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VOL. XIV.
HOOD RIVER, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 11)02.
NO. 24.
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second and fourth Saturday in each month,
7 -;ju o'clock. :. L. Copfls, president.
Da. li. L. IUthm.E, Secjretary
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ti)' in each month. .
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Miph Ota Walker, Secretary.
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i O. U. W. Hall second and fonrth Saturday
of each month at i o'clock p. m. All U. A. K.
member invited to meet with u.
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C. J. II A Vita, Adjutant.
CtANliY W. R. C, No. 16-Meet first Satur-
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C. D. THorn-soR, Secretary
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K. L. SMITH, H. F.
A. N. Rahm, Pecretary.
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11 Meet second and fourth Tuesday even
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Mhs. Mat B. Davimom, Secretary.
0LRTAASSKMBLYNo."i037United Artisan,
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second and fourth Wednesdays social: Arti
sans hull. F. C. Baosiua, M. A.
M n. E. A. Barnes, Secretary.
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in A. O. U. W. hall every Tuesday night
C. K. Markhah, C. C.
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Meet iu Fraternal hall every Thursday
night. W. 0. Ash, N. a.
J. L. Henderson, Secretary.
OOF RIVER TENT, No. W, K. O. T. M..
meets at A. O. U. W. hall on the first and
third Fridays of each month.
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third Wednesdays of each month.
F. L. Davidson, V. a
E. R. Bradlet. Clerk. .
B. PRESBY,
Morney-at-Law and U. S. Commissioner.
Ooldendale, Wash.
Makes a specialty of land office work. Final
proofs in timber and homestead entries mad
before him.
JJR. J. W. VOGEL,
OCULIST.
Will make regular monthly visits to Hood
River. Residence 368 Sixteenth Street,
Portland, Oregon.
Q II. JENKINS, D. M. D.
DENTIST. -
Specialist on Crown and Bridge Work.
Telephones: Office, 2S1; residence, 04.
Office in Langille bid. Hood River, Oregon.
JjR. I. T. CARNS.
Dentist.
Gold crowns and bridge work and all kinds of
Up-to-Data Dentistry.
HOOD RIVER ORKQOK
JJ L.DUMBLE,
PHYSICIAN AND BURGEON.
Successor to Dr. M. F. Shaw.
Call promptly answered In town or country,
Day or Night.
Telephones: Residence, 81; Office, M
Office over Everhart's Grocery.
j F. WATT, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon.
Telephones: Office, 281; residence, 281
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TARY PUHLIC and REAL
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titles and agent. Satisfaction guaranteed or
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of (hop work. Shop on Stat Street,
between First and Second.
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EVENTS OF THE DAY
GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OP THE
TWO HEMISPHERES.
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week,
Presented In Condensed Form, Most
Likely to Prove Interesting to Our
Many Readers.
Negotiations for Cuban reciprocity
will be Tenewed by Secretary Hay.
Governor Yates, of Illinois, is suffer
ing from an attack of typhoid fever.
Two of the largest anthracite coal
companies in Ponnsylvania are to con
solidate. ,
The Alaska salmon nack fhows en
increase of 400,000 cases over that of
last year. - - T-
As far as in, the evidence in the
Molineux case looks very bad for the
defendant.
Another man has been arrested for
holding up the Northern Pacific train
in Montana.
W. J. Bryan's special train collided'
with a f i eight in Colorado, and three
people were injured.
The cholera death rate in the Philip
pines is constantly going higher. At
present 75 per cent oi the cases prove
fatal.
Colombia's delay in presenting
canal note is probably due to its being
vexed over American activity at
Panama.
The business man who is contented
with his business has stopped growing.
The man who (ay a he has business
enough, therefore has no need to adver
tise, has reached the full flood of the
tide. But after the flood is the ebb
always. It is a law of nature that
nothing shall remain in a state of rest.
Everything grows, or it decays. No
business can remain at a standstill for
any considerable time. Printers Ink.
VVu Ting Fang, Chinese minister to
the United States, has been lecailed.
A riot over nonunion labor at Chi
cago resulted in injuries to seven men.
A wealthy Quincy, Illinois, farmer
has been arrested for the murder of his
daughter's suitor.
The chief of the naval ordance hureau
reports in favor of sacrificing speed for
armament in the construction of bat
tleships. President Hill, of the Great Northen,
in a speech tc Montana farmers, said
bis road would make another cut in
freight rates soon.
A Northen Pacific special agent has
expressed his doubt of the man ar
rested for holding up a train in Mon
tana a few days ago being the right one.
President Roosevelt celebrated his
(4th birthday October 27. He spent
the day attending to his customary du
ties. Many messages of congratulation
were received.
A Louisiana train was wrecked by
running into a drove of cattle. The
engineer and a tramp were killed and
the fireman fatally injured. None of
the passengers were hurt.
A Wyoming woman has been arrest
d for having four husbands.
The fire relief fund raised in Wash
ington amounts to a little over $5,000.
Minister Henry L. Wilson declines
to be transferred from Chile to Greece.
Dr. Woodrow Wilson has been form
ally installed as president of Princeton
university.
A Dnnsmuir, Cat., constable was
Iain by thngs because he had run them
out of town.
frank Norris, a well known novelist,
died at San Francisco from the effects of
an operation.
Senator Hanna says his pnrpore in
politics is to establish better relations
between labor and capital.
Major Generals Corbin and Young
are home from Europe, where they
have been inspecting foreign armies.
England is becoming alarmed at the
condition prevailing among the Irith.
Shipments of arms to the island have
been prohibited.
Three persons were seriously and a
great many others slightly injured as
the result of an explosion in the rapid
transit subway of few York.
Roosevelt has issued the order to re
duce the army to its minimum
strength.
The cruiser Olympla is being de
tained at the New York navy yard for
lack of a supply of coal.
Governor Stone, of Pennsylvania,
has issued a general order withdrawing
the troops from the coal fields.
The coal strike arbitration commis
sion has perfected an organisation.
Judge Gray was chosen chairman.
It has been announced that H. R.
Nickerson, vice president and general
manager of the Mexican Central rail
road, has been offered the presidency of
the Southern Pacific.
AH members of the New York build
ing trades threaten to go on strike.
Seventy-five thousand men are involved.
Orders are to be placed at once for
the manufacture of the new three-inch
guns to supply the field artillery. It
will require ISO.
One of the wont storms that ever
raged in the Behring sea raked the
Nomecoajt from October 11 to 14.
Three lives were lost in the Nome sea
and large amount of damage was done
to buildings tjpng the water front.
FOUND. RUSSIAN SURVEYS.
Old Monuments Located as Indicated by
Anglo-Russian Treaty.
Seattle, Oct. 30. Advices were re
ceived frcm Juneau on the steamer Dol
phin, which arrived today, that the
missing Russian boundary monuments,
which have been so energetically
searched for by Lieutenant Emmons for
the past two seasons, have been discov
ered by a prospector of the Porcupine
district named James II. de Blondeau.
He is a native of Marseilles, France,
but he has been interested in the Por
cupine district and the modus vivendi
strip for several years. ThrouRh his
friendship with the Chilkat Indians he
gained information which gave him a
clew to the position of the first monu
ment. From this start he followed
along and discovered several more of
the old landmarks put up years ago by
the czar's followers. The line marked
by these monuments is about five min
utes inland from Pleasant camp, which
is 17 miles from Kiukwon. The latter
is five miles from tidewater, on the
Chilkat river. This makes the Russian
suivey line approximately 27 miles in
land to the Summit less than 10 ma
rine leagues, and just where it would
be expected to be from the language
used in the Anglo-Ruesian treaty of
1825. The Rainy Hollow district is
within American territory.
LITTLE HOPE FOR CHINA.
Southern Portion Reported In a Terrible
State of Lawlessness.
Tacoma, Oct. 30. "It will take 100
years or more of hard work and the ex
penditure of hundreds of thousands of
dollars to civilize Southern China."
This statement is made by Henry W.
Huntzell, a Methodibt Episcopal mis
sionary, sent out by the Chinese mis
sion two years ago to the Chosong sta
tion in Southern China. He is now on
his way back to Chicago on account of
ill health.
"In Southern China murder is as
frequent as meals, and it is called cus
tom instead of crime. Natives have
little or no moral laws. There is mar
riage law, but it is only for protection
of male inhabitants, A Southern Chi
nese woman, once married to a man,
can never desert him. A man ran have
as many wives as he likes.
' Slave traffic is rampant in all parts
of the southern provinces. Fathers
dispose of their daughters and wives in
the same manner as in this country we
dippose of livestock. Notwithstanding
conditions, within three years since our
mission was opened we have made 2G0
converts. We have established two
schools, and our meetings are well at
tended." BANK SAFE BLOWN OPEN.
The Robbers Take Their Time, While Pals
Keep Off Intruders,
Des Moines, la., Oct. 30. At Prairie
City, early this morning, robbnrs dyna
mited the safe of the Iowa State bank.
and secured an amount approximating
$4,000. They exchanged a fusillade
of shots with local officers and escaped.
Night Watchman Erskine discovered
four men approaching the bank at 1
o'clock. One of the men cornered him
and kept him covered with a rifle for
three bourn, while another broke open
the bank door and worked on the tafes.
The other two men patrolled the street,
and by a system of signals were able
to hold at bay several citizens attracted
to the scene. Five dynamite shots
were fired by the man in the bank be
fore he succeeded in getting at the cash
box. At 4 o'clock the men escaped,
after firing a number of shots :to terrify
the citizens and shooting through a
door at Erskine, who had opened fire.
A posse was quickly formed and is now
on the trail.
PLANS FOR CRUISER OUT.
Tennessee Will be a Powerful, Instead of
a Fast Boat.
Washington, Oct. 30. Acting Secre
tary Darling has settled the question
which has divided the naval construc
tion board relative to the proposed
armored cruiser Tennesseo, by accept
ing the tecommendation of the majori
tyof the board, which is in favor of
power instead of high speed. Hie de
cision was influenced, perhaps, by Ad
miral Melville himself, who assured the
acting secretary that the majoiity
plans, though short in speed, would
give the government a most formidable
and desirable warship. Therefore, by
direction of Mr. Darling, Judge Advo
cate General Lemly today sent out ad
vertisements calling for proposals for
the construction of twoarmoredjeruisers
of the Tennessee class of about 14,500
tons displacement, the bids to be open
ed January 6, 1903. The construction
board now will periect the plans for
two small gunboats to be advertised
soon.
For Chinese Trade.
Chicago, Oct. 30. The Record-Her-aid
tomorrow will say: The manage
ment of the Harriman lines is prepar
ing to wake a vigorous campaign for
increased Oriental traffic. 1'ith this
end in view, orders will be given for
the construction of four mammoth
ocean going steamers to ply between
Portland and Asiatic ports. The cost
of the steamers will be between 2,
000,000 and $3,000,000 each, and con
struction will begin at once.
Got the Wrong Man.
Batte, Mont , Oct. 30. A special to
the Miner from Missoula says that Van
hazendoct, who was held on enppicion
of being the lone bandit who held up
the North Coast Limited on the North
ern Pacific at Bearnouth last week,
has been released by the authorities.
Trainmen who confronted the prisoner
today were nnable to identify hisa as
the robber.
NEWS OF OREGON
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS
OP THE STATE.
Commercial and Financial Happenings of
the Past Week-Brief Review of thf
flrowta) ssd Development of Various
Industries Throughout Our Common
wealthLatest Market Report.
Governor Geer is making a tour of
the eastern part of the state.
Judge Gray, a prominent citizen of
Astoria, and a native of Oregon, is
dead. He was 63 years lod.
The merchantable lumber of the
Cascade forest reserve is estimated at
50,000,000,000 feet, board measure.
The assessment valuation of Marion
county has increased 4 per cent during
the past year, according to the assessor.
Senator Mitchell has departed for
Washington, where he will take up his
labors prior to the opening of congress.
The Willamette river is 'changing its
course at Salem and threatens to leave
that city high and dry unless steps are
taken to stop it.
Men under governmental supervision
have been doing considerable dynamit
ing in the Willamette near Independ
ence the pest week. Several large
snags and boulders were dislodged,
making the upper river transportation
much safer than last winter, when two
or three steamers were sunk by running
into submorged snags.
Tke Willamette Valley Prune asso
ciation, of Salem, is shipping three
carloads of prunes a day and is operat
ing its packing bouse day and night.
All prunes are shipped in boxes bearing
th association brand. Sales are being
made on the basis price of 2 cents
for the four sizes in bags and a half
cent more for fruit in 25-pound boxes.
Judge Burnett has rendered a de
cision which seems to be very sweeping
in its effect and which will prevent
hopbuyers .from recovering possession
of hops-covered by the ordinary con
tract. The decision is to the effect that
the contract is a mortgage and that the
grower can discharge it by paying the
money advanced to him, with interest.
Hops have reached 25 cents at Salem
and a good many sales are now looked
for.
Three hundred aoats were shipped to
Montana from Monmouth few days
ago.
Two new steamers, one for the
Columbia river and one for Puget sound
are being built in Portland.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
new Booth-Kelly sawmill at Spring
field. The company hopes to have the
mill in operation by the first of the
year. It will have a capacity of 250,
000 feet of lumber per day.
Oregon has a most promising copper
district in a section little known.
This is the Imnaha, on the Snake river,
not far from where the Seven Devils is
located on the opposite side. As yet
litle development has been done.
The recent rains throughout the Wil
lamette valley have enabled Tthe farm
ers to push the work of fall seeding.
All fruit is picked and other fall work
over and a few days more of good
weather will enable the farmers to fin
ish seeding.
Printers of Oregon City have formed
a nnion.
The Necanicum spruce lumber com
pany, of Seaside, is making some ex
tensive improvements to its plant.
A majority of the Lewis and Clark
fair directors favor a special session of
the legislature to make an appropria
tion for the exposition. They believe
this should be done at once in order to
let the other states have an opportunity
to see what we have done in the matter
and allow them to act accordingly.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat WallaW alia, 6768c; blue
stem 7374c; valley, 67cv
Barley Feed, $21.00 per ton; brew
ing, $22.00.
Flour Best grade, 3.20(33.50; grah
am, $2.903.20.
Millstuffs Bran, $19.00 per ton;
middlings, $23.60; - shorts, $19.60;
chop, $17.
Oats No. 1 white, $1.05(31.07;
gray, $1.021.05 per cental.
Hay Timothy, $10(311; clover,
$7.50; cheat, $8 per ton.
Potatoes Best Burbanks, 60(3 70c
per sack; ordinary, 50(365c per cental,
growers' prices; Merced sweets, $1.75(3
2 per cental.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $3.50(3
4.25; per ponrd, 10c; hens, $4(34.50 per
dogen; per ponnd, 11c; springs, $3.00
3.50 per doren; fryers, $2.503.f0;
broilers, $2.00(32.60; ducks, -44.50(3
6.00 per dozen; turkeys, young, 12X
13c; geese, $8. 0036.60 per dozen.
Cheese Full cream, twins.
15)c; Young America, 15 & 17
factory prices, ll)io less.
Butter Fancy creamery, 27J3 30c
per pound; extras, 30c; dairy, 18
8 20c; store, 12'15.
Eggs 25(1 30c per doien.
Hops New crop, ?225c per pound.
Wool Valley, 12X15c; Eastern
Oregon, 8314)tc; mohair, 26(328c.
Beef Gross, cows, 3(33 per
pound; steers, 4c; dressed, 6870.
Veal-7)'(iS5e.
Mutton Gross, Sc per pound;
dressed, 6c
Lambs Gross, 3)'c per pound;
dressed, 6 Sc
Hogt Gross, 6'26ieper pound;
dressed, 77)t
PEACE BOARD MEETS.
Anthracite Coal Strike Commission Holds
Short Session Work Outlined.
Washington, Oct. 28. The anthra
cite coal strike commission yesterday in
the hearing room of the interstate com
merce commission held its first confer
ence with parties to the controversy
in the anthracite regions. There was
a full representation of both operators
and miners and members of the press,
and a number of other interested parties
were present. The commission occu
pied the elevated seats generally filled
by members of the interstate commerce
commission, Judge Gray, aa president,
occupying the center. President Baer
tendered the commission special train
which, was declined, the members de
ciding to ask or accept no favors.
The commission met at 2 P. M. Mr.
Mitchell, president of the United Mine
workers, Walter Edward Weh) and Dis
trict President Fahay appearedfor ti e
miners, and the cot-1 carrying roads
were represented as follows: President
Biter, of the Philadelphia A Reading;
E. B. Thomas, chairman of the board
of the Pennsylvania coal company and
(lillsdxie coal and iron company; Al
fred Walter, president of the Lehigh
Valley; W. II. Truesdaie, president of
the Delaware, Lackawana & Western;
David Wilcox, vice president of the
Delaware & Hudson; John B. Herr,
vice president of tho Scran ton coal
company and ElkbU coal and iron
compiany; J. H. Torrey, attorney for
the Lehigh valley company.
The proceedings covered about two
hours' time, and were given up en
tirely to a discussion of the time and
method of proceeding with the pro
posed investigation. The commission
decided to begin its work next Thurs
day morning at 9 o'clock, the first days
of the investigation to be devoted to a
physical examination of the miners and
the homes of the miners, starting in
the vicinity of Scranton. The entire
anthracite field will be covered. There
was much discussion over a proposition
made by the commission to have expert
accountants appointed to audit the
statements of wages and classification
of miners to be made by the operators
for use of the commission, but no de
cision was reached on this point beyond
the announcement by the chairman of
the commission s intention to appoint
euch an accountant in case his services
should be found necessary.
Judge Gray, the president of the
commission, read the order of the pres
ident creating the commission, and in a
general way outlined the procedure to
ue followed from the presentation of
the iesues. He stated that in accord
ance with the immemorial practice
among English speaking peoples, the
commission would first receive the
statement or demands of the miners,
who were to be regarded for the pur
poses of this case as the prosecutors.
The reply of the other side would then
be heard, Judge, Gray said, in order
that the commission might have before
it a definite issue.
CHICAQO SWITCHMEN AQAIN.
Demand an Advance of 5 Cents an Hour
or a Strike WUI be Ordered.
Chicago, Oct. 29. Grand Master
Morrissey, of the Brotherhood of Rail
way Trainmen, and Vice Grand Master
W. G. Lee, have arrived at Chicago to
look after the interests of the 7,000
yardmen employed in the Chicago dis
trict, who have presented a demand to
the railroads for an increase of 5 cents
an hour. The railroads have been not
ified that an answer is expected Dy next
Friday.
The action taken by the Chicago
yardmen is said to be the first step in
the movement which started in Kansas
City last June, when the chairmen on
the scale committe of all systems, rep
resenting both the Brotherhood of
Railway Trairimen and the Older of
Railroad Conductors, met in joint ses
sion and decided to demand a general
increase in wages for all members of
both organizations. The question was
submitted to a referendum vote of the
membership of both organizations, and
this vote is not all in yet. About
three-fourths rf the entire vote is now
in the hands of the executive officers of
both organizations, and the remainder
ia expected before November 1. The
Chicago district of the switchmen is,
however, separate, and the vote was
almost unanimous in favor of demand
ing the increase.
' - NO MORE AID NECESSARY.
Miners are Now at Work, and Can Take
Care of Themselves.
New York, Oct. 29. Daniel 8. Ja
cobs, chairman of the miners' defenso
fund committee of the Central Federat
ed union, said, at meeting of that
body today, that as the strike -of the
anthracite miners bad been declared off
the committee did not think it neces
sary to levy any further contributions
for the miners.
For Puget Sound Navy Yard.
Washington, Oct. 29. In his nusl
report the chief of ordnance recom
mends that an appropriation be made
for erecting an ordance workshop at
the Puget sound navy yard, also a
storehouse for gum. Fifty thousand
dollars appropriated last session for
ordnance machinery is asked for imme
diate nse in commencing work on the
workshop. Negotiations are in pro
gress looking to acquisition of a site on
Dye's inlet for a naval magazine.
Sharp Naval Battle Promised.
Colon, Oct. 29. The safe arrival of
the Colombian cruiser Bogota at Pana
ma promises sharp naval engagement
in isthmian waters very shortly, aa
American gunners are on board both
fleets. The government's hopes are
now centered in the career of the
Bogota.
VESSEL GOES DOWN
STEAMERS CAPITAL CITY AND TRADER
COLLIDE ON PUGET SOUND.
An Immense Hole was Torn In the Hull of
the Former and She Sank Twenty
Passengers Aboard, but All Escaped
Court of Inquiry Will be Necessary to
Place the Blame.
Tacoma, Oct. 30. The well known
sternwbeel steamer Capital City, Cap
tain Edwards, operating beUeen
Olympia, Tacoma and Seattle, and the
small Canadian freighter Trader, Cap
tain II. Parsens, which was en route
from Steveston, B. C, to Tacoma with
a cargo of canned dog-fish salmon for
export on the steamer Tremont, collid
ed about 6:30 last evening off Dash
point, three-quarters of a mile past
Brown's point, towards Robinson's
point. The Capital City was sunk.
No one was seriously injured, although
the Capital City had about 20 pas
sengers aboard.
An immense hole was torn in the
sternwbeeler's hull, on the port side,
just abaft of the forward companion
way. She filled rapidly, and had bare
ly time to run for the beach, where
she sank. It was within a couple of
hours of low tide when the mishap oc
curred, and the after top of the Capital
City's house aft was barely out of
water, her paddle wheel entirely out of
sight. Forward the main deck was
clear. At high tide only the Texas
was out of water.
The Trader's stem was torn off and a
hole gouged in her bow above the
water line. She made port in safety.
A court of inquiry will be necessary
to determine blame for the accident.
The captain of the Trader claims that
he signaled twice to pass the Capital
City on the starboard side. The first
whistle was not answered, but the
second was responded to with the star
board signal. The next thing he knew
the Capital City attempted to cross his
bows. The captain of the Capital City
says he did not see the trader. The
night was perfectly clear.
CONTRABAND OPIUM SEIZED.
Chinese Steward on Government Vessel
Charged with Smuggling.
Seattle, Oct. 30. Eighty pounds of
cpium, which a Chinese steward on
the coast survey steamer Gedney will
be charged with attempting to smuggle
from Victoria to Seattle, was seized
aboard the cutter by customs inspectors
today. Eight parcels, worth in the ag
gregate $1,024, were found in the
steward's department. Gong Gee, the
steward, is in the county jail awaiting
trial for attempting to smuggle a coun
tryman between the same points on
the same voyage. A strange feature is
the smuggler's cool nerve in selecting a
government vessel for a vehicle with
which to carry on his illegal practice.
Secretary Shaw's son, a guest on the
Gedney, was induced by some represen
tative of the Celestial to say that Gong
Gee wanted his effects thrown over
board. This gave the officers a cue to
search for opium.
SMUOQLINQ WORK EXPOSED.
Many Contraband Chinamen Have Been
Conveyed from Mexico.
El Paso, Tex., Oct. 30. What ap
pears to be a gigantic smuggling con
spiracy for conveying contraband China
men from Mexico to California has
just come to light here. For the past
six months a half dozen United 'States
marshals and secret service men have
been working on the case, but the facts
only became public today. It seems
that the Chinamen have been stowed
away in box cars of outgoing freight
trains and carried as far West as the
California line.
For these services the Chinese agent
is said to have paid $100 for each man
smuggled to Tucson and $150 for each
one carried to Yuma. It was reported
today that certain trainmen bad been
discharged for participation in the con
spiracy, but this leport has not been
verified.
JURIST VENTS HIS SPITE.
America Now Understands How and Why
It Lost the Samoan Case.
Washington, Oct. 30. The officials
here find an ample explanation of the
adverse decision of King Oscar in the
matter of the Samoan claims in the
statement that comes from Stockholm
to the effect that the king's decision
was influenced by three jurists, one of
whom was M. Cedar k rani, at one time
chief justice of Samoa. It is stated
that while filling that important post,
M. Cedarkrans came into frequent col
lision with Judge Chambers, the Amer
ican land commissioner, who afterwards
succeeded Cedarkrani as chief justice,
and it is believed that the personal ill-
feeling that followed undoubtedly in
fluenced the character of the advice given
to King Oscar.
- Kasrea Breaks Pacific Record.
San Francisco, Oct. 30. The Pacific
mail company's new steamer Korea ar
rived at noon today from Yokohama,
breaking the record across the Pacific.
The steamer made no stop between the
coast of Japan and ber home port, and
came flying through the water at the
average of nearly 500 miles a day.
Yokohama, in direct line to San
Francisco, is 4,700 miles, The Korea
made the passage in 10 days, averaging
470 miles a day.
Entire Freight Train Burned.
La Porte, Tex., Oct. 30. An engine
spaik today started small prairie fire
A freight train following fanned the
blaxe and cotton on flat car was ignit
ed. The entire train was burned.
TITLE IS VALID.
Report of Attorney General Knox Says.
Panama Canal May be Sold.
Washington. Oct. 28. "The title to
the Panama canal is valid," is the gist
of the report to President Roosevelt by
Attorney General Knox on his investi
gation of the offer of the Panama com
pany. The next step, on the part of
the United States, will be to negotiate
and rttify a treaty giving to it the
rights demanded under the canal legis
lation of last session. President Roose
velt will do everything in bis power to
secure the completion of such a treaty
in time for presentation to congress at
the coming short session, as he believes
ample time intervenes for accomplish
ing this object. Should the Colombian
government delay or decline to accede
to the conditions laid down by congress,
thereby causing a postponement until
the first session of the Fifty-eigth con
gress, there is a possibility that the
president will again take under consid
eration the construction of the canal
over the Nicaraguan route. The opin
ion prevails here, however, that a
treaty of satisfactory character will he
negotiated, and that the first steps
looking to the construction of a canal
will be undertaken early next year.
BOLD BANDIT TAKEN.
Man Who Is Believed to Have Held Up the
Train In Montana Is Captured.
Missoula, Mont., Oct. 28. Deputy
Sheriff W. W. McCormick arrested
near Bonita today a man believed to be
the individual who, single-handed, Ik Id
up the North Coast Limited passenger
train and murdered Engineer O'Neill
near Bearmouth. The man's size and
general description answer to that of
the robber. He gives the name of
Alfred Vanhazendoct, and at times tries
to talk with German accent and b train
uses plain English. He is of medium
statue, has heavy shoulders and is in
clined to stoop, and wore when arrested
a gray suit of clothes and I peculiar lit
tle cap of blue color, and bad two 45
caliber Colt's revolvers strapped to his
body.
He acknowledges he was at Gold
Creek the night previous to the hold
up, and says be is a tie maker looking
foremployment and that he was en
route to Missonla when tin naaeerl
through Gold Creek. He explains his
slowness in getting over the ground and
bis not being seen all day yesterday
along the road from Gold Creek to
Missoula by stating that he missed his
road short! r after leaving Gold Creek
and had to retrace his steps. The
officers discredit the man's story.
JAPANESE BARRED.
Washington Court Decides They Cannot
Become American Citizens.
Olympia, Oct. 28. The supreme
court, in a decision handed down today,
decides that a Japanese cannot become
a citizen of the United States. The
point came up directly in the matter of
the admission of a young Japanese
lawyer to the bar of this state. Takuji
Yamashita, of Seattle, passed a very
creditable examination for admission to
the bar in the examinations last May,
but the law making citizenship a qual
ification for admission to the bar of
this state is very plain and is undis
puted. The main point in the case
which was presented to the supreme
court in the form of briefs was whether
a native of Japan could become a citi
zen of the United States, and whether
the superior court of Pierce county act
ed within its jurisdiction in granting
naturalization papers to Yamasbta.
The decision on this point covers a
matter on which it is said there is no
recent decision by any court, and it
therefore becomes a matter of wide in
terest.
WRIQHT GIVEN A VOTE.
Recorder Is Added to Coal Strike Peace
Commission Both Sides Agree.
Washington, Oct. 28. At the request
of the members of the anthracite coal
strike commission, and with the assent
of both the operators and miners, Pres
ident Roosevelt has appointed Carroll
D. Wright, recorder of the commis
sion, member of that body. Mr
Wright has accepted the appointment.
Mr. Wright, as recorder of the com
mission, has received replies from most
of the coal mine owners who are parties
to the controversy, indicating their ac
ceptance of the invitation of the com
mission to attend the conference to be
held for the purpose of agreeing upon
plans for the bearings to be given by
the commission, and also a reply from
Mr. Mitchell, saying he would be rep
resented at the meeting.
Cubans Up In Anns.
Santiago d Cuba, Oct. S8. The
International Brotherhood league sent
to New York by the steamer Orizaba
today 20 children, whose destination is
the league school at San Diego, Cal.
The representatives of the league offer
to educate free an unlimited number of
intelligent children. Their operations
are being opposed by the Cuban press,
the Catholic chnrch and Protestant
missionaries, who declare the league is
making proselytes to Buddhism.
New Torpedo Boat to be Tested.
San Francisco, Oct. 28. The sub
marine torpedo boat Grampus, recently
bnilt at the Union iron works, is in
drydock ber being made ready for her
official trial on the bay. This will in-
elude not only the submarine trip, bot
a cruise of some distance, with perhaps
' a test of ber efficiency in approaching a
I vessel unaware.
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