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THE STATTON MAIL. CAUGHT Twelve BY fLOOD. People Drowned at Wat- rous. New Mexico. LOSS IS HEAVY TO DErRAUD NATION. Iron Said to Have Been Put In Life Preserver Blocks. CLOSE ON PORT W ashington, t>ct. 4.— An alleged Jcipanese Steadily Advancing at Port Arthur. conspiracy, w hich haa been developed by o tliiials of th e d e p artm en t ot com POSITIONS TAKEN ALL RAILROAD ARC TIED UP merce and labor and of th e d ep artm en t SEVERAL of justice today resulted in th e a rre st Th irty Blocks In Trinidad arc Un a t f'atu d en , N. J . , of J . H . Stone, H. Togo Will Withdraw Most of Squad General Review o f Important Happen- ron ax Enemy’s .Ships arc A|. der Tw o to Tour Teet of Water C. O u in tard , C harles W. Ruse and penlgs Presented In a Brief and Ja tea Russ, officers of th e N onpareil most Incapable of Resistance. Condensed Corm. — Loss Will Be Very Heavy. Cork w orks. They were apprehended S ir W illiam H arco n rt, a noted B rit Chefoo, Hept. 30.— T he news «Halved T rin id ad , C olo., Oct. 3 .— A teriiflc by tire U nited S tates m arshal for the dood strn ck th e city of T rinidad and d istrict of New Jersey, under an in d ic t from P o rt A rth u r co ntinues to show a ish p o litician , is dead. th e w hole valley along th e l a s Auiiiias m ent fouud on Septem ber 2V by the steady, If slow advance of th e Japanese A th ird attem p t haa been made to up«m th e R ussian fort i tirat ions. Day river, today, devastating a wide se«'tion « re c k th e b a ttle sh ip C onnecticut. Unite«! States grand jtu y a t T ren to n , by «lay th e rem oter positions of th e lie- and causing a money loes w hich a t T rin id a d , Colo., report* th a t it can present cannot tie estim ated , but w hich charging th em , untier section 5440, of leaguered fortress ere lieiug taken by relieve a ll d istress caused by th e flood. may reach several hundred thousands of the revtse«l sta tu te s of th e U nitetl the Japanese, and th a t its fall is only dollars. S tates, w ith c o n sp d in g to defraud the e m a tte r of e ah o tt tim e la the general T he Septem ber receipts of th e S t. Every bridge in th e city of T rinidad L ouis fair am ounted to ab o u t $2,500,- goverm ent and prejudice th e adtuinis- belief here. T he n um ber of C hinese refugees a rriv in g h e ie increases con is out, th e Hauta Fe statio n is dem ol 000 . ished, a ll of th e railroads are tied up, tra tio n ot th e steam boat Inspection sta n tly , am i tills is taken to hod* no T he R ussians have tem porarily and th e telephone and telegraph services laws oy p u ttin g upon tire m arket com- go«)«l for th e Russian«. checked th e Japanese advance east of com pletely suspended. More th a n 30 presse«! cork blocks (or use in m aking The last of tiie C hiuese to arriv e M ukden. city blocks iu the resideiu-e and busi life preservers, each of w hich blocks from Port A rth u r report a s till fu rth e r ness sections were two to four feet under advance by th e Japaneee. They assert T he esar m ay block th e plan for the containetl in its cen ter a piece of bar w ater along th e ivier th a t several of th e m ost im p o rta n t po im m ed iate reorganisation of th e R us Bo far as known a t noon no lives iron a b o u t six inches long and w eigh sitions held by I lie H usaians, (art bent sian arm y . were lost, b u t th ere were m sny nsrrow ing eig h t ounces. T he iron bar was from til* cen tral fortress bave lieeu P ostm aster G eneral Payne continues escapes. inserted and conceale«! in th e block taken by th e Japaneee, th e la tte r in in a dangerous condition. H is life The dood was caused by th e heavy for th e purp«*e of in«’reaaing tire weight flicting considerable lose upon th e Bus- hangs in th e balant e. rain w hich haa been failing for two •tana. The Japaneee liad tunnels«! a p days. A t 8 o ’clock last night th e to the legal req u irem en t of six pounds proaches to these positions am! liually, R ussians m ade a raid on ju n k s car storm assum ed cloudburst proportions, of good cork for each life preserver. w ith tiie help of m ines, maile th e ir ry in g supplies to Oyam a and des and a t 2 o ’clock th is m orning th e I-a« The men airest«<d w ill be arranged lie way w ith in th e fortifications. troyed a nu m b er of th em . T he Anim as river went over its hanks. Ruseiaiis were taken by su rprise and fore th e U nited States d istric t co u rt of I t is reported th a t G eneral B asilio A t 3:30 it was im possible to get were able to offer little resistance. M unos, leader of th e U ruguayan revo New Jersey , to plead to th e in d ictm en t. w ith in a block of th e river bed a t any F inding th ey were n n sh ie to bohi th e ir lu tio n ists, haa been sh o t by h is former E arly in A ugust, David K ahnew eil- own against th e Japaneee tiie R ussians p oint, and Com m ercial street was flood follow ers. ed tor th re e blocks in th e h e a rt of th e era’ Sons, m an ufacturers of life pre retreated , leaving tiie ir dead and w ound TOW NS WASHED A W A Y . C onsiderable loss of life and prop business d is tric t. M eantim e th e elec servers in New York city , ordered from ed behind th em . e rty was occaseioned by Are in the a r tric lig h t and gas p lants had been flood the N onpareil Cork works a t Canr«)en, W hen tiie Ja |* n « * e attack was d is tille ry and am m u n itio n m agasines a t Rio Grande Cuts New Channel and ed, and th e city was in com plete d a rk cerned by tiie o her R ussian forts they N. J ., blocks of com preesed corks (or at once opened Are, end e t last ac Bebastopol, B uraia. Hundreds arc Homeless. ness. 1,750 life preservers. E ig h t of these counts th ia was still being m ain tain ed . H undreds of citisena thronged tb s T he Jap anese have begun a general A lbnqnrque, N. M .,O ct. 5 .— R eports streets on th e edge of th e submerged corks are used in each preserver, and I t is I'unsidered d o u b tfu l w h eth er th e advance on M ukden. from th e floods in th e Rio G rande v al d is tric t carry iu g lan tern s and doing Japaneee will lie able to retain posses T he condition of P o stm aster G eneral ley above and below th is city are com th e ir best to provide those driven from th e U nited S tates law requires th a t sion of th e ir newly acquired positions. th e eig h t block* sh all contain six Payne is very serious. ing in. T he tow ns of V alencia and th e ir hom es w ith sh e lte r. T he greeter portion of th e Jap an ese pounds of cork. W hen th e cork fleet has retu rn ed to th e Japaneee lias« W arning of th e flood was given when M obile, A labam , is hav in g th e w arm Loe L entes were practically washe«! est w e a th e r in its h isto ry for th e tim e aw ay and several hnndred fam ilies are the river left its hanks by revolver shots blocks were delivered, it was discov in th e E lio t islands, th e Japanese co m and th e ringing of th e fir* ala rm , fol ered th a t eight of th e blocks weighed m ander having become convinced th a t of y ear. hom eless. T he river sw ung to th e lowed by th e blowing of a ll th e loco th e Russian vessels w ith in th e h a tb o r T h e Jap anese have adopted tactics east, cu t a new ch annel, and poarecl a m otive and shop w histles in town. only S S pounds. of P o rt A rth u r ere alm o st incapable of intended to prevent th e re tu rn of th e K ahnew eilera’ Sons thereupon wrote fu rth e r reslatence end of m aking any to rre n t th io u g h th e two towns. No C itisena upon rafts made of sections of m ain R ussian force to M ukdsn. th e N onpareil Cork works and th a t sortie into th e open sea. sidew alks paddled th ro u g h th e streets, li\e« were loet. rescuing fam ilies who were in danger. com pany replied tira t it would ad just T h e R ussian squadron a t P o rt A r The Barelaze suburbs of th is city T he new Hacca hotel, a two story the m atter by sending to K ahnew eilera’ th u r has m ade an o th e r a tte m p t to es ACT o r VANDALS. cape, b u t were d riv en back. A nother suffered th e moet in th is im m ediate stru c tu re ju s t reaching com pletion at Sons some e x tra heavy blocks, one of v icin ity , about 50 houses being des a cost of $20,000 on th e river bank, sally is expected. was destroyed. T he w ater then ate its w hich could be used in each life pre Oil Paintings of Cxar at St. Louis K u ro p a tk in n o w te a l’ses th a t be can troyed. are Mutilated. way th ro u g h 50 feet of th e ground to server, th u s increasing its w eight to Ignacio G n tie n e z , a com m issioner n o t go on to H a rb in an d th e problem th e Hanta Fe depot, w hich was carried the legal req u irem en t. In due tim e Ht. I.onie, Kept. 30.— W hen th e R us of w in terin g h is troops is s serious one. of Sandoval county, telephoned th a t aw ay. th e block* a rriv ed . Tirey were so sian e x h ib it in th e varie«! in d u stries T h e hope of th e R ussians is to defeat th e dam age a t Loe Cordales and A la T he c ity is <livide«l by th e l a s b u ild in g el tiie w orld’s fair was op th e Jap anese a t M ukden. m eda, above th e city , w ill am o u n t to Anim as riv er, w hich is spanned by six heavy as to arouse suspicion. One of ened t<Miay it was discovered th a t Bev- them was broken, and im bedded in its S ouvenir Lewis and C lark dollars several h u ndred thousand dollars. wagon bridges. A ll of th e bridges eral valuable o il p ain tin g * of E m p er T here is one passenger tra in from were washed out and m any residents center was found an iron liar six or N icholes had been to rn from th e have been sent to P re sid e n t Roosevelt inches long, one inch wide and a q u a r an d m em ber of congress who were in- S outhern C alifornia at G allup and a n were unable to reach th e ir hom es or to ter of an inch th ic k , w eighing eight w all and m utilate«! by some u n id e n ti tru m e n ta l in securing th e a p p ro p ria o th e r from San Francisco a t W inslow, com m unicate w ith th e ir fam ilies, the ounces. T he K ahuaw eiiers again fied person or persons. w hile th e other tra in s from C alifornia telephone system being wrecked. tio n to th e P o rtla n d expositio n. A nother p<irtreit of th e em peror, a wrote to th e rfficers of th e N onpareil are held h ere. T he local officials can Cork work*, dem anding to know what handsom e and valuabla panel, dona in A m ail car from P aris to H avre, con not say w hen the tra in s w ill a rriv e or TO SETTLE W ATER SUIT. ta in in g ab o u t 100 pouches of A m erican d e p a it, and th e traffic situ atio n is seri they m eant by p u ttin g iron in the colore«l silk , had l>een to m from ila cork blocks, and inform ing th em th a t su p p o rt an<l subjected to tiie greatest m a il, was broken in to and 91 pouches ous. in d ig n ity . The oil p ain tin g s were to rn opened and rifled of such valuables as M any feet of track is reported gone Effort Is Being Made to Annex Dart as K ah n ew elleis’ Sons were obliged to and th ere were m arks allowing th a t th e th e y may have contained. T here is no a t O rtiz, a t C errillos, W aldo, Thornton p u t th e ir nam es on eacir preserver, of Kansas to Colorado. p ictures of th e em peror had l>een record of th e ir conten.'* or of th e v alu and B ernalillo, and above and below P ueblo, Colo., Oct. 3.— An effort at such a fraud would ru in th e ir b u si slum ped upon. ables ab stracted . th is city a t R incon, A m arillo, N. M ,. a solution of th e K arsaa-C olorado ness. The vandalism was reported a t once According to th e indictm ent a le tte r and Isle ta . w ater su it is in pr «gress, and if the W . J . B ryan is a g ra n d fa th er. to th a exposition a u th o r itie s , and an was received in reply suggesting th a t efforts of those moet interested in the investigation ordered. Every effort la Disease is claim in g m any Japanese case are sucessful a atrip of the weatsrn the K ahnew eilera were foolish to m ake being m ade by both tn e ex h ib ito r* DROP INTO CELLAR. soldiers. so m uch trouble about a sm all affair of portion of Kansaa, ab o u t 150 mil*« en«l the w orld’s fair a u th o ritie s to d is T h e b a ttle sh ia p C onnecticut has been wide, will he annexe«] to th e atat* of th a t kind. cover tiie g u ilty person or persons. Many People Injured at Church Cor F u rth e r ex am ination of th e “ extra succeessfully launched. Colorado, and th e litig atio n now be ner Stone Laying. fore th e suprem e court a t W ashington n eav y " block* di«cl<MM*l the fact th a t T he R ussian cru iser O rel broke a LAND rRAUD.S ALL RUN DOWN. each of them contained an iron bar A dam s, M ass., Oct. 5 .— W hile R ight w i,l be throw n out. cy lin d er on h er tr ia l tr ip an d w ill be sim ilar to th a t w hich was found in th e P olitician s in both K ansas and Colo Rev. Thom as D. Beaven, Rom an C a th d lay d six m onths. In a ll 261 of th e ex tra Agent Greene Is Sure Oregon Cases rado are w orking for th e passage ot a first one. olic bishop of Springfield, was laying heavy blocks weie received by K ahne- The m ain R ussian arm y has re tre a t Will Result In Conviction. bill th ro u g h th e legislature* of both K ahnew eilera’ Hons ed from M ukden, leaving only a sm all th e corner stone of S t. S tan islau s’ Pol states w hereby tn e w estern portion *f w eilers’ Sons. W ashington, Hept. 30. — Hpccial force to guard th e rear. ish ch u rch , a floor collapsed, precipi K ansas can be taken in to Colorado. com m unicated w ith R obert S. Rodie, Agent A. R. G reene, who haa lieen K«-r- supervising inspector of the steam boat The Jap an ese arm y has cap tu red Da tatin g 150 persons into th e basem ent. T his, it is th o u g h t by those who have inspecting seivice for th e d istric t of retary H itchcock’s trusts«! lieu ten an t pass. P ractically no resistance was A dozen persons were in ju red , several given th e irrigation question much New York, and he reported th e facta to in ru n n in g down land fratnis in O re study,w ill solve th e difficulty, and both offered by th e R ussians. seriously. Bishop Beaven and several states w ill lie benefitte<l to a great ex acting secretary of th e d ep artm en t of gon, is in W ashington, conferring w ith th e secretary. D iscussing O regon’s A P u g et sound tug just in from A las of th e prieets assisting him were slig h t te n t. L . P . Wor«1en, of Syracuse, com m erce and labor, L aw renceO . M ur affairs, M r. G reene said : ka, rep o rts hav in g sighted a R ussian ly h u rt. K as., end C . C. K ennison, of Garden ray. T he in vestigation and in d ic t “ We believe we have finiehed up g u n b o at a t U nim ak pass. Some 7,000 persons attended the C ity, K as., a candidate for repreaents- m ent followed. th a t land fraud business in Oregon. A d isp atch from C onstan tin ople says cerem ony and about 200 were seated or tive from th a t county are in Pueblo in We have tiie men resposihle held under Tw o Hundred Homeless. th a t th e village of R am sa, A rm enia, standing on th e floor w hich covered the th e intereat of the p lan . in d ictm en t and it is a aafe prediction A lbuquerque, N . M ., O ct. 4.— The J u s t as th e “ I t would settle th e w ater question was th e scene of a m assacre of A rm en new ly m ade liasernent. th a t th ere w ill be some hot news out bishop was about to lay th e stone a sec in W estern Kansas forever and the anil wild sweep of w ater, raising th e Rio of P o rtland w ith in tiie next m onth o r ians by K u rd s. D etails are lacking. tion of th e flooring, a b o u t 40 feet now in th e courts w ould lie dropped as G rande to th e highest point for more tw o, w hen th e trial* com m ence.” H ops have advanced tw o and tn ree square, collapsed, dropping 12 feet, and th ere would no longer be any reason th a n a year, lias made 200 people in A fter describing th e m ethods of th e cents th ro u g h o u t th e W illam ette val Hare hat. a carrying w ith it th e bishop, the clergy for continuing i t ” said M r. Worden to th is vicin ity hom eless. frau d u len t operators, M r. G reene ad d ley and a t N orth Y ak im a. Independ suburb, is under two feet of w ater and day. and about 140 others. ed : ence growers have receied as high as In th e confusion th a t followed m any Both Mr. Worden and M r. Kennison uiany hom es are abandoned. A lam edo Tiie usual tiling happened. One 30 cents. were tram p led upon and h alf suffocat appeared before the governm ent com is th reaten ed by th e terrific pressure m em ber of tiie gang did not th in k he H eavy ra in s have caused serious ed. B ishop Beven was caught in th e m ission when it w as in scaeion here, upon th e darn, w hich it is feared may was getting his fair share of th e profile dam age to railro ad s in W estern Texas, crash bnt was able to save him self from and are thoroughly fam ilial w ith the give way. T he railroads have suffered and gave th e th in g away. New M exico and N orth ern Mexico. serious in ju ry . He was bruised about situ a tio n . They say th ey are supported greatly in th e R io G rande valley, Several w ashouts are reporter! on the the body and had h is hands scratched. by practically every resident of W est lh e Hanta Fe is a t a sta n d still all Officer Is Assassinated. th ro u g h New Mexico. S an ta Fe in New Mexico an d on all ern K ansas. G eneva, H w itzerland, Hept. 30.— roads tra in s are delayed. Breastplates Will Not Be Made. Wor«l has been received here th a t C ol Bridge Washed Out. Inventor Dies a Charity Patient. Rome, Oct. 5 .— Some tim e ago the Unofficial e stim ates by Jap an ese offi onel Bikoff, com m ander of th e R ussian Lam ar, Colo., O ct. 4 .— The floor! in New Y ork, Oct. 3.— Once w ealthy cers place th e n u m b er of th e ir sick and Russian governm ent ordered 100,000 guard on th e T urkish frontier, ha* b e e n b u llet proof b reastplates of th e tpye in and w ith a host of friends among prom th e A rkansas river reached here t«>«i«y assassinated. Colonel Bikoff recently w ounded soldiers a t 45,000. vented by Signor Benerletti. The la t in en t and w ea'thy men in th e coun and washed o u t tlie north approach of helped th e T tu rk s in an attack upon A M assachusetts ju stice fined an a t ter recently started for Ht. Petersburg try , C harles Y. Y eaton, th e inventor, th e bridge over th e riv er a t th is place A rm enian rev o lu tio n ists, in w hich an tache of th e B ritish em bassy and later to supervise th e m anuufactnre of the is dead a t th e hom e of incur aides, a T he bottom land on th e n o rth side is A rm enian p iie a t, bearing a w hite (lag, found he had exceeded h is a u th o rity . b reastplates, h u t was stopped at M un c h a rity p a tien t. P araly sis, from under w ater. T he river is rising ra p was ki l l ' d as lie approached th e T u rk H e has apologized. ich by th e Ita lia n firm to w hich he had which lie had siiffere«! tw o years, caused idly but no fu rth e r dam age is a n tic i ish troops. Followng th e attack upon pated h ere. Telephone reports from Two m ore of t h e B illings, M ont., sold th e rig h ts to m anufacture, and h is d eath . Yeaton invented a num ber Prow ers, n in e m iles west of L am ar, th e A rm enians, Colonel Bikoff p e rm it of m a«bines, am ong w hich was a type which objected to Signor B enedetti’s in ted tiie Cossacks, who ha«l joined th e ja il breakers have been cap tu red . tervention in th e m atter, and lie re setting m achine, th e first ever offered show th a t the w ater th e re is a t th e T urks to pilage and m u tila te tiie U n ited S tates custom officials a t turned to Ita ly . The firm had also for sale. He enjoyed an in tim ate ac h ig h est stage known in 30 years. The corpses of th e A rm enians. P o rtlan d believe th a t n e a ily 20 per undertaken to enpply th e Japanese quaintance w ith P resident Andrew e n tire Prow ers ranch is under w ater cen t of th e C hinese popu latio n of th a t governm ent w ith 200,000 breastplates. Johnson, who offere«! him a d iplo and th e residents were com pelled to Japan to Borrow Again. c ity are in th is coun try illeg ally. seek safety on th e tops of th e ir houses. m atic post at 8 t. P etersburg. Tokio, Hept, 30.—The governm ent T he V ancouver, B. C ., police th in k Gunboat Bit by a Mine. has decided to float an o th er dom estic * th e y have in custody th e leader of th e British Steamer Stopped. American Diplomat Tined. Tokio, Oct. 6 .— It is rnmorerl th a t a loan of $40,000,000, on conditions sim th re e m en who held up th e C anadian Japanese gunlioat h it a m ine and sunk Chefoo Oct. 3.—T he B ritish stra n er New Y ork, (Jet. 4 .— A rth u r Denn ilar to th e last. I t is proliahle th a t Pacific tra in n ear M ission recently. south of the Liao T ung peninsula. A Yik Hang, trad in g in C hina sses, a r P ia tt, A m erican vice consul, has lieen th e conscription law w ill be am ended, T he P h ilip p in e islands w ill not be portion of her crew reached an island rived today and reports she was stopped fined 10 sh illin g s, according to an increasing th e service in th e reserve able to e x h ib it a t th e Lewis an d C lark and were rescued. The navy departm ent by a Japanese torpedo l»oat destroyer American disp atch f.orn D ublin, for live years, and m aking the reg u lar re fair unless aid is given. Too heavy ¡an does not deny th e report, b u t says th a t outside of th e harbor of Chefoo. After furious riding on a m otorcycle w ith in serve service to ta l 17 years and five expense a t S t. Louis is given as the th e d ep artm en t lacks confirm atory in J§ r papers bed been exam ined, th e the city lim its. U is case was heard in m onths. T h is m eans a large increase Yik Rang was allowed to proceed. reason. form ation. a police co u rt. in tb e stre n g th of th e arm y. STAYTON................OflUWON. WEEK’S DOINGS Las Vegas, N. M., Oct. 5 — H alf the town of W atrous was destroyed by the tlood and at least 12 persons were drow ned. Many persons were rescued from trees and housetops. The greatest dam age was around th e junction of M oia and Sapello creeks. The rock cru sh er, the great iron bridge and m uch track a t W atrous were washed away. The G allin as river formed a new channel here. In th e G allin as canon, th e dam s of th e Aqua P u ra com pany broke, bringing a terrific flood on the city . The M ontesum a-H ot Springs track went o u t in m any places. H alf a doien bridges were destroyed and the M ontezuma bath houses were p artly carried aw ay. The Santa Fe lose here is $40,000. The Aqua P u ra com pany’s loss is $15,000. For two blocks on Bridge street every business house was floods«!. T he big Ilfield brick store was ruined a: d the bridge underm inetl. Twenty m er ch an ts estim ates th eir loes a t from $2,- 000 to $4,000 each. G allin as p ark is under w ater and th e trolley line can n o t be repaired for two weeks. T he race m eet to have been held here nex t week has been declared off. One h u n d red th o usand d o llars w ill not cover th e lose to th e tow n and th e railro ad loss is equal to th a t of re cent floods in A rizona. Flood Works Ruin in Colo rado and New Mexico.