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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1903)
JrlFiMi "IT'S A COLD DAY WHEN WE GET LEFT." VOL. XV. HOOD EIVEE, OREGON, TnUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1903. NO. 13. HOOD RIVER GLACIER Published every Thursday. 8. F. BLVTHB A SON, Publisher. Terms of subscription fl.60 a year when paid In advance. ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF HAILS. HOOD RIVER. The poatoftloe open dally between g a. ra. i d 8 p. m. i Sunday rom 12 to 1 o'clock. Malls f r the East close at 11 :30 a. m. ana 9pm; for the West at 7:10 a. m. and 1:44) p. hi. MatlleaTes For Mi. Hood, dally at 12:90 p. m.; arrives, 10 Hi a. m for Cbeaoweth, Wash., at 8:30 a. m. Tues days, ThuraaayaaDd Saturdays; arrives same 4)'s at 7 p. m. For Under od, Wash., at 1:90 a. to Tues days, Thursday! and Saturdays; arrives same days at V p. in. For White Salmon, Wash., dally at 2:46 p, m.; arrives at 11 a. m. - WHITE SALMON. . For Hood River dally at a. m.; arrivea at 4:45 p.m. For Hmura, Trout Lake and fiules, Wash., aawy at itn a. m. ; arrives ai a m. For Oienwood, tilliner and Fulda, Wash., dally at i:3o a m.; arrives at o p. ni. For fine flat and Hnnwdcn, Wash., at 11:90 a. in. Tuesdays and .baturdays; arrives same days, 10:Sua. m. For Bin en, Wash., daily at 4:45 p. m.; ar rives at 8:45 a. in. SOCIKTIK4. 101"RT HOOD RIVER No. 42, FORESTERS OF j AMERICA Meets second and Fourth Mon days in each month in K. of 1'. hall. H. J. Frederic, C. R. S. F. Focts, Financial Secretary. OAK GROVE COUNCIL No. 142, ORDER OF I'ENDO. Meets the Hecond and Fourth Fridays of the month. Visitors cordiallv wel comed. F. IT. Kkohiiis, Counsellor. Mine Nsixii Clark, Secretary. 0RIEROFwTsHINQTON. Hood River Union No. 142, meets in Odd Fellows' hall second and fourth Saturdays in each month, 7 :3U o'clock. C. L. Corns, President. . E. IUnni, Secretary. IAUREL REBEKAH DEOREE LODGE, No. i 87, 1. O. O. F.-Meeis itrst and third Fri days in each month. Mim Edith Moors, N. O. L. E. Morse, Secretary. SANDY POST, No. 16, G. A. R -Meets at A. O. U. W. Hall second and fourth Salurdars each month at i o'clock p. m. All U. A. K. members Invited to meet with us. W. H. Perry, Commander. T. J. Cukning, Adjutant. - ANBV W. R. C, No. 16 Meets second and fourth Saturdays of each month In A. O, U. W. hall at 2 p. m. Mrs. Fannie Bailey, Pres. Mhk. T. J. Canning, Secretary. 1TOOD RIVER LODGE No. 105, A. F, and A Jl M. Meets Saturday evening on or before tat-a full moon. Wm. M. Vates, W. M. C. D. Thompson, Secretary. II OOD RIVER CHAPTER, No. 27, R. A. M Meets intra rriaay mini oi each month. u. a. vAfriftaa, n. r, A. 8. Blowers, Secretary. u'lu m , nit tun. . uv.,., v.. n. Jl Meets second and fourth Tuesday ever lngs of each month. Visitors cordially wel eomed. Mrs. May Yates, W. H. Mrs. Mast B. Davidson, Secretary, . w OOD RIVER CHAPTER, No. 25, O. R. 8.- even- wet- 0LETA ASSEMBLY No. ICS. United Artisans, Meets drat and third Wednesdays, work; second and fourth Wednesdays social: Arti sans hall. F. C. Bsosius, M. A. F. B. Barnis, Secretary. 1 XTAUCOMA LODGE, No. SO, K. of P.-Meti IT In k. of r. hall every Tuesday night. F. L. Davidson, C. C, Dr. C. H. Jenkins, K. f R. fc a. RIVERSIDE LODGE. No. 611, A. O. U. W. Meets nm and third Saturdavs or eaoh month. F. B. Barnes, W. M. X. R. Bradley, Financier. Chester Shots, Recorder. IDLE WILDE LODGE, No. 107, I. O O. F Meets in Fraternal hall every Thursday night. Geo. W. Thompson, N. G. J. L. Henderson, Secretary. OOD RIVER TENT, No. It, K. O. T. M., meets at A. O. U. W. hall on the first and third Fridays of each month. Walter Gerrins, Commander. O. E. Williams, Secretary. KIVERSIDE LODGE NO. 40, DEGREE OP HONOR, A. O. U. W. Meets first and third Saturdays at! P. M. Kate M. Frederick, Col H. Miss Annie Smith, Recorder. HOOD RIVER CAMP, No. 7,702, M. W. A., meets in Odd Fellows' Hall the first and third W ednesdavs of each month. J. R. Rses, V. C. C. U. Darin, Clerk. FiDEN ENCAMPMENT No. 4, I. O. O. F. i Regular meeting second and fourth Mon days of each month. W. O. Asm, C. P. Y. L. Henderson, Scribe. 1 II. JENKINS, D. M. D. DENTIST. Specialist on Crown and Bridge Work. Telephones: Office. 281; residence, 94. Office in Langilla bid. Hood River, Oregon. JJR. X. T. CARNS, Dentist. -Cold erowns and bridge wert and all kinds el Up-to-Diti Dentistry. HOOD RIVER OREGON LJ L.DUMBLE, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Successor to Dr. M. T. Bhaw. Calls promptly answered in town or eeautry, Dav or Night. Telephones: Residence, II; Office, II Ottos ever Everhart's Grocery. J T. WATT, M. D. Physician and Surgeon. Telephones: Office, Ml; residence, 21 SURGEON O. R. N. CO. JOHN LELAND HENDERSON ATTORNEY-AT LAW. ABSTRACTER, NO. TAHY PUBLIC and REAL, ESTATE AGENT. For 21 years a reeldent of Oregon and Wash- tnstpa. Has bad many years eiperieace la teal Estate matters, as abstractor, searcher el titles and agent. Hailafactioa guaranteed er no eharge. p REDERICK ARNOLD CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS. Estimate famished for all kinds of work. Repairing; a specialty. All kinds of shop work. Shop on Bute Street, between First and Second. A.JAYNE. LAWYER. Abstracts Furnished. Money Loaned. Hood River, Oregon. p C. BROSIUS, M. D. " PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. 'Phone Central, or 121. Office Boars: 10 to 11 A. M.J J te I and 6 to 7 P. M. gUTLER A CO., BANKERS. . Do a general banking business. B00D RIVER. 0BEG0JT. EVENTS OF THE DAY GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OP THE TWO HEMISPHERES. Comprehensive Review of the Import ant Happening! of toe Past Week, Presented la Condensed Form, Most Likely to Prove Interesting to Our Many Readers. fk disastrous hurricane swept the is land of Martinique. Oii will be used in the Oregon City paper mills for fuel instead of wood. The entire North Atlantic squadron will go to Oyster Bay to be reviewed by the creeluent. .... - .. ,tm.- A large amount of counterfeit token money baa been made in Portland and is Deing passed in California. The National building trades council has endorsed William R. Hearst as its choice for United States president. The British immigration commis sioner furors the passage of laws similar to those in force in the Uni ed States Eighty-four bodies of victims in the Paris train wreck have been recovered and the death list is expected to reach 100. Macedoninas deny the stories of atrocities and hold that Turkey is spreading them to poison the mind of Europe. A Portland firm has been awarded the contract of reconstructing the Port land postoffice. The work is to be fin' ished in Vl months. The interstate commerce commission has received replies from a number of railroads to charges recently filed al leging discrimination in rates. They one and all admit the excessive charges and ask the commission what it is go ing to do about it. General Miles declares for small armies tor all nations. Supporters of the Irish land bill be lieve iti passage is now assured. The fibishing touches are being put on Shamrock III prior to the big races. Thirty-three more bodies have been taken from the Joanna, Wyoming mine. The Casino gambling bouse, one of the most notorious in France, has been destroyed by fire. The international typographical un ion has commenced its 49th annual ses sion at Waahintgon. Penny postage rates between Great Britain and the United States are deemed impracticable. A Kansas woman lost a bustle cn a train containing $7,500. Railroad de tectives found it for ber. The Canadian Paciflo railroad has declared a dividend of 2'a per cent for the six months juBt ended. The textile workers of Philadelphia have given up their strike. Over 10, 000 have returned to work. Grain field fires near Bakersfield, Cal., have destroyed thousands of acres of wheat and pasture. Three thousand men have gone on a strike at Cripple Creek, Colo., in order to stop shipments to smelters refusing to grant 8-hour days. The insurrectionary movement in Macedonia is spreading. Cruelty of nobles to their American wives will force many to ask lor di vorces. Chinese ol New York have pe titioned Secretary Hay to sate the re formers. Senator Morgan says, Foraker and not Roosevelt, will be the republican nominee for president. Safe crackers blew open a safe with in two blocks of the police station at Portland and secured f 150. The pope gave his blessing to the world from inside and not from the balcony as was hoped by many. Captain Charles J. Barclay, of the Pnzet sound navv rard. is now ranking officer on the list of navy captains. A Hattiesburg, Miss., mob chiseled into the jail, secured the negro who shot a jailer, and then hanged him. President Roosevelt and Secretary Root did not eulogise Miles because tbey felt that he was not deserving of praise. A tornado swept the mining district of Pittsburg, Kan., killing four, wounding 60 and doing great damage to property. Lieutenant General Miles has re tired. Roosevelt is in favor cf a more elas tic currency. Bulgaria will be neutral in the Mace donia trouble. Fire at Barcelona, Spain, rendered 3,000 families homeless and destitute. Mere Russians have been killed by troops in labor troubles. Mayor Tom L. Johnson, of Cleve land, Ohio, will be a candidate for gov ernor. Foreign consul will not allow the delivery of reformers to China for ex ecution. Cape Colony will not be represented at the 1904 fair as was originally the I itention. An insane man baa been killed by officers by mistake in searching for the Folsosa convicts. TO QUIT CABINET. Secretary Root Will Resign Before (lo in; to England. Washington, Aug. 13. For several months past there have been rumors afloat that Secretary Root is to retire from the cabinet, and it is now known definitely that hia resignation will be tendered before he leaves for Europe to serve on the Alassan boundary com mission. It is understood that the matter of bis successor has been dis cussed, and while nothing official can be obtained, it is believed it will be tendered to Governor Taft. While Secretary Root is in London, he will remain in communication with the war department, and matters per taining to general staff and other im portant affairs will be referred to him If -the sittiugB of the Alaska commis sion extend beyond December 1, it is prooable that the secretary's resigns' tion will he accepted, and his succes sor appointed at that time. The president is very loath to part with Root, for he is one of the most valuable members of the cabinet ine secretary has been anxious to go for some time, but he has desired to put his general staff law into operation before he retired. He also wanted the Philippine insular government on a firm footing before be relinquished con troi over the islands. Secretary Root was called to the cab inet by President McKinley, who in sisted upon having a lawyer of known aoility to handle the problems growing out ol the Spanish war. Root sacri- Seed a law practice of more than f 100,- 000 a year in order to accept a place in the cabinet, and did so largely through patriotic motives, and also because he felt he was summoned as a lawyer to perform a great government service. CASHIER ROBS BANK. Flees After Losing $75,000 Qambllng on drain.- Clrcleville, O., Aug. 13. John K Brown, cashier of the Union bank at New Holland, O., is missing, and it said there is a shortage of nearly $76, 000 in hi i accounts. The bank vaults were not opened at the usual hour this morning as Brown had the combina tion. An expeit from Canton, O., opened the safe thin evening in the presence of the directors, and only $458 in coin was found. The books show deposits of $150,000 one week ago, and also show $99,000 in loans. cashier Brown's shortage will probably be in the neighborhood of $75,000. The shortage, so far, foots up $50,542, and an examination of the books may show heavier losses. The bank is an incorporated concern, which, under the Ohio laws, makes each stockholder liable for double the amount of his shares up to the amount of any shortage that may occur. The Union bank was established 13 years ago, and bas had a prosperous ex istence. .Brown has been cashier since its existence. The bank has been pay ing regular dividends since its opening. It is said Brown has been speculating in the grain market with bucket shops at Washington. POPE'S HEART WEAK. Doctors Will Insist on His Suspension of Audiences. Rome, Aug. 13. Pope Pius, who fainted while celebrating mass this morning, is suffering from heart weak ness, agrgavated by fatigue. Although he was much better this afternoon, Dr. Lapponi, who visited him again, thought it more prudent for his holi ness not leave his apartment, and not to go into the garden of the Vatican, as he desired. The doctor further insist ed upon a suspension of audiences. The pontiff seems more docile to the doctor's wishes than his predecessor, although he insisted on transacting some current business. ' r. Davenozia, speaking about the pope, said: "If tbey wish our Pius not to suc cumb, the Vatican authorities must change their system. They must not oblige him to follow the habits of Pope Leo. The present pontiff needs es pecially plenty of fresh air. He must not be shut up in a box in a vitiated atmosphere." Strikers Rule With High Hand. London, Aug. 13. Firms here have received mail advices from Kleff,' Rus sia, dated last Saturday, which says that the strikers have completely par alyzed business, and will not allow fimshei. machinery to be delivered from manufactories. The men turned girls ont of dressmaking and other workshops under threat of death. The streets are full of soldiers, according to these advices, and shooting occurs daily. The price of bread has risen 150 per cent and is still going up. The troops are working the water works. Russia Oalns Point la Cores. London, Aug. 13. The Times corre spondent states that Cores has granted the Russian lumber company a 20-year lease cf 350 acres at Tonghampo, with the right to purchase, at reasonable prices, all the timber floated down the Yaln by Japanese subjects, thereby con ferring a practical monopolv of the lumber in the Yalu valley. Thus Rus sia, while opposing the opening of Wiju. herself secures free access to the Yaln valley. Fifty Prisoners Mutiny. Carthaire, Mo., Aug. 13. Fifty pris oners in the county jail mutinied at midnight and made a demand for better f 3od. The fire department was called ont and turned a stream of water on the prisoners, who, after tnrning out the lights in the corridor, hurled empty bottles at the firemen and jail officials. The prisonerswere finally subdued. HAPPENINGS HERE IN OREGON Bid PROFITS IN FARniNO. Willamette Valley Ranchers Will Do Well This Year. Willamette vauey larmers are re joicing over the prospect for good profits In almost every thing they have to sell this year. Not only are prices good, nut yields are large and as a consequence there will be more money in the valley this year than there has been for more than a de cade before. Wheat at Salem is quoted at 70 cents, with the mills paying a 2-cent premium. In ordinary years all above 50 cents would be tlear profit, but be cause of the high wagos paid to farm help this season it will take from 52 to 65 cents to pay the cost of produc tion. The average yield, so far as can be learned, will be about 20 bush els to the acre or more. This means a clear profit of from $3 to $3.50 an acre on wheat, after allowing for all labor and expenses. Oats have turn ed out better in proportion than wheat, and the large yield, with price of about 25 cents per bushel, will leave a good profit on that crop. The season has been very favorable for hay, and yields have been good The prices quoted at present are from $7 to $8 a ton in the local market for loose hay. Farmers say that about half of this price Is profit. Yields run from two to three tons per acre, mak lng this crop a better paying one than wheat. Hops promise a price ranging from 15 cents upward, and it Is generally figured that all above 8 cents is profit, though growers who hire all their work done and give their yards a good spraying say that the cost of produc tion is 10 cents a pound. At any rate, there seems to be an excellent profit this year. The prune crop is large, and though the domestic market has not opened, has been making sales at Its own price, a 2-cent basis, which price leaves the grower a "better than fair" margin. All throueh the year dairy products have brought an extraordinary price and even country butter has round a ready market at paying figures. Woolgrowers sold their fleeces this year at a high price, and sheep have been in demand all through the year. CATTLEMEN REFUSE TO SELL. Despite Scarcity of Feed They Hold for Better Figures. Never In the history of the country around Dale has the cattle market been as unsettled as it is at the pres ent time. Prices offered by export buyers are extremely low, and the cattle- raisers are refusing to sell. Crowding on top of this, there is a scarcity of hay as compared with last year, and prices are running moun tain high. Hay Is selling In the field at $10 per ton, which is $4 higher than it was last fall. Cattle-raisers who have not a sufficient supply are trying to contract for all they can se cure, but the farmer will not sell. Again there are more cattle on the range this year than last, without suf ficient feed for them. Notwithstand ing the discouraging state of affairs whleh confront the cattleman, he is willing to wait for further develop ments. The export cattle-buyers who have been in the country have had to go to other parts because they could not se cure the cattle here. The buyers give Portland quotations here at $2.70 per hundred for cows and $3.35 for steers. The average is $3.75, and even better prices than that were re ceived last year. If both the buyer and the seller'contlnue to hold out, it is believed that there will be .a num ber of forced sales on the part of the stockmen, and that they will sell at a loss to themselves. No Orais to Fight Over. There Is no range war in the Upper Deschutes valley. On the contrary, there is the peace of desolation. The range was overstocked and eaten out and no grass worth .making war ever remains. Where neat cattle and horses once throve by the thousands there is now none too much feed for few hundreds. Twenty years ago there was no finer grazing region in the United States. Men who now ride all day In a cloud of dust tell of the time when the grass was up to their knees as they bestrode their horses, and cattle fairly wallowed in the feed that covered the 30 miles of present desert between Bend and Prineville. Cowlitz Navlgstion Obstructed. During the recent freshets a sand bar formed at the mouth of the Cow lits river which greatly hindered the operation of the plant belonging to the Columbia & Cowlitz River Boom Company. A dredge will shortly take the work of clearing the channel in hand, after which the company will put in two new piers and rearrange the sheer boom. When finished this boom will be one of the best on the Columbia river and will be of great assistance to the loggers To Have Brand New School House. Canyon City is to have a new and up-to-date school building that will be credit to the town. The school au thorities are advertising for bids for Its construction. The building will be two stories high and will have four class and recitation rooms. Its cost will be about $3000. President Smith Inspecting Farms. E. L. Smith, of Hood River, presi dent of the State Board of Horticul ture, Is in Coos county on a tour of Insoection. While there Mr. Smith will visit most of the principal farms in the county. Plaalnc Mill Burned at Haines. The Haines Lumber Company's planing mill, at Haines, was burned last week. The loss is $5000. The plant was owned by James Mitchell, of Baker City, who carried no insurance. MAY BG FOREST RESERVE. Commissioner Richards OJvss Reasons for Withholding Large Tract. Register Dresser, of the Oregon City land office, bas received from Commissioner W. A. Richards, of the United States land office, a letter re lative to the telegram of recent date withdrawing certain public lanes in that district from settlement. The letter directs the withdrawal, tern porarlly, of all vacant unappropriated lands In townships 5 to 13 south, both Inclusive, range 4 east, from settle ment, entrjr. sale, or, .other... jl UnoaaJ. under the public land laws, pending tne determination as to the advis ability of including said area within the Cascade range forest reserve. Regarding the rights of settlers who have already located on lands In eluded in the specified area, Commis sioner Richards says: "Neither this temporary withdraw al, nor the permanent reserve of the lands which may follow, will affect any bona fide settlement or claim properly initiated upon the lands prior to the date hereof, provided that the settler or claimants continue to comply with the law under which their settlement or claims were Ini tiated, and place their claims duly on record within the prescribed stat utory period. The withdrawal oper ates to defeat all settlement claims or other claims initiated subsequent to this date, regardless of the date upon which you receive the telegram." DAILY ATTENDANCE SMALLER. Though Oregon's School Population Has Greatly Increased. Superintendent bf Public Instruc tion X H. Ackerman has just finished compiling the annual school statis tics as gathered from the reports re cently filed in his office by the sever al county superintendents. As the re ports for last year covered a period of 16 months, there is no basis for comparisons except in a few partic ulars. The school census for the year end ing in June, 1903, shows that there are in the state 143,757 persons be tween the ages of 4 and 20 years. At the same time last year the 'school population was 138,466, no that an in crease of 6291 is shown. The average daily attendance in all the public schools of the state during the preceding year has been 64,219, while for the preceding year it was 66,779, or a decrease of 2560. A de crease m the average daily .attend ance at the same time that there is an increase In the school population probably due to the scarcity of labor and the high wages, which, to gether, take many of the older boys out of school during the greater part of the year. Protest Against Withdrawals. A special meeting of the Roseburg board of trade and citizens generally has been called to protest against the withdrawal of any more public lands from entry In that portion of the state. Other commercial bodies in the western part of Oregon will be invited to co-operate in protesting to the officials in Washington, D. C, and to our senators and representatives in congress against the further ex tension of our already immense for est reserves. Such recently proposed extensions will work serious hard ships on many bona fide settlers now located on some of these lands, To Clear Coos Bay Channel, Replying to an earnest request submitted by Congressman Hermann, based upon a petition of the Coos Bay chamber of commerce, Secretary of War Root wires that he has appor tloned $10,000 as an emergency aid for removing the recent shoal forma tion in the Coos ba yentrance chan nel, which delays deep-draft vessels. As the shoal Is constantly enlarging, commerce there would have material ly suffered had it been necessary to await congressional action. PORTLAND MARKETS. rWheat-WaJIa Walla, 7878c; blue- stem, 7881c; valley. 7980c. Flour Valley, $3.603.85 per bar rel; hard wheat straights, $3.60(83.85; hard wheat, patents, $4.104.60; graham, I3.3S3.75; whole wheat, $3.554.00: rye wheat, $4.00. Barley Feed, $20 per ton; brewing, $21; rolled, $2121.60. Oats No. 1 white, $1.07)4; gray, 105 per cental. r Millstuffs Bran, $23 per ton; mid dlings, $27; shorts, $23; chop, $18; linseed dairy food, $18. Hav Timothy, old, $20 per ton; new, $14(3 15 ;f clover, nominal; grain, $12; cheat, nominal. Butter Fancy creamery, 2022Kc per pound; dairy, nominal; store, 16 (3 17c. Cheese Full cream, twins, 14r; Yoang America,. 14c; factory prices, ll)c less. Poultry Chickens, mixed, 11 114C per pound; spring, 16ai7ic; bens, 12(ai2S'c; broilers, $2(93 per dozen; turkeys, live, 10(S12c per pound; dressed, 14(3 15c; ducks, $4(35 per dozen; geese, $5?6.50. Eggs Oreeon ranch, 19(S0c. Potatoes Old Burbanka, 70S 75c per sack, growers' prices; new pota toes. Oregon, 8 0KS1 per sack; Cali fornia, lc per pound. Wheat Sacks In lots of 100, 5 Vc Beef Gross steers, $3.75(34.25; dressed, 67Kc P' pound. Veal Se per pound. Motton Gross. $3; dressed, hS& Be; lambs, gross, $3 60; dressed, 7e. Hogs Gross, $5.5035.75; dressed, 7c Hops 1902 crop, 15316c perponnxl. Tallow Prime, per pound, 435c; No. S and grease, ttc. Wool Valley, 17418c; Eastern Oregon, 123 15c; mohair, S5(337c LIBERTY VERY BRIEF. Murderers Break Jail at Cbeysnne, Wyo, Fkrce Struggle With Jailor. Cheyenne, Wyo., Aug. 12. Tom Horn, the condemned murderer of lit tle Willie Nickell. and Jim McCloud, in custody for postoffice robbery, es caped from the county jail at 8:40 o'clock this morning after overpowering Deputy Sheriff Proctor, but were recap tured after a brief bnt exciting chase. The ringing of fire bells brought hun dreds ol armed citizens to the scene and it looked for a time as though a lynching would take place, but the es capes were hurriedly brought back to the jail and placed in their cells be fore the crowds J"ould form themselves into mob. The men did not get but two blocks away before tbey were re taken. The plot which led to their escape was well planned. Horn and McCloud were the only prisoners confined on the uppir floor of the jail. They oc cupied steel cells, so arranged that communication was ccmuaratively easy. This morning McCloud com plained to Deputy Proctor of being ill and requested some medicine and a glass of water. Uponjreturning with the articles asked for, he discovered that the men had left their cells, which were not locked, and had walked to the end of the corridor through which they were allowed to exercise. When Proctor opened the door to the corridor, he was pounced upon by the two men and securely bound with a cord which they had secured in some manner. Horn and McCloud demand ed that he give them his keys and al though Proctor had them on his person, be replied that they were locked op fci the safe. Proctor was then conducted to the safe and directed to open it. The or der was obeyed, but en opening the safe, Proctor snatched from inside a gun and turned on the man. They were too quick for him, however, and soon bore him down. In the brief struggle Proctor fired , his revolver at them four times, slightly wounding McCloud. The shooting attracted the attention of Deputy Know, who hastened to the1 scene, but was met at the doorway by McCloud, who had secured possession of a shotgun in some manner. Snow retreated and Horn and McCloud es caped through rear door of the jail, after binding the arms of Deputy Proc tor. McCloud secured the only horse in the sheriff's stable and mounted the animal and started toward the west- Horn ran in the opposite direction. BUTTE JAIL YAWNS. Murderers and Highwaymen Escspe Eas ily Oet the Drop on the Jailor. Butte, Mont., Aug. 12. Three mur derers, two under sentence of death, a stage robber wanted in Wyoming and two highwaymen, escaped from the Silver Bow county jail shortly after 6 o'clock this evening, without any diffl culty. The men who escaped aie: L. L. Felker, who escaped once before, Charles Lenox and James Martin, J. Wocds, alias Joe Rodgers. and Pat rick Rodgers. Frank Oestroff is wanted in Cheyenne for holding up a stage coach. The latter and Joe Rod gers were caught within an hour after tbey escaped. Oectroff was armed. Oestroff and Rodgers planned the de livery. Oestroff complained of being sick and a doctor was called in. When the jailor opened the corridor, Oestroff dropped a revolver on Jailor William Dolan, and then took the keys from him. Oestroff then, with the aid of Joe Rodgres, opened the cells of the prisoners, and the jailor was overpow ered. Oestroff kept Dolan at bay while the other prisoners walked out of the jail. One of them secured a revolver from the jailor's office. Lenox and Martin went out the rear way of the jail, and the others cooly walked out the main entrance. Oestroff was ran down oy horseman, and was completely ex hausted when caught. Senators on a Sandbsr. Tacoma, Wash., Aug. 12. When the steamship St. Paul left Nome 10 days ago, United States Senators Nel son, of Minnesota; Patterson, of Colo rado, and Dillingham, of Vermont, were stuck on a sandbar in the Yukon river, 200 miles above Nulato. There senators compose part of the senatorial committee appointed to investigate Alaskan affairs. After visiting Skag way and Junea, they went to Dawson and inspected Klondike mines. Tbey started for the mining camps on the Lower Yukon on the Bteamer Van Vleet. Broad Hint to Powers. London, Aug. 12. The Times prints a dispatch from Shanghai, which says that the anniversary of the capture of Niu Chwang was celebrated, and that M. Grossee, the Russian administrator, issued formal invitations for the inaug uration of the Russian civil administra tion building, and that this was inter preted as equivalent to the declaration to the representatives of the other pow ers that they could not claim s footing of equality or rights in this port. Meteor's Blaze of Light. Chickasha, I. T., Aug. lx. During a heavy thunder storm last night, a meteor fell here with a blaze of light and a shower of sparks that lit up the country for miles around. The aerol ite struck the earth in the back yard of Mrs. Sarah Sibley. Mrs. Sibley waa severely stunned. A terrific ex plosion occurred as the meteor strnck and incandescent fragments Sew in all directions. The telephone system was wrecked. NINETY ARE LOST TRAIN WRECK IN PARIS TUNNEL CAUSES A GREAT PANIC. Officials Lose Their Wits and Allow Pas sengers to Die In Flames Firemen tnsble for Hours to Reach tne Vic tims, tntn They Finally Succeed in Flooding Burning Mass. Paris, Aug. 12. An awfui catastro phe occurred last evening on the Met ropolitan electric railway, which runs mostly underground, in which 90 per sons are believed to have lest their lives. Eighty-twociBs.have been recovered and the search continues. One of the trains broke down at Menil montant, which is a poor and populous section of the city. This train was promptly emptied, and the train which followed was ordered to push it to the repairing sheds. On the way thtse two trains caught fire, but the employes succeeded in escaping. Meanwhile a crowded train reached Les Charonnes, the preceding station, and the officials seeing smoke pouring out of the tun nel, gave the alarm. A panic ensued, the passengers struggling to escape. Amid the increasing smoke many at tempted to return along the line toward Belleville and were suffocated. The officials seem to have lost their heads and are unable to say how many pas sengers went out. The firemen for sev eral hours wete unable to enter the sta tion or the tunnel, owing to the dense smoke, which poured out in black clouds. Meanwhil" tens of thousands of anxious people gathered about the station. All the police and fire engines were on the spot and the excitement was intense. CZAR UP IN ARMS. Says Turkey Must Punish Slayer of Consul. Bt. Petersburg, Aug. 12. The czar has demanded the exemplary punish ment not only of the murderer ot the Russian tonsul at Monastir, who waa killed last week by a Turkish gend arme, but of all the military and civil officials in any way responsible for the crime. In reporting the occurrence to the foreign office, the Russian consul at Constantinople telegraphed as follows: "The Rsusian consul at Monastir has fallen the victim of an atrocious crime. The grand vizier and the Turkish for eign minister have come to me with ex pressions of regret in the name of the Bultan. Ferid Pasha, the grand vizier, informed me that the assassin was a gendarme named Halim, and that he will be subjected to the severest pun ishment, and the vali of Monastir will be removed from his post." In reply, Count Lamsdorff, the for eign minister, telegraphed to the am bassador: "His majesty has received a telegram from the sultan epxreeeing his deep re gret at the death of the Russian consul at Monastir. When I showed the tele gram to the emperor, his majesty gave orders that you should not confine yourself to receiving explanations from the grand vizier, but should make the most energetic demands on the Turk ish government for full satisfaction and immediate and exemplary punishment both of the murderer and of all the military and civil officials on whom re sponsibility for the audacious crime may fall." ROOT NOT TO RESION. Secretary War Will Remain In the Cabinet. Oyster Bay, Aug. 12. The attention of the president tonight was directed to a circumstantial statement, pub lished today, that Secretary Root ex pected soon to retire from the cabinet, to be succeeded by Governor Taft, or the Philippines. It can be said that there is no denfiite foundation for the story. The president, since the first intimation many months ago of Secre tary Root's possible retirement, has hoped, and still hopes, that he will re main in the cabinet for a long time. He believes that the secretary will re main through the ccming winter, and probably a much longer time. Want Prices Raised. London, Aug. 12. The Daily News this morning prints a dispatch from Warsaw, dated last Friday, which says that an American association, said to contain 37,000 farmers, bas addressed itself to the Russian ministers of fi nance and agriculture, requesting their assistance in raising the current prices of agricultural produce, particularly wheat, an saying that the association projects a great union between the wheat growing countries of the world for the purpose of fixing an annual minimum selling price. Pope Aging Fast. Rome, Aug. 12. Pius X had anoth er fatiguing day, as be received all the delegations which had come to Rome to attend the coronation ceremonies. The pontiff allowed all the members of the delegation to kiss bis band, and called by name those whom be knew. just as he bad when he met them for merly when lnenice. His old Vene tian friends agree that the pope looks ten years older than he did before his election. Japanese Desire Peace. Tokio, Japan, Aug. 12. A number ot public men, including Prince Ron oye, president of the bonse of peers, and Counts Itagaki, ex-minister ol the interior, and Kama, have formed a non-partisan association for the pur pose of erging the government to in vite Russia to terminate the causes of tbe present international complica tions. o