Newberg graphic., October 25, 1906, Image 2

NEWBERG
GRAPHIC
OREGON
NEWS OFTHE WEEK
li t taodnad Fan lor Ov
Bosy Wooden.
A R<
o f tho Looo Importent but
liter eating Evonto
o f Who Foot W eek.
Francia J. Haney ia to probo tho
chargee of graft ot Son Frouiciaoo.
An unknown vessel baa boon wracked
Gape Henry, on tho Virginia coaat.
A 68-mile gale haa ewopt Charleston,
8. 0 ., bat practically no damago baa
boon leported.,
Tho Departmont of Agricnltnre boa
adopted roleo for the onforoommit of
tbo pare food la wo.
G R E A T C O L D IN W Y O M IN G .
S A L T L A K E W IN D S W E P T .
Snow Falls, In Som e Sections Accom ­
panied lay High Winds".
Buildings Raxed and Packing Plant
Destroyed by Fire.
Gheyenne, Wyo., Oct. 23. —- Tbe
worst storm known in yeara for the
aeon now prevails over Wyoming. It
ia aeoompanied by heavy snowfall, and
in some sections very high winds. The
Union Pacific baa snow plows out on
the entire line between here and Og­
den. . West o f Omen River, Wyoming,
tbe line ia blockaded, and all commun­
ication shut off. A ll wires are down.
A dispatch from Green R iver says
tbe highest wind known in 86 yean
is now blowing, with the temperature
10 degrees above aero, and snow falling.
One flagman near Granger was found
dead
another man was found on
the track unconscious and badly f re sen.
One building at Green River was de­
molished by the wind. The news from
Northern and Central Wyoming re­
ports practically tbe same conditions.
Stockmen are apprehensive of great
losses, ss tbe storm came upon them
unprepared.
The storm is slightly
abating here.
Balt Lake City, Oct. 28. — For 84
hours this city and vicinity was swept
by a wind storm of unparalleled sever­
ity. In addition to three serious acci­
dents to persons, property has been
devastated over a wide area, a fire
fanned by the wind has obliterated the
new plant of the Utah Packing com­
pany, and a monetary loss of apppioxi-
mately $860,000 la entailed.
D oling the full period of the storm
trains have arrived Irregularly or not
at a ll. For much of the time the street
oar service baa been at a standstill, and
the electric lighting plants are oat of
commission.
The burning of the Utah packing
plant, north of tbe city, is the must
serious single loss. The building had
just been oompleetd at a coat of $100,-
000, and was to have been put into use
in a few days. The project was inaug­
urated by Western cattlemen and was
in oppoeition to the large packing
bouses ia the East. The cause of the
fire has not been ascertained.
Only a
small fraction of the loss is covered by
insurance.
Ruined buildings, fallen chimneys,
broken windows, loosened signs i n i
toppled trees throughout this and ad­
joining towns are the most common
souvenirs of the storm and aggregate an
immense lose. The wind attained a
maximum velocity fo 62 miles an hour.
For hours at maintained an average
speed o f 88 miles an hour.
The local
weather bureau bas been handicapped,
but expresses tbe opinion that the
storm is local and with little effect
north of Ogden or south of Provo.
P A C K E R S M A K IN G M O N E Y .
Herbert Q. Sqaiera, of New York,
bae bean appointed to oacoeed Magoon
aa miniater at Panama.
Talk o f 8ale to English Syndicate la
N ot Credited.
A man caagbt in tbe act of highway
robbery at Ban Franciaco baa been
Washington, Oct. 23.— The Agricul­
given 10 yeara in tbe penitentiary.
tural department officials are very
The Ooonteaa of Oarliale, preoident much interacted in the report from
o f the British W . G. T . U ., baa been Chicago that the big packing houses
elected head of tbe world's association. are contemplating a gigantic company,
to be financed bv English capital.
San Francisco police have captured They do not look for the carrying out
five men suspected of having a know­ of any such project.
For yean the
ledge of tbe recent robbery o f tbe Jap- packing companies have been straining
aneae bank.
every nerve to create the impression
A gigantic wheat corner ia planned that they are acting independently of
by farmers who w ill meet at Topeka eacch other.
for tbe parpoee o f forming an organisa­ Officials here declare that notwith­
standing the rigorous beef inspection
tion to control tbe market.
measures now being enforced, the pack­
Prominent Gorans in New York are
ing houses are being operated with a
planning a conference between tbe war­
big profit.
They cannot see wherein
ring factions with the idea of heading
there would be any serious disadvant­
off the growing sentiment for annexa­
age for the packers as the outcome of
tion.
such a deal, for foreign corporations
The provincial governors of the P h il­ would be abeolutely at the mercy of tbe
ippines have petitioned the commission respective states.
for home rale.
O R E G O N FIR F O R P U L L M A N S .
R O C K C R E E K ‘8 FINE F R U IT .
Milliona o f Feat Uaed Every Year fo r G row ers Busy Picking Large C rop o f
Palace Cara.
Apples and Pears.
Portland— In 18 months Portland
has furnished between 40,000,000 and
60,000,000 feet of fir lumber lor use in
the construction of oars at the shops of
the Pullman Oar company, located at
Pullman, 111. In tbe purchase of this
material, tbe company has expended
close to $1,600,000.
These figures are vouched for by A l­
bert Jonsa, purchasing agent of tbe
Pullman eompsmy, w ho was sent to
the West 18 months ago to boy lumber.
The first is used exclusively for elding
on boxesra, and, besides the lumber
bought here, more is continually being
contracted for in other sections. Some
of the material ia dressed, such as floor­
ing, siding and the like, w hile more
has been shipped tough.
There is no prospective cessation of
the baying so far as the pine k con­
cerned, and, w hile yellow pine i s also
largely uaed, that ia not being drawn
from this locality. In the construction
of sleeping and passenger can only
hard woods are utilised, particularly
for finishing the interior.
Some ma­
terial ia often left in dry kilns four or
five months, subject to slow heat and
the air drying process, in order that
when fitted in can it is perfectly Bee-
Prices o f Cattle Advancing.
La Grande— Peter O’ Bullivan, who
has just returned from a visit to Wal­
lowa county, says that one of the chief
causes for the prevailing prosperity in
all sections of that country ia tbe in­
crease in the price of cattle.
Repre­
sentatives of the Pacific Meat company
are making large purchases, and Walla
W alla buyers are looking for feeders.
Tbe range leasing plan baa proved very
satisfactory^and the forming of separ­
ate boundaries for cattle and sheep has
resulted to tbe advantage of the cattle,
which come from the range in fine con­
dition.
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Rock Creek — Tbe ranchers along
Bock creek have stepped out of the hay
harvest into the fruit harvest, and are
picking apples and pears. Fruit men
are proud of their orchards and claim
that Hood R iver or any other locality
in the Northwest can produce no finer
fruit or more abundant yields. Fruit
k shipped from this section to many
important points in the East, and com­
pares favorably with any of tbe pro­
ducts in these markets. The leading
fruit growers are W illiam Head and A .
A . Oarothera. The former has an or­
chard of 10 acres, the latter about 20
acres. M r. Head has picked and ship­
ped about 300 boxes of apples, peaches
and pears to Spokane, W alla W alla
and Pendleton and other points east,
while some was shipped to Condon and
Arlington. H e estimates ho w ill have
1,000 boxes of winter apples for ship­
ment. M r. Oarothera has shipped 1.-
000 boxes of fruit and w ill ship 1,300
more. Theee gentlemen get the high­
est prices for their fruit. Fruit grown
on Rock creek captured first prise and
gold medal at the Omaha exposition a
few years ago. The exhibit was made
by A . A. Oarothera, and was a surprise
to orchardkts, packers and dealers.
Hops A re On the Up Grade.
Salem— The hop market at Salem
has assumed a very active condition, in
the last day or two, and now every
dealer in the city has orders for bops
at a slight advance over figures named
a week ago.' Krebs Bros, has received
an order for 1,000 bales at 1 5 )f cents a
pound. A ll other dealers are offering
that price.
Krebs bought the Olau-
field crop of 176 bales at Dallas.
Jos­
eph Harris and Catlin A Linn were
also buyers on the West side at 12 %
cents, while Lachmund A Pincus paid
17 cents for a choice lo t bought from a
dealer at Dallas.
L O S 8 W A 8 H EAV Y.
Cuban Hurricane C rosses the Island,
Leaving Death in Trail.
Havana, Oct. 28.— More complete re­
ports have been received by Governor
Magooon and show that the recent bur-
rican, which swept across Cuba, has
caused greater damage than was at first
supposed.
Bourse of lives are now
known to have been lost as the result of
tbe storm.
The w on t reports come from the Ba­
tabano, on the south coast ot Cuba, the
point where the cyclone first struck the
island.
Forty fishing schooners are
now known to have been lost.
Many
corpses have been picked up floating in
tbe bay, and it is believed -the dead at
this point alone w ill reach nearly 100.
The majority of the victims are Bpanish
fishermen. Wreckage from the vessels
which were destroyed litter the shores
for miles. I t is believed that several
smair'sehoonera were swept out to ■
and lost, their crews perishing.'
The town itself suffered severely.
Nine bodies have been removed so far
from the ruins.
On every hand are to
be seep evidences of the storm’ s fury.
Houses w en blown down, trees were
uprooted, and devastation has been
wrought generally. A conservative es­
timate of the damage in that city Is
$600,000.
The greatest damage was
caused in the lower porti- n of the city
The upper section awsy from the shore
escaped almost miraculously.
The
wharves were badly damaged, in many
cases completely wrecked.
Rooeevelt ia aaid to be working to
C H U L O V O L C A N O BELCH ES.
secure Platt’ s place in the aenate when
M odem Pyramid Builders.
hia term aa president expires.
Apples at the Fruit Fair.
Volume o f Sulphur Water Swamps a
Albany— Tbe Modern Pyramid Build­
Hood River — Tbe exhibit of apples
Attorney General Moody w ill fight
Salvador Town,
•}
ers was launched last week when tl e
▼the railroads in their effort to break San Salvador, Oct. 23. — Telergaphic grown by A . I . Mason, which took the first lodge or local pyramid of the or­
sweepstakes and several other piisea
down the e m p lo y e » liability law.
communication with interior points at the Hood River Fruit fair consisted der was formed in this city. The local
Tbe U te Indians in Wyoming, on has been restored, and news of the dis­ of three boxes taken from 9-year-old pyramid ia the first subordinate branch
learning troops have been sent after aster wrought by the terrific storm trees, planted 63 to the acre. The of tbe order, and was named Pyramid
them, have broke camp and headed for which has swept over tbe country is be­ trees averaged five and a half boxes, No. 2, the supreme pyramid being P y­
Fred Fortm iller was
ing received. Over 100 persons were and altogether be took 1,141 boxes ramid No. 1.
Montana.
drowned in Coatepeque. A vast quan­ from his orchard'. Jn tbe entire yield chosen chief builder; W. Lair Thomp­
By the verdict of the Jury in the
tity of sulphur water was thrown out there were only 64 wormy apples dur­ son, scribe, and E. D. Cusick, custo­
Btanrdard O il case at Findlay, Ohio,
o ' the Chulo volcano, and inundated ing the season and the trees were dian. Tbe order starts with about 30
that company ia liable to a fine of from
the town of Panchinaloo, killing moot sprayed six times with arsenate o f lead. members.
|60 to $$6,000.
of the inhabitants.
In the whole yield there were only 64
T o Establish Big Sawmill.
Russia is in terror lest worae reac­
From other points also reports of ter­ boxes that went smaller than fodr tiers
tionary outrages than the country has rific devastation are coming in. Pim i- to the box.
Albany—
A sawmill with a capacity
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yet known follow the
congress of nento and other towns are reported to
of 20,000 feet per day is to be estab­
“ Black Hundred”
organisation
at have been swept away by the floods.
lished six miles south of Brownsville
Wants Passenger Bridge.
K ie ff.
-
Tbe schooner Aselane, with a num­
Oregon Gity— For tbe accommodation by G. B. and E. H. Dickinson, of this
A grand jury at Ban Francisco in its ber of paseengera on board, has been of the people of Oswego, the Clackamas city. A contract with the lessees of
report finds that the police of the bay lost between Oorinto, Nicaragua and county court w ill be asked to Degotiate the land second requires that tbe plant
Everybody on with the Southern Pacific company to be in operation by January 1.
city have been lacking in • discipline Amapala, Honduras.
the end that the county may construct
an 1 recommends that a new chief be board was drowned.
The floods have disinterred a number an upper deck on the company’ s rail­
appointed.
PO R TLA N D M ARKET8,
of corpeee from cemeteries and are car­ road bridge to be constructed acroee tbe
T h e New York Central railroad has rying them down tbe streams. I t is
M ore Delay fo r Hermann.
W illamette river at Oswego. Tbe plan
been fined $108,000 for granting re­ reported that the railroads in Hondur­
Wheat— Club, 04066c; blueetem,
of the Oswego people who w ill petition
Washington, Oct. 22. — Representa­
68(369c; valley, 67c; red, 61062c.
bates to tbe sugar trust and F. L . Pom­ as have suffered serious damage.
the county court for this action is to
tive Binger Hermann w ill not be placed
Oats— No. 1 white, $23.60024; gray,
eroy, traffic manager, moat pay $6,000.
secure for themselves a means of cross­
on trial in this cit- on the indictment
$220 22.60.
A n appeal baa been taken.
ing the W illamette river and more di­
charging destruction of S6 official let­
B U O Y M E SSAG ES FO U N D .
Barley— Feed, $20.60 per ton; brew­
rect communication with this city.
terpress copybooks until sometime after
Taft has reported in person to the
ing, $21.60; rolled, $23.
the Christmas holidays. No definite
president on Cuban a ffain .
Rye— $1.8601.40 per cwt.
Set A drift by Baldwin-Zeigler Polar
arrangement for the trial has been
Institute Arouses Interest.
Corn—
Whole,
$26027;
cracked,
$28
The sunken French submarine has
Expedition in 1901.
made, but tbe court's docket is now so
M yrtle Point— Tbe Farmers’ insti­ per ton.
been located and a ll on board are dead.
filled that it w ill be impossible to bear
Buffalo, N . Y ., Oct. 23.— Two buoy tute and fair, which has just closed,
H ay— V alley timothy, No. 1, $100
the case within the next three months.
The gunners of the battleship Maine messages, set adrift from Frans Josef proved a great success. The display of
11 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy,
Since tbe care was last postponed at tbe
have broken rail previous records in land by tbe Baldwin Zeigler polar ex­ agricultural products convinced all vis­
$14016; clover, $6.6007; cheat, $70
tim e Mr. Heney was called to Ban
pedition in 1901, have been found and itors of the agricultural possibilities of
target practice.
7.60; grain hay, $7; alfalfa, $11.60;
Francisco nothing has been heard from
forwarded to Evelyn B. Baldwin, the the region about M yrtle Point.
Dr. vetch bay, $707.60.
Th e president w ill soon appoint a
Hermann and his whereabouts are un­
founder of the expedition, who is liv Witbyeombe of the Oregon Agricutlural
vice governor o f the Philipines and a
Fruits— Apples, common to choice,
known to the court. No anxiety is felt
ing in this oity. The meesagee were college gave an illustrated lecture on
supreme judge.
25076c per box; choice to fancy, 76c0
picked up on July 10, 1906, on Moffet the treatment of tbe dairy cow.
As $1.26; grapes. 6Oc0$1.5O per box; on this score however.
Owing to the failure of the potato island, by Captain Btreneraon, of the this is a dairying region, this lecture
Concords, Oregon, 2 7 ^ c half basket;
crop a famine is threatened in West Arctic whaler Gottfried, and forwarded was well attended and the farmers got
Combine Packing Houses.
peaches, 7 6 c 0 $ l; pears, 76c0$1.26;
Ireland this winter.
to tbe United States State department many beneeflial ideas from the doctor’ s
Chicago, Oct. 22.— Rumors that an
crabapples, $101.26 per box; prunes,
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Bepublleans claim Hughes is gain- They were mailed to Mr. Baldwin from remarks.
26060c per box; cranberries, Oregon, English holding company is being or­
ingg over Hearat in the New York Washington and delivered to him to­
$303.46 per box; quinces, $101.26 ganised to take over all »he packing in­
Teachers A re 8carce.
day.
terests of the United Btates flew thick
gubernatocrial fight.
per box.
The meesagee are typewritten on film
Baker Oity— Teachers are frightfully
and fast in LaSalle street today.
Tbe
Vegetables
—
Beans,
5
0
7
^
o
;
cab
Chief W ilkie, of the United States paper, and show the effects of their scarce in Baker county. The county
capital
of
the
concern
is
said
to
be
close
bags, 1H 0 l t f c per pound; cauli­
secret service, is investigating the al­ journey in the Arctic sea.
The mes­ auperintendentia offering high wages
celery, 76 to $600,000,000, and J. Ogden Armour
leged shortage at tbe sub-treasury in sages were an appeal for coal, tbe lack and good positions to the pedagogues flower, $1.26 per dosen;
086c
per
dosen;
corn,
12J^c
per dos­ is mentioned as the practicatl chief.
8t. Loo is.
of which forced the expedition to turn of the county, but cannot get enough en; ODcnmben, 16c per dosen; egg W hile nobody in a position to give the
school ma’ams to fill the positions. As plant, 10c per pound; lettuce, head, facts would say anything one way or
British stockholden ot companies back.
tbe result tbe teachers have had an in­ 20c per dosen, onions, 10 0 12%e per the other on the subject, certain things
whose money is invested in Cuba feel
Alaska Mining Industry.
crease in wagee from $36, the average dosen; peas, 4 0 6 c; bell peppers, 6c; that have recently transp'rad in the
aafe now that the United States has
Washington, Oct. 23 — No romance last year, to $60, which is this year’ s pumpkins, l j ^ c per pound; spinach, street are called significant by students
taken charge there.
ia keener than the story of mining in average. Teachers getting $60 and over 4@6c per pound; tomatoes, 30060c of similar financial proceedings.
In the tests of the Brltise battleship dustry in Alaska during the last de­
are common rather than teachers with per box; parsley, 10016c; sprouts,
Dreadnaugbt a ll eigbt-.of her ¿0 and cade. I t is estimated roughly by the
Black Hundred Attacke Stolypin.
salaries of $40 or less.
7>4c per pound; rqnasb, 1
per
18-inch guns were fired at once with increase in the value of its annual out­
St. Petersburg, Oct. 22.— Tbe strain­
pound; turnips, 9Oc0$l per sack; car­
out damage to the vessel.
put from $24,00,000 in 1896 to more
Land Withdrawn From Entry.
rots, $101.26 per sack; beets, $1.860 ed relations between Premier Btolypin
The gold
W illiam Scally, the greatest land than $16,000,000 in 1906.
and tbe Reactionary league ia evi­
The Dalles— Tbe local land office is 1.60 per sack.
owner in America, is dead.
His for- production of 1906, according to reports in receipt of a telegram from the com­
Onions — Oregon, $101.16 per hun­ denced by tbe publication of tbe first
tu ie is ss time tad at about $60,000,000, of the United States Geological survey, missioner of the general land office dred.
attack directly apon the premier. The
including 800,000 acres of land ia I l l i ­ increased by 60 per cent over 1904. withdrawing from filing or entry, un­
Potatoes — Oregon Burbanks, deliv­ Banner, tbe Black Hundred organ, pub­
An important fact in the advancement der the coal land laws, all the public ered, 80086c; in carlotS f. o. b. coun­ lishes revelations concerning the nego­
nois, Kansas and Nebraska.
of Alaska’s mineral industry daring the lands embraced in tbe following town- try, 76 0 80c; sweet potatoes, 2 0 2
tiations entered into a month ago when
Ktehard Oroker, former leader of last dscade, says the report, is the great
the premier gave oeriain assurances to
shisp: Townships 6 south, ranges 24, per pound.
Tammany ball, New York, w ill soon redaction in mining companies.
a big delegation from at least 100
26
and
26,
E.
W
.
D
.;
townships
7
Batter—
Fancy
creamery,
86080c
per
visit bis old home.
branches.
The Banner charges the
south, ranges 24, 26 and 86, E. W . D .; pound.
Governor Called T o Account.
Should Hughes be elected governor
townships 8 south, ranges 26, 26, K.
Sggs — Oregon ranch, 8 1 0 3 8 ^ 0 per premier with having broken faith.
o f New York, be may use tbe office as
Mexico Oity, Oct. 88. — A sensation W . D.
dosen.
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Roldiers Go In Pursuit.
a stepping stone to the presidency.
was caused today by the announcement
Poultry — Average old bans, 12c per
that
documents
have
been
presented
to
Sheridan,
W yo., Oct. 22. — Ten
Much
Grain
Accumulates.
pound; mixed chickens, 11 0 12c;
Tbe president of the Onicage elevator
La Grande — Homer Littleton, fore­ spring. 12c; old roosters, 9 0 10c; troops of the Tenth cavalry left Fort
trust has admitted grain men only congress accusing Rafael Isabel, gover­
nor of the state of Sonora, of being re­ man of the Chas. Playle warehouse at dressed chickens, 1 4 0 1 6 ){c ; turkeys, Robinson, Neb., at noon today from
technically obey the spirit of the law.
sponsible for tbe violation of territorial Alicel, reports that a large quantity of live, 16021c; turkeys, dressed, choice. G illette, Wyo., to ronnd up tbe band
The accusation refera to th> grain has accumulated, owing to tbe 80028c; geese, live, 9010c; ducks, 14 of manriding Ute Indians from the
Russia is preparing for another gen­ rights.
eral strike.
entrance on Mexican soil of Arisons embargo placed against railroad ship­ 016c.
White Rock agency, Utah. The com­
rangers, alleged to have been in the ments of wheat from the Interior points
manding officer is said to have instruc­
Veal— Dressed, 6 X 0 8 c per peund.
Wholesale dealers in diamonds have
governor’ s convoy at tbe tim e of the to Portland, on account of tbe grain-
Beef — Dressed bulls, 2 0 8 ) {e per tions from the War department to take
announced an advance inn prices of 20
Oananea
riots.
Tbe
exact
terms
of
the
handlers’
strike,
but
that
shipments
pound;
oows, 4 0 6 c; country steers, 6 the Indians deed oi alive.
per cent.
document are not aa yst known.
w ill now be resumed.
06
8nowstorm In South Dakota.
In the trial of the Standard Oil for
Mutton — Dressed, fancy, 7c per
conspiracy at Findlay, Ohio, one of tbe
flloux City, Iowa, Oct. 22. — DIs-
Clemenceau Is Summoned.
C rook County Horses fo r Alberta.
pound; ordinary, 6 0 6 c ; lambs, fancy,
company’ s lawyers declared tbe corpor­
oatrhes received at the Chicago, M il­
Paris, Oct. 28.— As was expected, M.
Pendleton — Thirteen carloads of 8c.
ation to be tbe only good trust in exist- Clemlncean, minister of the interior,
waukee A Bt. Paul office in this city
Pork— Dressed, 6 0 8c per pound.
range horses 'were shipped from this
rate that a heavy snow storm with
was summoned to the palace today and city to Alberta last week.
H
ops-1906,
14016c
per
pound;
They are
«•♦iwR prty* ¡led all night on tbe Rapid
Gubau rebels have petitioned for
¡unrooted with tbe task of forming a owned by M. R. Cowell, and were tak­ 1906, nominal; 1904, nominal.
retention of Commander Colwell in new ministry. It w ill take him four en from the range in Crook county.
W ool— Eastern Oregon average best, City extension of that road in South
The snow is drifting and
Havana, as be is liked by all and a days to choose hia ministers and anoth­ The shipment was consigned to Shelby 18018c per pound, according to shrink­ Dakota.
good officer.
Colwell is eons mander of er four or five days for the new minis .function, Moot., but the horses are de­ age; valley, 80021c, according to fine­ a-mwnlows have been ordered to Cham­
berlain and Prasho.
the U. 8. cruiser Denver.
try to agree on a program.
ness; mohair, choice, 26028c.
signed for tbe Alberta market . ,
*e.
HUNDREDS PERISH
Storm Sweeps Florida» Coba and
Central America.
LOSS REACHES INTO MILLIONS
Shipping Receivss Serious Blow and
Everywhere Loea o f L ife la
Reported Great.
Miam i, Fla., Oct. SO.—Th e steamer
St. Lucie, Captain Fravo commanding»
has sunk off tho Florida coaat. One
steamer arrived in port tonight bring- •
ing 60 injured, who were taken to the
hoapital, and it is said 88 daad bodisa
w ill be brought up tomorrow.
Captain Bravo says that he anchored
on tbe lee side o f E llio tt’ s K ey, 16
milee south of Miam i, yesterday morn­
ing and soon afterward a tidal w a v »
engnlfed the entire island.
H e says theie were 860 residents on
the island, all of whom where loet. Th e
St. Lncie waa ornshed by tbe same
wava and of tbe 100 paseengera on
board 86 were killed. Gaptain Bravo
waa seriously injured.
▲ Darge containing 100 people ia
•aid to have been torn away from its
moorings at E llio tt Kay and after­
wards picked up near tbs Bahama
Islands, 60 of bar passengers having;
bean drowned.
. Havana, Oct. 80. — A cyclone of un­
precedented severity, accompanied by
a terrific downpour of rain, swept over
the p.-ovincee of Havana and Pinar del
R io Wedneeday night and reeultc-d in
20 deaths in this city and the serious
injury of a dosen or more perrons.
Tbs damage ie estimated at fu lly $2,-
000,000. The daad are all Cubans o f
tbs peoisr class.________
Ban Joan, Porto Rico, Oct. SO.— T h e
Red Star Line steamer Philadelphia,
from La Guayra, Venesnela, for New
York, arrived bare today.
Her cap­
tain reporta that a Dutch steamer wea
loet in tbe cyclone at a point between
Caracas and La Guayra.
Twenty milee of tbe railroad con­
necting La Guayra with Caracas hava
been totally destroyed by tbe storm,
according to officers and passengers o f
tbs Philadelphia.
Ban Salvador, Oct. 20.— A tempest
baa raged incessantly tor tan d a y »
throughout tbs republic, flooding the
rich valleys, principally that of Msjada,
and resulting in great loss of life and
tbs destruction of cattle and crops.
Tbs topography of vaiions depart­
ments baa bean changed, building« have
fallen, burying their tenants in tba
ruins, and tbe iron bridgea over tbe
prinicpal riv e n have been carried away.
Tbe rivers era bringing down the bodies
of perrons drowned in tbe storm and
tbs carcasses of cattle, end the sight of
these tenda to insreaae tbe terror of the
people.
Guatemala and Honduras also bava
suffered greatly. I t is said tbs losses
there w ill amount to many millions o f
dollars.
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GRAIN T R A F F IC B LO C K E D .
Shippers May Appeal to Interstate '
Board Against Railroads.
New York, Oct. 20;— There baa for
some time been active complaint by tba
New York grain trade at tbe railroad
delay in bringing wheat and corn to
this port.
The comlpalnte have become so gen­
eral, says the Journal of Commerce, to­
day, that the railroads have finally de­
cided that until they can teenre poss­
ession of equipment they w ill not re­
ceive any more grain. Tbie refusal ie
absolute and applies to new aa well as
old business.
Tbs grain trap’ s is greatly excited
over the decision, and a joint meeting
of the Produce Exchange grain commit­
tee with the committee on trade and
transportation was held today with tba
steamship interests to devise ways and
means, take legal advice, and if neces­
sary make formal appeal to the Inter­
state Commerce commission against tbe
action ot tbe roads.
Blaze In Freight 8heds.
San Francisco, Oct. 20.— Firs broke
out last night in the freight sheds o f
tbs Southern Psciflo on Berry street,
between Fifth and Sixth, and m ad»
rapid progress on account of tbe inflam­
mable material in its path.
Borne
alarm wee felt throughout tbe eity on
account of the quickly spreading action
of tbe flames, but the reorganised fir »
department proved itself equal to th »
emergency and surrounding property
waa protected. The water supply was.
ample and in good order. Alongside o f
the sheds 60 freight cars ware consumed.
Lays Claim to No-Man’s-Land.
Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 20.— Attorney
General Herbert 8. Hsdlsy, of Mleson-
rj, has decided to institute proceedings
in tbe United States Supreme court to
establish title to Island Park, In t h »
Missouri river, between Olay oounty,
Mo., and Wyandotte connty, Ken. Is­
land Park comprises nsrly a section o f
lend in the Misronri river. Priseflghta
end other lawbreaking have token plao»
without hindrance on tbe island, it be­
ing otttaide ell state jurisdiction.
McKinley Memorial Fund.
Canton, O., Oct. 20.— Secretary Hart-
sal, of tbe M cKinley National Memori­
al association, today gave out a state­
ment showing total contributions o f
$666.664,to which should be added $74..
062 interest. Of this sum there baa
been expended $178,886.