ORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1895.
VOL. XXXII.
NO. 17.
TRANSPORTATION.
East and South
, VIA ,v
The Shasta Route
OF THE
Southern Pacific R'y Co.
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1210 p M lave Albany Arrive, 4:60 ah
10:46 a m Arrive 8. Francisco Leave I 6:00 r u
A ove trains stop at East Portland, Oregon
City, Wood bam. nal m, Turner, Manon, Jeffe
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Halsev, H rrisburg. J auction City, Irving, Eu
gene, Crewell, Drains, and all station Irom
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WIND AND RAIN STORM
Many Lives Were Lost and
Much Property Destroyed.
ENTIRE MIDDLE WEST VISITED
At Chicago the Storm Was the Most
Furious That City Has Known '
In a Great Many Tears.
Chicago, July 9. One of the most
furious wind and rain storms known
in this vicinity for years passed over
the city about 6 o'clock this evening,
coming from the northwest. The day
had been intensely hot, and there -were
many poeple out on the lake in - sail
boats, and as the storm came up very
suddenly it is feared that several lives
have been lost The life saving crew
have been busy all the evening tracing
rumors of capsized boats. Up to 10
o'clock they had rescued the occupants
of three capsized boats, all in a very
exhausted condition. No trace of any
others has been found up to this hour,
and it is hoped that no more are out
The police at Cottage. Grove, on the
South Side, claim they distinctly saw
a small boat with three occupants dis
appear, and nothing was seen of it
again during daylight The lifesavers
from the South Side cruised around
that locality for some time, but found
no evidence, of a wreck. It is probable
that more missing people will be re
ported from the various suburbs at a
later hour.
Up to twenty minutes of the descent
of the storm upon the city, the sky had
been clear and the sun was shining
brightly. Suddenly heavy black clouds
began to gather in the northwest, and
in a few minutes a terrible gale, ac
companied by a perfect flood of rain
and furious thunder and lightning, was
sweeping over the city. Shade trees
were broken off close to the ground;
awnings and signs torn away, and
much minor damage was done in the
city. The wind subsided after about
half an hour, but a furious raw con
tinued for fully two hours.
The parks had been crowded all day
with people seeking relief from tne
heat, and when the storm began there
was a stampede for the elevated and
cable cars. The surface lines were an
equipped with open cars, and as a re
sult the occupants of every train made
a sorry looking sight before they had
gone a block, and most of them after
they had got a thorougn aoaiang, de
serted the cars and sought the shelter
of convenient stairways and stores
along the streets, and there had
to re-
main until after 7:30 P. M., or take
chances of another wetting by again
taking the cars.
At 11 P. M. , the police tninK tne
fatalties will not exceed half a dozen.
Charles Klein, John Boss and Charles
L. Shook are believed to have been
drowned. They were blown out into
the lake in a rowboat and no trace has
been found. Tbe yawl boat belonging
to the yacht Hattie B, bas been picked
up off Twenty-sixth street, but it is
thought the yaoht has weathered tbe
gale and made for this port ne
small craft which were blown into the
lake report thrilling experience.
There were several narrow escapes
from drowning. -. The telegraph and
telephone service was completely de
moralized. It was 10 o'clock before
communication could be bad from Mil
waukee. A cyclone swept across Crawford and
Morgan counties about 6 this evening.
Bat meager aooonnts have been re
ceived. It is known that two lives
were lost and a number of persons bad-
lv injured, several fatally. At Will-
ards station, on the Middle Georgia &
Atlantic railroad, every bouse was
torn to pieces. Henry Adams and B.
Harding, colored, were killed. Build
ings, fenees, crops, eta, on tbe Martin
Plantation, were carried away. The
parties who started in to follow the
oatb of the cyclone have not returned.
In Morgan county Henry Perry's
house and farm buidings were blown
down. ; Perry and his family were
buried in the falling timbers. Perry
is injured internally and will die. His
wife's condition is critical. The borne
of John Collier was demolished and
two of bis children were mangled in
the wreck. Bobertson's plantation was
; swept out of everything standing. The
Robertsons fled to tbe cellar and i
caped. Fuller reports cannot be ob
tained until daylight Twenty persons
are known to have been badly injured
and the list of fatalities will not be
less than ten.
Joseph H. Wilson.
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IN TURKISH PRISONS.
Advance Guard of the Armenian Revo
lutionists Captured.
Van, 'Armenia, May 80. (Associ
ated Press Correspondence) The ad
vance guard of the revolutionary party,
which, as announced a week ago, was
betrayed by the Turkish government
the night of Sunday, May 19, is now
in prison in the city of Van. Only one
member of the party escaped, and he,
at the earliest possible moment, and at
great risk to himself, put himself in
communication with the correspondent
of the Associated Press. The latter is
now in possession of domplete informa
tion with respect to the prisoners. But,
as he is not disposed to furnish the
Turkish government information, 'so
long as there remains the slightest
chance that these men may escape
death, be holds, for ihe present at
least, a considerable part of the facts
concerning them.
The men have been hiding in the
mountains waiting for reinforoements
and making plans for carrying on their
work. The weather having turned out
cold and wet, they went to the house
of Habto, head man of the Tphiboupla,
to warm themselves and dry (heir
clothing, Hahto was . disposed to be
friendly to the Armenians, as be was
not a Turk, and great numbers of bis
fellow-countrymen bad been massacred
by the Turks in the Mosul district in
1893. ..
Upon arriving at Hah to' s house, the
men stacked their arms in the corner
and gathered about the fire,
there, Hahto's scribe, a Turk,
While
called
insist-
his master out of the house and
ed that they be banded over
to the
scribe
to the
Turkish government I tie
threatened to denounce Hahto
government unless the men were be
trayed. Hahto then called together a
force of Kurds and Vezides and order
ed them to make the capture. The
villagers went into the room one by
one and took part in tne conversation.
At a signal they seized the guns and
commanded the men to surrender.
Taken by surprise the revolutionists
made no resistance. Of the fourteen
members only one escaped. Each man
bad a Bedouin rifle and six of the party
had revolvers. The prisoners were
taken to Sevi the next day, aud then
were marched sixty miles to Van,
where they arrived Wednesday. Their
arrival was witnessed by a large num
ber of Turks and Armenians. On the
way they were beaten by gun butts and
prodded with bayonets, and otherwise
maltreated.
One Arrest Made.
Sacramento, July 9, There is some
hope that the men who "murdered old
Juan Orellanda with a hatbet and ten
robbed and threw his body . into the
Sacramento river will be brought to
justice. Last evening the body was
found in the mud in the bottom of the
river. The river front is infested with
hard characters, who would not hesi
tate to commit a murder for a small
of money. Tbe old watchman,
while on a spreee, had displayed some
gold pieces in a saloon, and when he
returned to the boat which he bad been
taking care of he was followed and
murdered. This evening a river-front
man, Jack Dunster, was locked up in
tbe oity prison by Officer Rutherford,
on suspicion that be knows who com
mitted the crime, if be did not actual
ly have a hand in it The prisoner's
trousers are stained with blood.
Fatal Accident at Spokane.
Spokane, July 9. Michael Dolan,
conductor on the Boss Park electric
railway, was killed at an early hour
this morning. He was making the last
trip, acting as motorman, with no one
else on board. In leaning from the
platform, he was struck by ope of the
voles and knocked to the ground. The
car ran into the city and was stopped
by the displacement of tbe trolley.
Dolan was found dead, having orawied
along the traok after the accident He
has been employed by the street rail
way company four years. A brother
lives at Battle Ground, twenty miles
from Vancouver, Wash.
About the Fighters.
Dallas, Tex., July 9,Jndge Clark,
of Wasco, in an opinion as to the le
gality of tbe Corbett-Fitzismmons glove
contest, says that owing to inconsisten
cies in the law there is now no law
upon tbe statute books of Texas pro
hibiting pugilistic encounters, and that
upon the tender or. tne license pre
scribed for such exhibition there is no
power in tbe state to interfere with the
exhibition,
A nother Insurgent Leader Killed.
Havana, July 9. .The news of the
death of Armaburo, the insurgent
leader, is confirmed. He was pursued
by a band of troops, and lost eight kill
ed. It is rumored that about eighty
men have landed near Santa Cruz,
commanded by a Venezuelan.
Fighting is expected in a few days
between General Gasoo's and General
Navarro's troops and Maceo's, who is
said to be surrounded by them.
Another Will Case Compromised.
San Francisco, July 9. The Joshua
Hendy will case has been compromised
for $30,000. When Joshua Hendy died
he left a f 500,000 estate to bis nephew
and nieces. His brother Samuel con
tested the will, and there was, a long
battle in tbe conrtq, . which is still
pending, Samuel Hendy is to take
130,000, ana wui waive au claim to
the estate. A number of legatees live
in the East,
: Thp Grasshoppers in California.
Bealdsburg, CaL, July 9, Grass
hoppers still continue to do much dam
I age to tbe vineyards and corn fields of
Northern Sonoma, in some places next
to tbe foothills, they have entirely de
stroyed tbe crops, They are more nu
morons on tbe hillsides than ever be
fore, and seem to be moving westward.
ACIF1C NORTHWEST.
Condensed Telegraphic
Re-
ports ot Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FROM THE WIEES
Happenings of Interest in the Towns and
Cities of Oregon, Washington '
and Idaho.
A Chinaman owns a hotel at Prine-
ville, Or., and rents it to an American
landlord.
Since the late rains all the farmers
of the Palouse country, Wash., now
look for a good harvest
Spokane is endeavoring to organize a
new militia company to take the place
of company G recently disbanded.
Hoquiam, Wash., prefers darkness,
it is said, to renewing their contract
with the electric lighting company for
street lights.
Mrs. Ann C. Rhonimus died in Se
attle last Monday at the age of 90. She
Ws born in Fredericks town, Md.? and
well remembered the visit there of
General Lafayette,
Orders have been received at the Ed
ison, Wash., car shops to build 100
standard box cars of "improved design
for the Northern Pacific railroad. The
cars are to be completed by September.
The report of the grand jury in
Bake'r, Or., is in striking contrast with
that made in many other counties.
One'paragraph says: "We have heard
no complaint about the county poor
farm, the county roads or other county
matters,'
Residents near Lexington, Morrow
county, Or., say that the grasshoppers
haying eaten nearly all of the grain
are now attacking tbe sagebrush. A
strip fifteen miles wide is said to be
devastated, and tbe destruction still
continues.
The annual report of the Spokane
land office whioh embraces Spokane
Stevens and Lincoln counties and part
of Adams, Whitman, Okanongan and
Douglas, shows 836 entries of various
kinds were made for 184,728 acres of
land, for which $14,723 was paid.
The monument purchased by the fire
department of Walla Walla, Wash.,
to mark the resting place of "Sport,"
the deceased dog of the department,
has been plaqed in position over his
grave in the oity hall yard. It " will
probably be unveiled soon with impos
ing ceremonies.
Marshal Means, of Pendleton, Or., at
tempted the other day to arrest two In
dians, who were on horseback. He
fired a shot at them, which stopped
one, but tne otner dug tne spurs into
his horse and made off. The marshal
is a bicyclist and mounted his wheel
and gave chase capturing the fleeing
siwash.
Burglars in Spokane the other night
broke into the residence of Attorney
W. H. Plummer, on Indiana avenue,
rifled the cupboard, went through the
refrigerator, sacked the pantry and
filled their pockets full of eatables.
Then one mounted Mr, Plummer'a bi
cycle and the other Mrs. Plummer's,
and silently stole away.
The will of Sophia Brey who died in
Salem March 25 has been admitted to
probate. The value of the estate is
about $15,000 and there are six heirs;
Sophia Chance, of Portland; Phuopena
Warner, of Salem; Andrew Brey, resi
dence unknown; George E. Brey, of
Independence; William Brey, of San
Francisco and Clara P. Brey of Salem.
A dog' s task was found imbedded
beneath the skin at the stifle joint in
one of the hind legs of the big bear re
cently killed by A- -n- Hunt in the
Dead Indian country, Tbe tusk was
well overgrown with skin, and has
been, it is thought, identified as one
lost four or five years ago by "Old
Trailer," a celebrated bear dog belong
ing to John B. Griffin, a famous bear
hunter.
A large number of farmers in Was
co county, yJt-t are cutting nay mis
season, instead of letting the grain
ripen for wheat. A gentleman living
near The Dalles sold twenty-five tons
this week for $10 a ton, when last fall
the price paid was between $7 and $8
Several large fields on the bill back
from Chenowetb and on tbe Klickitat
mountain, in sight of Tbe Dalles, have
already been cut for bay.
The annual exodus of laborers and
threshing outfits to Walla Walla and
Pendleton has begun from around
Oaksdale, Wash,, and the roads are
lined with teams and men going to
work in tbe harvest fields. Four steam
threshers have been shipped from
Oaksdale to Walla Walla. These will
begin threshing there and work north
as the season advances, thus being able
to get in about four months' threshing.
The board of : regents of the agri
cultural college at Pullman have ap
propria ted $3,500 fox the Ross experi
mental station at Pnyallup,Wash., the
deed for the land having been received
and the title passed upon by tbe attorney-general
Chairs were also created
as follows: Modern languages, as
sistant mathematician, instructor oom
meroial department, including stenog
rapby and typewriting.
Colonel Patrick Henry Winston has
brought suit to restrain tbe city of
Spokane, from carrying out its oontract
with Theis & Barroll for the sale of
$15,8,154 waterworks bonds issued for
the purpose of taking up outstanding
warrants and fqr completing the water
works, for the reason, that it is exceed
ins the limits of its indebtedness
prescribed by law, and tof the further
reason that Contractor Jones baa failed
to oomplete tbe work in the specified
time.
SCANDAL BACK OF IT.
Some
One to Blame for the
Ludlow
Street Jail Affair.
JNew York, July 8. The escape of
Kiloran, Russell and Allen from the
Ludlow street jail yesterday morning
promises to aeveiop a lively scandal.
They were detained there pending ex
tradition to Illinois for the robbery of
tne opringneid postoffice. The officers
at the jail have pretended to be greatly
puzzled over how the prisoners secured
the revolvers. It developed today,
however, that the three prisoners had
been allowed the greatest freedom.
Women were allowed to come into the
jail and associate with them, and only
recently, it is learned, they spent a
whole evening1 in the reception room
playing bagatelle and dominoes with
women visitors. There now seems to
be little doubt as to how they secured
the weapons with which they bulldozed
tneir Keepers,
Postal Officials Disgusted.
Washington, July 8. Postmaster-
General Wilson and other officials of
his department are greatly disgusted
over tbe escape of the accused post
office robbers from the Ludlow street
jail, Mr, Wilson today offered a re
ward of $1,000 each for their oapture,
and be also wrote a letter to United
States Attorney McFarland, in whioh
he asserts that be cannot avoid the con
clusion that some one is criminally re
sponsible for the escape.
He declares his belief that those
whose carelessness or criminality made
the escape possible should be held to a
strict accountability. Mr. Wilson as
serts that considering the desperate
character of the men and their well
known criminal reoords, every precau
tion should have been taken, and he
also criticises the jail officers, for let
ting the prisoners change their per
sonal appearanoe after their incarcera
tion with tne evident purpose of
thwarting identification when arraign
ed for trial. He refers, as having
significance, to tbe faot that the pris
oners were well supplied with means.
A fter the Order of Enoch Arden.
Macon, Ga., July 8. A peculiar
Enoch Arden story, which is interna
tional in its bearings, comes from
Waycrosa. Dr. Brown returned a day
or two ago, after an absence of twen
ty five years, and found bis wife the
happy spouse of a well-to-do citizen of
this place.
Brown is a Frenchman with an - in
teresting history. When he left this
country he went to France to look after
a legacy, A quarrel with his lawyer
resulted in the murder of tbe latter,
and Brown was sent to prison for
twenty -five years. The legacy was
used up trying to acquit him, and
when be was freed he was penniless.
His first act on being released was to
come to Georgia to see his wife, whom
he had loved during all the years of
separation. She had long since given
him up as dead, and had been married
twice. Her present husband is Mr.
Thomas, who lives in this county.
Brown's grief on finding her wedded .
to another man was intense. He asked
her and her husband to visit him, but
she refused to grant his request. Brown
has gone away again, discouraged and
heartbroken.
Iiarge De'alcatlong Discovered.
New York, July 8. A special to the
World from Guatemala says: High
officials of the present government are
said to be implicated m recently dis
covered defalcations amounting over
$3,000,000. The alleged stealing has
been going on for two years. The
money missing is said to nave been
charged as expended for arms which
never reached here. Frauds are also
eported in the purchasing of railway
material that is nearly useless. '
Both the oivil and. military em
ployes are enraged over a report that
the government is about to refuse to
pay back salaries covering several
months, due and unpaid at the end of
the last fiscal year,-on tbe plea that a
new fiscal year should not be responsi
ble for them, and that as the last year
left nothing to cover them, they must
go unpaid.
Trouble on Hlackfoot Reservation.
Toronto, July 8. An alarming re
port baa reached here regarding the
condition of the braves on the Black-
foot reservation, near Glenchen. It is
said that they are in an angry mood,
and even go so far as to threaten to
murder all the whites on the reserva
tion. One of the lattr, Rev. J, W,
Tims, sent out by tbe Church Mission
ary Society twelve years ago, who baa
endured every hardship and depriva
tion, has been obliged to flee with his
wife and children.
The braves have on their war paint.
Efforts aie being made to quiet them.
This is the reservation on which Frank
Skinner, the ration distributer, was
killed last winter. Trouble has been
brewing since the shooting of the mur
derers.
L.ord Sholto's Father-in-law
Guelpb, Ont, July 8, William
Mooney, a tailor of the little village
of Rothesay, is the center of a romance.
He discovered that Loretta Addis, the ;
San Francisco variety aotress who re-
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is his daughter. The girt-left homes
y?." T
VCUWJ VAACaV JJta. WAAJ 4sf4 v hva
whereabouts.
Highest of all in Leavening
CAPTAIN WEBB KILLED
Fatal Plunge Down a Log
Chute in a Barrel.
IN C0EUR D'ALENE COUNTRY
His Death Was Due to Ne sleet
to
Take Proper Precautions for
His Own Safety.
Coeur d'Alene, July 6. In all rjroba-
bility Captain Paul Webb lost his life
near here today in an attempt to ride
nis submarine boat or basrel down a
800-foot log chute. It is believed his
back is broken. About 600 people
watched the descent into Lake Coeur
d'Alene, whioh took place at Rosen's
log camp, eight miles up the lake. On
the arrival of the boats at 4:30 a log
was sent down as a test. It oame like
a flash of lightning. A mild rain was
falling, whioh gave the chute a
smoothness that added momentum to
anything ooming down it The log
passed down safely, and Webb's ma
rine boat had been sent down in the
forenoon with a suocess that gratified
the hazardous man, who at 5 o'clock
was placed within the boat for his last
ride.
The affair was 6 feet 6 inches in di
ameter, and cone-shaped. There was
a strip of sheeting lengthwise on the
barrel to make it slide smoothly and
prevent it turning over too frequently.
On tbe inside it was upholstered with
carpets and rubber fixtures to- strap
a man in such a way that the barrel
could strike on end in a 100-foot fall
and not injure the occupant. Webb,
when placed in the barrel, neglected
to take all the precautions his machine
offered for safety. He was confident as
they tucked him in the fatal barrel.
He told his manager to have whistles
blown when be struck the water.
The signal was given, and the barrel
ran down the chute wildly. Two-thirds
of the way down was a silght raise in
the incline. Here tbe barrel jumped
thirty feet in the air, striking on the
ground on end, then rolling forty feet
further down the hilL Many persons
on the boat turned their heads with
horror. Some fainted, as all feared
instant death to Webb. When the bar
rel was opened, Webb was jammed
closely into the end. He was conscious
and talked freely. Dr. Russel, of Spo
kane, examined him and pronounced
his spinal oolumn broken. A tug was
procured, and the unfortunate man
hurried to Coeur d'Alene and then to
Spokane. -
Webb Died at Spokane.
Spokane, Wash., July 6. Webb died
at 11 o'clock. His name was James
Stewart. He was a photographer at
MoMinnville, Or. Captain Paul Webb
was a fictitious name assumed for pro
fessional reasons. He was a cousin of
Senator Stewart, of Nevada. Webb
was conscious until nis deatn, but it
was feared the accident was fatal after
he left Coeur d'Alene City for Spokane.
SOUTH AMERICAN STATES.
Brazil Trying to Prevent the Depart
ure of the Italian Minister.
New York, July 6. A special from
Rio says that the government is en
deavoring to dissuade the Italian min
ister from leaving there on July 7, as
he bas threatened to do, in consequence
of the delay of the foreign office in
settling Italy's claim. The govern
ment refuses to discuss the trouble
with the French in Amah, and has es
tablished a strict censorship over all
news from there.
At a secret session of the Argentine
congress, it was voted to purchase from
Italy the sister warship Garibaldi,
which was recently launched.
From Chili comes the news that tbe
government of the country, besides the
new Esmeralda, is having built a
3, 500-ton ship to be called the Con
gress, with an armament slightly
greater than the Nuevn de Julia
A correspondent in Sucrucre,Bolivia,
sends word that the political leaders
there have demanded that the govern- '
ment publish the terms of the treaty
reoenly arranged with Chili.
The feeling against that oountry runs
high in Bolivia just now. It is only,
with tbe greatest difficulty that the au-,
thorities can prevent an attack.
Bushels of Grasshoppers. '
St Paul, July 6. Professor Lugger,'
the state entomologist, bas made a re
port of the grasshopper killing in Chi
cago county with hopper-dosers. They
liova ckxrar ACM tt thAflA lYlfllllnAa ail
work, and are gathering 8,000 bushels
of grasshoppers daily. Thus far, the
grasshoppers have not invaded the
grain fields. The rains have kept the
grass green, and they have centered on
this. .
Winnebago Indians Suffering.
Black River Falls, July 6. The
Winnebago Indiana of this section
have made an application by wire . to
the department of Indian affairs urg
ing the payment of their annuities.
- 1 of the berries,
-me of the old members are suffering
, ,
for the necessaries of life. -
Power. Latest U.S. Gov't Report