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COK VA1.L.IS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1903.
VOL. XXXX. NO. 12.
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, Mos
Likely to Prove Interesting to Our
Many Readers.
The Pennsylvania railroad has added
$150,000,000 to its capital stock
The ladrones in Rizal province have
been scattered and the leaders captured.
King Edward and Queen Alexandra
have celebrated their fortieth wedding
anniversary.
Missouri Pacific passenger train No,
8, the Fast Mail, ran into a landslide
near Gasconda, Mo., and the engine
was buried in the mud.
A big find of hematite iron ore con
taining a large percentage of metallic
iron and little dross has just been
made in the river Jiills near Wrighte
ville, Pa.
Henry Koso, the wealthy Cuban
planter, who, it is said, gave the great
er part of his fortune in aid of the
Cuban revolution, is confined in the
Bloomingdale asylum for the insane.
Dr. Dosang, Chine3e doctor and ex
alted member of various Chinese secret
societies, reputed to be one of the
wealthiest men of his race in this coun
try, is dead at his home in Chicago.
William De La Bwre, director of the
Washburn-Pillsury mills, Minneapolis,
is in Magdeburg, buying machinery for
the Briquette works that W. D. Wash
burn intends to build at Bismarck, N. D.
Ex-SeDator Jones, of Arkansas, is
confined to his bed in Washintgon by
an attack of la grippe.
No more bodies of those drowned in
the ferryboat accident at Spier falls,
N. Y., have been recovered.
The department of 'agriculture has
issued an order quarantining the state
of New Hampshire because of the pres
ence of the foot and mouth disease.
The Missouri senate. baa passed the
: bill prohibiting the sale of cigarettes
and cigarette papers to children under
18 years of age. The same bill has
passed the house.
The North machinery company has
been incorporated at Trenton, N. J.,
with a capital stock of $15,000,000, and
will manufacture seed and agricultural
machinery of all kinds.
Because of the unprecedented preval
ence of glanders among horses in New
York City, quarantine rules may be so
rigidly enforced as to work great incon
venience to owners, particularly , to
those doing heavy trucking business.
Korman Argo, said to have been the
original Uncle Tom, is dead at Paint
Lick, Ky., at the reputed age of 111
years. Argo was born a slave, and le
longed to General b'amue! Kennery, a
wealthy planter of Garrard county and
a former member of the Kentucky leg
islature, -
A snow plow on the Old Colony
street railway, at . Fall River. Mass.,
became unmanageable at the top of a
steep hill and, dashing down the in
cline, crashed into two cars loaded with
passengers. Five persons sustained
. bruises and flesh wounds enough to ne
cessitate their being carried to a hos
pital. A dozen others were .braised
and cut.
The Idaho legislature has adjourned.
Senator Mitchell is not improving
very fast.
Minister Bowen is again at work
straightening op the Venezuelan
trouble. 0
'. The new steel cruiser Chattanooga
was launched in the presence of over
4,000 spectators.
Conductors and brakemen" on the
Union Paciflfic have been granted an
increase in wages.
W. B. Merriam, director of the cen
bub, will resign May 15 to go into busi
ness in New York.
The American window glaBS company
has closed its plant ' at Indianapolis.
Four thousand men are affected.
Two trains on the Burlington collided
near Omaha, fatally injuring one pas
senger and three others slightly.
The police of Buffafo""are unabe to
locate the murderer of Edward L. Bur
dick. A woman has been arrested, but
there was no evidence againet- her and
ehe was released.
Two persons were killed and75 others
injured at Montreal by the collapse of
a building. Several hundred people
had gathered on a roof to watch a burn
ing steamer and the weight was too
great for the roof.
Tb npw United States monitor Ne
vada has been placed in commission at
the navy yard at Portsmouth, a. a.
A syndicate composed chiefly of Cleve-
land capitalists is securing options on
almost all the coal mines on the Kana
wha and New Bivers, West Virignia.
Vicar General Mooney is ill with
grip at his New York residence.
Illinois ranks first among .the states
in the manufacture o.f agricultural lm
s pigments, bieycles, cars, glucose and
distilled liquors, and in slaughtering
and meat packing.
By giving to Yale's library an excep
. tional collection of Russian and Slavic
literature, and more recently a small
library on music, the late J. Sumner
Smith, Yale 1853, so far impoverished
his fortunes that Yale graduates have
taken steps to raise a fund for the aid
of hia widow. 1
WILL FIGHT TO A FINISH.
Canadian Pacific Strike Spreading From
Vancouver Eastward.
Vancouver, B. C, March 12. Al
though it seemed probable a few days
asro that a settlement was about to be
effected between the striking employes
and the Canadian 'Pacific railway, all
negotiations were broken ''off today.
The strikers say that it will be a bat
tle to the finish. The United Brother'
hood of railway employes says that the
apparent willingness of the company to
arbitrate for a settlement was merely a
ruse to gain sufficient time in which
to recruit substitutes for the striking
men. There is no question of wages
or working hours in the matter.
Supporting the cause of the strikers
all members of their organization along
the line have been today called out,
Calgary, Winnipeg and Fort William
being particularly interested.
' The company, on the other hand, has
received another carload of Eastern
men, and now has 125 substitutes, with
which it will endeavor to carry on gen
eral business. These men are quar
tered - in box cars on the wharves, en
trance to the wharveB being guarded
day and' night by Canadian Pacific
special policemen. The following no
tice addressed to shippers and air others
concerned is published :
"Jhis company is now prepared to
accept all goods offered for shipment.
Ihe same can be delivered either at
our local sheds or our wnari ware
houses.1 '
The strikers are receiving funds from
unions throughout British Columbia
and from Portland, Seattle and other
places.
From the head office of the company
at Montreal is coming William Whyte,
assistant to the president, who will try
to settle the strike.
CALL FOR TROOPS.
May Result from Strike Riots at Toledo-
War Among Teamsters.
Toledo, O., March 12. After four
successive attacks had been made on
nonunion teamsters by striking union
men, a member of the Toledo cartage
association declared that he would
make application to Governor Nash
tomorrow to call out the state militia
to protect the association's men and
interests.
Today has been one of the most excit
ing in the city's history, nor is the ex
citement abbated by the strikers' de
claration that a general -strike will be
called and that no Toledo freight will
be handled by teamsters in any part of
the country.
The trouble began at noon when a
mob of 400 strikers and sympathizers
followed a truck through the principal
business streets, endeavoring to knock
and pull from his place a nonunion
driver. The mob attempted to do vio
lence to Manager Turner, of the More-
ton truck company. Both men were
saved from serious nijury, however, by
the police. Later the police gave no
tice that any further provocation given
the strikers would be the fault , of the
employers and that they would not in
terfere hereafter.
Later an attempt was made to throw
a nonunion driver into the river, but the
man was saved by the police. Not half
an hour later another nonunion truck
driver was torn from a truck in front of
the Moreton truck company's office
and at the muzzle of a revolver was
compelled to run for his life. A simi
lar fate befell a nonunion teamster
within a block of the police station.
PLAJUB OFn WATER.
All Rivers in Middle West and South are
Booming Ail Industry Stopped.
St. Louis, March 12. The Missis
sippi river and all its tributaries are
above or near the flood stage and con
tinued rain through their vast water
shed threatens a flood hardly paralleled
in the history of the Middle West and
South. The Ohio and all its tribu
taries, after receding for a few days,
are again rising, and , the lowlands are
flooded at many points.- The ice in
the streams which empty into the Mis-1
souri from the west haa broken np and
carried msny bridges with it. The)
area covered by the floods' will extend
from the foothills of the Alleghenies
on the east to those of the Rockies on
the west and from the great lakes to the
gulf. . .
At several points the Mississippi has
already overflowed its banks or threat
ens to break the levees and is still ris
ing rapidly. ' '
The worst damage, eo far, has . been
done in Nebraska, where the wrecu of
bridges has stopped traffic on all rail
roads running west except the Burling
ton. '.
From all directions come reports of
people fleeing from flooded bottom lands
to the hills or eeeking refuge in the
upper stories of their houses, and- of
factories rendered idle by the floods
advancing to their boiler rooms.
Sentries are Fired On.
Colorado Springs, March 12. Sen
tries at three points were fired on this
evening by unknown parties. At one
point an attempt was made to enter
the sentry lines and the sentry on
guard came near being hit. Other sen
tries stationed around the three mills
were fired upon at midnight. From
reports made by the sentries and the
flashes from the guns, the men doing
the shooting were located on the hills
Eurroundingjthe .reduction plants.
Still Believe a Woman Did It.
Buffalo, March 12. The police cling
to the. theory that a woman, and one
from outside the house, killed Burdick.
The examination of sewera and sluice
boxes in the vicinityof the Burdick
home failed to reveal any weapon
that could nave been used by the mur
derer. The police are also working to
ascertain all that actual! v occurred in
, the house, both before and after the
J murder that night. -
NEWS OF OREGON
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS
OF THE STATE.
New Creamery at Pleasant Hill Stock
men's Convention at Medford Money
for State Convict Labor Polk County
Mohair Pool Fruitgrowers Organize
In Rogue River Valley.
A creamery association has been or
ganized at Pleasant Hill, Lane county.
Pnr fh first timo in t.hn nant four
months Eugene is entirely free of every
contagious disease. v
The Loewenberg-Going company last
week paid into the state treasury $1,
796.06 on account of convict labor in
the prison stove foundry for November
and December.
The destruction of a large barn on
the Theodore Staiger farm, two miles
from Salem, resulted in a loss of
$6,000. Eight valuable horses were
burned. Tramps are supposed to have
started the fire.
Tne fruitgrowers of the vicinity of
Medford held a mass meeting there and
perfected an organization, which is
known as the Rogue River Fruitgrow
ers union, lhey adopted a constitu
tion and by-laws.
The stockmen's convention, held at
Medford last Saturday, was attended
by 60 of the most prominent cattlemen
in Jackson county. Addresses were
made by a number of well known
speakers. A temporary organization
was made. Another meeting will be
held March 21 and organize perma
nently.
The Polk county mohair association
met in Dallas last week to transact
important business and to set the time
of the sale of the pool of the associa
tion. The pool at present is the fleeces
of about 12,000 goats, and will amount
to about 50,000 or 60,000 pounds. The
severe winter in the hill districts will
cause the clip to be somewhat lighter
than usual. -
The office of the Linn county sheriff
is a very busy place these days. Taxes
are being paid quite rapidly by citi
zens of Linn county, who are anxious to
take advantage of the 3 per cent re
bate for prompt payment.
William Moore, the postmaster at
Greenville, and the proprietor of a gen
eral merchandise store, was held up by
two masked men with drawn pistols
and robbed of $110, $91 of which was
funda belonging to the postoffice.
Hon. J. M. Church, of La Grande,
who is a member of the board of re
gents of the agricultural college, has re
ceived notice that a farmers' institute
will be held in La Grande March 20
and 21. Several members of the Cor
vallis faculty will be in attendance.
Final arrangements have been made
for the holding of a street fair and car
nival at Grants Pass from June 16 to
21. The Woodmen of the World of
that city are at the head of the under
taking. It will be a Southern Oregon
affair and all of the towns in the state
south of Roseburg will participate.
The efforts to organize a real estate
exchange in Albany have proved suc
cessful. The constitution provides
that the executive board shall have
three members not engaged in the real
estate business, and that there shall be
harmony between the members on all
questions of sales and commissions.
W. T. Nolan has been appointed reg
ister and Miss Anne M. Lang as re
ceiver of The Dalles land office.
Preparations are being made for be
ginning work upon the new buildings
at the state asylum for which appro
priations were made the past session.
At the farm there will be another closed
cottage similar to the one built last
year, at a cost of l,l)UU, and an ex
tension will be built upon the -kitchen
and dining room, for which the sum of
$4,000 has been provided.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Walla Walla, 75e;
blue-
stem, 87c; valley, 7880c.
Barley Feed, $23.50 per ton; brew
ing,- $24. -
Flour Best grade, $4.304.85 ; grah
am, S3.4txtt3.lid.
Millstuffa Bran, $19 per ton;
middlings, $ 24 ; shorts, $ 19.50 20.
chop, $18.
Oats No. 1 white, $1.15 1.20;
gray, $1.121.15 per cental.
Hay Timothy, $1112; clover,
$89; cheat, $910 per ton.
Potatoes Best Burbanks, 6075c per
sack; ordinary, 4050c per cental,
growers' prices; Merced sweets, izcg
2.25 per cental.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, ll12c;
young, 11 12c; hens, 12c; turkeys,
live, 1516c; dressed, 1820c; ducks,
$77.50 per dozen; geese, $78.50.
Cheese Full cream, twins, 16)4
17c; Young America, 1718c;
factory prices, 11Hc less. :.
Butter Fancy creamery, 3032c
per pound; extras, 30c; dairy, 20
22Kc; store, 1518c.
' Eggs 15 16 per dozen.
Hops Choice, 2325c per pound.
Wool Valley, 12K15c; Eastern
Oregon, 814c; mohair, 2628c.
neei uroas, cows, 33c per
pound; steera, 44c; dressed, le.
Veal 7K8Jc.
- Mutton Gross, 4c per . pound ;
dressed, 7$c.
Lambs Gross, 4c per pound;
dressed, 7fcc.
Hogs GrosB, 6Je "per potral J
dresBert,77c.
FOR PORTLAND FAIR.
Utah Legislature Appropriates $10,000 for
Lewis and Clark Exposition.
Salt Lake City, Utah, March 11.
The Utah legislatue today passed a bill
appropriating $10,000 for an exhibit at
the Lewis and Clark exposition to be
held in Portland in 1905. Action on
the measure, which had previously
been passed by the senate, waa unani
mously in favor ol the bill, which went
through without dii ussion. ,
Although but $10,000 ia named as
the appropriation for the Portland fair,
the exhibit will really dost many times
that amount. A companion bill,
which also passed the .' legislature to
day, provides for the expenditure of
$50,000 for a Utah exhibit at St. Louis
in 1904. The St. Louis exhibit will be
moved entire to Portland.- The appro
priation for the Portland fair is designed
to cover the cost of transfer, and to re
place any portions of this "display that
may be destroyed or lost. Should the
funds permit, additions will be made
for the Portland exhibit, as it is the
wish of Governor Wells to make the
most creditable showing possible at the
Portland fair. It ia certain that Gov
ernor wells will approve both meas
ures passed ' by the legislature today.
The governor has been a strong advo
cate of a large appropriation for the
purpose of these exhibits, and heartily
endorses the two bills, i
WHAT CONQRESS DID.
Put In 144 Hours to the Day Number of
Bills and Reports.
Washington, March 11. Aleaxnder
McDowell, clerk of the house of repre
sentatives today made public an official
compilation made by Tally Clerk
Wakefield showing the work done by
the house during the 57th congress. It
showed that the longest day of the ses
sion lasted, with recesses, 144 hours,
during which 80 rollcalla were taken.
The number, of bills and resolutions in
troduced in the house during the two
sessions of the congress was 18,420,
and reportB were made on 2,810 bills
and resolutions. The' senate sent to
the house 1,630 senate bills and reso
lutions. The house disposed of 2,413
of the measures original tng with it
and of 1,012 of the senate bills and
resolutions, making a total of 3,430
bills and resolutions acted on. Con
gress left on its calendars 405 house
and 118 senate bills and resolutions.
Fifteen of the members of the house
died during the congress, seven re
signed and Messrs. Rhea, Kentucky,
and ButTer;M1gE5ufi,-were"unseated,
the latter twice. .
CONCESSIONS BY TURKEY.
Recognizes American Medical Diplomas
Naturalization of Armenians. -Constantinople,
March 11. The
United States legation has finally ob
tained official recognition of the exam
ination at the American medical col
lege, Bayreuth, on the same lines as
the French examinations, and also the
settlement of the long pending question
affecting the rights of wives and chil
dren of Armenians who have become
naturalized Americans to leave the em
pire. They are now able to join their
husbands and fathers in the United
States without hindrance. The council
of ministers . has agreed to recognize
the American educational, charitable
and religious establishments and they
are now, awaiting imperial approval.
It is expected that authority will
shortly be given to the American arch-
eologist, Mr. Banks, to undertake ex
cavations at Tel-Abraham, Mesopota
mia,'the supposd site of the tomb of
Abraham. Mr. Banks has . been wait
ing here for thia permission for three
years. "
FLOODS IN MANY STATES.
Booming Rivers Swamp Factories and
Drive Thousands to Hills.
Grand' Rapids, Mich., March 11.
Grand river continued to rise this after
noon and tonight. A number of fac
tories along the banka have been com
pelled to shut down, as the water has
invaded their boiler rooms and put out
the fires. Fears were -entertained for
the safety of the Grand Trunk bridge
and a large -force of men was ' set at
work f today throwing steel rails and
other material into the river on the
upper side of the abutments for the
purpose of strengthening them.
The ice gorge at Iona still holds and
is backing up the water, the dynamite
operations failing to break it up. Much
apprehension is felt here "of the result
of the breaking away of the ice gorges
above.
-I mill ., ii i. '
May Settle .Peaceably.
London, March 11. Supporters of a
friendly understanding between Russia
and Great Britain regarding countries
where their governments clash are
much interested in what was regarded
as a signincant . statement made by
Under Foreign Secretary Cranbourne.
Replying t oa question, the secretary
declared that it was desirable there
should be an amicable understanding
between Great Britain and Russia on
the subject of their foreign interests.
Receives $1,000 Reward.
Everett, Wash., March 11. Fireman
R. D. Abbott, of the Great Northern,
who backed . tne disabled passenger
train from Csacade tunnel several
weeks ago when the train crew had
been overcome with gas from the en
gine, thus saving the lives of everybody
in the coaches, has been rewarded with
$1,000 in cash by the Great Northern.
FIRE AT PORTLAND
NEARLY HALF A MILLION DOLLARS
GOES UP IN SMOKE.
Very Little Property ia Saved, Owing, to
High Winds and Lack of Water In
cendlary la Suspected Four Fires CHve
Firemen a Hard Day's Work Victoria
Dock a Ruin.
Portland, March 11. Four separate
fires in Portland yesterday mocked at
the efforts of the toiling firemen and
destroyed property to the value of near
ly $500,000. .
It seems reasonably certain that two,
and possibly all, of the conflagrations,
were of incendiary origin, and that
hidden in the awaying crowds that
watched the leaping flames a pyro
maniac gazed gleefully at the destruc
tion he had wrought.
So certain are the local representa
tives oi tne big insurance companies
that an incendiary is deliberately at
tempting to burn down the docks which
line the river front that they yesterday
informed the owners of the various
wharves that, unless watchmen were
at once employed to patrol the proper
ty, the companies would cancel their
insurance policies.
The first alarm was turned in at 3:30
o'clock yesterday morning. The resi
dence of William Faber,- at the corner
of Market and Eleventh streets, was in
flames, and" before the firemen could
extinguish the fire, the building was
completely gutted. .
Before the department had left the
smoldering embers of this handsome
home, an alarm was sounded for a
fierce conflagration in Lower Albina.,
at the corner of Mississippi avenue and
Russell street. Here also the flames,
fanned to a white heat by the driving
gale, laughed at the weak streams that
dribbled from the' nozzles of the fire
men, and while Chief Campbell cursed
the fate which bade him draw water to
fight a raging fire through a tiny water
main, the fire sent ' property valued at
$25,000 whirling skywards in smoke.
At 10:20 o'clock in the morning the
firefighters, " wearied with a night ot
facing seething flames and strangling
BmokeL were called to combat the fierc
est conflagration of them all, a fire at
the Victoria dock, where the fierce
heat on one sideand the hurrying river
on the other prevented the firemen
from occupying any vantage ground
from which they could reach their
enemy.. And here also the fire died
only when the Bwirling flame could
find no further thing on which to prey.
The loss is estimated at $378,000.
. Tjy frha evening at 9 -.20 o'clock the
last alarm of. the eventful day was
sounded. A messenger boy passing the
candy factory of Canning & Wallace
saw a tiny tongue of flame flicker from
a window on the second floor. He ran
to the police station near by and shout
ed "Fire!" As quickly as may be the
dashing engines reached the spot, and
the tired firemen saw a whirlwind of
fire before them that sent twisting
eddies of flame across the street to lick
hungrily at the stonework of the oppo
site buildings. On either hand of the
candy factory were warehouses filled
with paint and oils, brooms and rattan
ware. And the candy factory was a
roaring furnace. , It was a situation
that appalled the early comers to the
fire, but the flames were held in check
by the thick walls, and this morning
the gutted walls only of the candy
factory tell a mute story of the strug
gle, instead of a devastated block, as
here might well have loeen. , The loss
is about $40,000. -
CAN'T BEAT CUBAN TTEATY."
Not Enough Opposing Votes Can Be Found
to Prevent Ratification.
Washington, March 12. If the Cu
ban tseaty is defeated it will be by
Democratic votes, and it will take
nearly the entire Democratic member
ship to accomplish this result. As the
senate stands, there are 57 Republicans
and 33 Democrats. So far as known,
with one exception, (Bard, of Califor
nia), all the Republicans are in favor
of the treaty. This makes 56 votes ;
four more would be sufficient to ratify.
The opposition must secure 31 votes in
order to defeat it and this is not be
lieved to be possible.
The men who were so antagonistic to
the reciprocity bill that came over
from the house during the first session
of the last congress are not making any
opposition, so far as can be learned.
The Democratic opposition is the com
bination of sugar and tobacco interests,
who fear that a 20 per cent reduction
will seriously injure the home produc
tion of these commodities. At the
same time it is not believed that their
opposition is sufficient to control 31
votes.
Execution of Boxers.
Pekin, March 12. Yuan Shai, gov
ernor of Chi Li province, having been
informed that the Boxer organization
has resumed activity in the eastern part
ol the province, dispatched troops who
discovered that members of the society,
well armed, were drilling at night in a
town 100 miles east of Pekin. The
Boxers were dispersed after a dozen of
them and several soldiers had been
killed. Yuan Shai ordered theprison-
ers to be beheaded.
To Solve Mystery ot the Maine.
Madrid, March 12. Foreign Minister
Abarzuza will propose at the next
rahinet cnnnnil that the Snanish COV
in w Koto (h. arranbaA
battleship Maine refloated in Havana
harbor, in order to discover the cause
of her Binking. " - .
INTd THE FLOOD.
Nineteen Passengers on a Hudson River
Ferryboat Drowned.
Glena Falls, N. Y., March 10. Nine
teen men are dead as the result of the
capsizing of the boat used by the work
men at the Spies falls, about 10 miles
west of Glens Falls, on the Hudson
river. More than 1,000 men are em
ployed there at present in tne construc
tion of the power dam of the Hudson
river power company. The . laborers
and many of the masons are Italians,
who live in shanties on the north side
of the river. The main portion of the
work ia carried on at present on the op
poeite side of the river. The men have
been in the habit of crossing a email
bridge, where the river flows through
an unfinished portion of the dam, but
the river has been rising for several
days, and the company, fearing the
bridge was unsafe, destroyed it with
djnamite. ,
Below'the bridge about the work ia a
ferry. The boat is a scow-shaped affair,
about 30 feet locg and about 13 feet
wide, and is operated by means of
cables. It is large enough to carry a
heavily loaded team and as many as
150 men have been taken across on it
at one time.
When the men were being carried
acrosB yesterday an Italina boy became
frightened and fell overboard. He was
rescued, however.
Thia morning 70 or 80 men got
aboard of the boat, leaving a big crowd
on the bank waiting for the next trip.
When a few feet from the shore, the
water splashed against the rail, and
the boy who had fallen overboard the
previous day seized one of the tacale
ropes which ran from the overhead
cabin to the stern of the boat. Some
of the men started toward him and in
stantly the boat careened and filled.
The . Hudson, swollen by the fresh
rains, bore a score or more of the strug
gling men down etream. Many others
sncceeded in catchiisg hold of the boat,
which had righted, and there they
clung until they were polled ashore.
The wildest excitement prevailed ut
the current carried many of the men
toward shore, and they were rescued.
Teams were quickly harnessed and
loaded with skilled log drivers and sent
down the liver to points where the
bodies would likely Jbe found. Dozens
of dinner pails." hats and coats were
fished out, but it was nearly 6 o'clock
before the first body was found.
The river for miles is being watched
and dragged in hopes of finding the
bodies of the victims. There were but
two or three English speaking men on
the boat. .
It is unlikely that all the bodies will
be recovered. The river is full of logs,
and at the high boom, five miles down
the river, there are many thousands of
them. -
BENSON IN JAIL.
Olympla Murderer Captured Near Thai:
Place Offered No Resistance.
Olympia, March 9. Christ Benson,
the murderer of Jailer Morrell, at
Olympia, February 28, waa captured
last night, and ia gain in hia cell at
Olympia.
Benson was found in a deserted cabin
two miles west of town. He offered no
resistance when caught.
A mob surrounded the jail, with loud
cries of "Hang him 1 hang him!" but
every precaution was taken against
violence. When telling his Btory the
murderer cried like a child. Hia wan
derings tallied very well with the news
paper reports. lie nas several times
been in the hands of men looking for
him, but who let him go after looking
at his face.
He was in Tacoma a day and a half
and then returned to Olympia.
Strife in Shipyards. .
New York, March 10. Unlesa de-
manda by the striking, boilermakers
and iron shipbuilders who left the yards
of Townsend & Downey, at Shooter is
land, about a month ago, are complied
with, a general strike will be called by
the delegates of the union. An ulti
matum has been delivered to the em
plovers, and an answer will be made
today. If it is unfavorable, as the
employers say it will be, no fewer than
8,000 men will throw down their tools
in the shipbuilding yards in New York,
Brooklyn and New Jersey.
Heavy Storms In Colorado
Telluride, Colo., March 10. A se
vere snow storm has been in progress
in the mountains near here for three
days, accomapnied at times by terrific
rgales. Snows! ides have occurred at
different places, but as yet no serious
damage or loss of life has been report
ed. The snowfall in thia vicinity thia
winter has been very Heavy, and it ia
feared much damage to mining property
and possibly loss of life will occurr when
he slides .begin to run.
Coal Mine on Fire.
Bozeman, Mont., March ,10. Fire ia
raging in tne coal mine ot tne JNortn
ern Pacific railroad company at Chest
nut, near here. The reports indicate
that the damage is extensive. As far
aa possible all approaches to the fire
have been bulkheaded and it is hoped
' to flmother the blaze. All operations
j at tne mine nave Deer suspenaea ior at
least two weeks. Over 200 men are
idle. , "
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ENVELOPED IN FIRE
MANY SUFFER HORRIBLE DEATH IN
EXPLOSION IN NEW YORK.
Collision Between Oil Tank Cars Scatters
Contents, Which Is Ignited, and Rest
of Train Explodes, Spreading Flames
Broadcast At Least Twenty Dead
and Large Number Injured.
Olean, N. Y., March 11. More than
a score of people were killed and a large
number injured by an explosion of oil
near here tonight. A freight train on
the Erie, made up principally of oil
tank cars filled with oil, broke in two
near thia city about 9 o'clock. The two
sections of the train came together with
a crash, and one ofthe oil tanks was
demolished. Fire broke out almost in
stantly, and the sky waslighted up for
miles.
A large crowd of people left this city
for the scene oi the fire. While they
were lined up aiong the tracks a terrific
explosion occurred. The flames com
municated quickly with the other tank
cars, and a second and third explosion
followed each other in rapid succes
sion. Sheets of flame shot out in all
directions. Scores of persons were
caught within the zone of fire and en
veloped in flame. Men and boys ran
screaming down the tracks with, their
clothing ablaze. Others, fell where
they stood, overcome with the awful
heat. Just how many were killed is
not known, as many of the bodies were
incinerated.
The number of dead is known to be
at least 18 and some estimates place it
as high as 25. More than two score
were more or less seriously burned.
Some of them will die. It is out of the
question to identify any of the bodies
recovered.
SECRETS OF AQUINALDO.
Had Long Planned Rebellion and Proposed
to Create a Monarchy. '
Washington,' March 11. The bureau
of insular affairs of the war department
hag'Just published a pamphlet of 46
pages giving the telegraphic correspond
ence cf Emilio Aguinaldo from July,
15, lo98, to Feruary 28, 1899, the. per
iod justj5rceeding the fall of Manila,
and following the outbreak of hostilities
between t.he United States forces and
the insurgents. These telegrams were
discovered by Captain .John R. T. Tay
lor, Fourteenth infantry, among a mass
of papers captured from the so-called
insurgent government.
They are sufficiently complete to
show that the insurgent leader leaned
strongly upon others for advice and
counsel, that there was serious opposi
tion to his authority even among his
own people, and that an attack upon
the Americans at Manila had been fully
decided upon before the outbreak of
hostilities on February 4, 1899, and
that in the event that the struggle
should prove sucessful, the new govern
ment that would have been created
would not have been a republic, for
titles of nobility were, on January 14,
1899, promised to certain insurgent
officers as a reward for entering Manila
and capturing the American forces and
their officers. " '
DOWN TO DEATH.
Four Men Dead as Result of British Co
lumbia Coal Mine Accident.'"
Fergueon, B. C, March 11. As a
result of poisonous gases left in a' winze
of the Nettie L. mine yesterday, four
men are dead and two others are in
jured, but may recover. v
The afternoon shift had . fired its
usual shots before leaving ' the mine.
In one of the lower winzes gas 'formed,
and when Robert Savage went' down
he was overcome. In attempting to
rescue him, George Groehey was over
come and dropped Savage's body .to the
bottom of the shaft. Other attempts
at rescue were" unavailing until'' Jack
McLeod descended with a rope and
succeeded in bringing up all the. bodies
to the surface, including . the four dead
men, and three others who had at
tempted to rescue the imprisoned min
ers. ' ' .-'-,' V v-t
An inquest willT be held tomorrow.
No blame is attached to the mining
company or employes, as the accident
seems to have been unavoidable.
New 400-Mile Railroad.
Joplin, Mo., March 11.. Bonds for
the building of a new road , from
Cbanute, 'Kan., to Memphis, Tenn.,
have been placed. The new line will"
be 400 miles long and will cost approx
imately $120,00,000. The most im
portant points on the line will be
Cbanute, Wier City and; Cherokee,
Kan., Joplin, Cassville and Gainesville,
Mo., and Memphis, Tenn.. The road
is a Santa Fe project, and is called the
Arkansas, Missouri & Kansas' railroad.
To Try the Wireless. " n
Chicago, March 11. It is stated here
that Armour & Co. have arranged for a
test of wireless telegraphy as applied to
communication between the citiea
where they have packing . houses and
important offices. They-now maintain
leased
telegraph wires west of Kansas
n i ni T 1 i
uny, bs. ixnis, umana ana oious uuy,
and east to Alleghany, 'Philadelphia,
New Ycrk and Boston.
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