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About The Santiam news. (Scio, Linn County, Or.) 1897-1917 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 12, 1910)
.' A ■’»> ■ • . -'r- . • ••'. u . • •* -V i »* ■ ■- .* •.I'* ’ '■ • .-» Doings of the World at Large Told in Brief. The lighthouse keeper at a point Cardinal Gibbon* See* History of above Vancouver, B. C., by making Roms Repeating. three trip» in his lifeboat, saved the New York Cardinal Gibbon* sat on passengers and crew of a small excur sion lost which went on the rock* in the *|mcioua veranda of a Ix>ng Island country house and, a* he watched the a fog. automobile* flit down the roaJ before A noted Japanese historian predict* him in one unending stream, moralised war with America as absolutely cer on the dangers of M !f-indulgence that tain. have beset all republics. •'1 think,” he said, “we are closely A pleasure yacht at Santa Crux, Cal., is missing with 20 young people on, approaching the age of extravagance and inordinate pleasure, offered by board. Rome just before her fall. The cry Government agent* find evidence of of today ia for more and more riches. wholesale liquor traffic with Indian* on The rich man ia greedy for more. It Aelita reservation. I* the same with the well-to-do. It is Ex President Zelaya, of Nicaragua, the same everywhere. is held to lie an active supporter of the "Truly, we have many generous revolutionary movement, among the rich, but I would w :sh more S. natorGore of Oklahoma, claims ^”.”‘7J'? Thia great desire for riche* he waa offrod $25,000 to $50,000 to fortunate. __ L1 la “ is making fieople very selfish. put certain legislation through con “Then there is a desire for inordi gress. nate pleasures. ’’ The Japanese expedition to the ______________________ _____ An automobile whirlid by in a _____ cloud South Pole, which waa to have started of dust. The cardinal pointed after it thia month, has been postponed for ,tMj continued: lack of fund*. "You see we have many more chan- A Montana stage driver ia under ar- n,’l* pleasure than were known to reel for borM stealing and his wife is Patricians of Augustus ( sesar a driving in his place, ao aa not to de- ’'mei ; yet there is the desire for new pleasures ami more pleasure. lay the mail*. -i- — “I believe the gospel of Christ will Rockefeller ^and the Standard OiJ (>,,, jirwM.n| situation. There was company have been sued for $550,000 Christ you remember, to save by private oil interests, who claim the Rome. ’ ’ monolopy has caused them to lose that amount. CLEARWATER MASS OF FLAME. ! . , . • • • • r w • ~ • *C *• > —. - ~ ALASKA STEAMER LOST. HARVEY W SCOTT IS DEAD. I Best Known Newspapsr Man of Northwest Ha* Passed Away. Harvey w. Baltimore Aug. 7. Scott, editor of the Portland Oregon- Ian, died at John* Hopkins hcwpital shortly before 6 p. m. of heart failure, 32 hours after a surgical operation tor prostatectomy. He went off the operating table Sat urday morning in strong condition. Uenaral Resume of Important Events This morning at 7 o’clock he began Presented In Condensed Form sinking and in spite of the best stimu lant* known to medical science his for Our Busy Reeder*. heart grew steadily weaker until the end. He waa conscious almost to the last and the end waa [lainless. Cuba face* a crisis in her political With him were hi* wife and one of affairs. his sons, Ix-slie Scott, who had aceom- Chinese and Portuguese forces have panied him on hi* trip to this city for captured the pirate city of Colow an, surgical relief. In Portland Mr. Sctot leave* two island of Macao. son*, John H. and Ambrose B., and The American Federation of Labor one daughter, Mia* Judith. has endorsed the platform of Socialism Mr. Scott began failing nearly throe at a meeting held in Chicago. months ago from an attack of sciatic*, Mine "tailing»’’ worth $1 to the Early in June he went to Hot Lake, ton in gold have been used to lay ce Eastern Oregon, liut the bath* there greatly debilitated him. At last con- ment walk* in Jacksonville, Orc. vine«! that only surgery nxikl rolieve p . . he started . . 1 \ A Misa.xiri convict says he can solve him, for Johns Hopkin* . boa- all numerical equation* by logarithms, pital, from Portland, one week ago and demands a pardon for his discov- i . last Thursday morning. ety. The operation waa pronounce! cn- A 5-year old ls>y in Chicago wa* tirely successful ami the surgeons and badly injured by a thoroughbred game physicians were confident of recovery rooster, He was unconscious when up to this morning, when an unexpert- rescued. ; <-d weakness of the heart ensued which Nine persona were injured, two f the physicians were powerless to cope them perhaps fatally, in a runaway of w,lh- Mr. Scott was apparently as strong a picnic wagon near Oswego, Ore. ' on arriving here last Monday aa when The royal family of Italy has con- ! leaving Portland four and one-half days svntcd to the marriage of the Duke of before. The doctor* here perceived Abruxxi to Mis* Catherine Elkina, his heart weakness, but thought he daugher of Senator Elkina. could go safely through the o|*rat>on At Mr. A spontaneous explosion in a corn and ita sulisequcnt effects. product* manufacturing plant at Gran Scolt’a r«-quest the operation was per ite City, III., wrecked the building and formed Saturday instead of Monday. killed two men and badly injured seven • RUSH TO RICHES RUINS. other*. 5, ~ , ». >* <■ IS ASSASSINATED Mortally Wounded W hile on Board Steamer. Wat About to Sa>l for Europe Rest and Travel Assassin Arrested on Ship. for New York. Aug. 9. M«y<>r William J. Gaynor, of New York, was shot and probably fatally wounded on board the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse a* he was sailing for Europe this morn ing. Hi* assailant who, at the time wa* not identified, was arrested. shot the Later the' ’he man who mayor gave hi* name aa Jules James Gallegher of 440 Third avenue, New York City. The mayor wm waa standing on the th. up- up P«'r deck of the liner, well forward, t.iLi^. 1 __ - «ri _ — — _ ’«Iking with Commissioner Thompson, Corporation Counsel Watson and hi* secretary Mr. Adamson, when the shot waa fired. William J. Gaynor was bom in Whitestown. Oneida county. New York, in 185), and received his educa tion in Whites ton and Boston. At the age of 22 he went to Brooklyn, where he engaged in newspaper work anti took up the study of law, working on the Brooklyn and New York paper* while studying. He was admitted to the bar in 1 H7!> and began practice. He was a noted writer on legal subject* and acquired a national reputation for his work in brvaking up ring* within the Democratic party ami in securing the conviction of John Y. Kane for election fraud*. He was elected Judge of the Supreme court ami served from 1H93 to 1909, when he was elected mayor of New York City. He twice declined the Democratic nomination tor governor, also judge if th* court of Ap,teals, and also the nomination for mayor of Brooklyn in IH96. He was one of the first to speak of favoritism in freight rate*. SWARM TO SEE ROOSEEVLT. Dedication o< John Brown Battlefield Will Draw Thousands. Tofieka, Kan. Visit* to Kansas bv President* Harrison, Roosevelt and Taft have brought together great crowds, but the coming of Colonel Roosevelt on August 31 to dedicate the John Brown battlefield at Oaaawatomie will cause to assemble there the great est num Iter of Kansas people ever con gregated within the borders of the state. Fully 50,000 will attend this cele bration, which is to be held on the bat tlefield where John Brown and hie men fought fur free Kansas. The tract of land, compriairig 22 acres, has been purchased by the Women's Relief eor|S and deeded to the state for a memorial Princess Ma, Total Wreck on Reef All Hands Safe. Juneau, Alaska The Canadian Pa cific steamship Price** May, which left Skagway, southbound, fur Vancouver, B. C., at 9 o’clock Friday night, with HO passenger* and a crew of 6fi, struck the North Reef of Sentinel island at 2 o’clock Saturday morning in dark and haxy, but not foggy, weather, and in a smooth sea sank two hours later. All the paaaengcra and their bag gage were taken to the lighthouse on Sentinel island, whence they will be brought to Juneau by steamer* which have gone to their relief. The light keeper did everything in his power to make ths- castaway* as comfortable as possible. None of th* prsaengvr* or crew was injured. There waa no panic when the Prin cess May struck the reef, but the wo men and children suffered much from cold in the small Inals, the majority having left the sinking ship scantily clad. Captain McLeod and his « fib ers took the situation coolly and managed to grt all the ¡lasaenger* and crew away from the sinking steamer iiefore she foundered. The totals hugged the shore until daylight, when landings were made. In the meantime steamers were sent from Juneau, where the distress sig nal* were received from several sour OSS. The steamship Victoria picked up the call at sea, and it was also beard by the United State* naval sta tion at Cordova. Canadian postoffice official* believe that a shipment of gold from Dawson for Seattle went down with the vessel. IDAHO FORESTS BURN. 2.000 Men Working to Save Timber Many Building* Burn. Spokane, Wash. Fanned by »tiff mountain breexes, forest fires in the t'liur d'All run, the Panhandle of Ida ho. Bitter Root mountains, Stevens county, SL Joe country and the Clear water valley have broken out afresh and rangers have again Bounded a call for every available man in the country. Two hundred men were asked for at Wallace, 50 at Stites, in the Clearwa ter country, and 300 employes of the Flewelling Lumber company quit work at the mill at St. Joe and went to fight the flames. Ail told, perhaps 2,000 men arc fighting fires within a radius of 100 mile* of Spokane. Rangers Prmg and Finish struggled through 10 mile* of flames to Stites to summon help. By crawling in the bed of a small stream where the water wa* scalding hot, the two guards saved their lives and, famished for food and drink, stumbled to help at Stites. A special from Wallace says forest fires in the vicinity of Murray have swept all the timber from an area four miles in width and 10 miles in length, together with buildings, flumes and ap pliances belonging to mining com- PMn"*- ? , «>•*’.> . ' : *■•♦>’ CLERK DISCLOSES CHINESE PLOT Wholesale Entries Made by Sub stituting Photographs Officers of Unit'd States District Clerk m Northern California Involved in Crookedness. San Francisco By the arrest of Jew D>y Sing, a wealthy merchant Immi- V gration Inspector Richard Taylor as sert* that he ha* disclosed a method whereby hundred* of Chinese have ob tained fraudulent entry to this coun try. According to Taylor, the clerk*’ office in the United States district court for the northern district of Cali fornia ia badly involved by the disclos ures. He said that the arrest of Jew wa* brought about by a confession of a youthful deputy in the clerk’s office. Jew Loy Sing ia specially accused of altering and changing a public docu ment by substituting the photograph of an unknown Chinese for that of Gee •Jung Kce in the court record of a hub -a* corpus proceeding which had resulted in the admission of K im ; to this country. Taylor declare* that substitution has been practiced upon no less than 300 habeas corpus court records in the district clerk’s office here. In some cases more than one substitution was made in the same record until it has become practically impossible to trace the original. The Chinese who posed as Gee Jung Kee with the latter’s habeas corpua pa|>ers succeeded in securing the entry of three Chinese as hi* sons and wa* preparing to have three more psuedo sons and one daughter permitted to land when the plot was uncovered. He then disappeared, tail Jew, who is said to have employed him, was caughL Inspector Taylor estimated that the two Chinese expected to make $10,000 from the use of the substituted papers, a* the pretended Gee's adopted family would have paid that sum to land here, and more were planning to come when admission was denied to the throe son» and one daughter. A minimum rate form en for the use <>f papers was $500 each and that for women, who could not lie sold, $3,500. FARMERS MAKE FORTUNES. San Joaquin County, California. Crop* Paying Big Profit*. Stockton, Cal. -— This season many fortunes will be made by the farmer* in San Joaquin county and especially those who put in grain on the rich in land district west of Stockton. The barley is running from 30 to 35 sacks to the acre on thousands of acres, which means large profits to the grow ers. Charles Moreing and Lloyd Woods, of Stockton, have commenced harvest ing 13,000 acres of barley on the islands, and they will secure 365,000 sacks, which at the present market price will bring them about $400,0001 They are operating five traction cn- ginaa, drawing immense harvester* that thresh thousands of sacks daily, yet it will take quite a time to get all of the grain ready for the warehouse*. _____________ Rc|«rt* received from many section* of the county indicate an unusually large crop of wheat and barley, and the indications arc that the warehouse space will be taxed to cover all of the grain. . i iv . . u WAR CLOUD PASSES. Ossawatomie, the early home of John Brown, is about 50 mile* south and west of Kansas City, and about 15 Catholic Authorities Aoandon Pro- posed Demonstration. miles from the Missouri state line. In the early history of the state the town Madrid Like oil on troubled waters w".* " trading past, but with th«- came an official announcement that the building of the Miaaouri Pacific rail- manifestation Scheduled to be held at road through it an era of prosperity San Sebastian had been abandoned. An "orhpaned” humming bird no larger than a Inimble lice is being Of Nine B<g Forest Fires, But Four came and with this the location of With the Catholic* insisting upon hold- shops for the railroad company. It* ing it and the government forbidding raised by hand on four drops of honey Ar* Under Control. p<>l>ulation today is round 2,500. every two hour*, by parti«* at Pull-1 , it and rushing troops to the scene to Majftt F. A. Lewiston. Idaho. What the little town will do with see that the order was obeyed, 8pain man, Washington. Fenn, supervisor of the Clearwater the 50,000 people who will assemble A forest fire wa* seen to start near 1 National forest reserve, gave oil a there to greet Colonel Roosevelt on the was prepared for a great insurrection, which now seems forestalled by the de Anaconda, Mont., from sparks from a I statement to th« effect that at least ROCKS ROLLED ON JAPS. morning of August 31 ia a question cision to forego the manifestation. passing locomotive, liut before it could 25,000 acres of valuable timber in the not easily answered. The Catholic newspapers will publish iw reached it was beyond control, and . Clearwater reserve has been burned manifestoes explaining the decision. Formosan* Take Heavy Toll From has liurned «ver 500 acres. and the fires are not yet under control. Spain waa at a high point ’of tension Brown Invader*. Meteor Falls; Jars City. He predict* heavy losses to the for Five sailors on a Great Lakes ore al the time the decision was made Victoria. B. C. — Severe fighting. Council Bluffs, la. Accompanied by steamer mutinied and planned to attack ests unless rains prevail within the That the Catholics would go shead and with heavy Japanese losses, is contim a party of women guest* on board. I next few days. At the present time a noise a* loud as thunder, a large me prepare to hold the manifestations at uing in Formosa, according to advice* They were placed in iron* and now fitvi 200 men are fighting the fires, but in teor fell in the neighborhood of Coun- San Sebastian, thereby precipitating received by the Salo Maru. cl' shaking the city and causing an uprising, seemed assured. themselves subject to fins, imprison section* th« fire is advancing at the i_. Troops The Japanese are now engaged in ------------ ---------- . o ------ “3 part!. — - 1 Searching ment, or death, under the marine laws. rate ..f a mil.- an hour and little can I... were being rushed to San Sebastian capturing Shinarek Mountain, propos have attempted for some hour* to accomplished by back-firing. from this city, including two regiment* ing to mount artillery there to domi Politicians would force Ballinger out A call for more help ha* been made locate the place where the meteor fell, of hussar», a regiment of cavalry and nate the native strongholds, and have of the cabinet. but at a late hour had been able to do and a<lditional fighter* will be rushed two battalions of chasseurs, while a lost many men by the tnctics of the Another big bribe scandal ha* devel into the mountains from Kooskia aa 1 so. It ia supposed to have fallen in regiment of infantry was ordered from head hunters in rolling heavy rocks s«n as they can be secured. The | the hills immediately back of the city. Vittoria. oped in the Illinois legislature. over cliff* on advancing parties. Rocks Hundreds of people heard the explos I Only three liuildings now remain in larger fire* are on the trilaitarie* of ion and felt the shock, but because the weighing tons were arranged with the Clearwater, and some of the beat Jap* Will Study Flying. the burned town of Hoover. Oregon. prop, to be (silled away by natives | sun waa shining at the time, very few pine and cedar i* being burned. One Berlin The Japanese military com- , well hidden. Sniping and ambuscades saw iL The order of Eagles is said to have of the big fires ia in the vicinity of mission, which for several months ha* by small parties have coat many lives. lost a large sum through grafting of Lolo Paas where a large area has been Iwen studying military conditions in Paris Ha* Lynching. burned over. In all there are nine its national officers. Europe, has arranged with the com Wilder Confesses Guilt. Pari* Pari* witnessed a demons big fires and a large numtx-r of amaller pany controlling the Wright aeroplane Eastern buainesa men have com New York Erwin J. Wider, the one ami not more than four of the fires tration of lynch law in the heart of the l>atent* in Germany to buy a number bined to force the express companies young cashier of the Russo-Chinese capital Sunday, August 7. A police arc under control. The Japanese bank, ir. this city, whose stealing* to grant lower rate*. man was about to arrest an apache in of Wright machine*. the Boulevard Sebastopol when the government will send to Germany four from the bank** Security box resulted Many thousand acre* of government Baby Death Rate Great. captains and 21 lieutenant* of the in a loss of more than 5500,000 to the land in the Northwest will be thrown Des Moines, la. One-third of the man fired at him with a revolver, The army, and these, by agreement with institution, pleaded guilty to a charge tail let wounded the policeman open to settlement thia fall. and babice in Iowa under 1 year old have the German governmenL will receive of embcxxlemcnL Wider was remand killed a man passing on the street A died thia Summer, according to statis The Reform league of Chicago a*- crowd speedily gathered, seised the instructions in aeronautic*. Seven of ed for sentence on August 10. The in aerts that million* of dollars worth of tic* collected by G. H. Summer, secre the officer* have already arrived here dictment specifically charged Wider tary of the Iowa State board of health. »(vache and hanged him to a lamp («at. and begun to take lessons. property evades paying Ito just taxes. with stealing stock valued at $11,000. Cholera infantum, infantile paralysis, On this indictment he can be given an The revenue cutter Perry ia ashore poor milk and improper care are given Woman Hit by Ball Sues. Thief Rob* Fainting Woman. indeterminate sentence of from five to on a reef of the Pribyloff islands, in as causes. Kanaas City Alleging that a base New York—With $24,000 worth of ten year*. Wider may, however, be Behring sea. and has been abandoned ball batted foul struck her on the check diamonds in her handbag. Miss Tinnie indicted on other charge*. aa a total !«•*. Turkey Buy* Old Warship*. and thus caused a («ermanent disfigure Boner, a saleswoman for a jewelry Three cruiser* which cost the gov Berlin—The sale to Turkey of ment. Mis* Haxel Wilson ha* sued the firm fainted on the street While a Big War Balloon Work*. ernment $H,500,000 exclusive of arma the old German battlcshi(« Weil >n- owners of the lo- al American Asso (»liceman waa assisting her to her Berlin- The dirigible balloon Grot* burg and Kurfuerst Friedrich Wilhelm ciation baseball team for $20,000 dam ment a few years ago, are now consid feet »<> me body in the surrounding III, which left Gotha at 9 o’clock Mon- ered entirely out-of-date and practi has been closed, the price being fixed ages. Mis* Wilson aays that if the crowd plucked him by the arm and night, with a military crew aboard rally worthless. One ia the Brooklyn. at $4,500,000. Djavid Bey, the Turkish box in which she waa sitting had been «aid: "Here’s the sick lady’s hand made a safe landing at Tegel, at 6 Admiral Schley’s flagship during the minister of finance, rame to Berlin to projierly screened the accident would bag.” It waa empty when she opened o’clock next morning. The balloon I make term* of payment not have happened. Spanish-American war. traveled between 170 and 200 mile*.
