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WEEKLY, UNION. Kstab. July. 1S7 .(Ceisolidated Feb., 1839. CORVAUilS, BENTOH COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1903. VOL. XXXX. NO. 26.. GAZETTE, Katsfe. !., ! 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. TheHungarianpremier baa resigned and ajjew cabinet will, be formed. The new ruler of FServia ia shorn of all power and isklngin name only. Warrants have been iesued for the ar rest of two more persons involved in the postal f rands. Rioting attending street rar strike at Dubuque, Iowa, has resulted in the militia being calledout. Pronrnent members of the National Live Stock Association will try to have Secretary Hitchccck ousted. A naval demonstration is being held at Che Foo, China, by Japanese and British fleets. A few American ships are also present. The Michigan forest fires will cause inestimable damage unless rain soon falls. The Russian war minister, General Korupatin, is being extensively feted at Tokia. A disastrous fire in a Newcastle, Penn.,coal mine'was started by the ex plosion of gasoline. The Chicago union waiters on strike partially acnowledge a defeat, and many are returning to work. The International Pressmen's Con vention opened at Cincinnati with 300 delegates in attendance. By tryingto fill a coal oil stove while it was burning, a Brooklyn boy and his sister met withfatal injuries. - The Laundryworers' union, of Chica go, by a referendumjvote, just taken, has decidedagainst another strike. The strike on the New York subway has been abandoned and 20,000 miners -will apply for work unconditionally. The rumor that President Clowry, of the Weswn Union telegraph com pany, is to resign is without founda tion. - A balloon with four aeronauts was carried out to sea from Marseilles, France. Thej fatejof the men is not known. The bricklayers' strike in Omaha, which tied up building operations for four months, came to an end by the union giving in. Accused of "attempting to extort money from employes in a Newark, N. " J., hat factory, David Bichman has been fined f 999.99 by the Hatmakers' union. Armed with rifles and shotguns, the farmers and summer residents of Mount Kisco and Newcastle, N. Y. are looking for the incendiary now infesting those parts. - The native chiefs of Samoa desirous of being present at the St. Louis expo sition, have sent petitions to President Roosevelt to help American Samoans to be represented. Chicago waiters' are losing ground in their strike. " Sir Thomas Lipton's fleet has arrived at Sandy Hook. An American citizen was killed by Turks at Odessa. Bulgarians are deserting many cities in terror of Turks. Cutting of a levy at St. Louis al most caused a lynching. Burglars secured $8,000 worth of dia monds in a New York hotel. Five people were burned to death in a New York apartment house fire. A report that the pope was dead caused intense excitement in Rome. Two more bodies have been found at Topeka. This makes a total of seven browned. The powers will demand the punish ment of the assassins of the king and queen of Servia. The civil service commission finds that politics enter too much in the ap pointments to the ' postal service at Washington. The rolls have been found to be packed at the behest of po liticians, and the service greatly dam aged. An insane man attempted to assass- nate Emperor Francis Joseph. Russia's activity in Manchuria is overtaxing the patience of Japan. A move was made to create a republic of Servia, but it was promptly smoth ered. The coming congress will be strongly urged to make a reciprocity treaty with Canada. . Arrival of troops caused striking Arizona miners to make peace with their employers. Major W. H. Gibbon, who is said to ave fired the first shot of the Civil war upon Fort Sumter, is dead. The presidential elections in Santo Domingo have been set lor June su, Foot and mouth disease prevails among Bheep just brought to Liverpool from Buenos Ayres. The Standard Oil Company has been forced out of Roumania by opposition of the government. The monks expelled from France wil come to Kentucky and endeavor to es tablish a monastry. A CITY OF DEATH. Qrlm Days of Sorrow In Heppner Death Roll Is 300. Heppner, June 17, via. Lexington. Houses crushed and telescoped be vond recognition, buildings twisted from their foundations, deposited streets or on alien property, one- fourth, or one-half, or one mile away; household goods strewn in every di rection In reeking mud: trees two feet in diameter uprooted and woven In impeded drift into all kinds of awful fantastic shapes, bodies of men and horses and cattle and pigs all cast in indiscriminate ruin such is Heppner of today. All persons say that the crest . of the flood was upon the town within three or four minutes after the dan ger was perceived. Most of the people were in their houses. The day being Sunday, the hour being dinner time, and a heavy rain falling, an caused them to pen themselves with in doors. Most of the dwellings were near the bank of the stream. The people were therefore caught like rats in a trap, and so sudden was warning that comparatively the few . The creek could reach places of safety. whole row of houses next the was swept away, spectators ui me calamity describe the structures as rt i . xW-k falling like card houses. The dwellings were tossed about like bobbins, and most of them fell completely to pieces. The town had perhaps over 250 houses, nearly 200 of which were demolished. The whole business part of town would have been swept away had not the Palace hotel, a heavy brick structure, diverted the current. Houses on brick foundations rareo better than others because the nood could not so easily wash under them. Identification of the dead has been easy. Most of the bodies snow tne effects of drowning rather than of vital in jury, tnougn an or tnem are more or less bruised. Only a few or tnose who escaped the flood were severely injured. An army of men and horses is sitt ing great wastes of debris. Three hundred bodies have been found and there are men who say the worK is only half begun. An army of women take charge of the bodies as they are borne out of the wreckage by tne straining arms of men. An arm, a leg, a toe, a finger, a lock of hair, a tuft of clothing these are harbingers of horror beneath the mud. Babies and little children lie there buried, with many a gash or bruise on their tender bodies. Forms of women fre quently come to light bereft of all clothing save where a corset snieias them from the gaze of anxious search ers. Clothing of men is less frequent ly torn away: The bodies' are borne to Roberts hall to be washed and dressed by women, to be shrouded in coarse white cloth, and to be laid in rough wood boxes. There is no time for ceremony. It's tne grim reanty of death. And women who would faint at scenes one-thousandth part as awful obey the mandate of necessity without a flinch. The floor swims with the half diluted mud that drips from the victims, but the living pat ter through it or sweep it out when it gets too deep. The rough boxes go to the cemeteries, not singly in hearses, but many at a time, piled high in wagons. COAL OPERATORS GIVE IN. Conciliation Board Muddle Is Ended, and There Will Be No Strike. Scranton. Pa., June 18. There will be no strike in the antffracite region growing out of the refusal of the op erators to recognize tne creaenuais of District Presidents Nichols, Fahey and Detery, elected by the joint exec utive board of the United Minework ers as the miners' representatives on the board of conciliation. The convention of the United Mine- workers today elected the three pres idents by districts as their represent atives, and the operators, througn President Baer, of the Reading Com pany, announced that this action was satisfactory. There was a burst of loud and long applause when Presi dent Mitchell announced that the op erators, through President Baer, of the Reading Company, had authorized the statement that the action of the convention was satisfactory. The convention elected President Mitchell as the legal representative of the miners at the head of the concil iation board. The operators are unan imously agreed on the acceptance of the selected miners representatives. Strike Brings Troops Again. Denver, June 18. Acting on advi"es from Washington. General Baldwin, commanding the Department of the Colorado, United States Army, today sent orders for one troop of the Third Cavalry to proceed with all histe from Fort Apache, Arizona, to Mor- enci. Yesterday is was believed tnat the spirit of the strike was broken, and Colonel Lebo, commanding the Fourteenth Cavalry at Morenci, was ordered to return his command to Fort Grant and Huachuca, but devel opments have shown the advisability of keeping Federal troops on tne spot, Philippine Act Under Consideration. Washington, June 18. Secretary Root has decided that nothing fur ther shall be done regarding the pro posed opium act of the Philippine Commission until it shall have tiad the most careful attention m Wash ington. The commission has been In formed by cable and the opium mil which passed its second reading, will remain in its present condition until the Secretary of War reaches a 'on elusion. The bill prohibits the sale to and use of opium by all persons ex cept Chinese. Crowded Bridge Falls. Eau Claire, Wis., June 18. A long section of the Madison street bridge approach went down under the weigrf of a crowd of people tonight. Six per sona were seriously injured, and 25 or 30 others were less seriously in jured. The accident occurred during an illumination., of the street carnival booths along the-main streets of the city; ' HAPPENINGS HERE IN OREGON 'v.- "4 LANE LOQQERS WANT RAIN. Millions of Feet of Logs In the Small Streams. Loggers in Lane County are having more difficulty this season than usual trying to get logs down the mountain streams. The spring has been so dry that millions of feet of logs that were cut on the streams tributary to the McKenzie and the Willamette during the winter have hung up and cannot be driven out in the usual way. Us ually in the month of April there are rains that raise these creeks so that the loss can be driven out, but this year there have been no rains of con sequence and the streams have not had since February sufficient water to run logs. On Lost Creek, Winberry, Big and Little Fall Creeks, the Booth-Kelly Company has .millions of feet of logs that they are badly in need of at the Springfield mill. ; For weeks they kept men ready and had the logs in the creek, intending that the moment the water was sufficient they would start them to deeper water. But the rains that were hoped for did not come. Finally giving up hope of running the logs in the usual way, they began constructing dams to aid the work by artificial means. Thousands of dol lars were expended in building flood dams in these small streams. These have been of some assistance, and the logs are being slowly worked down to wards the river, but it is a slow and expensive process. As yet it has been impossible to supply the big mill at Springfield with sufficient logs to keep the saws at work. The logging business is very im portant in this county, and greater this year than ever before. There are at the present time no less "than 35,000,000 feet of logs in the water to supply the various mills in the coun ty. The Booth-Kelly Company alone has 23,000,000 feet afloat, while others have no less than 12,000,000 feet. The mills all have greater difficulty getting logs than they have getting orders. Official Count. The official canvass of the vote for congressman at the eleciton in the First district on June 1, 1903, shows the following result : -i i a M COUNTIES as b: (-1 c Si ft p as ?3 2 s3 Kb 3 Benton.. 679 1258 525 129 1,227 1,326 665 270 154 1,572 168 1,213 1,597 668 126 691 874 Clackamas.. S3 1,02-fl 292 Coos 103 11 188 Curry Douglas Jackson Josephine Klamath Lake Lane Lincoln Linn 2 2221 59 80 31 1,726 1,146 492 171 93 8 20 5 117 5 1 1,887 416 142 74 286 l,81ffl 18ffl Marion Polk 18a 1,7b zU9 97 48 67 69 60 Tillamook 4761 Washington. Yamhill ioa 172 1,074 lOffl W28 134 Totals 1449 15,31319001 13,04! Marlon County Wool Pool Sold. The wool pool of the Marion Coun ty Woolgrowers' Association was sold to the highest bidder 'in Salem, and was bought by A. R. Jacobs, repre senting the Oregon City Woolen Mills. There were upwards or 100,000 pounds of" wool in the pool, and the price paid was 16 cents per pound for the coarse grade and 16 cents for the medium and finer grades. The de livery of the wool began at once through the warehouse of W. M. Brown & Co., of this city. This is the highest price, by 1 cent per pound, that was ever received by the Marion County woolgrowers. Balsley-Elkhorn Power Plant. The machinery for Baisley-Elkhorn power plant is most an at uaser City and the work of installing it is being rushed as fast as possible. A pipeline over a mile long win convey the water from Rock. Creek to the power plant site some distance below the mouth of the tunnel, on the Baker City side of the mountain, where a number of Pelton water wheels, will be used to generate electric power for the stamp mill and the air com pressers for driving the power drills in the mine and tunnel. Copper Property Sold. Lon Simmons and William Myers have : sold their copper property on Bis Creek. Eastern Oregon, consist ing of eight claims, to a syndicate financed bv Indiana capitalists for $75,000. This deal has been pending for some time, but was nnany ciosea. It is understood that the new owners will begin the work of developing the property at once. A considerable sum of money is to be expended for surface improvements. Incendiaries Set Fire. Fire destroyed the residence, barn and blacksmith shop of the Warner Valley Stock Company in Warner Valley one day last week, all the household goods and a large stock 01 supplies were lost. It was undoubt edly of incendiary origin, as two sad dles and all the horses were taken out of the barn. The parties who did it are under suspicion, and will likely be apprehended. . ' . Trouble in Lake County. A report comes from Lakeview that sauatters on land of the Warner Val ley Stock Company have burned the Buildings on the ranch 40 miles east of that place. The squatters refuse to be dispossessed and state that they will resist, by force of arms, the or der of the court awarding the land to the Warner Valley Stock Company. President Lee Is Re-Elected. At the annual meeting of the board of trustees of Albany College, Presi dent Wallace Howe Lee, who has been connected with the college for many years, was unanimously re-elecfed president of the institution. It is largely due to his management that Albany College has attained its pres ent high degree of efficiency. 1RRIQATION AT KALAMATH. Dredger Machinery Arrives for Dredg ing the Canal. The machinery. for the dredger of the Little Klamath Ditch Company is being put in place on a new boat, 38x68 feet, and will be ready for oper ation in Lower Klamath Lake in three weeks. The machinery weighs 100,000 pounds, and 25 teams were re quired to haul it from the railroad to the lake last week The first work of the. dredger will be to dig a cut, four miles long, 30 feet wide and four feet deep, from the lake to the head pf the company's ditch, thus assuring an abundance of water at all times of the year. Hith erto White Lake has been depended on for supply, butt has been insuffic ient to accommodate the demand for irrigation during the dry weather of midsummer. The cut from the . lake will cost $9000. As soon as that work is finished, reclaiming' of land around Lower Klamath Lake will be under taken. It is estimated that there are 50,000 acres contiguous to that body of water, capable of reclamation by the use of the dredger. . . t Coming Events. -V Annual meeting of Pioneers, Sons and Daughters, Portland, June 17. Western Oregon 'Division, Oregon State Teachers' Association, Port land, June 24-29. 1 Christian camp Ineeting, Turner, June 19-28. Sixth annual re-unibn of Lane Coun ty veterans, Eugene, June 16-18. CarnivalsGrants Pass, June 17-20; Ashland, June 15-20; I Roseburg, June 22-27; Cottage Groe, June 24-27; Salem, June 29-July 4;- Albany, June 29-July 4. Ninth annual regatta, Astoria, Au gust 19-21. ' Willamette Valley Chautauqua, Gladstone, July 14-26.1 Encampment of the! Grand Army of the Republic, Portland, June 24-27. First Oregon Cavalry and First Oregon Infantry re-union, Portland, June 27. 1 Another Contract Finished. Major W. C. Langfitt has completed an inspection at the Cascade Locks, where the contract pf H. W. Taylor had just been finished. This contract included the riprapping ot the north wall of the upper lock, 'at .a cost of $26,000, which has taken about six months to carry out. - A-large number of 'stone cutters and MaboTers"were employed. These locks, which have cost the government $3,750,000, are not yet finished, and an appropriation of $150,000 . will be necessary before the final details will have been at tended to.- At the present stage of the water the locks are out of commis sion and boats will have to wait on each side until the freshet is over. Improvements at the Penitentiary. Governor Chamberlain has decided to haye an addition built on the south end of the dining room and kitchen at the penitentiary for the purpose of providing a place to con duct executions. The addition will be constructed of brick, and will be two stories high. The improvement will be made as outlined some time ago by Superintendent James. Work will soon be commenced on the con struction of a sewer to connect the prison with the new state sewer built a year ago to ' a point west of the asylum. This will give the prison better drainage. , Rainier Wants to Build Road. The Rainier City Council has ap propriated $800, providing a like amount should be raised among pri vate citizens, for the purpose of open ing the road from Rainier to Oak Creek, on the Nehalem. Second Dividend Declared. Receiver Claud Gatch has declared a second dividend of 10 per cent on claims against the defunct bank of Gilbert Bros, Salem. The cash, on hand amounts to $10,900. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Walla Walla, 7074c; val ley, 77c. . Barley Feed, $20.00 per ton; brew ing, $21. Flour Best grades, $3.95 4.30; graham, $3.453.85. Millstuffs Bran, $23 per ton;-middlings, $27; shorts, $23; chop, $18. Oats No. 1 white, $1.10 1.15; gray, $1.05 per cental. Hay Timothy, $2021; clover, nominal; cheat, $1516 per ton. Potatoes Best Burpanks, 50 75c per sack ; ordinary, 3545c per cental, growers' prices; Merced sweets, $3 3.50 per cental. Poultry Chickens, mixed,. ll12c; young, 13 14c; hens, 12c; turkeys, live, 1617c; dressed, 20922c; ducka, $7.007.50 per dozen; geese, $6.00 6.50. Cheese Full cream, twins, 154 16c; Young America, 1515c; fact ory prices, llc less. Butter Fancy creamery, 2026c per pound; extras, '22c; dairy, 20 22c; store, 16c18. Eggs 17 20c per dozen. Hops Choice, 1820c per pound. Wool Valley,12 J17c:Eastern Or egon, 814e; mohair, 3537c. Beef Gross, cows, 34c, per pound; steere, 55jc; dressed, 8Kc. v Veal 7K8c. , ' - ' Mntton Gross, $3.50 per pound; dressed, 66c. ' Lambs Gross, 4c per pound; dreeesd, 7Hs- ' , Hogs Gross, 66 He per pound ; dressed, 7se. - CHINA STILL HOLD1NQ OUT. Russian Demands in Manchuria Have Not Yet Been (Iran ted. Tokio, June 16. The MainichI pub lishes a dispatch giving the alleged history of the'Manchurlan secret tre aty on the authority of a Minister who said that China had refused to com ply with the Russian demands, and that Planchou, acting Russian Minist- er, had wired to Europe that China had nt accepted. After the powers protested. China sent another refusal to Russia, whose government paid no attention. The Russians have not withdrawn their demands, which presumably are still lying on the table of the Chinese Foreign Minister. The Minister states that the secret treaty will probably be signed private ly, and it is Imperative that Japan should protest and assist China in re sisting the Russian demands. The Asahi's Tien-Tsin correspond ent, under date of May 21, says Russia has assembled 7000 troops at Liaoyan, with a view to carrying out maneu vers on a large scale in that quarter in a few days. The Corean government on May 23 instructed the Governor of Wiju'to ar rest Coreans who have sold their land and houses either to Russians or Chi nese, and warned him that he will be held responsible for the execution of this order. Press reports of the the Diet now sitting show that the government has encountered some dif ficulty in supplying the recent de mands for information of a consider able section of the members in regard to Russian action in Manchuria. The main auestion of Russian d emnnda la awaiting the arrival of M. Lessar, Rus sian iviinisier to i'eKin, from St. Pet ersburg. The Chinese riota in TCwanirci Pmv. ince have developed in violence, and it is unomciany reported that the French Consul at Tonking has represented to the Pekin Government that imlsso the insurgents are suppressed French troops will be sent across the frontier A. 1 1 i 1 . . 10 queii me aisturbance. IMPORTANT LAND RULING. When Land Is Non-Mineral Even Though It Contains Minerals. Washington, June 14. In a recent contest arising in the State of Wash ington, the Secretary of the Interior holds that when the field notes and surveyor's returns make no notation whatever, of minerals in public lands that have -been, 'surveyed; such lands are considered and treated as given a non-mineral classification by the sur veyor. Furthe, that lands classified as non-mineral at the time of the Govern ment survey are of the class of lands subject to selection in lieu of lands relinquished within forest reserves, and the character of the lands so class ified and selected will not be investi gated on a protest presented after the survey and selection, and alleging the present mineral character of the lands. The importance of this decision is manifest. In the case at issue the Northern Pacific Railway Company relinquished a tract in the Rainier Forest Reserve and selected in lieu thereof a tract of equal area in Mon tana. One year after the filing of this lieu selection a coal declaratory state ment was offered by an individual for the tract selected, and was rejected because of the prior selection by the railroad company. Investigation of the records disclosed the fact that while adjoining lands had been re ported by the surveyors as containing coal deposits, no such reference was .made to the tract in controversy. Therefore, the Secretary held the land to be classified as non-mineral. - The man filing the coal declaratory state ment went so far as to allege that the land he sought would produce coal in commercial quan tities. His allegations, however, were overruled, as the prior selection by the railroad company could not be affected by a filing made one year later. Hence the lieu selection was approved, notwithstanding the appar ent mineral character of the , lands. Had the lands been originally classi fied as coal lands, the railroad selec tion would have been rejected. Civil Commissioner Is Appointed. Washington, Jume 16. Alvord Coo- ley, -of Westchester, N. Y., has been appointed Civil Commissioner by Pres ident Roosevelt to succeed James R Garfield, appointed Commissioner of Corporation. Senator Piatt, of New York, took lunch with the President today, remaining at the White House until nearly 3 o'clock. After his con ference with the President he an- nounced Mr. Cooley's appointment. He did not indicate that Mr. Cooley was his selection for the place. In deed, it is said that the appointment was decided on some time ago. Finds a Prehistoric City. Chicago. June 16. A dispatch to the Inter-Ocean from the City of Mexico says : "The ruins of a large city have been discovered in a remote part of the State of Puebla. by Francisco Rodri guez,-an archaeologist, who has just made a report of his find to the gov ernment authorities here. The city contains large pyramids and exten sive fortifications. It is situated In the midst of a dense forest, and a large amount of excavation will be necessary to learn its true extent and importance. '' Consul Nearly Assassinated. Havana, June 16. While the Italian Consul here. Viagio Tornielli, was seated in his ofnee yesterday after noon, a young Italian sailor enetred and inquired whether he was the Con sul. On receiving, an affirmative re ply, he whipped out a revolver and fired. The bullet grazed the Consul's head. The sailor was overpowered and arrested. He gave the name of Pietro Alliney. FATAL FLOOD Eastern Oregon Cloud burst Kills Many. NO WARNING GIVEN HEPPNER RECEIVES THE FULL FORCE OF THE DELUGE. lone and Lexington Suffer Less Death List Will Reach Fully 300 Safety Lay Only In Flight Dead Are Burled In Hastily Constructed Coffins Absence of Qouhls Notable.. . , lone, Or., June 16. A cloud which burst on the hills a mile south of Hepp ner at about 5:30 o'clock Sunday after noon let loose a hungry flood of water, which swept down the hillside in a wall 30 feet high and 200 yards wide. Reaching the bottom of the canyon, the liquid avalanche reared its mighty front over the doomed town, and car ried to destruction nearly every build ing and human being that lay in its path, leaving a waste of desolation to mark its trail. The destroying torrent raced down the narow gorge of Willow Creek, inundating as it reached them the settlements of Lexington, lone and Douglas, but lessening in fury and in volume as the thirsty alkali soil of the valley drank up the water like a sponge. Behind it lay nearly 300 dead, drowned like rats in a trap. The suddenness of the catastrophe gave the victims no warning, overwhelming them for the main part as they sat within their homes. Immediately after the fatal flood had wiped the maJor portion of Hep pner out of existence, swift couriers on horseback sped to warn the resi dents of the valley toward the Colum bia of the coming peril. Leslie Mat lock, son of an ex-sheriff of Morrow County, rode a wild ride for 18 miles ahead of the raging waters. His horse dropped dead, but he secured another, and again another, covering the 65 miles to Arlington in seven hours. To this Paul Revere of Oregon is undoubt edly due the fact that the ranchers of the Willow Creek country below Hep pner lost so little stockTand property. The Palace Hotel was the first build ing to stem the tide, and all the guests were saved; but houses below the Pa lace Hotel were thrown out info the street, overturned and wrecked. Perhaps the greatest loss occurred at the Heppner Hotel. This house, which was run under the management of Jones & Asbaugh, was carried away. It is supposed that there were about 50 guests in this hotel, all of whom are reported to be lost. The proprietors themselves were saved, but their families are among the dead. The entire residence portion of Hep pner was destroyed, but the business houses, being on higher ground, and being generally built of brick and stone, were not so badly damaged. The schoolhouse and courthouse, which stand on a sidehill, were saved, but two churches, the Methodist and Presbyterian, were completely wreck ed. Around the depot the receding flood left great heaps of driftwood piled as high and higher than the roof and the rescuing parties were forced to demolish these pyramids of timber in order to extricate the corpses which were tangled in the brush. Un doubtedly many of the drowned bod ies were carried by the rushing waters down the valley. It is reported that three bodies were found near Lexing ton, nine miles below Heppner, but there were no fatalities in Lexington. No systematic effort has been made to find the dead, who are undoubtedly strewn along the canyon. Every avail able .man from a radius of 65 miles has been pressed into service at Hep pner itself. Gangs of men are at work clearing away the piles of debris, rocks and timber, which lie piled in Heppner's streets, and taking out the corpses which are thus concealed. About 100 persons have been buried in Heppner's graveyard today. Owing to the entire absence of proper facili ties for caring for the dead, the vic tims of the flood were, for the most part, interred in common crates. The ghouls who are usually found, like hur man vultures, rifling the pockets of the dead in such great disasters as the one which has stricken Heppner, are inthis case, fortunately absent, and the vigilance committees and patrols which were so necessary at Johnstown and Galveston floods, seem to be un necessary in Oregon. A relief train sent from The Dalles reached lone last night and will pro ceed to Heppner as soon as possible. A wrecking train, with gangs of men to repair both the tracks and telegraph wires left last night. It is expectea that communication with Lexington, 17 miles from Heppner, will be restor ed early this morning. Court street, at Heppner, on the bank of the stream, Is swept clean as a eravel bar from end to end. Not even the foundations of a long line of beautiful residences are left. Everv business house, except the ho tel. Fair store and Odd jrenow s ouna ine. along the side of the street on which the bank stands are wrecks. A large building Is jammed into the drug store and several otner structures are in the middle of the same street. Resi dences are turned over or torn to piec es. Mud, slime and misery are every where. The water was 15 feet high in. Hep pner's streets and rose over the new courthouse wall. It came down Palm TTnric. ehleflv. but was a torrent on all hillsides. Enormous piles of rock and gravel have been washed down the canyon five miles tip on Butter creek. The flood came almost instantly and lnnted one hour. The people thought it was only a repetition of the cloud burst a few days ago, and were not alarmed until it was too late. Houses were surounded by raging torrents, which sucked every thing movable in to their twisting eddies and escape?was impossible. , Many people slept in the courthouse last night, and any place they can make a bed. Many people are arriving at Hepp neJ; There are no beds, and visitors will be compelled to rough it while they 8tav. Provision j ova - j-j but rather help to bury their dead and clear away the debris. The absence of ice or embalming fluids haa nas.if. ed the hurried burial bf many bodies. wuuiu omerwise nave been pre served for the arrival of relatives.' Three live hahiea hniu r j whose parents are lost, and identifica- uuu bo iar Deen impossible Families are hrnlren tn nnnn - . , . vw iiO, cuts latner alone remains nr a if or daughter, and little children left orphans. Ellas Connor, a atnoV-raiay f t returned from Hnnnor at- 9 this morning. He left the scene of the disaster at 6 o'clock, and brings the latest news from the scene. It is now known," said Mr. Conner, that at least 27K nr snn drowned. One hundred and fifteen corpses have been hnattiv hu-i wooden boxes and some were merely nmyijcu iu uiannets. Tnere were still several waeon load a of- Way to tho romotoriT Tv.nn t i-ju. - - - j .ucu x 1C1L. Heppner itself has now been pretty wnueu, except in piles of de bris, where it la thnmrht tyat v. of bodies will be found. Between lone and Heppner," said Mr. Conner, "there are great piles of debris, but the flood passed so quick ly that th road a hair a. nnf Hon. - irecu sell ously damaged. The railroad track, however, from Lexington on is badly torn up. It looks strage to see the heavy Bteel rails bent and twisted like corkscrews, and the heavy timbers splintered like matchwood. In Hepp ner itself the flood swept a clean path a mile long, and one or two blocks wide through the town, following gen erally the course of Willow Creek. The people of Hnnn ized by the calamity, and men who . uave lost tneir wives, children and their all, go dry-eyed to the work of assistance of others." The town Of Hennner tha nrtn(nil sufferer from the flood is 197 .miles from Portland and 45 miles from the Columbia River. It Iation of, approximately, 1400, and is me county seat or Morrow County. It is located in the valley of -Willow Creek, a con aid P.rahli otraatn tuViiI. flows north into the ColumBia. The valley of Willow Creek varies in width Hum one-Dan mne to a mile and is bounded On either tsid hv nrsninitinno mountains which render sudden fresh ets not uncommon, although at ordin ary seasons the stream is easily ford ed ai almost any point. At Heppner, Willow Creek is Joined by Hinton's Fork, which enters at the 'north end" Of "the town. ,? Sftnrto" 9.d 'voava " ob-n o cloudburst occurred on Hinton's Fork and a wan or water 30 feet in height rolled down the mountain sides into WillOW Creek At that time tha rvar was built principally on the south siae or a nign oacEDone extending from near the mouth of the Fork back to the mnimtalnH 'Them via HMia damage to the town and no lives were 1 J. f A A. . lUBu kjl recent years, nowever, tne town has grown considerably and a lare" nnrtlrm of it la nn tha nnrth cldo of this natural dyke and along the banks or tne two streams, directly In the path of the flood. North of Hennnr nino milpa la the town of Lexington, containing a popu lation 01 tnree or rour nundred, ana nina mllpa furthor la Tnna Mih haa eight to nine hundred people. Accord ing to tne latest mrormation, ootn 01 these places were destroyed. A hfonnh nt th " T? Br TT fnllvura Willow Creek (south from the main line at Heppner Junction to its terminus at Heppner. Officials of the company lioira vanauaA oHvipoa fhaf- fhoir tranlr is washed away between Douglas and Heppner, a distance or 30 mnes. ACTION ON CANAL TREATY URGED. President Gives Colombia to Understand That Dallying Must Cease. Washington, June 16. The Presi dent today sent for William Nelson Cromwell, attorney for the Panama Canal Company, to confer with him on the canal situation. Mr. Cromwell spent half an hour with the President in the forenoon, and the conference was resumed by appointment at 3 P. M. It is understood that the President is .much concerned over the canal out look. The Administration is not in the least disposed to be impatient with Colombia, and is willing to allow the Bogota government a reasenable time to execute its obligations to the United States. At the same time, the Washington authorities regard these obligations as more binding than those of an ordinary treaty, and cannot admit the right of the Colombian gov ernment to recede from them. If not carried out by ratification of the canal treaty, which comes before the Colom bian Congress at Its meeting this month, the United States hopes Col ombia will find some other means of executing its obligations to this coun try as regards the Panama Canal. Mr. Cromwell declined to see callers arter his conference with the President. United States May Object. PelMn. June 17. It is expected that the United States will object to the transfer of the negotiations for the American and Japanese commercial treaties from Shanghai to this city, as it ia imnnonihlp for the American Com mission to come to Pekin. An edict ordering the transfer has now oeen issued without consulting either the United States or Japan, which omis sion is considered discourteous to the two powers concerned, ine Japanese negotiations have been suspended and are at a deadlock. Route to Crow's Nest Pass. Butte, Mont., June 17. Official word has been recived in this city to the effect that the cut-off. from Columbia Palla or Kalispel. on the Great North ern, to Jocko, on the Northern Pacific, is to be built at once, worn win De commenced within 60 days. The new line will open up the richest country in the state of Mbntaria and furnish a direct route from the Crow's Nest coal fields to the Butte and Anaconda mines and smelters.