PRUNE MEN COMBINE .. . . . . . . . . L„, R,ch c,„
REBELS ADVANCE.
JACKSONVILLE
FURNITURE CO.
I
CITY DRUG STORE
of Torreon.
El Paso, June 29.—El Correo, the
conservative daily Mexican newspaper
of Chihuahua, in its issue yesterday
morning, which arrived here last
House Furnishers and
night, has a story that an army of
Undertakers
a strength variously estimated at from
4000 to 7000 men is marching on Tor-
! reon, one of the richest cities in thiie
R. A. I.AN(11J:Y, VlRt-
state of Coahuila
.lACKSONVIl.l.ti, ORIi.
The story, after reviewing the at-
tack on Viesca tells of reported at-
tempts to rob the pay train of the
Mexican Central railroad, and says Government Troops" Surprised and
- h Settlement of Disputes No Longer be that
the country around Torreon
Left to Nev’ York Exchange
Horses Captured—Firing Heard
which is so closely settled that there
—Also Instruct Growers.
Across Lio Grande.
are stations about every four kilo
meters, is swarming with armed men.
who appear at the railroad stations
with guns and cartridge belts.
Salem, Or., June 30.—Representatives
San Antonio, Tex, June 27.- .—Las
"These same reports,” says El Cor
JACKSONVILLE, ORE.
of all the prune packers of the North reo, "say that three bridges on the Vacos, Mexico, directly across the
west met here last night and organized railroad between Parass and Torreon Rio Grande from Del Rio. Tex., yes
terday afternoon witnessed its sec
an association for mutual protection have been burned, probably with the ond battle of the day in what may
and promotion of the interests of their object of impeding the passage of bt the opening of a general uprising
troops into Torreon. The incendiaries
business.
also probably selected Torreon for against the administration of Presi
ESTIMATES FURNISHED
The organization is one that has long invasion because they considered it dent Diaz. All wires on the Mexican
been desired by some of the packers, a rich city to loot. Among the re side leading across the river have
been cut.
but which could never be effected here ports that we have heard is one which
At 5:30 yesterday morning a band
says that about 4009 armed men, near
tofore for the reason that competition ly all of whom are inhabitants of of 150 revolutionists silently stoic
among packers has been too severe. In ranches, are said to have passed upon the camp of the Mexican cav-
the season now about to open, the pack Hornos. in the state of Coahuila, on airy at Las Vacos and captured all
of the horses, as well as making a
ers will work together for their com the Coahuila & Pacific railroad, about raid upon the ammunition wagons,
65
kilometers
from
Torreon.
DEALER IN
mon interests. The «association will
"Whether the movement is directed They were discovered just as they
control all the Northwest prune pack.
against the government of Coahuila were about to leave, and a pitched
Among the packing houses in the or or against the federal government, no battle took place. Firing continued
ganization are H. S. Gile & Co., Wil one is able to say. It is generally until 10:30 A. M. More than 3000
lamette Valley Prune Association and supposed the movement is not against shots were tired, and several men
W. C. Tillson & Co., all of Salem; the the state, but against the federal gov were killed. One wounded
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man
Roseburg packing houses, owned by Gile ernment. One version says the revo his way across the river to Del Rio,
& Co. and Tillson & Co., Alien’s pack lution is wholly against the state of but he refused to say whether he was
ing house, of Eugene; Lang & Co., of Coahuila, that the governor is not ac with the government force or the
And Jeweler’s Sundries
Portland; Mason, Ehrinan & Co., of
revolutionists.
Repairing of all kinds a Specialty and all Portland; French Packing Company, of ceptable to the people of that state,
Yesterday afternoon the firing upon
and that he was forced upon them by
Work Warranted
Myrtle Creek, and the packing house at the president of the republic.
the government troops had been re
Opposite U. S. Hotel
Jacksonville. Oregon Vancouver, Wash.
"It is also said that a train of in newed, and the sounds of shooting
The new association has formulated fantry has been sent to Torreon from were plainly heard in Del Rio
two forms of contracts which all the Monterey and a small detachment of Where the revolutioinists were gath
firms in the combine will use. One cavalry.”
ered is not known, but that the attack
contract is that to be used in selling
Torreon, the town named by El upon Las Vacos was to follow imme
fruit to eastern buyers, and the other
diately upon that made upon Viesca,
in buying from local growers. The Correo as the object of attack, is one a town in the interior, there is little
packers have determined that they will of the richest towns in the state of doubt. Viesca was attacked and
no longer sell according to forms of Coahuila There are six banks—-the captured by the revolutionists last
Minero de Chuihuahua. mean
put out by eastern buyers, ¡Banco
*
Contractor and Builder contract
Thursday afternoon, when several
but will dictate the terms of the con ing a branch there; a branch of Banco were killed and wounded.
Naconial de Mexico; the Banco de
tract or not sell at all.
The new contract contains a number Coahuila; the Banco de Nueva I.eon.
Del Rio, Tex., wired last night that
of provisions favorable to Oregon pack and the Banco de Durango. The
Estimates Furnished on
ers. It gives the packer unlimited Banco Laguna, recently organized, revolutionists and Mexican regular
Buildings.
Repairing
choice in selecting an arbitrary case of has a capitalization of $6 500,000. soldiers came together across the
river from that point yesterday; that
dispute where, as in the past, the arbi- i ■ There are about 25.000 inhabitants.
several on both sides have been
trators have been chosen from the New
Jacksonville
Phone 48
killed and two Mexican officers seri
York Fruit Exchange. The new con
DEATH IN TORNADO.
ously wounded. All communication
tract gives the packer the privilege of |
is cut off, for the authorities will not
filling his contracts with smaller sizes
of prunes if the crop produced does not Minnesota Twister Kills Seven and permit any one to cross the river.
Mexican official statements that the
contain the required quantity of large
Does Immense Damage.
A FULL LINE OF
rebel invaders were repulsed from
sizes. It gives the packer the right to
Clinton.
Minn.,
June
29.
—
A
tornado
I.as Vacos are not wholly credited
route the fruit in shipping. It exempts
at •> 5:25
yes- here.
the packer from liability in case ship- struck this
l,‘*■ town <*i
—«» o’clock yes-
Paints, Oils, Calcamine,
ment is delayed by congestion of ^ri. L:a._irno<?.n/ k?I1,Pg SCven PeoP-.e
El Paso, Tex.. June 27—In an en
. and injuring twenty-five, sonic seri- counter between revolutionists and
Brushes, Sash and Doors
traffic.
It provides that in case of dispute , ously Twenty bouses, a printing of- troops of the Mexican government in
Patton’s Sun Proof
as to quality, samples for test shall be , fice and two churches were blown the town of I.as Vacos. in Coahuila,
taken from one fifth of the boxes of > down.
Mexico, near the border across from
Paints.
The tornado, which was unaccom- Del Rio, Tex , early yesterday morn
fruit; that no allowance for short
weight shall be made unless it amounts , panied by rain, started three miles ing, between 40 and 50 were killed and
to more than one per cent, and that in north of the town, destroyed two the Mexican commandant badly in
the counting test the size shall include farmhouses that were in its path and jured
the seventh prune and not the fifth swept over Clinton, which is a place
The sheriff of Valverde county, this
only, thus, that 47 prunes shall be of about 400 people.
state, telegraphed Governor Camp
A Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Pau! bell, of Texas, that the revolutionists
deemed in the 40-50 size and not 45
( mixed train was just pulling into the had been repulsed, and that a number
only.
The new form of contract with grow station as the storm struck the town of them were fleeing to the United
ers will bo very explicit in requiring and 15 cars were blown off the track, States.
growers to deliver fruit cured in a first as was also a passenger coach con
class manner, free from all burned or taining 17 people. All were injured
NEGROES TO DEFEAT TAFT.
Office one block wouth of Court house
slack dried fruit. The packer is to be among them Father Keavey, of Grace
villa,
Minn.
sole
judge
of
quality
and
there
is
to
be
JACKSONVILLE,
OREGON
no arbitration in ease of dispute.
I The two churches destroyed are the Conference to Meet in Denver and
FilingN made on home.HteadH and timber claims.
The packer is to have the right to Norwegian Lutheran and the First
Control Negro Vote.
Correct plat« weekly showing all vacant lands.
“ weigh
•vigh back to the grower anv fruit
fr
Episcopal.
Notary Public and Conve , encer
Springfield. III.. June 27.—Colored
alack illicit or otherwise unsatisfactory.
Telegraph lines were blown down,
Legal paperH of all kinds made out. Special The packer will not be required to take but as soon as possible news of the Vi oters of the United States who are
attention given to papers in settlement of estates.
more of a grower's crop than 10 per disaster was sent to the neighboring antagonistic to the candidacy of W.
Abstract of Land Titles
cent in excess of the quantity estimated cities. Soon help
__ _ was on the way H . Taft, Republican nominee for
Most complete set of abstract book» in the
president, will hold a national confer
county. Abstract made promptly and accurately4 in the contract, but the grower must from Ortonville and Whentbn near
deliver all his fruit if the packer de- bv Minnesota towns, on the Milwau- ence at Denver on Tuesday, July 7.
Real Estate and Insurance
day the Democratic national
Fine list of county and town property for sale nuinils it. regardless of how much it kce ro’d and from Millbank. S. D, the
and rent.
Cl < invention
opens. The purpose of
overruns
the
estimate.
which
is
but
a
few
miles
away.
Money Loaned
the gathering, as stated in the call,
Warrants Ixiught and sold. Collect ions made.
is to “consider their political affilia
Taxes paid. Renta collected. Prompt reply to all
Arrest Divine Healer.
SAW MRS. GUNNESS.
tions and conditions, and develop
letters. Charges reasonable.
Salt Lake City, Utah, June 30.—The
References
plans to change the political complex
Hon. H. K. Hanna, judge 1st judicial district, law against manslaughter has been in Two Witnesses Inform Detroit Police ion of states .wherein the negro vote
and any Jacksonville business man.
is the balance of power.”
voked to punish Charles IL Titus, a
She Is Alive.
They will also memoralize the
“divine healer,“ who, it is alleged, I
Detroit. June 29—The Detroit po Democratic convention "to declare
permitted two of his small children to
die from diphtheria without medical lice believe they are on the trail of against degrading a soldier of the
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
attendance. A third is very ill with Mrs Belle Gtinness, of La Porte. Ind United States army without the pre
the disease. A warrant for Titus’ ar who is accused of wholesale murders liminary of a trial, and pronounce
for a strict adherence to the constitu
rest was issued. Attention was first on her farm near that citv.
Two young women I.ulu RaynionF d tion and all of its amendments; dis
called to the case by an undertaker
from whom Titus attempted to buy a and Grace Benson, whom the police cuss the feasibility of nominating a
Attorney-at-Law
. yesterday afternoon candidate for president on the Civil
coffin for his 2 year old baby. He ad had in custody
evening, are said to have met ’ iberty mrty ticket, or vote direct
Will Practice in All Courts of the State mitted that he had no burial permit and
and intended to bury the child in his Mrs. Gunncss since her supposed for the Denver nominee, and issue an
Office on California street, one
,burned body was found in the ruins address to the colored citizens of the
yard.
block Hou th of the court houHe
I of her home.
nation.”
The police claim that the state
Japanese Steamer Makes Record
A. E. Reames
C. L. Reames
' ments of the two voting women con
Hearst Cannot Win.
San Francisco, June 30__ The new vinced them that Mrs. Gunncss is slip
New York, June 27.—W R Hearst
Japanese turbine liner Tenvo Marti alive Thev gave the names of other
raced through the Golden Gate yester nersons who are also said to know made a net gain of six votes in the
recount of the ballots cast in Rich
day. breaking all previous records be that the woman is alive.
LAWYERS
mond county, according to a return
tween this port. Yokohama and Hono
made to the court in the mayoralty
Practice in All State and Federal Courts lulu. The trip from Yokohama was
Collision on Elevated.
contest yesterday Envelopes con
made in 14 days. 12 hours and 45 min
New York, June 29.—Two trains on taining 2(>3 votes and protested bal
Kahlsr Block,
JACKSONVILLE utes. and the Tenvo Maru made this
port in 4 days, 18 hours anti 50 minute* the Third avenue elevated railroad lots in that county cannot be found,
out from Honolulu, establishing new collided at One Hundred anil Second and the county clerk was instructed
records for both distances. The best
to make a further search for them.
previous time from Honolulu wits 5 days street, and part of one train was left Mayor McClellan’s plurality with the
hanging
front
the
elevated
structure
and 2 hours, made by the Nippoa Maru.
recount practically completed is 2965
LAWYER
No one was killed in the collision The count of the election inspectors
Curtail Oil Output.
but 12 persons were injured, though gave him 3834 This precludes any
Office: One block south of depot.
possibility of Hearst winning
Findlay, O.. June 30.—James C. Don
JACKSONVILLE,
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OREGON noil, general manager of the Ohio Oil probably none of them fatally. It
was
a
rear-end
collision,
both
trains
Grain Elevator Burn*.
Company. vesterday issued a request
that oil drillers of the country curtail being bound uptown, when the fol
Duluth. Minn, June 27.—Elevator
their production until a market can be lowing train crashed into the other D of the Consolidated Elevator com
had for the present supply of oil. He The colliding trains were going at a pany, was destroyed bv fire vesterday.
says it is impossible to build tankage moderate speed.
entailing a loss on the building and
DENTIST
for the production, and that there is
contents of $t ono.ooo An adjoining
Office in Ryan Building, California St., being produced daily in the Illinois oil
Bryan’s Fortune.
<b>ck and warehouse belonging to the
Upstairs
field alone more than 100,000 barrels.
1 incoin Neb. June 29—The fix Northern Pacific railroad suffered to
JACKSONVILLE,
OREGON
able property belonging to Mr and the extent of $30 000 The elevator
Life Sentence for Orchard.
I Mrs William J Bryan, real and per- contained 300 non bushel« of wheat.
Boise. Idaho. June 30, The case of sonal, has been listed with the asses 90,000 bushel« of flax and 7000 bushel«
Hurry Orchard, sentenced to be hanged «■>r at a total valuation of $*4 500 of barlev The building« and grain
next Friday for the murder of ex Gov The returns show that Mrs. Brvan were ful'y insured The origin of the
ernor Strunenberg. will be considered owns 50 acres of real estate, and Col fire cannot be determined
bv the state board of pardons Wednes onel Brvan $7 acres, a total of 137
day. In spite of the fact that Orchard acres This is valued at $29.125 The
Steel Mills Resuming.
i is anxious that sentence be carried out, residence is returned at $21.000. the
Pittsburg. June 27.—Ten depart
it is believed the board will commute Commoner at a valuation of *19.000.
ments of the Homestead steel work«
the sentence to life imprisonment.
and personal property not mentioned of the United State« Steel corpora
SOLICITS YOUR TRADE TOR
above at Jt2.5OO
tion will he ;.i operation tomorrow,
Deliver Gift* of Dead King.
the first Sa* div that thev have on-
Deadlock
Broken.
Lisbon. June 30__ The Portugveee
Bread, Cakes
erated durit . the past three months
royal yacht Amelie left this week for
Charlotte N C. June 2#—Con Thi« will adt’ an extra div's nay to
Cookies and Pies
Rio Janeiro, having on board the gift, gressman W W Kitchin was nomi the 2OOO men employed in these de
which King Carlo, had intended to pre nated for governor of the fl«th ballot partmen*
It ls generally expected
sent to President Penna during hi. vi.it at 6 o'clock Saturday night by a ma there wiU be almost » general re-
(>EORGE SCHILLER. PROPRiriOR
to Brazil, which he had planned to jority of 60 votes in th« Democratic sumntion of the entire works next
make thin year.
state convention.
week.
Packers of Northwest Organize
for Protection.
FIX PRICE TO EASTERN BUYERS
TRAIL LUMBER CO
Rough and Dressed
Lumber of all Kinds
J. W. HICKEL
Las Vacos laplured and Looted
by Armed Bands.
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GUS NEWBURY
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10c Per 100 Pounds
Will also make direct trips to min
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Will Make Regular Trips
And save you from fifty cents to
one dollar on cartage.
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goods in first-class condition.
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