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About The Columbia register. (Houlton, Columbia County, Or.) 1904-1906 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 22, 1905)
COLUMBIA REGISTER HOCLTCN- CRTGCN NEWS OF THE YEEK C:r Li a UuuuwJ iUlj iu A Resume of th Let Important but Not Lets Interesting Events of the Pest Week. Balfour declares himself a s free trader. Martial lev has again been pro claiaied throughout Poland. Japan is angry because Chios delays the new Mancharian treaty. Insurance investigators are now st work on the small companies. A Brit it h fleet is to maneuver off the coast of Morocco while the conferer-ce is on. France, Germany and Kasaia are nid to fee backing China in her move aganiit Japan. A San Francisco woman has secured divorce from her insane husband and married his keeper. The chief sanitary officer of the Pan ama canal says yellow fever has been almost exterminated. The Chicago brick traet has leaded guilty to illegal combinations and the members have been fined. Chinese boycotters have attacked for eigners at Shanghai,. An American warship will be sent there. A Russian troop train was wrecked by rebels and ball its occcnanu nr. rendered to save their lives. Three Chicago banks, all of them controlled by John R. Walab, have suspended. Depositors are fully pro tected. The so gar brought into the United States daring the year about to end will exceed $150,000,000 in value About $50,000,000 of this comee from our island possessions. King Edward many powerless with his allies. plana to make Ger by surrounding her There is danger of friction between France and Germany in the Moroccan conference. Germany baa assured the sultan that she will assist Turkey in resisting far ther demands by the powers. Contributions to the relief fund for Russian sufferers has reached a total of $1,172,639 in the United States. miss Kooeeveu s unental guts are valued at $20,000 according io the amount of duty she paid on them. General MacKeozie strongly lecotn mends an appropriation for continuing work at (he mouth of the Columbia. The plan of the Russian rebels is to bankrupt the government by etoppirg taxes and refamng to take paper money a aenant raanuesto oi Russian revo lutionists has been met by the govern ment arresting the leaders and publish en. Thomas Lawson, of "Ireciied fi. nance" fame, bas given a $1,000,000 mortgage on his property and admits he may go bankiopt. A ton of gelignite at the Central Star mine, Rosaland, B. C, v exploded, wrecking the mine buildings and shak ing the entire country. One man was killed and several score injured. A strike has occurred for the first time in the British royal dockyards. The men were working overtime on construction of a battleship' being rushed. Their demand for better pay was granted and work was resumed. Castro uas withdrawn his insult to France. A massacre of Christians is feared in Egypt. The Russian army in Manchuria is to be disbanded and harried home. The Montana legislature will be call, ed in extra session to pass a railroad rate regulation law. New York's employing printers are preparing for war on the Typographi cal union January 1. Attorney General Moody will decide whether Annapolis haiers shall be dis missed or court martialed. The czar is planning to issue more manifestos on bis name day, which will graut more liberties to the peasants. Two men were shot, one badly if not , fatally, and the other seriously, by two masked men in Portland while holding op a hotel. The robbers escaped with something over $100. President Roosevelt has written the Merchants Eichange, of fan Francisco, expressing the wish to see Chinese la borers more closely barred from en trance into this country, bat he says the exempt classes should be treated more courteously. MADE PLAIN TO MR. SHONTS. Panama Canal Affairs Discussed at While House Conference. ' Washington, Dee. 19. Freaideut Rooeevelt tonight took op the matter of the Isthmian canal scandals as devel oped by debate in the senate daring the past three days. He is determined to prevent further criticism of the char acter put forward by Senators Tillman, Culberson and others. Senators Alli son and Hale, both members of the ap propriations committee, were-preeent. The president made it plain to Mr. Shonts that the literary bare a in charge of Secretary Bishop most be at once discontinued, and Mr. Bishop con fine his service purely to administra tive matters. He also discussed the advisability of red:ing bis salary from $10,000 sow paid to $5,000, or some other moderate sum. It was also made apparent to Chair man S boots that if he etill bas an effi cial connection with the Clover Leaf railroad, it most be severed immedi ately. Senator Tillman declared that Mr. Shonts is still active president of the system, and neither Mr. Shonts nor any of the administration senators have entered a denial of the declaration. The president further gave Mr. Shonts much advice regarding the con duct of affairs on the istlimus. It is prescribed in the president's order that the canal commission must leave at cscs for that place. The bill appropriating $11,000,000 for the canal work, passed by the sen ate on Saturday, provides that within 90 days the secretary of the treasury most furnish estimates to the senate and bouse appropriations com mittees of all salaries paid those em ployed on canal work, except laborers and unskilled workmen. This feature of the bill was discussed with Senators Allison and Hale. It is believed that many reforms will be instituted in the administration of the canal before another appropriation ' is requested from congees. This work oi reform must begin at once, as Secre tary Taft says the $11,000,000 new be ing obtained will last no longer than April 1 at the outside. In the meantime Senator Tillman will begin a strong agitation - after the holiday recess for a thorough investiga tion of the entire canal situation. He will be opposed by the Republicans, but supported by the Democrats. Even some of the Republicans favor an in quiry, and Mr. Tillman threatens to cause much trouble unless matters are put on such basis as to prevent jast critcism. TRADE WITH PHILIPPINES. Great Increase Shown Over Last Year by Department of Commerce. Washington, Dec. 19. Estimates made by the bureau of statistics of the department of Commerce and Labor, based on the returns for ten months ending with October, are that the ag gregate commerce between the United States and the Philippines for the cal endar year 1905, wiil amount to about $20,000,000, against about $15,000 in 1896, $1,000,000 in 1900, $4,000,000 in 1898 and a little more than $4,000,- 000 in 1897. the year prior to the American occupation. Prior to 1899, the exports from the United States to the Philippines, the bureau reports show, had never ex ceeded $250,000, while in the present year they will aggregate nearly $6,000, 000. Imports from the islands, which ranged between $4,000,000 and $5, 000,000 per annum prior to 1899, we're in 1902, $10,000,000; in 1903, $12, 000,000, and in 1905 will be about $14,000,000, according to the bureau estimates. The imports in 1905 are chiefly bemp and sugar. Hemp imports for the first ten months of 1905 amounted to $10,- 376,528, and sugar $2,212,249. Connecticut Safe Looted. ' Suffield, Conn., Dec. 19. After binding the railroad watchman, W. Jones, and bis 12 year old son to chairs in the railroad station here this morn ing before daylight, six bank robbers pried their way into the Suffie.d Sav ings bank on Main street, blew open the safe after a fourth attempt and es caped with $50,000 worth of registered bonds and stocks not negotiable, ac cording to President Newton, of the in stitution. They overlooked $3,000 in cash and negotiable bonds in a drawer nearby. General Strike Is Improbable. London, Dec 19. The correspondent of the Daily Telegraph at St. Peters burg, in commenting on recent events in Russia, says he is still optimistic and is convinced of the impossibility of an organised general strike, because public opinion and the peasantry are strongly averse to it. He insists that the military outbreak at Moscow is ' in no way an indication of general disaf fection in the army. Furs Go Up in Smoke. New York, Dec. 19. Two hundred thousand dollars' worth of furs were destroyed by f re today in the establish ment of Max Paiseeki A Co., wholesale farriers and manufacturers of automo bile garments, 37-39 East Twenty-first street. Other tenants in the building will suffer heavy damaeea from water. I IN THE NATIONAL HALLS OF CONGRESS Monday, Decemoer 18. The canal emergency appropriation bill was received in the bouse from the senate. Discussion of this was followed by another debate oa insurance mat ters. .The house disagreed to the am admen ts to the canal bill and sent it to conference. Hale and Teller were named as the senate conferees on the canal bill. The senate in ths afternoon took op the house ship subsidy bill, which makes it the unfinished business before that body. A joint resolution was adopted pro viding for adjournment from December 21 to January 4. Dolliver has a new rate bill which he will introduce soon as a substitute for all measures now pending. Saturday, December 16. The senate today passed the Panama emergency appropriation bill. The only change in the measure as it passed the house is a provision which requires that congress shall be supplied with regular eetimatea of all salaries except those paid to laborers. Senator Dubois, of Idaho, will retain all his present committee places and se cures membership on the irrigation committee. The house indulged itself again to day to the extent of four hours of what was many times termed academic dis cussion of Federal control of insurance. The holiday recess was fixed from next Thursday to January 4. ' Friday, December 15. The Panama canal was again under consideration by the senate today and Tul man occupied the entire tirce gives to that subject. He did not indicate any intention of opposition to the pass age of -the appropriation bill, but he criticised the methods of the canal com mission in many of its transactions When the senate adjourned the bill was still pending, but there wss an agreement for a vote tomorrow. In the reorganisation of the senate committees, now about completed, Ful ton secures the chairmanship of the committee on claims, retains his place on public lands and on irrigation, and is assigned membership on one or two smaller committees. Ankeny becomes chairman of the irrigation committee and secures a place on commerce. Pilei is made chairman of coast and insular survey and given a place on public lands and territories, in which latter place he will be able to work for Alaska. Heyburn did not get a sitgle committee asked for. The only tew place given him was public buildings The fate of Dubois is not as yet settled, the Democrats not having completed tneir siate. The house today devoted 4J hours to lively debate on the possibilities of controlling insurance. Jones, of Washington, introduced bills appropriating $25,000 for a fish hatchery in Yakima county, and grant ing Washington 50,000 .acres of land for the benefit of the Soldiers' home. Thursday, December 14. The senate spent four hours today in discussing the Panama canal emergency appropriation bill and, when it ad journed, the bill was still under con sideration. A separate bill regulating the issuance of bonds for the canal and placing them on the same basis as other bends of the government was passed without debate. Senator Fulton introduced a bill ap propriating $100,000 to erect a public building at Faker City, another carry lag $15,0u0 for improvement of the grounds at Salem, and a third to ratify the treaty with the Klamath Indians and pay them $500,000. u The pure food bill was reported by Senator Heyburn. The Republican members of the house caucus today unanimously de clared in favor of admitting Oklahoma and Indian Territory as one state, and by a vote of 10 to 65 declared in .favor of admitting Arizona and New Mexico as one state. Both statehood questions are to be contained in one bill. Representative Cushman introduced a bill providing for the election of one delegate from Alaska to congress. representative Lacey, of Iowa, intro duced a bill granting grazing privileges on public lands to homestead settlers and holders of small farms in semi arid and arid lands. Prices are to range from 1 to 6 cents an acre annu- New Mexico Willing .to Unite. Washington. Dec. 14. Joint state hood for New Mexico and Arizona was discussed by the president today with a delegation of New Mexicans, among whom were Solomon Luna, Republican National committeeman; Major W. H. U. Llewellyn, United States District attorney; Judge A. A. Freman and A. M. Hove. Judge Freeman said he be lieved the people of the two territories would be glad to accept joint statehood. Major Llewellyn and Mr. Luna took np with the president some appoint ments in the judiciary of New Mexico. ally. A bill providing for a public whip ping post for the District of Colombia was introduced by Adams, of Pennsyl vania. A fourth Federal jude for Alaska is provided for in a bill by Jones, of Washington. Wednesday, Dectmber 13. .. The senate was in seneion for only one hour and a half today, and a por tion of that time was spent in ths con sideration of executive business. A number of private bills were introduced in the open session, and Allison . pre sented the leport of the committee on appropriations on the canal bill,giving notice that he Would call it up for con sideration tomorrow. He said that the committee was of the opinion that $11, 000,000 would be sufficient for present purposes and that the amount had been left as fixed by the house. Senator Gallinger introduced an amendment to the statehood bill to pro bibit the sale of liquor in the state proposed to be created by the admis sion of Oklahoma and Indian Territory for a period of 21 years, and then only after an amendment of the state con stitution permitting liquor traffic. Speaker Cannon announced the trans fer of Mondell (Wyoming) from the committee on military affairs to that of public lands,' and of Miller (Kansas) from public lands to military affairs. The transfer gives the two members the same Committee assignments htey had in the last congress. . Committee reference of the annual message of President Rooeevelt was made according to the subjects treated. The question bf Federal control oj lu saraUive was assigned to the committee on ways and means. ' In explanation of this. Payne said that, in his opinion, the only way the United States can deal with insurance companies is through the taxing -power, and over th-s the ways and means committee has jurisdiction. Among the bills introduced in the house today were the following : By Mondell, of Wyoming, providing for the appropriation of not more than $20,000 annually from the Eales of pub lic lands to the endowment of state schools of mines and mining or depart ments of mines and mining in connec tion with colleges already established. Bv Needhara, of California, transfer ring the Yellowstone, Yoeemite, Se quoia, General Grant, Mount Rainier, Crater Lake and Wind Cave national parks from the control of the Depart ment of the Interior to the Department of Agriculture. By Delegate Andrews, of New Mexi co, providing for the admission of the territory of New Mexico as a single sta'.e. A bill abolishing the Isthmian Canal commission waa introduced bv Renr- sentative Mann, of Illinois. In it die cretion is given the president to put the wors: oi building the canal under anv one oi tee executive departments, and also to operate the Panama railroad through the same means. CUTS OUT BONDS. Senate Committee Favors Canal Ap- propriation of SI 1,000,000 Washington, Dec. 13. The emerg. ency appropriation bill to provide the Isthmian canal commission with funds to carry on the construction of the Pan ama canal will contain no enneral W islation. This was decided by the Ben- ate committee on appropriations at a meeting lasting all of yeeterday, at wnicn ic was agreed to report the measure , appropriating $11,000,000, the amount named by the house bill. Tbe first section, in relation to the issuance of bonds, was stricken out. A bill containing this feature waa intra. aucea in me senate by Teller, and it win te dealt with by the finance com mittee. Tbe bill was amended to fur ther provide that in the future no ex penditures shall be made for the canal except by authority of congress, and when appropriations have been made by congress. Rivals For Coveted Place. Washington, Dec. 14. As the situ- ation sizes up today, it looks aj if Sena tor Ankeny would secure the vacant position on. the commerce committee formerly held by . Senator Foster of Washington. Mr. Ankeny and Mr. Fulton have been making a neck and neck race for this place. - Rate Bill After Holidays. Washington, Dec. 13. Railroad rate legislation will be allowed to rest until after the holidays. Members of the house committee on interstate and for eign commerce have agreed to take up and dispose of lees important measures before the recess. In the senate alro there is a disposition to let rate legisla tion slumber. The members of the in terstate commerce committee in that body have decided to hold but one meeting a week before Christmas and there is a general understanding that rate legislation will Dot be pushed. INSURGENTS RULE ON BALTIC. Gunners Refute -to Fire and 'Ships Cannot Be Trusted. Chicago, Iec. 18. The Daily News correspondent sends ths following from St. Petersburg: Expectation of the downfall of tbe government continues to grow in this' city. Insurgents still hold Riga, Reval and other Baltic towns. The garrisons in these provinces are insufficient to pat down the armed rebels and the ar tillerymen refuse to fire on them. Strikes of railroad workers and crews of steamships prevent the forwarding of troops and ammunition to the revolv ed provinces. - Though the government baa been urged to dispatch a fleet to the Baltic ports Admiral Birileff hesitates to make any move, fearing that his sailors will join the rebellion. DispaUhea received from Manr.hnria today report the situation of the army as desperate. Many officers are in hid ing from their own troops, fearing for their lives. The men are burning and pillaging everything within their reach, whila the -civil population has fled. Revolutionary proclamations have been posted about ia tbe barracks and in tbe streets. Dissensions among the chief officers seriously complicate matters. The soldiers accuse tbe com missaries of stealing large quantities of supplies and have burned their houses. WORK DONE ON IRRIGATION. Great Amount of Construction Dons b' Reclamation Service. Washington, Dec. 18. A resume of the work performed by the Reclama tion service to date shows that 77 miles of main canal, 54 miles of distributing system and 186 miles of ditches have been constructed, including dams, bead-' works, etc. Tunnels having a total length of three and one-half miles have been driven, including more than a mile of the great Gunnison tunnel. More than 250 miles of telephone line ' have been installed and are in opera tion; 126 miles of wagon road, many miles of which were cut out of solid rock in almost inaccessible canyons, 14? bridges and 50 office and other build ings have been constructed. The worka above mentioned have called for the excavation of 9,350,000 cubic yards of rock and earth, the lay ing of 70,000 cubic yards of concrete, 12,000 cubic yards of riprap, 150,000 linear feet of sheet piling and 10,000 feet of bearing piles have been driven. There have been purchased 130,000 pounds of railroad iron, 250,000 pounds of structural Bteel, 600,000 pounds of cast iron, 1,750,000 feet of lumber, and 78,000 barrels of cement. The government has erected a cement mill at a cost of more than $J00,000, which has already turned out 15,000 barrels of cement, and is now furnish ing about 300 barrels a day. The saw mills operated by Uncle Sam have cut 2.880,000 feet of lumber fcom the gov ernment reserves. HOLD UP TRAIN. Safes of North Coast Limited Rifled Near North Yakima. North Yakima, Dec. 18. Overland limited No. 1, due here at 2:50 o'clock. P. m., but running almost five hours late, was held . up at Hillside, in the Yakima canyon, 11 miles north of thia place, at J -.15 Saturday evening. The express car was dynamited, two safea blown open and all contents of value taken. From a good source it is learned that there was little currency in the safes ort the limited at the time of the holdnn. The main Contents cnnnintAd et drafta etc ' City Marshal Curren has ordered the arrest of every stranger seen in North Xakima who comes anvwhere npar an swering the description piven nf th holdup men. Up to midnieht last night there have been four .romta. One man, was arreBted by Officer Lane who aBwered the description perfectly. "o was lasen on a passenger coach on a tram cominir Imm tti a. r.i tko. holdup, and waa wet in tho ctin ti thought he may be one of the men. ii is tnought possible the bandits may have crossed the OnlnmM ii headed for Britiah Columbia. Christmas Pressnts by Shipload. New Ynrlr TVui 1 B TV. : line steamer Philadelphia, which sailed from-New York today for Plymouth, Cherbourg and Rnnthimntnn ...... 3,226 bags of mail for Europe. This represents me largest quantity of mail matter ever carried by any one stermer OUt of tha rwirt nt Van . IPL. Philadelphia la the Christmas ship worn jew York thia year and the major portion of the mail ha - - vain .q vuaoiaur of presents for relatives and friends- wbo are on the other aide of the At lantic. Finds Millions in Ground. Winneneo Man tv 10 in -r-i j-t-v. o. a union y- Blum.of Boston, principal owner of the Laurentine mina in t xf, j: . - -J WKUIIUU UIO tnct, 200 miles east of here, has un- eannea wU of gold that assay $400,- 000 to the ton. TW aVa rnillina , V W 1UIIJIVUBJ 111 sight. It is the richest discovery ever mads in gold mining. He apent ten years on and on in the district and has made much money.