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Bute UirtS-jclctr COLUM VOL. I. HOULTON, COLUMBIA COUNTY, GBEGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9f 1904. NO. 20. THE BIA . WEEIi'SDOINGS Mewsy Items Gathered from All Parts of the World. Or INTEfiCST TO OUS READERS General Revkw of Important Happen. , pcnlgs Presented In a Brief and Condensed form. Kuropatkln's column it 19 miles long. Viceroy A1t U-fl ha tnoveil liii head iuartrs frum Vladivostok to llarbn. Central MarArthur recommends that cavalry post im Htab!it)hf d in the Willamette valley. The govern men t asks for a deed (or the right of way of the tana I ami port age road at The Dal lea. The ,lnion pack of the Columbia river (or the spring: and summer la I argot than that of laxt yrar. Republicans carried Vermont In the titate election by a llglitly lucreaied lrality over the election cf 191)0. Three hundred more men have been asked for to repair the warthlpt at Vladivostok. The work will take three month,. Shippers have been notified that, effective October 1, a war duty of 10 vend a rack will le taxed on flour en tering Japaneee porta. Owing to the discovery of consider able defecta lit aome of the vestels which recently underwent their trial trlpi, the Russian Baltic squadron will not be able to leave (or the Far Kait before November. Crown Frlnce Frederick William Ii betrothed to the Duchtis Cecelia. A tented rlty list been erected at Duner (or the treatment of contump tlvea. , Fourteen regiments have gone from Japan to replace losst-s sustained around Trot Arthur. A Cine ae merchant hat been urged to accept the olflce of myor of a Mexican town, bat ha refuted. :. Fiva men from Cleveland; Ohio, were drowned in Lake Erie by tha capsiclng of their naptba launch. The Inderal government naa men looking over the Yakima valley for a auitable irrigation project. A premature explotion of nitro-glyc-rine at Upper Sandusky, O., killed Ave and injured a number of othera. The report submitted by engineers on the irrigation of the sections do pendent on the Columbia and Snake rivera for water it not bright. An insane woman at Boston stood off a squad of 10 policemen for five bourt. She wat finally overcome by injecting gat through a hole in the door of her room. Princess Louise will start divorce proceedings at once. The striking butchers are now deter mined to force a meat famine on the public. German military experts regard Rus ia as being in a very serious position in the Far East. The 1004 wheat yield in estimated at 46,000,000 bushels as against 10,000, 00 bushels in 1103. America has sent a strong protest to the Russian government in reference to the tiezure of the steamer Salchas. Three painters were killed at Leth bridge, N. V. T., by a csaffold giving way. They fell from the top of an eighty foot standpipe. C. C. Clark, the murderer of Leila Page at OJympia, Wash., in March, 1003, was banged at the Walla Walla penitentiary at 5:15, Friday, Sept. 2. The whereabouts of Princess Louise it still unknown, although a vigorous eearch is being made. Four-year-old John Conrad, of Red ding, Cal., accidentally shot and killed hit sister Clara, aged 5. A fire at Gem, Idaho, caused the lost of (125,000 worth of property The insurance carried was $20,000. George B. Gamon, of Portland, was badly injured in an auto wreck wnile taking in the sights in New Tork City Police officer Ole NelBon, of the Port land force, was fatlly shot while triyng to arrest a bandit who wat holding up a street car. The hold-up artist was caught. While the Russians were . clearing the channel at the entrance to Port Ar thui, one of their vessels struck a mine and went to the bottom. A number o lives were lost. Seantor Hoar's condition remains unchanged. Over $2,000,000 of the new coinage J 1 A Al... O . J MM WW. shipped to Manilla on tha government L TL iranepun xuuuibb. A hail storm at Prineville, Oregon. mashed most of the windows in the town. ,HARRASS HIS REAR. Japanese arc Close Upon the Ilcels of Kuropatkin. London, Bent. 8. The dearth of im mediate press and official dlspatchea from the recent actual teat of tha Far Kantern atruggle contlnuet. It it ad mitted by the Ruaslan war oOlce that no telegram whatever were received from (ieneral Kuropatkin beating ueaday't date, the last message to the emperor from the ueneral belmr ated He ptem!r 5, and briefly telling that the army wan advancing north- ard; that it bad extricated itself from dangerous position; that there wat coiiHtant cannonading of the rear guard, ml that the Iohmos on that day were bout 100. The situation. In the liitht of the latent information, nay be summed up at follows: The RusMlans are pushing on to Muk- len, greatly impeded by heavy rains and floods, conducting an orderly re- reat, and followed tep by step by the Japanese. Details of the righting and f the exact position of tha opposing armies ate lucking. The report that kuropatkln'a rear guard hat been annihilated, and that he Russian forces are in danger of he ng surrounded, Is denied by the Rus- ian general stair. The Russian war ollice is entirely confident that the re treat is alowly, but surely, being effect ed. From Tokio comes the official report that the bulk of the Russian forces is still at Yentai. The Japanese field marshal, in an extended report of the fighting up to September 4, says the Russians burned all the railroad bridges over the Taita river, and pre dicts that, while the Japanese list of rarualties is not yel completed, the lottset will prove heavy. iceroy Alexleff is on hit way from Harbin to Mukden. The heads of Kuropatkln'a long commissary trains have passed through Mukden, and are continuing northward. The attack on Port Arthur contin ues, and Chinese arriving at Chefoo say the Russian garrison expects a gen eral land and tea attack today. RUSSIA INCLINED TO YICLD. Modification of Rules Rcaardlna Contraband Expected Soon. London, Sept. 8. The preliminary representations made by Count Renek endorff, the Russian ambassador to the foreign office, indicates that Russia is on the point of making substantial con cessions to the United States and Great Britain regarding the question of con traband of war, as a result of the tub mission by Foreign Minister Lamsdorf of the report of the general commis sion to F.mperor Nicholas today, to gether with the information trans mitted by Ambassador Beckendorff allowing the views of the British gov ernment. The Russian foreign minister is ex pected to present to the British govern ment, through Sir Charles HarinRe, the British ambassador to Russia, to morrow, the formal reply of the Rut tin government. It it understood in official circles here that Russia, while not acknowledging herself at fault for the capture made by her ships in the past, will more specifically describe the conditions under which certain goods, such as foodstuffs, and cotton, become in her view contraband. WIND UP CAMPAIGN. Evacuation of Mukden Also Means Losses Greater Than Intimated. St. Petersburg, Sept. 7. It it impos sible at this hour to obtain any state ment from the authorities regarding the reported preparations for the aband onrnent of Mukden. The advices from Mukden give the first intimation that auch a course is contemplated. If it turns out to be true, it meant the abandonment of the whole of Southern Manchuria and the winding up of the present campaign. In fact, should Mukden be evacuated, theie would be no point for wintering the army of 250,000, with its many wounded, shoit of Harbin. On the other hand, the evacuation of Mukden would give Field Material Oyama commodious winter quarters and the practical control of two lines of railway. The Kinchou-Slnmlntin line, tapping rich Chinese territory, stops little short of Mukden, with which it is connected by a good wagon road. Desire for Peace Growing. St. Petersburg, Sept. 6. Peace is be ing eagerly discussed by thousands of Russians in thia city and in Moscow, notwithstanding what it deemed the military eplendor of Kuropatkln'a re treat. The Novoe Vreyma, sounding publio opinion suggests a baBia of agree ment whereby Japan would receive Sakhalin Kamscbatka, the Kurites, the Simidore islands, the Liao Tung penin aula and supremacy in Korea. The gov ernment it not likely immediately to favor the idea of peace, but may yield later. Great force Soon to Reach front. St. Petersburg, Sept. 8. It is stated that by the end of October, the Fourth Eighth fend Thirteenth army corps, totaling 102,000 men, will reach the front, and that before the end of Sep tember 1,100 guns will have been dig patched to General Kuropatkin TO END STRIKE Negotiations Begun Through Medium of Middleman. UNIONS ABC CALLED TO MEET Packers VIII Submit New Offer and It Will Be Considered at Once by the employes. Chicago, Sept. 7. The indications tonight am that the stockyard, ttrike. begun two months ago, will be called off within 24 hours. Through tha medium of a middleman, negotiation! were begun today in an effort to aecurt tn understanding with the packera on which the atriking unlont can rely at a basis for abandoning the strike to morrow afternoon. It wat admitted tnight by Secretary Tracy, of the Allied Trades Council of the uniona on strike, that a message opening np such negotiationi had been delivered today to representatives of tha packing firm! by W. E. Skinner, agent of the Union Stockyardi St Traction company, acting at middleman. Michael Klllean, president of the Livestock Handlers' onion; Nicholas Gier, president of the Packing Trades council ; John Floersch, secretary of the council and President Donnelly were the men to confer with Mr. Skin ner. ' According to the plant tonight an answer it to be submitted tomorrow by the packera in time for it to be report ed at a special meeting of the Allied Trades council. This meeting haa been called for early in the forenoon. Special meetings for all the local unions involved in the ttrike have been called for tomorrow. If the packera give encout aging answers to the striken, messengers will be tent at once to the gatherings of the local bodies. The unions, it it laid, will then vote on discontinuing the strike, and their ref erendum vote will be reported at once to tha meeting of the Allied Trades council. TO QUIT MUKDEN. Russians Are Preparing for Evacu ation of the City Mukden. Sept. 7. The forces of Ku ropatkin and of Oyama are racing for Mukden. This much stands out in the dlspatchea from the seat of war, and is ndicated in a report forwarded by Ku ropatkin, who says bit retreat it being conducted in perfect order, though the Japanese on Sunday repeatedly attack ed his tear and continued the attack until Monday. The result of the race is in doubt. The united Russian forces are now north of Yentai, a station on the rail way about ten miles noitheast of Liao Yang. They are pushing on to Muk den, to which the bulk of Japanese forces is marching direct, alter having swarmed across the Taits river. A rtrong Japanese flanking column is about 30 miles northest of List Yang and is trying to get between the Rus sian forces and Mukden. With this race in progress there comes a brief dispatch from Mukden saying that preparations for the evacu ation of that place are proceeding. This report, if well founded, at is pointed out in the Associated Press St. Petersburg dispatch, would mean the abandonment of the whole of Southern Manchuria and the winding up of the present campaign. It was reported in St. Petersburg at a late hour Monday night that Kuro patkin's rear guard had been almost annihilated and that the main Russian army wat in danger of btiag surround ed. Kuropatkin, in his report, makes no mention of the abandonment of 200 guns at Liao Yang, rumor to which . fleet Ib in circulation. 1 Advices from Port Arthur, by way of Chefoo, bring the fighting there up to September 2, and say the Japanese loBses were very heavy. No Hope of Intervention. London. Sept. 7. Careful inquiry in official and diplomatic quarters hereto- day established the fact that no hope prevails of the termination of the war at this moment as a result of the ser ies of victories .obtained by the Japan ese at Liao xang. mere naa been no interchange of official views by the neutral European governments. What discussion has occurred has been en tirely personal and has led to no re aults, even to the extent of paving the way to mediation. There it no thought of international intervention. Odessa Corps to the front. St. Petersburg, sept. 7. The new mobilization decided upon it expected to be announced in the latter part of this week. It will include the eighth army corps stationed at Odessa. The emperor today inspected the battleship Orel and the cruiser Oleg of the Baltic fleet, which is now ready to sail. PENNED IN DY f IRE. fourteen People Killed In a New York Tenement Tire. New York, 8epL 7. Fourteen per tons were killed and nearly a acore Injured In a flve-story double tene ment In Attorney atreet early thia morning. The dead Include four wo men, one man and nine children, rang ing In age from I montha to 12 months. Many of the Injured were taken to hospitals, and it la thought that sev eral will die. Among the injured were five firemen who were in a fourth floor balcony when It fell with them. The small number of men among the killed and Injured waa due to the fact that moat of the men who lived in the buildings, following the Attorney street custom in hot weather, were ableep on the roof, while but few of the women and children were there. Thoue on the roof were unable to escape by descending through the burning building, and made their way to aatety over neighboring roofs. Meanwhile the members of their fami lies who had remained In their rooms found escape cut off and panic reigned throughout the structure. The fire started about 3 o clock in the morning, and there waa much de lay In sending in an alarm, although the district la one of the most thickly populated in the crowded East Side of New York. When the firemen reached the scene some of the tenants were Jumping from the wlndowa and from the ends of the fire-escapes that reached only to the second floors. Others were crouching in the smoke in the small rooms and narrow halls. The fire la supposed to have been caused by the explosion of a lamp that had been left to light the hall on the sceond floor, and the sleeping tenants were not aroused until the hallway waa ablaze and escape through the building cut off. ' The tire waa soon extinguished and the search for the dead begun. Most of the dead were found on the two urper floors. While the search of the building wag 'going on four firemen were at work on a fourth-floor balcony when it gave way. ' Another fireman on the balcony floor above waa carled down and wat prob ably fatally injured. The other four were badly hurt, but will recover. Leon Sober, owner of the building; Morris Levlne, the agent, and Henry Breitman. the superintendent, were ar rested today and were charged with criminal negligence. -, ' . ' " MARKING THE BOUNDARY. How the international Boundary Is Being Indicated. Parties from the Coast and Geodetic Survey are now at work In connection with similar bodies from Canada in marking the Alaskan boundary line according to the determination of the tribunal which met in London last Summer. It will take several years to complete the work, for the physical difficulties in the way are enormous, saya the New York Evening Post. Some of the country is so boggy that it can be properly covered only when the ground is frozen, wnile lor moat of the rest of it. especially the mountain section, only a few months In the Summer are available. In addl- tlon,there is a considerable stretch for which no determination was made by the Alaskan tribunal, as noted in these dispatches a year ago. It passes through a piece of mountain country of no seeming value, even remotely, to either nation. Until something arises to make the land worth something, which, is rather improbable, no at tempt will he made to apply to it the principles agreed upon at the tribunal In certain respects boundary mark- era have a Harder tasK man any class of workers who push through the unbroken wilderness. The civil engineer who lays out a railroad line is on the lookout for the easiest poslble course. The route which would have the fewest difficulties for him to travel over would have the fewest obstacles for railroad. When he comes into sight of a region which Is impassable by all human standards he steps one side and looks for tne next best stretch of country. With the boundary-marker this Is different He has to follow the marching orders of the treaty which he is to execute, and no matter where the line which it describes in degrees, minutes and sec onds of earth'B measurements lies, he is expected to follow. This makes his task one of the most adventurous man has to perform. He has to carry boats, prarie wagons, mountain-climb ing mules and a great variety of appu ances for swinging chasms, scaling ledges and crossing streams. His party must also keep communication open "With a base of supplies, almost as much as an army Statue of Washington. New York. Sept 7. The United Hungarian socletltes of New York City tendered a reception here today Count Albert Apponly and other mem bers of the Hungarian parliament, who have come to this country as delegates to the Inter-Parllamentary Peace Con ference, to be held in St Louis, and annuoncement was made that sur scrlptions to the amount of $2500 have already been received to start a fund to be raised among Hungarians in this country for the erection of a statue of George Washington In the City Budapest of Diana Ordered to Disarm. Saigon, French Indo-China, Sept The commander of the Russian cruiser Diana has Tecelved orders from the Ruslan Admiralty to disarm his vessel. OREGON NEWS fLAX CROP SHORT. Seed Yield In Willamette Valley Will Not Go Over 10 Bushels. 8alem. All of the flax of the crop of 1904 haa been harvested and the threshing thereof haa J tut been fin ished. As waa the case with all other agricultural crop this year In the Willamette Valley, for the first time in a decade, the yield waa unusu ally light, that la so far as Bed is con cerned, and not to4xceed ten bushels of flax waa. realized per acre thia year. Mr. Boase, however, considers thia a pretty good yield, taking all things into consideration, and he is in nowise disappointed aa a result The average yield of flax seed per acre. In Oregon, so far aa the exper ience of Mr. Bosse goes, is about 20 bushels. Mr. Bosse, however, says that he places no dependence whatever upon the seed yield of hla Fall crop, as the most Important Item in the business la the culture of the flax seed for the fibre. He can get all of the seed he wants, and, If the quality of the fibre or the quantity would be materially Increased by harvesting the flax be fore the seed waa ripe, he would not takes the seed question underconslder atlon, as the fibrous portion of the Oregon flax plant la the most valuable part of It, and that la what he is look ing for. Taking all else into consid eration he la well pleased with the outcome of thia year's crop and is satisfied that he haa obtained an ex cellent grade of fibre-producing flax this year, although the quantity it not all that he desired. WATER STOPS COAL MINING. John Day Anthracite Believed to be of Great Richness. Prairie City. The development of the John Day coalfields, near Mount Vernon, are disclosing a large deposit of anthracite coal. A United States analysis states that it has no equal except In the Pennsylvania hard coal. The work done so far has been made tinder the management of Rob ert Hlnes, of Canyon City, and con sists of three incline shafts of i depth of 74, 62 and, 55 feet, of which all struck the coal beds, and with it large flow of water, which stopped the work thereon for lack of pumps. 66-foot crosscut tunnel has been run, where they also had to stop work on account of water, when they en countered the coal deposit One tunnel crosscutting the coal beds to ascertain the width of the coal deposit, is In 64 feet and has five veins of coal with a 16-inch solid sandstone wall between each vein, and there may be many more of Buch veins. This tunnel is only 16 feet below the surface. James Smith has drilled 144 feet down on the coal deposit the capaci ty of the machine all is coal. It Is now the purpose of the coal prospec tors to get a drilling outfit of a 1000- foot capacity to prove the depth of the coal deposit Pendleton's New Schoolhouscs. Pendleton. The Pendleton School Board has awarded the contract for the construction of three school build ings to H. E. Cook, a contractor of this city. For tha construction of two eight- room buildings, Mr. Cook agrees to do the work for $34,709. Spokane pressed brick will be used and if Wes ton pressed brick is agreed upon the cost is to be $1000 lower. For the four-room building, Cook's figures are $11,033, provided Spokane pressed brick is used. With Weston brick the building will be constructed for $10, 033. Work on the buildings will begin at once, but it is not believed the schoolhouses will be completed and ready for occupancy before the first of the year. Willamette rails rishway. Oregon City. Contractor E. P. Rands has completed the. construc tion of the state flsh-lader at the Wil lamette Falls in this city. By means of the improvement the Fall run of salmon will be enabled to reach the upper Willamette River and estab lish spawning grounds in the Molalla, Santlam and McKenzle and other streams tributary to the Willamette. The flshway consists of a succession of 12 pools that have been blasted out of solid rock, the basins being lo cated at intervals of about three feet and extending to the crest of the falls. Displays for State fair. Forest Grove. The women of the Washington County Lewis and Clark Club are preparing an excellent dis play of fruits, grains, vegetables and photographs of local industries for ex-! hibltion at the coming State Fair. This exhibition will form the nucleus of Washington County's exhibit at the Lewis and Clark Fair. Northwest Wheat Markets. Portland Walla Walla. 7778c; blneBtem, 83084c; valley, 83c. Tacoma Bluestem, 82c; club, 77c. Albany 75c. Salem 80c. Colfax Club, 67c; bluestem, 72c. Pendleton Club, 68c; bluestem, 72c. v. ' ' La Grande Club, 65c ; bluestem, 70o. OF INTEREST NO TEED fOR CATTLE. Grave Problem faces Stockmen In Willamette Valley. Salem. "There will be hundreds of Willamette Valley farmers with cat tle this Winter and with not enough feed for them," says J. K. Sears, of McCoy. "It would seem absurd to say that livestock in the Willamette Valley will starve this Winter be cause of the scarcity of feed, but 1 shall not be surprised if many cattle die this Winter of starvation. The farmers have more cattle than they want there is no market for them and the hay and grata crops were so short there is not feed enough." This statement made by Mr. Sears. was repeated to a well-known whole- , sale butcher, and his comment waa: ' "Mr. Sears has stated the situation just about aa it is. The outlook la very bad for the farmer with beet cattle, and with feed aa scarce as It is now, stock will be in pretty poor condition this Winter. Tne farmer can't sell his cattle, and there wont be feed enough for them unless it is shipped in. The price of feed is high, and the price of cattle low. It won't pay to ship the cattle out of the Val ley to Winter them. If farmers buy feed to Winter their cattle they must do so at a loss. I wouldn't like to say that cattle will starve in the Willam ette Valley, but well, Mr. Sears i not far from right" This unfortunate situation arises from two causes, an oversupply ot beef cattle and an unprecedented shortage of feed. Hay la now selling at $11 to $12 a ton, or about 30 per cent higher than usual. The oat crop was but a small part of what is usually harvested in the Valley, and many farmers are now buying for their horses. Pasturage has been very poor all Summer, and unless there are early rains there will not be much grass this Fall before cold weather stops its growth. WILL EXTEND LINE. Salem Business Men Aid In Building. Road from Dallas. ' Salem The plan for the construc tion, of a railroad between Salem and Dallas took effective form when Presi dent L. Gerllnger, of the Dalles, Falls City & Salem Railway Company, sub mitted to the Greater Salem Commer cial Club a proposition under which he offers to build the road. His offer is to extend the present Falls City Dallas road to Salem. The present line Is ten miles long. The 15-mile ex tension to Salem will cost $120,000. and Mr. Gerllnger will build, equip and operate the road if the citizens of Salem will take $100,000 bonds ot the road. The bonds are to be a first lien, not only upon the new road hut the present road and theequipment The bonds will mature in ten years, and bear Interest at 5 per cent The committee of business men having the matter in charge are satis fied that the security would be good and the club showed its approval of the proposition by directing the com mittee to proceed at once to secure subscriptions to the bond issue. This road, if constructed, will not only give convenient transportation between Dallas and Salem, but will provide means of hauling logs and lumber from the timber country around Falls City to the Willamette river. It is announced that the Falls City road will Immediately be extended a few miles west to tap a larger belt of timber, an dthere, is a very general opinion that the road will be extended westward across the Coast Range to the Siletz. Threshing Machine Burned. Albany. The threshing machine ot Lawrence and Samuel Hardman waa destroyed by fire while operating on the Raymond Burkhart place a few miles from Lebanon recently. The machine was in operation when suddenly flames burst from the inter ior of the machine in every direction. The separator was enveloped in the flames, and it was impossible to do more than prevent the fire from spreading to the grain and straw. The engine was hooked to the sepa rator and the burning machine was dragged into the brush, beyond the reach of the grain. Survey of Salem.Portland Line. Oregon City. The party of survey ors that is making the preliminary survey for the proposed Portland-Sa lem electric line are now at work in the vicinity of Canemah. This infor mation was given by a member of the party. At Canemah the stakes are helner set ft Ions' tha bluff to the nonth of this BuburD, which confirms the belief of many that the proposed line will effect a juncture with the line ot the Oregon Water Power & Railway Company at Canemah and prove hut an extension of the OregonClty-PorU iauu viuvtuv laiAnajr. ; Harvest Season Neap n End. Pendleton. Harvest will be com pleted in the next 10 days in this vi cinity, with the exception of the hill land on the reservation. Quite a number of Bteam threshers and a few combines have pulled in for the sea son. A large portion of the grain la hauled In, and the hauling also will be complete in at least two weeks.