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ITEMS OF INTEREST GATHERED DURING THE PAST WEEK. Labor Trouble Still Exists Down In Colorado— Coeur d'Alene Output Is Greater Than Ever— B. C. Mines Busy—Accidents and Personals. Judge J. H. Richards, president of the American Mining congress, has re ceived from President Roosevelt a response to an invitation sent him to attend the meeting in Portland this year. The president expressed regret at being unable to attend, but states the government will be represented by three officials as at the last session, when Secretary Shaw attended on re quest of the president. British Columbia Notes. News reaches Nelson, B. C. of two important strikes on the Happy Four and the Lardo King claims, near Pop lar. Richard Roberts, owner of the Happy Four, has been developing his property all winter. On Saturday, at the bottom of his 60 foot shaft, he ■truck a three foot shoot of ore, in which the gold was in nuggets. It was so rich that Roberts and those working with him could hardly be lieve their eyes. The ledge is 12 feet wide. The other strike was in the Lardo King, adjoining the Happy Four on the west. In the 20 foot tunnel a two and a half foot shoot of ore was encountered that fairly glistened with free gold. N. F. McNaught of Silverton, B. C., in the Boundary district, has announc ed the sale of the Kilo group on Lem on creek. The purchasers are au American syndicate headed by S. R. Oldacre of Helena, Mont. The deal is practically on a cash basis, the sum involved being $75,000. Of this $25, 000 has been paid down, the remain ing $50.000 coming in six months. Boundary ore shipments now ex ceed the quarter million figure. All railroads are now running through trains, and ore is moving regularly from Rossland to the smelt ers. The Le Roi has resumed partial shipments, and other mines are pro ducing on a normal basis. The International Coal & Coke com pany is installing new machinery at Coleman. Alta., and are to ship two thousand tons per day. O. G. Laberee says the new machinery will be in stalled by July 1. S. H. Miner is president of the company. The Greenwood townspeople in gen eral. and the Providence mine people particularly, are jubilant over the suc cess of the Providence. Last week one furnace at the Green wood smelter was blown out for & few days to make repairs. During March, in addition to shipping over 50,000 tons of ore, there were 1096 feet of develop ment work done in the Granby mines. General Notes. A wholesale capture of striking min ers in Carbon county, Utah, is reported in special dispatches from Price, Utah. Dividends of $45,000 were paid Mon day on two mines in the Spokane group through the offices of Finch & Camp bell. The Kendall, a gold property in Fergus county. Montana, will disburse its monthly dividend of $25,000 at the rate of 5 cents per share, and the Hecla, a silver-lead property in the Coeur d'Alenes, will pay its quarterly dividend of 2 cents per share. From four to six cars of copper ore are shipped daily trom the Snowstorm Idaho, to the mine near Mullan, Tacoma smelter, and 30 cars have been consigned. After an Idleness of several years, due to prolonged litigation, the Six teen to One silver-lead mine in the Coeur d'Alenes, will resume work this About a dozen men will be em week. ployed on development, but this num ber will be gradually increased. De velopment will be in the lower tun nel. 400 feet deep. The Sixteen to One mine had produced over $60,000 when the litigation was commenced in 1899. Thomas L. Greenough has closed a contract with the Washington Water Power company for 500 horse power of electricity to operate all the machin ery of the Morning mine, three and a half miles above Wallace, Idaho, on the Coeur d'Alene river, at the mouth of Grouse gulch. The power will be used in the compressor plants to com press air which will be used to run the drills, the hoists and all the other apparatus. It is announced that the last pay ment on the Werdenhoff mine, in the Big Creek section, Idaho, has been made some time in advance of matu The amount called for about rlty. $75,000, but it is understood that the secured a concession for company early payment. It is said an import ant strike was made in the property recently. Jules L. Prickelt of Spokane has brought a suit against F. Lewis Clark and Charles Sweeny to recover $300, Prickett alleges that he 000 damages. defrauded out of his Interest in the Last Chance mine near Wardner, V. ;i S Idaho. He has been assigned the stock of a number of other stockholders. Between 18 and 20 tons of ore from the Wyoming mine near Wardner, Ida ho, are being run daily through the Silver King mill, making three tons of concentrates In a 12 hour shift. H. Smith Wooley, in charge of the United States assay office at Boise states to the Spokesman-Review that he is on a tour to secure the gold and silver output of northern counties that passes through banks and have it di verted to the Boise office instead of going to Seattle, which is now the case. S. N. Quesenberry, an employe of the Federal Mining & Smelting com pany at the Standard mine, sustained a broken leg and injuries to his arm by falling 10 feet in the mine. At the Mountain Lion mine there is but little doing except running out ore and loading it on the railroad cars. There are reported to be over 20,000 tons broken down in different ports of the mine, and there will be no necessity for breaking any more for some time. W. S. Rogers is negotiating with Chicago and Minneapolis people for the sale of his iron claims near Spring dale, Wash., for about $40,000. Buffalo Hump News. At the Del Rio some good ore is being taken out. The tunnel is now in 450 feet and crosscutting is being done. The Little Giant is still in good ore, which increases in size and value as the work progresses. Will T. Brown, manager, and Geo. Blaine, foreman of the Concord com pany, are due in a day or two. Ajax drifts north and south continue to show a large body of ore. Cross cutting is being done as well as drift ing. The The Crackerjack people are figuring on putting in a cyanide plant. Myron .1. Church, superintendent of the Nighthawk mine, Nighthawk, Okanogan county, Wash., reports that the tunnel on the property which he is managing is in 1245 feet, and a great deal of water is coming in at and near the face. The Jumbo test plant is modeled after the Hendryx agitator, except that it has a centrifugal pump instead of using propeller blades in a tube. Meteor Camp, Washington, will open up soon. Work on several properties should commence when snow is off It is a camp of rich the ground, values. John Condron, Lou Smith and Frank Brown have sot a price of $60,000 on four claims of the Union Jack group, in Buffalo Hump, Idaho, and William A. Nichols has left for the east to place the property. Sumpter Mines. The E. & E. Mining company has just signed a contract with William J. Robertson for delivery at the mine of 800,000 feet of lumber. Messrs. Hawley and Weaver have started piping on the Buck gulch pla cers and expect to make a large clean up before the season is over. The Oregon Power & Placer com pany has commenced operations on its placer ground between Sumpter and Granite. These placers produce con siderable dust each season. The Snow Creek group in the Green horn district, is the scene of extens ive operations. Large quantities of ore have been blocked out and sloping is going on. The mill is running to its full capacity. TRADE REPORT. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Unseasonable weather is still the chief drawback to improvement in bus iness, complaints being received from every section of the country, and slow collections are also attributed to this factor. Not only is current distribution of merchandise particularly affected, but future commitments are undertaken most conservatively on account of the possible injury to crops. There is much confidence regarding the future, despite the fact that at many points supplies of merchandise are burden Structural work is gradually a a some. resuming normal proportions for the May 1 is usually the date season. fixed for many labor controversies, but this year there is little prospect of serious disturbances. Slightly lower prices prevail for the leading agricultural staples. Failures number 241 in the United States. Northwestern Wheat Report. Portland.—Walla Walla, 73@74c; bluestem, 81c; valley. 81@83c. Tacoma—Unchanged; bluestem, 83c; club, 84c. Lieut. Col. Stewart Is Dead. Berkeley, Cal—Joseph Stewart, lieu tenant colonel U. S. A., retired, and the second oldest living graduate of West Point, is dead at Berkeley. He was 83 years old. a native of Kentucky, a veteran of the Mexican war and of many Indian campaigns. At one time he was in charge of Fort Point, San Francisco harbor. He was a gradu ate of West Point of the class of 1842 with Sherman, Hancock and Rosecrans. He was retired in 1879. he in PROPERTY DEMOLISHED IN TOWN OF M'PHERSON. It Missed Thickly Settled District— Several Persons Injured, but Not Fatally—Farm Property Damaged— All Wires Down—Serious Flood at Fort Scott—Live Stock Loss Heavy. McPherson. Kan., April 25.—A se vere tornado struck McPherson Sun day afternoon, demolishing six resi dences and causing more or less other damage to property. Three persons were injured, one seriously. Much damage was done in the county north of here. A funnel shaped cloud approached the town from the south, following the course of a ravine. The residence of S. W. Reiff was first struck, and the house, barn, windmill and outbuild ings destroyed. All the members of the family escaped except a young man, who was bruised and scratched. The residence of Mrs. P. S. Fisher was next struck. The building was pick ed up and carried a considerable dis tance and demolished. The family had seen the approach of the storm and escaped. The large Fisher apple orchard was ruined. The large residence of Archie Brown, next in the path of the storm, was wrecked, and two of Mr. Brown's (laughters injured. One, struck by the cook stove falling upon her, was seri ously hurt. The residence of Peter Sellberg was next wrecked, the family escaping. After wrecking the slaugh ter house of S. G. Grant, the storm lifted and passed south, traveling in the direction of Lindsberg. Beyond McPherson, the tornado fol lowed the ground, taking the path of an old watercourse. The tornado pass ed four miles east of Salina, wrecking telephone and telegraph poles and farm properly. Efforts made to fol low the course of the storm ny tele phone were made, but all the wires were down. It is a miracle that great damage was not done at McPherson and many persons killed, as the tornado barely missed the thickly settled residence district. CHICAGO BOYS HUNG. Carbarn Robbers Pay Penalty for Their Crimes. The grewsome sight of a man writh ing and twisting in apparent agony for full six minutes at the end of a hangman's rope, an atheist's dying statement of a wish that he could be lieve in an eternity and a God, his summing up of a misspent life, his ar raignment of the churches, and his ap peal for the slum-reared boy, with his little chance and small hope of being a good man, all marked the execution at Chicago of three of the carbarn murderers, Neidermeier, Marx and Van Dine. Ore died condemning the world, its people and its institutions, while the others met death in prayer and a be lief in a God and a reunion in eter nity. Neidermeier was the first to be hang ed. The drop fell at 11:36. His limp body wriggled and twisted for fully six minutes before he was pronounced dead. Marx was the next to mount the scaffold. He was hanged o'clock. Finally came Van Dine. The trap was sprung at 11:55. Neidermeier's statement prior to be ing taken to the scaffold and his agony were the features of the execution. at 11:17 Flood at Fort Scott. Fort Scott, Kan., April 25.'—Fort Scott is experiencing the most serious Marmaton river flood in its history, and Mill creek, which runs into the former stream here, have risen 10 feet in the past 24 hours, the result of heavy rains. Several hundreds of per sons have been rescued in boats, far as known tonight no lives have been lost. The estimated loss in live stock drowned and property damaged As is $100,000. Wireless Telegraph Dangerous. St. Petersburg. April 26.—Viceroy Alexieff has issued a notification to the effect that newspaper correspondents using wireless telegraphy will be treated as spies, the same as that served on the state department at Washington on April 15 by Ambassador Cassini. The notification is Tribute to Mark Hanna. Washington.—The house was in ses sion for over five hours Sunday for the purpose of paying tribute to the memory of the late Senator Marcus A. Hanna and the late Representatives Thompson of Alabama and Sklles of Ohio. Appropriate resolutions were adopt of of of ed. A patent has been granted In Eng land for a discovery whereby radium can be used to illuminate gun sights. SOCIETY MAN T URNS ROBBER. Bert Thorndyke of San Jose, Cal., Killed. San Jose, Cal., April 25.—A masked man armed with two revolvers, enter ed the rooms of the Del Monte social club at an early hour Sunday morning, and after lining up against the walls six men who were in the rooms at the time, took a diamond ring valued at $900 from one of the men, grabbed up $350 or $400 from the table, then back ed out of the room. After a pursuit by citizens and po lice lasting over an hour, during which over 30 shots were exchanged, the rob ber was finally killed. Upon investi gation the dead man w^ found to be Bert Thorndyke. a prominent young man of this city. Thorndyke was one of the best known young men in this city, having resided here for years. Formerly Thorndyke was engaged In business with E. H. Wemple & Co., grocers, and for the past year he has been with the A. C. Leon company, a large printing establishment. NEW STEEL FOUNDRY. Gigantic Plant to Be Erected Near ^Chicago. A steel foundry plant, to cost be tween $600,000 and $700,000, is soon to be erected in Chicago by Joseph E. Schwab, former president of the Amer ican Steel Foundries company, who resigned from that office April 16. The plant will cover 60 acres, and it is the intention to secure a long option upon 50 acres more, in which to make ex tensions to the plant when required. Plans have been prepared and the pre liminary work is well in hand. Mr. Schwab intimated that at pres ent he is practically alone in the pro ject. The plant will give employment to from 1,500 to 2,000 men, and the capacity will be from 3,000 to 3,500 steel castings a month. WASHINGTON NEWS. President Roosevelt has removed ^lajor A. M. Anderson, Indian agent in charge of the Colville reservation in this state, as the result of an investi gation of alleged irregularities in his administration of agency affairs. Representative Jones has been noti fied that the secretary of the interior has temporarily withdrawn from home stead entry a 290,000 acre tract of land west of the Yakima reservation pend ing the result of legislation on the bill confirming the title of the Indians to these lands and the opening of their reserve to settlement. A field of barley in head is a unique sight for this season of the year near Waitsburg. Seeding in Columbia county has been delayed several days on account of the wet weather. The prospect for a bountiful wheat crop in the Big Bend is better than it has been for years. A jailbreak was prevented at Daven port by the watchfulness of Sheriff Inkster and his deputies. Spokane building permits for April, even before the month is past, have reached the enormous figures of $683, 210 . It is announced that the bill to cjear title to the big strjp of land along the Northern Pacific right of way will be passed without further trouble. At the point of a revolver held in the hand of a masked burglar, Mr. and Mrs. S. Weixel were Saturday morn ing forced to submit to robbery in their home at 312 Harvard avenue north, Seattle. After he had threat ened death to his victims, the bold burglar secured only $3 for his trouble. The program for the tenth annual shooting tournament of the Washing ton State Sportsmen's association, to be held at Harrington, Wash., May 19, 20 and 21. has been announced. The University of Washington track team and rowing crew, accompanied by Coach J. C. Knight, have sailed for San Francisco, where they will meet the University of California next Saturday. T. S. Griffith, proprietor of the Glen Tana Stock Farm Collie kennels, at Spokane, has received word that Glen Tana collies win first prizes at the Portland bench show, held April 21, 22, 22 and 24. The suit brought by the American Bridge company to compel Whitman county to pay a claim once allowed but unlawfully collected by its former auditor, C. G. Raby, has resulted in a victory for the company in the su preme court. Ranchers say the country north of Walla Walla was damaged consider ably greater by the recent rain than at first supposed. Wheat, roads, brid ges and in some places even small outbuildings were more or less dam aged by the storm. Bradsireet's reports that the pres ent range of prices is the highest in four years, and that breadstuffs are the highest since the Russian crop fail ure of 1891. The war is partly ac countable for the boost, but logically prices can not long remain so high as at present. In Mexican stores the metric system of weights and measures is in general use. EX-POLICE OFFICERS OF CORVAL LIS, ORE., IN A FIGHT. Chester Keady Is Dead and James Dunn Fatally Shot—D. A. Osburn Dangerously Shot—Great Excite ment Prevailed—Shooting Occurred in Front of Post Office. Corvallis, Ore., April 25.—Chester Keady is dead, James Dunn, ex-chief of police of Corvallis, is perhaps fatal ly shot; David A. Osburn, ex-sheriff of Benton county, is dangerously shot, as the result of a pistol duel that took place shortly after midnight Sunday Morning. The trouble began when Keady, after leaving a restaurant, fired off his pistol, and ex-Sheriff Osburn, who is night officer of Corvallis, un dertook to arrest him. Keady was un der the influence of liquor, and when Osburn approached, he drew a gun artd ordered Osburn to halt. There was some parleying, and when Osburn ad vanced Keady fired, and the officer, shot through the neck, fell in the arms of bystanders. Sheriff Burnett, who had been sum moned, soon arrived on the scene in company with ex-Sheriff Dunn, and. taking Keady by the arm, ordered him under arrest. Keady whipped out a pistol and began to fire. The first shot went wide of the mark, and a second, also aimed at the sheriff, took effect in Dunn's abdomen. Then Burnett fired, and Keady fell with a shot in the head. Dunn fell into the arms of a companion, firing two shots from his pistol at Keady as he did so. Burt Turley, aged 22, is in custody as an accessory with Keady. Keady is about 18 years of age and be longs to a family locally prominent. The condition of Dunn and Osburn is critical. Three surgeons are work ing on them. One of Keady's bullets penetrated Dunn's bowels and most serious results are feared. It is be lieved the first bullet fired by Keady lodged under Osburn's left shoulder blade, after penetrating his neck and windpipe, but the doctors have not been able to find it. The greatest excitement prevailed. The shooting was made the topic of several sermons against the liquor traf fic. Keady was a son of George B. Keady, instructor in topography at the Oregon Agricultural college here. He was known as a young man of ex citable temperament, likely, to be un ruly after drinking. His age was 18 years. The shooting occurred in front of the postofflce. Before that a disturb ance had been made opposite the First National bank. Occurring as it did in the center of the usually quiet col lege town, the shooting awakened sev eral score of people and the streets were quickly thronged. LEGAL EXECUTION. Frank Rose Put to Death at Salt Lake. Frank Rose, who murdered his wife last Christmas, was shot to death in the yard of the state penitentiary Fri day morning at Salt Lake. Rose was strapped to the same little wooden chair in which Peter Mortensen met his death a few months ago. Five prison guards, concealed behind a blue curtain in the doorway of the black smith shop across «the area, formed the executing squad. One of the ri fles held a blank cartridge. Rose went to the death chair with the same cool ness that had marked his conduct since he surrendered to the police. Death was instantaneous, the four bul lets lodging in or very close to his heart. a The average laborer in Russia gets one fourth as much wages as in the United States. There is a wild flower in Turkey which is the exact floral image of a hummingbird. The breast is green, the throat yellow, the head and beak almost black. Jinks—I tell you what it is, there is nothing like having lots of friends. Winks—I presume not. Jinks—No, siree. Just as quick as I lose a job, my friends all rush around hunting a new place for me, so as to save me the trouble of bor rowing money from them.—New York Weekly. "Thet pesky Cyclone Pete is hang in' around the station again, waitin' fur some' t' turn up." . "Sho! Whut's he waitin' fur t' turn up now?" "Alkali Ike's toes. Alkali called him a hos sthief an' he's gunnin' fur 'im." —Baltimore News. in La Montt—Stalewood is coming to tell one of his jokes. Let us run. La Moyne—Are his jokes ready so bad? La Montt—Bad? Why they are Jokes you wouldn't listen to if he was going to buy the next round of drinks.—Chi cago News.