GAZETTE
CORVA
WEEKLY.
Ccasolidited Feb. 1899.
COKVAIIilS, BENTON COUNTY, OEEGOK", FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1002.
VOL. XXXIX. NO." 2.
THE YEAR REVIEWED
SUMMARY OF THE IMPORTANT
EVENT8 OF 1901.
Yar Witnesses tbe Deaths of Queen
Victoria and President McKinley
Many Other Notables Pass Away Dis
asters, Fires, Accidents, Strikes, Etc
The year 1901, firstborn of the new
century, ia made memorable by the deaths
of two of the best loved rulers the world
has ever known. In its first month Vic
toria, England's good queen, breathed her
- last quietly and peacefully at one of her
royal abodes. The forcible taking off of
President William McKinley by the bul
let of the misguided anarchist youth,
Czolgosz, in September, is in harsh con
trast with her serene passing, and is a
ad commentary upon the laxity of our
democracy, which favors the intimate
contact of the chief executive with the
general public and fails to provide ade
quate means for his physical protection.
Many others of the great oaes of earth
statesmen, authors, churchmen, musi
cians and business men have also heard
the last summons and responded thereto.
The Boer-British war in South Africa
has continued through the year, rather
to the advantage of the latter, and the
armed resistance of the Filipinos against
the rule of the United States has been
fitfully In evidence.
There have been several mine and rail
way accidents, in which many lives have
been destroyed. The number of destruc
tive fires has also been quite large.
The most important happenings of the
year may be briefly summarized thus:
January.
1. Lord Hopetouu Ins'.illpd as first Gov
ernor General of Federat d Australian col-
- onles.
2. Death of Ignatius Donnelly.
8. Death of Bishop W. X. Nlnde at De
troit, Mich.
6. Death of Philip D. Armour Eight
lives lout In small hotel fire In Minneapolis.
8. Fire horror at Rochester, N. Y., orphan
asylum, 20 lives lost.
10. Chinese sign Joint note of the powers.
15. Fred Alexander, colored, burned at
stake by Leavenworth, Kan., mob.
16. Death of ex-(iov. James A. Mount, of
Indiana.
22. Death of Quoen Victoria of England
nd accession of King Edward VII Burn
ing of Grand Opera House In Cincinnati.
23. Board of Trade building in Montreal
burns; loss 3.000,(M)0.
25. Death of Guiseppe Verdi, Italian com
poser. 20. Disastrous fire In Des Moines, Iowa.
....Twenty-one patients burned to death In
Tokyo hospital, Japan.
Febrn irr,
2. Funeral of Queen Victoria at Windsor.
8. Great snowstorm In Middle West.
T. Marriage of Queen WUhelmlna of Hol
land and Duke Henry of Mecklenhurg-
Bchwerln Mine explosion In Durango,
Mex'oo, kills H7 persons.
10. Sudden death of Col. Albert D. Shaw.
14. Marriage of Princess of Astutias and
Prince Charles of Bourbon.
15. Death of ex-Senator Gilbert A. Pierce,
of North Dakota Death of Maurice
Thompson, author. ...Sixty miners entombed
In mine at Cumberland, K. ('.
21. Nine persons killed In collision near
Bordentown, N. J.
22. Pacific steamer Klo de Juniero sinks
outside Golden Gate, Ca.lfurnlti; several lives
lost.
25. Fifty miners Imprisoned In burning
mine at Keminerer, Wyo.
20. Geo. Ward, negro, hanged and burned
at Terre Haute, Ind., for assault and mur
der. 28. Death of VVm. M. Evarts.
AlHrcIi.
1. State penitentiary near Lincoln, Neb.,
Is burned.
4. Inauguration of President McKinley
and Vice President Koosevelt.
5. Thirty men crushed to death on rail
road at Wolovo, KhhsIh.
11. Twelve persons killed and many more
Injured by bol'.er explosion In Doretnus laun
dry, Chicago Hay-1'auucefote treaty re
jected by Great Britain.
13. Death of ex-President BenJ. Harrison.
....Destructive fire at Cloverport. Ky.
23. Chief Aguiualdo captured by Gen.
Fred Funston.
25. Tornado at Birmingham, Ala
Death of Charlotte M. Yonge, author.
30. Death of Comedian Uoland Keed.
April.
3. China refuses to sign Manchurlan con
vention. 5. Japan Issiks ultimatum to Russia.
9. Logan statue unveiled In Washington.
12. Cuban Constitutional convention re
jects Piatt amendment.". Death of Geo. Q.
Cannon.
10. British war loan voted by House of
Commons Agulnaldo's peace manifesto
Issued.
20. Unprecedented snowstorm and floods
lu Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and the
Virginias.
20. Fifty persons killed by explosion near
Frankfort, Germany.
20. President McKinley starts on long trip
through the country.
iV ay.
1. Opening of Pan-American F.xpositton.
....Go,". Dietrich, of Nebraska, res gns and
Is made United States Senator by bis suc
cessor. Gov. Savage.
3. Burning of Jacksonville, Fla Civil
government tstabltshed at Manila.
8. Suicide of It. N. Pollock, fugitive bank
president of Cleveland, at Seattle, Wash.
0. First Australian Federal Parliament
opeued In Melbourne by Duke of Cornwall
and York Panic In Wall street.
13. Steamer Paducah goes down In Missis
sippi six miles north of Grand Tower, 111.
15. President's tour broken off by Mrs.
McKInley's serious Illness.
10. Klot in Albany. N. Y.
17. Death of Mrs. Lyman J. Gage
Death of Edwin F. Utal, of Grand Rapids,
Mich.
18. Launching of battleship Ohio at San
Francisco.
20. Pan-American Exposition formally ded
icated Fifty thousand machinists go out
on strike.
21. Death of Gen. FItzjohn Porter
Death of ex-Congressman Chas. A. Boutelle.
22. Wreck of Sir Thomas Upton's yacht
Shamrock 11 Suicide of Breed, assassin
of King Humbert, of Italy.
23. Death of ex-Gov. John It. Tanner, of
Illinois Norwegian bark Ellse lost off
Sable Island, with crew of 14 men.
24. Gale on great lakes; steamer Balti
more sinks; 12 lives lost Seventy miners
killed by explosion In English colliery.
28. Cuban convention adopts Piatt reso
lution. HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR.
Work Completed at a Cost, Approxi
mately, of $3,000,000.
The government history of the Civil
War has finally been completed and de
livered to those entitled, under the law,
to receive it. It is an immense work
and consists of 128 volumes, nine and a
half inches long, six and a half inches
wide, and averaging over two inches in
sickness.
In addition to the text, there are sev
eral atlases containing maps of the mili
tary operations of the armies.
The gigantic work has cost the gov
ernment, according to an official state
ment, $2,S5S,514.t7, not counting the sal
aries of army officers detailed from time
to time to duty connected with the pre
paration of the work. The total cost ia
probably over $3,000,000. About 12,000
sets of this work have been printed and
distributed to libraries and individuals.
Mrs. Lola Ida Bonine is going to St.
Joseph, Mo., to remain with her mother
tot aa indefinite period,
Jane.
2. Death of James A Heine..... Jasper,
Texas, bnrned by robbers.
4. Eight men killed by mine explosion at
Iron Mountain, Mich.
4. Great fire In Antwerp does $10,000,000
damage.
9. Death of Sir Walter Besant, English
novelist.
10. Explosions In mine at Port Royal. Pa.,
cause deaths of 17 men.
12. Piatt amendment accepted by Cuban
Constitutional convention.
14. Seven;! lives lost by collision of ferry
boats In East River, New York.
18. Fourth daughter born to Cxar of Erj-
sla Death of ex-Gov. H. S. Plngree, of
Michigan.
21. Fireworks explosion at Paterson, JJ.
J., kills 17 persons Seven persons killed
by tornado near Naper, Neb. -
22. American Derby won by Robert Wad
dell. 23. Destructive floods wipe ont West Vir
ginia towns Death of Adelbert S. Hay.
....Gen. Cailles surrenders.
25. Death of Rev. Joseph Cook.
July.
1. Death of Senator James H. Kyle, of
South Dakota.... Eleven boys and men killed
Dy iigntning in cnicago.
I 5. Death of ex-Chancellor, Prince von
IHobenlohe.
6. Versailles, Ohio, swept by fire.
10. Collision on Chicago and Alton Rail
road near Norton. Mo., kills 17 persons and
Injures 40 Corbln. Mont., wiped out by
cloudburst Minnesota pardon board vo:es
rreeoom to lounger brotners.
15. Strike of steel workers begins.
20. Death of Mrs. Paul Krueger.
21. Hottest day on record in Chicago;
thermometer marks 103 degrees.
25. President proclaims free trade with
Porto Rico.
29. Allotment of Kiowa and Comanche
Indian lands begins at El Reno, Okla.
31. B. & O. train held up at Edgemoor,
Ind.
Ansrnst.
I. Geo. H. Phillips company, of Chicago,
suspends temporarily.
5. Death of Dowager Empress of Ger
many Many killed by explosion in Phil
adelphia. 6. President Shaffer orders steel workers
to strike $280,000 stolen from Shelby
smelter at Vallejo, Cal.
II. Death of Francesco Crispi, Italy's
grand old man.
13-16. Great tidal wave along shore of
Gulf of Mexico.
18.1E Death of Edmond Audran, French
composer.
19. Seventeen passengers drowned by sink
ing of Ohio River packet City of Golconda at
Crowell's Landing.
21. Tornado wrecks town of Anadarko,
Okla.
26. France severs diplomatic relations
with Turkey.
28. Boiler explosion on steamer City of
Trenton, near Philadelphia, kills eleven per
sons Knights Templar's conclave opens
in Louisville.
31. Thirty-six persons killed In Great
Northern wreck near KalUpell. Mont.
Feptemher.
1. Flood in Cleveland causes $1,000,000
damage.
5. Miss Ellen Stone, American mission
ary, abducted by Bulgarian brigands.
6. President McKinley shot at Buffalo
Exposition by Leon Czolgosz.
7. Peace pact signed at Pekln.
12. Opening of Schley Inquiry in Wash
ington. 14. Death of President McKinley
Great steel strike settled Theodore
Roosevelt takes oath as President.
16. Steamer Hudson lost In Lake Superior
with crew of 25
17. Foreign troops evacuate Pekin to Chi
nese State funeral of President McKin
ley at Washington.
18. British torpedo boat destroyer Cobra
sinks in North Sea; 67 lives lost.
19. President McKInley's body burled at
Canton, Ohio.
23. Czolgosz trial begins at Buffalo.
24. Czolgosz found guilty.
26. Czolgosr s mteneed to death., . . , -28.
Columbia defeats Shamrock.
October.
3. Columbia wins second race with Sham
rock Death of the Ameer of Afghanistan.
4. Third yacht race won by Columbia,
winning the stiles and keeping America's
cup in this country.
10. Death of Lorenzo Snow, head of Mor
mon church.
13. Reservoir af East Liverpool, Ohio,
breaks, causing $150,000 damage.
17. Joseph F. Smith chosen president of
Mormm church.
18. Death of ex-Gov. John S. Pillsbury, of
Minneapolis, Minn.
21. Burglars tunnel under building and
rob Chicago postofflce of $74,610 in stamps.
23. Burning of great packing plant at
Hammond, Ind.
24. Nineteen lives lost in fire that de
stroyed Philadelphia furniture house of
Hunt, Wilkinson & Co.
28. Fourteen persons killed In race war in
Washington Parish, La.
29. Electrocution of Leon F. Czolgosz,
murderer of President McKinley.
November.
1. Boers steal 6,000 horses from British
remount station, near Cape Town.
2. Close of Pan-American Exposition at
Buffalo.
5. French forces seize three Turkish ports
on Island of Mitylene.
6. Elections In several States.
7. Death of LI Hung Chang Death of
Kate Greenaway, English artist.
8. Turkey accedes to demands of France.
... .Death of Mother BIckerdyke.
12. Fire at Thomas, W. Va., destroys 62
buildings.
15. Jeffries whips Ruhlin in San Fran
cisco. 18. Hay-Pauncefote treaty signed In
Washington. . I
20. Mine fire at Telluride. Colo., causes
death of 100 miners.
23. United States burs batt'.efleid of San
Juan, Cuba.
. president Koosevelt warns central
American nations against interference at
Nicaragua canal.
26. Boiler explosion in Detroit kills 27
persons and injures many more.
27. Horrible wreck on Wabash near Sen
eca, Mich.; 80 killed.
28. Terry McGovern knocked out by
Young" Corbett.
30. Several lives lost In ferryboat collision
lu San Francisco Bay.
December.
2. Fifty-seventh Congress assembles
Opeuing of the Charleston Exposition.
10. Democrats carry Boston city elections.
12. Marconi signals from Cornwall. En
gland, to St. Johns, N. F.. without wires.
13. scniey court or inquiry makes Its re
port, censuring Schley.. .. .Mrs. Lola Ida
Bonlne acquitted of killing James S. Ayres.
14. Floods cause loss of life and great
damage in New York, Pennsylvania and
West Vlrglula Fatal wreck on Illinois
Central Railway near Rockford, 111.
15. Death of John Swintou, New York
economist.
16. Hay-Pauncefote treaty ratified by
Senate Death of Gov. Gregory, of Rhode
Island.
17. Postmaster Geueral Charles Emery
Smith resigns from Cabinet and Henry C.
Payne, of Wisconsin, appointed to succeed
him.
10,. Congress adjourns for holiday recess.
Told In a Few Lines.
St, Louis police are engaged in a war
on the pool rooms.
The United States Supreme Court Mon
day took a recess until Jan. 6.
A $13,500 fire occurred in the busi
ness section of Tawnee, O. T.
W. II. Rogers, a railroad man, was kill
ed by a train at Blackwell, O. T.
Bids for a site for a new county court
house at Lawrence, Kan., are asked for.
Topeka, Kan., was 47 years old the
other day, and the anniversary was duly
celebrated.
The Postmaster General has ordered
the consolidation of the postoffices at Em
pire City with Galena office, Kansas.
"Koosevelt at San Juan Hill" is to be
the subjct of a painting by Yassili Ver
esthagin, a Russian painter of battle
scenes.
The Tope will not snd a delegation to 1
attend the coronation ceremonies of King
Edward VII., a his holiness was not
notified of the Knag's accession to the
throaa. j
EVENTS OF THE DAY
FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF
THE WORLD.
4 Comprehensive Review of the Important
Happening of the Past Week Presented
in a Condensed Form Which Is Most
Likely to Prove of Interest to Our Many
Readers.
All danger from flood in Pennsyl
vania has passed.
An inoffensive passenger was shot
and killed by four men on a Missis
sippi train.
A missionary and several native
converts have been massacred by Chi
nese troops.
The (uneral of United States Sena"
tor Sewell, of New Jersey, was held
with full military honors.
A legal battle between the Harri
man and Hill interests in the North
ern Pacific has begun in Minnesota.
Admiral Schley considers his case
closed and will take no further action.
His friends will ask congress to vin
dicate him.
Sir Thomas Lipton says he will
challenge for America's cup until he
has won it or is satisfied that it can
not be won. . ,
The governor of North Dakota will
not attend the conference of governors
as he sees no menace to his state
from the railroads.
A prominent American, who has
been in China for some time, predicts
that before many years the world will
see a war such as never before seen,
in the Chinese empire.
The Maryland Councils of the Jun
ior Order of Mechanics presented Ad
miral Schley -with a beautiful medal
as an evidence of their personal es
teem and admiration of his services
to this country.
England's coal supply may not out
last the century.
Germany has ordered another war
ship to Venezuelan waters.
Senator Depew and Miss May
Palmer were married in Italy.
Four hundred were killed in a bat
tle in the interior of Colombia.
The battle ship Missouri was
launched at Newport News, Va.
The death of Governor Rogers was
due to worry as much as to ills, j
Insurgent sympathizers have mur
dered a number pf friendly natives.
Four trainmen were killed near
Scranton, Pa., on a runaway coal
train.
Prominent Englishmen are coming
to America to study its business
methods.
Fire at Anderson, Ind., destroyed
several business houses, causing a loss
of $40,000.
There is no friction between the
military and civil authorities in the
Philippines.
Generals Chaffee and Wheaton have
gone to Batangas to personally inves
tigate the conditions there.
United States Senator Sewall is
dead.
A department store at Victoria, B.
C, burned. Loss, $250,000.
Germany is preparing to blockade
Venez uelan ports and enforce her de
mands. The Chinese court will soon return
to Pekin and extensive preparations
are being made to receive it.
Governor Shaw will not discuss the
policy he will pursue when he be
comes secretary of the treasury.
Governor Taft has left Manila for
home.
The insurgent general Sampson has
surrendered in Bohol.
Another corps of burghers will be
formed in South Africa.
Four persons perished in the burn
ing of a river steamer at Menphis.
There is little hope of an irrigation
bill being passed by this session of
congress.
General Chaffee refused to interfere
in the court martial of a , Filipino
murderer.
Chile and Argentina have signed a
protocol agreeing to arbitrate their
differences.
By a gas explosion at a Kokomo,
Ind., glass factory, one man was
killed and several injured.
Secretary Long, by direction of
President Koosevelt discharged Ma-
clay from the Brooklyn navy yard.
A Toledo, O., fire truck collided
with a street car, resulting in the
death of one fireman and the injury of
several others.
Tne Chinese court will engage an
American adviser.
Fire at Springfield, 0., destroyed a
church building which cost $30,000.
Ex-Governor Shaw, of Iowa, has
been offered the secretaryship of the
treasury.
The possibilities of wireless telegra
phy were predicted by James Brown
Lindsay, of Dundee, Scotland, in
1834.
The Pharaohs wore their beaids
when in mourning for a relative.
Court mourning in Egypt seems to
have last a year.
A Pittsburger offers to buy all the
municipal and private street railways
in St. Petersburg, Russia, and elec
trically equip them.
LAWS FOR PHILIPPINES.
Root in Daily Conference With Lodge and
Piatt Bills Being Prepared.
Washington, Jan. - 2. Secretary
Root has been in almost daily confer
ence with Senators Lodge and Piatt,
of Connecticut, during the past week,
in regard to the legislation for the
government of the Philippines. Bills
are in course of preparation to carry
into effect the lecommendations made
by the Philippine - commission and
indorsed by the president and secre
tary of war, looking, to the material
and political welfare of the islands.
These bills authorize the granting of
franchises for railroads, electric
lights, telephones, etc , the issue of
bonds of the insular government to
purchase the agricultural holdings
and property of religicus orders ; pro
vide for the acquisition of homestead
rights, regulate mining and provide a
special system of coinage and bank
ing for the islands. v f
Memorial Services for Rizal.
Manila, Jan. 2. Memorial services
and a procession were held December
dO in honor of Jose Kizal, the Fili
pino leader. The services were cele
brated on the Luenja, where Rizal
was executed by the Spaniards, De
cember 30, 1896. The procession
called at the town hall, ..; and Acting
governor Vv right adressed a few words
to those who took part in it. The
manifestation was chieily remarkable
for the intense hatrt'd displayed to
ward the friars. --.
Generals Go to Batangas.
Manila, Jan. 2. General Chaffee
and General Wheaton have gone to
Batangas in order to make a personal
investigation of the state of affairs in
that province and confer with General
Bell. Generals Chaffee and Whea
ton will return here tomorrow.
Bonr.er Accepts Appointment.
Washington, Jan. 2. Hugh J.
Bonner, of. New York, has accepted
the tender of an appointment as
chief of the fire department of Manila.
TRAGEDY ON A TRAIN
Inoffensive Passenger Shot, and Killed by
Four Men All Now in Jail.
Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 2. Four
white men killed J. M. Rhea, an in
offensive passenger on a train of the
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley branch
of the Illinois Central i Railroad, at
an earlyhoar' this sisnffiig H'3ar:Lc'
land, Miss., cat the locomotive from
the train and forced the engineer to
run to Cleveland, Miss. All four
men were arrested. One is in jail
at Leland, and three are locked up
at Shelby.
The four men, who had been
drinking, boarded the northbound
train at Leland at 3 A. M., to return
to Shelby. Rhea, who is an engi
neer, was on his way to Tutwiler to
take out a locomotive there, and was
sleeping on a seat in the sleeper.
The four men came down the aisle
and the foremost one ran into Rhea's
legs, which were extended out into
the aisle. Rhea was awakened and
a quarrel ensued, during which one of
the four men told him that they
could not all stay in the same car
and that he would have to get out.
Rhea remarked that, in order to
prevent trouble he would have to do
as they told him. Thereupon be
started out of the car. He had just
reached the door when the men
opend fire upon him and he fell.
ADMIRAL CASEY SAILS.
He Will Probably Change His Flag to the
Iowa on Reaching Peru.
Washington, Jan. 2. The navy
department has been informed of the
departure yesterday from Acapulco,
Mexico, of Rear Admiral bilas Casey,
commanding the North Pacific squad
ron, aboard his flagship, the Wiscon
sin, bound for Callao, Peru. By the
time the Wisconsin arrives at the
latter port it is expected that the
battle ship Iowa will be ready to
emerge from the dock at Talchuano,
Chile, and at the navy department
it is thought probable that Admiral
Casey will transfer .his flag back to
the Iowa, from which vessel it for
melry flew. This state of affairs will
leave the two largest battle ships of
the Pacific squadron cruising in the
waters off the coast of Chile, Argen
tina and Peru, so that in case the
threatened hostilities between Chile
and Argentina materialize American
interests in that quarter would be
well looked after.
Russia's Reply to United States.
The Hague, Jan. 2. M. Komaroff,
the Russian chamberlain, has handed
to Professor Asser, oneo f the Dutch
members of the permanent arbitra
tion court, and arbitrator of the
claims of American sealers, on the
seizure of their vessels by the Russian
government about six years ago,
Russia '8 reply to the last note of the
United States on the subject of the
Behring sea seal fisheries differences.
$100,000 Damage to Power Dam.
Anderson, S. C, Jan. 2. Three
hundred and fifty feet of the Anderson
Light & Power Company s dam at
Portman Sohals, in Seneac river, was
washed awav laot night. The dam
age is at least100,000.
Prairie Sails for Port of Spain.
Nonrfnlk. Va.. Jan. 2. The United
States cniisftr Prairie sailed todav for
Port of Spain, Trinidad, near the
coast of Venezuela.
NEWS OF THE STATE
TEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL
PARTS OF OREGON.
Commercial and Financial Happenings of Im
portance A Brief Review of the Growth
and Improvements of the Many Industries
Throughout Our Thriving Commonwealth
Latest Market Report -
A wind storm at Astoria did $16,500
damage.
A gift of $1000 in cash has been
made to Philomath college.
The smallpox scare at Marshfleld
has passed and the quarantine raised.
The December . shipments of wheat
from Portland exceeded 2,000,000 bush
els. .
The Douglas county poultry show at
Roseburg last week was a success in
every particular.
State Food Commissioner Bailey has
started a crusade against light-weight
California butter.
Weston had a small fire a few days
ago, but the blaze was extinguished
before much damage was done.
Arrangements have been completed
for the registration of voters of Marion
county, which begins January 6. '
Real estate is moving quite lively
around Weston. Several farms have
been sold recently at good prices.
Six carloads of prunes just left Dal
las for the Eastern .market. The price
paid for the fruit was 2c per pound.
Preparations are being commence'!
all over the state for the primaries,
which will select the candidates for
the June election.
A counterfeiting outfit has been cap
tured at The Dalles, but the owner,
who is Known, nas escaped. It is
probable that he will be arrested.
The Wasco Milling Company's flour
ing mill is now completed, and only
awaits the turning on of the electric
power from White river to begin grind
ing out 500 barrels of flour a day.
There is greater activity in the
mines of Southern Oregon at present
than ever before in their history. New
wagon roads are being constructed,
larger stamp mills put in and new
workings opened.
Governor Geer pardoned three con
victs the day before Christmas.
Murderers Wade and Dalton have
been sentenced to hang January 31.
Another rich strike has been made
in Southern Oregon, near Grants Pass.
The assessment roil for Lane coun
ty for 1900 shows $5,709,853 assessa
ble property. , s . - . , v , - .
Xhother holdup near Oregdn City
has been reported, in which a shot
was taken at the highwayman.
A new logging corporation, the
Yeon & Pelton Company, has been
formed, with a capital of $150,000, to
operate an extensive plant at Rainier.
Three timbers, 100 feet long and
about 18 inches by 20 inches, cut from
Oregon trees, have been shipped East
for bridge purposes. They, extended
over three flat cars.
The immigration to the vicinity of
Independence in the past three
months has been equal to that of the
four previous years. The new com
ers are generally people of means and
on the lookout for good homes.
Great preparations are being made
for the Oregon Farmers' Congress,
to be held in Salem January 6-9.
The Oregon Dairymen's Association
will hold its annual meeting at the
same time and place in conjunction
with the congress.
Portland Markets.
Wheat Walla Walla, 59 60c: blue-
stem, 61c; valley, 59 60c.
Barley Feed, $17 17.50: brewing.
$17.5018 per ton.
Oats No. 1 white, SI 1.10: gray,
95c $1.
Flour Best grades, $2.703.30 per
barrel; graham, $2.50.
Millstuffs Bran, $17 per ton; mid
dlings, $20; shorts, $18; chops, $17.
Hay Timothy, $1112; clover, $7
7.50; Oregon wild hay, $56 per
ton.
Mutton Lambs, 3s3c, gross;
dressed, 6c per pound; sheep, weth
ers, 3314c, gross; dressed, 661ssC
per pound; ewes, SMsc, gross;
dressed, 664c per pound.
Hogs Gross, 5c; dressed, G&6YnC
per pound.
Veal 89c per pound.
Beef Gross, cows, SV2c: steers,
34c; dressed, 37c per pound.
Butter Creamery, 2527c per
pound; dairy, 1820c; store, 12V:s
15c.
Eggs 2022c for cold storage:
2225c for Eastern; 2830c for fresh
Oregon.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $2.50 3;
hens, $3.504; 89c per pound;
springs, 910c per pound, $2.503 per
dozen; ducks, $56 for young; geese,
$6.507.50 per dozen; turkeys, live,
ll1212c; dressed, 13 14c per pound.
Cheese Full cream, twins, 13
13c; Young America, 1415c.
Potatoes Best Burbanks, 85c$l.lft
per cental; ordinary, 7080c.
Hops 810c per pound.
Wool Valley, ll14c; Eastern Or
egon, 812c; mohair, 2121c per
pound.
,A $2,000,000 bilk cargo has just
reached San Francisco from the Orient
The world famous Diesel engine ' is
to be built at South Worcester, Mass.
Twenty-seven hour trains are here
after to be run between New York
and Chicago.
An immense 12,000 ton hydraulic
press is to be erected in the Carnegie
armor plate plant.
In 1900 England imported nearly
50,000 tons of German wines.
THE BORDER ISSUES. ' '
Diplomats Again to Take Up the Alaska
' Boundary and Other Questions. -
Washington, Jan. 1. It is expect
ed that efforts will be renewed before
long for the settlement of the num
erous controversies which have long
existed between the United States and
Great Britain, growing out of relations
along the Canadian border, the At
lantic fisheries, warships on the Great
Lakes, the Alaska boundary and
other questions. . Heretofore the ne
gotiations designed to secure a settle
ment of the matters recited have not
proved effective, largely because of
the cumbersome machinery of nego
tiation, and this has led to the belief
that much more could be accomp
lished by direct negotiations between
Secretary Hay and Lord Pauncefote
on the main points and the subse
quent assembling of a commission
representing the United States, Great
Britain and Canada to give form to
tne basis of agreement rendered.
The British author ities have main
tained for some time that when the
isthmian canal treaty is once disposed
of there will be a renewal of the
efforts to adjust the Alaska boundary
and other pending questions, the
canal treaty being regarded as one of
the many pending questions. Now
that the British government has
yielded "' the Clayton-Bulwer treaty
and other points in the isthmian ne
gotiations, it desires to take up some
of the other questions in which it
has important interests involved.
Lord Pauncefote desires to clear up
all the pending differences and have
a "clean slate" before his present
term as ambassador comes to a close.
When he came to Washington there
were four issues between the two gov
ernments. The first of these was
the Behring sea question, which had
reached an acute stage. The diplo
mats disposed of this question. The
next was over Venezuela, which, like
the seal question, at one time threat
ened war. But the efforts of diplo
macy were again successful in avert
ing trouble and bringing about a set
tlement. The third important issue
was the isthmian canal, which has
been satisfactorily disposed of by the
recent Hay-Pauncefote treaty. This
leaves only one issue remaining in
order to bring about a "clean slate,"
namely, the border controversy, both
as to Canada and Alaska. The Brit
ish officials link these various bound
ary controversies together, as they
are more or less connected.
jAt present a modus vivendi exists
asto the Aia,?lM ixmnd&Tyv-qucslienf
chiefly -. for the purpose of avoiding
a clash along the border and holding
each side in check until a final bound
ary has been determined upon. It
seems to be conceded on both sides
that the modus cannot be carried on
indefinitely, and that sooner or later
the question of establishing a perma
nent boundary must be settled.
LANDSLIDE CAUSED WRECK.
Four Lives Lost in an Accident on the Ches
apeake & Ohio.
Lynchburg, Va., Jan. 1. A land
slide on the Chesapeake & Ohio
Railroad, near Reusen station, five
miles south of Lynchburg on the
James river branch, yesterday, caused
a wreck in which four men were
killed and several persons injured, but
none of them severely.
Several passengers from the scene
of the wreck say that probably one or
two passengers are buried under the
debris caused by the slide, but no
names can be ascertained of any pas
sengers known to be missing. The
train to which the mishap occurred
was known as No. 7. It left Lynch
burg behind schedule time, and con
sisted of an engine, tender, baggage
car and one passenger car, which was
pretty well filled with passengers.
It is stated that the train had run
into a rock slide without damage,
and the trainmen and some of tbe
passengers had succeeded in pushing
the passenger car back from under
the cliff. They were trying to do the
same for the baggage car when a
second heavy slide came down. A
shout of warning as the second slide
came enabled most of those who were
in danger to escape without injury.
TURNING BONDS INTO CASH.
Carnegie Making His Gift to the Government
Available.
New York, Jan. 1. Itis reported
on Wall street that at an auction sale
by Adrain H. Muller & Co., 5 per
cent bonds of the Carnegie Steel Com
pany sold at 113 7-8. say the Journal.
Andrew Carnegie tendered $10,000,000
in these bonds to the government for
the Washington Memorial University
for Original Research and the sale is
believed by some to indicate that Mr.
Carnegie has begun to convert the
bonds into money in order that the
government should be relieved from
any embarrassment on account of the
bonds. At the price realized, the
$10,000,000 in bonds would be equiv
alent to $11,387,500, a substantial in
crease of the promised endowment.
Street and Freight Cars Collided.
Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 1. A
street car collided with a number
of freight cars attached to a switch
engine here today and one man was
killed and two injured.
Chicago Apartment Building Burned.
Chicago, Jan. 1. A Christmas tree
loaded with inflammable ornaments
And candies caused a fire tonicrhfc that.
destroyed the Alexander apartment!
building, a six story structure. j
0EDERED TO SAIL
ONE SMALL CRUISER SENT TO
VENEZUELAN WATERS.
One or Two More to Reinforce Squadron
Now There Official Note Stating That
Negotiations Continue Ambassador White
Terms German-American War Talk Sen
sational Nonsense.
Berlin, Jan. 2. The small German
cruiser Gazelle was ordered today to
sail immediately from Kiel to Vene
zuelan waters. The government in
tends to send one or two other small
warships to reinforce the present
squadron in the Caribbean sea. The
additions to Germany's naval force
in the Caribbean sea will not be suffi
cient to give rise to suspicion among
the people of the United States that
Germany meditates anything beyond
the collection of claims due German
subjects. The German government
desires beyond anything else in this
matter to avoid disturbing the gov
ernment or the people of the United
States. German newspapers pub
lished today are full of expressions of
this kind, and many of these express
ions are so much alike that it is easy
to infer their utterance was suggest
ed by the governnvent. A remarkable
thing is the fact that there is not a
single unkind expression toward the
United States in any of the newspa
per comments.
"We hope that this opinion," says
the Berliner Neuste Nachrichten,"
"which grew out of the Spanish war,
and which we consider to be wholly
erroneous, will soon give place to a
more correct conception of Germany's
aims. It is quite unreasonable that
the people of the United States, hold
ing such opinion, should connect
this opinion with their Venezuelan
affair, inasmuch as Washington has
been fully informed of Germany's
intentions."
The Lokal Anzeiger says: "The
task for our diplomacy is to make
German interests prevail against Ven
ezuela without at the same time los
ing touch with theAmerican govern
ment. The authorities at Washing
ton have up to the present time
shown such an intelligent compre
hension of the situation and friendly
disposition towards Germany's wishes
that no grounds for apprehension ex
ists at this point."
Replying to Germany's assurance
to the United States regarding the
former 's - plans in connection' w It h
Venezuela, the foreign office here has
received an answer from Secretary
Hay, expressing full satisfaction with
the German position. Germany still
hopes to collect her claims peaceably.
PREDICTS ANOTHER WAR.
American Says China Is Openly Violating
the ProtocoL
New York. Jan. 2. Charles F.
Gammon, superintendent of colpor
teurs for the American Bible Society
in Northern China, writes to the
society concerning the present situa
tion in the Chinese empire as follows :
"While at Shanghai I observed that
the Chinese" government was openly
violating the provisions of the proto
col. The great empire would shake
off European domination. Thou
sands of boatloads of small arms and
ammunition were passing weekly up
tbe Yangtse Kiang and the arsenals
were being enlarged and worked day
and night. Cargoes of explosives
were being received, and the dowager
empress had issued instructions to all
officials to recruit the army, and also
to inform her as to the fighting
strength of each division and the
time required to concentrate the
forces at a given point
"There were and are many other
unpromising features which weighed
heavily upon the minds of those in
terested. I must believe that the end
is not yet, and that within 10 years,
possibly within five, a war will ensue
the like of which the world has never
known. For centuries China has
been making repeated attempts to
expel the foreigner, each time profit
ing by past experience, each time
witn more power and success, each
time better equipped and better
planned.
"She is now preparing as never be
fore, buying vast quantities of super
ior weapons and reorganizing her
armies on a correct basis. Therefore
the next attempt will be gigantic in
force and terrible in execution. It
will result in a universal upheaval
and the final dismemberment of this
empire at a terrible cost."
Pan-American Conference.
Mexico," City, Jan. 2. With slight
modifications, the proposal of the
late Duarte Pereira for the appoint
ment of a committee of jurists to
codify international law was this
afternoon accepted by the Pan-American
conference. An amendment to
the effect that the secretary of state
of the United States shall be chairman
of the codifying commission was ac
cepted. Train Wrecked by a Rock.
Pa kersburg, Va., Jan. 2. Two men
are missing, one badly injured, one
engine and four cars are at the foot of
an embankment, two other cars are
wrecked and 100 feet of track torn up
as a result of a collision with a heavy
rock by a westound freight train on
the Baltimore & Ohio, at a tunnel
near iung nun tms morning The
engine struck the rock, which had
rolled down from the hilj, just as
the tram came out of the tunnel.
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