BEAVER STATE HERALD luwd two Friday GRESHAM ....................... OREGON EVENTS OF THE DAV Newsy Items Gathered from All Parts ol the World. Less Important but Not Las* Intar* esting Happening* from Point* Outside the State. By 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 A thousand small fires surround Lakes Superior and Huron and the northern part of Lake Michigan Many settlements are cut off from communication and their fate is in doubt. Authorities believe that the vigor ous 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. 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. A mob at Ft. Gaines. Ga.. hanged a negro who assaulted an officer. STEAMER ON ROCKS. CHOLERA IN ST. PETERSBURG. Star of Bengal Loses 110 of Crew and 8« Salmon Cargo. ! Government May Have to Proclaim Martial Law. Seattle, Wash, Sept 23 -Advice» last night from Alaska by the United States signal corps say that 110 men. including nine whites, were drowned in the wreck of the American bark Star of Bengal, on Coronation island, west of the Prince of Wale* archi­ pelago Twenty-seven of the vessel’s crew and passengers were saved The Star of Bengal belonged to the Alaska Packers’ association, and was on her wav to San Francisco with a cargo of 54 000 cases of salmon. In addition to her crew she carried too Chinese and Japanese who were employed in the canneries of the company and taken aboard at Fort Wrangel. The Star of Bengal took aboard cargo at Fort Wrangel. consisting of canned salmon, and started down Summer strait in tow of the tug* Hattie Gage and Kavak As the ves seis neared the open sea. where the sailing craft would have sea room to work off shore, the wind was stead ily freshening, blowing on shore. The tugs struggled valiantly to keep the ship clear of the rocks, but the wind drove it down on the rocks lining the shore of Coronation island, w hich lies at tlie mouth of Iphigenia bay, and to save themselves from destruction the steam vessels were forced to cast off the lines and head out to sea The Star of Bengal went onto the rocks in such a position that the tugs could not get near enough to give any assistance, and the Gage headed for Fort Wrangel with news of the dis aster. RUSSIANS DIE BY HUNDREDS Official Report* Don't Account for All Cholera Victim*. St. Petersburg. Sept 23.—Up to Rain has greatly cleared the atmos­ noon yesterday the municipal hos phere at Chicago, and it is hoped will pitals reported for the preceding 84 check the numerous forest fires. hours 417 cholera cases and 176 deaths. Mrs. Howard Gould, in her suit for divorce, asks *120.000 a year alimony There is a total of 1587 patients in the various hospitals. Wilbur Wright has broken all air­ That the municipal statistics are in ship records by his latest flights in France complete is conclusively proved by Some of the Pennsylvania coal the number of interments. At one mines have closed because of a lack cemetery they aggregated 424 for the of water. last three days, or within 20 of the Pickpockets following Buffalo Bill's total number of deaths reported. show secured fully *1000 at Belling­ The cholera dead are being interred ham. Wash. at Preobrazhenskoe, which is about One of Burns’ detectives has been one hour distance on the railroad A held guilty of approaching a juror train of several coaches, carrying the in one of the Reuf cases. mourners and a dozen freight cars A preacher at Taylorstown. Pa., with the dead in rude coffins, goes was forced to resign by women be­ daily to the place The scenes arc cause he denounced the powder puff. heart rending in the chapel, where Gagen and Woodboro, two Wiscon­ service is conducted uninterruptedly sin towns, have been wiped out by night and day. The scarcity of gravediggers has forest fires, leaving 4000 people home­ less caused a painful delay in the past few­ days. 153 coffins containing bodies Paris business is practically pros­ trated because of the fire which de now being stored in the adjoining stroyed the centra! telephone build­ woodshed. Some of the mourners have been waiting their turn for sev­ ing. eral days. Many villages in Michigan are threatened by forest fires and the Pennsylvania Fires Checked. people are ready to flee, leaving every­ Pittsburg. Pa.. Sept. 22—Reports thing. received yesterday from Ashtola. near Indiana anti-saloon wprkers met in the legislative halls while the legis­ Johnston, where a forest fire has been lature was in session and prayed for raging for several days, are to the ef­ fect that the fire is now under con­ a local option law. A forest fire threatens to burn the trol ?.t Ashtola 10.000,000 feet of house at Ballston, N. Y., where Grant logs were burned, and at Arrow, near died. by. 6.000,000 feet were destroyed Yes­ Forest fires in Pennsylvania have terday heavy clouds of smoke hung already burned over 30,000 acres, and over Windber. Johnstown and inter­ are still burning. mediate points. A New York lawyer has just been Late last night another fire started arrested for defrauding a woman in the Hayden woods, near Greens­ many years ago. burg Yesterday the flames were W. B. McAllister, of Omaha, has spreading rapidly. In practically all the churches Sun­ been appointed land agent for the day special prayers were offered up Southern Pacific. that the drouth in western Pennsyl­ Four out of a party of seven lost vania. eastern Ohio and West Vir­ their lives when a launch was wrecked ginia might be ended. on the Long Island sound. Forget* Jungle Story. The students of the Missouri school for the blind have taken to roller Chicago, Sept. 23.—For the first skating, and make quite a success time since the appearance of Upton of it. Sinclair’s packing house expose. "The Long dry spells have dried up many Jungle," the British government yes­ rivers in the East, and forest fires terday contracted for an order of cover the whole Atlantic coast with American meat, closing a contract with Libby. McNeil At Libby, packers, smoke. for 5.000,000 pounds of fresh beef The trans-Atlantic liner Mauretania According to the contract, which was lost a propeller blade in a storm, and for hours lay helpless. There was, a made through Thomas Arskine. Brit­ ish consul at Chicago, the price to panic among the passengers. be paid for the consignment of meat Zia Bey, head of the Turkish secret is *500.000 Erskine requested the police under the old regime, has had submission of bids for several million to flee the capital for his life, and says pounds of canned meats he is coming to Oregon to live. Fire Peril Again Greater. The battleship fleet has sailed from Albany. Australia, for Manila. Calumet. Mich., Sept. 23.—With the A retired steel magnate of New forest fires in northern Michigan Jersey was shot and killed by his con­ fanned by high winds, the condition on the Canadian shore is worse than fidential clerk. it has been in the past three weeks. Orville Wright was badly hurt and The fires are gaining in velocity about his companion killed while making a Flucan, Niagara and Loreto and in trip in his aeroplane. the vicinity of Norway, Rockland and A Swedish explorer has just reached Mass City, and the situation is crit­ Simla, India, after nearly a year spent ical. Trains through Delta county crowded with refugees fleeing from in the interior of Thibet. the threatened district into Escanaba Colonel Stewart has been ordered and Menominee. back to his lonely post at Fort Grant, without taking the riding test. Adirondack Town* in Peril New York. Sept. 23.—Alarm is felt Mexican and Japanese sailors fought desperately on a wrecked ship in many sections of the state because to escape from drowning, but all were of the rapid spread of the big forest fires that have been burning for many finally saved. days in the Adirondack*. According Letters have been made public to dispatches received by the Associ­ which seem to prove that Senator ated Press here last night, dangerous J B. Foraker is in the pay of the fires are burning in some score of Standard Oil company. places, and a number of small towns and summer resorts are threatened. It is said alarming cholera reports have been sent out from certain cities Cholera on Tranaport. in China in order to get contributions San Francisco Sept. 23 -table dis­ from superstitious Chinese. patches from Manila report that a J. J. Hill says the day of cheap case of cholera broke out on the wheat is over, that the food problem transport Sheridan shortly after her is a serious one, and that the govern­ departure from that port on Septem­ ment should be building schools of ber 15. The vessel put back to port and it now in quarantine. agriculture as well as warships. OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST STEAM PILOT SCHOONER. LOOK FOR INFLUX. Board of Pilot Examiner* Want* Stat* Bumper Crop In Southern Oregon I* to Purchase Schooner. Sure to Attract People. Salem.—In it* annual report to the governor the state board of pilot examiners recommend* the purchase and maintenance by the state of a pilot schooner. It is the only method by which the stale can hope to exer­ cise any control over the pilot* and set down any rule* governing pilot­ age at the mouth of the Columbia River, according to the commission It i» set forth that the lite ot a pilot is hazardous, it involve* risks and hardships that are not generally known to the public, and the board feels that the Columbia river pilots have been at times unjustly criticised \ssumption of responsibilities are greater also on the Columbia bar ac­ cording to the board, than is gener­ ally realized It is believed the serv­ ice is a* efficient as possible under present regulations It is recommended that the legist* lure amend the present pilot laws, giving the commission authority to examine and license pilots, to revoke licenses for cause, to make rules and regulations for maintenance of ef­ ficient pilot service and require all licensed pilots to report to and fur nish such information to the board a* shall be required, so that the comm s sion may be fully informed of all mat ter* relative to the service. After Big Contract. Portland —Several Portland firms have made bids on a *500.000 gov­ ernment contract for hay and oats for the Philippines, which will be let by the quartermaster's department October 5 The contract is the larg est one of the kind ever placed on the Pacific coast. In the specifications issued by the quartermaster, bids were asked on 10.000 tons of hay and ooo tons of oats. Delivery must be made in the Philippines within the next six months William Albers, of Albers Bros. Milling company, has just re­ turned from Seattle, where he Ins been looking after the bid made b> his firm Allen A Lewis, of Portland are also preparing to bid on the mam­ moth contract. Portlard Livestock Show. Portland.—General and favorab'e response is being received from the local, county and district fairs an I stock shows of the entire Northwest to the invitations sent out by the Country Cluh and Livestock associa­ tion requesting that these organiza tions be officially represented at the Pacific national show and harness races here next week The Interna tional of Chicago, the greatest stock exposition in America, will be repre­ sented. as will the National of Denver Rush Work on Springfield ne. Eugene.—J O. Storey, president of the Portland. Eugene A Eastern rail way. is in Eugene. He announced that work on the big bridge for the line which is to extend .¡cross the Willamette river at Springfield will begin right away, and a* much of the structure completed this fall as pos­ sible In the spring, when a l dan ger of high water is over, the bridge will be completed and the line will be extended from Springfield on up the McKenzie valley. St Petersburg, Sept tie- St Pct ersburg is tn the deadly grasp of Asiatic cholera, which already has ex reeded in »everity and number of death* the visitation of 1693. The disease is increasing daily at an alarm ing rate, and iinles* the authorities show in the future a much greater degree of ability to cope with the situation than they have in the past, there is every reason to fear that it will get out of hand. The govern ment's threat to apply the provisions of martial law has driven the munici pal officials to beud all their euergies to clearing the city of the scourge. The aldermanic council Saturday voted »25OOUU to enlarge the hospital space, to purchase and distribute dis tnfectants, the supply of which in Si Petersburg is well nigh exhausted, and to expedite the interment of bodies, which has been notoriously slow. The deadhouse* are over crowded and many corpse* lie un buried. Under his authority, the prefect of St Petersburg. General Dracheffcky on Saturday prohibited the sale of liquor throughout the city, including the government vodka shop*, until September 22. and he has further or dereil that hereafter the sale of the liquor shall be suspended al 3 P M on Saturday until 1 A M Monday This action has been taken in order to diminish alcoholic excesses, which very materially increase the liability to cholera infectum and the general spread of the disease Myrtle Creek—The farmers in tin* and other localities through thia coun ty are in the midst of the harvest of the large crop of prune* The con tinued dry weather ha* brought the crop earlier than usual, mid thy fruit drier* are taxed to the limit The price paid to the farmer* this season add* evidence to th* ever increasing possibilities of Oregon some of the grower* receiving a* high a* Ji cent* per pound for their crop of »runes, tin* being the basis price paid for the 30 to 35 site, and |c les* per pound for each five prune* to the pound smaller. A representative of one of the large nurseries of the state has sold »evcral thousand fruit trees for the fall plant ing Apples are to be extensively plauted. as also prune*, plum*, cher rie*. peaches and a great variety oi the small fruits and berries to which Oregon is *o well adapted During the past three months no less than 20 new families (people who have been attracted to Oregon from the east by the many resources) have bought farms and settled in this one small community. A great many of the people coming to Oregon have come through the influence of friends already here, but more have been at tracted by the flood of literature which is scattered daily by the com tnercial clubs, citizens' league* and similar organization* throughout the state. USE PRIVATE SCHOOLS. With the bumper crop* raised in southern Oregon this year, it is to be expected that the population increase Mr*. Rockafallar Say* Public Instltu during the coming year will break tions Ara tor Poor. all record*. Milwaukee, Wis. Sept. »2 Mr* William Rockefeller, who. with her •4.000 to the Ton. Burn* — Intense excitement prevads husband, is in thi* city, said yesterday here as the result of a rich strike that »he believed the children of the made by O J Darst, who has been rich should be sent to private rather prospecting in Gold gulch for several than to public schools. year*. He ha* discovered a ledge “All I have ever tried to be is just which assays from »4« Ml to »4500 a ton The ore contain* both gold and an ordinary mother,“ said Mrs Wil­ sliver The ledge upon which the liam Rockefeller, at the Pfister Hotel strike was made is located about 150 "I have two «mi and two daughters miles from the railroad It is now planned to stage the rock to Austin and they are ju*t four ordinary boy* or Vale, where it will be shipped to and girls. I have brought thrm up the smelters at either Boise or Salt the best I knew how, and used all Lake City. the common sense I had to think of the best way* and means to make Wallowa County Fair. * Wallowa — The Wallowa county them good average men and women "Did my boy* <*o to public schools? fair, to be held in this city October ». 9 and 10. w.ll be one of the most No; that would have been most sei tish in a city bke New York, where successful fairs ever held in this coun tv Special rate* will be granted on our schools arc crowded It is only the railroad, and a big attendance is fair that parent* who can afford It assured Already over a dozen ath should send their children to private ’etic events are provided. The ex- schools, and thus allow room in the libit* will exceed anything ever known public schools for children who must in th.s valley Races will be a feature depend upon the public school* for and dramatic performances will be their entire education "My boy* were sent, like thousands given at least two even ng* The play will be a home talent production of other New York children, to pri vale schools, where they were in daily contact with other children They Will Contest Claim*. studied like ordinary boy* and had the Pendleton —Claiming that he is the original discoverer. A II Ander same ambition* in their school work When they had finished school they son an old Alaska prospector, will contest the location* made by James were sent away to college.’’ Conlan on what is declared to be rich MAKE LAST STAND. placer ground, last located in Juniper canyon Anderson says Conlan was employed by him a* a driver on hi* Nevada Only State in Union That Al­ prospecting trip, and located the claim lows Gambling. while the discoverer was nursing i Resume Railroad Work. Reno, Nev., Sept 22 The gambler* rattlesnake bite, from which he is Tillamook.—Work on the Pacific just recovering. | of the United State* will make their Railway A Navigation company's j final stand for freedom in Nevada railroad is being resumed as fast a* O. R. A N. Answer* Complaint*. ¡next month At that time a special men arrive. The first work to be Salem —The O. R A N has filed election is to be held in Reno to give taken in hand was grading south of answer* to the two complaints Bay City, and since then the pile­ the people an opportunity to vote on driving and bridge crew* have been brought by the railroad commission 'the question whether or not the gam alleging unfair and excessive rates on getting in shape to resume work It is expected that the steam shovel will grain from eastern Oregon point* to ! bling house* of this city should be be put to work this week, and in that Portland. The railroad company de­ closed. event most of the work will be well nies all the allegations of the com For six month* the fight ha* been started all along the line by the end plaint, but acknowledge* that the tar iff* exist as they were stated in the j in the making, each side making every of the week. • complaint The company denies that ■ preparation for the contest. Nevada the rates are excessive i* now the only state in the union Begin Seeding at Athena. where gambling is licensed. Mon Athena —The first rain of the sea­ tana legislated it out of existence PORTLAND MARKETS. son has fallen here. It was accom­ some time ago. Arizona followed panied by a severe electric storm, Barley—Feed, »'.’6 per ton; rolled. suit, and the toleration which kept which destroyed telephone communi gambling going in Denver and Salt cations for an hour or two. The deep $27 50912“ 50; brewing. »26 50 Oat*—No. 1 white, »30 per ton; Lake has been withdrawn. dust along the roads was suddenly Nevada only remain*, and nearly converted into mud, and the summer gray. »29 Wheat—Club. 89c per bushel; forty every prominent gambler in the coun fallow in* the field* was made ready try is now located in this state for seed. The farmers are rejoicing fold, 92c; turkey red. 92c; fife, 89c; oyer the rain, and fall seeding will be­ bluestem. 93c; valley. 91c. Firefighter* Lose Ground. Hay—Timothy. Willamette Val'ev gin within the next few days. Albany. N. Y., Sept 22 Although »14 per ton; Willamette Valley ordi nary. »11; Eastern Oregon, »16 50, New York ha* one of the best Tillamook Street Fair. mixed, »13; clover, »9; alfalfa. »11; al equipped forest fire fighting organiza Tillamook.—Tillamook City will falfa meal. »20 tions in the country fresh fires are have a street fair and carnival Sep Fruit—Apples, new. 50cfti»l 25 per being reported daily from the Adiron tember 23 25. The fair will be held box; peaches. 25rti65c per box; pears, dacks and Catskill regions Unless tinder the auspices of the band boys 20c@$l per box; plums. 50c <'1*1 per there is a heavy rain soon the dam who have secured the concession* of box; grapes, 40c0i»125 per crate; age may approximate that of the de­ the American Amusement company Concords 20c per basket; huckleber structive fires of 1903, when over for the occasion The business men rie», 89i loc per pound. 450,000 acre* were burned over, en have subscribed liberally towards the Potatoes — 85(a90 per hundred; tailing a Io»* of »»00 000 in standing enterprise and elaborate preparation* sweet potatoes. 2c per pound timber, log* and pulp wood Every are being made. Melons—Cantaloupes, 509 i 75 c per effort is being made to hold the pre* crate; watermelons, |9ptc per pound; ent fire* in control In 132 town* in $4.000 Worth of Hay Burns. the Adirondack* and Catskill regions casabas, »2c per box; •he stack* before Mr. Hamilton was egg plant. 50c9i»125 per crate; let that the telephone employe* were tuce, head, 15c per dozen; p-rrsley. forced, after fcrief and ineffectual cf aware of it. 15c per dozen; peas, 6c per pound; forts, to extinguish the flames, to flee peppers. 89(10c per pound; pumpkins hastily to the streets The entire Eugene Will Spread Herself. 19i lie per pound; radishes. 12jc per bui'ding was soon in flames, and this, Eugene ha* decided to be 15.000 big dozen; spinach, 2c per pound; sprout* together with the postoffice, which is in 1900, and with that end in view the 10c per pound; squash, 40c per dozen; located close to the Place des Vic Eugene Commercial club ha* started tomatoes, 17jfri25c. lories, was totally destroyed. The out to secure »15,000 for advertising Butter—Extras, 34c per pound; loss is estimated at »5,000,non purposes. The latest city directory of fancy. 321c; choice, 30c; store, 18c. Eugene gives the population at 10.000. Two Town* Wiped Out. Egg*—Oregon, extras, 296130c; In 1900 it was 3236. firsts. 27(