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BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON
The Hotel Lerana at Independence
waa told to W. P. Stain, a Portland
inn The consideration Is eaid to be
$30,000.
A pressure gasoline tank need In
connection with the lighting plant of
a North I'lalns hotel exploded, doing
considerable damage.
Fifteen tons of delayed mall, which
ac.riiiiiul.it. -.I ut Portland during the
tleup of the Pacific Hallway &. NavW
gallon line, have arrived at Tillamook.
In a party 20 strong, member of
the legislature and state officials Tie
It. m Pendleton for the purpose of In
specting the Raatern Oregon state
hospital for the Insane.
To determine whether or not sal
mon which have spawned will return
to the sea and live, la the subject of
a series of tests being mad by the
Coos Hay hatchery at ldurshfleld.
Grants Pass has bean bonded for a
road to the coast and tf this Is built
Medford, Instead of projecting a Una
to Crescent City, can oonneot with the
Oranta Pass road about 80 miles from
there.
Equipped with pnrt of the machin
ery of a hydroaeroplane, Oorst &
King, of Marshfield, are making ex
periments with an automobilo, which
Is expected to aid motor vehicles oa
muddy roads.
Lumbermen of fiend have receive
announcement from the railroad com
panies of the lowering of rates oa
mill products to the east. 1'he town
is given a rate which Is only oue oeut
above what Hpokan has.
Petitions to the Ashland city coun
cil asking that a date be set for a
special election In connection with the
Interurban and street railway project,
have been perfected, and were pre
sented to the council Tuesday.
The month of January waa excep
tionally wet In Astoria. Acordlng te
records In Weather Observer (Hi
mores office the precipitation during
the month was 16 16 Inches, or 6.03
Inches In excess of (he January aver
age. Hri'iiklng out of jail in Coquille,
where he had oven placed for drunk
enness, going to town and getting a
bottle of whisky and then returning
to jail aud demolishing another cell,
was the way a logger there acted
when arrested.
"Model city" Is the title which North
Band Is seeking, and to that end It
has engaged u firm of engineers to
trulghten out the engineering prob
lems Involved In making a "city beau
tiful ' and to lay It out aloug metro
politan lines.
With the transfer of the property
af the North Hand Lumbar company
t the Bwayne A Hart Lumbar aaen
pany, of San Praaetsoe. there eaters
Into the latnber industry af Caaa oaae
ty one of the largest firms oa the
Pacific coast Arrasaaasaaat are asv
der way to equip the mrtll with m
machinery so that Its capacity will he
brought up to 0.0 feat a nag. aai
the plans of the new owsvera are said
to oontemplste dotfbHog ate
af tfce snlil later.
Large Apple Crop Assured.
Hood River That Hood Klver val
ley will have a very large crop of ap
ples next year seams evident from the
results secured In the blooming of the
stuudard varletlea. The Davidson
Prull company has for many years
followed tin pi. in of forced blooming
of the several varieties, which has
given It a concrete basis upon which
to base cstiiuatos of the annual yield
of apples In the valley.
The Indoor orchard composed of a
large number of limbs takeu from
fruit trees and bloomed by steam In
cubation, Is now prophetic of what the
orchards will be later. The old Spit
lenberg trees show an extraordinarily
heavy crop. Jonathans are alao very
heavy with bloom. Ni wtowns, Winter
Uuuaiia, Oregon M4 Hlack Twig, Red
Cheeks ami Ortleyi. are alu showing
a full crop for next season.
The estimate for next season's crop
Is about bJIMM boxes.
Relief Boat Goes to Nshslem.
Portland. As a son of relief boat
the gasoline schooner Mirene, Captain
Mays, left on a special trip to Nahal
etn loaded to the guards with provls
Ions. For the last two or three weekt.
Nehalem practically ha been abut off
from the outside world so far as Iran
sportatlon facllltlc , are concerned.
The washouts and landslides put the
railroad out of commission temporari
ly. On the completion of the railway
the hi earner service from Portland to
Mat uV ''i I ' Conse
quently the pagMagU have been IIII
sble to get In any supplies reeently
It is said (he stares Hi. re have about
i, IS kinds of nc
Camps te be Electrified.
fi. Id l.l" rim. illy operated
logging ampi m the plan of the Smith
Lumber roaipau) hero. The company
Is planing to electrify all Its planus In
kdj county In ainliiiou to the work
thai Is bow being performed by dee
key engines, each camp will be ap
plied with a nf electrically
saw tar owiUag ueaa,
A New Method
of Torture
By ALBERT T. KEN YON
Lieutenant Wlnward of the th I'nit
ed States Infantry, stationed on the
Island of Luzon, Philippine Island,
was sent with a detachment of twelvo
men to regulate some unruly natives.
He found n larger number than ha hid
expected, snd. Instead of regulating
them, they regulated him and his men.
There were about fifty of them, snd
they had good arms and ammunition.
They drove the soldiers into a sort of
pocket, where they killed moat of them
and put the rest to the sword, ax. ept
the lieutenant, whose leadership had,
resulted In the slaughter of nearl.v one-;
third their number. Thin ami their
hatred for Americans generally decided
them to put him to death by as fright
ful a menus as could be devised.
Itelng near the seashore, four of their
number were deputed to take the offi
cer to the beach aud bury him to his
chin In the sand, where nn Incoming
tide would drown him. The four men
wero well armed, while Wlnward was
defeuselcss. The Filipinos had pos
sessed themselves of a demijohn of
whisky nnd quinine which the soldiers
had brought with them as a protection
again! ninliirln. This the execution
ers, after giving even man left behind
a I'rinU. tool with them, but, being
aware of tt.i effect, prudently determin
ed to Hlmlnln from II till they bad ae
compllshcd their purpose.
When they reached the seashore
there was it discussion among them
which Wluwsrd. not understanding
their language, could uot Interpret, but
by their gestures he Inferred that, some
were In favor of giving him n short
time to live by placing him far from
the Incoming tide, while others pre
poMcd that he should tie plsced nesr It.
lie also believed thai tbo latter wish
ed to miii.e .ml I. work with him In
order to get at the liquor. Ha hoped
the: would prevail, since the longer
the contemplation of such a death pin
ned In ih. i hand the more agonising It
would be. A compromise was muds
by placlug him at half tide, the waters
receding. This would give him till the
return of the flood tide to live.
A hole was dug lu the sand deep
enough to place blm In the proposed
position. When they attempted to put
lit in lu he made a dcsHrat fight hop
lug to force them to shoot blm. Hut,
serine hu Intention, they refrained,
snd, lielng powerful men while Wln
ward was smsll sud slight, notwith
standing tbst horror gava blm
strength, tbsy hsd uo great difficulty
In burying blm. Ills arms were plsced
sgalnst his sides snd the sand packed
close about blm by the men tramping
upon it Ha wss placed with his fsce
to the ocean In order that be might
suffer the greater mental torture by
sjsjgjksj it slowly crawl upon him.
No sooner had be Lmniu burled than
some of the Filipinos begsu to show
signs by their actions that they were
In favor of tskltig a pull from the demi
john. Wlnward could not sea bow It
could maka any difference to blm
whether thev were drank or sober.
Had the desires of those who wished
to drink at ouc prevailed they would
hava hud time to get druuk and sober
agstu before the lido receded aud re
turned to their victim, but there was
one who seemed to he a loader among
(hum who couuseled dcluy. Why. the
officer could not understand. At any
rule he was enabled to keep them from
the liquor till the tide had turned sud
passed half the dMnuce between the
ebb and the uiau it was to drown.
Then one of the men seised the deml
John and look a drink That started
the rest. Including the leader, and they
all got druuk.
W lieu th.- last oue had succumlied
the waters had advanced to within a
few feet of the hurled mail. The si
lence penult ted hi.-, mind to concen
trate upon the appr.Nichlug death Ills
ilcnpalr led him to muke an effort to
free himself, which he knew would lie
futile. Slowly came the tide, now and
again a wave sdvun. lug nearer bU
chin, till at last a i Ipple broke against
his month
Wlnward was enabled to put off the
evil moment by holding his breath ss
the edge of the waves rolled past him.
Presently he Is-gini to feel that the
presine f ii ud against the front of
his neck had diminished The water
whs washing it away from there and
piling It up behind. Koch wave In
creased this change. A wild hope
sprang within him. Would enough
aund In front of him he displaced to
suable him to free himself? He could
bend forward slightly. The water bad
softened the sand aud by doing so he
found he could ssslst In the dlsplsce
meni It was not loug liefore his
IfSJSJ were free. I' lug his bauds vig
oroimly, be scooped away a part of the
sand, while the wave continued t
displace the rest. Ills body was loos
eued. Ilv mii effort be freed his legs
snd wss saved.
11 Is nrM Met was to possess himself
of the n I'l.jM of the I'lllpiuos, aud, re
talulug those he could use, he threw
i he i I into deep water.
Win'.. an bus lie- er told the rest of
the story, for he was MNhuiued of It.
The luut.illty under which he suffered
tciiiwn .irlly mad.- it brute of him The
mi in which WMS lo have drowned blui
became the burial place of his would
be -e. uiioiier-. Hni whether It en
gulfed them alive or dead the officer
will nut say All he admits is that he
wss III..- s wild anlmul and that he
in. i di the death of his torturers as ter
rible ss