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J NO. 26, CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1894. VOL. XXXI - i EAST AND SOUTH -VIA- The Shasta Route Southern Pacific Co. EXPRESS TRAIN BUN DAILY. 6:15p 11 Leave Portland Arrive :J0 a m 9:06 m Leave 8alem Leave 5:: am 10 :15 am Arrive B. Francisco Ijeave 7:00 pm Above trains stop at all stations from Port land to Albany, also at Tangent. Shedds, Hal sey, Harrisburg, Junction City, Irving, Eiigone and all stations from Roseburg to Ash lane, in clusive. ROSEBURG MAIL, DAILY 8:30 am Leave Portland Arrive 4:30 p M 11:17 am Leave Salem Leave 1:40 pm 6:50 pm Arrive Roseburg Leave 7:00 am Pullman Buffet Sleeper and second-clas sleeping cars attached to all through train. WEST SIDE DIVISION. BETWEEN PORTLAND AND CORVALLIS. MAIL TRAIN DAILY (EXCEPT SUNDAY). 7:30 A M 12:15 PM Leave Arrive Portland Corvallis Arrive Leave 5:35 P at 1:00 P M At Albany and Corvallis connect with trains of the Oregon Pacific railroad. EXPRESS TRAIN DAILY (EXCEPT SUNDAY). '4:40 vul Leave Portland Arrive T 8:25 A M 7 :26 PM Arrive McMinnville Leave! 5:50 am Through tickets to all points in the Eastern states, Canada and Europe can be obtained at lowest rate from W. W. Skinner, agent, Salem. R. KOEHLER, E. P. ROGERS, Manager. A. G. F. & P..A. Portland Oi CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY! The Scenic Tourist Route To MONTREAL, TORONTO. OTTAWA, QUEBEC, HALIFAX. PORTLAND. ME.. BOSTON. NEW YORK, CHICAGO. ST. PAUL, OMAHA, K ANSAS CITY, And all Points East and Southeast. Finest Dining and Sleeping Car Route 1 the world. Vowest Rates to all points of the Un.'ed States and Canada. SUtmship Tickets to and from all parts of the world. Passengers are given the choice of t.e following routes to a connection with the Canadian Pacific line: 1 All rail through via Tacoma, Seat tle and Whatcom. 2 Rail to Tacoma, steamer to Seat tle and all rail thence. 3 Rail to Tacoma, steamer to Van couver (via Victoria), thence all rail. Only Line Operating Elegant, Up 1 Mstered Tourist Car for second class passengers. Canadian Pacific Railway Company's Royal Mail Steamship Line to Japan And China, the Short Route to the Orient, sail about monthly from Van couver, B. C, for Asiatic points. Also Royal Mail Steamship Line to Honolulu and Australia, sailing month ly. For further particulars call upon or Address: J. L. MITCHELL, Ticket and Passenger Agent, Salem, Or OFFICE IN HOLMAN BLOCK. GEO. M'C L. BROWN. District Pass. Agt. Vancouver OL&J. Co. E. MoNEILL, Receiver. TO THE EMST GIVING THE CHOICE OF TWO TRANSCONTINENTAL. ROUTES VIA VIA SPOKANE, DENVER, MINNEAPOLIS OMAHA st.Taul KANSASCITY LOW RATES TO ALL EASTERN CITIES. OCEAN STEAMERS LEAVE PORTLAND EVERY 5 DAYS FOR- - - SAN FRANCISCO. For full details call "orjMw. General Passenger Agent, 1'ortland, Or. OREGON PACIFIC RAILROAD CO Chas. Clark Receiver. rT..i1nir with Str. "HOMER" be- wot Tinnlnn and San Francisco. Str. leaves San Francisco July 18th and about every 10 days later. T.PHVP9 Yanvrina. July 23rd. About evrv 10 davs later. Rights reserved i.h.n aa.llinsr dates without notice For freight and passenger rates ap ply to any agent. CHAS. J. HENDRYS. SON & CO.. Nos. 2 to 8 Market St. San Francisco, Calif. CHAS. CLARK. Receiver, Corvallis. Oregon. Tunnicliffe Bros. HAVE OPENED THE City Machine Shops At the south end of Main street and are prepared to do all kinds of Repairing In Iron or Steel, Valves on steam engines correctly set Chilled plows ground. "Work guar anteed, Charges reasonable. , ,i,nKwimi.-:.r--!!lpri?wi?iivnv riPTTiru !:!!? -j mra fiRRAT FIRE OF fxw ii'iiii lirmiiu mLEuiMiii nat fa m,f wort a rrptii ('(l nun I n H e 1 1 ill ii.uiii i I a I . I ill I i .i 1 1 1 1 1 1 n. inn u i ii.i ""' " i , r i r nn i in ii i iijii UUli II nilU ill l HUM 1 UU For Opening and Read ing a Letter. Other Denver Officers Are Implicated. The GovernorT Becomes Greatly Ex cite I and Refuses to Give Bail Is ATery Indignant. DENVER, Aug. 28. Warrants were issued '-'lay for the arrest of Gov. Walte, on the seri ous cha rge of open ing and reading a letter addressed to Mrs. Likens, for merly matron at police headquar ters. The warrant was Issued by U. S. Commissioner dale, who also is sued warrants for the arrest of Pres ident Dennis Mul lins of the police board. Chief of Police Hamilton Arm strong, and Kate Dyer, matron at po lice headquarters. THE GOVERNOR EXCITED. Th fharce is oneninc mail and also v,- nnnanirtrv tinder U. S. statutes. sees. 3892 and 5440, the penalty for which is a fine of not over jiu.uw or two years' imprisonment, or both. The complaint was made by ,Mrs. Likens and investigated by Postofflce Mr-Meehen. Mr. McMnchen laid the matter before U. S. District Atlnrnpv Johnson, who this afternoon drew up a formal complaint against the four persons mentioned. This was presented to Commissioner Hinsdale anrl ho issued the warrants which were placed in the hands of Marshal Israel's assistant. Shortly artery. arm BENTON COUNTY Abstract : Company COMPLETE SET OF ABSTRACTS OF BENTON COUNTY. Conveyancing anil. Perfecting Titles a Specialty. Money to Loan on Improved City and Country Property. J, B, MARKLEY & CO., Proprietors. Main Street, Corvallis. BOWEN LESTER DENTIST. Ofljcc upstairs over First National bank. Strictly First-class Work Guaranteed. Corvallis. Oregon. Farra& Wilson, Physicians, Surgeons and Accoucheurs. nffif. nr. stairs in Farra and Allen's brick, umec nours irom o io -. a. now 1 to 2 and 7 to 8 P. M. Calls promptly attended to at all hours, either day or night. DR. L. G. ALTMAN, HOMOEOPATH 1ST. Diseases of women and children and general practice. . Office, over Allen & Wooward's drug store. Office hours 8 to 12 a. m., 2 to 5 and 7 to 8 p. m. At residence Fifth street, near the court house, after hours and on Sun days. OYSTERS! ICE CREAM ! MODEL RESTAURANT THEO. KKCSE,' Proprietor. Cor. Third and Alder, Portland Oregon. Ladies' private rooms on Aid -r st. CASKET & OTTERSTEDT. Blacksmithing, - Horse-Shoeing AND WAGON MAKING, Knight's Old Stand, CORVALLIS. - - OREGON All work in the line done promptly and satisfaction guaranteea. Rheumatism Lumbago, Sciatica Kidney Complaints, Lame Bacx, etc Ait. SAHDEM'S ELECTRIC BELT With Electro-Magnetic SUSPENSORY Wrtl cure without medicine a'l resulting from over -taxation of brain nem forceni eiueraea or iDdi crrtion. u nerroiw debility, eloenlwnee. Unior. rhenrnaiism, kidney, Uer sad bladder comn aintn. lame back, himb&go. ecuUlrn. all female conmiaint general ill health, etc Tills electric Belt cntains toaaderhl tepranawata OTCr all other". Curreut U Ir.atantlTffltby wearer or we forfeit S, 000. 00, and wia care all of the a to re i if panes or no pav, Thovr eands hae been cured by this roarrelons inrentioii after all other remedies failed, and we Rive hundred of testimonials in this a.id every other atn te. Our PerrI barer-d KLKCTR1C StSPEJOKT. the jrreatest boon er offered weak men, FKKK wlia ail STuMh mm Tlmraua Miearta GlUlUilTaKp la M ta DOaar. Send for IlinaM Pamphlet, mailed. eeaieo.irea f 8ANDEN ELECTRIC CO., Removed to Corner Third and Wuhtor l ton Street, Portland. 0v the warrants were served and all the parties named were arrested and taken before Commissioner Hinsdale. Orov. Waite created quite a scene in the commissioner's room. He was highly indignant and when Deputy U. S. Dis trict Attorney Rhodes stepped toward him with extended hand, the governor met him with a cold stare. Gov. Waite pleaded "not guilty," claiming he had not opened the letter but that its contents had been read to him. The hearing of th case was set for Thursday and when it was sug gested that the bail be fixed at $5,000, the prisoner sprang from his chair, paced the floor and exclaimed: "I will not give bail. I am the governor of this state and these proceedings were had to Interfere with me in the ad ministration of my office. I shall not give bail. You may send me to Jail but I shall not give ball." Finally the commissioner accepted the governor's personal recognizance to appear for trial, in the sum of $100. DRUNKENNESS PUNISHED. Vancouver, Waeh., Aug. 28. A court martial has been called Sept 5th, to try Ca.pt. W. P. Goodwin, of company G, 4th regiment U. S. A., for conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentle man. Goodwin is charged with drunk enness while on duty at Spokane In the recent railroad strike. REUNITING THE U. P. Cheyenne, Aug. 28. A suit in equity for the foreclosure of the mortgage on the;Oregon Short Line has been filed in the United States court for the dis trict of Wyoming. The amount of the mortgage Is $14,931,000. Judge Riper appointed for. the Short Line the same receivers who' are "man aging the Union Pacific' Supplemen tary proceedings will be brought in Idaho and Utah in order to secure like orders from the courts there. This praotlcally unites the Union Pacific system agxin. CAUSE OF THE STRIKE. CHICAGO, Aug. 28. In the strike in vestigation ' today. Vice President Wickes of the Pull man company said that the world's fair in his opinion did not do much partic ular good. The company spent $4, 500,000 in building new cars for the fair traffic and the traffic was not near ly as large as was expected. He thought that the thomas H. wickes. far WOrk had some? thing to do with the cause of the strike. When the rush was over prices got down to bed-rock and men were ("issaticined. Mr. Wickes said the amount of back rent due the company from strikers was $100,000. No eviction had been made. and there had been no orders for eviction. Very little effort had been made to collect the rent. He de nied that the Pullman employes were compelled to rent the company's dwellings. The witness was questioned as to the salaries paid to officers of the company, but declined to answer. He said the cost to the company of building cars under contract at the time of the strike was about $1,100,000, The labor would cost about $240,000. The contracts were taken on the basis of a reduction of 20 per cent. Thus under the old prices the labor would have cost about $340,000. Wickes ad mitted that on this basis the company had reduced the receipts $52,000 and the employes' wages $60,000. This, the vice president said, looked hardly fair, but he thought it much better than to throw men entirely out of em ployment. In answer to - the chair man, Wickes said the cut in pay had been made to tit the depression in business and in the low selling prices of cars, and not to stop any encroach ments on the profits paid stockholders. The surplus of $25,000,000 undivided profits consisted partly of idle cars whose value was constantly deteriorat- ng. The cost of the cars was counted In the surplus, so there was to some extent a fiction in the figure of tha surplus. General Nelson A. Miles tooK tne stand after, lunch. He denied flatly ir.e story that on his arrival herefrom Washington he consulted 'With the general managers. Asked if It wps true that he declared that he had broken the backbone of the strike, the general said, what he had said was that he had broken the backbone of the opposition to federal troops. THE PYTHIAN PARADE. WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. The feat ure of the Pythian encampment was the grand parade of the uniformed rank this afternoon. Fifteen thousand Knights were in line marching by state brigades and the procession was more than two hours passing the pres Idential reviewing stand. Pennsylva nla avenue was crowded by more than 100,000 people, a large part of them visitors from out of the city. The president reviewed the procession from a small stand erected on the curbing just in front of the white house. Major General Carnahan reviewed the line niear the treasury department on Its return march and the review was not ended until after 7 o'clock. Tonight the marine band gave a con cert In Convention hall. HEADING FOR OREGON. The Habit of. States Exchanging Crlm Inals Needs Treatment. Frankfort, Ky., Aug. 28. The govern or today pardoned Mrs. A. Peples from the penitentiary, on icondition that nhe will leave the state within three days and not return again. Mrs Peples was sent up from Louisville three years ago to servo a sentence of 13 vears. Her erime was man slaughter, resulting from an abortion performed by her upon Mary Wedle- kin, a young German girl 18 years old. She has been an exemplary prisoner since her confinement. THE NATIONAL, GAME. Pbi'iielpbla, Aug. 28. Philadelphia 16, Chicago 6. Baltimore. Baltimore 8, Louisville 2. Washington. Washington 9, Clncin nati 7. Brooklyn. Brooklyn 8, Pittsburg Boston. Boston 6, St. Louis 9. New York, New York 5, Cleveland 1, Democratic Senators Won't Talk. Congressmen Less Reti cent, However. Opinions for and Against Mr Wilson Thinks Tariff Reform Has a Bright Future. WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. The few senators at the capitol todi-y refused to expresa an opinion for publication on the letter of Mr. Cleveland to Catch irgs. The democratic senators said they had nothing to say but they seemed to feel that it was aimed at thi'tn. Republicans said there seemed to be no necessity at present for them to get into the fight in the ranks of their opponents, and they would not be quoted regarding it. Members of the house are not as reticent as the senators were. Repre sentative Sperry (dem. Con.) who op posed' the A'ilson bill, said: "I was in hopes the president would spars his party the infliction of another letter. The tariff bill is distinctly a party measure and ' according to the pr..-sirfent's letter to Mr. Wi'spn It is permeated with perfidy and dishonor. If that be a correct description of the bill I do not see on what ground the democratic party can ask to be con tinued in power. It seems by this sec ond letter that the tariff fight must be continued. This position must be disquieting to all the business interests of the country. Democrats this fall are placed on th- defensive by these two letters, first, in duf ending the policy of perfidy and dishonor, and sec ond, by threatening all the business interests of the country with further attempts at tariff legislaion. My opin ion of the bill Is that there's no perfidy or dishonor in the bill itself or in the motives of the senators instrumental in its passage. It is more a mature and equitable measure than the Wilson bill, and will produce a revenue which the Wilson bill professedly would not, and that is what a tariff bill is for. It is to be hoped that the president will not write ny more campaign docu ments for the republican party pending the coming election." Representative Johnson, (Ohio), said: "The effeot of his failure to sign the bill and the writing of this letter will be to intensify and continue the fight against protection, not protection as he puts it, but democratic protection." Mr. Warner, (dem. N. Y.): The pres ident's letter will meet with the un qualified approval of all true friends of revenue reform." Mr. Maguire, (dem. Cal.): "I con sider the letter a very valuable con tribution to the democratic literature of the campaign, because it will remove from the minds of the people the im pression derived from the letter of Mr. Wilson that the tariff bill as amended by the senate was regarded by him as vicious and its enactment perfidious and dishonorable.' His pres ent letter specifically points out his ob jections to the measure which fuily concedes its merits as a great step in the direction of true tariff reform and as afford mg a new and excellent point of vantage in the fight for democratic principles." WILSON'S VIEWS. Washington, Aug. 28. Chairman Wil- son If;! ooay tor vvmi b"" i" be present at tne congressional con vention of his dis trict tomorrow. His re-nomination is con ceded without oppo sition. Dr. Wilson said today: "The outlook for genuine tariff re rm is very bright. W lr ' We have taken the first step and that is always the hard- W- L Wilson est, and having done that much and done it perfectly, it will be easy to proceed to the full realization of tariff reform. The great struggle has been to secure a recogni tion of the principle rather than the perfection of the details. The details must come by the irresistible force of circumstances now that the principle is obtained. 'What Is. ihere in the assertion that a resumption or tne tarin agitat-on next winter will bring a recurrence of business unrest?" That's wholly unwarranted," said Mr. Wilson. "There need be no gen era! bill reaching all industries, so that legislation will not be such as to affect commercial affairs generally. Tariff rates will remain stable on a verv great majority of articles, and it will be upon comparatively few that a presentation of details will be neces sary In order that the tariff reform placed on the statue books shall be a consistent whole. Mr. Wilson spoke in warm approval of President Cleveland's letter to Mr. Catchlngs, saying it is strong in the expressions and sentiments set forth. - NEW JAPANESE MINISTER. Washington, Aug. 2S. The new Jap anse minister, Mr. Shinichire Kurino was presented to the president today, EFFECT ON THE SOUND. Tacoma, Aug. 28. Collector Saunders who is here from Port Townsend, says "Yes, the new tariff reduces the duty on opium one half, but that will not affect the smuggling except to in crease it about one-half. Smugglers will have to carry just twice the amount to make as much hereafter as they have been making heretofore. and they will do it. The new tariff will hot stimulate the importation of coal from British Columbia." LOOK OUT, NICS. Washington, Aug. 28. The state de partment is watching the develop ment of the situation In Nicaragua with jealous eye3 and a firm determi with jealous eyes and a determi - curred XmTxXl r araguan government shall receive jus tice. - Today a cablegram was received from U. S. Consul Braida at Grey town, stating that the prisoners taken by the Nlcaraguan troops at Blue fields arrived at Greytown. Included among them were two American cit izfns, Wilt Bank and Lampton, and Mr. Hatch, the British consular agent at Blueflelds. While the Americans in Blueflelds are warned by our government to keep out of the squabble between Clarence and the Nicaragtians, under penalties of Nlcaraguan law, there is no dis guising the fact that the arrest of the Americans was made under uly con ditions. PLEASANT JOURNEY, SIR. Washington, Aug. 28. It is the in tention of President Cleveland to leave for Gray Gables early tomorrow morning. OREGON FIR WANTED. Immense Demand for Lumber South Africa and Transvaal. in San Francisco, Aug. 28. Charles Hunt, an old-time mining engineer of the Comstock range, who is well kt.own here, has returned after a year's absence in the gold fields of South Africa. Referring to the needs of the great Transvaal mining dis trict, ha says: "There Is a demand for American timber for the mines. The timbers they get are small, usually only three or four inches through, and are worth 25 cents a foot of length measure. They have to be put In the mine pretty thick to support thi weight. Oregon and Puget sound tim ber is Just: what is wanted there. It can be taken to that country and sold for $25 a . 1,000 feet at a profit, and it now brings as high' as $60." A LITTLE FISHY. The Coreans Are Not Likely to Help the Chinese. " London, Aug. 28. A dispatch to the Times from Shanghai dated August 29th, says it is reported that the Chi nese forces joined by 5,000 Coreans have beaten back the Japanese army with a heavy loss, to Kaiseng, forty miles north of Seoule. The Chinese are still advancing. They were helped everywhere by the Coreans. SECOND TRIAL FOR MURDER. San Francisco,- Aug. 28. The second trial of Harry Thome for the murder of Frank Northey, in a saloon In this city in April, 1893, is now on. It is ex pected the case will go to the jury late this afternoon. On the previous trial the jury stood eight for acquital and four for manslaughter. CHANGE OF OFFICERS NEW COINER OF THE MINT AT SAN FRANCISCO. An Iowa Congressional Nomination (ios to the Railroad Men Other Political Notes. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 28. A. T. Spotts. who was recently appointed coiner of the mint in this city, will arsume his new duties next Saturday. Judge Charles M. Gorhman, retiring coiner, will close .the business of his department on Friday afternoon. Judge Gcrhman was appointed by President Arthur and has held office continuous ly for twelve years. During his ad ministration of the coinage depart ment of the San Francisco mint he has coined $273,500,000 in gold and 39,500,000 :n sliver, a total of J313.000.- 000. AN IOWA NOMINATION. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Aug. 28. W. P. Daniels, mayor of the city and grand secretary of the order of railway con ductors of North America, was nomi nated for congress by the fifth dis trict democratic convention this af- te-rncon. NEBRASKA CONGRESSMEN. Omaha. Aug. 28. The populists of the second congressional district, nom inated D. Clem Deaver. Ex-Governor Boyd will be the choice of the demo crats of this district. MORTON FAVORABLY INCLINED. New York. Aug. 28. After a confer ence between unos. u. nan anu Ivl P. Morton, Mr. Piatt stated that Mr. Morton would make a statement l.'.ter In the week. When asked wheth er Mr. Morton showed an Inclination to become the standard bearer for his rty as a candidate for governor of the state. Piatt replied: "I think he is favorably inclined." PRIMARIES IN CAROLINA. Columbia, S. C, Aug. 28. Returns fiom all oveV the state indicate that only a two-thirds vote was polled In the primary elections today, the antl Tillmanltes generally refusing to vote. Tillman carries every county with the exception of Charleston, Richland and Sumter. The election was generally quiet. DESTRUCTIVE FIRES. MILWAUKEE, Aug. 28. Specials to th'i Sentinel from Marshfleld and Grand Rapids say the little lumber town of Vesper was destroyed by a forest fire today. The large saw and planing mills belonging to the Sherry Lumber company ar.4 twenty-three buildings, all there were In the town, were burned. The only train on the Port Edwards road has been abandoned and telegraph communication Is cut off, hence the loss cannot now be estimat ed. A dispatch from Marengo, in Ash land county, states that forest fires are still raging along the Wisconsin Central railroad. - FRUIT IN THE EAST. New York. Aug. 28. The morning papers ray last week was not so heavy a week In the California fruit trade as the week previous. During the week ending August 18th. 135 cars were received from shippers on the Pacific coast, while last week only 115 cars came. Bartlett pears are ueing ntaring a close and the fruit here , of thiV -ct however, a good de- Vvt rSltty, . tinn to be sold as soon as openea. in It Will Require Much Labor to Put Her in Good Shape. Port Townsend. Wash., Aug. 28. The steamer City of Topeka arrived from Alaska today with late news con cerning the stranded steamer Queen Sunday evening at high tide, after trie Queen had been relieved of the freight in the forward hold, the anchors and chains taken ashore, and several hun dred tons of coal discharged overboard, she floated off and was beached at Alert bay, ten miles distant. A boul der had penetrated her forward com partment, knocking off a plate and ad mitting a large volume of water, but the damage could not be ascertained until the tide had fallen, which would have been yesterday six hours after the Topfeka left. Captain Carroll told the passengers he was unable to as certain the extent of the injury, and that he might possibly patch up the aperture and return to the Victoria drydock for repairs. Two of the ex cursionists decided to return and come down on the Topeka and the others stopped by the vessel and will con tinue north on the next trip of the To peka. The officers of the Topeka think the Queen more seriously damaged than at first reported, and that it will require much labor and expense to put her in first-class condition. A. Lordeaux, of Duluth, one of the Queen's passengers, who came down today, said that the shock of the ves sel going on the rocks was scarcely felt, and that few realized the chip was aground until next morning." The beach all along Cormorant island Is sand except where the accident oc curred, and that for fifty of sixty feet Is strewn with sharp jagged rocks. The passengers are encamped ashore, enjoying the novelty of the excursion. The steamer Topeka brings news from Juneau that a fierce battle oc curred at Chilcat last week between Indians who had got drunk on whis key furnished by smugglers, and that six .Indians had been killed. A dep utycollector of customs and posse left JuneatK on the steamer wrestler to setae the liquor, arrest the smugglers and quiet the Indians. TheFS 8:'jfsev eral white settlers living at the point, and fears are entertained for their safety. . ; ACROSS THE POND. The Czar Sick, the Dutch Fight at Lombok, Yacht Racing, Etc. St. Petersburg, Aug. 28. The health of the czar is causing anxiety in Rus sia. He is threatened with grave kidney trouble. Southampton, Aug. 28. Howard Gould has telegraphed the secretary of the Dartmouth regatta committee Informing him that the Vigilant will compete in the race on Friday. The Satanita has also been entered in the race. Rotterdam, Aug. 28. The Nieu Cour- ant has received a dispatch from Bal- uaia, ' giving further details of th- fighting on the island of Lombok to the effect that after a hard fight the Dutch were forced to retereat to Ampana with a loss of 185 men miss ing or killed. The loss Included thirty officers. MURDER BY A DESPERADO. Pleasant Hill, 111.; Aug. 28. James W. Barnes, a local desperado, while be ing tried before a Jury for disturbing the peace, attempted to escape. F. W. Edom, town clerk, intercepted Barnes, who turned upon him and plunged a knife into Edom's left breast, killing him instantly. STEAMER STRANDED. Provlder.ce, Aug. 28. The Provi dence line steamer Connecticut, from New York, Is aground oft Fleld'a point, Providence river. She is being light ered of her freight. PRICES AT PORTLAND. The Regular Quotations for Produce In the Big City. Portland, Aug. 29. Wheat Dealers quoted Walla Walla wheat at 67 to 68' per cental, and valley at 72 to 75 cents per cental. There is a fair amount of wheat coming in, both from the valley and east of the mountains. Flour Standard brands are quoted as follows: Portland. Salem and Day ten, $2.55 per barrel; Walla Walla, J2.90. Oats -Weak at 32c for white and 31c for gray. Barley Feed barley is quoted at 70 to 72Vic per cental as the extreme. Brewing ;s worth 80c to 85c per cen tal, according to quality. Mlllstuffs Bran, $15; shorts, $16; chop feed. $15 to $17; middlings, $23 to $2S per ton; chicken wheat, 65c to $1 per cental. Hay Good. $10 to $11 per ton. Butter Oregon fancy creamery, 22 to 25c per pound; fancy dairy, 20 to 22Mc per pound; fair to good, 15c to 17; common, 12c. - Cheese Oregon, . llo.' to 12c per pound; Swiss imported, 30c to 32c; do mestic, 16 to 18c. Onions New California, red.lc per pound: yellow, VAc. Potatoes New Oregon are slow at 35c to 50c per sack. Poultry Old chickens are quoted at $3.50 to $4; young, $2 to $3, according to rlze; others are not wanted. Young ducks are quoted at $2 to $3, and young geese. $4.50 to $5. These prices are nominal. Turkeys sell at 9c to 10c per pound.- Eggs Quoted at 10c to 12c per dozen Vegetables. Tomatoes are plentiful sweet DOtaitoes. 1 3-4c per pound; Or egon cabbage, lc to 2c; string and wax beans, lc to 2c; cucumbers, 10c to 15c per dozen ; corn, 8c to 10c per dozen; egg plant, 10c per pound; green peppers. 6c per pound; garlic 6c. Melons Watermelons, California, $2.25 to $2.50; Oregon, $1.25 to $1.75 caniteloupes, $1.50 per dozen; nutmegs, $1.50 per crate. ''. Fresh fruit Grapes are abundant. Nectarines, $1 per box; California ap ples, $1.25 per 60-pound box, 75c per 25-pound box; Hoodriver apples, $1.25; Bartlett pears," $1 per box; Oregon peaches, EOc per box; California Craw- fcrds. 50c to 65c per box. Wool Valley, 8c to 10c, according to , quality; Umpqua, 9c to 9c; Eastern Hop-The martcet Is lifeless and it Is Impossible to tfve quotations. : Oregon, ou w rz, A Pioneers Account of the Big Blaze. People Fled Before It to the Ocean. A Nestneca Chief Quoted The First Whites He Saw Came in a -- "Bigr Canoe." , ' , A trip through the Coast Range mountains reveals to the eye of the traveler a vast expanse of dead tim ber, whose tall charred trunks are the sepulchral statues of a once green and ' luxuriant forest. The fire that devas tated so much valuctoie timber on both . sides of the Willamette river occurred In 1845. The summer of that year was. exceptionally dry, and the trees and underbrush burned like tinder. While at Woods recently, says the editor of the Sheridan Sun, we met Peter Belleque, a fisherman, who was born on French prairie In 1836, of French parents. The writer found Mr. Bolleque a ready racconteur of pioneer events, who among other things threw light upon the origin of the great for est conflagration of 1S45, not hitherto published. , In the fall of 1815, "Nigger John son," a cook, who deserted from an , English man-of-war, at the mouth of the Columbia a few years previous, set fire to slashing on a ranch upon which he had "squatted," ncarCham poeg in what is now Marion county. Johnson succeeded in getting . a good ' burn on his flashing, but unfortunate ly for the forests, the fire spread In all directions. "On the east side of the - PUliD;itff.. It swept a path through the valley as "HWacS-vgs. midnight. Reachine the mountains iPma3Sd terrible swath through the Casctffs clear to the summit. Crossing Hhe Willamette, it blazed out a path through the valley to the Coast range, the principal trail being confined, how- -ever to the mountain ranges. A hot, dry wind fanned it day and night; and the whole valley was filled witn a pall of smoke. So dense did the smoke beqpme that the settlers were forced to eat their mldcay meal by candle light. Travel was largely discontin ued. Navigation off the Oregon coast became dangerous, and ships lay at the mouth of the Columbia for weeks -waiting for the fearful cloud o' smoke to leave. Many of the settlors be came apprehenslv that the end of the world was at hand. Streams flowed red with lye and ashes, and many water courses of no small size became stagnant pools, or dried up altogether. Mr. Belleque, dome years ago, inter viewed old Dick Hama, now on the Slletz reservation, about the fire in Tillamook county. Harna was chief of the Nestuccas, a small tribe of In dians who lived along the coast at the time. Harna, according to Belleque, gave a.-.ivid description of the fire, as witnessed by himself. He and a por tion of his tribe were encamped on the Big Nestucca river about four miles from the present site of the town of Woods. For several days, accoramg to the IndUrs, there had been a great deal of smoke.- Each day It grew denser, and filled the Indians with no little alarm. Finally, one night, the Nestuccas were awakened by a bright . red glare in the Eastern sky wnicn trrew more and more brilliant. By sunrise, great flames were seen leaping skyward from the summits of. the hills and the air was resonant with a roar, a hundred times louder than the noise of the surf on the ocean beach. Nearer and nearer came the fterce sea or flame. So rapidly did it approach that the terrified Indians had no time to remove their scanty belongings, but hastily Jumping into their dugouts, paddled down the river to the ocean beach with all possible speed, be tween Mr. Malaney s rancn ana tne ocean below Woods, the iseutucca makes an angle and between the river and the ocean beach there is, at Its . greatest width, a bare sand spit of half a mile. Here, Hama ana nis braves took refuge and subsisted upon fish for some weeks until a heavy rain put out the fire. All that remained of the vast rorests of fir and spruce and larcn were blackened trunks that reared their seared forms heavenward as if Jn mourning for their loss of verdure and foliage. Paddling up the river to tneir old haunts, gruesome sights met the eyes of the Indians at every turn. Here and there piled up In groups were bands of elk and deer charred crisp; bear were found neatly barbecued; and panthers, with their bodies still In the water, showed their ghastly cooked heads denuded of every hair, and sightless before death came. Another band of Indians retreated before the flames to Sand Lake be tween Cape Kiwanda and Lookout where they found a safe asylum until the welcome rain came. . Luckily, there were no white settlers In Tilla mook at that time. The fallen debris previous to the fire was undoubtedly the accumulation of a century. Iu many places, young growths of fir are springing up on the mountains, while the water courses are fringed with a dense growth of alder. But It will take another century to replace the grand forests in the line of the great conflagration of 1845. Harna, who is now an old and feeble Indian, told Belleque that the first white man he ever saw came In a "big stick canoe with wings" and an chored near Cape Kiwanda. While the Indians were gazing at the huge canoe out upon the then calm cean, a small boat filled with men dressed In buck-; skin, came ashore, ana traaea wnn them, the - Indians exchanging such skins and dried salmon as they pos sessed for beads, hatchets, etc From. Harna's description of the "hyas tyee" and his companions, Belleque believes that the white man was Jo eDh Flambols. a Hudson Bay man. who traded with the Indians along tbe : coast from Fort Astor to California, somewhere, abrfut iSSS. Flambols was a good navigator, and visited many of the lnlefa and bays of the Oregon Coast with his paunch U!e schooner.