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About Lane County leader. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Or.) 1903-1905 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1904)
LANE COUNTY LEADER LOST IN SÎRAITS. WAR AQAIN SEEMS SLRE. Japan Receives Second Reply of Russia. Which Is Unsatisfactory. OREGON NEWS OF INTEREST FIffy-Four Lives Sacrificed to Storm Be tween Seattle and Victoria, CONMENDS FAIR Seattle, Jan. 12.—The Seattle-V’ ie- The Senate Committee Asks for London, Jan. 13.— The Times’ Pekin toria steamer Clallam was lost early correspondent, cabling under yester Favorable Action. C O T T A G E GROVE OREGON. this morning midway between Smith day’ s date, says the Chinese minister island and Dungenees spit, at least 54 APPLIES for a p p o r t io n m e n t . at Tokio, at the request fo the Japanese IDLE HONEY AT WORK. persons losing their lives in the disas FEW CHANGES MADE IN MEASURE foreign ottice, telegraphed the following ter. Every person who pot off in the communication to Prince Ching: School Fund Surplus Is Being Put Out Pilot Butte Company Wants to Begin on lifeboats, lowered when it was apparent The second Russian reply to the 10,900 Acres. at Interest. the steamer could not live out the ter Appropriation of $2,129,000 I . Ulven Full Ococral Review of Important happenings Japanese proposals has been received at Salem— A. M. Drake, president of rific gale that was blowing, drowned. S an ction-N ation al Commission Will 8alem— The semi-annual report of Tokio, but it is unfavorable and cannot o f the Past W eek In Brief and the Pilot Butte Development company, State Treasarer C. 8. Moore shows Only those who stayed by the ves have Charga of the Funda. be accepted by Japan, who will, unless Comprehensive Form. heavy decrease in tire surplus of money has applied to the state land board for sel, fighting against the sea for posses Rusisa recedes, be compelled to prompt lying idle in the common school fund an apportionment of the lien upon sion of the craft, were saved. These ly resort to arms. Washington, Jan. 3 .— "A n event no A year ago, the balance in that, fun some 10,000 acres of the land for the persons were compelled to fight desper The Iowa legislature is in session. In view of suck an eventuality, was $724,772.25. On January 1, 1904 reclamatoin of which his company has ately for their lives, rushing forward atriking ami so romantic in ita charact Japan urges and expects China to main A new cabinet has been formed the balance was but $502,177.53 a contract. The company has a con when the vessel turned on her beam er, involving so much of heroism and tain the strictest neutrality, to preserve Chile. Since January 1, about $10,000 ha tract for the reclamation of 86,000 acres ends, clinging frantically to the rails sacrifice on the part of those engaged order throughout the empire, to guard Three more war vessels are on the foreigners resident in the interior, and been sent out on loans and $90,000 will and the contract price is $10 per acre. and finally slipping into the water onto in it, and resulting in benefits so great The reclamation company holds a be paid out in a few’ days pn the Port way to Panama. life raft that had been lowered. and enduring to our country, is, in the to take special care to preserve order in lien upon the land for the cost of con Subsequently they were picked up by judgment of your committee, well land School District bonds. Ex-Governor John Young Brown, of the provinces of Shantung and Yunan, worthy of commemoration by this gov Applications have been approved for struction. The lien upon each acre is the tugs Sea Lion and Holyoke. lest foreign powers might seize the pre Kentucky, is dead. ernment.” loans to the amount of over $00,000 not uniform, however, but is to be ap It was not the fault of the command text of disorder and make aggressive With these words, anil after fully re more, so that it appears that the state portioned upon each 40-acre tract ac ing officers nor the men in charge of The senate upholds President Roose movements therein,” has now but $400,000 which it can cording to the relative value of the the life boats that the passengers who viewing the purposes anil plans of the velt in his Panama policy. The correspondent says that the dis centennial exposition, exmiuli,.,.. offer to those who wish to borrow upon land. Thus one 40-acre tract may bear took to the boats were lost. When lAiwis and Clark centennial Senator Scott made a warm attack on patch has deeply impressed the Chinese gilt-edged real estate security at 6 per a lieu of $15 an acre, while another, the life boats were lowered land was the senate committee on industrial ex General Wood in the senate. He terms who now believe war to be inevitable. cent interest. If the present demand not so valuable, will bear a lien of hut within sight, yet the impotent Clallam positions today unanimously com him a “ bloodless soldier.’ * Wild Rumors of War. for loans from the school fund contin $5. An intending settler is required to was unable even to make headway mended Senator M itchell’ s hill to the Premier Balfour has made a state Ixmdon, Jan. 13.— The St. Peters ues, the balance will be out at interest pay to the company the amount of the against the gale. Prudence dictated favorable consideration of the senate. ment which shows Great Britain to be burg correspondent of the London Daily within a year. The loaning of this lien, whereupon he receives a deed from that the passengers and such of the The committee makes no material Mail wires that there is great excite fund, and consequent decrease in the the -tute. with Japan in case of war. crew needed to navigate the boats be amendments in the b ill as it was origi ment in the Russian capital, arultthat amount of the idle surplus, means an Secretary of State Hay is again at given the opportunity of saving their nally introduced, and makes no cut many wild rumors are in circulation. increase in the revenues for school pur PLANT EXHIBIT AT EXPOSITION. tending to the duties of his department lives by the life boats. That they wliajever in the appropriation, the )ne reports that the czar has drafted a poses. The interest on this fund is ap amount called for remaining at $2,125,- after seveial weeks of illness. declaration of war. Still another de portioned among the counties annually Regents of the Agricultural College failed to reach shore was due entirely 000 . to the fact that human strength was Chicago councilmen, who have been clares that actual hostilities have al according to school population. Much Taken With the Idea. The bill was altered in only one es hut a feeble protest against the fury of investigating the theater horror, have ready broken out. None of these re The report also shows a balance of sential feature. Section 9, which car Corvallis— At a recent board meet the elements. turned their attention to the condition ports can be confirmed, however, and $85,640.50 in the general fund, from Had all the passengers and crew re ries a lump appropriation of $1,500,000, of the city ’ s hotels. while not generally credited, the feel which the ordinary expenses of the ing, the plan for the agricultural college to plant and maintain a growing ex mained on board, it is undoubtedly as direct government aid, is amended ing is increased that war cannot much state are paid. State Treasurer Moore Developments in the wreck of the hibit on the exposition grounds at the true that most of them would have been to provide that this money shall be ex steamer Clallam seem to show that the longer be averted. This is significant says that a large portion of this amount Lewis and Clark fair was discussed and lost when the boat turned over and gave pended under direction o f the national in that until the last day or two every w ill be used in paying the claims for captain was largely responsible for the referred to the executive committee for up the struggle. Others stronger and commission and not under direction of great loss of life, showing very poor thing in St. Petersburg has pointed to the last quarter of 1903. During the direction. The committee is: Weath better able to care for themselves the Lewis and Clark corporation. The ward an amicable settlement of the dis next three months, however, nearly judgment at the critical tim e. erford, chairman; Apperson, Daly, Irowned with the relief tugs standing committee found that in every instance pute. $40,000,000 will be received from in where the government had aided expo Ready, and Leedy. by waiting to take them aboard. W . J. Bryan has returned from his surance companies under the law re sitions, the government funds were ex IN NATIONAL CONVENTION. The sentiment of the board was un tour of Europe. quiring them to pay a 2 per cent tax pended by the government commission, iversally favorable to the plan, and the CAN’ T STIR AMERICA. on their net receipts, and this sum will General John B. Gordon, the last of which was under control o f the presi expression general that the occasion W oolgrowera and Livestock Association be sufficient to pay the ordinary ex the famous Confederate generals, is The exposition corporation ia offered the college opportunity to do General Reyes Realizes His Mission Is a dent. Meet in Portland. penses of the state until state taxes be dead. not subject to this control. Therefore all the people of the state great and en Failure and Will Soon Leave. Portland, Jan. 12.— The great na gin to come in, about April 1. the change. during benefit. The growth of forage Iron gates across the exits are discov tional conventions which are in Port Washington, Jan. 12.— Convinced of ered to have played a deadly part in the land for their annual meetings com Section 20 was amended to provide grasses and plants, the cultivation of the determination of the United States HEAR RAILROAD'S PLEA. vegetables of all kinds, the production Chicago theater tire. that expenses incurred by consular, menced work yesterday under most fav not to retrace a step on the isthmus, Ex-Mayor Walbridge, of St. Louis, is orable circumstances. The sessions of Timberland Assessment In Land Reduced of small fruits and many other features and of the consequent failure of his mis military and naval officers in the Ori were mentioned as among the possibili ent, in the collection of exhibits for the being boomed as a Republican candi the W oolgrowers’ association were nota to $2 50 Per Acre. ties for converting the tract into a com sion, Geperal Rafael Reyes, Colombian exposition, should be defrayed from the ble in the high tone of the addresses date for vice president. special envoy, is ready to leave Wash $1,500,000 appropriation. Eugene— The county board has de pact and valuable display of Oregon delivered and the earnestness with ington. Indeed, he informed the As- An order placed in California for The only other change in the bill, which the voting delegates approached cided to reduce the assessment on the productions and resources. sociaed Press at noon today that he $250,000 worth of food stuffs is be aside from alteration in phraseology, the great questions to be considered. timber lands of the Southern Pacific would leave for Baltimore at 4 o’clock lieved to be for RRussia. To Lease Hatchery. occurs in section 4, w hich provides for The Livestock convention will not get company in this countv from $3 to to consult a specialist, and that his re the appointment of a board of arbitra Salem— Negotiations are pending be Representative Humphrey wants Se down to business until this morning, $2.50 per acre, after considering the ar turn was uncertain. He did not take attle put on the list of cities where but the machinery was set in motion gument of the attorney of that com tween the state board of fish commis that train, however, and at a late hour tion to whom all matters of difference arising between the national commis The reduction, however, was sioners and the United States fish com civil service examinations are held. yesterday which assures profitable re pany. tonight was at his hotel. not made until the company should missioner with a view to a lease of the sion and the exposition company Bhall sults from the meetings which are to General Reyes said tonight he was Senator Smoot denies that ho is a agree that there would be no contest on new state salmon hatchery at Ontario be referred. Instead o f allowing the yet hoping for an answer to his last re polygamist and has answered other occupy the remaining days of the week. that figure. to the government. If the lease can be exposition corporation and the state The visitors continued to pour in all charges on file with the senate com m it The lands of the railroad company effected as desired, the expense of oper quest that the correspondence l>e sent oinmission two members each on this day long, and, by a conservative esti to thè senate, and he coud not say tee. ating the hatchery will be borne by the were assessed the same as all timber i commission, membership is restricted mate, they will number 1,500 when Japan has sent another note to Rus President Bpringer’ s gavel falls on the lafeils, hut the argument was made that federal government, the result to the definitey when he would leave Wash to one member each, making the total sia, w'lich is practically an ultimatum. first session of the Livestock conven these lands*were less valuable than the fishing industry will be the same and ington. He added that when the time four instead of six. The right of the She will not wait long on the ciar for tion today. An official welcome to the lands held by other corporations, for the state will save some $6,000 a year, came for going he would officially take commission to designate a fifth mendier lea\^ of the president and other officials an answer. in case of deadlock is also provided. state and city will be extended to the the reason that the railroad grant con which can be devoted to the develop with whom he had come in contact. sists of certain sections by numbers, re ment of the fishing industry elsewhere Professor W illis Moore, chief of the visiting stockmen this afternoon by his In a long cablegram which General in the state. gardless of whether they are valuable WANTS to jo in p a n a m a . United States weather bureau, in his excellency, Governor George E. Cham Reyes dispatched to General Marroquin not, while the lands of other cor annual report, says there was hut 17 berlain, and Mayor George II. W il he has reviewed the negotiations at -porations and individuals have been se Big Hogs of the Grand Ronde. per cent of errors in tho forecasts of liams. There w ill he responses on the Washington and informed the Bogota Island of San Andres Tires of Colom Grande— J. W. Spencer now holds part of the visitors and with the an lected and it is reasonable to suppose bian Oppression. the paMt year. government that after doing everything valueless claims would not be acquired the honor of having raised the largest nual address of President John W . in his power to save something from Colon, Jan. IS.— The schooner Her China is sure to assist Japar in the Springer the great national gathreing h« g in the county. Dexter Eaton has the wreck he has failed. General ald, which arrived here yesterday even event of war. always held the championship, the will be fairly under way. Makes a Good Showing. Reyes expects, in view of the high feel ing from Bocas del Toro, brought a Corea may appeal to tho United Pendleton— The annual report of As largest being 760 pounds. His neigh ing prevailing in Colombia, that it will commissioner from the island of San STRIKB AT COAL MINB ENDS. States in the event of an invasion. sistant Postmaster French shows that bors, John McAllister and J. W . Spenc be very difficult to restrain his people Andres who will endeavor to obtain the er entered into the hog raising business The house has voted $260,000 for Union Leader and Utah Mlneowner Pendleton has one of the few self sus also and the two latter gentlemen longer. annexation of San AndreB to the repub taining offices in the state. The total eradication of insects affecting cotton. lic of Panama, owing to the dissatis Make Agreement. revenue of the year was $13,687.43, brought two monster hogs in from their CANADA ASKED TO JOIN. faction of the inhabitant^of the island Senator Dietrich, of Nehraksa, lias Salt Lake, Jan. 13. — The labor while the total epxense was $5,867.77 ranches near Island City a few days age at the recent oppressive actions on the been cleared of the charge of selling an troubles in the coal fields of Carbon The total receipts for 1902 were $13, and had them weighed. McAllisters The county have been practically settled as 539.07. The net increase of the office weighed 775 pounds and Spencers’ 870 Hay Moves for International Salmon part of Colombian authorities. office. commissioner will go to Panama and Hatchery on Fraser. a result of a conference between G. W for 1903 over the previous year was which breaks all former records in the Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Charles Kramer, vice president of the Utah $148. This the officials consider is a weight of Grand Ronde valley hogs. Washington, Jar.. 12.— Secretary of confer with the junta. He says 400 Foster is dangerously ill at his home in fuel company, and Attorney 8. A. good gain, since Pendleton has a free State Hay has determined to ask the Colombian troops are now in garrison Springfield, Ohio. King, representing the strikers. By delivery. For a while when the free Canadian government to jjin in a con on the islands of San Andres and Provi Feeding Cattle In the Valley. dence, and that more soldiers are ex General Chaffee has been nominated the terms of an agreement satisfactory delivery was established the receints Enterprise— Owing to the lack oi-sale ference looking to the establishment of pected momentarily. The dissatisfac to succeed General Young as chief of to both sides, the company agrees to from box rent fell off, hut the demand for cattle in the fall many steers are be international fish hatcheries on the the staff of the army*. lease for a period of six months all of at the present time for boxes seems to ing fattened in this valley for the Fraser river, in British Columbia, for tion, lie adds, , is general throughout The con the islands. San Andres does much They are mostly 3 the propagation of salmon. Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, is being the 225 houses erected by the miners have outgrown the office, and 60 more spring market. business with the United States in co- guarded for fear of assassination on ac- on the com pany’ s property, paying have been asked for. This w ill iiiakea year-olds and will bring a good price ference, if agreed upon, probably will coanuts, about 20,000,000 of these nuts therefor the lump sum of $75,000, the total of 600. when delivered in April. There has be participated in by the United States coun tof the theater horror. being shipped there annually. amount to be paid for each individual been an egg famine in this city for the fish commissioner, the fish commission Warships are assemlhing at Colon, lease to lie determined by three apprais Panama is desirous o l annexing San past month. Eggs have been 50 cents er for the state of Washington, and otli Stockm en Feel Better. presumably for the purpose of making | ers who have already bpen appointed. per dozen since before Thanksgiving cials in charge of the department of Andres and Providence, but ‘ it is be Pendleton— The cattlemen and sheep a hostile demonstration against Colom If at the expiration of the agreement, lieved that steps in that direction at men of the Blue mountain district are and at Christmas time they jum|>ed to fisheries and marine for the Dominion the present moment would be inop bU. of Canada. the houses have not been removed they rejoicing this w inter because of the ex 60 cents for a few days, then dropped The plan suggested has heen urged portune. A hill is liefore the house providing become the properly of the company. traordinary open season. Up to the to the present price of 35 cents. The I nited States marines encamped W hile the agreement does not affect present spring like weather has pre for more than a year by Senator Foster, for the consolidatinn of third and of Washington, who has called the at at Empire and Bas Obispo are kept fourth class mail matter to l>e admit the claims of either side in the way of vailed and only in a few sections has PORTLAND MARKETS. tention of the state department to the busy cleaning up the grounds around ted at the raet of one cent for each two adjustment of grievances, it destroys the temperature been but little lielow the camps, which are located on a any apparent reason for the strikers to ounces. Wheat— Walla Walla, 73c; blue- fact that, unless some heroic coarse is the freezing point. 8o far, the sheep remain in the district and avoids the to lie held over the winter have not re stem, 79<980c; valley, 78c. taken, the salmon supply will be ex healthy hill close to the railroad. The Brigadier General Randall is likely possibility of serious trouble arising marines have also cleaned the canal Barley— Feed, $20 per ton; brewing, hausted. Millions of dollars are 'in' quired feeding, remaining on the past to be promoted to major general from the eviction oi miners from their vested in salmon canning establish company’ s houses, all o f w hich now ures, the grass of which is holding out $20(920.50; rolled, $21. Great military activity prevails at homes.______________________ Flour— Valley, $3.75(93.85; 'hard ments in the United States and Canada, present a clean and smart appearance. remarkably well. Considerable rain Cartagene and Savanilla, Colombia. wheat straights, $3.90(94.10; clears, which are supplied almost entirely by has fallen during the fall, and so far Removing Duty on Coal. Battleships Make Quam. $ 3 .5 5 0 3.75; hard wheat patents. $4.20 the spawn from the Fraser river. The Ex-Congressman Driggs, of New Washington, Jan. 13.— Congressman grass has been growing. Washington, Jan. 13.— A cablegram (*4.60; graham, $3.75; whole wheat, methods employed by both the United .York, has been convicted of accepting a Jones, of Washington, has been assured States and Canadian canning companies today from Rear Admiral Evans, com $4; rye flour, $4.50(94.75. bribe. Dividend by Prune Association. by leading representatives of the house Oats— No. 1 white, $1.07*^01.10; have ticen the subjects of disputes be manding the Asiatic fleet, announced Salem— The Willamette valley prune M iss Ruth Cleveland, eldest daughter that the emergency b ill approved by tween the two governments. the arrival of the battleships Ken gray, $1.05® 1.07*s percental. of ex-President Cleveland, is dead from the president on January 15 last, re Association has declared a dividend on tucky, Oregon and Wisconsin at Guam Millstuffs— Bran. $17.50(918 per ton; moving for one year the duty on coal, the Petite prune crop handled by the diphtheria. Armenians Create Terror. from Honolulu on their way to Subig middlings, $26; shorts, $19(919.50; will not lx) continued in effect after association in the Salem and Roseburg Constantinople, Jan. 12.—Advices bay. It is expected that the cruiser The senate committee has favorably next Friday. On that date the former districts this season. The total amount chop, $18 linseed, dairy food, $19. Hay— Tim othy, $16 per ton: clover, from Erzeroum say the people ol Sou- squadron, consisting of the New Or reported the bill giving Tillamook duty w ill be restored, and it is the in handled of this variety was 635,000 son are in a state of semipanic, fearing leans, Albany, Cincinnati and Raleigh, $12; grain, $12; cheat, $12. life-saving station. tention of the house leaders to grant no pounds. Net prices to the grower, 40s, The w ill arrive at Guam today or tomorrow. Vegetables— Turnips, 65c per sack; a repitiou of the events of 1894. The Colorado militia proposes to further concessions on coal, or any $0.0395; 50s, $0.0362; 60s, $0.0308; carrots, 75c; beets, 90c; parsnips, 85c local governor and other officials have The cruisers left H onolulu in company 80s, $0.0210; 90s, drive out all striking miners at Cripple other commodities, until the time conies 70s, $0.0267; <9$1; cabbage, 1 0 1 ' . c ; red cabbage, fled. Tewfik Pasha, with several bat with the battleships, but, unlike the when they deem a general revision of $0.0155; 100s. and over, $0.0099. These Creek who will not work. latter, stopped en route at the Midway prices gave the growers a net basis l ) i c ; parsley, per dozen, 25c; to talions of troops and six guns, has ar islands. the tat iff necessary. matoes, $1.50(92 per crate; canlifinwer, rived at Mush, where the feeling of The mutate committee on expositions, price of a little less than 2 l g cents. 7 5 c0 $ l per dozen; beans, 12c; celery. anxiety is intense. Detachments of after hearing Oregon men, unanimously General Reyes Makes Bold. 75c per dozen; pumpkins, lc per Kurdish cavalry have been stationed at Japan Is Oreatly Alarmed decided in favor of the 1905 fair bill. Oood W inter for Farmers. Washington, Jan. 13.— The Assiiciat- pound. all of the villages along the Russian London, Jan. 13.— The Japanese gov Salem— Captain Hunt, a prominent Secretary Hitchcock has requested ed Press has l»een informed that Gener Potatoes— Fancy, 70(980o per sack; frontier to prevent the passage of Ar ernment is alarmed at the report that farmer of the Waldo hills, says that the Oregon senators to name a man to al Reyes, in his last note to the state common, 5 0 0 6 0 ; sweets, 2 '» c in sacks; menian bands. A thousand armed Ar the Russian Black sea squadron intends the reason thus far has heen a very fa 2*»c crated;. succeed Asa B. Thompson as receiver at department, threatened to publish the menians are in the district of Souson. to pass through the Dardanelles. At correspondence Detween himself and vorable one for farmers and winter I a Grande. Fruits— Apples, fancy Baldwins and the request of the T okio authorities wheat is in excellent condition. Farm the state department if the department Spitzenbergs. $1.50 per box; cooking. F.x-Secrit.ry Foster Dead. Baron Hayashi, Japanese minister to Governor Taft, of the Philippines, did not see fit to send it to the senate ers in this part of the coonty have not 7 5 c 0 $ l; pears, $101.50 per box; Springfield, O., Jan. 2.— Ex-Gover Great Brtain, has made inquiries on lias assured the mikado that the policy or make it public. General Reyes left feil their livestock a fork full of hay or grapes, $1.50 per box. nor Charles Foster, who was secretary the subject here, hot the British foreign o f the United States will be one of for New York at 1:30 tonight. He will a measure of grain this winter, and Butter— Fancy creamery, 27 * ,0 30c friendly neutrality. sail from New York next Saturday di probably w ill not do so. Pasturage per pound; dairy, 2O 022)^c; store, of the treasury under President Harri office lias not heard that Russia has son, died at the residence of General asked Turkey’ s permission and is not rect for Colombia on the steamer Alle has been good and rattle do well with 12S 0 1 4C . the grass they can get, and the straw Keifer here today from the effects of inclined to think Rnssia w ill raise such The enitre East is experiencing bit- gheny. 0 Cheese— Full cream, twins, 14015c; cerebral hemorrhages. He was 73 a question in Europe at present. that is stacked for them in the fields. ter cold. Young America, 15(916c. years old and is survived by his Russian War Preparations. 18 wife Poultry— Chickens, mixed. 12 0 1 3 c; and a daughter. He was attacked $100.000 Fire at Trinidad. The Ontario, Oregon, fish hatchery Coal Vein Struck Near Union. Paris, Jan. 13.— A special dispatch last perp on n d ; spring, 12013c; hens, 12 may be taken in charge by the govern to the Patrie from Harbin, a town on Trinidad, C olo., Jan. 13.— A fire night While sitting in the librarv”of I a Grande— At a depth of 280 feet a S * ISc; turkeys, live. 17 0 18c; ment. _______ which originated in the basement of the Manchurian railroad, describes the vein of coal has been struck in W. J. dressed.20c; ducks. $ 7 0 7.50 per dozen; £ 5 2 ^ ? h0™ iklkingand never regained consciousness. Fowler’s furniture store this afternoon Two-thirds of the Chicago theaters Russian war preparations. The Rus Townley's artesian well near Union. geese, live, 8c per pound. ments for the funeral hav. eansed $100,000 damage before it could made. Eggs — Oregon ranch, 27027 *kc; now closed w ill probably never be able sian officials declare war is inevitable, Just what the depth or the thickness of be pnt under control. The Masonic but add that they are ready. Port the layer of coal has not heen ascer Eastern, 25021V. to reopen. China Ratifies the Treaty. block and the Bloom block were de Arthur, it ia further asserted, will be tained. Work will he immediately re Hop*— Choice. 2 6 0 27c per pound; Two “ H oly Roller” apostles were occupied by 100,000 men, and in ten sumed on th is proposition, and its de prime, 25c; medium, 22c. Pekin, Jan. 12.— The Chinese em stroyed. For a time the entire bnsiness portion of the city wap in danger and given a coat o f tar and fsathers by citi- days reinforcements of 100,000 can velopm ent is bein g aw aited w ith keen W ool— Valley, 17018c; Eastern Ore peror has ratified the American and The fire Japanese treaties of commerce with Pueblo was asked for help. reach Manchuria. sena of Corral lia. intereat throughout the cou n ty . goo, 120 15 c; mohair, 320 36c. China. was caused by the overturning of * lamp. W . C. C O N N E R , P u b lish er. 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