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VOL. VIII.
THE DALLES. WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1898.
NUMBER 44.
VERY SERIOUS
TROUBLE IS
NOW BREWING
The United States ana Germany are Not
at all In Harmony Regards the
Goyernment of Samoa.
WILLIAM IS TERY JEALOUS
Desire to Absorb the Islauds
Prompts His Course.
Correspondence Xow In Progres Be
tween Washington and Berlin
Which May Lead to Serious Frio
tion United States Maintains a
Firm Attitude With Regard to the
Recent Extension of the Bounda
ries of Apia District.
New Yoek, Aug. 26. X Washington
special eays:
Trouble is brewing over the Samoan
islands, which under the treaty of 1890
are governed under a jiint protectorate
by tbe United States, Germany and
Great Britain.
Correspondence is now in progrees be
tween the United States and Germany
that mar lead to serious friction. Re
cently the municipal council of the dis
trict of Apia became involved in a
pute over a proposition to extend
dls
tbe
municipal boundaries of the district,
which were laid down in tbe treaty of
1890. The chief justice, a man recom
mended by the United States, decided
in favor of extending the boundaries.
. Tbe result was to includ the property
of a certain Germans and to subject
them to higher taxation. The German
government protested, on the ground
that the chief justice had stepped past
his power.
The UnitedStates repled that although
the action of the justice might not have
been strictly in accirdance with the
treaty, it was similar to action taken by
the former chief justice,, who was nom
inated by Germany, and that in view of
the precedent, it ought to stand, or the
- treaty ought to be modified so 89 to pro
vide for Euch emergencies. It was strong
ly insisted that the United States was
en rely entitled to equal rights with
Germany.
Germany, in her reply admitted that
if tbe precedent was right, the present
action of the chief justice ought to
stand, bat sho has not decided to con
sent to a modification of the treaty by
an exchange of notes. It is thought
s probable that there will have to be
eventually a new committee to frame a
new treaty, and if so, it is probable that"
Germany will propose the partition of
the islands. This the United States will
not consent to. '
Great Britain has always taken a pas
sive interest in Samoan affairB,but there
is no doubt that her influence will, in
the future as in tbe past, be thrown on
the American Bide.
Germany has marked the Samoan isl
ands for her own before the treaty of
1890 was negotiated, bat her scheme for
absorbing them was blocked, chiefly by
the United States, who, by tbe treaty of
. 1878, bad acquired the right to estab
lish a naval station at Pango-Pango bar'
bor, and had virtually established a new
protectorate over the islands.
Under the tripartite arrangement Ger
many has been a disturbing factor, and
has endeavored, to procure advantages
superior to the United States and Great
Britain. Mr. Cleveland favored of with
drawing from the joint protectorate, but
the present executive is determined to
retais all rights to Samoa guaranteed to
this country by the treaty. He ia now
taking etepts to improve and fortity
Pago-Pago harbor, and dispatches from
Europe show that Germany does not
like this action. .
The recent proposition advanced by
the Marine Police Correspondent that
the islands shonld be divided, England
taking Savale, Germany . Upela, and
America Tutila, it ia belived here, was
inspired by the German, government as
a feeler for the purpose ' of seeing how
tbe United States and Great Britain
stood on a division.
Tbe divisions would give Germany ,
the best islands and England the worst
As far as the United States is concerned
tbe proposition to partition the group
will not be considered for an instant.
On tbe other hand it is the conviction
that Germany had some scheme on foot
that led the administration to take steps
toward the immediate occupation of
Pango Pango harbor under the treaty of
1878.
TROOPER KILLED
AT MANILA
United States Troops and Filipinos
Were Engaged in Deadly Combat--A
Corporal Mortally, and Four
Men Seriously, Wounded.
MaxiTa, Aug. 26. LiEt Wednesday
a corporal and two men of battery B,
Utnh artillery .after embarking at Cavite
were sent on an errand. While paesing
through the streets, Trooper Hudson
discharged his revolver. It was in mere
fun, but the natives in the immediate
locality were much alarmed for a time.
The natives immediately began firing.
Dismounted cavalrymen were sent to
quell tbe disturbance, but the natives
misunderstood the movement, and the
firing became general.
Trooper Hudson was killed, and .Cor
poral Anderson mortally wounded
Troopers Laydon, Machbar, Connolly
and Doyle, of the Fourth cavalry, were
seriously wounded. Four natives were
killed, and several wounded.
Aguinaldo has expressed regret at tbe
encounter, and promises to punish the
offenders. No further trouble is appre
hended.
THE OUTBREAK
IN HAINAN
British Consul Looking Out for Ameri-
- can Missionaries.
London, Aug. 27. The Daily Mail's
Hong Eong correspondent telegraphs :
The British consulate at Klaung Chan,
Hainan, has asked the American consul
at Canton to urge the victory to send
soldiers to Nodea, near Hoihow, to pro
tect the lives and property of American
missionaries there, who have been
obliged to flee for their liver from Nodea
and seek the protection of the British
consul at Hoihow.
The British consul appealed to the
tao-tai to protect the threatened Ameri
cans, and soldiers were dispatched who
succeeded in rescuing them and escort
ing them from Nodea to Hoihow.
BAD EXPLOSION
AT SEA
Stickeen Chief Undoubtedly Lost With
all Hands Forty-three Persons
Were Aboard the Steamer.
San Feaxcisco, Aug. 26. News has
been received here confirming tbe re
ported loss of tbe stern-wheeler Stickeen
Chief.
A letter received from Juneau dated
AnguBt 10 brings tbe confirmatory news,
and further says that tbe disaster was
doubtless caused by an explosion, and
that the crew and passengers numbering
forty-three persons, were undoubtedly
lost. ' The Dora saved a dog, which was
found floating on a piece of wreckage.
That it W8s an explosion that caused
the loss is inferred by the Dora's crew
from tbe fact that most of tbe wreckage
was broken into email bits.
The wreckage was found in latitude
56 38 north, longitude 142.13 west, on
August 6.
Second Death Reported.
Eugene, Aug. 26. John Lemley, who
was injured yesterday in the boiler ex
'plosion at J. F. Kirk's farm, died today.
Two deaths have thus far resulted from
the accident, Ellery Kirk having been
instantly killed yesterday. Tbe other
eight injured men will probably recover.
Tbe coroner's investigation into the
cause of the explosion resulted in the
finding of a verdict that tbe safety valve
bad been locked by so placing a nail
that it could not jar open, -and thus let
the steam escape. .. Tbe engineer had
neglected to remove the nail, and as
there was no steam gauge, - there ia no
knowing what the pressure of Bt earn was
when the explosion occurred. : ..-
PEACE
COMPLETE
Justice White and Whitelaw
Reid Last Named.
MEMBERS AT WHITE HOUSE
Assistant Secretary of State Moore Se
lected as Secretary of the Peace
Commission.
Washington, Aug. 26. Secretary
Day, upon leaving tbe cabinet meeting
this afternoon announced that Wbitelaw
Eeid had been selected as a peace com
missloner. Colonel John McCook and
Representative Lemuel Quigg, of New
York, were among those who eaw tbe
president prior to the cabinet meeting.
Quigg had a talk with the president
over the selection of Whitelaw Eeid.
Senator Davis, who has been selected
as peace commissioner, also ' ea w the
president. The senator left this after
noon for New York, and from there will
return to his home at St. Paul before
taking his departure for Paris. Senator
Fyre, another of the peace commission
ers, also went to New York, - and will
visit his home in Maine before returning
here.
- Tbe commission is composed of Sena'
tor Davis, Senator Frye, Secretary Day,
Whitelaw Eeid and Justice White. '
Ihe following attaches of the peace
commission have been selected and will
be appointed by the president :
John Moore, of Massachusetts, now
assistant secretary of state, to be uecre
tary of the commission, and J. W. Mo
Arthur, of New York, to be aesistant
secretary . Mr. McArthur was former
first secretary of the United States lega
tion at Madrid, and is now on special
duty at the state department. He has
had considerable experience in work of
a diplomatic nature, lbese appoint
ments were decided on by tbe president
this afternoon.
THE BOISE CITY
CONVENTION
Populists Cannot or Will Not Decide to
Unite and the Rest of the Silver-
ites are Holding Aloof.
Boise, Idaho, Aug. 26. Very little
progress was made today by the four
state conventions in seesion here. Tbe
two wings of the Populists did not unite.
Tbe two other parlies refuse to have
anything to do with them unless they
do get together. They have given tbe
warring factions until 8 o'clock tomor
row to get together.
The democratic convention adopted a
platform that favors free coinage, reduc
tion of tariff, condemns the issue of
bonds and favors the election of sena
tors by direct vote.
THE FILIPINOS
BEGAN IT
They Opened Fire on Trooper Hudson,
Who Had Fired Into the Air.
New Yobe, Aug. 26. A copyright
special from Manila to tbe New York
Journal says: - - .
There has been a serious clash, at
Cavite between United States soldiers
and insurgents. . Tbe riot resulted in
the killing of one soldier, and the Berions
wounding of another.
George Hudson, a member of the
Utah battery, got into a dispute with a
native shopkeeper. Fearing trouble be
fired his revolver in the air to attract
the attention of some fellow eoldiers. A
great crowd of natives ran to the ecene
of tbe disturbance, and began tiring
tbeir revolvers, killing Hudson, and
seriously wounding Corporal William
AnderBon, of the same battery, who had
hurried to tbe assistance of Hudson.
A detachment of the Fourth cavalry
was called out and dispersed the Fili
pinos, who continued to fire their re
volvers as they retreated, but without
doing any more damage.
On the same night tome of the soldiers
doing guard duty saw a large party of
natives stripping the wreck of a gunboat
which was lying in Cavite bay. A boat
with an armed force was put off shore,
and tbe sailors hailed the natives, who
failed to answer. Then the soldiers fired
a volley, killing one and wounding
another.
TROOP TRAIN
WAS WRECKED
Two Soldiers Were Killed and Five
More of Them Were Pretty Badly
Injured in Alabama.
Bikxin'guam, Ala., Aug. 28. Two en
listed men of the Sixty-ninth New York
volunteers were instantly killed, and
one was fatally and four badly injured
in the wreck which occurred on tbe
Louisville & Nashville near here, to
night. The killed are :
Peter Farley, company G, New York
City.
Frank Glennon, quartermaster ser
geant, company G, nephew of Col. J. E,
Duffy.
The injured are:
Sergeant J. J. Manning, company E.
fatally.
Thomas Skellie, company E.
Harry Donnoghue, company E.
James Meade, company E.
P. Eitchel Doran, company F.seriusly.
The train was carryingthe sixty-ninth
New York to its new camp at Hunts
ville. It left Fernandina, Fla, at 1
o'clock yesterday afternoon, three or
fonr hours after the time, set for its de
parture. The train wrecked was the
first section. It was going at a high
rate of speed. Ten miles north, the en
gine and tender jumped the track, de
railing five cars, which rolled down a
steep embankment. Tbe eoldiers claim
the train was running too fast around a
curve. .
The injured were brought here, and
are being given every attention at the
infirmary. -
INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE
Good Progress Made in the First Week
of the Session.
Quebec, Aug. 28. The international
conference commissioners will meet in
joint session again tomorrow end prob
ably each day until Friday. Separate
meetings of tbe American and Canadian
commissioners and meeting of the sub
committees will continue during the
week.
Senator Fairbanks stated tonight that
tbe first week's work has been very
satisfactory, and that everything up to
this point indicated the best results. He
expects that considerable progress will
made between this date and next Fri
day, when a recess will be taken until
September 20.
Thursday, the American commission
ers will give a hearing to the representa
tive of the Boston chamber of com merce.
General trade questions will be con
sidered. ' '
Probably the same day a hearing will
be given to the interests of the Ameri
can lumbermen. Last week, Don M.
Dickinson was heard in the interest of
Auerican lumbermen who own govern
ment timber in Canada, but the heat
ing this week will be for those who . are
inteaested in other branches of the
business. The commissioners decline to
etate In detail anything concerning
either of the hearings Bet down for this
week. x
Sir Wilfrid Laurier will probably re
tnrn this week.
It ia learned that the copyright ques
tion will be before the commission as
tbe work goes on. The Canadian
publishers deBire in a measure to be
freed from the rigorous copyright laws
of the mother country, and tbey also
desire a readjustment - of tbe copyright
laws existing between the United States
and Canada. This question, however,
will probably not be discussed until
other matters have been disposed of.
More than twenty million free samples
of DeWitt'e Witch Hazel Salve have
been distributed by the manufacturers.
What better proof of their confidence in
it's merits do you want? It cures piles.
burns, scalds, sores, in the shortest
space ot time. soipes-K-inersly .Drug
Company. j
SICKNESS
IN THE
U.S. ARMY
Efforts to Improve the Con
ditions of the Soldiers.
PLAN OF GUT. HASTINGS
Chartered a Train and Took Away
Pcnnsylvanians Against the Pro
tests of the Officers.
Cincinnati, O , Aug. 28. About the
middle of last week, Governor Hastings,
of Pennsylvania, raised $5000 in cash in
thirty minutes in Philadelphia to equip
a hospital train to bring home the sick
of Pennsylvania regimmtB from Chicka-
manga. A train of eighteen hospital
cars was equipped and started for
Cli'ckamauga, with astounding prompt
ness. Tonight it arrived homeward
bound with 211 Penneylvanian soldiers,
fifteen New Yorkers, one Ohio and one
Bhode Island eoldier, and left with its
overjoyed freight an hour later for Pitts
burg.
Both on the down trip and the retnrn,
Governor Hastings devoted his personal
attention to all the details of traneporta
tion. Arriving at Cincinnati tonight,
he filed 164 telegrams to friends of eol
diers, and to thase preparing for their
reception in Pennsylvania. At Chi'ma-
mauga yesterday he took the sick from
hospitals, against the protests of officials
who wanted them to wait for a transcript
of their muster-roLe. Fourteen soldiers,
too ill to leave, were left in the Red
Cross hospital.
ABANDONING
THE CAMP
No Volunteers Will Semain at Chica
- mauga After this Week". -
Chickamauga, Ga., Aug. 28. The last
of this week will see almost every regi
ment of volunteers gone from Camp
Thomas. This morning, when the First
Pennsylvania left for Lexington it com
pleted the removal of the First army
corps. By Monday at the latest, the
Third army corps will hegin toroove to
Anniston, Ala.
- If the railroads can handle the troops,
by Saturday noon not a single regiment
will be left in the park, with the excep
tion of the United States volunteers,
which will be kept here to guard hospi
tals and government property.
As fast as the trains can be gotten tbe
convalescents are being sent to their
homes. Already over 4000 sick leaves
have been granted, and there are yet in
the hospital over 1500 sick soldiers.
These will be sent home as fast as they
are conyalescent. . -
There were todav reported in all 520
cases of typhoid fever in all bospitale,
and six deaths.
MERR1TT GOES TO PARIS.
Rumors That a Settlement .Has Been
Made With Aguinaldo.
Manila, Aug. 28, 8:50 p. m. Steam
ers are entering the river aa usual. Tbe
Americans'are temporarily maintaining
tbe former Spanish tariff. Business is
brisk.
The United States warships Raleigh
and Olympia have gone to Hong Kong
to go into dock. Admiral Dewey has
transferred his flag to the Baltimore.
General Merritt will sail on the steam
ship China Tuesday on hia way to Paris
to attend the sessions of peace confer
ence. No agreement has yet been
reached with Aguinaldo on any subject,
though circumstantial rnmors are cur
rent that everything has been settled to
the mutual satisfaction of those con
cerned. ''
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THE CZAR OF
RUSSIA IS IN
FAVOR OF PEACE
Invites the Powers' to a Gen
eral Conference.
BUDGE EXCESSIYE ARMOR
Proposition, Coming From Russia and
Apparently Sincere, Likely to have
Important Results.
St. Petebsuurg, Aug. 28. By order
of Emperor Nicholas, Count Muravieff,
the foreign minister, on the 22d, handed
to the foreign diplomats at St. Potere
burg a note declaring that the mainte
nance of peace and the reduction of the
heavy armaments now crushing all na
tions is the ideal for which all govern
ments should strive.
The czar considers the present mo
ment favorable for the inauguration of a
movement looking to this end, and in
vites the powers to take pait in an in
ternational conference as a means of se-.
curing real an 1 lasting peace and ter-.
minating the progressives increase of
armament.
HALF A MILLION
DAMAGE DONE
Disastrous Fire at Xashville Early This
Morning.
Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 30 At 2:05
this morning fire broke out in tbe top
floor of tbe five story building of tbe
Phillips & Buttorff wholesale and retail
hardware and stove manufacturing com
pany, on the corner of Bank alley and
Cotton street, and in a short time de
stroyed the entire building and contents.
At 2 :50 the fire spread south across the
alley to A. J. Warren & Company'
furniture store, and totally destroyed
that fine four-etory structure and con
tents. At 3:15 Webb & Stevenson's retail
hardware store, immediately adjoining
Warren & Company's building, was a
mass of flames, and is burning fiercely
at 3:45, with the chances of tbe fire
spreading and destroying the entire
block south, including the Western
Union Telegraph building.
Tbe fire department seems nnable to
check the progress of the flames, al
though there is no wind. The loss at
this hour will probably reach $500,000.
The origin of the fire is not yet known.
One Minute Cough Cure surprises
people by its quick cures and children
may take it in large quantities without
the least danger. It baa won for itsel
the best reputation of any preparation.
used today for colds, croup, a tickling in
the throat or obstinate coughs. Snipes
Kinersiy Drug Co.
The Plagne Spreading.
Simla, Aug. 20. It is officially an
nounced that there were 5WUU deatns
from the plague - las week in Bombay
presidency. The epidemic ia certainly
spreading.