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KLAMATH » VOL. VIII. KLAMAIH NLY A FARMER’S DAUGHTER By MHS. EOR R ESTER. REPUBLICAN FALLS, KLAMATH COUNTY, OREGON, .JUNE 1903 •d In • desperate flirtation with <*«e. A CITY OF burst a few days ago, and were not I ver« d'Aguilar, ■ tall, dark, tuelancbuly alarmed until It was too late. Houses looking man (albeit decidedly haudaolne), were surounded by raging torrents, who was very mix h in love with her. He Grim Days of Sorrow which sucked every thing movable in hail been all through the Indian war, and I Roll la to their twisting eddies and escape was on hla return to England, looking very HEPPNER SLOWLY RECOVERING FROM Impossible. Heppner, June 17, thin and worn, lie waa made quite a hero ' Many people slept In the courthouse Houses crushed and of by all the women, aud looked ills part EFFECTS OF FLOOD. 1 last night, and any place they can extremely well. yond recognition, bu make a bed. I aiippo«« that If two men from the op from their foundatlo Many people are arriving at Hepp- posite poles had been brought together I ner. There are no beds, and visitors City Officials Work Industriously aad streets or on alien under one roof, they could hot have dif will be compelled to rough it while fered more e»«entially thau Col. d'Agui- Will Enforce Martial Law - areatest fourth, or one-half, or they stay. Provision« are not needed, lar and Mr. t'itytou. Gue waa generous , Needs are Money. Supplies and Dis household goods stre but rather help to bury their dead and In heart and ndnd, chlvalroua to women. I rection in reeking m clear away the debris. The absence of infectants Relief Money Coming In Irreaolute, diffident in hlmaelf, aud with feet In diameter up Ice or embalming fluids has necessitat the courage of a llou; the other well, we From All Parts of the Northwest. ed the hurried burial of many bodies, In impeded drift Into already know what Fram-la Clayton waa. . which would otherwise have been pre awful fantastic shapes, And yet tin-ae two men had aometblng in served for the arrival of relatives. Heppner, Or., June 19.—Heppner and horses and cattle common a aentlineut which In oue waa a Three live babies have been found disin cast In Indiscriminate tender, chlvalroua affection; in the other HEPPNER RECEIVES THE FILL FORCE whose parents are lost, and identifies needs money, provisions and a base, «<-111 ah paaalon. Thia aeutlment tion has so far been impossible. fectants above all else. Money is want Heppner of todsy. OF THE DELUGE. waa love of Feu Altun. For the firat, i Families are broken to pieces, the ed to pay men who are cleaning up All persons say that aliaoliitely the 14rot time lu hla life, Mr. j father alone remains, or a wife or son Claytun wu«, a« he cuufesaed to hlmaelf, I or .laughter, and little < hildr.-n left the town, provisions are required to the flood was upon the feed them, and disinfectants are es three or four minutes a In love -cotifonndedly lu love with a pret lune and Lexington Sutler Leas- Death orphans. Elias Connor, a stockralser of Ione ty, little, malicious, teaalng, impertinent ' sential to good sanitary conditions. ger was perceived. Most Liat Will Reach Fully 300 Safety Lay returned from Heppner at 2 o'clock fairy, and could not h<-lp himself. The warm sun is already raising of were in their houses, Only In Flight Dead Are Buried In this morning. He left the acene of the Lady Grace's guests lu< luded Mr. fensive odors on the scene of the dis Sunday, the hour being Frale, a connection of her husband's, who Hastily Constructed Coffin a- Absence disaster at 6 o'clock, and brings the latest news from the scene. aster. In two or three days more and a heavy rain had recently come Into a very good living, ’ of <Jouhla Notable. "It is now known,” said Mr. Conner, identification of dead bodies will grow caused them to pen them but had atrong «porting teDdenelea; Cap 'that at least 275 or 300 people were rapidly more difficult. In that time tain Culloden, of the Guards, a <ery plu n, In doors. Most of the dw Ione, Or., June 16.—A cloud which drowned. One hundred and fifteen the victims of the flood will be picked quiet individual, with a good Income aud near the bank of the st counbleralfly leas brains; aud the Hon burst on the bills a mile south of Hepp corpses have been hastily buried In people were therefore ca orable Jolni Flelden, a universal aud most ner at about 5:30 o'clock Sunday after wooden boxes and some were merely from the wreckage in the town. It is in a trap, and so sudd wrapped in blankets. There were sdll believed that many bodies were borne a<'coinim»latlng genius, who wga always warning that compara noon let loose a hungry flood of water, several wagon loads of dead on their happy to repay hospitality by making far down Willow Creek. Their recov could reach places of way to the cemetery when I left which swept down the hillside in a himself agreeable, and amusing the corn itself has now been pretty ery will not be so easy as in the town, whole row of houses next ' wall 30 feet high and 200 yards wide Heppner I ■ ■' well searched, except in piles of de and a large number may never be was swept away. Spectat These were the people whom Mi«« Reaching the bottom of the canyon, bris, where It is thought that numbers describe the st found. There are high piles of drift calamity Champion found asaembled at Emlon the liquid avalanche reared ItB mighty of bodies will be found. falling like card houses. Th Vale, ami 1 think her first «ensation on "Between Ione and Heppner," Baid at various places down the creek in were tossed about like bo front over the doomed town, and car being Introduced to them was a alight Mr. Conner, "there are great piles of which bodies undoubtedly are col most of them fell com chagrin at fludiug no great people among ried to destruction nearly every build- debris, but the flood passed so quick pieces. The town had per them. i Ing and human being that lay In Its ly that the roads have not been serf lected. Thieves have been pilfering 250 houses, nearly 200 of w Winifred had arrived at Endon Vale, ' path, leaving a waste of desolation to ously damaged. The railroad track the dead and the wreckage, and the demolished. The whole bus and oaa slttiag In her room, <lre»«wl for mark Its trail. The destroying torrent however, from Lexington on is badly authorities will take stringent precau of town would have been s dinner, until Lady Grace should come In, up. It looks strage to see the tions against the ghoulish practices had not the Palace hotel, raced down the narow gorge of Willow torn as «lie had promised, and take her down heavy steel rails bent and twisted like ; tomorrow. They are under ordefs to brick structure, diverted the i Creek, inundating as it reached them oorkscrews, and the heavy timbers stairs into the drawing room. Houses on brick foundation shoot down any thief, but they fear better than others because Mr«. Champion bad been prevented the settlements of Lexington, Ione and splintered like matchwood. In Hepp to do so tor fear of killing an inno could not so easily wash und pay lug a visit to Lady Grace, as ahe had Douglas. but lessening in fury and In ner itself the flood swept a clean path cent person in among the many Identification of the dead h iutended; but ahe, nevertheless, fulfilled volume as the thirsty alkali soil of the a mile long, and one or two blocks strangers. easy. wide through the town, following gen her promise of sending Wlulfred In her "We're going to enforce martial I valley drank up the water like a r-rally the course of Willow Creek Most of the bodies show th carriage. Behind it lay nearly 300 The people of Heppner seem demoral law.” declared Sheriff Shutt tonight, of drowning rather than of When the latter arrived ahe found her sponge. ized by the calamity, and men who Every able bodied man must go to jury, though all of them are kind hostess alone, all her guests bring dead, drowned like rats in a trap. The have lost their wives, children and work or get out of town. The sheriff less bruised, Only a few of sway on an excursion to the neighboring suddenness of the catastrophe gave their all, go dry-eyed to the work of has sworn in over 30 deputies, and who escaped the flood were woods. They had spent a pleasant after- | the victims no warning, overwhelming assistance of others." with the aid of several marshals, main injured. n'no together, ami just as the wheels ut The town of Heppner, the principal tains good order. The presence of them for the main part as they sat An army of men and horses the returning csrriagea were heard, I.ady sufferer from the flood is 197 miles many strangers in town makes law- ¡ng great wastes of debris, within their homes. Grace sent her young friend away to from Portland and 45 miles from the abiding citizens apprehensive. The Immediately after the fatal flood Columbia River. It contains a popu town Is In breathless haste to destroy hundred bodies have been fou dress, promising to cal! for her on her •here are men who say the way to the drawing room. This she did. had wiped the major portion of Hep lation of. approximately. 1400. and is the unsanitary elements that are only half begun. An army of and when they entered the drawing room pner out of existence, swift couriers the county seat of Morrow County. It springing up •ake charge of the bodies as th there was no one lu It but lxtrd Harold "We’ve got men enough,” says borne out of the wreckage b is located in the valley of Willow on hors.-back sped to warn the resi Erskine, who came up immediately to be dents of the valley toward the Colum Creek, a considerable stream, which Mayor Gilliam, “and don’t need any straining arms of men. An Introduced. bla of the coining peril. Leslie Mat flows north Into the Columffia. The more. What we need above all things leg, a toe. a finger, a lock of "Harold.” said hie aunt, "I leave Ml«> lock. B<>n of an ex-sheriff of Morrow valley of Willow Creek varies in width are money and food to keep them at uft of clothing—these are harb Eyre to your charge until dinner time, so County, rode a wild ride for 18 rnileB from one-half mile to a mile and is work. We have many cases of ab- if horror beneath the mud. do your beat to amuse her.” i ahead of the raging waters. His horse bounded on either side by precipitious ieet destitution, in which large fami ind little children lie there b Lord Harold forthwith devoted himself dropped dead, but he secured another, mountains which render sudden fresh lies have lost a father or a mother with many a gash or bruise on to Iwlng agreeable to hla new acquaint and again another, covering the 65 ets not uncommon, although at ordin and all their worldly possessions. We tender bodies. Forms of wome anew, ami succeeded perfectly. She felt miles to Arlington in seven hours. To ary seasons the stream is easily ford must clean up our city, but it is a stu luently come to light bereTt of quite at her ease, and chatted gayly to this Paul Revere of Oregon is undoubt ed at» almost any point. At Heppner. pendous job. This endeavor is owing -lothing save where a corset sh M ol I’rvM'Dtly the door at tba further edly due the fact that the rancher« of Willow Creek is joined by Hinton's to the living and the dead. We es them from the gaze of anxious se Fork, which eaters at the north end teem highly the material evidence of «rs. Clothing of men is less freq end of the room opened and a magnifi the Willow Creek country below Hep of the town. Borne 20 years ago » sympathy from other towns.” ly torn away. The bodies are cent young lady, attired in sweeping lace pner lost so little stock and property cloudburst occurred on Hinton's Fork Relief money has been received •o Roberts' hall to be washed The Palace Hotel was the first build and and silk, entered. The crimson color a wall of water 30 feet in height from La Grande. Hood River. Shaniko tressed by women, to be shroud flushed Into Winifred’s cheeka a« she ing to stem the tide, and all the guests rolled down the mountain sides into Portland. Athena and the Elks -oarse white cloth, and to be lai recognized her haughty cousin. They were Baved; but houses below the Pa Willow Creek At that _______ time the town amounting to $1247. J. N. Teal ar rough wood boxes. There is no had never met since it had been agreed lace Hotel were thrown out Into the was built principally on the south rived from Portland toda^' as an agent for ceremony. It's the grim r ....................... the farmer's daughter was to be noticed. street, overturned and wrecked. of a high backbone extending of relief. With him came 109 men. of death. And women who v. Perhaps the greatest loss occurred side "What will ahe do?” wondered WlnF from near the mouth of the Fork back who will be paid $2.50 per day. About faint at scenes one-thousandth part This house to fred. "Will she speak to me. or will »bv at the Heppner Hotel. the mountains. There was little half that number of men will arrive iwful obey the mandate of necess which was run under the management wait until Lady Grace introduces us?” damage to the town .............. and no lives were from Pendleton tomorrow. The Port without a flinch. The floor swl of Jones & ABbaugh. was carried lost. f* ___ : however, ___________ (To be continued.I Of recent _ years the land men have a camp back of the with the half diluted mud that dr FATAL FLOOD GLOOM IS HEAVY Eastern Oregon Cloud burst Kills Many. NO WARNING GIVEN CHAPTER VII (Contluurd.) And Fenner, trembling «n<| .-ringing like a bvtateii «panivi, went qul.-kly out. Errol returned to hia writing tnl.lv, «n i commenced a letter to Winifred Eyre. He hud «erred her now; would «ile be ■llore disposed to looh leniently on bl« offense. ntid let h.-r lore conquer her wom «lily pride. "I will «t le««t make the trial before 1 go," he «aid to himself, and then he took up hi« pen and wrote tima: "I Inclose you a note, Mlaa Eyrv, front the man Feltner. You will ave by Hint thnt he engng.a to dla.-outinue hla an noyam » of you, and to learn you for the future free and unmolested. And now, before I lea re England on my long voy age, I pray of you to hear the appeal of my h.-nrt to yours. Winifred, 1 lure you with all my aoul, with the truest, deep- eat ai itri-ngth of which passion ia capable, • n<l 1 roinr tn you to deride my future. I...ie«a, my misery, are lu your My h appio banda. It I. la for you to aval my perfect uiy cherish- bllBN by lo I m senni« < •»«I wife, or to puulah a fault I m » tu of love, and to . **“ * ““ by driving in« your , ... ........... aliali not !<••*• thia for a la w «hat net I • aears-ely * dare to .. your answer • Is Il will be. I »hall not !*•»• •« •U' ’X.Wh.TfrTd broke the ^ut.d t- bi........... .t tion of the hnn leome hero of h r l X. Then her quick pride cam. to t « X,.......... '"re the b-'ter to «'"••'• EX them from her. ”1 will n.-’er fur; Champion wm «truck by tin- ta»ie mid elegance displayed In Ills iiilnlatuie drawing room, and while Wlulfre.1 w«» talking In Lady Grace, «be examined her keenly. Nile waa forced to confess Io herself Ibat thia girl who had been ao long ignored, and so much disdained, waa both elegant and pretty, and that bi-r style waa unexceptionable. The convic tion did not please her at all. As they w.-re taking leave Lady Grace said: ■'Then remember, my dear, that next Thursday wi-ek, at three o'clock, I ahull send the carriage for you.*' "Pray do nut think of such a thing. Lady Grain,'' Interposed Mrs. Champion; "you have Invited Flora the prevluua day, let her delay her visit for one day, and my carriage shall take them both.” I.ady Grace assented, and Winifred made her acknowledgments very grace fully. Then her guests departed, and she waa left alone, wondering very much at what bail befallen her. “A fortnight ago,” she thought, "and what has happened yesterday and to tiny Would have been the realisation of one of my fondest hopes; and now r- now I seem to care nothing for It. To have been rei'ogulxe<l by the Champions, to have been invited to stay with a great lady, to to- Introduced into aoeiety, would have been a glimpse of paradise; and now that I am wretched, ami heart bruk- <-n, and miserable, all these honors are thrust upon me, and I do not value them one wblt. 1 shall like to !>» with that dear, kind Lady Grace, but to the real 1 seem perfectly Indifferent Are we never to be happy In tills world, but to go on longing keenly after something we think happiness, and when we al last attain to It, to find we have lost the desire fur it, and that It gives ua no pleasure T' CHAPTER VIII. All !.«<ly Grace Farquhar's fucata had •wild b’v. been to her If 1« h.d co», a arrived, save oue, ’i'bat was Winl- . fred Eyre. Ou the morning of the day I ,m whl. h .he «nd her eou.lu were to b«'» r7, one day to th, comple- appeared at Endon Vale. a letter came ■Ion of the week, when Arthur I- Mar to Lady Grace, saying that Madame de chant ro«hed Into Errol a rmun Monlolleu «»• arrluualy HI with ao at -My dear Errol." he e.ela u.ed. What tack of brom-hltla, and that until ah.- Is thl. I hear aUmt your leaving <«• waa sufficiently recovered Winifred could Court? It surely 1« not true!" i not leave her. -My dear fellow.” ««Id Errol g.ntly, Mlaa Champion, of courae, arrived all ”| cannot tell whether I am going or no« the same, and. If the truth must be told, You «hall know tomorrow. 1 wait .he waa very well satisfied with what |ll( for my verdiet, .nd If 1« la ndverwe to had occurred. The Ide. of driving over I shall go away, and try to forget u>, to Endon Vale with her cousin had been I Inoat distasteful to her; and now that »he ,r’rw<> day« nf«»r Krro* •,,J ,o ** I waa relieved from that unpleaaant necea I ally ahe waa radiant, and. as her broth all over, an.! I'm going. Do»’« er, who accompanied her. remarked, In a aak me any question«. ‘><>1 •“ moat unusually good temper. ban! hit.** . k_ I 'Hie greater part of f Lady Grice Far- Before Mr llaRtin<R ( our’ qnhar's gneata were strangers to her. made hla friend promise to play host Those «he knew were lord llnrold Ere- there In the .hooting aenaon during hla kina. Mlaa Alton, the Honors Ide Evelyn . ; an I on th, last day nf August ! Van and hia elater, t IS A RAINY-DAY FINANCIER. As the reader will he wa. .landing on the deck of h • beau paaa some time In the company of the A Hmall Iler Who Mae an Original tiful yacht Oen .ne looking down ln,° visitors at Endon Vale, It may not be rtan foe Earning Money. bln. water, of the Mediterranean. H»' superfluous to enter Into a few particu “The »mall boy—or at least one small thouglit« were full of tenderneaa to th« lar. concerning them. I<ord Harold Ers woman who bad scortie.! him. boy has found a new way of making kine has already been mentioned; so we "Bhe is right." he said, "but I think. I will lo-gin with Mr. Francis Clayton, money," an Id a young woman the other she had known how I loved her, she who from his couainalilp to the boat day who had made the discovery. would have found it In h,r heart to for "Recently," she continued, “I went claims priority of mention. give me." . Francis Clayton was a man who w,.ul<l down town to do some shopping When have completely baffled the researches of I left the sun was shining brightly and A fortnight l«t< r La.iy Grace Farquhar, those estimable people who persistently the skies were blue. Through the vag by dint of subtle diplomacy, managed «•• find good In everyone. There was not an aries of our delightful New York cli secure what .he had for some time p««t amiable trait in his character, nor a kind sri her heart upon, and that was to prac mate, when I got out nt the 1 Kith street action of hla on record; and yet he passed tically adopt Winifred Eyre a« her pro- muster in society, because be possessed ■lation on my way hottie It was raining tege. If not aa a daughter. She was very a certain degree of manner, and because cate mid doga, or hailing caba aud om- anxious that Winifred should have an his Income w«< a very large one. lie Was nlbuaes, as you prefer. I was gathering opportunity of l>elng introduced to so not a man to charm women, and yet there my skirt« for n frantic rush when u ciety and the coming shooting »en.cn at waa many a one who would have be.n laiy'a voice accented me. Bir Claxton's estate. Endon Vale »eeim-d content to Ignore hla evil qualities au I " 'Take you home cheap under an to afford I.ady Grace the opportunity. I take him for the sake of hl« rent roll. umbrella. Indy?' lie Inquired. Among those who would I* present tor Francis Clayton wan 37, and it was hl« “'How much?' I said. the shooting, her nephew. Lord Harold | boast that he had never made any woman Erskine, who w as quite taken with I' l<>ra an offer of marriage. " 'Where to?' he naked, promptly. Champion and whom »lie knew that "'One Hundred mid Nineteenth Mias Alton had been at Endon Vale young lady. In default of becoming Mrs. street? some day«, and waa a great favorite with Hasting«, would only too gladly accept. " ‘Three blocka for 5 centa? he re With thl« trump card in her han I. Lady everyone in the houae. Iler aunt. Lady a|H>ti<leil. We were off lu a moment, Grace accepted a dinner invitation nt Marlon, was lu Ireland, and a« »he was ll.ir.t Manor, the home of the Chain not particularly attached to her prim old mid I qneationed him. " 'Yes'in; soon aa «chool's out. when pion«, and while there delicately, yet grandfather and grandmother, whom her plainly Insinuated to Hir Howard ami to 1 aunt visited annually, she had been very It rains. I get our umbrella nnd go over Mrs Champion that uuleaa Mr. Chain- | glad to accept Lady Grace s Invitation to to the elevated station mid take 'em Marion, or pion and Flora would drive with her to spend a month with her. lioine, three blocka for 5 ctuits for oue Mr. Eyre'« farm and second her Invlt« , Fee Alton, as her fond aunt had chris person. When they'« two together. I tion to Winifred to come to Endon Vale tened her, wa« the prettiest, «prlghtllcst walk behind In the rain and let 'em there would lie no Invitation for M las little coquet In the world. Iler mother enrry the iniilirclln 'etnaelves. Oil, yea, and Lady Marlon were twin airier«, and Champion. Moreover, Flora would have to bind herself to treat iter coualn w It It the former having formed an attachment I generally make about 25 ceuts at reg at least ordinary courtesy during their for a bamiaoine young captain in th army ular pay from the Indies, but always whom her father would not hear of run more If It don't look like rain early In stay in tlie same house. Sir Howard acceded readily enough to off with him, and aubacquently aceom- tlie afternoon mid the mln comea sud „tiled him to India with hi» regiment, thl« arrangement na long aa he was not Jell. obliged to speak to hi. grnuddaughter, where she died. Two years after, her " T could make more If I had rub whom he bail never spoken to or even handsome young husband caught a fever, tiers with me. but Indies' feet la such seen In ids life or In any way to recog which carried him off in leas than n week, nize her father. It waa a bitter pill for and then their two children were sent to different alzen I'd have to carry a whole Mrs. Champion ami Flora to swallow, but England. Hie elder, a boy. died on the store to fit 'em. No. 25 cents Isn't a the thought that If Flora did not go to passage home, and the little girl waa great deni, lint It's money for a 10-year Emlon Vale, Sir Harold Erskine might received with open arm« by her aunt as kid. possibly fall In love ami propose to Wini a precious charge from her dearly belov- " 'And then, yon know, a good many , fred, obliged them to give a grudging con ed slater. of tlie ladles pnya me extra. There was Lady Marlon was by this time married sent. to a baronet of considerable wealth, but a lnily before you. a few minutes, that The young girl was gathering roses In ahe had no children; and when Sir Mar gave me a quarter, Yon look so much the garden aa the carriage from the like her I'd almost think you was iter. Manor drove up the road. She turned maduke Alton died, ten year« after their marriage, the title went to a younger A quarter? Oil. tlimik you, thank you away to the house. Hhe could not bear brother. He wa«, however, able to leave very much, ma'am? the contemptuous looks the Champion« her a handsome Income for her life, am “Yea, It’s a paying scheme,” said the cast on ln-r a« they went l»y. But then Lady Marlon Alton lived In very good young woman, according to the New «ho heard the carriage stop, and she look ntyle Him war devoted to her niece, who ed hack In surprise. The footman wsa .he insisted should take her name; and York Tinies. "Thnt chap Is the sort,” letting down the step«, and Mr«. Cham to prevent any inconvenience from their she went on. "who'll grow Into a penni pion was descending, followed by Lady less young man, persuade some clever Grace Farquhar. Whnt could It mean? both having the same Chrlstinn name heiress to marry him. and then make 'I he blood rualied to her face, and for a t Hdy Marlon rechristened her pretty lit tle niece Fee, and a very appropriate people say they wonder how he ever moment «lie hesitnted. Then ahe went n fit no It WAR. happened to bind himself to such a forward, At the time we write Fee Alton was "Ion dii] nnt expect visitors ao early, flrl? ’ 1H, and just through her first season. She my dear?” wnl<l Lady Grace, kissing her. Htylo. was small, but perfectly symmetrical; . It •'Ira. Champion has come to call upon "And Itnvc you seen your little baby was only envy that prompted people to yon.” any sometimes she was nothing but an brother yet?" inquired the caller. Mr«. Champion came forward and admired - . "Yes," replied little Ethel Blugore, »hook hand« with her, nnd uttered a few AnllllAtod WAX dolt. Everyone and liked her, and she liked everyone in "and I was so disappointed In It.” polite commonplace«, which put Wini fred nt her ease. Hhe had a great deal return. Rhe was the life and soul of a "Why?" too much tact to allude to the past- in- party, with her quick wit and keen sense "Because It doesn’t look a bit more of the ridiculous, and if she waa a Itt need, «he behaved preciaely aa though ahe styll«li than the one our washwoman's malicious sometime. It was Impossible to •nd Wlulfred saw and heard of each be angry with her, she waa always so got.”- Philadelphia Press. other for the firat time. «he cried, passionately, away. It is supposed that there were about 50 guests in this hotel, all of whom are reported to be lost. The I proprietors themselves were saved, hut their families are among the dead The entire residence portion of Hep pner was destroyed, but the business houses, being on higher ground, and being generally built of brick ant! stone, were not ao badly damaged The schoolhouse and courthouse, which stand on a sidehill, were saved. but two churches, the Methodist and Presbyterian, were completely wreck ed. Around the depot the receding flood left great heaps of driftwood piled as high and higher than the roof and the rescuing parties were forced to demolish these pyramids of timber in order to extricate the corpses which were tangled in the brush. Un doubtedly many of the drowned bod ies were carried by the rushing waters down the valley. It is reported that three bodies were found near Lexing ton. nine miles below Heppner, but there were no fatalities in Lexington. No systematic effort has been made to find the dead, who are undoubtedly strewn along the canyon. Every avail able man from a radius of 65 miles has been pressed into service at Hep pner Itself. Gangs of men are at work clearing away the piles of debris, rocks and timber, which lie piled in Heppner's streets, and taking out the corpses which are thus concealed. About 100 persons have been buried in Heppner's graveyard today. Owing to the entire absence of proper facili ties for caring for the dead, the vic tints of the flood were, for the most part interred in common crates. The ghouls who are usually found, like hu man vultures, rifling the pockets of the dead In such great disasters as the one which has stricken Heppner, are inthls case, fortunately absent, and th,- vigilance committees and patrols which were so necessary at Johnstown and Galveston floods, seem to be un necessary In Oregon. A relief train sent from The Dalles reached Ione last night and will pro ceed to Heppner as soon as possible. A wrecking train, with gangs of men to repair both the tracks and telegraph wires left last night. It is expected that communication with Lexington, 17 miles from Heppner, will be restor ed earlv this morning. Court street, at Heppner, on the bank of the stream. Is swept clean as a’gravel bar from end to end Not even the foundations of a long line of beautiful residences are left. Every business house, except the ho tel Fair Store and Odd Fellow s build- „ along the side of the street on wh < h the bank stands are wrecks. A large building Is jammed into the drug store and several other structures are in the middle of the same street. Resl- le, ces are turned over or torn to piec es Mud. slime and misery are every- whore. The water was 15 feet high In Hep pner's streets and rose over the now ’ .rthouse wall. It came down Talm rk chiefly, but was a torrent on all h nsidcs Enormous piles of rock and “ have been washed down the ,’anvon five miles up on Butter creek The flood eame almost instantly and l.ried one hour The people thought cAffcr to Atone for it. Too much style Is apt to produce that t was only a repetition of th« cloud- Winifred soon recovered her compoe- As opposites frequently attract each Uf*. aud Invited them to enter the houn«. other, ¿he was at the present Ums engag attired feeling. town has grown considerably and a large portion of it is on the north side of this natural dyke and along the banks of the two streams, directly in the path of the flood. North of Heppner nine miles is the town of Lexington, containing a popu lation of three or four hundred, and nine miles further is Ione, which has eight to nine hundred people. Accord Ing to the latest information, both of these places were destroyed. A branch of the O. R. & N. follows Willow Creek south from the main line at Heppner Junction to its terminus at Heppner. Officials of the company have received advices that their track is washed away between Douglas and Heppner, a distance of 30 miles. ACTION ON CANAL TREATY L'ROED. President Gives Colombia to Understand That Dallying Must Cease. Washington. June 16.—The Presi dent today sent for William Nelson Cromwell, attorney for the Panama Canal Company, to confer with him on the canal situation Mr. Cromwell spent half an hour with the President In the forenoon, and the conference was resumed by appointment at 3 P M. It is understood that the President is much concerned over the canal out look. The Administration is not in the least disposed to be Impatient with Colombia, and is willing to allow the Bogota government a reasonable time to execute its obligations to the United States. At the same time, the Washington authorities regard these obligations as more binding than those of an ordinary treaty, and cannot admit the right of the Colombian gov ernment to recede fro~i them. If not carried out by ratification of the canal treaty, which comes before the Colom blan Congress at its meeting this month, the United States hopes Col ombia will find some other means of executing Its obligations to this conn try as regards the Panama Canal. Mr. Cromwell declined to see callers after his conference with the President. town where they have erected O. N. from the victims, but the living ter through it or sweep it out w G. tents and messing tables. It gets too deep. The rough boxes to the cemeteries, not singly MERCIER PLANS OF BANKS. hearses, but many at a time, pll high in wagons. New York Institution la to Increase Its Capital to $25,000,000. New York. June 19.—Details of the deal by which it is proposed to merge the Western National Bank into the Nation Bank of Commerce were made public today. Under the consolidation the capital stock of the Bank of Com merce will be increased from $10.000,- 000 to $25.000.000 by the issuance of 150,000 additional shares. 125.000 of which will be used to acquire the Western National after that bank has increased its capital to $12.500,000. Following the acquisition of the Western National a dividend of at least 50 per cent will be paid to hold ers of Bank of Commerce stock. Twenty-five thousand shares of the new stock will be offered to Bank of Commerce shareholders to the extent of 25 per cent of their holdings on the date named at $140 per share. The directors of the consolidated bank will be increased so as to em brace the directors of both institu- tions. It is understood that Valen- tine P. Snyder, president of the West- ern National Bank, will be selected for the presidency of the consolidated bank. Navy Wrnts te Lnow Its Rights. Washington. June 19.—Secretary Moody had a conference at the De partment of Justice today with At torney-General Knox as to the right of the government to proceed with work on its war vessels regardless of the interference of courts, and even at the expense of calling in federal troops to insure the continuance of the work. The case in point is that of the cruiser Galveston at the ship yards of the Trigg Company at Rich mond. Va.. which contract the gov United States May Object. ernment declared forfeited because of Pekin. June 17.—It Is expected that the insolvency of the company. the United States will object to the transfer of the negotiations for the Cuba States Its Terms. American and Japanese commercial Havana. June 19.—A statement was treaties from Shanghai to this city, as It Is Impossible for the American Com given out at the Palace tonight which mission to come to Pekin. An edict contains the outlines for the terms un ordering the transfer has now been der whicn the naval coaling stations issued without consulting either the would be leased to the United States. United States or Japan, which omis The United States will pay an annual sion is considered discourteous to the rent of $10.000. Food, provisions and two powers concerned. The Japanese other ar’icles intended for the use of negotiations have been suspended and those residing at the stations will be are at a deadlock. admitted free of duty. The United States w,ll have complete legal juris diction within the territories occu Route to Crow’s Nest Pass. Butte, Mont., June 17.—Official word pied by the stations. has been reclved in this city to the Switzerland Votes Money for Ouns. effect that the cut-off from Columbia Berne. Switzerland. June 19.—The Falls or Kallapel, on the Great North ern, to Jocko, on the Northern Pacific, National Council today, by 97 to 2 Is to be built at once. Work will be votes, granted a credit of J4.340.000 to commenced within RO days. The new arm the 72 batteries of four guns line will open up the richest country each of the Swiss Field Artillery with In the state of Montana and furnish the new Krupp 7.5 centimeter pneu a direct route from the Crow's Neat matic recoiling guns, and to provide coal fields to the Butte and Anaconda 800 rounds of ammunition for each Cun. mines and smelters. COAL OPERATORS OIVE IN. Conciliation Board Muddle Is Ended, There Will Be No Strike. Scranton. Pa.. June 18.—There - be no strike in the anthracite region growing out of the refusal of the < _ erators to recognize the credential« of District Presidents Nichols. Fahey and Detery, elected by the joint exec utive board of the United Minework ers as the miners' representatives on the board of conciliation. The convention of the United Mine workers today elected the three pres idents by districts as their represent atives. and the operators, through President Baer, of the Reading Com pany. announced that this action was satisfactory. There was a burst of loud and long applause when Presi dent Mitchell announced that the op erators. through President Baer, of the Reading Company, had authorized the statement that the action of the convention was satisfactory. The convention elected President Mitchell as the legal representative of the miners at the head of the concil iation board. The operators are unan imously agreed on the acceptance of the selected miners’ representatives. Strike Brings Troops Again. Denver. June 18.—Acting on advl'-ea from Washington. General Baldwin, commanding the Department of the Colorado. United States Army, today sent orders for one troop of the Third Cavalry to proceed with all haste from Fort Apache, Arizona, to Mor enci. Yesterday Is was believed that the spirit of the strike was brok'en. and Colonel I^bo. commanding the Fourteenth Cavalry at Morenci, was ordered to return his command to Fort Grant and Huachuca, but devel opments have shown the advisabll'ty of keeping Federal troops on the spot. Philippine Act Under Consideration. Washington. June 18.—Secretary Root has decided that nothing fur ther shall be done regarding the pro posed opium act of the Phllipp'ne Commission until It shnll have pad the most careful attention in Wash ington. The commission has been in formed by cable and the opium bill, which passed its second reading, will remain in Its present condition until the Secretary of War reaches a -on- clusion. The bill prohibits the sale to and use of opium by all persons ex cept Chinese. Crowded Bridge Falls. Eau Claire. Win.. June 18.—A long section of the Madison street bridge approach went down under the we'ytt of a crowd of people tonight. Six per sons were seriously injured, and 25 or 30 others were leas seriously In jured. The accident occurred during an Illumination of the street carnival booths along the main streets of tim city.