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Supplement to tbe (Tillamook f^eaòli^t.
BIGGEST RUN KNOWN
Canneries and Cold-Storage Plants
Cannot Take Care of Fish.
Maclay and His Job.
excess of the capacity of the dealers that
half the catch of the night could not be
disposed of.
Everyone agrees that the fish now be*
iiig taken are the finest ever caught. Few
fall below 25 pounds in weight, and the
quality is unsurpassed.
During the past 10 days, it is estimated
fully 150,000 cases of fish have been
packed. While it is utterly impossible
to get any definite figures as to the
amount of salmon handled by the freez­
| ing plants, it is thought they have cared
i for something like 3000 tons, and per­
: haps 500 tons have been salted. This
1 would make a grand total of 16,000,000
pounds of fish handledin 10 days, which,
' at 6 cents a pound, would represent
I $960,000._________________
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Lorillard’s Wife vs. Mistress.
Under the will of the late Pierre
Edgar Stanton M.aclav, journalist by
training, historian bv self-appointment, ; Lorillard, the tobacco magnate, Run­
and clerk by occupation, is carried on cocas, hie fine stock farm in Burlington
the rolls of the Brooklyn Navy-Yard as county. New Jersey, together with the
alaborer. Why is this thus? The an­ live stock there and the horses training
swer is that, in order for Mr. Maclay in England and elsewhere, goes to
co be carried on the rolls ot the navy­ '"Lillian A. Barnes." also known at
yard as a clerk, he would have to run | ■■ Lillian Alliene," Mr. Lorillard’s mi«-
the gauntlet of the civil service law, take treHs and constant companion for ten
an examination, and so oil. This shuts | years, who also receives the carriages,
him out, so he goes in as a laborer, re­ furniture, bric-a-brac, etc., of the es­
gardless of merit or demerit, mental im­ tablishment.
becility or immoral character. It is a
Pierre Lorillard’s life romance is re
fraud upon its face, and its explanation ven led in his strange will. Rancocas
comports with it.
stock farm, the pride of the old man and
The most virulent contributions to the hope of his family, is bequeathed to
American journalism in 1898 and 1899 Mrs. Lillian Allien.
were the New York Sun's attacks on
Who Mrs. Allien is has been sorrow­
Admiral Schley. They parallel the oft- fully known to the Lorillard family for
Seven Year9 as a Girl.
quoted passages in the Maclay pretended j years. And, knowing her. the family
bistort. Secretary Long also is a Schley-1 declares emphatically that she shall nt
The masquerading of a man in thegarb
hater. Mr. Maclay was formerly an! have Rancocas.
of a woman extending over a period of
editorial writer on the Sun, and was ap-1 Mrs. Allien is a lieautiful woman. She
seven years has stirred the people of
Madison county, Arkansas, to the ut­ pointed to his present position August 23, is tall, with a charming figure. She fa«
1900. Of course, it is possible that Mr. long wavy brown hair and great brown
most.
Maclay’s antagonism to Schley found no eves. She was born in Orange. N. J.,
In the summer of 1894 there came to
Huntsville, the county seat of Madison answering response in Secretary Long or about thirty three years ago. Al agirl
Admiral Sampson or the bureaucratic she had many admirers. Her parents
county, a young woman who stated that
Sampson
outfit in the Navy Department were in moderate circumstances, but her
she was a graduate of the Cincinnati
Concervatory of Music. She was an ac­ or the Sampson partisans in Congress suitors were mostly sons of wealthy
complished musician, and was also pos­ who helped Maclay to his place. It is men, and it is said she had in her train
sessed of a good education. It did not also possible that the navy-yard was in not a few bachelor and middleaged
take long for the people of Madison dire need of just such a clerk as Maclay, lieaux.
In the summer of 1891 one of the* in­
county to circulate a petition asking that and that its extremity could only be re­
the newcomer be put in complete con­ lieved through violation of the civil ser. troduced her to Mr. Lorillard, alum
trol of the county school. She gave the vice rules and his employment as a labor- one of the most gallant of men. Tin»
I er to keep accounts and write anti Schley was on his yacht Rhoda.
name Evelyn Sears, and entered on her
Mr. Lorillard fell in love with her
duties as superintendent in the summer history. Many things are possible that
never occur.—Oregonian.
I beauty, vivacity and grace. Soon after
of 1894.
that she went on a long cruise with him.
Miss Sears was petite and pretty, wore
Peculiar Way of Homesteading. From that time on Mr. Lorillard wan
becoming dresses, and soon was a shin­
—
One of the greatest lotteries in history, rarely separated from her. She was ruler
ing social light in the community. After
serving as schoolmistress for five years that conducted by the Federal Govern­ of the yacht, and sat at the head of the
she resigned her position. Gossip at ment in disposing of 13.000 quarter sec­ table when Mr. Lorillard entertained.
that time connected her name with that tion claims in Kiowa-Comanche reserva­ ’ Protests by bis family had no avail,
of a leading politician with a “pull,” and tions, was begun Monday at El Reno, i Mrs. Allien was his companion until ins
it was stated that Miss Sears was forced O.T. No event in the years of the South­ ] death.
A storia , July 29.—Salmon packers,
cold storage men and fishermen all threw
up their hands this morning when asked
about the situation.
“ A’e don’t know what we are going to
do with the fish we have on hand at the
present time, nor do we know what we
are going to do with the salmon that
will be caught hereafter,” said one pack-
er. “I have been in the business on this
river for 18 years, and I can truthfully
say I never before saw such a run. Ten
days ago the present run commenced,
and there has been no let-up. Indeed
with each succeeding day the number of
fish has increased, and if the gill-netters
tried they could catch more fish in a sin­
gle night than could be handled by all
the canneries and freezing plants on the
river in a week.
“Ever since the run commenced we
have heard it stated that there have
been heavier runs in past years, and that
the present congested condition is due to
the fact that there are fewer canneries to
handle the fish. This is ridiculous. When
there were 18 or 20 canneries here the
gill-netters caught all the fish which
could jmssibly be taken, while at the
present time the men make only one drift
a night. Even fat that they are limited
to a small quantity. A single drift nets
from 15 to 100 fish. Suppose the fisher­
men made four or five drifts nightly and
a few in the afternoon—how many can
ceries would be required to handle the
nsh ? Why, there are fish enough in the
Columbia at the paesent time to keep 30
canneries running day and night. It is
the greatest run in the history of the in­
dustry. and if there were more canneries
it would l>e worth $250,000 daily to
Astoria ; as it is, the run means some­
thing like $100,000 a dav to the city.”
The canneryman stated further that to resign her position or encourage more
lie was satisfied the run was the result of the attention of the politician.
the late Commissioner McGuire’s hatch­
Up to this time no one had suspected ,
ery work. His statement regarding the Miss Scars of being anything more or
extent of the run is important, as show­ less than she claimed to be, an innocent
ing that the royal chinook of the Colum­ girl, who had been thrown on the world
bia has not been exterminated, but that, by the sudden death of her father and |
with prover attention to propagation, mother. She started a private school,
the industry can be made greater than it and did a land office business, as public
lias ever I kxii in the past. There is not sentiment was with her.
the slightest doubt that the supply of
All went well until last April, when
next year will be equally as great as that the 12-years-old daughter of Mas Han­
cock. farmer, in kissing her teacher,
at the present time.
The record run occurred Saturday noticed that there was something rough,
night, and yesterday there were so many resembling a man's beard,on her teacher’s
fish that some of the packers were un­ face. The pupil asked her mother if she
able to take any from their gill-netters. had ever noticed liow much hair Miss
On Saturday the combine’s canneries Sears had on her face.
took 200 pounds from each man, paving
A few days later Mrs. Hancock noticed |
l> cents a pound, but yesterday morning, an advertisement in a paper offering a '
when the tenders brought in great loads reward for Albert Sears, wanted in a re­ I
of salmon from the receiving stations mote county in western Texas for the
over the river, it was found impossible murder of his sweetheart. The adver­
to accept the fish offered by the gill-net­ tisement added that it was thought that
ters. The Ida Hazel, a launch brought Sears was masquerading somewhere in
in 13 tons of salmon from one station.
Arkansas under a woman’s guise. Mr.
The fishermen who went out Saturday Hancock communicated with the Texas
night made only one drift, occupying detective, and he arrived with a brother
about two hours’ time. The boats came of the murdered girl, who immediately
home with catches of from 15 fish, weigh­ identified Sears.
ing 4-00 pounds to 100 fish, weighing
Sears swooned when confronted by the
2500 pounds.
After delivering 200 brother of the girl. When taken to the
|M>unds to the combine, that concern’s I jail a full confession was obtained.
boats went to the cold storages, where
When Sears was arrested some influen­
they gladly accented 4 and 5 cents. Both tial citizen of Huntsville made an effort
continued to take all the fish from to have him released and made threats
the gill-netters, paving 6 cents, while against the Texans. Young men, who
the “co-ops” did not remove the 500- ' had been rival suitors to “Miss Sears,”
pound limit. The cold storage took as joined hands and sought her release.
much fish as they could handle from the
Scars w ill be taken back to Texas as
gill-netters, but the supply was so far in , soon as requisition papers can be secured.
J
west lias attracted so much attention as
this one—the initiation of a new method
of disposing of Government lands. One
hundred and sixty.seven thousand per­
sons, each with one chance in 13 of win­
ning a homestead, watched the event in
reality, or at a distance, for the appli.
cants came from every state in the Union.
The drawing took place oil a platform
built for the purpose in the open air a
few blocks from the center of El Reno.
Situated at the foot of several small hills
which formed a perfect amphitheater, the
platform was the cynosure of thousands
eves. People occupied every inch almost
of the space around about and everv
movement of the government officials on
the small space below was watched with
the most intense interest. The first en-
velope taken from the wheels contained
the name of James R. Wood, of Weather­
Besides tieing in love with her lie was
proud ot her. She is witty, clever and
at his board easily held her own with
the bon vivants whom Mr. Lorillard
gathered arpund him.
Mrs. Pierre Lorillard. widow of the
lale tobacco millionaire and sportsman,
has broken her long silence. Asked for
a statement alsiut her husband’» will
under which Mrs Lillian Barnes Allien
becomes the largest single beneficiary,
she said : " My children and I arethe
victims of an uni ighteou i will. We are
called upon to see our place taken by the
mistress of my husband. I beg that my
name and Mrs. Allien's be no longer
coupled together. \\ ho are these people,
the Barnes ’ The father stood by and
saw his daughter openly the iiiistre*
of my husband, It is cruel that my
daughters and I must bear this open
notoriety.
I can only ask that my
name b“ no longer coupled with that
woman’s. Some women of her cl»*
have kind hearts—yes, many of them.
But she is nothing if not vindictive. !•
is she who has giver, us notoriety. 81*
loves to see us heart-broken, this woman
They say that I was there at the Fifth
Avenue hotel when my husband died.
The truth is that I was pot thereat an.'
time. I did not see Mr. Lorillard after
he arrived from Europe."
ford, Oklahoma. Mattie H. Beals, of
Wichita, Kan., whose birth-place is in
Missouri, drew number 2. The multitude
went frantic over the announcement, but
liccame quiet instantly and listened in.
teutlv to hear the names of the other for­
tunate». Without doubt Wood and Miss
Beals, who have right to make the first
filings, will select the two quarter sec­
tions adjoining the Lawton townsite dis­
trict, and which are believed to lie worth
$40,000 each. When Colonel Dyer, the
commissioner, in thunderous tones an­
nounced the woman's age at 23, her
Secretary Long issued the follows«
height the same as that of Mr. Wood,
general order on Monday : "AU person«
20,000 persons shouted in chorus, "They in the naval service are strictly enjoin«
must get married."
to refrain from any publicstatemeutc0”*
Shamrock II. sailed trom England for cerning the subject matter of the con«1
New York to compete in the vncht race inquiry requested by Rear-Admiral W -
lor the American cup in September.
Schley."
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