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VOL. 11.
ACTION TAKEN BY US.
Government'ii Posifron in the
China-Japan Question. ,
GROVER'S MKH8AHK TO EXPLAIN
I'rasldent Cleveland Will Probably Urge
Tliat Wo Have Tried tu Aid In Main,
talnlng His I'raite of tli, Wurlil-Tlie
' I'esltlOlt ut Jauaa.
Wamiinoton, November 21. The
statement wm msde In Congressional
circles to-day tlmt President Cleveland's
, message to Congress would throw Unlit
on tlia China-Japan question and would
' foremall any rorolutlon of liKpiiry. At
the Secretary of Slate, nnllke the other
Cabinet olllcura, makes no annual re
port to Congreaa, the Pretldmit'a mesauge
ordinarily deals with the afMrt in which
' IhU government hat any part, and aa
the recent negotiation! with China and
Japan are the moril im (Kirtuut questions
the dcpaitmuiit hu hod in Home time, it
I concluded he will make dear the rmsl
tion o( thie government, lip to the
present tlieie it no ofllciul information
on llietuhjocl, and the Stats Department
list mil aiaieu otncially that negotiations
, wllh China aud Japan are In progress.
Tlmreadingof the 1'rcaidcnt't message
In the first business o( Congress, no tlmt
- II won ui prectme the contemplated intro
duction ol resolutions of lniuiry by K.-p-resonUiWe
Bellamy Slorur. It In the
MM of thoie familiar with President
Cleveland's ioaitlon against forlgit en
tanglement! that such rede re net) an lie
may make to thin subject in hia message
will lie on the ground of huniunity, urg-
, inn that, while tlili government need
not reach abroad (or comincst and ac
quisition, It ran well adopt an enlight
ened policy which will aid in maintain
ing the peace and progresa o( the world.
JAl'ASi's roKlTIOM.
Wamiiinoton, November 21. The China-Japan
incident, an lar at the United
States' oiler of mediation it concerned,
ia considered clied for the present by
those in a position to understand the
situation. At the department and at
the Chinese and Japanese le(ationi there
la only negative Information to theell'ect
that no positive answer to the American
Suggestion of mediation hat been re
ceived. Vet well-informed persona lay
Japan hat made her position clear In
audi m way aa to avoid the embarrass
ment of a poaliive declination and yet
ahow her acceptance would have to be
bated on certain dellulte) conditions. It
It believed that the essential considera
tion on which Japan would consent to
any mediation is ihat China shall raise
the white flag of trace, the emblem rec
ognized the world over aa an indication
that a contestant wants to treat for termt
of peace. China hat not yet made any
direct offer to the Japanese, and the lat
ter are not disposed to consider a round
aWit offer which overlook! the reco
nined international emblem of the white
flag.
XO ANSWKR AT AIX.
WaaniNaro!, November 21. Sec
tary Ureshato says he hat received no
reply from Japari to the guarded offer of
mediation made by the United HtnU'S
Novemlier 0. awl in the opinion of other
State ofllclala no deliuilo reply from Ja
pan it expected in the immediate future.
ITALY WOULD HOT CONWtNT. ,
Lohdou, November 21. A special dis
patch from Home tayt Italy has informed
tiie powers the cannot approve of any
form of Intervention between China and
Japan. ;. .
THE CRUISER OLYMPIA.
It It Jtspeoted That alis Wilt Soon Oo
' Into Commission.
' Vallkjo, Cal., Novemlier 21. It has
finally been decided by the Navy Depart
ment that for the present the Marion
will not go Into commission, owing to
the lack of men, aa it it desired to com
mission the unarmored steel cruiser
Olympia, now at the Union Iron Works,
at toon aa she comet up to the navy
yard, which will bo very soon. Prepar
atory ordcrt have already bean Issued to
Lieutenant T. 0. Prince of the Marine
Corps, detailing him to command the
Marine Uuard, which will consist of six
teen non-commissioned olllcere, privates
and musicians. Tho Olympia will carry
about forty ollicert and 400 men as her
complement This will be none too
many, when It it taken into coneidera-
' tion that she is the third largest cruiser
In the American navy and carries a bat
tery of four eight-inch bteceli-loiiding
rilles. ten live-inch rapid-firing guns,
fourteen six-pound and tlx one-pound
rspid-llriiig guns, four gatlingt and all
of the smaller arm that go to make up
a ship's battery. The detail of officer
will be made out Just as soon as the de
partment is Informed that a crew enn be
secured here for the ship. Manyof leers
are more than anxiout to secure a detail
to the Olympia.
To Oblige Near Neighbor.
Wahiiinoxo, November 21, Count
Kaveullow, the Danish Minister, first
t heard of the ootion of Denmark in ex
cluding American beef and meats
through the press cablegrams from Co
penhagen. The Count expressed sur
prise, for no action In that line bad here
tofore been contemplated. He said tho
action was probably due to request from
Germany, a. , beef Tft'li Into
ports frequently would find its way into
Germany and thus overcome the Gor
wM miriclioiu. He had never heard
that any of the American product in
Denmark was affected with Texa. fever
Under these circumstances he feels that
the action of Denmark is not so much
"imod against the United (Hates ... It is
Hmke D-mark's nelghl
irellve In her exclusion. Hie i Minister
hM not yet received any official advice,
on the subject.
; -' ' Determined to rroaeoute.
NkwYork, November 21. John Ja
cob Astor appeared In the Jefferson Mar
ket Court to-day, and expressed hit n
dignS at th? light put aliment to
flicted on the tramp, Oarvin, who was
found asleep in hia mother's bouse Sat
urday. He Subsequently bad an Inter
Slew with the "' ' PrlBon ndde'
rW Taf terward that bo was aufe Gar
VIn purpose was robbery. He
will prosecute him-
CANALS OF MARS.
frofasaar Lowell tars That baf llav.
i.g un to Uotiltle,
Boston, Mass.. November 21 A ill..
patch was received to-day from Perclval
Miweii at the Lowell Observatorv. Flair.
staff, Arlnona, stating that the canalt of
Mars, ai observed last night, have begun
lououuieanu that I'hlson and Euphrates
were teen geminated. The dunlication
of the canals and the planett fa a phe
nomenon for which astronomers have
leii watching with great interest. It
Wilt first observed hv Ilia Ilnllnn iui
omer Hclilttppnrelli a number of years
BLTO. He BIIIIOIHII'HiI Hint inma nl 11.
straight lines, which are known as ca-
iiiiis, were m ne seen accompaiileu by a
parallel linn, as if nnnllmi. rnn.l
eslde the first. During the different
oppositions of Mais the canalt have
been closely watched to learn more about
the duplication. The first Kuropeun
astronomer to observe the phenomenon
a-fl IWfOtln Ut Klt'a whn In 1 ... .....
.....v, ' V. ... VWU BW
ceasive obsnrvationt observed duplica
tion. In this country the canalt were
observed doubled by tho Lick Observa
tory in 1HIK), and airain In 18H2. Dui
I ii It the present position one canal only
has heretofore been announced as
llfllllil till.. Iiolnn T.ta
er of tliit was Profesaor Holden of Lick.
Olwervations of the tame canal since
n.ai time nave not shown It to be con
tinuously double. The cause of the du
plication is by no means determined.
Mr. I X. well is of the opinion that it is
dependent upon the eeason, and has pre
dicted all along that the canalt would
not lie teen iu duplicate until some timo
in Novemlier.
TENNESSEE LYNCHERS.
ITnritir III Laws at Hi Mists an InUdol
Cannot Taaliry.
Mkmi'hih, Novemlier 21. The prose
cution of Ned Smith and W. 8. Richard
son, charged with the lynching of six
negroes near Milllngton, Tenn., last Au
gust, received a tevere setback to-day
when " Hutch" McCarver went on the
stand and stated that be is an infidel,
lie it therefore incompetent under the
lawt of Tennessee to give testimony be
fore a jury in a capital case. " Butch "
McCarver is the man whom the State
mostly relied upon for a conviction.
The prosocution 0enly charged that
McCarver perjured himself when he said
he did not believe in God. The Attorney-General
bad no doubt " Dutch's "
testimony would be tntticient to hang
the men on trial at well aa three or four
others. Immediately after McCarver't
sensational statement to the court to
day he was arrested oo a bench warrant
charging him with perjury. It is also
given out by Attorney-General Patter
ton that he will immediately proceed
aicainat A. J. McCarver, the Sheriff of
the county ana the father ol " liaUh,"
to remove him from office.
MURDEROUS MANIAC.
H. Kill Ills Mnth.r, Mlal.r and Brother,
auil Then Coinmlta Snloldo.
Momtoomkby, Mo., November 21. A
terrible tragedy was committed at 3
o'clock this morning about two miles
from Wellsville. At that place lived
Thomas Portercbeck, his mother, two
sisters and a brother, all Bohemians. It
appears that Thomas Portercbeck com-
plalnea yesteruay evening mai ins neau
was hnrting him, and said that he be
lieved his neck was broken and refused
to go to bed. At 8 o'clock this morning
he secured an ax, and killed his widowed
mother, hia sister and brother: hiaother
sister made her escape by jumping
th rough the winuow. one suxxi ouisiue
and looked through tiie window and saw
her maniac brother saturate the room
with coal oil, set it on lire and then gash
himself with a knife in the throat. He
tank down and all four bodies were con
sumed in the burning bouse. By the
time the neighbors reached the place the
house was ablaze. They tried in vain to
rescue the bodies. This morning the
four bodies could bo teen still burning
In the ruins. The mother was an in
valid, and had been confined to her bed
for twelve years. The murderer sud
denly became insane. i i
. In Voonootlon With tho Dispute.
Wahiiinoton, November 21, Senor
Arrigia, the Guatemalan Minister to the
United States, has none to Mexico in
connection with the boundary dispute of
(iuutemala and Mexico. It Is said at
both the Mexican and uuatemnian lega
;..... l.t tm oililitlitnal lufnrmiition lias
como to them looking to a breach of
friendly relations between the two gov
ernments. There has been for some
time a controversy between the two
cmintries, and both sides have troops
along the frontier aim win prooaoiy
maintain their respective forces there
until tho pending controversy is settled.
Diamond Cutters Deserting Holland.
Washington. November 21. A report
from the Commissioner of Immigration
states that twenty-six diamond polish
ers have arrived at New York from
Amsterdam. After examination they
were permitted to land, ine statement
i I.. .!...! nl tt.u 111 nOO iliimnnii
i.. n..n..r... rniiif a nnn am nut. nf
cullers in .....j "i , ,
employment, and that many of them
" e 1 ' . Clot.. X.o In.
are cominn w mo umiii
feience being mai uie oiainonu-uiiiiiiiK
Industry is largely being transferred
from Amsterdam to ew iora anu viu-
csgo. .
Admiral d Gania's Claim.
London, November 21. A dispatch to
the Times from Buenos Ayres says:
Admiral Saldanba da Gama, one of the
Brazilian Insurgent leaders, states that
the revolutionary chiefs have definitely
i.....,io,l mil. In accent the Presidency
of Prndente de Moraes. Admiral da
Gama declares mar. ne nas troops
on the frontier of Rio Grande ready to
begin hostilities Immediately, and that
he will himself command the troops, tak
ing the field in a few weeks' time.
Sixty Arrests In Warsaw.
St. Fbtbbhbuko, Novemlier 21. Sixty
persons have been arrested In Warsaw
for distributing circulars advising the
people not to take the oath of allegiance
to Nicholas II. ;
. ."ile Glare lUslgos. :
BminN, November 21. The Frank,
furter Zeitung sayt M. de Glers, Russian
Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Genf
Vannovaki, Russian Minister of War,
htive rotignedt ,
ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1891.
IN THE NEXT CONGRESS
Probable Distribution of Im
portant Chairmanships.
BASED ON ED BEING SPEAKER
Hera ana to Bare tho Chairmanship of
tho Hirers and Harbors, and Burrows
tho Wayt and Means Chairmanship
Tho Appropriations la Doubt.
WAsnmoTON, November 20. The
House Committees which are expected
to be of tbe greatest importance in the
next Congress are those on Ways and
Meant, Appropriations, Rules, Banking
and Currency, Coinage, Weights and
Measures, Riven and Harbora, and Pub
lie Building! and Groandt. Tbe first
three named always head the Hat in or
der of importance. Tbe others are ex
pected to assume importance in tbe next
Congress because of the special condi
tions which will prevail daring that
Congress. Tbe Banking Committee will
ertainly be one ol the most important
committees on the Hit, if there should
be an effort, at it is hinted there may be,
to revise the enrrency lawt and change
the present system. Tbe probability of
an ell'ort to secure silver legislation and
the further probability that the Repub
lican party when it cornea into power in
House may want to formulate a policy
on this queation, will have the effect also
of advancing the Coinage Committee to
position of tbe first rank. The Rivera
and Harbors and Public Buildings Com
m It tees will have the delicate task of
providing for public improvements, to
far aa the committees of the House can
accomplish this work.
With so many new men as there will
be on the Republican aide of Congreet,
and all of them feeling that it will be
necessary for them to make a showing
to their constituent!, there will natural
ly be a pretty general clamor for ap
propriation! for poetofhee buildings, custom-houses
and river and harbor im
provements. While tbe Republican
party bat always shown a disposition to
ward liberality in public improvements,
there is probability of an effort to hold
their miscellaneous appropriation! as
low aa possible. Tbe low condition of
the treasury and the fact that a Presi
dential election will be so near at hand
will prove atrong arguments in this di
rection, aa will the possibility of a Presi
dential veto. The Republicans at pres
ent have six of the seventeen member!
of the Rivera and Harbors Committee,
and all their member! have been re
elected except Henderson of Illinois.
With Henderson out of the way Her
mann of Oregon takes first place in the
Rnnnblican roembershlD of the Com
mittee, with Btephtma of Michigan,
Hooker Ol rnew xorx, urosvenoroi uuio,
and Reyburn of Pennsylvania following
in the order named. It cannot, of course,
be known whether tbe next Speaker will
follow the seniority rale. If lie should,
Hermann would become Chairman.
Milliken of Maine leads the Repub
lican membership of the Committee on
INibiic Buildings, and the chances are, ii
Reed becomes Speaker, Milliken will be
made Chairman of this committee.
Morse of Massachusetts ia the only Re
publican member of the committee re
turned. Only three of the old Repub
lican members of the Committee on
Banking and Currency are re-elected.
They are Walker of Massachusetts, Rus
sell of Connecticut and Johnson of In
diana. Walker ia the senior member,
and bis chances for the Chairmanship
are the beat. Of the six present Repub
lican members of the Committee on
Coinage, Weight! and Measures five have
been re-elected to the Fifty-fourth Con
gress. They are in tbe order named:
Stone 01 Pennsylvania, Jonnaon oi norm
Dakota, Dingley of Maine, Hager of
Iowa and Aldrich of Illinois. Stone
would naturally become Chairman of
Uie committee if be desired the place.
In the natural order of events Bur
rows of Michigan will become Chairman
of the Ways and Means Committee.
With Reed in the speaker's cnair mere
ia little doubt that he will be given thie
important poet, which carries with it
the Rennblican leadership on the floor
of the House, if he tails in bis ambition
to succeed Senator Fatten in the benate.
With Reed in the Speaker's chair and
Burrowa in the Senate there would be
only three Republican member! of the
present committee left to choose from,
these being Payne of New York, Dahtell
of Pennsylvania and Hopkins of Illinois.
Henderson of Iowa is the ranking Re-
Sublican member of the Appropriations
ommittee, with Cogswell of Massachu
setts, Bingham of Pennsylvania, Ding
ley of Maine, Grout of Vermont and
Cannon of Illinois coming in the order
named. It is possible that neither Can
non nor Henderson will be given the
Chairmanship in the event of Burrows
becoming Chairman of tbe Ways and
Meana Committee J the probabilities are
strong that the East would demand the
Chairmanship of the next most impor
tant committee, which would be the Ap
propriations. In that contingency Cogs
well's chances for being promoted to Uie
head of the committee would be excel
lent. If Reed becomes Speaker of the
House, the Republican membership of
the Committee on Rules will probably
be composed of himself and the Chair
men of the Appropriations and Wayt
and Meant Committees. He pursued
this plan in the Fifty-first Congress, and
there ia reason to believe that ne would
revive it rather than imitate Crisp's pol
icy of distributing tbe honors.'
THEY WILL LECTURE.
Walte of Colorado and Broehlnrldga to
, j0 on the Platform.
Dxhvcb, November 20. Governor
Walte has decided to go upon the lecture
platform. He will make a short tour in
the West before his term expires, de
livering his first lecture at St. Louis
and going from there to Chicago. After
his term expires he will lecture in the
BBICKINBIOOI ON THI TAHITI. '
Lexington. Kv.. November 20. 0. D.
Hess in an interview to-night said that
tbe report that be Had contracted witn
Colonel W. O. P. Breckinridm for a lect
ure tour was true, and that tbe Colonel
would begin at once. His first subject
will be "Ten Yean Among Tariff Ui
formers."
THOSE INTERNATIONAL GAMES.
llarrerd Athletes Are Partlonlarly An
loot for Them.
Cambbidos. Mass.. November 20. The
interviews with prominent Oxford ath
letes cabled from London, in which the
idea was auraested tbat. if Yale or a
team made up from Yale and Harvard
should challenge an Oxford-Cambridge
team to an International athletic contest,
the Englishmen would very likely send
team to this country next year, nas
aroused great Interest among the college
.( 1.1. C.nlsln Ynman Ttinohftm.
RUJIDWDI I t 1 1. .''... ' J
Jr., of tbe Harvard-New Haven team
was seen to-day, and be said :
" Harvard certainly favors the idea of
Inlnt llai-ffonl-Yiiln truck and athletic
team meeting a Joint team from Oxford
and UamDriuge, anu wouia nnuouoieuiy
agree to s competition on either side of
the water this spring. I should like to
m rAnflAntaf.ivA fcpsm nicked at large
from the colleges, from the choice of its
members, resting on me resuat on in
tercollegiate garnet at New York, Of
onnraa Yolo In In or tha winner last
spring, is the one to make the first ad
vances to Harvard or to me omer col
leges. I feel sure that Harvard will do
airaivtlilnr aYa nan trt flirthpr t.tlA fliHtl.
Nothing official, however, has yet been
done. Several Harvard graduates have,
nowever, men worauiK iu too m tercet v.
the matter, but they have arrived at no
fluRnlla Aiainn vol-.. Tt Ilea with
Yale to take the initiative, and Harvard
wm ioiiow oer ieaa.
IS HE THE STRANGLER?
An Italian Caught In tho Act of Choking
One of DeoTer't Fallea Women.
Dbnvbb, November 20. H. Meller, an
Italian, entered the house of Marie
Ventres at 1330 Twentieth street, near
Market, about midnight last night, and
toon became engaged in a quarrel with
tbe woman, and without warning seized
her by the throat. He pressed his
thumbs tightly npon her windpipe, and
squeezed so hard that the woman was
notable to utter a sound. She imag
ined tbat the man engaged in choking
her waa the one who bad strangled Lena
Tapper, Marie Contassoit and Kiki
Ayama. She it a woman of great phys
ical strength, and managed to release
heiself. She called for help, and when
an officer arrived Meller was trying to
cut her throat with a razor. Chief of
Police Armstrong and the police gener
ally think that Meller is nothing more
than an ill-tempered Italian. The de
tectives are not enthusiastic in the idea
tbat their prisoner is the man who stran
gled three women recently. This at
tempted murder has added to the terror
and excitement of the women in that
district of the town.
NO WORK ON THE CANAL.
Men Starving and Dying From Sickness
Brought on by Kxposnro.
Memphis, November 20. Not long ago
there waa published in many of the
newspapers of the country what pur
ported to be a dispatch from Colon,
Central America, on the Panama canal,
and stated there was a great demand for
labor. To-day the Commercial-Appeal
received the following appeal from the
roadmaster of the railway at Colon :
"In my position with the railroad
here I see a great deal of tbe floating
population of the Isthmus. There are
to-dav on the Isthmus crowds of well-
educated, good-intentioned machinist!,
carpenter!, draughtsman in fact men
of every trade and profession who are
starving and suffering from sickness
brought on by exposure to tbe wetseason
and neglect, and every boat brings more.
There is not work for any of them.
Since the revival ol the work on uie ca
nal the canal company has not hired one
single man, except negro laborers, at 60
to 70 cents a day and paid in Columbian
silver. This equals 27 cents in American
money a day. There are men here starv
ing to death, who gave up position! at
home to come here."
THEY ASK A PENSION.
Many Veterans of tho Indian Wars Are
Really In Mood of Aid.
Olympia. November 20. About twenty
veterans of the Indian wars of 1S5C-59 as
sembled in this city yesterday with a
view to taking steps toward tbe securing
of recognition of their claim! on ac
count of the wan with Indiana. Among
those in attendance were: H. G. far
ton!, Jamet Patterson, John de Laca
tour, William Lemon, Green McCafferty,
B. W. Johns, J. P. Mannen, Jacob Ott,
Thomas Prather, B. F. Ruth, William
Littlejohn, Marcui McMillan, G. W.
Bhaser, John P. Hays. ,
Resolutions were adopted asking the
government to grant pensions and land
warrants to the Indian war veterans and
dependent widows, and that the Repre
sentatives in Congress from the Pacific
Northwest be requested to urge these
.....immuI In ilia nrpamhte
UIBIUIB. a. ... w " "
and resolutions, what is done in this line
should be done quickly, lor inese pioneert
are now few in number, not exceeding
. rin J . 1. 1 , 1 ..... iM n.ann im
X,OW, anu mry aro uiu mm u j .
stances need tiie aid of the government
as a jubi rewaru lor meir paei. oc vivos.
It Was Already In Type.
Minneapolis, November 20. After
tbe suicide of Editor James Liddell at
Lyons, Ia., yesterday it was discovered
that he had written a brief description
of his throwing himself in front of a rail-
1 ,M:n ri.iinn i)..t ha It ail contam-
., smi.iu8 ..
plated it for over a year. He even added
a aispiay imjsuihk. pica
Times was stopped and tbe article in
serted. Absolutely no cause waa as
signed. He was always cheerful and
genial.
Wlgalne and His Party.
London, November 20. Mr. Byford,
wboee eon is with Captain Joseph Wig
gins, the Arctio navigator and master of
the steamer St. Jernen, which vessel was
wrecked near Yugorshar, has received
news that Captain Wiggins and his party
n. l.Ama .lnnnlhAahnm. niloted
by Russian Bamoyeds. They are riding
In reindeer sieua 10 nociiun, wm
they will make for Archangel.
.. Opened, to Trade.
Tanoikes. November 20. The rebell-
inn favor In of Mulev Mohammed has
ended, and Morocco City is now open to
trade.
PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
Condensed Telegraphic Rt
ports of Late Events.
BRIEF SPARKS FB0M TUB WIRES
Budget of Hews for Xasy Digestion From
Different Parte of tha States of Wash
ington, Oregon and Idaho Item of
: Interest to Pacific Coast People.
"Parkhurttlng" is not unknown in
Tacoma.
Spokane pays 11.700 monthly for its
electric lights.
Tbe Bncoda-Tenino Enterprise is go
ing to move to Coemopoiis.
A stage is to be run from Fort Klam
ath to Crater Lake next summer.
Srjokane'a Citv Council proooses to
pay only f 8 a month for aro lights.
The first pile has been driven for
new cannery Bam Elmore ia going to
build at Astoria.
A threshing hand in Wallowa county.
Or., has spent $60 trying to collect $27
due mm lor wages.
Representative Belts is shipping 200
Oxford grade bucks from Pendleton to s
lion tana purcnaser.
The Spokane bureau of immigration
hat decided to repeat the fruit fair next
year, tbe date selected being tbe nrst
week in October.
A lot of nursery stock shipped from
New York infested with woolly aphil
was destroyed by Btate Inspector Ton
neson at Winlock recently. t
Work has begun at the Cascades on
the job of raising the State Portage rail
road to higher ground, so as to set it out
of the way of the canal work. j
St. Joseph's Hospital of Aberdeen hat
issued a neat pamphlet commemorative
of two years of very successful work on
the part of the Sisters of St. Dominic.
It is thought now that the county seat
will remain at Snohomish, as a three
fifths vote was required to change it and
thit, it it believed, Everett failed to se
cure, i
The Questions of special tax levies for
light, water, fire protection and street
Improvement purposes are to be submit
ted: to the voters of Port Townsend on
Wednesday of next week. ,
Marshal Drake savi that four men in
cluding the cook are now guarding fifty- f
eight convict! in the McNeil's Island
penitentiary, and that the walls of the
penitentiary are old and crumbling.
The attendance at the Cheney Normal
School continues to increase, and now
the enrollment in tbe normal depart
ment is ninety-eight, the largest number
ever enrolled at this season of the year.
Klamath and Lake counties. Or., will j
sell in all this faU about 15,000 head of 1
cattle. Will some local statistician let
us know whether the increase in sight
is sufficient to make up for thit drain
niwin thm hfrHa7 t
Many of the farmer! around Spangle
are going into bog-raising quite exten
sively. There will be a large number of
nogt reauy lur marae nw jw..
farmer! are anxioue to see a large packing-house
in Spokane, to aa to have
borne market.
Jnhn W flllntnn Irnmintr opposite
Coquille City on an extensive scale this
season, employing about eighteen men
and two teams. He baa six acres of low
ground completely covered with logs,
wailing lor uig u wawr m iuu imwu vuv.
In the cases of the State against Potts
and against Parker, charged with murder
in the second degree, tried last weex in
Harney county, the verdicts were guilty.
Parker was sentenced to seven and one
half years and Potts to twelve years in
tne penitentiary.
Oakesdale's water and electric ligbt
projects have finally come to grief.
Judge Sullivan has sustained and made j
permanent the injunction againit the
proposed bond issue. Tbe bonds exceed
tbe town's legal indebtedness, and the
electric light plant, the court finds, haa .
decreased in value.
A firm of Walla Walla horse dealers I
have just shipped four carloads of horses '
to Vermont. In order to have the ani-
mals in good condition it is proposed to j
allow them to rest every alternate twen- j
ty-four hours, thus occupying thirteen
daya in the journey. Though the freight
per car is $346, the firm expects to real
ise a handsome profit from the venture. I
The United States grand fury at Walla '
Walla returned thirty-seven true bills.
One of the prisoners when called upon
to plead, said: "I will plead guilty if 1
can't get more justice than I got before
the Judge who sent me here." Judge
Hanford, with the " icy" look that he
has always on the bench, directed tht
clerk to enter a plea of not guilty. Most
of the offenders had sold liquor to In
diana. Wyman J. Lewis, who for the past
three years has acted as agent for tht
Stevedoring & Rigging Company of Old
Tacoma has been arrested on a warrant
sworn to by Frank Donaldson and Al
bert Anderson, stockholders of the com-1
pany. The company is made up of long
shoremen, and Lewis is charged with
having collected sums to the amount ol
$2,473.75 Tor work done, which he did
not turn over to the company. Lewis
denies the whole charge, claiming the
men have entered into a conspiracy to
ruin him and break up his business.
He says the money he it accused of em
beztlihg was paid to the Co-operative
Stevedoring dc Rigging Company through
the same Albert Anderson who is one oi
the complainants. Lewis waa placed
under $1,000 bonds, which he furnished.
The November issue of the Puget
Sound Lnmberman says: "The recent
shipment of 500 red cedar doors and a
quantity of window frames to Johannes
burg. South Africa, per bark Levenbank
by Wheeler, Osgood & Co. of Tacoma
marks another epoch in the door trade
of the Pacific Northwest. Only three
years ago the red cedar door trade was
unknown east of the Cascade Mountains.
The doormen of tha Pacific Northwest
will, however, have the same difficulty
in introducing their goods that the cedar
shingle men had, namely, the prejudice
of custom. It is always hard to intro
duce any new material in the older com
munities ; but, once introduced, the ex
cellence of the material will apeak for
itself. The door trade of the Pacific
Northwest in onr humble opinion has a
bright future ahead." .
JAPAN IN NO HURRY.
No Answer Beeolved ae Tat to Oar Offer
to Arbitrate.
Washington, November 10. It It
stated here in official circles that Japan
has not yet accepted the Invitation of
the Unfed States to submit the ques
tion of peace with China to our media
tion. While the statement is probably
literally correct, there is reason to be
lieve that Japan has requested aa a pre
liminary to action upon our invitation
that she be informed explicitly just what
terms China has to propose as a basis of
a treaty of peace. Up to this moment
China has not submitted any definite
Eropoaals, so that the delay appears to
a rather on her part than on Japan's.
It could not fairly be expected that the
Japanese would halt in their triumphant
march and perhaps afford their oppo
nent! a very potent opportunity to rally
from their disorganized condition, unless
Japan is furnished with some satisfac
tory proposition by China that may be
binding beyond question upon tbe latter.
No such satisfactory proposition hat yet
been made by China, but on the con
trary the Chinese tenders so far have
been on basis that could not be ac
cepted with safety and consistency by
Japan.
For instance, a Chinese proposition
waa that Core be evacuated by both
Chinese and Japanese troops. Inasmuch
aa the principal cause of the war was
Japan's contention that tbe entire Co
rean administrative and financial system
must be reformed on modern lines, and
that .Tanen mnet nnderfc&ke the task, a
temporary occupation of tbe country at
least by Japan was a necessary condi
tion. And consenting that the Japanese
troops evacuate China immediately;
would also violate all precedent, for it is
customary in such cases for tbe victori- j
ous nation to remain in possession of the
captured territory as a pledge until the
Sayment of the war indemnity. Bnt,
isregarding these points of difference,
it is becoming more evident that the in
terference of European powers is a stum
bling block in the way of a settlement
of the war through the medium of the
United States, nearly all having inter
ests in the East which they regard aa
paramount to our own. An official who
nas given much attention to the subject
is of the opinion tu.it Russia will never
consent to anything which looks like aa
indefinite occupation of Core a by Japan,
unless she is herself allowed to take pos
session of a portion of Corea for the
Eastern terminus of tbe Siberian rail
road. France is reported to have de
manded a coaling station on the Island
of Formosa, and Great Britain has
reached out for the Island of Chusan.
JAPAg'g outlay.
Toxio, November 18. Japan has not
yet received any peace overtures from
China. If Japan accepts America's offer
of mediation, she will do so only upon
certain condition! concerning the ques
tion of indemnity. It is understood that
Japan't actual outlav for the war up to
the present has been about 30,000,000.
FROM THB FBOHT.
WASHnroTON, Novemtsr 16. The Jap
anese Minister to-night received the fol
lowing cablegram from the Japanese
government: Our army occcupied Ta
il 117. 4k .riwnmn At tho ftth in-
ri.nl hevino rlpatroved the Chinese
torpedoes. Our fleet, transports and
torpedo-boats are safely anchored in the
bay. The torpedo station with ignition
equipments, charts of submarine tor
pedoes, eighty cannons and telephone
line were captured.
YAMAOATA'S ABJtT.
Tokio. November 16. Dispatches from
Field Marshal Yamagata say that he is
continuing his advance on Manchuria.
His left division is marching upon Sin
Yon Ching, where a force of 20,000 Chi
nese under General Ma is encamped.
The right division recently routed a
large force of Chinese cavalry on the
road to Lin San Kwan, which was oc
cupied later without opposition from the
Chinese. The division is now advancing
upon Wo Tin Tang, where the Chinese
under General Too have taken a posi
tion. THB SBI-aT at xis chow.
London, November 16. The Tien Tsin
correspondent of the Times says that
Prince Kung sent back to Port Arthur
General Shiu with 2,000 men. They
made a vigorous defense eastward of
Kin Chow November 7, and fought
throughout the day? They checked the
Japanese advance, though unsupported
by the other commanders. Another se
vere fight took place November 8, when
General Shiu was overcome by the Jap
anese then occupying Kin Chow. Some
thousands of refugees, fleeing from Kin
Chow toward the villages in the vicin
ity, were mistaken for the enemy by the
Japanese, who fired into them from the
defenses, killing hundreds.
IN THE HANDS OF FIENDS.
A Young dirt Said to Hare Been lakes
ton Cava by Netrroes.
Stbacuse, N. Y., November 16.
United States Marshal Bennett oi
Weeds port, who has been searching foi
Miss Ella Cooney of that place for twe
weeks, found her in the House of tht
Good Shepherd, where she has been un
der care since November S, but unable,
to give an account of herself. Mist
Cooney disappeared from the home ol
her parents about three weeks ago. Nc
trace of her could be obtained, although
Father Donohue, whose church she at
tended, received startling letters from
her. Briefly, the stories which these
letters told waa that ihe had been ab
ducted by aix negroes, who had taken
her to a cave in the woods near Syracuse,
where she had been held captive. Little
was said concerning the treatment she
was receiving except that she was kept
prisoner. Bhe explained that the let
ters were got out by stealth. Apparent
ly aa last token to her parents of her
self in the event of her never seeing
a.in ko wit nfT a lock of her hair
UH. -. ' " " '
and sent it to them. Many negroes are
employed on too aew rcocrn
here, and they live in " dugouts " half a
mile from the works. These " dugouts "
were thoroughly searched, but no trace
of the girl could be found until yester
terdav. The matron of the hospital
says Miss Cooney was brought there in
"oImajI AavananiA ) faVnUI fltlfc atvfc tha
door of the hospital. She semed to be
111 A avUsownK In VAot fflratf ttt Ctt th f&f
111. A IUU1VUU ui1wiuwWH
fair it to be made by the authorities of
this county. It is believed that Miss
Cooney haa been horribly treated, and
ik.. ik. at tho voaarimir ara re
sponsible for her absence. When she
arrived at tha hospital her head had
k. wVvKaj! rtS Mwafc ri Ito lfiTnriant
HVOU .UlSLrw VI P.V.. .
hair, of which she was very proud. She
IS now a use) uvauo vi w yw w. .
NO. 48.
WORDEN IS SENTENCED
The Court Says He Must Hans
by the Neck.
MOTION FOB NEW TRIAL DENIED
Tke Condemned Man Was Convicted of
Wrecking a Southern Pacific Train
- Daring tho Big Strike Beard Hit
Doom Without Betraying Kmotloa.
Woodland, November 19. The court
room was crowded long before 7:30
this evening, the hour fixed for pass
ing sentence upon Worden, the train
wrecker. In the crowd were many
ladies. The court excluded all jurors in
the Hatch trial. When asked if he had
anything to say why sentence should not
be passed Mr. Strong, attorney for Wor
den, moved to set aside tbe verdict fear
reasons, first, tbat tbe court erred in in
structing the jury in matter of law, and
second, that the verdict is contrary to
the law and evidence. Mr. Strong con
tended that the court erred in not in
structing the jury that it might bring in
a verdict of murder in tbe first or second
degree, orof not guilty. He read numer
ous decisions on that point. On the sec
ond point Mr. Strong contended that, if
it be admitted that all tbe testimony in
troduced by the defense be true, only
murder in tbe second degree had been
proven Mr. Cook in reply read from
the instructions to the grand jury show
ing tbat the court not only instructed in
regard to tbe two degrees of murder, bnt
defined both. He contended that the
instructions expressly stated that the
three forms of verdict submitted to the
jury were moved upon by counsel on both
sides, all three of whom were present.
Counsel also produced the statutes of
1891 tosbowtbatremovingarail.whether
life ia taken or not, is an offense punish
able either by imprisonment for life or
death, as the jury may elect. Judge
Armstrong also addressed the court in
opposition to the motion, and Judge
Bush closed tbe argument in support of v
it.
The court after reviewing the argu
ment and instructions denied Mr.
Strong's motion tbat the case be dis
missed on tbe ground tbat the court had
no jurisdiction; that the government
was in control of the road and Engineer
Clark was in tbe- service of the United
States at the time the train waa wrecked.
Mr. Cook had cited many decisions in
opposition to Mr. Strong. The court
said he did not desire to delay tbe mat
ter by an examination of these authori
ties. Proceedings had been taken under
tbe advice of the Attorney-General of
the United States, and if an error had
been committed, the Supreme Court can
correct it. A motion for arrest of judg
ment was denied.
The court called upon Worden to stand
up, and sentenced him to be hanged ' in
the State prison at Folsom Tuesday,
February 12, 1895, between the hours of
10 a. M. and 2 r. m. Judge Grant was
much affected as he pronounced the sen
tence, but Worden heard bit doom with
out betraying any evidence ol emotion.
Worden'a attorneys have announced
their intention to appeal the case to the
Supreme Court.
The crime for which Worden ia sen
tenced was committed July 11 IaBt dur
Ino tha orpat strike. A train was sent
ont from Sacramento under the guard of
United States soldiers, and was wrecKea
at a bridge crossing in Yolo county. Tha
spikes were drawn from one of the ties
and tie left in position. The engineer in
charge of the train, Clarke, and two sol
diers were killed. .
The Output of floor.
Chicago, November 19. Twelve mill
ers, representing 600 merchant flouring
mills with a daily capacity of SoO.UUU
barrels, met in secret session at, the
Auditorium to-day to consider the prop- ;
osition to reduce the output 100,000 bar
rels of flour a day for thirty days, or
3,000,000 barrels in all. The scheme was
proposed some time ago, owing to a large
unmerchantable surplus, but the recent
better demand for flour and an advance
in price has, it was claimed, changed the
complexion of the siuation, and the
opinion was expressed by some of those
present tbat no curtailment wouia ds
ordered. It is not thought, however,
that a decision will be reached before to
morrow. Those present represented
mills in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Minne
sota, Wisconsin, Missouri and North
Dakota. - '
Matter for the Conrte.
Washington, November 19. The In
dian office is doing nothing in the mat
ter of telegrams received from the Indian
agent at Muskogee, L T., regarding the
Cook gang of desperadoes. He haa been
informed that the troops asked for can
not under the law be sent into the In
dian Territory. It is stated at the In
dian office that the whole affair is one
with which the agent need not concern
himself, as it is under the jurisdiction of
the courts. The Indian ollice has given
him permission to use tbe Indian police
in co-operation with tbe United States
Marshals, but further than this he has
no jurisdiction.
Bebels tho Attackers.
. Niw Yobk, November 19. A special
to the World from Valparaiso, Chili,
says: The British Minister to Peru has
asked for help, and has protested against
the attack on the British ship Siren at
Salaveri early this month. The Peru
vian government claims it is not respon
sible, as the rebels were the attackers.
The British Minister is said to have
threatened to leave, going aboard a war
ship. The British squadron is expected
shortly. . '
Expulsion of Jesuits Threatened. -
St. Louis, Mo., November 17. A City
of Mexico special says Congressman
Matze has presented a bill in the Cham
ber of Deputies praying that all churches
in charge of Jesuits be sold at auction in
that Republic. It is claimed the meas
ure will probably be a great factor in the
complete expulsion of the Jesuits from
Mexico. . - . i . -
Again tha Cook Clang. ,
Muskogix, I. T., November 19. Last
night twelve members of tiie Cook gang
raided the town. They laid in a tnpplr
of cigars, and then rode leisurely out of
town, ,
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