JUNCTION CITY BULLETIN,
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VtiiTS or 1 DAI
As. i-lartstlng Collection of Items Fran th
Two Hemispheres WtitnUd in a
"indented Fctm.
The condition of Km press Frederick
continues unchanged.
Purchase of 500 cavalry horses to
Oregon haa been ordered by the war
department.
A provincial government Is In con roe
of formation in Tarlac, a northern Lu
ton province.
Genera Chaffee ia not to join in the
German expedition in China under
Von Waldersee.
Fire destroyed the Union Railway
Company'a barna at El wood, R. I.,
and SO tJolley cars, causing a loaa of
$162,000.
Governor Rogers has appointed G.
Meade Emery, as an additional judge
for King county. Wash., to serve until
the next election.
Eight alleged Boxer leaders, after
trial by officers of Chang Cbi Tung,
the viceroy of llanko, have been de
capitated at that place.
William P. Hill, for over 60 years a
prominent New England newspaper
editor, is dead of grip, at the home of
his son-in-law in Denver, Col.
The schooner Alice, which was in
the Nome trade last vear, ran on the
rocks near the West Point lighthouse,
while en route to Seattle from San
Pedro. The full extent of the damage
ia not known. She was towed to Port
Townsend.
Fire destroyed the Pythian opera
house, the Second National bank build
ing and the building occupied bv the
Southern Expreea Company, at Jack
son, Tenn., causing a loss of $100,000.
It is believed two lives were lost in
the falling of the opera house walls.
The bank of Omaha, at Omaha, Tex.,
has been robbed of $3,000 iu cash and
paper amounting to $2,000. The rob
bers made their escape upon a hand
car. The lone occupant of the bank
was decoyed from town by bogus tele
grams, and remained away from Oma
ha on the night of the robbery.
A verdict for $1,600 for the plaintiff
was rendered in the circuit court in
the case of J. J. flecker vs. the O. R.
& N. Co.. at The Dalles, Oregon.
Ilecker, in June last, while driving
across the railroad track four miles
west of town, was struck by an engine,
and sustained severe injuries for which
suit for $2,600 was brought.
Money scarcity in England contin
ues. The president will call an extra ses
sion. The end of the Boer war is not in
sight.
Severe cold weather prevails through
out Europe.
A 18-inch gnn exploded on the bat
tleship Kearsarge.
An Englishman's letter created a
sensation in Manila.
Five rebel officers and 20 men were
captured near Manila.
Civil government was established in
Pangasinan province.
All the volunteers will be borne from
the Philippines by June 30.
The czar is suspicions of Emperor
William's doings in England.
Appropiiation bills have the right
of way in the honse this week.
Russia has imposed an increased
tariff on imports from America.
The senate will practically devote
this week to appropriation bills.
Louisiana mob hanged a negro who
killed a white man and his family.
Six persons were killed and as many
seriously injured in a train wreck in
Nevada.
Nine prisoners in the Spokane conn-
tT iail overoowerad the iatlfir and no.
caped, '
Oflicial list of the victims of the
Union mine accident places the num
ber at 64.
One regiment and a portion of two
others will be mustered out at Van
couver, Wash.
Elaborate preparations are being
made for the colonial tour of the Duke
of Cornwall and York.
Two Bridal Veil, Or., factories and
the O. R. & N. railroad bridge were
damaged by the bieakingof a drift jam.
Danish government has broken off
negotiations with the United States
regarding the sale of Danish West In
dies. Colonel W. T. Hart, a well-known
Western promoter, committed suicide
by jumping from a moving train into
the Snake river.
To hasten peace negotiations, Von
Waldersee has nlanned an 80-dav ex
pedition and asks American and French '
so co-operate witu tne Germans.
OUR LAWMAKERS.
Dolngi of Importance at the Sute CspKal
BUT Passed.
Te Prsvt at liobotnt
A bill to prevent persons beatUg
their way on railroad trains was passed
by the house Monday. The bill was
introduced by Poorman. at the request
of railway employes and managers. It
is copy of the law now In toroa in
Alabama, and is designed to put a
stop to the tramp nuisance. The result
of sucb laws in Alabama wss shown by
Mr. Poorman to be far reaching in its
effect, putting a stop to oar robbing.
The bill was passed, there being no
negative votes.
Passed by the Senate.
The senate passed the following bills
Monday: House bill 11, to authorise
clerks of school districts and county
judges to bid in property sold for taxes
and to direct the manner in which
such property may be disposed of; sen
ate bill 322. to regulate surety compan
ies; by Senator Booth, fixing the salar
ies of the county treasurers of the state;
senate Mil 237, to authorise the rapi
tol building commissioners to construct
a ditch in order to secure water for
the state institutions.
To Pay State Taxes Twice a Year.
Senate bill 223 was passed by the
senate Monday. It provides that state
taxes shall bo parable by the counties
in two semi-annual installments. This
change in the law is proposed in order
to harmonize with tbe new law which
makes taxes payable in the counties
semi-annually.
The Senatorial Vote.
The vote for senator Monday stood:
II. W. Corbett, 83; Binger Hermann,
28; R. D. Inman. 26; George II. Wil
liams. 1; C. E. 8. Wood, 1; absent. 2.
Two Railroad Bills Killed.
Tbe bouse after spending nearly an
other half day in consideration of rail
road bills. disosed of two more Wed
nesday. One of these measures was
Poor man's fellow-servant bill. It was
debated at length, and although even
its opionents admitted it had good
points, it was defeated by a vote of 81
to 22. The other railroad bill which j
was disposed of, and which met a sim
ilar fate, was the bill of Hairis to fix
the liability of railroad corporations
for injuries. Bat 19 votes were cast
in favor of this bill.
No Holiday st Sefcm.
Washington's birthday, February 23,
is a legal holiday, but it is not a legis
lative holiday unless tbe legislature by
specifics act chooses to make it so.
Inasmuch as Washington's birthday
hsppens this year to fall on the 40th
day of the session (the usual day of
sine die adjournment) it is probable
that business will be proceeded with
much as usual. The constitution of
the state does not limit the sessions to
40 days, but does limit tbe total com
pensation of each member to $120 at
$3 per day; therefore, few legislators
can be expected to be so self-sacrificing
as to work long for nothing.
Bills Psssed.
Tbe senate Wednesday passed tbe
following bills: Senate bill 70, to cor
rect the description of tbe boundary of
Wheeler county; senate bill 148, to
protect hotel and boarding house keep
ers; by Hunt, regulating street rail
ways in Portland; senate bill 78, to
enact the Torrent system of registra
tion oi land titles; senate bill 172, to
regulate insurance companies; senate
bill 81, to provide for tbe election of
road supervisors; senate bill 187, to
create the office of county auditor of
Multnomah county; senate bill 217, to
amend the charter of Sherwood; senate
bill 216, to fix the salary of prosecut
ing attorney in the Seventh judicial
district.
The house Wednesday passed bills
as follows: house bill 27, providing
for a uniform system of mine bell sig
nals; house b'll 146, making it a crime
to remove or interfere with mining lo
cation marks; bouse bill 127, regulat
ing the supply of water for irrigation
purposes.
The Senatorial Vote.
The joint vote for senator Wednes
day was: H. W. Corbett, 82; Binger
Hermann, 29; George II. Williams,
1; R. D. Inman, Democrat, 26; W. E.
Robertson, Demoorat, 1; absent, 1.
Oregon Notes.
The Robins saw mill, six miles east
of Union, has been leased by a man
from the East.
Engene veteians of the Spanish and
Philippine wars are planning to organ
ize a local association,
A paper li being circulated at New
berg soliciting subscriptions to stock
for the purpose of operating a cannery.
Tom Gilliam's log drive, consist
ing of 4,000,000 feet, is stranded in
tbe Mohawk waiting for a freshet. It
Is consigned to tbe Booth-Kelly mills
at Coburg.
Barbed wire telephone lines are com
ing back into fashion in Morrow coun
ty. The latest is one between the
ranch of C. E. Jones, near Eight-Mile
postoffice and Heppner, via O. E.
FarnBworth'u ranch on Rhea cieek
and tbe public road to Hardman. ,
A 111 IP
Sixty-Five Miners Are Entombed
No Hope for Them.
CAUSED BY AN EXPLOSION OP CAS
Only Exit U the Mouth of th Shaft, Which is
Filled With a Huge Volume of Smoke
Relief Measures Have Begun.
Vanconver, B. 0., Feb. 18. Sixty
five miuors are imprisoned in No. A
tbalt of the Cumberland coal mine on
1 Vancouver
fslaud. Tbe only exit ia
the month of the shaft which ia tilled
with a huge volume of flame. There
is considered to be no possibility for
tbe unfortunates to escape.
Details of Diwiltr Meager.
Details of the diaxter are meager.
The Cumberland mi no is near the vtl-;
lage of Union, about 60 miles north i
of the town of Nanaiiuo. Thjoulyj
telegraphio communication fioui Un
ion is by a single government wire, ;
and little is known of tbe tragedy in
the mine except that a terrible eiplo- :
sion occurred iu No. fcbaft of the
Cumberland about 11 o'clock this
morning. Following the ex plosion the
shaft caught tire, and the 85 miners
who were working half a mile from .
tbe entrance were cmght in J death I
trap. A relief purty from No. 6 shaft'
made a brave but futile attempt at a'
rescue. They were headed off by tbe !
fire and roold not reach the iinprisoued
men. The attempt at rescue was made
through No. S shaft, but the flames
prevented any development of the per- j
iloua veuture. j
The Cumberland mine ia one of the
piopertiea of tbe Union Colliery Com
pany, situated nar Comox and
reached Iron Union bay by tbe private
colliery railway crossing the Trent
river on which the memorable bridge
disaster occurred a year or two ago. i
It has been singularly fortunate here
tofore in immunity from disaster and
was counted an especially safe mine to
work m by reason of the character of
tbe formation in which the coal i
found there, and the manner in whioh '
it had been opened op. No. 8 shaft, I
the scene of tbe diuster, was bottomed
in October, 180ft, at a depth of 8H
feet It is well constructed and lira-!
be red, with a mud wall, the pit hot- j
torn being timbered with 13x18 sawn!
hulks, built solidly together, 16 feat
wide and 13 feet high. The shaft is
located oloaw to to failwajr, uti the ;
ventilation of tbe mine ia effected by si
14x5-foot Outbal fan, wbicb, when ran
to its fall rapacity, gives 83,000 oubio
feet of air circulation per minute.
Tbe air enters by the haulage slopes
and is divided into seperate splits, the
main split being at the point where
No. 2 branches off the maio slope,
part of tbe air going down each slope.
Further down each of these slopes tbe
air is again split, and sent to the work
ings east and west of tbe respective
slopes.
A second explosion ooourred in No.
6 shaft tonight, but it bad been ex
pected, and all the men had left the
workings. There were no casualties.
This explosion prevents sny furtbsr
eff crts being male to rescue tbe en
tombed miners through No. 6 shaft.
Killed by a Tiger.
Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 18. Albert
Neilson, aged 15, employed as an ani
mal keeper at the Zoological garden,
in this city, v as killed by a Bengal
tiger today, lis entered the tiger's
cage and was attacked, by tbe beast.
A terrible struggle followed in which
Neilson was torn in a hundred places.
Red not irons were thrust into tha
blood thirsty animal, but not until
seven bullets had been fired into its ,
body did it release its hold on its vlo- j
tim. Neilson was dragged from the
cage more dead than alive, and was
hurried to the city hospital, where he
died as he was being carried in.
The
tiger was not fatally wounded. Neil
son had been employed by tbe Zoo
company three years. He was in
charge of the lion's cubs, and It is sup
posed opened the tiger's cage by mis
take. -
Oenersls to Retire Todsy.
Washington, Feb. 18. Generals J.
H . Wilson, Fitzhugh Lee and Theo
dore Schwan will be retired tomorrow,
the last named on bla own applioalon.
Colonel A. 8. Daggett, Fourteenth in
fan try, will be promoted to a brigadier
generalship, auoceeding Schwan, and
will be retired immediately.
May Arrest Without a Warrant.
Pittsbnrg, Pa., Feb. 18. In the suit
ef John B. Bennett against Secret Serv
ice Agenta Flynn and Berriman and
Deputy United States ' Marsha) W. S. 1
Blair, who were charged with malic-i
ions trespass assault and battery in
connection with the arrest of the plain
tiff, Judge W. M. Achin, in the Unit
ed States court, Handed down an im
portant opinion. He makes a prece
dent in deciding that United States ;
marshals or their deputies can make
arrests in emergency cases without
warrant.
MOSCOW PAPER SUPPRESSED.
Tor the Publication of University Bulletins
320 Students Have Beea Arrested.
8t. Petersburg. Feb. 20. lbs roin
Uter of the interior, M. Slplagulne, on
Saturday ordered the suppression for
three months of the Novostl Dnja. a
Moscow newspaper, which has violated
the prohibition against the publication
of university bulletins. A secret cir
cular has been issued reminding all
the newspapers that the prohibition is
now effective.
Information baa been received hare
that 830 studenta have lwen arrested in
Moscow, presumably the whole as
aembly which obetiuctwl the lectures
among the students. Eighteen stu
dents were arrested here, but were sub
sequently released. Pending a decis
ion in their case, howaver, they were
forbidden to re-enter the university.
Sixteen additional arrests were subse
quently made. Ihe forestry institute,
near by, held a meeting and declared
the institute closed until the sentences
naginst the studenta should be revoked
aud military law repealed.
The institute of railway engineers,
by a vote of 230 to 100, declared for
obstruction.- The military and mo-lien
I academy students met, with the
permission of General Kouroptkin, the
minister of war, the Utter merely
warning them that he could not pre
vent the operation of military law if
otistrtictionnry tactics were adopted.
Of the 800 who were present at tbe
meeting only 160 favored contraction.
LEFT $70,000,000.
Huntington's Estate Has Sines Increeitd $10,.
000.000-Pvi $700,000 Inheritance Tex.
New York, Feb. 20. Executors of
the estate of Collia P. Huntington,
have deposited with the controller a
certitied check for $700,000, to cover
the amount of the inheritance tax
which will be collected by the state.
The deposit indicates tbe worth of the
estate at the time of the testator's death
to have been approximately $70,000.
000, which haa now been incraed
aliout one-seventh, making tbe prevent
worth $S0,000,OlfO.
The size of the check indicates that
tha Hunting ton estate in value will
more than double the estimate placet)
upon it at the time of the death of the
California pioneer. Owing to the riae
in railroad securities during tbe last
six mouths, the Huntington estate ia
now worth almost, if not quit, $10,
000,000 more than it waa when the
will was offered for probate. As the
inheritance tax is based wuath value
at the time of tbe death of tbe testa
tor, tbe estate would now seom to be
worth approximately $80,000,000.
No accurate idea as to how tha Hun
tington millions -are invested has yet
been made by tbe executors.
TRIED BY A MOB.
Tennessee Negro's Jurors Hinged Him tie
Confuted, Implicating Others.
Dyersborg, Tenn., Feb. 20. An un
known man broke into the residence
of Dr. Arnold, a prom'nent physician
here, yesterday, and struck Miss EliM
Arnold on tbe head and side with a
hatchet. She fainted without seeing
tbe assailant, who became frightened
and fled. Bloodhounds followed the
trail from the young lady's room to the
house of a negro named Fred King,
where a hatchet. waa found in a buroan
drawer. King and two other negroes
were arrested but tbe Utter were re
leased. A mob formed and would
have lynched King bat for the plead
ings of Dr. Arnold, who insisted upon
having betted evidence of guilt. A
mob formed today and took King from
the jail , and tried him before a jury
selected from tbe mob. He confessed,
Implicating several other negroes, and
was then hanged. Another negro
named Bee be has been captured,
charged with complicity in the assault,
and probab'y will meet tbe same fate.
NEGOTIATIONS BROKEN OFF.
Dsniih Government Will Not Sell Ui Danish
West Indies.
London, Feb. 20. "The Danish gov
ernment," says the Copenhagen corre
spondent of the Daily Mail, "has sud
denly broken off all dealings with the
United States regard Ig the sale of tbe
Danish West Indies. This is due to a
satisfactory offer nsade by the Danish
East Asian f-tcaiiiship Company to as
aist aud in the fntnre to administer the
islands. - Tbe American- government
has been notified as to this decision,"
The Copenhagben correspondent of
the Times says:
"From a compotent source, I learn
that the Danish West Indies will not
be sold during tbe present parliament
ary session. The syndicate will form
a, new trans-Atlantlo steamship com
pany and undertone other commercial
enterprises in connection with the
islands, whose excellent ports will be,
it is presumed, invaluable when the
Nicaragua canal is finished.
'Tbe negotiations are still uncom
pleted, but they will be settled before
October, r.ai the negotiations with the
United States wili then be cropped.
IE lit II 1
Chaffee Is Not to Join the Ger
man Expedition.
THE C0VERNMRNT PACES A CRISIS
Stats Department May Try (e Dissuade Berlin.
Authorities from Unatrtaklnf This Cam.
. palgn Chinese Are to Blame.
Waahlngton. Feb. 10. The United
Mates goverumeut Is facing a serious
crisis in China, owlag to the announce
ment of tbe purpose el Field Marshal
Count von Waldersee to begin anoth
er offensive campaign. General Chaf
fee baa been invited to join in the ex
pedition, which is to be mobilised on a
larger scale than anything attempted
In China since the allied army began
the march to Pkin. Tha general au
iufonuod tbe war department today,
aud the olllclals of the state depart
ment have been advUod of the situa
tion. This German movement la viewed
with absolute dismay here, for it 1
feared that it require an immediate
decision bv the United titatee govern
ment of ita whole line of policy toward
the Chinese queatlon. General Chaffs
whl be told that he Is not to partici
pate in this campaign. He lias been
keeping the American lorces tn Peklo
ever alooe tbe city was pacified, simply
as a legation guard, aud tbe German
government ia folly aware that the
United States government purposely
deprived the A-uerlcan contingent la
China of ita offensive military char
acter and withdrew It from the control
of General von Valdere in order to
hasteu peace negotiations and prevent,
so far as It could, the ooutlnuauce of
military movements ngetnst tbe Chi
nese, which were baneful iu their
effect upon the peaoi movement. rk
our government, not having changed
Its policy, cannot do otherwise than to
cause General Chaffee to refrain from
any participation In military move
merits eo long aa the present peaceful
conditions continue. ,
But auotner very serious point under
consideration Is, not whether Chaffee
shall join tha German movement, bur
whether it ia not tbe duty of our go
eminent to exercUe all proper effrta
to dissuade the German goverdinent
from undertaking this camHgn.
Tbe Chinese government is unfortu
nately delaying the pc negotiations
in an irmn t fashion, audio not
responding in proper splrft to the effort
of the United States government.
Word has just come from Minister
Conget which confirms the press ad
vices relative to the Chinese declina
tion to accede to the demands of the
ministers in the matter of capital pun
ishment of the leaders implicated ia
tbe Boxer movement, Mr. Conger's
message gave it to tie understood that
tbe Chinese government had agreed to
exile Prince Tuan and Lau without
capital sentencea; to reoommend aul
cide to Prince Cnwang; death tot Yo
listen tnd Ohao Chi Chao; imprison
ment and degradation from office for
Cbi Haal and Haa Cheng Yu. It is
said an edict baa already been iaaoed
to execute these sentences.
A visit from the Japanese minister
to the state department served to give
color to tbe story that our government
is casting about to ascertain how far
the other powers party to the Chines
question would indorse this proposed
campaign. It is Impossible to secure
exact information on the subject. The
whole subject, It is said, is to come be
fore the cabinet meeting tomorrow,
when the coarse to be pursued by the
United States government will be de
termined. It is said unequivocally by competent
authority that the Amerloan military
foices under no circumstances will
participate with tbe Germans in the
proposed expedition, and, although it
cannot be learned that General Chaffee
has yst received instructions to that
effect, he undoubtedly will have threm
vry shortly. The United States gov
ernment stt-ds steadfastly by the prin
ciples laid down in Secretary Hay's
letter of July 8 last.
Collision at Sea.
tiondon, Feb. 20. The Russian bark
Hoppet, Captain Llndblora, whioh
sailed from Hall February 14 for Pa
pelo, has been towed into Grimsby
with bows seriously damage! by col
lision on ' the night of February 15,
with the steamer Homer, from Llbaa.
The Homer disappeared after the col
lision, and la believed to have found
ered, with tbe loss of 16 lives.
Mexican Mine Flooded. ,
Phoenix, Ana., Feb. 20. Particu
lars bave been received here of the
flooding of the Santa Rita mine, in the
Bacatate mountains, 200 miles south of
HermOBlllo. Four miners were
drowned and their bodies bave been
reoovered. The flood was caused by
tbe opening of a vein by a blast. The
main tunnel was flooded, and while
miners in the upper end escaped, the
workers in the lower ?nd were caged
like rata in a trap. Miners outside
made desperate efforts to resoue their
fellows, bat withoat avail.