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"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. ,.
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