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VOL. XIV. - HOOD KIVEIt, OltEGON, -FBIDAY, OCTOliEll 10, 1U02. NO. 2!
HOOD RIVER GLACIER
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OAK (iltOVE COUNCIL No. 142, OKDF.R OF
PKNDO. Meets the Second and Fourth
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comed. 0. U. Oakin, Counsellor.
Uvm. BlKIT UcQDlKC, Uecretary.
SKIKK OK WASHINGTON. Hood River
J Union No. 112, meets in Odd Fellows' hall
second aud fourth (Saturdays In each month,
1 :30 o'clock. C. L. Cori'M, 1'reaideut.
Da. 11. L. DUMM.S, secretary,
1AUHEL KKHKKAH lKiRER LODOK. No
J M, 1. O. O. F. Meets tint and third Mon
days In each mouth.
Mm. W.O. Abb.N.O.
Mibh Ota Walker, Secretary.
I UMit t'on'i', No. 10, ti. A. R. Meets at A.
j O. U. W. Hall second and fourth Saturdays
of each month at 2 o'clock p. in. All U. A. R.
members invited to meet with us.
1. W. Uiubt, Commander.
;. J. IIavm, Adjutant. -
tIANHY W. R. C, No. 16-Meets first Satur
j day of each month ill A. O. U. W. hall at 2
p. m. Mkh. B. F. bhomakkb, President.
Mrs. 0. L. Kthakahan, Secretary.
H OOD RiVKR LOIXiE Ko. 105, A. F. and A
M. Meets Saturday evening on or before
each full moon. W . M. Yatkd. W. M.
C. 1. Thompson, Secretary.
H "OOD RIVBR CHAPTER, No. 27, R. A. M.
Meets third Friday night of each month.
K. L. SMITH, H. r.
A. N. Rahm, Secretary.
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11 Met
Tiigs of
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Jeets second aud iourth Tuesday even,
each month. Visitors cordially weu
coined. Mas. Mollis C. Cols, W. M.
Mrs, Maby B. Davidson, secretary.
0LETA""A8SF.MBLY"No. lOsTUnlted Artisans,
Meets first and third Wednesdays, work;
second and fourth Wednesdays social; Arti
sans hall. F. C. Bkosius, it. A.
MitB. E. A. rURNtu, Seerelary.
TAUCOMA LOIXiK, No. 80, K. of P. Meets
V in A. O. U. W. hall every Tuesday night.
C. E. Makkham, C. ti.
W. A. FiRBBAUOH, K. or R. and .
KIVER8IDE LOWiE. No. 68, A. O. U. W.
Meets first aud third Saturdays of each
month. Fbed Ilowa, W, M.
E. R. ItRAni.ir, Financier.
Chehtkr Bhutk, Reconler.
IDI.KVMI.DK l.OWIE, No. 107, I. O O. T.
Meeti in Fraternal hall every Thursday
night. W. O. Ash, N. O.
J. L. Hindirson, Secretary.
HOOD RIVER TENT, No. 19, K. O. T. M..
meets at A. O. U, W. hall on the tlrst aud
third Fridays of each month.
W alter (Jerkins, Commander,
RIVERSIDE LODGE NO. 40, DEGREE OF
HONOR, A. O. U. W. Meets first and
third Saturdays at 8 P. M.
Mrs. E. ft. Bradley, C. ot H.
Mrs. II. J. Frederick, Recorder.
HOOD RIVER CAMP, No. 7,702, M. W. A.,
meets in Odd Fellows' Hall the first aud
third W ednesdays of each mouth.
F. U Davidson, V. C
E. R. Bradley. Clerk.
B. PRESBY, i
Mtorney-at-law and U. S. Commissioner.
Goldendale, Wash.
Makes a specialty of land office work. Final
proofs in timber and homestead entries mad
before him.
JjR. J. W. V0GEL,
OCULIST.
Will make regular monthly visits to Hood
Elver. Residence 868 Sixteenth Street,
Portland, Oregon.
Q II. JENKINS, D. M. D.
DENTIST.
Specialist on Crown and Bridge Work.
Telephones: Office, 281; residence, M.
Office lu Langille bid. Hood River, Oregon.
jR.K.T.CARNS.
Dentist.
Gold crowns and bridge work and all kinds ot
Up-to-Date Dentistry.
HOOD RIVER OREGON
LJ L.DUMBLE,.
PHYSICIAN ANT) SURGEON.
Successor to Dr. M. F. Shaw.
Calls promptly answered In town ot coantry,
Dav or Night.
Telephones: Residence, 81 i Office, 83.
Office over Everhart'a Grocery.
J F. WATT, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon.
Telephones: Office, 281; residence, 281
SURGEON O.K. AS. CO.
JOHN LELAND HENDERSON
ATTORNEY-AT LAW. ABSTRACTER, NO
TARY PUBLIC and REAL
ESTATE AGENT.
For 28 vears a resident of Oregon and Wash.
Inston. 'lias had many years experience In
Ileal Estate matters, as abstractor, searcher oi
titles and ageuu' Sauafactiou guaranteed or
no charge.
pREDERICK 4 ARNOLD
CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS.
Estimate famished for all kindi of
work. Repairing a ipecialty. All kinds
of atiop work. Shop on Stats Street,
between First and Second.
piE KLONDIKE CONFECTIONERY
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Confectioneries, Candies. Nuts, Tobacco,
Cigars, etc
....ICE CREAM PARLORS..
W. B. COLE, Proprietor.
p C. BROSIUS, M. D.
' PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
'Phone Central, or 121.
Office Honrs: 10 to 11 A. M.; 1 to S
and 6 to 7 P. M.
gUTLER A CO.,
BANKERS.
Do a general banking business.
HOOD RIVER, OREGON.
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As I have had years' experience, my work
will give the very beat satisfaction In watch
re pairing, and as an optician I guarantee 10
rtv you a gd tit of glaiwes 10 suit your eyes,
have one of the latest improved eye-testers,
and can lit your eyee in the moat accurate man
ner with the beat Um made, thus strength
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EVENTS OF THE DAY
GATHERED tROM ALL PARTS OF THE
TWO HEMISPHERES.
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings, of the Past Week,
Presented in Condensed Form, Most
Likely to Prove Interesting to Our
Many Readers.
British coal miners have voted
$5,000 for the aid of strikers in thii
country.
The mayor of New Orleans has askd
for troops to subdue street car strikers
in that city. . ..
The crown prince of Biam, who Is
now touring the United States, will
visit Portland.
Fire destroyed the plant ot the Pitts
burg Plate Glass company, of Chicago.
Losb, $200,000.
A new Colombian gunboat, manned
by Americans, has sailed from San
Francisco for Panama.
A New York man had 1S,000 worth
of unset diamonds stolen from under
his pillow while he slept.
Pennsylvania coal miners do not
favorably regard the peace plan of the
president and will not return to work
on those terms.
Troops on their way to the coal
fields weie hissed and hooted by the
people of Pittsburg, and several riots
were narrowly averted.
A trainload of Eastern bankers and
capitalists are in Portland to spend a
week. They have money to invest and
want to personally inspect Portland
and surrounding country.
Twenty-five more steaners have been
chartered to carry Welsh coal to Boston
and New York.
One hundred thousand tons of New
castle, Australia, coal has been shipped
to the United States.
Leading German papers have ex
pressed their sympathy as being with
the American coal miners.
England is experiencing much diffi
culty in supplying employment to her
returned South African soldiers.
Senator Hanna baa challenged Tom
Johnson to a debate on the tariff ques
tion and the latter has accepted.
The volcano on the Island of Hawaii
shows increased activity, being in
almost constant eruption for the past
week.
The 36th encamnment of the O. A.
R. la in RftSHion at Waflhinston. It is
one of the best attended and most en
thusiastic ever held.
General Sumner, who is in command
of the forces in Mindanao island, has
sent an ultimatum to those Moroa still
on the warpath, warning them against
opposition and threatening worse pun
ishment than was given in the reient
campaign.
Zola's funeral was attended by 60,000
people.
The death list in the Japan typhoon
f September 29 numbers 1,000.
A furious snow storm is raging in
Colorado mountains. It is feared that
many prospectors will suffer.
The president has annonuceti that he
will not convene congress in extra ses
sion to discuss the coal situation.
A freight and passenger train col
lided near ftinton, ra., Kiiung two ui
the train crew and seriously injuring
another.
President Roosevelt's stand in the
coal strike question is generally en
dorsed by the press throughout ktne
United btates.
R. M. Snyder, the fit. Louis briber,
was found guilty and sentenced to five
years in the state prison. Motions for
appeal and new trial will be filed.
Stockholders of the New Orleans
street car company affected by the
strike have asked for a receiver, alleg
ing gross mismanagement on the part
of the managers.
A tornado in Tennessee, near Mem
phis, did great damage to property and
cost one life.
It is estimated that there will be ful
ly 600 delegates in attendance at the
irrigation congress.
Steamship companies have raised
freight rates on coal from foreign ports
to the United States.
It is certain that President Roose
velt will make another move towards
settling the coal strike as soon as he
can find way.
A Southern Pacific through train
was wrecked near San Antonio, Texas.
A number of passengers were injured,
but none fatally.
Another attempt is to be made to
combine the plow manufacturer of the
country into one organisation. The
new combine will Lave a capitalization
of $75,000,000.
The Southern Pacific has sold its
large holding 1 of coal fields in British
Columbia. This is taken to mean that
it is the company's intention to nse oil
for fuel in the future.
Prince Chnn, brother of the emperor
of China, is married.
The national debt shows a decrea.e
of $ 10,000,000 for September.
Bulgarian bandits have murdered 130
Greeks during the past two months.
Retail merchants of New Orleans say
that if the street car strike is not set
tled at once they will close their
stores. Such move would throw 5,
1 000 clerks ont of employment.
VETERANS ON PARADE.
Bluejackets of Days Gone by Entertain
O. A. R. with a March.
Washington, Oct. 9 The veterans
of the G. A. R. and their friends were
entertained yesterday by a parade
given in honor of the naval veterans,
and by a number of reunions held in
the big assembly tents at Camp Roose
velt. The weather was threatening
during the early morning, but the son
burst through the clouds about noon,
so that with the mild temperature that
prevailed there was no reason for com
plaint on that score. The attendance
stesdily increased during the -day, and
last night the city was crowded as it
has been only on rare occasions.
The naval parade of he forenoon was
not as large as many that have been
seen in Washington, but it was in every
way interesting. The veterans of the
navy appeared to be an embodiment of
much of the nation's recent history,
and every squad of them was an object
of interested observation. They were
generally old men, and many bore evi
dences of wounds received in battle.
In striking contrast to them were the
joung men of all the branches of the
present service, who marched with
them as an escort of honor, as it were.
This escort included representatives of
both the land and naval forces, and
they elicited much favorable comment
for their fine appearance as men, as
they did for the excellent discipline
displayed by them.
The parade was undei the command
of General Heywood, commander of the
marine corps, as marshal of the day,
and consisted of all the regular troops
located in and about Washington, ma
rines and jackies from the warships,
the Distiut of Columbia national
guard, the Spanish war veterans. Sons
of Veterans, high school cadets and the
association of ex-prisoners of war, act
ing as escorts for the naval veterans.
COALMINERS STILL FIRM.
Mitchell Claims Over Half of the 17,000
at Work are Not Miners.
Wilkesbarre, Fa., Oct. 8. The be
ginning of the 22d week of the strike
shows no material change in the situa
tion. The operators told President
Rootevelt on Friday that 17,000 men
were at work, and that 15 per cent of
the normal production was being
mined. President Mitchell today de
nied that such a number of men are
mining coal. He said the operators
were including in the 17,000 all the
engineers, firemen, pumprunners, (of
whom theie are about 9,000), fire
bosses, clerks and other employes. He
also denied that 15 per cent of the
normal production is being sent to the
market, and said: "If this statement
were true, the operators owe it to the
public to soil coal at the normal price,
instead, of charging dealers $15 to
$20 a ton."
While the superintendents hereabouts
will not talk of future plans, there is
an impression among citizens generally
thftt a strong effort will lie made this
week by the coal companies to resume
operations. The officials of these com
panies have all along maintained that
men are ready to return to work, but
fear personal violence.
Mr. Mitchell says he has no appre
hension of the strikers breaking away.
He declares the companies are keeping
a constant pressure on the workers to
return, but without success. At Drif
ton, he said, the coal company officials
had made a canvass of the community,
and found only one boy, the son of a
non-union man, who was willing to
return to work. Mr. Mitchell said he
received this report from there today.
MILITIA ASKED FOR.
Street Car Strike In New Orleans Has
Assumed Serious Nature.
New Orleans, Oct. 9. The railway
companies tried to obey the order of
the mayor to rnn passenger ears this
morning, but with almost the entire
force of city police concentrated at the
scene of action, the four cars started
got no farther than five squares from
the Canal street barn, and the attempt
was abandoned for the day. The com
pany informed Mayor Capdeville that
the police protection was inadequate,
and the mayor issued a call for 1,000
volunteer citizen police. The responses
to the call have been few, and it looks
now as if the militia will be called out.
In disturbance at Tonti street,
where a car was held up, a nonunion
conductor was hit on the bead with a
brick and badly hurt, and he and three
others were bodily taken possession of
by the strikers. Two were kept prison
ers at the union headquarters all after
noon, carefully guarded, and not even
members of the union were allowed to
talk to them. The other Jtwo are con
cealed tonight at some other point
known only to the strikers. One
policeman was hit on the foot by a
brick and another of the nonunion men,
who is a prisoner, was roughly handled,
but not badly hurt. The cars were
badiy damaged by bricks and stones,
and all the glass was broken.
Cuban Drydock to be Returned.
Wa-hington, Oct. 9. Secretary
Moody has decided to have the floating
drydock at Havana transpoited to the
Pensacola navy yard as soon as it tan
be made ready for the voyage. It has
been in contemplation to make the
needed repairs to the dock at Havana,
bnt the presence of this symbol of
United States authority in the princi
pal harbor of the island was annoying
to the Cubans, and the removal was
ordered on that account.
NEWS 0E OREGON
ITFMS OF INTEREST FROM ALL PARTS
OF THE STATE.
Commercial and Financial Happenings of
the Past Week-Brief Review of the
Growth and Development of Various
Industries Throughout Our Common
wealthLatest Market Report.
A number of Polk county growers
have refused 25 cents per pound for
their hops.
During September the Oregon City
land office received $7,835.71. There
were 54 homestead entries filed.
The assessment rolls of Tillamook
county show an increase in taxable
property of nearly two million dollars
over that of last year.
Multnomah county's taxable prop
erty is valued at $18,(i2,450. An in
crease of $776,788 is shown over 1901.
Most of the increase is in city property.
With one exception Oregon's legis
lators are in favor of a literal appro
priation for the Lewis and Clark fair.
Many of thorn have declared in favor
of granting $500,000. -
Tne good roads convention, to be
held in Portland October 14, promises
to be well attended. Chambers of
commerce and other organizations
throughout the state are selecting dele
gates to attend.
The sale of the Baisley-Elkhorn mine
in Baker county is regarded as one of
the most important mining transac
tions that has ever been consummated
in that part of the state. Between
$250,000 and $300,000 will be spent
by the new company on development
work.
The opinion seems general at Salem
that the hop growers who hold their
hops will receive the highest price.
Manager Winstanley, of the hopgrow
ers association, predicts that within
60 to 90 days the price will go to 30
cents, and most likely 40 cents before
next year's crop is picked.
John W. Titco nb, assistant in charge
of the division of fish culture of the
United 8' a tea fish commission, has
started for Washington, after inspecting
the hatcheries of this state. He ex
pressed himself well pleased with the
results accomplished in this Btate. The
hatchery at Little White Salmon is the
largest in the world.
The construction work on the new
barracks building at Fort Columbia
is practically completed.
Extensive preparations are being
made for the dedication of Agricultural
hall at the agricultural college Octo
ber 15.
The medical denartment of 'Wil
lamette University opened its 37th an
nual session witn an enrollment 01 3D
students.
The prevalence of smallpox, diph
theria, scarlet fever and measles in
Fugene has awakened the authorities
to the need of more vigilant quarantine
regulations, and in the future the
strictest caution will be observed.
Burglars entered the Woodburn post
office but were scared away before they
had opened the safe.
Maeter Fish Warden VanDnsen has
just returned from a trip to the new
hatchery at Ontario, Eastern Oregon.
He reports that the prospects there are
exceptionally good.
A Chinaman, who has leased the
Salmon Creek placer mines, in Eastern
Oregon, lias discovered a nugget worth
$15,000. This is by far the largest
nugget ever found in this state.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Walla Walla, 63c; bluestem
65ic; valley, 64c.
Barley Feed, $20.00 per ton; brew
ing, $21.00.
Flour Best grade, 3.003.50; grah
am, $2 85Q3.20.
Millstuffs Bran, $18.50 per ton;
middlings, $23.50; shorts, $19.50;
chop, $17.
Oats No. 1 white, $11.024 ; gray,
P5c3$l per cental.
Hay Timothy, $10(311; clover,
$7.60; cheat, $8 per ton.""-
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $3.5034;
per pound, 11c; hens, $44.75 per
dozen; per pound, 12c; springs, $2.50
3 per dozen; fryers, $3(83.25; broil
ers, $22.60; ducks, $4.505 per do
en; turkeys, young, 1415c; geese,
$66.50 per dozen.
Cheese Full cream, twins, 13(3
13c; Young America, 13&U;
factory prices, llHe less.
butter Fancy ' creamery, 2527,l1'c
per pound; extras, 27,4'c; dairy, 11
20c; store, 12!15.
Eggs 22 i & 25c per dozen.
Potatoes Best Burbanks, 6065c
per sack; ordinary. 6055c per cental,
growers' prices; Merced sweets, $2(3
2.25 per cental.
Hops New crop, 20i32Ic per pound.
Wool Valley, 12JV15c; Eastern
Oregon, 814 c; mohair, 2628c.
Beef Gross, cows, 3(33 per
pound; steers, 4c; dressed, 6(3ic.
Veal-7Si8He.
Mutton Gross, 3c per pound;
dressed, 6c.
Lambs Gross, Vc per pound;
drewed. 6 He.
Hogs Gross, 6?47c per pound;
dressed, "(37 Sc.
The Santiago, Nicaragnan volcano,
thtnatpn an eruption. It tnwara above
' the town of San Fernando de Massaya,
whose 20,000 people are greatly
1 1 armed.
TOWN ALMOST DESTROYED.
Blaze of Incendiary Origin Causes $50,000
Loss at Gervals, Oregon.
Gervais, Or., Oct. 8. The business
district of Gervais was reduced to ashes
in a destructive fire Sunday night that
entailed a loss approximating $50,000.
Veiy little of the property that was de
stroyed was insured. The fire, which
was of incendiary origin, started at
10:30 o'clock Sunday evening, and. did
not exhaust itself until 0 o'clock next
morning. Three solid blocks of busi
ness houses were burned. Two small
residences were also burned, and the
principal residence district had a nar
row escape.
The fire was discovered when in an
incipient state, but it spread rapidly.
The old fiame structures, thoroughly
dry and seasoned, proved good fuel, and
the blaze was soon boyond control.
Among the first rf the business houses
to go was Dr. P. II. Fitzgerald's drug
storo, in which was located the tele
phone exchange. A few minutes later
the local telegraph service was destroyed
by the melting of the wires, and when
the seriousness of the conflagration was
disclosed the people found themselves
cut off from all communication with
neighboring towns, and were practical
ly at the mercy ol the flames. An at
tempt to communicate with the Salem
fire department and procure aid in
fighting the fire failed.
For protection from fire the city a
few years ago built a wator tower at a
cost of $1,600, and equipped it with a
tank of 12,000 gallons capacity. The
tower took fire at the beginning of the
fire, and was of no assistance to the fire
lighten. An antiquated hand pump
and several street cisterns were all
that remained with which to battle
with the flames. ' The cisterns finally
gave o t, and a large bucket brigade
being organized, water was carried from
wells about the town. Heroically did
the volunteers battle against heavy
odds. The hotel building, several
times ablaze, was saved although a
woodshed that adjoined it not two feet
distant, was destroyed. Had the hotel
burned, the principal residence part of
the city would have been burned also.
BOXERISM ON THE INCREASE.
A Woman Is a Prominent Leader 1,500
Native Christians Slain.
Victoria, B. C, Oct. 8. Advices
have been received from China of the
increase of Boxerism, both in Szechuan
and Chili.. In Szechuan the Boxers,
some 10,000 strong, attacked Chengtu,
the provincial capital, and there were
some sanguinary fights in the stieets.
The Boxers were held in check by the
imperial forces, and a report being
proclaimed that reinforcements were
coming for the garrison, the Boxers
fled from Chengtu and encamped at
Shippantan, where earthworks ' had
been thrown up.
The Boxers of Szechuan are led by a
woman, Liao Kuan Yin, who is alleged
to be one of the three sisters who were
arrested at Tientsin during the rebel
lion of 1900, it being said that they
were "the Boxer goddesses." Letters
from Prince Tuan, Yung Lu and other
Boxer leaders were found in their
house. This woman, who is described
by Chinese papers as being very hand
some, had attracted 10,000 Boxers to
her standard. The Chung King corre
spondent of the North China News says:
"She is the most powerful rebel
chiof in Szechuan."
It is estimated that 1,500 native
Christians have been killed in this
province. Iu Chili Eoxers are secretly
drilling every morning before d&ylight,
even in the vicinity of the capital.
ARMY EXPENSES LOWER.
Much Less Than Last Year-Recommend--
atlons ol Paymaster.
Washington, Oct. 8. According to
the annual report of the paymaster
general, army expenses decreased dur
ing the past year $918,819, as compared
with the preceding year, partly owing
to the decrease in the pay of the army
and partly to a reduction of claims for
extra pay for volunteers. The totfl
expenses made by Paymaster General
Bates were $52,523,479. The pay
master general is an earnest advocate
of the creation of a re-enlistment sys
tem for government clerks base! upon
the deduction of a small sum monthly
from the salary of each clerk.
The paymaster general says good re
sults are observable from Secretary
Root's plan of detailing line officers
for staff duty. The only improvement
he could suggest would be to permit
the detail of first lieutenants instead of
captains as the lowest grade in the pay
corps, giving the lieutenants, ; however,
captain's pay while doing such work.
A financial statement setting out in
great detail the expenditures of the
paymaster general's office makes it ap
pear that the total approximate cost of
the war with Spain on account of pay
and extra pay to volunteers and regulars
and mileage to officers was $73,668,640.
Brigands HoM a Turk for Ransom.
Salonica, Oct. 8. Brigands have
captured a Turkish landowner named
Shefik Bey, at Orisar, near Vedena, 40
miles from Monastir. He is being held
for ransom of $15,000.
Stranded Warship Floated.
Yokohama, Oct. 8. The Japanese
battleship Shikishima, which went
ashore during the typhoon September
29, has been floated. She sustanied
only slight damage.
Shut Dowa for Want of Coal.
Newcastle, Ta., Oct. 8. The Shen
andoah steel mill closed down at mid
night, owing to the failure to seen re
aiI f.ip tfia hnilApa TliA vilant pm-
' ploys about 1.000 men and is one of the
J main industries of the city.
IRRIGATION TALKS
MANY INTERESTING SPEECHES AT THE
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
President Slocum, of Colorado College, In
Strong Address for the Education of
Youth on Benefits of Irrigation Sen
ator Patterson Declares that Present
Law la Due to Roosevelt.
Colorado Springs, Colo., Oct. 8.
One of the strongest .Addresses of the
day at the National Irrigation congress
yesterday was that of President Slocum,
of Colorado college, who told of the
need of more extensive education of the
young people of the land in applied
sciences, in order that they may make
the most intelligent use of the irriga
tion law. He said he expected the
time to come, if it were not already at
hand, when irriagtion engineering must
be as important a branch of univeisity
education as mining engineering is
today.
Willis Moore, chief of the weather
bureau at Washington, gave a valuable
address on the weather bureau irriga
tion. He paid high tribute to con
gress for the passage of the act, and
told of the important bearing it would
have on the work of his dpeartment.
He gave an interesting talk on the flood
bulletin service, the history of attempt
ed rainmaking and kindred subjects.
Senator Patterson, of Colorado, said
he believed the irrigation act would
never have become a law without the
co-operation and assistance of Presi
dent Roosevelt, following this with the
declaration that no one but Roosevelt
could even have overcome the opposi
tion to the bill in the president's own
party.
Representative Reeder, of Kansas,
who was the author of the Reeder bill,
which was the irrigation act in line for
passage when it was superseded by the
bill which became a law, spoke ot the
history of the bill. v
Last night's session of the congress
was held at Colorado college, where a
stereopticon lecture on '"Ancient forms
of Irrigation" was followed by a recep
tion.
This morning will be given up to
addresses by visiting representatives
and senators,' and the afternoon to a
discussion of the practical phases of the
present irrigation situation by Chief
Hydrographer Newell, of Washington,
and by several state engineers of the
West.
At the opening of the congress yes
terday morning the committee on cre
dentials made its report. The commit
tee on organization, consisting of three
delegates from each of tne 16 states in
cluded in what is termed the arid belt,
making a total of 48 members, elected
John Hall, of Kansas, as chairman and
H. R. Monow, of Roeewell, N. M., as
secretary, Fred L. Alles, of California,
was elected assistant secretary and C.
J. Gavin, of New Mexico, reading clerk
of the congress.
OIL FIELD ON FIRE.
One of the Largest Beaumont Companies
Suffers a Loss of $100,000.
Beaumont, Tex., Oct. 9. Another
destructive fire, the second within a
month, swept over a portion of the oil
field last night, ciusing one probable
fatality and entailing a property loss
roughly estimated at $100,000. The
fire at 2 o'clock this morning is still
burning, but practical oil men declare
the flames will subside before daylight.
Thomas Rowley, a worker in the field,
was caught in the path of the flames
and sustained burns from which he
will die. This is believed to be the
only casualty.
The fire started in a peculiar manner.
Shortly before midnight a workman
lifted the top of his lantern to blow out
the light. The atmoepheie was heavily
laden with gas, and in an instant there
was a flash, followed by sheet of
flame. The blaze was communicated to
a small settling tank near by. In an
inst&nt a derrick adjoining the tank
was enveloped in fire, and with re
markable rapidity the flames spread to
other derricks. The fire department
and hundreds of citizens rushed to the
scene, but their efforts to check the
flames were unavailing.
TO TAKE CENSUS OF ISLANDS.
Oencral Sanger, with Two Experts and
Twenty Skilled Assistants.
Washington, Oct. 9. Secretary Root
has designated Brigadier General San
ger to conduct the taking of the census
in the Philippines. He also detailed
to assist General Sanger in the work
two experts in the persons of H. W.
Gannett, of the geological survey, and
Victor II. Olmsted, of the department
of labor. In addition to this, Colonel
Edwards, the chief of the bureau of in
sular affairs, has arranged with Director
Merriam, of the national census, to
have 20 of the most expert census
workers detached from his bureau here
and sent to the Philippines to engage
in the work. The revenues of the
inland will be drawn npon to pay for
the actual field work in taking the
census, which it is believed, can be
completed in 10 months. The work
of tabulation will be done here in
Waaliington.
Knox After the Coal Trust.
New York, Oct. 9. It was learned
today that United Stales District At
torney Burnett has been instructed by
the attorney general in Washington to
investigate the working of the coal
trust in hia district, that of the south
ern half of New York state. General
Burnett declined, however, to state the
nature of the investigation to be made
by him, or when it would be com
menced. Further than this ha would
not talk.
MOB DEMOLISHES CARS.
Militia Called to Suppress Hudson Valley
Railway Strikers.
Glens Falls, N. Y., Oct. 7. A
mob of fully 5,000 sympathizers of the
Hudson Valley railway strikers paradwd
the streets, stopping all cars as they
came through, storming the cars and
breaking the windows and cutting the
trolley ropes. 80 great did the dlaiurh
nce become that Sheriff Gill ordered
out company D, of the national guard,
stationed here, to disperse the mob.
When the rioters began their work, the
majority of the non-union employes of
the company gave themselves into the
hands of the police for protection, but
some deserted to the strikers. Four
cars were Btalled on the switch and all
the windows in them were broken.
The trouble was precipitated by the
calling of a mass meeting by the Feder
ation of Labor. This brought out an
enormous crowd. No effort is being
made to run the cars, and, it being evi
dent that the police were unable to cope
with the situation, the sheriff was ap
pealed to, and he asked the aid of the
military. It was thought several of
the strikers would go back to work, but
this demonstration made a change.
One of the non-union employes left his
car, as the stones were coming too
thick for him. The mob seized him,
and be is now in a serious condition
under the care of a physician.
WALSH ON IRRIQATION
President of National Congress Tells What
He Thinks It Should Do.
Denver, Oct. 7. Thomas F. Walsh,
president of the National Irrigation
Congress, has arrived in Denver from
the East, and will preside and delivei
the opening address at the session of
the congress in Colorado Springs.
Asked for his views as to the attitude
of the congress on the recent govern
ment action, he said:
"The first duty of the men who are
interested in this movement should be
to try to eliminate sectionalism. The
question of the reclamation of arid
lands should be kept a national one.
The congress should nrge that the first
reservoir sites be wisely chosen. Fu
ture success and the future good
opinion of the East will deend upon
the beginning, and we should bend all
our efforts to securing an auspicious
start.
"The congress, I think, should take
cognizance of the question of rural im
provement, the beautification of rural
homes; at least start such a movement,
and help create a feeling of pride on
the part of those that open up the pub
lic domain."
WILL NOW APPEAL TO MINERS.
Resumption of Work to be Urged on Con
ditlon of National Inquiry.
Washington, Oct. 7. A final effort,
with hopes of success, is to be made to
end the coal strike. It hts been dis
cussed by the president and some of his
advisors, and while the idea , is still in
an uncompleted state, and the final
result still uncertain, yet it offers a
method which now seems to be the only
solution of the problem.
The suggestion is made that Presi
dent Mitchell, of the United Minework
ers, may be able to have his men now
on strike return to worn, in order t3
avert the impending disaster which a
fuel famine will cause, and that at as
early a date as possible there shall be a
complete investigation by the national
legislature and by the state legislature
of Pennsylvania into the anthracite coal
situation, witn a view of bringing be
fore the public the facts and conditions
of the miners, with a view of legisla
tion or recommendations for relieving
the condition of the miners in the near
future.
While it is not absolutely possible to
guarantee such an investigation, there
is little doubt that recommendations
by the president and the executive of
Pennsylvania would be promptly acted
upon by ccngress and the Pennsylvania
legislature.
WILL TRY TO START MORE MINES.
Operators In Wyoming District are More
Determined Than Ever.
Wilkesbarre, Pa., Oct. 7. It is raid
that the coal operators of the Wyoming
region will make a more determined
effort than ever this week to start up
addi.ional collieries. They allege they
can get the men if the military author
ities will protect them and their fami
lies. Vice-President Roscavage, of
District No. I, Uaited Mineworkers,
says the coal companies are now send
ing into the region large numbers ol
Poles, Slavs and Italians. Some of
them, he says, are fresh arrivals rom
Europe. Mr. Roscavage produced two
affidavits from ioreign laborers, who
said they were brought here by an
agent of the labor bureau in New York.
They were told that they were wanted
to a ork in a factory , bnt when they
arrived here) they were sent to the
mines.
Coal Trains on Sunday.
Norfolk, V., Oct. 7. The Norfolk
& Western railroad Issued orders to
its employes to run coal trains on Sun
day through the state of Virginia and
elsewhere to expedite the delivery of
coal. The law of the state prohibits
the running of freight trains on Sun
day, but, as unusual conditions exist,
is understood the action of the road will
not be construed as a violence of this
law.
Trains Collide on a Curve.
Helena, Oct. 7. A Burlington west
bound train and the Northern Pacific
east bound express met in head-on
, collision between Columbus and Park
City, Mont., on a curve on the North
era Pacific track this morning. Two
men were killed and the engines and
I mail can were wrecked.
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