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THE DALLES, WASCO. COUNTY. OREGON. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 16. 1897.
vol. vii;
NUMBER 29.
STORM IN COLORADO
Entire Southeastern Part of
the State Deluged.
IMMENSE DAMAGE TO PROPERTY
Railway. Were Washed Out, Farm
houses Wrecked and Large In am
bers of Cattle Drowurd. '
Denver, Colo., Jane 11. Fonr rail
way washouts, a $25,000 fire and a ho6t
of minor losses epitomized the evil re
sults of a etorni which prevailed in
Denver and southeastern section of
the stale last evening. A cloudburst on
the slopes of Pike's peak shnt off traffic
on the Rio Grande aud Midland lines be
tween Manitoa and Colorado Springs.
Sixteen miles out of Denver the Jules
bnrg tracks were washed out. A . wash
out on the Burlington & Missouri road
occurred near Barr station.
IA SCENE OF DESOLATION.
Whole Country Snrrpt Hare by Torrents
of Water.
Denver, Colo., June 11. A special to
the News from VV'ray, Coo, says:
The morning light reveals the extent
of the devastation of yesterday evening's
storm, and reports have been coming
from the coontrv all day so that we are
able to tell pretty nearly how far it ex
tended and the amount of damage
done.
Two and a half inches of water fell in
less than half and hour over a territory
estimated from five to ten miles wide
and ten to twenty long. The whole
cotnlry had the the appearance of an in
land eea, and the angry torrents, sweep
ing everything before them. The crest
of one stream that was running only
few." inches became a torrent 20 feet
deep, filling the valley, flooding yards,
cellars, houses, and washing out and
carrying away fences, crops, gardens,
shrubbery and trees.
From every valley and canyon floods
came pouring, swelling the flood and in
creasing the terror. Hail drifted, and
today it is piled in drifts lour feet deep.
Nothing like it ever was known here,
Dead stock is being gathered up and
carted away in great loads. People are
shoveling the drifted hail out of the
buildings. Fortunately little wind ac
companied the storm, otherwise windows
and bouses would have been riddled and
much greater destruction of stock would
bave occurred. This point oeeined to be
the center of the storm. Estimates of
damage are placed at from $1000 to $25
000. :
MASSACRED lit NATIVES.
British Troops In Northern India Vic
tims of Treachery.
Bombay, June 11. A dispatch from
Simla announces serious trouble on the
northern frontier, and the massacre of a
number of British officers and native
soldiers in the government employ.
From particulars obtainable it eeetns
that two guns belonging to the Bombay
mounted battery, escorted by 300 men
belonging to the First regiment of Sikhs
and the first Punjab infantry, were
treacherously attacked in Tochi valley
by a large force of hostile natives. The
firsi reports said Colonel Bunny, two
officers and twenty-six privates had
been killed, and three officers and
twenty-four men injured. Indications
are that the affair is more than a conflict
with warlike natives, and that the no
torious mullah of Piewindah is at the
bottom of the trouble.
Latest advices are that a political of
ficer, Air. Gee, was visiting Sbirani with
an escort of troops when he was attacked
at Manza by superior forces. The Brit
ish tioops were compelled to retreat, and
were followed several miles by over
whelming numbers of the enemy. The
fighting was desperate. All the British
officers were severely wounded. Captain
Browne, of the First Sikhs, son of the
late Sir James Browne, and Lieutenant
Crookshank, of the Royal artillery, were
killed and Surgeon Eigglnson, Lieuten
ant Uigginson, of the First Sikhs, and
Lieutant Seaton Browne, of the Punjab
infantry, were wounded.
, A second dispatch says Colonel Gray
has taken command of the British
forces, and It is inferred that Colonel
Bunny is among the dead, as at first
announced.
Tochi valley lies north of Gumala,
and on the road to Ghuzni and Waziris
lam. It has been controlled by the
British since the elimination of the
Hindoo Afghan frontier, but the tribes
have always been turbulent. The mullah
of Piewindah is a' notorious fanatical
priest, and has always been hostile to
the British. Owing to an attempt lhe
mullah recently made to stir up a re
beilion he was expelled from British
territory. This caused him to be de
serted by his own people, and eince then
it is understood he has been actively
plotting against the British. -
IS A SPEEDY CRAFT.
Elllde Easily Slakes Tnlrty-FIre Miles
Aa Hour.
New York, June 11. The World says
Passengers looking out of the windows
of a south-bound tiain on the Audson
Itiver railroad, in the vicinity of Dobbs
Ferrv. saw the steam yacht Ellide, be
longing to E. Burgess Warren, of Phil
adelphia, racing down the river against
time, and, incidently, making as good
lime as the train.
Timed by two watches, which agreed
to half a second, the yacht covered
measured mile in 1 minute, 424 seconds,
which is at the rate of 35 miles an hour
and on the run preceeding it she cover
ed the same distance in 1 minute, 51
seconds, or at the rate of miles an
bour. making the mean time of the two
runs 33! miles an hour.
She is an open yacht, SO feet long.driven
by a single three-bladed wheel, propelled
by quadruple expansion engines of 800
horsepower. The engines, boiler, screw
and the hull, which is of mahogany,
were all designed by Charles D. Mosher,
of this city, who also designed the fast
yachts Yankee Doodle, Nada, Felseen
and Norwood. He superintended the
running of the engines in the run, which
was a preliminary one.
Upon her official, trial which is to take
place in about ten days, it is estimated
that the boat will travel between 38 and
40 miles an hour, for vesterday she car
ried much less steam than she can pro
duce.
To any yacht on a speed trial con
ditions were not favorable. The wind
blew dead ahead at least 25 miles an
hoar, when the Ellide made her first
run np the river. The seas were from
to 5 feet high, and there was an ebb
tide of quite 2 knots against her. Still,
she made this run, shipping nothing
but spray, and leaving a wake no bigger
(ban a motor launch, in the time stated, 1
minute 51 seconds. The return run, in
1 minute 42 seconds, was made with
heavy falling Eea, with the wheel racing
at times.
ANNEXATION OF HAWAII.
Question May Be Submitted to Congress
Dunne the Present session.
Chicago, June 11. The Daily News
Washington special says :
A convention is on foot looking to the
annexation of Hawaii as a territory, and
details of the plan are so nearly complete
as to warrant the belief that they will
Boon be submitted to congress. The
United Slates, it is proposed, shall
assume the debt of the Hawaiian repub
lic to the limit of $4,000,000. Friends of
annexation in Washington declare the
president will submit a message to con
gress on the subject before adjournment
of the present session.
The effect of excluding from citizen
ship in the United States the Asiatic
population is considered the most ser
ious feature of the proposed annexation
A Fatal Drunken Row.
Alt a, Cal., June 11. Last night
Sharon, of Dutch Flat, and Ben Billings
of Towles, while intoxicated, became in
involved in an altercation in a saloon.
Words led to blows, and the young men
adjourned to the street for the purpose
ot settling the difference with their fists
Neither showed any science, and hon
ors were easv tor some minutes, but
Sharon finally swung wildly with bis
right and landed squarely on Billings'
jaw, knocEing Dim aown. as ine latter
made no effort to rise his opponent sup
posed be bad simply stunned him, but
on investigation it was found that Bill-
iug6' neck had been broken by the fall
and that he was dead. Sharon promptly
surrendered himself to the local officer,
Mo Heir for the Csar,
Paris, June 11. A dispatch from St.
Petersburg says that the czarina has
given birth to a daughter. The news
papers here lengthily discuss the news.
Regret is felt here that the babe is a
girl,' inasmuch as the birth of an heir to
the throne wonld have permitted sympa
thetic manifestations.
British Won the Cricket Game.
Manchester, June 11. The cricket
match between the team from Philadel
phia and the eleven from Lancashire was
resumed today. When the Lancashire
cricketers resumed play they had 61 runs
to make to win. They won by seven
wickets.
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BRADY TO BE ALASKA'S GOVERNOR
Aeronauts Fell Three Thousand Feet
More Very Rich Quarts Found
at Baker City.
Chicago, June 12. A special to the
Times-Herald from New York says :
Another advance of one-sixteenth of a
cent a pound has been ordered on graded
Nos. 5 and 6, or domestic refined BUgars.
This is the third fractional advance
within a few days, and follows a rise or
dered Thnrsday of one-eighth of a cent
on all grades of refined sugars except
Nos. 5, 9, 13, 14, 15 and 16, in which
grades the figures were advanced one
sixteenth of a cent per pound.
These advances, coming after thous
ands of tons of raw sugar had been
rushed in before the tariff bill becomes a
law, means the amassing of millions of
dollars by the American Sugar Refining
Company, otherwise known as the sugar
trust.
GOVERNOR OF ALASKA.
An
Alaska Editor Says the Rev. Mr,
Brady Will Be Chosen.
Seattle, Wash., June 12. G. B
Swinehart, editor of the Juneau Mining
Recordhas just returned from Washing
ton City with important news.
"I called upon Secretary Bliss in re
gard to the governorship," said Mr,
Swinehart this morning, "He is a man
of few words, and when I introduced the
subject, he promptlv said: 'We have
decided to nominate the Rev. Mr. Brady
the candidate of the missionary element,
as soon as Mr. Sheakley's resignation is
received.'
'By 'we he meant the president and
himself, for the appointment comes
through the interior department."
Information about the other officers is
not obtainable. Charles S. Johnson and
Brady compromised some time since,
the former withdrawing his application
for governor.- He iJ now a candidate,
with Brady's support, for collector of
customs.
Fell Three Thousand ' Feet.
Berlin, June 12. Herr Wolefert, an
aeronaut, accompanied by a machinist
named Knabe, made an experimental
ascent in a so-called steering airship
from the Templehoff common this even-
ng. When the balloon, which had been
filled at a military ballooning establish
ment, had reached a height of 3000 feet,
a loud explosion was heard, and the
next moment the balloon was seen to be
ablaze. The car, which was also on
fire, detached itself from the burned
silk, and fell with fearful rapidity to the
ground. Both of its occupants were
found dead. Their bodies were horribly
burned. It appears that the benzine
used in the steering gear motor explod
ed causing the disaster.
Rich Pieces of Quarts.
Baker City, Or., June 12. While
working on bis placer mine on Sutton
creek, twelve miles southeast from
Baker, Obe .Batten discovered within a
few feet from the ledge of his quartz
claim, called the Red Rird, some pieces
of quarz about as big as a man's fiat,
from which the chunks of gold pro
truded in all directions. One of the
pieces is worth $220. The Sutton creek
placers bave yielded large quantities of
gold in the past and for years prospectors
have been hunting for the fountain head,
and Batten thinks that he has at last
struck the true ledge.
The Virtue mine brought in the usual
clean-up of $20,000, and the Flagstaff has
brought in several retorts since it started
up four weeks ago and, while it is known
that their quartz is exceptionally rich,
the company does not publish results.
Buffalo Jones' Project.
Perry, O. T., June 12. '-Buffalo"
Jones, the well-known Kansas populiBt,
left here today for Alaska. He says he
has two objects in view, one. to prospect
a route for the Canadian Pacific railroad
and the other to corral musk oxen in
Alaska and drive them to the United
States. '
The musk ox is nearly "extinct, and
Jones proposes, by tha assistance of
numerous shepherd dogs which he took
with him, to herd them on an island off
the coast. He will also raise several
species of the fox for their furs. Several
persons will go with Jones on his expe
dition to the gold fields on the Yukon
river. J-
A Shower of Broken Ice.
Cincinnati, June 12. A epecial to the!
Commercial Tribune, from Parkersburg,
W. Va.t says :
A phenomenal hail storm occurred
here today on the line ot the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad, east of this city. . The
storm showered broken ice from two to
three inches long and an inch thick,
with such force that trees were denuded
as completely, aa in midwinter, and
crops were completely destroved for
many miles, while horses, cows and
sheep became frantic with fright.
THE HUMAN OSTRICH.
Stomach Finally Rebelled Against
Poeket-Knlves and Malls:
Kansas City, June 12. Harry W
Hallen, a traveling circus performer, was
cot open at his own request at the Ger
man hospital here today, and folly three
handfuls of hardware, which he had
swallowed within the past two weeks,
were taken from his stomach. ' A pho
tograph of the articles, taken by George
H. Tilley, a responsible photographer,
later, in the day revealed the following
outlay :
One four-bladed knite, three and one
half inches long; one two-bladed knife,
two inches long; three knife blades,
ranging from one to three inches in
length ; 38 8 and 10-penny nails and
spikes; 34 6-penny wire nails, sharp
pointed; 26 shingle nails; 16 carpet
tacks ; three large screws, one horseshoe
nail, one barbedwire staple, three ounces
of fine glass.
Whallen claims to bave traveled
around the country for the past 17 years
eating glass and other bard substances
in his avocation as the human ostrich.
Up to within two weeks ago his peculiar
diet had agreed with him perfectly. It
is believed he will recover from the
operation.
TURKEY BREAKS ARMISTICE.
Mobilizing Her Reinforcements
In
Thessaly.
London, June 12. A dispatch from
Athens to the Exchange Telegraph re.
ports that the armistice between Greece
and Turkey has been broken by the
Turks mobilizing reinforcements, fortify
ing Volo and Prevesa, and sending troops
to various islands.
The dispatch leports also that the
Turkish fleet paBBed out through the
Dardanelles at 10 o'c'ock last night.
A Warning; to Refugees.
Athens, June 12. The governor ot
Volo has issued a proclamation that
property of refugees who do not return
to Thessaly with their families within a
fortnight will be confiscated by the Otto
man government.
Miles' Place In the Parade.
New York, June 12. A special to the
World from London says:
General Miles who recently came to
Europe to witness the Graeco-Turkish
war as the representative of tbo United
States army, is to ride mounted in the
queen's jubilee parade in a position
very near to the queen's carriage.
The place will be second only to her
majesty's body guard. His assignment
to it is regarded here as evidence of the
British government's good feeling, and
is likely to create something of a sensa
tion. Attempted Lynching; in New York.
New York, June 12. A mob of over
1000 men tried to take a negro named
Charles West from policemen last night
at Washington place, for the purpose of
lynching him. Clubs and revolvers
were drawn, but the mob was finally
beaten back.
West had shot a white man named
Hyland because his daughter, aged 18,
told him that Hyland attempted to as
sault her last week. - He shot deliber
ately and without explanation. Hyland
is dying.
Sacramento Salmon Run.
San Francisco, June 12. The run of
salmon in the Sacramento river this year
is greater than it has been since 1890.
Already the pack has been 5000 cases
more than for all of last year. Then it
was 13,387 cases, while the spring catch
alone has amounted to 20,000 cases, and
it is expected that the fall catch will at
least double these figures.
The result is largely attributed by the
packers themselves to the hatchery es
tablished at Battle Creek by the board of
fish commissioners.
A Missing; Man Found.
Los Angeles, Cal., June 12. Mark
Boren, who was reported to have been
killed near Mendota Sunday night last
by falling from a train, waB found last
night five miles from Mojave, wandering
about in a'demented condition. His arm
was fractured and his face badly cut.
Boren is from Spokane, Wash., and has
relatives in Wallace, Idaho, and Ross
land, B. C. . .
Fund for Mark Twain Started.
New York, June 12. The Herald has
started a fund for Mark Twain, the cele
brated American humorist, opening the
list with a subscription of $1000.
ARE FOR ANNEXATION
Asst. Secretary Day Drafts
a Hawaiian Treaty.
ACTION ON IT TO BE POSTPONED
President Will Not Send It to the
Senate While the Tariff Bill
Is Pending;.
Washington, June 14. A draft of
treaty for the annexation of Hawaii to
the United States is being prepaied by
Judge Day, the assistant secretary of
state, and Mr. Hatch, the Hawaiian
minister to Washington. It will be pre
sen tea to President McKinley for ap
proval soon after he returns to the city.
It does not follow, however, that the
treaty will be immediately sent to the
senate. On the contrary, the president
will adhere to his determination not to
complicate the tariff situation by the
introduction of any foreign questions.
The proposed new treaty will not con
tain any provision for a pension to the
late queen, or a gift of money to the
princess, but it will probably be provided
that the princess shall receive a pension
out of the territorial revenues.
It is interesting to know that the prop
osition to pension ex-Queen Liliuokalani
did not come from the Hawaiian com
misBiocers, but was suggested by the
then secretary of state, Foster. The same
is truja in regard to the gift of money to
Princess Kaiulani.
A leading member of the senate com
nut tee on foreign relations said that two
plans are under consideration by the ad
ministration. One is to annex the isl
ands and admit them into tbe Union as
the territory of Hawaii. The other is to
make them a county of California. No
decision has vet been reached.
THIS IS DIFFERENT.
Annexation Treaty Will Soon Go to the
Senate.
Washington, Jane 14. A treaty for
the annexation of Hawaii to the United
States will be sent to the senate soon
after the return of the president unless
bis present plans are altered. The
treaty had been written and all details
agreed upoo before the president and
Secretary Sherman left for the South
There is no doubt, it is said, of the
president's acquiescence in the terms of
he treaty for the reason that be was
made fullv aware of them before be
left.
The treaty is on the general lines of
the treaty negotiated during the admin
istration of President Harrison, and
withdrawn by Cleveland. It provide?
for annexation without exacting condi
tions on the part of Hawaii as to tbe
form of government to be youchsafed to
Hawaii, leaving that question to he dis
posed of by the government of the
United States.
Tbe United States will agree to as
sume the debt of the present Hawaiian
government, but will come into posses
sion of all the Hawaiian crown lands and
other possessions.
Several senators have received definite
information concerning the existence of
the treaty, and are well acquainted with
the terms, though they refuse to discuss
the matter. Knowledge of the existence
of the treaty has been communicated to
members of tbe foreign relations and
finance committees. In tbe Republican
caucus the subject of the treaty had
been hinted at, ba in rather a vague
manner.
Dauntless Acaln Set Free.
New York, June 14. A dispatch to
the Herald from Key West, Fla., says:
Tbe tug Dauntless was released from
custody by tbe collector of customs late
last night. Word was soon passed
among the faithful, and 30 of her orig
inal passengers gathered on the wharf
with bundles and packages from tbe
ends of which machete handles and
muzzles of revolvers could be seen pro
truding. In the meantime steam was hurriedly
gotten up on tbe Dauntless and the little
tug cast off from her dock and proceed
ed to sea. The Marblehead, being at
anchor in the stream only a short dis
tance off, either did not not see her or
did not care to intercept her.
Inetead of proceeding to sea through 1
tbe regular ship channel, the Dauntless
gave the Marblehead a wide berth, pass
ing her far astern, and passed out
through tbe northwest channel into
Florida bay. A local pilot was taken
aboard to carry her into the Gulf, either
through Knight's key or Bahia Honda
channel, where it is alleged a vessel with
arms and ammunition awaits her.
The revenue steamer Forward left yes
terday, and the McLane sailed to try to
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Cuban Leaders Will Not Be Shot.
Washington, Jtne 14. The Spanish
minister has received official communi
cation stating that the report coming
from Havana via Key West, that the in
surgent leaders, Rivera and Bacalo, are
in danger of being shot is false. Not a
single insurgent leader is under death
sentence.
TROOPS RETURNING HOME.
Every Steamer From Cobs Carries
Hundreds of Them.
New York, June 14. A dispatch to
the Journal from Havana says.
Spanish troops are returning to Spain
at the rate of 2000a month. This week's
steamer will carry back over 600, free of
cost to the government, the expenses be
ing borne jointly by the Marquis de
Comillas, president of the Transatlantic
line, and the Spanish Red Cross Society
here. Probably half the men sailing to
day were ill or wounded, and at least 50
looked as if they would never withstand
tbe voyage. One mm died while being
taken from the hospital to the wharf to
embark.
Reports of increasing misery among
the Cubans in Weyler's fortified towns
come from all over tbe island.
Mayor Pizarro and Chief of Police Ar-
menteres, of San Nicolaus, which Gomez
and Maceo entered with their forces in
1896 on their way west, were tried by
court-martial in Cabanas fortress here .
yesterday and sentenced to life imprison
ment. Both are Spaniards. They were
embarked today with about 60 political
prisoners for Ceuta, upon the African
coast.
McRlnley's Hawaiian Policy.
New York, June 14. A Herald dis
patch from Madrid says:
Tbe reports of tbe intended annexa
tion of Hawaii py the umtea states
causes anxiety as foreshadowing Presi
dent McKinley's Cuban policy.
Senor Silvela. the leader of the dissi
dent conservatives, in a speech last
night condemned the Duke of Tetuan's
assault on Senator Comas. He proceed
ed to say that Premier Canovas' pro
jected Cuban reforms signify that Spain
resigns in face of tbe United States her
title to govern the Antilles,
Senor Silvela advised a vigorous mili
tary policy in Cuba and denounced the
weakness of the present ministry. He
concluded by declaring that the breach
between tbe Spanish people and the
present government widens daily and
that eventual peace cannot continue
long under such circumstances.
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terday evening by- lightning. Tbe
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