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About The Leader. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Or.) 1895-1903 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 30, 1903)
A W ATERY W ASTE . Cottage Grove Leader. L. r. NEWS OF OREGON Southern Oregon Streams on a Rampage, Owing to Heavy Rains. « O O I . i l . P u b lis h e r . Items of General Interest Gathered From All Over the State. TROUBLE AHEAD IN CHINA. Revolt Now In Progress May Prove More Serious Than That of 1900. Victoria, B. ABOUT SETTI.] c., Jan. 28,-T h e s te a m - Minister B u w j q Effects Agree in Venezuelan Trouble. Grants Pass, Or., Jan. 26.— The re er. Athenian and Tren.ont arrived this cent warm and heavy rains have cause*! COTTAGE GROVE OREGON. morning from the Orient, having both the greatest floods that Southern Ore sailed from Yokohama and arrived BLOCKADE W ILL BE RAISED AT gon has known for many years. The COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL DOINGS wjthin an hour of each other. Rogue river reached the highest point ----------- The steamers bring farther news of Ureut Britain W illing to Accept J in this city Saturday night that it has the revolt in Kansu, and one corres reached since 1890, when the briuge Bicycle Stealing Same as Horse Stealing Cent| >f Customs Receipts as Una of Important Happening* pondent telegraphs to the Shanghai spanning it here was washed away. No - Senatorial Vote Unsettled Rich an tec—Germany W ant» Jo. W the Paat Week In Brief mnd trains have been able to reach here papers from Las Ho Kow to the effect Products ot Oregon Mines. Campreheathre Farm. from the north or south since Saturday that unless Tung Fuh Siang is sup Caracas, Jan. 28.—.The Assoc morning, and none are expected befoie pressed the powers will soon find them IN THE LEGISLATURE. some tim e today. Much damage has Press correspondent has just recei! An Am erican steamer ban been selves face to face witli a bigger revolt been done the Southern Pacific all communication from the British wrecked on the W eleh coast. A hill Droviding for creation of the Missionaries are through this section of the state. office of state inspector of hops, and to than two years ago. . . officers at La Guayra informing The plague at M azatlan,'M exico, con tix the rate of tare on hops, has been already beginning to leave the w « » * Improvement at Ashland. tinues to claim tour to eight victim s that the blockade w ill be raised t( Ashland, O r., Jan. 26.— The storm introduced bv Mulkey in the senate, ened district. A correspondent of the d aily. Not Confirmed by Bowen. and La Follett in the House. Shanghai Mercury in Kansu writes: Oregon’ s delay in recommending ir and flood situation has greatly im Washington, Jan 28.— There ¡1 proved in Southern Oregon the past 21 " A crisis is imminent, and the offi Carnahan, of Clatsop, is in favor of rigation schemes may lose her share of hours. The temperature fell late lust doing away with the poll tax law now cials are powerla-s to act. The Taotai information in Washington to jof the funds. night and the rains abated in the on ttie code of Oregon. The poll tax, is suppressing news. There is caute tiie positive statem ent contained ¡r,7 A mob at N ew Orleans burned a valleys, w h ile in the mountains what a« now provided, is »1 , which is as for grave apprehension unless lung Caracas dispatch that the Venen.',/* S ergo at the stake who had shot and precipitation there was came in the sessed on every citizen in the state be Fuh Siang is suppressed.” k illed a sheriff. is form of snow. Streams im m ediately tween the ages of 21 and 60. Messrs. Rydbog and Soderstray, mis blockade w ill he raised today. Carna A new freight rate ha« been estab began to fa ll, and they have been grad han’ s b ill is to lepeal this section in sionaries, wiio have readied Shanghai ister Bowen continues hopeful that L from Singan, having come from the ii - a happy consummation w ill result® lished between the Pacific coast and ually receding from their flood stage its entirety. during the day, so that litt le further terior because of the threatened revolt, bhanghai, China. Monday. the pending negotiations, as the damage is expected to result from high The vote today stood as follows: in an — interview -------- „ given to a German daily President Roosevelt has appointed water in this section. In this county proposition to the a llied goveriunei of Shanghai state that Tung Fuh Slang Judge W illia m R. Day, of Canton, O ., much damage has been suffered by Fnlton 21, Geer 13, Wood 14, scatter J ing 18, absent and paired 21, total 90. is gaining ground, and intends to lea l regarded by him as an eminently fj ; to a seat on the supreme bench of the county roads and bridges. In the House— A concurrent resolu hie armies to Singan. where he will en- ab|e one. H e is s till waiting fop* United Htates. ami place u to t|,at proposition from G# tion was introduced today appointing deavor to make his capital and place Still Rising at Salem. The governor of [Minnesota has e x P„ Dhnn who has been proclaimed r „ ini a committee to endeavor to have the Pu Lhun, n ~ • - * * _ Britain Salem , Or., Jan. 26.— The W illa m pressed him self in favor of the f-ewis emperor, on the throne. Tung is him- »ri.a .n and an,. G G erm erm any, any, and ana on on thei th e «, m 1 Washington legislature raise its Lewis ette river la«t night registered 25 feet and Clark fair and says he w ill do all self enlisting troops, and everything i depend the question whether the b!™ above the low water mark and was and Clark appropriation to »100,000. in bis power lor it. ! else points to the fact that he has gov- a, „ jg to be raised. V s till rising. This is the highest stage Murphy, o l Union, introduced a bill Kansu and Shensi Ag indicated in a R om e dispatch® The new high school building at the river has attained this year, and to establish an industrial college at eminent support. are overrun by Tung’ s spies. A ll pro- | ,M| B,gh|> the Bloomington, 111., has been destroyed there is occasion for alarm . I f the question noj1’* by fire. Loss, »630.000. It was one present moderate w'eather continues in'1 th e h onse'we re?*By*She! toy? oLLane! foreign official, are being removed from lie determined is the amount ^ of the finest school buildings in the for a few days a further rise o f prob to'extend the Australian ballot to all bingan. Pekin correspondents also tell of (he toms receipts which are to lx* giver# I state. ably four feet is expected in the stage city elections; By Johnson, of Grant, threatened outbreak in the northwest.^ j a guarantee re northwest, guarantee. Great Britain is beli<? I t w ill be at least 24 for a portage railroad above The Dalles; A question has been raised in con of the river. ‘ real ruler of to ^ favorable to accepting the 30 , gress as to the power of the Colombian hours longer before the effect of the by Robbins, of Baker, for a mining and credit 5 ong Lu, the China,” as being behind the movement. , ent offered by Mr. Bowen, while minister, Thomas Herran, to sign the recent rains on the riv e r’ s stage w ill bureau. A Canton correspondent ol a Hong llianv IH suppoeed to be insisting or i then the canal treaty for his country. The be exhausted, and u n til In the Senate — The senate spent Kong paper states that the rebellion in ( ^ ,.e„ t . tQ1 Colombian constitution says congress stream w ill not recede. most o f its time on what might be Kwangsi is more serious than ever Minister Bowen declines to dis«. must act. called “ legislative grind” , or the second known before. The rebels, 40.000 to 4,le8(i on j n any Df ¡ts phases n i RAN INTO A W ASHOUT. reading of bills The flood at the headwaters of the , 50,000 in number, have taken possession wi)1 he what is the art * W illam ette are subsiding, but along A joint memorial was adopted asking , of many districts and towns, and Pak amonnt Qf guaranty he has been offe» * Engineer and Fireman Lose Their Lives the lower river they are still raising. congress ngress to call a convention for the N)iaii pak shek, Sishing, Siyan, Min« vVitfr the promptness which " h in an O. R. & N. W reck. Much damage has already resulted and purpose of framing an amendment ’ to 1 ” 1 Y ip and Lau Chow are in their hands, j characterized all its actions in thepf* Pendleton, Or., Jan. 26.— Passenger the federal constitution providing for They are now marching into \ unnan, more may follow . emergency, the Italian gOTernn)r, I train No. 6, on the O. R. & N ., which election of senators by direct vote of armed with mode n rifles. The names tiaa cabled to its fleet The coal strike commission has near com manderq) le ft Portland at 8:15 Saturday night the people. of their chiefs are Chan and Luk. Venezuelan waters to withdraw ■->,* ly completed its work. and passed through Pendleton at 4:45 A b ill was passed placing bicycles in The officials at Canton are enlisting the blockade as soon as the ships oflitt The tr ia l^ o f M ajor Glenn is nearly Sunday morning, ran into a washout the same class with horses in the law soldiers. powers do so. Information to gjl over and it is lik ely tlpe court w ill on a fill 2 H in lies; east of Bingham for the punishment of larceny. effect was received by the Italian rat Springs. The engine was thrown into acquit him. MANY SETTLERS AFFECTED. bassador today. ta House b ills authorizing The Dalles Mearham creek in six or eigh t feet of Marconi w ill charge one cent a word ______________ _ fl water and on top of it were piled the lo issue water bonds, ami authorizing for the transmission of wireless mes Recent Decision in Nelson Case of Great e. FOR CENTRAL WASHINGTON. baggage and mail cars and the chair | Linn county to maintain a ferry at sages across the ocean. Importance to Homesteaders. car. The engineer, Thomas P atty, and Harrisburg were passed. T elle r has been elected to congress fireman, W illia m M illig a n , were killed Governor Chamberlain today signed Washington, Jan. 28.— The decision Possibilities of Qettlng Larger Suppl Jj by Colorado Democrats, but the Repub- alm ost instantly. W illia m M axw ell, the Portland fireboat bill and the bill of the supreme court today in the case Water for Irrigation. OB for the creation of an irreducible school licans w ill not oppose it. of Portland, a passenger, was seriously of Nelson against the Northern Pacific Washington, Jan. 28.— An e x a in fi j l l i n r u H h » T '»owl*» f r o m t h i s fcllH i n i n r . , fund for Douglas county. "oop n n y, to the eftevt that the tion has recently been made by P ,*y The committee on agriculture adopted tural b ill. It carries an appropriation ies were slight. The wreck was caused by a washout a report that the “ one-m ile-Iim it” United States holds title to all lands Calkins, of the geological survey,mi of »300,000 lor free seeds. about two m iles east of the new steel sheep grazing bill he not passed. This along proposed lineB of land grant rail- the no.aihilitle. o f ¡n e.e asing a .ie. j * *’ the possibilities o f increasing The coal miners’ convention, in ses oridge which has been b uilt on Meach- action k ills the measure. roads ap to the time of the filing of the water supply of portions of O i ,pi sion at Indianapolis, voted down a am creek. The heavy snows on the proposition to endorse socialism. A shipment of 43,000 pounds o( con map of definite location, and further Washington. K ittita s v alley y is nu I mountains have been melted by a chi- Bowen is confident that he w ill soon nook, and the waters were raging. No. centrates was made last week from the holding that no rights to any lands the areas in which irrigation is a l r e j be able to reach satisfactory terms 23 freight train passed over this par North Pole mine to the Tacoma smelter. within the lim its of a grant passed to extensively practiced, water dn ticular piece of road a few hours before The actual value is not stated, but the road on the filing of the general with Great Britain and Germany. nd I io; there is no doubt it is on a par with map, affectB a great numlier of home drawn from the Yakim a river and | No. 6 au«l reported everythin g O. K. Senator M itchell was ill for several the last shipment, which was appraised pteadera who had gone on land prior to tributaries. Plans have matured 3d J days the latter part of lastjweek and at »15,000. RICH STRIKE IN MONTANA. the filing of the map of definite loca- the construction of ditches from i# unable to attend to his routine duties. Over $200 in nuggets and coarse gold tion, and who later found tbemseUe* Upper Yakima, which w ill materia«' Great Britain has entered a protest Free Gold Bearing Ledge 3,000 Feet Long was picked up off the bedrock of the within the limits of the railroad grants. . . . . . , if* against the Cuban reciprocity treaty, Which Yields $5 a Pan. Dry Diggings in Southern Oregon the These settlers will he allowed to retain exten<1 the irrigated area to the claim ing it w ill hurt the sugar indue- >wi The grounds now being po.-session of such lands, and the com- anil southeast in the near future. Butte, M ont., Jan. 27. — A special to past week. tiy . Attention as also given to a strip ^ the M iner from VVeiser, Idaho, says worked in these diggings by the Golden P*ny must look elsewhere for indent- T in g Fuh Siang has been proclaimed advices just received there tell of a D rift m ining company are supposed to nitv. James Hamilton Lewis was at- desert land iust east of the Colnnt* river, now used as a stock ranch, a l The torney for Nelson. emperor of China in opposition to the most wonderful strike o f gold made on be the richest ever encountered. also to a portion of the great w h 3 present ruler and w ill begin a war to the Big creek about two and a half two giants have been steadily operated To Develope Montana Coal Fields. growing region adjoin ing it on t' j miles east of Profile gap. The nearest since early in November, and more dirt k ill off a ll foreigners. Butte, Mont., Jan. 28.— The an north and east, which extends imri^ settlem ent is a place called Golden on has already been moved than was A fter three years' delay, the treaty the Big creek. A letter from reliable washed off during all of last season. nouncement is made that the Northern ward into the Big Bend o f the Going« providing for the fixing of the Alaskan parties at Thunder mountain says that The company looks forward to a large Pacific company has in contemplation bia and eastward beyond the Id a ! boundary, has been signed by the the development of *,600 acres of prom- boundary. As the district lias an afci i Edward Stam lev and Edward H . Martin clean-up. United States and Great Britain. ising coal lands lying east of Red Ixslge, climate, and its eastern portion is P'V 1 ! and several others have located 16, PORTLAND MARKETS. where the extensive fields of the Rocky tically without surface streams, the Severe earthquakes shook South claims on a massive porphyrized quartz i Carolina and Georgia. Fork coal company are be ng developed. ie<‘t of the examination was to deters* d y k e which measures 3,000 feet in W heat— W a lla W alla, 75c; blue- I iieso coal developments are among ins the practicability of sinking d « a Governor Chamberlain has signed length and is impregnate«! with par the largest in the Northwest. Henry j wells as a means of obtaining wate^ tid e s of gold. A ledge 250 feet in stem, 86c; valley, 78c. the Portland charter b ill, ! width accompanies the porphyry dyke Barley— Feed, »23.50 per ton; brew Horn, the retiring assis'ant superin-j an,f especially to determ ine whethj Germans say Venezuelans began the and it is also highly auriferous. Rough ing, »24. tendent of the Northern Pacific, who artesian flows could be found. Irrig recent fight at Port San Carlos. pan assays made o f the ledge show the Flour— Best grade, »4.30(44.85; grah will assume charge of the Northern tion from the Columbia, except to i Pacific coal property February 1, in ti-) limited extent, on its lowest terracZ A d rivin g suow storm in Central poorest specimens to assay f 5 in free am, » 3.25@3.65. gold. Other specimens show yellow mated at Red Lodge that such would appears to be impracticable because T Kansas has demoralized business. M ills tn ffs — Bran, »18®19 per ton; metal to the naked eye. Old pros be the case. He would not disness the the depth and steepness o f the sidesi l An explosion o f dynam ite in a tunnel pectors declare the discovery surpasses m iddlings, »23 @ 24; shorts, »19@20. matter for publication, however, the canyon through which the rivyl chop, »18. at Pittsburg resulted in four deaths. anything w ithin their knowledge and flows. Oats— No. 1 white, »1 .1 5 ® 1 .1 7 H ; Lava Dust Falls with Rain. ■ S Last of the Colum bia river the ' Ol A wealthy Jersey C ity produce merch that $1,000,000 worth of ore is in plain gray, » 1.12H@1.15 per cental. ant was doped and robbed of »11,000. »igb t. Ban Francisco, Jan. 28. — S m all; Yeetigations include Crab creek, tint Hay — Tim othy, »11 ® 12; clover, patches of an extremely fine white sand onlY perennial stream traversing tha Ex-Governor Charles R . Ingersoll, o f »8 ® 9 ; cheat, »9 ® 10 per ton. Better Than Marconi. or dust were seen on many asphalt n‘ kion, but its waters were found K| Connecticut, is critically ill. l i e is B erlin , Jan. 27. — Professor Ferdi Potatoes— Best Burbanks, 60@75c per paved streets today when the rain of h® no more than sufficient for the irr 81 years old. Scientists say g»tion of its own bottom . nand Braua, of Strasshurg university, sack; ordinary, 40@50c per cental, last night had dried. The b ill providing for a fire boat at whose application o f Leyden jars in growers’ prices; Merced sweets, »2 ® this dust must have fallen with the I 1 “ the wheat lands, where all cro^J Portland has been passed by both propagating electric wave* i* raid to 2.25 per cental. rain, as anything like it was never seen are raised by dry farm ing, and wheil houses of the legislature. It is believed to have water for stock and domestic uses have enabled Marconi to teleraph with Pou ltry— Chickens, mixed, l l ' 2c; here before. out wires across the A tlan tic, ban an young, n ® 1 2c;h a n s. ll@ 1 2 c ; turkeys, come from the volcano of Santa Maria, formerly brought from springs, soni Action has been brought in New nounced that he baa discovered c. m eth live, 15® 16c; dressed, 18@20c; ducks', in Guatemala, which broke out in vio- times at great distances, the possibilit] York to have the famous “ Flatiron ” od o f prodnein electric energy of unlim »7 ® 7 .6 0 per dozen; geese. »7 ® 8 .50. lent eruption in October, and caused ot increasing the present number ti building declared a nuisance. ited volume, and projecting it into Cheese — Full cream, twins, 16H@ the ruin of a great area of cultivated ,leei' wells was carefu lly considered, j A t O lym pia Friday the vote for sen apace in the form o f electric waves, to 17>tic; Young Am erica, 1 7 H ® 1 8 H c; territory. The theory is that the dust. The information gathered indicate ator stood: Ankeny 66, Pieston 44, any deaiied diatance. The new method factory prices, l ® D * c less. o iln , th* n #ir’ was carried ‘ bat a supply of water sufficient fa| W ilson 9, Turner 22, scattering 6, neenres greater accuracy of trhnsmis- -,uuu miles from the point of its ascen- present needs can be obtained by *iee Butter— Fancy creamery, 30®32Hc »ion through a more perfect attunement total 136. 810D’ __________________ drilling throughout the region examim per pound; extras, 30c; ' dairy^ 20® of the tranamittera and receivers. at depths of from 400 to 675 feetl For Lewis and Clark Fair. 22 H e ; store, 15@18c. The vote for aenator at Salem F ri aitesiad Salt Lake Jan •>* T„ *>. . W " ' hile " ‘« m there e r e are no flowing artesian day etood: Fulton 29, Geer 16, Wood Coal Prices Tumbling. Eggs— 2 2 S i® 25 per dozen. 7 " r u wel,1 '’ — the ^ de« P waters * are found '? to A 13, scattering 16, absent and fa ire d today a b ill’. . , introduce.! introdneid by a S — eT.m n "-- re ,00nd New Y o rk , Jan. 2 i . — There has been Hops— Choice, 2 5® 26H e per pound. <___ ... . 7 Senator under pressure, and it is believed tha» 17, total 90. U w ie providing for a Utah exh ib it at in a fnrther break in the price o f inde certain of the lower wells along th« W ort— V alley, 1 2 H «1 5 c ; Eastern the *oe Lewis uewis and snd Clark exnosltion pendent cowl, in some cases as low as »7 an artesian flow It is said that President Roosevelt Portland, Portland, Or., Or., in in 1905. 1905 ^ ^ 11 ^ ™ at - Northern n v - Pacific road ------------ a ton f. o. b. being asked, w h ile no Oregon, 8 « 14Hc; mohair. 26® 28 c. baa turned against the admiseion ot Beef - Gross, cows, 3 ® 3 *ic p*r vidse for the sppointmem of a , „mmis- d ^ ™ . ° h,* ' ned. b5’ proper <* * ! n.*’ h * dealer was w illin g to bny at a higher Oklahoma, New M exico and Arizona of three members and the annro ‘ . T " 1 th ,t ®ny conB1,Jer b s price than »8 a ton. In order to gut pound; steers, 4 ® 4 * c ; dressed, 7 ^ c . — ■ 7 X «8 t< c . nriatinn oma ^ ^jjj ^ portion of the wheat landa can be irri^ because of a suspicion ot jobbery. priation r»i of t » in 10.000 V eal— | the embargo, ordered a lew days ago, r wells, _____, or that wzte* i » ted !ro * deep ! doced by Representative taken off, rome of the independent Mutton — Gross, 4c per Coal miners arefdemanding the gov P®°nd; WasBtch^coô7ty',” provîding for’ th «'*!»* a°urce for irrigation can Mj operators whose coal is carrier! by the ' dressed, 7 H e. ernm ent ownership of mine*. pointm entofa commissioner of found in sufficient quantities in the un^ i (« h ig h V a lle y railroad, were selling Lambs — Gross, 4 c per pound rail- cultivated land east of the Columbia! * ' A hlizzsrd in the western part of their coal at anything above »4 a ton j dressed, 7 H c. lisblish maximum rates,' p roven td i. d ° U,,h “ *" belie*®'1 ,hat in thi" H Colorado has blockaded a il railroad at the ro llieriee for d elivery at points Hogs — Gross, 6 H e pound; crimination and see that existing laws I ' * * P w?lla ,or «bK k-w atering p " '- i between New York and the collieries. traffic. ‘ 7 «7 H e . poses may be profitably sunk at sornsj sre enforced. 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