WEEKLY.
S'z:: A"1:.1; V. i Consolidated Feb., 1899.
CORVAXXIS, BENTON COUNTY, f OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1903.
VOJL. XXXX. NO. 5.
EVENTS OF THE DAY
GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OF THE
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.
President Roosevelt will speak at the
bi-centenaryof John Wesley in New York
on February 25.
The agricultural apropriation bill
carries $5,238,860, an increase of $.29,
000, bat $400,000 less than the esti
mates.
A movement has been started in In
dianapolis to buy a residence to be pre
- sented to John Mitchell, president of
the Mine workers anion.
The number of striking garment
wotkera in Vienna has increased to 19,
000. It is expected that the employers
will be obliged to capiatulate.
Mayor Wells, of St. Louis, has sue
pended Patrick R. Fitzgion, the city
registrar, who is charged with corruptly
contracting for city printing and bind
ing. A boiler explosion in Tupper's iron
works at Biltson, Stafford, England, re
sulted in the killing of five persons and
the injury of 20 or 30 by steam and
pieces of flying metal.
The poatofEce appropriation bill car
ries 1153,430,049, against $138,416,598
last year. The principal increases are:
About $2,000,000 for railway mail ser
vice, $3,090,10Q for rural free delivery
and $800,000 for pneumatic tube ser
vice. " ' '
The American Federation of Labor
will begin a campaign in favor of child
labor laws and the bill making eight
hours a day's work on government con
tracts. It will investigate the charges
of inhumanity to Porto Rican laborers
in Hawaii.
The Spanish minister of marine be
gan action in Edinburg, Scotland, to
recover $375,000 from the Clydebank
engineering and shipbuilding company
because of the company's failure to de
liver in contract time four torpedo boat
destroyers which had been intended for
. use during the Spanish-American war.
The Benate if considering the Cuban
reciprocity treaty.
Sir Thomas Lipton has offered a cup
to Pacific coast yacht clubs.
Minister Bowen has arrived from
Venezuela. He will find discord among
the allies.
Editor Gonzales died from blood poi
soning as a result of the wound re
ceived from Tillman.
Abram C. Hewitt, ex-mayor of New
York and for many years representative
in congress is dead. He was 81 years
old.
The present legislature of New Mex
ico is the first in the history of the
territory where every member speaks
English fluently.
The Oregon joint house and senate
committee on the Lewis and Clark
fair has reported favorably on the bill
appropriating $500,000.
The Colorado legislature is the scene
of much party conflict. T,wo senates
have been formed. It is probable that
no senator will be elected.
Senator Mitchell has'introduced bills
intended to carry into effect some of
the recommendations of the senate com
mittee which recently visited the
Hawaiian islands.
The United States supreme court has
affirmed the opinion oi the Illinois
state sapreme court as to the constitu
tionality of the inheritance tax law,
which was upheld.
Editor Gonzales may recover from
the wound inflicted by Tillman.
John Mitchell has delivered hiVfinal
address to the coal strike commission.
ft The Chicago grand jury found indict
ments against 40 men engaged Jn the
coal conspiracy.
The big 16-inch coast defense gun has
passed a successful trial. It is the
largest gun ever made in America.
Admiral Dewey has returned to
Washington and praises the conduct of
the fleet in maneuvers in the Caribbean
A wealthy Oklahoma citizen commit
ted suicide. Before dying he declared
be was John Wilkes Booth and killed
Lincoln.
Naval Constructor Hobson has been
assigned to duty at Bremerton, to
which post he must go or resign from
the navy.
Colorado and Wyoming have both
given assurance that the Lewis and
Clark fair will receive their moral and
financial support. ' .
The long overdue steamer St. Louis
has arrived in New York. Her boilers
were leaking badly and passengers
adopted tesolutions condemning the
company for sending the ves'sel out in
an unsafe condition.
A charge tf powder for an 8-inch gun
exploded on the battle ship .Massa
chusetts, killing six men and wounding
three, two of whom may die.
Citizens of Newman, a small village
in Indiana, held op a train and robbed
it of coal.
The 1904 session of the national
. livestock convention will be held in
Portland.
The French government has forbidden
the use of the Breton dialect by priests
of Brittany. "
IN THE LEGISLATURES.
Oregon and Washington Solons Begin to
Ballot for Senator.
At Olympla.
A summary of the first ballot taken
by the Washington legislature in sep
arate session, Jan. 20, for United
States senator, is as follows: Ankeny,
48; Preston, 41; Wilson, 12; Turner,
23; scattering, 12.
At Salem.
The first ballot for United States
senator was taken in the Oregon legis
lature Tuesady, January 20, separately
in each branch and the result was :
Fulton, 28; Geer, 20; Wood, 18; scat
tering, 21; absent, 3; total, 90.
The Lewis and Clark appropriation
fair bill passed the house with only five
opposing votes. It calls for $500,000
The senate passed the Portland char
ter bill and it now will be engrossed
and sent to the governor.
Bid ARMY OF UNEMPLOYED.
Distress Prevailing in London Is Almost
Unprecedented.
New York., Jan. 22. There can no
longer be any question as to the extent
and gravity of the distress now prevail
ing in London, says the Tribune's cor
respondent in London. Many thous
ands of men in excess of the usual aver
age are out of employment this winter,
and the work houses cannot accommo
date all the people demanding shelter.
Things have reached a serious pass in
the east end of the metropolis, while
the tide of alien immigration is steadily
rising higher and higher.
A serious state of affairs exists also
in other parts of Great Britain.- An
endless stream of country-bred folk is
pouring into the overcrowded cities,
while Canadian farmers organize expe
ditions to search the old country for
much needed labcr and offer good wages
for efficient men without satisfactory
results. "
Official statistics show that the Brit
ish emigrant does not genet ally elect to
make his home in the British colonies.
Of 205,910 emigrants from this country
last year, 108,501 went to the United
States. This condition of things in
duced one newspaper to declare that the
future of the British race is imperiled
by the drafts made upon it from Amer
ica and that the greatest and most ben
eficent work a British statesman could
perform for the welfare of the nation
would be the iiiauguiation of some
scheme for redistributing the British
people in the British empire.
Seldom has legislation met more im
mediate success than the new licensing
act. For -once the law would seem to
have got even with the great army of
topers. Touched in their tenderest
spot, these interesting individuals are
forswearing drink with an alacrity
which seems to show conclusively that
there is alter all some virtue in what
was once contemptuously called by a
great statesman "grandmotherly legis
lation." CHINA ANSWERS THE POWERS.
Says She Is Absolutely Unable to Pay In
demnity in Gold.
Pekin, Jan. 22. China's reply to
the note signed by all the ministers of
the powers here, with the exception
of Minister Conger, announcing that
the failure of the Chinese government
to fulfill its obligations in refusing to
pay the indemnity on a gold basis
would entail grave consequences,' was
received today. It declares that China
would accede to the demand if she were
able to do bo, but that it is impossible
to make the paymetns demanded.
The Chinese note quotes the mes
sages of the viceroys detailing the im
poverished state of the country. It
asks the ministers to suggest plans for
relief and renews the request that the
customs tariff be placed on a gold basis,
suggesting that the average rate of ex
change each month be made the pay
ment rate for the following month.
The ministeis are awaiting instruc
tions from their governments.
Highwayman Robs Ticket Office.
Reno, Nev., Jan. 22. At 10:30 this
morning a highwayman e itered the
Southern Pacific ticket office and held
up the agent at the point of a revolver,
securing all the cash in the money
drawer. The ticket agent had just
cashed a warrant, and leaving the cash
drawer on top of the safe turned and
sat down at his desk. Hearing money
rattle he looked up and saw a masked
man standing at the safe emptying the
contents of the drawer into his pockets
with one hand and covering him with
a revolver with the other.
Death Rate Declining.
City of Mexico, Jan. 22. The official
bulletin from Mazatlan covering the 24
hours ending at 6 P. M. gives the num
ber of deaths from the plague as two in
the city and three in the hospital.
There were eight new cases during the
period, and seven patients were report
ed to be in a dying condition. The
stream of emigrants from the stricken
city continues and every one who has
the means and can get permission from
the health authorities is leaving.
Smoot Is Chosen in Utah.
Salt Lake City, Utah, Jan. 22. Reed
Smoot was this afternoon elected United
States senator from Utah to succeed
Senator Rawlins, Dem. The vote , in
separate sessions, was' as follows:
Senate Smoot, 10; ' Governor Wells,
2; Rawlins, Dem., 6. House Smoot;
36; Wells 4; RawlinB, 4. Mr.
Smoot's election will be ratified tomor
row at a joint session of the legislature.
NEWS OF OREGON
ITFMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS
OF THE STATE.
Oregon Has Fine Limestone Big Rabbit
Drive Many New Industries Coming
to Oregon This Year Improvements
in Land Office Medical Association
Meets in La Grande.
The teachers of Clackamas county
will hold an institute at New Era Sat
urday, January 31, at 10:30 o'clock.
A meeting of the fruitgrowers of
Douglas county will be held at the court
house in Roseburg on Saturday, Janu
ary 24, at 1 o'clock P. M., for the pur
pose of establishing packing house,and
fruit growers association.
Joseph Davenport died at his home
near bilverton-last bunday. tie was
aged 79 years and came to this county
recently from Pendleton, where he re
sided for about 20 years. He is sur
vived by a wife and-five children.
The United States land office at Rore-
burg has been changed from the A bra
ham building to the new Douglas coun
ty bank building. The new rooms are
located on the ground floor in the east
half of the building, and are four in
number. Roseburg can now boast of
one of the finest arranged land offices
on the coast, as these rooms were espec
ially designed for the use of the land
office.
One of the largest rabbit drives held
in Eastern Oregon took place several
miles west of Echo last week, and as a
result the rabbit population has been
decreased by nearly 1 ,000.
The Andrews Saw manufacturing
company will remove its plant from
Williamsport, Pa., to Portland, provid
ed stock to the amount of $50,000 be
taken in that city. , A good start has
been made in this direction, several
subscriptions having been handed in
already.
The Eastern Oregon medical associa
tion, held a session in La Grande in the
parlors of the Commercial club. The
attendance was small on account of
sickness in so many sections, but was
representative and energetic and some
good papers were listened to and- dis
cussed. After voting thanks ' to the
profession of La Grande for entertain
ment, the association adjourned to meet
in The Dalles July 16, 1903.
The committee from the - Benton
county court, met with the Linn county
committee and spent two hours discuss
ing the bridge tjuestion.The 1 meeting
was not official and definite action could
not be taken, yet each committee was
empowered to express the views of the
body which it represented. The con
census of opinion was that all public
highways should be free of any toll, as
far as possible removing every barrier
to traffic.
The Oregon & California Marble com
pany, which owns extensive marble
and limestone deposits in Josephine
county, some 12 miles south of Grants
Pass, is meeting with good success in
the working of its properties. The
company is paying particular attention
to the manufacture of lime a new in
dustry for this state. It has already
turned out several hundred barrels and
has as many more ready for the kiln.
The lime put on the market has given
as good satisfaction as any of the finer
grades that are shipped here from the
East.
If present plans materialise several
arge industries will be added to Port
land's growing list for 1903. Among
the representatives of many big con
cerns lately visiting that place is the
one working in the interests of the H.
O. Cereal flour manufactory. He has
just left Portland for Fuget Sound and
will study the site question from all
points before making his final report.
He is the Pacific coast agent of this
concern, with headquarters at San
Francisco, and his people will soon
visit Portland and then make their
selection.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Walla Walla, 73c; blue
stem, 82c; valley ,-7677c.
Barley Feed, $23.50 per ton; brew
ing, $24.
Flour Best grade, $3.904.20; grah
am, $3.253.50.
Millstuffs Bran, $1819 per ton;
middlings, $23 24; shorts, $1920,
chop, $18.
Oats No. 1 white, $1.151.17 ;
gray, $1.12s1.15 per cental.
Hay Timothy, $1112; cloyer,
$89; cheat, $910 per ton.
Potatoes Best Burbanks, 60 75c per
sack; ordinary, 4 0 50c per cental,
growers' prices; Merced Bweets, $2
2.25 per cental.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, ldllc;
young, 10c; hens, ll12c; turkeys,
live, 1315c; dressed, 15'6c; ducks,
$77.50 per dozen; geese, $78.50.
Cheese Full cream, twins, 16
17c; Young America, 1718c;
factory prices, llc less.
Butter Fancy creamery, 3032Kc
per pound; extras, 30c; dairy, 20
22c; store, 15l8c.
Eggs 22K32K per dozen.
Hops Choice, 2526c per pound.
Wool Valley, 1215c; Eastern
Oregon, 8l4c; mohair, 2628c.
Beef Gross, cows, , 33c per
pound; steers, 44c; dressed, 1c.
Veal 7H&Xc
Mutton Gross, 4c per pound;
dressed, 7c. ,.
Lambs Gross, 4c per pound;
dressed, 7c." ... -
Hogs Gross, 6Jc per pound;
dressed, 77c.
RIOT IN TROLLEY CAR.
Drunken Soldiers of "Fighting Sixteenth1
Stab the Conductor. ,
New York, Jan. 21. Riotous soldiers
from Fort Slocum created a panic on a
trolley car bound for Mount Vernon and
nearly murdered the conductor, Louis
Ettinger. The soldiers, who are mem
bers of the "fighting -Sixteenth,"
United States infantry, just back from
Luzon, were drinking ; from flasks and
having a boisterous time, and one of
them made an insulting remark, which
Mr. Mitchell, a passenger, and Daniel
Long, a former motorman, resented
Then half a dozen Hold iers sprang on
Long and Mitchell and kicked and
punched them. V-
In the excitement several of the sol
diers drew revolvers and began firing
tnrougn tne winaows. women
screamed and fainted," while men ran
to the platform and jumped from the
car. The conductor, who was trying to
collect fares, received a knife thrust in
the back and fell te the floor and
Mitchell was thrown bodily through a
car window. 4
Four policemen boarded-the car at
Sixth street. -When the soldiers saw
the policemen they leaped off and scat
tered in "all directions, but three of
them were captured, f The prisoners
denied they did the stabbing, but after
they had been searched and nothing
was found on them, the police picked
up a blood covered knife from the floor,
where one of them had dropped it.
It is believed that Conductor Ettin
ger is fatally wounded. The prisoners
were held for trial. k '
WRECK ON GREAT WESTERN.
Engineer Killed and Ten Passengers Ser
iously Hurt.
St. Louis, Jan. 21. A special to the
Kepublic from sycamore, 111., says:
In a wrecs near here today on the
Great Western railroad, one person was
killed and '60 others were seriously in
jured. Of these, several may not re
cover. ..'
St. Charles and Sycamore hostipals
are crowded with the injured tonight.
Many escaped with broken fingers and
bruises, while others are suffering
merely from the nervous shock.
The Des Moines and Minneapolis
special, running at a high rate of speed,
struck a broken rail just as it was
about to cross a bridge, .; The speed of
the tram carried it across the bridge
on . the ties ; then the entire train
pitched over a 20 foot embankment, the
cars turning on their sides and being
jumbled in a hopeless mass.
The passengers who were not injured
succeeded in pulling pui theother pas
sengers through the car ' windows, and
as soon as all were taken from the de
bris they were carried to a neighboring
farmhouse, where they were cared for
until one of the party walked to Waco
and telegraphed to Sycamore, two miles
away, for help.
TO LAY CABLE TO MANILA.
Pacific Cable Company Preparing to Fin
ish Great Pacb'ic Line.
San Francisco, Jan. 2 J. The steamer
Ventura arrived today from Australian
ports, via Honolulu. Among the pas
sengers from Honolulu were nine of the
Pacific cable company's staff, including
S. Dickenson, who had charge of the
preliminaries attendant upon the laying
of the cable at the Hawaiian end and
made his headquarters at Honolulu for
more than six months. He is on his
way to his home at Can so, N. S. Cap
tain Patterson, the chief inspector of
the cable company , and his staff, are
also passengers.
They are on their way to London to
join the cableship Anglia, which will
soon leave the British port with the
long stretch of the cable that, is to be
laid between Honolulu and Manila.
The Silvertown will remain at Hono
lulu until about the end of the present
month, when she will sail direct for
London in ballast. She will make her
first call at Coronel for coal.
PLAQUE IN MAZATLAN.
One Hundred and Seven Deaths Recorded
Since New Years.
Mazatlan, Mexico, Jan. 21. There
have been 107 deaths from the plague
since January 1. . The deaths on the
15th numbered seven, and many new
cases are reported. The number of
wooden hospitals burned is 106.
A young workman s mother died
from the plague at the family's house.
Some sanitary inspectors entered the
house and took possession of the corpse,
and the young man was sent to the de
partment of observation. His wife and
sister were absent at the time of the
inspector's visit, and afterwards disap
peared, fearing they would be taken to
the lazaretto. This morning one of the
women was found dead from the plague,
and the other has not been heard of.
The yonug man has become insane.
Most of the women have left the city,
and hardly any women are seen on the
streets.
Calls on Banks for More Bonds.
Washintgon, Jan. 21. Secretary
Shaw has written to the banks that had
substituted state and municipal bonds
as security for public deposits that he
would like to have an extra resubstitu
tion of government bonds. They were
accepted on condition that the bank3
should use the bonds as a basis for cir
culation. It is now expected that the
banks will retire this additional circu
lation and thus release the bonds to be
used again as security for deposits.
To Survey Montana-Idaho Line.
Washintgon, Jan. 21. The treasury
department today transmitted to the
house a supplemental estimate sub
mitted by the interior department of
$50,000 for a suryey of the Montana
Idaho boundary line. -
THE LAST TRIBUTE
ENTIRE STATE ATTENDS FUNERAL OF
THOMAS H. TONGUE.
Floral Offerings Completely Covered the
Coffin Many Societies to Which He
Belonged Took Part In the Last Sad
Rites Hillsboro Almost Too Small to
Hold All Who Attended.
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Hillsboro, Jan. 19. Thomas H.
Tongue went to his grave yesterday
with all the honor that his state could
give him. Neraly all Oregon attended
his funeial at Hillsboro, and at the last
impressive services, the preacher said
most fittingly: "It is Oregon that is
mourning today, for it is Oregon that
has lost a son " A committee from
congress, made up of men who repre
sented every part of the nation, was
present, but the funeral ceremony was
Oregon's own tribute to the dead.
Hillsboro was not big enough to hold
in comfort all ; who wanted to attend
Mr. Tongue's obsequies. A special
train from Portland carried down a
multitude, and hundreds poured into
the town from all parts of the state.
Nearly all the state officials were pres
ent, and so was a majotity of the legis
lature. And from others whc could
not attend, came a wealth, of floral
offerings that were piled mountain high
over the alter of the little Hillsboro
Methodist church. The coffin was fair
ly buried in flowers, and they, too,
came from all parts of Oregon.
Committees representing the various
societies to which Mr. Tongue belonged,
were at the depot to meet the party, -
and they acted as an escort when the
remains were taken to the court house
at Hillbsoro.
At the couit house, which had been
draped in mourning from tower to base
ment, the coffin was placed in the main
corridor, and all yesterday morning a
line of people with uncovered heads
passed by it.
The special train from Portland
reached Hillsboro at 2 o'clock in the
afternoon. It brought the committee
of congressmen appointed by Speaker
Henderson to attend the funeral. Six
cars were needed to contain the others
who went down from Portland on the
same mission.
The guests were reecived by 50 mem
bers of the Knights of Pythias in full
uniform. The Knights formed a line
with drawn swords, through which the
visitors passed from the street into the
conrt house, and acted as ushers during
the ceremonies there. They were in
charge of Mr. Tongue's body while it
lay in state, and they mounted a strict
military guard which contributed much
to the impressivenese of the day's ser
vices.
They surrendered the body to the
Odd Fellows, who took it to the church,
where Mr. Tongue and his family have
worshipped for years."
The distinguished assemblage simply
packed the church auditorium until it
was impossible for anybody in the aud
ience tb listen to the ceremonies in
comfort. The escort of Knights kept
the aisles open until the Odd Fellows
carried the coffin " in, but after that
every man struggled for the best place
he could get.
The services in the church were short.
The pastor introduced Dr. C. E. Kline
to make the opening prayer, and there
were many damp eyes in the audience
when Dr. Kilne concluded. He was for
a great many years the pastor of the
congregation to which Representative
Tongue belonged, and his prayer took a
wider range than is usual for this rea
son. His eloquent appeal was, per
haps, the best .verbal tribute paid to
Mr. Tongue during the day. Then a
passage of scripture was read by Rev.
R. H. Kennedy, of the Hillsboro Con
gregational church, and Rev. Dr. L. E.
Rockwell, presiding elder of the Metho
dist church in Northern Oregon, then
preached the funeial sermon.
During the services the Portland
quartet Bang a number of hymns, and
were heard to special advantage in the
beautiful "Lead, Kindly Light."
When the church ceremonies were
concluded the body was turned oyer to
the Hillsboro Masonic body, which es
corted it to the cemetery and interred
t with their own picturesque ritual,
Worshipful Grand Master W. F.
Butcher conducting the services. Over
the grave Mr. Butcher paid one last
eloquent tribute to Mr. Tongue's mem
ory, and the whdie ecmetery was filled
With those who listened to him.
The congressional delegation will re
turn to Washington at once, and Mr.
Moody left last evening, to resume his
work there. For the present he will be
Oregon's sole member of the national
house of represetnatiyes.
Castro Must Pay First.
Berlin, Jan. 20. In the negotiations
which are about to begin at Washington
Great Britain and Germany, as the re-
Bult of further correspondence, are quite
determined that the irreducible condi
tion of arbitration is that President
Castro phall pay or give collateral se
curity for the sums already specified.
The powers will not consent to raising
the blockade until Venezuela complies
with this unalterable condition. The
allies p'ace the responsibility for fur
ther delav upon Venezuela. .
Another New Trust Bill.
Washington, Jan. 20. A bill has
been introduced by Representative Bell,
of Colorado, providing that any pro
ducer, dealer, transporter, agent or
other person in any territory - of the
United States who shall join with any
other person or persons for the purpose
of raising the price of any article of
food or fuel, or its carriage or handling,
shall be guilty of extortion. : A maxi
mum penalty of a $5,000 fine or impris
onment for one year is provided.
MAY TRY ANOTHER ROUTE.
President Weary of Colombia's Demands
for Panama Canal Route.
Washington, Jan. 21. Interest has
been revived in the prospects of the
Nicaragua canal, as it seems to have
become an absolutely hopeless matter
to continue negotiations with Colon
bia, because of the great demands of
that country, as well as the com plica
tions arising out of the purchase of the
Panama canal property.
resident Koosevelt has begun an
investigation of the , San Bias route.
which was championed by Senator
Scott, of West Virginia last summer
This route means a canal 29 miles long,
five miles of which must be a tunnel
tnrougn solid rock, it also is em
braced within Colombian territory,
and negotiations for this route would
probably be blocked as well as for the
Panama route.
Of course the president has an altern
ative proposition in the Nicaragua
route, and the friends of that route do
not despair that it will be the route
finally adopted. Had a limitation been
placed in the bill upon the time in
vhich negotiations with Colombia
should be brought to a close, it would
have given more assurance for the
Nicaraguan route. As it is the presi
dent is unlimited as to time and he can
use his own discretion as to whether he
shall continue or break off the negotia
tions with that government.
The assertion is made that the trans
continental railroads have turned to
the president and are urging him to
fctave off all canal negotiations, and
mese roads are aJSo credited with a re
vival of the San Bias route.
NINE MEN ARE MISSING.
Five Charred Bodies Taken From Ruins of
Burned Hotel.
Spokane, Jan. 21. A special from
cuorrissey, u. v., says' lour men were
burned to death in a fire which de
stroyed the Pioneer hotel there last
night. It is believed there are . other
bodies to be found, as five men who
were known to have been in the hotel
last night have not been accounted for
today.
The hotel was a large wooden struct
ure and had about 20 guests in it when
fire started in the saloon on the ground
noor, tnrougn tne overturning ol a
lamp, the flames of which quickly com
municated to the wooden partitions and
stairway. The proprietor, A. Johnson
seeing that the building was doomed,
ran upstairs and hastily aroused the
sleeping men while the flames were
rapidly ating up the . lower floor wood
work and coming up the stairway. In
their aightclothes, dazed by smoke and
flames, the guests rushed from the
burning firetrap. It was impossible to
reach all the rooms and Johnson final
ly made his escape after heroic rescue
work. He was assisted by his bar
tender. There is practically no fire fighting
machinery in the little town and the
horror stricken citizens could only stand
idly by and wait for the flames to sub
sided The wind was blowing away from
the town and no other buildings were
endangered.
As soon as the dying fire permitted,
a search of the ruins was made, hour
charred bodies were taken out but were
so badly burned that identification is
practically impossible. The propriet
or's loss is $4,000, half insured.
Morrissey is a small town with per
haps 800 inhabitants. It has sprung
into being since the opening of the coal
mines operated by the Great Northern
railway company. It is about 45 miles
noith of the international boundary
line. ' About 800 miners work in the
coal properties. The guests at the
hotels were largely miners, timber men
and prospectors.
CHINESE TRICKERY. -
Exaggerate Reports of Rebellion to Get
Aid from French Troops.
New York, Jan. 21 . In reference to
the reported serious rebellion in the
Kwang Si province, a dispatch to the
Times from Shanghai by way of Lon
don Bays that the native press states
that the provincial governor, Wang Chi
Chun, purposely permits an increase
of brigandage, magnifying the opera
tions of the local banditti into a ser
ious rebellion with the deliberate pur
pose of afterward invoking the assist
ance of the French troops.
Stress is laid upon the governor's
former record in the Nganwhis pro
vince and elswehere, and his notorious
capacity for venality. His recent
decoration by the French government
does not escape comment.
The dispatch also announces that in
response to the memorial presented to
the throne by Viceroy Yuan Shih Kiki,
Sheng is permitted to retain control
of the government telegraph system to
allow of his winding up the financial
year.
New Idea for Submarine Boat.
Winsted, Conn., Jan. 21. Clarence
B. Gillette, aged 22, who served in the
Spanish-American war, has been grant:
ed a patent for improvements in sub
marine boats. He has been experi
menting along the line of submarine
navigation since he left school, several
years ago, and claims that his torpedo
boat is far superior to all others, being
quicker, easier and safer. The Gillette
boat is designed to stay down 15 hours
and longer if desired.
Fire Burns AU Night.
New York, Jan. 21. The fire which
started yesterday in a building at 394
396 Bowery, burned all last night, but
the firemen said today that the flames
were under control. One of the fire
men, James Corbett, was killed. The
loss is estimated at $150,000 to $200,
000. -
CREW IS MANGLED
TWELVE MEN KILLED IN A COLLISION
."ON GREAT NORTHERN.
Snowplow Telescopes Freight Car Loaded
With Workmen In Okanogan County,
Washington Eleven Men are More or
Less Seriously Hurt Only Two Es
caped Injury.
Leavenworth, . Wash.; Jan. 22.
Twelve men dead and as many more in
jured is the result of a rear-end collis
ion that occurred on the Great North
ern five miles west of Chiwaukum at 5
o'clock yesterday morning. . An extra
from Skykomish loaded with lumber
and three cars containing laborers ran
into a rotary snow' plow, killing or in
juring all of the 25 workmen. Ten
cars are piled up in a heap, with nine
victims of the wreck still underneath.
The names of the dead are not obtain
able. '
The engineer, L. E. Adams, and
Fireman Lewis Becker, of the freight.
escaped only by a miracle. The box
cars that were used" for transporting the
crew were coupled next to the engine,
with the cars of lumber following, and
when the ciash came the lumber tele
scoped the box cars loaded with their
human freight, killing and mangling
the entire crew. Only two escapedj
and they were thrown bodily into the
air, landing 30 feet upon an embank
ment. .
The men were1 in their bunks and
asleep when the accident occurred.
Those that escaped had little clothing
and were nearly chilled to death while
waiting for aid.
ISLE OF PINES NO MAN'S LAND.
American Residents Say It Is American
Won't Pay Taxes to Cuba.
Havana, Jan. 22. The Americans
residing on the Isle of Pines deny the
general assumption of the Cuban gov
ernment that the United States has no
special interest in the island and is not
likely to insist on the eventual owner
ship of it. In any event, they seem
confident of having the support of the
United States, if necessary, in their re
sistance to being governed and taxed by
Cuban officials, pending a settlement
of the question of ownershin of th
eland. The matter is expected to re
ceive important consideration in con
nection with the settlement of the loca
tion of the coaling stations and other
pending questions between Cuba and
the United States.
-Recently the American residents of
the island unitedly notified the alcalde
of the Isle of Pines and the Cuban gov
ernment of their intention to resist, by
force if necessary, the collection of
taxes or any assumption of authority
over the island by the Cuban govern
ment. The taxes are now falling due.
and every American has pledged him
self not to jpay them. ...
ihe Americans' contention is founded
on the section of the Piatt amendment
which expressly omits the Isle of Pines
from the boundaries of Cuba and leaves
the title to it for further adjustment by
treaty. Some 300 Americans have
since the war taken up their residence
in the Isle of Pines, and it is estimated
that 500 Americans have interests in'
the island. The American portion of
the population is not of an adventurous
character, but is largely composed of
people of mature years who have en
gaged in the business of fruit raising.
Their desire that the island remain
American is not purely sentimental.
since, they claim, as a Cuban posses
sion it would receive no more than 2Q .
per cent tariff preference, while as ter-
ritoiy of the United States the islands'
hope for freer trade with America.
The government, while acknowledg
ing that the matter of the ownership of
the island is open, holds that it has de -facto
control over the island for the
time being at least, and that it there-'
fore is authorized to levy taxee and per-;
form other governmental functions.. It
is believed that the United States will
approve of this situatoin as against'
the protests of the American residents '
who refuse to pay taxes. ' w
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Union Pacific Strike Spreading. yj
Omaha, Neb.. Jan. 22. Seventy-five .
men, comprising the entire force in the
woodworking and steamfitting depart- '
men Is of the Union Pacific shops in
Omaha, went on strike today because'of -the
inauguration in their departments
of the piece system. These branches
were not affected by the order of last
Julv putting the shopmen on the piece
work basis. On the posting of an order
today stating that the woodworkers and
steamfitters would be paid by the
piece, they walked out.
Wreckage Coming Ashore.
Victoria., B. C, Jan. 22. The-'
steamer Queen City, from the west coast .
of Vancouver island, brings news that
a large quantity of new lumber, mostly '
12x12 and planking, has drifted ashore '
at several points. Esteven point, near
Hesquoit, and the islands outside .Kyo J
quot, as well as the mouth of Quatsino
sound, are littered with lumber which
has evidently not been long in the .
water, and at Hesquoit a lifebuoy with
the name "Irving" on it. ; "
Sensational Jail Break. .
Santa Fe, N. M., Jan. 22. Albert
Telles, in jail for murder, and Albert '
Hampe, imprisoned for a minor offense, '
last night overwhelmed and bound'',
the assistant jailer, Victoriano Casadoe,'
seized his revolver, killed Jailer Epitac- '
cio Gal legos and then escaped. A
posse with bloodhounds is in pursuit.