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PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.
london Times Reviews Their Course in
South Africa.

London, May 1.-The Times relates
the course Of the peace negotiations as
follows:
"0n the receipt of the Dutch corre-
spondence intimating that Great Brit
ain was ready to listen to proposals
from the Beers in the field, Acting
President of the Transvaal Scllaalk-
burger came to the British lines and
asked permission to consult with Mr..
Steyn, ex-president Of the Orange Free
State. This led to the Boer delegates
going to Pretoria. Their first proposal
to Lord Kitchener and Lord Miner,
the British high commissioners in South
Africa, was that the republics should
merely concede all the demands made
by Great Britain regarding the fran
chise, ETC., before the war. The Brit
ish government, in reply, referred them
to the Middleburg conference, as the
maximum Of possible concessions and
refused permission to the Beers to con-
suit their friends in Europe, Event
uslly, while refusing an armistice,
Lord Kitchener undertook not to modest
the burghers while they were actually
holding meetings with the commanders
to authorize the leaders to negotiate on
the basis of the surrender of independ-
ence, but they were told it was useless
to return to Pretoria without being
armed with full powers to negotiate.
Schaalkburger assented to this, but Mr..
Steyn's acquiesence seemed doubtful.
"Mail adyices received from Pre-
toria," continues the Times, "declare
that Lords Kitchener and Milner prom
ised generous compensation for burned
farms, promised no difficulty with re-
gard to the question OF amnesty for
rebels, which did not present insuper-
able obstacles"
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NEWS OF THE STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL
PARTS OF OREGON.
Commercial and Financial Happenings Of ha
portance--A Brici Review Of the Growth
and improvements Of the Many Industries
Throughout Our thriving Commonwealth
--latest Market Report.

Many emigrants are arriving daily at
Medford.
The Salem Federal Labor Union has
been organized with membership
of 68.
The fruit growers around Medford
are jubilant over the recent rains and
the fact that prospects for good yield
are better than for years.
The mill on the Lucky Bart group at
Gold Hill is running day and night on
ore from the Doubtful claim. A 80
inch vein Of high grade free milling ore
assaying $45 per ton was recently
struck in this claim, which will bring
the Lucky Bart group to the front
again, something over $3.50, 900 having
already been milled from the several
ledges on the property.
The number of strangers now pouring
into Oregon is being felt even in the
backwoods. A year ago it was believed
that all the public timber land worth
taking had passed into private hands,
and investors were buying freely from
the original locators. But since then
the more inaccessible and less timbered
land is being eagerly sought by people
anxious to file on timber tracts.
This season in the Sumpter district
will witness the greatest placer clean
ups known there for years, In several
places there has been a marked revival
of interest in the placer diggings.
Companies have been organized to op.
crate diggings on large scale, and
scenes where there has been compare.
lively little life since the boom days OF
pioneer times will be teeming with
workers.
The camps and mills near Alma
are vainly applying for men.
Fire at Praire City destroyed an en-
tire block and caused loss of $40, 900.
La Grande IS enthusiastic over the
Lewis and Clark fair and a general
meeting will be held to get subscribers
to the stock.
Ed Graves, of Marquam, has con-
tracted 5000 pounds of hops from his
yard FIVE miles east of Woodburn, for
l216 cents per pound,
A bill has been introduced in the
United States senate granting right
of way across the Cascade forest reserve
for the Oregon & Southeastern railroad.
The city council of Baker City has
awarded the contract for the extension
of the mains of the waterworks system
to contractor OF that city on bid OF
$33,314,77,
The wool industry of Oregon ranks
we'll up with wheat and lumber, and
out in the eastern part of Wasco coun-
ty's plains is the greatest wool market
in the world.
The Eastern Oregon term Of the SUI
preme court opened at Pendleton with
32 cases ON the docket, all but three
being appeals from Umatilla, Baker
and Union counties,
The Oregon national guard will as
semble at some centrally located point
in the Willamette valley. in brigade
camp, for instruction, for period Of
eight days, July 1924, inclusive.
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THREE NEW STARS.
OklahO@a, Arizona and New Mexico Admitted
TO Statehood.

Washington, May 2.-The house
resumed consideration of the omnibus
statehood bill Immediately after the
reading of the journal. The pending
amendment was that of Mr.. Overstreet,
of lndinaa, to consolidate New Mexico
and Arizona and submit them as the
state of Montezuma, or such other
name as the constitutional convention
should elect. The opposition to the
bill had united upon this amendment
and had determined to make strong
effort to adopt it. Overstreet made a
vigorous speech, arguing that its pur-
pose was to benefit the people of the
two territories, but the amendment
was defeated by vote of 2S to LOG.
A lew verbal amendments offered by
the committee were adopted, and the
bill was then passed without division.
The bill as passed provides enabling
acts for Oklahoma, Arizona and New
Mexico, similar in form to former
enabling acts, with the exception that
the constitutional convention of New
Mexico is empowered to designate the
name by which the new state shall
enter the Union and in the case of Ok
lahoma the convention by irrevocable
ordinance shall express the consent of
that state that congress at Sny future
time may attach all or any part of
Indian Territory to it. The enabling
acts differ from one another chiefly in
reference to the public lands appro-
priated for education and public pur-
poses.
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Paul Leicester Ford Shot.

New York, May 10. Paul Leices-
ter Ford, the novelist, was shot and
killed by his brother, Malcom Webster
Ford, writer and athlete, who immedi-
ately sent bullet into his own breast,
dying instantly. The shooting occurred
at 1920 A. NJ in the handsome new
mansion which Paul Leicester Ford had
built at 81 East Seventy-seventh street,
and had occupied Tor about a year.
The murder was supposed to have been
committed in fit Of insanity.
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SOLD DISEASED MEAT.
st Louis Grand Jury Is Investigating Grave
Charges Against Beef Trust.

st. Louis, May l0,-The beef trust is
now under investigation by the St.
Louis grand jury. Following the rev.
elation at Jefferson City that diseased
meat is sold in St. Louis, Circuit At
torney Folk presented the subject to
the grand jury. He announces that he
will subpoena all the witnesses who
testified at Jefferson City and all other
persons whom he can find that know
anything about the operations of the
beef companies.
This has become a subject for the
criminal courts, said Mr.. Folk, "and
the matter will be as thoroughly inves-
tigated as have been the bribery scam
dals, and / have no doubt that men
who have been selling decayed meat to
st. Louisans will be landed behind the
bars OF the penitenJiary."
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Control Large Copper Interests.

New York, May 1O.-According to
Vice President John Maginnis, of the
Montana Ore Purchasing Company,
and other Heinze properties, the new
company will have in its treasury 95
per cent of the capital stock of these
companies: The Montana Ore Pur-
chasing Company, the Nipper Consoli-
dated Copper Company, the Minnie
Healy Copper Mining Company, the
Cobra-Roc Island Copper Mining Com
pany and the Belmont Copper Mining
Company. The company will also have
II 900, 900 of the first mortgage bonds
of the Montana Ore Purchasing Com
pany bond and $2,50O,O 900 first mort
gage bonds of the Nipper Company.
These bonds represent the only bonded
Indebtedness of the companies named
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NOTIFY POWERS.
United States Will Inform Them OF the Birth
Of the Cuban Republic.

Washington, May l9.-The state de-
partment has decided upon the method
it will employ to notify the world Off
cially OF the birth OF the new Cuban re-
public May 20. Instead of issuing a
proclamation, the department will send
identical notices to all United States
ambassadors and ministers abroad that
the military occupation by the United
States of the island has ceased on that
date, and that Tomas Estranda Palma
has been duly installed as the head of a
new government OF the Island of Cuba.
There will be no invitation on our part
to the nations to recognize the new re-
public, but it is expected that they will
take notice themselves of the fact that
the United States has so recognized the
Cuban republic by sending to the
island minister resident and staff of
legation and consuls, and it is not
doubted that the example will be fol-
lowed.
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Airship Exploded.

Paris, May l4.-The airship belong
ing to Senor Auguste Sevros, the Brazil
ian aeronaut, made an ascension dur
ing the morning. The airship exploded
and killed Sevros and another aeronaut.
Senior Sevros arrived in Paris with a
flying machine last November. He
then announced his intention to sail
across and around Paris. His last
balloon is described as carrying a car
shaped like long parallelogram, drawn
up directly beneath the balloon.
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ShIppIne Combine AGREEMENT.

London, May lO.-The Associated
Press has secured copies of the ship
ping combine agreements. They are
called provisional agreements for the
purchase and acquisition, on or before
December 81, 1902, of the White Star,
Dominion, American and Atlantic
Transport Lines, to be organized under
the direction of the vendors, TO the sat
isiaetion of the bankers, namely, the
Morgans, under the lawsSof the state of
New York, or other state selected"
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1902-05-16
Costly California Blaze.

Fruckee, CAL, May l3.--Six acres in
the central portion of Truckee was a
raging mass of flames for seven or eight
hours this morning. The extensive
box factory and planning mills of the
Truckee Lumber Company, around
which the town was originally built,
was totally destroyed. With it went
the office, with eveythingsit contained,
andsa number of warehouses and dry
ing houses filled with boxes, seasoned
lumber, glass, windows, doors and
building material. One million feet o.
lumber piled ON both sides of the river
was also destroyed, Loss, 100000,
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Cause Of Spanish War.

Madrid May l2.-For the past few
days the senate has been discussing the
Interpolation Of Marshal Primo Rivera
concernig the causes of the war between
Spain and the United States. Senior
Moret in defending his conduct at the
time said the Spanish feet quilted
Santiago de Cuba on the advice of the
council IF admiralty which had been
convoked at Madrid. Senior Moret was
Spanish minister Of the colonies at the
time OF the war.
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Rft viii Ston AZ Rome.

Washington, May l3.-Governor Taft
has closed up his business here in con-
nection with affairs in the Philippines
and left for Cincinnati, where he will
attend to some private business prior
to his departure from New York on the
18th inst, on his return to his post at
Manila. He will stop at Rome in or
der to discuss the question of the friars
in the Philippines with the authorities
at the Vatican.
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Following English Precedent

New York, May 14.-The Spanish
government is following English prece-
dent in entertaining large body of
European princes and foreign represen-
tatives who will witness the kings civil
Inauguration, says a Madrid dispatch
to the Tribune. The princes are either
guests of the crown in palaces, or
houses with a complete retinue of serv-
ants are placed at their disposal.
Special Ambassador Curry, of the
United States, is provided with house.
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Rat, War on Alaskan Traffic.

Seattle, May l4.-An Alaska trans
portation cut-rate wal, which probably
will be bitterly fought, with disastrous
results to the lines engaging in it, and
corresponding benefit to he travelling
public, has been inaugurated. Before
the day closed, tickets to Lynn canal
points were selling at $3.50 and IS, first
and second class, respectively. The
prevailing tariff has been $50 and 500.
The entry of the Pacific Clipper Lines
steamer Santa Ana on the Lynn canal
run precipitated the fight.
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For the Dawsnn Trads.

Vancouver, B. c., May IA spe-
cial from Dawson says: j. H. Rogers,
Dawson manager of the White Pass
Yukon Railway, makes the statement
that his company would enter into
competition with the Northern Com
mercial Company and the North Amer
ican Trading Company, in retaliation
for the statement that the Northern
Commercial Company would take in a
stock of goods for the Dawson trade.
The Dawson retail merchants had been
afraid they would be forced out of bust
ness by competition of the big COM
mercial companies bringing in large
stocks Of merchandise.
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Engineer and Brakeman Killed.

Everett, Wash, May 10.-Engineer
Michael ]. Riley and Brakeman A. l..
Kittle we're killed during the morning
by an engine crashing through a trestle
to the bottom of a guleh 25 feet below.
The men were in the employ Of log
ging company and were coming down
a grade with five loaded fat cars. The
engine fell upon Riley. killing him in
stantly. Kittle died soon afterward
from scalds. Another train followed,
crashing through the trestle before it
could be stopped. The engineer and
the fireman escaped by jumping.
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Raroda Ahandoned.

San Francisco, May l4.-Telegraphic
adviees received at the Merchants Ex-
change give the information that an
unsuccessful attempt was made Satur-
day night by the tug Astoria to pull off
the British bark Baroda, which went
ashore nine miles south Of Coquille
river, August 20, 1901. Every effort
was made to release the vessel from the
bed of sand into which the bow was
plunged, but she could not be budged,
and she was finally abandoned to her
fate. The Barods was bound from Cal
lao TO Portland, and was in ballast.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1902-05-16
Battle in Venezula.

Port of Spain, Island of Trinidad,
May 13.--Venezuelan troops under
General Vincente Gomez, attacked Car
upano, state of Bermudez, Venezuela,
by land and by sea with the gunboats
Restaurador, Agosto and Zumbador,
but the port is still in the hands of the
revolutionists, After seven hours
battle, the government forces were de-
feated aud obliged to abandon the field,
leaving ll5 men dead and 2l0 wound
ed. The city suffered terribly from the
shelling Of the government war vessels
The remainder of General Gomez g
troops escaped on board the gunboats
and reached Cumana, on the Gulf OF
Caracas. Gomez was seriously wound
ed. Carupano now presents spectacle
of desolation. The cable ia cut.
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The Endless Revolution.

Port au Prince, Hayti, May I4.-Se-
we're fighting is progressing in the
streets Of Port au Prince. The situa-
tion is very serious. The meeting of
congress, which opened at noon, had
hardly heard the words Of the president
of the house declaring that president
of the republic was to be elected, when
Deputy Jeannot declared that congress
did not have the confidence of the peo-
pie. This was followed by cries of
"Vive La Revolution, and "Aux
Armes, !" amid a scene of great disorder.
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Eighteen Cremated.

Toxic May 1S.-The destruction by
fire of hospital in Kyoto, Japan, was
attended by loss of life. About 4:9O
O'Clock in the morning fire broke out in
the Funaokayama lunatic asylum at
0.niya Mura, Otogi Gori, on the north
ern suburbs of Kyoto. The flames
started in one of the rooms occupied by
patient. Altogether two blocks OF
buildings we're destroyed before the
flames were got under control, and Of
the 80 patients who we're in the hos
pital at the time of the outbreak, ls,
including two women, persisted,
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lord RaunSsfOts Quite M.

Washington, May l4.-Lord Paunce-
fote, the British ambassador, continues
quite i'll here, and his condition is CIV
ing the family some concern, He sui
ers from asthma and stomach and other
troubles, and owing to his advanced
age, his system fails torespond as read
lily to the treatment as was hoped would
be the case.
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Salvador Dispute Settled.

Washington, May 10.-The United
States has won sweeping victory in
the matter of the arbitration of the dis
pute with the Republic of Salvador
over the claim of the Salvador Com
mercisl Company and other citizens of
the United States, stockholders in the
Corporation Ell Triumpho Company,
Ltd, created under the laws of Saliva
dor. Sir Henry Strong and Don NJ.
Dickinson, a majority of the arbitra-
tion commission, have rendered an
opinion against Salvador for $573,llS.
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WiIhslmins Steadily Improving

The Hague, May l4.-The bulletins
issued at Castle Loo concerning the
condition of Queen Wilhelmina have
been reduced to one day, and it is ex-
pected that they will soon cease alto.
gether. The marked improvement in
her majesty's condition continues, and
the constant attendance of her physi-
clans is no longer necessary.
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frsne, Send, PROMPT Reid.

Paris, May lS--At a meeting Of the
French cabinet the minister Of finance,
NJ. Caillaiux, was authorized to expend
all the money necessary to succor the
sufferers of the Martinique disaster.
An official Of the colonial Office has
sailed from Brest with 50O,0 600 francs
tslOO. .0O0) in cash. The cabinet fur
ther decided to order the half-masting
of flags over all public buildings for
three days, and the minister Of the col
onies, NJ. de Crais, was instructed to
telegraph to the governor OF Martinique
the condOlence of France.
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Quiet In Santo DOMINGO.

santo Domingo, Republic Of Santo
Domingo, May l0.-Ex-PTesident jim
inez, Of the Dominican republic, and
his ministers have lett the foreign le-
cation here, where they had sought
refuge. Quiet has been restored in
the city. The hospitals are full of
men who we're wounded in the last
engagement between the Dominican
revolutionists and the forces Of the
government A Red Cross hospital
has been established and is caring for
the wounded. The United States
cruiser Cincinnati has arrived here.
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WASHINGTON LANDS.
Their Disposition win Be Determined by a
Forestry Reserve Official.

Their Disposition Will Be Determined by a
Forestry Reserve Official.
Washington, May l4.-Representa-
tive Cushman recently called on the
commissioner of the general land office
to ascertain whether or not certain
lands in Skagit and Snohomish coun-
ties are to be eliminated from the
Washington forest reserve and opened
to settlement. Reports to this effect
recently reached Washington from the
state, end have led to considerable
speculation. Mr., Cushman learned
that on April IS Commissioner Her
mann directed D. B. Shelter, superin-
tendent of forest reserve in Washing
ton, to make an examination of town
ship 32 north, ranges s, 9and 10 east
township 81 north, ranges 10 and II
east, and township 80 north, range II
east, with reference to whether it is
better suited for forestry purposes or
agricultural purposes. No report has
yet been received.
When Superintendent Shelter shall
have been heard from, the general land
office will convey his recommendation
TO the secretary Of the interior, where
the matter will be finally acted upon.
1t is probable that no final action can
be had until late in the fall. In case
all or a part of the land is found to be
agricultural, that much will undoubt-
edly be restored to settlement; other.
wise its present status will not be al
tered.
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Police Chiefs Adjourn.

Louisville, May ~. - The police
chiefs of the United States and Canada,
at their final session, changed the
name of the association to the Inter
national Police Chiefs Association,
and selected New Orleans as the next
place of meeting. Richard Sylvester,
of Washington, was elected president
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FOR RELIEF.
Congress Votes 100000 for the Sufferers
of Martinique.

VI WdFtlhl4uGs
Washington, May l4.-The volcano
calamity in the West Indies came up
before the house during the afternoon,
the District of Columbia measure being
laid aside to permit the relief bill to be
considered.
In view of the presidents message
urging an appropriation of $500, 900,
the house committee on appropriations
unanimously reported substitute to
the senate relief bill making it $780,
600, and placing its disposition under
the president of the United States.
Heminway, OF Indiana, the acting
chairman of the appropriation commit
tee, secured unanimous consent for im-
mediate consideration. The amount,
he said, had been limited to 5000, 0,00C
because the committee was informed
that large contributions were being
made by private parties.
The bill was finally passed and went
through the senate without division.
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Successor Of cOrrIsan.

Rome, May 12.-The correspondent
of the Associated Press is informed
that it is not likely that the successor
of Archbishop Corrigan will be named
at the next consistory and that probably
more than a month will elapse before
action will be taken. 1t is therefore
probable that capitulary vicar will be
appointed to administer the archdio-
cpea
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Rebels Romhard Nan Ming En-.

Hong Kong, May ~. - Advices re-
ceived here from Wo Chou say the
rebels bombarded Nan Ming Flu foi
three hours April 81, using modern
field guns. From 800 to 400 of the
inhabitants we're killed. The rebel,
subsequently withdrew to the hills.
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THOUSANDS KILLED
CITY OF ST. PIERRE DESTROYED
BY A RAIN OF FIRE.
The Volcano Of Mount Pslsc Exploded and
Shower Of Burning Lava Swept the City
from ExstsRss-Now Estimated that at
Least 10000 People Psrishsd- All Ship.
ping in the harbOr was Destroyed.

st. Thomas, D. w. L., May lO.-The
British steamer Roddam, Captain Free
man. which left st. Lucia for Martin
ique, returned there during the after
noon bringing report that the town of
st. Pierre, Martinique, has been totally
destroyed by volcanic disturbances in
the island. Almost all the inhabitants
OF St. Pierre are said to have been
killed.
The Roddam reports that all the
shipping in the port has also been de-
stroyed. The Quebec Steamship Com
pany's steamer Koruna, Captain Mug
gar, is mentioned as lost, with all on
board.
The Roddam was almost completely
wrecked. Her captain was seriously
burned, and II of her crew are dead.