WEEKLY.
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COKVAIililS, BENTCXN COTJOTT, -OREGON, JFBtDAX, JTXLX 25, 1902.
VOL. XXXIX. NO. 31.
EVENTS OE THE DAY
FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF
THE WORLD.
A Comprehensive Review of the Important
happenings of the Past Week, Presented
In a Condensed Form. Which Is Most
likely to Prove of Interest to Our Many
Reader
The United States cruiser Albany has
sailed for Stockholm, Sweden.
Serious religious riots are reported in
vera I French cities. More trouble
is expected.
Colonel Thomas Ward, chief of staff
to Genera Miles, has been appointed
brigadier general.
Cardinal Ledochowski, prefect of the
congregation of the propaganda of the
Roman church, is dead.
The treasury department will, in a
few days, call for bids for the improve
ment of the Portland postoffice building.
Orders have been received at the New
York navy yard to proceed at once with
the building of the battleship Connec
ticut. The general managers of the railroads
entering Chicago are considering vari
ous means of preventing strikes in the
future.
An Ohio doctor is under sentence "of
death in Nicaragua. The state depart
ment has taken active steps to secure
his release.
Secretary Root has gone to Europe
for a short vacation.
Fifty-six persons were drowned in a
ferry boat accident in Russia.
The complete unofficial abstract gives
Chamberlain 276 plurality for governor
of Oregon.
General MacArthur has assumed
temporary command of the department
of the East.
The height of the flood has been
reached in the Mississippi valley and
the river is falling slowly.
Japanese fishermen on the Fraser
river are having trouble with the
Indian and white fishermen.
The war department is preparing to
build many new quarters and barracks
throughout the United states.
A Philadelphia telephone company
has made arrangemetns to install an
alarm system. A subscriber in the
evening tella central what time he
wishes to get up, and at that hour the
telephone bell will ring. It is neces
sary for the subscriber to take down
the receiver in order to stop the bell
ringing.
Cholera is raging in Upper Egypt.
At least half of the cases are fatal.
The widow of Lord Pauncefote will
be granted a much larger pension than
is ordinarily given.
A steamship sunk on the Elbe river,
Germany, and only 30 of the 185 pas
sengers were saved.
Chas Stahl, a former Portland car
penter, was carried out to sea and
drowned while bathing at Seaside.
The war department has allotted
$450,000 for the establishment of a
great military post at Chickamauga.
The transport Sheridan has arrived
at San Francisco fiom Manila with
parts of the Thirteenth infantry and
"1 bird cavalry.
The coalminers' convention at In
dianapolis voted against a general
strike, but adopted the assessment plan
for helping those already out.
Levees along the Mississippi river
near Keokuk. Ia., gave wa, flooding
many acres in Missouri, Iowa and
Illinois. The damage will reach at
least t,000,000.
Throe people were killed by light
ning m St. Clair county, Illinois.
The coronation of King Edward has
been definitely fixed for August 9.
The Chicago freighthandlers are dis
satisfied and may go on strike again at
any time.
Immigration for the fiscal year of
1902 shows an increase of 160,825
over 1901.
Fire at Block Island, R. I., destroyed
three hotels and several other small
buildings.
In a head end collision on a Wiscon
sin road between two freight trains,
both engineers and one fireman were
killed.
A drouth in Arizona is causing a
great loss to cattlemen. Grass has
almost entirely dried up. Many
horses are being shot to save the water
for cattle.
Two Denver women have been caught
at San Francisco trying to bring duii
able iroods in without paying. It will
cost them (,784 to get their goods,
which is three times the actual value
Cholera is spieading in the Philip
pines. '
Capt. M. I. Smith, the.first man who
stretchel wires across the state ol is-
consin, is still living in Topeka, Xar
Chicago chemists have invented a
process for making wall paper stronger
that promises to revolutionize me in
dustry.
The largest stockholder :n the United
States Steel Company, "Mr. Cutler,"
i Jrilin D. Rockefeller, not Andrew
Carnegie; his dividend is $1,000,000
annually.
CREST OF THE FLOOD.
High Water Mark oa the Mississippi Is Now
Reached at Qwacy. -
Keokuk, la., July 24. The crest of
the Mississippi river flood is now at
Qaincy, and by morning will be still
further south. The river reached the
maximum at Quincy at noon today,
and has been stationary there since. A
stationary gauge is expected at Hanni
bal tomorrow morning. The Lima
lake levee, extending north from
Meyer, III., 20 miles north of Quincy,
developed danger today, and a large
force of men were employed to patrol it
and earth tools were scattered along
its length. The Lijia lake and the C.
H. Hunter levees destroyed corn rained
at several millions of dollars. Levees
on the Illinois side of the river, below
Quincy, are standing and saved most
of the country there. The Mississippi
river fell several inches here during
the last 24 hours, and there are no signs
in Iowa rivers of any more flood ap
proaching. A gradual fall for two
weeks will end the flood in the vast do
main south of here. Several hundred
tenant farmers are absolutely penniless
and with no chance of an income this
year. Each community seems to be
taking care of its own refugees.
The same conditions obtain along the
75 miles of the Mississippi river on
the Missouri side and 100 miles of the
Des Moines river lowlands. The popu
lation of the village of St. Francisville,
Mo., has been nearly doubled by the
refugees of the flood district, who lost
absolutely everything.
The Illinois river at Peoria reached
21 feet above low water last night, and
at 10 o'clock this morning the dikes
on which the tracks of the Peoria &
Pekin Terminal railway are bnilt gave
way. Over 1,000 feet of track is gone,
and the water is pouring throngh the
crevasse, flooding hundreds of acres of
grain.
BROKE THROUGH THE CORDON.
Ladrone Chiefs and Most of Thrir Followers
Escaped to the Mountains.
Manila, July 21. Montallon and
Felizardo. the ladrone chiefs, have
broken through the constabulary cor
don in Cavite province and have es
caped to the mountains. The cordon
encompassed the leaders and many
of their followers. The latter, when
trapped, made a succesion of bieaks to
escape. The constabulary withstood
the first attacks, killing 14 and captur
ing 15 men. . The ladrones finally
massed under cover of the darkness
and forced their way through a weak
spot . in the cordon, near Dasames,
killing one and wounding one of the
constabulary. The latter captured the
papers and effects of the leaders and
destroyed quantities of supplies.
An extensive drive, with the object
of capturing the ladrone chiefs Mon
tallon and Felizardo and 50 of their
followers was organized in Cavite
province. Twelve hundred constabu
lary, commanded by Captain Baker,
formed a complete angle shaped cordon,
covering 60 square mile. Patrol
launches guarded the rivers, and it
was expected to close the cordon yes
terday. The entire male population of
the towns and farms were to be in
cluded in the concentration movement.
When complete, the ladrones were to
have been arrested and the others were
to have been released.
OUR SHIPS KEPT BUSY.
By Activity of Rebels on Shores of the Car
ibbean Sea.
Washington, July 24. Unusual in
surgent activitv in the West Indies and
on the shores of the Caribbean sea are
taxing the resources of the navy depart
ment in the matter of ships to look
after American interests. A cablegram
received at the state department from
Minister Bowen at Caracas states that
the Marietta is proceeding to ascertain
the facts connected with the alleged
blockade by the Venezuelan govern
ment at its own port of Carupano. An
attack on Puerto Cabello, which is
about 70 miles west of the capital, is
expected by the government and the
president may go there from Barcelona
instead of to Caracas as he originally
intended. The three United States
warships on the Venezuelan coast are
kept moving with celerity to put in an
appearance at the port where disturb
ances are threatened.
Meanwhile a cry comes for a ship at
Hayti in the shape of a cablegram from
Minister Livingstone at Cape Haytien,
who reports that troops and Haytien
warships are approaching to attack and
bombard the cape. There is a good
deal of apprehension among the for
eigners for their safety.
Peary Relief Fxpcdltion.
New York, July 24. Provisoned for
several months and all equipped to
withstand the rigors of the Polar seas,
the Peary relief ship Windward will
start today for the far north, says a
Sydney, C. B., dispatch to the Tribune
Aboard are Mrs. Peary and little daugh
ter Marie. The wife of the explorer is
confident of finding her husband at
Cape Sabine and that his return to civ
ilization will be signalized by the news
that he has discovered the long songht-
for pole.
German Situation Improves.
Berlin, July 24. The Cologne Ga
zette today concludes a page survey of
the business situation by saying that
pioduction and consumption are coming
nearer to balancing each other, that ex
ports are slowly increasing, that trade
is showing a hopeful expansion, that
rates for money are easy, and that the
symptoms indicate a return to normal
times. The journal, however, warns
syndicates against raising prices.
NEWS OP THE STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL
PARTS OF OREGON.
ad Financial Happenings of Im
portanceA Brief Review of the Growth
aad Improvements of the Many Industries
Throughout Oar Thriving Commonwealth
Latest Market Report.
The prune crop in Marion county
will be about 40 per cent less this year
than last.
The Pacific Coast Lumber Company,
of Albany, has been incorporated with
140,000 capital stock. . -
During this warm weather about 600
patients of the state insane asylum en
joy a picnic twice a week.
Several attempts have been made the
past week to burn Fort Stevens, but in
each instance the flames were discov
ered in time to prevent serious destruc
tion. Placer mining on the Snake river is
proving very profitable in some places
this season. The clean-up from one
bar for the season is estimated at $10,-
000.
A representative from a Nebraska
firm has purchased 1,000 head of extra
fine horses in Crook county and will
ship them East during August and Sep
tember. Considerable difficulty- is being ex
perienced in securing labor to pull flax
in the fields around Salem. The work
is exceeding tiresome and hot and the
pay small.
A big ledge of nickel, gold and copper
has been found in Josephine county.
The new vein is one of the largest
bodies of ore ever uncovered in South
ern Oregon.
Township 8 south, range 9 west,
Siletz reservation, has been thrown
open for settlement and as soon as the
land office at Oregon City was open
there were more than enough in line to
file on the 142 claims.
The weather of the past month has
been exactly what the hop crop has
needed. All appearances point to an
immense yield, and with . the present
high prices, the prespects are that the
hop grower will be one of the best paid
producers this year.
A street' fair will be held at La
Grande this fall.
Clackamas county hop growers have
sold 82,000 pounds of the 1901 crop at
20 cents per pound.
Marion county farmers anticipate
much trouble in getting hands to work
in the harvest fields this year.
The committees are active in the
nrenarations for the street fair to be
held in Baker City in September.
Timber lands in Klamath county are
going last. in the neignbornood oi
200 filings have been made already this
season.
The first free rural mail delivery
route in Southern Oregon will be es
tablished out of Ashland about the first
of September.
A violent wind storm did serious
damage in Umatilla county last week.
Much fruit was knocked off the trees
and some grain blown down.
Two howitzers, shells and other relics
of the historic Fort Sumter, in Charles
ton bay, have been secured for the
soldiers' monument in Poitland.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Walla Walla, 6364c;
valley, 65c; bluestem, 65c.
Barley $17.50 for old, $16.50 for
new crop.
Flour Best grades, $3.053.60 per
barrel; graham, $2.953.20.
Millstuffs Bran, $15 16 per ton;
middlings, $21.50; shorts, $18;
chop, $16.
Oats No. 1 white, $1.151.20;gray,
$1.051.10.
Hay Timothy, $12 15; clover.
$7.5010; Oregon wild hay, $56 per
ton.
Potatoes Best Bnrbanks, 7585c
percental; ordinary, 50c per cental,
growers prices; sweets. $2.ZoZ.oO
per cental ; new potatoes, lc.
Butter Creamery, 2021c; dairy
16 18c; store, 1516c.
Eggs 2022c for Oregon.
Cheese Full cream, twins, 12$
(5 13c; Young America, 13)14c; fac
tory prices, 1 lJic less.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $3.50
4.50; hens, $4.005.50 per dozen,
llll6c per pound; springs, 11
llc per pound, $2.504.50 per doz
en; ducKB, iz.U(33.uu per dozen; tur
keys, live, 1314c, dressed, 1516c per
pound; geese, $4.005.00 per dozen.
Mutton Gross, 2K3c per pound;
dressed, 6c per pound.
Hogs Gross, 6Jc; dressed, 77Jc
per pound.
Veal 78c per pound.
Beef Gross, cows, 33r; steers.
3t44c; dressed, 78c per pound.
Hops 1617c; now crop 1718c.
Wool Valley,12K15;Eastern Ore
gon, 814Jfcc: mohaii. 2526c pound.
The body of Jesse James is to be ex
humed at St. Joseph, Mo., and buried
in the family lot at Kearney.
The Burlineton & Northwestern rail
road, 105 miles long, will be shifted
from narrow to standard gauge in ten
hours. One rail is to be moved.
Ex-President G rover Cleveland is
about to publish a book on ethics of
( fishing. He declared in an interview
that fishing is the bestmeans he knows
of to preserve health.
RELIEF FOR STRIKING MINERS.
How Their Leaders Expect to -Raise Defense
Fund of $500.00 Per Wee.
Indianapolis, July 23: Only Presi
dent Mitchell and one or-' two members
j of the national executive board are in
town at the present time. " The care
of the national organization now will
be to see to the collection of the de
1 fense fund that is to carry on the
strike. Secretary Wilson, : financial
head of the anion, is in Chicago this
week and will-lose no time in making
' provision . to ' handle $M sumo. - Ifr-is
i believed that all the' voluntary contri
butions from the various districts and
local organisations will be turned into
his hands within the : next 10 days.
These are estimated at about $400,000.
A part of the contributions has already
been turned in, .Ohio leaving a check
for $10,000 before its delegation left
Indianapolis, and $50,000 from Illinois
is expected tomorrow. r, A -systematic
plan will be adopted for cinvassing for
outside subscriptions, and it is probable
that central labor unions in all big
cities will be asked to take charge of
the task. The miners hope to raise
$250,000 a week from the public contri
butions, as that sum will be needed to
bring the sum up to $500,000.
In a statemnet issued today Presi
dent Mitchell 'estimates that contribu
tions from districts, subdistricts and
local organizations for defraying strike
expenses will amount to $400,000,
and estimates the weekly assessments
from the 24 districts of the country at
$244,000, of which $7,000 is expected
from Colorado miners. The total num
ber of anthracite strikers in the Penn
sylvania field is estimated at 150,000,
and the total number of dependents in
that field is placed at 750.000. The
number of strikers (bituminous) in the
West Virginia fields is estimated at
25,000, with 75,000 dependents.
GLENN CONVICTED.
Permitted Water Care to Be Administered to
Filipinos Suspended and Fined.
Washington, July 24. Secretary
Root today sent to the president at
Oyster Bay the proceedings and findings
in the court martial cases of Major
Edwin F. Glenn. Fifth infantry;
Lieutenant Julien E. Gau jot, Tenth
cavalry, and Lieutenant Norman E.
Cook, Filipino scouts, Glenn was
found guilty of administering the water
cure- to natives or permitting it to be
done and was sentenced -to one month's
suspension from duty and fined $50.
Lieutenant Cook was acquitted on a
charge of giving orders to kill three
Filipino prisoners. The testimony
showed that he had given orders to
shoot the prisoners if they attempted
to escape. The Filipino scouts, to
whom this order was given, thought
it meant to shoot the prisoners.
In forwarding the case to the presi
dent, the secretary recommended that
the sentences and findings be approved,
but that no other action shall be taken.
It is not believed that the piesideot,
who is the reviewing authority in these
cases, will make any comments, such as
were delivered by him in the case of
General Smith. It is shown in the
evidence and reports that Major Glenn
has performed excellent service and has
done much to pacify the country where
he has been in command.
TO DEFEND COAST.
Puget Sound to Have Artillery Posts Sum
of $240,000 Has Been Set Aside.
Washington, July 23. The war de
partment has taken steps to defend
Puget sound more effectually against
foreign enemies by authorizing the con
struction of coast artillery posts at
Forts Worden and Casey. For this
purpose $240,000 has been allotted for
erecting frame barracks and officers'
quarters for two companies of coast
artillery each, together with guard
houses, stables and administrative
offices, and other smaller buildings
necessary to equip an army post. The
buildings will be erected by contract,
according to plans being prepared by
the quartermaster s department. It is
proposed to provide quarters for one
company at each post, before the full
equipment is undertaken, as the de
fenses now in position are without
proper protection. - -
A general sum has been set aside for
erecting small buildings and making
repairs at the coast artillery posts,
which will include work at the mouth
of the Columbia river.
Forty Thousand Strike.
New York, July 2b. The 25,000
gaiment makers who struck yesterday
for higher wages and ehoiter hours
ware joined today by about 15,000
others, who asked that 56 houi s be
considered a week's work As this is
the dull season in the trade, it is ex
pected that it will be some days before
the various interests get together.
About nine different unions are en
gaged in the strike
Ousted From Kansas.
Topeka, Kan., July 23. The su
preme court today issued a writ ousting
the American Book Company from the
state of Kansas, and depriving it of the
right to transact business as a corpora'
tion in this state until it secures a
charter. The order was granted upon
the petition of the county attorney of
Shawnee county, and grows ont of the
fight for the contract to supply the pub
lic schools of the entire state with
school books.
TIMBER AND WATER
SUPPLY OF OREGON WILL BE
PROTECTED.
Secretary Hitchcock is Advised to Set Aside
- Large Area of Land in Eight Counties in
the Eastern Part of the State to Be Re
served from Settlement Irrigation Pro
tects m Contemplation.
Washington, July 24.- Land Com
missioner Hermann, . Forest, Superin
tendent Ormsby and the geological sur
vey have united in recommending to
the secretary of the interior, the - tem
porary withdrawal of three tracts of
land in Crook, Grant, Harney, Baker,
Malheur, Umatilla, Union and- Wal
lowa counties, embodying the peaks
and heavily timbered regions of the
Strawberry,'. Blue and Powder River
mountains, the total area being ap
proximately 6,000 square miles. This
withdrawal, if made, will be the first
step in the direction of creating a vast
forest reserve in Eastern Oregon, where,
in the opinion of the survey and land
office there is a crying need for protec
tion of the timber and water supply,
especially as it is contemplated to con
struct storage reservoirs in these sec
tions. -
The largest withdrawal recommended
is roughly L-shaped, the base of the
L" running north and south along
the Blue mountains, and the upright
running-east and west along the Straw
berry mountains. The latter section
is approximately 120 miles from east
to west, varying inwidth from six to
18 miles. The Blue mountain section
varies in width from 15 to 40 miles,
and extends due south from the Uma
tilla Indian reservation for 100 miles,
to its intersection with the Strawberry
mountain withdrawal, the two forming
right angle. These combined with
drawals embrace about 80 townships.
including the head waters of the John
Day, Silvies, Crooked, Malheur, Grand
Ronde and Powder rivers and number
less tributary streams.
The. recommended Powder River
mountain withdrawal embraces about
28 townships in Baker, Union and Wal
lowa counties, the tract being 45 miles
from east to west, and 18 miles nortb
and south, with a corner of the 30
square miles added on the northwest:
This tract includes the headwaters of
the Wallowa and Grand Ronde rivers
and their tributaries south and west of
Enterprise.
The third withdrawal recommended
is almost wholly in the northern end of
Union county, and embraces about 14
townships in the Blue mountain range
that extends into Washington. It
forms the watershed of a portion of the
Grand Ronde river.
Commissioner Hermann and Super
intendent Ormsby, in addition- to those
tracts, also recommended the tempo
rary withdrawal of about 41 townships
lying south and adjoining the first
recommended Strawberry mountain
withdrawal, being a tract 24 miles from
north to south, and 90 miles from east
to west. All of the recommended
withdrawals are irregular in shape,
and are laid out to exclude, as far as
possible, all lands that are agricultural
in character, or are now owned by set
tlers. The lines have been drawn to
eliminate the towns of Canyon, Izee,
Silvies, Seneca,. Prairie, Clifford,
Sumpter, McEwen, Meacham, Joseph
and others.
RAISING THE STRIKE FUND.
Several Large Contributions Have Already
Been Received by Officers.
Indianapolis, Ind., July 24. Presi
dent Mitchell will leave for Chicago
tomorrow afternoon. He will stty in
that city a day or two and will go
direct to Wilkesbarre to resume active
management of the strike.
The national officers attach a great
deal of importance .to the resolution
reported by the committee appointed
by the convention to draw up tn ex
pression in regard to the recent mine
horrors' in which so many men lost
their lives. In this resolution atten
tion is called to the fact that in several
instances the miners have been back
to work in mines before the bodies of
their friends had been removed.
This afternoon several large con
tributions for the strike fund were
received. District No. 13 (Iowa) sent
$5,000; the Boilermakers' and Iron
Shipbuilders' National sent $546.
Indianapolis unions met tonight
and resolved to assess members at least
1 per cent per week on their earnings
for the anthracite strikers. This will
amount to $2,000 per week.
Springfield, 111., July 24. At a
meeting of the executive board of the
United Mineworkers of America, Illi
nois department, --held this aftenoon,
$50,000 was voted in aid of the strik
ing miners in the anthracite fields of
Pennsylvania. A check for the amount
was formally drawn and tonight the
amount was telegraphed to the national
officers at Indianapolis.
: Japanese Labor Unsatisfactory.
Havre, Mont., July 24 A report
has reached the railway officials here
that the Great Northern will replace
its -Japanese workmen with Italians.
It is understood that the railway
company has found the work -of the
: brown men unprofitable, and that the
! change is in the nature ' of an experi
J ment. The Great Northern employs
' over 1,000 Japanese on its lines in
! Montana. An Italian interpreter is
now at Havre makingfarrangements.
GUNBOATS IN ACTION.
Naval Engagement Takes Place Off ft
Between Government and Rebel Boats.
Panama, Colombia, July 22. The
insurgent gunboats Padilla and Darien
appeared last night between Flemonico
and Ottique islands. . Governor S"inr
thereupon ordered the government gun
boats Chuchnito and Clapet to pat to
sea and meet them.- Heavy cannonad
ing was heard at 10 A. M. and ; contin
ued until 4 o'clock this afternoon. It
was heaviest at 10 this morning. At
2 o'clock the Darien was seen in tow of
the Padilla, and it is believed that she
had been hit. The government fleet
was handicapped by the absence of the
gunboat Boyaca the 'keel of which is
being repaired, and it is thought prob
able that this fact was known by the
insurgent General Herrera, who de
cided to attack Panama in ordei to pre
vent the government from helping
General Berits' troops at Agua Dulce.
Ine United States steamer Ranger,
which arrived here from Chiriqui, came
within the line of fire. During a part
of the heavy firing she was back of
Flemonico island.
A representative of the Associated
Press was informed by United States
Consul Gudger that American interests
at Panama had not been materially
interfered with.
The government gunboat Boyaca,
-which is at La Boca, hurriedly com
pleted repairs and is going out at 5
o'clock. The Padilla has gone. The
Ranger left the bay after the Padilla
started, taking the same course as the
revolutionary gunboat. No explana
tion is offered for the movement.
It is thought probable that a great
battle is being fought at Agua Dulce.
Whatever the result of this shall be to
General Herrera's army, General Sala
zar, the governor of Panama, said to
the representative of the Associated
Press, the revolutionary forces will
suffer terribly and an attack by them
upon Panama will be rendered impos
sible, even if they are not defeated.
General Salazar has blind confidence in
his troops.
BALTIMORE TORNADO.
Severest Storm That Has Visited That City in
N Seventeen Years.
Baltimore, Md, July 23. The tor
nado which struck Baltimore yesterday
aftercoon, involving the loss of 12 lives
and a widespread destruction of prop
erty, was the severest that had been
known in this section for 17 years.
No storm had been forecasted. Almost
vithout a moment's warning an irre
sistible wind, apparently in the nature
of a whirlwind, came up from the
southwest, and in an instant the waters
of the harbor were converted into a
seething cauldron, frail boats were
capsized, while the staunchest vessels
at anchor were violently rocked.
A careful estimate today shows that
200 houses were unroofed during the
storm. The roof of the William street
Independent Methodist church was
lifted high in the air and blown over
the roofs of other houses a distance of
150 feet. The stone spire of the Holy
Cross Catholic church was hurled to
the ground. A part of the roof of
Trinity Protestant Episcopal church
was torn off, while the historic steeple
of St. Mary's Star of the Sea Catholic
church was demolished completely.
The public squares and parks were
damaged badly. Patterson park is a
scene of desolation. The whole extent
of these pleasure grounds is strewn
with broken branches and uprooted
trees and the debris completely blocked
up the driveways. Many handsome
trees in Franklin square and Druid Hill
park, as well as all the shade trees,
were uprooted bodily, falling acoss
thoroughfares and blocking them tern
porarily. Much damage was done to
house fronts in all sections of the city
by the falling trees.
In the business section numerous
plate glass windows were blown in,
while telegraph and telephone service
was crippled.
AMERICAN PACIFIC CABLE.
Contract Has Been Let In London for Section
from Honolulu to Manila.
London, July 22. The Commercial
Pacific Cable Company signed a con'
tract with the Telegraph Construction
Company in London this week for the
manufacture and laying of its cable
from Honolulu to Manila, touching at
Guam. The construction company
guaranteed to complete the cable by
June, 1903, if furnished with the neces
sary soundings. In the event that
these cannot be furnished the company
agrees to finisb the cable laying within
such time thereafter as is necessary to
take the soundings.
Having two steamers capable of car
rying 6,000 miles of cable, the company
is able to complete within a year work
which would take other contractors two
years to do. The steamer Silverton,
at Woolwich, is now loading the San
Francisco-Honolulu cable, 2,400 miles,
and is expected to sail for San Francis
co in August. Eighteen hundred miles
of this section have already been, roan
Lufactured and are being taken aboard
tho Silverton.
Government Salaries Will Be Paid.
Washington, July 22. By direction
of the secretary of the treasury, war
ranto covering the salaries of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St,
Louis and the other government enr-
ploves will be issued at once. Pay-
meut has been withheld two months
; pending the signing by the fair direct- i
ors of the contract binding tnem 10
keep the exposition closed Sundays.
The withheld warrants amount to
$8,600.
DEATH IN THE ELBE
PANIC ON EXCURSION STEAMER
CAUSED LOSS OF LIFE.
Changed Her Course Suddenly, Crossing the
Bows of a Tot; Which Immediately Raa
Her Down At Least Fifty Persons Are
Believed to Have Been Drowned Par
Ucaiars of the Disaster.
Hamburg, July 23. The steamship
Primus, of Hamburg, with 185 passen
gers on board, was cut in two and sunk
by the tug Hansa on the river Elbe at
12:30 o'clock yesterday morning. So
far as is ascertainable about 50 persons
were drowned. The Primus was an ex
cursion steamer from Bnxtehude, prov
ince of Hanover, Prussia. The disaster
occurred between Blankens and Nien-
stadten.
At the time of the accident the
Primus was crossing the river channel
near Blankenz from the southern to
the northern fairway. According to
witnesses aboard the Hansa, the
movement was made too soon. The
Primus struck the tug's engine room,
and the Hansa endeavored to push her
ashore, but the tug grounded and the
ships parted. The Primus then sank.
In the interval, however, about 60 of
her passengers were able to reach the
Hansa by means of ropes and ladders.
Seventy more were picked ip by the
tug's boats, while others swam ashore.
The disaster caused deep gloom here.
Many children lost both parents. The
choral society which was on board the
excursion steamer consisted mainly of
workmen. Ihere were no foreign pas
sengers. Ine captains of the vessels
gave themselves up to the police.
The Primus was the oldest boat on
the Elbe. She was built in England
in 1844 and had never before met with
an accident. The Hamburg-American
line, which owned the . Hansa; issued a
statement to the effect that the weather
was fine, the moon was shinine and
both vessels were steering absolute r
clear of each other. Suddenlv thj
Primus, when about 450 feet from the
Hansa, put her rudder hard aport and
crossed the bows of the latter.
"This mistake," continues the state
ment, "rendered a collision unavoid
able. The only possible step for the
Hansa to take, namely, to go full speed
astern, was immediately carried out,
but without avail. Less than a minute
elapsed between the time the Primus
changed her course and the collision.
Boats were immediately lowered from
the Hansa and ropes and ladders were
thrown overboatd. Fifty persons were
rescued by the boats. At the same
time, the Hansa tried to push the
Primus ashore, but being of deeper
draft, grounded herself before the pas
senger boat. The Primus floated down
stream and sank 200 feet from the
Hansa."
GEN. BARNES DEAD.
Noted California Lawyer Expires Suddenly-
Great Orator and Scholar.
San Francisco, July 22. General
William H. L. Barnes, one of the lead
ing lawyers and one of the most elo
quent orators of the Pacific coast, is"
dead, of hemorrhage of the lungs. He
was 66 years of age.
General Barnes, who was a man of
splendid physique, was first taken ill
March 16 last, with throat trouble,
which necessitated an operation. He
rapidly recovered, and . was apparently
in his usual health until a week ago,
when he was prostrated at the Cali
fornia hotel with a severe hemorrhage.
The next day he rallied somewhat, but
a succession of hemorrhages followed,
each greatly reducing his strength, and
at 7:15 yesterday evening he peacefully
expired.
When President McKinley visited
this city the summer preceding his
death, he became a warm admirer of
General Barnes and promised on his
return to Washington to appoint the
general United States minister to
Japan. His assassination put an end
to all his plans, although it was an
nounced that President Roosevelt in
tended to carry out the late president's
wishes in this respect.
General Barnes was a man of remark
able versatility, being noted as a
scholar, lawyer, linguist, lecturer, au
thor, artist and actor, although it was
as a lawyer and orator that he made
a national reputation. In 1860 he
formed a partnership to practice law
with Joseph H. Choate, the present
ambassador to the court of St. James,
but when the Civil war broke out,
Barnes left the law foi the army, be
coming a member of Fitz John Porter's
staff. Retiring from the army on ac
count of impaired health, he came to
California.
New Surgeon General of Army.
Washington, July 23. The president
has designated Colonel R. M. O'Reilly
to be surgeon general of the armv, to
succeed General Forwood, who will re
tire on September 7 next. Colonel
O'Reilly will have until January, 1909,
to serve as surgeon general. He was
appointed from Pennsylvania as a
medical cadet in 1864. He is a gradu
ate of the medical department of the
university of Pennsylvania.
Great Storm in Russia.
Kieffe, European Russia, July 23.
A torriental rain storm, accompanied
by violent wind and bail, broke over
Kieffe yesterday afternoon and turned
the streets into veritable torrents, flood
ing cellars and drowning 15 occupants
before they were able to escape. Large
trees were uprooted and railroad em
bankments were washed away, necessi
tating the suspension of traffic. The
losses sustained are very heavy.