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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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tonnage tax on vessels coming into i
LONDON SPRINGS
Manila harbor, to encourage larg"
steamers to come from other ports
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- 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)
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”*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 • —
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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«.
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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;
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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
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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.
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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