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WEEKLY.
UNION, Kstab. Jmlf, 1897.
UAZKTTJC, Kstab. Dec, 180S.
(Consolidated Feb.; 1899.
COH VAliLIS, BENTOH COUNTY, OREGON,- FBIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1902.
VOL. XXXIX. NO. 41.
EVENTS OF THE DAY
GATHERED FROM ALL. PARTS OF TKE
TWO HEMISPHERES.
Comprehensive. Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Presented in Condensed Form, Most
Likely to Prove Interesting to Our
Many Readers.
Continued heavy rains have stopped
all war maneuvers at Fort Riley, Kan.
Secretary Shaw's order releasing the
reserve, put $200,000 into circulation
at Portland.
Savages on the warpath in New
Guinea have massacred many people
and burned whole villages.
The president's condition continues
to improve fast and he is able to attend
to a great deal of business.
The Cuban government has made a
law which provides for Cuban labor in
all kinds of public service.
Miss Alice Hay, daughter of Secie-
tary of State Hay, was married to
James W. Wadsworth, of Sew York.
. Two American inventors are expert
menting with flying machines on Long
island. One ship ascende 1 1,000 feet
and saile I about two miles and the
other ascended 4,000 feet and made a
flight of nearly five miles.
The senate committee on Pacific ia
lands and Porto Rico has finished it t
work in the Hawaiian islands and has
sailed for San Franci co. The com
mittee listened to testimony regarding
the land laws, public improvements
needed, bubonic plague epidemic and
many other matters of le-ser import
- ance.
One thousand people are now be
lieved to have perished in the Sicily
disaster.
In spits of rain, the full war maneu
vers are being carried out by the troops
at Fort Riley, Kan.
Venezuela plan's to cut all the cables
and an American gunboat may be ne
cessary in those waters.
Lumber shipments by water from the
Columbia river will this year, for the
first time on record, exceed 100,000,
000 feet.
Brigadier General Sumner, in charge
of the movement against the Moros,
says the rebels are not so unruly as
reported.
It is said that Queen Maria Chris
tina, mother of King Alfonso of Spain,
has married Count' do Eecorura, her
master of the house.
Three desperate prisoners in the
Dillon. Mont., jail sawed their way out.
It is believed they secured aid from the
outside. Officers are in close pursuit.
Cholera still rages in the Island of
Samar. The population of many of
the towns have been heavily reduced
through death and the flight of the
panic stricken people.
A tidal wave swept Japan, drowning
at least 500 people. Much property
was destroyed. A Japanese warship
was driven ashore, but will probably
be floated.
A second military expedition has
been sent against the Moros.
Fifteen hundred street car men in
New Orleans have struck for increased
pay.
A fire at Stockton, Cal., destroyed
$500,000 worth of property. Five
blocks were burned.
A Mississippi Negro, who confessed
to an old crime, was burned ailve. He
said he deserved the fate that had over
taken him.
nie president s pnyricians louna it
necessary to open the wound on his leg,
as the bone was slightly affected. It
is not serious
come.
uiiu recovery win nuuu
The annual report of the commis
sioner of pensions shows that there are
now nearly a million pames on the
pension rolls. The total disbursement
of the department has been $2,900,
654,302. The cable from San Francisco to
Manila will be in working order by
July 4, 1903, according to the officials
of the company. Three steamers will
lay the cable, two from Manila and
one from San Francisco.
The comet discovered at Lick obser
vatory September 1 has grown steadily
brighter, until at the present time it is
visible to the naked eye. It can be
seen a little north of the star Alpha
Cysni, near the milky way. It is mov
ing in a southwesterly direction.
Dr. Silviane Brandao, vice president
elect of Brazil, is dead.
A census of the Philippines has been
authorized by the president.
The presence of troops has had a
quieting effect in the coai fields of
Pennsylvania.
President Roosevelt's injured leg
continues to improve, and the president
will be around again in a tew days.
No more American soldiers will be
sent to the isthmus of Panama.
Burglars in South Sharon, Pa., held
up a store, overpowered, bound and
gagged two officers and secured $400.
Isaac A. Singer, one of the largest
- stockholders in the Singer sewing
machine company, died at his home in
Atlantic City.
A lone highwayman near Stites,
Idaho, held up a stage and secured
$500.
TO END THE STRIKE.
President Will See What May be Done in
the Coal Fields.
Washington, Oct. 2. The president
yesterday took initiative steps to ascer
tain what, if anything, could be done
by the federal authority to settle the
coal strike. The result was a general
expression of opinion by the advisers
of the president, who were present, to
the effect that the federal laws and con
stitution do not afford means of federal
interference to end the strike,' but
another conference will be held today,
and the president will do all he can
properly and legally to bring about a
settlement. At the temporary White
House a conference was held with the
three cabinet officers Attorney Gene
ral Knox, Secretary Moody and Post
master General Payne. Governor
Crane, of Massachusetts, was also
present. The&e gentlemen met with
President Roosevelt, and after the sub
ject had been considered for some time
they adjourned to another room and
conferred together for an hour. They
all returned later in the day and held
another conference with the president,
and the strike situation was discussed
further.
President Roosevelt is deeply con
cerned over the situation. The ap
proach of winter, with a coal famine
imminent, and the distress znd suffer
ing that must ensue unless coal be
comes available, present a situation
which, he thinks, should receive the
attention ol the administration if there
is anything that can bo done by the
government. Many appeals have been
made to him, and many suggestions
have been received by him, and it was
with a view to- ascertain what power
the federal authority could evoke that
caused the conference to be held.
During the conference every phase of
the situationl vtas discussed. The
general opinion of the advisers was that
the situation did not present a case in
which there could be federal intetfer-
ence by any warrant of law. There
has been no interference with .federal
authority in the mining region, either
by stoppage of the mails or resistance
of the United States court process. It
was pointed out thct there was no occa
sion for the use of federal troops, as
Governor Stone, of Pennsylvania, had
not called on the government for assist
ance, nor had he even exhausted trie
resources of the state by calling out the
lull strength of the state militia.
WHERE MAN HAD NOT BEEN.
Geological Survey Party Returns From
Wilds of Alaska.
Seattle, Oct. 2. After traversing a
wilderness where white men have never
before ventured, the United States
geological survey has completed a pre
liminary examination of the country
lying between Cook inlet and the
Tanana.
A party of seven, under the leader
ship of Alfred H. Brooks, made the
trip from Tynook to the Tanana, and
later leahed Ramp rt, on the Yukon,
after several months' hard work. The
entire country was carefully mapped,
and the reports have been sent on to
Washington by Mr. Brooks, now in
Seattle.
Several new details were discovered
which will greatly aid future pros
pectors. The trip was such a bard one that,
out of 20 carefully selected horses, only
11 survived, ror hundreds of miles
the pirty never saw a white man, and,
ndeed, were the majority of the time
in a totally uninhabited land. They
passed closer to Mount McKinley than
any other wnite man. Many new
streams were located and named, and
another party will probably be sent in
next year to continue the work.
MUCH CHOLERA IN ILO ILO.
People Fleeing to the Mountains, Leaving
the Dead Unburied.
Manila, Oct. 2. It is understood
that 5.124 cases of cholera and 2,740
deaths from that disease were reported
in the province of Ho Ho, Island of
Panay, on Monday. This is the high
est record for any district since the out
break of the disease occurred, and ex
ceeds the total of Manila and many of
the provinces since the commencement.
The town of Miago, in the province of
Ho Ho, was the worst eufferer, 1,173
cases being reported there Monday.
At Cabettaun there were 899 case?,
and at Dumanges 395 cases were re
ported on Monday. . The people are
fleeing to the mountains, leaving the
dead unburied and the dying uncared
for. The government has ordered ad
ditional doctors and medicines to be
sent to Ilo Ho. The number of vic
tims makes ordinary sanitary measures
impossible. The total of all the pro
vinces Monday was 5,390 cases and
3,091 deaths.
Croker on Trial.
New York, Oct. 2. Edward F. Crok
er, chief of the New York fire depart
ment, was placed on trial today before
Fire Commissioner Sturgis, who pre
ferred charges against the chief. The
charges are seven in all, and they in
clude accusations of incompetency,
sending in false reports, violation of
the constitution of the state of New
York, conversion of public property to
private use, conduct prejudicial to good
order and discipline.
Salt Company Fails.
Trenton, N. J., Oct. 2. Chancellor
Magio has appointed Frank P. McDer
mott, of Jersey City, and Nathan S.
tsearasiee, ot Warsaw, a. i., receivers
for the National salt company. The
application for a receiver was made by
Chauncey II. Strickland, of New York.
The company's liabilities are given at
$1,150,000 and quick assets at $858,
000.
NEWS OF OREGON
ITFMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS
OF THE STATE. .
Commercial and Financial Happenings of
the Past Week Brief Review of the
Growth and Development of Various
Industries Throughout Our Common
wealth Latest Market Report.
Six harvest ' hands were held up at
The Dalles and relieved of $300.
A cold-storage and meat company has
been formed in Ashland with a Capital
of $25,000.
prune t-rop in juanon county
will ViA nrttltv rcnProl 1 v oaf Kava ho ill a
ml ? . m r i
The board of regents of the state uni
versity, at Eugene, have made arrange
ments to include a music department.
Mrs. Florence At wood, state nresi-
, g
dent of the Rebekahs, died at her home
in Baker City September 23 of pneu
monia. Pardons have been asked for Con
victs Louis Level and H. S. Warriner,
sentenced from Multnomah county for
burglary.
The 16th annual fair of the Butte
Creek Agricultural association, held at
Marquam, had a large attendance and
was very successful in every respect.
Preparations are well advanced for
the district fair to be held at Rosebnrg
during the five days beginning October
7. A splendid livestock exhibit is ex
pected. Over one-half of the Washington
county agricultural and horticultural
exhibit, which took the firt prize at
the state fair, has been sent East,
where it will have a place in ft num
ber of fairs and carnivals.
Sub-committees have been appointed
in various parts of the state to help so
licit fuads for the purchase of a sword
for Admiral Clark, who commanded
the Oregon during the Spanish-Ameri
can war. About f l,ZUU will be re
quired. The school directors and clerks of
Washington county held a meeting and
discussed various matters of tchool im
portance. The ' state superintendent
was present. It is the first time such
meeting was ever held in thaT.
county.
Twenty-seven bales of
hops were
ago for 23
sold in Salem a few days
cents per pound.
The assessment roll of Columbia
county shows the total taxable proper
ty to be worth $1,597,840.
Large crowds attended the opening
of the Eugene carnival, despite the
rain. The business houses have a num
ber of nice displays.
Ranchmen in Josephine county will
be forced to use strenuous efforts to rid
the country of coyotes, which are doing
much damage to stock.
The Salem commercial club has
taken steps to distribute 80,000 pam
phlets through the East in the interest
of the Willamette valley.
Fruit growers in Polk county say
that tl.e prune crop will not only be
light tnis year, but that brown rot has
attacked the Italian prunes in some
sections, and that this will further de
crease the yield.
Oregon City schools are in a very
crowded condition, the enrollment be
ing larger than ever before.
A free rural mail route has been rec
ommended out of Forest Grove, but
there will be some delay on account of
being no map of Washington county
roads.
The Oregon blind school at Salem
opened with 32 students, the san e as
last year. This institution costs the
state about $7,000 a year, or $220 for
each pupil.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Walla Walla, 62c; bluestem
65c; valley, 63c.
Barley Feed, $19.50 per ton; brew
ing, s.'U.au.
Flour Best grade, 3.303.65; grah
am. $2 8
Millstuffs Bran, $18.50 per ton;
middlings, $23.50; shorts, $19.50;
chop, $17.
Oats No. 1 white, $l1.02;gray,
P5cS$l per cental.
Hay Timothy, $10311; clover,
$7.50; cheat, $8 per ton.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $4.5035;
per pound, 11c; hens, $55.50 per
dczen; per pound, 12c; springs, $3.50
4 per dozen; fryers, $33.50; broil
ers, $2.503; ducks, $4.505 per doz
en; turkeys, young, 1415c; geese,
$6(6 6.50 per dozen.
Cheese Full cream, twins; 13
13c; Y'oung America, 13K14;
factory prices, ll)e less.
Butter Fancy creamery, 2527c
per pound; extras, 27c; dairy, 17
20c; store, 1215.
Eggs 22625c per dozen.
Potatoes Best Burbanks, 6065c
per sack; ordinary, 5055o per cental,
growers' prices; Merced sweets, $2
2.25 per cental.
. Hops New crop, 20(2 21c per pound.
Wool Valley, 12M15c; .Eastern
Oieon, 814c; mohair, 2628c.
Eeef Oros8, cows, 33$c per
pound; steers, 4c; dressed, 67c.
Veal 78Hc.
Mutton Gross, 3c
dressed, 6c.
Lambs' Gross, 3c
dressed. 6c.
per
pound;
pound;
per
Hogs Gross, 67c per pound;
dressed, 77c.
ROOT MAY RESIGN.
Secretary
of War Desires to Return to
Practice of Law.
Washington, Oct. 1. Secretary Root
is to resign, according to a statement
published here. -.According to the
rumor the resignation is not to take
place until some time next spring,
when Secretary Root hopes to have the
many leforms he has originated as
secretary of war certain of being car
ried to a successful consummation,
Among these are the general staff bill,
which is not likely to pass at the short
session, and the bill to reorganize the
militia, which may become a law,
With the practical settlement of affairs
in the Philippines, and Cuban recip
rocity adopted by congress, which will
probably result in keeping Cuba pad
Bed, and the reforms Secretary Root
has inaugurated in the war department
thoroughly established, the great work
which he has selected to do will in a
measure be accomplished. If he resigns
it will only be when there is a straight
course ahead for the war department,
as President Roosevelt would not be
very likely to part with him under any
other circumstances. He is one of the
etrongest men in the cabinet, and prob
ably the closest to the president.
Secretary Koot entered the cabinet at
a great personal loss. As a lawyer of
ability, he had an enormous practice in
New xork. His old associates and em
ployes are anxious for him to resume
his former work, and this is given" .as
the main reason why be intends to re
sign.
LONQ PENSION LIST.
Report of Commissioner Shows Net Oaln
of 5,732 Pensioners Last Year.
Washington, Oct. 1. The annual re
port of the commissioner of pensions,
Eugene E. Ware, shows that the nam
ber of names on the pension rolls i-
still under the 1,000,000 mark, despite
a net gain of 5,732 pensioners since
1898. The total enrollment July 1 last
was 999,446, against $97 735 last year.
The total comprises 738,800 soldiers
and 260,637 widows and dependents.
The aggregate includes 4,695 pensioner
outride of the United States.
The number of death notices of old
soldiers, not now in the service, re
ceived by the bureau during the year
was 50,128; but only 27,043 of them
were pensioners.
The report says that the death rate
among the pensioners for the coming
year will be about 40,000, and the
lo8pes to the tolls from other causes
will be about 6,000.
The total amount ; paid for pensions
during the fiscal year was $ 137,504,
268, and the yearly cost of operating
and maintaining the bureau and the
agencies, outside of the payment of
pensions proper, aggregate $3,590,529.
STATE DEFEATS BOODLE RS.
First Skirmish in Snyder Case Results in
Victory for Prosecution.
St. Louis, Oct. 1. The first day's
proceedings in the trial of Robert M.
Snyder, the banker and promoter, of
Kansas City and New York, on charges
of bribery in connection with the pas
sage of the Central Traction bill several
years ago, ended in a complete victory
for the state, every objection offered
by the defense being overruled by Judge
Ryan. Snyder was arraigned, but re
fused to plead, and the court ordered
the clerk to enter a plea of not guilty.
Tomorrow the selection of a jury will
begin. It will then devolve upon the
state to prove that the defendant is
not a resident of Missouri. The statute
of limitations, which has sheltered all
the officials who took part in the deal,
is the legal loophole through which
Snyder's attorneys hope to pull him to
liberty.
DIED TO SAVE A TRAIN.
Brave Act of a Northern Pacific Section
Foreman in Idaho.
Spokane, Wash., Oct. 1. In trying
to save a passenger train from a wreck,
William Johnson, a Northern Pacific
section foreman, was killed this after
noon at Tuscor, Idaho. He saved the
train, but died of his injuries. The
train was the east bound overland pas
senger No. 4, and was wed filled.
Johnson was flagging the train to keep
it from running upon a section of track
which contained a broken rail, and in
his eagerness to have the signals ob
served, he failed to step from the
track in time to avoid the engine of
the passenger.
More Troops Called Out.
Harrrisburg, Pa., Oct. 1. The
Fourth regiment has been added to the
troops on duty in the anthracite strike
region. Sheriff Dietrick called upon
General Gobin tonight for troops to
suppress the rioting in Northumber
land county. The general railed up
Governor Stone by telephone and stated
the situation, after which the executive
reluctantly " ordered the Fourth regi
ment to proceed to the scene and main
tain order.
Ex-Secretaries of War In the Senate.
Washington, Oct. 1. When Russel
A. Alger takes his seat there will be
three senators who were 'ormerly secre
tary of war. Procter, of Vermont, and
Elkins, of West Virginia, are the other
two. The same situation occurred
when Don Cameron was closing his
senatorial career.
Soft Coal SU11 Advancing.
Boston. Sept. 30. Local coal dealers
today advanced the price of sot oral
$1 per ton, making it $8.50. With to
day's advance soft coal has appreciated
in price $2.50 a ton the past week
The price of hard coal remains at $15 a
ton .but there is little to be had here.
IRRIGATION MONEY
EIGHT MILLIONS NOW AVAILABLE FOR
GOVERNMENT PROJECTS.
Start Will be Made in Number of Places
in the Spring Funds Now on Hand
Will Build at Least Ten Irrigation
Systems 'Complete No Contracts Will
be Let Until Cash is on Hand.
Washington, Oct. 2. There is today
in the treasury between $7,500,000 and
f o,uuu,uuu, which, unuer ine act oi the
latt session of congress, is to constitute
.the reclamation fund, and which is
now available for expenditure on such
irrigation projects as will be selected
by the secretary of the interior next
spring for construction. About $3,-
000 000 of this was derived from the net
revenue from the sale and disposition
of public lands in the fiscal year
and about $4,500,000 as the net
nne for the last fi cal year. The
gross
revenues for ihe past year exceed tlio.-e
of any proceeding fiscal year, amount
ing to about 16,200,000. The fund is
made up not only from fees and com
missions, but fines and foifeitures for
abuses of public laud laws. The de
duction of total expenditures for main
taining the public land service, together
with the allowances for agricultural
colleges, leaves the amount stated.
Department officials are highly grat'-
fi -d to find over $1,000,000 more than
was contemplated with which to begin
work on irrigation systems next year.
t his total will build at least ten pro
jects of medium size and probably
more, depending upon cost. No work
is to be undertaken to cost more than
the amount available in the reclama
tion fund at the time contracts are let.
CITY IS WITHOUT COAL.
People In New York are Now Tearing Up
Sidewalks for Fuel. (
New York, Oet. 2. Not a ton of.
anthracite coal can be had here at any
price, says a Rochester, N. Y., dispatch
to the Times. Sidewalk inspectors
report that in the outlying districts
residents are tearing up the sidewalks
and using them for fuel. Altogether
several miles of plank walks have been
pried up with crowbars and carried off.
In some sections, canal bridges have
been stripped of planking. Piles of
new. lumber left on the streets lor re- .
pairs alto have disappeared.
Hospitals of New York city are
threatened with being seriously affect
ed by the scarcity of coal. The J.
Hood Wright hosi ital has only enough
to last this week, while St. Luke's was
so fortunate as to obtain a cat go of 240
tons about a week ago enough to last
to months. St. Mary's hospital for
children has practically no supply of
steam coal, and is using furnace coal,
of whi. h it has about 25 tons. This
condition prevails at many other in
stitutions.
It was said at the office of the chari
ties department that no real distress
has been experienced in any of the
city s charitable institutions.
The price of anthracite has reached
$21, but some retailers are peddling
out their small supply at $15 or $16
to old customers. Importation of
Welsh anthracite and Fren- h bitumin
ous can in no way relieve the situation,
for the few cargoes that have been
landed are of little account. There are
only about ,uuu tons ol this coal now
on the way, but orders have been placed
tnis week tor over Zo,tHHi tons. At
least a month is required, however, to
fill the orders. The cost of importing
Welsh coal under normal conditions is
about $7.
MANY NOTED MEN TO ATTEND.
Irrigation Congress Is Interesting Great
est Minds of the Nation.
Colorado Springs, Colo., Oct. 2.
rhe committees in charge of the ar
rangements for the 10th National irri
gation congress, which convenes here
October 6. have received encouraging
reports which promise a large attend
ance of noted men from all parts of the
country. ' Large delegations from the
commercial clubs of Omaha and St.
Paul will come in private cars. New
Mexico. Texas, Wyoming, Kansas and
Nebraska cities will also send large
delegations. The subjects to be hand
led, affecting as they do the proper ex
penditure of $8,000,000 of public
money now available, and the proceeds
from future land sales for the reclam
ation of millions of arid acres, and the
making of homes for millions of people
now crowded in the cities, have attract
ed the highest minds of the nation,
from captains of industry to the leaders
of labor organizations. Letters of in
dorsement of the possibilities of the con
gress are pouring in every day from
these people.
Fast Train Wrecked.
Des Moines, Oct. 2. The Rock
Island fast mail, west hound, was
wrecked this morning at Newton, 40
miles east of here. No loss of life oc
curred. Three cars left the track.
The accident occurred while the train
was attempting to get around the wreck
of a freight train which went through a
bridge across Skunk river yesterday.
Three tramps were reported to have
been killed in the latter wreck. The
bridge is completely demolished.
The Wisconsin at Panama.
Washington, Oct. 2. The navy de
partment has ' received a cablegram
announcing the arrival of Rear Ad
miral Silas Casey aboard his flagBhip,
the Wisconsin, at Panama, after an
' almost unequaled run down the Pacific
coast of 3,270 miles in one day less
than two weeks. Rear Admiral Casey
' will assume general command of the
American naval fcrces on the isthmus.
KILLED FOR HIS MONEY.
Wealthy New Yorker Carelessly Displayed
Large Amount of Cash.
New York, Sept. . 30. James . B,
Craft, a wealthy resident of Glen Cove,
L. I., was murdered, and his body de
capitated, in a tenderloin resort within
a few doors of Broadway. All the evi
dence goes to show that Craft, who had
Deen making the. rounds of the tender
loin, incautiously 'displayed a large
amount of money and was killed for
the purpose of robbery. The police
also
first administer.! Bn.t that h. tim
- VU'tim Ma ArarwtmA inA I. V. 4.
and killed with a cleaver.
The odor of burning flHh ftr.nt,i
the attention of the occupants of the
upper part of the house and led to the
discovery by the detectives of the head-
les body of a man in the hammer..
The charred head was discovered a few
' minutes later in the furnace, in which
'a fire had recentlv hen maka with th
1901, ' evident intention of destroying all pos-reve-
sibility of identification of the remains.
Later the body was identified by
Walter Craft, of Glen Cove, as that of
his father. The murdered man was
about 51 years of age and was a manu
facturer of refrigerating machinery in
Cortlandt street, this city.
MANY CORPSES RECOVERED.
But Full Extent of Sicily Disaster Cannot
Yet be Told.
London, Sept. 30. A special dis
patch from Rome, after confirming the
reports that Stromboli has been in
full eruption for some time says:
"The night scene was grand but terri
fying; lava streamed down the moun
tain sides seaward, while huge boulders
were falling into the sea fully 2J$
miles from the shore.
"The director of the observatory at
Mount Aetna says there has been no
eathquake in Sicily, but that probably
there had been a submarine eruption
between Stromboli and Sicily.
"One hundred and fifty corpses have
been recovedred at Modica. Hundreds
of victim were drowned in the open
country."
The whole country about Mount
Atna has suffered greatly. Mount
Aetna is sending up a thick column of
steam from the vicinity of the scene of
the eruption of 1892. Two fresh craters
have opened on Stromboli since Sep
tember 14.
MINES IN GOOD SHAPE.
With Return of Men, Coal Output Would
be Large as Ever.
Philadelphia, Sept. 30. General
Manager Luther, of the Philadelphia
& Reading railroad company's coal
pioperty, has informed the sales depart
ment of the company that all the Read
ing's important mines are in fairly
good condition, and that were the
miners to retrun to work, comparative
ly little time will elapse before they
will be turning eut their normal pro
duction. It is true that several of the
Reading collieries are flooded, but
these have been abandoned for a time
at least. Officials of the Pennsyl
vania road's anthracite companies re
port tnat their mines are in such con
dition that when the miners go back
to work the collieries will be able to
produce three-fourths of their normal
output, and that within a week they
would be in perfect shape.
EARTHQUAKES IN MEXICO.
Seventy-ton Crane Thrown from. Railroad
Into the Bay.
Mexico City, Sept. 30. Advices
from Salina Cruz, the Pacific terminus
of the Tehuantepec National railroad,
which is being rebuilt by the English
contractor, state that Tuesday no less
than 75 shocks of earthquake were felt,
causing much alarm. The most serious
damage was done to an immense 70-ton
crane used on the construction of the
breakwater, it being thrown from the
track into the bay. A majority of the
smaller cranes used on the works are
also reported to have been thrown out
of place.
It ia probable" that the construction
of the artificial harbor will be delayed
six months, as the crane was thrown
into deep water, and it will require
time to recover it.
As Bad as Siberia.
Butte, Mont., Sept. 30. President
Mayer, of the Western Federation of
Miners, said, here todaj that the con
dition of the camps in the Fernie, B.
C, district, from which he has just
returned, is as .bad as Siberia. Mr.
Mayer went to Fernie to investigate
labor conditions. He says the mining
company there owns everything in the
camp. They permit the men no privi
leges and allow no business except un
der their direction. " They even exer
cise a censorship, Mr. Mayer declares,
on what their employes shall read.
Indians on Bad Behavior.
Santa Fe, N. M., Sept. 30. One hun
dred Apache Indians from the Jicarilla
reservation, in northern Rio Arriba
county, are camped in the Picuris
mountains, ready to go to the San
Geronimo festival, at Toas Pueblo,
deep te the positive orders of the apent.
Another band of Apaches is trespassing
on the land of the Santa Claia and
other pueblos. The U. S. Attorney
has orders from Washington to return
them to the reservation.
No Parcel Mail to Alaska.
Washington, Sept. 30. The post
office department baa notified all post
masters that during the winter months
it will be impossible to transmit mail
matter in the form of parcels to the
following named postoffices in Alaska:
Nome, St. Michael, Circle, Eagle, Fort
Yukon, Rampart, Tanana, Teller and
Unalaska.
NO MORE RESERVE
SECRETARY SHAW MAKES' ANOTHER
IMPORTANT MOVE.
National Banks wiU Not Have to Carry a
Reserve Against Deposits Secured by
Bonds Action will Place $30,000,000
in Circulation Secretary Has Favored
Move Since He Took Charge.
"New York, Oct. 1. Secretary of
the Treasury Shaw, who was in New
York yesterday, issue! a statement in
which he says the banks heriafter will
not be required to carry a reserve
against government deposits . secured
by government bonds. This will make
available today ever $30,000,000. Sec
letary Shaw declined to discuss the
financial eituation further than to say
that the treasury department would
co-operate as far as possible with (he
banks in their effort to snndv the
necessary credit to do the unprecedent
ed amount of business that is tnini
railroads and steamship lines, as well
as banks, to the utmost.
Mr. Shaw said he had never feen
any. gooa reason why banks holding a
government deposit secured by govern
ment bonds should be required to carry
a reserve against it. First, it is a de
posit not likely to be called in a time
of stringency, and second, if called, tlie
collateral will always sell for cah in
excess of the deposit. He has, since he
took charge of the treasury, contem
plated relieving the banks of this burd
en. Ihe controller of the currency
agieeB with the secretary, and thetefore
it is announced that hereafter banks
will not be required "to carry a reserve
against government deposits secured by
government bonds. The treasury has
on deposit with various banks scattered
throughout the country, in round num
bers, $130,000,000, against which the
banks have heretofore been compelled
to hold more than $30,000,000 of gold
or its equivalent.
GROWERS HOLD BACK.
Expected Advance in Price of Hops Re
sults in but Few Sales.
Portland, Uct. 1. The hop market
has opened strone, with prospects of
some big sales this week, though grow
ers are not yet letting go very freely.
Most of them are in a position to hold,
and as they expect better prices they
aie slow to consider dealers' offers.
Many growers look for the market to
go to 25 cents, and not a few expect to
receive SO cents for the portion of their
crop they did not contract for earlier in
the season. Dealers decline to rame
higher figures, saying that brewers in
the East are heavily stocked, many
having enough hops to last them for a
year.
A number of small sales are being
made at 25 cents. Receipts are in
creasing daily, and will be heavy by
the last of the week, and baling will
then be practically at an end.
It is now estimated that the crop of
Washington will fall short about 3,000
bales from the first estimate, which
will leave the state's product some-
wherj about 33,000 bales. The hop
crop in the Yakima valley is reported
to be short of last year's output fully
10 per cent. In some yards there will
be but half a crop, in others a full
crop, and in the majority less than the
usual production.
EMILE ZOLA IS DEAD.
Famous Novelist a Victim of Asphyxia
tionHis Wife Barely Escaped.
Paris, Oct. 1. Emile Zola, the novel
ist, who gained additional prominence
in recent years because of his defense
of the Jews and of Captain Drevfus.
was found dead in his Paris home yes
terday morning. Asphyxiation, result
ing from fumes from a stove in his bed
room, is given as the cause of his death.
M. Zola and his wife retired at 10
o'clock. Mme. Zola was seriously ill
when the room was broken into thij
morning. At about noon she was re
moved to a p'rivate hospital", where she
recovered consciousness for a ' short
time, and was able briefly to explain to
a magistrate what had happened,.
The death of M. Zola, winch only
became generally known after noon,
caused a great sensation in Paris, and
this evening there was a constant
stream of visitors at the Zola residence.
He was born in Paris April 2, 1840.
Street Car Men Still Out.
New Orleans. Oct. 1. The strike of
street car men continues without a
break. Three mail cars were the only
car& moved by the railway company to
day. In tne absence of street care ve
hicles of all kinds were brought into
play and have done a thriving busi
ness. In the matter of interference
with street cars carrying United States
mail, 16 affidavits were made this
afternoon against as many persons,
charging them with interfering with
the United States mails, in violation of
the act'of congtess protecting the mails.
To Dredge UpjCoal Lost in Wrecks.
New York, Oct. 1. Owing to tie
high prices of coal an organized, plan
for securing supplies from the waters ot
Long Island sound will be put ia' oper
ation. Many barges loaded with an
thracite have been wrecked on the
sound. A company has been organized
to recover this coal by means'of "'sweep"
boats' which will locate .'the.;.; wrecks.
Powerful pumps will be put to work
and the coal sucked up and run over
screens into the dredges.