KLAMATH VOL. IX. KLAMATH FALI*S. KLAM A I’ll COUNTY, OllECON, DECEMBER the north, and war to 1 finish was now more imminent than ever. " Will threw soldiers never arrive?' was the question old bandog asked himself as be directed his men to bat­ tle for the traps. TOILERS of the COLUMBIA CHAI'IER XVIII. REPUBLICAN MINDER IS Rire. WEEK’S DOINGS Newsy Items Gathered from All Parts of the World. 1, NO. 3«. f v v vv I ; > ► < rime Greatly on the ln< reave In the > ; > United States. I I > New York, Nov. 26.—There at pr«-s- xnt four and a half timare as many mur­ ders and homicides for each 1,000.000 or INTEBLST TO OUR RCADCRS people in the United Htatre ae there were in 1881. With this statement of General Review ol Important Hannen. fact, leared in that ed murders were committed in the same period. More than eight times ae country. many murders in Chicago as in Faris, By the explosion of a boiler in the and six times as many ae in LonJon. suburbs of Vicksburg, Miss., two men The lose of life through crime is were killed and a number injured, two made more prominent when compared seriously. with fatalitee in war and on railroads The vessels of the Baltic fleet have In three years tbe homicides in the arrivtd at Port Haid. Eveiy precau United Htatre numbered 31.395. The tion has been taken to insure a safe British lues in tbe Boer war was 22 . passage through the canal. 000. In the same period there were era reHeereia *«.*47. Tbe »ree«nen«—• 1—rera, W tOW Wy Ijlbor troubles, the burning of ne- orning state capital was not settled at the last election. Cheyenne led in the gioes, lawlessness in Colorado, riots contst, but did not receive the n««cee- and murders in New York are referred eary two-thiide. It will, however, te- to in detail. Distinguished jurists and educators main at Cheyenne until tire matter is settled, which will not prebably be Jor are quoted as saying that the increase in lawlessness endangers the future of many y«»ars. tbe nation. John G. Brady has been reappointed governor of Aliaska. MANY MEN EALL. | I > OREGON NEWS OE INTEREST I > A4 SCI ICR THAN WHEAT. .A...»» New WING roil ASYLUM Hankala l.istens to the Plotters. Eastern Oregon Partner Raises AO Recommendations to be Made Io the Hankala had a hard Irattls with ths By Paul 0c Laney surf but she rsached ths traps formerly Acres of Rotaloes. Oregon Legislature. tended by Ilan lapham before the Author of **Lor4 «»f the Orwrl.” “OrrfM MrldMB.' Pendleton •— John Ferguson, who Ha'«m — Governor Chamberlain, Sec­ storm waa at its Irelghth. Dan, ot a»id uttirr P«< Ifl< (ooal Sfori«» raised a crop ot potatoes on bis land retary ol State Dunbar and Blate Treas­ course, was not near tin place. The adjoining the city limits on the south urer Moore visited the state insane wind waa already raging ami the white­ caps were multiplying at a rapid rata side of Pendleton, has drawn tbe con­ asylum a few days ago to Investigate (TI ilTI It XVi—Continued. 1 to the southwest told this. The lost- and leaping higher arid higlrei . clusion that potato raising is much the need ol an addition to accomodate At her track the sea was boiling like The i»l *11 I soon reached and Ing clash of wsters on lire l.sr spoke it more profitable than laiaing wheat. the rapidly increasing number of pa­ lu su many sounds. Tire moaning a caldron while to ths south it was the Ilian taken »»litre, The morning tin 40 acres of land Mr. Ferguson tients. That more room will be need­ was crisi. slid cold »nd » tire of drift winds in lire boughs of tire tall trees not so much disturbed. Her home lay thia season raised 40 sacks to the acre, ed is certain and the only question be­ wood kindled lot the comfort of on tire hills sung It in dismal notes. | across ths raging »»»a while Hand Island or 1,600 sacks. As the market price fore the board was whether to recom­ th« woiiii-led man sud Ida companions. Tire angry surges on tl e Iraarh lilsred lay to the south, ft was this great up­ As tire day lagged a»»y tire man grew out like the warning ol an adder. Tire heaval of sand and the driftwood upon has been on an average dial least »1.26 mend to tl«e legislature the construc­ tion of a new closed cottage at the worse. Ilan was Illa innst attentive gloomy mist which surrounde.! old ita surface that broke the storm to z sack since the beginning ol the pots asylum farm or a new wing at the main nurse. In the afternoon Ira persuade«! Cape Disappointment lighthouse hung some extent and yet left a means of ee- to season up to th« present time, be building. capo lor Hankala. his companions that II would lie Iratte« like a pall over the river and Hay. Yet tire water was dotted with ths But she would not have return«»! to because of tbe bettor facilities for estimates that hie crop has brought to take the wounded man to liia home. Tliry agreed upon thia hut they did boats ot tire l>re«lles» fishermen. Tlrey her home at this time had ths sea been him in tbe neighborhood of »2,000, water supply and sewerage at the mala building it was decided to recommend noi know w bat to do with their pria- had sren tire signa » thousand time« as calm as an inland lake. Hire bad without a great derl of labor. This the conatrnction of a new wing. Thio oirei, till the aoiltlieule they could not and bad never known them to tall. started out on a mission and this would land waa in wheat last season, growing addition will cost about »40,000 and hold him, and if they left him on Ilin They knew that no frail ciaft could be she oompleta with a woman’s deter- about 30 bushels to the acre. At the will provide room for 120 mote pa­ island Ire might I» compelled to re- reasonably i'i;wct««l to survive such a I mi nation. Hire was looking lor Dan It lepliam. Her strong and handsome main tor «eversi days without asalst- storm s» was Indi -ats>l tonight. same ratio had it been in wheat be tients. The population at the asylum is in­ ance. Tiiey waiiU-l him to acconi|Mtny was th« night after the battle between young friend had aided her in fishing wouid have bad 1,200 bushels, and at creasing at the rate of 50 to 60 a year, them to thler homes, but Dan had mat­ lire tlNrernren. It wa» the night upon the traps when her aged companion the market price of 75 cents a bushel, or 100 to 120 in a biennial term. A ters of more Importance demanding hla whiili Hankala had »tarled out to era j was unable to assist, lie had also, on ft was Ilia | that very morning, left her money would total »900. Besides the crop of new wing will therefore piovide only attention on the north aide. He told to find Dan Lapham. potatoes tbe land, as a result ot the for tbe increase in the next two years. them to leave him on tha island ami he night upon which Dan 1 apham left with which to buy naoseaary mpplfea; would leks bls chances on reacliing Hand island upon a rail of driftwood he had promiaed her that Ringwold cultivation, is more benefited than bad for lire noith shore. I should not go to the poor house; and aliore. It been summer fallowed. Lane’s Display of Products. Thia was a typical night storm at tire alwive all there was an undefined feel- The (rotatoee grown in soil of the Tire fishermen pulivi out with their Eugene—The committee from the Tire ¡reople I ing in her heart for the young man woumled companion, reluctantly leav­ j mouth of tire Columbia, nature of this field are of tbe beet qual­ Eugene Commercial club, which has e like heavy shots tire trouble at hand to carry out hie 1 inm. Union to Cove, and from Cove to exhibit at the Lewie and Claik expo- They suc< ee horn a watery giave. A tew bad Theee struck lire thinly clad girl with La Grande. Tbe company has been already at Portland at the bureau of tire girl was worrv.ne Kwe «none Illa gone over the bar never Ui return. , ajyrt«^ |Lal mads her shiver with pein given all ne-.-eesary e-»c--urag»-ment as information. Another shipment will away over the outlook for the future w<>nre ot tneee na.ea and paddlsa Ire »tarlad for the made lest bitter and an example is George Wright, in this city. On one of Bohemia collected these minerals. tra|>a so soon as the waves should sub- ' given to the world. main allots. Minister Barrett repoits that al) is Before tils work had lieen completivi, side. Hankala dragged her boat ae fai as again quiet in Panama. Japanese Suffer a Severe Repulse at limb there are 12 ripe, fully developed Poultry Show at Albany. berries and 15 green berries. Ripe Women were wringing their hands she could amt then tied the long line however, night had long since fallen Port Arthur. Hnow is report'd throughout the Albany —Tn« executive committee ol raspberries and a raspberry bush in over tire lose of their dear ones and over the waters ami a storm was brew­ attached to ita prow to a limb of a tree Mukden, Nov. 26.—The Japanese full bloom in tbe middle of November the Central Willamette Poultry aaso- children were crying for fathers .they which had been cast far upon the United Kingdom and there is great ing. made a fresh attack on Poutiloff bill are both curiosities, and when the twe ciation met in this city and perfected The lose of sands. Hire Iregan to look about her for misery in Ixrndon. The same Bound from the dash of would never see again. Tbe ad­ are combined in one the circumstance arrangements tor their third annual Ijind Commissioner Richard! urges the night of November 22. the wave and current on the bar greet­ life was so common among the fialier- a shelter. Hire remembered an old Mr. Wright selected a poultry show, which is to be held in ed Iris ears al that rnorneut that made nieu that only thoee actually bereaved fisherman's camp farther up the is­ that no more forest reserves be created vancing ranks wete decimated by the is unusual. Russian shell fire. Some of the Japan­ limb on whire|»ared for Dan, she made The case of Senator Burton, of Kan­ the hill, but were driven out at tbe soms and placed it on exhibition in the kind in each class will be given, as in him that she might give him the food phans had Iraan going on lor years, lot her way to the shack. sas, accused of accepting a bribe, will point of the bayonet, when the whole window of a local office. the past. Three silver cups are to be A atre had prv|>area for him and of which every storm claimed its victims, come to trial in a few days. (To ba continued) I offered as special premiums, one to be Japanese contingent fled. A similar aire thought he must by thio time Ire in heavy wave, a swamped Imat, a lost given to the best pen in tbe American fisherman, told a common story, EtFrov or Army lUiutlne. The secretary of the interior has tern- attempt was made the seme night south Apples by Carloads. It such dire need. was ex|>ected. Those who battled with Visitors to army headquarters on potarily withdrawn from all entry of Erdagxou, which was also repulsed La Grande—The apple crop of Union class, another for the beet pen in the Mediterranean ciaas, and the other for death knew that they must eventually Governor'» Island often notice that of abont 9,000 acres of land in Idaho for vith a bayonet charge. The Japanese CHAPTER XVII. county is being picked and packed as the beet collection of cock, cockeiel, lose. fleers have a liwl.it of referring to tbs the Tekoa reservoir site, in connection lost heavily, while the Russian lose ** Where Is Kankala 7 ” “Where is Hankala?" was asked of i written or printed record for the most with the Palouse irrigation proj, ct in was 30 killed. A band of 1,500 Chi­ rapidly as poerible. and the Oiegon hen and pnllet in the show. "Hello, lookout nese bandits, with six guns, under Jap­ Produce company, of La Grande, baa the fishermen ae they strived ashore trifling questions of fact. They never Washington. "11.-11.., captain"' anese officers. coming from the direc­ already purchased 31 can of the beet Contract for I.OOO-Toot Weil. throughout the night. rely upon memory for even uultupor Both armies in Manchuria occupy tion of the Liao river, was in conflict "How does it look to the southwest?" "Where is Hankala?" asked Dan taut matters of routine which civilians La Grande — Senator A. McDonald, such strongly foitified position» that with three sotnias of border scouts near varieties to ship out to the markets. "Black and foreb.-ling, captain." Lapham when Ire had visited her cabin would no more think of forgetting than From 12 to 15 cars have been shipped of Alicel, has just made a contract neither appear inclined toattack unless "I feared so. Watch close the river and found it vacant. a hardened commuter would think of poeseMing a preponderance ol numbers. Kaiuan early on the morning of No­ from tbe Cove district, and there are with Mr. Hunt, an epxert artesian and bay. They are covered with those "Where is flankala?" was the ques­ forgetting the time of bls morning The Japanese probably have mote vember 23. The scouts charged with­ now about 25 cars awaiting shipment well digger of California, providing for fool fishermen tonight. The light of out giving the bandits' battery time to from there. The Oregon Produce com- the sinking of a well 1,000 feet deep tion |>aseed from lip to lip throughout tralu to the city. Ask an officer in available troops. morning will find plenty of woik (or us come into action. The bandits made [»any will build another large storage for the Union County Artesian Well the day. tire adjutant general's or quartermas- to do. ’ From a report just issued by the de­ feeble resistance and fled in al) direc­ building in the near future at La company. The location of tbe well de­ Dan l*apham had steered his crude ter's department, for Instance, where Thus spoke the captain of the life the First Battalion of the Sixteenth In partment of commerce and labor, show­ tions, leaving 200 of their number Grande. Hix hundred boxes aie being pends on which farmer in the vicinity saving station to the man on the look­ raft straight tor the north shore. He The Russian loss was trifling. packed a day. Many apples are being of tbe well gives tbe most toward the fan try Is and he will consult hla rec­ ing amounts deposited in savings lianks dead had been buffet«M by the waves, it is out. A Japanese column of two companies stored for the growers al-oby this com­ expense. Thomas McConnell haa a ord» before answering, even when a throughout the world, it is found that true, nml had Iraen carried far to the Night had already closed In and the attempted to penetrate the Russian pany, awaiting bettei prices. the United States, with less than well down at this tim< to a depth of captain of the life saving station knew south, but fortune favored him and he letter to tbe commanding officer of the per cent of the total population consid­ east flank on November 23, but they 514 feet and opeiations have been sus­ battalion la lying addressed on Ills a storm was coming He was at the had butted into the boats of his ered, contributes over 29 per cent of were met by two separate divisions of pended until the arrival ol 900 feet desk. Land Prices arc Higher. station blow the rocks and could not friemia who had taken him ashore. But the total savings deposits recorded, Russian cavalry and driven off with more of casing which has been ordered. The other day a visitor to the Island Pendleton — County Assesor C. not one of all the men returning had j P. nee out on the ocean nut had called to the deposits in the United States total severe lose. asked an officer high In command what Strain has just completed making the seen Hankala. They were indignant the man stationed on the hill to verify »3,060,179,000. China Pheasants arc Scarce. real estate transfers to bis assessment the evidence of the stoim. The instru­ that she should have been permitted time the parade of troops took place Storm Isolates Villages. next morning Tbe man In khaki look Albany—China pheasants can now roll for ths past year. They number Attorney General Moody will remain ments at the station indicated a storm, to leave the village,. London, Nov. 26. — Unprecedented nearly 1.000. not counting over 500 re­ be legally sold. The law provides that but the rising, surging, slashing, crack­ "We have no time for grieving over j ed nt hla printed copy of the general in Roosevelt's new cabinet. before answering: “Ten ing breakers on the rocks gave a mote the lost," said old Headog, walking up orders snowfalls continue in the British pro­ corded on the books as described by in the last 15 days of the open season Two tramps were killed in a freight meets and bounds. The latter are (November 15 to December 1) the birds formidable warning to the experienced and down the Iraacli like an angry 1 o'clock.” Yet the parade had been go­ train wreck near Walla Walla. vinces. Many places and villages ae principally the section in the vicinity may be sold, bartered or exchanged. life saver. lion. "Hire, tbe men on the island ing on every day for months right un­ The new cruiser Pennsylvania will isolated, and eveivwhere in the north of Milton and Freewater, where the None have appeared on the market in It ia tbs same old story at the mouth are in action and will soon lie upon our der Ills office windows. “It Is n habit that grows upon us soon lie icady for her speed trial. railway communicttion is delayed, and land is cut into small tracts. Mr. this city, however, as they are very of the Columbia. Front fall until traps To your boats, men, to your The birds are so scarce, in spring, throughout the long wintei b<.at«' We must protect those tiaps with the routine of garrison work." he The United States and Switzerland in some parts entirely stopped. There Strain says the prices recorded on the scarce. said. "If I tried to remember where have agreed on an arbitration treaty. are instances of funerals being snow­ land sales far exceed those of previous fact, that practically no bunting ia months, the storms rage w’th unceas­ with our lives!" bound between the house and the ceme­ years. Several quarter sections are re­ being done or haa been done in the ing fury. Three days of storm and one It was late in the afternoon. The one company ill th«» department of the The Red Star line steamer Kroon­ tery, and children have had to be dug corded as having been sold at »9,500. past two weeks, as tbe hunters cannot of dim sunshine ia a lilraral statement storm had again subsided. The men east Is quartered I might ns well try land, reported lost, has arrived in New out of drills between their houses and kill birds enough to pay. in favor of the king of day. At thia oil the island decided to take advant­ to remember them all. If I carried In York. the schools. Even in West Cornwall Chamber Offers Its Co-Operation. point Neptune rules unchallenged age of the northeiders while they were my memory the time for parade I might ns well try to learn th«» general Paper Mills Resume Operation*. Astoria—The chamber of commerce through'the winter, but when summer ashore ami destroy their traps. The internal pevenue for October and the island of Jersey, where snow has directed the secretary to inform Oregon City—After Laving been abut comes he ia supers«ded by old Hol, who The northsidere were quick to see orders by heart Experience teaches was »155,106 less thaa for the same is a rarity, heavy falls ate teported. the county court that the chamber will down’for five weeks because of an un­ w-elda hla sceptre with a more charita­ this and hustling their arms and am­ nrmy men never to burden their memo­ month in 1903. Troops Arc Called Out. co-operate with the court in arranging precedented low stage of water in the ble hand and makes this little stretch munition aboard they leapcxl into the ries with facts and figures that they Fiancis E. Leupp has been appointed Lexington, Ky., Nov. 24.—At 10:45 for a Clatsop county exhibit at the river, tbe paper mills hsve resumed of coart the moat attractive spot in the baata aloug the Iraach and rowed with know they can find on the Instant by Indian commissioner, vice William A. o'clock last night the prospect of a mob Lewis and Clark fair. A communica­ operation here. Resumption of work great Pacific Northwest. Thousands of all their might to the defense of their turning to the record."—New York Jones, resigned. Press. which had formed on the outskirts of tion was received from Major ¡.sngfitt at these large institutions furnishes 425 pleasure seekers visit this coast each cause. Roosevelt's address at the dedication the city, attacking the jail in which stating that soundings had been made men with regular employment and will summer to view the grandeurs and The eoutliaidera also started ont Black Nnakee. of the Frederick the Great statue great Ed Taylor, Gartield Smith and John at the point wheie a barge load of rock materialy add to the monthly payroll Ireiiutiew of nature, but flee before ad­ briskly to neat them to the traps, The It la true that the rattlesnake and ly pleased Germany. Taylor are confined was so pronounced was renre emladdened to stand in the teeth arrangement, and while one squad made country are as harmless as frogs. On the South cast its vote for Roosevelt called to reinfotce the night force. the leading fruit growers tn the Grand will be stored until such time as the of death, yea, even to enter its jaws, for the defense of a group of traps along many of the large plantations In ths and make his election unanimous. Ronde, has left for the East with two exposition is in shape to receivs it. while the more timid fly for safety, ami the line which stretched up and down South they are tamed and kept as a Japanese Capture Blockade Runner, car loads of choice anples grown here, The miners are all interested in the Great Britain has joined with the escape its fangs. Day after day the the river channel on the bay side, a protection from their enemy, ss ths latndon, Nov. 26.—The Japanese, ac­ and will visit New Yjrk and other im­ matter and will make a fins display. United Htates in a protest to Turkey courageous go down, while the cowards squad from the other side started for warm climate prevents keeping ths cording to a dispatch from Chefoo to portant cities to look up a matket for against interference with miasionarlea. houses closed so as to keep them out live to tell of the chivalrous deeds of the same point to destroy them. Northwest Wheat Markets. the Chronicle, are reported to have the many apples that the growers wish the brave, In the meantime reinforcements were General Btoessel est ima tee recent captured the British steamer Tung to ship East. If the experiment meets Poitland—Walla Walla, 83c; blow­ Hlr Joseph Patton Hooker, said to be A terrific storm was rising to sweep gat hei Ing on the south shore, for the tbs great eat living botanist, has passed Japanese lósese at Port Arthur at 10,- Chow, laden with 30,000 cases of can­ with favor, many car loads will be sent stem, Me; valley, 87$ic. the river and bay. The black horizon s«>uthaiders outnumbered the men on bls eight/-eereuth birthday. 000, Tacoma—Blues tern, 90c; club, 87c. ned meat for Port Arthur. out from here. ■ *