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VOL. XV. -T-1 :.:
ENVOYS
TAKE IT
EASY
Witte Talks Boldly but the
IWhoJe Hatter Is up
to the Czar
Portsmouth, N. IL, Aug. 2S, Witto
this morning when asked nbout tho re
port sent out to tho effect that tho
President had bcon authorized by Ja
pan to walvo all question of Indemnity,
and offer to sell Sakhalin, tho redemp
tion prico to bo fixed by a mixed com
mission composed of representatives of
neutral European powers, said: "That
la moroly nn Incorrect version of what
I oxplalnod four days ago. It la an at
tempt by Japan to got lndomnity un
dor another name, and Russia rojected
it."
Portsmouth, Aug. 23. Tho crisis In
tho peaco negotiations lias not passod.
Manyl messages passed- botwecn tho
envoys and their governments, but thojtnnglod a hornet woro nothing to bis
announcement is made that nothing has
teen received that will change tho sit
uation. Both sides are standing firm.
Spokesman for Witto and Komura say
thero is no hopo for peaco.
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An Ancient Weapon.
Honry Flotchor dlseoverod a relic of
early times a fow days ago. It appears
to bo a cross botwoon a gun and a pis
tol. Tho barrol is about 13 inches in
length, nnd lias tho hammer on tho un
der aldo of tho barrol, just in front of
tho trigger. Tho brooch roscmblos that
of a pistol. Tho workmanship is rath
er crude, Tho relio was found on tho
old McCullough plaeo, and will bo sont
to tho Orogon Historical socloty. Tel
ephone Register,
Electric Storm at Phoenix.
Phoenix, Ariz., Aug. 28. Phoenix
and vicinity Saturday night oxpori-
enccd tho most destructive electric
storm of yearn, which was accompanlod
by a heavy fall of rain. Tho lightning,
truck nfc varlouB points within tho
city. 8Ix hundred tolophones wero put
out of oporatlon, and tho city lighting
plant and powor company considerably
damaged.
Ho Told Nothing Now,
Washington, Aug. 28. Edwin S,
Holmes, former assoclato statistician of
tho department of agriculture, surron
dored to tho United States marshal this
morning, in response to an indictmont
eharglng him with conspiracy in con
nection with th promatur publication
of government crop reports.
Watered Thoir Stock.
San Francisco, Aug. 28. Tho direc
tors of tho Southern Pacific, at a meet
ing today, voted to Increase tho capital
tock to $100,000,000, tp provido for
new construction and equipment, and
also to toko up outstanding mortgages.
Tho new Issuo was already subscribed'.
Will Investigate Navy Yard.
8eattle, Wash., Aug. 28. A special
from Washington states thAt Secrotary
Bonaparto will .inako a thorough inves
tigation of the alleged graft in tho Pu
got Sound navy yard at Bremerton.
O' - -
Wheat Market.
Chicago, Aug. 28. Wheat, 70
wra, 53; oats, 25. i
Hop Pickets
We offer yoa tfie best values fn the city to GLOVES,
HATS, SHIRTS, OVERALLS, JUMPERS, SHOES
and CLOTHING. Big line of odds and ends In Men's
Fw Hats at $X.OO. Worth from $.35 to $1.95.
LADIES' TAN SHOES
Oar $2i95 Hne now $2.00. The best vafoe ever offered
to Salem in reliable footwear.
to shoe department.
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SHUT OUT BOATS AND TRAINS.
Arkansas Quarantines against Lousl-
ana, and All Trains Stopped.
Llttlo Rock, Ark., Auk. 28. Tim v.
ornor Issued! a. p-oclamatlon forbidding
irwgiM, passenger and baggago trains
and all boats from ontorlnc tho stntn
from Louisiana.
A Smutty Crowd.
Atlantic City, Aug. 28.-A lone- dls-
tnnco touring party in on automobile.
which just arrived', is composed of Mr.
and Mts. F. M. Smut. P. E. Smut ami
Mrs. Bonny Smut, all of Chicago. Thoy
camo hero from Portland, Or., in their
mnchlno. Thoy hnvo becb weeks in
crossing tho continent. Today thoy
wont bathing in tho Atlantic, aftor
taking a plungo In tho Pacific caTly In
July.
Tho visitors said thoy had traveled
through! Yollowstono Park, nnd wero
nmong tho first autoists to mako tho
attempt through tho national prcsorvo.
Thoy aro to leavo hero during tho week
for Buffalo, N. Y.
Tho Party of Six.
Judgo Camoron was shocked! Well
ho might hnvo been. Tho emotions of
a sednto spldor whoso web has on-
whon tho po'ico marched thoso six aris
tocratic offondora Into his court. His
ona dosiro, llko tho Irishman's who had
caught tho bull by tho tall, was for
somebody to help him lot go. And wno
so ready to help lot go of tills com
poslto bull, a six-hoadod nnimal, in
fact, as his worship tho mayor t Dr.
Lane was elected on a platform of rig
orous enforcement of tho law; but what
Is tho law between Democrats! Tho
law is made for minnows, not whales;
Ono shuddors involuntarily at tho
rudo impudonco of tho pollco in dis
turbing tho recreation of this dis
tinguished party of six. Gambling is
a low vice, of courso, whon practicod
by a lumber jack in a saloon, but .gam
bling by A. 8. Bennott and his Demo
cratic friends in a hotol parlor is a
very difforont matter. Undor such cir
cumstances it may not bo exactly a re
ligious oxerciso, but cortainly it savors
of moral sublimity. It argues a friv
olous mlnVl in Mayor Lane to look upon
this Indslcrotiomof tho pollco aa a joko.
"A good joko" is what his honor
styled this invasion of tho' sacred priva
cy of tho six Democratic statesmen at
their gambols. Wo tnko tho mattor
moro sorlously. What is tho country
coming to whon " ruffianly dotoctivos
daro to troat such mon as Mr. Bennett
and Mr. Matlock, caught law-breaking,
with the fnmo ignominious rudeness as
thoy would a common offondcrf
To bo suro tho wrong was partially
ropalrod by tho instont dischargo of
tho distinguished innocents and tho
miraculous fonretfulnoss of thoir
names, but this is not sufficient. Nor
will it bo sufficient meroly to punish
tho dotoctlvos who mado tho nrrost. Wo
suggest that tho city of Portland, in
tokon of humiliation and penltonco for
this grave blunder of its officials, erect
a slsheadod statuto to Mr. Bennott and
his injured friends upon somo approprl
ato spot In Sullivan '9 gulch. Oregon
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Bnsy With Land Frauds.
Portland, AufiL 28. Stephen Farroll,
of Portland, and John Mitchell, of Lin
coln county, woro witnesses in tno red-
oral court this morning, in tho Investi
gation of tho land fraud on tho Sllotz
rosorve.
Yellow Fever.
Nw-Orleans, Aug. 28. There wore
03 now coses and five deaths up to 3
cf'cloelc
Supplies
See them on front table
$&j!&e
tonight snowEits and warmer;
SALEM, OREGON,
GRAFT IN
A NAVY
YARD
Sensational Charges Wade
About the Management at
Bremerton, Wash.
Washington, Augf 28. Sensational
charges of graft in tho navv vnnl nt
Pugot Sound havo been brought to tho
attontlon of Secretary Bonaparte,
through a report of Special Agent R.
II. Plckoroll, who has boon conducting
an investigation at that point for sev
eral weoks. It Is charged In the report
that cortaln employes of tho yard hnvo
been smuggling government supplies
from tho yard, nnd that ono of tho gov
ernment launches has been used for
months to carry tho goods and materi
al from Bremerton to "fences," from
which they aro Bold; that employes
Inro comptlled to livo in certain board'
Ing houses, whero thoy aro charged ex
orbitant Tatos, and thoy do not movo
for foar of being laid off; that alien
contract labor is employed nt tho j-nrd,
and thnt a number of fugitives from
justice am employed there.
These charges aro backed up by affi
davits, which shows that corruption
rivollng that exposed In tho postoffico
department exists In tho navy-yard. If
cannot bo learnod against whom tho
charges aro made, but it is declared
that when Captain Burrell, tho new
commandant of tho yard, arrives to to
Uovo Admiral Barclay, ho will ordor a
thorough examination of all employes
undor suspicion. Secretary Bonaparto
will order an investigation of tho
charges.
Rofugd for Fotonkln Mutineers.
Tho sailors who mutinied recently
aboard tho Russian battleship Potemkln
off Odessa aro to bo brought to Now
York, whoro tbey will bo saio from Rus
sian spies that aro trying to get them
back to tho Czar's country. Tho Social
Democratic Organization of . Russia,
which is really a New York institution
with headquarters at No. 17 Kast
Broadway, is raising a fund for that
purpose
Thero aro nbout 400 of tho Potem
kln 's mon and officers scattered through
out Europe, most of them being Rou
mania and in Rome. When brought
horo positions will bo given them by
which thoy will bo nblo to make thoir
living. Now York World.
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Sleep of Four Months.
Now York, Aug. 28. Medical Intor-
osts throughout tho country have had
thoir attontlon directed to a remark-
ablo enso of cntaloptty in Yonkers,
whero Chnrlos Canopl, 8 years old, has
boon in an unbrokon trnnco-llko sleep
for moro than four months. On April
Gtb, last, wbllo whirling around a lamp
jKst, ho bocanio dizzy fell to tii
ground and struckron tho back of his
head. Two days later ho complained
of pains in tho hoad, and within a few
minutes lapsod into a sleep of uncon
sciousness from which ho has not
tt Wquldi" have been poured into hi.!1" tho J"rt "ttlod In clouds, cov
mouth, in small quantities, sustaining "i .,
life.
Norway to Bo XUcognlzed.
Washington, Aug. 28. President
ltoosovolt Is expected to recogniro the
independence of, Norway within a few
days. Ponding arrangements for sopa-
ration, Sweden served notice that tho
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gardod as an unfriendly act. This no-1
tlco has now been withdrawn. Great (
Britain, France and Germany nro ready
n errant recoffnitlon. and the Presl-'
dont will probably follow suit.
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A Small Accident.
t Ind.. An. 28.-Tho Pan-
handle excursion train from Cincinnati
...ii.t M.l y. mamlmr. Fire-
man Walter Eteraan, of Cincinnati, '
was killed, and Engineer Patrick Ora-,
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dy probably fatally hurt. Five were
slightly injured.
OUR NEW DRINK
"THE SALEM GIRL"
Like all Safem Girls iS better I
than any other
The Spa
383 State Street.
W. T, STOLZ.
F, O. MSnfEBS.
tUesday, showers,
MONDAY, AUGUBT 28, 1005.
SEVERE
V
WIND
STORM
Damages Goods, Breaks Win
dows, and Ruins Crops
About Pendleton
Pendleton, Or. Aug. 28. Tho worst
wind nnd dust storm ovor oxporionccd
in, Pendleton struck tho city at 4
cVilock yesterday afternoon, and tho
dumngo done, though largo, cannot bo
yot ascertained. Tho storm camo from
tho North, and seemed to bo goneral,
Pendleton being tho heart of tho hurrl-
cane.
Tho city wns shrouded in completo
darkness, nnd for ten minutes it was
impossible to distinguish objects flvo
foot distant, oven in houses woll pro
tected from tho dust. For over nn
hour tho storm raged, leaving a trail of
devastation. Tho plata glass fronts in
tho stores of H. Alexander, Sulllvnn &
Bend nnd C. O. 8hnrp woro shnttored,
whllo glass fronts of other stores woro
broken. Awnings vrvto torn rrom tho
buildings and swopt awny llko chaff.
Tho scaffolding around tho new Eagles'
building wns wrecked.
Nonrly all dry goods morchnnts will
loso heavily, nn tho dnst collected n
quartor of nn inch thick in tho stores,
soiling merchandise. Many homes in
tho city will suffer greatly from tho
onslaught of Uio tcrriblo storm.
Tho nir wns closo and stifling and
the dust entered homes, several pooplo
narrowly escaping suffocation. People
aro praying for rain for rollcf, It has
boon unuiuoly dry this summor, having
been no rain since tho middle of June.
Unharvested wheat which was in tho
trail of tho storm has been nlmost to
tally destroyed. Farmers who arrived
in tho city stato that grain was badly
shattered, that surely niothlng more
than, straw remains. Many" stacks of
wheat yet 'ulhresIfeiT' woro blown
down, nnd tho grain scattered1 about tho
Holds. Farmers will loso thousands of
dollars.
Tolograph nnd telephono wires aro
down in many places, nnd forces of mon
havo boon work repairing thorn.
Great Damaga at Spokane.
Spokane, Wash., Aug. 28. The most
torriflo wind and dust storm known in
Eastorn Washington nnd Northern Oro
gon In years swept over tho country
Into this afternoon, and continued into
tho night. In Spoknno much dntnngo
was uono, plato gloss windows woro
smashed awnings torn down, signs wero
ripped from buildings, clouds of dust
whirled into tho open doors of tho
stores, covering and spoiling perlshnblo
goods, billboards wero demolished, awl
tolephono and telegraph wires wero
quickly put out of business in all direc
tions. All -of tho Postnl wires wero down,
and tho Western Union had but one
wire to tho east, nnd nono nt all west.
Trains were stalled waiting for orders,
-,. .. .. t,j,-.. .'... a
vrua urjic repuncu nfc icimiciuu auvut -
p. ra. It traveled north rapidly, reach
ing Spokane fn force at 7 o'clock. Bo
foro the wires wont down, considerable
damage Ju th wheat fleIda yfM I0J)0rt.
K 9tMU of wjeat bo, Mattwoa hy
, - . . . ,,., ,,
th - J of fc h(g
"-wore crippled every"6,
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INQUIRY ON BADE SUICIDE.
Massachusetts Women to Be Aqked
Leading Questions.
ton, Maes., Aug. 28. As a sup-
plementary part of tho state eensus now
DK compuea, timer nugin wis nn-
rtaken a special inquiry to determine,
' possible, some facts relating to race
aill4 ty. ... MMi buv a aft fn 4 it A
suicide. Every married woman in the
stato will bo asked questions by emu-
imeratoTS calculated to show whether
tho so-called race suicide is on actual
or merely an apparent outgrowth of
'present conditions.
I Mr. Pidgin has a theory that tho av
erage birth period Is throe years, and
th liuinlrv will la mainlv Ureetol to
determine this point. The questions
will be as to the age of women at mar
jriage, the number of children born
since, with the dates, and the number of
children born by the mother and grand
mother of the woman being questioned.
The oeenpation of married women will
also bo inquired into to see if this bos
any loan,,, 0n the birth rate.
Labor Day Proclamation, 1005.
Whereas, tho first Monday in Soptem-
tor of each year has been designated
by law as a legal holiday, to bo known
ns labor day,
Now, therefore, I, Qeorgo E. Cham
berlain, as governor of tho stato qf
Oregon, do mako public proclamation
of tho fact thnt Monday, tho 4th day
of Soptomber, 1005, is set apart ns ft
legal holiday for rest from ordinary la
bor. Tho present friendly relations be
tween labor nnd capital In our splendid
commonwealth shhuld bo maintained
in order to a continunnco of tho prosper
ity which our peoplo enjoy. To assist in
In, prolonging that much-desired condi
tion, I earnestly pray that thero bo a gen
oral suspension of nil business on tho day
thus sot apart,- and that employer ami I
cmployo will moot in soclnl and f rlond -
ly intercourse, thereby coming into
closer touch and relationship each with
tho other, nnd becoming bottor ac
quainted with tho industrial Hfo nnd
condition of tho wholo peoplo.
In testimony whereof, I havo here
unto set my hand' and caused tho great
seal of tho stnto to bo affixed thereto.
Dono nt tho Capitol, in tho city of
Snlom, this twenty-olghth day of Au
gust, A. D., 1005.
GEO. B. CHAMBERLAIN,
By tho Governer: ' ' Governor,
F. I. Dunbar, Secrotary of State.
CENSUS REVELATIONS.
Tho Peoplo Aro, in Popular Parlance,
"Going Somo" Somo Figures,
Tho census tnkcr knows better thnn
nnybody olso thnt this is a swift con-
tury. A babo was born to tho II. L.
Mack homo out at Dusty, tho othor
day, to tho great joy of all tho fam
ily. Tho happy father was down at
tho storo shortly afterward and an
nounced tho fact to tho assembled by
standers, among whom was tho asses
sor, who this yoar is also tho consns
faker. As a result within nn hour or
somothing llko thnt, tho youngster had
been named, tho family consus had
been takon, and tho namo of tho babo
was on tho consus roll, Tho mnn who
heard tho story allowed this to bo a
swift nge, and reckoned thnt was " go
ing somo."
Quito ns swift a pace is what the
consus roll rovcnls of anothor family.
Thero nro nino children and two par
ents. Not ono of tho children wan
born In tho en mo stato, tho family
having boon so constantly on tho movo
thnt each youngster boasts its nativity
in a now state. That was also account
ed a sign thnt we livo in n swift age.
On nnothor' page of tho consus is
tho rocord of a Kings Valley pair, no
Is 70, shn Is 18, and they have two chil
dren. Corvnllls Times.
Struck by Lightning.
Portland, Aug. 85. Whllo examin
ing tho records loft by mountain-climbers
on tho summit of Mount Hood vos
torday, Dr. and Mrs. M. W. Lyonl of
tho Smithsonian institution, and guide,
Mark Wolgart, woro struck by light
ning, and prostrated, Thoy woro res
cued last night by a party from Cloud
Cap Inn, in a semi-conscious condition.
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Tho Taft Junkot.
Manila, P. I., Aug. 28. Taft and Sho accused tho Orrvilel gossips of
party arrived at Olongapo, the naval poisoning tho captain's mind with un
baso near hero, today, founded suspicions.
Wednesday Only
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Petticoats 50N
1.00 values in Linen and
Gingham Petticoats .,,' 09
$1.25 and $1.50 values in Gingham -
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PAGE THREE
NO. 202.
TAGGART
CASE
. STILL ON
Mrs. Taggart Tells of the
Ealier Years of Their
Married Life
Woostor, 0'., Aug. 28. Mrs. Taggart
entered court this morning proparod to
tako tho stand. Whllo waiting tho at
torneys of tho opponents ongngod In
1 a controversy, and Worts and Smyser
.called each other liars. Tho eon,
threatened to punish thom for con
tempt boforo ordor was restored.
Mrs. Taggart testified this morning;
"I am 05, and wns born nnd raised in
Chicago, nm tho adopted daughtoj" of
Mrs. CulVor. Mr. Culver was a total
abstnlner, nnd I wns brought up that
way. I mot and loved Taggart when ho
wns stationed at Fort Sheridan, nnd nm
suro ho loved me. I wns ill after mar
rlnco, but noon joined- )ny husband at
Plattsburg barracks, whero my mother
furnished n home, I first drank boor at
Plotsburg. Tho captain had it in tho
house I was happy there. When wo
moved to Fort Thomas ho introduced mo
to Captain Hither, "then an enlisted
man. He was a frlond and, being an
officer's son, wns permitted to call in
cltlrons' clothes. After ho was com
missioned ho beenmo a friend of my
husband. Tho captain and I loved com
pany. Our homo was tho gathering
placo for tho young. Wo went ovory.
whoro vy wero invited, nnd I paid muoh
of tho oxponno mysolf. Thnt wns novor
a subject of conversation betweon us.
Tho cnptnln wns ambitious, and I trlod
to make him ndvance.
Mrs. Taggart said that whon tho war
broke out sho joined1 tho captain in
Georgia, taking ono son with thorn,
and leaving Tlddles with tho wlfo of
tho surgeon, after consulting by lettor
with her hlibnd. Whon sho reached
her husband sho was crittclsod for not
bringing both boy 1
Speaking of liquor, "Tho captain
told her always to off a callor sher
ry ami wafers. Onco tho ladles who
camo didn't seo tho bottlo of sherry
On tho sideboard was a bottlo with n
nice looking label. She gavo each a
wlno glass full. It tasted so strango I
didn't drink It. I found out aftor that
It wns vermouth. I never drank much,
but tho captain always drank with
friend Didn't object to his drlnkinfl
at homo nor playing cards there) pro
farred that to his drinking or playing
cards awny from home."
Mrs. Taggart said that whon oho
joined her husband In tho Philippines,
after a long separation, sho found him
a ehangod man. Sho bo loved tho hard,
ships of the tropical campaign bad In-
jured his mind. Bho said ho was so
jealous that ho magnified Innocent hap-
ponlngs Into torriblo ofTontes. Wit
ness said sho treated Hilly as (ho would
any brother or sister of her husband,
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