Cottage Grove Leader.
L . V . W O O LK V , I’ u b lU h e r.
COST OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Impressive Figures Taken from Report of
Commissioner of Education.
Washington, Oct. 22. — The annual
report of the commissioner of education
COTTAGE GROVE .. OREGON.
rrrv______ ____________ - -— I just submitted to the secretary of the
NEWS OF OREGON
Government Forces of Venezuela Score a
Victory—J.000 Dead and Woumfcd.
La Victoria, Venezuela, Oct. 21.— A
Items of Interest Gathered from messenger has arrived here fro.ii the
All Parts of the State.
scene of the engagement near this place
COLUMBIA RIVER
Government Engineers Examint
Celilo Canal Project
between the government troops and
interior shows the grand total of pupils COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL DOINGS revolutionists, bringing news that after SO M E FAVOR PORTAGE RAILWAY PUN
in schools, elementary, secondary and
several «lays of terrible fighting, 9,000
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| higher, both public and private, in the
Current *o Strong that Placing of r * .
A Brief Review of Im provem ents, Growth rebels under General Mendoza abar*
lor Submerged Dam Is Con«ldcrti
General Review of Important Happenings United States for the year ended June
doned the field, having retired from
and Development Along All Line*
o f the Past W eek in Brief and
¡30, 1901, was 17,299,200, an increase
a Very Risky Proposition.
Throughout Our State.
their
last
position,
six
miles
from
La
Comprehensive Form.
of 278,250 pupils over the previous
Victoria, Friday night, retreatUg in
year. Of this number the enrollment
Washington, Oct. 22.__The
Three free rural mail delivery routes the direction of Villa de Cura.
Ac
report of
The Irish Nationalists created an- of pupils in institutions supported hy out of Junction City will begin service cording to President Castro the killed the engineer board on its mvestig.ti011
other disorder in the British house of general and local taxes furnished by December 1.
o f the Hurts plan for opening the
and wounded number 3,000.
commons.
states and municipalities was 15,710,
Construction work on the terminal
During the last days of the fighting Columbia river between The Dalles and
*Jhe Molineux 'jury has been coin- 394, a0 against 15,443,462, the number yards, at Grants Psss, of the Oregon &
the temperature rose to 116 degrees, Celilo, is to be delayed [ somewhat
pleted and the state is offering its side reported for the previous year. Be- Pacific railroad will begin January 1.
and
a visitor to the scene of the en pending the completion of certain seti.’
of the evidence.
^
these there w ere certain up* . ial
Arthur Scofield, confined in the coun
gagement
declares he never Baw such a mates and computations, which are w
Russell,
of
Representative C. A.
institutions, like city evening schools, ty jail at Albany for larceny, made bis
terrible
spectacle
as was presented by he considered before the report ¡«agreed
ill
and
his
Connecticut, is critically
He was cap
business schools, schools for Indians, escape a few days ago.
to. There is doubt in the mind, o(
recovery is not expected.
tured at Eugene.
the
battlefield.
reform schools, schools connected with
some members as to the practicability
The
victory
of
the
government
troops,
An electric light wire started a fire
The first carload of Oregon’ s dried
asylums, schools for cookery
and
in Helena, Montana, which destroyed
prunes of this year’ s crop left Albany which is said to be due to the personal of constructing the dam across the
other special trades and vocations, a-t Saturday for New York. Four and
$45,000 worth of property.
courage of President Castro, who, twice, river, upon which the success of the
which enrolled nearly half a million one-half cents was received.
A Big Four passenger train ran into
with a Mauser in his hand, charged Harts plan hinges. It is found that it
Adding the enrollment in
an open switch 14 miles north of Co- pupils.
Marion county physicians
have at the head of his soldiers, is consid will be a most daring engineering fe,t
lunibus, Ohio, fatally injuring several these special schools to that for general formed a county medical society. C. S.
to get stones for the dam in position
persons.
education, the aggregate is something White, of Gervais, was elected presi ered a serious setback to the cause of and to retain them until the whob
the
revolutionists.
The National W. C. T. U., in session over 17,750,000 of our population that dent and C. H. Robertson, of Salem,
A courier from Valencia, who arrived work is completed. It is a work more
at Portland, Maine, passed a resolution recejVed education for a longer or secretary.
difficult than any of the kind yet under-
condemning the character of advertise- hortfir
dur}ng the year ending
J. F. Markley, who murdeied John here today, reports that up to yester
ments placed on bill boards.
\
D. Fain at Champoeg last June, has day that town was not in the hands of taken by the engineers, although its
June 30, 1901.
success is promised by some. JU
been sentenced to spend the remainder the revolutionists.
Two persons were killed and 15 in
The value of property used for public
probabilities are that there will be two
jured in a railroad wreck at Herne, school purposes has risen to $576,963,- of his life in the penitentiary. He is
Texas. The accident occurred at a 089 from $130,380,008 in 1870, and the 67 years old.
PANIC IN BALL ROOM.
reports, some of the engineers favoring
crossing, two trains meeting.
The first of Crook county’ s annual
a portage road as the best solution, un
expenditures for the common schools
Matthew H. Money, a pioneer news (including elementacry and secondary fairs, held at Prineville, was a success Fire In Albany, N. C., Building Resulted less another and more favorable site
Large crowds were
In One Death and Many Injured.
paper man of the Pacific coast, died in schools, but excluding all institutions in every respect.
can be found for the dam. The boat
Oakland, aged 70 years.
At different for higher education) amounted to in daily attendance, and some fine ex
Albany, N. C ., Oct. 21.— Fire broke
railway project was considered, but it
times he conducted several papers in $226,043,236, having risen to this sum hibits were on dislpay.
out shortly before 11 o ’ clock tonigiit
from $43,396,666 in 1870.
In 1870
different parts of Washington.
The stage running between North in the Tower & Brooks store, one of the | is not thought any member of the
the expenditures for schools per capita Yam hill and Tillamook was held up
board believes in its efficiency or prac
Railway switchmen of St. Paul and
of the population was $1.64; the past about five miles from North Yamhill largest in the heart of the business ticability.
Minneapolis have given notice of a de
year it was $2.93 per capita of the pop Saturday night by three masked men. section of the city.
For a time the
mand for higher wages and shorter
The dam concerning the feasibility
ulation, (be highest that it has ever The stage was bound for Tillamook. entire dry goods section was threatened,
hours. They will strike if the raise is
of which doubt is expresesd by the
been.
It was an increase of 10 cents The robbers secured $200 from pas
not granted.
and only by most heroic work on the
to each man, woman and child over sengers.
board of engineers is thus referred to
part of the firemen ware the fiames
British army officers say [the Ameri the year previous.
The average at
in the plan recommended by Captain
can horses are far better for cavalry use tendance of each pupil for the entire
The recent rains throughout the W il practically confined to the building ill
Harts:
than any other they can obtain.
number enrolled was 99 days for the lamette valley have enabled [the farm which the fire started.
One fireman
“ The proposed submerged dam im
ers
to
push
the
work
of
fall
seeding.
year,
an
increase
of
24
days
over
the
Two convicts in the Leavenworth,
was killed and a number injured.
mediately below the head of Five-Mile
All
fruit
is
picked
and
other
fall
work
previous
year.
Kan., federal prison filed off their
At the time the fire broke ont a rapids is designed to he made through-
over and a few days more of good
shackles and were about to escape when
weather
will
enable
the
farmers
to
fin
TAFT
ANSWERS
THE
TEACHERS.
dance
was in progress in a hall on the out of large blocks of rocks or concrete
discovered.
weighing 20 to 30 tons, each deposited
ish seeding.
top floor of the burning building.
Es
The treasury department has asked Complaints About Philippine Positions are
at random in a selected narrow part ol
Superintendent of Public instruction cape to the street was cut off by the Five Mile rapids by means of derricks
for offers of property for sale in New
Not Well Founded.
Ackerman recently asked several county fast spreading llamas, and 25 young on either shore. If found necessary on
York for use to erect the new poeteffice
Washington,
Oct. 22.— Some time superintendents to offer suggestions for
building on.
men aDd women were lifted out of the : account of theiawift currents, some of
ago complaints were made by school the betterment ot the school system.
front windows and helped over adjoin the blocks could be anchoisd to the
Ocean vessels sailing f-om Atlantic
The
ideas
be
has
rlceived
are
many
and
rocky banks by means of chains. The
ports are being delayed somewhat on teachers in the Philippines about the
The shrieks of hysterical
varied, and include higher qualifica ing loots.
dam need not necessarily be tight, but
It
account of their inability to secure hardships which they endured.
tions of teachers, consolidation of dis women created mnch excitement, but should consist of enough block« to raise
coal promptly.
was asserted that good places were tricts and an increase of the compulsory
cool headed firemen soon carried them the present low-water level 20 leet.
Sanitary conditions in the Philip given to a few teachers and bad places attendance period.
to a place of safety.
Several women Its top would probably need to rise to
pines are rapidly improving.
Cholera to others. Complaint also was made
A sale of 300 btles of hops at 25 were burned, but none were seriously within a few feet of the present lot-
has been gotten under control and is that the condition of the currency
water level.”
cents is reported from Dallas.
hurt.
rapidly dying out.
caused a loss to the teachers, and that
Ten
minutes
after
the
fire
was
dis
ILLITERATE VOTERS.
A franchise has been granted for
France is facing a serious labor situ the commissary supplies of the iusuiar
another telephone line from Baker City covered fiames were pouring ont of
ation. Every union man in the nation
administration
were
not
good.
A
ll
to Snmpter.
may be called out to gain a univeisal
every window, and neighboring build They Comprise II Per Cent of the Total
eight hour day and an old age pension. these complaints were referred to G ov
Number In United States.
The
The report of 8nperintendent Lee oi ings were ablaze in many places.
Washington, Oct. 22.— Therearefl,-
Dr. William H . Bates, a well known ernor Taft. His reply has now been the state penitentiary shows that on Municipal telegraph com pany’ s build
New York physician, who disappeared received at the war department.
October 1 there were 300 convicts in ing was badly scorched, the windows 300,000 inhabitants of the United
last August, has been found in London.
Governor Taft says that in the very the institution, 19 less than at the be being shattered by the intense heat and States of voting age, and 2,300,004 of
He says his mind has been practically nature of things the teachers had to ginning of the quarter.
The earnings the frames twisted out of shape and
them, or about 11 per cent, were re
a blank since that time and he did not enter upon duties which were largely ol for the quarter were $4,246.40 and the charred.
know his own identity.
a missionary character, and hardships total expenditures were $14,746.09.
It wa» two hours before the fiames turned on the last census as illiterate—
were fully under control. It is impos a very large proportion for a country in
The execution of Mnrderer Belding were certain to be the portion of some.
W ith appropriate ceremony, Agri sible to secure any estimate of thu
which the opportunities for education
will take place at Portland October 31. It was impossible to make all assign
ments equal, but as the facts became cultural hall, designed to facilitate and losses tonight.
are universal.
The Haytian rebellion is at an end known efforts would be made to equal advance experiment and instruction in
An examination o l the figures shon
by the submission of the revolutionists. ize the duties of teachers, so that all agricultural lines at the Oregon agri
BOXERS NOT YET PUT DOWN.
that, contrary to the general belief,
Secretary of the [Treasury Shaw has would share in the pleasant duties as cultural college, was dedicated at Cor
vallis October 15.
Addresses were Chinese Viceroy Asks Missionaries Not to
announced that he will buy $20,000,000 well as the arduous work.
it is not the foreign born voter« who
Governor Taft says that the com ple made by Governor Geer, Congressman
Travel In Disturbed Districts.
cf 1925 bonds.
cause this percentage to be so high.
The
tion of boats that have been building Tongue and a number of others.
Pekin, Oct. 21.— The new viceroy of The proportion of illiterates among the
The 29th annual convention of the | for the insular government there will attendance from outside the city num
National W . C. T. U. is in session at bring a better system of supply from the bered several hundred.
Sze Cheun province, Teen Chun Suan, foreign born voters in the United
Portland. Maine.
commissary department.
reports that the Boxers have not been States is 11.5 per cent, whereas among
A new panel of 150 talesmen has
suppressed at Cheng Tu and two other the native born inhabitants the propor
PORTLAND MARKETS.
ADOPTION ALMOST SURE.
been called to secure the jury for the
centers and he asks the ministers and tion is 10.5 p e rce n t— not a very im
trial of Roland B. Molineux.
Wheat— WallaW alla, 65@ 66c; blue-
missionaries to refrain from traveling portant difference.
Miners are Considering Peace Plan, wllh stem 6 8 H @ 6 9 c; valley, 66 H c.
A collision between two trains in
in central Sze Chnen at present.
Mitchell In the Chair.
The parr. o f the United State« in
Barley— Feed, $20.00 per ton; brew
Ohio resulted in both engines being de
The emperor’ s reception at the sum- j which there ia least illiteracy is the
Wilkesbarre, Pa., Oct. 21.— The ing, $21.00.
molished and 20 persons injured.
group of states which makeuptbe
Flonr— Best grade, 3.000 3 .5 0 ; grah mer palace today was attended by the
8ir Thomas Lipton’ s challenge to anxiously awaited conventicn of the
m iddle west and northwest. Iowa »nd
diplomatic corps except in the case of
race for the America's cup has been re 143,000 striking miners met yesterday, am. $2 85@3.20.
Nebraska have less than 3 per cent,
Millstuffs—
Bran,
$18.50
per
ton;
the
British
minister.
Sir
Ernest
Satow,
ceived by the New York yacht club.
but did not reach a vote on the proposed
Kansas less than 4, and Ohio, Illiuoi«
middlings, $23.50; shorts, $19.50; he having declined all social intercourse snd Minnesota less than 5 per cent of
The principal issue before the min- plan of settlement. It is expected to
chop, $17.
on account of the miscarriage of justice illiterate inhabitants over the age of 29.
ers’ convention w ill be provision for do so today. Theie were 662 delegates
Oats— No. 1 white, $ !@ 1 .0 2 H ; gray,
In Utah and Washington, in the Pa
men thrown out of work by the reten- present in the Nesbit theater, where P5c@ $l per cental.
in the case of the mnrdered English
cific group of states, the percentage
tion of nonunionists.
Hay — Tim othy, $10011; clover, missionaries, Brnce and I-ewia, in Ho- illiteracy is less than 4 per cent; ii
the convention was held, and they were
The grand jury found an indictment empoaered by their local unions to $7.50; cheat, $8 per ton.
nau province, wnere the reaponsible Colorado, Oregon and Wyoming lem
for murder in the first degree against
Potatoes— Best Burbanks, 60070c
officials were exculpated and ignorant than 5.
William Hooper Young, who is under cast 867 votes for or against President per sack; ordinary, 50O55c per cental,
In New England and among ths
arrest at New York for the killing ot Roosevelt’ s proposed plan of arbitra growers’ prices; Merced sweets, $1.760 peasants were beheaded,
native born inhabitants tbe[ percent«*»
i The negotiations for the departure of
Mrs. Anna Pulitzer.
tion. The majority of the delegates 2 per cental.
is still loiser, 1 per cent in Maseacb«-
Poultry— Chickens, mixed, $3.600 the international troops from Shanghai
General Corbin says the American were uninstructed. The few who were
setts, 1.5 in Connecticut, 2 per cent«
have been interrupted. It appears that
4.25;
per
pound,
10c;
hens,
$40
4.6
0
per
soldier easily excels those of England. instructed were engineers, firemen and
New Hampshire, and 2.5 in Rhed*
dozen; per ponnd, 11c ; springs, $2.50 Great Britain before consenting to the
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Alabama coal miners who havs been pumnmen who fear that the 5,000 strik 0 3 per dozen; fryers, $ 3 0 3 .2 5 ; broil evacuation desires a more definite ar Island.
out for 10 days, have returned to work. ers of these classes ;may not get back ers, $ 2 0 3 .5 0 ; dneks, $505.60 per dos- rangement in regard to her statns in
Appropriation for SL Look.
There were 4,500 men involved. The their old places now held by nonunion en; tnrkeys, young, 10O 12c ; geese, the Y angtse valley and more precise
Manila, Oct. 22.— The civil commre
men. This question of the engineers, ! $606.50 per dozen.
terms were not made public
stipulations concerning non-alienation sion will probably increase the Philip
I firemen and pnmpmen proved the only
Cheese— Full cream, twins, 13H @ of territory in that region.
pine appropriation for the St. 0*»
A fast train on the Vandalia railroad, ' .tumbling block in the way of almoat 14c; Yonng America,
14 O 14H ;
exposition exh ibit by $ 100,000, maki«$
in Indiana, collided with an accommo- immediate adoption of the president's factory prices, l O l l i c lees.
Roosevelt Doing Well.
the total $350,000. FairCoronnwioWf
dation, reauiting in the death of two p U „ ( which carries with it declaring
Butter— Fancy creamery, 27K O 30c
Washington, Oct. 21.— W hile Presi Barret had addressed a meeting «
persons and serious, if not fatal, injnry the strike off, and a general resumption per ponnd; extras, 30c; dairy, 18
dent Roosevelt was unable to so to Filipinos, which was arranged by Gov
of three others.
j 0f work through the hard coal miaing O 20c; store, 12H O 15.
Oyster Bay to register his vote for the ernor Taft, on the subject, and the w
F.ggs— 2 3 0 2 7 H c per dozen.
United States Minister Bowen has re* 'on-
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November election, he will go home to tim ent of the meeting was in favor0*
Hope— New crop, 21023c per ponnd. vote.
asked that one or two warships be sent
The president is progressing the increase.
New Cruiser W ashington.
W
o
o
l-V
a
lle
y
,
1
2
H
0
1
5
c;
Eastern
finely toward complete recovery, and is
to Veneinelan waters for the better
Washington,
Oct.
22.—
In
view
of
Oregon,
8
@
1
4
H
c;
mohair,
26028c.
protection of Americana. He says the
now able to move about without crutch
Another Trip In Airship.
the conclusion retened today by the
Beef— Gross, cows,
3 0 3 He per es or even a cane, bat his physicians
situation is grave.
London, Oct. 22.— Stanley 8pen«r.
naval bsard of construction, plana for ponnd; steers, 4c; dressed. 6 0 7 c.
have advised him not to travel any dis the aeionant, who recently made«
Officials of the transport service be the armored cruiser Washington will
Veal— 7 H 0 8 He.
tance for at least two weeks.
For this cessfnl trip over London, traveled -
lieve that the transport Seward has he completed and ready for advertise
Mutton — Gross, 3c per ponnd; reason he will be unable to attend the
miles this afternoon in hi» »'nlll£
met with an accident and is making her ment hy November 3, along with plana dressed, 6c.
inauguration of President Wood re w He rose from Blackpool, but finding“ *
way across ths Pacific nnder Mil. The j for the twin’ ship Tennessee. The reg
L am bs— Gross, 3H c per p .n n l; Wilson, of Princeton university, al
northwest breeze too strong to m***
Seward left Seattle for Manila OTer two alar differential of 4 per rent in favor dressed, 6 He.
though he had epxressed his particular
months »go, and has not vet reached ’ of the Pacific coast bidders will be
Hogs—Gross, # h 0 7 e per ponnd ; desire to be present when President headway against it. he proceeded 1« *
southeasterly direction and landed »
| offered.
her destination.
I dressed, 7 0 7 H e.
. n llson is installed.
an open country.
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