governor of the various states, and permitting Okla homa Territory to appropriate money to construct agricultural college build ings, i Saturday, February II. A an outgrowth of the investigation of the General Blocam disaster, the house today paased a number of bills amending the law relating to steam boat inspection service and making far more rigid provision for the regulation and control of steam vessels. A bill waa also passed authorising the con struction of a bridge across the Pend d'Oreille and Kootenai river in Koote-i nai county, Idaho. The entire time of the senate today, which was not spent in executive ses sion, waa given to the Swayne impeach ment triaal. roar witnesses were ex amined. In . executive session eight treatiea of arbitration between the United States and European govern ment were ratified. The treaties are with Great Britain, France. Portugal. Switxerland, Germany, Spain and Aus tria-Hungary. Monday, February 13. The senate heard 10 witnesses in the Swayne impeachment trial today and devoted the remainder of it time to tho consideration of the agricultural appropriation bill. The leaders of the house today began active work to get the statehood bill into conference. A paper is being cir culated to get enough signatures to bring the matter up. After that it will require a vote that the bill be taken from the committee and sent direct to conference. Tuesday, February 14. The usual throe hours were given by the senate today to the Swayne im pcachmont trial. Only two witnesses were examined. The senate today passed tho agricul tural appropriation bill and took up the District of Columbia apropriation bill. The sundry civil appropriation . bill was reported to the house and immedi ately thereafter tho naval appropriation bill was taken up, with the under standing that eight hours shall be do voted to general debate and that the house shall convene at 11 a. m. each ddy while the bill is under considers.' tion. '. Woman Suffrage in Kansas. . Topeka, Feb. 10. Late this after noon the woman suffrage bill passed the house. In substance the text is "Section 1. That in any election here after held in this state for the election of presidential electors, the right of every citizen to vote therefor shall not he denied or abridged on account of sex. A woman may vote at such elec tions the same as men, under like re amotion and qualifications. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the session laws." IS BliOi Blizzard la tbs Scalhwest Vers! In Six Years. INFLUENCE OF STGSM IS WIDE Extend From Oreat Lake to Texas, ' From Atlantic to the Rockies Many People Frozen. Chicago, Feb. 14-Not during the last six years haa the equal of the pres ent cold weather been experienced in the West, and in many place no sucb low temperature have been recorded since the establishment of the weather bureau. The cold wave extend from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico and from the Rocky mountain to the Atlantic. In the North the mercury haa registered all the way from xero to 45 degree be low tero, the latter mark being scored at Richland Center, Wis. Train everywhere from the Weet and Northwest are anywhere from 2 to 12 hours late and from tbe packing of the snow in the cute it 1 expected that it will be several day before tbe roads are able to revive the schedule time of trains. Several people have lost their lives, the majority of the fatalities be ing in the Southwest. The loss of cattle on the ranges, par ticularly on those lying in the north em part ol tbe states, will be very heavy. Jn Nebraska and the Dakota and Montana cattle are being sheltered from the cold and it ia not expected their losses will be nearly so heavy as those on the rangee further to the south. The seyere cold haa brought upon the South a renewal of all the troubles visited upon it by the recent storm of sleet w hich has demoralized railroad traffic and almost destroyed telegraphic communication in some parts. The cold spread with great speed all over the south. Railroad traffic ia seriously hindered by the anow all through the central part of Georgia and in the cen tral and northern parts of Mississippi. The Baltimore A Ohio road is the great eat sufferer and it is reported that there have been no trains between Meridian, Miss., and New Orleans for a week The only new from the entire South came today from extern and Southern Texas, where a alight moderation in temperature wa reported. From Western Montana and Nebraska come report of 20 to 25 below xero. All through these state the month of Jan uary waa the coldest known, and the month of February ha o far shown equal eever'ty. GRAND JURY ADJOURNS. Turn In Large Grist of Indictments aa Parting Shot. Portland, Feb. 14. Just before ad journment, the federal grana jury le turned the long expected indictment dealing with the Blue mountain reserve and the frauds attempted to be perpe trated by its creation. In tho indict ment are implicated John II. Mitchell, Biiger Hermann, John N. Williamson, Franklin Pierce Mays, W.N. Jones and George Sorenson.. The charge is that the defendants attempted to defraud the government of the United States of the possession and use of and title to 200,000 acres of land situated in vari ous parts of the states and territories of the rmtion and of tho total value of more than $3,000,000. hui'h of the men indicted will be re quired to furnish bonds of $4,000 for his appearance before the court in April when the coso w ill come to trial. Thin is the came sum aaked of all those who have been indicted ho far in con nection with tho land ease. The grand jury was excused after having returned the indictments yester day afternoon, and will take a recess until the call of. United Spates Diatrict Attorney Heney, which will be made about the first of April, at which time Mr. lleney will return to Portland from the Kaat and will retmme the investiga' tions which have not as yet been fin ished. Each Side States Its Case. Paris, leb. 14. The international commission which is inquiring into the ISorth sea Incident today heard the con elusions of the British and Russian agents upon the testimony presented. Today's session practically closed the work of the commission nntil a decision 18 reached, when Admiral Fournier, the president, will call a meeting for the purpose of announcement. The admirals in the. meantime will hold daily private cessions to deliberate up on the decision, which Is not expected lor some days. - t Partial Resumption at Warsaw. - Warsaw, Feb. 14. There was a par tial resumption of work today at some of the smaller concerns. The officials report that 600 ' persons were arrested in connection with thetitrikes, of whom 387 have been released. . RECORD (EN WILL FAVOR RUSSIA. Such Will Be the Final Decision of the North Sea Commission. Paris, Feb. 15. Russian confidence that the czar's counsel will obtain a favorable decision from the North sea tribunal seems justified, though tech nically the tribunal only deliver an opinion" following the line of the testimony given by both sides. Yet the narrowest concession regarding the pos sibility of torpedo boat having been on tbe Dogger Bank ia quite sufficient to satisfy the czar'a repreaenatitves. This concession is contained in the tribun al's pronouncement, the last clauses of which are being added today. Tbe whole judgment w ill at the latest be completed tomorrow. Speaking to the corespondent today, an official who Is closely attabced to the person of one of the members of the tribunal said: "It has proved impossible to with hold admission of the possibility and probability of the presence of torpedo boats without implying perjury on the part of one or two Russian witnesses whose evidence was of a character ex cluding the hypothesis of mere error of eyesight or of calculation of the .posi tions of their own boat. If the tri bunal were a police board, a different course might have been pursued, but. being an international arbitration coun cil, it can do no more than softly smooth down the ruffled feathers of each side." According to this informant, the con cession to Russia' feeling will be an expression of the belief that the Rus sians were wrong in thinking that tor- pedo boats showed a disposition to at tack, but sympathizers with the British side of the controversy do not disguise a feeling of disappointment over their defeat. LOST 100.000 DEAD IN YEAR. Official Returns of Russian Killed in Battle and by Wounds. St. Petersburg, Feb. 15. The official returns for the first year of the war, not including Port Arthur statistics, show that 130,439 officers and men passed through tbe hospitals going north, of which number 1,710 officers were wounded and 1,303 were sick; 53,990 men were wounded and 72,581 were sick; 4,007 subsequently died in burtntahi; 6,744 wounded and 11,248 sick were invalided; 9,429 returned to Russia and 21,554 are still in hospitals. Over 77,000, therefore, presumably. returned to the ranks. These figures do not include the number of those killed on the field of battle, nor prob ably those slightly injured, ?ho re mained temporarily in the field hos pital. The showing is considered re markable. The proportion dying in hospitals is very low, the total loss to tbe active army in wounded and sick being a little over 60,000, of whom almost half have still 'a chance of returning to the ranks. The other half will be inva lided or returned to Russia. The killed in battle are estimated to have numbered between 40,000 and 60,000. BUILDINGS IN THE NORTHWEST Appropriations Proposed for Public Buildings on North Pacific. Washington, Feb. 15. The sundry civil bill reported yesterday caries the following items: Rent of temporary poe to Alice quarters at Portland, $24,000. Improving Crater Lake park, $3,000. Enlarging and improving Clackamas fish station, $5,000. Impioving Columbia river quaran tine station, $7,500. Seattle public building, $375,000. Tacoma building, $75,000. Marking Alaska boundary, $f5,000. Isolation hospital, , Port Townoend quarantine station, $9,500. Improving Baker lake finh station, $5,000. Would Admit Only One State. Washington, Feb. 15. Conferences among members of the senate have been in progress today looking to an agree ment to accept the decision of the hoyse on thr. statehood bill if that body should determine upon amending it to admit only Oklahoma and Indian Ter ritory as oiie state and eliminate all that part which relates to New Mexico. The close vote in the senate over the proposition to admit Arizona and New Mexico as one state seems to preclude the possibility of an agreement in re gard to these teritories. Will Pats at This Session. Washington, Feb. 15. The senate judiciary committee has ordered a fa vorable report on the Jones bill recent ly passed by tho house, dividing the state of Washington into two judicial districts, one east, the other west of the Cascade mountains. Foster in tends to call the bill up within a few days and expects ;.i secure its passage More Cash for Public Buildings. Washington, Feb. 15. The omnibus public building bill, in addition to in creasing the limit of cost of the build ing at Tacoma and Sp kaneto $500,000, appropriates $15,000 for the purchase of a public building site at North Yak ima. OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST IN THE LEGISLATURE. Salem, Feb. 8. -After a debate which occupied the attention of the senate all the - forenoon, the bill to abolish all four state normal school and establish one in their stead was defeated. The bill to abolish the Drain school has been favorably re ported with some prospect of passing. Women and girl may not work more than 10 hour ont of the 24 in any one day according to the bill passed by the house today. This applies to all mer cantile and mechanical establishments, laundries, hotel and restaurant. The pure food bill passed tbe bouse with juat one dissenting vote. The so-called railroad commission bill was resurrected from the bouse table and passed by a vote of 34 to 18. Tbe bouse paased the bill amending the Portland charter so that bridge costing more than $15,000 shall be paid by the city at large. The bill is to be submitted to the elector of the city. The senate beld only a half-day sion, adjourning at noon until tomor- Salem, Feb. 9. The ways and mean committee has practically made up the appropriation bills, which, with the standing appropriations and special acts, will bring the expense of the state for the ensuing two year up to $2,150,000. All the normal schools have been granted what they ask for maintenance, but none will be given anything for new buildings. The flat salary bill passed the senate with only four dissenting vote. The bill aa passed will go into effect in Jau nary, 1907, at the expiration of the terms of the present incumbent. - The bill making gambling a felony was favorably reported to tbe house to day. The senate bill creating a juvenile court waa passed by the house. The senate bill raising the salary of the second warden of the penitentiary from $900 to $1,200 a year waa passed by the bouse. Fifteen bills were passed by the sen ate and eleven were killed. Tbe house passed eight bill and indefinitely post poned 14. Salem; Feb. 10.- An extremely warm fight i on in the senate over the pro posed counties of Cascade and Dot Lake, or Clark, in Eastern Oregon Charge of broken faith and bold lying were freely made in the capitol today Men shook fista in one another' face and called each other worse than liar and two combat were narrowly averted. The house passed the bill creating a state mining bureau and providing a commissioner and two deputies. The anti-cigarette bill waa passed by the house. Bills to abolish, the normal school at Drain were defeated in both bouse this morning. Five minutes is the time to which debate on bills has been limited in the house. The hunters' license bill, requiring each hunter to pay an annual gun It cense fee of $1, passed the senate today The bill exempts farmers and their families hunting on their'own lands The governor vetoed the Port of Port land commission bill. Twenty bills were passed by the senate and 20 by the house. . Salem, Feb. 13. By an overwhelm ing vote the house this afternoon de feated the railroad commission bill by Smith, of Josephine. The house mssed a bill to suspend the state fair this year and use the money on improvements at the grounds The house m committee of the whole cut down the appropriation for the various normal schools $18,000. The bill appropriating $30,000 for the extension of the portage road passed the senate today with just one vote to spare. The house voted down an appropria tion with which to buy the governor a mansion. Both houses held night sessions to night and the consideration of bills in the house in which they originated During the four days remaining each house will devote its exclusive atten tion to bills originating in the other house. It is believed that by holding one or two evening sessions, all the work can be disposed. There are now on the house calendar about 110 senate bills and on the senate calendar about 160 house bills. Good C ean-up at New Opp Mill. , Giants Pass A remarkable record has been made by the Opp mine, of the Jacksonville district,' which has just made a cleanup at the end of the first 15 days' run of the new 10-stamp mill. The plates yielded $1,500 in free metal and the vanners gave up the same amount in concentrates for this time, which is equivalent to $200 a day for ten stamps. The management is highly elated with the returns and the general outlook of the mine, and arrangements are already under way for the enlargement of the plant. The Jayne local option bill haa been read In the senate the second time. There is grave doubts a to it pass age. The bouse indefinitely postponed the bill creating Hot Lake county. The house today passed 43 bills. Twenty- four bill failed to pas. In the senate 10 bills were paased and 20 were killed. Salem, Feb. 14. Settlemler's bill authorizing the attorney general to assess property -which has ereaped assessment in the past and to bring suit to collect the taxes due upon -such assessment passed the house to- ' day. Tbe house committee on salaries and mileage reported this morning. Smith, of Josephine, protested against some of the items, but failed to get any support. Supporters of the normal school are endeavoring to have the cut made in the appropriation by the house restored by the senate when the bill comes up in that body tomorrow. Governor Chamberlain haa also declared himself in favor of consolidation of the schools and threatens to veto the measure when it comes to him. The appropriation for the normal schools is coupled with fhose for tbe asylum, penitentiary, re form school, deaf mute shcool, blind school, state university and agricul tural college, so it would be necessary to veto all in order to reach the normal appropriation. The ways and means committee of the house introduced a bill in the house ' today appropriating $70,000 for new buildings for the deaf mute school.' Four other appropriation bills were in troduced by the committee carrying a total of $113,542.13. The senate committee will not at tempt to please either side in regard to the Jayne local option bill. The bill will be reported without recommenda tion. . Several votes are lacking of enough to pass the Cascade county bill) 'Many sorts of influences are being brought to bear to secure the necessary number. ' Giants Work All Season. -' r' -Grants Pass Manager Al Cousin, of the Galice Consolidated Mines com pany, of Portland, has returned from his visit East, in the interest . of his company, and has resumed personal managemet of the company s big hy draulic placer properties on Galice creek. This mine is one of the few in Southern Oregon that has been supplied with ample water for a full battery of giants all season, by reason of the light rainfall. Three and four monitors have been kept continually at work. and will be operated night and da for several months yet. Merchants Organize. Eugene Eugene business men de termined that no enterprise which haa no aim other than to make money off the citizens and then seek other fields shall be allowed to operate stores or stands, unless the methods employed are legitimate. The merchants met in the city hall and perfected organization of the Merchants' Protective associa tion by electing officers and passing a set of by-laws. After the constitution was passed upon, 14 firms signed up and then proceeded to discuss plans of operation. $10,000 Raised in One Hour. Tillamook One hour after a sub scription had been started to raise the ' $35,000 subsidy required by Promoter Simmons for an electric railway along a free right of way from Forest Grove to Tillamook, $10,000 had been raised, Mayor George Cohn heading the list with $1,000. The Forest Grove board of trade has sent word that it will see to the furnishing of a free right of way from that point to the Tillamook county border through Washington county. ' 1 Sale of Lands Enjoined. Pendleton An injunction restrain ing the sale of lands for delinquent' taxes assessed against stockholders of the Little Walla Walla Irrigation com pany has been served at Milton and the sale advertised for will not occur. The ' case will be tried in court to test the legality of the sale. The injunction was issued by Judge Ellis some time ago when the papers were filed, but it was not served. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Walla Walla, 8586c; blue stem, 9091c; valley, 87c per bushel. Oats No. 1 white, $1.351.40; gray, $1.4031.45 per cental. . Hay Timothy, $1416 per ton; clover, $U12; grain, $11012; choat, $1213. Eggs Oregon ranch, 2627c per dozen. - ' Buttei- Fancy creamery, 2730c. ' Potatoes Oregon fancy, 7580c; common, 60 70c. : Apples 4-tier Baldwins, $1.25; 1 Spitzenbergs, $1.75 2. HopB Choice, 2527c per pound.' Wool Valley, 1920c per pound; Eastern Oregon, 12 701c; mohair 25 26c per pound for choice. ' '. '
