Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Lane County leader. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Or.) 1903-1905 | View Entire Issue (May 29, 1903)
SELL CHILDREN FOR FOOD. U N E COUNTY LUDER NEW COALING STATION. Admiral W. C. CONNER, Publisher. C O T T A G E GROVE ..OREGON. WEEK'S DOINGS sd O h P u t Weak la B rM ma* Frost has done great damage to gar den truck about Manchester, N. H. Glanders has caused the death of a colored stableman at Newark, N. J. T h e contract has been let for rock with which to extend the Columbia river Jetty. A fter burning two months, the fire at the Glace Bay (N. 8 .) colliery has been put out. N avy Department will order no more ships to Bremerton naval yard until brothels are closed. Five electric shocks were necessary to cause the death of A. Trióla, an Ita lian murderer, at king Sing, N. Y. Fire destroyed the $5,000 building of the American Ice Company at Phila delphia, and ruined $150,000 worth of machinery. Henry Tiernan of St. Joseph. Mo., w ill receive the prise ofTered by the K ing of Denmark for the best poem on the recent meeting o f the Dowager Empress of Russia and the Queen of England. Mark Twain is seriously 111. The Union Pacific has announced peace with the boiler makers. The town of Altman, near Cripple Creek, was almost entirely destroyed by fire. Emperor Francis Joseph will not In tervene to prevent further bloodshed In Crotia. Rear-Admiral Barclay has been or dered form Boston to the Puget Sound navy yard. Fire in a grand stand at Cambride, Mass., hemmed in the crowd and they had a close call for their lives. The cup defender Reliance has proven herself a much better boat than either the Columbia or the Con stitution. Hannah opposes the endorsement • f Roosevelt by Ohio because he fears It would Injure his chances for re- election. A power factory at Santo Domingo was blown up by enemies of the gov ernment and 22 people killed and a number of others injured. The anti-dynastic outbreak in Yu- nan province, China, is serious. A cyclone in Central Kansas did much damag. to crops and property. Four were killed and six others in jured by a Pittsburg elevator break ing An eastern company has secured control of all the coast powder fac tories. A. W. Machen, deposed postal of- llcial, is now charged with disobey ing orders. Portland was discriminated against in letting contracts for oarrying Phil ippine freight. The Union Pacific Boiler makers' strike has been declared off. Both •ides made concessions. Russia has assured the United States that it will help maintain an open door In the far East. Count Cassini, Russian ambassador at Washington, and Secretary Hay are receiving large numbers of letters from cranks. Mexico will make silver its coin, but at a fixed ratio. The announce ment has already caused much for eign capital to be invested. The forest fires near Glen Falls, N. •Y ., are now under control. Because cf increased trade with America, Pern hat opened a consular office in Chicago. Dswey Recommeade One for Dutch Harbor. Alaska. Washington, May 27.— Admiral Dewey, as president of the General Board, has made a report to Secretary Moody, recommending the immediate establishment of a coaling station at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, and the erec tion there of a coal depot with an initial capacity of 5.000 tons. The es timated cost o f the work is about $51,- 000. The money is now available. Be lieving that the establishment of a coal depot at this strategic point will strengthen the United States on the Pacific Coast, the President has hear tily approved the plan, and prelimin ary steps in the work have been taken already. • Dutch Harbor la located on one of the Aleutian Islands, and is on the di rect commercial route between the ports o f Behring Sea and Southern Alaska and the Pacific Coast of the United States. It la also in the line of steamships passing through the Uni mak. Pass, most of which make Dutch Harbor a port o f call. Its use as a coal depot site was first recommended by Rear-Admiral Bradford, Chief of the Bureau of Equipment. His recom mendation was referred to the Gen eral Board, and is now about to be executed according to his plans. Dutch Harbor will form the fifth in the chain of coal depots along the Pacific Coast, which will begin at San Diego and include San Francisco. Pu get Sound and Sitka. Hdnolulu is the sixth in the chain, and Guam probably may ba added to the list. FIRE LOSS A niLLION. A Large Philadelphia Warehouse jls an Entire Loss. LAND FOR RESERVE. Big Withdrawal Made In Warner Valley Section, Southern Oregon. The interior department haa decided upon another forest reserve for Oregon, this time in Southern Lake county, ■n the Warner mountain country. By direction of Secretary Hitchcock. the vacant public lands in a tract of over 990,000 acres in Lake county, and 44)* townships adjoining in Northern Cali fornia, have been temporarily with drawn from all entry, with a view to tbeir examination to determine the id- visability of treating a fero-t raseive about the town of Lakeview. The Oregon lands withdrawn are: Town ships 31 to 41 inclusive, ranges 18, 17, and 18; townships 37, 38 and 41, range 19; township* 36 and 37, range 20; townships 36 to 41 inclusive, ranges 21 and 22. all Tooth and east. The town ship in whi'h Lakeview is located, and the townships immediate); north, eouth and west, are not included in the withdrawal. A forest reserve in the Warner Moun tain region is recommended by the geological tnrvev, not cnly (or the pre servation of the timber, but the con servation of the water su « ly. Goore lake lies in the center of the withdraw al, and a numlier of ttieams whi,h enpply it with water have tbeir bead- waters within that region. Moreover, the head»aters of Sprague river, Drews i reek, Warner creek, and a number of other streams would all be protected by a forest reterve in this region. In view of the development of irri gation enterprises in Lake county and in Northern California, the rreation of this forest reserve is con-idered most essential. The lands withdrawn are to be examined this snmmer. and suth tracts as are found unsuitable for re- seivation will ultimately be testored to entry. The remainder, beyond a ques tion of doubt, will be ( ermanently re served. MILL AT LUCKY BOY MINE. Contract Has Been Let for an Increase ol Fifty Stamps. • A contract has been made bv the Lucky boy company in the Bine river district, for the machinerv to increase the mill at the [trines to 60 stampr, and other machinery for the operation of the mine. The ofthers of the com pany have been negotiating for several days witb the Union Iron works, of San Francisco, and have let a large con tract for machinery. There will be an electric power plant, which will be located on the McKenzie river, oix miles from the mine, from which power will be trans mitted to tbe mine. The machinery will be increased to 100 stamps next season, which will make it one of tbe most extensive plants on the coast. Work on the flumes, buildings, etc., (or the power plant will begin at once. The improvement now projected will involve an outlay of $95,000. Surveying Crater Lake Park. Superintendent W. F. Arant has re ceived word that Crater Lake national ;ark will be surveyed by the govern ment as soon as the snow disappears from the mountains. The boandaries of the park, containing 249 square miles, have never been defined, and until that is done the superintendent cannot tell exactly where bis authority begins or ends with reference to possi ble trespasser« or those asking privil eges. Washington, May 26 .— United States Consul McWade. at Canton, under date of April 7, sent to the State De pamuent a detailed report o f the fam ine conditions In Kang Si, In suppoit of ins cabled appeal for help. He pi o- duced a mass of Information which fie declares to be reliable from Amer ican missionary and naval sources in Kai Kwan Pin, Wu Chow and other Places, snowing the destitution and uie consequent suffering, which the Consul-Geueral says, la absolutely ap- paling. He says that thousands iu their desperation were selling their children train $2 to $5 each, yet so many were offered and so few pur chased that not all could be sold at even this price. Mr. McWade says so heartrending were tbe appeals for assistance tuat he had contributed far beyond his means, and would have given more had he had tbe money. When report was written the fam ine was increasing greatly In In sever ity and thousands were starving to death. In one village 260 perished from starvation, and he said that un less something in the way of relief came soon, thousands and thousands will starve. Whole families were sub sisting on a few ounces of rice a day, and were eating herbs and leaves. Unless the rice and other crops of July, August and September proved plentiful, the famine would only be slightly alleviated. In conclusion, Mr. McWade says: "The natives feel that the Ameri cans have come among them for their and our mutual benefit, and not as their enemies, nor to seize any of their lands under any specious or other pretenses. That feeling is em phasized by the great charity of our people at home. who. in their, earnest efforts to relieve, and not to destroy, know no religion, creed or nation.” Stripped of Umber. W. H. B. Kent and H. D. Langell, of tbe department of agriculture, are in Baker City from Washington to exam ine the lands and report in regard to tbe establishment of the Blue mountain lorest reserve Already they have made a partial examination of a por tion of the land, which it is proposed to embrace in the reserve, and they find that a »real deal of the marketable timber has been cut off They will re Half a Hop Crop. Much complaint is being expressed main in that vicinity for some time. bv the hop growers sronnd Harrisburg. Activity In Blur River. From some cause the vines have not Following the contract for extensive come np in many hills in the yards improvements on the Lucky Boy mine thereabout, while many of the vine« in the Bine river district, the news is ate blighting. It is the opinion of the now given out that the Sunset mine, in growers that the trouble is due to worms in the roots. 6 till there are the same district, will begin systematic those who do not incline to this opin development. A stamp m ill will tm ion. However, all agree that th.-re put in to test the richness of the ore in will not Ire over half a crop in that lo a practical manner, and work will be prosecuted in the tunnels so as to open cality. np the ledge in a manner to work sys tematically. Better Catch of Fish. Philadelphia. May 27.— Fire this evening in the building of the Front street Warehouse Company caused a loss estimated at $1,000.050. The building which was three stories high on Front street and five in the rear, with two sub-cellars, containing mer chandise o f a general character. One floor was packed solidly with matting snd there was 1500 rolls of carpet, 500 barrels of molasses, a carload of wines, and other liquors, a carload of matches and much machinery. Everything in the building was de stroyed either by fire or water. The fire started In the basement and was not discovered until the cen ter o f the first floor was in flames. The character of the goods In the building made ft an easy prey to the flames, and the whole structure was soon ablaze. The contents of the building were owned by many firms Reporta from the mouth of the river and individuals, and It is not known tonight what amount of insurance are to the effect that the cat b of fish was carried. Is a trifle better, but as the ratch dur ing the nsst we- k or ten days haa oeen very small, this does not mean much. UNIONS DON’T UNDERSTAND. The time is fast approaching, however, Energy Must Be Properly' Directed If when big rans are to be expected, pro vided, of conrse, that the weither and They Would Live. other conditions torn more favorable. Chicago, May 27.— Clarence S. Dar- Died at Ureat Age. row, who was chief counsel for the Joseph Bashaw, who, as near as can miners In the recent arbitration grow ing out of the strike in the anthracite ba figured cat, was at least 115 years coal fields, delivered an address to old, was found dead in bed at the home of bis stepson, near Sidney. He the Henry George Association here was probably the oldest man in Oregon. today on the ’'Perils o f Trades Un He was a Frenchman by birth and ionism." The general tone of his talk eerved in the French wars of 1806-15, was that "labor unions do not under under Napoleon. He drove sn ox team stand the principles upon which they to Oregon in 1847, and was then a gray are founded and along which they haired man. must work If they are to continue In Fruit Outlook Bright. existence.” He «aid in part: Prune growers from different parts of “ Men catch trade unionism, specu Marion and Polk counties report that lation, combination, as they catch the tbeir trees are in excellent condition measles or the mumps. Capital has and promise an enormous crop. The caught the fever of combination until rains did no damage daring the blos soming period. The tre-s are now It baa gone mad over corporations and hearing much more frnit than roald be trusts. Likewise, labor has caught matured, but, of course, much of this the fever of trade unionism and with out knowing what It means or real will drop off, as usual. izing how It may be of real aervice to the world, has turned It* power and energy In the direction o f building up organizationa. ■'Unless this force is turned to po T h e directors of the Bank o f Eng land have reduced the bank’s rate of litical power or substantial methods for bettering Industrial conditions then discount from 4 to 3 X per cent. all this great movement must be for Receivers have been appointed for naught." the Eastern tone company, with a cap ital stock of $ 1 , 000,000 and general Grvat Irrigation Dam. offices at Zanesville, O. The liabilities Washington. May 27.— The Geolog are given as $800,000, and assets as leal 8 urvey haa prepared a model of $550,000. the extensive dam to be constructed Begging letters t o ’ well-known New on Salt river, 65 miles above Phoenix. Yorkers netted Olgar Beckwith Neilson, Arix. This dam will be among the who was cashiered from the Danish firs* and also among the largest irri gation enterprises to be undertaken army, an income of $300 a month, ac by the Government under the new law. cording to officers who have cansad his The exact proportions o f the dam are arrest. 188 feet thick at the base. *30 feet The railroad commissioner of Massa long at the top and 250 feet high. It will contain 11.600,000 cubic feet of chusetts has authorised the Boston A masonry. The reservoir to be con Northern railroad company to issoe structed will drain over 6000 square $ 2 , 000,000 new stock at 120 , and the miles o f territory. Old Colony street railway $1,000,500, new stock at 106. Estate Long Unsettled. A tornado at Horton, Kaa., injured San Diego. Cal., May 27.— By an or several persons and unroofed a number der o f court the valuable estate of of buildings. James W. Robinson Is to be distrib The drouth in Porto Rico has lieen uted. The case Is a remarkable one. broken snd the ruin of all crops nar Robinson, who wan once Lieutenant- Governor of Texas and subsequently rowly averted. a prominent lawyer in this state, died A big rise in the Mississippi it rant here in 1857. For some reason bis ing grsat damage to farm land about heirs, who lived in Ohio and else where In the East were not awawe of I a Crosse, W is. hit death until long afterward and no Bis persons on a runaway Chicago efforts were made until comparative trolley car were injured by its collision ly recently to settle up the estate with a freight train. A defaulting cashier has necessi Butchery By Turks. tated the closing of the Soothpo t. London. May 27.— The Sofia corres Conn., national bank. pondent of the Morning Leader tele The American saddlery and harness company, with a capital of $10 000 , j graphs that the Macedonian commit hat been incorporated in New Jersey. | tee report« that the Turks have burn ed the village of Banitxai. near Seres. A Chicego bootblack received only j Only 48 of the 500 inhabitants es $10 for restoring a lost $ 10,000 bill to cape, 1 and many women and girls it « owner, whose joy caused him to were outraged and murdered and laint. j their bodies cast Into the water. I The United Lead company has in creased its capital stock from $16,000, «00 to $25,000,000. OREGON NEWS OF INTEREST Terrible Conditions Exist In Famine Stricken Districts ol Chins. Joining Two Branches. Again it is reported that the long looked for link connec ing the two lines of the Boothern Pacific between Springfield and Kngene will soon be bnilt, snd the report saems to come from a reliable source. A surveying party is to be sent by the company at once to make final location of the route for the connection, which it is the in tention to construct daring tbe present year. Water Supply Fails. [.There is a shortage of water at the Oregon agricultural college. The source of supply is a large well, which for merly afforded sufficient water, bat the powth of the college and the largely increased amount of water required ren ders the ontput of the well insufficient to meet tbe needs. Every day now the well is pumped dry, in spite of the fact that there is careful husbanding of water in all the departments. PATH OF SI Tornado Costs Fiftec® Nebraska. TW ENTY Storm Sweeps Throng* j — and Dcatroya Every BaligiT" Path-Heavy Fiamcfci Hastings, Neb., May 27 .-. heavy storms, two of which Into the worst tornados, visited Southern Nebraska b passed over portions of da, and Kearney counties i„, FIfteen persons are known t. their lives. 20 odd were mL seriously injured, and a . others received minor Ininn. dwelling and outbuilding i„* of the tornado was blow» .. and the financial loss thus b, ed will reach about $ 600 « Near Norman, at the horn,* McCurdy, a number of rebt friends were spending tbe dij" an Inmate escaped death » Injury. T w o miles south 0f German Lutheran services t- held In a school house w storm struck and demolish«! ing four o f the occupants the minister, and Injuring a others. The storm was equally t- nt Fairfield, but the warned of its coming und lars for safety. Six dwelli- blown to pieces at that e their occupants escaped injr a few exceptions. AMERICANS NOT MOLESTED. Venezuelan Mote A ga in st Foreigners Is Contrary to Treaties. Willemstad, Curacao. May 26.— The President of the State of Marcaibo and the Gorernor of Caracas have tried to enforce the new law against foreigners, obliging them to recognize only the Venezuela tribunals for the adjustment of their claims and com pelling them to waive their rights to claims for damages for robbery or pil lage perpetrated by the government or revolutionary troops, and enforc ing other vexatious measures under penalty of Immediate expulsion. These measures were enforced against British. German. Italian. Dutch, Spanish and French citizens. When their respective legations learn ed of the fact they sent orders to their Consuls not to comply with the demands of the local authorities, as ths new law was contrary to exist ing treaties. The ministers of the powers also called on Senor Urbaneja, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and protested against the action taken. He promised that orders would be Is sued ta suspend the enforcement of the new law. United States citizens were not molested. If the law is enforced later compli cations with the powers will arise, and is believed that more than 40,000 of the 60,000 foreigners residing in Venezuela will leave the country. MUST LEAVE Fit AM. Repetition of ' Recent Acckbn' cur at Any Time. Ottawa. Ont., May 27.—“ W. Brock and R. P. MeC geologists who were sent to the cause of the landslide u Mountain, which wiped out of Frank, have submitted a nary report to Sir William acting minister of the Int: Mr. McConnell estimates tween 60.000.000 and 80,0«, of rock fell, the debris of covers almost two square l slide is attributed to the sp- the mountain and the shat dition o f the rock. This »at "faulting” and crushing of during the process of moun Ing. Heavy rainfalls pourim the fissures tended to open further. The accident was locallj by a creep in the coal mi» caused a Jar. The niountala the slip took place is very tured and is now slipping tinuously in small pieces, danger of another slide, a the fractures extend back feet from the fare, and if t* to open another bulk wo~ down. Mr. McConnell thinks that always be more or less risk at Frank and that the people move as soon as possible. SWEPT BY TORN*» WHEN PENSIONS DATE FROM. Indian Veterans Will Receive Pay From June 27, 1902. Washington, May 26.— The Interior Department has decided that all pen sions allowed under the Indian War Veteran act, approved June 27, 1902, shall be effective from the date of the passage of the act. That is to say. when a claim is allowed, the veteran or his widow or other survivor draws $8 a month from and after the date of the allowance, and is granted, in addition, an accrued pension at the rate of $8 a month from June 27, 1902, up to the date of the said allowance. There has been some question in the minds of the pension authorities as to whether accrued pension would run from 1902, when the act affecting the veterans of the Pacific Northwest be came a law. or from 1892. when the original Indian War Veteran act, ap plying to the Black Hawk survivors, went on the statute books The later date was finally settled upon as being the one intended by congress, and all pensions hereafter allowed will rarry this accrued pension, as well as future allowances. Sugar Beets Need Rain. About 30 Ja|*ne«s have Arrived in Pendleton from Portland to work in the beet field.« of the Oregon sugar company, and 120 more are expected to follow soon. Tbe beets are growing slowly, and almost at a standstill for Fire at Ashland. Grain, gardens and Fire which broke ont at Ashland want of rain. orchards are also suffering. last Monday in the middle of the busi ness houses on the west aide of Fourth street, between A and B, near the PORTLAND MARKETS. Southern Pacific depot, gained «neb headway and burned so fiercely that al Whoat— Walla Walla, 70971«; val- most ths entire block was destroyed, lay, 74«. involving a total loss of nearly $25,000, Ask Permission to Strike. Barley— Feed, $20.00 per ton; brew upon which there was an insurance of ing, $ 21 . Anaconda, Mont., May 26— At a $10,500. _________ Floor— Bawl Trades, $3.95(94.30; gra r l i l ' V . V ' T MIU and Smeltermen s Union, held last evening in this city ham. $3.4593.86. Cutting Down Deht. it Is reported to have been decided to The semi-annual financial statement Millttnfts— Bran, $23 par too; mid of Wasco county, cempnted by Connty dlings, $27; shorts, $23.00; chop, f l w ft r rm,SS,° n of thp American rec en t i l l'!" L° Btrtke' Unless the m,' n Clerk Lake, shows a redaction in t> e 118. sm ehi, d, 1 af ,mrRed *» the Washoe indebtedness of the county ol $41,705.34 Oats — No. 1 whits, $1.1991.15; smelters be reinstated. It is the within the last six months, leaving the fra », $1,05 per rental. opinion of a majority o f the labor total indebtedness at thin time only J?“ ?*™ Iher® that there will be no J in,0lhT' «lover, $18,191.14, which is the first time for $10<911; chsat, charged haa atde* ed ,h« the men dis- $15(916 psr ton. many years that the indeb edneeeof tbe Potatoes— Bast Burbanks, 50o psr temptlng to d l^ t e ^ e 'p o M c 'y o f the county has been materially below Z $ 100 , 000 . rack: ordinary, 25*40« pm- rental, c o m p l i n the matter _____________ growers’ prices; Merced sweats, 13 « Ready te Dig. 3.50 par rental. Ditch digging implements and sup Poultry— Chickens, mixed, 1 1912 c - plies for tbe Colombia Southern irriga yoong, 18« 14c; hen«, 12c; tnrkevs’ tion company, on the Tnmello, hava d r*»e d , 20 « 22 c: duck.; been going in for several days, and act $ ..0 0 «,,6 0 par doaan; «were, $ 8 ( 96 . 50 . ive operations are experts,! to be in Chaere— Poll cream, twins, 16,X<* progress there soon, thnngh no news has yat come of the approval of tbe re j 17«; Young America, 1 7 «1 7 U e; fact- ory prirea, 1 9 1 X « ; Ism. clamation contract at Wasahington. Batter— Fancy creamery, 20<92lc p*r Ag Are Busy at Helix. pound; extras, t i e ; dairy, 20922 tte- store, 1 6 « 18 c, ^ The prosperous*! ittle village of Helix, in the very heart of the great wheat ***■ —16(117« per doaan. halt of Eastern Oregon, anjovs the dis- Hope-Choire, 1 *9 20c paw pound. tinition of not having an idle man, a W oll-V a H oy 12X915; Eastern Ore- vacant storeroom or dwelling house within its limits. Everyone is busy, gon, $914; mohair, 36936«. and all ara prosperous. Beef — Grom, cows,5 3 X 9 4 « per pound: 'leers, 4 X 9 5 « ; Creased, 7 x 7 Heavy Buyer of Timber Land«. Vaal— 898 Xe. Deed» have been filed for record con veying the title to nearly 3,000 acres of timber land along the Klatskanie river to W. W. Roman, of Forreet, Pa., mak 7 !^ “ h* ~ Gro* ’ * P * P°nnd jdrwaaad, ing a tract of about 7,000 acres that he V * * K rri r e * , has recently purchased in that vicinity. OTHERS RECEIVE Killed In Explosion on Steamer. SHh wnicb nin.1 1 S K " n s i"7 ’ ? B ' for Montreal, passed inward off Matane m ,terday' 8i* na|ed that an ex- of * aa ha<l occurred on hoard ££ .¿rïr*1* dM,royed ,hp aa SS r â Oklahoma In Track ol Store to People are Ft*. Oklahoma City, O T . Ms? night a tornado struck the Carmen and destroyed or the place. P. F. Brown, ol was instantly killed by flying and Mrs. Wism iller fatally Twenty people were more or Jured. The Methodist church » « top o f the parsonage, »bert mains and c a n o e seen for nC; The dwellings of J. P- and Robert Payne were 4 Mrs. Atterbury was carrM1; but not seriously injured, son and daughter were 4 hurt. Orchards and crops *- aged severely. The Arkansu on a rampage as a result of rains. The town of Kaw City tically under water, many f ing in the bottoms near and Newkirk having been to leave their homes, crops are submerged, bridges have been washed i- traffle is blocked. Fraudalant Citizens' Washington, May 27.—6* officials said today that they ligated reports that tit fraudulent naturalization been sold to Immigrants at • and had ascertained that the was not to facilitate the immigrants into the Unit™ but to permit Immigrants m work on the subway »»4 — provements in New York. ■' the state laws only cltiienej- on improvements of that - some cases as much as l 5(l for a fraudulent certifle**«- Block on Americas Tr*» London. May 27.— The W i correspondent at Singtpo" that the government of t»J States has Imposed a pi- on the export o f tin is smelted within the colosj step is designed to cheek to create a combination j* trade by the Standard Oil States Steel Corporation American Tinplate Coml propose to import the ore ■ United States free of dntj port the smelted article. Locomotive Boiler Exfi* Erie, Pa.. May 27.—^ May's siding on a hill o Y ^ r t a i r ^ t h 2^ B" " » U Secretary Ron h h the approval of today, the boiler on o«i sale of tnn «et.*' .hJ? authorixed the motives pushing s P* Erie freight train e*l one man and Injuring three perhaps fatally- The crown sheet of t Mown through the cal* Philippin. T r e ^ A e r a V ° the caboose in two. Tk eept the engineer and in the caboose. Coins to Be Sold s s S mbb S IM