The
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VOL. VIII.
IIILLHIIOUO, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEM.UA1.Y 13, 1902.
NO. 48.
EVENTS OF .THE DAY
PROM THE FOUR QUARTERS
THE WORLD.
OP
A Comprehensive Review of the Important
oippe-Jngi of the Put Week PrtMnUd
M bmaented Tom Which li Most
likely lo Prova of Interest lo Our Many
Ruder.
Northern Pacific) iwlliiinioti Hi Mii
oiila, Mont., are un strike.
Yoiiiik Teddy Roosevelt l vilghtly
UUr, although thi crlsl lit not ynt
passed.
Han Francisco chamber ( commerce
favor the admission of Chinese mer
chant. F.iigland ml Japan have formed mi
alliance (or the preservation ol p'hliia
and ("orea.
J Colombia offer the t'nltl States
guaranteed title to a waterway for the
tuimlrut'tloii ol a 4'miihI .
(inventor Tuft favor bringing soma
native KiliptiKM lo this country and ed
ucating them.
The MarquU of Duflprln, ex-governor
general of Canada ami ex-viceroy of
India, In dead.
Alaskan Steamer Ashore on Harold Island
All On Board Meks land. ,
Port Townsend, Vli. , Feb. 13.
Another steamship ha Umn added to
the lung list of wreck along tlie AIum-
mi shores. The Cottage City, arriving
might, bring new of the wreck of the
Alaskan 'oniiuuruittl Company' steam-
er ltertha, on Harold island, near the
n trance of FiUhugh nound, north of
Queen Churlotta sound. The Jlortlia
sailed from Seattle for Vulileii lust I rl-
lay, having 41 pMWgent, among
whom were 12 meinlicr of the t'uihxl
Statu army signul corps, bound for
Valde, while, other were hoiiml for
nterior HiititM.
All went well with the Bertha until
Katunluy night, when the weather net
In thick, mill Smiduy morning at 12:30
NO SUCCESS ITHOUT IT.
No brIIIUnt success In business it
on record where the value oi iw
ppr advertising wu not recofniied
end employed with proiit. Oihkoth
Times.
Fire lit Springfield, 111., did over a
million dollar damage.
A new geyser h lieen fount! In the
Yellowstone National park.
TIt strongly opoe the Importation
if t hineen to the Philippine.
More fighting In reimrled between the
aotvrnnmiit trooi ana the rebel ol
Vetieeuela.
Sentiment lor reduction ol rate on
Philippine Import I gaining ground In
the senate.
A IVtmit Irnnk wa wrecked by one
of It official, who la charged, w ith
taking 1,0U0,U00.
The pant week In the Tranavaal waa
the llvelieet, with heavy lome on taith
aldna, for eoiue time.
1 The Iom to raUron, N. J., U now
kplannl at f H.OOC.OOO, hut the city la not
In tietxl of oimlile alii.
Klevnn person lout tlielr live in a
Ht. Umla Are.
Krltinh fn nave captured many
1W during the at woek,
Younit Theoilora Kooeevelt. while
very Uk, la not wtmlilered dangermia
Klre at PaUron, N. J., canned a Urn
of flO.OOO.OOO and left at Ul 1,000
famlllea homelem.
The foreign mnauU at Tanaum have
nolifieil the rebel leader Hurrera that
they will remain neutral.
The nreiililent wtoed the reoommend
atinn that he be breveted colonel and
brigadier general for meritorious aerv
lw In the war with Hj.ain.
Roar Admiral Sainpaon ha bwn re-
tln-d.
BERTHA 18 WRECKED.
ELEVEN MEET DEATH.
NEWS OF THE STATE
rUl Nm In a St Louit MoUl-Stvcral
Oangcrouily lnurtd.
tl. Lou!, Feb. 12. An early morn
lug flru which ditroytl lurge tlirue
Ntory dwelling houne iM-cupitxl by men
exrluiitvely, cailmil the (loath of 11 per
nii ID inon and one woman and
'lungerotiHly injurwl wveii other. A
io.n or more who had nurrow e'a'
from death received Iikm aoriou injuries
or were froxlhitUni. It 1 extlinativl
tlmt betweeu il' and 40 'rwin worn in
the building at tin) time the fire broke
out, and it ia believed that all have
been uo iiimti'il for. The flnanvial loos
i nominal. It 1 thought that f 10,000
will .vivor the duuiugti to building and
Content, w hii-h were totally deHtroyed.
The fire atarttnl about - 3:30 A. M.,
when few Mtopl were abroad, and
TEM8 OF INTEREST FROM ALL
PARTS OF OREQON.
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Cemratrdal and financial flappcnlaji of Ira.
. porUnca A Brief Review of the Growth
and lproveaent( of the Many Industrie
Throoghout Our Thrrvlnf, Oonmonweelth
IVnillotou ba derided to adopt a re
trenchment policy, the firMtactof which
wa to let one pollonmau go.
Aahland la iuveetigatlng the matter
f a comprehensive aewer ytin for
the city. An estimate place the coet
at 20,000.
A company ia being organized to con
struct seven telephone line from Pen
dleton to the amall outlying district
which are not at present aupplied.
A petition i being circulated In and
around Baker City asking emigres to
set aside Crater lake and adjacent land
sulliciunt to make a national park.
The price of hop continue to ad
vance steadily. Buyer around Halem
are offering 13X cent per imiiiikI, but
the growera in most case refuse to sell
at that priiv.
The Wasco Warehoune Milling Com
pany has Just made a shipment of 10,-
uwj sacka oi nour to I Inna. This ia
the first shipment of flour from Wasco
county to n foreign market.
The largest real estate deal in the
history of I'matilla county, was con
suniated when J. E. Smith puchased
.50,000 acre of land. The deal also hi
cludea 180,00 head of sheep. The price
pa lii wa 9200,000.
JOSEPH R. WHITNEY.
A well known Oregon newspaper man and txlitor of the Iaily and Weekly
Herald, of Alluinv. He I a candidate for the nomination for Mate Printer on
the lSepuhliian ticket. He was born in Marion County, I a graduate of
the I'niversity of Oregon, and ho been engiigcil in the newspain r businos for
nearly 20 year.
Sampson ha filed a brief with the
president protesting against Kchley'e
claim.
(lermany'i colonial policy has proven
(allure,
The senate haa pasmnl the pension
appropriation bill.
Theodore Roonovolt, Jr., la seriously
ill with pneumonia.
The trouble at the Colorado School of
Mine ha been settled.
Kngland, America and Japan will op
pose the Manchtirlan treaty.
The aultan of Turkey ha sentenced
hia brother-in-law to be killed.
Holland refuse to have anything
mora to do with the pence proposal.
A severe snow atorm li raging In
Texaa. ,
England will abandon her right In
Wol Hal Wei.
The senate has paaed the urgency
deficiency bill.
Fire at Albany, N. Y., destroyed
$50,000 worth of property.
President Roosevelt and wife are vis
iting the Charleston exposition.
European powera are (till disputing
over thoir attitude during the Spanish
war.
Thirteen norsona were killed and at
leant 100 injured by a gai explosion at
Chicago.
The woolgrowers' convention placed
itself on record In favor of oleo
margarine. Representative Newlands, of Nevada,
Introduced a resolution In the house for
the annexation of Cuba.
the vessel struck on Harold Island.
All the passenger were In bed, and the
shock caused great confusion and a
stamiiedo wa made for the upper deck.
Captain Johansen and the iillicera of
the hip restored order In a abort time,
and on Investigation it was found that
the vessel wa in such close proximity
to the shore that the gangplank would
reach an elevated rock. The passen
ger at once walked ashore, and later
bedding and baggage were landed, and
a camp aa made ou barren rocks.
On the approach of tiuyiigtit the
work id lightering the vessel waa com
menced by landing horse and other
freight. A kedge anchor wa put out,
and the vessel hauled into deep water
with the aid of the donkey engine, but
a atsjn as deep water was struck ahe
lxgaii to sink, The vessel wa swung
on the bench. Fhe has lost her keel,
ami there is a large hole in her Ixittom
forward engine room, and It ia believed
she will he a total loss.
gained much headway before it was dis
covered ami the alarm given. There
was considerable delay In turning in an
alarm, and when the engines Anally
reached the scene, the w hole front of
the building was in flame and the in
tenor wu a mottling furnace. By that
time all who escied death had got out
of the building by jumping from the
window or climbing down rope made
of bedclothes. A few escaped on the
K mil ml floor through the front door,
Several escape were very narrow
Every one who got out suffered some
injury or was frost, bitten. Some barely
had time to got out when aroused, the
tinmen had spread so rapidly. Some
saved their ciotlilng,Jvthich they carried
in their hands, but other were not no
fortunate, losing everything.
COST OF OUR NAVY.
A farmer and wife, living near New
York, received a legacy of 5,000 from
a man whom, aa a hungry wanderer,
thoy befriended 18 years ago, -
Herbert Oicknese waa sent to jail at
Fort Wayne, Ind., for contempt of
court. lie persisted In calling on hia
wife, who is suing fur divorce.
Potcr Qulnn, aged 35, who inherited
a fortune from lila father, squandered
it in high living and baa juat died in
New York, a homeless wanderer,
Ship aad Rtpaln Since 1883 Itave Cost Over
$100,000,000.
Washington, Feb. 13. Tho new navy
has ciwt the United States t ,)tt,H03,928
for construction ami 10,343,233 for re-
pnira on completed vessels. . These flg'
urea were supplied In a statement for
warded to the senate by the secretary of
the navy in reswnse to a resolution
adopted by the senate In February,
1901. Tho facts are all given In tab
ular form, without explanatory text.
In addition to the expenditures made
on vospcls now afloat there are several
ships in course of construction. These
include the Kentucky and the Rear
sarge, on each of which an expenditure
of 14,000,000 haa been authorized, and
tho Illinois, Indiana and Alabama, on
each of which an expenditure of 3,
850,000 is authorized. There are also
several smaller vessels In course of con
struction which will bring the total up
to a considerable extent when the ves
sel are completed.
The statement covera the period from
1883 and begins with the building of
tho Chicago, Atlanta and Boston. Of
the completed vessels the Oregon cost
the greatest amount 90,575,033. The
Massachusetts Is second In point of cost
90,047,175. The cost of tho Maine
was 94,077,788. '
Negotiation! Agiln Opened.
Constantinople, Feb. 13, The Amer
ican delegates remaining at Seres,
Macedonia, after the failure recently of
the negotiations for the ransoming of
.the abducted missionary, have again
opened negotiations,
Bl Publlthere Asilgn.
Boston, Feb. 13. Small, Maynard &
Co., publishers, of this city, have made
an assignment. No statement of asset
and liabilities is given.
MINDANAO GOVERNOR RESIGNS
TEN MILLION DOLLAR FIRE.
The flax mill at Salem is now au
assured fact.
The receipta of The Dalle land oflicej
tor Jauuary were nearly 110,000.
Ir. W. D. Jeffrie, for 40 year
practicing physician of Salem, ia dead.
Placer miners of Southern Oregon
gladly hail the rains of the past few
days. '
The Willamette river at Albany is
lower than for many year at thi time
oi the year.
Stpe have been taken by the busi
ness men ot Koaeburg to organize i
board of trade.
A representative of the English gov.
eminent ia around Elgin buying horses
tor South Africa.
President Eliot, of Harvard univer
sity, will visit the state university at
Eugene next month.
So far in Linn county there have been
600 registrations for the June election
out of a probable total of 5,500.
Miner in Southern Oregon have long
been throwing away what was suppoeed
to ba lead ore, but which has proven to
be rich ailver ore.
The report of the commissioner of
patent for the past fiscal year bIiows
that there were 125 patents issued to
Oregon inventor.
BiuImm Portion of Patertoa, H. I, Des
troyed 1,000 familwi flonteleu.
Paterson, N. J., Feb. 11. A great
fire awept through Paterson today and
in it deaulate wake are the ember and
nhe of projierty valued at $10,000,-
000. It burned it way through the
business section of the city and claimed
a it own a majority of the finer struc
ture devoted to commercial, civic,
educational and religious use, aa well
score of bouse. There wa but
small tribute of life and injury to the
conflagration, but thousand were left
homeles and many thousand without
employment.
A relief movement for the care of
those unsheltered and unprovided for
ha already been organized and Mayor
John Ilinchliffe nay that Paterson
will be able to care for ber own with
out appealing to the charity of other
communities and atate. The great
manufacturing plant of the place are
aafe and tlie community, temporarily
dazed by the calamity, ha already com
menced the work of reorganization and
restoration.
The fire began ita work of destruction
at the power bouse of the Jersey City,
Hoboken A Paterson Traction Com
pany, which fronted on Broadway and
extended a block to the rear of Van
Houten etreet. It commenced in the
car shed and waa burning fiercely when
one of the employes detected it. It
wa leaping through the roof and the
gale was lifting it in fork and whirls
when the fire apparatus came into the
roadway at Van Ilcmten and Main
streets. The firemen tried to hem the
blaze in, but it skipped across Van
Hon ten street in one direction and Main
street in another, and gaining vigor a
it went, burned unchecked down into
the business district. Every piece of
fire mechanism in the city waa called
out,. but the fire and gale were master.
The fire came at midnight and was
only checked after a desperate fight
that lasted until late this afternoon
Everyjcity and town within reach of
Paterson sent i firemen'and apparatus
to (the aid of the city, and it took the
united effort of them all to win the
battle. A northerly gale gave the con
flagration it impetus and carried its
burning brands to kindle the blaze
afresh at other points. The firemen
made stand after stand before the wall
of fire, but were repeatedly driven back,
and when victory finally came to them
they were grimed and exhausted.
F0KM AN ALLIANCEl
ENGLAND AND JAPAN UNITE TO
AID CHINA AND COREA.
Portland Market.
Wheat Quiet Walla Walla,
63c;
bluestem, 64?64Hc; Valley,
9 19 20; brewing,
Military Officers Would Not Recognize Hit
Authority.
Manila, Feb. 12. The governor of
the town ot Cayagnn, in the province of
Misamis, island of Mindanao, haa re
signed, declaring that the military au
their it ics there do not recognize his au
thority in refusing to receive his writ
of habeas corpus. Home months ago
many of the leading officials of MisamiR
province were arrested because they
tendered a banquet to an insurgent colo
nel, and bccnuHe it was proved that they
had also contributed funds to the in
surgent cause. -At that time General
Davis, commanding at Zamboanga
island of Mindanao, requested that the
province be transferred from civil to
miltinry control. The military author
ities in Misamis refused to allow the
prisoners to lie represented by a lawyer'
sent by the civil commission from'
Manila for that purpose, holding the
arrested officials a prisoners of war.
Lately Oenornl Chaffee instructed Gen
eral Davis to release the prisoners in
question, and notified the' civil author
ities when and whore they could arrest
them. But the fact that their offense
was committed before the passage of
the law of sedition makes further ac
tion In tho matter improbable. Gen
eral Chaffee deeming it inadvisable
that civilians should lie tried by a mil
itary commission
Sonor Lerma, the nowly elected gov
ernor of Batumi province, fled after his
election when he was called upon to ac
count for $4,000 of insurgent funds.-
He ia still missing.
Raided by Outlaws.
Alamagorda, N. M., Feb. 11. News
has been received here of a mid on the
store of the Pew Mercantile Gompuny,
at Fort Sumner, by a gang of outlaws,
supposed to be the same that recently
robbed a bank and pay car jf-HjuUn
Barley Feed,
$20J1 per ton.
Oata No. 1 white. 91.10ei.25: gray,
Il.ObQ'l.lB,
per
(roaclad Agreement lalcaded to Check the
fast Growing Power of Russia la the
fir East, Abo to Insure the Independ
ent of the Chinese Empire and Adjoin
ing Regions.
GREAT SAND 8TORM.
Rosa. One of the employes
was killed and $400 in can!
The snnii is headed fur the
mountains and is being purst
sheriff a posse.
1
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Flour Best grades, $2.803.40
barrel; graham, I2.502.80.
Mlllstuffa Bran, 918 per ton; mid
dllnga, 921; shorts. 920.50; chop, 917
Hay Timothy, 9U12; clover, 97
7.50; Oregon wild hay, 5ijf6 per ton.
Potatoes Best Burbanks, 90c$1.26
per cental; ordinary, 70 85c per cen
tal, growera' prices; sweets, I1.75i3
2 per cental.
Butter Creamery, 2527Hc; dairy,
1820c; store, lllSc.
Eggs 2021c for fresh Oregon.
Cheese Full cream, twins, 13
lSVic; Young America, 1415c; fac
tory prices, llc less.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, 933.50;
hens, $404.25 per doien, 910c per
pound; springs, 10c per pound, 93
3.50 per dozen; (lucks, 96.507.60 per
dozen; turkeys, live, U12Vic;
dressed, 14 ($150 per pound.
Mutton Gross, 4c per pound;
dressed, 77c per pound.
Hogs-r-Gross, S&c; dressed, 6V47e
per pound.
Veal 8H9c per pound, dressed.
Beef Gross, cows, 34c; steers,
44Hc; dressed, 67Hc per pound.
Hops ll12Hc per pound.
Wool Nominal. Valley, 13 15c;
eastern Oregon, 8 12 He; mohair,
2121c per pound.
The buffaloes are increasing in such
proportions in Canada that they prom
ise in the course of a few years to be
come again fairly abundant.
Cecil Rhodes, the millionaire and
statesman, who is credited with having
provoked the Boer war, is, it is said, to
receive the honor of a peerage.
John Hill, a planter at West Baton
Rouge, La., has given to the Louisiana
state university $25,000 for the erection
of an alumni building and library.
Ten thousand dollars have been con
tributed to the national fund for a Mc
Kinley memorial by the. working- men
of Homestead, Pa.
England's imports of , iron and steel
are increasing, while the exports are
falling off. British trade papers are
alarmed.
Hurricane Sweeps Over the Western aad Cen
tral Nevada Desert.
Reno, Nev., Feb. 'k13. Since early
this morning the wide stretch of desert
in Western and Central Nevada has
been swept by a wind storm that at
times haa approached tlie proportions
of a hurricane. At several points on
tlie Central Pacific, between Reno and
Elko, the w ind at times blew at the
rate of 80 miles an hour, and though
there was no serious damage to prop
erty, it delayed trains, prostrated tele
graph wires and long stretches of rail
road are almost buried in sand. Vast
clouds of sand, picked np by the gale,
were hurled across the country with
fearful force, and at Wadsworth, Des
ert, Thistle and other towns, business
was practically suspended all after
noon, it being impossible for people to
breathe while facing the drifting
whirling walls of loose dust and sand
At Desert and Mirage, the sand filled
the air to such an extent that the sun
was obscured and lamps were neces
sary.
At Humboldt House, about 40 miles
west of Winnemucca, the few people
who ventured out of doors beheld a pe
culiar sight. About eight miles south
of the town is a mountain, rising
abruptly from the sandy desert. The
wind, sweeping across the flat country.
caught the snow of this hill and seemed
to stretch it out for two or three miles
from the slopes. ' Through occasional
break 8 in the clouds of dust across the
plain between the town and the moun
tain the middle slopes could be seen
apparently swept bare of snow in a few
hours by the1 terrific force ol the wind
The storm tonight shows but little sign
of aoating.
EXTENDED MONROE DOCTRINE
VALUE OF DANISH ISLES.
London, Feb. 13. An important par
liamentary paper waa issued tonight,
giving the terms of a practical alliance
between Great Britain and Japan for
the preservation of Cores and China.
The paper covers a dispatch sent by
Lord Lansdowne, secretary of state lor
foreign affair, January. 30, to the Brit
ish minister to China, Sir Claude Mac-
donald, and comprise a signed copy of
the agreement. In explanation, the
paper says the agreement may be re
garded as an outcome of the events of
the past two year. Throughout the
Boxer trouble Great Britain and Japan
bad been In close, uninterrupted com
munication, and actuated by similar
view.
"We each desire," said Lord Lans
downe, "that the integrity and inde
pendence of the Chinese empire should
be preserved, and that there should be
no disturbance of the territorial status
quo in China or the adjoining regions."
The discovery that their far Eastern
policies were identical resulted in each
party to the agreement expressing its
desire that their common policy find
expression in an internationalcontract
ol binding validity.
Lord Lansdowne further says tbat the
British government was largely in
fluenced inl entering upon this- import
ant contract by the conviction that it
contains no provision which can be re
garded aa aggressive or self-seeking.
He say it is concluded merely aa a
measure of precaution, and that it in
no way threaten the present position
or legitimate interests of other power.
His majesty's government trusta tbat
the agreement will be of mutual advant
age to the two countries, and make for
the preservation of peace, and, should
peace unfortunately be broken, it will
have the effect of restricting the area of
hostilities.
latest Acq tuition of Great Strategic Import,
ante Provision of Treaty Eaplilned.
Washington, Feb. 11. The recent
favorable report by the senate commit
tee on foreign relation on tho treaty
for the cession of the Danish West
Indie wa accompanied by a written
statement by that committee to the sen
ate. This report bold that during
1000 the islands exported to the United
States sugar, molasses and distilled
spirit amounting to $568,945, and that
during the same period the importa
tion from the United States amounted
to ,$624,524. The annexation of the
inlands was nought by the United States
years ago, and aa far back aa 1867 Den
mark declined to sell the islands for
$5,000,000, but made a proposition to
part w ith them for $15,000,000. Sec
retary Seward offered $7,500,000,
which waa declined. He afterward
agreed to pay that amount for the
islands of St. Thomas and St. John, but
the trade fell through becanrn of com
plications which arose. Continuing,
the report rays:
"These islands, together with Porto
Rico, are of great importance) in
strategic way, whether the strategy ba
military or commercial. St. Thomas
is a jiatnral point of call for all Euro
pean trade bound to the West Indies,
Central America or Northern Sooth
America. These islands, together with
Porto Rico, form the northeastern cor- -ner
of the Caribbean sea and are ot
great importance in connection with
ie American isthmus, where canal
ill be constructed between the At
lantic and the Pacific. They are of
first importance in connection with our
relations to the region of the Orinoco
and the Amazon and with our control
of the Windward Passage. In view of
the isthmian canal and European set
tlements in South America, every addi
tional acquisition by the United States
is of valne.
910,
SWITCHMEN'8 STRIKE.
Sent
Pickett at Missoula Tan Back Crews
' to Take Their Places.
Missoula, Mont., Feb. 13. The strik
ing Northern Pacific switchmen have
posted pickets along the line, and today
succeeded in turning back two crews,
one from Helena and the other from
Butte, sent by the railroad company to
take the place of the strikers. Freight
has been badly congested in the yards
as a result of the trouble. Brakemen
and conductors still refuse to make up
trains; unless the regular yard crews do
the switching. The strike has assumed
a grave aspect, and unless the officials
of the company recede from the posi
tion they have taken a strike along the
entire system is probable.
The cause of tlie trouble was the dis
charging of two men who refused to
work with a road engine without side
board attachments. The switchmen de
clare they are violating a state law in
complying with the order of the rail
way company. The statute in question
provides that trainmen and yardmen
who are Injured while working in the
yards on an engine without sideboards
i alone held responsible for such in
juries, and can collect no damages from
the company.
$1,400,000 IN OHIO CITY.
Hobion Would Nave It Reach to the Wells
of Pekln. s
New Haven, Conn., Feb. 8. Captain
R.- P. Hobson, who was a guest of the
New Haven Business Men's association
at their annual banquet, urged that the
Monroe doctrine be extended to the
Filipinos and to the walls of Pekin
declaring that Europeans should not
partition China, but open it to the
trade of the world, as the United States
opened Japan. Among the dangers that
face Europe, he mentioned a possible
Slavic invasion, in the event of which,
he said, it would fall to the lot of the
United States to assist in saving Eu
rope from general war. Without a rel
atively powerful navy, such action
would be manifestly impossible.
Smallpox at Reno.
Reno, Nev., Feb. 11. Several new
cases of smallpox are reported in Reno,
among the whites, and the state board
of health has declared smallpox epi
demic in Reno, and will probably order
the public schools closed.
Thirteen Persons Killed.
Panama, Feb. 11. An accident in
the Church of Horencitos, in Chiriqui,
resulted in the death of 13 persons and
the severe wounding of 30 othera.
Twelve Great Manufacturing Plants In Spring.
field Burned.
Springfield, O., Feb. 13. The largest
fire in the history of Springfield broke
out in the Champion Chemical Com
pany's plant of the East street shops
yesterday, and in an hour and a half
12 manufacturing plants were in ruins
The estimated loss is $1,400,000
The fire started in some chemicals in
the Champion chemical plant. The
companies were greatly handicapped by
the light pressure of water. Ten fire
men were caught in one building and
had a very narrow escape from death. A
company of the National Guard is now
on duty to keep awav crowds and ma
rauders. Four freight cars w ere totally
destroyed and many others mined.
Hundreds of buildings in the vicinity
of the fire were in imminent danger,
The firemen, owing to the high wind
were unable to check the spread of the
flames.
The total number of men employed.
by the different concerns located in the
building was nearly 900.
The insurance is $130,000 on the con
tents and $110,000 on the buildings a
total of $240,000.
Dust Explosion In a Miae.
Bon Air, Tenn., Feb.. 13. Over 15
men were injured by a dust explosion
in the main entry of mine No. 15. All
were rescued and all will probably re
cover. About 100 men are employed.
hi Hopeless Wreck,
London, Feb. 13. The British
steamer Knight Companion, from Port-
BIG BOOST FOR LINE.
or the felcfakjak-rrtlafMj
iUilroai
Goldendale, Wash., Feb. 10. The)
citizens of Goldendale and Klickitat
county have'raised $10,000 for the right
of way for the railroad from thia city
to Portland. The committee in charge
of this matter considers thia amount
sufficient to secure the right of way
from Goldendale to Lyle, 41 miles.
All rights of way have been teen red,
excepting three or four between Golden
dale and the head of Swale canyon,
distance of about 18 miles, through the
farming part of Klickitat county. The
rest of the route lies principally
through government lands, there being
but few settlers and a few Indian
claims along the Big Klickitat, there
fore little trouble will be encountered
on this score.
Contracts have not yet been signed,
but it ia expected that work will com
mence on the grading within 30 days.
The company organized for the pur
pose of building this line will reserve
two years in which to complete the line
from Lyle to Goldendale, but expects
to carry the crop from the Klickitat val
ley this year. Property valuations
have already advanced perceptibly in
the vicinity of Goldendale and along
the route of the proposed road.
VETOES HIS OWN BREVET.
Roosevelt Will
Net Be RewardesT for Hi
War Service
Washington, Feb. II. The president
has approved, with one notable excep
tion, all the recommendations madefby
tne army Doard oi which Ueneral Mac
Arthur was president, for the bestowal
of brevet rank on all the officers of the
army who rendered especially meritori
ous services during the war with Spain
and in the subsequent campaigns in
the Phpilippines and China. The ex
ception noted is the case of Theodore
Roosevelt, who was awarded the brevets
ot colonel and brigadier general for dis
tinguished services at San Juan and
Santiago. Under the law these brevets
require the confirmation of the senate)
and the nominations have been made
out for transmission to that body during
the week, but, as already stated, the
list will not contain the name of the
president. It is expected that' the
medals of honor and certificates of merit
recommended by the board for individ
ual gallantry, which also have been ap
proved by the president, will be an
nounced at the war department this
week. These awards do not require
the sanction of the senate. .
BOERS TAKEN BY 8URPRI8E.
AlKntrt't rnmrninrin Pllti Inlaw s.UUaa HmJ
w wi sawn iianyi
After Short Fight
Johannesburg, Feb. 11. At 11
o'clock last Thursday night Colonel
Kekewich, having ascertained the
whereabouts of Commandant Albert'a
laager at Gruisfuntein, sent men to cap
ture it. The British force arrived at
daybreak and immediately stampeded
tne norses oi tne Boers with pompom
and a well directed rifle fire. The
Boers were completely surprised, and
after a short reply to the British attack
practically the total commando fell Into
the hands of the attacking force, who
captured 131 prisoners, including Com
mandants Landrost and Potgieter and
Cornet Duflessis.
Another Subway Explosion.
New York, Feb. 8. An explosion
of dynamite in the rapid transit subway
in Park'avenue, between Forty-first and
Forty-second streets, hurled a piece of
rock weighing 30 pounds through the
plate glass door of the Grand Union
li ntftl a ml ViwiWa .utM.1 .ln.ln. M
land, Or., for Hong Kong, which went that establishment. Two persona were
ashore at Inudoye, on the coast of hurt by fl aU b neUhif of
Japan, is regarded.as a hopeless wreck. them w,gUined Kri(m injary