Heppner Gazette
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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.
The Indiana legislature had passed a
local option law.
A strainer lias arrived at San Fran
cisco with a ease of cholera.
Turkey is arranging for its first clec
tion when a parliament will be selected
The American battleships Maine and
Atlanta have left Naples on their way
home.
English authorities declare the sav
ings banks in schools of .London nav
proven a failure.
The Canadian Pacific is said to have
bought the White Pass railroad, which
runs from Skagway to uitenorse.
Some of the railroads arc almost short
ou rolling stock after months when
there were idle cars on every sidetrack
The coroner's jury hold the freight
crew to blame for the wreck on the
Northern Pacific at Youngs Point, Mon
tana.
The first word from Peary has been
received bv the Perv Arctic club. He
left North Greenland for the north Au
gust 1".
Miss Katherine Elkins, of West Vir
crinin. will marrv an Italian duke. On
their way home the couple will be es
corted by several Italian warsnips.
Leslie Carter, one-time capitalist
and promoter of Chicago, is dead.
Cholera in Manila will prevent the
reception to the fleet as planned.
Fire at Oakland, Cal., destroyed al
most an entire block, entailing a loss
of $100,000.
Tli wind has died down and dan
ger from the Eureka, Cal., forest fires
has greatly abated.
J. E. W. Clark, an Alaskan, is on a
visit to Pacific coast cities and has
just seen his first trolley car.
The epidemic of cholera at Manila
seems to be under control, ine uuny
average of new cases has tallen De
low 30.
Roosevelt has refused to grant a
petition to stop Sunday baseball in the
army, declaring that the game is fine
exercise for the men.
A combination has been formed by
Pacific and Atlantic steamship com
rmVe to secure European trade in
competition with the transcontinental
railroads.
Representatives from the principal
cities of the Pacific coast have started
on a trip to Japan to cultivate the
frinrllv relations of the brown dus
iness men and offset anti-Japanese
sentiment.
Thaw has been summoned to Pitts
burg for contempt in connection with
his bankruptcy proceedings. This is
said to be a part of the scheme to
liberate him.
Charges of bribery are being made
in Indiana's local option fight.
Rockefeller had a narrow escape
from injury in an automobile acci
dent.
Eastern Oregon has had' its first
snow. Only a flurry lasting a few
minutes fell.
Portland is to close up its red light
district, and extra police have been
provided for the purpose.
A fire believed to be of incendiary
ripctmvpH $100,000 worth of
property at Redding, Cal.
Wu Ting Fang. Chinese minister
to the United States, is to be replaced
in November. Chung Men Yew is to
be his successor.
The French bark Vendee, from
Portland for the United Kingdom,
has gone ashore off the California
coast, and may be a total loss. She
carried wheat.
General Bell, while in the Yellow
stone park, rode 300 miles on horse
back, averaging 100 miles a day, thus
proving his fitness, according to the
Roosevelt test.
As special officers were about to
raid a counterfeiter's den near Seattle,
the building took fire and burned.
One man was caught with bar metal
on his person.
Bv the explosion of a gun at Tou
lon 13 French sailors were killed and
a cruiser badly damaged.
Hearst may run for governor of!
New York on the Independent ticket.
Authorities believe that the vigor
mis methods employed have checked
the spread of cholera in the Philip
pines. Fire destroyed the plant of the
Portland Mill "& Fixture company at
Portland, entailing a loss of $35,000.
The legislative halls of Indiana
was the scene of a small riot until
police interferred. Local option was
the trouble.
A thousand small fires surround
Lakes Superior and Huron and the
northern part ot Lake .Micniga!.
Many settlements are cut off from
communication and their fate is in
doubt.
Charles Oliver, special detective,
has been sent to jail for two days for
approaching a juror in one of the
Ruef cases.
Germany objects to France receiv
ing preference over any other power
in Moroccan affairs.
IGNORANCE OF SANITATION.
Lower Classes in Russia Refuse to
Be Vaccinated.
St. Petersburg, Sept. 29 Sinoo the
beginning of the epidemic thero have
been 15,(iS3 cases of Asiatic cholera re
ported in Russia and ,-7102 deaths. In
St. Petersburg nlone, since the presence
of the diseaso was officially admitted
September 8, there have been 4,031 cases
uiul 1,871 deaths reported.
The figures with reference to the in
vasion of this city by the diseaso can
not be relied upon ns on a number of
occasions authoritative sources showed
the number of cases anddeaths in a
single day to be far in excess of that
announced by the authorities. There is
an appreciable betterment of the sani
tary conditions and consequent decrease
in the disease ns shown by the figures
given out Sunday.
For the 24 hours ending at noon the
number of new cases in the city was
208 and the number of deaths 143, as
compared with 312 new cases and 133
deaths for the previous 24 hours.
Difficulty has been experienced in
dealing with the workmen of St. Toters
burg, who with their families comprise
three-fifths of the population for they
were unable and unwilling to comply
with the sanitary precautions. The
ignorance of the lower classes and their
superstition greatly increase the diffi
culties of the situation. During the
earlier stages of the epidemic few could
be prevailed upon to undergo preventive
inoculation, which is provided free of
charge, but latterly the authorities
have made inoculation compulsory in
some quarters of the city.
SITUATION MOST SERIOUS.
Unbroken Drouth in East Is Raising
Havoc With Industries.
Pittsburg, Sept. 29 With losses ag
gregating several million dollars from
forest fires, and heavy damage to crops
and livestock, and the reported loss of
a number of lives due to fighting tim
ber fires; the enforced idleness of thou
sands of workmen owing to suspensions
because of lack of water; the authori
ties anticipating serious epidemics of
contagious diseases, and many small
streams dried up and practically oblit
erated, the drouth of .1908, which has
held western Pennsylvania, eastern
Ohio and West Virginia for two months,
remains unbroken. While in the Titts
burg district the water supply is suffi
cient to carry on all business, the low
stage of the rivers has caused a con
gestion of much coal in this vicinity,
Every available barge and float has
been loaded with coal, and at present
there are almost 20,000,000 bushels in
the Pittsburg harbor.
About 15,000 miners employed in the
river mines along the Monongahela val
ley are out of work.
In all sections of the dry zone pray
ers are offered up daily and these pray
ers will continue until they are an
swered with rain.
STUDENTS FIGHT DISEASE.
Drafted in Manila to Battle With Epi
demic of Cholera.
Manila, Sept. 29. There were 14 new
cases of cholera and three deaths re
ported for the 24 hours ending at 8
o'clock yesterday morning. Practically
the entire staffs of the bureau of sci
ences and the local medical schools have
been drafted into the service to fight
the disease. The two senior classes of
the medical schools are acting as nurses.
A serious situation is caused by the
supply of disinfectants running very
low. The bureau of sciences is experi
menting with electricity and sea water
to produce chlorine for use until the
new supplies of disinfectants arrive.
Enormous quantities of disinfectants
have been used in vigorous efforts to
cleanse the entire citv.
New Party in Cuba.
Havana, Cuba, Sept. 29. That the
Liberal party will lose the entire negro
vote in the coming election seems as
sured, as the result of an attack made
on a mass meeting of negroes by a mob
of Liberals. The fact that the negro
element proposed to form a national
partv angered the Liberals, as they saw
that such a party would draw more from
their ranks than from the Conserva
tives. General Estcnoz, leader of the
cgrocs. has announced that his party
is a certaintv, as his followers cannot
hore to secure their rights without a
party of their own.
New Road to Peace River.
Vancouver. H. ('., Sept. 29. A special
dispatch from Winnipeg says: The Ca
nadian Pacific is rushing its sur
vev through from a point near Atha
basca leading to Grand Prairie, north
of Edmonton. Alberta. From thorp the
main line is bpnig extemled to I'jne
Pass. The company is concent rating its
efforts on a survey through Pine Pass
ami from that point tre line will be ex
tended through British Columbia to a
point north of Prince Rupert.
New Coal Field Found.
Victoria, B. C.. Sept. 29.A rich find
of good coal with a seam eight feet in
width has been located as a result of
the boring at Peep Hay. Vancouver Is
land, about three miles south of Union
Bay, by the Wellington Colliery com
pany of R. Dunsmuir's Sons. The seam
will be worked as soon as arrangements
an be made to sink on it.
NEWS NOTES GATHERED FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF OREGON
SURVEYORS ARE BUSY.
Alturas-Midland Line Now Behoved to
Be Assured.
Klamath Falls. Engineer B. F.
Knowlton, of the Southern Pacific
company, is establishing a large sur
vey camp near Merrill, and is buying
horses and supplies on an extensive
scale. The survey is supposed to be
a line from Alturas to connect with
the California Northeastern railway
at Midland, eight miles below Klam
ath Falls. Incorporation papers were
filed some weeks ago for the Modoc
Northern railway, and Engineer
Knowlton's surveying party is be
lieved to be here for the purpose of
determining the location of this road
from northern California into south
ern Oregon.
A railroad construction camp has
also been established two and a half
miles south of this city, where a sub
contractor of Ericson and Peterson
lias a contract for a mile and a half
of grade, to connect with the grade
already completed through the marsh.
WALNUTS IN HIGH FAVOR.
Hundreds of Acres to Be Planted in
Yamhill County.
McMinnville. The planting of Eng
lish walnuts in this county will be
done on a grand scale during the
coming season. This year over 1000
acres were planted. A tract of 1000
acres has been platted near Amity and
sold to be planted to walnuts. The
Oak Hill farm, near North Yamhill,
recently sold, has 40 or 50 acres in
trees, a good portion of them bearing,
and the remainder of the 1016 acres
will be planted to trees. The Jacobs-
Stine company, of Portland, has late
ly acquired title to the Riverside or
chards tract lying east of this city,
ind comprising 500 -acres, which is
platted to sell to walnut planters.
business and professional men and
the neighboring farmers have set
apart at least 1000 acres for immediate
walnut planting in the vicinity of
McMinnville, whose name, the "Wal
nut City,'' is no empty one, since it
will soon have 1500 acres of walnuts
in its vicinity.
Democrats File Nominations.
Salem. The Democratic party filed
its nominations for presidential elect
ors with the secretary of state Sep
tember 18. It was the last dav for
filing. The names of electors are as
follows: E. S. J. McAllister. Port
land; Samuel White, Baker City; Au
gust Huckenstein. Salem, and O. D
Coshovv, Roseburg. The Democrats
were last to file their nominations
The Socialists filed their nomination
first on July 29, the Republicans and
Prohibitionists together on Septem
ber 10.. and the Independents followed
on September 16.
Hay Is Very High.
Klamath Falls. Growers of alfalfa
hay in Klamath county are holding up
the price, and as a result cattlemen
say they cannot afford to buv. I lav
is scarce this year, and cattle owners
are having difficulty in securing hay
at prices to enable them to sell at
profit. H. V. Mitchell has just pur
chased 1200 tons of Shasta valley at
$7 per ton, and will feed there, as
Klamath enmity ranchers ask $s and
$S.50 per ton.
Spring Wheat Goes 40 Bushels.
Hillsboro. E. W. Dant. who
threshed out of Reedville for 29 sea
sons, states that he recently turned
out 3000 bushels of wheat raised on
the Hare ranch, a mile south of Hills
boro, that produced -10 bushels to the
acre. I his has not been uncommon
in this county this season for winter
wheat, but this grain was sown this
spring, spring oats, however, are re
ported as light all over the county.
Wallowa to Have Courthouse.
Enterprise The countv court has
accepted plans for a courthouse, to cost
30,000. Bids for foundation and base
nient will be advertised for immediate
ly in order that the foundation at least
may lie put in this fall. Wallowa pnwn-
ty has been set apart from Union coun
ty 20 years, and this will be the first
ourthouso erected in the countv.
Multnomah's Good Showiug.
Portland. That only 1 per cent of
the taxes imposed in Multnomah
countv will be delinquent on the first
Monday in October is the showing ex
pected from figures now available in
the tax collection department of the
sheriff's office. The estimated 1e
linquencv is $.12.200 12. on a tax roll
that totals $3,226,564.25.
La Grande Faces Coal Famine.
La Grande. Unless the coal slrikp
in Montana comes to an abrupt end
I. a Grande will experience a coal
famine. In fact there is only suf
ficient coal on hand with the local
dealers to fill passenger orders, and
no more can be had. The coal situa
tion is grave.
Athena Wheat Nearly Sold.
Athena. Nearly all of the wheat in
this section has not only been sold,
but has been delivered and shipped.
This is contrary to the usual order
of things, inasmuch as th shipping
season heretofore has lasted for sev
eral months.
HORSES FOR HAWAII.
Island Planter Has Buyer in Klama.h
Falls Country.
Klamath Falls. John T. Raker, a
large land owner and influential man
of affairs of the Hawaiian islands, has
been hunting in Klamath county the
past two weeks, and has just ordered
a carload of Klamath county horses
shipped to his ranch in the islands.
.Mr. Baker came to the United States
with Prince David and a party, ex
pecting to hunt in the wilds of Ore
gon, Washington and Alaska. On ac
count of the death of Prince David
in San Francisco all plans were
changed, and Mr. Baker went back
to Honolulu with the body. On his
return to San Francisco the Klamath
country was recommended to him as
excellent hunting grounds near jat
hand. He was delighted with hi
hunt, and expects to come back next
year with a party ot friends.
Henry Straw, a local liprse dealer.
has charge of the buying of a carload
of horses for Mr. Baker, and is to de
liver them at the ranch in Hawaii.
Send Eugeue Apples East.
Eugene. The Lane County Fruit
and Vegetable Growers' association
will ship from 20 to 30 carloads of ap
pies to Eastern and Southern States
this fall, with the purpose of estab
lishing the reputation of this section
of the Willamette Valley as an apple
country. All apples that are shipped
will be of good quality and well
packed. Some fine apples are grown
about Engene, and the country has
suttered a good deal by the careless
orcharist, who did not care what went
out of the country. But this year the
association is in control, and nothing
but the best apples will go to make
Lane county s reputation.
Rare Ones on Beach
Waldport. George W. Blodgett, a
lapidist of Portland, is camped with
a party of Portland people on the
beach south of Waldport. Mr. Blocl
gett has found some very beautiful
and valuable, stones while here, one
in particular being a large, clear agate
containing pyrites of iron on fernlike
forms. The stone is large enough to
be cut into seven smaller stones about
an inch long. Just such a stone is
not described in geology. Mr. Thomas
the veteran lapidist at Newport, says
the small pieces are worth $100 each.
G thering Coos Bay Data.
Marshfield. Colonel W. II. Hola
bird, of San Francisco, is in Coos Bay
as Mr. Harriman's representative to
report on business conditions relative
to the building of the Coos Bay-Drain
railroad. 1 lie committee recently ap
pointed to confer with Mr. Harriman
at Roseburg will assist Mr. Holabircl
in gathering necessary data as to the
freight business in prospect for the
new road. Mr. Holabird is the guest
ot Oeneral Manager C. J. Millis, o
the Southern Pacific railroad.
Will Rebuild Sawmill.
JTillamook. Several Tillamook cit
izens have made arrangements to re
build the sawmill of the Tillamook
Lumbering company, which was
burned down last October, and have
incorporated the Tillamook Lumber
Manufacturing company for that .pur
pose, with a capital stock placed at
$10,000.
PORTLAND MARKETS,
Barley Feed, $26 per ton; rolled.
Z7.o0frt.28.50; brewing, $20 50.
Oats io. 1 -white, $30 per ton;
gray, $29.
Vheat Club. 8!)c per bushel: fortv-
loiu. 02c; turkey red, 92c: fife. 80c:
bluestem. 03c; valley, 91c.
Hay limothy, Willamette Valley.
$14 per ton; Willamette Valley, ordi
nary, $11; Eastern Oregon, $16.50:
mixed, $13; clover. $9; alfalfa. $11:
alfalfa meal, $20.
Fruit Apples, new, 50c(fr$1.25 per
box; peaches, 40(fr75c per box; pears.
.:cfr$l per box; plums. 50cw$l per
box; grapes, 40c(a$1.25 per crate;
Wordens.' 2025c per basket; huckle
berries, SrJilOc per pound; quinces.
$1 25tfi '.1.50 per box; ground cherries,
oc per box.
Potatoes S.'.faOOc per hundred;
sweet potatoes, 2c per pound.
-Melons Cantaloupes. 50fo 75c per
crate; watermelons. JffTlc per pound;
casabas, $1.75 per dozen.
Vegetables Iurnips. $1.50 per sack;
carrots, $1.75; parsnips, $1.75; beets,
$1.50; artichokes, 65c per doz.; beans,
3tf; 4c per pound; cabbage, 2c per lb.:
cauliflower, $1.25 dozen; celery, 75crtT
$1 per dozen; corn, 75ctf;$l per sack;
cucumbers. 30fa40c per box; egg
plant. 50cf$1.25 per crate; lettuce,
head, 15c per dozen; parsley, 15c per
lozen; peas, 6c per pound; peppers.
HffilOc per pound; pumpkins, Krl'.c
per pound; radishes, 12c per dozen;
pinach, 2c per pound; sprouts, 0c
'er pound; son-';h. He per pound:
tomatoes. 17 ''ft 25c.
Butter Extras, 3(c per pound:
fancy. 3:'c; choice, 30c: store. ISr.
Eggs Oregon extras, 29'ft30c:
firsts. 27ft2Sc; seconds, 23 26c:
Lnstcrn. 26$727c per dozen.
Poultry I',incy hens. 13ic: spring.
14jc; ducks, old. 12(ol2jc; spring, 14
'rl5c; geese, old, 9c; young. lOfallc;
turkeys, old lTtfilfic; young, 20c.
Veal Extra, H(nc per pound; or
dinary, 7'ftTJc; heavy, 5c.
Pork Fancy, 85c per pound; ordi
nary, 6c; large, 5c.
Hops Oregon, 19n, 7(8c per lb.;
1907. 2jTi 4c; 1906, .lifff lie' "
Wool F.astern Oregon, average
best. lOtfrlfiJc per pound, according
'o shrinkage: valley, 1515jc. Mo
hair, choice, 18(al8jc per pound.
RUSSIA BEGRUDGES MONEY.
Bureaucracy Weighs Dollars Heavier
Than Human Life.
St. Petersburg, Sept. 28 Tho bu
reaucraey of St. Petersburg is weighing
dollars against human life, and as a ro
suit Russia is today thrcutenod with
one of tho gravest cholera Bcourgcs in
tho history of tho empire.
Premier Stolypin, into whoso hands
the work of enforcing imperative sani
tary reforms was recently placed, is
meeting; with discouragement from those
in authority on every hand. They are
protesting vigorously against tho enor
inous expense involved in cleaning up
tho city, and as a result of their oppo
sition the work will probably be, only
nair uone.
One of Premier Stolypin 's proposals
is a complete new system of sewerage,
the estimated cost of which is $40,000,
000.
It is being pleaded that the advent
of cold weather will put an end to tho
cholera spread, whereas tho history of,
all cholera plagues has been that cold
weather is but a temporary check, being
toliowed in the ensuing spring by a re
currence or the scourge.
Bad as conditions are in St. Teters
burg, they are hardly to be compared
with the menacing aspect of the dis
ease in other parts of tho empire. In
scores of towns tho wretched poverty of
the people, covered with the ignorance
and superstition against remedial meas
ures, makes the work of guarding
against tho fearful outbreak in the
spring an utter impossibility.
Doctors are appallod at the prospect
and say that whatever tho outcome in
St. Petersburg, thero is no hope of im
provement elsewhere.
It is estimated that throughout Rus
sia thero have already been 18,000
deaths from cholera. In many towns
5 per cent of the cases have terminated
fatally.
ABOLISH COLONIST RATES.
Plan Almost Unanimously Approved
by Western Railroads.
Chicago, Sept. 28. The colonization
of the western country is going to be
materially retarded if railroads be
tween Chicago and tho Pacific Coast
carry out a plan which has been ad
vanced bv. executive officials. A prop
osition has received the approval of
nearly every railroad in the Western
Passenger association to abolish all low
or reduced rates after January 1, 1909.
This determination has been reached
because of the alarm felt over the re
duction in net passenger revenues of
western roads. This reduction is laid at
tho door of reduced rates, and genuine
alarm is felt for the future. Railroad
officials declare that with tho 2-cent
rate generally there can be no reduced
rate without passing the margin of
profit.
It is estimated that western roads
have lost this season several millions
of dollars in passenger reveuues, com
pared with what hey would have en
joyed had they maintained a minimum
2-cent rate west of Chicago. This con
clusion is based upon careful statistics
prepared by the Alton andother rail
roads, which show that railroads have
carried more passengers than ever, but
at a less net revenue than accrued from
a smaller movement. This can mean
only one thing, it is said, and that is
the return of a minimum 2-cent rate
everywhere.
It is not expected that this change
can bo brought about until the first of
the year, but it now seems certain that,
if the public desires reduced rates, they
can be had only by a return to the
3-cent basis.
CHINESE AVOID HEAD TAX.
Hundreds Admitted Into Canada on
False Statement.
Ottawa, Ont., Sept. 28 A scheme has
just been laid bare by the controller of
Chinese immigration at Ottawa, which
is believed to be the most elaboratelv
conceived fraudulent device for eject
ing the Chinese "invasion" of Canada
ever perpetrated.
Bv means of this device hundreds of
young Celestials have been flocking in
at the eastern ports of the Dominion
ami escaping the $500 head tax by
passing themselves off as merchants or
other privileged classes. Canada has
thus been victimized through honoring
certificates of the charge d'affaires ad
interim and consul general at the im
perial Chinese legation in Mexico.
Statistics in the trade and commerce
department here show that 280 Chinese
immigrants were admitted into Canada
recently at the ports of Montreal and
Halifax alone, without paying the head
tax and that not more than 15 Chinese
should have been so favorod.
Land Grab Thwarted.
San Francisco, Sept. 28 State Min
eralogist Anbury after a long fight has
compelled II. II. Yard & Co., speculators
associated with the Western Pacific, to
release their hold on 13,000 acres of rich
mineral land in Plumas and Butte coun
ties. This land was located bv Yard
and his associates some years ago. Later
Anbury filed an action in the land of
fice on the ground that while it had
been taken as mineral land and wa
known to contain minerals, the land
was desired for railroad purposes. The
land office has now cancelled the filing.
Russia Seizes Yankee Gold
Nome, Alaska, Sept. 25. Apparent
ly without warrant and with no ex
ilanation given, the gunbo-tt Chilka
be'ong'ng to the Russian government
with the Russian governor aboard'
seized $10. onn from American miner
who had been working in Anadir. Si
beria.. on September 15. The miners
vvcre working under an agreement
made bv John Roscne, of the North
east Siberia company, with Czar.
Nicholas II.
Work for Young Teddy.
Hartford. Conn., Sept. 28 Theodore
Tfooseve't. Jr.. is to begin service with
'he Uartford Carnet Works at Thomn
sonville today. It is thought he will
enter the operating department.
TWENTY KILLED
IN TRAIN WRECK
Passenger and freight Trains Crash.
Together In Montana.
Not One in Smoking Car Escaped
Death or Injury Blinding Snow
Storm Prevented Engineer Seeing
Danger Ahead Freight Should
Have Been on Siding.
Butte, Mont.. Sept. 26. In the
worst wreck in the history of the
Northern Pacific Railroad, 20 persons,
were killed, 10 seriously injured, sev
eral fatally and about 30 more or less
injured in a collision between passen
ger train No. 16, known as the east
bound Burlington flyer, and a west
bound freight train, at 8:10 o'clock
yesterday morning, at a siding known
as Youngs Point, about thirty miles
west of Billings. The fast traveling
passenger train crashed into the
freight just entering on the siding dur
ing a blinding snow storm, the en
gineer of the passenger failing to see
the signal Hag of the brakeman of the
freight train in time to avert the
crash.
A heavy, wet snow which was fall
ing at the time prevented the wreck
from catching tire, and undoubtedly
held the death list down to the figures
given, livery effort is being made by
the division forces, aided by volun
teers from Livingston and Billings, to
clear the wreck, and so far they are
able to prevent further loss of life.
.None of .the passengers from the
sleeping cars was injured. The train
was made up of an engine, baggage
car, smoker, a day coach and two.
Pullman sleepers.
1 he efforts to prevent fire were suc
cessful and that horror was saved the
wrecked passengers. On the arrival
of the relief train the injured were
transferred around the wreck and
taken to Billings.
Ihe express car was raised over the
platform of the smoker, and swept
superstructure, seats and passengers
off. Not a passenger in this car es
caped death or injury. The other pas
sengers escaped with cuts and bruises.
I he scenes around the smoker were-
beyond description, heads, bodies, leg
and arms being interwoven with
broken seats and equipment. In one
place live bodies were packed on ton.
of each other. In another seven had
to be pulled apart. It was almost im
possible to succor the injured without
trampling on the dead.
Railroad men, while refusing to be
quoted officially or allowing their
names to be used because of the reg
ulations of the road in connection
with publicity as to wrecks, intimate
that the freight train was stealing;
time, that it had no orders to proceed
to Youngs Point and should have
waited at Park City, about six miles
from the scene of the wreck, for the
passenger train. This is supposed to
explain wny t tie Murlington train was
traveling about 50 miles an hour past
the siding.
WOULD KILL ROOSEVELT.
Several Plats Uncovered in Different
Parts of Europe.
Bayonne, France. Sent. 26 Evi-
dence of an anarchistic plot against
President Rooseve't of the United
States was yesterday made public by
the secret police of several European
countries.
Spanish secret service agents dis
overed traces of the plot while exam
ining Can.atrava, the famous Spanish
anarchist, in an effort to connect him
with the suspected plot against the
life of the king of Spain.
I apers were also found on two Ital
ian anarchists arrested at Sessrt. Swit
zerland, Wednesday, containing the
most definite information possible re-
Tarding Roosevelt's African trip.
They are now being held at Geneva iii
in effort to obtain further informa
tion against them.
There has been much activity noted
among the anarchists of Europe dur
ing the nnst few weeks, but this is the
first definite information that has been
secured ns to the nature of their plans.
Hope to Save Stranded Cruiser
Newport. R. T Sept. 20 The work
of extricating the United States
cruiser Yankee from her position on
Spindle Rock, where she struck dttr
;ng a fog on Wednesday, was cen
tered yesterday in the construction nf
a wooden coffer-dam about the ves
sel. ' It is believed it. will take almost
i week to erect the same, and it may
he a week or more before the vessel
's finally freed. Should the seas con
tinue smooth during that time it is an
ticipated that the work will progress
without serious danger to the cruiser.
Pauper's Grave for a Gould.
Los Angeles. Sept. 26. Officials of
'he county hnsrtital are awaiting the
'ecisjnn of George. Howard and
Melon Gould and the Princes De
Sri gen as to whether their cousin, Mel
vin A. Gould, shall be buried in the
notters' field. Gould died Thursday
night at the age of 71. lie had been
in invalid seven years and had a hard
'ight to supnort himself. lie appealed
fo his relatives, but they refused he!r.
Two weeks ago he was compcljcd to
enter the county hospital.
Ruef Jury Half Completed.
San Francisco, Sent. 20. After a
month snent in examining taicsmen,
half of the jury necessary to trv Abra
ham Ruef, on the charge of bribery,
has been secured. After three neremn-
tory challenges had been used on each
side yesterday six 'jurors were ac-
eptea and sworn.