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and strange to say, she has a jxir of The Reason Why? kids on her bauds that till her arms The Register does not like the as well. Pre-nuptial statements may Scripps News Aseociation report. be taken with some degree of allow We dou’t blame them, for they ance. —Mail. can’t help feeling l>od over the service given by the Scripps' people. Read “Virtue against vice" is the modest the Guard and Register every day and party cry of the Fusionists in New you will hud a lot of our telegraphic York City. reports rehashed and served up as An Indian woman is after her eigh fresh to the readers of the morning teenth divorce. Another whack at paper, and they can’t help it. When Chicago’s waning prestige. our dispatches quit coining in the Every vice found amoug the soldiers ufternoon it is 7 o'clock in the even of our army is now attributed to the ing in New York and 11 o'clock at abolition of the army canteen. They night in London. The morning had tnem defore. paper on the Pacific Coast cannot but It has lieen discovered that our use the news that has been made dur ing the day before, has been published minister at Constantinople can argue by the evening paper. There is little the Amerciau claims much better else to give. That is why the Reg while our fleet is at Beirut. ister has no compliments for the The dean of the newspaper profes Scripps people. That is why they sion in America is Wm. Osman, aged dou’t like our service. 84 years and for sixty-three years The (iuard presents its reader with editor of au Ottawa, 111., paper. the telegraphic news of the world President Roosevelt has accepted today, not tomorrow. The news is not au invitation to go fox hunting in rehashed from papers published the Pennsylvania. The secret service day before. men who follow him will have a bard If you want today’s news, fresh and ride. crisp from the happening, take an Tbe only daughter of the German evening paper—if the news ofjyester- emperor is an excellent cook. Cook day the morning paper will give it. Ing seems to be tbe one thing which A Live Volcano. her father has not attempted. Mauna Loa, Sandwich Islands, is in There must have been a “hot time eruption again. It is a most interest in the old town” of Los Angeles ing volcano, 13,600 feet high. The last Bunday, when the thermometer circular terminal crater is 8000 feet crept up to 97 degrees in tbe shade. in diameter, is quite perfect In form, John Redmond, the Irish leader, with vertical walls 600 to 800 feet thus expressed his opinion of Cham high. There are numerous small berlain’s successor. “Alfred Lytle- coues on the bottom of this vast pit tou is entirely unknown outside of from which even when not in erup tbe cricket field.” tion, steam aud sulphurous smoke Former Secretary Long said, in find issue. speaking of his then Assistant Secre There is no record of au eruptiou tary, Theodore Roosevelt: “His . f Mauna Loa previous to 183*2. typewriters had no rest, lie, too, There were eruptions in 1843, 1851, lacks the rare kuack of brevity. ” 1852, 1855, 1859, 1868 and the last pre vious to the present iu 1877. The The flying machine man who came eruption of 1868 was attended by a to grief by letting out too much gas tidal wave that cr.iseed the ocean to can console himself with the fact the Pacific coast. In 1859 the lava that bis experience is not without floowed in a winding current fifty precedent, nor wholly confined to miles long and one to five miles aerial lets. wide. It was from teu to hundreds In Germany ten thousand young of feet deep. The eruptiou continued men who should have reported for for two months, the stream reach military duty have been seutenoed ing the coast, fifty miles away, in In contumacy for desertion. They eight days. are supposed to have left the country. The German army seems to have a Our Indians. stimulating effect upon emigration. At the meeting of the American Missionary Society at Cleveland, Candidate Crocker has introduced Ohio, Thursday, the chairman of a new feature in bis Ban Francisco the committee on Indian and Alaska oonteat for tbe mayoralty. He fur missions said in part: nishes free beer at political meeting. The Indian reservations today cover It won't win. He will lose two repu an area equal to all the New England table voters for each disreputable one states. New York, New Jersey and half of Pennsylvania. The Indians have in he gains. the vaults of the United States Gov Mrs. William Tatte, of Zanesville, ernment •240,000,000. If this money should l>e divided equally amoug Ohio, colored woman, 23 years old, them and the 50,000 receiving it baa given birth to four girl babies, should go upon their separate re ail of normal size, and weighing serves aa a nation, they would con slightly more than six and a half stitute per capita the wealthiest peo- pounds each. The woman is tbe plo upon the face of the earth. The Indian possesses the most elaborate and extensive school ays tern ever established by a nation for its dependant children llehssmore schoolhouses than he knows what to do with. Viewed from the stand point of governmental administration, the problem today is really bow wisely to do leas for him, and bow to give him an appreciation of his oesessious based upon character. On Sinking Plank. mother of three other ohildren, born singly. A marriage certificate recently Hied at Gumpoint, O., gave the age of the bridegroom, Jere Bosarth of Kenner's Brook, at 191 years and 1 month, and of tbe bride, Mia. Julia Ann Jenkins, as 99 years. It was the sixth matri monial venture for the groom and the fourth for the bride. DYNAMITE EXPLOSION Carload Exploded on Train With Terrii- fic Effect. In Station House Three Miles Away. •'ll eir brains are iu tbeir feet.” Aud to the newspaper reporters whom ho ordered escorted to the door by bis guards: “Clear the tainted vipers out of here. Now get out, you mean dogs, you yellow scoundrels of press. 1 am paying for thia place, you liars. They;have sold their souls to the devil. 1 never hope to convert a reporter.' 1 ■ the The loss of a 11500 diamond and a val liable pearl brooch should be sutll cient to impress upon Prophet I*owie the necessity of keeping careful watch of worldly possessions, an oversight, however, with which he has ujt beeu heretofore charged. A yonng woman of .Marshfield was Japan to Capture Sak halin Island If War With Russia. Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 24.—The Cambridge steel plant was closed in definitely today. Lack of orders Is reponsible for tbe work shutting down. Six hundred men are thrown out of employment. DESPERATE FIGHT ON COUNTY ROAD Fracas. Roseburg, Or., Oct. 24. —At Camas Valley, this county, Wednesday af ternoon, George B. Brown, a driver on tbe Roseburg-Myrtle Point stage line, and Sheridan Cray, a resident of Camas Valley, had a personal encounter in which tbe. latter used a pocket knife upon tbe person of Brown with almost fatal results. One of the seven slashes which Brown reoeived came close to his jugular vein and another came within a half inch of bis heart. Brown is thought to be out of danger unless complica tions arise. Cray 1 b under arrest. Trouble between the two men began only about a week ago, when Brown struck Cray’s dog in the road with his whip while driving along with his the stage. While an route on his return trip, Brown met Cray in tbe road and received a vile name iu reply to a gentlemanly salute. Brown threatened Cray with a beating at tbe first opportunity, when not on duty, aud Wednesday this opportunity was presented with tbe result aforemen tioned. Brown was laid up for several days here only a few weeks ago with severe injuries, one of which was a broken jaw, received in an encounter with a bartender in a local saloon. A DISCRED ITED PROPHET SOME CLEVER FORGERIES Discovered That Another Convic at Alcatraz Gained Liberty by Forged Pardon. Ban Francisco, Oct. 24.—Some one connected with the Department of War at Washington has been doing some decidedly clever pardon forging work. The latest discovery is that Convict Ralph Williams escaped from Al catraz through a forged pardon. This brings the number of escapee to fifty. There is but one way to And out the real number, that is checking up tbe pardons issued at Washington. Tbe pardons nave been so cleverly forged that the Alcatraz officers can not tell tbe bona tide from the for geries, the seals and quality of paper being exactly tbe same. Football Events Tod iy. New York, Oct. 24.—The first half of intercollegiate football events to day are: Harvard 23; Brown 0. Princeton 6; Dartmouth 0. Final scores were: Yale 6; West Point 5. Columbia 18; University of Penn sylvania 6. Carlisle 12; Swartmore 5. Cornell 41; Western Reserve 0. Sausage Strike. Chicago, Oct. 24.—Fifteen hundred assuage makers employed at tbe Union Stock Yards went out on a strike today. Tbe packers positively refused to make any concessions on the wage scale. Tbe men now earn from 16 to 25 cents an hour. They demand an average advance of 2^ cents an hour Delegate Wilson Dead. Honolulu, Hawaii, Oct. 24.—Dele gate Wilcox is dead, the result of too heavy a strain upon his system, from campaigning. Wilcox was first representative from Hawaii to the American con gress. Japan Disclaims War. London, Oct. 23.—The report from Honolulu of imminence of war be tween Russia and Japan is unequiva- cally denied at tbe Japanese legation here. North Carolina Fire. Ashville, Oct. 24.—Tbe new forty thousand dollar auditorium and ten thousand dollar residence adjoining were totally destroyed by fire this morning. Homeward Bound. London, Oct. 24.—Tbe last of the American members of tbe Alaskan boundary commission, except Root, sailed for America today. Eric Railroad Accident. Cotton Warehouse Burned. Newcastle, Del., Oct. 3.—The state plant of the Macon Express Com An Exciting Chase and a Bloody pany, together with their warehouse whioh contained three thousand bales Battle Last Night. of cottoD, burned this afternoon. Loss 1175,000. Burton, Kansas, Oct. 24.—After a To Protect a Consul. desperate and exciting chase and bloody battle in which hundreds of Constantinople, [Oct. 23.—Six bat shots were fired, five of the bandits talions of troops have been rushed to who looted tbe Burton Bank Thurs Usbub In consequence of tbe dia- day night were captured last night. covery of a military plot to assas They are now lodged in Newton sinate tbe Russian consul. jail. One of tbe bandits giving tbe name of Johnson was badly wounded. May Be Too Late. Berlin, Oct. 23.—A St. Petersburg dispatch says the Czarina Is again Washington, Oct. 23.—Tbe Depart encieute. Tbe Czar offers daily ment of Commerce gives out infor prayers for a son. mation today that the exports from the United States to Japan for the six months endiDg June 31st exceeded our imports from that country by half a million dollars. This is the first time tbe balance of trade has been in favor of tbe United States. Our Japanese Trade. HIGH-TONED ROBBERS Yellow Fever Quarantine. Burglarized a Jewelry Slore and REV. WATKft akrestb Former Eugene er 'n Trouble at Boise City. He ’"d His Wife ciurw, Setting Fin t» Tfe, Own Store to g«t In. surance Money Rev. Harry Watkins, ten 0„ years ago pastor of theFiiwcb * church of Eugene and .ell L "** City, Idaho, Wednesday J? charged with incendiary. is also under arrest, aDd kins’ brother, a yGUUg name of Holman who re.,7* McMinnville, Is wanted by * cers, but be cannot be fonnd * Mr. and Mrs. Watkins hi, the furniture business at everals year. Tbe other night 2 occurrei afire in their atore, 2® erably damaging the stock of moa. but not detroying it. ,|W* CARRIED HEAVY INSURANT The excessive insurance carried ty Watkins gave rise loathe belief tg he „and his wife were respond^ for the fire. The Boise Capital 5«^ in speaking of the case, aay» “l-ate yesterday afternoon Watkig sold his stock of furniture to W. Green, teller of the Bsnkoifta merce, for 13000, aud Mr. Greenn be given possession of the stock e soon as the police department pg through with its investigation ut tbe Inventory of the stock bu tat taken, which It is expected will » completed this afternoon. “So far as is known, Watkins h carrying about $7500 insurance a his own stock, which, it la said, n not worth to exceed half tbe await As late as Saturday and Mondays put extra insurance on the atock. “Tbe officers claim they are jwti- fled in causing the arrest of both It and Mrs. Watkins and claim that is evidence is strongly against the Holman, Mrs. Watkin’s brother, vbe left town the night of'the tn, is not yet been arrested. “Tbe matter is being thorcigkf sifted, not only by local officers, bat by a well known detective ague' and further development are proaiM in a few days.” Austin, Texas, Oct. 23.—The gov Scattered Common Stuff ernor this morning issued a procla On Floor. mation quarantining other parts of tbe the state against San Antonio on Cleveland, Ohio, October 23.—The account of tbe yellow fever. This action of the state executive Doutsob jewelry firm here was robbed completely isolates the olty from last night. The burglars took diamonds to the tbe outside world. value of 16000, selecting the most Andy McPherson Thrown Froa Germany Threatens Japan. valuable of the stones. Other jewelry His Wheel anti Sufferert Berlin, Oct. 23.—Dispatches from pas scattered over tbe floor. Yokohoma today state that Germans Severe Injuries. are being persecuted by Japanese, who suspect them to be spies for Rus (Daily Guard, October!*.) sia. One German has been impris Andy MoPberson, who II empinri oned at 1’okio. The Kaiser threatens in tbe Day 4 Henderson funit» tbe mailed fiat unless reparation is factory, was the victim of a sericm made. accident while going to his work* Berlin, Oct. 23.—Another test of his bicyle this morning. Pope’s Charity. He was riding along High the Marienfllde Zossen electric rail Vienna, Oct. 23.—A dispatch from way was made this morning. A speed when the forks of tbe wheel -rot Rome today says tbe Pope sent two with great r of one buudred and thirty miles an throwing him hundred Turkish pounds to the Arch olenoe to tbe sidewalk, He * hour was attained. bishop of Adrianople for distribu able to reach bis home on« tion among suffering Christian of Eighth street, where Dr. W. W Famous Warship Rammed. his provinoe. Of this sixty goes to kendall called and attended tbea- Macedonian fugitives. Portsmouth, Oct. 23.—Nelson’s old juries. It was found that tbe )* flagship Victory, was nearly sunk io Noted Historian Dead. was broken and his face war . tbe harbor today by the battleship badly lacerated. It is si80 London, Oct. 23.—Wm. Edward Neptune which was being towed into that be suffered internal fol®1» Lacky, the famous scholar and his tbe harbor^preparatory to breaking up. torian, member of parliament for The Neptune rammed a six-foot Dublin University, died of heart hole into the historic old ship whose disease today aged 65. drums at once beat to quarters, 8. Evans killed a cougar b ***1 Turks Want Guns. calling the crew on parade, all tbe eight feet Mouday morning. _ time the ship settling down till the Berlin, Oct. 23. — Knippa have re A. Yarnell’s farm, on th« ceived orders from Turkey for two lower decks were flooded. A rapid movement of tugs to her The animal bad been k|llt0* hundred thousand rifles and millions of smokeless cartridges, delivery to sides buoyed tbe Victory just in time for Mr. Yarnell and it wm advisable to lie in wait for 1 to prevent her sinking. be made in February. ealry Monday morning b. • The Boss at Naval Yard. Can’t Get Bail. prehended devouring * M New York. Oct. 23.-Sam Parks, Norfolk, Va., Oct. 23.-Secretary , „ of Navy Moody is paying the navy the labor leader, who used bis posi b. put wT.r.1 .Io«8 00 yard here an official visit today, the tion to extort money from employers for the time being, »«>d «ja- first time during this term. under threats of strikes, is still In his nounced dead until his cell today, being unable to get bail erally punctured with son»* Will Dig Among Ancients. on tbe last charge of perjury against Springfield News._____ — Constantinople. Oct. 23.-A arch him. He has about given up, say aeological expedition to Syria under ing that be is down and out. direction of Prof. Banks, left here Usual Bank Robbery. There is a big lot of this morning. Keep your door» »Dd Wichita, Kansas, Oct. 23.—The Deadly Fireworks. jr State Bank at Burton waa robbed last curely locked. Valeatta Island, Malta, Oct. 23.— night, two thousand dollara being Independence bop «rc*e”' w k posed of tbeir bops, consta^ Four men and one woman were killed taken. A hastily gathered posse by an accidentalexpksioD of fire works about 1500 bales, at 24 ce , overtook the robbers near Patterson at Balzant his forenoon. and exchanged shots with them. We don’t care a rap They escaped. French Fire Casualty. paper cares or down criticisms. W® wil1 01 ’ Paris. Oct. 23.-Tbe village of Kerg- RiverDam Broke. and let said certain P«P* nahat Brittany, was destroyed by fire Pitsburg, Pa., Oct 23.—A skiff with this forenoon. Seven lives were lost own. ane»kiX five Hungarians waa swept over the The Salem Journal « Many people are homeless. Springfield dam near Colfax in a burglars in that cl 5 Rome Church s Jealousy. heavy fog this morning. Four were thusly: “Burglars r »it drowned. Aaaociation and *. ■ Rome, Oct. 23. —Several cardinal, but neither of these » P* in . scheme to force The Pistol Route. < ardinal Merry del Val to resign the Word was ’.M Clarksville, Tenn., Oct. 23,-Percy papal secretaryship. J. B. Harris today Smith, a prominent young broker of Felix Barger ah° * English Railway Wreck. thia city, committed suicide this Wash., instead of » London, Oct. 23. _in B railway ac morning by shooting himself with a stated in the telegr»® pistol. cident at Sewerby last night one per Geo. Gross yesterday •on was killed and ten injured. Jos. Gate. '//’’„uhW * Packing House Fire. Suffers,N. Y., Oct. 24.—A gang of Forcing Public Opinion. Italian laborers repairing tbe Erie I long through wild Austrian Emptror Firm. railroad tracks near here were run Rutte. Oct 23.-CarryIng that after she was married she would oountry. And Japan baa 28.3. ‘W men Vicuna, Oct. 24. — Emperor Francis down by a train this merning. Five hreat to close down all its out Its hare no more kids on her hands. Mbs bearing arms. minea if Jo**ph baa given formal notice that Italians were instantly killed. a receiver wee appointed has been married for some years uuw for the mile« Locomotive Sent Wild. Janesville. O., Oct. 23.--A coal beaver climbed into au engine in tbe railroad yard last night, opened the throttle, and jumped as the locomo tive dashed out down tbe main track. A telegraphic message got the Du luth Limited sidetracked two min ers- A Base of Supply utes before tbe wild engine dashed by. The engine was later picked up For Army and Navy. dead near Roscoe. The man was arrested but collapsed and is now in Seattle, Oct. 23.—Advices from Jap tbe hospital. an today state that the Japanese gov ernment is planning the capture of Army Maneuvers. Sagbalin Island in the event of war Fort Riley Ark., Oct. 23.—Col. with Russia. Hutchens, of the Texas regiment has Saghalin is a Russian penal colony asked an official Inquiry into an as and is called the “Island of Murder sault on three privates by col< red ers, ” being inhabited by 25,000 con regulars. The ill feeling between the victs, 9000 of whom are there for mur troops iB increasing. The Texans are der. now under orders to remain in their Tbe island lies midway between Si teDts after nightfall. beria aud the Japanese island of Yozo. Insurance War Scare. In a war with Russia it would be an important strategeic point for Japan London, Oct. 23.— Lloyds’ shipping as a base of supplies for her navy and insurance rates to the Far East have army. been advanced one hundred per cent since yesterday to cover risks if war is declared between Russia and Japan within three months. Train Load of Dowieite Host Left for Homes LAST BANK This Morning. ROBBERS CAUGHT thousand l i e last ones to find it out were stu dents who disturbed hie services by n: idling out in squads. “They are like most students 1 know,'* he said, Steel Plant Closed. NEWYORK UNRESTORED gloves a good deal of time She d< olar< d I < wie is equal to an emergency, Paris Underground Fire. New York, Oct. 24.—A car loaded with dynamite east-bound, on the New York, New Haven and Hartford line, exploded today. Four care were de molished. The explosion shook residences and broke all the windows within a radius of two miles. The desk sergeant of tbe Westches ter police, three miles away, was thrown from his seat in the station house. At Baycbester, two miles away, the streets were tilled by exoited people in tbeir night clothes fearing an earth quake. In a round house fifty yards from the explosion the seven inmates were thrown from tbeir beds. The peculiar action of tbe dyna mite was Bbown by the escape of tbe trainmen. All felt tbe concussion but none were injured. A brake- man on tbe other end of the train Dowie Say Others To Take Their was hurled from tbe top of tbe cars Places—Others Report and fell into tbe mud uninjured. It blew a big hole in tbe road bed. Affairs Dwindling The accident was caused by the Away. train parting on a down grade and tbe rear end running into tbe forward New York, Oct. 23.—A full train portion with great force. load of Bowie's Host left for Chicago this morning without having reduced be unrepentant city from satan’s rule. The whole affair is dwindling out, tbe end being expected shortly, al though Dowie announced that be ex pected others to take the place of the departing thousands. Trouble Over a JDog—A Pocket Seventy-five thousand houses were vlBited yesterday by the Dowieites. Knife Used in the compelled by freckles to wear kid ing I All must die, but that manner of death appeals to the living aa the most patheti). -EdJ________________ ________ MURDERER’S ISLAND litigated Minnie Healy mine, the Amalgumutrd Copper Company this morning shut down all tbeir mines. Tbe smelter will lie closed tomorrow. The entile state will suffer as the Amalagmated Company employs about seven thousand men in thair various mines and smelters. Crowds of miners on the streets show intense feeling. Oocasaioual shouts of “Lynch Judge Clancy” are heard. Paris, Oct. 24.—Another Are in the underground railroad this morning stopped all traffic. No one was Injured but for a time I there was great excitement as a repe Populated by Twenty-Five Thous Broke Windows For Miles About tition of the August holocaust was, and Convicts and Murder —Police Thrown From Seats feared. Tbe officers saved themselves from tbe wreck of the South Portlaud off Blanco Monday. Tbe captain aud Dowie Denies That He Intended flrat officer left the sinking ship with to Go To Australia. the first boat fifteen miuutea tiefore the second boat got off. Those who Boston, Oct. 24.- Commander then remained had to depend on rafts, Dowie, wife and son, arrived here early this morning in a private car. one of which saved eleven people. He denied that he inteuded to sail The dispatcheo tbe other day gave for Australia with hie wife, and aaid the account of a trainload of Dowiettee be would return to New York this arriving at New York, fifteen women afternooon. The railway officials say bis car to one man being about the propor la scheduled to return at three tion of tbe three thousand people. o'clock this afternoon. Which means—what does it mean? Postal Investigation. That woiueu are more susceptible Washington, Oct. 24.—The report than men when their emotions, re ligious or otherwise, are played upon? of Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen eral Bristow ou tbe investigation of The |>eaoe footing of tbe Canadian alleged frauds in tbe poetoffice de militia Is to be raised from 38JX10 partment was given Postmaster Payne at one o'clock this afternoon. to 45 000 and supplied with officers Pay tie immediately took it to tbe and rifles sufficient for an emergency White House where be haudid It to force of 100,000 men. if this country Preeideut Roosevelt. The report and Canada follow tbe example of the makes 365 pages, 110,000 words, and Euro|>ean nations and start a coni took almost a month of labor on tbe part of Fourth Assistant Bristow petition In tbe Increase of our armed i and a large force of clerks. forces. It is hard to set' just where It I Five hundred exhibits accoi pany would end. IL They are uot yet fully couq leled but will be banded the I <.tinaster It is not likely that Russia will pm- ’ General before Tne-dsy. W hen yoke the Japanese to war, at least not printed they wl'l tnske f. r v« I nines 'ill she is bettar prepared to fight tbe of six hundred pages; emb .< g the detai's of tbe work of inspe. tore on 1 ittle brown men. While Russia can tbe various cases, affidavits, etc. place :»10,0n0 men in Manchuria sba would flgbt under the terrible diaad 1 Main Returned vantages of belrg a long way from Norfolk, Oct. 24. — I’be batt'lxsblp her base of supplies and connnected Maine today returned from a s < ,-ees- by only a slugl track of railway two ful test of euduranco to Culebra. It is terrible these shipwrecks, ike that of the South Portland on Cwpe Blanco Mouday evening. l iy to imagine yourself on sinking plank in mid ocean with hardly a hope between you and eternity, and t iat with but a few momenta of warn he will abdicate the throne rather than recede from tbe position com pelling the Hungarian troops to use the Austrian language. A crisis is believed to be imminent. (Francis Joseph 1, Emperor of Aus tria and King of Hungary, succeeded to the Austrian throne in 1848, fifty- five years ago, aud to the Hungarian ) throne in 1867. He is 73 years of age. SERIOUS BICY- CLE ACCIDENT SOME TERRIFIC RAILROAD SPEED Killed a Cougar. Brevities. Forth Worth, Texas, Oct. 23.— Fire »bis morning partially destroyed tbe joiut Armor and Swift packing plant. ITe 1» is not announced. Tbe orig inal cost was |150 000. by Constable m’witt^ assault and battery C. c. Sturtevant ** was arraigned '• f for*'*’* termeier and th* tr>l day, Oct.