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NEWS OF THE WEEK
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Easy Readers,
HAPPENINGS Of TWO CONTINENTS
A Returns of ths Last Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
of the Past Wnk.
; Ftrlkea and peuaant revolts are being
renewed in ltussia.
Japan Is raining the sunken Russian
h i i at Tort Arthur.
Ti e president haa announced his in
tention to change the canal commission.
Kuropatkin ha been apointed com
tttiandcr of the Flint Manrhurian army.
Russian bureaucrats are bring driven
to make )&- by term Uu-taU-tt (or a
new Flinch loan.'
The United Slates government haa
ratted (or arbitration of the Venezuelan
dispute, with the alternative of force.
Over 3,000 men hve been thrown out
of rmplofmcnt as the result of the shut
down ( the llavemeycr sugar refinery
in Brooklyn.
A new Inland baa risen in the ea of
Japan, caused by the action of a vol
cano. The mlkaihV Mug baa lcen
rraleet on ita top, which baa a circum
ference of two and three-fourth miles.
Although the city ordinances of New
York forbid the erection of brick and
etone buildings in f rooty weather, some
75 lUt bulldinga buve la-en finished
since January 1, and now that the mor
tar in thawing they are (ailing down.
Newa of another crushing blow to the
Kuiwlan army in Wing withheld.
A Chicago judge says a womuit baa a
right to kill her husband in self
defense. Italy baa sent a warship to Santo
.Domingo to demand the payment of
Iter cluima.
An addition ia Mug built to Presl
, dent HooMvelt'a summer home at Hag
' mmoro Hill, L. I.
The war party in Russia ia caricatur
ing Ko.cvclt and trying to draw France
and (iermany into war.,
The governor of Viborg province, 'n
Southern Russia, baa Ixh-ii mortally
wounded by a terrorist.
Two masked men held up messenger
of the Pacific Count Oil company near
Berkeley, Cat., and secured 10,000.
The Chicago council baa taken away
the (ranch Ine of the Urgent atreet rail
way,. The property ia valued at $3(1,
000,000. One of the moat perplexing questions
confronting the adminitttratlon ia the
J 'annum canal. It ia admitted tbut the
rommissiou ia a failure.
The United States court of claim
baa awarded the Cherokee Indiana
4,500,000 (or landa awn red in 1H38
but never entirely paid (or. Of thin
amount $I,1U,2H4 ia principal and thu
tmlance interest.
Chinese compbiin o( outragea by Jap
anew. There ia a great rush of homcsoekers
from all parta o( the East U thu North
west. Porch, a small town near Itobart,
Oklahoma, baa licen wrecked by a cy
clone. '
The armored rruiaer Washington baa
Iwen launched at the Camden, N. J.,
hip yard.
Secretary I lay's health haa broken
lown and he may resign, lie baa gone
to Europe (or a real.
hoot. Ta(t and Knox are three, strong
Republicans who are already being
epokenh of as the, next candidate (or
IreHident.'
French faith in Russia's ability to
Tope with the Japanese baa been severe
ly shaken by the latest defeats to the
czar's arms.
The MiHflouri legislature elected Wil-
Ham Warner, Republican, of Kansas
City, United States senator to succeed
Francis M. Uockrell.
Oyama announces that be will enter
Harbin on April 10 and that Vladi
vostok will also be in possession of the
Japanese on that date.
A special wire will run from Foit
land to the White bouse and by press
ing a button the president will open
the Lewis and Clark fair next June.
ax-fttmator Hawley, o( Connecticut,
ts dead.
The czar is breaking down under the
continued nervous strain.
The Japanese are pursuing the Rus
sians beyond Tie pass and are inflicting
terrible loss. -...
Twenty thousand prisoners were epp
tured by the Japanese when Tie pass
was taken.
DOING IN CONGRESS.
Wednesday, March 18.
Republican leaders of the senate art
all at sua reflecting the action ad
visable to take in regard to the fianto
Domingo treaty. Recognising that the
Democrat control more than one-third
of the votes, and that two-thirds art
required to ratify the convention, the
Republican leaders tblnk that the
treaty should be withdrawn by the
president. On this subject the senate
and the president do not agree, and the
idea prevails that, after one or two
days more of Inconsequential dlacuaalon,
the special session of the senate will be
allowed to adjourn without date, and
the treaty lapse. Hut this plan is not
popular in the senate and a way to
avoid it ia being aougbt.
Thursday, March 10.
Senator Morgan occupied practically
the entire time in opposition to the
Santo Domlnpo treaty in the executive
session of the senate today.
A new plan suggested is to let the
whole matter go over until the next
regular season of congress, when a joint
resolution will be panned to authorise
the president to do the very things that
are proposed by the treaty.
Friday. March 17.
In the executive session of the senate
today Morgan continued his seech of
yesterday, lie spoke until 4:48 p. m.,
when Foraker took the floor In defense.
Adjournment is looked for tomorrow.
It is not determined whether the treaty
will be recommitted or whether it will
be allowed to lapse without action of
any kind.
Hen a tor Kpooner discussed brieflly
the rlations between the Pbilpipines
and this country, and said be believed
the time would come when the islands
would have their own government.
Saturday, March 18.
, The special session of the senate was
at 3:30 today adjourned without day".
All the nominations sent in were con
firmed with the exception of five, the
most important of which was that of
Judge James Wickeraham to succeed
himself as judge of the District court
of Alaska. Several unimportant treat
ies were ratified, but beyond these mat
ters no legislative business was trans
acted. Most of the seslon was devoted
to lbs an to. Domingo treaty and at ad
journment no action bad been taken on
the matter and it waa allowed to re
main on the calendar.
CHECK PUT ON DEFICIENCIES.
Congress Provides Against Expendi
tures in Excess of Appropriations.
Washington, March 20. One of the
w isest acts of the lute congress was the
insertion of a provision in the general
deficiency bill that became a law on
March 3, that hereafter deficiencies
shall not be created except uon some
great emergency.' OlTicers of the gov
ernment have been altogether too free
in making contrats and purchases with
out regard to the appropriations on
bund, trusting that the deficiencies
would le supplied.
When a deficiency bill amounts to
the enormous figure of $31,000,000, it
gives the members of congress some
cause for alarm, and it seems some
method was necessary to comjnd officers
not to make these enormous expendi
tures for w hich no provision of congress
bad been made. The creating of defi
ciencies was in a way unlawful, and if
congress desired, it could repudiate
these expenditures. Rut very seldom
has any just expenditure been refused
in a deficiency bill, although Bometimes
criticised.
Smalt Hope for Kuropatkin.
London, March 17. The advices
from the Far Kast are believed here to
indicate that Genebral Kuropatkin and
bis forces in Manchuria will be forced
to surrender to the Japanese within a
very short time. The corrcsjKindont of
the London Daily Mail at St. Peters
burg, telegraphing late last night, says
that advices received by the Russian
war oflice indicate that a very large
force of Japanese have succeeded in
carrying out Marshal Oyama's envelop
ing movement and is now far to the
northward of the fleeing Russiaa col
umns. Peabody Is Seated.
Denver, March 17. James II. Pea
body today won his contest for the
oflice of governor, . from which he re
tired on January 10 after serving a
term of two years, but his victory was
achieved only after he had given his
pledgo to resign and surrender the
chair to Lieutenant Governor Jesse F.
McDonald. The vote in ioint conven
tion of the general assembly by which
Governor Alva Adams was ousted and
Governor James II . Peabody installed
was 55 to 41 . Ten Republicans voted
with the Democrats for Adams.
Bomb for Pobiedonostseff.
London, March 17. A dispatch from
St. Peterswbnrg to the News agency re
ports that late last night a bomb ex
ploded on the tramway line close to the
residence of M. Pobiedonostseff, pro
curator of the Holy Synod. . No one
was injured.
EXPLODING
BOILERS
Kill at Least ' Sixty Persons at
Erccktco, taclia:etts.
THEIR BODIES ARE CRE&IATED
Shoe Factory Swarm'ng With People
Ripped Asunder by Bursting
Boiler and Burned.
Brockton, Mass., March 21. At lea
60 persons were killed early today by
the explosion of a boiler in a large
shoe manufacturing establishment in
the Campbell district conducted by the
R. It. (irover company. The explosion
was Immedlatey followed by a flash of
flame which consumed the factory, a
long, four-story structure, as if it were
a bouse of cards, and incinerated an
unknown number of men and women
who were unable to extricate them
selves from the mass of tangled wreck
age formed by the terrific upheaval in
the boiler room. More than 50 of the
employes in the building were maimed,
burned or bruised by the time they
reached safe ground.
The fire extended from the factory to
seven other buildings in the vicinity
and destroyed them. One of these
buildings was a three-story wooden
block, the others being cottages of
small value and a blacksmith shop.
The wooden dwellings near the engine
room were practically demolished by
the flying boiler, but none of their oc
cupants were seriously injured. The
total financial loss is estimated at
1250,000, $200,000 of which falls on
the It. B. Gruver company.
It may never be known juBt bow
many persons perished in the wreckage.
No one knows exactly how many per
sona were in the factory. The number
has been estimated at 400, but Treas
urer Charles O. NeWn said tonight be
iloul.u-d whether there'were so many at
work. Two hundred and fifty survivors
have been accounted for, and at mid
night the remains of 50 bodies had
been recovered from the ruins, the
search being continued all night.
SAY AMOUNT IS EXORBITANT
America and Britain Hold Out Against
Paying Samoan Claim.
Iondon. March 21. The Associated
Press understands that there are no
prospects of an early settlement of Ger
many's Samoan claims. A tentative
offer of 940,000 haa been declined.
Germany's claim of $120,000, when
divided bet weed the United States and
Great Britain, is conceded to be not
worth haggling over, but the two gov
ernments stand together on principle
on the refusal to settle.
The claim for $120,000 includes
moral damage, and the American and
British experts to whom the accounts
were submitted report that the claim
represents ten times the actual losses,
(iermany has been informed that the
two governments are anxious to settle,
and would be willing to pay any rea
sonable sum, as other claims are await
ing the result of this settlement.
BIG GUNS MAY TALK.
French Warships Ordered to Proceed
At Once to Venezuela.
Washington, March 21. The French
Cable company . complications have
reached a crisis, and Minister Bowen
has informed the State department that
the French minister at Caracas, by in
structions of his government, has not:
fled the Vennexuelan government thr t
there must be no further proceedings
on its. part toward the cancellation of
the company's franchise or interference
with its property.
Further, Mr. Bowen reports that two
French warships, the cruisers Dupleix
and Jurien de la Graviere, have been
ordered post haste to Venezuela to act
in accord with the instructions of the
French minister. The warships are
now in the Caribbean sea.
Fighting Hawaiian Forest Fires.
Honolulu, March 21. Five hundred
or more persons, mostly plantation la
borers, were today fighting the forest
fires at Wahiawa. The file is now be
lieved to be under control. About 2,
000 acres were burned, being mostly
land recently acquired by the United
States for a military reservation. ; A
trail 30 feet wide was burned around
it. The forest is being patrolled to
night. The fires in Olaa and Kona are
also believed to be under control.
Ruin helped to extingish the fires in
the Olaa district.
Witte Asked Peace Discussion.
Paris, March 21. In the course ol
an interview in the Matin today, Vis
count Ilayashi stated that M. Witte,
when in Berlin last July, sent an
emissary to London asking the Japanese
minister there to moet,him to discuss
peace. Minister . Ilayashi consented,
but received no 'further communica
tion, v
CONFERENCE ON IRRIGATION.
Experts from Western Government
Stations Meet in California.
8ao Francisco, March 21 . At a small
but very significant conference of half a
dozen irrigation experts connected with
the experiment stations of the United
States Agricultural department on tbe
Pacific coast, held yesterday and today
at tbe Universitj of California, import
ant puns were made for tbe future of
irrigation and drainage investigation in
all the western states. Tbe meeting
was attended by Professor Elwood
Mead, chief of the Irrigation bureau of
tbe Department of Agriculture; Profes
sor Samuel Fortler, of Montana; Pro
fessor O. II. True, of Nevada ; Professor
O.L.Waller, of Washington; Profes
sor J. II. Withycombe, of Oregon; and
Professors E. W. Hileard. R. II.Loueh-
ridiie. and E. J. Wickson. of the agri
cultural experiment stations at Berkley.
i ne cruel task of the conference was
the preparation of plans for experi
ments to determine the quality of water
which will give the best results in irri
gation nnder dfferent conditions. This
is an undertaking almost limitless in
extent. In addition to this, a cam
paign of education is being arranged.
Professor Elwood Mead, who has just
arrived in California to commence his
series of annual lectures at tbe State
university, is very hopeful over the
future ol Irrigation on the coast.
Pre feasor Withvccmbe ierxrted on
the work and its possibilities in Oregon.
He will return north and continue the
measurements of streams.
Today's conference is considered as
opening new possibilities in irrigation
on the Pacific coast,.
SLAUGHTER BY BULGARIANS.
Greek Village Attacked and All Male
Inhabitants 5'ain.
Constantinople, March 21. Advices
received' from Salonica state that the
Bulgarian bands are again causing
trouble, and that reports of outrages
are coming in rapidly. The result of
this is that the relations between
Greece and Bulgaria are again stretched
near to the breaking point, the former
government alleges tbat tbe . Bulgarian
government is not making any effort
to keep these bands under control but
permits them to ravage at will on con
dition that they confine their assaults
to Greeks and Turks.
At a monastery near Vodena a band
of armed Bulgarians attacked a party
of Greek prieets and the latter must
have been killed had not a party of
Greeks come to their resue and at
tacked the Bulgarians. The latter were
beaten back, leaving 15 dead behind.
Angered at their losses the Bulgar
ians attacked the villages of Moesi
merion and ruthlessly massacred all of
the male inhabitants and carried off
the women and children. They then
terrorized the entire district of Vodena
and so far have managed to escape the
troops that were sent to punish them.
CASTRO SEIZED COAL MINES.
Protest Entered by Italian Government
for Operating Company.
New York, March 21. The Herald
this morning prints the following dis
patch from Port of Spain, Trinidad:
News has reached Port of Spain that
the governor of Barcelona, Venezuela,
hits received from President Castro or
ders to take possession at once of the
coal mines of Guantanaricual, situated
near Barcelona, and leased in 1898 for
33 years by the Venezuelan government
to an Italian company.
The same day the Venezuelan troops
took poHgespion of the mines by armed
force, as in the similar case of the New
York and Bermudese company, this,
notwithstanding the protest of the Ital
ian government. The action has been
taken without a judgmnt of the court
of Caracas.
The Italian legation has been notified
and Baron Aliotti, Italian charge
d affaires, is represented as having
entered a protest.
Spartan Runs on a Rock.
Block Island, R. I., March 21. The
steamer Spartan, ot the Boston and
Philadelphia steamship company, ran
aground on the southeastern end of
Block inland during a fog early today
while on her way from Providence to
Phlalelnhia. A 15-foot hole jvas
stove in the ship's bow and soon the
vessel sank so her decks were awash.
Tonight the vessel is rapidly breaking
up. The crew of 23 remained aboard
the ship during the day, but were taken
off tonight. Wreckers have been sent
to lighter the cargo. .
Meat Too High for the Poor.
Mexico City, March 21. Meat deal
ers are exercised over the rise in the
price of meat, which has been advanced
from 25 to 50 per cent in the last
month, and charge that there is a meat
trust at workv The situation is seri
ous, as meat is almost beyond the
means of the lower classes.
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
RESUME WORK ON UMATILLA
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Irrigation Project Has Attention of
Government Engineers.
Pendleton John T. Whistler, en
gineer of the reclamation bureau for
Oregon, says work will be resumed on
tbe Umatilla irrigation project in a
short time. Tbe engineers will con
tinue their investigations of the John
Day river proposition and ascertain if
the river can be diverted from iU chan
nel over tbe desert lands of Southern
Morrow connty.
Tbe feat would be a difficult one,
and, contrary to the belief of tbe pub
lic, ho think tbe river would leave
ita channel at the headwaters of Wil
low creek, the canal would necessarily
follow the deep canyon of the river for
miles, emerging to the top at
a point west of lone, Morrow county,
and take an easterly direction toward
Umatilla county until the grade neces
sitated running north to the Columbia.
This project would probably cost from
$2,500,000 to $3,000,000, but Mr.
Whistler states that should it be found
that 250.000 acres could be reclamed
it would be feasible. Should the
amount of land be much smaller than
this it will be deferred until sach a
time as landa are of a sufficient value
to warrant tbe expenditure of such a
sum, or at least until the reclamation
fund reaches such an amount as to war
rant the commencement of such a
scheme.
Othr investigations in the Umatilla
project proper will be continued, as a
site was found late last fall which
might prove feasible. Tbe character
of the soils in that district is such that
great care is being exercised upon a
site. Some have proved after tests to
be of such a nature as not to hold
water through the hot season and
would lose a great amount by the per
colation through the Bides and bottom
of a reservoir. " '
Instructions for Taking Census.
Salem Secretary of State Dunbar
has issued the blanks and instructions
to county assessors governing the tak
ing of the state census of 1905. Sup
plies will be sent to each assessor in a
day or two. The legislature, at its List
sessionhaving failed to pass any act
amending the old census law, Secretary
of State Dunbar has adhered closely to
the law, out of date though it is. Two
blanks are provided, one for the enu
meration of inhabitants and the other
for the enumeration of industrial pro
ducts. For the convenience of assessors
the military roll was included in the
enumeration of inhabitants. The in
structions given are very complete and
if studied and carefully followed the
census should give a very accurate col
lection of statistics.
Tc Exhibit Sumpter Ores.
Sumpter The building which will
contain the permanent ore exhibit of
the Sumpter mining district, ia com
plete in its interior decorations and
now ready for the reception of a dis
play specimen. The object of the ex
hibit is the concentration at one piont
of the many different kinds of minerals
that are produced in this district
This will permit of inspection of ores
without the necessity of visiting the
many different sections where they are
found. Many visitors from the East.
visiting the Portland exposition, are
expected to stop over and inspect this
section, and the mineral display will
be one of the most important objects to
attract their attention.
Umaiilla County Booklet.
Pendleton The Commercial associa
tion is preparing matter for a booklet
containing information of Umatilla
county, to be distributed among the in
coming homeseekers to induce them to
locate in the county. A number of the
newspaper men and business men have
been asked to contribute articles for the
book, and it will be printed as soon as
possible. Fifty thousand copies will
be printed for distribution among the
visitors who paps through to the Lewis
and Clark fair this summer.
To Work in Santiam District.
Portland There will be more or less
of a rush into the Santiam district as
soon as the Bnow melts, but advices
say that there is considerable snow in
the mountains as yet. Late last season
silver values were found in that coun
try for the first time, although
some finds of ores had been made there
for years past. Ore has been assayed
from that district, which carries as
high as 3,000 ounces to the ton of sil
ver. How extensive the ore bodies are
will be determined during the present
season as fully as possible.
Wildwood Mill to Start. .
Cottage Grove The Wildwood Lum
ber cotapany, which owns a large saw
mill near ,the end of the Oregon &
Southeastern track, above Wildwood,
has decided to put the mill into active
operation. There are plenty, of logs
close to the mill. I. L. Smith, a well
known samwill man, has been put in
charge.
NUMBER ALL NOSES.
New Legislative Apportionment to Be
Made in 1807.
Salem A new legislative apportion
ment, based upon tbe state census of
1905, must be made by the legislature
of 1907, and for that reason it behooves
each county to that a full enumera
tion ot inhabitants ts made this year.
The growth of Eastern Oregon and the
city of Portland in the but five veara ia
supposed to have been more rapid than
the growth of .the Willamette valley
counties, and if the state census should
show much of a difference, Multnomah
county and Eastern Oregon may profit
hy securing larger representation in the
legislature. -
From computations made bv Labor
Commissioner O. P. Hoff last summer,
that official reached the conclusion that
some of the older settled valley counties
are not increasing very rapidly in popu
lation, ins report showing tbat opin
ion raised a storm of criticism from the
counties that received an unfavorable
showing, but Commissioner Hoff assert
ed that his computations were made ac
cording to plans approved by the beat
statisticians, and be anticipates that
the census will bear out his figures.
The apportionment into senatorial
and representative districts is not al
ways made in strict compliance with
the constitution, and therefore some
counties get a larger representation
than their population entitles them to.
while other counties get leas. Should
the legislature of 1907 be actuated bv a.
desire to follow the constitution, there
might be some important changes ia
the apportionment of representatives.
Water War On.
Klamath Falls The Klamath Canal
company ordered the headgate of ita
canal opened on Link river and tbe
water went coursing down the canal
through the tunnel, under Ankeny canal,
down Eleventh street, in Klamath
Falls and out onto the fiats bordering:
Like Ewauna. , Immediately Sheriff
Obenchain served the manager of the
company with an order from the court
directing him to shnt off the water, be
cause the property owners on Eleventh
street brought suit against the company
for damages, as the secretary of War
had notified the company that taking
water out of Link river would be il
legal. The company w ill now undoubt
edly have the attention of the United
States district attorney.
Oregon Hops are Dirty.
Silverton Fred Arthur has just re
turned from a four months' visit in
England, and among other things he
brought back a sample of choice hops
upon comparison with which the best
hops of Oregon are found to be less
clear and bright in appearance. Mr.
Arthur says that although many of
Oregon's hops found a market in Eng
land this year the buyers there com
plain that the hops are too dirty and
that instead of getting better they are
picked less clean each year. He fears
that the reputation of Oregon hos will
suffer unless there is an improvement
in the picinkg.
Klamaths Must Pay Taxes.
Salem Attorney General Crawford
has rendered an opinion in which he
holds that the Indians of the Klamath
reservation, who have just received
their allotments from the government,
are subject to government under the
laws of this state, and are entitled to
enjoy the same privileges as other citi
zens. This means that the lands held
by these Indians are subject to taxation
the same as those of white men. Al
though the act making this allotment
passed congress in 1899, it has just
been approved by the president.
Prune Trees About to Bloom.
Corvallis By the latter part of this
week the Italian prunes in the big 155
acre orchard north of Corvallis will be
in full bloom. The event is nearly a
month ahead of time, the usual date
being about the middle of April. Five
years ago the same orchard began blos
soming March 11, and that season
yielded a heavy crop. Peach, almond
and apricot trees in the vicinity have
nearly finished blooming.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Walla Walla, 8ft 87c;
bluestem, 9-fc; valley, 87c, per bushel.
Oats No. 1' white, $1.3701.42;
gray, $1.50 per cental.
Hay Timothy, $1416 per ton ;
clover, $11(312;' grain, $1112; cheat,
$11012. v ,
Eggs Oregon ranch, 18c per dozen.
Butter Fancy creamery, 27
32c. .
Potatoes Oregon fancy, 8595c;
common, 6580c. ' ' '
Apples Fancy, $1.752.50 per box;
choice, $11.25.
Hops Choice 1904, 23K24c. per
pound. v -
Wool Valley, 1920c; Eastern Ore
gon, 1217c per pound; mohair,
choice, 252Cc per pound. ":