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OREGON COURIER A, W. UHKNKY, Publisher. OREGON CITY OREGON EVENTS OF THE DAY Epitome of the Telegraphic News ot the World. TERSE TICKS FHOM THE WIRES An Interettlna Collection of Itenit from the Two IIeinlpheret Preaented In Coudented Form. A oase of leprosy has been discover ed in California. The afflicted person is a girl of 15. Henry Gottharde von Treitsobke, the German historian, died in Berlin. Be was born in 1844. Lord Danraven denies the report that Mr. H. MoCalmont is now the sole owner of Valkyrie IIL Daring a fete at the town of Les Sanier, Franoe, an anarohist stabbed and killed the mayor. The motive for the crime was politioal hatred. A general, strike on the lines of the Union Traotion Company has been or dered to take effect at onoe. The na tional board has given its consent John Heinetz, aged about 28, and James Davis, aged about 71, prospeot on, mining near Delta, Cal., were drowned while orossing the river in a boat A dispatch from Athens saya another oonfliot has ooonrred in the Hagion Vasileon district of Crete. It la alleged twenty Turks were killed and thirty wounded. Albot Rieuff blew oot the brains of hia wife, Jnlia, while she slept at his tide, in their room at the Pease lodging-house, Seattle, and then killed him; elf. Jealousy was the cause. 8ir William Robinson, governor of Hong Kong, telegraphs that there has been seventy-five new oases of buboine plague and seventy-five deaths from the disease in Hong Kong the past week. Commander Booth-Tucker, of the 8alvation Army.while out slumming in New York, was arrested and taken to the Elisabeth-street police station. Bail was fixed at $1,000, which was famished by Steve Brodie. A Pretoria, South Afrioa, dispatch ays: The sentences of death imposed upon John Hays Hammond, the American engineer, Colonel Franois Rhodes, brother of the former premier of Cape Colony; Lionel Philips, presi dent of the chamber of mines, Johan nesburg, and George Farrar, proprietor of Country Life, of Johannesburg, have been commuted. The annonnoement is made that M lleline had auooeeded in forming his oabinet as follows: M. Meline, pre xnierand minister of agriculture; M. Barthou, minister of foreign affairs, 34. Coohery, finance; M. Lebon, colo xties; M. Valle, oommeroe; General Billet, war; M. Darlan, justioe; Ad miral Bernard, marine; M. Laoombe; pnblio works; M. Rambau, public in traotion. " The Old Dominion seamer Wyanoke, when making for New Port News pier jiear Norfolk, Va., struok the prow of the United States steamer Columbia, 'lying at anohor, and bad a hole out in the forward part of the starboard side. She tank in sixty feet of water. All 'the Wyanoke's passengers and orew were saved, but their baggage, and probably the oargo, was lose. Two fire' men were badly scalded. Cripple Creek, Colo., was again visited by fire, and now from 8,000 to 4,000 people aro homeless in a oity of desolation, with no homes to oner and no food to supply the daily wants. One life was lost. The business por tion of the oity left standing is less than would cover a block. The resi dence seotion Is confined to what were formerly the suburbs. Relief parties sure being organized in Denver and Colorado Springs. The battleship Oregon, which wus reoently completed at the Union Iron works In San Franolsoo, has been placed in the drydook to be soraped, in preparation for the final test of speed required by the navy department. The Oregon will be the most formidable battle-ship in the American navy when turned over to the government A special to the Denver Times from Kl Paso, Tex., says the governor of Chihuahua has sent a regiment of troops to MinaViejo to oompel the peons to open the mine and rescue the min ers, lie had toe ponoe gainer an we unemployed men in the oity streets and march them to the mine to work. Of the sixty-one entombed miners fifty were taken out dead. The disaster was caused by the enoroaohiug for ore on the pillars supporting the roof. The Spanish gunboat Mensagera has eaptured and brought into Havana the American schooner Competitor, of Key West, loaded with arms and ammuni tion. In command ot her were Alfredo Larode, Dr. Bedla and three newspaper orrespondenta, who are held as pirson era. Some of the filibusters are said to bare suooeeded in jumping overboard end swimming ashore. Others who jumped into the sea were drowned. The insurgent general Monson, was a v ember of the expedition. Instructions came from the treasury department ordering the oommanders of the revenue cutters of the Behring sea patrol fleet, equipping in the Sound, not to take any spirituous liquors. The fleet was ready to sail when the orders were issued and the officers were com pelled to land their private and mess liquor supply. The captains tbem selves, while in the North, must live like prohibitionists, as they will not be allowed to have on board the mim est of intoxiouting beverages. The following nniqne challenge has been sent to Colonel Robert (4. lngor- soil, by Thomas Kenyon, a resident of Providence, R. I.: "I, the undersign ed. challenge Robert G. Ingeraoll in a joint debate before three judges and two timekeepers, ten minutes eaoh, for points on his (Ingersoll's) Bible leo tures, in any hall in New York or any large oity, but New York preferred The one gaining the most points must receive 65 per oent of the net receipts after paying expenses. Thomas Ken yon." Colonel Ingersoll will probably accept the oballenge. Spanish authorities in New York and Washington have recently disoov ered a conspiracy, which was formed by Cubans, to blow up a Spanish war' ship and at the same time interoept a peninsula mail steamer and rob her of a large quantity of gold intended for the government troops on the island. The plot further included the capture of the seaport town of Neu vitas, and contemplated certain demonstrations along the coast of the eastern Cuban provinces, in order to precipitate rush of troops from the west and effect a weakening of the military trooha aoross Pinar del Rio J. C. Sommers, a millionaire banker of Keokuk, la., waa killed by a train in the union depot at Burlington. The six-story building of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, in Philadelphia, waa entirely destroyed by fire. Loss, about $210,000. Columbia university will send a band of naturalists to explore the Paget Sound region. The expedition will set out from New York Jane 10. The Paris newspapers confirm the rumor that M. Hebete, French ambas sador to Germany, will at once return to Berlin, to present his letters of re call. Mary, wife of William Shore, leaped from a bridge into Elkhorn river, near Washington, W. Va. , fifty feet, to es cape a passing engine. She was res cued but will die. N Rain fell for 34 hoars in Ooon to, Wis., and all the lowlands are flooded. The oity is neaily inundated and the river reached the highest mark that it has for years. Warren Fisher, who came into prominence in 1876 through bia con nection with the investigation of charges directed against James G. Blaine, died at his home in Roxbury, N. Y. Princess Beatrice, the youngest daughter of Queen Viotoria, and widow of Prinoe Henry of Battenburg, has been appointed governor of the Isle of Wight, the offloe previously held by her husband. Word has been received in Washing ton by telegraph ' that the Canadian government has adopted an order in oounoil exempting Amerioan vessels from entry and clearance oharges at Canadian ports. A dispaotb from Madrid says: The Spanish government has declined the pope's mediation in Cuban affairs, on the ground that acceptance would be tantamount to recognizing America's right to interfere. The blaok plague is still prevalent at Hong Kong and Canton. Two Eu ropean children have been attacked by the disease. Japan is taking elaborate precautions t prevent the introduc tion of the plague. An attempt was made to bnrn An derson, Cal., by saturating a number of buildings with coal oil. The plot was frustrated by the discovery of the fire five minutes after it was started, when it was soon extinguished. An explosion, by whioh 100 persons are believed to have perished, has oo onrred at Mioklefield, Yorkshire, Eng land. The explosion took place in a colliery, and twenty injured persons have been rescued from the shaft An "X" ray will kill the bacteria of diphtheria. The electrical department of the university of Missouri, at Co lumbia, announoea that, after exten sive experiments, diphtheria germs had been killed by the Roentgen light Seven hundred men were thrown out of work by strike of the employes in Sherman & Company's iron mines in Port Henry, N. Y., whose demand for an lnorease of forty cents a day was re fused. The mines were shot down. In Woodland, Cal. , two armed men stood up Jailer Labrie in the jallyard and relieved him of 1187 in oash and a watch ohain. The official had occasion to go into the jallyard for a moment, and left his pistol and hat in the office. M. Coubertln, president of the inter national committee of the Olympic games, writes to the London Times that the games in 1900 will be held in Paris, and for 1904 the oommittee will choose between New York, Berlin and Stockholm. The little 8-year-old son of Mr. Ford, a trainman on the Sumpter Valley railroad, Baker City, Or., walked on the track as the engine and two cars came along. He was unobserved and the train passed over bim. His skull was badly fractured, and the child will die. William A. Holoomb, one of the best known business men of the Pacifio ooast, president of the San Franoisoo Prod nee and Merohanta' Exchange, died at hia residence in Oakland. Mr. Holoomb bad been ill for some aix months with an affection of the kid neys. James Beals, a stove dealer, of Iron ton, O., shot and fatally wounded his wife. The couple bad been out walk ing, and Immediately upon their return home he drew a revolver and fired four shots at his wife, three of them taking effect The deed waa actuated by jeal ousy. Beals escaped. i IS TO VETO IT River and Harbor Bill' Docs Not Suit Cleveland. MANY CONTINUING CONTRACTS The President Frankly Sari th Fretent It th Wont Cong-rat Ha tint Ever Known. Washington, May 7. There is not the least doubt now that Cleveland will veto i the river and harbor appro priation bill. The main reason for snob action is that it oontains so many continuing contracts and provides for a large expenditure in the future. Cleveland has always been opposed to river and harbor appropriations. He thinks it an unoessary expennditure. He thinks results could be obtained by a much less expenditure. Cleveland is particularly against the proposed harbor at Santa Monica. It waa dur ing a discussion of the river and har bor bill with several senators that the president gave expression to his opin ion of the present congress. He said that this waa the worst congress be had ever known, either during bis or any other administration. Mr. Cleveland's opinion of congresses in general has never been very good. He did not have much use for the congress whioh was elected with him, but whioh, un der his direction, effected the repeal of the silver-purohasing olause, but this oongress has been especially obnox ious to him. Cleveland, no doubt, thinks he could do more injury by de feating the river and harbor bill than by any other punishment he could in flict, but even his veto could be over turned. There is little doubt that the bill has been made up so carefully that two-thirds of both senate and house oan be depended upon to vote to pass it over the veto. CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. GIGANTIC BUSINESS PROJECT to Tour of South American Kepubllct Promote Reciprocity. Philadelphia, May 7. A great tour of more than a score of the leading business men of the United States has been arranged, with the object of car rying out the features of Jamea G. Blaine's reciprocity ideas. They will spend several months in South Ameri- oa, the purpose being to promote trade with the various nations there. Tills gigantio business project has been brought about by the National Aasooiaiton of Manufacturers of the United States, whose headquarters pre in Philadelphia and of whioh Theodore Searob, of this city, is president. Every large city in the country will be represented. Chicago, Philadelphia, New York and Boston will have pejtyi- utiui uuBiuuBH wau ju me pany. Concerning this international trade movement, President Searoh says: This plan is in response to invita tions whioh have been extended by the governments of Brazil, Uruguay, and the Argentine Republic. The visitors will be considered as the guests of the nations and will be honored as snob. The tour will oover July, August, and September. It is intended that the party shall sail from New York July 1 on the steamer St Panl. After visit ing the important manufacturing es tablishmenta in and aronnd Buenos Ayres, there will be a tour through the principal provinces of the Argentine Republic The party will then proceed to Montevideo and Rio de Janeiro. "The object of this trip is to oonvey to the people of the United States, through the members of this party, a more thorough and praotical knowledge of the resources of the countries visited and to indicate the means by which trade between the nations interested oan be enlarged and extended. Each member of the party will be expected to represent some particular branoh of business, the interests of whioh he will oonsider throughout the trip, and upon returning each member will be expeot ed to prepare a report embodying the result of bis observations and study during the tour." Vondanted Record of the llolnat of th Matlon'a Lawmaker Henaw. Washington, May The senate spent another day on the naval appro priation bill without completing it Gorman farther opposed the item of four battleships and expressed tlieopin ion that the appropriations already made would oonsume the balance in the treasury. A determination of the number of battleships baa not yet been reaohed. Chandler has proposed sub stituiing thirty large and fast torpedo gunboats for two of the battle-ships. White spoke of the need of ooast de fenses before further naval vessels were built, and Allen made a speech of over three hours arraigning the two old parties. Washinton, May 4. The debate in the senate today was of a dramatio and sensational character, recalling the famous Ingalls-Voorbees contest of some years ago. Senator Tillman of South Carolina, again brought bis unique personality into the debate, his speech being the first of any length sinoe his memorable maiden effort at' tacking publio officials high and low, While he spoke today, the silver pitch fork recently presented to bim in the West was conspicuously displayed on bis scarf. The senator used the blunt words characteristic of bis utterances, arraiging the prosidnet and cabinet officers with unsparing critioism and personal inveotlvo. He also addressed himself personally to Hill and Sher man, and drew from the former sharp rejoinders, while Sherman deolined to be brought into a controversy with the South Carolina senator. Washington, May 6. Senator Teller today, from the oommittee on forest reservations, reported favorably a bill for the protection of the publio forest reservations. The bill provides that no nublio forest reservation shall bo established except to improve and pro- teot the forest within the reservation, for the purpose of securing favor able conditions of water flow and to insure a continued supply ot timber for the people of the states wherein suoh forest reservations are located General rules are laid down for the protection and government of suoh res ervations, and the bill gives to states wherein suoh forest reservations are situated civil and criminal jurisdiction over persons within suoh reservations. Houte. LAND OFFICE INSPECTION. To Ba Undertaken With a View to Ke Tlllon of Method!. Washington, May 7. A trip of in' speotion of many of the local offloes in Minnesota, Montana, Idaho, California and Colorado will be made daring June by Commissioner Lamoreaux, of the general land office. The main object is to secure a thorough revision of methods throughout the service. One of the main objects is to reduce the amount of oases behind hand in the surveying branch of the service. Since the beginning of the administration. the delay in attending to surveying cases has been reduced from two years or more to about one year. The com missloner believes this should be fur' ther reduced to about there or four months with the new methods and the intelligent co-operation of local officers. The tour, which will not be made at government expense, will be begun during the first week of June, and to extend a few days into July. It will begin at Duluth, Minn., and Crooks- ton will be the next offloe. Edwin F. UhL the new ambassador, waa formally presented to the emperor of Germany. The emperor, replied briefly to Mr. Uhl's address, joining in the hope the latter had expressed, and speaking very appreciatively and ad miringly of the United States and of Americans. He trusted, be said, that Mr. Uhl's activity would redound to the better understanding and more in timate relations between the two coun tries. Washington, May 2. The debate on the bankruptcy bill was resumed today. The speakers were Daniels, Ray and Culberson, in support of the bill; Strode, Terry and Bailey, in favor of a voluntary system, and Griffith, De Armond, Bell and Traoey against any bankruptcy law. DeArmond, who opened the debate argued that the states had ample legislation to enfoore the collection of debt If a bankruptcy law was passed, he thought it should have only the voluntary feature for the protection of the insolvent debtor. He obarged that the pending measure had been prepared by the agents of the oreditorolass. Bell opposed the pass age of any bankruptcy bill, and Barton advocated the measure. The latter de sired particularly the teohnioal pro cedure under the terms of the bill. Washington, May 4. The house again devoted the major portion of the day to debate on the bankruptcy bill. Several amendments were offered, but none were adopted. A bill to provide for a delegate in congress from the ter ritory of Alaska was defeated, 44 to 60. Soranton oalled up the bill and spoke of the development of the Alaska min ing and fishing industries and the in crease of population in the last fifteen years. Its vast area rendered it proper and neoessary that it should have a well-informed representative in the house. There were over 10,000 white Americans in Alaska. Washington, May 6. The first skir mish over the senate amendment to the naval appropriation bill, reduoing the number of battle-ships provided for in that bill from four to two, ooonrred in the house today, when Boutelle, chair man of the naval committee, moved to nonoonour in all the senate amend ments and requested a conference. Boutelle undertook to ohastise some of the senators for their Inconsistency. He referred to the war scares of the past, and the bellioose resolutions in troduced in the senate, and then sar castically contrasted the war talk of some of the senators with their voting to reduce the number of battle-ships provided for in the bill. A FATAL EXPLOSION! A TRAGEDY NEAR PARIS. Large Cincinnati Building Completely Demolished, AT LEAST SIX PERSONS KILLKD Accident Wat Cnuted by Blowing Up of Oatollne Tauk-TUe Build ing Collanted. Cincinnati, May 6. This oity and vioinlty has been greatly excited over the explosion of a large tank oi gaso line, which completely demolished the five-story building at 430 and 433 Wal nut street, at 8 o'clock tonight After the explosion the wildest reports were ourreut as to the loss of life. Before midnight it was known that six were killed and eighteen injured, but the work of removing the debris had pro oeeded so slowly that the general esti mate of the killed and wonnded greatly exceeded this number. The building was occupied by Adolph C. Draobs, a saloon-keeper on the first floor, and by Diehl & Cj., dealers in fire works, on the upper floors. There were also many roomers in the building. The family of Adolph Draobs suffer ed most severely. Draobs and wife are injured, and the 5-year-old daughter is dead, and the 5-year-old boy is be' neveo. to De ay ing. moian uavid, a traveling man for the Columbia Car riage Company, ot Hamilton, O., and two others, unidentified, oomplete the list of those known to be dead. Among the missing, who are believed to be in the rains, are A. R. Frioke, of Now rood; Joseph Wortbner, barkeeper; Louis fey, wife and baby; also two servant girls in the family of Fey and Draobs. A most touohing scene occurred when Fireman John MoCartby found his brother pinned under a beam and beg' ging the men above him to kill him. MoCartby said there were three other men near him, and they were alive. The most heroic efforts to liberate these sufferers were made. Herman Nolte, jr., was standing in front of an adjoining building wnen struck by debris, and suffered a broken leg and other injuries. The shock was so terrific that it was felt all over the oity. Not one brick upon another waa left in the front and rear walla of the building, while adja oent buildings were badly damaged. The glass was broken out of street cars that were passing at the time, and one of the cars was badly damaged, but none of the passengers were seriously hart All the horses in the immediate neighborhood broke from their fasten iags and ran away, and there was not only intese exoitement, bnt the greatest ooniuslon. The dust and dirt continued flying for a long time, so densely that the work of resouing the viotims proceeded with geat difficulty, although the po lioe and fire departments rallied hero ioally to the wreok. The saloons were said to be quite full of people, one oi the bartenders who was not on duty at the time, and who esoai lived in one of the upper flats, and was wild with grief beoause he knew that his wife and four obildren were in the ruins. HAMMOND IMPOSED UPON. Young Man Killed That Ha Mar Not Ilgrao Hit Family. New York, May 4. Aooording to the Journal's Paris correspondent, Eugene Vaiseuar, a young Frenchman whos dead body was found in a tbioket on the Bois de Viennes, was murdered by his own father and cousin, the lat ter having been hired to assist in the orime by the former. Vasseuar did not bear a good reputation, and it is olaimed that his father wished him dead rather than that he should dl graoe the family. The cousin, whose name is Boucher, tells the following story of the orime: A lonely spot in the Bois de Viennes was fixed upon for the scene of the tragedy, and it was arranged that Bouober should go along a small path with Eugene, while the father was to hide in a thicket and then spring out on their vioitm. At 8 o'clock the next evening Boucher persuaded Eugene that he had a job for him at Cravelle, so the couple went down in a boat to Cbarenton, climbed to the plateau, and as they passed the fatal spot the father prang out like a tiger and seized his son by the throat Eugene shouted for help, at the same time making a desperate resistance, and the father, who was becoming blaok in the face, oalled to Bouober: "Why dont' you help, you coward?" Bouober seized the young man by the throat, and waa bitten in the hand. He then loosened his grip, whereupon the father, with a desperate effort iiirew ma buu uuwu, aua Denaiog oyer him, strangled him. As he pulled the oord whioh they had prepared, Boucher H1U , "Let bim alone; his punishment has . been severe enough." The fa ther re plied: "I believe you; this time the scamp has full measure and running over." Both men are under arrest. HOW IT FELT. Be Refuted to Take Part ton' Bald. In Jame- Kuailan Lion, Chlnete Lamb. New York, May 6. A dispatch to the Herald from St Petersburg says: Apropos of the visit of Li Hung Chang to St Petersburg, Prinoe Oak' toamsky, who traveled with the Chin' ese statesman, writes: "The Chinese envoy has delivered papers which signify eternal friendship between the two great neighboring states. Russia has no need of any al liance. A treaty with China would only le an annoyance to us. Russia s interest is merely to hold China intact We shall not permit any one to play the master in China and we shall not permit any one to attack the country. If Russia protects China, she protects herself." Coming from the quarter it does, and printed as it is, in double-leaded tyep, the statements may be taken as entirely and wholly representing the truth about the much-debated relations existing between Russia and China; no treaty, but an understanding. Three hundred structural ironwork ers employed on the various elevated railroads in course . of construction in Chicago struck for an increase qf wages. The structural ironworkers in Chicago are completely tied up and it is feared that a general strike of the building trades will follow. New York, May 6. Samuel Lion- tenstadter, a man who has just return ed here from Johannesburg, says: The Johannesburg reform commit tee met last Christmas day at Cecil Rhodes' house to receive instructions from him for the movement against the Boers. I was present- Rhodes' in struotlons to the reformers were that they should maroh into Johannesburg under the British flag and when the town was captured, a triumph of Brit ish arms should be proclaimed. "The reading of the instructions was followed by a silence of some min utes. Then Hammond arose and said: " 'Not for all the wealth this land oontains, not If you were to make me the absolute ruler, would I have a hand in carrying out these instructions. I oan pull a trigger to shoot down an oppressor, but I cannot and will not be a party to a revolutionary intrigue. If I am going to take up arms under any flag, it will be the one that is flying today over the ocean under the banner of a free people, who believe in revo lution as a remedy for oppression, but who hate, with a Kaffir's bate, the rape of a free people's territory. You oan count me out ' "The reformers, nearly all of whom are Britons, were thunderstruck. They needed Hammond. After he bad spo ken, they realized that Cecil Rhodes' order must be reversed. Jameson, however, refused to be put off. He in sisted on carrying out bis part of the original programme of oonquest But when he invaded the Transvaal, the Uitlanders, influenced by Hammond, gave him no aid, and the raid failed miserably. "Rhodes and Jameson, being En glishmen, are now enjoying the pow erful protection of the Britisb govern ment, whose agents they were, while Hammond and the other Americans are made to pay the penalty of the others' orime. " A Suicide Becorded III Dying Sen sation. San Farnoisoo, May 4. An un known man oommitted snioide in Golden Gate park last night, by drink ing carbolio add. The strange part of It is that he left a record of hia feelings while the biting fluid was at work upon his vitals. He wrote that he was "dying beautifully," but that his tak ing off was a pleanBt one was made doubtful by the evidences of a final frenzy, furnished by the fragments of the card on which other words were written. In his last moments the dying man had torn it to bits, together with an other on whioh he had written after taking the poison. When the pieoes were adjusted, it was found that they bore the name ot Descalso Brothers, wholesale liquor dealers. On one, doubled with the first one on which the man had used his pencil, were the fol lowing words in printed letters: ' ' "Drug is working; friends only two- one dead. No hope in this world. Wife good, but obstinate. My wife, God bless" Then the writing broke off into a few unintelligible words. On the other card appeared the line, also-printed: "I am dying beautifluly. " In some further writing appeared the words "soul" and "sleeping." Then the final frenzy had evidently come, and the life that was held valueless had gone. There . also lay beside the body a newly laundried and folded apron, whioh might have belonged to a bar keeper.' It bore the initials "O. W. A." THE OREGON'S TRIAL Ship. Speed Tett of the New Battle Boon to Be Made. Washington, May 4. Instructions were sent forward from the navy de partment today to San Franoisoo for the trial of the battle-ship Oregon. The conditions for the trial will be precisely the same as those in the case of her sister ships, the Indiana and Massachusetts. The trial will take place over a thirty-one knot course in the Santa Barbara channel, just out Bide the old Olympia course. As there has been a strong spirti of emulation manifested between the shipbuilders of tne Atianito and Paoifio coasts, much interest is felt in the ontcome cf the Oregon's trial. The California build ers are expressing oonfldenoe that she will be able to maoth the 16.2079 knots of the Massachusetts when the trial is run off, whioh will be as soon as tbe board oan receive the instructions mailed today. LAND OFFICE MATTERS. Oeelaion In Waahlngton Ferry After th Metaorito. Washington, May 6. The secretary of the navy has granted six months' leave, with permission to go abroad, to Civil Engineer R. E. Peary, the Arctio explorer. Although no expla nation I furnished of the object of bis leave, it is supposed the offloer ia about to go to Greenland, for the purpose of bringing home the largest meteorite in existenoe. which be discovered when but in that country. BeTeral Case, Washington, May 4. The secretary of the interior has reversed the deci-; slon of the general land office in the ' case of the state of Washington against the Northern Pacifio railroad. The old decision, rendered in October, 1894, held for cancellation the state's selec tion list No. 2, for agricultural college support, on aooount of conflict with the indemnity selections of the road. These selections were made in the North Yakima district. An order was issued on the railroad to revise its lists within six month an that proper basis will be shown for all lands selected as indemnity, and the road failed to comply with it The land office therefore is held to have erred in its action and advised that the state's selections, if otherwise regular and legal, shoud be submitted for ap- The fast westbound mail on the Northern Pacifio met an eastbound cat tle train nenr Li v teuton, Vet, wrecking both tra.ns. ngaer Fan ning, of the cutis train, was killed: Fireman P. Jellund, w ftUVj Injured and s-..l er tad'y hcrt Many passengt n jsapod.