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Newspaper Page TextTWO TWICI-A-WEEK GUARD, THURSDAY. JANUARY 19, 1911 Knees Became Stiff I Kipling Tells Medicine Hat Why It Should Not Change Its N rnmi rio fl «1 Years of S«'vore Rhoumatlenv Til« CUT«’ of Henry ll tot’ SI I •»« I. I h . h > CLEVER IÄ S wìh D ì E k CâüBHÎ r Or HISS? ILS Purtland, July 10.—Train dispatchers, with headquarters here, to the number of fifty, today presented demands for an in crease of wages from $140 to $175 a month. The demand is addressed to the managers of the various railroads having head quarters here. It is expected that after the railroad managers confer on the matter a conference will be arranged with the representatives of the disptachers to discuss the situation and, if possible, reach an agreement. FLORENCE TO HAVE COMMERCIAL CLUB Temporary Organization Effect ed—Other News Notes of Interest QUICKSILVER MINE MOTHER CONFESSES AT COTTAGE GROVE TO MURDER OF BOY ef- <un Distracted Woman Declares Great Bluffs of Ore Near Odd Fellows’ Cem- She Could Find No Place for Him etery Albany N. Y.. Jan. 16.—Prostrat Cottage Grove. Or.. ed with grief and remorse. Mrs. Edith ! extensive body of cinnebar ore Melber, confessed murderess of her been discovered at Gowdyvllle, son George, four years of age, is in most within the city limits of Cottage the care of the matron of the jail Grove. Great bluffs of the ore are here. .The woman was brought to in sight of the public road south of day from Rochester, where she was the Oddfellows' cemetery. The big arrested, and where, the police allege,! fissure vein runs diagonally across she told of having compelled her son the southwestern portion of the buri to drink from a bottle of carbolic al place and on across the mountain acid. District Attorney Sanford wil where mammoth boulders are broken urge that the case be tried speedily, and have slid down the mountain and the grand jury was asked today side. to investigate the boy’s death at once, The discovery was made by Lew A. and return a murder indictment Cates, who accidently stumbled against the woman. over a piece of rock, containing mer- The boy’s body was found in a curie sulpides, visible to the naked swamp near Schenectady, where. Mrs. eye. while he was in that vicinity Melber told the police, after a strug December 24. to gather a Christmas gle to find a home for the lad, she tree for a child friend. gave him the poison. The boy was Mr. Cates will call the property tired and thirsty, and asked for wa the Yuletide mine, and is planning ter. His mother told him the bottle to organize the Yuletide Mining, contained water, and he drank it. Milling & Reduction Company, nego- When she could find no home for tations for options to the laud being her baby, Mrs. Melber sobbingly told under way. the police today, she decided to kill Unlimited quantities of the treat- him. ed ores can be used for filling low “I bought the carbolic acid at the grounds and dyking Silk creek and Lewis drug store, and then went to Coast Fork river, near the property the swamp,” she said. “My mind and within the city limits. Whit was in a whirl. I did not know what man Gowdy. one nf the pioneer resi I was doing. I wanted my boy to be dents of Cottage Grove, is by govern happy. I did not see how it was pos ment grant, owner of that portion of sible to make him so. Everybody the claim nearest the city. seemed against me. I thought if Georgie were dead he would be bet ter off. 1 did not take time to con GERMAN BALLOONISTS sider this matter twice. If I had I FOUND IN LAKE could not have done such a terrible thing. Berlin, Jan. 16.—The Ger ♦ “When he asked for a drink of wa ♦ balloon, Hldlbrandt, ♦ ter I decided it should be given then. ♦ man I knew death would end his suffer ♦ missing since its ascent at ♦ ing. I gave him the acid. He chok ♦ Scharmgendorf, on December ♦ ed a little as he drank, but I held ♦ 29th, was found in Lake Po ♦ him in my arms. Then he slipped ♦ merania province, Prussia, to ♦ to the ground, lying as though he ♦ day. The bodies of both aer ♦ ♦ were asleep. He looked so peace ♦ onauts were in the gondola. ♦ ful. At first I did not think I had ♦ done such a terrible thing. Now the Inhumanity and unnaturalness of my act crushes me.” DALLES CITIZENS TO TAKE CENSUS HOP MARKET HITS 19-CENT BASIS Seavey Buys 200 Bales Silverton From Lively at 18i/2 Cents Net Say Durand’s Figures Absurd and Will Be Ignored— at Astoria Protests Growers are not selling hops and at present refuse to consider offers at any price, but dealers seem to have little desire to hold above he present price and several deals have been reported recently at 18*4 cents a pound net at country points, which means a 19 cent market here says the Journal. Quite a number of 18 >4 cent of fers are out at country points, but not a single acceptance is reported ; by growers, T. A. Lively, a Salem ; dealer, sold 200 bales of Silverton i hops to Seavey Hop company at 18*4 cents net or 19 cents at Portland. Fourteen and a half centB ia now being quite freely offered for con tracts on the coming growth, but as in spot goods, growers are not show ing any disposition to accept. The present price is >4 cent over any re cent offering, indicating that brew ing interests are getting more anxi ous for supplies. A few sales of olds are reported but trading in all hops has been ex- tremeiy quiet recently. The Dalles Or. Jan. 16.-—Th" cens us gives this city a nopnlation of 4880, an increase of little more than 1000 in 10 years, which citizens here consider absurd, since the postal re ceipts have about doubled and the school census shows on increase of nearly 60 per cent Ince 1900. So dissatisfied are the citizens that they will ignore the census figures and make a count of their own. un der the supervision of the Business Men's association. A mass meeting was held In the Commercial chib par lors last night at which it was de termined to make a count of the re“ idents of the city, and when It is finished it will be verified by the Commercial ciub end Business Mint’s association, and given out as the authentic population of The Dalles, regardless of what is shown by tile government enumerators. Astoria, Or. Jan. 16.—While there is no general dissatisfaction regard ing the census returns here, it Is the opinoin of a large number that As toria has a larger population than 9599. There are 2856 children of school age in Astoria and if the pop ulation were figured on the same HAMILTON AND ratio as Portland and other Oregon cities, it would give Astoria a pop ulation of about 15,000. Also when MURPHY CONVICTED I the census was taken a large number of residents were in Alaska and OF HORSESTEALING other coast points employed in the —------ I Men Caught at Goshen Last fisheries and were not enumerated. September Are Found Guilty at Vale I I I I Vale, Or., January 14. Editor Guard:—I thought perhaps a few lines from this place would be I of interest to you and your readers, i Vale is a neat little little town of about 1200 inhabitants, situated on i the west bank of the ‘Malheur river. There is now about six inches of snow on the ground, and not much cold. Lots of undeveloped land about here yet. Would advise any one that in tends to go Into horse stealing to steer clear of Malheur county, and not get mixed up with Prosecuting Attorney J. W. McCulloch. He is sure a hard one on horse thieves. They get their just dues in short or der. Hugh M. Shaver and Hamilton and Murphy have all been convicted of horse stealing. Hamilton and Mur phy were arrested last September at Goshen for stealing the Isaacs horses.' Tours respectuflly. WILLIAM WILLIAMS. Of Dexter. REV. C. T. WHITTLESEY WILL REMAIN HERE Fairmount Presbyterian Church Votes to Retain Him For Another Year The Fairmount Presbyterian church, at a meeting held last week, voted to ask Rev. T. C, Whittlesey to remain with them as pastor for an other year. Mr. Whittlesey has been pastor of the church for a year and nine months. During that time the membership has grown from twenty- five to seventy-three, a flourishing Christian Endeavor Society has been organized and carried on, the Sunday school has doubled in membership, and other departments of the work have made good progress. This ad vance has been made possib'e through the faithful foundation work and hearty co-operation of the former pastor, Rev. C. A. Wooley, and other friends in the church and out. Hot Springs, Ark., Jan. 10. It developed toJay that infor- mation given by a negro bellman at a local hotel ’ed to the ur- rest yesterday of Charles H. Everett, chained with having ob tained $1800 from a savings bank at Seattle nd i r whom de tectives have long been searching through l ilf r tl- e.i BtatCi Four men occupied a room, according 1 the .ief j , ho wns of bills summoned to serve liquids to them. He : :i •i I I on the bed and chairs. When the polic ■ ar ve<’ tl « c Vi disappeared, but a memorandum was f foe h o i >ur groups of figures, aggregating $286.01'0 a h c •p parts. Everett was the only one of the p 11 I t h i lUP'lb > W tila Idaho i to til ■r’, RUDYARD K!PLMC I obt, Ì» I« d <> .< tell, I Whod have thought It of Medicine lint • What? What's that? That's “1 the place the weather conies from,” and it’s just above tlie United States ln British Columbia. Medicine Hat recently hinted about changing Its name because certain Irreverent folk laughed at its queer cognotneu. Rud yard Kipling, most famous of living authors—poet, story writer, novelist Im mediately w rote a letter to tlie Medbine Hat people, ln which he said, among many other things: “So far as I can make out from what 1 li-ard when I was with you in 1907 and from the clippings you inclose the chief arguments for the change are: (at That some United Stfftes journalists have some sort of joke that Medicine Hat supplies all the bad weather of the United States and (bt that another name would look better at the head of a pro .pectus. Inci dentally I note that both arguments are developed nt length by the Calgary Herald. I always knew that the Calgary Herald enlletl Mt lieine Hat names, but I did not realize that Medicine Hat wanted to be Calgary's little godchild Vow. !■< to the charge of brewing bad weather, etc.. I see no reason on earth why white men shoti <i be biutled out >11 Hteir city's birthright by un linporteil A- re> t rhe charge Joyously and roudly ami g > forward i:s Me«ii ine I,at. th" only dty « tflctnlly recognizf'd as capable ^>f freezing out the Unltoil y.-’ies -n l Ivlrg the continent cold feet. Let us exnmine th«- -o in! of the present n.-.nie Mmlii'lne llet. I have my maps by me. but I seem to r -'-ieml «'! a few nai.'.es of f pl; pl;; > - -m--. bolder .ch as S bene t-.«l . Pid i'is. s■ harie. Poii'.ir1.• *' ’>■ •«•« Tonawanda, ttms-ntn. <>te.. nil of hi< li are rather curlouc to :'« > •■•1“ ' - ' —= SUPREME GOUT CALENDAR i Washington, Jan. 16.—Two of the most important cases affecting or ganized labor that ever came before the United States supreme court for decision are on the calendar of that tribunal for today and will probably be heard this week. Tlie appeal of President Samuel Gompers and other officials of the American Federation of Labor from the conviction of contempt of court passed upon them in connection with the boycott of the Bucks Stove and Range company will have an early hearing. Should tbe verdict of the lower court be sustained, Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison will have to pay heavy fines and serve sentences in jail. The appeal was originally set for hearing last fall, but was postponed upon motion of the coun sel for the labor leaders on the ground that it was desirable that so important a case be heard bv a full bench. The employers’ liability < ,ses. in which the Northern . aclfic and New Haven roads are directly, and all the railroad lines of the country indi rectly concerned, is also on today’s calendar and will come up at an early date. HEAVY FINES ARE PAID BY BOOTLEGGERS NEW YORK New York. Jan. 16.—Millions of dollars in dividends were paid out today by savings banks and indus-. trial and railroad organizations. The! Bowery Savings Bank, the wealthiest institution of its kind in the United States, today paid its depositors a semi-annual dividend of 3U per cent. The Manhattan, the Green wich and several other savings banks mad" disbursements today of 4 per' cent on sums of $1000 or less and of 3 14 Per cent on sums of from $1000 to $3000. Despite the troubles of th" state banks, the savings institu tions of New York are said to be more prosperous than ever. The Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing company today paid a quarterly dividend of 1 % per cent and in addition thereto 3*4 per cent on account of dividends accumulated since September 30, 1907. The com pany, which was temporarily enibar- assed, is now said to be on a firm foundation. Dividend and interest disburse ments on stocks and bonds for this month will reach a total of $226,- 700,000, setting a new high-water mark. Of this sum, $133.300,000 represents interest and $93,400,000 dividends. Interest payments will be $17,800,000 more than last Jan uary and dividends show an increase over a year ago of $8,300,000. Five .Millions in Dividend.« Boaton, Jan. 16.—A dividend of $2 per share was paid today by the American Telephone and Telegraph company, the so-called Beil "trust." The total disbursements amount« to nearly $5,000,000. Roseburg Jan. 16.—Douglas coun ty authorities are having a final In ning against the bootlegers before the home rula law can legalize the Il- quor traffic. One indictee, Elmer Hayes, pleaded guilty In the circuit court last week to selling whiskey at Glendale, and paid a fine of $300. Another Glendale man, Ed Dohl, and DOUGLAS BUILDS GOOD Perry Reed, of Sutherlin, both ac ROADS, BUT NO ARMORIES cused of violating the prohibition law, were arraigned in court Saturday Roseburg, Or., Jan. 16.—Approxi morning. Dohl pleaded guilty and also paid a $300 fine. Reed took un mately $175,000 will be spent on good roads in Douglas county this til Monday to plead. year. A general levy of 4 1-2 mills ALBANY TO WORK FOR for that purpose has been made by the county court, providing for a MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP fund of $145,000. In addition, one- third of the sixty road districts in Albany, Or., Jan. 16.—Municipal the county have voted special taxes, ownership of water and lighting utili which will raise an aggregate total of ties is being agitated here and plans not less than $30,000. The grand to have been formulated for the submis tal will exceed by $65,000 any previ sion of the question to the voters at ous sum expended In this county for a special election. A petition has the betterment of highways. The been largely signed for the purpose. 1 court refused to grant the urgent re Complaint is made of poor lighting quest of a number of the heaviest service, and excessive rates for both j taxpayers for a levy of five mills to water and light. The franchise is; defray one-half the cost of building owned by the H. Byllesby company, an armory in this city. which controls several other Wiliam- i ett evalley towns. OLD PIONEER OF I Albany Herald: H. A. Soults of Eugene came down this afternoon to look after business matters. Mr. Soults is president of the Eugene Sand & Gravel Co., which firm does an extensive business in the build ing line, and Mr. Soults is one of Eugene’s most exemplary and enter prising young busines men. BANK SWINDLERS ARE ARRESTED » i, HÎLL-HAR3IMAN that the chair appoint u commit tee of three to prepare a constitution and bylaws and report at another Successful Crooks Are Finally What the M; heu.- Canyon Doti meeting. ’I lie chair appointed F. .1 Really I MD3 to Rail Jailed At Hot Springs, ■■ in-,io. Dr Edwsrda and J» W. lon 3 Bergman >■- such committee. Arkansas Stage Driver Hurt. Saturday night while the Eugene stage was on Its regular trip to Ma- pieton. when a short distance below Ssriss-home one of the wheels struck > root and the driver. Lester Ogden, was thrown out of the wagon. He fell behind one of the horses which became frightened and kicked i ,,,, «ip, ;ym. tine of the wheels uassed over his breast but he manag ed to st stou the team lie drove on as on the r as the Wai Iker ranch and Mr. Mini to alker then accompanied 1 vpieton. wher« b they arrived about ven o’clock S unday morning. Hels’CCll Installation. The following are the officers of Sunset Rebekah 1.oil ire of Flore nee whe wore Jnstalled last week for the ore, ,nt t tiii Mrs. Emma Kyle, N. G Leonore Titus V. G. : Alfreda Llnd- gren sec.; Edwin Kyle, treas.; Mrs. Greta Cox, Fin. sec.: Mrs. Angie Tanner, war.; Mrs. K. D. Miller, eon.: Mrs. J. A. Yates, chap.; Mrs. F. H. Alexander. R. S. N. G.; Mrs. Wm. Kyle I . S. N. G : Flossie Chap- man It. S N. G. ; Mrs. Lillian Smith. L. S. V. G.: Isabella Kyle, S.; John Bergman. O. G. (¡«Mg! Sized Hog. Last w»ek R. W. Johnson of Point Terrace butchered a hog that dressed 500 pounds. After cutting off the hams and shoulders, the fat was fried out from th" remainder and eighteen gallons of lard obtaini’d. The meat and lard brought Mr. Johnson over fifty dollars. If a farmer has a few hogs Ilk»1 this to dispose of, the proceeds of the I sale will do up his pocket-book at a rapid rate. Mrs. C. Nadeau departed Wednes day on h<-r way back to Eugene aft«T spending a week in Florence with j her husband. Mr. Nadeau says that his wife likes Florence and that she would have remained here if she had I the children with her. : born BORN : • e »♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦•♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦« At Elmira. Friday, January 13, 1911, to Luther Armstrong and wife, ad daughter. To Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Burch, at Springfield, on Saturday evening, Jaauary 7. 1911, a son. To Mr and Mrs. J. A. Valsh. at Springfield, on Friday e-fening, Jan uary 6, 1911, a daughter. To Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Cox, at Springfield, Monday, January 9, 1911, a son. Portland. Jan. 16. After carrying on for more than a year a su<’< «'s<ful bank swindling abhetne through which bankers and bu lislnes.' linen In various cities on the Pacir Ic < oast ra aging have been flee«-e<l of sums 1 from $250 to $2500, 11« ■ >y R. Tltorpa, alias George S. Htlmpso >n, w;t s arrost ••«I by Pinkerton detec ct Ives ai Hot Springs, Ark., Saturday y nigh t. Two of Thorpe’s accompllcei >», J <>. Ross and Rose Corelli, are be d I iik h I uk I o v <’*! and, th«’ detectives say, wIII be nr rested within a week. Among the h«'avle«t losers in th, operations of the Thorpe gang are the Merchants* National Bank of Portland, a Seattle bank t hr« •• banks at "'alia Walla, one nt Tacoma, two in Nevada and two at San Francisco In addition, merchants In tlie various «•Itles visited by the swindlers were liilked of thousands of dollars worth of jewelry, diamonds and other vultia bles. Prominent Men llooitw iiik« <l Tlie eXU nt of their operations, the success which attended them In ev ery case, the hoodwinking of bo.li baukiTH and prominent lawyers, and the effrontery of the gang In follow Ing up its work from city to cltv without detection are features which make It tlie most striking swindling game In the criminal anncls of th«* Pacific coast. RESUME WORK ON SIUSLAW JETTY Contractors to Get Busy Again After MSnth's^Vaca tion Lay-Off The SliiHlaw jetty contractors In tend to resume work next week, through Mr. Wakefield states that he does not expect to commence putting rock in at the mouth of the river be fore February 1. Operations at the rock quarry are to commence Monday as a crew of men will be put to work clearing out the drift that has fallen In, and get ting In shape for handling rock again. A few men will begin cutting wood at the jetty next «week and preparing for active operation there again as soon as they are ready to bring down rock from the quarry. It Is about a month since the work was suspended for the holidays — Florence West. t Real Estate Transfers i At Elmira, Jan. 13, 1911, to Luth Frank R. Jones to J. L. Stoner er Armstrong and wife, a daughter. 100 acres In sec. 5-8-18 S; $1.00 Fingal S. Hinds to W. H. Harri ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ son tract in sec. 33-20-3 W; $575. Lyman Adams to James t DIED : hea«l 39 acres in sec. 17-21-3Bank- W ♦ ♦ $1 400. Katie Walsh Brumette to J II ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ 'N I Brumette tract Hl W; At the General hospital In Eugene, $10. Jan. 14, 1911, Warren Allen, son of J. L. Stont to Emma J. VanVIlet Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Allen, aged 18 100 acres In sec. 5. 8, tn. 18-5 W years. Death was due to obetruc- $3500. tion of the bowels, He had been ill Orville D. White to A. T. McAus- only a few days. land lot 8, blk. 6 of Mulligan’s add The funeral will be held at the to Eugene; $1.00. Central Presbyterian church ______ Wednes-j _____ _ W. II. Pennington to J. M. Wilson day afternoon at 2 o’clock. —..... Rev. H. I 41.23 acres in tp. 17-4 W; $1600 N. Mount will conduct the services. J IT. Howard to G F. Kelso 27 75 ......... ......... . acres In sec. 30-15-4 W; $1 248. At the home in Florence, Tuesday, P. Kelson to J. M. Howard blk January 10. 1911, of tuberculosis. 105 and 1-3 of lot 6, blk 94 ((f Fred E. Ra/tnond, aged 4 4 years, Junction W City; $800 I two months and eight days. Clark ,o Charles Huff SW % of 8W*4 of sec. 14-18-4 W The County Court of Douglas has 40 acres; $200. levied a general tax of 10 mills, which will raise approximately $31 g’ n AinMK>val^r, to P' M ■’"»•nson lot 51 °f Jllncll,,n City; 000, figuring upon the valuation of $200° bk 1910, which are $31,648,558.00. A. H. r Notlage - to T. H Phillips The amounts art? apportioned as fol tract In Morse’s add to town of lows: State taxes, $50,637.69; >50,637.69; Florence; $800. WASHINGTON DIES Douglas county taxe«, $77,538.96 E. C Hughe« to C. A. E I>uncan Dunean common school fund, f 114,307.98; "---- ~ ’ lot on Van Buren and 11th sts $1 Seattle, Jan. 1 6.—Jospoh Foster, deficiency, $374.25; library —fund, a pioneer of 1852, who had served $632 97; indigent fund, . 1949.45; weliTaci in 's^1 14 terms in the state and territorial roads and bridges, $1 42.426.51. legislature, died today at his home in Faster, near this place, aged 83 J. Daltman, of South Bend., Ind. years. He leaves a fortune of half a was an arival In Eugene this after million. noon. ci“; im '■ bl‘ " Th« Guard Clasalfrsd Ada Pay. Portland. Jm 1 H I> omm I n» rallroa in the Mi Iht'iir thf Hill gon it vili I mi a » by b and H.i:rlm.’<. ■ I» h!«s p »Id.llg l() the most r> « tit th«- ir.m <;.« tion bv òli h » « i ip or right-of-way 7u nill.’N ill Iriuub wail transferred by tlV BolMe A. \V»»Ml. i n a Hill eorporatlt in. to Ihr Or» :on Eastern, a Harr muri inMltnu n. While the nr DI!» rtv vlrli .iHv bt. comes a 1 lui r I mu li that s>s «' HI Ihv i» tlnuous pita« been termed the key to the Ea* Oregon railroad situation, it I* un stood 111 itt a common user «green will be < nt« r. d Into with the Illi teresla. Neither party to the transaction confirmed or denied the report, cept to h ly tiiat the road will be built by tile Harrlinaiis. However, Il Is mi milted on all side* that tiler«’ ls got h Ing In the situ; lion that w ill prevent an agreement whereby the rival road may operate Its trains over the pro posed new tracks. Idaho < tut let In l*r<M|H*< t Even this arrangement however, would leave Hill without an outlet in Western Idaho, bnt this, It Is be lieved, can be supplied by one of ths several routes now receiving contid- eratlon. Already there la some talk of a Western extension of the northern branch of the Burlington Into South ern Idaho. This would provide tbe dealred outlet for the eMt-and-went road through Oregon, and give Hill reason for continuing hla bold on Malheur canyon. Persons close to the builder of the Great Northern system declare that his sale of the 70-mlle strip provides no reason for concluding that he has given up bls purpose of invading Eastern Oregon. William J. Hanley, of Burns, who Is said to be close to Hill its any one not directly connect«'«; with his official family, talked when he whh here last week of hla possible construction of a road south of the Malheur canyon route, providing for a connection with the Deschutes line, which Is now heading for Bend and which promises to be extended In a southerly direction as soon as the line at present projected Is complet ed. Stcvi'iis Expected Home Today John F Stevens, head of th«, Hill roads in the Northwest, Is scheduled to return to Portland from a month s stay in Chicago and the East today. He Is expected to give some Informa tion with reference to the plan sug gested for the joint usage of the pro posed Malheur line. J. I’. O'Brien, general manager of the Harriman lines In Oregon, said last night that the transfer of the title In the 70-mlle atrip through the canyon gave the Harrlntans sole own ership In the property, and predict««! that when the road Is built It will be owned entirely by the Harriman sys tem He admitted, however, that tt traffic or a common user agreement is possible. No definite steps have been taken to construct this piece of track, but Is Is believed that the authorization of the line will bo one of the next steps of the Harriman officials. COLLEGE GYMNASIUM AT DALLAS BURNS: $7000 Dallas, Or., Jan 16 The Dallrs college gymnasium was entirely dis t.royed Sunday afternoon by fire. The fire was first noticed nt 3:15 P- m. The fire department was un able to do anything to check the fire except to keep the Southern Pacific company’s water tank and bridge from burning. The fire started In the lower floor and spread rapidly throughout the building The gym- naslum t?-.. Wa" v»ln«.«| at $60110 or $7000, and carried —....... I an Insurance of $2500. “ The origin of the fire Is tin- known, though It was probably set s-t. on fire by a»m>' l.oyg who had bunding g ln th" ,OW“r part nf V1.11 Hn(1 her Either. P I’ aimer, left today for Fruitvale, Cal. I ae,'?mi,«tiled by Mrs. C. L. Hadley, of Roseburg.