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THE COIIDOU GLOBE
Um4 Each Wk
CONDON.". OREGON
NEWS OFTHE VEEK
!a a Condensed Fera Isr Osr
Ensy Headers. "
A Resume of the Lata Important but
Not Laaa Interesting Evonta
of tha Paat Waak.
The cxar is said to have decided to
offer peace.
Japan will not agree to peace unless
it ia enduring.
The second trial of Nan Patterson has
been set for March 6.
West Virfginia senators accuse Gov
ernor White of boodling.
North Dakota has appropriated
money for the Lewis and Clark afir.
A bill will be passed this session al
lowing Alaska a delegate in congress.
The president has asked congress to
increase the naval appropriation bill.
France will build a warship of the
largest type to take the place of the one
recently wrecked.
Women of Moscow have petitioned
the cxarina to ask the cxar to make
peace with Japan.
The parcels post treaty with Great
Britain has been signed by the officials
of both countries and will take effect
r - .
Governor I loch, of Kansas, has ap
proved the oil refinery bill and recom
mends other laws against the Standard
Oil company.
One woman was burned to death and
15 men and women narrowly escaped
in a fire which damaged the Winton
hotel, New York.
Jay Cooke, the great financier, is
dead.
General Lew Wallace, author of "Ben
Hur," is dead. He was 78 years old.
The annual weighing of mails on
trains is now in progress on all rail
roads. The New York board of aldermen has
raised the fine for carrying concealed
weapons from $20 to $720.
It is now conceded that J. Edward
Addicka., of Delaware, cannot be
elected United States senator.
The president has appointed Governor
Brodie, of Arizona, to be assistant chief
of the Record and Pension office.
It is probable that a decisive battle
will be fought by the two great armies
in Manchuria before a thaw comes.
Susan B. Anthony celebrated her
86th birthday and received greetings
from women's clubs all over the world.
The president has ordered an investi
gation of the business methods of the
Standard Oil companyy, particularly in
Kansas.
The Japanese are transporting the
heavy guns used by them at Port Ar
thur to the north to turn on Kuropat
kin'a army.
Puter will not be prosecuted for his
recent attempt to secure state lands
near Klamath Falls fraudulently. The
money paid . by his dummies is to be
returned to them.
Ex-Governor Boies, of Iowa, is seri
ously ill.
The fierce cold wave has broken and
the weather is moderating all over the
United States.
Fire partially destroyed the Brevoort
hotel,' on Madison street, Chicaog.
Loss, $100,000.
John W. Gates, in the Chicago ex
change, declared that wheat will go to
$1.50 and possibly $2.
Conrgess will likely give the Lewis
and Clark fair $30,000 remaining un
used from the St. Louis fair.
Signs indicate that a revolution
against President Castro may break out
in Venezuela in the near future.
Russian strikers continne idle and
they are furnishde money from a mys
terious source to enable them to live.
The United States revenue collector
for the Northern district of Iowa has
been asked to resign because of irregu
larities. Adams has completed his case in the
gubernatorial contest case in Colorado.
Joe Fiorebello, an Itallian of Port
land, who killed a woman recently be
cause she would not marry him, has
committed suicide to escape being cap
tured. Theer is now much doubt as to
whether the Third Russian Baltic
squadron will sail for the Far East.
The meat supply order has been count
ermanded. . - Ice has stopped navigation on the
Upper Columbia.
DOINGS IN CONGRESS.
Saturday, February II.
As an outgrowth of the investigation
of the General Slocum disaster, the
house today passed a number of bills
amending the law relating to steam
boat inspection service and making far
more rigid provision for the regulation
and control of steam vessels. A bill
was also passed authorising the con
struction of a bridge across the Pend
d'Oreille and Kootenai rivers in Koote
nai county, Idaho.
The entire time of the senate today,
which was not spent in executive ses
sion, was given to the Swayne impeach
ment triasl. Four witnesses were ex
amined. In executive session eight
treaties of arbitration between the
United States and European govern
ments were ratified. The treaties are
with Great Britain, France, Portugal,
Switzerland, Germany, Spain and Austria-Hungary.
Monday, February 13.
The senate heard 10 witnesses in the
Swayne impeachment trial today and
devoted the remainder of its time to
the consideration of the agricultural
appropriation bill.
The leaders of the house today began
active work to get the statehood bill
into conference. A paper is being cir
culated to get enough signatures to
bring the matter up. After that it
will require a vote that the bill be
taken from the committee and sent
direct to conference.
Tuesday, February 14.
The usual three hours were given by
the senate today to the Swayne im
peachment trial. Only two witnesses
were examined.
The senate today passed the agricul
tural appropriation bill and took up
the District of Columbia apropriation
b:i 1
The sundry civil appropriation bill
was reported to the house and immedi
ately thereafter the naval appropriation
bill was taken np, with the under
standing that eight hours shall be de
voted to general debate and that the
house shall convene at 11 a. m. each
day while the bill is under considera
tion. Wtdnesday, February 15.
The senate today continued but could
not conclude, consideration of the bill
making appropriations for the support
of the government of the District of
Columbia.
In the Swayne trial a number of wit
nesses were examined for the purpose
of ascertaining if the judge was in the
habit of traveling on passes.
The question of what the nolicy of
the government should be with respect
to the upbuilding of the navy was again
threshed out in the house today. At
the time of adjournment the navy ap
propriation bill was still under consid
eration. Thursday, February 18.
Aside from two hours spent in rou
tine business the senate today gave its
entire attention to the Swayne impeach
ment trial. Two and a half hours of
the time given to that case was spent
behind closed doors.
Before taking up the naval bill,
which occupied the greater part of its
time, the house today entered an em
phatic protest against the action of the
senate in amending the agricultural
bill. After considering the naval bill
for the most of the day it was laid aside
and several bills of minor importance
were passed.
Friday, February 17.
The house today rejected all changes
in the original statehood bill by send
ing it to conference without taking any
action on it.
The senate today passed a bill appro
priating $9,940,000 for the District of
Columbia, and the diplomatic and con
sular appropriation bill carrying $2,
156,000. . f
Only one hour was spent today on
the Swayne impeachment trial.
Loubet Will Soon Retire.
New York, Feb. 17. President Lou
bet will resign the office before the ex
piration of his seven-year term, which
ends February 18, 1906, according to a
Herald dispatch from Paris. His rea
son for this step is that the triennial
renewal of the senate and the general
election of member of the chamber of
deputies will take place next year, and
parliament will not meet nntil the close
of 1905. It is stated he will resign in
time for his successor to be elected by
the present chambers reunited " in
national assembly.
Castro Defies Uncle Sam.
Paris, Feb. 17. A semi-official dis
patch from Caracas, Venezuela, sava
that under the pressure of President
Castro, '' the court has ordered the se
questration of the landed property of
the American Asphalt company. The
decision in the case has caused excite
ment among Americans at Caracas.
Japanese Have School for Spies.
Mukden, Feb. 17. Seventeen Chi
nese have been arrested here, charged
with being Japanese spies. Documents
were found in their possession showing
they were trained in a school estab
lished by the Japanese to qualify them
as spies. They will be tried by court-martial.
SERGIUS IS KILLED
Russian Grand Duke the Victim
c! a Terrorist Bomb.
BAD BEEN MARKED FOR MONTHS
Missile was Packsd with Nails, and
Grand Duke's Body was Torn
Into Fragments.
Moscow, Feb. 18. Within the walls
of the far-famed Kremlin palace, and
almost underneath the historical tower
from which Ivan the Terrible watched
the heads of his enemies falling beneath
the axe on the famed Red Square, and
within a stone's throw of the great bell
of Moscow, Grand Duke Sergius, uncle
and brother-in-law of Emperor Nich
olas, met a terrible death shortly before
3 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
The deed was committed by a single
terrorist, who threw beneath the car
riage of the grand duke a bomb charged
with the same high power explosive
which wrought Minister von Plehve's
death. The missile was packed with
nails and fragments of iron, and its
explosion tore the imperial victim's
body into ghastly fragments, which
strewed the snow for yards around.
Every window in the great lofty facade
ot the palace of justice was shattered
and bits of iron were embedded deeply
in the walls of the arsenal, a hundred
yards away.
The assassin belongs to the noted
"lighting group" of the Socialist ..evo
lutionary party, which has removed
other prominent officials and long since
passed sentence of death upon Grand
Duke Sergiua. The grand duke knew
that he stood in the shadow of death,
lie was the recipient of repeated warn
ings and elaborate precautions were
taken to insure his safety, but all the
resources of the secret police and sol
diers proved unavailing asgainst an at
tempt almost exactly duplicating the
procedure that caused the death of
Minister von Plehve last July.
ALL IN SUSPENSE.
No Federal Appointments In Oregon
Until After Land Fraud Trials.
Washington, Feb. 18. "No more
Federal appointments in Oregon until
after the trials."
This conclusion was reached last
night by Secretary Hitchcock, Attorney
General Moody and Postmaster General
Wynne, and applies to all appointments
coming under the jurisdiction of their
respective departments. As a matter
of fact, this decision will affect only
postoflice appointments, for there is no
likelihood of vacancies occurring in
either the Interior department or the
Department of Justice while the land
fraud case are pending. The district
attorneyship must necesarily remain in
abeyance until the cases are concluded,
there are no land ollice vacancies pres
ent or prospective, unless the register
and receiver at Roeeburg should be dis
missed, and such action is not contem
plated until after the trials are over.
So the agreement of these cabinet offi
cers really narrows down to postoflice
cases.
CAN'T DECIDE THIS SEASON.
Not Enough Time to Reach Vote on
Smoot Case.
Washington, Feb. 16. Chairman
Burrows has called a meeting of the
senate committee on privileges and
elections, to be held on Saturday, to
consider the arguments of counsel in
the Smoot investigation and determine
on some course of action. There has
been no meeting of the committee
since the hearings were closed, and no
consultation of members to discuss
whether it is possible to decide the case
at this session of congress. In view of
the limited time that remains of the
present session, the disposition is to
postpone action until the next session.
There are so many points involved in
the discussion that it is estimated that
a week or more would be required in
the senate to bring the case to a vote.
Wltte Differs with Liberals.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 18. M. Witte,
accordng to the latest report, has re
signed his position as president of the
committee of ministers on account of
differences with Minister of Agriculture
Yermoloff over the conduct of the pro
ceedings of that body. M. Yermoloff
is probably the most liberal of Em
peror Nicholas' ministers, enjoying
now, according to the story, the com
plete favor of the emperor. He openly
adovcates summoning a Zemsky Sobor.
The report is not confirmable at this
time.
Close Blockade of Vladivostok.
New York, Feb. 18. Reports re
ceived, cables the St. Petersburg cor
respondent of the Herald, indicate that
Vladivostok is being closely blockaded
by Admiral Uriu's fleet.
WILL FAVOR RUSSIA.
Such Will Be the Final Decision of the
i North Sea Commission.
1 Paris, Feb. 15, Russian confidence
that the ciar's counsel will obtain a
favorable decision from the North tea
tribunal seems justified, though tech
nically the tribunal only delivers an
"opinion" following the line of the
testimony given by both sides. Yet the
narrowest concession regarding the pos
sibility ot torpedo boat having n on
the Dogger Bunk It quite sufficient to
satisfy the cxar's reprcsenatitvee. ;This
concession is contained 4iu the tribun
al'! pronouncement, the last clause of
which are being added today. The
whole judgment will at the latest be
completed tomorrow.
Speaking to the coresjKmdcnt today,
an official who Is closely attahced to
the person of one of the members of the
tribunal said :
"It has proved impossible to with
hold admission of the possibility and
probability of the presence of torpedo
boats without implying perjury on the
part of one or two Russian witnesses
whose evidence was of a character ex
cluding the hypothesis of mere error of
eyesight or of calculation of the posi
tions of their own boats. If the tri
bunal were a police board, a different
course might have been pursued, hut,
being an international arbitration coun
cil, it can do no more than softly
smooth down the ruffled feathers of
each side."
According to this informant, the con
cession to 'Russia's feelings will l an
expression ot the belief that the Rus
sians were wrong in thinking that tor
pedo boats showed a diqogitlon to at
tack, hut sympathisers with the British
side of the controversy do not disguise
a feeling of disappointment over their
defeat.
LOST tOO.OUO OtAD IN YEAR.
Official Returns of Russians Killed In
Battle and by Wounds.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 15. The official
returns for the first year of the war,
not including Port Arthur statistics,
show that 130,431) officers and men
passed through the hospitals going
north, of which number 1,710 officers
were wounded and 1 ,308 were sick j
63,900 men were wounded and 72,5X1
were sick; 4,007 subsequently died in
hospitals; 0,744 wounded and 11,248
sick were invalided; 9,429 returned to
Russia and 21,554 are still in hospitals.
Over 77,000, therefore, presumably,
returned to the ranks. These figures
do not include the numlr of those
killed on the field of battle, nor prol
ably those slightly injured, who re
mained temporarily in the field hos
pitals. The showing is considered re
markable. The proportion dying in hospitals is
very low, the total loss to the active
army in wounded and sick being a little
over 50,000, of whom almost half have
still a chance ot returning to the
ranks. The other half will be inva
lided or returned to Russia.
The killed in battle are estimated to
have numbered between 40,000 and
50,000.
BUILDINGS IN THE NORTHWEST
Appropriations Proposed for Public
Buildings on North Pacific.
Washington, Feb. 15. The, sundry
civil bill reported yesterday caries the
following items:
Rent of temporary postoflice quarters
at Portland, $24,000.
Improving Crater Lake park, $3,000.
Enlarging and improving Clackamas
fish station, $5,000. '
Improving Columbia river quaran
tine station, $7,500.
Seattle public building, $375,000.
Tacoma building, $75,000.
Marking Alaska boundary, $05,000.
Isolation hospital, Port Townsend
quarantine station, $9,500.
Improving Baker lake fish station,
$5,000.
Feud Between Generals.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 15. According
to the latest gossip at the war office,
General Kuropatkin has charged Gen
eral Grippenberg, ex-commander of the
Second army, with insubordination in
leaving his command without authori
ty, but the story cannot be traced to a
responsible source. While definite in
formation continues to be lacking, it
seems to be generally accepted that
General Grippenberg, after the recent
flanking operation, blames the com
mander in chief for his failure to sup
port him.
Will Pass at This Session.
Washington, Feb. 15. The senate
judiciary committee has ordered a fa
vorable report on the Jones bill recent
ly paBsed by the house, dividing the
state of Washington into two judicial
districts, one east, the other west of
the Cascade mountains. Foster in
tends to call the bill up within a low
days and expects to secure its passage
More Cash for Public Buildings.
Washington, Feb. 15. The omnibus
public building bill, in addition to in
creasing the limit of cost of the build
ing at Tacoma and Sprkane to $500,000,
Appropriates $15,000 for the purchase
of a public building site at North Yak
ima. 7
UP TO THE SENATE
President Sends Santo Domingo
Treaty Will Letter.
GIVES POSITION OF GOVERNMENT
If United States Does Not Take Hold
of Bankrupt Republic Some
Foreign Nation Will. '
"""""
Washington, Feb. 10. The senate
must decide the question a to whether
or not the Monroe doctrine ia to be
maintained and upheld. This is the
contention ot President Roosevelt. lie
made the issue clear in a confidential
letter to the senate late this afternoon,
in transmitting to that body the treaty
entered into between this government
and the republic of Santo Domingo,
relative to which the treaty-ratifying
body of the government has heretofore
indulged in some raustto criticisms.
The president declared that foreign
governments were pressing Santo Do
mingo for the payment of claims; that
while the republic should be prosper
ous, its reveuea were depleted through
insurrections and that, It the United
States did not exercise such a just par
ental supervision as would naturally be
expected and as was desired by the re
public ami arrange for the payment of
just obligations, forcgin government
would set about to enforce collection
through the customary diplomatic
methods.
The message was reicrred to the com
mittee on foreign relations. The treaty
was not read. It was the expectation
of Chairman Cullom to have a special
meeting of the committee to take the
convention up for consideration.
Briefly stated, the protocol or. treaty
provides that the United Bts tea shall
collect the customs revenues of Santo
IVitningo and turn over to President
Morales' government a specified per
centage necessary to meet the ripens
of administration and disburse the re
mainder among foreign claimant. Tho
United States undertakes to repsect
the Integrity of Santo Domingo and the
protocol or treaty must be approved by
tho United States senate and tho o
minicun congress.
CASTRO PLAYING rOR DELAY
Venezuelan President Insists on Arbi
trationRevolution Threatens.
I-ttGuayra, Venezuela, Feb. 10. The
negotiations between United States
Minister llowen and President Castro
in the effort to reach an adjustment of
the pending disputes between the two
countries are practically at a standstill.
Mr. Howeii's efforts have been blocked
by the tactics of Castro, which culmi
nated recently in Castro's abrupt de
parture from tho capital when he was
pressed (or a frank and definite answer
to the proMisitlon to arbitrate.
After his return to Caracas he de
clined to submit to arbitration on tho
ground that the matters are now be
fore the courts of the country, lie
made a counter proposition, however,
that the United States conclude with
him an arbitration treaty to cover fu
ture cases which under international
law could be considered as diplomatic
questions. This Mr. Bowcn declined,
but in return proposed that a tribunal
lie selected to determine whether the
asphalt case and other pending case
are diplomatic matters. Again, Castro
refused, and pressed his demands for av
treaty to meet future cases, and hero
the situation rests.
The ever-present rumors of a revolu
tion against Castro seem at this time
to have a possible foundation. The
movement is assuming a more wide
spread character than for some time,
and it is considered in well-informed
circles that a revolutionary attempt i
not a remote possibility.
The British Fleet la Coming.
London, Feb. 16. The date of the
visit to American waters of tho squad
ron of British warships commanded by
Rear Admiral Prince Louis of Batten
berg has been definitely fixed for Octo
ber. It will comprise a short stay at
Newport, New York and Annapolis,
The prince's visit to Washington will,
it is understood, be of an official char
acter. President Roosevelt will bo
notified through Sir Henry Durand, tho
British ambassador, 'and Prince Louis
will convey to the president King Ed
ward's greeting in a spec!! message.
No Action on Lieu Land.
Washington, Feb. 16. The senate
public lands committee today recalled
the bill which it recently reported re
pealing the lieu land law and providing
for the purchase of private holdings
within forest reserves, or an exchange
on the like-for-like basis. The whole
subject has been refered to a subcom
mittee This action will result in de
lay and probably means that no bill
will pass this session.