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FHINBEDITION f-i it roar re lfience (5c A WUCJV -- - - - "SsssssnsassaE e QAILY EVENING EDITION Eastern Oregon Weather fEXDLETOX, nLvTILLA Tonight ami Saturday partly cloudy anil tlirvatonlnx. ' CEIUE SENTENCE i Verdict Returned Famous Kentucky base. W"-L BE RETIRED. COUXTY, OllJGGOX, VWl DAY, All'ST 11, 100;$. M I FIGHT I IN THE JURY ROOM, r;um Was to Prevent Icontest of Last Fall's Louis is Accused of r.nM ,,.Ex'rt'on Frm Government. " Washington, Aug 14 v t for 30 cents per pound, when thf market price is only 24 cents 1-ouls is a renc of the' Heath regime His conduct with the Inl exception .. .aid to ho above ' NOT A CANDIDATE. General Miles Favors General Black for Commander-in-Chief arrival hf.' AU& i-G Miles V?t . s mornlDP. cn route to lh am.not a candidate for commander-in-chief of the G. A. It. I Breathitt County Jett , e nomination of Gen- ' . cral Jnhn c- B'aPk. The Grand Armv nea on a onange of was created for the cnmmn .i,u and not for the professionals, ii . ' ,avo ,ha(l honor enough in the mill-1 Aug U The jury in j tary 1,,le " I case at 9 this morn- the following verdict: DENOUNCES THE MOB. e defendants, Curtis I White, guilty, and fix ! cm Justice Lore, of Delaware. Ad DISSENSIONS lESTWl i OF CHRISTIANS; IN WEST INDIES! i NO. US STRICKEN BLIND ON ENGINE. t Alliance of England, Austria and Russia Advocated the House of Commons. in United States Consul on Mar tinique Reports the Island Devastated. 3t it connnemem in for life lis trrlved at after an Ion. At S 30 this morn- km asked if they had iMict, but received no lent back, and half an mart was surprised by is! of an agreement. I of the Crime, HELD THAT THE TURKS ARE NOT ALTOGETHER TO BLAME. The Insurgents Meet With Severe Reverses, and Several Villages Are ' Destroyed The Turks Lose a' Train of Eighty Wagons Russian ! Legation Was Stoned by Populace. ' j Belgrade. Aug. 14. The windows' of the Russian legation here were' stoned last night by a mob to show ' sympathy for the murder of the Rus- Franro, saying that tho cane THOUSANDS OF HOUSES UTTERLY DESTROYED. Provisions and Other Supplies Are Needed at Once The Hurricane Extended to Jamaica, Where There Was Much Loss of Life and Many People Were Injured. Washington, Aug. H. The stnte department has received a dispatch from Consul Jewell, at Port do dresses Chautauqua. I slan consul at Manastlr ti, n.,.i Jr., ' . ' Chautauoua v v a,. lace onenlv Si.i .', 1 7"Yu""""ya',.calmai-10. 7 ' -- - 'i "Mfc,. it. 1 lie ' . . ' i.ituim ui fonlliro f ..... i.i ' ui luc asM-muiy ioaay was an address by Chief Justice Lore, of Delaware, who is charged with hav ing caused the recent lynching at Wilmington by refusing an Immedi ate trial for the accused. His address was on mob law, which he severely arraigned, characterizing it no ir which Jett and cny. which sooner or later would over- ii convicted was the lI1w me nation unless stopped, ittorney named Mar- iiij his influence and i Californlan Dies. iriKumg 10 tiring about the assassi nation of the consul. Insurgent Reverses. Vienna, Aug. 14. The Diezelt says that Turkish troops nursiipil nrd .li. persed 2,000 insurgents near Monas tir. The Turks then perpetrated ter I rible atrocities upon the inhabitants i of the valiages. The Turks destroy ed 14 villages in the districts of Us- ; kuo anu veleze. Northern Pacific Engineer Injured by Boiling Water, S.nttlo, Ann. 1 1. A Jot of boiling water struck William Tracy blind Saturday morning. Tracy Is a loco mot Ivo engineer on the Northern Pa cific. The accident happened In his cab as ho was taking the engine to the roundhouse. In some manner the water gauge broke. This is 0n tho engineer's sldo of tho cnh. Tho engineer got the full force of a boiling hot steam. Ho sank screaming to the floor of tho cub. His fireman hastened to tho sldo ot tho prostrate man. Ho was unable to do much. Ho had to handle the en gine and hud nothing with which to lellove tho pain. Tracy was taken to the SVattlo genera! hospital by the oily ambu lance Ij.s Injuries were dressed. He is scnituw anout the face and will lose the lKht 0f one and perhaps both eyes' FNINCHL ECIS LOTION Attempt to Frame a Measure That Will Receive. Non-Par-tlsan Support. fruit and vorctnliles .in .ineiHw.iv destroyed. Kvcry town and village was injur ed, and thousands of houses are down. The deaths were few. Com munication is difficult. llreadRtufTs provisions and galnized roofings I stricken parents calling him. Ho STRANGE DEATH OF BOY. Experiences Two Distinct Deaths. Witnessed by Prominent Citizens. Stockton, Cnl Aug. 14. All Stock Ion Is taming over tho physlclc phe nomenon attending the death of Wal ter Smith, Min ot J. Walter Smith, n prominent citizen of this city. The hoy apparently died, tho body was laid out and preparations begun for tho fuueial. Suddenly the Bunnosei! dead boy opened his eyes and began to talk. Ho said ho had been dead and had been to heaven, but had to come back when ho heard his grief' khich Curtis Jett and ' ::sed, was success- fc to effect a recount. Oakland. Aug. H. William D. Ig-i po t near Vodena and secure,! It fta Breathitt county l.sh died at 4 this morning, following , 000.' They alscapturer 80 wagons fcTrS , heJ?.tU5 : IL fL e?JUA He ' la. th meats and other suppTe crate In California nl aemo' j lor tne Turkish army near Oshrlde Christian Dissensions. kMe In tho court- . I London. Aue. 14. In the honso nf feconnocted with the ' U CD P n C P np IMPTJUUPrP ! commons today Mr. Balfour said the was shot down in ; UUUI lUIUUll U UU I J nil IJ 1 il one deenest source of mlsnhief in kusassin who came l Macedonia Is the dissensions between I The preponderance ! " I the Christians. The Turk is deep In ! that Jett did the 1 xuoiirsu-r nncc.m r- ... guilt, but undoubtedly he cannot lie k White was an ac-! . I blamed entirely. Macedonians are in man was MURDERED j a miserable condition. The nollcv of great surprise, to Pon,,p . nrmnrrnU u ' Great Btain should be to support pirn gptoW ou., iPine" of 0re9n Dled Verv Sud- Austria and Russia In their endeavors T I Hani. Dntt. m.J tt t-, j ' . . - ... 1 ""'"J "u wds tjurica j io reiorm conauions. nanc-ne Ltii, Condemned to Death. Some Property. Constantlnonle A.m 1J.A rn.,rt. yesterday will tind a ready sale. Destruction In Jamaica. Washington, Aug. 14. Consul Hridgeman, of Kingston, cables tho state department that Port Antonio The insurgents robbed a Turkish was sreatly damaged by tho hurri cane, lie reports that dead and In jured are coming In constantly. upplles new I rjai. ! were In the court-' B..i .1 ... I'm iuc HTUICl Ca m- ' msirt nl vnstorHni- nnrlomno.l tn into tears. News , k"Sene. Or.. Aug. 14. Anthony I Ap..h ,h Finiiarnlo ohn, tho J returned rnosen "bite Laughlin. an old pioneer of SS'n,,.- . j "til. Colonel Ewen and u former resident of Lane Bentence was immealately' carried one juror MVcd died last Saturday at Bu te. ' out Another gendarme was sentenc- capital punish. Mont-- wuere lie has resided for the ed t0 15 vears I)ena, servtude. out 12 hours for I uasl lew ears. He came to uregon ! i among the first settlers and fought ni-j en... n...r. tow preparinir a mo- Indians in the famous Rogue ' . ,, AL which U ta Wver Indian uprising a quarter of a: TI)0 Sumpter Va ley railroad will ' centur- ncn. Kor nis services ne had "" ...... j just received $212 from the State of Oregon as his part of the $100,000 . appropriated for Indian war veterans. The circumstances of his death are , somewhat suspicious. He had deed- ed all his property, consisting of two , houses in Butte and considerable per sonal property, amounting to about RELIEF MEASURES. Floods in Silesia Demand Governmen tal Appropriations. Berlin, Airg. II. Emperor William presided at a meeting of tho crown council today to consider measures for the relief of Silesia, where there Is great distress on account of tho recent floods. It has been alleged that tho minis ters refused government aid for tho sufferers, it is generally expected that resignations will bo handed in, but no such action has been taken. The ministers reported direct to tho emiieror and explained their attitude. lived three hours. His (.ecoml death was without any of tho asonv which attended his first apparent pnRsing to the beyond. Fully a dozen well known citizens witnessed tho remark able happening. Salisbury's Health Improving. London. Aug. 14. Uml Salisbury passed a lestful night nnd show n slight improvement. RUSSIA'S PON III ASIA ENGLISH STATESMEN EXPRESS MUCH CONCERN. Ill be overruled. T PROROGUED. Reviews British Af "i Detail. H Parliament was """I November 2. Seattle's First Postmaster Dead. Seattle, Aug. 14. William H. Gil liam, Seattle's first postmaster, died yesterday at his homo in this city, after a short Illness Mr. Gilliam was prominently Identified with Seattle's early history. Ho fought Indians hero when this was but a small village. Baker City to La Grande tomorrow. ! inirlng the Siwash war of 1855, .Mr, No one who has not atta ned tho ace ijiniam was driven from his home, of 05 years, will be eligible to ride in The Indians burned his house, then the excursion. A special train has ne nnesi in seauie, and they laid been chartered from the O. R. & N. waste his fields. to be run from Baker to La Grande and return. A picnic will be held in . Armour Stable Burn. the grove near the sugar factory, 1 Kansas City. Aug. 14. Flro this Lord Hamilton Admits Conditions May Arise When England Will Not Have Uninterrupted Use of Present Routes to India. l)ndon, Aug. 14 Lord Geuigi Hamilton, secretary of statu for India. In opening the annual stnt out of the Indian budget In tho house of commons today, read an encouraging etorv of the nmm-pRci nn.l Rtntilllfv .f Indian flnancoH. Ho nolnted out that I'ltlon nlso will bo pressed upon thn there had been substantial surnlim In "ttoimon f congress soon after It ANXIOUS CONFERENCES WITH THE PRESIOENT. Glove Contract Scandals Were Alio Under Consideration Cuban Recip rocity One of the Measures to De Acted Upon Finance Bill to Se cure an Elastlo Currency. Oyster Bay. Aug. 1 1. President liooaevelt was In conference this morning with Secretary Shaw and later with Senators Aldrlch, Carlisle Cullom and Comptroller of tho Cur loncy Hldgely. rno president Invited Carlisle to give his views on tho mon etary problem now confronting, Thoy nio framing a mensnro designed to meet tho wishes and views of both democrats and republicans, This afternoon the president nnd Secretary Hitchcock and Congress man I.uuterbach, or Now York, hold a long discussion believed to bo rel ative to tho glove contracts In which Congressman Llettnuer la Involved, ua Lnuterbach Is one of the latter' attorneys. Work of a Special Session. The whole subject of financial log Islatlon at the approaching session of congress was discussed thorough ly. No definite conclusions as to tho shape of the proposed legislation wnro reported. Tho confeienco related rather to methods of procedure In tho work at hand than to tho form of the icgismuon. Ono fnrt of distinct Importance was developed at tho conference. While an extraordinary session of congress next fall Is assured, it has not been determined dellnltoly wheth er It will bo called to meet In Octo ber or In November. It has been sup posed that tho extraordinary session would convene on Monday, Novombor ti, but the Indications now are that It will be called for tin earlier date, perhaps Bovoral weeks earlier. The primary purposo of tho extra oi dlnary session will lie to enact leg islation making operative the Cuban leciproclty treaty, but lltmnclnl logls- n the Turkifch sit. at the pacifica "31 and Orange orning In ho stables of tho Armour caused $20,000 loss. Two hund the excursionists will be shown the red horses were rescued with dlllicui wonders of the establishment. ty. Wcch reviewed his j $io ooo to his nurse Miss IJlliau and one of the features of tho trip mornin, ! believed good ro-1 Hare : ha vine L rSves He was in wl" be a vlslt to th 'actor'' where P'ant ci (from ti, !.. "are, haying no retain es. tie was in i . vllr!..nn-ta ...... Hhnv. .nn ,,. nfir ' .uv 11B1L .11 .1 1. . 1 . 1. .. .1 r,,,M,,n,,. Wat. um Honors shown r,inv mmnlnir Miss Hare ordered the funeral to be held at 4 o'clock on the same afternoon, with no an-1 nouncement of the funeral to bis A manv friends In Butte. Since then i tl the young woman has not been at home to friends and detectives have been working on the case. 1 their reduction of the strongest ' the advancement ' , ''eland. He was by his recent re- No SCARE. There I. 11 Pendleton. te that l.no nation j-estenlnv " dwindle 0 , ; wmethlng about Woman's Auxiliary. Wnshlneton. Aue. 14. The Wo- I man's Auxiliary of the I. T. U. today re-elected Mrs. Kennedy, of Omaha. I president and apjiolnted a committee : to work with the Typographical Union in Its fight' against the Los An I geies Times. CRAZY MAN KILLS FOUR PEOPLE like fJap general health wno was quar ent hack to thlH tnni.nl.... it "i.ii.Jft, Ule or danger is M badly broken UtlW K IhK At uv was lVtllla werr tr.of he affec. ue placed 5 it wif , GRAIN MARKETS. Quotations Furnished by Coe Commis sion Company B, E. Kennedy, Lo cal Manager, Chicago, Aug. 14.-Stocks touched the high notches today. Consolidated copper opened at 70 and closed at 84 and was as high as 85. Rock Island, Union Pacific. Mis souri Pacific and L. & N- stocks all sold high and were bought ier ''AlMhe markets of the day were bulled, from beginning io Wheat uk"u- K :::::::::::: bS"- Minneapolis, Aug. 11 Wheat- Pnlng- Sept Dec sn Close. SZhi 52 Close. 85 81 Winfleld, Kan., Aug. II. At 9 o'clock last night, while Camen's band was playing Its weekly concert on Main street to a crowd of 5,000 people, Gilbert Twlgg, a crazy man, opened fire on the crowd with a double-barreled shotgun loaded with bullets. As a result, four are now dead, time are dyinij and no less than 20 are injured, perhaps five or six fatally. The band had Just finished a selec tion when Twlgg stepped out from an alley a block distant and deliber ately taking aim, fired two shots at tne bandstand. Tho band leader fell at the first shot. The crowd, not re alizing what had bapined, rushed town.-; the killer, believing it an acci dental shooting. As the crowd closed In the crazy roan discharged two more Jured. shots at them, causing the mass to scatter In every direction. With the crowd fleeing, the man stood tiring at random In every direc tion. Men and women howled and shrieked and ran, but not ono seemed able to stop the frightful carnago un til Oillcer Georgo Nichols confront ed 111 in and fired a bullet Into his head. Before life was extinct, how ever, tho demented man drew a re volver and fired a shot Into his own body, Dead and wounded by this time were scattered all over the street and frightened people, not knowing where tho shooting was coming from, sought safety In every quarter. Fully half an hour elapsed before they realized what had happened and recovered sufficiently to take euro of the in BOODLING MULTNOMAH COUNTY OFFICIALS Portland, Aug. 14. There Is a of thousands of dollars In overy de scandal here today occasioned by ab- partment. The gang had hcadquar solute proof that an organized gang teis in tho county clerk's oflice. Ex of boodlers infested all the county pert Black's report Is out showing offices under the last cdministratlon. that Multnomah county was for years The tax-payers have been mulcted out In tho bands of thieves. ; the last three years, amounting to il&.zr.o.OOO this year. Tills llnaiiclal situation will ennblo tho government to reduce tho salt tax by 25 per cent and make considerable remissions of tho Incomo tax. Lord George Hamilton said the fears regarding a scarcity of food In India this year might bo dismissed. Ho considered the proposal that Indian should contribute to the cost of the troops to ho kept In South Africa as reasonable. They had to fate tho fact that Russia was advanc ing in Central Asia, and ns that pow er Inci.'UKi'd her strength so she In ereasdl her power of mobilization No responsible minister should Ignore the undoubted fact that Russia had steadily consolidated her p'ower In Central Asia. Routes Not Secure. IJvery homo military man liao bc.-u compelled to admit that In certain eventualities largo reinforcements must be sent to India, while every na val man expressed the opinion that In such an eventuality there might bo it combination or other difficulties In the way of guaranteeing tho traiiH tHirt of troops from Great Britain to India. Ho regrets that I lie Indian government did not take tho same view. If Viceroy Cuizou and Uird Kitchener both maintained their ob jection to tho scheme It would have to be dropped. DIED OF FRIGHT. Thought a Team Vas Running Away, Fainted and Died, Rochonter, N. Y., Aug. 14. Ger trude Ryan, of this city, ngod 10 years, is dead at West Webster, from fright. The child had bt-on visiting In the country for her hoalth. She saw n team In tho yard and thought It was running away. She fainted und later died. An autopsy showed In flamed membrane of tho brain und pericardium of the heart and stom ach filled with undigested food. This physical combination was such that the fright added to it cauiod death. convenes. It Is tho desire of tho senate finan cial committee to bo constantly In tone hwlth thu prosldont, with other senators, with members of the house, with hunkers of the West as well us those of tho East, and with (ouutry hunkers, so that some plan ot legisla tion may bo formed by tho opening oi Hie extraordinary session of con gress. II Is the hoK) of tho commllteo to devise a genuinely olustlc' currency system u systom that will expand when tho necessity shul ariHe, and (oiitract when the necessity sliull have ceased to exist. Hope for Non-Partisan Agreement Senator Aldrlch when asked by a press correspondent with reference to the visit of the senators to tlio pres ident, said: "The republican inoinhorx of the tub committee who recently met 'or an Informal conf'-r Jin-e ul Waiwlck. It. I., tallied with I lie president about llnanclal conditions and the need ot legislative changes. No bill has been drafted or agreed upon, and nuiiu will be until after thu fullest Humiliation with our democratic associates ot thu sub-committee, and all tho members of the financial committee. It Is, however, our purposu to have u bill In readiness for presentation to tbo M'liali' at tho beginning of the extra session If one sliull be culled In Octo ber or November. Wo are hopeful that a bill can he ugiued upon and re ported that will receive the approval of both houses of congress and afford ptompt und efficient relief to the bus iness Interests ot the wholu country." Politician Suicides. Indlumipolls, Aug. 14 (leorgo Con mr, formerly assistant secretary of stutn of Indiana, and ono of the best known men In Ibis section of tho country, suicided this morning by ilirolng lilnmelf In front or a pas senger train. Toxas fever has broken out among csitk- In some parts of ICansus.