Supplement to tfye Olantook fyabligty.
Items of General News.
for them the wage scale paid in union from Mrs. Steyn to a niece in Scotland,
Ida McCray confessed knowledge of the
mills operated by the trust.”
in which she wrote ; “ 1 never lived so murder and stated that her mother, Bet-
sie, and brother, Belfield, helped commit
Violent anti.foreign placards emanat,
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well in my life.’’
the crime. She further implicated others
Eastern Oregon farmers are agreeably
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ing from the Boxers have been posted in
I who will probably meet a like fate. Bet-
The
Constitution
of
the
United
States
surprised
by
the
returns
they
are
receiv
the vicinity of the Christian chapels The
sie McCray refused to make any state
placards protest against the imposition ing from threshing. The yield is every preceded the flag in Hawaii, according ment. Governor A. H. Longino arrived
of the house tax, and more trouble is ex where much better than wasexpected and to a decision just rendered by Circuit on the scene on special train from Jackson
the grain is of the best quality. Accord Judge George D. Gear, of the First Cir a few minutes after the lynching. He ad
pected.
dressed a large audience at the court
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ing to the run of grain where threshing cuit. He has already released, on habeas I house, and impressed upon them the duty
The price of oats at Salem markets is in progress the yield this year will corpus petitions, three prisoners, sen of their citizenship. The most prominent
d roped from 28 to 25 cents, which latter come up to the average instead of being tenced for infamous crimes after the reso citizens of the county labored with the
price dealers are now offering. The 30 per cent short, as was feared. This is lution of annexation passed Congress excited mob all during the day to allow’
drop is probably due to the large yields evidence that the estimates of the damage and was signed by President McKinley, , the law to take its course, but without
avail.
of thia year’s crop now just coming on done by frosts and cold winds have been on the ground that they were not con
the market.
victed by a unanimous verdict of 12
too high.
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jurors. A wholesale jail delivery of mur-
A big log raft being constructed by the
Adulterated milk and cream are to be derers, burglars, larcenists and other
Robertson Raft Company, near West- confiscated in future at the receiving de
criminals is threatened under the de
port, on the Lower Columbia, is about pots of all railroad in Chicago. The dis
cision, and Honolulu is greatly disturbed
DEALER IN
finished, and is expected to start for San covery of formaline at the receiving de
over the prospect.
Francisco on the 12th inst., according to pots will result in the seizure of the cans
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Captain H. R. Robertson.
H. F. Davidson, of the Davidson fruit
and the dumping of its contents into the
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Saddles,
nearest gutter. In order to scop the en Company, and G. J. Gessling, secretary
Dr. Suering Bersol, a member of the trance of drugged milk and cream into of the Hood River Fruitgrowers’ Union,
Meteorological Institute, has just com Chicago, Commissioner of Health Reilly have furnished the following facts rela
pleted a balloon ascent in Germany has adopted the plan of testing the milk tive to the 1901 strawberry crop at
Robes,
during which he reached a height of as it is unloaded from trains and before Hood River : “These two shipping con
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33,500 feet. The lowest recorded tern- it is distributed to dealers.
cerns this year shipped 32,000 crates of
The most complete line
perature was 40 degrees below zero,
the 40,000 crates of strawberries shipped J
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Fahrenheit.
“ As evidence of the ruinous stagnation from Hood River, or four-fifths of the en ? and the lowest prices in
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the county.
of trade in Southern Russia,’’ says a dis- i tire crop. They shipped 33 straight car
The first lynching in Dekalb County,
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patch, *' a government factory inspector i loads tinder refrigeration, and between
Tenn., took place Friday, when Charley
asserts that 70 per cent of all the indus 15 and 20 cars by express, or about 50
Reparing
a Specialty.
Davis, who was charged with a criminal
trial works of the great manufacturing cars all told. The cash returns to the
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assault on Miss Kate Hues, was taken
government of Kkaterinosk have sus growers for their 40,000 crates amounted
from the Courthouse by a mob of 25
pended, and in order to relieve distress, to about $85,0'30. A deduction of $25,-
THE
friends and relatives of the young woman
and to prevent disturbance 40,000 arti 000 for cost of picking and crates leaves
and hanged.
sans have been deported to their homes the growers about $60,000 above all ex-
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The big steel combine is utilizing negro in the interior at the expense of the peases. The entire acreage in straw
Just received a meat and well selected
labor to supplant its white workers in government. Conditions in the indus berries in Hood River Valley and White
Salmon is about 350, which would make ! Stock of foot ware ol summer goods.
the Newburg mills at Cleveland. Already trial centers of Russia are similar.”
For Gentlemen, Ladies’, Misses and
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the average net to the grower above all
200 colored men have come to the city
The Nehalem Coal Company has been expenses something over $150 per acre.” Children Shoes direct from Chicago.
from Pittsburg. Homestead „and ad
It will pay you to examine mvGOODS
jacent iron centers in Pennsylvania. incorporated with a capital of $150,000.
and PRICES before purchasing else.
Astoria
is
headquarters
for
the
company.
Killed
By
The
Boers.
They are domiciled in a large dwelling
The corporation will engage in general
house at the mill.
L ondon , Aug. 1.—A dispatch from
coal mining and logging, construct and
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Lord Kitchner, dated Pretoria, today,
R F. Fleck, engineer at the Eureka & operate railways, steamers, etc. The says:
Epicure Packing Company. Eureka, company owns 525 acres of coal land on
“French reports that he has received a
Wash , commiled suicide at Astoria by the south side of Necarnie Mountain. On | letter from Kritzinger, a Boer commander
shooting himself with a revolver. Two the property are four veins of what is announcing his intention to shoot all na
shots took effect, the first entering the pronounced by experts to be the best tives in British cm ploy, whether armed or
neck and not proving fatal. Fleck then steaming coal on the Coast. The com unarmed. Many cases of cold-blooded
placed the barrel of the weapon in his pany has ample backing financially to murder of natives in Cape Colony have
mouth and when he pulled, the trigger carry out the enterprise, and active oper recently occurred.”
ations will be commenced within the
instant death resulted.
Another dispatch from Lord Kitchner
next few weeks.
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from Pretoria, dated today, says:
Victor N. Beckman, secretary of ‘he
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“On July 20, an officer’s patrol of 20
An order and temporary injunction
Washington Red Cedar Shingle Manu
Yoemanrv, and some native scouts, fol
facturers’ Association, received the first restraining the strikers at Northport, lowed two carts and a few Boers 15 miles
replies to his circular asking that meoi- Wash., from attempting to interfere
from the railway at Dorn River. Orange
t>ers of the association express them with the employment of non-union men River Colony, when they were cut off
selves for or against the proposition that in the Northport smelter was signed by by 200 Boers, and, after defending them
PATENT NO. ae.ere.
the mills close dow n until market con Judge Hanford, of the United States selves in a small building, they surren
NOTICE
—No charge for sewing rip
District
Court.
The
order
is
sweeping
in
ditions improve. The replies were over
dered when their ammunition was ex or nailing soles of shoes that get loose
its terms, and prohibits the strikers,
whelmingly in favor of the shut-down.
hausted. Three Yoemanry were wounded. bought of me.
their agents and representatives from
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After the surrender the Boers made the
Trakachi Ogashara, a Japanese, was attempting in any manner to interfere
native scouts throw’ up their hands, and
found guilty in Seattle of importing two with the company or to prevent by
shot them in cold blood. They afterwards
of his countrywomen into this country threats, force or persuasion, anv em-
Salesman.
shot and wounded a Yoeman. The re
for immoral purposes. Ogashara had ploye of the company from going to mainder were released. The Boers gave
lured the women from their homes in work. The injunction is made returna as a reason for the shooting the Yoeman
that they thought he was a Cape Boer.
Japan, brought them to Victoria and ble in Spokane, September 18th.
Evidence on the oath has been taken of 4
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thence to Seattle, and from there had
the murders.
The
charge
has
been
made
that
Mrs.
taken them to Salt Lake Citv, Utah,
Kruger
was
subjected
to
unkind
treat-1
Three Negroes Lynched.
where lie had sold them to a life of i
ment by the British, and was practically
shame.
C
arrollton , Miss., Aug. 1—The bru-
he’d a prisoner. General Baden-Powell I
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The American Federationist,
the now asserts that Mrs. Kruger, since tai murder of Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Tali-
HAYES
official monthly magazine of the Ameri- President Kruger left South Africa for ferro, on the night of July 30, led to * Makes a Specialty of Manufactur.
night
to
the
lynching
of
Betsie
McCray,
can Federation of Labor, in its issue for > Europe, up to the time of her death, was
ing all kinds of
August, just made public, speaking of in receipt of £250 a month from the her son, Belfield McCray, and her daugh
ter,
Ida
McCray,
all
colored.
A
mob,
the steel strike, says: “ The point upon British Government, and that she also
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which negotiations finally broke off was had the free use of a Government carriage composed of about 500 white citizens of
Collars,
Carroll
County,
marched
to
the
jail,
that the trust tried to make it a condi and Government horses. The Mafeking .
Carriage Trimmings.
took
the
keys
from
Jailer
Duke,
pro-
tion of employment that the men in the hero also states that Mrs. Steyn, wife of
ceeded to the McCrays’ cell, bound them
First Class Wot k Guaranteed
nonunion mills should refrain from join President Stevn, of the late Orange Free ,
by the neck and hands and then carried
ing any union. The Amalgamated As State, was paid £100 a month by the'
In Bailry’a Warehotae at
them
to
the
corporate
limits
of
the
town,
sociation insisted upon their right to Government, and likewise had the use of1
Tillamook City.
where they hanged them to a tree and
endeavor to organize these nonunion a carriage and horses. This latter state
riddled
their
bodies
with
bullets.
wen into the union, and to finally secure ment is said to l>e confi rmed by a letter 1
Harness,
Whips,
etc
RED SHOE STORE.
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