RUSSIAN
"CiAR OF THE EAST.”
Alexcleff, vice admiral of Russia's
navy. Is the czar’s right baud muu in I
STONGHOLD
FORTY MEN
VERGE OF A
WEAKENING
STEAMER
QUEEN
KILLED
REVOLUTON
Bombardimi of Port
Arthur in Pro£r
Today
HORROR
OUTRIGHT
I
PANAA\A
CANAL
PURCHASE
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Russian Peasants Are
Plundering and
Murdering.
Details of the Fire on
Vessel While
At Sea.
Most Dangerous—Mar
tial Law Declared.
Suffocated to
Death.
New York, Mar. 2.—The Hotel Dar- I
llngton, an uncompleted structure
thirteen stories high at 46th street
near Sixth, collapsed this afternoon. ,
The police report eight men killed ;
aud a dozen injured. Tbe police re
serves have beeu called out and am- '
Minister of the Inferior Regards ' buiances summoned.
Boats Launched But Capsized—
FORTY PERHAPS KILLED.
Condition of Peasantry as
People Were Burned and
Ruisian Reply Fire Has
ened—May Surrender
Before Day Is
Over.
Ymiaw, Mar. 1.—The terrific bom
bardment of Port Arbur by the Jap
anese tlee’ continues today. It is
believed the Japanese will capture the
Russian stronghold before the day is
ever. The reply of the Russian guns
is also vigorous or heavy as during^
yesterday's bombardment.
THE
Later—Fifty me- were at work on
the building at the time, and of these
ouly ten were accounted for up to
3 p. m. The others are In tbe ruins.
i The workmen who escaped believe
Berlin, Mar. 2.---Taeglicbe Rund all are dead. The rescue work pro-
schau newspaper reports that Russia ceeds rapidly. Tbe cause of tbe col
is on the verge of a revolution. Min- i lapse is not definitely known but it
ister of the Interior Plehve regards is believed that tbe Immense steel
VICEBOY ALCXX1EFV.
the peasantry as tn a most dangerous girders buckled.
the fur cast. In Manchuria and Si condition. Starving rustics, mad-
In falling, tbe wreckage packed in
beria be is In command of the army and | dened by excessive use of vodka, the
the rear of tte “Patterson” apart
navy and ut the head of civil affairs.
I Russian
drink,
are plundering ment house, damaging it consider-
estates and murdering the land own- I j ably. Mrs. Dodge aud u waiter are
era. The government lias proclaimed reported killed.
j a minor state of siege which it a mild
I
form of martial law, tn fifty-three
■’ out of seventy-one provinces ia
A Dearth of News.
| Europan Russia.
... . >« 2---Again there is an
Mar. 2.-Attouwy
Washington,
General Knox gave out followitiK
this afternoon : “I have advised the
President and he has authorized the
to ’he
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treasury
to immediately
pay
Republic of Panama the ten millions
stipulated by treaty, ratifications of
which
have just been exchanged.
I Also be is authorized to pay the new
i caual oempany forty millions, which
I under agreement between tbe United
! States and that company we are o
! pay for its property, and have not!-
I lied tbe canal company that we ari
ready to close the transaction.
“Details in connection with tbe
transfer of tbe canal company prop-
, rety sLould not require more than
thirty days. ’’
J The Portland Journal's dispatch
servile tells of the steamer Queen
horror as follows, a short account of
which appeared in yesterday’s Guard :
Seattle, Wash., Feb. 28—In a tem
pestuous sea off a teacherou3 coast, a
horror was barely averted Saturday
I
St. Petersburg, Mar. 1. —Irkutsk
morning.
advices say the iirst complete train
The Pacific Coast Steamship com
comprising 25 cars crossed Lake
pany’s vessel Queen, Captain Cousins,
Baikal on the ice railroad this morn-
took fire in the social hall of the
ng, superintended by Prince Khil-
ship at 4 :30 o’clo-k in the morning,1
koff.
and but for the three hours’ desperate Liquor License
Petition From
A letter from Vladivostok «Interi
n^t'ing of the officers, crew and pas-
Blue
River
—
Routine
February 17th says five hundred
«ergers m the boat more than 200 J
Chinese brigands are terrorizing the
in.«. ' mill 1 undoubtedly have been;
Work.
i ih of news from Po-’ ■nst. Thu tragedy would have been |
district of Miuguta. The warships in
I ' tie vicinity of the Ya.
the harbor then were the Russia, Gro-
* “fire at sea. ”
The regnlar monri.I. »«"sion
i- i .finance is attached ti
e
emoboi and Bruik and transport '
• . was, fourteen lives were lost I ooanty comtni’
. .< ci. urt
as indicai »g a possible fight in V«
1 C - I
Moskova. The port was frozen hard. !
u.- cing ano bj Le ind smoke. this moruing with J.-l
K
Sress at Port Arthur. Several repo, I
A Japanese barber shot a Russian
■ vered the Commissioners
ri ! be tire
are
current
that
the
Japanese
tiara
officer dead then announced himself
I« d every i attendance.
ma ter of the veas i
met reverses but there is no conuv.
a captain of the Japanese general I
aintained
n deck. C«
i •” e work,
Besides the ro. .
mation.
staff and not used to taking insults. I
sounded tbs following b '
I t «
and as the tire c
. s trausaied :
Other Rolling Stock Put Out
befoie this, the 4...F'»
’ w was al-
I
L.'tablo
Alba Mat to - -i,
;■ a 'u directed for Fall Creek pi
Commission By Japanese
ready at work w
Indiana Man witn norsc and
Smoot Case Has Begun.
in the
on ’ I o fierce tla nor -W!’;
A petition f
Marauders Along
Buggy Blown to Atoms By
i
Washington, Mar. 2.--The investi a... „ci.
Gee. Whitlow,
e I
Railroad.
gation of the right of Reed Smo ■
v'iters of Blue - iva
Dynamite.
,
iz-
—
BOATS
<
A
Utah, to retain his seat in the Umied
li u
tIii.t the court gr -
Fearing a pini" aud believing that sail liquors at B
St. Petersburg, Mar. 1—Port Arthur
South Bend, Ind, Mar. 1.—Alberti States senate on the statement that
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advices state that the Trans-Silieriau Mattmiller while driving leisurely; he is an apostle of the Mormon lifeboats could live in th» nasty, i less quantities t ia«
box of dyna church was began this morning by | choppy seas running, Captnin Consine read aud the mat c
Agitation in Favor of Interven railroad in Manchuria has suffered alo ig the roal wich
ordored all boats launched. Three Friday.
considerably by coutiuued acts of
tion by the Powers
nt these capsized. The flr.-t1 n it rode
Japanese. Over 229 locomotives and
ifely, the second capsiz- rf, I nt all
a number of cars have been disabled.
Started.
"ccujiunts were rescued excel ' Miss
■ tiener, of F.lmu, Wash. Another
Emdeu, Brush a, Mar. 1—News has
Faris, Mar. 1. —Former Minister of
i oat also capsized after riiilug the
Foreign Affairs llontatauz has started been received hero that the Japan
oa for more than 10 minutes, anil at
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
ese
attacked
Poit
Arthur
today
«.nu
an agitation in favor of intervention
the time was half a mile from the “Rose*B Coleman to Geo W McQueen
by the powers to stop the Russo-Jap were repulsed with heavy losses.
ship. Other small boats rescued all 145 acres in tp 19 s, r 5 w, ill 00.
anese war. French officials_ count
but tive of the unfortuna’es.
Port
Said,
Mar.
1
—
Five
Russian
Louise A ai d J T DeSpain to W E
much ou the new movement.
The third boat to be lowered cap Haworth certain laud in Cottage
torpedo boats have arrived from Suez,
sized before it rea< h d the water. Grove, 8125.
reporting that the Russian cruiser
London,
Mar.
2.—Twenty-five
A line broke from the davit an «pilled
Aurora is blocked in the Suez caual.
John D Cochran et ai to Horace
Japanese officers left for Japan today
four sailors, the only occupants into I U Cochran 211,, acres in Lana county,
Via America. A large crowd bade !
the ocean. All were washed under 8!.
Sofia, Mar 1—King Ferdinand is
them farewell.
the ship and drowned.
quoted as saying in a
private
Isaac and Kbodia Higgins to Albert
Mrs. E. Adams, an aged woman of | , Higgins 40 acres in tp 19 s, r 1 w,?260.
] conversation that Bulgaria should bo
VLADIVOSTOK, RUSSIA'S ICEBOUND HAR30R IN SIBERIA,
Port Said, Mar. 2—A Russian crui- I the ally of Russia as she was Bul
i Soattle, died of fright and exposure
[ Victor C Stroud et al to J A aud
The harbor of Vladivostok was formerly icebound in winter, but now i
Ber sailed today toward Candia. The garia's liberator.
an hour after the vessel was diseov-
during
part
of
the
winter
It
is
kept
clear
by
means
of
great
leu
csusliing
’Melvina Higgins 10.69 acres in tp 19s,
cruisers Emitri and Donskoi were
i
ered
ablaze.
steamers built for the purpose.
r 1 w, 8176.
permitted to remain here five days
THE DEAD.
§ St. Petersburg, March 1.—Word was
J J Montgomery et al to Jackson
for repair-.
Those who lost their lives are: ! Wills 20 ceres in tp 17 s, 4 w, 31.
received here today that the Japanese
the senate committee cn privileges First class passengers- Miss Maude
Jackson at d \unie E Wills to E L
Constantinople, Mar 2.—The tiirk have occupied the Koreau town, Islii- ¡mite, caps and li.se, was blown to
nnd elections. The room was Oi'owdcd I Steiner, drowned; Mrs. E. Adams, Gumm 18 aci e, in tp 17 s, r 4 w, 81700.
yang,
north
of
l'ingyeng,
and
they
isli government has resolve I to ford
utoms with his horse ami buggy. Hu with witnesses fiom Utah and repre-
San Francisco, died from exposure.
lily prevent Hie Russian Black Sea are fortifying the town walls. A ! intended to Hast stone on his farm.
Rufus Mallory, trustee, to RoyJ G
ssntativs of the various organizations
Second
elate passenger»—D. E. Love lot 4 blk 3 Kelly’s ad to Spring
fleet from passing I lie Dardanelles. Russian detachment of troops was re
interested in tie case.
1 Newberry, drowned; 11. Bucklev, field, 890.
The defenses along the straits are pot ted in the neighborhood yesterday
i drowned.
was expected that they would
ill'll i! s tr •tii’thened, due to England's si;«i
State of Oregon to Cynthia E Green
I
Members
occupy the place.
Attack Postponed.
threat to make a ilenionstriition.
40 acres In tp 19 s, r 3 w. 850.
burned to death; II. Douglas, burned
Merrill W and Ettel M Penning-
Washington, Mar. 2—Information
to death; A. Raymond, burned to ton io 8 8 Spencer, trustee, lot 9
Berlin, March
1—Russian dis
Loudon, Mur
Il \ «is learned this
has been received here from a Jap
d»atb; A. Nelson, drowned; J. Nei- blk 3 Whiteaker’s ad to Eugene, 81500,
patches today state that the Russian
evening <»n highest diplomatic au-
anese source that the Japanese attack
sou, drowned; B. Frales, drowned;
press is stimulating nnti-semitism
thoiitv th«' no < ver nies have ' yet
on Port Arthur will not occur for
MECHANIC’S LIEN.
W. Herriman, dtowned; A. Dorncllr,
among Hie people, accusing the Jews
been made to Japan or Russia I rela-
fortnight.
drowned; P. Nnju, drowned; M.
U G Walker ve Frank and Emily
of purchasing horses for Japan. Wide
tive to meiliatiou. lf such overtures
F. Flynn, drowned.
Finney, for materials and labor on
spread Jew baiting onslaughts are
shoul I bo made it ij understood that
dwelling.
expected.
Japan will give (hem careful atten
PIANOS, PIANOS, PIANOS.
MINING LOCATION.
tion and possibly agree to them if
The strongest line of pianos on the
J E Sims, R H Sims aud J R
ass'tre«) that her vital interests be
Pacific Coa.it.
siifflciontly protected.
Byers locate Music quartz claim and
Stockton, Cal., Mar 1.—The flood
MORRIS A WILL’S MUSIC HOUSE. Deer Trail claim, Blue River district.
from the Sacramento river which
611 Willamette street.
bill Get Through Suez Canal.
yesterday swept south across the wide
Columbus, Ohio, Mar. l.—Repre-
Mrs. Geo. Hadley who was opér
reclaimed strip of couutry to the
Su<*7, Mar. 1 —The Russian batt'e-
sentstive Charles Dick was today de
ated upon last week ât tbs General
JAPAN'S WAR MINISTER.
Mokelumne river is now flowing west
k ih Oalayba un<i transport Baratoti
dared the choice of the Senate 27 to 4
General Ternuclii, who has been Ja hospital of Seattle is reported as im-
to Sau Joaquin river, breaking all the
with tive torp'do boat destroyers are
to succeed Hanna. No enthusiasm. pan's minister of war since 1893. was proving very slowly and the pbysi-
levees in its path.
* i <»ntor the canni tomorrow.
In the house Buchtel, presenting educated In Germany and Japan and clans now have hopes of her recov
Today it Hooded the Brack tract
Dick's name, predicted that he will
ery.
of 5,000 acres, Staten Island 10,000
Suppressing the News.
be the next president.
acres and Sargent tract 6,000 acres.
London, Mar. 1.—A Central News
W. N. Matlock and Mr. and Mrs.
It now seriously threatens Bouldin
A Lion Got Loose.
dispatch from Tien Tsui says the Such a Rumor Circulated
W. M. Beagle of Pendleton are in
Island. Much stock lias been drowned.
San Jose, Cal, Mar. 1.—The big
Chines«' | :«|ers have been ordered by
Eugene visiting J. D. Matlock and
Surviving cattle are being removed
London This After-
lion
known as Hannibal got loose in
the Chinese military authorities to
family. Messrs Matlock and Beagle
by steamers from the tops of levees.
noon.
his car this morning and killed a
ceils«' |-ib nl ing reports of Russian
are on their way to San Francisco to
horse, devouring the tatters livei and
I purchase a hydraulic mining plant
crm lties, fearing that they will iti-
London, Mar. 1.—A rumor was cir
h»art. TheLiou|is r.ow free in the car at
fliieii'e Ih«« popular mind again I
'•Holy Rollers” Get More Tar.
for tbelr mine at Nome, Alaska,
depot aud raii.or.d men are terrorized.
Rustle. 1'he proprietors of the Pekin culated in the house of commo is
which is one of the richest in the
Spokane,
Mandi
1.
—
The
Holy
Roll
lobby
this
atti-ruoon
that
Port
Arthur
The ear is a frail cattle cat aud should
Tinns l. «\o refused to comely w it h
vicinity. Mr. Beagle says that with
ers
have
invaded
Dillon,
Mont.,
ami
bus fallen. No detluite information
the beast try, could break the door
tiie < rd .
| the new plant they are going to put
their leader, Brighton, was given a and Mca|e.
is obtaiuab'«
,
in at a cost of 82500, they will take
coat of t.ir an 1 feathers there last
out from two to three thousand dol
night.
A Galifornia Earthquake.
lars a day.
fcau Francisco, Mar. I.-»-.An earth
Tbe department of mining and min-
quake shock was felt in all parts of
i eraiogy of tbe Univers.ty, is being
Manager Cai M. Youtig of thè Eu- the city at 6;10 this morning. It did
vili
overhauled l«y Professor Hyde. Tbe
geue l'! i n r i i been celle ! atray to no damage. Two distinct oscillations
assay furnaces have been moved info
Portland by tl.e ili«’-.'- of his wife we.o noted.
a separate room giving more room in
wl o is at ti.e G<mi Sun nritaii boa-
’he general laboratory. Other facili
pitnl. Da- il l.ititi is ueting manager
Kaiser Uiliiam Seeks health
Cor
San 1 i.i'icicsn. Mm. 1—\ i
ties in this «lepartment are siso being
of tlu' theatre in Mr. A oiing's almeuce.
Snow
Thiii
to
Five
Feet
Deep
bet', « atlicr»«iglt cbnni|
de-
Berlin, Mar. 1.-- The Kaiser leaves
.improved.
A ne.- microscope for
Miss
M.
J
McFadden
aud
Mr«
J.
tented Da-e Sulliviiti m 11
Bremerhaven Saturday, March 12tb,
in Central Part of
hue woik in mineralogy has jnst been
r.
Fri
<11
weut
to
Etigene
this
bo
I st l.lg it. bulli > in
added to the laboratory equipment.
inorili:.g tur a fin Uay»‘ viali with on a trip -outh for a warmer climate
t u State.
terribl«- pii-'
it «lull» Cmbett
Professor Hyde h..s be.u instrumen
Mr». Agnea Mclroy
Miaa Grara in topes of restoring bis b»nllh.
left th >n s' without ii murk.
tal in Beciring free transporation on
hr'i, Mar. 1.—The severest Driver, a teacher in ’he (»errala
FRESH COW FOR SALE.
OI5EBAL MASATAKX TXBATCMI.
I most of tbe Oregon railroa.is for ull
orm of the fissiti Ims -tailed scimi in. ■ t-. e ;:p this iticrnitig fcr :m
Iiiu> huit Shottliuru f.»-i “ilik waa vic-i l ea l of the Japanese board tbe mineral specimens
and ore
over
Sui'day
ri.-it
with
Mrs.
R.
M.
is let mi u Utica nml Oueida
fir -ale. tire v< ir# o»d. A J of strategy during ti e Chlno-.’i'panew. snmpl»s coming to the University for
war.
lie tall is fiom three tn five Tbof ; voi . — butruday « Salem Jonr-
examination or assay.
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DISABLED
RUSSIAN
ENGINES INSTANTLY
ANNIHILATED
EFFORTS TO
SACRAMEN
TO FLOOD
CONTINUES
ROOSEVELT HAS
OPPOSITION
PORT
ARTHUR
TAKEN
NEW YOKK
SNOW STORM
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COUNTY COURT
IN SESSION