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THE STATTON MAIL ■ — ■ --------- C. D. A1XXAMMK. h M U m D R O W N E D A T H IS POST. K e e p e r of L ig h tho us e on G ulf Declines to T a k e Refuge on T u g . TAFT AS GOVERNO» TRO O PS O FF FOR CUBA. M o b iliz a t io n of F orces at N e w p o r t N e w a W h e r e T r a n s p o r t s A re Ready. SCARES MODERATES Mobile, Ala.. Oct. 2.— The number of casualties in the great storm o f last Washington, Oct. 1.- American Wednesday Is slowly Increasing, as troop« are now moving toward Culm messages arrive from places which Mobilization of the forces will he at have heretofore been Inaccessible. The New|Mirt Newa. Va.. for the moat part, total last night o f the known dead was although a part of the expeditionary 75. This number was brought up to 01141126 force to Cuba will he seut from New a certainty of 79, and a possibility of York and Tutupa, Flu, Advlcea re 102. by the reports which reached Mo ceived at the department« of the mili bile during the night and early today. Majority o f All Parties Refused to At tary today Indicate that all la quiet In Rebels and Government Will Trrat A Resume o f the Lets Important but Four bodies not before counted have Cuba and that the liiHurgenta intend Not Less Interesting Events tend the Special Session ot With Each Other — Marines been found at Coden, and It Is esti to lay down their arms. o f the Past Week. Cuban Congress, Needed Anyway, mated that 23 lives have been lost The probability la the United Htatea from the oyster fleet around Cedar forces in the Island will lie lunded only Disarmament of Cubans is progres Point. This last estimate is not known Havana, Bept. 29.— American inter us a precautionary measure. Bo far a« Havana, Bept, 27,— The government sing rapidly. to be accurate, and Is probably some vention in Cuba w ill be an accomplish offldala are advlaed no trouble o f u party last night abandoned its basic Cuban Moderates accuse the Ameri what exaggerated, for the reason that ed fact today. serious kind ia anticipated, hut in ao contention that it ia impossible to treat cans of forcing intervention. it Includes among the dead every man President Roosevelt's ptace commis cortlance with Instructions from Pres lor peace with armed rebels, and pro Heavy rains are adding to the misery aboard a fishing boat who has not been sioners, although clothed with the full- ident Roosevelt hurried preparations posed to negotiate directly with a com are being made for the Mending of an mittee of its opponents. of the hi m less people on the Gulf It agreed to eat authority Irom linn to take such ac heard of since the storm. coast. expeditionary force o f the army to leave all points upon which under tion whenever it b«came obvious that It Is known that some o f the boats Cuba. standing Is not readied to the final ar President Smith, of the Mormon on which these men were have been the securing of peace by harmonising Tin* first American troops will lie bitration of Secretaries Taft and Bacon. church, has been ariested for poly- driven ashore, and it is entirely pos the warring Cubans was impossible, landed at Havana next Huturday. gamy. sible that some of the crews managed patiently withheld their hands from Meantime the murines and bluejackets The government first suggested that it would treat with the Liberals if they thus setting aside Chilian sovereignity The landing of American marines «a s to reach the shore. It does not seem until the last hope disappeared. This from the American fleet In Cuban would lay down their arms, hut the likely at present that the death roll welcomed as a great relief by the Ca wnt«*rs will protect American Interests American commissioners ruled that will amount in this vicinity to more stage was readied at a late tmur last ban people. night, when a majority of all parties and support Secretary Taft, the Pro this stipulation was unfair and the than 125. visional Governor of Cuba. In the Moderate representatives hold thia Baron Rosen, Russian ambassador to Mobile Itself is rapidly emerging refused to attend the s< <nion of congress preservation o f order and the protec v iew. the Uni'ed S'atee, had a narrow ■»«cane called t o a d upon the resignation of from the confusion caused by the tl is lieyond question that both par- from injury in an automobile collision. members of the government and declar tion of life and property. storm. l.arge gangs were kept work In official circles h< re American In ties were brought to a more tractable ed definitely tiiat they would have A hot wave has badly damaged the ing all of Sunday in clearing the tervention was regarded as inevitable frame of mind by the verbal ultima California grape crop. Thousands of streets o f debris, three of the street nothing more to do with the govern How long it may continue It Is Im tum issued by Messrs. Tafl and Bacon ment of Cuba. tons of fine grapes a^e now fit for noth car lines have commenced to run. for As was expected, there lias been possible to foretell. The nature of the yesterday in the name of President ing bat wine or rai ins. the first time since Wednesday, the much rat id denunciation of the course Intervention and the preparations for Roosevelt, that, unless they consent lo Cienfuegos was surrounded by 4.000 confusion at the docks is rapidly be pursued by the American commission It Indicate a sup* rvlslon of Cuhnn af a fair arbitration, the United States armed ret els when the American cr us ing repaired and business will be at ers, who, it has been alleged, iiave act falrH on the part of the American gov must compel the same hy a temporary er Des Moines arrived and lanned a normal action as soon as the railroads ed unfairly towards the government, ernment for an indefinite period. A r military occupation. Such occupation, force which saved the city from pillage. are able to run trains. but the great mass of the residents of rangements have been concluded not it was declare I, would not mean An cr- The keeper of the Horn Island light Cuba, Cubans, Bpaniards, Americans only for the expeditionary force to iran sovereignly. It would coutinu* The body of Carey M. S n y’ er, who house. just outside of Scranton, lost and all other foreigners, welcome inter Cuba o f about 5,600 m< n. but for u only until new elections had hetu field, disappeared from Hillsboro last Decem the government firmly established and ber, was found in the woods with a his life. The captain of a tug which vention as something for which they second force o f equal numbers. No orders for the mobilization of the order restored. bullet hole through the skull, telling came near the house at the commence have longed throughout six weeks of Whatever the outcome of the neiroti- ment of the storm urged him to leave, unrest, disorder arid ill-feeling. second force, of course, have been Is the story of suicide. but he refused to abandon his post, Tne proclamation will be issued to sued, hut if the men are needed all ations between .he Liberals ami Mod The Japanese war department ta< and In a short time was drowned. The day. It w ill tie singtd by Mr. Taft, by erates may lx*, it is felt here that there asked the government for $135,000,000 entire end o f the island on which the virtue of the authority vested in him arrangements have been completed for w ill he need for all the American ma burying them to Cuba at the earliest to be used for the building of a new lighthouse was situated is said to have by Preeiden* Roosevelt. It will m a te iMissilde moment Wheth<r more troops rines within reach, as there is little navy, including the repairing of several been carried away by the waves. Mr. Taft provisional m ilitary governor than are included in the first expedi confidence in the ability of the rebel captured Russian ships. Five out o f eight vessels at Ship of Cuba until he deems the country tion will be sent to Cuba will depend leaders to control their men when or John D. Rockefeller is missing from Island at the time of the storm were sufficiently pacified for civil govern upon the developments In the Island dered to give up their arms aud return to their homes. his Forest H ill home. beached and two will be total wrecks. ment, whereupon he will call Beckham during the next t«n days. It is taclitiy understood by the com Winthrop, governor of Porto Rico, t i Several vessels, the names of which It is certain, however, that a suffi The steamer Mongolia has started for mittees of the two parties that, unless act as civil governor. are unknown, are ashore off Horn Is dent force o f American troops will he Ban Francisco, leaking tadly. an agreement is reached this week, land and the small Islands marking maintained In Cuba to support the armed American intervention w ill en The Cuban situation adds many com the passage between Dauphin Island N A V Y IS S H O R T OF M ARINES provisional government and to Insure sue. The Moderates declare that the plications to Mr. Roosevelt’ s already and the mainland have been destroyed. security to life and property ix-nding appointment of a committee to negoti strenuous job. The beacon lights on this part of the Urgently Needed at Cienfuegos. None the establishment of a stable govern ate with the Liberals does not mean The Russian government is now tak coast are not greatly damaged. ment by the Cubans. A re Available. the conceding of new elections. The The schooner Alice Graham, of Mo ing final action towards the distribution general disposition lo get together ia Washington, Bept. 29.— An appeal bile, Is known to have been lost, with of land to peasants. stronger. W IR E L E S S C O N V E N T IO N . her crew of six men. This boat has for more men to assist in protecting Bernard Bhaw says the new spelling property at Cienfuegos, Cuba, was re reform is not much of a reform, con been pursued by an evil fate, and. be ceived today by Acting Secretary New D e le gates F r o m T h ir t y - o n e Co u ntrie s N O M IN A T E D IN NEW YO R K . sides having various mishaps from sisting mostly it abbrev a ions. M e e t at B e rlin . berry, of the Navy department, from time to time, was wrecked in the great Berlin. Oet. 1 —Delegates represent Hears! for Democrats and Hughes for The rrcent report of the killing of 26 storm o f 1893, when several people Commander Bmith of the cruiser Cleve land, which is now stationed at Cien ing 31 governments will assemble here United States soldiers by Cuban insur were lost from her. Republicans Will Lead Fight. fue.:os, together with the gunboat Ma October 3, by Invitation of the G<rman gents is declared absolutely untrue. Four bodies have been picked up in rietta. New York, Kept. 27. — By nominat government, with the objeet of reach ing Charles K. Hughes, of New York The total number of deaths from the the water near Dauphin Island and In addition to the regular comple recent Gulf storm is n>w placed at 125, have been buried there. Tw o were ment of marines and bluejackets on the Ing n common agreement for the ex city, for governor, the Republican state and many points are yet to be heard evidently sailors and two were boys. warships, 225 o 'h jr marines were sent change of messages by (he use of var convention turned down tfie old leaders from. The people on Dauphin Island suffered to Cienfuegos to assist in looking after ious wireliss telegraph systems, anil to and recognized the new ones, headed gTeat hardships during the storm, and foreign interests there, and at present define the basis on which private wire hy Herbert Parsons, chairman of the The report of Pension Commis'ioner for 24 hours were in great danger. The the N av« department has no available less telegraph companies may operate county committee of New York county. Warner shows a decrease of $12,470. soldiers o f Fort Gaines made a dan men. Practically all the marines who with the consent of the governments. It also Flowed to the judgment of Pres There were 43,300 deaths of pensioners The ertnf* renee Is a result o f the ident Roosevelt as to the strongest can gerous trip o f two miles to the resi can be spared from barracks in the during the year. dences on the island. offering to give United States and from warships are Marconi Company having refused to didate to nominate, and accepted the Indications now are that at the com everybody shelter within the fort, but preparing to go to Havana. By It is not allow Its stations to do business with preference of Governor Higgins. ing session of congress the senate w ill the offer was In all cases refused, the believed hy the Navy department that persons using other than Marconi ap electing Timothy L. Woodruff for state throw many obstructions in the way of people preferring to Temain in their any of the men now at Havana or on paratus. This controversy began soon chairman it finally retired “ Boss” Roosevelt’ s policy towards Cuba. own houses. their way there can be scared to assist nfter the Marconi Company. In 1901. Odell, placated Henator Platt and at set. up stations for public telegraph the same time recognized the ability of at Cienfuegos. General Thomas H ailey Harris, purposes. The refusal of them* sta a man who is a strong political force Vancouver Troops for Cuba. brigadier general in the Union am y Moris to take messages sent In hy irrespective of his affiliation with any daring the rebellion, is dead, aged 93 Work o f the Hurricane. Vancouver Barracks, Wash., Oct. l. the Slaby-Arco (German) apparatus of the old bosses. years. A t Appomatox he is said to — To assist in protecting life and prop Mobile, Ala., Bept. 29.— Between 75 The control of new leaders was furth have silenced the last battery ever erty and in preserving peace in Cuba and 100 lives lost, fully two score ves brought about tin* International wire- <ess telegraph conference, also by the er emphasized hy the absence of Sena placed in action by General Lee. sels driven ashore or wrecked in vari — the “ Pearl o f the Antilles''— is the invitation of Germany, In 1903. Eight. tors Platt and Depew, who have not Btill another plot to assassinate the peaceful, rather than war like, mis ous parts of the Gulf of Mexico, dam gov<*rnments took part, uh follows: missed a state convention in many age amounting to $4,500 000 in the city sion which will start, the Seventeenth czar has been discovered. The United States. Germany, France, years. The old leaders, however, were and Eighteenth mountain batteries of Mobile, and two millions more at Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Russia and pacified hy the renoinination of all the A new outbreak of Jewbaiting has outside points, is the record of the now stationed here across the conti state officers except that I^wis was Austro-Hnngary. occurred at Odessa, Russia. nent to Newport News at an early storm which ewept Mobile Wednesday The delegates of six governments named for controller in place of Otto A sister of Mrs. Howard Gould has hour today and which later will lead and Wednesday night. No accurate es Kelsey. mairied a Chinese coolie in Ban Fran them to the scene of the present West timate of the casualities can he made agreed In the final protocol lo a series o f recommendations looking Onward cisco. Buffalo, Bept. 27. — William R. Indian imbroglio. It will be the first as yet, and it is doubtin', if exact figuree the co-operation of all users of wire Hearst, backed hy “ Boss” Murphy, of Taft w ill not use troops in Cuba if he time that these troops, equipped bet w ill be known for a week or more. Pensacola suffered ss much as Mo less. The delegates o f Great Britain Tammany Hall, has lieen nominated can possibly get along with marines ter than the foot or mounted soldiery bile. The loss of life is known to be and Italy, because their governments for governor bv the Democratic state and bluejackets. of any other post in America to wage had contracts with the Marconi, did convention. The platform extends fe A ll preparations are complete for the warfare among the mountain passes heavy and damage to property will not sign the recommendations. Little licitations to William Jennings Brvan reach $5,000,000. The smaller towns inquiry into the doings of the lumber and inaccessible highlands o f Cuba, has come o f these recommendations. without saying anything about the and country throughout the district felt trust at Ban Francisco. have been away from the Columbia the hurricane equally as much as the The Marconi Company has continued presidency. With Hearst two of the The H ill lines are eaid to have sold River garrison since their return from two cities. to set up stations and to refuse the other candidates of the Independence vast deposits of iron ore to the United the Philippines nearly two years ago, messages o f rival systems. league nominated for state offices ear States Steel corporation. save for their short trip to San Fran The most Important act In the con lier In this month— those of lieutenant Insured by Penny Paper. The Navy department has issued or cisco to do patrol duty following the New York, Bept. 29.— A special cable troversy In the conference was that o f governor and secretary of state— were ders to prepare the receiving ship Han earthquake. dispatch to the Times from London the United States In 1904 directing nomiated hy the Uemoorats. cock for use as a transport. states that the heirs of one of the vic the Marconi Company to remove Its Coal R u n n in g Short. Governor Toole, of Montana, has an tims of the Grarithan disaster have re apparatus from the lightship Nan Wreck Police C h ief’s House. Winnipeg, Man., Oct. 2 — As the re ceived $1,000 insurance, which was tucket. nounced himself a candidate for the Helsingfors, Finland, Bept. 27.— A United States senate to succeed W. A . sult o f the strike of 5.000 miners em effected at a cost of 1 penny. The in Germany will propose to the confer ployed at the Crow’s Nest Pass Coal sured was a regular subscriber to a ence that an International bureau shall second bomb was thrown during the Clark. night against the residence of Captain A Japanese steamer is accused of re Company and the Fernle-MIchel and London penny weekly which insures be established for the control of wire Albrecht, commander of the police, fob Coal Creek companies at Fernie. a its readers against acccidents and less telegraphing; that each wireless lowing the unsuccessful attempt made fusing aid to the American steamer Mongolia, which went ashore at M id coal famine threatens the cities of the death. Ilia hag, containing a current station must be ronnected with the early yesterday morning to blow up the Canadian Northwest The mine« at copy of the paper, duly stamped, was ordinary telegraphs by special lines; way island. police reserve barracks. The captain’s I^ethbridge have been closed down for at the hotel at Retford. Within a few house was wrecked, hut there was no Russian terrorists have offered a re several months and when the man T ro o p s F r o m F o r t Sh erid an . hours of his death the claim was exam loss of life. It is thought that the ward for the assassination of the czar. agers o f the Fernie mine refused to Chicago, Oet. 1.— Brigadier-General perpetrators of the outrage were actuat ined, allowed and settled. The expenses of the Ban Francisco re discharge non-union miners. President W. If. Cater, commander o f the Depart ed by a spirit of revenge for the recent lief committee for September were Sherman, of the district organization ment o f Ihe Lakes, received orders arrests of the Finniah refugees in Uncle Sam Owns Palma Island. $121,57.6 The > u lget for October is of miners, called all his men out. Even Washington, Bept. 29.— It is said at from Washington today, directing two Btockholm, In which the Finnish police redu :ed to $49,507. the coke ovens are now shut down. the Blate department that no doubt battalions o f Ihe Twenty-seventh In co-operated. exists as to the American ownership fantry and the Fourteenth United Teddy Roosevelt, Jr., and three A n o t h e r S to rm Is Co m in g. and control of Palma’s island, one of States Field Battery, at Fort Sheridan, chums at Harvard have been arrested Honors for Japanese Heroes. Washington, Oct. 2.—The Weather the small islands on the southeastern to proceed Immediately to Newport for beating up a policeman in the col London, Hept. 27. — Telegraphing Bureau tonight announced that an edge of the Philippines. About 18 News, where they will embark for from Tokio, the correspondent of the lege town. They have been released. other "tropical disturbance” is report months ago the War department re Cuba. Colonel W. L. Pitcher, In com Roosevelt does not expect a crisis in ed as approaching the Yucatan Chan quested the department of State to de mand o f Fort Sheridan, ordered two Daily Telegram says that, in connection with war honors, Marqms Ito and the Cuban affair. nel from the east, but that there was termine whether or not Palma’ s island special trains o f 12 cars each for Field Marshals Yamsgata and Oyama no information available as to the in was included in the Philippine group Tuesday morning, and It Is expected have been created princes and Vice Ad- The United States navy is extremely owned by the United States. tensity of the storm. the troops will leave for Newport News mira. Togo a marquis. short of marines. S T A Y T O N ............... OREGON NEWS OF THE WEEK In a Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. Cuban Congress (ilves Up and He Assumes Control. _____ WAS WELCOMED They Fear Uncle Sam May Give Jobs to Liberals. FORCES CUBANS TO NEGOTIATE