T'
Conage Grove Leader.
L . Y. W O O I K Y . P u b lis h e r .
TRAINS MET HEAD-ON.
Twenty-Eight Dead Mangled Passengers
Suffer from Cold Also.
NEWSOFOREGON
ROOSEVELT DECLINES.
Venezuelan Trouble Will Oo to The Hague
Tribunal for Settlement.
MUTUAL FRIEND
Washington, Dec. 30,-President Such is President's Position in the
London, Ont., Dec. 31.— A frightful Items of General Interest Gathered
Roosevelt will not be the arbitrator
Venezuelan Affair.
collision occurred a short distance
C O T T A G E GROVE
OREGON.
of the Venezuelan controversy. The
From All Over the State.
from the little station of Wanstead,
whole vexatious subject will be refer
Ont., on the Sarnia branch of the
Grand Trunk Railroad, last night. COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL DOINGS red for adjudication to The Hague NOW FOR A BASIS OF ARBITRATION
The express was running nearly two
tribunal.
..
..'
Epitomized, this was the situation
hours late, and was making fast time.
Allies May Consent to Immediate Raising
as it had resolved itself at the con
The freight was endeavoring to make | Shlp (rom ch|na Quarantined at Astoria
N r to w a i Important Happening.
of Blockade, Provided They May
clusion of the Cabinet meeting yes
■ siding to get clear of the express,
Burglars in Salem—Big Mining
W tk . P u t Waak in Brtof aa4
terday. The meeting was not so long
j but failed by a minute or two.
Renew It, If Necessary.
Deal—County Scat Eight.
as the sessions usually are. AH tho
There was a dreadful crash, the
members, except Secretary Root, were
locomotive raared up and fell over in
Washington, Dec. 31.— There la
a ditch, the baggage-car of the ex-
A fire In Salem’s ch,na*°wn paused I Present
the
Chicago musicians will give Mascag I press telescoped the smoker, and in
now in progress an active exchange of
$500
damage
to
old
wooue
topjc
Qf
generai
concern
under
!
an
instant
the
shrieks
and
cries
of
ni a benefit.
notes between the allied powers,
buildings.
consideration. Secretary Hay pre-,
Wholesale election frauds alleged | the wounded and dying filled the air.
The region about Summerville will I sented the results of his cable corres-| Venezuela and the United States, re
i The loss of life is 28. The injured
In Denver contest.
| numbered many more, and many of have a new rural free delivery route. pondence with the governments at i specting the method of submitting to
The Japanese Ministry may be de | these may die. Several of the dead to begin February 1, 1903.
| London, Berlin, Home and Caracas, j arbitration the issues which have
arisen between Venezuelu and the
I were hbrribly mutilated. Heads were
feated on Increase of navy.
Ontario will make another fight to , In accordance^^ith^^the^^BUgg
A whole Chinese province Is be-, «**. .off’ le*? * ere. wr?nched from their obtain the county seat of Malheur made by President Roosevelt, through »Hies. The weight of official opinion
Secretary Hay, President Castro was here this afternoon was that several
R n . . . rebellion
...K.iiinn
1 bodies, and the level stretch of snow
ing ravaged by Boxer
became srimson with the blood of the County at the coming session of the reported to have agreed to submit the days at least must elapse before any
legislature.
Aged Montana placer .miner went victims.
difficulties to the arbitration of the thing in the nature of a preliminary
crazy, got a gun and terrorized Deer
The badly decomposed body of a tribunal at The Hague. The Euro protocol can be made ready for sig
Operator
Is
Blamed.
Lodge.
man was found on the South Umpqua pean powers not ODly consented to nature. German insistence upon a
The responsibility for the accident
He had appearently been submit the controversy to arbitration, prepayment of 10 per cent of her full
South Carolina lynchers
wreak has not been definitely fixed, but it is river.
claims before submitting her case to
swift venegance on two negro mur believed to have been due to a tele drowned. The body was well dressed. but while they had expressed a pre
arbitration, and perhaps President
derers.
Bursars broke into a Salem gun ference for an arbitration to be con Castro's resistance to meeting what
graph operator's error. The opera
ducted by President Roosevelt, they
Terrible tralnwreck on the Grand tor at one of the stations where the store and stole about $200 worth of had assented to his suggestion that the allies claim as the obligations of
Trunk Railroad; 28 killed and many two trains stopped gave an order to revolvers. The same night a street the matter be referred to The Hague. honor are believed to be now the
the freight to pass No. 5. the Pacific car was held up. but the highwaymen
injured.
The presentation of the case met sticking points. But it is hoped that
express, at Wanstead. In the system weakened when they saw a number of
these can be pased within the next few
A ll Pacific Coast ports which buy of the Grand Trunk this order should nassenger^ in the car and allowed it the hearty approved of the Cabinet.
No fear is expressed by the Adminis days, and it is further hoped that
Government transports will share the have been duplicated, a copy being to go without molestation.
tration that the Monroe Doctrine wil! some arrangement will be made in the
business.
given to the conductor and engineer
A British ship direct from Shanghai, be brought into the controversy in preliminary protocol for the raising
of
the
express.
Instead
of
this
the
is in quarantine at Astoria, having a any manner that might result in an of the blockade, though It is Intimat
Jessie Benton Fremont, widow of
case of smallpox on board. She had
the famous “ Pathfinder," dies In Los conductor of the express received
clearance order, telling him that he a load of mud from the Shanghai embarrassing situation for the United ed that the allies’ ships will be kept
Angeles.
might run through. The freight train river as ballast, and this must be States. Secretary Hay is preparing a ready to renew it In case of any de
Senator Morgan condemns attitude in the meantime had stopped at Wan treated with a solution of acids, for note to the powers in which the grati fault on the part of Venezuela in her
of both parties on trusts and proposes stead to sidetrack, and was telescop fear that it may contain cholera fication of this Government is ex obligations.
Washington having been the pivot
pressed for the course agreed upon.
new remedy.
ed by the express.
The blinding germs.
No intimation is given of the condi about which all the negotatlons have
Nine miners were swept away by an storm which was raging rendered ob
An effort will be made to found a tions which may have been imposed turned up to this point, It is surmised
avalanche In the Slocan district of jects Invisible at the distance of
school for truants and mcorrigibles in by the European powers or by that it may also be the scene o f the
few feet.
British Columbia.
The operator at Wanstead Is not connection with the Boys and Girls President Castro as precedent to final act in the shape of the signature
Young woman shot by je&lous lover usually on duty at night, but last eVon Aid Society of Portland. The plan Is the arbitration. It is known that of the protocol, either by the resident
near Haines Christmas night dies, and ing he happened to be in the office for to provide that In any town of 4.000 Great Britain was willing to submit representation here of the powers in
there is talk of lynching her assassin. a short time. He was going out of inhabitants or over, truants and in- (he subject to the arbitration of Presi terested or by special agents sent to
dent Roosevelt practically without this neutral ground for the purpose.
President Roosevelt is bringing the the door when he heard the telegraph corrigibles may be committed to the
conditions, but the suggestion is made An erroneous idea obtained In some
allies and Venezuela together and is instrument click and Immediately call care of the aid society.
quarters as to the functions of the
A company of Eastern capitalists tnat one and perhaps two of the other
hailed as savior of The Hague tribu repeatedly the message: “ Stop No. 5.
powers Involved proposed some con President and Secretary H ay in this
“
Stop
No.
5.”
Seizing
a
latern,
the
represented in Southern Oregon by
nal.
operator dashed for the door, and as Captain T. J. Pierce, has purchased ditions which might have proved em matter, and they have been represent
W. J. Bryan is In Mexico City talk he closed it behind him he heard the
the Owl Gulch group of quartz claims, barrassing to the President had he un ed as endeavoring personally to con
ing silver.
duct the negotatlons, as drawing up
crash of the collision up the track.
on Savage Creek, in the Gold Hill dis dertake!! the responsibility of deter
mining the question.
protocols and generally
taking a
Railroad collision in Ontario kills
trict. The consideration is $40.000.
leading part in all that is going on. It
It
Is
understood
that
some
money
five persons.
The
Owl
Gulch
claims
were
located
WAR ON CHRISTIANS.
but a few months ago, but in this must pass, but it is also known that is pointed out at the State Department
Lake sailors starving on an Ice
the amount of cash to be required of that, while ordinarily a misunder
brief tLme have proved to be quartz
bound vessel.
Venezuela before arbitration is not j standing on this point would be trifl
Said to Be the Plan of New Aspirant to properties of great promise.
nearly so large as had been stated, j ing. it happens in the present case
Throne of Morocco.
Graham Bell says he has Invented
The Booth-Kelly Lumber Company It Is not possible to learn either' that reports of such activity on the
a flying machine.
London, Dec. 29.— The correspond
whether
the allies insist upon apol part of the United States officials
is taking chances this winter in the
Snowsllde buries bunkhouse, with ence of the Times at Fez. Morocco, matter of driving logs which nobody ogles from Castro, and while it is as after the President had expressly de
describes the situation as having be
18 men at Nelson.
sumed that the blockade will be j clined to assume the duties of arbltra- i
come very serious, owing to a large heretofore has been willing to take
Calmness of a Spokane priest saves increase in the number of the preten It has a drive in the Mohawk, which speedily raised, no arrangements to j tion would surely be ill received In
that
end has yet been made.
Europe and might perhaps lead to
panic In a church fire.
der’s followers whom the government will be turned into the McKenzie and
—
some backward steps that would be
driven to the Coburg mill, and as soon
Blizzard sweeps over the Mississippi troops are too weak to attack. Rein
a matter of regret to the Government,
as
this
is
completed
it
will
start
a
big
GUARD AGAINST BUBONIC.
forcements amounting to 12.000 men
Valley to the Gulf States.
which earnestly desires to have the j
he says, will leave tomorrow and an drive at Fall Creek, to be brought
Dead Astoria Recorder is found to additional force of regular cavalry down the Williamette to the Spring-
parties reach an honorable settle
Arizona
Takes
Precautions,
but
Does
not
be sh ort In hla accounts.
ment of their differences.
field mill.
The running of logs in
has been called out.
Fear Its Spread North.
these
streams
in
the
winter
season
is
It is explained at the State Denart- j
Many tribes not already in rebellion
Holiday trade exceeded In most re
attended
with
much
danger,
which
log
ment that the part of the United State
Nogales;
Ariz.,
Dec.
30.—
Doctors
are wavering and are ready to Join
spects all previous records.
the rebels in the event of a serious gers have chosen heretofore to avoid. Purdy and Chenoweth, who were ap United States Government Just now
Ship narrowly miBsed wrecking government defeat. The pretender is Should heavy rains fall and suddenly pointed by the Board of Health of is that of “ good friend" to all parties: j
Morrison-street bridge, Portland.
fully supplied with everything neces raise the water to flood stage it would Nogales to Investigate the effective that it Is not undertaking to draw up j
Special Commissioner Aratl, of sary and has distributed his forces be almost impossible to boom the logs ness of measures adopted by the au protocols or impose limitations upon I
thorities at Guaymas against the In the parties, but it Is confining Its I
over a district where they can be col at their destination.
Japan, pledges aid for 1905 Fair.
lected or dispersed very quickly.
Governor Geer has granted a full troduction of the disease supposed to offices to getting them together and '.
Representative Jones Introduces bill
The Times’ correspondent adds that pardon to George Morey, who was be bubonic plague, now epidemic at keeping them so. In this view it will j
to open Colville Indian reservation.
Mazatlan. have returned and say there not be necessary for our Government j
the pretender’s position Is a very
serving a life sentence for killing Gus is no danger of the disease extending to prescribe how the Monroe Doctrine j
Oregon W ater Power & Railway strong one. He professes not to
Berry
in
Portland
in
1893.
claim
the
throne
for
himself,
but
de
to Guaymas or points north as long j shall or shall not figure in the proto- I
Company sued for $10,000 damages.
sires to overthrow the Sultan on ac
A night pumpman at the White as the present vigilance is continued. cols; It will judge for Itself by results J
Fierce gale sweeps over Denmark count of his European tendencies. If
Official telegrams were received | how our Interests are affected, and ]
Swan mine, at Baker City, is dead
and causes wrecks and loss of life.
successful, thie pretender proposes from falling into an old shaft contain here today from the Governor of the will not indulge In premature or un- I
Secretary Chamberlain arrives In that the rebels shall nominate a new
State of Sinaloa, who reports the sick called-for protests.
South Africa and advises concllation. Sultan from the Shehiflan family who ing boiling hot water from the exhaust ness decreasing.
As for the terms of the arbitration, I
Another telegram
would promise to continue the war of the engine.
from Dr. Fernandez, chief surgeon of It is stated that they are In a fair way I
Crown Princess of Saxony and her against the Christians.
speedily to be adjusted, but nothing |
the
Eleventh
Regiment
of
Infantry
The
agent
of
the
Oregon
raft
com
brother may seek refuge In tho United
ran be said of the details. It Is pre
pany reports good progress in obtaining stationed at Mazatlan. says:
States.
SLAUGHTER OF INFANTS.
“Thirty cases of ‘bubonic plague’ } sumed that the allies will agree to
the right of way for the proposed log
terminate the blockade, though no I
Opponents of reduced Philippine
ging railway np Milton creek, and sur sent to the Lazarelo, of which 15 have |
tariff and of reciprocity treaties may Disclosure of Horrible Customs in Japan
died In seven uays. Amongst troops stipulation has yet been entered Into
veyors
will
be
placed
in
tho
field
at
Nothing has been
—A “ Prison Editor.”
form a combination.
et the barracks not a single case. I on that point.
once to take levels.
Sanitary precautions taken.”
heard recently of the part to be taken
Victoria, B. C., Dec. 31.— Corres
President Roosevelt declines to ar
hy United States Minister Bowen in
bitrate the Venezuelan dispute, and It pondence of the Associated Press re
Investigating in Mexico.
the final settlement, and It begins to
PORTLAND MARKETS.
ceived from Yokohama by the steam
will go to The Hague tribunal.
Washington, Dec. 30.—The United appear that, after all. Venezuela will
er Tnrtar tonight Included details of
probably be represented by one of her
States
Marine
Hospital
Service
au
Many disastrous and fatal railroad a horrible baby-farming conspiracy In
Wheat— Walla Walla, 70c; bios-
thorities have decided to dispatch an own people.
wrecks.
Osaka. An elderly woman, her mar stem 78c; valley, 75c.
expert to the coast of the Gulf of Cali
Barley— Feed, $23.60 per ton; brew fornia in Mexico to lnvestiage the re
Negro Murderer hanged by a mob ried daughter, husband and two others
DISOBEYED THE RULES.
have been arresed for infanticide, and ing, $24.00.
In Kansas.
*
ports 'o f the appearance of plague!
it is learned since that they started
Delegate from the Philippines ex operations by killing 300 children,, 80
Floor— Best grade, 3.90(94.40; grah among the Immigrant Chinese there,
St«
but no one has been designated for Naval Commander Takes His W ife
plains their needs.
am, $3.20(93.60.
this year.
and Is Ordered Aahore.
the service.
The
Japan
Times
has
an
account
Millstnfls— Bran, $19.00 per ton;
British sea captain murdered by na
Washington, Dec. 31.— Comm
of how a Japanese of Kochi was mar middlings, $23.50; shorts, $19.50;
tives of New Hebrides.
Epidemic Is Abating.
John E. Roller, ex-commander c
ried to a corpse. His bride-elect, the chop, $18.
Mexico City, Dec. 30.—The plague old gunboat Monocacy. has rei
George Carter shoots hla wife and daughter of Kintara Sawada. com
then kills himself at Eugene.
Oats— No. 1 white, $1.15®1.17H; situation is decidedly improved at this country from the Asiatic st
mitted suicide on the eve of her mar
Mazatlan. Only three deaths occur having been ordered home by •
Fire destroys city hall and city re- i riage. The body was recovered, and gray, $1.12^01.15 per cental.
red yesterday. Steamers are still pre Admiral Evans for persistent in'
at the request of the dead woman’s
cords of Marlborough. Mass.
Hay — Timothy, $11(912; clover, vented from touching at that port.
tion of the rules which prohibit,
.
.
.
.
,
.
parents, the ceremony took place be- $809.00; cheat, $809 per ton.
Jealous lover lies in wait and shoots tween the living and the dead,
commander nf a vessel from perl
Potatoes— Best Bnrbenke, 800 70c
Kansas and Miaaouri Freeze.
young woman near Baker City.
The Kobe Chronicle publishes a
ting hi. wife to make her home abo
President Roosevelt advises Castro ! lengthy account, telling o f the “ prl per sack; ordinary, 50060c per cental,
Kansas City, Dec. 30.—Advices re f » L ? h p’ ■ U is ohar8p'l that after c
to appeal to The Hague tribunal.
son «‘«Htor" employed by Japanese growers’ prices; Merced sweets, $1.750 ceived today indicate severe weather timllnD n" . that Particular severa
„
,
| papers whose duties are to be Im $2 per cental.
| i » P S R o l l P f s attention was called t
throughout Kansas and Missouri.
Pretender to throne of Morocco j prisoned in case a verdict is given
Poultry — Chickens,
mixed, 9c; Concordia, Kan., reports zero weather he violatmn of the regulations, but’
wishes to make war on Christians.
against the paper he is supposed to
no apparent effect. When his
young, 9® 10c; hens, 9c; turkeys, there, and all along the Missouri Paci with
lastofrcnsp ra
to thp Para of Rpar
Great Increase In trade with the edit, for libel or other offenses.
live, 17 0 18c;
dressed,
20 0 21; fic road this same condition prevails
island possessions of the United
n
T
o
rd
e
rs
’
“
",thp
,atter detached him
Hutchinson, Kan., reports the coldest a
ducks,
$707.50
per
dozen;
geese,
$8
ana ordered him home.
Dolly Earle's Suicide.
States.
weather In years, the thermometer at
08.60.
that point registering five below zero
Philadelphia, Dec. 31.— Doily Earl, a
Christmas Is generously observed
Cheeee— Fall cream, twins, 16140 At Atchison five below is recorded. I
Pope Admires American Officers.
among the Inmates of the state Insti member of the “ Merry Widows’’ com
17Hc;
Yonng America, 17H®18H‘.
I
At Mexico. Mo., a coal famine con
tutions at Salem.
Rome Dec. 31,-The pope today re-
pany, playing at a burlesque house factory prices, 101 He less.
fronts the people. There Is no more
The pope takes steps to arrange I bprp- <'°mmitted suicide tonight in her
<
Batter— Fancy creamery, 2714030c coai for sale at any of the yards and de/wnu Pr' Va,P andlenpp Comman-
legal separation of Crown Prince and i dressing-room by swallowing carbolic
acid. She left the following note, ad per pound; extras, 30c; dairy, 20 (he thermometer registered zero last ward j a” i , H- Rpeder- chaDf«tn Ed-
Princess of Saxony,
Henry Sei«i!,r(Pnna» j*nd Lieutenant
dressed to J. A. Fallinger, Rochester, 02214c; store, 15018.
<
Young halfbreed, supposed to be Im N. Y..
Eggs— 260 35c per dosen.
Snow
Stops
Traffic.
"Forgive me. all.
Can’t stand
plicated in the Almira tragedy. Is
Hope—
New
crop,
23®2«c
per
pound.
trouble."
i
killed at Keller, Wash.
Marquette. Mich.. Dec. 29 —A se
Miss Earl was about 30 years old.
Wool— Valley, 1314015c; Eastern vere blizzard, which has been blowing
(
nSvy un-fnr!
° f the A m i r a n
The President spent Christmas with Her home is said to be In Oklahoma. Oregon, 801414c; mohair, 26®28c.
for 24 hours, today rendred street-car 'h e'H artford'J *nd 8aid he regretted
his family at the White House Instead She was formerly a member of the
I
Baef—
Gross,
cows,
3®3!4e
per
service
temporarily
Impossible
and
to
Rnml
u
Was
not
coming
nearer
“ Runaway Girl"
company, which
of at his old home at Oyster Bay.
!
made railroad transportation slow K o r e o” ethe°UnmhaVP P" ^
stranded here about two weeks ago. pound; steers, 4c; dressed, 6®7c.
ap-
and uncertain.
Veal— 71408 Hr.
Cab drivers of St. Louis are all on
he had
. ^ CPrs and mpn-
tl
Mutton — Gross, 3c par pound;
a strike for an Increase of wages.
Empress Dowager Oreets Miles.
Fire Proves Expensive.
Out of 570 drivers In the city. 390 are
Pekin, Dec. 31.— The Dowager Em dressed, 6c.
Ia m b s— Gross. 3 He per pound;
out. They will drive Independent press and Lieutenant-General Miles
Bisbee. Aril., Dec. 29 —A fight in a
" f * F* * r General Tung.
carriages until the ywin their de exchanged flattering speeches at to dreneed, 6 He.
disorderly house at Cananea. Mexico
mands.
day’s audience, the Dowager assuring
Hogs— Gross, 6 H ® 6 H e oar pound; caused a fire in the place which re^ credit t», Dpr’ **•'—Officials here dls-
a
the General that the "success of the
.4
suited in the loss of $20,000. During Su Sian»Pa r!iPt»r! a t*'at Oeneral Tung
Bubonic plague has broken out on the American Army was assured under a
l r, r , Tuan arP -o v ln g
Salem Is making preparations to the fight a lamp was knocked over and on I Z ™
Pacific coast of Mexico.
commander so celebrated."
■
enlarge her city limits.
,r° ° ps’ Thp
started the blaze.
a I sionaries
«ring from that re
8ald to be re-
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