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NUW POLICY OF CUIt
ICusiaiis to Cct True ISews of the
War Sltuatation.
Paris, March 14. "It is aimost cer-
tain," telegraphs the St Petersburg cor
respondent of Gil Bias, "that the Em
peror will assume command of the
troops in the Far East after the first im
portant engagement."
Killed In Snowslide.
Baker City. Or., March 11 A tele
phone message received here today
from Cornucopia gives an account of a
fatal snowslide which occured on Corn
ucopia Mountain about six o'clock last
night. The slide came down from above
the Queen of the West mine, and car
ried away the boarding houses and
bunk houses. The dead are:
II. W. Howard, A. C.Cox.
Injured G. W. Estes, Thomas Smith,
T. II. Mills, John Hunt, Frank Larimer
and Nels Lund6trom.
There were about twenty men em
ployed at the mine.
Those who escaped injury inimmedi
ately went to woik to rescue their com
rades and aftei woiking all night ie-
coveied the bodies of those killed and
rescued the oth rs.
All of the surface plant of the mine
was carried away except the superin
tenueut s ofhce. The slide occured
near the place where Superintendent
F. C. Dobler, of the Cornucopia mine,
was killed last spring by being caught
in a slide.
The crash came at 5:30, when the
miners were coming off shift. It razed
the buildups ami bunkhouses and
swept the occupants down almost to the
bottom of the canyon, hundreds of feet
below. The dead and injured were re
covered with difficulty from the debris.
The mine is located in the Bonanza Ba
Bin. The enow in the basin is from ten
to one hundred feet deep.
The slide started midway between the
Queen of the West and the summit,
gathering mass and momentum as it
thundered down the preciptious escarp
ments ot the mountain. With a tremend
ous roar the avalanche struck the sur
face plant of the mine and in the twink
ling of an eye all that was left to mark
the spot was a tiny office occupied by
Superintendent Bert Smith. Below
the mice the mountainside is less
Bteep, and the slide partly lost its mo
mentum, to which fact is attributed the
saving of the lives of 12 of the 14 who
made the wild ride on top of the slide.
Every winter an avalanche in the
Cornucopia country claims victims.
The heavy snowfall and steepness of the
mountains make the safety of the ruin
ers impossible. The Last Chance mine
is prepared for such emergencies, hav
ing constructed its surface plant so that
elides will pass over the sloping roofs of
the buildings.
All over the Blue Mountains this year
elides have occured, with heavy proper
ty loss, but yesterday wan the first loss
ot life.
St. Petersburg, March 13. The con
fidence displayed by the Russian people
in the reports of the government on the
progress of the fighting in the Far East
which is one of the most notable fea-
tuses in Russia of the war, has thus far
been largely due to an entire change of
policy inaugaurated sometime ago by
he Emperor, with the abolition of the
censorship on foriegn newspaper dis
patches.
This abolition was followed, when the
war broke out, by the Emperor's decis
ion to make public as iully as possible
all reports regarding the war, in the be
lief that the loyalty of his subjects would
be only strengthened by acquainting
them with the truth in victory or de
feat. It was an appeal to the sentiment
al side of the Russian character, which
has been more than justified.
Hitherto the government has consid
ered it unwise to give the people infor
mation freely at critical moments and
the result was that the people, being
pessimistic, were often inclined to imag
ine things to be much worse than they
reallv were.
The Associated Press is assured by a
high authority that all official telegrams
always have been given out accurately,
n so far as their sense was concerned,
and in most cases textually, although
occasionally words have been changed
where the original words were subject
to misconception. For instance, in one
case the words "the enemy was at our
heels" was altered to read "the enemy
was behind us," bst the original langu
age should give the ignorant tho im.
presnion that the Russians were flying
efore the Japanese.
Even the habitual critics of the gov- j
eminent have been astoniphed at the
manner in which the authorities are
taking the people into their confidence
in the war and this policy in fair deal
ing would seem to be uniting the nat
ion as never before in her history.
General Kuropatkin's open warning
to the people in his speech to the mu
nicipal conucil, not to expect too much
at first, but to exercise patience, is an
evidence of the frankness with which
the people are being treated. The nt-
terances of the General on that occasion
were commended warmly by the press
as much better than glittering promises
which might not be redeemed.
Asthma
sasaEHjBEBs
"One of my daughters had a
terrible case of asthma. We tried '
almost everything, but without re-
lief. We then tried Aver's C.h
Pectoral, and three and one-half
Domes cured ner. tmrna Jane
Entsminger, Langsville. O.
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral
certainlycuresmany cases
of asthma.
And it cures bronchitis,
hoarseness, weak lungs,
whooping-cough, croup,
winter coughs, night
coughs, and hard colds.
Three tlzeg : 25c, SOc, $1. Alt druggists.
Consult yonr doctor. If he says take it
then do as he ays. If he telis you not
to take it, then don't take it. lie know
Active lb wiiu mm. wo are wining.
J. C. AYEK CO., Lowell, Mass.
A 1,000 ton vessel will carv a
5ou,uuu cargo of Alaskan codfish.
During the past two weeks 10,
000 homeseekera have passed
through Chicago headed for Kan
sas, Oklahoma, Texas and the
Southwest in general.
H. J. Hughes, a man aged 65.
who has been missing from his
room in Portland for several days,
is supposed to have been murdered.
He had $1G5 on his person when I
last seen.
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AL.L, SET.
Notice of Dissolution.
Notice is hereby given that the part
nership heretofore existing between W.
W. Kilcup and A. J. Kilcup, under the
firm name of Kilcup Bros, baa been
dissolved by mutual consent, A. J. Kil
cup retiring. All accounts against said
firm will be settled by W. W. Kilcup.
W. W. Kilcup.
A. J. Kilcap.
Heppner, Ore., March 12, 1004.
Japanese War Boiiii
Tokio.March 12. Practically com
plete figures show that the issue of the
100,000,000 yen of exchequer war bonds
has been subscribed four and one-half
times. The subscriptions recorded by
the Bank of Japan amount to 450,000
000 yen. This proves the correctness of
the preliminary estimate that the gov
ernment would be able to raise 500,000 -
000 yen for war purposes from domestic
sources.
The cabinet and elder statesmen con
ferred for four hours today. They dis
cussed the financial situation and the
war tar measures to be submitted to
the special session ot the diet, and de
cided to realize 825,000,000 by postpon
ing the government undertakings and
$35,000,000 by a war tax.
It is undesrtood that a plan extending
the government tobacco monopoly so as
to include manufactured tobacco and
the creation of a sail monopoly werP
considered.
Until recently it was thought im
practicable properly to consider and
pats monopoly measures at a short
ejciai session, and it seemed to be
agreed that they should be left lor action
by the regular session. Russia's exten
sive military programme, however,
makes an extension of Japan's finan
cial programme imperative, Bo
the monopoly measu res possibly may
be submitted to the epecial session of
the diet.
(By Thomas Murray Spencer.)
I was not built like other boys,
But early felt my growing power,
I cared not for their fleeting joys
"In childhood's happy hour."
I broke the wildest colt of all
That pawed in dad's corrall,
Nor heeded mother's warning call;
The deacon said I'd go to well.
You've all been boys, you know.
And as I older, wiser grew,
I climbed a Concord coach one day,
just so !
And drew the lines o'er leaders two.
The horses seemed to know 'twas me,
"Mysterious Jerry," Mullen's boy !
Old Harum clapped his hands in glee,
Of all my rides that was a joy.
s'ill am sitiing on the box.
My tpams are "fine and dandy!"
have no need of any rock
While this Bilk lash is handy.
Well, years have passed, I feel at home,
In icy Klondike or Montana,
3ut give to me the "The Yellowstone"
In which to smoke my (El palencia)
Havana.
To my friend Jerry Mullen, widely
known as the "Mysterious Irishman,"
the "Ben Ilur of Modern Charioteers."
The above poem contributed by the
drummer poet, was written and dedi
cated to his friend Jerry Mullen, an old
stagedriver. It was handed to the
Gazette by L. L. Matlock for publication.
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