LA1DLAW CHRONICLE VOL. I. LAI » L A W , NEWS OF THE WEEK In a Condensed Form lor Our Busy Readers. HAPPENINGS OF TWO CONTINENTS A Resume of the Less Important but Not Less Interesting Events of the Past Week. A general strike has been ordered in Russia in August. Dreyfus has been decorated cross of the Legion of Honor. with a There has been a wholesale slaughter of blacks by Hermans in Africa Perpetual daylight in Alaska serious ly interferes with wireless telegraphy. Another row has broken out in the government printing ottice at Washing ton, D 0 . AF rench woman has been arrested in Paris for robbery. She concealed her plunder in a wooden leg. The warehouses of the International Harvester company at Sterling, Illinois, have been destroyed by tíre. Loss, $100 00 0. Fire almost totally destroyed the plant of the United States Leather com pany at Prentiss, Wisconsin., The loss is placed at $000,000. Henceforth the canal commission will pay all laborers in silver. The change was made on account of West Indian negroes, who would rather starve than spend gold. Two Vienna doctors called in consul tation ou a case disagreed and a duel followed. Both were wounded and sent to the hospital. In the meantime the patient recovered without medical as sistai.ce. It is believed the czar will dissolve the douma. COUNTY, OREGON, F R ID A Y , T O KILL L IB E R T Y . JULY L*7, 190«. RED T A P E T A T T E R E D . C zar Will Use Army to Enforce His Will in Russia. j Assistant Secretary Ryan Taken Initi ative and Buys Sunnyalde Canal. St. Petersburg, July 18.— If reports in circulation in official circles this morning are grounded on fact, the su preme crisis in the affairs of the Rus sian nation is impending, and within a fortnight at most events must transpire that will result either in the perpetu ation of absolutism in Russia or the map of Europe will be changed. According to reports, the czar, after weeks of swinging from one extreme to the other, decides that he cannot grant the reforms demanded by the people, and has decided that the arbitrament of physical force shall be appealed to. He hae, through Generals Trepoff, Kaulbars and other leaders of the offi cial military class, canvassed the offi cers of ttie army, and has decided that they can he depended on, if it should come to a clash with the people, and so he has decided that from now on the wishes of the czar and his wishes alone shall he considered. This means, should the rumors be true, that the douma will soon he dis solved and that the new cabinet will represent more than ever the wishes of the governing claeses and disregard the demands d the people already made through the douma. None of the members of the cabinet who could be reached last night would discuss the matter. However, the de lay in announcing that the various de mands of the douma are even being considered, the concentraron of tried troops at all centers where advocates of a constitutional form of government are strongest, and the generally defiant at titude of the bureaucracy, all tend to lend credence to the report. Disturbances in all interior Russia continue, and riot, murder and rapine are the rule. In many camps pitched battles between soldiers and malcon tents are reported, hut all details are completely censored and are not per mitted to become public. Washington, July 20.— Acting Hecie- tary of the Interior Ryan today ap proved the purchase of the Sunnyside irrigation canal in Eastern Washing ton, and authorized the pa>mentof $250,000 for the name to the Washing ton Irrigation company. The approval of this purchase removes the last ob stacle in the way of the construction by the government of the Teton and Hun- nyside irrigation projects. Had this sale not been concldued to day, ihe Washington Irrigation com pany would have withdrawn its offer and the government would have been obliged to abandon both its projects, or else enter upon prolonged litigation. Notwithstanding the fact that Secretary Hitchcock approved the Tieton and Sunnyside projects more than six months ago and authorized the pur chase of the Hunnyside canal at the above price, the owners of the canal have been unable to collect one cent from the government, because the sec retary of the Interior has not approved tbe formal purchase, some of the gov ernment lawyers having found trivial objections which they believed should be corrected before the government paid for the canal. Mr. Hitchcock, on his counselors’ advice, refused to pay over the money. C LIM A X O F A D M IN IS TR A TIO N . Roosevelt Will Invoke Conspiracy Law and Dissolve Standard Oil. Washington, July 18.— Dissolution Suppression of newspapers caused a of the great Standard Oil trust may h* riot in St. Petersburg. the result of the prosecutions soon to Peace has been signed among the he begun against that corporation by the government. Assistant Attorney Central American republics. General Purdy, who has direct charge The last of the ladrone chiefs in the of the preparation of the prospective Philippines has surrendered. cases, returned to Washington today Germany proposes to exclude Ameri from St. Paul, where for two weeks he can canned meat of every description. has been in consultation with Special Counsel Kellogg, of the latter city, and \ revolution in Mex;eo íf threat District Attorney Morrison, of Chicago, ened. inspired by hostility to Ame i and, while he refuses to discuss details cans. as to the plans under way, there is good The National Livestock exchange de authority for the statement that the nounces the reports recently made on administration is aiming at a more the meat packing industry. vital object than fines or even impris John I). Rocnefeller will be arrested onment for the trust offenders. The cases against Standard Oil will immediately on his arrival in the It United States. He has sailed for this be ma le under the conspiracy act. is of recent memory that conspiracy in country. restraint of trade in violation of the The whole city of Syzran, Russia, provisions of the Sherman anti-trust lias been destroyed by tire. The con law resulted in the dissolution of the flagration has rendered 35,000 persons Northern Securities company. More homeless, who are aDo without food. recently the government won another Meager reports have been received of sweeping victory in the courts and dis The a tierce tire in Yokohama, Japan. More solved the Western paper trust. than a thousand bouses were destroyed same sort of success met the movement and some life is known to have been against the elevator trust in California. The breaking up of the monster lost. Standard Oil combination may come as The capital of Alaska has been moved the culminating grand climax of the froin Sitka to Juneau. Roosevelt administration, and in the Scotland will try to induce parlia light of today’s developments persons in Washington have recalled to them ment to grant home rule. with striking force these words spoken Santo Domingo will borrow $20,000,- by President Roosevelt shortly before 000 and pay all outstanding claims. the adjournment of congress: “ The proeecution of the Standard Oil Germany and Austria will help the company in the most important thing czar if another revolution breaks out. in this administration.’ ’ A forest tire in Calaveras county tbreatns destruction to California’ s big Bartlett Was Short $ 3 3 ,0 0 0 . trees. Waehington, July 18.— It was stated The bishop of Zululand accuses the British troops of wantonly killing many at the Treasury department today that an investigation recently concluded of natives. the affairs of the late Major George A. Santos Dumont has a new airship Bart lett, disbursing officer of the Treas which he believes an improvement over ury department, shows a shortage ap anything yet built. proximating $83,000. About $14,000 The mayor of Socorro, Tex., says re of this amount, however, isYaid to have ports of the recent earthquake were been innocently paid out on fraudulent vouchers presented by James Boyd, a greatly overdrawn. clerk in the Marine Hospital service, The English parliament will appro who in September last was arrested and priate $1,060,000 for the relief of the is now in jail pending his trial for mis unempl >yed this winter. appropriating government funds. The National Pure Food convention endorsed the stand taken by President Colombia Wants Commercial Treaty. New York, July 18.— The following Roosevelt on the pure food law. General Stoessel, commander of Port cable dispatch was received in this city Colombia: Arthur, during the Russo Japanese yesterday from Bogota, war, has been sentenced to death by a “ Colombian National Commercial con military commission for surrendering gress, assembled in Bogota, represent ing all parts of the republic, has unan to the Japanese. imously adopted resolutions endorsing Missouri is after the ice trust. favorably the negotiations begun by Evidence is being secured against President R«yes and Minister Barrett for new treaties with the United States the tobacco trust. and Panama. This action is most im A French dirigible balloon recently portant, assuring the support of the remained in the air eight hours. business interests.’ * The government is preparing to gauge British Anti Cigarette Bill. many Oregon and Washington streams. London, July 20.— The committee of The Virginia 2-cent a-mile railroad the house of lords on juvenile smoking rate law has been declared unconstitu has resulted in favor of legislation on tional. the lines of Sir Ralph Littler's hill in A tramp steamer bumped into the the house of commons, providing a pen new battleship Rhode Island, springing alty for selling cigarettes to a child un der 16 years of sge, imposing a penalty her armour plates badly. on anyone found in possession of ciga Kansas parking houses have been rettes or smoking tobacco, and author given five days to clean up or cloee up. izing the police, schoolmasters and parkkeepers to stop youths from smok The executors of the estate of the ing and to confiscate their tobacco. late Marshall Field estimate the value of the property left at $26,000,000. Armistice Stops Fighting. All express companies operating on the Northern Pacific and Great North ern roads have consolidated and here after will be known as the Northern Flxprees compan~. The deal aleo in cludes the Adame Express company on the Burlington. CROOK San Salvador, July 18.— The bellig erents today agreed upon an armistice. It is claimed that the Guatemalans during the recent fighting used explos ive bullets, notwithstanding the fact that Guatemala signed the Geneva con vention. G R O W R U B B E R IN U M A T I L L A . F O O D LAW Q U E S T IO N E D . Colorado Man Says the Climate and Legal Interpretation of T w o Words Soil Are Good. Means Much to • ts Friends. Pendleton- -There is a prospect that Umatilla county may become the rub ber growing center of tne Pacific North west in the near future. G. T. Doug las, of Durango, Col., representing the rubber trust of the United States, is here for the purpose of looking over the country and making an examina tion of the soil. He is now looking over the country in the vicinity of Echo, where the soil and climate is similar to that of New Mexico, Arizona southern Utah and southern Colorado, where the plant is grown very success fully. The plant is said to flourish in dry sandy soil, and in semi-arid dis tricts. Mr. Douglas believes this sec tion to be adapted to the successful growing of the plant which he says re quires about two years to come to ma turity. It can he put in at from $8 to $ 10 per acre and will yield from $100 to $200 per acre. Mr. Douglas will make a report of his investigations to his company in a few days. Salem — Upon the legal interpreta tion of the words “ adulterants” and “ adulteration” hangs the fate of Ore gon’s pure food iaw when it comes up for deeision before Judge George H. Burnett, of the Circuit court, for this county in the cise .of the state vs. George Fendorick, who is charged with selling the state lard that has been adulterated with tallow. F'ondorick, who is a meat dealer in this city, is under contract to furnish the state insane asylum with a quantity of lard, and it is charged hy the state dairy and food commibsioner that the lard furnished contains a certain per centage of tallow. The point at iesue is whether an adulterant in foods means the substitu tion of a substance which is injurious to the human system for a pure article, and if the court holds that tallow la not an adulterant it will throw the whole act open to technical violation in aii lines of trade in foodstuffs. Sodaville as Seat of Learning. Albany — Articles of incorporation have been tiled in the county e’ erk’ s office for tlie Mineral Springs college, at Sodaville. The college will be open ed next fall in the building at Soda ville formerly occupied by the old Min- eial Springs seminary, which closed its doors several years ago from lack ol financial assistance. It is now planned to establish a school the equal of any institution in Oregon, except those sup ported by the state. Classical, ecien tific, literary, normal, business and musical courses will he taught, and the institution plans to give degrees as high as master of arts. Big Real Estate Deal"at Eugene. Flugene — One of the largest real es tate deals ever made in Lane county was consummated recently when Eli Bangs, Ffiigene’ s pioneer liveryman, sold a quarter block of ground at the corner of West Ninth and Olive streets to G. M. Bonnett, a farmer of this city, for $35,000. A two story brick build ing and a large frame livery stable building are on the ground and they are included in the sale. Mr. Bangs secures in the deal a 960 acre stock farm in Harney county, which bis son, Abraham, ot this city, wid conduct. Grocers Not T o Buy Infected Fruit. Halem— County Fruit Inspector E. C. Armstrong has called upon all retail grocerymen and secured from them an agreement not to buy from farmers any frnit infected with San Jose scale. The dealers were willing to make the agree ment and will keep it in letter and spirit. If the retail merchants prevent the sale of diseased fruit to them, the inspector can give his entire time to watching the farmers who peddle fruit about town direct to the consumers. B IG G E S T O F A L L D R Y D O C K S . Will Be Built of Concrete at Bremer ton Navy Yard. Washington, July 20.— Plans for the largest and best drydock in the world are being prepared in the bureau of Yards and Docks at the Navy depart ment, to cost $1,250,000 and to he con structed at the Bremerton navy yard, Puget sound, Washington. This amount is the largest ever appropriated for a dock, and the new dock will be able to take in the largest battleship, either in course of construction or in contem plation. The location has already been selected, and borings are being made to learn the depth cf foundation. It is to be a concrete dock of the largest pat tern and materials will he purchased on the Pacific coast if practicabb. The dock is to be so constructed that it can be lengthened if vessels of great er length should be built in the future. It will be 37 feet in depth over sill, which .will provide ‘or thg docking of any vessel that can be built, unless some now unknown system of building is developed. The greater depth of the new dock is also designed to meet cases where a vessel has been injured and draws much more than the ordinary d:pth on account of the injury. Demand for Labor in Linn County. Albany— There is no excuse for a la boring man to complain for lack of work in Oregon this year. In Linn county there is a demand for laborers of every sort, and especially those wno will do farm work during the harvest ing season, and who are willing to work around a sawmill, or in the woods. Farmers in Linn county are looking in vain for needed assistance to garner their ciop^, and the lumbering mills along the rivers of Linn, Marion and Hot Wave Spoils Prospects. Lane counties are advertising for help Moro—-The hot w. hat has pre all the time. Many college students vailed in this section lor the past two are spending their vacation weeks at weeks has materially shortened the the sawmills. very flattering prospect for a big wheat crop. Reports from farmers are con Labor Famine in Valley. flicting, but there can be no doubt but Salem — As an illustration of how that all grain is more or les* shriveled great is the demand for manual and and there will be not over half aD aver team labor in the Willamette va’ ley, age crop. Many are already cutting the Willamette Valley Traction com their wheat for hay, but at the present pany, in commencing work upon the price for hay that will bring very satis N A T IO N E N T E R S BUSINESS. Portland Salem electric line, was un factory returns. able to secure meu and teams, and Japan Makes Great Stride Forward employed a steam traction engine to do on Road to Socialism. Treasurer-Elect Files Bond. the ground breaking. It is quite prob Salem— State Treasurer-elect George Washington, July 19.— According to able that help will have to be imported from other states in order that the com A. Steel has filed his official bond in advices received by the bureau of man pany may be able to fulfill its contracts the sum of $50,000, which was approv ufactures, the Japanese government has with the city council of Salem— to have ed by the governor. Later he will be undertaken one of the greatest experi the line completed between this city rqeuired to furnish an additional bond and Chemawa and ready for operation in the sum of about $500,000, the ments in the world’ s history, which in amount to he determined hy the gov dicates a clear purpose to protect, su on or before September 10. ernor. pervise, develop and nationalize all Wasco Farmers Begin Harvest. Japanese industries. It is stated that PO R TLA N D M ARKETS. - The Dalles— Haying is well advanced the provision for the national zation of throughout Wasco county, the bulk of Wheat— Club, 71c; bluestem, 73c; railways was hut a single step in the the grain hay now being in the stack red, 69c; valley, 71c. great plan of industrial naturalization and the second cutting of alfalfa has Oats— No. 1 white feed, $32; gray, toward which the country is fast ap begun. More hay has been cut in the $31 per ton. proaching. county this year than for many years Barley— Feed, $23.75 per ton; brew The movement for Manchurian na previous. This was owing to so much ing, $24; rolled, $24.50(3)25.50. tionalization has received careful atten of the grain having been injured by Rye— $1.50 per cwt. tion, and it is now proposed that a heat,, making it unfit to thresh. Next Hay— Valley timothy No. 1, $11(3 company shall be formed by the gov week cutting of grain will begin in sec tions where fall grain is raised, and in 12.50 per ton; clover, $8 50(39; cheat, ernment and private capitalists jointly most sections barley will he ready to $6.50(37; grain hay, $7@8; alfalfa, for the purpose of operating the rail roads, forests and mines in Manchuria. cut by the last of the week. Farmers $ 11 . If successful along the lines Japan is Fruits— Apples, $1.50(31.76 per box; estimate that about half a crop will he harvested. The fall wheat will he No. apricots, $1 50@1.75 per crate; cher now working, it is said that the indi 1, hut’ m >st of the spring wheat will he ries, 4@8c per pound; currants, 9(310c viduals and corporations of America per pound; peaches, 75r@$1.10 per that are striving for the trade of the inferior. crate; pears, $1 50 @2 25 per box; Orient will d ifo v e r that they are not Hot Weather Hurries Harvest. plums, $1(3125 per box; Loganber competing for this trade Against indi Eugene— The condition of the crops ries, $1.35(31.40 per crate; raspberries, viduals and corporations of Japan, hut in the Upper Willamette valley, espec $1 75@1.85 per crate; blackberries, 8c that they are in commercial conflict ially around F)ugene, during the fast per pound; gooseberries, 8c per pound. with the Japanese nation itself. Vegetables— Beans, 5(37c per pound; week have been excellent, and all the Embezzles Igorrotes’ Cash. farmers are happy. The haying season cabbage, 1 % c per pound; corn, 25(335c per dozen; cucumbers, 75c(3$l per box; is about half over and the crop to be Washington, July 20.—The War de lettuce head, 25c per dozen, onions, harvested will be one of the largest for partment was advised today of the ar years. The warm wave which has ex 10O12SÎC per dozen: peas, 4@5c per rest in Chicago of Truman K. Hunt, pound; radishes, 10@15c per dozen; tended over the valley has been some who brought to this country a hand of what detrimental to the wheat crop, rhubarb, 2@2}^c per pound; spinach, 50 odd Igorrotes from the Philippines. 2(3 3 • per pound; tomatoep, $1.25(3)2.25 which, according to the farmers, has Acting under instructions from the War advanced too far. Harvest hands are per box; parsley, 25c per box; squash, department, Hunt has been formally $1(31.25 per crate; turnips, 90c(3$l reported scarce, even with the good charged with holding from the dog eat per sack; carrots. $1(3)1 25 per sack; ers for 15 months salaries which he wages offered. beets, $1.25(8)1 50 per sack. agreed to pay, and also with embezzling Construction Slow. Onions — New, red, l ^ Œ l ^ c per $1,000, money they had made hy sell The Dalles— W. F. Nelson, president Dound, new yellow, l?4 @ 2c per pound. ing souvenirs from their far-away home. of the Oregon Trunk road, says con Potatoes — Fancy graded old Bur Hunt was at one time governor of the struction work is progressing slowly be banks, 40@50c per sack; ordinary, Igorrote district. cause of the scarcity of laborers. Mr. nominal; new potatoes, 76c(3$l 50 per Millions Left by Boit. Nelson expects to secure plenty of la hundred. borers after harvest. It is the purpose London, July 18.— Friends of Alfred Butter — Fancy creamery, 17)^(320c of the company to pash the road on to per pound. Beit, the Hiuth African financier, who Madras, a distance of 110 miles from Eggs — Oregon ranch, 21lu@22c per died Jnly 16, estimate that he left a the Colnmbia, as soon as it can be dozen. fortune of between $126,000,000 and built, and then to build through Cen Poultry — Average old hens, 12’ .¿(3 $150.000.000, and expect it will be tral Oregon and make connection with 13c per pound; mixed chickens, 11% found, when his will is published, that some southern road. fa 12c: fryers, 16017c; broilers, 16(3 legacies aggregating many millions, if 16)£c; roosters, 9(310c; dressed chick not the bulk of his fortune, will be de Exhibits for Jamestown Fair. ens, 14(316c; turkevs, live, 16r317c; voted to public benefactions in Eng Salem— Jefferson Myers, president of turkeys, dressed, choice, 17(322%c; land and Houth Africa. It is not prob the Lewis and Clark fair commission, geese, live, H<QH%c\ ducks, 12*^(313c. able that the terms of the will will and one of the commissioners to the Hops — Oregon, iy05, 11c; olds, 8c be published for several weeks. Jamestown exposition, was in Salem per pound. Refugess Are Returning. Wool— Flatter n Oregon average best, recently closing up the affairs of his Han Francisco, July 20 — It was es commission and also conanlting with 18<323 4 c ; valley, coarse, 22%fè2'A%c\ officers of the state fair hoard relative tine, 24c; mohair, choice, 28@30c per timated that within three weeks of the | fire on April 18, fully 335 000 people to the collection of exhibits for the Or pound. egon exhibit at Jamestown. Colonel : left Han Francisco. According to com- Veal— Dress*!, 5}%(37c per pound. Myers says that all exhibitors at the Beef — Dressed bolls, 3c per pound, pntations male today, just three country steers, 6(36c. months after the fire, there are now in state fair will he asked to preserve as cows, ranch of their products as possible and Mntton — Dressed, fancy, 7® 8c per Han Francisco 366,000 people, with 50,- the commission will purchase such as pound; ordinary, 5@6c; lambs, fancy, 000 more waiting in nearby cities for is meritorious for exhibit at James 8<18*c. opportunity to return as soon as suit town« Pork— Dressed, 7 @ 8 'ic par pound. able accomodations can he had. , \ NO. IS Successive Light Shocks Shake Down Earthen Walls. PEOPLE ARE FLEEING IN PANIC Extinct Volcano Near the Tow n Suspected of Reviving and Causing Shocks. El Paso, Tex., July 19.— Earthquake shocks numbering between 50 and 60 have practically made a ruin of the town of Socorro, 160 miles north of this place. The courthouse is a mass of ruins, and practically all the houses in town are damaged. According to re ports received, there is no loss of life. The damage has been wrought by a continuation of slight quakes, which have caused the walls of structures al- realy cracked to tumble to the earth. The first shocks were felt on Sunday, but the real damage has been confined to the last two days. E. M. Fink, a cattle buyer who came from Socorro today, declares he was sitting at dinner at the Wintkler hotel on Monday, when the entire side wall of the dining room fell in, and the guests and all the waiters scattered in every direction. The people are in a panic and all who can do so are leaving town. There is a crater of what is thought to be an extinct volcano not more than eight miles from Socorro, and the in habitants think that perhaps the vol cano has something to do with the re markable eeries of shocks. The tem perature of the water in Hot Springs at Sjcurro has increased over ten degrees and it is thought that this furnishes new evidence of internal upheaval of a local nature, and that the earth is dis turbed at great depths in the imn edi.ite vicinity of the town. The National railroad is sending box cars into the town to take the people away so great is their desire to leave the town. Huge boulders have been jarred down on the track from the mountain sides, and trains have been delayed thereby. The bridge abutments have been affect ed to euch an extent that orders have been issued to Santa Fe trainmen to p oceed with great caution over bridges within a radius of 30 miles of Socorro. U TA H C O A L LANDS S TO L E N . Federal Agents Procuring Evidence for Prospective Suits. Salt Lake City, July 19.— Rumors to the effect that agents of the Federal governmet are busy in Utah preparing to institute suits of a sensational na ture for the recovery of vast areas of public domain, current here for several months, were revived today, with an additional statement that within ten days suits would tie brought in the Fed eral court here to recover to the gov ernment more than 30,000 acres of coal lands, alleged to have been acquired hy coal companies through fraudulent means, part as agricultural or grazing lands through selection hy the Utah state land board, being later transferred to the coal companies. Other coal lands are said to have been filed on as such hy dummies who later transferred them to the corpora tions. More than 100 entries of this character are said to have been run down. While these reports cannot he abso lutely verified, a FYderal official in this city today admitted that suits are in preparation, making the additional statement that the Federal officials in trusted with the matter had received positive instructions from Washington not to talk, hut to prepare for action. It is stated also chat a Federal grand jury may he called to sift the evidence that hue been gathered in preparation for the prosecution of the civil cases. C L E A R IN G AW A Y D EBRIS. Hundreds of Carloads Dumped Daily From San Francisco. Han Franciaco, July 17.— Certain vis itors to San Francisco have given loud voice to their disappointment at seeing the city debris strewn three months after the disaster. “ It is an impossi ble task that Han Francisco has under taken,” they write home, and their la mentations come back by wire to this city. It is true that almost three months have elapsed, and it is also true that acres and acres of debris lie in th* heart of the city. Moreover, it is high ly possible that much of the debris will remain for several months. What these visitors have neglected to observe is that the debris is being cart ed away at the rate of 240 carloads a day. The dirt is carried in wagons to the bunkers on F'irst street, and from there trains convey it to the Protero swamps, where it is doing reclamation work. Throughout the old business section of the city dangerous walls still stand, hat the board of works has taken steps to have them torn down. This board Lias also called upon property owners to clear away the sidewalks on which their buildings front. When this ia done many of the streets still blocked will he opened. Such important streets as Htockton and Pine are not passable their entire length. The city is not waiting idly for the disappearance of the debris, but reconstruction and cleaning are going on simultaneously. M IN IN G F R A U D S IN B R A Z I L . Country is Full of Schemes to Obtain Money of Gullible. Washington, July 17.— Consul Gen era! George E. Anderson, in a report to the bureau of manufacturers from Rio Janeiro, charges that while some bona fide Brazilian diamond mines may re sult profitably, that country is full of schemes which are either out-and out frauds or are based on claims and facts so slight as to make them little less than fraudr. The report pays the United 8tates and Great Britain, especially New York, Chicago and London, are the chief financial base of operations for a number of promoters, who have never done any mining, and that there are a number of so-called mining companies now soliciting stock subscriptions in the United States whose officers are not even certain where the land they claim as property lies. The report slates that experienced men in Brazilian mining fields say that not a single mining company operating in the gold and diamond fields of Brazil has paid a dividend. The consul gen eral adds that it is a lamentable fact that a large proportion of the Brazilian mining enterprises are frauds and that there are now men of the United 8tates with enterprises which represent noth ing more than the money they can get from the American public. T E S T OF CANNED M EATS. Congress Will Know What is the E f fect of Age. Washington, July 17. — The bureau of chemistry, Agricultural department, is to carry on a series of tests this sum mer to ascertain definitely whether canned meats deteriorate. One of the bitter contentions over the meat in spection amendment to the agricultural appropriation hill hinged on the senate requirement that packers should place the date of manufacture on each can of meat. The packers, however, insisted that this was unwarranted, because they claimed that meat, once put up in air tight cans, would last forever. They declared that canned meat was as good in ten years as it was in ten days, and they brought to hear testimony of an official of the department to corroborate their statements. Home members of congress had their doubts about this, however, so it has been decided to make a thorough investigation and find out whether the packers were correct or not. Arkansas After Trust. Little Rock, Ark., July 19. — Huit wpr entered today against the five cot tonseed oil mills of this city by Attor ney General Rogers and Prosecuting Attorney Rhoton, charging them witn being members of a combine in viola tion of the anti-trust law, and alleging restriction of trade. The suits ask judgment in the sum of $5,000 per day, aggregating $130,000 against each com pany and ask also the revocation of their charters in this state. It is an- understood suits will be entered against the remaining 34 mills. Officers Preach Revolution. Ht. Petersburg, July 17.— At a meet ing held today at Gatchina. 30 miles from Ht. Petersburg, attended hy three of the Guard regiments, an officer ad dressed the men on the subject of the soldiers’ union, which is being orgsnii- ed. He pointed out that the league was democratic and was being organiz ed for the purpose of guarding the con stitution and establishing constitution al institutions and to prepare the army to come over to the people when they were ready and armed for resistance. The speech was received with applause. Crops May Rot. Warsaw, July 19.— The agrarian strike is still spreading and now ex tends throughout several provinces, in wh;ch the harvest is threatened with destruction hy the refusal of the peas ants to work in the fieldes. The Land- owners’ union has refused to grant the demands of the strikers. During the la«t three days Warsaw terrorists have attacked and robbed 20 government spirit stores. Wholesale murders of policemen have occurred. Killed at Peterhof. London, July 17.— A dispatch to a news agency from Ht. Petersburg says that General Koslov, of the Eieadquart- ers staff, was murdered in the park at Peterhof Haturday. His assailant used a revolver. Tiie three shots fired were all effective. The murderer was a well dressed man. He has been arrested, hut not identified. The case is regard ed as mysterious, as General Koslov was not connected with any political agitation. Stromboll'Opena New Crater. Rome, July 19.— An alarming erup tion is reported at Htromboli, the vol canic isle in the !,»pari islands off the north coast of Hcily. A new crater lias opened, which is belching out huge quantities of fiery matter, and nil vege tation in the vicinity is being destroyed. Thousands Without Homes. Nizhni, Novgorod, July 17.— A fire which broke out here today raged for six hours before it was checked. When it was finally extinguished 275 houses had been destroyed and more than 3,000 families had been rendered homeless. The lose ia placed at $400,000.