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EVEN TS OF TH E D AY
Comprebcastv« Review of the Import­
ant Happenings of «ho Past Week,
la Condensed Form, Most
Likely to Prove Interest*»*.
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■ The Michigan forest Area will canto
inestimable damage unless rain soon
falls.
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The Russian war minister General
Korupatin, is being e^teoeively feted
et Tokia.
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A disastrous Are in e Newcastle,
Penn., coal mine wea started by the ex­
plosion of gasoline.
The Chicago union waiters on strike
partially acnowledge a defeat, and many
are returning to work.
The International Pressmen's Con­
vention opened at Cincinnati with 800
delegates in attendance.
By trying to All a coal oil store while
it was burning, a* Brooklyn boy and his
sister met with fatal injuries.
The Laundry worers’ onion, of Chica­
go, by e referendum vote, just taken,
has decided against another strike.
The strike on the New/Yark subway
has been abandoned and 80,000 miners
w ill apply lor work unconditionally.
The rumor that President d o w r y , of
the Western Union telegraph com­
pany, is to resign is without founda­
tion.
A balloon with four aeronauts was
carried out to ssa from Marseilles,
France. The fate of the men is not
knows.
The bricklayers' strike ip Omaha,
which tied np building operations for
four months, came to an .end by the
union giving in.
Accused of attempting to extort
money Isom employes in a Newark, N.
T.j hat factory, David Rlcbman has
been fined 1999.99 by the Hatmakers’
union.
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CHINA STILL MOLDING OUT.
la Manchuria Have Not
Vat Base Granted.
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Toklp, June 16.— The Ifainicht pub­
lishes s dispatch giving the alleged
history of the Manchurian secret tre­
aty on the authority of a Minister who
said that China had refused to com­
ply with the Russian demanda, and
that Pl&nchou, acting Russian Minist­
er, had wired to Europe that China bad
accepted. A fte r th e powers,protested,
China sent another refusal to Russia,
homo government paid no attention.
The Ruaalans have not withdrawn
their demanda, which presumably aré
■till lying ou the table o f the Chinese
Foreign Minister.* ~
The Minister states that the secret
treaty will probably be signed private­
ly, and it Is imperative .that Japan
should protest and assist China in re­
sisting the Rusaiflp demands.
The Asahi’a Tien-Tsin correspond­
ent, under date of May 21, says Russia
has assembled 7000 troops at Liaoyan,
with a view to carrying out maneu­
vers on a large scale in that quarter in
a few day*.
The Corean governm ent on M ay U
Instructed the Governor o f W lju to ar­
rest Coreans who have sold their land
and houses either to Russians or Chi­
nese, and warned him that he w ill be
held responsible for the execution of
this order.
Press reporto o f the proceedings of
the Diet now sitting show that the
government has encountered some dif­
ficulty in supplying the recent de­
mands for information o f a consider­
able section o f the members In regard
to Russian action in Manchuria. The
main question o f Russian demands is
awaiting the arrival o f M: Lessar, Rus­
sian Minister to Pekin, from St. P et­
ersburg.
The Chinese riots in Kwangsi Prov­
ince have developed in violence, and It
Is unofficially reported that the French
Consul at Tonklng has represented to
the Pekin Government that unless
the insurgents are suppressed French
troops w ill be sent across the frontier
to quell the disturbance.
IMPORTANT LAND RULINQ.
When Land la N o » Mineral Even Though
Armed with rifles and shotguns, the
It Contains Minerals.
farmers and summer residents of Mount
Washington, June 14.— $n a recent
Kisco and Newcastle/ N . Y . are looking
contest arising in the State o f Wash­
for the inosndiary now infesting those
ington, the Secretary o f the Interior
parts.
holds that when the field notes and
The native chiefs of Samoa desirous
surveyor’s returns make no notation
of being preaent at the St. Louis exeo-
sition, have sent petitions to President whatever o f minerals in public lands
Roosevelt to help American Samoans to that have been surveyed, such lands
be represented.
are considered and treated aa given a
Chisago traitors am laming ground in jion-mineral class i float Jon by the sur­
their strike.
v e y o r Furthe, that lands classified as
non-mineral
at the tifoe o f the Govern­
Sir Thomas Liptpn's fleet has arrived
ment
survey
are o f the class o f lands
at Sandy Hook.
subject to selection in lieu o f lands
An American citisen was killed by
relinquished within forest reserves,
Turks at Odets*.
and the character o f the lands so class­
Bulgarians are deserting many cities
ified and selected w ill not be investi­
in terror of Turks.
gated on a protest presented after the
Cutting of a levy at St. Lonis al­ survey and selection, and alleging the
most caused a lynching.
present mineral character o f the lands.
Burglars secured f 8,000 worth of dia­
The Importance o f this decision (s
manifest. In the case at issue the
monds in a New York hotel.
Northern Pacific RoHway Cotapatfy
F ve people were burned to death in relinquished a tract in the Rainier
a Mew York apartment house fire.
Forest Reserve and selected in lieu
A report that the pope was dead thereof a tract o f equal area in Mon­
tana. One year after the filing o f this
caused intense excitement in Rome.
lieu ¿election a coal declaratory state­
Two more bodies have been found at ment was offered by an individual for
Topeka. This makes a total of seven the tract selected, and waa rejected
because o f the prior selection by the
drowned.
railroad company.
Investigation
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w— jbn o f
The powers w ill demand the. punish­ the records disclosed the fact that
ment of theiassaaains of the king and while adjoining lands had' been re­
queen of 8ervia. *
% . . ported by the surveyors as containing
coal deposits, no such
reference
The civil service commission finds was made to Uie tract in controversy.
that politics enter too much in the ap­ Therefore, the Secretary held the land
pointments to the postal service at to be ^classified aa non-mineral. The
Washington.
The rolls, have been man filing the coal declaratory state­
foond to be packed at the behest of po­ ment went so far as to allege
liticians, and the service greatly dam­ that the land he sought would
produce coal id commercial quan­
aged.
tities. His allegations, however, were
overruled, as the prior
selection
An insane man*attempted to
by
the
railroad
company
could
not be
nate Emperor Francis Joseph.
affected by a filing made one year
Russia's activity in Manchuria is later. Hence the liqu selection was
approved, notwithstanding the appar­
overtaxing the patience of Japan.
ent mineral character o f the lands.
A move was made to create a republic Had the lands been originally classi­
of Servia, but it was promptly smoth­ fied* as ooal lands, the railroad selec­
ered.
tion would have been rejected.
The'Oomlug congress w ill be strongly
Civil Commissioner Is Appointed.
urged to make a reciprocity treaty with
'Canada.
Washington, June 16.— Alvord Coo­
Arrival of troops caused striking ley, o f Westchester, N. Y., has been
Arisons miners to make peace with appointed Civil Commissioner by Pres­
ident Roosevelt to succeed James R.
their employers, l-..
Garfield, appointed Commissioner o f
Major W . H. Gibbon, who is said to Corporation. Senator Platt, of New
ave fired the first shot of the C ivil war York, took lunch with the President
today, remaining at the W hite. House
upon Fort bom ter, is dead.
until nearly 3 o’clock. A fte r his con­
A new case of plague is reported at ference with the President he an­
Iquique, Chile.
nounced Mr. Cooley’s appointment.
The presidential elections in Santo H e did not Indicate that Mr. Cooley
was his selection for the place. In­
Domingo have baas eat for June 20.
deed,' ft is said that the appointment
Foot and mouth disease prevails was decided on some time ago.
among sheep just brought to Liverpool
Consnl Nearly
from Buenos Ayres.
Havana, June 16.— W hile the Italian
The Standard Oil Company has been
forced out of Roomania by opposition Consul here, Viagio Tornielll, was
seated in his office yesterday after­
of the government.
noon, a young Italian sailor enetred
The monks expelled from France w ill and inquired whether he was the Con­
come to Kentucky and endeavor to es­ sul. On receiving an affirmative re­
ply, he whipped out a revolver and
tablish a monastry.
.
fired. The bullet graced the Consul’s
— Secretary Hicbcock bai issued regula­ head. The sailor was overpowered
tions prohibiting all molestation of the and arrested. He gave the name of
Pietro Alllney.
wild animals in Yellowstone Park.
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FATAL FLOOD
Eastern Oregon Cloud:
burst Kills Many.
NO W ARNING G IVEN
HEPPNER RECEIVES THE FULL FORCE
.OF THE DELUGE.
n »»th
List Will Ranch Fully 3ÙO-QgUtfXmy
Only in FMffat—D m 4 Are Buried la
Hastily Constructed Coffins—Absence
of Oouhls
Oouhla Notable.
In the middle o f the same street. Resi­
dences are turned over or torn to piec­
es. Mud, slime and misery are eveiy-
where.
The water waa 15 {e e t high imHep-
pner’s streets and rose over the new
courthouse Wall. It came down Palm
Fork, chiefly, but was a torrent on all
hillsides. Enormous piles of rock and
gravel have been washed dowq the
canyon Ave mllea up on Butter creek.
The flood came almost instantly and
lasted one hour. The people thought
It was only a repetition of the cloud­
burst a few days ago, and wpre not
alarmed until It was* too late. Houses
were surounded by raging torrents,
which sucked every thing movable in­
to their twisting eddies and escape was
impossible.«
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Many people slept in the courthouse
last night, and any place they can
make a bed.
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Many people are arriving at Hepp­
ner. T h o r» oro no bod», and visitors
* * compelled to rough it while
they stay. Provisions are not needed,
but rather help to bury their dead and
clear away the debris. The absence o f
Ice or embalming fluids has necessitat­
ed the hurried burial o f many bodies,
which would otherwise have been pre­
served for the arrival o f relatives.
Three live babies have been found
whose parents are lost, and identifica­
tion has ao far been impossible.
Families are broken to pieces, the
father alone remains, or a w ife or son
or daughter, and little children left
orphans.
Ellas Connor, a stockrafser o f lone,
returned from Heppner at 2 o’clock
this morning. H e left the scene o f the
disaster at 6 o’clock, and brings the
latest news from the scene.
“ It is now known,” said MV. Conner,
"that at least 275 or 300 people weVe
drowned.
One hundred and fifteen
corpses have been hastily burled in
wooden boxes and some were merely
wrapped in blankets. There were «till
several wagon loads of dead on their
way to the cemetery when I left.
Heppner itself has now been pretty
well searched, except in piles o f de­
bris, where It is thought that numbers
o f bodies w ill be found.
“ Between lone and Heppner,” said
Mr. Conner, “ there are great piles of
debris, but the flood pasped so quick-
ly that the roads have not been seri­
ously damaged. The railroad track,
however, from Lexington on is badly
torn up. * It looks strage to gee the
heavy steel rails bent and twisted like
oorkscrew8, and the heavy tim bers
splintered like matchwood.
Hepp­
ner itsplf the flood swept a clean path
a mile long, and one or two blocks
wide through the town, following gen­
erally the course o f W illow Creek.
The people o f Heppner seem demoral­
ized by the calamity, and men who
have lo s t ' their wives, children and
their all, go dry-eyed to the work of
assistance o f others.” *
The town o f Heppner, the principal
sufferer from the flood is 197 .miles
from Portland and 45 miles from the
Columbia River. It contains a popu-
FAIR
LEWIS
COMMISSION
AND CLARK BOARD
BEEN NAMED.
HAS
Nearly .Ml on S t Louis Board—McBride’*
Plan Is to Consorve the Appropria­
tion so That Prominent Features of
t the Exhibit May Be Sent to Port-
Olympia, Wash., Jiine 14.— Gover- 1
nor McBride has announced the ap­
pointment o f the members o f the Lew ­
is and Clark Exposition Commission
o f the State o f Washington. T h ey
ars: J. G. Megler, of Brookfield; Col­
onel F. J. Parker, o f W alla W alla; W .
W . Tolman, o f Spokane, Gì W . R.
Peaslee, o f Clarkston; R. P. Thomas,
o f Anacortes; Thomas Harrington, o f
Bnckley; George Llndsley, o f Vancou­
ver.
I d this list, Messrs. Tolman, Peaalee,
Thomas, Harrington and Llndsley are
also members of the Louisiana Pur­
chase Exposition Commission. T h e
object o f applontlng a majority o f the
members o f the St. L qu I s commission­
ers on the Portland board, according
to Governor McBride, was to carry
out the executive’s purpose that the
appropriation for the S t Louis F air
should 6e so conserved as to permit
enougfc remaining after the close o f
that fa ir to send the permanent fea­
ture o f the state’s exhibit there to
Portland for use at the Lew is and
Clark Exposition.
Messrs, M egler and Parker were on
the preliminary board o f the Portland
Exposition, having been appointed b y
Governor Rogers.
The Washington members »of the-
Lew is and Clark Commission repre­
sent personally the leading interests,
• f the state.
J. G. M egler is a
wealthy canneryman on the Washlng-
tpn side o f the Columbi^ and is also
one o f the best-known men in the
state by reason o f his long service In
the State Senate and House o f Repre­
sentatives.
Mr. Peaslee was a member o f th e
last House o f Representatives, and on
the Fair Commission represents the
fruit and agricultural Interests o f
Eastern Washington. His business la
that o f a nurseryman. Mr. Llndsley,
o f Vancouver, also represents the
fruit interests o f the state.
R- P. Thomas, o f Anacortes, is an
old friend o f the Governor. H e is in
the lumber manufacturing business,
and, being located at Anacortes, where
the fisheries are a leading Industry, ia
also more or less fam iliar there with
that industry.
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Senator Tolman has been a member
o f the last State Senate for two legist
latures. H e represents the mining in­
terests. H e Is a lawyer by profession.
it » “ t m
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lng prbpertles in Eastern Washington.
is located In the valley o f W illow
Mr. Harrington Is a resident o f the
Creek, a considerable stream, which lumber manufacturing town o f Buck-
flows north into the Columbia. Thé
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lone,
Or.,, June 16.— A
», Or.,
. cloud which
burst on the Affila a mile south o f Hepp-
ner at about 5130 o’clock Sunday after-
qoq ^ let loose a hungry flood o f water,
which' swept down the hillside in a
wall 30 feet high and 200 yards wide.
Reaching the bottom o f the canyon,
the liquid avalanche reared its mighty
front over the dooiped town, and car­
ried to destruction nearly every build­
ing and human being that lay In its
path, leaving a waste of desolation to
mark its trail. The destroying torrent
raced down the narow gorge o f W illow
Creek, lnundafing as it reached them
the settlement« of Lexington, lone and
Douglas, but lessening in fury and In
volume as the thirsty alkali soil o f the
valley drank up the water like a
sponge. Behfcid it jay nearly 300
dead, drowned like rats fri'irtrap. The
suddenness of the catastrophe' - gave
the victims no warning, overwhelming
them for the main part a* they sat
within their homes.
Immediately after the fatal flood
had wiped the major portion o f Hep-
pner out o f existence, swift couriers
on horseback sped to warn the resi­
dents o f the valley toward the Colum­
bia o f the com lig peril. Leslie Mat-
lock, son o f an ex-sherlff o f M ofrow
County, rode a wild ride for 18 miles
aheag of the raging waters. His horse
dropped dead, but he secured another,
and again another, covering the 65
miles to Arlington in seven hours. *To
this Paul Revere of Oregon is undoubt­
edly due the tact that the ranchers of
the W illo w Creek country below Hep-
pner Tost so little stock and property.
The Palace Hotel was the first build­
ing to stem the tide, and all the guests
were saved; but houses below the Pa­
lace Hotel were thrown out into the
street, overturned and wrecked.
Perhaps the greatest loss occurred from one-half mile to a mile and is
at the Heppner Hotel. This house, bounded on either side by* precipitlous
which was run under the management mountains which render sudden fresh­
o f Jones A Asbaugh, was carried ets not uncomnym, although at ordin­
away. It is supposed that there were ary seasons the stream is easily ford­
about 50 guests in this hotel, all of ed at almost any point. At* Heppner,
whom are reported to be lo s t The W illow Creek is Joined by; Hinton’s
proprietors themselves were . saved, Fork, trhlch enters at the north end
but their families are among the dead. o f the town. Some 20 years ago a
The entire residence portion of Hep­ cloudburst occurred on Hinton’s Fork
pner was destroyed, but the business and a wall o f water 30 feet In height
houses, being on higher ground, and rolled down the mountain sides into
being generally built of brick and W illow Creek A t that time the town
stone, were not so badly damaged. was built principally on the south
The seboolhouse and courthouse, side o f a high backbone extending
which stand on a sidehlll. were saved, from near the mouth o f the Fork back
but two churches, the Methodist and to the mountains. There was little
Presbyterian, were completely wreck­ damage to the town and no lives were
ed. Around the depot the receding lost. O f recent years, however, the
flood le ft great heaps “o f driftwood town has grown considerably and a
piled hs nigh aad higher than the rbof large portion o f It is on the north side
and the rescuing parties were forced o f this natural dyke and along the
to demolish these pyramids of timber banks of the two streams, directly in
In order to extricate the corpses the path of the flodd.
which were tangled in the brush. Un­
North o f Heppner nine miles is the
doubtedly many o f the drowned bod­ town of Lexington, containing a popu­
ies were carried by the rushing waters lation of three or four hundred, and
down the valley. It Is reported that nine miles further Is lone, which has
three bodies were found near Lexing­ eight to nine hundred people. Accord­
ton, nine miles below Heppner, but ing to the latest information, both of
there were no fatalities in Lexington. these places were destroyed.
No systematic effort has been made to
A branch o f the O. R. & N. follows
find the dead, who are undoubtedly W illow Creek south from the main line
strewn along the canyon. Every avail­ at Heppner Junction to its terminus
able .man from a radius of 65 miles at Heppner. Officials of the company
has been pressed into service at Hep­ have received advices that their track
pner Itself.
Gangs of men are at is washed away between Douglas and
work clearing away» the piles of debris, Heppner,-a distance o f 30 miles.
rocks and tlmter, which lie piled In
Heppner’s streets, and taking out the
ACTION ON CANAL TREATY URGED.
corpses which are thus concealed.
About 100 persons have been buried
in Heppner’s graveyard today. Owing President (live* Colombia to Understand
to the entire absence o f proper facili­
That Dallying Must Cease.
ties for caring for the dead, the vic­
Washington,
June 16.— The Presi­
tims o f the flood were, for the most
part. Interred In common crates. The dent today sent for W illiam Nelson
ghouls who are usually found, like hu* Cromwell, attorney for the Panama
man vultures, rifling the pockets of Canal Company, to confer with him
the dead in such great disasters as the on the canal situation. Mr. Cromwell
one which has stricken Henpner, are spent half an hour with the President
inthis case, fortunately absent, and In the forenoon, and the conference
the vigilance committees and patrols was resumed by appointment at 3
which were so necessary at Johnstown P. M.
It is understood that the President
and Galveston floods, seem to be un­
is .much concerns^ over the canal out­
necessary In Oregon.
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A relief train sent from The Dalles look. The Administration Is not in
reached lone last night and will pro­ the least disposed to be Impatient
ceed to Heppner as aoon as possible. with Colombia, and is w illing to allow
A wrecking train, with gangs of men the Bogota government a reasonable
to repair both the tracks and telegraph time to execute its obligations to the
wires left last n igh t It is expected United States. A t the same time, the
that communication with Lexington. Washington authorities regard these
17 miles from Heppner, will be restor­ obligations as more binding than
those o f an ordinary treaty, and cannot
ed early this morning.
Court s tre e t a t ’ Heppner, on the admit the right o f the Colombian gov­
bank o f the stream, is swept clean as ernment to recede from them. I f not
a gravel bar from end to end. Not carried oflt by ratification o f the canal
even the foundations o f a long line of treaty, which comes before the Colom­
bian Congress at its meeting this
beautiful residences are left.
Every business house, except the ho- month, the United States hopes Col­
til. Fair store and Odd Fellow’s build­ ombia w ill find some other means of
ing. along the side o f the street on executing Its obligations to this conn
which the bank stands are wrecks. A try as regards the Panama Canài. Mr.
« building
ini,.-,.— Is _ jammed
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_ . Cromwell declined -to aee callers after
targe
into ________
the drug
store and sevterai oth*er structures are his conference with the President.
22y * s * £ * 2 iS siL fS i f
t
*£ £ £
Colonel F. J. Parker was for many
years editor o f the W alla W alla States­
man, but is now retired. H e was a
Colonel on the staff o f Governor-
Rogers.
WATERS RECEDE SLOWLY.
St. Loots May Net See Lost of Ftomffor-
a Month.
8t. Louis, June 14.— The river con­
tinues to fall steadily, but the W eather-
Bureau reports that those who expect-
to see a sudden decline w ill be disap­
pointed. I f the river falls at the same-
rate as in 1892 when there was a.
heavy flood, the levee w ill be covered
for a month y e t
Landsdown, the northeast suburb o f
East 8t. Louis, is flooded ’ by w ater
from the reservoir^at Hunter’s Switch.
A sw ift torrent is running under the
trestle at Lake Station, m eeting the-
backwater from the south and spread­
ing over Wlnstanley suburb, south o f
the Rock road.
A t tnldnight last night the East St.
Louis A Suburban Company abandon­
ed its car sheda at Rock road and the-
Terminal Belt. The cars there were-
taken to sheds at the Bluffs.
A t 1 o’clock this morning 200 men
and a supply o f -sacks were hurried
out to the Belt tracks at Lansdown.
By daybreak a levee of dirt bags three
feet high and two feet wide extended
along the {racks for 300 yards oppo­
site th e1 flooded suburb. ■
I f the water continues to rise at the
present rate the fight for the north
part of East S t Louis w ill be made a t
this point.
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Coal Roads Favor Dealers.
New York, June 14.— The Investiga­
tion o f th « Interstats Commerce Com­
mission into W. R, Hearst’s complaint
that the six railroads operating into-
the anthracite region have combined
to violate the interstate commerce law
was continued today. W. R. Marshall,
a local coal dealer, submitted a table
showing the refund made to hla firm
by the Lehigh Valley Railroad Com­
pany when the price o f coal at tide­
water was too low to let the dealer»
make a profit and.pay full rates.
China Again Ofvea In to Rasala.
London, June 14.— The Times corres­
pondent at Pekin says the establish­
ment o f Chinese customs at Dalny, on
the Russian frontier o f the leased ter­
ritory, is practically settled, Russia as­
senting to China’s request for the pro­
cedure which obtains at Kalo Chow,
but with a reservation which leaves the
substance to Russia and the shadow t o
China, namely, Russia to nominate a ll
the Russian staff.
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