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s WILL C08IIIÜEMRIEB. THE BALAENA WRECKED. Ancient Pacific Whaler Go«» on the Rocks ia ». 1. AIICBT, riklhkw. Behring Sea. OIKQOn Slffl TO TELLURIDE STRIKE END8. Miners Regard the Term» of Settlement a» a Practical Victory. tub m mt japs Seattle, July 5.—The whaler Bala- ena, of San Francisco, lielonging to the Pacific Steam Whaling Company, lies on St. Lawrence Island, 20 miles west of Southeast cape, in Behring I sea, a total wreck. Captain P. F. I Cotte and the 60 men in the crew had an almost miraculous escape from Aa Interesting Callection of Items From the death. Through the bravery of the Two Hemispheres Presented In a officers all escaped to shore. The Balaena was on a voyage to the Condensed Form. Arctic. She was provisioned for 30 The plague is spreading with great months. The whaler left San Fran cisco April 4. and, after battling with rapidity at Amoy. Sixteen German soldiers were the ice for weeks, had succeeded in working through the worst of the drowned in the Rhine. Hoes. She was headed to pass St. Friars were mobbed in Pangasinan Lawrence island when the wreck oc province, Philippine islands. curred. Shortly after midnight, May Cattlemen have protested against I 1, the wind rose until it assumed the I strength of a gale, and the whaler the opening of Oklahoma lands. Municipalities will l>e organized in | was driven to a point 20 miles west of Laguna province, Philippine islands. Southeast cajie, St. Lawrence island, where she struck a rock. The cap The Abyssinian* pursuing Mad tain immediately ordered the boats Mullah are on the verge of starvation. out. The whaler seemed to have A landslide at Lung Keng, China, been hung on the rock, and, although caused the loss of 300 lives and much the waves were ¡xiunding her terribly, valuable property. i she did not founder. In a very short A cloudburst in San Andreas can time the boats were manned and the yon, near Albuquerque, N. M., did 1 crew started for the shore. The sea was so high that it was impossible for considerable damage. the boats to keep together, but they The secretary of the treasury has all made the island eventually. The been authorized to refund duties paid hands and feet of several are badly on goods from Porto Rico. frozen. A switch engine at Columbus, O., The Balaena is a total wreck. She crashed into a passenger train and is hanging to the rock where she about 20 passengers were hurt. struck, but is liable to slip off into Militia may be called out to quell the water and sink at any time. She trouble between union and Japanese struck on the port side and crashed a hole fully 12 feet in the length of her fishermen on Fraser river, B. C. hull. _______________ Governor Whitmarsh, of Benguet province, Philippine islands, is ac RESERVOIRS WERE DRY. cused of violating his instructions. The war department has finished Fire Raged in the Heart of Huntington, W. the new Philippine tariff and the Va.—L om is $200,000. schedules will be mailed to Governor Huntington, W. Va., July 5.—A Taft at once. fire raged in the heart of the city The United States training ship from 11 o’clock this morning until Alert, with 124 apprentice boys on 5 o’clock this evening, resulting in board has sailed from San Francisco the loss of $200,000. The Hames for Yokohama, Japan. started in a hotel which was crowded The freight handlers strike at with guests, many of whom were Reading, l’a., is still on, with no women. Of these a number fainted prospect for an early settlement. when the alarm of fire rang out More than 100 cars block ail traffic. through the balls, and it was with Pierre Lorillard, the tobacco king, great difficulty that they were re moved from the building. There was is dead. not a gallon of water in the city re The hot wave in the east has been servoirs when the fire broke out and broken. all the fire engines in the city were The pope condemns the French law out of repair. Rapidly the Hames of associations. spread and soon half a dozen resi Prince von Hohenlohe died at Rag- dences were ablaze. A livery stable and a number of private houses fruit atz Switzerland. Kruger has abandoned his contem stores, barber shops and dozens of smaller structures were burned. plated trip to America. President opens a large tract of land DISORDERS IN MEXICO CITY. in Oklahoma for settlement. The navy department has re-estab Antl-Clerical Demon»tr»tion by a Band of lished the European station. Students. Crazy man shot and killed the judge Mexico City, July 5.—The public who once declared him insane. mind is much excited and the clergy The miners' strike at Telluride, Hik'd with indignation over the re Colo., has been satisfactorily settled. sults of the students’ anti-clerical The Standard Oil company is send demonstration. The students to the ing vessels to the Pacific coast for number of 300 held a public meeting. Stirring speeches were made, showing wheat. C. N. Gordon, inder five years’ sen the intense feeling of tho young men tence, escaped from the jail at Van and denouncing the recent immoral ities of the few priests, who, it was couver. claimed, had been shielded and not Actual business on London stock punished. exchange last week was worse than A company of gendarmes preserved ever before.. order and the demonstration was wit Dr. J. W. Watts, whose vote made nessed by Governor Coral, of the fed Rutherford B. Hayes president in eral district. Precautions have been taken to pre 1876, is dead. vent further trouble, but it is believed Montana train robbers have out witted the officers, and their capture that if the several priests who are publicly denounced in the the press is not probable. are not punishis! the young men may Roliert Knapp drowned himself in make an attempt to invade the tem the Willamette at Portland to end hit ples. sufferings from asthma. It is authoritatively stated that the Recruiting New Regiment». long-talked-of salmon canners’ com Washington, July 6.—Acting Adju bine has at last been formed. tant General Ward has received the In the last race at Newport the rejairts of the officers engaged in re yacht Constitution la-at the Columbia cruiting the five new infantry regi nine minutes and the lnde|a*ndence ments and the five new cavalry regi seven minutes. ments authorized by the army reor Head-end collision of trains on ganization act, showing that the regi the Southern Pacific near Dunsmuir, j ments are all practically recruited Cal., resulted in the death of a hobo except the Thirteenth cavalry, which It and serious injuries to two other men. is reported to la' 389 men short. is expected that all these troops will Fire in Williams, Aria., destroyed be sent to the Philippines for the re nealry $300,000 worth of property. lief of an equal number of regular Albert L. Johnson, a prominent troops, who have been there two years trolley line promoter, is dead at his or more and who are to be brought home in Brooklyn. home. An American has been awarded the Fighting in Manchuria. South African war medal for service rendered the English. Tien Tain, July 5. — Fresh report* of England gives instructions that fighting in Manchuira and on the raising of llag at Skagway, Alaska, frontier of Chi Li province have been received here. A pitched battle has is not to 1 h > insisted upon. been fought at Shen Yang, in which The president has issued a pro the natives defeated the Mohamme clamation adding 142,000 acres to the dans. Genera) Tung Funh biang, it Cascade reserve in Oregon. is reported, is attacking the Chinese converts in Shan Si province. The hot wave in the East continues and the deaths and prostrations are Tug Foundered. more numerous than ever before. Eagle River, Mich., July 3.—The An immense lead combine has been tug Fern, of Algonac, Mich., found formed to control the lead fields in ered off here Saturday morning. She Missouri. Capitalization, $20,000, • carried a crew of five men,all of whom 000. were lost. The wreck of the yacht A Chicago man was shot and fatal Marguerite, of Hancock, was discov ly wounded while attempting to re ered between here and Eagle Harbor. cover a lady's purse from the man Two men are supposed to have been lost on her. who did the shooting. Telluride, Colo., July 9.—With the Fraser River Fishermen Resort to Items of Interest From All Parts positive information from Lieutenant Violent Measures. of the State. Governor Coates, a member of the commission appointed by the governor to investigate the strike in the Smug JAPANESE WORK BELOW UNION RATES COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL HAPPENINGS gler-Union mine, that Governor Orman would not send troops, and A Brief Review of the Growth end Improve with the assurance from the mine Both Side» Are Armed end Determined, and Bloodshed 1» Imminent—Militia May managers of the district that they ment» of the Meny Induitriei Through could not longer afford te close down, Be Called Upon. out Our Thriving Commonwealth. Arthur L. Collins, manager of the Smuggler-Union mines, has conceded Salmon are scarce this year in the several points, and a' settlement be Vancouver, B. C., July 10.—The rivers of Wallowa county. tween himself and the Miners’ Union threatened trouble in connection with ' the salmon canning industry reached Indications are good for a record has been made. This ends the strike, and many a climax today. The fishermen and breaking prune crop in Benton miners will return to work im the canners have been unable to county. agree upon the remuneration to be A sheep herder of Clark’s creek mediately. I paid to the former for catching fish, The terms of settlement are looked killed an eight foot cougar with a 22 upon as a victory for the miners, and i and, as was the case last year, the caliber riHe. tonight hundreds are celebrating in I fishermen, who are well organized, The Roaring Gimlet placer mine, Telluride. The tension of the last I have declared a strike. The fisher near Gold Hill, frequently takes out four days has been removed and the men’s union comprises all the whites $50 to the pan. miners and citizens alike are jubilant. and Indians who, by reason of many Many good prospects are being de- I The agreement was signed after a con years of service, have become experts The in working for the 50 canneries on veloped in the Calapooia side of the ference lasting three hours. miners declare that the settlement is the Fraser river. The canners, un- Blue river district. | able to come to terms with the union Ten car loads of horses were recent- j a victory for them, but Manager Col fishermen, have arranged to employ ly shipped from Elgin, Union county, , lins claims that he is satisfied and that he has not conceded any material Japanese to catch salmon. to the Kansas City market. When the Japanese started out to points. The local union held a meet Some fine asphalt croppings have i ing tonight and declared the strike off. fish today the union men organized been found on Lost Creek in Crook By the terms of the settlement non a system of patrol boats, and every county. Hopes of oil are also enter- I union men may be employed in the Japanese found fishing was ordered to tained. A Smuggler-Unicn mines. It is certain, desist and to return to shore. A new species of thistle, somewhat however, that the union miners will number of Japanese resisted this com resembling the Russian, and grow’ing not allow non-union men to remain mand, and fights occurred between in two foot clusters, has been found so any longer than they can help. Japanese and union men followed, The union is permitted, through its resulting in five broken heads for as neir Pendleton. many Japanese. None of the latter Athena is building a two mile pipe president or secretary, to declare a are fatally injured, but all are pretty man incompetent and order his dis line to secure city water. Other municipal and private improvements charge. This feature of the settle well battered up. Following this incident the Japan ment is a distinct advantage to the are under way. union, and will enable the union to ese held a mass meeting, at which it The pine needle industry is flour regu'ate unionism in the mines. The was decided that their entire strength ishing in the southern part of the secretary is given the right to visit should be paraded tonight. Conse state. This business is unknown the mine at any time, and can order quently 1,200 boats, each containing elsewhere save in Germany. the measuring of the men’s work three Japanese, started simultaneous The Eugene creamery is making whenever he wishes, even though the ly this evening from the fishing vil He lage of Stevenston 14 miles from Van prosperity more general among the man ha* worked but one hour. Twenty-five special police Lane county farmers. Five hundred can also order the payment of the couver. to 800 pounds of butter are churned men at any time. The Liberty Bell men were sworn in besides the regular and Tomboy mines, which were closed force at Steveston, but these proved daily. during the Smuggler-Union trouble, inadequate to restrain the union men. Colonel Winchester, of the Siletz The union patrol of 300 boats is ar reservation, expects authority to dis will also open again. The following ranging to follow the Japanese at tribute almut $100,000 among the In is the agreement: First—The company agrees' not to midnight and both sides significantly dians of that section in liquidation of discriminate against the union or agree that the matter will be settled various claims against the govern All the Japanese the members thereof, and the union before morning. ment. and the members thereof agree not to are armed and so are the whites. The fish warden collected $607.30 molest nor nor interfere with non There is talk of calling out the mi fish licenses during June. litia, but it is likley that the trouble union men. Second — The union expresses its will lie settled, whether with or with The second annual Harney county entire disapproval of the recent out out bloodshed, before a military force fair will be held September 16-21. could be got to the scene of the Rattlesnakes are said by trout fish rages. trouble. Third — The.company agrees to let ermen to be numerous and dangerous the president or secretary of the local near Pendleton. FRICTION IN LUZON. union have full access to its surface Bids have been asked for the im property at all reasonable hours; pro provement of the federal building and vided that the work of the men is not Grave Charge» Againtt Governor Whitemarih, grounds in Astoria. interfered with. of Benguet A boy at Medford was badly crushed Fourth—The union agrees to use Manila, July 10.—The United by falling in front of a moving engine, all its influence to stop the illicit sell which he tried to board. ing of liquor in Marshall Basin or States Philippine commission has ordered H. P. Whitmarsh, the gov There are now four fish hatcheries around the mine. Fifth—The company is to have the ernor of Benguet province, to come in Oregon and it is the intention of Master Fish Warden Van Dusen to right to let contracts to any men who to Manila and submit to an investiga wish to take them, all such contracts tion owing to the allegation that he establish several more. to be on printed forms which are here has been using his position to his per A young man at Mayville, Gilliam after to be drafted by a representative sonal advantage in acquiring land and county, tried to duplicate a prescrip of the union and a representative of mining rights from the natives. He tion from memory. He is dead, as the company. is at present charged with violating the medicine was for external use. his instructions. The commission particularly instructed Governor Hopyards in the northern part of A TASTE OF FREEDOM. Whitmarsh to cultivate the friendship Clacakmas county and around Wood and protect the interests of the Igor- burn and Hubbard show great im provement in the last 30 days. Verm That ii All the Cuban» Want. Sav> General rotes, who suffered from Spanish ex tortions and exploitations. Colonel in so far have not appeared. The Gomez, Then Annexation. Duval, of the Forty-eighth regiment, plants are healthy and cultivation has New York, July 9.—A dinner was who formerly occupied the provinces not been more thorough in 10 years. The present outlook is for a yield 10 given tonight at the Union League of La Union and Benguet, and Dr. club to General Maximo Gomez and Kiefer, the regimental surgeon, whe per cent in excess of that of 1900. General T. Estrada Palma, by W. E. was prominent in the civil service of D. Stokes. Mr. Stokes was formerly a the province, complained of Governor Portland Market». member of the Cuban league of Amer Wheat—Walla Walla, export value, ica, and was closely identified wnn Whitmarsh’s method of administer 57c per bushel; bluestem, 58'sc; the work of the junta, of which Gen ing his office. The commission is in clined to attribute the feeling existing valley, nominal. eral Palma was the head. The Cuban Flour—best grades, $2.900 3.40 per general made a brief speech, which to military opposition to civilian authority in Benguet. Voluntary barrel; graham, $2.60. was interpreted by General Gonzales. statements made by natives to Com Oats—White, $1.32^01.35; gray, General Gomez said he was deeply missioner Worcester while on a visit $1.3001.32 per cental. touched by the remarkable reception to Benguet form the basis of the in Barley—Feed, $17017.50; brewing, he had received in the United States. vestigation. General Bell has for $17017.50 per ton. Cuba and the United States, said the Millstuffs—Bran, $17 per ton; mid general, belong together. It is only warded similar allegations to Manila. Two friars who were invited to Cal- dlings, $21.50; shorts, $20; chop, $16. a question of gravitation when they Hay—Timothy, $12.50014; clover, will be one. But at present, after the asiao, province of Pagasinan, to cele A $709.50; Oregon wild hay, $607 per great struggle in which thousands of brate a holiday, were mobbed. native priest denounced the action of ton. lives were sacrificed, and when men Butter—Fancy creamery. 15017 t*c; returned to their homes only to find the people, whereupon they attacked The friars fled. The dairy, 13014c; store, 10012c per their wives and children starved to the priest. native papers have since renewed their pound. death in the restricted barriers in attacks on the friars. Eggs—17017tsc per dozen. which Weyler had them under his General Chaffee and Wade are at Cheese—Full cream, twins, 120 policy of concentration, they felt that Batangas. The removal of the mili 12lsc; Young America, 13013^0 jier 1 they must have Cuban libre. It is tary headquatrers in Southern Luzon pound. now fully realized. He said that Poultry—Chickens, mixed, $2.750 , Cuba cannot get along without the from Manila to Lipa, in Batangas 3.50; hens, $3.250 4.00; dressed, 90’ Uniter! States, but the Cubans want province, is contemplated. Pardo de Tavera. who has been an 10c per pound; springs, $2.0004.00 1 to feel freedom. nounced as a future member of the per dozen ; ducks, $3 for old; $2.50 After dinner General Gomez said to 03.00 for young; geese, $4 jier I the newspaper men that he wished to civil commission, and General Cailles, dozen; turkeys, live. 8010c; dressed, express his gratitude to the press of the insurgent leader who recently sur rendered in Laguna province, are go 10012 Sc per pound. the United States and of the world for Mutton — Lambs, 3Sc. gross; j the great good they had done to the: ing to that province tomorrow. dressed, 607c per pound; sheep, cause of Cuban libre. He was sure The Peace Negotiations. $3.25, gross; dressed, 606 Sc per lb that the Cubans would now establish London. July 10. — The British Hog* — Gross, heavy, $5.7506; their own government, and would • light, $4.7 505; dressed. 6la07c per show the gratitude they feel for the government has issued further South African correspondence concerning pound. help of the Americans in removing the peace negotiations, which con Veal—Small, 7la08c; large, 6S the Spanish yoke. cludes with the text of the proclama 07c per pound. tion of Schalkburger and Steyn, Beef—Gross top steers. $4.0004.25; 1 cablet! by Lord Kitchener to the gov Jesii« Morrijon Sentenced, cows and heifers, $3.2503.50; dressed { beef, 6S0?S<’ l*r pound. Eldorado, Kan., July 9.—Jessie ernment July 4. This proclamation Hops—12014c per pound. Morrison, convicted of manslaughter affirms that Mr. Kruger anti the Boer Wool—Valley, 11013c; Eastern in the second degree for the murder deputation abroad make satisfactory Oregon, 8012c; mohair, 20021c per of Mrs. Clara Wiley Castle, on June1 reports; that peace would be worth pound. 22. 1900. was today sentenced to five less without independence; that no Potatoes — $1.25 per sack; new years in the penitentiary in cloa» con peace should be accepted whose price was national existence. potatoes, 1 01 \c per pound. finement at hard labor. Six former governors of Tennessee are among the citizens of that state, one being United States senator Wil liam B. Bate. Twenty torpedo boat destroyers and torpedo lost* will oe turned over to the government by contractors within the next few months. The earl of Stamford, addressing the National Vigilance Society, in Jxmdon, says American women are the purifiers of tlie national morals. The town of Natick, Mass., on July 4th celebrated the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of that place. Oklahoma fruit growers have begun the annual shipment of peaches to the northern markets. The crop is estimated at 750,000.000 bushels. The circulation per capita in the United States is now the largest in* the country's history, amounting to $28.13. One year ago it was $26.71. . McMINNVILLE............ OREGON. mtiïTôfWï Summer Mall Service la Alatka. Washington, July 5.—The post office department announced today that the summer mail service is now in operation between latke Bennett, B. C., and Dawson, in the Yukon ter ritory. It is being performed under the same conditions as last year, and ia open to all clansea of mail originat ing in Canada and the United States. — Privateerlnj Threatened. Bruseel*. July 9.—The Petit Bleu says that Mr. Kruger has lately re fused to entertain proposals to arm privateers, but that the promoters are again urging the ex-president of the South African republic to notify the powers that unless they intervene he will issue letters of marque. In the event of Mr. Kruger's continued re fusal, the promoters propose to act without authorization. Electrical Storm la Ontario. Tort Erie, Ont.. July 9.—This place was visited last night by the most severe electrical storm ever known in Canada. At the race track a row of stables was struck by lightning and a colored jockey of Louisville, Kv.. was killed. A farmer whose stable is just outside the track was killed and his son rendered unconscious. A woman living near met death in the same manner. OPEN TO SETTLERS. Large Tract of Land in Oklahoma Territory —Proclamation ol President. Washington, July 9.—The procla mation of President McKinley open ing to settlement the lands ceded by Indians in the territory of Oklahoma was giv?n to the public yesterday. The proclamation covers the cessions made by the Wichita and affiliated bands of Indians, in accordance with the act of March 2, 1895, and those made by the Comanche, Kiowa and Apache tribes, in pursuance of the act of June 3, 1900. The proclamation provides for the opening of the lands in those reservations, which are not reserved at 9 o’clock A. M., August 6» the lands to be open to settlement under the homestead and townsite laws of the United States. The proclamation says that, begin ning August 10, and ending August 26, those who wish to make entry of lands under the homestead law shall Iw registered. The registration will take place at the land offices at Reno and Lawton. The registration at each office will be for both land dis tricts. To obtain registration the ap plicant will be required to show him self qualified to make homestead entry of these lands under existing laws, and to give the registering officer such appropriate matters of description and identity as will protect the appli cant and the government against any' attempted impersonation. Registra tion cannot be effected through the use of mails, or the employment of an agent, excepting that honorably dis charged soldiers and sailors may pre sent their applications through an agent, no agent being allowed to rep resent more than one soldier. No person will be allowed to register more than once. After being regis tered applicants will be given certifi cates allowing them to go upon *he ceded lands, and examine them in order to aid them in making an intel ligent selection. It is explicitly stated that no one will be premitted to make settlement upon any of the lands in adavnee of the opening provided for, and the statement is added that “during the first 60 days following said opening, no one but registered applicants will be permitted to make homestead set tlement upoD any of said lands, and then only in pursuance of a home stead entry, duly allowed by the local land officers, or of a soldier’s declara tory tsatement, duly accepted by such officers.’’ AN IMPORTANT CAPTURE. Bellarmina'» Filipino Band Taken by Sixth Cavalry. Manila, July 10.—The forces of the insurgent leader, Bellarmina, which recently have been operating around Donsol, province of Sorsogon, were driven across the mountains by the Second infantry and finally captured by the Sixth cavalry. Bellarmina, with 1,000 men and 214 guns, surren dered to Colonel Wint, at Albay, cap ital of the province of that name. One hundred more rifles will be sur rendered tomorrow. Later in the day the official an nouncement of the surrender of Bel larmina was made. According to this account, Bellarmina. who has been operating in the province of Sorso gon, surrendered at Legaspi, on Albv bay, with 32 officers, 315 guns, and 3,000 rounds of ammunition. The insurgent presidents of that section of the country and many Filipino.« ac companied Bellarmina, who gave him self up to Colonel Theodore J. Wint, In all, since of the Sixth caavlry. June, 1,082 insurgents have surren dered in that district. RURAL DELIVERY ABUSES. Carriers Served Interests of Private Individu als Too Much. Washington, July 10. — Already abuses have sprung up in the rural free delivery service, and prompt steps are being taken to prevent their spread, if not stamp them out alto gether. Under a recent order of the postoffice department, carriers on rural routes were granted permission to deliver and carry packages for per sons living along the routes. Com plaints soon piled in that many car riers, acting under this order, have been making it a practice to deliver or sell goods along their routes, which were furnished by merchants, grocery men or liquor dealers, who sought this means of reaching rural custom ers. This manner of business, on a small scale, would, perhaps, have been unobjectionable, but in a num- her of instances the carriers became so industrious in attending to their out side deliveries that they neglected their mails, and in consequence a second order has now been issued prohibiting rural carriers from engag ing in any other bsuiness while per forming their duties as carrier*. This was merely a case of privilege abused by the few. and in consequence de nied to all. There were many routes where carriers conducted this outside business in an unobjectionable man ner, but they will be affected. Death» from Heat in New York. New York. July 10 — The official report* of the bureau of vital statis tics of deaths from heat for the week ending July 6 show that the actual number in the five boroughs of Grat- eer New York was 989. For the bor oughs of Manhattan and the Bronx the number was 699; for Richmond, 12 ; for Queens. 24; for Brooklyn, 264. The records cover the day* when the beat was most intense.
