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DUEL IN STREET CAR THREE MEN IN PISTOL FIGHT IN NEW YOBK CITY CAR. All of Them Seriously Injured—Pas sengers Hugged the Floor for Safety —Conductor Ordered to Fly With His Car—Police Arrive and Arrest the Wounded Bunch of Toughs. New York, Oct. 23.—Three men fought a battle with pistols on an Eighth avenue car, and all of them were seriously injured. While the fight was being waged the oar ran at top speed for half a mile, the gong sounding an alarm, and the passengers lying flat on the floor to escape the shower of bullets. Thomas O'Brien, a truckman, jump ed aboard the car at Thirty-first street, and clapping a revolver to the conduc tor's head, ordered him to run the car full speed, as he was pursued by a gang who intended to kill him. A mo ment later two more men leaped on the car and attacked the "rst, all three using revolvers. When their weapons ■were emptied they clinched and fought with the butts of their pistols. The car rushed along the avenue, the motorman pounding the gong and the conductor shouting for the police, as far as Twenty-sixth street, where sev eral policemen boarded it and seized the three combatants, all of whom were too badly injured to offer any resistance. O'Brien was found to have received a bullet in the neck. His assailants gave the names of Henry Prang and Thomas SulliTan. The former had been shot in the neck and the latter in the leg and arm. The three men were tak en to a hospital. O'Brien refused to explain why the other two attacked him. The police think that the affray was the outcome of a feud of a notorious West Side gang. PRICES AT SPOKANE— Wholesale Produce. New potatoes, «oi§)(isc cwt; ouious, 76c®$l; cabbage, $1.25@1.50; oranges $5.75 to $>) case; lemons, standards, $5.50(9)6 case; seconds, $4.50 caee; pineapples, $4.50 case; bananas, $2.75 <J»3 bunch; dried figs, 7@b^c lb; cran berries, $10®10.50 bbl; huckleberries, 12c lb; Salway peaches, 85c<g>fl box; four tier apples, $1.~0 box; cooking apples, 75©85 c box; quinces, $2 box; green peppers, (So box; cantaloups, 75c@$l box; watermelons, 7Sc®fl.sO daz; beets, $1 cwt; turnips, $1; Hub bard squash, 76c#51.25 doz; tomatoes, 35@4Qc crate; eggplant, 75c#fl doz; sweet potatoes, $2.7503 cwt; Comcord grapes, 35040 c crate; Uuskats, $1.25 crate; Tokays, $1.5» crate; Blk. Ham burgs, 75c05l crate; Idaho p«*i\s, $1.25 box; egss, $7.25#7.. r ease; lour, local, $404.24 bbl; fancy kard wheat, $r,^4i.f,o bbl; creamery butter, ale lb; celery, 50c doz; honey, $3. 80 box, 24 cases; prases, HQOOa box. Wheleeale Feed. Bran, %\<i to«; bra* aid shorts, $17; straight short*, $17; white shorts, $21; corn, .»0 cwt; cracked corn, $1.»#; timothy bay, $i 4 ton; alfalfa hay, $12 ton; oil meal, 92 ewt; grata bay, «12 '.<tn ton; rolled barley, $1 cwt; whole oats, 11.12S ewt; eaesped oats, $1.30 cwt; wheat, $1.16 ewt. PaW to Producers. Live —6teers, $2.5t#2.75 cwt; cows, $3; calves, $4; sheep, 9303.50; pigs, !§.». Dressed meats —Steers, 4V69Sc lb; cows, 4c lb; Teal, 4^O7c lb. Hide* —Green ste«rs, B%e lb; cow«, 8c; salted, lo higher, dry hides, l»%c lb; o*U eklaa, green, 9c;'kip, Ie; sheep sirioe, 76e%51. Poultry and mse» —Chlckeas, hem, I'iVaC lb live weight; large spring, I*% lb; roomers, lej broilers, $£.7691.25 doe; eg*B, $6.7897 ease. Creamery products, f. o. b. Spokane —First grade creamery butter fat, 2tiMiC lb. Hay aod grain—Timothy, $11912 ton; alfalfa, $10011 ton; oats, $19 1.1». Potatoes—4o® 50a cwt; cabbage, Me @$1 twt; eooklng apples, 6Q085c; beets, 60c; turnips, *»•<•. Wheat Report. Lewiston, Idaho.Bluestem, 59@ 61c; club, 56@58c; flax, 97c. Ritzville. —Bluestem, 6Cc; club, 63c. Davenport.—Bluestem, 62c; club, 59c. Portland, Ore.—Club, 73c; bluestem, 7Gc; valley, 71@72c. Tacoma. — Unchanged; bluestem, 7Cc; club, 73c; red, 69c. A Boy's Life of Lincoln. Miss Helen Nicolay, daughter of John G. Nicolay, Joint author with John Hay of the authorized Life of Lincoln, has written a boys' life of Lincoln which is to appear in St. Nich olas during the coming year. It will be fully illustrated - and one of the leading features of St. Nicholas dur ing the coming year. If hurried knockouts are indications of championship timber, Al 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 Sllor in the Chi £ * cago Tribune. Kaufman, like Jim Corbett, began his boxing career at the Olympic Athletic club, from which Jimmy Britt also graduated. WASHINGTON NOTES. Thomas M. Dlckson and wife of Mayvlew celebrated their golden wed ding recently. C. C. McCoy, the veteran mall 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 laud •elections, 1013 acres in North Yaki ina. Spokane and Waterville 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^ y«ar old daughter of ex-Mayor Hardin of Belllngham caught, lire 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 postoflce at Camden, November I, 1904, was sentenced by Judge Whit aon to serve eight years in the peni tentiary at McNeill's island. The case of the state ts. George Chronback for tha murder of Joe Bon nett, a Polish countryman, near Pc- Ell, July 16, came to a close at Che halis with a yerdict of murder in the second degree. Drumheller Brothers of Walla Walla sold to Junes-Scott drain company 93,000 bushels of blueatem wheat at 60 1-L'c. receiving a check for 503,175. This is the biggest wheat sale in Wal la Walla 'his season. O. V. Darrow, a well known Ta conia druggist, was sandbagged Into insensibility and robbed while on th« way to his home. The highwayman took a diamond ring Tallied at $150 and $2 or $3 in change. Charles E. Johnstone, the Northern Pacific brakeman who shot AMn Price, a negro hobo, on a train while the latter was beating his way coming toward North Yakima, on September 8, was acquitted +t the charge. Ben Opponhelnacr. a traveling man for a Portland hardware firm, who is known in eastern Washington, has been sentenced at Montesano to one year in the staia 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 pc 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 a fit and fell into some underbrush and Kinothered to death. One of the largest real estate trans fers of the last three months was made when Paul Costello purchased the An na Pahey farm for $34,500. The farm consists of over 900 acres of fine wheat land, and is considered one of the best 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' uavlng 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 half of which was leased lan^: Crop, 3,413,020 pounds, or 2483 pounds an acre; £282 days' work, including management, $3490- 6788 meals, 11, --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. For Original Research. Calcutta. —The government of India is at last in a position to bind togeth er the isolated enterprises looking to ward an investigation of the origin of diseases by a scheme which pro vides for a central research institute controlling them and itself carrying out extensive experiments and inquir ies. Augustus Saint-Gaudens, the sculp tor, huH <'oiu|ilcie(l his plans and la now working on the clay model of his statute of Mark Hanna, which is to be erected in Cleveland, IDAHO NEWS. Patrick McGrath. aged 75, who was knocked from a trestle near Mullau by a Northern Pacific engine, died at a Wallace hospital. Ross K. Rowell of Boise haa been recommended for a lieutenancy In the United States marine corps by Senator lleyhurn. Addleoa T. Smith, fromerly of Twin Falls. Idaho, private secretary to Sen aim Heyburn, Is in Washington. He says the senator will arrive for the winter Bession shortly after Novem ber 1. Humors are current that the O. B- Ai- N. Co. is considering putting on an other passenger train between Wal lace and Spokane. Sheriff Doust has arrived at Rath drum with tive Chinamen who had been arrested in Uonners 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 Shoehone county o t $6723.11, which is the amount Shoshone county held in trust for the 24 school districts of th« 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. F. Mason, resigned. The appointment will doubtless booh fol low. Mr. Elder is now in charge of the office. The county commissioners at Mos cow have rejected the applications of Oscar Lgstrom and Louis Sn^ath 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 that the full legal rate would hereafter be charged for all state notices, proclamations and legal matters requiring publication by the state. The next annual jaunt 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 Sun 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 townsite where the selling occurred had passed from the national government, therefore it had no jurisdiction. MONTANA SQUIBBS. The secretary of the interior has withdrawn from entry 25,000 acres of land in the Miles City land district on account of the Ekalaska irrigation pro ject. Former County" Clerk Charles W. Uailey 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 in claimed the state was defrauded out of $20,000, has disappeared. It is believed he has gone to South Amer ica. 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 most 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. James Murray, convicted of murder in the second degree for the killing of William Kiley, was sentenced to 30 years in the Deer Lodge penitentiary at hard labor. Murray is 24 years of age. He shot Kiley to death in the latter's own home after being Invited into the home by the Kileys to drink with them. The trouble originated over the stabbing of Murray's young brother by Kiley the forenoon of the murder. Is Mrs. I/>rna Vil!e Hunter Wai bridge-Melville-Northey, now in custo dy at Butte, insane, a neurotic degen erate, under a hypnotic spell, or sim ply a magnificent liar? These are Borne 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. Insurgents Threaten Natives. Manila, Oct. 23.—The insurgents of the Colabato valley, island of Minda nao, now threaten active operations in an endeavor to capture and kill all the Moros who are friendly to the gov ernment. In active service in the United States navy there are 1577 commiß hii.in-il and 469 warrant officers, and a force of 2>5,644 enlisted men. The marine corps has 222 officers and 6821 nii-n. Mrs. Stoessel, wife of General Stoes sel of Port Arthur fame, recently paid $12«i,'jOo for a house in St. Petersburg. 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 For—Famine Stricken District Cannot Get Relief. Moscow, Oct. 24.—Traffic on uevon of the nine main trunk arteries of com merce radiating from Moscow la com pletely paralyzed by the railroad strike, and the commercial heart of Russia hats 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 Haltie 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 thr> throat of the nation's commer cial life. The strikers forced the employes of the genera] offlcei and financial depart ment* of three lines, the Wiudau and Rybinsk, the Moscow and Brest- Ltovsk and the Kieff and Veronese, to quit work. The city is already feeling the effects of a milk and meat famine, ■nd 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 deT6lopment Sunday was the ntrike on the Brest-Liovsk, 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 off the steam of eight engines, drore 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 daily increas ing their accumulations at the rail road stations. Great Buffering is certain if the supply of grain and other provisions can not be forwarded into the famine 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 Berloilß 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 clallaU planned for the end of this year is suddenly bursting forth of its own Tolition. Minister of Finance Kokvosoff has roceived 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. Sixty Weeks for $1.75. The new subscriber to The Youth's Companion for 190 C who at once sends the subscription price, $1.75, will re ceive free all the remaining issues of the paper for 1905. These issues will contain nearly 50 complete stories, be sides the opening chapters of Grace 8. Richmond's serial, "The Churchllls' I>atch-String," a secjuel to her story of "The Second Violin," which appear ed In the early weeks of this year. Madame Sembrlch will contribute an article on "Sovereigns I Have Sung To," and there will be three stories by May Roberts Clark under the title, "Tales of a Pawnee Hero." ' These will give a foretaste of the good things In store for 1906, full Il lustrated announcement of which will be sent to any audreas free with sam ple copies of the paper. New subscribers will also receive a gift of The Companion's "Mlnutemen" calendar for 1908, lithographed In twelve colors and gold. THE YOUTHS COMPANION, 144 Berkeley Street, Boston, Mass. The German emperor spends much of his evenings at home in reading aloud to the empress. He favors the French novelists, especially Ohuet. St. Louis is getting the cream of the trade of the Indian territory, the purchasing capacity and business of which are growing by leaps and bounds. Alexander Kibot is a candidate for the place of AudiffretPasquier in the French Academy. 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, K. Knowles. There will be no game between the University of Washington and Wash ir.gton State college this season. "Americau football, a* it is played today, will have to go, or it will have to be more modified than It ever haa been," said President Benjamin Ido Wheeler of the University of Califor nia to the Bttidonts assembled around the bonfire on the campus recently in the big "senior rally" in honor of the freshman football victory. Theodore RooseTelt, Jr., son of the president and a freshman at Harvard, was one of the spectators at the Walsh Stanley flght. Walsh won the decision. Several eastern clubs are said to have I.ouls Nordyko of the Tacoma team under consideration. Pittsburg is said to be thinking of drafting him. The drafting Reason for the Pacific ('oast league does not start until No vember l. John C. flondero, aged 27, died re cently at Willainantlc, Conn., as the result of an injury received in a foot ball game. Joe Gregg knocked out Jack Allln at Bonners Ferry in two minutes and 4"> seconds of tierce fighting, in what was scheduled to be a 20 round affair. Saturday Football Games. Madison, Wis. - -Walter Eckersall, Chicago.'* quarter back, for the third time brought victory for the Univer sity of Chicago football eleven by a score of 4 to o. Whitman second eleven defeated Co lumbia college of Milton, Ore., second eleven in a most unequal contest, the score standing r>2 to 0 in favor of Whitman. Colfax high school 64, Falousa high school 0. I>!Wlston, Idaho.—The Lewiston nor mal school and the (Jeneseo football teams played a hard game, resulting in a tio score of 5 to 5. The Stanford 'varsity defeated the tlniveraity of Nevada football team on I 8 oampus oval by a soon- of L'l to 0. Seattle.—Washington sculped the Chemawma Indians. 11 to ti, but did not hare a minute to »i>are. West Point, N. V. — Harvard defeat ed West Point's football eleven by a score of 6 to 0. Lewiston, Idaho. —Lewiston 0, Spo kant 0. This brief statement tells the story of one of the hardest fought bat tles ever witnessed on a Lewiston gridiron. Portland, Ore. —The eleven of the Oregon agricultural college, in an In teresting football contest defeated the tpam representing the Washington state college by the score of 29 to 0. Coast League Standing. I.os Angeles 549 Oakland 539 Portland 508 San Francisco 507 Seattle 470 Taeorna - -- .. .409 MINING NOTES. The most importaut gold find in the world in that of the Transvaal, and for that the data for workiag costs and profits Is incomplete. The out put for 1904 was $78,1 i11),728, produced by 74 companies. Their working prof its, after paying the 10 per cont tax on profits to the government, are re ported as $26,402,163. The amount ac tually divided in dividends was $18, --114,784. Only 35 companies paid divi dends, theso 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. Roy Clarke Is back to Spokane from a trip to the new silver-cobalt fields In Ontario, 100 miles northeast of North May, on l.ukn Nipissing. He said: "Silver-cobalt ore worth $1 a pound is found there in Kama four inches wide, but It lfl so rich that the Karl company, a Now York concern, which paid $250,000 for ground lant year, has cleared up $600,000 this year. The compressor of the O. X., near Kossland, B. C, Is to be started up and machine drills put to work Just as soon as the boilers of the compressor plant hare been declared to be "fit" by Roller 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 l>»"ting, William Dldioan of Schenec tady, N. V., was found dead from starvation on the plains west of White Oak.s, N. M. For a mile around where Didican'a 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 Btope 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. I* Johnson, Charles Peterson, Mike Pesan, Tony Riflo and James Sonneriva. Wallace, Idaho.—The Hecla Mining company has declared dividend No. 28 Of 1 MSt a share, amounting to $10, --000. This brliiKH the total dividends to data up to 1490,009, of which 1100, --000 has been paid this year. SIX WERE DROWNED PLEASURE LAUNCH COLLIDES WITH A BARGE OFF N. J. COAST. Captain Wince Undertook to Pats Be tween Tug and Barge and Wai Btpuck by the Hawser and Knocked Overboard—Launch Capalzed and Rolled Under Barge. Beverly, N. J., Oct. 23.—A launch containing nine men, all of Philadel phia, collided with a barge in the Dela ware river, off thia place, resulting la th« drowning of six of the occupants of the little boat. The other three were rescued by the crew of the tug boat Uristol, which waa towing the barßo when the accident happened. Those rescued are: Captain John Winch, owner of the launch; W. P. Russell and J. Ruther ford. The dead are: William Winch, John Ellis, John Stevenson, Samuel Herron, Norman Delaney, Jainee Yonkers. The launch was hired by eight of the men, rooat of whom lived in the northeastern part of Philadelphia. Tha elder Winch took his son along to as sist him in running tho bout. 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 tho tug Bristol, in command of Cap tain Mott, which was towing a barge to Bordentown, N. J. Whether Cap tain Winch saw the barge ia not known; nevertheless, he attempted to cross the tug'B stern. Captain Mott hailed him and tried to prevent him from doing mo. Captain Winch was standing at the wheel of the launch as ke went around the stern of the tug. The hawser of the tug struck kirn and knocked him overboard. Be fore the e«piMin's son or any other member of the party could take the ».lichl to steer tho launch clear of the l)arg«. ihe latter struck tha frail boat amidtihip, capsizing it. The launch rolkxl ututor the barge, and Ith occupants went with It. Cap tain Mull put the tm about and went to the rescue. He and hiH crew threw ropes and life preserver! to the strug gling men in the water, but they were able to nave only throe of them. The roHciifd men were landed here by the tug and cared for at a hotel. Captain Ifott, assisted by several residents of Beverly, went In search of the bodies and were rewarded by find ing thrue, but darkness put an end to th« work. Another Accident. Yonkers, N. V., Oct. 23. — Five per sons, (he body of one baring 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 th« out lines (if a capsized sailboat 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 i ■!'■:■, which proved to be those of a party who had gone sailing In the ooat. They were Edward Nelson, the owner of the boat; bis son Edward, Benjamin Benson, P. Simpson and Earl Thomp son, all of South Yonkers. Tte body of Benson was found not far from the scons of the collision. Nothing has been heard of the missing men. OREGON ITEMS. The town of Athena will soon have a band organized. "Holy Moses," the faithful oamel of the streets of Cairo, at Portland, ia dead. 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 11500. The guests escaped uninjured, thougn several had narrow escapes. Mrs. H. A. Sargent of Portland, ia lying at the point of death at the home of her sister, Mrs. O. 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 8. A. Barnes of the Pacific Coast Ele vator company at 62 cents per bushel. Captain C. J. Hooghkirk of th« steamer Iralda performed a heroic rescue recently in tba Columbia riv er, diving off the hurricane deck of hi. vessel, 80 feet from the water, and saving the lives of Mrs. Clifford Har ris and 7 year old son, who had been thrown from their capsired skiff and were sinking for the test time. The late Herman Nothnagle, the fa mous surgeon, wrote an essay some yoars ago in which he endeavored to prove that the moment of dying wu in most cases absolutely painless. H . own death evidently confirmed thi. doctrine. Whil« defending a case in court at Carlow, Inland, the other day « attorney wa« suprised ■„ and grieved to aw on the feet of hi. client a pair, of boot, that had been stolen from him 8om« time before.