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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1902)
BOHEMIA NUGGET. 1'ublUlipit Kfry Frlilnr. COTTAGE GROVE. . . OREGON. EVENTS OF THE DAY A Comprthtnslvt Review of tht Important Happening! of the Past Week Presented In a Condensed Form Which Is Most Likely to Prove of Interest to Our Many Readers. TEN MILLION DOLLAR FIRE. Des. Uuslness Portion of Paterson, N. J.. troved 1,000 Families llomtlcss. Paterson, N. .1., Fob. 11. A grout firo swept through Paterum today inn) in ItH desolate wake nro tho omliors iiihI hoik's of property valued lit $10,000,. 000. It burned its way through the business section of tho city iitnl claimed as its own ii mnjorlty of tho liner fetrttt tttros devoted to commercial, civil, educational mill religious use, us well as scores of homos. Thoro whs Imt small tribute of lite mid injury to tho iMintliiL.riitlnn. lint IlinilKtinilM won 1 f t Eleven persons lost tlioir lives in ix iwmolot mill limny thousands without employment. A relief movement for tho euro of those unsheltered mul unprovided for has nlrcndy boon urguniied imd Mnyor John Iliuchliffo says that Putorson St. Louis lira British forces linvo captured many Boers during tho past week. Young Theodoro Roosevelt, while very nick, is not considered dangerous. Firo nt Paterson, N. J., caused n loss of $10,000,000 nnd left at least 1,000 families homtless. Tho foreign consuls nt Panama have notified tho rebel leader Horrent that they will remain neutral Tho president vetoed tho recommend nlion that ho lw breveted colonel and brigadier general for meritorious sen ices in tho war with Spain. Rear Admiral Sampson has been re tired. Sampon has filed a brief with tho president protesting against Schley's claims. Germany's colonial policy has proven a failure. Tho senate has passed the pension appropriation bill. Theodoro Roosevelt, Jr., is seriously ill with pneumonia. Tho trouble at the Colorado School of Mines has been settled. England, America nnd Japan will op pose the Manchurian treaty. Tho sultan of Turkev has sentenced his brother-in-law to be killed Holland refuses to have anything more to do, with tho peace proposals, A severe snow storm is raging in Texas. England will abandon her rights in Wei Hai Wei. Tho senato lias passed the urgency deficiency bill. Firo at Albany, N. Y., destroyed $50,000 worth of property. President Roosevelt and wife are vis iting tho Charleston exposition. European powers are still disputing over their attitude during the Spanish war. Thirteen persona were killed and at least 100 injured by a gas explosion at Chicago. The woolgrowers' convention placed itself on record in favor of oleomargarine. Representative Jfewlands, of Novada introduced a resolution in the house for the annexation of Cuba. Nine firemen were killed at a St Louis fire The senate has passed the judicial salary bill A towboat at Pittsburg blew up, in juring all of tho crew, Fire at Dwight, 111., destroyed prop- erty valued at $300,000 Ice is still troublesome in the Colum bia river and boats cannot be run Tho Pacific Northwest Woolgrowers .Association ia in eession at Helena England has politely declined tho good offices of Holland to settle the Boer war. During 1901 the total amount spent for new buildings and alteration of old ones in New York was $150,072,657 An American Express Company's wagon in Aew iork loaded with $15, 000 wortli of goods has been looted No cluo to the robbers. Tho Knight Companion, an O. R. & N. Portland-Oriental liner, has been lost in Japanese waters. Tho passen gers and crew were saved. Scurvy ia prevalent at Nome. J lie gales on tne Atlantic coast are abating. Tho loss by tho Waterhury, Conn, fire will exceed $3,000,000. VALUE OF DANISH ISLES. Latest Actpisltlon of Great Strategic Import ance Provision of Treaty explained. Washington, l'ob. 10. I'ho recent favornblo report by tho senate commit teo on foreign relations on tho treaty for the cession of tho Punish West Indies was accompanied by a written statement by that committee to tho son. ute. This report holds that during 11100 the lslndsoxiortod to tho United States sugar, molasses and distilled spirits amounting to $508,045, mid that during tho same period the ImtKirtn. Units from tho United States amounted to $(12 -1,624. The annexation of tho islands was sought by tho United States years ago, iiml aa far back as 1807 Den mark declined to sell the Islands for $5,000,000. but made a proposition to NEWS 0E TILE STATE TEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS OF OREGON. Commercial and Financial Happenings of Int. portance A Brief Review of the Orowlli and Improvements of the Many Industries Throughout Our Thriving Commonwealth Latest Market IteporL Sale m Is now an JOSEPH R. WHITNEY. A well known Oregon newspaper man nnd editor of tho Daily and Weekly Herald, of Albany. He is a candidate for the nomination for State Printer on the Republican ticket. He was born in Marion County, is a graduate of tho University of Oregon, and has been engaged in tho newspaper business for nearly 20 years. Philippine tariff bill is causing some spirited debate in tho (senate. A strong call Iiob been made for air ing the Nome judicial scandals. The house committeo on ways and means reports for repeal of war taxes. Incendiarism is now suspocted in connection with tho great fire at Water bury, Conn. A plot to assassinate tho dowager empress of China and the entire court has been discovered. Trains are delayed and many tele graph wires down throughout the East as a result of severe storms raging. Tho German emperor's new yacht is all ready to bo launched as soon as Princo Henry arrived in this country. French national revenues for Decem ber show a deficit of $1,054,308, mak ing a total for tho year of $40,830,440. will be able to caro for her own with out nppealinc to the charity of other communities and states. Tho great manufacturing plants of the place are safo and the community, temiwrarily dazed by the calamity, has already com menced the work of reorganization and restoration. The firo began its work of destruction at the power house of the Jersey City Uobokcn A Paterson Traction Com pany, which fronted on Broadway and extended a block to tho rear of Van Houten street. It commenced in tho car shed and was burning fiercely when one of the employes detected it. It was leaping through the roof and tho galo was lifting it in forks and whirls when tho fire apparatus camo into tho roadway at Van Houten and Main streets. The firemen tried to hem tho blaze in, but it skipped across Van Houten street in one direction nnd Main street in another, and gaining vigor as it went, burned unchecked down into tho business district. Every piece of firo mechanism in tho city was called out, but tho fire and galo were masters Tho fire came at midnight and was only checked nfter a desperate fight that lasted until , late this afternoon Every city and town within reach of Paterson sent firemen' and apparatus to tho aid of the city, and it took the united efforts of them all to win tho battle."! A northerly galo gave tho con flagration its impetus and carried its burning brands to kindle the blaze afresh at other points. Tho firemen made stand after stand before tho wall of fire, but were repeatedly driven buck, and when victory finally came to them they were grimed and exhausted. EXTENDED MONROE DOCTRINE. tlobson Would Have It Reach to the Walls of Pekln. New Haven, Conn., Feb. 8. Captain R. P. Hohson, who was a guest of tho Now Haven Business Men's association at their annual banquet, urged that tho Monroe doctrine bo extended to tho Filipinos and to ttie walls of J'ekin, declaring that Europeans should not partition China, but open it to tho trade of tho world, as tho United States opened Japan. Among tho dangers that face htirope, ho mentioned n possible Slavic invasion, in the event of which, ho said, it would fall to tho lot of tho United States to assist in saving Eu rope from general war. Without a rel atively powerful navy, such action would bo manifestly impossible. : Smallpox at Reno. Reno, Nuv., Feb. 11. Several now cases of smallpox nro reported in Reno, part with them for $15,000,000. Sec retary Seward offered $7,500,000, which was declined. Ho afterward ngreod to pay that amount for the islands of St. Thomas nnd St. John, but tho trade fell through because of com plications which arose. Continuing the report says: "These islands, together with Porto Rico, nro of great importance in strategic way, whether tho strategy be military or commercial. St. Thomas is n natural point of call for all Euro pean trade bound to tho West Indies Central America or Northern Soutl America. These islands, together witl Porto Rico, form tho northeastern cor ner of tho Caribbean sea and nro of great importance in connection witl the American isthmus, where a canal will be constructed between tho At lantic and the Pacific. They are of first importance in connection with on relations to the region of tho Orinoco nnd tho Amazon nnd with our control of tho Windward Passage. In viow of tho isthmian canal and Eurorieaii set tlemonts in South America, every addi tionnl acquisition by tho United States is of value. BIG BOOST FOR LINE. $10,000 Raised for the GoMendalt. Portland Railroad. Goldcndale, Wash., Feb. 10. The citizens of Goldcndale' and Klickitat county have'raised $10,000 for tho right of way for the railroad from this city to Portland. Tho committeo in chargo of this matter considers this amount sufficient to secure tho right of way from Cioldendalo to Lylo, 41 miles All rights of way havo been secured, excepting ttiree or four between Unlden dale and the head of Swale canyon, t distance of nbont 18 miles, through tho farming part of Klickitat county. Tho rest of the route lies principally through government lands, there being but few settlers nnd n few Indian claims along tho Big Klickitat, there fore littlo trotiblo will bo encountorod on this score. Contracts havo not yet been signed, but it is expected that work will 'com- menco on tho grading within 30 days Tho company organized for tho pur- poso oi miuuing this lino will rosorvo two years in which to comploto tho lino from Lylo to Goldendalo, but oxpects to carry tho crop from tho Klickitat val loy this year. Property valuations havo already advanced porcoptibly in tho vicinity of Goldendalo and along tho route of tho proposed road. Diamonds that nro said by Tiffany to i tho whites, und tho stato board bo of first water aro roportod to have been discovered in Fergus county, Mont. Tho American Chinu Dovolopmont Company has completed an organiza tion preparatory to beginning work on n proposed railway from Hankow to Canton. of health has declared smallpox epi demic in Reno, and will probably order thu public schools closed. Thirteen Persons Killed. Panama, Feb. 11. An accidont in tho Church of Horencitos, in Chiriqui, resulted in tho death of 13 persons anil . tho severe wounding of 30 others. Another Subway Explosion. Now York, Feb. 8. An explosion of dynamito in the rapid transit subway in Park avenue, betweon Forty-first and Forty-second streets, hurled a piece of rock woighing 30 pounds through tho pi a to glass door of tho Grand Union hotel, and broko sovornl windows in that establishment. Two persons woro hurt by flying fragments, but neithor of them sustained serious injury. Tho llax mill nt assured fact. Tho receipts of Tho Dalles land olllco for January woro nearly $10,000. Dr. W. 1). Jeffries, for 10 years a practicing physician of Salem, is dead. Placer miners of Southern Oregon gladly hail tho rains of tho past few days. Tho Willamette river at Albany is lower than for many years at this timu of tho year. Steps havo been taken by tho busi ness men of lto.-uburg to organize a board of trade. representative ot tlio i-.iigllsli gov ernment is around Elgin buying horses tor n)iitli Africa. President F.liot, of Harvard univer sity, will visit the state university at Kugeno next month So far in Mini county there have been (lot) registrations for the Juno election, out of it probable total of 5,500. .Miners in Southern Oregon have long lieon throwing away what was sup'ioscd to ho lead ore, but which has proven ti Ik) rlcli sliver ore. Thu report of tho commissioner of patents for tho past fiscal year sIiowm that there were 125 patents issued to Oregon inventors. A chnir factory is tho latest of Al bany's manufacturing industries. A proiKisition has hcon made to tho citizens of Salem to put in a flax mill. ino iirown-i.ucns Lumber company has been organized nt Fnlls City, with $00,000 capital. Burglars entered n Drain morchandiso store ami secured $100 wortli of iroods. Iso clew lias Ikhmi found. Thcro will 1)0 33 graduates from tho Salom public schools at tho February commencement and 40 more in June. a very successiiil rntiutt ilrivo was held near Pendleton (tho first of the week. Sovoraltliousand of tho pests wero killed. John Diamond, nn Oregon pioneer of 1847, nfter whom Diamond Peak was named, is dead at his homo in Coburg. nged U8 years. crystal ttpnng .Mining company, with headquartors at Grants Pass, has tiled articles of Incorporation. Capi tal, $.'1)0, UUU. Tho snow in Eastern Oregon comes an n blessing to tho farmers, who had bo gun to fear their fall and whiter whuat would bo seriously injured. Fruitgrowers of tho Willamctto val loy aro picaseu wtui tlio cold snap, ns it will set tho fruit trees back. In somo cases tho buds woro fur advanced for tho season. GAS MAINS BLOW UP. Thirteen lives Are Lost In a Chicago fix. plosion About a Hundred lniirid. Chicago, l'ob. 7. Thirteen lives woro lost, many persons slightly Injured, Imi buildings were wrecked and $50,000 damage done by mi explosion ot gas to night at tho Intersection of Twenty-second street and Archer avenue. Tho cause of the explosion Is un known ami It has not yet been deter mined whether It was sewer gas or Il luminating gas. Mains filled with thu latter were instantly iiblae after the explosion mid n succession of explosions followed, tho Haines shooting up through tho manholes in tho street. It will bo dllllciilt to ascertain whether Illum inating gas exploded or whether the mains were broken by an explosion of sewer gas. Many people living in the vicinity believe that tho first explosion was III a inaiii nt Twenty-second street mid Archer avenue. Then tho manhole, half a block south on Archer avenue, was thrown Into tho air by it loud ex plosion. Flames leaped mid roared from the hole. Tho llro spread rapidly and three other manholes wero blown Into tho air. , The Humes from tho first gas main shot high Into the air and reached, with the aid of the wind, to n three story frame structure, mid It had been weakened mid nearly wrecked by the shock. It is supiKised that tho occu pants of the buildings were knocked unconscious or woro too panic stricken to rush from the place. Tho Humes caught the weather worn timbers. Th dry and rotting wood was food for the fire, and in an Instant the llames had enveloped the structure. With a roar tho building collapsed, and thu occu pants, with one exception, were carried with it to tlio basement. The adjoining building, a two story structure, flared up, the next building was wrapped in flames, and then an other structure caught lire. It 'seemed inai ino wnoie mock would lio wiprd out before thu llremeu could bring tho lilazo tinder control. A firewall of a brick building at Archer avenue and Twenty-second street held the firo in that direction. On the west of the burning buildings wero two small one story cottages. They were u few feet from tho burning buildings, and that gavo tho firemen mi optiortutiity of heading off tho llames. Tho windows throughout the noliih borhnod wero broken, and bottles and glassware in thu dwellings and stores wero thrown down and broken. Many persons In buildings near tho explosions wero knocked down. Scores of men nnd women, many of them carrying children, rushed to tho streets. They wero greeted by tho glnro of thu firo from the manholes. Fearing further explosions, thu tieoplo rushed down tho street, many of thu women screaming wiiu irigni. On several street cars near tho nlnco tho windows wero smashed, mid tho passengers wero severely shaken up. hen tho people in tho cars saw the llames gush from tho ground nil hands rushed for tho doors. A unrulier of persons were bruised and knocked down m tho excitement. One cur filled with passengers was thrown from tho tracks. LIJHMAL8 TO FIGJ1T GENERAL HERRERA'8 FORCES READY FOR ACTION. CUBAN ANNEXATION. Wheat Quiot. 63Vic; blueBtom, Barley Feed. $20021 per ton. Portland Markets. Walla Walla. 63 64 0 64V$c; Valloy, ?1920; browing, Oatn No. 1 white, $1.1001.25: cray. f l.Ubgpl.lb. Flour Best grades, $2.8003.40 por Darroi; graham, $2.5002.80. Mlllstufts Bran, $18 por ton: mid tilings, $21; shorts, $20.50; chop, $17. Hay Timothy. $11012: clovor. $7 i.bv; urcgon wua nay, $50G por ton Potatoes Best Burbanks. 9Oc0$1.25 per cental; ordinary. 70085c per cen tal, growers' prices; uwoots, $1,750 por contai. Butter Creamory, 25 0 27c; dairy, 1820c; store, 11013c. Eggs 2O021c for fresh Oregon, Cheese Full cream, twins. 130 1314c; Young America, 14015c: fac tory prices, 101o less. Poultry Chlckons, mixed, $303,50: noriB, X404.Z5 por dozen, 9010c por pound; springs, 10c nor pound. $30 3.60 per dozen; ducks, $6.5007.50 por uozon; turkeys, llvo, 11012'c; aresBou, 14015c per pound. Mutton GrosB, 4c per pound: dressed, 707vsc por pound. Hogs Gross, 5c: dreesod, 61407c por pound. Veal 8,S09c por pound, drossed Beef Gross, cowb. 3 04c: steora. 404c; dressed, 6V67v4o per pound Hops 110125c por pound. Wool Nominal. Valloy. 13015c; eaatorn Oregon, 8012o; mohair, zigpziftc per pound. EiTho largest towboat ovor made for Amorican wators will soon bo launched for use on tho Mississippi. Ovor 1,200 tons of stool will bo used and 4,800 horso power will bo furnished, Tho boat is 275 foot long and 03 foot wldo. Great Britain loses more than 10,- uuu.uuu pounds wortli of proporty an nually by firo. Hazing Jins boon mado a criminal offenso by tho Illinois legislature, and offenders may bo flnod $500 and sent to all for six months. Tho development of dry goods com panies with largo capital is ono of tho latest features In tho groat dry goods distributing centers. Th smalUrl wholesales aro baing driren out. Republic Invited to Dccome a Part of the United States. Washington, Feb. 7. Representative Nowlnnds, of Nevada, of tho ways mid means committee, who was the author of tho resolution annexing Hawaii, to day introduced n resolution inviting the republic of Cuba to become a part of tho United States, first as n territory and then as a stato of thu union, to be called thu stato of Cuba; mid also authorizing n 25 per cent reduction of duty on tho present crop of Cuban sugar, in consideration of Cuba's grant ing preferential rates to the United States, i he resolution confines thu 25 per cent reduction of duties to tho pe riod prior to January 1, 1003. Now- lands, in explanation of his resolution. said: "All tlioso who liavo appeared to voice Cuba's needs and reuuirumeiits havo indicated that an invitation to Cuba of annexation would bo accepted. Annexation by force would not bo insti lled. It must bo accomplished, if nt nil, by tno irto act of tho Cuban peo ple. At present there is no machinery in on on uy which mo popular will can bo tostod, but tlio Cn'bnn constitution lias been adopted. Tlio Cuban congress will meet in February, Cuban govern ment will POTorganized, and tho United States will then leave tho government and control of tho islnnd to tho people. Cuba then will be in a position to ex press her will." Day'i Work In French Mines. Paris, Fob. 7. Tho chnmbor of don. utios today accopted a bill regulating tho period of daily work in tho ininen. This bill provides that a nine hour day nuuii uo iiiHinuiuu in ino com pits nt tho end of six months from the day tho measure is adopted. At tho end of two years, a day's work shall bo reduced to oight and ono-hnlf houru, and nt tlio end of another two years it shall be re duced to oight hours. Llbertador Not Sunk. Willemstad. Island of Curacao, Feb. 7. According to trustworthy informa tion received hero today, tho Venezue lan revolutionists steamer Libortadnr was nt Sabanilla January 31, nnd wns to havo loft there February j , in ordur to renow hor operations against tho forcos of tho government. Theso re ports seem to contradict 'tho previous rumors that tho Liberfador was sunk at Porto Colomba recently while nder going repairs. Declares the Colombian Oovernment Unlawful Priimlies to Give rorhpurs Ample Time to Seek liefuye llifore lie Horn, bards the Two Cities- Officials lltllevt llcrerra Wants to (lain Time. I Panama, Feb, 10, Colonel Jtillen Del (-astlllo, mi envoy from General llerrern, the Insurgent rniiimuuder, ar rived hero Inst night, escorted by po lice, mid left I'ainuiiii at 10 o'clock. Governor Arjona received Important papers from Colonel Del Caslillo, for himself mid for tho foreign consuls. A conference of the coiihiiIs wiin held, The note from General llerrern wa addressed to the American, llrltlsh, French mid German consuls. In It General llerrern declared, aiming other things, that the government of Heiior Murroqulu, thu president of Columbia, was not lawful, mid that, therefore, tho rebels, although deploring the bloody results of war, would light to the end for (he ultimate success of liberal prin ciples. General llerrern prosised that tho consuls addressed ask their respec tive governments to declare the line of the I'miaum-Colon railway to Ih neutral ground, on which the government should not build eiitreiichiiieutH or th Liberals attack, mid only a pollen for be left to guard the Hue. General ller rern said he promised. If possible, l compel the government to attack t Liberal forces, and that tho Liberal had u strong Hoot and army, provided with cannon, etc. General llerrern also declared in his nolo that tho Lib erals considered the capture of Pmimiiu nnd Colon to 1st absolutely necessary for the development of their military plans, that they would act to obtain such results, and that, in duo time, they would notify the consuls of snrh proved action, allowing i! I hours for foreigners to take refuge at a plant of safety to Ims agreed uhiii with the con suls, mid that the point mi selected should not lie fired tion. This Is thw same phraseology which General I'nrras used when tho late General Albmi de fended Panama in July, 11100. Gener al Herrera said that should tho consul hi desire, ho would meet them, as welt as it representative of tho Colombian government, on lsiaril the United State cruiser Philadelphia at thu Island of Talsiga, the present headquarters of tho revolutionary stall. In government circles here it is W I loved that General llerrern wants tv gain time, for the government cannot accept tho terms ho offered. When tht expected reinforcements arrive on tho isthmus from Puerto Colombia, the- government will begin mi energetic mid active campaign against tho rebels. Panama and Colon aro now garrisoned by i!,000 men. Governor General ("as tro has 1,500 veterans under his com mand, giving a total of 3,5(10. Thf most sanguine Liberals do not claim that General Herrera has over 1,500 men. Governor Arjona said at the confer ence of the consuls, which he attended, that ho would not recognize, oven in directly, tho right of the rebels to make the proposals they did, that the consul could not correspond with the Liberals, as, oven wero they lielligerents, tho consuls would bo required to havo th permission of tho Colombian govern ment to communicate with them. Governor Arjona then demanded that tho consuls send their replies to Gen eral Herrera, promising to forward them to tho I, literal general by messen ger. To this thu consuls agreed. ABANDON THE BOER CAUSE. Dutch Government Has Had Enough of tht Negotiations Inidon, Feb. H. The Ilrussols corre spondent of tho Dally Telegraph ile clares it to Im an absolute certainty that, owing to tho attitude of tho pow ers anil thu Iloer leaders, the Dutch.gov eminent is now firmly ilotcrnjiiied to abandon tho Iloer cause and any ideu of fresh intervention. In the house of commons. Mr. Hal- four, government lender, announced that copies of the correspondence ex changed lietween tho government of tho Netherlands and tho government of Great Britain on tho subject of peaco in rsouwi Airica imd been mailed to Lord Milncr, who would bo Instructed to ask lml Kitchener to communicate the contents U the Boer leaders in the field. Mr. Chnmberlnin, thu colonial secre tary, added tho information that if tho lenders of tho Iloer forces proposed in Lord Kitchener negotiations 'for n set tlement, tho proposal would bo for warded for tho consideration of the government. Indian Depredation Claims. Washington. Feb. 8. Senator Mitch ell has introduced a bill extending tho act to provide for tho adjudication and payment of claims arising from Indlnn depredations so as to apply to citizens or persons who had declared their in tention of becoming citizens of tho United States, and to nllow them to havo their claims for proporty destroyed by Indians belonging to any trlbo In umity with tho United States properly adjudicated. '