NEWS OF THE WEEK
h i M u s e d Form lor Our
B u y Readers.
HAPPENINGS OF TWO CONTINENTS
A Resum« o f the Lass Important but
Not L «s s Interesting Events
of the Past Week.
The city ol Troy, Montana, (offered
a 110,000 lose by fire in its business
district.
Three were killed and ten injured
In a Great Northern trainwreck in
Montana.
Smoke from forest fires is causing
serious trouble to chips along the Ore
gon coast.
A Worcester, Mass., daily paper tried
the new spelling for one day, but had
to have extra help in several depart
ments
President Allot, of Harvsrd, says it
w ill be a long time before President
Roosevelt’s spelling reform becomes
general.
San Francirco is so badly in need of
lumber that it is being imported from
British Columbia, and paying the duty
of $2 per thousand feet.
San Francisco people have to get up
extra early so as to walk to work, the
street car companies making no at
tempt to run cars sincej the strike be
gan.
REBELS SW ARM IN G IN BRU SH.
Anxiety o f Government Grows With
Increase o f Insurrection.
Havana, Aug. 28. — Tbe anxiety of
President Palma to extend every posai-
be opportunity for peace
without
bluodslied, and his desire to permit
those who joined tbe insurrection un
der misguidance to repent and return
to their homes unmolested, combined
with tbe general wish to end the situa
tion fraught with so much loss and
Buffering, has led to consideration by
the president and his cabinet of a pro
ject decreeing a 30-day amnesty period,
during which the insurrectionists are
invited to lay down their arms and re
turn t> their peaceful pursuits.
It was proposed to issue the decree
tomorrow, but persons close to tbe
president strongly opposed the meas
ure and the matter was referred and
may be relinquished.
Bo far as actual conflict went, Bun-
day proved to be a day of inactivity,
but preparations proceeded
without
abatement. A fund of (2,000,000 has
been set aside by the treasury for de
fense, and drafts on it are heavy.
The situation is so increasingly seri
ous that it is tccitly admitted in all
government circles that the enlarge
ment of the army will not stop at any
given nouibir.
While the number of men at present
leaving their regular occupations to en
list is small, employers are beginning
to find that they soon will be confront
ed with a considerable scarcity of labor.
Many labcrsrs are gathered in front of
the bulletin boards on which is dis
played the call for volunteers issued
by the president Saturday night. They
discuss the attractiveness of a soldiers'
life at such unusual pay, and may en
list.
It was said today that several new
insurgent bands bad taken to tbe
brush. Tbe growth of the insurrection
certainly seems to keep pace with the
preparations for suffocating it.
An Oakland, Cal., man laid his cigar
on bis desk, where it came in contact
with a few grains of cyanide ot potas
RUSSIAN G ENERAL K ILLE D .
sium. Later he placed the cigar in his
mouth, and the poison caused his death
Young Girl Fires Five Bullets From
in a few hours.
Automatic Revolver.
A sack containing sixty pounds of
8t. Peteisburg, Aug. 28.— Saturday’s
giant powder wasg picked up by the unsuccessful attempt on tbe life of Pre
wheel of a steamer on the Columbia mier Btolypin, with its sickening, use
river. It is supposed the powder was less slaughter of 32 persona, was fol
a “ m ine" laid for boats which trespass lowed today by another revolutionary
on the seining grounds.
outrage, in which General Min, com
Ran Francisco car men have declared mander of the 8eminovsky Guard regi
ment, and who since his promotion
a general strike.
to be a general has been attached as a
It is reported that Cuban ineurgonts
personal adjutant to the suite of the
are beginning to desert.
emperor, was killed on the elation
Secretary Root has arrived in Chil platform at Peterhof by a young wo
ean waters on board the cruiser man, who fired five shots into his body
Charleston.
from an automatic revolver and then
Trains are beginning to arrive at without resistance submitted to arrest.
The capture of the girl was effected
Valparaiso with provisions for the
by General M in’ s wife, who held her
earthquake sufferers.
until the arrival of an officer.
Cuban rebels are recruiting their
This was the third successive at
army up to S,000 men, and preparing tempt on the life of General Min, who
for an attack on Pinar del Rio.
was condemned to death by the terror
A relative of Russell Sage, who was ists immediately after the Moscow re
overlooked in bis w ill, claims incom volt last December, on account of stern
repression practiced by a battalion un
petence and will contest the w ill.
der his command, and especially for
France thinks Roosevelt’ s spelling the wholesale execution of persons con
reform Is a move to supplant French demned by drumhead courtmartial for
by English as the language of interna being caught with arms in their bands.
tional diplomacy.
General Min was returning from his
Irivin g Long, aged 21 years, who had summer residence at Peterhof and had
been released on parole from the Cali just greeted his wife and daughter on
fornia state prison, where be had been the platform when a young woman —
doing time for highway robbery, was almost a girl— approached from behind
sentenced to ten years more for break and fired two shots into his back and
then three more into his body as it
ing his parole.
sank to the ground.
Further shots
A terrorist bomb has wrecked the were prevented by Mme. Min, who
borne of Premier Stolypln,
badly threw herself upon the murderess and
wounding the premier and his 3-year seised the hand which held the pistol.
old son, and killing over twenty others, The woman did not attempt to escape,
including the premier’s daughter, aged but she cautioned Mme. Min not to
16, and several prominent offioers.
touch a hand bag which she had placed
One hundred and fifty looters have on the platform before shooting the
general, adding that it contained a
already been shot in Valparaiso.
bomb. To the police the girl acknow
The Cuban government is offering $2
ledged that she had done the deed, say
per day for volunteers for the army.
ing that she had executed the sentence
Wealthy people of Valparaiso are do of the fighting organisation of the So
ing their utmost to aid their more help cial Revolutionists.
less fellows.
Cuban Outposta Are Nervous.
Enthusiasm is increasing for a 20-
Ban Juan de Martines, Aug. 28— The
foot macadam road from Portland to
past 24 hours have been quiet except
Mount Hood.
for shooting last night at imaginary
Letters received in Chicago from objects by men on mil posts. As a re
London say that Paul O. Btensland is sult, tw > brothers asleep in a farm
touring Europe.
house were shot.
One of them died
A new comet, visible through a email and the other is unconscious. The in
telescope, has been discovered by the surgent forces under Pino Guerrera
K ie l obeervatory.
spent last night and today at Ualafre,
The body of Admiral Train, who died near here. No movement has yet been
at Gbefoo, baa arrived at Beattie, and made by either side to attack. Kx-
been forwarded to Annapolis for burial. governor Perex, a Libera), visited Guer
A bogus baron who married a rich rera today and found him to be well in
American girl in Manila has decamped formed as to what was going on.
with bis wife's jewelry and moat of her
Drops a Bomb Accidentally.
sash.
Odessa, Ang. 28.— Late Saturday af
Valparaiso is under martail law, and
is fast recovering from the earthqnake. ternoon a girl dropprd a bomb in the
Nicholas boulevard, 60 paces from the
There
A burglar who attempted to rob a palace of governor Kaulbars.
millinery store in Baker City was put was a deafening detonation and a wild
to flight by a frail woman with a pair stampede of the promenadera. No one
was injured except the girl who drop-
of scissors.
perl the bomb. Her hand was shat
The Southern Pacific is preparing to tered. It is supposed tbe bomb acci
spend 1700,000 or more to turn the dentally fell from her hand before she
Colorado river back to its original reached the entrance to the palace. Bhe
and another girl and a university stu
channel and drain the Balton sea.
dent, who was accompanying them,
Roosevelt has given bis approval to a were arrested.
new spelling reform which includes
Stolypin's Daughter Alive.
800 words, and baa ordered that it be
Rt. Petersburg, Aug. 28.— The daugh
adopted on all his official correspond
ter of Premier Btolypin, who waa in
ence.
jured by the bomb exploaion in the
The rush of depositors to receive the premier’ s summer home Saturday and
first installment of their deposits in the who waa erroneously reported to have
defunct Milwaukee Avenue bank, of died, is still alive, and passed a quiet
Chicago, overwhelm« 1 00 policemen night under the effects of an opiate.
The premier’ s son, who waa also hart,
who had been detailed to keep order.
is better today. The dowager empress
Mutinous spirit is growing in the this morning made inquiries as to the
Russian army.
condition of the children. Two more
persons inj ired by the exploaion died.
Heat in Chicago is causing many
deaths and prostrations.
Ready for Trial Trip.
London, Ang. 28.— The Daily M all’s
Tbe osar has decided to immediately
give land to the peeeanta.
Christiana correspondent says that a
steamer from Rpitshergen brings a re
Japan w ill investigate the killing of port that the Wellman Chicago Record-
seal peach«ra by Americans.
Herald North Pole expedition’ s shed
Southern railroads have announced and balloon were finished last week,
and that Mr. Wellman intends shortly
that they w ill obey the rate law.
to make a trial trip.
Cubsm eitisens residing in New York
w ill ask Roosevelt to take a hand in
Yacht Galilee Damaged.
afialra in Cuba.
Yokohama, Ang. 28 — The magnetic
survey yacht Galilee, which sailed from
A Jewish massacre is threatened at
Ran Francisco about a year ago in the
Lledl'ce. Poland, where the chief of
interests of the Carnegie Institute, waa
police has been killed.
driven on the breakwater here daring a
The Paa-American conference alma typhoon August 24. She woe consid-
to saake gold tb< universal money imeia ereb'y damaged, bat has been floated
and docked for repairs.
• f the western hemisphere.
R E V O L T G AINS HEADW AY.
| ff
OREGON SIATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
FARM ERS ARE IN D E PE N D E N T.
P A Y OF TE AC H E R S.
Receiving
Highest Salaries Now
History of State.
in Can Hold Their Wheat Until the Price
Suits Them.
Salem — Salaries of public school
teachers in Oregon are now higher than
ever before in the history of tbe state.
Thirty years ago tbe average monthly
salaries were (45.68 for males and
(33.64 fur females. During the ’ 80s,
when times were good, salaries in
creased and thosa of male teacheis
reached the highest point just before
the panic of 1893. Tbe average salary
paid to men in the public schools was
then (61.11.
Tbe salaries of
female
teachers
touched the highest point in 1891,
when the reports showed an average of
42.43. The lompensation of instruc
tors in the public schools then started
on a decline and so continued until
1897, when men were receiving an
average of (41.75 and women (33.97.
For the last nine years salaries have
been steadily advancing and have now
reached an average of (60.02 for men
and (44.96 for women.
Multnomah county pays the highest
salaries, but of the outside counties
Lake pays the highest to men and Har
ney the highest to women.
OREGON RANGE FREE.
Grazing Tax Law is Declared T o Be
Unconatltutional.
Salem — The Oregon Supreme court
has declared tbe grazing tax law of 1905
unconstitutional.
The decision will
have no very far reaching effect, for it
baa uot been generally enforced or ob
served.
A test case was brought up
from Umatilla county, with the result
that there is one more ray of light cast
upon tbe problems of tax legislation in
Oregon. The decision will likely be of
advantage in some respects to the legis
lature of 1907, which will give particu
lar attention to the enactment of tax
laws.
Briefly stated, the 1905 statute was
declared void because it is a revenue
tax law and not a license law.
It
possessed the language and elements
of a tax law and not of a license law.
The act provided that a tax of 20 cents
a bead shall be paid upon all sheep
owned by non-residents and brought
into this state for pasturage.
Schools Show Good Advance.
8alem — Material advancement is
shown in tbe conditions of the schools
of the state by the figures contained in
the summary of Superintendent Acker
man’ s annual report, which be has just
given out for publication.
By this
statement it is shown that the school
population has increased by at least
5,000 during the past year, and tbe
total days’ attendance has been in
creased to at least a m illion. Not
withstanding this latter increase, how
ever, the average daily attendance has
fallen off by over 100 days, but tbe av
erage months school taught during the
year has advanced from 6.06 to 6.19.
Salem— That the farmers of the W il
lamette valley are less under the con
trol of warehousemen and millers than
ever before is asserted by W. A. Tay
lor, a prominent Waldo Hills# farmer,
who has t ikeu the lead in tbe task of
breaking the bold of the buyers of
wheat.
“ Farmers are this year buying their
sacks to a greater extent than ever be
fore," he says, "and they are under no
obligations to any buyer.
They are
entirely free to sell when they can get
the highest price. Then many farmers
are planning to store their gra’n on
their farms until they get ready to sell,
instead of haul ng to a warehouse im
mediately. They will make a sale first
and haul the grain afterwardr, and get
better terms.
“ I have noticed,*’ continued Mr.
Taylor, “ that millers and warehouse
men are pretty anxious to get posses
sion of wheat and have been offering
inducements to get farmers to store
grain in their warehouses.
Notwith
standing the declaration that no more
sacks would he lent, sacks have been
offered in the hops that thereby the in
tending buyer would secure an advant
age.
Not many of tbe farmers are
tying themselves up, however.”
Files on Big Power Site.
Eugene— S. W. Curtis, of Ban Fran
cisco, said to represent the Pittsburg
Reduction company, of Niagara Falls,
an aluminum manufacturing concern,
has filed notices of location of a power
site on Horse creek, a tributary of the
McKenzie river, in the vicinity of
Foley springs, 60 miles east of Eugene.
He files on 20,000 miners’ inches un
der a six-inch pressure, and it is esti
mated that 30,000 horse power can be
generated.
Mr. Curtis declines to
make any statement regarding tbe in
tentions of his employers, but it is
presumed that they may, some time in
the future, estalish a manufacturing
plant in Eugene or vicinity.
Publish Irrigation Report.
Portland— Copies of the report of A.
P. Stover, irrigation engineer of tbe
department of Agriculture, on “ Inves
tigations of Irrigation Practice in Ore
gon,” have been received hy local com
mercial bodies.
Mr. Stover includes
in bis report the amount of rainfall in
the various sections, showing where ir
rigation is most needed and how meth
ods are being employed at present to
obtain it. The work was undertaken
at the request of Governor Chamber-
lain, who asked the department over a
year ago to assign an officer to the task.
Cuban
Insurgents Capture Another
Town From Government.
Havana, Aug. 24.— Pino Gnerrera,
the insurgent leader in Pinar del Rio,
today followed up the capture of San
Luis, by taking Ban Juan de Martinez,
the terminus of the Western railroad,
and by threatening to wreck the rail
road and all its property unless the
company ceases forwarding troops for
the government.
Alarmed by these insurgent success
es, tbe government has ordered from
an American arms manufacturing com
pany four rapid-fire guns and that
these pieces be manned by ex-members
of the artillery branch of the American
army now here. I f these guns prove
to be effective, four or more additional
guns will be ordered, and it it expected
that experienced gunners will be pro
cured in the United Staes to man them.
The United States has not been asked
to do anything in the premises.
The subject of American intervention
is not much discussed here, and is re
garded as a remote possibility, there
being general confidence that the gov
ernment w ill be able to restore order in
a short time.
The killing of the insurrectionary
leader, General Quentin Bandera, to
day in an engagement between rural
guards and a band of his followers is
regarded as dealing the insurrection a
heavy blow.
Public opinion appears to vary ac
cording to locality, from enthusiastic
adherence to the government to open
rebellion. In this city tbe general a t
titude is one of loyalty, but there has
been nothing which could be fairly de
scribed as a general rising of the people
in defense of the government.
N O T ENO U G H M O N E Y FOR A L L .
Deficiency in Appropriations fo r Ma
neuvers o f State Troops.
Washington, Aug. 24.— After a month
of hard work, Assistant Secretary O liv
er, of the War department, concluded
that he had finally made a satisfactory
adjustment of the many difficulties in
apportioning the appropriation of (700,-
000 for pay of the m ilitia at the ma
neuvers in different camps throughout
tbe country, but it appears that all is
not satisfactory. In some cases more
state troops than had been given In the
schedule were sent' into tbe camps and
more expense was thus added.
This
caused a deficit in the allotment of
funds, especially in the matter of pay
for tbe state troops. Tbe pay depart
ment of the army decided to pay tbe
troops as long as tbe funds lasted, those
who came last going unpaid.
Another
adjustment may be made after the
camps have finished their work, as
some camps may not use all the money
allotted to them and the funds can be
used to make np the deficit elsewhere.
It is possible that congress w ill be jaek-
ed to make an appropriation to cover
the deficit and the state troops pain
next winter.
City Water for Ashland Normal.
Ashland— The Ashland public scboolB
will open for the fall term Monday,
September 3.
The State Normal at
Ashland will not begin work this year
until September 26, the opening date
being fixed later than usual bo as to
give time to get a number of important
G E T -R IC H -Q U IC K FIRM O U T .
improvements at the buildings and
grounds further under way. A con
Will Add T w o Grades.
tract was let last week for a new heat Postal Department Arrests Operators
Lebanon— At a recent meeting of the
ing plant, which will cover the prin
o f Fake Mexican Companies.
voters of the local school district it
cipal buildings on the campus.
was decided to lease the Santiam Acad
Chicago, Aug. 23.— The operattions
emy building and grounds and add the
of the Tabasco-Cbiapas Trading A
Lack o f Cara Closes Plant.
11th and 12th grades to the present
Transportation company and the Lu
Eugene
—
The
Royce
A
Peterson
ex
high school course. The change will
become effective October 1. The fol celsior p’ ant has closed down here on Me Ha Mills company, Mexican invest
lowing corps of instructors has been account of the failure of the Southern ment concerns, with offices at 16-20
elected for the ensuing year- Princi Pacific to furnish cars. A ll warehouse River street, were stopped today by the
pal, K. K . Barnes; vice principal, space has been exhausted, and there United States postal authorities. Hen
Frank McDougal, of Dallas: assistants, was no recourse but to stop manufac ry D. Bushnell, president, and I . B.
Mrs. C. F. Bigbee, Miss Harriet A lex turing. The company’ s plant at Junc Miller, secretary and treasurer, were
ander, of Gresham; Miss Mary Mc tion City can run about two weeks lon arrested and held in bonds of (2,000
Cormick, Miss Margaret Cotton, Miss ger, and then it w ill have to shut down each.
if cars are not available.
Tressa Moffitt, of Salem.
I t is alleged by the postal authorities
that the operations of Bushnell and
M iller, which have covered a period of
P O R TL A N D M A R K E TS .
Good Hay Crop in Malheur.
five years, have netted them (850,000
Vale—The hay crop has been extra
Wheat — Club, 67068c; bluestem, from innocent investors. The two com
good this year in this county. It is
panies were capitalized for (2,000,000
estimated that the crop is qne-fourth 70071c; valley, 71c; red, 64066c.
Oats— No. 1 white, (22022.50; gray, and according to their literature operat
larger than last year, but owing to the
ed large coffee plantations and owned
old hay left over a year ago, which ( 20 ® 21 .
Barley— Feed, (20 per ton; brewing, several lines of steamers.
The postal
was used during the late season last
authorities declare that such is not tbe
spring, there w ill not be an over sup (22 50; rolled, (2 3 0 24.
Rye— (1.30 per cwt.
case, and that M iller and Bushnell
ply. Three good crops will be grown
Corn— Whole, (2 6 ; cracked, (27 per have been Daying dividends to investors
in many sections, but the low water
from the money taken in for stock in
supply w ill cut some short, as the ton.
Hay— Valley timothy, No 1, (1 1 0 the concern.
full flow of the Malheur river is now
covered by tbe Nevada Ditch com 12.50 per ton; Flastern Oregon timothy,
pany's rights and every ditch on the (1 6 ; clover, (7 0 7 .5 0 cheat, (6.50;
T o Educate Russian Children.
grain hay, (7 ; alfalfa, (1 0 ; vetch ¿hay,
river except one is now shut off.
St. Petersburg, Aug. 24.— With a
(707.50.
view to submitting to the next session
Fruits — Apples, common, 50075c of the council of the empire and the
Hood River Prepares for Fair.
Hood River — Hon. K. L. Smith, per box; fancy, (1 .2 5 0 2 ; apricots, lower house of parliament a bill for
president, and G. J. Geseling, secre (1.2501.36; grapes, (1 0 1.7 5 per crate; universal primary education, the cabi-
tary, o' the Hood River Biennial Fruit peaches. (1 0 1 .1 0 ; pears, (1.75, plums, inet, at a session held on Tuesday, de
fair, have issued a call for a mass meet fancy, 600 75c per box; common 600 cided that such a bill should be draft
ing of the residents of the town and 75c; blackberries, 506c per pound; ed by a special commission. The min
valley for tbe purpose of making ar crab apples, 75c per box.
istry of public instruction submitted
Melons— Cantaloupes, (1 .7 5 0 2 per statistics showing that there are in tbe
rangements for this event, important to
crate;
watermelons,
10
1)^
c
per
pound.
fruit growers. The meeting will take
empire 12,736,000 children of school
Vegetables— Beans, 5 0 7 c; cabbage, age, of whom only 5,389,030 are receiv
place Betpember 1 in the Commercial
l?
»0
2
c
per
pound;
celery.
8
5
c
0
(l
per
club rooms, when plans will also be
ing primary education. There are less
perfected (or entertaining the Oregon dozen; corn, 15020c per dozen; cu than 90,000 primary schools in Russia.
cumbers,
40060c
per
box;
egg
plant,
State Irrigation association.
10c per pound; lettuce, head, 25c per
Americans Prey to Brigands.
dozen; onions, lO 0 1 2 ){c per dozen;
Pay Hop Pickers by Weight.
Washington, Aug. 24.— Brigandage
peas, 406c; bell peppers, 1 2 }* 0 l6 c ;
Woodburn — At a meeting in this
radishes, 10015c; per dozen; rhubarb, is so common near Smyrna, Syria, that
city recently ol the Willamette Hop-
Americans have appealed repeatedly to
202)kc per pound; spinach, 203c per
growers’ association, 86 hopmen were
pound; tomatoes, 60090c per box; the American consulate there for pro
present. It waa decided that all grow
parsley, 26c; squash, (1 0 1 .2 5 per tection in tbe licorice root fields and
ers should endorse the system of pick
crate; turnips, 9 O c 0 (l per sack; 'car tobacco plantations adjoining the city,
and the foreign population is moving
ing by weight, but at the same time it
rots, (101.25 per sack; beets, (1 .2 5 0
was left to the discretion ol growers
into the city from the suburbs because
1.50 per sack.
whether to pick by weight or to use
Onions — New, 1 J »01 X e per pound. of the fear that the brigandage which
measuring baskets of nine bushels each.
has been visited only upon the Ottoman
Potatoes— Oregon Burbanks, 70075c;
The general opinion was expressed that
subjects so far wilt be extended to tbe
sweet potatoes, 4 0 4 t^c per pound.
the price of picking should be 50 cents
Americans bsTe
Patter— Fancy creamery, 22 % 026c foreign populations.
per box or (1 per 100 pounds.
been advisisd that travel in the interior
per pound.
Flgge — Oregon ranch, 2 1 ){0 2 2 c per is unsafe.
M ore Pow er is Needed.
dozen.
Negotiates Treaty With Colombia.
La Grande— Owing to the increase in
Poultry — Average old hens, 13c per
Bogota, Colombia, Aug. 24.— John
demand for electric power, the elec pound; mixed chickens, 1 2 ^ 0 1 3 c ;
tric company has been unable to get springs, 13H 014c, old roosters, 9 0 Barrett, United States minister to Co
along with the energy developed at the 10c; dressed chickens, 14015c; tur lombia, has left here for Guayaquil f„r
Cone power house and it was found keys, live, 16022c; turkeys, dressed, a conference with Secretary Root on
necessary this week to ase'some of the choice, 2O022V{c; geese, live, 8010c; tbe prop wed treaty with tbe United
State« concerning Panama.
The gov
power from Morgan lake.
In all the docks, 11013c.
company is now nsing 700 horse power,
Hope — 1906 contracts, 18 0 20c; ernment has received a proposition from
a French syndicate for opening the
and this ameunt will be gradually in 1906, nominal; 1904, nominal.
Eng
Wool — Eastern Oregon average beet, month of the Magdalena river.
creased.
15019c per pound, according to shrink lish capitalists offer to open Cartagena
Postoffice for Myrick.
age; valley, 20022c, according to fine harbor. Both projects are favorably
Pendleton— The poetoffice at Myrick ness; mohair, choice, 28030c per considered.
station has been reestablished, after pound.
Another Purchase o f Silver.
having been discontinued for several
Veal— Dressed, 51608c per pound.
Washington, ta g . 24.— Tbe director
months. It is a fourth class office and
Beef — Dressed balls. Sc par pound;
the postmaster is William Love. My cows, 41*05 if c; country Steen, 606c. of tbe mint Wednesday pare nosed 100,-
rick Is a small station on tbe line of
Mutton — Dressed, fancy, 708c per 000 ounces of silver at 67 cents an
the W. A C. R. R , 12 miles northeast pound: ordinary, 506c; lambs, fancy, ounce to be delivered at New Orleans.
The price paid last week was 66.62
ot Pendleton. I t is in the midst of tbe 8 0 8 * c .
cents.
rich wheat growing section.
Pork— P ressed, 7 0 8 Igc par pound.
DEAD EXCEED 2,000
Valparaiso At Last Learns Extent
Ot Loss ot Lite.
HALF THE POPULATION LEAVING
Steamers Carrying Thousands
From
Ruined City— Every Church, Hos
pital and Theater Destroyed.
Vaplaraiso, Aug. 23.— Plaxa de la
Victoria as far as the plaza in the sec
tion called Las Deliciaa, f.u r fifths of
the houses are completely destroyed by
the ertbquake, and the remaining one-
fifth are badly damaged.
From the
Plaza de la Victoria down to the custom
house only about one-third of the hous
es sustained damage.
The banks of
the city and the customs warehouses
were not damaged.
With the excep
tion of Espiritu Santo, all the churches
in the city were destroyed, as were the
hospitals and the theaters.
Tbe number of dead is more than 2,-
000. Tbe office of the Havas agency,
although seriously damaged, are still
being used for the company’ s business.
The tragic scenes of the San Francis
co disaster were reproduced here.
There was a fight against fire, the lack
of water and robbery and pillage.
The authorities are now beginning to
get in provisions, and water again is
being supplied.
A ll the fires have
been extinguished.
The first shock
lasted four minutes and a half and the
second two minutes. Most of the hous
es were thrown down by the second
shock.
Estimates of the damage range from
(25.000,000 to (50,000,000.
The Al-
mendral quarter has been absolutely
destroyed.
The people are still camp
ing on the surrounding hills and in the
streets, and only today are calm and
courage returning.
The declarations are made that 80,-
000 people w ill leave the city.
The
lack of food is not yet serious.
Tele
graphic communication was re-estab
lished with Santiago yesterday.
A number of steamers are engaged in
moving the people of the city to points
to the north and south.
T O K IL L G O VERNO R.
Assassin
Makes Attempt on Life of
Cuban Official.
Havana, Aug. 23.— An attempt was
made this evening to assassinate Gen
eral Em ilio Nunez, governor of the
province of Havana. The would be-as-
sassin was arrested.
His identity is
not known, but be is a white man and
was well dressed.
A telegram to the government late
tonight stated that Major Laurent,
with his detachment of rural guards,
fought Guerra and his 300 men for
three hours completely defeating him,
killing or wounding many of his fol
lowers and taking three prisoners. The
dispatch adds that the rebels dispersed
in all directions, being chased long
distances. None of the rural guards
were hurt.
General Jose Miguel Gomez, who
was arrested Tueeday, was formerly
governor of Santa Clara province and
was the Liberal candidate for the pres
idency last year. He is expected to ar
rive in Havana early tomorrow. The
government always suspected Gomez
along with other Liberal leaders of
conspiring or conniving at insurrection
ary schemes, but there was no definite
evidence until it developed that he wa;
planning to take tbe field at the head
of the Santa Clara insurgents. Had
General Gomez taken the field, it would
would have had an immense influence,
as he is a strong, magnetic military
leader.
Captured O ver the Sea.
Chicago, Aug. 23.— “ Paul O. Stens-
land is in custody. He w ill be brought
te Chicago within a short time. He
was captured across the ocean."
This
statement was made this afternoon by
Marius Kirkeby, secretary of the M il
waukee Avenue State bank. He left a
meeting in President Forgan’ s offices in
the First National bank to make the
announcement. “ The directors have
just subscribed (1,000 to have the fugi
tive brought back here. Secrecy as to
the place of capture has been demanded
by tbe detective agency."
Uncle Sam for Banker.
Chicago, Aug. 23.— A movement to
secure more than 1,000,000 petitioners
for the establishment of postal savings
banks was started tonight by the North
Side Turner society, many of whose
members suffered by the collapse ol the
Milwaukee Avenue State bank. The
plan contemplates that the National
association of turners shall tarn each
one of its 37,296 members into a can
vasser for signature«. Every candidate
for congress throughout the country
will be urged to state his attitude, and
all political partis« asked to assist.
Oppose Monroe Doctrine.
San Juan, Coeta Rica, Ang. 23.— At
a preliminary meeting of tbs American
clnb today, the views and objects of
that organisation were formulated. It
is declared to be tbe purpose of the
club " t o work for the union of Latin
America and to be prepared to oppose
the United Btatee in its work of anni
hilation of Latin-American commercial
independence."
The Monroe doctrine
is declared to be a menace to all Latin-
American countries.
China Will Open the Door.
London, Aug. 23.— A corrwpenndent
at Tok’ o, of the Daily Telegraph, re
ports that the United diplomatic repre
sentations of the United States, Great
Britain and Japan have resulted in
China promising to establish customs
on tbe Roeeo Chinese frontier.
Not
until this is an accomplished fact, the
dispatch adds, w ill Japan consent to
the establishment of customs bouses at
Delay and Antong.
8 T O R M F O L L O W E D „T H E S H O C K .
Earthqua! e. Fire, Wind and Lightning
Terrified Valparaiso.
Valparaiso, Aug 21.— The loasof life
by the earthquake of Thursday, A ug ist
16, probably w ill not be short of 3.UU0,
while the property destroyed is esti
mated at (100,000,000, and probably is
far in excess ol that sum.
Order is being maintained with the
utmost severity by tbe military, police
and armed citizens’ patrols, who are
empowered to shoot looters on tbe spot.
The authorities are showing the utmost
energy in tbe protection of property.
With the first terrible jh~ck of the
earthquake buildings collapsed, their
walls falling with a tremenJous noise.
The inmates in many cases were unable
to escape. The shock was followed al
most immediately by a fierce storm, the
wind prostrating tbe wells that had
been weakened by the earthquake, and
these broke trolley wires, which flash
ed incessantly. The second shock was
even heavier than the first.
Five minutes afterward fires started
in every direction, and immediately
the whole town, which had been mo
mentarily in darkness, was illuminated
by gigantic flames. The firemen made
a desperate fight, though there was but
little water, as most of the mains had
been broken by the early tremor.
FOREIGN C A P IT A L T O
REBUILD.
Its Interests A re Large and Chilean
Credit Is Good.
New York, Aug. 22.— Quan Tonkin,
a Chilean civil engineer, who is now in
New York, said last night:
“ In Valparaiso local and foreign in
terests are so great that it is absolutely
certain the city w ill be rebuilt.
The
financial burden of rehabilitation w ill
not be thrown on Chile alone, but also
on the numerous foreign interests,
which include moat of the nations of
the world. Of the foreign interests I
believe the English w ill be tbe heaviest
losers, especially the many Flnglish fire
insurance companies that suffered such
great losses in the destruction of San
Francisco.
However, it must be kept
in mind that Chile enjoys very high
financial credit, especially in the Lon
don market, where her bonds are quot
ed at 99 % per cent. The external debt
of Chile is about (105,000,000, which
has always been scrupulously served,
and it takes only 21 per cent of the
Chilean government revenue to serve
this debt.
The Chilean state railway
atone represents nearly as much as the
external debt, while the salt petre
lands represent four or five times as
much m ore."
K U R O P A T K IN IS NEEDED.
Disgraced General Has Full Confi
dence o f His Soldiers.
St. Petersburg, Aug. 22.— Is General
Kuropatkin, once the pride of the en
tire Russian army, war minister and
fighter by nature, but whose laurels
were trampled under foot by the vic
torious Japaneee at Liaoyang, in the
earlier days of tbe fighting in Northern
Corea and Manchuria, to be vindicated.
That is tbe question uppermost in
the mind of every officer of the army
tonight, and also the chief topic of dis
cussion at the m ilitary clubs, on the
question arising through the indus
trious circulation of a report that tbe
czar has sent for the general and in
tends to place him once again at the
head of the department of War. 8uch
action would overthrow all ancient
Russian t-aditions, but it is apparently
necessary.
Kuropatkin is the one man, and
probably tbe only one in all Russia,
who is in a position to reorganize the
army. He is loved by the common
soldier, who believes that he is the
only officer of general rank who has
their interest at heart.
I f intrusted
with the task of bringing back the al
legiance of the troops to tbe “ Little
Father,” he could do it, and the know
ledge that this is so is responsible for
tbe belief here that he is to come into
his own again.
Since his return from the front, a
disgraced and broken hearted mao, the
general has been in retirement at his
motber’ c home, but it is generally ex
pected that he w ill soon be back in the
capital in his old position as minister
of war.
Wilson Inspects Incognito._____
Omaha, Aug. 22.— Secretary Wilson,
of the department of Agriculture, un
attended, arrived at a local hotel late
last night, and, without registering or
disclosing his identity, early this morn
ing drove in a closed carriage to tbe
packing plants in South Omaha. After
a short inspection of several of tbe
plants the secretary again returned to
this city, raying:
" I am going to
South Omaha, but I don’ t want my
identity known. I have inspected all
the packing plants and found them in
good condition."
Want Pay and Title T o Go With Work
Washington, Aug. 22.— Some better
method of advancement of officers of
the Philippine scouts is advocated by
Brigadier General James A . Buchanan,
retired, former commander of the Vls-
ayas. Under the present law lieuten
ants cannot be promoted to the grade ot
captain.
Many lieutenants of the
Philippine scouts are and have been for
the last five years performing a cap
tain's duty, others raised, organised
and for three or four years kept their
companies in excellent condition, only
to lose their commands.
Storage Dam Is in Danger.
Phoenix, Ang. 22.— As tbe results of
heavy rain in the Salton waterxbeds,
tbe work of the contractors on the gov
ernment storage dam at Roosevelt per
formed daring the past three or four
months bas been greatly damaged, and
unless tbs water falls rapidly, every
thing in the way cf construction, to
gether with much of tbe machinery,
w ill be washed away. Tonight the
whole volume of the river was pouring
through a channel 60 feet wide.
Police Will Keep O rder.
Chicago, Aug. 22.— Payment by Re
ceiver Fetsner of a dividend of 20 per
cent to depositors of the defnnet M il
waukee Avenue State bank, ordered by
tbe court last week, w ill begin tomor
row morning. There were 22,000 de
positors in the institution when it
failed, and in anticipation of a rash on
the place tomorrow an extra detail ot
polios has beea atkal for to keep order