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THE DALLES. WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 188.
NUMBER .51.
EVACUATION
IS WELL SIGH
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Tte Stars ana Strides ars Soon ta Wayi
Over tiiB Entire Area cf ice Isl
and of Porto Rico.
RAPID WORK
FROM THE START
Spanish and American Commissioners
Worked in Perfect Harmony Xo
Attempt to Delay the Carring On
of the Terms of the Protocol.
Sa.v Juan, Forto Rico, Sept. 26. The
American commissioners to arraDge for
the evacuation of Porto Rico have been
, emineLtly successful in their dealings
with the Spanish commissioners, and it
. is believed that within three weeks at
the farthest the last of the Spanish
troops will have sailed for home and the
stars and stripes will be unfurled over
San Juan.
Transports are duo in a week, and the
indications are that in three weeks at
the most, General Macias will relinquish
control of the last foot of Porto Kican
territory.
A fitting celebration is being arranged
for the occasion ot the flag raising at
San Joan. Both the naval and military
forces will participate. It case General
Macias will accept, it is probable that
' a dinner or reception will be given in his
honor by the American commissioners
The mission of the commissioners has
been accomplished withont friction.
More or less tronble was anticipated at
the ontset, bntonr commissioners have
been agreeably surprised at the frank'
ness and candor the Spanish commis
sloners have displayed.
The language of the protocol was plain,
defiti e and specific. It provided for the
immediate evacuation of the island. On
its text oar commissioners stood, and to
their gratification tbey found the Span
ish commissioners not only acquiescent,
but seemingly anxious to retire from the
island et the earliest possible moment
The Spanish authorities realized that
the entire population had become sad
denly hostile to them ; that they had
been dispossessed by the high court of
war, and that they were there no longer
by right bat by sufferance. Accoidingly,
they made every fffort to co-operate
with the American to expedite the evac
uation, with the result that the last
Spanish troops will soon have sailed for
bpain.
LAWLESSNESS
HELD IN CHECK
American and Spanish Commissioners
Now Have Matters Well in Hand
Reign of Terror Ended.
San Juan, Porto Rico, Sept. Both the
American and Spanish evacuation com
missioners have been flooded with ap
peals for protection. The former were
beseeched by the Spanish-residents liv
ing between the lines and within the
American lines to gnard their lives and
property from the rapacity of the native
inhabitants who were threatening them
with all sorts of prosecutions,' and the
latter were the subjcts of the impor
tunities of the rich Porto . Ricans within
the Spanish lines, who feared that the
Spanish soldiers, as a last act of cruelty,
would despoil them .of their property
. and perhaps murder them. Some of
the appeals were both frantic and bya
terical. . A ': - . '
Steps were taken to prevent disorder
as far as possible. It was natural that
in the transition from the control of the
Spanish eovernment to a ' condition of
liberty those who had suffered for gene
rations at the bands of the govern
, ing class, should eeek vengeance.or that
private individuals shoule seize the op
portunity to obtain redress for private
wrongs. -
It was finally arranged that wherever
the Spaniards in the concentrating
movement evacuated a town or position,
the lines should overlap,' that is, that
our troops should enter the town shortly
before the Spanish retired. There was
no hiatus and no opportunity given to
the lawless element.
When ever our troops entered a Span
ish town or position, by the arrange
ments of the commissioners, the com
mander of the Spanish force delivered
an inventory of all the Spanish military
and government property to the com
manding American officer and took the
latter's receipt. This plan obviates the
necessity for sending a commission over
the island to inventory government
proper! y.
NEW HAWAIIAN
GOVERNMENT
Form to Be Territorial, With One Rep
resentative in Congress.
IIokolci-O, via San Francisco, CK.t. 4,
The Hawaiian Star haB published an
outline of the form of government de
cided npon for Hawaii by the congres
sional commission, lhe istar ears it is
to be called the territory of Hawaii, and
be allowed one representative in con
cress as though Hawaii was a etate. The
governor to be appointed by the preei
and will receive a salary ot hve or six
thousand dollars a year.
Hawaii will have a legislature, and
will make her own laws, subject to the
approval of congress. There will be no
change in the present form ef the legis
lature. To vote fer senator in the ter
ritory of Hawaii an elector must have
an annual income of $ 600. In everything
else the franchise is free and unrestrict
ed by any qualification. The judiciary
svstem will remain undisturbed.
IT COST ONE
HUNDRED LIVES
Reports Now Coming in Show the De
vastation Wrought to Have Been
More Extensive Than Reported.
Savaxnab, Oct. 5. News from the
storni-etricken districts is coming in
gradually, and it is probable that one
hundred lives have been lost. News by
way of the boats which arrived today is
that fifty persona were drowned at Fer
nandina. Campbell islands was inhabited by
about forty colored people. It is report
ed that all but three were drowned dur
ing the storm.
At Brunswick four people lost their
Uvea.
At Jessup, one hundred miles from
the coast, one man was killed in a build
ing which was blown down by the
storm.
At Sterling station Charles Wright,
a merchant, reports disasters from the
flood great to life and property in the
rice fields and portions of Glynn and
Mcintosh.
At Darien the water is reported high
er and the town is badly damaged. The
damage by wind and rain extends inland
one hundred miles in some cases. There
are a great many reports of loss of rife
11 the vicinity.
The damage to shipping is' enormous
At Darien the schooner Blanche Hop
kins collided with a small schooner, the
Minnie, and sunk her. The Minnie bad
on board six thousand pounds of dyna
mite.
On St. Simon island along the beach,
lined with summer cottages, the tide
wrought devastation. Reports are that
all the cottages were wrecked. .
Refuse to Evacuate at Once.
Havana, Oct. 5. At the joint session
this morning of the United States and
Spanish military commissioners, the
Spaniards, according to a report, de
clared it was impossible to evacuate the
island at once, while the Americans in
sisted that their instructions called for
an immediate evacuation. After a two
hours' conference the- joint commission
ers were unable to .reach any definite
agreement.' -
Wreck in the Mountains.
Ashland, Oct. 4. The through freight
train on the Southern Pacific, which
left Ashland for the south at 10:20 last
night, was wrecked one mile south of
Zuleka, near Hornbrook, just over the
California line, at 1:20 this morning. '
Furnished rooms to rent, also suites
of rooms suitable for housekeeping. Ap
ply to 19 and 20, Chapman block. tf
LEGISLATIVE
CLERKSHIP
BEING ABUSED
House Not Maintaining Its
Keform Position.
MADE MANY
APPOINTMENTS
Xo Protests Entered Against Authori
zationsA Very Quiet Day in
Both Houses pf the Legislature.
Salem, Or., Oct. 4. Outside of
the vote for United States, sena
tor, the legislature had a quiet day.
No new business at all came up in the
senate. A good deal was acomplished,
however, in the way of second reading?.
One of the more important measures
disposed of provides for a joint com
mittee to sit after the adjournment of
the special eeesion for the purpose of re
vising and codifying the school laws of
Oregon, and present its report at the
regular session. Daly of Benton and
Mulkey of Polk were appointed on the
part of the senate. The purpose of the
committee has the sanction of the retir
ing and incoming superintendents. The
committee is forbidden to incur any ex
pense. .
In the house half a dozen new bills
were introduced.. Among these was one
by Curtis of Clatsop, which .was made a
special order for Thursday morning,tak
ing from the sheriff the power of desig
nating in what paper notice of sheriff
sales under execution shall be published
and placing the choice with the judg
ment creditor,
At the beginning of the session the
house set its face sternly against the
committee-clerkship abuse. So uncom
promising was the demand for reform in
this matter that the power of appointing
clerks was taken from the committees
and it was required that all appoint
ments should have the sanction of the
house or be inoperative,
Yesterday a dozen committee clerks
were authorized, and today a score, and
not a voice was raised in protest. In
fact, the drift is so unmistakable toward
allowing all the clerks applied 'for, and
as many as has been customary, that
one chairman created a ripple of merri
ment by serving notice that he didn't
want any clerk for his committee. The
house yesterday restricted the insane
asylum committee to a single clerk, but
today it authorized the committee to
employ expert assistance necessary for
the work in hand.
In the house the bill to incorporate
Condon, Gilliam county, was passed.
Freeland of Morrow introduced a reso
lution asking the appointment of a joint
committee to investigate the best means
of improving the Columbia river at Ce-
lilo. The committee is to report at the
next session.
: Both houses adjourned early in the
day till 10 a. m. tomorrow.
CONFERENCE AT
WASHINGTON
Washington Officials Admit That the
Philippine Question Must Be Set
tled Before Consideration of Other
Terms is Entered Upon.
New York, Oct. 5. A special to the
Herald from Washington says :
' As a result of a consultation at the
White House between the president and
Secretaries Hay and Long, fresh instruc
tions regarding the Philippines bare been
addressed to the American commission
ers in Paris. They do no materially alter
those given to the delegates before their
departure for France, but are on a new
point brought op since the consultation
of Major-General Merritt with the
American representatives.
' A cipher dispatch was received by
Secretary Hay regarding the matter,
and he considered the question so im
portant that be at once went to the
White House and laid it before the presi
dent. Mr. McKinley sent for Secretary
Long, and shortly afterward Second As
sistant Secretary of btate Adee was
called to the executive mansion, These
officials were closeted together for more
than an hour.
All of the officials who participated
the conference are reticent, but it was
admitted that the consultation was held
to discuss a dispatch from Chairman Day
regarding the Philippines.
It was ascertained that the program
which the commifsion is following re
quires the disposition of the question af
fecting the archipelago before any other
questions arc considered. The president
has been informed of General Merritt's
view in favor of the retention of all the
iblands, bnt the fresh instructions do not
affect the demand for the island of Luzon
and reversionary tights over the re
mainder of the group. They relate more
to a matter of detail, and are intended
to equip the American commissioners
with materiul to answer the Spanish
commisioners in case tbey should raise
the point in the reply to the formal de
mand preeented by Mr. Day.
NANIGOES MAY
CAUSE TROUBLE
Pacificos Preparing to Join the Insurg
ents and Fight the Americans ia
Case It Is Found the United States
- Purposes to Retain Permanent
Control. .
Havana, via Key West, Oct. 6.
There are ominous clouds on the horizon
that indicate early trouble with the Cu
bans, who are now openly proclaiming
their readiness to fight to the last drop
of blood for absolute independence.
Prominent chiefs in the insurgent army
-hare indicated their intention, as soon
as the forth-coming elections are over to
come to Havana and work strenuously
in behalf of independence. - In this they
are supported by the labor classes, or
Pacificos, not identified with the last
uprisicg, three-fifths of whom, it may
be safely estimated, profess their in
tention of joining the insurgent ranks in
the struggle for independence and to
fight the Americans, it the latter in any
way oppose absolute freedom for the
island.
Distrust and uncertainty as to the
precise policy of the United Slates gov
ernnment with regard to Cuba keeps the
island in a precarious and unsettled con
dition. Havana is deservedly alarmed over the
release of 700 Nanigoes, who have been
serving eentencea in Spain's colonies in
Africa. These criminals are mostly mur
derers, belonging to tbeNanigo societies,
whose initiation rites demand that the
neophyte should murder the first person
he meets in the street, after the cere
mony of drinking the hot blood of a
cock. If the feathers in the cock's tail
are black be must kill a negro; if white,
the victim must be a white man, and if
yellow or boff, then a mulatto or China
man. These Nanigoes have long been
a menace of this city, waging their bat
tles in the streets and committing ter
rible crimes. During the past few years
upward of 700 of them have been arrested
and sent to Cect-i. The report of their
release and probable return to Havana
fills the population with dread. .
Senor Francisco de Armas, civil gov
ernnor of Matanzas, has been relieved of
his office owing to his inability to cope
with conditions there. Daring his ad
ministration nothing seemed to be done
to relieve the distress 'and reduce the
terrible mortality. Armas is a Cuban
and autonomist governor, and the
Spaniards see in bis conduct something
beyond incapaoility.
WHITE PASS
LINE FINISHED
Sajt Francisco, Oct. 5. John Stanley,
mayor of Skagnay, Alaska, who is now
in this city purchasing apparatus tor a
fire department, says: ' J. ' ' ' .
"The Pacific & Arctic railroad, now
being built from Skaguay to Selkirk, is
well under way. . Kails have been laid
to White Pass, and up to that point the
road is in full working order. Over thirty-five
tone of freight are - shipped over
this spur daily. -
."Seven hundred men are : working on
the road. Last month the payroll was
$129,000.' From White Pass to Lake
Bennett, a distance ' of thirty miles,
freight is transferred by sledges. - La
borers on the railroad receive thirty-five
cents an hour."
THE COMMAND
IS REPORTED : .
ANNIHILATED
Disaster to t&e American Troops fas
Incli Greater Than fas at
First Reprtefl.
ANOTHER FAMOUS
BATTLE RAGING
War D.'partramt Has Ordered Rein
forcements to the Scene, and the
Decisive Fight is Yet to Come
Troops Now in the Field are Not
Supplied With Provisions.
Minneapolis, Oct. 6. Arthur J. Peg
lcr, the staff correspondent of the Jour
nal, wired at 8:30 this morning from
Walker:
A force ot men under General Bacon
has been annihilated. I do not know
whether Inspector Tinker has more in
formation than 1 have, but he sent word
to the war department last night that
the Third infantry detachment had been
wiped out.
I got in very late from the expedition
on the Flora. We started out to carry
rations and supplies to the troops. It
was very dark off shore and we signaled
for an hoar. Corpora! Nettlekoren used
the code in use at Santiago. Either the
troops have been driven inland or there
is not a man of them left. No answer
signal of any sort was received, although
we lay off on the whole length of- the
headland.
To land was en Impossibility in the
dark, as the reinforcements from Brain-
ard had not. arrived, and there was only
one old Winchester on board the boat.
We had our rations aud blankets for the
bluecoats. If any of tbem survive they
slept in the open. Heavy frosts pre
vailed there. There is not so much as a
coffee bean to divide among the whole
command this morning.
There was something horribly omi
nous about the silence In that stretch of
brush where the fighting occurred. I
don't fully indorse the belief that every
man in the command is dead, because
General Bacon is an old Indian-fighter,
and however badly handicapped,! doubt
Very much whether he would permit
twice the number of Chippewas to get
away with him. t
Reinforcements on the Way.
St. Paul, Oct. 6. A Walker epecial to
the Dispatch, which has jnst arrived
from the scene of action, says : ,
The fighting is still in progress. A
special train with 200 additional troops
will arrive here at 2 p. m., and they will
be transferred to the scene of action as
soon fts possible, rot more man iour
Indians have been killed and two were
wounded. Captain Shehan- says the
Pillagers do not number more than 100,
bnt they fight as only savages can.
They are holding out now with the
bore that the Cass Lake Indians will
come to their assistance. If they arrive
before our" troops are reinforced the sol
diers will have a desperate time of it.
After the reinforcements get here it will
take two hours to en. bark them and
I two hours more for them to get to Sugar
Point. : Therefore the best that can be
expected is that they will not be able to
render much assistance before daylight
Friday.-
Fighting Still Continues.
Minneapolis, Oct. 6. A special to the
Jonrnal from Walker says:
Major Wilkinson, six privates and one
Indian policemam are dead. Colonel
Shehan is slightly wounded. Thirty In
dians are dead. The Journal dispatch
boat has just returned from the battle
ground. There has been desperate fight
ing all the morning.
An Indian named Mab Ge Guh Bo,
who came from Bear island in a canoe at
3 a. m., says the loss of the whites is ten
killed and fifteen wounded. He denies
that the troops have been wiped out but
says the Indians have had the best of it.
Their loss, be claims does not exceed
five killed and wounded. Have other
information that there are fifty dead In-
Royal makes the food pare,
wholesome and delicious.
POWDER
Absolutely Pure
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW VORK.
dlans within a mile of the landing.
The third expedition for the point baa
jast started. There are fifteen riflemen
on board, picked. The boat carries
provisions. Every man in town slept
with a Winchester across his arm.
There was desultory firing from the
headlands about this town all nigbt.
What it is about I could not discover.
I think the Indians were signaling in
this manner. There were two hundred
men under arms here. Mayor Kindle
very wisely cloEed the saloons about S
o'clock.
FIRED UPON
FROM AMBUSH
Santiago Veterans Were There Rein
forcements arc Being Hurried to
the Scene of the Battle.'
Mikneapolit, Minn., Oct, "tV. A spe
cial to the Journal from Walker, Minn.,
savs:
A terrific battle was fought at 11 this
morning, thirty miles lrom waiitr, at
Bog Ah Me Go . Ship's place, close to
Bear island. The detachment of one
hundred men under General Bacon was
landed on the point shortly after 8a. m.
The landing was effected with consider
able difficulty, owing to the high eea.
After landing, a sortie in the bush was
made in every direction. The soldiers
went through the thick underbrush very
carefully, and- with every precantion
taken against ambush.' No Indians were
seen uutii nearly eleven o'clock. The
men were then ordered to line up in an
open place near the shore of the lake,
charges were drawn and preparations
made for dinner.
The order to make ciffea had been
given, and the soldiers were standing in ,
column formation when the first shot
was fired. It came fram Bog Ah Me Ge
Seig's honee. The ball struck Ed Har
ris, ex-marshal of Walker, a half breed. '
His arm was broken . That was the sig
nal. Immediately the firing became
gederal from all directions. It seemed
that a shot came from every bush.
Three of General Bacon's men dropped
and were immediately carried to the
rear.
On the very instant that the first shot
was heard, every man in the com mand
sprang for cover, without waiting for
orders. Like a flash the blue column
bad disappeared and not a sign was to be
seen of the eighty men who had stood
erect but an instant bo'ore, except here
and there a little patch where a gray hat
might be make out. General Bacon's
voice was heard above everything ad
monishing bis men. The general stood -straight
up, and, supported by Major
Wilkinson, looked right into the eyes of
the devils.
"Steady, men," he cal'.eJ ; "keep cool
now, keep cool."
Again there came a volley from the
Indians, and that was what tbo troops
had been waiting for. The Krag-Jor-gensons
opened up with a frightful rat
tle, just as the pillogers made a terrific
rush. Halfadolen of them dropped
and the rest fell bark, yelling like fiends
incarnate. It is not known how many
Indians there were, but there must have
been between 135 and 200.
General Bacon will intrench himself
tonight and await reinforcements. The
wounded city marshal of Walker was
brought home under a Bed Cross flag;
aboard the Flora.
All families are being ' removed from
the agency at this time. General Bacon -is
beyond telegraphic communication,
and no boat can reach him within three
hours.
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