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DAILY EVENING EDiTIOH I I Eastern Oregon Weather R; A WEEK. Tonltht and Friday partly cloudy IMPS D OUT .1 hat Rebellion is (in Southeastern f Island. Jotted with p GUERILLA CAMPS. Lrales Has Been Or- Ft Alter the Situation li Anticipated by the d civil Authorities of kffl-It Is now doll- lilt Santiago province litdreils of well oqu.p' tiiite of decinrou nut . chaotic rebellion. p dotted with guornia Kiithorlties and plant- i- tiat a bushwhacking. hi warfare will bo in-in. s dthur lack a leader Instate of being scat- binds Is part or a well fiction. Tlio latter ib Itible, as tlio presence lis of considerable ui- Li have excited bofore Itlat Is only now begin- of rarales lias been or- lirsna to the front, but i to uo greatly out- Mr only safety, If ot us are deemed upon Iteislve work against hips of semi-bandits, t together in nnytnlng Kit lumbers, and then itislve, It will faro bad- mjs. tana says the situation lis as reported, but the oficlals in Santiago, under of the country. aunts, are very anx- pe revolt may grow. tne interior Yero (discontent is confined I classes of Puerto Prin- lli a matter of history pe "lower classes" hCiu I tor years. During te pue island has so g-eat' i in a matorlal sense i never teen a time In maraudlnc bands ly live off the country sin mounts. There Is i In this city, and ro ! that the inhahltnnts fcrtnee arc greatly ex- (NERS ORGANIZE. Mlninq Men Will witd on September 7, fpose. July 30. A petlt.on 1 e uromlnont mine U and thr. Sim,...... .11.. Nrculated, asking for ; "i'ing mon of tho 10. 011 Knntnmhnr 7 Of OrCJlni'Inn- n ntnn Nation. " " " """" Itialng commissioner of i me head or raw mo organization p la a complete organ-"Hne-ownnm nt r ( and fraternal pur- El- 3URNED. If Their Lives at a ln Resort. Maine. Juiv an mm V" destroyed by fire ' Helen lnrtl., ,1 "uiin.il ll.'U 111 "on Inhnlation of 'Bank Pali. 'ly snTi,,'. Usui. 1,10 comp uonal Bant.- cins. r-EXDMSTOy, TOUTIM.A COTOTY, OllEGON, Tlll'HSOAY, .111, Y .TO, 1003. NO. 4 SOT. REDMEN ELECT OFFICERS. George M. Orton, of Portland, Suc ceeds L. B. Recder as Sachem. Oregon City, July 30,-What Is said to be the most Interesting and large ly attended meeting of Redmen ever held In Oregon, convened In this city yesterday. Ornnd Sachem L. D. Recder called the 12th annual session to order with 70 delegates present. Meetings were lold In tho morning and afternoon and the session will probably close tonight. Badges of unique and appro printo design nrc worn by the dele gates, and It Is one of tho Jolllest crowds ever assembled In this city. At the mooting last night, grand officers for the ensuing year wore elected. Pendleton Is tho only city in the state outside of Portland, re ceiving two of the grand officers, 1,. B. Render being elected great prophet nnd Roy Rltncr great keeper of rec ords. Following Is tho list or new offic ers: Great sacliom, George M. Orton. or l'crtlr.nd; great senior sagamore, Dr. Jlc-nderson, Astoria; groat junior sag nmore. W. II. Conyers, Clatsknnlo; Ri-i.nt prophet, L. R Recder, Pendle ton; great chlor of records, R. W. Rlt ncr, Pendleton, great keeper of wam pum, Jacob Relsch. Portland. L. R. Recder, of Pendleton, and W. C. A. Pohl, of Astoria, were elected great representatives to attend the great council of the United States, to be hold at Atlantic City, N. J. CONCUSSION ilECKED BI FORI! MILES WELL-KNOWN MINER KILLED. Every House Within a Radius of Half a Mile Was Demolished, i SPECIAL DETAILS POLICE I SUCCEED THE MILITIA. BlilTE Arbitration Commission. Wilmington, July 30. Judge Gray has accepted the proposition to net aB tho fifth arbitrator on the Alabama commission to settle the coal strike in that state. tho ' uank cl0S- tmt i. ,,eon Hl'oculat- He C(u resources, nc statement, wero It. , uullty. lie t7ihat tl'" mvcBtl- , Disaster Now Believed to Have Been ! Precipitated by Workmen Who i Were Laying a New Floor Jarring Dynamite Fifty Mangled Persons . Been Taken to the Hospitals. Lowell, Mass., July 30. Eighteen i dead, 10 still missing whose bodies 1 will be found In the ruined houses, , and TO in the hospitals, Is tho sltua tlon this morning with reference to ' yesterday's explosion. The militia were this morning dis missed and their places taken by de tails of special policemen who guard ' the ruins. Wreck for Half a Mile, Tho explosion caused a general I wreck of houses within a radius of I i alf a mile. p,tuaDii'D .va3 felt In Boston, 40 miles away, and at Ex ' eter, N. H., which is a still greater distance from Lowell. In some cases there were reports that there had been an earthquake. The city was thrown into a pai.Ic and it required every effort of tne au 1 thoritles to establish and maintain . anything like order. Probable Cause of Explosion. LATELY SUCCEEDED ARTHUR The explosion Is thought to Have AS HEAD ENGINEERS' ORDER, i ''ocn caused by the Jarring of dyna- I mite stored In the magazine by wont- Was a Close Friend of Mr. Arthur 'men who were laying a new floor. , i , thm r,,u. , t, , Tne dynamite set off the powuer in and One of the Organizers of the j mf cham,)Cir and that exp,'osIon was Brotherhood of Locomotive Engl-, fi0W(,,i i,y another in a second neers. chamber. Shock Razes Buildings. The plant of the United States dis- just Charged That Union Miners Blew Up Sun and Moon Mine Property. MINE HAS BEEN OPERATED WITH NON-UNION EMPLOYES Explosion Causes Considerable Dam age and Imperils Lives of Scab Workmen Fire Under Control Watchman Takes a Shot at the In truders and Fatally Wounds Philip Fire. Jack Zwank Meets a Horrible Death at Sumpter Mine. Similiter, July SO. Jack Zwank, one of the oldest prospectors of tho Green horn district, was killed in a cave-In In the Big Johnny mine, owned by himself. Sunday night. His body wn3 found Wednesday in the drift, where It had lain from the time of the acci dent. Zwank was an Intimate friend of Jack Powers, tho veteran prospector who was frozen to death last Decem ber on the trail from Balley-Elkhorn to tho Greenhorn mines. They had prospected and mined together for 20 years and were two of the first men to explore the Greenhorn district. Zwank owned tho lllg Johnny and re fi'sed $50,000 for It three months ago. BRUTAL MURDER 11 1 1 Murderer Taunted and Jeered at His Victim While He Was Dying. SPOKANE PRINTERS AT WORK. CASE OF ORIENTAL TOTAL DEPRAVITY. High Requiem Mass. Rome, July 30. High requiem mass the last ceremonial over Leo. was cel ebrated this morning. CHIEF YOUNGSON IS DEAD MeadvIUe, Pa., July 30. Grand , ol oca bo ivo Pinoers ort Mr y Cartridge Company is located in a c. . el!;... ,1..?. ? itrict known as Riverside Park. w. TL .n ni Tnr V J oiitnlue of Lowell. The building in whore lie has lain 111 for wnai whlch tllp exj,ioslon occurred was a weeks He was 03 years of age an , B,ructllr aUout one and a half was for a number J8"8. miles distant from the works of the chief of the order, while Arthur was , t . , .maliv within a hund its chief. The two were Inseparable ' T' J friends for many years. Mr. Youngson was lying critically ill when Mr. Arthur was stricken at and beyond that the buildings are very close together. Every structure within a half mile was torn within . .... . , Will Winnipeg and a eu. nna or imu hum- aml wH,10Uti Pcrsons lnsI(ie tho dent he was not apprised until late-1 houg(s 8Ustalne(, lnjures. If they es- y, wneu n.b u.i c-udb ,tl"'"",""''V 1 cajied with their lives, less, on account of tho depressing of- 1 feet It would certainly him. have upon Work of Rescue. .Men who live In streets not far Mr. Youngson has fully realized his ! bwbj who wero rprtnata anoueb to condition for some time and yester-, escape serious injuries, uiiuieuiuiui, condition for borne time, anu ji - i. , thDinselvPs over to removing InL'o" 1 his i cce S Mr S . ay's I women and children to places of safe- to elect him as Mr. -i ominous sm-, gave fe pr01)erty. The cessor. P. I wreck was so complete, however, that Mr. h,'r nn o Leo- tho work was harrowlngly slow. The ganizers of the nttorhoot of .)atro, wagons and teams of all do- motive Enginee s and ha M I ,.,, , .e0 brought t0 use to been Identified with the combinative , ' l0nt thp ambulallceg. Idaho Springs, Col.. July 30. An explosion at the Sun and Moon mine, located three miles from this city. wrecked the transformer house, set I fire to the oil In tho transformers and I threatened the destruction of the I I main shatthoiise. The latest Informa- j , tlon from the scene ls that the fire I has been placed under control. I From the meager details of the af- fair at hand, it is learned that the! i watchman at the mine, nroused by the ! i explosion, rushed out In time to ob- j serve two men runinr away from luo transformer building. lie fired at! I them several times and later a wound- j I ed man was found lying near by. Ho j was taken In charge and the compa-1 I ny's physician sent for. Under Slier I iff Charles Peck, ot Georgetown, and ' a posse have gone to the scene to l make an investigation, and protect ; the Sun nnd Moon property If It is found necessary. Operated With Non-union Men. i The Sun and Moon was the first I mine affected by tho strike, which I was declared last February. Alier four months of Idleness the mine re- sumed operations In Juno with non union men. Manager Sims, of the Sun nnd Moon, declares that no ex j plosive of any kind was ever kept In or near tho transformer building. As near as can be learned, the building i was wrecked by a heavy charge of dynamite. ! The wounded man died this morn ing. He has been Identified as Phil ip Fire, a member of the Miners' Union, Twenty-two members of the Mln ! ers' Union, Including President How ' ard Treslze, and the other officials, have been arrested, charged with con i splracy to blow up the mlno. They I protest Ignorance of a conspiracy an.i j declare that they at u!! times advised I the men to obey the law and avoid I violence. They intimate that the do i struction of the property was part of j a scheme to caBt discredit upon the I Western Federation of r.!lnerj and Its i attempts to secure shorter hours and 1 more pay for its members, j Twenty non-union men wero work ing on the eighth level of the mine at ' the time of the explosion, but escaped 1 Injury. The damage caused by the j explosion amounts to several thous and dollars. Temporary Truce Patches Up Differ ences Between Papers and Em ployes. Spokane, July 30. XTpder a tempo rary agreement, the printers In the Review nnd Chronicle offices return ed to work- yesterday evening, nnd the papers were issued as usual. The differences will bo reviewed by the International Typographical Union, and a final settlement reac.i ed ns soon ns possible. In tho mean time tho men will continue work. Russian Strike Riot. St. Petersburg, July 30. There was n strike riot at Tiflls today. Strikers attempted to stop a train, but wero confronted by a force of troops who fired Into the crowd, killing and wounding 2S. London Dock Fire. London, July 30. A disastrous fire swept the Grimsby docks this morn ing, The storage sheds wero wiped out. Loss, $500,000. I HUNG TODAY FOR MURDER. supplement Mangled Bodies Recovered, nn tin. way to tho Are numerous carriages were met that boro bodies. wing of the order, GETS TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. Brutal Murder of a Slx-Year-Old Boy 1 Many bodies were taken from the Brutal iviuraer or o t ruins and laid on the grass. Some by a Vicious and Angry Man. , rums ana recognItlon Chicago. July 30. The Jury In the . minted at what they se of Wlltrax and wife, cnaree case with murdering fi-vear-old J'aui i,rno n,i ntlniiliiliiL's Paszkowsl, this afternoon totind Wil; j . ,n a'n,nr,i atate, some half de trax guilty nnd imposed a 2.-years molshe(1 oti,lrs hardly more than a heap of broken timbers, sun ouieru smoking from the recent Are. i.'..?.,.ot n.ni released the wo lllllll lOUIlll.ut.i rrt.,.,,l man. Tho hoy's body was found burlod In a Held In a gunnysack sev eral dnys after being murdered. Later suspicion was drawn lo lltrux. On the stand his 11-year-old son tesUlled his father killed little Paul, who was his playmate. A tm A later ho recanted, after being old by tho attorneys for tho de ens o t bat his testimony would cause ,hl mo the to Arizona Mexicans Cast Lots to See Which Shall Hang First. Prescott, Ariz., July 30. Every thing Is ready for the banging of the two Mexican assassins of Charles Goddard and Frank Cox, prospectors, ' who were shot while at supper on February 1st. The Bcaffold Is 20 feet from tho cells. The prisoners Joked and drew lots to see which should hang first, Secretary of War. Hermosillo, Mexico, July 30. Gen eral Luis Ton-ess, tho governor of So nora and conqueror of the Yaqul In dinns has been given the war port, folio by Diaz for his splendid military record. bo hanged, but the effect on tho , jury . , r,.er uollvery route has was nlll. thoy believing the first te- established at Sherwood, Or., to tlmony true. No niui "- . crime other than mere vlclout-ntw on tho part of Wlltrax, who va. i anger cd because Paul threw a rock nna buggy-spoke at him- Were Not Surrounded. . .... on Vntlilnc now Folsom. cai, jui ;- :" ; f the today regarding mo mu "7:- ::. all oscaiied convicts, and K is feared w trace of them has l(en lost ,,i ports of yesterday that the gang had been surrounded are found to be un ! open September 1. Called on the President, Oyster Bay, July 30. Besides Sec retary Payne. President Roosevelt had as guests today Professor Jo romo Lanflehl, Instructor in history In tho University of California, and Com missioner Williams and Attorney Va ninegen, of tho Now York immigra tion office. Lanneld has Just return "d from an oxtensivo tour abroad. Tlio president talked with him on matters bearing on our international relations. TUNNEL COLLAPSES IN WEST VIRGINIA Wheeling. July 30. Tho big tunnel of tlio Wheolmg terminal partially .. 1 .1,1.. mnnilmr it is feared that several workmen going through accident occurred at 0:30, when many wero passing. A scoro had a narrow oscape, running for their lives. Tho break is near tho center. Tho tunnel Ta, r;;foVlo "Sri oTtomM... Thu j la 3.000 KM Iw. LAND BOARD RAISES PRICES SCHOOL LAND WILL BE SOLD AT $2.50 PER ACRE. Land Board Decides to Carry Out tne Intention of the Law, Although It Is Not in Force on Account of Omis sion of a Word. Salem, Or., July 30. At tlio regular meeting or tho stato land board yes terday, In pursuance of a decision ren dered by tho attorney-general recent ly, holding tho act passed by tho Inst legislature Invalid and not binning upon tho board as to price at which school land bhould bo sold, because the words "school land" were omitted from the title, tho hoard made nn or der fixing the price of school land at $2.50 per acre as contemplated by the legislature, and raising tho prlco of all school lands located within pro posed temporary withdrawals for res ervation purposes, to $5 per aero. The price of Indemnity land was fixed at $5 per acre, as contemplated by law. This decision and order em anated from an application from ono who wanted to purchase a tract of school land In n section of land situ ated In the reserve, and maintaining that, under tho new law the board was compelled to sell tlio land ut $2.60 per acre. Tho matter was submitted to tho attorney-general with tho result thut ho rendered a decision holding the act invalid us to school land and that tho matter rested solely with tho board to fix any prlco upon it not less than $1.25 per acre. Tlio board also decided not to ac cept final payment on certificates of sale of any stato land uiiIchb the cer tificate accompanied the remittance. This ls done to prevent tho purchas ers from sending In final payments and not securing a deed, thereby es caping taxation. Machine Supplants Clerks. Moscow, Idaho, July 30. The coun ty commissioners have purchased an adding machine for tho courthoiiso, which will bo used by all the oftleos, This machine will take tho place of ono man In tho auditor's office and partly accounts for tho decrease In tho office force which will occur on tho first of August. Another Clerk Dismissed. Baker City July 30. Arthur Low ell, chief clerk in tho postollico hero, has been ordered dismissed by tlio department, owing to alleged care lessness In handling registered mall. George II. Tracey, second clerk, was dismissed July 20. Colombia has appointed the follow ing commlBBlon to collect and ar rnngo her exhibit for tlio World's Fair, St. Louis: Dr. Santiago Cortos, Julio P. Portocarroro, and Gen. Fran cisco Javier Vcrgara y Volasco. Both Japs Were Sailors Assassin Stabbed His Companion and Let Him Slowly Bleed to Death While j Preventing All Attempts to Get Re lief and to Escape. Unliwny, N. J.. July 30. Itoblno, n Japanese xnllor, today calmly confess ed tlio murder of a fellow snllnr named Roto, also a Japanese. The i-iliiu! took plnco yesterday a few hours after thu arrival of the schooner llugoua, upon which both wero em ployed, Itoblno was suspected becnuso tho Inst time Koto was seen alive ho was In Itoblno's company. Itoblno readily confessed when confionted with the evidence ngalimt him. He Induced Keto to walk Into the country with hint, nnd stabbed tho latter In the aim with a krlss, or Mn lay dagger. The blow was aimed at an artery and carried out the purpose of severing It. That done Itoblno made no further effort to wound Keto but only to provent his staunching the How of blood. The dying man attempted to es cape, but Itoblno, much the largor and stronger, prevented, nnd held Ko to's opposite hnnd so ho could not check the How of blood by proBsure above the wound. Itoblno, holding his companion's free and uninjured arm walked along tho road wlih him, Jeer ing mid cursing blm, When Keto fought with blm It only Incrensed his pulsiillons and hastened death. Ito blno In the meantime heaped ridicule and taunts upon his victim, ICeto Dually Ml fainting In tho road. Itoblno held ills hand until Keto was loo weak to struggle, and then ru nenledly kicked him until denth caniu. j Shipmates or the two men discovered the body not long afterward and Ito I blno wnB suspected and at once taken ; In custody. When arrested ho told tho story i In all Kb singular details and laughed, saying: "lie was my enemy. Kill mo If you want to. I don t care. BRIBERY SCANDALS. Some Progress Being Made In Mis souri Investigations. Jefferson City. Mo.. July 30. The case of State Senator Sullivan, charg ed with soliciting $1,500 for his legis lative vote In tho nliim baking powder hcandal, was called this morning, Represents Her Husband. St. Louis, July 30, A subpoena was Ishiied today for Mrs. Kelly, wife of Daniel Kelly, commanding her ap pearance before tho grand Jury. Htm hears her husband's commission to discredit the testimony of former Lleutunant-Guvernor Lee In tho bak ing powder scandal, nnd by letters and telcgraiiiB will endeavor to show !.( up not only us a bribe-seeker, but a a blackmailer. She brought triinkful of documents from her ..us band when she came here from Cull ada, where Kelly Is nowjiequestered. MRS. NATION IN JAIL. Expresses Her "miTatlsfactlon With a Chief of Police. Hcrnnton. Pa.. July 30.- For tho sec ond tlmo within 21 hours, Mrs. Carrlo Nutlon Is behind the bars. She 1 sit ed the superintendent of police this morning and opened the '"'versa mi by saying to him: "You're u great big. beefy Blob." Before tho words wero fairly finished, the superintendent, assisted by u patrolman, seized and hustled her Into a cell, where she now Is, awaiting n hearing. Railroad President Dead, Cincinnati, July 3().-For 10 mln utos this morning not a wlirul turn od or Instrument clicked on the Nor folk Western, out of rosped to the memory of the late Prwndoni K.m ball, whoso funeral services began at that hour. Tho rolloge of cardinals meets July 31, lo begin balloting for a suc (OBBor to Pie Leo. -uiiutJClO(l, true,