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LINN COUNTY, OREGON, DECEMBER 18, 1903 VOL. VII EVENTS OF THE DAY The g anti am PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY d' 80, LINN CO., AT OREGON Bank kjClO -VIA- Southern Pacifis Co TWO HEMISPHERES. Ry D. C. Humphrey. SHAßTfi RfflflTfi. TEI» Trains leave West Scio for Portland I-eave or Albany at 2.45 p. m. Oregon Scio Comprehensive Review of the Import ant Happenings of the Put Week, OFFICERS Per annum...................................................... Sl.M and way stations at 10.45 a. m. .................... T. J. M ünzers President .............. W. A. E wing Cashier.. weaves Portland 8.30 a. m., 8.30 p. m. “ Albany 12.10 p. m., 11.30 p. m. Entered at ihe postoffice at Solo, Oregon, as Arrives Ashland 12.33 a. m., 11.30 a. m. second class mall matter. " Sacramento 7.55 p. m., 8.55 a. m D «• a general banking and exchange “ San Francisco 7.55 p. m., 8.55 a business. L ns made at current rates Pullman and Tourist cars on both and drafts issued on principal cities. trains. Chair cars Sacramento to Og den and El Paso, and tourist cars to Chicago, St. I-ouis, New Orleans and J. M. MOORE Washington. ______ Connecting at San rranelSCO with everal lines for Honolulu, Japan, China YÇflLBUR N. PINTLER, D. M. D. .’hilippines, Central and South Amer- ca. See Mrs. M. E. Woodnansee, agent at West Scio station, or address Advei lining rates made known on application I mnsient advertisements must bo paid for when the or ter Is given for their Insertion. < professional "-^ • DENTIST Solo Oregon <4 W. E. COMAN, G. P. A., Portland, Ore SOBS All work guarant«ed. Estimates furnabed C. BROWNE, M. D, Presented In Condensed Form, Most Likely to Prove Interesting to Our Many Readers. President Loubet, of France, will visit Rome in April. The remains of Herbert Spencer, the philosopher, were cremated. Marines from the cruiser Prairie have been landed at Colon and sent to Panama. The Utah fuel company says any miner who desires to return to work must give up the union. Senator Bailey holds that the Cuban reciprocity bill is invalid because it did not originate in the house. Rev. Edward Everett Hale, of Bos ton, has been appointed chaplain ot the senate for the session beginning Janu ary 1. Senator Foster has introduced a bill dividing Washington into two judicial districts, north and south. His bill places Seattle in one district and Ta coma and Spokane in the other. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON SCIO. OREGON Ciadnate Eclectic Medical College Cincinnati, The cotton mills at Adams and North Adams, Mass., and Norwich, Conn., have made a 10 per cent reduction in wages. The order affects 6,000 opera tives. j^G. PRILL M. D. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON G. M. Stuart is likley to ba reap pointed postmaster at Seattle. Scio, Oregon Tslephons Sxohanoo No. 11. GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OF THE THE SCENIC LINE Comment at St. Peterbsurgyon’Rooae- velt’s message is very friendly. An election of delegates to'prepare a Through Salt Lake City, Leadville, Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Denver, and constitution has been called in Panama. the Famous Rocky Mountain Scenery by daylight to all points East. W. J. Bryan and son, who are tour ing Europe, held in audience with the pope. J Fast trains daily Detween Ogden and Denver United States Senator Clark, of Mon tana, is much improved and should be Justice of the Tsaos Notary Tubilo out in three weeks. Modern Equipment, Through Pullman and Tourist Scio Oregon Secretary Hitchcock may remove J. Sleeping Cars and Superb Dining Car Service. Henry Booth, register of the Roseburg, Oregon, land office. John W. Proctor, president of the civil service commission, died very sud Dealer la denly in Washington. The senate committee on privileges Fresh Candy, Nuts, Cigars and Tobacco, For ratee, folders and other and elections will ask Smoot to reply and soft drinks of all kinds. forinnation address 124 Third St., Portland, Or to the charges made against him. £MF*Try Him. The national Republican committee has chosen Chicago is the convention city and fixed June 21 as the date. President Harirman 'announces that Union Pacific cars will soon run into Seattle. General MacArthur is accredited All kinds of watches, clocks and jewelry with predicting war with Germany in the near future. promptly repaired. A nineteen-year-old Vermont love SCIO OREGON sick boy aided a woman to slay her husband so he could get a home. We have alw ays on hand a full line of R. GILL Many charges are pouring in against Caskets, Coffins, and robes at low prices. Our Asa U. Thompson,, suspended receiver Solo Oregon of the La Grande, Oregon, land office. A light engine and passenger train collided near Steubenville, Ohio. One person was killed and 15 others in jured. £» SHELTON REAL ESTATE BROKER, F. H. Moulding STOPOVERS ALLOWED I. C. McBRIDE. del A¡eat R. V. HRGEY UNDERTAKING GOODS! J PICTURE FRAMING Departn. »nt cannot be beat. Pictures framed in any t ize or style at reasonable prioes —ALBANY— Scio PlaningMills, Scio, Oregon. LUNCH - COUNTER McKillop & Churchill, Props. The best 20c meal In the Open all night, Spokane is on the verge of a serious labor trouble. . Go To The C. H BUCK, Prop. Only First-Class Shop In The City Shaving.....................15 cents ie Hair Cutting. •« Shampooing.. «< Baths............. The attending physicians certify that Herbert Spencer died ot simile decay. Irvine Myer, Props. Hack connects with all trains at West Scio and morning train at Munkers. Our rigs are first-class and our horses good drivers. Prices reasonable. £)K M.H. ELL13 EYE AND EAR McLlwafn block Albany, Oregon J. J. Barnes & Son, General Blacksmiths and Wagonmakers We buy our stock in large quantities and keep s full line of carriage and wagon material. All kinds of work In our line done on short notice. Horseshoeing a Specialty JCI0, OREttSM £) C. HUMPHREY INSURANCE AGENT rsrihs Liverpool ud London tad Oofe* Uourtnos Comp*ny The house has received resolutions to impeach Fedearl Judge 8wayne, of Florida, and has ordered a committee to investigate. The federal grand jury at Omaha has indicted State Senator Lowe for selling a postoffice position and promi nent cattlemen for fencing public do main. ALBANY OREGON Keystone Shaving Parlors Queen Alexandra had a very narrow escape from death by fire. She was asleep when a blaze broke out in her bed room. nasos—Chickering, Kimball, Weber and others OBaaxs—Newman Broa, and Kimball E. U. WILL General usir Realer The appointment of General Wood to become major general has again been sent to the senate. Another unsuccessful attempt has been made with the Langley flying ma chine. The airship is lying at the bot tom of the Potomac river, a total wreck. Indiana scholars cut a hole in the ice of a pond neat the school house and af ter tying the feet of the teacher placed her in the water. 8he was rescued half an hour later nearly dead. At the inauguration of Governor Bickham, of Kentucky, some of his enemies turned loose 20 skunks in the vicinity of the capitol in an endeavor to break up the crowd witnessing the ceremonies. Germany is much pleased with the message of the president. An independent company to fight the beef trust is to be established in St. Louis. After an elapse of 16 months the Tracy reward is to bo paid by the state of Washington. Russia haa made s counter proposit ion to the demands of Japan, which, it is believsd, will be accepted. Music Book«. Sheet Mutie, Small Instrumenta and Stringa Agent tor the popular "New Home" Sewing Machine. American marines have gone into camp near Panama, and the Colombian invasion has received a set back. Io Sell a Sewini Machine for >20, Warrantei for Fin Tnu The secretary of war has asked eon- grees for (1,600,000 to deejien the chan nel through Wrangsl Narrows, Alaska. Needles and Supplies for all Sewing Machines. Pianos, Organs, and Sowing Machines Repaired. 120 Fint Street Albany, Oregon Dowie has straightened out his financial tangle and the receivers have been discharged. ROASTS IN WRECK. Iowa Passenger Train Is Derailed on a High Bridge. HAPPENINGS HERE IN OREGON Ottumwa, la., Dec. 16.—Five per sons were killed and 10 injured in a wreck this morning on the Chicago, Burlington A Quincy road, three miles chemawa needs buildinos . MIQH SCHOOL FOR COUNTY. west oi Albia, la. The westbound pas senger train was in some manner de Hermann's Position on Indian Affairs Special Levy May Be Ma*e In Clatsop railed while running onto the Cedar Committee Will Be Beneficial. to Cover Expenses. creek bridge, and five care were wrecked Salem—The appointment of an Ore Astoria—At a special meeting held by collision with the steel giders of the gon representative on the house com bridge. last week the school board decided to The wreckage immediately took fire, mittee on Indian affairs, in congress, is close the city schools for the Christmas very satisfactory to the people of this and several victims were badly burned. Mildred Mitchen, the little 3 year- section. The Cheinawa Indian train holidays on Wednesday, December 23, old child of Mrs. W. E. Mitchen, was ing school is rapidly becoming one of and reopen them on Monday, January iiung to one of the bridge girders and the largest institutions of the kind in 4. A resolution was adopted instruct burned to death before the eyes of the the country, and its growth requires ing the clerk to apply to the state land frequent appropriations from the fed uninjured passengers and trainmen. board for a loan of (7,000 and upon When the train was derailed just be eral government. The mildness ot this the request being granted to issue 5 per climate, the ease with which nearly all fore reaching the bridge, the sides of articles of consumption may be pro cent bonds lor that arnownt. the cars struck the bridge and were A communication was received from duced, and the proximity to a number torn out. The live coals from the of Indian reservations make this a de County Superintendent Lyman, request stove were scattered throughout the sirable location for the maintenance of ing the board to act with the county cars. The Mitchen child fell through a large Indian training school, for here court in establishing a county high the bottom of the car, its clothing the cost of maintenance can be reduced school in connection with the city high catching to the girder, when it cried school. He suggested that a special to the minimum. loudly for its mother, who had been The growth of the school in the past tax levy be made, sufficient to cover the instantly killed in the wreck. The two or three years has been so great expense of admitting pupils from the cars and the bridge were in a tew sec that additional buildings have been county to the school. The board re onds a mass of flames and the child was necessary and still more must be had. plied that it could see no serious objec burned to a crisp before aid could Superintendent Potter has recom tion to the plan and would entertain reach it. mended the construction of two new any proposition which the county court Just what enused the accident ie a buildings, both of which are greatly might make relative to the matter. mystery. As soon as the engineer needed. He asks for the construction The greatest objection the board said noticed there was something wrong, he of a two-story brick building to be used was that any special tax which the applied the air brakes, but was unable as a hospital, and another building, county court might levy would fall to stop the train. Five cars were com also ef brick, for an auditorium. The heavier on the property in the city than pletely burned, and the remainder of structures needed would cost about it would on property in the country. the coaches badly damaged. (15,000 each. Congressman Hermann, The work of rescue was carried on STATE HAS NO CLAIM. as a member of the house committee with difficulty, as the care took fire im on Indian affairs, will be able to look mediately after the accident, and the after the interests of the school in this General Land Office Decision on Klamath bridge is a high one. The injured regard. Swamp Land. were taken to Albia and Ottumwa. There is need of more classrooms Salem—Governor Chamberlain has and in order to secure them it is Super received from the general land office a BITTER COLD IN CHICAQO. intendent Potter’s plan to construct an copy of the decision rendered on No Firemen Cnnnot Oct Through Snow- auditorium with a seating capacity of vember 16 ruling adversely on the 1,000 and then divide the chapel into state’s claim to swamp land in Klam Switchman Frozen to Death. class rooms. With the changes he has Chicago, Dec. 16.—This was the cold suggested to his superiors, the needs of ath Indian reservation. From this de cision it appears that, unless a reversal est day in Chicago for this season of the educational department would be the year since 1876. Early this morn supplied, and the institution would also can be secured on appeal to the secre ing the temperature began to fall, until secure an up-to-date hospital and audi tary of the interior, the state will be entitled to neither the swamp land nor at 8 A. M. it had reached 13 below torium. indemnity land in lieu thereof. zero. The only time that this mark As the state has at least (100,000 at lias been reached in the history of the SHEEP IN GOOD CONDITION. stake, the governor has instructed the weather bureau was December 9, 1876, when 14 below was registered. During Northern Orant County Owners Not attorney general to appeal the case. He has also written to the Oregon dele the day it began to moderate an to Obliged to Sell—Feed Plentiful. gation in congress asking them to night it is hovering around the zero John Day—Stock Inspector J. w. recommend some attorney in Washing mark, and the indications for tom irrow Ambrose has completed the inspection are for warmer weather, with snow of sheep in northern Grant county, and ton to look after the state’s case there. The decision of the general land storms. is now making a tour of the upper office holds that the title to swamp On account of the cold and heavy John Day country. He says that condition of the streets owing to the never before has he seen conditions and land inside the Klamath reservation is vested in the Indians and that the heavy fall of snow yesterday the three prospects more favorable. Btate acquired no right thereto under story department store of BodzinkBi A In the northern part of the county, Co., in West Twenty-second street, was where hay is scarcest, there lias been the swamp land grant of 1860. destroyed by fire today. A special call the largest outward movement of all Oldest Lodge West of Missouri. for engines was sent in, but before they stock, and especially of sheep. Many Oregon City—Multnomah lodge, No. could reach the scene of the fire sales were made, and numerous herds through the drifts of snow, the build have been driven out to winter feeding 1, A. F. A A. M., of this city, is pre ing had been burned, causing a loss of grounds. In the John Day valley, so paring for a social celebration to be (85,000. far as he has investigated the situation, held on the night of December 19, in So far but one death, that of Wil he finds an abundance of feed and the celebration of the cancellation of all in liam Duffy, a switchman, who was beet range for years. Besides the debtedness standing against the orga found frozen to death in the Chicago A sheep are generally stronger, better nization. This is the oldest Masonic Northwestern yards, has been re- fleeced and in every way better condi lodge west of the Missouri river. The original charter was brought across ported. _______________ tioned to meet the winter than for sev the plains in an ox cart by the iate eral years past. AID TO BFFIBNCY. Captain Kellogg. The charter was When asked regarding a published burned up a few years later, and with The British Remount System Pleases statement that thousands of sheep are dying on the range, he said it was prob the reorganization of the order the local General Carter. lodge became the first in the state. London, Dec. 16.—General William ably made by a man who wanted to il. Carter, of the United States anny, buy sheep. Also that the buyers have Highschool for Roseburg. who has been investlagting the re come into the section since the publica Roseburg—A contract has been let tion of the statement, expecting to buy mount system of the British army, for the erection of the new brick high with a view to reporting to the general sheep at their own figures. When such school building in this city. The staff of the United States army, had a buyers were informed that owners heie structure will have exterior dimensions farewell interview with II. O. Arnold- have plenty of feed and sheep are in of 90x113 feet, and include 10 school Foiter, British secretary of war, yester fine condition, they would make no rooms, besides halls, office and cloak day. He will leave England tomorrow offer for the sheep. rooms, on the two main floors. A com for the Transvaal. modious room on the third floor will be On Twenty Mlle Ditch. Every facility has been afforded Gen utilized for gymnasium and calisthenic Echo—Rapid progress is l>eing made eral Carter here and he expresses liis drills. The basement will be occupied appreciation of the friendly spirit of on the 20 mile irrigation ditch under by play rooms, lunch room«, fuel room, construction through the district south the war officials, and especially of the closets and heating plant. remount bureau, which arranged for west of here. It taps the Umatilla his investigations. At Aldershott a river a short distance below Echo. A PARTLAND MARKETS. squadron of the celebrated Fourteenth portion of the old Hunt ditch, which Hussars and a battery of the horse ar has been untouched for a number of tillery were paraded before General years, may lie used. That is the pres Wheat—Walla Walla, 72c; bluestem, Carter, who highly praised these or ent intention, but is it rumored litiga 77c; valley 78c. ganizations and particularly the quality tion may follow. The present work ’Barley—Feed, (10 per ton; brewing, is on the repair of the old ditch. The (20(120.50; rolled, (21. of their horses. The general thinks the excellence of new ditch will add 6,000 more acres to Flour—Valley, (3.7603.85 per bar the British cavalry and horse artillery the irrigated section. It is said 6,000 rel; bard wheat straights, (3.9004.10; is due to the system of supplying re acres are already under irrigation. clears, (3.56(33.75; hard wheat pat mounts and to the efficiency of the ents, (4.2004.50; graham, (1.75; whole wheat, (4; rye wheat, (4.7505. corps of riding masters. Bitter Regrets at Eugene. General Carter visited Woolwich and Eugene—The action of the Southern - Oats—No. 1 white, (1.07H; F»y. Sandhurst. He does not think these Pacific in making a.change on lumber (1.05 per cental. establishments compare very favorably rates to California and raising the rate Millstuffs—Bran, (19 per ton; mid- with the military academy at West from interior pointe to $5 per thousand dlings, (21; shorts, (20; chop, Point, but he says the results obtained feet is received here with many bitter linseed, dairy food, (19. Hay—Timothy, (15016 per are more satisfactory. regrets. Senator Booth, of the Booth- Kelly lumber company, was asked as clover, (12; grain, (12; cheat, (11. Engine Pulls Down Train. Vegetables—Turnips, 66c p-sr sack; to the effect the change would have Madrid, Dec. 16.—While running at upon his company. He said he did carrots, 76c; beets, 90c; parsnips, 75 . top speed today the express train from not cure to give an interview. He 090c; cabbage, 101 He; tomatoes, (1 Malaga for this city jumped the track could not be induced to discuss the mat 01.25 per crate; cauliflower, 75c0(l near Cabra, and 12 ¡tenons were in ter in the least. per dozen; celery, 40010c; pumpkins, stantly killed, while 20 others were ser lc per pound; onions, Yellow Danvers, iously injured. The accident took 8Oc0(l per sack. Coming Events. place while the train was crossing a Honey—(303.50 per case. Dairymen’s association, Corvallis, bridge spanning a ravine, and the loco December 15-16. Potatoes—Oregon, choice and fancy, motive was the first to leave the rails. Poultry and pet stock show, Salem, 60065c per sack; common, 50e; It pullet) the rest of the train after it, December 17-19. sweetpotatoes, sacks, 2c; boxes, 2 He. the whole piling up, a mass of wreck Fruits—Apples, 75c0(2 per box; Special session of the legislature, age 50 feet below. All of the carriages Salem, December 21. pears, (10.50; cranberries, (9010.50 were reduced to kindling wood and that National livestock convention, Port per barrel. any escaped is miraculous. Butter—Fancy creamery, 8O03>Hc land, January 12-15. Angora goat show, Dallas, January per pound; dairy, 20022 He; store, 15015MC. Dreyfus to Be Reinstated. 14-15. _______ Cheese—Full cream, twine, 14015c; London, Dec. 16.—The Paris corres Hakes Costfy Ditch Useless. Young America, 15016c. pondent of the London Daily Chronicle Pendleton—Judge Ellis has handed Poultry—Chickens, mixed, 9c per states that it has l>een decided that *0 down a decision in the Milton irriga soon as the court of cassation declares tion case in which the Milton, Free pound; spring, 10c hens, 10c turkeys, the innocence of Captain Alfred Drey water A Hudson Bay irrigation com live, 10014c dressed, nominal ducks, fus, as it seems likely to occur soon, pany is restrained from taking any (607 per dozen; geese, 6c per pound. Egsg—Oregon ranch, 35c; Eastern, the former disgraced officer will be re water from Little Walla Walla river. instated in the French army, will be The company haa just completed a 2«027Mc. Beef—Dressed, 506 H* per pound. given the rank of lieutenant colonel of ditch costing (50,000, which will now Veal—Dressed, small, 8c; large, 5c engineers, and will be assigned to duty be useless unless the case can be won. per pound. with a regiment of engineers in South Shipment •« Valley Apples. Mutton — Dressed, 506c; lambs, ern France. Eugene—The Allen evaporating and dressed, 6He. Britain Would Buy Ships. packing company lias just finished the Pork—Dressed, 606 He. London, Dec. 16.—It is reported that shipment of 8,000 boxes of apples from Hops—1903 crop, 12022c per pound, the British admiralty has made an offer thia place. The demand for these ap according to quality. to the Argentine Republic to buy the ples haa been good ami reports from Tallow—Prime, per pound, 405c; two cruisers Rivadavia and Morona, the market where they have been sell No. 2 and grease, 203c. now being built at Genoa for thet gov ing are that they were in great dsmanu Wool—Valley, 17018c; Eastern ernment. at fancy prices. Oregon, 12015c; mohair, 35037c.
