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About Lane County leader. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Or.) 1903-1905 | View Entire Issue (July 31, 1903)
BIO TIMBER DEAL. U N E COUNTY LU D ER NATIOMt IU If -GAT ION CONGRESS. Ltab Forward» Object M Ith Liberal State t pfroprUtio«. w . e. c o x m . TABLES TURNED Convicts Make Guards Ogden, Ctab, July 2 9 — Cnuaoal Folsom effort» have leeo made fo in»o:e the Their Captives. ■accvae of the 11 lb National Irrigation Congress ahirb will be held PRISON OFFICERS WERE SL RPRISED September 15 to 1*. iaclnaive, A lib- eral aute appropriation waa made, Thirteen Desperate California Criminals Oc acral Review of Important Mappe a m i l and the amoont haa been doubled by Take to the niffs Alter Capturisg and of tke Past M eek la Brief and private eubecripliona from olhcera of Looting Armory - Posse in Pursuit. the congress and from citizens of the C O T T A G E GRO VE OREGON. W c.th .'5 DOINGS In Effort to Control World’» Market. ttarrimaa and TAPS WILL WAIT Mill Celt* Pan Francisco, July 2 8 . - I h e Bulle tin says that E. H. Harriman amt James J. Hill are uniting in a great timber deal, whereby they, with a num ber of associates, will i-ontrol the luiu- Iwr market ol the world. They are se curing large tracts of forest land in Northern California and Oregon, through their agents, who have been lor Borne time quietly baying property on tbe coast. Among tbe associates of tbe two railroad magnates are Frederick Weyerhaeuser, of Minneapolis, I . B. Walker, cf Minneapolis; Jacob Blod gett, of Grand Rapids, and a number of other member» of influence in the vari ous timber sections of the Western More Time Given for Opening Manchurian Ports. IN LINE WITH THE CNITED STATES Failure of Russia to Withdraw by Octo ber I Will Be Followed by Serious Move on Part of Mikado. ALL TO THE CNLRc, Will ol Pope Leo Beq«,llht Successor. Rome. July 2 5 . - 1 ^ .... Leo X III was w » »,,,* ,,^ congregation of «ardinals p intention of tbe cardinal.£ the strictest aecrecy tenta, bol it is learned thJ? lt* e . M sheet, in the ha„,|.rlti late p-.pe, except «d«lmon, 5 made in his later year, wh, found considerable «litficon. ing, owing to t|,e hand. The earlier pc tament include the re,«,,, which the testator ««l.lrestad to ecutors, Cardinals Kampoll» and C ietoni, on the best tinue tbe religious ini pain .p church as well a* the by the holy sc« daring l,ur » The document then enttm, the property which Leo pc- proride» that it shall gotohU for tile benefit of the chordi •ven tli* presents, wliicti might be considered personal rat^er to tbe pontiffs as *u«-h. T o vhe members of bis f, pope left a present for each'to' from the valuable object ra„ nta , nd filni| J “ London, July 27.— Japan ' has de Folsom. Cal., July 2 ».— Thirteen cided to adopt the policy of waiting and watching Russia, advocated by Great desperate convicts aatault and over Britain. In tbe meantime she will come the goard, capture the pris n urge China to carry out the assurance» armory, make their escape and carry given to the United States respecting with them 11 officials and guards of Manchuria, and will endeavor to o b tne Foleom state prison, including W ar- tain the opening of additional ports. At the Japanese legation here the fol den Wilkinson and Captain R . S. lowing statement was made by an Murphy. staff a. official to the Assocrciated f’ ress: E. W. Eoerlin, of New York, has Focb, in brief, » a s tbe news that " I can assure you that the talk of startled the people of thia community been in California for several monthB. war between Russia and Japan is an and sent a thrill through tbe length He ie Harriman’ s agent in this atate, invention. Japan has not the least in- She and breadth of tbe state this morning. aud has made frequent trips to the tenticn of taking that course. This morning affairs at the prison northern part of the state, where he proposes to wait and maintain her atti- Li tude of watchfulness. Japan and went forward in tbe ordinary groove. has been buying up available timber | ^ 0„ , , D4). . There was no indication of trouble. lands. Eberlin bas ah o been working and it would be difficult for any other j «|uealhed to his doctors. All Tbe conspiracy of tbe desperate con toward securing options on timber land power to w ithstand the pressure the) purchased and buildings srsctg rtituliona personally founds! victs wbc had decided on a dash for held by various Eastern people who and Great Britain could app ly.” It is said that Japan intends to do ^ are put in the nan a ol the liberty, had beeo well kept. Tbe pris purchased it since the boom in Cali nothing until October, when the final »voi«f possible claims from oners marched into tbe dining room fornia timber began about three years evacuation of Man.-huria must occur, as the pope probably rsuiem and had breakfast. After the meal ago. The failure of Russia to withdraw from some time after the death ol tbe men marched out of the main gate With tbe many minor holdings which Manchuria vould be followed by a seri- tbe latter's nephews institute against the church, daiiniag of tbe prison into the yard. Tbe upper Harriman and his associates may coont ous move on tbe part of Japan. The Russian embassy here regrets the francs as their portion cf tin yard line was out and moat of tbe etone on, it is said that the plan ie to merge confusion which has resulted in conse The wiil ends by providing line was through, when two prisoner- tbe more valuable lands controlled by quence of the report that has arisen turned suddenly on W . Chalmers, the tbe Hill roads and the Southern Pacific that Prince Ctiing, bead of the C hi P E O P L E S E e THE DEAD outer gate keeper, and a doaen others into a trust. The Southern Pacific's nese foreigo office, has written to M in rushed ior the captain's office, only a principal holdings are represented in ister Conger refusing to open po’ ts in Orest Crowd at St. Peter*« tt M snhuria. Tbe Russian officials at Last View ol Dead Pont#. few feet to tbe left of the main en tbe grant of ten miles an each side of its Washington believed that tbe note wav trance to the prison proper. i road, lving between the southern boun- sent before China gave her assu-ancea, Rom e, July 23.— From soak Each of the desperate men was | dary line of Oregon and a point south and they asrerted positively that Russia until sunset thousands o f ; armed with a “ fi'e knife” or a raxor, j of Portland, and consists o about 1,- intends to carrv out to the letter the as before the bisr of Leo XIII, state in tbe basilica of St. and in the twinkling of an eye they 000,OOu acres of fir and sugar pine. In surances she has given, and will not in was originally intended tbit - terpose obstacles in the wav of China’ s A fierce wind storm in tbe Boundary Point two delegates ; e* ckj (Tum^Ta^isce were in the midst of the assembled ; his plan to place these lands in a pool observing her pletlge to Secretary Hay. portunity to view tbe body { creek valley, B. C., has done $5,000 "g a tto * agrieoltoral or guards and officers, none of whom were through three days, but toni|H Harriman does so conditionally, with damage. It blew down a steel smoke ' lation to appoint two armed, and ordered them to line up learned that tbe funeral mi; » EXHIBIT FROM ALASKA. *£ . and march out. stack at the Greenwood smelter, ver- society of engineer* c * * ° provisions for the protection of the com Friday instead of Hstnrdaj oitkt turned buildings, smashed windows ; each irrigation company emi The convicts, having quelled all pany's creditors, to whom all the lands and crippled telegraph and telephone P*»*— or »irlcwlturSLl colleg#, If People Will Collect It They Will Have to the evidence that decom “ - ■ r- - and each college or university having demonstrations made by tbe free men, of the company are pledged in security setting in. Thia is dot to Fine Building. wires. Several men were injured by chairs of hydraulic engineering or for started with tbeir prisoners across tbe for-its indebtedness. severe heat, from which no: falling trees. yard in the direction of the prison arm Washington. July 27.— The interior estry to appoint two delegates. With tbe lands of tbe H ill and the department today telegraphed Governor con Id perfectly protect tbs bod». The following are delegates by virtue ory. Four guards were at tbe armory Tbe pope s remmains have been laid The impression of those it» Harriman roads and those of Walker, Brady that Assistant Secretary Ryan receiving their rifles preparatory 10 ol tbeir reepective offices: Tbe preei- in tbe temporary resting place. passed before the gates of 8L dent and members of bis cabinet: tbe' taking out tbeir "lin es. The convicts Weyerhaeu er and others in Washing w ill confer with authorized representa view the body was one of in “ Harriman will try *0 wrest the con duly ac redited representative of any marched their prisoners up to the arm ton, Oregon, Idaho and California tives from Alaska at Seattle on August com bined with a certain wo. «1 trol of tbe Northern Pacific from H ill. ■ foreign nation or colony; tbe govern- ory, aud, holding tbeir knives over under control, Harriman and his asso 8 relative to the Alaska exhibit for the ror. Tbe body was tilted op world’ s fair at St. Louis. Secretary Secrotary Root will recommend that or 0| any state or territory; any mem- them, demanded that tbe doors be catafalque in order that sll troops in Alaaka be given doable time ,^ T 0f the Cnited States senate or opened. It was a case of opening the ciates would be in a position to control Rvan says the conference will coneiiler the terribly shrunken fees, ir whether or not, by means and agencies allowance. house of repteeenlativee: member of doors or slaughtering tbe warden, cap tbe lumber market of the world. ary skull in a frame of gold l‘ tain aud other officials. Warden Wil of tbeir own, the people of Alaska A high Russian official « bargee Greet or territorial commimion. the midst of a mass of red role kinson realised the uselessne s of re shall collect tbeir exhibit and deliver RACE WAR ON. scarce! v have been more typiilti Britain with duplicity in tbe Man sistance, and told tbe guards to open it at a given place. churian affair. FATAL CRASH IN FOQ. Except at sunrise n-hso tht tbe armory doors. This was done, and The bouse committee at the time the the convicts took possession, secured 10 Illinois People Lynch One Negro While Alaskan appropriation was maile, un threatened a panic, sll thoa Five men mere hurt and $100,000 In Pursuit of Another. Trains In Minnesota Collide and rifles, 25 revolvers and all the ammu ited it had an opportunity of worth of property destroyed at a Terre Two derstand that the Alaska people con Four Men are Killed. nition they wanted, and then mar<-h»d Danville, III., July 28.— A race templated doing this in their own way St. Peter’ s. During the d»r Haute, Ind., fire. those who pa«se«l in stopped St. Paul, July 29.—Tw o trains met to the main entrance and demanded war broke out here tonight. While a and with their own funds In such Extreme hot weather prevails in catafalque to say n quiet prayer, that the gate be opened. They again case Secretary Ryan believes an ex mob of BOO men was on its way to eastern Nebraska. Crops are thought in a head-on colliairn on the Chicago dreds ol women and even » “ threatened their prisoners and tbe gate hibit could be collected and installed (treat Wetaren this morning and the to have been injured. men carried children in tbeir jail to lym h James Wilson. , l „ , „ „ „ h ,___ , _ . , was otened. The convicts marched the county . that wonhl he of espec ial public inter result is four men killed and 25 cr 30 The stubbornness of a Hungarian cut and up the hill in the very teeth of a Bloomirgton negro, who had con- est and highly creditable to A laska, as officer is responsible for tbe prostration passengers injured. JAPAN STRIPS FOg WAt the Gatling guns framed on them. leered to assaulting Mrs. Thomas Bur it would leave tbe sum appropriated bv of 450 soldiers by heat. Tbe two trams were the Twin City The,- plan had worked even beyond gers, wife of a farmer, an unknown congress f- r tbe construction o f a cred But Russia Will Net Yield i J lie the wildest hope of tbeir imagination. Cardinal Gibbons surprised every- Limited and a fas» freight. negro shot and killed Henry Gatter- 'table bui ding in which to install the Troops Eastward. Ala-kan exhibit and meet all other bo«ly in E n rol» by appearing in ordi limited was running as a first a-ction to Tbeir prieone-s were* tbeir safeguard, man, white, a member of the mob. necessary expenses. Minneapolis. The second section con and they had not lo*t a sing e man. Should the peo nary dress instead of robes. London, Jnlv 25.— The Daily Pi-sees were started in pursuit. 21 The murderous negro, a refugee from ple of Alaska not care to undertake sisted of an excursion train running Tokia correspondent eendi rit Canada is still in favor of reciprocity from Des Moines to M inneapolis and guards, headed by lieutenants, aDd Evansville, Ind., by the name of J. W. such collection and delivery of their alarming view of ths sitnatioa with the Cnited States, despite Cham was three hours behind tim^, The were alter the fugetives half an hour Mayfield, was later taken from the exhit.it independently, other plans will report to his paper. He sayt" berlain’ s policy lor preferential trade. fast freight, southbound, received an after they started, t-berifl h’ eeee dep- 1 be discussed. sia’ s retention of Matuhnris, city jail and lynched by the mob, and utixed J. J. Hinters, who gathered a order at I lodge Center reading that the A sensational note has been sent to crease of her fleet, the die- ONLY AN ORNAMENT. poese and staited on the trail over the three other negroes who attacked the President Kooeevelt exposing e plan of seeon . scetion of the passenger traiD inforcementa to Manchuria, tte mountains, and posses from Eldorado Hungary to control its people in the was three hours late and tbe «rew evi- white« were badly beaten. The mob ward movement of the orenpyig Yaqulna Bav Customs Collection District county were also put in motion. I dently misread tbe order and attempted Cnited States. fina ly resumed its march to the «-oun- in Manchuria and tfie dafisnt Is Too Costly. to make Vlaisty biding between Dodge on the Corean frontier alar The battleship Kearsarge made the ty jsil, determined to lynch Wilson. j Center and Hastings. M inn., thinking Battle With Convicts. Washintgon, July 2 ’ .— [f the treas trip aernee the oceau in nine days, *four When tbe mob reached tbe jail, it ury department .an bring sufficient in Japanese, many of whom ste j that it was tbe limited that was late. and a hall hours, an average spee«l of Anl o-D, Cal., July 29.— * fierce bat that it wonld be better to Meanwhile the limited was poind was fired upon by the sheriff. Nine fluence to bear on congress at the com 13.10 mile san hour. She arrived on than risk tbe eventual loot if j ing along at regular speed nd met the tle occurred between the escaped Fol peteons were wounded and the crowd ing «eseion. the Yaquina customs-col this side all ready for action. and the relegation of Japan bl ! freight head-on just after it had som convicts and tbe officers tonight scattered. lection district of Oregon w ill either be ondarv place. Thirty thousand people viewed the ! rounded a curve at Vlasity. The morn- near Pilot H ill, in Eldorado county. entirely abandone«! or a new provision He nays the Japanese are Ths entire police force, numbering remains of ths late pove the second day i mg was loggy and neither engineer saw Tbe convnta were traveling in a f >nr will be made for the pay of the collec ing stores and negotiating the about 20, bee been «ailed out, and tor at that port based on the amount of i the other in time to stop, although »be tbsy lay in state. of ships; that a squsdron ii oJ engineer of tbe limited had applied the horse wagon, and after holding up and this, with 12 deputy sheriffsw and annual receipts. Prince Ferdinand has fled from Bu|. | vostok, to which port Rnirin looting a store at Pilot Hill of provie- air brakes. The annual report of the auditor for Sheriff Whitlock, forms a grrrison at garia and it is thought he will not have been sent as a pro That the two trains tame together ! ions, proceeded in tbe direction of the treasury, shows that the salary of turn to hia throne. that both fleets are ready lor the jsil. Wilson admitted that be at with terrific force was eviilenced by tbe j Co|on. . this official has been $1,000 a year, 'and any moment. He says tbit * tacked Mrs. Bargees, but denies that Indian cannibals on Tibnron island fact that both engines were Dsdly dam- yet his yearly collections for customs Shortly attar leaving Pilot Hill they he criminally assanlteil her. of the Siberian press reveali tbs After raptured a party of Mexican prosper- aged and the baggage and ^ buffet cars were overtaken by («trees from Sacra the nergo had made these statements. have averaged just 40 cents. There sive spirit of the Russian miliw» tors, killed and ats them. we.e completely wrecked. The bag mento, Folsom sod Placerville. Guard Sheriff Whitlock went to the outside of are a number of other instances of this that the Russians believe they gageman was buried beneath a pile of Tom Johnson says be does not want Curry, of the Folsom pone, opened ne the jail and pleaded with the mob to character on record where the govern prestige if they give wav nov, trunks when the car was lifted off tbe to he governor of Ohio but would like gotiations br «hooting one of the disperse. Hie brief address was in- ment is paying out consi.lerable in sal result that their far East»* track, bat was taken out uniniured. to sneesred Hanna as senator. horses attached to the convicts’ wagon, tei runted by shouts from the mob. aries to collector« and is deriving pra«-- will he lost and Japanese infl and this blocked the advance and an members of which loudly dc-lared tically no revenue from abandoned or become predominant. Negro convicts in a Tennessee mine Ornerai Davis Retires. --pen fight ensued. Convict Howard their determination to have the ne- unimportant ports. revoiteil and barricaded themselves in Manila, Jnly 29.— Major General was killed ontright and 8eabis, a neirrn gro’ s life sooner nr later. Will Show Big Tlmhrr- the mins. They will be starved out. Relief for Stricken. Two I «avis has transferred the command of convict, was hsdly wounded. St. Louis, July 25.—Ths f The famous fisherman ring has been Paterson X J ., July 27.- M a y o r guards, who were with the convict», the state of Washington’s Trains Collide at Crossing. stolen from ths dead pope's hand. the department of the Philippines to manage«! to escape. It was alsc notice.I John Hinchcliffe toiav r«||e«i together Consternation prevails throughout the Majxr General James F. Wade, General that Gordon and another convict were Hntchinson. Kan.. July 28 «core the leading c it’ z n- of Paterson to He were submitted to«lny. The* for a five story structure coa Vatican. Davis having been retirai for old age. missing, and it is presumed that they I of persons were Injured two fatally vise way, and means of p r o v i n g re lW ' V * “ 7 "‘ T m* ,n an ° octagonal *,,lh At a meeting of the Lewis and Clark Geue>al Davis’ last act was to review dropped oat somewhere between Folsom in a wreck of the Santa Ke ea«t boon«! for the people most sorely stricken bv ■forming prrntsR fair directors H. W. Scott was elected all tbe troops shoot M arila. Tbs re and Pilot Hill and bave taken to the train No. 2 and a Missouri Pacific the tornado, which wreught .leath and height of the bnilding will bs 1» president and H. W. Goods direwtor cord« in the case of First Lieutenant woods, which anywhere in this locality ¡north bound train at the junction devastation in this city yesterday. Two Louis J. Mlilet, of CbictiO. west of this city to«f»v. Both trains thousand began today clearing the Foley, of ths Fifth cavalry, who was woald provide sale hiding. general. were running behind schedule time wra-kage rtrewn in the streets by the appointed chief of tbe asp court martisied on charges involving Taylor A Co. and W. L. Stow A Co., tbe emhexslement of soldiers' money m orel and décoratifs P*'” *!** . ¡The Miseonri Pacific tiain was jnst storm Panama Situation Oravc. In summing up the tornado’ s He designed w two Wall street firms, failed as s re and other financial irregularities, have croesing the Santa Fe tracks when the 7onk' P*, , ®ri"on today counts three dead, w orld’ s fair. Washington, Jnlv 29.— Consul Uod- m it of trying to corner certain stocks. been forwardeil to Waahiugton. Santa Fe train came sronn.l the bend 100 injured, 50 families made home! cutod the golden door of the » James P. Keens lost $1,500,000 by tbs tion bnilding at the Chicsp ger st Panama has made the following • t s tremerdous speed. The heavy transaction. proper,y I om “ fair. report by cable to the state depsrtment mogul crashed into the rear cars of Bey Net FM For a King. The Cnited Stales leagne of I oral - 8 * 7 Petersburg, Jnlv **— A spe« ial of the episode at that place: ‘ Last tbs Misreuri Pacific, piling them into Rebels Worry Tsrkey- igbt about 10 o'clock soldiers, heeded the ditch. loan and bnilding associations is in ses iti on tbs treatment of backward ch il Roberts’ Coming Not Assured Constantinople, Ju’7 **•" " sion st Boston. dren. at tbe command of tbe imperial b> tbe commander-in-ebisf, searched c.htaid,°n;L } °,!y *7— rhe ^ fo m e n t creasing activity of lh» »f™ government, examined and oheerved the governor's bones. Tbe governor M»ke War on "losqulto. cab ad to , ha United States to theeffe. t in Macedonia and the H i««"» Cardinal Gibbons has formed • com Prince George, tbe »Meet ron of Kiog eeiaped, tried to reach the consulate, that the British cabinet had vetoed the bination with ths French cardinal« Peter Karageorgevich of Servia, daring but was intercepted. Took refuge at hasNh l Y7 Ï countered by the Turkish ^ ÎS- A" " ‘ h” .tep against Ram polls. tire bouee of an American. Streets 'he producing an unpleasant aw“ t a W i W ,r 0 n ,h * ■ '• Q o ll» i C r ? J " . “ °! , 0r'1 Roher'- the past week, and has reported to the I nile.1 States is as inaenrata as was J7 T T' Representatives of lined with soldiers. Arrested secre cimi quarter«, and -I'P ^ v rlp Seventeen representatives of the Panl- emperor that tbe boy is a degenerate. *|n" nnn" m<‘ nt that Lord , lom atic circle«, where it I» On tary of state aud departmental em N’ew i k hn. v e T n' ' ‘ n Roherta* iet order in the Catted States are in con Prince George is 16 years old. Roberts had definitely ifetermined to ployes. Department has money.” to iL a n .o f? : rnH * n l1r*«"i*»tion eixating situation will h* , Jane 12 n Berlin dtapetrh to the Lon ference in New York. t he knwon a* the conference commit make the visit. The truth is that the mande r.n the Dart of fflk»«0"® don Times said that King Fetor might tee on mieqnito extermination. The who!« matter ha, always been indaft- manda on tbe part Thames Flood Damages. Cardins) Gotti is gaining strength abdicate in favor of bis son. an control. Even t^he 4 of ta “ r * f-°,th «• »» rid New Jersey mte. Lord Roberts has said and still Russians now admit tb»* in ths rare to succeed Pope Leo. London, Jnly 2 ».— Heavy rains over Razad By Lightning ta *' 7 , Wi" ,h,> r n i '* f ^tate» in a« lie me ia inadequate-____ _ tbe sooth of England canned eerions breeiling s ? .“ r £ u ,t a ì kinds. the Autumn if his duties will pr*m it. Jams* A. Mitchell, preeideot of tbe Minneapolis, Jnly 29.—Uns of the Bell telephone company, ol Philadel wore» wind, lightning and rain storms floods and greet dan.age in London. | ami Last of Jail-Breakers Caught. Cannot Stand J«*« Vigorously pushed. phia, eines 1 8 95, has resigned. D . N. ! in the history of the city struck M inne The underground railway was flooded Junction City, Kan., July 27 — Har- Chicago. July 25.-AJ'JP Bothell, of New York, was elected to spoli« todsv. in Southeast Minneapo and many printing rooms cf London Oovereor Hunt ta Resign. ry Barney, the highway r„bber who ee- a member of tbe firm •ocieed him. lis the financial lore will aggregata newspapers bail» in tbe underground Oyster, Bay, July 28.__, district between Fleet street and ths j' h* fonnt* J «» here two man A Co , mantle mW ^ Twenty clerks on the New York Cen- n ,,n T th«msends of dolar*. Building* stood that Govetnor Hunt of pò..* M?||tn. T J ? ro“ P«nT with Gilbert • njaral by tbe jeers of _ trai railroad at Niagara Falla, N. Y .f * —• ™ i - otlmrs were unroofe.1 an«l Embankment were flr«oded and unable Rico, has indu-ated hii in,en,mn o, l ion workmen while he to print. Tbe heavy rain« coincided l^ ren w oJta th* are eocueed of robbing freight. Six ’ ‘ «htning splintered some hnqu.ahmg the i « „ n<i guard over nonunion m*”; have been arres te. I, and five of these -ir e s |w.re prostrated and nearly ali with a high this on the Thames, in " hen r ; n; was r cantnted ten ° f miles i90'- north »** resignation w: " take effect - p is other», of ionaly wonnded Robert ' undating several lowlying districts. »ill not known definitely. pleads«! guilty. ' ,b * ,,r * ^ wrr* ■P- -""h a d V a 'iI7 tl>ig The oth-1 hia tormentors, today- er» had been prveionely captured. | arretted. city and atate. The program ha» been carefully ar The race war at Danville, III-, U over and quiet restored. ranged with the view of achieving The Japanese press ie strongly to practical benefit, and will include favor of war with Koaeia. practical irrigation and foreetry lee- Cardinal Gibbone received a very wn(| report» of experts, application of cordial reception on hie arrival at provisions of tbe reclamation act. Rome. state procre-s under tbe national act, re views on settlement of leg»' com plica A convention to organice a aioa form political party ie now i tions and the pertinent and important at Denver. theme of colonisation. The Britiah pre«e terms Rosaian As Ct»h is the pioneer state in irri official's woros en Mancharían situa gation, special opportunities atll be tion as insalting. offered for tbe study of the history and A Texas contractor attempted to progress of the tciexce. and excursions b r i!« an army officer by sending him will be arranged to enable delegates to take loll advantage of tbe fact. $200 in a box of cigars. . . . Special terms have been secured Preparations are completed for the ¡roni railroads, and Ogden hotels holding of the conclave which will i,ave announced that there w ifi be no elec t a succeasor to Pope Leo. advance in their ratee. Complete ar- Satisfactory progress is being made rangements have been made for the en- in the trade treaty negotiations be- tertainment of visitors, reception com- tcceen tbe Cnited States and China for mitteea being detailed to visit all trains. the opening of Manchurian ports. Tbe basis of [rpeieswntation in tbe A coke trust, beaded by tbe Frick cougreee will be: coal company, is to be formed. Tbe The governor of each state and ter capital is placed at $7,000,000. Tbe ritory to appoint 20 delegate!; the new concern has control of 10,000 mayor of each city of lees than 25,000 ac res of coal land. population to a point two delegates; the Tbe discovery of four boxes of dyna- mayor of each city of more than 25,000 mite in the mountains three miles population to appoint foar delegates; from Nelson, B. C ., with tbe date 1S81 ^ ¡.t, board of county commissioners to marked on them has led to speculation appoint tw o delegates; each chamber as to a tragedy in which pioneer pros- Qf commerce, board of trade, t-ommer- pectors were tbe victims. j cial club or real estate exchange to ap-