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"tmi!"tg.'ttfil"f.W")M" vsa,'"'niraji,iiilUtiiin ii 1 1 i i i hi ilMgajflSj The New Age. H ' ' ' - 4. ( 7Ar fV lW- "." it VOL. VII. POIiTJLAND, OHEGON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1902. NO. 26. WimMmmmmmilttHm4mfVmmr'fmwrtmmVB y vi FIRST NATIONAL BANK OFSgKia?D' Designated Depositary smd financial Acent of tha Unit ml Stntas. President, H. W. Corbett) cashier, E. 0. WillilnRtoni assistant cashier, J. W. NcwkUkj ieond assistant Cashier, W. C. Alvord. Letters ( credit Issued. available In Kurope and the Kastern states. Sight exchange and telegraphic transfers sold on New York, lloston, Chicago, Omaha, Bt. Paul, San Francisco nud the principal points lu the Northwest. Sight nnd time bills drawn In sums to suit on London, Paris, Berlin, Franktort-on-the-Matn, Hong Kong. Collections mad on favorable terms at nil acceestblo points. LADD TILTON3, BANKERS iSSSSSH Kstabllstied In 1850. TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS. Interest allowed on tlmo deposits. Collections imtde nt nil points on fa vora bio terms. Letters ot credit issued tmllable in Europe nnd the Eastern states. Sight exchange nnd Telegraphic Traasfrs sold on Now York, Washington, Chicago, St. LouiB, Denver, Omaha, San Francisco and various points in Ore gon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and British Columbia. Exchange sold on London, Paris, Berlin, Frankfort and Hong Kong. COFFMA.N, DOBSON & CO., BANKERS. CHEHALIS, WASHINGTON. Founded 1884. Oldest and Largest Bank in Southwest Washington BAINK OF COMMERCE, LIMITED. BOISE, IDAHO. OjTICKUS! n. K. OI.PKN. 1'resldcnt; M. ALEXANDER, Vice President; It. N. COF- 1'IN, CiKhler; J. M. it WNI'.H, Aaslmnut Cashier. MUKUTOItst Jtobt. Knblp.Tlio. Dnvl, H. F. Olden, J. M. Hnlius, J. K. Yates, J. II. Morrow, T. lU'Ran, M. ,ltxr.n1or, K. It, Collin. Account m of Bantt. Flrmm, Corporations and Individual Rncelvad en ttio tttomt Liberal I or mm Oonalmtmnl Willi Sound Banking. LACK & SCHA1ITZ, Brokers BAKER OITY, OREGON. TEN YEARS EXPERIENCE IN THE EASTERN OREGON GOLD FIELDS. EXAMINATIONS AND REPORTS A SPECIALTY. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. FIRST NATIONAL BANK Walla Walla, Washington. (First Katlotinl Hank lij tlio Htato.) ' Transacts a General Banking Business. OAPITAWIOO.OQO. 8UnPI.U8JI00.ti0O. ' LEVI AXKEXY, President. A. II. Iti:YXOI.US,Vico President. A. It, I1UKFORD, Cashier THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK. Pendleton, Oregon. Capital, $70,000.00. Surplus and Undivided Profits, $00,000.00. RESERVE AGENTS First National Bank. Chlcngo. 111.; First National Bank, Portland, Oregon; Chemical National Bank, New Yorjc, N. Y-, OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS Lfvl Ankeny, President; W. F. Matlock, Vico President; G. B. Wade, Cashier; II. O. Cinerensy, Assistant Cashier; J. 8. McLeod, W. 8. Dyers, W. F. Matlock, II. F. Johnson. THE PENDLETON SAVINGS BANK PENDLETON, OREGON. Organized March I, 1880. Capital, 550,000. Surplus, $56,000. Interest allowed on timo doposlts. Exchango bought and sold on all prin cipal points. Special attention given to collections. W. J. Furnish. President; J. N. Teal, Vice-President; T. J. Morris, Cashier. OUR OPTICAL DEPARTMENT HAS PROVEN TO BE A RIG SUGCESS Five Reasons for itr 5 Count 'Em. 1. No chnrgo for testing. 5 2. Thorough examinations with modern scicntmc instruments. 3. Courteous treatment, Wo don't hurry patients. J. Our Classen improvo tho looks. S Count 'Em. 5. Very Reasonablo prices. , 9 JAEQER BROS., Jewelers nnd Opticians. Remember the Place. 290 Willamette Iron and Steel Works. Founders, Machinists and Boiler Makers, PORTLAND, OREGON. OC8ICNERS AND BUILDERS OF... Marine and Stationary Engines and Boilers, Saw Mill, Logging and Mining Machinery, Roll Crinding and Corrugating Machinery, Power Transmission Machinery. W arc constantly developing: Modern Machinery for special purposes, which our up to-date plant enables us to build accurately and economically. KmT- CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. -Wk NEW LIFE TO mi"" Sm."im Anchor Great Combination of Strength and Beauty. -'Th T That Bhtc." Jtf -kr'i4piiJ&- V."5' '--., ..'-'.V-Jlft - - '!-. ; r'aV--f bee uur Ancnor ciamp You would be surprised It you knew bow Utile it would eot you to Ax up tbatold fence. Hetter send for some Anchor Clamps and Uprights, and a pair of our pinchers, and make your old wire fence loot: like a new one. ANCHOR FENCE looks so nice and U so it rone that farmers sometimes think that it must be bleb priced. It isn't, though. Cluu Bxros UtiKO. Cattle, Sheep and FARM, RAILROAD AND LAWN FENCE. wrtu tor prtees and cataioju.. The Portland Anchor Fence Co. Ai.au WMttdtoffc ?43 NIcoUi St., PORTLAND, Oregon. GOLD MINES AND INVESTMENTS Morrison St., bet. Fourth and Fifth OLD FENCESl Clamps and Uprights. Tin Old Fk.ncs. Tux Akchob Texcs. Hog Tight, it Nitib bum alter closlnj HI EVENTS OF THE DAY GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OP THE TWO HEMISPHERES. Comprehensive Review of the Import ant Happenings of the Past Week, Presented In Condensed Torm, Most Likely to Prove Interesting to Our Many Readers. Tho emporor of Corca is dead. Americans find tho task of reducing tho Moras rnoro difficult tlmn antici pated. A lotio highwayman near Stitos, Idaho, huld up a etago nnd secured $500. Henry Phlpps, a New'l York steel magnate, has given $100,000 for tho relief of Boors. President Rootovolt has announced his doterminntion to visit tho Paciilc Coast nuxt spring Tho cruiser San Frnnusco lias sailed from Norfolk, Vn., to Paniima to pro tect American inturusts. Five hundred riotous Borkoloy, Cal., students took possession of ft train and cruatod gonoral havoc. Ono arrest litis beon made and mora will follow. 'Two, tramps wore killed in it freight wreck' on tho Northwestern in Iowu. Another rail has been nuulo on the governor of Pennsylvania for troops In tho striko district. .7. P. Morgan Is opposed to tho re noininatiou of Roosevelt, and Is work ing hard to defeat him. .A hair and feather factory In Chicago was dettroyod by Are. Several jiorsons were ovorcomo by smoko. Loss, if 7,000. Halt in Now Mexico stripped trees of fruit n nil lightning set lira to the capi tal, which was saved after n hard light. 'Tho Colombian revolution has broken out in a new place. Conditions aro much disturbed on tho north const, near tho mouth of tho Mugduluim river. A Bacrainunto liver steamer burned at hor dock in San Francisco. Sovornl pnssongors wero more or loss Eeveiolv injured'. A Now York man is euing 'a streot car company for $5,000 on account of nn auuidont which compullod him to sliavo off his whickers. All is in roadincs's :t Tort Rilsy, Kan.; for tho, war mnneuverri. A balloon explosion nt Vienna re suited in thu death of 30 persons. Firont Birmingham, Ala., destroyed property to tho value of $2:20,000. Rootevolt is being urged to atinounco an extra sc-sion of congrchs in 10 OH. Tostal rocolpts of Oroogn r.nd Wash ington for tho past year show a good iucrottbo. Cholera has broken out again in Kgypt and many cases nro being re ported daily. Three men wore badly injured by an explosion nt tho Willamette Iron Works in Portland. An unsuccessful attempt was made to wreck tho czar'B train while he waH on his way to St., Petersburg. An electric t car at Akron, Ohio, jumped tho track, injuring a dozen passongors moro or lots sovorely. A French aeronaut with a new flying machine has' made two unsuccessful attempts to cross tho Mediterranean. Tho Limo Branch, tho largot vessol ever ontoring tho Columbia river, is now loading nt Portlund. Tho steamer has n carrying capacity of over 8,000 tons of cargo. Hayti is taking active (stops to end tho civil war, fearing American inter vention. General Miles, considers " tho coast fortifications of tho Northwett to bo in excellent condition. The cable steamor laying thu trans Atlantic cable from Victoria, 11 O., covered 104 inilos tho first duy. Tho American Lino steamship St. Paul, which arrived at New York a few days ago, had a uairt-w escapo from destruction by tiro on her way across the ccean. Tile death list of the Alabama etiurch disaster is growing. One, hundred and ten dead aro reported. Explorer Baldwin, who' lias just re turned from an Arctic expedition, holds thu old idea of an open polar tea at baselchB. An Ohio tchoo) teacher bus Inst his position because hu made white girls and colored girls who had been quar reling kiss. Ten thousand people attondod an open air mass meeting in New York organized in sympathy with the strik ing cjuI miners. Miss Alice Caldwell llcgan, tho author of that successful litto story, "Mrs. Wiggs, of tho Cabbage Patch," has written her hecond book, and it is to appear herially in The Century, She calls it "Lovey Mary," and tho many admirers of Mrs. Wiggs will be glad to know that this optimistic character reappears in the new story. RIOTINQ AT MINUS. Disturbances Extend Over 100 Allies In the Hard Coal District. Philadelphia, Sept. 520. Of the 10 anthracite coal producing counties of Pennsylvania, stnto troops nro en camped in five. Despite- thu presence of the troops in those districts, rioting and gonorol, lawlessness continues in thu hard' conl territory from Forest City, Susquehanna county, on tho North, to ' WilliamBtown, Dauphin cpunty, 'on, tho Bouth, it distance of moro thnnilOO miles. Tho section of thu stilkp'f region in thu vicinity of Forest Qlty, which has been compar ntivolv quiet over since the strike be gan, wnsgreatly wrought up today by crowds of eTrikors interfering witli nnd beating mon who had returned 'to work, nud as n result Sheriff Mncy, of Sus quehanna U'ouuty, tonight asked Gov ernor Stonu for troops to assist him nud other? civil authorities to pro sorvo tho ponce. At present thoro aro four full regi ments, twrr companies of another nnd two troops of cavalry in tho Hold. Tho Thirteenth regiment ia encamped at 01iphant,-Hlx miles north of Scranton; tho Ninth is quartered at its armory in Wllkesbarro; thu Klghtli regiment and tho Secontl Philadelphia troop ttru under canvas on thu top of n hill over looking Hhcnandoati; one hnttnlion of thu Twelfth and Governor's troops is in tho Pdntiior creek vnlloy, and ono bat talion of tho Twelfth is preserving order in thu city m' Lebanon, wheru thu Iron and steel workers aro situated. If thu disorder' continues, Oovoinot Hlouu will bu compelled to call out additional soldiers'.' U'liilu there has been no big goncrnl riot, tho disturbances hnvu been ofSttch n serious naturo as to causo tho autho rities much iipprohenrlon. Kvory effort is being made by thu sheriffs of tho several counties affected and tho troops to prut out disturnnces from growing to such an extent na to causo hloodshod, ' Reports aro coming in from uvery section ot nonunion mon nnd others being otthorfhotor clubbod. IIousos of workmon luivu been either burned or dynamited, nnd attempts lui7o been mndu to hold up coal trains or lentil, them. Coal is being shipped from many patfo Loftho coal fields to market,, but, complredjjivJth tho normal output, the qunttjls jnsiglflcant. Tho output for this week will W much floss than thu nvurngu pioductlon of ono day, which is about 2100,000 tons. Tho strikers assert that very little of tho coal is frofhly mined, nud that it is mostly coal washed from tho culm banks or has been stored at various points since tho striko began. ' PALMA PILES A PROTEST. Objects to United States Removing Cuban War Records. Havana, Sept. 2(1. Ono month ago President Pal ma wroto u letter" to Washington asking that nil tho mili tary records now In chargo of Chief Clerk Steinhnrt bu kopt in Cuba 'for at leust ono your, as they weru absolutely necessary to conduct government busi ness. President Palma did not receivu a satisfactory reply to this request, nud Inst week tho war department sent orders to its agents horo to send imme diately to Washington tho records of tho auditor's ofllco. Preparations aro being made to comply with thusu orders. President Palma, however, strongly objects to tho removal of the documents in question, and bus protested to Wash ington in thu matter. Ho buys thu Cuban government is now paying all tho expenses oi kcopingup thu auditor's ollico, and is willing to continue to do so, and that it is a' matter of justice to allow tho government to have easy ac cess to tho records. American Soldiers Restore Confidence. Colon, Colombia, Sept. 20. Tlireo companies of United Stule marines, who arrived hint on thu auxiliary cruiser Panther, litvo reached Panamn. Another company, consisting of 80 men, will bo kopt in Colon. Tho men of this latter company will hu used to guard thu daily trains across tho isth mus. Tlio 'onfhlunco of foreigners on the isthmus has been restored in a largo measure by tlio arrival of American men-of-war and the lauding of troops in that locality, and the guarding of trains by tho roldiers. No Tax on Philippine Cigars. Washington, Sept. 20. Thocommis- sinner of internal revenue, in a circular ' letter to collectors of internal revenue, calls attention to thu opinion of thu at torney general to thu effect that no in ternal revenue tax run lw assessed leg ally on cigars shipped from tho Philip pines, and directs ttint tho word "Phillppiiles" be imprinted on tho customs import stump attached to thu boxes containing these cigars. Macedonian Insurrection Growing. Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept. 20. Advices from Macedonia show that thu insur rectionary movement there is increas ing. Tho railroad and telegraph lines aru damaged in many places. NEWS OF OREGON ITFMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS OF THE STATE. Commercial and Financial Happenings of the Past Week Brief Review of the Orowtli nnd Development of Vnrlous Industries Throughout Our Common wealth Latest Atnrkct Report. Twenty-suvon bales of hops wero sold In Salem it few days ngo for 28 cents i wr pound. The nssessment toll of Columbia county shows tho total taxablo proper ty tobu worth $1,507,810. Oroion City schools nro in n very crowded condition, tho enrollment be ing larger than over before. Rain throughout tho Wlllainotto vnl loy has delayed prunu drying nnd it is feared may result in injury to tho crop. Largo crowtls attended thu opening of thu Kugunc carnival, despite thu rain. Tho business houses havou num ber of nice displays. Ranchmen in Josophinu county will' bo forced to use strenuous efforts to rid tho country of coyotes, which aru doing much damage to stock. Thu Knlom commercial club has tnken hteps to distrilmtu 80,000 pam phlets through thu Kust in thu interest of tho Wilhimutto vnlloy. A fren rural mail route has been rec ommended out of Forest Grove, hut there will bo some delay on account of being no map of Washington county roads. Thu Oregon blind school at Salem opened with 112 tttudeuts, thu same as Inst year, this institution costs thu statu about $7,000 a year, or $220 for each pupil. Thu session of tho Methodist confer ence just huld in Grunts Pass proved to bu tho bust ovor hold in the statu. Over 150 mumbors and dolcgutes wero in attendance. Tho registration at tho agricultural college is much larger than lasf. year. Both dormitories aro full nnd every available privato boarding house in town is taxed to its utmost. Ropoits show that thu Indian school at .Chomawa loads all others in tho Northwest. While tho' attendance nt thu other institutions is falling off, that school shows u marked increase. A movement has been started In Albany to print 75,000 pamphlets for advertising Linn county in tho Middlu West. Thu Salem school hoard has llxed tho fuhuloH of nil leathers in that city, other than principals, at $ 10 pur month. , Fruit growers in Polk county say that tho prunu crop will not only hu light tills year, but that brown rot has attacked the Italian prunes in iomu sections, and that Una will further do croasu tho yiold. Kugeno Horton, son of tho Oregon City postmnstui, lias received notice that hu has been selected us alternnto from tho First congressional district for admission to West Point, and has been ordered to roport to a lnurd of ofllcurs nt Vancouver Bin racks, Washington, for mental and physical examination. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Walla Walla, 02(2Jjio; blue stem, 04)ii05c; valley, C3804Ku. Barley Feed, $ 10.60 j browing $20.50. Flour Best grades, $3.053.75 per barrel; graham, $2.053.20. Millstufffi Bran, $17 per ton; middlings, $21.50; Bborts, $18) chop, $17. Oats No. 1 white, $1,001.02; gray, P5$$l. ' Hay Timothy, $101J; clom, $7.50; cheat, $8 pet ton. Potatoes Best Burbanks, 00(l5c percental; ordinary, 60065c per cen tal, growers prices; sweets, $2.00 2,25 par cental. Dutter Creamery, 2527Ko dairy 17J20o; store, 12&15o. Kggtt 22425o for Orogon. Choeso Full' cream, twins. 12$ (i513o;YoinigAmorica, 13Kl'l5o; fac tory priceB, 10 lKc lees. Poultry Chickens, mixed, $-1,60(3 5.00; hens, f 005.50 per doen, UCillc per pound; springs, 11Q llc per pound, $3,60(34.00 per doi en; ducks, $3.5005.00 per dozen; tur keys, live, 13014c, dressf!, 17018c per pound; geeco, $4.0000.00 per dozen. Mutton Gross, 2K03o lor pound; dresEed, Oe per pound. Hogs Gross, Cc; dressed, V&ls per pound. Veal 708c per pound. Beef Gross, cows, 33K", stoera, 3M04KO5 dressed, 007c per pound. Hops 10017c; now crop 20022c. Wool Valley,12K016;Ka8tern Oro gon, 8014Kc: mohaii, 25028c pound. APLEAN TRANSPORTS COLOA1UIANS. American Commander Curries Out Terms of Prospective Treaty. Washington, Supt, 25. Thu navy department is in receipt of tho follow ing cablegram from Commander Mc Lean, ot thu cruiser Cincinnati: "Colon, Sept. 22. Tho United States guards and guarantees t radio nnd tho lino of transit. Today I permitted tho exchange of Colombian troops from Panama to Colon, about 1,000 each way, tho troops without arms, in train guarded by American naval force In thu snmo manner as other passenguts. Arms und ammunition in separate train guarded also by naval force in thu same manner as other freight. McLHAN." A belief, which hns grown so strong that it can no longer bo disregarded, is held in Central and South American diplomatic centers hero, and it should bu stated that thu Impression prevails in spitu of emphatic expressions of high olllchtls of thu United States government to tho contrary, that tho largo naval force which hurl boon sent to keep tho trnllle open across thu isth mus will prevent, by its very prewnco, thu continuation of hostilities along tho. railroad on any extensive scale, and soon bring them to a halt altogether; that thu force has been sent there in anticipation of an early signature of tho Punuinu canal treaty, and that it will bo kept there to maintain order and quiet along the strip from Panama to Colon, which, by thu tonus of tho prospoctivo treaty, tlio Unltod Shitos is to control. TIAUJER CAN HE SAVED. If Taken Out of Iiurut District nnd Used Within Three Years. Portland, Sept. 25. J, A. Buckly, who controls a largo amount of timber hind in Sknmania county, Washington, in the region no recently devastated by thu forest II res, bus just returned from an inspection of the damage wrought by thu destructive blaze. Mr. Buckly says: "Tho flro worked eastward from Wind river to thu Lewis river (ountry, burning a strip of turritory from 10 to 15 miles widu all thu way. This strip is about 10 miles buck from the river and lies in nearly an easterly and westerly direction. Thu timber on eight or nine townships was destroyed, and it is estimated that it amounts to 4,000,000,000 or 5,000,000,000 feet in till. A good donl of it is simply killed, nud can be raved if it can he cut anil brought out within tho next four vcurs. "Tho fires weru started by careless, settlers and campers, who build a blso up against a big cedar log, and then go away and leave It burning, It soon spreads and then all Hie surrounding country becomes involved, Such fires wero started near Stovumon and Wash ougul, and they wero, I think, tho main causes for thu forust II res that fol lowed," PINS MIS PAITII ON PUBLIC. dumpers Says If They Knew the Situation the Strikers Would Win. Washington, Supt. 25, President Samuel Gompors, of thu American Federation of Labor, last night made an address before tlio Central Labor Union. He said lie believed that If thu people knew thu uxact conditions which have prevailed in Iho anthracite region for tlio past quarter of a cen tury they would ruisu such it hue und cry that thu men who own thu mines nnd thu operators would not dnro op posu thu strikers in their demands, so great would bu tho indignation of tho public. Resolutions weru adopted petitioning congress at its next session to institute n thorough investigation of tlio condi tions in thu anthracite coal region, with a view to remedial legislation. DEATH IN OAS EXPLOSION. Pour Miners nro Dead, Plve Injured, and Seven Atlsslng, Fulrmouut, W. Vn,, Sept. 25, Four men nro dead and five others aru lying in different wards ut tho Miners' hos pital here, suffering from cuts, brulscHi und other injuries us n result of n gas explosion nt a coal shaft located at Stafford, this cniintv, today. In ad dition to these, seven more men nro missing. Tliis evening a force of men urn searching thu mines for the lost miners. Thu disaster was caused by tho gas from u leaking pipe being ig nited from it lump curried by ouu of the miners now lying dead. United Mint-workers Recognized, Oiiurlustoii, W. Vn., Sept. 25, Tim Plymouth mines tonight signed thu. scalo promulgated by thu Huntington convention und agreed to recognize the United MinoworkciH of Amurlca. TIiIh will put about 500 men to work. Atujur Powell Dead, Hiivdu, My., Sept, 25, Mujpr J. W. Powell, director of thu bureau of eth nology of the SmltliBjiilan institute ut Washington, died nt his summer homo, here. Ho had been critically ill for some duys, ... m v'Vi " tiA