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WEEKLY EDITION. WEEKLY EDITION ni S' 104 S1.50 I Copies of the SEMI WEEKLY EAST Cannot be better spent than by sub OREGONIAN will be sent you in scribing for the WEEKLY one year for only $2.00 OREGONIAN the news of the interest you. world It prints and will Try it. for a year. PENDLETON, UMATILLA CO.,OREGON. FRIDAY, AUGUST7. 19:>3 I SITUATION IS SERIOUS IN CROOK AND LAKE COUNTIES. I Union Between Buffalo Strikers and Im- ported Italian Laborers PITTSBURG TIE-UP OF ALL BUILDING OPERATIONS. Non-Union Employe* of a year. EAST Just think, 11.50 gives you all tbs news VOL. XXVII Rioting in for Senator Hanna in a Battle With Striking Union Men—Revolver* Are Used and a Number Ar* Shot—Police Arrest Fifty- Pittsburg. Aug. 3.—A wholesale lockout of building trades went lntc effect this morning and 20.000 work men are idle. The lockout is the result of an ag- gressive decision by the contractors, many of whom belong to tne Em players’ Association which was or ganized in New York some weeks ago and has auxiliary organization: in all the cities. It marks a deta«. in an avowed policy of aggressiva against the labor unions, and is or dered today to anticipate the strikt which it is generally understood would be ordered soon by different builders' unions The strike was ordered on the to have been refusal of the contractors to grant recognition of the unions, increase of pay for some classes of work. an<. shorter hours for others. All building operations in this city are tied up. which of course greatlx affects trade in every department It stops the sale of many products used in building operations, and Is severely felt by the tradesmen, There has not yet been any sug arbitratior gestion leading _ toward or an agreement through any other channel made. Rioting at Buffalo. Buffalo. Aug. 3.—There was riot ing this morning between strikers and 200 non-union Italian employes of the Buffalo iron furnaces, of whici. Mark Hanna is the principal owner The trouble began with taunts or the part of the strikers, to which th« Italians responded with verbal re plies backed up with open threats o. shooting if they were molested. This provoked a general d.sturbance con fined to bad language and a few fights on the side. When the strikers finally resorted to sticks and stones the Italian? promptly responded with a piste fire. Only a few of the strikers wert prepared for such an emergency. Th« others went away and many of their returned armed, and a general ngm ensued, pistols governing the charac ter of the warfare. The police, arriving in platoons charged the scene of the rioting anc arrested 50 men. About 100 shots were exchanged and while a number were more 01 less hurt, there were no serious in juries. INCREASE OF 5000 SCHOL- ARS OVER LAST YEAR. The Surplusage I* Apparently About Greatest Amount of Money Ever Dis Equal to the Natural Increase— tributed by the State to Schools— Believed to Be 70.000 Excess in Per Capita Payment $1.60 Against Crook County. $1.55 in 1902. Paisley, Ore.. Aug. 3.—E. H. Sparks, Salem Or.. Aug 3.—State Treasur of the Black Butte Livestock Com- er C. S. Moore Saturday afternoon I any, of Crook county, is at this made his annual apportionment to place. He has 4.500 sheep in Lake each county in the state of the coni- county for sale. His company con mou school fund interest for the trols quite a range in the Cascade years 1902-3. for the aid and support forest reserve, and is allotted pastur of the public schools, Th«' toial age for 12.000 sheep, the same as last amount apportioned Is tUO (Hl.20. year, allowing nothing for increase, being the greatest sum apporaoned consequently it became necessary to in the las- 20 years. The nearest to dispose of all the increase The same that amount in the stated iieriod was condition prevails with Morrow A .. *M 8-H ■ Keenan, ol Trinexille, who have 2.000 639.25. now in Lake for sale. U. 8. Cole has The school population of the state, 2.500. Ed Kelsey 14,000. George O'Neil pers ns over 4 and under 20 years of 3.000. and Tom Condon 2.000 heaj for age, is 113.757. against 138.477 last sale. Besides these there are two year, she ring an Increase of 5.280 1 other large herds awaiting buyers. persons, r.nd an increase in the past At this time there are 70,000 sheep 20 years «>( 137 593 passing through Lake county, head- The ai portlonmmt this year i* ed for the California market, Some made at the rate of $1.60 per capita. jf them, however, may be sold to io asainst $1.55 last year an«l $1 22 In al sheepmen, though It is hardly 1901. probable, because of the fact that The schoo population and ap¡>or-1 most Lake county sheepmen have all ¡tionnient by counties Is as follows: they can handle. Amount, j Cotintv No Mr. Sparks gave out the impression Raker .. . .. .. 5.345 f 8.552 00 that 70.000 sheep were about the In Benton .. . .. .. 2.670 4.272.00 crease of Crook county, as most of Clackamas . .. .. 7.4 77 12.443 20 he sheepmen of that county were Clatsop . . 6.827.20 . . . 4 276 iliotted range for a certain number Columbia 4 176.00 . . . . 2 610 >f sheep on the reserve, about the Coos .... 6 51100 . 4 010 ¡ante as last year, but nothing allow Crook . . . 2 235 20 . . . 1.397 'd for increase. Curry . . . 785 I 256 'W These Crook county people are of- Douglas 9.11O.UJ 1 5 696 erlng their sheep at $2 and 82.25 for Gilliam 1.953.60 . . 1.221 stubs and 8'1 to |3.25 for ewes. Mut Grant. 1868 2.9*3 RO tons are worth from $2.50 to 83. 1.632 00 Harney . . . . . 1.020 fl ??0 80 1 Jackson . . . . . 5138 MEXICAN CONCESSIONS. 4.436 8A . 2.773 Josephine 1 «6« 80 Klamath 1 168 Min ng Grants Which Involve Build I_ake .... 959 1.534.40 ing of a Railroad. 13 272W San Diego. Cal., Aug. 3.—Report* Lincoln. , . . . . . 1.140 1.824.00 6.69? 10.707.20 -eceived here are that Jesse Grant l.irn .... 2 792.00 ias become a millionaire 25 limes Malheur . . . . 1745 15 796 8« . . . 9 873 Her by mining concessions just ob- Marion . . .’ 2.753 60 ained in Mexico in connection with Morrow . . . . . 1.721 45,<>o4 40 ?olonel A. K. Owen. They will bu.ld Multnomah. . ... 28159 5.452 80 i railroad from the mines to Topolo- Polk .... . . . . 3 408 2 ng# fcA 1 303 Sherman . . ■ampo. 2.779.20 . . . 1.737 T'llamook . 10 ??8 80 Collision on the Panhandle. Umatilla . . . . . 6 393 8 670.40 Hartford City. Ind.. Aug. 3.—A col Won . . . ... 5419 3 840 00 2 4ÛÛ isión took place early this morning Wallowa . . s png gn 5 00< >n the Panhandle between a freight Wasco . . . 934. 20 nd passenger in a heavy fog which Washington ... 5642 1 568.00 seriously injured 10. six of them Wheeler . . 7 808 Ofi ritically. The most seriously injur- Yamhill . . ... 4 880 d was Christopher Gerhardt, of Ch.- ago. Total . . . . .143.757 823O.vll.2O OUTLAWS ARE WELL ARMED I I HIDDEN AND AGGRESSIVE. ’robable That the Chapparel Will Be Burned to Force the Bandits Into the Open and Prevent Their Es- cape by Slipping Through the Cordon of Troops. Placerville. Cal., Aug. 4.— A. des- erate fight between a band of flve •f the escaped Foisom convicts and « party of six militiamen, who were ollowing a fresh trail of the con- Trouble Again in Spain. icts. took place last evening just at Madrid. Aug. 3.—The threaten«' tusk on a hillside near uie Grand general strike of the trades union« ,’ictory mine. and. as a result of the or.filet, two of the militiamen named began today in many large cities, in lutherfcrd and Jones, were killed, eluding Barcelona and Cadiz. Th« immediate motive is to re-enforce .nd a third member of the posse, a the demand to release the iauo’ .ian named Dill wil 1 probably die <f his wounds, as he was shot through leaders who were thrown Into prisot he lungs. In connection with the recent strike The convicts were bidden in the Guards and troops are out in man; hick brush which covers the hill, localities. At Alcala shots were ex changed and the mayor's residenc« -.nd the manhunters happened upon hem most unexpectedly. The con- was attacked by strikers. •icts, who were well armed with iGes. fired a volley into the posse THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE STILL rith the result above stated. WATCH THE SISTINE CHAPEL The other members of the posse >pened fire on the convicts and the There Was No Choice on the Sixth urvivors of the little band are firm Ballot—Guard Outside the Conclave n their tellef that at least «wo mem Been Augmented to Prevent Com ers of the convict gang were wound- d. The news ot the conflict soon munication With Cardinals—Nov pread. and messengers were dls- Believed to Be Anybody’* Race. at'-hed to this place for rein for ce- Rome, Aug. 3.—The fifth ballo' vents. was taken this morning for pope. A A posse under the leadership of 11:30 smoke from the Sistine chape neriff Bosquit is now on the seen» showed no election. A small crow« f the conflict, but, as it is dark. It watched and departed. It is believ t impossible to locate «ne convicts. ed the chances of the leading cand; bo have the advantage of position dates are now gone by their vote -d could pick off the members of being scattered among outsiders. Al he posse if a concentrated attack business at the Vatican is at a stand as made upon them. Sheriff Bos still. nit and his advisers are consider.nr he feasibility of setting the brush Sixth Ballot and No Choice. n Are and forcing the convicts to Rome, Aug. 3.—At 2:20 smok« urrender or at least disclose tnefr again arose from the Vatican pipe ■xact position. showed the sixth ballot has also fail Sheriff Bosquit’s posse now num ed to elect. A large crowd is waiting ers 150 men. but the situation is sc with curiosity unabated. So many rtical that no one will approach efforts have been made to communi lose enough to the supposed hiding cate with the members of the con lace of «he convicts to ascertain the clave that the guard has been aug ■xact condition of affairs. mented. There is a strong probability that Spanish Cardinal Dying. f the fugitives cannot escape from he chapparel In which they are hid- Rome, Aug. 3.—Cardinal Josepl ng. or if it is fired to force them Igli31a. of Spain, is dying in the con o either surrender or make a last clave, The final rites of the cuurcl tand, that they will take refuge in have been administered. He is 8i If they he Grand Victory mine, years old. hen choose not to surrender they vould be secure from every foe ex- OFF FOR SAN FRANCISCO. ept starvation. Supposed to Have Escaped. Believed That General Black Will Bt the Next Commander. Dutch Flat, Cal., Aug. 3.- 3.—Sheriff leena and three deputies arrived Washington, Aug. 3.—A large dele ere at 3 this morning. They have gation in a special train leaves here een looking over the ground of last the latter part of the week for tht ight's fight. They found no trace San Francisco Grand Army Encamp >f the convicts, who have without ment. ’oubt escaped. According to general opinion here General Black, of Chicago, will I lx Hunt With Bloodhound*. commander-in-chief. Placerville, Aug. 3.—C. C. Senett trrived this afternoon with two loodhounds, the same which trailed MISSOURI RAISING. Tracy through the wilds of Washing- Heavy Rains in Central Kansas— on and Oregon. They will be put on he freshest scent obtainable. Railroads in Danger. Kansas City. Aug. 3.—The Missouri rose 27 inches during uie last 21 hours, as a result of heavy rains ir Central Kansas. Forty miles of Union Pacific track between here Salina and Topeka is weakening Electrocuted Today. Ossining, N. Y., Aug. 3.—Tony I’urekofsky. who murdered a saloon keeper June 6, was electrocuted this -norning. It was one of the quickest lunlshments for crime on record in America. Frauds In Austria. Vienna. Aug. 3.—The Morning Zei New Brotherhood Chief. tung says: Emperor Franz Joseph Cleveland, Aug. 3.—The grand of- has summoned the leaders in the Hungarian chambers bribery case 'leers of the Brotherhood of Locomo and will probably demand their res tive Engineers meet here Friday to •lect a nqw chief ignation PALOUSE CROP TO BE SHORT. Weather Condition* for th* Past Week Have Been Favorable. Tacoma, July 31.—A letter from State Grain Commissioner Arrasmith report* a great change for the bet ter in the grain situation in the Pa louse country. The commissioner «ays the hot wave which has been drying up the wheat and inflicting great damage came to an end on the 23. and that subsequent condition* Hill Wins Unqualified Victory in Case of State of Minnesota La been highly aatutactory, an«» Vs. The Northern Securities Company. Decision Holds That Secumtle* Company was Not Formed to Control Majority of Stock of the Two Roa da, or That Either Road Was a Party to the Formation of the Securities Company. St. Paut. Minn., Aug. 1.—A decision was handed down this morning In the case of the State of Minnesota vs. The Northern Securities Compa ny. by which the promoters of the merger gain the suit. Jam«.* J Hill’s victory Is comprehensive and substantial The decision was filed this morning by Judge William Lecron of ot the United States circuit court. court, The state loses on every point it made against the merger The decision is a sweeping victory fur the owners of the securities, and Great Northern and Northern Pacific stocks The court holds that the ex Idence fails to show that the Securities Com ¡■any was formed for the purpose of holding a majority of the Great North era as well as Northern Pacific stock The state anti-trust act Is practically a copy of the Sherman act. and re lates only to railroads, and the Se- | Ing the withering crops to entirely | recover. The weather had cooled, with the prevailing wind* all coming >rom the south. The commissioner Is informed by farmer* that the regular threshing will commence in two week* and that a crop of 20 per cent off the return* of last year Is expected. The grain, however. Is of excellent quality, plump and ot good general appear ance and weight curities Company 1* not a railroad TO RECOVER LAND. Neither road win a party to forming th«* Securities Company. First Suits Agamst Mis* Ware’s Vic- Judge Ijecron says: -The Securtt.e* tims in Land Fraud* Comj<any Is hut an Investment of Portland. July 31.—The first of the stockholder* in railway* without suite to be Instituted by the federal power to consolidate them, or to in government for the recovery of lands terfere with their management or grai.ted under the fraudulent affida- control That is my Judgw«-nt and ft • ”» ma>!e before Marie L. Ware, as leads m« to the conclusion that none United State* commissioner at Eu- of the defendants bare violated the . gene, were filed in the United State* I Minnesota anti-trust act. i circuit court yesterday afternoon. “The conclusion is apparently con The defendant* named are G. B | trary to the cas« X the United átate* McLeod, William H. Watkins. Jame* xs The Northern Securities but the E. Warrick and Samuel L. Carson, right of litigants and my own sense and all four have been cited by Unlt- of duty alike require this decision. I ed State* CummlMiooer Slade* to "A decree 1» perforce entered dis- appear before him on September 7. m.ssiug the state's bill ot complaint ” and show cause why the land* grant- •-d them should uot revert to the gov Effect on Stock*. New York. Aug. 1.—Northern Se- ernment curities stock advanced Tour point*— Newsboy* Strike. io S3X, then reacted to 90. Forty Sar Francisco. Aug. 1.—Not an thousand share» changed bands evening newspaper has been sold tn the street» tor three weeks, the news boy* leing on a strike The pub- COLORING MATTER USED NATIVE OREGON PRODUCTS. I shers want five cents for two p* I TO SIMULATE RIPENESS. Beautiful Eiul of Native Wood Pre per*. The boy* will only consent to return to the publishers five cents Tn* Dairy and Food Commission of sented to Information Bureau. for three paf>er*. The publisher* re Pennsylvania Examination Throw» A huge ease), over eight feet in tuse to arbitrate. Light Upon th* ••Thrifty" Metnod* height. cvnta.ntng one of the moot beautiful coi!e< (Jons of Oregon woods Murderer Had Insurance. Employed by Some Easterner*. ever displayed in Portland, has just Baker City. Aug. 1.—A. A. Ear!. Philadelphia. Pa.. Aug. L—Sta” i-een received from Coos Bay by «ae Da ry and Food Commissioner Wsr Oregon Information Bureau, says the who killed Blossom Small Dear Dur ren has announced that retail gro Oregon Daily Journal The collection kee last week, afterward shoot in 4 cer* here recently have received consists of 1G specimens all beauti himself, carried 81.0V0 insurance m *n.or.g the order* for canned totr.v fully polished, and was presented to the Modem Woodmen of America and toes i>ackaces which, upon cloae er toe bureau by the Marshfield board if Mrs. Earl has just received the amount as beneficiary. amination, proved to be a mt seel la- trade. — ceous assortment of vegetables. in The woods are for the most part eluding a few gTeen tomatoes and knotty specimens, much prized for red paint, the whole having uie ap- veneering purposes. The pieces are pearance of rite tomatoes horizontal cuts from the stumps and Investlgate the coloring and gra n is well brought Agects detailed to found that red paint was used to a out by the polishing. The most strik- great extent in coloring worthless lag piece in the collection is a huge and unripe tomatoes, and that other myrtle »lab. irregular In shape, of a coloring matter was also used to deep, rich mottled brown and I-lack give a ripe ap;>e*rance to worthless color and over six feet broad. A canned vegetable* of various kind*. specimen of maple burl la a very beautiful part of the huge easel. THOUSANDS OF LABORERS ADOPTS CLOSED POLICY IN The woods mounted on the easel NEW SHOP WILL BE IN are; Maple burl, curly white maple, EMIGRATED TO AMERICA. RELATION TO MANCHURIA. ED EBEN’S OLD QUARTER}. chit t Im wood, alder, myrtle slab, cur Announce* That the Door* Will Be ly red fir. vertical grain fir. c.<rly rod maple, curly white cedar, slash grain Drouth, Famine and Pestilence an Furnishing Good* Firm Will Occupy Open in Six Year»—Fleet of War spruce vertical grain rod cedar, wmle Old Story—Islands Once Lost 30. Billy Krassig'* Pretent Quarters- Vessel* Ordered to Coresn waters cedar buri, white cedar and black 000 of Starvation in Two Years’ All the Young Men Well I Known I* it a Bluff? myrtle, curly myrtle, slash grain fir. Time—Old and Decrepit Are Dying and Start New Busmesa i With Berlin. Aug. 1—The Cologne Ga Minerals From Baker County. in the Streets. zette today report* that Russia has Promise* of Great Success. Office Secretary George G. iiirre! a tight grip upon Manchuria and has has received a cabinet of minerals New Bedford. July 31.—A Lisbon Pendleton will soon have a con- ordered all foreigners to remain out from the White Swan and Virtue Portugal paper received here dated sol ¡dated barber shop, making one of of the country for the present. mining district In Baker county. The The Gazette add that at the end of collection consists of ores from 2r> July 13, contains a story of starva the finest in the city, and a new store on entirely new lines. The deal ha* six years, when Russia expects to different properties, each labeled and tion and suffering in the Cape Verde been on the carpet for some time, have restored order In Manchuria the rei-oeing In a bed of cotton. A box Islands, which has only been hinted at and the leases were all signed this country will be opened to free com of uniabeied ores from Baker coun’y up to this time. The Lisbon story merce. Russia has formally notified was also received. afternoon and the thing settled. The room on the wesi side of Main China of oruers to this effecL Among the recent vegetable audi Is unquestionably authentic, as the street recently occupied by a branch Preparing to Back It Up. tions to the bureau’s rapidly growing islands belong to Portugal, and the of the Peoples Warehouse has been SL Petersburg. Aug. 1.—That Rus exhibits is a huge white radish trim information has a direct and unbi leased by William Krassig and sia 1* preparing to meet any trouble Clackamas county. Th<- monster James Sharp, anu they will consoli regarding Corea was manifested to-1 toot is 1* inches in length and with ased origin. The Islands, which He off the Afri date their two shops, making one day when it wa* announced that the its top. extends over a yard along the •iret-clas-. shop. The new firm Wwl two biggest battleships, two cruisers table. It is l&X* Inches In circumfer can coast and directly cast of San install six chairs and will make the ard four torpedo boat* have been or ence at the largest part Domingo, have suffered from the ef place first class in every way The der«! to prixeei" Immediately to the fects of a heavy emigration of la- back |>art ot the room win be fitted Far East LA GRANDE LAND DISTRICT borers, very many of whom have up with tubs and shower* and all the paraphernalia of a first-class bath gone to South America, and to the Umatilla County ths Largest In ths HIDEOUS ASSAULT house. Before the place ia opened southern part of the United States. tne rooms will be remodeled and ren Oistrict. Tuls emigration ha» greatly depleted ovated. *0 that when ft Is otieneu Perpetrator* Will Be Lynched If They The L< Grande land office district. Are Appreh'nded. the force available for the handling for business It will be the most com In which Umst'lla county is located, modious and the finest place in the Detroit. Aug. 1.—The 6-year-old of the crops, cattle and other indus contains In round numbers, 8 S43.000 city. daughter of John Brownska was In addition, the Islands are acres of land, and Is comprised of the tries. taken from her bed by two unknown Men’s Furnishing Goods. counties of Umatilla. Grant. Morrow, sufferirg from one of the not Infre men who broke into the house early Charles Bond and J. W. Sulllvar Union. Baker and Wallowa. quent visitations of drouth, and the will take the place left vacant by this morning. She was carried to a Umatilla county is the largest .n nearby field, outraged and will die. this year are a total failure, Krassig’* removal and will put t~e the district and contains 2.000.000 crops On the Island of S l Hiago the room in fix to receive a stock of A big posse of citizens headed by the acres of land of all descriptions. The men’s collars, shirts, ties and sun child's father, I* in pursuit and Umat Ila Indian reservation contain* death rate has reached ar. .1 row malt Iries. They will have the agency for threaten lynching. 151 360 acres, in the heart of the tains 30 daily from starvation, The Stove Moulder* Arrested, several ot the leading tailoring estab courty. There are 800.000 acres of dead are piled coffinless in trneches lishments of the East, and will .ur Two stove moulders have been ar- vacant lard in the courty. about 200.- The old and decrepit drop dead in nish tailor-made clothes to the pub rested chareed with the child out 00" acres of farming land, and nearly the streets, and In some cases the ic for the same price that would ^e rage at Delzay. They deny that they 1.000.000 acres of deeded mountain mothers are the only ones left to bury '-barged for a custom-made suit of were in the vicinity ot Brownska'* and pasture land. the little children they vainly tried the same grade. house. .Morrow is the smallest county in to find sufficient food for. Little babes The new firm will also have a first the district, containing only a total have died of starvation at the dry Sass tailor In their employ, and w.«« of 511.000 acres. 230.000 acres of this breasts of their starving mothers. POSSES WITHDRAWN. do the alterations for the leading being vacart and 280.000 deeded land. The military governor is doing his furnishing houses in the city, ano People Around The district is well watered, con utmost to relieve uls distress, but Placerville Greatly will also carry on cleaning and press taining the Umatilla river and tribu his resources are limited. He is fur Alarmed In Consequence. ing parlors. They will for a stated taries John Day river. Grande Ron- (her handicapped by the almost de Placerville, Cal., Aug. 1. — The in sum call for one suit a week and re de. Wallowa. Powder river. Burnt sert on of the islands by ships and habitants are In a state of frenzy from 1 turn It after having cleaned and river, and numerous streams almost steamers which have not made theii fear that the removal of the i>osse« pressed IL as large as rivers, well distribute« ports for several months, because With the exception of the stock of will permit the convicts to hold up throughout the entire district. It Is there was nothing this year to be will be and rob, as it Is known the felons are said that this Is the greatest num taken away, and no ore who couiu jhirts and sundries there nothing in the room but the tailoring short of provisions. The convict shot ber of beautiful mounta'n streams in buy what they might bring. lutfit, for all of the work in lue at last night was making toward Ta any land district on the Pacific coast. Drouth and famine are periodical clothing line will be done by samples hoe. In the Cape Verde Islands, the nor It will be the aim of the firm to give Hoboes Get Free Ride. mal population of which is 7v.0u> Wallowa Wool Sale. perfect fits in all suits, and tue An O. R. & N labor contractor distributed over an area of 1.280 clothes will come from the Eastern Elgin. Aug 1.—Part of the Wil- house perfect In every detail of wont- Iowa wool clip was delivered here who was In the city yesterday hiring miles. The greatest famine was in manship. Any little mistakes t_at this week for Eastern buyers About men to go to Weatherby to work on 1832-33, when 30 000 peontf d'e<i I" -night arise will be corrected by the 1.500.000 pounds were shipped yester the railroad, related an Instance of 1730-32 the islands were almost de tailor. day evening to Boston. It sold at the ’he dishonesty of a gang that he en- populated from famine and pesti -aged in Portland. There were 15 lence. The islands are 10 in number, As there is a good field in the city pens for 12 and 13'4 cents. if them ard they claimed to have but several are uninhabited rocky "or such a business, Messrs. Sullivan bedding. They showed up at the de islets. and Bond expect to secure their share Telephone Merger. pot next morning on time with what >t the trade, and to do well in their Boise. Aug 1.—Samuel F. Fenton, Sent Up for Life. venture. Mr. Bond will go to Port of the Utah Telephone Co., is here or ippeared to be their bedding, but land in a dav or so to buy the stock xanizing into one system the tele which turned out to be old straw In San Francisco, Aug. 1.—Bernard necessary for the new place, and Mr. phones of the inter mountain region. side of gunny sacks. They were Whitelaw. who assaulted and robbed Sullivan will superintend the putting The Strom i»erg-Carlson Company is •assed over the road, but not a Bln- Mrs. Mathews March 4, was sentenc tie man of them ever landed at •n of the shelving and fixtures of the behind the movement. ed today to life imprisonment at Fol Weatherby, most of them getting off store. som. at Pendleton and Baker City. — Ba Mr. Krassig expects to move In a Much-Needed Vacation. ker City Democrat week or two at the latest, and as Improvements at Fair Grounds. Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 1.—Presi -oon as he I* out of the placo it wil The state board of agriculture are Three Wagon Loades of Presents. be remodeled for the reception of the dent John Mitchell started today for a month’s vacation, the first he has new store. President Roosevelt was the re making a number of needed Improve had since he went to work as a cipient of over three wagon loads of ments at the state fair grounds this breaker hoy over 30 years ago. He present* of all kinds during his West year. A new water system coating will remain at home with his family. ern trip, and these have been dispos 85.000 is being put in winch will add ed of in the White House to suit the much comfort to the exhibitors and Discovered In a Residence and Uses 8trong Case by 8tate. i tastes and desires of the president campers, More new stalls are being a Poker—Get* $5. Cynthia. Ky., Aug. 1.—Marcum’s and his family. The heaviest and built to better accommodate the large New York. Aug. 3.—The wife of brother Is a witness >n the Jett-White bulkiest of the present was an im number of exhibitors that are prepar nearly trial today. As the trial progresses mense chair made of elk horns. A big ing to come to the fair. A large am- Congressman Ketchum was murdered by a thief whom she sur- additional evidence against the pris elk in the park at Tacoma Wash., pltheater Is being built, where visit prised In her apartments on her re oners is being constantly produced lias annually shed his horns. These ors can be seated and witness the turn from a shopping expedition She by the prosecution. have been preserved, and It was from livestock judging under cover. Many wa* struck over the head with a them that the chair for the presi minor Improvements are being made loker Her collar bone was broken The steamer Regulator, on the Co dent was made. The chair is so on the grounds, and everything is be and she received numerous scalp lumbia river has been converted into heavy that several men are required ing done to make a visit to the fair a pleasant event and a joy forever. wounds. The thief got $5 in cash. to lift and move It an oil-burner. Try It. NO. GO NEW MAYOR OF 8POKANE UNDER MINISTERIAL FIRE. PD5TÍL Tffl[5 Promoter* of a Moral Municipal Pro gram In That City Are Greatly Dissatisfied With th* New Mayor's Recent Veto. Spokane. July 31.—The ministers of the city are taking *•*• ♦*<«» matter of the veto by Mayor Boyd of the resolution of the city council abolish ing the saloon boxes, in earnest, and United States Grand Jury In are handing out some hot shots from the pulpit*. dicts Machen on Four I juu Sunday Rev Dr Lambert of the First M E. church, paid particu Counts of Fraud- lar attention to the mayor He took for his text. "And from that time he took opportunity to betray Him. ’ and applied the text to Mayor Boyd. He quoted from the republican municip*] INVESTIGATIONS ARE platform and from the utterances of the mayor with regard thereto, and SCORCHING MANY NOTABLES. said that the language of the text wa* applicable to the mayor That whether Boyd received monetary '■■onsideratlon* or favors In other Contractor Who Could Not Furnish ways, bi* flagrant violation of a sa Shoulder Straps for Letter Carriers cred trust place* him in the attitude Pays Machen Three Thousand Doi of * modern Juda* The preacher al so l'kened the mayor to Benedict Ar I ar» for Mi* Services—Posts! Lock nold. and depicted him aa "wearing Agent Collects False Claim. x crown of Infamy bedecked with fal len Mara—the stars of loot manhood July 8L—The grand jury thl* af and womanhood " ternoon reported the following ladle:- inenta aa a result of the recent inves CONSIDERED FEASIBLE tigation into the postoffice scandals' BY PROMINENT CHILEANS. l^eopold Stern, of Baltimore; William Long, ot Washington, and August Commissioner is Now in South Amer Machen former »uperintendent of ica for ths Furtherance of ths Great free delivery. The charge* are cousptfary to de Scheme—Line Via Isthmus of Pan fraud the government in connection ama. w th the contract tor the ahohder New York. July 31.—Interest is be strap* tor letter carriers' satchel*. ing shown throughout Chile, accord Machen, Thoma* MacGregor, ot Bal ing to South American papers receiv timore. and Morris Runkle, of New ed here, in the Pan-American railway York, are charged with conspiracy in project and in the mission of Charles regard to the contract for letter car M. Pepper, who has been sent as com- ries' satchel* and railway mall sacks. u.lasi<jter to South America uy Pres Machen. Wiiliam G. Crawford, of ident Roosevelt to secure the coop Washington, George Lcranz. former eration of 'hove governments for the .■ostmarU-r of Toledo and wife, are completion of the line. Senor Aug liao etarged with conspiracy. Ms- u»to Matte, who was a colleague of hen. John Cusper, mayor of Lockha- Commissioner Pepper at the Pan ren. William Long, of Washington, American congress in Mexico .* quot also tor conspiracy. Wil iam Long, ed In El Mercurio as follows: jf Washington, and John Cusper. of “The undertaking is a gigantic one ockhaven. tor offering a bribe. Wil- but jerfect.'y practical, ard great am G. Crawford, the Washington at- benefits will be derived by Ch le from .cial representative of the Postal the close touch which the interior of ock Device Company, ot New Jer the country will have with the rich ey. for collecting a false claim territory of the north. It will mean gainst the rovernmenL a boom to the development of our Disgraceful De'-ails of Fraud. country and will benefit our political The first three tnd ctmerts bear and industrial life in general." on each other One of these con tracts was held by Stern, who it la charged, was unable to furnish the shoulder straps to go with the sat- cbei«. ard they were supplied by the department through Machen, and ia return for which, it is alleged that Machen received checks from Siem, through William Long, a Washing ton insurance man. for $3.600. Runkel is indicted on a s milar barge, be being said to have paid ■laches $2.000 and Thomas Msc- GOVERNOR OF SANTIAGO Jregor. the clerk. $.V«n Cra-ford. it Is alleged, paid Ma- NOW ADDS HIS TESTIMONY. hen. through Lorenz ard wife 87.- <00. In all these cases it is a Tbe Insurrectionists Demand the Pay -•d the department was charged tor be «'rape by the contractors, when ment of the Old Army Whici the bill* were presented, as though Fought Spam—Pupo. a Bandit they h-d .>een furnished by the de- Leader. Was Killed by the Rurales ■«runent Cupper’s indictment charge* Tuesday Last '.hat he paid Machen, through Long. $800 bonus in return tor the contract Havana. July 31.—In spite of the X pa-nung the mail boxes assertion msde yesterday by Senor NEW OREGON ROAD. Vero. secretary of the interior, that the killing of three men and the cap Great Sc Si erne far Opening Up Cen ture of a fourth man. their leader, tral Oregon Proposed, -"to had attempted to cause an npns- Buras. Ore . July 30 —Francis G. !ng in the vicinity of Bayamo. prov- Burke, of Minneapolis, spent two Ince nt Santiago, effectually ended lays here making a personal exaznin- the < niy semblance of an uprising la ition of the country and a feasible route for a ra iroac which be thinks Cuba. th< rumors of uprisings tn will be built from Sait Lake to the Eastern Cuba were fully confirmed oast, terminating somewhere near today in the government's reports re Eugene. He expressed the belief reived ’corn the governor and other that the $10.000.600 recently paid the Union Pacific Company by Clark tor officials cf Santiago Province. These ’.he Oregon Short Line, »rill be ex- are to the effect that since the night 'ended on a road through this coun □f Sunday last 60 armed and mount try to the Pacific Coast After an examination of the country ed men have appeared outside vil lages In the Cauto river district, pro- he has concluded that the most pr*c~ •icable route tor such a road would claiming a revolution and demandinr <e across the desert from Stein’s the payment of the former members mountain, striking Lake courty at a •oint where Oregon and California if the revolutionary army. orrers on the Nevada line, thence No acts cf violence have • been re •earing northwest and passing -cried. but the inhabitants Of trough Crooked creek valley and up Canto rcc < n are excited T«.-« l“vd he Chewaucan valley to Paisley, and *r of the revolutionary party is n a northwesterly direction to the amed Pupo? He *• a orothcr of onr iw pass over the Cascade range on f o * the bandits Kill 'd by the rural he headwaters of the north middle •uard on Tuesday ork of the Wil’amette river. General Rodrigues, commander-in Nearly all the timber in this part 'hlef of the rural guard, has ordered X Oregon would be access ble to ’he mobilization of all the rural >ucb a road. Mr. Burke goes from zuards in Eastern Cuba, and the gov icre to San Francisco thence to New •rnor of Santiago province has beer York. instructed to enlist as many volun •eers as may be deemed necessary O. R. A N. IMPROVEMENTS. to co-operate with the mounted troops. 'banges in Track to Be Made Near Secretary of the Interior Yero says Weatherby. there is no doubt that the author ties will be able to cope successftlly with Raker City. July 31.—Chanre of lo ’he situation, as all reports, be adds st ion of the roadbed of the O. R. A agree that popular ser timer t is with N. to the onposite side of Burnt river ae government of President Palma ear Weatherby station requires the md that those who have risen in re- mployment of many laborers and a lellion mostly belong to the wanton, oquisitlon was made yesterday on lazy class of Puerto Principe. Taker City to supply as many men Up to this afternoon no further is could be obtaired. nformatlon had been received here An order for 50 or 60 men was left regard ng the uprising in Eastern it the employment agency with fa r 2uba. The rural guards have begun ■uccess. A rtimber were sort out ’o patrol both sides of th» Ca«to esterdsy morning and more will fol Iver In search for rebels. The mili ow this morning. ary and civil officials have not yet reported the numbers, location and Prisoners Dig Through Walk toings of the rebels with any degree Walla Walla. July 31.-—Ar attempt •>f exactness. to escape from the state penitentiary was made by H. W. Mitchell and Cold Summer in Alaska. James Rurkly. yesterday evening. by Seattle. Wash.. Aug. I.—The steam digging brick from the wall ot the er Roanoke arrived from Nome this jute plant. Their actions were sus morning with 1350.000 treasure, Its picious and the officials discovered officers report that the season is very the plot in time to frustrate it cold in the North. When discovered, there only remain ed one thickness to be removed and they had planned to make an escape Knights May Build. at the first favorable opportunity. Walla Walla. Aug. _ 1.—The local lodge of the Knights of Pythias are More Sheep Killed. arranging to build a two-story brick Canyon City, July 31.—About 100 to cost 810.060. The lodge now owns head of sheep belonging to Weaver a lot valued at 86.500. Brothers, of ML Vernon, were shot by masked men, Wednesday, on the Ksystone Mines Sold. range near here, The herders were Baker City, Aug. 1.—The Keystone held up by one masked man while group of mines located near the the shooting was going on. Many White Swan, in this county was sold more sheep tn the flock were injured yesterday to Eastern parties for ISO.- 000. Fire at Elgin. La Grande, July 31.—Fire destroy Twenty-Three Lives Lost ed the sawmill. 2.000 cords of wood. Lowell. Mas* . Aug. 1.—Another 250.000 fe»t of lumber and a dwelling body was found In the ruins today, house belonging to l4iwrei.ee Fox. making a total of 23 last night Loss about $14.000.