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unteers Betins.
PREPARING ROLLS
AND ACCOUNTS
Regiment Will Be Ready to Start
Portland the First Week
August.
for
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Sax Fbancisco, July 17. The master
ingontoftbe Second Oregon regiment
nractically began today with the ar
rival of the mustering officers.
These ofheers commenced by giving
instructions in the preparing of rolls
and accounts, which work will coifs a me
most of the time required to make of
the regiment 1000 citizens. Physical
examinations wiil be quickly made.
It ia now estimated that the regiment
will be ready to start for Portland the
first week in August.
The health of the regiment is good.
But few of the boys are taking colds,
contrary to the expectations of medical
officers. The big dinners have caused
more discomfort than anything ele.e.
The San Franciscans are as hospitable
ai when the regiment was here before.
Invitations are accumulating and the
men and officers find themselves ex
pected at banquets and entertainments.
The men will drill every day while in
camp, and will appear on dress parade
tomorrow for the first time since their
return from Manila.
Shivering Volunteers.
Sas Fkascihco, July 17. An Oregon
volunteer was found on guard duty to
night at the Presidio, wearing four suits
of clothe, with a piece of a flannel shirt
tied about his neck for a muffler. He
had borrowed these things from the boys
in his company. A year or two ago he
was a Stanford senior weighing 170
pounds; now ho is reduced to 120 and
looks like a shadow.
Scores of men in the Oregon regiment
are pafsing thiougli this experience,
while the war department is busy with
the eternal red tape. Another effort
was niaile by the lied Cross Society and
General Summers to have the Oregonians
provided with overcoats and blankets
It is thought by tomorrow Adjutant Cab
cock, o! this eitv, will receive orders to
draw these articles from the quarter
"inner. Meanwhile, the soldiers are
barrowii g from each other, while half
of the hoys are obliged to remain in
their tents or take the cotiscuuonct 8 in
the fog and wind outside.
KecordBieaking Corn Crop.
amv Iokk, July 18. "Kansas has the
b'Kgest corn crop in sight," says Paul
Morton, vies president of the Atchison,
Topcka A Santa Fa Railroad Company,
wi'oism New York. "(Jive us three
weeks more without hot winds and the
corn crop (1f Kansas will reach .'100,000-
) btlihel. double, that of lust vear.
"Bnsinees in the localities traversed
our system is excellent. There in
promise of a line cotton crop, while if
'he promises concorning the orange crop
fulfilled, it will be twice as large as
at year, when the road carried 15,000
larioads of oranges."
THE PEACE
OVERTURES
ARuinaldo Said to Be Negotiating With
General Otis.
C""'A. July 17.-A special to the
mei-Herahl from Washington says:
fmportant cablegram! have been re
pA".. at lhe t department from the
"H'PPine commission, and at the war
ePariment from General Oils, concern-
new move In the direction of pol-
Jhese dispatches have been In the
but I 1,18 ''rM",on f' days,
"l has declined to make them public,
use the ultra-optimistic views here
"'ore received from the same tonrce
, not been borne out by subsequent
The latest dispatches, however,
are more encouraging than the previous '
ones, but the president wishes to havei
some positive results before making them
public.
All that can be learned definitely
about them is that direct overtures for
peace have been sent to General Otis by
Aguinaldo and some of his principal
leaders.
It was said by a cabinet officer tonight
that if 'the promises are fulfilled, the
volunteers now being enlisted will not
be needed.
Soldier Was Drowned.
v ancoiveb, ft ash., July 17. Private
Thomas White, corxpany B, Taenty-
fourtu infantry, was drowned while
bathing in the Columbia river here to
day. w lute was reputed to be a fair
swimmer and had swam across the bayou
of the Columbia. He with others had
been in ouce or twice, when he sudden
ly inrew up nis hands and an instant
later sank in twenty feet of water. The
body was recovered after being in the
water about an hour. White was a re
cent recruit, having enlisted at Nash
ville, Tenn., March 21, 1899. He was
nineteen years of age, and was born in
Ti.-.i t rr. w.
ituiueriora, xenn. ms parents are
living.
THE PRESIDENT
NOT BLAMED
It is Believed Otis Should Have Asked
for More Troops There is Con
fidence in Miles.
Washington, July 19. -A private let
ter was received at the navy department
from an officer on board the' cruiser
Petrel, and states that she is cruising
aronnd Lingayan bay, about 00 miles
from Manila.
The writer says the work is excessive
ly tedious, sb those on board "are not on
speaking terms with the natives." As a
result the ship's crew is unablo to get
any fresh food or fruit from shore and is
compelled to subsist on the regular
ship's rations.
New Yokk, July 19. A special to the
World from Washington, says : Senator
Nelson, of Minnesota, in an interview
today, said :
"There seems to be a strong feeiing
among the people that Maj ir-General
Otis has not pmhed the campaign in the
Philippines as vigorously hs he should,
end it might be well for the president to
put another general In authority.
I believe the people would like to see
General Miles sent to the Philippines
and placed in command. There a
neral confidence in his ability, as a
soldier and campaigner. I do not think
the president or the war department
has been to blame. Otis should have
asked for more men and should have
eeen to it that when he took an insur
gent village or stronghold he had
strength enough to hold it."
r.imirknble liescue.
Mrs. Michael Cirtain, I'lainfield, 111.
makes the statement, that f ho caught
cohl, which settled on her lungs j she
was treated for a month by her family
physician, but grew worse. He told her
eho was a hopulea victim of consumption
and that no medicine could cure her.
Her druggist suggested Dr. King's New
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a bottle find to her delinht found herself
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found herself sound and well ; now does
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little Biy Badly Burned.
Daytow, Or., July 17. The two-year-
old boy of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Nichols
was badly burned last Saturday. Air.
Nichols was picparinx to take a bath,
and while he was absent from the room
for cold water, the little fellow fell back
wards In the tu of ic!ding water, and
he was horribly burned about the body.
The child is in a very critical condition
and la thought will not recover, as it
had had several very bad convulsions
since.
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OTIS OR COR- .
RESPONDENTS GO
YasMiilcii Officials are AstraM st
YtsttiWs Herelations.
OTIS IS IN THE
WRONG PLACE
Correspondents' Complaint Will Be In
vestigated at Once and Annoyances
Will Probably Be Abated.
New York, July 18. The Washington
correspondent of the Herald quotes a
member of the cabinet as follows:
"Either Major-General Otis or the news
paper correspondents must go. To de
port the correspondents would probably
be accepted at home and abroad as a
return to the old Spanish method of
muzzling the press. To relieve Major
General Otis will mean an official ec
knowledgement of his fault and a de
moralization of military discipline."
The above statement was made whep
the member of the cabinet was asked lo
discuss the problem which confronts the
administration as a result of publication
of the newspaper correspondents' "round
robin," protesting against the course of
General Otis in preventing the real facts
regarding the Philippine situation from
becoming known.
Officials Are Astounded.
The revelations now made about the
censorship astound the leading officials
here. When complaints were recently
made about the way dispatches were be
ing stopped and mangled at Manila, the
war department was satisfied with an ex
planation of General Otis that great lib
erty was being allowed, with only such
restrictions as prevented advance infor
mation of military operations lrom be
coming known to the enemy.
The president has frequently remarked
to visitors who broached the subject that
he whs anxious to have the fullest knowl
edge of Philippine affairs disseminated
and that he was disposed to have the
w idest latitude commensurate with mili
tary necessity ifiven to the American
correspondents throng! out the islands.
When tho latest disclosures regarding
petty annoyances correspondents have
met are officially substantiated, as in all
probability they speedily will be, orders
from Washington will undoubtedly
cause their abatement.
It is the impression that the gist, if
not trie entire subject-matter, of the cor
respondents' complaint will be sent by
cable to General Otis by tho w ar depart
ment, and that he will be esked for his
version of the specification) they charge.
Should the rejoinder simply deny the
wry serious charges in the general ster
eotyped sentences to which such partial
ity lias been shown in the past, there is
no doubt that tho general ollicers in the
Held in Lux. n will he called rm directly
for brief reports of the condition of
all'airs.
It is n fact that none of them have had
an opportunity to present any statement
regarding them since their accounts of
the opening of hostilities early last Feb
ruary, and that General Otis has per
mitted four months to pass without
sending ft single mail report to the war
department, prefering toconfiue himsell
to brief and generally indefinite oble
dispa(ches.
Four Prisoners Escape.
Walla Wai.i.a, July 18. Four prison
ere escaped from the city jail last night
v anwiniir out an iron bar. They were
James Kelly, on trial for sodomy; Hong
Git, a Chinaman, charged with robbery,
and two highwaymen, who had been ar
rested for holding up a Swede two hours
before. All made good their escape.
Two prisoners in the jail refused to Wave.
ALGER TENDERS
HIS RESIGNATION
WAMUNOTOJt. July 1 .-".ertry of
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Hot Wave Hurts Grain.
Pkndlkton, Or-, July 18. There is
now no doubt that the crop of 1S99 has
been badly injured throughout this
entire section of country. The "temper
ature has ranged from 103 to 107 for
nearly a week past, the actual average,
according to the government observer's
report for last week, being 100.4 above
zero.
While some of the fall-sown grain had
matured sufficiently so that It was be
yond danger from the hot wave, the
spring grain was late, and has been gen
erally damaged. This conetitues 60 to
70 per cent of the total crop of the
county, and will not only be small in
yield, but of low grade as well. Harvest
ing is in progress quite generally all over
the county.
WAS OFFERED
TO M0HLER
May Have the Presidency of the
Four System.
Big
St. Paul, Minn., July 19. A special
to the Pioneer-Press says:
President Mohler, of the Oregon Rail
road A Navigation Company, has been
offered the presidency of the Big Four
lines, succeeding M. E. Ingalls. Mohler
Is W. K. Vanderbilt'g selection.
T. B. Lynch, assistant general passen
ger agent of the Great Northern, has
been appointed general passenger agent
of the Cotton Belt.
President Mohler is absent from Port
land, so he could not be seen relative to
tho news that he hud been offered the
presidency of the Big Four system,
which is the Cincinnati, Cleveland, Chi
cago A St. Louis. President Ingalls has
given it out that he w ill resign the office
and will accept a new position in the
traffic world that of arbitrator and
mediator for the Vunderbilt and Morgan
lines. Mr. Mohler's conceded strength
as a railroad executive gives reasonable
color to the news from the East. How
he will regard the tender is purely a
matter of conjecture.
CntHrrh Cannot he Cured
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Wheeler Accepts.
San Fkancihco, July 19. Benjamin
I le Wheeler, professor of Greek in Cor
nell university, has accepted the presi
dency of the University of California.
At n meeting of the regents of the
University of California, that body ac
cepted the conditions imposed by Pro
fessor Wheeler and the former Cornell
professor accepted the position offered
him.
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Eruption of Mt. Etna.
Rome, July 19. There was an eruption
of Mount Etna this morning. After
loud subterreanean noises the crater
vomited forth dense columns of smoke,
followed by enormous masses of sand. A
strong earthquake shock occurred here
at 2 :20 this morning and was followed
during the ensuing fifteen minutes by a
number of other sever shocks.
siBSOLUTELY
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
STRIKERS ARE
USING DYNAMITE
Attempted la Blow lip Itie
Railway Stricture.
EMPLOYES HAVE
GONE OUT
Despite the Refusal of Master Work
man Parsons to Sanction Such
Actions-Cars Stopped at Midnight.
New York, July 19. Strike began
this morning on the Second-avtnue line
of the Metropolitan Street Railway
Company, on the Manhattan side of the
river. About half of the men qu't work.
The strike was not authorized bv the
leaders. Disturbances have occurred at
various points and several men have
been arrested. Strikers claim to have
induced men to quit woik on various
other lines of the oinpany, but cars
were running on all these lines. C ni
missioner Delehanty, of the state board
of mediation and arbitration, said the
board would meet today and try to ar
bitrate the difficulties.
President Veeland, of the Metropolitan
Street Railway said: "There is no
strike and I defy them to tie our line
up. You can look on the streets and
see for yourself that" all our care are run-
in;;. Every line is in good siiape ex
cept the Second-avenno line, where
there were some slight disturbance this
morning."
General Master Workman Parsons
said today that while ho had advised
against thestiike today in New York,
he would stand by the men to the last.
'I advised delay for a day or two," he
said, "but now the strike is on, I will
make the fight of my life to sustain the
men in compelling observance of the
10-honr law and redress of other
grievances."
Dynamiters on Hand.
New Yokk, July 19. Just beforo 2
o'clock this morning there were two ter
rilic explosions in South Brooklyn, at
Fifth avenue oud Thirty-fifth etieet. It
w as found that dynamite or some other
h it'll explosive had been p'aced against
the base of the pillars of the Fifth-ave-nuo
road at that point.
The dynamite had been put beside the
an, tl,B explosions were almost simntta-
neons. lhe loree of the explosions was
such that windows in nearby hons'S
were blown in. On one side of the ave
nue at that point is the pumping station
of the waterworks, and on tho other,
Greenwood cemetery. Underneath the
railroad is a tunnel leading to the ceme
tery. Word was Immediately sent from the
powder-house at Thirty-sixth street to
Brooklyn police headquarters. The re
serves were called out arid a few minutes
later a hundred policemen were on their
way to the scene. The spot where the
explosion occurred is a dark and lone
some one.
POLICE CRUELLY
USE THE CLUB
Unless More Can Be Induced to Join,
Strike Will Be an Absolute
Failure.
New York, July 20. The extension
of street car men's strike from Brooklyn
to Manhattan Island was due entirely to
sympathy for the striking employes of
the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company.
It was ordered by General Master Work
man John N. Parson, the head of the
Knights of Labor In the United States,
who Is engaged In organizing the men
and it bending all his energies toward
L?0WBSER
fclJRE
redrt s ing their grievances. Mr. Parsons
declared a strike at this time to be pre
mature. It was literally forced by the
appeal made to the mortormen by
Master Workman Pines and the com
mittee of Brooklyn strikers.
Permission was refused by the ex
ecutive board to proclaim a strike and
lhe mortormen whose sympathies were
arouscu oecei Mr. t 'arsons and made
tour of t lie car shops early Wednesday
morning appealing to the men to quit
work ; some of them did so ; others re
fused. The refusal was due partly to
the fact that the strike had not been of
ficially proclaimed and partly to the fact
many employes were not willing to make
sacrifices either for the ten-hour law or
their Brooklyn brethern.
It was not until midday that General
Master Workman Parsons found him
self dragged along with the procession
and declared that the strike was in pro
gress. At midnight, last night, after the
strike had been on twenty hours, it ap
peared to be the maddert and most ill
considered battle with enormous capita)
labor ever entered on. Except on the
Second-avenue line the cars were inter
fered with to a slight degree, and unless
thestrikerj indue J from 1C0O to 1500 men
to join them this morning, the strike
will be an ahso'ute failure.
IS CHARGED
WITH MURDER
Said to Have Been Committed Three
Years Ago in Ohio.
EixKNSuuiia, Wash., July 19. Sheriff"
Brown has returned from Easton, near
the Big Tunnel, wlih Louis Uillow,.
whom he arrested there by the aid of a
photo and description sent to the sheriff"
of Sandmlty county, Ohio. He ia
charged with having committed a mur
der in Fremont, in that county, three
years ago.
Brown picked him out of a gang of
railroad laborers at E-iston, where he
has been working for six months. He
gives the mine uamu as that he was
Known oy in uino, imt spells it with a
'u'' instead of a "w." Ho admits he
is from Fremont, and that he had trouble
there, but will not say what it was.
lie says he was arrested in California
a i:no time ago under circumstances fi n
ilar to thes9 1 ut was discharged. There
is no doubt whatever that he is the man
wanted.
Offered Pendleton B ys Clothiii".
Pknim.kt n, Or., Ju'y IS When the
Morning Oreon'au arrived in Pendleton
today, c jiitainin j the rial fluents oi Gen
eral Summers, an 1 special correspond
ence relating to need of blankets and
warm c'othinj: for Oregon volunteers at
tho Presidio, W. J. Furnish promptly
telegraphed to Max & K.shland to pur
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and draw on him at Pendleton. There
was considerable feeling over the show
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should prevent the volunteers from
quickly obtaining clothing and blankets
for immediate use, w hen t tie government
had a plentiful supply in tho quarter
master's department at the Presidio.
Mr. Koshland answered that tho hoys
were so tar in comfortable condition, and
that the offer would he made use of in
Cise of necessity.
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Gold on a Farm.
Cottage Gkovz, Or., July 19. A ledge
of gold-bearing quartz was discovered a
few days ago about two miles fmm this
place, on the farms of Isiac Taylor and
C. E. Smith. Some experienced miner
from California are running a tunnel in
the ledge, and have taken out some very
rich ore, containing visible particles of
free gold.
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