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.
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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
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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
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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
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J The charred head was discovered
a
few
available today over $30,000,00«. g
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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
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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
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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**"