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B. H. WOODWARD. PuMUhar
NEWBERG...................... OREGON
WEEK’S DOINGS
General Review of Important Happen«
pcnlf a Presented in a Brief and
Condensed Corm.
Four persona were killed and fifty in*
jured in an English railway accident.
Tokio is advised that the army is
making steady progress at Port Arthur.
Fire wiped oat an entire village in
Southern Russia. Five hundred fam
ilies are homeless.
The Norwegian bark Sir John /Law
rence, from London, struck on rocks off
the coast of Norway and went down
with all on board.
The Santa Fe has large gangs of men
at work in Colorado repairing the work
of the flood. It will take a week to
make the road passable.
Detectives are unable to find any clew
to the persons who have attempted to
destroy the battleship Connecticut.
There is little danger that any further
attempt will be made.
Marines are
stationed all around the boat and oth
ers on it.
BY PLOOD.
People Drowned at Wat-
rous. New flcxlco.
Las Vegas, N. M., Oct. 5.— Half the
town of Watrous was destroyed by the
flood and at least 12 persons were
drowned.
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Many persons were rescued from trees
and bousetope. The greatest damage
was around the junction of Mora and
Sapello creeks. The rock crusher, the
great iron bridge and much track at
Watrous were washed away.
The Gallinas river formed a new
channel here. In the Gallinas canon,
the dams of the Aqua Pura company
broke, bringing a terrific flood on the
city. . The Montezuma-Hot Springs
track went out in many places. Half
a dozen bridges were destroyed and the
Montezuma bath houses were partly
carried away. The Santa Fe loss here
is $40,000. The Aqua Pura company’ s
loss is $15,000.
For two blocks on Bridge street every
business house was flooded. The big
Ilfield brick store was ruined and the
bridge undermined.
Twenfc) mer
chants estimates their loss at from $2,-
000 to $4,000 each.
Gallinas park is under water and the
trolley line cannot be repaired for two
weeks. The race meet to have been
held here next week has been declared
off. One hundred thousand dollars
will not cover the loss to the town and
the railroad loss is equal to that of re*
cent floods in Arizona.
According to dispatches from Okla-
hma the South Canadian river is high
er than in 40 years. It is feared that
the loss to cotton and corn crops and
bridges, with other properties along
TOWNS WASHED AW AY.
the river, throughout the territory,
will be enormous. No loss of life has Rio Grande Cuts New Channel and
been reported.
Hundreds arc Homeless.
Sir William Harcourt,'a noted Brit
Albuqurque, N. M., Oct. 5.— Reports
ish politician, is dead.
from the floods in the Rio Grande val
A third attempt has been made to ley above and below this city are com
wreck the battleship Connecticut.
ing in. The towns of Valencia and
Trinidad, Colo., reports that it can Loe Lentes were practically washed
relieve all distress caused by the flood.
away and several hundred families are
The-Septcmber receipts of the St. homeless. The river swung to the
Louis fair amounted to about $2,500,-
east, cut a new channel, and poured a
000
torrent through the two towns. No
The Russians have' temporarily,
checked the Japanese advance east of lhe* were lost.
The Barelaze suburbs of this city
Mukden.
suffered
the most in this immediate
The caar may block the plan for the
Immediate reorganization of the Rus vicinity, about 50 houses being des
sian army.
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troyed.
Ignacio Gutierrez, a commissioner
Postmaster General Payne continues
in a dangerous condition.
His life of Sandoval county, telephoned that
hangs in the balance.
the damage at Lbs Cords lee and Ala
Russians made a raid on junks car meda, above the city, will amount to
rying supplies to Oyama and des several hundred thousand dollars.
There is one passenger train from
troyed a number of them.
Southern California at Gallup and a
It is reported that General Basilio other from San Francisco at Winslow,
Munoz, leader of the Uruguayan revo while the other trains from California
lutionists, has been shot by his former are held here. The local officials can
followers.
not say when the trains will arrive or
Considerable loss of liefe and prop depart, and the traffic situation is seri
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erty was occaasioned by fire in the ar ous.
Many feet of track is reported gone
tillery and ammunition magazines at
Sebastopol, Russia.
— at Ortiz, at Cerrilloe, Waldo, Thornton
and Bernalillo, and above and below
The Japanese have begun a general this city at Rincon, Amarillo, N. M,.
advance on Mukden.
and Isleta.
The condition of Postmaster General
Payne is very serious.
DROP INTO CELLAR.
Mobile, Alabam, is having the warm
est weather in its history for the time Many People Injured at Church Cor
of year.
ner Stone Laying.
Adams, Mass., Oct. 5.— While Right
The Japanese have adopted tactics
intended to prevent the return of the Rev. Thomas D. Beaven, Roman Cath
main Russian force to Mukden.
olic bishop of Springfield, was laying
The Russian squadron at Port Ar the corner stone of St. Stanislaus’ Pol
thur has made another attempt to es ish church, a floor collapsed, precipi
cape, but were driven back.
Another
tating 150 persons into the basement.
sally is expected.
A dozen persons were injured, several
Europatkin now realizes that be can seriously. Bishop Beaven and several
not go on to Harbin and the problem
of wintering his troops is a serious one. of the priests assisting him were slight
The hope of the Russians is to defeat ly hurt.
Some 7,000 persons attended the
the Japanese at Mukden.
ceremony and about 200 were seated or
Souvenir Lewis and Clark dollars standing on the floor which covered the
have been sent to Presidfent Roosevelt newly made basement.
Just as the
and member of congress who were in- bishop was about to lay the stone a sec
trumental in securing the appropria tion of the flooring, about 40 feet
tion to the Portland exposition.
square, collapsed, dropping 12 feet, and
carrying
with it the bishop, the clergy
A mail car from Paris to Havre, con
and about 140 others.
taining about 100 pouches of American
In the confusion that followed many
mail, was broken into and 91 pouches
were trampled upon and half suffocat
opened and rifled of such valuables ae
they may have contained. There is no ed. Bishop Beven was caught in the
crush but was able to save himself from
record of their contend or of the valu
serious injury. He was bruised about
ables abstracted.
tbe body and had hi« hands scratched.
W. J. Bryan is a grandfather.
Breastplates Will Not Be Made.
Disease is claiming many Japanese
Rome, Oct. 5.— Some time ago the
soldiers.
Russian government ordered 100,000
The battleahiap Connecticut has been bullet proof breastplates of the tpye in
vented by Signor Benedetti. The lat
succeessfully launched.
ter recently started for 8t. Petersburg
The Russian cruiser Orel broke a to supervise the manuufacture of the
cylinder on her trial trip and will be breastplates, but was stopped at Mun
dlayd six months.
ich by the Italian firm to which he had
The main Russian army has retreat sold the rights to manufacture, and
ed from Mukden, leaving only a small which objected to 8ignor Benedetti’s in
tervention in the matter, and he re
force to guard the rear.
turned to Italy. The firm had also
The Japanese army has captured Da undertaken to supply the Japanese
pass.
Practically no resistance was government with 200,000 breastplates.
offered by the Russians.
Gunboat Bit by a Nine.
A Puget sound tug just in from Alas
Tokio,
Oct. 5.— It is rurpored that a
ka, reports having sighted a Russian
Japanese
gunboat hit a mine and sunk
gunboat at Unimak pass.
south of the Liao Tung peninsula.
A
Hops have advanced two and three portion of her crew reached an island
cents throughout the Willamette val and were rescued. Tbe navy department
ley and at North Yakima.
Independ does not deny tbe report, but says that
ence growers have receied as high as the department lacks confirmatory in
formation.
80 cents.
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LOSS ISHEAVY
Flood Works Ruin In Colo-
rado and New Mexico.
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RAILROAD ARC TICD
UP
Thirty Blocks In Trinidad are Un
der Two to Pour Peet o f Wafer
— Loss Will Be V ery
Heavy.
Trinidad, Colo., Oct. 3.— A terrific
flood struck the eity of Trinidad and
tbe whole valley along the Las Animas
river, today, devastating a wiejs section
and causing a money loss'-w h ich -at
present cannot be estimated, but which
may reach several hundred thousands of
dollars.
Every bridge in the city of Trinidad
is out, the Santa Fe station is demol
ished, all of the railroads are tied up,
and the telephone and telegraph eervicea
completely »«Upended. More than 30
city blocks in the residence and busi
ness sections ye re two to four feet under
water along t$e rvier
So far as known at noon no lives
were lost, buk there were many narrow
escapes.
The flood waB caused by the heavy
rain which baa been falling for two
dqya. At 8 o’clock last night tbe
storm assumed cloudburst proportions,
and at 2 o’clock this morning the Las
Animas river went over its banka.
At 3:30 it was impossible to get
within a block of the river bed at any
point, and Commercial street was flood
ed for three blocks in the heart of the
business district. Meantime the elec
tric light and gas plants had been flood
ed, and the city was in complete dark
ness.
Hundreds of citizens thronged tbe
streets on the edge of the submerged
district carrying lanterns and doing
their best to provide those driven from
their homes with shelter.
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Warning of the flood was given when
the river left its banka by revolver shots
and tbe ringing of the fire alarm, fol
lowed by the blowing of all the l6co-
motive and shop whistles in town.
Citizens upon rafts made of sections of
sidewalks p^dled through the' streets,
rescuing families who were in danger.
The new Bacca hotel, a two story
structure just reaching completion at
a coat of $20,00u on the river bank,
was destroyed. The water then ate its
way through 50 feet of the .ground to
tbe Santa Fe depot, which was carrijd
away.
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Tbe city |a divided by the Las
Animas river^which is spanned by six
wagon bridge!.
All of the bridges
were washed out and many residents
were unable to reach their homes or to
communicate with their families, tbe
telephone system being wrecked.
TO SETTLE WATER SUIT.
Effort Is Being Made to Annex Part
of Kansas to Colorado.
Pueblo, Colo., Oct. 3.— An effort at
a solution of the Kansas-Colorado
water suit is in pr »gress, and if the
efforts of those moat interested in the
case are sucessful a strip of the western
portion of Kansas, about 150 miles
wide, will be annexed to the state of
Colorado, and the litigation now be
fore the supreme court at Washington
wLl be thrown out.
Politicians in both Kansas and Colo
rado are worklngdor tbe passage ot a
bill through the legislatures of both
states whereby trie western portion of
Kansas can bis taken into Colorado.
This, it is thought by those who have
given tbe irrigation question much
study,will solve the difficulty, and both
states will be benefit!ed to a great ex
tent. L. P. Worden, of Syracuse,
Kas., and C. C. Kennison, of Garden
City, Kas., a candidate for representa
tive from that county are in Pueblo in
the interest of the plan.
“ It would settle the water question
in Western Kansas forever and the suit
now in the courts would be dropped i
there would no longer be any reason
for continuing it” said Mr. Worden to
day.
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Both Mr. Worden and Mr. Kennison
appeared before the government com
mission when it Was in session here,
and are thoroughly familiar with the
situation. They say they are supported
by practically every resident of West
ern Kansas.
Inventor Dies • Charity Patient.
New York, Oct. 3.— Once wealthy
and with a host of friends among prom
inent and vea'tby men in tbe coun
try, Charles Y . Yeaton, tbe inventor,
is dead at the home of incurables, a
charity
patient.
Paralysis, from
which he had suffered two years, caused
his death. Yeaton invented a number
of (nu bines, among which was a type
setting machine, the, first ever offered
for sala. He enjoyed an intimate ac
quaintance with President Andrew
Johnson, who offered him a diplo
matic poet at 8t. Petersburg.
British Steamer Stopped.
Chefoo Oct. 8.—The British steamer1
Yik Bang, trading in China saes, ar
rived today and reports she was stopped
by a Japanese torpedo boat destroyer
outside of the harbor of Chefoo. After
r papers had been examined, the
Yik Bang waa allowed to proceed.
TO DEPRAUD NATION.
Iron Said to Have Been Put In Life
Preserver Blocks.
Washington, Oct. 4.— An alleged
conspiracy, which has been developed
by officials of tbe department of com
merce and labor and of the department
of justice today resulted in the arrest
at Camden, N. J., of J. H . Stone, H.
C. Uuintard, Charles W . Russ and
James Russ, officers of the Nonpareil
Cork works. They were apprehended
by the United States marshal for the
district of New Jersey, under an indict
ment found on September 29 by the
United States grand jury at Trenton,
charging them, under section 5440, of
the revised statutes of the United
8tates, with conapli ing to defraud the
goverment and prejudice the adminis
tration of the steamboat inspection
laws Dy putting upon the market com
pressed cork blocks for use in making
life preservers, each of which blocks
contained in its center a piece of bar
iron about six inches long and weigh
ing eight ounces. The iron bar was
inserted and concealed in the block
for the purpose of increasing the weight
to the legal requirement of six pounds
of good cork for each life preserver.
Tbe men arrested will be arranged be
fore the United States district court of
New Jersey, to plead to the indictment*
Early in August, David Kahneweil-
era’ Sons, manufacturers of life pre
servers in New York city, ordered from
the Nonpareil Cork works at Camden,
N. J., blocks of compressed corks for
1,750 life preservers. Eight of these
corks are used in each preserver, and
the United States law requires that
the eight blocks shall contain six
pounds of cork.
When the cork
blocks were delivered, it waa discov
ered that eight of the blocks weighed
only 5 % pounds.
Kahneweilers’ Sons thereupon wrote
the Nonpareil Cork works and that
company replied that it would adjust
the matter by sending to Kahneweilers’
Sons some extra heavy blocks, one of
which could be used in each life pre
server, thus increasing its weight to
the legal requirement. In due time
the blocks arrived.
They were so
heavy as to arouse suspicion. One of
them was broken, and imbedded in its
centet was found an iron bar six
inches long, one inch wide and a quar
ter of an inch thick, weighing eight
ounces.
The
Kahneweilers
again
wrote to the officers of the Nonpareil
Cork works, demanding to know what
they meant by putting iron in the
cork blocks, and informing them that
as Kahneweilers’ Sons were obliged to
put their names on each preserver
such a fraud would- ruin their busi
ness.
According to the indictment a letter
waa received in reply suggesting that
the Kahneweilers were foolish to make
so much trouble about a small affair of
that kind.
Further examination of the “ extra
neavy” blocks disclosed the fact that
each of them contained an iron bar
similar to that which was found in the
first one.
In all 261 of the extra
heavy blocks were received by Kahqe-
weilera’ Sons.
Kahneweilers’ Sons
communicated with Robert S. Rodie,
supervising inspector of the steamboat
inspecting service for the district of
New York, and he reported the facta to
acting secretary of the department of
commerce and labor, Lawrence O. Mur
ray. The investigation and indict
ment followed.
Two Hundred Homeless.
Albuquerque, N. M., Oct. 4.— The
wild sweep of water, raising the Rio
Grande to the highest point for more
than a year, has made 200 people in
this vicinity homeless.
Barelos. a
suburb, is under two feet of water and
many homes are abandoned. Alamedo
is threatened by the terrific pressure
upon the dam, which it is feared may
give way. The railroads have toffered
greatly in the Rio Grande valley.
The Santa Fe is at a standstill all
through New Mexico.
Bridge Washed Out.
Lamar, Colo., Oct. 4.— The flood in
the Arkansas river reached here tocLiy
and washed out the north approach of
the bridge over tbe river at this place.
The bottom land on the north side is
under water. The river is rising rap
idly but no further damage is antici
pated here. Telephone reports from
Prowers, nine miles west of Lamar,
show that the water there is at the
highest stage known in 30 years. The
entire Prowers ranch is under water
and the residents were compelled to
seek safety on the tops of their houses.
American Diplomat rined.
New York", Oct. 4.— Arthur Denn
Piatt, American vice consul, has been
fined 10 shillings, according to an
American dispatch fiom Dublin, for
furious riding on a motorcycle within
the city limits. His case was heard in
a police court.
CL0SE0N FORT
Japanese Steadily Advancing
at Port Arthur.
SEVERAL
POSITIONS
TAKEN
Togo Will Withdraw Most o f Squad
ron as Enemy’s Ships arc Al
most Incapable of Resistance.
Chefoo, Sept. 30.<—The news received
from Port Arthur continues to show a
steady, if slow advance of tbe Japanese
upon the Russian fortifications.
Day
by day the remoter poaitions of the be
leaguered fortress are being taken by
the Japanese, and that its fall is only
a matter of a short trme is the general
belief here. The number of Chinese
refugees arriving here increases con
stantly, and this is taken to bode no
good for the Russians.
The last of the Chinese to arrive
from Port Arthur report a still further
advance by the Japanese. They assert
that several of the most important po
sitions held by the Russians, farthest
from the central fortress have been,
taken by the Japanese, the latter in
flicting considerable loss upon the Rus
sians. The Japanese had tnnneled ap
proaches to these positions and finally, -
with tbe help of mines, made their
way within the fortifications.
The
Russians were taken by surprise and
were able to offer little resistance.
Finding they were unable to hold their
own against the Japanese the Rnssiana
retreated, leaving their dead and wound-,
ed behind them.
When tbe Japanese attack was dis
cerned by the o her Russian forts they
at once opened fire, and at last ac
counts this was still being maintained.
It is considered donbtful whether the
Japanese will be able to retain posses- ,
sion of their newly acquired positions.
The greater portion of the Japanese
fleet has returned to the Japanese base
in the Eliot islands, the Japanese com
mander having become convinced that
the Russian vessels within the harbor
of Port Arthur are almost incapable of
further resistance and of making any
sortie into the open sea.
ACT
or
VANDALS.
Oil Paintings of Czar at i
are Mutilated.
Louis
St. Loois, Sept. 30.— When the Rus
sian exhibit in the varied Industrie*
building at the world’s fair waa op
ened today it was discovered that sev
eral valuable o il paintings of Emper
or Nicholas had been torn from the
wall and mutilated by some unidenti
fied person or persons.
Another portrait of the emperor, a
handsome and valuable panel, done in
colored silk, had been torn from its
support and subjected to tbe greatest
indignity. The oil paintings were torn
and there were marks showing that the
pictures of the emperor had been
stamped upon.
Tbe vandalism waa reported at once
to the exposition autboritites, and an
investigation ordered. Every effort is
being made by both tne exhibitors
and the world’s fair authorities to dis
cover the guilty person or persons.
LAND TRAUDS A LL RUN DOWN.
Agent Greene Is Sure Oregon Cases
Will Result In Conviction.
Washington, Sept. 30. — Special
Agent A. R. Greene, who has been Sec
retary Hitchcock’s trusted lieutenant
in running down land frauds in Ore
gon, is in Washington, conferring with
the secretary.
Discussing Oregon’s
affairs, Mr. Greene said:
“ We believe we have finished up
that land fraud business in Oregon.
We have the men reeposible-held under
indictment and it is a safe prediction
that there will be some hot news out
of Portland within the next month or
two, when tbe trials commence.”
After describing the methods of the
fraudulent operators, Mr. Greene add
ed:
The usual thing happened.
One
member of the gang did not think he
was getting his fair share of the profits
and gave tbe thing away.
Officer Is Assassinated.
Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 30.—
Word has been received here that Col
onel Bikoff, commander of the Russian
guard on the Turkish frontier, has been
assassinated. Colonel Bikoff recently
helped the Tturks in an attack upon
Armenian revolutionists, in which an
Armenian priest, bearing a white flag,
waa killed as he approached the Turk
ish troops. Follnwng the attack upon
the Armenians, Colonel Bikoff permit
ted the Cossacks, who had joined th e”
Turks to pilage and mutilate the
corpses of the Armenians.
Japan to Borrow Again.
Tokio, dept, 30.— The government
has decided to float another domestic
loan of $40,000,000, on conditions sim
ilar to the last.
It is probable that
the conscription law will be amended,
increasing the -service in the reserve
five years, and making the regular re
serve service total 17 years and five
months. This means a large increase
in the strength of the army.