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About The Leader. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Or.) 1895-1903 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 26, 1902)
PREPARING FOR TROUBLE. Cottage Grove Leader. L. r. W O O L IT . P u b lis h e r . C O T T A G E GROVE OREGON. TROOPS TO THE SCENE. NEVS OF OREGON Striking M iner. Resist S h ertffi.W h oC .il on the Governor tor Aid. Scranton, Pa., Sept. 24.— Sheriff Schadt, of Lackawana county, tonight telegraphed Governor Stone to send G o o d s to his assistance. The sheriff had just given to the newspapers a proclamation announcing he would call the troops if ttie lawlessness did not cease, when be received a series of tele phone tails to t|uell disturbances up the valley. He found on investigation tiiat the situation was such that he could not cope with it, and sent a call for troops. Adjutant General Stewart called the sheriff by telephone, and had a long talk with him . The adjutant —„ general suggested a posse of citizens be — • i . - i ------- a . « assistance. ..la .n M Wi i i l e t the he called upon I for While sheriff »a s preparing to act upon this suggestion he received more reports of violence up and down the valley, and at once sent another urgent telegram to the governor, calling for immediate assistance, and the Thirteenth regi ment, with headquarters here, was Six Hundred Marines Awaiting Orders to go to Panama if Necessary. Washington, Sept. 23. — Secretary Items Interest Gathered from Moody has finally decided to augment the United States naval forces on the Parts of the State. ABOUT TO QUIT Great Britain and Venezuela«, Likely to Fall Out isthmus by the addition o f 600 marines a b o u t t h e s m a l l isl a n d of palos COMMERJlAL and fin a n c ia l d oin gs if Commander McLean’ s advices indi cate that these are needed. He has Raising of British Flag Over the ithll4 I ________ given orders to Commander Piilsbury, is Strenuously Opposed, and May A Brief Rwicw of Improvements, Growth of the United States ship Prairie, now General Review o f Important Happening« and IMclopmcnt Along AU Lines Cause Serious Trouble. of the Past Week In Brief and at Boston, to proceed with his ship to Throughout Our State. Comprehensive Form. Norfolk. At that point 600 marines London, Sept. 21.— The Aranciatea will be gathered ready to take ship Press is in a position to announce that Alt is in readiness at Fort Riley, Tbe taxible value of Lake county K an., for the war maneuvers. property ij $1,599,033, an increase of when Secretary Moody’ s advices indi diplom atic relations between Guai cate tiie necessity for their presence en $78,486 o®r last year. Britain and Venezuela are on the A balloon explosion at Vienna re isthmus. sulted in the death of 30 persons. A mnvtRient has been started in the Tl.e Panther should arrive at Colon of being severed. Albany tohrint 76,000 pamphlets lor within a day or two with 380 marines Fire at Birmingham. Ala., destroyed Any day, almost anv hour, may brio, advertising Linn countv in the Middle (.board, so that, with the Prairie’ s men the announcement that the hriti^ property to the value of $220,000, West. minister at Caracas has been given hi« and the marines on the Cincinnati, Roosevelt is being urged to announce The Salt«] school hoard has fixed the who are already ash« re at Colon, the p m p ork i ■ with < $ ■ corresponding mtig, an extra session of congress in 1903 salaries of ill tea hers in that city, United States will have what in'regard toward the Venezuelan ----------------------------.vf.umum, repreo-nutn, Postal receipts of Orepgn and Wash in London. The m o i . diplomatic i : „ i ------ - ed as an ample fori'e to carry out its other thai principals, at $40 per __________ The presort rv ington for the past year show a good treaty obligation of maintaining free lations sre so strained that to quote« month. increase. responsible British official, it »„„y The d is tic t fair and carnival at traffic; across the isthmus. Orders have also been sent forward really make very little difference if tha Cholera has broken out again in Baker City! which closed last Saturday, Egypt and many cases are being re- was a very successful affair from eveiy to the San Francisco, now at Norfolk, fact liecsma public property by G,*. to coal and provision and proceed to absence of the diplomatic represents, ported daily. point of vi(w. San Juan, Porto Rico, there to await tives Iroin Caracas anil London. Three men were badlv injnred by an An nnkikiwn disease, battling in its any emergency which may arise. There cording to the British government’« explosion at the Willamette Iron ordered out. nature, is treating havoc among the is only one Unite I Stales warsiiip now understanding, Palos island belongs t, Works in Portland. The worst of tonight's outbreaks oc Blieep in scpie parts of I-a lie , county, in Venezuelan waters. The little gun Great Britain just as imichja» Trinidad, An unsuccessful attempt was made to curred at Archbold. A crowd of 200 especially pn the prairies along Coy boat Marietta and the Montgomery are ami BO far as known no question as n wreck the czar’ s train while he was on due to arrive shortly at Cape ifaytien. its ownership has ever arisen. Inbs|>. strikers, mostly foreigners, ransacked ote creek. his way to 8t. Petersburg. The object of the department in itants of the tiie island have recently Ik!., With preper facilities for irrigating the quarters occupied by the 40 men sending down the San Francisco, it is shot or otherw ise endangered tbrongh otherwise th ro ! An electric car at Akron, Ohio, employed at the Raymond washery of the land, Hiker county will in time be wbathirT bi come one o| tile chief agricultural coun stated, is to have a vessel ready to the action of Venezuela, whether jumped the track, injuring a dozen the Ontario & Western company, while ties in the state. Considerable im meet a call for reinforcements, eitiier government or revolutionary parti—!’ {■assengers more or less severely. the men were at work, and then meet provement «long this line is already in Venezuela, Hayti or tho isthmus. is not known. For purposes of DrotJ A French aeronaut with a new flying ing with the men as they were return The duty assigned to the San Francisco tion the local West Indian authority being made. machine has made two unsuccessful ing, drove them back to the refuge of shoulil not be confused with tiiat given ordered the British flag to he Fruit growers in Polk county say the washery. The mob then returned attempts to cross the Mediterranean. the gunboat Bancroft. That vessel neatly displayed on the island b « « that the prtne crop will not only be The Lime Branch, the largest vessel to the colliery proper, drove out the light tnis j*-ar, but that brown rot has probably w ill not be able to go into the protest which the foreign offi’c s J / “ ever entering the Columbia river, ia engineers, firemen, pumpmen and attacked the Italian prunes in some commission until October 1, and will is only one of many. guards and took possession o< the pr«x»ed to San Juan to he station ship An exceptionally prominent offi«* now loading at Portland. The steamer sections, and that this will further de breaker. The plant of tbe electric light It is expected that the San Ftancisco snid to a representative of the A«* has a carrying capacity of over 8,000 company, which is supplied with steam crease the jield . will get away in three or four days. ated Press this evening: tons ef cargo. from the breaker, had to shut down, A test o f the well sunk by the state “ Affairs in Venezuela are so h». By a cave-in at a West Virginia coal and the whole region around was left at the penitentiary has been made, and TO BEGIN RAIL-LAYING. lessly muddled that we can get ooth«» mine four miners lost their lives. in darkness. In the attack on the the result is quite satisfactory. In the done. 1 here is no concealing the Hayti is taking active steps to end breaker, two men were shot, one a trial water was pumped through a 4 X - Columbia River & Northern has Finished that the Venezuelan government U Grading—Equipment on the Way. inch pipe at the rate of 72,000 gallons made heated protests to our mioiiiT the civil war, fearing American inter striker and the other a workman. Chief Deputy Sheriff Miles Me- every 24 hours. The chief grievance appears to be m vention. Portland, Sept. 23.— Work on the Andrew was attacked and shot at by a Eugene Horton, son of the Oregon Columbia River & Northern, from Lyle allegation that the British govern»« General Miles considers the coast mob at Uliphant. The steam pipes of fortifications of the Northwest to be in the i ennsylvania Coal company’ s col City postmaster, has received notice to Goldendale, has reached the stage is aiding the revolutionary army. no needless to say this is perfei-tly ba» excellent condition. liery at Old Forge were blown up with that he has been selected as alternate at which rail laying will soon com less We only wish the United Stila mence. Of the entire 42 miles of the from the First congressional district for The cable steamer laying th$ trans- dynamite tonight. Two colored cooks would take over the who.e oonntrr line, 25 iiave been graded and consid admission to West Point, and has been Atlantic cable from Victoria, B. C ., at the colliery were rescued by deputy then perhaps we could get some L sheriffs from a crowd that was hasten ordered to report to a bovrd of officers erable of the remainder has been graded Of all the disturbances of the lin,*. covered 104 miles the first day. in part and needs only finishing up at Vancouver Barracks, Washington, ing to lynch them. The death list of the Alabama Rock work in cuts and fills is now cade, the present appears to be«, for mental and physical exa nination. etinreh disaster is growing. One keeping tiie construction gangs busv. worst. This, combined with the «tu RAIN DID MUCH OOOD. Oregon’ s 42nd annual state fair, hundred and ten dead are reported. A large shipment o f rails has been tilde of the nominal government maf« which closed on the 20th, was the most ns somowhat indifferent to snr actio, Explorer Baldwin, who has just re Saved Crops, Stopped Fires, and Insures successful exposition in the history of received from Hamburg, Germany, and winch may take place. The Yen«», the work of track building will be turned from an Arctic expedition, W inter Grazing. the agricultural association. The fair .an« appear to lie rather r«U«. commenced in a few days. A second holds tho old idea of an open polar sea Denver, Sept. 24.— The continuous was a success n it only financially, but shipment of 2,000 tons of rails will thanks chiefly to what I presume¡«Ua as baseless. in point of exhibits, which were repre rain that fell ovor the entire eastern arrive on the Holyrood in about 15 mistaken notion that Washington^ An Ohio school teacher has lost his portion of Colorado, beginning with a sentative of the diversified agricultural days. protect them from the results of tlv and horticultural interests of tho state. tosition because he made white girls General Manager H. C. Campbell folly, however inimical that might, heavy precipitation last night at 8 Enough money was made to pay for the ind colored girls who had been quar- has received infcimation that the to the lives and property ol Britik o ’ clock and continuing until about new buildings and improvements. eling kiss. equipment for the road will leave Chi subjects and those o f other Europe«; noon today in a milder form, has saved The equipment con As we understand Monroeism, Vets An effort will be made by the next cago this week. Ten thousand people attended an the late crops and placed the ranges in ipen air mass meeting in New York splendid condition for the grazing of legislature to cut down the expenses of sists of two locomotives, two passenger zuela is quite mistaken in this mail«, cars and 55 freight cars, which will be though apparently the impressios ha irganized in sympathy with the strik- cattle during the i-oming winter. A ll the state printing office. sufficient for the needs of the road for much to do with her present actiso." ng c j s I miners. The pulp mill near Skamokawa, fears of a shortage of water, both for the next few years. Mr. Campbell is The American Line steamship St human and animal use, are allayed. which was recently destroyed by fire, also informed that three grain ware MILLMEN ASK EIGHT HOURS. Paul, which arrived at New York a Reports from different places in the will be rebuilt at once. houses, each 60 by 150 feet, have been ew days ago, had a nain-w escape mountains are to the effect that snow- The office of Indian agent at Uma constructed along the line of the road, Will Strike in Minneapolis Flouring tth from destruction by fire on her way fell during the night to a depth varying tilla has been aheiished and the agency and that one of these will be enlarged Unless Concession Is Granted. from three to eight inches, and that icross the ccean. and school placed in charge of a bonded 50 feet to meet tbe needs of the busi Minneapolis, Sept. 24.—Unless u the forest fires that have been burning superintendent. England has sent n cruiser fo Colon ness tributary to it. As there are now eight-hour work day is granted in tks for a month or more have been lo protect British interests. Dallas citizens have voted to enter no railroad facilities in the Klickitat flour m ills of this section a strike »ill quenched. It seems that the rain and A bar lied wire plant at Pittsburg snow were general on the eastern slope into a contract for the construction of valley, and the farmers and lumber go into effect September 29. The »ilk irns burned, destroying property worth of the Rockies from Montana tr New a new water works system to the ex men must do all their freighting by of Minneapolis produce 16,000,000tar- team to Grants or The Dalles, the pro rele of flour, or nearly two-flftheof tbs M exico. On the western elope the pre tent of $12,000. 1160,000. gress of construction of tbe new road total output of the country, yestlf. cipitation was fitful. The Oregon Woolgroweis’ association, is a matter of no small concern to the Ti e next meeting of the Interna The local union officials declare their in a session at Pendleton, adopted residents of Goldendale and the rest of lional Sunday School convention will action has the support not only ol ths CUBA WANTS TROOPS TO QO. strong resolutions favoring the continu the valley. The road will be in opera be held in Jerusalem in 1904. National Federation of Labor, but Iks ation of the scalp bounty law. tion about tho first of tbe year. The United States will station a war Secretary Root Intimates that Its Desire active co-operation of the other flow vessel in the tropics and be prepared mill employee’ unions of the coantrr Will be Oratiflcd. TO REWARD ARMY OFFICER. lor emergencies at all times. They declare, therefore, that if a strike PORTLAND MARKETS. Washington, Sept. 24.— The govern is declared here the action will be fol Tbe sovereign grand lodge of the Odd FellowB has made a national organiza ment of the United States is to be re Wheat— Walla Walla, 8 1 X @ 6 2 c ; blue- General Chaftee Recommends a Medal of lowed elsewhere by a eynips!bets Honor for Williams. movement. If the strike is declsid quired to terminate the last vestige of stem, 64@rt.4Xc; valley, 62®64c tion of the Patriarchs Militant. the demands will embrace a stipulatioa its authority in Cuba. The war de Washinton, Sept. 23. — Lieutenant Barley— Feed, $19.00; brewing $20. A panic in a Birmingham, Ala., that none hut union men shall bs ns Kenneth P. William«, First infantry, partment has been advised formally Flour— Best gradee, $3.06@3 75 per Negro church cost 78 lives, and as has been recommende«! by General ployed in the m ills. The flourlosden’ by the department of state that Presi barrel; graham, $2.95@ 3.20. many more were seriously injured. Chaffee for a congressional medal of and packers’ and nailers’ unions ha* dent Palma has notified Minister Millstuffs — Bran, $17 per ton honor for his skill and bravery in expressed sympathy with the liemtof Two wrecks occurred on the Northern Squires that he desires the American $21.50; shorts, $18; Pacific in Washington, in which an troops remaining in Cuba to be with middlings, leading (the relief expedition to the If the strike is declared 3,000 am chop, $17. engineer was killed and several pas drawn. rescue of the marine detachment, which will walk out. Oats— N o.l whit«, $1.00; gray, 95@ completed tbe now famous march across sengers injured. Secretary R oot, while he has not ALASKA RAILWAY ROUTE. the island of Bamar. A noteworthy A mob attacked a Pittston, Pa., col come to any conclusion, has intimated » 1. Hay — Timothy, $10(311; clover, portion of General Chaffee's letter reads liery, and after driving the nonunion that the troops might be withdrawn. Located from Tanana River to Sum»t« men from the mine, set fire to the It is a matter that could not be haetil.v $7.50; Oregon wild hay, $5@6 per as follows: Alaskan Range. “ Not again in your militarv career, breaker. Considerable damage was decided, and it may be diecaseed with ton. doce before the Sanies were controlled. President Roosevelt while the secretary Potatoes — Beet Burbanks, 60@66c nor in that of the men accompanying Seattle, Sept. 24.— W. G. Atwood is iD the West. At present there are per cental; ordinary, 60@66c per cen yon on this arduous undertaking, will i hief engineer and topographer of tks Stanley Spencer, an English aero eight companies of coast artillery in tal, growers prices; sweets, $2.00 conditions likely arise that will render Alaska Central Railway company,«• naut, made a successful flight of 30 yon the opportunity of rendering such rived from the north today, and in • @2.25 per cental. miles over London in an airship ol his Cuba. never-to-be-forgotten report made to the local representstir* Butter—Creamery, 2 6 @ 2 7 X c; dairv unread of and ewn invention. The craft was com services to your country, which entitles of the company states that a Issiihk Telegraphers Organize. 1 7 X @ 2 0 c; store, 12X @ 15c. pletely under his control daring the you to greater thanks and to tbe na tonte has been found from the Tania Chicago, Sept. 24.— The Internation Eggs— 22 X c for Oregon. entire trip. tion's gratitude. ” al Union of Commercial telegraphers river to the summit of the Aliska Cheese— Full cream, twins, 12 X The sword lias been abolished as a was formed here roday at a convention Rear Admiral Rogers' letter states range. Other reports received fra» cavalry weapon in Canada. of 40 delegates, representing as many @13c;YoungAm erica, 1 3 X @ 1 4 X c ; fac that “ tbe marine detachment would parties in the field are that the for tory prices, 1@ 1 X c leas. undoubtedly have perished to a man, propoeed route from Resurrection bs? Tire alleged St. Louis legislative cities throughout the United States. A Poultry—Chickens, mixed, had it not been for the indefatigueable to tbe Tanana hae been slightif ^institution of IV IlBUtUlIVU pattern»! fianviiivi after that ------------- -- the - ----- - ---------- — J -----------------------* ---------» $3.00@ » « boodlers have been indicted. International Typographical Union was 4.00; hens, $4 50@5.50 per dozen, exertions of Lieutenant Kenneth P. changed and the line will now Russia has set October 8 as the date adopted, providing for a working card l l @ U X c per ponnd; springs, 11@ W illiam s." due north. Atwood also reportsnW for the withdrawal of her troop« from to each m em œ i every three months. 11 X c per pound, $3.00@3.60 per doa- coal field on-the Catwell river,shoot* M anchnrii. Big Car Shortage In Sight. The convention adjourned after tbe en ; ducks, $3.0O@4.50 per dozen; tur miles south o f the Tanana, folly 1* keys, live, 13@14c, dressed, 15@16c per New York, Sept. 23.— An official of miles square. There is much comment throughout election of the officers. Along the banks of tk pound; geeee, $4.00@6.00 per dozen. the East by the press regarding Spens one of the leading trunk line railroads river the veins extend tosdepthd Boxers Continue Operations. er Henderson’ s withdrawal from the Mutton— Groae. 2 X @ 3 c per pound; is quoted by the Journal of Commerce 1,000 feet. He reports deposits of i» as expressing the belief that in the near clay between the veins. London, Sept. 24.— In a dispatch dressed, 6c per pound. race for election to congress. Copper «f from Shanghai, the correspomlent of Hogs— Gross. 6 X c : dressed, 7 @ 7 X r future the railroads of the country, phate was also found, the waters of The president has started on a tour the Standard declares that Boxerism in pai ticnlarly those reaching the Atlantic river containing eo much thst fish®» per pound. through Ohio, Indiana. Michigan, Wis the province f Szechnen has not yet seaboard, will experience one of the not live in them. Veal— 7@8c per pound. consin. South Dakota. Iowa, Nebraska, been subdued. The premises of the worst car shortages in their history, Beef— Gross, cows. 3 @ 3 X r ; steers due to the demand for an early move K a n s a s , Missouri and Illinois. | China inland mission at Meichnn have Postoffice Building Collapsed. 3 X ^ 4 3 4 c ; d ress»!, 6 * 7 c per pound. ment of crops and the crush of general Minot. N. D ., Sept. 24.— Thef* The fund for the relief of fire suffer heen destroyed, but no lives were lost. Hops— frt®17c; new crop 20(922c. merchandise ••«mi. traffic. rn Sho Id ine the coa coal offii-e building here collapsed tbisra* ....... « ia ers hea reached $2,600 in Clarke coun ! The Boxers, according to the corre W ool— V alley,1 2 '* @ 1 6 (Eastern tire- ...s - miner-’ strike fie settled soon the short ing and is a total wreck. ty, Wa-hinvton, and Portland has spondent, are threatening three cities, '^ 1 | Tanlien, Hung Yen and Kaiting Fu. gon. 8 « 1 4 X « t iMKh»'»* -6@2«C round, age probably will be greatly aggravated 16 persons were buried id tbe nine raised $6,000 for the Oregon needy. W E E K ’S DOINGS