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DOMINICAN REBELS. LANE COUNTY LEADER W . C. CONMKK, P u b lis h e r . -------- ■». CUBA IS ORATEFUL. P a lm s 's M essage t o C ong re »» E xpresses A dm iration .1 R oosevelt. OREGON NEWS OF INTEREST Uovcrnment Troops Fell to D islodge T h e « From Captured C ity. Panto Domingo, April 7.— At 9 o'clock this morning the government troops outside the city attacked the n- surgentsin the suburbe ol Pajarito. The moat severe engagement since tne beginning o! the rebellion ensued and the insurgents were driven back to te city. The artillery irom the fort cov ered the insurgent»’ retreat. Monroe Valesuue, the head of tbe force, reporten to 1» 800 strong, is about to march on the city. Tbe re»«ls are disposed to fight to the last and it is supposed that if they are compelled to abandon the city they will embark on the gunboat Independencia, which is in their power, and go to the nor!barn part ol tbe bland and join the rebels there. , , The United States cruiser Atlanta has larded 50 marines to protect the Ameritan consulate. TW ELVE^ President Delivers TwdJ in South Dakota.1 Havsax, April 8.— Congress reas sem ble! today and will probably con New W arden at Penitentiary. tinue in session three extra months on CROWDS QREET HIM AT I W ILL W ASH OUT QOLD. C. W. James, who became superin account o f the necessity for the enact- | tendent of the Oregon penitentiary on ' ment of many laws before all the de Q. W . Dart, o f John D ay, S tarting Up an Telia P e op le o l Fuectlog M April 1, has announced the promotion partments of the government get thor E xtensive W ork . of Ed McPherson from the position of B uildin g Up the Su oughly under way. A message from Placer mining promises to he an im second warden to that of first warden. ■ .acra l Review of Important tlappeafags President Palma was read. S h o rt Y e llo w s t o s e p ^ The mes portant industry in Grant county dor McPherson will succeed J. T. Janes, o f the Past W eek I . Brief ami sage says in* tne coming season. .Several ui'ners who has held the position during the Cemprehcaaivn fo rm . "O u r relations with tbs United States h. ye K, rPa(ly commenced getting tbiugv past four years. The vacancy caused continue to be close and cordial. Much in readiness for the summer’ s run. Aberdeen, 8. D., April^ by the promotion of McPherson will Dunsmuir, Cal., was nearly destroyed more gratifying is the noble and reso* What promise« to bo an extellent la* filled by the appointment of G. F. Roosevelt yesterday tra» lutely favorable attitude of the presi- paving po.,itioI1 „ (|,e placer mine by fire. Dakota and made mor» dent of -* that great republic. It is of (i- w i,art, which will I* wo.ked Johnson, of Baker City. Sailor« from battleship« will here enough to remember the obstacles ¡Qf firHt time thit* reason. on any other day ^uriniTl W oodm an Street Carnival. after be given longer shore leave. which his stubborn will have overcome trip. He llegan with two * Mr. Dart has leased the pipe, eiants The Woodmen’ s street carnival and n)aterU, Monging Pekin is apparently mach surprised in negotiating the reciprocity treaty lr)(j a „ tb(, Sioux Kalla in tbe morni», fair, to be held in Dallas June 3, 4, 5 Humboidt minjng ct n.pn.v, and at the increase of the Asiatic squadron. and obtaining the ratification thereof, j ,0 in- 12th speech in th e,Vw¡*| and 6, promises to be a very successful and his firm purpose to summon a spec at present has a fore« of men laying d e n. Speeches were J l President Roosevelt will be escorted ial session of congress to definitely affair. The committees are all hard most part to the tarif! , 0(j , * aP" this pipe and getting e v e n t ing in at work and are meeting with good from the depot at Portland by a mon prove of it. Besides the sympathy and „ t i n e a s for the rummer’ , run, which eral prosperity of the COOt'.ll ster parade. s u c c e s s . ________ respect which we inspire among the will commence immediately. Bluejacket« Landed. his speeches he foll«wwf To Invoke Referendum. Rebels of Santo Domingo have re American people by our exemplary con The mine is situated on the west side| Washington, April 7.— A report to lines of hie former addrejo, pulsed the government troops and still duct as an independent people who re of Canyon cre< k between John Pay A number ot mining men around subjects. The president alize the duties and reef*oueibilities of I and Canyon City, and nearly opposite Grants Pass are giving assistance in t ie the navy department from Commander hold that city. Turner, of the cruiser Atlanta, at >anto a cordial welcome at the din, 1 Jefferson H. Conover, grand secretary citizenship, these circumstances power Long gulch. Water will be need from work of invoking the refereudum Domingo, ehows another repulse to the ping places, and at •nan, J of the t ree and Accepted Masons ot fully contribute in solidifying the good ( the Humboldt ditch. The ditch will against the mining corporation tax law I government troops who made an at- where the train did nut it,,, a understanding between the two nations. be in charge of Bert Stone. Michigan, is dead, aged 62 years. «recently passed by the Oregon legiti ! tempt to take the city Irom the revolu- gathered and cheered as “ It is our interest to worthily caJti-1 Governor Taft is mentioned for the vate these sentiments and we cannot do | lt ia the intention to operate the j lature. 1 tlonists, and that Commander Turner train sped by. One feature,J __ was again crmpelled to land the blue- was the large number of chili presidency in 1904. The New York ' so better than by carrying out our ob li Herald figures that Roosevelt will lie a gations to the Washington government i jackets to protect the Unileil States 1 various audiences and Ihe p, winner with New York state in the expeditiously, frankly and correctly, consulate. Cbmmander Turner’ s dis- j ferred to them several ■ timer I doubtful column. that lie » a s glad to see that i whether it is by grant of what we ought patch is as follows: j “ Santo Domingo, via Hayti, April 7. was not dying out. The Indiana operators will submit a to grant, or refusing what we consider The president had as hisg ! —Government forces attacked city yes- proposition to the miners agreeing to ourselves justified in refusing. ! terday, were repulsed. Report indi ing the day Senators Kitti, “ The government H at present occu* have a commission, composed of an cates Vaquez, the president approach- Gamble anil Hepresentatim operator, a miner, and an expert min pied with the Isle of Pines matter, and i ing with strong force. Government and Burke, the South Dakota« ing engineer, to decide what mines in it has reason to hope that the settle- j ment thereof will be satisfactory to ! gunboat fired three shots last night in congress. They left the t the Clinton field require shooters. Cuba.” 1 without injury. City fortified; appar- Aberdeen. The Anthrac te strike commission President Palma expresses the hope At Tulare the presidentdep«J I ently determined to resist. Landed award with reference to the mining that the question of incorporating into \ Ilia custom and, descending lii marines to prolect the consulate.’ ’ engineers gives the enigneers a holiday the treaty all the provisions of the Platt One day last week Commander Tnrn- car. shook hands with tlie ptepj on Sundays, which was observed last amendment will soon be settled, and r | er landed a force of 50 marines to ererl at the station. Sunday throughout the mining regions adds that after this has been done it Yankton was the first stop ¡w guard the United States consulate at for the first time in the history of coal will seem unnecessary that the Platt Santo Domingo city, when the situation train left Sioux FallB. To thtl mining. amendment should remain any longer a tude at Yankton, the pretidttJ. I was regarded as very critical. Not a single disorderly act has oc part of the constitution. on tlie tariff and the qualities tf| curred to mar the tranquility of Mon citizenship, saying in this com RICH STRIKE IN ALASKA. terey, Mex., since Thursday’ s riots. W ILL TALK OVER W AQES. " I t ha-r been a pleasure total Governor Reyes, in speaking of the Extensive Placer Field at Last D iscovered can sum up all 1 have to say log affair, said that an investigation showed Trainm en on Illinois C entral t o M eet Of a couple of phrases. You negl on American Territory. absolutely that the police fiist fired in laws. See that yon got them, " ficia ls and D iscuss Increase. Washington, April 7.— Under date of need honest administration si it* the air, later firing at their aggressors Chicago, April 8. — Tbe adjustment only in defense of their lives. February 23, Henry D. Saylor, consul See that you have it. Hut don’t J committee ol the railroad trainmen at Dawson city, reports as follows: the mistake o f thinking that 11J Geroge Gillette is dead at the county and conduct« rg organizations have ar "Reports have reached here recently or any administration of law tu| hospital of Santa Cruz, Cal., aged 80 rived in Chicago and are preparing to concerning a strike of rich placer dig the place of tiie fuinlaimmlxl «]-/ years, fie came to the United States meet the officials of the Illinois Central gings in Alaska, in tire Circle City that make a gootl individualcitig in 1842 sb a member of Lord Ashbur and Alton roads. Tbe trainmen and mining division, on the tributaries of make a good nation, the quaiit ton’ s suite to negotiate the Ashburton- conductors’ committees believe tbe the Tanana river, a district in which honesty, of courage and of good,I Webster treaty for the northeast boun same terms can lie secured on the Illi for several years past Ameirean miners moil sense.” dary of this country. He had been an nois Central and Alton roads for their have made a thorough search for good At Mitchell the president inmate of the county nospital for 12 members as those on the Wabash—a placed deposits without success until longest address of the day. IliiJ years, 15 per cent increase for freight and a now. The present strike seems to he enee was large and his speech tu| 12 per cent increase (or passenger A new Haytien cabinet has been one of more than ordinary importance, quently interrupted by appltuw. I formed. The old cabinet resigned service. and has caused quite a stampetleof min he disclosed the work of unjiiil John G. Hannahan, grand master of owing to the senate having passed a ers from this and other districts to the and the important part they vote of censure against the ministers the Brotherhood ol Firemen, arrives location of the new fields. tbe upbuilding of tbe nation. for their failure to take proceedings in Chicago tomorrow to present the de “ At this writing, when particulars "Y o u can lift up a man if h«^ against those who were respors ide for mands ol the firemen on the Illinois are lacking, it is unsafe to predict too blee, but if lie lies down yon t the interruptions ci the sitting of the Central. much, but the general opinion seems to carry him. If you try to, "ill The adjustment committee ol tbe chamber of deputies March 30 by the confirm tbe belief that a large and pro help him and it will not li| trainmen and conductors Horn the Chi firing of rifle shot.. ductive field in American territory bas 80, hmdamentaly, it must cago, Burlington & Quincy, Rock Island at last been struck. Circle City is yourself to win success. A fjl The German Kaiser is on a visit to & Milwaukee and St. Paul systems, THE LATE HENRY WINSLOW CORBETT. his royal friends In Denmark. practically deserted as a result of the can do something, wise legi.l where demands were made January 5 rush. Chicago brokers are at war among lor a horizontal increase in wages of 20 the government can do somelhH “ It is said that there will be a scar yon have laws badly arlmini.nenfl themselves regarding bucket shops. per cent for two classes of employes, mine 16 to 18 hours a day, according Hopes to Find W ater. city of provisions on account of the in Snowstorn destroys telegraph lines now have their schedules of demands as the length of the days permit. Two B. F. Coplen, an expert on forma flux. The Eagle-Circle route is report will stop any prosperity. It it f and paralyzes railroad traffic In Noth- revised and will present them to the shifts of men will be employed. tion for artesian water, who sunk the ed to be the best means of reaching the enough to get a bail law that «ill j ern Mississippi valley. managements of those roads before tbe artesian wells at Pullman, Wash., and Tanana from Dawson, as the trails by the whole business, but to gel id P rosp erous Hood River Valley. end of the week. j who fer many years has been making Forty-Mile and Goodpasture are un law is not S o easy. It ia easy to| President Roosevelt spoke at Mil Though the annual piecipitation at extensive examinations of the Colum- outside and say how the man i waukee on truatB. at Waukesha on for W ONDERLAND 1903. Hood River is about 36 iuehes. irriga j bia river basin, has been looking over broken. and nc supplies available. should run the machine, but it ill eign relations, at Madison on college From Forty-Mlie to the new diggings tion is a very important factor in the the situation in the vicinity of Echo for so easy to go inside aud ns| educations. B eaatlful B ook D escrib in g and P icturing prosperity of the Hood River valley. I some time with a view to getting four the distance is 160 miles.” machine yourself. At Naco, Ari*., John Crossen re Since irrigation came into practice on a This Q lorlous W estlan d . “ Ib is prosperity to which ml , , , „ , or five eectione of land and putting in ceived a bullet In the heart from the Portland Steam er Stranded. attained has been reached undet»« Another volume has been added to considerable scale five years ago the the necessary machinery for thoroughly pistol of Deputy Sheriff Frank W il San Francisco, April 7.— The steamer of economic moves included in 1 j testing the the snblect. He sav. .r son. who had been called in to stop a tbe Wonderland Series published annu population of the valley has quad-; j testing subject. He says ih that row In the Big Adobe Saloon. ally by tbe Northern Pacific railroad rupled, the price of land has increased , ,here is every indication that artesian Alliance, which sailed from this city tern, though carrying out rerun^ 300 per cent and the entire fruit ship April 3 for Portland, Or., and way in the currency anti in tbe tariff, Ladronea have suffered seven de company. This latest number excels ping business of that locality has grown j w ater can be had along the base ol the points, is lying on tho beach at Caspar cannot afford to reverro the cisive defeats In the Philippines, and in newness and variety of word pictures np. Sixty thousand crates of straw Echo buttes. on the Northern California coast. Tbe Improvement can be made in it. I are beginning to realize that their and camera pictures. Order the book berries ( two dozen boxes to the crate) Alliance struck a rock off Point Gorda tbe tariff, for instance, echednlel Mills Running Full Tims. methods mean nothing but disaster mailed to your home address, not to and eventual extermination. your office, and while waiting its ar and 100 carloads of apples, of las: All of the sawmills in Baker City and then put back to Caspar, 40 or 50 not sacred, and, as the needs oil year’ s production, have been shipped miles south of Point Gorda, when she nation change and shift, it will rival prepare your mind for the feast of Thomas Kelgan, who escaped from from that station, and large quantities are running full time and the demand was run onto the beach. She had 30 or es-arv to change certain wheuui tbe Toledo, O., jail In 1901. is behind history, story, and traveling experi- of fine apples are still going lorward to for lumber both for local use and for They are being meet those shifting needs.” export is in excess of the supply. 40 people on board. the bnrs again. He la charged with ences that the liook affords. A big market. the robbery of the Toledo postotfice. handle of poorly conceived and cheaply Most of the lumber manufactured there comfortably cared for in Caspar. It is printer! advertising matter will not be MEXICAN RAILROADS DUST Kelgan was caught In Los Angeles. Irrigable A crea ge Increased. is sent to Utah, where a great deal ia tbonght that the vessel will be floated easily and that she has sustained no imposed on you. but yon will be pre The great abundance of snow in the used in railroad construction. Professor Nathaniel Schmidt, o f the sented a beautiful magazine containng great damage. mountains has resulted in an increase But T hey a re Said to Be Doing I department of Semitic language and Will Build Dam. a t an A ctual Loss. literature at Cornell university, Itha stories and pictures of this western in tbe acreage of irrigable land that wonderland of ours that will excite the To S traighten Out Miners' Awards. The Sumpter land company will erect will be placed under cultivation this c a . N. Y., hag accepted an appoint Mexico C ity, April 8. — Urn^ ment at director o f the American interest and please the taste of tbe season in Baker county. In many in a dam at the junction of Cracker creek | Wilksebarre,April 7.— John Mitchell, ness concerns, while hoping most critiral. The book costs nothing stances the increase will amount to 50 and McCullough’ s fork. School of Archeology at Jerusalem. president of the United Minewotkers speedy settlement ol the cnrrencj f The postage is six cents. 6end stamps or 60 per cent over last year, and tak ol America, will be in this city or Jose Teller wag hanged In the Jall- to Cbas. « . Fee, general passengor and tion, report an excellent bnsinen 1 Scranton during Easter week or shortly ing the entire county, the increase will yard at Santa Fe. N M„ by Sheriff here and in the interior oil PORTLAND MARKETS. ticket agent, St. Paul, Minn., and this amount to fully 40 per cent this year afterwards to advise with tbe district Kinsell. within a few feet of the place county. The goneral opinijsi officers of the anthracite districts con where the crime was committed he souvenir of the West will be yours with over last. the country bas it F Wheat— Walla Walla, 72c: blue- cerning the appointment of a concilia that expiated, the murder of Jailer Epl- Uncle Sam's usual promptness. large measure adjusted itself !,| stem, 77@78c; valley, 77c. taclo Gallegos. On the gallows Teller Pilot R ock P o sto tfice Robbed. tion committee to assist in straighten confessed to committing another mur P rom otion for F orrest. Barley— Feed, $23.50 per ton; brew- ing out the tangle that has arisen over lower level of silver, and were The postofiice at Pilot Rock, a small der. roads relieved by the adoption ol* the different interpretations of the Spokane, April 8.— The Chronicle village about 15 miles from Pendleton, ing, $24. sound money system ol stabiiu* Hands of students made a demon announces today that General Superin was robbed Sunday night and about Flour— Best grade, $3.9594.25; grah- award ot the coal strike comm ls- there would be no unsound spot “J sion. stration in front of mlstatry of the In 1100 in money and stamps secured. am, $3.45(1)3.85. tendent F. 8. Forrest, of the Spokane country’ s growing prosperity, terior as a protest against the occur Millstuffa — Bran, $19 per ton; railway situation must continnsi rences at Salamanca. The carriage of Falls A Northern railway, will be ap Fought with Robbers. W h ea t Fire at C ayuse. middlings, $ 24; shorts, $19.50320* Benor Maura, minister o f the Interior pointed general superintendent of the Huntington, W. V a „ April 7 .-J o h n until a measure cl relief sdeqw Three warehouses and an elevator, chop, $18. was stoned The police dispersed the Montana Central, effective about April Stephens was shot and fatally injured their critical condition comes- containing in all about 18,000 bushels rioters Eight policemen and many Oats— No. 1 white, $1.15 9 1.20; and Ben P. Endene was shot and dan- roads are doing a heavy basin«* t 15. He will taxe tbe piece of E. L. of wheat, were burned at Cayuse last students were wounded. Brown, who will become assistant gen Monday. The total loss is estimated gray, $ 1 .1 2 * 9 1 .1 6 per cental gerouuly wounded during a battle with are ordering new equipment, M| in strict fact doing business at«lr Secretary Hitchcock has decided eral superintendent of tbe eastern d i at more than $20,000. Caynse is a Hay — Timothy, $11912; clover, highwaymen early this morning in the that members of the Home Guard or vision of the Great Northern. Mr. For- $ 8 9 9 ; cheat, $9910 per ton. small wheat station about 20 miles ganisations of the civil war were reet will be succeeded by R. C. Morgan, C hinese fo r T ransvaal Ml«**- Potatoes— Best Bnrbanks, 50960c per had his eknll fractured by a blow never mustered Into the service o f the now assistant superintendent ol the east o( Pendleton, and bas no water New York, A pril 8.— Herbert! protection whatever. sack; ordinary, 40950c per cental, Eden« leap«.! into a stream and escaped! general government, and could not be growers price«; Merced sweets, $29 The fight attracted qnite a crowd. The and H. Rom Kkinner, from Jo construed as part of the military or Cascade division of tbe Great Northern. Demand fo r New Buildings. 2.25 per cental. ® four highwaymen escaped. burg, Transvaal, commission*0 1 ganisation of the United States, and D esperado Kills T w o Men. Contractors and builder« are over therefore are not entitled to pensions. pointed by the British governs: Pool try— Chickens, mixed, 12913c- Kingman, Aris., April 8 .— News has crowded with contracts for buildings to F»n>*. 11H 9 12c ; hens, 12c; turkeys’ proceed to China for the pnrpo***J PUn* «f the Projectors. Sixteen students from the depart just ranched Kingman of the mnrdcr of be erected in Baker City this season. London, April 6.— It was said that vestigating Chinese labor, with *,T ment o f forestry o f Yale University 1#Ci 18® 20c; <lncksi Lord Iveagh. o f Dublin, and Alder- to its em ploym ent in the mine*®! Most of the new structures ere cottages Charles Blnkey, known as the “ cowboy w ill undertake the improvement o f the $<97.50 per doien; geese, $7 9 8 .50. man Pirle. of Belfast, are prepared to Transvaal, arrived in New York 1900 acre# o f woodland at the West pianist,” and Roy Winchester, a young and dwellings of some pretensions. C heese-Fnll cream, twins, 1 6 * 9 Tbe demand for houses to rent is great miner, on the trail 40 miles south of Point Military Academy, under the di ln‘ ° ‘ heir trans- on the Canard eteamer Umbri»" rection o f United States forestry this place by James McKenney. Noth er than the supply, all ol which gore to 1 7 * e ; 5 onng Amsrica, 1 7 * 9 1 8 * c - i P°rt«tion scheme planned ra'hl.re“.».*’ Liverpool. are on their ** j * '* £ r t fcrm Pri . n d T . ^ U b Ì ^ Nan Francisco, They Commission Bureau. In about three ing definite is known of the canse of show that Baker City is steadily grow- l~ tory priera, 1 9 1 * c 1res. where they will i* ^ Butter— Fancy creamery, 3 0 9 3 2 * c months they expect to have the land the mnrder, but it is tbonght that Me- i»«- _________ W," ’ ’b* W,Ubll,h<* "0 into the methods of working *nd scape plans ready for submission. per pound; extra«, 30e; dairy, 209 Kenner, who is wanted for the killing Astoria at the Fair. of Chinese labor as employed i*‘ * 2 * c ; store, 15918c. of William L. Wynn at Porterville, drawn ht *h 8tem ° f coIlectlon "» 8 ° n s fern la. Astoria will erect a $5,000 building The railroad bridge over the Angls- EWt*— 14915c per dosen. CaL, last Jnly, took the men for offi ™ baiU and™« .UBtl1 " * ht ral' ro»d« t a River near Drums was blown up at tne Lewis and Clark lair. H o p s-C b o lc., 21923c per pound. .s u b l hed “ ° t0r “ r *re t>y Bulgarians during the night o f cers and waylaid them on the trail. S pain S tirre d to Depths.. ^ Wool—\alley, 1 2 * 9 1 5 c ; Eastern April I. All the telegraph wire« In Sale ol Albany Weolen Mills. Madrid, April 8.— The situstk* Trial Trip of Submarine B oat. the vicinity have been cut Drama Is 0 r!* 2 ?' * ® 14'* * i “ ohair. 269 28«. Proposed Railroad te Yukon. Arrangements have been completed become graver in the university F* B<wf — Gross, COWS, 3 9 3 * c per about SO miles from 8erec. Maeedonia. Washington. April 8.— Construction lor the sale of the Albany woolen mills H ^ nJ r î " C!"r0- Ahril « - T h e , where tbe brutal treatment of s*0**" of a railway (rom Mittimat inlet through to tbe Bannockburn manufacturing Fred Barf oof, assisted by Rangers has created intense resentm ent Fixe proved successful as the tírst the northern part ol British Colombia company, of Portland. Tbe stockhold Felton and Peterson, and several conn Motion — Gros«, tbe government. In Madrid lb® te per pound; and the Ynkon to Dawson is being agi ers of the Woolen m ills company will dressed. 7 * e . ty oUlcers, attacked the P vis cabins tion is gaining grqpDd. The wof»^ In the Black Rock country. In Arizona, tated by Van. •Oliver business men, ac soon meet and ratify the sale. This is Lambs — Gross, 4c per of the tobacro factories have on Monday, and raptured the eight cording to a report to the state depart one of Albany’ s leading manufacturing pound; dressed, 7 * c . the movement against tbe snt#o°* men who. It Is alleged, have beeu steal ment from United btatea Consul Dud concerns, and fam ishes employment to Hogs — Gross, • X « per ing cattle In the vicinity for a time, ley at that place. and shouts of “ down with the "r pound; a large number of people. frut have always eluded the oCLei«. bona’ ’ are frequetnly heard i* ‘ " r a .’ i í í „ 5 . : i streets, intermingled with bitter ** against the government. CX)TTAGE GROVE . . OREGON. W EEK ’S DOINGS