Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, November 21, 1901, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextICitaef mtut VOL. XVII. GRANTS PASS. JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER ai, 1901. No. 5 a JQR R. E SMITH. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON Office, Room 1 over Post Office. Residence Booth House, 7th and A. GRANTS PASS. OKEOON. C. HOUGH, ATTOKN U Y-AT-LAW, Practices in all State and Federal Courts Office over First National Bank. Grants Pass, - Oxeoon. pj C. PERKINS. U. 8. DEPUTY MINERAL BUKVEYOR, bBANT Pass, - Oaaxjos, QEORGE H. BINNS, ASSAYER, Office o)Hwita Hotel Josephine Grants Pass, Oregon. Men Wantedl ! Wood Choppers, at Wolf Creek, Oregon. Good tim ber, and good wages can be made. DUNBAR & KUYKENOALL, Woll Creek, Ore. Willis Kramer HANlirACTUBRB Of Myrtle Creek Extra Family Flout And Everything that goes with First Class Milling. For sale by J. M. Chiles, E. A. Wads and T. B. Cornkix. Call for it; same price as other brands N.-E. McGREW, PIONEER TRUCK and DELIVERY Furniture snd Piano Moving. GRANTS PASS, OREGON. Th popular barber shop Get your tonsorial work done at IRA TOMPKINS On Sixth Street Three chairs ltatb room in connection II. II. BARTON, WATCHMAKER and "JEWELER. Full assortment of Watches, Clocks, Sil verwear and Jewelry. A Good Assortment of Bracelets and Heart Bangles, Clemens' Drug Store J. M. CHILES GROCERIES HARDWARE TABLEWARE Fine Butter a Specialty FRONT and FOURTH STS. SWEETLANI) & CO. I FRESH and SALT I MEATS-g 'Phoki 21 Big Discount Sale ....Wilbur's Big Furniture Store.... 50 Per Cent Discount on WaH Paper. Hi 2-3 Discount on Carpets, Rugs, Art Squares, a i , r.:i riiKa T inAlnnmc Pniwil.oo Roi. T.nnnws. '119U vii Jti v ijui a, niers, Side Boards, Lace Wardrobes. Our stock of Best with the discount Old Fashioned New England Thanksgiving Dinner at the Home Kitchen Thanksgiving Dav. I am now prepared to furnish Supper or Lunches tor Dances or Lodges on short notice. Mrs.L. A'Strobel, Home Kitchen. Chicken dinner every Sunday. Board and room $4 00. FIRST NATIONAL OP SOUTHERN OREGON. Capital Stock, - - $50,000. Receive dKsits subject to check or od certificate partible on demand. Sells siifi( draft on New York, San Fran cisco, and Puf 'Jand. Telegraphic transfers sold on all points In the United States. Special Attention given to Collections and general business of our customers. Collections made throughout Southern Oregon, and on all accessible points. R. A. BOOTH, President. J. C CAMPBELL, Vice President. It. L. OILKEY, Cashior. Grants Pass Banking and Trast Co. CAPITAL STOCK $50,000. Transacts a general Banking business. Receives depoeiti subject to check or on demand certificates. Our customers are assured of courteous treatment and eveiy consideration con sistent with sound banking principles J. Frank Watson, Pres. Ecu s Pollock, Vice Pres. L. L. Jew ill, Cashier. Thought for Your Horse- Yon should think of your horse when you are buring horse goods as well as ynorself. Not only will the horse be more comfortable in the harness and horse effects we provide, but yon will be more Certain to be Satisfied, since you will have a pride in your out fit. Our horse goods are our pride. We want to make them voir pride al so. These articles are well made, are sure to pe a pleasure wherever used, and we believe you will 8nd them all they should be. The price is right, too. JOHN HACKETT, 6th street. School Books, Tablets Pencils, Etc. of all kinds Sloyer Drog Co. Preecrliplons. sir Darling, 1012 Howard St Port Hu ron, Mich , rites : "I have tried many pills and laxatives but IVA'itt's Little Karly Misers are far the best pills I have ever used." They never gripe. Dr. W. F. Kremer. ATTEND THE vvui n h Curtains. Portieres, Stand Covers. Pillows, Hat Racks. h I.-rooifery, Grade Crockery has just arrived, Yours for Business, M. Wilbur. FIRST QUARTZ MILL,. Erected e-t Gold Hill on a "Pocket" bv the l&te Henry Klippel evnd Other. The Ashland Tidings has the following story of the first quarts mill erected In the state, It was one of the lessons to be learned in the qnarti education of this country that a mine should be prospected first and equipped after wards. Failure to observe this rule in a number of instances gave the quarts mining industry a setback in Southern Oregon. The Jewett mine is not ex hausted as the article intimates, but was only surface worked as many other good properties have been and is still a live mine. The story of the first quarti mill erected in Southern Oregon is recalled by the passing away of the pioneer miner Henry Klippel, who is fully entitled to the name of the father of quarts mining in Oregon, through his connection with the industry at the 'famous Gold Hill lode in 1800. It was in early January of 1800 that a pioneer named Graham, who was better known by the sobriquet "Emigrant," located what proved to be the astonishingly rich pocket ledge of Gold Hill. Not being able to locate the whole ledge himself, the "Emigrant," took in the proposition with bim John Long, George Isb, Thomas Cbavner and James Hayes, who each staked claims. They found an abundance of flat rock on the surface of the ground which was rich in free gold, and the news of their strike spread over Jackson county like wild fire on a western prairie. Pros pectors and miners flocked to the hill from all quarters of Southern Oregon and northern California, and hundreds of claims were staked and marked out with no other boundary lines than ropes stretched along them. Among other locators was Henry Klippel who picked up a piece of quarts rock on bis claim weighing 13 ounces that yielded 6 ounces in gold. The quart was worked with mortars and never before or since was money so plentiful in Jaokson county at during those early days. The dull old county-seat of Jacksonville at once assumed metropolitan airs and was the headquarters for the miners of the whole section. Hotels, restaurants and stores multiplied and an era of great pros perity was inaugurated. A daily stage line was put on the route from Jackson ville to the new mines, and the busses were crowded with prospectors and sight seers bound .for the Eldorado of' Gold Hill. The gold fever seised on the whole country ; larmt were abandoned for the mines snd as long as the extra ordinary output continued there was prosperity galore for everyone. After taking oat a large amount of the precious metal from their claims, a disa greement arose among the original locat ors, and Graham, sold bis interest to Henry Klippel and John Ross for $5,003, while James Hayes disposed of his for a like amount to Klippel, John McLough tea and Charles Williams. The new owners immediately began to develop the claims with Ivigor. Two arrastras were erected to reduce the rich rock and were operated with mules as motive power. At the weekly cleanups for some time one thousand ounces of gold was the rule. Such was the accumula tion of ore that the arrastres were not equal to the work, so Mr. Klippel re solved on putting op a 20-stainp quarts mill to be run with steam power at a cost of $12,000. In company with Mc Laughlin and Williams, a qnartx mill was purchased in San Francisco, and a contract entered into with the mining company to reduce their ore at $8 00 per ton. The mill arrived in the spring of 1800 having come by water to Coos Bay and then by road via Scottsburg. Very much difficulty was experienced in hauling the heavy freight over the tough roads. The freight bill alone is said to have been $2,600. After a short time the mill was suc cessfully erected and the machinery in stalled. Dsrdanellea was selected as a site for the pioneer quartz mill and it began work on a run of 100 lonVof refuse quarts that had been thrown aside as having been too poor to run through the arrastre. The rock yielded $100 to the ton and prospects were rosy indeed, The next run which was unassorted rock, however, was a great surprise to Rod room Suites. Che fib- W It is a liig bargain FJsi V V 1 the owners for it yielded only $3.00 per ton, and the paucity of the gold was attributed to defective amal gamation. But the mine was beginning to peter out and another run oi six weeks demonstrated that the location was only a pocket ledge. $2 40 per ton was a result of the last run and during August both the mine and the mill closed down. Messrs. Klippel, Mc Lauglin and Williams lost about $11,000 on their venture with the pioneer quarts mill. The property was afterwards leased to a party of Siekiyou county miners who could not make a go of it, so abandoned it. Then the mill was moved to the Jew ett mine, situated on the south side of Rogue river, owned by the Jewett Bros, and D. William Donthitt, Jot Jackson ville. At this mine the cleanup shows 1 the rock to yield $40 per ton and la all $40,000 was pounded out of the Jewett claim. After this mine was exhausted the old quarts mill was successfully con verted into a sawmill and ran as sucb for a long lime. Afterwards it was dis mantled and some years later the en gine and boiler were moved to Parker's sawmill on Big Butte creek, where good service was done by them for a number of years. Stories in The Compo-nlon. In the fifty-two issues of its volume or 102, The Youth's Companion will publish between two hundred and three hundred good stories. Four series of stories which promise to be exception ally eatertaining will be "Tales of a Deep-Sea Diver," "Tales of a Circus Hand," "Tales of a Mississippi Pilot," snd "Tales of an Indian Agent." There will be four stories in each group. Among the contributors of fiction dur ing 1902 will be Annie Fellows Johns ton, Eva Wilder Brodhsad, Arthur E. McFarlane, Homer Green, Ellawoith E Kelly, Elia W. Peattie, Grace M. Galla gher, Alice Morgan, Elisabeth McCraken C. A. Stephens, Alice Brown, Jack Lon don, 11. S. Canfield, Margaret Johnson, Edward W. Thompson, Carroll W. Ban kin, May Roberts Clark, Sarah Orne Jewett, Margaret Nangster, Marshall Saunders and Sarah Barnwell Elliot. A full announcement of the new vol ume will be suit to any address on re quest. The new subscriber who Sen Is $1.75 (or the new volume at once will re ceive free all the remaining issues for 1901, including the double Holiday Numbers; also The Companion Calen dar for 1902, lithographed in twelve col ors and gold. Tub Youth's Companion, 195 Columbus Avenue, Boston, Mass. We.shinu.ton Correspondence. With the elections out of the way, tha political leaders are turning their attention to the important subjects ol the tariff and Federal patronage. The president finds a wide diversity of opin ion on the former question. It may be confidently asserted that Hon. 8erano E. Payne, chairman of the Ways and Means committee, Maj. Steel, of the same com mittee, and numerous other representa tives, and senators Hanna, Aldricb, 1'latt and Depew, all of whom are or have recently been in Washington, con sider any change in tariff schedules un wise, and all the reciprocity treaties so far negotiated, Impracticable. On the other hand, some of the western con gressmen are clamoring for the reduc tion of rates on certain schedules. Some prominent republicans believe a reduc tion of revenue should be accomplished by a docrease of the internal revenue taxes and still others say that with the expenses that the coming congress will have to meet, any reduction of revenues will be injudicious. In view of the character of the men who oppose it, 1 consider it safe to predict that there will be no tariff revision by the 57th congress. Rear Admiral Walker has called a meeting of the isthmian canal com mission for to-morrow, to complete the report which it expects to deliver to the president within the next two weeks. Admiral Walker refuses to admit that he has received any formal proposition from M. Hut in, relative to the saleof the concession and plant of the Panama canal company, and he further states that he does not consider the commis sion empowered to enter on any negotia tions for their purchase, but be bss agreed to submit, as a portioa of the re port of the commission, the proposition which M. Hutin baa formulated. Miller on China. Consul II. B. Miller has written an other letter to Oregon's Dairy and Food Commissioner, J. W. Bailey, urging Northwest commercial bodies to send an agent over to Manchuria and China to look out for the markets for our prod ucts. He speaks especially of I'ort Arthur and of Dai ny, the open sea ter minus of the Siberian railroad. He says through trains will soon be running from Dainy to St Petersburg, and that 24,000 Ben are at work in constructing the city of Dainy, and 1700 on the dry dock. He says there is a chance lor a great market there for cannod fruits, butter, milk, flour, cheese, dried fruits jams, lumber, doors and sasbes, house fittings, furniture, machinery, hardware, and nearly all things used by man will soon be bandied and sold In large quantities. Woolen goods, clothing and blankets will have a good sale, for the country is cold, although it lies much south of Portland. A good suggestion. But there will have to be more cows, bogs, sheep, etc., etc, raised in the northwest before the borne market is fully supplied. The possibilities of the Oriental markets are but limitless. Norris Silver, North Ptratford, N. H. ; "1 purchased a bottle ol One Minute Cough Cure when suffering with a rouvb doctors told me wan incurable. One bot tle relieved me. the second and third si most cured. To-day 1 am a well mao." Dr. W. r . Kremer. PACIFIC COAST NEWS. ITEMS OF INTEREST PICKED FROM THE WEEK'S DISPATCHES. Important I urrha of Btrot Railway la San Franelseo Clever Scheme of a Barslar to Gala Ills Freodom Largo Dividends of Fishing Corporations. A beet sugar factory and refinery Is oon to be built near Tehama, Cat Eugene E. Schmits, the Union Labor oaudidate, was eleoted mayor of San Francisco. He was born in that city Aug. S3, 1884, -and received his educa tion In the publio schools. A pumpkin grown on the ranch of George McLaughlin of Ban Jose, Cai., weighs 220 pounds, Is 4 feet t inches in feugth, aud its trausvorse circumference is 6 feet I inches. Harry Elliott, the man who on the night of Oot. 27 shot and killed J. W. Sherman In a brothel in San Jose, CaL, was hold to answer to a charge of mur der before the superior court. Charles Helm, proprietor of the largest restaurant in, Tacoma, has closed his place fur a month, in order that he and his wife may take a mueh-noeded rest. Mr. Helm is nuwilliug to trust his business to hired help while he is away. The Watsonvtlle (Col.) high school was destroyed by fire, supposed to be of Incendiary origin. The loss on the building is $25,000, covered by $15,000 Insurance. The loss on library, fixtures and children's school books will be $5,000 The Southern California fruit ex change, at a meeting In Los Angeles, adopted resolutions strongly protesting against the ratification of the reciprocity treaties which are now ponding, aud which will come before oougross at Its approaching session. The directors of the Los Angeles chamber of commerce, in session, paused similar resolutions. Lipe Ship aud Ed Meeus were In the act of holding np a saloon, aijd bod lined op the occupants of the place, when Deputy Sheriff Ells, who had erupt be hind the counter, opened fire with a shotguu. Ship full dead, but ,Moeus, though wounded, ran out, and mount ing his horse, escaped. Tho Boat horn Paoiflo motor running between Bun Bernard iuo aud ltiversido, Cul., was attacked by a largo party of trumps, who used knives to fight the train crew. Couduotor Evans aud a brukomau mimed Jouos wore badly wounded. The tramps csoaped. Eastern oysters are boiug grown at several points on Puget sound, but the largest measure of success has been ob tained by M. Young, au oyster man owning largo bods on Sooke iulot, 20 miles from Victoria. Young bus been experimenting for five years, and now has large quantities of oysters two years old, which show all the marks of healthy growth, and promise to oouimaud as high price as Atlantic coast oysters. A number of fishing corporations In the northwest have reoeutly held their annual meetings aud declared dividends ranging from 60 to 100 per oout. It is said that the Paoillo American Fishing coiupuuy will pay nearly $1,000,000 In profit to its stockholders, of which the Cudahys of Chicago will receive tho largest part. A power plant Is now being erected near Ked Bluff, Mont., for tho purpose of supplying electrical power to the city of Butte. There will be two genera tors, each driven by a separate water wheel or turbine, capable of transmit ting 6,000 horsepower. Tho Uunio, constructed iu tho most Inaccessible part of Madison canyon, is the largest In tho United States, Its dimensions be ing 10 by 10 feet in the clear. It will be 12 miles loug, aud will cost $1,600,000. The flume will take the entire flow of the river, except Iu tho season of freshets. The entire system of the Market-street Railway company of San Francisco was sold to a Baltimore syndicate for tho sum of $'-0,lXM),ooo cash. Tills transfer represents tiie largest cash purchase ever made In this country, par valua huviug becu paid for every shuro of stock of the system. It is planned by tho yu dlcate to expend ut least $1,000,000 iu Improvements, and its njm will bo to run a model street system of transpor tation. Edward Weber, at Huisun, Col., was oonvicted of burglary In the second de gree and sentenced to five yours' im prisonment at Kolsom. Ho was con victed lost April and sentenced to four years In San tjueiitlu prison, but his at torney took au appeal to the supremo court, and, after Weber had served six months of his seiitouce, he was granted a new trial, which resulted In a second conviction and a hoavier sensonoo than before, In addition to the six months already served. Suit has been filed by T. F. Wilson of Tucson against Governor Mnrphy, for mer Auditor Vlckers, aud Vickors' bondsmen, to rooovsr sums of money aggregating $3,332, paid for various territorial purposes on 14 warrants dur ing the past two years, anil alleged by plaintiff to have been illegally drawn. Governor Murphy aud Vlckers say the suit is purely a political one and for the purpose of discrediting the territorial administration at Washington. They explain that every warrant drawn was Iu accordance with specific appropria tions and for neouasary expenses aud for the benefit of the territory. Keen McKoau, who was serving a sentence for burglary at Walla Walla, Wash., procured some pepper aud kero sene and rubbed the mixture Into his skin. A rash soon followed, the physi clan pronoun -ed it a cose of scarlet fever, and McKean was hurried to the hospital. A guard was set over him and the prison fumigated. While the guard dosed McKean arose, stole the guard's shosaanda blanket aud escaped At Bed Time I take a pleasant herb drink, the next muruing I feel bright and my complex ion is better. My doctor says it acts gently on the stomach, liver and kid neys, and a pleasant laxative. It is made from herbs, and is prepared as easily as tea. It is called lane's Medi cine. All drnggists sell it at 25c. and 60c. Lane's Family Medicine moves the bowels each day. If you cannot get it, send for a free aample. Address. Oratr F. Woodward, La Roy, N. Y. Ad agreement has boon reaohod be tween the Fulton ironworks at Ban Francisco and the men who wont out on strike some months ago, and the toon will now return to work. William P. Sullivan. Jr., ohlet of po lice of San Francisco, is dead from sof tening of the brain and heart failure. He was born in Massachusetts iu 1857, aud came to California when he was 13 years old. Honry Hebb, a down-river farmer, brought suit iu Sacramento against a neighbor, J. E. Crew, for $5,000 dam ages, because Crew told him he "was the meanest man on earth and ought to have been dead aud buried loug ago." A fire in the wholesale hardware house of Corbett, Falling ta Robertson of Portland, Or., cannod a loss of about $00,000, which is covered by Insurance. A live musk ox, said to be the first ever broaght to Sau Francisco, arrived from the Arotlo on the whaling steamer Bulge. This rare animal, which is the property of Captain Bodflsh, is very susceptible to change, and former at tempts to brlug a musk ox to this south era latitndo have always heretofore proved futile. Four years ago Audrow Jackson of Ceutralia, Wash., believing that he had not loug to livo, deeded his property to William Huou and wife, Mrs. Huou beiug Jackson's daughter. Roooutly, however, he came to the oouolusion that death was not so near as he thought, and ho married a woman much younger than himself. Jackson then applied to his daughter and hor hus band for tho return of the property he had conveyed to them, bnt this they refused to do, and Jackson took the case to the superior court, which has just decided that bis real estate convey, auces wore absolnto, aud the property cannot be reoovurod. Otto M. Ekberg, employed as a team ster by W. P. Fuller & Co. of San Francisco, while going home about 7 o'clock in the eveulug, was struck from behind with a piece of gaspipe iu the hands of an nnknown niau. The mur derer dropped the weapon, walked np to the body of his victim, gazed a mo ment on the dead fsoo, then turned and ran. The deed was witnessed by a Woman who happened to bo passing at the time, aud who gave information to tho police. Tho murder is supposed to huvo arisen out of tho luto strike troublo. A brilliant meteor was soon near Ked Rock, about 83 miles west of Tucson, A. T. It burst with a distiuot report that socmod like the sound of a cannon shot. The sky fur miles around was lighted as if by a gigautio rocket. It Is aunouiiocd that the Sutherland Steamship company of Newcastlo-upon True, Eiiglaud, Is to send two of its turret steamers to lugot sound this coming year, to engage tn the lumber carrying trade to Manila and China. Each steamer will have a lumber-carrying capacity of 8,000,000 foot, and other heavy freight will be curried if it offers. Mrs. May L. Cheney, appointment secretary at the university of California, has received a letter from F. W. Atkin son, superintendent of publio Instruc tion iu the 1'hilippiues, asking her to recommend 90 youug men for teachers in the islands at $1,200 a year. There sro no further accommodations for wo men teachers on the islands. President James J. Hill of tho Great Northern railroad has at lust been con vinced that Young Men's Christian as sociation work is a good tiling for rail road men, aud lias agreed to assist In establishing railroad Youug Men's Christian associations at three divisional points two iu Minnesota and one iu Montana. Bert lli his, who murdered Deputy Sheriff Ward of Sau Diego at Port Har ford in December, 18'JU, was sentenced at Sun Luis Obispo to bo hanged at San Qaentiu Jan. 10. Mary Clugutt, daughter of the late Judge Ohigett of Spokane, Wash., has opened a barber shop Iu thut city. Miss Clugott, who learned tho barber trade in Chicago, sought admUsiou to the Barbers' union, but this was refused, as women are barred from that organis ation. "It was as a last resort that I oH!iied this shop of my own," said Miss Clugott. "I couldn't douuythlngelse I had to make a living, and harboring is my trade. It is tho only thing I can work at." With tho object of eliminating tho middle man, grocers ill southern Cali fornia have inmied a corporation, witli f.l'si.000 capital, which will have one retailer ill each large southern (Jal for ma town. The cnrporntiou will huvo a store in Los Angeles and order goods in carload lots from tliu east for distribu tion among Its members. A local weather prophet of Tiluiuook, Or , predicted that a tidal wave would sweep over the strip of low Coast luud, wash against the mountain and theu rooxlo. As the time for the fulfilment of the prophecy approached many of the Inhabitant took to the mountains aud others got their wagons ready to desirl at the first signs of au unusually high tide. Nothing, howsver, occurred out of the ordinary, and thoso who took to the hills returned the following day with their faith In tim predictions of the IikiiI prophet somewhat shaken. A boy iiuined John M Nully, of llis bee, A. T., lired a nil i liu.let into a box of giant powder Iu a mining shaft, just to see what w ould occur. Great rucks arose in the uir, and tho earth shook violently for several hundred yards. McNally'a body was blown 40 feet, aud the head wus completely severed. E. A Piicschol of Uakerslluld, Cul., formerly receiver of the United Slutes laud olllce ut Vis.ilia, has beeu indicted by the federal gruud jury, sitting at Fresno, for conspiracy In connection Willi the ulll.duvtls regarding the nature of the luud of tho Keiu river oil dis trict. Frederick O. Maid, a printer formerly lu Ptieschel's employ, was Iu diid for lsffijury on two sepuruU! counts. 'Ihelwil iu each Instance was rlxeil nt .1 That Throbbing Headache Would quickly leave rou, if you ii'ed Dr. King's New l.ile Pills. Thousands of sufferers have proved their matchles merit for Hick and Nervous Headaches They make pure blood and build up your health. Only 25 cents Money back if not cared. Sold by Dr. Kremer Druggist. Wood wanted on subscription at the Qoiaiss office. Thomas IIIO SIXTH Everything for the House. New Rocking Chairs An immense variety, the largest we have ever shown from $1.25 up. The Old Colonial just lu from the East that for antique style and beauty are hard to beat. NcV Suits Coming in almost every day. Carpets No patent threads in ours, but a solid thread dyed through and all wool, exquisite designs. New Lounges and Couches from $9.75 to $25.00. Unexpected Prices in Comforters we made a fortunate purchase; you gain by it. They usually sell for $1.65 and $1.00 aud weigh 7ji pounds. Our price $,35 and $1.65. Chamber Sets 6 pieces large size, decorated $2.95. Lamps-Large burners, handsomely decorated shades and founts $1.35 A Run in Copper Boilers Urge size, zinc lined, solid . copper throughout ; actually worth $3.50 they go at $2.75. Pocket Knlvee Reduced Regular ioc Stove Polish 5c Regular 25c ax handles 15c Hotel Side Dtsh.es, per dozen 90c Cups and Saucers, set of six cups and six saucers 40c Uood serviceable ware 4 qt. Tin Milk Pans, each 5c Holiday China and Dric-a-Brac. NEWS OF TIIE WORLD. HAPPENINGS OF THE PAST FEW DAYS FROM ALL QUARTERS. trls;ht Congestion In the Kaat phani That S.SOO Volts ot Klsctrielly Gould Not Kill Peculiar Grounds for blvores Wroosi of Japan Ship. ' The Democratlo party has nominated General Burtolome Muso as its candi date for the presidency of Cubs, The French forolgn office announced thnt the sultuu bos issued' an trade for the execution of his engagements, and that the Fruuoo-Turkisu dispute is now at an end. John Armstrong Chaulor, the divorced husband of Amolio Haves, now. the Priucoss Tronbstsky, was prouounood sane by the Albouiarle (Va.) county oonrt. His property Interests iu Vir ginia will now be turned over to him. LI Hung Chang, for 40 years the most Important as well as the most plotur. esque figure iu China, died at Poking from ulceration of the stomach. He was bora in 18a J. The uew lord mayor ot Loudon, Sir Joseph Dimsdale, was installed at Guild hull with all the qnalnt formalitlos and oeromoules customary on the transfer, euce of this olllce. The iiOOO-tou Jnpanose steamer, Tnsro hikn, ownod by Okhura & Co. of Toklo, went ashore on Mejtma island, Goto archipelago, and beciuuo a total wreck. Only oue man out of bur crew of SO was saved. Mrs. Hedler, the wlfo of Walter B. Hedler, Is a snake charmer, and hor husband seeks a divorce on the ground of extrumo cruelty, says a Patnrsou dis patch to Iho Now York Hun. ' He alleges thai on onn occasion, when he and his wife hud retired for the night, alio nroso and, going to the receptacle In which were kept her veuemous snakes snd other reptiles, took therefrom throes uakes, which sho toyed with lu bed. Hedler was bitten on the lett thigh by one of the reptiles, resulting in groat pain, and necessitating an Im mediate visit to a physician. Mrs. Hedler formerly traveled with Burnum 4 lialluy's show as a bypuotlxor of venomous snakes. The first monument to be e roc tod In honor of William McKlnley was un veiled at Tower, Minn., before thou sands of people, who came from all over the northwest. Governor Vau Haul was among tho Sieukers. All the bauds that could bo mustered were oil hand and milled iu playing "Nearer, my God, to Thee," tho groat crowd singing the words. The freight congestion In western Pennsylvania, says a Pittsburgh dis patch, is dully growing mure serious. Tiie railroads ore holpleastiu the face of freight offerings exoeedlug anything of tho kind In the history of tho district. Mast furnaces are closing because of ....Southern Oregon ASHLAND, OKEOON. Strong Aoademl)c coarse. Professions' training of the highest excellence. Well equipped labora tories. Urst class train ing department. De mand lor trained teach ers exceeds the supply. Graduates easily secure good positions. II e s u 1 1 f n 1 locstlon . Most delightful climate on the coast. Eipen.es $120 to $160 per year. Write for catalogue. 1 W. to. MvrJr Li.L .rt.s,.,.-t - ' il r i-. M THE ....HOUSE FURNISHER.. STREET their inability to get ooke, aud finishing mills because they cannot get in raw material or ship out the finished pro- duct. The leading commesclal bodies will Investigate the matter. Jumbo IL a vlcions elephant belong, lug to a circus at Butfalo, N. Y., was ordered to be killed by electrloltr, and $,300 volts were sent through the ani mal's body. For full five minutes the cerreut swept over the wires, bnt Jumbo did not wince. Finally, when it be came apparent that electricity would not kill the boast, he was tukeu bock to bis quarters. Py his own written confosslou, Ctwrlos D. Thompson, supreme finance keepor at the supreme tent, Knights of the Maccabees, aud a well-known tngownor ot Port Huron, Mich., has embexxled about $00,000 belonging to the order. Thompson, however, was under heavy bouds, and the hoavlest loss will fall apou the Maryland Fidelity company. The lines in the Wostern Passenger association have refused to deal with the questiou ot providing separate ooaohos or sleepers, or soparate apart ments In sleepers, for consumptives. Tho qnestlon was placed on tho docket at the urgont request ot the Travelers' Protective association. A jury la the Uultcd States district court at Honolulu returned a verdlot of t'itiS.IS against the Journeymen Plumb ers' anion and the Master Plumbers' association in the suit of O. H. Brown. Brown complained that, by reason of an agreement between the uulon and the association whereby journeymen were to work for noue but members of the association and masters were to em ploy noue bat members of tho anion, ha was forced oat of the plumbing busi ness aud thereby suffered loss. The suit was brought under the anti-trust law, aud, according to the law, the court must treble the verdict rendered by the Jury by way of punitive dam. ages. The defendants will carry the matter to the supremo court of the United Btates. A terrible gun accident, says a dls patch from Atbeus, occurred on board the British battleship Koyal Sovereign, outside of the Astoka harbor. An artil leryman forgot to close the breech bo fort the guu was fired. One otnoer and six artlllorymon were killed outright and the captain aud 13 sailors were seri ously injured. President Roosevelt has refused to ap point former Lieutenant William P. Crawford of Camden, S. O., second lieutenant in the regular army, on the ground that a man who jilts a girl is not entitled to au appointment in the army, as suoh conduct may be properly termed nugentlemanly, and contrary to the best Interests of tho service. There Is noth ing against young Crawford on file save the fact that be refused to marry the young woman to whom he was en gaged, and there would have been no obstacle in the way of his appolutmonl hod she not permitted her relatives and friends so protest at Washington against bis selection. State Normal School. nirYaiil. Mi 1 j M. CLAYTON. Pres. Chicago ; Typewriter 1 $35.00 ' Guaranteed to Equal Any $100 Machine, E. L..K1NG. Gen. Aft. 2lri tansoni 8t, Sen Francisco