The Aurora Boreal!
VOL. I.
AUKOKA, OREGON, TIIUKSDAY, SEPTKMUEU 10, 1008.
NO, 20.
BRIEF NEWS OF
THE PAST WEEK
Condensed Dispatches from All Pans
of the Two Hemispheres. -
Interesting Event from Outride the
State Presented In a Manner to
Catch the Eye of the Busy Reader
Matters of National, Historical
and Commercial Importance.
A strike threatens loss of a large
part of the California hop crop.
Two light earthquake shocks were
felt at Bakcrsricld, Cal., but no dam
age was done.
Frank P. Sargent, United States
commissioner of immigration and
labor, is dead.
An Aberdeen, Wash., man died
from having a tooth pulled. Blood
poisoning was the cause.
Governor Hanley, of Indiana, has
called an extra session of the legisla
ture and wants a local option law
passed.
Electric railway employes of New
England have voted for a general
strike. Nearly 32,000 men will be
affected.
Returns from the Michigan Repub
lican primaries would seem to indi
cate the nomination of Governor
Warner for another term.'
The American collier Ajax, accom
panying the battleship fleet, was badly
injured by collision with another ves
sel while leaving the harbor at Mel
bourne. . A Pittsburg man died from overex
ertion due to dancing.
Castro has evidence that the French
supported the Matos rebellion in
1003.
Lord Sackville West, British min
ister, whom Cleveland dismissed, is
dead.
The third squadron of the United
States Pacific fleet is now in Chinese
waters.
Mrs. Marshall Field, Jr., has mar
ried Maldwin Drummond, an Eng
lishman. It will take the official count to
decide the Michigan and Nebraska
primary results.
. Colonel Henry M. Nevins, of Red
Bank. N. J., has been elected commander-in-chief
of the G. A. R,
William B. Leeds, the New York
railroad magnate, left an estate of
$30,000,000, the bulk of which goes to
his widow.
Unemployed of Glasgow, Scotland,
attempted to break down the doors ot
the council chambers in order to de
- mand bread of the members.
Thos. Hisgen, Independence league
candidate for president, ts an tnde
pendent oil operator, who has sue
ccssfully fought the Standard for
years.
Fire at Cleveland, Ohio, destroyed
$100,000 worth of lumber.
Governor Cummins' election as sen
ator from Iowa is assured.
" Trouble over wages has caused a
strike in some of the coal mines of
Tennessee.
The La Follette faction has defeated
John J. Jenkins, present incumbent,
for congress.
An aeronaut fell 500 feet and was
killed at Waterville, Me. The gas
bag caught fire.
Hill is to build a railroad across
Montana, connecting the Burlington
and Great Northern.
A Japanese steamer sank off the
coast of Chiba prefecture and twenty
eight men were drowned.
Two Cornell students, one of them
from Oregon, have perfected an aero
plane that has made some remarkable
flights.
The Nevada State Democratic con
vention has endorsed Francis G. New-
lands for senator and George A. But
Ictt for congressman.
Alarming conditions are said to ex
ist throughout the Honduran republic
and Mexico has dispatched a gunboat
The director general of the Japanese
fair has resigned.
The government has been asked to
create a leper reservation.
Senator Heybnrn was renominated
by the Idaho State Republican con
vention.
A severe gale on the English chan
nel wrecked a number of small boat
and cost a score of lives.
Only because he was a good runner
a Chicago negro escaped lynching for
assaulting a young white girl.
Rear Admiral Henry Glass, retired,
is dead. He was commander of the
Pacific squadron for some time.
At the Wisconsin primaries the Re
rublicans cast the popular vote for
saac Stephenson to succeed himself
in the United States senate.
Unknown persons piled ties on the
tracks of the New York Central near
Poughkeepsie. but they were discov
ered in time to prevent a wreck.
RAWHIDE IS BURNED.
Nevada Mining Town Almost Wiped
Out by Conflagration.
Rawhide. Nev.. Sept. 7. A fire that
started Friday in Dr. Garner's office,
a veritable firetrap, spread with lightning-like
rapidity and, despite the vig
orous efforts of the fire department
and 500 - miner- volunteers, eight
blocks, comprising all the business
section of the town, were a mass of
flames. The fire-fighters soon discov
ered their efforts were of no avail
gainst the fire, so they began dyna
miting adjacent buildings. Over a
ton and a half of dynamite was used.
At 11 o'clock the total area was a
mass of ashes and smoldering embers.
Among the first buildings to go was
Collins' hardware store, which con-
ained two tons of dynamite, which
exploded with terrific force, hurling
burning planks and boards a great
distance and setting fire to numerous
buildings simultaneously. This ca
tastrophe led the firemen to fight the
ames with dynamite, which prompt
ction saved the outlying portions of
the town. A strong wind was blow
ing, which swept the rlames south
ward across Rawhide avenue and east
across Nevada street.
The buildings destroyed will alone
result in a financial loss of $750 000,
with no insurance. The contents of
the buildings are a complete loss and
will swell the total to considerable
more. Many people were slightly in
jured by flying debris, but none are
reported seriously hurt.
Many acts of heroism were enacted
nd were it not for the cool-headed
ones among the fire-fighters several
fatalities would have resulted. Fren
zied men, whose fortunes were going
up in flame, rushed madly forward in
their attempts to save their belong
ings, and would have perished had
not restraining hands detained them.
LAND GRANT SUIT BEGUN.
Government Seeks Return of Tracts
Given to Railroad.
Portland. Sept. 7 Suit By the
United States to cancel the Oregon &
California land grants has been filed
the United States court for the
district of Oregon. The government
sks for the forfeiture of all lands in-
luded in the two grants to the de
fendant railroad company, valued at
$40,000,000. If this relief is denied,
plaintiff requests the appointment of a
receiver to take charge of all unsold
ands, included in the grants, and the
disposition of the same under the re
ceivership in tracts not exceeding 180
acres to each purchaser and for a
consideration not exceeding $2.50 an
acre. If this petition is rejected, the
plaintiff asks for a mandatory injunc-
ion requiring the defendant corpora
tion to sell all of the unsold lands re
maining in the grants in quantities o'
not more than 160 acres each and at
a price not exceeding $2.50 an acre.
It is also asked by the government
that the defendant company.be re
strained from asserting any further
claim to the land, making any further
sales of the property or trespassing
thereon. An accounting also is asked
from the railroad company to the
government for all money realized by
he defendant company from its sales
of the lands.
FIGHT WITH JAPANESE.
Men From British Cruiser Stand Off
Brown Men.
Shanghai. Sent. 7. Outnumbered
ten to one, hliiejackets from a British
cruiser in this port put up a desperate
battle with Japanese non-commis
sioned men and a motley Japanese
mob, until the police broke up the
fight by the tree use of revolvers, nr
ing repeatedly into the mob. Many
Japanese civilians were wounded, but
were carried away by their com
nanions.
The fieht started over the arrest oi
a Japanese officer for a particularly
atrocious assault upon a low-class
European woman, which was resented
bv the Enizlish lackies. A well-organ
ized riot came simultaneously with
the publication of letter from the
laoanese consul-general to the mu
nicipal council, which was of a highly
recriminatory and incendiary charac
ter, and defended the ruMianism oi
his own people and the failure of his
court to assist in maintaining order.
The feeling between the British and
the Japanese is intense, and further
outbreaks are feared.
Gives Better Service,
Honolulu. Sept. 7. A new wireless
telegraph plant has been installed at
the Kahuku station and it is an
nonnced by Superintendent A. A. Is
bell that there will be no excuse
henceforth for ships sailing between
the port and the mainland complain
ini that they cannot get their mes
saires received and transmitted bv the
wireless service here. Complaints of
this nature have been made in the
past and the wireless company for
that reason has augmented its taeiii
tics so that perfect communication
with the Pacific Coast can be had
Japanese Town Burnt.
Tokio. Sept. 7. Fifteen thousand
people are homeless as the result of
a fire which almost entirely destroye
the city of Niigata, 1 miles north
west of here. It is estimated tha
5.000 buildings were destroyed. Th
town has a population of 40,000. Th
irovernment has been asked for .ai
'and tents are being supplied. Food
! depots will be opened at once. So fa
'as is known no lives were lost
NEWS NOTES GATHERED FROM
VARIOUS
COUGARS ARE DESTRUCTIVE
Estimated That 600 Will Kill 26,000
Deer Every Year.
Lebanon. That there will soon be bo
eer to speak of in the Oregon moun
tains is the belief of Dan Simons, a
prominent Linn county pioneer and one
f the oldest hunters in the state. Mr.
Simons lays the rapid passing of the
game animal to the depredations of
the cougar and will be one of the fore
most in favor of enacting a bounty law
jn cougar scalps.
mere is no one in the state better
qualified than Mr. Simons to apeak on
ame conditions. Mr, Simons, who is
3 years of age, eame to Oregon in 1851
ind on October 8 of the same year en-
amped on toe spot which is now his
jome. lie is one or the heaviest tax
payers in Linn county and is willing to
be assessed to provide a bounty fund.
tie thinks there should be a one-mill
isscssment to cover the bounty.
He estimates that there are over 500
ougars in the state. A half thousand
f these predatory eats get away with
more deer than all the hunters in the
state, he says. . From his experience
Ait h them he estimates that the eougars
will average one deer a week for feed!
figuring further he shows that in a
year the olio eougars will kill at lean
0,000 deer in a twelvemonth. The
mount seems unusually large, but
thcr pioneer hunters back Mr. Simons
p in bis assertions.
WATER IS IMPURE.
Eugene's Proposed Supply'Unfit for
Domestic Use.
Eugene. A bombshell was thrown
nto the camp of the adherents of the
plan of securing a water supply for
the city from Ritchey creek, 25 mile
east of Eugene, when a report from
he state board of health on samples
of water from the creek was received
here. The board . declared that the
water was unfit for drinking or do
mestic purposes. Mayor Matlock, who
has been at the head of the movement
secure the water supply from
Ritchey creek, secured the samples
returned and shipped them to the
state health board about 10 days ago.
He was greatly surprised when the
report came that the water was im
pure, and gives it as his opinion that
was contaminated in some manner
liizr having left his hands. It has
been the general opinion that the
.vatcr in Ritchey creek, a mountain
tream, was absolutely pure. Old
residents of that section have used it
for domestic purposes for years, and
no cases of illness have ever beea
known.
Packing Plant for Albany.
Albany. The largest independent
meat packing plant on the Pacific
coast, to cost a quarter of a million
dollars, will be built in Albany, and
work will commence within the next
90 days. O'Shea Bros., formerly
owners of the Union Meat company
n Portland, are behind the under
taking. In conversation with one of
Albany s business men Mr. O Shea
said: "We will build a large independ
ent meat packing plant in Albany, and
t will cost at least $2.10,000. 1 have
ooked over the situation here thor
oughly, and am convinced that this
city is the idtal point for establishing
jur plant.
Develop Applegate Mine.
Grants Pass. John Longwell and son,
southern Oregon prospectors, after pa
tient and persitent work in the Apple
gate district near 1'rovolt, twelve miles
south of Grants Pass, have uncovered a
five-foot ledge that carries values of
from $50 to $200 a ton. Some of tho
re is thickly shot with gold and runs
up into the thousands. It is one or
the richest strikes made in southern
Oregon this season. The ledge has been
trsred for a long distance on the sur
fae, end though opened by shi"Aw
thafts and ruts only, the general char
scter of the quarts and the contact
nrove it to be a permanent proposition
Several claims have been located, and
the property will be deeply developed
Writes History of Columbia.
Pendleton. Professor W. D. Ly
man, who is writing a complete his
tory of the Columbia river and Co
lumbia river navigation, has secured
i dozen photographs from Major
I.ee Moorhouse, the photographer of
this city, to use as illustrations. The
work being prepared by Professor
Lyman will be complete in every de
tail, giving the exact history of the
development of navigation on the Co
lumbia from the earliest times to the
-resent. It will be published in New
York within the next few months.
Boost for Cooe Bay Line.
Portland. Cangh'ren. Winters, 8mith
I O. of Spokane will he recommended
is the Iowet bidder for the eonstrue
tion of 14.000 feet of the Celilo eanal
on which bids were opened a few dsys
sgo by Captain James MeTndoe, United
States engineer corps. Following were
the Md: Canehren, Winters, Smith
fo.. $'30,603; Twohr Prothers, $43,33
Robert Wakefield k Co.. $r,92J70; Pn
pet fUnnd Pridge Jc Dredging company
I716.34S; orth American Predgin
corona v, $722,420; Johnston P. Porter
7r.fi.1on; Celilo Construction company,
f802,330.
PARTS OF OREGON
HOPS LIGHT IN CLACKAMAS
Crop Nat Expected to Average Over
600 Pounds to Acre.
Oregon City. The rains of the last
few days have geen generally bene
ficial to the hops of this section,
thobgh the crops is not so far along
as it was last year at this time.
A large amount of hop acreage has
been plowed up. and in the yards that
remain the cultivation has been no
ticeably insufficient, and it is expect
ed that the crop will be very short
not averaging more than 500 pounds
to the acre. In most of the yard
picking will not commence until th
early part of next week, and even
later in some instances.
The pickers will work on a strictly
weight basis this season, and in most
cases the growers will pay $1 a hun
dred, but it is reported that some ol
the growers in the Butteville district
will pay only 70 cents a hundred.
The low market price of bops ha
discouraged hopmen, so that in many
sections very little care has been
given the yards.
FRUIT PRICES WILL BE HIGH
Growers Expect Quotations to Soon
Advance in East. .
Medford. Fruitgrowers have rea
son o fee! hopcfnl as to prices to be
realized for pears and apples this fall,
according to L. I). Harris, ex-man
ger of the C. If. Lewis orchard here
10 has just returned from a visit
through the East, where he has been
carefully studying Eastern market
conditions. He says the hast and
Middle West have not yet fully re
covered from the effects of the flurry
last November, and as a consequence
there has not been the can for large
shipments, as heretofore, liartlelt
ni!iri li . tt!it,v will nt tti rtrfwu
ers about $1 50 per box, and as local
ars are about three weeks later
than those grown in California
thinks the growers here will realize
better prices than California fruit
men.
Hopplckere' Wages Fixed.
Eugene. The hopgrowers of Lane
county met here last week to con
sider the hop situation. It was de
cided to pay only 75 cents a hundred
for picking this year. Growers from
all parts of the country were in at
tendance, borne of the yards that
have been cultivated may not be
picked if the hop market does not
look better when the crops are ready
A number of growers have begun
picking, but most of the, yards will
not be ready until about September
1$.
Preparing for Apple Fair
Albany. tPresident E. V. Langdon
of the Albany Commercial club, has
appointed the following committee
to work in conjunction with a com
mittee named by the Linn County
Horticultural society to manage the
Albany apple fair this fall: Owen
Ream, chairman; E. H. McCune, H
Bryant and J. A. Howard.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheats Club, 88e per bushel; forty
fold, POe; Turkey red, 90c: fire, 8Se
bluestem. 92c; Valley. 88e.
Parley Feed, $24.50 per ton: rolled
$27fa'J8: tirewing. $20,
OatsNo. 1 white, $2727.50 per
ton; gray, $2C(a 20.80
Hay Timothy, Willamette Valley
$14 per ton: Willamette Valley, or
dinary, $11; Eastern Oregon, $16.50
mined. $13; clover, $; alfalfa, $u
alfalfa meal, $20.
Fruit Apples, new, 50c(i$1.7o per
box; peaches, 50(?7 85fl per box; pears,
7oe(7i$l.oO per box; plums, 75e per box
grapes. 8oc(d $i.n.' per erate,
I'otatoes 9netfil per hundred
sweet potatoes, 2V4(ft'2,e per pound
Melons Cantaloupe. flOcfri $2.00 per
erate: watprnulcns. $1(7X1.25 per 100
loose; crated, e per pound additional
eassbas. $2.25 per dozen
Vegetables Turnips, $I.r0 per sacfc
carrots, $1.75; parsnips, $1.75; beets
$1.50; artichokes, 5e per dozen; beans
ne. per pound; cabbage. 2e per pound
cauliflower, $2.50 per erate; jelerv, 75e
(fl$l per dozen; corn, 23tfi30 per dozen
cucumbers, 30r?f40! per box; egg plant
$1.75 per erate: lettoee, head, 15e pe
dozen; parsley, 15e per dozen; peas, 6
per pound; peppers, n(aWc per pounl
radishes. lZV$e per dozen; spinach,
per pound; sprouts, 10c per pouni
squash, 40c per dozen; tomatoes, 35
50e
Putter Extras, SlHe per pound
fancy, 2.1W, choice, 20c; store, jhc.
Eggs Oregon extrss. 21(7t27,c
firsts. 24(TT-23e; seconds, 22(723c; thirds
15rtl20e; Eastern. 24fri25e per dozen.
PoultrrMixcd chickens. MKtWA
per poon !; fancy kens. 12(7il2e; roos
ters. 10e; spring, 136714c; dock", old
Z(aZit: spring, J4fi 15'Ae; geee
old. 8c; young, 10c; turkeys, old, 17(77)
le; young, 20e.
veal Fifra, "filfe per pound; or
dinsrv, "fii 7He; heavy, 5e.
Pork Fancy, 8e per pound; ordinary
cc: large, &.
Mutton Fancy. 671e
Hops 1007. prime and choice,
fie per pound; oldr, lUaC; eonlrsets
ln sc.
Wool Eastern Oregon average bet
lOtf?. lOVJe. f.-r pound, according
shrlnksge; Valley, 15al5'4e; mohsir,
choice, RVit. '
NEW WAR CLOUD.
German Move to Recognise Mulal
Hafid Angers France.
Paris, Sept. 4. Morocco has again
auscd France to become enraged
gainst Germany. The latter power
has provoked another acute crisis by
notifying the powers signatory oT the
Algeciras convention that she consid
red the actual situation demanded
he immediate recognition of Mulai
Hafid, the usurping sultan of Morocco.
Germany has also dispatched Dr. Vas.
sel, her consul at Tangier, to Vei, the
apital, which is now in the hands of
lulai Hafid.
A feeling approaching consternation
manifested in official circles. The
lotification, which was made verbaljy,
not accompanied by any explana-
ion of Germany's "brutal change of
ront," as it is termed here.
France can see in Germany's action
Mily her intention to disregard the
Mgeciras act and seek a special posi-
ion in Morocco for herself. The con
sequences both from an international
nd French standpoint are expected to
St deplorable.
In answer to Germany's call for
recognition of Mulai Hafid before he
us entered into engagements with
urone. fanatical Arabs who had been
fathering on the Algerian frontier
ittacked the French post at Donedib.
ASSIST POOR TO INSURE.
Sage Millions Will Back Scheme of
Philanthropists.
New York, Sept. 4. Racked by the
nillions of the Sage Foundation, to
.vliich Mrs. Russell Sage has already
urncd over $10,000,000 for elevating
he economic condition of the poor,
trustees of the fund are engaged in
investigations which may result in ar.
extensive plan which will provide life
nsurance below cost to those who
recognize the beneht ot such insur
ance, but who may not be able to
ifford the luxury of life insurance at
he rates charged by the big com
panies.
Since the middle of last June, Dr
Leo Franklin, who Is well known in
haritable organization work, has been
in Europe as the .vent 'of the Sage
Foundation, studying the practica
operation of governmental life insur
ince as practiced by the German and
other governments. Dr. Franklin's
issociate in this work is Miles M.
Dawson, actuarial expert of the Arm
strong committee, which with Gov-
rnor Hughes, assistant organizer.
brought out the extraordinary investi
gations in 1905 and laid out the foun
dations which have since revolution
ized the business of life insurance in
this state.
DISCOVERS NEW COMET.
Professor D. W. Morehouse Makes
Find by Camera's Aid.
Lake Geneva, Wis., Sept. 4. Direc
tor Edwin It. Frost, of Yerkes ob
servatory, Wednesday night an-
lounced the discovery of a new comet
through photograpliic observations
made by Professor D. W. Morehouse,
of Drake university, of Des Moines.
The presence of the comet was re
vealed upon, development of photo
graphic plates exposed in three
cameras Tuesday night. It is clearly
defined and has a tail several degrees
long and was found in the constella
tion Camelopardalis, remaining above
the horizon throughout . the night.
Its position was 3 hours, 20 minutes
of right ascension and 60 degrees
north declination.
Its visual brightness, Trofessor
Morehouse said, could not be stated
until after further observations had
been made, but it probably will be via
ble through an opera glass. The new
comet, he said, had no connection with
1 1 alley s comet.
Professor Morehouse has been en
gaged during the summer in graduate
work at Yerkes observatory in astron
omy, under rroiessor uarnard.
Blow Up Canal.
Joliet, 111., Sept. 4. Several hundred
acres of land are under water and
property valued at thousands of dol
lars has been destroyed, due to a dy
namite explosion at the Jackson street
dam on the Illinois river-Lake Michi
gan canal. The explosion wrecked
the dam and tore away a hundred feet
of the canal bank, letting the water
out upon rich farming lands. It Is
believed that farmers, who were an
gered at the refusal of the canal offi
cials to make repairs that have been
demanded for months, are responsible
for the explosion.
Wrangle in Ruef Case.
San Francisco. Sept. 4. A third
jurnr passed, subject to peremptory
challenge, has been accepted in the
trial of Abraham Ruef on a charge of
bribery. The greater part of the day
was
aevotea io investigation oi sue
gations that efforts had been made by
one side or the other to interview
' prospective jurors prior to their sp-
jpearance in the court room.
FIRE ATTACKS
FAMOUS TREES
Change of UlnJ Only Can Save BI4
Trees of California.
Fire Fighters Powerless to Stop Wall
of Fierce Flame, Which Threatens
Mother of Forest Many Trees
Are Named After Noted Men of
History."
Stockton, Cal., Sept. 3 News comes
by special to the Independent from
Murphys, which is connected by wire
with the Calaveras Pig Tree Hotel, that
a forest fire has got into the grove of
mammoth trees at the upper end of the
grove, near where, the mother of the
forest stands, a monster sequoia 327
feet high and 78 feet in circumference.
Ihe fsmous trees named after noted
men of history are below the point of
attack, and the only hone for the mag
nificent monsters of the forest is
change in the wind, as the fire-fighters
are powerless to stop the flames. To
get into the grove of big trees the fire
had to cross the road leading to Gard
ners, which it did Tuesday night. There
is little undergrowth in the grove, and
that may be the means of checking the .
fire, but its sweep through the grove is
grestly feared.
I tie valley in which the grove Is situ-
stcd contains of the sequoiu 03 mon
ster trees. Ten of the trees are each 30
Jpet in diameter. Many are more than
300 feet high. The fire has attacked
some of the mammoth trees. The grove
is owned by Mr. Whitesides, a Michigan
millionaire lumbermnn .
FINDS SUNKEN WARSHIPS.
Japanese Salvage Vessel May Recover
Three Lost in War.
Victoria, It. C, Sept. 1 Advices
from Janan state that the sunken bat
tleship Yashima has been located by
the steamer Saruhashi Maru, a salvage
vessel sent by the naval department to
search for Japanese warships lost dur
ing the war with Russia and investi
gations are being carried out to ascer
tain if the battleship can be raised.
The Saruhashi Maru has .also located
the Russian warship Sobastopol and the
approximate place where the cruiser
Takasago sunk has been located.
rhe is now searching for the battle
ship Hatsusn. The sinking of the Ya
shima and Hstsuse was due to the plac
ing of mechanical mines by Kear-Ad-miral
Wiren on May 1, 1904. The Rus
sian officers observed that the Jap
anese warships, while engaged in gang
ing at Port Arthur, ert.isml continually
over the same ground, nnd a mine. field
was laid into which the vessels attained,
and the Yasliaml, Hatsuse snd cruiser
Yoshino went down the same morning,
all with heavy loss.
News of the sinking of the Yashima
was suppressed for six months by the
Japanese tovernment, and reports of
her loss were always officially contra
dicted with the result that not until
news of her destruction was published
in the official reports at the end of the
war was it generally known that she
had been sunk when the Hartsuse and
Yoshino went down.
NEW POSTAL SCANDAL.
Shortage of 9400,000 Reported From
Havana Office.
Havana, Sept. 3. The whole provin
cial government is in an uproar as the
result of the discovery of the theft of
over $400,000 in the local postoffice.
The discovery was made when an in
ventory of the stamps, envelopes and
other material was taken. The de
tectives are searching for Rlcardo Dod
riquez, chief of the supply bureau, who
disappeared when the theft became
known.
Colonel Charles Hernandez Is post
master general and ha said that every
effort would bo made to discover the
thief.
(Jrowlng out of the postoffice scandal
Manuel Flies, editor of El Vigilante of
Manzniilllo, was shot dead Sunday af
ternoon by Manuel Estrada, editor of
El Reporter, of the same city. Estrada,
who is an independent, considered he
had been insulted in a political edi
torial written by Elies, who is a con
servative. The coroner's jury held
Estrada to amswer on a charge of
murder.
Reprieve for Japanese.
Victoria, I. C, Sept. $ Adviees
from Vladivostok state that the six
Jspanese of the erew of the seized seal
ing schooner Nle Mary, sentenced to be
shot, have been reprieved. Russian of
ficials state that the schooner was cap
tured while in the act of raiding the
Copper Islands, and that the erew were
also guiltv of landing at Kurinka v Il
ls ge on Medni Island, and Pillaging the
villagers' souse, mocks or grata were
carried awsv from barns, snd the ware
house of the Kamehstka Commercial
j company wa looted.
Potato Bugs Stop Cars.
Prlitol, Conn., Sept. 3. Potato burs
on the rails at Lazy Lane stslled eight
trolley ears Of excursionists bound te
. Lake Compouace. la spite of the ter-
rifie slaughter, the bugs held possession
until the carmen could sand the track.