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BATHDBUM, IDAHO. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1902.
VOLUME VIII. NUMBER 26.
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ELEVEN HIT DEATH.
MANY OF THE MINES IN THE
N0ETHWE8T PROGRESSING.
Items of Interest of a Miscellaneous
Nature Gathered During the Past
Week—New Districts Brought to
the Front—Many Mining Accidents
and Personals.
Interest in the mining world is being
centered in the experiments now going
forward with the Garretson furnace at
the Crofton smelter on Vancnover is
land. It is expected to revolutionize
the smelting industry of America.
The inventors are C. S. and F.C.
Garretson, father and son. The
Garretson smelter, if as succsesful as
the first day indicated, will, it is said,
bat down the oost of smelting to
quarter of what it is to day. It will
do away with the necessity of using
coke and will abolish the seperate con
verting plant By it the three pro
cesses of the Bmelting are combined
and the whole operation takes plaoe
in one apparatus.
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
During last week the Granby smelter
treated 4199 tons of ore. The grand
total treated to date is 427,478 tons.
A rate of $2.60 per ton has been
made by the Kettle Valley Lines for
trial ahippments of ore from the Re
public mines to the smelters at Trail
and Nelson, B. C.
The LeRoi is-now shipping $60
ore to the North port Smelter. It is
the estimate of the average values
found in the ore being sloped in the
Peyton tunnel, one of the old workings
of the mine originated by Colonel Pey
ton of Spokane.
Returns from the Ymir mine for
Angust amounted to $7640. Fifty
stamps were in operation 29 days. Of
the total returns,$2242 were appropriat
ed for development, $800 for repairs
and $4485^against loss by forest fires,
leaving a net balanoe of $113 to pay
dividends.
The new machinery house for the
large electrically driven compressor
plsnt of the Granby smelter is nearing
completion. The open workings of
the Garnby mines now extend north
and south about 1300 feet over all, and
have a width varying about 60 feet at
the npper face to about 100 feet near
the mouth of the main tunnel. Be
sides this an area approximately 800
feet long by 200 feet wide has been
stripped in readiness for removal of
the enormous body of ore thus unoover
one
ed.
MISCELLANEOUS MINING NEWS.
At the Gold Ledge at Republic the
drift on the tunnel is in 46 feet.
At the Silver Dollar mine at Repub
lic, Wash., the diamond drill is in 160
feet westward.
The Bpnr on the Republic & Kettle
River railway to the Quilp mine at
Repnblio is finished.
New discoveries and development
work throughout eastern Oregon's gold
belt continue with no lapses.
The rush of business in ore shipments
has caused a famine in freight oars in
the Coeur d'Alenes.
Farnk Reitzel has broken through
the foot wall on his ledge on the Apex
property situated north of Wallace
about one mile.
The ore crusher and boiler from the
old Ajax mill, at Dixie, Idaho, have
been taken to the Crakerjack at the
Hump.
Everett( Wash. ) people olaim to have
discovered an immense deposit of high
grade iron ore in the Cascades, about
40 miles from that city.
There is every probability that
oyanide plant will be erected on the
Alameda group of claims in the vicin
ity of Gilt Edge, Montana.
The Empire State Idaho Mining com
pany has started the construction of a
machine and blacksmith shop near the
Heola shafthonse at Borke, Idaho.
The Baisley-Elkhorn mine near Bak
er city, Oregon, has been sold to the
Beaver Mining company. The con
sideration named in the deed is $40,
a
000 .
A fine body of ore was reoently dis
covered by Messrs. O'Malley and Hill
on the Copper Plate, one of a group of
aeveral claims on Iron Mountain near
Repnblio.
The five new Bnckner furnaces,"just
put in operation at the Everett smelter
practically doubles the capacity of the
plant, and almost 60 additional men
will find employment.
The mill of the Denver & Montana
Reduction company, at Garnet, Mon
tana, it is Baid, may soon be started up
again, aa development work in that
Motion among the mines will warrant
it.
The company owning the Friday
group of claims at Sylvanite, Montana,
has received news from its property
that 18 inches of rioh ore has been
struck showing free gold to the naked
eye.
hTe Boise-Payette Electric Power
oompany has installed a new 100 -horse
house
power generator in their power
on the Boise river, as a temporary ex
pedient, awaiting the oonstrnotion of
Hew the power house at Payette. It ia
the plan to pat in a 1600-hone power
generator at the Payette plant and the
company expects to be able soon to
■apply the needs of this
with increased power.
Shipping ore of quite high grade is
being taken from the Gold Hill olaim,
owned by Messrs. Camp and Rose, who
recently took a bond on the Fourth of
July group adjoining, says the Sumpter
American.
The Great Northern Mining company
has turned over its Giit Edge mine in
Fergus county, Mnotana, to a syndicate
headed by John A. Drake. The price
is said to have approached a million
dollars. The mine has paid large divi
dends.
community
Charles McMackin of Butte was fa
tally injured reoently in the High Ore
mine. He was shoveling on the 800-foot
level with several other miners when
a fall oaught him. He was badly bruis
ed about the body and his skull was
orushed.
The monthly ooinage statement issu
ed by the director of the mint shows
that during September, 1902, the total
ooinage executed at the mint of the
United States was $6,762,116, as
follows: Gold, $8,680,860; silver,
$2,831,166;minor coins, $370,000.
The rioh lead development on the
Craoker-Orgeon properties during the
past two months has given impetus to
mining in the Sumpter, Oregon, dis
trict heretofore unknown. Mining is
being resumed on a larger scale
several old properties, and development
work has begun upon many new claims.
The largest nugget of solid gold
ever unoovered in the history of placer
mining was the one at Mt. Moliagel,
Australia, in 1869. It weighed 190
pounds and was valued at $46,600.
The largest one interspersed with quartz
was found in 1872 in New South
Wales. It tipped the scales at 640
pounds and was worth $148,000.
William Lambert, president and
general manager of the Montana Min
ing company, owning the Blue Bird at
Deer Park. B. C., says they have
shipped the machinery for a concen
trator at the Blue Bird. It is their
intention to deveiope their great water
power and by this means generate the
electricity to run the concentrator.
Their mine is situated in the Slooan
district.
showing of gold, silver, copper and lead
ores.
There are now 6000 people in Dawson
City, and as many more within the
distriot having a radius of 60 miles.
The Dawson country is no longer a
prospecting proposition. (The claim
holders who had no capital,were forced
to sell to the companies whioh had,
and thus ownership has become cen
tralized. The companies either ship in
their supplies themselves or buy from
the larger concerns at Dawson, and the
small traders have been brought to cry
ing hard times. The first figures esti
mating Dawson's yield for this year
were $22,000,000, but corrected figures
give it at $16,000,000.
on
They have an immense
Asked for an Extra Session.
Chicago, Oct. 6.—Six thousand minois
citizens during the past 24 hours have
signed a petition asking President Roose
velt to call an extra session of congress
to enact some measure for the preven
tion of a coal famine. One method sug
gested In the petition la a provision for
the appointment of a temporary receiver
to operate the Pennsylvania mines which
are closed on account of the strike. The
petition la circulated all over the city of
Chicago and throughout the state of 11
llnola under the
States Senator William E. Mason.
"There are numerous Instances where
dlrection of United
temporary receivers have been appointed
for the management of public utilities,"
said Senator Mason, "and which afford
ample precedent fer action In this emer
Rallroads have been thus treated
gency.
by the court on the petition of the people,
can be shown by the record. I have
In mind, too, a case where a dispute be
tween a municipality and water works
company, which threatened to deprive the
people of a water supply, resulted In the
receiver until the
as
appointment of a
trouble was settled.
Sam Arnold Dead.
Baltimore, Oot. 8.—Sam 'Arnold, 72
years old, who was convicted in 1866
of participation in the assassination [of
Abraahm Lincoln, is dead at his home
at Masonville. Arnold, along with
Dr. Mudd, Frank McLaughlin and
others, was convie tedjand sent Jto the
dry Totugas for life. President John
son, after he had been acquitted in the
impeachment trial, pardoned Arnold.
Senate Committee Hetnrnz.
San Francisco, Cal., Oot.8.—United
States Senators Burton of Kansas, Fos
ter of Wasihngton and Mitchell of Ore
gon have returned form the Hawaiian
isllands, where they have been on a
tour of investigation as a subcommittee
of the senate committee on |Paoifio is
lands and Porto Rioo. They were
oompanied by ex-senator Thurston of
Nebraska. _
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John Boblnson Killed.
Everett, Wash., Oot. 7—John Rob
erston formerly in the employ of the
Great Northern Railway at Barring,
was killed in this city by being ont to
pieces under the wheels of a west bound
passenger train.
gérions flood conditions are reported
all over the southern and southeastern
Iowa.
ns i us
IS THE DECIBI0N RECENTLY
HANDED DOWN.
The D. 8. Circuit of N. Y.—They are
Allowed to Land Withont Interfer
ence by Immigration Law—The Ques
tion Will Probably Come Before
Next Congress.
New York, Oot. 10.—A decision has
been handed down in the United States
circuit court by Judge Laoombe, in
whioh hej;holdst t hat a ctizen of Porto
Rico as such is entitled to land here
without ^interference from the immi
gration laws, bat is, the insular decis
ions notwithstanding, an alien within
the meaning of the alw. *
The matter oame before Judge La
oombejon the application for a writ of
habeas corpus sworn out on hnhaif of
Isabella Gonzales,a native Porto Rican
woman, who arrived in New York
August 24 lastg She was detained by
the immigration authorities on the
ground that, being an nnmaarried
woman, her oondition was ÿsuoh that
she was an nndesiable alien.
She was ordered deported, but a well
to do aunt and nnole, living on Staten
island, secured attorneys to get her
leased through habeas corpus.
"The only question for discussion."
reads the opinion, "Is whether tne peti
tioner Is an alien. The 14th amendment
to the constitution o'f the United
States provides that all persons bom or
naturalized in the United States and sub
ject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citi
zens of the United States. The petitioner
was by 'birth an alien, and unless she
has since, In some appropriate way, been
naturalised, she Is still an alien. There
is no suggestion that she was ever nat
uralized under the general laws, regulat
ing the admission of alien citizens. The
treaty of Paris, unlike earlier treaties,
which dealt with Louisiana, Florida. Cal
ifornia and Alaska, did not undertake to
make native born citizens of Porto Rico
citizens of the United States
pressly provides that the civil rights and
political status of the native inhabitants
of the territories coming to the United
States should be determined by
gress."
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Fnst nMIl Train Wrecked.
Galva, 111., Oct. 10.—Fast mall train
No. 8. eastbound, on the Chicago, Burling
ton & Quincy railroad, wrecked hero.
Fireman Mahlon Sands of Burlington
instantly killed, and Engineer C. B. John
son was thrown through the window of his
cab, but was not seriously injured,
of the mail clerks sustained a few slight
bruises. The locomotive was completely
wrecked and the train of four cars derail
ed. A coal grate had been dropped from
the tender of a westbound train and lay
upon the southbound track. This caused
the derailing of the fast mall.
A. J. Prichard Dead.
Murray, Idaho, Oct. 6.—A. J. Pritchard,
discoverer of gold In the Coeur d'Alenes
20 years ago, and one of the first white
men to come Into camp, died at his
log cabin after a long Illness. The direct
cause of death was heart failure, although
he was suffering from a complication of
diseases. For some time past he wag con
fined to hla bed, In an unconscious state.
was
One
Ocean Freight Raten Lessened.
Portland, Ore., Oct. 7.— Freight
rates of grain from Portland to the
United Kingdom have struck bottom for
the season, a charter having been effected
at the lowest rate that has been quoted
at any port north of San Francisco since
1897. The French bark Grand Duoh<
Olga, now en route to this port from
Shields, was charttered to load wheat at
Portland at 23s Sd.
He Is Guilty of Bribery.
St. Louis, Oct. b.—Robert McClure Sny
der was convicted of bribery in the crim
inal court and was sentenced to five
years' imprisonment In the state prison
after the jury had considered tor 69 min
utes the case, which had occupied an en
tire week in presentation. Snyder's
crime Is bribing St. Louis lawmakers to
vate for street railway franchises.
Boxen Pot t® Death.
Vlctorlo. B. C., Oct. 10.—The steamer
Iyo Maru has reached port from Yoko
hama and the orient.
She brought news that the Chinese com
mission sent to Investigate the murder
of the missionaries at Chen Chow, Huan,
has returned to Changsha. The remains
of the murdered missionaries were inter
red with great ceremony, the church re
paired, eight ringleaders of the disturb
ance were put to death, and flve officials
dismissed.
Wenatchee Won Bis Friz*.
The largest premiums offered by the
Spokane Interstate Fair association out
side of the purses hung up in the racing
events, were awarded this morning. For
the best general exhibit of green fruit
is the way the premium list reads and
the four prizes sum up $M0. The first
prize was captured by Wenatchee.
Charles Anderson Killed.
Spokane, Oct. lO.-Charles Anderson, a
of Sweden, about 62 years of age.
was run Into by an O. R. & N. pessen
ger train. He was badly Injured about
the head, his skull being broken, and died
later.
a
native
Started by Explosion.
Birmingham. Ala.. Oct. 10.—An explo
sion in a one story warehouse of the
Moore & Handley Hardware company on
Powell avenue, near twenty-first street,
caused a fire that destroyed property
valued at $200,000, with Insurance of about
25 per cent . _
to
Blew Open n Safe.
Davenport. Neb.. Oct. 8.-Burglars blew
open the safe In H. L. Lawrie s hard
ware store and secured »5400 In cash. The
town was aroused by the explosion, but
the robbers escaped before any one reacn
ed the scene.
ELEVEN HIT AWFUL! DEATH.
Coal Mine Disaster at Black Diamond
Waeh.—Several Injured.
Blaok Diamond, Wash., Oot. 6.j—
Eleven men were killed and three in
jured in a mine explosion on the fourth
level at the Lawson mine, a mile from
this plaoe, about nine o'olook at
night. The men employed in the work
ings or shntes were instantly killed.
Two gangwaymen and a driver, work
ing farther in the level, or gang way,
evidently escaped the effeot of the ex
plosion and instinctively started toward
the slope for safety. The deadly after
damp swept down on them and they
snooumed after not more than a few
minutes struggle against the fate their
experience as miners told them lay in
store for them.
Only the bodies of the men in the
workings are burned, showing that the
sheet of flame whioh followed the ex
plosion did not extend to the slope,
though it is declared by some watchers
to have been seen from the air shafts.
Those miners whose bodies were burned
were discovered lying in cramped
positions, their legs closely drawn*up
toward their bodies and their hands
clinched. Dost covered their faces so
they were unrecognizable when first
taken from the mine. Their clothes
were torn and thiokly coated by coal
dust. The other bodies were not dis
figured. No Four level in the Lawson
mine has not been opened long. An
auxiliary slope has been driven to this
level or gangway and a force of men
is at work extending the slope from
No. 8 level to the fourth gangway.
A small ahnte runs from the main slope
of the fourth level.
The day of tne accident the second
shift went on dnty at 8 p. m. expect
ing to work until 11. Fourteen men
were working on No. 4 south and four
on No. 4 north. Nineteen men had
been assigned to duty on No. 8 level.
Prior to the entrance of the first shift
the mine had been inspected for gas
and before the second shift went
duty the dnst was sprinkled. Of the
fourteen men in the crew on No .4
south the three who were injured were
working in the main slope, Baker and
Whitsnell some distance inside the
shut© and Carson at the
on
gangway.
From some cause unknown at present
an explosion occurred beyond the work
ings and the force was spent outward
toward the auxiliry slope.
Strikers' Friends.
Glenns Falls, N. Y.. Oct. 7.—A
mob of fully 6000 sympathizers of the
Hudson Valley railway strikers paraded
the streets, stopping all cars as they
came through, storming the cars and
breaking the windows and cutting the
trolley ropes. So great did the disturb
ance become that Sheriff Gill ordered out
company D of the National Guard, sta
tioned here, to disperse the mob. When
the rioters began their work, the major
ity of the nonunion employes of the com
pany gave themselves into the hands of
the police for protection, but some de
serted to the strikers. Four cars were
stalled on the switch, and all the win
dows In them were broken.
The trouble was precipitated by the
calling of a mass meeting byt the Fed
eration of Labor. This brought out an
enormous orowd. No effort Is being made
to run the cars, and It being evident that
the police were unable to oope with the
situation, the sheriff was appealed to,
and he asked aid of the militia. It was
thought several of the strikers would go
back to work, but this demonstration
may make a change.
One of the nonunion employes, named
Curcer, of Brooklyn, left his car, as the
stones were coming too thick for him.
The mob seised him, and he Is In a seri
ous oondition, under the care of a physi
cian.
Hooaevelt to Mitchell.
Washington, Oot. 8.—- President
Roosevelt has requested Mr. Mitchell,
president of the mine workers' union to
use his influence to indnoe the men to
go to work with the promise of the
appointment of a committee to investi
gate their grievances and a farther
promise that the president will urge on
congress legislation in accordance with
the recommendation of that committee.
The president sent Carroll D. Wright,
oommissaionaerv of Labor, to Philadel
phia to meet Mr Mitohell and Mr.
Wright reported that after the proposi
tion had been submitted, Mr. Mitohell
said that he wanted to take it ander con
sideration.
The miner's nnion took a vote Tues
day on the qnestoin whether they shall
oontinue the strike, bat this is on the
proposition of the ooal operators and
not upon the|suggestion of the president
to Mr. Mitchell. It is expected that
the minera will take up the suggestion
of the president and decide upon it af
ter it has been presented by Mr. Mit
chell.
Commissioner of Immigration Sar
gent has returned from Philadelphia,
but had no information to communi
cate as he didjnot see Mr. Mitchell in
that city.
Cheney Girl Commits Suicide.
Cheney, Wash., Oct 7.—Placing the
muzzle of a rifle to her breast and
pressing the trigger with a contrivance
of her own fashioning, Misa Emma
Bauer at 8:80 o'olonk in the morning
committed snioide by shooting herself
through the heart It ia said she was
disappointed in love.
PEOPLE OF GLENS FALLS,
NEW YORK.
The National Gnard ie Again Called
to|8ervice—Motormen on Street Hall
way on a Btrike-Police Were Power
less—A Muss Meeting the Origin of
Trouble.
Glens Falls, N. Y., Oot 7—As a re
sult of renewed activity by the stir king
motormen of the Hudson Valley Elec
trio Railway company, soldiers of the
naitonal gnard are again guarding the
peace of this town, and thongh there
has been no rioting, an uneasy feeling
prevails. The militia company of this
plaoe whioh had been dismissed to its
armory Thursday last, was oalled out
again and is now protecting the power
house and other property of the railway
company in Glens Falls. A squad is
also guarding a bridge at Sandy Hill,
having been sent there following a re
port that one of the canal bridges was
to be blown up.
The riotous mob whioh held possess
ion of Glens Falls for four hours last
night was composed of sympathizers
with the strikers and the police were
powerless against it.
A mass meeting oalled by the labor
organizations to express sympathy for
the strikers was the origin of the dis
turbance. It was planned to have the
mass meeting in Bank square and when
permission was refused ill feeling re
sulted.
Headed by a band the, strikers ' and
labor leaders formed in parade through
the principal streets, the ranks of the
paradera being augmented by sympa
thizers and boys who at first opportun
ity created disturbances.
The riot was preiopitated by the ar
rest of a man who made insulting re
marks to one of the non-onion employes
and each oar passing through was the
object of a demonstration.
At Cool's switch, four oars were
stalled at one time. They were soon
abandoned, the non-union motormen
and oonduotors placing themselves in
the hands of the police for proteoton,
or deserting to the strikers. The oar
windows were smashed and a fusilde
of bricks and stones hurled at the oars.
Conductor Currier of Brooklyn was
so badly injured by rough handling
that he ia in the hospital in a serious
oondition.
Undar guard of the soldiers the sev
eral stalled oars were run down toward
the power house, followed by a mob.
2 In the outskirts of the city, riotous
demonstrations
throwing indulged in,to whioh the sol
diers responded by volleys of ballets,
shooting in the air.
Further on a pole had been sawed
in two, and falling on a bar delayed
farther progress.
Chief of Polioe Patterson fired at
two persons who attempted to prevent
him closing a window in the jail, and
who threatened him with two revol
vers.
Mnd is being thrown at oars and
psasengers in Fort Edward today.
were made and stone
More Troops Called Out.
Harrisburg, Pa., Oct. 7.—Governor
Stone has ordered ont the entire divi
sion of the national gnard of Pennsyl
vania to dnty in the anthracite coal
regions.
"In certain portions of the counties
of Luzerne, Sohuykill, Carbon, Laoka
wana, Susquehana, Northumberland
and Cumberland tumults and riots fre
quently occur. Men who desire to work
have been beaten and driven away and
their families threatened.
Railroad trains have been threatened
and stones and the tracks torn up.
The oivil authorities are unable to
maintain order and have oalled on the
governor, as oommander in chief of the
national guard, for protection. The
territory involved is so extensive that
the troops now on duty are instructed
to prevent all disorder.
"The major general commanding
will plaoe the entire division on dnty,
distributing the militia to snoh locali
ties as owill rendre themt he most
effective for preserving the publio
peace.
"As tumults, riots, mobs and disorder
usually occur when men attempt to
work in and about the coal mine he
will see that all men who desire to
work and their families have ample
proterotion. He will protect alii trains
and other property from unlawful in
terference and will arrest all person«
engaged in acta of violence and in
timidation and hold them under guard
qntil their release will not endanger
the publio peace, and will see that
public threats and intimidations and
all acts of violence cease at once. The
publio peoae and good order will be
preserved upon all occasions throughout
the several counties, and no inter
ference whatever be permitted with
officers and men in the discharge of
their dnty under this order."
Lipton's Third Challenge.
London, Oot. 8. — Sir Thomas Lip
ton's third challenge 'for a series of
races for the America's cap has been
signed by the officials of the Royal
Ulster Yaoht olnb. The Hon. Charles
Russell re p r e s e nted Sir Thomas Lipton.
The challenge was immediately posted.
WASHINGTON ITEMS.
No wheel of fortune'and no roulette
wheel will be run at the Spokane Inter
state Fair.
Reports show that'149 miles of road
were improved in Lincoln county on
straw day.
The annual poultry show in Walla
Walla will be held December 16 to
December 20.
The state fair olosedjSaturday .
was the most successful exhibition ever
held in North Yakima.
Tommy Reilly won from Young
Gibbs in 20 rounds o of fast flghting'in
Seattle recently.
The Grand Lodge of Washington of
the Sons of Herman will meet in Spo
kane October 10 to 12 inclusive.
A new postofBoe has been established
at Leon, Adams county; Lott, Linooln
county; and one at Wardys, Blain
county.
The work on the Grays Harbor jetty
is completed, and only awaits the
approval of Major Millis to be accepted
by the government.
The board of control has appointed
Thomas Holoraft of Olympia to take
oharge of the printing plant at the
state reform school.
What little threshing'there was to be
finished in the Palouse country was
finished up last week. The entire crop
was saved without loss or damage.
Last Monday evening the big Maso
nic Fair at Spokane was opened. It
proved a very pleasant plaoe for visitors
to the Interstate^Falr to spend their
evenings.
John H. Paul, the notorious cattle
thief, pleaded guilty last week before
Judge Neal at Davenport and was sen
tenced for two years and six months in
the penitentiary.
Charles P. Lund has been appointed
by GovemorfMoRrideJa trustee of the
state normal school at Cheiney to suo
oeed J. J. Brown, who in turn is
appointed to suooeed Joseph H. Allen,
resignd.
George Benoit of Everett was in
stantly, killed reoently in the saw mill.
He was employed as planer man and
while operating a rip saw was struok
in the head by a board whioh he was
running through.
The good roads convention whioh
was to be held in Spokane by govern
ment experts in early October will not
be held as it would be found impractic
able to arrange dates.
At a meeting of ranchers held on
McNeill's island recently resolutions
were passed denouncing the killing of
convict Hanson by ranoher Sherman
and ostracizing the latter from the
sooiety of his friends and neighbors.
The rail shipments of lumber and
shingles from Tacoma for eight months
of^l902, amounted to 4070 carloads as
compared with 2024 in eight months of
1901, 2268 carloads in eight months of
1900 and 1981 in the corresponding
months of 1899.
Hop picking in Washington is now
praoitoally over. Hop growers are dis
appointed over the yeild, whioh is one
fifth below what was expected. Dry
weather prevented the hops from matur
ing. The western Washington crop,
according to prominent hop growers,
will amount to 18,000 bales, as com
pared with 22,000 last year. Eastern
Washington will produce 12,000, as
compared with 14,000 bales last season.
WAS BILLED INSTANTLY.
John F. Lynch, n Spokane Fireman,
Fell to Hla Death.
Victoria, B. C., Oct. 9.—A horrible acci
dent took place here at an exhibition be
ing given by Edward Hooper and John F.
Lynch, the crack life saving team of the
Spokane Are brigade, who are here attend
ing the Are chiefs' convention. They were
exemplifying the work of the Pompier
scaling ladder. The two men were de
scending the Brunswick hotel story by
story and had reached within one story
of the bottom. Hooper was lust seizing
the ladder to allow Lynch to descend on
It when the latter stepped on the ladder.
It Instantly fell, jerking Hooper out of the
window with it and the two men fell
together. Lynch struck the back of his
head on the pavement and was killed In
stantly. Hooper was slightly Injured, he
falling on top of the other man. A big
crowd witnessed the accident, the exhi
bition being given In the presence of all
the Are chiefs of the northwest Lynch
was taken to the morgue. The accident
created great excitement and sympahty,
the city flags which were up for the exhi
bition, being at once half masted.
Detective's Hard: Flgrkt.
Chicago, Oct. 10.—In an effort to subdue
a supposed wife beater last night, Detec
tive Edward McfMullln of the Englewood
police station, was forced to knock two
men senseless and kill two dogs that at
tacked him. During the melee John Bar
ry, a bystander, who went to the detec
tive's assistance, was struck on the head
and his sku ll fractured.
Churchill Nominated.
Cornish, N. H., Oot. 6.— Winston
Churohill, the novelist, has made his
entrance into politics through the
medium of the republican canons,
whioh gave him the nomination. It is
considere d equivalent to a el ection.
Wheat ia France.
Paris, Oct. 7.—Official returns of the
minister of agriculture, M. Ougglat, place
the wheat crop of Franco for the year at
553,002,8« bushels.
Men going down in the new sub
marines for the first two or three times
become almost stupefied by the strong
fumes of gasoline used in propelling
it