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Show THE HEPPNER COALVILLE TIMES. (L CL JOkCS, XalonO Uv 1, I U 1UM. a4 Busiest One Hundred and Thirty Bodies Re covered and Seventy Missing wh The ork of burying t.ie lost their lives in the teirible calam ity Sunday evening at ii ppnr Ore has progreaitU stiadily and Tuesday evening 120 bodies bai In en ret ov ereff and buried At leant severity more are missing, and at this time the most ri liable tinmtH plate the number of dt td at 2'o The stene from tin h ('side t'ver lot king the town is one of th solation in mfifijr Huge piles of wretk.a-- t plates fifty fiet high, fill the ranyon A for half a milts below the own !in h is t ovei t d m iny fet t the debris by mud, is than 1 away, more bodies are fourd Immense boulder0 weigh the Ing tons wei- - rolled altu g t In tin n idt tif toe flood and dt town or lodgi d u vlmd buildings One hund.td and fifty of the best resident t a wire swept fri in the fate of the earth Tree and every stand ing thing was raided and uprooted The debris i pibd along the rallroaJ track to the height f fit Ight tars Among the other Ini nleiiH of the terrible catasui ptie v.a-- the saving of three lives bv Julius Keithly 70 years old, who rode ono milend a half on the roofs of house s and pulled In three people from the flood Jim Lem, th Oregon Railway & Navigation agent, met his death at the telegraph key trying to raise Portland to inform the outside world of the impending calamity His little daughter Katy, who was saved by re msdnlnar in the sta'lon house, saw her father and mother lost in the whirl of mad waters One of the most thrilling adventures was that of Tom Shuter, who, with his family, was carried down stream In his house for w mile and a half. His wife and two boys stayed In the upper rooms lielow town the house was hot across the current to the west side, where it lodged In the debris 150 yards from the canyon bank, Shuter then took his two little one on his shoulder and swam 200 yards in the boiling torrent, contending with obHe landed the children structions and then struck out for the house foi his wife and rescued her. Itugif. d la Cualrllle. u HceuudClaM MkUcr. Cub, pMtoinc Uiai or iiuctirTioiL la I On Editor i)abii TlM.n... git MoatM gkre Meets. Miuw ... .... l 10 . .ft o . r 4 UTAH STATE JiEWS. ' N'ne jonof boy of Maatl were last e nvlcted of stealing flowers and fiord $2 each , Jthn I ee, Jr., found gnllty of bur-flaut Junction, bar boon sentenced to six years In the state penitentiary Elaborate preparation are being made by u,e citizens of Bandy to celebrate the Fourth of Jaiy on a grand rwt rr po-n- td ecalo ? ' WIIED OUT DISASTER. The storm of the past few Greeks have undoubtedly destroyed the major portion of thejtrasshoppera In Sevier county. The Ephraim city council baa appointed a committee to make arrangements for the celebration of Independence day. The attendance at the summer school being held In Ephraim this year is the largest In the history of the school. An Italian miner by the name of Angelo Clsterlo, was probably fatally Injured in the mines at Castle Cate, Saturday, by falling rock. Eleven thousand acres of beet in the vicinity of Lchi are up, and the prospects for a prosperous season for thobeet raisers were never better, Wallace Thurston, the 18 .bey of Kingston who borrowed a horse from a neighbor and forgot to retnrn It, has boon convicted of embezzlement. s The total assessment of Sevier county this year will bo 2,313,488. Richfield is the richest city In Sevier county, her share of the above valua- BY FLOOD train from The with a party after noon, rlioitly psilts Vl$ft3 d I1"1 1 mJU-he- s o g n stn-am- s bowdown THE LIGHT fere standing. Word has been received fro to lone that St)0 coffins are needed at once at Heppner. The weather is hot, and THAT New King of Servla at th Back and Call of Revolutionists. , ft j wjvvti a, i, trS0?rtW ' K ' it if Ol 'iff, - , ' 11 Wyo-minglt- '4 , , v fj by ths torrent, snd many people were Is necessary that the dead should he killed by j belng dashecL against the burleft at once. 7 It is estimated that the damage rocky bluff. J Early In the afternoon s thunfer done to property alone was 500,000. torn occurred, covering a wide reSELECT NEW KINO. gion of Country, snd later s heavy rainstorm set In, many of the snail Prince Peter Is Chosen to Rule Over streams overflowing their banks In an Servla. 4 Incredibly short time. Bridges ware The akupschtina and senate of Ser-viwept away like straws and the darkmet in Joint session precisely at ness of the night soon made the Bldia. noon Monday, and wlthlm fifteen tlon more appalling. minutes bad elected Prince Peter As soon as possible after the ter- Karageorgevltch as king of Servla. rible flood subsided the work of relief Long conferences were held bewas commenced by the citizens of the tween the ministers and Deputies on town. Dozens of bodies were found Sunday night and all Monday morn lodged all along the bends of the Ing. These resulted In a cut and dried stream, and In several places were programme, which went through with another. Over 200 out a hitch. piled over-o- ne bodies have been recovered w ithin the The Inhabitants of Belgrade are reI markably quiet, and apparently uncity limits. The buildings which were not tar- concerned. The cafes are filled with ried away were moved from their people, reading the newspapers and HELP FLOOD SUFFERERS. foundations or toppled over. Hundreds playing cards or chess, and there Is New Yorktrt Raising Funds to Re- of cattle, horses, sheep and hogs that Utile to Indicate that the nation has had gone Into the creek bottoms for been engaged in the election of a new lieve Wants of Destitute. " "" sovereign. Additional funds to the amount of water perished. election The closely follows that of As soon as the news of the disaster 19,000 have been sent from New Tork 1888, and is even more democratic. It reached the outside world relief was Is described as making Servla virtuCity to relieve the wants of the destitute In. the flood stricken districts Of extended to the airicken town The ally a republic with a king at its head. this sum 4,000 was telegraphed to ToUNOCCUPIED LAND IN CANADA. peka, a like sum to Kansas City, Kan., and the remainder to GainesTh accompanying illustration tells evpanse of land suitable for tillage. ville, Ga. The committee has now received contributions amounting to more convincingly than would many From that little black dot over a nearly 25,000. Columns of letter press w hy the eyes of th land hungry all over the world Labor Riot in Iowa. r turned to the Can ad an weaL The Rioting attended the effort of thr lUustratlon la from a newly issued hisstreet railway company to resume tory of Manitoba and the Northwest Tuesat operations Dubuque, Iowa, Territories, by D. M. Duncan, M. A., of of live weeks Winnipeg. Coilegla.e. The square, Q C, day, after a shut-dowon account of a strike of Us employes. represents the total area of the prov The local company ofThesTale mTTRTa Inc of Manitoba, and the was called cut, but tho rioter were of Assinlboia, Albert and territories not suppressed until they had been In wan 270,000,000 acres in Saskatcheall. Tia bart conflict with the militia and shaded B B. shows tbe ,rea the police. The rioters, however, of land aouare, for good forming 135,000.000 were dispersed by the police and miacres; while toe black square. A, Is litia. At the power plant the mob th land at present undr cultivation marched to the car barns, where it 4.000,000. The black center of cul- million bushels of various broke into the building abd practically Uvatod land Is but a dot on the wrecked the cars. great sorts of grata were reaped l3t year. Men Blown to Atoms. Aged Hero Who Gave His Life to Save Traveled 3.T5O0 MiTes to Commit MurThe entire "graveyard eh ft at the Helpless Women. der. Toltec tunned, The body cf William Hclsler, who Silverton, Colo numFiack Mirk, who traveled S00 three were was bering drowned May 21st while rescuing men, an hired by miles to kill S. N. Harris and his Mrs Adam Slink, sits in the explosion of giant powder, wL h ihcyhU Vtfe from thoir home In the East corridor of the Pike county, Illinois, were thawing preparatory to going to Bottoms. Kansas City, Mo,, was found jail and talks with quiet satisfaction work Monday night The todies of Monday night Hclsler. who was 73 about the success of his plan of ven- Kemper and Crane were blown Uh 2FotS(1'an(r-Wagen- .' to at-- ! years oil. geance. There is no disposition to r ''TCrR! lynch him. The hundred men who ar"m bf' tre he n,ade rested him and the 500 who surround- feet from where the tookidrn explosion BWift in A was ed the jal when he cumnt overturned the ,fe brought place. LofgnebT who was sunning was drowned. His wife could have taken him away from the some distance from the lived wagon and be powder, posse and the small squad of officers, two or three hours after th clung to pacing driftwood and was had they so desired. rescued a mile down the river. - I"-- y . king la almost , t te S " VHl llll .3 X,.. . without any personal without eerious Injury. adherents, and the ruling spirit of Mrs. Karren And reason aged 78, the army. It Is thought, would Just as was struck by a paaxengfr train at readily murder him as they did his Lehl last week and killed! It Is not predecessor, should be oppose their known how the accident fecurred, as alms, A present the whole country la unno one was near at the tljhe, der military rule, and although no preTwo patents have recently been la. fects iff the country districts have removed, each Is accompanied by sued to citizen of Salt Lake City, one been an army officer who attends the prebeing to Michael J. Fitzjferald, on a fect wherever he goes, even to the wrench, and the other to Charles J. telephone. Gustavesoa on a bottle Stopper. WILL BE NO STRIKE. I George Elliott suicided In Salt Lake f City last week, taking laudanum. El- Further Troublt In ths Pennsylvania Coal Mines Averted. liott was a stranger n the city, a There will be no strike In the an. painter by trade, and fdespondency la supposed to havs beetf lhe motive for thraclte regions on account of carrythe deed. ing out the refusal of the operators to j Last week B. C. palmer and Will recognize the credentials of District President Fahey and Detrey, ,'K. Anderson of Mantl encountered a Instructed Nichols, by the Joint executive two on Twelve Mile hoard of the United Mine Worker as cnba (hear and rreek. South of the city, and secured th miners representative pn the two cubs, butfalled to kill th board of conciliation. The convention the United Mine . Workers at Scranton, Pa on TuesMrs. Minnie Cottrsey suicided In day, elected the three presidents by Salt Lake on the Sth. taking a dose district as tbelr representatives, and of strychnine, Bhe left letters for the operators, through President Geo. anrelatives stating that ah died of a F. Baer, of the Reading company, nounced that this action waa satisfacbroken heart It la believed she was tory. u.iy '.Cl 'v -- 1 (temporarily Insane. EL S. Lovesy,; president of Jh Utah. iBockeeper' association. Is making a tour of the. state, for the purpose of I collecting an assortment of honey to I he used as ad exhibit at the Louisiana I Purchase exposition. The water problem at Richfield la he'ng solved by the sinking of wells. IA newly organized company has re jcentJy sunk thirteen wells near tho city, most of them being between seventy amf eighty feet deep. Bert ; Buchanan, a young man 22 year of age, waa found dead bn his bed at Venice. S&turdsy of last week. He bad retired seemingly in excellent health, and It la believed he was at lacked with an epileptic fit during the plght and died. Dr. J. WV Currie of Salt Lake City Intended church laatSunday night, nd when he started home discovered hat some one had stolen his horse "d buggy. It Is said the doctor is whether o cut out geing to lirch or walk to the services. Mrs. Fanny Spillman, who cam tc ft&R in 1839 and foillcd.JaJWashJne cn county In 1862, died at Tcquervire f n the Sth at the age of 80 years. She vas a leader and member of the re-lief society, her whole life having been ' devoted to worksof charity, Daniel Neff bad a narrow escape from death at Silver City last week, when he was caught underneath the cage In th South Swansea shaft, ow' Ing to the failure of the brake to work" properly He escaped with a broken ankle wad some sever bruises. a 1 .i n un-rld- bur-dre- d slm-moth- UetXperis CltZmtoZt TZ'n? has-arrive- - te aides-de-cam- h Answer ,Questions of The most disastrous passenger wreck In the history of the Oregonr Short Lino in recent years occurred Judge Lacombe, in the United States Friwithin the city limit of Pocatello at, York New City, In circuit court in the noon Sunday, when No. 2, the east an down cptnlon handed day, combound fast mall, struck a misplaced appeal taken by the Interstate switch at the west end of the yard tbe merce commission against roads to compel the witnesses to Just as he was pulling into town, Snd and answer went Into thd ditch. As a result Fireproduce certain contracts W. R. Hearst man Bowers was killed and William certain questions in the were re- Evans, engineer, and Ben A. Campproceedings. The contracts fused by th witnesses on the advice bell, mall clerk, were seriously In--, of coursel. In the opinion Judge La- Jured. combe sustains the positon of the railHow the New King 8ee IL way companies. . It I? asserted that Prince Kara-H. Cured h"C Edward McIntyre. W a hotelkeeper, who end JrhLe of the assassination McIfast last Tuesday, died Friday. of the king and queen of Servla. "A It ntyre began the fast in the hope that atklcg," he eald, "who could receive a. would prove beneficial In a severe tack of paralysis. He was 47 year crown from the h&nda of assassin, hi would be their of age. During the forty day Asked If accomplice. 165 from pounds reduced was he would punish the assassins, he reweight to ns. in the three day that he took "I have no power." In reply to , nourishment preceding his death he plied, the But when you are dequestion, became He gained seven pound. Prince Peter gave an answer, lirious Friday night and later lapsed king? That may never be. into unconsciousness, -... for Indian. Trapped the Wolves, Caught Russia 6ets Substance and China Sheepmen of the Upper Salt Creek Shadow. Tbe London Times correspondent at district, says a Casper, Wyo., special, Pekin say the establishment of Chi- have been mlssirg lambs for some nese custom at Dalny, on the Rus- time, and suppoeedthat -- the losses were due kto wolves or coyctes, alsian frontier of the leased territory, Is no tracks could be found in any though practically lettled, Russia assenting case. A few days ago a large steel IdnchlBa request for the procedure trap was et in one of the bedding which obtains at Kiaocbow, but with grounds, and next morning k big buck a reservation which leaves the sub- Indian was found with a leg securely stance to, Russia and the shadow to damped In the jaws. He was perChina namely, Russia to nominate all mitted to go a an example to other that time no lamb tbe Russian staff, which China la prac- Indian, and since have been stole- tically bound td accept Dont Have-t- o- Hearstaawyer. coal-carryin- g S C Z -- ledQipd 1 -- q . SERVIA home-leadin- NEVER FAILS. The position of King Peter I, according to recent advices from Belgrade, Servla, promises to ho little more than that of a royal captive. The ! d 3 Gwln Worthen, a year-olchild of real government of the country will be Fsft Lake, fell from a second story a military dictatorship under the lead-, "Vs of the revolution, Gplonel Mascbin irfy ji'Ia rtf frovi-- t QUEEN OF MURDERED, the-scen- e 11 A ROYAL CAPTIVE. tion being 4C6.680. Ellas Newhaus of Mercur Is in a Balt Lake hospital suffering from a compound fracture of the leg, caused by a cave In in the Golden Gate mine, i inhere he Is employed. urned to Ground as Result of Kentucky Feud. Tho Early hotel at Jackson, Ky.. o 1 three story building owned by Cap-.aiB J Ewen the principal witness Unpopularity of Queen Said to Hjve Caused Slaughter of Royal Family igainst Jett and White now on trial , and Selection of New King. there for the assassination of Lawyer to the J B Marcum wes burned There The king and queen of Serna have ground carty Ftrnlav morning been asiiasslnalad and a new govtrn-men- t wee fifteon punn in the hotel but set up, thus ending the Qb'eno-utc-h al escaped without injury on the There was no dynasty, which his ruled ftr.ia It is gdieialiy structure a-- d the hotel together with for alnicst a century s and the (Teds of the claimed that the asbdSbiration. and the furni-diin- f is a t tal lots The oiigln of guets was of result the government change the tiro is unknown lot the general of the unpopularity of Queen Drag opinion la that the fin was of incenAccoiding to the bust Isfornidtinn diary oiigin obtainable from Belgrade Strvia the GIRL HAD NERVE. assassination wa3 the result of a mil itary conspiracy, which had the sm-patb- Fourteen. year-ol- d Wyoming Miss Gets of a majority of the Servian Six Wolves people, and was carried cut In the Mlsx Amdud-- i MiFai and, a 14 year-olearly hours of Thuisday rntrnlng girl, la the htii-- e of Wheatland when King Alexander, Queen Draga, In of the re.ve Mie because her two brothers and several n inls-ter- s an enct unter with widves displayed a few dajs met death She was riding cross country on Prince Peter Kurav,eorgev lch, the ago her poll) when she obSeived six gray been has propretender to the throne, wolf whelps In a rocky crevice and claimed king by the army, and there determined to secure the youngsters Is every reason to believe that this for the bounty which the state pays Servdecision will be confirmed by the for the hides Her father's Winchesian parliament which has been sum- ter rifle yas hung to her saddle and moned to meet on June 15 The revo- she took the weapon with her when was lution was executed without any op- Bhe dismounted, although the gun ordiLer to use In the too for heavy of position on the part of the people nary manner. Miss McFarland was engaged In Belgrade, and the capital and the clubbing the whelps to death when country remain quiet. While the main outline of the the parent wolves appeared on and rushed at her The girl events which took place within the drove them off and returned details the are known, royal palace the whelps. are conflicting, owing to tho extraorNew Line That Will Open Up dinary secrecy with which the plot District In Montana. out The was contrived and carried of men all were Official word has been received in chief conspirators with concert In to Butte who acted the effort that the cut-of- f high rank, the array. The participation pf the from Columbia Falls or Kall6pell on latter In the assassinatic ns that blot- the Great Northern to Jocko on the. ted out the Obernovitch dynasty, Northern Pacific Is to be built at once. which has ruled Servla, with a short Work will bo commenced within sixty davs Tho now line will open up tho Intermission, for nearly a century. Is richest in the state of Moncf Kirg tana andcountry mainly due to the atti'ude furnish a direct route from and bi3 consort toward the Crownsnest coal fields to the Butter Alexander the officers of the army, whom he al- and Anaconda mines and smelters ways treated with 6cant courtesy. His Colorado Whitecaps Lash a Rancher desire to remove the war school from With a Buggy Whip. Belgrade to Shebatz particularly gave Over a week ago Hugh ONeil, a. the officers offense ranchman living near Meeker, Uolor Alexander I was born August 14, left his wife Late Saturday evening 1876, and succeeded bis father, Kln Milan L upon his abdication March 6, the marshal arrested him for being 18S9. At that tlmq Alexander was in noisy on the street On his way to the-Jai- l his minority, so a. regency was estaba" party of about twenty masked should attaiiTbls lished to last until men took ONeil from the marshal to how17, When but year. eighteenth side of the river, stripped the ever, he overthrew the regency and him opopslte aud whipped him with two buggy nanuroed the royal prerogai tve upen he he came- hlitown au"thority. On August to they put himiattiwiM,n on his hor-;,- ' told him was who Maschin, he married Draga to leave the country and never return. horn September 23, 1867. few a made was A previous attempt President Receives Gift From Karageor-gevite- h years ago to reinstate the ' been not has which dynasty, Serviawas when 1858, since In power President Roosevelts new saddle taken under protection of the Euro- horse, presented to him by the citizens suppean powers. It was immedlatey being of Douglas, Wyo., when the president pressed, however, the leader Alexis Prince killed. visited Wyoming and fortnight ago, captured a Karageorgevltch denied that he was at the White House stables event. party to the ill timedofficial list of the The president has named tbe horse Follow lug is the "Wyoming, in compliment to the donkilled: King Alexander Queen Draga, ors. Not to- be outdone by the citizen the queens two brothers. Premier of Douglas, the Cheyenne people preMarkovltch, the minister of war two sented to president a horse hair officers two other and and bridle, a saddle, blanket, spur Is givThe time of the assassinations a striking combination. quirt, making en officially as 2 a m. It is expected Drowned In a Freshet that the skuptschina (Servian parliamconfirm the proclamation ent!-will Robert P. Harrison, a abeepherder -by the army of Prince Peter as king of Servla The employed by William Souther, war newspaper forecast a better future drowned in a freshet which swept for SOrvla, and the new state cf things 4'vn Middle Srldert crvjol near is heartily welcome! by the masses Lusk, Harriseveral ago, reWyo, days decided Nothing definite has been son .was pasturing bis flock in the bot. garding tbe burial of the dead. states toms of the creek, and after t One report of the tragedy not had found could be passed anJ quarreled and queen that the king A searching party was organized and In a fight between supporters of the discovered Harrisons body lodged in the were killed, two the royal couple tree, but the branches of a cottonwood Draga, Queen himself killing king several miles below his camp. The as considered Is generally this report body hung twelve feet above the sui idle goesip. face of the water. COURT SUSTAINS RAILROADS. Fast Mail Train Went Into Ditch. AND d y higher ground, escaped. Huge lders weighing a ton were carried FIRE. v i portion of the town was wiped out, but some of the business part, which is on WITH Hotel KING including three doctors, four horses, blankpts and fifty of all kinds ' j Jleppncr Is la the center oLa large Wall of Water Sweeps Down Upon btock growing country (pm ing and Unsuspecting People, Five Hue tftn oh n is limit on the banks of Wil-'ldred Lives Being Lost. rink in the neighborhood of the ootuen.-'np int of four other mouc-(i- i tries From IHppncr Ore.-othat drain a large area ness of the mo- -i that of rol Ing snd hjliy country thai states, that ever vimo-VJrjesi1jn? tt ni three to twenty miles to ttw4UUe town of Hrppner was'ahaiHt jjie fcothflH and along the courbo cf totally deatroied by a cloudburst lmllU)W frt.eU llw.lf for a distance of probably 5n peoplo drowned. '(win!ytno miles to the base cf the All telegraph and telephone lres mountains. are down and no accurate inf rmatbm l es'ie Mattock, a young man, was can be reUiid from the scene of thr When the flcod the hero of the day. disaster but from the reports at hand came a horse and mounted he It Is believed at leai-- t 5ni) jieopie hate drt rode at breahneek speed down the can met death while the number may be yon in front of the rushing water to considerably iatger a jotify the people of Lexington, Ileppner is tlie county seat of llor had He miles below. town nine ima'l row county and had about 1 200 itihu'i to go over a rough and stony road, and Hants was dark and stormy. His The calamity o furred at 6 p. m the night over boulders, sometimes leaped Jiose twe-twhen a wall of water feet hfgo Beady throwing the rider, but yet net Hepp-nerushed down the gulch He arrlvel nt ooce lobiug his feet Is situated and carried everythin few minutes aheaJ of a Lexington just before it The flood camo with such The people were warned the flood. suddenness that the inhabitants were snd Immediately left for the hillside, unable to seek places of safety and set time to take anything with having were carried dow n to death by the awthem. person escaped, but when Every ful rush of water flood had passed only two houses the Almost tho entire residence DISASTER OREGON TOWN. APPALLING rIGHT ASSASSINATE RULERS smarted a relief pjjij- f J. |