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The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1904-09-08
pENNrD IN BY FIRE.
Fourteen people Killed In a New
York Tenement fire.

New York, Sept 7.---Fourteen per.
sons We're killed and nearly score
injured in fye-story double tene.
ment in Attorney street early this
morning, The dead include four wo,
men, one man and nine children, rang.
ing in age from 3 months TO ~
months,
Many of the injured were taken to
hospitals, and 1t is thought that sew.
eral will die. Among the injured were
five iremen who were in fourth.
floor balcony when ii fell with them.
The small number of men among the
killed and injured was due to the fact
that most OF the men who lived in the
buildings, following the Attorney
street custom in hot weather, were
asleep on the roof, while but few o.
the women and children were there
Those on the roof were unable tc
escape by descending through the
burning building, and made their way
10 safety over neighboring roofs.
Meanwhile the members of their fami.
lies who had remained in their rooms
found escape cut off and panic reigned
throughout the structure.
The fire started about 3 o'clock in
the morning, and there was much de
lay in sending in an alarm, although
the district Is one of the most thickly
populated in the crowded East Side
of New York. When the flremen
reached the scene some of the tenants
were jumping from the windows and
from the ends of the tire-escapes that
reached only to the second floors,
Others were crouching in the smoke
in the small rooms and narrow halls.
The fire Is supposed to have been
caused by the explosion of lamp that
had been left to light the hall on the
second floor, and the sleeping tenants
were not aroused until the hallway
was ablaze aud escape through the
building cut off.
The lire was soon extinguished and
the search for the dead begun. Most
of the dead were found on the two
upper floors.
While the search of the building
was going on four tlremen were at
work on fourth-hoor balcony when 1t
gave way.
Another fireman on the balcony floor
above was carried down and was prob
ably fatally injured. The other four
were badly hurt, but will recover.
Leon Sober, owner of the building;
Morris Levine, the agent, and Henry
Breitman, the superintendent, were ar
rested today and were charged with
negligence
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TO END STRIKE
Negotiations Begun Through
Medium of MiddIeman.
UNIONS ARE CALLED TO MEET
Packers viii Submit New Offer and
u viii Be Considered at Once
by the Employees.

Chicago, Sept. THE indications
tonight are that the stockyards strike.
begun two months ago, will be called
off within "a hours. Through the
medium of a middleman, negotiations
were begun today in an effort TO secure
an understanding with the packers on
which the striking unions can rely as
basis foi abandoning the strike to-
morrow afternoon. II was admitted
might by Secretary Tracy, Of the
Allied Trades Council OF the unions on
strike, that a message opening up such
negotiations had been delivered today
to representatives of the packing firms
by W. E. Skinner, agent Of the Union
Stockyards & Traction company, acting
as middleman.
Michael Killean, president OF the
Livestock Handlers union; Nicholas
Gier, president Of the Packing Trades
council; John Floersch, secretary of
the council and President Donnelly
were the men to confer with MI. Skin
ner.
According to the plans tonight an
answer is to be submitted tomorrow by
the packers in time for 1t to be report
ed at a special meeting of the Allied
Trades council. This meeting has been
called for early in the forenoon.
Special meetings for all the local
unions involved in the strike have been
called for tomorrow. II the packers
give encouraging answers to the strikers,
messengers will be sent at once to the
gatherings of the local bodies. The
unions, 1t is said, will then vote ON
disseminating the strike, and their ref
erendum vote will be reported at once
to the meeting Of the Allied Trades
council.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1904-09-08
OREGON NEWS OF INTEREST
FLAX CROP SHORT.
Seed Yield IN willamette Valley
Will Not Go Over 10 Bushels.

Salem.-All of the fax of the crop
of 1904 has been harvested and the
threshing thereof has just been fin.
ished. As was the case with all
other agricultural crops this year in
the Willamette Valley, for the first
time in decade, the yield was unusu
ally light, that is SO far as sed is con
cerned, and not TO exceed ten bushels
of fax was realized per acre this
year. Mr.. Bosse, however, considers
this pretty gocd yield, taking all
things into consideration, and he is
In nowise disappointed as a result.
The average yield of fax seed per
acre, in Oregon, so far as the exper
fence of Mr. Bosse goes, Is about 20
bushels.
Mr.. Bosse, however, says that he
places no dependence whatever upon
the seed yield of his Fall crop, as the
most important item in the business
Is the culture of the fax seed for the
fibre. He can get all of the seed he
wants, and, II the quality of the fibre
or the quantity would be materially
increased by harvesting the fax be-
fore the seed was ripe, he would not
takes the seed question under consider.
alton, as the fibrous portion of the
Oregon fax plant Is the most valuable
part of 1t, and that is what he is look
ing for. Taking all else into consid,
Grafton he is well pleased with the
outcome Of this years crop and is
satisfied that he has obtained an ex.
cellent grade of iibre-producing fax
this year, although the quantity is
not all that he desired.
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HARRASS HIS REAR.
japanese are Close Upon the Heels
of KurOpatkin.

London, Sept. S.--The dearth Of i'm
mediate press and official dispatches
from the recent actual seat of the Far
Eastern struggle continues. 1t is ad-
mitted by the Russian war office that
no kilograms whatever were received
from General Kuropatkin bearing
Tuesdays date, the last message tc
the emperor from the general being
dated September 5, and briefly telling
that the army was advancing north.
ward; that it had extricated itself from
dangerous position; that there was
constant cannonading OF the rear guard
and that the losses on that day were
about 100. The situation, in the light
of the latest information, may be
summed up as follows:
The Russians are pushing on to Muk-
den, greatly impeded by heavy rains
and floods, conducting an orderly re-
treat, and followed step by step by the
Japanese. Details Of the fighting and
of the exact position of the opposing
armies are lacking.
The report that Kuropatkin's rear
guard has been annihiated, and that
the Russian forces are in danger of be
ing surrounded, is denied by the Rus
sian general staff. The Russian war
office is entirely confident that the re-
treat is slowly, but surely, being effect.
ed.
From Toxic comes the official report
that the bulk of the Russian forces is
still at Yentai. The japanese field
marshal, in an extended report of the
fighting up to September 4, says the
Russians burned all the railroad
bridges over the Taitz river, and pre-.
diets that, while the japanese list of
casualties is not yet completed, the
losses will prove Leavy.
Viceroy Alexieff is on bis way from
Hsrbin to Mukden. The heads OF
Kuropatkin's long commissary trains
have passed through Mukden, and are
continuing northward.
The attack on Port Arthur contin.
ues, and Chinese arriving at Cbefoo
say the Russian garrison expects a gen.
eral land and sea attack today.
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RUSSIA INCLINED TO YIELD.
Modification of Rules Regarding
COntraband Expected Soon.

London, Sept. S.-The preliminary
representations made by Count Benck-
endorff, the Russian ambassador to the
foreign office, indicates that Russia lie
on the point of making substantial con.
cessicns to the United States and Great
Britain regarding the question of con-
traband OF war, as result of the sub
mission by Foreign Minister Lsnpetiori
of the report of the general commis-
sion to Emperor Nicholas today, to-
gether with the information trans.
mitted by Ambassador Beckendorff
showing the views of the British gov
eminent.
The Russian foreign minister is ex-
pected to present to the British govern
ment, through Sir Charles Haringe,
the British ambassador to Russia, to-
morrow, the formal reply of the Rus
sipn government. 1t is understood in
official circles here that Russia, while
not acknowledging herself at fault for
the capture made by her ships in the
past, will more specifically describe
the conditions under which certain
goods, such as foodstuffs, and cotton,
become in her view contIaband.
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WILL EXTEND LINE.
Salem Business Men Aid In Building
Road From Dallas.

Salem.-The plan for the construc.
tion of railroad between Salem and
Dallas took effective form when Presl.
dent L. Gerlinger, of the Dalles, Falls
City & Salem Railway Company, sub.
mitted to the Greater Salem CONNER.
cial Club proposition under which
he offers to build the road. His offer
is to extend the present Falls City.
Dallas road to Salem. The present
line Is ten miles long. The 15-mile ex.
tension to Salem will cost $120 900,
and Mr. Gerlinger will build, equip
and operate the road II the citizens
of Salem will take 100000 bonds of
the road. The bonds are to be first
lien, not only upon the new road but
the present road and theequipment
The bonds will mature in ten years,
and bear interest at per cent.
The committee of business men
having the matter in charge are salts
fed that the security would be good
and the club showed its approval Of
the proposition by directing the com.
mlttee to proceed at once to secure
subscriptions to the bond issue This
road, If constructed, will not only give
convenient transportation between
Dallas and Salem, but will provide
means of hauling logs and lumber
from the timber country around Falls
City to the Willamette river. It Is
announced that the Falls City road
will Immediately be extended a few
miles west to tap larger belt Of
timber, an dthere is very general
opinion that the road will be extended
westward across the Coast Range to
the Siletz.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1904-09-08
Statue of WaShlnatOn.

New York, Sept THE United
Hungarian societies of New York City
rendered a reception here today tC
Count Albert Apponiy and other mem
bers Of the Hungarian parliament, who
have come to this country as delegates
to the Inter. Parliamentary Peace Con
ference; to be held in st. Louis, and
announcement was made that sub.
scriptions to the amount of $2500 have
already been received to start fund
to be raised among Hungarlans in this
country for the erection OF statue of
George Washington In the City of
Budapest.
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NO FEED FOR CATTLE.
Grave Problem Faces Stockmen In
willamette Valley.

Salem.-"There will be hundreds OF
Willamette Valley farmers with cat
tie this Winter and with not enough
feed for them," says J. X. Sears, OF
Mccoy. 1T would seem absurd tc
say that livestock in the Willamette
Valley will starve this Winter be
cause of the scarcity of feed, but
shall not be surprised II many cattl,
die this Winter of starvation. TIL,
farmers have more cattle than the,
want, there Is no market for them anC
the hay and grain crops were SO shor
there Is not feed enough"
This statement, made by Mr.. Sears
was repeated to well-known whole
sale butcher, and his comment was:
Mr.. Sears has stated the situation
just about as 1t is. The outlook is
very bad for the farmer with beef
cattle, and with feed as scarce as 1t
is now, stock will be in pretty poor
condition this Winter. The farmer
can't sell his cattle, and there won't
be feed enough for them unless 1t Is
shipped in The price of feed Is high
and the price of cattle low. 1t won't
pay to ship the cattle out of the Val
ley to Winter them. If farmers buy
feed to Winter their cattle they must
do so at loss. | wouldn't like to say
that cattle will starve in the William.
ette Valley, but-well, Mr.. Sears is
not far from right"
This unfortunate situation arises
from two causes, an oversupply of
beef cattle and an unprecedented
shortage of feed. Hay Is now selling
at $11 to $12 ton, or about 80 per
cent higher than usual. The oat
crop was but a small part of what is
usually harvested in the Valley, and
many farmers are now buying for
their horses. Pasturage has been
very poor all Summer, and unless
there are early rains there will not
be much grass this Fall before cold
weather stops It's growth.
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WIND up CAMPAIGN.
Evacuation of Mukden Also neanS
Losses Greater Than Intimated.

St. Petersburg, Sept. Tt is impos-
sibe at this hour to obtain any state.
ment from the authorities regarding
the reported preparations for The aband-
onment OF Mukden.
The advices from Mukden give the
first intimation that such a course is
contemplated. If it turns out to be
true, it means the abandonment of the
whole of Southern Manchuria and the
winding up of the present campaign.
In fact, should Mukden be evacuated.
there would be no point for wintering
the army of 250, 900, with its many
wounded, sholt OF Harbin.
On the other hand, the evacuation OF
Mukden would give Field Marshal
Oyama commodious winter quarters and
the practical control of two lines Of
railway. The -Sinmintin line,
tapping rich Chimes territory, stops
little short of Mukden, with which il
is connected by good wagon road.
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TO QUIT nUKDEN.
Russians Are Preparing for Evacu.
alton of the CitV.

Mukden, Sept. 7.--The forces OF Ku.
ropatkin andpf Dyama are racing for
Mukden. This much stands out In the
dispatches from the seat Of war, and is
in ndicated in a report forwarded by Ku-
ropatkin, who says his retreat Ia being
conducted in perfect order, though the
Japanese ON Sunday repeatedly attack
ed his tear and continued the attack
until Monday. The result Of the race
Is in doubt.
The united Russian forces are now
north of Yentai, a station on the rail-
way about ten miles northeast of Liao
Yang. They are pushing on to Muk-
den, to which the bulk OF Japanese
forces is marching direct, after having
swarmed across the Taitz river. A
,trong japanese flanking column Is
about 80 miles northest Of Lao Yang
and is trying to get between the Rus
sian forces and Mukden.
With this race In progress there
comes brief dispatch from Mukden
saying that preparations for the evacu-
alton Of that place are proceeding.
This report, if well founded, as is
pointed out in the Associated Press 6t.
Petersburg dispatch, would mean the
abandonment OF the whole of Southern
Manchuria and the winding up of the
present campaign.
1t was reported In St.. Petersburg at
late hour Monday night that Kuro-
patkin's rear guard had been almost
annihilated and that the main Russian
army was in danger Of being surround
ed. Kuropatkin, in his report, makes
no mention Of the abandonment of 200
guns at Lao Yang, Tumor to which
fleet Is in circulation. F"''
Advices from Port Arthur, by way OF
Chefoo, bring the fighting there up to
September 2, and say the Japanese
losses were very heavy.
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Sent to Project Missionaries.

London, Sept. THE correspondent
at Shanghai of the Times says that
native papers state that the French
Consulate has notified the Governor
of Kiangsi that French warships have
been sent to protect missionaries in
the districts of Ii Ping and Flu Lin,
east of Po Yang Lake. Anti-foreign
feeling in this locality was recently
displayed, the correspondent adds, in
the refusal of local interests to permit
a British gunboat to enter the lake.
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Take Horses TO Alberta

Pendleton.-M w. Briggs and
James Nelson of this place, left this
week for Alberta, taking a carload OF
brood mares and farm implements. to
reside between Fort McCloud and XII.
aary. Horses are exceedingly high
there, bringing from 500 to $3.50 a
head, and they expect to go to raising
horses in connection with farming.
Mr.. Briggs was for seven years in the
government service as engineer and
carpenter at the Umatilla Indian
agency.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1904-09-08

Albany.-The threshing machine OF
Lawrence and Samuel Hardman was
destroyed by fire while operating on
the Raymond Burkhart place few
miles from Lebanon recently
The machine was in operation when
suddenly flames burst from the inter
ior Of the machine In every direction
The separator was enveloped In the
flames, and 1t was impossible to dc
more than prevent the fire from
spreading to the grain and straw
The engine was hooked to the sepa
rator and the burning machine was
dragged into the brush beyond the
reach of the grain.
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willamette Falls FishMav.

Oregon City.-Contractor e. p
Rands has completed the construc
tion Of the state fish-lader at the VIII
lamette Falls in this city. BY means
of the improvement the Fall run OF
salmon will be enabled to reach the
upper Willamette River and estab,
lish spawning grounds in the Molalla,
Santiam and Mckenzie and other
streams tributary to the Willamette
The fishway consists of a succession
of IL pools that have been blasted
out of solid rock, the basins being 10
Gated at intervals of about three feet
and extending to the crest of the falls
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1904-09-08
Desire for peace GROWING.

st. Petersburg, Sept. S.-Peace is be-
ing eagerly discussed by thousands of
Russians in this city and in Moscow,
notwithstanding what is deemed the
military splendor of KuIopatkin's re-
treat. The Novoe Vreyma, sounding
public opinion suggests basis OF agree
ment whereby Japan would receive
Sakhalin Kamschatka, the Kuries, the
simidore islands, the Lao lung penin-
sula and supremacy in Korea. The gov
eminent is not likely Immediately to
favor the idea of peace, but may yield
later.
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pendIeton's New SchooIhouses.

Pendleton.- Pendleton School
Board has awarded the contract for
the construction of three school build
ings to H. e. Cook a contractor of this
city. For the construction of two eight.
room buildings, Mr.. Cook agrees to
do the work for $34,709. Spokane
pressed brick will be used and If Wes.
ton pressed brick is agreed upon the
cost Is to be $1,000 lower For the
four-room building, Cooks figures are
s11,033, provided Spokane pressed
brick is used With Weston brick the
building will be constructed for $10,.
033. Work on the buildings will begin
at once, but 1t is not believed the
schoolhouses will be completed and
ready for occupancy before the first
of the year.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1904-09-08
Survey Of SaIem.poriIand Line.

Oregon City.-The party of survey.
ors that is making the preliminary
survey for the proposed Portland-Sa.
lem electric line are now at work in
the vicinity of Canemah. This infor.
nation was given by a member of the
party. At Canemah the stakes are
being set along the bluff to the south
OF this suburb, which confirms the
belief of many that the proposed line
will effect juncture with the line of
the Oregon Water Power G. Railway
Company at Canemah and prove but
an extension Of the OregonCity-P Port.
land electric railway.
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ArmenIans Create Terror.

Paris, Sept. IA dispatch to the
Temps from Constantinople, by way
of Sofia, says that an official report
which has reached one of the foreign
consuls there, states that Armenian
insurgents at Van, Asistic Turkey, are
successfully resisting the Turkish
troops, which until yesterday had been
unable to reduce or disperse them.
The Armenians advanced to within
about 400 yards of the French con-
sulate.
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No Hone of lnteryentIon.

London, Sept. 7.--Careful inquiry in
official and diplomatic quarter here to-
day established the fact that no hope
prevails of the termination OF the war
at this moment as a result Of the ser.
les of victories obtained by the Japan
ese at Lao Yang. There has been no
interchange of official views by the
neutral European governments. What
discussion has occurred has been en-
tirely personal and has led to no re-
suits, even to the extent of paving tbs
way to mediation. There is no
thought Of international Intervention.
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Take Awful PLUNGE.

Moberly, Mo, Sept. S.-The south
bound Wabash passenger train which
left Des Moines for st. Louis at $40 a.
M, was wrecked today near Pendleton,
Mo-, killing eight passengers and ir-
juring 80 others. Immediately upon
receipt of the news Of the wreck, a re-
lief train was sent out and the dead
and more seriously injured were brought
back here. The train was we'll filed,
it being estimated that there were
about 500 persons on board.
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Harvest Season Near an End.

Pendleton.-Harvest will be com.
pleted III the next 10 days in this vi
cinity, with the exception Of the hill
land on the reservation. Quite a
number of steam threshers and a few
combines have pulled in for the sea.
son. A large portion of the grain is
hauled in, and the hauling also will
be complete in at least two weeks.
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Northwest wheat Ftarkets.

Portland-Walla Walla. 77@7Sc
bluestem, S3@s4c; valley, 8Sc.
Tacoma-Bluestem, S2e; club, 77c.
Albany-75c.
Salem-S0c.
Colfax-Club, 67c; bluestem, 72c.
Pendleton-Club, 6S kc; bluestem,
72c.
La Grande-Club, CSC; bluestem, zoe.
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Odessa Corps TO the front.

St. Petersburg, Sept. THE new
mobilizat on decided upon is expected
to be Announced in the latter part of
this week. It will include the eighth
army corps stationed at Odessa. The
emperor today inspected the battleship
Orel and the cruiser olegiot the Baltic
feet, which is now ready to sail.
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Records Taken TO LaGrande

La Grande.-The county seat OF
Union County is safely anchored in
La Grande at last. The county seat
executive committee hired several
teams and started out for Union, dis.
tance of 12 miles, to bring the county
records, safes, etc, to this city, and
succeeded in bringing most of them
over In one day. 1t was necessary to
make another trip to bring the fix,
lures.
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DISPLAYS for State Fair.

Forest Grove.-The women of the
Washington County Lewis and Clark
Club are preparing an excellent dis.
play of fruits, grains, vegetables and
photographs of local industries for ex-
hibition at the coming State Fair.
This exhibition will form the nucleus
of Washington County's exhibit at the
Lewis and Clark Fair.
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Great Force Soon TO Reach Front.

ST. Petersburg, Sept. SIT is stated
that by the end of October, the Fourth,
Eighth and Thirteen b army corps,
totaling 1872, 900 men, will reach the
front. and that before the end OF Sep
tember l, 100 guns will have been dis
patched to General Kuropatkin
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Diana Ordered TO DIssrm.

Saigon, French Tndo-China, Sept. 7.
The commander of the Russian
cruiser Diana has received orders from
the Russian Admiralty to disarm his
vessel.