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! > TiMKILL COUNTY REPORTER. HIS STAY AT AN END. RACED FOR A SWITCH. I ferrible Presidential Party Complete Their Programme D. I. ASBIKÏ, Publisher. Accident Caused Carelessness. by Motormen's Jew Oil Discoveries Will Keep It Ahead ol Russia in Amount Produced. Washington, May 29.—The recent Albany, N. Y., May 27.—Electric Burning and Crushing Twenty >il discoveries in Texas and on the | ears racing for a switch while run of the State. One Miners. PAcific coast lend especial interest to ning in opposite ‘directions at the some facts just presented by the treas rate of 40 miles an hour cost five ury bureau of statistics regarding the COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL HAPPENINGS j lives yesterday afternoon by a terrific NINE MORE PROBABLY FATALLY BURNED exports of mineral oils from the United States. These show that the j collision in which over 40 prominent A Brief Review of the Growth and Improve- ¡people were injured, some fatally Accident Due to Co«i Dust Being Ignited By exportation of the fiscal year about to menu of the Many Industries Through end will probably lie the largest in the • "Blown Blast"—Flames Shot 300 I and others seriously. The lobby of history of this remarkable industry, out Our Thriving Commonwealth. Feet From the TunneL A» Interestii.j Collection ol Items From thr the local postoffice, filled with dead which has increased its exports from Two Hemispheres Preseated In • and wounded, hysterical women and 204,000,000 gallons of illuminating oil Philomath will celebrate the Fourth children looking for relatives and Condensed Form. Dayton, Tenn, May 29.—At the in 1875, to 721,000,000 gallons in of July. friends, surgeons administering tem Richland mine of the Dayton Coal 1900. In the quarter century from The Chinese indemnity will be The Hillalmro council has ordered porary relief, and ambulances racing k Iron Company, two miles from 1876 to 1900 the value of mineral oils settled this week. 500 feet of hose. through the city taking the wounded acre, at 4:30 o’clock this afternoon, exported from the United States was Mrs. McKinley is standing the Sufficient funds have been pledged to. the hospitals, were the early in- i terrific explosion of coal dust re- about $1,900,000,000, an average of homeward trip well. about $48,00,000 a year. During re for a Fourth of July celebration at i timations of the accident. suited in the death of 21 men, al) cent years it has averaged about $60,- It is certain that all volunteers will Roseburg. The scene of the accident was at a .vhite, and most of them marired 000,000 per annum or $5,000,000 per be started for home before July. Last week there was 60,000 pounds point about two miles out of Green- month. Danger of serious trouble between of wool sold at Blalock for 10 cents liusch, on the line of the Albany & ind with families. In the mere question of gallons of The explosion was caused by what France and Morocco has Lieen averted. Hudson Railway. The point where per pound. oil produced, Russia has been for is known among miners as a “ blown A freight train on the Great North Two carloads of horses were shipped : the cars met on the single track was blast.” It is the custom of the years a close competitor of the United ern ran into a car loaded with dyna from Baker City to the East this week j at a sharp curve, and so fast were miners to place blasts and fire them States, though it is probable that the ’ both running and so sudden was the mite. by Susanville people. recent discoveries in the United States collision that the motormen did not off at quitting time, leaving the coal The battle ship Oregon is to be S L. Brooks, a stockraiser of tile have time to put on the brakes be thus thrown down to be loaded and will enable it to continue to lead in thoroughly overhauled on her return Sandridge, north of Imber, lost his fore south bound car No. 22 had gone hauled out of the mine the next the number of gallons produced; to this country. large barn by fire last week. The Richland mine is while the fact that American oil pro almost clear through north bound morning. destitute of water, and a great vol duces nearly twice as much refined A 13 year old San Francisco boy The board of directors of the Hunt J car No. 17, and hung on the edge ume of fine particles of coal dust, illuminating oil from a given quan was murdered in a most cold blooded ington high school have decided to of a high bluff with its load of shriek invisible to the naked eye, accumu tity of crude as from the Russian oil, manner by a butcher. have nine months’ school this year. ing maimed humanity. One motor lated at the roof of the thine. This adds greatly to its value as a commer man was pinioned up against the The supreme court holds that the The 12th annual convention of the afternoon at 4 :30 o ’ clock a dynamite cial product. United States may levy duty on im Washington County Sunday School smashed front of the south bound cartride was placed in position in One especially interesting feat ports from Porto Rico. Association will be held June 6 at car, with both legs severed and was one of the rooms for a blast, and the ure of the development of the oil in killed instantly, while the other one Forest Grove. In round numbers the estimate for miners started for the mouth of the dustry is, that there has been a re ECLIPSE PHOTOGRAPHS. lived but a few moments. markable decrease in the price to the the civil government of the Philip The Inland Telephone Company hai The few women and children who mine. The blast did not explode, as pines will be $1,200,000. a crew of men engaged in stringing had escaped injury were hysterical intended, but instead a long flame consumer during the period in which Twenty-one men were killed and Satisfactory Result! Obtained by the Lick Part) extra wires between La Grande and and added their cries to the shrieks shot out of the blast hole and ignited the actual exportations and the net value of the exports have been in in Sumatra. Wallowa county points. nine others seriously injured in a of the dying and mutilated. Men the accumulation of dust. Instantly creasing. The average value of the mine explosion in Tennessee. San Jose, Cal., May 27.—The fol The Deep Gravel Mining Company, with broken arms and bones, with a terrific explosion occurred, and a illuminating oil exported in 1876 was Telephones» are in greater demand lowing has been received from the di incorporated, has assumed control oi dislocated joints and bloody heads seething mass of Hanies shot to the about 15 cents per gallon, and in all the mining property heretofore and faces, tried to assist others who mouth of the mine and extended 300 1877, an exceptional year, 20 cents in Havana than in any American rector of the Lick observatory: “Lick Observatory, May 27.—As owned by Wimer Bros. <fc Co., at were more helpless. Help had been feet into the air, scorching the leaves per gallon. By 1881 the price had city, according to population. Waldo. summoned from East Greenbusch and from the nearby trees. Philippines commission has enacted tronomer Perrine, in charge of the There were 34 men in the mine at fallen to about 10 cents per gallon, vicinity, and in a little time the Crocker eclipse expedition from the The contract has been let for the a law fixing the salaries of the offi the time. Four of them escaped the figures for that year being 332,- Lick observatory to Sumatra, hat hauling of 3,(XX) tons of gypsum for bruised mass of humanity, with the cial« of the central government. with slight injuries, Twenty one 000,000 gallons, valued at $34,000,- cabled the gratifying information the Oregon Lime Company from the mutilated dead, were loaded on Dr. Monroe, senior dean of Colum that some results were secured with gpysum mine to the company’s works empty cars and taken to Albany. were killed, and nine terribly burned, (MX). By 1891 the average price was By 1898 bia University, Washington, has been all the instruments taken with him. at Lime, three miles from Hunting The ambulances and physicians had most, of them fatally. The force of about 7 cents per gallon. the average export price had dropped the explosion caused great masses of decorated by the sultan of turkey. This, taken in connection with hit ton. been summoned and the postoffice to 5 cents per gallon, the quantity turned into morgue and hospital. coal and slate to cave in from the exported having lieen 824,(MX),000 gal A dismantled hulk has been sighted cable of last week, is taken to mean There was a $3,500 fire at Oregon roof of the mine, and many of the that liis successful photographs were As far as the physicians could tem on Lake Michigan. Investigation lons, and the value reported to the porarily attend the wounded they miners were completely buried. secured between clouds drift ing across City the first of the week. disclosed seven bodies aboard her. bureau of statistics by exporters Word quickly reached Dayton and Arrangements are being made tc were taken to their homes or to the Rear Admiral Sampson is to retire the vicinity of the sun. As this wiu celebrate the Fourth at Baker City. rescue forces were at once organized through the customs collectors, $42,- unusually long eclipse, it is quite hospitals. from service in the American navy. an and proceeded to the mine. One by 922,682. probable that his results will compare With both motormen killed it The Grand lodge of Odd Fellows He will ask for retirement on account favorably in quality and quantity held their encampment at Baker City. was hard to get at the real cause of one the blackened and horribly dis of poor health. BLOWN UP BY DYNAMITE. with those secured at the short the accident, but it is pretty well de figured bodies were taken from the Efforts are being made to develop termined that it was caused by an debris and carried to the mouth of It is very likely that as soon as the eclipses of the past three years. The ministers move to the hills for the hoods of the coronal streamers, first the Kaolin deposits, near Huntington. attempt of the south bound car to the mine, where they were put on Car Loaded With Explosives Run Into by I warm months that the Boxers will observed at the Indian eclipse of 1898, The people of Forest Grove and vi reach a second switch instead of a locomotive and taken to Dayton. Freight Train. again attack the legations. are recorded on the plates of the pres cinity are trying to secure a Sunday waiting for the north bound car at Scores of relatives and friends gath ered at the mouth of the mine, and Everett, Wash., May 29.—An acci the first siding. The cars weigh 15 Further details of the train service. The America’s cup race will begin ent eclipse. shrieks of anguish as the bodies dent occurred yesterday afternoon on results secured are not expected unti September 21. Farmers near Salem say grain is tons each and are the largest electric the were removed were I heart- rending, the Great Northern Railroad font France wants her treaties with Tu the arrival of Mr. Perrine’s letters.’ looking as well as it ever did and they cars built, and so frightful was the The two undertaking establishments miles east of Skykomish which re crash that both cars were torn almost expect a large crop this year. nis abrogated. at Dayton were turned I into morgues, sulted in the serious injury of Engi to spliiuers. Mrs. Thomas Campbell, aged 60 where the mangled bodies were neer John McGrouty and consider Mrs. Mckinley is standing the re TO DEFINE BOUDARY. years, an old resident of Oregon, died dressed and prepared I for delivery to able loss of property. turn trip well. SEVERE W ND STORM. tlieir families. All the men em- A push car loaded with 48 boxes oi An unknown man committed sui Internal Survey Party Will Locate Unitec at her home in Monmouth last week. ployed in this mine were residents dynamite was being run to a siding cide near Kalama, Wash. The Baldwin Sheep & Land Com States-Canada Line. Daytdn. when the west bound freight train, pany, of Hay Creek, will sell at pub Caused Widespread Devastation in Five West of The Three prisoner# escaped from the Richland mine is the prop No. 15, came along. Vancouver, B. C., Muy 27.—An in lic auction, June 1, 1,000,000 pounds Before the ern States. county jail at Salem, Or. erty of the Dayton Coal it Iron Com men in charge of the push car could ternational survey party, consisting of wool. Salt Lake, May 28.— The wind pany, composed of Glasgow capital reach the siding, the freight struck Army frauds have been discovered of United States and Canadian en At a meeting of the executive com storm which swept over Nevada, ists. The company’ operates an iron the car. A terrible explosion fol in Leyte, Philippine islands. gineers, is about to begin the task of lowed. The engine was hurled some Suicide of a Russian financier may defining the international boundary mittee of the Columbia River Pack Utah, Southern Idaho, Wyoming furnace at Dayton. between the United States and Can ers’ Association it was decided to rais< .■nd Colorado, did damage that will distance up the mountain side. embarrass many institutions. ada from the Pacific coast to the the price of canned goods. Three freight cars were demolished RAPIDLY NEARING HOME. run into the hundreds of thousands Senators Tillman and McLaurin, Rocky mountains. It is contended and about 500 feet of track was torn Reports from Willamette and of dollars. of South Carolina, have resigned. It resulted in almost that this work was inaccurately per Clackamas river fishermen, near Ore up. A steam shovel standing near Cailles and Malver, Filipino lead formed in the surveys of 1859 and gon City, say this is the best season complete prostration of telegraph and Presidential Train Will Reach Washington whs reduced to scrap iron. McGrouty Thursday. ers, have been forced to surrender. 1961. One of the most important for their work for several years. telephone service in the states affect was the only one seriously hurt. He ed and for nearly 24 hours during the Sidney, Neb, May 28.—The presi received a scalp wound, his tongue Thirty-two bodies have so far been matters to lie determined is the ques The board of trustees of the State height of the storm, the inter moun dential train made the third days run was bitten through, and he also sus recovered form the Sengheny colliery. tion of the national locaton of Mount Baker mining district. Valuable Reform School lias let bids for the A Oregon ores are being collected mines are embraced in this section, laying of 4.500 square feet of concrete tain region was practically cut off on the homeward journey without tained injuries to his spine. for the International Mining Con and the territory is claimed by both work, for basement floors and walks. from the rest of the world. The incident. The trip across Wyoming watchman’s shack, 75 yards from the was at an average elevation of over explosion, was blown to atoms and gress. storm was severest in Eastern Nevada 4.000 feet, and at Sherman, just be the watchman himself Btunned. The the American and Canadian govern Portland Markets. President McKinley has pardoned ments. and Utah, and in the fertile valleys fore the train began to descend the injured men were taken to the Everett Alexander McKenzie, the Nome re Lieutenant Sinclair, of the coast Wheat—Walla Walla, 60c.; val in the northern part of Utah wide eastern Blope of the Rocky mountains hospital. eeiver. and geodetic survey, will lie at the ley, nominal; bluestem, 61@62c. spread devastation resulted. When the elevation exceeded 7,500. The president has made no remarks The output of the Sumpter, Or., head of the United States party, and per bushel. the storm was at its height, the wind STRIKERS LESS SANGUINE. Flour—Best grades, $2.90®3.40 per at any of the stops, but he has ap mining district wa# never no great J. H. McArthur will lead the Cana at some points reached a velocity of dian surveyors. The work will begin barrel ; graham, $2.60. peared on the platform and shook as now. this week. Oats—White.$1.35(81.40 per cental; ! 50 miles an hour. hands with some of those nearest the Eighteen Hundred Men Still Out Aroune The American legation gnard at At Ogden the storm was felt worst. gray, $1.30(81.32 ' 2 per cental. Newark, N. J. car. There were crowds at every sta Pekin is having trouble with the Barley—Feed, $17(817.50; brewing, Here the wind tore roofs from a num tion along the route and every cattk MULTIPLEX TELEGRAPHY. Germans. New York, May 29.—The close oi ber of buildings, including the Bap ranch had its little group of cowboys $17(817.50 per ton. Publication of the St. Petersburg Millstuffs—Bran, $17 per ton ; midd tist church, completely demolishing sitting bolt upright on their horses the first week of the machinists’ Novoe Vremyra has been prohibited The Rowland System is Being Introduced Into lings, $21.50; shorts, $20.00; chop, barns and outbuildings, and scattered waving the sombreros as the train strike at Newark, N. J., finds about Germany. for a week. them far and wide, uprooted many went by. Mrs. McKinley is standing 1,800 idle men in Newark and its $16. shade trees and tore others to pieces, the trip well. The weather has been suburbs. The strikers have ceased Hay — Timothy, $12.50® 14; clover, Five persons were killed and 40 Baltimore. May 27.—The multiplex blew in plate glass windows in busi pleasant and that means much foi to Is? as sanguine as at first regarding $7(89.50; Oregon wild hay, $6@7 injured in a trolley car collision near system of telegraphy, invented by the the outcome of their efforts to com ness blocks and prostrated electric her comfort. Albany, N. Y. late Henry A. Rowland, of Balti |>cr ton. pel their employers to grant a nine light wires, so that the city was ir Hops — 12(8 14c. ] per lb. The Presidential train will reach more, which is being introduced into The cases against Carman, Car- hour day without decreased pay. A darkness. The damage in Ogden 11(8! 13c ; Eastern Wool — Valley, Washington Thursday morning at half dozen of the smaller shops in ranza and other insurgent leaders, Germany, permits of the transmission Oregon, 7® 10c; mohair, 1 20® 21c. will probably reach $100,000. 7:30. of eight messages simultaneously over have been abandonee!. this section have met the demands » At Five Points, Logan, Smithfield, per pound. a single wire, four in each direction 1 of the men but none of the larger Tho steward of the German Lloyd at the rate of 40 words a minute. Butter — Fancy creamery, 15® Hooper and other places the damage Demands of Strikers Met ones has shown any disposition to steamer Kaiser Wilhelm was arrested The messages are sent by means of I 17lse. ; dairy, 13(814c. ; store, 11® was very great. Hundreds of fruit Dunkirk, N. Y., May 29—The yield. Representatives of the larger for stealing gold bars. trees were completely stripped. The 12 l a e. |>er pound. a keyboard similar to that of a type of the machinists employed by firms say they are prepared for just Eggs—Oregon ranch, 12®12'ac. force of the wind was so terrific strike Washington capital question has writer, which can lie operated by an the Brooks Locomotive Works has as long a fight as the machinists around Logan and Hooper that to been settled by the purchase of Thurs ordinary typewriter opreator, and are |>er dozen. been settled. All who struck are tc are to maintain. mato vines were swept entirely from Cheese — Full cream, twins, 13® ton county courthouse. recorded at the other end of the wire It is probable that the machinists It is estimated that fully be taken back without discrimination. The last of the American troop« by a small machine. It is possible to I3lse. ; Young America, 13'a®14c. fields. Fifty five hours will constitute & employed in the American Engine one half of the crops were destroyed. per [«mud. either print the message upon a sheet have left Pekin. Poultry—Chickens, mixed. $3.50® 4; Around Hooper, the sweep of the week's work; a straight increase of 1C works, at Plainfield will go out. Bresei. the assassin of King Hum of paper or upon a long tape like hens, $4(85.00; dressed. 11® 12c. jier wind blew away the ploughed ground per cent in wages is granted, These This company agreed to the nine hour that which is used in the ordinary bert, of Italy, committed suicide. pound; springs, $3®5 per dozen; I to the full depth that the plows had are substantially the demands made clause, but cut 15 cents from the 10 hour pay. The expelled West Point cadet# will ticker service. ducks, $5®6; geese. $6®7; turkeys, entered the earth, rendering the land by the machinists. appeal their cases to the secretary ol live, 10® 12c; dressed, 14® 16c. per practically useless. Date Fixed (or Cup Races Slid« More Serious Then Reported Homecoming of Volunteers. war. Along the north shore of the Great pound. New York, May 29 — The Baker City. Or., May 27.—The Manila, May 29.—It is reasonably Potatoes —Old. $1(81.15 per sack; Salt Lake the wind picked up the dry t'lster Yacht Club has cabled thr There is a mysterious steamboat landslide at the Climax mine, which sand in great clouds and hurled it New York Yacht Club an approval certain that the remaining volunteers plying on the Columbia river without occurred about two weeks ago, in con new, 2*-4®2lgc. per pound. Mutton — Lambs 4’4®5c. per across the country with terrific force, of September 21 as the day for th< will sail for home before July. The a license. sequence of a water ditch overflowing, pound gross; best sheep, wethers, half burying the railroad tracks for Forty seventh regiment and battalions opening contest in the cup races. of the Forty ninth and Thirty eighth Two men were held up at Midway, has proven far more serious than nt with wool. $4 25®4.50; dressed, 6®7c miles. New Submarine Cable. have sailed on the transport Thomas. B. C., and robbed of $450. The rob first reported. The mouth of the l>er pound. main tunnel was closed with timbers, New York, May 29.—A new sub The Ohio sails today with the Forty Hogs — Gnus. heavy. $5.75®6;, ber# escaped. New Mexico Mine Accident boulders, gravel and debris of all light, $4.75®5; dressed, 7®7l1c. per marine cable between England and scond regiment and the Kilpatrick Flood in Elizabethtown, Tenn., kinds, so that it rtxjuircd heavy blast pound. Santa Fe. N. M., May 28.—One Germany has just been put down. and Logan June 1 with the Forty drowned three people and destroyed ing and 10 days to o|>en it up. It Veal —Large, 6 Si®7c. per pound; man was instantly killed and several The cable is owned by a Britisl third and Forty ninth regiments and Veal $1,000,000 worth of property. will require several weeks more to small, 7t»®ic. per pound. seriously hurt at the Santa Rita cop company, but the German govern two battalions of the 8ixth. The Beef—Gross, top steers, $5® 5 25; per mine, in Grant county, while ment contributed to its coet, and a Grant sails from Aparri June 1 with The cup challenger, with a royal put up the biddings destroyed and party on board, including King Ed restore the other property lost in the cows and heifers, $4 50® 4.75; dressed cleaning out blasts which had failed German firm was employed to earn the Forty eighth regiment and two to explode. out the work. battalions of the Forty ninth. beef, 8'-a(«t8’^c. per pound ward, was struck by a squall and flood. wrecked. The yacht is badly dam Sailed for Nonw. Rioting in South Russia. No Smallpox on Indiana. Postal Orders. aged. No lives were lost. Senator Hawley is in favor of pro San Francisco. May 28.— Three London, May 29. — Rioting ha« Pekin, May 27.—The doctor# who tecting the Nicaraguan canal, no Washington, May 29—The poet Two missionarie» who made for were instructed to make a report as matter what kind of an interna steamers sailed today for Nome—the office at Susanville, Grant county spread to South Russia, says a dis Conemaugh. with 2.600 tons of gen patch from St Petersburg, as the tunes iti the Nome district are to to what length of time must elapse tional agreement is made. eral freight but no passengers; the Or, has l>een moved three quarters o result of the production of the anti- build a hospital in Chicago. before it will be safe to allow the It was held recently in a London Poitland with 400 passenger», three a mile to the northeast withou Sennnite play, “The Smugglers.” At Recent census statistics in Italy tr<x»pa on board the United States police court that no one has any right tons of mail and a full cargo. Nearly change of postmaster. A postoffici Kutais thousands of people congre show that the proportion of popula transport Indiana, where it was sup to force his way into a railway car half of the passengers are employes has been established at Midford. Kin gated about the theater and stoned tion not able to read or write has de posed a ease of smallpox had devel riage already full. of the Northern Commercial com county, Washington, to be suppl:.-, the police. A detachment of Cos creased to 39 per cent. San Francisco has 130, Pittsburg pany, bound for Unalaska. Dutch with special service from North Beno sacks charged and dispersed th« oped, have decided that the suspected The faculty of Stanford University Mae was not smallpox. The troop.- 185. Providence 250. Washington 600. harbor. St. Michael and Nome. The Daily mail messenger service has beei crowd. Thirteen policemen, 15 Cos- Louisville 325. Cincinnati 516 and steamer Valencia, with about 200 authorized between Seattle and Wes sacks and two officers were severely in California has directed that saloon will go on board the Indiana today Seattle. • passengers and supplies. 'leveland 400 policemen. injured. and cife advertisements must be omitted from the Daily Palo Alto, the college paper. M c M innville . 4 and Start for Home- MINERAL OIL EXPORTS. OREGON. tvfflß or w mi San Francisco, May 25.—President McKinley has completed his program in this city, having met every organ ization included in the original schedule, and Mrs. McKinley's health lias so far improved that the president and his party began their return jour ney to the national capital at 10 A. M. today. The president’s pulbic functions yesterday included a reception at the Scott mansion to the members of the foreign consular corps of this city, a reception at the Palace Hotel by the Son# and Daughters of tire American Revolution and the Loyal Legion in honor of the president, and a review of the school children of Oakland by the presdent. Last night President McKinley at tended an impromptu reception at the California street M. E. church, given by the Epworth League and Christian Endeavor societies. Special precautions were taken to prevent any annoyance while the president am. his wife were being driven to the ferry. A route was chosen that secured per fect cornfort for Mrs. McKinley. The party was taken to Oakland on a special boat. The two trained nurses who have attended the patient in this city will also go to Washington with her. No fast time will be made and the train will run slowly to Stockton. Items of Interest From All Parts