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rvestinw I« I» Full Hinst— hi k A»>nr«<| — Mnii) Accident. IS BRIEFLY TOLD HERE. Selection ul lutcreatlnic Items itkereit Tbrooali the Week— »lee fr»P* ' a greater number of carloads of * -r «w potat I» miau » body o, Herman *^1"^ young man who was drowned in ge*river recenüy. was recovered at be last school census shows that re are now 3324 children 1639 bo vs 1685 gir£ of school age in Thur* ifuntf g ver a thousand people are expected Trhe iund cou^Try to at3lhe kane Interstate fair and Elks' Car kane interstate fair and Elks Car SJLT*Sdl in'ViroubHun ; here Is a petition in circulation In ne county praying that the depart 1 ?»S e w2 e wuî."f«v« 1 l e und the Red r isn lakes as either a sat reserve or a national park. he state board of control haä award ;he contract to furnish to the state itentiary 2,500 bales of jute at 98 a bale. The board also awarded tracts for furnishing engines and amos for the western Washington "In the case 1'eraonal*. ■cur—I WASHINGTON NEWS. t rfleld for two years past has shlp ty ne asylum. overnor Rogers says: .he two murders recently commit in Tacoma a reward of $500 will be murderers in each case, or $1,000 both, and when correct names and « have been furnished a formal damatlon will be issued." | (red for the arrest and conviction of man believed to be J. Moulthroup, 1 56 years, was instantly killed at yon, on the O. R. & N., between Hay Riparia, recently. The man was king on a steel bride and was in ixcavation for concrete piers, when ir loaded with dirt and gravel fell n him crushing him. The supports he tramway gave way and caused acci( te nt - i Theat is commencing to move into warehouses in Davenport. All that been brought in so far easily grad I he celebration of tne Woodmen of World in Seattle began with a half ! long torchlight parade in which r 2,000 members of the order partie ed. The procession was witnessed 10,000 people. Ihe local camps set to secure 1111 candidates for ini ion, but nearly 1600 were ready to I No. 1, the kernels being full and vy and free from smut. the order. [illiam Eaton's gun, with which he Inded to shoot an cwl, shot Ross square in the face recently in the i mountains, eight miles from Day The two men were sleeping outside r shack when the owl apppeared. >n pulled forward his gun by the zle, the hammer catching on an ob ction. Luckily the shot was fine ' I e State Agricultural College and ol of Science has arranged a series irmer3' Institutes under the aus- ' of the experiment station to be ; during the months of October and i mber. Institutes will be held in most of it was extracted. following towns; nt Pleasant, Amboy and Ridgefield, io and Castle Rock, Chehalis and a. South Bend, Montesano and rdeen, Custer, Monroe, Ritzville and igue. The institutes will be held or two days at each of the points tioned. Goldendale, I I OREGON NOTES. rom February 18, 1899, to June 30, , Malheur county is credited with 1 coyote scalps. >r appropriating $130 belonging to local lodge of Red Men. J. H. Col of Athena, its erstwhile treasurer, I 18 months in the state penitentiary intly. le êigth annual Astoria regatta od any regatta held there in the ibers in attendance and the attract oss of the program. It is estimât hat there were over 10,000 visitors ie city. blowing their leader blindly as ! P do, an entire flock rushed over a ipice about 40 miles up the Walla la river because the first one went. sheep were at the head waters of irer. where canvons are numerous. ply-seven became panic-stricken, k unknown, and were all killed by r fall over the cliff. They belong k> sheepmen named Genevay, Faure (ibanglere re broke out sudddenly m the ®tore t ol Crown Pnprr company ro Bied h, 1 ** 6 ^ t * r WaS P rin P un contrat *v re vras ^control the hose broke and before be repaired, the fire go a ra second timé and the tomes 1 the contents, consisting of alum. sulphur, pulp and machinery. The loss is estimated a* *10,000 or *15,000, large ly covered by usurance. The origin of the fire is «i mposed to be aue to spon ! , paring to erect large shearing and ship k ping corrals on his place just east of town. Uneo ' J3 combustion. IDAHO (iLEA.lIXGS. Jacob Henderson of Council is pre The Boise Statesman says an apple tree on Jefferson street is in full bloom. * The tree has already borne ' of apples. The board of trustees of the Lewiston of state normal u-honi h«« 3 ,i nnt0 H SSÄ *^1"^ SÄlL .- J in morp U u "L,°/ h I p at of [he IJ « u k Tl* ***££**" the ! Weiser reports that Georg^FaUiean vs u .„nam P i !? g * all * ga ® ^ buHdlng a dam a the mouth of Ma " nS C K ? ek K , that W 11 f 081 l i' 000 - 11 «e 900^ ° h " l ° lrr gate hU farm " » c 1 ** pr0o Pf : 1 t | or ,lvlllg in Dead Man Gulch, near Mullen, was ; badly bruised recently by an explosion In 0 f dynamite, thought to have been fired by malicious purpose. . Last week closed one of the most sue-j a cessful meeting of teachers' institute in Lewiston. The enrollment was six ty, the largest number ever assembled in Nez Perce county. ! at Bert Hillman, who escaped from the penitentiary on the 22d inst., was cap- t tured four mile3 south of Meadows, in j Washington county. The capture was effected by two farmer. - , Arnold and Ambs, who had been searching for him. one crop I He was brought hack to the penitent! be Failure of a brake to work on the j Atchison grain tramway at Kendrick resulted in much grain being scattered down the hill, fully a ton of wheat be | ing lost and 25 of the iron buckets be No one ary. of ing thrown from the cable. at v .as seriously injured. Damage to the tram was slight. Wilkison & Thompson, railroad con in tractors, are advertising for 1,000 men to work on the Pacific & Idaho North ern railroad extension iront Council to the Seven Devils country. They will have 20 miles of the extension complet i ed before snow flies. This will bring the road within 20 miles of the mines. They expect to work steadily through unless the weather is too severe. C. W. Smith, editor of the Clipper, I was arrested last week on a charge of of criminal libel, the complaint being made by Probate Judge Koelsch. The Clipper published an article criticising the judge, the sheriff and the county attorney for their having as alleged, set eaten the chickens involved in a chick en stealing case earlier in the week. to The chickens were buried bv the sher I iff after they had served thir purpose he in court. The Boise water company has sued the city for $10,723 for water used for street sprinkling purposes, basing the charge on the rate of 12 ] a cents per 1,000 gallons. The state law provided that water for public necessities shall : ob- be furnished free of charge and the ' company proposes to test that provis I ion in the courts. All incorporated towns in the state will be affected by the final decision. ' be ; i in all the desirable game on the list be MONTANA ITEMS. Sunday the "open season" for almost in Missoula was an affair of unusual; interest, William F. Hunt of Montana governor of Porto Rico, gan. The Labor Day celebration Monday President McKinley has appointed I"' , at Butte was he i d The Lemp saloon at Butte was nein I up and robbed by two masked ed in getting away with $6 e Farquahar Gillis, a wealthy sheep I man. was recently dragged to death by a frightened horse on the range near 30, h> 3 ranch. Residents of an incorporated town in to ^ . q»ired to pay a county road ux. aecord ing to County Attorney Odell .lcCon nell. Montana that has a tax levy of its own for street improvements cannot be re I Homer E. Emerson, foreman of the ex-'East Grayrock mine of Butte fell a the distance of about 4o feet recently and received injuries that may result in h.s as a cash register. I" tfa o person of E. H. Bartlett, more of familiarly known in Madison county as "Old Bart, is one of the most unique characters whohaveflgured in the hls by I "»re years of its munlclpal existence. Although approaching his eighty-eighth birthday he still presents a typical pic tureof of the rugged, hardy son of New ro p„ con . s . 3 . „ olne . „ 4 C brl. un- Bloom of Butte are candidates for the penitentitry and there appears to be ^ wiU Mre ^ from . t r j p t 0 Deer Lodge. Falcon, Holmes trip * confessons a death. OasB*n Uorwr Said to Have Invented ORIGIN OF RAG TIME. It end Its Name at Louisville, ! "The approaching end of rag time suggests the true story of the origin of the name," said a music publisher. "It bas never been primed. Almut ten years ag0 a >' 0UI1 8 fellow named Ben Uarney went to a party glveu by color ed folks in a suburb of Louisville. While he was there two darkies, who * ere exi,erts * on tbe ban J°- bt> 8 au i ,la Y tlced that the rl, J' thm produi-ed by the two banjos wus peculiar, but very has ""-• ** — » ,«■* *.->">, ÏÏT Z.'" the piano and tried to imitate the time j "ade by the two banjos. ' ! "At first he failed, but before the n!ght had pa ** wl be hn<1 acquired the time and kept the crowd entertained wlth 8natch es from popular songs play ed in this fashion. One of the darkies who had performed ou the banjo be c 'aine suddenly Interested In Harney's playing. Approaching Harney he in yu i red . .. . MaPWl Ren, wba' an. yo' playin' dar? Imt am de fuuillwt kiu - üb lutlt} . rM / ebb " Î"",- of ••-f don't know what It Is myself," replied Harney, in an offhand wav. T suppose if 1 had a dress suit on! like 8ome 0 f these actors at the show. I 2 ! mlirht irive it a nice fn«iii<.n-il.le mime R ut as lt ls i ( . all t tbink uf ' aliv uauie t n these rags and you will hate to let m j t g 0 at that' to "The darkey sized Ilarney from head to foot. Harney's clothes were neat ' and fitted him well. The negro lug. I "While they were playing Ilarney no thought the argument a poor one and in no au said: j •* 'What's the dlffrunce wba' kin' ob rags yo' plays in. Marsa Ben? Yo' kin alius git er name fo' It. I'se tells yer Mursa Ben. dat Ab ain' very much iu lobe wid dat turns." other party In the neighborhood. Har "About a vvek later there wni» nn ney was present and had to play. The two banjo players were also there and they thumped away together, playing dt all sorts of tunes. The same darkey , who a week previous wanted to know the name of the measure Ben was play- j Ing abruptly arose and, turning to the guests with a merry laugh, said: i " 'Ladies an' ge'man. Marsa Ben t0 Harney has got some ob tie most pe cullarist kin' ob music dat I elier heerd afo'- Ah' I'se begs yo' kin' 'diligence fo't' hyar it. I'se don' know de name in ob de tune, but it am de loblU-st I'se ebfier beerd.' "Ben thought the remark very funny nnd replied: 'What do you mean, Jas per? That music I played in those as ra K® last week.'' I "'^es.' returned Jasper enthusiastic- j a Hy* 'fist "rag-time music.' "Well, after that rag time beeame the .real thing in the tow'u, and when Har- ; ney came east he Introduced it in New York, and it soon was the rage nil over of And the name rag time , G . to . 8 • of : their fortune». the country, has clung to it ever since." Sun. •New York CHANCE TO GET A WIFE. Where Beantlfnl Women Arj in th* , Greatest Plenty. The Hawaiian Islands are full of beautiful women—from an Island stand-1 point—who are waiting and willing to become the wives of ambitious young Americans who go to Hawaii to make Such is the declara tion of Miss Hose Davidson, who has LUI I i w, v 5* flF I • a j| of been representing Hawaii at the Pan American Exposition. To be sure, the m . . brown a» ruban } rf t , t t] r , d t ^ , Hono , uln> auuraDC « that the agricultural attractions of the country are quite as alluring as the feminine r charms, and that fortunes as well as wives await ambitious foreigners. *5 ■ "A h i *9 /* I Conff.ct.B« Wi.be« I wule go|Qg bu rounJlJ , he foPeman of a factory ;o8t a cuff Unk After aonle ^ ela ^ ed an(J tbe cuff „ nk ^ ^ tarned be ^ füUuw|Dg "STi'""" , , , d cuff w ôuld he . . .. - ^ fln de r would return It J 1 ! . .. - .. . f V ' J ZjïïZ * TV PK OF HAWAIIAN BKI.I.X. I NUMBER LIVES WERE LOST Property Worth Million* of Dollars Dr* troysd by Water — Darn* Broke lid House* Wrecked— Traioa Delayed on All Koad*- blrret Car* Stopped—Cem etary Dave np tke Dead, Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 2.—A rainstorm has wrought havoc all over tue city «•—•« *-*-•.- *" J n "£ Si. Ä ^ Ä"1 Ä j The fall of rain wa* tho heaviest m the ; ' city * history- Train* sere delayed by ! w^hout. and street car traffic on many, line* i* at a «and«. 11. The river u a; raging torrent. Tne property 10». i* «..t , mated at over *1,000,UJU. With the breaking of dawn the oiti *en* of Cleveland awoke to look upon a scene of devastation and destruction caused by a raging flood. Ulule the en tire city was more or le** artected, the great volume of raging «ater vented it» anger on miles of the eastern portion of the city and ca„**l an amount of dam age estimated at over *1,000,000. The overflow «a* caused by a heavv ram t,ldt commenced to fail »hoitly after 2 «'clock, turning into a perfect cloud buist between the hours of J and 5 and then continued with great for.-e until m 'uriy lo u'dwi. Tie- »torn., according to u,e «rather official», wa* the heaviest U,jl s, ' e P l over clevfUnd « n, *' the ' in of lae government bureau oil\ oit-r 40 year» ago. Ttiere wa* The water* spread over in the eastern part of the city eight mile* long and u mile and a from \\ o«d •M»l>il*iill in tin* no lo»» oi life. au a I, a nearly half wide. This exended land Hill avenue to La*t Cleveland and , tu - Mai "' ,on a ' pnue - ut water poured over from Duane and Guiding» brook» down cat voluil.i » idrtet, »wauipcd Vienna street, a millrace down Lincoln Km-lid avenue and then on to tjuincy rushed avenue t. like j> jrK hete house* were dt ,,, n j ia .d a* though t.u.lt uf straw, and , daIKa g e doue t0 -treets and prop fcrt y e j Uver a ] artre s i mre c f this exclusive re* territory the water rushed wit» i terrific- fori-e, varying in depth from one t0 time feet. Trestles and bridges were tun , dovN „ an d fur hour» nothing seemed capable of stemming the tide. Hundred* of re*idcnts were imprinoned in their beautiful homes like stranded isl anders and were almost punie stricken, j exp-ciing to be called upon to wade into ihe »«uliiig waters almost any minute. Danger signal* «ere flashed about tin city, as -|>eedily a* the disabled telephone I teni would allow and the work of r* j cummenct-d. I'ow Isiat* proceeded ami forth rescuing « hole families born perilous position», but these proved m ; adequate and it »ary to go to the extraordinary pi et-au t ion of calling on the life »aving crew fiuiu , G |e river, a distance of »even mile*. The life boat* were un rue j , . . . . . . '' u,c ' > '** '. ,n wagon* and hurried to tne scene of de ""'l hè^torrent surged with great force for . ,, . . ,, hour, m Deer,ng street, from lairmoun, to boulevard, anti over a dozen families . ... , • I were iH-nn-d in with water five and ► ix . 1 . . .. feet deep surrounding their homes. A t!,,* point t he life »aviiii' crew workeii \alunt 8 . - t * . * lv, ainl. assisted by squads of luciuen • , , ii 1 , , , , and policemen, finally succeeded in land ing the terror stricken people in place. of safetv. The fear «as grea.lv enhanc.« by tue " momentary expectation that th. great Shaker llcghi» dam «ouid break looae. hick ' wa* soon found neiew , I Miortly liefere noon the torrent under mined a «core of gruvee in the St. Joseph ; cemetery at the comer of Kant Madison j i and W oodland and the bodies «ere soon being tossed about in the water*. Fully a iWen of tiie eorp-es «ere «a*hed into jgimeri and had not been recovered late tonight. The flood »ent over the hank* of tiie Doane brook along the boulevard and caused damage that it will take months to repair. Great jagged hole* are tom in tiie beautiful driveway. Gordon and Wade parks on the Ka*t Side and Brookside park on the South Side. « iiere the water also did great dam age as it leap*»] over the banks of Big neck, -u«tained #100,000 damage. ( Through Glenville the overflow was very destructive. Many houses are swamped, culvert* torn out and several streets turne.1 into quagmires. The loss here u a!*o estimated at #l«).O00. The street rail- 1 varying directions over every portion of *be city. 1 he big consolidated »ill have to r **build the tracks over different parts of inundate,! district* and the los« is I consolidated is practi<-ally ruined, and thi*. with other M-riou. damage, on the Une, o, the company exterubng over ou the V\e*t Side, will run their lorn away up into the th ousands, E,k " " »■>•*■— Ntw Vork - 2.—Harry Elke» de ft,atf d Bobby M'althour and Will Stinaon ! I» the one hour motor paced race at the ' Manhattan Beach bicycle track. Elke« cov * red 38 °ne Up in the hour. I ! The Superior street trestle of the little placed at $50,000. I HKPOHT US TKAltfc. Bradstreet's report on trade for !*■* week says: A further improvement to corn crop advices, confidence of an early ending of the steel strike, a further aOvancv. in cotton and the advent of cooler weather are unitedly responsible for a still further enlargement of general trade distribution at nearly ail mar kein and a perceptably and more cueerfui tone of business generally. Especially good reports come from such centers as Chicago, which report« a very heavy business in dry goods, clothing shoes; from St. Louis, with advices of , J ZZZ TZ «* *» ; Cltr. which reports that Jobbern have ! aU that they can do to handle business offering», and from Omaha, which a; ports uffnst ' ra4elar ** r tblkn , yea-- " ool .s mov .ng ac Jvely on good manufacturing demand, but it i, no higher in prices. Reports from the a woolen goods market continue favor*. bie. Aside from the strength in textilen the feature in price« is the lower range of cereals and farm product* generally, wheat Is off a little in liquidation, bas ed on large receipts at the northwest. port demand, re «maller clearances and less active ex Tbe air of patient serenity with which the iron and steel trades view the trade and strike situation is signifi cant of the confidence growing that the end of the etrike la in sight. Leaving out this matter, the trade I« in good shape and consumption is large. Fi nancial producta, »ueb an hoopn, tube«, sheets and tin plates, arc wtill bring ing higher premium*. Structural ma teriai, plate and bar mills have orders for months ahead. Wire is «carce at Chicago, owing to the Joliet shutdown. At Pittsburg mer chant furnace« are at the end of th-dr a orders and must pile stocks next month If the «trike la«Ls. Foundry iron Is in good demand at 8t. 1/ouis and hard to ware is in active distribution at ail the week aggregate 6,607,611 bu«luvl« r against 6.606,989 l*it week ami 3,248,213 this week last yuar. Wheat exports from Juiy 1 to date 989aggregxte 57.286,932, as against 25, 888,477 bushels last season, ber 188, against 181 last week, 165 In tb | 8 a year ago. 131 in 1899, 164 j n jgÿg and j n jSL>7. j Canadian failures number 29. at r a [ nst *4 last week. 32 In thl« week western markets. Wheat, including flour, exports for Business failures for the week num a year ago, 25 in 1899 and 26 In 1898. SPOKANE UIIITATIONS. Poultry and Eggs—Chickens, old. 9@ 10c per lb., live weight; spring chickens, $3@4 $3&4 doz; ducks $4 per doz; geese, dressed, 12c per lb; turkeys, live, 10@12c; dressed, 12^ 13c; eggs, fresh, $6 tier case. j Live stock—Beef, live steers, 4V4<G dressed, 7c; live cows. 3Vic; dressed. ,n ,T!4c; veal calves, dressed. 74t9c; mut t<m eweg 3c; wethe „ hog , llTe> for |4 J J®* P " rCWL f \egelable»—Potatoes, 80c per cwt; , 6 rwt> .. . I Sheepskin®—Shearlinpn, 10c each; ix . . . .. , short wool pelt®. 30@50c: me<Uurn wool, .... „ ... . .. , , . * Hide»—Green hide» and calf sklna, ,, , ... . , . , 506c per lb; dry hides, butcher. 10012c ^ ... ..... , pay 1 Pf c «J°r «^in deUre^: wh^t. 44 V a c bulk. 46^0 sacked ; blue«tem, 47c bulk. 49c sacked; red. 43c bulk, 44« sacked. ' ; j Yankee Mo* Knlorll). New o\ rk, S-pt. 2—John E. Madden's Yankee, at 4 to 1 in the betting, won tue classic futurity at Sheep-head Hay today, 'he richest fixture on the American turf He »on driving by a length an.) a half front »fiat wa* perhap* the i»-*t and up l e * t clase field which ever ran for the -taL. I-ux Casta was second, while Barron tin i»hed third, lt «a» a great race and nobiy «on, and a record breaking crowd of 3o,0n> people st<»*i up in their excitement ai« cheered. 1 lie winners »hare of the *ta e wa* $3*1,900. ( Ka-iety was out in force, and the lag grand.tand was pa-hed to overflowing. «h'l* the broad Dwn* and * ¥ ' r black with people. All . ■ u the .porting world were on hand and -very 1 "»Ik of life seemed represented. The track of true run to of is the Creek, south of here ou Inter -hd Sall.e (Njtl.p eng»ge*i m a d,* pu te, and while Mc<«Under wa* endeav oring to quiet them he wa. 'tabbed Tr.gu Si» s'X^To Iw .lyi« man with a club. A terrible arene fid lowed, dunng which knive* ami revolver* »ere drawn and women fainted Excite ment ia »till high, and more blood may I flow, a. it i. -id a nxib wiU Uke the ra,e. I*l*l rifkl «I a »«etal. Drael M Mc Piketon, Ohio, Sejd. 3. ! t'olli*tcr and John B. Cutlrp were killed *n<l M<<Vllan Nance mortally wound,-,! tbe *e,|uel to • aocial given at Halt Misa .Stella M<4 ol a* You es« afford to loss the flowers of time tor tbs ssod of eternity.