THE HEPPNER TIMES
Published Every Thursday.
HEPPNER OREGON
EVENTS OF THE DAV
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happening of the Past Week,
Presented in Condensed Form, Moat
Likely to Prove Interesting.
Tom Horn, the noted Wyoming mur
derer, hag been hanged.
Typhoid fever is epidemic at Wil
liams college, Williamstown, Mass.
The great railway merger formed by
Hill is to be dissolved and conditions
will be the same as before.
The treasury departmnet favors mov
ing the customs headquarters of Wash
ington from Port Townsend.
The German emperor's physicians
have ordered him to spend at least two
months in a warmer climate.
senator .Mitchell has introduced a
numbet o' bills in the senate making
changes in the laws of Hawaii.
Bank robbers terrorized the town of
Green Mountain, Iowa, and after
wrecking the bank building secured
11,000 and escaped.
The Chi: igo street railway company
'and the strikers have agreed on all
points at issue, excepting two. These
are likely to be settled soon.
A gigantic combine has been formed
in San Francisco to secure control of all
important milling plants and cereal
food concerns on the Pacific coast.
Ex-Queen Natalu, of Servia, the sole
heir of the late King Alexander, has
declined to accept anything given him
after his marriage with Queen Draga.
The property thus renounced amonuts
to $400,000.
Theking and queen of Italy are the
guests'of London.
Nine out of ten Japanese statesmen
expect war with Russia.
The Colombian peace commission has
arrived in Colon, Panama, but will not
be received.
The Federation of Labor has asked
President Roosevelt to reopen the case
of Bookbinder Miller.
The senate will probably fix some
date in December to vote on the Cuban
treaty and then adjourn until that
time.
Mrs. Carrie Nation created a scene at
the White House and was arrested be
cause she presisted in seeing the presi
dent.
General George M. Randall, fonnerlv
of Vancouver, Wash., may become
maior eeneral if the senate refuses to
confirm the appointment of Wood.
Chicago strikers continue to stone
street cars and assault nonounion work
men. The company receives little
sympathy because they have not agreed
to arbitration.
Panama will not listen to the over
tures of the peace commission from
Bolivar.
The flagship of the American fleet at
Panama saluted the nag of the new re
public with 21 guns.
The United States has officially as
sumed sovereignty over the naval sta
tion at Guantanamo, Cuba.
The German colonial society is to
send a number of young men to this
country to study cotton growing.
The internal revenue collections for
October of this year were $381,125
greater than for the same month last
year.
John M. Sinclair, of Hemstead, a
Democrat, has been elected to congress
from Texas to succeed T. H . Ball, re
signed.
Steps have been taken to end the
Chicago street car strike. The indica
tions are that both sides will agree to
arbitration.
Representative Richardson, of Ten
nessee, has introduced a bill in the
house putting all trust made articles
en the free list.
The Western sugar refining company
has begun suit in the United States dis
trict court at San Francisco to test the
validity of the war tax.
The cruiser Albany has been sent
Corea.
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Four men, while blasting stumps
near Columbus, Ohio, were blown to
pieces.
Great Britain will send an expedition
to make Thibet respect trade treaties.
Japanese are becoming bitter toward
Great Britain on account of alleged un
faithfulness in Manchuria.
France has instructed her ambassador
at Washinhgton to receive the minister
from the new Panama republic.
The reports of the pension bureau
show that the pensions issued during
the first four months of the present fis
cal year exceeded the Bame period of
last year by 25 per cent. The pension
issue last year was the largest in 10
years.
Forty people were killed and 23 oth
ers injured in a railway collision near
Kentwood, La.
Rockefeller, Hill and Gould have se
cured control of the steel trust as a part
of a big railroad scheme.
Both sides of the Chicago street car
strike are willing to arbitrate, but will
not make tha first advance.
The National W. C. T. U. has start
ed a fund to carry on the agitation for
ousting Senator Smoot, of Utah.
AMERICA WAITS ON PANAMA.
tebrrtet- Eecldei She Musi Ratify the
Canal Treaty First.
Washington, Nov. 24. Several sub
jects of interest and importance were
consi lered at today's meeting of the
cabinet, which was attended by every
member Matters relating to the situ
ation in Panama were the most import
ant topics discussed. The president
and Secretary hay have decided, and
the decision meets the approval of the
cabinet, that the existing government
of Panama must ratify the canal treaty
before action relating to its ratification
by the senate is taken. The adminis
tration has determined that there shall
be no repetition of the failure of Co
lombia to complete the ratification of
the treaty after final 'action had been
taken by the United States senate.
The treaty will be placed in the
hands of the Panama commissioners
now in Washington and by them it will
be taken to Panama.
This government, it is anticipated,
will ratify it promptly. It is expected
that it will be returned to Washington
bearing the seal of the Panama govern
ment early in December. President
Roosevelt will then transmit the treaty
to the senate with a request for its rati
fication.
Secretary Moody presented the cab
inet some interesting details just re
ceived by him from Commander Hub
bard, of the cruiser Nashville, at Pan
ama, concerning the early phases of the
revolution. They came by mail and
contained important details not hereto
fore known by the administration.
They will be made public soon.
INVITES CUBA TO BE STATE.
Newlands Introduces a Resolution
Pro-
vldlng for Annexation.
Washington, Nov. 24. Senator New
lands, author of the resolution annex
ing Hawaii, today introduced a joint
resolution inviting Cuba to become a
state of the United States upon terms
of equality with the states of the union.
The resolution provides that Porto
Rico shall become a county or province
of Cuba; that all present officers of
Cuba shall retain their positions until
their terms expire; that the $35,000,
000 bonds of Cuba shall become the
bonds of the state of Cuba, with inter
est reduced to 3 per cent, and 2 per
cent to be applied to a sinking fund ;
that the present rural guard of Cuba
shall be incorporated into the army of
the United States; that the money in
the Cuban treasury shall become the
money of the state of Cuba. The reso
lution closes with the following declar
ation :
"The foregoing resolution is inspired,
not by a desire to annex forcibly, or to
assert sovereignty over the island of
Cuba, or to exercise any form of com
pulsion, but solely by a regard for the
interest of the two countries, and a con
viction that the interests of the states
composing the federal union and Cuba
are identical, and they can be admin
istered by union under one form of gov
ernmem, an snan ne represented on
equal terms and be governed by equal
ana unaiscnminating laws insuring
freedom of trade and equality of rights
and privileges.
RUSSIA PREVENTS ITS OPENINO.
Powers' Scheme at Port of Yoagampbo
Is Again Balked.
London, Nov. 23. The Daily Mail's
lokio correspondent has received tele
grams from Seoul saying the Ruesian
minister has again successfully inter
fered to prevent the opening of Yong-
ampho, consent to which the Corean
foreign minister was on the point of
communicating to the British, Ameri
can and Japanese ministers on Tuesday
last.
The Times Shanghai correspondent
says a private letter from an official at
Mukden states the Russians have treat
ed the native authorities with the ut
most indignity, openly declaring the
re-occupation was intended as an inti
mation that Russia would not permit
the exercise of treaty rights in Man
churia, and alleging the United States
and Japan have recently concluded a
convention.
The Times' correspondent at Tokio
confirms the statement of the Dailv
Mails' correspondent that the Russian
minister at Seoul has been successful
in preventing the opening of Yong-
ampho.
American Fleet Will Quit Beirut.
Washington, Nov. 24. Admiral
Cotton, commanding the European sta
tion, has been authorized to leave Bei
rut with the flagship Brooklyn and the
cruiser San Francisco, and is expected
to sail in a few days for a cruise in the
Mediterranean, preparatory to coming
to the United States to take part in the
naval maneuvers in the Caribbean
The withdrawal of the American fleet
from Beirut, after a stay of several
months, is made with the consent of
the secretary of state, they being now
considered unnecessary,
To Protect Fur Seals of Alaska.
Washington, Nov. 24. Senator Dill
ingham has introduced a concurrent
resolution providing that the secretary
of state request the government of
Great Britain to unite with the United
States in a revision and amendment of
the regulations now in force for the pro
tection and preservation of fur seals of
Alaska. It is declared bv the resoln.
tion that the present regulations have
proved wholly insufficient to serve the
purpose for which they were created.
Sewer Cave-In Burled Six Men.
Youngstown, 0., Nov. 24. Earlvto-
day the casing in the Wilson avenue
sewer gave way and buried six work
men underneath ten feet of sand and
gravel. Martin Timlin and Raphael
Chillo were killed, two others probably
fatally injured, and two escaped with
out injury,
lafJMSsjWSHWBsess
HAPPENINGS HERE IN OREGON
CALIFORNIA & OREQON COAST.
Prospects for a Line From
Orants
Pass to Eureka.
Grants Pass Never, were the pros
pects of a railroad from Grants Pass
southward, through Josephine and the
southern counties of this state, and Del
Norte county, California, connecting
with .the -line being built north to Eu
reka, as bright as at the present time.
For several months railroad talk has
been at a low ebb in Southern Oregon,
especially that pertaining to the pro
posed Oregon & Pacific, but recently it
has been revived, and in a way that
gives promise of something definite be
ing done. This road would open up a
large and rich mining section.
There has been organized in San
Francisco, and incorporated in Cali
fornia, a concern known as the Cali
fornia A Oregon Coast railroad com
pany. It is organized with a capital
stock of $1,000,000, and several influ
ential men are behind the enterprise,
among them being John Barth, of Mil
waukee; B. V. Thomas, of New York;
J. O. B. Gunn, T. W. M. Draper, 11.
H. Laidlaw and M. S. Wilson of San
Francisco.
The' purpose of the newly organized
company is to build a line of railroad
from Grants Pass to Eureka, Cal., or
rather to some point on Humboldt bay.
The new company absorbs the old Ore
gon & Pacific, and is more extensivein
its scope than the former company, as
it was the original intention to build a
line only from Grants Pass to Crescent
City, while the new road will extend
on south, connecting with the northern
built line to Eureka, giving a new line
from Grants Pass to San Francisco.
As has been previously stated, the
survey for the proposed road is com
pleted, and grade stakes have been set
over a large part of the proposed route.
Right of way has also been secured for
a greater part of the line. Grounds for
sidings and stations have also been
granted, and the company is ready to
begin the actual construction of the
road with the arrival of the spring
months.
FIRB AT TILLAMOOK.
Court bouse Burned and Business Portion
of the City Threatened.
Tillamook A disastrous fire occurred
here last week which entirely destroyed
the courthouse of Tillamook county
and seriously endangered the business
portion of the city.
when the fire was discovered the
building was entirely ablaze and to save
it was impossible, but by the valiant
work of the fire company and citizens
many books and papers were saved from
destruction. The entire contents of
tlie offices of the school superintendent
and the county surveyor were lost, and
most of the papers and books of the
assessor's offices were burned, although
the contents of the safe are thought to
be intact.
This year's assessment roll was for
tunately saved.
Bills Vetoed by Governor.
Salem If a special session of the
legislature should be called, other mat
ters than the tax law must receive
some attention. The governor's vetoes
in the last session constitute a sort of
"unfinished business" which must be
taken up by the legislature when it
next convenes. The governor said, af
ter sending out his letter, that he
did not intend to attempt to preclude
action upon these vetoed measures, for
the constitution particularly prescribes
what course shall be pursued, and the
governor could not prevent legislative
action, even if he so desired.
Altitudes in Union County.
La Grande A complete survey of
Union cointy has just been made by T.
R. Berry, United States geological sur
veyor. Ihis survey determined the
geological as well as the topographical
formation of Union county. The alti
tude of all the streams and feeders have
been determined, at the source as well
as at the mouth The highest point in
Union county is at the summit of Gran
ite mountain, which is a little over 8,-
000 feet. Mount Fannie, above Cove, is
7,000 feet, and the lowest point is at
the mouth of the Wallowa river, which
is 2,535 feet.
Carpenters are Not to Be Had.
Pendleton There is a scarcity of car
penters in Pendleton. This is the sea
son for repairing old buildings, but
workmen cannot be secured. A num
ber of people are desirous of construct
ing homes, but owing to the scarcity of
men and materials, it is not likely any
new buildings will be started until
spring. There are from 15 to 20 build
ings under way, and carpenters are
busy on all of them. It is estimated
that there are fully 300 carpenters at
work on new buildings in different
parts of the city.
Big Buy of Wheat at Pendleton.
Pendleton W. S. Byers, the exten
sive flour manufacturer, has purchased
within the past few days 150,000 bush
els of choice wheat for milling purposes,
paying an average price of 07 cents.
The wlieat was purchased from a few
large farmers, and as soon as the fact
became known by local buyers the price
immediately dropped to 64 cents. As
a result of this transaction there is lit
tle doing just now in tho local markets,
and farmers will continue to hold.
Pays $15,507 for Land.
Pendleton A deed has been filed
with the county recorder whereby
Michael McCracker sold 2,000 acres of
Manuel Pedro for $15,507. The prop
erty is located several miles southwest
of Pendleton
SNOW IN BLUB MOUNTAINS.
Promise of Plenty of Water for Next
Year Big Price for Haystack.
Baker City More than three feet of
snow bus fallen in the mountains in
this vicinity during tho past few days.
Such a heavy fall of snow this early in
the season is unusual, and while it has
its inconveniences, on 'the whole, the
people regard it as a favorable con
union, because it argues well for an
abundant supply of water for mining
and irrigation purposes next season.
It will be hard on stock, especially
sheep.on the ranges, but, as stockmen
generally are prepared for a bad winter
season, very little actual loss is antiel
pateu. Mieepmen were obliged, on
account of the high price of hay, to sell
a goodly portion of their sheep, and
they are prepared to feed those they
have on hand until spring.
It is an ill wind that docs not benefit
some one, and in this instance the hay
ranchman is the man who is gathering
in the harvest. Hay is hay, and will
be nntil grass comes again.
One rancher in this vicinity recently
sold the hay in one big stack for $18,
000 cash. It was a big stack or rick,
and there is several thousand tons of
hay in the stack.
WHISTLER LEAVES HARNEY.
Reading of Water Gauges la Streams
Will Be Kept Up All Winter.
Burns John T. Whistler, engineer
in charge of the work' being conducted
in Oregon by the reclamation service 6f
the United States geological survey,
has left for Pendleton. This will be
his final visit to Harney county for the
present year, as he will leave the state
for Washington. D. C, in IHccmber,
to take up tho work of making a de
tailed exposition of the present year's
fieldwork in Oregon.
Mr. W histler has had three parties
of engineers in the field in this state
all summer, one of these parties having
Deen engaged since June in surveying
the proposed reservoir site in Silvie's
valley, and also in working out the de
tails oi an irrigation system to carry
water therefrom to the subjacent lands
in Harney valley.
The approach of bad weather has
drawn the work for this year to con
clusion, with the exception that the
reading of water gauges in the streams
will be kept up without interruption.
End Fruit Tree Shipping.
Milton, The season for shipping
small fruit trees has closed. It is esti
mated that 12,500 trees have been
shipped out to all parts of the west,
middle and eastern states during the
past two weeks. About 10 cars have
been shipped in the past 10 days. As
the season was short this year, many of
the smaller trees had to be expressed,
as it would delay matters too long to
send them by freight. Samuel Miller
has one of the largest nurseries in East
ern Oregon, and there are several fruit
men who have small nurseries.
Indorse the Assay Office.
Baker City The Miners' association
of Sumpter has passed resolutions
adopting the action of Senator Mitchell
in introducing a bill for the establish
ment of a government assay office at
Portland. The association of this city
will endorse the movement for an assay
office but will insist that it be located
in this citv. Representative Moody
almost succeeded in securing the pas
sage of a bill for an assay. office in this
city at the last session of congress.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Walla Walla, 71c:
blue-
stem, 75c; valley, 76376c.
Barley Feed, $ 20 per ton; brewing,
$22; rolled, $21.
Flour Valley, $3.753.85 per bar
rel; hard wheat straights, $3.90(84.10;
clears, $3.553.75; hard wheat pat
ents, $4.204.50; graham, $3.75;
wholewheat, $4; rye wheat, $4.7535.
Oats No. 1 white, $1.07$; gray,
$1.05 per cental.
Millstuffs Bran, $20 per ton; mid
dlings, $24; shorts, $20; chop, $18;
linseed, dairy food, $19.
Hay Timothy, $16 per ton; clover,
$13; grain, $11; cheat, $11.
Vegetables Turnips, 65c per sack;
carrots, 75c; beets, 00c; parsnips, 50
75c; cabbage, llJic; celery, 35
60c; pumpkins, lOlcper pound.
Onions Yellow Danvers, 75c $ 1
per sack.
Honey $3113.25 per case.
Potatoes Oregon, choice and fancy
6075c per sack; common, 50c per
sack ; sweet potatoes, sacks, 2c ; boxes,
Fruits Applos, 76c$2 box; pears,
$11.50 per box; cranberries, $9
10.50 per barrel.
Butter Fancy creamery, 2730c
per pound; dairy, 2022Xc; store, 15
15Kc.
Cheese Full cream, twins, 15H
hc; Young America, 1616c; Til
lamook, 1414)c; Eastern cheese,
15)c.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, 10
10c per pound; spring, 10llc;
hens, 11c; turkeys, live, 15(ttl0c per
pound; dressed, 16((18c; ducks, $(l7
per dozen; geese, 78c per pound.
Eggs Oregon ranch, 3032.Jc;
Eastern, 2527c.
Beef Dressed, 5)6c per pound.
Veal Dressed, small, 88)c; largo,
66c per pound.
Mutton Dressed, 45)c; lambs,
dressed, 6c.
Pork Dressed, 6K7c.
Hops 1903 crop, 1222c per pound,
according to quality.
Wool Valley, 17$ 18c; Eastern Ore
gon, 1215cj mohair, 3537)c.
TUB CANAL TKEATY.
Substance of the Document Signed by
Bunan-Varllla and Hay,
Washington, Nov. 21. Although
tho treaty bus not 1kmii made public,
the Associated Press is enabled to give
tho substance of the document. It con
sists of between 22 and 25 articles, but
the main points of the convention are
contained in the first six articles.
The keynote of the treaty is the pro
vision in one of the very first articles
by which Panama cedes to the United
States whatever land or lands in the re
public of Panama, this government
shall find desirable in connection w'th
the building or the operation and main
tenance of the canal. In addition, the
treaty gives to the United States abund
ant sovereignty over the canal strip,
which, it is understood, comprises be
tween eight and ten miles on each side
of the canal. Within this zone, the
power of tl e United States is absolute
as if the tone wore part and parcel of
this country.
In general, it may 1m said that while
the new treaty contains many of the
provisions of tho rejected Hny-Herran
treaty, it is not bawd on that conven
tion, but follows not only the spirit,
but the letter of the Spooner act.
Thus, instead of the lease for a fixed
period of the canal strip, this new
treaty provides for a jerpctuftl grant of
the right of way to the United States,
and instead of a complicated provision
for courts of fixed composition, half
American and half Colombian, to ad
minister justice over tho canal strip,
the new treaty ermits this government
to exercise the most complete jurisdic
tion thereon.
Permission also is given the United
States to fortify tho line and the termi
nals, and it may police it with troops.
That portion of the treaty dwelling
with the fortification of the terminals is
rather general, but sufficiently explicit
not to be misunderstood.
The cities of Punama and Colon re
tain their municipal autonomy under
the republic of Panama so long as they
maintain public order and sanitary con
ditions to the satisfaeiton of the
United States. Failure to do this gives
the United States, according to the
treaty, the right to force strict compli
ance wuu me wishes oi this govern
ment in this direction, and the United
Statso can even use force to compel
obedience to its rules as to public order
and public health in these cities.
The money consideration is the same
in the new treaty as in the Hay-Herran
convention, with tho exception that
the $10,000,000 go to Panama instead
of to Colombia. The treaty further
provides that the canal is to be neutral
and oiH-n ot all nations on even terms.
Secretary Hay had a conference with
the Panama minister late last night,
and the general terms of the treaty
were agreed upon.
CURB FOR CONSUMPTION.
Russian Physician Is Having Remark'
able Success.
Moscow, Nov. 21. Remarkable cures
of consumption have recently been
effceted in Russia by Kisel Zaogranski,
formerly a mining engineer, and now
especially licensed by the Russian med
ical department to practice medicine.
Zagoranski has given the Assoicated
Press an account of the origin of his
consumption cure, from which it ap
pears that 30 years ago he was sent to
Siberia to suiwrintend extensive min
ing works. The medical facilities
there were extremely limited, and Zag
oranski himself attended to the medi
cal wants of the workmen to the best
of his ability.
An old foreman of the mine, how
ever, always took care of consumption
cases, and almost invariably cured
them. The foreman died some years
ago, confiding his tuberculosis cure to
Zagoranski, who continued to use it.
Hearing a rumor that John D. Rocke
feller, of the United States, had offered
an immense prize for tho discovery of a
consumption cure, he consulted Ameri
can Consul Smith, who, with his broth
er, W. E. Smith, began a systematic
observation of the cases of several pa
tients, and especially that of an Eng
lish lady, an acquaintance of the con
sul, who had been given up by the doc
tors. She submitted to Zagoranski's
treatment, which was given under pro
fessional medical observation. This
occurred last spring, and the cure ap
pears to be permanent.
Forests Must be Conserved.
Rochester, N. Y., Nov. 21. Offic
ials of the National grange were in
stalled today. The committee on for
eign relations expressed itself in favor
of reciprocity with all countries which
consume our products Tho committee
also favored international arbitration.
The committee on agricutlure presented
a report in which it said that tho two
pressing necessities confronting the
American farmer were changes of law
in the matter oi disposing of our vast
public domain and the conservation of
the forest area ofathe country.
Sheep Are Freezing to Death.
Denver, Nov. 21, A special to the
Post from Sydney, Neb., says: Pas
sengers on eust hound Union Pacific
passenger trains report that 50,000 or
more sheep are freezing to death in
deep snowdrifts north of Cokeville.
Wyo., on the Oregon Short Line.
These sheep had been summer grazed
in the Idaho and Wyoming mountains,
north of Cokeville, and were being
removed to the winter ranges of the
Red Desert, in Wyoming.
Ten New Double Stars Discovered. .
London, Nov. 21. The correspon
dent of the Daily Mail at Sydney, N.
W., says that Professor Hussey, of the
Lick observatory, who has been camp
ing for sevei al weeks at Canoblas, has
discovered ten new double stars. Pro
fessor1 Hussey regards the discovery as
of the greatest importance. j
PASS CUBAN BILL
HOUSE
MEMBERS VOTE ALMOST
SOLIDLY FOR IT.
Amendments Were All Lost Dissenters
Were About Equally Divided Between
the Two Parties Democrats Fought
for Changes to the Last and Then
Tried to Refer Measure,
Washington, Nov. 21. The houso
yesterday, by a rising vote of 335 to 21,.
passed the bill to make effective the
Cuban reciprocity treaty. The dis
senting votes were about -equally di
vided between republicans and demo
crats, but there was no record vote, the
minority having too few votes to order
tho yeas and nays.
The democrat, under the leadership
of Williams of Mississippi, sought to
the last to secure amendments to tho
bill in uecordance w ith the action of
the democratic caucus, but were de
feated steadily. Williams made tho
final effort when he tried to have the
bill recommitted to the ways ami mean
committee with instructions to amend,
but a point of order under the spccitil
rule providing for a vote on the bill
without Intervening motion, was sus
tained. Cannon received the applause of the
democratic side when he entertained
the appeal from his ruling made by
Williams, the speaker saying he pre
ferred to err if he erred at all in giving
the house the right to express its will.
The apjH-al was tabled by a strict purty
vote.
Tho debate lwgsn Monday, was con
tinued to within a few minutes of 4
o'clock, the time upimiutcd to tuku a
vote on tho lliml pnssugo of tho bill.
Williams closed the debute fur his side,
and made mi arraignment of tho repul
lican policy of protection. McCall
(Mass.) made the closing speech on the
republican side. The announcement of
the passage of the bill caused only a
slight dciiioiiKtration.-
McClellan, mayor-elect of New York,
occupied tho sealer' chair for a whiles
txlay, as chairman of tho committee
of the whole house.
DBATH IN CRASH.
Thirty-One Killed and Fifteen Injured
In Train Wreck.
Peoria, 111., Nov. 23. Thirty-one
men were killed and at least 15 were
injured today in a head-end collision
between a west-bound freight train and
a work train on the Cleveland, Cincin
nati, Chicago A St. Louis rairload, m
tween Mackinaw and Tremont, III..
The bodies have In-en taken from the
debris, which is piled 30 feet high on
the tracks, a hugo pile of broken tim
ber, twisted and distorted iron and
steel. The bodies are so mangled that
many are unrecognizable. All tho
dead and most of the injured were
mcndiers of tiie work train. The crews
on lth locomotives jumped to save
their lives.
The collision occurred In a deep cut
at the beginning of a sharp curve,
neither train being visible to the crew
of the other until they were within 50
feet of each other. The engineers set
the brakes, sounded the whistles and
then leaped. The trains struck with
such force that tho sound was heard for
miles around. A second after the col
lision the boiler of tho work train ex
ploded, throwing heavy iron bars and
timbers 200 feet.
Conductor J. W. Jude, of Indianapo
lis, who had charge of the freight train,
received orders at Urban. It is said, to
wait at Mackinaw for the work train.
The freight train did not stop. Tho
engineer of the work train, Goorgo
Becker, had orders, it is said, to pass
the freight at Mackinaw, and was on
the way there. Tho work train was
about five minutes late, and was run
ning at full speed in order to make up
time. When about two miles from
N inert and entering a cut, both engi
neers saw the approaching trains and
rcaliezd it was impossible to str.n
They threw on tho emergency brakes
whistled twice and then leaned fr,i
their cabs.
Rates on Steel for Export Cut.
New York, Nov. 23. A confemnn.
between representatives of nearly all
the railroads east of- the Mississippi
river and representatives of the )..,.! in
dustry was held hero today. It was.
decided to grant a reduction of 33 .&
per cent on all iron and steel manufac
tured goods intended for evr,,.- t.
was decided that on December 1 there
will be a reductoin of 33 1-3 per cent
of the present domestic rates, to apply
to export tariff on finished steel pro
ducts, including structural iron plates
beams and rails. h
Will Hold Sultan Responsible.
Vienna, Nov. 23. A dispatch to tho
Neue Freye Presse from Constantinople
reports that tho grand vizier has re
signed. He confirms tho announce
ment that tho Turkish foreign office
has been notified that if tho programme
is not accepted this week Baron von
Calico, the AiiHtro-IIungarian ambassa
dor, and M. Zinovieff, the Russian am
bussador, will personally present tho
sultan with copies thereof and hold
him responsible for the consequences.
Texas Raises Quarantine.
San Antonio .Texas. Nov 9i
official proclamation of Governor Lnn-
unm raising tne quarantine against San
Antonio went into effect ty,i
towns and counties all over Texas have
ivuu inking uieir local
quarantine.
Irain service will be
resumed on all
railroads tomorrow.