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Scio Weekly Press. BENEFIT Mobilizing Frauce-Rrussian Troops. A dispatch from St. Petersburg to Soliel says there has been an import ant exohange of views between the Frenoh and Russian ministers of war, by which certain modifications have SCIO................................... .OREGON been effeoted in the general plan for English Farmers Expect a Further Advance. the mobilization and concentration of Franco-Russian troops in time of war. Soliel adds that proof of this statement will soon be seen in a number of fron PRICE WILL RISE NEXT MONTH tier changes, and the first step is said to have been taken by an inorease in This Conclusion is Based Chiefly Upon Comprehensive Review of the Import the number of Russian dragoons. III! MS «I IB IH ant Happenings of the Fast Week Piano Factory Burned» Culled From the Telegraph Columns. Fire completely destroyed the piano factory of House & Davis, at Des- A disastrous fire in a Brooklyn sky plaines, Ill. The loss is estimated at scraper caused a loss of $300,000. $50,000. Twenty-five new pianos An official dispatch from Manilla were destroyed, with 250 in process of says a conspiracy has been discovered construction and a large stock of valu in the Sooloo archipelago, a portion of able hardwood lumber. A lady living the Spanish colony of the Philippine over the factory lost diamonds valued islands. at $1,000. ________ Perry Bathalow, United States con Has Sued the Ball Club. sul at Mayence, is being prosecuted for Mrs. Caroline B. Newman, a woman severely injuring an inmate of his much interested in baseball, while wit house by striking him on the head nessing a game- in Baltimore, was with a revolver. struck by a foul fly. She has sued tho The price of bread has gone up half Baltimore base ball club for $5', 000 for a penny a loaf, and the increase is be injuries she Claims to have received. ing actually felt in the poorer districts This is probably the first suit of the of London, whose many families have, kind on record. in consequence, been obliged to reduce Asphyxiated by Gas» their supplies. John Houston and wife were asphyx An explosion of natural gas at Ava- I iated by illuminating gas in their Ion, Pa., killed Bessie Osborne, aged" apartments in' Chicago. Houston is 15, seriously injured her brother Dale, dead and his wife’s condition is criti aged 9, and her sister Edith, aged 6. cal. The accident was due to careless The house was badly wrecked; The ness on the part of Houston who forgot explosion was caused by a leak in the to properly turn oft' the gas. kitchen pipes. Met Death in the Cyclone. Thomas P, Gillespie, superintendent The known dead by the disastrous of the Sterling Mining & Milling Com pany, at Montgomery, Nev., was shot cyclone in Linooln and Payne coun and killed on the road between the ties, Oklahoma territory, number seven, Johnny and Chispa mines, by unknown with three perhaps fatally injured. parties. The shooting was done from Many others reported dead may swell the list of fatalities. The scene of behind some bushes. Advices received from the Arctic devastation is hard of access, The ocean whaling fleet state that the en property damage is heavy. tire fleet has taken only 52 whales up Hank Gardner Dead. to October 1. In consequence of the Hank M. Gardner, a one-armed poor catch, the price of whalebone will man, fell from his bioycle in Buffalo, be in the neighborhood of 5 cents per N. Y., striking on his head and frac pound. As the fleet had only one turing his skull, dying almost instant week for operations after this news Was ly. Gardner was on old-time tele dispatched, the Arctic season is con graph operator and well-known to the sidered a failure. fraternity throughout the country. Paul Isenberg, the wealthy Ha An Elevator Rope Broke, waiian sugar-planter, who with his family has been spending several The rotten rope of an elevator caused months in Europe, has arrived in San the death of John Rahenberg in St. Francisco. Mr. Isenberg’s European Louis. The accident occurred while trip was-for the purpose of interesting he was alone, and for eleven hours his foreign capitalists in the gigantic Oahu body served as food for rats He fell plantation scheme, of which so much a distance of forty feet and must have has been written lately. His mission been killed instantly. was in a measure successful, for he is Oil Stove Exploded. now returning to Honolulu with a i An oil stove in the residence of Wil guaranty of about $1,500,000 from sev liam Allenbach, in Milwaukee, ex eral Dutoh millionaires. It is stated by officials that the ploded and scattered the burn’ng fluid United States will have the co-opera over the little family group in the tion and support of both Russia and kitchen.. Allenbach, his wife and baby Japan in the approaching issue oyer es in arms were fatally burned. tablishing adequate protection for the Have Renewed Their Pledge» fur seals of the North Pacific ocean. After several weeks of daily confer The question is about to be brought f or- ward, as two commissior s, one Ameri ences, the lumber men interested in the can and one British, have returned, af domestic trade have arrived at the con ter ah investigation of the conditions in clusion that their various interests can Behring sea. Aside from the informa- be best subserved by remaining in the cently made a report after personal in- I spection of the seal islands, stating that if modifications of the Paris award ne gotiations were not' agreed to' the “fur seal will in one or two seasons be commercially extinct. ” The north-bound Houston & Texas Central passenger train was wreoked sixty miles from Houston, Tex. The engine jumped the track, but the coaches staid on the rails. Engineer C. E. Clark was badly hurt, and Wal ter Matthews, his fireman, was killed, ho passegers were hurt. At a cost of two lives four masked robbers stole $5,000 from Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Monagan, in the mining vil lage of Rappahannock. The heads of Mr. and Mrs. Monagan were crushed with a sandbag, and they are in a criti cal condition. The robbers are still at large, but a posse is in pursuit. A bull fight with fatal results oc curred at Nogales, Ariz., and for a short time caused a panic in the audi ence. One of the bulls becoming more enraged than usual, rushed about the arena goring everything within its reach. A horse was disemboweled. A picador in an attempt to place a thorn in the side of the wild animal, was caught on one its long horns, which pierced him like a sword. He was tossed and fell to the ground bleeding and mangled,where the beast held him between his horns and pawed him. He was frightfully injured and died a few minutes later. The Venezuela government has for warded to Washington a brief prepared at Caracas by a commission of five emi nent jurists on the British-Venezuela boundary question. It will be sub- mitted_to the United States commission as soon as the translation is completed. The brief covers 300 pages and is said to “be a forcible presentation of the case. Aside from this brief coming direct from Venezuela, Messrs. Scruggs and Storbrow, counsel for Venezuela in this country, are about to submit final arguments. Hertofore the arguments presented have covered the points in evidence, but the taking of proof is now practically over and the final argu ment is in order. Isaac H. Lyonberger, of St. Louis, has been appointed assistant attorney- general of the United States for the in terior department. He succeeds Wil liam A. Lytle, of Georgia, who recent ly resigned to become a candidate for the office of justice of the supreme court of Georgia. Mr. Lyonberger has taken the oath of office and entered upon his official duties. He is a well- known attorney in St. Louis, and one of the leading practitioners in the state. He is 48 years of age and a warm friend of Secretary Francis. Assistant United States Attorney Sohlininger has sworn out a warrant before United States Commissioner Heacock, of San Francisco, charging Third Mate H. P. Bowen, of the steam whaler Balaena, with the wilful mur der of Second Mate Frank Jones, at Hersohel island last winter. The story of the murder was told by the officers of the steamer Jeanie on her arrival from the Arctic a fortnight ago. India—Prices Will Probably Remain Good Some Time.’ Reports From London, Nov. 2.—A remarka ble feature of the situation, one plainly indicating a belief that higher prices are coming, is that the- farmers in the wheat-growing districts of England are firmly holding on to their stock, even though the figures now obtained are much higher than they ever hoped to see again. The continued absenoe of rain in the Punjab district and the measures now being arranged by the East Indian government to deal with a possible famine, seem ceitain to make large demands on the market next month. A correspondent had a talk with Mr. Sohamasch, the manager of the great firm of E. D. Sassoon & Co., of London and Bombay, the largest and most im portant London house in the East In dian trade. It was his purchase of ’several cargoes for Bombay 'last week that caused the first decided advance in prices. He sasy: “I consider the prospect of the mar ket excellent for some months to come, notwithstanding the price of wheat shows a downward tendency. It has now fallen to 32s, and I believe it will drop to 30s, from which point it will rise steadily in a healthy, stable manner. The poor potato crop both here and on the Continent must be taken into consideration, as an impor tant element in predicting the grain outlook. It is almost certain that on this account France will become an importer, and when France begins to import prices will go up 2 or 3 shil lings in a week. Germany and Hol land also have suffered in their potato crop, so they, too, will become import ers, which will increase the strength of the market and maintain prices at a good level. “As to India, the pinch of want will not be felt there for some months, any way, as they have enough stock to keep them going. It cannot yet be said with certainty that, they will have a famine at all. Rain may come, and if it does the crop will be saved. Of course the stocks in India are held by speculators, who may manipulate the market, in which event we shall have exciting times, The importation of wheat into India has reached so far only moderate proportions. I bought three cargoes and another firm bought one cargo for India. That is all. As to Argentina, we estimate that we shall get 4,000,000 quarters at least from there. “The reaction in the market is due to a stable state of nervousness produc ing an incursion of outsiders, when prices began to improve. This reac tion will prove beneficial in shaking off the weak holders, when trade will juumner company, or Cali- will rise steadily. ’ fornia. It required an enormous amount of conferring to settle the mul titudinous interests involved, but this WILL SEARCH FOR TREASURE. has at length been accopmlished and nearly all of the mills on the books last Wild Scheme oT a Young Seafaring Man» year have renewed their pledge to stand by each other. Prices will remain the San Francisco, Nov. 2.—Marion same for the present, at least. Welch, a young seafaring man who sailed out of this port for some time as Coal Gas Exploded» third mate of the steamer Mexio, has A terrible explosion of gas occurred arrived here from Minneapolis, where at the South Wilkesbarre shaft of the he has been living the quiet life of a Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal Company. landsman for nearly a year. The ob It is reported that six men were sb ject of Welch’s return to the coast is to badly buroed they will die. The mine take charge of a small expedition in Was not in-operation and only about search of the lost treasure island, fifteen men, mostly repairers, were supposed to be located somewhere near inside. So great was the force of the the 'Clipperton group. The' schooner explosion that it shook the surface for Moonlight recently returned from miles around. Smoke coming up the. an unsuccessful search for the island, shaft prevented the rescuers from going but this fact does not appear to have down. The mine is one of the most a deterring effeot upon Welch. He gaseous in the anthracite region. Five believes he is in possession of informa years ago seven men perished in an tion which will render his voyage suc explosion there. cessful. “An old shipmate of mine often told A Safe Robbed» me about that island, and assured me A mysterious burglary occurred in that he had been there,” Said Welch. Spokane in the office of the steam laun “He was always after me to promise dry company, on Main avenue.- The that some day I would look up the is safe was opeiied and between $1,200 land and make for myself a fortune out and $1,300 in cash taken, but the rob of the rich guano deposits there. He bers, who had gone to the trouble of described the locality and provided me opening the safe and taking the money rough charts, drawn by hmself. These in one part, left $87.25 in another al I now have in my possession. It might though about $40 was taken from the be that I am going off on a fool’s er same drawer in which the money was rand, but nevertheless I am going to left. The money left was all silver. try it. I have interested^ well-to-do relative in the scheme, and'he has pro The Car Turned Over. vided me with the necessary funds for One person was killed, two fatally the expedition. injured and others seriously injured in “Mÿ plan its to charter a small but an accident on the Wyoming Valley stanch schooner and with a few good traction line in Wilkesbarre, Pa. The seamen start out for at least a year’s car left the traok and fell upon its side, cruise. If I am fortunate, in securing pinning four passenegrs under the the kind of a vessel I want I will get wreck. away from Hère insideMainonth. I think I can account for the Moonlight Cyclone in Oklahoma, failure to locate the island. The meh A cyclone struck Mitchell postoffice, in charge were misinformed as to the twenty miles from Guthrie, O. T., and locality.” swept away .farmhouses for miles. Postmaster Mullen and wife are known Times may be as good now as they to have been killed. Many others are ever were, but it is a waste of time to reported dead. ' Rescuing parties with argue the point with a man who has coffins have been sent from Guthrie. an empty stomaoh. A Storm in New Orleans» A severe wind and rain storm passed over New Orleans, causing one death and doing other damage. The light ning, which Was heavy, struck five houses. Albert Trahina was instantly killed. A large number of trees were blown down and houses were unroofed. The greater portions of the fruit sheds of the Queen & Crescent road were de stroyed. Most of the electric cars were stopped on account of interference with the wires. . A jury in the supremecourtreturned a verdict awarding Bertha Robinson, of Chicago, $4,500.damages from David Weisenberger, of New York, .for breach of proimse to marry. The plain tiff sued for $50,000. She claimed she met the defendant while visiting New York in the winter of 1893, where they became engaged. The plaintiff pleaded that he became betrothed un der false representations, that instead of moving in high social oircles in Chi The ordinary speed of a housefly is cago, Miss Robinson’s family were Counsel for twenty-five feet a second; but when beneath his standing. ohased it often attains a speed of 160 Weisenberger asked a stay of ninety days to appeal feet a second. Li Hung Chang’s Residence» THE NORTHWEST. Reduction- in Freight Rates on the Transcontinental nines. ANOTHER all Sherman and Country Round About Wasted by a Funnel-Shaped Cloud. Portland, Or., Nov. 2.—A new schedule of reduced freight rates will go into effect ®~af the transcontinent al lines, November 9, plaoing North Paoifio coast points on the same basis as San Francisco. The new rates will apply to all points in the Central Traffic Association’s territory, and from there west to the Pacific ooast. The difference in San Franoisco, and Portland and Sound rates, on general commodities, amounts to about 5 cents per 100 pounds, in fa vor of San Franoisco. This will be equalized by the new tariff, whioh will lower North Pacific rates to correspond with those applying to San Francisco. < Notice of the proposed reduction was telegraphed yesterday from St. Paul and the foregoing meagre particulars were given out last night by J. V. Creighton, chief olerk of the Portland general freight office of the Northern Paoifio railroad. This reduction will be of great importance to Northwestern merchants and business men. BROUGHT TO HIS The Sultan Rust 3U Indications Point to a Com ing Revolution. SWEEPING REFORMS PROMISET The Leading Cabinet Offices to Be Filled by Christians—Horrible De tails of the Massacre at Egin» Paris, Oct. 28.—A dispatch to the Figaro from Constantinople, says an I irade will soon be published decreeing sweeping reforms, including directions that the portfolios of minister of for eign affairs, minister of finance, min ister of agriculture and minister of public works shall be held by Christ ians, three Turks and one European; that Christian governors shall be ap pointed for vilavets where a majority of the population is composed of Christians’, and a mixed general coun cil be elected in each, province, its pro ceedings to be subject to the counoil of state. SENSES. Warning by bas8ad or. the Look» Like War» Constantinople, Oct. 28.—The re port that trouble of a serious nature is brewing here has so often been sent out that any fresh announcement to that effect is looked upon as having little or no foundation, but in spite of this it is but right to state that once more everything points to the fact that fur ther very serious trouble is preparing on all sides throughout the Turkish empire. The ball was set rolling on Wednes day last, when the sultan signed two irades levying a poll tax of five pias ters a head on all Mussulmans and in creasing the taxes, on sheep, publio works and education from 1 to per cent, the funds-so raised to be devoted to military purposes. This caused the representative of the powers to send a collective note to the porte couched in the strongest language, calling at tention to the danger the arming of Mussulmans was certain to create and pointing out the generally critical situ ation of affairs in the Turkish empire. Large purchases of arms have already been made and the danger is increasing A TRANSFER OF GOLD. hourly. The porte today sent a reply to the collective note of the ambas Large Amount . Bent From New York sadors. As usual it was evasive and to Chicago.- in substance Simply stated that the Chicago, Nov. 2.—Railroad employes money derived from the additional at the. Grand Central passenger station taxes was only intended to complete the thought the advance guard of the army armament of the Mustaphas or Land had arrived in Chicago when the Balti strum, the third and last class of Tnrk- more & Ohio fast express train pulled | ish army reserves, and strengthen the into the station last night. The I armament of the other land forces. The action of the Turkish govern United States Express Company had a special car attached to the train, and ment indicates that the empire is fac all except one of this car was filled ing a situation which may necessitate with men who carried revolvers and the calling forth of all the military forces at its dipsosal, and it also indi guns having bristling bayonets. In the little corner, however, was cates that the situation is the gravest sufficient wealth to satisfy a dozen since the Russo-Turkish war.. Of gangs of trainrobbers if they had se course there is always in view a proba cured it. The wealth consisted of gold bility at least that the sultan by these amounting to a legal tender value of movements is simply seeking to dis $2,500,000. It had been shipped from tract the attention of his subjects from the subtreasuiy in New York to the the actual state of affairs brought Constan tinwW^Nov. 2.—Since the visit of the^fflKan ambassador, M. Denelidnffr-trfPpNhN ten and the im portant audience which'followed, it is noticeable that there has been another change for the better in the attitude of Abdul Hamid and his advisers toward the Armenians in particular and the reform party in general. It is known that Denelidoff used very plain language, and the sultan was con vinced that the Russian ambassador was in earnest. Thia, supplemented by grave reports received by-the sultan from the Turkish embassies in London and Paris, pointing out the distrust and irritation caused by the attitude of the Turkish officials, has brought about eager professions upon the part of the Turkish government of a desire to earnestly push the reforms as com menced. Five Christian deputy governors have been appointed in Armenia It is prob able there will be changes shortly in the Turkish ministry. by his maladministration. See- subtreasury rnjtkis ^oity, and it will be . about that the x>owers are really in earn- Russia, The transfer was due to the fact that the Chicago sub’treasury was taxed to relieve the recent strain on the sub treasury in San Franoisco. A VENTURESOME UNDERTAKING Two Washingtonians to CaTry Mall to -• Central Alaska. Seattle, Nov. ,2.—Hugh Day and Jack Hays, mountaineers, left on the steamer Willapa today for Alaska. They will cross the divide above Juneau, leaving Juneau November 10. carrying the United States mail to points on the Yukon river, Forty-mile and Circle City. -J A contract with the government for i the trip was completed here yesterday. i They will have to walk and sledge I about a thousand ■ miles through the snow and ice-bound region of the mid night sun, and they expect it will take I them 70 days to reach Forty-mile. Last year threemen, who attempted to cary mail to the Yukon at this sea son, must have perished in the snow, as they have never since been heard from. y SIMMONS’I GOOD FIGHT. Manager cf a Coquille Cannery Robbers to Flight. Put Marshfield,- Or,, Nov. 2.—A. H. Simmons, manager of the Parkersburg salmon cannery, on the Coquille river, was held up in his office last night by two masked, men, who demanded of Simmons, at the point of a revolver, that he open the safe. Simmons re fused, and the robbers began an assault upon him .with their revolvers. The robbers “went for” the manager with such fury that, ¡changed his mind, but the despega<|8es did not hear him say that tho Dur ing the scuffle Simmons caught hold of the mask of one of the robbers and tore it from his face, so that he recognized him. This frightened the robbers away. Mr. Simmons has several flesh- wounds on his head, and is under a doctor’s care. - Who the robber is that he recognized he will not disclose, No arrests have been -made. ■ I France and Great Britain means decisive action, he is by arma ments -practically threatening the wholesale massacre of Christians and announcing that Turkey will resist to the utmost any attack from the out side. Happily there is one, feature of the crisis which has a soothing influence upon Abdul Hamid. This is the finan cial situation. It is about as bad as it possibly can be. All negotiations upon the part of the Turkish government for a tempoarry loan have failed, and the condition of the treasury is one of help lessness. On top of this the price of bread has risen 40 per cent, and bids fair to rise still higher as the price of wheat goes up. This has decidedly ag- gravated the prevailing distress and consequent discontent. The police continue making arrests. It is understood that many more bombs have been found. In Armenia, the greatest apprehension exists. Rumors of a recent massacre in Egin are just teaching here, in spite of efforts made by the porte to suppress anything but official news. The Armenian reports say that 2,000 Armenians were killed at Egin, so far as known, that no Turks were 'killed and that nearly 1,000 houses were burned, leaving only 150 houses stand ing for the Christian population, and that women and children were huddled together in the schoolhouse and in some of the remaining buildings, bereaved, destitute and hungry to such an extent, that the governor-general telegraphed that they were in need of food. Li Hung Chang Promoted. Peking, Oct. 28.—Li Hung Chang has been appointed minister of foreign affairs. Simultaneously with his ap pointment as minister of foreign affairs an imperial edict orders that Li Hung Chang be punished for presum ing to enter the precincts of the ruined summer palace, while visiting the dow ager empress. The annual number of births is esti mated at 36,792,000—an average num ber of 100,800 a day, 4,200 an hour and 70 a minute. Englishman Arrested in Cuba» British Steamship Founders. Havana, Nov. 2. — Thomas W. Beatty, an Englishman, and owner of the Meda Luna plantation, has been imprisoned at Manzanillo, charged with being the instigator of the de struction by fire of many houses in the village of Meda Luna. -His attorney, Juna Silva, was also arersted. Colombo, Ceylon, Oct. 28.—The passengers and crew of the British steamer Taifi, which plies between Mauritius and Bombay, were landed here today. They report that the steamer foundered during a heavy gale, September 2, and that twenty-seven natives were drowned. London, Nov. 2.—A dispatch from Berlin says the emperor of China has ordered Li Hung Chang to reside per manently at Peking, as his presence and advioe are indispensable to the gov ernment. His appointment of min ister of foreign affairs indicates that the tsung-li-yamen will be completely An eleotric boat has been constructed It is announced that Nat Goodwin’s reorganized on the European model. Prince Ching, the conservative, who company next year will carry two car for the inspection of the famous sewers opposed this reform and the extension loads of special scenery and a divocre of Paris. It pulls itself along by a chain lying in the bottom. of the Siberian railroad, has resigned. lawyer. An Unusual Coarse» London, Nov. 2.—Although the bank rate was not changed today at the meeting of the directors of the Bank of England, that institution has adopt ed an unusual course in charging per cent discount. It is believed the object is to make the rate effective in the open market. Would Bargain With Germany» Paris, Nov. 2.—Eclaire today favors granting to Germany preferential tariffs in Tunis, provided the former I co-operates with France in the settle I ment of the Egyptian question. A Mother Kills Her Own Son. To Celebrate Opening the Locks» The Dalles, Or., Oct. 28.—A meet ing of the Commercial Club was held last week, to take the preliminary steps necessary to the celebration of the opening of the cascade locks. A large number of business men were present, and when the statement was made by the investigating oommittee that the opening of the locks before November 15 was assured, great enthusiasm pre vailed. Committees were appointed It is ratherffiscouraging to a man to to arrange details, and the intention-is be forced to wait until he is dead in to have a grand celebration, which order to discover what a good fellow shall be participated in by the people he was. of Oregon, Washington and Idaho. MarysvilleJMont., Nov. 2.—Mrs. Mary Allen accidentally shot and killed her 18-year-old son and fatally shot her husband this morning. He was whipping the boy. She interfered, and he turned on her. She took a rifle and shot at him, but killed the child by accident. She then shot him in the head. He may die. She is orazed with giref. I TEXAS TORNADO. » Pifie ®î B Sherman, Texas, Oot. 30.—This af- I ternoon, at 1 o’clock, a tornado formed A. Resume of Events in the in Squirrel creek bottom, four miles Northwest. west of the village of Farmington, and about 100 miles southwest of this city. Parties who saw it at its inception say that out of a seething, tumbling EVIDENCE OF STEADY GROWTH mass of inky clouds, a funnel-shaped column descended, until it touched the earth, and then began to move north News Gathered in All the Towns of Our Neighboring State« — Improve eastward, accompanied by the usual terrifio crash and roar, as it tore ment; Noted in All Industries—Oregon. through the bottoms, uprooting large A number of hogs were sold last trees and demolishing everything in its path, whioh, for the first mile or two, week in Milton for 2)£ cents per pound. William Frazier is in Eastern Oregon was thirty or forty yards wide. The first house struck was on the ! buying horses to be used in the United George Duke farm, one mile west of States cavalry. Howe. No one was hurt at this place. The county judge of Josephine coun From there until it struck the Farris ty was fined recently $100 for buying farm, two miles south of the city, a a small piece of Josephine county scrip. distance of perhaps two miles, it is The John Day flouring mill, in known to have risen and descended Grant county, is running sixteen hours several times, but what damage it did a day, and is grinding 400 bushels of has not yet been ascertained. Several wheat a day. parties have gone to that section, but Lee Mitchell, of Grant’s Pass, re it will be several hours before definite ceived a painful wound from a salmon information can be had. At the Farris place, a tenant house, bite on the leg below tne knee, while occupied by a family named Hayes, was fishing last week. Two Albany boys have shipped into literally torn to pieces and every mem ber of the family was more or less in the naval ^service, and are off on a jured. Hayes is thought to be fatally three-years’ cruise on a man-of-war out of San Francisco. hurt. The path of the storm lay a mile and As the cannery at Marshfield was a half southeast of the city, but the overstocked, the tug Triumph took cloudburst, whioh accompanied it, was 2,000 salmon from that place to the, furious in the eastern suburbs. Houses Coquille cannery last week. as far down as Cleveland avenue are Thè new quartz mill machinery has bespattered with mud, the same as was all been put on the ground at the Black the case during the great storm in May. Butte mine, with the exception of a After tearing down a vacant house east small wheel, weighing 4,500 pounds. of the Clem Fitch place, about a mile The salmon cannery at Alsea bay is east of College Park suburb, the cloud making a fine pack, and nearly 10,000 rose in the air and went a distance of oases will be put up if there is no abate two miles, when it descended, but no ment in the run before the season closes. further damage has been reported. Most of the farmers of Powder valley have about finished the fall round-up KNOCKS FOR ADMISSION. of oattle and have now in pasture a Arizona Desires to Enter the Sisterhood fine-looking lot of beef steers and fat o'ows. of States» A movement is on foot among lovers Washington, Oct. 30.—The people of Arizona are in favor of statehood, of music in Long Creek, Grant county, says Governor Franklin, in his annual to organize a band. A subscription report to Secretary Francis. • The re paper for that purpose is being circu port is one of the most voluminous and lated. City Marshal Logan, of Weston, in profusely illustrated received for years at the department. It shows that the sists that boys under 18 years of age total mining output of the territory for must keep off the streets after 7 o’clock the year was $13,978,263. Of this in the evening, and warns parents that amount, gold aggregated $5,200,000, . he intends to enforce the curfew ordin exclusive of about $600,000 taken by ance. the prospectors and placer-miners, and There passed through Athena last the total is a year’s increase of $940,- week a family that proposes making 000. The total product of gold, silver an entire trip to Florida by team. They and copper in Arizona for the twenty make their expenses of the trip by giv years ended June 30 last aggregated ing musical performances, the entire $127,166,016. The cattle shipments family being musicians. from January 1, 1894, to June 30, The semi-annual report of the county 1896, reached. 595,379 head. The ter olerk of Josephine county shows that ritorial „board returns show the value there were, on September 30, outstand of taxable property has gained $500,000 ing unpaid county warrants to the during the year, and conservative men amount of $64,504.87, the estimated claim the actual valuation to be $90,- interest on which is $7,000. 000,000. _______________ A number of the country papers are fully alive to their own interests in SITUATION IS WORSE. the present gratifying wheat situation. A Severe Famine Cannot Be Averted in Such notices as this are being run: “Don’t neglect to settle that little sub India. Simla, Oot. 30.—The famine out- scription account when you sell your will fall and prospects are serious in the northwest and central provinces in the Punjab. The scarcity is .extending to Behas. At Bombay prioes have risen heavily. Large imports of for eign grain are expected. About thirty lakhs of rupees have already been given from the imperial revenues for advance seeds, etc., and relief work in the northwest and central provinces, the Punjab, Central India and Raputana, are being started, in addition to the irrigation works which are projected in the Punjab. The government will is sue a detailed final forecast of distress in December. A Puzzling Case» Toledo, O., Oot. 30.—Henry Ramm attacked his wife and a party of ladies who were going to church with a re volver. He shot at his wife but missed her, and the bullet struck Mrs. Schmidt in the arm. Mrs. Ramm fled as Mrs. Schmidt fell to the sidewalk. The maddened man pursued his wife two blocks, firing at her constantly. She escaped into a neighbor’s house. Ramm- then returned and began fusilading Mrs. Schmidt, after which he turned his attention to his stepson, and fired sev eral shots at him without effect, and also turned his weapon on the crowd that had collected. Ramm then walked across the street and, taking off his hat, fired a tullet into his own forehead above the right eye. He was taken to the police station, to die, but later he got up and walked about the room and asked for a paper to read. The physicians are puzzled. Valuable Material Unearthed» New York, Oct. 30.—G. L Baer,pro fessor of history at Cornell university, arrived on the Teutonic, after spending some months abroad, examining the arohives of The Hague for offioial doc uments pertaining to the Venezuela boundary. These documents go back to the 16th century. Professor Baer found that some of the records had found their way into England, which necessitated his going to London to examine them. Professor Baer was assisted in the investigation by Dr. Dehaan, of John Hopkins university. Cruise of the Philadelphia» San Francisco, Oot. 30.—The flag ship Philadelphia has been ordered to prepare for a cruise along the South American coast. She will leave this port in about three weeks, and it is thought the flagship will spend most of her time during the coming winter in ports along the Peruvian coast. Shallow men are generally despised, but they don’t require as much watch ing as deep ones. Sightseers Injured. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Oct. 30.—A car on the Pittston electric railroad, crowd ed with passengers who had come to Wilkesbarre to witness a political parade, jumped the track at Plainview early this morning. Three women are reported fatally and a soore seriously wounded. When the British sparrow hawk is flying toward its dinner it cleaves space at the rate Of 150 miles an Hour. China has furnished us the latest instance of a Li well stuck to. There are in the office of the treas urer of Benton county funds amount ing to $2,824,with whioh old outstand ing warrants could be paid were they presented for redemption. Some of these warrants were issued as far back as April, 1887. Washington. A dredger will begin work on Olym pia harbor next month. The school tax of the city of Spokane' for next year amounts to $65,000. William Hopkins has established a broom-handle factory in Burlington. Blanche Bennet, a typewriter, was put in jail in Spokane Saturday, charged with smoking opium. She was found in Lee Jim’s “joint,” stupi- fied by the drug. The superintendent of schools in Whatcom county is strongly advising teachers to observe Admission day this year. Washington was admitted as a state November 11, 1889. The commissioners of Kings county. have fixed the tax levy for 1896 at 15.85 mills on all property within the limits of Seattle. The rate on all property in the county outside of cities, and not included in school dis trict speoials, is 12 mills. The mills for making oatmeal and flour in Tacoma and Seattle are run ning night and day, and yet are behind in their orders. The demand for flour from the Orient has been simply phe nomenal, and the rolled-oat trade can not be supplied by the present mills. Bishop Cranston and a committee of thirteen Methodist ministers have com pleted a thorough investigation of the affairs of the Puget sound university, resulting in an unanimous approval and indorsement of the methods and management of the college in «11 its departments. The Northern Pacific will construct a big stone wall extending over 1,000 feet along the bank on the west side of the wharves in Tacoma. The wall will be of solid masonry, and will be thirty feet high and four and one-half feet wide. It will be placed on a solid rock or hardpan foundation. The board of county commissioners of Stephens county has granted a license to J. H. Saville to conduct a steel cable ferry at China bend, a point on the Spokane Falls & Northern rail way about half way between Marcus and Northport^ About 2,000 feet of cable will be employed to span the Co lumbia river at this point, and the in ducement for putting in a ferry is the accessibility of the Flat creek and ad jacent mines on the Indian reservation side. An agent of the war department has been for some time looking over the territory at the mouth of the Columbia, and, through his recommendations, it has been finally decided to place pow- eiful guns in Fort Stevens, after which Scarboro hill, at the foot of which lies Chinook, will be fortified. This is a very commanding position on the Co lumbia, and the fortifications will be in accordance with its location. E. F. Benson, Of North Yakima*, special land agent of the Northern Pa- efifio Railway Company, made a num bet of leases of railroad lands to Walla 'Walla sheep and cattlemen last week.
