I 90S
SENATOR ALLISON DIES.
MANY FAMILIES SEPARATED.
Death Comes as Shock, as Few Were
Aware of Illness.
In a Condensed Form for Our
Busy Readers.
HAPPENINGS OF TWO CONTINENTS
A Resume of the Less Important but
Not
Less
Interesting
Events
of the Past Week.
Castro accuses Holland of barbarism
and savagery.
Bronson Howard,
wright, is dead.
the great play
Harriman hsa started for the Pacific
coast, still talking of higher freight
rates.
One hundred sheep were killed by a
single bolt of lightning near Bridge
port, Cal.
Railroad presidents will confer with
shippers on rates. The meeting will
be held aat Cnicago.
The kaiser has rewarded a soldier
who did not recognize him with pro
motion for strict attention to duty.
Dubuque, Iowa, Aug. 5.—Senator'
William Boyd Allison died in his Lo
cust street home at 1:33 o’clock yes
GOOD ROADS MEET.
terday afternoon. W’ith him at disso
lution were members of his household Every County in State Will be Repre
and a physician.
In a bulletin an
sented This Year.
nouncing his death Doctors Hancocx
Portland Nearly every county in
and Lewis gave heart failure as the Oregon will be represented at the good
cause. The announcement of the sen roads conference to be held in Port
ator's death came as a shock to his land, August 11.
Among the most
neighbors, as few were aware of his distant will be Lake county, which
illness. Though
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two
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Senator Allison had been in declining : men from Eastern and Western Oregon
health, and though he suffered the loss on the best remedies for existing road
of much vitality during the present conditions.
summer, no news had gone out from
County Judge B. Daly, of Lakeview,
his home indicating the gravity of his has written to the Portland Commer
illness.
cial club, assuring the management
Senator Allison suffered from the that his county will be represented.
worst form of prostatic enlargement He said :
and a kidney affection made relief
“We have not been saying much, but
even more difficult to afford.
As is we have been up and doing until we
usual in such cases, the senator suffer now have 300 miles of as good roads in
ed frequently from periods of faint Lake county as can be found in any
ness and weakness. These spells have county in Oregon.
Lake county, with
frequently occurred of late. The last its 5,000 acres of land to every voter,
of them had its beginning on Friday has already a per capita income of over
and finally resulted in the patient’s $250 per man from the livestock in
death.
dustry alone. When we get railroad
facilities to ship to the markets the
CLOUDBURST IN ARIZONA.
splendid products of our orchards,
farms, mines and forests, then watch
Bisbee Suffers to Extent of $100,000 Lake county grow.”
From Water.
A number of earthquake shocks have
Bisbee, Ariz., Aug. 5.—A cloudburst
occurred in Algeria, doing much dam-
age*to property and causing some loss this afternoon did about $100,000 dam
age in Bisbee.
One side of Main
of life.
street, including the postoffice, in less
A Connecticut man murdered his than ten minutes was changed from
wife and grandchild, but was killed by 200 yards of stores, costly saloons and
his son before going further with his business houses to a mass of wreckage
butchery.
by rocks, water and mud that came
A strike of machinists on the Cana tumbling down off the mountain side.
dian Pacific is on and it is expected Postmaster M. E. Cassidy and Sheriff
other men will be affected and the Jack White, who were in the post
master’s office, narrowly escaped with
road tied up.
their lives, as did the force of 18 girls
A German inventor has a dirigible employed in the postoffice, when the
balloon in which he made a successful inrush of water, almost without warn
flight of 24 hours, returning to the ing, struck the building.
starting point.
Huge b 'ulders and tons of dirt slid
The great Paris strike has ended in into the first floor of the postoffice
where the force was at work. Consid
a failure.
erable mail was washed away or dam
Wheat is booming in Chicago and has aged by mud and water. Miss Clara
gone above the $1 mark.
Larsen, of Chicago, was rescued from
Employes of all the paper trust’s five feet of water into which she had
fallen by Miss Barr, another clerk.
mills have gone on a strike.
Thousands of tons of rock and dirt
A man has been killed in Nevada by
were washed down the mountain side
a friend who mistook him for a deer.
into the streets, where it was piled up
Great preparations are being made from five to 20 feet high.
for the reception of the battleship fleet
at Auckland.
TWENTY LOGGERS MISSING.
Governor Hughes, of New York, is
preparing for a more vigorous fight Mill Men May Have Perished in Fire
against betting men.
About Hosmer.
Eastern politicians say Hearst’s In
Vancouver, B. C., Aug. 5.—Up to
dependence party has less chance of this evening 18 bodies had been found
winning than the Socialists.
in the ruins caused by the fire at Fer
The United States and Great Britain nie.
The logging crew of the Elk Lumber
are to unite and bring pressure to bear
on Belgium for reforms in Congo.
company, consisting of about 20 men,
George A. Pettibone, leader of the is still missing. They were at work
Western Federation of Labor, died in a on the mountain north of Hosmer and
Denver hospital as a result of an oper nothing has yet been heard from them.
Some believe that the entire party has
ation for cancer.
perished in the flames.
Detective Burns, employed on the
The only possible way of escape open
San Francisco graft cases, ids securing to them was to cross the mountain
a salary of $625 a month and his 26 as- range. If they succeeded it will be
sistants $151) each.
several days yet before they could pos
Harriman says there should be an in- sibly reach Fernie by a circuitous
crease in freight rates in order to se- route. No human being would under
cure good service. He favors a read take to reach them across the burned
justment rather than a general in area at the present time.
crease.
The pope will create ten new car
dinals next fall.
The French government is relent
less in its fight against labor rioters.
An immense power has been gained
by Harriman through his alliance with
Gould.
Roosevelt has reinstated a number
of West Point hazers to be disciplined
by the faculty.
The sultan has appeared on the
streets unattended for the first time
during his reign.
Cast-o has dismissed all Dutch ron-
suls and vice-consuls in Venezuela
and demands apology for insults.
F. D. Spaulding, a wealthy auto
mobile manufacturer of San Fran
cisco. perished in the Yuma desert.
Suit has been commenced against
the Cleveland Traction company for
violating its charter granted by the
city.
Samuel E. Moffat, an editorial
writer on Collier's magazine, is dead.
He was a nephew of Samuel Clemens
(Mark Twain).
One miner was killed and two fa
tally injured in an explosion of gas
in a coal mine near Scranton. Pa. A
number of men were -.lightly hurt,
Property
Fire Devours Michel.
Vancouver, B. C., Aug. 5. For three
days the people of Michel have fought
for their homes with death at the door.
This afternoon they were beaten at
the game. The city, the second in
size in the devastated district of East
Kootenay, started to bum in real ear
nest at dusk this evening.
Nothing can save it from lying a
heap of ruins even more complete than
Femie by tomorrow morning. The
background of Femie in every direc
tion, except the openings up and down
the valley, is a mountain. There is
one main street running through the
center of the town and the railway
runs down the center of the street.
Two rows of houses on each side have
their back yards abutting against the
mountain.
Portugal Faces Religious War.
Lisbon, Aug. 5.—A religious war is
imminent in Portugal. A bill intro
duced by Alfonso Costa, leader of the
republicans in the chamber of deputies
and the most bitter enemy of the gov
ernment, providing for the expulsion
of all religious orders from Portugal,
is the storm center.
The bill is
thought to be a veiled attack on the
throne, which favors Catholicism. The
r’
Bryan is busy on his speech of ac- Jesuits have been encouraged by
ceptance.
Queen L’arie Amelie for the past 20
Officials of the Philippine railroad years and have a strong foothold I in
are making arrangements to ex- this country.
tend it.
Monument of Great Quake.
Dismissals of consuls may cause a
San Francisco, Aug. 5. The new
oiiarrel between the United States and
Relief Home for the aged and infirm,
Honduras.
erected at a cost of $450,000 from the
Reports are being received at surplus money contributed for the re
Republican headquarters of babies lief of sufferers by the earthquake and
named after Taft.
fire of April 18, 1906, was formally de
Gould has got money from Harri dicated today and turned over to the
man to pay his railroad debts, and lost city. It is located on the Almshouse
tract south of the Golden Gate.
control of the Wheeling road.
I
BIG APPLE CROP.
Over 1,000 Cars of Shipping Stock
Will be Produced This Year.
Loss at Fernie Not
Than $2,500,000.
Less
Spokane, Wash., Aug. 4.- A special
from Femie, B. C., to the Spokesman-
Review, says:
It is feared that the loss of life will
reach beyond 100, but there are so
many living people without homes or
shelter or food to be looked after that
up to the present no effort has been
made to ascertain the number of those
who lost their lives.
In the district swept by the flames
there is estimated to have been some
7,000 people. Two thousand of these
people have been sent west to Cran-
brook and Elko, some 1,500 fled from
the flames to the northward and reach
ed Hosmer and other places along the
line.
The Great Northern train took all
the people it could carry up the line,
fighting its way through sheets of
flames before reaching a place of
safety.
Scores of families were separated,
husbands not knowing where their
wives and children were, and in some
instances it was ascertained this morn
ing that members of the same family
were in Cranbrook, Fernie and Hos
mer.
The lowest estimates of the amount
of the loss is placed at $2,500,000, and
as nearly as can be ascertained the in
surance carried will amount to some
thing like $1,500,000. Of the 7,000
people who had been housed yesterday,
3,000 have been taken away. It is es
timated by the committee appointed
that there will be 3,500 who will have
to be furnished with temporary shelter
and food.
BIG STRIKE BEGINS
Canadian Pacific Railroad and
Machinists in Struggle.
Portland — Oregon will have over
1,900 cars of fine apples to ship this
year, as compared with about 600 cars
last year. Crop prospects on the whole
Every Union Mechanic on Road from
are favorable, though some sections of
the state are doing better than others.
Ocean to Ocean Stops Work
Hood River will have its banner crop,
When Ordered.
though it was feared earlier in the
season that some damage had been
done. The shipments from Hood River
Winnipeg. Man., Aug. 6. Trades
valley will be between 400 and 500
unionism in Canada has given its defy
cars, against 200 cars in 1907. The
to the Canadian Pacific railway. With
Grand Ronde valley is preparing to
send out 300 cars, double the number
out any untoward incident or ostenta
tious show, the mechanics and kindred
shipped last year, while Medford grow
ers expect to dispatch about 200 cars,
workmen yesterday quit work and all
shops, big and little, on this great sys
as they did last season. In the other
tem are idle.
apple sections of the state the condi
It is estimated that 12,000 men went
tions are reported as good or a little
out, the largest number being 2,200
better than they were last season,
in Montreal and 1,500 here.
Two
though it is known that some varie
thousand men left work between Fort
ties, Baldwins especially, will run
William and Vancouver, all at the dic
lighter than last year in the Willam
ette valley, and it is also said the val
tates of the executive board. Even
old workmen in line for pensions went
ley Newtowns and Spitzenbergs will
home, and it seems to be the most
not produce the crop they did a year
complete tie-up in the history of rail
ago. Prices that will be realized on
way shops in Canada. All the work
shipping stock will be governed by
Homesteaders Ruled Off.
men employed around the trainsheds at
conditions in the Eastern states, where
Klamath^ Falls. — Decisions have the yields are reported to be compara
the depots went out and conductors
been handed down by the United tively light.
and engineers caused some delay in
States land office at Lakeview, in ref
the service by insisting on trains be
erence to several contest cases be
ing properly made up before they
Knights ot Grip Win.
tween homesteaders and those plac
would take trains out. Every wheel
Salem—William McMurray, general
ing timber and stone filings. In each
in the shops stopped and every fire
DEATH LIST GROWS.
case the homesteaders have lost. In passenger agent of the Southern Pa
died out when the whistle blew several
the case of O. B. Newton vs. Nell cific, has advised the committee of the
Boyd-Yaden, homestead entry was re Travelers’ Protective association, hav Seventy-Four Said to Have Perished short blasts, caretakers and shop fore
men alone being left to put the places
fused, on account of the land being ing the matter in hand, that if the
in Destruction of Fernie.
in shape for the period of idleness
heavily timbered and residence not traveling men would withdraw their
maintained. In this case filing had
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Aug. 4.—As a bound to follow.
complaint
before
the
railroad
commis
been made five years ago. and the land
result of bush fires the town of Fernie,
The Canadian Pacific railway’s view
had been lived upon by claimant and sion 2,000-mile books would be imme B. C., is wiped off the map as a child is that the finding of the board ap
commutation made, but the patent diately issued, good on all the Harri cleans a slate. Michel, 14 miles dis pointed at the request of the men
man lines in Oregon, Washington and
had never been issued.
tant, is in flames and the fate of Hos should, in the company’s opinion, be
Idaho, for the flat rate of $50. This
mer and Sparwood, intervening towns, binding on the men.
The Canadian
Railroad Accidents in June.
is what the traveling men have been
is in doubt, they being cut off from Pacific railway not only did not seek
Salem.—Acording to reports re fighting for for two years past, and
arbitration, but, believing the board
ceived at the office of tile railroad they are jubilant over the successful communication.
Over 100 lives are known to have to be hostile to its interests, withdrew
commission at Salem, four persons outcome of the matter.
been lost, 74 of them in Fernie.
its representatives and the government
were killed by the railroads during
A territory of 100 square miles is a appointed another arbitrator to repre
the month of June in this state. No
Dairying
Exhibit
to
be
Feature.
seething mass of flames.
Through it sent the company, who therefor was
passengers or employes were in the
number. Thirteen passengers were in
Portland—An immense dairying ex are scattered hundreds of lumbermen not accepted by the company. Despite
jured, one trainman, one yardman, two hibit will be the feature of the coming and prospectors, so that the actual loss these facts the board so constituted
other employes, and one other per Oregon state fair in September, if of life will not be known for days.
gave a finding which was accepted by
son. One mssenger train was derailed, plans of the Dairy association officers
The properties of the Canadian Pa the Canadian Pacific under protest.
two freight trains were derailed are carried out.
These plans now cific and Great Northern railways are
There was one collision between pas
REFORMS BY SULTAN.
senger train and one collision between promise to be more than fulfilled. destroyed, the bridges and rolling stock
Mrs.
S.
A.
Yoakum,
vice
president
of
burned
so
that
it
is
impossible
to
enter
a passenger train and a freight train
New Cabinet Asked for and Several
The summary ot accidents for June the association, who has been touring or leave the burning area.
There is no possibility of estimating
the Willamette valley in the interest
is comparatively low.
Grafters Arrested-
of the exhibit, came to Portland from the loss of life and property which will
Constantinople,
Aug. 6.
Said
tsig Hay Crop in Tillamook.
result,
for
the
flames
are
driven
by
a
Salem and departed for Tillamook
Pasha, the grand vizier, and the newly
Tillamook—The hay harvest will be county. She is said to be doing much half gale, making it impossible to put formed ministry have resigned. The
completed this week, with the excep good in arousing the enthusiasm of up a fight against their advance.
sultan has accepted the resignations,
The conflagration is the greatest and tonight invited Lemallediu Ef
tion of oat hay.
The weather has dairy cow owners.
which has ever reached Canada and fendi, the Sheik ul Islam and Kiamil
been fine the past two weeks for hay
ranks only with the San Francisco dis Pasha to form a new cabinet.
making, but previous to that the heavy
PORTLAND MARKETS.
aster.
fogs at night made curing somewhat
The notorious Fehmi Pasha, ex-pres
For the past month forest fires have ident of the council of state, has been
slow. Another bumper hay crop is in
Wheat
Club,
87c
per
bushel
;
forty
been raging in the mountains of Elk
the barns, and the large dairy herds in
lynched at Yenishair, in the vilayet of
Tillamook county are well provided for fold, 88c; red Russian, 85c; bluestem, river valley country, but they have not Brusa, Asia Minor.
90c;
valley,
87c.
been considered serious.
Saturday
for the next winter, and as the mead
Mendud Pasha, San Rami Pasha anil
Barley Feed, $23.50 per ton ; roll morning a heavy wind sprang up from
ows are green and will remain so all
Recid Pasha, respectively ex ministers
ed,
$250t
26;
brewing,
$26.
the
west
and
early
in
the
afternoon
summer with abundnace of green pas
Oats No. 1 white, $26.50 per ton; the flames appeared over the crest of of the interior and marine at d ex-pre
ture, the cheese factories are receiving
fect of Constantinople, were arrested
gray,
$26.
I the mountains to the west of Fernie. today and conducted to the ministry of
a much larger amount of milk than in
Hay
Timothy,
Willamette
valley,
This ran down the mountain side and
previous years.
$14 per ton; Willamette valley, ordi before a fire guard could be organized police amid hisses of the populace.
The arrests have been ordereud of
nary, $11; Eastern, Oregon, $16.50; had entered the town.
Smut Eats Up Machines.
prominent officials of the old regime,
mixed,
$13;
alfalfa,
$11;
alfalfa
meal,
Pendleton—Smut has caused the de
and Tebin Pasha, ex first secretary to
struction of two threshing machines in $20.
FLEET PASSES 1 UTUILIA.
Abdul Hamid, and Abdual Iluda, court
Fruits
—
Apples,
new
California,
Umatilla county during the past week,
astrologer, have been taken into cus
and another was burned, but the origin $1.250(1.75 per box ; cherries, 30/10c i Natives Gaze on Great Battleships at tody.
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_
of the fire in the third instance is un per pound; peaches, 40cm$1 per box ;
Close Range.
certain. Those who lost machines are : prunes, $1 per crate; Bartlett pears,
REPORTS EXAGGERATED.
Suvia, Fiji Islands, Aug. 4. The
Isaac Christopher, Frank Brotherton $1.75 per box; plums, 400/50c per
United States Atlantic fleet at 8 p. m.
box;
grapes,
$1.500/1.75
per
crate.
and J. Hudeman. The Christopher and
Berries Raspberries, $1 per crate; Saturday was in latitude 15:43 south, Loss of Life at Fernie Not So Great
Hudeman machines were blown up by
as First Believed.
loganberries,
$1 per crate; black longitude 17:24 west, being distant
the explosion of smut dust, a fire fol
I from Auckland 1,500 miles. At 6:30
Vancouver, B.
Aug. 6. Pros
lowing in each instance. The other berries", 60c0/$l.
Potatoes New, $10/1.25 per hun o’clock in the morning the fleet chang pects in the region of Fernie are
machine burned while being moved
dred ; old, Oregon, 75c per hundred; ed its formation from line of squadron brighter today, and everyone is taking
from one field to another.
, to single column, and at 7 o’clock new heart.
sweet potatoes, 6 '..,c per pound.
The coroner said t<xlay that the
’Melons Cantaloupes, $20/2.75 per passed the end of eastern end of Tutu
Hold for 8O-Cent Wheat.
ilia island, Samoa, and steamed close deaths in Fernie City will not exceed
Pendleton Many large wheat crops crate; watermelons, 90c0/$ 1.25per 100
loose; crated, ',c per pound addition- in along the coast, giving the people of 20. Of the 62 persons said to have
have already passed into the hands of
; the island an excellent view of the been burned in the Elk River laimber
the buyers, but in most instances the al; casabas, $2.750/3 per dozen.
ships.
I company’s logging camp, all but two
Vegetables
Turnips,
$1.50
per
sack
;
growers are holding for 80 cents. If
The station ship Annapolis passed are now accounted for.
The relief or
carrots,
$1.75;
beets,
$1.50;
beans,
7c
that price is reached it is generally be
close to the fleet off Pago Pago.
The ganizations are doing systematic work.
lieved that the bulk of the crop in this per pound; cabbage, 2c per pound; usual honors were rendered.
Patrols of spi'cial constables arc in
country will be sold or contracted for com, 250/30c per dozen; cucumbers,
At 9 o’clock the fleet resumed its charge of the camps, and sanitary
within a very few days. From reports $1 per box; eggplant, 10c per pound; course for Auckland in line of squadron
rules are strictly enforced. During the
received up to date, it is evident that lettuce, head, 15c per dozen; parsley, formation. It had reduced its speed
past two days there have been 18
15c
per
dozen;
peas,
4c
per
pound:
the average yield for the county will
to nine knots. The weather is fine, births and hundreds of young children
be in the neighborhood of 30 bushels peppers, 80/10c per pound ; radishes, though hot. The collier Ajax arrived
are being brought back to the camp by
to the acre. This is about ten bushels 12’eC per dozen; spinach, 23c per at Suvia today.
their mothers from temporary places
pound; tomat/x-s, 75co/$l per crate;
short of last year’s crop.
of refuge. The sale of liquor has been
celery, $1.25 per dozen; artichokes,
Cars of Coal on Fire.
I prohibited and Fernie is more orderly
Hop Crop Worth Picking.
75c per dozen.
St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 4. The Great than ever before.
Butter Extras, 27'.c per pound;
Salem Salem hopmen do not agree
Northern officials have received word
with Joseph Harris that the hop crop fancy, 25c; choice, 20c; store, 18c.
Eggs Oregon extra-. 25c per dozen; from their division superintendent at
will be larger than the demand and
that the crop will not all be picked. firsts, 230/24c; seconds, 220/22 _.c; White Fish, Mont., that 65 cars of 1
coal and coke and three bridges belong
Dealers interviewed estimate the crop thirds, 150/20c; Eastern, 230/24c.
Poultry Mixed chickens, 11c per ing to the company have been destroy
at from 90,000 to 120,000 bales, and
indicate their belief that there will be pound; fancy hens, 12c; roosters, 9c, ed by the forest fires at Fernie. The
few, if any, growers who will not pick spring, 14c; ducks, old, 8c; spring, 12 big bridge just west of the depot at
their hops. The dealers agree that the 0/12’iC; geese, old, 8c; goslings, 10 Fernie and No. 3 and No. 4 bridges
crop will be good if the weather contin O/ilc; turkeys, old, 180/19c; young, across the Elk river between Hosmer
and Michel have been wiped out. The
ues favorable. No one will venture an 200/ 24c.
Veal Extra, 80/8',,c per pound; or Canadian Pacific has lost two depots, a
estimate as to price.
water tank and all of its cars at Fer-
dinary, 7 o /7'.2 c ; heavy, 5c.
■Gobbling Up New Wheat.
Pork Fancy, 7c per pound; ordi nie. A hurricane is blowing.
Pendleton Wheat has advanced an nary, 6c; large, 5c.
Die of Heat in Mine.
committee of
other two cents in the Pendleton mark
Mutton Fancy, 80/9c.
et, with the result that probably 200,-
Hops 1907, prmie and choice, 4'y
Virginia City, Nev., Aug. 4. Half
000 bushels have changed hands within o/5c per pound; olds, 2O/2,,iic; con a mile beneath the surface of the earth
Alg eria is Shaken Again.
the past two days. The purchases are tracts, 90/10c.
and 8,000 feet from the mouth of the
Constantine, Algeria, Aug. fi.
being made on a basis of 75 cents, and
Wool Eastern Oregon average best, Sutro tunnel, C. Pucillini was discover
it is not recalled when the prices were 100/16'4 c per pound, according to ed dead this afternoon with his four newed shocks of earthquake were
so good and so much wheat changing shrinkage; valley, 15O/15Jic;
mo mules, killed by the heat in the tun here this afternoon and tonight,
casualties were reported.
hands so early in the season.
hair, choice, 180/18JjC.
nel’s depths.