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rf. r "IT'S A COLD DAY WHEN WE GET LEFT." VOL. XIII. HOOD RIVER, OREGON,. FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1901. NO. tf. HOOD RIVER GLACIER 1'iiulUlied Kverjr Friday bjr H. V. HI.VTHK. Terms iif iiticrl.ll(n - Jl.'iO a year when paid in advance. TIIK MAILS. The mall arrives Irom Ml. Hood at 10 o'clock a. m. Wrilnotlaya anil Siiturdaj s; depart! the same dav at noon. Kor nienoKetli, leaves at a. m. Tuesdays, 1 hiirmU) anil Hatiirrlam; arrives at 6 p. in. For U hi le Salmon (Wash.) leave! dally at t :V a. m.: errlven at 7.1'. p. m. h mm White Salmon lemes for KnM. (illmer. Trout Lake and Olciiwood dully at A. M. KorBiiiaen (Wnli.) leaven at .':4" p. m.; ar. ries at 1 p. m. 8 IKTIK. IAI'RKI. KKHKKAII DKORKK I.OIKJK, No J K. I. ti. (. K. Meet tlml and third Moll a In eHi'h niotit h. Miwi Katk )ivasfoT, N. 0. If. J. llmtiABfi. Hei ri'iary. 1AMIV I'O.-T, So. Ill, G. A. R.-MeotnatA. i. I . W . Hall Mrond Mid fourth SattirJav, of em h inont n at 2 o'clock t. in. AIM). A. k. Iiit'ln ln in iled lo I t with I . ,1. ( unmnij, Commander. J. W. II li. BY, Adjutant. 1AMIV W. It. ('., No. 1(1 sleets first Satnr- dm til i nch nionth In A. O. I'. W. hall at 2 p.m. Mr.. B .. bin rmakkr, PreMdent. Mm. I'ltM'U In kkk, Secretary. HOOD lilVKR I.OIKiK, No. 105, A. F. and A. M. Me in hnturiUy eveniliK on or before t-ncli (nil moon. A N. Hahm, W.M. A. P. Hatkiun, Secretary. 01)1) RIVK.U ( H APTKH. No. 27, R. A. M Meet Ihiid Krulav niKht of each month. F. !. HHoau'9, H. F. II. F. Davumon, Secretary. IJOOD RIVKR I'HAl'TKR, No. 2.i, O. E. 8. Jl Meets aeroiid and lourtli Tuesday even ings nf eai li month. VI, turn cordially wel comed. Mas. Kva B. Havmi, VY. M. II. F. lUvnwos, Secretary. OI.KTA AS8KVH V, No. 1(13, t'ulted Artisans. Meets r-ei o. ii I tiesday of each mouth at hratprnal hall. F. C. Hunan's, M. A. I). Mi Honai.1). Keerelary. IITATCOMA I.OIHiK, No. 80, K. of W.-Meets III A. O. I . W. hull every Tueaday niirht. Durrani k smith, (j. C. Frank I.. Davidson, K. of R. x. -IVKRHIDK I.OIXiK, No. 68, A. O. I', W. li Meeti first and third Haiurdaya of each month. N. C. Evan. M. W. .1. F. Watt, Financier. II. I,. IIuwk, Recorder. 1DI.KWII.nK I.ODilK, No. 107, I. O O. F. Meets ill Fraternal hull every Thuradajr nitlit. A. ii. (Iktchki,, N. (J. J. K. Hanna, Secretary. HOOD RIVKR TF.KT. No. 19, K . O. T. M.. meet at A. O. I'. W. hall on the It ml and third Fridays of each month. J. K. Rand, Commander. T) 1 VKRSIDF. I.ODtiK NO. 40, I1E0RKK OF J, HONOR, A. o. I'. W.-Meet, ItiKt and third Saturdays al 8 P. M. Mm. Ckorima Rand, C. of II. Mm. I'has 1'i.akk, Recorder. SUNSHINE ROCIETV-Meets tecond and lourtli faturdms of each month at t o'clock. M D I.kna ISnklu, President. At im t'ARKiR Biti.kr, secretary. HOOD RIVER TAMP, No. 7,702, M. W. A., meela In t)dd Fellows' Hall the drat and third Wednesday ol each month. F. 1.. Imviusom, V. C. K. It. Bradley, Clerk. Jfl F. SHAW, M. D, Office Telephone No. 81. Resilience Telephone No. 83. All Calls Promptly Attended Office upstairs over Everharl'i store. All ralla left at the ottice or reaidence will be promptly attended to. JOHN L ELAND HENDERSON ATTORNF.Y-AT HW, ABSTRACTOR, NO TARY PUBLIC and REAL ESTA1K AOENT. For 23 years a resident of Oregon and Wash ington. Has had many years experience in Real Eatate mat era, aa abstractor, searcher of titlea and agent. patlsfHclion guaranteed or Do charge. J F. WATT, M. D. miIl.-OII ll'l v.. ab. ... v. t.i.wni.f eiilpied to treat catarrh of uose and throat and diacasea of women. Iieclal terms for ottice treatment of chronic rases. Telephone, office, 12j, residence, 4o. .. , " I? I. V 11n T. n.l.AI.IU. pREDERICK & ARNOLD CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS. Ketimatei furnished for all kinds of work. Repairing a specialty. All kinds of shop work. Sliop on State Street, between First and Second. C0N0MY SHOE SHOP. PKICK LIST. Men's half soles, hand sticked, $t ; nailed, best, 75c ; second, 50c ; third, 40c. I-ttilies' hand stitched, 75c; nailed, best, R)r; second, 35. Best stock and work in Hood River. C. WELDS, l'rjp. 'pHE KLONDIKE CONFECTIONERY Is thn place to get the latest and best in Confectioneries, Candies, Nuts, Tobacco, Cigars, etc. ....ICE CREAM PARLORS.... COLE A GRAHAM, Trops. p C. BROSiUS, M. D. " PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. 'Phone Central, or 121. Office Hours: 10 to II A. M. ; 2 to 3 and 6 to 7 P. M. H. TEMPLE. Practical Watchmaker 1 Jeweler. Mv long experience enables me to do the beBt possible work, which I fully guarantee, and at low prices. gUTLF.R A CO., BANKERS. Do a general banking business. HOOD RIVER, OREGON. JJ A. COOK CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER ' Hood Rivcb, Oregon. Estimates Furnished. Plans Drawn Q J. HAYES, J. P. Office with Bone Brothers. Btniness will be attended to at any time. Collections made, and anv business ivrn to us will be attended to speedily and results made promptly. W ill lorateongood government lands, either tim ber or farming. We are iu touch with the l. t l.aad Office at The Dalles. Uive us a rail EVENTS OF THE DAY FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE WORLD. K Comprehensive Review of the lmpor.nt Happening) of the Past Week Prese ted in Condensed Form Which It Most Likely to Prove of Interest to Our Many Readers. The Chinese indemnity will be settled this week. Mrs. McKinley is standing the homeward trip well. It is certain that all volunteers will be started for home before July. Dunger of serious trouble lietween France and Morocco has been averted. A freight train on the Great North ern ran into a ear loaded with dyna mite. The battle ship Oregon is to be thoroughly overhauled on her return to this country. A 13 year old San Franeiwco boy was murdered in a most cold blooded manner by a butcher. The supreme court holds that the United States may levy duty on im ports from Torto Rico. In round numbers the estimate for the civil government of the Philip pines will be $1,200,000. Twenty-ono men were killed and nine others seriously injured in a mine explosion in Tennessee. TelepboncHS are in greater demand in Havana than in any American city, according to population. Philippines eommiHsion has enacted a law fixing the salaries of the offi cials of the central government. Dr. Monroe, senior dean of Colum bia University, Washington, has lieen decorated by the sultan of turkey, A dismantled hulk hits torn sighted on Lake Michigan. Investigation disclosed seven bodies aboard her. Rear Admiral Sampson is to retire from service iu the American navy. Ho will ask for retirement on account of poor health. It is very likely that as soon as the ministers move to the bills for the warm montl s that the Hoxeis will again attack the legations. The America's cup race will begin September 21. France wants her treaties with Tu nis abrogated. Mrs. Mckinley is standing the re turn trip well. An unknown man committed sui cide near Kalama, Wash. Three prisoners escaped from the county jail at Salem, Or. Army frauds have been discovered in Leyte, Philippine islands. Suicide of a Russian financier may embarrass many institutions. Senators Tillman and McLaurin, of South Carolina, have resigned. Cailles and Maker, Filipino lead ers, have been forced to surrender. Thirty-two bodies have so far been recovered form the Sengheny colliery. Oregon ores are being collected for the International Mining Con gress. President McKinley has pardoned Alexander McKenzie, the Nome re ceiver. The output of the Sumpter, Or., mining district was never so great as now. The American legation guard at Pekin is having trouble with the Germans. Publication of the St. Petersburg Novoe Vremyra has been prohibited for a week. Five persons were killed and 40 injured in a trolley car collision near Albany, N. Y. The cases against Carman, Car ratua and other insurgent leaders, have been abandoned. The steward of the German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Wilhelm was arrested for stealing gold liars. Washington capital question has been settled by the purchase of Thurs ton county courthouse. The last of the American troops have left Tekin. Bresci. the assassin of King Hum bert, of Italy, committed suicide. The expelled West Point cadets will appeal their cases to the secretary of war. There is a mysterious steamboat plying on the Columbia river without a license. Two men were held up ct Midway, B. C, and robbed of f40. The rob bers escaped. Flood in Elizabothtown, Tenn., drowned three people and destroyed 11,000,000 worth of property. The cup challenger, with a royal party on board, including King Ed ward, was struck by a squall and wrecked. The yacht is badly dam aged. Xo lives were lost. Two missionaries who made for tunes in the Nome district are to build a hospital in Chicago. Recent census statistics in Italy show that the proportion of popula tion not able to read or write has de creased to 39 per cent. The faculty of Stanford University in California has directed that saloon and Cife advert isempnts must be omitted from the Dai! Tnlo Alto, the college paper. - HI8 STAY AT AN END. 'residential Party Complete Their Programme end Start for Home San Francisco, May 25, President McKinley has completed his program in this city, having met every organ ization included in the original jchedule, and Mrs. McKinley's health has so far improved that the president md his party began their return jour ney to the national capital at 10 A. M. today. The president's pulbio functions yesterday included a reception at the Scott mansion to the members of the foreign consular corps of this city, a reception at the Palace Hotel by the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution and the Loyal legion in honor of the president, and a review of the school children of Oakland by the presdent. Last night President McKinley at tended an impromptu reception at the California street M. E. church, given by the Epworth League and Christian Endeavor societies. Special precautions were taken to prevent any annoyance while the president and his wife were Wing driven to the ferry. A route was chosen that secured per fect comfort for Mrs. McKinley. The party was taken to Oakland on a special boat. The two trained nurses who have attended the patient in this city will also go to Washington with her. No fast time will bo made and the train will run slowly to Stockton. ECLIPSE PHOTOGRAPHS. Satisfactory Results Obtained by the Lick Party in Sumatra. San Jose, Cal., May 27. The fol lowng has been received from the di rector of the Lick observatory: "Lick Observatory, May 27. As tronomer Perrine, in chargo of the Crocker eclipse expedition from the Lick observatory to Sumatra, has cabled the gratifying information that some results were secured with all the instruments taken with him. This, taken in connection with his cable of last week, is taken to mean that his successful photographs were secured between clouds drifting across the vicinity of the sun. As this was an unusually long eclipse, it is quite probable that his results will compare favorably in quality anil quantity with those secured at the short eclipses of the past three years. The hoods of the coronal streamers, first observed at the Indian pel ipso of 1898, are recorded on the plates of the pres ent eclipse. Further details of the results secured are not expected until the arrival of Mr. Perrinc's letters. ,: TO DEFINE BOUDARY. Internal Survey Party Will Locate United States-Canada Line. Vancouver, B. C, May 27. An in ternational survey party, consisting of United States and Canadian en gineers, is about to begin the task of defining the international boundary between the United states and Can ada from the Pacific coast to the Rocky mountains. It is contended that this work was inaccurately per formed in the surveys of 1859 and 11. One of the most important matters to be determined is the ques tion of the national locaton of Mount Baker mininir district. Valuable mines are embraced in this section, and the territory is claimed by both the American and Canadian govern ments. Lieutenant Sinclair, of the coast and geodetio survey, will be at the head of the United States party, and J. H. McArthur will lead the Cana dian surveyors. The work will begin this week. MULTIPLEX TELEGRAPHY. The Rowland System it Being Introduced Into Germany. Baltimore, May 27. The multiplex system of telegraphy, invented by the late Henrf A. Rowland, of Haiti more, whici. is being introduced into Germany, Jit rmits of the transmission of eight messages simultaneously over a single wire, four in each direction at the rate of 40 words a minute, The messages are sent by means of a keyboard similar to that of a type writer, w hich can be operated by an ordinary typewriter opreator, and are recorded at the other end of the wire by a small machine. It is possible to either print the message upon a sheet of paper or upon a long tape like that which is used in the ordinary ticker service. Slide More Serious Than Reported. Baker City, Or., May 27. The landslide at the Climax mine, which occurred about two weeks ago, in con sequence of a water ditch overflowing, has proven far more serious than at first reported. the mouth of the main tunnel was closed with timlicrs. boulders, gravel and debris of all kinds, so that it required heavy blast inn and 10 davs to open it up. It will require several weeks more to put up the buldings destroyed and restore the other property lost in the flood. No Smallpox on Indiana. Pekin, May 27. The doctors wiio were instructed to make a report as to what length of time must elapse before it will be safe to allow the troops on board the United States transport Indiana, where it was sup posed 'ev case of smallpox had de el oped, have decided that the suspected case was not smallpox. The troops ill go on board the Indiana today. NEWS OF THE STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL OVER OREGON. Commercial end Financial Happenings of Im portanceA Brief Review of of the Growth and Improvement of the Many Industrie! Throughout Onr Thriving Com monwealthLatest Market Report Philomath will celebrate the Fourth of July. The Ilillaboro council has ordered 500 feet of hose. Sufficient funds have been pledged for a Fourth of July celebration at Roseburg. Last week there was 60,000 pounds of wool sold at Blalock for 10 cents per pound. Two carloads of horses were shipped from Baker City to the East this week by Susanville people. S L. Brooks, a stoekraiser of the Sandridge, north of Imber, lost his large barn by fire last week. The board of directors of the Hunt ington high school have decided to have nine months' school this year. The 12th annual convention of the Washington County Sunday School Association will lie held June 6 at Forest Grove. The Inland Telephone Company has a crew of men engaged in stringing extra wires between La Grande and Wallowa county points. The Deep Gravel Mining Comparfy, ncorporated, has assumed control of all the mining property heretofore owned by Wimer Bros. & Co., at Waldo. The contract has been let for the hauling of 3,000 tons of gypsum for the Oregon Lime Company from the gpysum mine to the company s works at Lime, three miles from Hunting ton. There was a $3,500 fire at Oregon City the first of the week. Arrangements are being made to celebrate the Fourth at Baker City. The Grand lodge of Odd Fellows held their encampment at Baker City. Efforts are being made to develop the Kaolin deposits, near Huntington. The people of Forest Grove and vi cinity are trying to secure a Sunday train service. Farmers near Salem, say grain is looking as well as it crt-r did and they expect a large crop this year. Mrs. Thomas Campbell, aged 60 years, an old resident of Oregon, died at her homo in Monmouth last week. The Baldwin Sheep & Land Com pany, of Hay Creek, will sell at pub lic auction, June 1, 1,000,000 pounds of wool. At a meeting of the executive com mittee of the Columbia River Pack ers' Association it was decided to raise the price of canned goods. Reports from Willamette and Clackamas river fishermen, near Ore gon City, say this is the best season for their work for several years. The board of trustees of the State Reform School has let bids for the laying of 4,500 square feet of concrete work, for basement floors and walks. Portland Markets. Wheat Walla Walla, 00c. ; val ley, nominal; bluestem, 6162c. per bushel. Flour Best grades, $2.90(83.40 per barrel; graham, $2.60. Oats Wh i te, $ 1. 35 1. 40 per cen tal ; gray, $1.30(31.32 percental. liarlev Feed, $1717.50; brewing, $17 1750 per ton. Millstuft's Bran, $17 per ton ; midd lings, $21.50; shorts. $20.00; chop, $16. Hay Timothy, $12.50$ 14; clover, $79.50; Oregon wild hay, $67 per ton. Hops 12(Sl4c. pur lb. Wool Valley, ll13c; Eastern Oregon, 7(a,10c; mohair, 2021c. per pound. Butter Fancy creamery, 15(3 I7 l5e. ; dairy, 13c 14c. : store, 11 !2'je. per pound. Eggs Oregon ranch, 1212(c. ;er dozen. Cheese Full cream, twins, 13 Sc. ; Young America, 13.l3'14c. cr pound. Foultry Chkkens,mixed,$3.504; lens, $4(95.00; dressed, ll12e. per khuhI; springs, $35 per dozen; lucks, $,xi6; geese, $0a,7; turkeys, ive, 10c 12c; dressed, 14 16c. per iKiund. Potatoes Old, $1L15 per sack; iew, 2(32,l1!'c. per pound. Mutton Lambs 434(35e. per pound grot'; best sheen, wethers, with wool. $4.25a4.50; dressed, 67c per pound. Hogs Gross, heavy, $5.75(26; light, $4.75(95; dressed, 77,lc. per pound. Veal Large, 6lj'(l7c. per pound; mall, 7s8C. per pound. Beef Gross, top steers, $5 5. 25; cows and heifers, $4.50(34.75; dressed beef, 8Ji8,!c. per pound Senator Hawlev is in favor of pro tecting the Nicaraguan canal, no matter what Kina oi an interna tional agreement is made. Tr. was lipid recently in a London nolioe court that no one has anv richt to force his way into a railway car riage already full. San Francisco has 130, Pittsburg 3BO, rroviaence v asniugton dw, Louisville 325, Cincinnati 516 anc1 Cleveland 400 policemen. RACED FOR A SWITCH. Terrible Accident Caused by Motormen's Carelessness. Albany, N. Y., May 27. Electric cars racing for a switch while run ning in opposite directions at tho rate of 40 miles an hour cost five lives yesterday afternoon ,by a terrific collision in which over 40 prominent people were injured, some fatally and others seriously. Tho lobby of the local postoffice, filled with dead and wounded, hysterical women and children looking for relatives and friends, surgeons administering tem porary relief, and ambulances racing through the city taking the wounded to the hospitals, were the early in timations of the accident. The scene of the accident was at a point about two miles out of Greeu busch, on the line of the Albany & Hudson Railway. The point where the cars met on tho single track was at a sharp curve, and so fast were both running and so sudden was tho collision that the motormen did not have time to put on tho brakes be fore Bouth bound car No. 22 had gone almost clear through north bound car No. 17, and hung on the edge of a high bluff with its load of shriek ing maimed humanity. One motor man was pinioned up against the smashed front of tho south bound car, with both legs severed and was killed insfantly, while the other one lived but a few moments. The few women and children who had escaped injury were hysterical and added their cries to the shrieks of the dying and mutilated. Men with broken arms and bones, with dislocated joints and bloody beads and faces, tried to assist others who were more helpless. Help had been summoned from East Greenbusch and vicinity, and in a little time the bruised mass of humanity, with the mutilated dead, wero loaded on empty cars und taken to Albany. The ambulances and physicians had been summoned and the postoflice turned into morgue and hospital. As far as the physicians could tem porarily attend the wounded they were taken to their homes or to the hospitals. With both motormen killed it was hard to get at the real cause of the accident, but it is pretty well de termined that it was caused by an attempt of tho south hound ear to reach a second switch instead ol waiting for the north bound car at the first siding. The cars weigh 15 tons each and are the largest electric cars built, and so frightful was the crash that both cars were torn almost to splinters. SEVERE W.ND STORM. Caused Widespread Devastation in Five West ern States. Salt Lake, May 28. The wind storm which swept over Nevada, Utah, Southern Idaho, Wyoming end Colorado, did damage that will run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. It resulted in almost complete prostration of telegraph and telephone service in the states affect ed and for nearly 24 hours during the height of the storm, the inter moun tain region was practically cut off from the rest of the world. The storm was severest in Eastern Nevada and Utah, and in the fertile valleys in the northern part of Utah wide spread devastation resulted. When the storm was at its height, the wind at some points reached a velocity of 50 miles an hour. At Ogden the storm was felt worst. Here the wind tore roofs from a num ber of buildings, including the Bap tist church, completely demolishing barns and outbuildings, and scattered them far and wide, uprooted many shade trees and tore others to pieces, blew in plate glass windows in busi ness blocks and prostrated electric light wires, so that the city was in darkness. The damage in Ogden will probably reach $100,000. At Five Points, Logan, Smithfield, Hooper and other p'aces the damage was very great. Hundreds of fruit trees were completely stripped. Tho force of the wind was so terrific around Logan and Hooper that to mato vines were swept entirely from fields. It is estimated that fully one half of the crops were destroyed. Around Hooper, the sweep of the wind blew away the ploughed ground to the full depth that the plows had entered the earth, rendering the land practically useless. Along the north shore of the Great Salt Lake the wind picked up the dry sand in great clouds and ' hurled it across the country with terrific force, half burying the railroad tracks for miles. New Mexico Mine Accident Santa Fe, N. M., May 28. One man was instantly killed and severa" seriously hurt at the Santa Rita cop per mine, in uraiu county, wtiiK cleaning out blasts which had failed to explode. Sailed for Nome. San Francisco, May 28. Thrc steamers sailed today for Nome th Conemaugh, with 2,600 tons of gen eral freight but no passengers; tin Pottland with 400 passengers, thre tons of mail and a full cargo. Nearl; half of the passengers are employe, of the Northern Commercial com pany, bound for Unalaska, Ditto' harbor, St. Michael and Nome. Th steamer Valencia, with about 20" passengers and supplies. EXPLOSION IN MINE TWENTY-ONE MEN MET A TER RIBLE DEATH. Nine More Terribly Burned Explosion Caused by Coal Dust In the Air Being Ignited by a "Blown Blast" Fire Shot Out From the Mouth of the Tunnel 300 Feet High-Mine it Badly Damaged. Dayton, Tenn, May 29. At tho Richland mine of the Dayton Coal & Iron Company, two miles from here, at 4 :!!0 o'clock this afternoon, a terrific explosion of coal dust re sulted in the death of 21 men, all white, and most of them marired and with families. The explosion was caused by what is known among miners as a "blown blast." It is the custom of the miners to placo blasts and fire them off at quitting time, leaving the coal thus thrown down to be loaded and hauled out of the mine the next morning. The Richland mine is destitute of water, and a great vol ume of fine particles of coal dunt, invisible to the naked eye, accumu lated at the roof of the mine. This afternoon at 4 -.30 o'clock a dynamite cart ride was placed in position in one of the rooms for a blast, and the miners started for the mouth of the mine. Tho blast did not explode, us intended, but instead a long llanie shot out of the blast hole and ignited the accumulation of dust. Instantly a terrific explosion occurred, and a seething mass of flames shot to the mouth of the mine and extended 300 feet into tho air, scorching the leaves from the nearby trees. There were 34 men in the mine at the time. Four of them escaped with slight injuries. Twenty one were killed, and nine terribly burned, most of them fatally. The force of the explosion caused great masses of coal and slate to cave in from the roof of the mine, and many of the miners were completely buried. Word quickly reached Dayton and rescue forces were at once organized and proceeded to the mine. One by one the blackened and horribly dis figured bodies were taken from the debris and carried to the mouth of the mine, where they were put on a locomotive aid taken to Dayton. Scores of relatives and friends gath ered at the mouth of the mine, and the shrieks of anguish as the bodies were removed were heart rending. The two undertaking establishments at Dayton were turned into morgues, where the mangled bodies wore dressed and prepared for delivery to their families. All the men em ployed in this mine were residents of Dayton. The Richland mine is the prop erty of the Dayton Coal fe Iron Com pany, composed of Glasgow capital ists. The company operates an iron furnace at Dayton. RAPIDLY NEARINQ HOME. Presidential Train Will Reach Washington Thursday. Sidney, Neb, May 28. The presi dential train made the third days run on the homeward journey without incident. The trip across Wyoming was at an average elevation of over 4.000 feet, and at Sherman, just lie fore the train began to descend the eastern slope of the Rocky mountains the elevation exceeded 7,500. The president has made no remarks at any of the stops, but he has ap jieared on the platform and shook hands with some of those nearest the car. There were crowds at every sta tion along the route and every cattle ranch had its little group of cowboys sitting bolt upright on tl.eir horses waving the sombreros as the train went by. Mrs. McKinley is standing the trip well. The weather has been pleasant and that means much for her comfort. The Presidential train will reach Washington Thursday morning at 7:30. Demands of Strikers Met. Dunkirk, N. Y., May 29. The strike of the machinists employed by the Brooks Locomotive Works has lieen settled. All who struck are to he taken back without discrimination. Fifty five hours will constitute a week's work; a straight increase of 10 per cent in wages is granted. These are substantially the demands made by the machinists. , Date Fixed for Cup Races New York, May 29. The Royal Ulster Yacht Club has cabled the New York Yacht Club an approval of September 21 as the day for the opening contest in the cup races. New Submarine Cable. New York, May 29. A new sub marine cable between England and Germany has just lieen put down. The cable is owned by a British company, but the German govern ment contributed to its cost, and a German firm was employed to carry out the work. Postal Orders. Washington, May 29 The post office at Susanville, Grant county, Or, has been moved three quarters of a mile to the northeast without change of postmaster. A postoffice. has lieen established at Midford, King county, Washington, to lie supplied with special service from North Bend. 1 Daily mail messenger service has been authorized lietween Seattle and West Seattle. - I MINERAL OIL EXPORTS. Mew Oil Discoveries Will Keep It Ahead of Russia In Amount Produced. Washington, May 29. The recent Ml discoveries in Texas and on the Pacific coast lend especial interest to some fticts just presented by the treas ury bureau of statistics regarding the ?.ports of mineral oils from the United States. These lOiow that thu exportation of tho fiscal year about to 2nd will probably be the largest in tho history of this remarkablo industry, which has increased its exports from 20-1.000,000 gallons of illuminating oil in 1875, to 721,000,MX) gallons in 19(H). In the quarter century from 1876 to 1900 the value of mineral oils exported from the United States was about $1,21X1, (XX), 000, an average of about $18,HMXX) a year. During re rent vears it has avernged about $60, mX),H0 per annum or $."i,(Xa),XJO per month. In the mere question of gallons of oil produced, Russia has been for years a close competitor of the United States, though it is probable that the recent discoveries in the United States will enable it to continue to lead in the number of gallons produced; while the fact that American oil pro duces nearly twice as much refined illuminating oil from a given quan tity of crude as from the Russian oil, adds greatly to its value as a commer cial product. One especially interesting feat ure of the development of the oil in dustry is, that there has been a re markable decrease in the price to the consumer during the period in which the actual exportation and tho net value of the exports have been in creasing. The average value of the illuminating oil exported in 1876 was about 15 cents per gallon, and in 1877, an exceptional year, 20 cents per gallon. By 1881 the price had fallen to aliout 10 cents per gallon, the figures for that year lieing 332, (XX),000 gallons, valued at $34,000, 000. By 1891 the average price was about 7 cents per gallon. By 1898 the average export price had dropixMl to 5 cents per gallon, tho quantity exported having been 824,000,000 gal lons, and the value reported to the bureau of statistics by exporters through the customs collectors, $42, 922,682. BLOWN UP BY DYNAMITE. Car Loaded With Explosives Run Into by I Freight Train. Everett, Wash., May 29. An acci dent occurred yesterday afternoon on the Grenfc Northern Knilroad font miles east of Skykomish which re sulted in the serious injury of Engi neer John McGrouty and consider able loss of projierty. A push car loaded with 48 boxes of dynamite was being run to a siding when the west bound freight train, No. 15, came along. Before the men in charge of the push car could reach tho siding, tho freight struck the car. A terrible explosion fol lowed. The engine was hurled some distance up the mountain side. Three freight cars were demolished and about 500 feet of track was torn up. A steam shovel standing near was reduced to scrap iron. McGrouty was the only one seriously hurt. He received a scalp wound, his tongue was bitten through, and he also sus tained injuries to bis spine. A watchman's shack, 75 yards from the explosion, was blown to atoms and the watchman himself stunned. The injured men were taken to the Everett hospital. STRIKERS LESS SANGUINE. Eighteen Hundred Men Slill Out Around Newark, N. J. New York, May 29. The close ol the fust week of the machinists' strike at Newark, N. J., finds about 1, 8(H) idle men in Newark and it suburbs. The strikers have ceased to be as sanguine as at first regarding the outcome of their efforts to com pel their employers to grant a nine hour day without decreased pay. A half dozen of the smaller shops in this section have met the demands of the men but none of the larger ones has shown any disposition to yield. Representatives of the larger "linns say they are prepared for just as long a fight as the machinists are to maintain. It is probable that tho machinists employed in the American Engine works, at Plain field will go out. This company agreed to the nine hour clause, but cut 15 cents from the 10 hour pay. Homecoming of Volunteers. Manila, May 29. It is reasonably certain that the remaining volunteers will sail for home before July. The Forty seventh regiment and battalions of the Forty ninth and Thirty eighth have sailed on the transport Thomas. The Ohio sails today with the Forty scond regiment and the Kilpatrick and Logan June 1 with the Forty third and"Forty ninth regiments and two battalions of the Sixth. The Grant sails from Aparri June 1 with the Forty eighth regiment and two battalions of the Forty ninth. Rioting in South Russia. London, May 29. Rioting has spread to South Russia, says a dis patch from St. Petersburg, as the result of the production of the anti Seminite play, "The Smugglers." At Kutais thousands of people congre gated alxnit the theater and stoned the police. A detachment of Cas sacks charged and dispersed the crowd. Thirteen policemen, 15 Cos sacks and two officers were severely injured. ,. 0