The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1903-07-15
ROY RABER'S DREDGE.
HAS BEEN BUILT IN PORTLAND
AND SHIPPED TO SNAKE
RIVER.
Machinery for 1t Costs Fifty Thous-
and D ,l1ars-Go oes to Gien'a
Ferry, Idaho, for OPERA
tion--O5her News.

Portland, July 1.-The Orego
nian says: joseph Supple will shi
four car loads of the parts of
dredge today for Gins Ferry, or
: Snake River. Idaho, and will fol
low this shipment up with mel
and material tor settin!
up the d-edge at that place. Thi
dredge is for mining on the aant
bars 10 Snake River, and it wilt b'
the largest and most complete eve1
built for the Snake River. 1t con
tains some apparatus for saving tht
fine gold in the bars in the river.
The dredge is for N. L. R4ber &
Company. It will be 40x1O0 feel
in dimension, and will be very
S ronglv built. Mr.. Raber is now
ia Chicago ordering the machinery,
which alone will cost $4,000. Nh
Supple said yesterday tha: the COM
pany which NJ. Raber represer is
has ample means, and so much con-
fdeuce in Mr.. Rabar's new methods
in dredge construction that it has
furnished him with all the money
required to bnild and equip the
boat as frst-class gulo saver.
Mr. Raber says that the dredges
on Snake River Use more gold
than they save, but he has develop
ed some new ideas by which he is
confident that he will change all
this and save the fine gold in these
river bars. In the single i,em of
sitting and sluicing in the new
dredge 5000 feet of burlap is used.
while in the other dredges not more
than 800 feet is used. The parts
of the boat have about ali been
made here, and will be quickly put
together at GIenn's Ferry. With
the improvements in the way of
saving the fine gold abonuding in
the sandbars on Snake River there
will be revolution in this kind of
mining.
A small launch and barge will
also be built to go with the large
boat. When this dredge is complet-
ed and in operation, Mr.. Raber will
have s:veral more built on the same
lines. Thy will probably be built
10 Portland IN parts knocked down
the same as the first one.
Bluefelds, W. Va, July IL
The little town Of Devon, Mingo
county, was the scene yesterday ef
the asSaulting of a little IA year
old girl by negro, followed by his
Subsequent lynching by an enraged
mob numbering over 200 men.
The little girl was caught short
distance from her home by the ne
gro, and carried to a neighboring
wood where she was tied to a tree,
bound and gagged. Her absence
was noticed by the reighbors, who
Immediately formed themselves in
10 searching party. She was I
Iound in an almost dying condition, ,
out was able to tell to the horror !
stricken searchers the story. ,
Wild were the cries for vengeance :
when the little girls story was
heard, but after a short consulta- .
ion, it was decided to lay in wait .
or the fend. In short time hei =
and was just renewing his
lssault upon the helpless child .
shen the entire mob of concealed :
earchers emerged and made for
i'm. He would have been torn
imb from limb on the spot. but the
'orrible crime of the negro demand
d more cruel death, and the cool r
'eads kept the enraged mob back, ]
lad the negro was dragged to the t
illage common and bound to a
rec.
After the mob gave vent to their
lid desire for revenge, and it was
y the greatest effort of the leaders
hat they were kept back, the
of the negro was torn from
is body, and pins, tacks, penknives
nd every conceivable weapon of
orture was struck into the
kin of the negro as he struggled,
ainly pleading for his life. Hel
7as allowed to suffer a hundred
eaths with his body bleeding in a
housand places.
The almost lifeless form of the
title victim was then placed before
he glaring eyes of the brute, while
eilling hands cut the tongue from
gis swollen mouth. His cries be- Z
anne incoherent, and before the en-
aged citizens could be checked the !
kin was literally cut from his body
nd distributed among the villag-
rs. He died with his eyes on the
title girl whose life he had ruined.
lis heaft was then cut out with
acknife, his toes and fingers chop
ed off and carried away as me-
nentus. His bloody and mangled
,rm was then soaked with kero. {
enc and fired. =