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THE DALLES, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1898.
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Captured Vessels.
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Some Have Already Been Secured, How
ever, and Arrangements are Be
ing Made for.SendingThem to Ma
nila as Soon as the List Shall
Have Been Completed.
New York, Dec. 27. A special to the
Herald from Washington says :
A cablegram baa been received at the
navy department from Rear-Adcairal
Dewey asking for the immediate die
patch of officers and men for service on
the three captured Spanish vessels that
are to be refitted and added to bis
fleet.
Owing to the mastering ont of vol an
teer officars, the department will find it
rather difficult to comply with the re
quest. Captain Crowinshield, however,
is doing the best he can to provide the
officers and men desired, and arrange
ments are now being made to send a
transport with them through the Suez
canal.
Department anthorities are anxious to
commission the naval cadets who are
now undergoing a course of sea daty
preliminary to final graduation. But
this cannot be done legally unless con
gress passes the pending naval bill.
There is a provision in this bill hich
expressly opens the way for the imme
diate assignment of these cadets to duty
as officers.
THE STARS AND
STRIPES RAISED
The Fifteenth United States Infantry
Has Arrived There and Oar Flag
Has Been Raised With Appropri
ate Ceremony.
Nbw Yobk, Dec. 27, A correspon
dent of Nuevitas , Cuba, who writes
to the New York Times, says: The last
of the Spanish forces in this the pro
vince of Puerto Principe, has left and
the Fifteenth United States infantry has
arrived. Our flag has been raised with
much ceremony by two daughters of the
alcalde, a Cuban, formerly of the autono
mist government, who was reappointed
by General Carpenter, governor of the
province.
Yellow fever and typhoid are said not
to exist here, thongh severe malaria pre
vails. Our soldiers are provided with
large hospital tents and cots. - Tbe tents
are being floored. The extremely denes
and impenetrable undergrowth on the
bills where the camp is situated was cut
down by ex-Cuban soldiers with their
machetes, the great quantities of guano,
a poisonous plant closely resembling in
appearance the holly. Tendering it dang
erous for our men to do the work. The
Cubans, .however, are fearless, although
showing the effects of . terrible sores on
bands and legs. A plant usually found
growing near tbe guano is claimed to be
an antidote for ibe poison.
Several of tbe men have been bitten
by scorpion?, "but tbe insects here do
not seem to be as dangerous a 8 else
where A few drops of ammonia applied
to the sting prevents further trouble.
TIME-EXPIRED
MEN IMPATIENT
Dewey Therefore is Anxious for the Ar
rival of the Naval Recruits.
New York, Dec. 27. A special to the
Tribune from Washington says:
Admiral Dewey cabled to the navy
department asking when he might ex
pect tbe Buffalo to arriveat Manila, and
requesting that she might be hurried as
much. as possible. The BuflVo la carry
ing 500 men to the Asiatic pi lron to
take the place ot those wbot - terms of
service have expired, and wh r.re now
exceedingly anxious to retr . a to the
United States. Many of 'these men
would have ordinarily came home on the
flagship Olympia, which was on the
point of starting for San Francisco when
the Maine was blown up, but were re
tained by Amiral Dewey on a cable
warning from Secretary Roosevslt.
The admiral baa now informed the
navy department that the conditions in
the Philippines are so materially im
proved that he will send a few officers
and men to San Francisco on the next
army transport which leaves Manila
He is not yet willing, however, to rec
ommnnd any reduction of the fleet, and
notwithstanding the reports to the con
trary, he has never intimated any destre
te come home himself, bnt in fact re
fused to take advantage of the permis
sion extended to him to temporarily
leave the Fast and visit Paris when the
peace commission was there.
ABOUT TO BE
COME. EMBROILED
Formation of a New Cabinet Intrusted
to a Rabid Opponent of - Aguinaldo
The Insurgent Leader Has Fled
Manila, Dec. 27. A eteamer which
has arrived here from Samar reports
that the Tagal insurgents have been in
possession of Kalbaon since December
11. , Business there is said to be entirely
suspended and all the Spaniards ot tbe
vicinity have sought refuge in the house
of a roan named Scott, an American.
All efforts to induce the Visayas to join
tbe revolution have been fruitless.
The situation here so far as the in
surgents are concerned is seriouB. The
formation of a new cabinet has been in
trusted to a Filipino named Madi, a
rampant, irreconcilable of unknown
antecedents and a bitter opponent of
Aguinaldo, especially on the question of
Spanish prisoners.
It is reported that Aguinaldo refused
to release their prisoners, although tbe
cabinet decided to accede to tbe request
of General Otis for their release. '
It is rumored that Agninaldo has fled
to an inaccessible region back of Cavite
with a tew followere, fearing assassina
tion. An expedition commanded by General
Miller has left here for Iloilo. -
Columbia's New Record.
Portland, Dec. 27. Items on the
water front, as usual on a holiday, were
scarce yesterday, bnt the good, fast
steamship Columbia came to the rescue
by breaking her own record between San
Francisco and Portland, and coming
within a few minutes of making the best
time on record. Her time from dock to
dock was but 47 hours and 65 minutes,
while the actual running time was 46
hours and 15 minutes. The Columbia,
in command of Captain George Conway,
broke all prevtouii records on the route
about a year ago, but the State cut under
that record about a week later, and since
that time no remarkable fast trips have
been made until yesterday. As Captain
Green, who was master of the State
when she made the record passage, is
now In command of the Columbia, he
has t) his credit the two fastest passages
that have ever been made on tbe route.
Trouble Brewing in France.
London, Dec. 27. Sptcial dispatches
from Paris say that in view ot the daily
preparation for a royalist coup d'etat
the revolutionary socialists have organ i
ized a vigilance committee in each dis
trict, charged with tbe detection of any
anti-republican movement. Counter
preparations are also being made. Offi
cers of the highest rank in tbe army are
said to have been sounded on the sub
ject of a coup d'etat, but the results are
said to have been disheartening.
Teresa a Hopeless Wreck.
Nbw York, Dec. 28. According to
mail advices from Nassau, N. P., the
branded cruiser Maria . Teresa, which
stranded on Cat island, has broken in
two just aft of the after funnel. The
forward part remains fast on the reef,
but tbe after part has slid into deeper
water, where it lies, entirely submerged,
even at low water.
Tbe weather has been very boisterous,
and tbe wreck ia rapidly breaking to
pieces under the blows of the tremend
ous surf that at times swallows it cut of
sight. '
THE REBELS HAVE
CAPTURED IL0IL0
Spisiis Forcsi to Flee to Borneo ani
Hinian.
TOO LATE TO
PREVENT IT
Washington Officials Believe Otis Will
Demand the Surrender of Iloilo
Into His Hands, and If the Rebels
Refuse, Enforce His Demand.
Washington, Dec. 28. There is a
great dgal of anxiety in official circles
here over the recent events at Iloilo.
Two official dispatches have been re
ceived by the etate and war departments
bat it is impossible to gather from them
accurate knowledge as to the conditions
there. It is not even possible to learn
whether the insurgents or American
forces have taken the place.
This morning United States Consul
Pratt, at Singapore, cabled the etate de
partment: "Iloilo taken 26th. Spanish
fled to Borneo." This threw the officials
into deeper doubt than before. Tbe
American expedition which left Manila
to go to Iloilo, consisting of 2,000 troops
and the warships Baltimore and Callao,
would scarcely have had time to reach
Iloilo by the 26th. So the inference is
that the insurgents are in possession of
the town.
Color is lent to tbe belief from the fact
reported in one telegram that tbe Span
iards bad retreated to a strongly forti
fied town on the island of Mindanao.
This does not agree with Pratt's state
ment that they had fled to Borneo. The
fact that the SDaniards have retreated at
all is construed as indicating that the
town had been abandoned to tbe insurg
ents.
Officials at the war department still
decline to male public Otis' telegram of
yesterday, but there is no doubt he is
meeting with great difficulty in his ef
forts to secure tbe release of the Spanish
prisoners held by the Filipinos. It be
gins to appear clearly that a considera
ble element among Filipino leaders,
probably a majority, are disposed to use
tbe unfortunate prisoners as a basis for
negotiations with tbe United States,
naming their release conditional upon
certain more or less important conces
sions demanded by them.
Just before noon a cablegram was re
ceived from Otis which confirmed the
fears of tbe officials as to happenings at
Iloilo. Otis stated that tbe Americans
reached that place too late, the insurg
ents having taken possession of the city
on the 25th, thirty-nine hours prior to
Captain Potter's arrival. Aguinaldo's
flag floats over the city.
Otis says tbe Spaniards have evacuat
ed all the station s in the southern islands
except Zamboango and Mindanao, by
orders, they say, from Madrid. Otis
expects no further word from Iloilo for
four days, owing to lack of cable com
munications. It is presumed Otis will
demand a surrender of Iloilo into his
hands, and this demand may at once
raise the issue between the insurgents
ond our own government of the posses
sion of the islands. '
The province of Iloilo is set down in
official directories as having a population
of 472,000, and is tbe eecond eeaport
city in importance in the Philippine
group.
The Spanish have chosen a strong
place for the concentration of their
troops in the town of Zamboango, which
is strongly fortified and possessed of
considerable natural strength from a de
fensive point of view. It is not doubted
they will be able to maintain themselves
for an indefinite time against theinsurg-
ents, presuming they are not cut off
from obtaining supplies from tbe sea.
The town itself has a ' population of
21,000. ' .
AMERICANS :
STERN VICTORS
Spain, He Says, Met No Generosity at
Their Hands, But Only Levity and
Deceit Intimates that Spain Will
Forever Hate the United. States
and That' a Day of Retaliation
May Come Some Time.
New York, Dec. 23. A dispatch to
the World quotes the London Mail's
Madrid correspondent as saying that in
timate friends of Senor Sagasta have
supplied the following statements made
by bim a few days before his illness be
came serious:
"The time when the peace negotia
tions were in progress was a time of the
greatest bitterness to me.
"Many a night I could not sleep and
many a day I could not eat, so gieat was
my anxiety, so deep my fears that what
has happened would happen.
"I know the Americans, and I guessed
what tbey intended to do. Some of tbe
Spanish commissioners in Paris bad, in
the beginning, some expectations in
which I never participated, though I
sometimes hoped myself that our oppo
nents could not be so cruel to Spain as
they have since proven themselves to
be.
"From the United States we have met
with no generosity, but only levity and
deceit-, carried to the extreme of inter
preting capriciously an important work
in tbe text of tbe protocol, in order to
violate tbe principle tbey had already
agreed to.
"We have to suffer all this to prevent
greater evils. Cuba, our army, always
brave, refused to accept peace. Tbey
wanted to continue fighting against the
invaders, as well as tbe rebels. Tbe gen
eral in command had hard work to per
suade soldiers and officers, who thought
themselves dishonored by accepting
peace without having fought against
their foe.
'Here in Spain the danger was that
the people agitated by so many misfor
tunes might reject a peace which did not
respond to their ambition.
"God only knows how earnestly and
how hard I labored to restore calm to
tbe popular mind and to quell the move.
m?nts which would have disturbed the
country still more by endangering not
only the Philippines but aleoour posses
sions in theAtlantic and Meditteranean,
and perhaps portions of our own penin
sula. Nobody remembers this ' except
those who can measure the' sacrifices I
then made.
"Now all is ended and we must look
to the future. Elements are now want
ing for our regeneration and our work
will be seen in time. Tbe lesson inflict
ed upon us has been hard, but it will be
fruitful."
Murder Theory Substantiated.
Spokane, Wash., Dec. 27. There is
now scarcely a doubt that the charred
bodies found in tbe embers of a burned
cabin near Spokane, Saturday morning,
were the remains of Jack David and
William Banks, and that they were
murdered by Archie Carl and Oscar
King. At the inquest today the physi
cians employed to analyze the blood in
tbe snow in front of the cabin testified
that it was human blood. Edward Goff
net, who delivered a bill of groceries at
the cabin Friday evening at 8 o'clock,
testified that all four men were there
and came out to meet him. This proves
that David and Banks, who were in the
city Friday afternoon, returned to the
cabin. Tbe officers have no trace of Carl
and King, the men supposed to have
committed the crime. They had a good
supply of provisions, and it is thought
tbey carried them into the hills and are
in biding.
Wakened by Hypnotism.
Milwaukee, Dec. 28. Tony Brospelt,
a young woman 23 years of age, who has
been in a trance for tbe past five months
at her home in this city, was brought to
her normal condition through the in
fluence of hypnotism.'
Miss Brospelt retired as usual in her
apartments on the 23d of July last. On
the following morning, when it was time
to awaken she kept on sleeping, and
though at times she would open ber
eyes, she seemed unconscious to ber
surroundings. At last an application of
'suggestive tberapeutleSi". a form of
hypnotism, was tried, and tbe patient
today was bronght ont of her iong trance
and while she was very weak, she was
able to say a few words to those around
her. She has been kept alive with
liquid food.'
Man Who Never Slept
Kenosha, Wis. Dec. 28. Millionaire
Bain, president of tbe Bain Wagon Co.,
whose death was announced from Pasa
dena, Cal., was familiarly known as the
"man who never slept." It is virtually
a fact that for the last 16 years he did
not sleep an hour in his bed. Over-devotion
to business was the cause of his
sleeplessness. For the past 10 years it
was his custom to take daily trips to
Chicago, riding and driving during the
day, while at night he was always found
either at tbe theatre or billiard . ball,
which were tbe only places where ho was
able to get a short nap.
He was born in Kinderhook, N. Y.,
75 years 8go.
OCCUPATION OF
ILOILO CONFIRMED
Five Native Soldiers fere Soil Don
tor Lootinj in tie City.
NEW FILIPINO
CABINET FORMED
It is Merely Temporary, However, and
Is Intended to Exercise Its Power
During the Election General Ex
pectation is That Otis Will De
mand the Surrender of Iloilo and
Back His Demand With tbe Army
and Fleet.
Manila, Dec. 29. The expedition un
der General Miller arrived at Iloilo on
Tuesday and found that the Spaniards
had evacuated the place on Saturday.
The steamer Churuca "transferred the
Spanish forces to Mindanao.
In accordance with an agreement the
rebels entered tbe city and trenches cn
Monday at noon. They immediately es
tablished a municipal government.
Guards were placed over foreign prop
erty. Everything is quiet and orderly.
There was eome looting during the night
but five natives were shot and this had
an exemplary effect. Tbe only foreign
ship in the harbor was tbe British cruis
er Irene.
It is fully expected that General Otis
will demand the evacuation of Iloilo by
the Filipinios, and use the American
army and fleet to enforce it.
A new Filipino cabinet . has been
formed, the personel of which is as fol
lows: President of tbe cabinet and
minister of foreign affairs, Senor Mabini ;
minister of war, Senor Luna; minister
of the interior, Senor Araneta; minister
of agriculture and commerce, Senor
Buencamino; minister of foreign works,
Senor Canon.
Investigation Needed.
New York, Dec. 29. A dispatch to
the Herald from Manila says :
Admiral Dewey considers it absolutely
necessary that a first-class etatesman be
sent to Manila to thoroughly investigate
tbe situation there' and ascertain the
aspirations of the Ptllipino republicans.
He farther stales that the United States
must accept their responsibilities in the
Philippines which have been acquired
bv conquest. If they should shirk this
daty they would pat themselves back
200 years in the world's history.
The first republican government has
resigned over the question of American
intervention in the government of the
Philippines. Owners of property desire
American co-operation.
The present temporary cabinet, which
will exercise power pending the elec
tions, is very anti-American. It allows
American co-operation whatever, and
wants to declare for a free republic and
to consider the Americans as allies. It
is willing to grant liberal commercial
treaties, with a monopoly of the mines
and railways, and to repay tbe expenses
of the American occupation of Manila.
Troubles due to malcontents continue
in tbe provinces of Tarlac and Pangssi
nian. Republican troops have been
sent there to quell tbe disturbance.
IS TO SUCCEED
HITCHCOCK
Former Governor of Minnesota is Said
to Be Slated For Ambassador to
Russfa. ' .
New Yobk, Dec. 29. A dispatch to
the Herald from Washington says: For
mer Governor Merriam, of Minnesota, is
said to be elated to succeed Secretary
Hitchcock as . ambassador to Russia.
Mr. Merriam's friends aseert, with every
indication of assurance that the incident
is closed between tbe president and the
former governor, and Lis name will go
to tbe senate soon after the holidays.
Mr. Merriam is now in Washington
and has bad eeveral interviews with tbe
Baking Powder
Made from pure
cream of tartar.
Saf eguards the food
against alum
Alum baking powders are the greatest
menacers to health of the present day.
OYAt BAKIHO PQWCtR CO., HEW YOBK.
president, but declines to confirm or
deny the report. Those familiar with
Minnesota politics are aware that tbe
president has more than a passing
friendly regard for Mr. Merriam, and
had he to consult only his pereonal de
sires, a place in the' cabinet would have
been beBtowed upon the former governor.
He was also favorably mentioned in the
early stages of the present administra
tion in connection with various diplo
matic missions abroad, from ambassador
to the court of St. James, down to consul-general
in Cuia.
President McKinley's wish to reward
his triend was not agreeable to Senator
Davis, but it is believed that Senator
Davis, while refusing to become entirely
reconciled to Mr. Merriam, has eo far
curbed his personal feelings that he may
not antagonize the wishes of tbe presi
dent should the latter determine to send
Mr. Merriam to St. Petersburg. .
San Fkascisco, Dec. , 29. Official
notice has been received by Major-General
Merriam that General Shafter is to
be again assigned to the command of the
department of California. It is ex
pected that General Shatter will take
charge about the 9th of next month. (
General Merriam has not yet been as
signed. He may go north again to Jthe
department of Columbia. The impres
sion prevails, however, that he will go to
Denver, to command the department ot
Colorado, and that the departments of
California and Colombia will be conv
bined under Shafter. '
MOORE GETS
NINETEEN YEARS
Sentence Passed Upon Him For Work
ing the "Badger" Racket in. New?
York.
Nbw Yohk, Dea. 27. William F
Moore, convicted of robbing Martin Ma
hon, a hotel keeper of this city, by the
"badger game," was today sentenced to
19 years in the etate prison. The charge
against Moore was that he- conspired'
with his wife, Fayne Moore, to rob Ma
hon, and that Mahon was enticed by the
woman to appartments occupied by tbe
Moores and there compelled by the hus
band to pay blackmail. Moore was con
victed on his second trial, the jory in
tbe first instance having disagreed. In
the case of his wife, Fayne Moore, the-
jury also disagreed, and the woman ia
now awaiting ber second trial.
Justice Daly, in tbe supreme court,,
today, on the application of counsel for
Moore, granted a stay of execution of
the sentence passed on Moore by Re
corder Goff until a motion could be ar
gued for the granting of a certificate of
reasonable doubt in order to enable an
appeal to be taken.
Rebels Capture Tulcan.
New York, Dec. 29. A diepatch to
the Herald from Panama says: Ecua
dorian political exiles here have received
a telegram through tbe Columbia front
ier saving that Tnlcan was taken recent
ly by tbe invading revolutionary forces
under General Eivadniera, defeating the
government troops. The Herald's cor
respondent at Guayaquil confirms tbe
news. The invaders marched on Ibarra
with the intention of intercepting the
artillery on the way from Quito for Gen
eral Arellanos' forces in Tulcan.
Important details of a significant
battle are momentarily expected. The
invading enemy is said to be largely
composed of a Columbian contingent.
Tulcan is situated on the Columbian,
frontier. It is the capital of Carchi pro
vince, and is well fortified. Ibarra ia
aitajted . between Quito and Tulcan.
The French gunboat Papin has arrived
from Callao. She will leave shortly,
bound north.