Cottage Grove Leader.
L . r . W O O L K Y . P u b lish er.
BIOT IN TROLLEY CAR.
Drunken Soldiers of ‘ 'Fighting Sixteenth’
Stab the Conductor.
New York, Jan. 21.— Riotous soldiers
C O T TA G E GROVE
OREGON.
W E E K ’S DOINGS
from Fort Slocum created a panic on n
trolley car bound for Mount YTernonand
nearly murdered the conductor, Louis
Ettinger. The soldiers, who are mem
bers of the “ Fighting
S ixteen th ,"
:MST SAD RITES
Immense Throng Gathers
Tongue’ s Funeral.
President W e.ry of Colombia’s Demand*
for P»n»r.<* Canal Route.
Waabington, J»n. 2 1 - I n u r e . »
I...
been revived in the prospect, of the
Nicaragua canal, as it seems to have
become an absolutely hopeless matter
I .SBORO WAS ALMOST TOO SMALL to continue negotiations with Colom
bia, because ol the great demands of
that country, as well as the complica
Flo
>
1
Offerings
Completely
Covered
the
Review of Important Happenings United States infantry, just back from
tions arising out of the purchase of the
offln— Societies to Which Me Be
•# the Past Week In Brief and
! Luzon, were drinking from flasks and
Comprehensive Form.
Panama canal property.
longed Paid a Last Tribute.
¡having a boisterous tim e, and one of
President Koosevelt has begun an
I them made an insulting remark, which
Mr. M itchell, a passenger, and Daniel
ikllaboro, Jan.
19.— Thomas H. investigation of the 8an Bias route,
The'eonate ir considering the Cuban
i Long, a former motorman, resented.
Toi ;ue went to bis grave yesterday which was championed by Senator
reciprocity treaty.
Then half a dozen soldiers sprang on
it all the honor that his state could Scott, ol West Virginia last summer.
Sir Thomas Lipfton has offered a cup Long and M itchell and kicked and
givjh im . Neraly all Oregon attended This route means a canal 29 miles long,
to Pacific toast yacht clubs.
punched them.
In the excitement several of the sol hisnineiai at Hillsboro, and at the last five miles of which most be a tunnel
M inister Bowen has arrived from
diers drew revolvers and began firing i in Deceive services, the preacher said through solid rock.
It also is em
Venezuela, l i e w ill find discord among
through
the
windows.
Women
moil fittin gly: “ It is Oregon that is braced within Colombian territory,
the allies.
screamed and fainted, while men ran moivning today, for it is Oregon that and negotiations lor this rout« would
E ditor Gonzales died from blood poi to the platform and jumped from the
haspst a son ”
A committee from probably be blocked as well as lor the
soning as a result of the wound re car. th e conductor, who was trying to
coo
Jess,
made
up
of
men who repre- Panama route
ceived from Tillm an .
collect lares, received a knife thrust in
Of course the president has an altern
dentil every part of the nation, was
the
hack
and
fell
to
the
tb
or
ami
Abram C. H ew itt, ex-m avor of New
preset, but the funeral ceremony was ative proposition in the Nicaragua
route, and the friends of that route do
York and for many years representative M itchell was thrown bodily through a Oregjn’ s own tribute to the dead.
in congress is dead. H e was 81 years car window.
Hllaboro was not big enough to hold not despair that it w ill be the route
Four policemen boarded the car at
Ha»l a limitation been
old.
in contort all 6who wanted to attend finally adopted
Sixth street. W hen the soldiers saw
A special placed in the bill upon tbe tim e in
The present legislature of N'ew M ex the policemen they leaped off and scat Mr. Tongue’ s ’ obsequies.
vhich negotiations with Colombia
ico is the first in the history of the tered in all directions, but three of trainlrom Portland carried down a
muJtlude, and hundreds poured into should be brought to a close, it would
territory where every member speaks them were captured.
The prisoners
the ti^vn from all parts of the state. have given more assurance for tbe
English fluently.
denied they did the stabbing, hut after
Near If all the state officials were pres Nicaraguan route. As it is, the presi
The Oregon joint house and senate they had been searched and nothing ent, a d so was a majority of the legis dent is unlimited as to time and he can
com mittee on the Lewis and Clark was found on them, the police picked lature, And from others whe could uRe his own discretion as to whether he
fair has reported favorably on the bill up a blood covered knile from the floor, not atjend. came a wealth of floral shall continue or break off the negotia
where one of them had dropped it.
appropriating $500,0(10.
offeriigs that were piled mountain high tions with that government.
I t is believed that Conductor E ttin
The assertion is made that the trans
The Colorado legislature is the scene ger is fatally wdunded. The prisoners I over tie alter of the little Hillsboro
Methalist church. The coffin was fair continental railroads have turned to
o f much party conflict.
Two senates were held for trial.
ly buried in flowers, and they, too, the president and are urging him to
have been formed. It is probable that
stave off all canal negotiations, and
came from all parts of Oregon.
no senator w ill be elected.
WRECK ON QREAT WESTERN.
Committees representing the various these roads are also credited with a re
Senator M itchell has'introduced bills
societies to which Mr. Tongue belonged, vival of the San Bias route.
intended to carry into effect some of Engineer Killed and Ten Passengers Ser
were at the depot to meet the party,
iously Hurt.
the recommendations n fth e senate com-
NINE MEN ARE MISSINO.
and they acted as an escort when the
m ittee
which
recently visited the
St. Louis, Jan. 21.— A special to the remains were taken to the court house
Haw aiian islands.
Republic from .sycamore, 111., says:
at Hillbsoro.
Five Charred Bodies Taken From Ruins ol
In a wrecK near here today on the
The United States supreme court has
A t the couit house, which had been
Burned Hotel.
affirmed the opinioni o f the Illin ois Great Western railroad, one person was drape 1 in mourning from tower to base-
Spokane, Jan. 21.— A special from
killed
and
M
O
others
were
seriously
in-
ment,
the
coffin
was
placed
in
the
main
state supra«!« court as to the constitu
Morrissey, B. C., says four men were
tio n ality o f the inheritance tax law, jared. Of these, several may not re- corridor, and all yesterday morning a
burned to death in a fire which de
which was upheld.
cover-
line of people with uncovered head.»
stroyed the Pioneer hotel there last
St. Charles and Sycamore hostipals passed by it.
E ditor Gonzales may recover from are crowded with the injured tonight.
The special train from
Portland night. It is believed there are other
the wound inflicted by T illm an .
Many escaped with broken fingers and reached Hillsboro at 2 o ’ clock in the bodies to be found, as five men who
were known to have been in the hotel
John M itchell has delivered his'final bruises, w hile others are suffering afternoon. It brought the committee
of congressmen appointed by Speaker last night have not been accounted for
address to the coal strike commission. merely from the nervous shock.
The Des Moines and M inneapolis Henderson to attend the funeral. Six today.
' The Chicago gram! jury found indict
The hotel was a large wooden struct
special, running at a high rateof speed, cars were needed to contain the others
ments against 40 men en g a ged jn the
struck a broken rail just as it was who went down from Portland on the ure and had about 20 guests in it when
coal conspiracy.
fire started in the saloon on the ground
about to cross a bridge.
The speed of same mission.
The big 16-inch coast defense gnn has the train carried it across the bridge ! The guests were reecived by 50 mem- floor, through tbe overturning of a
passed a successful trial.
It is the on the ties; then the entire train bers of the Knights of Pythias in full lamp, the flames of which quickly com
largest gun ever made in America.
pitched over a 20 foot embankment, the uniform. The Knights formed a line municated to the wooden partitions and
stairway. The proprietor,. A. Johnson,
Adm iral Dewey has returned to cars turning on their sides and being with drawn swords, through which the seeing that the building was doomed,
visitors passed from the street into the
Washington and praises the conduct of jumbled in a hopeless mass.
Ih e passengers who were not injured conrt house, and acted as ushers during ran upstairs and hastily aroused the
the fleet in maneuvers in the Caribbean
succeeded in pulling out th *
pas- the ceremonies there. They were in sleeping men while the flames were
sea.
seugeru through the car windows and charge <>4
Tongue’ s body w hile it rapidly eating up the lower floor wood
A wealthy Oklahoma citizen com m it as soon as all were taken from the de- lay in state, and they mounted a strict work and coming up the stairway. In
ted suicide. Before dying he declared bris they were carried to a neighboring m ilitary guard which contributed much their nightclothes, dazed by smoke and
he was John W ilkes Booth and killed farmhouse, where they were cared tor j to the impressiveness of the day’ s ser- flames, the guests rushed from the
burning firetrap. It was impossible to
Lincoln.
until one of the party walked to Waco | vices.
reaeh all the rooms and Johnson final
and telegraphed to Sycamore, two miles
They
surrendered
the
body
to
the
Naval Constructor Hobson has been
away, for help.
Odd F'ellows, who took it to the church, ly made his escape after heroic rescue
assigned to duty at Bremerton, to
where Mr. Tongue and his fam ily have work. He was assisted by hia bar
which post he must go or resign from
tender.
TO LAY CABLE TO MANILA.
worshipped for years.
the navy.
There is practically no fire fighting
The distinguished assemblage simply
Colorado and W yom ing have both Pacific Cable Company Preparing to Fin. packed the church auditorium until it machinery in the little town and the
given assurance that the Lew is and
Ish Great Pacific Line.
was impossible for anybody in the and- horror stricken citizens could only stand
Clark fair w ill receive their moral and
■
ience
to listen to the ceremonies in idly t y and wait for the flames to sub
San Francisco, Jan. 21.— The steamer
financial support.
comfort.
Tbe escort of Knights kept side. The wind was blowing away from
Ventura arrived today from Australian
A charge of powder for an 8-inch gun porta, via Honolulu. Am ong the pas »be aisles open until the Odd Fellows the town and no other buildings were
endangered.
exploded on the battle ship Massa sengers from Honolulu were nine of the carried the coflin in, but after that
As soon as the dying fire permitted,
chusetts, k illin g six men and wounding Pacific cable company’ s staff, including every man struggled for the beBt place
a search of the ruins was made.
Four
he could get.
three, two of whom may die.
S. S. Dickenson, who had charge of the
charred
is «lies were taken out but were
The services in the church were short.
prelim
inaries
attendant
upon
the
laying
The long overdue steamer St. Louis
The pastor introduced Dr. C. E. K line so badly burned that identification is
has arrived in New York. H er boilers of the cable at the Hawaiian end and to make the opening prayer, and there practically impossible.
Tiie propriet
were
leaking badly and passengers made bis headquarters at Honolulu for were many damp eyes in the audience or’ s loss is »4,000, half insured.
adopted («solutions condemning the more than six months. H e is on his when Dr. K ilne concluded. H e was for
Morrissey is a small town with per-
company for sending the vessel out in wav to his home at Canso, N. S. Cap a great many years the pastor of the haps 800 inhabitants.
It has sprung
tain Patterson, the chief inspector of
an unsafe condition.
into being since the opening of the coal
tbe cable company , and his staff, are congretation to which Representative
Tongue Itelnnged, and his prayer took a mines operated by the Great Northern
Citizens of Newman, a small village also passengers.
in Indiana, held up a train and robbed
They are on their way to London to wider range than is usnal for this rea railway company, it iB about 45 miles
it of coal.
join the cableship A n glia, which will son. His eloquent apjieal was, per noith of the international boundary
soon leave the British port with the haps, the best verbal tribute paid to line. About 800 miners work in the
The 1904 session
the national
The guests at the
Then a coal properties.
long stretch of the cable that is to be Mr. Tongue during the day.
livestock convention v
be held in
passage o l scripture was read by Rev. hotels were largely miners, timbermen
laid between Honolulu and Manila.
Portland.
and
prospectors.
The Silvertown w ill remain at Hono R. H. Kennedy, o f the Hillsboro Con
The French government has forbidden lulu until about the end of the preeent gregational church, ami Rev. Dr. L. E.
CHINESE TRICKERY.
the use of the Breton dialect by priests month, when she w ill sail direct for Rockwell, presiding elder qf the Metho
of Brittany.
London in ballast. She w ill make her dist church in Northern Oregon, then
preached
the
funeral
sermon.
Exaggerate Report* of Rebellion to Qet
Ideiuenant Governor T illm an says he first call at Coronel for coal.
During the services the Portland
Aid from French Troops.
w ill be able to show that he had am ple
quartet
sang
a
number
of
hymns,
and
PLAQUE IN MAZATLAN.
New York, Jan. 2 i.— In reference to
provocation for shooting Editor Gon-
were heard to special advantage in the
the reported serious rebellion in the
sales.
beautiful
“ Lead,
K indly
L igh t.”
One Hundred and Seven Deaths Recorded
Kwang Si province, a dispatch to the
When tho church
ceremonies were
Tw o of the public schools of P hiladel
Since New Years.
Times from Shanghai by way of Lon
concluded the body was turned over to
phia have closed on aceount of lack of
Mazatlan, Mexico, Jan. 21.— There the Hillsboro Masonic body, which es don says that the native press states
fuel.
More w ill follow unless relief
have been 107 deaths from the plague corted it to the cemetery and interred that the provincial governor, W m g Chi
•rrives soon.
since January 1. The deaths on the it with their own picturesque ritual. Chun, purposely permits an increase
of brigandage, magnifying the opera
The president is going over the list 15th numbered seven, and many new'
Worshipful Grand Master
W.
F.
of candidates to become United Htates cases are reported.
The number of Butcher conducting the aervicee. Over tions of the local banditti into a ser
attorney for Alaska and w ill announce wooden hospitals burned is 106.
ious rebellion with the deliberate pur
the grave Mr. Butcher paid one last
his ylecision soon.
A young workman's mother died eloquent tribute to Mr. Tongue’ s mem- pose of afterward invoking the assist
ance
of the French troops.
Germany has denounced the moet trom the plague at the fa m ily ’ s house. orv, and the whole cemetery was filled
Stress is laid upon the governor’ s
favored nation clause in the treaty be Some sanitary inspectors entered the with those who listened to him.
former record in the Nganwhis pro-
tween the United States and Cuba, say house and t< ok possession of the corpse,
The congressional delegation w ill re
ing it w ill shut ont all .other countries and the young man was sent to the de turn to Washington at once, and Mr. Vince ami el.wehere. and h i» notorious
for venality.
His recent
partment of observation. H is wifeand Moody left last evening, to resume his capacity
from trade.
sister were absent at the tim e o f the work there. For the present he w ill be decoration by the French government
A Denver R io Grande passenger train inspectors visit, and afterwards disap
does not escape comment.
Oregon's sole member of the national
waa derailed in Colorado and 80 of the peared, fearing they would be taken to
The dispatch also announces that in
house of represetnatives.
60 passengers injured.
Only four, the lazaretto. This morning one of the
response to the memorial presented to
however, are aeriously hnrt.
the throne by Viceroy Yuan Shih K iki
Castro Must Pay First.
women was found dead from the plague,
Each member of the isthmian canal and the other has not been heard of.
Berlin, Jsn. 20.— In the negotiations Sheng is permitted to retain control
commiaeion is drawing a salary of (1 ,- The yonng man has become insane.
which are about to begin at Washington o the gevernment te'egraph system to
Most o f the women have left the city, Orest Britain and Germany, as the re allow of his winding np the financial
000 a month and traveling expenses
« h ie d . The salaries were fixed in 1899. and hardly any women are seen on the sult of fuither corresposdence, arequite year.
streets.
determine»! that the irreducible condi
Fire Burns All Night.
Senator M itchell has been assured
tion of arbitration is that President
that the improvement o f the mouth of
To Survey Montana-ldaho Line.
eWi Y ° ? '
2 1 - T h - «re which
Castro shall pay or givs collateral se- . , . X»
the Colum bia w ill begin soon ami that
,n • building s t 394-
Washintgon, Jan. 21.— The treasury rnrity for the sums already specified. me m
39b Bowery, burned .11
nighti b„ ,
the work w ill go forward without delay. department today transmitted to the
The powers w ill not cessent to raising
the firemen said today that the flames
W . J. I^ w is , the Seventh Day A d house a supplemental estimate sub- the blockade until Venezuela mmpl'ies
One of the fire-
ventist, who refused to work in the mitted by the interior department of with this unalterable esndition. The were under control.
postolfice department Saturdays, w ill (.50.000 for a survey of the Montana- allies place the responsibility for fur- men. Janies Corbett, was killed. The
h * « is estimated at (150,000 to (200,-
I Idaho boundary line.
have that day off without pay.
I the* delay upon Veneiueki.
i
Items of General Interest Ga|
From AU Over the StatTt
COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL I
New Governor Makes Appolntme
Fire at Albany — Railroad
From Grand Ronde River.
Governor Cham berlain has *p j
Chief Deputy Manning to 1 * 3
attorney for M ultnomah county.
A bill haa been introduced ¡ A
legislature to fix the boundary ij
tween U m atilla and Union cggM
At present persons liv in g near thU
vide vote and pay taxes where'®
please, as there is no way of
mg in which county they reside ’j v
The Clatsop county commiuicj
court contemplates making the*
road lietween Seaside and Elk c j
public highway.
»
The com m ittee appointed to aejH
site at Portland for the Oregon v !H
teers’ monument has decided
Plaza block opposite the courthouJ
I m
E
The most destructive fire thatl
occurred in A lb an y in years occd
when the entire plant of the Sugar!
M ill A Fixture company was destn |
Tbe loss is estimated at over »20^
and represents the entire capita
some of the stockholders.
The new town o f Palm er is grosi.
Seven new houses of modern style •
nearly completed, the greater n u j #
containing seven room.
Bv sprint**
is contemplated there will he from ■
to 70 houses Guilt for the accomin|jf
tion of the m ill em ployes; also b ,.«
ne»s houses ill i>e erected, proh^|
including a m ercantile establishing*
The mill is busy sawing lumber for 11
buildings, but is fillin g outside or,«*'
too.
Work w ill probably beginrojt
April in the construction of the S '
m il!.
%
The Eugene electric ligh t compani
to lie merged into a larger and
important concern. The power tonet
the dynamo*, instead of being gensW'
ed at Eugene, w ill come from Spri^,
field, where arrangements have bml,
made for sawduat and refuse from 4ri
large m ill there to be used as fi ||
thereby lessening the expense of porffi
The plant will lie greatly enlarged
will not only supply lights for Etige» g
but will furnisn ligh ts for Springii*#
and the mills, and power for all dsh
poses. It is also expected that n M
mately an electric car line from E ugefl
to Springfield w ill h» y>ut in, w it
possibility o f other enterprises.
11
m
Nearly all of the tim ber claims lo. le
ed in the Grave creek district ol
ephine county have been protested npX
the locators’ attem pting to make fin»
proof on them.
The protest is made cl
the ground that the tracts located
mineral lands, and were located main1
for the purpose of getting possession otl
the ledges and placer beds rather tluo '
for the timber. The protest is mai
through the miners of Grave creek di£
triet, who, like the gold diggers in
other sections of the county, are indij
nant at the wholesale manner in whiij
timber claims, or so called timh
claims, have been taken up there dui
ing the past year. T b e miners alleS
that many of the claim s taken up dial
not have timber enough on them tnB
fence them, the sole object of the IcS
cator being to get possession of th;
mineral land the claim s contained,
J
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat— W alla W alla, 71c;
stem, 80c; valley, 75©76c.
blues*
Barley— Feed, (23.50 per ton; brew.
>ng, (24.
Flour— Best grade, ( 3.90@4.20; gral
am, (3.25©3.50.
Millstuffa — Bran, (1 8 0 1 9 per ton
middlings, (23 © 24; shorts, (19020.
chop, (18.
Oats— No. 1 white, (1 .1 5 «1 .1 7 X
gray. $1.12 ^0 1.16 per cental.
Hay — Tim othy, (1 1 0 1 2 ;
clover^»
(8 0 9 ; cheat, (9 0 1 0 per ton.
Potatoes— Best Burbanks, 50<a«0o perj
saek; ordinary, 40050c per cental,
growers’ prices; Merced sweets, (
2.25 per cental.
Poultry— Chickens, m ixed, 1 0 © llc;
.voting, 10c; hens, 110 12 c;
turkeys,
live,^13(815c; dressed, 15@ 6c; ducks,
(i© 7 .5 0 per dozen; geese, ( “ 08.50.
Cheese—Fnll cream , tw ins, 16M@J
1 7 S c; Young A m erica, 1 7 > i© 1 8 V ;|
factory prices, l @ l * c less.
Balter — Fancy cream ery, 27K@30c
per pound; extras, 30c; d airy, 2 0«
22SiC; store, 15018c.
K g g s -2 2 H 0 3 2 S per dozen.
■
Hops— Choice, 2 3 0 26
per pound. |
W o o l-V a lle y , 12»4 © 15 c; Eastern,
Oregon, 8 0 1 4 S,c; m ohair, 26© 28c.
i
Beef — Gross, cows, 3<g3%c P*f
pound; steers, 4 0 4 * 4c; dressed, 7&c. ,
Veal— 7 H © 8 t ic .
Mutton — Gross,
dressed, 7>kc.
4c
Lambs — Gross, 4c
dressed, 7V,c.
Hogs — Gross, 6>^c
dressed, 7©7}fic.
per
pound;
per
pound;
per
pound;