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About The new age. (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 4, 1902)
OU&tt&feaMMMMU &ZZZZVZjrjl The New Age. U . ' i i i ") 7-7-' r. ,!., V. 1,-it J . JS3,J "! i ," " I . ,'," VOTj. VII. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, li02. NO. 27. ' fi&M i : t u & 5& & FIRST NATIONAL BANK wVSSSsSP I).ila;nat.d Dapaaltar? mt VlnMnoUl Agent of the) United Stat. tmsdaat, H. W. Corbetts caahler, B. 0. Wlthlnmoni Militant cashier, 1. W. Mewktrki second aaiUtante.itiler, W. C. Alrord. ' t Letters of ercdlt l tried. Ttlable In Karope d1 the Baitern stater. Sttht exchange an eHir.phto trenilere iold on New York, noiton, Uhlcago, Omaha, at. Paul, Ban Fratioltoo and be principal point in the Northw.it. 8IrIii and time bills drawn In lumi to lull on London, PmU, liorlln.Vranklort-on-the-Maln, Hoiij'Kong. .... , Collections mad ou larorable torun at all eooeselbla point. LADD TILTON, BANKERS KHKE Kttaullih.d im 1809. TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS. Interest allowed on tlrao deposits. Collections made at all points on favorable terms. Letters of credit honed tmlUblo ln.Europo and the Eastern etatia. Bight exehnnge rind Telegraphta Transfers sold on New York, Washington, Chicago, St. Louis, Denve', Omaha, Ban Francisco and various points In Ore (on, Washington, Idaho, Montana and British Columbia. Exchange .sold on London, Paris, Berlin, Frankfort and Hong Kong. C0FFIV1AN, DOBSON & CO, BANKERS. CHEHALIS, WASHINGTON. Founded 1884. Oldest and Largest Bank in Southwest Washington ft' , BANK OF COMMERCE, boise, idaho. opriORHRt n. F. OMlKN, I'mMdciu: M. AI.KXANDltlt, Vic Praildentj II. N. COP- FIX, C-iKhlor) J. M. 1UI.NT. AMUtant Ca.liler. UlltKOlOK'ti Hobl. hnbleriion. l)nvl, II. F. Olden, J. M. Hnlnif, J. K. Yatce, J.B. ,. uMiirrow. T. KoRan, M. AU'xnmier, F. K. Collin. 4 Aeoount0ofDnnkm, Flrntm. Corpormtlona mnrf IndMtlumlm Rnomlwtl mi Ihm Jtfesf Liberal lernia Conmlmtent With Sound Umklng. KSCH&. GOLD. MINES AND INVESTMENTS DAKER Oirr, OREGON. TEN YEARS EXPERIENCE IN THE EASTERN OREGON GOLD FffiLDSi EXAMINATIONS AND REPORTS A SPECIALTY. " v. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. ,, FIRST NATIONAL,! BANK Vt alia Walla, Washington. (First National Hawk In tho Btato.) ' Transacts a General u CAPITAL 1100,000. LEVI AKKKNY, President. A. II. HKYKOMlB, THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK. Pendleton Capital, $70,000.00. Surplus ard ., RESERVE AOKNTS First National Bank. Chicago. 111.; First Wattes. r8eak Portland, On-gon; Chemical National Bank,. New York, N. Y. OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS L-vl Ankeny, President! W. F. Matlock, Vice President: 0. B. Wade, Cashier J M C. Unerrnsr, AsslsUnt Cashier: J. i. licLeod, W. S. Byors, W. K. Matlock, II. F. Johnson. THE1 PENDLETON SAVINGS BANK PENDLETON, OREGON. Organized March I, 1888. Capital, 850,000. Surplus, 856.000.. Interest allowed on time deposits. Exchange bought and sold on all pria Ipal points. Special attention given to collections. W. J. Furnish, President; J. N. Teal, Vice-President T. J. Morris, Cashier. OUR OPTICAL DEPARTMENT HIS PROVEN TO BE I BIG SUCCESS Five Reasons for It , 8 Count 'Em. 1. No charge for tenting. s 2. Thorough examinations with modern scientific instruments. 3. CourtoouH treatment, Wo don't hurry patleuts. 4. Cur Glassia improve tho looks. 8 Count 'Em. 5. Very Ileasoi ablo prices. Remember the Pisco. Willamette Iron and Steel Works. Founders, Machinists and Boiler Makers, . PORTLAND, OREGON. OISIGNIRS AND BUILDERS OF... Marin and Stationary Engine and Bollora, aw Mill Logging and Mining Machinery. Roll Grinding, and Corrugating Machinery, Powar Transmission Machinery. We are constantly developing Modern Machinery for special purposes, whlcfc ur up to-date plant enables us to build accurately and economically. tAf OORRESPONDENOI SOLICITED. " NEW LIFE TO g?-,u"nvSWoSi Anchor SrMtCoatblnatton olBiisngta and But)r.o Thi Tis That ana." . mtwtygmgmvm' -w. .w...Hjj..a See Our Anchor Clamp Ton would b urprltd. II you knew howltul. ti would cnl ou 10 flx up that old lenct. Juttcr send (or son Anchor Clamp ami Uri(hu, and Vlr ol our jlncher, and uk your o'd lr. Itaca look like a new one. ANCHOR FENCK looki 10 nice and to to stro'ic tli.t Urntri sometime think that It touit I high priced. It Un't, tboujh. MP Cliht Vsroas Usuw. Cattle, Sheep and fiojr Tight. Jt Kith Sure alter clolo FARM, RAILROAD AND LAWN FENCE. Vrtfr r rrlee and CtJu. Arettu Wanted In AvtT T.wa. LIMITED. Banking Business. ' . 6UHPLUH iioo,uoo, Vice 1'reMdsnt. A. II. BUnFOIlD, Caehler Oregon. V Undivided Profits, 100,000.00. JAEQER BROS., Jewelers and Opticians. 290 Morrison St., bet. Fourth and Fifth QLD FENCES 1 Clamps and Uprights. Tua Out Fkxck. Tiii Axaioa Fixcm, fM.'rfT-t 4r MM The Portland Anchor Fence Co. 743 Nlcwisd St., PORTLAND, Orezoa. EVENTS OF THE DAY GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OP THE TWO HEMISPHERES. Comprehensive Review of the import ant Happenings of the Past Week, Presented In Condensed Form, Most Likely to Prove Interesting to Our Many Readers. Princo Chun, brother of tho omporor of China, is married. J The nntional dobt shows n docrenso of f 10,000,000 for September. Bulgarian bandits havo murdored 1C0 Greeks during tho past two months. President Roosovelt has naked both sides to the coal strike to confer with him at the White ltouoo. An effort is being mado to effect ft romblno of Pacific coast flouring niilln with a capital of 126,000,000,. Mrs. B. F. James, mother of Louis Jnmus, tho tragedian, is dead nt her homo in Poughkeupsie, N. Y. Tho jury has been completed in tho St. Louis legislature boodle eafco, and tho taking of testimony iu in progreps. Tho fitnto election in Georgia remitt ed in tho olection of tho Democratic ticket. Joseph M. Forroll, ox-state nt tornuy general, was chosen governor. A plan lias been perfected whereby tho coal companies will ship a supply of fuel to Now York, tho tenement dis tricts to bo supplied first, tho hospitals noxt and then tho transportation com panies. Continued heavy rains havo stopped all war mauouvora at Port Riley, Kan. Secr6tary'tahaw''s order releasing tho rosorvo, put $200,000 into circulation at Portland. ', (Savages, on tho warpath in New Guinea' have massacred many pooplo and burned, wholo villages. Tho precedent's condition continues to improve fast and ho is ablo to attend to a great deal' of business. The Cuban government has mado a law which provides for Cuban labor iu all kinds of publio service. Miss Alice Hay, daughter of Secie tary of State Hay, was married to James W. Wadsnorth, of Now York. Two American inventors are experi menting with flying machinos on Long island Ono.idilp asoewio 1,000 feet and Balled'about two miles and' the other ascended 4,000 feet and made a flight of nearly five miles. The senate committeo on Pacific is lands and Porto Hico has finished its work in tho Hawaiian islands and has sailed for San FrancUco. Tho com mittee listened to testimony regarding tho land lane, publio improvements nooded, bubonic plague epidomia ami many other matteru of lesser import ance. Ono thousand pooplo nro now be lieved to have perished in tiie Sicily disaster. In spite of rain, the full war maneu vers are being carried out by tho trcpo at Fort Riley, Kan. Venezuola plans to cut all the cablec and an American gunboat may bo ne cessary in those waters. Lumber shipments by water from the Columbia river will thin year, for tho first time on record, exceed 100,000, 000 feet. Brigadior Genoral Sumner, in charge of the movement against tho Moroi, says the rebels are not to unruly ut Reported. It is said that Quoen Maria Chris tina, mother of King Alfonso of f-jutin. lias married Count do Ecorura, iter master of the iioute. i Throe desperate prisoners in tho Dillon, Mont., jail rawed their way out. It is believed they tecured aid from the outside. Ulllcers are in close purtult. Cholera still rages in the Island of Samar. The population of many of the towns have been heavily i educed through death and tho flight of the panlo stricken people. A tidal wave swept Japan, drowning at least 600 people. Much property was destroyed. A Japaneso nurxliip was driven ashore, but will probably be floated. A recond military expedition ban been ieut against the Moron. Fifteen hundred street car men in New Orleans huve struck for increased pay- , A fire at Stockton, Cal., destroyed 500,000 worth of property. Fho blocks were burped. The raliln from Run Francisco to Manila will be in working order by July -1, 1003, according to the otlicials of the company. Three steamers will lav the cable. tio from Manila and one from Sun Francisco. The president's phyricians found it necessary to open the wound on his leg, as tho bone was slightly affected. It is not serious and recovery will soon come. DEATH IN COAL AUNG. Explosion Near Black Diamond, Washing ton, Kills Eleven Atlners. Seattle Oct. 4. A apodal from Black Diamond, WohIi., to tho Post Intelifgoiicor eavfl,: Eleven mon were killed nnd three in jured in amino explosion on the fourth level ai'tho Law km mine, n mile from this placo, atxnit 0 o'clock last night. Tho men employed in tho workings, or chutes, wero instantly killed. Two gangwar mon and a drivor, working further in tho Invol, or gnnguny, evi dently escaped the forco of tho explo sion, and instinctively started toward tho slope for safoty. Tho deadly after damp swept down on them and thoy succumbed, alter not nioro than n fow minutes' struggle against tho fato thoir experience as minors told them lay in store for them. Only the bodies of the mon In tho workings aro burned, showing that tho sheet of llamo which followed the ex plosion did not oxtond to tho slopo, though it is declared by some watclmrs to havo been seen from tho air shafts. Thoso miners whoso bodies wero buri'd werq discovered lying in cramped positions, their logs closely drawtiiup to thoir bodies and tboir hands clinched. Dust covorcd their faces so thoy wero uniocogniicablo when first taken front, ,tho lnino. Their cloihcB wero torn and thickly coated with coal dust. Tho other bodies wero not disfigured. Fourteen men wero working on No. 4 south and four on No. 4 north. Nine teen men had., boon assigned to duty on No. 3 level. Prior to tho entrance of tho first shift the mine had been in spected for gas, and before' tho second snni'weni on uuiy.,tno uiiHtt was sprin kled. Of tho 14 men in the trow on No. 4 south, the throe who were in jured were working in tlitWnalh slope. i JOHN WHITOAKER DEAD. First fjovcrnor of Oregon Under lis State Constitution Passes Away. Eugene, Or., Oct. 3. Ex-governor John Whitoaker, tho first governor of the state of Oregon, died at his homo in Eugene nt 7:45 o'clock last eevning. He lingered in a state of unconscloue neMju'duy, ami tho watjlhfra at. Ids bedside expected his death at any woritwjL. .He had been unable to take, any nourishment slnco Wednesday morning. Yesterday morning ho socmod to give somo Indication of con sciousneHs by making n slight motion with his left hand, which was taken to mean bockoning to his aged wife, whom ho wanted near him constantly. When she would take ills hand he would be come calm, which was the only eigu of consciousness. His lust moments were ponce fill. Ho suffored n stroke of paralysis two tears ago, which occasioned ahum, but from which ho recovered. About three wcHcb ago lie Buffered a second stroko, from which he never recovered. Ho leaves a wife, two sons and ono daugh ter. Ho was a member of Eupene lodge A. F. c A. M., uudor whoee uusphos tho funeral services will be held, prob ably Saturday. JOHN WHITEAKER. Bom iu Indiana 1820. Married in 1847. Came to Oregon in 1853. Elected probate judge in I860. Member of territorial legislature in 1857. Elected governor In 1858. EIh ted to legislature iu 1800. Reelected 1858. Speaker of house 18.70. F resident of senate 187(1 Member of congress from Oregon 1878. Ccl lector of internal revenue t Port land in 1885. Died 1U02. Holds Canal Title Good. New York, Oct 4. William Nelson Cromwell, general counsel for tho new Panama Ccnnl company, who has re. turned from 1'jSftfy ") ho delivered to Attornuv GfiiMr"Kiiox. In Paris. every ennvevnnce. dV "A fconco-slon or other document rerVK"e,to to the properties of the new Jyt'r1inia Canal company, and Its miqiitirtiopuble power to con vey the canal, 'tho plant, lonces.lnn and other properly to tho United States, free nnd near of nil liens or claims of any kind. McKlnley Fund Piling Up. Plnrulniiil. (I.. Ort. 4. Colonel Myron T. Merrick, treaurer of the Vallr.nul Moll Inln v Miminriill AnHOI'ia- ilun I. raftvlna limul nU nl letters ..at aw .w.....p ,..,.... --- . - daily containing small contributions to the memorial fund, fame time since unknown persoiiH started a 10-rent, 6 cent and 2-ceut endless chain scheme iu connection with the monument fund Up to daU) fully nO.tiUO of these letters have been received by Judge Duy, president of the angulation, at Canton, and forwarded to the treasurer's olllce. Many letters aro irom Europe. NEWS OF OREGON 1TFMS OP INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS OF THE STATE. Commercial and Financial Happenings of the lat Week-Brief Review of the Orowth ami Development of Varloua Industrie Throughout Our Common, wealth Latest Market Report. Burglars ontared the Woodburn post ofllco but wore scared nway before they had opeuod tho Bafo. Tho construction work on tho new barracks building nt Fort Columbia is practically completed. ExtoiiBivo preparations aro bolng mado for tho dedication df Agricultural hall ' at tho agricultural college Octo ber 16. Tho medical dopartment of Wil lamette University opened its 37th an nual session with an enrollment of 35 students. , The Wlllamctto valley is filled with hunters after the Chinese pheasants tho law against killing thorn having ox plrod October 1. Master Fish Warden VnnDuson has just returned from n trip ' to the new hatchory nt Outario. fcnstern Oregon. Ho reports that tho prospects thoro are exceptionally good. A Chlnapian, w.ho lias leased tho Salmon Creek placer mines', in Eastern Oregon, has discovered a nugget worth f 16,000. This is by far tho largest nuggot ever found in this statu. Tho provalenco of smallpox, dlph thorlu, scnrlot fever nnd mtasloHin 'ugono has awakonod tho authorities to the need of moro vigilant quarantine regulations, and In tho future tho strictest caution will bo observed. 'Tho Indian war veterans of Oregon hold a meeting nt' 'Salem and passed a resolution asking the legislature to iBstio 4 por cunt SOycar bonds' to rhu amount of f 300,000 far the purpose of paying tho vetoransthubalancoof f 1.45 per day each for thoir services in tho Indian wars. At tho time of tho troublo the state agreed to pay f 2 per dty, hut the men have 'hover recoiovd but about 64 cents per day. , Six harvest hands wore field up at The Dalles and relieved of 300. A cold storage and meat company has been formed in Ashland with a capital of $25,000. Tho .prune crop In Marion county will be pretty generally gathered byjlie end of tiio present wtok, Tho board of rogontn of tho state uni versity, at Eugeno, havo mado arrange incuts to inciudo a musiu department. Mrs. "Florence Atwood, stato prosi dent of tho Rebekahs, died at her home in Baker City September 28 of pneu monia. Ovor one-half of the Washington county agricultural and horticultural exhibit, which took tho flrnt prize at tho stato fair, lias been sent East, whero it will have u place in a num ber of fairs and carnivals. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Walla Walla, 02c; bluestom 65u; valley, 03c, Hurley Feed, (10.50 per ton; brew ing, U0M. Flour Host grade, 3.3033,05; grub am. 2 853.20. Millstuffs Brnn, f 18,60 por ton; middlings, $23 50; shorts, $10.50; chop, $17. Outi No, 1 white, $l1.02K,Kniy, 5c,$l per cental. Hay Timothy, $10(311; clover, $7.60; cheat, $8 per ton Poultry Chickens, mixed, $4.5035; per pound, lie; hens, $55.60 por dozen; per oiind, 12c; springs, 13,50 .4 per dozen ; frjers, $3f$3.50; broil ers, $2.60(33; ducks, $4.5005 per doz en; tiirkeyn, joung, 1415c; geese, $oTd(1.5l for dozen. Cheese Full croani, twins, 13!$ 13'Jcs Young America, 1301 ; factory prices, ll.e less, Butter Fancy creumory, 250270 por pound; extras, 27Jgo; dairy, 17 20c; store, 12K'16. Eggs 22$tf25c per dozen. Potatoes Kest Ilurhanks, fl0u5u (xirs.ick; ordinary, 600660 per ceu'al, growers' price1; Merced sweets, $2 2.25 jier cental. Hops New crop, 20(7. 2 le per pound, WooVulley, 12Kl5c; Eastern Oregon, HHn; mohair, 2(l28c. Pef (IrnsH, cows, 3(2r3,H.C per pound; steers, 4c; dressed, Go; 7c. Veal 7lACaR o. Mutton Gross, 3c per pound; drcsred, 0c, Lambs Gross, 3u per pound; lresei, 0!c. Hogs Gross, fl?37c ier pound; dressed, 7&7 c. The Santiago, a Nicuruguan volcano, threuteue an eruption. It towers above the town of Sun Fernando de Massaya, who'o 20,000 people are greatly alarmed. MOROS ARE CRUSHED. Natives Lose 20 Men, but There are Net Casualties Among Blue Coats. 'Manila, Oct. 3. Tho Mucin Moroa in Mindanao havo offered but Blight re sistance to tho column under Captain Pershing, of tho Fiftenteh cavalry. After n series of Bkirmlshoa tho Moroa retreated into six forts on tho shores of tho Inko. When n courier loft Macin yesterday for Camp Vicars, Captain Porshing was preparing to assault tho last Moro stronghold. Tho American column reached the? former camp nt Mucin Sunday night. On Monday the MoroB opened fire on them, with a brass cannon rind rifles, from a series of not? forts which had been erected Blnco Captain Pershing's flrst visit to tho placo. Tho battenr undor Captain William S. McNnlr scaled a ridgo commanding tho position of tho Moras and sholled them out Tho engineers under Captain J. J. Mor row had constructed n' trail over the swamp, flunking tho Moros' position. Tiio men of Captain Pershing's column, crossed tho swamp by the trail and captured and destroyed three of tho Moro forts. Tho Moros stood but a short while, and ran as son as the artillery oponed on thorn. Captain Pershing has orders to destroy tho forts) unless the Moros muko peace. Twenty Moros wero killed. Thoro woro no casualties among tho Americans. The lettor of Genoral Sumnor, in command of Mindanao, to tho Mnlru Sultans, has been' delivered. UNCLE SAM'S FINANCES. Receipts for September $-4,000,000 Mere Than Same Month Last Year. Washington, Oct. 3, Tho monthly compnratlvo statement of government receipts and expenditures show that for tho 'month of Septembor, 1002, tho total receipts wore $48,580,381,' au Increase of oyer '$40,00,000 as com pared with Septembor, 1001. The ex penditures .for September woro $37, 554,708, leaving u surplus for tho month of $11,000,000. The receipts; from the several sourcos of revenue are given ns follows: Customs, $20,265,777; increase, $7.00(1,000. Internal revenue, $19,. 780,808; decrease, $2,700,000. Mis cellaneous, $2,504,805; decrease, $250,-. 000. Tho expenditures on account of t tho war department woto about $250, 000 in excess of thoso in September, U)0 1, a,nd on account of tho navy there waa an increase of about $1,600,000. , OFFICE-HOLDERS AS POLITICIANS. Payne Sends Out an Order Telling Postal. Employes Their Rights. Washington, Oct, 3. Postmaster Gonoral Payno today addroisod a cir cular lutter to tho olllcers and oniplovoti of tho postolllco department and others concerned rogardlng tho extent of the prohibition put by tho department on tho political activity of po.tofHco em poyes. The lotter says: "Postmasters or others having un classified positions are moroly prohib ited from using their nllices to control political movements, from neglecting their duties or causing publio scandal by political activity. "A person In tho classified service has an entlro right to voto as he pleases and to express privately his opinions on nil political subjects, hut ho should tako no activn pait in politi cal management or in political cam paigns." UNDERWOOD TOUND OUILTY. Jury Promptly Returns a Verdict of Mur der In the Second Degree. Seattle, Oct. 3. Paul Underwood, accused, with his rwife, of drowning; their Infant child In Salmon Hay, bra been ad j mled guilty of murder in the second degree, the jury bolng out scarcely half an hour. Through the ruverul days of the trial the young man lias maintained the greatest stolidity. though he was surrounded by his sor rowing parents and friends. Scopes In his early married life, und events connected with the ciosoxt und usuully deurext memories of his child, were ronftuutly recalled. The crime was committed on the last lay of May, and Underwood was cap tured after u chare of two weeka through the southwestern puitofthe state. The iwnulty is from 10 to 20 years' imprisonment. American Settlers In British Columbia. Vuncoiiver, II, C, Oct. 3. It is esti mated that 27,000 Americans alone have t-ntno in this veur an lona fide settleis, mid of these ovor 20,(101) have been uetuully recorded Sixty-five thousand immigrants from different countries will lw reiorded by the und of tho ) ear. Street Cars Still 1 led Up. New Orleans, Oct. ,1. The situation in the street railway strike remains unchanged, N t u car is moving ex cepting two mail c rs, although this la the fourth day of the strike. ho t V fc ' -' fVf r- & A. V 1 t,- ,,-MmM-'-- Jr i )' siM&hat'iii " ir- M rt Mv . r