JUNCTION CITY BULLETIN
AN ISDKrBSOKST PAPU.
A. P. BICTTKRSWOKTH, JR., Bailor.
M1S ANNA tMll.ESat.
AttscItU KUItor.
TuMUhfd Kry Thrdy.
SEWS OF THE WEEK
A Comprehensive Review of Ihe Important
Happening of the Past Week Presented
In Condensed Forn Which Is Most
likely to Prove of Interest to Our Masy
Readers.
Mrs. McKinley is much improved
in health.
Lacuna has promised to surrender
his commanct
Shamrock II was beaten by Sham
rock I in a trial race.
A watchman in a Utah refinery
tole 15,000 in silver bullion.
The Chinese are astonished at the
'amount of indemnity demanded.
Twenty five thousand regulars will
be returned from the Philippines.
A Russo-Gernian tariff alliance
against the United States is proposed.
The military governor of Bataan
has been reprimanded by Mac-
Arthur.
Governor Nash and party are visit
ing the various interesting places in
California.
Rear Admiral Schley will cut short
his visit in London on account of
sickness in his family.
Russia is standing steadfast for
peace, according to an official state
ment received at Washington.
One mail clerk was killed and
another injured in a wreck on an Illi
nois Central train in Louisiana.
A steamWat on the Mississippi
river was wrecked near Chester, 111.
Two passengers were drowned and 22
deckhands are missing.
Unless the sultan of Turkey yields
on the question of interference with
foreign mail, the powers will present
an ultimatum, backet! by naval dem
onstration. A new Russian loan of 424,000,000
francs is authorized.
Fire in suburb of Detroit, Mich.,
did 1800,000 damage.
General Dewet, the Roer leader,
has resumed operations.
Pennsylvania beat Annapolis in the
intercollegiate boat race.
National organization of machinist
has ordered a general strike.
Yale beat Harvard 57 to 47 in the
Annual track and field contest. -
' The Porte has ordered all foreign
poetofficea removed from Turkey.
The steamer Princess Louise was
wrecked in British Columbia waters.
An attempt was made to sell con
fidential documents in the Neely case.
Seattle men have bonded 1,000
acres near Willapa bay and will bore
for oil.
Esterhazy has made an affidavit
that he was the author of the Dreyfus
borderau.
Embezzlement charged against ex
School Land Clerk Davis, of Oregon,
may be outlawed.
Trouble between the managers of
the Buffalo exposition and union
workmen for a time threatened a com
plete tie-up of work, but the difficulty
has been settled.
A grip containing dynamite was in
process of fumigation at Port Town
send, Wash., when owner told con
tents, causing a panic among the
steamer passengers.
Mrs. McKinley is ill, and has been
taken to San Farncisco for a rest.
Her illness, while not serious, may
cause curtailment of programme for
the remainder of president's tour.
Two lives were lost in a New York
fire.
The presidential party is now in
California.
Eastern wool market shows no im
provement. Martinelli has re :ived the red be
retta at Baltimore.
The steel trust will close down the
Everett nail works.
English coal miners have decided
not to strike at present.
Fire in Augusta, Ga., destroyed
$169,000 worth of cotton.
A fire in Seattle destroyed property
to the amount of $200,000.
A naval war college is to be estab
lished for the naval officers.
The Industrial commission is in
vestigating rate discriminations.
The steamer Tantillion Castle,
wrecked near Cape Town, is a total
loss.
The contract plans for the cruiser
St. Louis have mysterioulsy disap
peared. Forest fires in Pennsylvania are
destroying immense quantities of val
uable timber.
Much disturbance continues among
the eduacatcd classes in Russia, and
tne police are kept busy.
$800,000 FIRE.
Suburb of Detriot the Scene film Started
In Lie Mill.
Detroit, May 1 4. Fanned by a 35-miles-an-hour
wind, fire tl.is after
no m swept the west bank of the
Uogue river in Del ray, a suburb to
the south of Detroit, for three quar
ters of a mile, and destroyed over
$800,000 worth of property.
The fire originated in the roof of
saw mill. The plant has not Wen
running for several months, and the
roof .was as dry as tinder. The build
ing was soon in ashes and the fire
wept across a Mock to where a dredge
was tied up. Despite the efforts to
save her, this craft was burned to the
water's edge. Great emWrs were
picked up by the wind and dropped
in several "directions, setting fire to
buildings.
Pel ray has a small fire department,
which responded with three engines
and the fireboat Battle. Even the
greatest streams of the fireboat were
powerless to chock the names which
were rolling down the river bank for
hundreds of feet. When darkness fell
the glare from the burning poles il
luminated the sky for miles. The
firemen worked on Uie fire almost all
night to keep it from spreading to
other property.
A TRICKY BANK TELLER.
His Scheme for Making Money Led to His
Arrest.
New Orleans, May 14. Samuel
Flower, paying teller of the HiWrnia
National bank, has leen arrested here
charged with a shortage of $3(5,000.
The Fidelity &. Deposit Company, of
Baltimore, is on Flower's bond for
$25,000. It is alleged that Flower,
expecting an examination, sent to an
other bank in this city a government
sealed package said to contain $40,000
and received in exchange for it $40,
000 gold clearing house certificates of
the denomination of $5,000 each.
His cash having Wen counted by the
National bank examiner the evening
before and found correct, it is alleged
he returned the clearing house certifi
cates to the bank from which he had
received them and received in return
his unbroken government package,
said to contain $40,000. This pack
age was received by the HiWrnia
National Bank from the sub treasury,
of this city, in March last, and con
tained $4,000 in $1 bills. It is al
leged that Flower had preserved the
label from an old government package
that did contain $40,000 in denom
inations of $10 each, which he pasted
on the package, containing only
$4,000 in $1 bills, thereby making it
a $40,000 package to all apjearances.
This package was opened and counted
after his departure from the bank.
PHILIPPINE POLICE FORCE.
Already Organized. Including Cver Six Thou,
sand Natives.
Washington, May 14. An exten
sive resume of the organization and
varied conditions of the Philippine
native police foree is contained in a
statement made public by the divis
ion of insular affairs of the war de
partment. The reports recites that,
be.cau.-e of the poverty of the munici
palties, the Philippine commission
appropi rated the sum of $150,000
to provide increased pay for the body,
and offered through General Mae
Arthur, further incentive in the
way of increased comjicnsation for
cases of meritorious and faithful serv
ice. Late reports received at the war
department indicate that an efficient
and loyal force of native police has
now 1-een organized, with prospects of
further extension and increased abili
ty. The total force now numbers ),
349 officers and men, a great many of
whom are on the meritorious list and
receive addtiional pay. The l)ody at
present is concentrated in Northern
Luzon principally, although the
Visayas, Mindanao, Jolo and South
ern Luzon have police forces of con
siderable strength. In many of the
towns the men are fully uniformed.
KLONDIKERS IN LUCK.
Miners Are Enoylng Greatest Harvest iu the
History of the District
Port Townscnd, Wash., May 14.
Returning Dawson passengers on the
Victorian, which arrived from Hkag
way report that the miners of the
Klondike are enjoying the greatest
harvest in the history of the country,
owing to the abundance of the surface
water, which is being utilized in sluic
ing the dirt taken out during the
winter months, and the yield of yel
low metal will exceed the best expec
tations of the mine-owners.
The Victoria reports considerable
excitement in the north, caused by
the smallpox epidemic, and various
settlements are taking every precau
tion to check and wipe out the dis
ease. At Skagway a mass meeting
was held, the Indians were driven
out of the city, and a strong guard
was placed around the town to prevent
their return. Nearly all sections are
in quarantine. Every stranger arriv
ing is held up and inspected.
NEWS OF THE STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM
ALL OVER OREGON.
Commercial and Financial Happenings of Inv
portancc A Brief Review of of the
Growth and Improvemcuts of the Many
Industries Throughout Onr Thriving Com.
monwcallh Utcit Market Report
Newport will have a Fourth of July
celebration.
The new school house at Marcola
has been completed.
Timber claims on the middle fork of
the Coquille are Wing rapidly taken.
Ojierations have len resumed at
the Eureka mine, at Selma, Josephine
county.
The telephone line Wing extended
from Springfield to Waterville is com
pleted to Thurston.
The Southern Oregon Oil Company,
operating near Ashland, has pur
chased & boring plant.
The machinery of the Summervillf
creamery has Is-cn rmdved and will
be in place within few days,
Eighty seven scalps of wild animal
were presented for Wunty in Jackson
county in the month of April.
Contract has Wen awarded to the
Athena Flouring Mill Company to
pump water for the city for $800 jm
year.
The Henry P. Smith farm of 11)9
acres, 1 miles east of Dallas, has
Wen sold to an Okalhoma man for
$f,400.
The Ontario Warehouse Company
is building a warehouse on the Short
Line right of way. The building will
be 50x70 feet, fire proof, and will I
pushed to a sjHH'dy completion.
The Sunset mill owners started
theirquartz mill on Forest creek again
last week for a run of several months.
They have a large amount of rock on
the dump, some of which which will
yield $75 to the ton.
A hotel will W built at Enterprise
if citizens will give a Wnus of $1,200.
Strong indications of natural oil
and gas have been found near Mil
ton. The receipts of the Oregon state
land office during April were $23,
459.30. The contract has Wen let for build
ing a school house at John Day. The
price is $3,4(16.
Baker City wle.dmen are having
trouble with miscreants who steathily
puncture their tires.
The Southern Pacific is putting in a
l,lMJ0-foot siding at Hice Hill. Other
repairs are W'ing made along the line
in that vicinity.
Citizens of Enterprise have organ
ized an immigration board, and will
try to secure the eo-ojcratioii of other
towns in the same county.
All but eight or 10 men employed
at the Mineral City smelter have
been discharged and work has been
suspended for a time.
The stages between Canyon City
and Burns are now traveling on the
summer schedule, and the entire dis
tance of 70 miles is covered in one
day instead of two as heretofore.
Portland Markets.
Wheat Walla Walla, 5?)(G0c.;
valley, nominal; blueatcm, (l(a62c.
per bushel.
Flour Best grades, $2. 90 3. 40 per
barrel; graham, $2.(50.
Outs White,$l. 3001.35 percental ;
gray, $1.27 (3l.30 per cental.
Barley Feed, $1717.25; brewing,
f 17ft 17.25 per ton.
Millstuffs Bran, $17 per ton ; midd
lings, $21.50; shorts, $20.00; chop,
P1B.
Hay-Timothy, $12.50014; clover,
$76t9.50; Oregon wild hay, $67
per ton.
Hops 120 14c. per lb.
Wool Valley, ll13c; Eastern
Oregon, 710c; mohair, 2021c.
per pound.
Butter Fancy creamery, 15
17c. ; dairy, 13014c; store, 11
12,'c. per pound.
Kggs Oregon ranch, 1213c.
per dozen.
Cheese Full cream, twins, 13
13c. ; Young America, 130l4c.
per pound.
I'ou I try Chickens, m ixed, $3. 50 4 ;
hens, $404.50; dressed, 11 12c, per
pound; springs, $305 per dozen;
ducks, $5r5; geese, $7; turkeys,
live, 1012c; dressed, 1315c. per
pound.
Potatoes Old, 9()$1.10pcr sack;
new, 2Jc. per pound,
Mutton , Lambs 45c. per
pound gross; best sheep, wethers,
with wool. $4.2504.50; dressed, lc.
per pound.
i.ogK Gross, heavy, $5.75G;
light, $4. 75 35; dressed, 77c per
pound.
Veal Large, 7 8c. per pound;
small, 88Jc. per pound.
Beef Gross, top steers, $5 5. 25;
cows and heifers, $4.5004.75; dressed
beef, 8J8c. per pound
REGULARS RETURN.
Phlllppnt Army to Re Reduced 25,000 Mm
Orders Stnt to MacArthur.
Washington, May 1.1. By direc
tion ol the secretary of war, instruc
tions were cabled to General Mac
Arthur to send to San Francisco nt
his earliest convenience, the follow
ing organisations of the regular army :
Fourteenth, Kighteenth and Twenty
third regiment of infantry; Fourth
regiment of cavalry ; Twenty ninth,
Thirtieth, Thirty second and Thirty
third companies id coast artillery;
First, Kighth, Tenth, Twelfth and
Thirteenth baterie of field artillery.
General MacArthur is instructed to
transfer to other command all men
in the aWve organization in their
first enlistment having more than
one year to serve, also men wishing
to remain iu the Philippines. All
men of other organizations having
three months or less to serve, not in
tending to enlist, are to W transferred
to the returning organizations.
It i expected that this movement
of trooj. will Wgin soon after July 1
next, by which time the homeward
movement of the volunteers will have
Wen completed. It is the intention
of the department to replace the home
coming regulars, so fur n the mili
tary conditions in th Philippine re
quire it, with troop recently organ
i.ed iu this country under the pro
visions of the army reorganization
act. These movement are predi
cated n the policy of the miliums
Uration to reduce the army in the
Philippine to 40,000 after the return
I of the volunteer.
! The war department today pub
jlishedthe reorganization order pre
scribing the htrength of the various
branches of the military service upon
the buis of a total army of 77,287
; men and a staff of 2,783, the enticed
'(.trengtb Wing 74,504 nu n. By the
order each cavalry regiment will con-
sist id 12 cavalry troops of H5 enlisted
j men each, making the total strength
of the cavalry branch 15,810 men.
j The coast art illery w ill consist of 12b
J companies of 100 enlisted men each,
making 13,734, and the field artillery
of 30 Wttcrie of H50 men each, inuk-
ing a total artillery force, field and
j coast, of 18,8C2 enlisted men. The
i 30 infantry regiments will cohm1 of
12 companies of JOl enlisted men
I each, making the infantry strength
j 38,520 enlisted men. The engineer
battalion will have four i panic
I of 101 enlisted men each, with a band
J and w ill, have a strength of 1,282 en
j listed men.
I COST HIM HIS LIFE.
Man Who Stepped Aside to Let Anothei
f Gal Satety first.
Indianftsdis, May 15 While Wil
liam Phelps, of Richmond, Ky., and
James Staplebury, of this city, wen
cleaning out the inside of an eight
foot upright boiler at the Ccrealini
mills today, an employe turned on
the team, thinking the cock tight.
It leaked, and the scalding steam
poured in on the two men. The only
exit was up a ladder. Both men
jumped for the ladder. Phelps reached
it first, took one step and stopped.
He juins(l aside ami shouted, "You
go up first Jim, you are married."
Staplebury sprang up the ladder
and escaped with slight bums.
Though Phelps followed at his heels,
his act of heriosm cost him his life.
Both men were being cooked when
Phelps jumped aside. By the time
he had followed Staplebury up the
ladder the llcsh was dropping from his
limbs. He lived for two hours in
great agony. Both men are colored.
GOT AWAY FROM MOTERMAN.
Three Pauenger on a Trolley Car Seriously
Hurt About 100 Bruited.
New York, May 15. An ojs'n trol
ley car, in which were packed about
115 jH-ople, got away from the motor
man near Fort Ix'e, N. J., and dashed
down Loona hill. Every person on
the car was bruised and three serious
ly hurt, but only ono of them, th
conductor, is likely to die. The
heavily loaded car had started down
an incline a quarter of a mile in
length when the motorman lost con
trol. The car was going so fast that
no one dured to jump off. The road
is a winding one. At the foot of the
hill it curves sharply. When th
front trucks hit the curve they started
around and made it. The rear one
followed part of the way. The wrench
upon the car, however, as it swung
about, was so great that the body wiu
torn and lifted from the trucks and
rolled over and hit the ground. The
passengers were caught in and mulct
the car and were piled in a heap.
More American Liners.
Philadelphia May 15. Tho New
York Shipbuilding Company, at itf
new yards near Gloucester, N. J., hat
begun work on four steel piiHsengei
and freight steamships for tho At
latitio Transport Company. Twc
boats arc (100 feet long and the othen
500 feet and they are to trade frotr
Philadelphia, New York and Haiti,
more to London. The steamships art
not intended to be flyers, but will rut
at a moderate speed. They will havt
a carrying capacity of 0,000 tona a
cargo.
II I VIM BOAT SINKS
MISSISSIPPI RIVER STEAMEn HIT
A SUNKEN 8NAQ.
The City of Mucah Wreiked at Bnmkhorit
I adding, Illinois Two Paitcngert and
Over Twenty Colored Deckhands f ind
Watery Grave Divers Searching lor the
Passenger Hit.
Grand Tower, 111., May 15 Tho
steamer City of Puducnh sank iu 25
feet of water five minute after Mrik-
ling a snag while backing out from
Hruukhoriil lauding. The lodic of
two paenger who were drowned
have lieett recovered, and 22 iiieinWr
of the crew, tnmt of them Negroes,
are missing. All of t ho officer wero
nved.
The passenger list hii not Injure
covered. A diver i searching for it,
Only the teta and hurricane deck
are aWve water, which renehe to tint
skylight of the cabin. All tint
Ktateroom are completely filled with
water. The MteamWat drifted A third
of a mile Wlow the landing Wbre
she sank. The first mate a)th
Wat went down within three minute
after striking the ng, lie wn on
the cabin deck and escaped by climb
ing through the skylight, '
It is AiipHwi-,' th,it mo! of the mis
sing deck hands who were on the
lower- deck Were Wrifdicd down t tu
rner The Wat lie down nUmt 100
f.s i from the Illinois hore, the fnp
part of the hurricane deck Wing
under water. She upjiar to W a
total wrtrk. The coroner of Mur
phynWro, III., i now holding an in
qtict while the diver i searching for
more IxHlie,
NUMBER OF SOLDIERS KILLED.
Due to Explosion of Minei Burled on fron
tier Chineic Province.
Victoria, H. C, May 15 New
wa brought by the i-teauier Gleituglo
that u severe eatthouake incurred at,
Yokohama April 24, lasting fully two
minute. No damage wan reported.
The Asiatic rctrt that on April
22. 150 French and 30 German Wero
killi-d and wonmh-d by the i-tpliwioii
of mine buried on the frontier of
Shun Si and Chili Li,
The China Time rep trt the capt
ure of a brigand headquarter, whero
('hint-He were pillaging the neighWir
IkmmI under the leadership of 10 for
eign soldiers, The German killed
20 Chinese nud captured a junk, on
which a cannon wa mounted.
The new 700 ton liner Stbraitoii
wa wrecked on Ho Chinese coast
near Lung Ying prior to the sailing
of the Glcnogle. The pasM nger and
mails were naved. The vessel was n
total wreck.
A mixed battalion of F.nglish mid
Japanese and French had a sharp en
gagnient with 00 Boxer ar Shan
buck wan. The light lux ted all day
lllld a number of Chinese wero lilted.
The llritiNli lost two men wounded,
the French one, and the Japaucso
two.
There had Wen 1 10 canes of plague
and 104 death, and C5 cases of muitll
x and 43 deaths iu Hong Kong
from January 1 to April 15.
LOCATED BY OFFICAL8.
Craft Which Hat Been Used to Smugijc
In Opium,
Seattle, May 15. The means of
the transjHirtatiori for the 585 pound
seized several'days ago by the local
customs officers and perhaps of toim
of other smuggled opium whs located
today by Customs Ins-ctors JManey
and Brinker and seized. It is a name
less naptha launch 25 feet long. Tho
craft was found secreted on the tido
flats in a resdie nco boat house near
Moran Bros.' shipyards. The launch
was equipped with several gasolino
tanks, half a dozen' cases of gasoline,
numerous rubber sacks used as recept
acles for the contraband opium, rub
ber clothing, dark lanterns, red lights
and many paint pots, indicating that
the launch had changed her color
almost with the changes of the moon,
and a small arsenal of rilles, revolvers
and shotguns. No one was found in
possession of or a claimant for tho
seized launch, which would indiciito
that the head men in tho gigantic
smuggling scheme have escaped, at
least temporarily.
Militia Still on Hand.
Jacksonville, Flu., May 15. Tho
relief association is doing stupcndouK
work, particularly in the commissary
and labor departments. There is
abundant work for everybody who cuu
do manual labor, hut difficulty is ex
periencod in getting tho colored men
to work, Tho militia is still in pos
session of tho city, and will remain
hero as long us tho committee of tho
relief association thinks best. ... Tho
liquor men have approved the action
of the governor in closing the bai
rooms and have endorsed it.