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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895 | View Entire Issue (July 11, 1893)
j V PMslislillll7ta Vll fnHHKHHB Van flHH HARD TIMES OFFER, ' Why py f l.J!B,to9 (SO a month for- Itall Pityftrrf wkn you en Rt ttta Dally Jottr-nat by Mali foi SIR tie. n Month? ONE CENT DAILY1 flflct it month tf Ufal! IVujiiild In AtlvAnacfc NoJJ Paper flflitt WKih Tlmo'l Old, CAPITAL JOITRN A L CXI VOJL. 0. ARE YOU SATISFIED? "With tho high prices you nro paying for your Dry Goods, Clothing, Shoos, Furnish, ing Goods, Etc., Etc. If not call at tho s f CASH STORK, Where you got tho best bargains for the least money. , GOODS Bought for CASH and sold for CASH can be, and are sold For a smaller margin than goods sold on prices. J. W. THOMAS, 297 Com'l, H. W. COTTLE & CO., General Insurance Agency. Representing the following well-known and reliable Cempanies: HrATE IN8URAN0K CO., -tna Insurance Co., Traders' Insurance Co., Sun Insurance Co.. National Insurance Co., Westchester Klro Ins. Co., lilon Plre Insurance Co., Imperial Klre Insurance Co., Londou s .Lancashire Fire Ins. Soo London Assurance rorporatton, Alliance Assurance Co., Norwich Union Fire Ins.Soc. Oldest and Loading Firm In the City Devoted Exclusively to Insurance, J. W. TflORNBORG, THE UPHOLSTERER. Recovers and repaint upholstered furniture. Long Experience in tbe trade enables me to turn out first-class work. Samples of coverings. No trouble to give estimates. State Insurance block, Cbemeketn street. Ed. C, CHURCHILL BURROUGHS F. T. HART, MHnHWMHMMnMMMMnwMH 247 COMMERCIAL STREET. Lamoureux's 'Stables, At the Commercial street bridge near Willamette Hotel. New stock and ve hicles heliiK ndiied constantly. Only the hest wrvlce rendered. -No shabby riuH nor poor horse. H. L. LAMOUREUX, Proprietor. West Printing FJrst-cluss Werk: 803 Commercial St.. i From Terminal or interior Points the v Is the line to take To all Points East and South. It Is thedlnlnj car route. It runs through vestibule trains, every day In the year to ST. PAUL AND CHICAGO (No change of cars.) Oomtxned of dining can unsurpaased, Pullman drawing room sleeper Of latest equipment TOURIST Sleeping Cars. Best that can be constructed and In which accoinmodatlena are both tree and lur utshed for holder ofnrst and second-cUs tickets, andi ELEGANT DAY COACHES. AeonUnuors line oonnestlng with all lines. aBordlng direct and uninterrupted service. Pullman til ct r"t lon can be e cured in adnioe U.r any agent of the road. Through tickets to and from all point In America, England and Europe can be purchased at any ticket otttee of this com Pny. Full Information conoeminc rate, time or tralnsoate and other details rurnUbed on tpUeaUoa to any agent or A. D. CHARLTON. Assistant General FaMir Agent, No. 121 Flrt UK. eor. WsJ&lstTWa, "ort- l-i.B flaAiBJsl DAILY JflDITION. Cross, Wholesale and Retail Dealer In Fresh, Salt and Smoked Meats of allHiuds 93 Court find 110 State Streets. Op leak. Spraying OMfits, 103 State Street. LEADING MERCHANT TAILOR. Co.,! Book and job Printer.- 'Reasonable Prices. falttin, Oregon. The Yaquina Route. REG IU And Oregon Development company' steam ship line. 225 mile shorter, 20 hoars less time than by any other route, First class through passenger and freight line from iorUDd and all joints In the Willamette valley to and from I tan Francisco. T1MK BCUKDULK, (Except Bunday.) Lv Albany 1:00 pmlLv Oorvallls 1:40 p m Ar YaaulnaMW p m Lv Yaquina 8.4 . a m Lv OorvaUls. 1035 am Ar AlbanyrU:10a m a A a train connect at Albany and Cor vallls. The above train connect at Yaquina with the Oregon Development Co.' line of steam ers between Yaquina and ban Francisco. M. U Passenger from Portland and all WMamette valley point can make close con nection with the train of the Yaquina Itoute at Albany or Oorvalll and U destined to Han Krancisco.anould arrange to arrive at Yaquina the evening before date of sailing. Fastenger and Freight Kates at way the lowest For Information apply to Jieasr. HULMAN Co., Freight and Ticket Agents tOO and fl Front street, Portland. Or or a C. iioaUE, Ac't Uen'l Ft. fc Pas. Agt Or. Paclflo K. It. Co . CorvallU, Or. C. H. HABWKLL, Jr., Qen'l Freight and Pass. AgU Ore. ItevelopmintUo., VM Montgomery HI POWER HOUSE Meat Market. Fresh and Ba-'tf meaU of tbt best quality. Poultry and tock. Free delivery. FRED WAYMIRE, HAIilOM, OU12GON tftfEHDAY., JULY .7 ; 'ix-.Mf.mrvryi-r ' n-t.twfff.ar: time. Bo sure and get' our St., SALEM, More and More Dead in the Ruins. ELECTRIC LIGHT MAN MISSING Ancilicr Kansas Cily Trust Com pany Failf. FEDERALGRAND JURY INSTRUCTED At Portland to Inquire Into Smuggling Cases And to Look After Enforcement of 'the' Geary Chinese. Exclu sion Act. The Warehouse Plre. CrnoAao, Ills., July 11. Early thiB morning the remains of three more tin forunates were recovered from yester day's fearful fire. The remains are so badly charred that Identification Is im possible. They are evidently not tbe bodies of firemen, owing to tho. locality In which they were found. The total number of dead bodies so far recovered Is 15, but the search in tho ruins thus far has been very slight There Is great beat and confusion, and there is no doubt the list la still incomplete. LATER. It is now certain that a number of visitors and workmen were In tho building at the time the fire broke out. Therefore It has been deolded to make a minute examination of the ruins, foot by foot, as rapidly as possible. The eleetno light company have a number. of men missing, and four Co lumbian guards are still unaccounted for. It has been deilnitoly ascertained that only 11 firemen lost their Uvea as follews: Captain James Fitzpatrick, Lieut. J. II. freeman, Wm. Denulng, P.. B. Breen, Captain James Qarvey, John McBride, John Cablll, Paul Bcbroeder, Captain B,. E. Page, Lieut. Charles Purvis, J. A. Bruitb. There are three unidentified bodies known however, not to be firemen. There are 17 wounded in tho hospital and elsewhere. Of these L. J, Frank, a fireman, will probably die. A coroner's jury was Impanelled, viewed the bodies and adjourned till Thursday to give tlmo for a preliminary investigation. Chicago AMingiuaemt. Chicago, Ills., July 11. The heavy financial loss entailed by tbe cold stor age fire at tbe world's fair yesterday caused tbe Hercules Iron Works, ownr of plaut, to make an assignment tbtt. morning. The company owns the plant at Aurora, Ills. Assets fiOO.COO. Liabilities 1200,000. Yesterday's Are caused a loss of f200,000, which tbe eoBy will have to stand, ai the In mbimi eomnanv recently cancelled all . . '. Wu) on tbe structure. t- KIaWi OH? TaUtus. Kanaas City, Mo, July, II, The Kanwui City Hare Deposit and Trust Company, with n capital of $300,000 Is supposed to bo otto of tho strongest In slltutlonrf of tho kind In tho Bute, falledto open Its doors this morning. A notice oh tho door says tho bank bad. assigned last nluht. The assets are two million. Liabili ties one million and bovm hundred thousand. Officers say thoy will be able to pay all obligations In full In 80 days, when tho company will go out of business, y In Texas. Gaiv-boton, July 11. Tho North Galveston Land and Improvement as sociation Is In tbe bands of a receiver. Liabilities', 1500,000. t Indiana Failure Aunrjnri, July 11. Tbe private bank of John L Davis failed today. No statement Is made. Davis also opera ted a bank at Gowett, Ind. i i r Nebraska Failure. f ONAIIA, July. 11. The Holt County Bank at O'Neil has failed, no statement. Sunday Opening Wins. Ciiioaoo, Ills., July 11. Judge Jenk Iub, In the United States circuit court today, decided against Wanamaker & Brownln their suit to restrain Bunday openlnsr of the world's fair. " Vice Pxesident Coming. Kansas City, Mo July 11. Vice President Stevenson and party passed through this city at noon, In a private car on the Santa Fe road, en route to the Paniflo coast and Puget Sound country. Federal Court Opens. Portland, Oregon, July 11,-rThe grand'Jury was sworn In in tho U. B. dlstrfcb 'ctiurt this morning.- Judge Bellinger in his charge to the jury in formed them that they would be called upon to consider tho offenses against thu smuggling laws and Chinese exclu sion acts. COUNTS TEACHERS INSTITUTE. The Annual 8ummer School of Peda gogics. Bupt. Graham opened his annual teachers' institute yesteaday, at the East school building. He is assisted by two teachers from Multnomah county, Messrs. Wetzel and Ackermau. PERSONAL. Prof. W. I. Btaley, of tho Capital Business college, is In charge of the writing classes. He Is a grujphio and bright spirited worker. Prof. F. N. Learned, a down Eas Maine school teacher, who 'does good work in a county school will make a display of his work. There are 72 names enrolled, leas than last year, but many teachers are away at the world's fair. Tbe commercial classes meet at the Capital business col iPge. SOME PRISON STATISTICS. Quarterly Report June for Term Ending 30th. Earnings: Board U. S. Prisoners, Convict labor, Rent cottage, Bale old Iron, etc., $ 620 00 2.623 04 4OO0 8 85 $3,003 80 t 4,53 14 42 00 Receipts: Board U. 8. Prisoners, Rent oi cottage, $ 405 14 804 67 60 4,275 00 10,052 00 Cenvicts: No. at close of quarter Received, Discharged, Expenditures: Employes and officers, General Expenses, OOD3 AND ENDS. It costs 8T cents to pat np a can of to isatoes. One cent pieces are being introduced In Oakland, Cal., for the first time. Tbe smallest legal tender formerly wed" was B-cent pieces. In Michigan 8,707 women are running farms, an they cultivate 70,489 acres, valued at $13,600,000. Their earnings aggregate ft.853,000. For several years past nearly all the slate pencils used throughout the United States have been made at one factory at CharlotteaTille, Va, I 11, A8SKI, THAT CHICAGO FIRETRAI Thirty Dead, as Many Injured And Mere Missing. GOLD STORAGE WAREHOUSE HELL Chicago' Mayor Says tho City WillTflko OhargoofSuch Places. Chicago, July 11. Asa fire trap tho cold ntorago warobouso could not have been mora perfectly constructed. ItvasJJ50 feet long and 150 feet srldo, made of wood and covered with staff. Tbe main body of tbe building was flvo stories high. In tho center rose tho smokestack in the shapo of n cupola 200 feet high. Its base was about thirty feet square, and ninety feet up there was a balcony from which rose a tower culminating in (ho mouth of tho smoko stack, where the firo was lafd. It la Supposed that tho framework around tho mouth of the chimney caught Ore from a defect in the iluo. At fJiBt It appeared to be an Insignifi cant affair, but, knowing the inflam mable nature of tbe structure, Fire Marshal Murphy called oil the compan ies nut. With about forty of bis men Captain Jfttzpatrlok climbed the ladder Inside the tower to the balcony and from there ropes wore lowered to haul up the hose. Ono line of hose bad beeq gotten up when tho wind caused tbe flames to break out in an alarming manner about ten foot from the top of the cupola. In tho meantime tho Are had eaten its way down the inside of the structure and all unconscious of the fact the firemen were standing on the shell of a burning volcano. Tho fire bad been burning scarcely twenty minutes whon suddenly flames burst out around tho baso of the balcony In perfect fury. All tho roperv hanging from tbe tower were burned away. One hose withstood tbe heat, however, and John Davis caught hold of it and slid down to the main roof where he fainted. His face and bands were terribly burned but physicians say he will recover. Two of his fellow firemen attempted to follow blm but be fore they were half way dowu tho hose gavo way and they dropped Into tbe seething mass of Are and were lost. Another man started down a portion of rope hanging from tho tower but it gave way and he full, striking on bis head and being Instantly killed. There now remained, according to tho count of various spectators, twenty five to thirty men on tbo tower. Thoy wero hopelessly beyond human help, tho longest ladder falling short by fully thirty feet. At this terrlblo moment Captain Fitzpatrlok's tall ferm appeared before tho mon who wero huddled to gether on tbo narrow balcony. He seemed to bo addressing bis bravo fol lowers. As he ceased speaking one of the men crept around the burning bal cony and returned a moment later with a rope. It was hastily fastened to the rrulllng around the balcony aud thrown to tbo roof. Fitzpatrick was seen to point to It aud ono of tho men started to slide down but before he was half down the cruel flumes rolled up and he was swallowed iu tho awful volcano. Another tried it aud met the same fate. One after another ilvo of tho men at this point sprang from tbo balcony to tbo roof. If any survived tho awful leap they were burned to death after wards. The rope burned off about half way down but Fltzpatrlok, seeing the men jumping to doom, seized tho strand and started down. Ho dropped from the end of tho rope and caught on tbo lad. der which was raised to within twenty feet of It. Fire Marshal Murphy, who was on the roof, sprang forward and soon reached Fitzpatrick. A shout of admiration and encouragement went up. Tho heroio marshal started back with bis friend, enveloped In flames. With tbe energy of despair heolutcbed bis comrade and slid down tbe ladder. Both Murphy and Fltzpatrlok were un conscious when picked up. The Form er, however, was not seriously hurt, but Fitzpatrick was not expected to survive tbe night. Scarcely twenty-five minutes htd elapsed since tbe fire was discovered but so rapid bad been Its progress that the entire tower burned away aud fell with an awful crash carrying with It tbe unfortunates who were left on the balcony and several firemen who wero playlugon the flames with (he hose from the roof. Seeing It was a hopeless task to at tempt to save'tbo building tbe remain ing firemen directed their efforts to keeping tbe flame from spreading fur- DAILY IfiJOlTIOtf. Highest of alt In Leavening fWcr. Latest U. S Gov't Report RoYal .stsag? ABSOLUTELY PURE ther. Thoy wero already within reach of tho world's fulr stables and tho roofs of several hotels across Stony Island avenue, just outside tho grounds, were on nre. Tho hotels wero saved with difficulty but tho stables wore des troyed. Less than two hours after tbo fire started tho cold storasco warehouse was u smoking ruin. It Is doubtful if any of tho bodies will over bo tecovured, so furious and terrlflo was tho beut. A fow weeks ago Marshal Murphy inspected tho burned building and re ported it extremely unsafe. On no count of his report tbe Insurauco com panics cancelled all risks on It, so the loss Ib complete. It Is reported by some of tho Columbian guards that n nam ber of women lost tholr Ilve In the building. Firemen discredit the story but tonight a lady'a watch was found ou a body so badly burned that It Is im possible to toll whether It Is that of a man or woman. A relief fund was started by tho council of administration as soo t as tbo extent of the disaster was known and in less than thirty minutes (2,000 was subsc-ibed, andcontributious continue to pour in. Mayor Harrison said: "Well, this settles ono thing; tho city of Chicago fs going to assume- control over the fair buildings as far as protecting li yes Is concerned, at once. Tomorrow morn ing I will soo that all buildings are care fully inspectod and wborever changes aro necessary for the safety of tb,o peo ple thoy must be" made." At midnight tho following are also missing and aro. Bald to be lest: M. AfoQuade, engine' driver; Ralph Drum mond, electrical engineer storage build ing; Howard, Lloutenaiit englna Co, No. 3; Wm. Hoyt. FOREIGN ITEMS. London, July 11. Tho New Zealand Loan & Mercantile agency company, limited, failed in conscquenco of the crashes that lately occurred in the Aus tralian financial world. Tho concern waB one of tho most Important engaged In colonial financial ailairs. Tho cap ital of tho company Is 500,000. It is feared that tho company was carrying on wide speculations in Australia. Washington, D. C, July 11. A cablogram was received at tho navy de partment announcing the arrival of tbo cruiser- Philadophla at Rio Janeiro, Brazil, Sho will remain at Rio Inug enough to coal and thou proceed to Valparaiso, Chill, whero sho will slop for further instructions. Hdr instruc tions, it Is suld, will bo to proceed to 8amoa unless tho stute of affairs In Peru and Chill requires her presence there. Bhe has been olgbtoen days In coming from New York to Rio.' THE MARKETS. Ban FitANciaoo, July 11. Wheat December $1.18. Chioacio, July 10. Wheat C5J; Sep tember GO. Pohtland, July 10. Wheat valley, S1.107JJ1.10, Walla Walla 81.00 91.02. GOOD CORNER. If you want a desirable rosldenco lot In CupltuL Park dou't buy until you have seen Levi Magee's bargain. Ad- drew, Balera P. O. 7-8 2 w I '""Hill ..... A Said the Owl to himself, "If the moon I could get, whenever I'm dry my throat I could wet: The moon Is a quarter win. a quar ter I hear; you can purchaso five gal lons of Hires' Root Beer." A Dcticloa, Tinwm Good tor any tlM a year. Asjsaduft BAstuiss-ttlaai. Bssuraaiul I Miss'. tVW flllfllW "MM. HW no. ion. Baking Powder THE POLITICAL U0DND-UP. There seems to bo a rcrlous hitch la tho progress of building the jute mill at Salem. A largo appropriation was made by tbo last legislature and soon1 after It adjourned stops were taken to got tho plant In working order to turn out bags for tho grain crop ofl893 The officials In chargo bustled about considerably. Exports wore consulted In several branches of tho subject. The superintendent of tbo prison, anxious to have his convicts employed, made several trlp9 of Inquiry, and since then we have beard nothing but.a dull lull n tbo prpceedlugs. Tho way tho ora tors spouted In the legislature one would bavo thought tho people were suffering for tho institution more than for re ligion. Speaker Keady and others told bow muoh would bo saved annually to tho farmers of Oregon. It was stated at sevoral hundred thousand. Well, tho farmers aro ready to be saved. The intere t on tho money could be saved too, for that Is u very neat sum to Ho Idle a year. And If'tho Jute mill Is not built this year in tlmo for tho crop to got tho benefit of cheaper bags, they may as well wait u year. The farmers will lose tbo use of cheap grain bags when they need them as never before to mako a living out of cheap grain. If ( tho 100,000 Juto mlllls not to be built then the tax should not be levied. If i( is levied and collected It should not lloidle. The writer may not be an ex pert at managing scch matters, but he Is pretty euro no private business would bo managed In this way. There is no good reason whythojuto mill, 'which was a sop thrown to tbo farmers to pulllato tbo other acts of this lato legis lature, should not bo erected and iu dpemtlon before this, or at least in time to sell tho farmers bags In tlnn for this season's crop, as was so confidently promised a few months ago by Its champions. There Is also a great loss to tho state from the hundreds of con victs at tho state prison not being em ployed, It will be said money comes Iu slowly aud If warrants were issued to pay for tho work as it preceeds they would havo to bear Intercut. Be that as it may, tho Interest on oven a hun dred thousand dollars of jute mill war rants would but be a bagatelle com pared with ameliorating the depressed agriculturists by giving tbem cheaper grain bags to haul their 60 cent wheat to markot in. Tho legislature certain ly Intended to give the Immense grain crops of our country an opportunity to bo marketed moro cheaply. It Is truo thoy did not opon tho Columbia and Willamette rivers to the sea. But they passed an appropriation bill of S 105,000 to give tho farmers cheaper grain bags. If thoro wasoeratlme when tho farm ers needed to get their grain to market cheaply it is at presout. Congressman Blnger Herman Is sub jected to some criticism at present on account of his tackllug the finance qucs est Ion It is difficult for a public man to reveal to much ignorance on that ques tion too not bo rewarded by a largo vote fur his revelations, Besides Mr. Herman must uot bo taken too seri ously. But a few years ago a politician mado a canvass of tho state on the Issue of courts of arbitration to settle difficulties between labor and capital. He got tho entire labor vote and was elected by a large majority. That was the last ever heard of the subject. He never believed In It. Ho shrewdly .took advautage of a popular olamor and rode lu ou the wave of an excite ment over a proposition which he never Intended should be relieved. He was himself a largo employer and the last man Iu tho world to submit bis aflalrs to the arbitration of anyoae. Ho atteuds strictly to his own business) aud expects every body else to do Um same, Bo Blnger Herman may mean nothing by his finance bunoombe, All his personal and political association) are of the hardest of hard gold variety While ho believes In running on fie sliver speeches, ho lets the matter JwU clotuly rest there. All the same beia a good runner and as a canldate always) gets there. He can throw dust for Uw dear people aud look out for alm..rf and his Pottland friend at tb i Continual w iitt paye.) 'v .ilti.