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Newspaper Page Textt t The New Age VKt VOL. IV. PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER J), JS99. NO. 30. !' r FIRST NATIONAL BANK OFja"cToLAMD' Dcslgnntctl Deimxltiirr nni! Flnnuclitl Accnt of tho 1'nlteil States. Fresldent, II. W. Corbet t; cashier, E. 0. WltlilrtRton; nsMstnnt cashier, J. W. Ncwklrk: second assistant cashier, V. C. Alvoril. letters of credit Issued, avallHbla In Europe Mid the Kaitcrn States. 8luht exchange and telegrai'hto tralifcrs sold on New York, Doaton, Chicago. St. Paul, Omaha, San Fratiulico, and the principal points In tho Northwest. Sight and tlruc bills drawn lu suini to suit on Loudon, farft, Berlin, Frankfort-on-thc-Maln, Hong Kong, Collection! made on favorablo term at all accessible points. LADD TILTOIM, BANKERS SSKKr.!? Established in 1850. . TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS. Interest nllowod on tirao deposits. Collections nuitlo nt nil points on fnvornblo terms. Letters ot orcdlt issuod Available in Europe nnd tho Eastern stntus. Plant xohungo nnd Telegraphic Trnnsfors sold on Now York, Waahlngtzn, Chicago, St. Louis, Douvor, Omnlin, Snn Francisco nnd various points in Ore sou, Washington, Idaho. Montnnn nnd 13r.lt leli Colunibin. Exchange eold on Loudon, Paris, Berlin, Frankfort nnd Hong Kong. The United States National Bank Transacts a General Banking Business. Drafts issued avallnblo in nil cities of tho United States nnd F.urope. TYLER WOODWARD, President. JACOB KAMM, Vico-Presldont. P. C. MILLER. Cashier. mF4Shii Blumauer-Frank Drug Co., Wholesale Distributor-. Floor MillanaWareliDnseMacliinery OR ALUU KIINDS. Silk and "Wire Boltingr Cloth of all numbers. Cotton, Leather and Chain Belting: of all sizes. The only Exclusive Mill Supply House. CROFUT, M'AYEAL fc CO., Telephone Grant 861. 49 FIRST STREET. l.und ami Immigration AkoiiU I.ouu nnd Instirnncu Agents M. L. CAUSEY, General Manager. The Causey Real Estate Go. Farm, Fruit and Timber Lands, Stock Ranches, Mining- Properties. . o . o v Office: Foley-Roche Building. LA GRANDE, OR. "KUSALANA" Is the very finest grade of CEYLON TEA. t Other brands are not JUST AS GOOD. KUSALANA Is packed In one pound lead packages, put up in Ceylon, while the tea Is still FRESH and AROMATIC. If your dealer has not got it he can get It from us. Corbitt fc Nlacleay Co., Tea Importer. PORTLAND, OR. NO MORE rtnroriM KinMFY TEA... . Cures pacVache, KldnoUver and 111 f, " '4u'"lEL"m I. n '. l I i'j ,. ft l . nrtra na nt aitltOP the bow els and aiding nature In throwing off that whloh wakw yellow skin. 'Die effect on the COMPLEXION is quite pronounced, as a lew days use will demonstrate, OVERLAND WAREHOUSE Finest and Most Central Storehouse in the City. A CENERAL STORAGE BUSINESS TRANSACTED. Choap Insuranoo, Storage Rates Reasonable. SPENCER-CLARKE CO., Leasees. Cor. Fourth and Davis. i i TATUM BOWEN Beau Brummel The Best 5 Cent Cigar Made For Sale bg All Dealers. f 44-146 Fourth Street, PORTLAND, OR. BACKACHE! o 1DV . ENGINES,BOILERS, MILL SUPPLIES. WORTHINGTON STEAM PUMPS, Pumping Plants of any Capacity, Wilfrey Concentrators, S. F. Air Compressors and Giant Drills, Mining: Hoists, Cars, etc., Hoe Chisel Tooth Saws. Saw Mills, Shingle Mills and Woodworking Machinery. Pittsburg- Boiler Scale Resolvent, (No charge if not satisfactory). ALBANY GREASE. 29 to 35 First Street. PORTLAND 84 and 86 Fremont St., S. F. I KJI WEEK From All Parts of tho New World and tho Old. OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS Coiiiprtihonslvn Itovlow of tho Import nut Happening of tho l'nnt AVeol lulloil Front tho Tnlagrnph Coluinnt Tho British transport Ismoro was driven nshoro ucar Capo Town. Privnto Mcrrltt, of Buttery 11, com mitted suicide at San Francisco. Archbishop Chapollo will sail for Manila on tho transport Sherman. Thirty-eight wheelmen started in a 6lx-days' bleyolo race in Now York. General Mothuou is boliovod to lmvo resumed tho advance to Kimberoloy. Four vessols from Brazil nro qnuruu tilled lu Now York for fear of plaguo. Tho schoonor Eureka, on tho bom near Coquillo river, will bo a total los After !$2 days tho Glory of tho Seas has arrived ut 'Frisco from Fugot Sound. Tho postmaster at Capo Nomo roports to Washington that tho district ia as rich as is represented. Mr. Taylor, of Ohio, objected to tho swearing in of Roberts, of Utah, us toon as congress opened. A big log boom gavo away at Clio lmlls and 2,000,000 feet of logs aro nlloat in Gray's harbor. Appropriations for tho thrco Rtato schools in Oregon aro running short and tho schools may have to quit. Tho United States supremo court ban declared that a combination of pipo manufacturers is unconstitutional. Section men on tho Southern Pacific near Milwuukio, Or., struck becauso they could not go home to meals and lodging. Eastern woolen mills lmvo bought 1,200,000 pounds of wool in St. Louis at one salo. It is the biggest ualo over nindo in tho West. Tho latest roport from 'tho Moddcr river camp says tho Poors wore- not drivon to retreat, but marched away in the night after tho battle Tho Lako Whatcom Shlnglo Company has purchased a block of 11,000 acres of Huo timber, thought to contain 120, 000,000 feet, all in Skagit county. Tho purchase prico was $00,000, and n mil way will bo built to tho timber. Among tho rlvor and harbor improve ments eestimatd for under continuous contracts on which tho mud asked for is .$100,000 or moro aro tho following: Oakland, Cal., harbor, .$180,000; San Francisco harbor, $170,000; San Pcdio liubor, $200,000; Everett, Wash., har bor, $150,000; Gray's harbor, Wash., $!5 15,000. Also tho following rivor and harobr improvements: Mouth of Brazos rivor, Tex., $220,000; lower Willamette river below Portland, Or., .$200,000; Columbia river at thn cas cades, Oregon, $125,000; watonvay connecting Lukes Union and Washing ton, $100,000. Tho Saiuoan treaty wa9 signod at Washington. Tills ycar'H hop product of Washing ton amounts to 33,08!! bales. Tho now Austrian budget provides for a consul-general in Chicago. Tho tono of tho Japanese props on tho war iu tho Transvaal is decidedly pro British. Gonroal .Too Whcolor writes that tho Filipino war is being prolongod by tho autis in this country. Tho British railway companios lmvo agreod to convoy free to tho port of em barkation, all books, papers and peri odicals intended for uso of the troops engaged iu South Africa, Tho Hernandez revolution is gaining ground in Yonozuola from day to day, and is supported by leading mombors of tho financial and commercial worlds, who supply tho revolutionists with all tho arms and money thoy need. Genoral Leonard Wood will lo tho mastor of all Cuba under tho direction of tho president until tho timo comes when congress takes action by provid ing a new civil government for tho island. Tho British dead and wounded at tho hard-fought battle of Modder river numbored hundreds. Tho war depart ment has given out the information that tho total number of causualties was 452, and tho number killed, 73. Tho Boor loss was slight. Bnbonio plaguo has mado its entry into Japan, five undoubted cases having been rojwrted at Kobe, three already proving fatal. Tho pest is traced to cotton imiiorted from China. Much dismay prevails in tho infected city and tho most drastic measures aro be ing taken by tho authorities. According to lato advices the great drought in Australia was broken iu Ootobor. Terrific storms followed, do iug great damago, epecially to build ings. The Adamstown Human Catholio school, in which 10 children were as sembled, collapsed. One scholar was killed ami two others fcurlously injured, LATER NEWS. ) New; York wants both tho big con ronflons. i Tlio investment of Mnfckiiig is closer thairovor. John S. Chase, tho socialist mavor of llaverhill, Mass., has been re elected, Ton shipwrights from Scattlo took tho places of tho strikers at Yallejo unvgjrnrd. Ex-Governor Lord, of Oregon, has departed for Argentina, to tako his postjjjls United States minister. Legality of the war revonuo act is involved in tho inheritance tax case bo foro Jho United states supremo court. TJo Six Chinese Companies, of San Francisco, have subscribed $4,000 to promoto commercial lelations between Olilrjn and tho United States. Tho Now York cotTeo exchango has petitioned tho authorities to rcleaso tho-jfeoffeo cargo of tho plaguo ship Taylor. They claim thero is no danger. Chaplain Shields, being tried at San Francisco by court-martial for dtuuk enncP8, will try to prove that hi brother clergymen aro persecuting him Bjjct-sugar men aro much disturbed ovorvrecent discussion. Their industry is flourishing, but free sugar from the islands thoy say would bo disastrous to thorn. Tho German ship Wansbek, which hasiirrivod at Astoria, lost two men on tho voyage from Philadelphia, and tho boa&waiu says it was tho captain's faulV Crawford, tho soldier who permitted Wawlner bull-pen prisoners to escape, wiinalishonorahly discharged and sen tonot'd to II) years six months imprison incii. Lyspatchcs indicate that tho Boers nro making all preparations for a hasty retreat to tho Transvaal borders in tho even't of defeat at Tugola and Lady biniUi. AKentncky mob had no mercy for a nojb who murdered and outraged a woimin. Ho was dragged through the stntets at tho end of a rope and dually bo u Jitl to a stake and burned alive. j'Siok soldiors wero compelled to light nhvj'au. Tho Americans had but one conpauy and 150 sick men. They bad to light 800 "Filipinos. Tho attack was made lu the early mo; 'dug, and it be came a hand to hand ronllict. Fighting has ceased between thu Mexicans and Yaquis, tho Indians hav ing retreated. It is said they may bo joined by othors. A courier says the Yaqui's losses iu killed and wounded during 10 days fighting wero estimated at 'J00. Thu Mexican losses wero 15 killed and !10 wounded. Tho postmaster of Boston has re signed. An illicit oleomargarine factory baa been uuoirthod at Chicago. Tho Payno-IIanua subsidy bill has been introduced lu the house. JelTrics and Corbott aro planning to fight at tho Paris exposition and Franco is horrified. Ninety Boor prisoners aro said to have been mass-acted at Eland's laagto by British soldieis. General Hughes is now occupying 20 Puuay towns. Ills lines extend !)5 miles north of Ho I lu. Tho United States supromo court has decided that tho conductor of a freight train is not a vice-principal. England is buying mules, horses, canned goods, hay and rails in this country for shipment to South Africa, An Astoria contractor wants to haul tho stranded lightship oveilaml from Ocean beach to Baker's bay. Ho claims it call bo done. A cablogram from Hong Kong says that Agulnaldo is now ready to stir lender if Consul Wildmau will receive him. Tho junta at Hong Kong advised him to tako such action. Tho industries of Cuba aro iu a do plorablo condition. Iu two produces tho destruction of sugar interests alone is ostimatcd at $1180,000,000, and thero aro no olt'ortH at rebuilding. Huntington has bought another big block of Southern Pacific stock and thero aro said to bo others in on thu deal. Bailioad men believe tho Van dorbilts aro iu some way concerned. Tho shelling of tho British camp at Ladysmith Imh been far moro olTootlvo than previous reports have led people to believe. Hundreds wero killed and wounded from tho Boor bombardment. Bapid telegraph system will revolu tionize all coirospondoiuo. Such low rates will bo made that merchants can a fiord to use the system imtead of thu mails. It is to be placed in operation at ouco. General Andrado, tho exiled presi dent, prophesies a gloomy future for Venezuela. Ho says thero is a revolu tion within a revolution and tho coun try is on tho verge of anarchy. Ho will rem tin iu Puerto Pico. To avoid an injunction a telephone company laid its wires in tho streets of New York at midnight. Tho new company will have a long distance lino across tho country und will fight tho Bell Company. Tolls will Lo ouly one-half thoso at present. Y IN Tho United States Senate Down to Business. FINANCE BILL BROUGHT IN ltixoltulniifl Offered Providing for mi IiivcxtlKittlon of tint l'olyjfiimy yiien t Ion -Iu thu llllllKU. Washington, Dec. 8. Nearly 800 bills and joint resolutions, several im portant concurrent resolutions and pe titions numbering hundreds wero pi o sentod to tho senate today. A major ity of tho bills were old stagers. A few wero of national interest and im portance. Aldrich had tho honor of in troducing tho llrst measure in the sen ate. It wits tho financial bill drawn by tho senate committee on finance of which Alrdlch is chairman and probabry was tho most important mea sure introduced during tho day. Resolutions wero offered providing for an investigation by tho judiciary committeo of all phases of polygamy recently presented in connection with what is known as tho Roberts case; ox pressing tho sympathy of tho senate for tho Boers in their war with Great Brit ain, and declaring that Senator N. B. Scott, of West Virginia, is not entitled to a seat in tho senate. Harris, Popu list, of Kansas, was appointed to a temporary member of tho committee on privileges and elections. Tho ap pointment Is important and significant, bocauso tho committeo has under con sideration tho Quay, Clark and Scott contests. Tho senate spent half an hour in ex ecutive session, but beyond tho ory 1 prompt confirmation of Secietary Knot's nomination, sent in touay, aim tho reference to committees of tho numeious nominations today, it trans acted no business riuiilii'liil Kill Aiirotrd. Washington, Doe. 8. Thu Republi can members of tho house of represent atives gavo their unanimous approval tndnv to the limine (limneinl bill lecent- My introduced, and recommonded its immediate consideration by tho house and nussaim after reasonable debate. Ovorstreot, of Indiana, who intro duced and who Is in general charge of tho bill, will submit a resolution ask ing that a special rule bo refuted for tho immediato consideiatiou of this measure. Tho terms of this special rule aro practically agreed upon, and provide that tho debate will begin Monday, with a final vote at tho close of tho week. ROBERTS FOR THE SENATE. if tint IIoikd HkJimiU IMiii Hit Muy lln AppolHti'il to tint l'iMi' llciily. Now York, Deo. 8. A special to tho Herald from Washington says: If Roberts is finally rejected bythohoi.se, as seems inevitable, thero is a imssl bllty that he may coiuo forward as a claimant for a seat iu the senate. His rejection by the house, it Is expected, will add to his Kipularity iu Utah, ami it is suggested that if Quay 1h seated by tho senate, the Democratic governor of Utah may appoint Roberts to fill tho vacaiicythat exists in Utah's represent ation lu that body. As tho result of a canvass made by Quay's friend, it is assorted that 4(1 of thu 85 senators will vote to seat bin: as senator from Pennsylvania. Tliost figuros are obtained by counting the 111) senators now in tho senate who voted either for Corbott or Mantle and 10 others from whom, it is asset ted, piomisos have been obtained favorablo to Quay. .Senator Chandler has called a special meeting of tho committeo on uloutious to consider thu ease of Quay. Aiilluiirrn of Safiily, Washington, Doe. 8. Tho Interstate commerce commisHiou gavo a hearing to tho representatives of thu several companies asking for a further exten sion of the timo allowed tho railroads to equip their lines with safety appli ances. Two years ago tho commission granted an extension until January 1, 1000. The further extension asked for at tho present timo is one year. Thu representatives of various IuImu orgunl mtlous wero also present to oiler their side of tho case. Representatives of tbout 100 roads were iu attendance. itt.t'itut Hliitlllni; ut I.Hilyxiiiltli. Ladysmith, Deo. 8. Tho hottest 'lMimhardmcnt of the siege took place u week ago Thursday. Tho Boors got fc new big gun in ositiou on Lombard skop, completely commanding tho own, and shelled our camp that day and yesterday, planting shells with great accuracy iu thu camp of thu Gor don Highlanders and the Manchester regiment, wheio thero wero many nar row escapes. Today the enemy resumed tho bombardmoiit, doing some very ellectivo shooting. Several of our guns have been shattered by tho Boer big guns. (luriiiiiii. Am rii'iit'il. Berlin, Dec. 8. Tho Gorman gov ernment and press almost unanimously wolcomo President McKinley's messugo to congress. Even tho agrarian papers, always opposing things American, grudgingly admit that the message ia fair and honest. Tho drift of private comment is virtually thu same. i 1 ROBERTS EXCLUDED. tho Itotiso Or lr red mi Investigation ot Ills Cimo. Washington, Doc. 7. Aftor an in teresting debate of three hours, tha hotiso today, by a vote of 002 to 80, adopted tho resolution offered by Tay lor, of Ohio, Monday, for tho appoint ment of a special committeo to investi gate tho chaiges against Brigham II. Roberts, tho Mormon rcpreseiitatlvo clect from Utah. Previously tho houso had rejected a substitute resolution offered by Richardson, ' tho lcador of the minority, to allow Roberta to bo sworn in and to scud tho whole case to the judiciary committeo. Tho substi tute resolution, howovor, by no means commanded thu full Domocrutio strength. Only 57 mombors voted for it. Of tho !10 who thon voted against tho Taylor resolution, all wero Demo crats oxcept two Loud and Nowlands. By tho terms of tho resolution Rob erts is not only excluded from all par tiuipatlou in tho proceedings of tho houso until tho committeo reports and tho houso passes ujxm his case, but ho is denied a seat in tho hall. Whether this will bo Interpreted to deny him admission within tho chamber pending tho disposition of his case is yet to bo decided. Tho reading of tho president's mes sage was completely overshadowed by tho dramatic proceedings which result ed in tho action of tho houso today. Tho galleries wero thronged with spec tators, mostly women, who sat pa tiently through tho three weary hours that preceded tho debate, and then waited on three hours moro until it was concluded. Tho most remarkablo featuro of tho debate was tho fact that Roberts' pres entation of his own side of tho case, which lasted almost an hour, bucamu ho absorbing that he won thu sympathy of many of those iu tho galleries, and was sovoral times showered with ap plause. It was evident that he realized that the houso was overwhelmingly against him, and at times he spoko de fiantly and fiercely. During tho debate Grosvenor of Ohio rose to repel Indignantly an insinua tion of Roberts that thu president had knowingly appointed men guilty oi polygamy to federal olllces in Utah. Tint Day In thu Semite, Washington, Deo. 7. Today's ses sion of tho senate lasted two hours and 40 minutes, practically tho entire timo being consumed in tho reading of thu president's message. Thu reading was largely perfunctory, few senators ac cording It any attention. Tho anouueemeut of tho death ol Senator-elect M. L. Hay ward, of Ne braska, was received by tho senatu with sincere regret. Although ho wuh not olliuially a member of the body, he was well-known to many of tho sena tors and by them was hold iu high re gard. At tho conclusion of the reading of tho message, tho senate adopted reso lutions of regret presented by Senator Thurston, of Nebraska, and as a mark of respect adjourned immediately. ATTACK UPON VIQAN. Filipinos AmhiiiiIIi'iI tint (liirrUmi, KIM In? l.'lulit Aiiiai'leiiliM. Manila, Dec. 7. Last night a force of insurgents, estimated at 800, at tacked the American garrison of 200 at Vigan, proivneo of South I locos. The American loss was eight killed and many wounded. After very hard fighting the Filipinos wore driven oil' and through tho moun tains, leaving three dead. Colonel Blsbeo is now reinforcing tho garrison. Fears aro entertained regarding vari ous small ImhIIcs of General Young's troops iu tho province of A bra. Manila, Deo. 7. Genoral Hugbe.i now occupies1 Santa Barbara and Cabu tau, Island of Puuay, his lines extend ing 115 miles north of Ilo Ho. Holms occupied 20 towns. Tho inhabitant!! aro returning with white flags. Timir fear of tho Americans is diminishing as they learn they will bo well treated. It is impossllbo to get tho insurgents to light. They aru retreating to thu mountains, and no moro organized re sistance is expected. Hughes contin ues advancing north and spreading his linos. LINED UP ON THE TUGELA. rifteun to Tiveuty Thoii.iiiul Itoers 'Wnltliiif for lliill.tr. New York, Dec. 7. A dispatch to tho Herald from London says: It is now certain that the Boers aro iu great force on thu further side of tho Tugola river. Tho Boer army, which Invaded Natal, was put by good judges ut 25,000 to .'10,000 men. If we accept the latter figure, and deduct 2,000 from losses which may lmvo been mado good by disloyal Dutch recruits fiom Natal, and another 10,000 for tho remaining force at Ladysmith, tho total of thu army coufiuutiug General Duller may bo from 15,000 to 20,000 men. Iu tho meantime, some news has come through from Ladysmith showing that while on tho one hand tho Boer'H lMunbardment was becoming severe, on tho other one of tho naval guns hud ouco moro silenced tho big Boor 40 or lOO-poundur, General Gataero has occupied and socured a large quantity of corn which would doubtless have been command eered had tho Boors been allowed to maku a longer stay, . ji a .us