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About The Leader. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Or.) 1895-1903 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 28, 1902)
P H IL IP P IN E S W A N T O U L U . Conage Grove Leader. F l u c t u a t i o n s o f S ilv e r S e r io u s ly I n te r f e r e in T r a n s a c t i o n o f B u s in e s s . L. F. W OOLKT. r u b li.h rr. C O T T A G E GROVE OREGON. W EEK’S DOINGS O e n e r a l R e v ie w o f I m p o r t a n t H a p p e n in g s o f t h e P a s t W e e k in B r ie f a n d C o m p r e h e n s iv e F o rm . Sign« for a better government for Ire land nave appeared. President Kooeevelt baa hie message all ready for the senate. Three hundred Negro colonists will go to Liberia from Georgia in January. Rumor lias it that the erar may abdi cate the throne to his uncle. Grand Duke Vladimir. Gould and flarriman have fallen out over the control of the Colorado fuel and iron company. The government survey for the Pa cific cable has been turned over to the Commercial cable company. A message received from Dr. Hunter, from Guatemala, states that the killing of Fitzgerald was in self defense. The navy department has decided on , distinctive garb for marines and en- listed men serving tim e in prnson. Heretofore they have worn their old u liforms. Coal miners and operators held their first conference towards a peaceful set tlement ot their troubles in Washing ton. Only the preliminary arrange ments were discussed. John L. Mitchell, judge of the su- nerior court of Pennsylvania, will he retired on half pay until the expiration of his term in 1910, on account of ina bility to perform the dutiee of bis ofbee through sickness. Wheat h ss reached the highest point at San Francisco since 1898. Great Britain and Germany are co operating in serious measures to bring Venezuela to time. The American Federation of Labor re-elected all its officers, and voted to meet in Boston next November. Herr Krupp, the great German gun maker, and «he wealthiest man in Germany, is dead irom apop'exy. Oil is to be used as fuel on the steam ers of the Furness line, one of tbs largest English steamship companies The robbers who held up the Rock I.l.n .t evpress. near 1^ ^ ^ V a n ctoo’ secured in the neighborhood of |20,000. The report of Consul General McNal ly on the Hunter- Fitzgerold affair in Guatemala puts it in the aspect of a cold blooded murder. Matters are proceeding favorably for an agreement between the coal miners ,n d operators. An increase of 10 per cent in wageB is assured. The bodv of J. W. Fuller, who die- appeared from his home in P ° * ' * * A October 27, lias been found There was a bullet hole in his right temple and a revolver with one empty cham ber lay alongside the body. Thirty people were drowned by the sinking ol a steamer in the Danube river. Reports from the district in Guate mala devasted by the volcano place the loss of life at 10,000. The famous eating house at Meacham, on the O. R. A N ., which burned a few days ago, will be rebuilt. Prominent citizens of Denver have Btarted a movement for the establish ment of a sanitarium ler actors. Augustin Chacon, one of the moet desperate outlaws in Arizona, has been hanged. During his career he had taken at least a score of lives. A serious financial problem is con fronting Germany. The government expense deficit is larger than ever be fore and the people can hardly afford to pay more taxi**» Advices from South China state that the Boxer movement is spreading. Ijirge bands of rebels are marching through the country devastating every thing as they go. Secretary Moody has announced that employes of government navy yards are to be allowed to present in person to the bnerd of wages any question affect ing the rate of pay. Venezuela complains of European governments aiding her revolutionists. The sultan of Morocco has given $5,- 000 to the widow of an English mis sionary who was killed by natives. Three Chicago saloons were dynamit ed by unknown persons, breaking win dows and doors and causing other dam- ags. Prominent physicians testified be fore the coal strike commission that coal mining is an nnhealthful occupa tion and greatly shorten, life. Friends of the N icaragusn route for an isthmian canal are picking np murage from the check to the negot.at.on. with Colombia relative to the Panama venal. Manila, Nov. 28 — Silver has suffered another decline in value. The govern ment has issued a proclamation making the official rate $2.00 for 41 gold. The former rate was $2.t>0. The possibility of the adoption by tlie Straits settlements of a gold stand ard, and the reports current that Mexi co is about to abandon the silver stand ard, have greatly weakened the Indian and Asiatic silver market. Large quan tities of Mexican silver are coming here from China, as it is believed that much gold is being circulated here on account of government expenditures. The fact is that American trade is going to China, and the losses in silver are seri ously affecting the insular treasury and business interests generally. The rap idly changing rates embarrass the busi ness houses, making it almost impossi ble to fix prices. The native officials are beginning to-petition for the pay ment of salaries in gold, and the de mand for stable curency is universal. The secretary of finance says: "There is nothing to indicate a more hopeful future (or the currency ques tion. It will probably be as had as now, if not worse, until congress acts and gives us a stable currency.” C L E A R E D T H E F R E IG H T V A R U S. P i t t s b u r g S w i tc h m e n S e n t O u t 0 5 T r a in s In s id e o f F iv e H o u r s . Pittsburg, Nov. 26.— After 36 hoars of the most 'strenuoas activity on the part of the greatly augiiiueuted forces of men and locomotives, the Penn sylvania railroad system has made a comparative cleaning up of its congest ed teim inals. The car movement breaks all records of a similar kind. It is estimated that SO,000 cars were moved in and out of Pittsburg, fn five hours 95 trains were started for Altoona by the Pennsylvania, 20 per cent heav ier than the record. Tonight the Pennsylvania railVoad yards are freei fioni obstructions than at any time within five months, but the receipts of eras destined for Pittsburg ehippers will fill them up before tomor row is passed. The cars will be moved in from the outlying sidetracks which, for 30 m iles along every approach to the city, have been stagnated with cars laden with all manner of crude pro ducts. In the yards of the Pittsburg A Lake Erie and Baltimore A Ohio also good work was accomplished, and tonight their terminals are comparatively close to normal conditions. Before 6 o’clock eight trainmen had been taken to the hospital injured at various points. G A T H E R IN G IN A T W A S H IN G T O N . M e m b e r s o f C o n g r e s s A r r iv in g a n d P r e p a r i n g f o r t h e C o m in g S e s s i o n . NEWS OF OREGON F A T A L W IS C O N S IN F\R E. S e v e r a l P e r s o n s D e a d a n d P r o p e r ty L o s s A m o u n tin g t o $ 5 2 5 ,Off). GENERAL STR] Ashland, W is., Nov. 25 *t*The Wis Labor Troubles in Havana Ha| Items of General Interest Gathered consin Central ore dock a as destroyed Spread to All Trades. From All Over the State. ! by fire this afternoon, the lo* involved being about $525.000. In (ailing the dock tarried with it a numler of fire- COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL DOINGS i men and dockmen and a number of i lives were lost, juft how ilanv will A B rie f R ev iew o f I m p r o v e m e n ts , G r o w th probably not l»e known for Kereral days. A number of badly injury] firemen a n 0 D e v e lo p m e n t A lo n g A ll L in e * were rescued from the burniig m ins. T h ro u g h o u t O u r S ta te . The fire caught about 5 o’flork, pre sumably from a boat unloading lumber Eugene has secured an additional across the slip, and before Iff* firemen arrived the entire ore dock, ta li a mile mail carrier for city delivery. An engine was The new electric car line from Gresh ! long, was in Hames. am into Portland will be ready for run on the tramway as near to the fire as possible, and half a hundred men operation in about two weeks. began tearing apart the timbers con Burglars entered a Salem residence necting the tramway and dock to keep and ransacked the place, securing a it from falling with the dock. Sud small amount of cash and tome jewelry. denly the dock gave way, (idling with a Baker City will be compelled to re rash and carrying with it 200 feet of main in darkness for a while longer the tramway, the engine just barely owing to the non-arrival of the trans escaping the fall into the hay. Sever al hundred people were under the tram formers and street lights. way, but most of them neaped with A six-stamp m ill with a capacity of slight injuries. Ae the broken tram 50 tons a day has been purchased f >r way and the burning dock fell, fully a the Red, White and Blue mine in the dozen men were seen to go down in the I go »ow n in Hie Malheur district. The mine *is owned ruins. The wreck fell into 20 feet of by a Boston syndicate. water. The The tire fire is is still still raging raging and The A number of cities throughout the Murray’s sawmill is in danger. state will bold municipal elections De dork was valued at $600,9(0 and the cember 1. Considerable local interest ore at $25,000. is being taken on account of factional POSTOFFICE ROBBED. tights, prohibition measures, etc. The Baker City lodge of Elks has purchased a site and w ill erect a two story stone and brick building 50x100 feet. When complete the structure will cost about $25,000. Three prisoners finder detention at the county jail at Union, made their • s ape by sawing through the bars of their cells. The prisoners were await ing a hearing before the grand jury, two charged with assault and one with mayhem. The Oregon dairymen’s association will meet in Corvallis De<ember 10 ---------- ----- . . and 17, Cream separator and other fairy supply firms are invited to make exhibits of their goods. Addresses of interest will be delivered bv well known dairymen. Special rates will be given by the transportation companies. The noted Bowden mine and Braden m ill, situated near Gold H ill, with its water power, lias been transferr d to a corporation capitalized at $500,000. The purchase pri<e was in the neigh borhood of $100,000. Southern Oregon is coming to the front as a mining country and the purchasers of this mine are going to put in new and heavy machinery and do considerable development work. TWO DEAD AND THIRTY-TWO INJUj C a r m e n D id N o t Q u it a n d W e re A u a a lt u n d S to n e d by O th e r W o rk m e n -T | N o B r e a d o r M e a t o n S ale . Havana, Nov. 26.— As a result conflicts of a serious nature tod«y tween the police fcnd men on ttr here, two strikers are dead and other persons are wounded. Five the wounded, one a lieutenant of ■ lice w hose throat was cut by a striki j have very severe injuries. Eight oth ! policemen are wounded. The polj, have the rioters well under control | night, ami every precaution is bej taken to prevent a further outbreak j disorder, and all the police and rn guards in the suburbs have betm , u moned to concentrate iu Havana. The strike, which at first concern on|y the cigar workers, became asnsl n ,ii m ornisg by t h e calling oat trades in sympathy with the cj| makers. All the tradespeople cli their doors this morning, clerks a and every class of workmen’hari obeyed the command of the union t> cept the motormen and conductor, the electric cars, who refueed to j, P r o b a b ly $ 1 0 ,0 0 0 T a k e n a n d D a rin g T h ie f in the general etrike. G o t S a f e ly A w a y . Trouble began early by the boUim Chicago, Nov. 25.—The Chicago post- up ol the electric care by the s trik m l office was robbed of probably $10,600 whose wruth naturally was dirwi today in a most daring manner. Tin- against the street railway emplova robber made his «¡»cape without leaving Several oars were held up and 8tont any clew to his identity. Two regis- in the outskirts of the city, and tered mail sacks containing the money, , passeugers were compelled to walk m A , which had just been picked up from Havana, among these being the Brititi two of the down town substations, were and German ministers. ¡Several cai left in an unprotected wagon in ftont of were wrecked and some motorjieo ir the Masonic Temple, while the mail conductors were injured during tl carrier went into the building to gather rioting. The carmen, however, cm |l fut mail that had accumulated there. The ; tinued running their cam until l: l carrier was gone only a nmnent, but ! o’clock, when Superintendent Green-I w)|eQ he returned hie hors* and wagon | wood ordered a suspension of ha<l disappeared. While the carrier had been in the building the robber, who had evidently been waiting hi* op- portunity, jumped into the rig ami drove away. The rilled sacks and the horsy and rig were afterward found where the thief had abandoned them, The Btreet was full of people at the time of the robbery, but not one seems to have noticed lire thief, S T R Ik E S IN HAVANA G e n e r a l S u s p e n s io n o f B u s in e s s T h r e a t e n e d by th e L a b o r U n io n s . Havana, Nov. 25.—The coachmen of Albany will hold its regular city the city struck todav, and the street electioa Monday, December 1. Con car men say they will go out this after siderable local interest is manifested. noon, time tying np traffic generally. Typesetters have struck also. The Methodist church in Oregon City The street car conductors and motor- is being raised high enongh to permit ; men refused to go out this aftenroon, in of a store room being built on the I spite of the notice previously given of ground . . . floor. . . . This arrangement , . . . . . . will I their intention to strike, and several brmg the church people about $150 per cl„ ,hes between them and the month. strikers. Traffic was not suspended. The heavy rains have washed out a The manager of the street railway noti- large portion of the dam of the Condor fieri the mayor that the company’s em- water and power company, at Yolo ployes were willing to work, and de Eighty men of the crew have been laid manded that they be protect«! by the off and work is practically abandoned police. Tire company being an Ameri for the winter. can organization, the manager intends The farmers of Linn county will hold to appeal to Minister Sqaiers, if the a farmers’ institute November 28 and city authorities fail tc grant protection 29, under the auspices of the experi to the men. No newspapers were published today, ment department of the Oregon agri cultural collge. The meeting will be and it is announced that Ihe cooks and heid at Grange Hall No. 10, near Al waiters will strike tomorrow. bany. TWO DEAD IN MINE FIRE. Washington, Nov. 26.— Senators and members of the h o u se d representatives are beginning to arrive in Washington preparatory to the meeting of i-ongreas next Monday. Most of the leaders will be here during the 'early part of the week, as the president desires to confer witli them before putting the finishing touches on his message. Today’s ar rivals included Senators Spooner, A lli son, Fairbanks and Bailey, and Speaker Henderson. Senator Spooner spcDt some time at the white bonse tonight in conference with the president. Speaker Henderson expressed the opinion in an interview tonight that there would be little legislation at the coming Bhort session aside from the passage of the appropriation bills. He added, however, that the president would have the first inning. The PORTLAND MARKETS. speaker expressed his belief to some of W e r e O v e rc o m e b y G a s W h ile B a t t l i n g his callers that a constitutional amend w ith t h e F la m e s . Wheat— W allaWalla, 70 9 7 1 c; bine ment would be the only means of deal stem 70877«; valley, 7 2 X 8 7 3 c . Trinidad, Colo., Nov. 24.—Two min ing with the trust question. Barley—Feed, $23.00 per ton; brew ers have lost their lives in a fire which started in the Colorado fuel and iron ing, $23.50. M O R E M O N EY N E C E S S A R Y . Floor— Beet grade, 3.50(33.70; grah company’s mine at Engleville. Last night a severe ex plosion ol gas occurred, I n c r e a s e In P r i c e s o f B u ild in g M a te r ia ls am, $3.00@3.50. which spread the fire over z consider D e la y in g G o v e r n m e n t W o r k . M¡listnffe— Bran, $19.00 per ton; I able area. No one was in the workings middlings, $23.60; shorts, $19.60; Washington, Nov. 26.— The attention at the time. This morning a gang of of Secretary Moody was directed today chop, $17. 15 or 20 men were put to work some to the fact that it would he impossible Oats— No. 1 white, $ 1 .1 2 X 8 1 .1 5 ; distance from the fire, bnt the foul gas to complete the buildings at the naval gray, (1 .1 0 8 1 .1 2 X per cental. drove them oat. Four men were academy within the limit of cost fixed Hay — Timothy, $10 8 1 1 ; clover, overcome, one being brought out dead, (8 .0 0 ; cheat, $ 8 8 9 per ton. by congress, owing to the very large in and one being carried 200 feet and left Potatoes— Beet Bnrbanks, 60880c behind dead. Two who we-e taken out crease in the price of material. When the new academy buildings were per sack; ordinary, 6 0 865c per cental, unconscious have since recovered. planned congress fixed the lim it of growers’ prices; Merited sweets, $1.76(3 Every available man is lighting the cost at 1300,000, and Secretary $2 per cental. fire, bnt it is probable the mine will Long apportioned this sum among the Poaltry— Chickens, mixed, $3.608 have to be closed indefinitely until the various buildings and improvements. 4.25; per ponrd, 10c; hens. $ 4 8 4 .5 0 per flames are smothered. Since then it has been decided to erect docen; per ponnd, 11c; springs, $3.00 a hospital and also to do certain 8 S .5 0 per dotsn; fryers, $2.6083.00 . After Trafn Robbers. dredge work in the Severn. Captain broilers, $2.0 0 8 2 .1 0 ; docks, $4.50$ Trinidad, Colo., Nov. 25.— Word Brownson, superintendent of the acad 6.00 per dosen; turkeys, yonng, 12 H reached this city tonight that Gny La- emy, who was at the academy today, 8 1 3 c ; geese, $ 6.0086.50 per dozen. called the secretary’s attention to the Cheese— Fall cream, twins, 168 | croix, the man who the officers believe fact that since 1900 the price of build 16e; Yonng America, 15X 816X ~ I led the gang that attempted to hold np ing material had increased on an aver factory pricea, 1 8 IX « less. Batter— Fancy creamery, 3 0 8 3 2 Hr | the Colorado A Southern train near age of over 30 per cent. This, he told the secretaiy, would make it impossible per ponnd; extras. 30e; dairy, 20 1 here, had been Been in the vicinity of Clayton, N. M., and at 8:30 this even to complete the buildings within the 8 2 2 4 c ; store, 15811. ing a posse left on the Colorado A Eggs—2 5 8 30c per dosen. lim its fixed by congress. It is prob able that the secretary will call the at Heps— New crop. 22825c per ponnd. Southern train for the same locality. tention of congress to tne matter in his I Woel—Valley, 18H 8 1 6 e; Eastern ' Special Agent Reno and Division Sup erintendent Rainey were in charge of Oregon, 8 8 1 A H e; mohair, 2 6 8 20c. annual report. — Beef—Greet, cows, 3 8 8 He per the posse. Efforts were made to keep | the departure of the officers a secret. E x - Q u e e n L ll In W a s h i n g t o n . pound; steers. 4e; dressed, 6 8 7c. Washington, Nov. 26.— Ex-Queen Veal— 7 H 8 8 H e. French Banks Losing Deposits. I.ilinokalani, of Hawaii, arrived in Mntton — Gross, 3c per ponnd; Sew York, Nov. 25.— The qniet rnn Washington last night, to remain fori dressed, 6c, some time. She was accompanied by Lam bs— Gross, 3 H e per pound; on French ordinary savings hanks con- | tinnee, says a Paris dispatch to the her maid and by John D. Aimoku. dressed. 6 He. ' Times bv way of London. Withdraw She is seeking favorable action by con Hn« —Gross, • H 8 6 H e psr ponnd; als since the beginning of the year gress on measures for her relief. dressed, 7 8 ? He. i amount to $ 2 1 , 000 , 000 . I traffici The em ployes were willing to r en ,!* 1'" . at work, bnt ihe uulw officers of the un pany, in order to protect itect the prop-rid of the company, deemed it wire to n j pend the service. < ! Mr. Greenwood asked for protecticq j from the civil government, botthi I n i authorities were unable to protect l . public vehicles. The mayor of Hirui and ihe secretary of government, l*ip Tamayo, had during the put E j openly sympathized with the «rite; and had given orders to the police i to use force in dispersing crovtii, t under these conditions the poJiu unable to cope with the atr'Utv The situation was approtthai critical point at noon, seriuoiitis having taken place in front of lbs pill ace itself, when President Pslm m l word to the mayor that unless thecitj| authorities could preserve erd« protect the railroad company tbs stile would interfere. The mayor tbenti drastic measures and issued an i prohibiting crowds from gatherin|i the streets, and authorizing tbechielol police to k ill, if such action should b necessary, to preserve order. A sim ilar shiW of force early inti morning undoubtedly would hove | vented trouble, but now the striki had become emboldened and freqne clashes between them and the pas occurred in ail parts of the city. No bread or meat were on sale tab,'.I and a continuance of the strike u9| cause much suffering to the poor, police fear that trouble may occt the city tonight and a detachment! rural guards is expected to rescb vans at 2 :30 tomorrow morning. Henor Tamayo has resigned th« l of secretary of the government, President Palma will not ncceptb resignation until the strike hsa settled. The public blamea Tu for his active participation in strike, and Bay he and tbs miyora responsible for today’s riots, asj openly expressed sympathy with strikers. At a political meetint« which Senor Tamayo was the ibsirr he indorsed the action of the N O W W O R S E THAN EVER. H e a v y R a i n s In T e x a s D elay T ra in « D a m a g e C o tto n Crap. Dallas, Tex., Nov. 26.—Heavy fell throughout North "and Nortl Texas again today, anil as a remit I sitnation is more serious than e* Rivers are overflowing their hsnki : many places and nearly all rtilH are heavy sufferers. The Trinity r at Dallas is rising at the rite of • foot per honr. The Texas A Pacific track«!«* oat both east and west of DnJI**1 the Shreveport branch of the Mi«®11 Kansas A Texas is tied np. Tbs is washed out between ’Frist« 1 Prosper. The rain has bees I in that district than for year«. ,W"T on the Cotton Belt are «erioo»ly*,l layad, and the Red river near kana is on a rampage. Report« Tyler say the strawberry growhjf trict has been seriously daBSgm some districts entire fields her* totally ruined. Connty road« l been damaged to the extent of thousands of dollars. From R*® reports come that cottoa «iH ’* worth picking.