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SCIO, LINN COUNTY, OREGON, FEBRUARY
VOL. VIL
WAR
dfiews
The ganiiam
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Tor the Liverpool aaA Loadox aaA
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¡FLAMES LEAP HIGH
After Thirty-Two Hours' Fighting Balti- ’
more Believes Worst Is Over.
JAPAN ATTACKS RUSSIAN SQUADRON
STRICTLY WITHIN TRBATY.
Records Show America Took No Part
Internal Alfofrs of Colombia.
a
SBASTA E®m.
STOPOVERS
ALLOWED
PICTURE FRAMING
Scio PlaningMills, Scio, Oregon.
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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.
£)R M. H. ELLIS
FIRE IN CHECK.
AT PORT ARTHUR.
UNDERTAKING GOOD8I
R. GILL
BEGUN
33.
Baltimore, Feb. 8.—When darkness BUSINESS PORTION OF BALTIMORE
Washington, Feb. 6. —The presi­
fell tonight, the people of this stricken
dent sent to the senate today a mass
THE SCENE OF DESTRUCTION.
city knew the worst was over. The
of correspondence in response to Sena­
Seis
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Cretan
flames which for 32 hours had swept
tor Gorman’s resolution calling for the
Two Battleships and a Cruiser Badly resistlessly through the heart of the Loss Will Amount to Over 340,000,000 — dates and circumstances under which
city were checked. An army of fire­
the United States used military forces
Damaged—Mikado’s Forces Escaped
Help Summoned From Philadelphia,
Trains leave West Scio for Portland
I aaavaa
men » from
iuiii uiaiij
many v/sssvo,
cities, working
vv n‘“jl un-
izjj-
in the internal affairs of New Granada,
and way stations at 10.45 a. m. Leave
Unharmed—Several» Russian flerch- weariedly, and aided by a muddy little
OMIOSRS
Washington and New York—Dyna­ or Colombia, and whether such uses of
or Albany at 2.45 p. m.
antmen Also Seized Both Nations Btream, finally conquered.
mite Used to Prevent Fire from military forces were on the initiative
President............................T. J. Mowxrns
Worn by a night and day of terror,
of the United States or by the request
Sending Troops to Corea.
Spreading—Troops Called Out.
Cashier
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W.
A.
Ewiso
.eaves Portland 8.30 a. m., 8.80 p. m.
the great crowds that watched the ruin
of New Granda or Columbia, or in con­
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Albany 12.10 p. m., 11.30 p. in.
of
their
city
turned
homeward,
and
at
sequence of any official representation
Arrives Ashland 12.33 a. m., 11.30 a. m.
Berlin, Feb. 9.—A special telegram midnight tlie streets were deserted,
Baltimore, Md , Feb. 7.—The most of either. The resolution also called
“ Sacramento 7.55 p. m., 8.55 a. in
D e« a general banking and exchange from St. Petersburg says three Russian save for the police and military, who destructive fire in the history of Balti­
for copies of the orders by the navy de­
“ San Francisco 7.55 p. m., 8.55 a business. L ns made at current rate»
more occurred here today, raging prac­ partment relating to such use of mili­
ships at Port Arthur were severely guarded the burned area.
Pullman and Tourist cars on both and drafts issued on principal cities.
tically
unchecked
during
many
hours,
tary force.
damaged last night by torpedoes dis- | 1 To the south, a red glow rises and
trains. Chair cars Sacramento to Og­
falls, marking 140 acres of devastation, completely destroiyng scores of the
The circumstances under which forces
den and El Paso, and tourist cars to
charged from Japa^se orPe io boats ?g squares of property that yesterday largest business houses in the whole­ were landed are given by the president
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sale district, involving losses which in detail, but orden by th» wm oad
while the latter were passing the har- represented values to the
Washington.
Not cannot yet be estimated, as tlie tire was navy departments concerning the work­
Connecting at San Francisco with
bor. Subsequently a large fleeHM Jap­ >75,000,000 to >125,000,000:
everal lines for Honolulu, Japan, China
anese battleships and cruisers appeared even a close approximation can lie still burning fiercely when night fell. ings of such departments, and which
Jhilippines, Central and South Amer­
made of the loss. No guess can be Owing to the wide extent of the calam­ constitute a part of the offices of the
before the port
ce.
made of the insurance. An expert, ity it will be tomorrow before an ap­ military and naval intelligence, are
the city building inspector, estimates proximate estimate can be made, withheld on the grounds that the dis-
See Mrs. M. E. Woodnansee, agent at
Martial Law Proclaimed.
though it is certain that it lias already closure of such confidential matters
West Scio station, or address
Port Arthur, Feb. 9.—Inconsequence the loss in buildings alone at 15,000,- exceeded >40,000,000.
000. This, with the goods carried will
would be incompatible with the publie
W. E. COMAN, G. P. A.,
of the attack by the Japanese torpedo carry the total to not less than >20 I,-
The fire broke out shortly before 11 interests.
Portland, Ore All work guaranteed. Estimates furnshed boats, martial law has been proclaimed 000,000. . On the other hand it is said o’clock this morning in the wholesale As a preface to the correspondence
that insurance estimates do not place dry goods store of John E. Hurst A Co., Acting Secretary of State Loomis
here.
the total loss at a greater figure than on Hopkins Place, in the heart of the writes a letter in which he says ail the
Japan Seizes Russian Ships.
>15,000,000. So far there has been no business district, with a series of loud correspondence on record in the depart­
London, Feb. 9.—In a dispatch dat­ systematic attempt to fix the values explosions, which were beard in remote ment of state is given, and that from
ed Nagasaki, February 6, and which that were represented in the district in parts of the city, and spread with fear­ this it appears United States forces
was delayed by the censor, a corre- that which is tonight a devastated ful rapidity.
have been landed on the Isthmus of
In a half-hour a dozen big ware­ Panama 10 times from October 1856 to
spondent of the Daily Telegraph asserts waste.
houses
in
tlie
wholesale
dry
goods
and
tliat Russia deliberately precipitated ' Not a single life has lieen lost, and
September, 1902, the last mentioned
the crisis by secretly dispatching, a not a human being h»B even been dan- notions district were burning fiercely. landing being the only one made with­
few days ago from Port Arthur, trans- gerously injured. The hospital lists The entire city fire department was out actual request from the govern­
ports loaded with a full division of consist of minor burns, with the excep- called out, but was utterly powerless to ment of the iBthmus.
troops and escorted by a fleet and land­ tion of Jacob Ilgingritz, a fireman from check the spread of the flames, which
BITTER ATTACK ON AMERICA.
ing them near the Yalu river, thus oc­ ' York, Pa. He has a fractuicd leg and weie aided by high winds, and by noon
there was savage fires in at least 30 big
I is badly burned.
cupying Northern Corea.
There has been little or no excite­ warehouses, and the Hames were stead­ Russian General Sava If War Comes, It
Japanese patience became exhausted,
and today Japan moved her ships and ment, and there has been no hysteria. ily eating their way into successive
Will Be Her Fault.
took unresisted possession of certain There has been no disorder, and there blocks northwest and south.
London, Feb. 6.—Special dispatches
Though
every
bit
of
the
fire
fighting
merchant, vessels, including the Shilka has been no looting or attempt at loot-
received from the Far East, and pub­
and Manchuria, the correspondent con­ | ing. Baltimore tonight is as orderly apparatus in the city was called into lished this morning, add nothing to
, as a village, and only the throb of the requisition as the flames continued to the knowledge of the actual situation.
tinues:
Through Salt Lake City, Leadville, Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Denver, and
“Two other Russian vessels were tailoring fire engines and the boom of spread, the firemen realized that they
The St. Petersburg correspondent of
seized and escorted to Sasebo, Japan.” , dynamite, as it brings dangerous walls had a task before them which was too the Daily Telegraph quotes from the
the Famous Rocky Mountain Scenery by daylight to all points East.
great for them to combat. Telegrams
The Daily Telegraph says it supposes to the ground, disturbs the quiet.
Novo Vremya a bitter editorial attack
So far there has been no call for aid. for fire engines were sent to Washing­ upon the United States, which he sup­
the foregoing seizures occurred at Ma-
ton
and
Philadelphia,
and
about
1
Proffers
of
assistance
have
come
from
sampho, but that the censor suppressed
poses to lie an outcome of the dispatch
J
Fast trains daily Detween Ogden and Denver
many quarters, from sister cities, from o’clock Six engines arrived from Wash­ of American consuls to Mukden and
the location.
ington
and
four
from
Philadelphia
and
A special dispatch says a strong fleet corporations and from private citizens,
Antung. The Novo Vremya accuses
of Japanese warships, reported to be on but Baltimore tonight cannot say joined in the battle with the flames.
Modern Equipment, Through Pullman and Tourist
Water plugs in every section within the United States of a desire to win
the way to Chemulpo, has seized sev­ whether it will be needed or accepted.
a radius of half a mile from the fire the hegemony of the entire globe, and
Sleeping Cars and Superb Dining Car Service.
That will be decided tomorrow.
eral Russian trading vessels.
were in use, and it is roughly esti­ exclude Europe from the Far Eastern
In a dispatch from Tokio, a corre-
mated that 350 hose were playing at market, and declares "if, as it seems
spondent of the Daily Mail says the
WHEN FRANCB WILL BB CALLED.
one time upon different parts of the likely, war breaks out, it will have
Jiji Shimpo has received a telegram
been instigated by the Yankees with
from Fusan, Corea, declaring that the Rnssla Must Be Attacked, and By Two fire.
their utilitarian views.”
firing of guns was heard to the east of
Powers.
Baron Hayashi, Japanese minister to
Fire Still Beyond Control.
For rates, folders and other
W. C. MCBRIDE. GfiU. A£BIlt Koje island.
Great Britain, describes the situation
Paris, Feb. 10.—Officials have care­
Baltimore, Feb. 8, 4 A. M.—The fire
fully considered just how far France is continues to spread in an easterly di­ in the Far East as “certainly very
FAIR BILL PASSES.
formnation address
124 Third St., Portland, Or
likely to become involved under the rection, and continue* beyond the con­ threatening,” but said everything de­
pended on Russia’s reply.
Senate Votes to Extend Aid to Lewis terms of the Franco-Russian alliance, trol of the multitude of firemen.
which they say contains two distinct
and Clark Exposition.
Mobs of wagons are busy at this
1904 FAIR STAMPS ORDERED.
safeguards limiting French participa­
Washington, Feb. 9.—Without a dis­ tion. The first of these is that Russia hour removing the household goods of
the
residents
just
east
of
Jones
Falls,
senting vote the Lewis and Clark expo­ must be attacked, and the second that
They Are to Be On Sale In An Post­
the hundreds of residences being threat­
sition bill passed the senate at 5:30 the attack must be by two powers.
offices the First Day of May.
ened by the «apidly extending flames.
yesterday afternoon, carrying an aggre­
The requirement that Russia be at­
Washington,
Feb. 6.—An order for
The Fourth and Fifth regiments of
gate appropriation of >1,775,000. Sec­ tacked has been one of the chief causes
ehe first of the new Louisiana purchase
tion 16 of the bill, providing for the for Russia's temporizing, as she has militia, together with a company of txpoeition postage stamps, which are
construction of a memorial building not wished to sacrifice the chances of regular artillerymen from Fort Mc­ to lie placed on sale at al) postoffices in
was stricken out; the number of na­ French support. Officials here, how­ Henry, reinforce tne police to keep the the United States May 1, has been sent
tional commissioners was reduced from ever, have believed and hoped that ciowds in check.
to the bureau of engraving and print­
seven to three; an amendment was at­ Russia would strike the first decisive
ing by Third Assistant Postmaster Gen­
tached absolutely closing the exposition blow, as such action would in a meas­
WARSHIP IS SENT.
eral Madden. It calle for the printing
We have always on hand a full line of
and grounds on Sunday, and the frank­ ure relieve France from participating
of 90,000,000 of the one-cent stamps,
Caskets, Coffins, and robes at low prices. Our
ing privilege denied to the national and in a profitless war.
America Takes Hand In Santo Domingo liearing the portrait of Robert R. Liv­
state commissions. Aside from these
Revolutionary
Affairs.
Concerning the condition in the alli­
ingstone; 225,000,000 of the two-cent
changes, the bill was passed in sub­ ance providing that two powers must
Washington, Feb. 9.—Simultaneous­ stamps, bearing tlie portrait of Thomas
stantially the shape in which it recent­ attack Russia before France be'omes ly at the state dpeartment and the Jefferson; «,500.000 of the three-cent
ly came from the senate committee.
involved, M. Delcasse has distinctly navy department today the announce­ stamps, with Monroe's portrait; 9,-
The Lewis and Clark bill came up stated to memlxrs of the diplomatic ment was made that a serious state of 500,000 of the flve-cent stamps,/with
unexpectedly at 3:15. The attendance corps that Corea and China would not affairs is prevalent in Santo Domingo. McKinley’s portrait; and 6,500,000 of
at this time was slight, but as the de­ be considered such powers if either Complaint has been made to the state the ten-cent stamps, with a miniature
Departn mt cannot be beat.
Pictures
bate proceeded, senators returned to joined Japan against Bussia.
department by the owners of the San map <>f the United States, showing the
framed in any i ize or style at reasonable pric es
the chamber, until, at the time the
Isidro plantation that their property territory acquired by the Louisiana
bill was passed, there was a fair aver­
SENATE MAY VOTB ON TRBATY.
had been beseiged, and an appeal is purchase.
age attendance. Twice during the af­
made for immediate relief.
Other
ternoon it looked as if the bill would
CHINA AOREBS ON WAR ACTION.
Some Fix the Day of Decision os Friday Americans having interests in Santo
have to go over until some future time.
Domingo have made similar com­
or Saturday.
Senator Platt, of Connecticut, made a
Washintgon, Feb. 10.—The senate plaints. Mr. Moody, the jocretary of Rslllng-Stock of Railroad Will Be Brought
rather vicious attack upon the large
Inside Great WalL
will
proceed this week with the Pana­ the navy, and Mr. Loomis, the acting
amount carried by the bill, and threat­
secretary of state, had long con'erences
Tien Tsin, Feb. 5.—In the event of
ened to force a fight, which might have ma canal treaty, both in open and ex­ with the president upon the subject
an outbreak of hostilities between Rus­
ecutive sessions, and there are not a
been temporarily disastrous.
With his return to the navy depart­
Later Senator Allison liecaine critical few senators who express the opinion ment from the White House, Secretary sia and Japan, the railroad administra­
of the phraseology of the bill, and but that the week may see a vote on the Moody held a conference with Rear tion has arranged to bring the rolling
for the intervention of Senator Fulton treaty. Some senators fix tlie vote as Admiral Taylor, and a cablegram whs stock of the ext-n mural line inside the
would have forced the senate to ad­ for Friday or Saturday of this week, dispatched to Rear Admiral Wise, com­ great wall.
Russia has ordered another 20,000
journ without taking action on the bill. ami none puts it beyond ten days manding the training squadron now at
tons of Kaiping coal for delivery at
The committee amendments were most­ hence.
Senators Hopkins and Clayton will Guantanamo, instructing that officer Port Arthur, making 70,000 tons in a
ly adopted without discussion, but the
to take immediate and effective steps
last committee amendment, relating to speak in favor of the treaty. The diplo­ for the adequate protection of Ameri­ week. It is pointed out here that if
:
Sunday closing, provoked a protracted matic and consular appropriation bill can lives and property at the Domini­ war breaks out soon the coal will hard­
debate, and in the end resulted in the will be reported from the committee can capital, limiting his action at all ly reach its destination, as the stocks
adoption of an amendment offered by and taken up at the first convenient times to the recognized tenets ot inter­ here are low ami the steamers scarce.
It is reported that the Russians are
Senator Platt, of Connecticut, closing opportunity, when interference wit’i national law.
building a railroad to connect Mukden
both buildings and grounds on Sun­ the canal treaty will not result there­
with Sin Min Ting, 30 miles west of
from. Some attention also may lie
days.
Mouth of the Amur Is Mined.
Mukden, on the railroad running to
given to the general calendar.
New York, Feb. 9.—A Russian offi- Shan Hai Kwan and Tien Tsin.
Japan Cuts Cable to Corea.
cor, who has lately returned from the
Oreat Sum for Irrigation.
Paris, Feb. 9.—The French foreign
Panic (leneral Io Corea.
Washington, Feb. 10.—The secretary Far East, is quoted by the Moscow
office was advised this afternoon that
St. Petersburg, Feb. 6.—Advices re
the Japanese have cut the cable con­ of the interior has approved the setting correspondent of the Times to the effect
necting Japan and Corea. The object aside of >2,250,000 of the reclamation that the Russian Pacific squadron pos­ ceived here from Corea say that the
of this action is believed to prevent fund for the irrigation project on the sesses at least two submarines. They feeling of panic is general there and
sä
news of the operations of the Japanese north aide of the Shoshone river, in the were built on the Black sea, carried that depression prevails in all the sea­
reaching the Russians, which was pos­ Big Horn basin, of Wyoming, pro­ east in sections and fitted together at ports, where massacres of foreignersate
Europeans aie preparing to
sible, no matter how closely censored vided that satisfactory rights to land Port Arthur where they now are. feared.
the dispatches sent might be. Follow­ and water can l>e secured. This pro­ The officer also states that the mouth •end their families to Shanghai. Ev­
ing the breaking off of relations between ject provides for the construction of a of the Amur river is heavily mined ery steamer from Japan conveys to
Russia an<l Japan and tlie cutting of dam and storage reservoir in Shoshone and that the river is equipped with Corea many Japanese officers and sol­
the cable is regarded here as significant river, and a canal heading in the can­ light craft, each patroling about 66 diers in disguise, and their presence in
such numbers is regarded by the Rus­
It will provide miles and carrying light artillery.
of the purpose of the Japanese to begin yon aliove Cody.
sians as lieing a secret occupation.
water for approximately 90,000 acres
hostilities.
Sixty doctors have left St. Petersburg
Russia Would Still Parky.
on the north side of the river.
Ixindon, Feb. 9.—A dispatch to during the last few days.
Japan l anding Men In Corea.
Reuter's telegram company from St.
New Custom-House Must Be Rebuilt.
niMoe—Chickering, Kimball,
obgamo — Newman Bros, and
London, Feb. 9.—The Chee Fee cor-
Lighthouse Service for Alaska.
Baltimore, Feb. 10.—As a result of Petersburg says: An authorative state­
Weber and others
Kimball
respondent of the Daily Mail cables
Washington, Feb. 6.—Secretary Cor-
that six Japanese transports are land­ an examination of the new custom ment from a Russian source regarding
ing troops at various ports in Corea, house building, it is almost certain the contents of the Russian reply is as telyou today sent to congress a report
from Masampho and Fusan, on the that the entire structure must i>e torn follows: “If the Japanese government from the lighthouse board recommend­
south of Kusan, and Mokpho and Che­ down and rebuilt. Nearly >350,000 is animated by the same pacific senti­ ing changes and improvements in the
mulpo, on the west. Seoul is to be oc- worth of work has been done on the ments as the Russian government, there lighthouse administration in Alaska.
<upied and the landing is to tie covered building. The vaults have been found is reason to hope that it will give Rus­ The board primarily recommends that
by torpedo divisions. The main body in good condition in several banks, sia’s fresh proposals such favorable re­ Alaska lie made a separate lighthouse
of the Japanese fleet, the correspondent where examinations were made. Thia ception as to permit mutual accord be­ district, and a buoy station he estab­
lished at Ward cove, Tungas Narrows.
concludes, will sail in the direction of includes the vault of the National Ex­ ing finally reached.
The board further recommends the con­
change bunk, in which it is understood
Music Books, Sheet Music, Small Instruments and Strings
Port Arthur.
War Supplies for Rebels Seized.
struction of a lighthouse tender for
there is >800,000 of government funds
Agent tor the popular "New Homo” Sewing Machine.
Cape Haytten, Hayti, Feb. 9.—Mu­ service exclusively in Alaska.
Executive Ability Counted.
nitions of war intended for Gen real
To Report Navel Appropriation Bill.
Washington, Feb. 10.—It is said at
Agricultural Appropriation Bill.
Washington, Feb. 10.—Mr. Foes, Jiminez, the Dominican revolutionary
the war department that Cameron
Washington, Feb. 6.—The agricul­
Needles and Supplies for all Sewing Machines
Forbes, of Boston, who has lieen tend­ chairman of the naval affairs commit­ leader, were seized at Puerto Plata, on
Pianos, Organs, and Sowing Machines Repaired.
ered the position of Philippine commis­ tee, will report the naval appropria­ the north coast of the republic of Santo tural appropriation bill reported to the
sioner, was selected principally because tion bill in the house this week, and Domingo, yesterday, after having been house today carries a total of >5,711.*
120 First Street
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of his executive ability and technical proliably call it up for action late in landed there by the steamer New York, 240, an inersase of >233,000 over the
current law.
from New York, January 30.
knowledge of engineering matters.
the week.
Southern Pasifii Ci.
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