II ! ill B ft PBBW'FMKBHW'flW LSHfPfi. -V ', , WT'.1R'y VW1rPrGr ."i<ScTv f5P3BffBK jj2S.; 'C?.. ''W'.L li'&iHaEiroSKJU.iK 'tit.ftiHK&JM V .v w W"i"" ijgrrsi.aiityiag;m! ''" '"-t - " n musirtir i ' (y1- y SXpi The Kew Age. -V HV W atj3fis,c - f jk . ' ' m a 'it I S . J, , !M 9, ;i. ij 1 VOL. V. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, MARCH. 1G, . 1901. NO. 50. ,.r,yr ;y:yuuirtiawMfflWfflrt8M v H ' k 4 t tf l MH fti t1 .TH 'VlV-'J VJ v l 'l ' ,. ' ' VI ' "A ... u K -rf1 .1 kil -j - t f,w ' ' ,ht wf' ? ' I 1 , ' a-1 y,' ' ' f Vil , & i-t FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF5g?JD- DellEnKted Depotttary and financial Aent of the United Statoi. rrMldnt.U. W. Corbftt: cuhler, K.Q. Wlthlngton; Militant cnhler, J. W. Newkltk wcond rra ' mutant caihler, W. C. AUord. Titr nf endlt laiued. Tllble In Europe and the Eastern ttat. Bight exchann and UtmHftiffiitim'rotk, Bo.ton, Chicago. Omaha, St. Paul. San mnelieo and tneDrlMlKlntiliitheNorthwit Bight and tlm bllli drawn In iumi to lull on London, Parft, Berlin, yranklortn-the-Maln, Hong Kong. Colleotlont made on larorable termi at all accessible points. LADD TILTON, BANKERS SUZX?.!. Established In 1859. TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS. Interest allowed on tltno depoilte. Collections made at all points on favorable terms. Letters of credit Issued Yallable in Europe and the Eastern etnts. . Sleht exchange and Tolejrraphlo Transf-ra sold on New York, NVasliinRton, Chicago, 8t. Iju1s, Denve', Omaha, San Francisco and various poiiits in Ore gon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and British Columbia. Exchange sold on London, ParU, Berlin, FrBtikfort and Hong Kong. THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK OF POItTLANO, OltKUON. Transacts a General Bank Business. Drafts Issued ATallable In all cttlci of the) United States aud Europe. President .TYLER WOODWAltD Vlce-Presldeut ufrKtt Cashier - " c MLU5 THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE With WhlAh Is Amalgamated THE BANK OP BRITISH COLUMBIA Capital Paid Up, $8,000,000 Reserve, $a, 000, 000 Transacts a General Banking Business. SAViNGS BANK DEPARTMENT Accounts opentd for sums o( 111) and upwards, and Interest allowed on minimum monthly balance. Hates 011 uppllcntlon. 344 WASHINGTON STREET. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK. Pendleton, Oregon. Capital, $70,000.00. Surplus and Undivided Troflts, $00,000.00. RESERVE AGENTS Flnt National Bank. Chicago. 111.; First National Bank, Portland, Oregon; Chemical National Bank, Now York, N. Y. OFFIOBRS AND DIRECTORS Lvl Ankeny, President; W. F.Matlock, Vice President: O. B. Wade, Cashier; II. O. itierensy, Assistant Caahler; J. 8. McLeod, W. S. Byeru, W. K. Matlock, II. F. Johnson. THE PENDLETON SAVINGS BANK PENDLETON, OREGON. Organized March I, 1880. Capital, 850,000; Surplus, $53,600. Interest allowed on time deposits. Exchange bought and s,old on all prin cipal points. Special attentidn given to collections. W. J. Furnish, President; J. N. Teal, Vice-President; T. J. Morris, Cashier. FRENCH & COMPANY, BANKERS THE DAXLKS, OIIEQON. TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING. BUSINESS. Letters Biters of Credit Issue! available In th Eastern States. Bight Kxehange and TelegraphU 1 rr sold ion Now Yrk, 'hleiro. St. I-ouls, Bn Kranrlsco, Portland. Ore., Bract e. Mn.h. arlous points In Oregon aud Washington. Collections made at all points on fayorablo terms. Trans! anrty Loewenberg & MANUFACTURERS 2X0 to 235 Tmylor Strmet 199 to 194- SmoondStrt WM. MILLER, LA GRANDE, OR. 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Royal Steel Ranges Are the Best and Cheapest in the Market. PORTLAND, OREGON Machinery for special purposes, which build accurately and economically. m or 1 vi i From All Parts of the Nov World, and the Old. I OF INTEREST TO OUR MANY READtRS Comprehensive Review of Jhe Important Hip penlnjs of the Past Week In a , Condensed form. Storms contlnuo thrduguout tho Lako region. Henderson, tho negro murderor, was burned at tho stake. Mgr. Chapello will remain in tho Philippines for tho. prcsont. Tho Twenty seventh voluntoorn havo returned to San Francisco. England 1b sending foodstuffs to Pretoria to feed tho Boers after tho surrender. ; Colonel W. J. Cllft, ono of tho most noted criminal lawyers In tho South, 1b dead at Chattanooga. In tho opinion of n largo cattle dcalor, prices of Btock will never de cline to tho low lovel of sovoral yoars .""" I Tho last convention of Oregon wool growers, at Tho Dalles, was tho most successful tho association Iiqb ovor hold. Henry L. Lesslor, n lawyor, 1b dead at Kansas City, aged 77. Ho wns for 13 years consul to tho Falkland islands. A passenger train wns ditched near Soldier, Kan., In which 11 pnBsongora woro injured. Tho express car caught flro. Carncgto nnnounccb his rotlromont, nnd gives $5,000,000 for tho pension ing of old nnd disabled employes of his company. Alderman James A. Cherry, of Don vor, wnB Instantly killed by falling from tho sixth door of tho Arapahoe building to tho ground floor. Tho holler of an engine pulling a coal train on tho Lohlgh Valley rail road exploded ncad Mud Run, N. J., nnd throo men wero killed. Shorman Harris, a negro, was lynched at Spollman, Ga. Harris killed Sldnoy King, n young merchant and farmor, in nn altercation. Charles H. Rowan, tho ox-matrl-raonlal" agent, has boon found guilty of an attempt to brlbo United 8tates officials at Milwaukee Ho offerod $2,500 to tho officials. Joseph W. Sheldon, of Washington, has boon appolntod rocelvor of. tho suspended First Nntlonal bank at NIIob, Mich. Twenty thousand dol lars of forged pnpor has boon found. Tho SCth nnnunl mooting of tho Cnttlo Raisers' Association In Texas adopted a resolution recommending that congress provldo nn assistant to tho secretary of ngrlcultttro to havo chargo of livestock Interests. Andy Wllburn, Anderson Thorn berg, Joo Turner and Joseph Wilson, who woro Implicated In tho Mllwood, Kan., saloon raid last month, wero found guilty of tho murder of Mrs. Rosa Hudson in tho first dogreo. Mlnlstor Conger loft Pokln ' for homo. Tho Idaho leglBlaturo has ad journed. Tho Thirtieth volunteers nrrlvod at San Francisco. There is friction botween British and Russians in Pokln. Hon. C. T. Gorham, ox-mlnlstor to tho Netherlands, Is dead. Carneglo denies that ho Is going to Europo with J. P. Morgan. China appeals to tho United States for protection from Russia. Tho ministers have proparod an othor. list of guilty Chinese Tho groat Manila Ico plant will be controlled by civil authorities. Provincial government was estab lished at Lucena, Tagabas provlnco. Malone, N. Y., officials enpturod 48 Chlneso on tho border north of Malone. Two men woro killed and sovoral Injured In- a railroad collision la a Chicago suburb. Sheridan S, Badger, a Chicago min ing engineer, (lied a petltlln In bank ruptcy with 58,000 liabilities. Gaylord, Blessing & Co., St. Louis brokers, filed a deed of assignment. Liabilities are admitted to exceed the assets by $50,000. John Haro. tho English actor now playing in Chicago, announced that at tho conclusion of his present tour, Ave weeks hence, he will permanently retire from tho stage, Tho Brooklyn bridge authorities aro contemplating remodeling tho bridge to allow of the multiplying of elevated bridgo trains. Tho cost will be in tho neighborhood of 11,000,000. Jessie Morrison, whose first trial for the murder of Mrs. Olln Castlo resulted in no verdict, was commltte. to jail at Eldorado, Kan., in default of 5,000 ball, to await a second trial. A receiver has been appointed for tho Ohio Debenture Company, of Co lumbus, on the application of a stock holder, who says the outstanding In debtedness is $225,000, and the assets sot more than 175,000. IN SOUTHERN LUZON. Provincial Government Established In Tayabas. LUCENA, Taynbas province South ern Luzon, ' Mnrch 14. Tho United StateB army trnnsport, with tho Amer ican Philippine commission nnd their party on board, arrived off Lucena last evonlng. This morning tho com missioners' party, consisting of 50 per sons, crossed tho Bhallow bar In tho ship's boats and wero driven ono mllo to this town. Tho commission thon proceeded with tho first organization of a provincial government In South ern Luzon. Tho Provlnco of Tayabas has long been noted for tho pacific conditions oxlbtlng thoro, In contrast to tho neighboring provinces, which Btlll pur suo a robollious cottrso. Colonol Gard ner, lato of tho Thirtieth volunteer In fantry, was todny appointed civil gov ernor of this provlnco. Colonol Gard ner favotB the malntcnanco of friend ly relations with tho natives, and Is opposod to plllngo, seizures, destruc tion of proport) nnd Imprisonments, excopi under necessity. Colonol Gardner, when in command of tho Thirtieth Infantry, waB In control of thlB district ,and ob n result of his policy, n population of nctlvo InBur gonts has been transformed Into friendly natives, whoso patriotism to tho United, States was considered to bo moro firmly established than that of tho natives" bf any other provlnco In Luzon. Tho first organization of tho fedoral party nutsldo of Manila was offoctod in TayabaB provlnco, nnd all tho na tives Joined. The arrival of tho com mission with Colonol Gnrdnor, whoso regiment was rocontly given a pub lic farowoll hero, returning as civil governor, was enthusiastically cole bra tod. Tho pooplo of SoroBgan, n seaport on tho oxtromo southern ond of Lu zon, havo petitioned for n provincial govornmont. Tho commission will stop thoro later. A REAR-END COLLISION. Freight and Stock Trains Crashed ' . With Fatal Results. CHICAGO, Mn.-ch 14. Two mon woro killed nnd eight othora Injured in a rear-end collision early today be tween a tlmo freight nnd a stock train, on tho Chicago &"Northwcstorn rail road, at Arlington Heights, a suburb of this city. j Tho caboose of tho Btock train con tained 14 stockmen, nnd most of them were aslocp whon tho train stopped at Arlington Heights to tnko on two cars of stock. Suddenly tho tlmo freight t frpm St. Paul crashed Into the Btock iseur caDoose aaa proweu iupjuku '"Tfr ttM il" lk"'- Instantly llliflrTisK'wblclllre.Tlie ereek al-oiHied 'tee village, and the volun teer flro department responded to the rc'scue and extinguished tho flamos and QsslBtod In taking out tho dead and Injured. Tho caoooso and throo cars wero burned, and a numbor of iht'ud of stock killed. Tho doors to tho othor cars containing stock woro 1 In tits moantlmo oponod and tho frlghtonod animals allowed to run at ' largo. A rollof wnB started from Chi- lenco as soon ns tho wreck was reported. GREATEST STAMPEDE SINCE 1898. Effect of Throwing Open Crown Min ing Claims In Alaska. VANCOUVER, B. C, Mnrch 14. A apodal dispatch from Dawson, dated March 1, eaya tho stamptilo conse quent upon tho throwing open of tho govornmont claims February 25 was tho, groatcst elnco tho palmy days of 1898. Tho order mndo avallablo hundreds of' lapsed claims, unsold ones, .fractions, otc Under the now regulations tho first man to arrlvo and mako application for the ground gets It, until fraud has been shown. Ho may really bo tho tonth man who Btaked tho claim by actual tlmo, but ho muBt swear that ho saw no othor stakes on tho ground whon ho staked. Some of tho unfortdnato fol lows who wont out mlsrond tho iof flclal notice and staked claims that woro rosorvod by notlco Irt tho proc lamation. Their four daya' vigil in a tempernturo 40 dogroos bolow zero wasa frightful csporlenco for many of tho stampedors. TO CONTROL FI8H INDU8TRY. Gigantic Canners' Trust Bslng Formed to Operate In Alaska, SEATTLE, March 14. From Ju nqati comes tho report that there Is a gigantic irust bolng formed with many millions of capital, which will aosolutely control ovory fish cannery and tho fish Industry of tho entlro Alaska territory. Tlta report Is to tho effect tnnt Mr. Onllroy, onco president of the Pacific American Flshorlos .Company, a cor poration whlih practically controls tho fish Industry of tho Northwest coast Is now in Now York City mak ing final arrangements for tho incor poration' of tho, company, which will hold in its grasp tho Immense fish industry of Alaska. Tho fish Indus try ranks noxt to mtnlng In Alaska, Soven cannorles wero In operation last year. TI(o output was 11,029,968 pounds, the tnarltet value of which was $11,000,000. In addition to tho ubovo, which was canned, 13,000 bar rels wero salted, th emarket value of whi,ch was I130.0QQ. Washington Sugar Beet Contracts. 'Spoksne, March 14. The Washing ton state sugar factory, owner of tho beet sugar establishment at Fairfield, Wash., has mado contracts for 3,000 ncrcH of beets, and expects to con tract for 1.000 acrea to bo grown this season, Tho company contracts 10 pay 14. per ton for beets showing 12 per cent sugar, and 25 cents for each additional per cent. On tho basis of last year, this would aggregate 5 25 per ton, .:nr:p '- - ' or The Ex-President Passed Away Yesterday Afternoon. UNCONSCIOUS TO THE LAST MOMENT End Came Painlessly While the General Was Surrounded by Members of Ills Family, Except tils Son and Daughter. Indianapolis, March 14. GonoraA Bonjnmtn Harrison died at 4:45 o'clock yesterday aftornoon without regaining consciousness. His death waB quiet and painless, thoro being a goncral sinking until tho end camo, which wob marked by n single gasp for breath as llfo departed from tho body of tho statesman. Tho relatives, with a few exceptions, nnd sovoral of tho ox-president's old and tried friends woro at tho bcdBldo when ho passod away. Nono of Goncral Harrison's chil dren woro proBcnt at his death. Nclthor RubboII Harrison nor Mrs. McKco had roacho. tho city, although both woro hurrying on tholr way to tho bodBldoof their dying father as fast as steam would bear them. Ellz aboth, tho little daughtor, had boon tnkon from tho sick room by her nurso boforo tho end came. General Harrison's Career. Benjamin Hnrrlson, 23d prcatdent of tho United States, wiib barn nt North Bond, O., August 20, 1833. HIb fnther, John Scott Harrison, was third son of Genoral William Henry Harri son, ninth president of tho United Stntos, who wob tho third nnd young est son of Benjamin Harrison, ono of tho signers of tho Declaration of In dependence, from Virginia. Ho was married Octobor 20, 1853, to Carollno Scott, daughtor of Dr. John W. Scott, who was thon president of Oxford fomnlo somlnnry. After Btudylng law under Storor & Gwynno in Cincinnati ho waB admitted to tho bnr in 1851 and bogau the prnctlco of his profession ut Indian apolis, which had slnco boon his homo. Soon afterward ho was ap polntod crier of tho fodornl couit at $2,50 per day. This was tho first monoy ho ovor onrncd. In 18C0 Mr. Hnrrlson wns choBon reporter of tho supremo court of Illi nois on tho republican ticket by a majority of 9088. Whon tho civil war bogan ho assisted In raising tho Sovontleth Indiana regiment of vo tin toors, and became Its second llouten ant although Governor Morton ton dorod him Its command. At tho close of tho war ho wont to Washington, D, C, to tako part In tho Grand Army rovlow, at which ho was duly mus tered out, Juno 8, 18G5; not, howovor, until ho had received a commission as brovot brigadier genoral, signed by Abrahum Lincoln and counter signed by E. M. Stanton, secretary of war, dated March 22, 1805, stating that it was given for "ability and man ifest energy nnd gallantry In com mand of tho brigade" In 1808 nnd 1872 ho took part In tho presidential cnmpulgn In support of General Grunt, traveling ovor In diana and speaking to largo aud iences. In 180 ho at first declined a nomination for governor on tho republican ticket, consenting to run only after tho regular nominee had withdrawn. Ho received almost 2,000 moro votes than his associates on tho ticket, but wns nevertheless bonton. In 1880, as chairman of tho Indiana delegation In tho ropubllcun .national convention, ho cast nearly tho entire voto of tho stuto tor James A. Garfield for president. President Garfield of ferod him a place In his cabinet, but ho declined It, preferring the United States senatorshlp from Indiana, to which ho hud Just been choHon, and which ho held from 1881 to 1887. Uc was dolegato-at-largo to tho roptihllcar national convention in 1884; Juno 19 1888, nt Chicago, III., and on tho olght and final ballot ho hud received 644 votes to 118 for John Bhormun, 100 for Russoil A. Alger. 59 for W. Qi Greshar.1, 5 for J. G, Blulna and 4 for William McKlnloy, as tho candidate of that party for prosldunt. Tho nomina tion was mado unanimous, and In No-, vemuer no was elected, receiving za votes In tho electoral college to 108 for Grovor Cleveland. Ho was duly Inaugurated March 4, 1889, SlncA General Harrison's retirement from tho presidency ho had dovoted himself almost entirely to his law practice, his only public service being his appearance In 1898 as-counsel for! Venozuela In tho South American ro-! public's dispute with England over her boundary lino. Last year ho was ap pointed by President McKlnloy ono of tho Amorlcan members or tho inter national arbitration tribunal. M no TIIK 1.AT1'. IIESJAMIN JIAltllltJON.l WILL REMOVE OBSTACLE8. Colombia Wants Us to Control the Canal Route. WASHINGTON, March 15. Sonor Mnrtlnez Sllveln, mlnlstor of forolgti affairs for tho ropubllc of Colombia, nnd nt prosont accredited as Colom bian mlnlstor to Washington had nn othor conference with Secretary Hay tonight In connection with tho in formal discussion concerning tho Pan ama canal route lying within Colombln. It cannot bo Bald that any formal ne gotiations aro under way, or ovon aro opon, but tho presence of Sllvola bore at this tlmo gives assuranco thnt If thcro Is any disposition on tho part of tho American authorities to tako up tho canal question with tho Colom bian government, tho latter Ib now disposed to romovo any obstacles on her part in tho way of adoption of that route It is recognized that thoro aro threo parties to any negotiations which would bo undertaken nnmoly, tho United States govornmont, tho Colombian govornmont and tho French company. Tho purposo .Ib to sco If thoro Is any means of reconciling tho Interests nnd of disposing of all threo parties. Dr. Sllvola Bald today that tho French projectors hnd a conces sion which had been renewed for six years, but lf tho Amorlcan govornmont desired tho Pannma .route ho Bald, thcro can bo nn arrangement effected to meet tho requirements sot forth in tho recent report of tho Walker com mission. 8AMP8ON-8CHLEY CONTROVERSY Recurrence Likely Over Design of Medals for Santiago Heroes. ' NEW YORK, March 15. A special from Washington BnyB! Naval circles aro dooply Interested In tho designs to bo placed by tho navy upon tho bronze medals to jo awarded to of ficers who distinguished themselves during tho war and subsequently. Ofllcors and mon who participated in tho battlo of Manila bay rocolvud a modal, on ono stile of which wna the profile In bna-rollof of Admiral Dowoy. Somo of tho frlondB of Rear Admiral Sampson urgo that tho modal to be glvon to ofllcors who participated In tho Santiago battlo should havo tho profllo of that ofllcor. In ordor to pre vent any controversy on tho subject. Secretary Long has referred tho mat ter to tho board of awards, of which Assistant Secretary Hackott is chair man. Nono of too members of this board participated In tho West Indian operations, with tho oxcoptlon ot Rear Admiral Watson, who has taken no part In the Schley-Sampson esss- tmvnmv. In addltle te e.wrssvsifsi(f tefvesseers .,meiiiwte serrtsiiwRsi dlstifietloR' ltt'e?fiMtiflif cawpaltii. Srerutnry Long," In 'anrordautn wills tho authority granted him. will con fer mortnlH upon olllcors and mon who participated In tho Samoau, Chinese and Philippines campaigns. , 18 QERMANY LIABLE? She May Do Obliged to Pay for Dam ages In Samoa. NEW YORK. Marcn 15. Gormany'a responsibility for tho troubles that oc curred In Samoa throo years ago, and resulted In tho kilting of Amorlcan nnd British olllcors and mon nnd tho partition of tho Samoun Islands will bo dotormlnod by King Oscar of Nor way and Sweden. According to a special to tho Her ald from Washington, Groat Britain nnd Gormany havo romplotod tholr briefs of tho property claims filed by the subjects of each, which gtow out of tho military operations of tho Eng lish and Amorlcan forcos. Tho state dopartmont nt Washington bus prac tically complotod Its brief. Tho docu ment wilt not bo mado public until submitted to tho royal arbitrator, but It Is understood thnt while It doos not directly mention tho part Gormnny played In tho Sunumn troubles, thoro nro pointed rcforoncca to tho activity of certain foreign ngouts. Those roforonces nro to bo roluforcod by an attornoy, wno will bo sent to Stock holm as tho Amorlcan representative If tho Amorlcan contention should bo established, Germany would havo to pay damages to both Groat Britain and tho United Status for Iosbos sus tained in Samoa, During the Samonn troubles, Grout Britain acted in concert with tho Unltod States and was dlspovod to hold Gormany responsible. Whether, aftor tho change In tho relations, sho Is willing to reassort tho views then entortaliiod, Is a question that will bo determined only when her brief Is submitted. THE THIRTIETH RETURNS. Transport Hancock Brings Home a Hegimcnt or volunteers. SAN FRANCISCO. Mnrch 15. Tho transport Hancock hits arrived from Munlla with tho Thirtieth United Stntos volunteer Infantry, Thoro wero In all 875 pooplo on board, of which numbor 2G aro army olllcors and 738 non-commissioned olllcors and nitm of tho Thirtieth volunteers. Tho reg iment Ib composed of mon from Mich igan, Illinois and Indiana, tho Mich igan mon predominating. Tho Hun cock also brought 72 prisoners and discharged soldiers, who wero depot l- od on a military ordor. Among tho prisoners on tho Han cock woro two tmdor llfo sontonco James Duguii, Eleventh cavalry, who killed a comrade during u quart el, nnd Ellwood Morgan, a negro, Forty ninth Infantry, wno assaulted u Fill plno woman. Brigadier Generul Camp bull was among tho cabin pussongcru. Northwest Postofflces, Washington, March 15. A postofllco bus boon established at Agato, Jack eon county, Or., on tho route from Tolo to Eaglo Point. Jefferson F, Grlguby has boon appointed postmustor, An ofllco has also bcon oetnbllshed at Grant, Mason county, Wash., with John II. Blllo as postmaster. lki':hVt Tar"" ' 1, 4U 1: L V , m 14 1- V k. i 1 L nnHlliMljLtr setsMun'MM.' '" JJUJ&'LjLix .&..