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FOUR K IL L E D SV A 8TO RM . T w o O th e rs P r o b a b ly P a lo lly In ju r e d — W in d a n d L ig h t n in g . MINING NEWS OF NEARBY STATES BUYING FOR FALL TRADE. A n I m m e n « « B u « ln e « « In S t e e l R e p o r t e d F ro m th e W e s t. New York, August 16.— In the storm B IG P L A N T F O R H E C L A . Bradstreet’« savs; Trade is still ex S L O C A N IS O N T H E J U M P . which passed over this section this af hibiting many of the irregularities in Serious Wreck in a Penn ternoon, four persons were killed in T w e n t y D r i l l C n m p r e a a n r an<l L a r g « N e a r l y A l l t h e M in e « A r e A g a i n S h i p cident to the transition period between Brooklyn, and two others stand very H o ls t G o in g In . sylvania Town. p in g O re . mid-summer and early fall trade. De little chance of recovery from injuries Burke, Idaho, August 9.—The Hecla SHndon, B. C., August 9.— Nerly all spite the hot wave, with its effect on received. Thomas Dunn, HI years of mine, near here, on Canyon creek, iu sge, was killed by lightning while the Coeur d’Alene«, which reently paid the mines around Sandon are shipping the growing distributive demand, and F IF T E E N K IL L E D O U T R IG H T again. The Idaho Merit out 600 tons in also because o' the reports of damage to sheltering under a tree. ------------ I Frank Valentine was crushed in the its first dividend of $20,000, has under July of high grade ore, and will do bet the corn crop which it has incited, a wav extensive improvements. The ter in August. more cheerful feeling is perceptible in ■ • v r r n l M u r a W a r « N r r l o u a l y I n j i i r u d — wreck of his barn that had been set on company is putting in a plant for its general trade, and the booking of fall The Payne shipped about 1,200 tons A e e l i l s u t O m i r r t x l a t a ( i r a d a - V i u t a - j fire by lightning anil Clarence Weeks, eventual operation at 3,500 feet depth. in July, ami has paid its quarterly orders for dry goods, clothing an! hard a farmhand, who wus in the b a i n be la g W ith N o W a t r h n ia a . This plant would include two 400-horse fore the lightning struck it, is missing. power boilers a compressor plant with dividend of 3 per cent. The Truth, ware at leading Western centers, an«l <'hauucey Lay, 10 years of age, became a capacity of 30 drills and a hoist that («¿ueen Bess, Whitewater, Slocan Star heavy engagements in iron and steel 81 a11ngt<>n, I’»., Auguat 14.— Fifteen entangled in an electric wire and was could 0|>erute the mine to the 2500-foot and Bam Ider-Cariboo are rogtdar ship pnslucts, though at lower prices, are pers . of encouraging proportions. Price« are I«ersous »i'r» iiistiintly killed mill II burned to death. level The installation of these im not showing tiie precipitate declines The Rath mill in Sandon is running others, several of whom will die, were Fannie Bryne, 17 years old, was provements lias been under way for noted some time ago, and among the double shift an«I the company is put seriously injured tonight in n grade badly burned and shocked in alighting some time. The large buiblings for crossing, about three miles from thin from a Brooklyn Heights trolley car the reception of the plant are practical ting iu two more Whifley tables, these really encouraging features is the ad city, h passenger Irani on the Lehigh during the storm. The arm of the ly completed the boilers and compressor doing better work than the round vance iu wheat, mainly based on im Valley it New England railroad crash trolley ear broke and fell upon Miss are on the ground and the work of put tables. It is shipping about 200 tons proved export inquiry. Wool is rather firmer than of late ing into an ouiniluis containing 25 js - i - Bryne’« shoulder. Khe tried to push it ting them in place is going on rapidly. ol good grade concentrates per month. Sandon is building up rapidly. About because of the better inquiry, though it eons. All the dead and injured were from her uud was badly shocked. Her It is expected that the entire new 900 meu are on pay rolls in and around must he admitted that tiiis steadiness in tiie ««mui l i t i s . But three of the oo- life is despaired of. plant will be in operation by Septem Sandon. is somewhat at the expense of new cnpants escaped injury. Angelina Bosa, 30 years of age, ber 1. In the meantime the work of business. The omnibus |»assi-ngers were re stepped ujxin a live electric wire and developing the mine is going forward PLANS FOR G O L D E N Z O N E . Cotten goods partake ol the strength turning to Slatington from a funeral. was hurried and shocked so badly that rapidly and about 1,000 tons of concen of raw material, and while weakness is too T o n s o f O r . The dead and injured were nearly all she may die. trates a month are being shipped. The C a p a c i t y W i l l M o D on a i l K« still peiceptible, brown cottons, prim y . relative« of Sophia Sclioefer, whose At Tenafly, N. J., Lizzie North whs main shaft in which the big hoist will cloths aud wide sheetings, the natural Loomis, Wash., August 9.—At the <d>ae,|uie« they had attended. The ac killed and her mother uud two sisters be operated is to be sunk to the (nil corrective of reduced production, are Golden Zone plans have l»een corn- cident occurred at 6 o'clock at a «harp were severely injured by a bolt of 2,500 feet, though operations will not carve. The train was a special, and lightning that they will probably die. he confined to this work. The ore bod pleted for increasing the capacity of being increasignly sought. While the dry goods demand as a whh running at a lively rate of speed. ies will be opened and miDed at the the mill to 100 tons daily. The neces whole is still classed as backward for D E A T H R A TE IN H O N O L U L U sary machinery has been ordered anti I he oiiiiiihua came along nt a good successive levels as depth is attained. the work ol adding to the prevent mill the season,hot weather is credited with rate of «|>eed, the occupant« unconscious A la r m in g ly H ig h , K « p rc ln l ly A m o n g strocrure for its accomodation begins some of the responsibility and trade at T O O P E R A T E T H E H E A D L IG H T . of any impending danger. A h the bus N l t t l v e « M ild J M |l * B f « F , at once. The Golden Zone is so titude as a rule is one ol hopeful ex- swung around the curve the engine Honolulu, August 0.—The health re C o e u r d ’ A l e n r P r o p e r t y o f H f i n a r k a b l « thoroughly opened up that it will be peotancy. came in Hight. It wax too late to stop Au imin ease business in steel pro ports for the mouths of June mid July I'r n in ia r to B e W o r k e d . able to supply the daily mill run with either the omuihu« or the train, and, ducts is reported booked at Pittsburg show an alarming increase in tiie death Wallace, Maho, August 9.—The Head a minimum force. Continuous devel a« the driver of the former whipped up an«i Chicago, aud steel bars are really rate, esi*ecially among native Hawaii i light Mining Company will soon let a opment of the ore liodies will go stead the four horses to cross the track ahead firmer with an advance of $4 per ton aus and Japaneseo! the Island of Oban, Contract fcr the running of a 000-foot ily forward though there is more than id the trull), the latter crushed into in announced hv Western manufacturera middle. The occuprants were thrown which has tiie only complete records. | crosscut tunnel to tap its vein 400 feet 100,000 tons of ore in sight. In June the number of deaths peri below the surface. The property lies The management proposes to increase who have sold tneir output up to the in all directions, bruised and bleeding. close of the year. The l.i dead were killed outright. thousand was 45; in July 49.03. The j immediately west of the .Mammoth and the capacity of the mill from its profits Failures for the week were 177 in increase for the past few rears, a s ' covers the same vein. It will be until it cun treat 500 tons daily. That Physicians ami a special train were the United States, against 136 last •ent from here and the injured were shown by tables just compiled, has opened by a crosscut tunnel half way a mine o f this character could in three aroused a great deal of discussion. In up the mountain side from Canyon years be brought to such a high stage year, and 33 in Canada, against 29 last taken* to South Bethlehem. year. No wutchmuu is employed to warn 1396 the July deaths numtiered 43. creek to the cropping of the ledge, cut of development, show quantities of ore Since then the figures have jumped to ting about 1,500 feet west of the .Mam and he scarcely known outside of the team« or pedestrians of any approach P A C IF IC C O A S T TRADE. moth where there is a blow-out, indi district tells tire story of the quality of ing train, and those living in the vicin 59. 76, 93 and this year 114. Consumption heads tiie list of dis H e a t t l e M a r k e t « . cating ore below. No work of conse work being done at a dozen properties ity «tate it 1« impo««ihle to hear an ap eases, causing deatiis in almost every Onions, new, 1 He. in the Palmer Mountain district. Mill quence has ever been done on it, a l proaching train. The horses drawing mouth, and tlieie is Hgitation foi strict though ore has been found near the sur runs up to date have averaged about Lettuce, hot house, $1 f«er crate. the hu« escaped unhurt. measures to quarantine patients. The face iu two or three different places. $10 j>er ton, aud this is probably a Potatoes, new. $15. hoard of health is discussing a quaran It lias been held ioryeHrs by some pros good average of the mine. D ID D O U B L E C R IM E . Beets, per sack, 85c@$l. tine against consumption, as many peo pectors who were not willing to part Turnips, per sack, 75c. M i r e r K in a A j s l n G o in g . I I I « F r i e n d n i k I R o b b e d th e ple come here from other plates to en with it nt any price which mining men Carrots, per sack, $1.00 Seattle, August 9.—Captain Gifford, E x p rra « . joy the mild climate, and it is believe were willing to pay. Parsnips, per sack, $1.25. who inis been appointed mine manager Cauliflower, native, 75c. Columbus, 0 ., August 14.—Charles that they are a source of danger to the I o w a C a p i t a l in H o o d o o . of the reorganized Hall Mining aud II. II. Ferrell, a former employe of the population. Cucumbers— l0@20c. Palouse, Wash., August 9. — W. J. Smelting Company, proposes to justify Typhoid fever has also claimed a Cabbage, native an,I C alifo rn ia , AdaniH Express Compuuy, was arrested tills afternoon in this city, and con good many victims lately, a slight epi Springer, of New Hampton, la., writes the faith which lie has had in the Sil 2c pier pounds. Tomatoes—40 @ 50-. fessed to the killing of Messenger Lane demic having developed in one district from there that he has secured capital ver King as one of the great mines oi to work the Blue Bird and eight claims British Columbia. He has an exten and tiie robbery of the way safe of the of Honolulu. B utter— Creamery. 25c; Eastern 22c; The United States courts in Hawaii in the Hoodoo district. He has em sive programme of development mapped dairy, 15@ 18c; ranch, 14c pound. Adams Expri-NH Company, on t i i e Penn- Eggs—24c. silvauia east-bound train Friday night. were formally inaugurated today by ployed XI. W. Truax as manager of the obt and within a short time he expects mine and authorize«! him to begin work to have 500 men at work in the com Cheese— 12c. One thousand dollar« of the money he Judge XI. XI. Estee. at once and push development. pany’s property. A small force will stole was recovered. Poultry— 14c; dressed,' 14@15c; S tr ik e a t M s r s e llle s . Mr. Truax put a double shift to go to the mine and get things in shape. spring, $3.5C. Ferrell was to have been married Marseilles, August 15.—The strike work and the property w ill be Electric jiower instead of steam power Hay—Pnget Sound timothy, $11.00 Thursday next to Mi«« Lillian Costlow, of the firemen of the Trans-Atlantic daughter of an engineer on the Penusy I- Steamship Company, which began this thoroughly developed. The Blue Bird may operate the mine machinery aud @12.00; choice Eastern Washington timothy, $16.00. VMliia line. He hud been discharged morning, seriously iuterferred with the is a copper property showing high possibly the smelter. Corn— Whole, $23.00; cracked, $25; from the employ ol the Adams Express arrangements for the departure of the values, and now that capital has been K e llu m '« C a m p Is N e x t- feed meal, $26. Company, and confessed that the transports, only one, the Polynesian, secured to develop it is expected to lie- Helena, Mont., August 9. — W. Rel Barley— Rolled or ground, per ton, motive of the robbery was to secure getting away. The strikers of the oth come a valuable producer. iant and J. D. Bone, two Montana pros James Malone reports a rich strike money for the approaching wedding. ers left the vessels. This afternoon the pectors. own a group of six claims on $20. Flour—Patent, pier barrel, $3.60; The money recovered he had given to strikers tried to prevent tiie Polynesian in the Elk creek disrict in Idaho on the eastern slope of Eureka mountain, Miss Costlow to keep for him, saving leaving the harbor, by blocking the Breakfast creek. The rock carries good two and one half miles from Grani blended straights, $3.25; California. lie had saved it from his earnings. entrance with a number of barges. Ten values in gold and copper. Forks, B. C., that are attracting con $3.25; buckwheat flour, $6.00; gra Ferrell is hut 23 years of age. lie was strikers eutcred by the scuttles and S T R IK E O N S IL V E R M O U N T A IN . siderable attention, and are regarded as ham, pier barrel, $3.00; whole wheat at the home of his affianced and in her threatened the firemen with death. of considerable promise. There is a flour, $3.00; rye flour, $3.80@4.00. Mills tuffs— Bran, pier ton, $12.00; company when placed under Mrrest. A n o t h e r “ M e r e C b a n r e ” F o r t u n e S t u m well-defined quartz ledge on the La They were placed under arrest. It was shorts, pier ton, $14.00. b l e d O n t o in C a n a d a . When the officers took him into only with great difficulty that the com- conia. It averages about 20 inches Fee«!—Chopped feed, $19.00 per ton; enstody he assumed a nonchalant de (tauy’s tugs succeeded in driving the Spokane, August 9.—The Thompson wide. A shaft has been sunk to a meanor. but when he found that ne barges toward the quays, where all the hoys have made a good strike on the depth of 25 feet. The foot wall is in middlings, per ton, $20; oil cake meal, <•011111 no longer carry out the decep manifestants, some 60, were arrested. Silver Mountain claims, in the Slocan gTanite. Assay returns gave small per ton, $30.00. Fresh Meats—Choice dressed beef tion, he made a full confession. After district. After long prospecting, K uhs values in gold and copper and it is ex F ilip in o « S u r re n d e r. steers, price 7 He; cows, 7 c; mutton his statement had been taken by Chief Thompson stumbled u|>ou a very line pected that they will improve with 7H; pork, 8c; trimmed, 9c; veal, 9@ Washington, August 14.—The war looking ledge. of Police Tyler ami he was led to a cell This was exploited depth. 11c. in the police station, lie was in a state department received today tiie follow farther with the result that one of the Hams—Large, 13c; sm all, 18 H i of nervous collapse, ami orders were ing dispatch containing cheerful news finest surface showings of galena ore F A M O U S M O N U M E N T A L M IN E . breakfast bacon, 12c; dry salt sides, given that he he watched closely to pre from General MacArthur; ever shown in the camp was uncovered. “ Manila, August 14.— Adjutant-Gen It is from six to 18 inches across and L i k e l y t o S t a r t U o p f M W e i n t h . a G o o d F o r c e 8 He. vent his doing himself bodily injury. Colonel Grassa, chunks of ore weighing hundreds of The confession of Ferrell disclosed a eral, Wasbingotn: P o r tla n d M a r k e t. Baker City, Or. August 9.—It is premeditated and blood curdling crime, August 11, iu the vicinity of Tang, sur- jtounds can be taken out with a p ick. IVheat — Walla Walla. B5o; almost impossible to believe, lie said remlered command to Colonel Free Three claims are embraced in the currently reported that the once famous Monumental mine, eight miles north Valley, 55c; Bluestem, 58c pier bushel. he had become desperate because of his man, Twenty-fourth United States in group, the Sinfi, Atwood and World. of Granite, now idle for five years, is Flour—Best grades, $3.10; graham, inability to secure employment and a fantry, consisting *of one major, six realization of the fitet that he must captains, six lieutenants, 169 men, 100 P R E S T O N P E A K C O P P E R M IN E . to he started up shortly with a force of $2.50; superfine, $2.10 per barrel. 100 men. C. 8. Miller, the principal Oats—Choice white, 37c; choio« have money to defray the expenses of rifles uud 50 bolos. D e v o l e p i n e n t W o r k 1« B e in g I ’ i i h lie d o n owner of this property, will neither gray, 35c per bushel. his approaching marriage. The rob “ Mac ARTHUR." T h a t P ro p e rty . confirm nor deny the report. Barley— Feed barley, $14.00@ 15.00; liery, including tiie murder of Express T w o F a ta lly S h u t b y K o b b e ra . Ashland, Or. August 9.— The Ash brewing, $16.00 per ton. Messenger Lane, had been planned N o r th w e s t N o te « . St. Joseph, Mo., August 14.—Joseph Millstuffs— Bran, $13.00 ton; mid carefully. Ferrell had no accomplices Phelpot and Frank Craig, both wealthy land Tidings says that Schoonover & John P. Vollmei is erecting a large dlings, $20; shorts, $14; chop, $15 pet and no confidants lie knew Lane well. stockmen, were fatally shot, near their Young, New York capitalists, repre grain warehouse at Genessee, Idaho. ton. In fact, they were friends, and he re homes, three miles from Nodaway, sented by Henry Phillips, have spent A hail storm is reported to have shat $160,000 in the development of the Hay—Timothy, $11 @12; clover,$7 @ lied upon Lane’s confidence to help Mo., early this morning by two men tered 5,000 bushels of grain near Ox 7.50; Oi-egon wild hay, $6@7 pier ton. him exocute the crime. He knew who attempted a hold-up. The stock- Preston Peak copper mines. Work is ford, Idaho, Butter—Fancy creamery, 45@60o; that considerable money was always men had visited the St. Joseph marke being pushed on a 200-foot drift. The The people of Genessee, Idaho, have store, 27 He. carried by the messenger between St. with cattle, and the robbers doubtless rock is very hard. Some of the ore as Eggs— 17c pier dozen. liouis uni Columbus, and that he was expected to secure a large sum of says 22 per cent in copper, $4 in gold asked for a special election to vote on the subject of a waterworks system. Cheese—Oregon full cream, 13o; certain to secure a large sum if lie n i b money, which had already been de and a trace in sulphur. Forest fires are still raging in the Young America, 14c; new cheese 10c bed the way safe. OREG ON W ONDER TO START. posited in a bank here. White Pine district, Idaho, although a per ponnd. N iu e S tr u c k b y L ig h t n in g . Poultry—Chickens, mixed, $3.00@ S t i l t F i g h t i n g In C o l u m b i a . C o n t r a c t t o R u n a T u n n e l W i l l B e L e t large force of men is at work trying to New York, August 14.— Nino persons 3.50 pier dozen; hens, $5.00; springs, Kingtson, Jamaica, August IB.— nt O nce. check the flames. who sought shelter uuder trees in the There was heavy fighting last week $2.50@4.00; geese, $4.00@5.00 for old; Prairie City, Or., August 9.— P. ,T. B. Gieda, a sheepman of Condon, $4.50@6.50; ducks, $3.00@4.00 pier woods in the Bronx section rinring a south of Carthagena, Colombia. The Morey aud Elmer Cleaver have gone to Or., died recently in Texas, from con storm this evening, were struck by rebels lost heavily, aud retreated. dozen; turkeys, live, 16@17c pier the Oregon Wonder mine and w ill at sumption. He leaves considerable pound. lightning. They were Janies Brown, Writers describe the suffering of the once let a contract tor running 300 feet property. a Hungarian tailor, of this city, his people ns very great. One says that Potatoes—40@50c pier sack; sweets, of tunnel on the mine, to be completed wife nnd five children, and Bertha a disorder resembling bubonic plague The O. R. & N. Co.’s gang of track 2@2 He per poimu. Witb all possible haste. Leschowitz and Bertha Silverman. has developed nt Pftnama. So many Vegetables— Beets, $1; turnip»«, 75o; layers has completed its job of putting N a w C n in p w iir a t W a l l a c e . They were taken to Fordham hospital. were killed in the last battle at Pana down heavy rails on the branch from per sack; garlic, 7c p»er ponnd; cab Wallace, Idaho, August 9.— The Lu Grande to Elgin, Or. At a late hour tonight attending physi ma that some of the bodies had to be bage, 2c p»er pound; parsnips, $1; Cathella Mining and Milling Company cians said they thought Mrs. Brown, burned. onions, 1 He per pound; carrots, 90c. The Albany, Or., ice factory, al has filed articles of incorporation at two of her children Hiid Bertha Silver- IIop»s—2@8c p»er pxmnd. S ilic ic !« o f a n I n d i a n F a m i l y . though running night aud day, is un man could not possibly live. The Wool—Valley, 15@16c per pound; Burns, Or., August 14.—A few days Wallace. G. A. Cunningham, Patrick able to supply the demand, and a car- physicians said Bertha Leschowitz ago, Knowdie, a l’iute Indian of this Sullivan, Adam G’Dinuell, J. VV. Eastern Oregon, 15 @ 16c; mohair, 25 Wever and Joseph F. Whelan are the ¡?"d ° f * £ ™ brwught "P froni Ore*on per poun«l. would either die or become hopelessly county, committed suicide by eating • - - ' City on the oth. incorporators and directors. Wallace | Mutton—Gross, best sheep, wethers insane. The party was camping out. wild parsnips. Last week, his child, The Toledo, Or., Leader reports a and ewes, 3 34c; dressed mutton, 7@ is the principal place of business and a 14-year-old girl, on account of bad P la g u e S itu a tio n a t M a n ila . the capital stock of $50,000 is divided sample of ’’pieplant” or rhubarb, 7,He per ptrund; laml>s, 6 He. Washington, August 14. — Marine health, ended her life in the same way. into 1,000,000 shares. grown in that town, whose leaf is 21 Hogs—Gross, choice heavy, $5.00; hospital service advices from ManilH, Her mother, upon finding the child feet in circumference, and whose stalk light and feeders, $4.60; dressed, K lo n d ik e G o ld S h ip m e n t .. dead, procured some parsnips, and, eat just received, state that the number of is seven inches in diameter. $5.00@6.50 p»er 100 ¡»ounds. Seattle, August 9.—Gold shipments It is plague cases there is diminishing. No ing them, also ended her life Forest fires are Beef—Gross, top steers, $4.00@4.60; raging near Medical through Skagway from the great Klon information has beeu officially commu unusual for Indians to commit suioide. Lake, Wash. cows, $3.60@4.00; dressed beef, 8 H @ dike camp to the ontside world this nicated here regarding the reported Colfax, Wash., is threatened with a 7?io per pound. Germany will land troops to protect season have reached in round numbers action of the Singapore health officer? V eal— Large, 6,H © 7xH c; sm all, 8@ more than $7,000,000. water famine. her interests iu the Yungtse valley. in Quarantining against Manila. 8 H o tier pound.
