Wallowa chieftain. (Joseph, Union County, Or.) 1884-1909, March 10, 1899, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text• • ’ i» J ' f < T f 7«£ REPRESENTATIVE W A SH IN G T O N . : .’ í A .- 1 '• •.< V M 7 ¿./-.'K «■. <¿ÍÍ’ -\5 0-w A.-» 9 OF WALLOWA COUNTY. W HOLE NO. 772. E N T E R P R IS E , W ALLO W A CO! \ T V , O REGON. MARCH 10, 189tf. VOL. X V . XO. 39. . « ■ ■ NEWSPAPER The city of Dayton has practically no flouting debt. A telephone line will !>«• put in between OUR NORTHWESTERN MINES. GEN. OTIS SAYS THREE MONTHS. W ilkeson and Carbonado. The chief of police of Seattle intends to try to put a little life into the curfew I t e m s G le a iie « ! F r o m l l i e L u te R e p o r t s - D e w 4* y f o r I iiim »4'«I i»»te A c t i o n —A I- I.» k | ordinance. A l l D is t r ic t « A r e B e i n g D e v e l o p s ! A o f t r u c e (J o e* o u t ( H is W i l l t i v r p t Dan McDonald, a longshoreman, (io P r o s p e r o u s Y e a r I n P r e d i c t e d —M i n i n g N o t h i n g h u t t n c o n « lit lo n u l S u r r e n d e r — years old, was found dea«l ill his cabin in N o t e s ttntl P e r s o n a l s . 4 ou t p la in t o f th e A r m y . Old Tacoma last week. Manning Hill, a t «me time the fastest T he new $100,000 m ill a t th e Gol- bicycle rider in the state, is now an Ad condu m ine, n e a r B aker C ity, Ore., is .Manila, I*. I., March 4. 1 am ju st about ventist preacher at Elma. to sta rt with a llag of truce for the in William Babino, a logger, was drowned building. T he ow ners expect g rp a t surgent lines at Calooean, having received while attem pting to cross P uget sound success w ith th e new brom ine-chlorine process. T hey a re J. G. a n d J. T. E n g jm - i mission from General Otis, to collier ill a rowboat during a heavy wind last lish, of D anville, 111. T h e m ill b u ild with the Filipino commander, inf«»*o*co Dfc week. ing covers 170 uy 3U0 feet, '1 he com La ( m /. in the presence of Isdh armies. Tin* Walla Walla Vni«m has changed i G e n e ra l Otis thinks that the w m will be hands. J. G. Franklin, B. E. I .a Du« ami 1 plete eq u ip m en t will be In o p e ra tin g practically ended within three months. L. Arm strong will tak e charge of the pa shape A pril 1, lit S o n tli A ir le n . W hen General Lawton's divi-io t anives jxw uml job offifc*. A th e \m«*ric:tn lin e, u«»u « retch ed o u t fo r Roliert Sheldon, an old pioneer of Sno-j In 1897 In th e H and, South A frica 22 mile« around Manila, will be shortened liomisb, dropped dead at t h e home of W. gold d istric t, th e re w ere in o p e ratio n a n d strengthened, to «‘lia b le a powerful J. Steven* recently while visiting with 1675 sta m p s; in 1898, 5042; th e ton- column to mass and smash the insurgents thc family of the latter. nage c ru sh ed in 1897 w as 5,325,355— inasM*d lieyond Calooean, and thence ad A man named Harris, from near Mon- a bout 4 ’ j to n s per sta m p per day. As vance on Mah'h's, the Filipino capital. Ad tesano has l»ecii arrested and turned over in th e U nited S tates, th e tendency is miral Dewey thinks that the enemy should to the sheriff of Chehalis county, charge«! to in cre ase th e cap acity per stam p . In be attacked immediately, and all the isl with abducting his 13 year-old niece, ¡th e p a st ten y e ars th a t d is tr ic t has ands occupied. Ritzville’s new opera house is finished.' yl®^®^ $320,000,000 in gold. General Otis said to me today th a t he The building is ha-afed opposite the court-I T l i e l ’l i j n e M i n e . , will not receive any communication from house. Its size is 40x100 feet, and lias a 1 T h e P ay n e m in es a re situ a te d in th e the ipsurgciits, but he is willing to treat with Agiiinaldo siinpjy as chief of the in total seating capacity for about 000 peo 's io e a n div isio n of B ritish C olum bia, pie. I say s th e T o ro n to W orld. So fa r only «urgent forces. He will accept only u n A t Oakesdale last week Isaac Hickey A,ne of th e fo u r cla im s owned by th e conditional surrender. Before tin* pr«s«-nt «ontlict begin General (His said he sound- became suddenly insane ami gave his com pany has been w orked and o u t of w ife, w ho lias been seriously ill for some 1 th is claim th e com pany h a s a lre a d y e«l Agiiinaldo** eonwnissioners as to tho time, a dose of strychnine. She will r e - ! paid $1,000,000 In dividends, besides acceptance of local self-government under cover. p a y in g all costs of developm ent and American sovereignty. Agiiinaldo replied Helen Heller, of W alla W alla, lias dis- eq u ip m en t out of th e e a rn in g s of the th at he would only accept absolute inde pendence. although he w as willing to let appeared, taking with her about $.'¡,000. m ine. S n lp h u r . the Ci.itcd States protect the republic A great, deal of it was in county w ar against foreign interference. General th is rants, which she exchanged before leav S u lp h u r w as m ined in th e U nited is anxious to have Spain ratify the treaty, ing for parts unknown. S tates, in 1898 in U tah, N evada and Charles Gaupin. a resident of Loomis L ouisiana. T he to ta l p roduction w as as now everything outside of Manila is for the past eight, year.s suddenly lie officially Spanish territory. The admiral a bout 3,000 sh o rt tons, valued a t $00,- is for action, lie thinks th at this hair came insane a few days ago. It is said 000. T h e N evada p ro d u c t w as shipped .splitting and tiling on our troops all lie lias las-n worrying over contracting to San F rancisco. U tah produced 337 tons. T h e production of s u lp h u r in around the < ity night and day from the for work on a mining property. 11!.. » heh,,lis city council him passed an L ouiglana (niaile bv th e F re n c h pro- insurgent trenches will assist the Filipinos ordinance imposing a $2 poll tax on all cess as in previous y e a rs ), am o u n ted in getting arms. General Bios, the Spanish commander, male inliaaitatits between the ages of 21 to 1,427 sh o rt tons. N oth in g was done now in Manila, wishes to withdraw* at and 50 years, unless they are members of a t th e L ou isian a m ines a fte r May. orne his troops fioni Cebu Zamboanga and the volunteer lire departm ent. T lie l u e s o f A liin iln n m . The contract has jus. been completed other points in the Philippines, hut Gen T h ere seem s to be no lim it to th e for repairing ami remodeling the w ater eral Otis refuses to consent. Our line« about the « itv are everywhere system of Garfield, by which the system 0®®® to w hich alu m in u m can lx* put. well placed. Incendiarism has been sup has been much improved and a ‘larger T he R u ssian m in is te r of w ar h a s ap- j proved of alu m in u m horse shoes for pressed am, the natives in Manila are volume of w ater has been supplied. While returning to Montesano recently the cav alry , a f te r a severe te s t as to thoroughly cow«-«l. There is an average of three deaths weekly from smallpox in from a hunting trip, Scott Stevens and th e ir m erits. 1 hey w e ar longer th an tin* American army. T hirty eases are A rthur Johnson received the contents of Iron, a re less afllected by m o istu re, cost a shotgun which accidentally exploded, n,) m or®» ant* a re ° f course m uch light- now in the hospital. | e r - * h®y a r ® lik e ly to come in to gen- General Otis ha« complained to A d m ira l and will he laid up for a few weeks. (h a rlc v Ike. a Yakima Indian, who e ra ^ us® ^h® n e a r fu tu re. W ith in Dewey against the navy forcing the cam went, to Tacoma a few days ago to serve a few’ y e ars iron w ill have to ta k e a paign too rapidly. as interpreter in the whisky selling eases back sc a t for m any of th e u tilita r ia n in Hi»» f»k.I..x/-.,...» -* -- • - **• ••»»» r>«i t,»»ooo<’ 1 D A IIO . * murdered and robb«*«l, some time last U ispensante. Mr. Lively of Walla«*«* has returned •'n in e <»f H e p n h l l c S p rcn rin . from Stevens peak ami reports eleven feet week P a tric k C lark, th e p rin cip al o w ner The British ship Andchina, which sank of snow there. in Tacoma liarhor six weeks ago, with ot th e R epublic m ine, h a s re tu rn e d The prune and apple trees of the Pot latch have suffered no damage from the her ofilccrs and clew, will be raised, if from his e a s te rn tr ip and re p o rts th a t possible, !>v ( a|),ain W. 11. Smith, of San he found th e fam e of R epublic cam p effect of the extreme eohl weather. Caruthers, of Sc Si has a lre ad y reached th e c ities of the The whist tournam ent at the Moscow Francisco, ami t . .1. Ciiriithers east, a n d th e in d ic a tio n s a re th a t con- club is ended. Lyman R«*«*<1 finishing six attle. F.tlsworth DeLaslimiit. tlie young man sld e rab le e a s te rn c ap ita l will seek m ln- points ahead of the next best man. The Nez Per<-e jail lias become so unsafe w h o re c e n tly -e c u ic d a license to m a n y lug in v estm e n ts th ro u g h o u t th e north- that all of the federal prisoners have been Fmnia Grunewohl, a prepossessing young e rn section th is com ing sp rin g . Mr. ordered remove«! to Mo*«*ow for safe keep- willow of Rosalia, hut who. Hie day p r io r C lark s ta te d th a t th e re g u la r m o n th ly to tlie nuptials, was arrested for spank d iv id e n d of $30,000 from the R epublic ing. m ine would be passed th is m onth, a s Parties «•oniing in from tlie mountains ing tlie 2-year-otd child of his prospectici th e cold sn a p had se rio u sly in te rfe re d say th at tlie snow is so deep th a t the bride, inis becom e insane. w ith th e o p e ratio n s of th e m ill. I t Clearw ater has reached the high water is a c red ita b le fact, how ever, th a t th e IN D U S T R IA L N O TES. m ark. The railroad lo the Fairfax mines I,as net. re tu r n s of th e lim ited o p e ratio n s Spalding at present is taxe«l to its u t | of th e m ill w as m ore th an am ple to most eapaeity on account of its influx of boon complete«!. A rrangem ents arc being made in Pa- pay all expenses of developm ent w ork gamblers from all over the country, who on th e m ine. Ions«* to m anufacture pott«‘iv. are reaping a harvest from the Indians. The Keefe & Perkins shingle mill at Dr. L. F. Inman of Moscow has received M INING NOTKB. a message from the war departm ent in Sultan. Wash., has started up. A t P o rtla n d is being fram ed a gold Carr A Carr, hankers of Montesano, ar«' forming him that the report of ’I’racy In m in in g dred g e to cost $40,000 for th e m an’s «tenth at Manila Monday was u n arranging to onen a bank in Elma. Pom eroy D redging C om pany of P o rt The i«*e crop this year at Miles City, true. land, Ore. Montana, is good, averaging 34 inches of ■ J. J. Remington of Salmon river, near C alum et, Mich., is now’ th e second W hite Bird, reports th a t the stock on clear. goo«l ice. la rg e st m in in g cam p in th e U nited During the year 1898 the mills of Bal the river is doing well sin«e the disap S tates, and cla im s a population of 40,- pcaranee of the snow, hut that fc«*d is lard ma nil fact tire« I over .‘UM),(MMUW0 ce 000, b ein g next, t o B utte. d a r shingles. short. I t is e stim a te d th a t th e re 1 r now Elberton w ill put in a fruit evaporator ' Mr. Tonlonsnn, a miner in the Standard $1,000.000 w orth of ore in sight in the mine a t W nllace. had his hip crushed by the «‘oniing season, wilh a eapaeity of Red Boy m ine n e a r B aker C ity. T he a fall of rock iu the mine Friday. He from Jn.iMMi to 4(>.(KM) pounds. m on th ly c le an u p s of th is m ine ra n g e There are 90 Ja p s at work laying side was removtsl to the Providence hospital from $19,000 to $25,000. track at W allula, l iny ar«* fast taking i and is slowly improving. A n o th e r s tr ik e of clean g a le n a ore tin* place of Chinamen. The decision of the local land office in is rep o rted on th e fcittle Spokane, n e ar favor of the contestant in the ease of ('. W ill,on Stetson, Of the stotHoi, A Post I - M ontana. Oro ia being h auled interested in an excel- ' o . . ___ •oin,Ki..y, is interesteil r a ..».i „ r()a(I for 8h lp m en t t0 O re a t It. C arter vs. W. T. Adams, to a q u arter Mill «ompiiiiv. section near Lapwai, has been aftirme«l by sior and broom haiulle factory being p a j |8 the commissioner of the general land of erected at Ledro-Woollev, Wash. T h ere is a p e rsiste n t ru m o r th a t th e There is considerable Uneasiness ,, among fice. • , . , « K eystone is ab o u t to absorb th e Gold- ,_ . in th e v Y _ akh i.u d istric t, u M ______ Messrs. D. and C. W. ( ante of the wool stiM'k men and ta i .... is near I olfax lie a flint, ontana, en mill at Post Falls, state that they have cause tlie prolonged winter is causing a and th a t one big m ill w ill w ork th e bought several new ki ittiug machines, shortage of feed. ores from both propositions. Tlie Abbott ranch, near .Montesano, was ! ami will start up tin* first of \p ril with h is men w ut recently •.,,1,1 to a brother o l i d . It j t0 T w nrg w eek „ in k a in g force an of Incline s h ere a f t p on an additional for««» of hi new employes. Judge Mayhew has s< silence«I Janies A. Goiiohuer. managoi of tlie Montesam , th h„ p „ epublic „ „ ,,ii. to „»rah e R ebate i„ In R cateh n,« the T urner of W allace to om year iu the pen creamery for $2500. ledge at a point n e a r th e oottom of th e C attle buyers from Spokane have been winze, and a n o th e r force w ill com ¡(entiarv for man«laiightcr. The ju ry recommended him to the mercy of the scouring tlie country to the smith of m ence a ra ise to connect w ith it. «•ourt, and the sentence is the shortest Rockford during the past two weeks in On th e S liv er K ing, n e a r O kanogan the law allows. quest of tieef cattle. lake, a n d owned by th e C anadian- The past we« k has been a notable «»lie A cockerel at tlie S p o k a n e poultry A m erican Oold M ining and Develop- for the fruit growers ami farm ers of the sliow w as su ch a lino b ird I h a t tlie judge m enj com pany, of R ossland, 250 feet ..i . I . _ offered »v__ i aw - _ i.:... Potlatch country, tw*o meetings having of «1....... the exhibition $,.> for liim. o( tu n n e ls have been d riv en since Nov- been held and a «legree of interest m ani whicli was prom ptly refused by his own- ’ em ber 1 fested that made the institute of more or"; | A s tr ik e h a s been m ade a t th e 70- than ordinary significance. The insti I lie Pomeroy and Lewiston stage line f00p level In th e Oolden E agle, on th e tu te was the first o f a scries, and the lia s been s h o rte n e d . T h e stage only luns ] n o rth fo rk of th e K e ttle riv er, in th e fru it growers are «utliusinstie over the now from P o m e ro y to Alpowai. I lie mail B oundury c o u n try . T he And c o n sists results. ionic is discontinued lietwecn Alpowai of fo u r feet of high g ra d e copper-gold and Lewiston. J ore, from w hich a ssa y s w ere had from T o l l . i i l . l T a n X o .. g t e i i n i e r s , Dr. X. (i. Blalock, of Walla W alla, the ggq Jioo. \ogotiations have I ms - u concluded for most extensive fruit raiser ill the Inland I A carlo ad of red g ra n ite h a s been the building by tlie Cramps of two. and Empire. States that the fruit crop of Wul J „hipped to S e a ttle from A. C. Thom p- pcilia|>s throe, large ships for tin- Oriental In Walla county has been extensively son's new q u a rry . T h ere is said to he A Occidental Steamship Company, of damaged. b u t one o th e r place In th e U nited which company .tolin I). Spreckels is pres I nitcd Stales I ommissioner It. I\. S ta te s w here such a fine qun llty of red ident. Tlie new vessels will ire about Knapp, of Ives. Okanogan c o u n ty , la st ^granite is found. Most of the red gran- unin» ions each, fiimi-slied with twin screws yenr. made a sueicxs of tobacco raising jin th is c o u n try Is b ro u g h t from Scot- and ca|xilile of averaging 17 knots an hour. on his ranch, and recently was offered land. I bey will probably ply lietwecn .an F ran 1 2 i l i nts a pound for a large quantity. | T h e C am p H e w itt p ro p e rties w hich cisco and Svdnev. N. S. \V. llie Itclliiighain Bay Improvement com have re ce n tly been secured by th e Can- panv s mill at New Whatcom presents a adlan-A m erlcan Oold M ining and De- V i l . n n e e o i W ii h c n . veritable hec hive appearance. A large velopm ent com pany of R ossland, com- Piltshurg. March 5. 'Hie Schoen num ber of men arc employed in the saw p rise 10 gold-copper claim s situ a te d on Pressed Sled Company of Alleghany ad mill, which has a capacity of culling 75. O kanogan lake a t th e new tow n of vanced wages in all departm ents today inhi feet of liim licr per day. . P eachland, w hich is located 20 m iles The biggest sticks of tim ber ever eut in n o rth of P e n tic to n on th e w est aide from 5 to lit per cent. This increase will benefit more than 3IMH, men and will pre- Portland w< re cut at the mill of Inm an.! of th e lake, rent the strike of punchers and riveters. Paulsen & ( ’<». recently. They w«*re of fir | One m ile e ast from th e ranch of W. j and were three feet square, and a little L. D avis, ju s t a cro ss th e O kanogan The wisdom of the wise and the expert more than forty eight feet long. They eon riv er, lies w h at Is called a sodlum -snl- cnee of ages is preserved by quotation. 1 tnined 5,200 feet of lumber, and weighed p h ate m ine. T h is deposit covers a bout j about 20,000 pounds each. J sixty acres, and from sam ples se n t to Disra« ’.i. ere»-' ' . — »y- . >«.. w , the a g ric u ltu ra l college of W ashing ton and a chem ist in S e a ttle is pro nounced by them com m ercially pure. A nother attem p t has been m ade to find In d ia n John g fabulously rich placer gold fields, said lo be located in TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRE. C assia r a n d w hich a re pronounced .am o n g the lost m ines of th e w orld. | T h is tim e C a lifo raia n s trie d to locate 1 C o m p l e t e R e v ie w o f t h e K v e u t s fo r t h e P e s t W e e k In T h is e n d r u r e l g n .th e gold, but di< t succeed. A fter L e n d s - S u m m a r is e d F r o m t h e L a t e s t two y e a rs’ w andering som e of th e p a r l> I m p e t e li e s . ty have re tu rn e d to Vancouver. li c it i s l i C u lu m b ln . A rra n g em e n ts are being m ade to President J. J . Hill of the Great North resum e w ork on t i e Diam ond H itch iu ern and President A. L. Mohler of the O. R. «5k N. held a conference in Seattle the B oundary country. T he C aledonia, in Hear L ake d istric t. reiently. It is thought th a t the confer B. C., has 150 feet of tu n n e lin g and h a s; ence was based upon the question of con Just com m enced a cross-cut funnel. ; st nu t ing a railroad into the Republic two sh ifts a re being w orked. mining district. On th e M onte i-.^ lo and A m erican! William W ayne B»*h in is ‘undee* ar»e«t Engl" on Hard;. '■> •> -mt-iln in* B ound in t h e W aldorf-Astoria, charged with ary v aluable deposits of n a tiv e copper threatening the life of the Denver mil ore have been en countered. lionaire, David II. MotTat, and also with A v aluable body of ore h a s been trying to defraud the hotel out of $423. c ro ssc u t on the City of P a ris and L in The United States gunboat Wheeling coln claim s in C entral cam p, B oundary has arrived in Vancouver, B. C., from country. A laska. A foot of clean ore h a s been stru c k Miss Ada Rehan, the leading lady of In th e d r if t b ein g run on th e Mabou Augustin Daly's company, has been en claim , w hich adjo in s th e E n te rp ris e gaged, with Mr. Daly's permission and m ine on T en Mile n e a r S ilverton. approval, to create the part of the hero A t th e D undee m ttie th e m ain sh a ft ine in the next D rury Lane dram a. Is now down to th e 263-foot level. T he The commissioners of Golden G ate park, d r if tin g on ore is being c arried on a t San Francisco, have accepted an offer by th e 300,000 level, w here it is 18 feet Claus Spreckels to erect a marble or thick. granite music stand, to cost not less than T he G ladstone m in eral claim , s itu $00,000. ated on P orcupine creek, fo u r m iles A t St. Louis, in the trial of Campbell e ast of th e Nelson ami F o rt Sheppard Alignir on the charge of murder, photo railw ay, h a s been sold by N. A. R ivers graphs purporting to portray every stage to Gideon M ahar. of the assault were brought forth by the M ontreal p a rtie s have pu rch ased a state and allowed as evidence. The entire larg e in te re s t in th e Oro D enoro claim I tragedy as the prosecution presents it in S u m m it cam p, en '»gh h av in g been was acted out before a camera. Invested to in su re the ste a d in g w ork Orders have been issued for filling in ing of th e m ine in future. of the fifty-mile gap between Surf and F iftee n m en a re a t w ork on th e City Elwood, on the c«»ast division of the of P a ris and L incoln m ines over in Southern Pacific railroad. This wdl com C e n tra l cam p and a re m ak in g good plete a new tru n k line from Sa ’ Francis progress on th e 800-foot tu n n e l w hich , co to Los Angeles within a year. is now in over 600 feet. Frances Saville, the opera singer, who R. G. S idley of A n a rch ist m o u n tain ! states th a t she is a citizen of California, has bonded h is well know n A n arch ist has brought suit against the Madison gro u p of claim s a t Camp M cK inney! Avenue hotel in New York to recover to W. P. P ato n and com pany of G reen $20,000, the value of a casket of jewels wood for a larg e sum . which she alleges was stolen from her T he m ill a t th e P orto Rico is r u n apartm ents in the hotel December 9, 1898. n in g n ig h t and day and is g iv in g good Total receipts from customs and taxes sa tisfa c tio n . T h ere Is m uch sp e c u la in Amerit’a ’s island possessions are: In tion as to the re tu rn s , and e stim a te s Cuba, from Ju ly 18, 1898, to Ja n u a ry 31, v ary from $20,000 to $5“,000. 1899 (six ports not reporting for J a n u T he B o u n d ary Creek M ining com- a ry ), $1,312,372; in the Philippine isl pany, w hich ow ns th e I.ast Chance, in ands, from August 13, 1898, to December S k y la rk cam p, has purchased a com 31, $1.819.813; in Porto Rico, from Aug plete p lan t, c o n sistin g of a 50 h o r s e 1 ust 15, 1898, to December 15, 1898, $3,- pow er boiler, hoist, pum p and steam 043,002. d rills from th e Je n c k s M achine com- J Lieut. Commander C. P. Rees, U. S. N., pany a t T ra il and exprs t to have It on i who was tlie signal officer with ^X«lmiral lJeweys tleut, ami vt ho stool upon the T he confirm ation of the sale of the bridge with the admiral during the b at tle of Manila, has arrived in Topeka, la te st a c tu a l tr a n s f e r of note and is in Kan., to visit relatives. The naval offi d icativ e of w h at is going on around per was received bv the governor and S um pter, Ore. both branches of the legislature, and T he re s u lt of th e Hall M ines sm e lt spoke briefly Itefore both the house and ing o p e ra tio n s d u rin g the fo u r w eeks senate. en d in g J a n u a ry 27th wore: 22 days, An appeal has been reeeived by the 6 h o u rs’ sm eltin g , 3,727 to n s sm elted, San Francisco Chamber of Commerce on yield in g 69 to n s copper, 39,250 ounces behalf of the flood sufferers of the Shan silver. tung provinct* of China. Those signing T he m ill a t th e P o rto Rico Is r u n the appeal are American ano English peo n in g n ig h t anil day anil is g iv in g good ple. The state th a t the Chinese of the sa tisfa c tio n . T h ere is m uch sp ecu la d istrict have raised something like $70,- tio n as to th e re tu r n s and e stim a te s on (MM>, but this will go hut a short way, as th e m o n th 's re tu r n s vary from $20,000 there are over 2,000,000 peoplg starving. to $50,000. The transport Roanoke has sailed for I t is e stim a te d th a t th e ore sh ip Manila with a full cargo of supplies for m en ts a lre ad y m ade from th e Slocan the tr«H»ps. She took nway 17 recruits th is y e a r have yielded re tu rn s of over for the Fourteenth infantry, 11 men of h a lf a m illion dollars. T w enty-one the Twentieth infantry and two men and m ines a re a t p re se n t on th e list of 57 recruits tor th«* Twenty third infantry. shippers. The consummation of the $25,000,000 D u rin g J a n u a ry th e B A. C. did over combine, the New Y ork G hj % Light, Heat 2500 feet of tu n n elin g , sh a ftiu g , etc., & Power Co., has l>een made possible on its v a rio u s p ro p e rtie s and prob by the decision of the directors of the ably th e F e b ru a ry record w ill be even Standard Underground Cable company to g re a te r th a n th a t. surrender to the combine $140,000 worth T he tu n n e l on th e W allingford a t of bonds of the United Electric Light & R ossland is now in 245 feet and h a s a Power company of New York held by it good sh o w in g of m in eral In th e face. as collateral. A ch an g e has been m ade to the use Negotiations will probably be complet of coal a s a fuel in th e V irg in ia m ine, ed for the sale of the plant of King, Gil a t R ossland. bert A W arner company of Columbus, T he new m ac h in ery on th e S u lliv an Ohio, to the Bessemer steel plants of the group, in th e F o rt Steele co u n try , is national organization. The j lant is one w ork in g w ith o u t a hitch. T h e devel of the largest in the west. opm ent w ork has been m uch m ore ra p A ttorney General Monett of Ohio has id since th e m ach in ery was sta rte d . filed a motion in the supreme court ask A c ro ssc u t tu n n e l has been sta rte d ing th a t F. B. Squire, secretary of the on th e V ancouver group, n e a r Silver- Standard Oil Company, he cited for con ton, to ta p th e o re bodies a t m uch tempt. Secretary Squire refused to pro g re a te r d e p th th a n th e p re se n t w ork duee certain books demanded by the at ings. torney general during the taking of tes On th e Noble Five th e big ore body tim ony in the cases against the Standard lately ru n in to has been followed for Oil company, before the m aster comiiiw 85 feet. Its a v era g e w id th is five feet. sioner. I t Is e stim a te d th a t tbi>-nmoiint of ore W ith regard to tl.e report *«1 Anglo in s ig h t is w o rth abo-f? $209,000. German agreement. Prin«*e Radz.iwill of Fram e rem arked: “An entente between M ecreln ry «if W n r . such seilous commercial rivals as Great W u'Jiington, .March 5 G(*ti«*i*ul ■J, Britain ami Germany is almost impos Wheeler may I m * the next secretary of sible. ' war. The president, when he heard how Emil Berne, a cabin passenger on the Sp«‘.»k«*r B««*d had instilled tin* general by North German Lloyd steam ship Saale, refusing to recognize him on the floor of was arested in New Y’ork on a charge of the house, was indignant. The pr«*sident smuggling. r«*gard«*tl the speaker's ;i«ii.»n as an insult President McKinley has notified the to an old and valued r«-presentative. an Moravian college for women th a t it might insult to the confederacy, an insult to a announce the fact th a t ns far as the soldier, an insult to a Smtiag«) hero. Sev present outlook was concerned he would eral gentlemen talked « \«*r th< m atter lie able to attend the exercises on the with the president this evening. When 150th anniversary of the seminary, to he th«*y left the Whit«* hou«< the news Is* held on June 14. President McKinley as earn«* <*uirent that General W hivler would sures the college he would be accompan suectMxl R i i s m H A. Alg« i, an«l that the ied by Mrs. McKinley. Litter might oblige his friends by aunounc Mrs. John A. I.ognn is seriously ill at ing his willingness to retire next week. her home ill W ashington, I). C. She is suffering from a second attack of grip A M ls le r «»f J o e J«*flTer«ion. She has been unable to leave her room New > «irk. Mar« h 5. Cornelia Jetler for more than a week ami her condition s«m. whose name by marii.ige b«*c.ime Mr-- nausea much alarm. Jn<*ksnn. «Ii«sl at her horn«* in this city at Count .lean Bernard Rocheburg Rothen the age of t>2. She was th«* only sister of iaowen, the distinguished A ustrian states J«iscph J«*fi'ers«»n, the comedian. Iu ehild- man, formerly 'm inister of foreign affairs hood she went on the stage and during and incum bent of other adm inistrative her life she was more or I«* sh closely <*on- posts under Emperor Francis Joseph, is nei’ted with the dramatic pr<rf<*ssion. «lend. The Planters’ Cotton Oil see«l mill at K ip lliit t Is Mn«*li I l e t l e r . Monroe, La., was alm ost destroyed by fire New York, March 5. It was said that together with seedhouses, staldes, stock, Mr. Kipling had lost no ground during, etc. The loss is estim ated at $100,000; the day. hut had made sonu* progress j insurance not known. The honors of the tournam ent of the toward recovery. The patient, the phy sicians say, had not spok.*n to any one ( second annual meet of the national skat since talking a little with his wife «luring congress of America at Indianapolis, were the evening won by John Ulrich of St. Louis. The board of stewards of the California Jockey Club have indefinitely suspended tw o jockeys. Cash Sloan and W. H. M ar tin, the former being a brother to Tod Sloan. The directory of the G reater American GOOD NEWS COMES FROM CEBU exposition has ju st elected these officers: Dr. George L. Miller, president; Frank Arm*« h u «I ’ A m m u n it i o n f o r A jfu ln u H lu M urphy, treasurer; and Dudley Sm ith. S«-iz«*«l b y t h e J n p s —R e b e l « »Ire B e se«retary. r u m in « IH w Iieu rten e«! - B u s in e s » H u s According t o ’ reports r«*«.*eive<l by the lte«*uiiie«l in ( lib a . steam er Miowera, the situation in the New Hebrides is serious. Manila, March I —I t 1« rumored here The annual meeting of the Coiigre«. al Teiiqieranco Society a t tlie Vermont that a ateaioer with 20.000 atanda of arm» Avenue Chriatian eliuich, W ashington. „ ,|j am m unition which were bound for was a memorable line, in honor of the late j , |le philippine.» hua been seized in Jap Representative Dingley of Maine, wl>oluueaO w ater by the Japanese authorities. was for 18 years president of the organ Aguinaldo’s arm y is disheartened as the iza t ion. , ... ici-u lt oi th e rou-4uit a u liu n s . M « u y «rfpiady rive t ¡« letier , , . • , L. D. Brough ten J r . . . oi insurgents have retired lM*e*ntse then from , the universities ,, | X,OI< ,aH ollieers skulk and w o n t lead their men. Cambridge on the m atter oi a chess . . .. . . , . . , .i i -I 1 he latent news from Cebu is good, the match bv cable with the American u n i-1 . • .« . . . . . . ,»i...... ‘ , i u i v i i natives are returning to where versitics of Columbia, Harvard, A ale a n d ; , * ,, the town, . p . the coolies are now willing to work, at » » • e {' t • reasonable wages. Under the native go\- P. S. Carr, »ate captain of Company L, , 6 , , , i. . irst . . . . Kentucky . i » was shot i » | em inent ; they f. asked . . double pay. F regiment, l . * . \ easels 'a r e now loading and business has been re- through the left arm a t the elbow by H a n y Price, a young lawyer of Cattle- sumed. The inlluential native« of the islands of burg, who was a private in Carr's com Ma hate and Ticoa request General Otis pany. Eugenio Casselli, the South American to send troops there- They «ay that 200 racquet ami ha ml ball player, played a men could easily subdue the rebels. The series of racquet games with Instructor inhabitants are peaceable. They are dis If. Boakes of the Chicago A thletic club gusted with the extortions of three suc ami for the first time since coming to the cess iv«» native governors. The two islands contain 80,000 head of United States Cassel I i met defeat. The conferees on the census bill have attle, which constitutes the food supply agreed and w ill make their report in the “ I t*®^! arm y of the south, week. The census w ill he nominally un- j nited M ates gunboat Conconl has der the direction of the secretary of the ( arrived here alter a wee$cs cruise along interior, but all appointm ents in the cen-1 th® west eoa.st of Luzon. sits bureau will he made by tlie director : The only incident of her trip was the burning of a schooner loaded with sup- of the census. A t (.'raw ford, Neh., three miles from pi i«*s for the rebels at Dagupan, the ter F o rt R«)hinson, ( ity Marshal Frank D. minus of the railroad. The natives lied and abandoned the Mooney was probably fatally wounded hv Louis Grossman, lato trum peter of Com to w n w h e n th e gunboat anchored in the bay. pany C, First U. S. cavalry. A tornado passed over Evansv ille, Ind., O H E G O 51. last week. The Evansville Brick com pany’s plant, the Diamomi Com m ercial, A white coyote was captured in ft trap Coombs last week com pany's building and one residence! near the home of E. were destroyed amt many private hom es' near Lakeview’. unroofed. Other minor casualties were , A cream ery is being put in a t W arren, reported. The loss will be heavy. : and it is expected th a t one will soon be Texas is passing through an alarm ing, built, a t Deer Island, epidemic of meningitis. Many schools ; W ork has commenced on a large steam have been closed on account of the rav ferry-boat to ply lietwecn Arlington and ages of the disease. th«» W ashington side of the Columbia. There are 30 cases of typhoid fever in M artin Hanson, who owns a fami near the »Second division hospital in M a jo r Eugene, has discovere«! a three-foot veiu General Lee’s camp a t Havana. of soft coal of a good quality ou his David Holland, who is receiving bids place. for the contest between Bob Fitzsimmons Tw enty-four hundred head of the ami Jim Jeffries, today receive«! an offer Chandler sheep have been driven from of $21,000 from the Triangle c*ub, located Crooked creek to Juniper m ountain, fin on Stonev ¡«land a ’ enue, Chicago. l.nke I'ttuiU y j I ‘in.* «.8uo offers 0. pay all cTpcnses of Eldon M. B rattain ha*» receive«! fr«Jm the principals and Vieir trainers to the | the treasury departm eiit a t W ashington battleground ami deposit the purse 10 |.,st Thursday his commission as register days prior to the day of the fight, or of the laml office a t Lakeview, earlier, if desired, when the articles of I Since September 1, 1898. the flouring agivciiieut are signed. ! mil] a t Norway, Coos county, has ground Ex Representative Levi Maish, of Penn 15 k ,3 bushels of wheat, rolled 050 bushel« sylvania, is dead. | <>f barley, and convert«*«! 30 bushels of An apjH*al has been received by t h e ; <*<»rn into fine meal. cham ber of commerce of San Francisco on i The South Baker saw mill has begun a behalf of the flood sufferers of the Shan |o months run. Employment will be Lung provin«1«* in China. ! given to lxdwecn 150 ami 200 men, ami President Z elayas arm y has captured j the m onthly pay roll will approxim ate Cili m ountain ami Aguas Calientes, thus $10,090. virtually term inating the Blucfields revo-1 C attle shipm ents from Ontario promise lution. to he lively. One shipment of 250 head The transport Sherman. N« w York for was made a few days ago, and the buy Manila, has arrived at Port Said. ers say th a t they have the promise of Two iceboats going a t a high rate of 290 head more which will be purchased speed came together on Hamilton bay, and shipped east immediately. Ontario. Win. H«»ltliam was killed and J. W. Phillips, a mining broker of Spo several others severely injured. kane, found his son, Wesley, «had on the T hirty Spaniards arrived on the Cun- ram h of G. W. Hunt, near Pendleton. He ard liner Umbria, at New York recently. had been searching for the boy sin«*« No Most «»f them arc laborers ami arc able to vember 2, 1897, when Wesley m yster read and write. All of them are going to iously ilisapp«‘are«l from his Spokane different mining towns of the west. home. He died of spinal meningitis. The laslies of letter carrier Fred M arty, his wife ami two year-old child, w ho 10 D e w e y K n in e d I I I n N e w F 'la ff. «lavs ago perished in the fire at the Ar . . . . . . . ... . i Manila, March 4.—Admiral George Dew- l.ngton flat la.il, I .„ r , th.cogo, were ev hi„ llag a(|lni|.a| o„ , hw found under a pile of debris. Olympia this morning and was saluted I t is learned th a t ex ITesident Cleve by the guns of the foreign warships, the land has signified his intention of attend British crui.ser Narcissus and the German ing the dinner to he given a t Delmonico’s cruiser Kaiserin Augusta, and by the on March 2nd in honor of Carl Schurz. American ships in port. Representative Qrosvenor of Ohio has Admiral Dewey cabled Secretary Ixmg introduce«! a hill directing th a t govern as follows: m ent publications bear the imprint of the Manila, March 4.—Please ac«*ept for international Typographical Cnion. yourself, the president ami congress and my 4*ountryinen m y heartfelt thanks for L is ! «»f C n N im ltle w . the great honor which has been conferred W ashington, March 5. The war depart - upon m<*. mcnt has reteiv«*d the following cablegram O tlii In A lffe r . from General Otis; W ashington, March 4.—¿Secretary Alger Manila, »March L Casualties, near Ca- today receiveil the following cablegram ItMH-an- First Montana. March 2. Ban«] from Major General Otis a t Manila, In Private Alfr«*d Cashmore, thigh, slight. ack’iow ledgment of the S4*«*retftry’«i con N o . ii S a n P«*dro M a c a ti, I'hk'd a r tille r y , gratillations sent him yesterday on his Mandi 3, S«-rgcant Dennis Sima, just re- continuation as a brevet m ajor general: porte«l as missing. '>im-eie thanks for recognition and con (»rant Cullam, lentil Pennsylvania, was gratulations.’’ -«•nt outside the lines for information J a n uary 27. and has not Iwen seen since. N o O lli4*4*r O n t r n n k N D e w e y . OTIS. In the last, hours of congress it was pro vides! th at the admiral of the navy should G o ld In < h i l k n l C o iiiU r y . receive the pay and emoluments of the San Fnim-i*«-«». March (L Advices front last general of the army. Phis legislation Juneau, Alaska, of E«*bruary 22, say that was supplemental to the hill reviving the a new strike in the Porcupine district has g u id e of adm iral for the benefit of Admiral caused quite a rush of miners to the Dev.cy. Its eff«*«t is to give Admiral ( hilkat country Dewey <*«’inpt li-a lio ii at the rate of $14,600 The find was made on Talikiti creek a y«*ar. Of this amount $13,999 is the which Hows into tin- ( hilkat al»out 12 i«*gulation pay of an admiral of the navy. miles from Haynes mission. Tim mission The extra $ 1 5 9 9 is the allowance made to is rapidly growing in » a liv«*l\ town. The the general of the army o f $125 per month wh«de country hack «»f it. cx«-«*pt beyond for quarters. the divide, is in American territory, in Admiral Dewey holds the highest rank \hi-ka proper, ami claims an- about 1599 in th«* m ilitary service oi th«1 United States f«'«-t -quarc, or about 20 «ere- in area. army or navy ami ranks with the highest of ofli«*«*rs iu the principal foreign navies. < r « « » n ie In 111 %%nll P n p e r . Ithaca, N. Y., March fi. lb. F. M Charnel of the chemical d«*partinent of Corn«*ll university has announced that, as a result of a chemical analysis he lias been carrying on for several months, he is able to stftte th at nearly all wall paper* s«»l«l a t the present time contain arsenical poi sin, »«»me of them in surprising quantities. Ill,I fu r , l,p l i t h F lir lit. s i« P e o p l e l ln r le d In n n A v a l a n c h e . Gunnison, OoL, March 4.—Five men and a woman are buried under an ava lanche of snow which catne down Granite I m ountain near the Magna Charta mine a t W hite Pine, 25 miles from this place. Tho | missing, who 1 «uppnsed to be dead, are: Mrs. M argaret Stout, Michael Welch, Jam es Jordan and three men whose name« are unknow n. New York. Mar.li fl. \V. 11 Gray, In A ustralia, where afreet ears are manager ,,f the We.lelie^ler Ai.iieiic e ln l, deposited $500 wilh Dave Holland of thia owned and operated by tho m unicipality city in support of the club's offer of $15,- school children are carried to and from 000 for the Fitzsimmons Jeffrey, fight. •chool fre« awa - » -, , ■. / " . , « • . • . I U. - W ; ìj Lv>« S s? V"