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I CHICAGO HAS A TORPEDO DESTROYER EX-GOV SNOWFALL RECORD WILL NOT RECOG TAFT t DESTROYED fhe Windy City Again Buried NIZE AMERICAN COLLEGES SPEAKS gealed sian Vessel Skori Blown up by a Float ing Mine. Moisture. Chicago, March 17.—This city is again buried beneath a heavy enow fall which came last night, coutiuu- : log today. The snow record for the winter now stands at 56and six-tenths inches, the heaviest ever known. TERRIBLE FALL Russia Making Extensive Ad ditions to Forts Along Baltic OF A MINER Sea—Japanese are Over- Confident. London, March, 17.—Reuter’s Port Arthur advices report that the Russian torpedo destroyer Skori, was blown uo by fioatiug mine today and only four of the crew saved. London, Maich 17.—The Skori was a sister ship of the Stereguscbtchi, wbicb was sunk by a Japanese torpedo boat last Thursday off Port Arthur. The two vessels were among the larg est in the Russian destroyer fleet. Stockton, Cal., March 17.—Charles Vencke, a bucket lander, droppel 2000 feet in;a cage in the Gwyn umiue shaft in Calveras county last night J by the slipping of the cable on the drum. His remains wire found scattered about the bottom of the shaft. A dozen other miners had just stepped from the cage to the top of the shaft when the accident hap pened. Duke of Cambridge Dead. Loudon, March 17.—The Duke of Cambridge, cousin of the late Queen Berlin, M«rch 17.—The Lokal Aan- Victoria, died at 10:30 o’clock this zlger reports Russia making extensive morning. additions to its fortifications along the Baltic Sea. ••oudon, March 17.—In the House of Commons todav, Premier Balfour, London, March 17.—1 St. Ja-aes liberal leader, Campbell and Banner- Gazette’s Tokio cablegram sent via man spoke eulogistically of the ser Shanghai to escape the censor vices of the Duke of Cambridge as states that since the receipt of the commander-in-ebief of the army. news of Japanese victories, the public District Attorney Removed. has become over-confident with ;a disposition to regard the war as Washington, Marob 17.—President already over. The officials, however, Roosevelt has decided to remove from remain calm and alert St. Petersburg, March 17. -Ad- mlrai Stackeiberg, just from Vladi vostok. deuiestbat the Russian squad rons in the far east were not prepared for the outbreak. War bad been foreseen a long time. The ehips at Port Arthur and Vladivostok were in a perfect state of readiness. Paris, Maich 17. — A dispatch from St. Petersburg stptes that a report has reached there from Port Arthur to the effect that Adimral Togo's squadron was again sighted Wednes day morning. • > I nin£> klanrl Rnnd« pint ISIdllU DOlllJS Rill Dill, Berlin, March 17.—The supreme court of appetls decided that the de gree of doctor of deutal surgery in American colleges cannot be recog nized in Germany ou the ground that the American college« ere private iu- stitutions and not supervised by tbe government. I A Texas Cyclone Fort Woith, Texas, March 17.—A Makes S ?me Valu ble Suggestions cyclone sweet Neylaud, ninety miles I northeast of here, last night. Meager for the Good of the Islands reports show much damage. All wires are down iu the storm-swept region. - -Railroad and Shipping Interests. A Sacramento Strike. Sacramento, March 111.— Ail employ es in the building trades couucil walked out today except th e carpen ters, electrical workers aud mill hands. Union men say It is a lock out. The employers deny it. A citi zens’ alliance was formed last night aud has taken a Laud in behalf of the employers, OREGON HORSES. GENERAL RUSHING Under a Coat of Con J APA n M l L bUY RUSSIAN — Ten I MURDERER Want d—A Nelson Man ha- Contract. Vancouver. B. C.t March 17.—Ten thous nd horses f* » h . h JauHuese army will be pnrchr>”'d within the the Front at Lively I next teu months in Eastern Oregon and Washington. Th«- uouirac.t for the supply of these reiuouuts baa been Speed. awarded to Dr. Armstrong, of Nel son, B. C., through the consulate in this city. 1 be agreement specifies Everything Sidetracked to Allow that 1000 animals per month be de livered, and this will tike tin mouths His Getting to Far East in before its expiration. The price is Shortest Possible not mentioned, but it is needloss to Time. state the qua'ity of the horses will be of the best. In fact, announcement baa been made here that l.one other St. Petersburg, March 17.—Lino- will bs accepted. Some of the horses yang, ten miles west of Mukden, on will be procured from the ranches the railroad, has beeu selected as near Kamloops, B. C., and other General Kuropatkin’s heauqua-ters points in the iuterior of the province, instead of Mukden. The p) ice com but by far the greater majority will mands several roads However, Gen be purchased from the breeders in eral Kuropatkin will live ou a rail Eastern Oregon and Washington, way Hain, moving bis headquarters j w j,eru e the strain is butter, and where ___ to suit the needs of the 1 otir a d j good horses have been bred with great points of attack by the Japanese. care for many years past. Kuropatkin now is at Omsk, travel ling eastward at the rate of five hun THE B l ACK dred miles a day to the front. Every thing is being sidetracked to permit BUTTE MINES bis onward rush. Kuropatkin Getting to Washington, March 17.—Secretary ! Taft was before the house committee j on insular affairs today aud discussed I the Cooper bill authorizing the Phil- ' ippiues commissioners to issue bends. i He aoproved of the suggestion that I the maximum salary for supreni' court justices be fixed at £10,000, aud favored a uniformity in the measures) mdae necessary to the enforcement , of the mining laws. He suggested an additional section ameuding the coin- j age law so that the treasurer may ba I authorized to ’ssue silver certificates in denominations up to a thousand pesos, the largest denomination now being ten pesos, equivalent to five dollars. The secretary also asked for IMPROVE THE the authority to repeal or modify the I tonnage tax on vessels coming into i LONDON SPRINGS Manila harbor, to encourage larg" steamers to come from other ports ,,, „ , ._ _ - I r. hu ruv ia rintu rtu tin nonaiutxi . i Placerville, Cal., March 16.—A ver- The tax is now on the capacity in diet of murder in the first degree was (Guard Special Service) stead of the cargo. rendered in the Wood case this morn- Cottage Grove, Or. .’'larch 17.— Takiug up the railroad question. ing. John Wood is one of the con Levi Geer the genial proprietor of Secretary Taft said that Secretary victs who escaped from Folsom pen- the Oregon Mineral Springs, located at Loudou, Or., ,s planning to make some extended improvements to handle hie fast iucreaei ig business for the coming season. He informs the writer that he intends adding hu up to date bottling works nt once which will do a great deil in tin way of advertising l.ane county, as the mineralized health giving waters of the spring are excellent. CONVICT Thousand Mounts for the Army SENTENCED FORMER BELLBOY GETS FIVE YEAR Smelter Will Re«ume Operation in the Near Future. (G■ iaril Special Sevrlce) _ ”*TT)ack Butte, Or . March 17.—The Black Butte quicksilver mines will resume operations Boon ou a lsrpo scale. As soon as W. B. Dennis, the owner of the mines, letnrns from California some changes will be made in the smelter and it will be in opp atinn again. They have ten or twelve men devel oping and blocking out ore and have enough in sight for a long continuous run. The ledge which is GO feet wide is showing high grade values. A feeling of prosperity prevails in the camp. CAPT. MAHONE HAS San Fraucii-co, March 17. Janies STRENUOUS TIME Walters, formerly bellboy of the Hotel Colonial, who was found guilty LABOR SITUA ot stealing ten thousand dollar ' Lebiuon, Or., Maich 15.- Captain worth of jewelry from the rooms of TION SERIOUS Baron and Baroness Van Horst, was Maiione, of the National 1 inhibition today sentenced to five years in San League, arrived m Lebau. u Sunday Quentme penitentiary. He whs caught i aud found the suluoii ul J. 1>. Liiiyeu in Minneapolis a tew weeks ago. Wal wide open and the ballender plajing New \oik, March 17.—The local la ers is said to have been at the bead ' cards with soniB men. it being con- bor situation is assuming a serious of a gang of bellboys who operated i trary to law to keep a saloon open on phase. Twenty thousand men are Sunday here, Captain Mahone rays over the country. now idle, aud the number may be in tb»y must not go unpunished, and creased daily. Ten thousand litho this case will be taken to (lie Circuit graphers me likely to be locked out Court. STATE NOTES before nightfall. An open shop pol Mon : v J i lice oi the Peace Lovely icy and the arbitration of disagree attempted io arrest Mr. Mahone for ments are the principal causes of dis- carrying concealed weapons, but sention. It is predicted that the dis Conn, a prominent merchant failed, and there promises to be a astrous strike of last summer will ue of Silver Lake, has mysteriously dis lively time in prospect lor the citi completely overshadowed by the appeared aud it is euspected has com zens ot Iaiban n. forthcomin g struggle, which it is ex milted suicide. pected will culminate in a life and A railroad is to be built between death fight between employers and The Halles or a *> dut near that oity, em ployes. to Dut r. Some ti ue it will doubt THE IMPERIAL FAMILY OF JAP ki J. less be extended s nth ward. Charley Strub and Tim Shanahan, A Bullet Through His Brain. •ado and the empress of Japan are shown sitt <g at the table. The two persons sta n : Reform hue struck Sumpter. A third baseman aud centre fielder of tie crown prince Yoshihlto. son of one of the w :ien of the imperial harem, and hl* Omaha, Nrrcbl".—Asking bis wife Wlf?. "18 childless, aud the four little girls staadli g are duuglitera of another of ibe concu dance ball lias beeu refused a lilouse, last year’s Eugene taeeball team,I ave to play the piano for bim, and while blr.»« ,,i aud an ordinance has been passed signed with the San Fracnicso t< em sb« obeyed, .Major W. H. Dean, chief of the California State Jx-agne for forbidding women in saloons. commissary of the department of Mis office W. Is. bummers, I C uited • — - States j{o0f tried to interest Van Horne, of o ( be this season. They are both good and Seveial biick buildings urn to souri,sent a bullet through this brain district attorney at Omaha, on the the Canadian Pacific, who built the itentiary last July and who engaged this morning in their hotel, dying in ground ot persecution of Senator .Cuban road, but the latter was too in a battle with a sheriff's posse at built iu Feudletou this spring. The rpHable pleyer«. I stantly. Bad health was the cause of Dietrich. It is alleged that Summers much occupied in Cuba, so govern Graud Victory mine, this county, e,ast Oreoguian predicts 15,000 inháb I iis; <' »' I I the suicide. Majcr Bean was recently procured the Senator’s indictu.e'it in ment engineers were sent to look into soon after, in which two members of il anís fur that town it> five years. Lemberg, March 17. —Reform news the militia were killed. Wood was ordered to the Philippines, and was regard to the Hatstings po : ot' Bully creek, iu Malheur county, I the revort that he submitted. Hie to have sailed June 1. matter without sufficient eride' ce f opinion was, however, that a private tries for the murder of one of these w ill oil a raiupxge and washed out papers state that well informed cir men. Festus Rutherford. The death several bridges. guilt,the wituexr.ee failing to nsU but other creeks cles at Warsaw declare that the Keiser enterprise can manage railroads much penalty was imposed by the jury. tiate hie ch <rg. s. Minnesota for Roosevelt, with lees lively u«me lid the same. of Russia that he may safely withdraw more economically thau the govern bis troops from the Polish frontier Minneapolis, March 17.—The Re- A Milton preicher having engaged for use in the war, as Germany Is l merit. Texas Oil-Field Fire. Si Patrick Day Greetings. publicau state convention today in a street Hit fight, as veil as hot ready to keep watch over the loyalty I adopted resolutions endorsing Roose Forth Worth, Texas, March 17.— language, Lae resigned his ministry, Rome, March 17.—The Pope tjday of the Poles. velt, and naming as delegates at large sent St.Ptarick’s Day greetings to the Fire is raging in the oil fields at Bat ; so ns to be free to whip whom be Senators Nelson and Clapp, Gov. Irish college, saying that be wil> Re eon Prairie. Several tanks exploded, pleases. Sacramento Building Trnu’oles. Van Sant, Thomas Lowry, and the member the Irish people in bis pray spreading the flames The loss thus Sacramento, March 17.—The situa i district delegates named in Wednes ers today. ' far will reach a million. tion in the building tn.de* troucle is day’s convention. practically utcbaiig'd to lay. Car Child Burns to Death. Counting the Vote. penters are the only men it work. Packing Company Insolvent. Lebanon, Or., March 16.- Laura, Indianapolis, March 17.—Counting The Portland team of the Pacific The contractors last night deci led to Chicago, March 17.—Judge Dunne the 6-year old daughter ot Mr. and the miners’ vote began at tan o’clock Coast la-ague defeated the Chicago discharge all union men today ami to this morning appointed a receiver for Mrs. John Middlettadt, was burned As near as possible National team at Bakersfield, Cal., employ non-union n.en and protect this morning, the International Packiog Company, to death at the family home yester- to guess the vote is about tliree-tlfths yesterday by the score of 3 to 2 In a them if necessary. The Buil lor*’ alleged tc be an insolvent concern, day while playing^rith a bed of live New York, March 15.—J. J. Hill, against a strike. ten-moing game. The Portlands seem Association announce their deter having £1,500,000 liabilities and £700,- embers from a brush fire. Iler father before going into conference todav to be pennant winners this year. The mination to stand by the conti actors 000 assets. It is alleged that the di attempted to retene her and wai se with the lawyers and binkers inter- Presidential Appointments. Chicago team defeated Morley's aud make Saerumeuto sii open-sboi rectors lost £1,000,000 gambling on verely burned around the face and e-ted in the Northern Securities,said : Washington, March 17.—Th» Pres clam-ions, of Los Angeles, three own. bauds. the board of trade. "The company will obey the law, no ident has nominated William F. Nich times in succession during the last Big Texaj Fir*. j matter what the inconvenience and ols, of Arizona, to be secretary of few days. Coast Baseball Schedule. j discomfort. As I understand the sit Cleveland's Secretary Dead. San Ar.;; Io, F xus, March l7.— "ire uation, the decision acts hs a finality, Arizona. Also Hal J. Ccle, of Wash- Sim n Forces Defeated. this morning <>• roj uurt-r of a Detroit, Micb., March 17.—Henry i San Francisco, March 16.—The i I don't think we shall have a rehear- ington, to be register of the land of- million dollars' wt . i ul business schedule adopted by the Pacifi- Coast Portland. March 17.-The Republi T. Thurber, ex-President Cleveland’s | ing. What plane we shall pursue de flee at Spokane. can primal tea in Multnomah county property, including tbo San Angela private secretary during bi* second Baseball League last night is being pend entirely upon the advice of oor S3 yesterday re-n! «-d in an overwhelm Hotel. term, died this morning from appen prepared for publication, which will counsel. After only the calmest de- Died Suddenly. be made Sunday. Owing to frequent ing victory tor the Mitchell forces. dicitis. A Double Tragedy. Chicago, March 17.—General H ot - It was a tidal wave. The defeat ci complaint* of discrimination in the i hirst ion will our liDe of conduct be ace H. Thomas, age-i seventy years, ex-Senator Simon and his follower* matter of making schedules public, 1 etermined. ” Bishcp Fink Dead. Lincoln, Neb., March 17. — David 1 the magnates adopted a revolution ton need a tonic. tissue builder, drorped dead in the office of his at was so overwhelming that they will Carroll, a rejected suitor of the hauii Kansas City, March 17.—Louie M. I looking to simultaneous publication producer, fleeb cieator. tins toruey thl« rrornlnj. Heart disease be able to make but a meager show of Annis Maxwell, a daughter of a Fink, Catholic bishop of the Leaven In all league cities. No inkling of I strength He cause* He wm former speak- spring? Hollister's Rnckr Monniin worth diocese, died today from pneu 1 the makeup of the schedule has been Tea will revitHize your entir *y t m er of tbe Illinois house, and was a ing in the county convention next wealthy farmer, shot the girl dead Saturday. this morning, then killed himself. i non is. He was aged seventy yeere. dru^lll’’ “* °r UU*U’ r°n,:romln.nt Gr.nl V my m.n,____ I given out Straub and Shanahan. RAIROADS SUBMIT TO THE LAW Portland Wins