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OREGON COURIER. A, W. VHKNKT, Publisher. OREGON CITY ....OREGON 1TRESTS WITH EUROPE United States Will Not later fere in Turkey. EEACTION WOULD BE TOO GEEAT It Would Open the Way for European Ifatlon to Meddle With Affair of American Republics. WashinKton, Not. 20. The Turkish situation in absorbing the attention of the state department at present, and doe notice is taken of the various reso lotions adopted by the many religious organizations in the United States. Considering the terribly disturbed conditions in Armenia, it is believed at the state department that Minister Terrell has been remarkably prompt in his efforts to protect the Amerioan mis sionaries and teachers. So far as the misfortunes of the native Christians are oonoerned, while they may properly excite the sympathy of the entire Chris tian world, the state department claims there is no warrant for interference on the part of the United States, the Ar menians being Turkish subjects, for whose religions freedom the Enropean powers are responsible. Any interpo sition by the United States would not only be in violation of oar traditions, bat might be nsed, it is said, as a pow erful argument to justify European in terference in the affairs of the Ameri can republics. In referenoe to the rumors that Mr. Terrell has tendered his resignation, it may be stated that the department of state is thoroughly satisfied with his oondnot in every particular; that it has lent all possible support to him, and that no reason is known whioh would justify the assumption that he intends to desert bis post in the recent crisis. Admiral Selfridge cabled to the navy . department today that he had put in with his flagship San Francisco to Naples to get mail. He will proceed directly to Alexandretta, where he should arrive about Friday next, and will then be in a position to extend aid to the Americans and Europeans in that seotion in the event of further up rising. TOO MANY NOT EMPLOYED. PITEZEL ALIVE. Bricklayers Will Procure Work by Less ening the Honrs of Labor. Chioago, Nov. 20. The. Chioago bricklayers have decided to ask for a aix-hour day when, the present agree ment whioh the organization has with the Master Masons' Association ex pires. This will be next spring, and the organization has already begun ar rangements to acoommodonte itself to what it expects to be the new order of things. The question how to best serve the interests of the entire mem bership of the Bricklayers' Association, whioh has largely inoreasd of recent years, has been oanvassed from all sides, and the decision has been reached that in no more fitting way can it be done than by reducing the working day to six hours. It is not believed by the officers of the rank and file that a strike will result from the efforts to reduoe the working day. There are no non onion bricklayers in Chioago, and it is said there are few employers who would care to engage them if there was. There will be no monetary loss to builders, and it is thought the six hour day will move off without a hitch, After Many Years. Walla Walla, Wash., Nov. 20. Eremino Geuino, an Italian, was under a life sentence in the penitentiary here for murder committed in Skamina county fourteen years ago. The ini pression long prevailed that Uenino was innocent, the victim of perjured testimony. At the time of his trial he had been in America but a short timo, and was unable to speak or understand the English language, and was at a disadvantage in defending himself Several years ago friends began en deavoring to secure his pardon, and at the last session of the Knights of Pythias grand lodge, held in Walla Walla, May, 1895, petitions were pre pared, circulated and signed, asking the governor to pardon bun. The par don was received by the warden Satur day and Uenino was released on Sun day. He had served thirteen years and three months. Ban Francisco Close to Hell. San Francisco, Nov. 20. The Rev. Westwood W. Case delivered a sermon at the Howard-street Methodist church last night fairly burning with sugges tion. He tuned his voice to run the gamut of the vice and crime of Sun Francisco from the horrors of the Dur rani case to the revealed crimes of the past week against the infant daughters of the very poor. Hell, he said, was only eighteen inches below the side walks of the city, and ho was as equal ly certain that the young woman or old, who rode a bicycle on the Sabbath was on the load to perdition. He ap pealed to the woruou to assist in dnv ing vice from off the earth, and his vast congregation applauded as preach era are seldom applauded in San Fran cisoo. Three People Claim to Have Met and Conversed With llltn. . Chicago, Nov. 20. The Daily News this evening publishes the following story: James MoNary, a conductor on car No. 036, of the Sixty-third street line, has sprung a new sensation in the Holmes oase, by stating that Benjamin F. Pitezel is alive, and that be recently talked with him on his oar. MoNary claims there could be no mistake, for ha worked nine months for Pitesel and knows the peculiarities of - bis voice. According to MoNary, Pitezel boarded his oar a few days previous to Holmes' trial. Pitezel'i beard had grown around the greater part of his faoe, so that he was completely disguised. When ad dressed, however, he admitted his identity and asked as a friend that Mo Nary keep silent, for he was on his way to Philadelphia; but MoNary called in Motorman Letterman and be, too, claims that he bad a conversation with Pitezel, who took a transfer to the Cottage Grove cable line. Robert Corbett, who has been fol lowing the case for months in behalf of the Farmers' & Merchants' National bank, Fort Worth, claims he has also seen Pitezel. He said to a Daily News reporter: "I never beleived Pitezel was dead, for the following reasons: First, when I was searching the castle, some months ago, this man, who resembles the one seen by the conductor and motorman, and who, I then thonght was Pitezel, found me in the building looking over some papers. He asked me if I bad seen a toolohest I told him there was one in the front room. He said that one was not his; that he bad left it in the room where I was engaged. I asked him who he was. He said Mrs. Pitezel sent him there for a toolohest, and when I asked him his name he said, after thinking a mo ment, 'Andrews,' and left" DEPARTMENT REPORTS Secretary of Agriculture's An nual Showing. INCREASE IN FARM EARNINGS Nee Perce Reserve. Lewiston, Idaho, Nov. 20. At noon today over 1,500 settlers and miners, who have long waited an opportunity to take the broad prairies and the promising mineral land on the Nez Perce reservation, put up their stakes, posted their notices, and many began an exodus to the nearest land office to register their claims. There was no rush to the interior. The journey to the desired locations had been made days before, without a sign of legal assistance, aud the man who rode for miles to see a mad rush from the boundaries of the reserve, with the fir ing of cannon and firearms, the shouts and execrations of those who were ahead and behind in the race for the ooveted goals, was disappointed. Never in recent years has the opening of a rich reservation to settlement been attended with less excitement than that of the Nez Perces. The United States made absolutely no provision to keep white men off be fore the time indioated by the procla mation, aud there was unlimited oppor tunity for those acquainted with the land to camp on the choice tracts until the noon bour and then rush baok to enter then chosen quarter section. New York' Horseless Carriage. Poughkeopsie. N. Y., Nov. 20. The horseless carriage, whioh left New York Friday for Chioago, is quartered here for the night. It has made slow progress on account of rough roads and steep erades. Frank McPherson, who is in charge of the oarriage, said he found the roads much worse than he anticipated, and is now about six hours behind schedule time. He has exper ienoed muoh difficulty with horses along the roads. The machine fright ens the animals, and there have been several narrow escapes from aocidents. A man mounted on a bicycle now goes ahead of the machine to warn drivers of horses and to prevent runaways, Mr. McPherson expects to reach Chi oago in time for the races Thauksgiv ing day. Discussed the Panama Scandal. Paris. Nov. 20. In the chamber of deputies today the question of the ar rest in London of Emu Artou, an as sociate of the late Baron Reinach in the Panama canal scandals, who disap peared in 1802, caino up for discussion The government declared the arrest was effected immediately he was dis covered. The matter driftod into a discussion of the general policy of the government This resulted in the adoption of a general vote of coil fidcuce, 421 to 52. The Shock Too Ureal. Ironton, O., Nov. 20. Miss Clara Campbell, of this city, who some years ago secured a $4,000 judgment against Arbuokle, the millionaire coffee-dealor, in a breach-of-proinise suit, is dying at Dr. C. G. Gray's sanitarium, three miles below this city. Friday last Miss Campbell was subjected to a deli cate operation for a tumor, and is dying from the shock. The Csare Suggestion. 8t Petersburg. Nov. 20 The Grand Duke Vladimir has an autograph letter from the cior to the kaiser relating to the situation in Eastern Europe. It raggests in case England insist too much on the disintegration of Turkey that the three powers who united upon the Japanese question again join hands against all comer. The Olttclal Announcement. Washington, Nov. 20. A telegram has been received by the treasury de partmeut stating that the British schooner Shelby, seized during the sea son closed, by Captain Munger, of the revenue cutter Corwin, for violations of the Paris award, has been con demned by the Cadandian court at Vic toria, b. c. Newfoundland's Bank Hvandal. St. John's. Nov. 20. The Union bank inquiry bas ended, resulting in the committal of the directors ot the bank for trial before the supreme court. The directors are Sir Robert Thornton, Hon. Augustus Harvey, Walter B. Grieve, and William Joseph Donnelly: They will be admitted to bail, whioh has been fixed at $18,000 each. Superintendent Kimball Reviews the Work lone the Past Year by the Lifesaving Service. . Washington, Nov. 19. The report of the secretary of agriculture begins with the report of work of the bureau of animal industry. The total number of animals in speoted at the slaughterhouses was oon siderably over 18,000,000, an increase of more than 5,000,000 over the prev ious year. During the year ante-mor tem inspection was also made of 6,000, 000 animals. The cost of inspection was also reduced to 1.1 cents per ani mal. In 1808, inspection cost 4.75 cents per animal, and- in 1894 it cost 1.75 cents. Over 1,800,000 animals, cattle and sheep, were inspected for foreign markets, of which 675,000 were shipped abroad. Over 45,000, 000 pounds of pork was inspected mi croscopically, exported, as against 85, 000,000 in 1894, and 23,000,000 pounds in 1898. Of the amount exported last year nearly 23,000,000 pounds went to Germany and over 9,000,000 pounds to France. This inspection involved the placing of over 1,900,000 specimens under the miorosoope. The cost of each examination was less than 5 cents, or for each pound of meat 2 mills, oonsid erably over any previous year. Losses of cattle in transit to Europe were greater than in 1894, being respective ly, for 1895 and 1894, 0.62 and 0.37 per pcent Over 80,000 cars, carrying over 820, 000 animals, were inspected for Texas fever at qanrantine pens during the qnarantine seasons, nearly 9,000 oar' loads of cattle being inspected also in transit, and over 28,000 oars were oleaned and disinfected. Besides, over 156,000 cattle from non-infected dis tricts of Mexico were inspected for shipment to Northern states. The seoretary says their importation free of duty is advantageous to feeders having a surplus of feed and to the consumers, who outnumber the ' pro ducers. Muoh space is devoted to disoussing the opportunities for Amerioan meat produots in foreign markets. Of 841, 000 tons of meat received at the Lon don central market in 1894 71,000 tons were Amerioan, while nearly 50,000 tons came from Australia. The Amer ican proportioan has been maintained during 1895. He closes with a discussion of the fa ture of farms and farming. The aver age value of farms by the census of 1890 was $3,900. The value of imple ments, domestic animals and sundries will make a total farm plant of $4,000 for a family averaging six persons, These farms fed the farmers and their families and 40,000 urban residents, besides supplying $500,000,000 worth of produots for foreign consumers. In the presence of these facts the seoretary says: "How can anyone dare to assert that farming is generally unremnnerative and unsatisfactory to those who intel ligently follow it?" The mortgages on farm valnes do not exceed 16 per cent, a less incum brance on the capital invested than in any other line of industry. He fortells confidently a steady increase in the value of farm lands as the population of the oonntry increases. smaller proportion of loss in property than in any previous year since the general extension of the service. The oost of the maintenance of the service during the year was $1,845,824.40. THE ALEXANDRETTA MASSACRE Be Report of the Lifesaving Service. Washington, Nov. 19. Mr. Kim ball, superintendent of the lifesaving service, in nis annual report, states that at the close of the last fiscal year the establishment embraced 251 sta tions, 184 being on the Atlantio, 53 on the lakes, thirteen on the Pacific coast, and one at the fulls of the Ohio at Louisville. The number of disasters to vessels vithin the field of operations of the service during the year was 483. There were on board those vessels 5,403 persons, of whom 5,382 were saved, and 20 lost Eight hundred and three shipwrecked persons received suocor at the stations, to whom 2,232 days' re lief in the aggregate was afforded. The estimated value of vessels involved was $8,001,275, and that of their cargoes $3,645,960, making a total value of property imperiled $10,647,235. Of this amount $9,165,095 was lost The number of vessels totally lost was 73. In addition to the foregoing there were during the year 193 casualties to small oraft, on board of which there were 431 persons, 415 of whom were saved, and six lost Besides the nnm ber of persons saved from vessels of all kinds, there were 110 others rescued who had fallen from wharves, piers, etc, the most of whom would have perished without the aid of the lifesav ini; crews. The crews saved and assist ed to save during the year 379 vessels. valued with their cargoes at $4,561, 665, and rendered assistance oi minor importance to 181 vessels in distress, besides warning from danger by the signals of the patrolmen 249 vessels. The investigations made into the de tails of every shipwreck involving loss of life, and into the oonduct of the lifesaving crews at these wrecks, show that the unfortunate people who per ished were beyond any possible aid from the service, and no life was lost through lack of prompt and faithful efforts on the part of the lifesaving men. The number of disasters within the scope of the service exceeded that of any previous year by 79. This excess, it is said, is in a measure due to the ex tension of the service by the establish ment of new stations, but principally to the ooBxIitions of the weather which prevailed daring the year. I Tm record of th year ibows a Confirmatory Advices Have Been oeWed In Constantinople. Constantinople, Nov. 19. Late ad vices received here from a lexandretta Northern Syria, confirm the accounts of a massacre of Christians in the town in the presence of 800 Turkish soldiers who did not render any ' assistance suppress the disorders. Armenians and Mussulmans accuse each other of burn ing the village and of other outrages whioh have occurred in Northern Syria. Reports received from numerous Ar menian villages toward the end of Sep tember describe numerous and well or ganized Kurdish raids, followed by stealing of flocks of the Armenians. in some cases murdering or the men and assaulting of the women have oo curred. Any complaints made to the authorities were simply ignored. The sultan has' prohibited the entry into Turkey of all papers containing accounts of Lord Salisbury s speech at the lord mayor's dinner at London a week ago. STILL SEEKING ADMISSION. Hawaii Wants to Be Annexed to This Country as a Territory. Port Townsend, Wash., Nov. 19. Aooording to advices received from Honolulu today, on the bark C. D. Bryant, sentiment is being cultivated in Hawaii to grant Princess Kainlani, heir apparent to the late throne, a pen sion of $6,000 a year. Many of the legislators have expressed themselves as favorable to the proposition. The bitter contest which was waged against the confirmation of William Castle, late minister to the United States, who was barely confirmed by one majority, culminated in a oomprO' raise by the permanent appointment of J. C. Hatch, a member of Dole's cabi net A few days previous to the minis ter s departure for Washington, the cabinet convened in lengthy session and disonssed the possibility of Hawaii becoming a part of the United States. One cabinet officer stated that Hatch was instructed to proceed on lines tending to closely cement the two countries until the American adminis tration changed, and then to insist upon speedy admission of Hawaii as a territory. ' A West Virginia Desperado. Wheeling, W. Va., Nov. 19. A terrible tragedy occurred this morning at Wileyville, Wetzell county, twelve miles from New Martinsville, the county seat The result is the death of one man, an officer of the law, who was instantly killed; the fatal wound' ing of another, and a serious injury to a third, and the escape of the perpetra tor. The tragedy ooourred on the outskirts of town, and was witnessed by several persons. Among others were James Baird and a citizen named Hibbs, who attempted to overpower the murderer. White opened fire on them, bringing down Hibbs with a wound in the atom aoh, from whioh he will likely die, and hitting Baird in the leg. This in timidated the others, and White es caped. It is now reported that a posse has been organized and is after the murderer, with prospeots of a lynching. Fell Threw a Draw. Cleveland, O., Nov. 19. A heavy eleotrio motor car, containing about twenty passengers, went through the draw of the central viaduct at 7:45 o'c.ock this evening and dropped 101 feet to the river below. It is a horror the like of whioh never occurred here before. The central viaduct, is a huge stilt bridge, 3,000 feet long, made of iron. It connects the heights and the prosperous residence sections on both sides with the business center of the city. Directly over the river is a drawbridge on the pivot-swinging pat tern, and this is 101 feet above the water. The South Side street railway passes over the bridge, and on either side of the draw there is a safety switch, which, unless the conductor aliehts and holds up a handle, will send a car into a gully instead of si lowing it to go on the draw. NORTH PACIFIC NEWS Happenings of Interest in the Progressive Northwest. , BRIEF BEP0UT8 OF LATE EVENTS Illinois Striker Sentenced. Princeton, 111., Nov. 19. The thir teen Spring Valley miners charged with driving out the colored popula tion some months ago, whose trial closed last evening, were given peni tentiary verdicts this morning by the jury. One other pleaded guilty. Arthur D'Acre and Wife Dead. London, Nov. 19. A special from Sydney, N. S. W., says: Arthur D Acre, an actor, and his wife. Amy Roselle, were found dead recently, the former with bis throat cut, and the latter with a bullet in her body. It is alleged they became despondent as a result of the failure of their colonial tour. The American English Malls. London, Nov. . 19. The Chronicle complains because of the reported de lay to mails to and from New York via the White Star line. It say that aa there are other faster steamers leav ing both Southampton and New York, in tha middle of the week, the matter is to be commended to the earnest at tention of the poetmaster-generaL reealga Merchandise ia Bead. Washington. Nov. 19. The secre tary of the treasury has decided that foreign merchandise brought in Cana dian bond and imported into this coun try shall be valoed for duty purposes at the market value in Canada "in bond," without th inclaaion of the Canadian daty. A Budget of Item Gathered From All Farts of Oregon, Wash Ington and Idaho. Pnyallup, Wash., has 821 school children registered. The city of Seattle was forty-four years old the 13th inst There are sixty-six K. of P. lodges in Oregon. The first was organized June 26, 1873, in Portland. The county commissioners of Colfax county, Wash. , are discussing the ques tion of bonding the county debt and running on a oash basis. The rails of Port Townsend's street oar line have been taken up and will be shipped to some Eastern city. There are about 200 tons of them. The Northern Pacific Railroad Com pany has commenced work on a six stall roundhouse for the accommoda tions of engines at Sprague, Wash. It cost Douglas county, Wash., $1,- 781.50 for four criminal cases, all of which were misdemeanors, and in one of whioh the oulprit pleaded guilty. Governor MoOraw has pardoned from the Walla Walla penitentiary Peter G. Burzman, who was sentenced from Seattle to ten year's imprisonment It is unofficially annonnoed that Oscar Huber, a civil engineer of Spo kane, has been awarded the contracts for the surveys of the army post and grounds at Spokane. An agreement has been reached by whioh I. Altman will take the entire stock of the firm of M. Cohn & Co., of Taooma, that recently failed, ana will pay off the chattel mortgages in full and pay 25 cents on the dollar to the general creditors. The Northern Pacific Railroad Com pany bas settled with Mr. Fleet, the Douglas county stockman, for cattle killed in the wreck on the Central Washington several weeks ago. The amount of damages allowed him was something over $10,500. The semi-annual summary statement of the finanoial condition of Baker county, Or., shows that September 30, 1895, there were outstanding and un paid warrants amounting to $174, 079.56, and that the estimated interest thereon was $17,407.95. The United States grand jury at Walla Walla completed its work in four days, notwithstanding there were a large number of oases to investigate, and was complimented by Judge Han ford from the bench for the capable and expeditious manner in which it performed its duties. George F. Hensmer, who is superin tending the construction of the tele graph line from Goble to Astoria, Or, says that the line will reach Astoria in about two weeks. A wagon road is being out alongside of the line, so that when repairs are necessary they can be made with little difficulty. Receiver Philip Anderson, of the Ta ooma National bank, of Tacoma, has been ordered by the controller of the ourrency to pay depositors a dividend of 10 per oent. Receiver Stuart Rice, of the Washington National, of the same city, has been ordered to pay a dividend of 5 per cent. The oity will be paid $2,200 as its share. Cashier W. G. Peters, of the Colum bia National bank, of Tacoma, waived preliminary hearing in United States Commissioner Worden s court in Tacoma, and was held, for trial at the February term of the federal court He was required to furnish a new bond in the sum of $10,000. The charge against him is making a false entry in the books of the bank. , S. R. Flynn has partially made his examination of the affairs of the Ben nett National bank, of New Whatcom, Wash. From such examination, and with a view to a probable reopening, he has had himself appointed tempor ary receiver. This step accomplishes two things. It prevents the appoint ment of a permanent receiver, and en ables him to make collections. Cattlemen in Grant county, Or., are riding and collecting their herds for the winter. Hay is scarce in that county this winter, aid the Long Creek Eagle predicts that many a hoof will be turn ed heavenward before spring. Several stockmen will take their bands to out side sections, where feed is cheaper and more plentiful Some will drive to Morrow and some to Umatilla county. The work of dredging the marsh lands around Snohomish, Wash., will soon be completed. These lands were settled on early this year by a colony of Hollanders. Tbey put in their crops and were exceedingly successful An other colony is expected over from the old country in the near future, which will settle near the Snohomish colony. The colony forms a little common wealth by itself. Tbey elect different officers of their own, but also abide by the laws and make model citizens. THE REVIEW OF TRADE. Merchandise Imports Larger Than the' Produce Ki ports. New York, Nov. 18. R. G. Dun & Co. 's weekly review of trade aays: "The scare about gold exports had. no real significance, and, although $2,250,000 more will go out today, the stock market baa been recovering. There was and is a substantial cause of difficulty in the faot that the exports of produots have been too small to meet the greatly increased imports of mer chandise. The collapse of Kaffir specu lation abroad has forced many for-' eigners to realize on American stocks, and the impression that our govern ment may be forced to borrow again also appeals to our disadvantage. But there is no local disturbances of money markets. "The output of pig-iron November 1 was 217,300 tons weekly, about 10 per cent larger than ever before, and a con tinuance of the same production for six weeks more would make the half years' output 6,850,000 tons, about 450,000 tons greater than in any other half year. The startling faot is that the demand for products of iron and steel falls off, notwithstanding the increase in the output of pig, and, although only a few concerns have closed or reduoed work or wages on aooount of laok of orders, prices are sinking, having declined 2. 7 per oent for the week, and 6.4 per oent from the highest point Bessemer pig, billets, gray forge bar, tank-steel plates and structural and wire nails have all sold lower within the past week, though quotations are kept up as far as possi ble by associations. Minor metals are on the whole lower, though tin has stiff ened a little, but lake copper sold at 11 cents, and is weak. Lead is de cidedly weak on aooount of reduoed consumption, and is quoted at $3.73)$. 'There were 279 business failures re ported throughout the United State this week, compared with 260 last week, 280 in the week one year ago, and 870 two years ago, and as compar ed with only 205 in the correspond ing week of 1892." HOKE SMITH'S REPORT. Suggestions to Be Made by the Secre tary of the Interior. Washington, Nov. 18. The report of Secretary Smith will be one of the most interesting whioh has been made by a secretary of the interior for sev eral years. There are several features whioh will be an innovation in this de partment More interest center around the recommendation the secre tary will make for the settlement of the Pacific railroads debts than ever, when it is known that Mr. Smith be lieves in a continuous line of road from Omaba to the Paoifio, and that he thinks such a line can be operated to advantage. . For some time the seore tary has been looking up all patents to lands to the Paoifio railways whioh were bond-aided, amounting to 7,000, 000 aores. Whether this is an indica tion that he intends to make some- rather radical recommendations to con gress is not known, but it is a fact that the seoretary bas been securing statis tics relating to earnings of the road and their capacity to earn enough to pay a moderate interest upon the pres ent indebtedness. It is expected that congress will undertake to legislate upon this subject of Paoifio railroad indebtedness during the coming ses sion, and the secretary will no doubt recommend a plan of settlement NEW ISSUE OF BONDS. Cleveland Will Not Walt for Action by Congress. New York, Nov. 18. The Journal this morning says President Cleveland has decided that he will not wait for action by congress before making an other issue of bonds. The Washing ton authorities are already in corre spondence with New York bankers relative to the issue, and it is probable that the bankers will accept their prop osition. Here is the proposition: When the gold reserve falls to $75, 000,000 the banks shall deposit $25, 000,000 worth of gold in the subtreas nry and take in return 4 per cent bonds on a 3 per cent basis. The decline of the gold reserve to a danger point last spring forced the gov- eminent to pay 8 per cent for gold procured from the Belmont-Morgan syndicate. Credit has been re-established by that operation and the ad ministration desires to take advantage of the better business confidence pre vailing to secure the gold at the low rate of 8 per cent This Look Like Pittsbnrg. Pittsburg, Nov. 19. The Dispatch tomorrow will say that Robert Lind say, secretary of the .National League of Republican Clubs, has received a letter from General J. 8. Clarkson, in which he instructs Mr. Lindsay to en gage a number of rooms at leading Pittsburg hotels for the national con vention week. The letter does not pro vide for any alternative if the conven tion shall not be held in Pittsburg, but positively eagages the rooau. The Shelby Confiscated. Victoria, B. C, Nov. 18. Judg ment was given today in the local ad miralty court confiscating the schooner Shelby for violating the Behring sea act. The Shelby, it will be remem bered, was seized by the cutter Cor win, May 11, and was held for being unlawfully in the sea during the tro- hibited period. Incidental to the trial today, Louis Wille, owner of the schooner, furnished a sensation by ad mitting tne autnorsdip of a letter re cently received by Chief Justice Davie and inclosing $25. He was sentenced to one week in jail for o ntnupt. and fined the amount of the proffered bribe. pnv- China's Concessions to Germany. London, Nov. 18. A special from Shanghai says: "It is positively stated that China has agreed that Germany shall occupy one of the islands near the entrance to the seaport Anio as a naval yard and coal depot France and Rus sia are certain to seek similar lieges." e Iks to Meet in Cincinnati. Philadelphia, Nov. 19. The execu tive committee of the Benevolent and Protectve Order of Elks met last niaht and selected Cincinnati ss the place for holding the next national convention, beginning the second Tuesday in July. 1896.