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VOL. VII.
CUBAN OPERATIONS
Garcia's Forces Ambnsh Two
Detachments.
THE LATTER FLEE IX CONFUSION
Cabana Purine Tbcm nd Kill Many
Ottaen-Nonei Brothers Capture
a, Spanish. Fort.
Naw York. May 28. A special to the
World from Havana says :
General Garcia ambushed two detach
ments 'of Spaniards near Vintegaa,
Puerto Principe province. After a fight
lasting all of one day he attacked them
at night and got tuem separated. For a
while they were eo confnaed they fired
at each other. One detachment finally
became panic-stricken and fled. Garcia
fell on tbe other defeated it, inflicting a
loss of 100. He then pursued tbe retreat
ing force, and, catching np with them
ten miles from the coast, killed or
wounded 64 more Spanish.
The Nunez brothers recently captured
a Spanish fort near Palacios, Pinar del
Rio, and after occupying it' three days
' burned it. taking away a large supply of
ammunition and provisions.
There was also a guerilla fight at Minas
and St. Felipe, Havana province, the
Cubans under Martinez and Carillo
compelling the government troops to re
tire in both instances. Tbe Spanish loss
is not known, but more than 200 wound
ed eoldiers have been brought in at
night so as to avoid observation. The
Spaniards say that Carillo is wounded,
but the report is not believed.
. WOUNDED CUBANS FOUGHT WELL.
Unaaeceaafol Attack by Spaniards Upon
an Insurgent Hospital. -
New York, May 28. A special to
World from Key West says : '
the
-A Cuban hospital near MatruarHaLeorrects anT, efomtch
Tana province, was attacked by bpanish
guerillas. Tbe insurgents were inform
ed of their approach, and, as some of the
wounded could not be moved, those able
to get about fortified the building, which
is of stone, as well as they could.
When the guerillas demanded the sur
render ot the place the inmates replied
with a volley, killing five Spaniards.
The soldiers then eet fire to the wooden
portion of the building, but the stone
part remained intact, and the besieged
made such a valiant fight that the enemy
finally retreated.
Sixteen guerillas raided a camp of pa
cificoa in Mantanaz province and carried
off seven women. One day one of the
women managed to secure some kind of
poison, which was put in the food kettles
of tbe band, and every guerilla died in
agony. .
' Colonel Rodriegaez and 250 Cubans
attacked Casiquas, near Jarucoa last
Tuesday, drove off the garrison and loot
ed the place.
Colonel Gordon's Keeord.
New York, May 28. The Herald pub
lishes details concerning Colonel Charles
S. Gordon, an American reported to
have been killed in Cuba while with the
insurgents in the vicinity of Cienfuegos.
Says the Herald :
Colonel Charles Gordon disembarked
in Cuba last June, and was soon pro
moted to the rank of major. His re
markable shooting at the fight of Vista
Hermosa in the province of Havana
astonished both tbe " Spanish and tbe
Cubans. Ho crossed the trocha and
joined Maceo. Maceo promoter! him for
- bravery in the field, and thought so much
. of him that he was selected as one of the
lew to croes the trocha in his company.
Gordon was wounded the same time that
Maceo was killed.
No Mediation Offered.
.. Madrid, May 28. A semi-official de
nial is given today of the published state
ment that President McKinley made
overtures to Spain on tbe snject of Cuba.
It is reiterated tbat it is impossible for
tbe Spanish government to accept me
diation on a question which "concerns
Spain alone."
,' African War Cloud la Growing- Darker.
London, May 28. The report circu
lated some time ago that in view of tbe
unsettled conditions prevailing in South
Africa the government bad decided to
' transport an army corps of 30,000 men
to that locality, is now confirmed by the
: activity displayed at the. quarters of the
army , service corps in London, Aider
shot, ' Woolwich, Shorncliffe, Ports
month, Curragh and Devon port. , In ad
dition to tbe 30,000 fighting men, tbe
expedition will include 8000 horses, 2500
wagons and 350 carts for transport pur
poses. , " .
' The members of. tbe army reserve in
Nataf have been notified to hold them i
THE DALLES,
selves in readiness. Tbe Transvaal, it is
reported, has instructed its field colonels
to thoroughly patrol tbe Natal borders
and report inetantly any suspicions
movement. ;
A circular has been distributeoVat the
Cape and the Free State from tbe Trans
vaal, calling upon all Afrikanders for
help. " .
POLICY OF JAPAN TO HAWAII.
Maroul Kltlo Saya ' Annexation la Not
Contemplated...
New York, May 28. The World says :
Marquis Ito, who has just arrived in
the city en route for London and the
queen's jubilee, politely- refused to be
interviewed, on the plea that he was too
fatigued after bis long journey, but Mar
quis Eido, who speaks English fluently,
anewered for. him some questions con
cerning the policy of Japan.
"The rumors of Japan's desire to an1
nex Hawaii," he said, "are mere, idle
coetiD. We sent a man-of-war there to
protect the interests of onr countrymen.
That is all. After our experience in
Formosa we do not want to annex Ha
waii, nor anything else at present."
Marquis Kido said tbe Japanese have
the most amicable feeling towards
Americans and hoped pleasant relations
would always continne.
"I want to correct one mistake that is
quite general. Marquis Ito is not being
sent to England a special representative
at the aueen 8 jubilee, but a member ot
the suit of Prince Arasngawa, a member
of the imperial family, who will fill that
I position tor the government on that oc
casion. We will sail Saturday ana join
tbe prince in Paris."
The Mount Lebanon Shakers have re
cently perfected an ingenious cure for
dyspepsia. Their Digestive Cordial con
sists of a food already digested and a
digester of foods happily combined.
The importance of this invention will
be appreciated when we realize what, a
proportion of the community are victims
of some form of stomach troubles.
Thousands of pale, thin people have little
inclination to eat, and what, they do eat
cauees them pain and distress.
The Digestive Cordial of the Shakers
derangement at
once.. It makes tbin people plump.
Every one will be greatly interested to
read the Tittle book which has been
placed in the hands ot druggists for free
distribution. v
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dren. Doctors recommend it in place of
Castor Oil.
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It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac
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Houghton, druggists.
A Seriea of Tragedies.
Heemosillo, Mexico, May 28. The
recent fiesta at Prietas, in Sonora, closed
Saturday night, leaving a remarkable
aftermath of tragedies.
One man, who had lost all his money
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WASCO COUNTY, OREGON. WEDNESDAY.
at the gambling table, committed suicide
by blowing out his . brains, taking a
crowded restaurant at meal time for tbe
scene of his departure. Another cut bis
throat in the chief drinking saloon. ' Two
others, who bad considerable money,
were waylaid on their way home, shot
dead and robbed. A similar tragedy oc-
curred near the reservoir at La Colorado
mill, and another robbery and murder
was committed near the cyanide tanks
below ! he mill. Three lovers . fought
and two of them were killed. All the
victims werePaisnos.
How's Thl!
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carry out any obligations made by their
firm.
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Toledo, Ohio.
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Hall s Catarrh Cure is taken -internal
ly, acting directly upon the blood and
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Testimonials free.
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Rate War on iu Earnest.
San Francisco, Mav 28. The Port
land rata war between the Southern Pa
cific and Oregon Railway &. Navigation
Company was on in real earnest this
morning when the Solhern Pacific made
a cut meeting the first-class rate of $10
and the second clasB of $5 maintained by
tbe steamship company. Scarcely had
the cut been officially announced when
a dispatch from Portland announced the
steamer rates at $6 first-class and $3 sec
ond-class. The first cut was made less
than a week ago, and yet rates to Port
land havesnnered a reduction ot ' more
than 50 per cent. It is quite likely tbat
further reductions will he made.
The Day at San Francisco. '
San Francisco, May 31. Memorial
day-was impressively observed ia this
city today. The National Gnard, Grand
Army, federal troops and detachments
of men from warships in the harber par
ticipated in honoring the memories of
dead heroes. Flags floated everywhere
at half mast, and there was a big parade
prior to the exercises at the National
and Odd Fellows cemeteries.'
TAKEN UP.
Came to my place about a year ago
last April, a red steer, 3 years old past;
little white in right flank : marked two
underbits in right ear; brand is almost
undiscernible, but looks something like
an A. Owner can have same by paying
charges and advertising.
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janitor work of any kind done by a
first-class man? If so, telephone Henry
Johnson at Parkin3' barber ' shop,
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WIVES. V '
rbey "Are
Obtained by
Purchase of the
--. Kin
All the female population of Da
homey belongs to the kinjr, who sells a
few, once a year, to any subject who
may be in want of a wife, or some
times, if a man has performed an act
oi oravcry or pleased tnc l;vzg in any
way, a who is bestowed upon mm free
as a special mark of favor The price
for a wife is fixed, but there is no choice
allowed. ' - ' . ,
The candidate, say:; Waverley Maga
jine, lays the cum of money ' at the
king's feet and ho may recci7c in ex
ehango a young frirl of eighteen or a
toothless old hajr of sixty. . But he
Jare not grumble or complain and can
only leave the palace with hie bargain.'
If any wife quarrela with her hus
band and wishes to leave him. accord
ing' to an old custom., aha ha. a rijht to
return to the Idnjr'R palace. Tha pres
ent monarch is said to possess oalj a
few hundred wives, but there have
been king's of Dahomey who possessed
three thouaand concerts. - , - :
All the officials at the court, when
they enter he Icing-'s presence.- lie flat
on the ground and i.trike their fore
heads on the floor, ar a f in that they
humbla themselves to tlu dust. Even
Thetnigau, the chief minUter, is com
pelled to crawl toward his Sovereign's
feet when he ha3 a communication to
mal:c. - '
The women of Dahomey, after their
marriage, load a rai-rable mo. They
are never allowed to cat with their
ausbands and receive any instruction
ae may wish to give ttiera on their
tnees. No wife would dare to stand
n her husband's presence without his
TwnnnJ nprmiscmn
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Mr. James Rowland of this village,
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a lew nignts ago sne was in such pain
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His wife did not approve of Mr. Row
land 8 purchase at first, but neverthe
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LITERARY NOVELTIES.
'King Solomon's Mixes" has been
translated into German, and one pub
lisher catalogues it as "Old, Testament
Literature."
In the seventeenth century a pam
phlet was published entitled "The
Spiritual Mustard Tot, to Make the
Soul Sneeze with Devotion: Salvation's
Vantage Ground, or a Louping- Sand
for Heavy Believers."
It is said that when Benjamin Frank
lin proposed to start a newspaper his
mother tried to dissuade him from it
because the unid there were already
two papers in America and there was
no room for another. -
Pcttexham, in his "Arte of English
Poesie," erected two pillars of poetry
in honor of Queen Elizabeth. Each
pillar consists of a base of lines in
eight syllables, shafts of four-syllable
l a 1 1 .
lines, unu a crown in me same- ineier
at the base.
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DAHOMEY
I compounds,1
JUNE 2, 1897.
THE INDI4N TROUBLES
Lame Deer Agency Indians
on the Warpath.
SETTLERS MOVING THEIR FAMILIES
An Excursion Steamer ItunsAground
and Catches Fire Cool Beaded
Passengers Prerent a Panic.
Denver, May 31. A special to the
Republican from Helena says :
Cheyenne Indians haveigone on the
warpath arid are said to have killed a
dozen men including five United States
soldiers.-. The Indians have no reserva
tion, but make the Lame Deer agency
their headquarters.
A man named Hoover, a sheepherdef,
was recently shot by Indians, because he
caught several of tbem killing sheep.
The settlers armed themselves to pro
tect their property. Two companies of
colored cavalry from Fort Custer were
ordered to the agency oh Wednesday.
On Saturday a courier arrived from tbe
agency with the information that George
Walters, postmaster, and Lou Anderson,
a stockman, had been shot and killed,
and also that the Indians shot into the
cavalry and killed five men. and that
they had sixty armed cowboys sur
rounded. Cavalry from Fort Keogb and
company E infantry,, left Saturday for
the scene. v
The settlers have moved their families
from near the reservation to Miles City
Ranchman and stockmen at the Chey
enne agencv demand the Indians who
killed Hoover. ' The names ot the In
dians are known, and they are protected
by fifty bucks.
Orders have been given the ordnance
officer at Fort Keogh to have 10,000
rounds of ammunition ready for issue
L today, , Ifr. is supposed more troops are
to go to the agency. .. s
Deputy Sheriffs 'Smith and Winters
were ordered off tbe reservation by tbe
military agent, Captain Stouch, who did
not want arrests of Indian murderers
made at that time lest it cause more
trouble. The deputies returned to Miles
City and have gone back with Sheriff
Gibbs, with warrant for the arrest of
Agent Stouch for interfering with officers
in the discharge of their duty and war
rants for the Indian murderers.
Ranchmen Are Alarmed.
Helena, Mont., May 31. The excite
ment continues at Cheyenne reservation
and settlements in that vicinity. Ranch
men in tbe Upper Rosebud have all de
serted their homes. Sis companies of
soldiers from Forts Keogh and Custer
are en route to tbe agency, as is also tbe
sheriff of Custer county, with a large
number of deputies. The sheriff has a
warrant for the arrest of Indian Agent
Stouch, charged with interfering with
officers in tbe discharge of their duties,
and also for three Indian murderers. The
sheriff will probably arrive at the reser
vation with his deputies tomorrow and
endeavor to arrest the murderers of the
sheepberder. ' Many are of tbe opinion
that the seriousness of the situation is
exaggerated.
SIORE OUTRAGES 11 Y SPANIARDS.
An Italian Nobleman Incommunicado
- at Cnbanos.
Havana,' May 31. Among the for
eigners here is the nephew of a Roman
cardinal and the son of an Italian general
of note.' He was a lieutenant on his
father's staff and. after his departure
from AbyBSinia : he visited the Holy
Land, went thence to Barcelona and em
barked for Cuba. His name is Victor
Emmanuel Dierezza, Count of ' Gaudo
Polion, a native of Turin. He holds two
decorations from bis monarch, the Order
of the Crown and State and the Order
of the Holy Sepulchre. "
I Count Dierezza was arrested by the
Spanish authorities while be was endea
voring, they say, to reach the. rebel lines,
and Weyler has kept him ' incoromundi
cado in one of the filthiest cells of Ca
banas. He is charged with having come
to Cuba as a rebel from the rebel junta
in Paris. ; . ,
At San Antonio de los Banos six poor
countrymen, after having been in town
two days without food, asked permission
from the military commander to go a
mile outside the fort for vegetables.
Permission was granted, but half an
hour later the local guerilla force was
sent out "to operate against the enemy."
The guerillas met the six pacificoa and
killed them. . Their bodies were brought
to town and cut to pieces. In one of the
streets the bodies were put on a table
witn this inscription :
"Cuba pig meat .for sale; meat of
American pigs expected soon.'' , i.
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NARROW ESCAPE.
The Tanl Koch Agroond in Long Island
Sound.
New York, May 31. With fully 3000
pleasure-seeksrs on board the , three-
decked excursion steamboat Paul Kc.h
drove on a shoal near Penfield light-
bouse, in Long Island sound, last even
ing. The vessel struck; with a shock ,
that pitched many passengers off their
feet. The galley in the cookroom was
overturned and the boat - had hardly
come to a standstill before a fire was
blazing briskly in that compartment.
The cookroom is on the port side near.
the wheelhouse. Directly above it is a
larger room in which teveral games of
cards had been'going on before the vessel
struck. The pluyets saw the smoke
curl from the deck beneath them, and
one or two of the oicuDants of the room
made a rush for the doorway. One man
with presence of mind blocked their exit .
and pointed out the disastrous result ;
tbat might follow an alarm. .
Tbe men went below and found the '
cooks trying to extinguish the blaze, and
the captain and officers were having their
attention occupied by the other trouble
into which the steamboat bad found her
way, and did not know of the more
threatening danger.' .
Captain Lynch knew of it a few mo
ments later, when a passenger who had
bis family on board, made his way into
the pilot-bouse and told him of tbe fire.
Tbe blaze could not be reached from the
cookroom, and the passenger urged that
tbe crew be called to fire quarters.
Captain Lynch got some of his men to
work with axes and bad them cut a hole
through tbe deck overhead. The hose
was then brought, the steam pumps set ,
going and in a little while the tire was
drowned out.
But there was another peril tbat kept
them uneasy. The vessel had struck two
miles from shore, and only a short dis
tance from the lightship which marks
the dangerous Penfield reef. . .
There was a second bump and shock
and th'e sound of grating sand as tbe ves
sel ground her keel into the shoal and
came to a standstill with bow shoved up
and stern depressed and seas racing along .
her sides and splashing over her guards.
The tide bad commenced to run flood,
and shortly after 7 o'clock in the even
ing the engines, which bad been set hard
astern, succeeded in clearing the vessel
of the reef. . The hull was intact and tbe
vessel was beaded for this city where
she arrived at 11 :30. .
The Dispensary Lew.
CiiABi ESTos, S. C, May 31. Judge
Simon ton in the United State circuit
court today filed a decision in the case of
Vandercook county against South Caro
lina restraining the state from prevent
ing the sale of liquors brought into the
state. This decision if sustained on the
appeal, it is claimed, will have tbe effect
to render nugatory the state dispensary
law. Tbe decision is based on the inter-
state commerce law, the court holding
that the right of importation compre
hends the rightofBfile. :
Tratnwrecker Will Hang.
San Francisco, May 31. From re-
marks made by Governor' Budd on the
conclusion of the hearing of the appeal
made on behalf of Worden yesterday,
it is concluded that the man convicted
of wrecking the train near Sacramento
during the. big railroad- strike will be'
hanged. ' His attorneys asked until to--day
to present Beveral documents. The
governor's decision will be made public v
this afternoon. , ". -
Cincinnati Was Shaken. , .
Cincinnati," May 31. Shortly after 1
o'clock an earthquake shock was felt
here. The occupants of high buildings -were
alarmed. At Coney Island, Chesr
ter Park, the zoological gardens and else
where there was - consternation among
the holiday crowds. A lagoon on the
Kentucky side was so rough the life
saving crew went to the relief of those
out in electr'c pleasure boats.