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GAZETTE. COEVA WEEKLY, M:L'JVi.CS8lidiii4 Feb., 1881 COR VAX1L1IS, BENTON COUNTY, OBEGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1903. VOIi. NO. 34. ..- 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. '"A dieaatrcua hurricane swept the is land of Martinique. Oil will be used in the Oregon City paper mills for fuel instead of wood. The entire North Atlantic squadron will jro to Oyster Bay to be reviewed by the president. A large amount of counterfeit token money has been made in Portland and is Deing passed in California. The National, building tradea council has endorsed 'William B. Hearst as its choice for United States president. The British immigration commis sioner favors the passigeof laws similar to those in force in the Uni ed States Eighty-four bodies of victims in the Paris train wreck have been recovered and the death list is expected to reach : 100. - , . ; , Macedoninaa deny the stories of -atrocities and hold that Turkey is spreading them to poison the mind of Europe. 'A Portland firm has been awarded the contract of reconstructing the Port land postofSce. The work is to be fin ished in 21 months. : The interstate commerce commission has received replies from a number of railroads to charges recently filed al leging discrimination in rates. They one and all admit the excessive charges and ask the commission what it is go ing to do about it. . General Miles declares for small armies lor all nations. . Supporters of the Irish land bill be lieve ita passage is now assured. The finishing touches are being put on Shamrock III prior to the big races. Thirty-three more bodies have been taKen from the Banna, Wyoming mine. The Casino gambling house, one of the most notorious in France, has been destroyed by fire. The international typographical un ion has commenced its 49th annual ses sion at Washintgon? ' Penny postage rates between Great .Britain and ' the United States are , deemed impracticable. A Kansas woman lost a bustle cn a train containing $7,500. . Railroad de tectives found it for her. The Canadian Pacific railroad has declared a dividend of 2 per cent for ' the six months just ended. ! The textile workers of Philadelphia have given up their strike. Over 10, 000 have returned to work. : 4 ; Grain field fires near Bakersfield, Cal., have destroyed . thousands of ? acres of wheat and pasture. Three thousand men have gone on a strike at Cripple Creek, Colo., in order to stop shipments to smelters lef using to grant 8-hour days. The insurrectionary movement in Macedonia is spreading. r Cruelty of nobles to their American wives will" force many to ask lor di vorces. Chinese of New York have pe- titioned Secretary flay to save the re formers. ,. Senator : Morgan says, Foraker and not Roosevelt, will be the republican nominee for president. . Safe crackers blew open a Bafe with- in two blocks of - the police station at Portland and secured $150. The pope gave his blessing to the world from inside and not from the balcony as was hoped by many. Captain Charles J. - Barclay, of the Puget sound navy yard, is now ranking officer on the liBt of navy captains. A' Hattiesburg, Misa., mob chiseled into the jail, secured the negro who shot a jailer, and then hanged him. President Roosevelt and Secretary Root did not eulogize Miles because they felt that he was not deserving of praise. A tornado swept the miningfjjdistrict of Pittsburg, Kan., killing four, wounding 60 and doing great damage to property. .Lieutenant General Miles has re tired. . Roosevelt is in favor cf a more elas tic currency. Bulgaria will be neutral in the Mace donia trouble. Fire at Barcelona, Spain, rendered 3,000 families homeless and destitute. Mere Russians have been killed by troops in labor troubles. Mayor Tom L. Johnson, ofCleve land, Ohio, will be a candidate for gov ernor. Foreign consuls will not allow the delivery of reformers to China for ex ecution. Cape Colony will not be represented at the 1904 fair as was originally the iatention. ....... An insane man has been killed by officers by mistake in searching for the Folsom convicts. TO QUIT CABINET. Secretary Root Will Resign Before Go ing to England. Washington, Aug. 13. For several months past there have been rumors afloat that Secretary Root is to retire from the cabinet, and it is now known definitely that his resignation will be tendered before he leaves for Europe to serve on the AlasKan boundary com mission. It is understood that the matter of his successor has been dis cussed, and while nothing official can be obtained, it is believed it will be tendered to Governor Taf t. While Secretary Root is in London, he will remain in communication with the war department, and matters per taining to general staff and other im portant affairs will be referred to him If the sittings of the Alaska commie sion extend beyond December 1, it is proDable tnat the secretary's re&igna tion will he accepted, ana ms succes sor appointed at that time. . The president is very loath to part with Root, for he is one of the most valuable members of the cabinet Ihe secretary has been anxious to go for some time, but he has desired to put his general Btaff law into operation before he retired. Ue also wanted the Philippine insular government on a firm footing before he relinquished con trol over the islands. Secretary Root was called to the cab inet by President McKinley, who in sisted upon having a lawyer' of known aoility to handle the problems growing out ot the Spanish war. Root sacri ficed a law practice of more than $i 00, 000 a year in order to accept a place in the cabinet, and did so largely through patriotic motives, and also because he felt he was summoned as a lawyer to perform a great government service. CASHIER ROBS BANK. Flees After Losing $75,000 Gambling on drain. ' Circleville, O., Aug. 13. -John K. Brown, cashier of the Union bank at New Holland, O., is missing, and it said there is a shortage of nearly $75, 000 in hi i accounts. The bank vaults were not opened at the usual hour this morning as Brown had the combina tion. An expeit from Canton. O., opened the safe thin evening in the presence of the directors, and only $458 in coin was found. The books show deposits of $150,000 one week ago, and also show $99,000 in loans. v ashier Brown's shortage will probably be in the neighborhood of $75,000. The shortage, so far, foots up $50,542, and an examination of the books may show heavier losses. The bank is an incorporated concern, which, under the Ohio laws, makes each stockholder liable for double the amount of hia shares up to the amount of any shortage that may occur. The Union bank was established 13 years ago, and has had a prosperous ex istence. Brown has been cashier since its existence. The bank has been pay ing regular dividends since its opening. It is said Brown has been speculating in the grain market with bucket shops at Washington. POPE'S HEART WEAK. Doctors Will Insist on His Suspension of Audiences. Rome, Aug. 13.; Pope Pius, who fainted while celebrating- mass this morning, is suffering from heart weak ness, agrgavated by fatigue. Although he was mucfl better this afternoon,' Dr. Lapponi, who visited him again, thought it more prudent for his holi ness not leave his apartment, and not to go into the garden of the Vatican, as he desired. The doctor further insist ed npon a suspension of audiences. The pontiff seems more docile to the doctor's wishes than his predecessor, although he insisted on transacting some current business. r. Davenozia, speaking about the pope, said : "If they wish our Pius not to suc cumb, the Vatican authorities . must change their system. They must not oblige him to follow the habits of Pope Leo. The present pontiff needs es pecially plenty of fresh air. He must not be shut up in a box in a vitiated atmosphere." Strikers Rule With High Hand. London, Aug. 13. Firms here have received mail advices from Kieff, Rus sia, dated last Saturday, which says that the strikers have completely par alyzed business, and will not allow finished machinery to be delivered from manufactories. The men turned girls out of dressmaking and other workshops under threat of death. - The streets are full of soldiers, according to these advices, and .' shooting occurs daily. The, price of . bread has risen 150 per cent and is still going up. The troops are "working the water works. Russia Oalns Point In Cores. London, Aug. 13. The Times corre spondent states that Corea has granted the Russian lumber company a 20-year lease cf 350 acres at Yonghampo, with the right to purchase,- at reasonable prices, all the timber float el down the Yalu by Japanese subjects, thereby con ferring a practical monopoly of the lumber in the Yalu valley. Thus Rus sia, while opposing the opening of Wiju, herself secures free access to the Yalu valley. Fifty Prisoners Mutiny. Carthage, Mo., Aug. 13. Fifty pris oners in the county jail ' mutinied at midnight and made a demand for better food. The fire department was called ont and turned a stream of water on the prisoners, who, after turning out the lights in the corridor, hurled empty bottles at the firemen and jail officials. The prisoners jwere finally subdued. MiMMBMHWBMnnnwwwnnMwinnMMt'Mn''"''"''' HAPPENINGS HERE IN OREGON BIQ PROFITS IN FARUNO. Willamette Valley Ranchers Will WeU This Year. Do Willamette valley farmers are re joicing over the prospect for good profits in almost every thing they have to sell this year. Nlot only are prices good, but yields are large and as a consequence there will be more money in the valley this year than there has been for more than a de cade before. Wheat at Salem is quoted at 70 cents, with the mills paying a 2-cent premium. In ordinary years all above 50 cents would be clear profit, but be cause of the high wages paid to farm help this season it will take from 52 to 55 cents to pay the cost of produc tion. The average yield, so far as can be learned, will be about 20 bush els to the acre or more. This means a clear profit of from $3 to $3.50 an acre on wheat, after allowing for all labor and expenses. .Oats have turn ed out better in proportion than, wheat, and the large yield,, with a price of about 25 cents per bushel, will leave a good profit on that crop The season has been. very favorable for hay, and yields have been good The prices quoted at present are from $7 to $8 a ton in the local market for loose v hay. Farmers say that about half of this price is profit. Yields run from' two to three tons per acre, mak ing this crop a better paying one than wheat. Hops promise a price ranging from 15 cents upward, and it is generally figured that all above 8 cents is profit, though growers who hire all. their work done and give their yards a good spraying say that the cost of produc tion is 10 cents a pound. At any rate." there seems to be an excellent profit this year. The prune crop is large, and though the domestic market has not opened, has been making sales at its own price, a 2-cent basis, which price leaves the grower a "better than fair margin. All through the year dairy products have brought an extraordinary price, ana even country butter nas round a ready market at paying figures. Woolgrowers sold their fleeces this year at a high price, and sheep have been in demand all . through the year. CATTLEMEN REFUSE TO SELL. Despite Scarcity of Feed They Hold for Better Figures. . ; ; Never in the history of the country around Dale has the cattle market been as unsettled as its is at the pres ent time. Prices offered by export buyers are extremely low, and the cattle- raisers are refusing to sell. Crowding on top of this, there is a scarcity of hay as compared with last year, and prices are running moun tain high. Hay is selling in the field at $10 per ton, which Is $4 "higher than it was last fall. Cattle-raisers who have not a sufficient supply are trying to contract for all they can se cure, but the farmer will not sell. Again there are more cattle on the range this year than last, without suf ficient feed for them. Notwithstand ing the discouraging state of affairs which confront the cattleman, he is willing to wait for further develop ments. ' , ' - . . The export cattle-buyers who have been in the country have had to go to other parts because they could not se cure the cattle here. The buyers give Portland quotations here at $2.70 per hundred for cows and $3.35. for steers. The average is $3.75, and even better prices than that were re ceived last year. If both the buyer and the seller continue to hold out, it is believed that there will be a num ber of forced sales on the part of the stockmen, and that they will sell at a loss to themselves. No drags to Fight Over. There is no range war in the Upper Deschutes valley. On the contrary, there Is the peace of desolation. - The range was overstocked and eaten out and no grass worth making war over remains. Where neat cattle and horses once throve by the thousands there is now none too much feed for a few hundreds. Twenty years ago there was no finer grazing region in the United States. Men who now ride all day in a cloud of dust tell of the time when the grass was up to their knees as they bestrode their horses, and cattle fairly wallowed in the feed that covered the 30 miles of present desert between Bend and Prineville. Cowlitz Navigation Obstructed. ' During the recent" freshets a sand bar formed at the mouth of the Cow litz river which greatly hindered the operation of the plant belonging to the. Columbia & Cowlitz River Boom Company. A dredge will shortly take the work of clearing the channel in hand, after which the company will put in "two new piers and rearrange the sheer boom. When finished this boom will be one of the best on the Columbia river and will be of great assistance to the loggers To Have Brand New School House. Canyon City is to have a new and up-to-date school building that will be a credit to the town. The school au thorities are advertising for bids for its construction. The building will be two stories high and will have four class and recitation rooms. Its cost will be about $3000. . President Smith Inspecting Farms. E. L. Smith, of Hood River, presi dent of the State Board of Horticul ture, Is in Coos county on a tour of Inspection. While there Mr. 'Smith will visit most of the principal farms in the county. . . . Planing Mill Burned at Haines. The Haines Lumber Company's planing mill, at Haines, . was burned last week. The loss is $5000. The plant was owned by James Mitchell, of Baker City, who carried no insurance.- . ' MAY BE FOREST RESERVE. Commissioner Richards Gives Reasons for Withholding Large Tract. Register Dresser, of the Oregon City land office,, has received from Commissioner, W; A. Richards, of the United States land office, a letter re lative to the, telegram of recent date withdrawing certain public lands in that district from settlement. The letter directs the withdrawal, tem porarily, of all vacant unappropriated lands in townships 5 to 13 south, both inclusive, range 4 ea3t, from settle ment, entry, . sale or other disposal, under the public land laws, pending the determination" as to the advis ability of including said area within the Cascade range forest reserve. Regarding the I rights of settlers who have already located on lands in cluded in the specified area, Commis sioner Richards.-says: "Neither this temporary withdraw al, nor the permanent reserve of the lands which may follow, will affect any bona fide settlement or claim properly initiated upon the lands prior to the date hereof, provided that the settler or claimants continue to comply with the law under which their settlement or claims were ini tiated, and place their claims duly: on record -within the prescribed stat utory period. The withdrawal oper ates to defeat all settlement claims or other claims initiated subsequent to this date, regardless of the date upon which you receive the telegram"." .... DAILY ATTENDANCE SMALLER. Though Oregon's School Population Has Oreatiy Increased. ' Superintendent ' of , Public Instruc tion X H. Ackerman has just finished compiling the annual school statis tics as gathered from the reports re cently filed in his office by the sever al county superintendents. As the re ports for last year covered a period of 16 months, there is no basis for comparisons except in a few partic ulars. ?i The school census for the year end ing in June, 1903, ' shows that there are in the states 143,757 persons be tween -the ages of 4 and 20 years, At the same time last year the school population was 138,466, o that an in crease of 5291 is shown. The average daily attendance in all the public schools-of the state during the preceding. year has been 64,219, while for the preceding year .it was 66,779, or a decrease of 2560. A de crease in the average daily attend ance at the same time that there is anincreasein-tiie--seholeppulatioB is probably due to the scarcity of labor and the high wages, -which, to gether, take many. of the older. boys out of school during the greater part of the year. " Protest Against Withdrawals. A special meeting of the Roseburg board of trade and citizens generally has been called to protest against the withdrawal of any more public lands from entry in that portion of the state. Other commercial bodies in the western part of Oregon will be invited to co-operate in protesting to the officials in Washington, D. C, and to-our senators and representatives in congress against the further ex tension of our already immense for est reserves. Such recently proposed extensions will work serious hard ships on many bona fide settlers now located on some of these lands, ,. To Clear Coos Bay Channel, Replying to an earnest . request submitted by Congressman Hermann, based upon a petition of the Coos Bay chamber of commerce. Secretary of War Root wires that he has appor tioned $10,000 as an emergency, aid for removing the recent shoal forma tion in the Coos, ba yentrance chan nel, which delays' deep-draft vessels. As the shoal is constantly enlarging, commerce there would have material ly suffered had ft been necessary to await congressional action. PORTLAND MARKETS. IFWheat Walla Walla, 7678c; blue- stem, 7881c; valley, 7980c. Flour valley, $3.608.85 per bar rel; hard wheat straights, $3.t03.85; hard wheat, patents. ' i 4.T0O4.50: graham, $3.353.75; . whole wheat, $3.554.00: rye wheat, $4.00. : Barley Feed, $20 per ton; brewing, $21 ; rolled, $212l.50j : - Oats No. 1 white. tl.OlU : trrair. $1.05 per cental. Millstuffs Bran. $23 ner tont mH- dlings, $27; shorts, 23; chop, I8; unseed dairy tooa, $ is. Hay Timothy, - old, $20 , per ton; new. 114(5) 15 :Fclover. nominal: crain. $12; cheat, nominal. '. '" i :' '. - . Butter Fancy creamery, - 2022c per pound; dairy, nominal; store, 16 i7c. - - ' ' ": l' Cheese Foil cream, twins,-. 14c; Young America, 14c; factory prices, llKc less. :' Poultry Chickens, mixed, 11 llKc per pound; spring, 16(l7Kc; hens, 1212Mc; broilers, $23 per dozen; turkeys, live, ,.10 12c per pound; dressed, 1415c; ducks, $45 per dozen ; geese, $56.50. .. , Eggs Oregon ranch, 1920c. Potatoes Old Bur banks, 7075c per sack, growers' prices; new pota toes, Oregon, 8 0$1 per sack; Cali fornia, 1c per pound. , ;u , Wheat Sacks In lots of 100, 5Hc Beef Gross steers, $3.754.25; dressed, Q7c per pound. . Veal 8c per pound. . . . Mutton Gross, $3; dressed, 5 6c; lambs, gross, $3.50; dressed, 7c. Hogs Gross, $5.505.75 ; dressed, 7c. : 'r. ' Hops 1902 crop, 1516c per pound. Tallow Prime, per pound, 45c; No. 2 and grease, 23c. Wool Valley, 17 18c; EaBterii Oregon, 1215c; mohair, 3537c. LIBERTY VERY BRIEF. Murderers Break Jail at Cbeysnne, Wyo. . ' Fierce Straggle With Jailor. Cheyenne, Wyo., Aug. 12. Tom Horn, the condemned murderer of lit tie Willie Nickell. and Jim McCloud, in custody for postoffice robbery, es caped - from the county ' jail at 8 -.40 o'clock this morning after overpowering Deputy Sheriff Proctor, but were recap tured after a brief bnt exciting chaee. The ringing of fire bells brought nun dreda of armed citizens to the scene and it looked for a time .as though a lynching wonld take place, but the ee capes were hurriedly brought back to the jail and placed in their cells be J fore the crowds could form themselves into a mob. The men did not get but two blockB away before they were re taken. . The plot which led to their escape was well planned. Horn and McCloud were the only prisoners confined on the upper floor of the jail. They -oc cupied steel cells, so arranged that communication was ccmoaratively easy. This morning McCloud com plained to Deputy Proctor of being ill and requested some medicine and a glass of water. Upon5 returning with the articles asked for, he discovered that the men had left their cells, which were not locked, and bSd walked to the end of the corridor through which they were allowed to exercise. When Proctor opened the door to the corridor, he was pounced upon by the two men and securely bound with a cord which they had secured in some manner. Horn and McCloud demand ed that he give them his key a and al though Proctor had them on his person, he replied that they were locked up in the safe. Proctor was then conducted to the safe and directed to open it. The or der was obeyed, but on opening the safe, Proctor snatched from inside a gun and turned on the man. They were too quick for him, however, and Boon bore him down. In the brief struggle Proctor fired his revolver at them four times, slightly wounding McCloud. " The shooting attracted the attention of Deputy Snow, who hastened to the' eene, but was met at the doorway by McCloud, who had secured possession of a shotgun in some manner. Snow retreated and Horn and McCloud es caped through a J-ear door of the jail, after binding the arms of Deputy Proc tor. McCloud secured the only horse in the sheriff's stable and mounted the animal and started toward the west. Horn ran, in the opposite, direction. .. BUTTE JAIL YAWNS. Murderers and Highwaymen Escape Eas ily Get the Drop on the Jailor. Butte, Mont., Aug. 12. Three mur derers, two under sentence of death, a stage robber wanted in Wyoming and two highwaymen, escaped from the Silver Bow county jail shortly after 6 o'clock this evening, without any diffi - culty. The men who escaped aie: L. L. Felker, who escaped once before, Charles Lenox and James Martin, J. R. Wocds, alias Joe Rodgers. and Pat rick Rodgera Frank Oestroff is wanted in Cheyenne for holding up a stage coach. The latter and Joe Rod gers were caught within an hour after they escaped. Oeetroff waa armed. Oestroff and Rodgera planned the de livery. ' ' Oestroff compUined of being sick and a doctor was called in. When the jailor opened the corridor, Oestroff dropped a revolver on Jailor William Dolan, and then took the keys from him. Oestroff then, with the aid of Joe Rodgres, opened the cells of the prisoners, and the jailor was overpow ered.- " . ' . Oestroff kept Dolan at bay while the other prisoners walked out of the jail. One of them secured a revolver from the jailor's office. Lenox and Martin went one the rear way of the jail, and the others cooly walked out the main entrance. Oestroff was run down Dy a horseman, and was completely ex hausted when caught. Senators on a Sandbar. Tacoma, Wash.; Aug.- 12. When the steamship St. Paul .left Nome 10 daya ago. United States Senators Nel son, of Minnesota; Patterson, of Color rado, and Dillingham, of Vermont, were stuck on a sandbar in the Yukon rjver, 200 miles above JVuiato. - These senators compose part of the senatorial committee, appointed to . investigate Alaskan affaire. - After visiting Skag- way and Juneai, they went to Daweon and inspected Klondike mines. They started for the mining camps on the Lower Yukon on the steamer Van Vleet. .: . Broad Hint to Powers. London, Aug. 12. The Times prints a dispatch from Shanghai, which says that the anniversary1 of the capture .of Niu Chwang was celebrated, and that M. Grossee, the Russian administrator, issued formal invitations for the inaug uration of the Russian civil administra tion building, and that this was inter preted as equivalent to the declaration to the representatives of the other pow ers that they could not claim a footing of equality or. rights in this port. -. Meteor's Blaze of Light. " Chickasha, I. T., Aug. 12., During a heavy thunder storm , last : night, a meteor fell here with a blaze of light and a shower of sparks that lit up the country for miles around. The aerol ite struck the earth in the back yard of Mra. Sarah Sibley. Mrs. . Sibley was severely stunned. A terrific ex plosion occurred as the meteor struck and incandescent fragments few in. all directions.. The telephone system was wrecked. ' -v,.-- -.. NINETY ARE LOST TRAIN WRECK IN PARIS TUNNEL CAUSES A GREAT PANIC. Officials Lose Their Wits and Allow Pas acngers to Die In Flames Firemen Unable for Hours to Reach the Vic tim!, Until They Finally Succeed in . Flooding Burning Mass. Paris, Aug. 12. An awful catastro phe occurred last evening on the Met ropolitan electric railway, which runa mostly underground, in which 90 per sona are believed to have lest their lives. Eighty-two bodies have been recovered and the search continues. One of the trains broke down at Menil montant, which is a poor and populous section of the city. This train waa promptly emptied, and the train which followed was ordered to push it to the repairing sheds. On the way these two trains caugnt fire, but the employee succeeded in escaping. Meanwhile a crowded train reached Lea Charonnes, the preceding station, and the officials seeing smoke pouring out of the tun nel, gave the alarm. A panic ensued, the passengers struggling to escape. Amid the increasing smoke many at tempted to return along the line toward .Belleville and were suffocated. The officials seem to have lost their heads and are unable to say how many pas sengers went. out. The firemen for sev eral boura weie unable to enter the sta tion or the tunnel, owing to the dense smoke, which poured out in black clouds. Meanwhile tens of thousands of anxious people gathered about the station. All the police and fire engines were on the spot and the excitement was intense. CZAR UP IN ARMS. Says Turkey Must Punish Slayer of ConsuL ot. retersDurg, Ang. vz. ine czar has demanded the exemplary punish ment not only of the murderer of the Russian consul at Monastir, who was killed last week by a Turkish gend arme, but of all the military and civil officials in any way responsible for the crime. In reporting the occurrence to the foreign office, the Russian consul at Constantinople, telegraphed as follows ' The Rsusian consul at Monastir has fallen the victim of an atrocious crime. The grand vizier and the Turkish for eign minister have come to me with ex pressions of regret in the name of the sultan. .. Fend Pasha, the grand vizier. informed me that the : assassin was a gendarme named Halim, and that he will be subjected to the severest pun ishment, and the vali of Monastir will be removed from his post." In reply, Count Lamsdorff, the for eign minister, telegraphed to the am bassador: ... "flis majesty has received a telegram from the sultan epxressing his deep re gret at the death of the Russian consul at Monastir. When I showed the tele gram to the emperor, his majesty gave ordera that you should not confine yourself to receiving explanations from the grand vizier, but should make the most energetic demands on the Turk ish government for full satisfaction and immediate and exemplary punisnment both of the murderer and of all the military and civil officials on whom re sponsibility for the audacious crime' may fall." . ; ROOT NOT TO RESION. Secretary War Will Remain in the j Cabinet. Oyster Bay, Aug. 12. The attention of the president tenight was directed to a circumstantial statement, pub lished today, that Secretary Root ex pected soon to retire from the cabinet, to be succeeded by Governor Taft, of the Philippines. It can be said that there ia no denfiite foundation for the story. The president, since the first intimation many months ago of Secre tary Root's possible retirement, has hoped, and still hopes, that he will re main in the cabinet for a long time. He believes that the secretary will re main through the ccming winter, and probably a much longer time Want Prices Raised. v " - London, Aug. 12, The Daily News this morning prints a dispatch 'from Warsaw, dated last Friday, which says that an American association, said to contain 37,000 farmers,4 has addressed itself to the Russian ministers of fi nance and agriculture, requesting-their assistance in raising the current - prices of agricultural produce, particularly wheat, an. saying that the association projects a great union between the wheat growing countries of the world for the purpose of fixing an annual minimum Belling price. . Pope Aging Fast. -Rome, Aug. 12. Pius X had ' anoth er fatiguing day, as he received all the delegations which had come to Rome to attend the coronation ceremonies. The pontiff allowed all the members of the delegation to kiss . his . hand, and called by name those whom he knw, just as he had when he met them for merly when in Venice. Hia old Vene tian friends agree that the pope looks ten years older than lie did before his eieetion. Japanese Desire Peace. Tokio, Japan, Aug. 12. A number of public men, including" Prince Kon oye, president of the house of peers, and Counts Itagaki, ex-minister of ' the interior, and Kama, have formed a non-partisan association for the par pose of urging the government to in vite Russia to terminate the causes of the present , international complica tions.- : FALL IN MASS. Walk at Baseball Park Gives Way, Kill. Ing Four People. Philadelphia, Aug. 11. Four per sona are dead, at least 12 are thought to be fatally injured, and fully; 150 others are hurt, some seriously, as the result of an accident which occurred today at the Philadelphia National league baseball park. A board walk, which overhung the field bleachers, fell to the etieet, can-vine 200 leva tors. Two games were scheduled Ininun Boston and Philadelphia thin ftftprnnntt and the attraction drew over 10,000 per sons to the ball park. The anruinnfc occurred at 5:40 o'clock and Ba indi rectly due to a Quarrel het.wn drunken men in the Btreet. The Na tional league standa are built and brick, the brick wall extending en tirely around the grounds. At the top of the left field Beats, and extending ixuuj nie granasiand to the bleachers, there was a walk about three feet wide, ' which overhung the street. It was this walk that gave way under the heavy weight. Men who were etand ing on the walk were attracted by a disturbanre in the street. They leaned over the aide of the railing to Bee what was the trouble, and drew the atten tion of the other apectators seated on" the top rows " of the bleachers. Then occurred what is seen almost every day at a ball game a rush to bee what the other spectators were looking at. , The walk became overcrowded, and without a moment's warning 200 feet of it fell to the sidewalk, 30 feet be low, carrying all who were on it. There were probably 3,000 persons sit ting on the left field bleachers and the roar made by the, falling timbers cre ated a panic. Instantly the spectators rose en masse and made a rush down thestand and into the playing field. Men and boys climbed over one another m their effort to escape' from the grounds. Notwithstanding what had occuried, the ball players and others tried to stop the mad rushj but they were swept aside in their unsuccessful efforts, and several persons were badly hurt in the crush. OCEAN TAKING ISLANDS. Tuamotu uroup Is Destined to Be Re- claimed by Waters. Papete, Tahiti, July 26, via San Francisco, Aeg. 11. It would seem that the islands known variously as the a-ow Archipelago, or. Tuamotu group are destined, to be reclaimed by the Pa cific ocean. Last January they were swept by a flood .composed qf high wayee from the ocean and lesser ones from the inclosed lagoons, and in con-' sequence nearly 600 of the inhabitants were drowned and property to the val ue of $500,000 was destroyed. And now, six months later, fierce galea from the southwest and southeast have again caused great surging crests to sweep over some of the islands.! So far only four persons are said to . hum perished, but the fear is great that when all the islands are heard from, there may be a distressing list of fatal ities. .... ,rf; The steamer Excelsior suffered damage during the series of gales while she was on her trip froin Tahiti to the Marquesas'gronp Three of the Tuam otu islands were under water to such an extent that, the inhabitants had f r climb cocoanut trees for Houses and Btores. coora and final lv the . coccntfti'tifeea were destroyed. while; the&tahfcbitanta had a nloBe naii REBELS ARE ACTIVE. Macedonian Uprising Affects More cities Dynamite Being Freely Used." Constantinople, Aug. 11. The in surrectionary movement in Macedonia appears to be widening. Bands . are reported to be active in the San jak ot Usknb and the district of Krushevo, where the government telegraph offices Imve been dynamited, while in the dis trict of Dibra four Bulgarian villages have risen, provoking a corresponding rising in tne neighboring Albanian villages. According to the statements of the porte, however, the authorities have succeeded in calming the Alban ians andftindgcedjthem to return to their homes. . King in Fear for His Life. t ' Cologne, Aug. 11. King Peter of Servia is being openly terrotized by his eutorage, according to the Belgrade advices of the Cologne Gazette: Most of the present court officials who par ticipated in the -murder of King Alex ander and Queen Draga appear to have objected etrongly to the appointment of Colonel Leischjanin, the Servian at tache at Constantinople, to the post of court martial. The official gazette yes terday contained the appointment, , but shortly after ita publication all copies of the gazette were called in. Urges Brazil to Increase Navy. : New York, Aug. 11. While discuss ing naval estimates in the. chamber of deputies, Thomas Cavalcante has. , ac cording to a Herald dispatch from Rio Janeiro, wiied the members of the pos sibility of foreign aggression and plead ed that Brazil should place herself in a position to oppose the attacks , of a European country. Particular stress was placed on danger of agrgeesion by Germany, and the deputy urged that Brazil build up a navy at once.v ; i 5 Fleet Not Off for China. . Washington, Aug. 11. The navy de partment today authorized a denial of the report that the Eurppen pquadron is destined to Chinese and Japanese waters.1 It ia stated that the ciuiee of the squadron will probably be confined to: the Mediterranean ttntil December next,.v.ben. the entire squadron will sail for the West Indies to take part in the naval, maneuvers arranged for next January'.'