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TÀMHILL COUNTY REPORTER. SWEPT OVER A DAM. Seven Persons D. I. A8BIKÏ, Publisher. M c M innville . OREGON. fflß Of Ulf D» An Intcrcstb.j Collection of Items From the Two Hemispheres Presented in a Condensed Form Drowned River. in the HER CASE CRITICAL. Schuylkill Mrs. I --------- Philadelphia, June 3.—A rowboat Items of Interest From All Parts containing a party of eight young of the State. people was swept over the Flat Rock dam, in the Schuylkill river, and seven of them, five girls and two COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL HAPPENINGS boys, were drowned. One young man Brief Review of the Growth .nd Improve, was saved. ments of the Many Industries Through The party, with a large number of out Our Thriving Commonwealth. others, organized a picnic. They em barked in gaily decorated wagons early in the morning, and pitched Ground has been broken for the new their camp at Rose Glen, along the Patterson school building at Eugene. Schuylkill river, on the northern About 100,000 pounds of w«X)l was outskirts of the city. The party split «old at The Dalles the other day for up after dinner for a row on the river. j 10 cents. Heavy rains during the past week Placer work in the Weatherby i and had made the muddy stream quite Durkee districts, Eastern Oregon, , is high, and the current was much now in full progress. swifter than usual. However, the Slugs and cutworms are doing no unfortunate party immediately struck out for midstream. All the girls «mail amount of damage to early gar were huddled in the stern, one of the dens around Cottage Grove. bovs was rowing and the others were The Oregon Telephone Company sitting in the bow of the boat. After has a large force of men employed at getting in the middle of the river, Dallas making extensive repairs. and finding the current too swift for Preparations for the Eastern Ore- comfort, the boat was rowed in to , gon Fourth of July celebration, to be ward the shore. During this time it [held in Baker City, are being pushed was being carried slowly down stream. [ with vigor. The boy doing the rowing decided The hop yards in Lincoln county to go through the locks, and as he approached the dam he was warned i ¡are looking fine. The great trouble by the lockkeeper not to approach i is to get a sufficient number of men any closer. The warning was not [ to do necessary work. heeded, and the young oarsman kept John A. Van Gross a student in the on rowing until he found that the I [ University of Oregon, has just re lock was closed. He attempted to ceived notice that he has been award turn the boat, which was then about ed a scholarship in Yale University. 50 feet from the dam and 25 feet Albany college commencement cal from the shore, but he turned the ender June 14 to 19 provides an elab wrong way. A moment later and the orate program of orations, sermons boat was in the swiftly moving cur rent. Swiftly it was carried toward receptions and reunions. The college is just closing its 34th year. the brink of the falling waters, and A prominent mining engineer from just as it reached the breast of the dam, over which 30 inches of water Colorado is making a tour of the sev was pouring, the entire eight stood eral mining districts of Eastern Ore up and the boat went over stern first. gon in the interest of a large syndi The drop to the rocks below is ap cate of capitalists of that state. proximately 12 feet. The boat Four whales in Yaquina bay were struck the water bottom up, and as reported one day last week. it disappeared the whole ¡tarty was Arrangemnets are being made for a under it. Nothing more was seen Fourth of July celebration at Durkee. by the few persons who saw the acci The O. R. & N. Co. has a heavy dent for almost a minute, when the boat reappeared with one boy cling new switch engine in the Pendleton ing to its keel. Then another young yards. man was seen to come to the sur The movement of cattle from Har face and make a frantic effort tc ney county for the summer is now reach shore l>y swimimng. The six under way. girls never rose to the surface. A severe frost near Vale a few nights ago is reported to have injured crops HONOLULU’S SENSATION. considerably. , McKinley's Condition Causes TRADE RESTORED. Jur Exports to Spain This Year Promise to Much Concern. Washington June 4.—Mrs. Me i Kinley continues very weak, lier ¡condition is not greatly changed from that of yesterday, but each day that elapses without a gain in strength i lessens her power of recuperation. The complaint which came near end ing her life in San Francisco is still present. It is in a slightly less aggravated form, but gives the phy sicians and president much concern. Mrs. McKinley has shown remarkable | vitality, but her illneBS has so re duced her strength as to leave her [ very feeble indeed. It is feared that unless a change for the better soon manifests itself, h^r strength may become so near exhausted as to leave her without rallying power. The news given out by the physi cians in attendance today was not reassuring, though hope of better tihngs still continues. After a con sultation between the doctors the following bulletin was issued: “Mrs. McKinley passed a comfort able night, but her condition has not materially changed since tlie report of yesterday.” RELATIONS Break all Records. Administration Officials at Last New York, June 5.—A speeial from Washington says: Admit it Is Probable. ALL ON ACCOUNT OF PHILIPPINE TARIFF It All Depends Upon Whether the President Has Power to Impose Custom Duties on Philippine Commerce. New York, June 5.—A special from Wasihngton says: Officials of the administration for the first time since the announce ment of the decisions of the supreme court in the insular cases, admit that there is a possibility of an extra ses sion of congress in July. If Attorney General Knox, after a careful review of the decisions, concludes that the president will not have power under the Spooner amendment to the army appropriation bill to impose duties on goods going into the Philippines from the United States or coming into the United States from the Phil ippines, the president will seriously consider the advisability of issuing an immediate call for an extra ses sion of congress. This statement is made on the authority of a member of the cabinet. Attorney General Knox and Secre tary of War Root have spent consid erable time discussing the legal points involved. Mr. Knox is work ing hard on his opinion in order to have it for the next cabinet meeting. This meeting is expected to be of very great importance. A call for an extra session would play havoc with the summer plans of senators and representatives. They have scattered to the four corners of the earth. Several are about to start for the Philippines. Quite a number are either in Europe or in tending to go shortly. If congress should be called back immediately, the house of representatives would have difficulty in finding a place in which to meet. The hall is complete ly torn up and an army of workmen is engaged in the alterations made necessary by the increase in the mem bership of the house provided for by the reapportinoment law enacted last winter. If the work should be pushed night and day it would require several weeks to get the hall in condition. Commercial relations between Spain ami the United States seem to be fully restored and it is not improb- ible that American exports to that country in the fiscal year 1901 will be greater, with possibly a single ex ception, than in any preceding year. Exports from the United States to Spain in the nine months etxiing with Marclr, 1901, were valued at $11,879,349, against $7,091,043 in the corresponding period in the fiscal year 1899. The figures for the year jp to this time indicate that the total ?xports from the United States to Spain in the fiscal year 1901 will be ibout $16,000,000. On the import side the figures of the present fiscal year are largely in sxcess of those of 1899, though slight ly less than those of 1900 which were the largest since 1891. The annual imports from Spain into the United States since 1891 have ranged from $3,500,000 to $6,000,000, averaging about $4,500,000, while for the pres ent fiscal vear they seem likely to ex ceed $5,000,000. Von Waldersee has started for Ber lin. Physicians give hope of Mrs Mc Kinley’s slow recovery. The policy of the United States and Russia is identical. The prune outlook in Oregon is favorable for a good market. Senator McLaurin, of South Caro lina, withdraws his resignation. A new newspaper is expected to be started in Seattle about October 1. Several thousand dollars were found under a sidewalk in Mineral Point, Wis. A serious encounter occurred be MOST UNIQUE CLAIMS. tween French and British troops in China. CHICAGO EMPLOYERS MEET. Government Will Be Asked to Restore Value Chicago employers agree not to try of Bonds Burned. to settle machinists’ strike until after Will Not Settle Machinists' Strike Until Washington, June 4. — A most June 11. June II. unique claim will be presented at the As a result of a colliison in West Chicago, June 5.—There will be nc next congress. It is that of certain Virginia two are dead and many oth settlement of the machinists’ strike heirs of Joseph L. Lewis, who was a ers injured. in Chicago until June 11. This was millionaire of Trenton, N. J. Lewis All railroads west of Mississippi the decision of the local manufactur was a bachelor crank. His will pro river to the Pacific coast are to be ers today, when the members of the vided bequests of from $75,000 to consolidated. $100,000 to various relatives and Chicago Association of Machinery There is great unseainess Eng directed that after these bequests Manufacturers pledged allegiance tc land on account of scarcity of South should be paid the residue of his the National Metal Trades Associa African news. estate should be invested in govern tion, and agreed not to enter into ne A new explosive, called Maximite, ment bonds, and as he expressed it, gotiations until with any of their em much more powerful than Lyddite, ! “in order to reduce the public debt, >» ’” ployes until after the great gathering has been adopted by the United States the bonds should be burned, His of employers in New York city June government. wishes were carried out, $996,000 in 11. government bonds were purchased The president is considering the While the manufacturers were dis This occurred 25 years and burned, advisability of calling an extra ses cussing their future action, the ma distant relative.- ago. Now certain sion of congress to legislate for the ] chinists were not idle, a number of who were not beneficiaries of the will Philippines. machinists leaving the three plants are seeking to have the government of the Crane Company to join the Exports tliis year from the United restore to the Lewis estate the value strikers. Statements differ as to States to Spain will be larger than in | of the bonds burned, and a bill pro the number of men who left the any preceding year, with a possible! be viding that this shall be done will Crane plant. Besides these men, 80 single exception. introduced in the next congress. workmen struck in three other places, Intense heat prevails over Europe. while agreements were signed with The birth of a royal princess causes IN A RUSSIAN JAIL. five firms whose names would not be much joy in Italy. given out. General Chaffee’s army has arrived Prominent American Confined Arbitrarily in BUTTE AGAIN SLIDING. RAILROADS CONSLIDATE. at Nagasaki from China. Neva Fo,tress. Two car loads of one and two year Investigation of Charges of Bribery in the London has a rumor of a severe old steers were shipped from Yaquina New York, June 3.—The Press The Strange Phenomenon Causes Alarm Legislature. All Linet West of the Mississippi to the Pa bay last week. British defeat near Pretoria. this morning publishes a statement Amoung the Citizens. cific to Be United. Honolulu, May 26, via San Fran The duke of York’s visit to Canada The contract for carrying the mail that L. James Gordon, sales and con Butte, Mont., June5.—The strange has been officially announced. cíbco , June 3.—The special grant between Marshfield and North Bend New York, June 5.—One tremen- tracting agent in Russia of the Bald sliding movement of the city of dous consolidation The Philippine commission has jury called to investigate the charges will be let July 1. of the railroads win Locomotiv e Works, disappear Butte which has been noticeable at operating between the Mississippi begun its final provincial tour. of bribery in the legislature has raise«: Oliver P. Kaubb, aged 78, an old ed in St. Petersburg last January, Mrs. McKinley’s condition causes the biggest sensation Honolulu has pioneer, died at his home near Col- and that liis disappearance was caused intervals for several years has again river and the Pacific coast promises the doctors much apprehension. had since the days of revolution ane burg the other day. by his arrest by the Russian author! manifested itself by five large cracks to result from1 a settlement of the The new superintendent of the ties on charges unknown to the pub in the earth in different sections of differences which caused the North Minister Conger expects to return agitation for annexation. It has ha< to his [>ost in China about July 17. as witnesses Gov. Dole, Attorney Gen Badger mine in Susanville district lic. On the day succeeding the arrest the city. The largest crevice was 12 ern Pacific corner. Not only have has laid off a number of men, pend a St. Petersburg paper contained the inches wide and of considerable the differences been settled between A $10,000 fruit packing house will eral Dole, Secretary of the Territorj ing the making of improvements. following notice: “Mr. L. J. G.------ , length and depth. Three of the open- the Morgan-Hill faction and the Har lie established at Vancouver, Wash. Cooper and other high officials, and The Lincoln county court will a prominent business man, was ar ings occur on the west side of town riman party, regarding the Burling The Ohio state board of arbitration on the refusal of some of them t< repair the bridge across the Big Elk rested yesterday.’’ Those who know and two on the east side. There is no ton deal, and the relations of that prevented a street car strike at Day l answer questions, the grand jury river at Elk City and will construct Gordon knew that it referred to him, caving, but a distinct parting of the road and the Northern Pacific and ton. has had them brought into court tc a bridge across the Yauina river at but that ended the matter in St. Pte- .earth, and the granite wallscan easily Great Northern with the Union Pa ersburg. It is only within a few be seen in them. The gas and water cific, but also that the St. Paul, the American exports to Scandinavia show cause why they should not Pioneer. weens that it has become known that companies have much trouble on ac Chicago & Northwestern and the have more than trebled in the past testify The machinery for the additional In the absence of S. B. Dole, who ___ count of the strange movement, which Chicago Great Western will be taken 10 years. five stamps for the Lucky Boy mill he is confined arbitrarily in the tort The American frequently breaks their underground care of in the great harmonizing James A. Herne, the well known is indisposed, Secretary Cooper is act in the Blue River district has arrived ress of the Neva. The jury began its actor, passed away at his home in ing governor. at Springfield and will be hauled to ambassador has been asked to inter pipes. The city engineer says the scheme in the trunk lines of the west. investigation on a letter from the est himself in the affair by a brothel engineering department of the city New York. the mine as soon as possilbe. governor to the legislature, refusing and two sisters of Gordon, who are in encounters the same trouble as eleva PLANS OF SEATTLE MEN. All the volunteers cannot be to extend the session because he had this city at the present time, but tions and bench marks in certain Portland Markets. brought home from the Philippines information that briliery was taking without result. , parts of the city are constantly chang Will Try to Get Non-Union Men in About within the time limit. Wheat—Walla Walla, 60c.; val- place. Governor Dole appeared l>e- ing. The continuance of the strange Sixty Days More. John I). Rockefeller has given fore the jury and it is said told all ley, nominal; biuestem, 61@62c. phenomenon is beginning to cause Fire Raged Ten Days. The other heads of per bushel. $2(X),(XX) for the founding of an asso that he knew. Seattle, June 5.—If the strike of Oaxaca, Mexico, June 4.—Details some alarm among the citizens of Flour—Best grades, $2.90@3.40 per departments were summoned to ciation of medical research. Butte. the metal working unions is not of the great fire which raged on the barrel; graham, $2.60. testify, and all refused to tell what Laborers engaged in excavation for they knew, on the ground that the settled within 60 days at the out Oats—\\ hit«’. $1 32^(21.35 ¡ier cen isthmus of Tehauntepec for several ALLIED TROOPS FOUGHT. a new building in Ottawa have un information they had received was tal; gray, $1.30@ 1.3219 percental. side, an effort will be made by the days have been received here. Ovei earthed the long lost stone which in the nature of a “privileged com Barley—Fee«l, $17(2 17.50; brewing, 70 people were unable to escape the manufacturers to operate their shops British Police Tried to Prevent French From marked the scene of the assassination munication,’’ having been given to $ 17<<? 17.50 per ton. rapid progress of the Hames and were with non-union workmen. A state of T. d'Arcy McGee. Housebreaking. Mil I stuffs—Bran. $17 [>er ton ; m idd- burned to death. them as government officials. The fire started ment practically to this effect was Acting Governor Cooper, Attorney lings, $21.50; shorts. $20.00; chop, on a coffee plantation, and owing tc There is general regret throughout Tien Tsin, June 5.—There was a made today by a leading member of the country that the irrigation con General Dole and L. A. Thurston, $16. the dryness of the vegation it was serious affray yesterday between inter the Washington branch of the Metal Hay—Timothy. $12.50(214; clover, soon beyond control and wrought gress, which was to have held a ses president of the Gazette publishing Trades Association of the Pacific $6(2 7 great destruction to growing crops national troops. Some British fusil- coast. It is said by members of the sion at Colorado Springs in July, has company, were sumomned to appear $7(29.50; Oregon before Judge Humphreys and show per ton. Many thousands of acres of coffee j eers. who were acting as police here, Manufacturers’ Association that there been postponed for a year. Hops—12(®l4c. ] cause why they should not tell th« trees, bananas, orange trees and othei sought to prevent French soldiers ire plenty of non union machinists The allied troops are preparing to grand jury what they had learned re Wool — Valley. tropical prjducts were destroyed.! from house breaking, when they were in the East, who would readily ac leave Chinese territory. garding bribery in the legislature. Oregon, 7(2 11c; 1 The fire burned for 10 days and was attacked with bayonets and bricks. cept work at the present scale of A plague case has l>een discovered Judge Humphreys sustained Doh' a? per ¡round. finally quenched by a heavy tropical The fusileers, in self defense, fired wages in the Seattle shops. Butter — Fancy creamery, 15(2 rain. it was shown that he hail told th« in a suburb of London. into the air. This brought a num grand jury th«1 names of the men 17 *4c. ; dairy, 13(214c.; store, 10(2 Filipinos Elected to Congress, Another Negro fiend has been from bom he had receivcl evidence. 12c. per pound. ber of Germans to the aid of the Import! From Philippines. Madrid, June 5.—Among those burned at the stake in Florida. Frenchmen. They numbered alto Eggs—Oregon ranch, 12(812lac. Thurston had told the jury that lit Washington, May 31.—A statement gether 300 men. Five fusileers fired who were recently elected to parlia The battleships fired a salute off had heard that legislators had ap per dozen. Cheese—Full cream, twins. 12*ac; prepared at the treasury department again, killing one Frenchman and ment were three Filipinos, residents proached a corporation with solicits Grants’ tomb on Memorial day. In subse in Spain. They propose during the America, 13>a@14c. per shows that the receipts from customs! wounding three others. tions of bribes, but he declines to Young Mrs. Eddy, the Christian Science I duties collected upon articles im quent fighting, four fusileers, five course of the debate on the speech give the name of the corporation on I pound. loader, has been sued for $150,000 the ground that as attorney he had , Poultry—Chickens, mixed. $3.50(2 4; ported into the United States from Germans and one Japanese were from the throne to bring up the damages. question of the Philippines, alleging a right to withhold it as given in i hens, $4(85.00; dressed. 11(8 12c. per ! the Philippine islands from April 1, wounded. The arrival of a German that the situation is worse than be officer and a strong guard ended the [ 1899, to March 31 1901, were $1,003,- pound; springs. $l.o()(<3 per dozen; Governor of Washington has been confidence by a client to an attorney. fore the war. ___ Of this amount $866.942 came fray. ducks, $5(87; geese, $6(27; turkeys, ¡917. asked to call a special session of the Helen Gould'i Health Failing. live, 10(212c; dressed, 14(2 1( k . per for sugar, $119,539 for cigars, and , Killed by Mistake. legislature. Burglars Burned a Town. Miss Helen Gould o< New York, pound. the remainder for miscellaneous] Denver, June 5.—J. C. Ayers, a Robbers blew an Ohio bank vault overcome by the strain of her charita-1 Beaumont, Tex., Jufte 5.—The Potato«* — Old. 90e(2$1.I0 per sack; articles. workman on a ranch near Fort Logan, and secured $4,000. They escaped. ble work, has been ordered to take a new, 2c. per pound. — town of Jasnar has been entirely was shot and killed this morning by Lieutenant Townley's connection long rest and is believed to be suffer ; Mutton — I.amhp 4s4(85c. per Discoveries of Argentine Scientist i one of the provost guard of the mili- wiped out by fire. Seventeen houses, with the Manila frauds is being in ing from nervous prostration. pound gross: lx*t sheep, wethers, New York June .3 — A dispatch to I t»ry poet, which was in pursuit of a including every business house in the vest igated. ST . t 1 Z « ’ar«. u! with wool. $4.25(84.50; uressed. 6(27c the Herald Treasury Auditor Resigns. from SI Buenos Ayres says , prisoner who L,1/1 had nUi escaped from the place, and a number of residenses. Colonel Michler, military secretary Washington, June 3. —Colonel [ per pound. Senor Ricaldoni, an engineer, has just j guardhouse. , The guard says the kill- were destroyed. The town has no fire to General Miles, died at his home in Youngblood, of Alabama, auditor of Hogs — Gross. heavy, $5.75(86; made experiments with an improved j ing waa accidental, as he intended to department. Previous to the fire the Washington. fit* over the head of Ayers, whom he postoffice safe and the safe of the the treasury department, has tendered light. $4 75(25; dressed, 7c. per system of wireless telegraphy. The | ' Are A rich strike of oil has Ix’cn made his resignation, and it was accepted, pound. results of the experiment were verv , mistook for th«’ escaped prisoner, and county treasurer had been blown open 5 eal—Large, 6'a(87«’. ¡«er pound; satisfactory. He will soon try a sub- ........................... near Olypmia. It is said to be of first to take effect June 15. The president { who did not ..... obey . an order ’ ‘ to get ” out I and robbed. The conclusion is that class lubricating quality. t«xlay appointed B. A. l’ierson, assist small, 7va(«i8c. per pound. marine boat of his own invention. | I of * a ditch in which he was thought to burglars blew open these safes and Beef—Gross, top steers, $5(85.25; then set fire to the town to create ex A commissary sergeant in Manila, ant auditor (or the same department, cows and heifers, $4 50(24 75; dressed which he believes is superior to any be hiding. An inquest will be held. citement that would afford them an The soldier who did the shooting bears to succeed him. others. convicted of stealing supplies, has beef, 7(27^0. per pound. opportunity to escape. a good reputation at the poet. been sentenced to three years’ im Deminican Revolution Crushed First Payment for Cruiser. prisonment. A Ge«irgia coroner’s jury brought Postal Orders, Son-In-Law of Joubert Captured. Kingston Jamaica, June 4.—It is Philadelphia. June 3.— A cable in th«' following verdict recently: Washington, June 5—The post- It is understood in Rome that Tope message received by William Cramp o "The de«ieaae«i came to his death report?«! that the revolution in Santel London, June 5.—A dispatch from Ixm XIII has made a will naming his A Sons announce«! that the first pay from a railroad in the hands of a re Domingo has been competelly crushed ' Pretoria announce* that the constab office at St. Louis, Marion county, at its inception and a number of the successor. ment for the cruiser contract«’«! for by ceiver, and th«' same is manslaughter prominent rebels shot or imprisoned. ulary has captured Abram Malan. Or., will be discontinued on June 15 tn the first degree. ” Northwestern Iowa has begun ship the government of Turkey has been Among the latter is a son of the late son-in-law of the late General Jou and its mail sent to Gervais. A post- Banana flour has lately begun to be president. ping choice butter to Porto Rico, paid by the Imperial Ottoman Bank Malan was an energetic, pro office has been established at Chisna, There is little cargo bert. Th«’ first consignment left Sioux Until now there has Iwn an element need in making cakes, bread and bis- offering from Colombian ports in gressive politician before the war. and Alaska, to be supplied by special Falls a few days ago. of doubt as to whether the cruiser j emits. It is also used as a children's consequence of the heavy export since it began he has been very active service from Valdes. 200 miles to the I fix'd, and for dyspeptics. In the The Austro Hungarian censúa just would ever be built, but with the first making of txvr it is claimed that it duties imposed by the Colombian i against the British and has filled sev south. A post office has been estab payment made, the work will be Car government to meet expenses inci eral important commands, including completed shows the total population j «'an l>e advantageously used in place that of Pietersburg, until the British lished at Austin, Island county, dent to the revolution. to be 47,(XX). (XX), an increase since rie«! forward. I of barley. Wash, to be supplied from Newell. occupied the place. 1890 of 9 per cent. The population of Budapest has increased 45 per cent.