TWO MEN BURNED.
IGNORANCE OF SANITATION.
Washington County News
Lower Classes injRussia Refuse to
Be Vaccinated.
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
Futilities Follow Forest Fires Near
Eureka, California.
WRECK IN M O M »
Eureka, Cal., Sept. 2 5 — A strong
St. Petersburg. Sept. 29__ Since the
wind fanned forest fires to the north
OREGON
beginning o f the epidemic there have
j f this city that wiped out the town
forest grove
been 15.633 eases o f Asiatic cholera re
LAND CONCENTRATION.
of Luffenholtz from the map last
WANT GOOD ROADS.
ported in Russia and 7,102 deaths. In
.light, and that ‘ were again raging
9t. Petersburg alone, since the presence Enthusiastic Meeting Held at Medford Big Farmers Are Acquiring Contro
ith added force, and the greatest
of Eastern Oregon Tracts.
o f the disease was officially admitted
destruction during the progress oi
by Association.
September 8, there have been 4,931 cases
Pendleton__ One o f t'..e most impor the fire was recorded during the day
M edford.— That the people o f Med
The plant o f the Little River Red
and 1,871 deaths reported.
tant
industrial tendencies of eastern
t'ord and vicinity are thoroughly alive
Newsy Items Gathered from All
wood Lumber company is burning
The figures with reference to the in
Jregon
ig
the
rapid
concentration
of
the
o the good roads campaign was em
and all that protects the town o f Dead Nearly All in One Car— Blinding
vasion o f this city by the disease can
Parts of the World.
phasized last week, and a most en- farming lands into the hands of a few Fieldbrook is too yards o i green tim
Snow Storm Prevented En
not be relied upon as on a number of
This year the enormous wheat her, which may ward o ff the flames,
husiastic meeting
was held. So
Lest Important but Not Lest Inter occasions authoritative sources showed
although the residents are preparing
erop
o
f
Umatilla
county
was
harvested
gineer Seeing Ahead.
horoughly are M edford citizens inter
esting Happenings from Points
the number o f cases and deaths in a
by fewer men than ever before. See to flee with their household goods.
•sted
in
the
movem
ent
that
the
busi
The fire devastated a stretch of
Outside the State.
tion after section of the best wheat
single day to be far in excess o f that
ness houses were closed in order that laud is being bought up by the big farm :imber over 30 miles long and from
snnounaed by the authorities. There it
Butte, Mont., Sept. 26.— In the
he members might attend the meet ers who already own many square miles tour to five miles wide, burning
and the farms are being gradually aban houses, mostly squatter settlements, worst wreck in the history of the
Japan will soon withdraw her troops an appreciable betterment o f the sani ing.
ihousands of cords o f wood and many
tary conditions and consequent decrease
from North China.
The meeting convened in the Com Joned by their former owners, who are thousands o f acres of timber land. Northern Pacific Railroad, 20 persons
moving in large numbers to the new
Austria’s designs against Turkey are in the disease as shown by the figures nercial club room s, anil the hall was
The plant of the Little River Red were killed, 10 seriously injured, sew.
wheat districts o f Alberta.
eral fatally and about 30 more or less
given out Sunday.
opposed by Russia.
crow ded Judge William Colvig. pres
in the Athena district over 100 farm wood Lumber company, now reported
For the 24 hours ending at noon the dent o f the Commercial club, pre ers have sold out in the past 15 months burning, is valued at $1,U00,U00, ex injured in a collision between passen
Cholera has broken out among Rus
sian hospital nurses and caused a number o f new cases in the city wa? tided. John H. Scott, president of and moved away, most of them to Can clusive of timber, of which there is ger train No. 16, known as the east-
268 and the number of deaths 143, as he G ood Roads association for Ore ada, and the land is now* owned and >everal thousand acres.
panic.
bound Burlington flyer, and a west
io n , spoke o f the importance o f good
Tw o deaths have been recorded. A
The first football death of the sea compared with 312 new cases and 153 roads and outlined the formation of farmed by wheat kings whose prestige body found, at f.rst thought to be bound freight train, at 8:10 o'clock
s
increasing
from
year
to
year.
The
son has been recorded at Waterbury, ■leaths for the previous 24 hours.
■ssociations throughout the state to only increased settlement in any por
hat of A. Carlson, has now been yesterday morning, at a siding known
Conn.
dentified as that o f Frank White- as Youngs Point, about thirty miles
D ifficulty has been experienced in work for the enactment o f legislation tion of Umatilla county is in the irri
Dalai I.ama. o f Thibet, is visiting dealing with the workmen of St. Peters iroviding for the appointment of state gut ion districts, where small tracts are more, while another charred corpse west of Billings. The fast traveling
Pekin, where he was received with burg, who with their families comprise hghway commissioner, and for appro being bought up gradually by new set iound at Trinidad has not been iden
passenger train crashed into the
iriation to construct one or more tiers and where great development is tified.
great cerem ony.
three-fifths of the population for they ontinuous lines of road through the
ireiglit just entering on the siding dur
Fire
is
now
going
inland
up
Little
looked
for.
Am ericans have been warned to
state He also advocated a state ap
River at a furious pace. At noon the ing a blinding snow storm, the en
stay away from the Yaqui country as were unable and unwilling to comply iropriation of $10,000 for each o f tw
wind was blowing the flames through gineer of the passenger failing to see
with the sanitary precautions.
The
Beet Sugar Yield.
the Indians are troublesome.
/ears, with a provision that the coun
parse timber that was once logged
ignorance
of
the
lower
classes
and
theii
La
Grande__
An
average
yield
of
65
y appropriate a like sum for the pur
The steamer W olverine, which plys
if or denuded o f its big trees, but the signal flag o f the brakeman of the
bushels
to
the
acre
is
the
result
ob
superstition
greatly
increase
the
diffi
>ose of constructing a piece o f per
on Lake W innipeg, is missing and
o fast are they traveling that there freight train in time to avert the
culties o f the situation. During thi nanent road in each county, so that tained by the management o f the farms s no doubt they will again get into crash.
may have been lost in a storm.
belonging to the Amalgamated Sugar
J. J. Hill became lost in his own earlier stages o f the epidemic few eouhl eventually the roads so constructed in company on the 2,000-aere Hall ranch hick timber at the head of Little
A heavy, wet snow which was fall
he various counties would unite anil
railroad yards at St. Paul and was re be prevailed upon to undergo preventive
near Union this year. The Hall ranch river, when the damage will be hard ing at the time prevented the wreck '
buked for being there by an employe inoculation, which is provide«l free of nake some continuous lines o f road has been considered, heretofore, as a o estimate. If fire once gets into trom catching tire, and undoubtedly
throughout the state.
his timber, there will be no stopping held the death list dow n to the figures
who did not recognize him.
piece of land that was not on a par with
charge, but latterly the authorities
the rest of the Grand Konde valley, for t until it reaches the Trinity county given. Every effort is being made by
W ilbur W right continues to make have made inoculation compulsory in
Looking Glass Trail Completed.
the division forces, aided by volun
the reason that a part o f it was too wet ine, unless the wind changes or
flights with his aeroplane at I.emans,
heavy rain falls.
teers from Livingston and Billings, to
France. The flights are made both some quarters o f the city.
Pendleton.— O f„ deep interest to for successful farming, and a part of it
very dry. But this season the
clear the wreck, and so far they are
with and without companions.
stockmen using the Wcnalia national
ROCKEFELLER
AS
AUTHOR.
sugar company has employed 155 men
able to prevent turtner loss o f lite.
A hurricane swept the Bahama Is
SITUATION MOST SERIOUS.
orest grazing privileges is the an on the farm, kiqiC 40 teams busy, and
None of the passengers from the
lands.
A number o f vessels were
•louncement by J. M. Schmitz, the bv intelligent effort so ilruineJ the wet Oil King Makes Denial of Accusations sleeping cars was injured. The train
wrecked and towns wiped out. It is
was made up of an engine, baggage
Unbroken Drouth in East Is Raising supervising forester in charge, that laud and irrigated the dry that the
Against Him.
said tu have exceeded the storm of
rop of small grains, consisting of
car, smoker, a day coach and two
Havoc With Industries.
he I.ooking Glass trail has been com
I860, which has always been a stand
New York, Sept. 25.— John D Pullman sleepers.
wheat, oats and barley, averaged 65
ard of comparison.
Pittsburg. Sept. 29__ With losses ag pleted. This trail extends from the bushels to the acre.
The efforts to prevent fire were suc
Eockefeller appears for the first time
Tollgate
to
M
otett
meadows,
through
The Indiana legislature has passed a (regutiug several million dollars from
n the role of an author in a series of cessful and that horror was saved the
local option law.
wrecked passengers. On the arrival
Packing Plants Ready.
■'Orest fires, and heavy ilamnge to crops 12 miles of as rough country as is to
rticles on "Som e Random Reininis-
o f the relief train the injured were
Roseburg.— The two large prune
A steamer has arrived at San Fran ind livestock, and the reported loss of be found in that part o f the Blue
ences
o
f
Men
and
Events,”
the
first
nountains, and its construction will packing plants in this city have com
transferred around the wreck and
cisco with a ease of cholera.
i number of lives due to fighting tim result in a great saving of time and pleted the work of installing the new if which will appear on Friday in taken to Billings.
Turkey is arranging for its first elee her fires; the enforeeii idleness o f thou expense to the stockmen, who have
he
O
cober
issue
of
"T
h
e
W
orld’s
The express car was raised over the
machinery, and are now ready for the
W ork.”
tion when a parliament will be selected.
platform o f the smoker, and swept
lands of workmen owing to suspensions been compelled to drive their flocks fall run o f packing. H. S. Gile & Co.
Mr.
Rockefeller
gives
as
a
reason
■cross that section o f country in get have added several new and up-to-date
superstructure, seats and passengers
The American battleships Maine and because o f lack o f water; the authori
ting access to their allotments of equipments for the handling of evap .'or speaking now that "if a tenth of off. Not a passenger /in this car es
Atlanta have left Naples on their way
ties anticipating serious epidemics of ange. He also reports the comple
he
things
that
have
been
said
are
caped death or injury. The other pas
orated prunes, and they expect to pack
home.
-ontagious diseases, and many small ion o f tw o rangers' cabins, one at more than 50 carloads this season. The rue, then dozens o f ahle and faithful sengers escaped with cuts and bruises.
English authorities declare the sav
nen
who
have
been
associated
with
Tollgate and one on the Umatilla E. W. Tilson & Co. ’s plant has added a
The scenes around the smoker were
ings banks in schools o f London have streams dried up anil practically oblit river.
new boiler, and also new machinery me, many of whom have passed away, beyond description, heads, bodies, legs
rated, the drouth o f 1908, which has
proveu a failure.
nust
have
been
guilty
o
f
grave
faults.
and arms being interwoven with
throughout, besides several additional
The Canadian Pacific is said to havp «•Id western Pennsylvania, eastern
rooms for the use of storing and pack For myself, 1 had decided to say broken seats and equipment. In one
After Big Contract.
tothing,
hoping
that
after
my
death
bought the White Pass railroad, which >hio and West Virginia for two months
ing. This plant will handle upwards of
place five bodies were packed on top
the truth would gradually come to of each other. In another seven had
P ortland—Several Portland firms 75 carloads of prunes this season.
runs from Skugway to Whitehorse.
emains unbroken. While in the Pitts
he
surface
and
posterity
would
do
to be pulled apart. It was almost im
urg district the water supply is suffi have made bids on a $500,000 gov
Rome of the railroads are almost short
strict justice; but while I live and possible to succor the injured without
Estimate Water Cost.
on rolling stock after months when
ient to carry on all business, the Ion ernment contract for hay and oats
can testify to certain things, it seems trampling on the dead.
there were idle cars ou every sidetrack itage o f the rivers has caused a con for the Philippines, which will be let
Klamath Falls.— The cost of the fair that I should refer to some points
Railroad men, while refusing'to be
which 1 hope will help to set forth quoted officially or allowing their
The coroner's jury hold the freight ;estion o f much coal in this vieinity. by the quartermaster's department water under the Klamath project
crew to blame for the wreck on the ■Ivery available barge and float has O ctober 5. The contract is the larg now being determined upon by a everal much discussed happenings in names to be used because of the reg
new light. I am convinced that ulations of the road in connection
Northern Pacific at Youngs Point, Mon
>een loaded with coal, and at present ■st one of the kind ever placed on the board o f reclamation engineers in scs
hey have not been fully understood. with publicity as to wrecks, intimate
tnna.
Pacific
coast.
In
the
specification
sion
in
this
city,
and
it
will
be
made
hero are almost 20,000,000 bushels in
"It has been said that I forced the that the freight train was stealing
ssued by the quartermaster, bids were public in a short time The cost of
The first word from Peary has been
men who became my partners in the time, that it had no orders to proceed
isked on 10,000 tons o f hay and 9.009 irrigation per acre will not be uni
received by the Pe-ry Arctic club. lie he Pittsburg harbor.
About 15,000 miners employed in th« oils o f oats. Delivery must be made form over the territory embraced in lil business to join with me. I would to Youngs Point and should have
left North (Ireeuland for the north Au
not have been so short-sighted. If it waited at Park City, about six miles
n the Philippines within the next six the project, but will vary according
gust 17.
iver mines along the Mononguhela val
were true that 1 follow ed such tactics. from the scene of the wreck, for the
nonths.
William
Albers,
o
f
Alber
to
the
ease
with
which
water
is
put
ey are out of work.
1 ask, would it have been possible to passenger train. This is supposed to
Miss Katherine Elkins, of West Vir
tros. Milling company, has just re upon the lands, it being more difficult
make of such men life-long com explain why the Burlington train was
ginia, will marry au Italian duke. On
In all sections o f the dry zone pray
urned from Seattle, where he has in some sections.
panions?”
their way home the eouple will be es ■rs are offered up daily aud these pray
traveling about 50 miles an hour past
been looking after the bid made by
Mr. Rockefeller speaks o f the dc the siding.
sorted by several Italian warships.
rs will continue until they are an iiis firm. Allen & I.ewis, of Portland
velopment of the Standard Oil com
Begin Seeding at Athena.
ire also preparing to bid on the mam
Leslie Carter, one-tim e capitalist
wered with rain.
Athena.—The first rain o f the sea pany and says that the plan of selling
WOULD KILL ROOSEVELT.
noth contract.
and prom oter of Chicago, is dead.
lirect to the consumer and the ex
son has fallen here. It was accom
ceptionally
rapid
growth
of
the
busi
Cholera in Manila will prevent thi
panieil by a severe electric storm
Charges of Excessive Rates.
STUDENTS FIGHT DISEASE.
reception to the fleet as planned.
which destroyed telephone communi ness "bred a certain antagonism Several Plots Uncovered in Different
Salem.— Representative R. J. Jones cations for an hour or two. The deep which 1 suppose could not have been
Parts of Europe.
Fire at Oakland, Cal . destroyed al
most an entire block, entailing a lost Drafted in Manila to Battle With Epi •f Polk county, has filed tw o com dust along the roads was suddenly avoided.”
Bayonne. France, Sept. 26.— Evi
demic o f Cholera.
ilaints with the railroad commission converted into mud, and the summer
of $100,000
dence of an anarchistic plot against
STORM DAMAGES PROPERTY
fallow in the fields was made ready
President Roosevelt o f the United
Manila, Sept. 29.—There were 14 new n which he asks for hearings to sub for seed. The farmers are rejoicing
The wind has died dow n and dan
States was yesterday made public by
ger from the Eureka, Cal., forest firet aseit of cholera and three deaths re stantiatc charges o f alleged excessiv over the rain, and fall seeding will be
Severe Results from Rainfall ahd Elec the secret police of several European
'ates exacted by both the expres
has greatly abated.
■orted for the 24 hours ending at 8 ompanies operating in O regon Sep gin within the next few days.
countries.
trical Tempest in California.
J. F. VV. Clark, an Alaskan, is on a i ’clock yesterday morning. Practically
rate complaints arc brought against
Spanish secret service agents dis
Los Angeles, Cal.. Sept. 25.— A covered traces of the plot while exam
visit to Pacific coast cities and hat he entire staffs o f the bureau o f sei
$10,000 for Lincoln.
he Pacific Express company, which
just seen his first trolley car.
Waldport. ■Bulge John H. Scott of I storm of unpreceden'ed extent and ining Canatrava, the famous Spanish
noes and the local medical schools have 'perates on the O R. & N., and the
The epidemic o f cholera at Manila ■een drafted into the service to fight .Veils Fargo Jones alleges that the the Oregon Good Roads commission Juration for this time of year visited anarchist, in an effort to connect him
ates charged by these companies arc spoke to a large erowd_of Uneoln coun | this city and the surrounding'counViVs with the suspected plot against the
seems to he under control. The daily
he disease. The two senior classes ot inrcasonablc. unjust and unlawful ty business men last week. An effort the past 48 hours, the rainfall amount life of the king o f Spain.
average o f new cases has fallen be
he medical schools are acting as nurses mil wishes the railroad commission will be made to secure an appropriation ing to several inches in some places
Papers were also found rrn tw o Ital
low 30.
and the electrical display which ac ian anarchists arrested at Sessa. Swit
A serious situation is caused by thi o adjust them or establish new rates of $10,000 from the legislature.
Roosevelt has refused to grant a
s the commission has authority to do
zerland.
Wednesday, containing the
companied the storm resulting in con
petition to stop Sunday baseball in the upply of disinfectants running very inder the law. if the rates are found
siderable property damage, particu most definite information possible re
PORTLAND MARKETS.
army, declaring that the game is fine ow. Tho bureau o f sciences is experi
inrcasonable. ______________
larly at Bakersfield, where a ranch garding
Roosevelt’s African
trip.
exercise for the men.
nenting with electricity and sea watei
They are now being held at Geneva in
Barley— Feed, $26 per ton; rolled house was struck and destroyed.
A combination has been formed bj
Light from Waste Waters.
o produce chlorine for use until th«
A cloudburst in the Kern river oil an effort to obtain further informa
$27 500728.50; brewing. $26.50.
Pacific and Atlantic steamship com
Pendleton.— Hermiston, Echo and
O ats— No. 1 white, $30 per ton fields caused the loss o f a great quan tion against them.
tew supplies o f disinfectants arrive.
panies to secure European trade in
tity
of oil, which escaped to the irri
There has been much activity noted
gray. $29
competition with the transcontinental ■Inonnous quantities o f disinfectants Jmatilla are to be supplied with elec
gation ditches. At San Luis Obispo among the anarchists o f Europe dur
W
heat—
Club.
89c
per
bushel;
forty
iave been used in vigorous efforts to ric lights within a year if the prom
railroads.
fold, 92c; turkey red, 92c; fife, 89c; a barn was struck by lightning, . de ing the nast few weeks, but this is the
scs made by a com pany which ha bluestem. 93c; valley. 91c.
stroying it and so terrifying the first definite information that has been
Representatives from the principa' leanse the entire city.
•omplctcd
its
organization
nrc
ful
Hay—Tim othy. Willamette Val'ey horses that six had to be shot.
secured as to the nature o f their plans.
cities of the Pacific coast have started
tiled.
Drainage
water
from
the
gov
$14 per ton; Willamette Valley, ordi
on a trip to Japan to cultivate th<
New Party in Cuba.
eminent
reclamation
projects
is
to
be
nary, $11; Eastern O regon, $16 50
friendly relations of the brown bus
Local Option Wins Point.
Hope to Save Stranded Cruiser
Havana. Cuba, Sept. 29__ That the itilized to develop horsepower su
¿ness men and offset anti Japanese
mixed, $13; clover. $9; alfalfa. $11; al
Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 25.— Local
Newport, R I., Sept. 26.— The work
liberal party will lose the entire negr.
icicnt to furnish the towns named falfa meal, $2 >.
sentiment.
ote in the coming election seems as
vith light and also to make possibl
Fruit— Apples, new, 50c'ii$l 25 per optionists made a stand in the house of extricating the United States
Thaw has been summoned to Pitts
ureil, ns the result of an attack luadi
he operation of a small electric sys b ox; peaches. 2 .Vo 65c per b ox; pears yesterday, and won a signal victory cruiser Yankee from her position on
burg for contempt in connection wit! >n a mass meeting of negroes by a mol
em in the heart o f the irrigation belt 20c(u$l per b ox ; plums. 50cfq$l per over their opponents, who have been
c nindte Rock where she struck dur
his bankruptcy proceedings. This i- •f Liberals. The fact that the negro
b ox; grapes. 40c(u$125 per crate; working persistently to gain an ad
said to he a part of the scheme to dement proposed to form a nationa
ing
a fog on W ednesday, was cen
vantage
over
the
anti-liquor
forces
Land Board Approves Loans.
Concords. 20c per basket; huckleber
■arty angered the Liberals, ns they saw
The bill was advanced to a second tered yesterday in the construction of
liberate him.
Salem. — Applications for loan ries, 8(u 10c per pound.
Rockefeller had a narrow escape hat such a party would draw more from imounting to $4« 623 were approved
Potatoes —
per hundred, reading after a vote which showed a wooden coffer-dam about the ves
heir ranks than from the Conserva
31 to 49 in favor o f the local option sel. Tt is he'icved it will take almost
from injury in an automobile acci
sweet potatoes, 2c per pound.
’iy
the
land
board
at
its
last
meeting
ives. General Estenoz, leader o f the
M elons— Cantaloupes, 5001 75c per ists The close vote does not fully a week to erect the same, and it may
\t
the
first
o
f
the
month
a
similar
dent.
legroes, has announced that his party
signify the full extent o f the victory he a week or m ore before the vessel
Eastern Oregon has had its first s a certainty, as his followers cannot imount was approved, making the crate; watermelons, Irfftc per pound; for there were many powerful intlu is finally freed Should the seas con
casabas.
$2(»i
2
25
per
dozen
otal
for
September
over
$90,000.
The
snow. Only a flurry lasting a few lope to secure their rights without »
Vegetables—Turnips, $1 5u per sack; rnces exerted against the anti-liquor tinue smooth during that time it is an-
■lumber of applications during the last
•arty of their own.
minutes fell.
■>w weeks has increased heavily, and carrots, $173; parsnips, $173; beets. men An effort was made to kill the tirinntfd that thr work will progress
bill by indefinitepostponement.
Portland is to close up its red lighi
without serious danger to the cruiser.
lie land board was compelled to re $t 30; artichokes, 65c per doz ; beans
New Road to Peace River.
district, and extra police have been
luce each individual loan below the 3fn 4c per pound; cabbage, 2c per
Wright
Makes
Good
Trip.
Vancouver. R. 0., Sept. 29. -A special imount asked by the applicant.
provided for the purpose.
pound; cauliflower. $t 25 dozen; cel
Pauper’s Grave for a Gould.
ery. 73cf<i$t per dozen; corn. 75c(q$l
I.emans. France, Sept 2 3 —Wilhttr
I.os Angeles. Sept. 26.— Officials of
A fire believed to be of incendiary lispatch from Winnipeg says: The Ca
per sack; cucumbers, 30<u 40c per box; W right made a successful flight yes 'he county hosnital are awaiting the
Send Seed Grain to Canada.
origin destroyed Itoo.ooo worth o' tadinn Pacific ia rushing its sur
egg plant. 50c(ff$t25 per crate; let terday afternoon against a wind that decision of George. Howard and
property at Redding, Cal.
McMinnville.— A. XL Warren,
vey through from a point near Atha
tuce, head. 15c per dozen; parsley, was blowing at the rate o f about 18 Helen Gonld and the Princess D*
farmer living near town, has made
haaca
leading
to
Grand
Traine,
north
15c per dozen; peas, 6c per pound; miles an hour. He remained up for Sagen as »o whether their cousin. Mel
W u Ting Fang. Chinese ministei
• hipment o f gray winter oats to the
if
Edmonton.
Alb
Tta.
Prom
there
the
peppers, SrfilOc per pound; pumpkins a fraction more than 34 minutes, cov vin A. Gould, shall be buried in the
, to the United States, is to he replace«1
Canadian Pacific Development com
nain
line
ia
being
extended
to
Pine
tin l}c per pound; radishes. 12}c per ering officially 39 kilometers (24 potters’ field. Gould died Thursday
in November. Chung Men Yew is t>
r>aas. The company is concentrating its •any, at Alberta. Canada, to be ns
dozen; spinach, 2c per pound; sprouts miles), which is about half a kilo night at the age o f 71. H e had been
be his successor.
■fforts on a survey through Pine Pass 'nr seed and experimental purposes 10c per pound; squash, 40c per dozen;
meter more than the distance made in ’ invalid seven vears and had a hard
General Bell, while in the Yellow and from that point tre line will be ex Other shipments o f seed grain from tomatoes. 17i(&2Sc.
for the Michelen prize on Monday fight tu sunnort himself. He appealed
atone park, rode 300 miles on horse ‘ ended through British Columbia to a 'his county to the Canadian northwest
Butter— Extras, 34c per pound; In reality Mr W right covered about •o his relatives, hut they refnsed help
will be made during the next two
back averaging too miles a day. that aoint north of Prince Rupert.
fancy. 32}c; choice. 30c; store, 18c.
35 miles, the force o f the wind oblig T w o weeks ago he was compelled to
months.
proving hia fitness, according to the
Eggs — O regon, extras. 29Cif30c; ing him to make wide turns.
enter the county hospital.
New Coal Field Found.
Roosevelt teat.
j-firsts. 2?@ 28c; seconds, 23(g26c; East
Monroe Cannery Opera’
ern.
26l(u
17c
per
dozen.
Victoria,
B.
C..
Sept.
29
-
A
rich
find
Carnegie's
Gif)
SI.2
6
0,000.
A» sprci.il officers were about to
Ruef Jury Half Completod.
Monroe -T h e M onroe cannery i»
Poultry— Fancy hens. 13}c; spring,
raid a counterfeiter's den near Seattle of good coal with a seam eight feet in
London. Sept 25 — Encouraged by
San Franci«rn. Sept. 26.— After *
n operation, and is putting out a fine t l j c ; ducks, old. 1 2 oil2 }c; spring. 14
width
hnn
been
lornted
ns
a
result
of
the building took fire and burned
'ot o f fruit
Blackberries, pears and 'l l Sc; gec«c. o ’d. 9c; young, l a b i l e ; tbe success that has attended the es. month snent in examining talesmen,
One man waa caught with bar metal the boring at Deep Bay. Vancouver Is
tablishment o f hi« “ hero fund” in half o f the jury necessary to try Ab*-**
land, about three miles south of Union llnms will be the larger hulk o f its turkeys, old, 17(n'18c: young. 20c
on his person.
America. Andrew Carnegie has decid *v>m Ruef on the rharge o f bribery,
Bay. bv the Wellington Colliery com nroducts this season, but efforts are
Veal— Extra
8 ^ 9 }c per pound;
ed to found a similar fund in his na has been secured After three peremp
By the explosion of a gun at Tou (•any o i R. Dunsmuir'n Sons. The seam being made to have large crop* of ordinary. 7'd7»c; heavy, 5c.
tive land T o this end he is about to tory challenges had been used on eacB
Pork— Fancy Sic per lb ; ordinary.
Ion 13 French sailors were killed and will be worked as sooa as arrangements •teas beans and tom atoes for next
hand over to trustees the sum of side vesterdav six jurors were »**
year'» work.
Sc; Urge, 5c.
caa be made to aink ou it.
• cruiser badly damaged
$1 230,000.
cepted and sworn.
lu ticd Cacii Week
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Fast Passenger Train Crashes
Into Standing Freight.
TWENTY PERSONS LOSE LIVES