I / I 1 fr / ——g BACK TO THE ARMY. Where Civil Government Has ». I. rabilaba«. M c M innville . . Manila, July 22. — The United ____ of the State. ----- J. m or rot mi William C. Whitney, of New York, paid $50,(MM) for the two-year-old colt Nasturtium. It in reported that a company at St. Cloud, Fla., han succeeded in making excellent paper from the leave« of Cha palmetto. Andrew Allan, , the only surviving founder of the Allan Line Ocean Steamship Co. i and president of the line, die«! at Montreal, Can., at th« age of 80 years. Negotiations Still Progressing. Ixjndon, July 22—In the house of common« today the parliamentary secretary of the foreign office. Lord Cranbourne. informed a questioner that the difficulty which caused the deadlock among the minister« of the foreign powers at Pekin had reference to the collection of revenues, ear­ marked for the purpoae of indemnity, and that the negotiation« at Tekin were «till in grogreaa. I COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL HAPPENINGS A Brief Review of the Growth and Improve­ ment! of the Many Industries Through­ out Our Thriving Commonwealth. A number of small hold-ups are re­ ported around Athena and Weston. A stage line has been established across the mountains from Prineville to Foster. James Hall, a California pioneer of 1852, died recently at Fairview, Was­ co county. Several rich clean ups are reported from the placer mines of Mule Gulch, Grant county. The Eugene excelsior factory is running night and day, turning out 12 carloads every month. Oregon college presidents are dis­ cussing a more thorough regulation of intercollegiate athletics. The natural ice caves near Elgin, Union county, are becoming quite a summer resort for that section. A. W. Sturgis,of Josephine county, expects to realize $10,000 from the annual clean up on his Forest creek mine. Timber fires are raging in the mountains in Lake and Klamath counties, and the valleys are getting blue with smoke. The prune crop in Benton and Linn counties will be such a record breaker that it is feared much of the fruit must go to waste for lack of drying facilities. The number of children county between the ages of 4 and 20, according to the reports of the several school clerks, is 7,549. Last year the number of children was 7,382. The Oregon rattlesnake seems lack­ ing in real venom. Several men were bitten recently in various hay- fields in Eastern Oregon, but no fatalities or serious results are re- corded. Some of the Polk county prune growers are already engaging hands for the harvest, as a labor famine is anticipated on account of the size of the crop and the outside demand for laborers. Good coal prospects are reported on the old H. C. Owen place, eight miles from Eugene. Capital has been in­ terested and development work will soon be begun. The vein was known years ago, but an obstinate owner blocked progress. Milton is trying hard to get a can­ nery located there. Wagoneers are doing a heavy wool business freighting out of Lostine. The Crook county court paid boun­ ty on 740 coyote scalps last session. Florence people are working for more adequate protection against fire. Bob Whtie quail have been seen in small coveys near Lostine, Wallowa county. Numerous bands of sheep are headed for the summer pastures in the Green­ horn mountains. A California lion was seen lately in the suburbs of Marshfield and badly frightened several small children. Portland Markets. nllvlIILIl IIV I 1/ fl I L Passed Away at Spokane ----------------- Spokane, Wash., July 22.—Major James O'Neill, one of the earliest pioneers of the Northwest, died at 11 o’clock last night. He was the third 1 mayor of Portland. At the time of j his death he was deputy clerk of the federal court. He was born at Dunansburg, Schenectady county, N. Y., February 8, 1826. In 1853 he came west to Oregon. He settled in Oregon City, but soon went to Port­ land and became agent for Wells, Fargo ed Form. ities, it having proved that the com­ munities indicated are backward and The mine firemen’s strike has been undeserving of civil admin is)'at ion. declared off. I The provincial and civil officials of The southwest was again scorched these designated districts will contin- by a hot wave. ' ue their functions, but are now under Tlie steel trust has made no effort the authority of General Chaffee, I instead of that of Civil Governor Taft, to start up idle plants. ■ as heretofore. General Chaffee has The rivers and harbors committee the power arbitrarily to remove from has returned from Alaska. office any or all provincial or civil The international mining congress officials and to abrogate any section has opened at Boise, Idaho. of the laws promulgated in these three Whitmarsh lias lieen exonerated of provinces. The residents-of the island of Cebu the charges brought against him. The ministers at Pekin have agreed have protested, but without success, upon the question of indemnity pay­ against the return to that island to military control. Several towns in ments. Cebu are still besieged by the insur­ Han Francisco teamsters have quit gents. The insurrection on the island work and the wholesale trade is about of Bohol has been renewed and insur­ tied up. gent sentiment in the province of Colonel Albert Jenks, a well known Batangas is strong. General Chaffee artist, dropped dead in Los Angeles of has ordered a battalion of the- Thir­ tieth infantry to begin the occupa­ heart disease, aged 75 years. A Pittsburg woman started the fire tion of the island of Mindoro. The with kerosene and, with her three province of Batangas will be occu­ pied by the entire Twentieth infan­ children, was burned to death. try. The mayor of Santa Paula, Cal., 1 H. Phelps Whitmarsh, governor was shot and probably fatally wound­ of Benguet province, who was recent­ ed by a tough character of that place. ly ordered to Manila for investigation Corbin and Chaffee have decided on of certain charges against him, pre­ radical changes in the army in the sented his side of the. case to the Philippines. The military force will United States Philippine commis­ sion. Mr. Whitmarsh denied every be reduced to 20,(MM) or 30,000. A movement has been started by charge made against him. An act has been passed organizing the labor unions of San Francisco to the insular constabulary, practically shut out Japanese, placing them on as outlined in dispatches received the same footing with the Chinese. last March. A provision has been At a Chicago nice track four horses 1 added empowering the chief of the became frightened, threw their riders system and either of the four district and bolted from the track into the assistants temporarily to consolidate »[lectators and several person« were constabulatories of two or more pro­ severely injured. vinces in case of necessity. Inspec­ It is estimated that $2,000,(MM) in tion and discipline of the municipal bank notes is in circulation which police will also be controlled by con- have been printed from the plates of stabulatory departments. a defunct bank. The pates were sup­ THREE-SCREW CRUISERS. posed to have been destroyed 50 years ago. The Havana drydock may be towed Great Steaming Radius of Proposed New U S. to Subig bay, Luzon. Warship«. Agu inaldo is irritated by his con­ Washington, July 22.—The plans tinued imprisonment. now under consideration for the new The sti-el trust will attempt to open armored cruisers authorized by con­ several plants this week. gress contemplate such a new depart­ Friendly relations between Russia ure in steaming capacity that these and Thibet hax^i been opened. ships will l>e able to make voyages Hot weather continues in the Brit­ exceeding any by the ships now in ish Isles, but relief is predicted. commission and equaling, if not ex­ Another heat wave has visited the ceeding, the long distance trips of corn licit of Kansas and Nebraska. any naval warship afloat. Although Peasants of the Volga, Russia, pro­ the plans are not fully passed upon, vinces are on the verge of starvation. the main features are pretty well General Davis has relieved General worked out. They provide for a Kobbe in the southern Philippine combination of three screws, so separ­ islands. ated that any one can work inde­ By using three screws Mrs. Kruger, wife of ex-President pendently. Kruger, of the Transvaal republic, the ship could develop great speed from 22 to 23 knots, so that she is dead. could be listed as a 23 knot ship. International Epworth League con­ But all three screws would l>e used vention at San Francisco has ad­ only in case of emergency. For the journed. purpose of making long voyages only It is almost certain that the sta­ one screw would be ustsl at a time. tionary firemen’s strike will soon be It is estimated that this would give at an end. a speed of 10 knots an hour. By al­ Major O’Neill, the third mayor of ternating the screws, the craft could the city of Portland, is dead at his make a voyage of at least 10,(MM) miles without a stop to recoal, and at the home in Spokane. same time she would always have her It is feared that disorder and dis­ tress will follow opening of govern­ three screews in readiness to develop a 22 or 23 knot «peed in case of ne­ ment lands in Oklahoma. cessity. The next official map of the United APPEALS FOR PROTECTION. State« will show the Lewis and Clark route and incidentally advertise the 1905 fair. An English Subject In Colnrado Is Afraid of No move has been made to Bettie Mob Violence. the «teel strike. Denver, July 22.—William Rad­ General Daniel Butterfield died at cliffe has appealed to the state to pro­ hi« home at Craigside, N. Y. tect his property at the Grand Mesa Earl Russell will enter the plea of lakes. lie nays armed men are in guilty to the charge of bigamy. possession of his property and threat­ One man was killed and 50 wound­ en to kill his employes if they do not ed in religious riots at Saragossa. l.iave Delta county. He arrived in L. H. J. Hunt has abandoned pro- the city last evening and immedi­ ject to establish a newspaper at Se- ately entered into consultation with the state game commissioner. The attle. opinion of the attorney general will International convention of Ep- lie asked as to the duty of the state. worth League has opened in Sau- Radcliffe places his loss in young Francisco. trout alone at *10.000. Radcliffe, The American Sugar Refining Com­ who is an English subject, has ap­ pany has reduced the [trice on all pealed to the British consul for pro­ grades of sugar. tection to his life and property. Italy is investigating representa­ Will B< Sent to Fort Lawton. tions made regarding alleged lynching of two Italians in Mississippi. Seattle, July 22.—The Thirty-sec­ The British and French navies will ond company of coast artillery is an­ unite in a series of maneuvers in nounced by the local quartermaster’s order to see which cun out general office here as having been detailed to duty at Fort Lawton on its arrival at the other. Seattle. The company is now in the The tinworkers’ union has refuser! Philippines and ia expect«! to arrive to handle non union plate«, thus com­ here within the next 30 days. There ing to the support of Hie striking tin­ are 110 men in the detachment. The plate makers. accommodat ions at Fort Lawton, how­ The relief from drought in Kansai ever, are not sufficient for a two-com­ was only temporary. The weather pany battery of artillery, and are has again turned warm and all crops now l>eing enlarged under a contract are withering. recently let by the government. OB t — Third Mayor of the Citv of Portland, 1856-7— Been a Failure --Insurrection Not Qu.lied. J AN ALASKA TRAGEDY. MAJOR O’NEIL DEAD. WEARY OF PRISON. Aguinaldo is Chafing Under His Long Con- tinued Restraint. Manila, July 23.— Aguinaldo is considerably irritated at his contin­ ued surveillnace by the American au­ thorities. Whenever he signs his name he must add the word "pris­ oner.” He refused the request of his friends to write to the insurgent General Malvar, still at large in Southern Luzon, advising him to surrender. He consented to sign a copy of his oath of allegiance with the understanding that it be forward­ ed to Malvar for the purpose of influ­ encing his surrender, but under his signature to the oath he wrote, “Pris­ oner in Malacanan Prison.” General Davis has been ordered to the command of the American troops on the island of Mindanao, and in the Jolo archipelago. General Kobbe, formerly commander of this district, will return to the United States. The transport Sheridan, with the Fourteenth infantry, and Adjutant General Barry on board, sailed front here today, General MacArthur, who left here on the Meade July 4, will embark on the Sheridan, at Na- gasaki, for San Francisco. DISTRESS MAY FOLLOW. Many Settlers Rushing Into Oklihomi With Little Money or Provisions. Fort Sill, O. T., July 23.—Disor­ der and distress, will, it is feared, fol­ low the actual opening of the Kiowa- Comanche reservation, August 6. It is now estimated that fully 150,000 people will have registered for a chance to secure one of the 13,000 claims to be awarded by lottery, when the registration booths close on July 26. Thousands of persons now on the reseravtion, who are neither mechanics nor artisans, and who have little or no money, announce their intention of locating around Lawton, if they fail to win a claim. Campers, who came in prairie schooners by the thousands, generally brought with them provisions sufficient to last from five to 10 days. Continued drought has caused the water to be restricted, and for days a hot wind has prevailed on the prairies, and the temperature has averaged over the 100 mark. With those conditi >ns before them, many are already be­ ginning to grumble, and when this is followed by disappointment over failure to draw a lucky number, the hope that bore many up will doubt­ less give way to more serious condi­ tions. Another Scorching. KANSAS CITY TEMPERATURE REACHES 128 Intense Suffering Among All Classes — Esti. mates of the Corn Yield Reduced to a Quarter of a Crop. Kansas City, Mo., July 24.—A veritable hot blast literally scorched the Southwest today, breaking all heat records in the history of the local weather bureau. Yesterday Kansas City experienced the hottest weather ever known here, the govern­ ment thermometer reaching 104 and remaining above the 100 mark for seven hours. Two dozen prostrations, nine fatal, were the result. Today at 3:30 o’clock the weather bureau ther­ mometer at the highest point in the city showed 106 degrees, with street thermometers in the business districts reaching as high as 128. The ther­ mometer at 8 A. M. registered 90; was 101 at noon, and at 3 P. M., 104. Hardly a breath of air stirred. The suffering was intense, especially among persons compelled to work out doors and in the poor districts in the bottoms. Seven deaths from prostrations were reported during the day in Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kan., and over 30 persons were overcome by the heat. This makes a total death for the two days of 16. Most of the victims were elderly per­ sons. The highest previous temperature in the history of the Kansas City weather bureau was 103, in August, 1896, but it only remained near that point for one day. Today is the 32d in succession on which the tempera­ ture has averaged alxive 90 degrees and the 15th in that time that the thermometer has gone over 100. At Lawrence, Kan., the state university reported the heat record for Kansas again broken, at 106 degrees, the highest in 34 years. Farmers are still rushing their live­ stock to market because of the scarc­ ity of water. Today the local receipts of cattle were the heaviest on record, amounting to 25,500 head. There was also a big advance in the price of grain, attributed to the heat. Sep­ tember corn rose almost 4 cents to 60 5-8 cents and September wheat went up cents to 68)4 cents. Single car lots of corn sold as high as 63 cents a bushel to go back to the country. Heavy showers fell this afternoon in Southwestern Missouri, in the vi­ cinity of Joplin, the zinc district, and in Southeastern Kansas around Fort Scott. There is no prospect for a heavy fall, the only thing that will cause a permanent break in the drought. At 11 o'clock tonight a local thun­ der shower brought relief to the suffer­ ing people in nuich lower tempera­ ture, but the rainfall was small. FLOOD OF BAD NOTES. Printed From Platts Used by a Bank Long Out of Exsistence. Washington, July 24.—Chief Wil­ kie, of the secret service, has received a number of bank notes printed from the original plates used by the State Bank of New Brunswick, N. J., over 50 years ago. The bank went out of existence some time in the 50’s and it was supposed that the steel plates from which its notes were printed were destroyed. It seems, ho vever, that these notes have fallen into the hands of persons who have printed from them large quantities of notes which have been put into circulation from New York to San Francisco. A very large per centage of the notes so far discovered are twos, although some ones and fives are being sent in. Inasmuch as the notes are not counterfeits of any United States notes or obligation the makers and passers cannot be prosecuted under the United States laws, but it is said they can be punished for fraud under the state laws. It appears that the notes readily passed along the Cana­ dian frontier, as the takers think they are the notes of the Canadian pro­ vince of New Brunswick, the words “New Jersey” being printed in small letters. The notes are printed on bond [taper and are quite as good in every way as the originals. It is said that possibly $2.(KM),000 of these notes are in circulation. Wheat—Walla Walla, export value, 55056c per bushel; bluestem, 57c; valley, nominal. Flour—beBt grades, $2.9003.40 [>er barrel; graham, $2.60. Oats—White, $1.32*401 35 ; gray, $1.3001.32*? percental. Barley—Feed, $16.50017; brewing, $17017.50 per ton. Millstuffs—Bran, $17 per ton; mid­ dlings, $21.50; shorts, $20; chop, $16. Hay—Timothy, $12.50014; clover, $709.50; Oregon wild hay, $607 per ton. Butter—Fjsncv creamery, 17 *»019c ; dairy, 14015c; store, 11012c |H*r pound. Eggs—17*? 018c per dozen. Cheese—Full cream, twins, ] 110 ll*?c; Young America, 12012’^c e j>er pound. Poultry—Chickens, mixes!. $3.250 4 00; hens, $4.0005.00; dressed. 100 11c per pound; springs, $2.5004.50 per dozen ; ducks, $3 for old; $2.50 03.50 for young; geese, $4 per dozen; turkeys, live, 8010c; dressed. 10012’40 per pound. Mutton — Laml>s, 3*ac. gross : dressed, 607c per pound; sheep, $3 25, gross; dressed, 606 ’^c per lb. Hogs — Gross, heavy, $5.7506; light. $4.75 05; dressed, 6ls07c per pound. Veal—Small. 7 *?08 *?c ; iarge, 6’a 07 Sc |M>r pound. Beef—Gross top steers, $4 0004.25: cows and heifers, $3.2503.50; dresses! beef, 6*?0^Sc per pound. Hops—12014c per pound. Wool — Valley, 11013c; Eastern Oregon, 8012c; mohair, 20021c per pound. Potatoes—$1.0001.25 per sack;new potatoes, 1 t*c per pound. Kansas City, July 22.—The Mis­ souri river has cut its banks ât a [Kiint eight miles south of Leaven­ worth and is now pouring part of its waters into the Platte river. The bed of the Platte is being gradually widened, and there is danger that within the next few days the Missouri will be transferred completely to the bed of the Platte. An island five miles long and in some places nearly two miles wide has been formed. If the Missouri adopts this new channel this new land will be transferred from Missouri to Kansas. St. Johns, N. F., July 24.—The mail steamer Home, which arrived here today, from Labrador, reports that the coast is blockaded with ice floes, especially the northern part, where the floes are impenetrable. This will greatly delay the Peary te- lief steamer Erik, which counted upon calling at Turnavia, Northern Labrador, and landing her last mail before entering the Arctic circle. The Home had to alusndon her attempt to reach her terminus in consequence of the ice. Pasteboard armor is likely to come into military fashion. It is, if thick enough, almost impenetrable to car­ bine bullets, which can pierce five- inch wiMxlen planks. Recent experi­ ments prove this. The record was broken recently in the sale of unoccupied lands in Ne­ braska. Wyoming and Kansas. Over fit).(MX) acres were disposed of. the largest amount in any one week in the history of the land department. Destructive Prairie Fires. Hop« Americans Will Take Part. Washington July 24.—The state Denver July 23.— Considerable de­ struction by forest and prairie tires is department has received a note from reported from different points in the the Italian embassy at Washington state, directly attributable to the inclosing a letter from the mayor of condition of grass and timber from the long dry spell. Timber tires have Turin, to President McKinley, ex­ been burning several day« near pressing the hope that artists and Mount Evans, Long's Peak and on manufacturers fmm the United States the Kenosha range. From Baca and will take part in the international Prowers counties, the center of the exposition of modern decorative art to stock raising district, come report« be held in Turin in 1902. under the j patronage of the king of Italy. of destructive prairie fires. Three Men Left on an Island Mysteriously Dissapear. Port Townsend, Wash., July 24 — The steamship Oregon arrived in quarantine from Nome last night, ami remained in the stream awaiting inspection until this morning. She brought the largest number of passen­ gers of any steamer arriving from Nome this season. The Oregon sailed from Nome July 13. She reports that for several days previous to her sailing a fearful surf was sweeping the beach at Nome, which endangered both life and property. A tragedy is reported on Unimak island. Three' men were landed there last fall by the steamer Thomas F. Bayard, lhe Bayard was to return for them this season, and when she arrived a party was sent ashore and found a collapsed tent, the strong ropes of which had evidently been cut with a knife or some other sharp instrument. Inside were a couple of garments, coat and vest, both of which were pierced with sharp knife cuts. The Bayard sailed for Nome and arrived there July 9, and made the foregoing re[H>rt. The steamer Ruth, which was dis­ abled by ice at Golofin bay, after making temporary repairs, started for Cape Nome in a leaking condition, and was caught in the storm in Behr­ ing sea and she was again disabled, and while drifting about helplessly was picked up by the steamer Santa Ana and towed to Nome. STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. Steamer Burned on the Lakes—Crew Believed to Be LosL Marinette, Wis., July 2,—During a severe electrical storm today a boat supposed to be a large schooner or steam barge was struck by lightning and destroyed by fire, and her crew is believed to have be.en lost. The light­ keeper at Menominee saw the boat burning just south of Green island. He called up the local fire tug and the latter started out to render any assistance possible. When about three miles out all signs of the boat or fire suddenly disappeared, and an examination afterward showed no wreckage. The nearest land is Green island and the crew, if they had escaped with their lives, would have gone there. There was a heavy sea running, and it would have been im­ possible for a small boat to live in it. The boat was on her way here from the Sturgeon bay canal, and was un­ doubtedly one of the Chicago or Mil­ waukee lumber carriers. Communi­ cation with Sturgeon bay fails to establish the identity of the lost craft. FIREMEN’S STRIKE ENDED. Decltred Off at a Joint Meeting at Wilkes barre—Work Resumed Wilkesbarre, Pa., July 24.—The strike of the stationary firemen was jointly called off at a joint meeting of the strikers and the executive board of United Mineworkers tonight. A resolution was offered requesting all strikers to report for work tomor­ row, and if they are refused by any of the companies, then the United Mineworkers will take up their cases. The resolution was adopted by an almost unanimous vote. More mines, with the aid of the United Mine workers, resumed opera­ tions in the Wyoming valley today. Committees from the striking sta­ tionary firemen waited upon the su­ perintendents of the coal companies and asked to be reinstated. At some of the mines the committees were told that the places of the strikers were filled. At others the names of the old firemen were taken and the committees were told that if their services were needed they would be sent for. In accordance with the agreement entered into at the conference last night by the executive officers of the United Mineworkers and the chief officers of the stationary firemen, some of the firemen belonging to the United Mineworkers gave notice to­ day that they will give up their posi­ tions. This will make room for the old firemen. Ambushed by Boers. London, July 23.—The casualty lists received tonight at the war office indicate that a party of South African constabulary was ambushed near Petrusburg July 16 and that two members of the party were killed, one dangerously wounded and 17 are missing and are believed to have been taken prisoners by the Boers. Missouri Changing Its Course. Blockaded With Ice Floes. All Depends on the Powers. Tien Tsin, July 23. — Europeans here consider that the prevention of a speedy recurrence of trouble de­ pends entirely upon the firmness