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SIX WERE DROWNED
PLEASURE LAUNCH COLLIDES WITH
A BARGE OFF N. J. COAST.
Captain Wince Undertook to Pass Be
tween Tug and Barge and Was
Struck by the Hawser and Knocked
Overboard—Launch Capsized and
Rolled Under Barge.
Beverly, N. J., Oct. 23.—A launch
co taining nine men. all of Phlladel
jih a, collided with a barge in the Dela
ware river, off this place, resulting In
the drowning of six of the occupants
of the little boat. The other three
were rescued by the crew of the tug
boat Bristol, which was towing the
barge when the accident happened.
Those rescued are:
Captain John Winch, owner of the
launch; W. F. Russell and J. Ruther
ford.
The dead are: William Winch, John
Ellis, John Stevenson, Samuel Herron,
Norman Delaney. Janies Yonkers.
The launch was hired by eight of
the men. most of whom lived In the
northeastern part of Philadelphia. The
elder Winch took bis son along to as
sist him in running the boat. The day
was spent near Croyden, on the Penn
sylvania side of the river. The start
home was made late in the afternoon.
Opposite this place the launch met
the tug Bristol, in command of Cap
tain Mott, which was towing a barge
to Bordentown, N. J. Whether Cap
tain Winch saw the barge 1s not
known; nevertheless, he attempted to
cross the tug's stern. Captain Mott
hailed him and tried to prevent him
from doing so. Captain Winch was
standing at the wheel of the launch
as he went around the stern of the
tug. The hawser of the tug struck
him and knocked him overboard. Be
fore the captain's son or any other
member of the party could take the
wheel to steer the launch clear of the
barge, the latter struck the frail boat
araidshlp, capsizing It.
The launch rolled under the barge,
and its occupants went with it. Cap
tain Mott put the tug about and went
to the rescue. He and his crew threw
ropes and life preservers to the strug
gling men in the water, but they were
able to save only three of them. The
rescued men were landed here by the
tug and cared for at a hotel.
Captain Mott, assisted by several
residents of Beverly, went in search of
the bodies and were rewarded by find
ing three, but darkness put an end to
the work.
> Another Accident.
Yonkers, N. Y., Oct. 23.—Five per
sons. the body of onq having been re
covered, are believed to have been
drowned by the running down of a
catboat by a tug off South Yonkers.
Members of the South Hudson Boat
club heard cries for help out on the
river, and in the heavy mist that pre
vailed were able to make out the out
lines of a capsized saijboat and of a
tug that was running rapidly down the
river. The cries ceased before the
yachtsmen, who had put out to the
rescue in a rowboat, reached the cat
boat, which they found deserted and
with her side stove in. In a coat
aboard the boat they found a list of
names, which proved to be those of a
party who had gone sailing in the uoat.
They were Edward Nelson, the owner
of the boat: his son Edward, Benjamin
Benson, P. Simpson and Earl Thomp
son, all of South Yonkers. The body
of Benson was found not far from the
scene of the collision. Nothing has
been heard of the missing men.
ON FIRST TRIP SHE BLOWS UP.
Two Missing From Launch and Two
Fatally Burned.
St. Louis, Oct. 23.—A gasoline
launch containing four passengers,
making its first trip on the Mississippi
river, exploded near Ivory station, 14
miles below the city, and two of the
passengers are believed to have been
drowned, the other two being probably
fatally burned.
The missing:
Fred Phee.
An unknown man.
The injured: Edward Duffy, Sr., Ed
ward Duffy, Jr.
TUNNEL 40 FEET BELOW STREET.
Large Excavation Under New Chicago
Postoffice Completed.
Chicago.—The great tunnel under
the new postoffice has been completed,
and the two crews of miners who, for
the past 40 days, have been working
toward each other from opposite ends
of the bore, finished the work of ex
cavation forty feet below the street
level. The postofflee tunnel, which is
to be used exclusively for the trans
mission of mail matter, and is one of
tne most Important and noteworthy
features of the Chicago subway, is 12
feet 6 inches wide by 14 feet high and
extends from Jackson boulevard to Ad
ams street, a distance of 396 feet.
Germany Increases Navy.
The German government will not
propose to the reichstag an increase
in the navy beyond the additions pre
viously determined upon, which were
six large cruisers and 35 torpedo boats.
Recent incidents in German-British re
lations have not, therefore, Influenced
the government's naval policy except
that unusually heavy outlays will be
asked for the equipment of naval sta
tions, new docks, etc.
Professor Judd Hangs Himself.
Baltimore, Oct. 23.—Profeusor Syl
yester Dwight Judd, aged 25 years,
formerly an assistant professor of bi
ology at Georgetown university, was
found banging by a rope from a rafter
in the garret of his home on the old
Frederick road, he having committed
suicide.
There is no meat trust in Australia,
There mutton sometimes sells for as r
little as two cents a pound.
CHANGE POLICY ON PHILIPPINES.
President Takes First Step Toward
Law Revision.
President Roosevelt's reference to
the Philippine question in bis speech
at Atlanta, it is learned, indicates the
nature of legislation to be proposed by
his friends in congress this winter.
A bill is to come out of the ways and
means (ommlttee providing for the
free entry into this country of Philip
pine products, and also opening the
islands to investment. The restrictions
at present imposed are to be swept
away.
Mr. Roosevelt's reference
speech
which hnve seriously, in some respects
vitally, hampered the development of
the Philippines," marks his first step
away from the policy of "The Philip
pines for the Filipinos."
He sei ves notice that the policy ex
cluding capital has failed. The Phil
ippines need capital, and there are
two ways of securing it. One is by
alternation of the tariff arrangement
which now levies a heavy burden upon
Philippine products exported to the
United States. Another la by remov
some of the restrictions which have
prvented the direct Investment of capi
tal by individuals or corporations from
the states.
in bis
to "unfortunate measures
LIVE INSIDE A BULLPEN.
Thousand People Are to Be Shut Off
From World.
Soulh Deerlng, a busy little settle
ment south of South Chicago, awoke
recently to a new epoch in Its history.
The big coke ovens of the Semelh Sel
vay Coke company sprung into life and
a mode of life for employes began like
that in frontier settlements. A grim
stockade surrounded the entire plant.
Three hundred Hungarian and Aus
trian employes, with their families, a
population of 1000 souls, will live and
labor within the walls, practically cut
off from the outer world save for an
occasional newspaper or letter from
friends. The stockade surrounds 60
acres. The rules are as follows:
"No employe will be allowed outside
the gates without permission.
"Curfew will ring at 9 o'clock and
every man, woman and child must be
within the enclosure by that time.
"All entertainment will be provided
by the company.
"Employes must not attend dances
or other entertainments outside the en
closure."
A dance hall was opened with a big
ball for the workers. The object of
the stockade is to keep employes free
from the low saloons and dance halls
that get their wages.
CUNLIFFE IS QUESTIONED.
Pinkerton Detectives Wild In Efforts
to Get Money.
Pittsburg, Oct. 2a.—Edward G. Cun
llffe, who committed the $101,000 theft
from the Adams Express company and
who was captured at Bridgeport, Conn,
is thoroughly exhausted. Upon his ar
rival from the east he was taken to
the local office of the Pinkerton agen
cy, where he was put through a pro
cess of sweating by the officials.
Notwithstanding the severe examin
atlon given Cunliffe In the Pinkerton
offices, it is said no additional admis
sions were secured from him. The
prisoner was exceedingly aggravated
when he was told nearly $10.000 more
of the money was found wrapped In a
laundry package in Bridgeport. It is
believed he will remain stubborn about
the remaining $11,000 and will only re
veal Its location when he is assured of
clemency by the courts.
PHONES THAT HE KILLED MAN.
Frank Womack Tells Salt Lake Po
lice of Fatal Affray.
Salt Lake, Utah, Oct. 23.—About
midnight Frank Womack, a freight
handler at the Oregon Short Line de
pot, formerly of Welser, Idaho, called
the police station by telephone and an
nounced that he shot and killed Joseph
Mathews, formerly a fireman on the
Short „Line, and more recently an em
ploye of the city water department.
Womack roomed at Mathews' bouse.
Witnesses say that Mathews said be
fore the shooting that he was going to
put Womack out because of the lat
ter's attentions to his wife. He forced
Womack to get up out of bed and had
begun to beat him, when Womack
fired three times.
Recover the Stolen Jewels.
Victoria, B. C.—The $6000 worth of
diamonds and emeralds set in 47 rings
which were stolen from C. E. Red
tern's jewelry store, were recovered
at Vancouver, where they had been
hidden by the persons who took them
from the store. Harry Redfern, son
of the proprietor of the store, his
cousin, C. Kurtz, and a woman from
Vancouver are said to have been in
the store at a late hour on the night
the jewels were taken. Kurtz, it is
stated, accompanied Detective Palmer
to Vancouver when the jewels were
recovered. It is Improbable that there
will be any prosecutions.
Moscow Land Fraud.
Moscow, Idaho, Oct. 24.—The land
fraud cases against Keltenbach, Kes
ter, Dwyer and Roblnett of Lewiston
were called In the United States court
Monday, and Attorney Borah requested
that the cases be passed until 2 o'clock
Tuesday afternoon. The request was
granted, and the defendants, who were
seated in the audience, soon retired
from the room.
The most interesting feature of these
cases centers around the close and
secret manner in which the Jury venire
is being guarded by the officials.
Niagara Falla Wearing Away.
Ottawa, Ont. —It is said the Cana
dian side of Niagara falls has receded
300 feet during the last eight years,
and an investigation will be made by
the international waterways commis
sion.
While defending a case In court at
Carlow, Ireland, the other day an
attorney was suprised and grieved
to see on the feet of bis client a pair
of boots that had been stolen from him
some time before.
NEWS OF THE WORLD!
SHORT TELEGRAPH ITEMS FROM
Review of Happenings in Both
During the Past Week—National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.
ALL PARTS OF THE GLOBE.
A
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
The boycott In China against Amer
ican products is subsiding.
For the past six days Manila has
been free from cholera.
The reception to President Roose
velt at Jacksonville, Fla., was a hear
ty one.
The Bullock Electrical company of
Cincinnati has been absorbed by the
AllisChalmers company.
At San Francisco the United Bank
& Trust company has been closed by
the state board of bank commission
ers.
Recently Archbishop Patrick W.
Riordan of San Francisco, was re
ceived in private audience by Pope
Pius.
Victoria, B. C.—G. D. Collins, the
San Francisco lawyer who fled from
the Bay state on July 8, has been ex
tradited.
The report to the effect that Ambas
sador Whltelaw Reid had appointed
an Englishman as his private secre
tary is unfounded.
Quantities of valuable pearls are be
ing found In the Kankakee river, In
Indiana. Scores of persons have gone
to the river to hunt for the gems.
President Roosevelt was the guest
of the oldest city in the United States
Saturday night, and St. Augustine
put on gala attire to welcome him.
In the event of a change in the cabi
net at Tokio, Baron Hayashi, Japan
ese minister to England, Is likely to
be called home to take charge of the
foreign office.
Madison, Wls.—J. A. Lenroot of Su
perior, speaker of the Wisconsin leg
islature and a LaFollette leader, has
announced his candidacy for the gov
ernorship of Wisconsin.
Upon petition of some of Us credi
tors, E. J. Becker of Kansas City has
been appointed receiver for the Impe
rial Brewing company. The company
owes about $625,000.
Senator John Blrge, a prominent re
publican and well known manufactur
er, was killed at Bristol, Conn., when
a horse he was driving ran away,
throwing him from his carriage to the
curb.
The active leaders of the Woman's
Christian Temperance union are pre
paring to resist every effort likely to
be made during the coming session
of congress to restore the canteen at
the army posts.
Her hair being caught in a whirling
belt, Annie Wolf, 17 years old, was
scalped recently in the shop of the
Mllburg Atlantic Supply company, of
New York. Every vestige of hair was
stripped from her head.
A west-bound Missouri Pacific pas
senger train carrying cars from Kan
sas City and St. Louis, was wrecked
five miles west of Fort Scott, the re
sult of a broken rail. Fully 30 per
sons were more or less Injured, but
none killed.
Aiken, Minn.—Dr. W. Marones, the
bonesetter convicted of bigamy, and
sentenced by Judge Spooner to six
years in the penitentiary at Stillwa
ter, committed suicide in his cell,
blowing the top of his head completely
off with a revolver.
Joseph Turpls of St. Louis was in
stantly killed at Chatsworth, III., re
cently by coming in contact with an
electric wire while chasing his hat,
which had been blown off by the wind.
William Meister, In attempting to drag
the man's body from the wire, met a
similar fate.
Mr. P. R. Duchemin of Colfax has
asked the newspapers to assist In lo
cating his son Ralph, who ran away
from home. Ralph is 12 years old,
of heavy build, light complexion. He
was accompanied by Joe Baker, aged
1-5, dark eyes and hair and wearing
corduroy kneepants and cap.
Paul G. Kruger of North Yakima,
has learned that he is wanted in Chi
cago by his half sister, Mrs. Martha
Hoffman, who has been hunting for
him for months to settle an estate
worth $60,000, to which they have fal
len heir. Part of this comes from
Germany and the other part of the es
tate is from the estate of his sister,
Mrs. R. P. Rheim, who with her hus
band and two children lost their lives
in the Iroquois fire In Chicago, Janu
ary 2. 1904.
COMES A3 ENVOY OF MENELIK.
To See Roosevelt In Regard to New
Treaty of Commerce.
El Hagg Abdullah-All Sadlk Pasha,
prince of the Mohammedan church,
general of the Abyssinian army, min
ister of commerce and envoy of Em
peror Menelik to President Roosevelt,
has arrived in New York on the
steamer Cedric. He comes ostensibly
in regard to the new treaty of com
merce between this country and Abys
sinia, but actually his mission is to
study the possibilities of closer rela
tions with Europe and America.
Interned Cruiser to Leave.
Mare Island, Cal.—The Russian
cruiser Lena probably will leave direct
for Vladivostock on Saturday next
from here. She will have 2000 tons of
coal in her bunkers. She will make
no stay at San Francisco, and will
take back her complete crew, no deser
tions having occurred.
Lieutenant Kahtln reports that at
Vladivostock big Ice breakers will
make a way for the cruiser.
Rush the Culdesac Line.
"Construction work w.il be started
on the Culdesac-Grangeville line about
November 1," says T. H. Croswell,
Northern Pacific engineer, who has
been in charge of the work and who re
turned from the coast in company with
C. M. Levy.
YELLOW JACK ALMOST GONE.
Mississippi Has Raised All Her
Quarantines.
New Orleans. Oct. 28.—While this
was the fifth consecutive day on which
no deaths of yellow fever were report
ed, which In Itself was a cause for
much general satisfaction, the moat
gratifying information came in the
shape of a telegram from the state
health office of Mississippi that on
Monday evening all of
quarantines would be raised. Another
Mississippi's
Bource of congratulation was a com
munication from Dr. Tabor of Texas
that Texas would admit people from
Louisiana, who would make an affida
vit that they had not been near an in
fected point for six days previously.
MINING NOTES.
The most important gold find in the
world Is that of the Transvaal, and
for that the data for working costs
and profits is incomplete. The out
put for 1904 was $78,130,728, produced
by 74 companies. Their working prof
its, after paying the 10 per cent tax
on profits to the government, are re
ported as $26,402,163. The amount ac
tually divided in dividends was $19,
114,784. Only 35 companies paid divi
dends, these producing 70 per cent of
the total yield.
Work on the Review Mining & Mill
ing company's claims In the North
port (Wash.) district is expected to be
renewed soon. This is the old Moun
tain View property, which was in lit
igation for several years.
Wallace, Idaho.—The Hecla Mining
company has declared dividend No. 28
of 1 cent a share, amounting to $10,
000. This brings the total dividends
to date up to $490,000, of which $180,
000 has been paid this year.
Roy Clarke is back to Spokane from
a trip to the new silver-cobalt fields In
Ontario, 100 miles northeast of North
Bay, on Lake Nipissing. He said:
"Silver-cobalt ore worth $1 a pound
is found there in seams four inches
wide, but it is so rich that the Earl
company, a New York concern, which
paid $250,000 for ground last year, has
cleared up $600,000 this year.
The compressor of the O. K., near
Rossland, B. C., is to be started up
and machine drills put to work just as
soon as the boilers of the compressor
plant have been declared to be "fit"
by Boiler Inspector Sutherland. An ex
tensive list of developments Is to be
done.
Gold in paying quantities has been
discovered at Richland, eight miles
north of Pasco, Wash., by John Pren
tice and several others, and engines
and machinery have been purchased to
begin operations.
After discovering rich deposits of
native copper, following weeks of pros
pecting, William Dldican of Schenec
tady. N. Y., was found dead from
starvation on the plains west of White
Oaks, N. M. For a mile around where
Didican's body was found were his
tracks, showing that for days he had
traveled In a circle, having lost his
way returning from the mine.
By the caving of a slope In the High
land Boy copper mine at Bingham,
Utah, five men were Instantly killed.
The bodies have not yet been recov
ered and can not be reached for sev
eral hours. The dead: C. L. Johnson,
Charles Peterson, Mike Pesan, Tony
Rifle and James Sonuerlva.
Johannesburg.—A gang of 30 Chi
nese at the Van Ryn mine where there
have already been five disturbances,
struck work and attacked the whites
underground. A white man pulled the
signal cord and the police galloping
up descended the shaft and saved the
whites. The ringleaders were arrest
ed. But this phase of attacks under
ground renders the situation very dis
quieting.
Judge Hunt, sitting at Helena, in
the federal court overruled the motion
tor a dissolution of the injunction in
the case of E. Rollins Morse against
the Montana Ore Purchasing company
involving the Michael Devitt mine at
Butte, in litigation between the Amal
gamated and Heinze.
Gold in 1904.
George E. Roberts, the director of
the mint, has prepared a statement of
the world's production of gold and sil
ver for the calendar year 1904.
This statement shows the total gold
valued at $347,150,700, an aggregate of
168,493,638 tine ounces of silver and
a commercial value of silver totaling
$97,726,300, the coinage value of which
is $217,860,200. The four greatest pro
ducers among nations follows:
United States—Gold. $80,723,200;
75,786,100 ounces of silver, valued at
$33,516,000.
Mexico—Gold, $12,605,300 ; 60,808,978
ounces of silver, valued at $35,269,200.
Canada—Gold. $16,400,000; 3,718,668
ounces of silver, valued at $2,156,800.
The figures show an Increase of
about $22,000,000 in gold over the bu
reau's estimate for the calendar year
1903. The United States shows a gain
of about $7,000,000 and South Africa
of $18,000,000. Tae director says that
both of these countries are still on a
rising scale of production. Austra
lia, on the other hand, is an import
ant producer which shows a tendency
to reduce Its contribution although the
falling oft Is not large and may be
temporary. Considering developments
in well known fields, it seems a rea
sonable forecast to expect the world's
output in 1905 to exceed that öf 1904
by*$25,000.000, with another gain prob
ably in 1906.
Journalists Regret.
Many of the weekly publications of
London, Including the Spectator, the
Saturday Review and the Outlook,
have articles expressing regret that
the dean of Westminster should have
sanctioned the interment in Westmin
ister abbey of the ashes of Sir Henry
Irving, and denying to Irving great
ness as an actor in the sense that Gar
rick was great.
Midway to Nicola By C. P.
Canadian Pacific engineers are run
ning a line west from the road's ter
minus at Midway, B. C. The indica
tions are that the company will build
westerly to a connection with its
Nicola road, now under construction.
NORTHWEST STATES
WASHINGTON. MONTANA. IDAHO
AND OREGON NEWS ITEMS.
A Few Interesting Items Gathered
From Our Exchanges of the Sur
rounding Country—Numerous Acci
dents and Personal Events Take
-Fall Trade Is Good.
Placi
IDAHO NEWS.
Patrick McGrath, aged 75, who was
knocked from a trestle near Mullan
by a Northern Pacific engine, died at
a Wallace hospital.
Rumors are current that the O. R.
& N. Co. is considering putting on an
other passenger train between Wal
lace and Spokane.
Sheriff Doust has arrived at Rath
drum with five Chinamen who had
been arrested in Bonners Ferry by a
customs inspector for violating immi
gration laws.
That the fish and game law of this
state applies to Indians as well as to
white people was the substance of a
recent decision handed down in the
district court by Judge Steele.
William Schuldt, Nez Perce county
treasurer, has received a remittance
from Shoshone county of $6723.11,
which is the amount Shoshone county
held in trust for the 24 school districts
of the annexed area.
Word has been received from Con
gressman French that he has recom
mended the appointment of J. M. Elder
as postmaster of Coeur d'Alene to
succeed D. P. Mason, resigned. The
appointment will doubtless soon fol
low. Mr. Elder is now in charge of
the office.
The county commissioners at Mos
cow have rejected the applications of
Oscar Egstrom and Louis Sneath for
retail liquor licenses at Princeton; al
so the application of B. A. Walker
for a license at Avon; also objected to
the issuing of licenses to George Lash
brock of Palouse for a saloon at
Princeton.
The Idaho State Press association
completed its work and adjourned on
Saturday at Moscow. The significant
resolution was adopted thaJ the full
legal rate would hereafter be charged
for all state notices, proclamations and
legal matters requiring publication by
the state,
was fixed to be from Coeur d'Alene
to the principal points in Alaska.
United States Attorney Ruick has
received a dispatch from the depart
ment of justice to appeal the Dick
case to the supreme court. In this
case the circuit court of appeals at
San Francisco recently decided that
the federal government had no juris
diction to prohibit the sale of liquor
in the town of Culdesac, on the former
Nez Perce Indian reservation, Dick
served a sentence for selling liquor
on the reservation, but the court held
as the title to the townslte where the
selling occurred had passed from the
national government, therefore It had
no jurisdiction.
The next annual jaunt
WASHINGTON NOTES.
Thomas M. Dickson and wife of
Mayvlew celebrated their golden wed
ding recently.
C. C. McCoy, the veteran mail con
tractor and an old resident of Walla
Walla, died recently.
A county institute for teachers in
Stevens county is called to meet at
Colville November 13.
Secretary Hitchcock has approved
the Northern Pacific grant of land
selections, 1013 acres In North Yaki
ma. Spokane and Watervllle districts.
Surveyors for the proposed railway
between Fletcher and Connell are
once more upon the ground. Active
work will probably be commenced by
November 1.
While playing with matches the 2%
year old daughter of ex-Mayor Hardin
of Bellingham caught fire In her cloth
ing and was so badly burned that she
died later.
Willie Le Veeney, the young son of
William Le Veeney, was accidentally
killed at Paha. The boy fell out of a
wagon, striking on his head and burst
ing a blood vessel.
Harry Allen, convicted of robbing
the postofflee at Camden, November
3. 1904, was sentenced by Judge Whit
son to serve eight years in the peni
tentiary at McNeill's island.
The case of the state vs. George
Chronback for the murder of Joe Bon
nett, a Polish countryman, near Pe
Ell, July 16, came to a close at Che
halis with a verdict of murder in the
second degree.
O. V. Darrow, a Well known Ta
coma druggist, was sandbagged into
Insensibility and robbed while on the
way to his home. The highwayman
took a diamond ring valued at $150
and $2 or $3 in change.
Charles E. Johnstone, the Northern
Pacific brakeman who shot Alvin
Price, a negro hobo, on a train while
the latter was beating his way coming
toward North Yakima, on September
8, was acquitted if the charge.
Ben Oppenheimer, a traveling man
for a Portland hardware firm, who Is
known in eastern Washington, has
been sentenced at Montesano to one
year in the state penitentiary at Wal
la Walla for embezzlement.
Motive power on the Idaho division
of the Northern Pacific railroad will
be increased early next spring by the
arrival in Spokane of 10 more mam
moth freight locomotives of the W
class introduced on the division last
summer.
Attorney James Hopkins of Spokane
was found guilty of making false af
fidavits in the federal court recently.
Seven charges were proven against
him. The penalty for this crime. Is
$1000 fine or three years' imprison
ment, or both.
Miss Ora Ulsh met with a most pe
culiar death at Lake Bay, near Taco
ma, recently. The girl was subject to
epileptic fits, and while engaged in
picking fruit she was taken with
fit and fell Into some underbrush and
smothered to death.
One of the largest real estate trans
fers of the last three months was made
when Paul Costello purchased the An
na Fahey farm for 134,500. The farm
consists of over 900 acres of fine wheat
land, and is considered one of the best i
in that part of Lincoln county.
Two masked bandits at 4 o'clock
Sunday morning entered the Madison
street power house of the Seattle Elec
tric company, bound and gagged Mike
Boyle, a lamp cleaner, and E. J. Cole,
a fireman, the only persons in that
part of the building and then broke
into and robbed the deposit box of
the company of $500.
The news from Washington that the
board of consulting engineers of the
United States reclamation service has
reported to Secretary Hitchcock and
recommended the Okanogan irrigation
project as feasible, will be read with
enthusiasm in the Okanogan country
and with approval in all parts of the
state. This undertaking will irrigate
only 10,000 acres.
The tax commission of Washington
proposes that every conceivable arti
cle of personal property, tangible and
intangible, that money in bank, the
hoarded wealth in the old stocking
under the bed or in the jug on the
shelf, or in the can buried In the orch
ard and even the pennies in the babys'
saving bank shall next year bear a
portion of the state and county taxes.
Charles Thronson, one of the largest
farmers in Columbia county, has giv
en the following estimate of raising
wheat and barley, based on results
from 2800 acres of summer fallow, 480
acres of which was stubble ground
and halt of which was leased land:
Crop, 3,413,020 pounds, or 2433 pounds
an acre; 2282 days' work, including
management, $3490" 6788 meals, $1,
239.91; feed and seed, $3000; sacks
and twine, $1638.57; rent, $3476.80;
miscellaneous expenses, $3224.58; to
tal, $16,069.21, or 47 cents a hundred
weight.
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MONTANA SQUIBBS.
The secretary of war has approved
plans submitted by the Helena Power
Transmission company for the erec
tion of a dam in the Missouri river,
not far from Great Falls, the construc
tion of which was authorized by act
of congress in 1894.
Otto Chenelworth, known as one of
the moat notorious rustlers In eastern
Montana, Wyoming and Dakota, is un
der arrest at Casper, Wyo. His op
erations in Montana were especially
bold, driving away bands of horses un
der the very noses of the officers. He
broke jail at Medora, N. D.
Former County Clerk Charles W.
Bailey of Rosebud county, who was un
der bonds to answer in the district
court to the charge of being implicat
ed in a gigantic bounty fraud by which
it is claimed the state was defrauded
out of $20,000, has disappeared. It is
believed he has gone to South Amer
ica.
James Murray, convicted of murder
in the second degree for the killing of
William Klley, was sentenced to 30
years in the Deer Lodge penitentiary
at hard labor. Murray is 24 years of
age. He shot Klley to death in the
latter's own home after being invited
into the home by the Klleys to drink
with them. The trouble originated
over the stabbing of Murray's young
brother by Klley the forenoon of the
murder.
Is Mrs. Lorna Ville Hunter Wal
bridge-Melvllle-Northey, now in custo
dy at Butte, insane, a neurotic degen
erate, under a hypnotic spell, or sim
ply a magnificent liar? These are
some of the questions puzzling the
Butte authorities. The woman is
young, barely 19. She is petite, pret
ty, attractive. She has none of the
looks of the hardened criminal, yet
she gloats openly over the fact that
she sent her father to a felon's cell.
She is charged with complicity in a
murder, has been accused of forgery,
blackmailing and finally of bigamy.
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OREGON ITEMS.
The town of Athena will soon have
a band organized.
"Holy Moses," the faithful camel of
the streets of Cairo, at Portland, is
dead.
K. O. Lamb, the section hand who
was run over by a freight train near
Pendleton, died later.
From now on Albany college, in
Oregon, will be in charge of the Pres
byterians of the state and will look
to the entire state for support.
The Arlington hotel at Helix recent
ly burned down, causing a loss of
$1500. The guests escaped uninjured,
though several had narrow escapes.
Mrs. H. A. Sargent of Portland, 1s
lying at the point of death at the
home of her sister, Mrs. G. A. Batch
elder. at Palo Alto, Cal., as the re
sult of being thrown from a cart while
driving near the Batchelder home.
The largest individual sale of wheat
made this season in Weston district
was the crop of Moses Taylor, con
sisting of 11,000 bushels purchased by
S. A. Barnes of the Pacific Coast Ele
vator company at 62 cents per bushel.
Captain C. J. Hooghklrk of the
steamer Iraida performed a heroic
rescue recently in the Columbia riv
er, diving off the hurricane deck of
his vessel, 30 feet from the water, and
saving the lives of Mrs. Clifford Har
ris and 7 year old son, who had been
thrown from their capsized skiff and
were sinking for the last time.
BUY OFFICIAL HOMES ABROAD.
Part of Plan for Reorganization of
the Diplomatic and Con
sular Service.
Secretary Root has completed a
plan for reorganization of the diplo
matic and consular service. Having
been given absolute authority by the
president in the formation of his
theories he has worked out a scheme
whereby he hopes to secure the heavy
cooperation of congress.
It is understood that among other
things he will recommend: Increase
of salary for ambassadors, ministers
and consuls; ownership by the United
States of its foreign legations; merit
system in filling of vacancies in all po
sitions under the grades of ambassa
dor and consul general.
Paul Heyse, said to be the most fa
mous living German novelist, is al
most as well known in America as in
the fatherland.
STRIKES IN RUSSIA
NINE RAILROADS RADIATING OUT
OF MOSCOW ARE CLOSED.
Commercial Heart of Russia Cut Off
From Rest of Nation—Revolution
ists Have Shown Their Ability
Factory Strike Looked Foi
Stricken District Cannot Get Relief.
•Famine
Moscow, Oct. 24.-—Traffic on seven
of the nine main trunk arteries of com
merce radiating from Moscow is com
pletely paralyzed by the railroad
strike, and the commercial heart of
Russia has been shut off from all com
munication with the rest of the em
pire, except with the narrow section
to the northwestward, including St.
Petersburg and the Baltic provinces.
Though the government has ordered
the railroad battalions of the army to
proceed to Moscow and take the places
of the strikers for the purpose of re
storing traffic, the revolutionists, by
a sudden and unexpected blow, have
shown their ability to lay their hands
on the throat of the nation's commer
cial life.
The strikers forced the employes of
the general offices and financial depart
ments of three lines, the Windau and
Rybinsk, the Moscow and Brest
Liovsk and the Kleff and Veronese, to
quit work. The city is already feeling
the effects of a milk and meat famine,
and a few days' continuance of the
strike will cause serious embarrass
ment, and even suffering, to the popu
lation. The renewal of the factory
strike is not improbable.
An important development Sunday
was the strike on the Brest-Llovsk.
which runs to Minsk and Warsaw and
carries international traffic from Mos
cow to Germany, Austria and other
parts of Europe. The engineers and
firemen have drawn the fires and de
serted the engines. Communication
with points abroad, however, is still
open by way of St. Petersburg and
Pskoff.
During the morning a crowd of
strikers proceeded to the freight sta
tion of the Kursk road and let oft the
steam of eight engines, drove away
the guards and forced the employes to
stop work. The traffic over the road"
thereupon stopped.
The strike, coming at this time, is
apt to seriously cripple the work of
relief in the famine stricken provinces,
and also to impede the movement of
this year's grain crop, as the rail
roads under normal conditions are not
able to keep the grain crop moving
promptly. Official reports show that
139,824 loaded cars were awaiting re
moval on October 20 In various sec
tions, and that the grain and coal
handling districts are dally increas
ing their accumulations at the rail
road stations.
Great suffering is certain if the
supply of grain and other provisions
can not be forwarded into the famlno
stricken districts, where, up to the
present, the work of relief had not
been carried out successfully.
Later Report.
St. Petersburg.—The railroad strike
situation has now entered on a highly
serious phase.
The movement is
spreading rapidly to all the railroads
of the empire, and apparently can not
be stopped, while in many cities it is
communicating itself to the mill and
factory employes. The general strike
in all branches of labor, which the so
cialists planned for the end of this
year is suddenly bursting forth of its
own volition.
Minister of Finance Kokvosoff has
received a telegram from the govern
ing committee of the Moscow bourse,
which said that a continuation of the
strike for a week longer would force
every factory in the Moscow region to
shut down owing to lack of coal,
whether or not the factory hands took
part in the strike.
SPORTING NOTES.
Robert Abbott of Yale won the in
dividual championship of the intercol
legiate golf association, on the links
of the Garden City golf club by de
feating another Yale man, E. Knowles.
There will be no game between the
University of Washington and Wash
ington Slate college this season.
"American football, as it Is played
today, will have to go, or It will have
to be more modified than it ever has
been," said President Benjamin Ide
Wheeler of the University of Califor
nia to the students assembled around
the bonfire on the campus recently
in the big "senior rally" in honor of
the freshman football victory.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., son of the
president and a freshman at Harvard,
was one of the spectators at
Walsh-Stanley fight. Walsh won the
decision.
Several eastern clubs are said to
have Louis Nordyke of the Tacoma
team under consideration. Pittsburg
is said to be thinking of drafting him.
The drafting season for the Pacific
Coast league does not start until No
vember 1.
John C. Gondero, aged 27, died re
cently at Wlllamantlc, Conn., as the
result of an Injury received in a foot
ball game.
Joe Gregg knocked out Jack Allin
at Bonners Ferry in two minutes and
45 seconds of fierce fighting, in what
was scheduled to be a 20 round affair.
It hurried knockouts are indications
of championship Umber, A1 Kaufman,
the San Francisco blacksmith now un
der the care of Billy Delaney, has it
on all the new heavyweights in the
business, says George Siler in the Chi
cago Tribune. Kaufman, like Jim
Corbett, began his boxing career at
the Olympic Athletic club, from which
Jimmy Britt also graduated.
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