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TBE5 MORNING OBEGONIAN. THURSDAY, AUGUST 1Y, 1905
SAYS.MRS.TALBOT
TIB TO KILL
San Francisco Millionaire Re
plies to Charges Brought
in Divorce Suit.
WIFE HAS VIOLENT TEMPER
Shipowner Does Not Desire Separa
tion T'rom the Woman Who, He
Says, Has Made His
' Life a Burden.
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. lS.-(SpeciaL)-Wllllam
H. Talbot, of the firm of Pope &
Talbot shipowners, has made answer to
the charges brought against him by his
"Rife, Annie D. Talbot. In a suit for sep
arate maintenance and the custody of
their three children.
After nearly seven weeks of silence,
with the weight of the damaging accusa
tion full upon him during that entire pe
riod, the millionaire lumberman sets forth
his version of the differences existing be
tween himself and his wife, and asks the
court to believe him guiltless of cruelty
end neglect, with which he stands
charged.
It is a sad story the millionaire lumber
man has to tell, if ail he alleges in his
answer be true. It tells a Jife of misery,
of hopeless effort to retain the affection
of the woman who has borne his children
and upon whom, as he says, he has lav
ished all the love of an affectionate heart
and all the luxury and comfort that money
could bestow.
Mrs. Talbot's Violent Temper.
An Insanely jealous disposition on the
part of his wife, irregular habits, -violent
temper, at times reaching to attempts at
suicide and threats to kill, are among
causes he gives for estrangement between
the. mother of his children and himself,
and one instance in particular he relates
when his wife's insane rage so far mas
tered her that she discharged a pistol at
him, and was only by force restrained
from committing murder.
In all his story, Talbot says no word
against his wife's fidelity. The charge of
opium-eating, hinted at more than once
since the filing of the suit, finds no place
among the allegations of the answer.
Even drink is not mentioned by name, al
though It is said that evidence of Mrs.
Talbot's addiction to stimulants will be
offered when the case comes to trial.
Talbot contents himself with attributing
all his wife's unhappincss to the workings
of a disordered mind, and although he
makes some affirmative statements in the
conclusion, he does not ask that any de
cree of divorce or of separation be ac
corded him. He asks merely that Mrs.
Talbot take nothing by her suit and that
their conjugal and domestic relations be
ordered to remain in statu quo. In de
scribing a scene at the Manhattan Hotel,
in New York, Talbot says:
Wife Tries to Shoot Him.
"Mre. Talbot used toward this defend
ant violent, abusive, harsh and threaten
ing language, and she drew a pistol and
threatened to shoot defendant, and to pre- .
vent her from so doing this defendpjit
Seized her wrist and removed said pistol
from her hand, and that thereupon plain
tiff made a loud noise, attracting the at
tention of the servants and patrons of
said hotel, and threatened to obtain an
other pistol and carry out her murderous
and wicked design upon this defendant.
"Subsequently, she actually sent word
to the hotel proprietors, stating that this
defendant had taken away her pistol, and
requested said proprietor to send to her
another pistol in its stead. Upon said oc
casion, this defendant remained up all
night, endeavoring to quiet plaintiff and.
pleading with her to refrain from such
condition and return with him peacefully
to her home in San Francisco."
Talbot denies that the community prop
erty is worth $1,300,000, or that he has sep
arate property valued at $1,000,000. He
says J2500 a month Is not a necessary al
lowance ror him to make her, and that
6he has the Redwood City property and
ample money to pay her own cost of suit
and counsel fees.
The Talbots are among the wealthiest
people in California, and own a handsome
mansion in San Francisco.
WATER RIGHTS ON THE YAKIMA
Suit Begun by Prosser Falls Land
& Irrigation Company.
NORTH YAKIMA. Wash.. Aug. 16.
(Special.) Litigation to adjudicate the
water rights of the various canal com
panies and Individuals of the Yakima
Valley was begun in the Superior Court
this afternoon by E. F. Benson, of the
Prosser Falls Land & Irrigation Com
pany. In a long petition filed late this
afternoon he asks the court to issue a
restraining order against the following
companies and individuals temporarily to
enjoin them from diverting the water
from the Naches and Yakima Rivers un
til the case is finally settled:
Wafhlnston Irritation Company, Selah &
Moxle Canal Company, "Wapato Ditch Com
pany, Yakima Valley Canal Company, Taktma
Construction & Irrigation Company. Wowler
Ditch Company. Moxfee Companr. -Natch
Canal Company. Rich. & Gilbert Company,
Cascade Canal. C. A. Bryant, Clara C. Bryant,
E. C Peck. Theodore WelBburger, George
Hayea. H. M. Gilbert. C. H. Richey, Henry
H, Lombard, Frank Horsley, Superintendent
Jay Lynch, of the reservation; Engineer W.
H. Rodman, of the reservation, and Chief
Engineer W. H. Code, of the Indian Reclama
tion Department.
It is alleged by the plaintiff company
that by reason of the low flow of water
in the river this Summer and by the
large diversion by the canals and indi
viduals above mentioned, the Prosser
Falls Land & Irrigation Company is un
able to furnish water, lltrht and power to
Prosser and the land adjacent The com
pany alleges a prior right to S30 cubic
feet of water per second of time out of
the Yakima, and It says the object of the
suit Is to have the plaintiff declared the
owner of such amount.
DESIRE CORVALIiIS INVESTORS
Water Bonds Bear Interest at the
Rate of Four Per Cent.
CORVALLIS. Or.. Aug. 16. (Special.)
The local water board, which is author
ized to construct a $75,000 water system
for bringing mountain water to this city,
is asking local Investors as to what
amount of bonds they will subscribe for
when the $75,000 bond Issue-is ready to be
offered the public The Incident is pre
liminary to the floating of the bonds,
which will be offered for sale in the course
of a few weeks. They are to bear 4 per
cent, with Interest payable semi-annually.
Engineer Miller, who is to be chief en
gineer In the construction of the works,
left here yesterday to do surveying for
the proposed gravity system at Independ
ence. He Is to return, to start out next
Monday for a re-survey-of the proposed.
pipe-line to Rock Creek, with a view to
permanent location of the route. The
pipe-line will he from 13 to 1SH miles in
length, and the estimated cost is about
$75,000.
SANDS TO BE TESTED FOR ORE
Government Expert Day Collects
Samples In Gray's Harbor.
ABERDEEN. Wash.. Aug. 16. (Spe
cial.) Dr. Davis T. Day. of Portland, in
charge of the mining department of the
United States geological survey, who hs,i
baen in this section examining the sands
of ttie Pacific, this morning shipped to
Portland 3000 pounds of sand taken from
the bottom of the harbor channel at Cow
Point and two tons from Damon's Point,
which will be tested for their mineral-
bearing properties. It is said that chrome
iron ore existed In valuable quantities.
Samples of the sand will also be taken
from other portions of the harbor and at
points along the ocean.
Altogether, experiments are to be made
from 500 varieties of sands taken at vari
ous places along the Pacific Ocean from
the Columbia River north.
KICKED MARSHAL- IN; STOMACH
Montesano 3Ian Was Resisting Ar
rest for Disorderly Conduct.
ELMA, Wash.; Aug. 16. (Special.) City
Marshal C. E. Clay was violently kicked
by a man named Samuel Tremain, of
Montesano, whom he was trying to ar
rest for disorderly conduct and disturb
ing the peace. The blow struck Clay In
the abdomen jendering him helpless and
he was at once taken to the Elma Gen
eral Hospital where an operation was
necessary. Clay is still in a very critical
condition.
Tremain was later arrested for resist
ing an officer, tried before Justice Porter,
bound over in $2000 bail, and, in default of
which was taken to the County Jail at
Montesano.
TIME LIBRARIES READY
PURCHASED FOR USE OF SMALL-
TOWNS OF OREGON.
Secretary of Commission Will Go on
a Tour of the State to Consult
Prospective Patrons.
SALEM. Or., Aug. 16. (SpeclaL)-The
traveling library system has been inaug
urated in Oregon by the purchase of ten
libraries of 60 books each. These libraries
containing choice selections of good liter
ature, will arrive in two or three weeks
and will be placed in Oregon towns
whose people seem to be most likely to
appreciate the value of a free library.
use of the books will be free to all of
the people of the communities In which
they are placed, the only charge made
being the cost of transporting the books,.
wnich will probably be about 50 cents on
a case of 60 books. The town in which
a library is placed may keep it six months
and then get a new set of books.
The ten libraries, costing $50 each, were
purchased by Secretary Caroline Marvin.
of the library commission, with money
donated by Mrs. J. E. Hoffman, of Port
land, who has observed the good work
accomplished by this system In other
states and wishes to give it a start in
Oregon. No two of the ten libraries will
be alike: so these books, if moved from
one town to another every six months,
will keep each town supplied with good
reading matter for five years.
The traveling libraries will be sent to
small towns and villages which are not
able to maintain public libraries. The
only requirement is that a local library
association be formed to take charge of
the books and guarantee their return to
the library commission. The local asso
ciation will select some person to keep
the books, preferably the postmaster or
some storekeeper, whose place of "busi
ness is easy of access to the public. Use
of the books will not be limited to mem
bers of the association, but any resi
dent of the community may take the
books out and read them without charge.
Secretary Marvin has not yet determ
ined which towns will first be favored
with the use of a free traveling library.
She will visit a number of towns and
talk the matter over with the people and
see how much interest they take in It.
Factories Will Have to Pay Fee.
OLYMPIA. Wash.. Aug. 16. (Special.)-
Upon the advice of the Attorney-General,
the State Labor Commissioner will at
tempt to compel all concerns affected by
the factor' Inspection act of 1905 to pay
the $10 fee and submit to Inspection
whether they desire to do so or not. The
Attorney-General holds that Inspection is
compulsory upon the Labor Commissioner
and upon the concern Inspected. Failure
on the part of a business subject to In
spection to pay the fee when called upon
or refusal to post a certificate of inspec
tion lays the concern liable to prose
cution for misdemeanor, and gives the
state ground for a civil action to compel
payment.
There are several thousand factories,
mills and workshops subject to inspec
tion, but only 278 have so far voluntarily
advanced the fee and requested Inspec
tion. Forged Name to a Mortgage.
HILLSBORO. Or.. Aug. 16. (Special.)
Casper Mexor. a Bavarian, was today re
manded to jail by Judge H. T. Bagley
In default of $S00 bail, upon the charge of
forging the name of John Becker to a
chattel mortgage. It Is said Mexor. who
neither speaks nor understands' the En
glish language, was Induced to sign the
name by his niece, Mrs. Henry Becker,
who Is a stepmother of the man whose
name was forged. Becker and wife last
Fall gave the stepson a chattel mortgage
for $500, and this Spring the Beckers sep
arated and the woman sued for divorce.
After the suit was brought the uncle
forged the assignment In order to give
Mrs. Becker title to the personal property.
It is not thought that Mexor knew what
he was doing. He is a man of perhaps
60 years of age, and has no means.
31111s Are Listed as Machinery.
BOISD. Idaho. Aug. 16. (Special.) The
State Board of Equalization spent the
day in consideration of the livestock
schedules. Tomorrow will be devoted to
hearing the rajlway men. Auditor Bragn
wa received a dispatch from the Auditor
of Bear Lake today stating the two
grist mills that had disappeared In that
county were listed but had been scheduled
as machinery.
Drops Dead in Idaho Mine.
WALLACE. Idaho, Aug. 16. With his
face lying in a pool or water, the body of
Hugh Paulson, a miner, was found today
In the California mine. Paulson was
wroklng in a drift when he was suddenly
taken ill. He started from the mine, but
fell dead before reaching the surface.
Later miners passing through the tunnel
stumbled over the body. Apoplexy was
the cause of death.
Chamberlaln't Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy.
There Is probably no medicine made
thaiJls relied upon with more Implicit
confidence than Chamberlain's Colic, Chol
era and Diarrhoea Remedy. During the
third of a century In which it has been
in use. people have learned that it Is
the one remedy that never falls. When
reduced with water and sweetened It Is
pleasant to take. For sale by all druc-gists.
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Salmon Run in Columbia Much
Lighter Than in 1904.
NINE DAYS YET TO FISH
After August 25 Packers Promise
to Cease Buying and WW Aid
Officers in Observation
of Closed Season.
ASTORIA. Or.. Aug. 16. (Special.) The
fishing season thus far, while by no means
a iailure; has been a disappointment to
the different Interests engaged In the In
dustry, as the big runs. of salmon, which
were confidently expected during the pres
ent month, have not yet made their ap
pearance. There was, however, a fair
amount of fish coming during the greater
part of the season, and as a result eome
of the glllnetters, especially thopc who
drift In the lower harbor, have done
fairly well, but the majority of trappers
and seiners have made very poor catches
and the Indications are that some of them
at least will suffer heavy losses.
That the cannery pack is short is cer
tain, but Just how great a shortage there
will be Is Impossible to state now with
any degree of accuracy. It Is safe to say
that with but nine days of the season
left, the pack of canned goods will not
be more than 70 or 75 per cent of the
amount put up In 19CH and It may fall
below that figure. With the -light catch
now being made, the cannerymen are
striving to pack sufficient cases to fill
their contracts with the Chinese crews
and for that reason some of them are
putting up half-pound cans almost ex
clusively, whereas under other conditions
they would be packing pounds.
Another thing that the packers are
forced to contend with Is the large num
ber of tulles or whltefish that have come
In recently, and while many of them are
being canned, they are of a low quality
and bring such pmall prices that some
of the canners will not handle them.
The cold-storage men have, however.
been more fortunate. The early runs of
salmon were comprised principally of
large fish and as all these go to the cold-
storage plants, the pack of pickled salmon
Is quite heavy and will be considerable In
excess of that of last season. This Is
said to be the branch of business In which
there is the greater amount of profit, and
as nearly all canneries have cold-storage
plants In connection, none of them is
liable to suffer any serious loss from
the season s work.
Nothwlthstandlng tho fact of the short
cannery pack, there will not be. as near
as can be learned, any attempt on- the
part of the packers to violate the closed
season, which begins at noon on Friday,
August 25. When the law was changed
extending the season, the packers prom
ised to not only strictly obey the law.
but to also assist the officers In enforcing
the closed season. This they did last I
Spring by subscribing money to rent a
patrol-boat for the Deputy Fish Warden
to use in cruising about the river. Fish
Warden Van Dusen and the Washington
officers have announced that everything
In the fishing line must stop on August
26 and continue shut down until Septem
ber 10. when the Fall season opens. Mr.
Van Dusen. when questioned about the
matter today, replied:
Tou can say that the dosed-reason law will
be enforced, anS etrlctly, too. The law ears
that nahlns must stop at noon on August 23.
and Immediately after 12 o'clock on that day
we ahalf begin pi troll Ins: the river. The
Washington authorities will alio have & boat
out .and between u we should and will cover
the river thoroughly.
No packing of flan will be permitted after
the 25th. With Ashing plopped at noon, the
plants can easily clean up their flh that
night .and they mutt do ro, If at all. and
any raw nh found after that time will bo
confiscated. My deputies will receive Instruc
tions to make arreeta whenever there is a
suspicion that the law 1? being violated, and
let the matter be tried out In the courts.
No, I do not anticipate any trouble from
the canners or cold-rtorage people, as all ap
pear anxious to enforoe the law as It now
stands. I have no state patrol boat, and laat
Spring the packers subscribed . funds to hire
one. I expect they will do the same this
Fall. Anyway. I shall ee that the dosed
reason Is irtrictly observed from the moment
It begins -until it ends.
Big Catches on the Fraser.
NEW WESTMINSTER, b! C. Aug. 16.
(Special.) There was a great race be
tween the fishermen on the Fraser River
and a school of fish this morning. The
school entered the river about 2 A. M..
and traveled slowly up stream. The fish
ermen, who have been fishing below the
Ftaser-Rlver bridge, fished In their own
district and as the school moved up the
river they got tugs to tow their boats
up so that they might get above the
school and drop down to them.
The experiment proved successful and
In several cases one drift put a thousand
fish Into a boat and caused them to cap
sire. Most of the fish were loaded into
scows provided for the purpose. The fish
ing on the river Is being done in schools
and many fishermen fishing for canneries
where no limit exists have made in one
night $300.
E AT MOUNT
A. G. M'KAMEY SHOOTS HIM
SELF WITH REVOLVER.
Said to Have Brooded Over Fate of
Old Man Murdered and
Burtied in Cabin.
HOOD RIVER, Or., Aug. 16. (Spe
cial.) A. G. McKamey committed sui
cide at his home at Mount Hood early
this morning by shooting himself
through the head. The first report of
the tragedy was that another murder
had been cpmmltted in the Upper Val
ley, where so many mysteries have de
veloped within recent years, and Sheriff
Sexton was aroused from his home at
The Dalles and arrived here on the
early morning train. But meager details
of the affair are obtainable.
Mrs. McKamey states that a groan
attracted her to her husband's room,
where she saw him with a revolver in
his hand. Realizing her husband's con
dition, she fled with her little children
to the home of a neighbor, when a mes
senger was dispatched from the nearest
telephone.
Dr. Shaw, of this city, hurried at
once to the scene, reaching there short
ly after C o'clock. He found McKamey
had died a few minutes before. The
dead man lay on his bed with his head
in a pool of blood and a pistol on the
floor. A hole In the right templo
showed distinctly the path of the bul
let Owing to a delayed train Coroner
Burget will not reach the scene of the
suicide before tomorrow noon, when
an Inquest will be held to clear up tho
mystery and protect tho young wife,
the only near witness of the tragedy.
There 1b no known motive for the
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iced. Neighbors say the man had brood
ed over the Rels affair. The two had
not been friends, Rels having threat
ened McKamey's life. It Is said. Mc
Kamey was a member of the Coroner's
Jury which charged Frank Rels, now
waiting trial In the Wasco County-Jail,
with the murder of old man Foes,
whose charred remains were found In
the ruins of his lonely cabin one Max
day morning.
McKaroey left a brother. H. C. Mc
Kamey, and three sisters. He was about
40 years old. He was married about one
year ago to a widow woman from Linn
County, whose parents, Mr. and Mrs.
John James, visited here last month
McKamey was honest. Intelligent and
respected by his neighbors.
The Violence of 3Ir. SUlnsky.
TACOMA, Wash., Aug. 16. (Special.)
When her husband threatened to kill her
because she would not consent to his pur
chasing a counterfeiting outfit and be
lieving her life to be In danger, Mrs.
Sophia Sillnsky says. In her divorce com
plaint, filed today, that she left her hus
band. Albert Sillnsky, at Portland in July,
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Mrs. Sillnsky says her husband went to
Alaska and she came to Tacoma. He
appears to have been a man of violent
temper. She says they were married In
Vancouver, Wash., October 15, 1S93. On
one occasion, while at dinner, she says
he became eo enraged that he seized a
knife and hurled It at her, striking her
on the arm.
Johnson Is a Deserter.
ASTORIA. Or., Aug. 16. (Special.)
Mayor. Suprenant received a letter
from the vfavy Department today stat
ing that George Albert Johnson, who
enlisted In the Navy from Astoria, la
a deserter. Johnson was conected with
the reserve torpedo flotilla, stationed
at Norfolk, Va.. at the time of his de
sertion.
STQRY0FH1S MARRIED LIFE
LAWYER COLLINS RELATES IT
AT JUDGE'S REQUEST.
Left His Home so That Agnes (New
man, His Wife, 3Iight
Reside Therein.
VICTORIA, B. C, Aug. 16. The extradi
tion case against George D. Collins, the
lawyer who levanted from San Francisco,
when under prosecution for bigamy, and
who was arrested here under a charge
preferred at San Francisco of perjury, is
almost ended before Judge Lampman.
The evidence is all in. the last being
given this afternoon by Collins at the
Judge's request, detailing his life with
Agnes Newman, whom he alleges he mar
ried by civil contract and later went
through a church ceremony, which other
witnesses swore was a marriage with
Charlotta. Newman.
Collins said Agnes Newman previously
hsd always been acknowledged his wife,
but because she was obliged to support
her family, he left his domicile so that
they could come there and reside. Col
lins went, he said, to hotels and lodging
houses and devoted nearly all his time
to his profession, seeing his wife, Agnes,
about three times a month. Agnes New
man had been burled publicly as his
wife and the coffin-plate had her name
as Agnes Collins, Charlotta Nowman and
others of the family being present at
the funeral and taking no exception.
Witness denied that he had ever married
Charlotta Newman, as she averred in
the maintenance suit. In which the per
jury ""as stated to have been committed
by denying that marriage. Tomorrow
counsel will sum up the evidence and
all that will then remain will be the de
cision of the Judge as to whether Collins'
Is to be extradited or not.
Examining Seining Grounds.
ASTORIA, Or., Aug:. 16. (Special.)
E. W. Ross, Land Commissioner for the
State of Washington, arrived here this
morning1 and In company with the at
torneys interested In the case went
across the river to examine the seining
grounds near Frankfort, over which a
contest is pending between Andrew Pe
terson and Edward Elliott. The trip
today was simply to afford the Land
Commissioner an opportunity to view
the lands in dispute.
Mr. Peterson claims the sands as an
accretion to his seining grounds and
Elliott, alleging they are new grounds,
has filed a petition to purchase them
from the state.
Idaho Convict Escapes.
BOISE, Idaho. Aug. 16 (Special.) A
convict named Joseph Lawrence, serving
a -term for burglary committed in Wash
ington County, escaped a guard at the
Penitentiary today and seems to have
been successful In eluding his pursuers.
He was working with a gang on some
ditches. The guard turned and walked
eome 33 feet to get a drink of water.
When he looked over his gang again
Lawrence was gone. He left his striped
shirt and trousers. It appears that
clothes had been left for hlra.
The point where he emerged from tho
ditch was In an orchard and the trees
screened him from observation.
Bounty Frauds in Montana.
HELENA. Mont.. Aug. 16. County At
torney Lyndes, of Roseaurg County, is
here conferring with state officials about
alleged bounty frauds preferred against
ex-County Clerk C. W. Bailey, L. R.
Terrett. J. W. Sclvidgc and Harry Wright,
all of Forsythe, who have been arrested
and released on ball pending a preliminary
hearing, September 4, on the charge of
defrauding the state out of a large sum
of money, said to be about XSOCO.
It Is alleged they marketed fraudulent
bounty warrants for wild animals in 1901.
The accused claim, political spite is back
of the charges.
Endeavors to Boycott Sunday Paper.
NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C.. Aug. 16.
(Special.) At a meeting of tho Provin
cial Christian Endeavor of British Co
lumbia held In this city last night at
which over 200 representatives were pres
ent, a resolution was passed to boycott
the Sunday edltiqn of the Vancouver
World, which had its first issue on Sun
day last with colored supplement at
tached. The mode of boycott will be for
each endedvorer to refrain from purchas
ing and prevent all possible from buying
the Sunday edition of the World.
Badly Hurt in Hoqulam Mill.
HOQUIAM. Waah., Aug. 15. (SpeclaL)
Ennls Stanton, while at work at the
Gray's Harbor mill this morning, suf
fered the breaking of his collarbone, the
crushing of his left foot and a concussion
of the back of his skull, caused by the
upsetting of a truckload of lumber upon
hlra In the mlllyard. His injuries are re
garded as serious.
Stanton is a nephew of Mr. Hanson, of
the mill company, and had Just como to
this city from the Eastern States.
Fined for Assault on Mate.
HOQUIAM. Wash., Aug. 16. (Special.)
John Benson was fined $25 In the Justice
Court today for an assault upon H. B.
Nelson, mate of the tug Daring. Nelson
was assaulted ten davs an at Westnnrt
by several men. two of whom were arrest
ed last weeK and fined. Sheriff Graham
has been searchlne for Benson and se
cured him yesterday.
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Nitro-GIycerin Plant at Point!
Isabella, Cal., Destroyed.
FOREMAN LOSES HIS LIFE
Chinese Workmen's Bodies Filled
With Silvers of Glass Driven by
Force of Explosion Res
cuers Are Nearly Killed.
BERKELEY. Cal.. Aug. 16. One man
was killed and a dozen seriously In
jured In an explosion which destroyed
the nitroglycerin house of the Judson
Dynamite & Powder Company, at Point
Isabella, this afternoon. Edward Edrls.
foreman of the nitroglycerin depart
ment, ost his life. He was blown Into
atoms, with the buildings where he
worked.
The Injured, who will nil survive, are
Chinese who were employed In the mlx-lns-room,
I'd 9 feet from the nitro
glycerin plant. They were stunned by
the force of the explosion, bruised by
being thrown against walls, and suf
fered intensely from the myriad of silv
ers of glass blown Into their bodies.
when the windows of the room where
they worked were shattered. Tholr
room resembled a slaughter-house so
badly did they bleed from the wounds
caused by glass.
A second explosion followed an hour
after the first, destroying- the mixing
worlcs, about 5 feet from the wrecked
nltro-glycerln plant. The shock was
groater than the original explosion, the
sky bein; darkened by the enormous
volumes of smoke that arose. This lator
explosion was due to the Igniting: of
powder particles and acid on the
ground In tne vicinity.
Twenty men had a narrow escape In
the second explosion, being saved from
Injury by the warning of Edward
Smith, an employe of tho powder works,
who saw the acid trickling from the
building to the ground, near where a
number of men. Including employes, of
ficials, newspaper men and others were
investigating the cause of the original
explosion.
Smith shouted a warning and tho
party all fled. In a few moments came
a tremendous explosion, destroying the
building but causing no fatalities. The
property loss Is about $15,000.
HUSTON IS OUT FOR CONGRESS
Hillsboro Lawyer Confident Ho Can
Win the Nomination.
HILLSBORO, Or., Aug. IS. (Special.)
Hon. S. B. Huston. ex-State Senator, last
evening publicly made the announcement
that he was In the race for the nomina
tion for Congress to succeed Hon. BInger
Hermann. Mr. Huston stated that he
only consented to enter the fight after
earnest solicitation upon the part of his
political friends from all parts .of the
district. A trip to the South has convinced
him that he can land the nomination.
By reason of a term In the State Sen
ate and an extensive law practice. Mr.
Huston Is well known over the State, and
he should run ahead of the Hermann vote
If nominated. Mr. Huston says that In
case he Is defeated for- the nomination
he will give the successful nominee his
heartiest support.
Fined for Killing Deer.
HILLSBORO. Or.. Aug. 16. (Special.)
Judge H.. T. Bagley today fined George
Armentrout. Charles F. Miller. Sam Var-
ley and Charles Stevens, of Forest Grove.
$25 each for violation of the game law,
relative to killing deer. The party of four
went out Into the Gales Creek district and
landed a five-pronged buck. It Is author
itatively stated that the man who killed
the deep Is a well-known pioneer, aged 73
years and that the weapon -used was tho
first Marlln rifle ever brought to Wash
ington County.
The Joke of the proceeding Is the fact
that 'the hunters gave a piece of the
venison to the Justice of the Peace.
named Adkins. on Gales Creek, and when
the officers searched the place he
."peached" on the party. The minimum
fine was Imposed.
2000 Elks Will Gather 'Round
The tall and beautiful trees at
THE
Tonight, and with hands clasped, sing "ATJLD LANG SYNE."
This will happen when the "11 o'clock" toast is proposed. The
usual great crowds will he there, and all the attractive amusement
features will he run in full-blast. The initiation of candiates to the
GIANT WHIRL,
CHUTES,
FERRIS WHEEL
MAZE,
BUMPS,
Will commnce at 7 and end at 12 P. M., but the last O. W. P. & Ry.
car stays till 1 o'clock. D'Urbano's fine band will give choice selec
tions, The Oaks Tavern serve to your heart's content, and the pretty
little Geishas offer tea, and there will be special fireworks display op
posite the "Board Walk" by the Willamette. Tuesday, August 22,
the Foresters of America.
The Event of All Events
.. Two weeks, commencing Monday even
ing. August 2S. Pain's stupendous, thrill
ing spectacle. The LAST DAYS OF POM
PEII and gorgeous I200O nightly display
of Pain's MANHATTAN BEACH FIREWORKS.
Can your appetite conceive
anything more toothsome
than a sweet delicious choco
late cake and a cup of creamy
Ghirardelli's Ground Choco
late? A pantry without Ghirar
delli's Is like a garden without
roses.
Smoother 2nd more economical
than ake chocohie.
GHIRARDELLIS
GROUND
CHOCOLATE
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