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i . . v . lit i is.i'irv i IT'S A COLD DAY WHEN WE OBT LEFT." VOL. XIII. " " ' ' " : ' : HOOD EIVEK, OKEGON, FRIDAY, NO VEMCEK 29, 1901. NO. 28. ' ' i : - '. i i HOOD RIVER GLACIER Published Every Friday by 8. r. BLYTHK. Terms of subscription S1.50 a yew when pid !u advance. THE MAILS. The mail arrives from Mt. Uuod at 10 o'clock t. m. Wednendays and Saturdays; depart! the aame davs at noun. Fur Chenowcth, leave at 8 a. m. Tuesday,, Thurndiivs and Saturday!; arrives at (p. m. For White 8nhm.ii (Wash.) leaves daily at a. m.; arrives at 7. IS p. m. From White Salmon leaves for Fiilda, Gilmer, Trout Lake and (ilenii )d daily at A. M. KorBiirgon (Wuah.) leaves at 5:45 p. n,; ar rives at 2 p. m. SOCIETIES. IAURKt. RKRIKAH DECREE LODGE. No i 87, I. O. U. F. Meet! Hist aud third Moo dsys In each month. Miss Katk DaVKNroRT, N. Q. H.' ). IIIBBiHD, Secretary. (1ANBY POST, No. 1(1, G. A. R.-Meet at A. J O. V. W. Hall second and fourth tta.tur.lav, of eai'h mouth at "i o'clock p. in. All U. A. K. n.euibers Invited to meet with us. T. J. Cvmninq, Commander. J. W. Riobt, Adjutant. CANBY W. R. C, No. 16- Meets first Satur day Of each month in A. O. V. W. hall at 2 p. m. Mrs. B. F. Shokwakks, President. ilES. I'bbou Iiukcs, Secretary. HOOD RIVER I.ODCJE, No. 105, A. F. and A. M.Mi-cts Saturday evening on or before each full union. . A N. Rahm, W. M. A. F. Hateiuk, Secretary, HOOD RIVER CHAPTER, No. 17, R. A. M. Meets third Friday night of each month, V. (J. Baosrus, H. F. H. F. Davidsok, Secretary. STOOD RIVER CHAPTER, No. 25, O. E. 8. 11 MeeU second and fourth Tuesday even iiiKS of each month. Visitors coidially wel comed. Mas. Eva B. Haynh, W. M. H. F. Davidsos, Secretary. OLETA APBEM1H.Y, No. 10S, United Artisans. Meets secoi il Tuesday of each month at Fraternal hall. F. C. Baosius, M. A. I). McDonald, Secretary. WA0COMA LODGE, No. 90, K. of P. Meet, in A. O. V, W. ball every Tuesday mirht. - John Buck, C. O. J. Liland Henderson, K. of K, A 8. KIVERSIDE LODGE, No. 68, A. O. IT. W.-. Meets first and third Saturdays of each month. N. C. Evans. M. W, J. F. Watt, Financier. H. L. Hows, Kecorder. 1DLEWH.DE LODGE, No. 107, I. O O. F. Meets in Fralerual hall every Thursday Ulght. A.U. Uetchel, N.U. J. K. Hanna, Secretary. HOOD RIVER TENT, No. 19, K. 0. T. M.. meets at A. O. U. W. hall on the Hrst aud third Fridays of each month. J. E. Hand, Commander. BIVF.RHIDE LODGE NO. 40, DEGREE OF HONOR, A. O. U. W.-Meets flrat and third Saturdays a! 8 P. M. M rs. Georoia Rand, C. of H. Mm. Chas Cuske, Recorder. SUNSHINE SOCIETY Meets second and fourth Saturday! of each month' at i o'clock. Mihs Lena Smell, Freaidenu Misa Carrie Butler, Secretary. HOOD RIVER CAMP, No. 7,702, M. W, A., meets in odd Fellows' Hall the first and third Wednesdays of each month. F. L. DAVItHON, V. C. E. R. Bradley, Clerk. pR. E. T. CARN3. Dentist. Gold crowns and bridge work- and all kinds of Up-to-Data Dentistry. HOOD RIVER OREGON JJ L. DUMBLE, PI1YSICIAN AND SURGEON. Brfcce&or to Dr. M. F. Bhaw. Calls promptly answered in town or coantiy, Dav or Night. Telephones: Residence, 81; Office, 83. Office over Everhart's Grocery. JOHN LELAND HENDERSON ATTORNE Y-AT-LA W, ABSTRACTOR, NO TAUY PUBLIC and REAL E8TA1 H AGENT. For 28 years a resident of Oregon and Wash ington. Has bad many years experience in Real Estate matters, as abstractor, searcher of titles and agent, satisfaction guaranteed or no charge. J F. WATT, M. D. Surgeon for 0. R. N. Co. Is especially Cflnipied to treat catarrh of nosa and throat And diseases of women. hpecial terms for oltice treatment ot chronic Cases. Telephone, office, 123, residence, 4& pREDEBICK & ARNOLD CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS. Estimates furnished for 11 kinds ot vcrk. Repairing specialty. All kinds of shop work. Shop on State Street, between First snd Second. JJON TON BARBER PARLORS. Newly furnished In all the latest modern barber fixtures, making It second to none for llrst-!ass tervioJ. Porcelain Bath Tabs. Hydraulic Harber t'baira. A shoe polishing artist nlways on hand. EVANS A DB0RD, Proprietors. piE KLONDIKE CONFECTIONERY la tht place to get the latest and beat in Confectioneries, Candies, Nats, Tobacco, Cigars, etc. ....ICE CREAM PARLORS.... COLE A GRAHAM, Props. p C. BROSiUS, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. 'Phone Central, or 121. Office Hours: 10 to 11 A. M.; 2 to 3 and 8 to 7 P. M. Q H. TEMPLE. Fracticil Witcuffiiker I Jeieiar. Mt long experience enables me to do the best possible work, vMch I fully guarantee, and at low prices. JJUTI.ER A CO., BANKERS. Do a general banking business. HOOD RIVER, OREGON. Q J. HAYES, J. P. Cfftr with Bon Brothers, Boat will be attend to at as, tlaia. CUttBa atad. V ill lural on good govvruai.at Uada, ailhaf Unberw laralaf EVENTS OF THE DAY FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE WORLD. A. Comprehensive Review of the Important Happening of the Put Week Presented in s Condensed Form Which Is Most Likely to Prove of Interest to Our Many Readers. Strike of railroad switchmen is ordered at Pittsburg. Shatir Pasha has been appointed governor of Scurati, Asia Minor. Marciuis Ito. the Japanese states man, has arrived at St. Petersburg. William Gwin. for 30 years chief messenger to the secretary of state, is dead. Home- Rule Republican party of Hawaii wants Chinese exclusion laws re-enacted. Three masked men entered a gamb ling resort at Chickasaw, I. T., and carried off $700. :t Half a million people in the Yang tse valley, China, will starve unless they receive aid. The monetary loss from the recent gale on the Atlantic is greater than at first supposed. Traffic on the Panama railway was stopped, but marines from the Iowa soon re-established it. North VVevniouth. Mass.. was visit ed hv a disastrous fire which will throw many men out of employment tor a time. Johnston. Miss., has been practi cally destroyed by fire. Fourteen stores and six residences were burned. Loss, f75,000. ' According to a dispatch to the London Standard from Odessa, 130 persons perished in recent earth quakes at Errazoum. Secretary Hay has just received from an unknown person, through the collector of customs at New York. a conscience contribution of $18,668. Americans captured a rebel camp in Bohol island. Sousa's band is playing to overflow ing audiences in London. Fire destroyed the Crawfordsville, Ind., wire and nail plant. Loss, $150,000. , Lord Salisbury is said to be aging rapidly, aud displays little interest in public affairs. - - Robbers blew open the Bollersville, O., postoffice safe, and secured $300 worth of stamps and $50. Pittsburg, Pa., switchmen have made a demand for higher wages and will go on strike if refused. The bodies of the eight mining officials were recovered from the Baby mine in West Virginia. Two men have been arrested and confessed to the murder of young Morrow, which occurred in Portland. ' On the suggestion of Germany and Russia, there has been an inter national exchange of views regarding the surveillance of anarchists. The stmer Alerta, with 200 pas sengers.some ot them discharged sol diers, is believed to have been lost while en route from Subig bay to Manila. Pretoria reports many more cap tures in the Transvaal and Orange River Colony, In the southeastern district of the Transvaal, the British troops are dealing with isolated par ties of Boers. Turkey is in bad financial straits. Agiiinaldo wants to plead his cause before congress. ' Queen Draga, of Seivia, is said to have been shot at. - Fire at a Colorado mine caused the loss of probably 100 lives. Canada will raise a mounted corps for the South African war. Colombian Liberals captured Colon after three hours' of fighting. Marines iu Samar scaled a cliff 200 feet high and destroyed three insurg ent camps, killing 30 rebels. In his coming message the presi dent will recommend the re-enactment and strengthening of the Chi nese exclusion law-. The union iron niolders of San Francisco will return to work on a nine hour basis with an increase of 2K cents per hour in wages. Green goods men have been selling postmasters of small towns stamps from "understroyed plates of the gov ernment." The secret service is do ing its best to capture the bunco men. Two fast trains on the Santa Fe crashed into each other near the Needles, Cal., resulting in the death of two and the fatal injuring of sev eral. Quite a number were less seri ously hurt. Student riots have occurred in Spanish towns. A fund is being raised in Manila to prevent the execution of Torres. . The people of the South think that as soon at they can have faster steam ers and more ot them they can keep all their cotton mills working full time making cloth for export. Dr. Boiarro, of Gorx, has published a pamphlet In which he tries to prove that the Adriatic has for more than a thousand years been rlslns; and croachlni; on Its shores. Ths lower parts ot Triest are experiencing trou ble already, and In count of time en Ice will be buried In the mud ot the , lagoon. IDAHO'S LOG CABIN Idaho has a printing office and a the old log cabin built over 20 years ago. The Wood River Times, daily and weekly, at Hailey, occupies this odd building and everything about it is com fortable and convenient. Additions to the building have" been made as needed, partly of logs and partly of modern building material. T. E. Picotte has owned and published The Times since (he first issue, June 15, 1881. When the daily was started, May 22, 1882, Associated Press dispatches were received by wire at Blackfoot and then sent 175 miles by stage to Hailey. It was the first daily published in Idaho. The office floor in the log cabin was for a time the virgin soil. Thep flooring was hauled in 160 miles, costing $125 per thousand feet. Mr. Picotte has been identified with daily papers in New York City, Chicago and several other large cities, always in im portant and successful positions. With a single exception he has always de clined political offices, because he feels that a newspaper man should devote all his time to his profession. The log cabin printing office attracts all visit ors to the Wood river country and Editor Picotte may well be proud of his building, his plant and his two newspapers. RAILROAD MEN STRIKE. Order Made Affecting Switchmen of Seven Lints at Pittsburg. Pittsburg, Nov. 27. The switch men on seven railroads of Pittsburg have decided to strike at 6 o'clock tomorrow morning.. At a meeting of the Brotherhood of Switchmen tonight which was attended by about 600 members, this action was decided upon, and the result of this meeting can only be conjectured. In antici pation of possible trouble it is learned that t h Pennsylvania Railroad has made an application to the city for 60 officers to be on hand in the Union station yards at 6 o'clock to morrow morning, and in the Balti more & Ohio yards fully 100 Pinker ton men are on duty tonight. The claim made at the switchmens meeting tonight was that 700 to 1,000 men would obey the strike order in the morning. The estimate was that in the Union station yards of tjie Pennsylvania Railroad 138 men would go out; that the yards at Pit- cairn and Wall would go out in the same proportion; that the Baltimore & Ohio and the Pittsburg & Lake Erie yards would go out solidly and that the Monongahela, the Pittsburg, Virginia & Charleston, the Shoen- bcrger Terminal and the Pittsburg and Western would be practically without men. . It was also said that the Fort Wayne and Panhandle men would lend a helping hand. The demand of the men is that the Chicago rate be paid here. This rate is 27 cents per hour for day conduc tors an 29 cents for night conductors of switch engines ; helpers, 25 cents day and 27 cents night. The Pitts burg rate at present is 25 cents for day and 26 for night conductors; 19 cents day and 20 cents night for helpers Grand Master Hawley, of the Switchmen's Union, is expected here tomorrow to conduct the strike. Treasure-Ship Making Good Time. New York, Nov. 27. The North German Lloyd steamship Kaiser Wil helm der Grosse, which left New York last week carrying over $7,000,000 worth of gold bullion for London, Paris and Berlin, was reported by cable passing the Scilly islands this morning. -The treasure ship has made good time. Chile's First Iron Steamer. Santiago de Chile, Nov. 27. The launch of the first iron steamer con structed in Chile occurred at Valpar aiso today, and was a great success. The ceremony was attended by the president, the federal authorities, and a large assemblage of the people. The entire ship, from keel to truck, was constructed in this country. French Chiiwse Indemnity Loan. Paris, Nov. 27. The chamber of deputies today, by a vote of 295 to 249, adopted the sum of 265,000,000 francs for the Chinese indemnity loan, rejecting the smaller sums pro posed. It was declared, during the course of the discussion, that the gov ernment would make no distinction between those who wee entitled to indemnities, but would pursue in the far hast France s traditional policy and fulfill all the duties of its pro tectorate, just as it claimed all its rights. Bought Saa Juan Battlefield. Santiago de Cuba, Nov. 27. Dur ing his recent visit General Wood bought for the government the prin cipal portion of the San'Juaa battle field, including the San Juan bill, the site of the blockhouse and Bloody Bend. The tract comprises 200 acres and cost $15,01)0. It rill be consid ered a United States 'reservation and the goverment intends to lay out a Wautifu) park on the old battlefield. 7 S PRINTING OFFICE. good one that is still maintained in CONGER'SPROTEST. Was Made Under Instructions From the Stale Department Washington, Nov. 25. Minister Conger's action in protesting to the Chinese government against tne arbi trary cancellation of a railway fran chise, granted to an American com pany, and its transfer to a French corporation, was taken upon represen tations made to the state department by the American-China Improvement Company, wriich has a franchise to construct a railroad from x Canton to Hankow. It is understood that for feiture of the claim was based on two counts : First, that the road was not completed within the stipulated per iod of time; and second, that the American corporation had passed to the Belgians. The state department holds that the conditions in China for the past year and a half have been such as to make it impossible for the American com pany to have completed its work, and that for this delay the Chinese gov ernment itself is responsible. In the second count the fact that the road maintains its American chajrter makes it incumbent upon our govern ment, following its rule, to defend the franchise. A BANKRUPT GOVERNMENT. Turkey Is Without Funds snd Unable to Bor row Troops Are Unpaid. Constantinople, Nov. 26. Never has the Turkish government been in such financial straights as at the present time. It is impossible to see how the expenses of the Ramazan and Bairam, due in December and Janu ary and involving 360,000, can be met. The Ottoman bank utterly re fuses to make any more advances and the penury is so acute that even the troops in many provinces are unpaid. Ihe consequence is that there have been mutinies in several districts. Hostile demonstrations here recently have only been quieted by the author ities hastily scraping together a few thousand piastres as something on ac count. Athletic Club Swindle. Fort Scott, Kan., Nov. 26. The federal grand jury has indicted five of the principal men of the Webb City, Mo., Athletio Club in connection with recent heavy losses of money at the club's foot racing track. It is as serted by the officers that the mem bers of the club do not deny having won, in the last 18 months, upward of $200,000. The winnings last week are known to have been $27,000, not withstanding the publicity resulting from the prosecution instituted by Representative J. M. Davis, of this county, who lost $5,000 there and says he was swindled out of it. The Charleston Exposition. Charleston, S. C, Nov. 26. The opening of the South Carolina Inter state and West Indian exposition is only six days off and all the builders and exhibitors are on the rush. The United States marine corps has gone into camp on the exposition grounds for the entire exposition period. Many of the best exhibits have already arrived, and the interiors of the buildings are being beautified by rich decorations. The merchants and manufacturers of this city will make the opening day a public holiday. Grave Fears for German Vessel Long Branch, N. J., Nov. 26. Storm tossed and lying bioadside at anchor in a heavy sea, the German ship Flotbek, from Plymouth for New York, was laboring hard against all odds, to save herself from being beached at a late hour tonight, about one-third of a mile off shore, between North Long Branch and Monmouth beach. Grave fears are entertained by the life saving station officers at Monmouth beach. NE WS OF THE STATE TEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS OF OREGON. Commercial and Financial Happenings of Im portanceA Brief Review of the Growth and Improvements of the Many Industries Throughout Our Thriving Commonwealth Latest Market Report A good quality of gas was struck in the oil well being drilled near On tario. The next session of the legislature will be asked to divide Umatilla county. s A movement is on foot to have some of the star mail routes in Baker county changed Malheur and Harney county wool growers have organized and will here after pool their clips. Salem shoe merchants will follow the grocers in closing their stores at 6:.'10 P. M., except Saturdays. Three car loads of dressed turkeys were shipped from Douglas county to San Francisco for Thanksgiving. A rich body of gold ore has been uncovered in tht. Water Gulch dis trict, 25 miles east of Grants Pass. Southern Oregon placer miners are jubilant over the recent heavy rains, which will raise the creeks enough to allow operations to he resumed Articles of incorporation of the Douglas County Bank, located at Roseburg, have' been filed with the secretary of state. Capital, $850,000. The Olive Creek Placer Mines Co, with headquarters at Sumpter, has filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. Capital, $1, 000,000. Crater lake, in which it has long been conceded that fish could not live, has been found to contain fish of the cold water trout specjes. Some of them have attained the length of 30 inches. The rush for public lands in Uma tilla county were never so numerous as this year. ' Another oil company has been organized to operate in the Malheur county district. Portland capitalists are figuring on leasing the Weston water works and electric light plant. A four-foot vein of rich gold bear ing quartz has been uncovered in the Baker mining district. The Coburg lumber mill has in stalled an electric light plant and will run day and night. A vein of coal has licen discovered near Huntington which promises to develop into a very fair quality. Scarcity of cars in Southern Ore gon is delaying somewhat the ship ment of wheat from that section. Small stockmen in the souther part of Umatilla county are being crowded out of business by the own ers of large herds. Of the estimated 4,000,000 to"4.500,- 000 bushels of wheat raised in Uma tilla this year, a total of 1,500,000 bushels have been sold to date. The price averaged about 40 cents. According to present indications, Pendleton will suffer a fuel famine this year, as there are about 4,000 cords less of wood in the market than usual. The shortage is due to a scar city of laborers. Portland Markets. Wheat Walla Walla, 57 58; bluestom, 59o; Valley, 67K58c. Flour Best grades, $2.65 3. 50 per barrel; graham, $2.50. Oats Nominal 95$1.00 pr cental. Barley Feed, $15.50(316 : brewing, $1616.50perton. Millstuffs Bran, $15.50(117; mid dling, $19 20.50; Bhorts, 1617.50; chop, $1516.50. Hay Timothy. $1112; clover, $77.50; Oregon wild hay, $56 per ton. Butter Fancy creamery,22)i 25c ; dairy, 1820c; store, 1214c per pound. Eggs Storage, 20a22 fresh, 28 3t)c, Eastern 2225c. Cheese Full cream, twins, 13 13Jc; Young America, 1415c. Poultry Chickens, mixed, $2.50 3.50; hens, $4.00; dressed, 9l(Jc per pound; springs, $2.50(8 3.00, per dozen; ducks, $3 for old; $4.00 5.00 for young; geese, $66.50 pr do en; turkeys, live, I012c; dressed, 12 144C per pound. Mutton Lambs, 3i'c gross; dressed 6(g6c per pound; sheep, $3. 25 gross; dressed, 66fo per pound. Hogs Gross. heavy,$5(g5.25; light, $4.75(35; dressed, 67c per pound. Veal Small, 88tfc;large,77Kc per pound. Beef Gross top steers, $3.50(84.00; cows and heifers, $3.00 3. 50; dressed beef, 3(37o per pound. Hops 8S 10c per pound. Wool Valley,ll(3l4o per pound; Eastern Oregon, 812c; mobair, 2121)c per ponnd. Potatoes 75g90 per sack. The supply of silver bullion in the treasury has dwindled until only about $42,000,000 worth is left. The census of 1900 shows that there are 13,197 Negroes to every 100,000 whiU, as compared with 13,573 in 1890. Mrs. May Treston Slasson, wife of the vice president of the faculty of the University of Wyoming, is the only woman chaplain of a prison in the United States, RELAXING THE CHASE. Protest Against Progress of Boer War Is Be ginning to Have Its Effect New York, Nov. 27. The corres pondent of the London Times and the New York Times at Pretoria says the fact that Commandants Touche, Myburgh and Wessels have been left alone for some time in Northeast Cape Colony is adduced as a sign of relaxing British efforts in the colony. The correspondent declares that this is only another instance of unrea sonable impatience recently manifest ed in regard to the progress of the war. , ' The mistake was once frequently made, after clearing one district, of pursuing the Boers immediately into another, and allowing them to break back into the first. To obviate this, now that he has cleared the midlands. General French has been obliged to allow the enemy to remain in com parative quiet in the Barkley East district until he has made sure that they will not break west, when he will proceed against them. The building of a line of blockhouses from the north, southeast to Dord recht, which Is now in progress, will, it is expected, prevent the Boers from breaking west. The columns now operating in this district, if they succeed in clearing the country, will practically free the colony; east of the main line from Cape Town to De Aar, of Boers. PERISHED AT SEA. Philippine Stumer With 200 Passengers, May Be Lost . Manila, Nov. 26. The local steam er Alerta, with 200 passengers, includ ing some discharged American sol diers, from Olongapo, Subig bay, to Manila, is believed to have been lost. Captain Edward P. Law ton's com pany of the Nineteenth infantry has attacked and captured an 'insurgent fort on Bohol island, south of Cebu, in the Visayan gruup. This fort was surrounded on all sides by a preci pice, and the only entrance - to the higher ground was guarded by a stock -ade, with a line of entrenchments be hind it. Captain Lawton sent Ser geant McMahon and 20 men to climb the precipice and attack the fort in the rear. Sergeant McMahon 's party accomplished their task after three hours' climbing through the thick undergrowth. They took the enemy by surprise and drove them from the fort. As the insurgents escaped, they had to pass the remainder of Captain Lawton 's company at a distance of 150 yards. Here the enemy suffered ter rible losses. The insurgents defended themselves, with both cannon and rifles. The cannon were captured; the smaller ones were removed, while the larger ones were buried. Captain Lawton, in his report, makes special mention of the bravery of Sergeants McMahon and List. General Chaffee has ordered that in the future complete records shall be kept of all natives taking the oath of allegiance to the United States. Duplicates cf these records will be signed in English, Spanish and Tagal. ASSAULTED BY MINERS. Non-Union Men Arc Attacked at Mines Near Vincennes, Indians, Vincennes, Ind., Nov. 21. Four hundred union coal miners from Washington, Connelburg, Petersburg, Princeton and Montgomery arrived here at an early hour this morning and at 5 o'clock made an attack upon the non-union miners employed at the Prospect Hill mines hear this city. As a result two men are fatally hurt and a half dozen more seriously injured. The union miners formed at the union station and marched to the mines. . Just as the men on the day shift were going on duty they were attacked. The union men asked for the foreman and when told that he was in bed said: "All right; we will get him." They started after Scott, the foreman, and in the melee that followed Scott and his family defended themselves as best they could but were powerless. Scott was badly beaten and W. P. Collins, an attorney of Washington., a brother-in- law of Scott, who was visiting with the family, sustained injuries that may prove fatal. What New York's Election Cost New York, Nov. 25. The pay rolls of the boards of education of greater New York, which have been approved, show that the recent city electon cost the municipality $670,000, or $1.08 for each voter that was registered Adver tising cost $90,000; ballot printing $35,000; incidentals $75,000, and the rest went to registration and election officers. The state also expended about $6,000 in connection with the election. Will leave SofU.- ' Sofia, Nov. 25 Mr. Dickinson, the diplomatic agent here of the United States, has returned to Constantino ple. There is obviously no prospect of a settlement with Miss Stone's abductors The departure of Mr. Dickinson will probably have a good effect upon the brigands who have Miss Stone in their possession, as they may fear to lose everything Ly not accepting Mr. Dickinson s pro- posal. LASHED BY STORMS MILLION DOLLARS DAMAGE ON THE ATLANTIC COAST. ' Sea Craft of All Kinds Driven Ashore Five Men Swept From Barges at Long Beach Railroads Blocked snd Telegraph and Telephone Lines Down Wharves, Docks snd Beach Resorts Badly Damaged. New York, Nov. 27. The great, storm which came up from the south on Saturday night has spent its force in this zone of the Atlantic coast and the waters driven upon lowlands and beaches are subsiding. Hundreds of small craft were wrecked or badly damaged, wharves and piers at ex posed points were battered down, man) seaside resorts were unroofed, lowlands were flooded, city cellars were filled and hundreds of town houses were damaged. Estimates of the ag gregate damage run slightly below and considerable above $1,000,000. At Monmouth beach, where the big German ship Flotbek drove ashore and where (here was a thrilling res cue of her crew by lifesavers, an angry sea was still beating upon the beach today. Wreckers have been engaged but until the sea calms nothing can be done toward saving the ship and her cargo. The big craft, firmly em bedded in the sand, was still intact, and her master is sure that both ves sel and cargo will be saved. Storm btund shipping was released early today, but sea coast railway and trolley service will be limp until washouts are filled in. Linemen were busy restoring prostrated telegraph and telephone wires today, but it will be a couple of days before these serv ices are completely restored. The 'extent of the damage to the rapid transit tunnel was not fully determined today. LOST MINE FOUND. The Famous Ninety-Nine Silver Mine Discov ered In the Catikill Mountains. New York, Nov. 27. The Tribune prints the following: "After being lost for about 75 years the 'Ninety-Nine' silver mine, once famous through the- whole Catskill range, has been found again. At least that is the belief of J. O. Poole, a mining expert, who is said to live iu Trenton, N. J. He has discovered a cave in the heart of the Shawan gunk mountains, not far from Ellen ville, Ulster county, N. Y., which ex poses a wide vein of peculiar ore. Numerous assays show heavy value in silver, lead and other minerals. Every effort has been made to keep the discovery a secret until mineral rights to the surrounding mining property could be purchased. Poole and the New Jersey men who .are backing him are said to have secured such rights on more than 5,000 acres, and are preparing to start active min ing operations. The story of the ac cidental discovery of the mine was brought to this city from Kingston. "A few weeks ago, while tramping through the hills, Poole noticed what seemed to be croppings of silver and copper bearing ore at the base of the Shawangunk. He climbed up the lead and made extensive excavations, with the result that he found a cave or opening in the mountain, from which he says he has since taken large quantities of almost pure lead ore, as well as quart which Dears sil ver and zinc in large proportions." " The mine takes its name from a Wawarsing Indian named Noepakip tic, but better known "as Ninety-Nine." The Indian lived near Sockanissing ana was accustomed to come among the settlers of the valley with chunks ot almost pure lead and silver,, which he exchanged for provisions. He said that he dug the ore in a cave in the Shawangunk mountains. A white friend succeeded in persuading Ninety Nine to lead him to the cave with eyes tightly bandaged. This man re turned with tales of wonderful rich ledges. He did not succeed in find ing the mine again, however, and Ninety-Nine died with his secret un told. About 50 years ago two West ern prospectors appeared in the mountains accompanied by a Wiscon sin Indian. They were provided with Indian maps and diagrams. They searched for several weeks without success and finally returned to the Y est. Since that time no systematic search has ' been made, and recently the story has been regarded in the light of a pretty legend. Break in Big Oil Main. New York, Nov. 27 The pipe line of the Standard Oil Company, which carries crude oil from the Pnnsyl vania fields to the refineries at Bay onne, recently burst about 10 miles from Bound Brook, N. J. The break was discoveied yesterday, and it took a large force of men many hours to close it. Meantime the oil had spread over a large portion of ground, and to prevent further spread to nearby streams it was determined to set fire to it. The reflection of the burning oil can be seen in the sky tor miles. Schley's Counsel Refuses s Fee. Baltimore, Nov. 27. It was learned today that Isidore" Raynor, chief counsel for Admiral Schley in the recent hearing before the court of inquiry, had refused to accept a fee for his services. A mutual trend of the admiral and Mr. Raynor stated that the admiral recently sent a valuable gold watch to Mr. Raynor and a magnificent brooch of dia monds and pearls to Mrs. Raynor. t