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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 14, 1893)
WMWWIW iil iimiittJLiW J 1 TyyyT?1 iHrrr ONE CENT DAILY! 26 cts. a mostk bf MB Prepaid la Adraace. - No Papers! Seat Wkw Time is Oat. CHEAPEST Associated Press Daily News paper Published on the Pacific Coast, $3.00 a Year. JOURNAL. OxJt 1 JL jfxJLJ JaMMM VOL. 6. DAILY EDITION. SALEM, OREGON. MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1893. DAILY EDITIONT. NO. 191. JL "1 INil T We are still in it when GOOD sucn Shoes, Clothing, Dry Goods, In fact all lines of General Merchandise at the CASH BonanzaBarg u J. W. THOMAS, 297 Com'l, St., SALEM, - H. W. COTTLE & CO., General Insurance Agency. Representing the following well-known and reliable Cempanies: BTATK INSURANCE CO., iKtna rnBUrance Co , Traders' Insurance Co., dun insurance Co.. National Insurance Co., Westchester Klre Ins. Co , Lion Fire Insurance Co., , Imperial Fire Insurance Co., London Lanoshlro Fire Ins. Soc, London Vssuranoe Corporation Alliance Assurance Co., Norwich Union Fire Ins.Boc Oldest and Leading Firm In the City Devoted Exclusively to Insurance, J. W. TflORNBURG, TUB UPHOLSTERER. Recovers and repairs upholstered furniture. Long Experience in the trad enables me to turn out first-class work. Samples of coverings. No trouble t givo estimates. State Insurance block, Cbemekera street. Ed. C. -3r2ilMaAA MS'! 'n .iA7lHiiHK4fl HjL CHURCHILL Piimps,,Ptnnps,Parrip c 103 BURROUGHS State Street. F. T. HART J 247 COMMERCIAL 8TREET. Lamoureux's Stables, At tbe Commercial street bridge near Willamette Hotel. New atock and ve hicles being added constantly. Only tbe best service rendered. No sbobb rigs nor poor horses. H. L. LAMOUREUX, Proprietor. West Printing . .. ., Q2 do better work than ever. Count-y orders receive prompt at tention. 203 Commercial St., SMITH BROS., CONTRACTORS fc PLASTERERS. Leave orders at OotUo-l'arkB.urst block.room 15, Balem, Oregon. P. J. LARSEN & CO., Manufacturer of Wagons, Car riages, etc Repairing; tt Specialty. Bhop 15 Mate street. FARM FOB, SALE, A BARGAIN lo acres wtUilroproTemeoU over tuurnndrr cultivation, rest pastors and soma good Umber. Terms -my easy. Ad Ureas O. U. NASH, . it comes to low piiccs on i as a Cross Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Fresh, Salt and Smoked Heats or allKintk 95 Court and 110 State Streets. STORK iMeiiLioesMrawMs T 1 T I Y I TT I Choice Heats LEADING MERCHANQ TAILOR. Co, Has iust received some . of tha latest faces of iol LUII. . .....li. - 'type ana is prepared u ' Patera, Oregon. MONEY TO. LOAN On Improved Real Estate, in amounts and uiM to iuiu no aeiar m ooniiaenng loans. FEAR & FORD, Room 12. Bush Bank block. 6 134 CHflS. WOLZ, Proprietor of tbe GERMAN :-: MARKET South Commercial HL, Calen, AH kind Kieah, call and Smoked Meat and. gaasagea, 1TKEE DKLlVX&r. THEY FOUND A NOVELTY. Experience of Uncle Kxra and Aunt Try phena at the 'World's Fair. Undo Ezra Norton and his wife, Aunt Tryphena, camp in from Climax Prairie to do the World's fair, and they made their headquarters at the palatial North Side residence of their famous nephew, Colonel J. S. Norton, author, Egyptolo gist, barrister and orator. Colonel Nor ton thinks a great deal of Uncle Ezra and Aunt Pheeny. And well he should, for when he was a boy down at Lock port he used to visit the Norton farm out in Climax prairie about six times a year, and he'll never forget the fun he had rounding up Uncle Ezra's calves, sheep and hogs and eating Aunt Pheeny'b doughnuts. The first thing Colonel Norton did after the old folks came was to impress upon their minds the wisdom of going about their sightseeing in a calm, method ical way. He represented very truly, too that much time and energy would be wasted unless a strict plau of opera tions was adhered to in doing Jackson park and its very numerous entertaining and instructive features. "I speak from experience, from bitter experience," said he, "for it was after two weary weeks of reckless, haphazard plunging that I became convinced that the only way to see the World's fair in telligently and comfortably is to take its sights in regular order, just as you would do a picture gallery." This view impressed the old folks fa vorably. On Tuesday morning they started out bright and early for Jackson park, and they were full of the good resolution to do everything decently and in order. They left the cattle cars at Sixty-first street and were soon at thy entrance to the fair grounds. Havinu passed through tho turnstile, it occurred to Uncle Ezra that it was his duty to impress upon Aunt Tryphena's mind once more the importance of going at their sightseeing in a methodical way. "Now, Pheeny," says the old gentle man, "we'll do jest what James told us to. We'll take things in jest as the come. We've got a fortnight in which to do it all, and that's a-plenty time ef we only go at it the right way. Now s'pose we begin right hero, an keep on doin the sights to the right till we've seen enough for today, and then agin to morrow ye'll take up where wo left oil today." At this moment tho old gentleman's vigilant eyes detected a sign bearing the legend, "Exit." "Gosh!" says ho, "what new fangled 'notion is that, I wonder? Did you ever see an exit, Tryphena? 1 never did, so suppose we begin right here an go in and see it." So in tho enthusiasm of curiosity, guileless Uncle Ezra and Annt Tryphena made their way through tho exit turn stile, only to find themselves in Stony Island avenue, within 50 feet of tho gate at which they had just paid their money for admission to the fair grounds. Chi cago News-Repord. A Miser's rltlftU End. An old miser lived in Connaught and seemed to bo an utterly forlorn creature, without "chick or child" belonging to him. It was rather fortunate for the nonexistent chick that such was its stato, for ifit bad had an existence it would surely have lacked the means to support it. This old miser was so mean that he deniod himself bread, and only kept his miserable life In its tenement by gifts of food from charitable neighbors. But he was known to have plenty of money hidden away in his wretched shanty, and his neighbors at last got tired of giving to one so entirely unworthy. For somo days no one went near the old man, and the cabin stood desolato. No one was seen to go in or out, and at last tho constable determined to take the obstinate old creature to jail. The door was broken open, and tho old miser was found dead. In his wretchedly starved condition, and frantic at the thought of leaving his loved money behind him, he had died trying to swallow some of his own banknotes. Pieces of them were clutched in his hands, and pieces of them in his throat had choked what little breath remained in his body. Harper's Bazar. i .. n-a - t We All Know His. "Have you ever noticed the man," said tbe philosophic barber, "who sits down in the chair to be shaved with the only Illustrated paper in the shop im hi hands, throws back his head where be can't lee tho paper for the life of bim, spreads that paper over his knees and lies back hanging on to It all through the shave, while half a dozen men are waiting their turns with nothing to look at but the bare walls, the rows of mugs and the fly specked mosquito netting over the looking glass? That's what I call selfishness. You see lots of human nature in a barber's shop. Bay rum, airr New York Times. YOUR HEALTH May depend upon the war jo treat lUwarn- bsi which nature gin. A (ew bottles of 5. S. S. taken at the proper time mar Usui good icaUJiforaytarortwo. Therefore ad stooce, lor It . S IMPORTANT that nature be asilsted at tbe right ttaMELsflssH oerrr falls to relitTe tha system of im-ajt-Sn purities, and is an excellent tonic jajo.--"" lie Wants to Add His Name. " Permit ina ta add mv name to voar maoT Other CMincatestacommendition of the great euratiM wopcrtlirt contained loHtlt'sHpl5:(tt.b1 SO II Is certainly one of the best tonics I er uied. TrsatUe oa blaod and Un diseases mailed fits. SWIFT SfraFIO CO, AtUaU,G, SELESS AND Vest and Hill on the Silver Bill. Sending Silver to Move the Cot ton Crop. NO BANK FAILURES REPORTED And tho General Financial Situa tion Easier this Week. Hill and Vest. Senator Hill of New York, Introduced a resolution declaring it tbe sense of the senate that nothing but financial legislation be undertaken during the present session. It was latd on tbe table. Vest then addressed tbe senate on bis resolution in favor of bl-metall-Ism and free coinage ofold and silver. He likened tho Sherman act to a house less and homeless dog without a kennel to bide Ub dishonored head, but de clared he would not vote for its repeal without a guarantee of sliver as a mon ey metal. Financial. Washington, Aug. 14. In the sen ate Voorbees iutrouced a bill authoriz ing tbe issue of National bank notes to full value of bonds deposited. Tbe bill U accompanied by a letter from, Secre tary Carlisle, urging its immediate pas sage. Tbo bill would add nineteen million to tbe bang circulation of our country, IN THE HOUSE. After tbo appointment of commlt ees on enrolled bill?, tho great silver lebate was resumed. Boatnor.a Demo crat, of Louisiana, spoke In favor of free coinage. L-twton, a Democrat of Ohio followed in favor of lepetl of tbe purchasing clause. Southern Financial S.taation. Charleston, S. C, Aug. 14. In quiry among the bankers elicit tbe In formation that banks will be abundant ly able to furnish money to move tbe cotton crop one quarter of tbe $50,000, COO needed being already In tbe bands of tbe farmers and as scon as tbe crops begin to move enough cash will be forthcoming to complete the harvest Ing. Nashville, Aug. 13. The financial flurry still continues. The Fourth Na tional bank is paying off only with checks when the amount required Is over 100. The financial stringency and general distrust Is beginning to tell upon corporations and firms employing operatives. The boutliern Iron compa ny as anticipated mado a special assign ment. Tbe property conveyed Is valued at 1334,000, Two other small failures occurred here Saturday also. New Yobk, Aug. 14. Braditreet say a; "Owing to tbe Inability of bank ing Institutions of Ibe South to advance moury to move tbe cotton crop, a crisis Id the cotton crop In Imminent. It require 00,000,000 to move tbe estimat ed crop of 0,000,000 bales. A large part of tbe crop Is raised by negro tenant farmers, who rely upon tbe owners to advance money for picking, ginning, pressing and baling. This tbey are now unable to do. In view of tub) emergency, the secretary of the treas ury of the United Btates baa Just made an arrangement by which, on tbe de posit of currency with tbe subtreasury at New York, Ibe government will tele- rapb tbe subtreasury means to pay a ike sum In silver dollars, which will go far to relieve tbe stringency. TUB MARKET. Ban Francisco, Aug 14. Wheat, December, I1.22J. Heller 03; new $1.13. Chicago, Aug. 14. Cash, 62J; Sep tember 63, Portland, Aug. 14. Wheat valley, 1.02, Walla Walta Wj Dec, $1.21$. No Cholera. New York, Aug. 14. No new cases of cholera or deaths are reported at the health department tbia morning. Firo at Oreswell. Eugene, Aug. 14. (Spec! il.) Car sou's dwelling, store house aud barn, with their couteuts were burued Satur day night, noar Cresswell. In addi tion to tbo houiebold goods, diamonds to tbe value of (300, a gent'a watch, costing ? 250 and a lady's watch, worth 5150 were burned. Also wagons, car riages harness, twenty tons of bay, etc Nothing saved, family barely es caping with their lives. The fire Is supposed to have caught from a defect ive Hue. Loss, $3,000; lnsuraucs, $1000 in Stato of Salem. Chinese Labor. Sklma, Cat., Aug. 14. Tho Earl Fruit company has commenced pack ing and shipping fruit from this place, and discharged a dozen or twenty white women and substituted Chinamen. This so exasperated tbe citizens that a meeting wan held upon tbe street and a committee appointed to wait upon tho foreman and notify him to dis cbarge tho Chinese help at once. This was done in short order. There will probably be organized an anti-Chinese league here in a few days and stop all Chinese labor in the vineyards and paoklng houses. Won't Stand Redaction. CuiOAau, Aug. 14. A Sioux City special says that Supt. Beardsley of tbe Chicago, Milwaukee & Bt. Paul has re ceived orders from headquarters to notify all trainmen that the road ex pects to make a 10 per cent, reduction of wages and asks that representatives of tbo different orders be sent to Chi cago to talk the matter over. The brotherhoods held a meeting tonight aud the sentiment expressed was against a reduction and favorable ton strike if it Is put in force. Steamer Explodes. Portland, Aug. 14. News is re ceived here that tbe Uuton Pacific steamer Annie Faxon, plying on the Snake river, between Itlparia and Lowiston, blow up this morning, at Waite's Bar, four miles below Almota. Six persons were killed and a number wounded. Among the number killed Is Engineer Brows. Tbe Faxon was a stern wheeler, with a capacsty of 504 tons. DETAILED ACCOUNT. Colvax, Wn Aug. 14. A common er special says tho steamer Annlo Fax on was blown up off Walter's Bar, four miles below Almota, Snake river, at 8 this morning. Eight persons are killed and all on board lajured. There were five passengers. The vessel Is blown to pieces. Names of killed: Thomas Mcintosh and brother, passengers; Mrs. Tappan, purser's wife; George Farwell, waiter; Joseph Busb,deck hand, William Kldd, deck band, and a fireman, vrbone Christian name was Paul. Tbo Injured are: Jack Morltz, steward,Bage Aiken, assistant engineer,Capt. Henry Baugh man, Daniel Bechtol, and two others. Aid was sent immediately, by teams, from Colfax. Majority for Repeal. Washington, D. O. Aug. 14. The meeting of tbe committee appointed last week, to arrange on behalf of anti silver men for discussion of silver ques tion In the bnvao, has been called to morrow night, at Arlington Hotel. Purposes of call are appointment of sub-committees to take charge of var ious features of present contest, and to complete organization of anti-silver forces Id the house. At present, esti mates of majority In favor of repeal vary from 22 to 40. Eckels' Oslnioa. Comptroller Eckels thinks tbe cur renoy situation to be considerably Im proved this week by money sinking to its normal value. Tbe big premiums paid for use of currency Is dragging money from Its biding places aod dur ing tbe coming week more ourreucy will be Issued on bonds deposited by bank than during the same period of time for many years. la Colorado. Denver, Aug. 14. The Creeent flouring mills, the largest In the West, are burning. Tbe lose will be over 900,000. Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report RoYal mam ABSOLUTELY PURE SOJURE MILE BURNED. llaiidreils Are Homeless in Min neapolis. HOTEL DISTROYED IN CHICAGO. Five Persons Perished In tho Flames. Minneapolis, Aug. 14, Last night's conflagration swept nearly a square mllo of territory. Total loss lsabout$l, 168,000, with an estimated insurance of $760, 000. An unknown child was burned to death and Thomas Fallon lost his life from heart falluro duo to excite ment. Several firemen wero Injured. THE DETAILS. Over 200 houses aro burnod and at least 1500 persons rendered homeless. Thte Is the record mado by tho destroy ing element in the short space of two hours. A kind providence, and not the firn department or the feeble efforts of tho owners of tbe threatened prop erty, saved tha greatest portion of tbo manufacturing and residence portions of the East Bide. The fire had gained such headway that no human agency could quench It, and only a change of the wind provented an awful conflagra tion. It was at 1:30 o'clock when a watchman saw a small blaze on tbe river side of J. B, Clark & Co.'s box factory In tbe south end of Nicollet Island at the head of BU Anthony falls. An alarm.qulckly followed by a second and third, was turned in, but by the time tbe department arrived tbo flames, fanned by a furious south wind, bad gained such headway that all tho fire men could do was to turn the'r atten tion to adjoining property. SIANY RESIDENCES DESTROYED. Along the cast bank of the river wore located tho mills and lumber-yards which were burned, while east of them wero located many stores and resi dences. Most of them wero frame buildings occupied by the employes of the mills and laborlug men. Few owned their own dwellings) and their principal losses will be tbelr personal effects. Large numbers saved their household goods, whloh thoy stacked In piles, over whloh they stood guard to prevent their being carried away by thieves. At the browery, where the fire was checked, the citizens did moro than the firemen. With garden boe aud buckets they extinguished all in clpent blazes and with the change In tbe wind all danger was practically ov er, and tbe fire was allowed to burn It self out. All tbe available fire apparat us in the city was In use, and Bt. Paul sent two engine companies Id responso to calls for assistance, Fatal Chicago Fire. Chicago, Ills., Aug. 14. A hotel fire, resulting Id tbe death of a number or guests, occurred this morning In tbe tbe three-story structure oa Madison street, near Fifth Avenue. Ouo man jumped from the top story of tho build- ing, and was killed, and about half a dosen others were suffocated and burned to death. Thu body of Harry Godfrey,seven years old, wasreouvered. The building was a dilapidated struct ure, occupied as a restaurant ou tbe Arat floor and Senate hotel ou tbe upper floors. Thirty guests were In tho build lag when tho (ire broke out, those who perished In the Are, were caught like rats In a trap, and unable to make an escape. Three additional bodies have Baking PovNder been taken from the ruins; bodies uni dentified. Total number killed is five. A "GRIND" IN COLLEGE. A Hardworking Student AVo Took IJttle Intereit In University Sport. The "Harvard grind" is a term used as of ton in the'collego circles as any sur name Tho name originated from that old custom men bad of getting down and working hard n fow days beforo exam ination. Finally, when a fellow was known to keep up this grinding process throughout the term, ho soon went un der tho caption of "grind." Tills name has now becoino an established term in Harvard llfo, and tho visitor Is now shown tho grind's headquarters, tho grind's table in our dining hall and tho grind's haunts. To bco him in his truo light the grind must bo hunted out at different times of .tho year. I traced up one of theso fel lows in the dead of winter. Ho lived down ou Mount Auburn street in an up stairs room 8 by 8 feet; no stovo in the room, no heating apparatus of any kind, for in fact thoro was not room for any; a small single bed across ono sido, a bu reau across the other, aud n littlo table undor tho ono window. In the narrow aislo in tho center thero was room but for ono chair. A light carpet ou the floor, a looking glnBs sot in tho bureau top, and ouo or two wall decorations complotod the furnishings of tho room. It was totally wanting in all those littlo artistic designs so characteristic of the Harvard room. No lino art lectures prncticod thoro, as prescribed by Pro fessor Norton; no traco or sign of bric-a-brao and crimson decoration. In short, it was a sort of den, in which a man could "eat and sloop and havo his be injj." To bo sure, this was not an attractive lodging; but, as tho occupant informed mo, ho could study thero, and tha room cost him only 3 per week. When I ven tured tho suggestion that it must bo very risky living there without a firo in tha dead of winter, he said that ho usually worked In one of tho university private libraries during tho day and until 10 o'clock at night. Upon seeing a small oil cook stovo in ono comer, I made a great veaturo upon its uso and found that this student was doing his own cooking. I also learned that his laundry bills wero a minimum in short, that he was living on (1,15 per wcok, according to his own figures. . Horo is a rare case, but one not nearly I so raro as might bo expected at first thought BccauBonicn aro students in a university does not make all of them aspire to anything socially. Here is an actual caso where a man turned himsolf into a recluse, did his own cooking and washing and spent every minuto grind-1 ing over books. Boston Herald. j RAILROAD TIES. I By common consent western lines have rescinded the ordor making a charge for oarrylng bicycles and baby carriages Ju baggage cars. : t. CMmtrn nml Northwestern has reducod tho running tlino between Chi cago and JUllwauKoo, a uurcanca w oo miles, to 2 hours. j in ir Tr.rr)m fonnnrlv ujisistoiit train master of the Now Jersoy Central, has J of the Long Island. t Tho block signal system with wmsu the New York Central is equipping its road is completed to Syracuse, and It is iv.iia.ro! 4, at. Viw rvttnher it will have been oxtended to Buffalo. I Prom Jan. 1 to July 1 of the present year 1,020 miles or. new raiiroaa wic; were built, which is 2Q0 miles less than for the same period last year. Pennsyl vania built 1B5 miles, New York 87 and New Jersey 2t ! ALL THE I0MFWTJ 0F1 includes the great temperance drink llirCS Been Lit gl vca New Life to the Old folk, Health to the Children. kfi4 far AU-4 AH tfcsttas j A i i eo paclutg buV Tnj XCH9 u7;,rf!Jii tl