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About The Leader. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Or.) 1895-1903 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1902)
Cottage Grove Leader. ! . . F . W O O L Ï V , P u b lis h e r . PEACE BOARD MEETS. NEWS f OREGON Anthracite Coal Strike Commission Holds Short Session— Work Outlined. Washington, Oct. 28.— The anthra. Items of Intet Gathered from C O T T A G E GROVE .. OREGON. cite coal strike commission yesterday in i All Parbf the State. the hearing room of the interstate com- | | merce commission held its first confer-1 COMMERCIAL A FINANCIAL DOINOS ! ence with parties to the controversy j | in the anthracite regions. There was 1 General Review of Important Happenings a fall representation of both operators A Brief Review improvements, nrowth and Devclopnt Along All Lines of the Past W eek in Brief and ! and miners and members of the press, | Througtt Our Slate. Comprehensive Form. and a number of other interested parties ! were present. The commission occu Wu Ting Fang, Chinese minister to pied the elevated seats generally filled Governor Geeis making a tour of the United States, has been lecalled. by members of the interstate commerce the eastern part the state. W EEK ’S DOINGS t it l e is v a l id . Report of Attorney General Knox Says Panama Canal May be Sold. Washington Oct. 2 8 . - “ The title to the Panama canal is va lid ,” is the gist of the report to President Roosevelt by Attorney General Knox on his investi gation of tbe offer of the Panama com pany. The next step, on tbe part of the United States, will be to negotiate and ratify a treaty giving to it the rights demanded under the canal legis lation of last session. President Roose- ¡11 do his power veil will do everything everything in ... — r - - « to ~ PUTS UP p g Colombia Asks More for p, Wain, Route Than at First. NEGOTIATIONS WILL BE United States Now Asked for $i0 t An Increase of $3,000,000 - Y ^ ’“ Payments to Begin No». > I j J ^ ' r c s ^ n r o o f ‘« h f c ' S j ? * trIunenl ttw proposition m trnuient tj,e ..... I**! 1 A riot over nonunion labor at Chi- commission, Judge Gray, as president. Judge Gray, »em inent citizen of state department for the President Baer Astoria, and a itive of Oregon, is cago resulted in injuries to seven men. occupying the center. for a canal treaty on the l u j j j * tendered the commission a special train Spooner act has reached w» .M .- ‘ A wealthy Quincy, Illinois, farmer which, was declined, the members de- dead. He was (years lod. and was presented to the stat. The merchanble lumber of the J j« * e n ,or the mnrder ° ' hi9 | ciding to ask or accept no favors. Cascade forest rtrve is estimated at ment by Mr. Herran secret»». ^ daughter’ s suitor. The commission met at 2 P. M. Mr. Colombian legation. It is .hffle«** 50,000,000,000 ft, board measure. The chief of the naval ordance bureau Mitchell, president of the United Mine- learn the exact nature of this * __________________ reports in favor of sacrificing speed for workers, Walter Edward Wehl and Die- The assessmenfaluation of Marion ¡cation, but it is known that* CIS armament in the construction of bat trict President Fahay appeared for the county has increed 4 per cent during altogether an unqualified a c c e p t ^ tleships. miners, and the cotl carrying roads the past year, aerding to the assessor, the state deiiartment’s proportion President H ill, of the Great Norther, : were represented as follows: President1 Senator M itcll has departed for is. however, friendly and dignifo It » in a speech tc Montana farmers, said Baer, of the Philadelphia A Reading; Washington, whe he will take up his tone, and does not dose the E. B. Thomas, chairman of the board his road would make another cut in labors prior to tfcopening of congress. lions by sny means, though Tt S * of the Pennsylvania coal company and freight rates soon. tionably sets back the date ol J , Hillsdale coal and iron com pany; A l The Willamettriver is changing its agreement by opening up new to«!, A Northen Pacific special agent has fred Walter, president of tbe Lehigh course at Salem ai threatens to leave for argument. f 0 expressed his doubt of the man ar Valley; W. H. Trnesdale, president of j that city high andry unless steps are For one thing, the Colombian rested for holding up a train in Mon the Delaware, Lackawana & Western; [ taken to stop it. ment is now entirely dissatisfied »¡s' tana a few days ago being the right one. David Wilcox, vice president of the BOLD BANDIT TAKEN. __ __________ Men under govmmental supervision the small amount of the payment to W President Roosevelt celebrated his Delaware Cc Hudson; John B. Herr, i ; made to it by the United States and» Scranton coal have been doing cisiderable dynamit- 44th birthday October 27. He speLt vice president of the coal _____ and _ iron '° g _ in the Willantte near Independ Man W ho is Believed to Have Held Up the the terms of the protocol, which it ______ _____ the day attending to his customary du company and Elkbid Train in Montana Is Captured. proposed to use as the basis for the ence the past »ek. Several large Iarge ties. Many messages of congratulation compiany; J. H. Torrey, attorney for enee snags and boulcrs were dislodged. , the Lehigh valley company. Missoula, Mont., Oct. 28.— Deputy ' r09ty- 1 1,18 ia *7’OM.000, were received. ’ ,, _ . . . , Colombia wants at least ilOOOflnM The proceedings covered about two 1 making the npperiver transportation A Louisiana train was wrecked by hours’ time, and were given np en- niuch safer than fet winter, when two Sheriff w . W. McCormick arrested More0v.-r, the original p r o p o i ? ^ running into a drove of cattle. The tirely to a discussion of the time and or three steamersvere sunk by running near Bonita today a man believed to be p, »wait 14 years before beginnintdis engineer and a tramp were killed and method of proceeding with the pro-1 ¡“ to submerged sigs the individual who, single-handed, held payment of annual rental, the s n ^ the fireman fatally injured. None of posed investigation. up the North Coast Limited passenger of which was to be fixed then by The commission The Willam eth Valiev Prune asso- the passengers were hurt. iecided to begia its work next Thurs- 1 ........ .. at 9 o ’ clock, the first days' cia‘ io" ' ° ! S^ luA A Wyoming woman has been arrest- day morning i __a._ ul j ___ j _ carloads of prun« a day and 19 operat- near Bearmouth. The man e size ami |ump yearly payment of fMO.OOO of the investigation to be devoted to a d for having four husbands. ing its packing hose day ami night general description answer to that of which will largely increase the imae physical examination of the miners and The fire relief fond raised in Wash the homes of the miners, starting in 1 A ll prunes are ehiped in boxes bearing the robber. He gives the name of diate tost of the enterprise. Th the association brnd. Sales are being ington amounts to a little over $5,000. the vicinity of Scranton. The entire , .. , . . , o3 Alfred Vanhazendoct, and at times tries Colombian government rllnrs to it, onfKsooito « J J n.;n k i -ru made on the basis price of 2J^ cents Minister Henry L. Wilson declines anthracite held will be covered. There , .. . „ , „ . to talk with German accent anil again contention that it has no const itntiomj ...on w,., for the foer sizes n bavs and a hall to be transferred from Chile to Greece. was much discussion over a proposition . . . . . i . uses plain English; He is of medium authority to alienate any Colombian wxo.isx »... _ ___ _ 4" v “ ! cent more for frui in 25-pound boxes. made by the commission to have expert statue, has heavy shoulders and is in- territory, and reiterates that the be* i Dr. Woodrow Wilson has been form Judge Burnett las rendered a de din ed to stoop, and wore when arrested il° the ,anTO?eof the ally installed as president of Princeton accountants appointed to audit the statements of wages and classification cision which seem to be very sweeping a gray suit of clothes and a peculiar lit- ‘ pooser act. which looks to perpetual university. of minere to be made by the operators in its effect and which will prevent tie cap of blue color, and had two 45- control by the United State, over th. A Dunsmuir, Cai., constable was for use of the commission, but no de hopbuyers from ecovering possession caliber C olt’ s revolvers strapped to his t canal strip, is to make a 100-rw slain by thngs because he had run them cision was reached on this point beyond of hops covered by the ordinary con body. j lease, with a distinct stipulation that out of town. the announcement by the chairman of j tract. The decisim is to the effect that He acknowledges he was at Gold j the same shall lie renewable br the Frank Norris, a well known novelist, the commission's intention to appoint the contract is a nortgage and that the Creek the night previous to the hold United StateB nt the expiration of the died at San Francisco from the effects of such an accountant in case his services grower can disebirge it by paying the up, and says he is a tie maker looking j first century. should be found necessary. money advanced tt him, with interest. for employment and ’ that he was en j an operation. TRUE VALUE OF TEXAS OIL Jndge Gray, the president of the route to Missoula when he passed ( Senator Hanna says his purpose in j commission, retd the order of the pres- Hops have reached 25 cents at Salem through Gold Creek. He explains his Geological Survey Says the Field Equal. politics is to establish better relations ; ident creating the commission, and in a and a good many sties are now looked slowness in getting over the ground and Russian District in Size. between labor and capital. j general way outlined the procedure to for. his not being seen all day yesterday Washington, Oct. 29. — TheTazs- Major Generals Corbin and Young ue followed from the presentation of Three hundred goats were shipped to along the road from Gold Creek to Louisiana oil field is discussedexhtost. are home from Europe, where they tbe issues. He stated that in accord Missoula by stating that he missed his Montana from Monmouth a few days ance with the immemorial practice have been inspecting foreign armies. road shortly after leaving Gold Creek ively in a report of the United State among English speaking peoples, the ago. The existence and had to retrace his atepa. Tt,e i geological survey. England is becoming alarmed at tbe commission would first receive the petroleum in the Gulf Coast ?», I Two new st«»niers. one for the officers discredit the man's story. condition prevailing among the Irish. statement or demands o f the miners, I which extends inland for 100 «U. Shipments of arms to the island have who were to be regarded for the pur Columbia river and one for Puget sound has been known as far back t* 180. are being built in Portland. JAPANESE BARRED. been prohibited. poses of this case as the prosecutors. The report says the extreme porojj Work is progressing rapidly on the The reply of the other side would then Three persons were seriously and a [of Spindle-Top oil rock favcri hi Washington Court Decides They Cannot great many others slightly injured as be heard, Judge Gray said, in order new Booth-Kelly ■Sawmill at Spring- storage of a very large volume olid Become American Citizens. tbe result of an explosion in the rapid that tbe commission might have before field. The company hopes to have the and a very rapid yield when the rest- it a definite issue. - mill in operation by the first of the Olympia, Oct. 28. — The supreme j vojr is tupped. But it also faront* transit subway of New York. year. It will have a capacity of 250,- court, in a decision handed down today, early exhaustion of the oil in thepd, Roosevelt has issued the order to re CHICAGO SWITCHMEN AGAIN. 000 feet of lumber per day. decides that a Japanese cannot become ®n,l *bs rapid replacement by the nede. duce the army to its minimum Beds of ml | strength. Oregon has a most promising copper a citizen of the United States. The lying salt water. Demand an Advance of 5 Cents an Hour hearing sand are reported flora romeii district in a section little known. point came up directly in the matter of The cruiser Olympia is being de or a Strike W ill be Ordered. the wells on Spindle-Top, and beds of This is the Imnaha, on the Snake river, tainer! at the New York navy yard for Chicago, Oct. 29. — Grand Master not far from where the Seven Devils is the admission of a young Japanese gypsum and of salt from other«. 11» lack of a supply of coal. Morrissey, of the Brotherhood of Rail- located on the opposite side. As yet lawyer to the bar of this state. Takuji conclusion is reached with regsrdtoth. Governor Stone, of Pennsylvania, way Trainmen, and Vice Grand Master title development has been done. Yamashita, of Seattle, passed a very Spindle-Top field that the rock cocu I m has issued a general order withdrawing VV. G. Lee, have arrived at Chicago to creditable examination for admission to 1 a 'o n t one-fourth of its volume ol nil. The recent rains throughout the W il the bar in the examinations last May, Even if the estimate is one barrel ob tbe troops from the coal fields. look alter the interests of the 7,000 lamette valley have enabled 'th e farm bat the law making citizenship a qual tained for every 26 cubio foot lor The coal Btrike arbitration commis yardmen emplored in the Chicago dis ers to pnsh the work of fall seeding. ification for admission to the bar of Pp'ndle Top, and a little less for other sion has perfected an organization. trict, who have presented a demand to the railroads for an increase of 5 cents All fruit is picked and other fall work this state is very plain and is undis fields, there shsuld lie a yield equtMo Judge Gray was chosen chairman. an hoar. The railroads have he**n not over and a few days more of good puted. The main point in the case the Baku fields in Russia, aDd a mod A ll members of the New York build ified that an answer is expected oy next weather will enable the farmers to fin which was presented to the supreme greater output than that for all of the ing trades threaten to go on strike. j Friday. ish seeding. court in the form of briefs was whether other American fields. Seventy-five thousand men are involved. The report savs that the apparent The action taken by the Chicago a native of Japan could become a citi Orders are to be placed at once for yardmen is said to be tbe first step in zen of the United States, and whether concensus o f opinion among chemiw PORTLAND MARKETS. the manufacture of the new three-inch the movement which started in Kansas the superior court of Pierce county act who have examined the field is that tbe Wheat— WallaWalla. 67® 08c; bine- ed withiD its jurisdiction in granting gulf petroleum is unsnited for the re guns to supply the field artillery. It City last June, when the chairmen on the scale committe of all systems, rep stem 7 3 9 7 4 c; valley, 67c. will require 180. naturalization papers to Yamashta. duction of illuminating oil, and that it resenting both the Brotherhood of Barley— Feed, 321.00 per ton; brew The decision on this point covers a is doubtful if it can be made to yielh It has been announced that H. R. Railway Trainmen ami the Older of matter on which it is said there is no good lubricating oil on a commercial Nickerson, vice president and general Railroad Conductors, met in joint ses ing, $22.00. basis. Its value as a source of asphalt Flour— Beet grade, 3.20@ 3.50; grah recent decision by any conrt, and it manager of the Mexican Central rail sion and decided to demand a general therefore becomes a matter of wide in and as a gas oil are as yet undeter road, has been offeied the presidency of increase in wages for all members of am. $2 90@3.20. mined. The experiments seem * the Southern Pacific. Millstnffs— Bran, $19.00 per ton; terest. both organizations. The question was establish both its availability and ■# middlings, $23.50; shorts, $19.50; economy as a generator ol steam One of the worst storms that ever submitted to a referendum vote of the WRIGHT GIVEN A VOTE. Whether the Beaumont petroleum mF raged in the Behring sea raked the membership of both organizations, and chop, $17. Oats— No. 1 white, $1.05(31.0754; Nome coast from October 11 to 14. this vote is not all in yet. About Recorder Is Added to Coal Strike Peace he successfully used in rnetallorfial gray, $1.02 54 @1.05 per cental. Three lives were lost in the Nome sea three-fourths c f the entire vote is now processes is not yet nettled. Commission—Both Sides Agree. Hav — Timothy, $10(311; clover, ami a large amonnt of damage waadone in tlie hands of the exeentive officers of Washington, Oct. 28.— At the request $7.50; cheat, $8 per ton. CUBA TURNS IT DOWN. both organizations, and the remainder to buildings along the water front. Potatoes— Best Burbanks, 60(2 70c of the members of the anthracite coal is expected before November 1. The The government of France will step Chicago district of the switchmen is, per sack; ordinary, 50<355c per cental, strike commission, and with the assent Rejects Treaty Offered by United SUt» in and try to settle the coal strike, however, separate, and the vote was growers’ prices; Merced sweets, $1.75(3 j of both the operators and miners, Pres and M akes Counter Proposal. which has reached a serious situation. • almost unanimous in favor of demand 2 per cental. Havana. Oct. 29. — The represent ident Roosevelt has appointed Carroll Poultry— Chickens, mixed, $3.50(3 People on the Island of 8t. Vincent ing the increase. 4.25; perponrd, 10c; hens, $4(34.50 per D Wright, recorder of the commis- ative here of the Associated Pré« “ have been compelled to ask for aid. dozen; per pound, 11c; springs, $3.00 sion, a member ol that body. Mr. learned from official sources that t" Food supplies are almost entirely ex NO MORE AID NECESSARY. (33.50 per dozen; Iryern, $2.50<33.P0; I Wright has accepted the appointment, proposed treaty between the ' hausted. broilers, $2.00(32.50; docks, $4.50oi Mr. Wright, as recorder of the com- States and Gnba was returned to As a result of a head-on freight col Miners arc Now at W ork, and Can Take 6.00 per dozen; turkeys, young, 12)t mission, has received replies from most ington bv mail last Satnrday- ^ Care of Themselves. lision on the Iron Mountain road, in P’J’P0*'’ @ 13c; geese, $6.00(36.50 per dozen of the coal mine owners who are parties the treaty was sent a counter of Cob* » Missouri, seven people were seriously New York, Oct. 29. — Daniel S. Ja Cheese— Full cream, twins 14^1? to the controversy, indicating their ac tion by the government dnree injured and may die. cobs, chairman of the miners' defense 1554c; Young America, 15 (3 17j ceptance of the invitation of the com- that of the United Mates. ***e.n*,t^ . which J9 is n,ll not known, A Geotgia mob of 300 broke into a fund committee of the Central Federat factory prices, l R l ! $ c less. mission to attend the conference to be wn,<jn Kn';wn' bnt it is ;etttr jail, took out a negro and hanged him. ed union, said, at a meeting of that Butter— Fancy creamery, 27V»<930c held for the pnrpose of agreeing upon s,ood th ,t Pr<>' ,dent Troops had twin ordered to the scene, body today, that as the strike of the per pound; extras. 30c; dairy, 18 plans for the hearings to be given by sent with the treaty, says the anthracite miners had been declared off @ 20c; store, 1254(315. ance of the propositions made o’ but they arrived too late. the commission, and also a reply from Eggs— 25(330c per dozen. General F'ranklin Beil is to be re the committee did not think it neces Mr. Mitchell, saying he would be rep United States wonld be nlin011' Cnba, as it would result in » Hope— New crop, 22925c per ponnd. resented at the meeting. lieved of command of the forces in Ba- sary to levy any farther contribations for the miners. dnetion of the customs revenue o W ool— Valley, 12V»(315c; Eastern tangas province, Luzon. He will be island. _____________ Oregon, 8<314>4c; mohair, 26928c. succeeded by General Jesse M. Lee. New Torpedo Boat to be Tested. Sharp Naval Battle Promised. Beef— Gross, cows, 3 9 3 (ye per Charles W. Clark, son of W . A. San Francisco, Oct. 28 — The sub _ Explosion of 6 0 0 Kegs of Colon. Oct. 29.— The safe arrival of pound; steers. 4c; dressed. 8 9 7 c. ~9. — Clark, the Montana millionaire, says marine torpedo boat Grampus, recently Fairmonnt, W. Va., Oct. 2$. the Colombian cruiser Bogota at Pana Veal— 7S9 8 5 4C . he was offered 12,500,(8(0 to assist in built at the Union iron works, is in Fairmonnt powder works, |ocs»*l;i ma promises a sharp naval engagement Mutton — Gross, 3c per pound; securing control of the legislature and drydock ready — for -— her miles from this city. wr»e danrzageu „ . . here being - made - ------r in isthmian waters very shortly, ms dressed, 6c. downing his father. official trial on tbe bay. This will in- the extent of $30,000 by the ezPlw American gnnners are on board both Lamb« — Gross, S>4c per pound; Boilermakers in the Wabash shops at fleets. clmle not only the submarine trip, but o f 600 kegs of powder " one ‘ cub oi [»»»us»». No The government’ s hopes are dressed. 6 5%c. a cruise of some distance, with perhaps jured. The machinery was «’ ’■P Bpringefild, III,, have gone on strike now centered in the career of the Hogs— Gross, 6549654c per pound; * test of her efficiency in approaching a for an increase in wages. Bogota. wrecked and iron was thrown W dressed, 7 9 7 S r . vessel unawares. around. secure the completion mpletion of such a treaty trea y in time for presentation to ~ n g r e » at the coming short session, as he believes ample time intervenes for accomplish Should the Colombian , ing u|fc this ....... object. —, — , government delay or^decline^t^ accede to the conditions laid down by congress, thereby causing a postponement until the first session of the Fifty-eigth con gress, there is a possibility that the president will again take under consid eration the construction of the canal over the Nicaraguan route. The opin ion prevails here, however, that a treaty of satisfactory character w ill be negotiated, and that the first steps looking to the construction of a canal will be undertaken early next year.