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About The new age. (Portland, Or.) 1896-1905 | View Entire Issue (May 17, 1902)
. m- fc,iasniai fM.-xwtmvtt Jf CJr't& lhc.CJLto ) '. ' M TheZ wAge. .?? t;V VOL. VII. PORTLAND, OREGON, .SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1902. NO. 7. g ytn. mm mmm. J ISP- 1 mjn. . 'tf 'V( H 5 f: FIRST NATIONAL BANK SSKfefiT Designated Depositary mnd Financial A Kent of the United States. frealdent, H. W. Corbett; cashier, K. O. With Ing ton; assistant cashier, J. W. Ncwlclrkj second assistant cashier, W.C.Alvord. Letters of credit tuned, available tn Europe and tha Eastern slates. Bight exchange and telegraphic transfers sold on Now York, Boston, Chicago. Omaha, Bt. Paul, Ban Francisco and the principal points in the Northwest. Bight and time bills drawn In sums to suit on London, Paris, Berlin, Krankfort-omthe-Maln, Hong Kong. Collections mad on favorable terms at all accessible points. LADD TILTON, BANKERS 5S3E Established in 1859. TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS. Interest allowed on time deposits. Collections made at all points on favorable terms. Letters of credit issued reliable in Europe and the Eastern states. Sight exchange and Telegraphic Transfers sold on New York, Washington, Chicago, St. Louis, Denver, Omaha, Ban Francisco and various points in Ore (on, Washington, Idaho, Montana and British Columbia. Exchange sold on London, Paris, Berlin, Frankfort and Hong Kong. BAINK OF COMMERCE, B9I9C, IDAHO. OFPIORUSt B. F. OM)EN, President! M. ALEXANDER, Vice President! II. N. COF FIN', Cashier: J. M. IIAINKH, AsulMant Cashier. DIKKUTOKHi Itobt. Noble, Thos. Davis. 11. F. Olden, J. M. Haines, J. E. Yatct, J. H. Morrow, T. Ilegan, M. Alexander, F. it. Collin. Aeeountm ml Bmnkm, Flrmm, Omrmmratlonm anm" Inm'Mm'timlm Itmmmtvmm' cm thm Mmmt Ltkmrml Tmrmm Omnmlmtmnt Wtfh tetmaf Mmmkln; LACK & SCHJVHTZ, Brokers. GOLD BAKER OITY, OltCBOB. TEN YEARS EXPERIENCE IN THE EASTERN OREGON GOLD FIELDS. EXAMINATIONS AND REPORTS A SPECIALTY. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. FIRST NATIONAL BANK Walla Walla, Washington. (First National Bank In tho State.) Transacts a General Banking Business. CAPITAL 1100,000. BUni'LUB $100,(i00. LEVI ANKKNY, President.' A. II. HEYNOLDB. Vice President. A. It. HURFOKD, Cashier THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK. Pendleton-. Oregon. ) Capital, $70,000.00. Surplus RE8ERVE AGENTS First National Bank. Chicago. III.; First National Bank, Portland, Oregon; Chemical National Bank, New York, N. Y. OFFIOER8 AND DIREOTOR8 Lvl. Ankenr, President; W. F. Matlock, Vice President: 0. B. Wade, Cashier; II. O. Guerensy, Assistant Cashier; J. 8. McLeod, W. S. Byers, W. F. Matlock, II. F. Johnson. THE PENDLETON SAVINGS BANK PENDLETON, OREGON. Organized March I, 1880. Capital, $50,000. Surplus, $55,000. Interest allowed on time deposits. Exchange bought and sold on all prin cipal points. Special attention given to collections. ' W. J. Furnish. Fresldent;,J. N. Teal, Vice-President; T. J. Morris, Cashier DR. B. E. DEINTIST. 3428 Washington Office Phone North 2101. Residence Phono Pink 671, A GOOD Vrt vaw IIIIIa tnnnnv ran tsa AnlnvAit VtV PILTrVw ing a gootl watch, one that you can dejen. n. I have them In gold filled from f 12.50 up. Terhapa you have a good watch, but It may not have been repaired proiirly. If so Itiy) 1ava It ii'lih aim t.tm sa Amu nf UA 1 Til If A m JUIt KOIQ n lata av sua s ua m specially of tine watch repairing. Af?K) 2 li.84j Thm LHilm Btmrm mrkh thm BHl Btmmk. HAVE YOU AN KMBLKMT H not I can supply you with one. I carry a very large stock in both pins and charms. E. 290 115.00 as above. Willamette Iron and Steel Works. Founders, Machinists and Boiler Makers, PORTLAND, OREGON. DISICMBRS AND BUILDKRS OF... ...... Marin nJ Stationary Ertglnas and Bollara, aw Mill, Logging and Mining Machinery, Roll Grinding and Corrugating Machinery, Power Transmission Machinery. -te ctmaUntly Jevelid Modern Machinery for special purpoMt, whk STdt plant iWtlM ua U buHsl accurately and wenomkally. BW OOSS1SFOSS1SOI SOU01TSS. -ejg LIMITED. MINES AND INVESTMENTS and Undivided Pro6ts, f60.000.00. Don't Ask Us About tho merits of our wares nnd work lot thorn do tho talking. Tlioy arc good campaign speakers, by tho way, and have nuulo uh many now friends. Won't you join tho ranks? Everything electric, from'a push button to a giant dynamo. Orders filled with electric speed. Wire and wiring ; telophono and telegraph instruments. Western Electric Works, 305 J Washington St., PORTLAND, OREQON WRIGHT Street, corner Seventh, POATLAND, OREQON. TIME J. JAEGER, JEWELER. Morrison St., bet. Fourth and Fifth. 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Tlioro aro 2,000 dead n St. Vincent island from tho volcanic diaturhauco in tho West IndioH. French troops aro interring tho dead at St. l'iorro very slowly. Looting of tho bodies has begun tlioro. Sinco tho capturo fof General Moth uon tho British have reducod the force of Genorul Dolaroy by 800 mon taken prisonors. ( Tho president Iiiih orderod a roviow of tho Rathbono case. This may nocestdtato amendment of tho Cuban criminal law. Three thousand nnd fifty gas workers aro on strike in Chicago becauso their companions hud been dUchargod for joining a union. Oregon Iiuh roceived 14 gold medals, four silver medals, 18 bronze inodals and 82 honorablo mentioiiH at tho Charleston exposition. At Tucuncariz, N. M., threo mon were killed in a fight. Tho striko in the Oregon City woolon mills is practically ovor Amor leans will own tho ships of the new shipping combine, but they will fly the English flag. - Tho coal shortage is already apparent at Heading, Pa., in consequence of the Scranton mlnos being idlo. The Italian government will send a cruiser to represent Italy at tho lie auguratlon of tho new Cuban republic. In explosion of napthanear Pittsburg a score of lives were lost and about 200 poisons were injured, many of whom will die. 4 It is now generally admitted that 30,000 people lost their lives at St. Pierre. The streets o( the city are cov ered with corpses. The new steel cat-ting combine, to be known as tho American Steel Casting Company, will control one-fourth of the productlon.of tho country, Another revolution is on thotapia in Hayti. Peace may bo officially proclaimed in South Africa on May 20. The government hill for enjoining the beef tract has been filed at Chi cago. Government troops who were ordered to disband in China have raised the standard of revolt. It is reported that threo other islands of the West Indies were extensively damaged besides Martinque. Natives whose kraals were burned by burghers, attacked a Boer laager in the FOR ffiVL8r0.hooporBNekM'y5' " The United BUtes Rovornment has dispatched vossols to Martinque to rentier any assistance posatnie to tho trli.knn niiMana WV VV SIMIMHISNHVUI Further dotalla add only to the ox- tent of tho St. Piorro hotror. From all over tho world assistance is being sent to the unfortunates. JThAanthracito companion havo told (Tinir mlnnrH not tn mnort for work nt Scranton, Pa., and it looks liko a lock 'out. Both sldoH aro preparing for a long struggle . Presidont Simon Sam, of Hayti, has resigned. Admiral Sampson's remains havo boon burled in Arlington cemetery. The British press demands that tho govornmont take action on tho steam ship combine Tho attorney general of Missouri has filed proceedings against tho hoof trust 1r his state. Tho nomination of II. Clay Evans as consul genoral to London hus boon confirmed by the senate. The houfo has passed tho omnibus statehood hill admitting Oklahoma, Arizona and Now Mexico. It is now estimated that fully 40,000 peoplo perished in tho earthquake at St. Piorro, Martinique, Tho American consul and his family aro among tho dead, Tho nttornoy general of Washington has rondored an opinion that Mr. Mc- iirluo is still nontenant governorbut. is invested with tho powor of chief ex ecutive. Queen Wilheimina is convalescent. Nine men wero injured in an explo sion in an Anaconda smolter. Over 2.000 noundu chumred hands in betting upon a gamo of ping pong in jonuon recently. Athens exneetH to bo visit! by more than (10,000 tourists, chiefly English and American, during tho present monwi. Sixty-two miles an hour is to bo tho average speed maintained by u new train to run on tho English servico, 1m tween Paris and Calais. The journey will only occupy threo hours. No municipal tax lovy will bo made in Peterborough this year, tho first time when such an incident was record ed in England. Under a recent order tho nearest range allowed for target pructico in tho Brititdi Mediterranean fleet is 5,000 yards. Tho maximum is set ut 10,000 yards, Tho following aro found to be tho densities of the planets, water being 1 ; Mercury, 3; Venus, 6.14; earth, 6. GO; moon, 3.34; Mars, 4; Jupiter, 1.35; Saturn, 0.08; Uranus, 1.00; Neptuno, o on Partner Senator In Mining Deal. Pierre, 8. D., May 15, Ex-Senator John M. Thurston, of NebraNka, and ex-Senator W. J. McConnell, of Idaho, have joined in a mining venture and will operato in New Mexico. Thoy have incorporated tho tSan Ygnacoi do Bora Mining Company, Ltd,, with a capital of $1,000,000. 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The cettlemont of thu weavers' strlku nt Oregon City hinges upon tho recog Lit ion of tho union. A groat deal of enthusiasm Is being nrousod throughout tho state in thu Lewis nnd Clark fair project. Professor F. S. Dunn, of tho Chair of Latin in tho Univarslty of Oregon, lias tendered his resignation, to take effect nt thu clone of the college year. Tho Gelsor Grand Hotel Company has lioon incorporated at Bakur City with a capital stock of f 100,000. Tho new corporation hus acquired tho Glosor Grand hotel. Stato Senator G. 0. Brownell, of Oregon City, fell in trying to catch a train at that phtco. nnd narrowly es caped being ground tinder tho wheels of tho last car. Ho wan bruised but not Horiously injured by tho fall. Tho Oregon Statu Grangu PutroiiH of Husbandry will convene itH 20th an nual session in tho senate chamber of tho capltol nt Salem on Tuesday, M,ay 27. Tho grangu will ho in session un til the Thursday evening following, when u big banquet will 1m) spread. Thu board of county commissioners of Clackamas county hus granted a f ranch! bo to tho Oregon City & Sub urban Railway Company to lay down and operate ruil roads, telephone, tele graph and power lines upon tho Abor nethy road and thu Oregon City ami Oswego road. i Thu Linn county court has appropri ated f 800 for the completion of a road from Albany to tho southern boundary of Linn county, on thu way to tho Blue Hiver mines, tho remainder of thu road to Iki builtby private subscription. It is believed this will do much towurds tho further development of tho claims on tho Albany side of thu Calapooica mines, boiiio of which aro pronounced rich. Many emigrants aro arriving daily at Medford. Tho fruit growers around Medford aro jubilant over tho recent rains .and the fact that pro-poets for a good yield aro bettor than for years. The mill on tho Lucky Bart group at Gold Hill Is running day and night on oro from the Doubtful claim. A 30 inch vein of high grade freo milling oro assaying 46 per ton was iccojitly struck in this claim, which wilt bring the Lucky Burt group to tho front again, something ovor f 160,000 having already been milled from the several ledges on tho property. The number of strangers now pouring into Oregon is being felt even in tho backwoods. A year ago it was believed that all tho public timber land worth taking had passed into private hands, FOR and invostora wero buying frooly from the original locators. But since then tho moro inacosslblo and loss timbered land is being eagerly sought by people anxious to file on timber tracts. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Walla Walla, OSKQOOo; bluestem, 07c ; valley, 05c. Barley Feod, 2021; brewing, I2121.60 per ton. Oats No.l white, $l.281.30;gray, 1.1501.26. Flour Bost grades, 2.853.40 per barrel; graham, 2.50Q2.80. ' Mlllstuffs Bran, 1010 por ton; middlings, 10020; shorts, tl718; chop, fill. Hay Timothy, $12015; clovor, 7.50010; Oregon wild hay, $500 per ton. Potatoes Bost Burbanks, 1.5001.05 nor cental: ordinary. tl.2firai.3A imp cental; growers prices; sweets, $2,250 2.00 per cental! now potatoes, !l3jjc. Butter Creamery, 1O017&O: dairy, 12)$15o; storo, lO012Kc Eggs 16015&O for Orogon. Cheoso Full cream, twlna. 1 013u;YoungAmorica, 13K14Ko; fac tory prices,! ds lftc less. Poultry Chickens, mixed, i-l.nno 6.00; hons, 6.0006.50 per dozen. 11, Si Ol 2c p0r poand; springs, 110 lljifc por pound, 3.0006.00 per doz en; ducks, 5.000(1.00 per dozen; tur keys, llvo, 13014c, dressed, 1601Oo por poumi; geeso, fii.c-U07.oO per dozen. Mutton Gross. 4 nnrnniinil. sheared, 3?4u; dressed, 7u per pound. Hogs Gross, ou; dressod, 7tf08o por pound. Veal OK08c for small; Gtf07o for large. Beef Gross, cows, 4c; steers, 6c; dressed, 808o por pound. Hops 124015 cents por pound. Wool Valley, 12014; Eastern Ore gon, 8012o; mohair, 25c per pound. Tho British administration in India is alarmed by rumors of sedition in Af ghanistan. All tho (lour consumed by tho 11, 000,000 peoplo in Slam comes from tho United States. Swans on tho Thames at Eton and Windsor aro being fed from tho local boat rafts, as tho birds aro unable, owing to the severity of tho wouthor, to obtain u sufficiency of food for them solvos. Several of tho smaller British manu facturers outsidu tho English trust havo been forced to suspend work by the keenness of theco'upetition between tho I American mid British syndicates. Ono dark night recently n Russian sciiooner was lying in tho bay of Gib raltar, when two dogs, swimming, ap proached thu vessel and wero taken on board. They had bags around their bodies containing several pounds of to bacco, It fcoiiih thut this is tho means by which smuggling is done ucross tho bay into Spanish torritory, whoro the tobacco duty Is very heavy. The Number Increased, Pittsburg, May 15. A careful and systemutiu t-carcli for thu dead and in jured in tho Sheridan honor roveals a list of 23 dead and 202 injured. A complete list of the injured may nuvor bo known, as muny wero ahlo to got away without making known tlioir jdeutity. A conservative ostimuto by thoHo familiar with the situation plueoa till, tllttlllkfll .Vim... A Iiiiili iif.klnK.l.i 1 k. 1 ut not lose than 300.