✓. f Scio Weekly Press * . 1 ----------------- — SCIO I FLOODS IN NEW MEXICO. SOUTHERN COAL COMBINE. Torrent Rushes Through New Mexico, Doing Immense Damage. Will Control Almost the Entire Output of Several States. Silver City, N. M., July 25.—Be­ Chicago, July 24.—A special from The Durrant Case Now Before Bannocks Control the Passes Chattanooga, says: Within the next three months the night, five inches of rain fell in this the Court. Into Jackson’s Hole. manufacturers of the South are to feel i city and on the mountains to the north. OREGON tween 8 o’clock and midnight Sunday PORTLAND MARKETS. The produce markets are quiet and active, under a good inquiry for fruit and vegetables, and much of the stock is cleaned up. Prices, however, show' no material change. Eggs are stiffer and inclined to advance further. Groceries, etc., are unchanged. FOR THE FARMERS Useful Information Concern* ing Farm Work. the grasp of the biggest coal combine j Before 9 o’clock the water was rushing Wheat Market. ever formed. It is to embrace and down the mountain sides in 1 torrents, With more favorable advices from the THE NEWSPAPERS SIZED UP control almost the entire output of | CONFLICTING REPORTS ARE SENT and a few minutes later the business East and England, the local wheat mar­ WHAT ORGANIZATION WILL DO nearly all the mines in Virginia, Ken- j I streets of this city were filled with a ket has taken on a stronger tone, but as tucky, Georgia and Alabama, the total flood from four to eight feet deep. The there is no business passing, the changes State Department Asked to grade of the streets is heavy, and the Governor Richards, of Wyoming, In- value of which is nearly $500,000, and Proceedings Regin by tlie Defendant’s elsewhere have but little effect here. The Farmers Will Not Be Helped Unless Prices can only be quoted nominally as this is to be the capital stock of the or­ They Learn to Know and Use water rushed through the streets with Counsel Moving for a Change of tends That the Indians Shall Be Aid Negroes in Mexico. follows: Walia Walla, 47c; Valley, 50c ganization. This movement was start­ such swiftness that crossing was im­ Their Power—Stock Notes. Venue—Holmes Tragédies. Made to Respect the Law. per bushel. ed months ago and 'a ter several meet- possible. A foot-bridge which had been It is needless to say that the agricul­ San Francisco, July 24. — Hundreds Cheyenne, July 25.—The first ad- I ings have been held, and the last one constructed so that the people in the Produce Market. tural interests of this country have not, WERE SENT BY FALSE PROMISES lower part of town could cross to a vices of authentic nature from the I seat at Lookout Mountain two days ago. of people surrounded the county jail place of safety in case of flood, was of the Indian troubles in the Jackson For more than a year prices on coal this morning,., eager to see William F lour —Portland. Salem, Cascadia and in the years that are passed, received swept away, and all means of getting Hole region reached Governor Rich­ and coke have been going down and Henry Theodore Durrant taken to the Dayton, are quoted at $2.85 per barrel; the recognition which their importance The Government, However, Cannot Help out of the flooded district was cut off. ards today in the shape of telegrams down, until coke is now being manu­ new city hall to be tried for the mur­ Goiddrop, $2.95; Snowflake, $2.85: Ben­ to the prosperity of the nation would ton county, $2.85; graham, $2.50@2.55; justify and demand, and the momen­ Them, and They Can Be Saved The night was intensely dark, and for sent by courier from Marysville, Wyo., factured and coal mined at a loss to the der of Blanche Lamont 'and Minnie superfine, $2.25. Only by Private Aid. three hours the people of the city were to Market Lake* Idaho, from Adjutant- companies. Every mine and every Williams, in Emanuel church last O ats —Good white are quoted weak, at tous question- which now confronts the April. It was supposed that Durrant General Stilser, of the governor ’ s staff, | coal dealer has put its product on the 27@28c; milling, 28@30c; gray, 25@27c. farmers, is, how to remedy the. great Washington, July 26.—Bad news panic stricken. Scores of people gave who was sent into tlie reigon to inves­ market at whatever figure it could would be kept in jail until near the Rolled oats are quoted as follows: Bags evil of practically ignoring this great themselves up for lost when some of has been received at the state depart­ tigate the troubles between the Indians bring. It is to establish a standard of time for commencing the trial. The $5.75@6.00; barrels, $6.00@6.25; cases, producing class of-people, and discrimi­ ment from the colony of American ne­ the weaker buildings began to crumble and the whites. One message sent prices that the combine is to be formed. waiting crowds were disappointed. At | $3.75. nating against their interests by legis­ before the destructive flood. Nine of H ay — Timothy, $9@9.50 per ton; lative enactments. It is an old and true groes who went into Mexico some time 8:45 Sheriff Whalen sent his private Sunday from Marysville is as follows: In short the purpose of the organiza ­ cheat, $5; clover, $6; oats,$6; wheat, $7. saying, that “The Lord helps those ago and settled on a tract of land near the buildings were washed down and “Sdouts who have come in from the tion is to advance the price of coal to buggy to the county jail. Durrant and B arley —Jbeed barley, 62%@65c per Tlahualilo. A telegram was received many others injured, but, strange as it mountains report the Indians in force all consumers, but especially to manu­ Chief Jailer Satler entered this open cental; brewing, 80@85c per cental, who help themselves, ” and if farmers at the state department this morning may seem, no lives were lost. The at the junction of Granite creek and facturers, 2 per cent would receive help, it must be self­ buggy and started alone for the city according to quality. from United States Consul Sparks, at business part of the city, beggars de­ Fall river. All passes into Jackson’s M illbtuffs — Bran, $11.50; shorts, help. The history of this -country for There were nearly thirty representa­ hall. No one saw them start except scription. 'Many buildings are set ­ Piedras Negras, stating that the ne­ Hole available to horses are guarded tives of the big mines at the meeting the deputy jailers, Durrant was not $12.50; chop feed, $12@15; middlings, the past twenty-five years, shows that groes are in, a deplorable condition. tling, and the amount of the loss may by Indians; Captain Smith, who has on the mountain. Altogether the com­ handcuffed and the pair attracted no none in market; chicken wheat, 74 nearly every great achievement in the reach thousands of dollars mqre than These emigrants went from the South­ development of the country, and every just come1 in, was wounded in the bine will include seven-eighths of the attention as they drove quietly through I @80c per cental. ern states of the United States, mostly the losses which are now certain. breast by Indians. Other prospectors coal-mining interests of the. South and the streets. The early hour disap­ B utter —Fancy creamery is quoted al scheme for the concentration of politi­ Some estimates place the loss as high 112%@14c; fancy dairy, 10®12%c; fair te cal power and the accumulations of from Alabama and the Carolinas, under were driven from the mountains. represent millions of dollars. The pointed watchers at both ends of the 8%@10c; eom'mon, 6%@7%c pei ! great wealth, have been accomplished most alluring promises from the emi­ as $300,000, but this is probably exces­ Pickets are guarding the various moun­ miuigSB^’nstud are located in what is journey; After Durrant had passed 1 I good, pound. grant agents of comfortable homes in sive. The railroad company sustained tain passes. Horses are equipped ready knov?Tasfthe seven chief mining dis­ into the courtroom where he was taken I P otatoes —New Oregon, 35@55c per by means of organizations, great dr small. Consequently the lesson of the Mexico, but from all accounts they heavy loss, and it will take more than for a inarch and everybody is armed.” tricts of the South. At present there : for safety, crowds began to gather at | sack. hour is, that farmers must help them­ have been ill treated and suffered great a week to repair the track so that a A second message sent yesterday, by are no officers, except Mr. Pratt, of the the jail and all the streets in the vicin­ O nions —New California, $1.25@1.50 selves by organization and co-opera­ train can be got here. Telegraph com ­ hardships from the time of their- ar­ cental. Jelico mines, who was made tempor­ ity were black with people until long I : per P oultry —Chickens, old. $3 @3.50 pei I tion, and thus make available a mighty rival in that country. Consul Sparks munication has just been established. Stilser from the Teton pass, near the ary president until the permanent after the hour for opening the court. Idaho-Wyoming line, says: dozen; young, $2.0j®3.5u per dozen; I power which heretofore has been but says the negroes are scattered for miles “We have arrived here on our return officers were named. One effect of the People early filled the corridors lead­ I ducks, $2 5U®3.UO; get-se, $4.00@6.UO: partially utilized. Many of the evils IN POOR CONDITION. along the railroad Without funds, ing to the courtroom of Superior Judge i trip. Settlers in the basin are uneasy. demoralization in- the price of coal and turkeys, live, 10c per pound; dressed, of which we complain, if not self-in­ homes or food, living on mesquite Murphy, before whom Durrant is to be 12c per pound. beans and branch water. The consul The California $ruit Sold in London It is reported there that many Indians coke has been a gradual decrease in the tried. E ggs —Oregon, are quoted 11c pei flicted, certainly exist by our suffer­ Was a Fraud. from Fort Hall are leaving to, join ¡wages of miners until the scale of wages says that he can do nothing toward ance; because by reason of numbers we A squad of deputy sheriffs and de ­ dozen. 'is now lower than it was ever known their relief and he fears trouble, be­ London, July 25. — Reports have those in the mountains. Indians from have ample power to remedy them, or C heese — Oregon full, cream, 10@llc tectives kept the crowd on the move, cause the negroes are starving. The been current that the consignment of other reservations are reported joining to be in the mining districts. The until the regular hour for opening the j per pound; hall cream, 7(a9c; skim, 4® to so modify them that no cause of coal men claim that if the combine is them. Letters and couriers have been railroads offer to make liberal rates to California fruit which arrived here last complaint will remain. We complain court. . Deputies guarded both doors of tic; Young America, l@l%c higher. O regon V egetables —cabbage, l%c of the neglect of the agricultural inter­ take them out of the country. week by the steamer Paris from New sent out by Jackson Hole settlers ask-1 'forced they will be able to restore the courtroom and admitted none but wages of the miners to their former I .per lb; i adisneiq 10c per dozen bunches; Later the consul reports that he has York, and was sold at Covent Garden ing for aid, with those who have re-j jurors, attorneys and newspaper men. | green onions, 10c per dozen; asparagus, ests by public officials, of rights disre­ received a telegram from Dr. L. H. market at auction Friday last, was not sponded, they will go on to the moun­ scales. These occupied all the seats in the per dozen; green peas, 1% ®2c garded, of discriminating legislation^ Barry, at Toreon, Mexico, dated July looked upon with favor in some quar­ tains to meet the Indians tomorrow? An advance of 2 per cent has already room, all chairs being taken out, and' I 40@60c per pound; rhubarn, l%@2c; Oregon of laws not enforced, of unequal taxa­ been made on steam coal at Atlanta, The settlers have given up hopes of say ­ 23, to the effect that 150 of the negroes ters. Several leading dealers who pur­ Judge Murphy peremptorily ordered wax beans, 7@.8c; cucumbers, 25@75c tion, of extravagance and corruption from the colony were there in a desti­ chased the fruit were interviewed. ing their crops, and are prepared to and a similar advance will be ordered that none others be admitted. in the administration of public affairs, per dozen; cauhHower, $1 per dozen. other southern cities. in all tute condition with fifteen cases of They all said they were disappointed ■take all their women and children out B erries — Blackberries, 3@4c per and that the few are monopolizing the Durrant ’ s father, who greatly re ­ contagious diseases among them. The with the goods, which, when opened of the region. ” sembles his son, and who looks to be I pound; raspberries, $1.25@1.50 per profits of the labor of the many. Sure­ Governor Richards states that bo THE COLON STRIKE. Mexican authorities had prevented for inspection previous to the sale, ly there is no dearth of complaints. only about the same age, was early at I crate. movement of state troops into tlie T ropical Epuir—California lemons, But of what avail are complaints if we them from entering the town. A let­ seemed firm and hard. But the dealers court to meet his son. The two sat in 6.00@7.00; Sicily, $5.00®5.50; bananas, will not help ourselves when the means ter on the subject has been received at say they became discolored when the Jackson Hole country will be ordered Dock Laborers and Brakemen oil the quiet conversation, as the room gradu­ $ Honolulu, $2.25®3.00; New Orleans, $z Panama Road Go Out. the state department from Representa­ papers were removed and the fruit ex.- until further information is received. ally filled up. When Durrant was @3.00 per bunch; California navels, are so plainly within our reach? Many tive Bankhead, of Alabama, inquiring posed to the air. They also said the He sent word to General Stilser, who New York, July 24. — A special to first arrested his mustache hid his l $3.50@3.75 box; blood oranges, $3; -farmers in different parts of the coun­ whether the government could assist in plums were not of desirable quality. is expected to reach Market Lane to­ the World from Colon says: mouth, and his long hair gave him Mediterranean sweets, $2.o0@3.00; try, in a measure, at least, seem to night, to report as fully as possible on bringing back to their homes the mem­ One of them said: Word comes from Panama that the the appearance of a student. Now seedlings, $2@2.25; pineapples, $5 per comprehend the situation and are no­ “We account for the large prices the situation, particularly as to the dock laborers and brakemen on the his closely cropped hair gives him the dozen. bers of the colony of colored citizens bly striving to help themselves and C alifornia V egetables —Garlic, new their class by organization, others seem who are destitute and dissatisfied. The paid for the fruit by the fact that fruit success of the' Indian police in indue-, Panama railroad there have joined the appearance of a criminal, and his mg the Bannocks, the only known 10c per pound ; new potatoes, 90c@$l department has tried in every way to is scare on the continent and in Eng­ disheartened or indifferent, and still strikers. The railroad officials did not clean-shaven lips reveal the coarse sen­ sack; string beans, 2@3c per pound; others, are expecting help by the adop­ afford relief in this case, but it is well land. The next lot will not realize offenders among the Indians, to return expect this. Affairs are becoming suality of his mouth. Three months’ I per summer squasn, $1.25