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About The Columbia register. (Houlton, Columbia County, Or.) 1904-1906 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 4, 1905)
COLUMBIA REGISTER HOULTON- OREGON NEWS OF THE 1YEEK la a tented Fcra fcr C:r A Return of th Lata Important but Not Lata Interesting Events of th Past Waalu A cholera epidemic prevails at Mad ras, British India. Norway and Sweden will not favor making the Baltic a closed sea. Germany it suspected of bai faith by France in the Morocco matter. The court of inquiry into the Ben nington disaster has began its sessions. Suit has been commenced against the direct rt of the Equitable to make them return their ill-gotten gains. Fire in Swift & Co.'s packing plant at South St. Joseph Mo., destroyed over $250,000 worth of property. According to reports made by the county assessor Portland has a popula tion of 110,500. This is 20,000 more than in 1900. Britain and Japan have nearly com pleted a new treaty. The new alliance will be decidedly more comprehensive than the present one. Great Britain will press its claim for pay for a number of steamers sunk by Russian auxiliary cruisers after the battle of the Sea of Japan. While a few new cases are appearing in New Orelans, the health authorities believe they have the yellow fever situ ation in hand and that in a few days its spread will have been stopped. The Chinese boycott has caused large orders from a San Francisco firm to be cancelled. All of the peace envoys are now in Washington excepting M. Witte and his party. The kaiser and czar are said to be contemplating declaring the Baltic a closed sea. The Japanese now have an army be tween Vladivostok and the main Rus sian army. Germany and Britain are at dagger's point about sending the British fleet to the Baltic. Europe regards Roosevelt as arbiter in case Japan and Russia deadlock in their peace conference. Louisiana is quarantined on all sides and new cases of fever have broken out despite the efforts of the health author ities. In a row in th city council of Spring field, Illinois, the mayor came of! vie torios by calling in police, who used their clubs freely on the city fathers. Warren, Fa., was visited by a cloud burst which did thousands of dollars' worth of damage to property. The people escaped drowning by staying in second stories of buildings. Sweden is negotiating for a war loan. A national bank is to be organized at Nome, Alaska. France and Germany are again quar reling over Morocco. Huarriman wants to gather the Illi nois Central railroad into his system. Japan will not cease hostilities pend ing the outcome of the peace conference. A new plot has been discovered against the life of the sultan of Turkey. Germany is furious at the proposed cruise of British war vessels in the Baltic. Great Britain is planning to store an immense amount of food for home use in case of war. Police has unearthed a counterfeiters outfit in Portland and arrested six peo ple in connection. District Attorney Jerome of New York is now taking a turn at the tricky lawyers of that city. Revenue officers in New York are seeking men who have used Internal revenue stamps a second time on cigar boxes. At the end of the eighth week of the fair the total admissions aggregated nearly 900,000. George T. Moore, connected with the Agricultral department, has reisgned on account of connection with graft in that department. Native bankers of China have decid ed to boycott foreign banks doing busi ness in the Flowery Kingdom. Great Britain will send several war ships to the Baltic to discount the effects of the kaiser's visit to the czar. Southern Pacific property to the ex tent of $100,000 is endangered near Los Angeles by the overflow of water at Salton Sink. TO CONSIDER CANAL. President Desires Congress to Decide What Type Shall Be Built. Washington, Aug. 1. It it be true, aa reported from Oyster bay, that the president intends to call an extra see ion of congress early in November, it is not probable any attempt will be made to force the prompt consideration of a railroad rate bill. That would be out of the question; at least it would be impossible to secure final action on such a bill within a month. The probabilitee art, and observing officials here believe, that the president intends, at the early session, to have congress take np and settle once for all the question of whether the Panama canal shall be built, as originally planned, with locks, or shall be a sea level canal, as advocated by so many prominent engineers. This is a ques tion that congress must decide, and the sooner it is out of the way the better the men in charge of the canal can operate. The president has not taken the pub lic into his confidence; he has not an nounced what his object may be in calling an extra session, but it is diffi cult to figure out how anything could be gained on a railway rate bill at a session convening onlythre weeks in advance of the regular session. It takes that long for the house to orgainie. elect a speaker, and for the speaker to appoint committees, and the senate con sumes almost aa much time in its or ganisation. STANDS BY ALLY. Japan's Peace Conditions WHI Receive Endorsement of Great Britain. Washington, Aug. 1. Japan conies to the Washington conference assured that, whatever her peace terms, they will have the sympathetic approval of Great Britain. Several suggestions from Washington to London that the cause of peace would be served by an explanation to Japan from her ally fa voring moderation in her demands up on Russia have not availed to change the British government in its apparent ly unalterble determination to stand by Japan, however severe she makes her conditions of peace. Nor has the Brit ish government seen its way clear to render assistance to Washington in the efforts which this government is mak ing to obtain an armistice. Advices reaching here show that London is opposed to an armistice until Japan has been satisfied that Russia's plenipotentiaries are prepared to do more than discuss means of ending the war. If Russia is ready to conclude peace and has so empowered her pleni potentiaries, Great Britain, it is said, might favor an armistice, but even in this event she would, it it said, not be willing to offer Japan advice on the subject. EDISON'S NEW BATTERY. Inventor Says It Will Be Cheaper and Lighter Than Present Onet. New York, Aug. 1. Thomas A. Edi son has made the declaration that he has solved the problem of providing cheap ajid serviceable electric traction for vehicles. "By October my light battery will 1 ready for the market, and we will be ready to equip automobiles of all de scriptions," he said. "To reach the goal for which I aimed and keep down the cost to a trifling portion of what present batteries cost to keep alive, I determined upon a simple combination of iron rust, potash and nickel rust. For a time it failed me, but now I have accomplished the result with these in gredients, and a new light battery is an accepted fact. It will weigh one-half of the present batteries in general use, and will be about the same ' size, al though it stands somewhat higher in its proportion than the other. As to its power, there can be no question. A new factory where the cell batteries are to be manfactured is being erected in Orange, and automobiles will be built and equipped there." Milling Wheat for Mexico. San Francisco, Aug. 1. The Kosmos steamer Thehen, which sailed today for the southern coast on her way to Eu rope, carried 1,000 tons of milling wheat for Guaymas, Mexico. For sev eral months past the Mexican govern ment has abolished the duty on wheat, owing to the short crop in the Hermo sillo district and steamers sailing from here have received consignments of wheat sufficiently large to warrant them in calling at Guaymas, far up the Gulf of California. The duty will be imposed again on August 31. War Party Hat Upper Hand. St. Petersburg, Aug. 1. News of the utmost importance is daily expected from the army in Manchuria. At army headquarters there, are evidences of great activity, and there is no doubt that word fo a general engagement is looked for. The war party still has the upper band and there is still little talk of peace. AFTER BIG FELLOWS Gas Millionaire la Jail Worth a Thousand Others. STATEMENT OF ATTORNEY HENET Doet Not Believe In Convicting Man Who Hat Been Bought and Letting Buyer Qo Free. Portland, Aug. I. Scathing in hit denunciation of graft In public life, merciless in hit arraignment of the mo tives of the defendants, mere in his charges against the attorneys for the defense, dramatic in hit earnestness of speech and effort, Francis J. lleney made his argument yeterday in pre senting the case of the government in the Williaruson-Ciesiier-Bigge trial to the jury. Those high in public life who used their offices for private gain and for the practice of illegal business were held np before the jury at men worse than thieves and roblwrs, "It has been intimated by the de fens in this rase," said Mr. Hensy, "that I have told the witnesses when they came before the, grand jury as witnesses that I was not after the little fish, but after the big ones. It has been insinuated that back of my move ments lurked a political motive, but I need only to bring this to mind foi you to know how false it is. Though the defense has never !een able to get a witness to say that I told him I was after the big fish, I will say it myself. I am after the big fish, and as long as there is a hook and a line or a bit of tackle in the government box 1 will keep after them. Graft is ruining Russia today; graft ruined Rome, the ancient empire of the wor'.d, and, un less the juries of the nation sustain the laws of the United States, graft will ruin this country." Turning to the defendants and their motives, the attorney held that when a guilty man attempts to prove defense for himself he always hews as close to the truth as possible. "But crime haves its scar upon the conscience and the mind," said Mr. lleney, "until if we open wide enough the windows of the soul we can tee the markings left. It is this consciousness of scar that has led the defendants in this case to plan the defense they have. I am after the big fish I do not want the poor devils who have been seduced through the in fluence o' power and wealth. I want the big fish. One millionaire in the penitentiary is worth one thousand of the poor devils he bought, as an exam ple to the world." WAR WITH BRITAIN IMMINENT. German Paper Sayt German Navy It Ready for Action. Berlin, Aug. 1. A very considerable sensation has leen caused by the pub lication in the TegelZeitung of a state ment that a war between Germany and Great Britain is imminent. The paper says: "According to the most reliable in formation furnished to the editor, war between this nation and England may not be averted. All German warships have been fully prepared for prompt action, having received secret instruc tions that war is considered inevitable." Tegel is a Berlin suburb, where are located the extensive works of Messrs. liorsig, the well known machine and gun manufacturers. This firm controls the newspapers and the assumption is that the "reliable information" eman ated from that firm. Dittrett Among Italians. New Orleans, Aug. 1. Much dis tress is beginning to appear among the Italian population growing out of the practical suppression of the fruit busi ness from Louisiana on account of the quarantines, and relief work is One of the tasks which the Italian societies and citizens' committees will now have to address themselves to. While the six-day detention order of the board of health lasts, all the lines which have been operated from the steamers into New Orleans will divert their ships to Mobile. Rojettventky It Recovering. Tokio, Aug. 1. Rear Admiral Ro jestvensky's condition hat mae satis factory progress since the operation that was performed on hit forehead. lie was able to leave hit bed and tit in a chair yesterday. Paint in one foot, however, prevent hit walking freely, but no cause for uneasiness exists. The admiral hat expressed hit sincere satisfaction with the treatment accord ed him. Taft Party at Nagasaki. Nagasaki, Aug. 1. The steamer Manchuria arrived here at 7 Jo'clock thit morning. The governor, mayor and other officials went aboard and ex tended official welcome to Secretary of War Taft and Miss Roosevelt. WAR PARTY GAINS RECRUIT8 Claim of Indemnity Cautet Vigorous Action in War Office. St. Petersburg, July 31. The Inti mation of Mr. Sato, Baron Komora't secretary, that Japan will claim full Indemnification tor the et of the war beside the Island of Sakhalin, hat gained recruits for the war party from among the class which had hoped Rus sia would be able to offer the railroads to Port Arthur and Dalny, the Island of Sakhalin, and other valuable consid eration! In lieu of a direct cash indem nity. The war office it not slackening pre parationa for continuing the war In case the peace negotiation! are unsuc cessful. The gap in general Llnle vltch't army caused by the losses at Mukden bat been filled and the railroad It working to itt full capacity, carrying relnforeementt to form fresh corpt. A dispatch from Irkutsk announces the completion of work on the trans Baikal line. In order to relieve the traffic on the railroad, Prince llilkoff, minister of railroad communications, has stmt three, tteamert loaded with rails and a flotilla of river steamers by way ot the Arctic ocean to the mouth of the Yenisei river, whence they will he transported by that river to Kras noyarsk, which it within 400 miles of Lake Baikal. CHINA WANTS INDEMNITY TOO. Ruttla Mutt Pay for Illegal Occupa tion of Manchuria. Berlin, July 31. The Lokal Anitelger printt an interview with a prominent Chinese diplomatist, evidently the Chinese minister at Berlin, who says that the dowager empress and the em peror have writ a circular letter to all viceroys and governors end to Chinese ministers abroad, asking them to state fully their views as to what attitude China sheuld take in the settlement of the Manchurian question. The diplomatist further states that China, in determining what indemnity to demand from Russia, will include not only the reduction In public reve nues during the war, but a sum sufli cient to cover damages suffered through years of illegal occupation f that coun try. He assumes that Japan will keep her word and hand over Manchuria to China, but thinks it will bo impossible for China to install the old form of government there, since the improve ment the Russians and Japanese have introduced make a modern system of administration necessary. The diplo mat concludes: "China will not longer play the .role of a mere spectator, but will assert her claims with energy in the Portsmuth negotiations and interesting develop ments will certainly follow." j INSPECT ON OTHER SIDE. Proposed That Chinese Be Scrutin ized Before They Start. Washington, July 31. A new way out of the perplexing difficulties sur rounding the enforcement of the Chin ese exclusion law is being considered by the department of Commerce and Labor. It it proposed to put the regu lations into more practicable form and at the same time throw a sop to Chin ese susceptibilities by having the in specting and regulating done on the other side. This can be managed by establishing representatives of the state and immi gration services at ports in China with a view to examining the claims of Chinese desiring to come to America, and if the examination proves that they are exempt, to issue credentials to them, which will be accepted without question at American ports. By this plan the investigation will be much more simple and satisfactory. Defense of Columbia River. Washington, July 31. A board of army officers, .including Lieutenant Colonel Arthnr Murray, Artillery corps; Major Langfltt, of the engineers, and the district artillery officer on the Columbia river, will meet and collect data for the submarine defense of the fortifications at the mouth of the Co lumbia river, and also report on exist ing minea, buildings and structures in connection with harbor defense and re commend new works deemed necessary to complete submarine work at the en trance to the river. Yaquit Will Surrender. Nogales, Ariz., July 31. After six years of continuous fighting, the Yaqui Indians in Mexico are suing for peace. A peace conference it being arranged for, and if there it no hitch in the pres ent plant, Yaqui leaden will meet rep resentatives of the Mexican government at Urez, Solano, Mexico. No date for meeting hat been made public, but the Indiana are already reported to be gathering in the vicinity of Urez. British Ship It Seized. Seattle, July 81. The British ship Josephine, Captain J. P. Heftier, from Vancouver, B. 0., has been seized by the United States marshal at Ketchi kan, Alaska. The captain and crew are in jail. The vessel landed a cargo from a Canadian port at an American port without a permit. IS UNDER CONTROL Yellow Fever Situation Said to Be In Band. QUARANTINE CONCERNS PEOPLE All Surrounding Statet Have EtUb- lithed Strict Regulations Agalntt th Fever Infected City. New Orleans, July 2D. The health authorities who are handling the yel low fever situation here have now to thoroughly rfected their organisation that they feel confident every case of fever, though nt thoroughly develop ed, will be promptly reported, and will go upon the official records. Ho thorough has leen the inspection of the city that it is believed that every exist ing case has been found, and Is now in eluded in the 200 cases which have been announced. Many of these are on the rote.) to recovery, and It is expected that with the perfect scientific treat merit that has been arranged for there will be a reduced mortality rate which In the early stages of the disease hat been admittedly high. The most annoying feature of the sit uation now Is the disposition of practi cally every town in adjoining states to tighten the quarantine against the city. That is due to the feeling beyond the city that 200 esses means a serious sit uation, and the fact that the escape of Italians from th Infected French market center has resulted in the ap-, pearance of cases of fever at various jKillltj. ANOTHER CHARGE OF GRAFT Scientist Recommends Material In Which He Hat Pertonal Interett. Washington, July 2!!. In a hearing today at the department of agriculture, at which Hecretary Wilson, Assistant Hecretary Hayes, Prof. B. L. Galloway, chief of the bureau of plant industry, George T. Moore, of that bureau, and two representatives of an agricultural publication, were present, the last two v named made charges that the w ife of one of the scientists In the bureau if plant Industry owned a block of stock it ' an eastern concern manufacturing a cul ture for soil inoculation, while the sci entist was preparing and revising bul letlns regarding enrichment of farms and portraying the culture aa contain ing virulent forms of bactera for mak ing poor land. It was alleged that the publication revised by the official tended to direct the farmers to a commercial conern supplying the material because of the exhaustion of the supply by the depart- ment. At today's hearing the scientist in volved in the allegations admitted that his wife owned stock, that ttock was to come to him in the event that he sev ered his connection with the depart ment and became the bacteriologist of tho concern, but that in the latter part of April he decided to stay. DENIES DOING WRONG. Getner Takes Stand for Defent at Land Fraud Trial. Portland, July 20. Defense in the case of the United Htates vs. Congress man Williamson, Cleaner and Biggs, charged with subornation of pcrury, yesterday made a complete denial of the charges of ihe prosecution by put ting tiesner on the stand, lie denied ever having made a contract with the entrymon to buy land, although he ad mitted lending them money, and said he had stated to certain entrymtn that the claims would be worth, upon final proof being completed, $500 to hirn. Dr. Gesner it old and feeble. H leant heavily on hit cane, which is hi constant companion. Twenty years of the practice of medicine in the Prine viile country has broken his health. Long rides to widely scattered patient at all hours of the day and night over poor roads have ruined his physique. Shonts Intpectt Canal. Panama, July 20. President Shonta and a party of canal ofllcert went today to inspect the route from Panama to Culebra. Among the tubjectt which Mr. Shonts bat discussed with Govern or Magopn was the construction of quarter! and places for the recreation of employe! to which much importance it attached. Definite plan ' will toon be adopted along thia line The great demand for cart for the transportation of material for the canal hat caused a serious cengestipn at both terminals of the railroad. Yellow Fever Case at Tampa. Tampa, Fla., July 29. Dr. Joseph Porter, state health officer, has issued an official statement to the effect that Victor Vitello, an Italian who arrived here last Saturday from New Orleans,, is suffering from a mild attack of yol low fever.