Oregon City Courier.
CNSABT, PablUhnr.
ORKGOJf CITY OREGON
MS OF Till!
ell-rllus) ef Current Keent
la lMd-ad farm frwM
Both CmhIImvhU.
T lauihrring town of Aoitlo, Pa.,
waa waarly wiped off the map by Are,
mf Ave dwellings remain. Fully
tOO persona are homeluM,
Tha- Hotel Lafyeti, at Mlnnetonka,
Mina.,the largest summer rmort in tlx
Wart, u totally ilamrotkl by Art.
It m owned by the Great Northern
railway.
For the month of Heptwnber, tha at
tendance) at the Naahvilhj exposition
waa 111,714, and Ida total atu-ndanoe
ioea tha openiug up October 1 amount
J tol.19fl.6H5.
Tha emperor of China hu forbidden
II aorta of banquets and junkMing
caoae an ec-lipae will occur on January
rt, 18BH. An eclip) of the iuii if laid
lit tha Chinese to ba proof of tha
wrath of heaven at the lack of virtue
la a ruler.
A 13,000,000 power plant ia to ba
aUbliahed near Butte, Mont While
tha plant will furnab electricity for
liatu and power for general puriioaca,
it ia being built chiefly to supply power
to several large copper mines, which
are located near Butte.
Five hundred thousand arret of One
land along the Dig Plney, Lubarge,
Footanelle creek and (irnen river,
which bare recently been surveyed,
trill be thrown oK)ii to settlement
uader tha United States land lawi after
November I, when plata of the land
' will be filed in the local land office.
The Und comprise eight tnwiiahi,'all
In Uintah county, Wyoming.
A vessel carrying supplies of raedi
cine, clothing, arma ami ammunition
for the Cuban army haa loft 'Montreal
for Cuba. The scheme win not author
iatnl by the Cuban junta in New York,
bat raa undertaken on behalf of two
gent'enien, one a Canadian, who de
cided on running an expedition to the
ooaat of Cuba, ami, if successful, iden
tifying themselves with the cause.
Keal Dow, the great lompuranoe !
locate, died at till noma In Portland,
Me. It waa through hie'efforta that in
1884 an amendment to the constitution
of Maine wan adopted by a popular vote
f nearly throe to one, in which it waa
declared that the manufacture, dale and
keeping for aale of intoxicating bever
agea waa forever forbidden, and com
manding the legislature to enaot suit
blo lawa for the enforcement of the
prohibition.
The topic of the dny in Parii has been
the refusal of M. Loxo, French auibaaa
4ar at Vienna,' to accept the appoint
ment tendered him ai governor Algeria,
on tha ground that he does not desire
to leave bii aged pareuta. He declares
that he will remain in V ion tin, but tha
Marquii d'Reversau haa already boon
appointed to replace him, and the cab
inet haa decided that thia appointment
moat etand. M. Loao, therefore, will
have to make an ignominious retreat.
The Orange-Judd Farmer, in ita
final estimate of the year's crop, says
that figure, bailed on actual threshing
retnrna, indicate a total yield of 589,
000,000 bushels of wheat, of which
87S.OO0.0U0 bushels in winter, and
115,470,000 bushels in spring wheat.
The report says the corn crop ia exceed
ingly disappointing, and an outside es
timate is 1,750,000,000 bushels.
Drought during the puHt two months
red need the average condition from
tti.S month ago to 78.0 on October 1.
An average oats yield of 38.7 huahels
per acre suggests a orop of 814,000,000
bushela, 100,000,000 more than lust
year.
Three persons were killod on the Bal
titnore uiuo railroad trucks neur
(Wheeler, Pa., by a passenger train
craahing into a wagon.
The Daily Mail laughs at tho report
of the Canadian expedition in Hudson's
bay ho'iRting the Birtish Aug over
Baffin's Land, to got Ahead of the
Americans, and declares that the terri
tory has long been a British possession.
Tho drat of tho seuling fleet to re
turn to Victoria was tho Cusao,
She brought 1,004 skins, taken off tho
Japanese coast and Copper inlands. Shu
reports that the Culotta, with 1,400
skins, and the Director, with 1,000
skins, are oIoho behind her.
Five men met a horrible, death from
black dump, the after-acuuuuilation of
a Are in the Jenny n miue near Rend
ham, Pa. The bodies were (Uncovered
by a gang of men who went down into
tho mine with supplies for combating
the fire. Noohdy knew of their deaths
until the discovery of the lifeless bodies.
During the past month nearly $5,
000,000 worth of grain has loft the Pa
cillo ports tor Europo. Besides thia, 88
lumber vosses have sailed for forlegn
poita with cargoes valued at over 1300,
000. As the month of August nearly
equaled September, the export of grain
and flour alone for the two mouths
would eaaily run into the ton-million
figures.
Commissioner Evans estimates that
the payments for pensions for the fiscal
year will foot up 1147,600,000. The
appropriation was 1141,203,880. The
high-water mark for pensions was in
181)3 when the payments amounted to
$159,857,657, since which time they
have been kept down to the figures of
-this year's appropriation. The pay
ment for pensions this year will be
within 130,000,000 of as muuh as th
entire receipts of the government from
customs last year, and more than equal
to the entire internal revenue tax.
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DECISIVE BATTLE IMMINENT. ,
Turning I'elnt la Ins Guatemala
at Hand.
War
New York, Oct. . A dispatch to
tha Herald from Guatemala says
The government is still mobilising
ita force at Toloninapan, and isprepar
ing to make an attack on the rebels,
ho have taken a poHitinu on the
heights of Coxon, near Toloriicapan.
It i believed that there will be a big
battle there which will mark the turn
ing point of tho war.
The rebels, safely place.) in the hills,
0ned Are on the city at an early hour
on the morning of Heptember 39. The
fire proved Ineffective, owing to the
great distance. The government forces
did not return the Are.
Dictator Barrios has issued a decree
granting amnesty to rebels who will
lay down their arms insido of ten days.
A dispatch to the Herald from Rio
da Janeiro says: The French minister
lis demanded an immediate settlement
of the Amapa question and an explana
tion of Brazil's delay in the matter. It
is asserted that the French minister
has received practically an ultimatum
from his government for presentation
to Brazil, but has not thus fur present
ed it because of his belief that the
question would be speedily settled.
France is now, however, to occupy the
disputed territory.
The French cruiser Dehnrdie has ar
rived here to look out for French in
terest. A dispatch from Lima says the com
roittee of deputies which was recently
appointed to agree upon a plan to set
tie the affairs of the Peruvian Corpora
tion have not been able to reach an
agreement. Several members of the
committee advocate a plan to authorize
the government by special act of con
gress to negotiate with the corpora'
lion's creditors on a buais decided upon
by congress. Other members want the
committee to have full authority to
make any terms with the creditors and
the corporation, and have authority to
alter the terms of the cancellation of
the foreign debt, which debt the cor
poration assumed.
A dispatch from Valparaiso says it I
stuted there that a powerful syndicate
of Herman bankers haa offered to the
Chilean government a loan of $1,000,
000,000 in gold at 3 per cent and 3 per
cent amortization for the completion of
publio works and railways.
. Paaaenger Train Wrecked
Columbus, O., Oct 6. A special
from Piqua to the Dispatch says:
Panhandle passenger train wus wrookec
two and a half miles east of this city
this morning. The train was coming
down grade at the rate of 40 miles an
hour, and in crossing the frog of
switch at Jordan loft the track. For
67O foet the engine bumped over the
ties and then went into the ditch. The
tender went in the opposite direction
while the baggage car was thrown
acrosstba track. Two dayooaohea were
crushed together. Eli Carroll, the en
gineer, was hurled 60 feet and fell on
a portion of his cab. Fireman John
Baird was pitched 76 feet over into a
Aeld. The engineer sustained a ter
rihle scalp wound, remaining uncon
scions lor some time. The fireman
was hurt internally. C 8. MoCowan,
the baggage-master, was bruised by be
ing pinned in by the trucks.
A Train load of Gold.
Colorado 8prings, Cola, Oot. 6. A
novel scheme for handling the gold
output of the Cripple Creek mines will
be put into use by the operators of that
district. The plan is to set aside the
output for one month, take the bullion
therefrom and ship it to the United
States mint in Philadelphia in a sin
gle consignment. A speoiul train will
be secured for the purpose of transport
ing it, the bullion will be placed in
charge of some express company which
can guarantee its safety, and all neces
siuy precautions will be tuken to pre
vent accident while the consignment
is in transit.
As the present output of Cripple
Crock is about $1,000,000 per month,
this will be one of the largest ship
nionts of gold bullion that ever crossed
the continent.
Fight With CnttU Thl..
Baker City, Or., Oct. 8. Sheriff
Kilburn and posse had a hot fight last
night at 0 o'clock with two cattle
thieves on Lower Powder river. Forty
shots were exchanged. Fred Hull was
shot through the arm, but escaed to
this city, r-arl Wheeler was not cup'
tured. Hull called a doctor to his
lodging-house and was caught there to
day.
The thieves had 80 cattle, which they
were drnvng to Idaho across Snake riv
er, expecting to exchange them and
bring buck strange cattle to the butch
er. The gang is auspected of having
0eruted for a long time.
Fatal Iriilrta Fir.
Miller, S. D., Oct. 6. Persons from
20 miles north state that as a result of
the big prairie fire, one man has died
and others may die. Seven or eight
were badly burned, ono family named
Preston all being in a dangerous condi
tion. Hundreds of tons of hay and
gram were destroyed. The tiro was
caused by men making a fire break.
Four Klulmrnmn Drowned.
New York, Oct. 6. Four pound
fishermen of North Long Brunch, N.J.,
were drowned today while about their
work, about 100 yards off shore.
Man for Wjrlr.
Havana, Oct. 6. The steamer Retna
Crista, which arrived today, brought to
Captain-General Weylcr, $3,000,000, it
is asserted, to be applied in military ex
penses. Tomorrow, 100 Spanish sold
iers sick or otherwise incapacitated,
will return to Spain.
St. Paul, Oct. . Samuel P. J. Mo.
Millan, United State senator from
1876 to 1883. died at his home in thia
city last night of anemia. He bad been
ill for nearly a year.
FREEDOM OR NOTHING
Cubans Willing to Purchase
Their Independence.
WILL NOT ACCEPT AUTONOMY
Asearrni-n Could Not Bluff the QMfeo
l'rmlr HnfnaU Hart what It
Will and Will Not Do.
New York, Oct. 5. The Herald
prints a number of interviews with
leading Cubans here on tho situation in
the island. '
Estrada Palma, representative of
the Cuban provisional government,
aid:
"The Cubans are more firmly deter
mined than ever to pnsli the fight until
absolute independence of Cuba is ac
knowledged. , I believe the Cubans are
willing to pay a reasonable indemnity
to Spuin, provided she withdraw her
troops from Cuba before the island is
totally ruined."
Enrique Devarona said: "The only
practical solution of the Cuban problem
is absolute independence."
Colonel F. Lopez de (jueralta. for
merly of the United States army, and
a veteran of the 10 years' war in Cuba,
said:
"To avoid further shedding of blood
of innocent people I would, although
painfully, sign and give my consent to
a compensation to Spain for the sake
of getting rid of the Spanish." '
E. Trujillo, editor of El Porvena,
said: "Cubuns are fighting for abeo
Inte independence, and will accept no
other solution."
Keuardina the proposition for the
purchase of Cuba from Spain, General
hrnilio Nunez, who has been in consul
tation witli the junta leaders in New
York, said:
"I cannot see how the plans for the
freedom of Cuba rn the basis of a guar
antee by the United States of an in
demnity of $300,000,000 in cash can be
displeasing to any of the parties, except
that the amount is greatly in excess of
the true value of the relics left by Wey
ler. The United States could afford to
back up the proposition, because it
would have the revonue of Cuba to
guarantee reimbursement, and would
gain immediate improvements in its
trade relations."
SAGASTA'S POLICY.
Immedlnt Keca.ll mt Weyler and
Granting of Fromlied Reform.
thi
Now York, Oct. 3. A dispatch to
the World from Madrid says:
The World correspondent called to
day on Premier Sagasta, who said, in
response to inquiries: "You ask me if
the liberal party would assent to medi
ation by the United States, with a view
to hastening the pacification of Cuba
and inducing the rebels in arms and
the exiles to aocept autonomy. Why
should we need mediution, when our
intentions long and often expressed
by the liberal praty aim at realizing
all that Amerioa conld suggest?
"No Spanish party, certainly not the
liberals, could assent to foreign inter
ference in our domestic affairs, or with
our colonies, rto government coma
hope to induce the nation to accept
such interference. If America, as we
firmly believe and hope, is disposed to
be friendly with us, let her observe the
rules of international law, and stop the
flow of mortal and material aid, with
out which the insurgents could not lust
five months.
"We shall reverse tha policy in
Cuba, beginning, naturally, with the
recall of Weyler. I informed the
queen yesterday that the liberal party
would accept the responsibility of office
most willingly if her majesty honored
the party witli her confidence; that the
liberal party had plans (or all pending
questions of the day in Spain, and cer
tainly would grant to Cuba autonomy
along the lines traced in the program
of the Cuban autonomists themselves.
I suid so in my manifesto in June, and
I have repeated the same promise dur
ing thegovernment holidays. The lib
eral party is prepared to grant to Cuba
all possible government, a broad tariff
and every concession compatible with
the inflexible defense of Spain's rule
and sovereignty in the West Indies.
We believe this will satisfy tho mujor-
ity of Cubans and we will act thus
spontaneously."
Tortured by Thibetan.
Bombay, Oct. 5. Henry Savage
Lnndor, a well-known artist, traveler
and writer, and the grandson of the
celebrated Walter Savage Landor, has
just returned from India, after a ter
rible experience. lie hud undertaken
an exploring tour in Thibet, but he wus
abandoned by all the members of his
company, except two coolies. Finally,
the Thibetans arrested him by an act of
treachery, sentenced him to death, and,
after torturing him with hot irons, ac .
luauy cameo nun to me execution
grounds. At almost the last minute,
the execution was stopped by the grand
lama, who commuted the sentence to
torture by the "stro.ohing-log," a spe
cies of rack which greatly injured
Mr. Landor's spine and iimbs. After
being chained for eight days, he was
released. Mr. Landor has no fewer
than 22 wounds as the result of his tor
ture. Hamilton, Ala., Oct o. While re
turning from a party near here lute last
night six people were thrown from a
boat into the Battahachie river and
four of the occupants drowned. Those
drowned were Misses Lizzie Smith,
Belle Key, Mary T. Wearingen and
Ella Phillips. Their escorts, Robert j h
and John Wright, brothers, who caused ' and thinking Martin was one of
the boat to capsize by rocking it, saved ( them j,e fi at him with a double
their own lives. The feeling is so bit- : h.rrolnt ihot?nn. Bnrch in a nrom in
ter against the two men that they bav
left town
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SUNK OFF THE RIVER.
Schooner Orion Cut, Down hy the Hlilp
1'eru. .
Astoria, Oct 0. Shortly after 4
o'clock this afternoon, just as she was
completing one of the fastest trans
pacific sailing trips on record, the big
four-musted Oerman ship Pern crushed
into the little coasting schooner Orion,
cutting her in two, and sending her to
the bottom immeldutely.
When the little vessel was struck by
the big steel ship, the captain wus
thrown across the deck, badly bruised,
and every one of his four men were
knocked about and more or less seri
ously injured. They succeeded in grasp
ing ropes of the German bark, and
climbed aboard, and thus made their
escape. Captain Nelson was loath to
say who he thought was tq blame for
the collision. He avers that his
schooner was on her course for Shoal
water bay. The weather was perfectly
clear and the sea smooth The acci
dent occurred north of the lightship,
some 13 or 15 miles off the mouth of
the river.
The tug Relief was towing the Ger
man bark, and the captain declined to
make a statement. The captain of the
schooner laid his case before the Brit
ish vice-consul here tonight, and the
matter will be thoroughly inevstigated.
The shipwrecked crew are now at a
hotel in Astoria, without a cent of
money or clothes other than what wus
on their backs at the time of the colli
sion.
The Orion was en route from San
Francisco for Willappa harbor in bal
last,' and at the time of the accident
was on the starboard tack, steering by
the wind. While the reticence of the
men in charge of the vessel makes it
difficult to get at the exact cause of the
disaster, it is apparent from what little
information they volunteer that there
was a miscalculation us to the speed of
the vessels, which prevented their hav
ing sea room until it was too late to
avoid a collision.
The Peru being a heavy steel ship
could not be much damaged by the en
counter with the smaller wooden ves
sel, but she came out of the collision
with her jibboon and bowsprit cap
mi8ing. The Peru wus on her wuy to
Portland. The Orion was a small
three-masted schooner, of 1 17 tons reg
ister. The Peru is a steel ship of 3,093
tons net register, 276 feet long, 89.5
feet beam, 23.9 feet hold.
New Yukon Knllroad.
New York, Oct. 4. A dispatch from
Montreal says: Application will be
made to the Dominion parliament next
session for a bill to incorporate a com
pany for the purpose of constructing
and operating a railway from a point
near the head of Chilkoot inlet, on the
Lynn canal, to the rapids on the Yukon
river, following us closely as practic
able Dulton's trail, with power to con
struct arid operate branch lines, bridges,
wharves, telegraph and telephone lines,
steamboats and other craft on the lakes
and tributaries of the Yukon river.
The promoters are a syndicate of
wealthy men.
Latest reports received at Ottawa of
the progress of the Crow's Nest pass
railway construction are to the effect
that work on the first 100 miles is very
far advanced, and that there is 110
question but the company will be able
to realize its purpose of completing this
Bection before the close of the present
season.
Six l'ronle Killed.
Willow Springs, Mo., Oot. 6. A
prairie schooner containing seven per
sons was run down in Dead Man's out
today by a train on the Kansas City,
Fort Scott & Memphis road. Six per
sons were instantly killed and sev
enth fatally injured. Those killed
were: Philip L. Wooten, Philip Woot-
en, jr., Amanda vt ooten, iJora wooten,
Mrs. Frances Malbrey and infant child
4 months old. Philip Wooten's wife is
so badly hurt that she cannot live.
The train was stopped and the remains
of the dead and injured were brought
here. Conducter Hallaway says the
proper signals for crossings were given,
but were not heard. The persons killed
live in Texas comity, Mo., and were on
their way to Arkansas to pick cotton.
Segaata's Ultimatum.
London, Oct. 6. A special dispatch
from Madrid, published hero this after
noon, gives the substance of an inter
view between a newspaper correspond
ent and un un-named member of the
new Spanish cabinet. The latter is
quoted us saying thut Senor Sagasta
will carry out the Cuban reforms pro
posed by Martinez de Campos 10 years
ago, but would not consent to a cus-
J tivins union between the United States
and Cuba, and if the former was not
satisfied, Spain was prepared to fight,
as the Spanish navy is regarded equal
in strength to the navy of the United
States.
Senla Are Plentiful.
Victoria, B. C, Oct. 6. Captain
rjoXi 0f the sealing schooner Triumph,
whjch has returned from Behrine sea
with 1,159 skins, says skins are plenti
ful in the sea; there is as many there
this seuson as there ever were. But for
some cuuse or other they are very rest
less. In the Tri am pli's catch were
four or five skins from which the hair
had been burned off the back. They
were not branded, but there is an iron
mark from which the fur was burned,
seemingly by electricity.
Deed of a Fool.
Denver, Oct. 6. About 10 o'clock
last night Thomas H. Burch shot and
instantly killed Thomas Martin. The
shooting occurred on a ranch owned by
Burch, about four miles north of here.
Rnrnh waa watchinir for thierea who
- j been stealing aonles faorn his or-
man and ia well to do. lie cave
himlfno
Evidence of Steady Growth
and Enterprise.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
From All tha Cities and Towns
the Thriving lister Statu
, Oregon
The city counoil of Spokane has fixed
the tax levy for that mty at 13 mills.
The shingle mill at Machias was de
stroyed by fire; also 1,500,000 shingles,
A 850-pound bear was killed a few
miles above Dudley, in Walla Walla
county.
A band of 4,000 sheep was recently
purchased at North Yakima for ship
ment to Chicago.
Wm. Orr, of Walla Walla, was almost
instantly killed by the breaking of an
electric light pole.
There is a regular stampede of gold
seekers to the new discoveries in the
vicinity of Mt. Baker.
The Bunk of Garfield, having
into voluntary liquidation, will
its doors January 1, 1898.
A boy named William Hutton
gone
close
, who
accidentally shot his arm off recently
fled in Bucodu of heart failure.
A new publio library has been opened
at Walla Walla. The directors pur
chased $400 worth of new hooks.
Since January 1, 274 articles of incor
poration, representing a total cupitul
stock of $356, 091,600, have been nle
in Seattle.
Farmers' institutes have recently
been held ut different points in Western
Washington, conducted hy officials o
the state agricultural college.
It is reported thut the whole board
of county commissioners of Cowlitz
county will resign their positions in
January, All have the Klondike fever,
and will start for thut section in Feb
ruary.
The Tululups are cumped along the
Snohomish river in large numbers
pursuing the silver salmon. One morn
ing recently they Bold 1,400 at t! cents
each, to the locul tish-deulers in Sno
homish.
I he United States fish commission
has placed 8,000 mountain trout fry in
Clear lake, near Goshen. Home 50,000
will be placed in the waters of Western
Washington.
Thurston county, by a lute school
oensus, has un enumerution of 2,1
ohildren of school uge, a decrease of
127 from the total of lust year. The
decrease is in the country districts, and
Olympia shows au mureuse of 83.
A orazy man whose name conld not
be learned created considerable excite
ment in Tekoa by divesting himself of
all his clothing and taking a run dojvn
Main street. After the man had been
captured by citizens and persuuded to
don his clothing, he was allowed to
leave town.
There is a great sourcity of threshing
machines in the vicinity of Tekou, and
farmers are offering bonuses besides
the regular price in order to get thresh
ers. One farmer offered a cush bonus
of $50 besides the regular rates, to get
a thresher to thresh his grain, and
conld not get it.
Under a recent opinion bv the attor
ney-general the apportionment on all
uncollected school taxes must be applied
under the new law, passed by the last
legislature. Under this ruling,' the
larger cities will receive from 35 to 40
per cent more out of the school fund
thnn they have been getting.
Oregon.
A 48-pound salmon was
lunded by a
Marshfield t roller.
A Yamhill county man
pounds of hops in one day.
picked 339
Over 900 acres of flax were cultivat
ed in Lynn county this year.
Seuferts' cannery, at The Dalles, is
putting up 1,000 cases of salmon a day.
Soutwheat Oregon Reporter is the
name of a new paper at Langlois, Curry
county.
An Oregon grizzly bear weighing
800 pounds was killed on Gate creek,
in Lane county.
A yonng man named James Neiil, a
sheepherder, accidentally shot and
killed himself near Long Creek.
A peach weighing one and a half
pounds, and measuring 13 inches in
circumference, is a Douglass county
production.
Notices have been posted on the can
nery at Marshfield notifying fishermen
that the prices of salmon had been re
duced to 25 and 10 cents.
The completed assessment roll of
Clatsop county for 1897 show a total
valuation of $3,098,740, as against $4,
012,505 last year.
The Oregon Telegraph & Telephone
Company is surveying a route for a tele
phone line from Monroe to some point
on the main line between Harrisburg
and Junction.
A contract has been awarded to build
a levee across Lost river slough, in
Klamath county, for $3,490. The en
croachments of the waters of Tnle lake
have made the construction of this
levee necessary.
A Lane county fruit grower has can
ned seven carloads of pie frnit at his
farm, placing it in from one to five-gallon
cans, principally the former.
The body of the tramp who was killed
by a train at Huron, was buried by the
coroner. It waa not identified. All
that was found on the body was a plat
ed spoon and fonr or five pounds of po
tatoes in sack. The coroner describes
tbe young man as being about 20 year
old, five feet seven inches in height,
having dark brown hair, blue eyes and
as sever having been shaved.
A BROKEN JOURNAL,
Cauaed a Rarloui Aeeldant on the Den
ver U Klo Grand.
Pueblo, Colo., Oct. B. One person
killed outright, one so badly injured
that he died soon after the accident,
another severely injured, and many
slighlty hurt, is the result of a wreck
on the Denver & Kio Grande, at Colo
paxi, seven miles west of Pueblo, at 2
o'clock this morning, caused by tho
breaking of a journal on one of the
coaches. The train, the first section
narrow-gauge, from over Marshall pass,
was slowing down to take the siding ut
Colopaxi. While running at 10 miles
an hour, a journal on the rear trucks
of the first day coach broke. The car
pitohed over on its side and dragged
with it all tho ours behind, another
coach, two sleepers and the company's
paycar. Three tourist cars, the baggage-cur
and the engine, all ahead of
the first coach, remained on the track.
The cars were all crowded with ex
cursionists bound to the Festival of
Mountain and Plain at Denver. There
was little exoitement and not innclr
wreckage, as the train was running
very slowly.
Mrs. Mclntyre was in a lower berth
in the forward sleeper, and wus found
after the wreck lying dead on the
ground near her berth window. She
was badly crushed.
Mr. Seyler was standing on the plat
form between the two coaches when
the wreck occurred. He was badly
crushed. He wus conscious and dictat
ed several telegrams to relatives.
Of the injured, Mrs. Robinson alone
is seriously hurt, and her death is
feared. Sho is at the railroud hospital
at Salida.
The list of those hurt ia complete
from her case to those who received
only a scratch.
Immediately after the accident a re
lief train was sent out from Salida,
and all were promptly given attention.
Railroad officiuls huve been overwhelm
ed with inquiries all day, and have
freely given all the information at their
disposal. Wrecking crews were sent
from Pueblo, and the track wus clear
at 5 a. m.
New Kallroad Line.
Biggs, Or., Oot. 6. The Columbia
Southern Railway Company ran its first
train over the road tonight, connecting
with train No. 4 on the O. R. & N.
At precisely 8 p. m., Engineer Spear
pulled the throttle, and engine No. 1
moved out of Biggs up a heavy grude.
The run was made to Wasco in one
hour.
D. C. O'Reilly, the general manager,
stuted that at least three months' busi
ness awaited shipment. Two hundred
thousand sacks of wheat are stored at
the Wasco terminus, and the farmers
of Sherman oounty will haul the bulk
of their grain to Wasco and ship it by
the Columbia Southern.
It is proposed to extend this road to
Prineville, and eventually build on
through to Sonthern Oregon. This will
reclaim from the wilderness a vast area
of country, and releuate to the past
the stage coach which has heretofore
been the only means of transportation.
E. E. Lytle is president, D. C. O'Reilly
is general manager, and Miss May En
right is secretary of the Columbia
Southern. They have their own pas
senger-car and engine equipment, but.
interchange with the O. R. & X., using
the cars of that company for freight
transportation.
atryehnlne In the Coffee.
Schuyler, Neb., Oot. 5. A physi-
oian summoned hastily to the home of
Frank Davis, nine miles northwest of
here this morning, found four of tbe
seven Davis children and the mother
dead, a fifth child in a dying oondiiion
and a sixth victim ill. Strychnine had
been put in the coffee, apparently by
the mother, but for what cause is not
known.
Mr. Davis and his eldest son left
home before breakfast. When the
meal was prepared, the rest sat down,
and early in its course, the mother
made such a remark as: "Eat a eood
breakfast, and we'll all go together."
One of the sons, frightened at the re
mark, did not partake of the meal.
Burned to Heath.
Springfield, Mass., Oct. 5. A special
to the Union from East Longmeatlow
says that Mrs. George Brownlee and
her two sons, Thomas, aged 21, and
James, aged 19, were burned to death
n their home early this morning, and
the house destroyed. The family had
11 escaped. Mrs. Brownlee, losing
her head, rushed back into the house,
thinking her sons had not come out.
Thomas rushed after her to save her,
and James after Thomas. The mother
and elder son were overcome, whila
James got ont, but was burned so se
verely, that he died this afternoon.
Mr. Brownlee himself was badly
burned on the hands and face.
The rintol Discharged.
Visalia, Cal., Oct 5. Those who
find diversion in playfully pointing it
pistol at a friend from alleged sense of
humor had another object lesson here
this afternoon in the killing of Austin
Orr, 12 years old, by bis half-brotlier,
Clarence Crow, aged 20. Crow had
loaded his pistol only a few minutes
earlier, and had laughinf fy pointed the
weapon at his brother. The pistol waa
unintentionally discharged, the bullet
entering near the left eye, killing the
boy instantly.
A Well Known frontiersman.
Denver, Oct. 5. A special to the
News from Cheyence says: Chief
Packer F. P. Delaner, one of the best
known and most respected frontiersmen
in the West, died at the Fort Ruseell
hospital today. Mr. Delaney had been
nnable to leave his bed for some
months past.
The increase in the production of
gold baa been very rapid during the)
past twelve years and is proceeding nor
I at a greater rate than ever.