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About The Leader. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Or.) 1895-1903 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 3, 1902)
Cottage Grove Leader. !.. r . WOOLEVi P u b lis h «. C O T T A G E GROVE OREGON. W EEK'S DOINGS Ocncral Review o f Important Happenings of the Past W eek In Brief and Comprehensive Form. One thousand people are now lieved to have perished in the Sicily disaster. In spite of rain, the full war maneu vers are being carried out by the troops at Fort R iley, Kan. Venezuela plans to cut all the cables and an American gunboat may be ne cessary in those waters. Lumber shipments by water from the Columbia river will this year, for the first time on record, exceed 100,000,- 0C0 feet. Brigadier General Sumner, in charge of the movement against the Moros, says the rebels are not so unruly as reported. It is said that Queen Maria Chris tina, mother of King Alfonso of Spain, has married Count de Escorura, her master of the house. Three desperate prisoners in the Dillon, Mont., jail sawed their way out. It is believed they secured aid from the outside. Officers are in close pursuit. Cholera still rages in the Island of Samar. The population of many of the towns have been heavily leduced through death and the flight of the panic stricken people A tidal wave swept Japan, drowning at least 500 people. Much property was destroyed. A Japanese warship was driven ashore, but w ill probably be floated. A second military expedition has been sent against the Moros. Fifteen hundred street car men in New Orleans have struck for increased pay. A fire at Stockton, C al., destroyed $500,000 worth of property. Five blocks were burned. A Mississippi Negro, who confessed to an old crime, was burned ailve. He said he deserved the fate that had over taken him. The president’ s physicians found it necessary to open the wound on his leg, as the bone was slightly affected. It is not serious and recovery will soon come. ROOT MAY RESIGN. Secretary of W ar Desires to Return to Practice of Law. Washington, Oci. 1.— Secretary Root is to resign, according to a statement published here. According to the rumor the resignation is not to take place until some time next spring, when Secretary Root hopes to have the many informs he has originated as secretary of war lertain of being car ried to a successful consummation. Among these are the general staff bill, which is not likely to pass at the short | session, and the bill to reorganize the militia, which may become a law. With the practical settlement of affairs in the Philippines, and Cuban recip rocity adopted by congress, which will probably result in keeping Cuba paci fied, and the reforms Secretary Root has inaugurated in the war department thoroughly established, the great work which he has selected to d o will in a measure be accomplished. If he resigns it will only be when there is a straight course ahead for the war department, as President Roosevelt would not be very likely to part with him under any other circumstances. He is one of the strongest men in the cabinet, and prob ably the closest to the president. Secretary Root entered the cabinet at a great personal loss. As a lawyer of ability, he had an enormous practice in New York, ffis old associates and em ployes are anxious for him to resume his former work, and this is given as the main reason why he intends to re sign. __________________ LONG PENSION LIST. Report of Comm issioner Shows Net Gain of 5,732 Pensioners Last Year. Washington, Oct. 1.— The annual re port of the commissioner of pensions, Eugene E. Ware, shows that the num- her of names on the pension rolls is sjj|i under the 1,000,000 mark, despite a net gain of 5,732 pensioners since 1898. The total enrollment July 1 last was 999,446, against ¡997 735 last year. The total comprises 738,800 soldiers and 260,637 ¡widows and dependents. The aggregate includes 4,695 pensioners outside of the United States. The number of death notices of old soldiers, not now in the service, re ceived by the bureau during the year was 50,128; but only 27,043 of them were pensioners. The report says that the death rate among the pensioners for the coming year w ill be about 40,000, and the losses to the tolls from other causes will be about 6,000. The total amount paid for pensions during the fiscal year was $ 137,504,- 268. and the yearly cost of operating and maintaining the bureau and the agencies, outside of the payment of pensions proper, aggregate $3,590,529. The annual report o f the commis sioner of pensions shows that there are now nearly a m illion names on the STATE DEFEATS BOODLE RS. pension roils. The total disbursement of the department has been $2,900,- First Skirmish in Snyder Case Results In 854,302. Victory for Prosecution. The cable from Fan Francisco to St. Lonis, Oct. 1.— The first day’ s Manila will be in working order by July 4, 1903, according to the officials proceedings in the trial of Robert M of the company. Three steamers will Snyder, the banker and promoter, of lay the cable, two from Mauila and Kansas City and New York, on charges one from Fan Francisco. of bribery in connection with the pas The comet discovered at Lick obser sage of the Central Traction bill several vatory September 1 has grown steadily years ago, ended in a complete victory brighter, until at the present tim e it is for the state, every objection offered visible to the naked eye. It can be by the defense being overruled by Judge seen a little north of the star Alpha Ryan. Snyder was arraigned, but re Cyani, near the m ilky way. It is mov fused to plead, and the court ordered ing in a southwesterly direction. the clerk to enter a plea of not guilty. Dr. Silviane Brandao, vice president Tomorrow the selection of a jury will begin. It will then devolve upon the elect of Brazil, is dead. state to prove that the defendant A census of the Philippines has been not a resident of Missouri. The statute authorized by the president. of limitations, which has sheltered all No more American soldiers will be the officials who took part in the deal is the legal loophole through which sent to the isthmus of Panama. Snyder’ s attorneys hope to pull him to The presence of troops has had a ' liberty. quieting effect in the coa< fields of Pennsylvania. DIED TO SAVE A TRAIN. NEWSOFOREGON New York, Fept. A lone highwayman near Ftites, Idaho, held up a stage and secured $500. Henry Phipps, a New’ York steel magnate, has given $100,000 for the relief of Boers. President Roosevelt has announced his determination to visit the Pacific Coast next spring. SO. — James MONEY FOR USE B. Secretary of the Treasury Items of Interest Gathered from Craft, a wealthy resident of Glen Cove, L. 1., was murdered, and his body de All Parts of the State. Im portant Ruling. capitated, in a tenderloin resort within PUT $30,000,000 MORE IN CIRCllAT|(K A ll the evi dence goes to show that Ctaft, who had been making the round* of the tender National Banks No Longer Requin^ A Brief Review of Improvements, Growth loin, incautiously displayed a large Carry a Reserve Against Deposit, and Development Along All Lines amount of money and was killed for Secured by 9 . S. bonds. Througho.it Our State. the purpose of robbery. The police also say that knock-out drops were New York, Oct. ! • — F*ci ____ then the first administered, and that Ntsry Fix harvest hands were held up at victim was dragged"'"***0 the basement | the Treasury Fhaw, who '*8 The Dalles and relieved of $300. and killed with a cleuver. York yesterday, issued “ “'»WniMi j, odor of burning flesh nesn attracted autacieu i A cold storage and meat company has the The attention of the occupant« of the wllll'*‘ !*« says the batik* lier-alfT"* been formed in Ashland with a capital upper part of the boose and led to the not he required fo car ** of $25,000. discovery by the detective* of the head- against government d ^ * r8*r'- MM The prune crop in Marion county --------------- . ill be pretty generally gathered by the 1 *«•“* of » «>***> >*> the basement. by government bonds. ibis will atk * * ■ ‘ ----- l . J The charred head was discovered a few available today over $30,000,00«. g *- - L I L end of the present week. minutes later in the furnace, in which ■ etary Shaw declined to discs« ^ The board of regents of the state uni a fire had recently been made with the financial situation further than to, evident intention of destroying all pos versity, at Eugene, have made arrange ments to include a music department. sibility of identification ol the remains, that tile treasury department »M. Later the body was iden'ifled by Mrs. Florence Atwood, state presi Walter Craft, of Glen Cove, as that ol co-operate as far as possible with banks in their effort to anpplj dent of the Rebekahs, died at her home | hia father. The murdered mun was Baker City September 28 of pneu about 51 years ol age and was a manu necessary credit to do the unpre. monia. facturer of refrigerating machinery in ed amount of business that is taxi- COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL DOINGS a few dome of Broadway. I Pardons have been asked for Con Cortiandt street, this city. victs Louis Level and H. F. Warriner, MANY CORPSES RECOVERED. sentenced from Multnomah county for burglary. The 16th annual fair of the Butte J But Full Extent of Sicily Disaster Cannot Yet be Told. Creek Agricultural association, held at , London, Fept. 30.— A special dis Marquam, had a large attendance and is- patch from Rome, after confirming the as very successful in every respect. reports that Stromboli has been in Preparations are well advanced for the district lair to be held at Roseburg lull eruption for some time says: “ The night scene was grand but terrl- during the five days beginning October streamed down the moun A splendid livestock exhibit is ex fying; lava tain aides seaward, while huge boulders pected. were falling into the eea fully 2% Over one-half of the Washington miles from the shore. county agricultural and horticultural ‘ The director of the observatory at exhibit, which took the first prize at Mount Aetna says there has been no the state fair, has been sent East, eathquake in Ficllv, but that probably here it will have a place in a num there bad been a submarine eruption ber of fairs and carnivals. between Stromboli and Fieily. "O n e hundred and fifty corpses have Sub-committoes have been appointed in various parts of the state to help so been recovedred at Modica. Hundreds licit funds for the purchase of a sword of victims were drowned in the open for Adm iral Clark, who commanded country.” The whole country about Mount the Oregon during the Spanish-Ameri- Mount can war. About $1,200 will be re Aetna has suffered greatly. Aetna is sending up a thick column of quired. steam from the vicinity of the scene of The school directors and clerks of the eruption of 1892. Two fresh craters Washington county held a meeting ami have opened on Stromboli since Sep discussed various matters of school im tember 14. portance. The state superintendent It is the first time such was present MINES IN QOOD SHAPE. meeting was ever held in tha1 county. W ith Return of Men, Coal Output Would be Large as Ever. Twenty-seven bales of hops wore sold in Faiem a few days ago for 23 Philadelphia, Sept. 30. — General cents per pound. Manager Lather, of the Philadelphia & Reading railroad com pany’ s coal The assessment roll o ( Columbia piopcrty, has informed the sales depart county shows the total taxable proper ment o f the company that all the Read ty to be worth $1,597,840. ing’ s important mines are in lairly Large crowds attended the opening good condition, and that were the of the Eugene carnival, despite the miners to retrun to work, comparative rain. The huainess houses bavea num ly little time will elapse before they will be turning out their normal pro ber of nice displays. duction. It is true that several of the Ranchmen in Josephine county will Reading collieries are flooded, bat tie forced to use strenuous efforts to rid these have been abandoned for, a time the country of coyotes, which are doing at least. Officials of the Pennsyl much damage to stock. vania road's anthracite companies re The Salem commercial club has port tnat their mines are in such con dition that when the miners go back taken steps to distribute 80.000 pam to »O 'k the collieries will lie able to phlets through the East in the interest produce three-fourths of their normal of the Willamette valley. output, and that within a week they Frnlt growers in Polk county say would be in perfect shape. that the prune crop will not only be EARTHQUAKES IN MEXICO. light tnis year, but that brown rot has attacked the Italian prunes in some sections, and that tins w ill further de Scvcnty-ton Crane Thrown from Railroad crease the yield. Into the Bay. Mexico City, Fept. 30.— Advices from Salina Cruz, the Pacific terminus PORTLAND MARKETS. of the Tehuantepec National railroad, Wheat— Walla Walla, 62c; blne- which is being rebuilt by the English contractor, state that Tuesday no less stem, 65c; valley, 63 :. than 75 shocks of earthquake were felt, Barley— Feed, $19.50; brewing $20.50. causing much alarm. The most serious Flour— Best grades, $3.06(83.76 per damage was done to an immense 70-ton barrel; graham, $2.95(83.20. crane used on the construction of the Millstuffs — Bran, $17 per ton; breakwater, it being thrown from the track into the bay. A majority of tbe middlings, $21.50; shorts, $18; smaller cranes n-ed on the works are chop, $17. also reported to have been thrown out President Roosevelt’ s injured leg continues to improve, and the | re ident Brave Act of a Northern Pacific Section will be around again in a few days. “ Foreman . In Idaho. ■ Ppokane, W ash., Oct. 1.— In trying Burglars in Sontb Fhamn, Pa., held up a store, overpowered hound and to save a passenger train from a wreck gagged two officers and secured $400. William Johnson, a Northern Pacific Isaac A. Fir.ger, one of the largest section foreman, was killed this after stockholders in the Finger seeing noon at Tnscor, Idaho, He saved the The machine company, died at hit home in train, but died of his injuries. train was the east bound overland pas Atlantic City. senger No. 4, and was we l filled The following diplomatic appoint Johnson was flagging the train tr keep ments have been made: David E. it from rnnning upon a section of track Thompson, of Nebraska, minister to which contained a broken rail, and in Brail; Charlemange Tower, of Penntyl- eagerness to have the signals ob vania, ambassador to Germany; R o b - '" 1* served, he failed to step from the ert 8. McCormick, of Illinois, ambas track in time to avoid the engine of sador to Russia; Bellamy Ftorer, of the passenger. New York, ambassador to Austria- Hung try; Arthur 8. Hardy, o f New F:\-Secretarles of W ar In the Senate. Hampshire, minister to Fpain, and Washington, Oct. 1.— When Russel Charles P. Bryan, of Illinois, minister A. Alger takes his seat there will to Switzerland. three senators who were ormerly secre The emperor of Corea is dead. tary of war. Procter, of Vermont, and Americana find the task of reducing the Moros more difficult than antici pated. W ealthy New Yorker Carelessly Displayed Large Amount of Cash. Oat»— No. 1 white, $ 1 .0 0 @ 1 .0 2 X ; gray. »5@ $1. Hay — Timothy, $10(811; clovar, $7.50; cheat, $8 per ton. Potatoes — Beet Burbanks, 60(865c per cental; ordinary, 50<355c per cen tal, growers prices; sweets, $2.00 (82.25 per cental Batter—Creamery, 2 fi(8 2 7 4 e ; dairy l7 H « 2 0 e ; store, 12H <816c. Egg*— 22 H (3 25c for Oregon. Cheese— Fall cream, twins, 12 X (313c;YonngAmerica, 13t*(814hsc; fac tory prices, 1(8 1 hie less. Poultry— Chickens, mixed, $4.50(8 5.00; hens, $5 00(85.50 per dosen, l K a i l S c per pound; springs, 11(8 H H c per pound, $3.50(84.00 per dos- en; docks, $3.50(85.00 per dosen; tnr- Elkins, of West Virginia, are the other keve. live, 1 3 0 1 4c, dreseed, 17(818c per _ j . ____■ v pound; geese, . $4.00(80 00 — per dosen. two. The same situation occurrel ___ when Don Cameron was closing bis Mutton— Gross, 2 H @ 3 c per pound; senatorial career. dressed, 6c per pound. Hog*— Grose, 6t$e: dressed, 7(37 X c Soft Coal Still Advancing. per pound. Boston. Sept. 30.— Local coal dealers Veal— 7(88c per pound. today advanced the price of so t ccal Beef— tiroes, cow*. 3<83*4r: steers. $1 per ton, making it $8.50. With t o day's advance soft coal has apDreciated 3 S 8 t4 )a c ; dressed, 6(87c per pound. Hop»— I6(817c: new crop 208*21c. in price $2.50 a ton the past week. Wool— V a lley,1 2 H (8 IS ; Eastern Ore The price of bard coal rem iins at $15 a j ton. but there is little to be had here. gon. D tlltls C ' mohair. 25i826c pounl. of place. It is probable that the construction of the artificial harbor will be delayed six months, as the crane was thrown into deep water, and it will require time to m o v e r it. Aa Bad as Siberia. railroads and steamship lines, a* as banks, to the utmost. Mr. Shaw said tie had never any good reason why banks boldi government deposit secured bjrgota- ment bonds should be required tour * reserve against it. First, it |a , posit not |,ke|y to be call«i 0f stringency, and ecrund, sen - ii ■ cmlied * , of collateral will always sell (or ^4' excess of the deposit. He ha«, tiw took charge of tiie treasury, plated relieving the banks ol this en. The controller of the cu agrees with the secretary, andt it ie announcer! that hereafter will not lie required to carry , against government deposits seewsj government bonds. The tretsurr 1 on deposit with various banks t_ throughout the country, in round t , bers, $130,000,001), against which sj banks have heretofore lieen coagj to hold more than $30,000,000 old! or its equivalent. QROW ERS M O L D BACK. Expected Advance in Price of Hopl suits In but Few Sales. Portland, Oct. 1.— The hop i has 0 |>ened strong, with prospccti| some big sales this week, though | ers are not yet letting go very j Most of them are in a positions k and as they expect better ate slow to consider dealers’ Many growers look for the mart go to 25 cents, and not a few exps receive 30 cents for the portion(f* crop they did not contract for eariig|| the seaeon. Dealers decline to ■ higher figures, saying that brawn i| the East are heavily stocked, having enough hops to last them 1st year. A number of small Bales are btap made at 25 cents. Receipts an » creasing daily, and will be hetn k the last of the week, and baling if then be practically at an end. It is now estimated that the crop d Washington will fall short shoot 1JI bales from the first estimate, tls will leave the state's prodnet m where about 33,000 bales. The If crop in the Yakima valley is repma to be short of last year’s ontpot »1 10 per cent. In some yards there * be but half a crop, in other» ih crop, and in the majority less thin * usual production. EMILE ZOLA IS DEAD. Famous Novelist a Victim of Auk« tion —Hla Wife Barely Escape« Paris, Oct. 1.— Emile Zols, then» ist, who gained additional proirW in recent years because of hie debt of the Jews and of Captain Dull was found dead in his Paris boms) terday morning. Asphyxiation,!* ing from fumes from a stove t ■i room, is given as the canseofhiif* M. Zola and his wife retired # o'clock . Mme. Zola was seriomu when the room wa« broken into i morning. A t about noon she nt moved to a private hospital, »I**1 recovered consciousness lor » * time, and was able briefly to sip'« a magistrate what had happen»! The death of M. Zola, whitt 1 became generally known «ft«*1 caused a great sensation in PsnM this evening there was s | otivam stream v of • r* visitors ? *o‘ t«>»o “ at ‘ the Zolsn . | 2 1 He wae born in Parii Apri » Butte, Mont., 8ept. 30.— President Mayer, of the Western Federation of Miners, said here today that the con dition of the camps in the Fernie, B, C ., district, fiom which he has just returned, if as had a* Siberia. Mr. Mayer went to Fernie to investigate labor conditions. __ He _ says _ J ~ the — mining company there own* everything in the camp. They permit the men no privi leges and allow no business except un S treet Cer Men Still 0*t der their direction. They even exer- New Orleans Oct. 1.—Tbei <•«•» » oemwwship, Mr. Mayer declares, street car men continues si“ on what their employes shall read. Freak. Three mail cars wers tb»1 cars moved by the railway 000 !" No Parcel Mail to Alaska. 'lay. In tne ah-e-nce of -tree' -*'1 Washington, Fept. 30.— Tbe post- b id es of all kinds were bfeSfKl office department has notified all post play and have done a thriving * masters that during the winter months ness. In the matter of in« it will be impossible to transmit mail with street cars carrying Unite! ^ matter in the form ol parrels to the \ m ail, 16 affidavits were following named postoffires in Alaska: afternoon against as many I Nome, Ft. Michael, Circle, Esgle, Fort j charging them with interim«J Yukon, Rampart, Tanana, I d le r and ; the United States mall«, inri"* Cnalaska. | the art of congress protecting1**"
