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 Busy
Readers National, Political,, His
torical and Commercial.
China is adopting more measures
against foreigners.
A bottle message set afloat in 1882
has just been picked up in Seattle har
bor. Trepoff has nervous prostration from
the continual strain to which he is sub
jected. Japan is getting considerably worked
up orer the killing of Japanese sealers
by Americans.
Train loads of Farley's strike break
ers en route to San Francisco had to
Btrike for better food.
The revolution in Cuba is spreading
far and wide, and the government fears
outside intervention, probably by the
United States.
The officials of the United Railways
of San Francisco have agreed to the ar
bitration of the street car Btrike pro
vided the men return to work in the
meantime.
Secretary Wilson, after inspecting
the packing houses in several of the
large cities, refuses to make concessions
to the packers, and it appears that he
did not find things as nice as they
might be.
Five hundred lawyers are attending
the meeting of the American Bar asso
ciation in St. Paul.
San Francisco has contracted for the
building of 4,000 small houses, to be
finished iin 12 weeks.
It is estimated by the Panama canal
commission that $25,000,000 worth of
work can be done annually.
Four Greek laborers were killed and
another fatally injured by being struck
by a Baltimore & Ohio train.
Chinese are planning to establish a
chain of newspapers in Canada with
which to combat the $500 per capita
tax.
The city scaler of Chicago has order
ed suits begun against four of the larg
est packing houses in that city for sel
ling short weight lad.
President Roosevelt has cabled to
King Frederick, through the American
minister, his congratulations on the
opening of the cable to Iceland.
The Swift Packing company, which
is about to establish an immense pack
ing plant in Portland, will also build
its own cars and steamship docks.
If the Standard Oil company is re
quired to give bonds for its appearance
in all the indictments against it at the
same rate that has been required in the
first indictment, it will have to put up
a bond of $8,350,000.
Holland will inppect and stamp all
meat hereafter exported.
The Ameiican Bar association is now
holding its annual convention in St
Paul,
REVOLT GROWING RAPIDLY.
Santigo in Rebellion Insurgents Con
trol Santa Clara Province.
Havana, Sept. 4. The situation here
is far darker than at any previous time
since the insurrection broke out. News
of an uprising in Santiago province,
while not yet published here, is spread
ing about the city and caus'ng the
gravest concern. When Mr. Sleeper,
the American charge d'affaires here,
was told the contents of an Associated
Pre68 Santiago dispatch, he endeavored
to verify it through the State depart
ment, but was told it was absolutely
untrue. Subsequently it was verified
from private newspaper sources. The
extent of the rising in Santiago is not
known, bat it is the opinion nere that
the worst calamity of all to the Palma
government would be an insurrection
in Eastern Cuba.
The Associated Press was informed
tonight by two reliable eyewitnesses
that Cardenas, which hitherto has been
considered a perfectly peaceful city,
was the scene yesterday of desultory
fighting between police and rural
guards on one side and roving insur
gents on the other.
The only province remaining per
fectly peaceful is Puerto Principe.
The Associated Press correspondent
at Cienfuegos telegraphed tonight that
there are 3,000 armed insurgents in
that vicinity and that all the small
towns in Santa Clara province are con
trolled by insurgents, who attack and
loot trains ana eeize the property cf
foreigners as well as that of Cubans
Trinidad is surrounded by insurgents
and the government appears powerless
to protect the property of Americans
and other foreigners. Railway trains
are held up at will, and passengers
searched. The Cuban Central rai road
has declined to assume responsibility
for the safety of passengers or freight
Recruiting for government forces is
making good progress here. The gov
ernment continues to make fine head
way wherever there is open fighting
The troops in the western part of
Pinar del Rio have not yet come up
with Pino Guerrera, and, according to
the Associated Press correspondent
with ths troops, there is no present
likelihood of their doing so, as the
troops might march for ten years and
all the while Guerrera would be just
ahead of them in the hills. There
ara thousands of mount ain trails with
which the insurgents are familiar and
which lead in all directions. If Guer
rera cared to harass the government, its
troops could te killed only sharp
shooters. The government has no cav
alry in Picar del Rio, and the only
real soldiers are the artillerymen, but,
as they are on foot, they cannot cope
with the well mounted veterans on the
insurgent side.
NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FROM THE STATE OF OREGON
PAY OF TEACHERS.
FREEZE OUT FOREIGNERS.
The police of Riga captured a depot
of revolutionary stores, including 24
bombs.
A policeman, two gendarmes and a
conductor were killed on a train by
band of seven revolutionists near Tarn-
boff, Russia.
The Japanese government announces
that after September 1, 1906, Dalny
will be a free port of entry for goods
of all nations.
The Nevada state insurance commis
sioner sayB he will revoke the licenses
of all companies which fail to pay their
San Francisco losses.
Senator W. A. Clark will build
branch railroad line from Las Vegas,
N. M, into San Francisco. Over half
the line is already completed.
Ihe czar is badly scared by the re
cent terrorist outrages, and it is
thought he is about to place the gov
ernment in the hands of a dictator.
A man traveling overland in New
Mexico found two men sitting upright
in their wagon, dead, and their four
mule team also dead. They had been
struck by lightning.
The city of Troy, Montana, suffered
a $10,000 loss by fire in its business
district.
Three were killed and ten injured
in a Great Northern trainwreck in
Montana.
American and British Merchants Fear
Enmity of China.
Victoria, B. C, Sept. 4. Advices re
ceived from Pekin by the steamer Tar
tar tell of increasing anti-foreign mach
inations. The corrspondent of the To
kio Mainichi reports that Tung Saoyi,
vice minister of foreign affairs, is tak
ing advantage of his growing influence
in the government to strengthen the
powers of Chinese who have been ap
pointed directors of customs, having
the support of the an i-foreign element
among the Chineee. .
The correspondent says Ameiican and
British communities are much in
censed at the Chinese attitude, Ameri
cans in particular feeling great anxiety
a? to the future course ol events 1 1
China. The Pekin police have in
structed Chinese that no premises of
anv kind must be rented to foreigners.
The eame correspondent says that the
ChineEe comiesioners who have re
turned irom travels abroad have bad a
conference with the emperor and em
press dowager and the decision was
reached to formulate a constitution for
China.
The Asahi'8 correspondent says dras
tic changes in the central and provin
cial administrations are contemplated.
At Pekin there will be a premier and
two general secretaries to control the
eight state departments and in each
vi-e royalty the administration will be
divided into seven sections. Chitung
Chou Fuh is quoted to the effect that
the constitutional government in
China w 11 be established in the course
of from 10 to 15 years.
Insurgent Office in New York.
New York, Sept. 4. In an office
building at Pine and Water streets the
Cuban junta established offices today
Colonel Aguirre, Major Joseph A. Cas
tellancy and Senor Nordose, who will
be the official representatives of the
revolutionary movement in this coun
try, were present. There were no cere
monies. Colonel Aguirre said that the
unta in New York is not to be used for
the purpose of revolution. Its efforts,
he said will be directed eolely to keep
ng the American people informed as to
the true cocr e of the mo ea eat.
Smoke from forest fires is causing
serious trouble to ships along the Ore
gon coast.
A Worcester, Mass., daily paper tried
the new spelling for one dav, but had
to have extra help in several depart
ments President Eliot, of Harvard, Rays it
will be a long time before President
Rooeevelt's spelling reform becomes
general.
San Francisco is so badly in need of
lumber that it ie being imported from
British Columbia, and paying the duty
of $2 per thousand feet.
San Francisco people have to get np
extra early so as to walk to work, the
etreet car companies making no at
tempt to run cars since the strike begun-
Receiving Highest Salaries Now in
History of State.
Salem Salaries of public school
teachers in Oregon are now higher than
ever before in the history of the state
Thirty years ago the average monthly
salaries were $45.68 for males and
$33.64 for females. During the '90s,
when times were good, salaries in
creased and those of male teachers
reached the highest point just before
the panic of 1893. Tbe average salary
paid to men in the public schools was
then $51.11.
The salaries of female teachers
touched the highest point in 1891,
when the reports showed an average of
42.43. The compensation of instruc
tors in the public schools then started
on a decline and so continued until
1897, when men were receiving an
average of $41.75 and women $33.97.
For the last nine years salaries have
been Bteadily advancing and have now
reached an average of $t0.02 for men
and $44.95 for women.
Multnomah county pays the highest
salaries, but of the outaide counties
Lake pays the highest to men and Har
ney the highest to women.
OREGON RANGE FREE.
Grazing Tax Law is Declared To Be
Unconstitutional.
Salem The Oregon Supreme court
has declared the grazing tax law of 1905
unconstitutional. The decision will
have no very far reaching effect, for it
has not been generally enforced or ob
served. A test case was orougnt up
from Umatilla county, with the result
that there is one more ray of light cast
upon the problems of tax legislation in
Oregon. The decision will likely be o
advantage in some respects to the legis
lature of 1907, which will give particu
lar attention to the enactment of tax
lawB.
Briefly stated, the 1905 statute was
declared void because it is a revenue
tax law and not a license law. It
possessed the language and elements
of a tax law and not of a license law
The act provided that a tax of 20 cents
a head shall be paid upon all sheep
owned by non-residents and brought
into this state for pasturage.
Schools Show Good Advance.
balem Material advancement is
shown in the conditions of the schools
of the state by the figures contained in
the summary of Superintendent Acker
man's annual report, which he has just
given out lor publication, xsy this
statement it is shown that the school
population has increased by at least
5,000 during the past year, and the
total days' attendance has been in
creased to at least a million. Not
withstanding this latter increase, how
ever, tbe average daily attendance has
fallen off by over 100 dayB, but the av
erage months school taught during the
year has advanced from 6.05 to 6.19.
FARMERS ARE INDEPENDENT.
Can Hold Their Wheat Until the Price
Suits Them.
Salem That the farmers of the Wil
lamette valley are less under the con
trol of warehousemen and millers than
ever before is asserted by W. A. Tay
lor, a prominent Waldo Hills farmer,
who has taken the lead in the task of
breaking the hold of the buyers of
wheat.
"Farmers are this year buying their
sacks to a greater extent than ever be
fore," he Bays, "and they are under no
obligations to any buyer. They are
entirely free to sell when they can get
the highest price. Then many farmers
are planning to store their grain on
their farms until they get ready to Bell,
instead of hauling to a warehouse im
mediately. They will make a sale first
and haul the grain afterwards, and get
better terms.
"I have noticed," continued Mr.
Taylor, "that millers and warehouse
men are pretty anxious to get posses
sion of wheat and have been offering
inducements to get farmers to store
gram in their warehouses. JNotwth
standing the declaration that no more
sacks would be lent, sacks have been
offered in the hope that thereby tbe in
tending buyer would secure as advant
age. ;ot many ol the farmers are
tying themselves up, however."
TRANSPORT ON THE ROCKS.
Will Add Two Grades.
Lebanon At a recent meeting of the
voters of the local school district it
was decided to lease the Santiam Acad
emy building and grounds and add the
1th and 12th grades to the present
high school course. The change wi
become effective October 1. The bl
owing corps of instructors has been
lected for the eneuing year: Princi
pal, E. K. Barnes; vice principal,
Frank McDougal, of Dallas; assistants,
Mrs. C. F. Bigbee, Miss Harrint Alex
ander, of Gresham; Miss Mary Mc
Cormick, Miss Margaret Cotton, Miss
Tressa Moffitt, of Salem.
Files on Big Power Site.
Eugene S. W. Curtis, of San Fran
cisco, eaid to represent the Pittsburg
Reduction company, of Niagara Falls,
an aluminum manufacturing concern,
has filed notices of location of a power
site on Horse creek, a tributary of the
Mckenzie river, in the vicinity of
fcoley springs, 60 miles east of Eugene.
He files on 20,000 miners inches un
der a six-inch pressure, and it is esti
mated that 30,000 horse power can be
generated. Mr. Curtis declines to
make any statement regarding the in
tentions of his employers, but it is
presumed that they may, some time in
the future, estalish a manufacturing
plant in Eugene or vicinity.
Hood River Prepares for Fair.
Hood River Hon". E. L- Smith,
president, and G. J. Geseling, sec re
tary, o' the Hood River Biennial Fruit
fair, have issued a call for a mass meet
ing of the residents of the town and
valley for the purpose of making ar
rangements forthis event, important to
fruit growers. The meeting will take
place Setpember 1 in the Commercial
club rooms, when plats will also be
perfected for entertaining the Oregon
State Irrigation association.
Lack of Cars Closes Plant.
Eugene The Royce & Peterson ex
celsior p'ant has closed down here on
account of the failure of the Southern
Pacific to furnish cars. All warehouse
space has been exhausted, and there
was no recourse but to stop manufac
turing. The company's plant at Junc
tion City can run about two weeks lon
ger, and then it will have to shut down
if cars are not available.
Sheridan in Perilous Plight on Coast
of Hawaiian Islands.
Honolulu, Sept. 3. Hanging on a
rock amidships, the United States
transport Sheridan is ashore on Bar
ber's point, the southwestern extremity
of the i)and of Oahu, on which stands
Honolulu. Her position is alarming
as she rests on a sharp coral reef with
wild surf dashing on the shore and ren
dering it well nigh impossible to land
a boat, as there is no beach.
The Sheridan struck at 4 a. m., and
promptly blew her whistles, but did
not get into communication with the
shore antil the wireless telegrap'j sta
tion at Barber's point was opened in
tbe morning. She lies broadside to
the shore, and is rolling noticeably.
All morning boats were vainly trying
to find a landing place, but at last the
second officer got ashore and saved his
boat's crew, thtuh the boat itself was
swamped in the breakers, He denies
a report that the machinery broke down
before the steamer grounded. Natives
reached the vessel through the surf in
canoes.
The Sheridan has aboard 125 through
passengers and 50 soldiers, and their
transfer to the shore or to other craft
is a serious problem. Captain Peabody
has signalled the steamer Claudine to
take them to Honolulu. If possile, the
transfer will be made at once, the reve
nue cutter Manning assisting.
Captain Peabody says that, if power
is applied soon, he believes the Sberi
dan can be saved, but otherwise there
is little hope. The swell is very heavy
and the coral reefs nre very sharp
Good order is maintained on board the
vessel. The Sheridan's engines are he
ing repaired and coal is being rapidly
thrown overboard with a view to try
ing to float her at high tide. The tug
Fearless and several inter-island steam
ers have gone to her assistance.
Captain Peabody is reported to have
assumed all the responsibility for the
accident, Baying that the vessel was in
too close.
CONTRACTS FOR NEW ROAD.
St. Paul
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Ready for Construction to
Columbia River.
Spokane, Sept. 3, Contracts for the
building of the Chicago, Milwaukee &.
St. Paul road from the Bitter Root
mountains to the Columbia river have
boen let to H. C. Henry, of Seattle.
The route follows down the St. Jo
seph river from the Idaho line to a
point below Ferrell, or St. Joe, Idaho,
then goes on to Tekoa, Washington,
passes on to Rosalia, goes along the
south side of Rock lake and then reach
es Lind, on the Northern Pacific.
From Lind the line will practically
follow the survey of the old Northern
Pacific cutoff from Lind to Ellenst urg.
Contracts for a part of the work
have been let to Grant Smith & Co.
The firm includes E. N. Jones, of Jones
& Onserud, railroad contractors of Spo
kane. Mr. Jones said tonight:
"We have our cutfit now at Rosalia,
and will start work at once. We shall
need a thousand men, and we will
pay $2.50 a day. Our work is to be
done a year from next January."
FOOD AND LABOR
PRICES RISING
San Francisco WorMngmen Get No
Benefit from High Wages.
Rents Are Exorbitant Twelve Dollars
Per Night in Hotels Bread and
Butter Free, but Restaurants Re
coup by Charging More for Other
Viands, Especially Meats.
Navy Yard Men in Union.
New York, Sept. 4. Employes in
avy yards, naval stations, arsenal and
in factories, today formed a national
organization here and elected officers.
The declaration of principles contains
"Adopt and put into operation an
effective plan for keeping the employee
more eteadily employed by having the
men in the different crafts join hands,
in order that th bett interests of the
government and the employes can be
served."
Warning of More Bombs.
St. Petersburg, Sept. 4. The woman
who assassinated General Min still re
foees to disclose her identity, I ut ehe
admits that her passport is false and
has warned her jailers that St. Peters
burg is on the eve of a series of acts of
terrorism.
City Water for Ashland Normal.
Ashland The Ashland public schools
will open for the fall term Monday,
September 3. The State Normal at
Ashland will not begin work this year
until September 26, the opening date
being fixed later than usual so as to
give time to get a number of important
improvements at the buildings and
grounds further under way. A con
tract was let last week for a new heat
ing plant, which will cover the prin
cipal buildings on tbe campuB.
Pay Hop Pickers by Weight.
Woodburn At a meeting in this
city recently of the Willamette Hop
growers' association, 85 hopmen were
present. It was decided that all grow
ers should endorse the system of pick
ing by weight, but at the same time it
was lelt to the discretion of growers
whether to pick by weight or to use
measuring baskets of nine bushels each
The general opinion was expressed that
the price of picking should be 50 cents
per box or $1 per 100 pounds.
More Power is Needed.
La Grande Owing to the increase in
demand for electric power, the elec
tric company has been unable to get
along with the energy developed at tbe
Cone power house and it was found
necessary this week to use'eome of the
power from Morgan lake. In all the
company is now using 700 horse power,
and this amount will be gradually in
creased.
Postoffice for Myrick.
Pendleton The postoffice at Myrick
station has been re-established, after
having been discontinued for several
months. It is a fourth class office and
the postmaster is William Love. My
rick is a small station on the line of
the W. & C. R. R , 12 miles northeaBt
of Pendleton. It is in the midst of the
rich wheat growing section.. j
Wheat Club, 6768c; bluestem,
70J71c; valley, 71c; red. 6466c.
Oats No. 1 white, $22-322.50: eray,
$2021.
Barley Feed, $20 per ton; brewing,
$22.50; rolled, $2324.
Rye $1.30 per cwt.
Corn Whole, $26; cracked, $27 per
ton.
Hay Valley timothy, No 1, $11
12.50 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy,
$16; clover, $77.50 cheat, $6.50;
grain hay, $7; alfalfa, $10; vetch hay,
$77.50.
Fruits Apples, common, 6075c
per box; fancy, $1.252; apricots,
$1 .25 1.35; grapes, $11.75 per crate;
peaches, $ 1 1 .10 ; pears, $1.75, plums,
fancy, 5075c per box; common 50
75c; blackberries, 56c per pound;
crab apples, 75c per box.
Melons Cantaloupes, $1.752 per
crate; watermelons, llc per pound.
esretables Beans, 57c; cabbage,
l?42c per pound; celery. 85c$l per
dozen; corn, 1520c per dozen; cu
cumbers, 4060c per box; egg plant,
luc per pound; lettuce, head, 25n per
dozen; onions, 1012c per dozen;
peas, 45c; bell peppers, 1215c;
radishes, 1015c; per dozen; rhubarb,
22)c per pound; spinach, 23c per
pound; tomatoes, 60 90c per box;
parsley, 25c; squash, $11.25 per
crate; turnips, 90c$l per sack; car
rots, $11.25 per sack; beets, $1.25
1.50 per sack.
Onions New, IJ4 (31 3c per poun4.
Potatoes Oregon Burbanks, 7075c;
sweet potatoes, 44c per pound.
Putter Fancy creamery, 22)25c
per pound.
Eggs Oregon ranch, 21)22c per
dozen.
Poultry Average old hens, 13c per
pound; mixed chickens, 1213c;
springs, 13 14c, old roosters, 9
10c; dressed chickens, 14 15c; tur
keys, live, 1622c; turkeys, dressed,
choice, 2022)c; geese, live, 810c:
ducks, 1 1 lac.
Hops 1906 contracts, 18 20c;
1905, nominal; 1904, nominal.
Wool Eastern Oregon average best,
15(3 19c Pr pound, according to shrink
age; valley, 2022c. according to fine
ness; mohair, cl oice. 28 30c per
pound.
Veal Dreseed, 5(?8c per pound.
Beef Dressed bulls, 3c per pound;
cows, 45c; country steers, 56c.
Mutton Dressed, fanry 7 (38c per
nonn: ordinary, 56c; lambs, fancy,
88Kc.
Pork Dressed, 78$c per pound. I
NEW JAPANESE LINE.
Mikado Will Subsidize Steamers for
Manchurian Trade.
Victoria, Sept. 3. The steamer Tar
tar, of the Canadian Pacific railway
company, which arrived today from the
Orient, brought news that the Japan
ese government proposes to subsidize a
steamship line to connect Dalny with
the North Pacific coast of the United
States, and also Shanghai, Dalny and
Vladivostok lines of steamers in its
general scheme to develop Manchurian
tiade Whether tbe United States con
nection will be done by a line between
Dalny and Yokohama connecting with
the already established Japanese lines
to Seattle and San Francisco, or a di
rect line ia not definitely stated.
San Francisco, Sept. 1. Two months
ago it was stated that labor in 8a Fran
cisco had reached the highest known
record for wages. Since then labor has.
eclipsed its own record. Not only baa
labor advanced, but houee rents an 1
food have gone up with iapid strideB
during the last two months.
Today another modest little restau
rant crossed out its printed prices and
inked in advances on the margin. For
a small slice of roast beef which was
formerly procured for 25 cents, 30 cents
must now be paid. It is a little cafe
where the patrons sit up to a counter
bare of cloth. It is patronized mostly
by the workingmen in the burned dis
trict and the newspaper employes, and
its prices are as low as they can be
placed.
The proprietor for some reason or
other felt called upon to explain. The
increase, by the way, ia about 20 per
cent.
'It is this way," apologized the
host. "I pay half again as much for
things aa I did befoie the fire. To be
gin with, I get five loaves of bread less
than formerly for $1. The bakeis
struck, and to meet the increase in
wtges the price of bread had to be
raised.
Then the price of meat went up
again this week. the delivery men
trot an increase to something like $78
a month, so the butchers have boosted
the price.
"Fruit and butter are way up, and
net the other day the waiters threat
ened to strike and we had to raise
them. They used to get $14 a week,
now they get $16 50. So what could I
do? I had to raise my prices or go out
of business."
He told the truth, but only part of
the truth. Wages in nearly every
line have advanced since the fire. Some
bricklayers are now receiving $10 a
day. In many cases hod carriers re
ceive $6, marble cutters $7, electricians
$5 50, plumbers $7, plasterers $10,
tructural iron workers $6, tile setters
$7.50, cement workers $6, steamfitters
and sheet metal workers the eame,
painters $5 and foremen on general jobs
$10.
The figures quoted rt present the
highest wages paid in the trades men
tioned at the present time. The aver
age would be slightly less. The union
scale counts for very little at present.
All contractors are forced to exceed it
in order to get men. They are bidding
against each other, and the end does
not Beem to have been reached. Strike
has followed strike, and now, with in
creased wages in almost every line of
industry, nobody is any better off than
before.
DEFECTS IN BIG WARSHIPS.
Palma and Capote Quarrel.
Havana, Sept. 3. Rumor is busy
with suggestions of conspiracy among
the police and an open quarrel between
President Palma and Vice Presiden
Mendez Capote. Both reports lack
definite confirmation. In certain quar
ters Capote ia suspected of bargaining
with the insurgents. In the reported
quarrel at the palace bitter words are
said to have passed, culminating in
Palma denouncing Capote as a traitor
The vice president is said to have re
plied that Palma was a piesident with
out power.
Coast Railroad Buildirg.
San Francisco, Sept. 3. The South
ern Pacific is fast completing its plans
for the connection of Eureka and San
Francisco and the extension of the road
on to Portland, forming a roast line.
The basis of the plan is tha California
Northwestern, which is under the con
trol of the Southern Pacific. It has
juet been announced that the junction
of the Southern Pacific and the Cali
fornia Northwestern lines will be effect
ed at Santa Rosa.
Famine Spreading.
St. retrshurg, Sept. 3. By the end
if September the famine will have
i, i-... I fn tb provireew of Krzan, Sa
mara ami Saratov. Tie Zemstvo treas-
tries are exhausted, and the whole
oat of feedirg the people devolves upon
he ctntral government. The grain
required in the four provinces for food
nd powlng will cos approximately
$21,500,000.
Wrecked Montague and Great Dread-
naught Poorly Riveted.
London, Sept. 1. Statements have
been circulated about defective work
manship on English battleships. It
W88 asserted that in salvaging the
Montague, which went on the rocks off
Lundy island in June last, grave de
fects in her riveting were discovered,
but these statements were immediately
denied from authoritative quarters.
The Daily Mail's correspondent at
Portsmouth makes a similar statement
about the new monster battleship
Dreadnaught, alleging that in the hur
ry to get the vessel completed her
plates were badly fixed. Soon after
the vessel was launched, the corres
pondent says, some holes were found
without rivets, and the men responsi
ble were dismissed. Some leakage also
was found and she is now in drydock.
Indians on Warpath.
Vancouver, B.' C, Sept. 1. The
Babine River Indians, whose haunts
are near the headwaters of the Skeena
river, have revolted, and the rising is
of such a serious nature as to have com
pelled a call for the militia. The oper
atives on the Skeena river are declared
to be utterly unable to cope with the
situation and unless a force of military
is rushed north with dispatch there is
grave danger that murder may be done.
It is declared that a force of not less
than a hundred men is absolutely ne
cessary.
Statistics of Terrorism.
St. Petersburg, Sept. 1. Official
statistics of the terrorism of the past
week show that 101 officials, gend
armes, police and soldiers were allied,
92 were wounded, 912 private persons
were killed or wounded, 34 spirit
shops were plundered, private and in
dividual institutions were robbed of
$180,815 and state institutions of $84,-
981. Besides these, tl.ere were over
150 armed attempts to rob banks,
houses, etc.
New Spelling in Colleee.
Bethlehem, Pa., Sept. 1. Prof.
Mansfield Merriam, of the department
of civil engineering of Lehigh univers
ity, today posted notice to the students
n his department that hereafter the
Carnegie eystem of reformed spelling
would be used in all quizzes and lec
tures, bridge reports, etc.