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About The Santiam news. (Scio, Linn County, Or.) 1897-1917 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1901)
scio. Keystone Shaving Parlors urn or nit ra ...OO TO THE... I.IXX BIG FIRE IN MONTREAL Marly Thrt« Mdbo« OolUrs te^rth ef Fr«fh> Gl'ISSIPPE VERDI DEAD. SOUTH Stt TOON ADO Se m paaar Only First-Class Shop In the City Shaving Hau Cutting Shampurung Baita IS cent* 25 " .15 “ 2$ - .................. ... All eo-l «»a*»,:e»4 «*•! •«• ‘rum AU Parti of th« New World deetn u«e tires tr-.m winch this city Great Devgitdtion in New Htb- baaever aufTrrcl («yen at * o clock rides and New Britain and the Old. la,t night, and. m twtibalaudlng the. * INTFRfST TO out WANT RtADfRF .Ort»p-«h<n»lv« Rsviev, of the Important Ha» p<n>n<< ot the Put Weak M a londtmed form. 0R. J. W. VOGEL Specialist for Refraction .mJ Defects of the Eye. PORTLAND, O ICO* Will make regular tup» Io ‘■r ■> Welch local column lor date of »'site Commercial House J. BEARD, Prop. %% Our table, are supplied with th« tart th* market, aflord.3 kJ* SOO. OREGON J. J. BARNES &• SOX % General Blacksmiths and Wagonma’ ers... W» bn y o’» r stork tn large ^-antiEM and t . . • tai <11 t «»4« vl <■» V'lf ¡¡ff 4 -«r on •buO e r* Al Ho Ho .W.OOO •W'>rn allegiance. Illlpin-s have The menlater of “hariff ‘•umniara, In Montana. «a. ruu down I!««» nil, fur Transvaal m< uni« I |«>li a are I ■am g enlisted at Victoria. • llif-lu . inarm* alia* March nail will be lt> ligli-le to hold ort>oe. Hcldwin baa c..mplele«l arrange manta for hi, l. rtic r >pa<liii<>u. Ina l«allla with Kantooky m<«a- ahiiier, two oil.car. ware killed. German, brltera hotierle* frank arowala haatened the qoeetia' .loath. Newly Fumuhed and Refitted T hroughout J* J* J* South «I Bruice. Agulnaldo says ba a ill m>t accept am Maty. hlata akateta broke through ice near Brooklyn, and two I*.ya were drowned. There I, much aywculatlon m IVaah- ingt. ti aa to the probabllitv f an ettia aeaalon of cougreaa. Fira in a Washington Ix.ial tnlalled a loan of All the gur.l, aa- cape.) unln;nrw<l. A •ympatlietic atrtke. which niran, a complete tic up haa be- n luted by Sort her ti Colorado miner«. Fmperoi U illlam of Germany, haa been ap|»iulwl a field maiahal in the Brltlab army aa a birthday token. Owing to the fan. In*. thou>anda have did an-' there haa t<ecn grew. d:a- I • ••• Hi I • < p. , ■ n»u 'I. Ct. ...Hoiseshoeing a Specialty... scio. or The leader of the Creek Indian up rlalug ha, Imn captured and it ia thought thia n.raiia the end of the in anrre. tion. ..BANK OF SCIO.. A bill providing for a lioatity of 1 wul per poaud Ou auger made In in Idaho beet, haa leen Introdu. ••<1 III the hoiiee of the Idaho IgiaialUie. CAPITAL, $20,000. OFFICERS: President Vice President Cashier ... E. P. CadwrF ). W. Cisme» C. V. Johnaor The revenue cutter (.rant haa »tartel on one of the moat perl.oua voyagee ever undertaken Shipping men and un lerwrltnra ol the entire I <■ lAi t <-t Will ati.i u !v await her r.t.irn -<>r ahe g > m in anarch of mieetng ve«-.-ia and dlalreeted marinera.. Twentv llve veeaele laiuud lor I'uget Bound an I the coaat are iiil>aiiig, auppoaedly driven* n> rth. Veaaela from Aiaake report the entire we»t Quast of V ancouver lalaud, 250 ml lea ol rveka and roof, atrawn with wreckage. The Graut will es- amine every equate inch of Vaneonrer coa,l a, ar u rth a. Cape ' it in email laiata and launchre, and will aear. h every pi. eof wreckage for id.n tiRcatton. efforts uf the entire tire department, the progress of the flamee wee not checked until I o’clo. k thia morning By that time II had destroyed property ertimated at let ween f'.’.AOO.OOO and >3.000,00’>. and was still burning, though the appearance was that the tireu.eu have al last got II under outt- trol. Included in th« property burned la the splendid board »1 trade'* betid ing. which coat 4*00.000, and honen.1 over loo tenants, half a dusen large business bouaes an-i two score of «mail er but Id I ng«. The weather wee cold and the firemen were greatly hampered in this retpert. Outside ol the b>«rd of trade building there was not a mod- trn »tructure among thewe burned I'rw.l. ol people Jammed thenar row streets, and the plice could not control them. Women fainted and their clothe« were t rn and a few slightly injured tn rushes tor aafetv. The tire started in the premises ol M Fate A Co., wboleeale clothiers, al Iwmerne and St Peter street. The aireeta tn the locality were deeerted at the time and the tire apparently had good headway liefore the fliat alarm waa aeul tn. The firemen lend live building a three story atone atiucture, a maw of flaiuea A. W. HAGEY SHASTA ROUTE Trains laa*» Weot Mel a for Pori land end way ••aiK'fsa at 1« ♦» a m Mara tor Albany at B ut ft • loares Portland • » a « . 1 p m Albany U » P. M . >• ftftf *. Arrltre la a Û a m il a- a m •oftrnrsu in a J i m - nan Ft am two 7 A* a m • 1A a • • Ogden s V» a m 1! 4 » a m •• ¡’rater ta • .ta m •* Ka«««aa ' Hr 7 m . t ■> a m, • <‘btrago 7.4* a m t » a m •» ( zmi a ng* les I JU p m , 7 a M • Kl Pasotp m .Aft • •• Fort W nrtb • • m , ft * ft m •* City al Notira t Mft m . ft Jft a m • II» ’ision Ia n .la m • New orieana A r ft la , A 15 a an. *• * sehiagton < <7 a m . • «7 a an *• Naw York It Up aa . If Al ft aa Falman and Torrrfst rars on h**th trama Chair car« a^ier !.. Io < h fen aa-l > Pa a ’ • a loara and F aehington ton noeti eg at >an Fra nr I ero With sor eroi |tn«a lor Huhci iln, Japan. « htna Fhlllpf inoe Central and ft«.’»th A ma Hr* no- In M I Woodaaanoeo agoni al Wrd •ria "iftt»on or ad«! es* < H MARKHAM. Aaal OftB Fgt A Pass Agl Portland, Ur. j Plchon, the trench imni.ter, haa an- eigetlcally reqaeetod their Immediate diapereel. NATIMS WfHr URVHNfU Ano Bnu»h t «ling «v f srnwr Icland, InnunwraW, Craft Wr«<k,d lrv|ur«d at Kswams. Ill Kewanee, 111 . Jan. 26.—Fire early this morning deal roved the Commer cial bouae and an el the death ot three men The dead are C. C. Cot ton, aged #2 years. Terre Haute, Ind , advance ag-nt of "Uncle tom's Cabin" run pane, suffocated In U-d; F.lmer I e’.-r ■■ ■;. .r . I .. . i tbk James Fincher. Waluut, 111., auction« eer. John C. Gruber, of Fort Wayne. Ind . a contractor, end Martin Jacoba, of Chicago, an expert mechaub, jumped from the third story windows and were liarlly hurt. Au explosion In the kitchen sent the flame, into every corner of the honee aud cut <>ff eacajve bv means of the stair«. The irantic gue«ta ruebed to the windows, «here some burled them- selves to the ground, others had to be carried out by the flremou The loaa I, fl.OUO. ROCK ON THE TRACK. Train Robbrr, Trlrd to Hold l.'p th« Overland f.xpcM Naar Ktanwy. Bl« Washington Hop Contract. Of french Trader, Report,« TrvM •" Mw bp Thr«< Men Wtr, Burned to Death and Ssvsral Corvallis à Eastern R R. EAST AND SOUTH M MBFK FATAL HOTEL FIRE. Cheyenne. Wyo., Jan. 28. — Informa tion was received here today that a despetato attempt waa made la«t I» et a r»vr*l b n'*'n< »nd rihing- night by a gang uf train roblier, to bovine**. I an, m t* e il ruteni rate* bold up the overland ex prove near aid di.l » h-’U-d on prim pii c lie*. Kearney, Neb. The tiandita placed a large pile of rocks on the track In or der to wreck lbs train, which io re The queen a fortune ia not co large ported to have bad a large amou.ti •>( money. The robbers secreted them aa generally auppoeed selves behind a hill near the railroed, The arreMl n of Klug F.<lward waa A |>sdaetrian traveling along the track attende.1 wilh mti h pump in Um.lon. came upon the obatrm lion, wa, Thoma, Ke.rn» h«a been ele ted pounced U|ion, sev erely beaten, and United Mate, e natot from l ull rohlied of all hia money, amounting to A tire In Moutreal deMroyed propel- 4160. lie got away from them and AU I «4« of «atrhes Ct ks anA Jewelry re ía r*M |*fA<n«|»uy ty worth Irmu IJ.'.OU.OUU Io f.3vKH),> ran to Kearney, «here he gave the alarm, and a posae was at one organ 000. SOO • - OREGON. tied and ordota given to hold the train < slliornia'a orang* crop thia year I he powe came upon ths bandits and promleea to break the record of pre«. captured < n-, the other« e-capmg The Iona ynare. utiicvr, are still lu pursuit. Three men held op a aalnou and TIO < kill». Hi, Naturaliiation Was Pmlpeivad gambing houre lu North Vakuua aud bra ft, tar tannini New York. Jan. 26. — A man who Traitt Al b» b Y _ n r» r M ee>ured (SOO. •• < orYBIil» 1 « r M .Shelby M. Cullom a a, re elected gave the naiiit of Henry Ziuitner ap ** tt^uina • u r M ; United Malea aenator from llliuota. plied Io the naturallution bureau in W» 1 , rwlttrnlng the county court bouae lor hla final Thia ia hie fourth term. A le a M ¡«•atek \ aqulita l>a**a »’©»wttllia II M A il naturalisation paper«. Zimmer said l.ieutenant Taylor, of the United Arriva* A it*au. 11 u r M - Clerk Luce Statea revenue cuttei I'euruee. waa be was an Englishman. K« 1, fWr Uatrelt started to administer the uaual oath to î OO A M drowned at I'en.acula, Fla. Ixaat rv A lbatt| Zimmer, and had got so lar as for H » A M. ArritttA ¡‘•trvtt William A. Denton, a eoldler of the swearing "allegiance to all foreign N«, ft, reiaralai Black Hawk Indian war. la dead at powers or potentates," and especially >1 !• r M l<a«*R Arrives Aiaany < r M ’ Madieun, lud., aged 101 yeare. to the queen of Greet Britain and Ire . I a * Washington aenate pgmed memor- land. when a nreaaeugrr rushed in and lie • |th tb.utbern far! ft, Iran* rim* ft 4 rvrt str»’-**» Io and trosas x»ra|w»fl a *4 adiaren' lala praying congreaa to appropriate announc*l that the queen was dead. b*a« haa (15,0(H) lor Improvementa ot lx>wle Zlmuier'a naturalisation waa immedi fraine for the m*>nn«atna ar«lve al at r - • «... river and flOO.OH) for «ompletion o( ately |*>atpound until the naturalisa tion Irureau Is officially Informed of the fnsnoda on the HrvivrnbH.it aio! Miti ato rira t The Dallea-t elilo canal, the sama «fa* A dUjiatch from Pekin aaya SO.000 queeu's death and the an oeesor to the H L W*I I»KN ft!»* IS T VAI* A. M «.*»•* a r Chineae regular« have rea,*einbled throne ot England formally anuonne»!. J. TVKXKft. Agent. Albany near Chan Ting Fu, a day'a march The last Rrttieb «object to f- r-wear from the French trnopa. Generel Vey. allegtauce in thia city ia John J. ron is cloeely watching them, and M. I sG.-n. 1 Victoria. Ji. t'., Jan. 28.—Great devastation was wrought and a number • I natives were drowned by the hurri cane In the New Hubridee and New Britain. Itecetnber >. * aud ». accord- lug to news brought l-y the Aorangi, At llerbertabobe. while tne settlement waa aaleep, a tremndeme sea carried lighters, bunt«, ketc hes ami wreckage of all decryptions ash ire. Innumerable craft were wrecked. The ■ team er Msttin, the steam yacht I ll-erhard ami the givermeul steamer Sir phen were •av<-d by running to Matupt lor shelter. The mission gjeamer Kingfisher was totally wreikol and the goverumeut wharf washed away. IWcvtnlwr H the stone breakwater surrounding the Now Guinea wharves gave way and veaselea inside wore all wrecked, with lueses amounting to 100,0 0 marks. A num ber of natives were drowned aud mauy lnjur»l. The Aorangi bring, news of a fire al Greta mioea. N 8. W.. tn which five lives were lost. Rescue parties worked all night,.but were driven ba- k after every effort. Finally the mine was ordered eoelad down in an effort to fight the fire, ami the men were a an- doned Io their fate. On arrival at Sydney from Vi toria the bark Defiame re|s>rt*l |-a,»lng a derelict vessel of from 300 to 30<l ton«, 100 feet long, keel outward, evidently wrecked a mouth ago, in 31 «outb, 166 east. The Sydney Mail publishes a state ment from Its New Hebrides corre spondent stating that French trader, and sailor, have l>een st tbo*« Island, eU-teavoting to stir up auti-l’.ritiab feel ing among the natives of the New Heb rides. The allegations ia made that the French traders have rcpre«eiite*I to the uatives that I ng'aml's |s>wer la warning, ami have promised them var- ton, i-n v i.egea (■ r a. • . - . r■ • i r. n. h Interests It is « il I that ’ile Hall ■» are Iwing encouraged in various acts of law les,ne,s agalust British traders, an-l that a native murderer of en I ug- I lab skipper named Captain Nasmith wa, shielded from punishment by tbe captain of a French ship. Serious trouble is predicted In the New Heb rides. While the sbmnier Time waa at th« Gilber group, st Butantan island, Nov ein tier 16, some excitement waa <aiise.| by a terrific report. The na tive, had heard it nnd were terribly frightened, but they could offer no ex planation. The opluon was expressed tha It waa due to a st-vere vuhanio disturbance on some neighboring isl and. Extraordinary results have tieeu ob tained tn New South Wai*-, l>y the gov ernment engineer, who have been bor ing (or oil wells, and a number of tanka have been complete,I. Spanish Drydock Not Wanl«d. Washington, Jan 3*1. —The naval board, headed by Judge Advocate Gen- eral la-mley. appointed to decide on the advisability nt ju>icl:a,liig the large floatlug drvdock in Havana harbor from the government of Spalu. rep-rt« that to place the dock tn thorough shape aud to prepare it for a voyage would Involve an expenditure of over 4600.OOU, am) Dial a dock could tw built new al a figure not greater Ad miral Endicott, chief of tbe bureau of docks and yards, ha, recommended that, aa there ia no present necessity fur tbe acquisition by tbia government of such a dock, the tender of tha Span ish government for Its removal to the Untied States shall not be accepted, secretary Ixvug baa approved thia race ommaudatli >n. Th« Aagl»(rtrwvan Allianc«. lam-lon, Jan. 36.—Tbo Daily Chion- lcle. in the course ol an editorial un the "threatening aspect of Russian policy in China.’’ refer, tn the rejort that Emperor William will be appoint ed a field marshal of tbe British army, and says. "We hope the report la cor rect. A German alliance is *>ue we cannot afford tu throw away Who can tell how soon we may need Ila piertlge. if tret its active co-uperettoni” Tacoma, Wash., Jan. 36 — Pier Brae , bop dealers, of New Yolk, have A damage haa been aettled at Tn«c». closed a contract with W eller A Mc looea. Ala., for which n>> pro.-edenU Gowen lu operate three large hopyar la la lea cuulj bo fuuud. 1!. Wllaua waa in Poyaiiop vailev, aggregating B0 talking over a telephone during a acres, on the basis of advancings cents thunder etorm, and waa «truck by a pound on an a«tlmaled crop of 110,- Han«« al Aruwpoh« lightning and killed. thiH was OHO pounds for m;tlveting an-l deliver Washingbin. Jan. 36. — Representa brought lor damage,, but waa ar tiled ing crop free on board ears. All alrove tive Sherman, of Now York, today in- by the payment of fl,*00 by the tele eight ceute ia to be equally divided. trodmed a reaoluti.in which aa, re phone company. ferred to the naval committee, provid A Coaaumptl«« Quarantined A apecial tonrirt train on the St. ing for appointment of a «elec* com Ixrala, Iron Mountain .k Southern mittee of five mom hers of the house to San Francia««, Jan. 26.—J. W Railway, waa wrecked near Walnut Thom peon, a consumptive, who er- investigate baaing at the naval acad Ridge. Ark The only peraon Injured rived here from i’.ritleh Columbia on emy al Annapolia. waa the Pullman p>>rter. The paaaon the steamer CilT ok California, waa not gera w-re only badly ei aken up The allow») to land, on the ground that be To R sim Small Fnttt. accident waa the result of an attempt waa a flip-led with a contagious die Fiori fa people are going more and to wreck the Cannon Ball train which ease. Thia la the flr«t instance where wan an hour l-ehind the special, by a perann afflicted with cuuautnplion more Intu the amali irult and orange business. opening a switch. baa treen dented a landing. — Compulsory ^location in Sew Zen* land ia cou,idered a auc<-em. The Georgia stale university at Ath ens celebrated tu centennial. Yale a football awoclatiun la,t year paid ont |l.Tut H.V for mein.al attend ance and |<4k.*0 tor ''shoes and re- pwire.” „Tbs British ambamiador in a com- mnnlcallon to the secretary of ata'* praiaed Amerionua at the siege of P*- kin. )»M k < Jam«» B. Starrett rf S a w», rt tha World, f toast Opart, P» sm , to the (w«rt Bay end. LeM. Montreal, Jan 2A — One nt the mart 0. L VIMCEIT. Prop. IMO I. EKIIIAY, FEBKl’AKY ('Ol’N'I'Y, OHE».OX, I Rome. Jan 36.—A special dispatch to tbe Faina says that Verdi, the corn • p*aer. n deed, lie waa burn lu 1813 near I'arrna, at the lot of the Aper- nines At II ho waa tbe organist of Roncole, his native village. He first married the daughter of the conductor ot the theater ol I-a Kcals. For 50 years no he, made the villa of St. Ago* the. near Buaaeto. hla favorite Foal- deuce. After the death of hla Brrt wife he married Mme Mrepponl. who plaved in tbo fid performance of hla "Nabucco," at Milan, over 66 years ago. Verdl’a lather waa the keeper of an inn. a fee* which would seem tn prove tbe theory ol »me men of science that all human beings are l«-rn eqnal in possibility. What Verdi haa done for mankind cannot be measured. "Ernani." liigoietto." "II Trove- tore." "let Travaita." "Aida”—there names tell the story of what Jos and peace ami pleasure tha genius of tbe Italian nt bumble origin haa brought to hie kind, ilia compoaltluns have Iveen very numeroua. As early aa I St; be wrote tbe "‘Maanadiori.'* It was composed for Jenny Lind, an-l was rang al Her Majesty theater In Don- ■Ion with the gToat soprano tn the prin cipal part. "Trovatore" ia his m et popular opera. "Al la" la his greatet work, but opinions vary on this point, as they vary about tbe greatest of Shakespeare's playa. Nlguor Verdi did other thing, than write mueic. He waa a member of the Italian parlia ment, and served hla country In the capacity of minister of public Instruc tion. France gave him the legion of honor, Russia gave him the order »1 HI. btauialaus, Italy the order ot the croun. and Egypt the order ol Osman- leh. Australia presented him with a cross of conimauderehlp oi the order ol Frans Joseph. Of let«- years Verdi wrote works that are almost as well known as bls earlier efforts. They are "Othello" and "Falslaff." The lat ter waa written when the author waa *t> years of age HANGING OF STICKEL. Wavhinyton Moi Who Mn*d«r«d Thr«« Prepl« — i.onloMd Hi, Crim«, Kalama, Wash., Jan 36 —Martin btickel waa hanged in the jail yard at 9:37 o'clock Filday morning, (or the murder of W. II. Mianklin, near Kelso In November, 1699. Htickel was taken from the cell al 9.45 by sheriff Hunt ington and four attendants. Ho walked to the scaffold unaaatsted, ami ascended the steps with steady tread. ,h->wiug that he waa determined to die like a man. He etep|Mwi to the center of the trap dour, stood erect am! raid ’Hieutlemau. I but you good-by. God help you; God forgive me. This ia the last time I will ,oe vou on this shore. Jesus help you all; Jesus lake me. take me now." By the time the last words were spoken, the ,berlff and hla attendants bail strapped Stlckels leg, together, hla hands lu hl, aides, place*! the black cap over hia face, aud the u*»»e around hia neck. At 9:67 Sheriff Huntington grasped the lever and suddenly sprung the trap. The condemned man fell seven feet, aud his neck was almost Instant ly tiroken. At 10 o'clock doctor» pro nounced life extinct. The body was cut down and pla. ed In a coffin, to be turned over to the murderer’s motlter aud brothrr. it will I k * then to Catlin fur burial. The hanging waa private. Every thing worked like eicckwoik. I here waa no trouble in any respect. I be ■ p-ctator, wm very quirt There was o- talking ur demon,!ration. Ntickel wm lorn in Adame county, low». February 9, 1879. He had re- ai led in this section alout 1'2 years. Tbe condemned man slept well last night aud ata a Iveariy breakfast. 14. to or this mid Moomnii states lnttrestin< Events and Gotsip of the PaM Heck Reported From Cities and Towns in Uashing.on, Oregon and Idaho. ORFGON. WASHINGTON. Canton City has a new fire bell. Jefferson year I9uI. will for the There 1« talk of a new uatl nal tank Klleusburg, ha« l«en fix») Work on the new BeaMlQ labor Tem pi» will twgtn within 80 days. levy no tax The Toledo lax le,y al 5 mills. II - julm will sv*uu have a uight tele phone service. Tbe F ugene Military Club has in nvrpoiatad. Tbs Southern I's- ifia lie : Latham la running again. A . ream cry with a daily rapacity ot I» unda ol butler la I■> bo built al Everett. plant al Baker City school elector» have ruled tn favor of a 10-mlll spm-ial tex. Char!«« Neymelr ha, moved hie mill from Machias to a site near Woodin ville Junction. The 9-vear old sou of II S Filton. of Iswt Valley, was killed by a falling tree. Mrs. Julia Paden a resident of Ki «ilia elu e I »KO, Is dead al her home in that city. There «ere nesrly 60>) mining loca- ! Ilona re>-orded to Josephine county last | year. Il la auii*<unced that a foundry and machino »Ix p to coal 3‘>*',0iX) will i-o erected al Everett. The receipta of the Canyon City p- *rt- office last year amountal to 327.- ' 181 99. The bank of Harrlngt- u received la,l week a time lock safe which la sop- The bridge acroea Trask river at the pMed to tar burglar proof. Millwell place waa washed out by the The Harrington Flour Milling Com- freshet. l>auy has finished an order for 3,600 Lumber ia being delivered on the barrels uf flour, which u tu bo soul to i ground lor tbo new hospital building China, al Eugene. I i Shanti F. W Delairimer. of Teu The Standard mill at Baker City. Mlle, haa l<een ,pp"lul*-*l state iau-f in- ; with a capacity ol ID.lHH) Let |«r day. «pet • r by latid Coiuuilssluner H. A. t .’allvert. la nearly finished J. M. Hall ba, resiguml the office of James Y.,1< m has sold hia farm of 60 acres, near Irving, to Mr Hunt, late Yakima co inly surveyor, aud the com- rni'»i*>ner» have appointed II F. Mar of Iowa, for alioet 43.-W. ble to succeed bint. Ix>cal miner, are sinking a shaft on George Pangl-urn. a pioneer uf Waab- . the Watt hills east ot Amity on th» lugl- II. dropped dea I from heart fail- ■ He ot a ,tip|,>>o<l gold mine ore at Emilcot, 30 mile, ««el ot Col Free milling gold ore has I even die fax lie was 66 year« old. covered in the mountains just «»«( of W P Damon «a, knocked down in Ixietine. Test show ths ore literally -rout >>t hi, residence bv a tongh. who tilled with black suphurets. ■truck him on th« head with a club, Miss Elisabeth Gieay, an Dragon rendering him IUM*usll*le. pioneer, aged 75 yeare. diml »1 her M*-n engaged in working on tbe T. - home In Aurora. Ihvceanrd was a ,1,- J. Itawlev road, south of Kent, discov I ter of Dr. Martin an*l Jaiob Gieay. er. a -i-m - I - -af while bleating on A large sm-mut ol drill b-fged the able of Crow hill, it ia about against Hu* railroad bridge, north of four inches in diameter. ’ Iwbanon. and 15 men have laseu at Fred Lyman who had been working work all week dislodging It. on the steam shovel on the railroad, A telephone line ia teiiig built by north of Arlington, waa instantly the Sunset Company from Jacksonville klile I. A land,lule oeanrred aud ho i to the i'piwr Applegate country, aud was warn»!, t ut did nut have lime to I will piobahly lie counected with the gel out uf the way. Grant's l'»a William, Hue. A third interest In a gronp of Ave J. W Parker, who has a rich ap peering quirts le-lg« near le-land. un claim, located on lion creek, sight miles from Keller, haa l«ett sold Io A der l«n*l from B*irnett A llnrlw-n. is | A. Re*lm* nd, of Republic. The clalit s making prepsratmna to equip the pr* p- i ire th« Mary Mack. Luckle Four. Last arty allh an electric plant. ; Chance, Copiwr Klug and Nq. 5. and 0. A. Parker and Jatnea Buchanan tro owned by II I'. McCarthy and have secured a contract to .-til ami de Fred I'-audreau. The terms are kept liver poles for H>e teleplmno Ilan which a secret. is to l>e built from Pleasant Hill via The Weal Coast mill, at Rallard, Jasper aud N'atrun to the main line al wh • h has been c I omm I for the past four Springfield. weeks, ha, lean med work. During the The l->ng l<aiked for English par- time the mill wae closml many Im- tri-lge, arrived at Independence and proveniente an-l repairs were ma-le were taken to the O Prien farm a few to the engine ami machinery, trv means miles north of that city, aud turned <>t whl h the output of tbe plant will | luoae Tbe birds appeared very wild, be greatly Increased. The mill build appareutlv owing to their Itmg Journey ing was also repaired ami a new foun Reports from the country eum-und- dation put under part of it. Ing Albany are general that the tall The (I R. A N. engineers, who hsve wheat is In excellent o« n lltlon, with out any indication, al this time, of an been making surveys along the line of enemy uf any klu I Notwilh»ian*liug tba ll»,<<> Railway A Navigation C oqi - the poor crop f laai year, the acreage l-auy. have finished their lat»>ra an-l a l<>r< e ot men are etpecld to l-egin work is large. >u the content plated Improvement«. After an illoeaa of several years. Jerne, A. Cautborn. at one lime a |!esida« the repairs to the track, a new pr-milneut grain dealer of Corvallis, trestle is to be built al Ilwaco aud died at bls home In that cltv. Ill, I— k, to be put in at each «ml ot the Il la nleo stated that cars lor ailment was rheumatism, and enter line. it, effc- ta the decea-e l had been an hauling logs from Willapa harlcir are to bo put on the road. Invalid for several years. D,slh ol a H,ro of Saw Jvua. An effort is being ma le to have the mall route changed t >e tween Long Creek an I Pendleton so that the route will go over lb* Yellow Jacket road from Per« 11 st->n to Uliah ami via the lower gulch road from Ukiah tu Ixing Creek aud supply Ritter from l-ong Creek. A deal of considerable magnitude wa« consnmmatml la«t week at Tilla mook tretween C. ami E. Thaver and the Beals I-and Company. Almut 410.000 worth of agricultural land and town pioperly wae transferred to the company, au<! will probably be placed on 1) m market. Owing to the recent high water on the Coast Fork which cans»! tbe loss of many thousand feet of logs. Mr sere. Grer and Rouse, the saw mill men al Amo«, are arranging to erect a teui- porary saw mill at Cottage Grove and CeUWr's 6<«kl> is South Anwrea will drive the logs there The t*oiler, With the Idea that South America an-l engine, of the new light plant may may rapplant South Africa and China be used. as a war new« center, Uullier 'a Weekly Tbe owner» of the Red. White and eent a epactal correepondent and a spe cial photographer to Veneauela. Temp- Blue mine, at .Malheur, will poah de aa rapid I v as possible eats In teapots are common down there, velopments but this ia on« that look« >lke it might There ate two parallel ledges, oue m«*»-unug 13 f*—t and th- other three boll over and born the cook. feet, an I thr owner» lx-1 leva that de T«eth Natioesl IrngaUs« Ca»^r«,a. velopmrut will prove that they come The Colorado Springe National Irri together. The mine Is «pipped with gation Congroea ia anLooueed to meet a three stamp mill and a ateam hoist Jaly 13 to 18 next. Thia will t>e ini- ing plant. The capacity of the mill m»llately preceding the Trane-M Gaia is to t*e increased and a puuip Installed elppl congress al Cripple Creek. at one«. New York, Jan. 36 —Alter suffering for more than two years with Cuban fever, Allred liosetsky, «bo io mid tu have been the liret imerioan soldier U lord San Juan creek, where the tiers»t of the bpaulsh tire »as directed, tu the battle of Han Juan hill, has just died in a Newark hospital, lie non- tract»! the fever In Santiago, ami waa a mere skeleton when he got home. At -an Juen Roeetakv luoghi in troop C, Sixth cavalry. ilia clothes were «mt by bullere, and while he wae aacending the bill with a nuiulwr of other sol diers, a shell expl'sled close by tn«iu, A lump of earth struck the young sol dier in the side, knocking him »use less. Alter the battle ho waa pereou- ally complimented (or hla courage by Uabsral Wheeler. Bu,h Fir«» in Auttralva Senator » Son a Br*e»t. XO. WASHINGTON. Beattie. Mash.. Jan. 38 —A special The basine», me^n of Wenatchee have l’hila*'»lptiia, Jan. 36 —James P. Concur.I. N. II., Jan. 26. — William from Vancouver, B. C.. ray«: Tbe de Sterrett, ex-jnstlca o! the supreme Gallingnr. a-n of United fftetee «00810» struction by bosh flreo in Australia, taken the first steps toward crgsnisinj commercial club. At the first court of Phlla-lelpnta. is dead at his Galllnger, began hla noviUta at the according to mall advices by the a home here, from the effects of a Otf- monastery of Graymore, three nitlre steamer Aorangi, has been appalling, meeting over 60 prominent citi sens buricie. He was 78 years old. distant from Garris* n so-Hudson, in M bile many people are dropping den.l were preeeut. tbo Order of Atonement today. He io from beat apupleiy, the thermometer William M. Racon, an engineer *>n Rural Drllvtry far Ossham. Or. now known ao Brother Lou. At tba running up to 116 and 130 in the tba H|okana Falls A Northern, who Washington. Jan. 36.—Rural free end of two yeart Brother Loo will bo shad«, hundreds upon hunlrodsof lam- was Injured In the collapoe of the delivery Is to be established al Gres formally ordained a priest of the Epis Hies have Iwen burned out, «»me of the bridge between Moyen Falls and Mar ham. Or., >n February 15. with two copal church, and »111 r- <*»t np*>u bls country residents destroy»1 being cost otta, July 33, 19(H), ha, sued the oom- cbooen work as a astseiuoarr. ly atructurea. pauy for |76.760 damage». oarnsra. IDAHO. Il*>g cholera has made It, appearance in th« vicinity ol Moacow. Jain«» Judge, of Coiier *le Ale.ie City, one <>f the beat knowu men of the 1 «tale, I, Head. I tirorge W. Hunt and Frank I'etligo, of Orn Fino, »rrmel on a charge ot * ,lt!e sleallng. have baen discharged. George R. Lubkln, a Boise mail car rier. haa Bled a homestead entry on a valuable piece of laud near that cltv, which had l-een overlooked. According 1« reports from Delta, the scene of re-ent the placer strike, pros- l-ecta are eaealienl. Nuggets have ta»eu picked op worth 47 aud 4» ami theia are said to be lot« more of them thirre. Eight row« burn»! I>> a crisp, Jacob Usurer alin*wt fatally burned, 25 tons of hay nnd a fine barn totally con sumed. are the result of a fire on a ranch owned l>y Davl-i Ixx ke near Cal- iapell. 'Ihe loss ia estimated at about 41.000. Th« result ol a disputed road election in Kooteoni oiunty haa t>een deter mined by lot. Jatnea Graham an-l Noah Washburn, both ot Port Hill, sr.-re the claimants. The romrnl ison« era flipped a ooiu to determine the re sult. The Polish h country ia lnf«st»l with cattle thieves again. K«p**rta are coming from tbo sorroun-llng country that a few hea*l ha-1 been stoleu. ho far none of the thieves have been ap prehend»!. It is reported front Nos Pereea that Messrs, (’roller and Hchsffer have com pleted arrangements for buying all the hogs on the prairie. They have leased ground out of the cltv limits, where they have erected building« for tba care of the stock. I