The Stayton mail., May 10, 1901, Image 2

THE STAYTON MAIL
H. C. « C. MICI* A li HO W N K, C u b ».
CLAI" AÜAINST CHINA-
Amount ol
Indemnity
h»»
Been
Fixed
PITIFUL FATE OF
Lost on
«1
OREGON.
NEWS OF TIIK WEEK
A Comprehensive Review of
the
important
Happenings of the Past Week Presented
in a Condensed
Form
Which
Likely to Prove of Interest to
is
Most
Our Many
Readers.
Famine forced court to leave Sinan
Fu.
Paris, May 3.— The forcigh office
has received a dispatch from Pekin
announcing that M. Pichon, French
minister, presented today the report
| of the committee on indemnity. The
iamount China has to pay has heen
1 ti\i*d at 1,365,(XX) francs ($273,(XX), -
tXX>). ‘ How it is proposed that ttie in­
demnity be distributed among the
powers is not set forth.
There was much disappointment
over the fact that the United States is
supporting England against an in­
crease in the customs.
This is at­
tributed to the influence of the Amer­
ican community in China. It is ho
lievcd that England, if alone, would
yield, but fears are entertained that
England's scheme is to prolong nego­
tiations until her hands are free in
Souh Africa, when she would show a
stronger policy in Chinese afl'airs.
Official advises received here from
Pekin say the ministers are divided
into two parties in the discussion to
decide how China is to raise the in­
demnity. France, Germany, Russii
and Japan agree in favor of raising
the customs duties, which can he re­
lied upon to produce a great part of
the requisite sum, and the imposition
of a duty on junks, which will con­
stitute a tax on internal navigation
ami taking over of some of the likin
(provincial transit duties).
On the
other hand the United States and
Great Britain decline to agree to an
increase of the customs duties, but
they do not appear to have presented
a counter prop osition. The fact that
the United States and Great Britain
have joined hands on this issue has
caused surprised here.
It was hoped
that the United States would stand
with France and Russia.
The result
will lx* to greatly protract the nego­
tiations.
s
Little
CHILD.
Girl
Dies
• I
Hunger and Exposure.
$273.000.000.
S T A Y T O N ...............
th* l)«»«rt.
A
Items of Interest From All Parts
of the State.
C O M M E R C IA L AN D F IN A N C IA L H A PPEN IN G S
A Brief Review of the Growth end Improve-
meats ol the Many Industries Through,
out Our Thriving Commonwealth.
W ork has startl'd on the soldier’s
memorial monument at Eugene.
North Yakima, Wash., May fl.— A
5-year-old girl has Iwcu found on the
lonely desert of the Horse Heaven
country, 18 miles from her home,
standing in a badger hole, where she
died from starvation. The child was
the daughter of Hon. W. it. Mat-
thews, ex-county eonimisaioner of
Yakima county.
Searching purtiisi
had Isi'ii scouring the country for live
days and nights in an effort to locate
the child alive. It was thought that
she had Is-eu carried away by Indians
and would Is- found on the reserva­
tion. She had been tracked 12 miles
from her home when all traces of her
were ohlitcratia! by the winds blowing
the tracks from the sand.
Two children, u ls>y aged eight
years, and the girl, five, were sent out
from home five days ago to look after
j some lost cattle.
They walked away
j until 10 miles from home, when grow-
: ing tired they fell asleep.
A passing
cowboy noticed them, and after armis-
i ing tiie sleepers took them on his
|siny and carried them utmost home.
The children then ass lin'd him that
they could get home without further
assistance, and he let them go alone.
The night came on and it is aupposid
the Imy ran faster than his sister and
left her behind.
When he reached
home he was frightened anil could not
tell exactly what hud hapiicncd. A
search was made for the girl, but she
could not Is' found thut night.
on hid in i »
4
’
'
Hundreds of Buildings at Jack­
sonville, Fla., Burned.
10.000 P EO P LE A R E R E N D E R E D H O M E L E S S
Tht L imi li E ifln u ttd at F lllftn Million D o l­
lari
Several U v e i Reported L o ll—
Fine it Hutell Destroyed.
Jacksonville, Fla., May 4 — Fifteen
million dollars’ worth of property
Last week 15, l.r>0 bushels of w heat
gone up in smoke and |0,(XX1 jiciipli»
.'bungl'd hands at Weston. The price
made homeless Is fhe result of a bit
France has restored loot taken from
was 46 cento.
of wire accidentally getting into u
the Chinese.
di redd ing machine of the American
A new pump has been put in at De-
German soldiers fired on a British
Fibre Company yesterday at the cor­
Moss Springs for the benefit of farmers
tug at Tien Tsin.
ner of Davis and Union streets. The
who haul water.
fire started lietween the honra of 12
Seven people were burned to death
J. H. Eggert has taken a contract
and
I o'clock in the afternoon and
in a Chicago fire.
to get out 2,(Xk».00t) feet of loga, a
owing to this fact the Ion« of life will
mile below Vient.
Ex-State Superintendent McElrov,
tie comparatively small.
The fibre
of Oregon, is dead.
factory was u wooden shell, full «if it»-
About 12.000 bushels of wheat
Hauiinahle material.
changed haniL at De.Moss springs last
The Shamrock II had her first trial
The wind, which was already blow­
week at 45 cents per bushel.
spin at Southampton.
ing strong from
the southwest,
The Bonanza mine, in Eastern Ore­
About a dozen people were injured
seemed to U> possessed with a sudden
gon, has received a large new boiler.
in a train wreck in Ohio.
fury and soon wus carrying destruc­
It weighs 21,000 |annuls, und it took
tive cmls-rs all through the city, the
A commission has been appointed
ft) horses 9*^ days to haul it from
fairest jairtion of which lay right in
to improve the Pei Ho river.
Sumpter to the Bonanza, about 16
the course of the wind.
Horne delay
miles.
Another battle has occurred be­
wan experienced in sounding an alarm
tween the Boers and British.
The farmhuTise of Thomas Seavey,
and the engine at the water works
suffered a mishap and nothing mure
on the north side of the McKenzie, a
Revolution in Colombia has degen­
»hurt distance below th cmonth of the FOR A YANGTSE UPRISING. than ordinary pressure could ba ob­
erated into guerrilla warfare.
Mohawk, was totally destroyed by
tained. By this time the Haines had
Fire in Nashville, Tenn . did dam­
fire. This was one of the land marks Report! of a Secret Combination of Duaffect- swept to the Boston, u huge furni­
age to the amount of $100.000.
af that country, having been built in
ture factory.
It leajied across Davis
ed Element! Are Confirmed.
1868, at a cost of alauit $3500.
street and took a course right through
Wholesale arrests resulted from re­
London, May 6.— "T h e re|s>rts of a a section on which him k after block
volutionary movement in»Russia.
Athena hus secured a street rock
secret combination of disafl’cctixl ele­ of frame buildings bud ln-m erected.
¡rusher.
China suggested to powers the o w n ­
ments in the Yangtse province for the
Here is where the fire department
ing of Manchuria to all countries.
W ork of building a road to Bluo purpose of organizing general risings lost control, as simultaneously in bait
river, on the Calajiooia side, has !*■- are receiving some confirm ation,” a dozen, plaees, some of them six
Another oil gusher has been struck
gun.
says the Shanghai corres|H)iident of blocks from the main tire, roofs were
at Beaumont, Tex,, near the other
TWO R O B B E R S CAUGHT.
the Morning Post.
“ The British seen to burst out in flames
one.
The
Plans of a telephone line from Baker
consul at Nankin telegraphs Mr. Bren­ wind, rising higher and higher, set
!o the Panhandle is under considera­
Mrs. McKinley has l>een given the
nan, the British consul at Shanghai, on tire whole rows of building« anil
honor of launching the kittle ship Arrest of Men Who Broke Into the American tion.
thut the Nankin viceroy is very anx­ ! attracted at first a crowd of curious
Ohio at San Francisco.
^
Express Office at Paris.
A burglar ¿roof safe arrived at Ash­ ious about the Yangtse movement, sightseers who seemed to Is* fusci-
land
last week for the First National and In- asks Mr. Brennan to assist tin I nati-il t.y the sight until they learned
The homeless of Jacksonville, Fla.,
Paris, May 3.— The principal auth­
Taoti to preserve order by holding thut their residences too were in dan­
as a result of the recent tire, will l>e or of the robbery of the American Ex­ Bank.
troops in readiness.
quartered at St. Augustine army bar­ press C o.’s office in Paris the night of
ger of total destruction.
It took just
The telephone line from Grant's
“ It is announced from a German four hours for that resistless mass ni
racks.
April 26, when three masked burglars Pass to Williams is complete ami in
source that the French have witli- i flames to consume every building in
The force of soldiers in the Philip­ escaped with 30.(HXt francs, has lieen operation.
! its wake for a space of six to eight
pines will be reduced to 40,000. and arrested. His name is George Miler.
County roads lietween Baker City
hloeks wide from Davis street, near
if improvement continues, still fur­ For some time he has lived in. Puris »nil John Day «re said to be in very
where it started, to the llogun -triet
under the name <>f James Samuel, be­
ther reduction will be made.
viaduct, a distance of over one and a
ing employed in a barter sin p. Some oad condition.
President McKinley, while at El day« lefore the burglary the detectives
half miles, mill then, not satisfied
The Hood Rivet Fruit Growers’
Paso, Tex., exchanged felicitations noticed this-*’ nu n of Bngli h apj«*ar- Union is Ix^jnning to receive orders
with eating out the heart of the rrsi-
with President Diaz, of Mexico, uijd U H -rw i«* * ' behavior W * »- **a;vtvr->*- L it n ( i a v
«dent in 1 jHirtioq of the .city, it doubled
—
received delegations from that coun­ ou*.
hack and emne roaring up the princi­
These persons entered hanks
Fred J. Kunmniel was killed at the
try.
pal thoroughfare of trade, destroying
without doing any business, and in­
everything in what was tlie original
The detect ivet Mammoth mine, in Eastern Oregon
Vanderbilt and Gould are buying spected building'^.
incorporation of Jacksonville.
maintained a careful watch at the recently by a snow slide.
heavily of Union Pacific stock.
railway stations
for persons who
From the humble hom e*of the p«mi
Thieves broke into a saddle shop at
The merchants of New Orleans might possibly have been connected The Dallisi several days ago and made
to the elegant resiliences of the well
gave a banquet to the president.
with the robbery, and their patience away with several, pieces of harness.
to do was but a short journey for the
flames.
It seemed that wherevei
King Alfonso will assume
the was awarded when they apprehended
W . C. Peterson agrees to put an
Miler.
Miler was the bearer of a
there hap|iened to lie a shingle root
throne of Spain in one more year.
electric
light
plant
in
Brownsville
if
large number of stolen checks to the
I the flying einlicrs found lodgment.
Six thousand soldiers are needed in amount of 6,<KX) francs in a I kix in a the city will pay $45 |a*r month for
Hhs'ks away from the main tire othei
and around Tien Tsin to keep order, j leather handbag. He had also in this six lights.
tires would break out.
Right inte
. the heart of the town the llames
Horse rustlers with two car loads of
The man who rohlied the American bag dynamite cartridges, jimmies, a
i swept.
As the viaduct leading ovet
express office in Paris has been ar­ metal saw and drills of the finest stolen horses are dodging the officers
Steel.
somewhere in the the eastern p<>rti<n
the marshes of Hogan’s creek to East
rested.
Another one of the thieves has been of Malheur county.
Jacksonville was reachid, it was plain
Two masked men entered a resi­ arrested at Amiens, his baggage Iming
that the limit of the progress of thi
Governor Geer will lie asked to
dence at Springfield. Mich., and stole seized at the railway station. Other
flames wcstwurd had come. As far at
grant a pardon to J. G. Luhrmun.
$8,(XX) in goM.
arrests are imminent.
the money value of the damage wai
who was sent to the jienitentiary from
1 concerned the worst was yet to come.
The report that 200 men had frozen '
Baker county in June, 1900, convicted
Just as the material for the flame*
to death in an Alaska stampede has I
Memento tor the President
of manslaughter.
| was apparently consumed, a shift in
been confirmed.
Seattle, May 3.— The Snoqualmie
the wind sent a roaring sea of lian et
In a wreck on the Great Northern Fall Power Co., is preparing a beauti­
PORTLAND M ARKETS.
southward toward the river. Then it
in Montana, one man was killed and ful souvenir to be presented to Presi­
Wheat— Walla Walla.
59(36 0 c.;
. was lieginning to dawn on the mindt
several injured.
dent M cKinley on the occasion of hi- valley, nominal; bluesteni, 61c. per
I of the unfortunates who had sought
refuge at the river side, that they
The French are making prepara-! visit to Seattle. It will be a solid bushel.
Flour— Best grades, $2.70(33.40 per
j were in danger of Is-ing cut off and
tions for a withdrawal of a portion of tablet of silver some eight inches by
six inches in size, with an outline of barrel; graham, $2.60.
I being suffoeated. A rush was tuailf
their troops in China.
Snoqualmie Falls, and the surround­
Oats — White, $1.35 per cental;
¡ for the South Jacksonville ferry and
“ Apache K id ,” a leader of a hand ing rocks and trees embos-ed in purest gray, $1.25(3 1.30 per w< tal.
This monument was erected May 2, hundreds were carried over to the
of Yaqui Indians has been executed gold. In the lower corner will Is- an
Barley— Feed, $ 17@17.25; brewing, 1901, near Champoeg, Oregon, on the other side.
by Mexican officials.
attached leaf, bearing on its upper $17(3 17.25 j»er ton.
W illamette river, aliont 32 miles
Then came the most thrilling scene
surface a suitable inscription and
Millstuffs— Bran. $16 perton; midd­ almve Portland.
It stands where 52 of the entire day. The flames caught
Mrs. Carrie Nation, true to her showing underneath a plan of the
word, has again returned to her cell | com pany’s work room*cut into solid lings, $21.50; shorts, $17.50; chop, pioneers met on May 2, 18-13, and or­ the freight warehouses on the Atlan­
$16.
ganized the first government of Ore- tic, Valdosta A Western Railroad and
in the W ichita, Kan., jail.
rock of Snoqualmie.
Hay—Timothy, $12.50(314; clover, gon.
la-gun from there on their march
$7(3 9.50; Oregon wild hay, $6(37
A congressional committee has
; backward in the teeth of the wind.
per ton.
heen appointed to inspect harbor im­
drawn their troops from Ifwai Lu to Slowly hut surely the fire ate its way
Ratt War to Alaska Towns.
Hops— 12(314e. per lb .; 1899 crop, j Pao Ting Fu, thus leaving the Ger­ against the wind, taking either side
provements on the Pacific coast.
Seattle, May 3. — Heavy slashing is 6®>7c.
mans in side possession of all the of Bay street until it reached Jones’
The course of Minister Loomis has the order in the Alaska steamship | W o o l— Valley, 12(813c.; Eastern
! passes into Hhan Hi.”
boatyard.
W hile the flames failed
heen sustained by the United States rate war. Fares first and second clas- i Oregon, 9(312c; mohair,
2t)(321e.
Dr. Morrison, wiring to the Times to cross the open space known ae
and Venezuela will be so notified.
to Lynn canal are cut to half of the ! per pound.
: from Pekin says:
Jones’ boat yard, a new danger threat­
old rates. First class tickets are sell­
Butter — Fancy creamery,
15(3
"T h e indemnity committee favors ened.
The flames swept down in the
The indemnity committee, com ­ ing for $10, and second class for $5.
posed of representatives of the powers, A week ago they were worth $25 and 17 'jc . ; dairy, 12 ‘ ¿(3 14c. ; store, 10(3 a loan raised on the guarantee of all rear of the United States hotel anil
I le. per pound.
the powers.
Its proposal to increase that, with the Law Exchange, wae
has decided that China must pay $16.
Corresponding reductions in j Eggs— Oregon ranch, 14(3l4‘ ae.
the maritime cutstoms to 5 jier cent doomed. Meantime the county court
$273,000,000.
freight rates are also reported.
per dozen.
\ advalort'in applies to import duties house caught fire and another splen­
Cheese— Full e ream, twins, 13(8 only and not export.
An agreement has heen reached
All the m inis­ did edifice was soon a total wreck.
13 t$ c.; Young Amerira, 13t»(itl4c. ters of the powers, except the British, From the United States hotel the
whereby all the
principal traus-
Great Fire at San Juan.
per pound.
Atlantic steamship companies will
American and Japanese, favor an im ­ flames jumped across the street and
Ran Juan, Porto Rico, May 3.— The
Poultry— Chickens, mixed, $3.50; mediate increase to 10 per cent. The the work of destruction continued,
form an immense trust.
new $150,(XX) pier caught fire this hens, $4(34.50; dressed, 11(3 12e. jmr report, which is based on somewhat
only to lie checked when the last
The gates of the Pan-American afternoon and was destroyed in half pound; springs, $3(35 per dozen;
imperfectly understood data, has been building near McCoy and llogati’i
exposition at
Buffalo
have been an hour. A large stock of sugar anil ducks, $5(36; geese, $6(87; turkeys,
referred to the home governm ents." creek had been destroyed.
thrown open to the public. Notwith­ rum was lost in the fire.
The fire live, 10(312c; dressed, 13(815c. per
Battle-Ship Iowa Launched.
standing the fact that the big fair is continues to rage and the flames pound.
Storm In Utah.
Seattle, May 6.— The battle ship
far from complete large crowds are threaten to spread to the stores of the
Potatoes—Old, 75c.(*$1 per sack;
Iowa
was
launched
today
from
tho
Halt
Lake,
May 6.— Reports rev
constantly in attendance.
custom house.
new, 2(82t£c. per pound.
Bremerton
navy
yard,
after
under­
ceived
at
the
government weathet
Mutton — Lambs
4% c.
per
Chinese officials have apologised to
going repairs and a thorough over­ bureau in this city show that the
pound
gross;
best
sheep,
$8;
wethers,
Vetoed Insurance Tax Bill.
an insulted French consul.
hauling. Less than four weeks were prevailing storm extends almost ovet
$5;
ewes,
$1 .50;
dressed,
7c.
occupied
in the great undertaking, the entire Rocky mountain district.
Denver, May 3.— This was the last per pound.
Much land in the Palouse. Wash­
although six weeks had lieen allowed Nearly two and three quarters inches
day
for
the
consideration
by
Governor
Hogs
—
Gross,
heavy,
$5.75(36;
ington country is being landed for oil
Admiral ol rain have fallen in Salt Lake ilur-
Orman of bills passed by the recent light, $4.75(^5; dressed, 7@7)^c. per by the navy department.
and gas.
Casey, whose flagship the Iowa is, ! ir«g the last 36 hours, the heaviest
legislature. He vetoed the bill in­ pound.
was loud in his praise of the equip­ precipitation ever recorded hern and
Two more prominent Filipino gen­ creasing the tax on insurance com ­
Veal— Large, 6(37%c. per pound’
erals and several officers have surren­ panies from 2 to 3 per cent of their
ment and facilities of the big dry j the weather officials state the total
small, &}4c. per pound.
dered with their forces.
dock.
The flooding of the dry dock rainfall will reach three indies or ovet
gross receipts, hut permitted the hill
Beef— Gross, top steers, $5(3)5.25;
and subsequent launching of the hig before the storm ceases.
Swollen
The transport fleet is on its way restoring capital punishment to be­ cows and heifers, $4.50@ 4.75; dressed
vessel was witnessed by over 1,200 streams and flooded flat lands arc
beef, 8J£c. per pound
from Manila to transport Chaffee’s come a law without his signature.
spectators.
reported from many places.
army to the Philippines.
Bubonic plague baa broken out in
Honolulu.