Slits UfctStftiiit The Columbia register VOL. I. nOULTON, COLUM1UJL COUNTY, OHEGON, Fit ID AY, OCTOHEIt 14, 1004. i0 o5 WEEK'S DOINGS Newsy Items Gathered from All Parts of the World. Or INTEREST TO OUR READERS Central Review of Important Happen pcnlgs Presented In a Brief and Condensed Corm. Germany and Kuceii are reported to have made h secret agreement. Ht. Pcterl'surg In confident that Ku ropatkin will relieve Port Arthur. Tokio hai advice that three Russian tthla At l'oit Arthur have leen lost. London war experts Itelieve that the Russian advance li just what the Jap anese want. General Funaton, in tiia annual re poit, urgea an Increase In the pay of ml luted men in the anny. l.alor Commissioner Huff, of Oregon, report, that the tout of living hai in reaed 15 per cent in the pait four year. An officer who has juat escaped from I'ort Arthur say there are plenty of torea yet untouched. The garrison now comprise 23,000 loldiera and !, U00 aailora. The flultlc fleet has at lat made what is declared hy the authorities its actual ttart for the I'ar Kut. From -othr sources, however, It la said the fleet ia unneaworthy and another post ponement Is expected. A daring Jail break hai been frui trated at the Multnomah county jail. Five prisoner proposed to kill the jailer, hut the plot was revealed by a mau condemned to be hung, who ia awaiting a decision of the supreme court. Burglars gained entrance to a Silvej City, Nev., atore and secured 2,300 In cash. It is believed a peace treaty will be signed by Bolivia and Chile within a week. The national 1005 fair committee -will allot apace and fund (or exhibit (hi week. Russian police have discovered that exile are leaders in a movement, to arevive a reign of terror. Robbers dynamited the safe of the Freeland, Ind , bank. It i reported that they secured f 20,000. Tokio ha advices showing that the Japanese louses are not nearly aa large as reported by the Russians. One of the first acta of the new Rus sian minister of the Interior waa to dip--charge the bodyguard of hi predocesaoi . Rivera in New Mexico have again overflowed their bank, canting addi tional lose to railroad and other prop erty. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Darl ing will visit the coast in November and Inspect the Puget sound and Mare island navy yard. The first great American auto rare, for the Vanderbilt cup, resulted in the death of one chaff eur and fatal injuries to a millionaire. An American won the race. The Mukden situation remains un changed. German shipbuilders are bnsy turn ing out war supplies for Russia. RusMan Ambassador McCormlck is coming home on leave of absence. The dredge Chirook has made the channel across the bar at the mouth of the Columbia two feet deeper. Russians claim that Japanese are cutting off the queues of Coieana and forcing them to join the army. " The German steamer Progress has run a cargo of coal into Vladivostok and officers of the vessel say it ia easy to elude the Japanese. The British steamer Sishan, from Hong Kong, has been seized by the Japanese off Niu Chwang. The Sis ban cairied a cargo of cattle and flour intended for Port Arthur. It is leported that the fire of the Jap anese land batteries have severely dam aged four Russian warships in the harbor of Port Arthur. It is stated that one of the vessels waa completely wrecked. The volcano Pelee, Martinique island is in violent eruption. Brigadier General William B. Worth, tetired, ia critically ill. The Japanese are'' capturing many junks loaded with provisions trying (o enter Port Arthur. The Russians are displaying great activity at Mukden. The meaning of the move is in doubt. ' Fire of an unknown origin started in the hold of the cruiser Washnigton, be ing built at New York. It waa extin guished before serious damage waa done. Filipinos are holding meetings at Manila for the purpose of discussing ways and means of securing independence. CRASH IN DeCP CUT. Bad freight Wreck on Northern Pa cific In Montana. Misaoula, Mont., Oct. 12. One of the wont freight wreck which ha oc curred on the Itocay Mountain division of the Nor i hern Pacific In many years, from the standpoint of delayed traffic, took place at an early hour this morn ing, about five mile east of Garrison, Mont. Freight car loaded with ex port shipment for the Orient, were piled 60jfeet high, and the wiecksge of two trains ia scattered along the track for a considerable dintance. Traffic waa brought to a complete standstill, and no train were able to pans the scene o' the wreck for 18 hour. One of the train crew, Fireman Bowman, of an extra east bound freight, was instantly killed, and two other trainmen were hurt, though not seri ously. The accident was due to a mistake in construing the orders on the part of the engineer of the easttound freight. Ilebad order to meet three sections of No. 63 freight, west bound, on the sid ing at Big Rend. The third stction had passed the extra ahead of the original second section. As the number of the engine of tins second section corre sponded to the engine supposed to be pulling the third section, as given in the orders, the extra' engineer pulled out. The extra met the original second section in a denp cut, hile both traina were running at a high rate of speed. The im act was terrific, throwing the debria mountain high, both engines completey telescoping. It was impos sible to build a track around the wreck by reason of the deep cut. PATENT DRUGS COUNTERFEITED. factory in New York Is Discovered by Detectives. , New York, Oct. 12. The New York police are convinced that they have broken up a gigantic drug swindle bv the arrest of several men in this city. The arrests were made on information that well known proprietary medicine were being counterfeited and sold "is genuine, and the authorities assert that the investigation ia not complete. Drugs seized at the apartment of Howard K. Woolen today, it is said, are valued at $10,000. Wooten is one of the men under arrest. The others are K. B. Minden, Manville Thomas, Charles 8. Horn, Charles F. Risley and WalterB. Rockey. It is asserted by local detectives that slips were found in the placea raided giving the names of 6.000 druggists throughout the country to whom dangeroua mixtures made in New York wei sold. It is said that the most in portant find in the raids was the circular aent out to druggista and containing the code by which they could order the preparations. It ia alleged by the po lice that preparations made by the best known chemical firms in Europe were counterfeited. In circular discovered was the statement: "All these goods are genuine, in original packages and unopened." The price list showed that the drugs in the list were being sold at from ,15 to 60 per cent below the UBual selling price. CHOKE IN TUNNEL Six Men Lose Lives Under St. Clair, Michigan River. Port Huron, Mich., Oct. 12. Six employes of the Grand Trunk railway were euffcated to death by coal gas to day in the St. Clair tunnel, which run under the St. Clair river, from Port Huron to Sarnia, Ont. A coal train broke in two while passing through the tunnel, and three of the train crew were suffocated while part of the train lay stalled in the tunnel. The engineer pulled out with his engine, but return ed and lost his life in an endeavor to push the stalled cars back to safety. Superintendent A. 8. Begg and another man perished in attempts to go to the rescue of the Others. Chinese Buy Provisions. Shanghai, Oct. 12. Chinese govern ment ollicials are reported to be pur chasing here foreign provisions which are to be shipped to Tien Tsin. The purpose for whnh the provisions are being purchased is unknown. Well informed Chinese express the opinion that they are intended for the Russian army. A telegram from Kweilin, in the province of Kwangsi, in Southern China, saya that the Chinese troops have defeated a large body of rebels at Lochenshien, after a fight lasting three days. Heavy Tire Loss at Columbia. ColumbuH, O., Oct. 12. Fire today in the five story building in North High street, occupied by the Columbus Dry Goods company, caused an aggre gate loaa estimated at (200,000. DEATHUST BIG Twenty-Eight Killed In Mis souri Train Collision. SIXTY OTHERS ARE INJURED Sleeping Passengers Hurled In Ev ery Direction Scene of Wreck on Down Grade. Washington, Oct. 12. Twenty-nine Iersons were killed and 0 injured by a collision of Missouri Pacific trains, three miles west of Warrensburg, at 4 o'clock this morning. The trams were the second taction of passenger train No. 30, which left Wichita, Kan., for St. Louis last night and anfextra freight train. Twenty-seven of the dead are In undertaking rooms in this city and the set iously wounded are in the rail road Hospital in Hedalia. The passenger train, consisting of two day coaches, a Pullman car and a caboose, was loaded with world' fair excursionists, from Southeast Kansas and Southwest Missouri. The regular passenger train, No. 30, had been cut in two at Pleasant Hill on accouut of the heavy load and an engine attached to the front car without a baggage car as a buffer. The extra freight had sidetracked at Montcerrat for the first section of No. 30, wnich carried signals that a second section was following. This was fol lowed by passenger train No. 60, which the freight crew took for the second section of No. SO. The freight pulled out of the sidetrack, and three milea west met the second section. The im pact telescoped the tender of the pas senger engine into the front car, which was loaded with passengers, and it was here that the sacrifice of life took place. The passenger conductor, E. L. Barnes, tan all the way to Warrens hurg and broke the new of the wreck. Every physician in the town responded, and hundeda of citizens hastened to the wreck and assisted the wounded from beneath the timbers of the broken cars. Twenty people were killed out right and seven died before 8 o'clock. The dead were placed upon flatcars and brought to this city, and Dr. Bills, the coroner, immediately impaneled a jury and started an inquiry which is (till in session. The afternoon waa taken ..up in identifying the dead. WORK ON TREATY. New Chinese Exclusion Act Is Now Being Considered. Washington, Oct. 12. Secretary Hay and Sir Cheng Tung Liang Cheng have at last begun to lay the foundation for a new Chinese exclusion treaty and it is expected the convention will be ready for submission to the senate at the approaching session. The treaty will, it is understood, replace all exist ing law on the subject. It ia the in tention to continue in full force in the treaty the principle of the exclusion of Chinese coolies and the Chinese gov ernment itself ia perfectly willing that this should be done. But the treaty will contain provisions regarded aa much needed and earnestly sought by the Chinese government for many years, looking to a more considerate, liberal and kindly treatment of the higher class .of Chinese seeking to enter our ports. WILL DO OR DIE. Kuropatkin Has About Paced and Will Assume Offensive. St. Petersburg, Oct. 12. A battle upon which the fate of thia year's cam paign in Manchuria depends seems only a few day ahead. Advices from the front are meager. All that is posi tively known officially is that General Kuropatkin has cast the die at last, about faced his army and ia marching resolutely against the enemy as if ie solved to do or die. According to un official reports, Field Marshal Oyama, at the first sign of General Kuropatkin taking the offensive, began drawing in his line and concentrating upon forti fied poBitionB north of Liao Yang. Ac cording to the latest reports, which are contained in a dispatch to the As sociated Press from Muaden, the Jap anese outposts are being drhen in all along the line. Scandal Over State Funds. Topeka, Kan., Oct. 12. Governor Bailey today gave out an official report covering an examination of the state treasury and Bchool fund accounts. The reports Bays: "Thia examination has developed , shortages, irregularities and discrepancies amounting to many thousands of dollars in the 12 counties examined. In my judgment, the Bame conditions will be found existing in the remaining counties of the state, not only in the permanent school fund, but in the normal and agricultural fund. Stoessel Must Have Help. London, Oct. 12. The morning Post's Shanghai correspondent save it is stated that Lieutenant General Stoes sel has reported that unless he is re lieved before December he must surrender. OUTRAGE BY RUSSIA. United States Mall Is Confiscated by Vladivostok Squadron. Portland, Oct. 11. The Ruasian government, not content with (topping vessels from the Pacific coast, because they carried merchandise intended for private firm and individual in Japan, has now taken to confiscating United States mails. Thia baa been done with the mail carried on the'' steamer Calebs, and the act ha caused a pro test to be made by the owners and agents of the steamer, which has been tiled with the postoffice department at Washington. Alfred Holt & Co., the " ners of the Calchas, also give notice that during the duration of the war they will carry no more United States mad to Japan. The latest move of the Russian will probably involve them deeper than any of their other aibitrarv acts since the wai ojiened, aa the government is not likely to permit its mail to be molest ed by tie czar's officials or by any one else. The particulars of the Calchaa affair were forwarded by Dud well & Co., the Tacoma agent ot the line, to Frank Woolsey St Co., their Portland repre sentatives, in the following telegram yesterday: "We have just sent the following tel egram to the postmaster general at Washington, D. C.: 'Following cable just received from Alfred Holt & Co., Liverpool, owners of the British steam er Calchar, which vessel was w ized by Russian Vladivostok fleet off Ja. ai coast about July 26: "Calchas release appealed against by Russian crown ad vocate, because amongst mail mattei was information addressed Japanese officials containing financial informa tion of value to nemy. We give you definite instructions to notify postoffice department that we refuse to carry any mail for Japan during duration of war." " 'The Calchas one of the regular liners operating between Puget sound, London and Liverpool, via Japan, Chi na and the Suez canal. She was on her regular voyage and her cargo con tained no contraband. We understand tl at the Russian crown advocate is basing his appeal against her release on the fact that United States mails carried by the Calchaa contained infor mation for Japanese officials. " 'We hope the United Slates gov erncjtnt will take immediate action against the confiaMtin or detention '.of the Calchaa on account tf carrying United States mail. This is certainly an outrage against the United States by the Russian government that should not be allowed to pass. Please be no tified that during the duration of the war we must decline to carry United States mads for Japan. Kindly advise what action will probably be taken by the department and whether there is anythiog that we could or should do.' " MUST DRIVE JAPAN fROM ASIA. Leading Russian Paper Declares There Can Be No Compromise. St. Petersburg, Oct. 11. Replying to the statement of Count Okuma, lead er ot the Japanese progressive party, that the war with Russia would be long, but that the Japanese would win in the end, the Novoe Vremya today declares the idea of a possible com promise with Japan haB been aban doned and that the war must be prose cuted by Russia in such a way that there can be no possibility of Japan's renewing the struggle. Euiope for 30 yeais waa under the menace of revenge for A'sace. "If we conclude peace with Japan, all our efforts in the Far East will be valueless and we shall have to spend enormous sums to keep up our arma ment there. The Japanese once for all must be driven out of the Asiatic con tinent." It is now accepted here that the re ported naval battle off Port Arthur was purely imaginary. The naval reports of the newspapers dwell on the difficul ties which the Port Arthur squadron must experience in breaking after the dissstrous sortie of AuguBt 10. The general opinion is that the squadron could not venture out unless something happened to the Japanese warships of which there is no knowledge here. Filipinos Delay Meeting. Manila, Oct. 11. The mass meeting of Filipinos, called for the purpose of considering the question of Philippine independence, has been postponed. Teodoro Sandico, an ex-member of Aguinaldo'a cabinet, who in 1899 signed an orJer for the massacre of all foreigners and Americans in Manila, and ex-Governor Reyes, of A bra pro vince, and about 1,500 Filipinos, most of them clerks, gathered at the ap pointed time but did not organize. Sandico advised the meeting to dis perse and to await developments. Rumor of Transport Scandal. San FranciBio, Oct. 11. The Call this morning states that complaint has been made to Brigadier General Hum phrey, "quartermaster general, regarding the conduct of the transport, service, and that a searching investigation is being made by a board consisting of three army officers. It is added that an upheaval in the department ia anticipated. V""" M.M.TMM.MMT !t OREGON NEWS 1L. TEED fROM EASTERN OREGON. Willamette Valley farmers forced to Buy This rail. Salem To relieve a very oare feed market valley dealers are importing Eastern Oregon barley, bran and chop, to be sold to the valley farmers. Ow ing to the great scarcity of oats, that rrt'ele is selling at $30 a ton and higher, with very little to be bad in the local market. Deaiers are im porting to Salem alone about eight cars of feed a week. With tbis movement so soon after harvest, it is expected that much heavier shipments will be made when winter weather seta in. As a means of further relieving the sit uation the Southern Pacific has been appealed to for a special reduction in freight rates on feed shipped in for valley livestock. The principal feed imported ia rolled barley, which cornea here from Port land, but ia grown in Eastern Oregon. Thia feed coats the farmer $27 a ton, and aa a ton of it is worth more for stock generally than a ton of oate, the barley is being purchased by farmers who must buy leed of some kind. Dealers say that barley at $27 ia $5 a ton cheaper than oata at $30, hence the Eastern Oregon feed can be brought in to the advantage of valley ffrmin. Owners of driving horses mutt have oata for which they pay $30 a ton, and dairymen are buying chop at $20, bran at $22.50 and shorts at $23. As a rule, grain farmers have feed enough for their own needs, but have none to sell. Fruitgrowers, hopgrow ers, a few stockmen and some grain farmers are the heavy buyers of feed. They have been accustomed to buy from their neighbors who raise grain, but thit year the grain farmers have little, if any, feed to sell. A great many farmers w ho have a few head o stock will be compelled to buy more or less feed, but they will not constitute the heavy buyers. Eastern Capital Scared by frauds. Medford B. H. Harris, who has re turned from a trip East ir the inter ests of the proposed railroad to the' Big Butte country, states that he can giv. no definite information as to the pres ent condition of affairs until the engi neers' estimates and surveys are com plete. The estimates, he reports, are to be rushed to completion at once. He Bays that there is a marked reluc t n e on the part of Eastern investor to go any further into Oregon timber on account cf the many "land frauds" of which the Oregon newspapers have laid such stress. Pushing Development Work. Medford The company headed by Colonel T. Wain-Morgan Draper, ol San Francicso, which purchased tht Monumental mine from I. L. Hamil ton, II. W. Jackson and C. B. Baker, o1 Medford, in the Shelly creek district, several months ago, made the last pay ment of $25,000 on the property sever al day ago and are pushing the devel opment of the mine rapidly. Ihe now have 45 men at work blocking out ore, erecting buildings and doing other work for the installing of a 200 ton shelter at the mine. Sugar Output Large. La Grande The sugar factory is run ning day and night with a full comple ment of men. It will run longer and make many mo e tons of sugar this year than in any pievious year. The season for beet growing has been ar ideal one. The yield per acre eceexb any previous yea", and next year wil tee a very large increase in the acreage throughout the entire county. Woolen Mills Busy. Pendleton The Pendleton woolen mills are manufacturing a new line ol goods this season workingmen't blouses and smoking jackets. The lat ter are manufactured from Indian robes of unique patterns. Although the mill has been manufacturing thest garments since September 1, only three are on hand, the demand being si great. More garment workers will bt employed later. Lighting Plant for College. McMinnville College, McMinnville A new vapor gas plant for lighting the main college building and for uae in the laboratories has just been installs i and is now in UBe. The plant cost about $400, which waa subscribed by the people of McMinnville. The sys tem will probably be extended to th gymnasium to light that building for the evening classes in physical culture Big Tract of Timber Sold. Astoria The Bale of another large tract of timber land in Clatsop count has been closed recently, but the prict paid is not obtainable. Deeds filed foi record show that Horace Irvine, ( i Minnesota,'' has Bold to the Nehaleir Timber company 5,288 acres in tht southwest portion of tho county. Thi consideration named in the deedB is $2. OF INTEREST DISCRETION WITH DIRECTORS. State School Superintendent Recom mends Change In Law. Salem In bis annual report, now in the hands of the state printer, Su perintendent of Public Instruction J. H. Ackerman, recommends to the leg islature a change in the language of the school law so as to place upon sec tion 3,389 the construction which Judge Hamilton gave it in his decision. Subdivision 11 of that section provide that the directors of a school district "may" transfer a pupil from one dis trict to another upon the parenta fling a petition, etc., and Superintendent Ackerman has always believed that the word "may" in this section left the matter diacretionary with the ichool board. A question having arisen, the matter was referred to the attorney general, who held that the parents have a right to have the child transferred and that "may" mean "must." Superintend ent Ackerman accepted the attorney general' ruling but recomended that the legislature insert after the word "may" the worda "at ita discretion," so that there could be no doubt aa to the construction to be placed upon these words. The decision rendered by Judge Hamilton give the words the coneruc tion desired by Superintendent Acker man. Appointed by the Governor. Salem Tom Richardson, of Port land; A. B. Wood, of Cottage Grove, and J. W. Bailey, of Portland, have been appointed by Governor Chamber lain aa delegates totheTrans-Mississip-pi Commercial congress, which will meet in St. Louis October 25 to 29 in clusive. Mr. Richardson is manager of the Commercial club, of Portland, and JlrBaUejrj!! state food and dairy conr miasioner. Air." Wood "and Mr. Rich ardson and Mr. A. N. Sol is, of Ontario, have been appointed de lea tea to the N'ational Irrigation convention to be held at El Paso, Tex., November 15 to 13, inclusive. ' ISO Sacks per Acre. Echo Peter Sheiidan, who resides at the mouth of Butter creek, 16 miles west of here, ia harvesting 15 acres of potatoes. Mr. Sheridan says the field s yielding 150 sacks to the acre. He has already disposed of several h un bred sacks and will probably keep the remainder until spring. A resident of he vicinity saya that last season ho raised 243 sacks to the acre without irrigation. Mr. Sheridan' field waa net irrigated, but is situated on the bottom, of the valley through which Butter creek flows. Pew Sales of Wheat Made. Pendleton Although the wheat market hovers around the 72 cent mark for club, no recent sales of cooeqeuenca nave been reported. Some grain ia Hill being hauled into town, mostly barley and wheat for the feed and chop mills. The mills are constantly receiv ing wheat, but the most of the crop ia aider shelter. Some of the warehouses tlong the railroad are so full that wheat is piled on the platforms. .rew Indians In Pendleton. Pendleton Seldom in Pendleton are so few Indians seen on the streets. Nearly all of the residents of the reser vation are in the Grand Ronde valley harvesting the beet crop, in the Yakima valley picking hops, or in the moun tains hunting or fishing. Until severe vveather comes the hunters and fisher men will remain in their mountain :amps. Taking of Chinook Cggs finished. Astoria A letter received at the fish warden's office states that the taking of spiing Chinook eggs at the Umpqua Hatchery has been completed and 2, 500,000 eggs secured. The auperinten lent expects to secure a large number )f silverside eggs later in the season. Advices received from the various points ilong the coast indicate that the run of dsn thua far is very light. Timber Sells at $25 an Acre. Astoria A deed haa been filed for record whereby the heirs of the late Francis Hood, of Saginaw, Mich, sell to William M. Bray, of Portland, 1, 760.3 acres of timber land located short (istances south of Westport and Knap a, in the eastern portion of thia coun y. The consideration named ia $44, J00, or $25 per acre. Northwest Wheat Markets. ' Portland Walla Walla, 8182c; iluestem, 85c; valley, 85o, I Tacoma Bluestem, 86c; club, 82c. 1 Colfax Club, 70c; bluestem, 75c. s