Heppner Gazette
Issued Thursday of Each Week
HEPPNER OREGON
RESUME OF THE
WEEK'S DOINGS
General Review of Important Hap
penings Presented in a Brief and
Comprehensive Manner for Bus
Readers National, Political, Hi3'
torical and Commercial.
RUSH FOR PLACES.
More troops have mutinied in Po
land.
Henev will conduct the land fraud
trials in Portland.
a Wyoming coal
An explosion in
mine killed 18 men.
Chicago and Milwaukee are now con
nected by an electnc railway.
There has been a violent quarrel be
tween the czar and Grand Duke Vladi
mir.
A large part of Moscow, Russia, has
been destroyed by fire set by revolu
tionists.
V. C. Bristol has taken the oath of
office as United States District attorney
for Oregon.
An unknown person threw a missile
through a window of President Rooae-
velts special train.
General Corbin has declined to be
chief of staff because he says he is not
entitled to the rank.
A number of sheepherders are miss
ing in Montana and it is believed they
have been frozen to death
Panama and foreign capitalists are
endeavoring to get permission to build
a railroad across the isthmus
A great swindling scheme has been
exposed in Chicago in which two of
Oregon s land land fraud artists were
the principals.
Meriwether has been acquitted of
manslaughter. He and Midshipman
Branch fought and the latter died as a
result of the fight.
Turkey will not yield to the powers
and wants to fight.
Coreans at Seoul are fightiDg against
Japanese dictatorship.
The president is behind a movement
to investigate the Standard Oil.
Hermann's trial has been postponed
until after congress on account of the
press of business.
A loss of 149 lives, 70 vessels and
nearly $7,000,000 has been sustained
in the three great storms on the Great
Lakes this season.
The Washington congressional dele
gation is working up plans for a united
effort to induce Hitchcock to indorse
some Washington irrigation project
The Trans-Mississippi congress has
gissued a pamphlet calling on congress
to make an appropriation lor carrying
on work at the mouth of the Columbia.
W. C. Bristol has been appointed
United Sates district attorney for Ore
gon, B. L. KJdy register, and J. M
Lawrence receiver ot the Roseburg land
ccice.
Reports of further disasters during
the recent storm on Lake Superior.
The last vessel reported lost is the
steamer Ira II. Owen, carrying a crew
of 19 men.
Owing to the recent embezzlement
from the Seattle assay office and a feel
ing among Alaskan miners that the
graft has not been stopped much of the
gold from the north is likely to go to
San FraneiEco for seme time.
Land f aud revelations are coiaiig
Nebraska.
Marquis Ito says Japan does not in
tend to annex Corea.
Senator Patterson, of Colorado, has
been fined $1,000 for contempt of court.
Hawaiian sugar planters will try to
secure Russian peasants to work on
their plantations.
Tammany is still fighting the order
for a recount of the votes cast in the
New York election.
Several men convicted of fraud in
the recent New York eletcions have
been sent to prison for four years.
An explosion in an oil warehouse in
Kansas City resulted in a loss of $175,-
000 before the flames were extin
guished.
The first blizzard of the season has
left its mark through the entire Middle
West.
Germany will appoint a receiver for
the Equitable Insurance company in
that country unless tJie reserve is in
creased. It is feared that Russia may be
forced to use paper money and a possi
ble bankruptcy is also staring the coun
try in the face.
Minister Squiers has resigned his
poet at Havana. It is said that he did
bo because the United States gave up
the Isle of Pines.
Germany has formally announced
ber intention of terminating the pree
ent trade treaty with the United States
oil March 1 next.
Senator Bnrton has been sentenced to
serve six months in the county jail and
pay a fine of $2,500. An appeal will
be taken to the Supreme court.
A great building strike threatens
New York.
The entire Russian peasant congress
baa been arrested.
All Members of Congress Looking
for Seats on Committees.
Washington, Dec. 5. Senators and
representatives are devoting much
time to the procurement of giod com
mittee places and chairmanships; that
is, the vast majority are engaged in
this pursuit. Some few of the old-
timers who are already comfortably
fixedare not bothered, but their numj
ber is comparatively small.
Speaker Cannon is being over
whelmed bv requests for committee
assignments, and is being flooded with
all manner of letters from men of in
fluence, who are woiking in behalf of
some of the struggling congressmen.
He has 40 applicants for every good
committee vacancy, and he probably
has a dozen endorsements of every ap
plicant. But he is gradually getting
to the bottom, and soon will be able to
announce the slate as he intends it
shall stand during the Fifty-ninth con
gress. In the senate, where committees are
appointed by a special committee, yet
to be selected, there is no such on
slaught as is in evidence about the
speaker's office.
Senator Fulton is the only member
of the Oregon delegation who is in line
for promotion, for he is the only mem
ber who is at liberty to participate in
the work of congress. As previously in
dicated in these dispatches, Senator
Fulton will probaby be made chairman
of the committee on claims, and theie
is a long chance that be will Become a
member of the committee on commerce,
the mighty committee that handles all
river and harbor bills, as well as other
legislation relating to commerce, other
than interstate commerce.
Senator Piles, being a member new
of the senate, will probably not get
very good committees. New members
are never given desirable committee
places. It is a rule of the senate to
give tiie best positions to men of trie
longest service, and this leaves little
that is desirable for the new senators.
It is quite impossible to tell what
places Piles will get, though he would
be pleased with membership on naval
affairs, because of the Puget sound
,vy yard.
Senator Ankeny is almost certain to
secure the chaimanship of the commit
tee on irrigation. This is a very desir
able place for him because he is thor
oughly familiar with irrigation, and
understands the subject. Moreover, as
chairman of that committee he could
doubtless do much to aid the state of
Washington in getting better recogni
tion under the National reclamation
law than it has received up to this
time.
Over at the house end there is not
much change in sight for the Washing
ton members. Cushman has one good
commmittee place, on interstate and
foreign commerce, where he will get
an earlv chance to go on record on the
railway rate question, and he has one
other committee, private land claims
Representative Jones is a member
of the river and harbor committee and
is perfectly satisfied to remain in that
one place. He don't want anything
better. Mr. Humphrey fared very well
for a new member two years ago, get-
NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FROM THE STATE OF OREGON
AID FROM STATE.
Is Necessary in Road Construction,
Says Convention.
Corvallis The voice of the Good
Roads convention is unanimously for
state aid in the construction of public
roads. No resolution to this effect
was adopted, but throughout the two
days' session the idea came to the front
at unexpected times and always with
the apparent approval of the delegates
It was injected into the proceedings tiy
an Alsea farmer, who declared that
there ought to be state aid, so that
Portland would have to help pay the
price, because all that Portland is or
all that stie hopes to be has come or is
to come from the products of the farms,
mines and mil .a in the territory of
which she is the commercial mistress.
This brought Judge Webster into the
open, and he declared his approval oi
the sentiment expressed by the Alsean,
and announced a belief that state aid
should be vouchsafed in road construe
Hon, the state to pay about 50 cents
every time a certain community strug
gling with a road raised 50 cents.
ELABORATE PREPARATIONS.
HAILEY ON SUPREME BENCH
ting a place on merchant marine and
fisheries, together with two lesser com
mittees. Senator Heyburn, of Idaho was one
of the most unfortunate new senators
in the matter of committee assignments
two vears ago. He secured the chair
manship of the committee on manufac
tures, his most important committee.
He will be given better committee
assignments than he had in the last
congress, but it is impossible to state
what places he will get.
Senator Dubois, being a Democrat,
is on the minorit) side of several im
portant committees, but is chairman
of none, for minority senators have no
chairmanships. His most important
place at this time is on privileges and
elections, the committee that will re
port on the Smoot case. On that com
mittee Dubois is considered the most
drastic anti-Mormon member, and he
will probabiy be prominently identified
with the fight against Smoot.
Governor Chamberlain Will Appoint
Pendleton Man.
Salem Governor Chamlierlain has
announced that he will appoint T. G.
Hailey, of Pendleton, to succeed Jus
tice Wolverton on the supreme bench.
This appointment was expected, but
came much sooner than anticipated, for
there is really no vacancy as yet.
Governor Chamberlain has been con
sidering the matter of an appointment
to the supreme bench ever since it be
came probable that one of the superior
judges would be appointed to the Fed
eral bench. He had therefore weighed
the qualifications of available men aud
was ready to make, a selection.
By announcing the appointment at
once, the governor has saved the
trouble of receiving and considering
the flood of recommendations and ap
plications that would soon have been
pouring in.
Books for Christmas.
People who buy books for children
usually take what they can get most
easily, or what the clerk recommends.
Everyone likes to make a good invest
ment, to get value received. The Ore
gon Library commission makes this
possible in so far as children's books
are concerned, for it has publisehd for
free distribution a list of something
over a hundred titles ot children's
books for Christmas gifts and for the
home library. There are notes on the
books, and prices are given ranging
from 15 cents to $3. Any one may get
this list by applying to the secretary of
the commission at Salem.
Seven States Will Be Represented at
Fruitgrowers' Convention.
ia tirande Elaborate preparations
aie being made in this city for the en
tertainment of the Fruitgrowersg' con
vention here January 3 to 5. Secretary
C. 1). Huffman, of this place, has re
ceived many communications from del
egates, and Oregon, Washington, Cali
forma, Idaho, Utah, Montana and
Wyoming will be represented.
The exereises will probably be held
in the opera house, and the commercial
club hall will be utilized for an exhi
bmon room. Hood River has signified
its intention of having an exhib t here
and many other fruitgrowing communi
ties are arousing interest. La Grande
will be well represented. A largi
number of growers of this valley will
save their best fruits for the occasion
and anyone alone is able to make
creditable showing. One flouring mill
is considering erecting a huge pyramid
of hour reaching to the ceiling to ad
vertise the grains.
A strenuous campaign will be started
soon and delegates from all over the
valley will be asked to prepare the
hibit.
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Fishing Law is Defied.
Tillamook Although the fishing
season for Tillamook closed on the
20th, fishing is in full blast on Tilla
mook bay, and Elmore's cannery is also
running to its capacity and is receiving
a large quantity of fish, as there is a
fine run of silversides, and the fisher
men are doing well. The cannery has
agreed to take all the fish, and as it
has a lot of empty cans on hand that it
wants to fill this season, no attention
is being paid to the closed season by
the cannery people. Only one or two
fishermen have stopped fishing and
complied with the law.
Much Work for Wolverton.
Salem There are 34 cases to be de
ciaed hy the Supreme court, presuma
bly before Judge Wolverton leaves the
bench. These cases have all been
argued before the court. Twenty-four
of these cases were heard at the recent
session of the court at Pendleton. Ten
cases heard in this city have not been
passed upon. Among the latter is the
noted Marquam case, which the court
has had under adviBement for several
months. If all these cases are decided
before Judge Wolverton retires, it
will require at least two weeks.
Big Ranch Sold.
Pendleton One of the biggest ranch
deals in the history of Eastern Oregon
wa just consummated here, in which
the ranches and sheep of Charles Cun
ningham, the Umatilla county sheep
king, were sold to a company composed
of J. N. Burgess, J. M. Keeny, R. A.
Kelsay and Dan J. Malarkey. The
price paid was in the neighborhood of
$200,000. The deal has been pending
since October, when an option was giv
en the purchasers for $5,000. About
20,000 acres, 20,000 sheep and 1,000
tons of hay are included in the deal.
Real Estate Active.
La Grande Since the railroad move
ment at Elgin, the real estate transac
tions at that place have been on the
advance, as a careful examination of
the county records will indicate. Dur
ing one week one-third of ttie Hi real
estate sales in Union county were made
at Elgin. The pales consist largely of
town lots, though an occasional timber
tract changes hands. The prices are
far in advance of those obtaining a few
months ago.
More Smallpox at Eugene.
Eugene Two more cases of small
pox have been reported to the health
authorities, and the houses of A. J.
Pickard and Warren Luckey are now in
quarantine. Earl Luckey, son of War
ren Luckey, was taken down and began
to break out while in the school room,
hut it is not believed the other stu
dents were endangered, because the dis
ease had not reached the stage where it
would become contagious. Strict meas
ures are in force for stamping out the
disease as quickly as possible.
Protest of the Seed Men.
Washington, Dec. 5. Thirty of the
leading seed dealers of the country have
ent President lioosevelt a petition pro
testing against the free distribution of
seeds by congress, and urging him to
include in his message a paragraph dis
approving of the present practice and
recommending that only the intent of
the original act authorizing seed diatri
bution be the future policy. This in
tent, the petition says, was that the
seeds should be obtained from remote
corners of the earth and be known to
th3 farmers of this country.
Missionary Murder Investigated.
Washington, Iee. 5. A cablegram
received at the State department to
night from Mr. Rockhill, at I'ekin, says
that Consul General Julius O. Lay, at
Canton, China, has completed his in
vestigation into the recent murder of
five Presbyterian missionaries at Lien
chow, in the Province of Canton. No
details of the result of the investigation
are given. The report will le forward
ed by the minister to Washington by
mail.
Long Message by Wireless.
Washington, Iec. 5. Commander
Beehler, commandant of the naval sta
tion at Key West, reported to the Navy
department that the wireless station at
Key West has received a message by
wireless lrom the station at Colon.
The distance is about 1,000 nautical
miles, and the Island of Cuba lies di
rectly acroes the lines between the two
points.
May Replace Woolen Mills.
Albany A proposition which would
allow Albany to regain some of the pay
roll she lost through the burning ot the
Albany woolen mill last spring, has
been received from an Eastern man
who will remove a Eix set woolen mill
plant to Albany, if local capitalists will
furnish the buildings. Resides having
double the capacity of the old mill, the
new concern proposes to operate in con
nection with the woolen mill a knitting
mill and a clothing manufactory.
New Road in Baker County.
Baker City Private advices received
from engineers in the field state that
surveys have been approved for b lild
ing another railroad in Baker county,
connecting Union with the Cornucopia
timber country. The promoters are
after timljer traffic and nothing else.
For obvious reasons the names of the
promoters and financiers aie kept quiet
for the present. The money is guaran
teed in New York.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Survey by Oregon Short Line.
Ontario A second Oregon Short Line
surveying party has left here for the
interior. While they were all very
reticent as to their destination, it was
learned that they will camp in the vi
cinity of Crane creek gap. The first
party, which left here two weeks ago
has been in camp near Westfall, on
Bully creek. The party here now is
registered at the hotel as Oregon Short
Line men, so there is no longer a oues-
tion as to their identity.
Use Wagons in Lieu of Cars.
Athena On account of the scarcity
oi cars, me l'rston-Farton Milling
company is obliged to employ teams
to haul wheat overland to keep their
mills running. The conditions are
growing worse daily at the mills, which
are congested with the large amount of
accumulate.! flour, there being several
hundred thousand barrels on hand
awaiting shipment. Just when this
condition will be relieved is hard to
state
Wheat Club, 7172c per bushel;
bluestem, 7374c; valley, 7475e;
red, 6768e.
Oats No. 1 white feed, $20.50 ; gray,
$26.50 per ton.
Barley Feed, $22 per ton; brewing,
$2222 50; rolled. $23(323.50.
Rye $1.50(31.00 per cental
Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $15(?.
16perton; valley timothy, $1112:
clover, $89; grain hay, $S9.
Fruits Apples, $l(ttl.50 per box;
huckleberries, 7c per pound; pears,
$1.251.50 per box; quinces, $1 per
tiox.
Vegetables Beanp, wax, 1 2c per
pound; cabbage, italic per pound;
cauliflower, $1.75(32.25 per crate; cel
ery, YOC per uozen ; cucumnerp, ou(gnoc
per dozen; pumpkins, 4lc per
pound; tomatoes, $lpercrate; sprouts,
7c per pound; squash, ?4le per
pound; turnips, 90c$l per sack; car
rots, 65 7oc per sacK ; beets, soc(tffl
per sack.
Onions Oregon yellow Danvers,
$1.25 per sack.
Potatoes Fancy graded Burbanks,
65 70c per sack; ordinary, 5560c;
Merred sweets, sacks, $1.90; crates,
$2.15.
Butter Fancy creamery, 2527J'c
per pound.
Kggs Oregon ranch, 35c per dozen
Poultry Average old hens, iuc per
pound; young roosters, !c; springs,
llc; dressed chickenp, 12I4c; tur
keys, live, 16c; turkeys, dressed,
geese, live
CANCELS ALLOTMENTS.
Malheur and Palouse Projects Have
Too Many Obstacles.
Washington, Dec. 4. Secretary
Hitchcock has canceled the allotment
of $2,250,000 for the Malheur irriga
tion project in Eastern Oregon, and the
allotment of $2,800,000 for the Palouse
project in Washington, which means,
in substance, that there ia no prospect
thai, either project will be built by the
government at an early day. The can
celing of these allotments does not ne
cessarily mean the entire abandonment
of either project; it is still possible
that they may be constructed at some
future time, but not until other pro
jects have been built in both states.
The Malheur allotment is canceled
because that project is involved in so
many obstacles that its early construc
tion is utterly impossible. The secre
tary sees no immediate prospect of an
adjustment with the owners of the
wagon road lands, he sees no prospect
of an early understanding with other
landowners; he sess no indication
whatever that the governinenat could
build this project for several years,
even if it had the money to spend. He
has therefore turned the Malheur allot
ment back into the reclamation fund,
in order that it may be expended else
where. The secretary cancels the Palouse
allotment for very different reasons.
This project will cost approximately
$6,000,000, and is of such a nature
that not an acre of land can be irri
gated until the entire project ia com
pleted. It cannot be built in units, as
in the Klamath or Yakima country.
The secretary has not $6,000,000 which
he can spend in Washington at this
time, and has therefore decided to post
pone building the Palouse project until
more funds are available, possibly for
ten years or more.
' Meanwhile, as he informed the
Washington delegation today, he will
go ahead and build the Okanogan pro
ject, for which he this afternoon allot
ted $500,000, and it ia believed that
before long he will approve and autho
rize the construction of the Tietan and
Sunnyside projects.
GRAND DUKE AIMS
TO BE DICTATOR
Chance Discloses Plot Against Czar
by His Own Relative.
His Body Guard Implicated Plan Was
to Capture Whole Imperial Family
All Cossacks Called Out They
Are Only Troops Which Can Be
Relied Upon.
HEYBURN WANTS PURE DRUGS.
Bill to Insure Unadulterated Foods,
Medicines and Liquors.
Washington, Dec. 4. Federal con
trol of foods, drugs and liquors for the
purpose of securing their purity is pro
vided for in a comprehensive bill to he
introduced in the senate at an early
late by Senator Heyburn, ot Idaho.
Jurisdiction of the government over
these articles is declared in the meas
ure when they become articles of in
terstate or foreign commerce, and a
penalty of a maximum fine of $500
and one year's imprisonment is pro
vided for violators of the regulations
set forth.
It is made unlawful to sell or manu
facture any article of food, drugs, med
icine or liquors which is adulterated
or mishranded, or winch contains any
poison or deleterious substance. Its
terms prohibit the introduction into
the United States or insular possessions
from a foreign country of foods, drugs
and liquors which are not pure or are
mishranded.
The measure defines what shall con
stitute misbranding and adulteration
in the article over which it assumes
jurisdiction.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 2. It is re
ported here that one of the grand dukes
plotted to arrest the czar at Tsarskoe
Selo, hia object being to proclaim him
self dictator, relying on hia promises of
complete reform to secure the support
of the Socialists and working men.
Owing to tiie indiscretion of one of
the grand dtiKe's ugents, the plot was
disclosed to one of the czar's aid-de
camps, who promptly ordered the ar-
re3t of 20 officers and 25 men in vari
ous regiments.
The discovery of this plot has caused
great consternation in court circles,
more than any revolutionary movement
throughout the empire.
Can't Trust His Body Guard.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 2. The guards
arrested at Tsarskoe-Selo Thursday
night and Friday morning numbered
50, including 10 oflicera. Numerous-
rumors are current, including the asser
tion that one of the grand dukes is in
volved in a conspiracy against the em
peror, but none of them can be verified.
It only seems certain that no confidence
can be placed even in tne guard regi
ments. Arrested soldiers are seen
every day, escorted by comrades with
drawn swords.
St. Petersburg is swarming with Cos
sacks, ttie only troops against whom,
there is no suspicion of disaffection.
It is understood that the whole Cos
sack forces of the empire, some 650,
000, will be mobilized.
A conference was held at Count
Witte'a residence last night to consider
the demands of the telegraphers. Count
Witte has declined to receive a deputa
tion from the t lcgrapli and postal
strikers, on the ground that they are
violating their duty to the slate, hut.
he sent a note to the deputation recom
mending that the strikers address them
selves to their Immediate chiefs.
TRY TO DESTROY TREATY.
HAWAII WANTS PEOPLE.
Offers Inducements to Immigrants
From America and Europe.
Washington, Pec. 4 Active efforts
have begun on the part of the govern
merit of the Hawaiian islands to induce
immigration from the United States
and Europe. An immigration board
waa appointed by the governor. The
hairman of thia board, A. I.. O. At
kinson, who is also secretary of the
territory, is now in this country for
le purpose of attending the immigra
tion session of the Civic federation, to
be held in New York. Mr. Atkinson
today consulted at length regarding his
mission with Mr. Sargent, commis
sioner general of Immigration. He has
decided to present the inducements his
government, has to offer in the way of
homesteads to settlers both to Ameri
cans and to immigrants landing in this
country, as well as to the principal
Eaptern countries. Large tracts of
land have been set aside for settlers of
this class.
Japanese Torpedo Boat Makes Dar
ing Attack on Commission.
Seattle, Wash., Dec. 2. Tiie attempt,
to murder the peace delegates and de
stroy the treaty between Japan and
Russia, which was drawn up by tli'e
plenipotentiaries in Portsmouth, and
which was being sent to the mikado,
was witnessed by officers and passen
gers on board the Dakota, on the night
of her arrival in Yokohama. Ir. Wil
liam Lopp, surgeon of the Dakota, in
speaking of the incident, said:
"The whole thing happened t he
night of our arrival in Yokohama. We
were lying in Mississippi bay, just out
side of the breakwater. All the tor
pedo boats and war vessels which es
corted the peace commission were
drawn up in a long line. The launch
containing the delegation and the
treaty left the warship and started for
the landing. Suddenly one of the tor
pedo boats, anchored near the end of
the line of battleships, slipped her
cub.e and started for the launch. The
toipedo boat made for her at a right
angle course.
"Ttie people on the launch s iw the
torpedo boat leave the line of craft and
tluy knew what was coming. The
launch was slow, ami the torpedo boat
came on like a comet. Like a shot
from a cannon she rushed on, and in a
minute struck the launch, cutting her
completely in two, and raced on into
the darkness. We could see the men
struggling in the water, and clinging to-
the pieces of the wrecked boat.
"Launches from the battleships were
at once sent to their rescue, and paved
all but one of the occupants. The
treaty was also paved."
1905, choice, 10
choice, 18 (320c;
docks, 14(?15c.
Hops Oregon,
11 c; olds, 57c.
Wool Eastern Oregon, average best,
1621c; valley, 2426c per pound;
mohair, choice, 30c.
Beef Dressed bulls, l2c per pound;
cows, 34c; country steers, 44c.
Veal Dressed, 37c per pound.
Mutton Dressed, fancy. 737c per
pound; ordinary, 45c; lambs, 1
8c.
Pork Dressed, 67Jc per pound.
To Guard Little Shipper.
Washington, Dec. 4. Representative
Campbell, of Kansas, who pecured the
adoption of a resolution in the last con
gress for the investigation of Standard
till company s corporations in tiie
Western oil fields, has prepared a bill
to regulate ventilator, refrigerator, oil
tank cars anil al' other heretofore term
ed private cars, making them subject
to interstate commerce regulations.
Speaking of the proposed bill, Mr.
Campbell says it 18 intended to protect
the little shippers and the railroads
against the power of big shippers.
Open All Other Boxes.
New York, Pec. 4. Preparations to
ask the courts for the opening of 1,000
ballot boxes, for the service of 600
writs of mandamus, and for the service
of 6,0(10 orders on counsel and election
inspectors, were made today by legal
counsel for William R. Hearst, in his
contest for the New York mayoralty
election. These plans were the result
of the disclosures of inaccuracies shown
by the oening of four ballot boxes
Friday.
Russian Strike Affects Mills.
Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 4. It is feared
that many of the steel mills will lie
obliged to close from lack of ferro-man-
ganepe, the supply of which has been
cut off because of the strikes in Russia.
Two Killed in Wreck.
Philadelphia, Pec. 2. The Central
Railroad company of New Jersey's New
York flyer, which left Scranton early
lapt evening, was wreck d aliout ten
miles north of Mauch Chunk, a few
hours later. The latest information
received by the Associated Press by
telephone is that an engineer and fire
man were killed and aliout a dozen pas
sengers injured. The injured have
been taken to St. Luke's hospital. South
Bethlehem, aloiit 60 miles north of
Philadelphia. Stoney creek is 50 miles,
north of South Bethlehem.
More Troops Join Mutiny.
Paris, Dec. 2. Special dispatches,
from St. Petersburg say that the cab
men there have gone on strike. The
government, the dispatches pay, in
tends to adopt special measures to as-
pure the dispatch of olhcial messages.
The Warsaw correpitondent of the-
Kclair says that at Grodno artillery
men have tieen arrepted for the ir re
fusal to puppreps popular demonstra
tions. At Chenptopovo the dragoons
mutinied and fought the Copsacks.
Great Fire Rages at Buenos Ayres.
Bnenoa Ayres, Pec. 2. A serious fire
broke out here today in a warehouse
ntaining inflammable merchandise,
including 100,000 cans of petroleum.
The fire in still burning as this dispatch
is filed. The loss is already estimated.
at $1,000,000.