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.