Heppncr Gazette
IrauadTliurMteraf Cadi Wek
HEPPER OREGON
BRIEF NEWS OF
THE PAST WEEK
Interesting Events from Outside the
State Presented in a Manner to
Catch the Eye of the Busy Reader
Matters of National, Historical
and Commercial Importance.
Great scarcity of beef in Chicago
causes high prices to prevail.
Seventeen of the finest paintings in
Paris have been seriously injured by
vandals.
A life-size bronze statue of Presi
dent McKinley has been unveiled at
Philadelphia.
The Russian douma has refused to
make the necessary appropriation for
a new navy.
The death roll from the explosion
on the cruiser' Tennessee has now
reached six.
A Norwood. Mass., boy of 14 years
has confessed to the killing of three
smaller children. 1
Gas in a mine at Gladstone, Colo
rado, killed twenty rescuers of im
prisoned miners.
O. H. P. Belmont is some better,
although his physicians hold out small
hope of his recovery.
A New York actress has secured
damages for the sale of her photo
graphs without her consent.
A new record for motor bicycles
has been established at Buffalo, N. Y.
On a race track ten miles were made
in 9:40 3-5.
John Brandt Walker, leader of a
great bear campaign in the New
York stock market, has failed. At
one time he had a fortune of $3,
000,000. Brewers from all parts of the coun
try are to meet at Chicago to plan a
defense against the ever increasing
wave of prohibition now sweeping
the United States.
Because of washouts in Montana
the Burlington road has canceled all
Pacific Coast trains running in con
nection with the Northern Pacific
until further announcement.
King Edward has started for Russia.
Sir Robert Hart predicts a great fu
ture for China.
Eight persons were killed in a col
lision on a trolley road near Annapolis.
Scandinavia, Neb., has been wrecked
by a cyclone. Franklin also suffered
much damage.
Mayor Busse. of Chicago, has been
married a month, and his friends have
just found it out.
Hearst has made a net gain of 105
votes so far in the recount of ballots
for mayor of New York.
While O. H. P. Belmont's physicians
have not abandoned' all hope', there is
little chance of his recovery.
A tornado in Nova Scotia killed two
persons and injured a number of others.
Much damage to property is reported.
The interstate commerce commission
will be unable to give a decision on the
Pacific coast lumber rate case before
July 1.
The situation in Persia is steadilv go
ing from bad to worse, and it is believed
the present shah will not rule much
longer.
Japan says the revolt in Corea is now
confined to the remote districts, and
that in a short time the entire country
will be pacified.
The crown prince of Servia is ac
cused of plotting against Montenegro.
English socialists oppose the pro
posed visit of King Edward to Rus
sia. O. H. P. Belmont is believed to be
dying' of an operation for appendi
citis. The Union Pacific will immediately
issue $30,000,000 in bonds for the
building of new roads.
The Erie railroad will immediately
reopen its shops, giving employment
to several thousand men.
Governor Johnson, of Minnesota,
says no one yet has the Democratic
nomination for president.
A Los Angeles banker has been
robbed of $10,000 in jewels which he
was carrying with him on a street
car.
A number of clubmen in Los An
geles have been arrested because
they were selling liquor without a
license.
Indications are that Hoke Smith
has been beaten by Joseph M. Brown
as Democratic candidate- for governor
of Georgia.
Trainmen on the Nashville, Chatta
nooga & St. Louis railroad threaten
to go on strike unless the company
takes back some discharged men who
belonged to the union.
C. J. L. Meyer, aged 77, first presi
dent of the Chicago Northwestern
railroad, and worth at one time a mil
lion dollars, has applied for admis
sion to the Milwaukee county, Wis
consin, poorhouse.
Butte police are making an effort to
freeze out Emma Goldman.
The airship Chicago has made a
great flight in South Dakota.
By the election just held Oregon
will have 18 or 20 dry counties.
Indications are that Senator Allison
will not be re-elected from Iowa.
Chinese are refusing to buy Japan
ese goods in all parts of Manchuria.
Utica. N. Y.. pastors have com
menced a crusade against gossipers
READY TO TRY AGAIN.
Peary Is Anxious to Start for North
Pole by July I.
New York, June 9. Confident of
his ability to carry the stars and
stripes to the north pole, Commander
Robert ,K. Peary, who lias planted the
American flag nearer the coveted
northern goal than any other living
! man, is in New York making active
preparations for another Arctic dash
in the hope of solving the mystery of
'the north, which for centuries has
'been the aim of daring explorers,
; The stanch steamer Roosevelt, which
tne reary Arctic Llub built tor Lorn-
mander Peary, and which carried him
and hi. . little party on h.s last north -
wa d journey has been overhauled
and put in be ter condition than ever
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when her commander gives the word.
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his departure from New 1 ork about!; i, 4.1 1, ...
July 1, but lack of sufficient funds to
finance the expedition may prevent
the start. In tact, unless $23,000 is
forthcoming by July the project will
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dition was located. Etah was
winter quarters of Dr. Hayes' last ex
pedition and is located about 70 de
grees north latitude. A small party
of sportsmen and scientists may go
north as far as Etah on the auxiliary
ship, returning with her about Sep
tember 1
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C.mn"?" Pf"yhJ!! iCV0 C?
the great problems o the north and
already has put into the work all of
his personal means, amounting to
$80,000.
ROAD AGAIN BLOCKED.
Month May be Required to Replace
Montana Railroad Lines.
Butte, Mont., June 0. The North
ern Pacific east from Butte is again
tied up by a new washout of 600 feet
of track near Jefferson Island, a small
station in the Jefferson River Valley,
about 60 miles from Butte. Two steel
trestles on the Great Northern are
reported as having gone out, near
Basin, 35 miles north of Butte, add
ing to the demoralization of that road.
Great Northern Railway officials
will not venture an opinion as to
when normal conditions will be re
stored, one official stating that'in his
belief a month's time would be nec
essary to put the Montana line of the
Northern Pacific in proper condition.
The Great Northern telegraphic serv
ice is completely demoralized, and the
officials fear they have yet to learn of
the real magnitude of the destruction
wrought by the flood waters.
The barometer is higher than for
several weeks. This would indicate
warmer weather and with that the
rapid melting of the snows in the
mountains. As there now is lying
from three to four feet of snow in
the mountains it is feared the rush of
waters will add to the damage already
done.
HEARST'S GAIN NOW 123.
Recounting of 77 Ballot Boxes Com
pleted in New York.
New York, June 4. The recount of
the ballots in the disputed mayoralty
election of 1905 proceeded with expe
dition today before Justice Lambert,
in the supereme court, and 20 ballot
boxes were opened, which show a
gain of 16 votes for William Randolph
Hearst. Seventy-seven boxes have
I..VV..1 .'Allium iuv. ivw.'niiL
gtin, and the total g'jn for Hearst is
123. Early today Ilefirst made large
gains, which were materially reduced
by the recount late in the day.
Supreme Court Justice Lambert,
who is trying- the case, has requested
Governor Hughes to recommend to
the legislature that a special .tppropri
ation be made under which the jurors
who are hearing the evidence may be
allowed extra compensation for their
duties.
It has been learned that one of. the
jurors has lost his employment since
the opening of the trial nine weeks
ago. and that another's business has
seriously suffered from neglect for so
loner a period. It is said that from $5
to $10 a day for each juror was the
compensation suggested to the gov
ernor. Tornado in Iowa.
Charles City. Ia., June 9. A tor-
;eV.inr ahnut 200 residences and I
barns. One man, W. R. Beck, is
known to have been killed and four
children are reported missing. The
path of the tornado was about ten
rods wide. It struck the city in the
southwestern part, crossed the river
and lifted the water almost clean
from the river bed. It passed in a ;
northeasterly direction, just missing ;
the Charles City colleee buildings, j
and spent itself a few miles northeast
of the city.
Pull Conductor Off Car.
Bakersfield, Cal., June 9 A street the Harnman system.
car was held up on the outskirts of Bronc( Bucking fop Condon
the city about rmdn.ght Saturday and j Condon Condon xvin celebrate the
Conductor Frills was robbed of Fourth of July in old-fashioned style.
The deed was committed by two and a committee was appointed to so
masked men. one of whom jumped licft funds for the carrying on of the
aboard the car, pulled the conductor j festivities. It is planned to hold a
to the ground and robbed him while market day in connection with the
the other stood guard with guns. The celebration, jut as has been held in
car continued on its wav, the motor
man and passengers failing to see the
attack made on the conductor.
Bandits Rob Pay Train.
City of Mexico, June 9. Word
has reached this city that bandits at
tacked a pay train on the way to the
Los Grandes mine near Balzac in the
Mate of Guerrero. Of the escort of
four men, three were killed and one
wounded. Four thousand dollars was
stolen. Rurales are in pursuit of the
highwaymen. The mine belongs to
an American company.
NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FROM THE STATE OF OREGON
TO PURIFY CAMPAIGN.
Corrupt Practices Act Restricts Can
didates' Acts.
Salem. The adoption' of the corrupt
V" a bv tho people af the elec-
i wui m w pun.
i campaign a vastly different one from
those which have been seen in Oregon
jn the last few years.
1 of ,mlki a C1f,' u whieh sn itor
Bourne mrui0 popular iu Oregon, will be
k. cxtQnaivlclf used in the future.
Two features of the corrupt practices
t ,j t j t act.om,,l,sl ting CU(
one H limitation ou c ' .litures, an,
t, n re(jUimm.nt that paid ad
1. be 80V,llarked. irn,iubtedh
; in purifying elections, though some of
its provisions seem unnecessarily st
vere.
Publicity in the matter of campaign
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v a 1 n; in luuio 13 uiiu in liJU muni imiiui i.
requirement8 0f the aw and her0.
nftl,p it wU1 l0 neePSSarv for candidates
. managers to kpep an amnint
jjlor all expenses and file it within 13
I days after the primary or general elec
turn, showing v contributions to cam
Ipaign funds and the purposes for whieh
all money was spent. Candidates are
permitted to use one page of a pamphlet
to be issued by the state for the pur
pose of giving the voters information
' concerning them, each candidate to pav
I for the space occupied, and in excess of
h campaign 15 per cent of one
year's salary, and in a general cam-
pign 10 per cent of one year's salar.
though any candidate may spend as
much as $100 if the percentage should
be less than that. A candidate for
governor will hereafter be limited t ;
an expenditure of $i50 in a primary
campaign and $500 in a general cam
paign. CITIZENS TAKE INITIATIVE.
Plan Bonds to Raise Money to Im
prove Siuslaw Bar.
Eugene. The citizens of the Sius
law valley, on the coast of Lane coun
ty, are becoming tired waiting for
the government to improve the bar at
the mouth of the Siuslaw river so ves
sels can pass out or in without delay,
and a plan is being discussed to raise
funds for the undertaking in another
way. It is proposed to bond that
part of the county lying west of the
Coast range of mountains for 30 or
40 years, and use the money thus
raised in building jetties at the mouth
of the river. It is thought by the
promoters of the scheme that $100,000
could be raised easily in this way, and
that with this sumv considerable start
could be made toward constructing
the jetty. It is hoped by the time
this sum is expended the national gov
ernment would be ready to take up
the work and push it to completion.
To meet the interest on the bonds
each year, it is proposed to collect a
toll of perhaps 25 cents per thousand
feet on the lumber and a proportion
ate sum on other articles exported
from the towns at the mouth of the
river. Later a sinking fundcould be
raised in the same way to pay off the
bonds when they become due. In
this way the expense of building the
jetty would be borne by the indus
tries directly benefited by the work.
Reject Dam Bids.
Klamath Falls. The secretary of
the interior has rejected the bids on
the Clear lake dam, a part of the
Klamath irrigation project, ou ac
count of the high figures, together
with the fact that land owners in that
section have still five per cent more
land to sign up to bring the total up
to the required 80 per cent. The two
bids submitted were by Ma honey
Bros., of San Francisco. $ 11 5,770, and
Maney Bros., of Winnemucca, $1SS,
!so. The government , may readver
tise for bids, or do the work by force
account.
Good Progress on Calapooia Line
Brownsville. The new railroad up
flip Pntinrinin rivpr from P.rnvvnsvillf1
,is being surveyed. Work on the line
will commence soon. The line will
run out from South Brownsville and
thence east for about 20 miles to
Cravvfordsville and Holley. This will
be of great advantage to the town
It will open up a vast timber belt said
to be the finest in the state. The big
dam across the river is about com
pleted. Brownsville will soon have
electric lights again
Albany Will Retaliate.
Albany. Because they believe the
Southern Pacific railroad is seeking
to retaliate in erecting a small and
inexpensive depot to replace the pres
ent structure, following the action of
the city council in securing an order
from the state railroad commission
for a new depot here, the merchants
and heavy shippers, have decided to
combine and ship all their eastern
freight orders over the Northern Pa-
cific. nr some other line not owned by
Pendleton and The Dalles. Broncho-
bucking contests and baseball will
form a part of the programme, while
a number of carnival features will also
be added.
Young Chosen at Milton.
Milton. . E. Young, recently prin
cipal of Moore's school, in this valley.
has been appointed orincipal of the
Milton school. The directors had
previously engaged R. J. Davies, but
this wqk he notified th; trustees of
his refusal of the position. Mr. Davis
.will teach at Nyasse, Ore.
I
WILL CEMENT CANAL.
Seepage CausesWashout on Umatilla
Irrigation Ditch.
Pendleton. A section of the main
feed canal of the Umatilla irrigation,
project about 40 feet in length was
washed out between Foster and Echo,
the cause of the washout being seep
age water, which has constantly
drained through the porous soil at
that point. The O. R. & N. track is
within a few feet of the canal at that
point, and the grade has been softened
for about half- a mile by the seepage.
The government engineers have de
cided to cement a section of the canal
there. It is estimated it will cost
$21, too to complete the cement work
necessary. Owing to the strong How
tinder the tracks, the company has
kept track walkers constantly there
for several months. All trains have
run slowly over the place for sonic
time. Costly repairs will be made on
the O. R. & N. track. Water will be
turned off the feed canal while the re
pairs are in progress. ,
Posse Chases Horsethieves.
Baker City. In the country south
of Huntington officers are chasing a
band of horsethieves, who have been
practicing in Malheur county. It is
claimed the thieves are headed for
Baker county, with the probable hope
of being able to reach a transconti
nental railroad and get out of Oregon.
In the last few weeks many report
having lost horses, and there is a ru
mor that the gang sent up from Mal
heur some time ago and later par
doned by Governor Chamberlain has
completed a new organization, and is
operating in the same manner they
were a few years ago, when the tax
payers of eastern Oregon spent much
money and effort to capture them.
Coos Finds Oil.
Marshfield. The stir over oil in
Coos county, successfully held down
for several weeks past, has reached
the stage that facts cannot longer be
kept from the public. Oil men have
been here on investigating missions,
and corporations and individuals have
quietly been taking options for sev
eral weeks.' Actual crude oil has been
struck near Bandon, and gas has been
encountered in many places. Around
Coos Bay indications are sufficiently
strong to warrant large options and
extensive preparations for borings.
The Governor's View.
Salem. "There seems to be no
question of my election," said Gov
ernor Chamberlain, "and I am deeply
grateful to the people for the high
tribute which has been paid me. I
attribute my election to the State
ment No. 1 issue more than anything
else, considering the overwhelming
Republican majority in the state, and
had Cake stuck to that principle as
strongly after the election as he did
before he would have won out hands
down."
Open Gates at Hermiston. '
Pendleton. With hundreds of en
thusiastic excursionists in attendance
and ideal weather prevailing, the head
gates of the Umatilla irrigation pro
ject were thrown open at Hermiston
last week. An excursion train of six
coaches left this place, bearing a large
numoer 01 representative business
men and farmers, as well as repre
sentatives from Milton, Freewater,
Weston and Athena.
Monmouth Wants Freight Depot.
Salem. The Oregon railroad commis
sion has ordered that a hearing be had
at Moninonth, June lo, at 1:30 P. M.,
on the question of a Southern Pacific-
freight depot.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Club. 90c per bushel; red
Russian, 88c; bluestem, 92c; valley,
90c.
Barley Feed, $25.50 per ton; rolled,
$27. 50ft .28. 50; brewing, $20.
Oats No. 1 white, $27.50 per ton;
gray, $27.
Millstutfs Bran, $20 per ton; mid
dlings, $.10.50; shorts, country, $28.50;
city. $28.50; wheat and barley chop,
$27.50.
Hay Timothy. Willamette Valley,
$17 per ton: Willamette Valley, ordi
nary, $15; Eastern Oregon, $18.50;
mixed, $1G; clover, $14; alfalfa, $12;
alfalfa, meal. $20.
Dressed Meats Hogs, fancy, 8c per
pound; ordinary, 7c; large. 6c; veal,
extra. 7c; ordinary,- 0c; heavy, 5c;
mutton, fancy, 8(S;9c.
Butter Extras, 25c per pound;
fancy, 2-lc; choice, 20c; store, 16c.
Eggs Candled, 19(a20c per dozen;
uncandled, 19c per dozen.
Poultry Mixed chickens, lltf?12c
pound; fancy hens. 12tffl2c; roosters,
c; fryers, 20c; broilers. 22?c; ducks,
old. 17i8c; spring, 20?T22jc; geese,
8tfi 9c; turkeys, alive, 16i??18c for hens,
14rt7;i6c for gobblers; dressed., 17(r?19c.
Apples Select, $2.50 pe'r box;
fancy, $2; choice, $1.50; ordinary,
$1.25.
Potatoes Old. Oregons, choice,
70fa80c pet hundred.
..Fruits Strawberries. Oregon. 156?
17c per pound; gooseberries. 6c per
pound; apricots. $1.50 per crate.
Onions California red, $1.65(?Tl.75
per sack; Bermudas, $2 per crate; gar
lic. 15(a20c per pound.
Vegetables Iurnips, $1.50 per
sack: carrots. $1.5071.75; beets. $1.75;
parsnips, $125; cabbage. $1.75(a2 per
cvt.; beans. ll?12jc per lb.; head
lettuce, 12l(fTl5c per dozen; aspara
gus, $1.50 box; egg plant. 20c per lb.;
parsley, 25c per dozen; peas, 5fi7c per
pound; peppers, 20c per pound; rad
ishes. 15c per dozen; rhubarb, 3c per
pound; spinach, 3c per pound.
Hops 1'ju, prime ana cnoice, 5M'i
6c per pound; olds, 2r3c per pound. ;
Wool Eastern Oregon, average
best. 1115c per pound, according to!
shrinkage; valley, lOfffiic.
Mohair Choice. 18(18jc per lb.
Cascara Bark 3l4c per lb.
TWENTY-ONE DEAD.
Tornado Sweeps Path Along Kansas
Nebraska Line.
Omaha, Neb., June 8, The tornado
which passed over Southern Nebraska
and portions of Northern Kansas Fri
day evening was the most destructive
atid covered the most territory of any
similar storm which dias visited the
state in many years. At least twenty
one persons are known to be dead,
five fatally injured and a score' of
others more or less seriously hurt,
some of them dangerously.
Additional repprts received state
that several persons were killed at
the towns of Byron, Neb., and Court
land, Kan., which towns have been
cut off from communication with the
outside world.
At Fairfield more than forty build
ings were more or less wrecked and
some of them, including three
churches, were demolished. The loss
will exceed $10(),Q()0.
In the vicinity of Ilickley farm
houses stood the brunt of the storm
and one or more fatalities are re
ported, with a number receiving in
juries, some of which will prove fatal.
Serious damage is reported from
Byron, ten miles west of Chester, at
tended by considerable fatalities, but
no details can be learned. All the!thc strcams j Helena and vicinity are
muies aic uui aim i oiiiiiiuuii.4uuii
by telegraph and telephone, is entire
ly cut off.
A telephone message from Hardy,
Neb,, says the town of Courtland,
Kan, just across the Nebraska line. in northern Montana is cut in several
was struck by the storm and that sev- placcs The first train startcd eastward
eral casualties occurred, but lack of out of Spokane over the Great Northern
communication makes confirmation is now ticd up There is no comnuini
impossible today. Trains m all direc- cation eilher , rail or telegraph,
tions are abandoned because of wash-1 A1! streams continue to rise. The
outs and destroyed roadbeds. At Ge- Big Blackfoot river is nearly its high
neva the storm wrought great de- j est flood mark.
struction. The Northern Pacific has lost sev,
The storm has covered such a wide erai miies of track cast of here duri
area and been so destructive wherever the day At Bonita. Nimrod and Bear
it touched the earth that it has almost moulh the telegraph operators have
caused a panic among the inhabitants. l)ccn compelled to leave their posts
Hundreds of farmers drove into town drivcn out by the rising waters. At
homeless.
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END 33 DAYS' RAIN STORM.
Rivers Begin to Fall, but Communi
cation is Stopped.
MUsnnl.i. Mont.. Tune 8 Saturda v
night at (i o'clock the sun broke c,fic released by wagon transfer 200 of
through the clouds after 33 days of tllL' passengers that have been marooned
rain and the rainfall, which had been east of here. They will be sent to Spo
fessening since morning, ceasrd. k-'"1-' on a made-up train.
The rivers show a lower mark than The damage to the new roadbed of
they did 24 hours ago and there is ll'e St. Paul line between Missoula
hope that the worst is over. But and Butte will not fall short of a mil
there has been great damage and it !lon dollars, and it is becoming greater
may be days or weeks before railroad a'' l'le time.
traffic is resumed to the eastward. The Northern Tacific has assembled on
All day Saturday Missoula was cut thls division all of the ptledrivers from
ff from the outside world. Not until t,le wt'st that it can get: it has taken
night had there been wire communi- from lls own western divisions and has.
cation and it consisted of a single borrowed from other roads. The fight,
line to the west and none to the east, against the water is being carried on by
Saturday night and Sunday morning i 10.000 men, but the water is gaining
the high water reached its maximum, steadily, and the rain continues to fall
registering the highest mark ever in torrents. The Missoula river at this,
known in this country. All of the P'ace is but a few feet below the high
city and county bridges are out and cst "i'k ever registered. The expensive
Missoula is divided into three dis- city bridges are in danger, and are
tricts, each of which is without com- guarded to prevent their use, so danger
munication with the outside. Three ous are they considered,
large residences in the city went down ! West of here the Northern Pacific
the river. Their occupants had been has no trouble as, yet.
warned and were out before the flood At midnight the Northern Pacific has
struck. The big log-jam of the Black-1 surrendered the fight against the water
foot Company has been held in place c-'ist f Missoula fur the present. Un
and the great power dam owned by less tIie rain stoPs soon, there will le
W. A. Clark is intact. (very little left of 150 miles of the most
The damage to farms in the bottom expensive road on the line. Two big;
lands will be great. The loss to the S'-1 bridges have been wtished out, but
city and county will run far into the it is not understood that they are de
thousands and cannot be estimated stroyed.
until the water goes down'. The out- The serious feature of the situation is.
look todav is encouraging and it is . the fact that the high water has ex-
bclicved the crisis has been passed.
MISSOURI ON RAMPAGE.
Continued Rains in Montana Cost 8
Lives and Much Property.
Great Falls. Mont., Tune 8. Never
before in the historv of Montana has
there been such a flood as has been
sweeping down the valley of the Mis
souri River and its tributaries. Five
lives have already been lost in the
waters in this vicinitv, and the dam
age to farms, railroads and industrial
and commercial institutions will run
into the millions. The river is at the ',n inc stari.oani engine room Hirst tin
highest point ever known since the (icr a .'.-iioiind pressure, killing four
first settlement of Montana and it is ,m'n a,,d injuring ten others ad of the
still rising I mcn 111 tMC compartment at the time.
Some of the smaller outside towns , Tw" of lll,e i."jred will die.
are in even worse condition than is I 1 he explosion, the cause of which is
Great Falls. At last reports Choteau J'1'1 unknown, occurred only a few nun
was completely surrounded by water utcs afur Admiral Uriel Sebrce, Cap
and all bridges were pone. A large. ,am J- B- Howard and Chief Engineer
part of Belt was partially under water
and the people had taken to the high
grou nd.
Canadian Bridges Go Out.
Mcl.cod. Alberta, June 8. The Ca
nadian Pacific bridge at West Mc-
T.eod was swent awav Fridav nieht.
St. Marv's bridge, between here and the proposed present to Canton guilds
I.ethbridge, is a total wreck and the if the boycott is discontinued. Mean
Canadian Pacific numninir station ' while advices from north China and
has been swept into the river. . The Manchuria state that, owing to the ac
bridge at Browket on the Crow's Nest tivity of the Cantonese emissaries, the
line is expected to go at any time, movement is rapidly spreading through
and mail and freight and passenger out the north. The emissaries arc work
traffic is at a standstill. Rain con- ing systematically and secretly. Their
tinnes to fall in torrents. Farms for literature makes no mention either of
many miles around arc inundated and the boycott or of Japan, speaking of
houses have floated away, and the loss ''the national disgrace with reference to
will be enormous. j the country responsible," which the Chi-
I nesc all understand means Japan.
Machine Shops Burn.
Victoria, B. C, June 8. The three j
machine shops of the Victoria Ma- I
chinery Depot Company, Limited,
were destroyed by fire Saturday even-
ing, w hich broke out at 8 o clock, do- . . . T '
ing $180,000 damage and throwing ,n thc trlal of Wa,tcr J- Bartnctt, the
150 men out of work. The insurance alleged bank wrecker, this morning,
amounted to $30,000. The fire was Nearly every man called had some ail
caused, it is thought, bv thc fire from ment. Most of them were deaf, cither
the moulding room. Usually it is the m one car or tne other, and Judge Con
custom to send out men to watch the ley finally stated that it seemed that
sparks from this source, but on Satur- the veniremen were drawn from in
day night the precaution was omitted, firmaries or hospitals. Only one man
T":ir Strikes Oklahoma.
rinrinf rVL-ln Tuna D A t
which sweot over a territory 12 miles
west . of Durant Saturday night de-
stroyed a dozen farm houses and with
a heavy storm of hail, which accom-
panied it, did damage .estimated at
$150,000. A number of persons are
reported injured, none fatally.
MONTANA CUT
OFF BY WATER
Rising Floods Break Communication
by Wire andRail. .
Long Stretches of TrackJWashed Out
and More Likely to Go Deluge
Still Continues Many Passengers
Marooned on Trains in Out-of-the-Way
Places.
Missoula, Mont., June 6. At 5 o'clock
last cevening the flood situation in west
ern Montana was grouping more serious
each minute, Helena is cut off from
the outside world. She is without rail
way, telegraph or telephone communica
tion. For a short time in the afternoon
there was a telephone connection, and
at the time it was leayied that all of
overflowing, and that there has been
much damage to farms and consider
able loss of livestock. .
The Great Northern's branch lines
1 are 0llt of scrvice, and' the main line
uarrison nearly an tne residents nave
lied from their homes and are camped
upon the hills in the rain.
None of the dams on the river have
given way, though the power dam
owned by ex-Senator William A. Clark,
.above Missoula, is reported to be in a
critical condition.
' Yesterday afterr
' Yesterday afternoon the Northern Pa-
tended west of Missoula, and is attack
ing the track hetween Missoula and the
west end of the state. The Idaho di
vision has sent a big force of men over
to help in the fight on the west end.
CRUISER'S BOILER. BURSTS.
Four Men Killed by Explosion on Ten-
nessee at San Pedro.
San Pedro. Cal., June 0. While the
United States armored cruiser Tennes
see was steaming at 19 knots per b ur
on speed trial oif Ponit Huenenie, Cal..
at 11 :0:s yesterday morning, a steam pipe
"oncriM-ii nau icii inc engine room ou
a tour of inspection. Four of the mei
were killed instantly, and two more are
expected to die at any moment.
Boycott Is Spreading.
fokio, June 6. Two hundred thou-
and yen is now indicated as the size of
Judge Administers Rebuke.
San Francisco, June 6. Judge Conley
administered a rebuke to the veniremen
,ilr, ,r 0...r,.1t;n,T to -,,!., ;..., ,!...,.
was passed touay.
Bringing Back the Meat.
London, June 6. It is declared here
today that 210,000 pounds of American-
meat that has been stored in London
Glasgow and Liverpool was todaj re-
shipped by fast, steamer to New York
to meet the continued shortage of meat
in the United States.